Paula Murrihy

Paula Murrihy is an Irish operatic mezzo-soprano who has made an international career. A member of the Oper Frankfurt, she has appeared also in Europe and the US, including the Metropolitan Opera and the Santa Fe Opera.

Career

Born in County Kerry, Murrihy first studied at the Dublin Institute of Technology Conservatory of Music and Drama in Dublin, graduating with a Bachelor in Music. She studied further at the New England Conservatory. She took part in the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme and the opera studio of the Santa Fe Opera.San Francisco Opera in the Merola Opera Program.Tanglewood in the 2003 Vocal Fellowship Program, appearing in the premiere of Osvaldo Golijov's opera Ainadamar, which she then also performed at Disney Hall with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

Murrihy joined the ensemble of the Oper Frankfurt in 2009, where she performed the title roles of Bizet's CarmenDer Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss.Radamisto, the Second Lady in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte and Blanche in Prokofiev's Der Spieler.Dido, Antonio Cesti's L'Orontea, Humperdinck's Hänsel, and Honegger's Judith.Medea in 2010, alongside Claudia Barainsky in the title role, recorded live.

She made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City in 2017 as Stephano in Gounod's Roméo et JulietteSanta Fe Opera as Prinz Orlowsky in Die Fledermaus and as Ruggiero in Handel's Alcina. She performed at the Konzerthaus Dortmund in a cycle of Mozart operas conducted by Teodor Currentzis, as Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro and as Dorabella in Così fan tutte.


Paula Murrihy

In concert, she has performed Lieder at the Aldeburgh Festival, the Wexford Festival and at New York's Carnegie Hall, among others. She performed Bach's St Matthew Passion with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and Hindemith's orchestrated song cycle Das Marienleben with the Real Filharmonía de GaliciaSymphony No. 6, a commission of the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Zinman. She took part in a 2017 recital with songs for voice, viola and piano in the Sendesaal of the Hessischer Rundfunk in Frankfurt, singing the two songs by Johannes Brahms and rarely performed works by Adolf Busch and Siegmund von Hausegger.

Murrihy was awarded the Anny Schlemm Prize for young female singers in 2011.

  * Official website
  * Paula Murrihy Operabase.com
  * From Kerry to The Met: Paula Murrihy (interview) Final Note Magazine, 22 March 2017


Gyula Dávid

Gyula Dávid (6 May 1913 – 14 March 1977) was a Hungarian violist and composer.

Dávid studied composition with Zoltán Kodály at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music. He played viola with the Municipal Orchestra in Budapest from 1940 to 1943, and was a conductor at the National Theatre from 1945 to 1949.

Dávid's music can largely be divided into two periods: his early compositions were influenced by folk song, and those from his second period are more chromatic or 12-tone serial. One of the most famous compositions of his first period is his Viola Concerto (1950).

Selected works


Gyula Dávid

Selected works

Orchestral
  * Symphony No. 1 (I. szimfónia) (1947)
  * Tánczene, magyar népdalfeldolgozások (Dance Music, Based on Hungarian Folk Songs) (published 1952)
  * Symphony No. 2 (II. szimfónia) (1957)
  * Symphony No. 3 (III. szimfónia) (1960)
  * Sinfonietta for small orchestra (1961)
  * Színházi zene (Theatrical Music; Theatermusik) (published 1963)
  * Symphony No. 4 (IV. szimfónia) (1970)
  * Festive Overture (Ünnepi előjáték) (1972)
Concertante
  * Concerto (Brácsaverseny) for viola and orchestra (1950)
  * Concerto (Hegedűverseny) for violin and orchestra (published 1970)
  * Concerto (Kürtverseny) for horn and orchestra (published 1976)
Chamber music
  * Wind Quintet No. 1 (I. Fúvósötös) (published 1954)
  * Sonata (Sonata fuvolára és zongorára) for flute and piano (published 1954)
  * Serenade for wind quintet (1955)
  * Preludio for flute and piano (1964)
  * Wind Quintet No. 3 (III. Fúvósötös) (published 1965)
  * Sonatina for viola and piano (1969)
  * Miniature for 3 trumpets, 2 trombones and tuba (published 1971)
  * Wind Quintet No. 4 (IV. Fúvósötös) (published 1971)
  * Pezzo (Piece) for viola and piano (1974)
  * Piano Trio (published 1974)
  * String Quartet No. 2 (published 1976)
  * Sonata for violin solo (published 1983)
Piano
  * Piano Sonata (Szonáta zongorára) (1955)
Vocal
  * A rózsalángolás (The Burning Rose), Chamber Music for female voice, flute and viola (1966); words by István Vas

Discography


Gyula Dávid

Discography

  * Gyula Dávid: Viola Concerto – Pál Lukács (viola); János Ferencsik (conductor); Hungarian State Orchestra; Hungaroton HCD31989
  * Gyula Dávid: Viola Concerto, Violin Concerto, Sinfonietta – Pál Lukács (viola); Dénes Kovács (violin); János Ferencsik, Ervin Lukács, Tamás Breitner (conductors); Hungarian State Orchestra, Budapest Symphony Orchestra; Hungaroton SLPX 12452 (LP)

Grove Music Article on Dávid, Gyula


Marasmarcha

Marasmarcha is a genus of moths in the family Pterophoridae erected by Edward Meyrick in 1886.

Species

As of version 1.1.23.125, the Catalogue of the Pterophoroidea of the World lists the following three species for the genus:

  * Marasmarcha ammonias Meyrick, 1909
  * Marasmarcha asiatica (Rebel, 1902)
  * Marasmarcha bengtssoni (Gielis, 2009)
  * Marasmarcha bonaespei (Walsingham, 1881)
  * Marasmarcha brevirostris (Walsingham, 1915)
  * Marasmarcha cinnamomeus (Staudinger, 1870)
  * Marasmarcha colossa Caradja, 1920
  * Marasmarcha corniculata (Meyrick, 1913)
  * Marasmarcha ehrenbergianus (Zeller, 1841)
  * Marasmarcha empedota (Meyrick, 1908)
  * Marasmarcha fauna (Millière, 1871)
  * Marasmarcha iranica Arenberger, 1999
  * Marasmarcha lamborni Kovtunovich & Ustjuzhanin, 2014
  * Marasmarcha locharcha (Meyrick, 1924)
  * Marasmarcha lunaedactyla (Haworth, 1811)
  * Marasmarcha lydia Ustjuzhanin, 1996
  * Marasmarcha oxydactylus (Staudinger, 1859)
  * Marasmarcha picardi Gibeaux, 1990
  * Marasmarcha pulcher (Christoph, 1885)
  * Marasmarcha rhypodactylus (Staudinger, 1870)
  * Marasmarcha rubriacuta (Gielis, 2009)
  * Marasmarcha samarcandica Gerasimov, 1930
  * Marasmarcha sisyrodes Meyrick, 1921
  * Marasmarcha spinosa Meyrick, 1925
  * Marasmarcha tugaicola Zagulajev, 1986


Laznica, Maribor

Laznica (pronounced [ˈlaːznitsa]) is a settlement on the right bank of the Drava River west of Maribor in northeastern Slovenia. It belongs to the City Municipality of Maribor.

  * Laznica on Geopedia


John Ellor Taylor

For other people named John Taylor, see John Taylor (disambiguation).

John Ellor Taylor (1837, Levenshulme, England–1895, Ipswich, England) was an English popular science writer, journalist and museum curator.

Early life

The eldest son of William Taylor (died 1864), foreman in a Lancashire cotton-factory, and his wife Maria (born Ellor), he was born at Levenshulme, near Manchester, on 21 September 1837. He received no education except some desultory instruction at a school held in the Wesleyan chapel, which he supplemented by private study. About 1850 he obtained a situation as store-boy at the locomotive works of the London and North-Western Railway at Longsight. Two years later he was bound apprentice as a fitter and turner at the same works. Encouraged by the locomotive superintendent, John Ramsbottom, Taylor applied himself to Latin, Greek, and the natural sciences, and when seventeen began to attend evening classes at the Manchester Mechanics' Institute. A year later he became lay preacher for the Wesleyans, but on account of his scientific opinions he had to abandon his notion of becoming a minister.

Career

After a brief stay in the engineer draughtsman's office at the LNWR Crewe works, he obtained in 1863 a position as sub-editor on the Norwich Mercury under Richard Noverre Bacon. Subsequently he became editor of the Norwich People's Journal, or People's Weekly Journal,Mercury, and under him the Journal became a success.

1869 advertisement mentioning the People's Weekly Journal.

From 1858 onwards Taylor was a popular lecturer on science. In conjunction with John Gunn he established the Norwich Geological Society in 1864. In 1869 Taylor was elected to the Geological Society and also founded the Ipswich Science Gossip Society.Ipswich Corporation as curator of the Ipswich Museum. Fellowship of the Linnean Society was granted in June 1873. The duties of this post included the delivery of lectures. He also lectured in many parts of the country, and went on a lecturing tour in Australia during 1885.

With failing health, Taylor found himself in financial difficulties and was compelled to resign his post in 1893.

Works

Taylor was author of works on scientific subjects of a popular character. They include:


John Ellor Taylor

* Geological Essays, and Sketch of the Geology of Manchester, London, 1864.
  * Half-hours at the Seaside, London, 1872; other editions in 1878 and 1890.
  * Half-hours in the Green Lanes, London, 1872; 7th edit. 1890.
  * Mountain and Moor, for the series entitled Natural History Rambles, London, 1879.
  * The Aquarium: its Inhabitants, London, 1876; 2nd edit. 1881.
  * Our Island Continent: a Naturalist's Holiday in Australia, London, 1886.
  * In and About Ancient Ipswich London: Jarrold & Sons, 1888

He was also editor of Hardwicke's Science Gossip, to which he contributed, from 1872 to 1893, and wrote some twelve papers, mostly on geological subjects, that appeared in scientific journals between 1865 and 1883. He frequently sent articles to the Australasian and other periodicals.

Attribution
  * Woodward, Bernard Barham (1898). "Taylor, John Ellor" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 55. London: Smith, Elder & Co. "["Proc. Linn. Soc." 1872–3, p. xlviii; "Science Gossip", new ser. ii. 210, with portrait; information kindly supplied by his brother William and his daughter Maud Taylor; "East Anglian Daily Times", 30 Sept. 1895; "Brit. Mus." Cat.; Roy. Soc. Cat.]"


Gregory Mulamba

Gregory Mulamba (born 31 August 1986) is a South African soccer player who played for Austin Aztex in the USL.

Career

Amateur

Mulamba enjoyed a seven-year spell with USL PDL side Laredo Heat from 2007 to 2014.

Professional

Mulamba signed his first professional contract with United Soccer League side Austin Aztex in January 2015, before been loaned out to league rivals Oklahoma City Energy in March 2015.

  * OKC Energy bio
  * Austin Aztex bio


Franco Frigo

Frigo in 2014

Franco Frigo (born 13 August 1950, in Cittadella) is an Italian politician from Veneto.

A long-time Christian Democrat, he was President of the Province of Padua from 1985 to 1990. He was first elected to the Regional Council of Veneto in 1990 and in the midst of the Tangentopoli scandals he was briefly President of Veneto (1992–1993). He returned in the Regional Council in 2000 and was re-elected in 2005. He retired in 2010, after an unsuccessful bid to become member of the European Parliament in 2009.European Parliament, succeeding to Debora Serracchiani.


