Split (2)

train · 5.77M rows

id stringlengths 2 8	url stringlengths 31 245	title stringlengths 1 167	text stringlengths 1 435k
64288647	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukomoro%20railway%20station	Sukomoro railway station	Sukomoro Station (station code: SKM) is a third-class railway station in Sukomoro, Sukomoro, Nganjuk Regency, East Java, Indonesia, operated by Kereta Api Indonesia. This station is located on Kertosono–Nganjuk Road and 200 m southwest of Pasar Bawang Merah Nganjuk ("Nganjuk garlic market" in Indonesian). This station's new building is operated—which has four tracks (two main lines and two passing tracks)—since Baron–Nganjuk double track segment activation on 14 March 2019. Services This railway station has no train services except for train overtaking. References External links Kereta Api Indonesia - Indonesian railway company's official website Nganjuk Regency Railway stations in East Java Stations of Daop VII Madiun
2011304	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool%20McCool	Cool McCool	Cool McCool is a Saturday morning animated series that ran on NBC from September 10, 1966 to January 21, 1967, with three segments per show, in all consisting of sixty segments. It was created by Bob Kane – who was most famous as one of the creators of Batman – and produced by Al Brodax for King Features. The show was drawn in Australia, with Artransa Park Film Studios completing the bulk of the animation. Due to the quick turn-around times required by the rapid production schedule, further animation was completed by other Australian artists such as Gus McLaren and Eric Porter Studios. Description Riffing off the then-popular genres of superheroes and James Bond spy adventures, Cool McCool featured the adventures of a hip, trenchcoated spy, who – as on the contemporary TV show Get Smart – defeated villains despite being comically inept. Villains included the Rattler, Hurricane Harry, the Owl, Jack-In-The-Box, and Dr. Madcap. McCool's boss was known as Number One, although his face was never seen onscreen; only his arms and a cigar were visible behind his chair. Number One's secretary was Friday, a dumpy girl who had an unrequited crush on the secret agent. McCool has three catchphrases: "Danger is my business!" "When you're right, Number One, you're right", and (after bungling something) "That will never happen again, Number One" (Of course, it usually does.). The show also featured a Keystone Kops-style segment featuring the adventures of McCool's father, Harry McCool, a uniformed police officer, presumed to have taken place decades before Cool's time. Harry was supported by his brothers Dick and Tom. The Cool McCool character sang the theme song to his father's segments, which ended with his proclaiming, in a plaintive voice, "My Pop ... the cop." Only 20 Harry McCool segments were made, each one sandwiched between the two Cool McCool segments per show. Cast Cool and Harry were voiced by Bob McFadden, while most of the other voices were supplied by Chuck McCann. Carol Corbett provided the voices of the female characters. McFadden modeled McCool's voice after comic legend Jack Benny. Secret, Inc. Cool McCool: A secret agent who takes several risks to save the world. Despite his powerful skills and super-spy abilities, he can be bumbling, foolish and clumsy at times (but also supernaturally lucky, so attempts on his life keep backfiring on his adversaries). He drives a modified car called the "Coolmobile" (which can also transform into a jet plane or a submarine), which he summons by whistling. His mustache tingles when there's danger lurking and can also be used as a telephone to contact Number One. A running gag in the series is that after the end of each mission, despite being successful (often in spite of his own bumbling), Cool would do something that would make Number One mad, thus causing him to get ejected. His catchphrases are "Danger is my business!", "When you're right, Number One, you're right" and "That will never happen again, Number One." He is voiced by Bob McFadden. Number One: Cool's boss. Whenever Cool does something really stupid, he ejects him from the headquarters by means of a control dashboard at his desk. An office chair, footstool, file cabinet, water cooler and/or coat rack suddenly come to life when Number One starts pushing buttons, attacking and disposing of McCool in hasty, violent fashion. Always obscured by his huge chair, the only part of Number One ever shown are his arms, hands and a cigar. His real name is never revealed. He is voiced by Chuck McCann. Mr. Riggs: Secret Inc.'s technician and repairman. He regularly makes prototypes of devices that are supposed to help McCool, but instead, backfire or hurt him – and yet Number One usually blames McCool for their failure. He is voiced by Chuck McCann. Friday: Number One's secretary who has a crush on Cool. She is mostly a klutz. She is voiced by Carol Corbett. Breezy: Cool McCool's adolescent sidekick who aids him on some occasions. He is always there on the job when Cool is in trouble. He wears a trenchcoat like Cool and has hair covering his eyes, a hat, a buck tooth and a soft voice. Unlike Cool, he makes few mistakes and is not as accident prone. He is voiced by Chuck McCann. Harry McCool segment (Komedy Kops) These segments were flashbacks, supposed to have taken place years or decades before Cool's time. At the end of every first Cool McCool segment, Cool sings about his recent missions and that he should be more like his father (a uniformed police officer who was even more of a bumbler), and the flashback segment starts. Harry McCool: Cool's father, who along with his brothers Dick and Tom (Cool's uncles), were the Komedy Kops, a take-off on the Keystone Kops. He is the tallest and most intelligent member of the trio, thus the de facto leader, occupying the first seat in their chosen mode of transportation, a three seater bicycle. Like his son, Harry is voiced by Bob McFadden. Dick McCool: The rotund brother of Harry and Tom rides in the middle seat of their bike. He is often befuddled by Tom's gibberish, so his catchphrase question is, "What did he say, Harry? What did he say?" He is voiced by Chuck McCann. Tom McCool: The shorter brother of Harry and Dick has a bushy black mustache and hair that covers his eyes. He rides in the bicycle's back seat. He speaks in gibberish that only Harry seems to understand. He is voiced by Chuck McCann. Villains Cool McCool's enemies. Although each villain normally acts independently (aside from married couple Dr. Madcap and Greta Ghoul who work together), the in-between sequences introducing Harry McCool shows them united in their quest to capture Cool McCool (they are usually outwitted nevertheless). The Owl: A barefooted, owl-themed human supervillain who is the first antagonist Cool McCool encounters in the series. He lives in a cave with pet owls and (in the debut episode) a cat-themed evil girlfriend named Pussycat (voiced by Corbett). He has the ability to command the bird kingdom to do his evil bidding. The Owl is a parody of the Penguin and is voiced by Chuck McCann. The Rattler: A snake-like, green cyber-human villain with a passion for the arts. He hisses and slithers, and can communicate with and control plant life. The Rattler is also known to wield shotguns and bombs. He is a parody of the Riddler, although his ability to control plant life also makes him a bit of an analog for Poison Ivy. He is voiced by Chuck McCann. Dr. Madcap: A wacky foe with the ability to control all hats and make them do his dirty work. He adores both his collection of hats and Greta Ghoul, his wife. He is a parody of the Mad Hatter from Batman. Madcap's hats sometimes contain deadly surprises such as anvils or guns. He is voiced by Chuck McCann. Greta Ghoul: Dr. Madcap's wife, who does not always feel appreciated or loved by her husband. She is a light gray-skinned woman who is often moody and depressed. Her vampire voice is done by Carol Corbett, in an impression of Greta Garbo who the character is modeled after. Hurricane Harry: An overweight human wind bag who uses lung power to create mighty gusts that can blow anything out of his path. He speaks in a deep voice and a lisp. His fiancée is Bellows Belle (Carol Corbett), who wheezes when speaking. Harry's one weakness is his buck tooth, which, when accidentally knocked out of his mouth, causes him to rapidly deflate like a balloon. He does not appear to be a parody of any Batman villains. He is voiced by Chuck McCann. Jack-in-a-Box: A maniacal crook in red-and-yellow jester attire that hides in a jack-in-a-box to scare and attack his victims. His weapons include a shotgun, grenades filled with laughing gas, and spring-loaded shoes. Whenever he speaks, his waist bounces up and down and his voice vibrates like a jack-in-a-box spring. He is a parody of the Joker, voiced by Chuck McCann. Episode list DVD & VHS Rhino records Cool McCool Collection – 2003 DVD oop Hollywood DVD Cool McCool: How To Catch a Crook – 2003 UK PAL DVD oop Cool McCool: Danger is My Business / G-Force – 2004 UK PAL DVD oop Cool McCool: Danger is my Business / Felix the Cat – 2004 UK PAL DVD oop Best Film & Video Co Cool McCool: Shooting the Breeze – 1990 VHS oop Cool McCool: Grime & Punishment – 1990 VHS oop Cool McCool: How to Catch a Crook – 1990 VHS oop BCI Eclipse Animated All Stars vol. 1 – 2006 2DVD – (two Cool McCool episodes) Cool McCool: The Complete Series – 3DVD March 13, 2007 "Advantage Cartoon Mega Pack"- DVD set includes 6 Cool McCool episodes along with Magical Adventures of Quasimodo, Barney Google & Snuffy Smith, Hagar the Horrible, Krazy Kat, Betty Boop, etc References External links NBC original programming 1960s American animated television series 1966 American television series debuts 1967 American television series endings Fictional secret agents and spies in television American children's animated comedy television series Television series created by Bob Kane
56992134	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewiston%20and%20Youngstown%20Frontier%20Electric%20Railway	Lewiston and Youngstown Frontier Electric Railway	The Lewiston & Youngstown Frontier Electric Railway connected the villages of Lewiston and Youngstown in Niagara County, New York. Company The company was set-up by a number of local capitalists in the summer of 1895. After a number of surveys the railroad was finally located through private property between these villages, about one-quarter of a mile easterly from the River Road, thus avoiding the destruction of property along the banks of the lower Niagara River, or occupying the highway. Route The contract for the construction of the roadbed, ballasting, overhead work and fencing was let April 12, 1896, to Craige & Tench, Buffalo, New York, for the sum of $63,500. The railroad started from the New York Central depot at Lewiston and ran up Center street to 5th street. Then it ran northerly through 5th street to the village limits, then through private lands to 3rd street, Youngstown, then through Church street to Main street and to the United States Military Reservation, at the mouth of the Niagara River. There was also a branch in Lewiston from 5th street through Onondaga street to the New York Central freight station and a branch in Youngstown to the docks. The road was long in all. The country through which this road ran is extremely level and is in the heart of the Niagara fruit district, being largely devoted to the culture of apples, peaches and grapes. The right of way is in width and fenced throughout its entire length between the villages. There were no structures whatever on the line, with the exception of a few wooden box culverts and one trestle long and about high. Track The road was single track of and had five turnouts in the course of the line with end switches at each end. In the two villages the track was laid with girder rails, of 67-lb/yard (32.5 kg/m) and of 87-lb/yard (43.5 kg/m) and in the country for with 56-lb/yard (27.7kg/m) T-rails. The Johnson Company furnished the rails and track fastenings and all the rails except the 87-lb/yard (43.5 kg/m) girders which were rolled by the Pennsylvania Steel Company. The ties were of cedar, x , spaced between centers. The line was ballasted with broken stone which was deep under the ties. Electrification R. W. Oliver furnished the overhead work at a cost of $9,750. In the villages span work was used and in the country side pole bracket work. The trolley wire was No. 00 and there were nearly of No. 0000 stranded triple covered feed wire starting from Lewiston and reaching nearly to Youngstown. All poles and fence posts were painted olive green. No power plant was constructed by this company, because power could be obtained from the plant of the Niagara Falls & Power Company, which was situated away from Lewiston. It was generated by one of the 1.000-h.p. generators situated in the new power house at the foot of the cliff at a voltage of 550 Volts. This was raised to 750 volts by being passed through a booster and was conveyed to Lewiston over a 500,000 circular mil stranded copper wire triple covered. This wire was strung on the poles of the Niagara Gorge Railroad and thus brought to Lewiston, where it was connected with the trolley and feed wire. Rolling stock The equipment consisted of four, eight bench open motor cars and two closed combination baggage and passenger cars seating 16 people, made by the J. G. Brill Company, Philadelphia. The combination cars had a vestibule on the passenger end, and the baggage compartment, which was long, had sliding doors on each side and three drop sash in the front end allowing the motorman to occupy the baggage compartment when running that end forward, but there was no vestibule. All these cars are equipped with Brill eureka maximum traction trucks, with diameter wheels. Each truck was equipped with one G.E. 1,000 motor, thus giving each car horizontal tractive pull. The total cost of roadway, equipment, transmission line, land damages, etc., amounted to very nearly $100,000. Operation After a number of delays, owing to the non-arrival of material, etc., the road was informally opened the latter part of August, 1896. The company contemplated a freight as well as a passenger service, and was handling about 10 cars of freight per day in 1897, beside package freight. A steady passenger traffic was maintained between the points mentioned, which increased during the summer. When the Niagara Gorge Railroad was taken out of use in 1935, the Lewiston & Youngstown Frontier Electric Railway remained in service as a diesel freight line. Personnel The officers of the company were: L. D. Rumsey, president H. C. Howard, vice-president and treasurer F. R. March, attorney Karl Evans, general passenger and freight agent R. B. Goodman, superintendent, all of Buffalo, New York. The engineering work was led by Paul Voorhes of Buffalo. He constructed other rails, among them Buffalo & Williamsville Electric Railway and the Buffalo, Gardenville & Ebenezer Railway. References Defunct railroads Transportation in Niagara County, New York Niagara Falls National Heritage Area Defunct New York (state) railroads Interurban railways in New York (state) Transportation in Niagara Falls, New York
24383664	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edda%20people	Edda people	The people of Eddaland, known as the Eddics, are a sub-group of the Igbo people in south-eastern Nigeria. The land and people of Eddaland have been constitutionally designated the present day Afikpo South Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, Nigeria. References Sources Egbebu progressive union Edda women wing Enugu Ethnic groups in Nigeria Igbo subgroups
37481591	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Very%20Special%20Christmas%3A%2025%20Years%20Bringing%20Joy%20to%20the%20World	A Very Special Christmas: 25 Years Bringing Joy to the World	A Very Special Christmas: 25 Years Bringing Joy to the World is the eighth in the A Very Special Christmas series of Christmas music-themed compilation albums produced to benefit the Special Olympics. The album was released on October 16, 2012. It peaked at #61 on December 2012 Billboard album chart. Track listing External links A Very Special Christmas 25th Anniversary at A Very Special Christmas Official Website A Very Special Christmas Official Website A Very Special Christmas 25th Anniversary at Amazon.com 2012 Christmas albums 2012 compilation albums A Very Special Christmas Big Machine Records compilation albums pl:A Very Special Christmas 2
55304671	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dioon%20stevensonii	Dioon stevensonii	Dioon stevensonii is a species of cycad native to Mexico. References Whitelock, Loran M. 2002. The Cycads. Portland: Timber Press. External links stevensonii Flora of Mexico
73266064	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro%20Boscardin%20Dias	Pedro Boscardin Dias	Pedro Boscardin Dias (born 28 January 2003) is a Brazilian tennis player. Boscardin Dias has a career high ATP singles ranking of 293 achieved on 22 August 2022. He also has a career high doubles ranking of 421 achieved on 1 August 2022. Boscardin Dias has won 2 ATP Challenger doubles titles at the 2023 Challenger de Santiago and at 2023 Florianópolis Challenger. Personal life He was born in Joinville, Brazil in 2003. ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals Singles: 4 (2–2) Doubles References External links 2003 births Living people Brazilian male tennis players Sportspeople from Joinville
12107523	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainwash%20Projects	Brainwash Projects	Brainwash Projects is a hip hop group formed by LA Symphony members Pigeon John and . The duo released their first album The Rise and Fall of (Brainwash Projects) on Jackson Rubio. Releases Ride the Dolphin EP (Unreleased demo) (Circa 1995) The Rise and Fall of Brainwash Projects (1998) American hip hop groups Musical groups from California 1994 establishments in California Musical groups established in 1994
5895858	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20mayors%20of%20Soltvadkert	List of mayors of Soltvadkert	This is a list of mayors that served the city of Soltvadkert, Hungary. ??–?? Gyula Havasi ??–1990Károly Nagy 1990–2006 László Berkecz Since 2006 Ferencz Lehoczki See also List of Hungarians#History and politics List of people from Bács-Kiskun Lists of mayors by country Soltvadkert Bács-Kiskun County
30516423	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civic%20Association%20of%20Henties%20Bay	Civic Association of Henties Bay	The Civic Association of Henties Bay is a local political party based in Henties Bay in the Erongo Region of Namibia. It contests local elections for the municipality of Henties Bay. In the 2004 local elections, the Civic Association won 3 seats in the council, Namibia's ruling SWAPO party won another three, and one seat went to the United Democratic Front (UDF). In the 2010 local elections, the party received the most votes (nearly 44%) in the Henties Bay local authority, ahead of the ruling party nationally, SWAPO, which received 36.9%. In the 2015 local authority elections the Civic Association only gained one seat while SWAPO won three and the UDF won two. References Erongo Region Political parties in Namibia Political parties with year of establishment missing
56945406	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maeda%20Toshinori	Maeda Toshinori	Maeda Toshinori may refer to: Maeda Toshinori (Daishoji) (1833–1855), daimyō of Daishoji Domain Maeda Toshinori (Toyama) (1787-1801), daimyō of Toyama Domain See also Maeda clan
51623768	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carter%20Creek%20%28Current%20River%20tributary%29	Carter Creek (Current River tributary)	Carter Creek is a stream in Carter and Reynolds counties of southern Missouri. It is a tributary of the Current River. The stream headwaters are located in Reynolds County at and the confluence with the Current River is in Carter County at . The stream flows southwest to south and passes under Missouri Route 21 and U.S. Route 60 before entering the Current about two miles southeast (downstream) of Van Buren. Carter Creek was named after Zimri A. Carter, a pioneer settler. See also List of rivers of Missouri References Rivers of Carter County, Missouri Rivers of Reynolds County, Missouri Rivers of Missouri Tributaries of the Current River (Ozarks)
412129	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellesmere%20Canal	Ellesmere Canal	The Ellesmere Canal was a waterway in England and Wales that was planned to carry boat traffic between the rivers Mersey and Severn. The proposal would create a link between the Port of Liverpool and the mineral industries in north east Wales and the manufacturing centres in the West Midlands. However, the canal was never completed as intended because of its rising costs and failure to generate the expected commercial traffic. The Ellesmere Canal, which was first proposed in 1791, would have created a waterway between Netherpool, Cheshire, and Shrewsbury. However, only certain sections were completed; these were eventually incorporated into the Chester Canal, Montgomery Canal and Shropshire Union Canal. Although several major civil engineering feats were accomplished, major building work ceased following the completion of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct in 1805. The northern end of the navigation's mainline ended from Chester at Trevor Basin near Ruabon and its southern end was at Weston Lullingfields about from Shrewsbury. As part of the rebranding of Britain's industrial waterways as leisure destinations, the surviving central section is now called the Llangollen Canal; even though historically its builders had no intention of sending boat traffic to Llangollen. The branch, from which the waterway now takes its name, was primarily a water feeder from the River Dee above the town. Therefore it was not built as a broad-gauge canal, hence its inherently narrow design. History Route planning The formal proposal for the canal was launched at a meeting in Ellesmere in 1791 for a canal from Netherpool (now Ellesmere Port) on the River Mersey to the River Dee at Chester. It would then go in a south easterly direction via Overton (south of Wrexham) to the River Severn at Shrewsbury. Branches would then be cut to the iron making and coal mining areas at Bersham between Wrexham and Ruabon and to the copper mines at Llanymynech. By 1793 an Act of Parliament (33 Geo. 3. c. 91) had been passed allowing the Ellesmere Canal company to build the canal. However this route of the canal beyond Chester was not to the liking of all backers. They wanted the canal's course to follow a more westerly route from the Dee to the Severn passing directly through the Welsh mining areas. Eventually this proposal was the one that canal engineer John Duncombe followed when he eventually surveyed the route. Notable civil engineer William Jessop was called into advise; he too recommended the route surveyed by Duncombe. Jessop was eventually appointed the project's engineer while Thomas Telford was appointed as General Agent. The northernmost section, a contour canal, from the Mersey to the Dee was completed in 1797. This allowed the company to generate revenue from tolls to help finance construction of the rest of the canal. However the westerly route posed formidable engineering obstacles. Close to the Eglwyseg and Ruabon mountains, there were deep river valleys to be crossed and high ground to be tunnelled. Duncombe's survey involved a climb of from Chester to Wrexham, a tunnel at Ruabon, a high level crossing over the Dee at Pontcysyllte, a further tunnel and aqueduct near Chirk, and a tunnel in Shropshire near Weston Lullingfields. A plan of the canal, published in 1795, showed the route between Netherpool in the north to Shrewsbury to the south: River Mersey; Great Stanney; Stoak; Wervin; Caughall; Chester; Saltneyside; Lache Hall; Rough Hill; Cuckoos Nest; Wrexham; Ruabon; Plas Madoc; Chirk; Hordley; Dandyford; Shade Oak; Weston Lullingfields; Eyton; Walford; Hancott; Shrewsbury; River Severn. The canal plan would also have four branches: A branch would run to Holt. A branch would run from near Wrexham to Brymbo. A branch would run from near Hordley to Llanymynech, via Maesbury, Morton and Crickheath. A branch would run from near Tetchill to Prees Heath, via Welshampton, Fenn's Moss and Whitchurch. Originally Jessop had suggested that the cheaper solution was to use locks on both sides of Vale of Llangollen to take the canal down to a more manageable height for the second, upstream crossing of the River Dee at Froncysyllte. Rather than crossing at full height, the locks would reuse water by backpumping. But by 1795 Jessop and Telford had changed their decision. Instead they developed a proposal for a cast-iron aqueduct to maintain the original level. Construction In 1796 the Llanymynech Branch was opened, linking the main line at Frankton Junction with Llanymynech. This joined the Montgomeryshire Canal at Carreghofa Locks when the Montgomeryshire opened in 1797. In 1796, Thomas Telford constructed a feeder reservoir lake in Moss Valley, Wrexham to provide water to the length of canal between Trevor Basin and Chester. However, as the plan to build this section was cancelled in 1798, the isolated feeder and a stretch of navigation between Ffrwd and a basin in Summerhill was abandoned. Remnants of the