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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess%20Maria%20Eleonore%20of%20Hesse-Rotenburg
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Princess Maria Eleonore of Hesse-Rotenburg
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Princess Maria Eleonore of Hesse-Rotenburg (Maria Eleonore Amalia; 25 February 1675 – 27 January 1720) was Landgravine of Hesse-Rotenburg by birth and was the Countess Palatine of Sulzbach by marriage. She is an ancestor of Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria.
Biography
Maria Eleonore was the second child of William, Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg and his wife Countess Maria Anna of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort. She was an older sister of Ernest Leopold of Hesse-Rotenburg, future ruler of her native Hesse-Rotenburg.
Engaged to Theodore Eustace of Sulzbach, the heir of the ruling Count Palatine of Sulzbach Christian Augustus, the couple were married on 9 June 1692 in Lobositz, Bohemia. The couple had some nine children three of which would have further progeny.
She died in Sulzbach at the age of 44.
Issue
Countess Palatine Amalia Auguste Maria Anna of Sulzbach (7 June 1693 – 18 January 1762) died unmarried.
Count Palatine Joseph Charles of Sulzbach (2 November 1694 – 18 July 1729) married Elisabeth Auguste of Neuburg and had issue.
Countess Palatine Francisca Christina of Sulzbach (16 May 1696 – 16 July 1776) Abbess of Essen.
Countess Palatine Ernestine Elizabeth Johanna of Sulzbach (15 May 1697 – 14 April 1775) married William II, Landgrave of Hesse-Wanfried-Rheinfels, no issue.
Count Palatine John William Philip of Sulzbach (3 June 1698 – 12 April 1699) died in infancy.
John Christian, Count Palatine of Sulzbach (23 January 1700 – 20 July 1733) married Maria Henriette de La Tour d'Auvergne and had issue; married Eleonore of Hesse-Rotenburg, no issue.
Countess Palatine Elisabeth Eleonore Auguste of Sulzbach (19 April 1702 – 10 February 1704) died in infancy.
Countess Palatine Anne Christine of Sulzbach (5 February 1704 – 12 March 1723) married Charles Emmanuel, Prince of Piedmont and had issue.
Count Palatine Johann Wilhelm August of Sulzbach (21 August 1706 – 28 August 1708) died in infancy.
References
1675 births
1720 deaths
Landgravines of Hesse-Rotenburg
17th-century German people
18th-century German people
Countesses Palatine of Sulzbach
House of Hesse-Kassel
House of Wittelsbach
Daughters of monarchs
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis%20Hickie
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Denis Hickie
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Denis Anthony Hickie (Irish name: Donnacadh Antoin Ó hIceadh; born 13 February 1976), is a retired professional rugby union player formerly employed by the Irish Rugby Football Union. He played his club rugby for Leinster. His primary position was on the wing. He earned 51 caps for Ireland, scoring 29 tries for Ireland and held the Irish try-scoring record until his Leinster colleague Brian O'Driscoll broke it in 2008.
He is also known as Disco Denis as a result of his quick feet. Other names include Le Hique, Tickets, and DenDen.
Youth
Hickie was educated at St Marys College in Rathmines and led them to the Leinster Schools Senior Cup title in 1994. He went on to university in UCD, where he completed a commerce degree. At UCD Denis was on a dual scholarship for rugby union and athletics.
Career
Hickie made his senior debut for Leinster on 6 September 1996 in a friendly match away to a Genoa President's XV and his senior Irish debut on 1 February 1997 against Wales. He earned 51 caps for Ireland, scoring 29 tries for Ireland and held the Irish try-scoring record until his friend and Leinster colleague Brian O'Driscoll broke it in 2008.
He missed out on selection to the 2001 British & Irish Lions tour to Australia. He overcame a ruptured Achilles tendon sustained during the 2003 World Cup and forced his way back into the Irish line-up, apparently losing nothing of his pace. His solid form in the 2005 Six Nations earned Hickie a call-up for the 2005 British & Irish Lions tour to New Zealand and the Leinster back became a key member of the successful midweek team.
Hickie suffered many injuries throughout his career. In October 2005, in the week coming up to the European Cup, he dislocated his right fibula following a training ground accident and missed the autumn tests. This injury kept him out of the 2005 autumn international series and he subsequently lost his place on the Irish team to Ulster's Andrew Trimble for the duration of 2006, despite his excellent form for Leinster. This was best captured in his try in Leinster's Heineken Cup quarter-final match against Toulouse in France which saw him run the length of the pitch partnered by Gordon D'Arcy to score in the corner. An injury to Trimble saw Hickie retake the number 11 shirt for Ireland against Australia in the 2006 Autumn tests where he scored a notable try, beating four Australian defenders with his trademark 'dancing' footwork. Making the number 11 jersey his own, and scoring two further tries in the 2007 Six Nations, Hickie was first choice left wing for the 2007 World Cup, after which he retired.
Brian O'Driscoll respectfully mentioned Denis & his contribution to Leinster Rugby in his after match interview after the final whistle in the 2009 Heineken Cup Final which Leinster won.
Hickie is a committee member of the rugby sevens club, Shamrock Warriors RFC.
Miscellaneous
A box in Dublin's popular concert venue, the Olympia Theatre, carries a nameplate "The Denis Hickie Box" as it is where he tends to watch gigs from.
Hickie proved to be a hit when he stood in for Jenny Huston on her Waiting Room show on 2fm on Friday 20 October 2006 from 8pm until 10pm for one night only. He had previously filled in for her when she was on holiday before the summer. An avid music fan, Hickie said, when interviewed by Ireland's Hot Press magazine: "Unfortunately a lot of the people I seem to like are dead now. I’m a huge Elliott Smith fan and I really love Nick Drake’s stuff. Obviously, though, I won’t be seeing them in concert anytime soon."
Quotes
“I’ve always been a Leinster player. My dad played for Leinster, my uncle played for Leinster, my cousin played for Leinster. I’m a Leinster lad. I don’t make any apologies for it. That’s my team."
References
External links
Ireland profile
1976 births
Living people
British & Irish Lions rugby union players from Ireland
Ireland international rugby union players
Irish rugby union players
Leinster Rugby players
RTÉ 2fm presenters
Rugby union players from Dublin (city)
St Mary's College RFC players
University College Dublin R.F.C. players
Ireland international rugby sevens players
People educated at St Mary's College, Dublin
2007 Rugby World Cup players
Rugby union wings
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Thousand%20Deaths%20%28London%20short%20story%29
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A Thousand Deaths (London short story)
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"A Thousand Deaths" is an 1899 short story by Jack London, his first work to be published. It is about the experimentally induced death and resuscitation/resurrection of the protagonist, by a mad scientist who uses multiple scientific methods for these experiments. It was published in Black Cat magazine. The story was adapted to film in 1939.
Film adaptation
In 1939, a Hollywood B movie titled Torture Ship was loosely based on "A Thousand Deaths".
In 2014, writer-director Adam Zanzie released a short film adaptation which premiered at the St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase, where it won awards for Best Actor (John Bratkowski) and Best Sound Design. It later screened at the Trash Film Festival in Varaždin, Croatia, in 2016.
See also
Flatliners
References
External links
A Thousand Deaths at GASLIGHT
1899 short stories
Science fiction short stories
Short stories by Jack London
Short stories adapted into films
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sliding%20door%20operator
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Sliding door operator
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A sliding door operator (or sliding door opener or automatic sliding door operator) is a device that operates a sliding door for pedestrian use. It opens the door automatically, waits, then closes it.
Uses
Sliding door operators are typically used on the outside doors of large retail businesses. (smaller retail businesses prefer swing door operators.) They are also used in elevators (lifts).
Triggering
A door operator may be triggered in various ways:
Approach Sensor (such as a radar sensor) - the door opens when a user approaches it.
Pushbutton - the door opens when a user presses a button.
Access control - the door opens when an access control system determines the user is authorized to go through.
Automatically (in the case of elevators).
A trigger from any of the above requests that the door be opened (or reopened if it was closing).
Safety sensors
Sensors can be used to detect obstacles in the path of closing doors. The simplest sensor consists of a light beam aimed across the opening: when the beam is broken by an obstacle, the operator prevents the door from closing. Infrared and radar safety sensors are also commonly used.
Other sensors such as resistance-sensing motors can be used to reverse the closing action of the door after an obstacle is encountered.
Technology
The operator is placed in the space above the sliding door.
An electric motor, geared down to get a lower speed and a higher torque, drives a pulley at one end of a belt. The door is clamped to the belt. To open the door, the motor turns the pulley, which in turn turns the belt, which in turn drags the door. To close the door, the reverse occurs.
Historically, elevator doors were opened using simple harmonic motion by a set of mechanical linkages; the motor, geared down, would rotate linked arms, which in turn would drive the door.
Types
There are several types of sliding doors, these are:
Standard sliding door (single wing or double wings)
Telescopic sliding door (two wings or four wings)
Circular sliding door (segment circular, semi-circular or full circular)
Sliding folding door (two wings or four wings)
Hermetic sliding door (single wing or double wings)
All glass sliding door (single wing or double wings)
Clean room sliding door (single wing or double wings)
External links
Overview of ANSI standards
PIR Sensor based Automatic Door Opener Project
Electromechanical engineering
Door automation
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah%20Franke
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Noah Franke
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Noah Franke (born March 25, 1995) is an American soccer player who currently plays for Greenville Triumph SC in USL League One.
Career
College
Franke spent his entire college career at Creighton University between 2014 and 2017, where he made 85 appearances, starting 57 games, scoring 6 goals and tallying 14 assists in his time with the Bluejays.
During his time at college, Franke played with Premier Development League sides Orlando City U-23 and Tampa Bay Rowdies U23.
Professional
Franke was selected in the fourth round (80th overall) of the 2018 MLS SuperDraft by FC Dallas. However, he was not signed by the club.
On March 28, 2018, Franke signed for USL side Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC.
On April 15, 2021, Franke joined USL League One club FC Tucson ahead of the 2021 season.
Franke signed with Greenville Triumph SC on January 21, 2022.
References
1995 births
Living people
American men's soccer players
Men's association football midfielders
Creighton Bluejays men's soccer players
FC Dallas draft picks
Greenville Triumph SC players
Orlando City U-23 players
Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC players
Soccer players from Orlando, Florida
Tampa Bay Rowdies U23 players
FC Tucson players
USL Championship players
USL League Two players
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esakiozephyrus%20icana
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Esakiozephyrus icana
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Esakiozephyrus icana, the dull green hairstreak, is a small butterfly found in India that belongs to the lycaenids or blues (family Lycaenidae). The species was first described by Frederic Moore in 1874.
The butterfly was classified as Thecla icana Moore.
The butterfly occurs in India in the western Himalayas from Kulu to Garhwal, Nepal, Sikkim to Bhutan and Myanmar. The butterfly also occurs in Tibet, Szechwan and Yunnan.
See also
Lycaenidae
List of butterflies of India (Lycaenidae)
References
Esakiozephyrus
Butterflies of Asia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Para%C3%ADba%20do%20Norte%20River
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Paraíba do Norte River
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The Paraíba do Norte River, mostly known as Paraíba River, is the most important watercourse of the state of Paraíba in northeastern Brazil. The river originates in the Borborema Plateau, and flows northeast to empty into the Atlantic Ocean, north of João Pessoa, the state capital. Its constantly menaced estuary has a handful of little islands—among them Restinga and Stuart—and is the habitat of a range of animal species, as well as a number of ecosystems such as mangroves, the Atlantic Forest and salt marshes.
References
Rivers of Paraíba
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Marcel Kolaja
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Marcel Kolaja (born 29 June 1980 in Moravská Třebová) is a Czech software engineer, Internet freedom and digital rights activist and a Czech Pirate Party politician who serves as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since the 2019 election and Quaestor of the European Parliament since 2022. He is a member of the Greens–European Free Alliance parliamentary group along with three other European Pirate Party MEPs.
Kolaja has been a member of the Czech Pirate Party since 2010 and the Vice-President of the Czech Pirate Party since 2022. From 2019 to 2022, he served as Vice-President of the European Parliament. He serves as Quaestor of the Parliament since 2022, being responsible for overseeing the administrative and financial matters of the institution. Kolaja graduated from the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University in Brno.
In the European Parliament, in addition to being a Bureau member, he engages in the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO), the Committee on Culture and Education (CULT), and the Special Committee of Inquiry to investigate the use of Pegasus (PEGA), as well as in the delegations for relations with the United States (D-US) and with India (D-IN).
Topics related to the functioning of society in the digital age are his main focus. Marcel Kolaja stands for open technologies, freedom on the Internet, independence of media, transparency, and a united Europe.
Activism and Czech Pirate Party beginnings (2003–2018)
Kolaja worked as an activist against the adoption of software patent legislation in the European Union (EU) from 2003 and joined the Czech Pirate Party in 2010. Kolaja acted as a co-chairman of the Pirate Parties International (PPI) from March to November 2011.
Kolaja was the second candidate of the Czech Pirate Party in the 2014 European Parliament election but was not elected. Kolaja has worked as a technical product manager in Red Hat Czech, a research and development arm of Red Hat, Inc., which itself became a subsidiary of IBM on 9 July 2019.
European Parliament (2019–present)
Election
Kolaja was the party's leading candidate for the 2019 European Parliament election in the Czech Republic and was elected MEP along with Markéta Gregorová and Mikuláš Peksa. His political agenda focuses on digital rights and prevention of increasing Internet censorship; environmental protection such as fossil fuel phase-out and minimizing waste pollution; consumer protection, addressing technological competitiveness of the EU on the world market and limiting corporate lobbying in the EU. Among his priorities is also addressing tax avoidance by multinational corporations that offshore profits via tax havens.
Tenure
In June, Kolaja joined the Greens–European Free Alliance political group of the European Parliament along with three other European Pirate Party MEPs. On 3 July, he was elected one of fourteen Vice-Presidents of the European Parliament. His service as a Vise-President ended in 2022 by being elected as a Quaestor of the European Parliament. Kolaja also serves as a vice-chair of the parliamentary Working Group on ICT Innovation Strategy, as a member of the Bureau of the European Parliament and the European Parliament Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection. Among his most noticeable policy work belongs his role as a shadow rapporteur on Digital Markets Act. His aim is to guarantee fair competition in the online economy by preventing Big Tech gatekeepers from abusing their power.
Due to his background in open-source software development, Kolaja is a strong advocate for free and open-source software as a tool for digital advancements. He played a crucial role in initiating FOSSEPS - Free and Open Source Software Solutions for European Public Services. The Pilote Project was executed by European Commission and it aims to "manage and protect open source and treat it as a collective, shared and valuable European asset as the use of open source across European institutions and European public services increases".
Committee assignments
Kolaja is a member of the following Committees of the European Parliament:
Bureau of the European Parliament
European Parliament Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO)
European Parliament Committee on Culture and Education (CULT)
Committee of Inquiry to investigate the use of Pegasus and equivalent surveillance spyware (PEGA)
Delegation for relations with the United States
See also
Digital Single Market
Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market
Free software movement
References
External links
Marcel Kolaja on Czech Pirate Party website
1980 births
Czech Pirate Party MEPs
Living people
Masaryk University alumni
MEPs for the Czech Republic 2019–2024
People from Moravská Třebová
Red Hat employees
Czech software engineers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Gordon%20McCrae
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George Gordon McCrae
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George Gordon McCrae (29 May 1833 – 15 August 1927) was an Australian poet.
Early life
McCrae was born in Leith, Scotland; his father was Andrew Murison McCrae, a writer; his mother was Georgiana McCrae, a painter. George attended a preparatory school in London, and later received lessons from his mother. Georgiana and her four sons emigrated to Melbourne in 1841 following her husband who emigrated in 1839.
Career
After a few years as a surveyor, McCrae joined the Victorian Government service, eventually becoming Deputy Registrar-General, and also a prominent figure in literary circles. Most of his leisure time was spent in writing. His first published work was Two Old Men's Tales of Love and War (London, 1865).
His son Hugh McCrae, also a poet, produced a volume of memoirs (My Father and My Father's Friends) about George and his association with such literary figures as Henry Kendall, Adam Lindsay Gordon, Richard Henry Horne and Marcus Clarke.
George McCrae wrote novels, stories, poetry, and travel sketches, and illustrated books. After his retirement, unpublished manuscripts entitled 'Reminiscences—Experiences not Exploits' contain detailed descriptions of events from his youth and present a record of the early European part of Melbourne country-side.
Late life
McCrae died 15 August 1927 at Hawthorn in Melbourne, survived by four of his six children, including Dorothy Frances Perry, also an author.
Bibliography
The Story of Balladeadro (1867)
Mamba, the Bright-Eyed: an Aboriginal Reminiscence (1867)
The Man in the Iron Mask (1873)
The Fleet and Convoy (1915)
John Rous (1918)
References
Norman Cowper, 'McCrae, George Gordon (1833 - 1927)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 5, MUP, 1974, pp 136–137.
Additional resources listed by the Australian Dictionary of Biography:
R. G. Howarth, Literary Particles (Sydney, 1946)
H. E. Chaplin, A McCrae Miscellany (Sydney, 1967)
W. Dixson, 'Notes on Australian artists', Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 9 (1923)
Spinner, July 1925
The Argus (Melbourne), 11 July 1890, 16 August 1927
family papers (privately held). Extracts of McCrae's papers were reprinted, with the permission of son Hugh, in Southerly magazine in 1946.
External links
George Gordon McCrae (contains some of his poems)
1833 births
1927 deaths
19th-century Australian novelists
20th-century Australian novelists
Australian male novelists
Scottish emigrants to colonial Australia
Australian male short story writers
People from Leith
Poets from Melbourne
Australian male poets
19th-century Australian short story writers
19th-century male writers
20th-century Australian short story writers
20th-century Australian male writers
19th-century Australian public servants
Australian surveyors
Australian people of English descent
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerol%C3%ADneas%20Argentinas%20Flight%20322
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Aerolíneas Argentinas Flight 322
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Aerolíneas Argentinas Flight 322 was a scheduled Buenos Aires–São Paulo–Port of Spain–New York City international passenger service, operated with a Comet 4, registration LV-AHR, that crashed during climbout on the early stages of its second leg, when it collided with tree tops shortly after takeoff from Viracopos-Campinas International Airport on 23 November 1961. There were 52 fatalities, 40 of them passengers.
Flight history
The jetliner arrived from Buenos Aires, Argentina and landed at Viracopos-Campinas International Airport, north of São Paulo, as an intermediate stop. It took off at 05:38, bound for Piarco International Airport, Trinidad, with New York City as its final destination. After reaching an altitude of about , the aircraft lost altitude, collided with eucalyptus trees and crashed into the ground; its fuel tanks exploded on impact. All 52 people on board were killed in the disaster.
Investigation
The accident was investigated by the Brazilian government with participation from the government of Argentina, the state of registry of the accident aircraft.
The weather conditions at the time of the accident were "dark night due to 7/8 (broken) stratocumulus at and to 8/8 coverage (overcast) by altostratus at ." According to the Brazilian Air Ministry, the weather conditions did not contribute to the accident.
The investigation revealed that the first officer was seated in the left seat of the flight deck, which the investigators saw as an indication that he was receiving flight instruction from the captain during the accident flight.
The Brazilian Air Ministry determined the following Probable Cause:
It was presumed that the co-pilot was under flight instruction. If such was the case, the instructor, who was pilot-in-command, may have failed to brief or supervise the co-pilot properly.
The Argentinian government issued the following statement:
Argentina has determined, in the light of information it has gathered, that the cause of the accident was: "Failure to operate under IFR during a takeoff by night in weather conditions requiring IFR operation and failure to follow the climb procedure for this type of aircraft; a contributory cause was the lack of vigilance by the pilot-in-command during the operations."
See also
Aerolíneas Argentinas accidents and incidents
List of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft
Footnotes
Notes
References
External links
Brazilian Air Ministry accident report on prevac.com.ar (Argentinian aviation safety website, in Spanish) (Archive)
1961 in Brazil
Airliner accidents and incidents caused by pilot error
Aviation accidents and incidents in 1961
Aviation accidents and incidents in Brazil
Accidents and incidents involving the de Havilland Comet
Aerolíneas Argentinas accidents and incidents
November 1961 events in South America
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two%20of%20Us%20%282019%20film%29
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Two of Us (2019 film)
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Two of Us () is a 2019 French romantic drama film directed by Filippo Meneghetti. It was selected as the French entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards, making the shortlist of fifteen films.
Plot
Two elderly women, who are neighbours, have also been lovers for decades, and plan to move to Rome. Things go wrong when one of them has a stroke and becomes mute and paralyzed, and is unable to tell her family the truth about her relationship.
Cast
Barbara Sukowa as Nina Dorn
Martine Chevallier as Madeleine Girard
Léa Drucker as Anne
Jérôme Varanfrain as Frédéric
Muriel Bénazéraf as Muriel
Augustin Reynes as Théo
Reception
Rotten Tomatoes gives the film approval rating based on 101 reviews, with an average rating of . The website's critics consensus reads: "A remarkable feature debut for director/co-writer Filippo Meneghetti, Two of Us tells a deceptively complex love story while presenting a rich acting showcase for its three leads." According to Metacritic, which sampled 20 critics and calculated a weighted average score of 82 out of 100, the film received "universal acclaim".
See also
List of submissions to the 93rd Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film
List of French submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
References
External links
2019 films
2019 drama films
2019 romantic drama films
2010s French-language films
2019 LGBT-related films
Belgian LGBT-related films
Fictional LGBT couples
French drama films
French LGBT-related films
2010s German-language films
Lesbian-related films
Luxembourgian LGBT-related films
LGBT-related drama films
2019 multilingual films
Belgian multilingual films
French multilingual films
2010s French films
French romantic drama films
Belgian romantic drama films
Luxembourgian romantic drama films
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%20Bristow
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Raymond Bristow
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Raymond Bristow (born 3 June 1909, Wiltshire - died 25 July 2007 Staffordshire) was an English Anglican priest. Bristow was longest serving priest in the Church of England at the time of his death in 2007.
Bristow was first ordained as an Anglican deacon in 1935 at Lichfield Cathedral. He was formally ordained as an Anglican priest in 1936. Bristow served his first curacy at St Mary and St Chad's Church which is located in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent. Father Bristow also served in Lichfield, as well as the Diocese of Birmingham, the Diocese of Coventry, the Diocese of Rochester, the Diocese of Oxford and the Diocese of Sheffield during his 70-year career.
Bristow officially retired in 1975. However, the Bishop of Lichfield licensed Bristow with the permission to officiate and lead the Sunday mass after his retirement.
Bristow celebrated the 70th anniversary of his ordination as a priest in September 2006. He was quoted at the time as saying, "They tell me it's a bit of a do, but I don't know much about it." Bristow continued to actively assist with Anglican services at St James' Church in Norton Canes, Staffordshire, until October 2006.
Bristow died at Abbey Court Nursing Home in Staffordshire on 25 July 2007. He was 98 years old.
References
20th-century English Anglican priests
1909 births
2007 deaths
Clergy from Wiltshire
People from Longton, Staffordshire
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gracy%20Singh
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Gracy Singh
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Gracy Singh (born 20 July 1980) is an Indian actress who primarily works in Hindi and Telugu films. She is best known for her role in the films Lagaan and Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. Singh is also a trained Bharatnatyam and Odissi dancer.
Career
Born in Delhi, India, Singh began her career touring with the dance group "The Planets". Her first acting role was in the 1997 television soap, Amanat. In 1999 she was seen in Bengali Film Sundori Bou. She then went on to star opposite Aamir Khan in Ashutosh Gowariker's epic sports-drama Lagaan, where she played a village belle. She was nominated in this role for the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut, and won the Screen Award for Most Promising Newcomer – Female.
Post Lagaan, Singh appeared in a few successful films in Hindi and Telugu including Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. and Santosham. She has also starred in Punjabi films such as Lakh Pardesi Hoye and a Malayalam film Loudspeaker directed by Jayaraj.
In 2015, Singh returned to television, playing Goddess Santoshi in the series Santoshi Maa on &TV.
Filmography
Television
Awards
2002: Won - IIFA Award for Star Debut of the Year – Female for Lagaan
2002: Won - Screen Award for Most Promising Newcomer – Female for Lagaan
2002: Won - Zee Cine Award for Best Female Debut for Lagaan
2002: Nominated - Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut for Lagaan
2002: Nominated - Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress – Telugu for Santhosham
2019: Won - Global Excellence Awards - Award for contribution to Indian cinema
References
External links
Gracy Singh on MFC
Living people
1980 births
Actresses from New Delhi
Indian film actresses
Indian television actresses
Indian soap opera actresses
Indian voice actresses
Actresses in Hindi cinema
Actresses in Telugu cinema
Actresses in Punjabi cinema
Actresses in Malayalam cinema
Actresses in Kannada cinema
Actresses in Marathi cinema
Actresses in Bengali cinema
Actresses in Hindi television
Punjabi people
Indian female dancers
Dancers from Delhi
International Indian Film Academy Awards winners
Screen Awards winners
Zee Cine Awards winners
20th-century Indian actresses
21st-century Indian actresses
20th-century Indian dancers
21st-century Indian dancers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate%C5%99ina%20Ba%C4%8Furov%C3%A1
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Kateřina Baďurová (; born 18 December 1982 in Ostrava), also known as Kateřina Janků, is a Czech former pole vaulter.