Emika (disambiguation)

Emika is an English singer from Milton Keynes.

Emika may also refer to:

  * Emika, Arizona
  * Emika (album)

People with the given name

  * Emika Kamieda (上枝 恵美加, born 1994), member of Japanese idol group NMB48
  * Emika Yoshida (吉田 恵美可, born 1985), Japanese javelin thrower


Jan Andrykiewicz

Jan Tadeusz Andrykiewicz (born 14 June 1953) is a Polish farmer and politician from the Polish People's Party. He served as member of the Sejm from 1993 to 1997 and was a candidate for the European Parliament in 2004.


Lankasoma

Lankasoma, is a genus of millipedes of the family Lankasomatidae. It contains 5 described species, all are endemic to Sri Lanka.

Species

  * Lankasoma anderssoni
  * Lankasoma brincki
  * Lankasoma cederholmi
  * Lankasoma oreites
  * Lankasoma mahleri


Paula Newby-Fraser

Paula Newby-Fraser (born 2 June 1962 in Harare) is an Ironman triathlete and duathlete.

Biography

Newby-Fraser was born in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and raised in South Africa, where she was a nationally ranked swimmer as a child. She won the Ironman World Championship in Hawaii 8 times: 1986, 1988–1989, 1991–1994, and 1996. Because of her unprecedented winning streak, she is also referred to as "The Queen of Kona".

Over 12 years, she won 21 of 26 Ironman races she entered around the globe, and dozens of shorter races as well.

Newby-Fraser won 24 Ironman races overall between 1986 and 2002. In the 1990s, she also competed in long distance duathlons like the PowerMan Zofingen in Switzerland and the 1990 World Duathon Championships in Palm Springs, USA. She defeated Liz Downing.

Among numerous other awards, the United States Sports Academy named her as one of the top five professional women athletes of the last 25 years (1972–1997). Paula Newby-Fraser held the Ironman Women's world record of 8:50:28, until 2008-07-13, when Yvonne van Vlerken of the Netherlands posted a time of 8:45:48. Newby-Fraser is regarded as an icon for the Ironman distance in triathlon.

In 1991, Newby-Fraser appeared with the cycling master John Howard, in John Howard's Lessons In Cycling video produced by New & Unique Videos of San Diego, California. Newby-Fraser demonstrated the cycling technique called "The Hot Stop".

John Howard instructs Paula Newby-Fraser, Encinitas, California, 1991

Newby-Fraser demonstrates road racing techniques in John Howard's Lessons in Cycling videotape, Encinitas, California, 1991

Later in her career, Newby-Fraser began running ultramarathons, which are running races of 50 km or more. At the Ridgecrest High Desert 50k in April 1997, she won with a new course record of 4 hours and 6 minutes.


Gyula Cseszneky

The native form of this personal name is Cseszneky Gyula István. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

Vitéz Count Gyula István Cseszneky de Milvány et Csesznek (Hungarian: vitéz cseszneki és milványi gróf Cseszneky Gyula István; 28 June 1914 – after 1970) was a Hungarian aristocrat, poet, cavalry officer who took part in the Hungarian reannexation of Northern Transylvania, and served as aide-de-camp to King Tomislav II of Croatia. He was also involved in anti-Nazi conspiracies and played an important role in the rescue of the European Jews.

Early life

Gyula Cseszneky's father was an inventor and impoverished aristocrat, a member of the House of Cseszneky, while his mother was the only daughter and heir of a wealthy grain merchant with extended commercial links throughout Austria-Hungary and the Balkans. After World War I, most of their properties were confiscated by the Serbian government, and then his father's sudden death even worsened their hardships.

Their financial difficulties notwithstanding, Gyula excelled at school, and showed a great interest in literature and poetry. His family encouraged him to become a Roman Catholic priest, however, he shortly changed his mind and as a holder of the Boncompagni family's grant he went to Italy to a military school. In Italy he was introduced to the cultural élite and high society by an old family friend and senator of the Kingdom of Italy, Count Enrico San Martino di Valperga. Fascinated by the Italian language and culture, the young Hungarian cadet translated into his native language several poems of Gabriele D'Annunzio. Cseszneky admired the Italian poet, and probably his subsequent adventure in the Balkans was inspired by D'Annunzio's Regency of Carnaro in Fiume.

World War II

Northern Transylvania


Gyula Cseszneky

World War II

Northern Transylvania

In 1940 after the Second Vienna Award as a Hungarian reserve officer, he took part in the occupation and reintegration of Northern Transylvania. For his braveness showed during the marching, Miklós Horthy, Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary bestowed upon him the title Vitéz and awarded him the Commemorative Medal for the Liberation of Transylvania and the Medal For Bravery.

Aide-de-camp to the King of Croatia

In 1941 after the collapse of Yugoslavia, the Independent State of Croatia was established and following negotiations between Italy and the representatives of the new state, Italian King Victor Emmanuel III's nephew Aimone, Duke of Spoleto was elected King of Croatia under the regnal name Tomislav II. Gyula Cseszneky who spoke fluent Croatian, Italian, German and Hungarian, and had also met Prince Aimone during his years in Rome, was appointed aide-de-camp and privy counsellor to the new monarch. Nevertheless, since the King did not actually occupy his throne in Zagreb, Count Cseszneky, whose titles of nobility had just been confirmed, deeply disappointed by the brutality of the Ustasha regime, left the service.

Against National Socialism

Count Gyula István Cseszneky de Milvány et Csesznek was a conservative monarchist with strong anti-communist persuasion, however, he always despised Nazism and antisemitism. One of his sisters was married to a Hungarian Jew who later became a victim of The Holocaust.

Cseszneky also reportedly saved the life of several Jews in Croatia and Hungary. After the war his merits were recognized in Israel.

Count Cseszneky was aware of King Tomislav's secret plan to make a separate peace agreement with the Allied Forces, and he hoped that opening a route for an Allied intervention in the Balkans would secure freedom not only for Macedonians, but also for Croatia and Hungary while saving them from the Red Army. Having this in mind, the Count also served as a contact person between Miklós Kállay's Hungarian government and the participants of the Lorković-Vokić coup in Croatia. After Regent Horthy's failed attempt to change side in the war he was searched for by the Gestapo.

Post-war life


Gyula Cseszneky

Post-war life

The end of the war saw him in Budapest. In spite of his anti-Nazi credentials, in Soviet Union-occupied Hungary, Gyula Cseszneky was declared enemy of the working class and was forced into exile. He went with King Tomislav II - then Aimone, Duke of Aosta - to Argentina and later died in Brazil.

  * Official family site
  * Macedonian Monarchist League
  * Gróf Milványi Cseszneky Gyula és Mihály Emlékbizottság


Maraslis House

Maraslis's House is at 4 Pushkinska Street in Odesa.

History

The house was the home of Grigorios Maraslis who was the Mayor of Odesa. He lived here from 1831 to 1907. The house had belonged to his father (1780–1853) who had the same name. It is not known who is the architect, but his father had bought this house in the 1820s.

During the Soviet era the house had a number of uses including as a hospital and an Oncology centre.

The building has a plaque outside that notifies visitors of its significance. There is also a QRpedia code that links to this article.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Maraslis's House.


Espoir FC

Espoir FC may refer to several association football clubs:

  * Espoir FC (Benin)
  * Espoir FC (Niger)
  * Espoir F.C. (Rwanda)
  * Espoir FC de Mutimbuzi, Burundi
  * Espoir de Labé, or Espoir FC, Guinea
  * Espoir Sportif de Jerba Midoun, Tunisia
  * Espoir Tsevie, Togo
  * Espoir de Saint-Louis, a defunct Senegalese club that merged with AS Saint-Louisienne to form ASC Linguère


John Elsum

John Elsum (fl. 1700–1705) was an English author.

Elsum was the author of a collection of 'Epigrams upon the Paintings of the most eminent Masters, Antient and Modern, with Reflexions upon the several Schools of Painting, by J. E., Esq.' (8vo, London, 1700). The similarity of the initials has caused this work to be sometimes ascribed wrongly to John Evelyn.Michael Siloa's 'De Romana Pictura et Sculptura'. Elsum also published in 1703 'The Art of Painting after the Italian Manner, with Practical Observations on the Principal Colours and Directions how to know a Good Picture;' and in 1704 'A Description of the celebrated pieces of Paintings of the most Ancient Masters, in verse.'

He was most likely the John Elsum who matriculated at Queen's College, Oxford in 1667 aged 16, becoming a barrister-at-law at the Inner Temple, London in 1673. His father (a haberdasher named John) bequeathed him the freehold of the Seaven Stars in the Strand, which was leased to Thomas Miller in 1683.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Elsum, John". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

  * Norman E. Land, "John Elsum on Apelles and Alexander the Great," Source: Notes in the History of Art, 34, 2 (2014), pp. 1–3.


Gregory Orr (poet)

Gregory Orr (born 1947 in Albany, New York, United States) is an American poet.

Gregory Orr speaking at Plymouth Congregational Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota on Monday, April 9, 2018.

Featured on National Public Radio's This I Believe, Orr has been the recipient of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation's Guggenheim Fellowship and the National Endowment for the Arts's fellowship, and of Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

In 2014 he published an opinion piece in the Sunday Magazine of The New York Times about accidentally killing his brother in a hunting accident in response to the fatal shooting with an Uzi machine gun of a gun instructor by a 9 year old in Arizona.

Selected works

Poetry

  * Burning the Empty Nests (Harper & Row, 1973)
  * Gathering the Bones Together (Harper & Row, 1975)
  * The Red House (Harper & Row, 1980)
  * We Must Make a Kingdom of It (Wesleyan University Press, 1986)
  * New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan University Press, 1988)
  * City of Salt (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995)
  * Orpheus & Eurydice (Copper Canyon Press, 2001)
  * The Caged Owl: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2002)
  * Concerning the Book That Is the Body of the Beloved (Copper Canyon Press, 2005)
  * How Beautiful the Beloved (Copper Canyon Press, 2009)
  * River Inside the River (W. W. Norton & Company, 2013)
  * The Last Love Poem I Will Ever Write (W. W. Norton & Company, 2019)

Criticism

  * A Primer for Poets and Readers of Poetry (W.W. Norton & Company, 2018)
  * Stanley Kunitz: An Introduction to Poetry (Columbia University Press, 1985)
  * Richer Entanglements: Essays and Notes on Poetry and Poems (University of Michigan Press, 1993)
  * Poets Teaching Poets: Self and the World (University of Michigan Press, 1996) (edited by Voigt and Orr)
  * Poetry as Survival (University of Georgia Press, 2002)

Memoir

  * The Blessing (Milkweed Editions, 2019 revised reissue)


Franco Flores (footballer, born 1987)

For other people named Franco Flores, see Franco Flores.

Franco Daniel Flores (born 9 July 1987) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Deportivo Madryn.

Career

Gimnasia y Esgrima of La Plata were Flores' opening senior career club, they had signed him from Academia Ernesto Duchini.Primera División but was a professional with them for three years.Argentino of Torneo Argentino B.Concepción del Uruguay's Gimnasia y Esgrima became his third employers in 2009, he went on to score three times - one in each of his three seasons - across seventy-six fixtures for the club.Boca Unidos (Primera B Nacional) and Guillermo Brown (Torneo Argentino A) stints subsequently occurred, along with five goals.

