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Kotava is a proposed international auxiliary language (IAL) that focuses especially on the principle of cultural neutrality. The name means "the language of one and all," and the Kotava community has adopted the slogan "a project humanistic and universal, utopian and realistic". The language is mainly known in French-speaking countries and most material to learn it is in French. History Kotava was invented by Staren Fetcey, who began the project in 1975, on the basis of her study of previous IAL projects. The language was first made available to the public in 1978, and two major revisions were made in 1988 and 1993. Since then, the language has stabilized, with a lexicon of more than 17,000 basic roots. In 2005, a committee of seven members was established with the responsibility of guiding the future evolution of the language. The overall goal was to create a potential IAL that was not based on a particular cultural substrate. To do this, a number of subgoals were established: A simple and limited phonetic system that can be pronounced easily by the majority of people. A simple and totally regular grammar that reflects the grammars of the majority of languages in the world. A clear morphology, with each morpheme having a well-defined and exclusive function. An a priori lexicon that does not favor any language. (This appears to be of supreme importance to its creator.) A collection of basic roots that are clearly defined and homonym-free. Mechanisms for productive derivation and composition to allow for maximum expressiveness, from the most general to the most subtle and precise. Linguistic properties Classification As an a priori constructed language, Kotava is not related to any other language, natural or constructed. The word order is very free, but current practice leans toward object–subject–verb (OSV). Writing system Kotava is written with the Latin alphabet, but doesn't use the letters H or Q. The letter H, which was only used to palatalize an L, M, or N, before it, was eliminated and replaced by the letter Y in all cases. It uses no diacritics except for an acute accent, only used to mark the first person of verbs, which is accented on the final vowel. Phonology In Kotava, words are pronounced exactly as written, without exceptions. Most consonants are pronounced as in English, but C is pronounced as English sh, J as in French (or the s in English pleasure), and the X as in Scottish loch, and the R is rolled. The consonants (in IPA form) are: The vowels are pronounced as in Spanish, Swahili, or Tahitian, with no differences of length and no nasalization. There are five diphthongs: ay, ey, iy (very rare), oy, uy (very rare). The stress rule in Kotava is regular for all polysyllabic words: on the last syllable (ultima) if the word has a final consonant; on the second from last syllable (penult) if the word has a final vowel, except for the first person of conjugated verbs, which is stressed on the last syllable, marked with an acute accent. Morphology Kotava has strict morphological rules,
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Castore-class gunboat
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The Italian Castore-class gunboats, Castore and Polluce, were a class of two Rendel gunboats, designed and built by Sir W G Armstrong Mitchell & Co.'s Elswick Works in the late 1880s to a contract by the Italian War Ministry. Designed by Philip Watts and Herbert Rowell, and constructed in Elswick's Tyneside yard in the United Kingdom, the two gunboats were disassembled and shipped to Italy for reassembly in the Armstrong facility at Pozzuoli, proving to be the only ships constructed there after the Italian government cancelled the shipyard project. It is uncertain whether the vessels were designed as testbeds for heavy guns, or were intended from the outset as operational gunboats. Design Both vessels were laid down in the Elswick yard on 22 February 1887. Built to a design calling for a length of and a beam of , giving them a length to beam ratio of 3.1:1, they displaced under normal conditions, and were powered by two steam engines, driving a pair of propellers that gave a speed of around . As constructed, both vessels were armed with a single, massive Krupp , 32-caliber cannon mounted on the stern, that could be elevated to an angle of 13 degrees, firing a shell. Castore Castore was launched in September 1888, and conducted her trials in 1889 at Pozzuoli. She had her heavy gun removed in 1889, and was commissioned into the Italian Navy on 18 July 1891 as a gunboat. Rearmed with a single gun, she served until 1899 when she was disarmed and reclassified as a barge. In 1904, she was reclassified again as a minelayer, and served in that role until late 1915 when she was designated as a torpedo testing craft. After serving in this role throughout the First World War, she was stricken and discarded on 8 October 1925. Polluce Polluce was launched in October 1888, and conducted her trials in 1889 at Pozzuoli. She was commissioned into the Italian Navy on 18 July 1891 along with her sister vessel, but retained her heavy gun until 1899, when she was rearmed with a single gun. She saw no action in her time serving the Regia Marina, and in 1911, she was stricken and discarded. References Citation Bibliography Brook, Peter. "Armstrongs and the Italian Navy". in Preston, Antony (ed.). Warship 2002-2003. London: Conway Maritime Press, 2003. pp. 94–115. Further reading Category:World War I naval ships of Italy Category:Gunboats of the United Kingdom Category:Gunboats of the Regia Marina Category:Gunboat classes
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Holmegaard Glass Factory
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Holmegaard Glass Factory () is a glass company located in the former municipality of Holmegaard just outside Næstved. History The home of Holmegaard Glassworks is located in the town of Fensmark, Holmegaard. The company was founded in 1823 after Count Christian Danneskjold-Samsøe petitioned the Danish king for permission to build a glassworks at Holmegaard Mose ("Holmegaard Bog"). He died before permission was granted. But after his death when permission was finally received his widow, Countess Henriette Danneskjold-Samsøe pursued the project and began production in 1825 of green bottles, moving on to table-glass within its first decade. Much of its early work was derivative and inconsequential, but between the 1930s and 1980s its fortunes were transformed by the designs of Jacob E. Bang (1899-1965), Per Lütken (1916-98), and Bang's son, Michael (1944-2002). Today the company is known for its high-quality products of Danish design. The Lütken Era Danish glassmaker Per Lütken worked at Holmegaard from 1942 until his death in 1998, creating some of the factory's finest pieces and all-time classics, such as the "Idelle" series, the "Ships glasses" and the "Provence" bowls. The work of Per Lütken is still highly rated, especially throughout Scandinavia, and in Denmark and Sweden in particular. The arrival of Lütken at Holmegaard marked a new beginning in the history of the factory, which once again bloomed after several years of suffering. His aesthetic creations, in timeless designs, appealed to the fashion of the 1960s Denmark, and his creations became a great success throughout the decade and the 1970s. On September 9, 2008, Holmegaard Glass Factory announced that unless a buyer was found within three months it would be closed due to bankruptcy. This threatened to bring an end to 183 years of glassmaking tradition, widely renowned in Denmark and abroad. The crisis was initially handled in a way that saw the exhibition centre close, while the glass production remained. In 2009, however, all production ceased. Famous glassmakers at Holmegaard - Jacob E. Bang - Per Lütken External links Holmegaard Glass Company Jacob E. Bang and Holmegaards Glasværk 1926-1952 Per Lütken's 1969 'Carnaby' Series Identification Guide References Municipal statistics: NetBorger Kommunefakta, delivered from KMD aka Kommunedata (Municipal Data) Municipal mergers and neighbors: Eniro new municipalities map Category:Glassmaking companies of Denmark Category:Purveyors to the Court of Denmark Category:Danish companies established in 1825 Category:Danish brands
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Hundreds and thousands
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Hundreds and thousands is an idiomatic expression used to mean "an indefinite but emphatically large number". Although similar to and sometimes regarded as an error for "hundreds of thousands", it is in fact not so definitely large. It is also (used as a plurale tantum noun) a kind of decorative confectionery consisting of tiny coloured beads of sugar, commonly used in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. Similar confections include: Sprinkles Nonpareils Muisjes See also 100000 (number), one hundred thousand Hundreds & Thousands, 1985 album by Bronski Beat Indefinite and fictitious numbers Fairy bread
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1870 Grand National
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The 1870 Grand National was the 32nd renewal of the world-famous Grand National horse race that took place at Aintree near Liverpool, England, on 9 March 1870. This was the fifth and final time George Stevens rode the winner in the Grand National. Media Coverage and Aftermath In a publicity stunt before this year's race, an athlete by the name of Tom Scott jumped a circuit of the course without the assistance of a horse. At this time the course was still not fully laid to turf and some of the obstacles were still natural hedges and banks making this a difficult two mile cross country run. Finishing Order Non-finishers References 1870 Grand National Grand National Category:19th century in Lancashire Category:March 1870 sports events
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River Maun
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The River Maun is a river in Nottinghamshire, England. Its source lies in Kirkby-in-Ashfield, and from there it flows north east through Mansfield (which takes its name from the river), Edwinstowe and Ollerton, these being the heart of the Sherwood Forest area. It becomes known as Whitewater near the village of Walesby and connects to the River Meden temporarily where the Robin Hood Way crosses them. They diverge, and near Markham Moor it merges again with the River Meden this time becoming the River Idle. Its main tributaries are Rainworth Water, Vicar Water and Cauldwell Water. The river has been an important source of power, from at least 1086, when there was a watermill in Mansfield. A big increase in the number of mills began in the 1780s, when the frame knitting industry was decimated by the advent of Richard Arkwright's water-powered spinning frame. William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, encouraged the building of textile mills to relieve unemployment and poverty. Most were converted to do "cotton doubling", and several later became hosiery mills. The conversion of watermills which had formerly ground corn to textile mills led to the building of windmills to carry on milling corn. Although water power has largely ceased, there is still an operational water-mill at Ollerton. Course The river rises on the north side of Kirkby-in-Ashfield, just to the south of Sutton Parkway railway station. It is a little above the contour at this point. It crosses under the railway line, and there are two short culverted sections as it crosses under the B6022 road, to emerge in the Maun Valley Industrial Park. Passing under the B6139 and the A617 roads, it feeds King's Mill Reservoir. The reservoir was once a medieval mill pond, but in 1837, William Bentinck, the fourth Duke of Portland agreed with the millers who leased mills further down the river that a large head of water was required to maintain the water supply throughout the year. He built a dam, and of farmland were flooded, some of which he bought from the Unwin family. The work was completed by 1839, when rates to be paid by the millers were agreed, which were to be reduced after 20 years. A walk has been created around the lake, from where some of the waterfowl which live on it can be seen. It is also used for sailing. At the exit from the reservoir, the river is crossed by Kings Mill viaduct, built around 1819 for the Mansfield and Pinxton Railway. The engineer for the project was Josias Jessop, and the bridge was the location for the opening ceremony of the railway. A local newspaper described it as "the beautiful five-arched bridge, constructed under the direction of Mr. Jessop, the engineer", when reporting the opening. The central arch carries the date 1817. It was adapted for locomotive traffic in 1847, was restored in 1990, and is a grade II listed structure. It is now used as a footpath, as the railway line was historically diverted around it. The diverted railway line forms part of the
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Henryk M. Broder
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Henryk Marcin Broder (born 20 August 1946, self-designation Henryk Modest Broder) is a Polish-born German journalist, author, and TV personality. Broder is known for polemics, columns, and comments in written and audiovisual media. He wrote for the magazine Der Spiegel, as well as its online version and the daily Berlin newspaper Der Tagesspiegel. Since 2010, he has been writing for Die Welt. He is co-editor of (The Jewish calendar), a compilation of quotes and texts relating to German Jewish culture, published annually. Besides his numerous publications, he appears as a frequent guest on German TV talk shows. In 2010 and 2011, he produced and starred, alongside Egyptian-German writer and political scientist Hamed Abdel-Samad, in the satirical TV series – Die Deutschland-Safari (a wordplay on "entweder/oder", German for "either/or", "Either Broder – The Germany Safari") on ARD. Broder is especially interested in Vergangenheitsbewältigung, Islam, Israel, and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. He sees a close relationship between German criticism of Israel's policies and Antisemitism, a view criticized by, among others, the French-German columnist Alfred Grosser. Life Born in Katowice, Silesia, Poland, Broder moved to Cologne with his family in 1958. Both of his parents were survivors of Nazi death camps. In Cologne, he studied economics, law and psychology but failed to graduate. Together with fellow student and nascent writer , whom he had known since high school times, he founded and edited two short-lived radically liberal quarterlies ("PoPoPo" and "Bubu/Eiapopeyea"). In the late 1960s he took over the together with the journalist Michel Roger Lang, a then highly successful tabloid newspaper in Hamburg, along with Günter Wallraff, Stefan Aust and the photographer , in order to agitate the working class of the city with a combination of leftist articles, nude photography and lonely hearts ads. In the 1970s, he wrote for the satirical magazine Pardon. From 1979 to 1981 he published, together with fellow journalist , the periodical "Freie Jüdische Stimme" ("Free Jewish Voice"). In 1981, he left Germany to work in Israel for a while, but continued to write for high-level periodicals as Die Zeit, Profil, Die Weltwoche, and Süddeutsche Zeitung. In the 1980s he also hosted the television talk-show Leute, along with Elke Heidenreich, which ran on Sender Freies Berlin; one of their guests was African-American poet Rita Dove, who had just won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize and is married to Fred Viebahn, Broder's old friend from Cologne. Broder wrote a series of books which dealt with the relationship between Germans and Jews, respectively the growing German Jewish community. Together with Eike Geisel, Broder published essays, books and a documentary about the Jüdischer Kulturbund (Jewish Cultural Union), a previously unknown chapter of Jewish German cultural life during the Third Reich. He wrote books about foreign policy with special regard to Israel, Islam and the growing German Jewish community. Ever since Operation Entebbe, Broder grew more and more critical of the German approach towards Israel, and what Broder sees as appeasement towards Islamic threats. In Broder's opinion, Anti-Zionism is in essence anti-Semitic. Broder's trademark is his polemical, blunt, and quick-witted style. He publishes hate
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Alvaro Načinović
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Alvaro Načinović (born 22 March 1966 in Rijeka) is a former Croatian handball player who competed for Yugoslavia and Croatia respectively. He played for his hometown club Zamet Rijeka with whom he entered into the Yugoslav First League in 1987 after winning the Second League in Kać. The same year he won the IHF Men's Junior World Championship with Yugoslavia U-21 in his club's home venue in Rijeka. Yugoslavia beat Spain in the final. In 1992 Načinović played for RK Zagreb Loto with whom he won the European Champions Cup. He also spent six years in Slovenia playing for RK Pivovarna Laško Celje with a brief season at Zamet before coming to RK Crikvenica. Načinović spent five years in Crikvenica before retiring in 2006. He won the bronze medal with Yugoslavia at the 1988 Summer Olympics and also captained the national team of Croatia to a gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics, silver medal at the 1995 World Championship and a bronze medal at the 1994 World Championship. He made 105 appearances for the national team scoring 165 goals. Since April 2016 he is the sports director of RK Kozala. Career Načinović first played for his hometown club of Zamet at youth level. He started playing for the senior squad in March 1983. In 1987 Zamet won the Yugoslav Second League and got promoted to Yugoslav First League. Two years later after the departure of Darko Dunato, Načinović became team captain. After five seasons in the first Yugoslav league Načinović transferred to Zagreb Loto. That season Načinović was part of a historic Zagreb team witch won Croatian league, Croatian Cup and European Champions Cup. Načinović returned to Zamet in the summer of 1992. In September of the same year the club played against Laško Pivovara Celje in the first round of European Champions Cup. With poor league results and a coaching aftermath going in his club Načinović left for Celje at the end of the season. He played in Celje for five years playing top level handball and winning the Slovenian league and cup every year. In 1995 he played against Badel 1862 Zagreb in the 1/8 final of the EHF Champions League and lost by one goal on aggregate. The next season they got to the semi-final and lost to Barcelona by one goal on aggregate. The next season Celje was once again eliminated in the semi-final, by RK Zagreb. In 1998 Načinović returned to Zamet then Zamet Autotrans for a season helping them in EHF City Cup and league. After a season and a half he returned to Laško Pivovara Celje where he dominated the league and cup for two more years. In 2001 Načinović went to play for RK Crikvenica under his former teammate and coach Drago Žiljak. His stay in Crikvenica was the club's golden era, playing in the Croatian First League and staying there for five seasons. The club's success was due to veteran players such as Načinović, Mladen Prskalo, Marin Mišković, Zvonimir Kutija, Mario Brož, Dario Jagić, Janko Mavrović and younger players like Mirjan Horvat
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Wanna Be Your Girlfriend
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"♥Wanna be your girlfriend♥" is the debut solo single of Asuka Hinoi, produced by Tomoko Kawase, better known as Tommy February6. The title track is the ending theme to the drama Ashita Tenki ni Naare. Track listing "♥Wanna be your girlfriend♥" "Baby Feels so right!" "♥Wanna be your girlfriend♥" (extended version) "♥Wanna be your girlfriend♥" (instrumental) "Baby Feels so right!" (instrumental) Category:2003 singles Category:Asuka Hinoi songs Category:2003 songs Category:Song articles with missing songwriters
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Be the One (Poison song)
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"Be the One" is a power ballad by American rock band Poison. The song was released as the second single from their 2000 Crack a Smile...and More! album. The single/sampler was released in February 2000 and featured five b-sides including the first single from the album "Shut Up, Make Love" and the four unplugged bonus tracks from the album: "Every Rose Has Its Thorn", "Talk Dirty to Me", "Your Mama Don't Dance" and "Something to Believe In". Albums "Be the One" is on the following albums. Crack a Smile...and More! Best of Ballads & Blues Double Dose: Ultimate Hits'' Personnel Bret Michaels - Lead Vocals, Acoustic Guitar Blues Saraceno - Lead Guitar, Piano Rikki Rockett - Drums, Backing Vocals Bobby Dall - Bass Guitar, Backing Vocals References External links Category:2000 singles Category:Poison (American band) songs Category:2000 songs Category:Songs written by Bret Michaels Category:Songs written by Rikki Rockett Category:Songs written by Bobby Dall
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Slipway
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A slipway, also known as boat ramp or launch or boat deployer, is a ramp on the shore by which ships or boats can be moved to and from the water. They are used for building and repairing ships and boats, and for launching and retrieving small boats on trailers towed by automobiles and flying boats on their undercarriage. The nautical terms ways and skids are alternative names for slipway. A ship undergoing construction in a shipyard is said to be on the ways. If a ship is scrapped there, she is said to be broken up in the ways. As the word "slip" implies, the ships or boats are moved over the ramp, by way of crane or fork lift. Prior to the move the vessel's hull is coated with grease, which then allows the ship or boat to "slip" off of the ramp and progress safely into the water. Slipways are used to launch (newly built) large ships, but can only dry-dock or repair smaller ships. Pulling large ships against the greased ramp would require too much force. Therefore, for dry-docking large ships, one must use carriages supported by wheels or by roller-pallets. These types of dry-docking installations are called "marine railways". Nevertheless the words "slip" and "slipway" are also used for all dry-docking installations that use a ramp. Simple slipways In its simplest form, a slipway is a plain ramp, typically made of concrete, steel, stone or even wood. The height of the tide can limit the usability of a slip: unless the ramp continues well below the low water level it may not be usable at low tide. Normally there is a flat paved area on the landward end. When used for building and repairing boats or small ships (i.e. ships of no more than about 300 tons), the vessel is moved on a wheeled carriage, which is run down the ramp until the vessel can float on or off the carriage. Such slipways are used for repair as well as for putting newly built vessels in the water. When used for launching and retrieving small boats, the trailer is placed in the water. The boat may be either floated on and off the trailer or pulled off. When recovering the boat from the water, it is winched back up the trailer. Whaling ships are usually equipped with a slipway at the back, to assist in hauling harpooned whales onto the main deck, where they are usually flensed. To achieve a safe launch of some types of land-based lifeboats in bad weather and difficult sea conditions, the lifeboat and slipway are designed so that the lifeboat slides down a relatively steep steel slip under gravity. Slipways in ship construction For large ships, slipways are only used in construction of the vessel. They may be arranged parallel or perpendicular to the shore line (or as nearly so as the water and maximum length of vessel allows). On launching, the vessel slides down the slipway on the ways until it floats by itself. The process of transferring the vessel to