She finished twelfth at the 2004 Olympic Games. She also competed at the 2004 World Indoor Championships and the European Championships in 2002 and 2006 without reaching the finals.
Her best success came at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics in Osaka, Japan, where she took silver for 4.75 m vault, setting new Czech national record. She took early retirement from the sport due to a serious rupture of the ligament in her left knee. After retirement, she planned to continue in the field of child physiotherapy.
Since 2010 she works as an athletic head coach.
Personal life
In 2010, Baďurová married Czech high jumper, Tomáš Janků. In 2007, Janků presented Baďurová with 465 roses at a press conference after she set a new national record in the pole vault of 465cm. The pair have two daughters Ellen (born 2012) and Nikolet (born 2014).
She won StarDance, the Czech version of Dancing with the Stars, in 2012.
References
External links
1982 births
Living people
Czech female pole vaulters
Czech athletics coaches
Czech female dancers
Czech dancers
Olympic athletes for the Czech Republic
Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics
World Athletics Championships medalists
World Athletics Championships athletes for the Czech Republic
Sportspeople from Ostrava
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Steal Another Day
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Steal Another Day is an album released in 2003 by country music artist Steve Wariner and his first studio album for SelecTone Records. The album produced two singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart "I'm Your Man" and "Snowfall on the Sand" which reached 58 and 52 respectively.
Track listing
Personnel
Eddie Bayers – drums
Richard Bennett – electric guitar
Eric Darken – percussion
Connie Ellisor – violin
Ron Gannaway – drums
Carl Gorodetzky – violin
Lloyd Green – steel guitar
John Kingsley – background vocals
Aubrey Haynie – fiddle, mandolin
Shane Hicks – keyboards, piano
Lance Hoppen – background vocals
Larry Hoppen – background vocals
Rob Ickes – dobro
John Barlow Jarvis – keyboards, piano
Mike Johnson – steel guitar
Billy Kirsch – piano
Bill LaBounty – background vocals
Lee Larrison – violin
Woody Lingle – bass guitar
Mac McAnally – background vocals
Bob Mason – cello
Jimmy Mattingly – fiddle
Gary Van Osdale – viola
Kim Parent – background vocals
Lee Roy Parnell – slide guitar
Matt Rollings – Wurlitzer
Allen Shamblin – vocals on "I Really Don't Have Anything"
Pamela Sixfin – violin
Harry Stinson – background vocals
Alan Umstead – violin
Billy Joe Walker Jr. – acoustic guitar
Steve Wariner – bass guitar, drum programming, 12-string electric guitar, acoustic guitar, baritone guitar, classical guitar, electric guitar, resonator guitar, percussion, slide guitar, lead vocals, background vocals
Biff Watson – acoustic guitar
Bergen White – string arrangements
Kristin Wilkinson – viola
Glenn Worf – bass guitar
Reggie Young – baritone guitar, electric guitar
Chart performance
Album
References
Steve Wariner albums
2003 albums
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Eiichi Uemura
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is a former Japanese football player.
Playing career
Uemura was born in Yamanashi Prefecture on December 1, 1975. After graduating from Kanagawa University, he joined newly was promoted to J2 League club, Ventforet Kofu in 1999. On November 14, he debuted as substitute from the 78th minute against Kawasaki Frontale. However he could only play this match and retired end of 1999 season.
Club statistics
References
External links
1975 births
Living people
Kanagawa University alumni
Association football people from Yamanashi Prefecture
Japanese men's footballers
J2 League players
Ventforet Kofu players
Men's association football midfielders
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The House of Tatischev (Russian: Татищевы) is a Russian noble family traditionally believed to be descended from the Princes of Solomerech of the Rostislavichi of Smolensk. This version of the Tatischev family's genealogy had made it to the Velvet Book. A cadet branch of the family bears the title of counts. The Tatischevs are listed in the Parts 5 (titled nobility) and 6 (ancient nobility) of the genealogical books of Moscow, Tver, Tula, Kostroma, Penza and Saint-Petersburg governorates. From the four lineages of the family, the cadet one was granted the title of counts in 1801.
History
According to the genealogical books, the progenitor of the Tatischevs was Prince Vasily Yuryevich nicknamed Tat-isch (Russian: Тать-ищь), the son of Prince Yuri Ivanovich of Solomerech (Solomirsky), the son of Prince Ivan Dmitrievich Shah, the Prince of Solomerech, who served to Duke Ivan III. The family legend claims that Vasily Yuryevich was the viceroy of Duke Vasily I of Moscow at Veliky Novgorod in the early 1400s, but other sources do not mention him as the viceroy. The reliability of the Tatischevs' genealogy is disputed by some researchers.
In the 15th century, the Tatischevs did not play a significant role. In the late 1500s, Ignaty Tatischev was a prominent figure who had reached the office of the royal treasurer. Matvey Tatischev was a voivode at Gdov (1582 — 1584), Ivan Tatische — a voivode at Izborsk (1582), Mikhail Tatischev (d. 1609) was a yaselnichy (an assistant to the royal equerry) and a prominent figure of the Times of Troubles. Alexey Tatischev (d. 1760) was a general-in-chief. In the 18th — 19th centuries, the Tatischev family had produced a large number of generals, courtiers, governors and diplomats.
Estates
Tatischev Pogost, a village in the Rostovsky district, Yaroslavl Oblast.
Nikolskoe-Sverchkovo, a village in the Klinsky district, Moscow Oblast.
Troitskoe, a village near Klin, Moscow Oblast.
Kritsy, a locality near the village of Zapolye, Plyussky district, Pskov Oblast.
Notable members
Alexander Aleksandrovich Tatischev (1823—1895) was the governor of Penza (1872—1886).
Count Alexander Ivanovich Tatischev (1763 — 1833) was a Russian general of the Infantry in the Napoleonic war. In 1826 received the title of count, but died childless.
Alexey Danilovich Tatischev (1697 — 1760) was a Russian general-in-chief (the second highest class in the Table of Ranks), full chamberlain and a senator.
Vasily Nikitich Tatischev (1686 — 1750) was a famous Russian historian.
Dmitry Alexandrovich Tatischev (1824 — 1878) was a Russian major general, the head of the 5th Hussars Alexandra's Regiment (since 1861), the Grodno Hussar regiment of the Imperial Guard (1863 —1865) and the Emperor's Guard's Hussar Regiment (1865—1867).
Count Dmitry Nikolayevich Tatischev (1867 — 1919) was a Russian lieutenant general (since 1916), the governor of Yaroslavl (1909—1915), the head of the Special Corps of Gendarmes (1915—1917).
Dmitry Pavlovich Tatischev (1767 — 1845) was a Russian statesman, the senior chamberlain (ober-kammerherr), a member of the State Council, senator, an envoy extraordinary to Naples (1802—1803 and 1805—1808) and the plenipotentiary to Spain (1812—1821) and Austria (1822—1841). He was the first in Russia to have received the Order of the Golden Fleece.
Jacques Tatischeff (1907 — 1982) was a French filmmaker. He was the grandson of General Dmitry Alexandrovich Tatischev (1824 — 1878).
Count Ivan Dmitrievich Tatischev (1830—1913) was a Russian general of Infantry.
Ivan Yuryevich Tatischev (1652—1730) was an associate of Peter the Great, voivode and the organizer of the first Russian Baltic shipyards.
Ilya Leonidovich Tatischev (1859 — 1918) was an adjutant general of Nicolas II. In 1910—1914 he personally represented Tsar Nicolas II at the court of Emperor Wilhelm II. He did not abandon Tsar Nicolas II after the Revolution and followed his in exile. He was killed by Bolsheviks in Yekaterinburg in 1918. He was canonized in the Russian Orthodox Church.
Mikhail Iganyevich Tatischev (d. 1609) was a Muscovite statesman and a diplomat. He was the leader of the embassy to Georgia to get the Kakhetian tsar Alexander II to alliage to Tsar Boris Gudonov and find good matches for the children of Boris Godunov.
Nikita Alekseevich Tatischev (1879 — 1948) was the last governor of Moscow.
Count Nikolay Alekseevich Tatischev (1739 — 1823) was a Russian general of Infantry, the head of the Preobrazhensky regiment.
Count Nikolay Dmitrievich Tatischev (1829—1907) was a Russian lieutenant general, a hero of the Russo-Turkish war.
Count Nikolay Ivanovich Tatischev (1861 — 1937) was the mentor of the Imperial princes John Konstantinovich and Gabriel Konstantinovich.
Stepan Nikolaevich Tatischev (1935 — 1985) was the culture attache at the French Embassy in Moscow (1971—1974). He was the grandson of Dmitry Tatischev, the governor of Yaroslavl.
References
Russian noble families
Rostislavichi family (Smolensk)
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Leptognatha
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Leptognatha is a genus in the beetle family Cicindelidae. There are more than 30 described species in Leptognatha.
Species
These 33 species belong to the genus Leptognatha:
Leptognatha albertisii (Gestro, 1879) (New Guinea and Papua)
Leptognatha alticola (Brouerius van Nidek, 1959) (Indonesia, New Guinea, and Papua)
Leptognatha bishopi Cassola, 1986 (New Guinea and Papua)
Leptognatha curvidentis Cassola, 1986 (New Guinea and Papua)
Leptognatha darlingtoni (Brouerius van Nidek, 1953) (New Guinea and Papua)
Leptognatha denhoedi (Brouerius van Nidek, 1960) (Indonesia, New Guinea, and Papua)
Leptognatha fasciata Rivalier, 1972 (New Guinea and Papua)
Leptognatha flavoantennalis Cassola & Werner, 1998 (New Guinea and Papua)
Leptognatha fraudulenta Cassola, 1986 (Indonesia and New Guinea)
Leptognatha fuscilabris Rivalier, 1972 (Indonesia and New Guinea)
Leptognatha gracilipes Rivalier, 1972 (Indonesia and New Guinea)
Leptognatha hornabrooki Cassola, 1986 (New Guinea and Papua)
Leptognatha inexspectata Cassola, 1986 (Indonesia and New Guinea)
Leptognatha latreillei (Guérin-Méneville, 1830) (Indonesia and New Guinea)
Leptognatha longidentis Cassola, 1986 (New Guinea and Papua)
Leptognatha longipenis Cassola & Matalin, 2010 (Indonesia and New Guinea)
Leptognatha nigrivestis (Brouerius van Nidek, 1959) (Indonesia and New Guinea)
Leptognatha occidentalis Cassola, 1986 (Indonesia and New Guinea)
Leptognatha orientalis Rivalier, 1972 (New Guinea and Papua)
Leptognatha papua Cassola, 1986 (New Guinea and Papua)
Leptognatha pseudovelutina Cassola, 1986 (New Guinea and Papua)
Leptognatha riedeliana Cassola & Werner, 1998 (New Guinea and Papua)
Leptognatha rivalieri (Brouerius van Nidek, 1960) (Indonesia and New Guinea)
Leptognatha robusta Rivalier, 1972 (New Guinea and Papua)
Leptognatha rudolfbennigseni (W.Horn, 1912) (New Guinea and Papua)
Leptognatha sedlacekorum Cassola, 1986 (New Guinea and Papua)
Leptognatha septentrionalis Cassola, 1986 (Indonesia, New Guinea, and Papua)
Leptognatha spinilabris Rivalier, 1972 (Indonesia and New Guinea)
Leptognatha sumliniana Cassola, 1986 (New Guinea and Papua)
Leptognatha velutina (Brouerius van Nidek, 1959) (Indonesia, New Guinea, and Papua)
Leptognatha viridimicans (Brouerius van Nidek, 1959) (Indonesia, New Guinea, and Papua)
Leptognatha viridithoracica (Brouerius van Nidek, 1959) (Indonesia, New Guinea, and Papua)
Leptognatha wagneri (Mandl, 1970) (New Guinea and Papua)
References
Cicindelidae
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Meiognathus
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Meiognathus is an extinct genus of conodonts belonging to the family Sweetognathidae.
Meiognathus pustulus is from the Permian (Kungurian) of Hatahoko, Japan.
References
External links
Ozarkodinida genera
Permian conodonts
Cisuralian animals
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Sibir () is a rural locality (a settlement) in Novoyegoryevsky Selsoviet, Yegoryevsky District, Altai Krai, Russia. The population was 18 as of 2013.
Geography
Sibir is located 23 km southeast of Novoyegoryevskoye (the district's administrative centre) by road. Peschany Borok is the nearest rural locality.
References
Rural localities in Yegoryevsky District, Altai Krai
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Ed Gallagher (scientist)
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Ed Gallagher (born 4 August 1944) is a British scientist. He was a council member of English Nature and chair of the Pesticides Forum which is part of Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). He is a Freeman of the City of London.
Gallagher was chief executive of the National Rivers Authority from 1992 until 1995 when it was subsumed into the Environment Agency (EA) of England and Wales. He was then chief executive of the EA from 1995 to 2000.
Gallagher was chairman of the governors at Middlesex University, where he is a visiting professor. He is also a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and the Chartered Institution of Water Environment Management, and a companion of the Institute of Management. He was also Chairman of the board of Trustees at the UK education charity Envision. In 2001, he was awarded the CBE for his environmental services. He served as the Renewable Fuels Agency's and energywatch's chairman as well.
In February 2008, Gallagher began coordinating a group that will produce a Review of the Indirect Effects of Biofuels. According to the report web page:
This was done in the light of new evidence suggesting that an increasing demand for biofuels might indirectly cause carbon emissions because of land use change, and concerns that demand for biofuels may be driving food insecurity by causing food commodity price increases.
References
Who's Who
External links
Renewable Fuels Agency: the independent sustainable fuels regulator
Renewable Fuels Agency Board webpage
1944 births
21st-century British scientists
Academics of Middlesex University
Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Living people
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Select Committee on Intelligence
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Select Committee on Intelligence can refer to:
The Pike Committee (established 1975, mandate expired 1976, no report)
The United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (permanent, established 1976)
The United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (established 1977, replacing Pike Committee)
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Alciston
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Alciston is a village and civil parish in the Wealden district of East Sussex, England. It is inland, just off the A27 road, about north-west of Eastbourne and east of Lewes. The ecclesiastical parish is linked with that of Selmeston and Berwick.
Saxon in origin, its name was then Aelfsige; it is mentioned in the Domesday Book. The present 14th-century church, of unknown dedication, is built of chalk from the nearby South Downs. There is a large medieval tithe barn in the village. It is long and is the largest in Sussex.
Every Good Friday, the road outside the Rose Cottage Inn is closed for the villagers to take part in a traditional skipping contest.
The historian C.V. Wedgwood is buried in the church graveyard.
Governance
The lowest tier of government for Alciston is a parish meeting. Instead of voting for representatives, a small parish may hold a community meeting twice a year to which all the electors may attend and vote on issues.
Wealden District Council is the next tier of government, for which Alciston is part of the Alfriston ward, along with Alfriston, Berwick, Chalvington & Ripe and Selmeston. The ward returns one councillor, who was David Watts in the 2019 election.
Alciston is represented at the East Sussex County Council as part of the East Hoathly & Hellingly Division. The May 2017 election returned the Conservative councillor Nick Bennett.
The parliamentary constituency for Alciston is Lewes. The general election in May 2015 returned Maria Caulfield as MP.
Prior to Brexit in 2020, Alciston was part of the South East England constituency in the European Parliament.
References
External links
Villages in East Sussex
Civil parishes in East Sussex
Wealden District
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In Belgium, a decree (, ) is a form of legislation passed by community or regional parliaments, except by the Brussels Parliament.
Decrees have the same legal force as laws, which can only be passed by the Federal Parliament. Even more, unlike other federal states, no hierarchy exists between (federal) laws and (community or regional) decrees, as each entity is supposed to have clearly defined subject-matter jurisdiction. The only difference is in terminology (and naturally in territorial applicability, as decrees are only valid in the jurisdiction of the parliament that passed it).
The following five legislative assemblies have the power to pass decrees:
The Flemish Parliament and the Parliament of the French Community, being the parliaments of the two main communities, directly by virtue of Art. 127-129 of the Constitution
the Parliament of the German-speaking Community, directly by virtue of Art. 130 of the Constitution
the regional assemblies referred to in Art. 39 of the Constitution, being de facto the Walloon Parliament only, as the Flemish regional matters are exercised by the Flemish (Community) Parliament, and as Brussels is a separately organised matter (with ordinances instead of decrees). The power to pass decrees for regional assemblies is only indirectly granted by the Special Law on Institutional Reform of 1980, and is referred to as the "rules meant in Art. 134" in the Constitution.
the Assembly of the French Community Commission, which is informally known as the Brussels Francophone Parliament. Both Communities (Flemish and French) may transfer legislative powers to their Commissions in Brussels, but only the French Community has done this. The Flemish counterpart, the Council of the Flemish Community Commission, does not have the power to pass decrees and remains under full control of the Flemish Parliament. Instead, it legislates by regulation.
This power was introduced in the first state reform in 1970, to the then-established Dutch and French cultural councils, the precursors to the present-day parliaments of the two main communities.
Unlike laws, decrees are not subject to royal assent. Decrees are not signed and promulgated by the king but instead are promulgated by the executive body, being the community or regional government or, in the case of the Brussels Francophone Parliament, the College of the French Community Commission. Decrees and ordinances are published in the Belgian Official Journal. Unlike ordinances, decrees are not subject to judicial review or to supervision by the federal government. The Constitutional Court is however responsible for supervising the division of power between the federal state, the communities and regions and may annul laws, decrees and ordinances.
Variants of decrees:
Special decrees exist equivalent to special laws: such legislation requires a two-thirds majority in parliament and is required for certain matters (mostly relating to education and institutional matters).
Multiple of the above-mentioned entities may adopt a joint decree (nl. gezamenlijk decreet, fr. décret conjoint), which is a decree approved by multiple entities and applying to each of them. This cooperation mechanism is possible per article 92bis/1 of the Special Law on Institutional Reform, introduced in 2014 as part of the sixth state reform. The first such decree was the joint decree of the Walloon Region and the French Community of 19 July 2017 regarding an open data policy.
Additionally, there are three historical forms of legislation called decrees:
Decrees adopted under French rule (1792–1815), such as the 1791 "Allarde Decree".
Decrees adopted by the constitutive National Congress of Belgium (1830–31), such as the decree of 24 November 1830 eternally excluding the House of Orange-Nassau of any power in Belgium.
Colonial decrees governing Belgian Congo (1908–1960), issued by Belgium's executive branch as authorised by law of 18 October 1908.
See also
Ordinance (Belgium)
Regulation (Brussels)
References
Belgian legislation
Belgium
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Roberto Maximiliano Correa Tolosa (born 22 November 1989) is an Argentine footballer who plays for Instituto de Córdoba on loan from Godoy Cruz Antonio Tomba as a midfielder.
References
External links
1989 births
Living people
Men's association football midfielders
Argentine men's footballers
Godoy Cruz Antonio Tomba footballers
Instituto Atlético Central Córdoba footballers
Argentine Primera División players
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Alexander "Alexx" Wesselsky (born 18 November 1968) is a German singer. He is the lead vocalist of Neue Deutsche Härte band Eisbrecher and previously performed with Megaherz from 1993 to 2003.
Biography
In 1985, Dale Arden became Wesselsky's first band, where he performed as lead singer and bassist alongside his best friend Bill Parsons in the early 1980s at a local bar.
Megaherz: 1993–2003
Wesselsky was one of the founding member of Megaherz in 1993, writing lyrics and composing, as well as singing. Wesselsky's works had moderate success during his time with Megaherz, his albums Himmelfahrt, released in 2000 and Herzwerk II, released in 2002, both charted in the Media Control Charts at No. 78. His most successful single during his time with Megaherz, Freiflug, was released in 1999 and hit the German alternative charts at No. 7.
Wesselsky left the band officially on 1 January 2003, and was replaced by Mathias Eisholz. In addition to Megaherz, since 1999 he has been working as a studio singer and lyricist writer for several independent projects (among others, a platinum production).
Eisbrecher: 2003–present
Wesselsky joined Noel Pix in late 2002 to form Eisbrecher. Success for Wesselsky continued through Eisbrecher with the 2004 album of the same name, released in January, as it hit the alternative charts in Germany at No. 13.
Eisbrecher's 2006 album, Antikörper, was released in October and hit the Media Control Charts at No. 85. Their next single "Kann denn Liebe Sünde sein?", released in July 2008, hit the alternative charts at No. 3. The studio album Sünde was released in August 2008 and entered the Media Control Charts at a high No. 18. On 16 April 2010, Eisbrecher released their next album, Eiszeit, which hit Germany's chart at No. 5. Their following release, Die Hölle muss warten, was released on 3 February 2012 and charted No. 3 on the German main charts. Schock was released on 21 January 2015 and charted at No. 2 on the German main charts.
Both Die Hölle muss warten and Schock achieved gold status in 2016, after both sold more than 100,000 units respectively. His latest effort, Sturmfahrt, became his first album to hit No. 1 on the main German chart.
In addition to his studio musical career, Wesselsky performed with his bands at many European music festivals, including Hurricane, Nova Rock, Wacken, M'era Luna, Wave-Gotik-Treffen, Hellfest, Graspop Metal Meeting, and Summer Breeze.
Television
Aside from his musical career, Wesselsky has also presented a television show since 2006, on the German TV channel DMAX, where he acts as a used car broker for an applicant. His screen nickname for the show is Der Checker ("The Checker"). Once he has found a suitable vehicle within the applicant's budget, the car is repaired and tuned at co-presenter's Lina van de Mars's workshop, and is then handed over to the new owner. In 2009, Wesselsky hosted a reality TV show called Schrauber-Showdown. In May 2010, he appeared as himself on the German TV talk show Kölner Treff.
Discography
Studio albums
Singles
Megaherz
1997: "Gott sein" (To Be God)
1998: "Liebestöter" (Passion Killer)
1998: "Rock Me Amadeus"
1999: "Freiflug" (Free Flight) (#7 in German alternative charts)
2000: "Himmelfahrt" (Ascension)
Eisbrecher
2003: "Mein Blut" (My Blood)
2003: "Fanatica"
2006: "Leider" (Unfortunately)
2006: "Leider/Vergissmeinnicht" (US limited double-single)
2006: "Vergissmeinnicht" (Forget Me Not)
2008: "Kann denn Liebe Sünde sein?" (Can Love be a Sin?)
2010: "Eiszeit" (Ice Age) (#84 in Germany)
2012: "Verrückt" (Insane) (#46 in Germany)
2012: "Die Hölle muss warten" (Hell Has to Wait)
2012: "Miststück 2012" (Sonofabitch)
2013: "10 Jahre Eisbrecher" (10 Years of Eisbrecher)
2014: "Zwischen uns" (Between Us)
2015: "1000 Narben" (1,000 Scars)
2015: "Rot wie die Liebe" (Red Like Love)
2017: "Was ist hier los?" (What's Going on Here?)
2018: "Das Gesetz" (The Law)
EPs
Megaherz
2007: Freiflug EP: The Early Years (1996–2000)
2008: Mann von Welt EP
Compilation albums
Megaherz
2001: Querschnitt
2009: Totgesagte leben länger (tracks 1–3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14)
Eisbrecher
2011: Eiskalt (#69 in Germany)
2018: Ewiges Eis (#6 in Germany)
2020: Schicksalsmelodien (#4 in Germany)
Music videos
1999: "Freiflug" (Free Flight)
2004: "Schwarze Witwe" (Black Widow)
2005: "Herz steht still" (Heart Stands Still)
2006: "Willkommen im Nichts" (Welcome to Nothing)
2006: "Vergissmeinnicht" (Forget Me Not)
2010: "Eiszeit" (Ice Age)
2011: "Verrückt" (Insane)
2012: "Die Hölle muss warten" (Hell Has to Wait)
2012: "Miststück 2012" (Sonofabitch 2012)
2014: "Zwischen uns" (Between Us)
2015: "Rot wie die Liebe" (Red Like Love)
2017: "Was ist hier los?" (What's Going on Here?)
2018: "Das Gesetz" (The Law)
2020: "Stossgebet" (Quick Prayer)
2020: "Skandal im Sperrbezirk" (Scandal in Prostitution-free Area)
2020: "Out of the Dark"
2021: "FAKK"
2021: "Im Guten, im Bösen" (The Good, The Bad)
Appearances
IFF (vocals) – Königin der Nacht
2012 – Lord of the Lost (vocals) – Eure Siege
2019 – Hamatom (vocals)
References
External links
1968 births
Living people
German heavy metal singers
German male singers
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Panic in Babylon
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Panic in Babylon is a 2004 studio album by Lee Perry. He was backed by the all-white and all-Swiss White Belly Rats.