After spending the 2014 campaign in tier four with Las Palmas, Flores joined Gimnasia y Tiro in January 2015.Altos Hornos Zapla and Alvarado in the 2015 Torneo Federal A.Villa Dálmine.Instituto.Agropecuario.

Mitre became Flores' tenth different club in August 2020.

Career statistics


Franco Flores (footballer, born 1987)

Career statistics

As of 28 August 2020. Club statistics
Club             Season   League              Cup   League Cup  Continental  Other  Total
Division         Apps     Goals               Apps  Goals       Apps         Goals  Apps   Goals  Apps  Goals  Apps  Goals
Argentino        2008–09  Torneo Argentino B  6     0           0            0      —      —      0     0      6     0
Boca Unidos      2012–13  Primera B Nacional  24    1           1            0      —      —      0     0      25    1
Guillermo Brown  2013–14  Torneo Argentino A  30    4           0            0      —      —      1     0      31    4
Las Palmas       2014     Torneo Argentino B  11    1           0            0      —      —      0     0      11    1
Gimnasia y Tiro  2015     Torneo Federal A    18    1           0            0      —      —      6     1      24    2
Guillermo Brown  2016     Primera B Nacional  17    0           0            0      —      —      0     0      17    0
2016–17          36       0                   0     0           —            —      0      0      36    0
Total            53       0                   0     0           —            —      0      0      53    0
Villa Dálmine    2017–18  Primera B Nacional  24    1           0            0      —      —      1     0      25    1
Instituto        2018–19  8                   0     0           0            —      —      0      0     8      0
2019–20          18       0                   0     0           —            —      0      0      18    0
Total            26       0                   0     0           —            —      0      0      26    0
Mitre            2020–21  Primera B Nacional  0     0           0            0      —      —      0     0      0     0
Career total     193      8                   1     0           —            —      7      1      201   9

  * Franco Flores at Soccerway


Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker

Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker (born 25 June 1939) is a German scientist and politician (SPD). He was a member of the German Bundestag and served as co-president of the Club of Rome jointly with Anders Wijkman 2011 – 2019.

Family

A member of the prominent Weizsäcker family, he is the son of physicist and philosopher Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker and nephew of former German president Richard von Weizsäcker. Since 1969, he is married to Christine von Weizsäcker. Together, they have five children, including MEP Jakob von Weizsäcker.

Youth and education

Born in Zürich, Switzerland, Weizsäcker spent his childhood in Zürich and Göttingen. In 1966, he graduated from Hamburg University with a Diplom in physics. In 1968, he obtained his PhD in biology from Freiburg University.

Career

In 1972, he was appointed full professor of biology at Essen University. In 1975, he was recruited as president of the then newly founded University of Kassel. In 1981, he joined the United Nations in New York as director at the UN Center for Science and Technology. From 1984 to 1991 he headed the Institute for European Environmental Policy in Bonn. In 1991, Weizsäcker became founding president of the Wuppertal Institute, soon establishing itself as a leading environmental think tank.

In 1998, he was elected a member of the German Bundestag for the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and re-elected in 2002. As a legislator, he chaired the select committee on globalization (2000–2002) and the environment committee (2002–2005). After his decision not to run in the 2005 election, he became Dean of the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara.Freiburg University.

A bestselling author in Germany, his English language books include Earth Politics (1994), Factor Four: Doubling Wealth, Halving Resource Use (1995), Factor 5 (2009) and Limits to Privatization (2005).

Other activities

  * Commerzbank, Member of the Sustainability Advisory Board (since 2022)

Awards and honours


Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker

Awards and honours

  * 2000 – Honorary doctorate of Sōka University
  * 2001 – Takeda Award
  * 2008 – German Environmental Prize
  * 2009 – Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
  * 2011 – Theodor Heuss Prize
  * 2012 – Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg
  * Honorary Councillor of the World Future Council
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker.
  * Website of Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker


New Centre (Latvia)

New Centre (Latvian: Jaunais Centrs, JC; Russian: Но́вый центр) was a centre-left political party in Latvia. In 2005, the JC entered the Harmony Centre coalition, which won 17 seats in the 2006 election. It merged into the Harmony party in 2010.

Election results

Legislative elections

Election  Party leader       Performance  Rank   Government
Votes     %                  ± pp         Seats  +/–
2006      Sergey Dolgopolov  130,887      14.52  New         2 / 100  New  4th  Opposition

  * jaunaiscentrs.lv (in Russian and Latvian)


Lankar of Callisto

Lankar of Callisto is a science fantasy novel by American writer Lin Carter, the sixth in his Callisto series. It was first published in paperback by Dell Books in June 1975.

Plot summary

Throughout the series, author Lin Carter has portrayed himself as the recipient and editor of the manuscripts of protagonist Jonathan Dark (Jandar), teleported from the Jovian moon Callisto (moon) (or Thanator, as its inhabitants call it) to the ruined Cambodian city of Arangkhôr. In this volume he finally travels to Cambodia, hoping to learn what became of Jandar after the conclusion of the last volume of his memoirs, Mind Wizards of Callisto.

Once in Arangkhôr Carter accidentally falls into the well-like teleportation device himself, and is duly transported to the jungle moon as Jandar had been. A literal babe in the woods, he is hardly cut out to become an interplanetary hero; indeed, he spends much of his sojourn on Thanator mooning like a tourist over its extraordinary sights, likening them to wonders of which he has read or seen portrayed in various works of fantastic literature and art.

Carter is soon taken in hand by an othode, a forest creature with the personality of a faithful dog, which becomes his companion and protector against the local perils. It defends him against a Vastodon and later saves him from an immense spiderweb. Carter acquires another companion in the native boy Tarin, who had also been trapped in the web, and an abbreviated native-style name, "Lankar," which Tarin finds easier to pronounce.

They subsequently encounter warriors from Shondakar, the kingdom of Jandar's love interest Princess Darloona, and join the expedition against the hidden city of Kuur, lair of the evil Mind Wizards who hold the hero captive. Carter's othode even manages to uncover the secret entry to the city, but Carter himself is caught and imprisoned with Jandar.


Lankar of Callisto

All comes out well, as they are rescued by Tarin and in a climactic battle the Mind Wizards are almost all killed. (One is later revealed to have escaped, to permit sequel possibilities.) At the end of the story Carter manages to catch the return beam to Earth, content to resume his role as redactor, rather than participant, in Jandar's adventures.

Reception

Den Valdron, assessing the series in ERBzine, calls the book "an odd novel, more travelogue than adventure, and Carter's constant references to other works of fiction are a bit annoying ... [and suggest] a painful lack of imagination." He finds the plot and action thin, and the author an inadequate action hero, nothing that "the 'dog' that adopts him does practically all the work." His ultimate judgment is that "Lankar of Callisto is frankly embarrassing to read, what with its endless references to others' works, the obvious self consciousness and 'tweeness' of the author, and the fact that just about everything interesting happens offstage and to other people. It's an interesting conceit, but sadly it fails."

  * Fantastic Fiction entry
  * Lankar of Callisto title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database


Regenerationism

Regenerationism (Spanish: Regeneracionismo) was an intellectual and political movement in late 19th century and early 20th century Spain. It sought to make objective and scientific study of the causes of Spain's decline as a nation and to propose remedies. It is largely seen as distinct from another movement of the same time and place, the Generation of '98. While both movements shared a similar negative judgment of the course of Spain as a nation in recent times, the regenerationists sought to be objective, documentary, and scientific, while the Generation of '98 inclined more to the literary, subjective and artistic.

The most prominent representative of Regenerationism was the Aragonese politician Joaquín Costa with his maxim "School, larder and double-lock the tomb of El Cid" ("Escuela, despensa y doble llave al sepulcro del Cid"): that is, look to the future and let go of the grand triumphal narrative that begins with El Cid.

Origin


Regenerationism

Origin

The word regeneración entered the Spanish language in the early 19th century as a medical term, the antonym of corrupción (corruption); over time it became a metaphor for the opposite of political corruption. It became a new expression of the longstanding patriotic concern with the decline of Spain, a concern first expressed by the Arbitristas in the 16th and 17th centuries, then by Enlightenment thinkers and Bourbon reformers in the 18th century, sometimes satirized in the form of so-called Proyectismo ("Project-ism") attacked by José Cadalso in his Cartas marruecas ("Moroccan Letters"). But late 19th century Regenerationism was specifically a reaction against the political system founded by Cánovas under the Bourbon restoration. Under Cánovas system, alternation between conservative and liberal parties was guaranteed by rigged elections. This made the late 19th century, after the last of the Carlist Wars, a period of an illusory stability sustained on the basis of massive political corruption. This false stability hid, for a time, the misery of the common people, the poor economic distribution of Spain's belated industrial revolution, caciquism, and the triumph of an economic and political oligarchy. Only Catalonia and the Basque Country had seen the sustained rise of an industrial capitalist bourgeoisie (early industrialization in Andalusia having largely failed). With the end of feudalism and, in particular, the fraud-ridden expropriation of ecclesiastical properties (see, for example, Ecclesiastical Confiscations of Mendizábal), and the failure of land reform efforts, practically all of Spain's potentially productive farmland was under unproductive use in latifundia (large estates). Wages were low and many Spaniards were day laborers living on the edge of hunger.

Regenerationism was strongly influenced by Krausism, the philosophy of Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, which proclaimed freedom of conscience. Introduced into Spain by Julián Sanz del Río, Krausism was very influential among liberal reformers in that country throughout the 19th century (combining with positivism in the latter portion of the century). Today, Regenerationism survives mostly as a component of Aragonese nationalism, for which it has long provided an ideological foundation.

Magazines


Regenerationism

Magazines

The Regenerationist intellectuals wished to form a new, authentic idea of Spain, to which end they attempted to expose the deceptions of official Spain by disseminating studies in widely circulated magazines. Many of these predated those publications associated with the Generation of '98. The first was the Revista Contemporánea (1875–1907), founded by José del Perojo. Among its initial collaborators were numerous scholars associated with the Krausist Institución Libre de Enseñanza (Free Institute of Instruction), an independent institution of higher education founded in Madrid in 1876. Among these were Rafael Altamira, Julián Sanz del Río, Rafael María de Labra, and Urbano González Serrano, who imported contemporary European aesthetic and philosophical currents and propagated them within Spain breaking links with Spanish cultural tradition. Another prestigious publication was La España Moderna (1889–1914). Founded by José Lázaro Galdiano, it sought to be Spain's Revue des deux mondes. Like Revista Contemporánea, it sought to be cosmopolitan, European, and contemporary. Among its collaborators were Ramiro de Maeztu and Miguel de Unamuno. Another Regenerationist magazine was Nuevo Teatro Crítico ("New Critical Theater"), written almost entirely by literary theorist Emilia Pardo Bazán, who was Europeanist as well as sincerely feminist.

Regenerationist writers

The Regenerationist writers published studies and essays that denounced the corrupt Canovist system. This was given particular evidence and impetus by the defeat of Spain's technically obsolete military in the Spanish–American War of 1898, when Spain lost virtually all that remained of its colonial empire (losing Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines and several smaller island possessions).

Statue of Joaquín Costa in Zaragoza.

The way had been somewhat prepared by Lucas Mallada's Los males de la patria y la futura revolución española ("The ills of the country and the future Spanish revolution", 1890) and Ricardo Macías Picavea's El problema nacional ("The national problem"), as well as Krausist attacks on illiteracy and official state pedagogy, most notably as led by the Institución Libre de Enseñanza directed by Francisco Giner de los Ríos.


