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# Sabbatsberg Hospital
## Popular culture {#popular_culture}
Some of the scenes in the film *The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo* (2011) were shot in the hospital.
## Notable deaths {#notable_deaths}
- Olof Palme - (died 28 February 1986). In 1986, Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was pronounced dead at 00:06 CET on 1 March at Sabbatsbergs Hospital, after having been shot in the street earlier that night
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# Emasithandane
**Emasithandane Children\'s Project** (also known as **Emasithandane**) is a home for orphaned and other vulnerable children in Nyanga, Cape Town, South Africa, one of the poorest townships in the city. About 25 children live in the home. It was founded by Mama Zelphina Maposela, who moved to Nyanga from the Eastern Cape to help address the orphan crisis in the area. Emasithandane has partnered with organizations such as the Desmond Tutu TB Centre, CHOSA, and People Environmental Planning
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# Mat (picture framing)
Mat\|Mount (disambiguation){{!}}Mount\|Matte (disambiguation){{!}}Matte}} `{{Other uses of|Passepartout|Passepartout (disambiguation){{!}}`{=mediawiki}Passepartout}}
In the picture framing industry, a **mat** (or **matte**, or **mount** in British English) is a thin, flat piece of paper-based material included within a picture frame, which serves as additional decoration and to perform several other, more practical functions, such as separating the art from the glass. Putting mats in a frame is called **matting**, a term which can also usually be used interchangeably with **mat**. The French term, occasionally used in English, is *\'\'\'passe-partout\'\'\'*. A picture (a photo or print, drawing, etc.) is placed beneath it, with the cutout framing it. The *passe-partout* serves two purposes: first, to prevent the image from touching the glass, and second, to frame the image and enhance its visual appeal. The cutout in the *passe-partout* is usually beveled to avoid casting shadows on the picture. The French word may also be used for the tape used to stick the back of the picture to its frame.
## Functions
### Decoration
The picture-framing mat is most commonly known by laymen for its use as additional decoration to enhance the look of a framed piece, sometimes in conjunction with a fillet or more rarely, liners made of wooden moulding with a cloth surface. Although matting usually contains only one opening per layer, it may contain none if a picture is \"float-mounted\" or \"top-mounted\" (placed on top of the mat), and mats with two or more exist, more commonly with photography of the family or pictures of individual family members type than other types of artwork. Typically the mat or mats, if matched carefully and properly proportioned, serve to help draw the eye in towards the framed piece, or towards a particular key element of the piece. However, while the mat is usually regarded as something to complement or set off the artwork to best effect, or not to interfere or compete with it (neutral-colored mats are often preferred by high-end art galleries,) there are some examples of the mat being regarded by the artist as a part of the artwork. Mats can be decorated as described below, used as a surface for the continuation of the artwork within, or can incorporate three-dimensional aspects, though the last two are highly unusual.
Mats are fairly adaptable in the visual sense. Since they are typically quite thin (American-made mats are usually 1/16 of an inch thick, for example), they are able to be cut to \"stack\" inside of a display, allowing for double, triple or quadruple matting, or even allowing for a fillet in between mats. Mats are available in numerous colors and shades and, less commonly, in preprinted patterns or designs. Mats can easily be found or altered to include further decorative features, such as a cloth covering (most commonly linen or silk, though mats with leather coverings or various other types of cloth covering are also available from some companies) or other decorative coverings or coatings (such as metallic coatings, or textured and patterned coatings that can include rice paper).
Because the mat is thin, but not razor-thin, it can also be carved (traditionally by hand, though computerized mat-cutting systems have also been developed), to feature a design, such as lettering or a simple image; since the carving consists mainly of cutting away a small portion of the top decorative layer of the mat, this means that the carved design will show up as the color of the mat\'s core. (There have been examples of sandpaper being used to sand into the mat and reveal the core, or incisions made into it with the same result.) Most mats are available with a white core, black core, or standard (cream colored) core, but a handful of mats are also available with bright green, red, yellow or blue cores.
While most mats are generally rectangular in shape, with a rectangular opening, in addition to fairly common oval, oval-apertured mats designed to go with oval frames, there are also very unusual examples of mats in other shapes.
Mats are, with very few exceptions, made of paper-based material. They tend to take well to minor surface additions, including ink and paint (a very wide variety of other media, including fumage, have been used); cloth-covered mats can also have objects such as pins, flags or cloth patches pinned or sewn to them, a technique frequently used in shadowboxing to avoid having to glue items to the backing. It is also possible to affix a small metal plate to the surface of a mat. Such plates are typically made of brass, and can also be affixed to the picture frame itself if the frame is made of wood.
A common form of decoration on non-cloth coated mats is the *French line* or *line*, and the *French panel* or *panel*. These forms of matting may also be called *French mats*. A *French line* or *line* is a line drawn on the mat, usually in ink or paint and usually drawn to form a complete rectangle or square around the opening in the mat. It is used as additional decoration to help draw the eye in towards the center of the display, and can be done in pencil or any color of ink or paint, including metallic inks. A *French panel* or *panel* is similar to a French line, with the exception that it is thicker, formed from decorative material ranging from gold leaf to a design in ink or paint. Typically a painted French panel will be done in watercolor, which is also sometimes referred to as a *watercolor panel*.
Similar to a French line, is a V-Groove. A V-Groove is a thin cut into the mat around the edge of the opening, revealing the core. It is used for much the same purpose as the French line.
The most common used matting has an equal margin all the way around. On artwork with the visual center lower than actual center. Bottom weighting, or off-sets are used frequently in matting. The bottom margin are made larger than the side and top margins. When looking at an image, the eyes tend to center higher up than the physical center of the image. By creating a larger bottom margin and off-setting the mat you draw the eye to physical center of the image. Top Center is a subset of bottom weighting where the top and side margins are equal, which creates a visually pleasing effect. This is particularly true in mats where the borders are not equal, such as an 11x14 with an 8x10 opening.
### Protection
In *archival* or *conservation* picture framing, mats have several important functions. One of the most important functions is that it separates the glass from the art or document being framed; this is primarily important because any condensation that develops on the inside of the glass can be transferred to the piece if they are not separated, resulting in water damage, mold or mildew. Photos should also be separated from the glass because the surface of photographs is particularly easy to damage, and may even separate from its original paper and stick to the glass if wet; for this reason, any framed photograph of value should be framed in such a way that the glass does not directly contact the photo. Additionally, some types of art, such as pastels or chalk pictures, can smudge easily and should be separated from the glass for that reason.
Another major function of the mat in archival framing (where the mats used are made of acid-free and lignin-free paper) comes into play during the mounting process. In archival framing, paper items are not typically glued down to the backing, as it prevents anyone in the future from being able to safely and easily remove it to replace damaged frames, backing or mats, and can make restoration of a damaged document or art piece more difficult. Typically, such items are instead held in place against the backing with mylar \"photo corners\" (tiny triangular pockets into which the corners of the paper are put). The added (though slight) weight of mats can help hold a piece in place while also helping to hide the backing and photo corners. In archival framing, the mats are not glued to the piece or backing, but are \"hinged\" to the backing with tape, though if more than one mat is used, the mats are typically glued to each other.
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# Mat (picture framing)
## Acidic vs. \"acid-free\" {#acidic_vs._acid_free}
There are two main types of mat material: acidic, and \"acid-free\" (neutral pH). Older mats (wood based paper) are typically acidic, because acid-free paper was not widely available or marketed until recent years. While most newer mats are acid-free, there are some papers that contain acid and one should ask the picture framer about the acid content of the mats if the desired life of the piece being framed is more than 75--100 years.
The difference is important for the long term protection of the piece because acidic mats can cause what is called *mat burn*, brown marks that creep in from the outside onto the displayed piece itself. While mat burn is sometimes reversible through cleaning the piece, cleaning may not be feasible if the piece was executed in water-soluble inks or paints, such as watercolor. Thus, it is important to know if the mats used are acid-free if the piece is to be preserved for a long time.
To determine the pH of an older mat with a white core, look to see if the core (visible where the mat has already been cut) has turned brownish or yellowed; if so, it is acidic. If the core has not changed color, one can determine the pH by using a pH tester.
There are several categories of mat board and they are all separated by the level of protection offered the art work or artifact being framed. While some say that acidic framing materials should be avoided for all but the most temporary frames, it is not safe to say that all \"acid-free\" mats are recommended for long term preservation use. The hierarchy of mat board quality is as follows:
1. **Museum board** -- The highest quality material available. It is constructed of 100% cotton fiber, is Archival and will protect and preserve the contents of a frame. While it is the most expensive material available, the difference in actual material costs relative to the cost of framing is minimal.
2. **Museum mat** or **rag mat** -- Still a good quality choice for conservation, it is constructed of cotton linters (short cotton fibers) and cellulose (wood pulp) middles. The cellulose is a less expensive raw material but offers sufficient conservation properties for most works.
3. **Conservation** or **archival mat board** -- Constructed of 100% pure high alpha cellulose (wood pulp) and treated to be inert for up to 300 years. This is the highest quality *paper* matboard available.
4. **Acid-free** or **acid free lined** -- This material usually has a recycled fiber core, lined with a wood-based liner on one or both sides that has been treated to prevent \"short term\" acid burn. Eventually the acid in the core will leach out to the surface, which can harm the artwork.
Caution must be exercised in selecting the type of framing desired. Art work that is desired to last long term (more than 75 years) can be damaged by improper mat boards that are used intentionally to lower cost. However, non-archival quality mat boards may be suitable for a photographic print, laser print, etc. that is not meant to last long term. Additionally, prints made with traditional chemical processing of photographic film (i.e. dark room development), as opposed to computer printing, are already slightly acidic by nature and therefore are much less likely to be damaged by non-archival mats.
In addition, correct \"conservation\" framing includes all components, not just the mat board used directly behind the glass. Until recently, there were no truly \"archival\"-quality foamcore boards available, though a number of foamcore brands exist with buffered surfaces and the Nielsen Bainbridge company now produces one that is claimed to both block the intrusion of airborne pollutants and to avoid the problem of outgassing that non-archival foamboards may fall prey to; for this reason, and due to many smaller frames\' shallow depths, it is not uncommon to see mat boards used as backing for a picture frame as well, though foamcore and mounting boards tend to be stiffer. It is also important, if long-term preservation is of concern, to make sure the framer is using good conservation framing technique.
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# Mat (picture framing)
## Technology
Mats can be cut using computerized mat cutters. These come in a range of sizes and allow mats to be cut with accuracy and precision. This makes it ideal for complex mats, multi-window mats, oval or shaped mats or even bulk mat cutting.
Mats (also known as mounts) can also be cut by hand, but this introduces the possibility of human error. Unless specified, the aperture will usually be cut 3 mm over the aperture size, allowing the artwork to sit inside the mat. It is common practice for a backing board to be applied to the back in order to secure the artwork, prior to framing
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# KZRG
**KZRG** (1310 AM) is a commercial radio station broadcasting from Joplin, Missouri. It airs a news/talk radio format and is owned by Zimmer Radio The studios and offices are on East 32nd Street in Joplin.
KZRG is powered at 5,000 watts by day. At night, to protect other stations on 1310 AM, it reduces power to 1,000 watts. A directional antenna is used at all times. The transmitter is on North Peace Church Avenue in Joplin. KZRG can also be heard on two FM translators, 102.9 MHz K275BD in Joplin and 105.9 K290CO in Neosho, Missouri. Programming is also simulcast on the HD Radio digital subchannel of sister station KIXQ.
## Programming
Weekdays feature a three-hour news morning news block, *The KZRG Morning Newswatch*. That\'s followed by nationally syndicated conservative talk radio hosts the rest of the day, including Chris Plante, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Joe Pags, Clyde Lewis, *Coast to Coast AM with George Noory* and *This Morning, America\'s First News with Gordon Deal*.
Weekends feature shows on home repair, guns, gardening, technology and real estate, as well as repeats of the weekday shows. Syndicated weekend hosts include Ron Wilson, Kim Komando, Bill Handel, Ben Ferguson, Bill Cunningham and \"Route 66 with Terry Hester.\" Four full-time journalists provide frequent local news updates.
## History
### Early years {#early_years}
On November 22, 1947, the station first signed on as KFSB. The call sign stood for the original owner, Four States Broadcasting, Inc. The studios were at 1025 Main Street, with Harry Easley serving as president. From the 1950s through the 90s, the station aired a full-service format of adult contemporary music, news and sports.
In 1997, the station was acquired by Ozark Christian College and featured a Christian radio format of inspirational music and religious teaching programs. The current news/talk format was launched in December 2005, when the station was acquired by Zimmer Radio.
### May 22, 2011 Tornado {#may_22_2011_tornado}
KZRG was the station on the air with live storm coverage before, during, and after the Joplin tornado on May 22, 2011, which killed 161 people. The stations of Zimmer Radio, led by KZRG, were on the air around the clock for nine consecutive days with storm recovery information
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# Balık Sisters
The **Balık Sisters** are an opera act composed of Turkish identical twin sisters **Didem Balık** and **Sinem Balık** (born May 21, 1974). Didem is a mezzo-soprano while Sinem is a soprano. The sisters, who claim to be the only identical twin opera singers performing professionally, are also known by the nickname \"the Opera twins.\" Since 2000, Didem and Sinem have been living and performing in Vienna, Austria.
## Early life {#early_life}
Born in İzmir, Turkey, Didem is five minutes older than Sinem. They have three younger brothers. The twin\'s study of music began when they were only four years old, before they could read and write. Their music teacher taught them musical notation with the help of colors; they remembered that red denoted C, blue D, yellow E, lilac F, and so on. At age of nine, the Balıks left piano playing and dedicated themselves to singing.
The twins were educated in the State Conservatory of Dokuz Eylül University in İzmir, and then attended the master classes of Lia Lantieri (1998), Katia Ricciarelli (2000), Dolora Zajick (2000--2003) and Plácido Domingo (2003--2004). Their teachers were Tanju Nebol, Toma Popescu and Francisco Gutierrez. They continued their education in Prayner Conservatory of Vienna in Austria between 2001 and 2003.
## Career
Following the graduation from the conservatory in İzmir, they won the audition at the Cemal Reşit Rey Concert Hall in Istanbul and started singing there. In 1999, the twins entered an audition at the Aspendos International Opera and Ballet Festival in Antalya, where they were discovered by Toma Popescu, an expert lecturer in singing at the Vienna Music Academy. After their further education in Vienna, Didem and Sinem gave several concerts in Europe and also in the United States. The Balık sisters wore traditional Turkish clothing kaftan at their appearances with Turkish music.
In addition to operas, the sisters sing operettas, Broadway musicals, French melodies, Italian Neapolitans and lieder.
In 2001, the sisters were finalists at the \"4th International de Vivo Voix Competition\".
The sisters performed concerts throughout the world, including; New York, Washington DC, Antalya, Ankara, İstanbul, İzmir, Düsseldorf, Essen, Frankfurt, Galaz and performed at very special venues like Vienna City Hall, United Nations, Hoffburg Palace, Turkish Embassy in Vienna, Düsseldorf Parliament Building, European Parliament and Startmore Music Center. They performed in front of many VIP guests such as Turkish and Austrian Presidents, King of Benin, European MPs, princes and princesses. They have been invited to make guest appearances to many important international festivals.
Plácido Domingo said of them "they are perfect for the sister role in Cosi Fan Tutte of Mozart, I see no reason for them not to have a universal career". After listening to them at a concert in New York, Ahmet Ertegün, the founder of Atlantic Records, suggested that everybody should hear the OperTwins sing and that he was smitten by them.
They studied repertoire, technique and interpretation with the famous American Mezzo Soprano Dolora Zajick who said that \"Opera is one of the highest forms of art and deserves the best best quality artists, and the OperaTwins definitely have this potential\"
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# Architecture in Omaha, Nebraska
**Architecture in Omaha, Nebraska**, represents a range of cultural influences and social changes occurring from the late 19th century to present.
## Background
The area comprising modern-day North Omaha is home to a variety of important examples of popular turn-of-the-20th-century architecture, ranging from Thomas Rogers Kimball\'s Spanish Renaissance Revival-style St. Cecilia Cathedral at 701 N. 40th Street to the Prairie School style of St. John\'s A.M.E. Church designed by Frederick S. Stott at 2402 N. 22nd Street. A young African American architect under Kimball\'s guidance was Clarence W. Wigington, who designed the Broomfield Rowhouse and Zion Baptist Church. Wigington moved to St. Paul, Minnesota where he became the city\'s senior municipal architect. In that capacity he designed hundreds of important civic buildings throughout that city, leaving an indelible mark on architecture across the Midwestern United States. The firm of Mendelssohn, Fisher and Lawrie was very influential in early Omaha, designing dozens of significant buildings throughout the city.
Notable figures in the history of Omaha architecture include John Latenser, Sr., a Liechtenstein-born immigrant; Byron Reed and A.J. Poppleton, early real estate moguls in the city; and Thomas Rogers Kimball and his student Clarence W. Wigington. Other early architects in the city included Charles F. Beindorf, who designed the old City Hall; Frederick W. Clarke, who designed Vinton School; and Jacob Nachtigall;
### Public works {#public_works}
**Notable public architecture in Omaha**
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Name
Fort Omaha Historic District
Prettiest Mile in Omaha Boulevard
Kountze Park
Technical High School
North High School
### Commercial enterprises {#commercial_enterprises}
**Notable commercial architecture in Omaha**
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Name
Bank of Florence
Jewell Building
Webster Telephone Exchange Building
Omaha Star building
### Private residences {#private_residences}
**Notable residential architecture in Omaha**
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Name
Dr. Samuel Mercer House
George H. Kelly House
Havens-Page House
Strehlow Terrace
Keirle House
Harry Buford House
John P. Bay House
Joseph Garneau Jr./Thomas Kilpatrick House
Melrose Apartments
Saunders School
George F. Shepard House
Sherman Apartments
Charles Storz House
Broomfield Rowhouse
### Religious institutions {#religious_institutions}
There are several notable Christian churches in North Omaha. They include Calvin Memorial Presbyterian Church, located at 3105 North 24th Street. Formerly known at North Presbyterian Church, the City of Omaha reports, \"Calvin Memorial Presbyterian Church is architecturally significant to Omaha as a fine example of the Neo-Classical Revival Style of architecture, taking formal inspiration from several buildings of the 1898 Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition that had been held nearby.\"
Holy Family Church was built at the intersections of 18th and Izard Streets in 1883 for North Omaha\'s Irish immigrants. Over the years it served Czech and Italian immigrants, and today is targeted at the city\'s African American Catholics. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, along with St. John\'s African Methodist Episcopal Church.
Formed in 1880, St. John\'s was built in 1921 in the Prairie style. An auditorium extension was added to the building in 1947, and auxiliary rooms were finished in 1956. Designed by Omaha architect Frederick S. Stott, the building reflects a progressive attitude on the part of this black congregation at a time when traditional values in religious architecture were prevalent.
## Notable architects {#notable_architects}
**Notable historical architects in Omaha**
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Name
Thomas Rogers Kimball
Clarence W. Wigington
Mendelssohn, Fisher and Lawrie
John Latenser
John McDonald
## Notable former structures {#notable_former_structures}
**Former notable locations in Omaha**
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Name
Bee Building
Minne Lusa Pumping Station
Gerald R
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# RM Nimbus
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**RM Nimbus** was a range of personal computers from British company Research Machines (now RM Education) sold from 1985 until the early 1990s, after which the designation *Nimbus* was discontinued. The first of these computers, the RM Nimbus PC-186, was not IBM PC compatible, but its successors the PC-286 and PC-386 were. RM computers were predominantly sold to schools and colleges in the United Kingdom for use as LAN workstations in classrooms.
## Models
### PC-186 {#pc_186}
The **RM Nimbus PC-186** was a 16-bit microcomputer introduced in 1985. It is one of a small number of computers based on the Intel 80186 processor, a version of the Intel 8086 (as used by the IBM PC) originally intended as a processor for embedded systems.
It ran MS-DOS 3.1 but was not IBM PC compatible. The PC-186 could run Windows versions up to and including Windows 3.0, but only in real mode, as protected mode was only available on 286 or higher processors.
Most PC-186 systems were used as workstations within a local area network and were supplied without a hard disk. The operating system was started from a floppy disk or via a remote boot ROM on its network interface card, connecting to the LAN\'s fileserver. Stand-alone workstations were rarer but available with either twin floppy drives or a 20Mbyte hard drive and single floppy drive.
#### `{{anchor|Piconet}}`{=mediawiki}I/O Connectors {#io_connectors}
Mouse - 9-pin D-Sub connector, sometimes confused as a serial port, it uses quadrature signalling\
Keyboard - Earlier models - Proprietary keyboard port, Later models - PS/2 keyboard port\
Video - 5-pin DIN plug with TTL RGB output compatible with BBC Micro monitor connectors - modified CGA output\
Parallel - Optional via expansion card - usually with BBC Micro \'user port\' alongside- both with ribbon pin connectors\
Network -BNC connector - Zilog Z-NET, Ethernet expansion cards were available for later models - both allowed network boot\
Piconet - a proprietary serial interface for connecting peripherals\
Power - Standard IEC connector in and out for monitor supply\
### X Series: AX/VX {#x_series_axvx}
The RM Nimbus AX and VX models were launched in 1986 and used the 80286 (later the 80386) processor. They were fully IBM-compatible, as were all subsequent RM computers. The AX and VX were offered for use as a network file server or as a high-end workstation. They employed either EGA or VGA graphics cards, and were equipped with an ESDI interface for a hard drive, as well as a 3½\" floppy drive. By default they were equipped with a Zilog Z-Net interface card, but a second Ethernet card could be added alongside to allow both network interfaces to be used simultaneously, however, the two network interfaces were not able to be bridged. Expansion cards could be added to standard 8-bit and 16-bit ISA sockets, which were both on the motherboard, and on an attached expansion board which was supplied as standard.
### M Series: PC-286 and PC-386 {#m_series_pc_286_and_pc_386}
RM released PCs based on Intel 286 and 386 processors under the RM Nimbus name. The PC-286 and early PC-386 versions were termed the M Series due to the MCA bus used, and had a similar case design to that used by later models of the PC-186.
### S Series: PC-386 and later {#s_series_pc_386_and_later}
Later RM PCs using the 386 processor used an ISA bus and were shipped in a particularly (\"S\" for) slimline desktop case with only two 3.5\" drive bays. The processor typically ran at 16 or 25MHz. Later models dropped the *Nimbus* name, although it was still used late enough to appear on some early (and still ISA-based) 486 models shipped in slightly taller (2 x 5.25\" bay) cases. By this point, RM\'s computers were essentially ordinary IBM clones being sold specifically to the education market, with standard processors and buses, operating systems and software, as well as the normal ports (5-pin AT keyboard, 9-pin serial - including the mouse, 15-pin HD-sub VGA - although some 386 models used the less common 9-pin variant, etc), and the previous non-standard holdovers from the 380Z days long since abandoned.
### Backward compatibility with the PC-186 {#backward_compatibility_with_the_pc_186}
Despite moving to a standard IBM-compatible architecture from the X series onwards, RM somewhat unusually maintained backwards compatibility with software written for their original Nimbus model by way of a \"PC186\" program that could be launched from MS-DOS or via a Windows icon, that would load a BIOS extension TSR and restart Windows in Real Mode. Various configuration options could be set before launch, and returning to normal IBM-compatible mode was a simple matter of running the same program again with a particular option switch.
## RM Networks {#rm_networks}
RM Nimbus PCs were usually connected to local area network supplied by RM. The company\'s initial network solution was *RM Net*, comprising RM Nimbus PC-186 workstations and servers. Later an RM Nimbus AX or VX became the usual choice of fileserver. PC-186 workstations could be designated as print servers, allowing shared access to printers from all workstations.
The network used Microsoft MS-Net server and client software, Zilog Z-Net network interface cards, coaxial cable and BNC connectors. It allowed up to 127 workstations to be connected and booted directly from the network server.
Network users could be members of user groups, with each group receiving a customisable menu of programs to execute or a Windows 3.0 desktop, optionally without the \'File\' menu in Program Manager.
By current standards, network security was primitive.
RM Net was superseded in the early 1990s by RM Net LM, a network operating system based on Microsoft LAN Manager. RM Net LM retained support for PC-186 workstations, allowing them to boot to MS-DOS and to start Windows 3.0
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# Defense of Schwedt Bridgehead
The **defense of the Schwedt bridgehead** was a German 3rd Panzer Army operation on the Eastern Front during the final months of World War II. German forces, commanded by Otto Skorzeny, were ordered to prepare to conduct a counter-offensive. However they were forced to hold a bridgehead against expected numerically superior forces of the Soviet 2nd Belorussian Front (Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky) for 31 days. Their position was largely ignored during the Red Army\'s Cottbus--Potsdam Offensive Operation which breached German defenses at Gartz to the north of Schwedt. This was unexpected because it required the Red Army to cross the *Randowbruch* Swamp that lay between the Oder and Randow rivers.
## Background
The Germans feared that the advancing Red Army would cross the frozen Oder at Schwedt, about 60 miles north-east of Berlin. The Commander-in-chief of Army Group Vistula, Heinrich Himmler, was planning a counter-offensive from Schwedt. On January 30, 1945, he ordered *SS-Standartenführer* Otto Skorzeny to prepare for the offensive.
## Preparations
The rapid advance of the Red Army meant that when Skorzeny set up his command post on the right bank of the Oder in Niederkränig (some three kilometers south-east of Schwedt), rather than preparing for a counter-offensive, he was forced to order that the first week be spent by troops of the newly created 11th Army preparing fortified positions while others were concentrated for the offensive. The position was prepared according to typical Wehrmacht doctrine some 20 km forward of the river, and strengthened with machine gun nests and reinforced trenches.
Despite ostensibly preparing for an offensive, the 3rd Panzer Army troops, including the X SS Corps, were short of supplies and weapons, lacking heavy machine guns and artillery. Makeshift artillery was produced by mounting anti-aircraft guns on trucks. It proved useful in harassing the Red Army\'s 61st Army by giving them the impression that the Germans had large artillery units. After the ice on the Oder was blown up by pioneers to make crossing more difficult for the advancing Red Army tanks, a similar strategy was employed using guns mounted on river barges. Skorzeny later credited this use of mobile artillery with gaining enough time to sufficiently fortify the bridgehead. The initial troops began to arrive early in February from the Courland Pocket, they included the 4th Panzer Division, the 32nd and 227th Infantry divisions, elements of the XVI SS Corps, and other SS units.