Track listing
Rastafari
Purity Rock
Pussy Man
Fight to the Finish
Voodoo
Panic in Babylon
Perry's Ballad
I am a Psychiatrist
Inspector Gadget 2004
Are You Coming Home?
Baby Krishna
Greetings
Devil Dead Live
References
2004 albums
Lee "Scratch" Perry albums
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András Bereznay is a Hungarian-British historical cartographer and historian, specialising in the compilation of maps for historical atlases. Born in Budapest, he left Hungary in 1978 and is based in London. Bereznay has researched and compiled historical maps, on a great variety of subjects, for numerous publishers. He has a particular interest in ethnographical and other thematic maps.
Education and employment
Educated for five years at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Budapest, he received the equivalent of an M.A. in History and Spanish. From 1974 to 1978 he was a freelance editor of historical maps,
working for the Historical Institute of the Hungarian Scientific Academy,
and preparing maps of the many-volume History of Hungary, and for a research group at ELTE University compiling a series of maps about Eastern European history.
Bereznay left Hungary in 1978 for political reasons and settled in London. He has worked as a freelance historical map editor, and as a cartographer for many British, American and other publishers. He created all the maps for The Times Atlas of European History;
Richard J. Evans' trilogy
The Coming of the Third Reich,
The Third Reich in Power, and
The Third Reich at War;
and The Times Kings and Queens of the British Isles. Bereznay created all the maps for Evans' 2016 The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815-1914.
Writings on political geography
Bereznay has written extensively about issues of political geography: mostly in Hungarian, also in English in The Times. From 2008 to 2014, he was a regular contributor to Magyar Nemzet, a Hungarian national daily newspaper, with over 40 articles, both maps and accompanying text.
In 2009, he was invited to present a paper at an international conference on the Historical Cartography of Transylvania at the University of Cluj. His submission, "The depiction of Transylvania in Roumanian Historical Atlases published 1920–2000", was debarred by the conference organizers. His own account of this incident has been published in Hungarian.
Historical Atlas of Transylvania
In 2011, Méry Ratio published Erdély történetének atlasza (Historical Atlas of Transylvania), with text and 102 plates of maps by Bereznay. A detail to the right illustrates Bereznay's use of color, texture and outline to show several features simultaneously on the same map from the atlas is shown to the right. In 2012, this atlas received a special award from the President of Hungary. Bereznay undertook a lecture tour in Transylvania to discuss this work, and also presented it in Norway.
Historical Atlas of the Gypsies
In 2018, Méry Ratio published A Cigányság Történetének Atlasza (Historical Atlas of the Gypsies), with text and plates of maps by Bereznay, the first historical atlas of the Romani people.
Historical atlases in English
In 2021, Méry Ratio published in English both Historical Atlas of Transylvania and Historical Atlas of the Gypsies: Romani History in Maps. In June 2022, these English-language editions were described as "very profound and in-depth" in a review in the CUP journal ''Nationalities Papers.
References
External links
"Historical & General Cartography", Bereznay's own website
Interview with IOBA.org
Radio interview (in Hungarian)
Television interview (in Hungarian)
Hungarian cartographers
21st-century Hungarian historians
Living people
Hungarian expatriates in England
Budapest University alumni
20th-century Hungarian historians
Writers from Budapest
Year of birth missing (living people)
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West Albany is an unincorporated community in West Albany Township, Wabasha County, Minnesota, United States.
Geography
The community is located between Zumbro Falls and Wabasha along State Highway 60 (MN 60) near the intersection with 310th Avenue. Spring Creek and West Albany Creek meet at West Albany. The Zumbro River is nearby. Nearby places include Millville, Lake City, Zumbro Falls, Theilman, and Wabasha.
History
West Albany was platted in 1857, and named after Albany, New York, the native home of a large share of the first settlers. A post office called West Albany was established in 1857, and remained in operation until 1881.
References
Unincorporated communities in Minnesota
Unincorporated communities in Wabasha County, Minnesota
Rochester metropolitan area, Minnesota
1857 establishments in Minnesota Territory
Populated places established in 1857
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Al Ghurabaa
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Al Ghurabaa (; English: The Strangers) is a Muslim organization based in United Kingdom which, along with The Saviour Sect, Islam4UK and others, is widely believed to be the reformed Al-Muhajiroun after it disbanded in 2004 by order of Omar Bakri Muhammad. Other members include Abu Izzadeen and Abu Uzair.
On 12 August 2005 Omar Bakri Muhammad was banned from Britain and excluded by Charles Clarke from returning from Lebanon. On 17 July 2006 the group was proscribed under legislation in Britain outlawing organizations that support terrorism. Home Secretary John Reid laid an order in Parliament which makes it a criminal offence for a person to belong to or encourage support for the group, to arrange meetings in its support, or to wear clothes or carry articles in public indicating support or membership.
The name of the group is derived from a hadith (or tradition) ascribed to Muhammad, "Islam began as something strange and will end as something strange...so give glad tidings to the strangers."
Anjem Choudary, previously a leader of Al-Muhajiroun, was a spokesman or prominent figure in al Ghurabaa'. In 2010 he reemerged as the leader of Islam4UK.
Meetings
Al Ghurabaa was banned by Waltham Forest Council from holding meetings at premises within walking distance of the homes of several of the 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot suspects.
Abu Izzadeen, a Muslim convert also known as Omar Brookes, was ejected from an open community meeting in East London at which the Home Secretary John Reid was speaking. Izzadeen was furious about "state terrorism by British police" and heckled Reid before being ejected by the police.
Death threats
In response to the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy, Al Ghurabaa' published an article on their website titled, "Kill those who insult the Prophet Muhammad". The article states, "The insulting of the Messenger Muhammad is something that the Muslims cannot and will not tolerate and the punishment in Islam for the one who does so is death. This is the sunnah of the prophet and the verdict of Islam upon such people, one that any Muslim is able [to] execute." wrong url
Al Ghurabaa' had organized the 3 February protest march from London Central Mosque to the Danish Embassy, where protesters waved placards reading, "Butcher those who mock Islam", "Kill those who insult Islam", "Europe you will pay, your 9/11 is on the way", or "7/7 is on its way", "Europe you will pay, bin Laden is on his way" and "Europe you'll come crawling, when the Mujahideen come roaring".
Despite the similar theme on Al Ghurabaa's website, their spokesman, Anjem Choudary, said he did not know who wrote the placards. MPs from all parties condemned the protest, calling the Metropolitan police to pursue those responsible on the grounds that the threats were an incitement to murder.
New organization
In November 2005, The Saved Sect was re-established under the name Ahlus Sunnah wal Jamaah. This organization operates mainly through an invitation-only internet forum, of which Anjem Choudary is a prominent contributor, using the username "Abou Luqman". A reporter visiting the site found recordings of Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and Omar Bakri Mohammed, as well as calls for holy war and form a new coalition united behind al-Qaida.
See also
Islam in the United Kingdom
References
Related media articles
A Critical Study of the Multiple Identities and Disguises of 'al-Muhajiroun'
Treason threat cleric 'leaves UK'
Why radical views 'must be heard'
Terror treason charge considered
Radicals warned of treason risk
Profile: Omar Bakri Muhammad
BBC - 'Police raid Islamic group'
BBC Newsnight's Richard Watson interviews Al-Muhajiroun recruits
10 March 2004, Mahan Abedin of Jamestown.org interviews Omar Bakri Mohammed at his London home
Telegraph - Al Muhajiroun under scrutiny
Telegraph - Militants of Al-Muhajiroun seek world Islamic state
BBC HARDtalk interview, 5 May 2003, Anjem Choudary refuses to condemn suicide attacks.
Al Ghurabaa - Defend the honour of Muhammad
Militant groups in the UK The Guardian, June 19, 2002
Banned Islamists spawn front organisations, Guardian July 22, 2006
Video
Anjem Choudary interviewed by Jeremy Paxman Newsnight, BBC
Islamist groups
Islamic terrorism in the United Kingdom
Organizations based in Europe designated as terrorist
Islamic organisations based in the United Kingdom
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2018 First Responder Bowl
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The 2018 First Responder Bowl was a college football bowl game scheduled for December 26, 2018, at the Cotton Bowl Stadium in Dallas. It was one of the 2018–19 bowl games concluding the 2018 FBS football season. Sponsored by Servpro, a franchisor of fire and water cleanup and restoration, the game was officially known as the Servpro First Responder Bowl. The ninth overall staging of the bowl, this was the first edition since being rebranded; its prior six editions were the Heart of Dallas Bowl, preceded by the TicketCity Bowl in its first two stagings.
The game was delayed in the first quarter, after Boston College took a 7–0 lead, and went into a weather delay due to lightning. Repeated lightning strikes near the stadium forced further delays; under NCAA rules, any lightning within of a stadium triggers a mandatory 30-minute delay, and the delay is extended with additional strikes. The game was canceled about two hours later amid forecasts that the severe weather would continue throughout the day and night. The game is considered a no-contest for the teams involved.
This is believed to be the first postseason game at the FBS-level (or its predecessors) that was canceled due to weather. NCAA records reflect only two prior postseason cancellations—a 1941 charity game between San Jose State and Hawaii that was canceled following the attack on Pearl Harbor; and a 2013 Division II game, the C.H.A.M.P.S. Heart of Texas Bowl, between Ouachita Baptist and Tarleton State that was canceled due to severe winter weather.
Teams
Bowl organizers had intended to invite teams from the Big Ten Conference and Conference USA, based on conference tie-ins. However, Boise State from the Mountain West Conference and Boston College from the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) were selected, based on the bowl eligibility of teams and other bowl assignments.
This would have been the second all-time meeting between the two schools, with the previous meeting also coming in a bowl game. Boston College defeated Boise State in the 2005 MPC Computers Bowl, 27–21, on Boise State's home field of Bronco Stadium (now known as Albertsons Stadium).
Boston College Eagles
Boston College received and accepted a bid to the First Responder Bowl on December 2. The Eagles entered the bowl with a 7–5 record (4–4 in conference).
Boise State Broncos
Boise State was defeated in the 2018 Mountain West Conference Football Championship Game on December 1, then received and accepted a bid to the First Responder Bowl on December 2. The Broncos entered the bowl with a 10–3 record (7–1 in conference).
References
Further reading
External links
Box score at ESPN
2018–19 NCAA football bowl games
2018
Boise State Broncos football bowl games
Boston College Eagles football bowl games
2018 in sports in Texas
December 2018 sports events in the United States
2010s in Dallas
2018 in Texas
Cancelled sports events
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80/81 is a double album by jazz guitarist Pat Metheny, featuring tenor saxophonists Dewey Redman and Michael Brecker, acoustic bassist Charlie Haden and drummer Jack DeJohnette, which was released in 1980.
Metheny toured in the U.S. in fall 1980 with a quartet including Redman, Haden and drummer Paul Motian. In the summer of 1981, he toured Europe with the full 80/81 lineup featured on the album.
Reception
In a review for AllMusic, Richard S. Ginell wrote that "Metheny's credibility with the jazz community went way up with the release of this package", and called the album "a superb two-CD collaboration with a quartet of outstanding jazz musicians that dared to be uncompromising at a time when most artists would have merely continued pursuing their electric commercial successes." An overview at The Music Aficionado refers to the album as "a double LP album for the ages" resulting from "one of the most productive and inspiring recording sessions in modern jazz", and notes: "Metheny didn't just ask four great musicians to come over for a session. He had a clear vision for how they will sound together, and wrote new music with their individual style and personality in mind. Interestingly, he also assembled combinations of musicians who have not played or recorded with each other before."
In an article at Between Sound and Space, Tyran Grillo called the album a "still-fresh sonic concoction", and noted that "With 80/81, Pat Metheny took one step closer to his dream of working with The Prophet of Freedom (Ornette Coleman) (a dream he finally achieved with 1985's Song X)". He concluded: "Like much of what Metheny produces, 80/81 is wide open in two ways. First in its far-reaching vision, and second it its willingness to embrace the listener. Like a dolly zoom, he enacts an illusion of simultaneous recession and approach, lit like a fuse that leads not to an explosion, but to more fuse."
JazzTimes included the album in an article titled "10 Best Jazz Albums of the 1980s: Critics' Picks", in which Philip Booth stated: "Enlisting four of the musicians he most admired... the 26-year-old guitarist successfully translated the sound in his head to beautifully open, airy, sometimes urgent recordings."
Track listing
Personnel
Pat Metheny – acoustic and electric guitars
Michael Brecker – tenor saxophone (on tracks Disc 1: 1,4; Disc 2: 1–3)
Dewey Redman – tenor saxophone (on tracks Disc 1: 3, Disc 2: 1,2)
Charlie Haden – double bass
Jack DeJohnette – drums
References
1980 albums
Pat Metheny albums
Albums produced by Manfred Eicher
ECM Records albums
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2001 United Kingdom budget
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The 2001 United Kingdom budget, named "Investing for the Long Term: Building Opportunity and Prosperity for All", was presented by Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer, to the House of Commons March 2001. As of June 2020 it is the most recent year in UK history that the government reported a budgetary surplus.
References
United Kingdom budgets
Budget
United Kingdom
Gordon Brown
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Sardis is a town in Panola County, Mississippi. As of the 2010 census, the town population was 1,703. Sardis is one of two county seats for Panola County; the other is Batesville, on the south side of the Tallahatchie River.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all land.
Demographics
2020 census
As of the 2020 United States Census, there were 1,748 people, 776 households, and 493 families residing in the town.
2000 census
As of the census of 2000, there were 2,038 people, 790 households, and 493 families residing in the town. The population density was . There were 862 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the town was 41.90% White, 56.43% African American, 0.05% Native American, 0.39% Asian, 0.54% from other races, and 0.69% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.47% of the population.
There were 790 households, out of which 25.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 36.1% were married couples living together, 23.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 37.5% were non-families. 33.4% of all households were made up of individuals, and 18.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.50 and the average family size was 3.24.
In the town, the population was spread out, with 26.1% under the age of 18, 9.2% from 18 to 24, 21.2% from 25 to 44, 22.3% from 45 to 64, and 21.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 39 years. For every 100 females, there were 77.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 72.1 males.
The median income for a household in the town was $23,042, and the median income for a family was $32,933. Males had a median income of $24,783 versus $18,750 for females. The per capita income for the town was $15,195. About 18.4% of families and 24.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 32.2% of those under age 18 and 24.1% of those age 65 or over.
Education
The Town of Sardis is served by the North Panola School District. North Panola Junior High School in Como and North Panola High School in Sardis serve the community. The Quitman County School District serves the portion of Crenshaw that lies in Quitman County.
Notable people
Charles P. Hall − Lieutenant general of the United States Army, who served in both World Wars. He commanded the XI Corps during the Battle of Bataan.
Germany Kent − media personality. First person inducted into North Panola School District Hall of Fame.
KJ Jefferson − Starting quarterback for the Arkansas Razorbacks football team
John C. Kyle − Democratic politician from the US state of Mississippi during the late 19th century.
Nolan Mettetal − Mississippi state legislator
Ronnie Musgrove − politician, 62nd Governor of Mississippi
References
External links
Panola Partnership website
Paying Price to Win: KJ Jefferson Comes Back With Bruised Knee to Lead Win
Towns in Mississippi
Towns in Panola County, Mississippi
County seats in Mississippi
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Jefferson Cup Stakes
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The Jefferson Cup Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race run in mid-June near the end of the Churchill Downs Spring Meet in Louisville, Kentucky. A race on turf, it is open to three-year-old horses of either gender.
For 2010, the purse was dropped from $200,000 to $100,000 and the race was downgraded from a Grade II event at a mile and an eighth (9 furlongs) to a Grade III level at a mile and a sixteenth.
Since inception, the Jefferson Cup Stakes has been contested at various distances:
5.5 furlongs : 1977–1981
miles : 1982, 2010–2013
miles : 1983–2009
Records
Speed record
miles – 1:47.27 – King Cugat (2000)
miles – 1:43.66 – Banned (2011)
Winners of the Jefferson Cup Stakes since 1999
Earlier winners
1993 – Lt. Pinkerton (1:48.27)
1992 – Senor Thomas (1:49.80)
1991 – Hanging Curve (1:50.89)
1990 – Divine Warning (1:52.20)
1989 – Shy Tom (1:49.20)
1988 – Stop the Stage (1:51.60)
1987 – Fast Forward (1:50)
1986 – Buffalo Beau (1:52.80)
1985 – Aveys Brother (1:50)
1984 – Coax Me Chad (1:50.60)
1983 – Pron Regard (1:51.60)
1982 – Wavering Monarch (1:44.20)
1981 – Talent Town (1:05.40)
1980 – Golden Derby (1:04.20)
1979 – Rockhill Native (1:05.20)
1978 – Future Hope (1:05.20)
1977 – Old Jake (1:04.80)
References
Graded stakes races in the United States
Flat horse races for three-year-olds
Turf races in the United States
Recurring sporting events established in 1977
Churchill Downs horse races
1977 establishments in Kentucky
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Virunga Volcano
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Virunga Volcano is an album by the Congolese musician Samba Mapangala, released in 1990. He is credited with his band, Orchestre Virunga. The album was first released, in Europe, in 1985. "Malako" was a hit in Africa, and is regarded as a perennial classic. The album was a breakthrough for Mapangala, and led to steady international touring.
Production
The album was produced by Justus Musyoka Kasoya. The album's sound is marked by double saxophones and vocals in Lingala and Swahili.
Critical reception
Robert Christgau wrote that "Virunga's snaky bass and nimble guitar come off as spaced and delicate as the falsetto leads Mapangala trades with Fataki, his only permanent sideman, and the twin saxophones are low-budget funky, their cheesy embouchure stuck between alto and soprano." The Gazette determined that "there are delicious guitar and saxophone performances, undulating bass lines—and it's thoroughly absorbing, a silkier, jazzier sound than the modern rat-tat-tat of Zairean soukous"; the paper later labeled the album "a classic." The Herald-American called Virunga Volcano "electrified and funky, borrowing as much from Western pop as from Kenyan tradition."
The Los Angeles Times noted that "the real ace in the hole is Mapangala's strategic use of horns for earthy, bluesy interjections—their mournful harmonizing is crucial in elevating 'Maloko' to genuine classic status." In 2001, The Sunday Telegraph deemed Virunga Volcano "one of the great guitar discs in the history of African music, also blessed by Mapangala's warm vocals."
Track listing
References
1990 albums
Virgin Records albums
Albums by Democratic Republic of the Congo artists
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NlaIII
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NlaIII is a type II restriction enzyme isolated from Neisseria lactamica. As part of the restriction modification system, NlaIII is able to prevent foreign DNA from integrating into the host genome by cutting double stranded DNA into fragments at specific sequences. This results in further degradation of the fragmented foreign DNA and prevents it from infecting the host genome.
NlaIII recognizes the palindromic and complementary DNA sequence of CATG/GTAC and cuts outside of the G-C base pairs. This cutting pattern results in sticky ends with GTAC overhangs at the 3' end.
Characteristics
NlaIII from N. lactamica contains two key components: a methylase and an endonuclease. The methylase is critical to recognition, while the endonuclease is used for cutting. The gene (NlaIIIR) is 693 bp long and creates the specific 5’-CATG-3’ endonuclease. A homolog of NlaIIIR is iceA1 from Helicobacter pylori. In H. pylori, there exists a similar methylase gene called hpyIM which is downstream of iceA1. ICEA1 is an endonuclease that also recognizes the 5’-CATG-3’ sequence. IceA1 in H. pylori is similar to that of NlaIII in N. lactamica.
NlaIII contains an ICEA protein that encompasses the 4 to 225 amino acid region. H. pylori also contains the same protein. H. pylori infection often leads to gastrointestinal issues such as peptic ulcers, gastric adenocarcinoma and lymphoma. Researchers speculate that ICEA proteins serve as potential markers for gastric cancer
Isoschizomers
NlaIII isoschizomers recognize and cut the same recognition sequence 5’-CATG-3’. Endonucleases that cut at this sequence include:
Fael
Fatl
Hin1II
Hsp92II
CviAII
IceA1
Applications
NlaIII can be used in many different experimental procedures such as:
Serial analysis of gene expression
Molecular cloning
Restriction site mapping
Genotyping
Southern blotting
Restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis
References
Genetics
Molecular biology
Biotechnology
Restriction enzymes
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50th meridian
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50th meridian may refer to:
50th meridian east, a line of longitude east of the Greenwich Meridian
50th meridian west, a line of longitude west of the Greenwich Meridian
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Mysterious%20Mystery%21
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The Mysterious Mystery!
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The Mysterious Mystery! is a 1924 short silent comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan. It was the 33rd Our Gang short subject released.
Plot
Little Adelbert, son of a wealthy family, is kidnapped and held for ransom. The gang, led by Mickey, are quickly on the case. Mistaking Detective Jinks as a "suspeck," the gang captures him and notifies the police, who recognize the detective and release him.
One of the kidnappers gives the gang a dollar to deliver a package to Mr. Wallingford: A ransom note attached to a pigeon. The note tells the Wallingfords to attach five $1,000 bills to the pigeon, but the kids accidentally let the pigeon escape. Riding with Mr. Wallingford, the gang goes to an airfield and hides from Det. Jinks in a plane that Mr. Wallingford hires to follow the pigeon. During the flight the pigeon lands on the wing and Joe wing walks to retrieve the bird, but drops it. The pilot tries to rescue Joe, but falls (safely into a body of water), leaving Mickey to fly the plane.
Mickey, along with Joe and Farina, manages to follow the pigeon who returns to the barn where Little Adelbert is being held. With Mr. Wallingford and Det. Jinks following the plane, Mickey crashes into the barn and the kidnappers are pinned underneath the rubble. Mickey handcuffs the crooks as Mr. Wallingford arrives, who tells Det. Jinks to make sure the boys get the cash reward for capturing the kidnappers. As Mr. Wallingford hugs Adelbert, the gang runs away with Det. Jinks in pursuit, waving the reward money at them.
Production notes
The Mysterious Mystery! marks the first appearance of Eugene "Pineapple" Jackson in an Our Gang comedy. Mary Kornman does not appear.
Cast
The Gang
Joe Cobb – Joe
Mickey Daniels – Mickey
Allen Hoskins – Farina
Eugene Jackson – Snowball
Andy Samuel – Andy
Sonny Loy – Sing Joy
Jackie Condon – Little Adelbert Wallingford
Additional cast
Charles A. Bachman – Det. Jinks
Allan Cavan – Adelbert's grandfather
Dick Gilbert – Henchman
William Gillespie – Mr. Wallingford
Sam Lufkin – Henchman
Charley Young – Butler
References
External links
1924 films
1924 comedy films
American black-and-white films
Films directed by Robert F. McGowan
Hal Roach Studios short films
Our Gang films
American silent short films
1924 short films
1920s American films
Silent American comedy films
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Rafael Schermann (1879–1945) also known as Raphael Schermann was a Polish graphologist, self-proclaimed psychic and writer.
Schermann was born in Kraków. From a young age he had a fascination with handwriting and collecting envelopes. He settled in Vienna in 1910 and worked for insurance companies. He became an expert graphologist and it was alleged that he possessed the powers of clairvoyance, second sight and telepathy.
Oskar Fischer, a professor of psychology from the University of Prague, conducted a series of graphology experiments with Schermann between 1916 and 1918. Fischer reported that with his eyes bandaged, or by just touching handwriting samples in sealed envelopes, Schermann had successfully given many accurate character descriptions and statements about the writer. Fischer became convinced that Schermann was a genuine psychic.
Other researchers have been more critical. Brazilian physician Antônio da Silva Melo noted flaws in the experiments and attributed his graphology abilities to psychological factors relating to memory, unconscious cues and suggestion.
Publications
Die Handschrift Luegt Nicht (Handwriting Does Not Lie, 1929)
Pismo Nie Kłamie: Psychografologia. Kraków: Księg. Powszechna, 1939 (wznowiona 1993, 1999)
Hilfe! Mörder!. Berlin-Leipzig: Verl. Schaefer & Co., 1932
Trzy Testamenty Księcia X. Kraków: Senzacja, 1935
O pół minuty... Kraków: Senzacja, 1935
Samobójstwo zmarłego (1937; Wznowiona 2014)
References
Further reading
Eugene Szekeres Bagger. (1924). Psycho-Graphology: A Study Of Rafael Schermann. G. P. Putnam's Sons.
Paul Tabori. (1972). Raphael Schermann. In Pioneers of the Unseen. Souvenir Press. pp. 271–243.
Alexandra Nagel. (2006). 'Rafael Schermann, psychografoloog, getest en bediscussieerd door parapsychologen', Tijdschrift voor Parapsychologie, 73(2), pp. 8-13 [in Dutch].
External links
1879 births
1945 deaths
Clairvoyants
Graphologists
Writers from Kraków
Parapsychologists
Polish psychics
Polish emigrants to Austria
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Hugues Gentillon (born December 17, 1974) is a Haitian film director, screenwriter, producer, and scientist. He is the founder of Yugy Pictures Entertainment, a film production company based in the United States.