feeder channel are visible in Gwersyllt. A street in the village is still named Heol Camlas (Canal Way). The contour section from the River Mersey to the River Dee at Chester was joined to the Chester Canal in 1797. On the main line section, the Chirk Aqueduct was opened in 1801, and Pontcysyllte Aqueduct in 1805. However, by this time the proposed line from the Dee at Chester to Ruabon had been abandoned as uneconomic. The canal was therefore terminated at Trevor Basin, southwest of Ruabon. Also abandoned was the plan to reach the Severn, as the Shrewsbury Canal was already serving the town, and the poor navigational state of the Severn meant that additional traffic would not justify the cost of the building works. As the canal would now not reach its proposed main source of water northwest of Wrexham, a feeder was constructed along the side of the Dee valley to Horseshoe Falls at Llantysilio. This narrow feeder branch was made navigable, allowing boats to reach Llangollen. In the end the only parts of the main line of the canal to be built was the extreme northern line from the Mersey to Chester and the central section from Trevor Basin to Weston Lullingfields. As this left the middle part isolated from the rest of the UK waterways network, the planned Whitchurch branch was re-routed. A link was built from Frankton via Ellesmere to the Chester Canal at Hurleston Junction in sections between 1797 and 1806. Despite the circuitous route, it was considered to be the main line. The extension also included an arm to Whitchurch because the town had been by-passed by the new route. A branch was also originally intended to reach Prees in Shropshire; however the line was only constructed as far as Quina Brook, from the village. The section of waterway from Frankton Junction to Weston Lullingfields, which was originally intended to be the main line to Shrewsbury, became the Weston Branch. The uncompleted part between Weston Lullingfields and the River Severn would have been long, with of lockage and a tunnel at Weston Lullingfileds. Working canal Due to the constraints placed on the canal by its incomplete design, the Ellesmere Canal struggled financially throughout its operating life as an industrial waterway. In 1813, the Ellesmere Canal company merged with the Chester Canal to form the Ellesmere and Chester Canal Company. This business was then merged with the Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal in 1845. A year later the canal was taken over again by the formation of the Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company. By 1917 the Weston Branch had closed following a breach near Hordley Wharf. In 1939 traffic on the line from Hurleston to Llangollen had all but ceased. All remaining parts of the Ellesmere Canal network, other than the northern line from Ellesmere Port to Chester, was closed to navigation by Act of Parliament in 1944. However, the canal from Hurleston to Llangollen was retained as a water feeder for the Shropshire Union Canal main line and for drinking water. In 1955 an agreement with the Mid & South East Cheshire Water Board secured the canal's future. Present day Despite the formal closure, increasing popularity of the canal with pleasure boats led to its acceptance as an important amenity, and the rebranding as the Llangollen Canal. As the canal was never intended to go to Llangollen, this renaming is an ironic twist symbolic of the canal's convoluted development. The Ellesmere Canal south of Frankton Junction (the Llanymynech Branch) nowadays forms part of the Montgomery Canal, together with the Montgomeryshire Canal, and the isolated northern section from Chester to Ellesmere Port considered part of the main line of the Shropshire Union Canal. The Weston Branch is now infilled, save for a very short section, which has a Canal & River Trust amenity block. Route Ellesmere Port to Chester The canal starts at Ellesmere Port Dock by the Mersey. Originally goods would be transferred directly from inland waterways craft into river-going vessels at the dock, which would enter and exit through tidal lock gates. However, in the 1890s, with the construction of the Manchester Ship Canal, the basin became detached from the river. Traffic was controlled by a set of two-lock staircases. A contour canal runs between Ellesmere Port and Chester following the course of a natural river valley that encompasses Backford Brook and the Bache valley. The canal enters Chester Basin (wharf) at the junction with the Chester Canal. At this point, there is also a 4-lock branch that once led down to the River Dee and Port of Chester. When the Ellesmere Canal reached the Chester Canal, the configuration of the staircase locks at Chester was altered. The original 5-lock staircase was replaced by a deeper three-lock arrangement. At this point, the section is now part of the Shropshire Union Canal. Hurleston to Frankton Junction This section was added to link the canal to the national network. It became the Ellesmere Branch of the Shropshire Union Canal and is now part of the Llangollen Canal. Frankton Junction to Trevor Basin This was the principal part of the original main line of the canal. It became the Llangollen Branch of the Shropshire Union Canal and is now part of the Llangollen Canal. Trevor Basin to Horseshoe Falls This section of the canal was added as a navigable feeder. It is now part of the Llangollen Canal. Frankton Junction to Llanymynech This section (the Llanymynech Branch) is now designated as part of the Montgomery Canal (combining the Llanymynech Branch of the Ellesmere Canal with the Montgomeryshire Canal). The section from Frankton Junction to the Weston Branch was originally intended to be the main line of the canal. Bridge numbering (which starts at Hurleston Junction) continues down the Llanymynech Branch, and despite now being regarded as two separate canals (the Llangollen and the Montgomery) this numbering scheme remains. Frankton Junction to Weston Lullingfields This section was originally intended to be the main line of the canal, and is now infilled. The arm had wharves at Hordley, Dandyford, Pedlar's Bridge, Shade Oak and Weston Lullingfields. At Weston Lullingfields the canal company built a wharf, four lime kilns, a public house, stables, a clerk's house and weighing machine. These were opened in 1797 and closed in 1917 when the Weston branch was closed following a breach of the canal. See also Canals of Great Britain History of the British canal system References Todd, John (2003) "A canal of many parts", Waterways world, 32 (2: Feb.), p. 46–49 & (3: Mar.), p. 48–51. Wilson, Edward A. (1975) The Ellesmere and Llangollen Canal : an historical background, London : Phillimore, Canals linked to the River Severn Canals in Shropshire History of Shropshire Canals in Cheshire History of Cheshire Works of Thomas Telford Shropshire Union Canal Canals opened in 1806 Cancelled projects in Wales
12132414	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes%20Mildbraed	Johannes Mildbraed	Gottfried Wilhelm Johannes Mildbraed (19 December 1879 – 24 December 1954) was a German botanist who specialized in mosses, ferns, and various spermatophytes. He is well known for authoring the most current monograph and taxonomic treatment of the family Stylidiaceae in 1908 as part of the unfinished Das Pflanzenreich series. The genus Mildbraediodendron was named in honor of him. References 1879 births 1954 deaths 20th-century German botanists
71054732	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Museum%20of%20Asian%20Pacific%20American%20History%20and%20Culture	National Museum of Asian Pacific American History and Culture	A National Museum of Asian Pacific American History and Culture is a proposed museum on Asian Pacific American history and culture, to be part of the Smithsonian Institution. An expert commission to study the proposal—the Commission to Study the Potential Creation of a National Museum of Asian Pacific American History and Culture—was created in 2022 by act of Congress. Proposals H. R.3525, the Commission To Study the Potential Creation of a National Museum of Asian Pacific American History and Culture Act, was introduced to the U.S. House of Representatives by Representative Grace Meng in 2021. The bill established an expert commission and tasked it with making "recommendations for a plan of action for the establishment and maintenance of a National Museum of Asian Pacific American History and Culture" in Washington, D.C. The bill passed the House by a voice vote and the Senate by unanimous consent, and was signed into law by President Joe Biden on June 13, 2022, becoming Public Law No. 117-140. The Commission consists of eight members, with two each being appointed by the Senate majority leader, Senate minority leaders, speaker of the House, and House minority leader. The passage of the study commission followed the opening of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian and National Museum of African American History and Culture (in 2016) and the planning phases for construction of the National Museum of the American Latino and Smithsonian American Women's History Museum. See also Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center References Asian-American issues Proposed museums in the United States Asian Pacific American History and Culture
39160549	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NA-143%20Sahiwal-III	NA-143 Sahiwal-III	NA-143 Sahiwal-III () is a constituency for the National Assembly of Pakistan. Election 2002 General elections were held on 10 Oct 2002. Sardar Farooq Ahmad Khan Laghari of National Alliance won by 39,312 votes. Election 2008 General elections were held on 18 Feb 2008. Malik Noman Ahmed Langrial of PML-Q won by 39,864 votes. Election 2013 General elections were held on 11 May 2013. Chaudhry Muhammad Munir Azhar of PML-N won by 89,126 votes and became the member of National Assembly. Election 2018 See also NA-142 Sahiwal-II NA-144 Khanewal-I References External links Election result's official website NA-163
34341170	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batra	Batra	Batra is a clan of Arora community of Punjab, India. They are mainly followers of Hinduism and Sikhism. Notable people Armed Forces Vikram Batra, PVC (1974–1999), officer of the Indian Army, posthumously awarded India's highest award for valour Athletics Manika Batra, Indian table tennis player, Commonwealth Games gold medalist Bollywood Pooja Batra (born 1976), Indian actress who was Miss India International in 1993 Ritesh Batra (born 1979) film director Sanjay Batra, television actor in India Shakun Batra, Indian film director. He directed Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu , Kapoor & Sons and Gehraiyaan Creatives Adrienne Batra, Indian-Canadian journalist and editor-in-chief of the Toronto Sun Aseem Batra, producer and writer of Scrubs David Batra (born 1972), Swedish-Indian stand-up comedian and TV actor Hemant Batra, Indian origin lawyer, public speaker and author Vibha Batra, Indian author, advertising consultant, poet, lyricist, translator, travel writer, playwright, and columnist Politics Anna Kinberg Batra (born 1970), Swedish politician, leader of the Moderate Party 2015- Bharat Bhushan Batra, Indian politician serving as the MLA of Rohtak Dinanath Batra, former general secretary of Vidya Bharati, the school network run by the RSS Pradip Batra, Indian BJP politician and member of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly from the Roorkee constituency Shadi Lal Batra, Indian politician Religious Leaders Balak Singh Batra, Sikh religious leader who founded Namdhari (Kuka) sect Science and engineering Anuj Batra, research electrical engineer specializing in ultrawideband wireless technology. He was included in Innovators Under 35 "TR35" list Harsh Vardhan Batra, Indian scientist working in animal biotechnology in Indian Ministry of Science and Technology Lekh Raj Batra, (1929–1999), distinguished Indian-American mycologist Mukesh Batra, homeopathy practitioner, and Founder of Dr. Batra's Health Clinic Pvt Ltd. Ravi Batra (born 1943), Indian-American economist, author, and professor at Southern Methodist University Romesh Batra, professor in the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Virginia Tech References Surnames of Indian origin Punjabi tribes Arora clans Punjabi-language surnames Khatri clans Khatri surnames Surnames of Hindu origin
1766392	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urasenke	Urasenke	is one of the main schools of Japanese tea ceremony. Along with and , it is one of the three lines of the family descending from , which together are known as the - or the "three houses/families" (). The name , literally meaning "rear house/family", came into existence due to the location of the homestead of this line of the family in relation to what was originally the frontmost house (the ) of the estate. The other main schools of Japanese tea ceremony, and , also follow this naming convention, with the former meaning "front house/family", and the latter derived from the street name of the family's homestead, . History The three houses derive from descendants of , who was active during the period and is the most historically important figure within Japanese tea ceremony. 's hometown was , in the province of (in present-day Osaka prefecture). However, as his activities became centered in Kyoto, he kept a house in Kyoto. He also had his adopted son-in-law, , who was married to his daughter , move from to Kyoto, leaving his natural son, , to tend the family home and business in . This represents the origin of the two branches of the family () referred to as the and . The , headed by , eventually settled in a house located on Street, in the neighborhood of temple; the house and property representing the original estate in Kyoto. Following the death of , both of the and of the , inevitably caught up in the wrath of which had been the reason for 's self-immolation, were in danger of also losing their lives, and so, to protect their homes and families, they went into hiding. After a number of months, however, both were able to return home. , still living in , left no successors to carry on the , however, upon returning home to Kyoto, already had a son born of himself and , to succeed him as head of the . had five offspring: the elder two, (?-1652) and (1605-1676), were his sons born of his first wife. However, following her death, remarried, having two sons ( (1613-1672) and (1622-1697)) and a daughter (, dates unknown) by his second wife. His first and second sons, and , began living independently when they were young men, with his fourth son, , also leaving the family as a young man to train as an apprentice under a local doctor named . Due to the untimely death of , however, returned home in 1645, and thereafter, with his father 's support, trained as a expert, similarly to his older brother, , the heir to the family. Around the year 1646, when was roughly 68 years old, he gave up his headship of the family to , and moved into quarters which had been built at the rear of the house, including a tiny tea hut known as the . 's retirement quarters became 's home base, with eventually becoming heir to the property. found employment for his eldest son, , with the clan of the domain, but soon quit his position with the , leading to disinheriting 's second son, , had in contrast been adopted by the family in Kyoto, known for specialising in lacquerware under their business name of . During this period, went by the name . In his later life, however, returned to the family, establishing a tea room named "" at his residence on street, and retrained as a expert. With this, the direct descendants of branched into the three lines of both the family and schools of tea ceremony known as the today. Before the Meiji Restoration (1868), the heads of the three families served as magistrates under various , respectively receiving a yearly stipend from them as payment for their services. , fourth son of the family and leader of the branch that would eventually be known as the , served the clan of . In generations following this, the head of the family also served as a magistrate for the clan of the domain (present day Prefecture), as well as serving as caretaker to the clan's Kyoto residence. The eleventh generation head of the family, (1810–77), born as the fifth son of a minor named of the domain, married into the family, whilst also serving the branch of the Tokugawa family. However, following the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1868, the lost their positions, and the hereditary stipends which the three families had been receiving came to an end. It was after this, and the loss of their positions serving the , that the families established their system. The entire historical estate, located in the ward of Kyoto, is referred to by the name of its representative tea room, the . Headmasters () All three major schools of Japanese tea ceremony share their first three generations of headmasters, known as the . is their mutual first generation and family founder (), with his adopted son-in-law, as their shared second generation , and 's son, , as their shared third generation . From the fourth generation onwards, the three family lineages divide, with the heads of each family carrying the professional hereditary name used by the successive heads of their respective family. Upon succession to the position of of the family and its school of , the new assumes the professional name of , and is officially referred to as . The current head of the school of tea is , the 16th generation of the family, and is referred to as XVI. Urasenke Foundation The Urasenke Foundation () is an incorporated foundation originally registered by the Japanese government in 1949, during the era of the 14th generation grand master of . Its stated purpose is to preserve and foster the cultural heritage of , with its activities including the maintenance and management of the estate and cultural assets, and the support of research and public education regarding the study of tea ceremony. Its administrative office, together with that of the Federation, is located within the five story Center building located a short distance west of the historical compound. Center Research Center Library Branches The Urasenke Tokyo Branch () was originally established in 1957 in Tokyo's ward, moving to its present quarters in the section of Tokyo's ward in 1995. This facility serves as the hub of the activities sponsored by the head house in Japan's capital. Various training courses and special events held at are also held here, for the convenience of participants living in Eastern Japan. The main building contains replicas of the and tea rooms at . The Tokyo Branch is the only branch in Japan. From the mid-1960s onwards, XV () began to dispatch qualified instructors to live overseas and, operating out of Foundation branch offices or liaison offices, to teach the growing numbers of individuals who desired to pursue the practice of . The dates and places to which the teachers were dispatched and thus an branch or liaison office was established were as follows: 1966, September. Hawaii (Honolulu), and Boston 1967, September. New York 1969, August. Rome, Italy 1972, June. Munich, Germany, when donated a tea house named 1973, February. Mexico (Mexico City) 1973, August. Hilo, Hawaii 1974, March. Brisbane (liaison office), Australia 1974, November. Peru (Lima) 1976, April. London, England; Düsseldorf, Germany; and Paris, France 1976, August. Brazil (São Paulo) 1980, December. San Francisco, California 1981, February. Seattle, Washington 1986, May. Schwarzwald (liaison office; became Freiburg liaison office in 1997, April), Germany 1991, March. Moscow (liaison office), Russia 1991, May. Beijing (liaison office; became branch in 1993), China 1992, August. Tianjin (liaison office), China 1993, April. Vancouver (liaison office; became branch in 1994), Canada 1993, August. Sydney, Australia 1994, September. Washington D.C. 1997, April. Netherlands (liaison office) Independently registered Foundation corporations The Urasenke Foundation of Hawaii, headquartered at the Hawaii Branch, was established as a USA registered non-profit corporation in 1976 The Urasenke Tea Ceremony Society, Inc, headquartered at the Center, was established as a USA registered non-profit corporation in 1981, when the New York Branch moved into the newly opened Center, located at 153 East 69th St. in New York. The Foundation of California, headquartered at the San Francisco Branch, was founded as a USA registered non-profit organization in 1994. It is generally known as Foundation San Francisco. Urasenke Tankōkai The Urasenke Tankōkai (裏千家淡交会) is the membership organization for Urasenke teachers and students. It was initiated in 1940 by the fourteenth-generation head of Urasenke, Tantansai (1893-1964), with the aim of unifying and encouraging the practitioners of Urasenke chadō. In 1953, it was registered by the Ministry of Education and Culture as a not-for-profit incorporated association (shadan hōjin). It is now registered as a not-for-profit general incorporated association (ippan shadan hōjin). Its official registered name, as such, is Ippan Shadan Hōjin Chadō Urasenke Tankōkai (一般社団法人茶道裏千家淡交会). In English, it is referred to as the Urasenke Tankōkai Federation. Its stated aims are to ensure the standardization of the Urasenke chanoyu rules and tea-making procedures (temae), support research, encourage cooperation and exchange among all members, promote the practice of the principles laid down by the grand master, and expand the chadō population around the world. Also, it provides support for the purposes and activities of the Urasenke Foundation. In Japan, the organization is divided into seventeen districts comprising 165 chapters (shibu) and 2 sub-chapters (shisho). Each district has a liaison council for the Gakkō Chadō (Tea Training in the Educational System) program sponsored by the organization. There are also 167 groups belonging to the organization's Seinenbu, or "Youth Division." These three entities organize seminars, tea gatherings, conventions, and many other activities. The central office, serving to coordinate the programs and activities of all these, is located in the Urasenke Center building at Urasenke headquarters, Kyoto. Twice a year, in the spring and autumn, it calls together a national meeting of chapter presidents, to decide upon general policies and activities. In 1999, the International Division of the Urasenke Foundation was moved under the umbrella of this office, effectively extending the organization to overseas regions. Currently there are 92 official Chadō Urasenke Tankōkai associations spread over 37 countries outside Japan. Gakkō Chadō Seinenbu The Urasenke Tankōkai Seinenbu (裏千家淡交会青年部), or Urasenke Tankōkai Youth Division, is an organization for Urasenke chadō enthusiasts under the age of fifty. It was initiated in 1950 by the then Urasenke 15th-generation iemoto-to-be, Sen Sōkō, aiming to muster the combined power of Urasenke's youths toward rebuilding the war-torn nation. Its creed is "Train (修練) in order to better oneself; Serve (奉仕) your community; Friendship (友情) toward the world and among members." At first, the organization was called Seinenkai. This name was changed to Seinenbu in 1963. The organization's first chapters were established in Kure and Hiroshima in May, 1950. In 1966, the organization held its first National Convention, at the Kyoto International Conference Hall, at which there were over 2,200 attendees. In 1974, the organization's first chartered Urasenke Youth Ship (裏千家青年の船) friendship mission, with 418 participants, sailed to Okinawa and Hong Kong. Urasenke Gakuen The Urasenke Gakuen Chadō Senmon Gakkō (裏千家学園茶道専門学校), or "Urasenke Gakuen Professional College of Chadō," is generally known as the Urasenke Gakuen. It is located on the same neighborhood block as the Urasenke home in Kyoto, and is the only accredited school in Japan specializing in chadō education. It had its start in 1962, as the Urasenke Chadō Kenshūjō (裏千家茶道研修所), or "Urasenke Chadō Training Institute," run by Urasenke's incorporated foundation, Zaidan Hōjin Konnichian (known in English as the Urasenke Foundation). In 1971, its name was changed to "Urasenke Gakuen," and in 1976, its name was changed again, to "Urasenke Gakuen Chadō Senmon Gakkō." In 1983, it had its new start as a registered educational foundation (学校法人), and was formally accredited as a professional college by the Ministry of Education. The number one characteristic of this professional college is that it is a chadō training center directly connected to the Urasenke Iemoto. The current Chairman of the Urasenke Gakuen Educational Foundation, and Principal of the Urasenke Gakuen Professional College, is Masako Sen, who is the wife of Urasenke Iemoto Sōshitsu Sen XVI. In addition to its regular three-year course, which is referred to as the chadō-ka (茶道科) and provides a basic, comprehensive chadō education, it also has a separate one-year course and a graduate course referred to as the kenkyūka (研究科, "research course"). Furthermore, the Urasenke Gakuen has a non-Japanese students division called the "Midorikai" (lit., "green group"). The Midorikai study program is an intensive one-year program in which the students are provided with lectures and other instruction in English. Urasenke in popular culture The Choose Your Own Adventure book: Mystery of Ura Senke (nº 44), by Shannon Gilligan, deals with the theft of one of the Urasenke school's most famous tea ceremony bowls, worth millions of yen on the black market. The protagonist and their friend Kenichi Doi, whose older brother Takashi is an Urasenke school apprentice, start investigating the case. References "SEN Soshitsu XVI, Iemoto" in Urasenke website. "The Urasenke Legacy" in Urasenke website. "Konnichian--The Urasenke Home" in Urasenke website. Urasenke Chadō Textbook. Supervising Eds., Genshitsu Sen and Sōshitsu Sen (Kyoto, Tankosha Publishing Co., 2011). External links Urasenke official homepage Chadō