Regenerationism

The most important author (and political figure) of this movement was Joaquín Costa. Colectivismo agrario en España ("Agrarian Collectivism in Spain", 1898) and Oligarquía y caciquismo como la forma actual de gobierno en España ("Oligarchy and caciquism as the current form of the Spanish government", 1901).

Later, a constellation of authors would follow Costa's road. Rafael Altamira (1866–1951), from Alicante, wrote Psicología del pueblo español ("Psychology of the Spanish people", 1902), where he conceived patriotism as a spiritual concept innate in peoples. Other past authors claimed as proto-Regenerationists were Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, Francisco de Quevedo, Benito Jerónimo Feijoo, and others.

Lucas Mallada, Aragonese like Costa, strongly criticized the Idearium español proposed by Ángel Ganivet and addressed French Hispanophobia as a grave evil, countered somewhat by German Hispanophilia. He defended Spanish activity in the Americas and believed that its reputation had improved, despite inadequate attention to its own affairs. He rejected the pessimism of Ricardo Macías Picavea (1847–1899) in the latter's El problema nacional. Rejecting Macías Picavea's call for a dictatorship, he sympathized instead with the 18th century satirist Juan Pablo Forner and with Joaquín Costa, who sought to reform Spain's democracy. He separated national life from the mere poor example set by its leaders, and summarized the national failings as:

 1. lack of patriotism
 2. self-contempt
 3. absence of common interest
 4. lack of a concept of independence
 5. undervaluing tradition

Similar views can be found in the work of the Castilian-Leonese writer José María Salaverría (1873–1940), author of Vieja España ("Old Spain", 1907).


Regenerationism

The ideals and proposals of the Regenerationists were seized upon by conservative politicians such as Francisco Silvela, whose famous article "Sin pulso" ("Without a pulse") was published in El Tiempo 16 August 1898, and Antonio Maura, who saw Regenerationism as a sufficient vehicle for his political aspirations. At the same time, Regenerationism was equally taken up by liberal politicians such as Santiago Alba, José Canalejas and Manuel Azaña. Benito Pérez Galdós assimilated Regenerationism to his initial Krausism in the final works of his Episodios nacionales and even the dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera appropriated some of Costa's discourse, particularly his call for an "iron surgeon" to accomplish urgently needed national reforms. He brought to fruition at least one of Costa's dreams: a national hydrological plan. But the figures who most prominently prolonged the current of Regenerationism until the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936 were such writers as Juan Pío Membrado Ejerique, Julio Senador Gómez, Constancio Bernaldo de Quirós, Luis Morote, Ramiro de Maeztu, Pedro Corominas, Adolfo Posada, and José Ortega y Gasset.

  * El regeneracionismo político. TEMA 8- La Crisis de la Restauración (1902-1923), youtube.com, (00:00-26:39) 26 minutes(Spanish)


Gyula Bezerédi

Statue of Washington by Gyula Bezerédi

The native form of this personal name is Bezerédi Gyula. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

Gyula Bezerédi (1858–1925) was a prolific Hungarian sculptor, best remembered in the United States for his 1906 statue of George Washington in Budapest.

Media related to Gyula Bezerédi at Wikimedia Commons

  * His works on google


Marasmarcha oxydactylus

Marasmarcha oxydactylus is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Austria France and Italy. In Europe, the northern limit of the range are the Austrian Alps. It is also found in North Africa.

The wingspan is 18–23 mm.

The larvae feed on round-leaved restharrow (Ononis rotundifolia).


Espolla

Espolla is a municipality in the comarca of Alt Empordà, Girona, Catalonia, Spain.

Climate


Espolla

Climate data for Espolla, Spain (2007-2016 averages and extremes)
Month                                                              Jan     Feb     Mar     Apr     May     Jun     Jul      Aug      Sep     Oct     Nov     Dec     Year
Record high °C (°F)                                                23.6    26.5    26.9    29.7    32.1    35.8    38.7     39.7     36.2    34.1    27.9    22.9    39.7
                                                                   (74.5)  (79.7)  (80.4)  (85.5)  (89.8)  (96.4)  (101.7)  (103.5)  (97.2)  (93.4)  (82.2)  (73.2)  (103.5)
Average high °C (°F)                                               13.9    14.0    16.4    19.9    23.2    27.6    30.6     30.5     27.1    22.5    17.2    14.3    21.4
                                                                   (57.0)  (57.2)  (61.5)  (67.8)  (73.8)  (81.7)  (87.1)   (86.9)   (80.8)  (72.5)  (63.0)  (57.7)  (70.6)
Daily mean °C (°F)                                                 8.4     8.5     11.1    14.1    17.4    21.5    24.1     23.9     20.7    16.8    12.0    8.8     15.6
                                                                   (47.1)  (47.3)  (52.0)  (57.4)  (63.3)  (70.7)  (75.4)   (75.0)   (69.3)  (62.2)  (53.6)  (47.8)  (60.1)
Average low °C (°F)                                                3.0     3.1     5.8     8.3     11.7    15.2    17.3     17.4     14.5    11.4    7.0     3.6     9.9
                                                                   (37.4)  (37.6)  (42.4)  (46.9)  (53.1)  (59.4)  (63.1)   (63.3)   (58.1)  (52.5)  (44.6)  (38.5)  (49.7)


Espolla

Record low °C (°F)                                                 −5.6    −6.8    −5.4    1.0     4.2     9.8     10.3     11.1     6.6     −0.8    −5.9    −6.2    −6.8
                                                                   (21.9)  (19.8)  (22.3)  (33.8)  (39.6)  (49.6)  (50.5)   (52.0)   (43.9)  (30.6)  (21.4)  (20.8)  (19.8)
Average precipitation mm (inches)                                  29.7    36.1    67.8    46.3    71.8    39.0    21.0     29.7     53.6    79.9    109.2   36.8    620.9
                                                                   (1.17)  (1.42)  (2.67)  (1.82)  (2.83)  (1.54)  (0.83)   (1.17)   (2.11)  (3.15)  (4.30)  (1.45)  (24.46)
Source: Servei Meterològic de Catalunya


Espolla

* Government data pages (in Catalan)


John Ellys (Caius)

John Ellys

Sir John Ellys or Ellis (1634?–1716) was an English academic, Master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge from 1703.

Early life

He was born at Huntingfield, into a well-known East Anglian family; the Ellyses of Great Yarmouth, his relations, are mentioned for example in the Journal of Rowland Davies,Anthony Ellys was a great-nephew, son of Anthony Ellys who was mayor there.Raveningham or Frostenden, with two brothers, Anthony and Thomas.The Perlustration of Great Yarmouth by Charles John Palmer gives his mother as Mary Barre of Syleham.

Fellow and associate of Newton

After studying in a number of Suffolk schools, Ellys matriculated at Caius in 1648, aged 14. He graduated B.A. in 1652, and M.A. in 1655. He was then a Fellow of Caius from 1659 and in 1703 (N.S.) became Master,James Halman, who had died.

Ellys was a personal friend of Isaac Newton.

Ellys was also noted as a leading tutor across the university, popular and distinguished; and was not ordained, but held the degree of M.D.Henry Wharton, was taught by Newton,Samuel Clarke, and Ellys had him translate the Traité of Jacques Rohault (from French to Latin, creating a textbook).William Whiston also claimed credit for the Newtonian edge to Clarke's Rohault translation (which however went to several editions); and Richard Laughton was thought by W. W. Rouse Ball to have been another Newtonian influence on Clarke. Ellys, however, is now considered a more likely source.

After Thomas Plume died in 1704, Ellys, Newton and John Flamsteed were asked to set up the Plumian Chair. Ellys pushed for the initial appointment of Roger Cotes.Trinity College.


John Ellys (Caius)

Ellys was Vice-Chancellor of the university at the time of Queen Anne's visit in 1705, and was knighted by her with Newton and James Montagu.Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, brother of James Montagu. Ellys, however, is considered non-political.Cartesian and Newtonian scientific advances, there is little to indicate Ellys's views: it has been suggested that he was a Tory, and not concerned with Newton's theology.general election of 1710.

When Whiston was deprived of the Lucasian Chair, Ellys lined up with Richard Bentley in trying to make Christopher Hussey his successor in 1711. Newton remained above the fray, and the outsider Nicholas Saunderson was narrowly elected.

Later life

As Master of Caius Ellys tried, from 1709, to exercise a veto in college business, causing the Visitor to intervene in 1714.

Ellys was buried in the Church of St Cyriac and St Julitta, Swaffham Prior.Francis Blomefield states he was in his 86th year.Broadwey in Dorset for the college in his lifetime, but left nothing further in his will.Thomas Gooch was a former tutorial pupil of his.


Giovanni Jacopo Spada

Giovanni Jacopo Spada (1680 – 1774) was an Italian naturalist and pioneering geologist, born in Verona, who served for many years as archipresbyter at Graz in Styria.Corporum lapidefactorum agri veronensis catalogus quæ apud Joan. Jacobum Spadam Gretianae Archipresbyterum Aasservantur A first version, now very rare, had been published in 1739. His dissertation of 1737 at the University of Verona asserted that fossils, then known as petrifications, of recognizably marine species, to be found in the mountains near Verona, were neither "sports of Nature" nor the products of the biblical Great Deluge, but antediluvian.Museum Veronense hoc est antiquarum inscriptionum atque anaglyphorum... (Verona 1749).

Though Spada is barely remembered today, he was commemorated in the snail Candidula spadae, described by Pietro Calcara in 1845.


Franco Ferrari (footballer, born 1995)

For other people named Franco Ferrari, see Franco Ferrari (disambiguation).

Franco Ferrari (born 10 August 1995) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as forward for Serie C Group A club Vicenza. He also holds Italian citizenship.

Club career

He made his Serie C debut for Tuttocuoio on 22 January 2017 in a game against Lupa Roma.

On 3 August 2018, he joined Brescia on loan.

On 14 January 2019, he moved on another loan, to Piacenza.

On 3 August 2019, Ferrari joined Serie C club Bari on loan from Napoli until 30 June 2020.

On 30 January 2020 he moved on loan to Livorno.

On 3 October 2020 he was loaned to Como.

On 3 August 2021, he joined Pescara on loan.

On 22 July 2022, Ferrari signed a three-year contract with Vicenza.

Personal life

Ferrari's brother, Gianluca, is also a professional footballer.

  * Franco Ferrari at Soccerway


Ernst Volland

Ernst Volland (born 1946 in Bürgstadt/Miltenberg) is a German artist, photographer, cartoonist, gallerist, blogger, curator and writer living in Berlin. His main areas of endeavour are comics and comic photos; as well, he has published "fake art". His agency is named "Voller Ernst", an ironic term which may be translated as "total seriousness".