Biography
Gentillon was born on December 17, 1974 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti to Haitian parents. As both his parents were entrepreneurs, he attended several private schools in Haiti until graduating from high school, when he left the country to attend university in the United States. After initially studying at Miami Dade College and University of Florida in Florida, he transferred to several other universities in North America and Europe, including New York Film Academy, Academy of Art University, Medical University of Lodz, and Université Libre de Bruxelles, eventually graduating with a Master of Fine Arts degree. In 2014 he screened his MFA thesis film Love Me Haiti at several film festivals, including Festival de Cannes, Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF), Boston Cinema/Motion Pictures Association of Haiti (MPAH), and Bahamas International Film Festival. The film won Gentillon several awards, including the 2014 Interstudent special award and the 2014 MPAH award for Best Short Film. A year later Gentillon attended the Festival de Cannes 2015, where he promoted and pre-marketed his film The Pearl of Wisdom, a fictional film loosely inspired by a series of events that took place during the Age of Reason (1600-1800).
See also
Cinema of Haiti
List of Haitian films
References
1974 births
Living people
People from Port-au-Prince
Haitian artists
Haitian male writers
Haitian film directors
Haitian screenwriters
Haitian philanthropists
Haitian emigrants to the United States
Haitian film producers
Academy of Art University alumni
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Dimitrie Apai
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Dimitrie Apai (born 19 July 1994) is a Surinamese footballer who plays for Transvaal, and the Suriname national football team.
Club career
Transvaal
Apai began his career with S.V. Transvaal of Suriname's semi-professional Hoofdklasse. In late 2013, Apai was invited for a trial with W Connection F.C. of Trinidad and Tobago's TT Pro League after an impressive showing during 2013 CONCACAF U-20 Championship qualifying in which Apai scored three goals in three matches during the group stage including two against Trinidad and Tobago. Following a trial which saw him score four goals in two matches, it was announced on 30 January 2014 that W Connection purchased the player from Transvaal. By signing a contract with W Connection, Apai became only the second fully professional player representing Suriname at that time, along with Stefano Rijssel who also played for the Trinidadian club for two years.
W Connection
Apai made his professional debut on 24 January 2014 against North East Stars. He scored his first goal for the club coming on as a substitute and scoring the stoppage time equalizer against Central FC on 11 February 2014. Apai has played in 3 CCL matches of the 2016 season against Deportivo Saprissa and two against Santos Laguna. On 19 January 2016, Apai scored the fourth and fifth goal for Connection in a 7–1 win. His first international goal for W Connection was in the 2016 CFU Club Championship where he scored in the 67th minute against CS Moulien. On 11 March 2016, he scored the only goal in a 1–0 win against Point Fortin Civic. He scored two more goals for Connection in a 3–0 win vs St. Ann's Rangers on 17 May 2016 in the seasons last match. On July, Apai said in a local Surinamese interview that he will not return to Suriname at his young age, stating he wants to become a professional player whether it is in Europe or elsewhere. He was a starter in the first match against UNAM in the 2017 CCL and assisted Jamal Charles into scoring the second goal of the match for Connection. He was a starter once again in the first match against Honduras Progreso and also giving an assist. On 25 October, he scored his first goal of the new season against Point Fortin Civic that ended 7–0 for WCO. On 14 January 2017, Apai scored two goals and gave one assist in the match against Defence Force, three days later, he scored the only goal in a 1–0 win against St. Ann's Rangers for W Connection. Apai was named player of the month December for the season of 2016–2017, In which he scored four goals in four matches. In December of 2017, Apai was named Footballer of the Year in Suriname by VSJS.
Europe
After leaving W Connection in summer 2019, Apai went on trial with Beerschot of the Belgian First Division B. While in Europe he took part in a training camp with the national team in preparation for upcoming 2019–20 CONCACAF Nations League B matches. He appeared in a match against Telstar and, after scoring Suriname's game-winning goal in its final friendly against RKSV Leonidas, he was invited to trial with Mosta of the Maltese Premier League.
Return to Transvaal
After six years with W Connection, Apai returned to Suriname signing for Transvaal.
International career
Apai has represented Suriname at the U17, U20, and U23 levels. Apai made his senior international debut in the 2013 ABCS Tournament against Bonaire. He scored his first international goal in the match, the second goal of a 2–0 victory.
In June 2021, Apai was named to the Suriname squad for the 2021 CONCACAF Gold Cup.
International goals
Scores and results list Surinames's goal tally first.
Honours
W Connection
TT Pro League: 2018
FA Trophy: 2017
First Citizens Cup 2015, 2017
Charity Shield: 2018
Individual
First Citizens Cup MVP: 2017
First Citizens Cup Topscorer: 2017
First Citizens Cup Best Forward: 2017
Suriname Footballer of the Year: 2017
References
External links
TT Pro League Profile
Caribbean Football Database profile
1994 births
Living people
People from Paramaribo
Surinamese men's footballers
Surinamese expatriate men's footballers
Suriname men's international footballers
SVB Eerste Divisie players
TT Pro League players
S.V. Transvaal players
W Connection F.C. players
2021 CONCACAF Gold Cup players
Expatriate men's footballers in Trinidad and Tobago
Surinamese expatriate sportspeople in Trinidad and Tobago
Men's association football forwards
Suriname men's youth international footballers
Suriname men's under-20 international footballers
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Basketball Wives (season 4)
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The fourth season of the reality television series Basketball Wives aired on VH1 from February 20, 2012 until June 11, 2012. The show was primarily filmed in Miami, Florida and New York, New York. It was executively produced by Nick Emmerson, Alex Demyanenko, Shaunie O'Neal, Jill Holmes, Tom Huffman, and Sean Rankine.
The show chronicles the lives of a group of women who are the wives and girlfriends, or have been romantically linked to, professional basketball players in the National Basketball Association, though the title of the series does not make this differentiation, solely referring to the women as "wives".
Production
Basketball Wives debuted on April 11, 2010, with thirty-minute episodes. The second season premiered on December 12, 2010, with expanded sixty-minute episodes and featured new cast member Tami Roman. Season 3 made its debut on May 30, 2011, with new cast member Meeka Claxton. The fourth season premiered on February 20, 2012, with two new cast members, Kenya Bell and Kesha Nichols and the departure of Claxton. The fifth season premiered on August 19, 2013, with Tasha Marbury joining the cast. According to a tweet from Tami Roman, the show has been quietly though officially cancelled.
Cast
Main cast
Kesha Nichols: Ex-Fiancée of Richard Jefferson
Kenya Bell: Wife of Charlie Bell
Royce Reed: Ex-Dancer for Miami/Orlando
Suzie Ketcham: Ex-Girlfriend of Michael Olowokandi
Tami Roman: Ex-Wife of Kenny Anderson
Jennifer Williams: Ex-Wife of Eric Williams
Evelyn Lozada: Fiancée of Chad Ochocinco
Shaunie O'Neal: Ex-Wife of Shaquille O’Neal
Episodes
References
2012 American television seasons
Basketball Wives
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Brian Falkenborg
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Brian Thomas Falkenborg (born January 18, 1978) is a former professional baseball relief pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Baltimore Orioles, Los Angeles Dodgers, San Diego Padres, and St. Louis Cardinals. Internationally, he played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks and Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles.
Career
Falkenborg graduated from Redmond High School. He was 6-2 with a 0.75 ERA and 75 strikeouts as a senior at Redmond. He was selected by the Baltimore Orioles in the second round of the MLB Draft and signed with the Orioles on July 6, 1996.
He began his professional career with the GCL Orioles in the Rookie level Gulf Coast League in 1996. He also pitched in one game for the Single-A High Desert Mavericks that season.
Falkenborg spent most of with the Single-A Delmarva Shorebirds, with the High-A Frederick Keys and with the Double-A Bowie Baysox.
He made his major league debut for the Orioles on October 1, 1999, pitching two scoreless innings of relief against the Boston Red Sox.
He underwent Tommy John surgery in the off-season and missed the entire season. Falkenborg was signed as a free agent by the Seattle Mariners and spent the season with the Mariners minor league affiliates at San Antonio and Tacoma. He stayed with Tacoma through the season, despite battling an assortment of injuries that led to him spending significant time on the disabled list.
Falkenborg signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers for the season, but spent most of the year with the Triple-A Las Vegas 51s, appearing in only six major league games for the Dodgers, working 14.1 innings and finishing with a 7.53 ERA. He did record his first major league victory on May 9, 2004, in a 14 inning game against the Pittsburgh Pirates.
He spent the season with the San Diego Padres organization, appearing in 10 games for the Padres, and finishing with an 8.18 ERA. The bulk of his season was spent with the Triple-A Portland Beavers.
Falkenborg pitched in 21 games for the St. Louis Cardinals between and , though, again, spending most of those seasons in the minors with the Memphis Redbirds. He was released by the Cardinals on November 20, 2007, and, on December 12, 2007, signed a minor league contract with an invitation to spring training with the Dodgers. He failed to make the Dodgers roster out of spring training and was assigned to the Las Vegas 51s, eventually joining the Dodgers major league roster on June 25. He was designated for assignment on August 8. He was claimed off outright waivers by the San Diego Padres on August 13.
SoftBank Hawks
In November 2008, Falkenborg signed with the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks of Nippon Professional Baseball.
Used as a set-up man with the Hawks in his first season, Falkenborg performed well above expectations in the 2009 season. He did not allow one earned run in spring training and that streak extended until the last week of May. Teaming with rookie set-up man Tadashi Settsu and closer Takahiro Mahara, the tall righty finished second in the Pacific League in holds behind Settsu. The trio was nicknamed "SBM", (short for Settsu, Brian, Mahara), and Falkenborg was named to the Pacific League All-Star Team.
Falkenborg ran into some trouble late in the season as he came down with elbow tightness in August. He was taken off the active roster twice, once for the injury, and again in late September to shut him down for the season as he was having trouble recovering for the injury. He had also been taken off the active roster earlier in the season due to the birth of his second child. Still, Falkenborg finished with a 6-0 record, one save, and a 1.74 ERA to go with 61 strikeouts in 51 and 2/3 innings.
He was even better in the 2010 regular season. Used as the 8th inning reliever behind Settsu, Falkenborg gave up one run in his fifth appearance of the season against the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles on April 3. From there, he began a streak of 19 straight appearances without giving up an earned run, a streak that ended on May 29 against the Chunichi Dragons. After that, he went two months without giving up an earned run before melting down in two consecutive appearances against the Saitama Seibu Lions and Orix Buffaloes. Still, Falkenborg finished with a record of 3-2 with one save and a 1.02 ERA. However, he was not as good in the playoffs, as he gave up five earned runs in just two innings of work for a 22.50 ERA. Despite this, he was signed to a 2-year contract extension by the Hawks.
Falkenborg rebounded from the bad postseason to have another great season in a Hawks uniform. Falkenborg took on the role of closer when regular closer Mahara missed most of the season due to the death of his mother, mechanical problems, and injury. He was 1-2 with a 1.42 ERA in 47 and 1/3 innings (50 appearances), and he also recorded 19 saves, tying for the club lead with Mahara, who returned at the end of the season. The big American also vanquished his playoff demons as he pitched in six total playoff games, giving up one run in seven and 1/3 innings, with two walks and 11 strikeouts. He made five appearances in the 2011 Japan Series against the Chunichi Dragons, giving up no runs and striking out 10.
References
External links
1978 births
Living people
Baseball players from Newport Beach, California
Baseball players from Washington (state)
Major League Baseball pitchers
Gulf Coast Orioles players
High Desert Mavericks players
Bowie Baysox players
Frederick Keys players
San Antonio Missions players
Tacoma Rainiers players
Baltimore Orioles players
Los Angeles Dodgers players
San Diego Padres players
St. Louis Cardinals players
Portland Beavers players
Memphis Redbirds players
Las Vegas 51s players
American expatriate baseball players in Japan
Nippon Professional Baseball pitchers
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks players
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles players
Sportspeople from Redmond, Washington
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Eurydoxa advena
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Eurydoxa advena is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae described by Ivan Nikolayevich Filipjev in 1930. It is found in the Russian Far East, China (Sichuan, Heilongjiang) and Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu).
The wingspan is about 33 mm for males and about 38 mm for females. The forewings of the males are dark brownish black, with numerous pale yellow markings. The hindwings are dark brownish black with bright orange markings. Females have black forewings with pale yellow markings. The hindwings are black with orange markings. Adults are on wing in mid-July in China.
The larvae feed on Picea jezoensis, Abies veitchii and Abies sachalinensis.
References
Moths described in 1930
Ceracini
Moths of Japan
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Barringtonia longisepala
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Barringtonia longisepala grows as a tree up to tall, with a trunk diameter of up to . Bark is dark grey or greyish brown. Flowers are yellow. Fruit is oblong, up to long. Habitat is hillside and swamp forests. B. longisepala is endemic to Borneo.
References
longisepala
Endemic flora of Borneo
Trees of Borneo
Plants described in 1967
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Abram Harris
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Abram Harris may refer to:
Abram Lincoln Harris (1899–1963), American economist, academic, anthropologist and social critic of blacks in the United States
Abram W. Harris (1858–1935), president of Northwestern University, and president of the University of Maine
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City Slang
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City Slang is an independent record label based in Berlin, Germany.
History
The label was founded in 1990 by Christof Ellinghaus, exclusively to release The Flaming Lips' In A Priest Driven Ambulance (With Silver Sunshine Stares). With bands The Lemonheads, Das Damen, and Yo La Tengo also looking for a label to release their 1990 albums, City Slang became, a home for US bands who wanted to bring their music to the European market. Nowadays, City Slang represents a diverse roster of artists from around the world. The records released through City Slang have helped shape and embellish the last three decades of alternative music.
It was named after the song "City Slang" by Sonic's Rendezvous Band.
Artists
Current Roster
List of current artists, adapted from the City Slang website.
A
Au Suisse
B
Bayonne
Boy Harsher
Broken Social Scene
C
Calexico
Calexico and Iron & Wine
Caribou
Ian Chang
Casper Clausen
CocoRosie
COMA
Cristobal And The Sea
D
Dear Reader
McKinley Dixon
E
Efterklang
EMA
F
Fazer
G
Laura Gibson
Gold Panda
José González
Grandbrothers
H
Hauschka
Health
HeCTA
I
Imarhan
J
Jakuzi
Junior Boys
Junip
K
KAINA
Sophia Kennedy
King Hannah
L
Lambchop
Liima
Los Bitchos
M
Dan Mangan
Sen Morimoto
Augustus Muller
N
nAbi
Nada Surf
Noga Erez
The Notwist
P
Pom Pom Squad
Jessica Pratt
R
Roosevelt
S
Anna B Savage
Selling
Sinkane
sir Was
Softee
Son Lux
Sprints
Stuart A. Staples
T
Timber Timbre
Tindersticks
V
Vera Sola
Anna Von Hausswolff
W
Waleed
White Denim
WIVES
Wye Oak
Z
Zouj
Full Roster
A
Arcade Fire
Au Suisse
The Album Leaf
B
Lou Barlow And His Sentridoh
Bayonne
Big Ray
Blackmail
Black Mountain
Black Yaya
Boss Hog
Boy Harsher
Broken Social Scene
Built To Spill
Don Caballero
C
Calexico
Caribou
Cell
Ken Chambers
Ian Chang
Chavez
Vic Chesnutt
CocoRosie
COMA
Combustible Edison
Cosmic Psychos
Cristobal And The Sea
D
Das Damen
Dear Reader
Dave Depper
Dim Stars
McKinley Dixon
Kevin Drew
E
Efterklang
Eight Frozen Modules
Justine Electra
Eleventh Dream Day
EMA
Noga Erez
The Experimental Pop Band
F
The Faint
Fazer
The Flaming Lips
Freakwater
G
Gallon Drunk
Sue Garner
Get Well Soon
Benjamin Gibbard
Laura Gibson
Gold Panda
Goldrush
José González
Grandbrothers
Guided By Voices
H
Hauschka
Lee Hazlewood
Health
HeCTA
Herman Dune
Hole
I
Imarhan
J
Jakuzi
Jawbox
Junior Boys
Junip
The Jal-Alai Savant
K
KAINA
Sophia Kennedy
King Hannah
The Kingsbury Manx
Kort
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Lackthereof
Lambchop
Larmousse
Lemonheads
Liima
Los Bitchos
Love Child
Love Inks
M
Malajube
Dan Mangan
J Mascis + The Fog
Menomena
Moon Duo
Sen Morimoto
The Most Serene Republic
Alexi Murdoch
N
nAbi
Nada Surf
Naytronix
The Notwist
O
O'Death
On An On
P
Norman Palm
Barbara Panther
Panthers
Alden Penner
Pick A Piper
Pink Mountaintops
Pom Pom Squad
Poolside
Port O'Brien
Jessica Pratt
R
Radio 4
Roosevelt
Royal Bangs
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Salaryman
Anna B Savage
Schneider TM
Seam
Sebadoh
Selling
Sharon Stoned
Sink
Sinkane
sir Was
Skunk
Smog
Softee
Son Lux
Sophia
Sprints
Stuart A. Staples
Stars
St. Thomas
Superchunk
Sylvan Esso
T
Techno Animal
Cortney Tidwell
Timber Timbre
Tindersticks
To Rococo Rot
Tortoise
Toy Fight
Trans Am
Tu Fawning
U
Unsane
V
Vera Sola
Anna Von Hausswolff
W
Waleed
Waters
Wheat
White Denim
Why?
WIVES
Wuhling
Wye Oak
Y
Yo La Tengo
Z
Zouj
See also
List of record labels
References
External links
Record labels established in 1991
German independent record labels
Indie rock record labels
Indie pop record labels
1991 establishments in Germany
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KEYJ-FM
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KEYJ-FM (107.9 MHz) is a commercial radio station located in Abilene, Texas. KEYJ-FM currently airs a mainstream rock format branded as "Rock 108" successfully blending "the best of the old and the new." The "Rock 108" branding came about in early 1989 (circa) as "The Home of Rock n Roll". This brought about a classic/current AOR format from its previous "Pop40" branded "Key-J 108". The station owners in the 80'-90's were Lloyd Mynat (who played Pro Football at one time) and Dave Boyal. The station is currently owned and operated by Townsquare Media.
Before 1979, the call letters KEYJ were assigned to a station located in Jamestown, North Dakota broadcasting at 1400 AM (now KQDJ), which gained brief fame in 1957, when it was featured in Life Magazine, as the home of the "World's Youngest D-J", Shadoe Stevens.
KEYJ won the RadioContraband Rock Radio Award for the "Under the Radar" station of the Year in 2014.
External links
KEYJ official website
EYJ-FM
Mainstream rock radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1957
Townsquare Media radio stations
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Bangnolac Jean Franklin
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Jean Franklin Banyolag (born June 30, 1988, in Yaoundé) is a Cameroon football player who plays for Yangon United FC.
References
Ivorian men's footballers
1988 births
Living people
Kadji Sports Academy players
Bangnolac Jean Franklin
Bangnolac Jean Franklin
Expatriate men's footballers in Thailand
Expatriate men's footballers in Myanmar
Cameroonian expatriate sportspeople in Thailand
Footballers from Yaoundé
Men's association football midfielders
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Alexandros II
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Alexandros II may refer to:
Alexander II of Macedon, king of Macedon in 371–369 BC
Pope Alexander II of Alexandria, ruled in 702–729
Patriarch Alexander II of Alexandria, Greek Patriarch of Alexandria in 1059–1062
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New Mexico Scorpions
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The New Mexico Scorpions were a Central Hockey League (CHL) team located in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. The team was established in 1996 as a part of the Western Professional Hockey League (WPHL). In 2001, the WPHL merged with the CHL. On July 2, 2009, the Scorpions ceased operations.
The Scorpions' home arena during their WPHL and early CHL days was the Tingley Coliseum in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The team suspended operations for the 2005-06 season, then moved to the new Santa Ana Star Center, in the neighbouring city of Rio Rancho, for the 2006-07 season.
The Scorpions finished at the top of the WPHL standings for their initial 1996–97 season, winning the inaugural Governor's Cup as regular season champion. The team had limited success in playoff/championship play. They made it to the WPHL championship finals in the 1999–00 season, losing to the Shreveport Mudbugs in six games. In the 2006–07 CHL season, the Scorpions won the Southwest Division playoffs, then lost the Southern Conference Championship series to the Laredo Bucks.
The Scorpions' mascot was named Stanley.
The owners included former National Hockey League players Dave Ellett and Brian Savage. The team's last coach was Randy Murphy.
References
Defunct Central Hockey League teams
Ice hockey teams in New Mexico
Sports in Rio Rancho, New Mexico
Ice hockey clubs established in 1996
Ice hockey clubs disestablished in 2009
1996 establishments in New Mexico
2009 disestablishments in New Mexico
Sports in Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Oto Logo
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Oto Logo (Serbian Cyrillic: Ото Лого; Belgrade, Serbia, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, 15 August 1931- Belgrade, Serbia, 4 January 2016) was Serbian sculptor and painter.
Biography
He was born 15 August 1931 in Belgrade. He finished high school in Subotica, and then he graduated from the Academy of Applied Arts in Belgrade, in the sculpture department. He was a member of the Association of Fine Artists of Serbia, better known as ULUS - from 1955 to 2007 when he retired.
He died in Belgrade on 4 January 2016 at age 85. He was buried in Alley of the Greats of the Belgrade New Cemetery.
Exhibitions
He has exhibited at a large number of collective exhibitions in the country and abroad. He has organized solo exhibitions in the following cities:
Belgrade, Paris, Venice, Skopje, Sarajevo, Liège, Brussels, Niš, Zurich, Mannheim, New York, London, Zagreb, Dubrovnik, Arandjelovac, Novi Sad, Struga, Ohrid, Zemun, Mionica.
He independently exhibited sculpture and graphics in Belgrade in 1957, 1959 and 1962. He has exhibited at exhibitions:
"Contemporary Serbian graphics", Novi Sad, 1959.
III and IV "International Exhibition of Graphics", Ljubljana.
I and II "Exhibition of Yugoslav Graphics", Zagreb.
Exhibitions "Contemporary Yugoslav Graphics" in Venice, Turin, Milan, Rome, Tokyo and Cuba.
Exhibition "Contemporary Serbian Art", Zagreb, 1963.
After a long break, Otto Logo exhibited his nine exhibits at the group exhibition "Fashion Avenue Art", in the Audi salon, in Belgrade, on May 27, 2008. He also exhibited in the "Gallery '73" in a group exhibition entitled "Chronicle of Art Sremčica", from August 26 to September 4, 2008.
Works
Otto Logo is the author of a large number of sculptures, busts and monuments.
Monument to Fallen Soldiers, Kovačica, 1954.
Bust Louis Pasteur, Subotica, 1965.
Bust of Andrija Štampar, Subotica, 1966.
Monument "Shell", Arandjelovac, 1966.
Bust of Ludwik Hirzfeld, Subotica, 1967.
Bust Milan Jovanović Batut, Subotica, 1968.
Bust Edward Jenner, Subotica, 1968.
Monument Dragojlo Dudić, Valjevo, 1971.
Monument "Prozivka" or "SNOP", Subotica, 1977. {{Note | The monument was inaugurated on December 18, 1977.
Monument to Branko Krsmanović, Paraćin, 1981. Note | The monument was inaugurated on May 9, 1981.
Monument to the Battle of Ljig in 1941, Ljig, 1981.
Monument to the fallen fighters of NOR, Obrenovac, 1983.
Monument Ivan Sarić | to Ivan Sarić, Subotica, 1984.
Monument to Major Victims in 1942.
Monument to the national hero Dušan Jerković, Bajina Bašta, 1987.
Monument to Živojin Mišić, Mionica, 1988.
Monument to the warriors of the liberation wars 1912-1918. year, Aleksandrovac, 1990.
Monument to Jovan Cvijić, Belgrade, 1994.
In Memorial Museum "21 October "Kragujevac" are two sculptures made of galvanized sheet metal, one opposite the other, by Otto Log: "Penetration to the East", an eagle sculpture symbolizing the German military force at the beginning of the war and "Death of a Mastodon", a sculpture representing a bird that turns into a shapeless mass of metal. thus symbolizing the collapse of the Fascist movement.
He designed the "Great Golden Plaque - Duke Živojin Mišić".
Gallery
References
Serbian sculptors
1931 births
2016 deaths
Serbian painters
Artists from Belgrade
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Cleptometopus niasicus
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Cleptometopus niasicus is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius in 1926.
References
niasicus
Beetles described in 1926
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Villepinte, Seine-Saint-Denis
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Villepinte () is a commune in the northeastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris. It is near the Charles de Gaulle Airport. The Parc des Expositions de Villepinte is located in the city. , the city had a population of 36,830.