106333	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kom%20Ombo	Kom Ombo	Kom Ombo (Egyptian Arabic: ; Coptic: or ; Ancient Greek: or ; or Latin: and is an agricultural town in Egypt famous for the Temple of Kom Ombo. It was originally an Egyptian city called Nubt, meaning City of Gold (not to be confused with the city north of Naqada that was also called Nubt/Ombos). Nubt is also known as or (). It became a Greek settlement during the Greco-Roman Period. The town's location on the Nile, north of Aswan (Syene), gave it some control over trade routes from Nubia to the Nile Valley, but its main rise to prominence came with the erection of the Temple of Kom Ombo in the 2nd century BC. History In antiquity the city was in the Thebaid, the capital of the Nomos Ombites, on the east bank of the Nile; latitude north. Ombos was a garrison town under every dynasty of Egypt as well as the Ptolemaic Kingdom and Roman Egypt, and was celebrated for the magnificence of its temples and its hereditary feud with the people of Dendera. Ombos was the first city below Aswan at which any remarkable remains of antiquity occur. The Nile, indeed, at this portion of its course, was ill-suited to a dense population in antiquity. It runs between steep and narrow banks of sandstone, and deposits but little of its fertilizing slime upon the dreary and barren shores. There are two temples at Ombos, constructed of the stone obtained from the neighboring quarries of Hagar Silsilah. The more magnificent of two stands upon the top of a sandy hill, and appears to have been a species of Pantheon, since, according to extant inscriptions, it was dedicated to Haroeris and the other deities of the Ombite nome by the soldiers quartered there. The smaller temple to the northwest was sacred to the goddess Isis. Both, indeed, are of an imposing architecture, and still retain the brilliant colors with which their builders adorned them. However, they are from the Ptolemaic Kingdom, with the exception of a doorway of sandstone, built into a wall of brick. This was part of a temple built by Thutmose III in honor of the crocodile-headed god Sobek. The monarch is represented on tress, the doorjambs, holding the measuring reed and chisel, the emblems of construction, and in the act of dedicating the temple. The Ptolemaic portions of the larger temple present an exception to an almost universal rule in Egyptian architecture. It has no propylon or dromos in front of it, and the portico has an uneven number of columns, in all fifteen, arranged in a triple row. Of these columns, thirteen are still erect. As there are two principal entrances, the temple would seem to be two united in one, strengthening the supposition that it was the Pantheon of the Ombite nome. On a cornice above the doorway of one of the adyta, there is a Greek inscription, recording the erection, or perhaps the restoration of the sekos by Ptolemy VI Philometor and his sister-wife Cleopatra II, 180-145 BCE. The hill on which the Ombite temples stand has been considerably excavated at its base by the river, which here strongly inclines to the Arabian bank. The crocodile was held in especial honor by the people of Ombos; and in the adjacent catacombs are occasionally found mummies of the sacred animal. Juvenal, in his 15th satire, has given a lively description of a fight, of which he was an eye-witness, between the Ombitae and the inhabitants of Dendera, who were hunters of the crocodile. On this occasion the men of Ombos had the worst of it; and one of their number, having stumbled in his flight, was caught and eaten by the Denderites. The satirist, however, has represented Ombos as nearer to Dendera than it actually is, these towns, in fact, being nearly from each other. The Roman coins of the Ombite nome exhibit the crocodile and the effigy of the crocodile-headed god Sobek. In Kom Ombo there is a rare engraved image of what is thought to be the first representation of medical instruments for performing surgery, including scalpels, curettes, forceps, dilator, scissors and medicine bottles dating from the days of Roman Egypt. At this site there is another Nilometer used to measure the level of the river waters. On the opposite side of the Nile was a suburb of Ombos, called Contra-Ombos. The city was the seat of a bishop during Late Antiquity. Two bishops of Omboi are known by name, Silbanos (before 402) and Verses (402). Under the name Ombi, it is included in the Catholic Church's list of titular sees. Karol Wojtyła (the future Pope John Paul II) was titular bishop of Ombi from 1958 until 1963, when he was appointed Archbishop of Kraków. Geography Climate The Köppen climate classification classifies its climate as hot desert (BWh). Today Today, irrigated sugarcane and cereal account for most of the agricultural industry. Most of the 60,000 villagers are native Egyptians, although there is a large population of Nubians, including many Magyarabs who were displaced from their land upon the creation of Lake Nasser. In 2010, plans to construct a new $700m solar power plant near the city were unveiled by the Egyptian government. Gallery See also List of cities and towns in Egypt References External links Kom Ombo Temple Cities in ancient Egypt Populated places in Aswan Governorate Ombi Roman sites in Egypt
43921784	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20R.%20Smith%20%28general%29	David R. Smith (general)	David R. Smith (born 1942) was a major general in the United States Air Force who served as Commander of the United States Air Force Reserve Command, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington D.C., and commander, Headquarters Air Force Reserve, a separate operating agency located at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia. As chief of Air Force Reserve, he served as the principal adviser on Reserve matters to the Air Force Chief of Staff. As commander of AFRES, he had full responsibility for the supervision of U.S. Air Force Reserve units around the world. He was also commander of the 10th Air Force. Smith was born in Rochester, New York. He graduated from Ithaca High School in 1959 and earned a bachelor of arts degree in business from Franklin & Marshall College in 1964. He completed the Industrial College of the Armed Forces in 1977. In August 1965 he was commissioned as a second lieutenant through the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps program and received pilot wings at Craig Air Force Base, Alabama. He then was assigned to fly the RF-4C Phantom II reconnaissance fighter for the 9th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron at Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina. In June 1966 he was assigned to the 11th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron, Udorn Royal Thai Air Force Base, Thailand. There he flew 100 missions over North Vietnam in the RF-4C. After completing his combat tour in January 1967, he was assigned to the 32nd Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron, Royal Air Force Station Alconbury, England. In September 1968 he returned to Craig Air Force Base's 3617th Flying Training Squadron as a T-37 instructor pilot, where he remained until his release from active duty in March 1971. Smith joined the Air Force Reserve in June 1971 as a member of the 757th Special Operations Squadron, Youngstown Municipal Airport, Ohio, flying the A-37B Dragonfly. In June 1973 he became an Air Reserve Technician with the 917th Tactical Fighter Group, Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, where he spent nine years. During that time he was the 917th Combat Crew Training School operations officer, flight management officer and commander; 47th Tactical Fighter Squadron operations officer and commander; and 917th Tactical Fighter Group deputy commander for operations. In July 1982 Smith was assigned to the 434th Tactical Fighter Wing, Grissom Air Force Base, Indiana, as deputy commander for operations. He returned to Barksdale Air Force Base in August 1983 as commander of his former unit, the 917th Tactical Fighter Group. In August 1986 he was assigned as deputy chief of plans at Headquarters Air Force Reserve, Robins Air Force Base, Georgia. In July 1987 he became commander of the 482nd Tactical Fighter Wing, Homestead Air Force Base, Florida. He assumed his present duties in December 1990. He is a command pilot with more than 5,000 flying hours in the RF-4C, T-37B, A-10, F-4D and F-16A/B. His military awards and decorations include the Legion of Merit, Meritorious Service Medal with two oak leaf clusters, Air Medal with 10 oak leaf clusters, and Air Force Commendation Medal. He was promoted to major general August 12, 1992, with same date of rank. He retired on January 5, 2002. References 1942 births Living people United States Air Force generals Franklin & Marshall College alumni Military personnel from Rochester, New York People from Ithaca, New York Ithaca High School (Ithaca, New York) alumni
34473072	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish%20sculpture	Danish sculpture	Danish sculpture as a nationally recognized art form can be traced back to 1752 when Jacques Saly was commissioned to execute a statue of King Frederick V of Denmark on horseback. While Bertel Thorvaldsen was undoubtedly the country's most prominent contributor, many other players have produced fine work, especially in the areas of Neoclassicism, Realism, and in Historicism, the latter resulting from growing consciousness of a national identity. More recently, Danish sculpture has been inspired by European trends, especially those from Paris, including Surrealism and Modernism. The beginnings The earliest traces of sculpture in Denmark date from the 12th century when a stonemason known as Horder was active in the east of Jutland and on the island of Funen decorating churches, especially doors and fonts. From roughly the same period, there are sculpted figures in the granite reliefs depicting the Removal from the Cross in the tympanum above the so-called Cat's Head Door of Ribe Cathedral. In the early 16th century, sculpted altarpieces and pulpits were produced by German artists such as Claus Berg working in Odense Cathedral and Hans Brüggemann who designed the unpainted altarpiece in Schleswig Cathedral. However the Reformation in 1536 brought such decorative work to an almost total stop. During the Renaissance period, sculptors from abroad were the source of work in Denmark. The Flemish sculptor Cornelis Floris from Antwerp produced tombs for Herluf Trolle and Birgitte Gøye (1566–68) in Herlufsholm and for Christian III (1569–79) in Roskilde Cathedral. Gert van Groningen was one of the leading Dutch artists to participate in the design of Kronborg's main entrance. Another Flemish sculptor active towards the end of the 16th century in Denmark was Gert van Egen who designed Frederik II's tomb in Roskilde Cathedral. Similarly, in the 17th century, it was Adriaen de Vries who designed the Neptunus Fountain for Frederiksberg Palace (1615–22) although it was later taken by the Swedes as a prize of war and now stands before Drottningholm Palace. The development of Danish sculpture was greatly influenced in the mid-18th century by the French sculptor Jacques Saly (1717–1776), who was invited by the Danish government in 1752 to create a statue of King Frederik V. Shortly after the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts was founded in March 1754, Saly was appointed as its director, exerting considerable influence on the workings of the institution. After preparing a number of miniature and full-sized models, Saly finally completed his equestrian statue in 1768 as a bronze casting in the Neoclassical style but it was not unveiled in the courtyard at Amalienborg Palace until August 1771, five years after the king’s death in 1766. It has been called one of the finest equestrian statues in Europe. Early Neoclassicisism Johannes Wiedewelt (1731–1802) was one of the primary figures responsible for introducing Neoclassicism to Denmark, inspired by stays in Paris and Rome which were facilitated by travel stipends from the newly established Academy. Soon after his return to Denmark in 1758, he was commissioned to sculpt a memorial monument to the long deceased King Christian VI by his widowed wife, Sophie Magdalene. Completed in 1768, the marble monument was not installed in Roskilde Cathedral until 1777. The sarcophagus with two female figures, "Sorgen" ("Sorrow") and "Berømmelsen" ("Fame") is considered to be Denmark's first Neoclassical work. Wiedewelt went on to design large collections of sculptures for gardens such as those at Fredensborg Palace. In 1769, he completed the monument to King Frederik V in Roskilde Cathedral which includes a large sarcophagus resting on footpieces and decorated by numerous sculptures, behind which is a column topped by an urn, a medallion with the king's portrait, and on each side of the sarcophagus, reaching some nine feet above the floor, are two crowned, grieving female figures representing Denmark and Norway. The memorial chapel was the result of collaboration between Wiedewelt and the architect Caspar Frederik Harsdorff. Wiedewelt was chosen for eight annual periods as Director of the Academy between 1772 and 1794. As a professor there, he introduced his Neoclassical theories to his students including the painter and architect Nikolaj Abraham Abildgaard who later became Director of the Academy and Bertel Thorvaldsen's instructor. Thorvaldsen Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770–1844) is the most famous Danish sculptor, recognized across Europe as one of the leading Neoclassical sculptors. After entering the Art Academy in Copenhagen when he was only 11, he went on to win all four of the institution's medals. In 1796, he received a stipend for a relatively short study tour to Italy but apart from a short visit to Denmark in 1819, he stayed in Rome for over 40 years. After a model for his statue of Jason and the Golden Fleece received recognition from the leading Italian sculptor of the day, Antonio Canova, his success was ensured. Thorvaldsen gradually employed numerous assistants, extending his work to be executed in five studios in Rome, as he received orders from all over Europe. Among his most important works are the colossal series of statues of Christ and the twelve Apostles for the rebuilding of Vor Frue Kirke in Copenhagen. Motifs for his works (reliefs, statues, and busts) were drawn mostly from Greek mythology with statues of Venus, Mercury, Ganymede, Hebe, and Cupid and Psyche, but he also created portraits of important personalities, as in his tomb monument for Pope Pius VII in St Peter's Basilica, Rome or the equestrian statue of Jozef Poniatowski in Warsaw. His works can be seen in many European countries, but there is a very large collection at the Thorvaldsen Museum in Copenhagen. During his stay in Rome, Thorvaldsen played an important role in encouraging young Danish artists spending time in the city. Thorvaldsen's students Three of those who had studied under Thorvaldsen in Rome made significant contributions to the development of Danish sculpture, influenced on the one hand by their master's interest in classicism and on the other by a growing interest in nationalism in their mother country. Hermann Ernst Freund (1786–1840), who had been Thorvaldsen's closest assistant in Rome, was an early proponent of Danish romantic nationalism, creating 12 statuettes of figures from Nordic mythology, notably Loki (1822), Odin (bronze 1827) and Thor (1829), all inspired by ancient Greek and Roman mythological works. His masterpiece, the Ragnarok Frieze, which occupied him for many years, was completed by Bissen after his death but was later destroyed by the Christianborg fire. There is a plaster cast of part of the frieze in Statens Museum for Kunst. Herman Wilhelm Bissen (1798–1868), initially a Neoclassicist, is remembered for the Realism of his monumental works celebrating Danish military victories while reflecting the nationalistic trend of the times. Bissen's Landsoldaten or Danish Soldier (1858) in Fredericia and Isted Lion (1862) in Flensburg were both erected to commemorate the Danish victory over Schleswig-Holstein at the Battle of Isted (Idstedt) on 25 July 1850. The Danish Soldier is notable in that it does not depict a high-ranking officer but rather a simple footsoldier with whom Danish citizens could readily identify. Bissen was inspired to design his massive bronze Isted Lion after studying the Piraeus Lion in Venice where it had been displayed as a prize of war since 1687. After a colourful history of moves to Berlin and Copenhagen, the Isted Lion was finally returned to its original setting in Flensburg in 2011. Jens Adolf Jerichau (1816–1883) initially followed closely in Thorvaldsen's footsteps with his Neoclassical work Hercules and Hebe (1846) and his colossal figure of Christ from 1849. He then went on to develop his own, more dynamic style which can be seen in The Panther Hunter (1846), a work which has been seen as a prime example of the relationship between classical art and modern trends in naturalism. Late 19th century Some sculptors continued to create statues based on classical figures but now with a more Naturalistic look. A good example is Aksel Hansen's Echo (1888) in the Rosenborg Castle Gardens. The Greek nymph's lively contemporary look of a woman in motion contrasts with the more rigid harmony of Classicism. Anders Bundgaard (1864–1937) is remembered for his huge statue near Langelinie of the Norse goddess Gefion (1900) driving her oxen. But as the turn of the century approached, new trends developed, starting with Historicism and the need to pay tribute to Danes who had become famous. August Saabye (1823–1916), one of Bissen's students at the Academy, first maintained the Neoclassical tradition but was later inspired by French Naturalism. His finest work is certainly the bronze statue of Hans Christian Andersen in the Rosenborg Gardens which he completed in 1880. By depicting Andersen in a sitting position addressing his audience, Saabye was able to capture the author's inner qualities which meant so much to the Danish public. Saabye is also known for his statue of composer Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann. Bissen's son, Vilhelm Bissen, also sculpted a number of famous figures including N. F. S. Grundtvig at the Marble Church, Christian IV at Nyboder and Absalon on Højbro Plads in Copenhagen. Reference can also be made to sculptor Carl Hartmann. The other evolving artistic trend which attracted the attention of Danish sculptors was Symbolism. Niels Hansen Jacobsen (1861–1941), who spent several years in Paris at the end of the century, came under the influence of Auguste Rodin. He created several controversial bronzes including Trold, der vejrer kristenblod (1896) or Troll that smells Christian blood based on a Norse folktale. The original is in Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek but there is a copy outside Jesus Church in Valby for which it was originally designed. Other Danish sculptors who were influenced by Rodin's symbolism include Stephan Sinding (1846–1922) and Rudolph Tegner (1873–1950). Early 20th century One of the first women to become active in Danish sculpture was Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen (1863–1945), the wife of Carl Nielsen. A sense of vitality combining Naturalism with Classicism can be seen her works, most of which depict either animals or the human figure. Of particular note are the three bronze doors of Ribe Cathedral (1904), the equestrian statue of King Christian IX (1927) and the monument dedicated to her husband, The Young Man playing Pan-pipes on a Wingless Pegasus (1939), in Copenhagen. Kai Nielsen (1882–1924) accomplished a significant breakthrough with his erotic female figures, frequently based on mythological characters. Among his finest works are the bronze Blind almuepige (Blind Peasant Girl, 1907), Marmorpigen (The Marble Girl, 1910) and Leda med svanen (Leda and the Swan, 1918) in limestone. At the Academy, he had been instructed by Edvard Eriksen (1876–1959) who is famous for another bronze female figure, Den lille havfrue (The Little Mermaid, 1913). For a period, Denmark became identified with French-inspired Modernism with sculptors such as Jean Gauguin (1881–1961)and Adam Fischer (1888–1968) demonstrating a spirit of cultural optimism in contrast to the nations in conflict during the First World War. Fischer's geometrically designed Danserinde (Dancing Girl) from 1917 also demonstrates the influence of Cubism. Another significant contributor of the period was Svend Rathsack (1885–1941) who together with the architect Ivar Bentsen designed the Maritime Monument (Søfartsmonumentet) on Langelinie. Interwar period Between the wars there was an interest in creating statues of ordinary people in their everyday clothes as can be seen in Povl Søndergaard's Mand og pige (Man and Girl, 1934) and Knud Nellemose's Avismanden Leitriz (1935), depicting a newspaperman dressed in the clothes he wore when selling newspapers in the streets of Copenhagen. Gunnar Westman (1915–1985) who came under the influence of Bror Hjorth in Sweden developed a simplified style which can be seen in his works representing children such as Børn ved vinduet (Children at the Window, 1947), Gøgeungen and Børnehaven (1948). Also in the 1930s, Gottfred Eickhoff (1902–1982) sculpted simplified human figures inspired by the influence of his French instructors Charles Despiau and Aristide Maillol. Unveiled in 1940, his statue of Roepiger (The Beet Girls) can be seen in Sakskøbing on the island of Lolland. The 1930s also saw the influence of Surrealism, for example in the work of Ejler Bille (1910–2004) with his early animal-like figures. Henry Heerup (1907–1993) developed an interest in "junk models" made from trash he found in the streets. He is also remembered for sculpting the original shape of a stone. Sonja Ferlov, remembered for her Owl (1935) and her African-inspired designs, was also an important associate of these surrealistic artists who together were leading members of the Linien association. Probably the best known participant in Danish Surrealism was Wilhelm Freddie (1909–1995) who took a more explicitly sexual approach to Surrealism. This can be seen in his Sex-paralysappeal (1936) which was confiscated by the police on the grounds of pornography. Post-war developments As in France, immediately after the Second World War Danish sculpture was dominated by Spontaneism and Concretism. Spontaneism, which stemmed from Expressionism and Surrealism, led to the formation of the COBRA movement with Asger Jorn (1914–1973) in the forefront. His most important sculptural work, the large relief (1959) for Århus Statsgymnasium, is a huge ceramic, 27 metres long. Concretism which developed from the abstract geometrical art of the 1920s was influenced by the Dada movement leading to Linien II in 1947. Also in the 1950s, Svend Wiig Hansen (1922–1997) focused on the erotic power of the human body as in his cement Moder Jord (Mother Earth, 1953) in Herning Art Museum. An important and profuse contributor in the 1950s and 1960s was Jørgen Haugen Sørensen (born 1934) whose slaughtered animals allowed him to explore new avenues of abstract Expressionism, representing his views of the human condition in his own, often brutal style. The Concretist movement sought to achieve a purity of expression for all cultures and ages. Robert Jacobsen (1912–1993), one of its early proponents, gained international recognition with his welded iron sculptures where lines and surfaces were enclosed in autonomous universes. Another concretist in Linien II was Gunnar Aagaard Andersen (1919–1982) who developed socially-oriented sculpture at an international level. In the 1960s, minimalistic tendencies in German and American art were behind the meta-objective approach of Willy Ørskov (1920-1990) who used everyday materials such as plastics and often inflated rubber to produce his works. Examples include Sommerskulptur (1965, Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum) and Stabiler-Instabiler-Labiler (1968). Others who experimented with untraditional materials were Bjørn Nørgaard (born 1947), Hein Heinsen (born 1935) and Per Kirkeby (born 1938). The 1970s showed a growing interest in American-inspired installations depicting the surrounding world and leading in 1973 to the Institut for Skalakunst (Institute for Scalable Art) which was behind numerous democratically designed decorative works in public spaces around the country. The principal proponents were Mogens Møller, Hein Heinsen and Stig Brøgger. In the 1980s, international Post-Modernism heralded a return to a more classical, intellectually based approach to sculpture avoiding the excesses of the avant-garde. Players here included Henrik B. Andersen, Morten Stræde, Øivind Nygaard, Søren Jensen and Elisabeth Toubro who had all been influenced at the Art Academy by Willy Ørskov and Hein Heinsen. Current trends Today, young Danish artists are increasingly seeking inspiration abroad, especially at Berlin's exhibitions. Per Arnoldi, Per Kirkeby and Olafur Eliasson have all carried out large-scale decorative work in the new Copenhagen Opera House (2004) while in 2003 Elisabeth Toubro completed her controversial Vanddragen (Water Dragon, 2003) in the centre of Aarhus. The recent Ørestad development has also seen the completion of monumental works including Per Kirkeby's Murstensskulptur (The Brick Wall, 2004), Hein Heinsen's bronze Den store udveksler (The Great Exchange, 2005) and Bjørn Nørgaard's colourful Kærlighedsøen (Lake of Love, 2010). Museums and sculpture parks In addition to works displayed in towns and cities, a number of museums and gardens have collections of Danish sculpture: ARoS, the Aarhus Kunstmuseum Heart, the Herning Museum of Contemporary Art J.F. Willumsens Museum in Frederikssund Kunsten, Aalborg Gallery Galschiøt, Odense Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, 35 km north of Copenhagen Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen Rosenborg Castle Gardens, Copenhagen Rudolph Tegner Museum near Dronningmølle, 50 km north of Copenhagen Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen Thorvaldsen Museum, Copenhagen References Literature Abildgaard, Hanne; Bogh, Mikkel; Friborg, Flemming: "Dansk Skulptur i 125 år", Copenhagen, Gyldendal, 1996, 327 pp. . External links Sculpture