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Santa Cruz Xoxocotlán
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Santa Cruz Xoxocotlán is a small city and municipality located 5 km from the state capital of Oaxaca in the south of Mexico. It is part of the Centro District in the Valles Centrales region. The name comes from the Nahuatl word “xocotl” which means “sour or sweet and sour fruit” with the duplicative “xo” to indicate “very.” The meaning of the entire phrase means “among the very sour fruits.” The Mixtec name for the area was Nuunitatnohoyoo which mean “land of the moon-faced flowers.” However, the community is most commonly referred to simply as Xoxo. For almost all of its history, the municipality had been exclusively rural; however, since the late 20th century rapid growth of the Oaxaca city area has spurred housing developments in Xoxo, causing problems with municipal services and encroachment on the Monte Alban archeological zone. There have been efforts to preserve and promote the municipality’s ancient traditions such as “martes de brujas” (Witch Tuesdays) and local customs associated with Day of the Dead. The latter draws a significant number of tourists to observe the vigils, altars and other activities associated with this community. The city and municipality The city of Santa Cruz Xoxocotlán is the seat and governing authority for over sixty other named localities covering a territory of . Almost 90% of the population of the municipality (65,873 in 2005) lives in the city proper with only six other communities (Arrazola, San Francisco Javier, San Isidro Monjas, San Juan Bautista la Raya, Lomas de San Javier and El Paraíso) having a population of 700 or more. The municipality borders the municipalities of Oaxaca, Cuilapam de Guerrero, Animas Trujano, San Raymundo Jalpan, San Agustín de las Juntas, and San Pedro Ixtlahuaca. Just under 5000 people speak an indigenous language as of 2005, with most living in the rural areas outside the city. The municipality is relatively flat with the only significant elevations, Chapulin Mountain and Monte Alban, on its western edge. The main rivers through here are the Atoyac and the Nazareno. The climate is temperate with little variance in temperatures throughout the year. Fauna includes pines, ocote, laurel, copal, mesquite and cactus. Wildlife mostly consists of birds, insects, and small reptiles. Outside of the city, the municipality is still very rural with extensive agriculture; however, this employs only three percent of the population. Cultivated plants include squash, nopal, chayote, beans, corn, peas and tomatoes. Twenty six percent are employed in mining, manufacturing and construction, and just under seventy percent are employed in commerce. However, much of the population is employed outside of the municipality. The Oaxaca City airport, officially the “Aeropuerto Internacional Xoxocotlán,” (IATA code OAX) is located in this municipality and served approximately 600,000 passengers in 2008. It has one terminal, with buses and taxis to ferry passengers to the 12 km to Oaxaca city. Sometimes the airport is the target of protests such as when residents of the municipality of Ozolotepec blocked the entrance to demand the dissolution of the government of Arturo Garcia. The Instituto Tecnologico del Valle de Oaxaca (ITVO) was created
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Sex Over the Phone
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Sex Over the Phone is the ninth studio album by Village People. The title track, "Sex Over the Phone", had some airplay in Europe, but did not reach the height of the group's earlier releases. As gay subtexts are often found in Village People songs, some have suggested that themes in this album refer to safer sex due to the emergence of AIDS within the gay community during the 1980s. The album is also notable for the appearance of new lead singer, Ray Stephens, who also played Roy on the children's television show The Great Space Coaster during the same period. The cover photo for the album sees the group donning updated versions of their iconic costumes, after having mostly dropped the imagery (on album covers, at least) several years earlier (see Renaissance). The 1999 CD release includes the 1999 club mix of the title track. In 2009, the album was released in digital format through online music retailers. Track listing "Sex Over the Phone" – 4:22 "New York City" – 6:00 "Just Give Me What I Want" – 6:12 "I Won't Take No for an Answer" – 4:28 "Power of the Night" – 5:58 "Sexual Education" – 5:32 "Sensual" – 4:37 "Sex Over the Phone" (New Recorded Club Mix) – 4:15 (bonus track on 1999 CD re-release) Charts Category:1985 albums Category:Village People albums Category:CBS Records albums
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Dominic Telo
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Filipe Dominic Telo (born 4 March 1986 in Cape Town) is a South African cricketer. He signed with English county Derbyshire, on a two-year deal from the start of the 2008 summer. In August 2009 he was informed that his contract would not be renewed. Telo is the coach of the United Arab Emirates at the 2020 Under-19 Cricket World Cup in his home country of South Africa. External links Cricinfo profile Evening Telegraph feature story UAE captain Ahmed Raza excited by coaching role at U19 World Cup Category:1986 births Category:Living people Category:South African people of British descent Category:Cape Cobras cricketers Category:Western Province cricketers Category:Derbyshire cricketers Category:South African cricketers Category:Alumni of Wynberg Boys' High School Category:Kolpak cricketers
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Cyrtodactylus payacola
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Cyrtodactylus payacola is a species of gecko that is endemic to western Malaysia. References Category:Cyrtodactylus Category:Reptiles described in 2012
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Satterthwaite & Rusland School
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Satterthwaite & Rusland School was a Church of England Primary school near Force Forge in the Rusland Valley. The school was established in 1840 for children aged 4 to 11, and closed in 2006 with just 9 pupils. The site has since been converted into affordable housing. The school was renowned for its rural setting with large grounds for children to play in, and for providing a wide range of extra-curricular activities including: football, hockey, rounders, athletics, swimming, roller-blading and cricket. The school also provided an unusually wide range of opportunities including: canoeing, climbing, gorge walking, fell walking, orienteering and problem solving activities. History The school was founded to cope with the dramatic increase in the population of the area as workers settled to man the three new bobbin mills constructed during the Industrial Revolution. Although both Satterthwaite and Rusland already had chapels serving as primary schools they were not able to cope with the increased student numbers. Animosity between residents meant that parents from Rusland refused to let their children go to school in Satterthwaite and vice versa, so a new building site was offered equidistant from the two chapels, in an isolated spot just within the bounds of Satterthwaite. In order to found the school the parish set up a building fund, notable for the donation of 1 shilling made by the famous poet William Wordsworth. Satterthwaite and Rusland National School, the name under which it was founded, could accommodate 100 pupils, although the student count never exceeded 80. The building and grounds were large, including a spacious nine-roomed house attached for the master. In 1855 a government inspector described the school as "the best country school in the country", whilst other reports say that the pupils excelled in mathematics and were also reciting poetry and performing Shakespearean plays. References Category:Defunct Church of England schools Category:1855 establishments in England Category:Educational institutions disestablished in 2006 Category:2006 disestablishments in England Category:Educational institutions established in 1855
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Jandiatuba Mayoruna language
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Jandiatuba Mayoruna is an extinct indigenous language of the Brazilian Amazon basin, near the borders of Peru and Colombia. References Category:Indigenous languages of Western Amazonia Category:Panoan languages Category:Extinct languages of South America
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JoAnn Turovsky
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JoAnn Turovsky is a harp teacher in Los Angeles, California. She is an adjunct professor of harp at the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California, and at Colburn School of Performing Arts. She performs with the Los Angeles Opera, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and has recorded for numerous motion pictures and television shows as a studio musician. She also serves on the faculty at the Music Academy of the West. References External links http://www.musicacademy.org/school/faculty-guests/faculty/instrumental-programs/harp/joann-turovsky Category:American harpists Category:Living people Category:Music Academy of the West faculty Category:Thornton School of Music faculty Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
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Olof Palme
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Sven Olof Joachim Palme (; ; 30 January 1927 – 28 February 1986) was a Swedish politician and statesman. A longtime protégé of Prime Minister Tage Erlander, Palme led the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1969 until his assassination in 1986, and was twice Prime Minister of Sweden, heading a Privy Council Government from 1969 to 1976 and a cabinet government from 1982 until his death. Electoral defeats in 1976 and 1979 marked the end of Social Democratic hegemony in Swedish politics, which had seen 40 years of unbroken rule by the party. While leader of the opposition, he parted domestic and international interests and served as special mediator of the United Nations in the Iran–Iraq War, and was President of the Nordic Council in 1979. He returned as Prime Minister after electoral victories in 1982 and 1985. Palme was a pivotal and polarizing figure domestically as well as in international politics from the 1960s. He was steadfast in his non-alignment policy towards the superpowers, accompanied by support for numerous third world liberation movements following decolonization including, most controversially, economic and vocal support for a number of Third World governments. He was the first Western head of government to visit Cuba after its revolution, giving a speech in Santiago praising contemporary Cuban and Cambodian revolutionaries. Frequently a critic of United States and Soviet foreign policy, he resorted to fierce and often polarizing criticism in pinpointing his resistance towards imperialist ambitions and authoritarian regimes, including those of Francisco Franco of Spain, Leonid Brezhnev of the Soviet Union, António de Oliveira Salazar of Portugal and Gustáv Husák of Czechoslovakia, as well as John Vorster and P. W. Botha of South Africa. His 1972 condemnation of the Hanoi bombings, notably comparing the tactic to the Treblinka extermination camp, resulted in a temporary freeze in Sweden–United States relations. Palme's murder on a Stockholm street on 28 February 1986 was the first assassination of a national leader in Sweden since Gustav III in 1792, and had a great impact across Scandinavia. Local convict and addict Christer Pettersson was originally convicted of the murder in district court but was acquitted on appeal to the Svea Court of Appeal. Early life Palme was born into an upper class, conservative Lutheran family in the Östermalm district of Stockholm. The Palme family is of Dutch ancestry and is related to several other prominent Swedish families such as the von Sydows and the Wallenbergs. His father Gunnar Palme was a businessman, son of Sven Theodore Palme and Baroness Hanna Maria von Born-Sarvilahti. Through her, Olof Palme claimed ancestry from King Frederick I of Denmark and Norway. His mother, Elisabeth von Knieriem, was descended from Baltic German tradesmen; she had arrived in Sweden from Russia as a refugee in 1915. Elisabeth's great-great-great grandfather Johann Melchior von Knieriem (1758–1817) had been ennobled by the Emperor Alexander I of Russia in 1814. Her great-grandfather Alexander von Knieriem (1837–1904) was an attorney general of the Senate of Russian Empire, senator and member of the State Council of Imperial Russia. The von Knieriem family does not count
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Hello Again! () is a 2019 Taiwanese television series created and produced by Sanlih E-Television. Plot In high school, 100 days before the university entrance exams, Chang Ke Ai and Yang Zi Hao made a bet: if they are admitted to the same university, she will carry his schoolbag for an entire year! Unexpectedly she had to give up her dreams of university to pay off a family debt. Ten years later, they are just across the street, but in two different worlds. Yang Zi Hao is an executive vice president of "Gorgeous Department Store," while Chang Ke Ai is a street vendor who helps her mother sell clothes at a market. When they meet again, will they remember the bet from ten years ago? Cast Main Cast Amber An as Chang Ke Ai 常可艾 Bruce Hung as Yang Zi Hao 陽子浩 Sean Lee (邵翔) as Cai Xiao Gang 蔡小剛 Mao Di as Liang Zi Jie 梁子傑 Oceana Wu as Jian Zhen Yi 簡貞怡 (Jamie Chien) Supporting Cast Stanley Mei (梅賢治) as Li Jian 李健 Wang Pei Ying (汪沛滢) as Jiang Wen Wen 江雯雯 Calvin Lee (地球) as Dan Ni Er 丹尼爾 Jiang Yong Qi (江泳錡) as A La A辣 Liang Yan Zhen (梁妍甄) as A Mi A咪 Yin Fu (茵芙) as Zheng Yin Yin 鄭茵茵 Ariel Chiao (喬雅琳) as Li Xiao Tian 李小恬 Tiffany Pan (潘奕如) as Wu Xiang Yin 吳香吟 Wang Dao Nan (王道南) as Yang Guo Tao 陽國滔 Kelly Mi (米凱莉) as Lin Fang Jie 林芳婕 Ruby Liu (劉馨如) as Lin Fang Ru 林芳如 Mi Na (米娜) as Lin Fang Yu 林芳瑜 Hu Pei Lian (胡佩蓮) as Zhuo Ying Ying 卓瑛瑛 Lin Pei Jun (林珮君) as Jiang Li Hua 江麗花 Long Tian Xiang (龍天翔) as Hu Ye 虎爺 Soundtrack "Chillaxing" by Amber An "What's Wrong 怎麼了" by Eric Chou "The Chaos After You 如果雨之後" by Eric Chou "Nobody But Me" by Eric Chou "Unbreakable Love 永不失聯的愛" by Eric Chou "Say I Love You 說聲我愛你" by Xiao Pan Pan (小潘潘) & Qi Chen (齊晨) Broadcast Ratings Competing programmes on rival channels airing at the same time slot were: EBC Variety - , , , SET Taiwan - FTV - , (re-run), Music of Taiwan, CTV - Chinese Restaurant, CTS - , CTS Golden Selection Theatre PTS - , The World Between Us, The Way Home References External links Hello Again! TTV Official Website Hello Again! SETTV Official Website Category:2019 Taiwanese television series debuts Category:2019 Taiwanese television series endings Category:Taiwanese romance television series Category:Taiwanese drama television series Category:Taiwan Television shows Category:Sanlih E-Television shows
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Oxford Creek
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Oxford Creek is a stream in McNairy County of the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is a tributary of Cypress Creek. Oxford Creek has the name of Abel Oxford, a pioneer settler. References Category:Landforms of McNairy County, Tennessee Category:Rivers of Tennessee
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Meir is a Jewish masculine given name and an occasional surname. It means "one who shines" It is often Germanized as Meijer, Meijer, Italianized as Miagro, or Anglicized as Mayer, Meyer, or Myer. Notable people with the name include: Given name: Rabbi Meir, Jewish sage who lived in the time of the Talmud Meir Amit (1921–2009), Israeli general and politician Meir Ariel, Israeli singer/songwriter Meir Bar-Ilan (1880–1949), rabbi and Religious Zionism leader Meir Ben Baruch (1215–1293) aka Meir of Rothenburg, a German rabbi, poet, and author Meir Daloya (born 1956), Olympic weightlifter Meir Dizengoff (1861–1936), Israeli politician Meir Har-Zion, Israeli commando fighter Meir Dagan, Mossad chief Meir Kahane (1932–1990), rabbi and political activist Meir Lublin (1558–1616), Polish rabbi, Talmudist and Posek Meir Nitzan, the mayor of Rishon-LeZion, Israel Meir Pa'il (1926–2015), Israeli politician and military historian Meir Shalev, Israeli writer Meir Shamgar (born 1925), Israeli President of the Israeli Supreme Court Meir Shapiro (1887–1933), Hasidic Rabbi and creator of the Daf Yomi Meir Simcha of Dvinsk (1843–1926), rabbi and leader of Orthodox Judaism in Eastern Europe Meir Zorea (1923–1995), Israeli general and politician Meir Sheetrit, a current Israeli Knesset member for the Kadima party Meir Tobianski (1904–1948), Israeli officer wrongly executed as a traitor Israel Meir Kagan (1838–1933), Polish rabbi, Halakhist and ethicist Yisrael Meir Lau, the Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv, Israel Yitzchak Meir Alter (1798(?)–1866), Polish rabbi and founder of the Ger (Hasidic dynasty) within Hasidic Judaism Surname: Elchanan Meir (born 1936), Israeli psychologist Gideon Meir, Israeli diplomat Golda Meir (1898–1978), a founder of the modern State of Israel, Hebraicized from Meyerson Jessica Meir, comparative physiology researcher and aquanaut Nati Meir (born 1955), Romanian politician Localities Meir, Antwerp, shopping street in Antwerp, Belgium Meir, Egypt Meir, Staffordshire See also Meyr (disambiguation) Meyer (disambiguation) Myer (disambiguation) Mayer (disambiguation) References Category: Jewish masculine given names Category: Jewish surnames
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Red Dirt Road
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Red Dirt Road is the eighth studio album for country duo Brooks & Dunn, released in 2003 on Arista Nashville. Certified platinum for sales of one million copies in the U.S., the album produced three top ten singles: "Red Dirt Road" (#1 on the Hot Country Songs chart), "You Can't Take the Honky-Tonk out of the Girl" (#3) and "That's What She Gets for Lovin' Me" (#6). Background "I knew we were going to call this album Red Dirt Road before the first song was even picked," said Ronnie Dunn. "I wanted that thread, that growing up in rural America and all the universal touchstones we all go through—that first beer, wrecking my first car two weeks after I got it, being taken to a revival by my cousins who lived a few miles farther down that road. That road ran through every major event in my young life… and who would think a kid growing up like that, going to Bible college, would end up here? But that's the power of life and roots and dreams—it can." Track listing "You Can't Take the Honky Tonk Out of the Girl" (Bob DiPiero, Bart Allmand) – 3:41 "Caroline" (Ronnie Dunn, Charlie Crowe) – 3:49 "When We Were Kings" (Kix Brooks, Gary Nicholson) – 4:12 "That's What She Gets for Loving Me" (Dunn, Terry McBride) – 2:56 "Red Dirt Road" (Brooks, Dunn) – 4:20 "Feels Good Don't It" (Dunn, McBride) - 2:44 "I Used to Know This Song by Heart" (Jerry Lynn Williams) – 4:27 "Believe" (Dunn, Craig Wiseman) – 3:46 "Memory Town" (Brooks, Rafe Van Hoy) – 4:04 "She Was Born to Run" (Dunn, McBride, Kenny Beard) – 3:41 "Til My Dyin' Day" (Brooks, Paul Nelson) – 3:03 "My Baby's Everything I Love" (Brooks, Dunn, Don Cook) – 3:39 "Good Day to Be Me" (Brooks, DiPiero) – 3:39 "Good Cowboy" (Nile Rodgers, Jimmie Vaughan) - 4:23 "Holy War" (Dunn) – 5:09 hidden track Personnel As listed in liner notes. Brooks & Dunn Kix Brooks – lead vocals, background vocals Ronnie Dunn – lead vocals, background vocals, tambourine Additional musicians Robert Bailey – background vocals Bekka Bramlett – background vocals Pat Buchanan – electric guitar Mark Casstevens – acoustic guitar Perry Coleman – background vocals J. T. Corenflos – electric guitar Charlie Crowe – electric guitar Eric Darken – percussion Jerry Douglas – Dobro Dan Dugmore – acoustic guitar, steel guitar, Dobro Shannon Forrest – drums Paul Franklin – steel guitar Kenny Greenberg – acoustic guitar, electric guitar Vicki Hampton – background vocals Aubrey Haynie – fiddle Wes Hightower – background vocals Jim Hoke – harmonica, accordion Clayton Ivey – piano John Jorgenson – electric guitar Bill Kenner – mandola B. James Lowry – acoustic guitar Brent Mason – electric guitar Steve Nathan – piano, keyboard, Wurlitzer, Mellotron, Hammond B-3 organ Michael Rhodes – bass guitar John Wesley Ryles – background vocals Harry Stinson – background vocals Bryan Sutton – acoustic guitar, banjo, mandolin, National guitar Crystal Taliefero – background vocals Russell Terrell – background vocals Lou Toomey – electric guitar Dan Tyminski –
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Mayfield–Newton Act
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The Mayfield–Newton Act, or the Mayfield Act, was an act passed by the United States Congress on March 4, 1927, amending the Interstate Commerce Act, the Esch–Cummins Act, and the Uniform Bill of Lading to "authorize reduced freight rates in cases of emergency", including earthquake, fire, flood, famine drought, epidemic, and pestilence. Sponsored by Sen. Earle B. Mayfield (D) of Texas and Rep. Walter H. Newton (R) of Minnesota, the act changed the original maximum suspension, which had been fixed by the Mann-Elkins Act of 1910, to 120 days, extendable by the Interstate Commerce Commission to 6 months – the Esch-Cummins Act reduced the extension period to 30 days while the Mayfield-Newton Act of 1927 replaced the provision with a single period of 7 months. References Category:United States railroad regulation Category:1927 in American law