Population
Heraldry
Transport
Villepinte is served by three stations on Paris RER line B: Villepinte, Parc des Expositions, and Vert-Galant.
Twin towns – sister cities
Villepinte is twinned with:
Schwendi, Germany
Notable people
Stella Akakpo, athlete
Lindsay Burlet, handball player
Alou Diarra, footballer
Boukary Dramé, footballer
Alassane També, footballer
Diandra Tchatchouang, basketball player
Ibrahima Traoré, footballer
Saïd Taghmaoui, actor
Taylor Lapilus, mixed martial artist
Education
The commune has ten preschools (maternelles), as well as 11 elementary schools.
Secondary schools:
Four junior high schools: Collège Françoise Dolto, Collège Camille Claudel, Collège Jean Jaurès, Collège Les Mousseaux
Two senior high schools/sixth-form colleges: Lycée Jean Rostand and Lycée Georges Brassens
See also
Communes of the Seine-Saint-Denis department
References
External links
Official website (in French)
Communes of Seine-Saint-Denis
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The Port of Manila () refers to the collective facilities and terminals that process maritime trade function in harbors in Metro Manila. Located in the Port Area and Tondo districts of Manila, Philippines, facing Manila Bay, it is the largest and the premier international shipping gateway to the country. The Philippine Ports Authority, a government-owned corporation, manages the Port of Manila and most of the public ports in the country. It is composed of 3 major facilities, namely Manila North Harbor, Manila South Harbor, and the Manila International Container Terminal.
History
Trade in Manila Bay dates at least ninth to twelfth centuries when Manila traded with neighboring countries including China and Japan, with ties to India through the areas that are now Malaysia and Indonesia. During the Spanish Colonial Era of the Philippines Manila handled trade with China and other East Asian countries, with Mexico, with Arab countries, and directly with Spain from the 16th to mid-19th century when the port was opened to all trade. This was the galleon trade that connected the Philippines to Spain via Mexico, another Spanish territory. From the end of the galleon trade, through the American Colonial Era of the Philippines and Philippine independence, until today, the Port of Manila has been the main port of the Philippines for both domestic and international trade.
The port is part of the Maritime Silk Road that runs from the Chinese coast to the south via Singapore towards the southern tip of India, to Mombasa, then through the Suez Canal to the Mediterranean with its connections to Central and Eastern Europe.
Location
The entrance to Manila Bay is wide and expands to a width of . Mariveles, in the province of Bataan, is an anchorage just inside the northern entrance, and Sangley Point is the former location of Cavite Naval Base. On either side of the bay are volcanic peaks topped with tropical foliage. to the north is the Bataan Peninsula and to the south is the province of Cavite.
Facilities
Manila North Harbor
Manila North Harbor (seaport code:MNN), occupies a area in Tondo, Manila and is operated by the Manila North Harbour Port Inc., a subsidiary of International Container Terminal Services Inc. It has 7 piers (numbered with even numbers: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 and 14). North Harbor is accessible through Mel Lopez Boulevard (Radial Road 10).
The North Port Passenger Terminal, opened in 2013, can accommodate 2–3 million passengers sailing on inter-island ferries to cities throughout the archipelago. It is the main hub of 2GO ferry company, the largest inter-island ferry company in the Philippines.
Manila South Harbor
Manila South Harbor (seaport code:MNS), is a port facility located in Port Area, Manila operated by Asian Terminals Incorporated, with 5 piers numbered with odd-numbers 3, 5, 9, 13 and 15. It is accessible through Bonifacio Drive/Radial Road 1 and has a passenger terminal located between Pier 13 and 15 namely Eva Macapagal Super Terminal. It was formerly the main hub of 2GO ferry company. As of April 29, 2014, the management has installed a new Liebherr quay crane to increase the efficiency of Manila South Harbor.
Manila International Container Terminal
Manila International Container Terminal (seaport code:MNL) is operated by International Container Terminal Services Inc. It is one of Asia's major seaports and one of the Philippines' most active ports. It is located between the Manila North Harbor and the Manila South Harbor and can be accessed by road through MICT South Access Road.
In 2019, Manila International Container Terminal ranked 29th in the list of world's busiest container ports with Twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) of 5,315. Inaugurated on July 7, 2012, Berth 6 became fully operational and increased the Port's annual capacity by 450,000 TEUs.
Future plans
It has been suggested by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) on the 2014 study Metro Manila Dream Plan to place a cap for the expansion of Manila seaports, shifting cargo-handling operations to the ports of Subic Bay and Batangas, and to eventually redevelop the port area into high value-added
diversified waterfront area. However, the government has yet to implement the suggestion.
With Berth 6 in operation, ICTSI is scheduled to finish Phase 1 development of Yard 7 by yearend and increase MICT's import capacity by 18 percent.
South of Metro Manila, ICTSI's Laguna Gateway Inland Container Terminal (LGICT) has finished its Phase 1 development. The inland container depot (ICD), which serves as an extension of the MICT, adds 250,000 TEUs to MICT's annual capacity. It will be connected to Manila through the revival of the Manila-Calamba cargo intermodal system, which ceased operations in 2000 due to lower demand.
Transportation and infrastructure connections
Buses
Port of Manila is directly served by city operation buses plying the route of Mel Lopez Boulevard, Bonifacio Drive, and Roxas Boulevard. These directly connect the Port to Ninoy Aquino International Airport, Parañaque Integrated Terminal Exchange, Navotas, and Balagtas, Bulacan, respectively.
Access to/from the NLEX
The NLEX Harbor Link, an expressway that connects with the main line North Luzon Expressway (NLEX) at the Harbor Link Interchange in Valenzuela up to Radial Road 10 (R-10) in Navotas, serves as an alternative road to the Manila North Harbor especially for the cargo trucks entering the port coming from Northern and Central Luzon, without a truck ban, and also eases traffic congestion at Andres Bonifacio Avenue and 5th Avenue.
Future projects
Pier 4 LRT station
The Pier 4 station is the future western terminus of Manila Light Rail Transit System Line 2 (LRT-2). It will be constructed near the North Port Passenger Terminal located at Pier 4 of Manila North Harbor along Mel Lopez Boulevard. The west extension of LRT-2 will also serve as a rail transport connection to the Port of Manila.
North-South Harbor Bridge
The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) is also proposing to construct a bridge crossing the Pasig River between North Harbor and South Harbor.
NLEX-CAVITEX Port Expressway Link / Harbor Link Port Access Mobility Facility
A proposed expressway in NLEX–CAVITEX Port Expressway Link or Harbor Link Port Access Mobility Facility is being planned to connect the existing Navotas Interchange of NLEX Harbor Link to Manila–Cavite Expressway (CAVITEX) or Anda Circle, respectively. It will run above the existing alignment of Mel Lopez Boulevard.
See also
Battle of Manila (1945)
Naval Base Manila
List of East Asian ports
North Port Passenger Terminal
Port Area, Manila
References
Further reading
Port of Manila: Review and History World Port Source, 2005–2014
External links
Manila North Harbor Port
Manila South Harbor
Manila International Container Terminal
AAPA- Statistics
Manila
Manila Bay
Transportation in Manila
Buildings and structures in Port Area, Manila
Buildings and structures in Tondo, Manila
Transportation in Luzon
Spanish colonial infrastructure in the Philippines
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Marlin Kikeba Piana (born 17 July 1982) is a former Congolese footballer.
Career
Piana began his career in France for Troyes AC in Ligue 1.
He was part of the Congolese 2004 African Nations Cup team, who finished bottom of their group in the first round of competition, thus failing to secure qualification for the quarter-finals.
In February 2007, he was on trial at English Football League One side Leyton Orient.
In July 2009, Piana joined Northern Premier League side Ashton United but suffered a knee injury that ruled him out for the majority of the season. He left the club in September 2010.
He later returned to Ashton United for a second spell.
References
External links
1982 births
Living people
Footballers from Kinshasa
Democratic Republic of the Congo men's footballers
Democratic Republic of the Congo men's international footballers
2004 African Cup of Nations players
ES Troyes AC players
ASC Oțelul Galați players
Sint-Truidense V.V. players
Clermont Foot players
Hapoel Ironi Kiryat Shmona F.C. players
Ashton United F.C. players
Congleton Town F.C. players
Ligue 1 players
Liga I players
Belgian Pro League players
Expatriate men's footballers in France
Expatriate men's footballers in Belgium
Expatriate men's footballers in Israel
Expatriate men's footballers in England
Northern Premier League players
Democratic Republic of the Congo expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Romania
Democratic Republic of the Congo expatriate sportspeople in Romania
Men's association football forwards
21st-century Democratic Republic of the Congo people
Prescot Cables F.C. players
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Ambt Montfort () is a former municipality in the Dutch province of Limburg.
In 1991, the municipalities of Montfort, Posterholt, Reutje and Sint Odiliënberg merged. The original name of the merged municipality was "Posterholt", but it was changed in "Ambt Montfort" in 1994. On January 1, 2007, Ambt Montfort merged into the municipality of Roerdalen.
Ambt Montfort is the birthplace of Formula One driver Jos Verstappen.
External links
Official Website
Municipalities of the Netherlands established in 1994
Municipalities of the Netherlands disestablished in 2007
Former municipalities of Limburg (Netherlands)
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Bikorn Lake (, ) is the lake occupying most of the interior of Treklyano Island off the northeast coast of Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It extends 205 m in west-northwest to east-southeast direction and 137 m in south–north direction, with a surface area of 1.46 ha, and is separated from the waters of Nelson Strait by a 21 to 70 m wide strip of land. The area was visited by early 19th century sealers.
The feature is so named because of its shape supposedly resembling a bicorne hat ('bikorn' in Bulgarian).
Location
Bikorn Lake is centred at , which is 3.18 km east of Ugarchin Point and 1.58 km west of Smirnenski Point. British mapping of the area in 1968 and Bulgarian in 2009.
Maps
Livingston Island to King George Island. Scale 1:200000. Admiralty Nautical Chart 1776. Taunton: UK Hydrographic Office, 1968
South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:200000 topographic map No. 3373. DOS 610 - W 62 58. Tolworth, UK, 1968
L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated
Notes
References
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
External links
Bikorn Lake. Adjusted Copernix satellite image
Lakes of the South Shetland Islands
Bulgaria and the Antarctic
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was a Japanese sumo wrestler from Noto Province. He was the sport's 6th yokozuna. He trained ōzeki Tsurugizan Taniemon.
Early career
He was born in Shitsumi, Noto. His birth name remains ambiguous, but was claimed to be . He was born to poor farmers and worked as a stable boy in the countryside. There, he earned a reputation in amateur sumo and decided to move to Edo in 1815 and got introduced to . He made his debut under the shikona in March 1815 and won the jonokuchi tournament.
Makuuchi career
He reached the top makuuchi division in October 1822 and transferred to the Shikoroyama stable. He began to wrestle for the Chōshū Domain under the ring name . In January 1824, he was defeated by Inazuma, but defeated others at the maegashira #2 rank and was promoted to komusubi. In the summer of 1825, he defeated Inazuma at the Hirakawa Tenjin Shrine. He was promoted to ōzeki in October 1826. In March 1827, he was given his definitive ring name by his lord and was renamed to evoke a famous scenic spot in Hagi, Yamaguchi (once part of the Chōshū domain).
Yokozuna
Ōnomatsu was awarded a yokozuna license by the Yoshida family in February 1828. At the time, he was the first yokozuna to be promoted in 31 years, since the promotion of Onogawa Kisaburō. On 25 March 1829, Ienari Tokugawa was present to see Ōnomatsu defeat Inazuma. Ōnomatsu retired in October 1835 after eight years as yokozuna. In the top makuuchi division, he won 142 bouts and lost 31 bouts, recording a winning percentage of 82.1. He was permitted to stay as an elder under his ring name. While still an active wrestler, he recruited and raised ōzeki Koyanagi, to whom he gave his old ring name. He died in Edo in 1851 and his remains were divided between the Gyokusen-in temple of Kōtō, Tokyo and the Ritsuzo-ji temple in Teramachi, Kanazawa. Since the funeral of Ōnomatsu in the Tokyo temple, it was cutsomary to have the wrestlers using the Ōnomatsu shikona buried in this temple (from the first to the fourth).
In 1936, a monument made of natural stone pulled up from the seabed of Ugawa Port was erected the by a resolution of his hometown Ugawa Village.
Fighting style
Ōnomatsu was known for being extremely careful in his moves, often waiting for his opponent to start first. In practice, he would want to shake his competitors' confidence by oftenly do matta, waiting at the initial charge (or tachi-ai) of his sumo bouts. He would also attempt to win bouts by fair means or foul.
He was often criticised for his fighting style but was a mild-mannered, righteous man, and never became egoistic, which made him very popular among Edo people. His rivalry with 7th yokozuna Inazuma boosted the popularity of sumo during the Bunsei era and Tenpō era. His overall career record was quite far behind Inazuma, but his record over Inazuma was five wins (including two other than honbasho), four losses, five draws and one hold.
Top division record
The actual time the tournaments were held during the year in this period often varied.
*Championships for the best record in a tournament were not recognised or awarded before the 1909 summer tournament, and the unofficial championships above are historically conferred. For more information, see yūshō.
See also
Glossary of sumo terms
List of past sumo wrestlers
List of yokozuna
References
1794 births
1852 deaths
Date of birth unknown
Japanese sumo wrestlers
Place of death missing
Sumo people from Ishikawa Prefecture
Yokozuna
19th-century wrestlers
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Moonlight Over Baler is a 2017 Filipino historic romantic film starring Elizabeth Oropesa, Ellen Adarna, Vin Abrenica and Sophie Albert. The film is directed by Gil Portes, written by Eric Ramos and is under the production of T-Rex Productions (Rex Tiri).
The film is shot in the historic town of Baler, Aurora.
The film was entered for the 2016 Metro Manila Film Festival but was not selected to be part of the festival's Magic 8.
Synopsis
Set in the 1980s, the film tells the story of Fidela (Elizabeth Oropesa), a 65-year-old retired teacher who develops a special bond with a young Japanese photojournalist Kenji (Vin Abrenica), who has an uncanny resemblance to her lost love named Nestor (also played by Vin Abrenica). Nestor, who was about to marry Fidela in the 1940s, went off to fight in the war (World War II) and was killed.
Decades later, Fidela met Kenji who was covering the EDSA revolution in 1986 in Baler. She reminisced about her past as Kenji woos a local beauty named Rory (played by Ellen Adarna). Fidela helped Kenji surpass the challenges given to him by Rory to prove his sincere feelings towards her.
Cast
Main
Elizabeth Oropesa as Fidela
Ellen Adarna as Aurora/Rory
Vin Abrenica as Kenji/Nestor (dual role)
Sophie Albert as the young Fidela
Supporting
Daria Ramirez
Menggie Cobarrubias
Angie Ferro
Kate Alejandrino
Abel Estanislao
Benj Bolivar
Aaron Yanga
Alvin Fortuna
Dennies Coronel
Benjie Felipe
Jess Evardone
Jun Nayra
Blaine Medina
References
Films directed by Gil Portes
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A rugged smartphone is a specific type of toughened smartphone which is designed to be completely sealed within a durable housing to protect it against damage from water, shock, dust, and vibration. Rugged smartphones are designed to survive extreme weather and temperatures, accidental damage, and rough handling; making them ideal for working outdoors, or in harsh environments, along with use during extreme sports, such as sailing, rock climbing, etc. Most rugged smartphones have been tested to tough IP68 standards.
However, not all waterproof smartphones will be ruggedised.
Classification
There are three general types of rugged phone:
Outdoor sports
Military
Stylish
Functional requirements
The following IP code ratings for ingress protection (IP), as defined by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) standard 60529 (equivalent to European standard EN 60529), are typically used for certifying various toughened and ruggedised smartphones.
Primary standard
IP56 — Solid particle (dust) protection level 5 (protection from harmful dust) and liquid ingress (waterproof) protection level 6 (protection from high pressure water jets).
Intermediate standard
IP57 — Solid particle (dust) protection level 5 (protection from harmful dust) and liquid ingress (waterproof) protection level 7 (protection from full immersion at depths between and ).
Advanced (professional) standards
IP67 — Solid particle (dust) protection level 6 (protection from all dust) and liquid ingress (waterproof) protection level 7 (protection from full immersion at depths between and ).
IP68 — Solid particle (dust) protection level 6 (protection from all dust) and liquid ingress (waterproof) protection level 8 (protection from full immersion at depths determined by the manufacturer).
IP69K — In the IEC 60529 rating system for ingress protection (IP), IP6* refers to the product's ability to resist ingress of dust. The IP*9K refers to the product's ability to resist ingress of high temperature (steam) / high pressure water. If the device passes all these tests, then it can be considered as IP69K rated smartphone, and can be used in harsh environments with high pressure / steam cleaning.
Testing procedure per ISO 20653
A spray nozzle that is fed with water at and a flow rate of .
The nozzle is held from the tested device at angles of 0°, 30°, 60°, and 90°, for 30 seconds each.
The test device places on a turntable that rotates once every 12 seconds.
MIL-STD-810G
MIL-STD-810G is a U.S. military standard that stipulates a level of durability for an item of equipment. Specifically, it means the equipment has been subjected to a series of twenty-nine (29) tests, including shock tests, vibration tests, and more. This means it should be field ready, or even 'combat ready' in principle. A lot of technology sold to the U.S. military must be MIL-STD-810G compliant.
List of rugged smartphones
Jesy J20
Ulefone Power Armor 14 Pro
Doogee V Max
See also
Emerging technologies
References
Smartphones
Consumer electronics
Information appliances
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Compound meter
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Compound meter may refer to:
Compound meter (water meter)
Compound meter (music)
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The Mevlevi Order or Mawlawiyya (; ) is a Sufi order that originated in Konya (a city now in Turkey; formerly capital of the Seljuk Sultanate) and which was founded by the followers of Jalaluddin Muhammad Balkhi Rumi, a 13th-century Persian poet, Sufi mystic, and Islamic theologian. The Mevlevis are also known as the "whirling dervishes" due to their famous practice of whirling while performing dhikr (remembrance of God). Dervish is a common term for an initiate of the Sufi path; whirling is part of the formal sema ceremony and the participants are properly known as semazens.
In 2005, UNESCO confirmed "The Mevlevi Sema Ceremony" as amongst the Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.
Principles and practices
Approximately 750 years old, the Mevlevi Order is a living tradition based on the teachings of Rumi, also known as Mevlevi or Mevlana, who is perhaps one of the most celebrated Islamic poets. He is also venerated as a mystic within Islam. Rumi's friend and mentor, Shams of Tabriz, is also revered within the order and within Sufism more widely.
Rumi said, "As long as I have life, I am the slave of the Quran. I am dust at the door of Muhammad the Chosen"; the Mevlevi path is based firmly on Islamic principles. Kabir Helminski, a Mevlevi shaikh, writes "It is a rigorous path of initiation and service continually adapting itself to changing circumstances and times."
The Mevlevis insist that love is central to Islam. Mevlevi shaikh Şefik Can writes, 'Rumi tells us to take the love of God to the forefront, to abstain from being attached to the letter of the law rather than the spirit of it, to find the essence of the faith, and to raise our faith from the level of imitation to the level of realization.'
In addition to obligatory Islamic worship, some of the main spiritual practices within the Mevlevi Order are as follows (in order of importance):
Study of the Quran and Rumi's works (especially his poetic masterpiece the Mathnavi)
Muraqabah (Unification with God)
Initiatic conversation led by the sheikh (known as sohbet)
Sema: the whirling ceremony
Dhikr: invocation of the Divine Names which is believed to purify the heart
Adab (developing courtesy and mindfulness)
Sema
The Sema with the greatest significance to the Mevlevi order is the annual celebration of Mevlana's "marriage to god" (death), also called Seb-i Arus, meaning Nuptial Night or Night of Union. It is observed for one week, with the final night occurring on the anniversary of his death. Pilgrims from all over the world travel to Konya for the official celebration. The event is so popular that a ticketing system is in place for those who wish to attend.
Rumi mentions whirling in a number of his poems. In one ghazal in the Divani Shamsi Tabriz he says:
Those who turn in the direction of prayer,
whirl in both this world and the next.
Pay heed when a circle of friends whirl,
circling round and round, the Kaaba is the center.
If you wish a mine of sugar, it is there;
and if you wish a fingertip of sugar, it is gratis.
Origins of Sema
According to a popular story, Rumi was first inspired to whirl when he heard the hammering of the goldsmiths in Konya's bazaar, however, Mevlevi historian Abdülbâki Gölpınarlı believed that Rumi must have learnt whirling from Shams of Tabriz. Şefik Can claimed that whirling was practiced among Sufis at least as early as Abu Sa’id Abu’l-Khayr (d. 1049). Though they have cultivated it to the highest degree, Mevlevis are not the only Sufis who practice whirling, and Kabir Helminski suggests primordial origins: "The practice of whirling may have its origins in the timeless shadows of Central Asian spirituality where shamans used it to induce altered states of consciousness."
Method and symbolism
Sema (or sama) is traditionally practised in a semahane (ritual hall) according to a precisely prescribed symbolic ritual with the semazens whirling in a circle around their shaikh. Semazens whirl using their right foot to propel themselves in a counter-clockwise circle, whilst their left foot remains rooted to the floor acting as an axis about which the semazen turns. Both arms are extended and raised to the level of the head, with the right palm pointing upward (believed to be receiving Divine grace) and the left palm pointing downward (believed to channel that grace to the world). With each 360° turn, the semazen is inwardly chanting "Allah" – a form of dhikr.
The semazens enter wearing a black cloak (hırka) symbolizing death and the grave, which they remove before whirling. On their heads they wear a tall, brown hat known as a sikke, which symbolizes the tombstone and the death of the ego (a version of the sikke is also worn by the Bektashi). Once their cloaks are removed, their long white robes (tennûre) and white jackets (destegül – meaning 'bouquet of roses') become visible. Both are symbols of resurrection.
Structure of the ceremony
Naat-i Sharif – The naat marks the beginning of the ceremony in which a solo singer offers a eulogy to the Prophet Muhammad. It is concluded with a taksim (improvisation) on the reed flute (ney), which symbolises the Divine breath that gives life to everything.
Devr-i Veled – The Sultan Veled walk involves the semazens walking slowly and rhythmically to the peshrev music. After slapping the ground forcefully (representing the Divine act of creation when God said 'Be!' according to the Quran), they make a circuit in single file around the hall three times, bowing first to the semazen in front of them, and then to the semazen behind them as they begin each circuit. The bow is said to represent the acknowledgement of the Divine breath which has been breathed into all of us and is a salutation from soul to soul. The dervishes then remove their black cloaks.
The Four Salams – The Four Salams (Selams) form the main part of the ceremony and are distinct musical movements. According to Celalettin Celebi and Shaikh Kabir Helminski, "The first selam represents the human being's birth to Truth through knowledge, and through his awareness and submission to God. The second selam represents the rapture of the human being while witnessing the splendour of creation and the omnipotence of God. The third selam is the transformation of rapture into love, the sacrifice of mind to love. It is annihilation of the self within the Loved One. It is complete submission. It is unity.... The fourth selam is the semazen's coming to terms with his destiny. With the semazen's whole self, with all his mind and heart, he is a servant of God, of God's books and His prophets – of all Creation."
Quranic recitation – The ceremony concludes with a recitation from the Quran, which normally includes the following verse: God is in the East and West. And wherever you turn, there is the face of God. (Quran 2:115)
History
Early expansion
The order was established after Rumi's death in 1273 by his son Sultan Veled and Husameddin Chelebi (who inspired Rumi to write the Mathnavi). Like his father, Sultan Veled is celebrated for his poetry. Lyrics he wrote are often sung during the sema ceremony itself, and both he and Husameddin Chelebi are honoured within the order as accomplished Sufi mystics in their own right. It was they who had Rumi's mausoleum built in Konya, which to this day is a place of pilgrimage for many Muslims (and non-Muslims). A number of Rumi's successors, including both Sultan Veled and Husameddin Chelebi themselves, are also buried there. Their personal efforts to establish the order were continued by Sultan Veled's son Ulu Arif Chelebi.
During the Ottoman period, the Mevlevi order spread into the Balkans, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, and Palestine, especially in Jerusalem. The Bosnian writer Meša Selimović wrote the book The Dervish and Death about a Mevlevi dergah in Sarajevo. Eventually, there were as many as 114 Sufi lodges, the order becoming well established within the Ottoman Empire when Devlet Hatun, a descendant of Sultan Veled, married Bayezid I. Their son Mehmed I Çelebi became the next sultan, endowing the order, as did his successors, with many advantages. Many of the members of the order served in various official positions within the empire.
The Çelebis
To this day, responsibility for overseeing the Mevlevi Order is passed down through the generations of Rumi's male descendants. The head of the order is referred to as Çelebi (Chelebi) which means ‘man of God' or ‘noble, courteous' according to Mevlevi historian Abdülbâki Gölpınarlı. The current Çelebi is Faruk Hemdem Çelebi. He is also president of the International Mevlana Foundation (Uluslararası Mevlâna Vakfı), a Turkish cultural and educational foundation managed by his sister and vice-president Esin Çelebi Bayru. Shaikhs, who have the authority to teach Mevlevi practices and philosophy, are appointed by the Çelebi.