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# Defense of Schwedt Bridgehead
## Battle at the bridgehead {#battle_at_the_bridgehead}
The first encounter battles were between the screening German infantry, and the 2nd Guards Tank Army on 28 January, which \"was pouring now like a torrent north of \[the\] Netze River towards Küstrin\", when elements of the 9th Guards Tank Corps probed the positions of *Kampfgruppe Voigt* (*Generalmajor* Adolf Voigt) east of Pyritz and 18 km east of Schwedt. As the 2nd Guards Tank Army turned towards Küstrin, the encounters between patrols from the German 56th Jäger Regiment (CI Army Corps) and the Red Army\'s 89th Rifle Corps on February 1 intensified. As of February 5 the number of Red and Polish Armies\' forces had grown so much that German probes behind enemy lines were no longer possible. Once the 2nd Belorussian Front troops had captured the railway in Bad Schönfliess, they received a steady flow of reinforcements by train. However, unbeknown to Skorzeny, the Red Army reinforcements were those belonging to the 61st Army and the 1st Polish Army of the 1st Belorussian Front\'s northern flank. They had orders to bypass Schwedt and attack in the direction of Eberswalde. They also masked the movement of the 2nd Belorussian Front\'s 49th Army which would attack north of Schwedt. Extensive deception operations, and the rapid tempo of advance meant that the German command was largely unaware of the switch in forces, or the true direction of the impending assaults. For much of the time they were under the impression they were facing a major armored thrust while the 2nd Guards Tank Army was replaced in line by the 5th Shock Army, including the preparation of 136 T-34 mock-ups. These deceptive measures were hampered by the previous deception conducted by Zhukov in the final stage of the Vistula-Oder Strategic Offensive Operation.
After fighting to the north of their position, the 9th Army, which had replaced the 3rd Panzer Army, had to fall back from its forward defenses and on February 7 the evacuation of all villages outside the bridgehead began. Two Red Army battalions supported by T-34 tanks conducted a daily reconnaissance in force as this evacuation took place.
On March 3 9th German Army forces abandoned the Schwedt bridgehead, having fruitlessly awaited the orders for a counter-offensive and not having witnessed the expected Soviet attack on their positions for over a month, had assumed new positions on the western banks of the Oder.
## Aftermath
The Soviets captured Schwedt on 26 April after German troops had withdrawn to avoid encirclement following the commencement of the Cottbus-Potsdam Offensive Operation on the 19 April; by then the city was severely damaged. The commander of the *XI SS Panzer* Corps later stated that there was no strategic purpose in the defense of the bridgehead, but that it served a tactical defensive role and misled the advancing Soviet armies into believing that the Germans were preparing a counter-offensive.`{{Page needed|date=June 2016}}`{=mediawiki}
## 9th Army order of battle (15 April) {#th_army_order_of_battle_15_april}
The order of battle was largely the same as that of the forces being assembled for the expected offensive although the Army subordinations were changed several times. They come from *Zhukov at the Oder: The Decisive Battle* for Berlin by Tony Le Tissier
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# List of Nebulous characters
*Nebulous* is a BBC Radio 4 science fiction-comedy written by Graham Duff and produced by Nicholas Briggs. The programme follows the adventures of KENT, the Key Environmental Non-judgmental Taskforce, a desperately underfunded Government organisation dedicated to protecting the environment and doing laundry in a post-apocalyptic world following a terrible eco-disaster known as the Withering.
## KENT
### Professor Nebulous {#professor_nebulous}
Played by Mark Gatiss, Professor (Boffo) Nebulous is the protagonist of *Nebulous*, a brilliant scientist and the unappreciated leader of KENT whose downfall is a direct result of his destruction of the Isle of Wight while he was moving it slightly to the left by 10 kilometres to give it more sun on Janril 57, 2069, destroying everyone on the island. He is often prone to going off on long metaphorical tangents while discussing the current crisis, only to stop himself and say \"I\'m drifting\" when he goes too far.
His nickname at school was \"NOBulous\".
Nebulous\'s past is shown by brief flashbacks triggered by the word \"clown\" (or even words that sound like \"Clown\"; on one occasion a flashback was just triggered by the word \"Cloud\"). Nebulous\'s scientific bent and serious demeanour are explained by Nebulous\'s parents who both forced him to become a circus clown at the expense of his scientific studies. Although his reputation has suffered greatly due to the destruction of the Isle of Wight, Nebulous has made several prominent discoveries in his career, such as a cure for blindness and a sandwich that cures cancer (Marmalade and cucumber, apparently), as well as continuing to defend Earth despite the poor funding available to him. He also has an evil twin brother called Professor *Spiffo* Nebulous, who is his physical double apart from having a moustache, being somewhat overweight, and lacking both thumbs (due to a freak Game Boy accident). The twins had a dimmer brother named Mofo, whom Spiffo killed in a knife-throwing incident. Originally Nebulous was happy being a clown and put all his time and effort into it, until he met his future self, who convinced him to become a scientist.
### Paula Breeze {#paula_breeze}
Played by Rosie Cavaliero, Paula Breeze is the ditsy assistant to Professor Nebulous, although how she qualified for a position in such an organisation given her apparent lack of any degree at all is a mystery. Paula is constantly pursuing her infatuation with Nebulous, despite him not noticing; any attempts that may actually *get* anywhere are always ended by her own idiocy. Although she commonly comes across as an infatuated idiot, she is clearly devoted to Professor Nebulous, and has managed to come up with some relatively good ideas when under pressure. It was eventually revealed that she is actually a human/Atlantean hybrid and the heir to the throne of Atlantis---having grown up in an orphanage, she apparently assumed that the nuns were her real parents and she had forty-five brothers and sisters, but she turned down her mother\'s offer to take the throne at the time to remain with Nebulous.
### Rory Lawson {#rory_lawson}
Played by Graham Duff, Rory Lawson is Professor Nebulous\' other assistant, the self-professed ladies\' man of the team (although his only successful romantic liaison was with Paula when both of them were drunk and 1/4 of an alien senturian from the 9th galactic sector whilst at Woodstock during Hendrix\'s set) who handles the more physical side of operations. Having taken an evening class in Media Studies and Applied Thinking, Rory yearns for the covert ops action and explosive confrontations of a top profile Government Agent but has to make do with aiding the team in cleaning clothes and repairing tumble driers. He appears to be somewhat more intelligent than Paula, having apparently blown up Buckingham Palace during his chemistry class at school (Although in his defence he claims that the building was already scheduled for demolition and the Royal Family were away at the time). His catchphrase is \"Bollocks!\... Sir\".
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# List of Nebulous characters
## KENT
### Harry Hayes {#harry_hayes}
Played by Paul Putner, Harry Hayes is the fourth member of KENT, responsible for technological development. Though previously a handsome physically spectacular specimen of a man, he was badly injured when Professor Nebulous disintegrated the Isle of Wight, having entered the unshielded control room to try and reverse the process and being badly injured in the resulting blast. He was rebuilt by the Professor and lives his life in constant agony while trundling around in a wheelchair constructed from old kitchen units, though in recent episodes the Professor has given him a new hover chair with slat grates that allow him access to everywhere he could want to go (Which just annoys Harry more as he has less to moan about now). Harry often ends up reminding everyone that while most members of KENT have minor problems, he suffers more than anyone, such as commenting that Paula was just suffering from \"some minor agony\". He is also afflicted by a faulty electronic voice box that plays his voice at an unbearably high volume, but Nebulous\'s guilt over the accident prevents him from asking Harry to turn it down. Each episode features him saying, at least once, \"UNLIKE YOU, PROFESSOR, I NO LONGER HAVE THE LUXURY OF \[Insert bodypart of choice here\]\"; so far, he has claimed to have lost his chin, mouth, nose, eyes (with his optical scanners apparently processing the information and presenting it as a pie chart for some reason), hands (he initially claimed to retain one but more recently has stated that he only has a mechanical grabber), feelings, toes (all ten, which he now keeps in a jar), both legs, upper lip (although he retains the lower one), heart, fingers, nerves, head (Although Nebulous notes that Harry retains *most* of his head), brain (replaced with a chip that apparently causes him headaches), back (although he does have a hunch), arse (he mentioned that he has rented one from an unidentified source), spleen, heart, eye-teeth and normal teeth. However, he does still have his inner ear, albeit with his inner ear now an outer ear located on his neck. Commonly, Harry remains at KENT HQ during the team\'s missions, although he has departed it on some occasions, such as when he reinvented the vacuum cleaner. Despite his betrayal of the team at the end of series one to aid Doctor Klench, Harry has been forgiven by Nebulous in series two, apparently recognising that Nebulous at least respects him as a scientist unlike Klench\'s contempt for him as a physical presence.
### Gemini
Gemini, played by Julia Dalkin, is the AI of KENT and the narrator of the title sequence and the ending credits. Although supposed to have the combined intelligence of three Oxford dons and a supply teacher, Gemini has failed a number of times, at one point switching off KENT\'s oxygen supply. The name suggests that there is a counterpart somewhere, but the only reference to this counterpart so far has been a brief comment about Gemini\'s evil twin, who was once sent to KENT on a weekend exchange program that the team prefer not to think about. (The character was originally called Gemini as it was intended to have two personalities and two voices; one male and one female. Whilst the idea was dropped, the name remained)
### Sir Ronald Rowlands {#sir_ronald_rowlands}
Played by Graham Crowden, Ronald Rowlands is a Minister with Unusual Portfolio, KENT\'s attaché to the Government. Rowlands always pronounces Nebulous\'s name \"Nebelarse\" and cares little for KENT, commonly stating \"I\'d like to do what I can, but afraid I can\'t\" and would be perfectly happy to close the organisation down if given the opportunity (This would appear to be a result of the destruction of the Isle of Wight, as he was perfectly happy to help Nebulous\'s younger self when Nebulous briefly time travelled into his own past), keeping them open only so long as they can prove their worth (Albeit mainly by doing his laundry). He was recently forced to invest in the organization when Nebulous realized that Rowlands had been using time travel to buy shares in companies that would succeed in the future, Nebulous blackmailing Rowlands into providing KENT with more funding or Nebulous would reveal his actions to the government.
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# List of Nebulous characters
## Other characters {#other_characters}
### Erica Flazenby {#erica_flazenby}
Played by Julia Deakin, Doctor Erica Flazenby is the rival and former love of Nebulous who is currently the director of LOUGHBOROUGH. The two met while at the Oxford University Islands and shared an apartment for a year, before breaking up under unrevealed circumstances, although their conversations when they reunited would suggest that deeper feelings remain on both sides. At the last moment, Erica Flazenby\'s name was changed from Erica Moody to its present form; the error remained in the press release from the BBC announcing the series debut.
### Doctor Klench {#doctor_klench}
Played by David Warner, Dr Joseph Klench is the arch-enemy of Professor Nebulous and KENT whom the Professor describes as \"a chap who came to a crossroads in life and took a turning marked evil. He put his foot to the accelerator and he\'s not stopping\". His plans to date have included luring a sentient cactus to Earth, destroying the world with a stolen star fragment, destroying the Intergalactic peace conference while in Nebulous\' body, trapping Nebulous in the past at the moment he destroyed the Isle of Wight, and provoking a war between the surface world and Atlantis, although all five attempts have been thwarted by the Professor and the KENT team. Nebulous has claimed that he and Klench are in many ways rather alike, reflecting that they might have been friends or even Siamese twins in another life, although Klench has only ever expressed contempt for Nebulous, refusing even to tell Nebulous his plan on the grounds that he wasn\'t interested in hearing Nebulous\'s snide comments. Klench also parodies the Master from *Doctor Who*: like the Master he miniaturises his enemies, although---unlike the Master---rather than killing them, he carries them around in his suitcase to remind him of his power.
### Nebulous\'s parents {#nebulouss_parents}
Played by Matt Wolf and Julia Dalkin, Nebulous\'s parents appear only in flashbacks (although a shape-shifting alien recently posed as Nebulous\'s father while trying to escape a prison ship); in each episode Nebulous has a flashback to his childhood, in which his parents wanted him to become a clown and ignored such major scientific discoveries as his cure for blindness. Nebulous commonly awakes from these flashbacks saying \"I shall not clown\". To date, only Nebulous\'s former fiancée Erica Flazenby has demonstrated an awareness that Nebulous has these flashbacks, as he commonly attempts to pass them off with such comments as \"Haven\'t you ever seen a man collapse before?\" without admitting that he has a problem. The evidence would also suggest that only Erica is actually aware of Nebulous\'s difficult relationship with his parents; although Paula is aware of Nebulous\'s childhood in the circus after a time-travelling experience took them back to the Professor\'s childhood, and Harry mentioned that Nebulous\'s old reputation was based on the inspirational idea of him going from a clown to become a scientific genius, neither of them appear to be aware of the full details of what his life was like as he grew up. It was revealed that they had two other children, Spiffo and Mofo Nebulous, with the Nebulous we know being \"Boffo\", but Mofo was killed by Spiffo during a knife-throwing \"trick\" while they were children and Spiffo was later sentenced to an infinite life sentence in Biros Optimum Security Prison (How the parents reacted to this is unknown). Subsequent episodes revealed that they eventually disowned Nebulous due to his continued interest in the sciences, and he apparently has never seen them since
### The Infernons {#the_infernons}
The Infernons are a race of aliens made out of fire (the name *Infernon* comes from *Inferno*) from the planet Burnos. Because they are made out of fire, they have to cover themselves with black metallic cloaks. If they are stoked regularly, an Infernon can live almost indefinitely, but the race is nearly extinct due to the Great Crazy Foam Monsoon of 2095. They are minor villains in the series who have appeared twice so far. They first appeared in series two when they helped Dr. Klench on the agreement that Klench would help let their race survive, and then in series three the Infernons helped a history lecturer destroy the past so there was less to teach. The Infernons appear to know little about how the human body works, as is evidenced by Nebulous tricking them into thinking they live via photosynthesis
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# Luke, North Macedonia
**Luke** (*Луке*) is a rural mountain village in the municipality of Kriva Palanka, North Macedonia. It is located closed to the border with Serbia and Bulgaria.
## Name
The name Luke is believed to be a German, originating from German word \"die Luke\" as in this region the Saxons settled in the 13th century and mixed with local Slavic population.
## Demographics
According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 338 inhabitants
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# Giovanni Monti
**Giovanni Monti** (7 May 1765 -- 1 June 1825) was an Italian landscape painter, mainly active in Ferrara and Rome. He was born in Maiano near Fusignano and was a nephew of the poet Vincenzo Monti. Some of his works were acquired by the Ateneo de Ferrara, and two small tondi by Monti were included in the Costabili collection. He should not be confused with two earlier Italian painters, Giovanni Battista Monti of Genoa (died 1657) or Giovanni Giacomo Monti of Bologna (born 1692)
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# Miles Tredinnick
**Miles Tredinnick**, also known as **Riff Regan**, (born Warrington 18 February 1955) is a rock musician, songwriter and a stage and screenwriter. In the 1970s, he was the lead singer with the British rock band London. Afterwards he went on to write comedy plays for the stage. He has also written scripts for Frankie Howerd, including the television special *Superfrank!* and the stage comedy *Up Pompeii!*
## Rock musician {#rock_musician}
In 1976, with drummer Jon Moss, guitarist Dave Wight (real name Colin Wight) and bassist Steve Voice, Tredinnick formed the punk band London. He was the lead singer Riff Regan. The band came to the notice of Danny Morgan who was a talent scout for ex-Yardbirds and ex-Marc Bolan manager Simon Napier-Bell. He secured them a record deal with MCA Records and a nationwide tour supporting The Stranglers. Their singles \"Everyone's A Winner\", \"Summer of Love\"/\"Friday on My Mind\" and \"Animal Games\" and their one and only album *Animal Games* were all produced by Napier-Bell at the IBC Studios in London. Their recording of \"Friday on My Mind\" was made in the same studio that The Easybeats had made the original.
Although London had a popular live stage act, ticket sales never transformed into record sales. This was despite flamboyant film director Mike Mansfield directing the video for \"Everyone\'s A Winner\". The highest UK chart position they reached was 52 for their EP *Summer of Love*. Jon Moss was particularly impatient to have chart success and following a nationwide tour the band decided to call it a day. They broke up after a farewell gig at the Marquee Club in Wardour Street. Jon Moss joined The Damned and later formed Culture Club with Boy George; Colin Wight became a Professor in International Politics; Steve Voice formed The Original Vampires; Simon Napier-Bell went on to manage George Michael and Wham!.
Tredinnick, as Riff Regan, released four more singles on MCA Records; \"All The Nice Boys And Girls in the World\" (produced by Napier-Bell), \"Japanese Girls\" (produced by Andy Miller), \"You Call Me Lucky\" and \"The Only One\" (both produced by Liam Sternberg) before recording \"Hard Hearts Don't Cry\" (produced by Andy Miller) on Epic Records in 1981. In August 2015 his first solo album Milestones was released on Beach Café Records.
In 1997, Captain Oi! Records released a best of London CD called *London The Punk Rock Collection*. It contains all the band\'s MCA recordings.
Tredinnick also co-wrote the song \"Hottest Woman in Town\" with Andy Miller in 1982. Recorded at London\'s Trident Studios by ex-Ozzy Osbourne and Ian Gillan lead guitarist Bernie Torme, it was released as a single and featured on the \"Metal Killers\" album.
In 2007 he reformed London with original bass player Steve Voice and new guitarist Hugh O\'Donnell and new drummer Colin Watterston. The band played their first London gig in over 30 years at the 12 Bar Club in Soho, London on Saturday 23 February 2008. *Reboot*, their first studio album in 34 years, was released in February 2012 and *The Hell for Leather Mob* album was released in July 2020.
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# Miles Tredinnick
## Theatre and television {#theatre_and_television}
Tredinnick\'s first stage play, *Because of Mr Darrow,* was produced at the Finborough Theatre in London and his second comedy *Laugh? I Nearly Went To Miami!* had a successful fringe run at the Pentameters Theatre in Hampstead. The latter was later produced for the first Liverpool Festival of Comedy.
In translation, *Laugh? I Nearly Went To Miami!* has been produced in many cities, including Vienna, where its title was *\...Und Morgen Fliegen Wir Nach Miami*. British Director Cyril Frankel directed with German translation by Adolf Opel.
In 1990, Tredinnick wrote the stage thriller *Twist*. This was translated into German by Ursula Grutzmacher-Tabori under the title *Der Letzte Dreh* and was later produced in London under the title *Getting Away with Murder* at the Pentameters Theatre in Hampstead. The play had its US debut in Taunton, Massachusetts in 2010 and an acting edition was published by Josef Weinberger Plays in 2019.
His next stage comedy was *It\'s Now or Never!* in 1994. Directed by Marina Calderone at the Queen\'s Theatre, Hornchurch, England, it starred Tony Roper, Peter Polycarpou and Leyton Sommers as Elvis Presley. A German version, *Jetzt Oder Nie,* translated by Christian Wolffer has been successful as has a Dutch version translated by Martine Deboosere.
*Topless*, a one-woman play set on an open-top London sightseeing bus, followed in 1999. Produced by The Big Bus Company, this unique theatrical piece was actually performed, with audience, on top of a sightseeing bus driving through the streets of the West End of London. This was followed by *Topless in Philadelphia* (2009) featuring a male tour guide giving an open-top bus tour in America\'s most historical city and then *Topless in Sydney* (2014) and *Topless in Las Vegas* (2018).
### Frankie Howerd {#frankie_howerd}
From 1985 to 1992 Tredinnick wrote regular stage and television scripts for Frankie Howerd including co-writing the hour long special, *Superfrank!* for Channel 4. He also wrote an updated stage version of *Up Pompeii!* although a proposed tour was put on the shelf when Howerd was offered a chance by Larry Gelbart to reprise his role as Pseudolus in *A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum* at the Piccadilly Theatre in London\'s West End. The new play, now revised and updated, received its premiere in Chesterfield in January 2011 before embarking on a UK tour. Produced and directed by Bruce James, it starred Damian Williams, host of Sky One\'s *Are You Smarter Than A Ten Year Old?*, as Lurcio the slave. An acting edition of the play was published by Josef Weinberger Ltd in 2012.
### Television
In 1987/8 Tredinnick created and wrote the BBC1 comedy series *Wyatt\'s Watchdogs.* Produced and directed by Alan J W Bell, it starred Brian Wilde and Trevor Bannister. In 1992 he joined the Alomo/BBCTV show *Birds of a Feather* as a writer on series 4.
## Other work {#other_work}
In 1986 Tredinnick started writing for the international *Disney Magazine* creating cartoon stories for *Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy* and other well-known Walt Disney characters.
His first novel *Fripp*, was published in 2001. A Kindle ebook version was published in 2011.
## Records
- *Everyone\'s A Winner* -- London (1977 MCA Records)
- *Summer of Love* and *Friday on My Mind* -- London (1977 MCA Records)
- *Animal Games* -- single. London (1977 MCA Records)
- *Punk Rock* -- Various Artists. (1977 Philips/Phonogram Records Brazil)
- *Animal Games* -- album. London (1978 MCA Records)
- *Meet the New Punk Wave* -- Various Artists. (1978 EMI Records Holland)
- *All The Nice Boys And Girls in the World* -- Riff Regan (1978 MCA Records)
- *Japanese Girls* -- Riff Regan (1978 MCA Records)
- *You Call Me Lucky* -- Riff Regan (1979 MCA Records)
- *Spring Sampler* -- Various Artists (1979 MCA Records)
- *The Only One* -- Riff Regan (1979 MCA Records)
- *Hard Hearts Don\'t Cry* -- Riff Regan (1981 CBS Epic Records)
- *Hottest Woman in Town* -- single. Berni Torme and The Hard. (1983 CM Records)
- *Metal Killers* -- Various Artists
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# Geneviève Castrée
**Geneviève Elverum** (`{{nee}}`{=mediawiki} **Gosselin**; April 9, 1981 -- July 9, 2016), also known as **Geneviève Castrée**, was a Canadian cartoonist, illustrator, and musician from Quebec. An early admirer of comics, she began creating them at a young age. L\'Oie de Cravan published her first book, *Lait Frappé*, in 2000. By 2004 she had released three more books---*Die Fabrik, Roulatheque Roulatheque Nicolore* and *Pamplemoussi*. The latter is considered her artistic breakthrough.
Her 2012 book *Susceptible* gave her international success and was followed by a book of poems in French titled *Maman Sauvage* in 2015. Her next two works *A Bubble* and *Maman Apprivoisée* were both released posthumously. She also recorded a total of eight albums under the name **Woelv** and **Ô Paon** (stylized in all caps).
In 2003, Castrée met musician Phil Elverum, and the two married the following year. In 2015, she gave birth to their only child. That same year, she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. She died in 2016. Elverum later recorded a series of albums centered around her life and death.
## Early life {#early_life}
Geneviève Gosselin was born in Loretteville, Quebec, in 1981. She grew up reading *Tintin* comics from an early age, so much so that she eventually entered, studied for, and won a *Tintin* competition. From an early age, she was drawing comics influenced by artists she loved, including Hergé, Renée French, Chester Brown, Julie Doucet, and Argentinian artist Quino. Doucet in particular had a significant influence on Castrée, influencing her character design and lettering style.
When Gosselin was five, her father left her and her mother. At age fifteen, Gosselin traveled around Canada and reunited with her absentee father. Although their relationship was strained, Gosselin\'s father did build her a log cabin to live in. In her teens, Gosselin, without formal training, began her cartooning career, publishing minicomics and adopting the name **Geneviève Castrée**.
Gosselin had a troubled relationship with her mother, experiencing both a deep connection and feelings of alienation and belittlement. Her relationship with her father was less contentious but also less intimate.
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# Geneviève Castrée
## Career
### Artistry
In 2000, Montréal publisher L\'Oie de Cravan published her first book, *Lait Frappé*, followed by *Die Fabrik* that same year and *Roulatheque Roulatheque Nicolore* in 2001, but it was *Pamplemoussi* in 2004 that served as her artistic breakthrough. The release marked her first major movement to integrate her music and visual art into one cohesive practice.
In 2012, Castrée released *Susceptible*, a graphic novel that chronicles her childhood growing up in Quebec through the character of Goglu, her childhood nickname. It was released to critical acclaim and saw her achieve international success, as well as helping her feel \"unburdened\" by her memories of her mother. In 2015, *Maman Sauvage*, a book of poems in French detailing Castrée\'s feelings as a mother, was published by L\'Oie de Cravan under the name Geneviève Elverum. Following her death, Castrée was included in *The Best American Comics 2016*, edited by Roz Chast.
In 2017, her final book, *A Bubble*, was posthumously published by Drawn & Quarterly, having been completed by her husband, Phil Elverum, and Portland artist Anders Nilsen. They were initially wary about finishing it but concluded that it would be better for the book to be in a state of \"easy readability rather than burden it with the awkward unfinished look, too cloaked in its context to be functional as a standalone thing.\" Castrée left instructions for its creation after her death. According to Elverum, she worked on it until her \"literal final days\". The book was created for her daughter as a gift, although she did intend for it to be published. It centers around their relationship and Castrée\'s struggle with cancer, which she compares to living in a bubble. It features sparse text and is instead primarily told via an image per page. It concludes with an afterword by Elverum. Elverum noted that its creation was Castrée\'s way of coping.
A book of poems titled *Maman Apprivoisée* was released in 2018. It consists of 44 poems written in French and English. It deals with her feelings surrounding her giving birth in 2015, and being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer the same year. Elverum has said that he is putting together a book of poems by her as well as a monograph of her illustrations.
### Musical career {#musical_career}
A self-taught musician, Castrée\'s first release was an accompanying LP to her 2004 book *Pamplemoussi*, recorded and mixed by Thomas Shields and Matt Skillings of the band Run Chico Run. The two artists provided many of the instruments and backing tracks to the album, as well as musical training and financing for the recording. The album was recorded and mixed in Victoria, British Columbia. It is lo-fi in nature, with Castrée singing in French over \"childlike\" instruments, such as a keyboard and recorder.
Under the name **Woelv**, Castrée released the 2006 EP *Gris* via Elverum\'s label P.W. Elverum & Sun, Ltd. *Gris* saw her expand on her already-established lo-fi sound. Her final release under the Woelv name came in 2007 as *Tout seul dans la forêt en plein jour, avez-vous peur?* (English: *Alone in the Forest in the Middle of the Day, Are You Scared?*). The album was recorded in Olympia, Washington, via K Records, with Elverum once again involved.