65808593	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry%20Mills%20%28performer%29	Jerry Mills (performer)	Jerry Mills was a performer at the Pekin Theatre in Chicago. and in films. One of his stage performances was described as offering "ludicrous comedy" and "remarkable eccentric dancing". Theater The Merry Widower (1908) Filmography The Railroad Porter The Grafter and the Girl (1913) References African-American actors Male actors from Chicago American male film actors American male stage actors Year of birth missing Place of birth missing
9842226	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder%20by%20the%20Book	Murder by the Book	Murder by the Book is a Nero Wolfe detective novel by Rex Stout published in 1951 by the Viking Press, and collected in the omnibus volume Royal Flush (1965). Plot summary Inspector Cramer takes the unprecedented step of approaching Nero Wolfe for his help on a stalled murder investigation. Leonard Dykes, a clerk for a law partnership, was found dead in the East River. The police found in Dykes' apartment a list of men's names and Cramer wishes to have Wolfe's opinion on it. But other than suggesting Dykes may have been trying to invent an alias, Wolfe can't help. A month later Wolfe, is approached by the father of Joan Wellman, a reader for a fiction publisher, who was killed in a hit-and-run incident, late at night in Van Cortlandt Park. After reading a recent letter that Joan had written to her parents, Wolfe realises that the name ‘Baird Archer’, an author whose novel Joan was reading for her employer, had also appeared on the list found in Leonard Dykes’ apartment. Wolfe orders Archie Goodwin to explore the link between Archer's novel and the two murder victims. To that end, Archie arrives at the office of Rachel Abrams, a stenographer, mere minutes after she has been thrown out of a window to her death. In the moments before the police arrive Archie confirms that Baird Archer was one of her clients. Wolfe decides to begin the investigation with Dykes, and Archie arranges a meeting with the female employees of Corrigan, Phelps, Kustin and Briggs, the law partnership Dykes worked for. During the meeting, tempers flare and in a resulting argument the former senior partner of the firm, Conroy O’Malley, is mentioned. O’Malley was disbarred for bribing a jury foreman to fix a case, and while Dykes was blamed for exposing him to the Bar Association it becomes clear that all four of the partners have motives to betray him. Soon after, the four lawyers—James Corrigan, Emmet Phelps, Louis Kustin and Frederick Briggs—approach Wolfe, keen to avoid further scandal. The men agree to send Wolfe all correspondence relating to Dykes, including a resignation letter he submitted. When they receive the letter, Wolfe and Archie discover an odd notation, apparently in Corrigan's handwriting, which corresponds a verse in the Book of Psalms. The same verse - “Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help” - was used for the title of Baird Archer's novel, which confirms to Wolfe that Archer was a pen name of Dykes and his novel a Roman à clef based on O'Malley's downfall. Archie is dispatched to Los Angeles to persuade Dykes's sister Peggy to help them trap her brother's murderer. Archie writes a letter to the law firm purportedly from Peggy asking for advice over the legal rights of her brother's novel, and hires a local private detective to pose as a literary agent. Soon after, James Corrigan unsuccessfully tries to acquire the manuscript, resorting to violence and attempted theft in order to do so. Archie begins to tail Corrigan, but soon after his return to New York Wolfe receives a rambling phone call, apparently from James Corrigan, which is abruptly ended with the sound of a gunshot. The police discover that Corrigan has apparently committed suicide, and the next day Wolfe receives a suicide note written by Corrigan confessing to having exposed O’Malley and committed all three murders to keep his secret. Although the authorities are willing to rule Corrigan the murderer and his death a suicide, Wolfe has a breakthrough and summons the major witnesses to his office. There, he reveals that the supposed suicide note was flawed in one crucial respect; it claimed that Corrigan was aware of the contents of Dykes’ novel, when in fact Corrigan's actions in Los Angeles clearly demonstrated that he had never seen the manuscript before. In fact, Corrigan was murdered by Conroy O’Malley, who had staged his death as a suicide. O’Malley had discovered that Corrigan had betrayed him via Dykes's manuscript and had committed the other murders both to frame Corrigan and cover up his actions. After holes in his alibi are discovered, O’Malley is charged and convicted of murder. Reviews and commentary Anthony Boucher, The New York Times Book Review (October 28, 1951) — For some years now Nero Wolfe has flourished best in novelettes ... The shorter exploits, annually collected in volumes of three, have been models of the middle-length detective story; but some of us have still yearned nostalgically for the days of such Wolfe novels as Too Many Cooks and The League of Frightened Men. It's a pleasure at last to report that in Murder by the Book Rex Stout restores Nero Wolfe to his proper place in the long detective novel. A man has been murdered presumably because of a novel which he wrote and which has completely disappeared; there is apparently as total an absence of clues as ever confronted a fictional detective. And the story is not so much one of detection, as of the ingenious efforts of Wolfe and the incomparable Archie Goodwin to find some conceivable starting point from which detection can be carried on. It's an odd and interesting approach; the solution is at once plausible and surprising (if not quite deductively watertight). Wolfe and Archie are both in top form and Stout has rarely done a better novelistic job of putting flesh on assorted minor characters. Stuart M. Kaminsky — I am a huge Stout fan. I've got a collection of the Wolfe novels and re-read them. I just finished reading Murder by the Book, definitely one of my favorites in the series. Check Stout's scenes of Archie in Los Angeles. They rank right up there with Chandler, and the characters — major and minor — are vivid and memorable, not to mention the great give-and-take between Wolfe and Archie. Nancy Pearl, Book Lust — When Stout is on top of his game, which is most of the time, his diabolically clever plotting and his storytelling ability exceed that of any other mystery writer you can name, including Agatha Christie, who invented her own eccentric genius detective Hercule Poirot. Although in the years since Stout's death I find myself going back and rereading his entire oeuvre every year or two, I return with particular pleasure to these five novels: The Doorbell Rang; Plot It Yourself; Murder by the Book; Champagne for One; and Gambit. Saturday Review of Literature (November 10, 1951) — Missing novel MS is lethal to NY quartet and disrupts high-toned law office, but orchidaphilic Nero Wolfe pins blue ribbon on felon. Usual scrupulous attention to, and skilled management of, detail; honest, lively, interest-holding performance. Terry Teachout, About Last Night, "Forty years with Nero Wolfe" (January 12, 2009) — Rex Stout's witty, fast-moving prose hasn't dated a day, while Wolfe himself is one of the enduringly great eccentrics of popular fiction. I've spent the past four decades reading and re-reading Stout's novels for pleasure, and they have yet to lose their savor ... It is to revel in such writing that I return time and again to Stout's books, and in particular to The League of Frightened Men, Some Buried Caesar, The Silent Speaker, Too Many Women, Murder by the Book, Before Midnight, Plot It Yourself, Too Many Clients, The Doorbell Rang, and Death of a Doxy, which are for me the best of all the full-length Wolfe novels. Adaptations Nero Wolfe (Paramount Television) Murder by the Book was adapted as the eighth episode of Nero Wolfe (1981), an NBC TV series starring William Conrad as Nero Wolfe and Lee Horsley as Archie Goodwin. Other members of the regular cast include George Voskovec (Fritz Brenner), Robert Coote (Theodore Horstmann), George Wyner (Saul Panzer) and Allan Miller (Inspector Cramer). Guest stars include Walter Brooke (George [Frederick] Briggs), Delta Burke (Jean Wellmann), Ed Gilbert (Robert [Emmett] Phelps), David Hedison (Phillip [James] Corrigan) and John Randolph (Ryan [Conroy] O'Malley). Directed by Bob Kelljan from a teleplay by Wallace Ware (David Karp), "Murder by the Book" aired March 13, 1981. Andre Malraux reference During his foray to California, Archie Goodwin contracts with a local detective agency for a detective able to impersonate a literary agent, and rejects several candidates who don't fit the role. The one who is finally chosen (and performs to great satisfaction) surprises Goodwin by reading in his spare time a serious philosophical book named Twilight of the Absolute. (Goodwin himself, when later left alone, glances at this book but does not care to read it, preferring to pass his time with newspapers and magazines.) Stout does not specify the name of the writer of Twilight of the Absolute. In fact it is a book by Andre Malraux, translated from French and published in the US by Pantheon Books in 1950, one year before the present book . Publication history 1951, New York: The Viking Press, October 12, 1951, hardcover In his limited-edition pamphlet, Collecting Mystery Fiction #9, Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe Part I, Otto Penzler describes the first edition of Murder by the Book: "Yellow cloth, front cover and spine printed with red; rear cover blank. Issued in a yellow, red, black and white dust wrapper." In April 2006, Firsts: The Book Collector's Magazine estimated that the first edition of Murder by the Book (featured on the cover of the magazine) had a value of between $400 and $750. The estimate is for a copy in very good to fine condition in a like dustjacket. 1952, New York: Viking (Mystery Guild), January 1952, hardcover The far less valuable Viking book club edition may be distinguished from the first edition in three ways: The dust jacket has "Book Club Edition" printed on the inside front flap, and the price is absent (first editions may be price clipped if they were given as gifts). Book club editions are sometimes thinner and always taller (usually a quarter of an inch) than first editions. Book club editions are bound in cardboard, and first editions are bound in cloth (or have at least a cloth spine). 1952, London: Collins Crime Club, April 7, 1952, hardcover 1954, New York: Bantam #1252, August 1954, paperback London: Collins (White Circle), #295c, not dated, paperback 1964, New York: The Viking Press, Royal Flush: The Fourth Nero Wolfe Omnibus (with Fer-de-Lance and Three Witnesses), July 23, 1965, hardcover 1967, London: Fontana #1534, 1967, paperback 1974, London: Penguin Books, , 1974, paperback 1995, New York: Bantam , September 1, 1995, paperback 2006, Auburn, California: The Audio Partners Publishing Corp., Mystery Masters June 28, 2006 [1995], CD (unabridged, read by Michael Prichard) 2010, New York: Bantam , May 12, 2010, e-book References External links 1951 American novels Nero Wolfe novels by Rex Stout Viking Press books Novels set in New York City
9174395	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pregui%C3%A7a%2C%20S%C3%A3o%20Nicolau	Preguiça, São Nicolau	Preguiça is a settlement in the central part of the island of São Nicolau, Cape Verde. It is situated on the south coast, 6 km south of Ribeira Brava. It served as the port of Ribeira Brava, after the older Porto de Lapa, 6 km to the northeast, had been abandoned in 1653 due to pirate attacks. The settlement was mentioned as Paraghisi in the 1747 map by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin. In 1820 the Forte do Príncipe Real, now ruined, was built to protect the port. Preguiça's port consists of a stone quay and a short mole. Preguiça Airport is located 3 km north of the village. Population history 2000: 465 2010: 567 See also List of villages and settlements in Cape Verde References Villages and settlements in São Nicolau, Cape Verde Populated coastal places in Cape Verde Ribeira Brava, Cape Verde Ports and harbours of Cape Verde
2797701	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leones%20del%20Caracas	Leones del Caracas	The Caracas Base Ball Club C.A., better known by its commercial name as the Leones del Caracas, is a professional baseball team of the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League (LVPB). In its creation, its headquarters are the University Stadium of Caracas at the Central University of Venezuela. The owner and sole shareholder of the sports club is Ricardo Cisneros, president of Ateneas Sports Holding. Its name comes from the official name of the city of Caracas—Santiago de León de Caracas—which Diego de Losada assigned to it when it was founded in 1567. Consequently, a lion appears as a symbol on the representative coat of arms of the city of Caracas. Los Leones del Caracas is a very popular team in Venezuela, and is the team with the most titles (21), and has runners-up (17), played finals (34), played post-seasons (3&). Second highest win percentage in the LVBP in regular season: (D-D 2187-2100 51%), post-season: (D-D 206-178 55.0%), finals (D-D 97-78 55.4%). History Cervecería Caracas was founded in 1942, after Cervecería Princesa, an early team, was bought and transformed into Caracas. At first, the team played its home games at the old Estadio Cerveza Caracas, which was located in the capital city of Caracas. The team was founded by Martín Tovar Lange and managed by big leaguer Alejandro Carrasquel. The Princesa team played its last game on May 7, 1942. Then, Caracas debuted four days later with a 7–3 victory over the Criollos (). The game was played in Puerto Cabello, a city on the north coast of Venezuela. Caracas faced its later nemesis, the Navegantes del Magallanes for the first time on December 27 of that year, winning this now historic game by a 3–0 score. In its first stage, the team won two championship titles before moving to the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League in January 1946. Since its inception, the Caracas team was characterized by having only Venezuelan players on their roster. The club changed its policy in 1950, after signing catcher Lester Fusselman and outfielder Maurice Mozzali, two St. Louis Cardinals prospects. In 1952, the franchise was bought by the publicist and sport commentator Pablo Morales and christened Leones del Caracas as a new franchise. Since then, the team plays its home games at the Estadio Universitario in Caracas. Later, businessman Oscar Prieto Ortiz joined Morales as a legal partner. Pete Rose was benched after a slump late in the 1964 MLB season, finishing with a .269 average, but continued to play winter ball in Venezuela with the Leones del Caracas team during the 1964–1965 season to improve his batting. By 2001, the descendants of Morales and Prieto sold their shares to the Grupo Cisneros, giving it majority control of the team. Through 2013, the Caracas team has won 20 championship titles (3 as Cervecería Caracas and 17 as Leones del Caracas), more than any other team in Venezuelan Professional Baseball League history. In the 2015-16 season, they became the club with the highest average home attendance in the league, with an average of 10,845. The next season, the average attendance was 6,539. Ballpark The Estadio Universitario is a multi-use stadium located in Caracas, Venezuela. The stadium holds 22,690 people and was built in 1952. This stadium forms part of the Central University of Venezuela campus and was designed by architect Carlos Raúl Villanueva. It is considered a masterpiece of urban planning and was declared a World Heritage Site by the UNESCO in 2000. Championship titles/Managers 1947-1948: Jose A. Casanova* 1948-1949: Jose A. Casanova* 1951-1952: Jose A. Casanova* 1952–1953: Martín Dihigo Vs Magallanes 1956–1957: Clay Bryant Vs Industriales de Valencia 1961–1962: Regino Otero Vs Indios de Oriente 1963–1964: Regino Otero Vs Industriales de Valencia 1966–1967: Regino Otero Vs Tiburones de La Guaira 1967–1968: Regino Otero Vs Tigres de Aragua 1972–1973: Oswaldo Virgil Vs Águilas del Zulia 1977–1978: Felipe Rojas Alou Vs Águilas del Zulia 1979–1980: Felipe Rojas Alou Vs Cardenales de Lara 1980–1981: Alfonso (Chico) Carrasquel Vs Cardenales de Lara 1981–1982: Alfonso (Chico) Carrasquel Vs Cardenales de Lara 1986–1987: Bill Plummer Vs Tiburones de La Guaira 1987–1988: Bill Robinson Vs Tigres de Aragua 1989–1990: Phil Regan Vs Cardenales de Lara 1994–1995: Pompeyo Davalillo Vs Águilas del Zulia 2005–2006: Carlos Subero Vs Tigres de Aragua 2009–2010: Dave Hudgens Vs Navegantes del Magallanes 2022-2023: José Alguacil Vs Tiburones de la Guaira * Won the title as Cervecería Caracas. The team changed owners and name in 1952, but documents made public on October 4, 2011, state that the franchise official name - Caracas Base Ball Club - remained constant during all sale transactions in 1949, 1952 and 2001. This has resulted in a change on the historical stats of Leones del Caracas, as reflected in the official page of the league. Caribbean World Series titles On February 9, 1982, the Leones earned Venezuela's third Caribbean World Series and the franchise's first, by defeating Dominican Republics's Leones del Escogido with a 3-1 score. The Leones ended the series with a record of 5 wins and 1 defeat. The Venezuelan team, with Alfonso Carrasquel at the helm, gained the championship title with a 5-1 record. Leones was led by catcher and Series MVP Baudilio Díaz (.412 BA, two home runs, five RBI, .500 OBP, .765 SLG), CF Tony Armas (.375, six RBI) and LF Luis Salazar (six runs, four stolen bases). The pitching staff was led by Luis Leal, who posted a 2-0 record with a 2.08 ERA and 10 strikeouts and a in 13.0 innings of work. Behind him were Bud Black (1-0, 1.29), Dennis Burtt (1-0, one save, seven SO in 10⅔ innings) and Tom Dixon (nine scoreless innings in Game 7). Venezuela also featured 2B Steve Sax, SS Ron Gardenhire, 1B Danny Garcia, 3B Leonardo Hernández, pinch-hitter Andrés Galarraga and pitcher Joe Cowley, among others. On February 7, 2006, the Leones earned Venezuela's first Caribbean World Series title in 16 years, by defeating the Tigres del Licey of the Dominican Republic with a 5-4 score in the last game; this left the Leones with a record of six wins and no defeats at the 2006 Caribbean Series, ahead of Licey's four wins and two defeats record. With the victory, the Leones won Venezuela's sixth Caribbean Series title, and the franchise's second after the 1982 Caribbean Series. This also marked the first time a Venezuelan team sweeps the Caribbean Series, a feat previously accomplished only by teams from Cuba (Almendares in 1949, Habana in 1952, and Cienfuegos in 1960), from Puerto Rico (Cangrejeros de Santurce in 1953 and 2000, and Senadores de San Juan in 1995) and from the Dominican Republic (Tigres del Licey in 1971, 1977 and 1991, and Águilas Cibaeñas in 1998). Retired uniform numbers * Retired by VPBL Current roster See also 1953 Caribbean Series 1957 Caribbean Series 1980 Caribbean Series 1982 Caribbean Series 2006 Caribbean Series References External links Official Website Central University of Venezuela Baseball teams in Venezuela Sport in Caracas 1952 establishments in Venezuela
35519370	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zamora%20Induta	Zamora Induta	Zamora Induta (born 28 May 1966) is a Guinea-Bissauan lieutenant general. He was the Chief of Staff of the Military of Guinea-Bissau from October 27, 2009 to April 1, 2010. He was born in Bissau and after leaving school served in the Navy branch of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of the People (Portuguese:Forças Armadas Revolucionarias do Povo, FARP), the armed wing of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (Portuguese: Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde, PAIGC). PAIGC had been established in 1956 under the leadership of Amilcar Cabral to achieve independence from Portugal, by violent means if necessary. Many years after independence had been secured and PAIGC had taken power he was arrested and imprisoned for eight months in 2010 by rebel forces during the 2010 Guinea-Bissau military uprising against the PAIGC regime. He was arrested again in 2012 following the 2012 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état and accused of terrorism against the Guinean state. He was obliged to spend the next few years in exile in Lisbon, not returning to Guinea-Bissau until July 2015. See also 2010 Guinea-Bissau military unrest References Living people Bissau-Guinean military personnel 1966 births
66236234	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koderma%20Wildlife%20Sanctuary	Koderma Wildlife Sanctuary	Koderma Wildlife Sactuary is located in the northern part of Koderma (community development block) in the Koderma subdivision of the Koderma district in the state of Jharkhand, India. Geography Location Koderma Wildlife Sanctuary is located around and is close to the Gautam Budha Wildlife Sanctuary in the Gaya district of Bihar. It is spread over an area of . Note: The map alongside presents some of the notable locations in the district. All places marked in the map are linked in the larger full screen map. The sanctuary Koderma Forest Division has 15062.77 hectare as a reserved forest. “The reserved forest area of Koderma district is declared as wild life sanctuary and is under administrative control of wild life division Hazaribagh”. The principal trees in the forests are: Sal, Bija, Gamhar, Khair, Palash, Salai, Semal, Bair, Arjun, Karam, Siris, Kaj, Kend, Mahulan, Mahua, Karanj, Ratti etc Koderma wildlife sanctuary comprisesof hilly ranges of dry deciduous forests and has plenty of rivulets. The wild life includes tiger, leopard, sloth bear, sambhar, cheetal, barking deer, nilgai, wild boar, giant squirrel, jackal, fox, hyaena, langur, porcupine etc. besides a variety of bird and reptile species. There are watch towers at Dwajadhari Pahar, Meghatari and Taraghati. There is a forest rest houses at Meghatari.Koderma has various government and private facilities for fooding and lodging. Animal sightings are a matter of chance and Koderma Wildlife Sanctuary is not a zoological garden. It is more than a picnic place. Drinking liquor and merry-making in the name of entertainment will not be handled lightly. References Chota Nagpur dry deciduous forests Wildlife sanctuaries in Jharkhand Koderma district 1985 establishments in Bihar Protected areas established in 1985