Artistic heritage
Rumi's Mathnavi and Diwan-e Shams-e Tabrizi are considered masterpieces of Persian literature, and throughout the centuries the Mevlevi Order has continued its long-standing association with the arts in Turkey. Apart from the works of Rumi and Sultan Veled, other famous literary works by Mevlevis include influential commentaries on Rumi's Mathnavi by Ismāʿil Rusūhī Ankarawi (d. 1631) and Ismāʿil Ḥaqqı Burṣalı (d. 1724), the latter also being 'a fine mystical poet' in his own right. The most celebrated Mevlevi poet, after Rumi and Sultan Veled, is Shaykh Ghalib Dede (d. 1799), the author of Hüsn ü Aşk and ‘perhaps the last true master of Turkish classical poetry' according to scholar Annemarie Schimmel. Both Ghālib Dede and Ankarawī are buried at the Galata Mevlevihanesi.
A significant number of the most celebrated Turkish musicians have been Mevlevis, and during the Ottoman era the Mevlevi Order produced a great deal of vocal and instrumental music. Mustafa Itri (1640–1712), an Ottoman-Turkish musician, composer, singer and poet, is regarded as the master of Turkish classical music Ismail Dede (1778-1846) is also considered one of Turkey's greatest classical composers and wrote the music for the ceremonial songs (ayins) played during the sema ceremony. Celebrated female musicians and composers include Dilhayat Khalifa (early 1700s) and Layla Saz (late 1800s – also buried at Galata Mevlevihanesi).
The Mevlevi Regiment
During World War I, the Mevlevi Regiment served in Syria and Palestine under the command of 4th Army. A battalion of some 800 dervishes was formed December 1914 in Konya (the Mucahidin-i Mevleviyye) and was sent to Damascus. Another battalion of regular recruits was added at the end of August 1916, and together they formed the Mevlevi Regiment. This unit did not fight until the end of the Palestine campaign and was disbanded at the end of September 1918.
Mustafa Kemal met with members of the Mevlevi Order in 1923 before its institutional expression became illegal.
1925 ban on Sufism in the Turkish Republic
Sufism was outlawed in Turkey in September 1925 by the new Turkish Republic under Atatürk. As a result, the Dervish lodge in Konya eventually became the Mevlana Museum. According to the International Mevlana Foundation, preceding the ban 'Atatürk uttered the following words about the Mevlevi Order to Abdulhalim Chalabi, “Makam Chalabi” of Konya, and furthermore the Vice President of the First House of Representatives: “You, the Mevlevis have made a great difference by combating ignorance and religious fundamentalism for centuries, as well as making contributions to science and the arts. However we are obliged not to make any exceptions and must include Mevlevi tekkes. Nonetheless, the ideas and teaching of Mevlana will not only exist forever, but they will emerge even more powerfully in the future.”'
Though the Sufi lodges were forced to close down, Mevlevi practice continues within Turkey but in a more restricted and private mode. Sufism is still officially illegal in Turkey, and sema ceremonies are therefore officially presented as cultural events of historical interest rather than as worship.
Outside the Mevlevi Order, a number of groups and individuals who have no connection to the order claim to present ‘Mevlevi whirling' – often for the entertainment of tourists.
Mevlevi Order comes to the West
In the latter half of the twentieth century, the Mevlevi Order began to make its presence felt in the West. This was due to the great popularity of English translations of Rumi's poetry (especially by Coleman Barks), but was also due to the influence of Mevlevi shaikh Suleyman Hayati Loras (known as Suleyman Dede) who made a number of trips to the USA in the 1970s. Suleyman Loras appointed several Westerners as Mevlevi teachers for the first time, including David Bellak and Kabir Helminski, and sent his son Jelaleddin Loras to live and teach in America. David Bellak took Suleyman Loras' teaching to Edinburgh in Scotland where he settled in 1980 and established Mevlevi practice.
Around about this time, Mevlevi dervishes also began to present the whirling ceremony to audiences in the West. In 1971, they performed in London with Kâni Karaca (known as the 'Voice of Turkey') as lead singer. In 1972, they toured North America for the first time with Kâni Karaca, Ulvi Erguner, and Akagündüz Kutbay among the musicians. Since the 1990s there have been several tours of the United States, including those led by the first Westerner to be officially initiated as a shaikh in the Mevlevi Order, Kabir Helminski. Since the 1980s, the Helminskis (Kabir and Camille) have presented Mevlevi principles and practice to Western audiences through books, seminars, retreats, and their organisation Threshold Society. Practising Mevlevis under the tutelage of a recognised shaikh can now be found across the globe.
Women in the Mevlevi Order
Camille Helminski explains in her book, Women of Sufism, A Hidden Treasure, how Rumi had a number of noteworthy female students, and how in the early days of the order there were instances of female shaikhs and semazens, such as Destina Khatun (who was appointed shaykha of the Kara Hisar Mevlevi lodge). "In the early days of the Mevlevi order, women and men were known to pray, share sohbet (spiritual conversation), and whirl within each other's company, though more often as the centuries unfolded, women held their own semas and men also whirled in zhikr separate from women. However, in the time of Mevlana [Rumi], spontaneous semas would occur including both men and women". In the same book, Camille Helminski presents a 1991 letter from Celaleddin Bakir Çelebi, the Çelebi heading the order, which granted permission for men and women to once more whirl together in mixed Mevlevi ceremonies.
Notes
External links
Galata Mevlevi Ensemble
Mevlevi Order of America
Video of Ensemble Al-Kindi & The Whirling Dervishes of Damascus
Pictures of Mevlevi museum in Istanbul
Pictures of Mevlevi museum in Konya
Mevleviname: Mevlevism in Western Travelogues with Translated Texts and Illustrations (Free Turkish PDF book) Vol.1 Vol.2
Religious organizations established in the 1270s
Rumi
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Carlos Augusto de Oliveira (born 1974 in Brazil) is a Brazilian film director who has lived in Denmark since 2000.
De Oliveira had his introduction to the film industry in 1992, but studied architecture in Rio de Janeiro before moving to Denmark in 2000 to study film and media in Copenhagen. He joined the film network and alternative film school Super16 in 2003 and graduated in 2006 with Three Summers.
His first feature film, Rosa Morena (2011), received the Prêmio Itamaraty award from the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs at São Paulo and won him a nomination for Best Director at the Danish Robert Awards.
References
Danish film directors
Brazilian film directors
1974 births
Living people
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Thomas H. Jordan is an American seismologist, and former director (2002-2017) of the Southern California Earthquake Center at The University of Southern California. He was formerly the head of the Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society.
Research
Jordan has made significant contributions to plate tectonics concerning the structure of continents, the depth of lithospheric slab penetration, and the nature of mantle convection, for example determining the exact nature and processes involved in plate subduction. Jordan has also pioneered many seismic imaging techniques which he developed for his doctoral dissertation and are now used widely to understand the interior of the earth. Jordan has served on international committees concerning seismic hazard.
Awards
In 2017, Jordan was nominated and selected to receive the Bowie Medal, one of the highest honors the American Geophysical Union awards its members. However, AGU rescinded the medal following receipt of a formal ethics complaint and corresponding investigation. The AGU board reaffirmed its decision following an appeal.
Publications
Jordan has been published extensively in scientific journals. He has also published two textbooks, "Understanding Earth" and "The Essential Earth".
References
Living people
American geophysicists
Massachusetts Institute of Technology people
University of Southern California people
California Institute of Technology alumni
University of Southern California faculty
Southern California Earthquake Center
Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
Fellows of the American Geophysical Union
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In mathematical logic, a sequent is a very general kind of conditional assertion.
A sequent may have any number m of condition formulas Ai (called "antecedents") and any number n of asserted formulas Bj (called "succedents" or "consequents"). A sequent is understood to mean that if all of the antecedent conditions are true, then at least one of the consequent formulas is true. This style of conditional assertion is almost always associated with the conceptual framework of sequent calculus.
Introduction
The form and semantics of sequents
Sequents are best understood in the context of the following three kinds of logical judgments:
<li>Unconditional assertion. No antecedent formulas.
Example: ⊢ B
Meaning: B is true.
<li>Conditional assertion. Any number of antecedent formulas.
<li>Simple conditional assertion. Single consequent formula.
Example: A1, A2, A3 ⊢ B
Meaning: IF A1 AND A2 AND A3 are true, THEN B is true.
<li>Sequent. Any number of consequent formulas.
Example: A1, A2, A3 ⊢ B1, B2, B3, B4
Meaning: IF A1 AND A2 AND A3 are true, THEN B1 OR B2 OR B3 OR B4 is true.
Thus sequents are a generalization of simple conditional assertions, which are a generalization of unconditional assertions.
The word "OR" here is the inclusive OR. The motivation for disjunctive semantics on the right side of a sequent comes from three main benefits.
The symmetry of the classical inference rules for sequents with such semantics.
The ease and simplicity of converting such classical rules to intuitionistic rules.
The ability to prove completeness for predicate calculus when it is expressed in this way.
All three of these benefits were identified in the founding paper by .
Not all authors have adhered to Gentzen's original meaning for the word "sequent". For example, used the word "sequent" strictly for simple conditional assertions with one and only one consequent formula. The same single-consequent definition for a sequent is given by .
Syntax details
In a general sequent of the form
both Γ and Σ are sequences of logical formulas, not sets. Therefore both the number and order of occurrences of formulas are significant. In particular, the same formula may appear twice in the same sequence. The full set of sequent calculus inference rules contains rules to swap adjacent formulas on the left and on the right of the assertion symbol (and thereby arbitrarily permute the left and right sequences), and also to insert arbitrary formulas and remove duplicate copies within the left and the right sequences. (However, , uses sets of formulas in sequents instead of sequences of formulas. Consequently the three pairs of structural rules called "thinning", "contraction" and "interchange" are not required.)
The symbol ' ' is often referred to as the "turnstile", "right tack", "tee", "assertion sign" or "assertion symbol". It is often read, suggestively, as "yields", "proves" or "entails".
Properties
Effects of inserting and removing propositions
Since every formula in the antecedent (the left side) must be true to conclude the truth of at least one formula in the succedent (the right side), adding formulas to either side results in a weaker sequent, while removing them from either side gives a stronger one. This is one of the symmetry advantages which follows from the use of disjunctive semantics on the right hand side of the assertion symbol, whereas conjunctive semantics is adhered to on the left hand side.
Consequences of empty lists of formulas
In the extreme case where the list of antecedent formulas of a sequent is empty, the consequent is unconditional. This differs from the simple unconditional assertion because the number of consequents is arbitrary, not necessarily a single consequent. Thus for example, ' ⊢ B1, B2 ' means that either B1, or B2, or both must be true. An empty antecedent formula list is equivalent to the "always true" proposition, called the "verum", denoted "⊤". (See Tee (symbol).)
In the extreme case where the list of consequent formulas of a sequent is empty, the rule is still that at least one term on the right be true, which is clearly impossible. This is signified by the 'always false' proposition, called the "falsum", denoted "⊥". Since the consequence is false, at least one of the antecedents must be false. Thus for example, ' A1, A2 ⊢ ' means that at least one of the antecedents A1 and A2 must be false.
One sees here again a symmetry because of the disjunctive semantics on the right hand side. If the left side is empty, then one or more right-side propositions must be true. If the right side is empty, then one or more of the left-side propositions must be false.
The doubly extreme case ' ⊢ ', where both the antecedent and consequent lists of formulas are empty is "not satisfiable". In this case, the meaning of the sequent is effectively ' ⊤ ⊢ ⊥ '. This is equivalent to the sequent ' ⊢ ⊥ ', which clearly cannot be valid.
Examples
A sequent of the form ' ⊢ α, β ', for logical formulas α and β, means that either α is true or β is true (or both). But it does not mean that either α is a tautology or β is a tautology. To clarify this, consider the example ' ⊢ B ∨ A, C ∨ ¬A '. This is a valid sequent because either B ∨ A is true or C ∨ ¬A is true. But neither of these expressions is a tautology in isolation. It is the disjunction of these two expressions which is a tautology.
Similarly, a sequent of the form ' α, β ⊢ ', for logical formulas α and β, means that either α is false or β is false. But it does not mean that either α is a contradiction or β is a contradiction. To clarify this, consider the example ' B ∧ A, C ∧ ¬A ⊢ '. This is a valid sequent because either B ∧ A is false or C ∧ ¬A is false. But neither of these expressions is a contradiction in isolation. It is the conjunction of these two expressions which is a contradiction.
Rules
Most proof systems provide ways to deduce one sequent from another. These inference rules are written with a list of sequents above and below a line. This rule indicates that if everything above the line is true, so is everything under the line.
A typical rule is:
This indicates that if we can deduce that yields , and that yields , then we can also deduce that yields . (See also the full set of sequent calculus inference rules.)
Interpretation
History of the meaning of sequent assertions
The assertion symbol in sequents originally meant exactly the same as the implication operator. But over time, its meaning has changed to signify provability within a theory rather than semantic truth in all models.
In 1934, Gentzen did not define the assertion symbol ' ⊢ ' in a sequent to signify provability. He defined it to mean exactly the same as the implication operator ' ⇒ '. Using ' → ' instead of ' ⊢ ' and ' ⊃ ' instead of ' ⇒ ', he wrote: "The sequent A1, ..., Aμ → B1, ..., Bν signifies, as regards content, exactly the same as the formula (A1 & ... & Aμ) ⊃ (B1 ∨ ... ∨ Bν)". (Gentzen employed the right-arrow symbol between the antecedents and consequents of sequents. He employed the symbol ' ⊃ ' for the logical implication operator.)
In 1939, Hilbert and Bernays stated likewise that a sequent has the same meaning as the corresponding implication formula.
In 1944, Alonzo Church emphasized that Gentzen's sequent assertions did not signify provability.
"Employment of the deduction theorem as primitive or derived rule must not, however, be confused with the use of Sequenzen by Gentzen. For Gentzen's arrow, →, is not comparable to our syntactical notation, ⊢, but belongs to his object language (as is clear from the fact that expressions containing it appear as premisses and conclusions in applications of his rules of inference)."
Numerous publications after this time have stated that the assertion symbol in sequents does signify provability within the theory where the sequents are formulated. Curry in 1963, Lemmon in 1965, and Huth and Ryan in 2004 all state that the sequent assertion symbol signifies provability. However, states that the assertion symbol in Gentzen-system sequents, which he denotes as ' ⇒ ', is part of the object language, not the metalanguage.
According to Prawitz (1965): "The calculi of sequents can be understood as meta-calculi for the deducibility relation in the corresponding systems of natural deduction." And furthermore: "A proof in a calculus of sequents can be looked upon as an instruction on how to construct a corresponding natural deduction." In other words, the assertion symbol is part of the object language for the sequent calculus, which is a kind of meta-calculus, but simultaneously signifies deducibility in an underlying natural deduction system.
Intuitive meaning
A sequent is a formalized statement of provability that is frequently used when specifying calculi for deduction. In the sequent calculus, the name sequent is used for the construct, which can be regarded as a specific kind of judgment, characteristic to this deduction system.
The intuitive meaning of the sequent is that under the assumption of Γ the conclusion of Σ is provable. Classically, the formulae on the left of the turnstile can be interpreted conjunctively while the formulae on the right can be considered as a disjunction. This means that, when all formulae in Γ hold, then at least one formula in Σ also has to be true. If the succedent is empty, this is interpreted as falsity, i.e. means that Γ proves falsity and is thus inconsistent. On the other hand an empty antecedent is assumed to be true, i.e., means that Σ follows without any assumptions, i.e., it is always true (as a disjunction). A sequent of this form, with Γ empty, is known as a logical assertion.
Of course, other intuitive explanations are possible, which are classically equivalent. For example, can be read as asserting that it cannot be the case that every formula in Γ is true and every formula in Σ is false (this is related to the double-negation interpretations of classical intuitionistic logic, such as Glivenko's theorem).
In any case, these intuitive readings are only pedagogical. Since formal proofs in proof theory are purely syntactic, the meaning of (the derivation of) a sequent is only given by the properties of the calculus that provides the actual rules of inference.
Barring any contradictions in the technically precise definition above we can describe sequents in their introductory logical form. represents a set of assumptions that we begin our logical process with, for example "Socrates is a man" and "All men are mortal". The represents a logical conclusion that follows under these premises. For example "Socrates is mortal" follows from a reasonable formalization of the above points and we could expect to see it on the side of the turnstile. In this sense, means the process of reasoning, or "therefore" in English.
Variations
The general notion of sequent introduced here can be specialized in various ways. A sequent is said to be an intuitionistic sequent if there is at most one formula in the succedent (although multi-succedent calculi for intuitionistic logic are also possible). More precisely, the restriction of the general sequent calculus to single-succedent-formula sequents, with the same inference rules as for general sequents, constitutes an intuitionistic sequent calculus. (This restricted sequent calculus is denoted LJ.)
Similarly, one can obtain calculi for dual-intuitionistic logic (a type of paraconsistent logic) by requiring that sequents be singular in the antecedent.
In many cases, sequents are also assumed to consist of multisets or sets instead of sequences. Thus one disregards the order or even the numbers of occurrences of the formulae. For classical propositional logic this does not yield a problem, since the conclusions that one can draw from a collection of premises do not depend on these data. In substructural logic, however, this may become quite important.
Natural deduction systems use single-consequence conditional assertions, but they typically do not use the same sets of inference rules as Gentzen introduced in 1934. In particular, tabular natural deduction systems, which are very convenient for practical theorem-proving in propositional calculus and predicate calculus, were applied by and for teaching introductory logic in textbooks.
Etymology
Historically, sequents have been introduced by Gerhard Gentzen in order to specify his famous sequent calculus. In his German publication he used the word "Sequenz". However, in English, the word "sequence" is already used as a translation to the German "Folge" and appears quite frequently in mathematics. The term "sequent" then has been created in search for an alternative translation of the German expression.
Kleene makes the following comment on the translation into English: "Gentzen says 'Sequenz', which we translate as 'sequent', because we have already used 'sequence' for any succession of objects, where the German is 'Folge'."
See also
Gerhard Gentzen
Intuitionistic logic
Natural deduction
Sequent calculus
Notes
References
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York Boulevard is a Lower City arterial road in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Formerly known as Highway 2 and Highway 6, it starts in Burlington, Ontario at Plains Road West as a two-way arterial road that wraps around and over Hamilton Harbour, enters the city of Hamilton in the west end at Dundurn Park, and ends at James Street North. It has a one-way section from Queen Street to Bay Street North, and continues east of James Street North as Wilson Street.)
History
York Boulevard was part of the military road that connected the chain stations lying between Kingston and the Niagara River, and was the used as the main road to York, Upper Canada (present-day Toronto). As a result, it became known as York Street. In 1976, the road was closed for construction, over the protests of residents and businesspeople, widened and redesignated York Boulevard on November 29, 1976 at a final cost of $5.5-million.
No street runs parallel with York Boulevard. George Hamilton, a settler and local politician, established a town site in the northern part of Barton Township after the war in 1815. He kept several east-west roads which were originally Indian trails, although the north-south streets were on a regular grid pattern. Streets were designated "East" or "West" if they crossed James Street or Highway 6, and "North" or "South" if they crossed King Street or Highway 8. York Street was originally one of those Indian trails; it runs along a ridge of elevated ground (a former sandbar), cutting through the Strathcona and Central neighbourhoods diagonally.
In 1857, 57 passengers were killed when a train derailed near the Desjardins Canal.
The old City Hall, with its 38-metre clock tower, was demolished in 1961 (corner of York and James Street) to allow expansion of Eaton's department store. The clock and bell went into the tower of the 1990 Eaton Centre. Hamilton's Central Library was opened in 1980 by Prince Philip. FirstOntario Centre, a sports and entertainment arena with a capacity of up to 19,000 (depending on event type and configuration) opened its doors for business in 1985. It was originally named Copps Coliseum after the former Hamilton mayor, Victor K. Copps, and was renamed in 2014.
As part of the Hamilton master transportation plan, York Boulevard was converted from a one way street to allow two-way traffic. This change came into effect at 10 am on December 10, 2010.
Parks
In 1790, Richard Beasley occupied Burlington Heights (now the site of Dundurn Park and Harvey Park) and was granted land by the Crown in 1799. A local entrepreneur, Beasley's business ventures included fur trading, land acquisition and establishment of a grist mill in Ancaster. He was a member of the legislative assembly of Upper Canada from 1791 to 1804 and was appointed colonel of the 2nd regiment of the York militia in 1809. Financial difficulties forced Beasley to sell lands at Burlington Heights, but they were purchased in 1832 by Sir Allan Napier MacNab who built Dundurn Castle on the foundations of Beasley's brick home. Richard Beasley was a United Empire Loyalist who preferred to stay British and came to Canada following the American Revolution of 1776.
Sir Allan Napier MacNab, (1798–1862), was a businessman, land speculator and soldier, and was active in public life. He was a successful lawyer and was appointed Upper Canada's first Queen's Council. In 1838 he was knighted for his role in suppressing the rebellion of Upper Canada. The profits from his extensive land speculation were fed into a variety of projects, including construction of his monument, Dundurn. He was influential in establishing the Gore Bank and in promoting the Great Western Railway. During a political career spanning three decades, he was three times Speaker and, from 1854 to 1856 Joint Premier of the Province of Canada.
Dundurn Castle was built between 1832–1835 for Sir Allan Napier MacNab, and named after his family ancestral seat in Scotland. Incorporating an existing farmhouse, it was designed by local architect Robert Wetherell as a statement of its owner's place in society. The house features classical and Italian motifs, French windows, broad verandahs, and a panoramic view of Burlington Bay. With its outbuildings and grounds, Dundurn Castle stands as an important example of the Picturesque movement in Canada. After years in private hands, the property was purchased by the city and from 1964 to 1967 was restored to its former splendour.
Harvey Park was named after Colonel John Harvey, a British officer during the War of 1812. The name was accepted by Hamilton City Council June 11, 1894. From Harvey Park Lieutenant-Colonel John Harvey set out with about 700 men on the night of June 5, 1813, to launch a surprise attack on an invading United States force of some 3,000 men camped in Stoney Creek. His rout of the troops commanded by Brigadier-General John Chandler under cover of darkness in the early hours of June 6 is generally credited with saving Upper Canada from being overrun by the enemy. Harvey was knighted in 1824, served as Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick (1834–1841), Lieutenant-Governor of Newfoundland (1841–1846), and Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia (1846-18851).
Cootes Paradise is a haven for naturalists. Close to the downtown, this sanctuary provides an undisturbed refuge for birds, fish and animals of all types and can be reached from York Boulevard by following the Harvey Park Trail west and descending the stairs at the Thomas B. McQuesten High Level Bridge.
Festivals and events
The Around the Bay Road Race is the oldest long distance road race in North America, held annually in Hamilton, Ontario since 1894, 3 years before the Boston Marathon. This 30-kilometre race is also known as the Billy Sherring Memorial Road Race. All races start on York Boulevard, one block west of FirstOntario Centre, and finish inside FirstOntario Centre. On Sunday, March 30, 2008, a record 8,500 participants crossed the finish line.
The City's Parks Board drew up plans in 1927 for the construction of a full-scale botanical gardens. By 1930 work had started on the project which converted an ugly stone quarry into a horticultural showcase, known as the Royal Botanical Gardens. A decade later a bill was introduced in the Provincial Legislature calling for an even more ambitious project which when completed would become the "Mecca of flower lovers from all parts of North America" its supporters claimed. The sponsor of the legislation was the Minister of Highways in the Provincial Government, and native Hamiltonian, T.B. McQuesten.
The Royal Botanical Gardens was established as an independent entity in 1941 by an act of the provincial government, but the project traces its origins to the late 1920s when the City of Hamilton began acquiring land for the beautification of the city's northwest entrance. Breathtaking gardens and spectacular nature sanctuaries plus three on-site restaurants and gift shop, over 30 kilometres of nature trails, and more can be found here. The Royal Botanical Gardens also plays host to a number of festivals throughout the year. Some of these include the Tulip Celebration, Lilac Celebration, Iris Festival, Rose Celebration and Music @ the Gardens. In addition to the festivals, hundreds of educational programs are offered for all ages as well as day camps for children.
Waterfront Shuttle
The Waterfront Shuttle is a free service offered by the Hamilton Street Railway. It has a seasonal schedule that runs daily from late June to early September connecting Hamilton's downtown core to the waterfront and attractions that can be found there, such as HMCS Haida, Bayfront Park, Pier 4 Park, and the Hamilton Waterfront Outdoor Rink. The bus leaves the loop point on King Street West opposite Summers Lane and circles Hamilton's downtown core on Bay Street North, York Boulevard, and James Street North, where it travels through the Art District until it reaches the waterfront at Guise Street and passes the Royal Hamilton Yacht Club, Hamilton Chamber of Commerce and the Harbour West Marina Complex, ending on Discovery Drive at Pier 8. Also at this site is the Hamilton Harbour Queen (cruise boat), Hamiltonian (tour boat) and the Hamilton Waterfront Trolley.