In 2009, Castrée established her own label and began releasing music under the name **Ô Paon**. In 2010, she released an LP, *Courses*, recorded at Hotel2Tango, Montreal, with Thierry Amar, and in 2015 released *Fleuve*, recorded with Elverum and featuring Nicholas Krgovich and Lori Goldston.
Castrée also made appearances on recordings by Mount Eerie, Thanksgiving, Karl Blau, D+ and Aidan Baker. She and Elverum helped create the What The Heck Fest. She released a total of eight albums under both names.
### Themes and style {#themes_and_style}
Castrée\'s literary work often dealt with topics such as loyalty, her relationship with her parents and childhood abuse. They were typically of a discreet nature, and often eschewed typical comics paneling, alongside using negative space and open page layouts, among other techniques. Her work featured a meticulous folk art style that made heavy use of vibrant color. Her characters were often expressive, being described as \"fragile\" and \"broken\", and were drawn with \"wiggly\" arms and \"bending\" legs. Themes such as sorrow and elation were present throughout her work in a symbiotic manner.
## Personal life and death {#personal_life_and_death}
Castrée was married to musician Phil Elverum, who has released music as the Microphones and Mount Eerie. They met in 2003 and wed in 2004. They originally intended to move to Canada but after searching for residency decided to remain in the United States, in the town of Anacortes, Washington, where Elverum grew up. Castrée was also close friends with musician Lori Goldston and poet Joanne Kyger. French was Castrée\'s primary language.
Castrée was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2015, shortly after the birth of her and Elverum\'s only child. In June 2016, a GoFundMe account was set up by Elverum to assist with their finances. She died on July 9, 2016, at the age of 35. Her husband soon posted an update: \"She died at home with me and her parents holding her, hopefully having reached some last minute peace\".
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# Geneviève Castrée
## Legacy
Her widower, Phil Elverum, released three albums under his Mount Eerie project -- *A Crow Looked at Me*, *Now Only* and *Lost Wisdom pt. 2* -- which chronicle Castrée\'s life and mourn her early death. Katherine Paul\'s debut album *Mother of My Children* was inspired by Castrée\'s death, whom Paul described as her \"mentor\". Clyde Petersen was inspired by Castrée\'s death to release an album he had recorded while briefly house-sitting for Castrée and Elverum. Many other artists paid tribute to her. Anders Nilsen called her \"one of my favorite people in the world and one of my favorite artists\". Former publisher Chris Oliveros expressed gratitude and pride for having worked with her and publishing her works.
## Exhibitions
- *Orange Sanguine* (drawings and dolls), The Crying Room, Vancouver, BC, 2002.
- *Deviate* (with Allison Cole), Junc Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2006.
- *Masques*, Book Gallery Popotame, Tokyo, 2007.
- *Geneviève Castrée : Drawings*, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York, NY, 2008.
- Pia-Anna Borneo Gallery, Lucerne, Switzerland, March 28 - April 5, 2009.
- *Some Shit*, THANKY, Richmond, VA, April 3--27, 2009.
- *Débarrassée/Décomplexée*, Presspop Gallery/Book Gallery Popotame, Tokyo, 2010.
- *Hivers*, Book Gallery Popotame, Tokyo, 2013.
- *Susceptible*, Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery, Seattle, WA, 2013.
- *Forest of Suicides* (group show), Galeria de Muerte, Tokyo, 2013.
- *Drawn & Quarterly 25th* (group show), Galerie Martel, Paris, 2016.
- *A Bubble*, Editions de la Pasteque, Montreal, QC, 2018.
- *This is Serious* (group show), Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON, 2019.
## Discography
### Woelv releases {#woelv_releases}
- *Pamplemoussi* (as Geneviève Castrée), LP and book, L\'Oie de Cravan, 2004.
- *Gris*, CD-EP/10\" record, P.W. Elverum & Sun, 2006.
- *Le niveau de la mer/Bête à Cheval*, 7\" record, K Records, 2007.
- *Tout Seul Dans La Forêt En Plein Jour, Avez-vous Peur?*, CD/LP and book, K Records, 2007
### Woelv compilation appearances {#woelv_compilation_appearances}
- *Le Béluga* on *Trust In Sirens: What The Heck Fest 2004*, CD, Kelp Monthly, 2004.
- *Réconciliation* on *Flotsam and Jetsam: What The Heck Fest 2005*, CD, Kelp Monthly, 2005.
- *Le Déserteur* (Boris Vian) on *Free The Bird: What The Heck Fest 2006*, CD, Kelp Monthly, 2006.
### Ô Paon releases {#ô_paon_releases}
- *a)b)c)d)e)*, 7\" record, TAUS 001 Disques Ô Paon, 2009.
- *Courses*, CD/LP, TAUS 003 Disques Ô Paon, 2010.
- *Quatorze/Quinze Ans*, 10\" record, TAUS 004 Disques Ô Paon, 2013.
- *Fleuve*, LP, TAUS 005 Disques Ô Paon, 2015.
### Ô Paon compilation appearances {#ô_paon_compilation_appearances}
- *Raffinerie* on *What The Heck Fest 2007*, CD, Charming Tedious, 2007
- *Les Cerfs-Volants* on *The Second Marriage Compilation*, CD, Marriage Records, 2007.
- *Le Retour* on *No Band Is An Island*, CD, Knw-Yr-Own, 2008.
- *Nunavik* on *Songs For The Arctic Ocean*, digital, Beat is Murder Records, 2009.
- *Certitude* (D+) on *What The Heck?*, CD, Knw-Yr-Own, 2009.
- *Films Americains* on *Yeti Ten*, CD and magazine, Yeti, 2010.
- *Evolution (alternative version)* on *Resume vol. 2*, digital, 7 e.p., 2011.
### Collaborations and appearances {#collaborations_and_appearances}
- *Welcome Nowhere* by Thanksgiving, LP, P.W. Elverum & Sun, 2004.
- *No Flashlight* by Mount Eerie, CD/LP, P.W. Elverum & Sun, 2005.
- *The Watery Graves of Portland and/et Geneviève* with The Watery Graves of Portland, CD/LP, Marriage Records, 2007.
- *Mount Eerie Pts. 6 & 7* by Mount Eerie, 10\" record and book, P.W. Elverum & Sun, 2007.
- *Karl & Geneviève*, with Karl Blau, 7\" record, TAUS 002, Disques Ô Paon, 2011.
- *Clear Moon* by Mount Eerie, LP, P.W. Elverum & Sun, 2012.
- *Already Drowning* by Aidan Baker, CD/LP, Gizeh Records, 2013.
- *Sauna* by Mount Eerie, LP, P.W. Elverum & Sun, 2015
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# Štalkovica
**Štalkovica** (*Шталковица*) is a village in the municipality of Probištip, North Macedonia. It used to be part of the former municipality of Zletovo.
The name of the village is originating from German word \"Stahl\" and most likely the village was found by Saxons, who settled this region around the town of Kratovo in the 13th century.
## Geography
The village of Stalkovica as well as its neighboring villages Ratkovica, Zelengrad, Jamište, Emirica, Kneževo and others are very mountainous villages from the famous historical Zletovska area. Unlike the previously mentioned villages, Stalkovica is at a significantly lower altitude. Because the heights of the mountain Ponikva, west of the also famous Ratkova scale gradually turning into milder heights which after Zletovo and Tursko Rudari start the wavy alluvial plain around Zletovska Reka. The settlement itself is located, except for a few homes, on the right bank of the Štalkovska River. Otherwise, the village has a lot of springs in the higher and lower part, and the climate due to the influence of Bregalnica and Zletovska Reka is moderate continental.
## Demographics
According to the statistics of the Bulgarian ethnographer Vasil Kanchov from 1900, there were 260 inhabitants in Stalkovica, all Bulgarians.
According to the Secretary of the Bulgarian Exarchate Dimitar Mišev (\"La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne\"), in 1905 there were 258 inhabitants in Stalkovica, of which 240 were Bulgarians and 18 Vlachs.
According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 44 inhabitants
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# The Jolly Mon
***The Jolly Mon*** is a children\'s picture book written by Jimmy Buffett and Savannah Jane Buffett and published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. The book was originally released in 1988. It was illustrated by Lambert Davis.
From the cover flap, \"A superb songwriter and storyteller, Jimmy Buffett has combined his knowledge of oceanic folklore with his own experiences while sailing with his daughter, Savannah Jane, from island to island throughout the Caribbean. The result is *The Jolly Mon* - an original tale where music and enchantment, pirates and trickery, friendship and the loyalty of a very special dolphin, create a timeless story of adventure. Dramatic paintings by Lambert Davis reflect the artist\'s continuing love of the sun, the surf, and the sea. Many of the visual elements in these illustrations were suggested to the artist by Jimmy Buffett, who related many details of his own experiences while living among the people of the Caribbean. Here is a book to be shared and treasured by young and old.\"
The original hard cover release of the book was accompanied by a cassette tape of Jimmy Buffett and Savannah Jane Buffett reading the story along with an original score written by Michael Utley. The musicians performing the score were Michael Utley (Piano), Robert Greenidge (Steel Pan), and Ira Ingber (Guitar).
Later editions of the book are accompanied by a CD recording of Jimmy and Savannah reading it.
Buffett was inspired to title this book after his famous song *Jolly Mon Sing* from his 1985 album, Last Mango in Paris.
The script writer of the Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl, Terry Rossio, credits the title of this book for the inspiration of the name for the little ship that Jack Sparrow sinks in the opening of the film
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# The Light Divides
***The Light Divides*** is the second studio album by the indie rock band Winterpills, released on February 27, 2007.
## Track listing {#track_listing}
The 14th track is an untitled track of nearly 5 minutes of silence, which precedes the final hidden track
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# Celtica Radio
**Celtica Radio** International is an independent commercial radio station which uses the Internet as its transmission platform broadcasting in MP3 format. The station has its head office based in Bridgend, Wales, and provides a broad mix of programming available worldwide in live, on-demand and downloadable formats. Celtica Radio started broadcasting on 21 June 2000, and is still in the same ownership. In the year 2012 Celtica Radio logged over one and three-quarter million listeners, and achieved over 54,000 podcast downloads. Since November 2012, around 300,000 listeners a month tune into Celtica Radio.`{{Failed verification|date=August 2023|reason=citation is from 2006, yet these mention viewing figures in 2012}}`{=mediawiki}
On 23 April 2011 the station started broadcasting through the transmitters of Radio Hafren on 756 kHz Medium Wave, until 10 February 2015, when Radio Hafren closed. The broadcasts were for two hours per night, every night from Midnight to 2 AM local time. Distance or DX listeners who provided a reception report were sent by return of post a QSL card.
Radio Hafren began FM broadcasts on 102.1 MHz FM at 10:21 am on Monday 11 August 2014. Celtica Radio programmes on that frequency started at Midnight on Tuesday 12 August.
## History
The Celtica Radio story goes back to 1979 when a small group of people in the Bridgend area of South Wales wanted to set up their own wholly independent radio station. Over the following eighteen years the evolution of the group continued, with the establishment of two hospital radio stations in Bridgend and Neath, the re-launch of broadcasting at Swansea University, and two trial broadcasts in 1997 and 1998, culminating in a successful campaign to persuade the licensing authorities that the Bridgend region and community deserved its own local radio station. Leading this group of committed local radio enthusiasts and professionals was Bill Everatt.
The UK Radio Authority (which has now been replaced by OfCom) did not give that group the chance of broadcasting to their home area. This decision had the effect of stiffening the resolve of those who had been denied this local radio station licence, and led to David A Cook who had also worked on the campaign, providing the initial financial investment to set up Celtica Radio and its parent company AlBilCo MediaComm. Initially, the business structure was as an unincorporated association, but in 2003, both Celtica Radio and AlBilCo MediaComm became registered limited companies. The station has now expanded and the original group of broadcasters has been joined by others from other parts of the UK and Europe.
From 2005 to 2008, John Grierson, the founder and first general manager of Manx Radio, the Isle of Mans national commercial radio station, also broadcast with and advised the group.
## Location
The Celtica Radio Group is mainly based in South Wales, and makes programmes from a matrix of nine purpose-built, private studios. Many Celtica Radio contributors are established broadcasters, and have acknowledged track records in the radio industry. All key personnel are experts in their particular field of audio production, broadcasting or radio-related engineering.
The station\'s servers are located at the Red Bus Data Centre at the prestigious Canary Wharf development in London. The station is an official Partner organisation of Bridgend County Borough Council Arts and Culture Directorate.
## Airplay
Celtica Radio are not members of PRS, MCPS, PPL or any of their foreign affiliates. All the music the station transmits is out of the jurisdiction of any of the above organisations. Artists who contact the station for promotional airplay will need to visit the Playlists page and agree to the terms and conditions.
All shows are downloadable as Free Podcasts and also available on iTunes, and the programmes are usually over an hour in duration. In July 2007, Celtica Radio started being listed on the Reciva Internet Radio Network which allows their broadcasts to be heard without a PC for the first time.
From September 2008 to December 2008, certain programmes were broadcast on the English Language service of Radio Waddenzee. The broadcasts were transmitted late at night and took advantage of groundwave propagation and skywave refraction off the ionosphere. These characteristics ensured that the broadcasts could be received throughout Central Europe and the East Coast of the UK on 1602 kHz Medium Wave. The station identified itself as Celtica Radio, broadcasting from the Lightship *Jenni Baynton* through the transmitters of Radio Seagull.
Due to significant developments with the company's financial backers in November 2009, the station launched a live internet streaming service of original programming twenty-fours hour a day from their own studios, this channel also has a low bitrate multi-media feed which can be received on all smart phones. The exact nature of the financial development has not been made public
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# Tom Baker (bowler)
**Tom Baker** (born September 12, 1954, Buffalo, New York) is a professional bowler in the Professional Bowlers Association and a member of the PBA and USBC Halls of Fame. He has won 10 titles on the regular PBA Tour (including one major), and 12 more on the PBA50 Tour (formerly PBA Senior Tour). He currently resides in King, North Carolina.
## PBA career {#pba_career}
After winning his first title in 1980, Baker had an outstanding 1981 season, winning three titles and over \$103,000 that year. By 1986, he had won 7 PBA titles before going on a 10-year winless streak, partially due to recurring wrist injuries.\<ref name=\"\"bn\"\>
In 1996, he returned to the winner\'s circle at the AC-Delco Classic, and won again in 1997 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. After another 7-year drought, he shocked the bowling world by winning the 2004 PBA World Championship at age 49. At the time, Baker was the oldest player to win a PBA major, though that mark has since been surpassed by Walter Ray Williams Jr. and Pete Weber, both of whom won majors at age 50. The event\'s final round was held at the EMU Convocation Center in Ypsilanti, Michigan, and paid a first prize of \$120,000 `{{ndash}}`{=mediawiki} more than Baker had ever won in an entire season previously. The win also earned Baker a five-year PBA Tour exemption, lasting through the 2008-09 season.
Baker was a standout on the PBA50 Tour after joining in 2005, winning four PBA50 major titles and eight PBA50 standard tournaments, while continuing to compete on the regular tour through 2009. His 12 total PBA50 titles rank tied for third all-time, behind Walter Ray Williams Jr. (16), John Handegard (14) and Pete Weber (14). He is one of only five bowlers in history (with Walter Ray Williams Jr., Pete Weber, Amleto Monacelli and Parker Bohn III) to have won at least 10 titles on both the standard PBA Tour and the PBA50 Tour. Baker was named Senior Rookie of the Year and Senior Player of the Year in 2005, becoming the first player to earn both honors in a single season. Since then, Norm Duke and Tom Hess have matched Baker\'s feat. He won Senior Player of the Year honors again in 2006 and 2007, an unprecedented streak in the history of the PBA Senior Tour.
Baker also owns 16 PBA Regional Tour titles and 22 PBA50 Regional titles.
Baker was ranked #40 (tied with Joe Berardi) on the PBA\'s 2008 list of \"50 Greatest Players of the Last 50 Years.\"
### PBA Tour titles {#pba_tour_titles}
Major championships in **bold type**.
1. 1980 Northern California Open (Fremont, California)
2. 1981 Pennzoil Open (Torrance, California)
3. 1981 Showboat Doubles Classic w/Joe Hutchinson (Las Vegas, Nevada)
4. 1981 Denver Open (Denver, Colorado)
5. 1982 AMF Grand Prix (Paris, France)
6. 1985 Budweiser Classic (Columbus, Ohio)
7. 1986 Kodak Invitational (Rochester, New York)
8. 1996 AC-Delco Classic (Lakewood, California)
9. 1997 Harrisburg Open (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania)
10. **2004 PBA World Championship** (Taylor, Michigan)
### Senior PBA titles {#senior_pba_titles}
Major championships in **bold type**.
1. **2005 PBA Senior U.S. Open** (Sterling Heights, Michigan)
2. 2006 Senior Chillicothe Open (Chillicothe, Ohio)
3. 2006 PBA Senior Tucson Open (Tucson, Arizona)
4. **2006 PBA Senior U.S. Open** (Las Vegas, Nevada)
5. **2006 USBC Senior Masters** (Reno, Nevada)
6. 2007 PBA Senior Northern California Classic (Brentwood, California)
7. **2007 USBC Senior Masters** (Reno, Nevada)
8. 2007 PBA Senior Dick Weber Invitational (Ballwin, Missouri)
9. 2010 PBA Senior Pepsi Open (Decatur, Illinois)
10. 2013 PBA50 Greater Birmingham Open (Birmingham, Alabama)
11. 2014 PBA50 Greater Northern California Open (Brentwood, California)
12. 2014 PBA50 Dayton Classic (Dayton, Ohio)
13. 2017 PBA60 Killer B Open (New Port Richey, Florida)
## Honors
- Inducted into the PBA Hall of Fame in 1999 and the USBC Hall of Fame in 2012.
- Voted into the Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame in 1999.
- Won the Steve Nagy Sportsmanship Award in the 1980 and 1981 seasons.
- PBA Senior Player of the Year for three consecutive seasons (2005 through 2007)
- Has earned over \$1.9 million as a PBA professional (over \$1.45 million on the regular PBA tour)
- Has rolled 65 career perfect 300 games in PBA competition. Was part of a 300-300 match play tie with Pete Weber in 1981.
- Holds the record for most events bowled on the PBA Tour in a career with 840
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# Simple transposon
A **simple transposon** also called \"conservative transposon\" is an insertion sequence (IS element) that contains its own coding transposase between the short, inverted, repeated sequences that flank (present) its gene coding region. Transposase is responsible for excision and transfer while resolvase is responsible for resolution of the transfer.
Simple transposition is also called cut-and-paste transposition because the element is cut out of its original site and pasted into a new one
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# German, North Macedonia
**German** (*Герман*) is a village in the municipality of Rankovce, North Macedonia.
## Demographics
According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 311 inhabitants
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# Adolphe Max
**Adolphe Eugène Jean Henri Max** (30 December 1869 -- 6 November 1939) was a Belgian liberal politician and mayor of the City of Brussels from 1909 until his death. He was also an irregular freemason, an honorary Minister of State and a member of the Institut de France.
## Life
Max graduated in law at the Free University of Brussels, and entered the legal profession, besides doing journalistic work. When he was 25 years old, he was elected a province councillor for Brabant, and was elected a city councillor in 1903. After he had worked as a magistrate, he was appointed mayor of Brussels on 6 December 1909.
Under the German occupation of Brussels during the First World War, Max refused to cooperate with the occupying forces. As a result, he was arrested and held in captivity, first at Namur, and then at Glatz (Poland) and Goslar (Germany), until he escaped on 13 November 1918. Charles Lemonnier was acting mayor during his captivity. On his return to Brussels, he was greeted as a hero. In 1919, he was elected to the Belgian Chamber of Representatives, where he campaigned for universal adult suffrage, a goal not achieved until after his death.
## Legacy
Among the monuments from Max\'s time in office as mayor of Brussels are parts of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium and the Heysel/Heizel exhibition park built for the Brussels International Exposition of 1935. The Boulevard Adolphe Max/Adolphe Maxlaan, a central boulevard of the City of Brussels, is named after him, as are primary and secondary schools near Square Ambiorix. There is also a Place Adolphe Max in the 9th arrondissement of Paris which was named in his honour in January 1940, shortly after his death.
## Honours
- **1910**: Knight Grand cross in the Order of the Crown of Prussia.
- **1918**: Grand Officer in the Order of Leopold.
- **1932**: Grand Cordon in the Order of Leopold.
- **1938**: Grand Cross of the Order of the White Lion
- Member of the Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium
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# Charles C. Di Peso
**Charles Corradino Di Peso** (October 20, 1920, in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. -- November 20, 1982, in Tucson, Arizona) was an American archaeologist. He is known for his research in Northern Mexico and the American Southwest.
## Biography
Di Peso\'s first field experience was at Ackmen, Colorado in 1937. In 1941 Di Peso returned to the field to conduct work in New Mexico. Both of these were headed by the Field Museum in Chicago. Di Peso earned a B.A in anthropology and a B.S. in geology from Beloit College in 1942.
After graduation Di Peso joined the U.S. Air Force and was a pilot during World War II and was discharged in 1946. During his time in the Air Force Di Peso was stationed in Phoenix, Arizona, where he lived after the war, becoming the archaeologist for the city.
In 1947 Di Peso received a B.F.T. from the American Institute of Foreign Trade. He received his M.A. from the University of Arizona in 1950 and earned his PhD from there in 1953 becoming the first student at that institution to earn that degree in anthropology. There, he was a student of the famous Southwest archaeologist Emil Haury who influenced him greatly throughout his career.
Di Peso first worked for the Amerind Foundation in 1948 and in 1954 became the director which he held until his death in 1982. Di Peso is best known for his excavation, analysis, and interpretation of archaeological materials from Paquimé, also known as Casas Grandes, beginning in 1959. According to Di Peso, Paquimé was established by Mesoamerican merchants in order to control trade between Mesoamerica and the Southwest. While this assertion continues to be controversial, Di Peso\'s work at Paquimé had the effect of drawing archaeologists\' attention to a long-ignored part of North America.
## Writings
- Di Peso, Charles C., 1974, *Casas Grandes: A Fallen Trading Center of the Gran Chichimeca* (Vols. 1--3). Amerind Foundation Publication No. 9. Northland Press, Flagstaff, Arizona.
- Di Peso, Charles C., John B. Rinaldo, and Gloria J. Fenner, 1974, *Casas Grandes: A Fallen Trading Center of the Gran Chichimeca* (Vols. 4--8). Amerind Foundation Publication No. 9. Northland Press, Flagstaff, Arizona
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# Big Brother (Slovenian TV series)
***Big Brother Slovenija*** is the Slovenian version of the international reality television franchise *Big Brother* created by producer John de Mol Jr. in 1997. The show was originally broadcast on Kanal A in 2007, 2008, 2015 and 2016. A celebrity season was aired in 2010 on POP TV. The show followed a number of contestants, known as housemates, who are isolated from the outside world for an extended period of time in a custom-built house and trying to avoid being evicted by the public with the aim of winning a large cash prize at the end of the run.
## Series details {#series_details}
### Regular season {#regular_season}
<table>
<thead>
<tr class="header">
<th><p>Season</p></th>
<th><p>Network</p></th>
<th><p>Slogan</p></th>
<th><p>Launch date</p></th>
<th><p>Finale date</p></th>
<th><p>Days</p></th>
<th><p>Housemates</p></th>
<th><p>Winner</p></th>
<th><p>Grand prize</p></th>
<th><p>Presenter(s)</p></th>
<th><p>Ratings share</p></th>
<th><p>Rating</p></th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr class="odd">
<td><p><em></em></p></td>
<td rowspan="4" style="text-align: center;"><p>Kanal A</p></td>
<td rowspan="2" style="text-align: center;"><p><strong>Big Brother vas gleda!</strong><br />
(Big Brother is watching you!)</p></td>
<td><p>17 March 2007</p></td>
<td><p>9 June 2007</p></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><p>85</p></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><p>18</p></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"></td>
<td><p>€75,000</p></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><p>Nina Osenar</p></td>
<td><p>30%</p></td>
<td><p>7.8%</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="even">
<td><p><strong><em>Big Brother 2</em></strong></p></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><p>93</p></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><p>17</p></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><p>Naske Mehič</p></td>
<td><p>€92,000</p></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><p>Nina Osenar<br />
Matej Grm - Gusti</p></td>
<td><p>28%</p></td>
<td><p>7.2%</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="odd">
<td><p><strong><em>Big Brother 3</em></strong></p></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><p><strong>Pričakuj nepričakovano!</strong><br />
(Expect the unexpected!)</p></td>
<td><p>6 March 2015</p></td>
<td><p>19 June 2015</p></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><p>106</p></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><p>23</p></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><p>Pia Filipčič</p></td>
<td><p>€50,000</p></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"></td>
<td><p>19.4%</p></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr class="even">
<td><p><strong><em>Big Brother 4</em></strong></p></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><p><strong>Vem, da si upaš!</strong><br />
(I know you dare!)<br />
<strong>Skrivnosti in laži!</strong><br />
(Secrets and lies)</p></td>
<td><p>26 February 2016</p></td>
<td><p>9 June 2016</p></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><p>104</p></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><p>23</p></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><p>Mirela Lapanović</p></td>
<td><p>€50,000</p></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"></td>
<td><p>25.7%</p></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
### Celebrity season {#celebrity_season}
<table>
<thead>
<tr class="header">
<th><p>Season</p></th>
<th><p>Network</p></th>
<th><p>Slogan</p></th>
<th><p>Launch date</p></th>
<th><p>Finale date</p></th>
<th><p>Days</p></th>
<th><p>Housemates</p></th>
<th><p>Winner</p></th>
<th><p>Grand prize</p></th>
<th><p>Presenter</p></th>
<th><p>Ratings share</p></th>
<th><p>Rating</p></th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr class="odd">
<td><p><strong><em>Big Brother Slavnih</em></strong></p></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><p>POP TV</p></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><p><strong>Ali so slavni drugačni kot vi?</strong><br />
(Are celebrities different from you?)<br />
<strong>Prepričajte se na lastne oči.</strong><br />
(Make sure through your eyes.)</p></td>
<td><p>3 October 2010</p></td>
<td><p>12 December 2010</p></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><p>71</p></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><p>14</p></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><p>Jože Činč</p></td>
<td><p>€90,000</p></td>
<td style="text-align: center;"><p>Nina Osenar</p></td>
<td><p>43%</p></td>
<td><p>13.5%</p></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
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# Big Brother (Slovenian TV series)
## The house {#the_house}
### 2007--2010
- A 550 m2 Big Brother house is situated in the backyard of Pro Plus building in Ljubljana.