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Shirvan (from ; ; Tat: Şirvan), also spelled as Sharvān, Shirwan, Shervan, Sherwan and Šervān, is a historical Iranian region in the eastern Caucasus, known by this name in both pre Islamic Sasanian and Islamic times. Today, the region is an industrially and agriculturally developed part of the Azerbaijan Republic that stretches between the western shores of the Caspian Sea and the Kura River, centered on the Shirvan Plain. History Etymology Vladimir Minorsky believes that names such as Sharvān (Shirwān), Lāyzān and Baylaqān are Iranian names from the Iranian languages of the coast of the Caspian Sea. There are several explanations about this name: Shirvan or Sharvan are changed forms of the word "Shahrbān" () which means "the governor". The word "Shahrban" has been used since Achaemenian Dynasty as "Xshathrapawn" to refer to different states of the kingdom. Shervan in Persian means cypress tree (the same as 'sarv' in Middle Persian and in New Persian, as well as in Arabic). It is also used as a male name. It is connected popularly to Anushirvan, the Sasanian King. Another meaning of 'Shirwan' according to the Dehkhoda Dictionary is protector of lion. This meaning is also shared in Kurdish, where the name is widely used for males; there is a castle near Kirkuk (south Kurdistan) called Qelay Shirwana/Shirvana. Also there is a famous tribe in the north of Erbil Province in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region by the name of Sherwani that is part of Barzani tribe union. Sherwan town is the Center of Sherwani tribe. According to Heptner and Sludskii (1972), the word Shīr () is in reference to the Asiatic lion, which occurred in the Trans-Caucasus and Persia, before the end of the 10th and 20th centuries, respectively. However, Said Nafisi points out that according to Khaqani's poems, where Khaqani contrasts his home town with kheyrvān (), the original and correct pronunciation of the name was Sharvān. So all etymologies relating this name to sher/shir (lion in Persian and Kurdish) or Anushiravan are most probably folk etymology and not based on historical facts. The form Shervān or Shirvān are from later centuries. According to the Encyclopedia of Islam, Shirwan proper comprised the easternmost spurs of the Caucasus range and the lands which sloped down from these mountains to the banks of the Kur river. But its rulers strove continuously to control also the western shores of the Caspian Sea from Ḳuba (the modern town of Quba) in the district of Maskat in the north, to Baku in the south. To the north of all these lands lay Bab al-Abwab or Derbend, and to the west, beyond the modern Goychay, the region of Shaki. In mediaeval Islamic times, and apparently in pre-Islamic Sāsānid ones also, Shirwan included the district of Layzan, which probably corresponds to modern Lahidj, often ruled as a separate fief by a collateral branch of the Yazidi Shirwan Shahs.The 19th century native historian and writer Abbasgulu Bakikhanov defines it as: "The country of Shirvan to the east borders on the Caspian Sea, and to the south on the river Kur, which
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Little feather
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Achillea millefolium, plant known as littlefeather Sacheen Littlefeather Isaac Littlefeathers, see Paul Zaza A 2016 Czech/Slovak movie Little Feather (movie)
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2015 Gooik-Geraardsbergen-Gooik
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The 2015 Gooik-Geraardsbergen-Gooik is a one-day women's cycle race held in Belgium starting and finishing in Gooik on 31 May 2015. The race had a UCI rating of 1.1. Results See also 2015 in women's road cycling References Gooik-Geraardsbergen-Gooik Category:Gooik-Geraardsbergen-Gooik Gooik-Geraardsbergen-Gooik
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Tai Nan (constituency)
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Tai Nan () is one of the 20 constituencies in the Yau Tsim Mong District. The constituency returns one district councillor to the Yau Tsim Mong District Council, with an election every four years. Tai Nan constituency is loosely based on the area surrounding Tai Nan Street in western Mong Kok south of Boundary Street and North of Prince Edward Road West with estimated population of 20,432. Councillors represented Election results 2010s 2000s 1990s References Category:Mong Kok Category:Constituencies of Hong Kong Category:Constituencies of Yau Tsim Mong District Council Category:1994 establishments in Hong Kong Category:Constituencies established in 1994
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Jeff Paulus
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Jeffrey Paulus (born October 3, 1969) is a Canadian former semi-professional soccer player and current head coach of FC Edmonton in the Canadian Premier League. He coached the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology men's soccer team between 2004 and 2012 and was crowned Canadian College Athletic Association National Champions in his penultimate season. Having also worked for the Canadian Soccer Association for five years, Paulus joined FC Edmonton as assistant coach and Academy technical director in 2011. He was appointed as FC Edmonton's head coach in July 2018. Playing career Paulus played hockey and soccer as a child. Turning his sole attention to soccer in his teens, he played for local clubs St. Andrews, Maple Leaf and Woburn. He also played and coached while serving in the military in The Maritimes before moving to Alberta. Coaching career Early career Paulus joined the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology as head coach of the men's soccer program in August 2004. Paulus and his team were named Canadian College Athletic Association National Champions in October 2011. He left the position in November 2012 after eight seasons with the NAIT Ooks. In September 2006, Paulus also joined the Canadian Soccer Association to coach national team prospects at the Prairies National Training Centre in Edmonton. He worked with players aged between 14 and 17 for five years until his departure in December 2011. FC Edmonton Upon his departure from the Canadian Soccer Association, Paulus joined North American Soccer League club FC Edmonton on a full-time basis. While acting as assistant coach to Colin Miller, he also worked in the Academy as technical director. When the FC Edmonton senior team ceased operations in 2017, Paulus continued to lead the club's youth section. On July 4, 2018, Paulus was named as the head coach of FC Edmonton after the club was re-founded to compete in the Canadian Premier League. He was then made the interim general manager of FC Edmonton on November 21, 2019, replacing Jay Ball. The club also announced that he would remain as the head coach for the 2020 Canadian Premier League season. Personal life Paulus was born in Scarborough, Ontario and raised in Toronto, Ontario. He graduated from Dalhousie University in 2002 with a degree in History and Sociology, and earned a Bachelor of Education from Acadia University two years later. In 2017, Paulus graduated from Athabasca University with a master's degree in Business Administration. He served seven years in the Royal Canadian Navy and did a NATO tour to Poland onboard HMCS Halifax. Paulus was a supporter of former North American Soccer League club the Toronto Blizzard. As a child, he would be a ball boy for the team at the Exhibition Stadium. Managerial statistics Honours Manager Northern Alberta Institute of Technology Canadian College Athletic Association National Champions – 2011 References Category:Living people Category:Canadian soccer players Category:1969 births Category:FC Edmonton Category:Association footballers not categorized by position Category:Soccer people from Ontario Category:Sportspeople from Scarborough, Toronto
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Union of the Snake
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"Union of the Snake" is the ninth single by the English new wave band Duran Duran, released on 17 October 1983. "Union of the Snake" was the lead single from the band's third album Seven and the Ragged Tiger (1983), and preceded its release by one month. It was originally titled, "The Union at Stake", when the band were interviewed on The Oxford Road Show in March 1983 before their first performance of "Is there something I should know?" on U.K. television. It became one of Duran Duran's most popular singles, hitting number one on the US Cash Box and peaking at number three on both the UK Singles Chart and the US Billboard Hot 100 at the end of 1983. Background and writing After a songwriting session near Cannes in France, much of the band's third album was recorded at George Martin's AIR Studios on the Caribbean island of Montserrat with producer Alex Sadkin, then mixed at 301 Studios in Sydney. Mixing for "Union of the Snake" was done right up to the last minute before the tapes had to be turned over to EMI for pressing. Lyricist Simon Le Bon (notoriously reticent about explaining his oblique lyrics) hinted in the Duran Duran lyric book The Book of Words that the borderline might be one between the conscious and subconscious minds. In later interviews, he proclaimed that it was a reference to Tantric sex. Drummer Roger Taylor stated that the beat and drum track was based upon David Bowie's 1983 single "Let's Dance". Music video The music video for "Union of the Snake" was conceived by Russell Mulcahy, who directed many of the heavy rotation videos for songs from Duran Duran's previous album Rio. However, as Mulcahy was busy preparing to direct the concert film Arena, and the documentary film Sing Blue Silver during the band's world tour, the video for "Union" was actually directed by Simon Milne (who also filmed videos for Kajagoogoo and Missing Persons). There was a bit of controversy surrounding the video as it was released to MTV a whole week before the single was released on radio. Radio stations were anxious at the time because they were concerned that channels like MTV might supplant them in the promotion of singles. The video, filmed in part in sandhills near Cronulla, features the band being tracked through the Australian desert by a half-man, half-snake creature. They eventually take a lift beneath the sands into what appears to be an underground cathedral, where the snake creature and other bizarre characters interact with vocalist Le Bon. The band's other members make only brief appearances in the video. The use of expensive sets, costumes and makeup foreshadowed the over-the-top nature of videos to come, including a 17-minute epic video for "New Moon on Monday", the massively expensive video for "The Wild Boys", and the extravagant concept/live film Arena. B-sides, bonus tracks and remixes The B-side to "Union of the Snake" was the atmospheric piece "Secret Oktober". Twenty-four hours before the master tapes of the single were to be delivered to EMI
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Manevychi Raion
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Manevychi Raion () is a raion in Volyn Oblast in western Ukraine. Its administrative center is the urban-type settlement of Manevychi. Population: See also Administrative divisions of Volyn Oblast References External links gska2.rada.gov.ua Category:Raions of Volyn Oblast
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2006 Burnley Borough Council election
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Elections to Burnley Borough Council in Lancashire, England were held on 4 May 2006. One third of the council was up for election, with by-elections in the Bank Hall and Brunshaw wards. The by-elections followed the resignations of (Bank Hall) Labour councillor Caroline Kavanagh and (Brunshaw) BNP-turned-independent-with-links-to-Labour councillor Maureen Stowe (both last elected in 2003). No party won overall control of the council. Long-serving Council and Labour group leader Stuart Caddy and his deputy Peter Kenyon both lost their seats, with Andy Tatchell becoming group leader. Liberal Democrat leader Gordon Birtwistle emerged as the council leader after a coalition formed between the Liberal Democrats and Conservatives. After the election, the composition of the council was Liberal Democrat 16 Labour 16 British National Party 7 Conservative 5 Others 1 Election result Ward results References BBC News 2006 Burnley Election Results Accessed 2010 Burnley Council Election Results 2006 Accessed 2010 Category:2006 English local elections 2006 Category:2000s in Lancashire
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Clancy Osborne
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Clarence Dewitt Osborne (November 23, 1934 – September 9, 2017) was an American football player who played with the San Francisco 49ers, Minnesota Vikings, and Oakland Raiders. He played college football at Arizona State University. Clancy Osborne grew up in Blythe, California. He died in 2017. References Category:1934 births Category:2017 deaths Category:American football linebackers Category:Arizona State Sun Devils football players Category:San Francisco 49ers players Category:Minnesota Vikings players Category:Oakland Raiders players Category:Players of American football from Texas Category:Sportspeople from Lubbock, Texas Category:American Football League players
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793 Naval Air Squadron
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793 Naval Air Squadron (793 NAS) was a Naval Air Squadron of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm. References Citations Bibliography Category:700 series Fleet Air Arm squadrons Category:Military units and formations established in 1939 Category:Military units and formations of the Royal Navy in World War II
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The Blue Hawaiians
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The Blue Hawaiians are a surf rock group from Los Angeles. They formed in 1994 to play at the opening of their friend Michelle's club, The Lava Lounge. They rose to fame soon thereafter due to the rise of one of their earliest fans, Quentin Tarantino, and an appearance on the soundtrack of the hit TV show Friends and the 1996 film Sex. The group have since released several albums which have generally fared well with critics. The band also does music for the hit cartoon series SpongeBob SquarePants and their song A Cheat was featured in an advert for Guess Jeans. Current band members include: Mark Fontana, Erik Godal, Mark Sproull, Maxwellvision, Gary Brandin. The band are in a self-described “semi-hiatus” but continue to play infrequent live shows, including appearances at the annual Tiki Oasis music festival. Discography Albums Christmas on Big Island (October 24, 1995) Live at the Lava Lounge (August 4, 1997) Sway (March 4, 1998) Savage Night (July 13, 1999) Live at the Lava Lounge 2 (November 15, 2005) Singles Glimpse of Savage Night (January 26, 1999) External links Artist Home Page on Pascal Records Artist MySpace Page Biography & Discography (in French) Reverb Central includes reviews of all five Blue Hawaiians albums Category:Surf music groups Category:Rock music groups from California Category:Musical groups established in 1994 Category:1994 establishments in California
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Butomus umbellatus
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Butomus umbellatus is the Old World Palearctic and Asian plant species in the family Butomaceae. Common names include flowering rush or grass rush. Description The plant is a rhizomatous, hairless, perennial aquatic plant. Its name is derived from Greek bous, meaning "cow", "ox" etc. and tome, a cut (the verb 'temnein' meaning "to cut"), which refers to the plant's swordlike leaves. Other than suggested by its English common name, it is not a true rush. It is native to Old World continents and grows on the margins of still and slowly moving water down to a depth of about 3 m. It has pink flowers. Introduced into North America as an ornamental plant it has now become a serious invasive weed in the Great Lakes area and in parts of the Pacific Northwest. In Israel, one of its native countries, it is an endangered species due to the dwindling of its habitat. It can also be found in Great Britain locally, for example Butomus umbellatus at Gwent Levels SSSI on the Caldicot and Wentloog Levels The plant has linear, pointed leaves up to 1 metre long, or more. The leaves are triangular in cross-section and arise in two rows along the rhizome/base. They are untoothed, parallel veined and twisted. The inflorescence is umbel-like consisting of a single terminal flower surrounded by three cymes. The flowers are regular and bisexual, 2 to 3 cm across. There are three petal-like sepals which are pink with darker veins. They persist in the fruit. The three petals are like the sepals but somewhat larger. 6 - 9 stamens. Carpels superior, 6 - 9 and slightly united at the base. When ripe they are obovoid and crowned with a persistent style. Ovules are numerous and found scattered over the inner surface of the carpel wall, except on the midrib and edges. Fruit is a follicle. The seeds have no endosperm and a straight embryo. It flowers from July until August. Uses Butomus umbellatus is cultivated as an ornamental waterside plant. In parts of Russia the rhizomes are used as food. References External links InvadingSpecies.com University of Florida, Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants Flora of Northern Ireland Tel Aviv University, close up of flower Global Invasive Species Database Category:Alismatales Category:Flora of Europe Category:Flora of temperate Asia Category:Plants described in 1753 Category:Aquatic plants Category:Invasive plant species in the United States
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Naan Sigappu Manithan (English: I am a Red Man) is a 2014 Tamil-language action thriller film directed by Thiru and produced by UTV Motion Pictures. Co-produced by Vishal, the film stars himself in the leading role with Lakshmi Menon and Ineya in supporting roles, while G. V. Prakash Kumar composed the film's music. The film deals with narcolepsy. It was released on 11 April 2014. It is dubbed into Hindi as Pyaar Reloaded and also in Telugu as Indhrudu. The movie was remade in Odia in 2017 as Shiva Not Out. The movie was declared as commercial success. Plot In the middle of the night, Indhiran (Vishal), accompanied by his two friends Sathish (Jagan) and Karuna (Sunder Ramu), purchase a gun illegally from a local gangster. Back home, Indhiran stares at his wish list and recalls his past. Since childhood, Indhiran has been suffering from narcolepsy, a rare disorder, which makes him fall asleep whenever his emotions reach an extreme and hinders him from living an ordinary life. He needs to be accompanied all the time. Companies hesitate to hire him, although he has excelled in academics, and he cannot impregnate women since he would fall asleep during sex. However, he can still hear whatever is being said when he is sleeping. Indhiran creates a list with 10 goals that he wants to achieve on his own. One day, he ventures out alone, which was one of his goals. When he is almost hit by a vehicle while crossing the road, his fear mounts, and he falls asleep in the middle of the road. A passerby (Mayilsamy) makes him pose as an orphaned corpse and gathers money from onlookers for his burial. Meera (Lakshmi Menon), who passes by, takes pity and shells out almost five grands. She later meets Indhiran in a mall and falls unconscious upon seeing him alive. After clearing up the misunderstanding, they start dating and fall for each other. Meera makes one of Indhiran's dreams come true (i.e. getting a kiss from a beautiful woman by kissing him), but her father (Jayaprakash) opposes their marriage as Indhiran cannot give birth to a child. Meera urges Indhiran to find a way how he could stay awake. It dawns on Indhiran that he had never fallen asleep while taking a shower. Believing that her father will accept Indhiran only when his potency is proved, Meera and Indhiran have sex underwater in their pool, resulting in Meera becoming pregnant. On a late-night drive, Meera and Indhiran find themselves in an under-construction bridge. Their car is hit by another, and the shock makes Indhiran doze. Meera is brutally attacked and raped by four thugs. Indhiran can hear the entire incident but remains asleep, and sheds a tear for being helpless. Meera falls into a coma, and her baby gets aborted. A heartbroken Indhiran vows to exact revenge on the perpetrators. The narrative moves back to the present. Deciding to venge all by himself, Indhiran fails to testify to the police. Indhiran comes to know that the sound of the sudden obstacles make
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By Default
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By Default is the fourth studio album by British rock band Band of Skulls, released on 27 May 2016 through BMG as the band's first release by a major label. The album was the last album to feature drummer Matt Hayward before his departure in 2017. Reception By Default has received mixed to negative reviews from critics with many criticising the album of being forgettable and lacking excitement. Drowned in Sound were especially critical of the album's lyrics, which were described as "misogynistic" and making "fuck all sense". However, in a positive review, Classic Rock Magazine praised the album's use of synthesizers and wide variety of influences including Iggy Pop and T Rex. Track listing Personnel Russell Marsden – vocals, guitar Emma Richardson – bass guitar, vocals Matt Hayward – drums Tom Coyne – mastering Gil Norton – production, mixing References Category:2016 albums Category:Band of Skulls albums Category:Dance-rock albums Category:Albums recorded at Rockfield Studios
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Michael James Breaugh (September 13, 1942 – November 22, 2019) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1975 to 1990, and in the House of Commons of Canada from 1990 to 1993. Background Breaugh was educated at Peterborough Teachers' College, Queen's University and the University of Toronto. A teacher by training, he served on the executive of the Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association. Politics He was elected in the 1975 Ontario election. A New Democrat, he won an easy victory in the working-class riding of Oshawa and was re-elected in the 1977 election. The NDP had seemed poised for an electoral breakthrough in 1977, but instead fell from second to third-place status in the legislature. When Stephen Lewis stepped down as Ontario NDP leader in 1978, Breaugh ran to succeed him. He received 499 votes at the 1978 NDP leadership convention, finishing a strong third in a field of three candidates. Most of his supporters went to Michael Cassidy rather than presumed frontrunner Ian Deans on the second ballot, giving Cassidy a narrow victory. Breaugh was re-elected in the 1981 election, though by a narrower margin than before. Breaugh had a poor relationship with Bob Rae, who replaced Cassidy as party leader in 1982. The NDP experienced a modest recovery under Rae in the 1985 provincial election, and Breaugh was again re-elected by a significant margin in Oshawa. In the 1987 election, he defeated Liberal candidate Cathy O'Flynn by the reduced margin of 2,916 votes as the Liberals won a landslide provincial majority. Breaugh often clashed with Rae in the 1980s, criticising his leadership. In 1990, he left Queen's Park and ran for a seat in the House of Commons of Canada, in a by-election called in the federal Oshawa riding to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of former New Democratic Party leader Ed Broadbent. Breaugh again defeated O'Flynn to win the by-election, which was held on August 13, a month before the 1990 Ontario election that brought Rae's NDP to power. Rae's government was largely responsible for Breaugh's defeat at the polls in 1993. The provincial NDP had by this time lost much of its support from organized labour, through austerity legislation known as the Social Contract. This had a detrimental effect on the federal NDP, which lost all of its Ontario seats in the 1993 federal election. Breaugh was reduced to a fourth-place finish in Oshawa, where the local branch of the Canadian Auto Workers had previously disaffiliated from the NDP. He supported Howard Hampton for leader of the Ontario NDP in 1996. Breaugh died on November 22, 2019. References External links Category:1942 births Category:Canadian Roman Catholics Category:2019 deaths Category:Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario Category:New Democratic Party MPs Category:Ontario New Democratic Party MPPs Category:Oshawa city councillors Category:People from Kingston, Ontario Category:University of Toronto alumni