Gallery
See also
Botanic Gardens Conservation International
James Street (Hamilton, Ontario)
Locke Street (Hamilton, Ontario)
References
MapArt Golden Horseshoe Atlas – Page 468 – Grids R1, Q1, Q2/ Page 474 – Grids R1/ Page 647 – D9, E9, F9, F10, G10, G11, G12
External links
Google Maps: York Boulevard (Hybrid)
York Boulevard Streetscape Master plan
Roads in Hamilton, Ontario
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1976 World Juniors Track Cycling Championships
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The 1976 UCI Juniors Track World Championships were the second annual Junior World Championship for track cycling held in Liège, Belgium.
The Championships had four events for men only, Sprint, Points race, Individual pursuit and Team pursuit. Robert Dill-Bundi became the first cyclist to retain a world junior title, and the first to win two gold medals in the championships.
Events
Medal table
References
UCI Juniors Track World Championships
1970s in track cycling
1976 in cycle racing
Track cycling
International cycle races hosted by Belgium
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Mulux
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Mulux (also, Mulukh) is a village in the Ismailli Rayon of Azerbaijan. The village forms part of the municipality of Cülyan.
References
Populated places in Ismayilli District
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Fabio Ferraro (born 3 September 2002) is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Dender EH.
Club career
Ferrarro is a youth product of the academies of Mons, Royal Excel Mouscron, Tubize-Braine and Charleroi. He made his professional debut with Charleroi in a 3–1 Belgian First Division A loss to Seraing on 22 October 2021.
On 17 July 2022, Ferraro signed a two-year contract with RWDM.
On 3 August 2023, Ferraro moved to Dender EH on a two-year contract.
References
External links
ACFF Profile
2002 births
Living people
People from Halle, Belgium
Belgian men's footballers
Belgian people of Italian descent
Men's association football forwards
R. Charleroi S.C. players
R.W.D. Molenbeek (2015) players
F.C.V. Dender E.H. players
Belgian Pro League players
Challenger Pro League players
Footballers from Flemish Brabant
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Hoge Building
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The Hoge Building is a 17-story building constructed in 1911 by, and named for James D. Hoge, a banker and real estate investor, on the northwest corner of Second Avenue and Cherry Street in Seattle, Washington. The building was constructed primarily of tan brick and terracotta built over a steel frame in the architectural style of Second Renaissance Revival with elements of Beaux Arts. It was the tallest building in Seattle from 1911 to 1914, until the completion of Smith Tower.
History
The site of the Hoge building, at 705 Second Avenue, was the location of the cabin of Carson Boren, reputedly the first white man's house in what was to become Seattle. The cabin was later replaced by a row of 1 and 2 story shops facing Cherry Street which would all be destroyed by the Great Seattle fire. Hoge's uncle, John Hoge, a wealthy businessman of Zanesville, Ohio purchased the site soon after the fire and erected a three-story brick building to house his company: Washington Territorial Investment Company, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Washington National Bank, and several other small businesses. Hoge would form Union Trust & Savings Bank (later renamed Seattle Trust Bank and merged with Seafirst Bank) in 1903 which would become the ground-floor tenant of his new building.
Hoge commissioned the architectural firm of Charles Bebb and Louis Mendel to design the building. Construction began in March 1911. The steel frame of the building was constructed at an amazing pace, with all 18 stories completed in 30 days, a feat which broke all records at the time. Reportedly, the building was designed with special concern by the architects for seismic events as a result of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
One of the last branches of Dexter Horton Bank was housed in the building in 1991 after being moved from its own building. The ground floor previously contained a Bank of America branch but as of January 2020, the commercial space is vacant. The building was owned by the Hoge family until being sold in 1986.
See also
Yule marble
References
Further reading
External links
Hoge Building Nomination form for The National Register of Historic Places, 1979.
Commercial buildings completed in 1911
1900s architecture in the United States
National Register of Historic Places in Seattle
Skyscraper office buildings in Seattle
Office buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington (state)
1911 establishments in Washington (state)
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Promegalonychus
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Promegalonychus is a genus of ground beetles in the family Carabidae. There are about 11 described species in Promegalonychus, found in Africa.
Species
These 11 species belong to the genus Promegalonychus:
Promegalonychus brauneanus (Burgeon, 1933) (Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Rwanda)
Promegalonychus calathoides (Basilewsky, 1949) (Kenya)
Promegalonychus clarkei Basilewsky, 1975 (Ethiopia)
Promegalonychus decumanus Basilewsky, 1960 (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
Promegalonychus fageli Basilewsky, 1953 (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
Promegalonychus frantonius Basilewsky, 1985 (Cameroon)
Promegalonychus kivuensis (Burgeon, 1933) (Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda)
Promegalonychus oribates (Alluaud, 1917) (Kenya)
Promegalonychus pauliani (Burgeon, 1942) (Cameroon)
Promegalonychus ruwenzoricus (Burgeon, 1933) (Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda)
Promegalonychus sphodroides Basilewsky, 1975 (Ethiopia)
References
Platyninae
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DBEW competition
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The DBEW competition (Design Beyond East and West) is an architectural competition, organized by the Hanssem corporation, a south-Korean furniture company, which has been held in Seoul from 2001 to 2005.
The main purpose of the competition is to let designers from all over the world express their idea about a contemporary house inspired by the life in the Far-east over-crowded cities, where flats need to be as small as possible.
In the 3rd edition more than 500 designers took part in the competition, which was one of the first to be run completely on the internet.
The jury members were prominent international architects, such as Alessandro Mendini, Arata Isozaki and Shigeru Uchida.
In 2006 the competition was not held but a 6th edition is scheduled for 2007.
Winners of the competition by year
2001 - Leonardo Bonanni, Joy Wang (USA)
2002 - Bianchini e Lusiardi associati (Italy)
2003 - Prof. Zhang Yue, Cheng Xiao Xi, Xu Jie, Tao Lei, Zheng Yue Yuan, Feng Jie (China)
2004 - Luca Donner, Francesca Sorcinelli (Italy)
2005 - Babak Taghikhani (Iran)
External links
the DBEW competition website
Architecture awards
Architectural competitions
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Paul Moritz Cohn FRS (8 January 1924 – 20 April 2006) was Astor Professor of Mathematics at University College London, 1986–1989, and author of many textbooks on algebra. His work was mostly in the area of algebra, especially non-commutative rings.
Ancestry and early life
He was the only child of Jewish parents, James (or Jakob) Cohn, owner of an import business, and Julia (née Cohen), a schoolteacher.
Both of his parents were born in Hamburg, as were three of his grandparents. His ancestors came from various parts of Germany. His father fought in the German army in World War I; he was wounded several times and awarded the Iron Cross. A street in Hamburg is named in memory of his mother.
When he was born, his parents were living with his mother's mother in Isestraße. After her death in October 1925, the family moved to a rented flat in a new building in Lattenkamp, in the Winterhude quarter. He attended a kindergarten then, in April 1930, moved to Alsterdorfer Straße School. After a while, he had a new teacher, a National Socialist, who picked on him and punished him without cause. Thus in 1931, he moved to the Meerweinstraße School where his mother taught.
Following the rise of the Nazis in 1933, his father's business was confiscated and his mother dismissed. He moved to the Talmud-Tora-Schule, a Jewish school. In mid-1937, the family moved to Klosterallee. This was nearer the school, the synagogue and other pupils, being in the Jewish area. His German teacher was Dr. Ernst Loewenberg, the son of the poet Jakob Loewenberg.
On the night of 9/10 November 1938 (Kristallnacht), his father was arrested and sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp. He was released after four months but told to emigrate. Cohn went to Britain in May 1939 on the Kindertransport to work on a chicken farm, and never saw his parents again. He corresponded regularly with them until late 1941. At the end of the War, he learned that they were deported to Riga on 6 December 1941 and never returned. At the end of 1941, the farm closed. He trained as a precision engineer, acquired a work permit and worked in a factory for 4½ years. He passed the Cambridge Scholarship Examination, and won an exhibition to Trinity College, Cambridge.
Career
He received a B.A in Mathematics from Cambridge University in 1948 and a Ph.D. (supervised by Philip Hall) in 1951. He then spent a year as a Chargé de Recherches at the University of Nancy. On his return, he became a lecturer in mathematics at Manchester University. He was a visiting professor at Yale University in 1961–1962, and for part of 1962 was at the University of California at Berkeley. On his return, he became Reader at Queen Mary College. He was a visiting professor at the University of Chicago in 1964 and at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1967. By then, he was regarded as one of the world's leading algebraists.
Also in 1967, he became head of the Department of Mathematics at Bedford College. He held several visiting professorships, in America, Paris, Delhi, Canada, Haifa and Bielefeld. He was awarded the Lester R. Ford Award from the Mathematical Association of America in 1972 and the Senior Berwick Prize of the London Mathematical Society in 1974.
In the early 1980s, funding cuts caused the closure of the small colleges of the University of London. Cohn moved to University College in 1984, together with the two other experts at Bedford on ring theory, Bill Stephenson and Warren Dicks. He became Astor Professor of Mathematics there in 1986. He continued to be a visiting professor, for example to the University of Alberta in 1986 and to Bar Ilan University in 1987. He retired in 1989, but remained active as professor emeritus and honorary research fellow until his death.
He was president of the London Mathematical Society, 1982–1984, having been its secretary, 1965–1967 and a council member in 1968–1971, 1972–1975 and 1979–1982. He was editor of the society's monographs in 1968–1977 and 1980–1993. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1980 and was on its council, 1985–1987. He was a member of the Mathematical Committee of the Science Research Council, 1977–1980. He chaired the National Committee for Mathematics, 1988–1989.
Mathematical work
In all, Cohn wrote nearly 200 mathematical papers. He worked in many areas of algebra, mainly in non-commutative ring theory. His first papers, covering many topics, were published in 1952. He generalised a theorem due to Wilhelm Magnus, and worked on the structure of tensor spaces. In 1953 he published a joint paper with Kurt Mahler on pseudo-valuations and in 1954 he published a work on Lie algebras.
Papers over the next few years covered areas such as group theory, field theory, Lie rings, semigroups, Abelian groups and ring theory. He published his first book, Lie groups, in 1957. After that, he moved into the areas of Jordan algebras, Lie division rings, skew fields, free ideal rings and non-commutative unique factorisation domains. He published his second book, Linear equations, in 1958 and his third, Solid geometry, in 1961. Universal algebra appeared in 1965 (second edition 1981). After that, he concentrated on non-commutative ring theory and the theory of algebras.
His monograph Free rings and their relations appeared in 1971. It covered the work of Cohn and others on free associative algebras and related classes of rings, especially free ideal rings. He included all of his own published results on the embedding of rings into skew fields. The second, enlarged edition appeared in 1985.
Cohn also wrote undergraduate textbooks. Algebra volume I appeared in 1974 and volume II in 1977. The second edition, in three volumes, was published by Wiley between 1982 and 1991. These volumes were in line with the British (rather than American) curricula at the time and include both linear algebra and abstract algebra. Cohn wrote a subsequent revised iteration the first volume as Classical Algebra (Wiley, 2000) as a more "user friendly" version for undergraduates (according to its preface); this book also includes a few selected topics from volumes II and III of Algebra. The final incarnation of Cohn's algebra textbooks appeared in 2003 as two Springer volumes Basic Algebra and Further Algebra and Applications; the material in Basic Algebra is (according to its preface) rather more concise and while corresponding roughly with volume I of Algebra assumes knowledge of linear algebra; the material on basic theories (groups, rings, fields) is pursued in more depth in Basic Algebra compared to volume I of Algebra. Further Algebra and Applications roughly corresponds to volumes II and III of Algebra, but reflects the shift of some material from these volumes to Basic Algebra.
Private life
His recreation was etymology and language in all its forms. He married Deirdre Sharon in 1958, and they had two daughters.
Publications
Lie Groups (1957)
Universal Algebra (1965, 1981)
Free Rings and Their Relations (1971, 1985)
Algebra I (1974, 1982)
Algebra II (1977, 1989)
Skew Field Constructions (1977)
Algebra III (1990)
Algebraic Numbers and Algebraic Functions (1991)
Elements of Linear Algebra (1994)
Skew Fields, Theory of General Division Rings (in Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications, vol 57, 1995)
Introduction to Ring Theory (2000)
Classic Algebra (2000)
Basic Algebra (2002)
Further Algebra and Applications (2003)
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (contributor, 2004)
Free Ideal Rings and Localization in General Rings (2006)
References
Bibliography
1924 births
2006 deaths
Algebraists
People from Hamburg-Nord
20th-century British mathematicians
21st-century British mathematicians
20th-century German mathematicians
Jewish scientists
Kindertransport refugees
Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
Academics of University College London
Academics of Queen Mary University of London
Fellows of the Royal Society
German emigrants to the United Kingdom
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-fuconate%20dehydratase
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L-fuconate dehydratase
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The enzyme L-fuconate dehydratase () catalyzes the chemical reaction
L-fuconate 2-dehydro-3-deoxy-L-fuconate + H2O
This enzyme belongs to the family of lyases, specifically the hydro-lyases, which cleave carbon-oxygen bonds. The systematic name of this enzyme class is L-fuconate hydro-lyase (2-dehydro-3-deoxy-L-fuconate-forming). This enzyme is also called L-fuconate hydro-lyase.
References
EC 4.2.1
Enzymes of unknown structure
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RZ Piscium
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RZ Piscium (or RZ Psc) is a UX Orionis type variable star away, in the constellation Pisces. Over the years, the star has been found to brighten and dim erratically, dimming by as much as a tenth of its usual luminosity. RZ Piscium has been found to emit large amounts of infrared radiation, suggesting the presence of a substantial mass of gas and dust orbiting the star, possibly from a "disrupted planet".
Disrupted planet
Because of the infrared excess and rapid light variations, astronomers conclude that:
According to astronomer Ben Zuckerman:
Observations
In 2017, RZ Piscium was studied using the XMM-Newton satellite, the Shane 3-meter telescope at Lick Observatory in California and the 10-meter Keck I telescope at W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii. The temperature of the star was found to be about the same as the Sun (). Further, the star was found to produce about a thousand times more x-rays than the Sun, suggesting that the star is relatively young. On the other hand, RZ Piscium was found to contain a relatively small amount of surface lithium, which suggests the star is between 30 − 50 million years old; this is somewhat "old" for a star with so much circumstellar dust. Most young stars that are as dusty as RZ Piscium may be producing planets, but given its relatively advanced age, RZ Piscium may be destroying and consuming its planets instead.
In 2020, the red dwarf companion with the mass of 0.12 Solar mass was detected on the projected separation of the 23 AU from the primary star. The incandescence of the companion star thus make up about one third of excess infrared emission previously attributed to the dust.
See also
List of stars that have unusual dimming periods
References
External links
, star with unusual light fluctuations (21 December 2017).
, a presentation by Tabetha S. Boyajian
, a presentation by Issac Arthur
Pisces (constellation)
Planetary rings
2017 in science
Piscium, RZ
J01094205+2757020
K-type subgiants
Herbig Ae/Be stars
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry%20Yuma
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Larry Yuma
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Larry Yuma is the title character of an Italian western comics series created by Carlo Boscarato and Claudio Nizzi.
It was published in the comics magazine Il Giornalino from 1971 to 1992 for a total of 164 episodes.
The comic is strongly influenced by the Italian Spaghetti Western cinema.
References
Larry Yuma
Yuma
Larry Yuma
Yuma
Larry Yuma
Yuma
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine%20route
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Wine route
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The wine route within wine-producing regions, are marked and advertised roads with special signs, along which insist natural, cultural and environmental values, vineyards and cellars of individual or associated farms open to the public. They constitute an instrument through which the wine territories and their productions can be disclosed, marketed and used in the form of a tourist offer.
Steirische Weinstraße in southern Styria
Schilcherweinstraße in western Styria
Route des vins du Québec
Wine Route of Ontario
Laona – Akamas: Ineia, Pano Arodes and Kathikas with Xynisteri / Maratheftiko
Vouni Panagias – Ambelitis: Vouni Panagias, Chrysorrogiatissa and Agios Fotios at an altitude of 2,400 feet.
Diarizos Valley: It sits at a far lower altitude in comparison to other wine growing areas.
Krasochoria Lemesou: They have the greatest concentration of wineries with Koilani and Omodos as leaders.
Koumandaria Wine Route: The Koumandaria villages date back to the 12th century. One of the oldest named wines in the world, made from sun dried grapes to enhance their sugar content.
Pitsilia: The villages in this area, including Pisilia, a winner of the Liste des noms d'origine bantoue, are spread around the mountain peaks of Madari, Machairas and Papoutsa.
Nicosia - Larnaka: Located in the mountain area of Larnaca and Nicosia and passes through Skarinou, Kato Lefkara, Pano Lefkara, Kato Drys, Vavla, Ora, Odou, Farmakas, Gourri, Fikardou and Kalo Chorio Orinis.
"Chilean wine routes", a group of routes established through the vineyard valleys of Chile.
:fr:Route des vins d'Alsace in the Alsace wine region
in the Rhône wine region
German Wine Route in Palatinate wine region, the first such route established
Badische Weinstraße on the western edge of the Black Forest in Baden
Bocksbeutelstraße in Franconia
Elbling-Route along the upper Moselle in the Moselle wine region
Moselweinstraße along the Moselle in the Moselle wine region
Rheingauer Rieslingroute in the Rheingau
Römische Weinstraße northeast of Trier in the Moselle wine region
Ruwer-Riesling-Route in the Moselle wine region
Weinstraße Saale-Unstrut in Saxony-Anhalt
Saar-Riesling-Straße on the lower Saar River in the Moselle wine region
Sächsische Weinstraße in Saxony
Weinstraße Mansfelder Seen in Saxony-Anhalt
Württemberger Weinstraße in Württemberg, established in 2004 including the former Schwäbischen Weinstraße
In addition, the German Wine Route has given the name Weinstraße to the region surrounding the route and to the administrative district (Kreis) of Südliche Weinstraße. Local municipalities sometimes add "an der Weinstraße" to their names.
Weinstraße is also the name of a medieval trading route in Hesse. The name does not refer to wine but to the Hessian for "Wagenstraße" ("cart" or "wagon road," Hessian: We-in, Wän, or Wäng = Wagen).
Trentino Alto Adige
Strada del vino dell'Alto Adige (Südtiroler Weinstraße)
Campania
Strada del Vino Costa d'Amalfi
Strada della Terra dei Forti
Sicilia
Strada del vino di Marsala - Terre d'Occidente (Marsala - TP)
Strada dei vini dell'Etna
Strada del vino Erice Doc
Strada del vino Terre Sicane
Strada del vino e dei sapori Val di Mazara
Piemonte
Strada del Barolo
Umbria
Strada dei vini del Cantico
Lombardia
Strada del vino Colli dei Longobardi
Strada dei vini e dei sapori del Garda
Emilia romagna
Strada dei Colli piacentini
Veneto
Strada del vino dei Colli Euganei
Strada del prosecco e vini dei Colli di Conegliano Valdobbiadene
Strada del vino Soave
Strada del vino di Aquileia
Puglia
Appia dei vini
Toscana
Strada del vino Nobile di Montepulciano
Sardegna
Le strade del vino in Sardegna
Lazio
Strada del vino colli del Trasimeno
Wäistrooss (Luxembourgish) / Route du vin (French) / Luxemburger Weinstraße (German)
Somontano Wine Route (Ruta del Vino de Somontano) in the foothills of the Pyrenees
References
Scenic routes
Wine regions
Wine-related lists
de:Weinstraße
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Spanish%20Civil%20War%20and%20the%20British%20Left
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The Spanish Civil War and the British Left
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The Spanish Civil War and the British Left: Political Activism and the Popular Front is a 2007 book by Lewis H. Mates.
Overview
Mates uses archival research and an analysis of local newspapers to offer an account of the effects of the Spanish Civil War on North East England. Though the North East did not historically have a significant radical left presence, it nonetheless saw a significant mobilisation in support of the Spanish Republic.
Mates uses the case study of the North East to test assumptions about the British response to the Civil War, and argues that the popular front strategy pursued by the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) was inadequate and a distraction from the need to end the policy of non-intervention. He also contends with the "popular frontist" assumption that the popular front was the best means available for British people to support the Spanish Republic, instead arguing that direct action in the form of mass strikes would have been more successful in placing pressure on the British government to intervene. The popular front strategy, Mates writes, was "inimical to providing the Spanish Republic with what it needed to fight Franco".
Critical reception
Tom Buchanan, writing in The English Historical Review, questioned Mates's commentary on working-class Catholics' reactions to the Red Terror and the lack of the detail offered on topics including aid initiatives, but described the book as " a valuable addition to the burgeoning literature on Britain and the Spanish Civil War, and one that deserves to be read alongside—and as a corrective to—the 'national' studies." In History, Paul Corthorn questioned Mates's account of the influence of the "popular frontist" interpretation of events, but praised his engagement with Buchanan on the question of Catholics and described the book as "a carefully researched examination" with "much to commend it." Julius Ruiz, in The Historical Journal, described The Spanish Civil War and the British Left as "a significant addition to the historiography" and praised Mates's discussion of the impact of the popular front strategy on the CPGB, but took issue with his belief that industrial action could have proved a better strategy or succeeded in changing government policy.
See also
Foreign involvement in the Spanish Civil War
References
External links
The Spanish Civil War and the British Left at Google Books
2007 non-fiction books
British non-fiction books
History books about England
Spanish Civil War books
History books about the 20th century
21st-century history books
Politics of North East England
I.B. Tauris books
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Eplee
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John Eplee
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John Eplee (born March 24, 1953) is an American politician. He has served as a Republican member for the 63rd district in the Kansas House of Representatives since 2017.
References
1953 births
Living people
Republican Party members of the Kansas House of Representatives
21st-century American politicians
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Escalera%20%28song%29
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La Escalera (song)
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"La Escalera" () is a song recorded by Spanish singer-songwriter Pablo Alborán. It was released as the fourth and final single from his third studio album, Terral on 28 October 2015.
Music video
The music video for "La Escalera" was released on the same day. It stars Spanish actors Berta Herández and Adridane Ramirez and four figures of the Spanish National Ballet (Luciana Croatto, Kayoko Everahrt, Reyes ortega and Sara Fernandez Gómez).
Chart performance
Release history
References
2015 singles
Pablo Alborán songs
2014 songs
Warner Music Group singles
Songs written by Pablo Alborán
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avla%C4%9F%C4%B1%2C%20Kovanc%C4%B1lar
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Avlağı, Kovancılar
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Avlağı is a village in the Kovancılar District of Elazığ Province in Turkey. Its population is 238 (2021).
References
Villages in Kovancılar District
Kurdish settlements in Elazığ Province
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zamina%20Begum
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Zamina Begum
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Zamina Begum (11 January 1917 – 28 April 1978), also known as Zainab Begum, was an Afghan princess. She was the First Lady of Afghanistan in 1973–1978, as the wife of the first President of Afghanistan, Sardar Mohammed Daoud Khan.
Life
She was the daughter of King Mohammed Nadir Shah and Mah Parwar Begum, and the sister of King Zahir. Her brother succeeded her father in November 1933. She married Daoud in September 1934.
Zamina Begum famously played a role in the women's emancipation policy of her husband's government, notably by appearing unveiled in public. The Prime Minister prepared women's emancipation carefully and gradually. He began by introducing women workers at the Radio Kabul in 1957, by sending women delegates to the Asian Women's Conference in Kairo, and by employing forty girls to the government pottery factory in 1958. When this was met with no riots, the government decided it was time for the very controversial step of unveiling.
In August 1959, on the second day of the festival of Jeshyn, Princess Zamina appeared unveiled alongside Queen Humaira and Princess Bilqis in the Royal Box at the military parade. A group of Islamic clerics sent a letter of protest to the Prime Minister to protest and demand that the words of sharia be respected. The Prime Minister answered by inviting them to the capital and present proof to him that the holy scripture indeed demanded the chadri. When the clerics could not find such a passage, the Prime Minister declared that the female members of the Royal Family would no longer wear veils, because the Islamic law did not demand it. While the chadri was never banned, the example of the Queen and the Prime Minister's wife was followed by the wives and daughters of government officials as well as by other urban women of the upperclass and middle class, with Kubra Noorzai and Masuma Esmati-Wardak, who is known as the first commoner pioneers.
She was killed during the Saur Revolution on 28 April 1978 at the Arg.
She was reburied in the Deh Sabz District in Kabul along with her husband and other family members in 2009.