- There is a 300 m2 dwelling, and a 250 m2 garden. The house\'s interior is covered by 22 cameras.
- Bathroom, toilets, and showers which cannot be locked for security reasons, are also covered by cameras.
- Essential kitchenware can be found in the kitchen along with sink, electric cooker, oven, refrigerator, and a silverware container.
- Housemates can eat self-cooked meals at a big 12-chair dining table in the dining room.
- Comfortable divans are found in the living room which can be used in free time.
- Big Brother house features two four-bedded bedrooms, two of which are double. Every housemate receives one bedding set, which they have to wash and make themselves. Even here every movement and whisper are recorded by cameras.
- Housemates are frequently called into confessional, where they share their experiences with Big Brother. A person may enter confessional only when the empty and green light is lit above it. A chair and table can be found inside.
- Very important part of the Big Brother house is a depository, where much-earned food and accessories for various tasks are dropped off. The depository is, except on Saturdays and Sundays, open only one hour a day, possible break-ins are prevented by the electric lock.
### 2015 {#section_1}
*Big Brother Slovenija* 2015 was filmed in Serbia, where the regional version of *Big Brother*---***Veliki Brat*** is filmed. The house is located in Belgrade, in the urban neighborhood of Kosutnjak. The house was built in 2006 for the *Serbian Big Brother*. The house consists of a confessional, a bedroom, a living room, a kitchen, a dining room, a bathroom, a pantry, a garden and an extra space called *Elite section*, used throughout the season as a secret room. The house also has a swimming pool.
### 2016 {#section_2}
*Big Brother Slovenija* was back in Slovenia, however, it is not located next to the Pro Plus building, but in Vevče near the tennis courts
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# Pete Hershberger
**Pete Hershberger** (born 4 June 1949) is an American politician who served as a member of the Arizona House of Representatives, representing the 26th District from 2001 to 2008. He previously served in the State House, representing the 12th District from 1983 to 1985.
## Education
Hershberger received his BS from Colorado College in 1971 and obtained his MEd. in Counseling and Guidance from the University of Arizona in 1977.
## Personal life {#personal_life}
Hershberger is single. He is an Episcopalian
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# Poolstock
**Poolstock** is a road, the name of which is used to describe the surrounding residential area of Wigan, in Greater Manchester, England.
Poolstock, although it has no specific boundaries, is south of the River Douglas and is situated next to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal and close to Wigan Pier and Wigan town centre which is in walking distance. Situated close to Trenchfield Mill, Poolstock was a perfect place for Millworkers to live.
## Sport
The Poolstock Stadium hosted greyhound racing from 1932 to 1973 and speedway from 1947 to 1960 on Park Street. Laurel and Hardy made a personal appearance at a speedway meeting in 1947. The stadium was demolished in 1973
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# Rosamund Holland-Martin
**Dame Rosamund Mary Holland-Martin**, DBE, DL (*née* **Hornby**; 26 June 1914 in London -- 18 June 2001) was a British long-term leader and fund-raiser for the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC).
## NSPCC
Holland-Martin was part of the NSPCC for over 50 years, serving as chairman of the Central Executive Committee for nearly two decades (1969--1988). During her decades with the charity, she played a crucial role in the establishment of the NSPCC\'s position as Britain\'s leading child protection organisation and helped to engineer its development into a modern professional body.
Dame Holland-Martin played a significant role in fund-raising for the organisation\'s 1984 centenary appeal, the largest charitable appeal ever planned and executed in the UK, which exceeded its fundraising goal. Holland-Martin was vital to the success of the appeal, including, alongside the NSPCC\'s president Princess Margaret, persuading the Duke of Westminster to chair the Appeal. Due to its success, the Appeal became a blueprint for other charities, such as Great Ormond Street Hospital. The Centenary Charter set the agenda for the future direction of the society.
After 19 years in the chair she retired in 1988, but she never lost interest and she continued to attend meetings and speak whenever invited. By the time she left, the NSPCC had increased the funds it raised from under £500,000 in 1947 to more than £20 million a year.
## Family life {#family_life}
She was the fifth child of St John Hornby, a longtime member of the central executive committee and then deputy vice-chairman of the NSPCC, and his wife, Cecily.
In 1942, Rosamund Hornby joined the Women\'s Voluntary Services (WVS), giving up her job as assistant matron of the girls\' school which had been evacuated in 1939 to Chantmarle, the family home in Dorset. The WVS was led by Stella, Dowager Marchioness of Reading.
## Personal life {#personal_life}
In 1951, Hornby married Captain Douglas Eric \"Deric\" Holland-Martin (later Admiral Sir Deric Holland-Martin), a naval officer (10 April 1906 - 1977), fourth son of Robert Martin Holland-Martin.
They had two children, Emma and Benjamin, who both work for the NSPCC. Lady Holland-Martin went twice to Valletta, Malta, while her husband was Commander-in-Chief of Allied Forces in the Mediterranean. They lived in Bell\'s Castle, Kemerton, Worcestershire.
## Later life {#later_life}
After her husband\'s death in 1977, she took on his former role as a Deputy Lieutenant for Hereford and Worcester. She also became a governor of Malvern School and chair of the Tewkesbury Abbey Appeal.
She continued to be a member of the NSPCC central executive committee until 1992 and later became a vice-president. For her work for the Women\'s Voluntary Service she was appointed OBE. For her numerous subsequent posts in public service was advanced, in 1983, to DBE.
## Death
She died in 2001, eight days before her 87th birthday, and was interred near her home in Worcestershire
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# Composite transposon
A **composite transposon** is similar in function to simple transposons and insertion sequence (IS) elements in that it has protein coding DNA segments flanked by inverted, repeated sequences that can be recognized by transposase enzymes. A composite transposon, however, is flanked by two separate IS elements which may or may not be exact replicas. Instead of each IS element moving separately, the entire length of DNA spanning from one IS element to the other is transposed as one complete unit. Composite transposons will also often carry one or more genes conferring antibiotic resistance.
## Flanked by SINEs in mammalian genomes {#flanked_by_sines_in_mammalian_genomes}
Two SINEs may act in concert to flank and mobilize an intervening single copy DNA sequence. This was reported for a 710 bp DNA sequence upstream of the bovine beta globin gene. The DNA arrangement forms a composite transposon whose presence has been confirmed by the complete bovine genomic sequence where the mobilized sequence may be found on bovine chromosome 15 in contig [NW_001493315.1](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/119907430?report=gbwithparts) nucleotides #1085432--1086142 and the originating sequence may be found on bovine chromosome 2 in contig [NW_001501789.2](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/194664837?report=gbwithparts) nucleotides #1096679--1097389. It is likely that similar composite transposons exist in other bovine genomic regions and other mammalian genomes. They could be detected with suitable algorithms
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# Dale Clarke
**Dale Clarke** (born March 23, 1978) is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman. He is currently playing for Tappara in SM-liiga.
Clarke played three games in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the St. Louis Blues. He previously played in Finland for Espoo Blues, HIFK and in Germany\'s Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL) for the Wolfsburg Grizzly Adams and the Kassel Huskies.
## Playing career {#playing_career}
As a youth, Clarke played in the 1992 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with the Quinte minor ice hockey team from Belleville, Ontario.
Clarke played junior hockey for the Wellington Dukes of the Metro Toronto Junior Hockey League (MTHL) from 1994 until 1996. He attended St. Lawrence University and played four seasons from 1996 until 2000. In 2000, he signed with the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League (NHL) and joined their American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate the Worcester IceCats in time for the playoffs.
He played two seasons for the IceCats and had a three-game call-up to the Blues. In 2002--03 he was traded by the Blues to the Colorado Avalanche organization, joining their AHL affiliate Hershey Bears. He then split time with the Cincinnati Mighty Ducks of the AHL to end the season. From 2003 to his retirement, he played in Europe for teams in Finland and Germany.
On January 16, 2013, Clarke signed a contract midway through the 2012--13 season to return for a third stint with Tappara of the Finnish SM-liiga.
## Career statistics {#career_statistics}
Regular season
----------------- ------------------------- -------- ----- ----------------
Season Team League GP G
1994--95 Wellington Dukes MetJHL 48 2
1995--96 Wellington Dukes MetJHL 51 6
1996--97 St. Lawrence University ECAC 34 1
1997--98 St. Lawrence University ECAC 33 1
1998--99 St. Lawrence University ECAC 39 3
1999--00 St. Lawrence University ECAC 36 6
1999--00 Worcester IceCats AHL --- ---
2000--01 Worcester IceCats AHL 67 7
2000--01 Peoria Rivermen ECHL 2 1
2000--01 St. Louis Blues NHL 3 0
2001--02 Worcester IceCats AHL 72 2
2002--03 Hershey Bears AHL 33 1
2002--03 Cincinnati Mighty Ducks AHL 13 1
2003--04 Tappara SM-l 48 2
2004--05 Wolfsburg Grizzly Adams DEL 49 3
2005--06 Kassel Huskies DEL 52 5
2006--07 Tappara SM-l 56 13
2007--08 Blues SM-l 26 3
2008--09 Blues SM-l 43 7
2009--10 HIFK SM-l 55 8
2010--11 Brynäs IF SEL 53 4
2011--12 Blues SM-l 36 3
SM-liiga totals 264 36
NHL totals 3 0
## Transactions
- July 24, 1999 - Signed as a free agent by the St. Louis Blues
- December 5, 2002 - Traded to Colorado by St. Louis for future considerations
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# Sevilla la Nueva
**Sevilla la Nueva** is a town located in the south west of the Community of Madrid, Spain. It had a population of 9,361 in 2022
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# Michał Życzkowski
**Michał Życzkowski** (12 April 1930 -- 24 May 2006) was a Polish mechanical engineer.
## Career
Życzkowski was born in Kraków. In 1954 he graduated at the Tadeusz Kościuszko University of Technology, and in 1958 he received a diploma at the Imperial College London. He became Professor and doctor honoris causa of the Cracow University of Technology, full member of Polish Academy of Sciences and Polish Academy of Learning, Foreign Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
He was the youngest professor in the history of Poland during his time. He became professor at the age of 31. He advised 29 Ph.D. students, 11 of them were promoted to professors.
He had four children, among them Karol Życzkowski. He died in his home city of Krakow.
## Editor
Member of Editorial Boards of:
- International Journal of Mechanical Sciences
- Structural Optimization
- Journal of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
- Zeitschrift für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik
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# Orthodox Lutheran Confessional Conference
The **Orthodox Lutheran Confessional Conference** is a group of independent Lutheran congregations. The OLCC was organized in 2006 after the charter congregations left the Lutheran Churches of the Reformation.
## Organizational structure {#organizational_structure}
The OLCC consists of independent Lutheran congregations who are united in doctrine and practice. It has no political structure, treasury, or form of government. The pastoral conference has a chairman who serves as a point of contact for outside groups and congregations.
## Doctrine and practice {#doctrine_and_practice}
The OLCC professes that the Book of Concord is in complete agreement with the teachings of the Bible. In Lutheranism, this is often known as a *quia* subscription.
The following beliefs distinguish this group from others which likewise profess a *quia* subscription.
### Church
- Only the local congregation is a body of Christians that has the right to establish the ministry in its midst.
- Other organizations which congregations may join have no divine authority whatsoever.
- The spiritual rule of a congregation is given to the Office of the Ministry, whose incumbents serve at the behest of God and the congregation. The spiritual rule is the rule of the Word of God.
- The external governing of a congregation may be carried out in any number of ways, as the circumstances require. Thus church boards, voter\'s assemblies, general consensus, or pastoral rule are all valid forms of external church government.
- The external government of the church is limited to matters which in themselves are not spiritual, such as the holding and maintenance of property, scheduling of meetings, etc. It must yield to the spiritual rule in all matters where the spiritual and external rule intersect.
- Nevertheless, the external government cannot violate God\'s own commands as to how the church should be governed. Thus those who rule the church even in its external aspects must still be male, and rule according to love, etc.
- Though a congregation may be organized in any number of forms (corporation, trust, house church, etc.) these forms do not in any way alter the spiritual nature or existence of that congregation. The elimination or conversion of the external form does not eliminate or alter the congregation itself, provided the congregation is still a group of Christians who continue to gather regularly around the Word and sacraments, with the office of the ministry established in their midst.
### Ministry
- The Office of the Ministry, the Office of the Keys, and the Preaching Office are all synonymous.
- This office belongs to the whole church. Emergencies excepted, the church exercises the office by filling it, and also when practicing excommunication.
- The office is filled when the local church issues a call to a qualified man, who then accepts this call. This call is considered to be a mediate divine call, where God works through the local congregation as His instrument.
- Only the local congregation is a church that can issue a divine call. Other organizations cannot, because only the local congregation meets regularly, in a particular place, around the means of Grace (which are defined as the word and the sacraments), all other groups being of a transitory nature.
- Though a local congregation may ask for assistance in choosing a candidate for the ministry, the right to issue a divine call cannot be transferred from the local congregation to another body. It is always the local congregation that calls.
- The essential duties of this office are preaching, teaching, and administering the sacraments.
- Individuals in this office may, by human arrangement, be divided into different branches, such as pastor, assistant pastor, seminary professor, evangelist (missionary), vicar, etc., but each has the full office and can therefore rightly preach, teach, and administer the sacraments.
- No minister can by divine right claim a rank higher than any other minister, all incumbents in the ministry being equals.
- An incumbent in this office may have helpers who assist him in his duties, but those helpers cannot \"borrow\" his call. Therefore, in the church, emergencies excepted, they may not preach, teach, or administer the sacraments without themselves having a divine call and being installed into the Office of the Ministry
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# Rugby union in Iran
**Rugby union in Iran** is a growing sport.
The Iran Rugby Federation was formed by Alireza Fazlollah A'rabi in 2000 as a part of Baseball Federation of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Iran became a fully fledged member of the International Rugby Board in November 2010.
## History
Rugby union was first introduced into Persia by the British military, and it was not uncommon for rich Persians to send their children to British boarding schools.
In more recent times, it has grown through university contacts and has now grown to over 1,000 players, both men and women.
After some years continuous efforts made by society of Iran rugby football together with authorities, today we can see results such as foundation of Iran Rugby Football Union, qualification for Asian competitions and membership in Asian Rugby Football Union (ARFU). <http://iranrugby.com/>
## Notable players of Iranian descent {#notable_players_of_iranian_descent}
- Aadel Kardooni, an Iranian who emigrated to the England in the 1980s played for Leicester Tigers and represented England A.
- Josh Navidi is a professional for Cardiff Blues and a Welsh international, he is the Welsh-born son of an Iranian father and Welsh mother.
- Mohammadali Esteki is an Iranian professional rugby player who plays in the Italian top league
## National team {#national_team}
The national team currently competes in Division 2 of the 2012 Asian Five Nations alongside Malaysia, China and Thailand.
It has been announced that Iran will be participating in the rugby sevens tournament at the 2010 Asian Games.
## Domestic competitions {#domestic_competitions}
### Iranian League {#iranian_league}
The Iranian League is an amateur league which was established in 2002 by Alireza Fazlollah A'rabi
The national league consists of 10 teams, which is played in two separate groups
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# Carl Nicoladoni
**Carl Nicoladoni** (23 April 1847 -- 4 December 1902) was an Austrian surgeon born in Vienna.
He received his medical doctorate from the University of Vienna, and was later a professor of surgery at the Universities of Innsbruck (from 1881) and Graz (from 1895).
Nicoladoni specialized in orthopedic and reconstructive surgery. He was particularly interested in research and diagnosis of scoliosis, publishing several treatises on the disorder. He also performed the first successful thumb replacement, an operation involving replacement of a boy\'s lost thumb with the second toe of his right foot.
Nicoladoni made contributions in regards to urogenital and gastrointestinal surgery. He introduced new surgical techniques for treatment of esophageal diverticulum as well as for torsion of the spermatic cord. He also investigated the possibilities of gastroenterostomic surgery.
## Works
- *Die Architektur der Sskoliotischen Wirbelsaule* (Architecture of the scoliotic spine, 1889).
- *Die Architektur der Kindlichen Skoliose* (Architecture of juvenile scoliosis, 1894).
- *Die Skoliose des Lendensegmentes* (Scoliosis of lumbar segments, 1894)
- *Daumenplastik. Wiener klinische Wochenschrift* (Toe to thumb replacement 1897, 10 : 663--670)
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# Levingston
**Levingston** is a family name originating in Scotland as a habitational name derived from Livingston in Lothian which was originally named in Middle English Levingston. This place name was originally named after a man named Levin who appears in several 12th century charters. In Ireland (and in some cases in the Highlands of Scotland), the name was adopted by those there exiled royals of Ulaidh (province) or L. Ultonia bearing the Gaelic surnames Ó Duinnshléibhe and Mac Duinnshléibhe (anglicized Dunleavy) and, also, in Ireland and Scotland, later, known as the Mac an Ultaigh (var. Ulaidh) (anglicized MacNulty). Levingston may refer to:
- Andre Levingston, American entrepreneur and basketball coach
- Bashir Levingston (born 1976), American football player
- Bruce Levingston, American concert pianist and recording artist
- Cliff Levingston (born 1961), basketball player
- Frank Levingston (1905--2016), United States military veteran
- Ivan Levingston (born 1994), American journalist and a reporter
- James Levingston, 1st Earl of Newburgh (1622--1670), Scottish peer
- Raydon Levingston (born 1946), Australian cricketer
- Roberto M
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# Parnall Heck
The **Parnall Heck** was a 1930s British four-seat cabin monoplane built by Parnall Aircraft Limited at Yate, Gloucestershire. Originally a Hendy design, few were built. It combined the strength and comfort of a cabin aircraft with the speed of a racer.
## Design
The **Heck** was designed by Basil B. Henderson on commission from Whitney Straight, who specified a high cruising speed along with a very low landing speed. It was a single-engined, conventional low-wing cabin monoplane, built of spruce with a plywood covering, initially a two-seater in tandem layout. It had a manually operated retractable tailwheel undercarriage, leading edge slats and slotted flaps, giving it good short-field performance in spite of its high wing loading compared to contemporary aircraft in this class.
## History
The type was originally designated the **Hendy 3308 Heck**, with the prototype built by the Westland Aircraft Works at Yeovil. While originally intended to be fitted with a 165 hp Napier Javelin engine, it was completed with a 200 hp de Havilland Gipsy Six engine instead. It was allocated the registration *G-ACTC* and first flew in July 1934.
Parnall Aircraft Limited was formed in May 1935 when George Parnall and Company merged with the Hendy Aircraft Company and the armament engineering firm Nash & Thompson. The Heck was redesignated the **Parnall Heck**. A number of problems with the undercarriage led to it being locked down and covered with \'trouser\' fairings. The aircraft set a new record for the flight from Cape Town to England of 6 days, 8 hours and 27 minutes in November 1936.
A small production line was started at Yate, Gloucestershire and the production version was designated the **Heck 2C**. The production aircraft were three-seaters with fixed spatted undercarriages. None of the aircraft was sold, and four (G-AEGH, G-AEGI, G-AEGJ and G-AEMR) were operated by Parnall Aircraft for communications and liaison with RAF squadrons in connection with Parnall\'s armament contracts. When the Second World War started, the aircraft were repainted from dark grey to a brown and green camouflage scheme but retained civilian registration markings.
The fifth production Heck 2C, registered G-AEGL, was flown as serial K8853 under contract 486334/36, and was used for trial installations of engines and armaments, including the development of the gun sight installation for the Spitfire and Hurricane. It was later allocated the Maintenance serial 3125M.
In March 1943, G-AEGH was impressed into service with the Royal Air Force as serial NF749 on communications and liaison duties.
The Parnall 382 was a newly designed two-seat open cockpit trainer, with some Heck components to meet Air Ministry Specification T.1/37. It was flown in February 1939 and later assessed at Martlesham Heath as the **Heck III**, but was not ordered.
The last surviving Heck was G-AEGI, which was damaged beyond repair in a taxying accident on 17 June 1950. The aircraft had just come seventh in the King\'s Cup Race at Wolverhampton\'s Pendeford airfield with a speed of 159 mph when a landing civil Supermarine Spitfire hit the rear of the Heck. Attempts at reconstruction failed and the aircraft was broken up in 1953
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# TD postcode area
The **TD postcode area**, also known as the **Galashiels postcode area**, is a group of fifteen postcode districts in south-east Scotland and the far north-east of England, within seventeen post towns. These cover most of the Scottish Borders council area (including Galashiels, Lauder, Gordon, Earlston, Kelso, Melrose, Selkirk, Jedburgh, Hawick, Newcastleton, Duns, Coldstream, Cockburnspath and Eyemouth) and the northernmost part of Northumberland (including Berwick-upon-Tweed, Cornhill-on-Tweed and Mindrum), plus a part of south-eastern East Lothian and a very small part of Cumbria.
The letters in the postcode are derived from **T**wee**d**dale. The TD postcode area is the smallest by population.
Mail for the TD postcode area is processed at Edinburgh Mail Centre, along with mail for the EH, KY, PH, DD and FK postcode areas
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# DG postcode area
The **DG postcode area**, also known as the **Dumfries and Galloway postcode area**, is a group of fifteen postcode districts in south-west Scotland, within fourteen post towns. These cover most of Dumfries and Galloway, including Dumfries, Annan, Canonbie, Castle Douglas, Dalbeattie, Gretna, Kirkcudbright, Langholm, Lockerbie, Moffat, Newton Stewart, Sanquhar, Stranraer and Thornhill. The DG16 district also extends across the border into Cumbria, England.
Mail for the DG postcode area is processed at Carlisle Mail Centre, along with mail for the CA postcode area
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# Sehnsucht nach irgendwo
***Sehnsucht nach irgendwo*** (*Longing For Somewhere*) is the twenty-fourth studio album released by German Schlager group Die Flippers. The albums contains the hit-single \"Ti amo (Das Lied der verlorenen Herzen)\". It was certified Gold.`{{Certification Cite Ref|region=Germany|type=album|artist=Die Flippers|title=Sehnsucht nach irgendwo}}`{=mediawiki}
## Track listing {#track_listing}
1. \"Wilde Orchidee\"
2. \"Sehnsucht nach irgendwo\" (\"Longing For Somewhere\")
3. \"Angelo mio\"
4. \"Auf der Straße undere Liebe\" (\"On the Street of Out Love\")
5. \"Es ist so schön, daß du da bist\" (\"It\'s So Nice That You\'re Here\")
6. \"Ich schenk Dir mein Leben\" (\"I\'m Giving You My Life\")
7. \"Angelina\"
8. \"Tanzen unterm Regenbogen\" (\"Dancing Under the Rainbow\")
9. \"Weine keine Tränen heut Nacht\" (\"Don\'t Cry Any Tears Tonight\")
10. \"Luisa\"
11. \"Ti amo (Das Lied der verlorenen Herzen)\" (\"Ti Amo \[The Song of the Lost Hearts\]\")
12. \"Wenn ich morgens auf stehe\" (\"When I Get Up In the Morning\")
13. \"Wenn es Sommer wird in Avignon\" (\"When Summer Comes in Avignon\")
14
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# Spirit of Wonder
***Spirit of Wonder*** is a Japanese anthology manga series written and illustrated by Kenji Tsuruta. It was serialized in Kodansha\'s `{{Transliteration|ja|seinen}}`{=mediawiki} manga magazines *Morning* and *Monthly Afternoon* from 1986 to 1994. A single-episode original video animation (OVA) animated by Ajia-do Animation Works and released by Toshiba-EMI, *Spirit of Wonder: Miss China\'s Ring*, was released in 1992. Another five-episode OVA was produced and released by Bandai Visual from 2001 to 2004.
## Overview
*Spirit of Wonder* consists of self-contained short stories, whose common factor is that they revolve around scientists developing absurd inventions, with plots involving treasure hunting, time travel or space travel. The stories are inspired by science fiction authors like H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, and Edmond Hamilton. The title was inspired by the *Spirit of St. Louis* aircraft, flown by Charles Lindbergh on the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight. The first nine chapters, which were published in *Weekly Morning*, feature different protagonists, times, and places, while the last three chapters, which were published in *Monthly Afternoon*, feature the only recurrent protagonist, Miss China.
## Media
### Manga
Written and illustrated by Kenji Tsuruta, *Spirit of Wonder* was irregularly published for 12 chapters (including a pilot chapter) in Kodansha\'s `{{Transliteration|ja|seinen}}`{=mediawiki} manga magazines *Weekly Morning* (and its special editions) and *Monthly Afternoon* from 1986 to 1994. Kodansha released a collected volume (numbered as first) on March 23, 1988, under the title *The Spirit of Wonder*; years later, when the series was finished, a single 407-page `{{Transliteration|ja|[[wideban]]}}`{=mediawiki} volume, which collected the twelve chapters, was released on August 22, 1997.
In North America, Dark Horse Comics and Studio Proteus partially published the series in five issues (only publishing the Miss China stories), from April 1, 1996, to August 1, 1996; they were later collected in a single 152-page volume on June 24, 1998.
#### Chapter list {#chapter_list}
### Original video animations {#original_video_animations}
#### *Miss China\'s Ring* {#miss_chinas_ring}
An original video animation (OVA) episode, animated by Ajia-do Animation Works and released by Toshiba-EMI, titled `{{Nihongo|''Spirit of Wonder: Miss China's Ring''|The Spirit of Wonder チャイナさんの憂鬱|Supiritto Obu Wandā Chaina-san no Yūutsu|{{lit.}} "Miss China's Melancholy"}}`{=mediawiki}, was released on June 3, 1992. In North America, the first OVA was licensed by AnimEigo and released on LaserDisc in February 1996; they later released it on DVD on January 10, 2001; however, three months later, AnimeEigo announced that it would go out of print.