Selected publications

  * Plakate-Karikaturen. Atelier im Bauernhaus, Fischerhude 1977, ISBN 3-88132307-4.
  * With Stefan Aust: Schöne Ansichten. Das Ernst Volland-Buch. Rasch und Röhring, Hamburg 1987, ISBN 3-89136-123-8.
  * Felix ganz allein auf der Welt. Ravensburger, 1989.
  * With Peter Huth: Dies Buch ist pure Fälschung. Von A bis Z: Alles Fälschung. Zweitausendeins, Frankfurt 1989.
  * With Evgenij A. Chaldej (Hrsg.): Von Moskau nach Berlin – Bilder des russischen Fotografen Jewgeni Chaldej. Nicolai, Berlin 1994.
  * Gott und andere Götter. With einem Fake auf der Suche nach Gott. Verlag M, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-9812257-1-6.
  * Das Banner des Sieges. Story, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-929829-91-4.
  * Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung (Hrsg.): Eingebrannte Bilder. Katalog. 2009, ISBN 978-3-86928-004-2.
  * Nachwort in: Manfred Günther Wörterbuch Jugend – Alter. Berlin 2010.
  * Genussvoll verzichten. Buch, Verlag Büchse Der Pandora 2013, ISBN 978-3-88178-366-8.
  * With David King: John Heartfield: Laughter is a Devastating Weapon. Tate Publishing 2015, ISBN 978-1849761840
  * Stories. Berlin 2016
  * http://ernstvolland.de/en/
  * https://blogs.taz.de/vollandsblog/


New Cathedral, Brescia

Duomo Nuovo: facade

New and old cathedrals of Brescia

Painting by Romanino in the Duomo nuovo.

The Duomo Nuovo or New Cathedral is the largest Catholic church in Brescia, Italy.

History

Construction was begun in 1604 at the site where the paleo-Christian 5th-6th century basilica of San Pietro de Dom was located. The original commission was given to Andrea Palladio, but it was subsequently granted to the architect Giovanni Battista Lantana. He was aided by Pietro Maria Bagnadore.

Work slowly but sporadically restarted on the construction, but the final impetus for completion came in the nineteenth century. The facade was designed by Giovanni Battista and Antonio Marchetti, while the dome, completed only in 1825, was designed by Luigi Cagnola and with its 80 meters is one of the highest in Italy.

The present dome was rebuilt after destruction during the Second World War.Virgin of the Assumption and Saints Peter, Paul, James, and John.

Among the interior works of art are a scenes from the life of the Virgin by Girolamo Romanino (Marriage, Visitation, and Birth) and a Sacrifice of Isaac by Moretto da Brescia.

The interior contains a monument to the Brescian Pope Paul VI, found on the left transept. The statue (1975) is a work by Raffaele Scorzelli.Old Cathedral of Brescia (Duomo Vecchio).

Media related to Duomo nuovo (Brescia) at Wikimedia Commons

45°32′19″N 10°13′19″E / 45.53861°N 10.22194°E


Lankascincus

Lankascincus is a genus of lizards, commonly known as lanka skinks and tree skinks, in the family Scincidae. The genus is endemic to Sri Lanka.

Species

The genus Lankascincus comprises nine species.

  * Lankascincus deignani (Taylor, 1950) – Deignan's tree skink
  * Lankascincus dorsicatenatus (Deraniyagala, 1953)
  * Lankascincus fallax (W. Peters, 1860) – Peters's tree skink
  * Lankascincus gansi Greer, 1991 – Gans's tree skink, Gans's lankaskink
  * Lankascincus merrill L. Wickramasinghe, Vidanapathirana & N. Wickramasinghe, 2020 – Merrill's lanka skink
  * Lankascincus sameerai Kanishka, Danushka & Amarasinghe, 2020 – Sameera's lanka skink
  * Lankascincus sripadensis L. Wickramasinghe, Rodrigo, Dayawansa & Jayantha, 2007 – Sripada forest skink
  * Lankascincus taprobanensis (Kelaart, 1854) – Ceylon tree skink
  * Lankascincus taylori Greer, 1991 – Taylor's tree skink

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Lankascincus.

  * Greer AE (1991). "Lankascincus, a New Genus of Scincid Lizards from Sri Lanka, with Descriptions of Three New Species". Journal of Herpetology 25 (1): 59–64. JSTOR 1564795.
  * Batuwita S, Pethiyagoda R (2007). "Description of a new species of litter skink (Squamata: Scincidae: Lankascincus)". Ceylon Journal of Science (Biological Sciences) 36 (2): 80–87. doi:10.4038/cjsbs.v36i2.482. (Lankascincus greeri, new species).


Regensberg (disambiguation)

Regensberg is a municipality in the district of Dielsdorf in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.

This is not to be confused with similarly named Regensburg, a German city in Bavaria.

Regensberg may also refer to:

  * Regensberg Castle, sometimes referred to Neu-Regensberg, a hill castle in Switzerland built about the mid-13th century
  * Alt-Regensberg Castle, also referred to Altburg, a hill castle which was built about the mid-11th century AD
  * Regensberg family, a family of counts from the Canton of Zürich in Switzerland
  * Regensburg (disambiguation)


Milw0rm

Milw0rm is a group of hacktivistsBhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) in Mumbai, the primary nuclear research facility of India, on June 3, 1998.anti-nuclear weapons agenda and peace message on its hacked websites.

The BARC attack generated heated debate on the security of information in a world prevalent with countries developing nuclear weapons and the information necessary to do so, the ethics of "hacker activists" or "hacktivists," and the importance of advanced security measures in a modern world filled with people willing and able to break into insecure international websites.

The exploit site milw0rm.com and str0ke are unaffiliated with the milw0rm hacker group.

Members

Little is known about the members of milw0rm, which is typical of hacking groups, which often conceal members' identities to avoid prosecution.Internet"

JF went on to achieve a modicum of notoriety when MTV "hacked" its own website intentionally and graffitied the words "JF Was Here" across the page,Scotland Yard.1998 MTV Video Music Awards.

VeNoMouS claimed that he learned to crack into systems from Ehud Tenenbaum, an Israeli hacker known as The Analyzer.

BARC attack

Four days before the incident, the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, the US, Russia, United Kingdom, France and China, denounced both India and Pakistan for unilaterally declaring themselves nuclear weapons states. The day before the attack, Jacques Gansler, US Undersecretary of Defense for acquisition and technology, warned a military conference that teenage hackers posed "a real threat" to national security.

On the night of June 3, 1998, from their workstations on three continents, the group used a US military .mil machineLAN, or local area network, of BARC and gained root access. The center's website, connected to the LAN, and their firewall were not secured enough to prevent the group from entering and gaining access to confidential emails and documents. The emails included correspondence between the center's scientists relating to their development of nuclear weapons and analysis of five recent nuclear tests.


Milw0rm

In the process of the break-in, the multinational group of teenagers – from the United States, United Kingdom and New Zealand – gained access to five megabytes of classified documents pertaining to India's nuclear weapons program.

Milw0rm then came forward with the security flaws they exploited in BARC's system, along with some of the thousands of pages of documents they had lifted from the server, concerning India's last five nuclear detonations.

The group's purpose for the attack was to protest nuclear testing, according to Savec0re, VeNoMouS and JF, in their correspondence with Wired's reporter James Glave.

After the attack Keystroke claimed that the breach had taken "13 minutes and 56 seconds" to execute. Many news organizations reported breathlessly how the teenagers had penetrated a nuclear research facility in "less than 14 minutes." However, examining more closely the hacker's wording and tone in the interview, and especially the specificity of the "56 seconds" claim, it is apparent that Keystroke meant this as a lighthearted answer to the question, "Exactly how long did it take you?". The actual invasion took careful planning, routing through servers throughout the world from three different continents, and took days to execute. An Indian news agency reported that downloading thousands of pages from India's slow servers would have taken much longer than 14 minutes.

Attack aftermath

The security breach was first reported by Wired News. JF and VeNoMouS claimed credit Wired reporter James Glave with documents they had obtained from the BARC servers as proof.

After first denying that any incident had occurred, BARC officials admitted that the center had indeed been hacked and emails had been downloaded. An official at BARC downplayed the severity and importance of the incident,Forbes wrote that perhaps up to 100 hackers had followed milw0rm's footsteps into the BARC servers once they were revealed as insecure.


Milw0rm

Nevertheless, the breach was a severe one and had the potential to cause an incident of international proportions. Forbes called it "potentially the most devastating" hacking incident of 1998.Internet Relay Chat (IRC) chat with John Vranesivich, the founder of hacking news website Anti-Online. Keystroke claimed how if he wanted to, he could have sent threatening emails from the Indian email server to a Pakistani email server. He also claimed that if the group had possessed malicious intentions, the consequences for both south Asian countries could have been catastrophic.

For these reasons, the milw0rm attack caused other groups to heighten their security to prevent invasion by hackers. The U.S. Army announced, without giving evidence as to why they believed this to be the case, that the hacks might have originated in Turkey, noting that "Turkey is the primary conduit for cyber attacks." A senior US official said that the CIA had obtained the material that milw0rm had purloined and was reviewing it—the official did not mention how the CIA obtained this information.

Later, Wired revealed that an Indian national and self-proclaimed terrorist, Khalid Ibrahim, had approached members of milw0rm and other hacker groups on IRC—including Masters of Downloading and the Noid—and attempted to buy classified documents from them. According to savec0re, Ibrahim threatened to kill him if the hacker did not turn over the classified documents in question.Kevin Mitnick that Ibrahim first approached him posing as a family member of an FBI agent who could grant immunity to the members of milw0rm.

The Electronic Disturbance Theater released a statement in support of JF, applauding him for his hacktivism and maintaining that computer break-ins of this sort were not cyber-terrorism as some claim.

The event received wide international coverage, with reports by CNN, MSNBC and the Associated Press in the days following.

Other attacks

One month after the BARC incident, in July 1998, milw0rm hacked the British web hosting company Easyspace, putting their anti-nuclear mushroom cloud message on more than 300 of Easyspace's websites,


Milw0rm

Wired reported that this incident was perhaps the "largest 'mass hack' ever undertaken."United States Department of Defense adviser John Arquilla later wrote that it was one of the largest hacks ever seen.World Cup, Wimbledon, the Ritz Casino, Drew Barrymore, and the Saudi royal family.

While scanning a network for weaknesses, members of the group came across EasySpace, a British company which hosted many sites on one server. Along with members of the fellow hacking group Ashtray Lumberjacks,

It was also reported that milw0rm broke into a Turkish nuclear facility in addition to BARC.

  * Hacktivism
  * 1984 Network Liberty Alliance
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Mirrors of hacked sites

  * BARC hack
  * Mass hack
  * Hacked site
  * Fantasyfootball.co.uk hacked
  * "We Hacked Prince Charles' Bentley!"


Marasinganahalli

Marasinganahalli is a small village in Maddur, Mandya, Karnataka state, India, with a population of around 1400.


Espoir d'Allen

Espoir d'Allen was a French-bred, Irish-trained racehorse who won the 2019 Champion Hurdle.

Background

Espoir d'Allen was a bay horse with a narrow white blaze bred in France by Bruno Vagne. He was sired by the Thoroughbred stallion Voix du Nord out of the AQPS mare Quadanse.

Racing career

2017/2018 season

Espoir d'Allen won the Bar One Racing Juvenile Hurdle at Fairyhouse and the Knight Frank Juvenile Hurdle at Leopardstown Racecourse in the latter part of 2017.

2018/2019 season

In his second season over jumps Espoir d'Allen won the Fishery Lane Hurdle at Naas Racecourse in November and the Irish Independent Hurdle at Limerick Racecourse in December. In January 2019 he took the Limestone Lad Hurdle at Naas. At Cheltenham Racecourse on 12 March he won the Champion Hurdle at odds of 16/1, coming home fifteen lengths clear of his nine opponents.

In August 2019 Espoir d'Allen injured his shoulder after rearing up and falling during an exercise canter. His condition deteriorated and he was euthanised on 23 August.