Family
The couple had four sons and four daughters:
1. Zarlasht Daoud Khan
2. Khalid Daoud Khan (1947–1978). Had a son:
Tariq Daoud Khan
3. Wais Daoud Khan (1947–1978). Had four children:
Turan Daoud Khan (1972-)
Ares Daoud Khan (1973 – k. 1978)
Waygal Daoud Khan (1975 – k. 1978)
Zahra Khanum (1970-)
4. Muhammad Umar Daoud Khan (k. 1978). Had two daughters:
Hila Khanum (1961 – k. 1978)
Ghazala Khanum (1964 – k. 1978)
5. Dorkhanai Begum
6. Zarlasht Begum (k. 1978)
7. Shinkay Begum (k. 1978). Had two daughters:
Ariane Heila Khanum Ghazi (1961-)
Hawa Khanum Ghazi (1963-)
8. Torpekay Begum. Had three children:
Shah Mahmud Khan Ghazi
Daud Khan Ghazi
Zahra Khanum Ghazi
Ancestry
References
1917 births
1978 deaths
First ladies of Afghanistan
People from Kabul
Afghan princesses
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Scrabble%20Championship%201991
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World Scrabble Championship 1991
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The World Scrabble Championship 1991 was the first World Scrabble Championship. The winner was Peter Morris, a Canadian, representing the United States.
Plans for a World Scrabble Championship had formed as early as 1986/87. After Coleco bought Selchow and Righter, the company announced that they were interested in helping players to organize a "World-Class Open" in 1988. At the 1987 Nationals, John Williams announced that the first World Scrabble Championship would be held the following summer in New York. It would be 1991, however, before
it became a reality.
The 48 players were separated into random groups of 6 and played round robins within their groups. The top 2 players from each group then played a knockout to produce two finalists who played a best-of-three finals.
Morris and Cappelletto split their first two games then met for a final game to decide it all. On his tenth move, Cappelletto made a rare blunder by playing the phony SMAIL instead of CLAIMS. The move may have cost him the championship. As it was, Morris pulled out a complicated end game for a 4-point win and the first world title.
Complete Results
Finals
Game 1: Morris 463 - Cappelletto 349
Game 2: Cappelletto 368 - Morris 301
Game 3: Morris 371 - Cappelletto 367
References
1991
1991 in the United Kingdom
1991 in London
Scrabble in the United Kingdom
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanophotonic%20scintillators
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Nanophotonic scintillators
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Nanophotonic scintillators are scintillating materials or structures which possess improved properties due to the manipulation of the scintillated visible light using nanophotonics.
The most common approach for using nanophotonics to improve the scintillated signal is to coat the thick bulk scintillator by a thin film (usually a 2D photonic crystal) that reduce the total internal reflected light and thus improve the amount of signal that is transmitted towards the photodetector. Thus, the coating improve the quantum yield of the scintillator, that is, the amount of visible photons that get extracted from the scintillator as a result of a single quanta of high-energy excitation. This approach can be beneficial for all scintillation applications (for example, medical imaging devices as PET-CT, airport security machines, and free-electron cameras). The best performance of this approach recently showed a 10-fold enhancement in the quantum yield in a micro-CT experiment.
Another, more recent approach, attempts to utilize the control over the intrinsic scintillation process of spontaneous emission to improve scintillation. This approach is based on the Purcell effect to enhance the spontaneous emission by manipulating the local photonic density of states. That is, instead of having an isotropic emission of light due to a high-energy radiation that reaches the scintillator, the emission itself is directional towards the location of the detector through a reduction of the emission into directions which experience total internal reflection between the scintillator and its surrounding materials (usually air). Experimental signatures of such enhancements have been reported in a cathodoluminescence experiment. The fabrication of nanophotonic scintillators also can be easier and low-cost in solution-processable perovskite (structure) scintillators as they can be patterned through nanoimprinting lithography while some perovskite materials with high refractive index already demonstrated strong Purcell effect and spontaneous emission inhibition.
References
photonics
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuqi%20Sillani
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Chuqi Sillani
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Chuqi Sillani (Aymara chuqi gold, silla cane of maize, -ni a suffix, "the one with the golden cane of maize", also spelled Choque Sillani) is a mountain in the Bolivian Andes. It is located in the La Paz Department, Loayza Province, Luribay Municipality. Chuqi Sillani lies southeast of Qillwan Quta and east of a plain named Qillwan Quta Pampa.
References
Mountains of La Paz Department (Bolivia)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren%20Young%20Casteel
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Lauren Young Casteel
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Lauren Young Casteel (born 1953) is an African-American activist who advocates for social justice. She was inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame in 2014.
The daughter of Margaret Buckner and Whitney M. Young, Jr., she was born Lauren Young in Nebraska and moved to Colorado when she was twenty. Casteel has been a leader of the Denver Foundation, the Hunt Alternatives Fund and the Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation. At the Denver Foundation, she instituted the Nonprofit Internship Program and the Nonprofit Inclusiveness Project; the second project received the Council on Foundations’ Critical Impact Award.
Casteel was the first black woman to head a foundation in Colorado, the first female black TV personality in Colorado and the first female senior communications advisor to a Denver mayor.
She was married to Charles Casteel, an attorney. She is the mother of painter Jordan Casteel.
References
1953 births
Living people
American civil rights activists
Women civil rights activists
21st-century African-American people
People from Nebraska
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pune%E2%80%93Bengaluru%20Expressway
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Pune–Bengaluru Expressway
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Pune–Bengaluru Expressway is a planned green field, access-controlled expressway in Maharashtra and Karnataka. It is to be part of Bharatmala Pariyojana. The expressway will pass through 12 districts, of which three are in Maharashtra and nine are in Karnataka. It connects Pune with Bengaluru. The Bengaluru-Pune Expressway will reduce the distance between the two cities by about 95 km. Currently it takes about 15 hours to drive from Bengaluru to Pune but it's estimated to take as little as 7 hours after the completion of this expressway. At Pune, the expressway will also connect with the Pune–Mumbai Expressway. It is reported that the expressway is targeted to be completed by 2028.
This greenfield expressway under Bharatmala Pariyojna Phase 2 will run parallel to National Highway 48. Also, the Greenfield Expressway will serve as an alternative and faster route to the NH-48.
The proposed expressway, under Phase-II of the Prime Minister's flagship Bharatmala project, is estimated to be developed at a cost of Rs ₹50,000 crore.
Route
Maharashtra
Pune–Bengaluru Expressway starts in Kanjle on proposed Pune ring road. It crosses Pune district, Satara district, Sangli district in Maharashtra, and enters Karnataka state.
Karnataka
This expressway passes through Belagavi, Bagalkot, Gadag, Koppal, Vijayanagara, Davanagere, Chitradurga, Tumakuru and Bengaluru Rural district in Karnataka. The expressway ends at Muthagadahalli on proposed Satellite ring road in Bengaluru Metropolitran Region.
See also
Expressways in India
References
Expressways in Maharashtra
Expressways in Karnataka
Proposed expressways in India
Transport in Bangalore
Transport in Pune
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006%20Richmond%20Spiders%20football%20team
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2006 Richmond Spiders football team
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The 2006 Richmond Spiders football team represented the University of Richmond during the 2006 NCAA Division I FCS football season. Richmond competed as a member of the Atlantic 10 Conference (A-10), and played their home games at the University of Richmond Stadium.
The Spiders were led by third-year head coach Dave Clawson. Richmond finished the regular season with a 6–5 overall record and a 3–5 record in conference play.
Schedule
References
Richmond
Richmond Spiders football seasons
Richmond Spiders football
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyagilevo%2C%20Kharovsky%20District%2C%20Vologda%20Oblast
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Dyagilevo, Kharovsky District, Vologda Oblast
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Dyagilevo () is a rural locality (a village) in Slobodskoye Rural Settlement, Kharovsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 14 as of 2002.
Geography
Dyagilevo is located 53 km northeast of Kharovsk (the district's administrative centre) by road. Strelitsa is the nearest rural locality.
References
Rural localities in Kharovsky District
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro-loop%20heat%20pipe
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Micro-loop heat pipe
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A micro-loop heat pipe or MLHP is a miniature loop heat pipe in which the radius of curvature of the liquid meniscus in the evaporator is in the same order of magnitude of the micro grooves' dimensions; or a miniature loop heat pipe which has been fabricated using microfabrication techniques.
Cooling technology
Microtechnology
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A1s%20Vargha
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András Vargha
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András Vargha (born Budapest, 29 November 1949) is a Hungarian psychologist and statistician, head of the Institute of Psychology of the Károli Gáspár University of Reformed Church. His research field is psychometrics, on which he has held conferences.
As of May 2011, Vargha had 131 journal publications with an impact factor of 14050, and has worked or continues to work as a reviewer with academic journals.
Notes and references
1949 births
Living people
Academic staff of the Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary
Psychometricians
Hungarian statisticians
Hungarian psychologists
Quantitative psychologists
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zla%C8%99ti
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Zlaști
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The Zlaști is a left tributary of the river Cerna in Romania. It discharges into the Cerna in the city Hunedoara. Its length is and its basin size is .
References
External links
Rivers of Romania
Rivers of Hunedoara County
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Malone%20%28designer%29
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Richard Malone (designer)
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Richard Malone is an Irish artist and designer from Wexford, Ireland.
Early Life and Background
Richard Malone was born and grew up in Wexford, Ireland. He often references his working class upbringing and Irish identity as significant influences in his work. Before his formal education in art, Malone worked with his father on building sites and began his initial studies in art at Waterford College of Further Education.
Artistic Career
Malone's creative practice spans across various mediums such as sculpture, installation, performance, drawing, costume, and garment making. His work often delves into gendered labor practices to explore themes of queerness, class, place, and otherness. In 2023, Malone received the Golden Fleece Award.
His essays and letters have been featured in British Vogue and Luncheon magazine. In 2022, an exhibit showcasing Malone's poems and self-portraits titled "Out in the World: Ireland’s LGBTQ+ Diaspora" was held at EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum.
Recent solo exhibitions include those at the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin, Ormston House in Limerick, and in 2023, his most extensive sculptural mobile was displayed at the Royal Academy in London. Malone often emphasizes the importance of his identity as a "queer, working class immigrant from rural Ireland." He acknowledges the value of the skills he learned in rural Ireland – including stitching, curtain making, welding, and metal bending.
In 2022, he was the artist in residence at the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin, responding to the gallery's premiere exhibition of Alberto Giacometti in Ireland.
Various institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, hold Malone's work. A portrait of Malone by Howard Tangye is part of the National Portrait Gallery, London.
From 2020 to 2022, Malone curated the touring exhibition "Making and Momentum: In Conversation with Eileen Gray". This exhibition celebrated modernism in Ireland and the influence of Irish craftsmanship globally. The show concluded in Wexford, where select works were auctioned, raising funds for the restoration of Eileen Gray's work and the establishment of an artist's prize.
Education and Recognition
Malone graduated from Central Saint Martins in 2014. Following his graduation, his collection was purchased by Brown Thomas in Dublin. In 2017, his work was featured in the Museum of Modern Art's "Is Fashion Modern?" exhibition. In 2019, Malone was a finalist for the LVMH Prize. and, in 2020, won the Woolmark Prize. In February 2021, Malone was shortlisted as a finalist for the BFC/Vogue Designer Fashion Fund.
References
External Links
Official Website
Irish artists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annapurna%20Pictures
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Annapurna Pictures
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Annapurna Pictures is an American independent media company founded by Megan Ellison on April 2, 2011 and based in Los Angeles, California. It is active in film, television and theatrical production, film distribution, and video game publishing.
History
Annapurna Pictures was founded in 2011 by Megan Ellison as a production and finance entity focusing on high-end auteur-driven cinema.
After attending University of Southern California’s film school for two semesters, Ellison left in 2005 and traveled the world. Among her stops was Nepal, where she trekked on the Himalayan mountain Annapurna, for which her production company is named.
By 2014 Annapurna had produced and/or financed the films Lawless, The Master, Killing Them Softly, Zero Dark Thirty, Spring Breakers, The Grandmaster, Her, Foxcatcher, and American Hustle, and was starting production on Joy, Sausage Party, Wiener-Dog, 20th Century Women, and Everybody Wants Some!!.
In December 2016, the company announced its new division, Annapurna Interactive, to produce, develop, and distribute video games with several active projects in development, planned for release in 2017.
In January 2017, the company announced they would begin distributing films, with their first being Detroit directed by Kathryn Bigelow, set for release on August 4, 2017. They later signed a multi-year distribution deal with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on March 27, in which MGM will distribute all of Annapurna's films in select international territories. On April 6, the company also announced an exclusive, multi-year output licensing agreement with Hulu.
In May 2017, Plan B Entertainment and Annapurna announced a three-year production deal to partner on at least three films a year, with Annapurna handling distribution and marketing. As part of the deal, Annapurna received the rights to Adam McKay's film Vice starring Christian Bale as Dick Cheney. It was also announced Annapurna would co-distribute Brad's Status through their MGM joint venture Mirror alongside Amazon Studios. In July, the company signed a multi-year U.S. home entertainment pact with 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment to oversee its home releases.
Since Sony Pictures' contract to co-produce the James Bond series with MGM and Eon Productions expired with the release of Spectre, Annapurna, along with five major studios – Warner Bros., Universal Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures and Sony itself – vied to win the rights to the next film as of April 2017. It was then announced that MGM had secured the domestic, digital and worldwide television rights to the film. Universal was announced as the international distributor of the film and holder of the rights for physical home entertainment distribution.
In October 2017, Annapurna and MGM announced the formation of a U.S. distribution joint venture in which each studio would release their films individually. This marked a return to domestic theatrical distribution for MGM and an expansion of Annapurna's distribution division, with MGM releasing approximately six to eight films per year on a limited basis and Annapurna releasing four to six films per year, in a combined slate of fourteen films. While the two companies are sharing costs for the joint venture's operations, Annapurna's distribution and marketing teams supported the MGM titles, which were distributed under the MGM banner while Annapurna-produced films continued to be distributed under its own banner. The two studios also launched Mirror, a releasing entity that pursues theatrical opportunities for additional third-party films. However, this partnership is not exclusive to all MGM films, as several of them continued to be released through existing studio partners, such as Warner Bros. and Paramount. The newly relaunched Orion Pictures and future worldwide distributor plans for the James Bond franchise, are also not included, which MGM announced on "a later date", May 24, 2018, to have been won by Universal Pictures.
In October 2018, Annapurna signed a music publishing deal with Warner/Chappell Music, which administered the studio's film and TV compositions and scores.
In February 2019, Annapurna and MGM rebranded and expanded their U.S. distribution joint venture to release both MGM and Annapurna films under United Artists Releasing, with the distribution teams of Annapurna and Orion Pictures (whose films are added as well) joining the venture and former Screen Gems executive Pam Kunath joining as COO in addition to the heads of MGM and Annapurna joining the board of directors. The decision was made to coincide with the United Artists brand's 100th anniversary, and has plans to release 10–14 films a year through the new label, including the domestic release of No Time to Die (which marks a reunion between the UA brand and the James Bond franchise after two decades).
In December 2022, Annapurna launched its animation division with former Blue Sky Studios executives Robert Baird and Andrew Millstein leading the new studio. Nimona was its first release.
On March 4, 2023, it was revealed by The Hollywood Reporter that Amazon had shut down United Artists Releasing's operations and folded it into MGM.
Filmography
As production company
As distributor
The company expects to release "approximately four to six films per year".
Reception
Most of the films produced by the company have received widespread critical acclaim. In 2013 alone, Her, American Hustle and The Grandmaster had a combined seventeen Academy Award nominations. Commercially, results have been mixed. Some films like The Master, Foxcatcher, Joy, Detroit and Vice, however, do not return their budget while ones such as Zero Dark Thirty, Sausage Party and American Hustle have grossed more than $100 million, the latter grossing more than $250 million worldwide.
Annapurna Animation
Annapurna Animation is an American animation studio and division of Annapurna Pictures, founded by former Blue Sky Studios executives Robert Baird and Andrew Millstein on December 1, 2022 and based in Los Angeles, California. The studio's first film Nimona was released on June 30, 2023 on Netflix.
Filmography
Released
In development
Annapurna Television
Annapurna Television is a television production company of Annapurna Pictures, launched on September 27, 2016, and was formerly headed by HBO executive Sue Naegle (with her label, Naegle Ink, now part of the division). In January 2017, it was reported that Annapurna Television would produce the Coen brothers' first TV project, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.
Television series
Video games
Annapurna Interactive published its first video game, What Remains of Edith Finch, on April 25, 2017. What Remains of Edith Finch received "universal acclaim" on PC and "generally positive" reviews on PS4, according to video game review aggregator Metacritic. Since 2017, Annapurna Interactive has also been responsible for publishing games including Twelve Minutes, Donut County, Kentucky Route Zero, Outer Wilds, Sayonara Wild Hearts, Wattam, Telling Lies, Neon White and Stray. The publisher has also provided funding and publication support for The Artful Escape by Beethoven & Dinosaur, Ashen by A44 and Gorogoa by Jason Roberts.
Theater
Annapurna Theatre produces plays and live shows on, and off-Broadway.
International distributors
See also
Point Grey Pictures
References
External links
Annapurna Pictures films
Film production companies of the United States
Film distributors of the United States
Companies based in Los Angeles
Mass media companies established in 2011
2011 establishments in California
American companies established in 2011
American independent film studios
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The Bentley 6½ Litre and the high-performance Bentley Speed Six were rolling chassis in production from 1926 to 1930. The Speed Six, introduced in 1928, would become the most successful racing Bentley. Two Bentley Speed Sixes became known as the Blue Train Bentleys after their owner Woolf Barnato's involvement in the Blue Train Races of 1930.
Background
By 1924 Bentley had been in business for five years. He decided to build a larger chassis than the 3 Litre, with a smoother, more powerful engine. The new chassis would be more suitable for the large, heavy limousine bodies that many of his customers were then putting on his sports car chassis. The resulting car would be more refined and better suited for comfortable general motoring.
Prototype race
Bentley built a development mule with a 4¼ L straight-six engine derived from the 3 Litre's four cylinder engine. To disguise the car's origin, it had a large, wedge-shaped radiator and was registered as a "Sun". The chassis was given a large very light weight Weymann-type tourer body built by Freestone and Webb.
W. O. Bentley combined one of his road tests of the Sun with a trip to see the 1924 French Grand Prix in Lyon. On his return trip to the ferry at Dieppe, W. O. encountered another disguised car at a three-way junction. W. O. and the Rolls-Royce test driver recognized each other and began racing each other along the routes nationales. This street race continued until the Rolls-Royce driver's hat blew off and he had to stop to retrieve it. The Sun's tyres were heavily worn when W.O. got to the ferry at Dieppe.
6½ Litre
Realizing from the impromptu race that the Sun had no performance advantage over Rolls-Royce's latest development, W. O. increased the bore of his six-cylinder engine from to . With a stroke, the engine had a displacement of 6.6 L () Like the four-cylinder engine, Bentley's straight-6 included overhead camshaft, 4 valves per cylinder, and a single-piece engine block and cylinder head cast in iron, which eliminated the need for a head gasket. In base form, with a single Smiths 5-jet carburettor, twin ignition magnetos, and a compression ratio of 4.4:1, the Bentley 6½ Litre delivered at 3500 RPM.
Although based on the 3 Litre's engine, the 6½ engine incorporated many improvements. The 3 Litre's cone-type clutch was replaced by a dry-plate design that incorporated a clutch brake for fast gear changes, and the car had power-assisted four-wheel brakes with finned drums. The front brakes had 4 leading shoes per drum. By operating a patented compensating device, the driver could adjust all four brakes to correct for wear while the car was moving, which was particularly advantageous during races.
A variety of wheelbases were provided ranging from , the most popular being 150 inches.
Speed Six
The Bentley Speed Six chassis was introduced in 1928 as a more sporting version of the Bentley 6½ Litre. With a single-port block, two SU carburettors, a high-performance camshaft, and a compression ratio of 5.3:1, the Speed Six's engine produced at 3500 rpm. The Speed Six chassis was available to customers with wheelbases of , , and , with the 138 inch wheelbase being most popular.
The Criminal Investigation Department of the Western Australia Police operated two saloon-bodied examples as patrol cars.
In March 1930, Barnato raced against the Blue Train in a Speed Six with H. J. Mulliner saloon coachwork, reaching his club in London before the train was due in the station at Calais. It had generally been believed that the car in the race was a Gurney Nutting Sportsman Coupé, but that coupé was delivered to Barnato in May 1930, more than a month after the race.
Factory racing cars
The racing version of the Speed Six had a wheelbase of and an engine with a compression ratio of 6.1:1 that produced at 3500 rpm. Successful in racing, these cars won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1929 and 1930 with Bentley Boys drivers "Tim" Birkin, Glen Kidston, and Woolf Barnato, the chairman of Bentley Motors.
Production
6½ Litre: 362
Speed Six: 182
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Leucanopsis toledana is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by William Schaus in 1941. It is found in Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru.
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toledana
Moths described in 1941
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Aju Gossain
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Aju Gossain () (c. 18th century) was a Bengali poet who was known for his parodies of Ramprasad Sen’s songs. Not much about him is known except his works, not even his real name which is presumed to be either Ayodhyanath or Ayodhyaram Goswami, while Jogendranath Gupta assumed that his real name might be either Ajay Goswami or Achyut Goswami or Rajchandra Goswami.
Aju Gossain was a Vaishnava poet and lived at Halishahar in modern-day North 24 Parganas district of the Indian state of Paschimbanga (West Bengal). His father was Ramram Gossain.
Aju Gossain was not only a contemporary of Rampradad Sen but also they both lived at the same village. Gossain took delight to attack the Sen’s songs making parodies of them which often resulted dwandwas (a form of traditional musical debate) between the two poets. It is known that Krishnachandra Roy, the King of Nadia loved to hear such dwandwas and whenever he visited Halishahar, Gossain and Sen were called to present musical debates in front of him.
Some of Gossain's best known songs are "Keno Mon Berate Jabi", "Dubis Ne Mon Ghori Ghori", "E Sangsar Raser Kuti", "Sadhya Ki Tor Kali Khabi" which were parodies of some of Ramprasad Sen's most popular songs respectively "Ay Mon Berate Jabi", "Dub De Re Mon Kali Bole", "E Sangsar Dhnokar Tati" and "Ebar Kali Tomay Khabo". Few subaltern stories of Gopal Bhar referred his name often.
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18th-century Bengali poets
Bengali male poets
People from North 24 Parganas district
Parody musicians
Indian parodists
18th-century Indian poets
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Bengali Hindus
18th-century Bengalis
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Aravah (, pl. aravot - ) is a leafy branch of the willow tree. It is one of the Four Species (arba'ah minim - ) used in a special waving ceremony during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. The other species are the lulav (palm frond), hadass (myrtle), and etrog (citron).
The aravah is also used for a separate ceremony on Hoshanah Rabbah, the last day of Sukkot, when five branches are beaten against the ground to the accompaniment of special verses.
The aravah tree typically grows by the side of a river, although in Israel it grows wild in many people's backyards. The branches grow long and are lined with long, narrow leaves. Since this tree requires much water to grow, the picked branches dry out within two or three days. In order to keep them fresh as long as possible for the mitzvah of the Four Species, they are kept in the refrigerator until use, or wrapped in a moist towel.
On each of the seven days of Sukkot (excluding Shabbat), two aravah branches are bound together with the lulav and hadass (this bundle is also referred to as "the lulav"). Together with the etrog, these Four Species are then waved in all four directions, plus up and down, to attest to God's mastery over all of creation, and to symbolically voice a prayer for adequate rainfall over all the Earth's vegetation in the coming year. (See Four Species for the complete description and symbolism of the waving ceremony.)
During the morning prayer service in the synagogue on Hoshanah Rabbah, after the waving of the Four Species, a separate bundle containing five aravah branches are taken in hand by each worshipper. A series of liturgical verses are read, ending with, "Kol mevasser, mevasser ve-omer" (A voice brings news, brings news and says)—expressing hope for the speedy coming of the Messiah. Then the bundle of aravah branches are beaten against the ground until many of the leaves have fallen out. The reasons for this custom are steeped in Kabbalah. The aravot may then be thrown away, used before Passover to burn the Chametz, or are sometimes placed in water in order to grow new aravot trees.
The Aravah ceremony in the Temple
According to the Mishnah, In the days of the Temple in Jerusalem, willow branches were collected from Motsa near Jerusalem and piled upright on the sides of the Altar with their tops bent over the top of the Altar each day of Sukkot. The shofar was sounded, and the worshippers walked about in procession and recited (as is done today as part of the Hashanot ceremony on Sukkot), accompanied by musical instruments (except on shabbat). In the days of the Temple, the Mishnah reports that after the Aravah ceremony on Hashana Rabba, "the children threw away their lulavim and ate their etrogim (citrons)."
See also
Four Species
References
Kitov, Eliyahu (1978). The Book of Our Heritage. Jerusalem: Feldheim Publishers. .
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Four species (Sukkot)
Hebrew words and phrases in Jewish law
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