#### 2001 OVA
Another four-episode OVA was produced and distributed by Bandai Visual. It included two stories: `{{Nihongo|"Scientific Boys Club"|少年科學倶楽部|Shōnen Kagaku Kurabu}}`{=mediawiki} (two parts) and `{{Nihongo|"Miss China Short Stories"|チャイナさん 短編集|Chaina-san Tanpenshū}}`{=mediawiki} (two short episodes; \"Miss China\'s Shrinking\" and \"Miss China\'s Planet\"). Two DVDs were released on January 25 and July 25, 2001. A \"Wonder Box\" DVD box set, which included the 1992 OVA, the four-episode OVA, and an exclusive short, `{{Nihongo|"Miss China's Sakazuki"|チャイナさんの盃|Chaina-san no Sakazuki}}`{=mediawiki}, was released on January 23, 2004. In North America, the four-episode OVA was licensed by Bandai Entertainment; it was released on September 16, 2003. In Europe, it was released by Beez Entertainment; unlike the other English releases, it included the \"Miss China\'s Sakazuki\" short (English-subbed only). In Australia and New Zealand, the OVA was released by Madman Entertainment on June 21, 2006.
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# Spirit of Wonder
## Reception
### Manga {#manga_1}
Reviewing the Dark Horse edition, which only included the Miss China chapters, Eugene Cheng of *EX* made positive comments about the series, praising its \"beautiful art\", \"unique style\", \"delightful characters and charming story\", lauding as well Tsuruta\'s artwork and his \"skillful use of scenery, perspective, and contrast\", ultimately calling the series: \"easily one of the best manga currently available in America.\" Manga critic Jason Thompson commented that \"its detailed artwork makes this manga live up to its name: a sweet if unresolved love story, similar to the comics of Kozue Amano (*Aqua*, *Aria*), in which the characters often stop and gaze at the scenery,\" and called the Miss China stories \"\[e\]njoyable but slight, with no real ending.\" Kevin Pezzano of *SciFi.com* called Tsuruta\'s artwork \"simply breathtaking, with incredibly detailed and complex lines that nevertheless are very clear\"; however, he called the story \"\[not\] quite as good as the art\", \"little unclear,\" and that it can be \"safely forgotten.\" He also criticized the fanservice, noting: \"at times it seems that there are more panty shot panels than story panels.\" Pezzano concluded: \"if you pick this manga up, just let the art and concepts wash over you, and try not to get offended at Miss China\'s outrageously lame accent.\" Mariela Ortiz of the same website also praised the artwork, commenting: \"\[e\]ach page is drawn with painstaking attention to detail, you can\'t just read the words to understand the story.\" Ortiz criticized the fanservice as well, commenting, however, that \"\[it\] is to be expected in this genre.\"
Reviewing the entire manga, Mario Vuk of *Splash Comics* enjoyed the anthological format of the series and highlighted Tsuruta\'s hatching technique, which makes the art look \"classic,\" and called his artwork: \"very appealing and rich in detail.\" Vuk also called it \"simply a beautiful work with classic charm and a not excessive amount of comedy.\" On the other hand, Andrés Accorsi of *Comiqueando*, while praised Tsuruta\'s artwork as well and highlighted it as its main feature, commented that the scripts have \"very notable flaws,\" with conflicts that \"lack dramatic force,\" adding that Tsuruta \"wastes an alarming number of pages on scenes that add nothing to the plots,\" and concluded: \"*Spirit of Wonder* entangles you in a tangle of ridiculous, whimsical, hackneyed or simply poorly planned or poorly resolved situations. A pity.\"
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# Spirit of Wonder
## Reception
### *Miss China\'s Ring* {#miss_chinas_ring_1}
Christopher Macdonald of *Anime News Network* (*ANN*) said that *Miss China\'s Ring* is \"quite simply, is unique, and very weird; but also very fun. Macdonald commented that Tsuruta\'s original character designs and artwork were \"nicely `{{sic|compli|mented|expected=complemented}}`{=mediawiki} by good animation\" in the OVA, and recommended it to \"any one who is looking for a nice, short, heartwarming story devoid of any heavy material,\" noting however that \"anyone looking for a movie with strong, complicated plot, or overwhelming emotions, will probably be disappointed by *Spirit of Wonder*.\" Mariela Ortiz of *SciFi.com* said that the characters, particularly Miss China, \"come off as stereotypical,\" \"with her accent and fighting skills\", adding, however, that it \"does not detract from the story.\" Ortiz called the OVA a \"funny and heartwarming tale, and an enjoyable anime.\" Shu-Chun Lin of the same website called it \"a lovely and cute love story,\" adding that while the story is not complicated, \"it is very enjoyable and entertaining. It is very sweet and lovely anime you may like to see and experience that warm and sweet feeling on your own.\"
Mike Toole of *Anime Jump* described it as \"a nice break from the tidal wave of action and comedy fare flooding the market,\" but also called it \"surprisingly insubstantial,\" expressing that \"one wishes that there was a little more meat to the story.\" Chris Beveridge of *AnimeOnDVD* praised its animation, commenting that it was \"nicely done with a few really nice sequences.\" Beveridge commented that he \"enjoyed the heck out of this show\", and concluded: \"\[i\]t\'s not a show that everyone will be drawn to, but if you\'re looking for something a bit off the beaten path, this is something worth trying.\" Jim Lazar of the same website said that \"the charming story revolves around Miss China\'s attraction to Jim and one of the doctor\'s amazing inventions.\" He also said that the story \"isn\'t an epic tale, but it\'s very charming and keeps you interested throughout the short 45 minutes.\" Writing for *Otaku USA*, Paul Chapman commented that while. \"\[t\]here's nothing wrong\" with the OVA, the title character is \"something of a stereotype.\" Chapman said that the animation is \"adequate though not spectacular,\" calling as well the color palette \"soft and gentle, with a lot of muted pastels appropriate to the wistful, melancholy tone of the story.\" Chapman said that he did not particularly like the OVA, adding that \"\[i\]t's not bad, but it's not outstanding, either
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# JE postcode area
The **JE postcode area**, also known as the **Jersey postcode area**, is a group of postal districts covering Jersey.
## Coverage
The approximate coverage of each postcode district:
Postcode district Sector Parish *(or non-geographic use)*
------------------- ----------- ----------------------------------
JE1 *various* *large users*
JE2 3 Saint Helier
4
6 Saint Clement
7 Saint Saviour
JE3 1 Saint Lawrence
2 Saint Ouen
3 Saint Mary
4 Saint John
5 Trinity
6 Saint Martin
7 Saint Peter
8 Saint Brélade
9 Grouville
JE4 *various* *PO boxes*
JE5 *various* *bespoke delivery*
The post town for all addresses is JERSEY
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# Sarah Preston
**Sarah Preston** (born in Middlesbrough) is an English actress and writer, who is best known for playing Karen Newburn in *Holby City*, Amanda Parry in *EastEnders* and the \"Make-up Woman\" whose name no-one can remember in *Extras* with Ricky Gervais.
## Early life {#early_life}
Sarah Preston is the daughter of Madge Preston and Arthur Ernest Preston and has one brother and one sister.
## Acting career {#acting_career}
Sarah Preston started her career on stage at the age of five in her native Northeast of England. Some of her early acting experience was with Stockton Youth Theatre where she performed in acclaimed productions of *Hair*, *Jesus Christ Superstar* and *Sweet Charity* alongside Mark Benton and Marcus Bentley.
Sarah continued to be involved in many theatre and independent productions until she left for London where she trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) for three years and gained a diploma in acting. Classmates included Andrew Lincoln and Stephen Mangan.
During her time at RADA, Sarah developed skills in stage fighting. She excelled in this, earning high qualifications and the coveted John Barton Prize. One of her first jobs after leaving RADA was in the feature film *The House of Angelo*.
Sarah\'s first major TV role was playing Karen Newburn in the BBC drama series, *Holby City*. She played the straight-talking, no-nonsense Ward Sister who clashes with ex-husband and cardiothoracic registrar Nick Jordan, played by Michael French. They battled throughout the first two series and their tempestuous relationship became one of the leading story-lines.
Other regular appearances include *EastEnders*, *In Deep* with Stephen Tompkinson, *Steel River Blues* and *Extras* with Ricky Gervais.
Sarah has guested in a number of other shows including *Vera* with Brenda Blethyn, *The Last Detective* alongside Peter Davison, *Where The Heart Is* and *Doctors*.
## Writing
Sarah Preston founded the TV and film production company, Bamboo Media Productions Limited
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# GY postcode area
The **GY postcode area**, also known as **Guernsey postcode area**, its post town, is a group of 10 consecutive postal districts covering Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, Herm and the two inhabited lesser islets in that region of the Channel Islands. It was established in 1993 as an extension of the United Kingdom postcode system.
## Coverage
The approximate coverage of the postal districts. The post town is GUERNSEY for all postcode districts
Postcode district Sector(s) Unit codes Parish or island
------------------- ------------------ ------------ ----------------------------
GY1 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 Saint Peter Port
3 HR Herm in the above parish
4 AB Jethou in the above parish
GY2 *all* Saint Sampson
GY3 *all* Vale
GY4 *all* Saint Martin
GY5 *all* Castel
GY6 8 AA -- QZ Vale
RA -- ZZ Saint Andrew
GY7 9 Saint Pierre du Bois
Saint Saviour
GY8 0 AA -- JZ Forest
KA -- ZZ Torteval
GY9 3 Alderney
GY10 1 Sark
Previously, both Alderney and Sark were covered by the GY9 district. In March 2009, Royal Mail had \"agreed in principle\" for the creation of the GY10 district which would cover all addresses on the island of Alderney, leaving just those of smaller Sark in GY9. This was intended to reduce the amount of mail being sent to the wrong island. The States of Alderney opposed doing it that way round, and instead Sark changed from sector GY9 0 to GY10 1 on 5 January 2011
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# Street Fighter Collection
***Street Fighter Collection*** is a 1997 fighting game compilation developed and published by Capcom for the Sega Saturn and PlayStation. It contains the original *Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers* (1993), its follow-up *Super Street Fighter II Turbo* (1994), and an enhanced version of *Street Fighter Alpha 2* titled *Street Fighter Alpha 2 Gold* (*Street Fighter Zero 2 Dash* in Japan and *Street Fighter Alpha 2 Prime* in Europe), which is exclusive to this compilation.
A follow-up, *Street Fighter Collection 2*, which contains the first 3 editions of *Street Fighter II*, was released as part of the *Capcom Generations* line.
## Gameplay
The *Super Street Fighter II* games are ported from their original CPS II arcade versions. After selecting either game from the *Street Fighter Collection* title screen on the first disc, the player is taken to the attract mode from the game they have selected. Both games feature the standard \"Arcade\", \"Versus\" and \"Option\" modes. In *Super Turbo*, the *Super Street Fighter II* versions of the returning characters, as well as the hidden character Akuma, are playable through easier means compared to the ones provided in the original arcade version. The international versions of *Super Turbo* have an easier AI than the arcade version; they may be based on the original Japanese version (*Super Street Fighter II X*) which contained a similarly easier level of difficulty.
*Street Fighter Alpha 2 Gold* is based on *Street Fighter Zero 2 Alpha*, an enhanced version of the original *Street Fighter Alpha 2* released for the arcade in Japan, Asia and South America. All the game modes and features in the previous PlayStation and Sega Saturn versions of the original *Alpha 2* are featured, with the exception of the exclusive \"Gallery\" mode in the Sega Saturn version. Evil Ryu, who was selectable in the Sega Saturn version of the original *Alpha 2* but not in the PlayStation version, is featured in both versions of the game, along with *Champion Edition*-style renditions of all the *Street Fighter II* characters featured in the game. This version includes the debut of *Super Street Fighter II* character Cammy in the *Alpha* series. She is selectable as a hidden character in the game\'s \"Versus\" and \"Training\" modes. The version of this Cammy is the same one previously featured in *X-Men vs. Street Fighter*, which depicts Cammy as a Shadaloo agent working for M. Bison before joining Delta Red.
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# Street Fighter Collection
## Reception
Reviews were complimentary toward *Street Fighter Collection*{{\'}}s arcade-perfect conversions, but judged the selection of games too weak to be worth buying. In particular, critics were puzzled that Capcom chose to include *Super Street Fighter II*, widely regarded as one of the weakest in the series, over more beloved *Street Fighter* games, and found *Street Fighter Alpha 2 Gold* too similar to the original *Alpha 2*, which most of the compilation\'s prospective audience would already own, since critically acclaimed conversions of *Alpha 2* had already been released for both the Saturn and the PlayStation. The inclusion of *Super Street Fighter II Turbo* was met with widespread approval, but considered insufficient reason to buy the collection on its own. *Sega Saturn Magazine*{{\'}}s editor-in-chief Rich Leadbetter concluded that, \"Is the game worth buying if you already own *Street Fighter Alpha 2* (and you should be ashamed of yourself if you don\'t)? Well, to be brutally honest, I would have to say \'no\'. *Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo* is a cool game, but it is old and it isn\'t really worth the full whack.\" Jeff Gerstmann of *GameSpot* additionally felt that *Street Fighter Collection* should have included the entire series, remarking \"Capcom truly missed out on a great opportunity by releasing a \'collection\' that is obscenely incomplete.\"
*GamePro* offered a somewhat different viewpoint, opining that *Alpha 2 Gold* is a worthwhile game but the other two are outdated and have no value beyond nostalgia. While most critics did not compare versions, Kelly Rickards of *Electronic Gaming Monthly* (EGM) scored the Saturn version half a point higher because he felt the Saturn controller much better suited to fighting games, and his co-reviewer Sushi-X, while giving the two versions equal scores, said the PlayStation version is slightly better due to the Saturn version having some visual glitches.
Despite the criticisms expressed in their reviews for the compilation, *Street Fight Collection* was a hit at *EGM*{{\'}}s 1997 Editors\' Choice Awards, taking \"Fighting Game of the Year\" and \"Best Compilation\", as well as a runner-up for \"Saturn Game of the Year\" (behind *Saturn Bomberman*). In naming it \"Fighting Game of the Year\" the editors explained that, in spite of the advances fighting games had made in both graphics and realism, they still felt the classic *Street Fighter* games were the best of the genre
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# Iván Dariel Ortiz
**Iván Dariel Ortiz** is a Puerto Rican film director. Ortiz began studies at the University of Sagrado Corazón in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Afterwards, he traveled to Maine in the United States to train in the field of cinematography. He then became a camera assistant, an editor, and then a producer of publishing agencies.
After gaining experience in various fields of film production, he directed a short film titled *Héroes de Otra Patria* about two Puerto Ricans fighting at the Vietnam War. With this film he won the award of best short film at the San Juan Cinemafest. He then turned the short film into a complete feature film of the same title, even representing Puerto Rico for a nomination at the 1999 Academy Awards.
Despite not being nominated, the film was selected by the Lincoln Center Film Society in New York City as one of the best Latin American films. It also received an honorary mention at the Viña del Mar festival in Chile.
In March 2007, Ortiz released a feature film entitled *El Cimarrón* about an African slave during 19th century Puerto Rico.
Aside of his career as a film director, Ortiz has served as a director of TV commercials and music videos
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# Brachychiton populneus
***Brachychiton populneus***, commonly known as the **kurrajong**, is a small to medium-sized tree found naturally in Australia in a diversity of habitats from wetter coastal districts to semi-arid interiors of Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland. *Carrejun* and *carrejan* were the indigenous names of trees in the foothills of the Blue Mountains near Sydney, and the bark was used for twine and fishing lines.
## Description
The tree is drought-tolerant and the extended trunk is a water storage device for survival in a warm, dry climate. The bell-shaped flowers vary in colour from pale cream to pink, while the leaves vary considerably in shape. The leaves are either simple and pointed, or may be 3--9 lobed. Saplings grow from a drought and fire-resistant tap-rooted tuber.
At present, there are two noted subspecies of *Brachychiton populneus*.
These are:
• *Brachychiton populneus* subsp. *populneus*
• *Brachychiton populneus* subsp. *trilobus*
## Uses
The kurrajong has multiple uses and was used by many Australian Aboriginal clans and tribes around Australia. As bush food or \"bush tucker\", the seeds located in a seed pod were often removed, cleaned of the irritating fine hairs within the seed pod, and roasted for eating. Water could be obtained from the tree roots by boring a hole in the trunk and squeezing the wood. There are also records of the seed pods being turned into a children\'s rattle or toy. The soft, spongy wood was used for making shields, and the bark as a fibre. The leaves are also used as emergency fodder for drought-affected animal stock. There are records of European settlers using the seeds as a coffee supplement by roasting and crushing the seeds.
## Adaptation
It has been introduced as an ornamental tree to south-western Australia, South Africa, Louisiana, California, Arizona and Mediterranean countries. In Western Australia it was observed to be invasive in disturbed areas.
## Hybrids
Horticulturists have hybridised the kurrajong with related *Brachychiton* species, including the Queensland bottle tree (*B. rupestris*) and Illawarra flame tree (*B. acerifolius*) to produce new garden ornamentals.
## Name
The specific name *populneus* pertains to a perceived similarity to the *Populus* genus, i.e. the poplars. Sometimes *B. populneus* is also known by the names \"lacebark kurrajong\" and \"bottle tree\" (USA). However, *B. discolor* is also referred to as the lacebark kurrajong, and bottle tree is a term commonly applied not only to other species of *Brachychiton* but to members of other *genera* around the world. The kurrajong has been recorded as a host plant for the mistletoe species *Dendrophthoe glabrescens* a hemi-parasite.
## Gallery
<File:Brachychiton> populnea flowers.jpg\|*B. populneus* flowers and leaves. <File:Currajong> bark detail.jpg\|Bark detail on trunk. <File:Brachychiton> populneus, details.jpg\|Flowers and leaves. <File:Kurrajong> flowers in Gran Canaria.jpg\|Kurrajong flowers in Gran Canaria <File:Opened> seed pod of Brachychiton populneus.jpg\|Opened seed pod of *B. populneus* in Agadir, Morocco. <File:Large> example of Brachychiton populneus in Melbourne, VIC.jpg\|Planted in 1902, in Melbourne, Victoria
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# Jacob Shaw (comics)
**Jacob Shaw** is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by Ben Raab and Charlie Adlard. He is only about 4 feet tall, a human mutate, and a member of the Hellfire Club. He also is the father of Sebastian Shaw (the Black King of the Hellfire Club and an enemy of the X-Men).
## Fictional character biography {#fictional_character_biography}
Jacob Shaw was the ambitious son of Cornelius Shaw, Brigadier General in the British Army, and the younger brother of Lieutenant Esau Shaw. In 1915, after the death of their father, Esau was offered his father\'s place in the Hellfire Club Inner Circle by Sir Waltham Pierce and Sir Harry Manners, a position Jacob coveted.`{{Volume needed|c=y|date=December 2012}}`{=mediawiki}
One night Jacob met Mister Sinister, who, for reasons unknown, granted him the power of shapeshifting. With this new power, Jacob took the form of Pierce and murdered Esau, hoping that with Esau dead, the Hellfire Club would seek Jacob to take his father\'s place. However, Jacob was never invited into the Inner Circle, as Montgomery Falsworth (Union Jack) arrested Waltham Pierce on the grounds of treason and murder. Shaw, who had approached Pierce disguised as a seductive woman and was in bed with Pierce and another woman when Union Jack appeared, attacked both Pierce and Union Jack with a gun and escaped into the snow. As he fled, he assumed his true form, which Union Jack managed to recognize.`{{Volume needed|c=y|date=December 2012}}`{=mediawiki}
Eventually, Jacob Shaw fled to Pennsylvania in the United States, where his son Sebastian was born. In his old age, Jacob contracted an incurable blood disease due to the alteration of his genetic code. He died just when Sebastian had obtained a scholarship to study engineering.`{{Volume needed|c=y|date=December 2012}}`{=mediawiki}
Prior to his death, Jacob gave his son a machine and told him to keep it with him.
## Reception
- In 2019, *CBR.com* ranked Jacob Shaw 2nd in their \"X-Men: The 5 Deadliest Members Of The Hellfire Club (& The 5 Weakest)\" list
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# Dorsey's Search, Columbia, Maryland
**Dorsey\'s Search** is a parcel of land patented by John Dorsey of Hockley-in-the-hole (1645--1714) in Baltimore County (now Howard County). The 479 acre property adjacent to the north branch of the Patuxent river was surveyed by Richard Beard in December 1684, and granted to Dorsey in March 1696. The property lying between \"Long Reach\" and \"Elk Ridge\" was resurveyed in March 1723 to include 750 acres. After several generations of inheritance, a series of legal disputes were held over the land by Rezin Hammond and Richard Ridgley in 1820. In 1827 the property exchanged hands to Robert Oliver, builder of Oakland Mill, who combined it with multiple properties totaling 2300 acres. George Gaither acquired the property in 1838. John Dorsey\'s grandson, \"Patuxent\" John Dorsey of \"Dorsey\'s Search\" built Dorsey Hall at the site.
## Dorsey\'s Search Village {#dorseys_search_village}
**Dorsey\'s Search** is one of ten villages comprising Columbia, Maryland, United States, named after the land tract with a 2014 population of 7,500. Early land purchases and rezoning included Howard County Board of Trade member J Frank Gwynn\'s farm along Font Hill in 1955 by the Development and Investment Corporation of Maryland. The 715-acre parcel of land was purchased by the Howard Research and Development subsidiary of the Rouse Company in 1968 from the Gudelsky family that sought to rezone the area for high-rise apartments in the 1960s. The \"Mandel\" site was proposed to be a \"Central Park\" for Columbia featuring a high school, county office buildings, and a replacement for the Carr\'s Mill Landfill in 1974. In 1969, the County attempted to purchase by condemnation, the land occupying Centennial Park from a company run by the land speculator Joel Kline for \$3,180 an acre. Kline was later indicted for real estate fraud that was linked to local politicians up to Spiro Agnew who was forced to resign. The County eventually bought the Centennial lake parkland from Kline\'s creditors at nearly twice the cost. Dorsey\'s Search was occupied starting in 1980. In 1999 the village manager was indicted for embezzling \$121,000 of village funds. The current population is approximately 7,500. The village has two neighborhoods: Dorsey Hall and Fairway Hills. It is the northernmost Columbia village, with part of the village lying north of Maryland Route 108.
The village is the location of Dorsey Hall which was named after the local Dorsey Hall Manor House and former slave plantation, built in the 18th century. The village\'s street names are based on the works of American author Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Fairway Hills occupies the site of the former Allview golf course, closed in 1985 for subdivision.
## Services
Dorsey\'s Search Village Center opened in 1989, and has a community center, Linden Hall, as well as a grocery store, restaurants, and other retail establishments.
The poem \"Musa\" by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. provides the name for Linden Hall.
Fairway Hills Golf Club is an 18-hole par 70 golf course with Bermuda grass fairways, located in the neighborhood of Fairway Hills. It opened in 1995.
There is one outdoor pool, in Dorsey Hall
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# Neil Winstanley
**Neil Winstanley** (born 25 August 1976) is a South African former soccer player who played as a defender. He represented South Africa at the 2004 African Nations Cup
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# Lloyd Dunn
**Lloyd John Dunn** (born November 10, 1957, in Harlan, Iowa, US) is a founding member of the mixed-media and experimental sound art group the Tape-beatles and founder, publisher and editor of several small-press magazines, such as *PhotoStatic* and Retrofuturism. Since the early 1980s, he has been making work for a variety of media, including film, video, audio, print, and the web.
At the University of Iowa, Iowa City, US, he studied Linguistics (BA 1981), before going on to graduate school in Film, Photography and Intermedia (MFA 1987). While in graduate school, Dunn created an extensive body of work using the photocopier as his primary tool.
Dunn's first major project was *[PhotoStatic Magazine](http://psrf.detritus.net/)* begun in Iowa City in 1983. Although initiated to showcase photocopy and generative art, it quickly took root in the 'mail art' and 'zine' sub-cultures that peaked in the late 1980s. *PhotoStatic* began as a largely visual publication, but evolved continually, eventually coming to contain a mixture of graphics and essays, humor, and zine criticism.
Spin-offs from the Photostatic project included a series of audio cassette compilations, a video tape compilation, and a series of artist\'s books by individual artists, edited and produced by Dunn. *Photostatic* also appeared under a number of print \"alter-egos\", which include *Retrofuturism*, *YAWN*, *The Bulletin of the Copyright Violation Squad*, *The Expatriot*, *PSRF*, and most recently, *The Photostatic Magazine Retrograde Archive*.
In 1986, Dunn began composing music and audio art with Ralph Johnson and John Heck. From this activity they formed the group The Tape-beatles ([official web site](http://pwp.detritus.net)). The idea behind the collaboration was to create music using recording technology itself as the sole musical instrument. They took their inspiration from musique concrète, fluxus, and some of the studio experiments of the 1960s carried out by The Beatles and certain other more \'experimental\' rock groups. The do-it-yourself esthetic of punk and the zine movement was also a decisive influence. Together with other members of the Tape-beatles, Dunn appears in a videotaped interview in the 1995 Craig Baldwin film, *Sonic Outlaws*.
In 2008, a major retrospective of the *Photostatic Magazine Retrograde Archive* took place in Dortmund, Germany at [Phoenixhalle - HMKV](http://hmkv.de/) as part of a group exhibition showcasing works that raise issues about intellectual property and copyright, entitled \"Anna Kournikova Deleted By Memeright Trusted System\".
Dunn launched a series of filecasts at the site [nula.cc](http://nula.cc/) in June 2009. The filecasts consist of audio and video programs that use found material, field recordings, original work, and other material assembled together in collage fashion, and offered as downloadable files on no fixed schedule
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# Cléber (footballer, born August 1982)
**Cléber Luis Alberti** or simply **Cléber** (born August 20, 1982) is a goalkeeper player from Brazil, who plays for Portuguese Liga de Honra side GD Estoril.
Made professional debut for Atlético-PR in 0-0 draw at home to Goiás in the Campeonato Brasileiro on October 5, 2002. `{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927002051/http://www.rubronegro.net/base3.php?path=campeonatos&link=ficha_jogo
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# Michael Bellisario
**Michael Angelo Bellisario** (born April 7, 1980) is an American actor and the son of scriptwriter and producer Donald P. Bellisario.
Bellisario has mostly had parts in series produced by his father. He played Midshipman Michael \"Mikey\" Roberts in *JAG* and also appeared during the first part of *NCIS* season 3 as Charles \"Chip\" Sterling. He has also appeared in four episodes of *Quantum Leap*. In the pilot chapter of JAG, Michael was the boy rowing in the Adriatic in the aperture scene. He was 15 at this time. At the end of S03E01, he makes a pizza delivery to a police station.
Michael has two other siblings who are actors: half-sister Troian Bellisario (Spencer Hastings on *Pretty Little Liars* and Sarah McGee on *NCIS*) and stepbrother Sean Murray (Timothy McGee on *NCIS*).