  * Profile at the Racing Post
  * Career 1-2-3 Colour Chart – Espoir D'Allen


Persicula margotae

Persicula margotae is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Cystiscidae.

Description

The length of the shell attains 8.1 mm.

Distribution

This species is endemic to the Saudi Arabian part of the Red Sea.


Giovanni Lami

Picture of Giovanni Lami (18th century)

The tomb of Giovanni Lami, Church of Santa Croce, Florence

Giovanni Lami (8 November 1697 – 6 February 1770) was an Italian jurist, church historian, and antiquarian.

Early years and education

He was born at Santa Croce sull'Arno (between Pisa and Florence) into a relatively affluent family; his paternal family were merchants of meat products and owned land in Tuscany. Giovanni's father had graduated from the University of Pisa with a degree in medicine

Giovanni enrolled in 1715 to study law at the University of Pisa and obtained his doctorate in 1719. Among his professors and influences there was Luigi Guido Grandi, a Camaldolese mathematician. Upon graduation, he spent a year in the circle of Anton Maria Salvini, an erudite scholar of Classic Greek literature and philosophy.

Career

After a few low-level administrative positions, in 1728 Lami was named librarian of the Biblioteca Pallavicini at Genoa. In this position, he was able to travel to Vienna and meet Apostolo Zeno, Nicolo Pio de Garelli, and Pietro Giannone. Circa 1730, he traveled to Paris, where he was able to experience the new ideas being argued by the Jansenist movement. He also had the opportunity to travel through Netherlands and Flanders. During these travels he published an apologetic defense of the Nicean dogma of the Trinity, in his manuscript De recta Christianorum in eo quod mysterium divinae Trinitatis adtinet sententia, published in Florence in 1733.

In 1732, Lami returned to become librarian at the private Biblioteca Riccardiana, belonging to the wealthy Riccardi family in Florence. The next year he was appointed by the Grand Duke Gian Gastone to a position teaching ecclesiastical history at the University of Florence. Under both these grand-dukes, there was tolerance for scholars voicing a more enlightened attitude towards what should be the accepted cult of Roman Catholicism. For example, Lami, like others such as Muratori in Modena, marshalled a historian and antiquarian research to assessing the likely validity of relics or other venerations.


Giovanni Lami

He was a member of various academic societies in Florence. In the early 1750s, along with Ubaldo Montelatici, he helped found the Accademia dei Georgofili. This group paid special attention to natural sciences and was patronized by Francis I, the first Grand-Duke of the Habsburg-Lorraine dynasty. Lami was admitted into the Accademia della Crusca in August of 1737.

In 1736, Lami began his eighteen-volume Deliciae eruditorum, a "hodge-podge of antiquarian lore" published over a span of decades at Florence.voyage (Hodeporicon) from Florence to his native Santa Croce dell'Arno, describing the chronology of events in the series of towns. All claimed to be a report by two pseudonymous travelers, Charitonis and Hippoliti in a plodding erudite detail.

Lami was the first to describe the Byzantine manuscripts Minuscule 201, Minuscule 362, and Minuscule 370. He also wrote a Memorabilia, dedicated to the illustrious men of his time, and many other works of history and philology.

Lami also started and edited from 1740–1768 an erudite and scholarly journal, Novelle Litterarie, published in Florence and discussing subjects in all fields. The journal had a substantial intra-Florentine subscription census, but never achieved a European appeal such as the competing journal by After 1768, Giuseppe Bencivenni Pelli took his editorial position. Lami was a court theologian and counselor to the Grand Duke of Tuscany.

Outlook and legacy

Lami was known for his contentious wit and subtle anticlerical thought, one anecdote states that showing foreign visitors the Renaissance architectural masterpiece of the Palazzo Medici Riccardi stated: "There behold the cradle of literature" then turning to the college of the Jesuits, "and there behold its tomb."Lami was ultimately a defender of Catholicism, but one influenced by Jansenism, whose closest representatives in Italy were the Oratorians of Saint Philip Neri, but critical of the Jesuits and there official subserviance to the papacy.


Giovanni Lami

Despite not taking ecclesiastical orders, he never married. He died alone at home in Florence on 6 February 1770 and is buried in the church of Santa Croce, Florence. His huge monument, erected in 1772, lies on the south wall close to Galileo and opposite Michelangelo. His Latinised epitaph gives his name as Iovanni Lamio.

Works


Giovanni Lami

Works

  * Deliciae eruditorum seu veterum anectdotum opuscolorum collectanea Io. Lamis collegit illustravit editit, Florence, 1736. Contains Michaelis Glycae Epistolarum pars prima (Papal historical tidbits)
  * Deliciae eruditorum Io. Lamis collegit illustravit editit, Florence, 1737. Contains Historiae Pontificiae et Augustae; Chronicum Pontificum (Papal historical tidbits)
  * Deliciae eruditorum, Volume 4 Io. Lamis collegit illustravit editit, Florence, 1740. Contains Historiae Pontificiae, Pars Secunda; and Chronicon imperatoum Leonis Urbevetani completectens
  * Deliciae eruditorum, Volume 9 Io. Lamis collegit illustravit editit, Florence, 1740. Contains Maximi margunii/ Dionysii catteliani/ Antonii eparchi/ Arsenii monembasiensis epistolae.
  * Deliciae eruditorum, Volume 4 Io. Lamis collegit illustravit editit, Florence, 1740. Contains Nicetae Heracleensis in epistolam I and Corinthios/ Enarrationum Pars I.
  * Deliciae eruditorum, Volume 4 Io. Lamis collegit illustravit editit, Florence, 1740. Contains Historiae Siculae Laur. Bonincontrii, Pars Prima
  * Deliciae eruditorum, Volume 4 Io. Lamis collegit illustravit editit, Florence, 1740. Contains Charitonis et Hippophili Hodoerporici Pars Primi
  * De eruditione Apostolorum, Florence, 1738.
  * Lezioni di antichità toscane, Florence, 1766.
  * Covoni, Zanobi (1783). Elogio funerale dell'innom. d. Giovanni Lami recitato dall'innom. Zanobi Covoni nell'adunanza dell'Accademia della Crusca tenuta il di' 7. settembre 1771 – via Googlebooks.
  * Giovanni Lami
  * Memorabilia at GoogleBooks


False Bay Commando

False Bay Commando was a light infantry regiment of the South African Army. It formed part of the South African Army Infantry Formation as well as the South African Territorial Reserve.

History

Origin

Operations

With the SADF

During this era, the unit was mainly involved in area force protection, cordones and search operations assisting the local police.

With the SANDF

Disbandment

This unit, along with all other Commando units was disbanded after a decision by South African President Thabo Mbeki to disband all Commando Units.Minister of Safety and Security Charles Nqakula.

Unit Insignia

Leadership

Leadership
From  Honorary Colonels           To
From  Commanding Officers         To
From  Regimental Sergeants Major  To

  * South African Commando System


Flag of Elba

The flag of Elba was used during the period of stay of Napoleon Bonaparte as sovereign of the island of Elba, from 4 May 1814 to 26 February 1815. The flag, donated by Napoleon on his arrival on the island, was hoisted on the highest point of Portoferraio on the day of the landing of the emperor on the island. The original flag is kept in the Napoleon residence, Palazzina dei Mulini in Portoferraio. The meaning of the insignia chosen by the Emperor has long been, and continues to be, a matter of debate among historians.

The red band

This is a caricature against Napoleon, who is borne off to Elba in April 1814 by a double-headed eagle representing the Sixth Coalition.

There are different theories about the origin of the red stripe on a white background. One of those is that the red and white colors were chosen from the Polish flag in honor of the Major Jan Paweł Jerzmanowski who followed Napoleon in his exile on Elba. Many authors agree however that Napoleon was inspired by a picture book on flags. The commander of the British frigate HMS Undaunted, Thomas Ussher, which led Napoleon to Elba from Marseille, tells that "Napoleon had with him a book in which were represented all the flags of Tuscany, ancient and modern, and he asked me my opinion on the one he had chosen."Neil Campbell, confirms this version writing in his diary: "it was as exactly as possible an ancient flag of Tuscany."

The Grand Duchy of Tuscany flag

According to some authors, the red stripe on the white field was inspired by the colors of the flag of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany which ruled the island with the House of Medici first and the House of Habsburg-Lorraine after. Robert Christophe mentions that "The Emperor himself designed the flag. During the five days of the journey, he studied some books about Elba which he brought from Fontainebleau. Inspired by the Medici coat of arms, the ancient rulers of the island, he designed a new flag with a white background and a diagonal strip with three golden bees on top. The symbol of Florence would have been appreciated by the people of Elba and the golden bees, memory of the imperial mantle, were intended as a tribute to the soldiers who, under the command of Cambronne, after crossing France, were going to reach Portoferraio 20 days after."


Flag of Elba

The Lordship of Piombino flag

Yet according to other authors, the diagonal band was inspired by a flag of House of Appiano that, first with the Lordship of Piombino, then with Principality of Piombino, ruled the city of Piombino and, as a direct dependent, the island of Elba. This flag is white, divided diagonally by a diagonal checkered band in red and white, starting from the top of the mast. As Vincenzo Mellini Ponçe de Léon wrote, it "reminded the inhabitants of Elba of their first lords, the House of Appiano, which ruled Elba after the collapse of the Republic of Pisa".

Conclusion

Napoleon, most likely, trying to create something new, yet at the same time familiar to the people of Elba, was inspired by the predominant white color present in the House of Medici and the House of Appiano flags, by the red of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine and the House of Appiano flags, and by the diagonal stripe, without diamonds, of the House of Appiano flag.

Flag of the Lordship of Piombino,

Flag of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, House of Medici, 1562-1737

Flag of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, House of Habsburg-Lorraine, 1765-1800 and 1814-1859

The golden bees

Napoleon's coat of arms with golden bees on the mantel

Among the various hypotheses about the meaning of bees, one is that Napoleon wanted to symbolize the unity and hard work of Elba inhabitants. Another one, however, aroused greater foundation, attributes to Napoleon himself the explanation thereof. Speaking with Admiral Thomas Ussher, he said that he chosen the "three bees because they represent the people of Elba that has had three rulers and now, with me, they are finally united under a single banner."

A photograph of a flag made during Napoleon's reign on the island

The bee in the Napoleonic vexillology

The bee was chosen by Napoleon to link the new dynasty to the ancient kingdom of France. Golden bees, being found in 1653 in Tournai in the tomb of Childeric I, father of Clovis I and founder of the Merovingian dynasty in 457, were considered the first emblem of the kings of France.


Flag of Elba

The Polish Cavalry (Chevau-léger)

The Polish Cavalry Squadron Guard of Napoleon on Elba Island - Painting by Jan Chelminski

It is often believed that the flag of Elba has been borrowed from the Polish Cavalry (Chevau-léger), while the opposite is true. All Polish soldiers, who arrived on Elba with Napoleon (Grenadiers, Artillerymen, Cavalrymen of Chevau-léger and Lancers), were assembled under the command of Major Jan Paweł Jerzmanowski, into a single Cavalry Squadron. The squadron assumed the name of Polish Cavalry (Chevau-légers) - Napoleon Squadron - Guard of Napoleon on Elba Island and was given the flag of Elba. Grande Armée during the Hundred Days. There is no trace of the existence of the Squadron before 1814, just as there is no record of the use of the Elba flag by other units of the Polish Cavalry.