15603203	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E259%20series	E259 series	The is a DC electric multiple unit (EMU) train type operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East) in Japan since October 2009 on Narita Express limited express services to and from Narita International Airport. Design The design of the trains was overseen by industrial designer Kenji Ekuan. Retracting gangway connections on the end cars allow two sets to be coupled together to form 12-car formations. Electrical and safety equipment is duplicated, as on the E233 series commuter trains, to improve safety and reliability. Active suspension on end cars and yaw dampers between all cars provide improved ride comfort. The MoHa E259-500 car is equipped with two single-arm pantographs, but one is reserved for emergency use. Unlike the previous 253 series trains, the E259 series trains are not equipped with Automatic Train Control (ATC). Operations The E259 series trains are used almost exclusively on Narita Express limited express services linking Narita International Airport in Chiba Prefecture with and other stations in the Greater Tokyo area. E259 series trains were also used occasionally on seasonal Marine Express Odoriko services between Tokyo and . One set, Ne002, was assigned to these services, and carried a logo sticker on the front and sides. Formation The fleet consists of 22 six-car sets, consisting of four motored (M) cars and two trailer (T) cars, as shown below, with car 1 at the Tokyo end. The "Tsc" cars are green (first class) cars. Cars 3 and 5 are equipped with PS33D single-arm pantographs (two on car 5, one on car 3). Bogies The DT77 (motored) and TR262 (trailer) bolsterless bogies are developed from the DT71 and TR255 bogies used on the E233 series EMUs. The end bogies of the Tc driving cars are designated TR262, and the inner bogies of the Tc driving cars are designated TR262A. All the bogies use tread brakes, and the trailer bogies additionally use disc brakes. Wheel diameter is , and the distance between wheel centers is . Interior accommodation The passenger compartment floor construction has been improved for reduced interior noise, and the height difference between the coach and the platform has been reduced by compared with the earlier 253 series trains for ease of access. Luggage storage areas feature lockable straps for security, and security cameras are installed in vestibule and luggage areas. Luggage space is also provided beneath the seats. Electric power outlets are provided at each seat. Four ceiling-mounted passenger information display units are provided in each car. These feature two 17-inch screens on each side, displaying information in four languages (Japanese, English, Korean, and Chinese). Ordinary class Ordinary-class cars have 2+2 abreast seating with forward-facing rotating/reclining seats. Seat pitch is , compared to on earlier trains. Green class Green (first class) cars have leather-covered forward-facing rotating/reclining seats also arranged in 2+2 configuration. Seat pitch is . History The first two sets, Ne001 and Ne002, were delivered to Kamakura Depot from Tokyu Car Corporation's Yokohama factory on 23 April 2009, with test running on the Sōbu Main Line commencing the same day. Nine E259 series sets entered revenue service on Narita Express services from 1 October 2009, with 10 out of 26 return workings daily operated by E259s. By June 2010, they had completely replaced the 253 series EMUs formerly used on Narita Express services. Future plans In March 2023, JR East announced that it would introduce a new design to existing E259 series sets. The updated livery will retain the black and red color pallet but will feature silver accents at the front as well as the phrase "SERIES E259" being plastered along the exterior. Build details The manufacturers and delivery dates for the fleet are as shown below. See also Keisei AE series (2009), train operated by rival company Keisei NS Koploper, trains featuring a similar walk-through design References External links JR East　E259 series description JR East E259 series (Japan Railfan Magazine Online) Electric multiple units of Japan East Japan Railway Company Train-related introductions in 2009 Kinki Sharyo multiple units 1500 V DC multiple units of Japan Tokyu Car multiple units
51077595	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagdgeschwader%20131	Jagdgeschwader 131	Jagdgeschwader 131 was a fighter wing of Nazi Germany's Luftwaffe in World War II. Fighter wings of the Luftwaffe 1933-1945 Military units and formations established in 1937 Military units and formations disestablished in 1939
22604216	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor%20of%20Mathematical%20Statistics%20%28Cambridge%29	Professor of Mathematical Statistics (Cambridge)	The Professorship of Mathematical Statistics at the University of Cambridge was established in 1961 with the support of the Royal Statistical Society and the aid of donations from various companies and banks. It was the first professorship in the Statistical Laboratory, and the first in Cambridge University explicitly intended for the study of statistics. Until 1973 the professor was ex officio Director of the Statistical Laboratory. List of professors of mathematical statistics 1962–1985 David Kendall 1985–1992 David Williams 1992– Geoffrey Grimmett References 1962 establishments in the United Kingdom Professorships at the University of Cambridge Faculty of Mathematics, University of Cambridge Cambridge, University of, Mathematical Statistics, Professor of Mathematics education in the United Kingdom
66357276	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%20F.%20Kelly%20Jr.	Alfred F. Kelly Jr.	Alfred Francis Kelly Jr. (born 1958) is an American business executive. Until February 2023, he was the chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Visa Inc., a global digital payments company. In October 2016, Kelly succeeded Charles W. Scharf as the CEO of Visa. In April 2019, Kelly was elected as the company's Chair of the Board while continuing to serve as Visa's CEO. Kelly serves on the Board of Directors of Catalyst and is chair of the board of the Mother Cabrini Health Foundation, as well as several entities in the Archdiocese of New York. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of New York Presbyterian Hospital and Boston College, where four of his five children have graduated. In 2020, Kelly was named a guardian for the Council for Inclusive Capitalism with the Vatican, which answers the call of Pope Francis to apply principles of morality to business and investment practices. Early life and education Kelly was born in 1958 in Bronxville, New York and raised in the Crestwood section of Yonkers (both in Westchester County). Kelly graduated from the Iona Preparatory School in 1976. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Computer and Information Science (Summa Cum Laude) in 1980 and an MBA with Honors in 1981, both from Iona College, a private Catholic college in New Rochelle, New York. He also served as an adjunct assistant professor at Iona and was a trustee for 13 years. Career Early in his career, Kelly held various positions in information systems and financial planning at PepsiCo Inc. from 1981 to 1985. When President Ronald Reagan won re-election in 1984, Kelly was named Head of Information Systems at the White House at just 27 years of age and served in that capacity from 1985 to 1987. Kelly spent the majority of his early career at American Express where he worked from 1987 to 2010. Over those 23 years, he held several senior positions, including serving as president from July 2007 to April 2010. From April 2011 to August 2014, Kelly left the corporate world to take on the role of President and CEO for the 2014 NY/NJ Super Bowl Host Committee to organize the Super Bowl XLVIII. In addition to successfully executing the event, the Host Committee supported charitable efforts including the Super Community Blood Drive; the Urban Forestry Project, an environmental program that planted 25,000 trees in areas that were ravaged by Hurricane Sandy; and the Snowflake Youth Foundation, which aims to revitalize and rebuild facilities for school-age kids like playgrounds, community houses and Boys & Girls Clubs. While serving as management advisor to TowerBrook Capital Partners in 2015, Kelly became the Chairman of the Papal Visit Committee for Pope Francis’ visit to New York, which included a papal tour of New York City and a mass at Madison Square Garden. Immediately prior to joining Visa, Kelly was president and CEO at Intersection, a technology and digital media company and Alphabet-backed private company based in New York City. Personal life Kelly is the oldest of seven children. Kelly's father was president of the Canada Life Insurance Company of New York and a company CEO. His grandfather, the late Raymond J. Kelly, was sports editor of The New York Times from 1937 to 1958. Kelly is a second-generation Irish-American with roots in Cork, Ireland. He resides in Westchester County with his wife Margaret “Peggy” Joan Parlatore Kelly. They were married in 1983 and have five children. References 1958 births Living people 20th-century American businesspeople 21st-century American businesspeople American chief executives American chief executives of financial services companies American chief executives of Fortune 500 companies American chief operating officers Iona University alumni People from Bronxville, New York People from Yonkers, New York
23157069	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6th%20Kansas%20Cavalry%20Regiment	6th Kansas Cavalry Regiment	The 6th Kansas Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Service The 6th Kansas Cavalry Regiment was organized at Fort Scott, Kansas, in July 1861. The regiment began as three companies of home guard infantry, followed quickly by five additional companies, one of which was cavalry. On September 9, 1861, these recruits were reorganized and officers were elected. The reorganized regiment was then mustered in for three years under the command of Colonel William R. Judson. The regiment was attached to Department of Kansas to August 1862. 2nd Brigade, Department of Kansas, to October 1862. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, Army of the Frontier, Department of Missouri, to February 1863 1st Brigade, 1st Division, Army of the Frontier, to June 1863. District of the Frontier, Department of Missouri, to January 1864. District of the Frontier, VII Corps, Department of Arkansas, to March 1864. 3rd Brigade, District of the Frontier, VII Corps, to January 1865. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, VII Corps, to February 1865. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, VII Corps, to August 1865. The 6th Kansas Cavalry mustered out of service at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas August 27, 1865. Detailed service Duty at Fort Scott until March 1862. Dry Wood Creek, Fort Scott, September 1, 1861. Morristown September 17. Osceola September 20, 21 and 22. (The 3 original companies marched to Fort Lincoln September 1, 1861; then returned to Fort Scott.) Little Santa Fe, Missouri, November 6. Regiment reorganized March 27, 1862, and A, B and C (original companies) mustered out. Duty at Fort Scott until May. Carthage, Missouri, March 23. Diamond Grove April 14. Lost Creek April 15. Companies C, H, and K moved to Carthage, Missouri, with the 15th Kansas Cavalry, rejoining in May. Regiment stationed at various points on southern line of Kansas Headquarters at Paola until June. Concentrated at Fort Scott. Expedition into Indian Territory May 25-July (Companies C, H, and K). Reconnaissance from Grand River to Fort Gibson, Tahliquah and Park Hill, and skirmishes June 14–17. Regiment joined June 20. Expedition into Cherokee Country July 2-August 1. Stand Watie's Mill July 4 (2 companies). Expedition from Fort Leavenworth to Independence August 12–14 (1 company). Clear Creek August 19. Taboursville August 20. Osage River August 21. Coon Creek, near Lamar, and Lamar, August 24. Operations in southwest Missouri September to December. Expedition through Jackson, Cass, Johnson and Lafayette Counties, Missouri, September 8–23. Hickory Grove September 19. Granby September 24. Newtonia September 30. Occupation of Newtonia October 4. Old Fort Wayne or Beattie's Prairie, near Maysville, October 22. Operations in Jackson County against Quantrill November 1–5. Drywood, Boston Mountains. November 9. Reconnaissance toward Van Buren and Fort Smith November 20. Near Cane Hill November 25. Cane Hill November 28. Battle of Prairie Grove, Arkansas, December 7. Expedition over Boston Mountains to Van Buren December 27–29. Dripping Springs December 29. (1st Battalion, Companies A, C, F, and H camped on Crane Creek, near Springfield, Missouri, until March 1863.) Operations in Newton and Jasper Counties March 5–13 (Companies A and C). Near Sherwood March 9 (Companies A and C). Companies F and H marched from Westbrook to Salem, thence to Rolla May 7; thence to Fort Scott June 21-July 4. Webber Falls, Cherokee Nation, April 21–23 (3rd Battalion). Big Creek, near Pleasant Hill, May 15 (Company E). Fort Gibson May 22 and 25. Greenleaf Prairie June 17. Cabin Creek July 1–2. Elk Creek, near Honey Springs, July 17. Perryville August 26. Operations in Cherokee Nation September 11–25. Webber Falls October 12. Moved to Fort Smith November 13–18 and duty there until March 1864. Scout to Baker's Springs January 21–25. Baker's Springs, Caddo Gap, January 24. Steele's Expedition to Camden March 31-May 3 (Companies A, C, G, K, and M). Roseville April 4–5 (detachment). Stone's Ferry April 5 (detachment). Prairie D'Ann April 9–12. Moscow April 13. Dutch Mills April 14. Camden April 16–18. Poison Springs April 18 (detachment). Saline Bottom April 29. Jenkins Ferry, Saline River, April 30. Moved to Dardanelle, then to Fort Smith May 6–16. Dardanelle May 10. Clarksville May 18. Fayetteville May 19. Roseville June 4–5 (detachment). Hahn's Farm, near Waldron, and Iron Bridge June 19. Balance of regiment near Fort Smith and duty there until September. Massard's Prairie July 27 (Companies B, D, E, and H). Near Fort Smith July 31. Lee's Creek August 1 (detachment). Van Buren August 12. Fort Smith August 27. March to Cabin Creek, Cherokee Nation, September 14–19. Fort Scott October 22. Cow Creek October 23 (detachment). Training Post October 24. Moved from Fort Smith to Clarksville December 29 and duty there until February 16, 1865. Moved to Little Rock and duty there until June. Consolidated to a battalion April 18, 1865. Moved to Duvall's Bluffs June 5, then to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, July 27-August 11. Casualties The regiment lost a total of 228 men during service; 4 officers and 81 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 3 officers and 140 enlisted men died of disease. Commanders Colonel William R. Judson Lieutenant Colonel Lewis R. Jewell - Namesake of Jewell County, Kansas, died at the Battle of Cane Hill, on 28 November 1862. Notable members Captain Charles F. Clarke, Company F - Namesake of Clark County, Kansas, Assistant Adjutant General in the U.S. Volunteers, died at Memphis, Tennessee, on 10 December 1862. See also List of Kansas Civil War Units Kansas in the Civil War Notes References Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (Des Moines, IA: Dyer Pub. Co.), 1908. Official Military History of Kansas Regiments During the War for the Suppression of the Great Rebellion (Leavenworth, KS: W. S. Burke), 1870. Attribution External links History of the 6th Kansas Cavalry by the Museum of the Kansas National Guard Detailed history of the Battle of Massard Prairie, Arkansas Military units and formations established in 1861 Military units and formations disestablished in 1865 Units and formations of the Union Army from Kansas 1861 establishments in Kansas
18268095	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uralita%20Group	Uralita Group	Uralita is a Spanish construction materials multinational enterprise, founded in 1907 as . Uralita produces insulation, gypsum, roofing and piping systems. It became associated in Spain to its fiber cement products, to the point that is a common name for (asbestos) fiber cement in Spain of any brand. In 1982 he acquired the Bruguer paint brand. Four years later, the AkzoNobel company — then called Akzo Nobel Coatings — acquired the entire paint division of Uralita, called Industrias Procolor, thus passing Bruguer into the hands of the Dutch company. In 2008, Uralita's sales reached, 1007 million euros, out of which more than 55% was made outside Spain. Uralita has its corporate offices in Madrid. On December 31, 2008, it possessed a personnel of 4006 employees and 41 factories in operation in Europe, and two under construction. In July 2010, Spanish courts ordered Uralita to pay €3.9 million compensation to people who had lived near its Barcelona factory. The newspaper El País reported that this is the first time that a company has been ordered to compensate residents (as opposed to employees) for asbestos exposure. In 2015, it changed its name to COEMAC (, "Business corporation of building materials"). In June 2020 the company enters bankruptcy. The board of directors of COEMAC S.A. informs of the appointment and acceptance of the position of Insolvency Administrator by Barrilero y Zubizarreta Insolvency, A.I.E. and the authorization granted by the latter to delay the legal obligation to prepare the annual accounts for the 2019 financial year until the month following the presentation of the inventory and list of creditors. See also References External links Official site Construction and civil engineering companies of Spain Manufacturing companies established in 1907 Manufacturing companies based in Madrid Companies listed on the Madrid Stock Exchange Construction and civil engineering companies established in 1907 Spanish companies established in 1907
22981696	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton%20F%C3%BCster	Anton Füster	Anton Füster, also spelled as Fister (5 January 1808 – 12 March 1881) was an Austrian Roman Catholic priest, theologian, pedagogue, radical political activist and author of Slovene origin. He was one of the leaders of the Viennese March Revolution of 1848. He was born in Radovljica, Carniola (now in Slovenia). He studied in Ljubljana, where he was consecrated priest in 1832. He was part of the intellectual circle of Matija Čop, where he became a friend of the poet France Prešeren. In 1835, he went to Trieste, where he served as a German language preacher. In 1839, he moved to Gorizia, where he worked as a professor of religion and pedagogy at the State Gymnasium. During this period, he became a close friend of the Slovene priest and activist Valentin Stanič, and became an active member of his Association against the Torture of Animals, one of the first animal rights movements in Central Europe. He also instrumental in the introduction of the chair for Slovene language in the priest seminary of the Archdiocese of Gorizia. In 1847, he was appointed professor of philosophy at the University of Vienna, where he promoted democratic ideas among the students. On Sunday 12 March 1848 Füster gave a sermon that encouraged the students in attendance at the Mass to revolt the next day, 13 March 1848, in the streets of Vienna. The Uprising the developed in Vienna in the following months, was the first major revolt in German lands of 1848, outside the important but relatively minor demonstrations against Lola Montez in Bavaria on 9 February 1848. After the outbreak of the revolution of 1848, Füster became a fervent revolutionary activist; he became a chaplain of the insurgent Academic Guard, and fought on the barricades with students. In the first months of the revolution, he was sympathetic to the Slovene national movement, and was among the academicians who published the manifesto for a United Slovenia in April 1848. He later moved away from the romantic nationalist positions; on 9 August 1848 a group of radical Slovene students, led by Lovro Toman, staged a public event, in which they "solemnly expelled Füster from the people of Slovene descent". In July 1848, he was elected to the so-called Kremsier Parliament. After its dissolution by the Austrian imperial authorities in March 1849, Füster emigrated to England, and then to the United States, settling in Philadelphia. He returned to Austria in 1876, first to Graz and then to Vienna, where he published his memories from the revolutionary period. He died in Vienna, where he received an honorary grave on the Wiener Zentralfriedhof. References Short bibliography with picture SPBL: Füster, Anton (pp. 399-400) 1808 births 1881 deaths People from Radovljica Austrian people of Slovenian descent 19th-century Slovenian Roman Catholic priests 19th-century Austrian Roman Catholic priests Members of the Imperial Diet (Austria) Academic staff of the University of Vienna
3324734	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%20Fernando%20Partido	San Fernando Partido	San Fernando is a partido of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, in the north of Greater Buenos Aires. Its capital is San Fernando. It is twenty-eight kilometers from the city of Buenos Aires. Population distribution (2010) Of the 163,240 inhabitants recorded in the 2010 census, the distribution is: San Fernando: 76,726 Victoria: 44,959 Virreyes: 38,599 Paraná Delta islands: 2,956 References External links Partidos of Buenos Aires Province States and territories established in 1805 1805 establishments in the Spanish Empire
12444582	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm%20Simmons%20%28speedway%20rider%29	Malcolm Simmons (speedway rider)	Malcolm Simmons (20 March 1946 – 25 May 2014) was a motorcycle speedway rider from England. Career Simmons was born in Tonbridge, Kent. After starting in second-half races at New Cross, he made his Provincial League debut at Hackney Hawks in 1963 aged seventeen but was unable to break into the Hackney team regularly so moved to the newly re-opened West Ham Hammers for the 1964 season. In 1965 Simmons won a British League and British League Knockout Cup double with West Ham. In 1968 he moved to the King's Lynn Stars and stayed there for the next seven seasons. He was consistently at the top of the Stars averages and scored over 2112 points for the club. Simmons signed for the Poole Pirates in 1975 from King's Lynn. In his first season for Poole in 31 league matches he achieved 16 maximum scores (15 full and 1 paid) and he became the first Poole rider to secure a 10-point average in the British League. Simmons topped the Pirates averages for the next six years and he came to be affectionately known by the Poole fans as 'Super Simmo'. In 1979 the Pirates were taken over by new owners and Simmons became unsettled, asking for a transfer in 1980. At a pairs event at Poole that year, Simmons was accused by the Poole management of not trying and he was subsequently sacked by the club. He moved to Wimbledon in 1981, where he spent four seasons and moved to the Swindon Robins for one season in 1985. Simmons signed for former club Hackey, now renamed Hackney Kestrels, in 1986 for two years before he suffered a bad shoulder injury. He then made a couple of short come-backs at Arena Essex and King's Lynn. Malcolm captained England and Great Britain at full international level. He finished runner-up to Peter Collins in the 1976 Speedway World Championship, but became World Pairs Champion with John Louis the same year. He again became World Pairs Champion in 1977 with Peter Collins, and again in 1978 with Gordon Kennett. Simmons became British Champion in 1976. He won the World Team Cup on four occasions—1973, 1974, 1975 and 1977—once with Great Britain and three times with England. He signed as a rider for Mildenhall in 2001 to ride occasionally in the Conference League, aged 56. World Final Appearances Individual World Championship 1975 - London, Wembley Stadium - 7th - 10pts 1976 - Chorzów, Silesian Stadium - 2nd - 13pts 1978 - London, Wembley Stadium - 6th - 10pts World Pairs Championship 1976 - Eskilstuna, Eskilstuna Motorstadion (with John Louis) - Winner - 27pts (10) 1977 – Manchester, Hyde Road (with Peter Collins) – Winner – 28pts (13) 1978 - Chorzów, Silesian Stadium (with Gordon Kennett) - Winner - 24pts (15+3) 1979 - Vojens, Speedway Center (with Michael Lee) - 2nd - 24pts (9) World Team Cup 1973* - London, Wembley Stadium (with Peter Collins / Ray Wilson / Terry Betts) - Winner - 37pts (8) 1974 - Chorzów, Silesian Stadium (with Peter Collins / John Louis / Dave Jessup) - Winner - 42pts (8) 1975 - Norden, Motodrom Halbemond (with Peter Collins / Martin Ashby / John Louis) – Winner – 41pts (11) 1977 - Wrocław, Olympic Stadium (with Peter Collins / Michael Lee / Dave Jessup / John Davis) - Winner - 37pts (9) 1978 - Landshut, Ellermühle Stadium (with Dave Jessup / Peter Collins / Gordon Kennett / Michael Lee) - 2nd - 27pts (8) * 1973 for Great Britain. All others for England. References 1946 births 2014 deaths British speedway riders English motorcycle racers British Speedway Championship winners Speedway World Pairs Champions Hackney Hawks riders Poole Pirates riders King's Lynn Stars riders West Ham Hammers riders Wimbledon Dons riders Swindon Robins riders People from Tonbridge Hackney Kestrels riders