## Filmography
### Film
- *Bravo* (1998) as President\'s Son-in-law
- *Lords of the Underworld* (2006) as James Vane
- *Kush* (2007) as Doctor Belmont
- *Beyond the Trophy* (2012) Producer
- *Pretty Perfect* (2014) as Marc
- *211* (2020) as Hyde
- *Disturbing the Peace* (2020) as Pyro
- *Elvis* (2020) as Jack
### Television
- *Quantum Leap* (1989--1993) as Little Boy/Billy/Martin Jr.
- *JAG* (1995--2005) as Midshipman Mike \"Mikey\" Roberts
- *Good Day L.A
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# Ruth Kirk
**Dame Lucy Ruth Kirk** `{{post-nominals|country=NZL|DBE}}`{=mediawiki} (née **Miller**, 28 April 1922 -- 20 March 2000) was a New Zealand prominent anti-abortion campaigner. Her husband was New Zealand\'s 29th Prime Minister, Norman Kirk.
## Biography
Lucy Ruth Miller was born in Taumarunui in 1922, the daughter of postmaster George Miller and his wife Margaret.
She met her future husband, Norman Kirk, at a blind date in Paeroa; she was his first partner. On 17 July 1943, they married at Holy Trinity Church in Devonport, Auckland. The couple were to have three boys and two girls, including John Kirk, who succeeded his father as MP for Sydenham, and coastal geomorphologist Professor Bob Kirk.
In February 1944, they moved to Katikati in the Bay of Plenty. In 1948, they moved to Canterbury. Her husband worked at Firestone (now Bridgestone) in Papanui and in the evenings and weekend, built their house in Kaiapoi, where land was cheaper. During this time, she lived with her children at his parents\' place in Christchurch. Once the house was finished, the family moved to Kaiapoi. On 28 May 1999, their house in Carew Street was registered by the Historic Places Trust as a Category I heritage structure.
Norman Kirk was elected Mayor of Kaiapoi in 1953. He resigned from the mayoralty in January 1958 after having won the November `{{NZ election link|1957}}`{=mediawiki} in the `{{NZ electorate link|Lyttelton}}`{=mediawiki} electorate. The family moved to Christchurch in January 1958 to fulfil a promise to the Lyttelton electors.
In 1974, she became patron of the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child. This caused a public furore, as her husband was Prime Minister at the time. Kirk joined protest marches in Wellington and Hamilton.
Her husband died in August 1974, and in the 1975 New Year Honours, she was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, for public services.
Three months after her husband\'s death, she put gifts given to him by foreign leaders up for auction, which sparked some public debate. She was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal in 1977.
Kirk largely withdrew from public life in later years, but was famously remembered for ringing a Christchurch talkback radio show in 1993 to voice her fury at Helen Clark\'s ousting of Mike Moore as Labour party leader.
She died from cancer in Christchurch on 20 March 2000, and was buried alongside her husband at Waimate in South Canterbury
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# Christopher L. Hodapp
**Christopher L. Hodapp** (born 1958) is an American author and filmmaker, noted for his writings about Freemasonry, fraternalism, the Knights Templar, secret societies and conspiracy theories. He is the founding editor in chief (now Editor Emeritus) of the *Journal of The Masonic Society*, the associate director of the Masonic Library and Museum of Indiana, and public relations director for the Grand Lodge of Indiana.
## Career
Hodapp studied film production between 1977 and 1983 at Indiana University, the University of Southern California, Los Angeles Valley College and California State University Northridge. In 1984, he became a commercial filmmaker with Dean Crow Productions in Indianapolis, Indiana. He has edited hundreds of television commercials and feature films, and his voice has appeared in numerous broadcast productions.
Hodapp became a Freemason in 1998, and is a 33rd degree Scottish Rite Mason in the Valley of Indianapolis. He is a Past Master of Broad Ripple Lodge No. 643, and Lodge Vitruvian No. 767, one of the first \"European Concept\" lodges in the U.S. He is a member of the York Rite and a Knight Templar. He is a Past Sovereign Master of the Allied Masonic Degrees, a member of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine (Shriners), and numerous other Masonic organizations. In 2004, as part of a Masonic think-tank known collectively as the Knights of the North, he co-wrote and edited *Laudable Pursuit: A 21st Century Response To The Questions Of Dwight Smith,* which is widely recognized as a major influence in the so-called \'traditional observance\" Masonic movement in the U.S.
His 2005 book *Freemasons For Dummies*. has become the world\'s best-selling introductory guide to the Anglo-American Freemasonry, and it has been adopted by several Masonic grand lodges as part of their education programs for new members. In 2006 Hodapp wrote *Solomon\'s Builders: Freemasons, Founding Fathers and the Secrets of Washington D.C.*, which explores the early history of the United States and the role Freemasons played in its revolution and founding. It contains a guide to Masonic landmarks in Washington D.C. In 2007, in collaboration with his wife, Alice Von Kannon, he wrote *The Templar Code For Dummies*, a guide to the medieval Knights Templar, the subsequent mysteries and myths that have surrounded them, and their connections with Dan Brown\'s The Da Vinci Code. In 2008, Hodapp and Von Kannon published their second collaboration, *Conspiracy Theories & Secret Societies For Dummies*, which was required reading in a 2010 course on conspiracy at Harvard University. In 2009, he authored *Deciphering The Lost Symbol: Freemasons, Myths and the Mysteries of Washington, D.C.*, a Masonic guidebook to Dan Brown\'s novel *The Lost Symbol*.
In 2010, Hodapp and Von Kannon developed episodes for the History Channel program, *Brad Meltzer\'s Decoded*, and contributed material on conspiracies and secret societies for TruTV. They are both frequently interviewed on the subject of Freemasonry and other \'secret societies\' by the History, Discovery, and American Heroes channels. Their most recent collaboration is *RVs and Campers For Dummies* for John Wiley and Sons Publishing in 2021.
Hodapp\'s long membership in the Masonic fraternity in the state of Indiana led to his being commissioned to write an updated history book for the Grand Lodge of Indiana F&AM\'s bicentennial year of 2018 -- *Heritage Endures: Perspectives On 200 Years Of Indiana Freemasonry.* That same year, he was given the Caleb B. Smith Medal of Honor, the highest honor awarded by the Grand Lodge F&AM of Indiana for his service to Freemasonry.
He has written for *Templar History Magazine*, *Masonic Magazine*, *The Indiana Freemason Magazine*, *Knight Templar Magazine,* *The Phylaxis Magazine*, *The Scottish Rite Journal, The Square,* and *Indianapolis Monthly Magazine.* Between 2005 and 2008, he wrote a monthly humor column for the Texas-based *Living Natural First Magazine*, *A Pilgrim\'s Progress: True Tales of an Organic Greenhorn*.
Hodapp\'s *Freemasons For Dummies* blog started in 2006. In reviewing Masonic websites for the *Scottish Rite Journal*, author James Tresner called it \"thought provoking and is often the first place on the web where new ideas and matters of interest are posted.\"
In 2012, Hodapp was named as Friar #101 in The Society of Blue Friars, an organization created in 1932 specifically to recognize international authors of books about Freemasonry. In 2019, he was named Worshipful Master of the Dwight L. Smith Lodge of Research U.D. in Indiana.
## Works
- *Laudable Pursuit: A 21st Century Response To The Questions Of Dwight Smith* (editor, co-author), 2004. `{{ISBN|978-0-557-00722-6}}`{=mediawiki}
- *Freemasons For Dummies*, 2005. `{{ISBN|0-7645-9796-5}}`{=mediawiki}
- *La Franc-maçonnerie pour les Nuls*, Editions First, (with Philippe Benhamou), 2006.
- *Solomon\'s Builders: Freemasons, Founding Fathers and the Secrets of Washington D.C.*, 2006. `{{ISBN|1-56975-579-5}}`{=mediawiki}
- *The Templar Code For Dummies* (with Alice Von Kannon), 2007. `{{ISBN|0-470-12765-1}}`{=mediawiki}
- Foreword to *The Compasses and the Cross* by Stephen Dafoe, 2008. `{{ISBN|0-85318-298-1}}`{=mediawiki}
- *Conspiracy Theories And Secret Societies For Dummies* (with Alice Von Kannon), 2008. `{{ISBN|0-470-18408-6}}`{=mediawiki}
- Foreword to *My Book, My Opinion: Thoughts Garnered on My Masonic Journey* by Hugh Young, 2009. `{{ISBN|978-0-9811780-8-0}}`{=mediawiki}
- Foreword to *Cracking Codes & Cryptograms For Dummies* by Denise Sutherland and Mark Koltko-Rivera, 2009. `{{ISBN|0-470-59100-5}}`{=mediawiki}
- *Deciphering The Lost Symbol*, 2010. `{{ISBN|1-56975-773-9}}`{=mediawiki}
- *Freemasons For Dummies, 2nd Edition*, 2013. `{{ISBN|978-1118412084}}`{=mediawiki}
- Foreword to *George Washington\'s Rules For Freemasons In Life And Lodge* by Mark A. Tabbert, 2016. `{{ISBN|978-0-88053-113-9}}`{=mediawiki}
- Foreword to *The Masonic Pageant: The Scottish Rite Degrees of the Supreme Council, NMJ* by Frank Conway, 2017. `{{ISBN|978-1934935927}}`{=mediawiki}
- *Heritage Endures: Perspectives On 200 Years Of Indiana Freemasonry*, 2018. `{{ISBN|978-1513629025}}`{=mediawiki}
- *RVs and Campers For Dummies* (with Alice Von Kannon), 2021. ISBN 978-1119790341
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## Video appearances {#video_appearances}
- *Secrets of the Founding Fathers* (History) 2009
- *Hunting The Lost Symbol* (Discovery) 2010
- *Templars: Last Stand* (Arcadia Entertainment) 2011
- *America\'s Book of Secrets: Freemasons* (H2) 2012
- *Hardcore Pawn: Chicago: \"Paranormal Pawn\"* (TruTV) 2013
- *Codes and Conspiracies: "Freemasons"* (American Heroes Channel) 2014
- *Inside Secret Societies: "Priory of Sion"* (American Heroes Channel) 2016
- *America: Facts vs
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# Lipohypertrophy
**Lipohypertrophy** is a lump under the skin caused by accumulation of extra fat at the site of many subcutaneous injections of insulin. It may be unsightly, mildly painful, and may change the timing or completeness of insulin action. It is a common, minor, chronic complication of diabetes mellitus.
Typical injection site hypertrophy is several inches or centimeters across, smoothly rounded, and somewhat firmer than ordinary subcutaneous fat. There may be some scar tissue as well, but the major component is adipose tissue, as insulin exerts a hypertrophic effect on adipose cells. To avoid lipohypertrophy, persons with diabetes mellitus who inject insulin daily for an extended period of time are advised to *rotate* their injections among several areas (usually upper, outer arms, outer thighs, abdomen below and around the umbilicus, and the upper parts of the buttocks). Rotation charts are often provided as part of diabetes education to help prevent lipohypertrophy.
Lipohypertrophy usually will gradually disappear over months if injections in the area are avoided.
It is a common misconception that the lump is largely scar tissue, as injection site hypertrophy is much rarer and milder with injections of other hormones and medications which lack the specific ability of insulin to stimulate adipose hypertrophy.
In a sense, the \"opposite\" of injection site lipohypertrophy is injection site lipoatrophy, in which the subcutaneous fat around an injected area \"melts away\" over a few weeks or months, leaving unsightly, well-demarcated depressions in the skin. The mechanism of this local lipoatrophy is not understood and may involve autoimmunity or local inflammation
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# Ivan Winstanley
**Ivan Rodney Winstanley** (born 25 August 1976 in Johannesburg, Gauteng) is a retired South African Association football defender who last played for National First Division club Thanda Royal Zulu. His twin brother is Neil Winstanley
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# List of Jamaica women ODI cricketers
This is a **list of Jamaican women\'s One-day international cricketers**. Overall, 13 Jamaican women have played in at least one women\'s one-day international. A One Day International, or an ODI, is an international cricket match between two representative teams, each having ODI status. An ODI differs from Test matches in that the number of overs per team is limited, and that each team has only one innings. The list is arranged in the order in which each player won her first ODI cap. Where more than one player won her first ODI cap in the same match, those players are listed alphabetically by surname.
All six of Jamaica women\'s ODI matches were played during the 1973 Women\'s Cricket World Cup.
## List of Jamaican ODI players {#list_of_jamaican_odi_players}
: *Statistics from Cricinfo.*
Jamaican ODI cricketers
------------------------- ------------------------ -------- -----
Cap Name Career Mat
1 Evelyn Bogle 1973 5
2 Dorrett Davis 1973 3
3 Elaine Emmanual 1973 5
4 Peggy Fairweather^1^ 1973 5
5 Yolande Geddes-Hall^1^ 1973 5
6 Dorothy Hobson^1^ 1973 5
7 Vivalyn Latty-Scott^1^ 1973 5
8 Loretta McIntosh 1973 5
9 Yvonne Oldfield 1973 4
10 Madge Stewart 1973 4
11 Grace Williams^1^ 1973 5
12 Audrey McInnis 1973 3
13 Hyacinth Flemmings 1973 1
Note:
- ^1^ These players have also played ODI cricket for the West Indies. Only their records for Jamaica are shown above
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# Grade II* listed buildings in Bristol
There are 212 **Grade II\* listed buildings** in Bristol, England.
In England and Wales the authority for listing is granted by the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 and is administered by English Heritage, an agency of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
In the United Kingdom the term listed building refers to a building or other structure officially designated as being of special architectural, historical or cultural significance
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# Rondeslottet
**Rondslottet** is the highest mountain in the Rondane mountain range in Innlandet county, Norway. The 2178 m tall mountain sits on the border between Dovre Municipality and Folldal Municipality, just north of the border with Sel Municipality. There is a trail leading to the summit.
## Name
The first part of the name comes from the word *rond* which was probably the original name of the nearby lake Rondvatnet. Many of the mountains near the lake were then named after this lake. The Old Norse form of the name was `{{wikt-lang|non|rǫnd}}`{=mediawiki} which means \'stripe\' or \'edge\' (referring to the long and narrow form of the lake). The last element of the name is the finite form of the Norwegian word *slott* which means \'palace\'
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# Given to the Rising
***Given to the Rising*** is the ninth studio album by American band post-metal band Neurosis, released on June 5, 2007. The album is available in a standard jewel case, a limited-edition digipak, and a limited-edition double LP, all with the same track list. *Decibel Magazine* listed *Given to the Rising* as the 76th-best metal album of the decade. A DVD documentary is also available from Neurot Records. The artwork for the album, designed by Josh Graham, is a mixture of photos from Heroes Square in Budapest and drawings inspired by the place. Coincidentally, singer/guitarist Steve Von Till and Josh Graham had separately thought of the idea of using Heroes Square as the artwork for the album.
## Musical style {#musical_style}
The album has been described by music critics as a more aggressive, heavier album than their recent previous output, showcasing a \"more direct and hard-hitting approach\", resulting in \"their heaviest record since 99\'s \'Times Of Grace\'\".
## Critical reception {#critical_reception}
The album received critical acclaim upon release. In D. Shawn Bosler\'s review of the album for *Pitchfork*, he described it as \"their best album in a decade.\" AllMusic\'s Thom Jurek praised it as \"one hell of an album, better than anyone had any right to expect, and one of the high moments in a career filled with them. Neurosis have no need of caricatures or \"more evil than thou\" posturing. They are in a league of their own, and from the sounds of *Given to the Rising*, will remain there for some time
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# Direct.h
**direct.h** is a C/C++ header file provided by Microsoft Windows, which contains functions for manipulating file system directories. Some POSIX functions that do similar things are in unistd.h.
## Member functions {#member_functions}
Name Action
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`int `**`_chdir`**`(char* path)` Change working directory.
`int `**`_chdrive`**`(int drive)` Change disk drive.
`char* `**`_getcwd`**`(char* buffer, size_t length)` Get the current working directory pathname
`char *`**`_getwd`**`(char *path_name);` Get working directory.
`int `**`_getdrive`**`(void)` Get disk drive.
`int `**`_mkdir`**`(const char* pathname)` Make a directory.
`int `**`_rmdir`**`(const char* pathname)` Remove a directory.
`void `**`_fnmerge`**`(char* path, const char* drive, const char* dir, const char* name, const char* ext)` Merges drive, dir, name and ext into path.
`int `**`_fnsplit`**`(const char* path, char* drive, char* dir, char* name, char* ext)` Splits path into drive, dir, name and ext.
`char* `**`_searchpath`**`(const char* file)` Searches for a file
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# Summers v. Tice
***Summers v. Tice***, [33 Cal.2d 80, 199 P.2d 1](http://online.ceb.com/calcases/C2/33C2d80.htm) (1948), is a seminal California Supreme Court tort law decision relating to the issue of liability where a plaintiff cannot identify with specificity which among multiple defendants caused his harm. The case established the doctrine of alternative liability and has had its greatest influence in the area of product liability in American jurisprudence.
## Background
In *Summers* the plaintiff, Charles A. Summers, accompanied defendants Tice and Simonson as a guide on a quail hunt on November 20, 1945. Each of the defendants was armed with a 12 gauge shotgun loaded with shells containing 7`{{frac|1|2}}`{=mediawiki} size shot. Prior to going hunting plaintiff discussed the hunting procedure with defendants, indicating that they were to exercise care when shooting and to \"keep in line.\" Plaintiff advanced ahead of the defendants up a hill, creating a triangle among the three men, with plaintiff front and center. The view of both defendants with respect to Summers was unobstructed, and both defendants knew his location, 75 yards from each of them. A quail flew to a 10-foot elevation above the plaintiff\'s head (approximately four feet higher than the plaintiff\'s head), both defendants shot at the quail, and bird shot struck plaintiff in his right eye and another in his upper lip.
Plaintiff sued both defendants for personal injuries. At trial it was established that each of two pellets had caused the injuries to plaintiff\'s lip and eye, respectively, and both might have been discharged from a single weapon (defendant) or each defendant may have contributed one of the injuring pellets. The trial court found that the defendants were negligent (i.e., that when they discharged their weapons they did not do so with ordinary prudence), and that the plaintiff was not contributorily negligent. The defendants appealed.
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# Summers v. Tice
## California Supreme Court ruling {#california_supreme_court_ruling}
On appeal the defendants argued that they were not joint tortfeasors because they were not acting in concert. On the subject of negligence, defendant Simonson contended that the evidence was insufficient to sustain the finding on that score. The court ruled that Simonson did not however point out wherein the plaintiff\'s evidence was lacking. Defendant Tice on the other hand stated in his opening brief that \"we have decided not to argue the insufficiency of negligence on the part of defendant Tice.\" The court noted that Tice neither conceded the point nor argued it in his petition for a hearing before the court and the court therefore did not address that issue further. Accordingly, in their view, neither was liable, and they could not be held jointly and severally liable (i.e., each defendant was liable for the full amount of damages).
The court affirmed the lower court ruling that each defendant\'s behavior fell below the standard of care (i.e., they were both negligent) and that the plaintiff\'s conduct did not contribute to his injury. Laying out the groundbreaking doctrine of alternative liability, because both defendants had been negligent, the court then decided that justice required that the burden of proving which of the defendants had caused either or both of plaintiff\'s injuries be shifted to the defendants, so that either could absolve himself of liability if possible. This is because it would have been impossible for the plaintiff to show which of the two negligent actors had caused his harm. *Summers v. Tice* has had enormous precedential impact within the state of California and persuasive authority in other jurisdictions in the area of product liability
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# List of World War II military gliders
This is a complete list of Second World War military gliders. Only vehicles that reached at least the prototype stage are included in this list.
## Argentina
- I.Ae. 25 Mañque, 13 soldliers and 2 crew. 1 built
## Australia
- DHA-G1 and G2, experimental transport gliders.
## Germany
- Blohm & Voss BV 40 (1944), fighter prototype.
- Blohm & Voss BV 246, glide bomb. Not used operationally
- DFS 230, light transport, 10 troops.
- DFS 331, heavy freight glider prototype, 1 built.
- Focke-Achgelis Fa 225, rotary wing glider. 1 built.
- Gotha Go 242 (1941), transport, 23 troops. 1,528 built.
- Gotha Go 244, motorised version of Go 242, 43 built and 133 Go 242B converted.
- Gotha Go 345 (1944), troop glider prototype.
- Gotha Ka 430, transport, 12 troops. 12 built.
- Junkers Ju 322 (1941) heavy transport prototype, 140 troops. 2 built.
- Messerschmitt Me 321 (1941), heavy transport 120 troops. 330 built.
- Messerschmitt Me 323 (1942), motorised development of Me 321, 211 built
## India
- Hindustan Aircraft Limited G-1, prototype glider
## Italy
- Aeronautica Lombarda AL.12P, 12 troops, 16 built (other source claims 2 prototypes, 6 on order, no delivered).
- C.A.T. TM-2 glider, 20 troops (other source claims 10 troops), 2 built. See the italian page for the description of the glider.
## Japan
### Army
- Kayaba Ku-2, tailless single seat, prototype[Japanese flying wings](http://www.century-of-flight.net/Aviation%20history/flying%20wings/japan.htm),
Wooldridge, E.T.
- Kayaba Ku-3, tailless single seat, prototype
- Kokusai Ku-7 Manazuru \"Buzzard\", heavy transport, 32 passengers
- Kokusai Ku-8-II \"Goose\", troop transport 18 passengers and 2 crew
- Maeda Ku-1-I Type 2, troop transport, 8 passengers and 2 crew
- Nihon Kogata Ku-11, troop transport, 12 passengers and 2 crew
- Yokosuka Ku-13, experimental \"Shusui\" light/heavy glider
### Navy
- Yokosuka MXY-5
- Yokosuka MXY-6, testing Motor Glider
- Yokosuka MXY8, \"Akigusa\", unpowered trainer for Mitsubishi J8M
## Poland
- Polikarpov BDP-2, 20 troops and 1 pilot, 2 built.
## Soviet Union {#soviet_union}
- Antonov A-7 (RF-8), 8 troops, 400 (approx) produced
- Antonov A-40, flying tank, prototype
- BDP (S-1) glider, 20 troops, 7 built.
- Gribovski G-11, 11 troops, about 100 built
- KT-20 glider, 24 troops, 1 or possibly 2 built.
- SAM-23 glider, 16 troops or a vehicle.
- TS-25 glider, 25 troops or a vehicle. 6 built.
## Sweden
- AB Flygindustri FI-3, 11 troops, 5 built.
## Turkey
- THK-1 glider, 11 troops, prototype.
## United Kingdom {#united_kingdom}
- Airspeed Horsa, 28 passengers and 2 crew or equivalent weight of cargo including small vehicles. 3,655 built.
- Baynes Bat, (1943) experimental glider for testing design of a tank carrying glider
- General Aircraft Hamilcar, (1942) 7 tonne of cargo and 2 crew. 412 built.
- General Aircraft Hamilcar Mk. X, Motorised version with 2x Bristol Mercury 31 of 965 hp. 22 examples converted
- General Aircraft Hotspur, trainer 8 passengers and 2 crew. more than 1,000 built.
- Slingsby Hengist, 15 passengers and 1 crew. 18 built.
## United States {#united_states}
- Allied Aviation XLRA
- Bristol XLRQ, amphibious assault glider
- Cornelius XFG-1, fuel carrier, 2 prototypes
- Douglas XCG-17, prototype based on de-engined C-47 Skytrain.
- General Airborne Transport XCG-16A
- Laister-Kauffman XCG-10A \"Trojan Horse\" large transport glider. Some confusion as to the differences between the XCG-10 and the XCG-10A. 2 prototypes built and flown.
- Piper LBP
- Piper LNP
- Pratt-Read LBE
- Pratt-Read TG-32
- Schweitzer LNS
- St Louis CG-5, prototype only
- Taylorcraft LBT
- Taylorcraft LNT
- Waco CG-3
- Waco CG-4A *Hadrian*, 13 troops and 2 crew
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# El cimarrón (film)
***El cimarrón*** (`{{Translation|The fugitive}}`{=mediawiki}) is a 2007 Puerto Rican film. It follows the lives of two African slaves brought to Puerto Rico during the era of slavery in the 19th century. It is based on the life of Marcos Xiorro who conspired and planned a slave revolt in 1821.
## Plot summary {#plot_summary}
## Cast
- Pedro Telemaco - Marcos Xiorro
- Fernando Allende - Don Pablo
- Dolores Pedro Torriente - Carolina
- Teófilo Torres
- Mara Croatto - Elsa
- Gerardo Ortíz - Don Domingo
- Modesto Lacén - Jacinto
- Herman O\'Neill - Military chief
- Daniela Droz - Clara
- Walter Rodríguez - Mayor
- Julio Axel Landrón - Sijo
- Julio Torresoto
- Eugenio Monclóva
- Idenisse Salamán - Isabel
- Guillermo de Cun
- Nestor Rodulfo
## Awards
- Academy Awards: The film was considered for the 80th Academy Awards with four other Puerto Rican films. In a vote on September 24, 2007, among members of the Puerto Rico Film Corporation, *Maldeamores* was selected
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# Jodie Fields
**Jodie Maree Fields** (`{{née|'''Purves'''}}`{=mediawiki}, born 19 June 1984) is a sports administrator, coach, women\'s sport and physical activity advocate, and former Australian cricket player.
Fields grew up in Queensland playing boy\'s and men\'s cricket before playing women\'s cricket while at University. She made her debut for the Queensland Fire in 2000 and captained the team from the 2008--09 season for six years. During her career, she played 165 domestic limited overs matches and 98 Women\'s National Cricket League matches.
Fields made her international debut for Australia in a Test against India in Adelaide in February 2006. She was appointed Captain of the Australian Women\'s Cricket Team in 2009, replacing the renowned Karen Rolton. In doing so, she became the first Queensland woman to captain the Australian team. Fields first game as captain of the Australian national women\'s side was a T201 against England in Derby on 25 July 2009.
In Fields first Test match as captain against England in July 2009, she made her maiden Test century with a captain\'s knock of 139, rescuing her team from the perilous position of 5-28. The match was eventually drawn after rain on the last day.
Fields captained the Australian Women\'s Cricket Team to the ICC Women\'s World Twenty20 title in 2012 in Sri Lanka and defied the odds to defeat the favourites, England in the final. Fields led the side to another victory in the ICC Women\'s World Cup in India less than six months later in February 2013. Fields retired from International cricket on 12 June 2014.