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The Southern Connecticut Owls (also Southern Connecticut State Owls and SCSU Owls) are the athletic teams that represent Southern Connecticut State University, located in New Haven, Connecticut, in NCAA Division II intercollegiate sports. The Owls' 17 athletic teams, seven for men and 10 for women, compete as members of either the Northeast-10 Conference or the Eastern College Athletic Conference. SCSU has been a member of the NE-10 since 2000. There have been 10 NCAA National Championship Teams at Southern, as well as 75 NCAA Individual Champions in the sports of Track and Field, Swimming and Gymnastics. Sports sponsored Soccer SCSU's men's soccer team won titles in 1987, 1990, 1992, 1995, 1998, 1999. The six titles are the most for any Division II men's soccer team in the country. The program has appeared in 32 NCAA Division II Tournaments, 17 NCAA Final Four appearances, and has produced 52 All-Americans, 15 Senior Bowl Players, 4 National Player of the Year Award Winners, and 1 Golden Boot Award (Top Goalkeeper in any NCAA Division) winner. Basketball On March 24, 2007, the women's basketball team won the NCAA Division II championships. In a 61–45 victory, SCSU beat the previously undefeated Florida Gulf Coast. Gymnastics The street circle in front of the Moore Fieldhouse is named in honor of former Olympian Abie Grossfeld, former head gymnastics coach at the university. Swimming The swimming and diving team scored their highest at the NCAA championship meet in March for the years 2007 and 2008. Football SCSU's football program has produced coaches and players who went on to the National Football League. Alumni in the NFL Active Coaches Jeff Stoutland - Linebackers coach (1984–1985), Offensive coordinator (1988–1992) Tim Holt - Tight ends coach & Assistant offensive line coach (1995–1996), Running backs coach (2005–2007) Former Coaches Kevin Gilbride - Quarterback and Tight end, Head coach (1980–1984) Chris Palmer - Quarterback (1969–1971) Nick Nicolau - Running back (1957–1959), Assistant coach (1960) Volleyball SCSU's volleyball program had its most successful seasons in 2017–18 and in 2018–19. The Owls had their first National Tournament berth in 2017 with a record of 24–11. They ended their campaign in the second round of the National Tournament when they lost to New Haven. In 2018, the Owl's won their first-ever NE-10 Conference Title against American International College. The Owl's then had their second berth into the National Tournament, bust lost in the first round. National championships The Owls have won ten NCAA team national championships. Team References External links *
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Lieutenant-Colonel Godfrey Christopher Firbank MC (19 June 1895 – 8 July 1947) was an English cricketer. A left-arm orthodox spin bowler, he played first-class cricket for the Army and for the Combined Services in addition to international matches for Egypt. Born in Somerset in 1895, Firbank served in the Gloucestershire Regiment and then (from 1917) the Coldstream Guards during the First World War, reaching the rank of Lieutenant and receiving the Military Cross. He was promoted Captain in 1924 and Major in 1939. He retired as a Lieutenant-Colonel in 1945. Godfrey Firbank made his first-class debut in May 1922, playing for the Combined Services against Essex. He also played for the Household Brigade team against Eton College the same month. After playing for I Zingari against the Royal Engineers in July 1925 he went on a tour of Egypt in April 1925 with the Free Foresters, playing two matches against the Egyptian national side. Back in England, he played for the Army against the Royal Navy at Lord's that summer, his last first-class match. He later returned to Egypt, this time playing for the national side in three matches against HM Martineau's XI between 1929 and 1930. He died in Hampshire in 1947, aged 52. References Category:1895 births Category:1947 deaths Category:People from Wrington Category:Egyptian cricketers Category:English cricketers Category:British Army cricketers Category:Combined Services cricketers Category:Gloucestershire Regiment officers Category:Coldstream Guards officers Category:Recipients of the Military Cross Category:British Army personnel of World War I Category:British Army personnel of World War II
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Honicknowle is an area and ward of the city of Plymouth in the English county of Devon. It borders with West Park, Crownhill, Ham, Whitleigh and Pennycross areas of Plymouth. It was previously part of Knackersknowle. General The UK Census of 2001 revealed that the population stood at 9,802, although that number has likely increased significantly along with the growth of the city, of which 47.2 per cent were male and 52.8 per cent were female. (Information provided by The City of Plymouth website/Devon and Cornwall police) The 2011 census showed the ward population as 13,939. Education Primary schools Knowle Primary, West Park and Chaucer Primary Schools 2009 - Knowle Primary and Shakespeare Primary (Amalgamation of West Park and Chaucer Primaries, relocated in the new building on Butt Park Playing Fields). Secondary school Honicknowle County Secondary Modern School 1952 - about 1989,[demolished]. John Kitto Community College now renamed as All Saints Church of England Academy Plymouth. Shopping There is a small shopping precinct located at Honicknowle Green, which includes a Newsagent, Charity shop, Hairdressers, Pharmacy, Cafe, Fish and Chip Shop and Convenience store. In 2001 Tesco acquired the Plymco (Plymouth Co-operative) supermarket in Transit Way (also known as Transit Way Shopping Village), and since then the area has seen extensive development including a Mercedes dealership (Now relocated), Lidl, Matalan, Magnet Kitchens, Argos and B&M. Honicknowle is also within the catchment of both West Park and Crownhill shopping precincts. Criminal activities Honicknowle had quite a notorious gang culture in the mid 2000s. On 18 April 2009, an Anti Social Behaviour Order (ASBO) was served to several senior members of the notorious Honicknowle Defence Regiment, which was at a time one of the biggest criminal organizations in the United Kingdom, banning them from associating until 19 May 2009. The de facto leader of the organization was also handed a prison sentence. However, in recent years Honicknowle has, surprisingly, had quite a low rate of crime. Religion The majority religion in Honicknowle is Christian. St. Francis of Assisi church located off Little Dock Lane is closest to Honicknowle Green. There is also a thriving Methodist Church. There is A Church of England Chapel located at St Budeaux roundabout which is a part of the Honicknowle Boundary There is also a Jehovah's Witnesses hall located in Transit Way. Places of interest There are Pubs and Social Clubs located at Farm Lane and Crownhill Road. Honicknowle Green celebrated November 5 or Guy Fawkes night with a traditional bonfire and large fireworks display, most of this display was organised and funded by local citizens. However, due to new local restrictions and regulations, there is no longer an annual bonfire. Politics Honicknowle is part of the Plymouth Devonport constituency, which is subject to boundary changes for the 2009/2010 general election. They are thus: northern parts, including St. Budeaux, of the current constituency will become Plymouth Moor View and the rest will join with parts of Plymouth Sutton to form Plymouth Sutton and Devonport. The seat was won by Alison Seabeck (Labour party) in the 2005 general election. Labour Alison
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Johann Baptist Ritter von Spix (9 February 1781 – 13 March 1826) was a German biologist. From his expedition to Brazil he brought to Germany a large variety of specimens of plants, insects, mammals, birds, amphibians and fish. They constitute an important basis for today's National Zoological Collection in Munich. Numerous examples of his ethnographic collections, such as dance masks and the like, are now part of the collection of the Museum of Ethnography in Munich. Biography Spix was born in Höchstadt, in present-day Middle Franconia, as the seventh of eleven children. His childhood home is the site of the Spix Museum, open to the public since 2004. He studied philosophy in Bamberg and graduated with a doctoral degree. Later he studied theology in Würzburg. After attending lectures of the young professor F. W. J. Schelling, Spix became interested in nature. He quit his theology studies and began studying medicine, which he finished with a second doctoral degree in 1807. After a short time working as a physician in Bamberg, he was appointed by King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria as student ("Eleve") of zoology in Munich at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Munich in 1808. He received a scholarship to go to Paris to learn scientific zoology with Georges Cuvier and others. From there he also made a first excursion to the sea coast of Normandy in Northern France. Later he travelled to Southern France and Italy, collecting animals for the zoological collection of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities and investigating marine animals. In 1810 Spix came back to Munich where he sorted the zoological collection and wrote his first publication on starfish and other marine animals. After this first fundamental publication, a book about the history of zoological classification, published in 1811, he was appointed member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Spix was also appointed the first conservator, now inline with the title director, of the Bavarian zoological collection, considered as the foundation of the Zoologische Staatssammlung München. He published several further works, the most important being a comparative morphology of the skulls of many different animals, including men, apes, reptiles, birds and others. This book, the Cephalogenesis, published in 1815, was written in Latin and illustrated with beautiful lithographs. Expedition to Brazil In 1817, Spix and Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius travelled to Brazil with a group of Austrian naturalists who accompanied Maria Leopoldina of Austria. First they went to Rio de Janeiro, but soon they left the Austrian group and travelled on their own through Brazil. Spix and Martius travelled from southern Rio de Janeiro to northern São Paulo. During this part of their journey, they were accompanied by the Austrian painter Thomas Ender. Then they continued to Ouro Preto and Diamantina, in the province of Minas Gerais, where they described the mining of diamonds. From there, they went further into the continent and then back to the coast of Salvador. They crossed the dry Caatinga in northeast Brazil, suffering from different severe diseases, and several times almost died of thirst. During
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Työmies (cigarette)
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Työmies was a Finnish brand of cigarettes, which was owned and manufactured by the "Tupakkatehdas Fennia" ("Fennia Tobacco Factory"). "Työmies" is Finnish for "worker" or "working man". Työmies was a filterless cigarette, which means it had a hollow paper cone that was open at the ends. In order to reduce the risk of tobacco spilling in the mouth, a short wooden cigarette holder that came with the package had to be attached to the cigarette. If the holder was lost, the cone could be flattened or blocked with cotton wool. Amongst the people, Työmies, Klubi, and other spin-wraps were called "pillitupakki" or "pöllitupakki". History The Greek businessman Achilles Kyriako Christides founded Fennia in 1899 and started manufacturing the Työmies cigarette in 1902. The brand was so popular that Fennia soon focused exclusively on its manufacture. In 1913 the factory moved to a building designed by architect Valter Jung and Emil Fabritius in the Koskikara block at the corner of Ruoholahdenkatu and Köydenpunojankatu streets in Helsinki. Finland's coat of arms, a lion with a sword, was printed on the boxes of the Työmies cigarettes. Työmies, which was now known as "the people's cigarette" was marketed, among other things, as an economic one: "Smoking Työmies cigarettes is economical as, in terms of tobacco quantity, a box of Työmies cigarettes is equal to 2–3 boxes of cigarettes with a paper holder." (Finnish Social Democrat, May 1932) Various posters for this brand were also made during the 1930s. In the fall of 1945, when the luxury supplies were put on ration stamps, a woodcutter who cut four stacked cubic meters of logs was able to buy a "logging site power pack" containing coffee, sugar and Työmies cigarettes. Boxes of Työmies cigarettes were also part of the food parcels given to Finnish soldiers fighting the Russian efforts to seize Finland during World War II. Especially through the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, foreign cigarette brands arrived in Finland and the domestic production slowed down. Työmies was manufactured for decades up to 1984 when the Medicines Board prohibited its production as such because of the high levels of tar and nicotine. See also Cigarette Tobacco smoking References Category:Cigarette brands Category:Finnish brands
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The Log Cabin Democrat is a daily newspaper in Conway, Arkansas, United States, serving Conway and Faulkner County and some surrounding areas. It was founded in July 1879 as The Log Cabin. Its publisher is David Meadows, who also serves as the publisher of The Courier in Russellville. The founding publisher, Able F. Livingston, was a former Whig Party member, who used the party's symbol — the log cabin — as the name for his new enterprise. Ownership changed a handful of times early in the newspaper's existence, eventually passing to the family of J.W. Robins in 1894. The Robins family continued to be involved with the newspaper directly for five generations. Along the way, J.W. Underhill, a one-time owner of The Log Cabin, purchased assets of a smaller Conway newspaper,The Democrat, which operated from 1881 to 1885 and had been revived in 1899. Underhill married into the Robins family, and the two papers merged as The Log Cabin Democrat in late 1900. The daily edition of the newspaper debuted in 1908 in conjunction with coverage of the opening of the Arkansas Normal School, later renamed the University of Central Arkansas. The newspaper's main office has been on downtown Conway's Front Street since 1980, after operating from offices on Oak Street for 80 years. In addition to its primary print edition, the newspaper publishes several secondary products. Since its online debut in 1997, TheCabin.net has been augmented with multiple specialty websites through Morris DigitalWorks, covering niches such as dining, wedding planning, and local entertainment. The newspaper was operated by Morris Publishing Group which assumed full ownership in the mid-1990s. In 2017, Morris sold its newspapers to GateHouse Media. By June 2019, the newspaper changed hands again, to Paducah, Kentucky-based Paxton Media Group, as part of a four-publication acquisition in the state. References External links TheCabin.net Official mobile site Women's Inc. Faulkner County Booked Category:Newspapers published in Arkansas Category:Conway, Arkansas Category:Faulkner County, Arkansas Category:Morris Publishing Group
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Adyghe people
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The ethnonym Adyghe (; ) is used as an endonym by the Caucasian-speaking Circassians of the North Caucasus and as a demonym for the inhabitants of the Republic of Adygea, a federal subject of Russia located in the southwestern part of European Russia, enclaved within Krasnodar Krai, where it is also rendered as Adygeans (). The Adygeans (of Adygea) speak the Adyghe language. Ethnology The Adyghe people are one of the Circassian peoples, along with the Cherkess (of Karachay-Cherkessia) and Kabards (of Kabardino-Balkaria), from whom they are geographically separated by the Slav-inhabited Laba region. The languages of the Adygheans, Cherkess and Kabards are mutually intelligible, however, there is a consensus that these are typologically distinct languages. The standard (literary) Adyghe language is based on the dialect of the Temirgoy tribe. The Adygheans, known as "western Circassians" per Soviet terminology from the 1930s, use a written language separated by Soviet policy from those of the Cherkess ("central Circassians") and Kabards ("eastern Circassians"), despite the possibility to have a unified one. The Adyghe-Cherkess Autonomous Oblast was established in July 1922, "Cherkess" being dropped from the name in August 1936. The Circassian peoples are divided into tribes or clans (tlapq). There are ten Adyghe tribes (or subgroups), out of which four are identified as speaking mutually intelligible Adyghe dialects: Abzakh, Bzhedug, Temirgoy and Shapsug. The Shapsug were counted as a separate ethnic group in the censuses. Population According to the 2010 census of Russia, the number of self-declared ethnic "Adyghe" is 124,835 (0.09%). The community included 107,048 in Adygea itself (ca. 25% of the republic's population), 13,834 in Krasnodar Krai, 569 in Moscow. The majority of the population in Adygea declare as Russians (63.6%). In 2002 it was estimated that the community numbered 131,000 in all of Russia. The other closely related groups, Kabards and Cherkess, numbered 516,826 (0.38%) and 73,184 (0.05%), respectively. Those that declared as Shapsug, who speak an Adyghe dialect and are regarded an Adyghe subgroup, numbered 3,882. There is a significant Adyghe diaspora. It was estimated in 1997 that there were 71,000 Adyghe-speakers in Turkey, 44,000 in Jordan, and 25,000 in Syria. History The political history of the Adyghe in Adygea since the Russian Revolution is complex. On 27 July 1922, a Circassian (Adygea) Autonomous Oblast was established in the Kuban-Black Sea Oblast, which would later become Krasnodar Krai. After several name changes, the Adyghe Autonomous Oblast was established on 3 August 1928. On 5 October 1990, the Adygea ASSR was proclaimed and separated from Krasnodar Krai. On 24 March 1992, it became the Republic of Adygea. A significant population of the Adyghe community now lives in the Black Sea region of Northern Turkey where their culture is preserved in villages in the area. Annotations References Sources Category:Adygea Category:Ethnic groups in Russia Category:History of Kuban Category:Indigenous peoples of Europe Category:Krasnodar Krai Category:Muslim communities of Russia Category:Peoples of the Caucasus
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Breach (2018 video game)
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Breach was an action role-playing game developed by American studio QC Games, a former studio of ex-BioWare and EA Games developers. The game was released on Steam Early Access on January 17, 2018, but its development was cancelled entirely on April 3, 2019, along with the closure of the studio itself. The game received mixed reviews from critics. Plot The story of Breach involves a group of "modern-day mages" who attempt to prevent a magical apocalypse when monsters of legend emerge from portals known as "breaches". Gameplay The gameplay of Breach is "a hybrid of dungeon crawling and Devil May Cry" with an "MMO-lite structure". The game is 4v1 asymmetrical multiplayer in which four players attempt to get through a dungeon while a fifth controls a "Veil Demon" that can possess enemies, traps and boss monsters inside the dungeon. It had 18 playable classes. Development The concept for Breach initially came from Shadow Realms, a planned BioWare Austin game that was unveiled in 2014 but cancelled by EA due to a "change in strategy" away from free-to-play games. Breach initially had an upfront cost, but was planned to eventually be free-to-play, though the game's designer stated that it would not be "pay to win". QC Games announced it was closing on April 3, 2019, ostensibly due to lack of funding, though they did not cite a specific reason for the shutdown. Reception Breach garnered mixed reviews on Steam, with detractors citing crashes and framerate problems that resulted in the game being a "laggy mess", as well as the game's microtransaction system. References Category:2018 video games Category:Early access video games Category:Action role-playing video games Category:Windows games Category:Windows-only games Category:Asymmetrical multiplayer video games Category:Inactive multiplayer online games Category:Cancelled Windows games Category:Indie video games Category:Video games developed in the United States
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Le Charmel
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Le Charmel is a commune in the Aisne department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. Population See also Communes of the Aisne department References INSEE Category:Communes of Aisne Category:Aisne communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia
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Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force
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Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF; ) was the headquarters of the Commander of Allied forces in north west Europe, from late 1943 until the end of World War II. U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower was the commander in SHAEF throughout its existence. The position itself shares a common lineage with Supreme Allied Commander Europe and Atlantic, but they are different titles. History during the Second World War Eisenhower transferred from command of the Mediterranean Theater of Operations to command SHAEF, which was formed in Camp Griffiss, Bushy Park, Teddington, London, from December 1943; an adjacent street named Shaef Way, and a gate into the called Shaef Gate, remain to this day. Southwick House was used as an alternative headquarters near Portsmouth. Its staff took the outline plan for Operation Overlord created by Lieutenant General Sir Frederick E. Morgan, Chief of Staff to the Supreme Allied Commander (Designate) (COSSAC), and Major General Ray Barker. Morgan, who had been appointed chief of staff to the Supreme Allied Commander (designate) in mid-March 1943 began planning for the invasion of Europe before Eisenhower's appointment and moulded the plan into the final version, which was executed on 6 June 1944. That process was shaped by Eisenhower and the land forces commander for the initial part of the invasion, General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery. SHAEF remained in the United Kingdom until sufficient forces were ashore to justify its transfer to France. At that point, Montgomery ceased to command all land forces but continued as Commander in Chief of the British 21st Army Group (21 AG) on the eastern wing of the Normandy bridgehead. The American 12th Army Group (12 AG) commanded by Lieutenant General Omar Bradley was created as the western wing of the bridgehead. As the breakout from Normandy took place, the Allies launched the invasion of southern France on 15 August 1944 with the American 6th Army Group (6 AG) under the command of Lieutenant General Jacob L. Devers. During the invasion of southern France, the 6 AG was under the command of the Allied Forces Headquarters (AFHQ) of the Mediterranean Theatre of Operations, but after one month command passed to SHAEF. By this time, the three Army Groups had taken up the positions on the Western Front in which they would remain until the end of the war—the British 21 AG to the North, the American 12 AG in the middle and the 6 AG to the South. By December 1944, SHAEF had established itself in the Trianon Palace Hotel in Versailles, France. In February 1945, it moved to Reims and, on 26 April 1945, SHAEF moved to Frankfurt. Order of battle SHAEF commanded the largest number of formations ever committed to one operation on the Western Front, with American, French army of liberation, British and Canadian Army forces. It commanded all Allied airborne forces as an Airborne Army, as well as three Army Groups that controlled a total of eight field armies; First Allied Airborne Army all Allied airborne divisions, brigades and paratrooper transport wings British 21st Army Group First Canadian Army Second