29088429	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferry%20Plantation%20House	Ferry Plantation House	Ferry Plantation House, or Old Donation Farm, Ferry Farm, Walke Manor House, is a brick house in the neighborhood of Old Donation Farm in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The site dates back to 1642 when Savill Gaskin started the second ferry service in Hampton Roads to carry passengers on the Lynnhaven River to the nearby county courthouse and to visit plantations along the waterway. A cannon was used to signal the ferry, which had 11 total stops along the river. The first ferry service was started nearby by Adam Thoroughgood. The house, which is reputedly haunted by 11 spirits, has been used as a plantation, courthouse, school, and post office. It is currently a museum and educational center. A Summer History Camp, which educates youths about life in the 18th and 19th centuries, is also held on the site. Description The area was initially cleared by the local Indians in the 16th century and many of their artifacts have been found on the site. The third Princess Anne County courthouse, the first brick courthouse in the county, was built on this site, complete with stocks and pillory. This third courthouse was in existence from 1735 until the construction of the Walke Mansion. The Walke Mansion (1751-1828), owned by William Walke, was destroyed by fire on September 12, 1828. Walke may have run a tavern here during the American Revolution. The current house was built in 1830. Its exterior is Federal style three-course American bond brickwork; all of the bricks were from the ruins of the Walke Mansion. A West Bay addition was built in 1850. The house has 10 rooms with heart-of-pine flooring and several original features. It was once covered with oyster shell stucco. The rear of the home faces the western branch of the Lynnhaven River. The house occupies owned by the city and is encompassed by of open space owned by a homeowners association. There are some small gardens on the property and in the back yard is a large Southern Magnolia planted on April 6, 1863, by Sally Rebecca Walke in memory of her fiancé. Renovation Virginia Higgins moved out of Ferry Plantation in 1986 and turned the deed over to the City of Virginia Beach. The Ferry Plantation House was abandoned from 1986 to 1996. A group of citizens saved the house from demolition around 1996. Investors bought it in 1994, but their deal to sell it fell through in 1996 when the Virginia Beach City Council said the house could not be a private residence due to deed restrictions. The deed to the property was eventually turned over to the City of Virginia Beach in June 1996, and the Friends of the Ferry Plantation House, Inc. began renovating the house in 1996 in partnership with the City of Virginia Beach. Court House bars (one set and shackles) are still on one window to date. The house was listed in the Virginia Landmarks Register (Virginia Historic Landmark) in 2004 and the US National Register of Historic Places in 2005 and The +Virginia State Register. Belinda Nash has been on the board of directors of the FOFPH since 1996 and the director since 1999. Nash is one of the many volunteers that continue to work to allow The Ferry Plantation House to be enjoyed by so many, including summer camps and many social events that share its history and artifacts. Hauntings The house is reportedly haunted by 11 spirits; spirit tours are available, including one during Halloween called "The Stroll of Lost Souls". Reported spirits include those of people who perished in an 1810 ship wreck at the ferry landing, a former slave, Sally Rebecca Walke, who mourns her fiancé, a fallen soldier, and the Lady in White, who reportedly died of a broken neck from falling down the stairs, as well as the artist Thomas Williamson, owner of the Manor House who was married to a Walke has been reported seen at the top of the stairs painting. Paranormal groups come to the house to do research. Sounds of dragging chains have been reported, possibly from the days of the old courthouse. Grace Sherwood, the "Witch of Pungo", was tried by ducking near here and the museum sponsors the annual Grace Sherwood Festival, which includes viewing of the reenactment of the ducking. The actual ducking of Sherwood was at the end of what is now Witchduck Road, 200 yards out in the river from what is now a private home. The House has a Red Maple and marker in honor of Sherwood in the side yard. See also List of the oldest buildings in Virginia National Register of Historic Places listings in Virginia Beach, Virginia List of reportedly haunted locations in the United States Notes External links Official website Summer tours put Beach history on center stage Houses completed in 1830 Reportedly haunted locations in Virginia Museums in Virginia Beach, Virginia Historic house museums in Virginia Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Federal architecture in Virginia Museums established in 1996 Houses in Virginia Beach, Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Virginia Beach, Virginia 1996 establishments in Virginia 1830 establishments in Virginia
62940411	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina%20Griscom	Nina Griscom	Nina Louise Griscom (née Renshaw; May 8, 1954 – January 25, 2020) was an American model, television host, designer, columnist and businesswoman. Early years Griscom's father was journalist Charles C. Renshaw Jr., and her mother was Elizabeth Fly Vagliano, later the wife of Felix Rohatyn, who was known for her support of educational and cultural institutions. After graduating from Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut, Griscom attended Barnard College with the class of 1977. As a college student, Griscom began working as a model for Eileen Ford. Career Griscom's work on TV included being co-host of an entertainment news program on HBO (1990–1993) and a restaurant-review series on the Food Network (1993–1998). As a businesswoman, Griscom partnered with Alan Richman to operate home-decorating stores in Manhattan and in Southampton, New York. She also worked as a spokeswoman and consultant for Revlon and designed purses for the GiGi New York Collection. Personal life Griscom was married to, and divorced from, Joe Hunter, Lloyd P. Griscom Jr. and Dr. Daniel C. Baker (with whom she had a daughter). When she died, she was married to Leonel Alfred Piraino. She was a member of the board of the New York City Ballet and of the Advisory Committee of Africa Foundation (USA). Death Griscom died at age 65 at her home in Manhattan from complications of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. References 1954 births 2020 deaths People from Manhattan Miss Porter's School alumni Barnard College alumni Female models from New York (state) American television hosts American women columnists American women television presenters Neurological disease deaths in New York (state) Deaths from motor neuron disease 21st-century American women
58487291	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nardus%20Erasmus	Nardus Erasmus	Albertus Bernardus Erasmus (born ) is a South African rugby union player who last played for the in the Currie Cup. His regular position is flank. References 1995 births Living people Free State Cheetahs players Rugby union flankers Rugby union players from Pretoria South African rugby union players
3422666	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOTO%20Talk	MOTO Talk	MOTO Talk is a feature on some Motorola iDEN cellular phone handsets which allows users to make short-range 'push-to-talk' calls to other such handsets without being on the iDEN network. This feature goes by different names on iDEN service providers. In the US, Nextel called it 'DirectTalk' and included it as a free service on most new models of Motorola handsets. Boost Mobile disabled the function via handset software settings. SouthernLINC calls it LINCaround and ships handsets with the feature disabled. It can be enabled after paying an activation fee of $20. In Canada, TELUS calls it "Mike's Talk-Around." It is the same system as used with Motorola's stand-alone DTR-series walkie-talkies, but DTR handsets and iDEN handsets set to MOTO Talk are not able to communicate with each other due to software settings. Motorola Solutions Inc sells DTR series two-ways radios that carry this peer to peer protocol. It can be used for voice communication, as well as SMS (short message services) between devices over more than 8 miles in flat terrain conditions. MOTO Talk is not the same as the on-network 'DirectConnect' push-to-talk service. Signals are sent directly from one handset to another, rather than using the cellular network as DirectConnect does. MOTO Talk uses the 900 MHz ISM band rather than the frequencies allocated for iDEN cellular phone service, usually in the 800 MHz cellular band in the US and Canada. There are ten "channels" or "hop sets" or "frequency hop groups" available in MOTO Talk, and fifteen privacy codes per channel. In addition, "private calls" can be placed using the phone number assigned to the handset being called. The effective range can be in excess of 8 miles in flat terrain, but the frequencies used are line-of-sight and are blocked by structures and vegetation. Practical ranges are usually 1 to 2 miles. The MOTO Talk service is slightly similar to FRS (Family Radio Service) walkie-talkies but uses digital rather than analog signals, operates on the 900 MHz ISM band rather than the 462 MHz frequencies allocated to FRS, and uses frequency-hopping spread spectrum technology rather than single fixed frequencies for each channel. On each phone the MOTO Talk entry varies between 'MotoTalk' and 'DirecTalk' depending on the age of the phone and the branded carrier (Boost Mobile or Nextel). Otherwise, they are the identical function with a different name. Boost Mobile phones are not enabled for MOTO Talk use by default but can enabled by modifying the codeplug of the device (The Motorola i415 has the codeplug entry but not the needed transceiver hardware. As of 2011, it is the only device from Boost on the iDEN network that cannot use MOTO Talk.) The off network feature on the iDEN phones work for up to a six-mile radius and will communicate with all other iDEN phones in the area on the same channel and code access number. The off network walkie talkie feature has a total of 10 channels on newer phones and within those 10 channels, the phones can handle 15 separate group codes. This means there can be 15 conversations operating on each of the 10 channels within any single 6 miles radius. As with FRS and GMRS radios, the 15 group codes work to block calls that are not on the same code. The group codes do not secure your conversation. Only one person can talk on a code at a time. The phone can listen to all activity on a channel, but cannot transmit when in this "receive-all" mode. It uses FHSS technology on the 900 MHz ISM band as an unlicensed transmitter. They use similar commercial radio transmission systems for DTR Digital series businesses but they are not compatible with each other, because they are configured differently by software. (Deliberately made by Motorola) In the DTMT Mode they transmit with 600mw and in the band ISM of 900 MHz (902-907, 915-928) they use the type of digital modulation 8-level FSK 900 MHz ISM FHSS. In 10 channels and 15 codes (can be made safer using the radio's own ID) Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum is a spread spectrum modulation technique in which the signal is emitted Over a series of seemingly random radio frequencies, jumping from frequency to frequency synchronously with the transmitter. Unauthorized receivers will hear an unintelligible signal. If you try to intercept the signal, you would only get it for a few moments and hear data. A broad spectrum transmission offers 3 main advantages: 1. Signals in spread spectrum are highly resistant to noise and interference. 2. Signals in spread spectrum are difficult to intercept. A transmission of this type sounds as a short-lived noise, or as an increase in noise at any receiver, except for the one using the sequence that was used by the transmitter. Broadcast spectrum transmissions can share a frequency band with many types of conventional transmissions with minimal interference. 3. The signals can not be interfered in a conventional manner (blocking the TX / RX frequency). More sophisticated equipment such as Jamming equipment that interferes with the entire frequency band must be used. iDEN model compatibility MOTO Talk is available on these iDEN models: See also Sprint Nextel Direct Connect SouthernLINC Wireless Mike (cellular network) Push to Talk over Cellular Walkie talkie External links Motorola's iDEN Phone Offerings Instructions for off iDEN-network walkie-talkie service (PDF) Motorola Sprint Corporation
2541222	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenkins%20County%20High%20School	Jenkins County High School	Jenkins County High School is located in Jenkins County in the city of Millen, Georgia, United States. Their mascot is the War Eagle. Jenkins County's track team won the state championship in 2003 and were state runners-up in 2004. The Jenkins County JROTC Raiders and Regulation Drill Team were 2008 and 2009 Overall State Champions. The Raider team was first runner-up at the national level competition, held in Molena, Georgia, in 2009. The Jenkins County boys' cross country team were the 2012 and 2013 GHSA Class A Public State Runners-Up and the 2014 GHSA Class A Public State Champions. The Jenkins County girls' cross country team were the 2014 GHSA Class A Public second runner-up (third place). Two students earned a perfect score on the math portion of the GHSGT (Georgia High School Graduation Test). References Public high schools in Georgia (U.S. state) Schools in Jenkins County, Georgia
8431003	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bukharan%20Jewish%20cuisine	Bukharan Jewish cuisine	Bukharan Jewish cuisine is the traditional cuisine originating from the Bukharian Jewish community of Central Asia, who now mostly reside in Israel, and the United States. Overview The cooking of Bukharan Jews forms a distinct cuisine within Uzbekistan, subject to the restrictions of Jewish dietary laws. The most typical Bukharan Jewish dish is oshi sabo (also osh savo or osovoh), a "meal in a pot" slowly cooked overnight and eaten hot for Shabbat lunch. Oshi sabo is made with meat, rice, vegetables, and fruit added for a unique sweet and sour taste. By virtue of its culinary function (a hot Shabbat meal in Jewish homes) and ingredients (rice, meat, vegetables cooked together overnight), oshi sabo is a Bukharan version of cholent or hamin. In addition to oshi sabo, authentic Bukharian Jewish dishes include the following dishes. Meat dishes Osh palov – a Bukharian Jewish version of palov for weekdays, includes both beef and chicken. Bakhsh – "green palov", rice with meat or chicken and green herbs (coriander, parsley, dill), exists in two varieties; bakhshi khaltagi cooked Jewish-style in a small bag immersed in a pot with boiling water or soup and bakhshi degi cooked like regular palov in a cauldron; bakhshi khaltagi is precooked and therefore can be served on Shabbat. Khalta savo – food cooked in a bag (usually rice and meat, possibly with the addition of dried fruit). "osh savo" – rice cooked with meat and red pepper, tomato, zucchini...and usually cooked on Friday night through Saturday morning in the oven. Yakhni – a dish consisting of two kinds of boiled meat (beef and chicken), brought whole to the table and sliced before serving with a little broth and a garnish of boiled vegetables; a main course for Friday night dinner. Kov roghan – fried pieces of chicken with fried potatoes piled on top. Rice dishes Serkaniz (Sirkoniz) – garlic rice dish, another variation of palov. Oshi piyozi – stuffed onion. Shulah – a Bukharian-style risotto. Vegetable dishes Boyjon – eggplant puree mixed only with salt and garlic, the traditional starter for the Friday-night meal in Bukharan Jewish homes. Slotah Bukhori – a salad made with tomato, cucumber, green onion, cilantro, salt, pepper, and lemon juice. Some also put in lettuce and chili pepper. Bread dishes Noni Toki – a crispy flat bread that is baked on the back of a wok. This method creates a bowl shaped bread. Fish dishes Fried fish with garlic sauce (for Friday night dinner): "Every Bukharian Sabbath ... is greeted with a dish of fried fish covered with a pounded sauce of garlic and cilantro." In the Bukharan dialect, the dish is called or in full , where is fried fish and is garlic sauce (literally "garlic water"). Bread is sometimes fried and then dipped in the remaining garlic water and is called . See also Mizrahi Jewish cuisine Sephardi Jewish cuisine Jewish cuisine Israeli cuisine References Jewish cuisine Mizrahi Jewish cuisine Bukharan Jews Central Asian cuisine
57550414	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zemo%20Okrokana	Zemo Okrokana	Zemo Okrokana (, literally — "Upper Golden Field") is a village in the historical region of Khevi, north-eastern Georgia. It is located on the right bank of the Tergi tributary river – Mnaisi. Administratively, it is part of the Kazbegi Municipality in Mtskheta-Mtianeti. Its distance to the municipality center Stepantsminda is 24 km. Okrokana is a possible starting point for the popular hike into Truso Valley, along the Terek River. Sources Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia, V. 4, p. 510, Tbilisi, 1979 year. References Kobi Community villages
74667554	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persada%20Integriti%20Bersatu%20F.C.	Persada Integriti Bersatu F.C.	Persada Integriti Bersatu Football Club also known as PIB Shah Alam FC is an amateur football club based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. They currently play in the third-tier division in Malaysian football, the Malaysia M3 League. The club homeground has been the 1,000-seaters, the UM Arena. History PIB Football Club is a club founded in 2011 in Klang Valley, Kuala Lumpur and participated in several competitions in Klang Valley. On 17 February 2019, the club competed in the Malaysia FA Cup for the first time in the club's history. PIB FC had their first major success in the 2022 Malaysia M3 League season, when they won the Malaysia M3 League title. Players First-team squad Management team Club personnel Manager: Patrick Banying Anak Langku Head coach: Yusrizal Yusoff Assistant coach : Muhamad Azrin Mohamed Goalkeeping coach: Muhamad Solehin Abdul Wahad Fitness coach: Mohammad Fazrul Jafar@Abd Rahman Team Doctor: Nik Mohd Shafikudin Md Taujuddin Physiotherapist: Mohammad Nazmi Abdul Halim Team Media: Muhammad Shahrul Naim Mohd Tokiman Kitman: Muhammad Nizar Faris Mohd Basri Season by season record Updated on 3 September 2023. Notes: 2020 Season cancelled due to the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic, no promotion or league title was awarded although this is now subject to a possible legal challenge Honours Domestic competitions League Malaysia M3 League Winners (1) : 2022Klang Valley League Champions (3): 2015, 2016, 2017 Shah Alam League Winners (1)' : 2019 References External links Official Facebook Page Official Instragram Malaysia M3 League Football clubs in Malaysia
38999672	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dampfbahn-Verein%20Z%C3%BCrcher%20Oberland	Dampfbahn-Verein Zürcher Oberland	The Dampfbahn-Verein Zürcher Oberland (DVZO) is a heritage railway association based in the Swiss canton of Zurich. The association preserves various items of rolling stock, utilising the historic lok remise or engine shed at Uster station, and also operates the preserved railway between Hinwil and Bauma stations over a section of the former Uerikon to Bauma railway (UeBB). See also List of heritage railways and funiculars in Switzerland References External links The Dampfbahn-Verein Zürcher Oberland web site Heritage railways in Switzerland Railway lines in Switzerland Transport in the canton of Zürich
23172664	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweep%20rowing	Sweep rowing	Sweep rowing is one of two disciplines of the sport of rowing. In sweep rowing each rower has one oar, usually held with both hands. As each rower has only one oar, the rowers have to be paired so that there are equal numbers of oars on each side of the boat. In the United Kingdom, rowing generally refers to sweep rowing only. The term pulling was also used historically. In the other rowing discipline, sculling, each rower holds two oars, one in each hand. Sweep or single oar rowing has a long history and was the means of propulsion for Greek triremes and Viking longboats. These boats were wide enough for the pairs of rowers to sit alongside each other. Boats can go faster, the narrower they are, because a smaller cross-sectional area reduces drag and wave drag and gives a sharper angle to the bow. The hulls can be kept narrower by attaching riggers to the gunwales, so that the oarlocks can be placed farther out to carry longer oars. A narrower hull means the rowers cannot sit side by side and so they sit one behind another. The riggers are placed alternately along the boat so that the forces are approximately equal to each side of the boat, but they are nevertheless asymmetrical. This means a sweep oared racing shell has to be stiffer in order to handle the unmatched forces, and so requires more bracing, which means it has to be heavier and slower than an equivalent sculling boat. Sweep rowing has to be done with crews in multiples of two: pairs, fours and eights (sixes and boats longer than eight are not used in competitive racing today). Each rower in a sweep boat is on either stroke side (port) or bow side (starboard), according to which side of the boat the rower's oar extends from. In a sculling boat the oars and riggers apply forces symmetrically to the shell. While sculling boats are also in multiples of two, it is possible to have a single scull or triple scull. The primary sweep oar racing boats are as follows. Eight (8+) A shell with 8 rowers. Always with coxswain because of the size, weight and speed of the boat; bow loader eights exist but are banned from most competitions for safety reasons. Four (4-) or (4+) A shell with 4 rowers. Coxless fours (4-) are often referred to as straight fours, and are commonly used by lightweight and elite crews and are raced at the Olympics. In club and school rowing, one more frequently sees a coxed four (4+) which is easier to row, and has a coxswain to steer. Pair (2-) or (2+) A shell with 2 rowers. The coxless pair (2-), often called a straight pair, is a demanding but satisfying boat to master. Coxed pairs (2+) are rarely rowed by most club and school programs. It is no longer an Olympic event and was dropped from the World Rowing Championships in 2017. References Rowing
23968679	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya%20Kuzmichyov	Ilya Kuzmichyov	Ilya Aleksandrovich Kuzmichyov (; born 10 January 1988) is a Russian professional football player. Club career He made his Russian Football National League debut for FC Khimik Dzerzhinsk on 6 July 2014 in a game against PFC Krylia Sovetov Samara. External links 1988 births Footballers from Saint Petersburg Living people Russian men's footballers Men's association football forwards FC Tosno players FC Khimki players FC Tom Tomsk players FC Baltika Kaliningrad players FC Khimik Dzerzhinsk players FC SKA-Khabarovsk players FC Spartak Kostroma players PFC Dynamo Stavropol players FC Leningradets Leningrad Oblast players FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg players