Fields retired as one of the most successful Australian cricket captains, having led her side to the 2012 ICC Women\'s World Twenty20 and the 2013 ICC Women\'s World Cup and bowed out with the team holding the number one world rankings in One Day International (ODI) and T20 cricket. During her international career, she played in four Tests, 67 ODIs and 37 Women\'s T20 International matches. Fields made a name for herself with both the bat and gloves throughout her career. She amassed a total of 331 Test runs, 1162 ODI runs and 249 T20 runs. Her wicketkeeping statistics are equally impressive, having claimed 11 dismissals in Tests, 76 dismissals (57 catches, 19 stumpings) in ODIs and 40 dismissals (25 catches and 15 stumpings) in T20s.
Fields was arguably one of Queensland\'s greatest female players. To date she has notched up 98 WNCL matches and 47 WT20 matches with the Konica Minolta Queensland Fire and enjoyed great individual success at domestic level. She won the Player-of-the-Year award on three occasions for Queensland and amassed 2327 WNCL runs and 829 WT20 runs. Fields captained the Queensland side to their first ever WT20 title in the 2013--14 season, although she was unlucky to miss the final due to injury.
Fields was the 150th woman to play Test cricket for Australia, and the 105th woman to play One Day International cricket for Australia.
In 2014, Fields launched a personal scholarship scheme, \"The Jodie Fields Young Cricketer Development Scholarship\" in partnership with UQ Business School, Kookaburra Sport, and QLD Cricket Association. The scholarship assists promising young female cricketers around Queensland with their sport development and professional career prospects. The scholarship has been awarded to four aspiring young girls since 2014, by assisting them with new cricket gear, financial assistance and a significant head start in their careers. Each annual Scholarship recipient is selected from a group of promising players that attend the Queensland Cricket Emerging Girls talent identification camp or are part of the Queensland Cricket Youth Pathway programs, and/or are rural based residents with a determination to succeed in cricket. The scholarship was originally designed and sponsored by Jodie with significant contributions from, Talbot and Purves Pty Ltd, Hollis Family Trust, Howzat Sports and Queensland Cricket Association. In 2015--16, Jodie partnered with University of Queensland Business School for a five-year \$2,500 annual scholarship agreement. In addition to this sponsorship, Kookaburra Sport and the Queensland Cricket Association have been tremendous supporters of the initiative with equipment and mentorship opportunities. The scholarship provides significant financial assistance to families, a cricket gear sponsorship and access to Brisbane Heat and Queensland Fire training, games and mentorship from elite female players.
In 2017, Fields was an integral part behind the renewed memorandum of understanding (MOU) for Australian cricketers, secured under an in-principle agreement between Cricket Australia and the Australian Cricketers\' Association, to include men and women in the same agreement for the first time. The goal for this revenue share model was to bring the female players into the same model to allow their part of the game to grow. Fields has been a standout voice for this change, \"the deal recognises the contribution women make to sport in this country, both on the field and off the field. The agreement will provide a secure workplace for female cricketers both at international and domestic level. It will support female cricketers as the game moves progressively towards complete professionalisation in a sustained manner. In recent years, women's cricket has grown both locally, domestically in Australia and globally.\"
Fields\'s nickname is \"Jacko\"; she has said that that is because she runs like a Jack Russell Terrier
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# King's College London–UCL rivalry
The **rivalry between King\'s College London and University College London** has been a part of London life for nearly two centuries.
## Origins
University College was founded with the backing of Jews, Utilitarians and non-Anglican Christians as a secular institution intended to educate \"the youth of our middling rich people between the ages of 15 or 16 and 20 or later\".
King\'s College, by contrast, was founded by royal charter for \"the general education of youth in which the various branches of Literature and Science are intended to be taught, and also the doctrines and duties of Christianity \[\...\] inculcated by the United Church of England and Ireland.\" The College counted King George IV and then-Prime Minister the Duke of Wellington among other eminent politicians and theologians of the British Establishment as its early benefactors.
thumb\|upright=0.8\|left\|Portico building, University College London
Early in 1829, the Earl of Winchilsea publicly challenged Wellington about the Duke\'s simultaneous support for the Anglican King\'s College and the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829. The result was the Wellington--Winchilsea duel at Battersea Fields on 21 March. Shots were fired but no-one was hurt. Duel Day is still celebrated annually at King\'s as a formal dinner and reenactment held in March.
## Student Rags {#student_rags}
Student Rags were manifestations of the rivalry between the two institutions. Rags were \"colourful, subversive, and occasionally dangerous\" for both participants and bystanders and reached their height between the two World Wars. A long-running campaign of the rags were the attempts to capture each other\'s mascots. Running battles were supposedly brought to an end by the colleges\' authorities in the first half of the twentieth century, but rivalry amongst the two University of London colleges continues to this day.
### College mascots {#college_mascots}
The mascots of both universities were frequently kidnapped by students of the other.
In 1922, King\'s students---allegedly bitter about a rugby defeat---kidnapped Phineas, the large wooden highlander model that had served as UCL\'s unofficial mascot since 1900. After more than an hour of fighting and an eventual intervention by the Metropolitan Police, Phineas was returned to UCL with a broken arm.
Reggie the Lion has been the King\'s mascot since 1923. Reggie was captured by UCL students in 1927 and filled with rotten apples. That same year, King\'s and UCL students brawled in the UCL Main Quad following a failed kidnapping attempt. Six students were hospitalised and two arrested as a result of the incident.
Other incidents have included the tarring and feathering of Phineas and the burial of Reggie in Hampstead Heath. The affair culminated in 1989 with the infamous theft of Jeremy Bentham\'s mummified head by King\'s students, who reportedly played football with it and were threatened with fines and expulsion. Mascot theft has since died down with both universities\' mascots under securely protection.
## Women
UCL was the first major university to admit women in the UK, reflecting another historical ideological difference with King\'s College
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# Daniel Schueftan
**Dan Schueftan** (*דן שיפטן*; also **Dan Shiftan**) is an Israeli academic and chairman of the National Security Studies Center at the University of Haifa. He also serves as a senior lecturer at Haifa University\'s School of Political Sciences. He has taught at the Israel Defense Force\'s National Security College and the IDF\'s Command and Staff College.
## Career, views {#career_views}
Dan Schueftan was an advisor to Israel\'s National Security Council and to former prime ministers Yitzhak Rabin and Ariel Sharon.
He has served as a consultant to Israeli decision-makers and the top echelon of Israel\'s foreign policy and defense establishments, also briefing European and American political leaders and senior officers. He is the author of several books on contemporary Middle Eastern history.
Schueftan is credited with having advanced the concept of \"unilateral disengagement\", or \"unilateral separation\", as articulated in his 1999 book, *Disengagement: Israel and the Palestinian Entity*. The book is cited as having formed the basis for the concept of separation from the Palestinians.
In Schueftan\'s view, Israel\'s unilateral disengagement from Gaza is a first step in a wider historical process. He told *The Jerusalem Report* in September 2005 that: \"I can even pin dates on it. In 2007 or 2008 we will have another major disengagement in the West Bank. And within a decade, we will unilaterally repartition Jerusalem along lines we will unilaterally select \... What Israelis have understood --- and this is the underlying feature of the disengagement --- is that we need to leave Gaza and Nablus, not because it will bring peace, but because there will be perpetual terror. We need to leave Gaza and Nablus because Israel with them is weaker than Israel without them.\"
## Quotes
- \"The Israeli public wants to be completely cut off from the Palestinians, and as a result nobody can be prime minister without going in this direction. It\'s not even an option if they want to stay in power.\" (2004)
- \"The best thing that has happened to the Arabs is that they agreed to be occupied.\" (2009)
## Published works {#published_works}
### Books
- *\"Palestinians in Israel --- the Arab Minority and the Jewish State\"*. Tel Aviv: Zmora Bitan, 2011 (Hebrew)
- *\"Disengagement: Israel and the Palestinian Entity\"* (in Hebrew *Korah Hahafrada: Yisrael Ve Harashut Hafalestinit*). Tel Aviv: Zmora Bitan, 1999 (Hebrew)
- *\"Attrition: Egypt\'s Post War Political Strategy 1967-1970\"*. Tel Aviv: Ma\'arakhot/Misrad Ha-Bitahon, 1989 (Hebrew)
- *\"A Jordanian Option --- Israel, Jordan and the Palestinians\"*. Tel Aviv: Ha-Kibuts Ha-Meuhad, 1986 (Hebrew)
### Articles
- \"Voice of Palestine: The New Ideology of Israeli Arabs\". *Azure* (Winter 2003)
- \"High Fences Make Good Neighbors --- Israel\'s Integration in \'The Emerging Mediterranean Culture\'\". *The Emergence of a New Mediterranean Culture: Maghreb-Mashriq-Israel*, ed. Wolfgang Freund, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Pub. Inc., 2000, pp. 37--47
- \"The Unique Nature of the War from the Arab Perspective\". *The Yom Kippur War --- A Reappraisal*, eds. Chaim Opaz and Yaacov Bar-Siman-Tov, Jerusalem: The Leonard Davis Institute, 1999, pp. 123--139 (Hebrew)
- \"Jordan\'s \'Israeli Option\'\". *Jordan in the Middle East 1948-1988 - The Making of a Pivotal State*, eds. Joseph Nevo and Ilan Pappe, London: Frank Cass & Co, 1994, pp
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# Chronic superficial keratitis
**Chronic superficial keratitis** (**CSK**), also known as **pannus** or **Uberreiter\'s disease**, is an inflammatory condition of the cornea in dogs, particularly seen in the German Shepherd. Both eyes are usually affected. The corneas gradually become pigmented and infiltrated by blood vessels, and the dog may eventually become blind.
## Signs and symptoms {#signs_and_symptoms}
CSK is usually a bilateral progressive condition, however the lesions are not symmetrical nor are they painful. Signs include pigmentation and vascularization of the cornea (extension of blood vessels onto the cornea). It is usually first seen at the lateral (temporal) limbus (the junction between the cornea and sclera), although it eventually can extend from any part of the limbus to cover the entire cornea. Severe cases can cause blindness. Although CSK is usually identifiable by the appearance of the eye and the breed of the affected dog, cytology will reveal the presence of lymphocytes and plasma cells.
## Cause
CSK is immune-mediated in nature, characterized by an infiltration of white blood cells into the superficial stroma of the cornea. These cells are predominantly CD4-expressing T lymphocytes and to a lesser extent CD8-expressing T cells. The CD4-expressing T-cells secrete gamma interferon, which causes expression of the major histocompatibility complex class II molecules in the cells of the cornea. These class II molecules cause further inflammation by interacting with the T cells and triggering an immune response. Ultraviolet light is important in the genesis of the disease which is seen at higher prevalence at elevated altitude and has a seasonal variation with most cases occurring in the summer. There is likely also a genetic component to the cause of CSK due to its predominance in certain breeds.
## Treatment
Treatment of CSK is usually with topical corticosteroids or topical cyclosporine, but any treatment only controls and reduces the inflammation rather than providing a cure. Other investigated treatments include pimecrolimus, a derivative of ascomycin that interferes with T cell activation and inhibits the production of inflammatory cytokines. Strontium-90 radiation therapy is also used to treat CSK. Canine sunglasses have also been used to help protect the eyes of dogs with CSK to prevent further damage from ultraviolet radiation.
## Epidemiology
Chronic superficial keratitis is most commonly seen in German Shepherds, but it is also found in Belgian Tervurens, Greyhounds, Siberian Huskies, Australian Shepherds, and Border Collies
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# George Benson (actor)
**George Frederick Percy Benson** (11 January 1911 -- 17 June 1983) was a British actor of both theatre and screen, whose career stretched from the 1930s to the early 1970s. He was on stage from the late 1920s, and made his film debut in 1932 in *Holiday Lovers* written by Leslie Arliss. His most notable work as a comic actor included supporting roles with George Formby (*Keep Fit* - 1937) and Ronnie Barker (*A Home of Your Own* - 1964).
## Early life {#early_life}
Benson was born in Cardiff and educated at Blundell\'s School, the son of Leslie Bernard Gilpin Benson and his wife Isita. The family moved to Weston-super-Mare around 1920 and to Bristol around 1925. He began acting at school in the Latin plays mounted annually at the school. He trained for the stage at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (where he was the Silver Medallist in 1930).
## Early career {#early_career}
Much of Benson\'s early work was in revue, particularly those mounted in the 1930s by Andre Charlot. In 1932-3 he toured Australia with the company of Athene Seyler and Nicholas Hannen and on the tour met Seyler\'s daughter, Jane Anne Sterndale Bennett, who would become his first wife. In 1936 he achieved his first real success, as Edward Gill in Herbert and Eleanor Farjeon\'s musical The Two Bouquets. He continued to work with Herbert Farjeon until he was called up for war service in 1940, appearing in the revues Nine Sharp and The Little Revue. He served with the Royal Artillery for six years, mostly in anti-aircraft units.
## Later career {#later_career}
After the war, he played the part of the solicitor Desmond Curry in Terence Rattigan\'s The Winslow Boy on an extensive tour of the US (1947--1948), before returning to revue in the highly successful Lyric and Globe Revues. in 1955 he joined the Old Vic Company (with Robert Helpmann and Katharine Hepburn) on a tour of Australia, playing the clown roles in Measure for Measure, The Merchant of Venice and The Taming of the Shrew. During the late 1950s he cemented his reputation as skilled comedy actor in a succession of stage roles, perhaps notably that of Arthur Groomkirby in N. F. Simpson\'s \'Theatre of the Absurd\' play One Way Pendulum.
Although still noted as a comedy actor, during the 1960s he showed he could also excel in darker and more serious roles. In 1961 he played the murderer Dr Crippen in Wolf Mankowitz\'s musical Belle, or the Ballad of Dr Crippen, and Boss Mangan in Bernard Shaw\'s Heartbreak House. In the early 1970s he appeared in several plays with Bernard Miles at the Mermaid Theatre, notably as the Inquisitor in St Joan. In 1973, while appearing as Polonius in Hamlet, he suffered a stroke which affected his speech and ended his career.
## Personal life {#personal_life}
He married, first, Jane Ann Sterndale Bennett, a granddaughter of the composer William Sterndale Bennett. They had two daughters, Caroline and Elizabeth. His second wife was Pamela Enid White, also (briefly) an actor. They had one son, Christopher. Benson took a keen interest in theatre history, and was Chairman of the Society for Theatre Research from 1968-72.
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# George Benson (actor)
## Filmography
### Film
Year Title Role Notes
------ ------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------- ------------
1932 *Holiday Lovers* Oswald
1933 *The Man from Toronto* Villager Uncredited
1937 *Keep Fit* Ernie Gill
*Red Peppers* Bert Bentley Short
*Music-Hall Cavalcade: Stars of Yesterday and Today* Chairman TV film
*Dick Whittington and His Cat* Short
1938 *Rush Hour* TV film
*Break the News* Firing Squad Officer
1939 *The Gamblers* Alexey TV film
*Young Man\'s Fancy* Booking Clerk
1940 *Convoy* Parker
1947 *Here\'s Looking at You* TV film
*The Ugly Duckling* The King Short
*Maria Marten or, the Murder at the Red Barn* Timothy Winterbottom TV film
*The Merchant of Venice* Launcelot Gobbo TV film
*Rosmersholm* Ulric Brendel TV film
*The October Man* Mr. Pope
1948 *The Light of Heart* Barty TV film
1949 *A Word in Your Eye* TV film
*Helter Skelter* Temporary Waiter
*The Lost People* Driver
1950 *Madeleine* Chemist Uncredited
*The Happiest Days of Your Life* Mr. Tripp
*Cage of Gold* Assistant Registrar
*Highly Dangerous* Sandwich Stand Customer
1951 *Pool of London* George Uncredited
*The Man in the White Suit* The Lodger
*Appointment with Venus* Senior Clerk
1952 *Mother Riley Meets the Vampire* Police Sergeant
*The Globe Revue* TV film
1953 *The Captain\'s Paradise* Mr. Salmon
*The Broken Horseshoe* Prescott
*The New Morality* E. Wallace Wister TV film
*Three\'s Company* George Bailey
1954 *Doctor in the House* Lecturer on drains
*Aunt Clara* Photographer Uncredited
*Lilacs in the Spring* Theatre Royal manager Uncredited
*Tons of Money* James Chesterman, a solicitor TV film
1955 *Value for Money* Trombonist
1956 *Fanny\'s First Play* Mr. Robin Gilbey TV film
1957 *The Naked Truth* Photographer Uncredited
1958 *Charles and Mary* William Godwin TV film
*Dracula* Official
1959 *Model for Murder* Freddie
*Left Right and Centre* Egerton
1960 *David and Broccoli* Headmaster TV film
*The Pure Hell of St Trinian\'s* Defence Counsel
1964 *A Jolly Bad Fellow* Inspector Butts
1965 *A Home of Your Own* Gatekeeper
1966 *The Great St Trinian\'s Train Robbery* Gore-Blackwood
1968 *The Strange Affair* Uncle Bertrand
*Journey into Darkness* The Vicar
1970 *The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes* Inspector Lestrade Uncredited
1972 *What Became of Jack and Jill?* Vicar
*A Warning to the Curious* Vicar TV film
1973 *The Creeping Flesh* Waterlow
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# George Benson (actor)
## Filmography
### Television
Year Title Role Notes
----------- ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------
1950 *BBC Sunday Night Theatre* Tom Buttle Episode: \"The Happy Sunday Afternoon\"
Squeen Episode: \"Miss Hargreaves\"
1951 *An Evening at Home with Bernard Braden and Barbara Kelly* Neighbour Series regular
1953 *Rheingold Theatre* George Bailey Episode: \"Take a Number\"
*Vice Versa* Paul Bultditude Mini-series
1955 *Theatre Royal* George Perker Episode: \"Bardell vs. Pickwick\"
1956 *Tracey and Me* Mr. Crudnick Mini-series
*BBC Sunday Night Theatre* Percy Middling Episode: \"Mrs. Moonlight\"
1957 Sidney Satterthwaite Episode: \"Mayors\' Nest\"
Teddy Brewster Episode: \"Arsenic and Old Lace\"
Captain Wallcott Episode: \"The Mulberry Bush\"
*The Adventures of Robin Hood* Sir Cedric Hayworth Episode: \"The Secret Pool\"
*Dick and the Duchess* Beasley Episode: \"The Armoured Car\"
*Theatre Night* Sibilot Episode: \"Nekrassov\"
*ITV Playhouse* Dr. Frank Freeman Episode: \"The Sand Castle\"
Mr. Samuel Pepys Episode: \"And So to Bed\"
1958 *Television Playwright* Man on Park Bench Episode: \"Call Me a Liar\"
*Fair Game* The Reverend Summers Episode: \"Saint Asaph\'s School for Boys\"
*Armchair Theatre* Mr. Prosser Episode: \"The One Who Came Back\"
*Saturday Playhouse* Edward Carter Episode: \"The Fourth Wall\"
*BBC Sunday Night Theatre* Medvedev, a Policeman Episode: \"The Lower Depths\"
*The Adventures of William Tell* Conrad Episode: \"The Cuckoo\"
*ITV Playhouse* Major Forrester Episode: \"Badger\'s Green\"
1959 Colonel Leonard Battersby Episode: \"Movement of Troops\"
*The Life and Death of Sir John Falstaff* Bardolph Series regular
*Theatre Night* Wellington Potts Episode: \"Caught Napping\"
1960 *Armchair Theatre* Arthur Hopkins Episode: \"Mr Nobody\"
*Theatre 70* James Morris Episode: \"Full Circle\"
*Tales from Dickens* Stiggins Episode: \"Sam Weller and his Father\"
1961 *Winning Widows* Episode: \"New Husbands\"
*No Hiding Place* Buzz Wilson Episode: \"Signals at Danger\"
*ITV Play of the Week* Mr. Filby Episode: \"Ring of Truth\"
1962 Gerardin Episode: \"Coach 7, Seat 15\"
*Dixon of Dock Green* Monty Mellon Episode: \"Bells in My Ears\"
*Saki* Peter Pigeoncote Mini-series
1963 *Zero One* Williams Episode: \"Deadly Angels\"
*The Dickie Henderson Show* Episode: \"The Stamp Collector\"
*The Rag Trade* Episode: \"Baby Dolls\"
*Tales of Mystery* Petershin Episode: \"Petershin and Mr. Snide\"
*Drama 61-67* Mr. Lott Episode: \"The Lady and the Clerk\"
*No Hiding Place* Major Binns Episode: \"Deadline for Dummy\"
1964 *Comedy Playhouse* Mr. Wilkes Episode: \"The Siege of Sydney\'s Street\"
*The Avengers* Reverend Whyper Episode: \"Mandrake\"
*Detective* Silas Hickler Episode: \"The Case of Oscar Brodski\"
1965 *The Man in Room 17* Marcus Oliver Episode: \"The Bequest\"
*Danger Man* Police Chief Episode: \"Have a Glass of Wine\"
*The Wednesday Thriller* The Man Episode: \"The Regulator\"
*Out of the Unknown* Arnold Potterley Episode: \"The Dead Past\"
1966 *David Copperfield* Richard \'Mr. Dick\' Babley Series regular
*Walter and Connie Reporting* Mr. Turner Episode: \"The New Lock\"
1967 *Adam Adamant Lives!* Timothy Henshaw Episode: \"Death Begins at Seventy\"
*Before the Fringe* 1 episode
*The Forsyte Saga* Marquess of Shropshire Recurring role
*The Prisoner* Labour Exchange Manager Episode: \"Free for All\"
1968 *Half Hour Story* Shillinghurst Episode: \"Natural Justice\"
*The Mock Doctor* Valere Recurring role
*The World of Beachcomber* Recurring role
*The Root of All Evil?* Dick Episode:\"The Fireplace Firm\"
*Journey to the Unknown* The Vicar Episode: \"Paper Dolls\"
1969 *The Canterbury Tales* Chaplain Episode: \"The Canon Yeoman\'s Tale/The Franklin\'s Tale\"
1970 *The Misfit* Henry Episode: \"On Being British\"
*Albert and Victoria* Dr. Martin Episode: \"The Secret of the Attic\"
*Here Come the Double Deckers* Caterpillar Episode: \"Scooper Strikes Out\"
*The Goodies* The Vicar Episode: \"The Greenies\"
1970-1971 *Jackanory* Storyteller Series regular
1971 *The Last of the Baskets* Mr. Smithers Episode: \"I Gotta Horse\"
*Kate* Dr. Naseby Episode: \"A Sort of Change\"
*Misleading Cases* Mr. Lazenby Episode: \"A Tiger in Your Bank\"
*Now Take My Wife* Episode: \"Claire\'s Demo\"
*Casanova* Uncle Mini-series
1972 *Jason King* Gym Instructor Episode: \"If It\'s Got to Go - It\'s Got to Go\"
*Six Days of Justice* Arnold Watson Episode: \"Suddenly\..
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# Beatrix Lyall
**Dame Beatrix Margaret Lyall**, DBE, JP (née **Rostron**; 27 October 1873 -- 8 May 1948) was a British social reformer and London politician.
## Early life {#early_life}
She was born in 1873 to Simpson Rostron, a barrister from Beddington, Surrey, and his wife Christina Jane (née Riley), both of whom held strong Christian beliefs, and were deeply involved in the activities of the Church of England, as well as being active in the Conservative Party.
## Marriage and family {#marriage_and_family}
On 15 June 1899, she married George Henry Hudson Pile, a childhood friend and son of a former Speaker of the House of Assembly of Barbados. In 1914, she became **Beatrix Lyall** when her husband changed his surname by deed poll, assuming his mother\'s maiden name. They settled in Chelsea, London and had a son, Archibald, and a daughter, Christina Marion.
## World War One {#world_war_one}
By 1914, Beatrix Lyall was known in her role as leader of the Mothers Union, and was noted for her public speaking skills and her campaigning for child welfare. During the war she gave her services to a number of government departments and served on the War Savings Committee. She gave addresses to munitions workers and miners which were published by the British Women\'s Patriotic League. In 1919 she was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for her services during the conflict.
## Politics
Lyall\'s high public profile led to her being approached by the Conservative-backed Municipal Reform Party to stand for election to the London County Council. In March 1919 she was duly elected as a councillor for Fulham East. In 1924 she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. She served as vice-chairman of the council from 1932--1933, and was the first woman to hold the post.
In 1934 she lost her seat on the council when the Labour Party took control for the first time. She returned to the council in December 1935 when a by-election was held, but did not stand for the subsequent election in 1937.
## Later years and death {#later_years_and_death}
Following her retirement from local politics, Lyall continued to be active in the Mothers Union, authoring pamphlets promoting \"Christian marriage\" and denouncing divorce. She was made a life vice-president of the organisation in 1937. She was to suffer the loss of her daughter in October 1937, and of her husband in May 1938.
During the Second World War, she was appointed head of hospital supplies for South London, and was a member of the executive of the National Council of Women. She spent her final years at the Prince of Wales Hotel in Kensington. She died at the hotel in May 1948 from heart failure, aged 74. She was cremated at Golders Green
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# Fabric 34
***Fabric 34*** is a DJ mix compilation album by Ellen Allien, as part of the Fabric Mix Series.
## Track listing {#track_listing}
1. Schubert - S1 (Don\'t Believe the Chord - Pop Hype) - *Statik*
2. Larry Heard Presents Mr. White - The Sun Can't Compare (Long Version) - *Alleviated*
3. Estroe - Driven (Jamie Jones\' Pacific Mix) - *Connaisseur Superieur*
4. Damián Schwartz - Tú Y Yo (Peros Nos Volvemos A Levantar) (Pilas Remix) - *Mupa*
5. Don Williams - Orderly Kaos - *a.r.t.less*
6. Melodyboy 2000 - Sound Stealer - *Futuro*
7. Artificial Latvamäki - It Is Not Now Either - *Mezzotinto*
8. Cobblestone Jazz - India in Me - *Wagon Repair*
9. Roman Flügel - Mutter - *Klang*
10. Ø - Aaltovaihe - *Säkhö*
11. Thom Yorke - Harrowdown Hill - *XL*
12. Ellen Allien - Just a Woman - *Bpitch Control*
13. Ben Klock - Journey - *Bpitch Control*
14. Heartthrob - Baby Kate (Plastikman Remix) - *M_nus*
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# Storronden
**Storronden** is a mountain in Sel Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The 2138 m tall mountain is located in the Rondane mountains within Rondane National Park. The mountain sits about 20 km northeast of the town of Otta. The mountain is surrounded by several other notable mountains including Svartnuten and Steet to the west, Vinjeronden and Rondeslottet to the northwest, Rondvasshøgde to the east, Hornflågene to the southeast, and Simlepiggen to the south.