The flag of the Polish cavalry is kept at Musée de l'Armée of Paris and below the flag is the following statement:

“Etendard de l’Escadron de Chevau - Légers Polonais”.
Escadron Napoléon - De la Garde de Napoléon a l’Ile d’Elbe
(Don du Prince de la Moskowa le 12 juin 1929).

Current use

Nowadays, the flag of Elba Island can be found in the armorial bearings of the municipalities of Elba towns of Campo nell'Elba, Marciana Marina and Rio and in the armorial bearing of Province of Livorno which consists, in turn, of the coat of arms of the city of Livorno surmounted by a flag of Elba.

  * Principality of Elba
  * This article is based on the corresponding article in Italian Wikipedia.


Nyasa (ritual)

Nyasa (English: placing; literally, "deposit" or "setting down"Hinduism. It involves touching various parts of the body while chanting specific portions of a mantra.sādhaka and yogi.

Each mantra is associated with a specific nyasa. There are various types of nyasas,

The number seven is commonly written before nyasa mantras in ritual handbooks, indicating that the seven bijaksaras (sacred letters) should be recited before the mantra.

Srividya followers practise matruka nyasa.


Lankau (Alster)

Lankau is a small river of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It flows into the Alster near Nahe.

  * List of rivers of Schleswig-Holstein


KKD

KKD may refer to:

  * Kirkcudbrightshire, historic county in Scotland, Chapman code
  * Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc., NYSE stock symbol until 2016
  * Kirkdale railway station, Liverpool, England, National Rail station code


Milutin Uskoković

Milutin Uskoković (Serbian Cyrillic: Милутин Ускоковић; 4 June 1884 – 15 October 1915) was a Serbian short story writer and soldier.

Biography

Milutin Uskoković was born at Užice, Serbia, on 4 June 1884 and killed himself at Kuršumlija in southern Serbia on 15 October 1915 while witnessing the tragic retreat of the Serbian army.

He graduated from University of Geneva's Law School with a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree

Like Veljko Miličević, Uskoković mixed fiction with journalism. He served as a war correspondent embedded with the Serbian army in the Balkans Wars and in World War I. To both journalism and fiction he brought an unusually rich and varied preparation.

As a novelist and short-story writer, Uskoković came to hold definite theories of the purpose and value of fiction, which he set forth in the essays collected after his death. He wrote, "Crtice" (1901) and poems in prose "Pod životom" (1905)

Works

  * Pod životom : crtice, pesme u prozi, pesme, članci o književnosti, 1905
  * Vitae fragmenta,1908
  * Došljaci, 1910
  * Kad ruže cvetaju, 1912
  * Les traites d Union douaniere en droit international, 1910
  * Čedomir Ilić, 1914
  * Dela, 1932
  * Usput, 1978
  * Jovan Skerlić, Istorija nove srpske književnosti (Belgrade, 1914/1921) page 466
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Marasmarcha colossa

Marasmarcha colossa is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in Russia (the West Siberian plain),Turkmenistan.,Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan,Afghanistan and Tajikistan.


Leo Falcam

Leo Amy Falcam (November 20, 1935 – February 12, 2018)Micronesian political figure. He was born in Pohnpei. He served as the first elected Governor of Pohnpei from 1979 to 1983Vice President of Micronesia from May 1997 to May 1999. He then served as the fifth president of the Federated States of Micronesia, holding the position from May 11, 1999, to May 11, 2003. In March 2003 he lost his parliamentary seat during elections, denying him a chance at a second term.

  * Official biography
  * Government of FSM Biography of Leo Falcam


Persid

Persid may refer to:

  * anything of or relating to Persis
  * certain languages of the southwestern branch of the Western Iranian languages


Mongrel Nation

Mongrel Nation is a 3-part series released in 2003 and hosted by Eddie Izzard on the Discovery Channel, examining the ethnic origins of the English.

The three programmes were titled: Invasion, Immigration, and Infusion.

  * Mongrel Nation at IMDb


False Dawn (short story)

"False Dawn" is a short story by Rudyard Kipling. It was first published in the first Indian edition of Plain Tales from the Hills in 1888, and in subsequent editions of that collection.

The story is set on an unnamed 'station', or one of the posts where the British lived during the Raj. It is something of a backwater, "nearly a day's journey" from Lahore; and at the time of the story, "just before the final exodus of the Hill-goers", i.e. at the beginning of the hot season, there are under 20 British in residence. The story concerns Saumarez, a well-paid member of the Indian Civil Service who is "popular with women". He decides to propose marriage to one of a pair of sisters, Maud (the elder) and Edith Copleigh, who do everything together: the gossip of the station is that it will be to Maud, which would be an excellent match. She is prettier than her sister, though they are very alike in figure, look and voice. Saumarez arranges a moonlight picnic for six couples to provide a romantic setting. After midnight, the supper is interrupted by a terrible dust storm, and confusion reigns. In a lull in the storm, the narrator (the usual persona of 'Kipling') hears Edith crying "O my God!". and asking to be taken home. He refuses till daylight, they separate - and then Saumarez says he's proposed to the wrong one. The narrator sees on Maud's face "that look on her face which only comes once or twice in a lifetime - when a woman is perfectly happy and the air is full of trumpets and gorgeously-coloured fire, and the Earth turns into cloud because she loves and is loved." It is Saumarez's duty to wipe that look off her face. 'Kipling' leaves him to it, galloping off to tell Edith: "You have got to come back with me, Miss Copleigh. Saumarez has something to tell you." They return home in the dawn, Maud riding with 'Kipling': "Maud Copleigh did not talk to me at any length."


False Dawn (short story)

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False Dawn
All quotations in this article have been taken from the Uniform Edition of Plain Tales from the Hills published by Macmillan & Co., Limited in London in 1899. The text is that of the third edition (1890), and the author of the article has used his own copy of the 1923 reprint. Further comment, including page-by-page notes, can be found on the Kipling Society's website, at .


Flag of Elbląg

The flag of the city of Elbląg, in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland, is a rectangle divided horizontally into two stripes, white and red, with red stripe being slightly higher. In each stripe, to the left from the centre, is placed a cross pattée with triangular arms, that is of the opposite colour to the stripe. The flag was adopted in 1993.

Design

The flag of Elbląg is a rectangle divided horizontally into two stripes, white on the top, and red on the bottom. The bottom stripe is higher than the upper one. In each stripe, to the left from the centre, is placed a cross pattée with triangular arms, that is of the opposite colour to the stripe. The flag's proportions are not defined in any written document, however the illustration attached to the city by-law shows an aspect ratio of 15:22, height to width and 8:7 red to white for the height of the stripes.

The flag was based on the historical banner used by the city in 14th century.

History

The Hanseatic flag of Elbląg used since 14th century.
The version of the banner of Elbląg with square crosses, used in 1410 during the Battle of Grunwald.

Flag of Elbląg from Jacques-Nicolas Bellin flag cart, presented among the important nautical flags of the 18th century.

In 14th century, the city of Elbląg, as part of its allegiance to the Hanseatic League, begun using the banner that was horizontally divided into two fields, that were red and white, with each of the fields containing a cross pattée, that was of the opposite colour to the fields. Such flag was flown on the cogs of the Hanseatic League.Lübeck, used since 13th century.

On 15 July 1410, during the Battle of Grunwald, the soldiers from Elbląg flew two versions of the banner, with one using the crosses pattée, and other, the square crosses.

The city adopted the current version of the flag in 1993. Its design was based on the 14th century banner.


Nyasa languages

The Nyasa languages are an apparently valid genealogical group of Bantu languages. With the reassignment of a couple of Guthrie Zone N languages to other branches, Nyasa is essentially synonymous with Zone N. The languages and their Guthrie identifications are:

  * Tumbuka (N21)
  * Tonga language (Malawi) (N15)
  * Chewa (Nyanja) (N31)
  * Sena group (N40): Chikunda-Nyungwe (N42, N43), Sena (incl. Podzo, Rue) (N44)

The poorly known Mwera (Nyasa) language spoken at Mbamba Bay on the east side of Lake Malawi is classified as N201 and presumably belongs here as well.


Lepidochrysops elgonae

Lepidochrysops elgonae, the Elgon blue, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Kenya.

Adults have been recorded in April, June and July.

The larvae feed on Salvia species. They are thought to be associated with harvester ants of the genus Messor.

Subspecies

  * Lepidochrysops elgonae elgonae (Kenya: west of the Rift Valley, from south and east of Elgon through the Trans Nzoia to Eldoret and the Mau)
  * Lepidochrysops elgonae moyo van Someren, 1957 (Kenya: east of the Rift Valley)
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KKCM

For the Oklahoma radio station which held the call sign KKCM from 2005 to 2009, see KRMG-FM.

KKCM (92.1 FM) is an American radio station licensed to serve the community of Thermal, California. The station airs a country music format and is currently owned by Copper Mountain Broadcasting Company.Morongo Basin since 92.1 there is simulcast of KHCS.

  *
  * KKCM in the FCC FM station database
  * KKCM on Radio-Locator
  * KKCM in Nielsen Audio's FM station database
  * Official website


Milverton Four Wheel Drives

The Milverton Four Wheel Drives are a senior hockey team based in Milverton, Ontario, Canada. They play in the Western Ontario Athletic Association Senior Hockey League.

History

From 1974 until 1976, the Four Wheel Drives left the WOAA and played in the Ontario Hockey Association's Intermediate C Hockey League. They returned soon after.

Championships

The Four Wheel Drives were a highly successful team in the 1970s, as they won the WOAA Grand Championship three years in a row, from 1971 to 1973. In recent years, Milverton has captured the "AA" championship three times, in 1999, 2000 and 2002. The Four Wheel Drives also captured the "B" championship in 2009.

2006-07 Four Wheel Drives season

Milverton finished the season with a 12-10-2 record, which was good for a fifth-place finish in the South Division, as the Drives failed to qualify for the Senior "AA" playoffs. In their last game of the season, they faced the Hensall Sherwoods, they were tied with in the standings, with the winner qualifying for the "AA" playoffs, and the loser to play in the "A" playoffs, and Milverton came up short, losing 5–4 to the Sherwoods.

The Four Wheel Drives opened the playoffs with a quarter-final series against the Drayton Icemen and were heavily favoured to sweep the series. Drayton stunned Milverton with a 3-2 OT victory in the first game before Milverton rebounded with two blowout victories. Drayton would then come back and win the fourth game to even up the series at two games. Milverton returned to win game five easily, and then would put away the Icemen in a game six overtime to win the series.

Milverton then faced the Ripley Wolves in the semi-finals. After dropping the first game in overtime, the Drives would win three in a row to take a 3–1 series lead, putting Ripley on the brink of elimination. The Wolves responded with a couple of two goal victories, forcing a seventh game to be played in Ripley. Ripley would complete the comeback with a 4–2 win in game seven, eliminating the Four Wheel Drives from the playoffs.

2007-08 Four Wheel Drives season


Milverton Four Wheel Drives

2007-08 Four Wheel Drives season

The Four Wheel Drives would finish with a 13-13-0 record, earning 26 points, the same point total from the previous season, despite playing two extra games. Milverton finished in sixth place in the South Division, and qualified for the "A" playoffs.