1216588	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayou%20Classic	Bayou Classic	The Bayou Classic is an annual college football classic rivalry game between the Grambling State University Tigers and the Southern University Jaguars, first held under that name in 1974 at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans, although the series itself actually began in 1932. A trophy is awarded to the winning school. Background Since 1974 the game has been held the Saturday after Thanksgiving Day, at the Superdome. Following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, organizers moved the 2005 event from the Superdome to Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas, where many of New Orleans' evacuees were living. This was the only time that the Bayou Classic was held outside of Louisiana. The 2006 Bayou Classic returned to the Superdome. It is the best known annual game and rivalry in historically black college or university (HBCU) football and was nationally televised in the U.S. by NBC from 1991 to 2014. Beginning in 2015, it aired on the NBC Sports Network (NBCSN); after NBCSN shut down at the end of 2021, the Bayou Classic returned to NBC. The Bayou Classic was the only National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Football Championship Subdivision game to be shown regularly on broadcast television. Fans have been known to refer to it as the "Black Super Bowl", although that name is not used in any official capacity by either school due to the National Football League's restrictions on the use of the "Super Bowl" name. Both schools typically forgo FCS playoff eligibility to participate in the Bayou Classic. The game is one of two black college football classics to be associated with Thanksgiving weekend (the other is the older Turkey Day Classic). The game had State Farm Insurance as its title sponsor from 1996 to 2011. Other activities Of the many activities held in conjunction with the game, the most well-known and well-attended is the two-part Battle of the Bands, where both universities' marching bands—Grambling's "World Famed" Tiger Marching Band and Southern's Human Jukebox—perform. Following the Greek show, the two renowned bands stage elaborately choreographed performances on the Friday night before the game. The final part is held during the football game's halftime show. There is no official judge for the band battle. Since 1992, members of South Louisiana's Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) run with the game ball from Southern's campus in the Scotlandville area of Baton Rouge to the Caesars Superdome in the New Orleans Central Business District for the annual "Bayou Classic Motivation Run." The event happens the day before the game begins and is an approximately 100 mile run that takes between eight and ten hours to complete. Members of the NROTC take turns running with the ball while a police escort trails them along the way. Other activities usually include a press conference, black business showcase, golf tournament, coaches luncheon, a concert/fan festival, tailgating, fashion show, pep rally, alumni functions, a Louisiana high school battle of the bands, college recruitment fair, a Bayou Classic Parade, and a job fair for graduating students of both institutions. An annual Grambling vs. Southern "Miss Bayou Classic" beauty pageant was also held from 1976 to 2002. Financial impact The Bayou Classic is a major source of revenue ($50 million) to the city of New Orleans and the state of Louisiana. 250,000 visitors descend upon New Orleans over the course of the events leading up to the game, and the national television audience has attracted between four and five million viewers. The success of the game has inspired the promotion of numerous other HBCU classics. Historically, the stadium attendance had averaged between 50,000 and 70,000 annually which makes it one of the highest attended Division I FCS matchups every season. Hurricane Katrina brought some challenges, first with a one-year move to Houston, then with a slight drop-off in attendance upon the classic's return to New Orleans—all while the Florida Classic and Magic City Classic gained significantly in prominence over that same time period. Though the Bayou Classic also lost its title sponsor in 2011 and GSU faced numerous issues during its 2013 season, officials in 2014 rejected suggestions to remove GSU as a participant and instead resolved to quickly rejuvenate the classic. Attendance has now climbed significantly each year since 2011 and is again near pre-Katrina levels. The game also remains nationally televised, although NBC did briefly move the game broadcast over to its old sister sports-only network between the years of 2015 and 2021. Series history Historically, Grambling State and Southern have arguably had the two most successful football teams in the Southwestern Athletic Conference. Through the 2021 season, Grambling has more SWAC football titles than any other school (25, not including their vacated 1975 title); Southern has the second most with 18. GSU and SU also have more black national titles than any other SWAC schools; as of 2021, Grambling has the second most in the entire country with 15 total, while SU has the fourth most at the FCS-level (11). The two schools also represented the SWAC in 11 of the 12 Pelican and Heritage bowls, as well as in multiple Celebration Bowls. Through 2015 Florida A&M, formerly of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, was the only FCS-level HBCU school with more football wins (588) than Southern (578) or Grambling (565). However, Florida A&M, Southern, and Grambling were ordered by the NCAA to vacate wins in multiple sports due to the questionable eligibility of hundreds of their student athletes in the 2010s. It is not immediately clear just which football games are effected by these rulings, but the NCAA did make a special point to specify that Grambling's 2011 season record and championships remain fully intact; games played between 2012 and 2015, however, appear to remain possible candidates for being vacated (the 2015 Bayou Classic was one that was apparently vacated). Southern, meanwhile, had to vacate all of its 2013 and 2014 wins, at the very least (which also includes 2 Bayou Classic wins). Southern leads the overall series with Grambling, begun in 1932, by a 40–34 margin. This total does not take into account the 2 wins vacated by Southern or the 1 vacated by Grambling, but it does include the 1 game forfeited by Southern.) Grambling State claims the longest winning streak in the all-time series, 9 games from 1970 to 1978 (including the 1972 forfeit). Southern claims the longest winning streak in the Bayou Classic era, 8 games from 1993 to 2000 (the Jaguars also had a previous 8-game winning streak at the start of the series, in the games played between 1932 and 1946). SU's 49–7 victory in 2020 ranks as the largest margin of victory in the Bayou Classic, while SU's 1935 victory (64–6) is the largest margin in the all-time series. Multiple trophies have been awarded to the winner of the Bayou Classic over the years. The most recent trophy, consisting of Waterford Crystal, was retired after the 2014 game after more than 25 years of service and presented to the Smithsonian Institution for its National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. A newly designed trophy has been showcased since the 2015 game. People prominently involved in the series include Ace Mumford (SU coach from 1936 to 1942 and again 1944–61), Eddie Robinson (SU student—for just a week, as a freshman—in the 1930s and GSU coach from 1941 to 1942 and again 1945–97), Doug Williams (GSU player from 1974 to 1977, SU consultant in 1985, and GSU coach from 1998 to 2003 and again 2011–13), Marino Casem (SU athletic director from 1986 to 1999 and coach from 1987 to 1988 and again 1992), Pete Richardson (SU coach from 1993 to 2009), and Rod Broadway (GSU coach from 2007 to 2010). Mumford once had the third most wins among all college football coaches (behind Pop Warner and Amos Alonzo Stagg), and Robinson later had the most. Today Robinson still has the third most wins (behind John Gagliardi and Joe Paterno) and also has the most wins among all who coached at HBCU schools; Mumford now has the fourth most wins among HBCU coaches behind Robinson, Billy Joe, and John Merritt. Broadway holds the distinction of being the only coach to have ever won a black national title at three different schools, one of which was Grambling. Prior to 1974, the game was viewed as a big in-state rivalry between the two schools (in the days of Jim Crow, Southern and Grambling usually had the pick of most of the good black high school players in Louisiana). However, it was not nearly the media spectacle that it is today. After it was re-branded as the Bayou Classic and moved to New Orleans, a trophy was added and numerous events were also scheduled to be held throughout the week leading up to the game itself. Games in the series played before 1974 are generally not included within the context of the Bayou Classic's historical lineage (SU led the series 15–10 up until that point). The annual game was known to be touted as a "classic" as early as the 1948 meeting, a game that the Jaguars won in an 18–0 upset before 10,000 fans. A brawl during that game led to a suspension of the series for the next decade (a period in which the Jaguars won three black national championships) and delayed GSU's admittance to SWAC membership until 1958, shortly before the rivalry was resumed. With the renewal of the series in 1959, the game was again billed as a "classic" but proved a bittersweet return as five fans were killed in a vehicular accident on their way to the game. The series was again interrupted in 1972, this time due to political unrest on host Southern's campus—which resulted in a forfeiture by SU. The game was then permanently moved to off-campus neutral sites the following year, drawing a large crowd of 40,000 in Shreveport, Louisiana, and influencing the decision to create the Bayou Classic. Game results Pre-Bayou Classic results Bayou Classic results See also List of NCAA college football rivalry games List of black college football classics References External links College football rivalries in the United States Grambling State Tigers football Southern Jaguars football American football competitions in New Orleans 1932 establishments in Louisiana Black college football classics Recurring sporting events established in 1932 College sports in Louisiana
60473153	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton%20Fisher	Milton Fisher	Milton Fisher (1917–2001) was an American attorney, investment banker, author, teacher, and matchmaker. The Milton Fisher Scholarship for Innovation and Creativity was created at the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven in Fisher's name in 2003. Fisher is the father of professor and author Shelley Fisher Fishkin. He married the former Carol Plaine in 1978. His marriage to the former Renée Breger, his college sweetheart, ended with her death in 1976. Career After graduating from Brooklyn College in 1938 and Fordham Law School in 1942, Milton Fisher practiced law in New York and was also President of A.D. Gilhart, an investment banking firm that he founded. He taught an extremely popular Adult Education class in "Applied Creativity" in Westport, Connecticut for decades. His avocation was matchmaking, and he was celebrated for having introduced dozens of couples. Before moving to Connecticut in 1960, he was active in civic affairs in Brooklyn, New York, where he was Chairman of the Bedford District Health Center, President of the Men's Club of Union Temple, chairman of the Association for a Brooklyn Ice Rink, and president of the Board of the Eastern Parkway-Crown Heights Division of Brooklyn Jewish Community Council. Between 1960 and his death in 2001, he commuted daily between Westport, Connecticut and Manhattan, and was renowned on Conrail/Metro-North as the creator of "Dream Wednesday," a weekly dream discussion group on the train that continued for years. Published books How to Make Big Money in the Over-the-Counter Market (Morrow, 1970) Intuition: How to Use It for Success and Happiness (E. P. Dutton, 1981) Haven't You Been Single Long Enough?: A Practical Guide for Men or Women Who Want to Get Married (Bard Press, 1992) Intuition: How To Use it In Your Life (Wildcat Publishing Company, 1995) The Wonderful World of Wall Street: Where Ordinary People Can Become Quiet Millionaires (Wildcat Publishing Company, 1998) References General references 1917 births 2001 deaths 20th-century American lawyers
35580477	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les%20Nickelettes	Les Nickelettes	Les Nickelettes were a feminist satirical performance art troupe from San Francisco, California. History Les Nickelettes were created by a group of women experimental theatre artists from San Francisco State University in 1972. Started as a lark, first becoming vaudevillian cheerleaders at the Peoples' Nickelodeon midnight shows the group quickly evolved into a cutting edge feminist satirical performance art troupe. Women were eager to join and because there were no auditions, entrance requirements, leaders, structure or rules, all women—experienced performers or novices—were welcome to take part in the free artistic expression of pure unfettered female humor. The group became "Virgins in Residence" at the Intersection Theatre in 1973 and 1974 performing 30 minute improv musical shows before the scheduled Charlie Chaplin and Betty Boop movies. As female urban guerrillas Les Nickelettes were also involved in feminist stunts such as showing up at the infamous Condor topless night club on Broadway in North Beach dressed in Brownies/Girl Scouts uniforms adorned with plastic breasts demanding to perform on Carol Doda's stage. The troupe also crashed the 1973 opening of the San Francisco Opera. The San Francisco Chronicle society pages described their appearance; "Stealing the show ... were bizarrely dressed non-ticket holders who hopped out of a van." The group's message was that the media only paid attention to entrances. Evolving a more structured format the group created an original cabaret revue and was the first New Wave act to play at the famed Fab Mab then known as the Mabuhay Gardens dinner club in 1975. The members of the group stabilized and, with a full commitment to the collective vision of a female led theatre group, decided to write a scripted play. In 1976 Les Nickelettes, Inc. became a non-profit organization and produced its first full-length musical comedy play; Peter Pan: A New Rock Fairytale. The group continued to write and produce plays: 1978: Curtains! a murder mystery musical, 1980: Spaced Out an intergalactic musical comedy play. The Gong Show episode featuring a performance by Les Nickelettes aired November 1, 1979. The troupe scored a perfect 10 but was beaten to first place by a disco act. In 1981 Les Nickelettes collaborated with underground comic book artist Diane Noomin to create an original musical play based on her character Didi Glitz: I'd Rather Be Doing Something Else - The Didi Glitz Story. In 1982 Les Nickelettes traveled to New York City and presented the cabaret/theatre show Anarchy In High Heels, a compilation of skits and songs from their previous shows. In 1985 the group produced the last Les Nickelette full-length production: Oh Goddess! a spiritual musical comedy play. Les Nickelettes were part of a '70s and '80s San Francisco phenomenon of women's theatre companies. Born from the second wave of feminism, there arose a desire to express a unique feminine humor and perspective. All aspects of play development, staging, performing, directing and producing were done by women. When a story demanded a male character, a female member obliged to act the male role. The group's commitment to presenting theatre from the eyes, ears and hearts of women continued through 1985. Les Nickelettes' work reflected a new style of musical comedy incorporating broad, irreverent comedy and satiric social commentary intermeshed with contemporary music and dance. The members changed throughout the history of the group but always maintained the artistic vision of a women's theatre collective. Performance history 1972 – Peoples' Nickelodeon Vaudevillian Cheerleaders. 1973–1974 – Virgins in Residence presenting bimonthly improv musical skits at Intersection Theatre. 1975 – It's Cool in San Francisco: The Ms. Hysterical Contest & It's Vicious Out There. Cabaret theatre. 1976 – Peter Pan: A New Rock Fairytale. Musical comedy play. 1977 – Nothing's Sacred Cabaret. 1978 – Curtains! A musical-mystery comedy play. 1979 – Peter Pan: A New Wave Fairytale (revised). Musical comedy play. 1980 – Spaced Out. An intergalactic musical comedy play. 1981 – I'd Rather Be Doing Something Else; The Didi Glitz Story. A comic book musical comedy play. In collaboration with Diane Noomin. 1982 – Anarchy In High Heels. New York. Cabaret theatre. 1983 – Anarchy In High Heels San Francisco. Cabaret theatre. 1985 – Oh Goddess! A spiritual musical comedy play. References Theatrical organizations in the United States Performance artist collectives 1972 establishments in California Feminism in California
28235622	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skarpn%C3%A4ck%20Airfield	Skarpnäck Airfield	Skarpnäck Airfield () was an airfield on Skarpnäcksfältet, a subdistrict of Skarpnäck borough, Stockholm, Sweden. It was mostly used for gliding, and was closed in 1980. Apartment buildings were built at the site in the following years. The airport was used as an auto racing circuit for the 1948 Stockholm Grand Prix, a Formula Two race, and the following year the Swedish Summer Grand Prix was held here. Automobile Racing were arranged the following years as well. Lap Records The official race lap records at Skarpnäck Airfield are listed as: See also Skarpnäcksfältet Sources Metropolitan Stockholm Buildings and structures in Stockholm Defunct airports in Sweden Airports in the Stockholm region 1980 disestablishments in Sweden sv:Skarpnäcks flygfält
33926201	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Lauder%20%28disambiguation%29	Thomas Lauder (disambiguation)	Thomas Lauder was a Scottish churchman. Thomas Lauder may also refer to: Thomas Dick Lauder (1784–1848), writer Tommy Lauder (born 1918), ice hockey player
69614492	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20storms%20named%20Lannie	List of storms named Lannie	The name Lannie has been used for two tropical cyclones in the Philippines by the PAGASA in the Western Pacific Ocean. Typhoon Talim (2017) (T1720, 20W, Lannie) Tropical Storm Lionrock (2021) (T2117, 22W, Lannie) See also Cyclone Annie, a similar sounding name Pacific typhoon set index articles
71347134	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomasz%20Pauli%C5%84ski	Tomasz Pauliński	Tomasz Pauliński (born 27 May 1989) is a Polish Paralympic athlete who competes in shot put at international track and field competitions. He is a World champion and a European champion, he competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics where he finished in fourth place in the shot put F34. He is also the European record holder for the shot put in his sports classification. References 1989 births Living people Sportspeople from Bydgoszcz Athletes from Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship Paralympic athletes for Poland Polish male shot putters Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the World Para Athletics Championships World Para Athletics Championships winners Medalists at the World Para Athletics European Championships 20th-century Polish people 21st-century Polish people
32053574	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asafo%20market	Asafo market	Asafo Market is a trading centre in Asafo, Kumasi, the capital of Ashanti, Ghana, to the western side of the Asafo interchange. Asafo Market was formerly called Nkrumah Market, which was named after the first Prime Minister of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah; however, the name was changed to Asafo Market when Nkrumah was overthrown. References Buildings and structures in Kumasi Retail markets in Ghana
6708628	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorkshire%20Coastliner	Yorkshire Coastliner	Yorkshire Coastliner is a bus company that operates both local and regional bus services in North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire, England. It is a subsidiary of Transdev Blazefield. History The company was established in 1990, when the York-based services of AJS Group were sold to Yorkshire Rider. At the time, AJS Group retained the regional services between Leeds and Bridlington, Filey, Scarborough and Whitby via York and Malton. In August 1991, Yorkshire Coastliner was included in the purchase of AJS Group by Blazefield Group, following the sale of seven of the company's eight remaining bus firms at the time – a deal valued at £2.2 million. In January 2006, French-based operator Transdev acquired the Blazefield Group, along with 305 vehicles. In August 2008, Top Line Travel and Veolia Transport were purchased. The company further expanded in February 2012, following the purchase of York Pullman's local bus operations. The sale included the transfer of 31 employees and 17 vehicles. In 2018, following the award of contracts by North Yorkshire County Council to replace those formerly operated by Stephensons of Easingwold, local services in and around York were rebranded York & Country, with vehicles subsequently rebranded in a two-tone blue livery. Services and branding CityZap The CityZap brand was introduced on 27 March 2016, with services running direct between York and Leeds via the A64. As of April 2022, the service operated daily, with an hourly frequency during the day. There was no early morning or evening service. A second service, operated by The Burnley Bus Company was launched in November 2017, running direct between Leeds and Manchester. The service was subsequently withdrawn in July 2018, owing to low passenger numbers. In December 2020, four double-deck Alexander Dennis Enviro400MMC vehicles were introduced on services between York and Leeds – an investment of £1.4 million. Vehicles include free WiFi, USB and wireless charging, tables and audio-visual next stop announcements. The CityZap service ceased operations on 19 November 2022, with Transdev Blazefield claiming the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic had made running the express service unsustainable. Coastliner The Coastliner brand encompasses a group of regional services linking the cities of Leeds and York with the towns and villages of Malton, Pickering and Thornton-le-Dale and coastal resorts of Scarborough and Whitby. Services are operated by a fleet of Volvo B5TL bodied Wright Gemini 3 double-deck vehicles branded in a two-tone blue livery, and an Alexander Dennis Enviro400 MMC double-deck vehicle branded in a two-tone gunmetal and silver livery. Vehicles include free WiFi, USB and wireless charging and audio-visual next stop announcements. In May 2018, the route of the 840 service, which runs between Leeds and Whitby, was voted as the "most scenic bus route in Britain" in an online poll. Flyer In September 2020, in partnership with Leeds Bradford Airport, Transdev Blazefield and West Yorkshire Combined Authority, the company commenced operation of a network services centring around the airport. Operations were transferred from former operator, Yorkshire Tiger, including a depot at Idle, West Yorkshire. Services 737, 747 and 757 were subsequently rebranded Flyer and renumbered A1 (Horsforth & Leeds), A2 (Bradford & Harrogate) and A3 (Bradford, Guiseley, Otley & Shipley). As of April 2022, services are operated by a fleet of Optare Versa single-deck vehicles, branded in a yellow and purple livery. Vehicles include free WiFi, USB charging ports, audio-visual next stop announcements and additional luggage storage. Some vehicles are also fitted with wireless chargers. York & Country The York & Country brand encompasses local services operating in and around the cathedral city of York, with destinations including Acomb, Derwenthorpe, Fulford, Haxby and Rawcliffe. Some services extend beyond the city to Castle Howard and Malton in the east, as well as Boroughbridge, Knaresborough and Ripon in the west. Services are operated by a fleet of Alexander Dennis Enviro200 MMC and Optare Versa single-deck vehicles branded in a two-tone blue livery, and also a fleet of Mellor Strata single-deck vehicles branded in a two-tone gunmetal livery. York City Sightseeing Upon the buyout of original franchise operators Top Line Travel in 2008, Yorkshire Coastliner run the York franchise of international tour bus company City Sightseeing. Services are operated by a fleet of Alexander Dennis Enviro400 open-top double-deck vehicles and a VDL DB250 bodied Plaxton President open-top double-deck vehicle, branded in City Sightseeing's red livery. In 2014, the fleet used on York's sightseeing tours were converted to electric drivetrains by Magtec. This has been regarded to be the first time a double-decker bus had been converted to electric in the world. However in 2020, these vehicles were replaced for ones that are diesel-operated. Fleet and operations Depots As of July 2023, the company operates from three depots across the region: Idle, Bradford (Flyer) Malton (Coastliner) Rawcliffe, York (York & Country, York City Sightseeing) Vehicles As of May 2021, the fleet consists of 57 buses. The fleet consists mainly of diesel-powered single and double-deck buses manufactured by Alexander Dennis, Mellor, Optare and Wrightbus. Notes References External links Transdev Blazefield Limited and Transdev York Limited on Companies House Transdev York & Country website Bus operators in North Yorkshire Transdev Transport companies established in 1990 Transport in Yorkshire 1990 establishments in England Norton-on-Derwent
7796137	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oflag%20XIII-A	Oflag XIII-A	Oflag XIII-A, Oflag XIII-B and Oflag XIII-D were all German World War II prisoner-of-war camp for officers (Offizierlager). They were all located on the old Nazi party rally grounds in Langwasser, Nuremberg, in northern Bavaria. They were adjacent to Stalag XIII-D. Camp history Oflag XIII-A was opened in August 1940 to accommodate mainly French officers captured during the Battle of France. They were transferred to other camps, and the camp was closed on 29 October 1941. In May 1941 Oflag XIII-B was created in a separate compound for Serbian officers captured during the Balkans Campaign. This camp was moved to Oflag XIII-B at Hammelburg in April 1943. In June 1941 a new compound Oflag 62 was opened for high-ranking Soviet officers captured during Operation Barbarossa. It was redesignated Oflag XIII-D in September 1941. This camp was closed April 1942 and the surviving officers (many had died during the winter due to an epidemic) were transferred to other camps. From December 1944 to March 1945 XIII-D was designated Oflag 73 and used to accommodate officers of various nationalities evacuated hastily from camps in the east that were threatened by the rapid advance of the Red Army. On 15 April 1945, Lt. Donald Prell (who had been recaptured after escaping from Oflag XIII-B and sent to Oflag 73) awoke to find all the camp's guards had disappeared. He and another POW walked out the front gate to freedom. On 16 April 1945 the United States Army liberated the camp, finding only Serbian officers and those too sick to have been marched out, including some Americans who had been wounded by strafing American planes while being marched from Hammelburg. See also List of prisoner-of-war camps in Germany Oflag References Notes Bibliography Oflags
73414919	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilar%20Ibarrola	Pilar Ibarrola	María del Pilar Ibarrola Muñoz (born 1944) is a Spanish statistician and stochastic control theorist, part of the early expansion of statistics into an academic discipline in Spain in the 1960s and 1970s. She was named professor of decision theory at Complutense University of Madrid in 1974, but soon after left for the University of La Laguna, where she was named as University Professor. She returned to the professorship of decision theory at Complutense University in 1979. Ibarrola served as the third president of the Spanish Statistics and Operations Research Society (SEIO), from 1984 to 1986. She received the SEIO Medal in 2013. References 1944 births Living people Spanish statisticians Women statisticians Control theorists Academic staff of the University of La Laguna Academic staff of the Complutense University of Madrid