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Inauguration of Theodore Roosevelt
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Inauguration of Theodore Roosevelt may refer to: First inauguration of Theodore Roosevelt, 1901 Second inauguration of Theodore Roosevelt, 1905
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Ferenc Vozar
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Ferenc Vozar (19 April 1945 in Budapest - 15 February 1999 in Denzlingen) was a Hungarian-born ice hockey player who played for the West German national team. He won a bronze medal at the 1976 Winter Olympics. References Category:1945 births Category:1999 deaths Category:Sportspeople from Budapest Category:Hungarian emigrants to Germany Category:Ice hockey players at the 1976 Winter Olympics Category:Olympic bronze medalists for West Germany Category:Olympic ice hockey players of West Germany Category:Olympic medalists in ice hockey Category:West German ice hockey forwards Category:Medalists at the 1976 Winter Olympics Category:EHC Freiburg players Category:German Ice Hockey Hall of Fame inductees Category:Recipients of the Silver Laurel Leaf
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Urmia University
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Urmia University (; ) (also known as the University of Urmia) is a public university in West Azarbaijan province, Iran. The main campus of Urmia University is in Nazlu, in the vicinity of Urmia. It has six campuses, seven schools, more than 14,000 students, and several exclusive research centers including Microelectronic, Antenna and Microwave Laboratory, Nanotechnology, MEMS, and Artemia. Urmia University also has two satellite campuses in Khoy and Miyandoab city. Nazlu campus of Urmia University is the biggest university campus in size in the northwest of Iran. Urmia University is ranked as one of Iran's "Grade A" universities by Ministry of Science, Research and Technology. History Westminster Medical College (1878-1905) Urmia University is founded in place of Westminster Medical College, which was founded by Joseph Cochran in 1878 in the city of Urmia. Westminster College is considered as the first attempt to establish a higher education institution in Urmia. Dr. Cochran, an American citizen who was born in Urmia, spent his entire professional life in developing the medical college and hospital in Urmia. The website of Urmia University credits attempts of Cochran for "lowering the infant mortality rate in the region" and for founding one of Iran's first modern hospitals (Westminster Hospital) in Urmia. The medical faculty Cochran established was joined by several other American medical doctors including Dr. Wright, Dr. Homlz, Dr. Van Nourdon, and Dr. Miller. They lived their entire life in Urmia. The certificates of the graduates from Westminster Medical College were jointly signed by Dr. Cochran and King Mozaffar-edin Shah. This college continued to educate students in medical science until the death of Dr. Cochran in 1905. The office of Dr. Cochran and his medical college in the wooden building are preserved in the city campus of Urmia University. The university website honored Cochran and his team's work saying: There they lie in peace away from their homeland and the testimonial epitaphs on their tombs signify their endeavor and devotion to humanity. Later re-establishment and developments (1965-) The formal foundation for current Urmia University was laid in 1965 when the Agricultural College of Rezaeiye was established. Mr. Shabani was appointed as the first consular of the newly established college. In 1969, Jafar Rassi was appointed as chancellor to continue the expansion of the University. In 1970, the Iranian Ministry of Science assigned further development of the college to the university. An agreement was signed between the Iranian government and the Near East Foundation in the United States to establish a four-year program. Later, Dr. Rassi was appointed as the new consular of the college. Dr. Rassi, the longest-serving consular of Urmia University till date, established the Animal Science and Science Departments. Under his leadership, the college started a four-year program of bachelor's degree. He also established a partnership with European and American schools to establish an exchange of scholars. He planned the expansion in Nazlu Campus which is now the primary location for the University. With the new developments, the complex was renamed as the University of Rezaeye in 1977. After the Iranian Revolution of 1979, the
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Awi, Cross River State
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Awi is a commune in Akamkpa local government area of Cross River State, Nigeria. References Category:Villages in Cross River State
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Elena Grölz
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Elena Grölz née Leonte (born 26 July 1960 in Bacău) is a Romanian-born German retired handball player. She participated at the 1992 Summer Olympics, where the German national team placed fourth. Honours 4× Romanian champion 3× Romanian Cup winner 3× German champion with TV Lützellinden 2× German Cup winner with TV Lützellinden 4× German League Top scorer in 1991, 1992, 1993 and 1995 with TV Mainzlar 3× German handballer of the Year in 1988, 1991 and 1992 References Profile at sports-reference.com Category:1960 births Category:Living people Category:Sportspeople from Bacău Category:German female handball players Category:German people of Romanian descent Category:Romanian female handball players Category:Romanian emigrants to Germany Category:Olympic handball players of Germany Category:Handball players at the 1992 Summer Olympics
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Johannes Weertman
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Johannes Weertman (May 11, 1925 – October 13, 2018) was an American materials scientist and geophysicist. Biography Born in 1925 in Fairfield, Alabama, Weertman served in the United States Marine Corps for three years. He then received from Carnegie Institute of Technology his bachelor's degree in 1948 and his Ph.D. in physics in 1951 under the supervision of James Koehler. As a postdoc Weertman was a Fulbright Fellow at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. Beginning in 1952 he was at the US Naval Research Laboratory. At Northwestern University he became in 1959 an associate professor and then a full professor; in 1963 he became there a professor of geophysics and from 1968 Walter P. Murphy Professor for Materials Science and Engineering (now professor emeritus). He was from 1967 to 1991 a consultant for the Los Alamos National Laboratory. In 1964 he was a visiting professor at Caltech. From 1960 to 1975 he was a consultant for the US Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory. He was also a consultant for the Bain Laboratory of the US Steel Corporation and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. In 1986 he was a visiting scientist at the Swiss reactor research institute and in 1971–1972 at Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge. Weertman Island off Antarctica is named after him. Weertman was married since 1950 to Julia Randall Weertman and had a son and a daughter. He died on October 13, 2018 at the age of 93. Awards and honors Seligman Crystal of the International Glaciological Society, 1983 Acta Metallurgica Gold Medal, 1980 Champion H. Mathewson Gold Medal of the Metallurgical Society of AIME for work on creep and fatigue fracture, 1977 Guggenheim Fellowship, 1970 Robert E. Horton Medal, American Geophysical Union, 1962 Fulbright Fellowship, 1951 Fellow of Geological Society of America, 1970 Fellow of the American Physical Society, 1982 Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, 1982 Selected publications with Julia R. Weertman: Elementary dislocation theory, Macmillan 1964, Oxford University Press 1993 Dislocation based fracture mechanics, World Scientific 1996 References Category:1925 births Category:2018 deaths Category:American geophysicists Category:Carnegie Mellon University alumni Category:Northwestern University faculty Category:Fellows of the American Physical Society Category:Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Category:People from Fairfield, Alabama Category:People of the Scott Polar Research Institute Category:Military personnel from Alabama Category:Fellows of the American Geophysical Union Category:Fellows of the Geological Society of America Category:Fulbright Scholars Category:Writers from Alabama
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Froude–Krylov force
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In fluid dynamics, the Froude–Krylov force—sometimes also called the Froude–Kriloff force—is a hydrodynamical force named after William Froude and Alexei Krylov. The Froude–Krylov force is the force introduced by the unsteady pressure field generated by undisturbed waves. The Froude–Krylov force does, together with the diffraction force, make up the total non-viscous forces acting on a floating body in regular waves. The diffraction force is due to the floating body disturbing the waves. Formulas The Froude–Krylov force can be calculated from: where is the Froude–Krylov force, is the wetted surface of the floating body, is the pressure in the undisturbed waves and the body's normal vector pointing into the water. In the simplest case the formula may be expressed as the product of the wetted surface area (A) of the floating body, and the dynamic pressure acting from the waves on the body: The dynamic pressure, , close to the surface, is given by: where is the sea water density (approx. 1030 kg/m³) is the acceleration due to the earth's gravity (9.81 m/s²) is the wave height from crest to trough. See also Response Amplitude Operator References Category:Shipbuilding Category:Naval architecture Category:Fluid dynamics
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Henri Friedlaender (1904–1996) was an Israeli typographer and book designer. He co-founded the Hadassah Printing School and served as the first director of the school. Early life He was born in Lyon, France in 1904 to a British mother, Rose Calmann and a German-Jewish father, Théodore Friedlaender, who was a silk merchant. His sister was the ceramic artist Marguerite Wildenhain. At the age of six the family moved to Berlin where he attended the Mommsen-Gymnasium. In 1925, he moved to Leipzig, where he studied calligraphy and printing in Leipzig Academy of Graphic Arts. Career and Personal Life In 1930, Friedlaender started working on the Hebrew typeface Hadassah in Germany. He later worked with B. G. Teubner and with Wirth in Dresden, with Jakob Hegner in Hellerau, and for the Klingspor Type Foundry with Max Dorn. After working with Rudolf Koch he became a typographic designer with Hartung in Hamburg and later a printer and manager with Haag-Drugulin in Leipzig with Ernst Kellner. In 1932, Friedlaender immigrated to the Netherlands where he worked as art director of Druckerei Mounton & Co. in The Hague. In 1940 Friedlaender married Maria Helena Bruhn, a gymnastics teacher. Due to the Nazi occupation restrictions he had to stop his professional activities and hide in the attic of his house in Wassenaar. Between 1940 and 1945 he was totally isolated, communicating only with his wife who, herself not being Jewish, could overtly make a living. In these years he continued to work for the Exilliteratur publishers Querido and Allert de Lange, and further designed the Hadassah typeface (completed in 1958). In 1950, Friedlaender along with his wife and daughter immigrated to Israel, where he headed the Hadassah-Brandeis Apprentice School of Printing in Jerusalem. Retiring in 1970 he continued to work as a book designer and teacher, and designed three Hebrew typefaces for the IBM Selectric typewriter II typeball (Shalom, Hadar, Aviv). Friedlaender died in Motza Illit (near Jerusalem) at the age of 92, in 1996 and his wife died in 1994, at the age of 90. Recognition 1937 - Silver medal: Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne 1950 - Buchpreis (Duwaer-Prijs) der Stadt Amsterdam 1954 - La Triennale di Milano 1959 - Internationale Buchkunst Ausstellung in Leipzig 1971 - Gutenberg Prize. Solo exhibitions Israel Museum - 1973 Tel Aviv Museum of Art - 1985 Writings by Die Vorbilder der Mediäval und der Antiqua, Archiv für Buchgewerbe und Gebrauchsgraphik, Leipzig: Deutsche Buchgewerbeverein., 1927, 10/12, pp. 726–30 Die Buchbinderinnen Dorothea und Katharina Freise, Archiv für Buchgewerbe und Gebrauchsgraphik, Leipzig: Deutsche Buchgewerbeverein., May 1932, pp. 227–32 Moderne holländische Druckschriften, Schweizer Graphische Mitteilungen (journal), to 1951. See also Typographische Monatsblätter. Aug. 1948, pp. 336–9 (brief Eng. summary pp. 359, 361) Philobiblon, 1933, p. 1 (self-advertisement) Typografisch ABC, Den Haag, 1939 (written for apprentices at Mouton) (Dutch) De Overweldiger. Hoofdstuk I en II van het boek Habakuk vertaald door Henri Friedlaender (1945) (Dutch) Zijn einde. Jesaja XIV: 3-21 vertaald door Henri Friedlaender (1945) (Dutch) Der Knecht Gottes, (introduction + commentary) Pulvis Viarum (1947) (German) Hoe bereikt men aesthetisch verantwoord
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1983–84 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team
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The 1983–84 Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team represented University of Kentucky and went to the 1984 Final Four. The head coach was Joe B. Hall. The team was a member of the Southeast Conference and played their home games at Rupp Arena. Because the Wildcats played the regional final on their home court, the following season the NCAA enacted a rule not allowing any school to play in a tournament game on its home court. Schedule |- !colspan=12 style=| Regular Season |- !colspan=12 style=| SEC Tournament |- !colspan=12 style=| NCAA Tournament Statistics C Melvin Turpin (6-11, Sr) 15.2 ppg F Kenny Walker (6-8, So) 12.4 ppg F Sam Bowie (7-1, Sr) 10.5 ppg G Jim Master (6-5, Sr) 9.6 ppg F Winston Bennett (6-7, Fr) 6.5 ppg Awards and honors Team players drafted into the NBA References Kentucky Category:Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball seasons Category:NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament Final Four seasons Kentucky Kentucky Wildcats Kentucky Wildcats
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Thyra Frank
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Thyra Frank (born 10 May 1952) is a Danish nurse and politician. She was born in Skørping to Jens Kristian Frank and Anna Nystrup Frank, and is married to Peter Camillo Rasmussen. She was elected member of Folketinget for the Liberal Alliance from 2011 to 2015. She was appointed Minister for Elderly Affairs in the Lars Løkke Rasmussen III Cabinet from 28 November 2016 to 27 June 2019. Frank was decorated Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog in 2008. References Category:1952 births Category:Living people Category:Danish nurses Category:People from Rebild Municipality Category:Government ministers of Denmark Category:Liberal Alliance (Denmark) politicians Category:21st-century Danish politicians Category:21st-century Danish women politicians Category:Women government ministers of Denmark
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List of business schools in Chile
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There are more than 40 private and public universities in Chile that grant undergraduate and graduate degrees in business fields as administration, economics, finance, marketing and human resources. The list below are the most popular national rankings based on business managers and recruiters surveys. All of the universities mentioned are accredited by the National Accreditation Commission (CNA) due to they have achieved the higher educational standards imposed by this government institution. Top ranked Business Schools in Chile Ranking top ten "Que Pasa Magazine" 2008 (All business schools) Ranking Top Ten Private Business Schools with more future. "Que Pasa Magazine" 2008. Top business schools according to school reputation and potential students preferences. El Mercurio Online (Journal), 2007. Category:Lists of business schools
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1943–44 OB I bajnoksag season
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The 1943–44 OB I bajnokság season was the eighth season of the OB I bajnokság, the top level of ice hockey in Hungary. Five teams participated in the final round of the league, and BKE Budapest won the championship. Regular season Budapest Group South Group Kassa Group Kassai VSC qualified for final round. Erdély Group Final round External links Season on hockeyarchives.info Hun Category:OB I bajnoksag seasons Category:1943–44 in Hungarian ice hockey
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Kuštilj (Serbian Cyrillic: Куштиљ, Romanian: Coștei) is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Vršac municipality, in the South Banat District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Romanian ethnic majority (95.16%) and its population numbering 664 people (2011 census). See also List of places in Serbia List of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina Category:Populated places in Serbian Banat Category:Populated places in South Banat District Category:Vršac Category:Romanian communities in Serbia
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World Day for Laboratory Animals
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World Day For Animals In Laboratories (WDAIL) (also known as World Lab Animal Day) is observed every year on 24 April. The surrounding week has come to be known as "World Week for Animals In Laboratories". The National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS) describe the day as an "international day of commemoration" for animals in laboratories. History World Day For Animals In Laboratories was established in 1980 by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals(PETA). PETA Founder, Ingrid Newkirk created the day to advocate for animals in labs. Today the event is marked by demonstrations and protests by groups opposed to the use of animals in research. In April 2010 protesters marched through central London calling for an end to the use of animals in research,. A similar march took place in Birmingham in 2012. and Nottingham in 2014. World Day and World Week For Animals In Laboratories have also attracted attention from scientific groups defending the use of animals in research. On 22 April 2009 members of UCLA Pro-Test held a rally in support of biomedical research on animals, and to condemn the violence and harassment directed at faculty member Prof. David Jentsch by animal activists. NAVS and other groups opposed to animal research have claimed that World Day For Animals In Laboratories is recognised by the United Nations. However, the day is not included on the official list of United Nations observances. External links UK Event Website PETA's Website References Category:International observances Category:Animal rights Category:Animal testing Category:April observances
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Canyon Valley, Texas
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Canyon Valley is a ghost town in southern Crosby County, Texas, United States. Today, it has only a few farms and ranches scattered across the area. Geography Canyon Valley is located south of Ralls in southwestern Crosby County. Only one road passes through Canyon Valley, and it is unpaved and passes through a low-water crossing that is often impassable during wet weather. The nearest paved road is Texas State Highway 207, which passes to the west at a distance around . Canyon Valley lies below the Caprock, which defines the southeastern edge of the vast Llano Estacado. It lies within the physiographic region known as the Rolling Plains in the highly eroded valley of the Salt Fork Brazos River. History In 1925, James A. Shoemaker brought his family to Crosby County, where he bought a quarter-section of land 3 miles south of the small community of Cap Rock. A three-room house was built on the property, while the land was cleared for farming. Water was hauled in barrels by wagon from the Salt Fork Brazos River until a well was dug with hand tools. The community grew slowly, but by the early 1930s, Canyon Valley had a cotton gin and a general store. The Valley Gin ginned 2,230 bales of cotton in 1934. In 1953, the commissioners court proposed a paved road that would have connected the Valley Gin to the "Ralls and Post Highway" (SH 207). Unfortunately, the proposed road was rejected by the district highway engineer. Although a paved road was never completed, two steel pony-truss bridges were constructed to span Lake Creek and another unnamed dry creek that intermittently becomes a tributary of the Salt Fork Brazos River. The lack of a paved road leading to the community limited the growth of Canyon Valley, and in the late 1950s, the Valley Gin shut down and consolidated with the gin in nearby Kalgary, Texas. Education In the early days of Canyon Valley, as more families moved into the area, the number of children grew until enough children were present to justify building a school. In 1926, a one-room schoolhouse was built, and by 1928, a second room was added to the schoolhouse to accommodate the growing student population. The total number of students in Canyon Valley school increased to 66 in 1934, and then reduced to 60 students in 1942. The school served the community until 1947, when it was consolidated with the Cap Rock school to form the Caprock Consolidated Independent School District. A grade school remained in operation at Cap Rock until August 23, 1960, when the district was consolidated with Ralls Independent School District. See also Blanco Canyon Caprock Escarpment Double Mountain Fork Brazos River List of ghost towns in Texas Little Red River Mount Blanco West Texas White River (Texas) Yellow House Canyon References External links Category:Towns in Crosby County, Texas Category:Towns in Texas Category:Lubbock metropolitan area
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Wally Kurth