The Drives opened the playoffs against the Georgian Bay River Rats in a best of seven quarter final series, and Milverton set the tone of the series, winning the opening game 13–2. The second game of the series was a little closer, but still a blowout, as the Four Wheel Drives defeated the River Rats 9–3. The series moved to Georgian Bay for the next two games, and Milverton would easily sweep the Rats with back to back 10-4 victories, advancing to the semi-finals.

Milverton's next opponent was the Lucknow Lancers, and the Drives took an early series lead, defeating Lucknow 3–2 in the series opener. Lucknow responded with a game two victory, but Milverton once again took the series lead with a 5–4 win in the third game. The Lancers would again tie the series in game four, then Lucknow would take control of the series with a comeback victory in the fifth game to put the Drives on the brink of elimination. Milverton fought back in the sixth game, winning 9–6, setting up a seventh and deciding game. Lucknow would emerge victorious, hanging on for a 5–4 win, to eliminate the Four Wheel Drives from the playoffs.

2008-09 Four Wheel Drives season

The Four Wheel Drives started the season losing nine games in a row, quickly falling out of the "AA" playoff race, before finally defeating the Thedford Dirty Dogs. Milverton finished the season with a 4-16-0 record, earning eight points, and finishing in ninth place in the WOAA South Division.


Milverton Four Wheel Drives

The Drives qualified for the "B" playoffs, and would open against the Thedford Dirty Dogs in the best of seven semi-finals. Milverton would hold off Thedford in the series opener and win the game by a 5–4 score to take the series lead. The Four Wheel Drives would come from behind in the second game, as Thedford led 3-2 going into the third period, however, Milverton scored to tie the game and send it into overtime, where the Drives would complete the comeback and win the game 4–3 to take a 2–0 series lead. Milverton would have no problems in the third game, crushing the Dirty Dogs 8–2 to take a commanding 3–0 series lead. In the fourth game, the Four Wheel Drives would have to try to come back from behind, as Thedford held a 2–1 lead after two periods. Milverton would complete the comeback, scoring twice in the final period, to win the game 3–2, and sweep the series.

Milverton would face the Shallow Lake Crushers for the "B" championship, and the Four Wheel Drives opened the series with a solid 7–3 victory. The Crushers fought back in the second game, defeating the Drives 7–6 in overtime to even the series up. Milverton responded with a close 4–3 win in the third game, followed with a 7-2 blowout victory in the fourth game to take a 3–1 series lead. Facing elimination, the Crushers played a solid fifth game, defeating the Drives 2–1. Milverton proved to be too much for Shallow Lake to handle in the sixth game, as they cruised to a 6–3 victory, capturing the "B" championship.

Season-by-season record

Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T= Tie, OTL = Overtime Losses, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against


Milverton Four Wheel Drives

Season   GP  W   L   T  OTL  GF   GA   PTS  Finish          Playoffs
1999-00  24  19  4   1  0    --   --   39   1st WOAA Sr     "AA" Champs
2000-01  24  19  3   2  0    --   --   40   2nd WOAA Sr
2001-02  24  20  2   2  0    164  44   42   2nd WOAA Sr     "AA" Champs
2002-03  25  15  9   0  1    123  79   31   7th WOAA Sr
2003-04  24  17  6   1  0    125  68   35   5th WOAA Sr
2004-05  25  17  7   1  0    128  90   35   7th WOAA Sr
2005-06  25  15  9   -  1    121  102  31   10th WOAA Sr    Lost "A" SF
2006-07  24  12  10  -  2    130  113  26   5th WOAA South  Lost "A" SF
2007-08  26  13  13  -  0    127  123  26   6th WOAA South  Lost "A" SF
2008-09  20  4   16  -  0    66   121  8    9th WOAA South  "B" Champs
2009-10  20  7   11  -  2    79   100  16   7th WOAA South  "A" Champs
2010-11  26  9   14  -  3    116  127  21   6th WOAA South
2011-12  24  11  11  -  2    123  124  24   6th WOAA South
2012-13  24  11  12  -  1    103  105  23   6th WOAA South
2013-14  24  10  11  -  3    88   115  23   7th WOAA South  Lost Div. Quarter-final

More information will be added as more becomes available

  * Milverton, Ontario
  * Western Ontario Athletic Association
  * WOAA Senior Hockey League
  * Drives Website
  * WOAA Website
  * WOAA Senior Hockey Website


Marasmarcha ehrenbergianus

Marasmarcha ehrenbergianus is a moth of the family Pterophoridae. It is found in Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Russia and Iran.


Leo Fisher

Leo Fisher may refer to:

  * Leo Fisher (Shameless)
  * Leo Fisher (Once and Again)
  * Leo Fischer, sportswriter
  * Lee Fisher, politician


Persicula hilli

Persicula hilli is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Cystiscidae.


HD 115310

This article is about r Centauri. For the variable star, see R Centauri.

HD 115310, also known by its Bayer designation r Centauri, is a star in the southern constellation Centaurus. It is an orange-hued star that is visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude that ranges around +5.12.parallax measurements, it is located approximately 257 light years away. It is drifting further from the Sun with a radial velocity of +12.9 km/s.

This object is an aging K-type giant star with a stellar classification of K1III.red clump giant, suggesting it is on the horizontal branch undergoing core helium fusion.mass of the Sun and has expanded to 11 times the Sun's radius. It is radiating 67 times the luminosity of the Sun from its swollen photosphere at an effective temperature of 5,060 K.


Feildes Weir

Main weir drop

Side drops

Flood channel

Feildes Weir is a weir on the River Lea located in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire at the confluence of the River Lea and River Stort. The weir marks the start of the Lower Lee. A channel of the man-made River Lee Flood Relief Channel is incorporated into the weir.

History

The weir has had a complex history of changes to channel control and bypassing over the years. Control was originally exercised by a barrage of gates and sluices.

In 1976, a 29 metres (95 ft) wide thin-plate weir was installed, with three vertical-lift sluices controlling a parallel flood relief channel. Flows average about 4.4 m3/s discharge over the weir; higher flows enter the flood channel.

Angling

Angling in the weir pool is controlled by the Ware Angling Club and the River Lea Angling Club.

Access

Road

  * From Hoddesdon via A10 road, A1170 road to Dinant Link Road to Rattys Lane.
  * From Nazeing via Dobbs Weir Road.

Rail

  * Rye House railway station.

Other

  * Pedestrian and cycling access via Lea Valley Walk.
  * Angling information
  * Environment Agency-Feildes Weir

51°45′51″N 0°00′50″E / 51.764055°N 0.014001°E


Fossombroniaceae

Fossombroniaceae (sometimes Codoniaceae) is a family of liverworts in the order Metzgeriales. Most species are small and thallose, but the thallus is typically ruffled to give the appearance of being leafy.

The family was long called the Codoniaceae, Klinggr. 1858, because this is the older name. But since the genus Codonia is a synonym of Fossombronia, the name Fossombroniaceae was proposed (and accepted) as a conserved name under the rules of the ICBN.


Painted apple moth in New Zealand

Painted apple moth

The painted apple moth (Teia anartoides or Orgyia anartoides) is an invasive species that was eradicated from New Zealand.

The moth is a native to Australia but in May 1999 it was found in Glendene, Auckland. A controversial spray programme was carried out to eradicate the moth.

  * Pesticides in New Zealand
  * Painted Apple Moth at Biosecurity New Zealand
  * Painted Apple Moth at Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa


Ralph Black

Ralph Black may refer to:

  * Ralph Black (soccer) (born 1963), former indoor soccer player
  * Ralph Niger, also known by the Anglicized name Ralph Black, English chronicler


KKCD

KKCD (105.9 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a classic rock format. Licensed to Omaha, Nebraska, United States, the station serves the Omaha area. The station is owned by SummitMedia.Aksarben Village, while its transmitter is located near South 27th Street and Q Street (near the Kennedy Freeway), about three miles south of Downtown Omaha.

History

Smooth jazz (1990-1991)

The station went on the air on August 11, 1990, calling itself "The View" and broadcasting a smooth jazz format. It had earlier sought the calls KUKF, but changed to KKVU a month before signing on.

Classic rock (1991-present)

The station initially met acceptance, but soon struggled in the ratings, and on November 15, 1991, the station flipped formats to classic rock as "CD 105.9", and changed their call sign to KKCD.

Journal Communications and the E. W. Scripps Company announced on July 30, 2014 that the two companies would merge to create a new broadcast company under the E.W. Scripps Company name that owned the two companies' broadcast properties, including KKCD. The transaction was completed in 2015.SummitMedia in a four-market, $47 million deal completed on November 1, 2018.

Previous logo

In February 2020, KKCD rebranded as simply "Classic Rock 105.9".

  * KKCD in the FCC FM station database
  * KKCD on Radio-Locator
  * KKCD in Nielsen Audio's FM station database


Milvydai, Pernarava

Milvydai (formerly Russian: Мильвиды, Polish: Milwidy)Kėdainiai district municipality, in Kaunas County, in central Lithuania. According to the 2011 census, the village had a population of 6 people.2 kilometres (1.2 mi) from Pernarava, between the Bernaupis rivulet and the Josvainiai-Ariogala road.

There was an okolica of Milvydai (a property of the Ivaškevičiai) at the beginning of the 20th century.

Demography

Historical population
Year  Pop.  ±% p.a.                                      Year  Pop.  ±% p.a.
1902  66    —                                            1979  16    −0.67%
1923  69    +0.21%                                       1989  5     −10.98%
1959  55    −0.63%                                       2001  10    +5.95%
1970  17    −10.12%                                      2011  6     −4.98%

Source: 1902, 1923, 1959 & 1970, 1979, 1989, 2001, 2011


Gamizdar

Gamizdar (Persian: گميزدر, also Romanized as Gamīzdar and Gomīzdar; also known as Kamīrdar)Tabadkan Rural District, in the Central District of Mashhad County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 64, in 20 families.


Leo F.C.

Leo F.C. was a football team from Gibraltar. They played in the Gibraltar Second Division and the Rock Cup.

History

Formation and Third Division years (2004–2008)

Leo FC originally formed as Leo Santos & Sons in 2004. The club started life in the Gibraltar Third Division, enduring a difficult season and finishing a disappointing second bottom of the 11 team league above only Req Duo Athletic by the end of the 2004–05 season. The next season, Leo Santos & Sons again finished 10th in the league, but did relatively better due to new entry Bay Side FC finishing bottom of the new 12 team table. Improvements became more apparent in the 2006–07 season, seeing a surprise 6th place finish for the club, while the following season saw them repeat the feat. However, both times they finished a considerable distance away from the promotion race, finishing nearly 30 points off the pace of champions Shamrock 101 and Sporting Club Gibraltar in 2007 and 2008, respectively.

Promotion to Second Division (2008–2011)

The summer of 2008 saw a significant restructuring of Gibraltar football by the Gibraltar Football Association. Reserve teams were removed from the football system and instead placed in a separate Reserves League, so the Third Division was abolished and all senior teams moved into the Gibraltar Second Division, among them Leo Santos & Sons. Buoyed by the unexpected promotion, and signing a number of players from the folded reserve sides, the club finished a surprise 5th place in their first season at the second level. The return of former Gibraltar football powerhouses Britannia XI in 2009 saw a less impressive 7th place in 2009–10, and the emergence of feeder clubs for the bigger teams from the Gibraltar Premier Division (such as Gibraltar Pilots, Pegasus and Red Imps) made it more difficult for other Second Division teams to sign players.

Name changes and league's entry to UEFA (2011–2017)