## Name
The first element is *stor* which means \'large\' or \'big\'. The last part of the name comes from the words *rond* which was probably the original name of the nearby lake Rondvatnet. Many of the mountains near the lake were then named after this lake. The Old Norse form of the name was *rǫnd* which means \'stripe\' or \'edge\' (referring to the long and narrow form of the lake)
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# Fillet (picture framing)
In the picture framing industry, a **fillet** (also referred to as a **slip**) is a small piece of moulding which fits inside a larger frame or, typically, underneath or in between matting, used for decorative purposes. The picture framing term is probably related to, though not necessarily derived from, the engineering term, which it is frequently pronounced similarly to; however, unlike the use of fillets in mechanical engineering, the use of \"fillets\" in picture frames is wholly decorative.
## Pronunciation
*Fillet* can be pronounced in two ways. The other is similar to the French-derived culinary term. Either is acceptable in English, though most frame shops prefer one or the other pronunciation.
## Construction
Fillets are typically made of soft or hard wood, and feature a flat \"lip\" which can fit underneath a mat; the non-lip portion is what is displayed. Except for their shape and size (which is understandably small), fillets are constructed similarly to picture frames, usually from wood or polystyrene. One way is to pronounce it as if it were \"fill-et\" such as the cut of meat, as the similar term from mechanical engineering is pronounced. Metal fillets are very rare. Fillets are available in a number of styles and finishes, including gold and silver leaf finishes.
## Uses
The fillet is normally used as decoration in the lining of a picture frame or underneath a mat inside one; the intent is to help draw the eye inwards to the document being framed.
However, one can also use inverted fillets as form of picture frame on small, flat objects, as seen below:
In this case, the card was glued to the lip of the inverted fillet (which is thus hidden behind the back of the card).
Objects such as this that have been framed using inverted fillets can be backed and then affixed to wire for hanging, displayed on an easel, or used inside of a larger shadowbox display. It is important to note that only very small, extremely flat objects can be framed using only an inverted fillet, as a fillet lacks the depth of a traditional picture frame, and due to its size, weight and construction, could not support a great amount of weight on its own
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# Alex Blackwell
**Alexandra Joy Blackwell** (born 31 August 1983) is a former professional cricketer and Australian women\'s cricket captain who played for New South Wales and Australia as a specialist batter. After making her international debut in 2002-2003, she went on to play more matches for Australia than any other female cricketer in history. A highlight of Blackwell\'s career was captaining the 2010 Women\'s team to World Twenty20 victory.
In October 2017, she made her 250th international appearance for the Australian women\'s cricket team. In November 2019, she announced her retirement from cricket, after a career that spanned 18 years. Her identical twin sister Kate has also played for Australia.
After retiring from cricket, Blackwell returned to her previous career as a genetic counsellor. Her memoir, *Fair Game,* was published in 2022.
In 2013, Blackwell became the first female international cricketer to publicly come out as gay. She has been a passionate advocate for LGBTQIA+ rights and represented Cricket Australia in the 2015 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. She has also been a vocal supporter of the inclusion of transgender cricketers at all levels.
## Early life {#early_life}
Blackwell was born in Wagga Wagga, but raised in Yenda, a small rural town outside of Griffith, New South Wales. She and her identical twin sister Kate attended Barker College on the North Shore of Sydney as boarders.
In March 2000, Blackwell was called into the New South Wales team for the under 17 interstate competition. In the first match, she took 3/7 and wasn\'t required to bat in a ten wicket victory over Victoria Blue. Her top-score for the tournament came in the sixth match against Western Australia, when she scored 57 not out. New South Wales won all of their eight matches to claim the competition and Blackwell ended with 149 runs at 37.25 and seven wickets at 17.00.
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# Alex Blackwell
## International cricket {#international_cricket}
### 2003-04: International debut {#international_debut}
Blackwell made her international debut in 2003 in a quadrangular One Day International (ODI) tournament. She had few opportunities with the bat, scoring 54 runs at 27.00 but was unexpectedly successful with the ball, taking a total of 4/34 despite only having one previous wicket at senior level.
She then made her Test debut in a two-match series against England at the Gabba in Brisbane, hitting a half-century in the latter fixture. Following this, Blackwell was retained for the Second Test at Bankstown Oval in Sydney. Australia batted first and Blackwell came in at 4/90. Soon after, her partners Mel Jones and Hayes fell in quick succession as Australia lost 3/13 to be 6/103. Blackwell then added 21 with Cathryn Fitzpatrick before the former was out for 13; this triggered a collapse of 4/10 as Australia were all out for 134. Blackwell came in at 4/49 with Australia still four runs behind in the second innings. She added 136 in 226 minutes for the fifth wicket with Lisa Sthalekar before being dismissed for 58, having hit six boundaries from 236 balls. In pursuit of a target of 206, England reached 6/133 when time ran out. Blackwell did not bowl in the match.
Blackwell retained her position in the national team for the Rose Bowl series, which consisted of three matches each in New Zealand and then Australia. She played in only the third match in New Zealand and did not bat in the seven-wicket win, before being omitted for the first match at home. She was recalled for the second match and made 15 not out in a 40-run win, before her unbeaten 22 guided Australia to a four-wicket win in the final match at Bellerive Oval, as the hosts took out the series 5--1.
In December 2004 Blackwell participated in a seven-match bilateral ODI series against India. She played in the first, third, fourth, fifth and sixth matches of the series, ending with 34 runs at 8.50.
### 2005: World Cup {#world_cup}
The Australians hosted New Zealand for three Rose Bowl ODIs in the western coastal city of Perth before the teams crossed the Indian Ocean to reach South Africa. Blackwell made six and took 1/8 in the first match, and was then run out for 27 in the next game. She was omitted for third match.
In the first match of the World Cup, Blackwell did not bat as England made 7/169 before rain ended the match. This was followed by an encounter with New Zealand. Blackwell scored 53 in Australia\'s 7/174, helping to set up a 32-run win. In the third match against the West Indies, she was run out for a duck in a 79-run win, and was dropped for the 97-run win over the hosts. The group stages ended with two easy victories. Blackwell took 1/8 from two overs, her last international wicket, as Australia dismissed Sri Lanka for 57. The final pool match against India was abandoned without a ball being bowled due to inclement weather, and Australia met England in the semi-finals. Blackwell scored 10 not out, helping to complete the closing stages of a five-wicket win. In the final against India, she came in towards the end of the innings and made four not out as Australia amassed 4/215. Australia bowled India out for 117 to win by 98 runs. Blackwell ended the tournament with 67 runs at 33.50.
In the northern hemisphere summer of 2005, Australia toured England. They started with a stopover in Ireland, and only the second of the three ODIs went ahead; the other two matches were washed out by persistent rain. Blackwell made four not out as Australia made 3/295 and took a 240-run win.
Australia played two Tests in England. In the First Test at County Ground in Hove, Sussex, Blackwell batted at No. 5 and played alongside identical twin sister Kate, who was making her Test debut. She struggled in both innings, making five and nine and scoring at a strike rate of 20 or less in both innings. After taking an 82-run lead, Australia set the hosts a target of 306. Blackwell took two catches, her first at Test level, removing Claire Taylor and Jenny Gunn as the hosts ended on 7/172 to salvage a draw. In the Second Test at New Road, Worcester, Blackwell made 20 and 14 as Australia ceded a 158-run first innings lead and eventually lost by six wickets after Blackwell\'s fall in the second innings left them at 5/46, still 112 runs in arrears. She ended the series with 48 runs at 12.00.
Blackwell scored 5, 27, 17 not out, 21 not out and 14 as Australia won 3--2. She ended the series with 84 runs at 28.00. Blackwell then played in Australia\'s inaugural Twenty20 international at the County Ground, Taunton, only the second international match in the history of the new format. She was not required to bat as Australia won with seven wickets in hand.
After a strong WNCL season, Blackwell was retained for the series against India in Adelaide at the end of the Australian summer. Opening the batting, she made a 17-ball duck in the one-off Test at the Adelaide Oval, which Australia won by an innings., where she ended the series with 83 runs at 41.50.
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# Alex Blackwell
## International cricket {#international_cricket}
### 2006-2007
Blackwell missed the five-ODI Rose Bowl series at home due to injury. After recovering, she travelled across to New Zealand for three weekends of domestic one-dayers for Otago. In her debut for the team, she struck an even 100 in a 162-run win over Northern Districts. She added 79 in a 182-run victory the following day. After making 27 and 31 against Auckland, Blackwell ended her stay with 1 and 77 against Canterbury; Otago lost both matches. She ended with 315 runs at 52.50 in her six-match stint.
After the end of the Australian season, Blackwell was selected for the ODI team for a four-nations tournament in Chennai, India. In addition to the hosts and Australia, New Zealand and England were also participating, and each team played each other twice in round-robin phase. Blackwell ended the tournament with 54 runs at 13.50.
Blackwell was retained in the Rose Bowl series held in tropical Darwin in July 2007, the middle of the southern hemisphere winter. After watching the first two matches from the sidelines, she was called into the team for the third match where she made an unbeaten 44 to see Australia to a six-wicket win. She made 4 and 27 in the two remaining matches, ending the series with 75 runs at 37.50 as Australia prevailed 3--2.
Australia won the T20 international against England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground by 21 runs. After scoring 11 in an Australian defeat in the first ODI, Blackwell struck 101---her maiden ODI century---the next day at the MCG to set up an 84-run win. After making five as England took a 2--1 series lead, Blackwell made 61 in the final match to help set up a series-levelling 41-run win. She ended the series with 178 runs at 44.50. In the one-off Test at Bowral, Blackwell opened the innings. She made one as Australia batted first and reached 154 in their first innings before conceding a 90-run first innings lead. In the second innings, she made 24 before being bowled for the second time in the matches by pace bowler Isa Guha as the tourists won by six wickets in hand.
The Australians then headed to Bert Sutcliffe Oval in Lincoln, New Zealand, for a T20 international and five ODIs. Blackwell made 15 and took two catches as the hosts won the T20 by four wickets. She then made 44 of 5/189 to help secure a 63-run win in the first ODI. In the next two matches, she made seven twice, as the hosts claimed both matches to take the series lead. Australia thus needed to win the remaining two matches. In the fourth match, Blackwell made 61 in an Australian win by six runs. In the final match, she made 91 to help steer Australia to their target of 250 and a series-clinching eight-wicket win. Blackwell ended the series with 211 runs at 42.20. For the whole international season, she scored 389 runs at 43.22 to establish herself at international level.
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# Alex Blackwell
## International cricket {#international_cricket}
### 2008-2009: World Cup and World Twenty20 {#world_cup_and_world_twenty20}
During the 2008 Australian winter, Blackwell travelled to England for a domestic season in the northern hemisphere summer, playing for Berkshire in the county competition, and Rubies in the Super Fours. Blackwell failed to capitalise on her starts for the county, registering scores of 41, 22, 0, 39 and 30 in her five one-day innings for a total of 132 runs at 26.40. It was a similar story in four one-dayers for Rubies, making 58 runs at 14.50 with a best of 26. Blackwell had little impact in the T20s for Rubies, making four and a duck.
The 2008--09 Australian season started with a tour by India. Blackwell started with 0/14 from her only over and scored 14 in a six-wicket win in the T20 match. She was prominent as the hosts completed a 5--0 clean sweep of the ODIs. In the first match at Hurstville Oval, she made 75 in an eight-wicket win. After making eight and one not out in the next two matches, Blackwell made 106 not out, setting up a 118-run win in the fourth match at Manuka Oval. She ended the series with 65 run out in the seven-wicket win in the final match. Blackwell aggregated 255 runs at 85.00 for the series.
Blackwell made 10 and 9 in the first two matches of the Rose Bowl series as Australia went 2--0 down. She then made 59 and 37 in the next two matches as Australia levelled the series; the fifth and final match was washed out. The teams returned to Australia for the World Cup. In two warm-up matches against England and Sri Lanka, Blackwell made 91 not out and 56 retired; Australia won the matches by 25 and 230 runs respectively.
In the opening match of the World Cup campaign, Blackwell made four as Australia fell short of their target on the Duckworth-Lewis method. Australia then needed to win their two remaining group matches to reach the Super Six phase. Blackwell made 22 and took three catches as Australia defeated South Africa by 61 runs. She then scored 46 not out in a 47-run win over the West Indies. In the first Super Six match, against India, Blackwell scored 54 as Australia made 7/218, falling 17 runs of their target. She then made seven run out in the win over Pakistan by 107 runs. She made 38 not out in Australia\'s final Super Six match against England, and although the hosts won by eight wickets, it was not enough for them to place in the top two in the standings and qualify for the final. In the third-place playoff against India, Blackwell made 19 in a three-wicket defeat. Blackwell ended the tournament with 190 runs at 38.00.
Blackwell was selected for Australia\'s team for the inaugural Women\'s World Twenty20 held in England in 2009. The Australians hosted New Zealand for a three-match series in tropical Darwin at the beginning of June before the World Cup, and Blackwell played in all the matches, making 11 not out and 10 in her two innings. Australia took the series 2--1.
After arriving in England, Blackwell made 19 in Australia\'s 8/123, which New Zealand surpassed with nine wickets in hand. She was not required to bat in an eight-wicket win over the West Indies. Blackwell then 40 not out as Australia defeated South Africa by 24 runs.
This put Australia into the semi-final against England. Blackwell made five before England overhauled Australia\'s score of 5/163 to reach the final, which they won. She ended the tournament with 64 runs at 32.00.
Blackwell and the Australians stayed in England for a bilateral series against the hosts, who were the reigning world champions in both ODIs and T20s, after the end of the World Twenty20. In the one-off T20 match, she made 18 as Australia upset England by 34 runs. She played in all five ODIs, and had a torrid time against the English bowling, scoring 7, 3, 0, 0 and 5. She started with a 38-ball 7 in Chelmsford and had a series of slow-scoring single-digit innings, ending the series with a strike rate of 19.73.
England won all the ODI matches except the last, which was washed out. Blackwell played in the one-off Test match at County Road in Worcestershire. Blackwell opened and made a fourth-ball duck as Australia fell to 5/28 in their first innings before recovering to make 309. After the tourists had taken a 41-run lead, Blackwell made 68 as Australia made 231 to set the hosts a target of 273. Blackwell and opening partner Nitschke put on 49 before the latter was out for 25. Blackwell then added 81 in 21 overs with Rolton before the latter was dismissed, leaving the score at 2/130. She was then out at 3/150 after hitting six fours and a six from 135 balls, sparking a collapse of 8/81. The match was drawn as the hosts ended at 3/106.
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# Alex Blackwell
## International cricket {#international_cricket}
### 2010: National captaincy and World Twenty20 triumph {#national_captaincy_and_world_twenty20_triumph}
Blackwell led Australia in the Rose Bowl series against New Zealand in 2010 due to an injury to incumbent captain Jodie Fields. The campaign started with five ODIs in Australia. In the first two matches, held at the Adelaide Oval, she made 51 and 34 as the hosts won by 115 runs and six wickets respectively. The last three matches of the series were held at the Junction Oval in Melbourne. In the third ODI, Blackwell top-scored with 92 as Australia took a 102-run win and sealed the series. Blackwell ended her first series as captain with 178 runs at 44.50.
The ODIs were followed by three T20s at Bellerive Oval in Hobart and two more in New Zealand at the start of the second phase of the bilateral contests. Blackwell played in every match and Australia was whitewashed. The three matches in Hobart were closely fought; Blackwell made 11, top-scored with 40, and added 26 as New Zealand won by two, one and seven runs respectively. The hosts won the last two matches in New Zealand convincingly by 59 and 17 runs; Blackwell made 9 and 8 as the Australians were bowled out for 73 and 98. She ended the series with 94 runs at 18.80.
Australia then swept New Zealand 3--0 in the ODIs in New Zealand. In the first match, Blackwell made five as Australia came closest to defeat in the ODIs, scraping home by two wickets. She made 8 and 44 in last two matches in Invercargill to complete the clean sweep. In all the ODIs she made 235 runs at 33.57. Blackwell had thus led Australia to eight consecutive ODI wins over New Zealand.
Blackwell led the team at the 2010 World Twenty20 in the West Indies and captained in every match after Fields was again forced out by injury. She batted at No. 4 in all but one match. In the first warm-up match against New Zealand, she opened the bowling with her occasional medium pace, and took 1/29 from her four overs, dismissing the opposing captain and opener Aimee Watkins. She then came in at No. 4 and top-scored with 44 from as many balls as Australia lost by 18 runs. In the last warm-up match, she made 35 not out from 21 balls and featured in a 55-run partnership from 40 balls with Jess Cameron. She did not bowl herself as the Australians defeated Pakistan by 82 runs.
Australia were grouped with defending champions England, South Africa and the West Indies. In the first match against England, Blackwell ran out Holly Colvin to end the innings with 15 balls unused. In pursuit of 105 for victory, Australia were 2/10 when Blackwell came to the crease. She made 7 from 14 balls in a partnership of 34 from 33 balls---Australia\'s largest of the match---with Leah Poulton. However, their dismissals in consecutive overs started a collapse of 5/19 from 34 balls. However, Australia recovered, and Rene Farrell was run out going for the winning run from the third last ball available, leaving the scores tied.
A Super Over eventuated, and both teams ended with 2/6 after both suffered run outs in an attempt to secure a seventh run on the final ball. Australia was awarded the match because they had hit more sixes in the match---Jess Cameron scored the solitary six.
In the next match against South Africa, Blackwell made 9 from 14 balls, the only Australian in the first seven batting positions to score at less than a strike rate of 133.33. In the final group match, Blackwell top-scored with 28 from 26 balls, and batted through most of the innings, although she only faced a small minority of the 74 balls delivered during her time at the crease, as Australia finished on 7/133. Australia won by nine runs to finish the group stage unbeaten at the top of their quartet.
Australia went on to face India in the semi-final. Blackwell reached her fifty in 37 balls and was eventually out for 61 from 49 balls with 17 runs still required from 28 balls for victory. The Australians reached their target with seven wickets and seven balls to spare, and Blackwell was named the player of the match.
In the final against New Zealand, the Australians eventually reached 8/106 from their 20 overs. Australia went on to win by three runs.
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# Alex Blackwell
## International cricket {#international_cricket}
### 2015: Ashes
In June 2015, Blackwell was named as one of Australia\'s touring party for the 2015 Women\'s Ashes in England.
### 2017--18 {#section_1}
Blackwell was in Australia\'s squad for the Women\'s Ashes. In the first WODI of the series she came to the crease when Australia were 4/87, still requiring 144 runs for victory. She batted for the rest of the innings, getting to a total of 67 and steering Australia to victory in the final over of the match. In the third WODI of the series, she played in her 250th international match for Australia Women.
### Retirement
In February 2018, Blackwell announced her retirement from international and state career. She featured in 251 matches across all three formats in a career spanning for 15 years. She has written that she sees herself as having been a \"good international cricketer\", but not a \"great\" one. She also does not think that she can make a judgement as to whether she was a good leader; \"\... only my peers can.\" However, she also feels that she had been her \"true self\", had spoken up, with respect, to others in the cricketing community in seeking continual improvement, and had \"\... kept on trying to be the best leader \[she\] could.\"
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# Alex Blackwell
## Domestic cricket {#domestic_cricket}
During the 2001--02 season, Blackwell made her senior debut for New South Wales. In her first match against Queensland, she bowled two expensive overs, conceding 18 runs, and was not required to bat as New South Wales won by six wickets.
At the end of the season, Blackwell was selected for the Australia Youth team that played New Zealand A. She made 76 runs at 19.00 in four matches with a highest score of 32 and took a total of 1/43 from 11 overs. This was followed by a match against the senior New Zealand team. Blackwell took 1/18 and scored 2 in a 21-run defeat.
### WNCL
Blackwell made her senior debut for New South Wales in the 2001--02 Women\'s National Cricket League (WNCL). She made 33 runs at 33.00 in her debut season as New South Wales won the WNCL.
Blackwell\'s highlights with the WNCL include:
- 2002-2003 was her first full season, taking to the field in all 10 of New South Wales\' matches. She made her maiden half-century at senior level, scoring 74 not out to guide her state of a five-wicket win over Victoria. In the second final, she took her maiden wicket at senior level, but her sporadic bowling was otherwise unsuccessful, conceding 45 runs in 8 overs for the season. Blackwell ended the season with 212 runs at 30.28.
- Blackwell had a prolific 2005--06 WNCL season, scoring 411 runs including her maiden century.
- She missed first four WNCL matches of the 2006--07 season due to injury. She returned for the final four round-robin matches and made 42, 17, 74 and 4 as New South Wales won all four matches. Blackwell ended the season with 158 runs at 22.57.
- Blackwell started the 2007--08 WNCL season strongly, scoring half-centuries in each of the first four matches, all of which were won by New South Wales. Blackwell scored 291 runs at 41.57.
- She ended the 2008-2009 season with 372 runs at 62.00.
- After making single-figure scores in consecutive matches, Blackwell struck an unbeaten 121, scoring more than half the runs in an eight-wicket win over the Australian Capital Territory in the third match of the season. After making 37 and 39 in the pair of matches against Victoria, she was prominent in the double-header against Western Australia, scoring 138 to set up a 127-run win, before making an unbeaten 61 the next day in a ten-wicket win. In the final, Blackwell top-scored with 54 as New South Wales batted first and made 9/206. They then dismissed the Victorians for 147 to seal a 59-run win. Blackwell ended the WNCL with 489 runs at 61.12.
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# Alex Blackwell
## One Day International centuries {#one_day_international_centuries}
In her 251 international matches, Blackwell scored three centuries, all of them in ODIs. During the first two of those centuries, both made in 2008, her twin sister Kate was \"up the other end\". Her third ODI hundred, and highest international score, came just over seven years later, in 2016. It was against India, the same opposing team as for her second ODI century, and at the same venue, Manuka Oval in Canberra, where, as she later wrote, she \"\... always batted well.\"
No. Runs Opponents City/Country Venue Year
------- ------------- ----------- ---------------------- -------------------------- ------
**1** 101 Melbourne, Australia Melbourne Cricket Ground 2008
**2** 106 not out Canberra, Australia Manuka Oval 2008
**3** 114 Canberra, Australia Manuka Oval 2016
: One-Day International centuries
## Personal life {#personal_life}
Blackwell\'s nickname is \"Seal\". She has explained that the origin of the nickname is \"\... a story which involves the misquoting of lyrics from the Go Go\'s song \'Our Lips Are Sealed\'.\"
In 2013, Blackwell came out as lesbian, the second international player to come out during their playing career after England\'s Steven Davies. Her wife is fellow cricketer Lynsey Askew.
Blackwell is a passionate advocate for LGBTQIA+ rights and represented Cricket Australia in the 2015 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. She has also been a vocal supporter of the inclusion of transgender cricketers at all levels and was involved in developing Cricket Australia's trans and gender diverse inclusion policy in 2019.
Blackwell\'s memoir, *Fair Game,* was published in 2022. She is an in-demand public speaker talking about gender equality and LGBTI inclusion in sport, and her experiences as a professional athlete.
Blackwell was supported to complete her Bachelor of Medicine at the University of New South Wales in 2007 through the university\'s Elite Athlete Program. Following this, Blackwell also obtained a Graduate Diploma in Genetic Counseling from Charles Sturt University, and Graduate Certificate in Reproductive Medicine from UNSW. She currently works as an Associate Genetic Counsellor at Sydney Children's Hospital and The Royal Hospital for Women, Randwick
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# Key West Literary Seminar
The **Key West Literary Seminar** is a writers\' conference and festival held each January in Key West, Florida. It draws an international audience for readings, panel discussions, and workshops.
## History
The seminar was founded in 1983 by David Kaufelt and his wife Lynn Kaufelt, as a program operated by the Council for Florida Libraries. The inaugural event, known as the Key West Literary Tour and Seminar, consisted of readings, panel discussions, literary walking tours, and cocktail parties. This basic format remains unchanged. The current executive director is poet, writer and publisher Arlo Haskell.
In its early years, the seminar focused on the literary history of Key West, a small subtropical town which has been home to Ernest Hemingway, Elizabeth Bishop, Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, and Tennessee Williams, among others. Subsequent Seminars have been devoted to broader genres or literary themes.
In 1987, the seminar incorporated as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt corporation, run by a board of directors, with Lynn Kaufelt named as the executive director. In 1988, Monica Haskell became executive director. She was succeeded by Miles Frieden in 1995. Many well-known authors have served on the seminar\'s board of directors, including Judy Blume, Harry Mathews, James Gleick, William Wright, Richard Wilbur, and John Malcolm Brinnin. An honorary board of directors has included popular singer Jimmy Buffett, former First Lady Barbara Bush, and writers Annie Dillard, Robert Stone, Alison Lurie, and Joy Williams.
The seminar was formerly held at the Tennessee Williams Fine Arts Center at Florida Keys Community College on Stock Island. Since 1993, events have been held on Duval Street at the San Carlos Institute, a historic building whose construction was partly funded by the Republic of Cuba during the 1920s. The seminar begins each year with the John Hersey Memorial Address and features a series of receptions at notable Key West locations.
Through their website, the seminar offers audio recordings of past events, biographies of past and forthcoming speakers, and information about Key West\'s literary history.
The seminar went on hiatus in 2021
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# Emanuele Repetti
**Emanuele Repetti** (1776--1852) was an Italian historian and naturalist who wrote extensively on the history of Tuscany. He was born in Carrara.
## Works
He contributed to the *Antologia of Vieusseux* and the *Atti* of the Accademia dei Georgofili, of which he was secretary. From 1833 to 1846, he published the *Dizionario geografico, fisico e storico della Toscana*, which offers an account of the natural and civic history of municipalities in Tuscany. His work was primarily cultural, historical, linguistic and archaeological in nature
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# Lucien Callamand
**Lucien Callamand** born **Lucien Marie Pascal Eugène Callamand** (1 April 1888 in Marseille -- 3 December 1968 in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes) was one of the earliest French film actors whose career spanned six decades of French cinema. Between 1909 and 1965, he starred in at least 115 films
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