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Wallace Kurth (born July 31, 1958) is an American singer and television performer. He is best known for his work on the soap opera General Hospital as the second Ned Ashton, which he has portrayed since 1993, and for his role as Justin Kiriakis on Days of Our Lives a role he originated in 1987 and played until he left the show in 1991, returning to reprise the role in August 2009. He also played the character of Sam Hutchins on As the World Turns for several months in late 2007 and early 2008. Career In 2005, General Hospital producers bumped Kurth to recurring status and removed his photo from the opening credits. He was the host of his own SOAPNet show, 1 Day With, in which he spends a day with another soap star. He has spent a day with several of his General Hospital pals such as Tamara Braun, Alicia Leigh Willis, Ingo Rademacher, Anthony Geary, Scott Clifton, Rick Hearst, and Tyler Christopher, as well as actors from other soaps. He also narrated the History Channel series Battle 360. In addition to appearing on television, he also has a band, Kurth and Taylor. The band has performed on and produced songs for General Hospital. Personal life Kurth was born in Billings, Montana. He has been married to Debra Yuhasz since 2003. They have one child: Brogan George (b. November 14, 2004). Kurth was previously married to Cynthia Ettinger and Rena Sofer. Kurth and Sofer share one child: Rosabel Rosalind (b. September 17, 1996). Kurth also has a child from a previous relationship: Meghann Sidney (b. October 29, 1985). Filmography References External links Ned Ashton character profile on SoapCentral Justin Kiriakis character profile on SoapCentral Wally Kurth's official site and forum Kurth and Taylor official site Category:1958 births Category:Living people Category:People from Billings, Montana Category:American male soap opera actors Category:Daytime Emmy Award winners Category:Male actors from Montana Category:Musicians from Montana Category:Musicians from Manhattan Beach, California
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Billy Mutale
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Billy Mutale (born 21 June 1993) is a Zambian footballer who plays as a defender for SuperSport United F.C. and the Zambia national football team. References External links Category:1993 births Category:Living people Category:SuperSport United F.C. players Category:South African Premier Division players Category:Zambian footballers Category:Zambia youth international footballers Category:Zambia international footballers Category:Association football defenders
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Hatfields & McCoys (miniseries)
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Hatfields & McCoys is a 2012 American three-part Western television miniseries based on the Hatfield–McCoy feud produced by History channel. The two-hour episodes aired on May 28, 29, and 30, 2012. Cast and characters Kevin Costner as William Anderson "Devil Anse" Hatfield Bill Paxton as Randolph "Randall" McCoy Tom Berenger as Jim Vance Powers Boothe as Judge Valentine "Wall" Hatfield Mare Winningham as Sally McCoy Jena Malone as Nancy McCoy Boyd Holbrook as William "Cap" Hatfield Lindsay Pulsipher as Roseanna McCoy Matt Barr as Johnson "Johnse" Hatfield Ronan Vibert as Perry Cline Noel Fisher as Ellison "Cotton Top" Mounts Sam Reid as Tolbert McCoy Andrew Howard as "Bad" Frank Phillips Jilon VanOver as Ransom Bray Sarah Parish as Levicy Hatfield Joe Absolom as Selkirk McCoy Tom McKay as Jim McCoy Michael Jibson as Pharmer McCoy Greg Patmore as Elias "Good 'Lias" Hatfield Damian O'Hare as Ellison Hatfield Nick Dunning as Reverend Garrett Rob Moran as John B. Floyd Production The miniseries was History'''s first aired scripted drama (the network had previously produced a scripted miniseries in 2011, The Kennedys, but decided against airing it in the United States). Although the story is set in the Appalachians in West Virginia and Kentucky, the miniseries was shot in Romania, just outside Brașov with the Carpathians standing in for the Appalachians. Music The score for the series was composed by John Debney and Tony Morales, with additional music by Kevin Costner and Modern West. The soundtrack features vocals performed by Lisbeth Scott on The Long Road Down. Reception Critical reception The miniseries met with favorable reviews from American critics. Based on 20 reviews from mainstream critics, it received an average score of 68/100 at Metacritic, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Linda Stasi of the New York Post commented: Entertainment Weekly Ken Tucker gave the series a B+, stating: "In stretching the tale over three nights, the pacing sags at times, and recriminations can get repetitive. It also doesn't help that Reynolds shot the miniseries in that perpetual sepia tone that gives everything a faux-antique look. But overall, Hatfields & McCoys is engrossing, and enlightening about a feud that proves to be a lot more than the bumpkin brawl of pop legend." Mary McNamara of the Los Angeles Times wrote: Among the negative critics was Verne Gay of Newsday who called the series "violent and dull", adding: Washington Posts Hank Stuever also gave a negative review: AccoladesHatfields & McCoys received 16 nominations at the 64th Primetime Emmy Awards, the most since the History Channel began operations. The series was nominated for Outstanding Miniseries or Movie. Kevin Costner and Bill Paxton were both nominated for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie, with Costner winning the award. Tom Berenger won Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie and Mare Winningham was nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie. Director Kevin Reynolds was nominated for Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie, or Dramatic Special. Ted Mann, Ronald Parker, and Bill Kerby were nominated for Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie, or Dramatic Special for
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XEPUR-AM (La Voz de los Purépechas; ) is an indigenous community radio station that broadcasts in Spanish and Purepecha from Cherán in the Mexican state of Michoacán. It is run by the Cultural Indigenist Broadcasting System (SRCI) of the National Commission for the Development of Indigenous Peoples (CDI). External links XEPUR website Locator FCC information for XEPUR References Category:Sistema de Radiodifusoras Culturales Indígenas Category:Radio stations in Michoacán Category:Purépecha-language radio stations
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Dwelling
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In law, a dwelling (also residence, abode) is a self-contained unit of accommodation used by one or more households as a home - such as a house, apartment, mobile home, houseboat, vehicle or other "substantial" structure. The concept of a dwelling has significance in relation to search and seizure, conveyancing of real property, burglary, trespass, and land-use planning. Legal definitions Legal definitions vary by jurisdiction. 'Dwelling' (England and Wales) Under English law, a dwelling is defined as a self-contained 'substantial' unit of accommodation, such as a building, part of a building, caravan, houseboat or other mobile home. A tent is not normally considered substantial. 'Dwelling' (North Carolina) According to N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-442, "Dwelling" means any building, structure, manufactured home or mobile home, or part thereof, used and occupied for human habitation, or intended to be so used, and includes any outhouses and appurtenances belonging thereto or usually enjoyed therewith, except that it does not include any manufactured home or mobile home, which is used solely for a seasonal vacation purpose." According to N.C. Gen. Stat. § 53-244.030, "Dwelling" means a residential structure that contains one to four units, whether or not that structure is attached to real property. The term includes an individual condominium unit, cooperative unit, manufactured home, mobile home, or trailer if it is used as a residence. Under the Oregon law, a "dwelling" is defined as a "building which regularly or intermittently is occupied by a person lodging therein at night, whether or not a person is actually present." United States v. Adams, 2009 U.S. App. LEXIS 25866 (9th Cir. Or. Nov. 25, 2009) 'Habitual residence' (international law) In international conventions, a person can have only one habitual residence, being the place where the individual ordinarily resides and routinely returns to after visiting other places for a reasonably significant period of time. It is used to determine the law which should be applied to determine a given legal dispute. The Hague Conference on Private International Law has deliberately refrained from offering a definition so that the concept may be flexible and adaptable to practical requirements. 'Inhabited dwelling' (Various US states) In California, Criminal Penal Code 246 which refers to shooting a firearm at an inhabited dwelling. This code specifies that a "dwelling" (more commonly referred to as a house) is "inhabited" if a person lives in it; it is irrelevant whether anyone is present. A house, building, or structure is not considered "inhabited" or "occupied" if the occupants have moved out or vacated and do not intend to return, even if personal property is/was left behind. Therefore, it would no longer be considered a dwelling for legal purposes, which from a defense standpoint, would negate a conviction under this code. For prosectors, it is advantageous to construe these terms loosely in order to secure as many convictions as possible for violation of this code. Examples of loose interpretation exist not only in California, but also in other states such as Colorado where similar code (Colorado Code § 18-1-901(3)(g)) applies in cases even when a shooting at an
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Bolesław Masłowski
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Bolesław Masłowski was a Polish chemist born in 1851 in Włodawa. He died in 1928 in Konice, Czechoslovakia. He contributed to the dyeing industry. Biography Family Bolesław Masłowski was born on the Bug River, Włodawa, Poland to Rajmund Masłowski (1825–1897), a lawyer, and Waleria Józefa of Danilewicz (1827–1869). His baptism certificate is stored in the parish archives of St.Louis of Pauline Fathers in Włodawa. Born into an impoverished noble family, he had a few notable relatives, including his brother and his maternal grandfather. His brother Stanisław Masłowski was a Polish painter who lived from 1853–1926. His grandfather, Wincenty Danilewicz (Ostoja coat of arms, born in 1787 in Mińsk Lit, a former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth territory), was enlisted as a light-cavalryman for active duty in the Napoleonic campaign, for which he was awarded the French Order of Legion of Honour. His family originally came from Wieluń, Poland. They used the nickname "Watta of Ruda" (Polish: "Z Rudy"). (Ruda was the first capital of Wieluń County.) Early Years In 1856, Masłowski and his family moved from Włodawa to Garwolin, and then to Chęciny shortly thereafter in 1858. According to records, in 1864 he was arrested and dispatched on unknown charges, then sentenced approximately six months at Kielce prison. In 1865, the Masłowski family established residence in Kalisz. Education After graduating from a local high school in Kalisz, Masłowski began a two-year study of pharmacy in Warsaw, where his parents had relocated in 1871. It is unknown what became of his academic efforts in Warsaw. He continued his studies at Heidelberg University. There, he frequently attended the lectures of Professor Robert Bunsen. Masłowski's studies were interrupted in 1877 by the outbreak of the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878). A subject to the Russian Empire, Masłowski was drafted into the Imperial Russian Army and put into the sanitary service. Fortunately, he was able to continue his education after the war ended. Once he left the army, he picked up his studies at Mulhouse, Alsace. During his time there, he learnt from the great Professor E. Noelting. Masłowski graduated in 1881 with a degree in dye (pigment) chemistry, as a specialization. Career Masłowski's career began when he took a job as a laborer in a dye Joint-Stock Company "Zawiercie" (Silesia). During the two initial months of internship, he received high praise from superiors for his achievements. As a result, he quickly became a collaborator of E. Lauter, who was an outstanding specialist in the field of dyeing techniques. Within three months, he was hired as manager of calico printing. Three years later, he was promoted to company manager, with 6000 employees under his supervision. Masłowski held this position until 1891 after which he moved to Germany. There, five years later, he published in Farber Zeitung an article on alkaline methods of removing Turkish red dye. In 1904, Masłowski began working at a textile plant in Konice on Moravia (the territory of Austro-Hungary, then Czechoslovakia). He remained there as a managing director until his death on June 20, 1928, in Konice, leaving his children with his wife Felice. Bibliography Robert Bielecki:
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KPAS
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KPAS (103.1 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Christian radio music format. Licensed to Fabens, Texas, United States. The station is currently owned by Algie a. Felder. History The station was assigned the call letters KLMF-FM on July 30, 1979. On July 7, 1982, the station changed its call sign to the current KPAS. History of call letters The call letters KPAS previously belonged to an AM station in Banning, California, which began broadcasting November 9, 1949. In September 1953, the FCC authorized assignment of the license of KPAS of Banning, California, from Byron-Wood Motors to Henry Chester Darwin, for $6,100. References External links PAS
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Constitution of Mauritius
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The Constitution of the Republic of Mauritius () is the supreme law of Mauritius, according to Chapter I, Section 2 of the constitution, if any other law is inconsistent with this Constitution, that other law shall, to the extent of the inconsistency, be void. The current Constitution was adopted in 1968. It defines Mauritius as a sovereign democratic State which shall be known as the Republic of Mauritius. The Constitution guarantees to the citizen his fundamental rights: right to liberty and protection of the law, freedom of conscience, freedom of association, of movement and of opinion, freedom of expression, freedom of creed and of religious belief as well as the right to private property. The individual rights protected in the Constitution are mainly negatively rights, as opposed to positive rights. The Constitution establishes clearly the separation of powers between the legislative, the executive and the judiciary. The Constitution establishes a Supreme Court with unlimited jurisdiction to hear all cases, as well as two courts of appeal, divisions of the Supreme Court, to hear intermediate civil and criminal cases. See also Constitution of Mauritius (1885) Supreme Court of Mauritius Politics of Mauritius References External links Constitution of Mauritius Attorney General of Mauritius
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Torkil Åmland
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Torkil Åmland (born 23 December 1966) is a Norwegian politician for the Progress Party. He was appointed State Secretary for Robert Eriksson in the Ministry of Labour when Solberg's cabinet was formed in October 2013. Education Åmland did various studies in the humanities and social sciences at University of Bergen and University of Oslo in the 1990s. In 2001, he studied public policy at Regent University in Virginia. He obtained a Master's Degree in history at University of Bergen in 2005. Civil career Åmland has mostly worked for private Christian schools in Bergen. He was principal of Bergen Christian Primary School 1996–2000 and principal of Kristianborg Upper Secondary School 2006–2008. Both of these schools were affiliated with Levende Ord Bibelsenter. He has been principal of Danielsen Upper Secondary School since 2009. Political career Åmland became a member of the Progress Party in 1999. In his youth, he was a member of the Liberal Party. He was a member of the city council of Bergen 2003–2007. Since 2006, he has served as deputy leader of Bergen Progress Party and since 2013 as deputy leader of Hordaland Progress party. He served as a deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway from Hordaland during the terms 2009–2013, 2013–2017 and 2017–2021. He was appointed to Solberg's Cabinet as State Secretary in the Ministry of Labour from 2013 to December 2015, and later acting State Secretary in the Ministry of Justice and Public Security from January to June 2017. Personal life Åmland is married with three children. He is a Christian and was a central figure in Levende Ord Bibelsenter in the 2000s, He left the congregation in 2008. References Category:Progress Party (Norway) politicians Category:Norwegian state secretaries Category:Deputy members of the Storting Category:Politicians from Bergen Category:University of Bergen alumni Category:Norwegian Christians Category:Norwegian principals Category:1966 births Category:Living people
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Auswil is a municipality in the Oberaargau administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. History Auswil is first mentioned around 855-860 as Ouvistwilare. During the High Middle Ages the villages were protected by a fort on the Rohrbachberg. Around 1300, this fort was occupied by a Ministerialis family (unfree knights in the service of the Kyburgs). In 1318 or 1323 this fort was destroyed by Bern. Through a series of gifts between the 9th and 14th centuries, Auswil was gradually given to the Abbey of St. Gall. Under the Abbey, Auswil was part of the municipality of Rohrbach. It first began to act as an independent municipality in the 19th century. In 1826, Auswil's first school opened, though the community of Rohrbachberg remained part of the Rohrbach school district. Agriculture remains a major part of the local economy with almost half of all jobs in this sector. Geography Auswil has an area of . Of this area, or 82.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 11.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 4.9% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.2% is either rivers or lakes. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 2.8% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.9%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 48.2% is used for growing crops and 30.8% is pastures, while 3.7% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. The municipality consists of the hamlets of Oberauswil and Niederauswil, Aerbolligen, Hermandingen and Rohrbachberg. Coat of arms The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Argent a Semi Bear rampant couped Sable langued Gules and on a Chief of the last five Mullets Or, three and two. Demographics Auswil has a population () of . , 1.7% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000-2010) the population has changed at a rate of -11.4%. Migration accounted for -9.7%, while births and deaths accounted for -1.4%. Most of the population () speaks German (501 or 99.2%) as their first language. , the population was 52.7% male and 47.3% female. The population was made up of 236 Swiss men (51.4% of the population) and 6 (1.3%) non-Swiss men. There were 215 Swiss women (46.8%) and 2 (0.4%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 204 or about 40.4% were born in Auswil and lived there in 2000. There were 220 or 43.6% who were born in the same canton, while 60 or 11.9% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 16 or 3.2% were born outside of Switzerland. , children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 19.2% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 64.7% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 16.1%. , there were 228 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 241 married individuals, 28 widows or widowers and 8 individuals who are divorced. , there were 47
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Harry Anstey
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Harry Francis Anstey (24 July 1847 – 6 July 1927) was a metallurgist and gold prospector who led the prospecting expedition that discovered gold in the Yilgarn, leading to the gold rush that established Western Australia's Eastern Goldfields. Born in England in 1847, Anstey was educated at Rugby from 1863 to 1865. In 1877, he was living in Earl's Court, Kensington, Middlesex and working as a civil engineer; that year he married Edith Euphemia Carnegie. Anstey arrived in Western Australia on the in June 1887, and set up a metallurgical laboratory in Perth. Shortly afterwards, Anstey was invited to join the prospectors Richard Greaves and Edward Payne in a prospecting expedition to Bindoon. Soon after their return, news reached Perth that a Yilgarn station owner had found a nugget while sinking a well. In response to this news, a prospecting syndicate was formed, and the party was sent to the Yilgarn, with Anstey in command. On about 20 October the party discovered a reef in the Yilgarn Ranges at Ennuin, northwest of the current town of Southern Cross. The discovery prompted the gold rush that established Southern Cross and the Yilgarn Goldfield, and led to the subsequent rich finds at Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie that established the Eastern Goldfields. After returning to Perth, Anstey was appointed Government Assayer in 1889. In 1890 he was living in the Cockburn Sound area, and from 1893 he was a farmer at Jarrahdale. From 22 August 1893 until July 1894, Anstey was a nominated member of the Western Australian Legislative Council. On 16 July 1894, he contested the Legislative Council seat of South West Province but was unsuccessful. In subsequent years he speculated in real estate in Claremont and Bassendean, but in 1898 financial difficulties prompted him to sell his properties and move to Cardup, where he became an orchardist. In 1899, Anstey returned to England. Some time in the early 1910s he moved to Camberley, Surrey. After his wife died in 1926, he retired to Falmouth. He died on 6 July 1927 in a private nursing home in London. References Sources . Republished in 1981 by Victoria Park, Western Australia: Hesperian Press. . Category:1847 births Category:1927 deaths Category:Australian orchardists Category:English civil engineers Category:English emigrants to colonial Australia Category:Gold prospectors Category:Members of the Western Australian Legislative Council Category:People from Kensington
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Callanmarca District
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Callanmarca District is one of twelve districts of the province Angaraes in Peru. Ethnic groups The people in the district are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (92.03%) learnt to speak in childhood, 7.85% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census). References
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Fix (position)
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In position fixing navigation, a position fix (PF) or simply a fix is a position derived from measuring in relation to external reference points. In nautical applications, the term is generally used with manual or visual techniques such as the use of intersecting visual or radio position lines rather than the use of more automated and accurate electronic methods such as GPS; in aviation, use of electronic navigation aids is more common. A visual fix can be made by using any sighting device with a bearing indicator. Two or more objects of known position are sighted, and the bearings recorded. Bearing lines are then plotted on a chart through the locations of the sighted items. The intersection of these lines is the current position of the vessel. Usually, a fix is where two or more position lines intersect at any given time. If three position lines can be obtained, the resulting "cocked hat", where the three lines do not intersect at the same point, but create a triangle, gives the navigator an indication of the accuracy. The most accurate fixes occur when the position lines are at right angles to each other. Fixes are a necessary part of navigation by dead reckoning because dead reckoning relies on estimates of speed and course. The fix confirms the actual position during a journey. The fix itself can introduce inaccuracies if the reference point is not correctly identified or is inaccurately measured. See also Navigation Category:Navigation
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Alfred Wright (missionary)
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Alfred Wright (1788–1853) was born in Connecticut in 1788. His parents could not afford to send him to school, so he worked on the family farm until he was 17 years old and could support his own education. He studied medicine at Williams College, then studied theology at Andover Seminary. After graduating from Andover, he was ordained as a Presbyterian minister. Soon, the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions sent him to establish missions for the Choctaw tribe in Mississippi, where he met and married Harriet Bunce. In 1831, all mission activity ceased while the Choctaws fulfilled an agreement with the United States government to sell their Mississippi homeland and relocate to Indian Territory (the present state of Oklahoma). Late in 1832, the Wrights decided to locate a new mission near present-day Eagletown, Oklahoma. From then until 1846, they built and operated a church and a school to minister to Choctaws living in the surrounding area. Wright named the mission Wheelock, in honor of Eleazar Wheelock, a friend and first president of Dartmouth College. Trained in medicine, Alfred Wright often needed to tend Choctaw patients who lived some distance from the mission. Harriet took on both teaching and administrative duties for the school, with only one other teacher to assist her. When Alfred was at the mission, he was often busy either preparing sermons or translating religious texts from English to the Choctaw language. Moreover, his physical health was compromised by illnesses through much of his life. Attacks of illness increased in frequency and intensity as he grew older, but he maintained a hectic pace as much as possible. He died on March 31, 1853, and was buried near the mission. Harriet tried to keep the mission going throughout the next year, but soon found her own health was failing. She returned to the East to live with members of her own family, and died in Florida in 1863. Early life and education Alfred Wright was born in Columbia, Connecticut on March 1, 1788. His parents were Jeriah (1788-1828) and Temperance (d. 1832) Wright, who were both professors of religion. The family owned a small farm and had eleven children, so could not afford to send Alfred to school. Instead he worked on the family farm until the age of seventeen. By then, he decided to earn his own education. His parents consented to his enrolling in Bacon Academy in Colchester, Massachusetts. Despite his frail health, he was also able to obtain a job teaching school part-time. He enrolled at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts in 1810. Although he initially intended to study medicine and become a doctor, before he finished at Williams, he felt the call to study theology. After graduating from Williams College in September, 1812, he was employed as a preceptor of an academy at Hadley, Massachusetts until November, 1813, when he enrolled at Andover Seminary. Ordination and start of missionary career Alfred was ordained as a Presbyterian minister at Charleston, South Carolina on December 17, 1819. Soon after his ordination, the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign
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PAF Base Rafiqui, formerly known as PAF Base Shorkot , is a Pakistan Air Force (PAF) airbase located near Shorkot, Jhang District, in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is around 337 km south of Islamabad. The base is served by a single 10,000-foot runway and a parallel taxiway that could be used for emergency landing and recovery of aircraft. The base was renamed in honour of Squadron Leader Sarfaraz Ahmed Rafiqui, a highly decorated fighter pilot who led raids into enemy territory during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. Rafiqui is famous for assisting his fellow pilots over enemy territory despite being heavily outnumbered even after the guns of his aircraft had jammed. See also List of Pakistan Air Force Bases References External links Pakistan Aviation Category:Pakistan Air Force bases Category:Military installations in Punjab, Pakistan
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Chazara briseis
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Chazara briseis, the hermit, is a butterfly species belonging to the family Nymphalidae. It can be found in North Africa, southern Europe, Asia Minor, the Caucasus, Kazakhstan, Central Asia through Afghanistan, and north-western China and Tuva.It is found on steppe and in other dry grassy places between 500 - 2,500 mtrs The wingspan is 45–60 mm. The butterflies fly from July to September depending on the location. The larvae feed on Sesleria coerulea and Gramineae, Sesleria, Festuca, Stipa, Poa, Brachypodium and Lolium species. Subspecies C. b. briseis includes pirata Esper, 1789 C. b. major (Oberthür, 1876) Morocco, Algeria, Tunisa C. b. meridionalis (Staudinger, 1886) South Europe, West Siberia, Saur, Tarbagatai, Altai, South Siberia C. b. hyrcana (Staudinger, 1886) Kopet-Dagh C. b. fergana (Staudinger, 1886) Ghissar, S.Ghissar, Darvaz, Alai includes marandica Staudinger, 1886 C. b. magna (Rühl, [1894]) North Tian-Shan, Dzhungarsky Alatau C. b. lyrnessus (Fruhstorfer, 1908) C. b. saga (Fruhstorfer, 1909) Dalmatia C. b. armena Jachontov, 1911 Caucasus, Armenian Highland C. b. suusamyra Korb, 2005 Description in Seitz S. briseis L. (= janthe Pall., daedale Bgstr.) {42b). Very variable in size and markings; recognizable by the flat triangular club of the antenna and the pale costal margin of the forewing. The dark wings are traversed by a band which is usually composed of narrow transverse spots, bearing a distinct apical ocellus and a second similar spot before and somewhat below the middle of the distal margin. Band of the hindwing sometimes shaded. On the underside the male has large dark angular spots at the base of both wings, the female having the hindwing beneath generally uniformly brownish or grey; North France, Germany,Austria, Hungary, and the adjacent districts of Russia. — meridionalis Stgr. (42b) is the South-European form, which is especially common on the Mediterranean coasts of Europe. The white spots composing the band of the forewing are broader than in specimens from Central Europe. — magna Stgr. is the from East Europe, which flies also in some districts of Asia Minor; in size like meridionalis , but the band somewhat broader and purer white, especially on the hindwing. — ab. pirata Esp. (42 f) has the size of the previous, but the band is ochreous ; occurs among white-banded specimens in South and East Europe , and Anterior Asia, being especially large in the last country. — major Oberth. (42 c) is still considerably larger than meridionalis, the band of the forewing being much narrower, and differs at a glance from all the other forms of briseis in the hindwing beneath, on which in the male the dark triangular spot at the middle of the hindmargin is wanting and the dark longitudinal spot above the middle of the cell is quite light green-grey and not sharply defined. This large form is locally not rare in North Africa, in the Aures Mts. and the Kabylie. — hyrcana Stgr. (42 b) is similar to magna, the white band on the upperside being very narrow and the underside very conspicuously variegated ; in Persia and various places of Anterior Asia, especially in the Achal-Tekke country.
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Pomaderris elliptica
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Pomaderris elliptica is a shrub species that is native to the Australian states of New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania. Small yellow to pale yellow flowers appear between September and October in the species's native range. Two varieties are currently recognised: P. elliptica var. diemenica N.G.Walsh & Coates - Tasmanian yellow dogwood, endemic to Tasmania. P. elliptica Labill. var. elliptica - smooth pomaderris (Victoria), yellow dogwood (Tasmania) References elliptica Category:Flora of New South Wales Category:Flora of Victoria (Australia) Category:Flora of Tasmania Category:Taxa named by Jacques Labillardière
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Jeffrey Sammons
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Jeffrey T. Sammons is an American historian and professor. His areas of research and interest include African-American history, military history, and sports history. He is the author of Beyond the Ring: The Role of Boxing in American Society and co-author of Harlem's Rattlers and the Great War: The Undaunted 369th Regiment and the African American Quest for Equality. He is currently a Professor of History at New York University (NYU). Education In 1967, Sammons graduated from Bridgeton High School in New Jersey. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Rutgers College. He graduated magna cum laude and was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa honor society in 1971. Three years later, Sammons graduated from Tufts University with his Master's degree in history. In 1982, after earning various fellowships, he graduated from the University of North Carolina with his Ph.D. in American History. Career Educator After graduating from the University of North Carolina, Sammons worked at the University of Houston as an Assistant Professor of History. From 1983 to 1984, he was the post-doctoral fellow at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. He has also taught at Princeton University and Hollins College. Since 1989, Sammons has taught history at NYU. For some time, he served as the NYU history department director of graduate studies. He is involved with numerous foundations and fundraisers, such as the Julius Chamber Invitational for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Clearview Legacy Foundation, and USGA/PGA African-American Golf Archive. Sammons holds the positions of President and Secretary of the Beta chapter of Phi Beta Kappa at NYU. He is also the National Senator of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Currently, Sammons is a history adviser for the World War I Centennial Commission. He is a member of the Museum and Library Committee of the US Golf Association. Writer In 1987, as a Henry Rutgers Research Fellow, Sammons finished writing his first book Beyond the Ring: The Role of Boxing in American Society. His 2001 research fellowship from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and History and 2001 National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship led him to thoroughly research and write the book Harlem's Rattlers and the Great War: The Undaunted 369th Regiment and the African American Quest for Equality with historian Dr. John H. Morrow, Jr. Sammons has served on the editorial boards for the publications, The Journal of Sport History and Sport and Social Issues. He has been a consultant for various documentary projects and television programs, including the PBS program American Experience. As of 2014, he was working on a book about race and golf. Publications Beyond the Ring: The Role of Boxing in American Society (1988) "Race and Sport: A Critical Historical Examination" published in Journal of Sport History (1994) "Rebel with a Cause: Muhammad Ali as a Sixties Protest Symbol" published in Muhammad Ali, the People's Champ (1995) Harlem's Rattlers and the Great War: The Undaunted 369th Regiment and the African American Quest for Equality (2014) with John H. Morrow, Jr. Personal life Sammons lives in New
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Aramesh Dustdar
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Aramesh Dustdar (born in Tehran) is an Iranian philosopher, writer, scholar and a former philosophy lecturer at Tehran University. Dustdar received a PhD degree in philosophy from University of Bonn. He is known in Iran as a secular Heideggerian philosopher (in contrast to Reza Davari Ardakani who is a religious Heideggerian philosopher). See also Intellectual movements in Iran External links Personal website Defeating "Din-khou'ei" by Naser Etemadi Not private anymore Demanding criticism About Akbar Ganji and his situation (bu Aramesh Doustdar) A critical analysis of the article: "About Akbar Ganji and his situation" BBC Persian article about Aramesh Dustdar Category:Iranian philosophers Category:Iranian writers Category:Iranian academics Category:People from Tehran Category:University of Tehran faculty Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:Living people Category:University of Bonn alumni Category:Iranian atheists Category:Atheist philosophers Category:Persian-language writers Category:Iranian critics
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Boy with Apple
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Boy with Apple is a 21st-century painting by British artist Michael Taylor. Painted on commission for use as a prop in Wes Anderson's 2014 film, The Grand Budapest Hotel, the fictional backstory written for Boy with Apple played a major role in the film's plot. The portrait depicts a boy clad in Renaissance-style garb holding a green apple. The model for the portrait was actor Ed Munro. History Boy with Apple was painted by British artist Michael Taylor in 2012 for use in the then-upcoming film The Grand Budapest Hotel. Taylor was contacted by director Wes Anderson, who requested a faux Renaissance-era portrait that would evoke imagery from European art history. Anderson actively added his own input to the work; specifically, he asked that the painting be made along the lines of works by Hans Holbein the Younger and Elder, Bronzino, Lucas Cranach the Elder, and a number of Flemish and Dutch painters. A similar amount of detail was given to the painting's backstory. In the film, the painting is attributed to the fictional "Johannes Van Hoytl the Younger" and is described as being of the "Czech mannerist, Habsburg high Renaissance, Budapest neo-humanist" style. Due to the painting's role as a film prop, which required that Boy with Apple be carryable under an actor's arm, Taylor was forced to work on a smaller canvas than he was used to. Upon the release of The Grand Budapest Hotel, the painting was well-received. Art critic Jonathan Jones of The Guardian wrote a full-length analysis of the portrait, stating "Boy with Apple really is priceless, as an art history in-joke." References Category:2012 paintings Category:2012 in art Category:British paintings
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XIST
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Xist (X-inactive specific transcript) is a non-coding RNA on the X chromosome of the placental mammals that acts as a major effector of the X-inactivation process. It is a component of the Xic – X-chromosome inactivation centre – along with two other RNA genes (Jpx and Ftx) and two protein genes (Tsx and Cnbp2). The Xist RNA, a large (17 kb in humans) transcript, is expressed on the inactive chromosome and not on the active one. It is processed in a similar way to mRNAs, through splicing and polyadenylation. However, it remains untranslated. It has been suggested that this RNA gene evolved at least partly from a protein-coding gene that became a pseudogene. The inactive X chromosome is coated with this transcript, which is essential for the inactivation. X chromosomes lacking Xist will not be inactivated, while duplication of the Xist gene on another chromosome causes inactivation of that chromosome. The human XIST gene was discovered by Carolyn J. Brown in the laboratory of Hunt Willard. Function X-inactivation is an early developmental process in mammalian females that transcriptionally silences one of the pair of X chromosomes, thus providing dosage equivalence between males and females (see dosage compensation). The process is regulated by several factors, including a region of chromosome X called the X-inactivation center (XIC). The XIST gene is expressed exclusively from the XIC of the inactive X chromosome. The transcript is spliced but apparently does not encode a protein. The transcript remains in the nucleus where it coats the inactive X chromosome. Alternatively spliced transcript variants have been identified, but their full length sequences have not been determined. The functional role of the Xist transcript was definitively demonstrated in mouse female ES cells using a novel antisense technology, called peptide nucleic acid (PNA) interference mapping. In the reported experiments, a single 19-bp antisense cell-permeating PNA targeted against a particular region of Xist RNA prevented the formation of Xi and inhibited cis-silencing of X-linked genes. The association of the Xi with macro-histone H2A is also disturbed by PNA interference mapping. The X-inactivation process occurs in mice even in the absence of this gene via epigenetic regulation, but Xist is required to stabilize this silencing. Gene location The human Xist RNA gene is located on the long (q) arm of the X chromosome. The Xist RNA gene consists of conserved repeats within its structure and is also largely localized in the nucleus. The Xist RNA gene consists of an A region, which contains 8 repeats separated by U-rich spacers. The A region appears to contain two long stem-loop structures that each include four repeats. An ortholog of the Xist RNA gene in humans has been identified in mice. This ortholog is a 15 kb Xist RNA gene that is also localized in the nucleus. However, the ortholog does not consist of conserved repeats. The gene also consists of an Xist Inactivation Center (XIC), which plays a major role in X-inactivation. Transcript organization A region The Xist RNA contains a region of conservation called the repeat A (repA) region that contains up to nine
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Kiser Lake (Ohio)
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Kiser Lake (previously also known as Mosquito Lake) is a reservoir in Champaign County, Ohio located approximately northwest of St. Paris and north of Dayton along Ohio State Route 235, at .. The community of Grandview Heights sits on the southern shore of the lake, the Kiser Lake Wetlands State Nature Preserve at the headwaters on the southeastern edge, and the Kiser Lake State Park surrounds the rest of the lake to the north. History Mosquito Lake was first created in 1840, when a dam was built across Mosquito Creek in the low, swampy region of Champaign County known as Mosquito Creek Valley to build a grist and saw mill. After operations at the mill were shut down, the dam and lake were neglected for several years. In 1932, John W. Kiser and his family owned the land and donated several hundred acres to the State of Ohio to rebuild the lake for recreational purposes. In 1939 work on the dam started, and in 1940, all work was completed on the dam and Kiser Lake was filled. The lake is maintained by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. References Category:Champaign County, Ohio Category:Reservoirs in Ohio
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Qazvin
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Qazvin (; , , also Romanized as Qazvīn, Caspin, Qazwin, or Ghazvin) is the largest city and capital of the Province of Qazvin in Iran. Qazvin was a medieval capital of the Safavid dynasty for over forty years (1555-1598) and nowadays is known as the calligraphy capital of Iran. It is famous for its Baghlava, carpet patterns, poets, political newspaper and Pahlavi influence on its accent. At the 2011 census, its population was 381,598. Located in northwest of Tehran, in the Qazvin Province, it is at an altitude of about above sea level. The climate is cold but dry, due to its position south of the rugged Alborz range called KTS Atabakiya. History The city was a capital of the Persian Empire under Safavids in 1548–1598. It is a provincial capital today that has been an important cultural center throughout history. Archeological findings in the Qazvin plain reveal urban agricultural settlements for at least nine millennia. Qazvin geographically connects Tehran, Isfahan, and the Persian Gulf to the Caspian seacoast and Asia Minor, hence its strategic location throughout the ages. The city today known as Qazvin is thought to have been founded by Shapur II, King of Persia in 250 CE, under the name Shad Shahpur (shad can be read as 'happy'), when he built a fortification there to control regional tensions. Qazvin has sometimes been of central importance at major moments of Iranian history. It was captured by invading Arabs (644 AD) and destroyed by Hulagu Khan (13th century). After the Ottoman capture of Tabriz, Shah Tahmasp (1524–1576) made Qazvin the capital of the Safavid empire (founded in 1501 AD), a status that Qazvin retained for half a century until Shah Abbas I moved the capital to Isfahan. In 1210 the city was damaged by the forces of Kingdom of Georgia sent by Tamar the Great, as per the retribution for destroying Georgian-controlled Ani by the Muslim forces that left 12,000 Christians dead. In the 19th century Qazin flourished as a center of trade because the only all-year accessible road from the Caspian Sea to the Highland started here and with enhanced traffic on the Caspian Sea the trade volume grew. Its bazaars were enlarged. In the middle of the century the Babi movement had one of its centers here and the first massacre of Babis occurred in Qazvin in 1847.In the second half of the 19th century Qazvin was one of the centers of Russian presence in northern Iran. A detachment of the Persian Cossack Brigade under Russian officers was stationed here. From 1893 this was the headquarters of the Russian Company for Road construction in Persia which connected Qazvin by roads to Tehran and Hamadan. The company built a hospital and the St. Nicolas Church. In 1920 Qazvin was used as a base for the British Norperforce. The 1921 Persian coup d'état that led to the rise of the Pahlavi dynasty was launched from Qazvin. Qazvin has been one of the main pivots on which Persia's history has revolved and this is where its reputation as an impenetrable fortress originates.
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Scientific Integrity in Policymaking
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"Scientific Integrity in Policymaking: An Investigation into the Bush Administration's Misuse of Science" is the title of a report published by the Union of Concerned Scientists in February, 2004. The report was the culmination of an investigation of the Bush administration's objectivity in science, and ultimately a criticism thereof. (After it was published, the report's existence was fairly well-publicized by the United States' mass media.) "Suppression and distortion of research findings" A central thesis of the report, according to the Executive Summary (on page 2 of the text), was that the Bush administration had behaved in ways considered to be consistent with the following three situations. Epidemic altering and concealing of scientific information by senior officials in various federal agencies Active censorship of scientific information that the administration considered threatening to its own philosophies Restriction of the ability of government-supported scientists to freely communicate scientific ideas related to "sensitive" issues "An unprecedented pattern of behavior" In "Part III", the text of the report posits that the aforementioned activities are unprecedented in the history of the United States. The report lists the following persons and organization who had supposedly acted or made statements to support this claim. This list is sorted first by category, then by the order in which the persons or organizations are mentioned in the report. Organization REP America Persons Ruckelshaus, William Train, Russell Panofsky, Dr. Wolfgang H. K. Goldberger, Dr. Marvin Scarlett, Dr. Margaret Kennedy, Donald Bromley, Dr. D. Allan Branscomb, Professor Lewis M. Goldman, Dr. Lynn Recommendations by the Union Page 29 of the report states: "This behavior by the administration violates the central premise of the scientific method, and is therefore of particularly grave concern to the scientific community." It then goes on, in a short section titled "Conclusions and Recommendations: What's at Stake" at the end of the report, to provide recommendations for "restoring scientific integrity to federal policymaking" (page 30). These recommendations (on pages 30–31) include a suggestion for the President of the United States to issue executive orders, and other actions, that would prevent further "abuse"; for the United States Congress to hold appropriate hearings, consider the consequences of statutory law under its influence, increase the amount of publicly available scientific information, and establish an organization to guide Congress in its deliberations in technical matters; for scientists to raise awareness of the aforementioned issues and provide public policy recommendations; for the public to exercise its political influence in a constructive manner. Response On April 2, 2004, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy issued a statement by Dr. John Marburger, the director of OSTP, that claims the descriptions of the incidents in the UCS report are all "false," "wrong," or "a distortion." He said he was disappointed with the report and dismissed it as "biased.". The report's table of contents The following is a duplication of the report's table of contents. Executive summary Part I: Suppression and distortion of research findings at federal agencies Distorting and suppressing climate change research Censoring information on air quality Mercury emissions from power plants Addressing multiple
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Clyde X
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Clyde X (1931 – February 14, 2009), also known as Clyde Rahman, was a religious leader associated with the Nation of Islam. Most of his work for the NOI was in St. Louis, Missouri and Cleveland, Ohio. He was wounded when a violent factional dispute arose in St. Louis in the 1960s. In the 1970s he became a follower of W. D. Muhammad's Sunni faction of the NOI and established a mosque in Cleveland. Early life He was born Clyde Jones in Canton, Mississippi. He served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. After his service, he moved to Dayton, Ohio, and then to Detroit where he worked as a machinist. He served in the army during the Korean war, in which he was badly wounded. He joked that he was cured when a nurse denied him morphine, and he jumped out of bed to chase her. He subsequently joined the police force in Detroit. NOI activist While in Detroit, Clyde was first introduced to the Nation of Islam through "people talking about it in a poolroom." He became "Clyde X". In 1958 he was sent to St. Louis in the service of the NOI to establish Temple No. 28 at 1434 N. Grand Avenue. When he arrived in St. Louis the local media described him as "a glowering moon-faced giant... on the fleshy side of 200 pounds... mild mannered, polite, and diplomatic." They also described him as "too emotional," a "rabble rouser," and "a haranguer." Clyde X helped to launch many business ventures with Temple No. 28, opening a restaurant called the "Shabbaz"; laundry; record store; dress shop; and a grocery along Grand Avenue, leading some in the community to call the area "Little Egypt." Violent splits In 1961, Clyde X's Temple No. 28 saw an internal split, with members leaving to join the offshoot "Islamic Service Church" headquartered at 1902 Union Boulevard. Elijah Muhammad, displeased with the split, sent the Supreme Commander of the Fruit of Islam to try to broker a reconciliation. No such agreement could be reached, and the two temples were officially separated. The split resulted in sporadic incidents of violence, with Clyde X, Timothy Hoffman, and John Moore being shot outside the Shabazz restaurant in 1966. The principal suspect was Hoffman's brother Andrew, who was subsequently arrested. While Clyde and Hoffman were not seriously hurt, Moore died as a result of his wounds. Nevertheless, Clyde had a bullet lodged in his skull for the rest of his life. One year later, on January 9, 1967, Clyde X's home was bombed, but he was unhurt. Andrew Hoffman was again suspected. Two days after this Andrew Hoffman and his wife were both shot to death outside their home. An associate of his, Roy Tyson, was found beaten to death. No charges were ever brought in the deaths. Later career In the mid 1970s, after the death of Elijah Muhammad, Clyde X supported the reforms of Warith Deen Mohammed's faction, which sought to align the NOI with mainstream Sunni Islam. He became a leader in W.D. Mohammed's new
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Bayram al-Tunisi
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Bayram al-Tunisi () (born in 1893 in Alexandria, Egypt as Maḥmūd Muḥammad Muṣṭafā Bayram () - died 1961), was an Egyptian poet with Tunisian roots. He was exiled from Egypt by the British for his Egyptian nationalist poetry. Born and raised in Alexandria, al-Tunisi was nevertheless considered a "foreigner" due to his father's Tunisian origin and he was exiled from Egypt from 1919 to 1938 and was finally granted Egyptian citizenship in 1954. Bayram received his education at an Islamic religious school in Egypt. However, he learned the pure Arabic art of poetry by listening to oral presentations in the form known as zajal. In 1919, the year of the first Egyptian revolution, he began to publish his poetry in the journal Issues. These satirical ballads, based on the traditional zajal form, were critical of both the British occupation to Egypt and the Egyptian monarchy, which was referred to as a puppet. This led to his exile from Egypt his land of birth, which he spent in France and Tunisia, and then asked the Egyptian kingdom for his return and ending his exile. Al-Tunisi returned to Egypt in 1938, where he continued to publish his Egyptian political poetry. Bayram coined the term ʾadab al-ʾisʿāf () (the "literature of rescue") to describe "the successful rejection of external threats, the reorientation and redistribution of power in society, and construction of a strong and independent nation." In addition to zajal, of which Bayram al-Tunisi was considered a master, he was proficient with maqama which he preferred in much of his later output. Among those who have been influenced by Bayram were Salah Jahin and Ahmed Fouad Negm. See also Lists of Egyptians Notes References Beinin, Joel (1994) "Writing Class: Workers and Modern Egyptian Colloquial Poetry (Zajal)" Poetics Today 15(2): pp. 191–215 Booth, Marilyn L.(1990) Bayram al-Tunisi's Egypt: Social Criticism and Narrative Strategies (St. Antony's Middle East Monographs no. 22) Ithaca Press, Exeter, UK, Category:Egyptian male poets Category:1893 births Category:1961 deaths Category:20th-century Egyptian poets Category:20th-century male writers
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Geology of Afghanistan
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The geology of Afghanistan includes nearly one billion year old rocks from the Precambrian. The region experienced widespread marine transgressions and deposition during the Paleozoic and Mesozoic, that continued into the Cenozoic with the uplift of the Hindu Kush mountains. Stratigraphy & geologic history Afghanistan is underlain by Precambrian metamorphic rocks, which form high regions in the center of the country and in the Hindu Kush. The Central Afghan Swell, between Herat and Panjao is the northernmost structural high, encompassing metamorphic rocks. The swell is connected to the Hindu Kush by Precambrian rocks in Koh-i-Baba. The Shahrestan swell between Kabul and Malestan follows a northeast trend, but also extends to the southwest as the Malestan swell. Precambrian rocks outcrop locally west of Jalalabad, close to Kabul and Khost, and are likely present in the Safed Koh Range. Near Kabul, potassium-argon dating indicates that the rocks formed between 938 and 44 million years ago in the Paleozoic eon. In general, the Precambrian rocks in the Hindu Kush and Safed Koh Range are poorly studied. The Precambrian rocks of Afghanistan include phyllite, greenschist, garnet-mica schist and partially melted gneiss that experienced anataxis. Paleozoic (541–251 million years ago) Fifty to 60 meter thick limestones, overlying 70 meter thick dolomite, in the Panjao region host Late Cambrian trilobite fossils, dating to the time at which multi-cellular life proliferated. Non-fossil bearing sandstone, shale and limestone, southwest of Kabul are up to 680 meters thick, pinching out in the north. The formation underlies fossil-bearing sediments. South of the Afghan swell are several outcrops of Ordovician rocks. A researcher in 1970 reported conodont fossils from the Tremadocian in a one kilometer thick quartzite, shale and limestone formation. Close to Surkh Bum, Cambrian limestone is disconformably overlain by 60 meters of Ordovician shale and limestone, while to the southwest of Kabul in the Logar Valley region quartzite and shale ranges between 850 meters and 1.4 kilometers thick. Sediments 2.2 kilometers thick are present in the Dasht-i-Newar area, although they are not present in the east and southeast. Silurian rocks, such as 40 meters of black shale and limestone at Jalalabad, are only found in eastern Afghanistan. Ludlovian age limestone with orthocerid fossils outcrops in the upper Logar Valley. In the Dasht-i-Newar area, Silurian and Early Devonian clastic rocks grow coarser as it thickens from 650 meters of sandstone and shale to 2.2 kilometers of quartzite and conglomerate further east. Devonian rocks are limited in area, but widely dispersed containing extensive fossils. Early Devonian conglomerates with interlayered dolomite and marl outcrop in the central Afghan swell and the Hindu Kush. Some conglomerates show signs of tectonic reworking. Other units include 100 meters of marl and limestone near Herat, 650 meters of the same type of rocks near Ghuk and up to 100 meters of limestone near Panjao. Devonian rocks unconformably overlap older rocks in the Logar Valley and close to Kabul, with calcareous sandstones up to 700 meters thick. In eastern Dasht-i-Nawar, 1.9 kilometer thick early Devonian quartzite and intercalated conglomerate is over overlain by 550 meters of middle Devonian limestone.
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Kikihia cauta
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Kikihia cauta, the greater bronze cicada, is a species of cicada that is endemic to New Zealand. This species was first described by J. G. Myers in 1921. References Category:Cicadas of New Zealand Category:Insects described in 1921 Category:Endemic fauna of New Zealand Category:Cicadettini
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Willem van Ingen
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Willem van Ingen, or Guilhelmo Den Eersten (1651–1708), was a Dutch Golden Age painter active in Italy. Biography According to Houbraken, he learned to paint in Utrecht and attracted the attention of Johannes van Neercassel, who took him along on a trip to Rome. In Rome, he registered in the Bentvueghels as Guilhelmo den Eersten. Houbraken goes on to mention that he worked for a year in Rome under Karel Marat, painting in many churches, and then traveled to Venice where he worked for Valentin Lefebvre painting on copper after Paolo Veronese. He then traveled to Naples before returning to the Netherlands. He is also known as Guillelmo van Ingen. He is known as the teacher of Albert van Spiers (1665–1718), who was the teacher of Jacob de Wit, decoration painters in Amsterdam. References Category:1651 births Category:1708 deaths Category:Dutch Golden Age painters Category:Dutch male painters Category:Artists from Utrecht Category:Members of the Bentvueghels Category:Pupils of Carlo Maratta
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NLT
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NLT may refer to: NLT (band), an American boy band National Literacy Trust, an independent charity based in London, England Nepal Leprosy Trust, a Christian charity based in Richmond, London New Living Translation, a translation of the Bible into modern English Northolt Park railway station (station code: NLT), a Network Rail station in Northolt, Greater London Xinyuan Nalati Airport (IATA code: NLT), a seasonal airport in China New Looney Tunes, a television show airing on Boomerang See also NLTS (oN-Line Text System)
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John Hale (Roundhead)
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John Hale (1614–1691) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1654 and 1660. He fought in the Parliamentary army in the English Civil War. Hale was the eldest son of John Hale, grocer of Soper Lane, London and Harmer Green, Welwyn, Hertfordshire and his wife Elizabeth Browne, daughter of Humphrey Browne of Essex. He was baptised on 19 March 1614 and was six when he succeeded to the family estates on the death of his father in 1620. In 1643 and 1643 he was colonel of foot in the Parliamentary army. In 1654, Hale was elected Member of Parliament for Devon in the First Protectorate Parliament. Receiver of tithe, Devon and Cornw. 1655; j.p. Devon 1656-65, He was re-elected MP for Devon in 1656 for the Second Protectorate Parliament. He was commissioner for assessment in 1657. In 1659 he was elected MP for Dartmouth in the Third Protectorate Parliament. He was commissioner for militia in 1659. Hale was commissioner for assessment from January 1660 to 1680, commissioner for militia in March 1660 and major in the militia horse in April 1660. In April 1660 he was re-elected MP for Dartmouth in the Convention Parliament. He was commissioner for inquiry into Newfoundland government in 1667 and JP for Devon from 1667 to 1670 and from Devon from 1673 to 1676. Hale married by 1634, Anne Halswell, daughter of Robert Halswell of Goathurst, Somerset and had three sons and a daughter. References Category:1614 births Category:1691 deaths Category:Roundheads Category:Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for Devon Category:English MPs 1654–1655 Category:English MPs 1656–1658 Category:English MPs 1659 Category:English MPs 1660 Category:Members of the Parliament of England for Dartmouth
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Three-toed snake-tooth skink
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The three-toed snake-tooth skink (Coeranoscincus reticulatus) is a species of skink in the family Scincidae. It is found only in Australia. Sources Category:Skinks of Australia Category:Reptiles described in 1873 Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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Christian Bataille
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Christian Bataille (born May 31, 1946 in Rieux-en-Cambrésis) is a member of the National Assembly of France and represents the Nord department, He is a member of the Socialist Party (Parti Socialiste) and belongs to the SRC parliamentary group. References External links Assemblée nationale Category:1950 births Category:Living people Category:People from Nord (French department) Category:Socialist Party (France) politicians Category:Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic Category:Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic Category:Deputies of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
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