45559762	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brookwood%20Historic%20District	Brookwood Historic District	Brookwood Historic District is a national historic district located at Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 166 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, 1 contributing structure, and 1 contributing object in a predominantly residential section of Wilmington. The district developed as planned suburban areas between about 1920 and 1964 and includes notable examples of Colonial Revival, and Bungalow / American Craftsman style architecture. Notable contributing resources include Brookwood Park, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Robert F. Rankin House, and Thomas E. Moody House. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. References Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Colonial Revival architecture in North Carolina Buildings and structures in Wilmington, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in New Hanover County, North Carolina
33873596	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bah%C3%A1%CA%BC%C3%AD%20Faith%20in%20the%20United%20States	Baháʼí Faith in the United States	The Baháʼí Faith was first mentioned in the United States in 1893 at the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago. Soon after, early American converts began embracing the new religion. Thornton Chase was the most prominent among the first American Baha'is and made important contributions to early activities. One of the first Baháʼí institutions in the U.S. was established in Chicago and called the Baháʼí Temple Unity, incorporated in 1909 to facilitate the establishment of the first Baháʼí House of Worship in the West, which was eventually built in Wilmette, Illinois and dedicated in 1953. As of 2020 the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies noted the Baháʼí Faith was the largest non-Christian religion in the majority of US counties. ʻAbdu'l-Bahá became head of the Baháʼí Faith after his father Baha'u'llah (Founder of the religion) died in 1892. He visited the United States and Canada in 1912, ultimately reaching some 40 cities from April to December. He promoted his father's teachings on peace and unity and consolidated the fledgling western Baháʼí community. After returning from his journey, ʻAbdu'l-Bahá continued corresponding with American Baháʼís, eventually addressing to them a series of letters, or tablets, charging the believers with the task of spreading the religion worldwide. These letters were compiled in Tablets of the Divine Plan. Following ʻAbdu'l-Bahá's death in 1921, his grandson Shoghi Effendi became the Guardian of the Faith, and continued to encourage and direct the efforts of the American and worldwide Baháʼí community. In 1925, the first National Spiritual Assembly of the United States was formed in conjunction with the Baháʼís of Canada. In 1937, Shoghi Effendi asked believers to begin the systematic implementation of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá's vision of teaching the Faith worldwide, calling for American pioneers to assist in establishing Baháʼí communities in the republics of Latin America. Later coordinated efforts, such as the Ten Year Crusade from 1953–63, would see American pioneers sent to a wide variety of locations around the globe. At the conclusion of the first 7-year Plan in 1944, it was reported that every state in the United States had at least one Local Spiritual Assembly, and the national Baháʼí population was estimated at 4,800. In its 2020 annual report, the National Spiritual Assembly of the 48 contiguous states reported 177,647 registered Baháʼís of all ages, only 77,290 of which had good addresses, and 57,341 total participants in core activities, with 37% of attendees from outside of the Baháʼí population. Early history The first mention of events related to the history of the religion in the United States appears to be the 1845-6 echo of the Nov 1845 London Times story relating events of the Báb upon return from pilgrimage, whom Baháʼís hold as a direct precursor akin to the relationship between John the Baptist and Jesus. In America this was printed in April 1846 in the Boon Lick Times based on an article in the NY Mirror. A mention in 1850 followed. The first academic paper on the religion was a letter written to the American Oriental Society which was holding its meeting in Boston and the library of materials was held at the Boston Athenæum. The letter was originally published as part of the minutes of the Society in The Literary World of June 14, 1851, as an untitled entry whose first quote is "notice of a singular character, who has for some years past played a prominent part on the stage of Persian life" dated February 10, 1851 by Dr. Rev. Austin H. Wright. It was subsequently also published in a Vermont newspaper June 26, 1851. In 1893 Rev. Henry Harris Jessup addressed the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago with the first mention the Baháʼí Faith itself in the United States - and published in the Chicago Inter Ocean and manuscript. Anton Haddad, the first Baháʼí to come to America was already in the country. First community Following Haddad, Ibrahim George Kheiralla came to the US and settled in New York where he began to teach "Truth Seeker" classes. He visited Charles Augustus Briggs and others, as well as the Syrian community in New York however in 1894 Kheiralla moved on to Chicago following the interest fostered by the World's Columbian Exposition's World Parliament of Religions. One of the early converts while Kheiralla was in Chicago was Thornton Chase, who had read the presentation about the Baháʼís at the Exposition, and is generally considered the first Baháʼí convert in the West. Other individuals had converted, but none remained members of the religion. Later students of Kheiralla's included Howard MacNutt, who would later compile The Promulgation of Universal Peace, a prominent collection of the addresses of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá during his journeys in America. Both men were designated as "Disciples of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá" and "Heralds of the Covenant" by Shoghi Effendi. Another student of the classes and Disciple was Lua Getsinger, designated as the "mother teacher of the West". Another who "passed" the class and joined the religion was the maverick Honoré Jackson. Kheiralla moved once again, to Kenosha, Wisconsin, in 1895, where a large Baháʼí community soon developed. In 1898, Kheiralla undertook a Baháʼí pilgrimage to Palestine to meet ʻAbdu'l-Bahá with other American pilgrims, including Phoebe Hearst, Lua Getsinger and joined by May Bolles. Kheiralla began making claims of independent leadership and ʻAbdu'l-Bahá sent, first, Anton Haddad with a letter contesting the definition of leadership, then Khieralla's initial teacher of the religion, ʻAbdu'l-Karím-i-Tihrání, to confront him. The conflict made the newspapers. Ultimately unwilling to follow the leadership of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, he was declared a Covenant-breaker. In the earliest decades of the religion in the country the US the membership had rapid fluctuations that suffered from ill defined community experiences of what membership even meant. It had started with writing individual letters of declaration to 'Abdu'l-Baha but that became less common after 1900. Green Acre Meanwhile, to the east, Sarah Farmer had founded Green Acre following the enthusiasm of the same Parliament as a summer center of cross-religion gatherings and cultural development. She had success attracting investors, most especially Phoebe Hearst, but by the end of 1899 things were in crisis. According to scholar Eric Leigh Schmidt various people involved were trying to take Green Acre in various directions and threatened the shutdown of the programs Creditors were nervous, and her business partners had thought to force Farmer to sell out. While her partners were seeking to meet with her, Farmer was a guest already aboard the SS Fürst Bismarck the first week of January 1900. During the voyage Farmer and Wilson met friends and learned they were on the way to see ʻAbdu'l-Bahá and were asked to come along. Wilson was dubious but eventually the ladies changed their plans and went along. before leaving for Haifa March 23, 1900. After converting to the religion on meeting ʻAbdu'l-Bahá Farmer returned to America and began settings plans for the 1901 session at Green Acre. Mírzá Abu'l-Faḍl, among the most scholarly trained Baháʼís of the time, accompanied Anton Haddad returning to America and arrived for the 1901 season. Ali Kuli Khan, to serve as his translator, arrived in the United States in June. They had been sent by ʻAbdu'l-Bahá. The later well-known Baháʼí Agnes Baldwin Alexander (in 1957, the head of the Baháʼí Faith, Shoghi Effendi, appointed her a Hand of the Cause of God, the highest rank one may hold as an individual Baháʼí), was also there. Out of this the community of Baháʼís began to form in Boston. Farmer and ʻAbdu'l-Bahá began an active exchange of letters some twenty-plus of his which were gathered and printed initially in 1909 and then the third edition in 1919. Continued development That America went through a Civil War and achieved progress toward an emancipation of its black people is pointed at by ʻAbdu'l-Bahá in 1912 as a basis of encouraging respect for America in its support for humanitarian and altruistic ideals. An appeal to the US for humanitarian interest goes as far back as 1867 when Baháʼís wrote a petition to the US Congress because it held no attachment to the present oppressive conditions in Persia. Baháʼu'lláh did himself address the "Rulers of America and the Presidents of the Republics" (Ulysses S. Grant was USA President at the time) saying in part "Bind ye the broken with the hands of justice, and crush the oppressor who flourisheth with the rod of the commandments of your Lord…." Baháʼís also used diplomatic means to seek redress or relief. In 1901 when the American Baha'i community numbered only roughly 2000 members, they approached the US Ambassador to Persia Herbert W. Bowen in Paris concerning the situation of Baháʼís. As an example of the persecution Baha'is faced (then and now) in Iran, even an American diplomat was murdered in 1924 by a mob on suspicion of being a Baháʼí intervening in a local matter. In 1906 a government census reported through a scholar that there were 1280 Baháʼís in 24 places among 14 states. Early Baháʼís in this period included reformers and artists like Stanwood Cobb, Louis G. Gregory, and Juliet Thompson. Laura Clifford Barney interviewed ʻAbdu'l-Bahá on several teachings of the religion resulting in the early publication Some Answered Questions. The Baháʼí Temple Unity was incorporated in Chicago at a national convention in 1909 to facilitate the establishment of the first Baháʼí House of Worship in the West; 39 delegates from 36 cities attended. Star of the West was the first large periodical production in the country beginning in March, 1910. Thornton Chase scholar Robert Stockman underscores Chase' importance as an early North American Baháʼí thinker, publicist, administrator, and organizer who is still under appreciated, that "He is perhaps the only person (in America) before 1912 who had a thorough understanding of the Baháʼí concept of consultation." Chase was the prime mover behind many of the Chicago's early institutional activities and in many ways his sudden death left a gap in the North American Baháʼí community that remained unfilled until the rise to prominence in the early 1920s of Horace Holley, the chief developer of Baháʼí organization in the United States and Canada. ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, while head of the religion, visited the United States and Canada, ultimately visiting some 40 cities, to once again spread his father's teachings. He arrived in New York City on 11 April 1912. While he spent most of his time in New York, he visited many cities on the east coast. Then in August he started a more extensive journey across America to the West coast before returning east at the end of October. On 5 December 1912 he set sail back to Europe from New York. During his nine months in North America, he met with many well known people as well as hundreds of American and Canadian Baháʼís who were recent converts to the religion. Accomplishments during the trip include setting examples of the core values of the religion - unity of humanity, and gender equality. First he demonstrated an advanced race-consciousness by glorifying diversity and black individuals on multiple occasions when racial segregation in the United States was the usual practice. And second, extending the progress of the equality of women and men. During his stay in America the lead all-male assembly was dissolved in favor of an integrated one of women and men. After his return to Palestine in 1913, ʻAbdu'l-Bahá mentioned various lands around the world in which the religion should be introduced, predicted the imminence of World War I, and elaborated the qualities of those who seek to serve the religion. This guidance took the form of a series of letters, or tablets, to the followers of the religion in the United States in 1916-1917; these letters were compiled together in the book Tablets of the Divine Plan. They were translated and presented on April 4, 1919 in New York City, and published in Star of the West on December 12, 1919. Urbain Ledoux also joined the religion about this time. The world-wide activity of Martha Root, who circled the globe three times teaching the Faith, was catalyzed by these Tablets. The American Baháʼí community went through a shift in the 1910s from a loosely defined community centered on ʻAbdu'l-Bahá's charismatic personality, toward doctrinal uniformity and an emphasis on the Covenant. Confusions on membership existed though larger communities became more stable. For example, following the 1917 national convention, Mason Remey chaired an investigative committee into a study group in Chicago that was mixing the teachings of Baháʼu'lláh with an occult leader, while communications with 'Abdu'l-Baha were cut off. The group members were declared "violators" and expelled from the community, and these decisions were confirmed at the national convention of 1918. Nevertheless William Garlington suggests this shift may be why official roles went from around 3,000 in 1916 to half that in 1926. ʻAbdu'l-Bahá died in November 1921. In his will he appointed his grandson Shoghi Effendi as the Guardian and leader of the religion. A few in America questioned the appointment as early as 1926. Another division occurred because many were attracted to the personality of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá and saw the religion as an ecumenical society to which all persons of goodwill—regardless of religion—might join. When Shoghi Effendi made clear the position that the Baháʼí Faith was an independent religion with its own distinct administration through local and national spiritual assemblies, a few felt that he had overstepped the bounds of his authority; some who actively and continuously caused disunity were expelled by Shoghi Effendi as Covenant-breakers. All of the divisions in this period were short-lived and restricted in their influence, for the most part failing to last beyond the lives of their initial dissidents. 1921–1963 While the first Baháʼí House of Worship of the Americas began taking form in Chicago, national institutional development of the religion shifted to Green Acre for some decades. The Star of the West was replaced with the Baháʼí News in 1924 and supplemented by the magazine World Order in 1935. The first National Spiritual Assembly was elected in 1925 after years of increasing organizational development. See Statistics on National Spiritual Assemblies. Individuals in a number of social situations joined the religion - Alain LeRoy Locke, James Ferdinand Morton Jr., Robert Sengstacke Abbott, Helen Elsie Austin, and Nancy Douglas Bowditch. Additionally, two more institutions were established like Green Acre: the Geyserville school that later moved to become the Bosch Baháʼí School and the Louhelen Baháʼí School. Gradually from the early 1920s, with the leadership of Shoghi Effendi, membership in the religion was further delineated and its institutions more specifically defined both in methods of election and in jurisdiction. On the one hand it defined local assemblies as nine people elected by people who had formally declared their affiliation and distinct from membership in churches and that the boundaries of jurisdiction were the civil boundaries of the city or town, with jurisdiction at the regional and national level beyond that of local assemblies assigned more clearly to the national organs which were more firm by 1940. In the 1930s Shoghi Effendi also increased the standardization of avoiding political party affiliations which were progressively applied. And since the 1900s and on beyond the 1940s minorities grew in the community - African Americans grew from single digit percentages to the teens, over-represented compared to the states Bahá'ís were present in at the time and rose to higher percentages across the decades, and were integrated into communities successively with an increasing national normative process that may have had an increased sense of hierarchical loyalty instead of community bonds. Bahá'í Historical Record Survey The Bahá'í Historical Record Survey was an early demographic review of the Bahá'í Faith in the United States and Canada done circa 1934-1936. The backgrounds of Bahá'ís were later studied in a number of ways - racial and ethnic heritage, previous religious background, geographical spread and sometimes how these have changed over the years. Complimentary data sources have also been used to add to some of the reviews including US Census publications and Bahá'í directories published in periodicals of Bahá'í literature. A couple of these studies look specifically at the burgeoning black population of Bahá'ís amidst the wider society practice of continuing era of social segregation in the American society of the time which was against the Bahá'í teaching of the unity of all humanity. The vast majority of the Bahá'ís were white and mostly elder women, but the black segment of those states Bahá'ís were in responded more to the religion than the white population of those states did. The religion was also initially attracting Protestants, especially Unitarian Universalists and also among other more mainstream liberal denominations, but as history approached 1936 and beyond it attracted a greater diversity of religious backgrounds as it continued to grow more by conversion than by migration or birth. First Seven Year Plan Shoghi Effendi, head of the religion after the death of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, wrote a cable on May 1, 1936 to the Baháʼí Annual Convention of the United States and Canada, and asked for the systematic implementation of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá's vision to begin. In his cable he wrote: Appeal to assembled delegates ponder historic appeal voiced by ʻAbdu'l-Bahá in Tablets of the Divine Plan. Urge earnest deliberation with incoming National Assembly to insure its complete fulfillment. First century of Baháʼí Era drawing to a close. Humanity entering outer fringes most perilous stage its existence. Opportunities of present hour unimaginably precious. Would to God every State within American Republic and every Republic in American continent might ere termination of this glorious century embrace the light of the Faith of Baháʼu'lláh and establish structural basis of His World Order. Following the May 1 cable, another cable from Shoghi Effendi came on May 19 calling for permanent pioneers to be established in all the countries of South American and the Caribbean. The 1936 religious census conducted by the United States government reported 2,584 Baháʼís and by 1944 every state in the nation had at least one local Baháʼí administrative body called a Spiritual Assembly, and a population of about 4,800 Baháʼís was reported. During that period the Baháʼí National Spiritual Assembly of the United States and Canada appointed the Inter-America Committee to take charge of the preparations for international pioneers. In the fall, amidst the rebuilding of the economy in the Great Depression and the build up to World War II a special collection and printing of the scriptural guidance to America was given to President Franklin Roosevelt, "that these utterances may, in this hour of grave crisis, bring to him comfort, encouragement and strength." During the 1937 Baháʼí North American Convention, Shoghi Effendi cabled advising the convention to prolong their deliberations to permit the delegates and the National Assembly to consult on a plan that would enable Baháʼís to go to Latin America as well as to include the completion of the outer structure of the Baháʼí House of Worship in Wilmette, Illinois. In 1937 the First Seven Year Plan (1937–44), an international plan designed by Shoghi Effendi, gave the American Baháʼís the goal of establishing the Baháʼí Faith in every country in Latin America. In 1937 there was essentially no presence of the religion from Central America south, and eleven states and provinces in the US and Canada had no Baháʼís at all; thirty‑four lacked spiritual assemblies. In 1938 Baháʼí communities and Local Spiritual Assemblies began to form across Latin America with the spread of American Baháʼís, while inside the United States individuals like Guy Murchie, Robert Hayden, Robert B. Powers, joined the religion and others who were raised in the religion achieved increasing levels of service in it like Marion Holley and Dorothy Beecher Baker or otherwise became more well known in the world like Bernard Leach, Carole Lombard, Barbara Hale, Lois Hall and William Sears. In April 1953 the Baháʼí House of Worship (Wilmette, Illinois) was formally dedicated. During through shortly after WWII the community roughly quadrupled even while the average size of communities dropped from 30 to 15 and 15 became the idealized as able to support various activities like regular Feasts, Holy Day observances, public meetings, assembly meetings. At the same time activities that used to be run by individuals on their own initiative became functions of appointed committees. Up to 1944, delegates to the national convention were selected based on local assemblies - in 1944 they were elected on the basis of statewide regional conventions of Baháʼís. In 1947, at a time when the Baháʼís number approaching 5000 in America, Baháʼí students at the University of Chicago participated in a demonstration against the segregation and discrimination based on race for medical treatment of students on campus. In 1955 American Baháʼís and institutions spoke up following the destruction of a Baháʼí center of worship in Iran. From the latter 1940s into the early 1960s the population of Bahá'ís doubled every thirteen years even while the community was sending out pioneers to South America and Europe across the 1930s and 40s. In 1941, National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States and Canada(NSA) filed a suit in the Supreme court of New York County against Mirza Ahmad Sohrab to stop him from using the name "Bahá'í". The judge dismissed the case, stating that, the complaint fails to state a good cause of action. The NSA appealed but the Appellate Court affirmed the decision of the lower court. Since the 1900s and on beyond the 1940s minorities grew in the community - African Americans grew from single digit percentages to the teens, over-represented compared to the states Bahá'ís were present in at the time, rose to higher percentages across the decades, and were integrated into communities successively with an increasing national normative process that may have had an increased sense of hierarchical loyalty instead of community bonds. Later developments Later coordinated efforts, such as the Ten Year Crusade, would see large scale changes in the country - first pioneers were sent to a wide variety of locations around the globe, such as Africa, some parts of eastern Asia, parts of Oceania/Polynesia filling out the list of first Baháʼís to settle in a country for the plan in a terminology of the Knights of Baháʼu'lláh. In addition to the international consequences to the plan, initiatives were also started in other arenas. The United States Bahá'ís also had 'subordinate objectives' during the Crusade. One included raising of the total number of Local Spiritual Assemblies to three hundred. This message to the Bahá'í community at the national convention was conveyed by Rúhíyyih Khánum. The principles for the list of goal cities developed was later explained in the national Baha'i News periodical. The National Assembly followed these principles: If a state had only one assembly, at least one other town was on the list with priority to preserving that one assembly. Any goal with no Bahá'í presence was called a 'virgin goal' and otherwise was a 'consolidation goal'. 40 virgin goals were compiled. If a state had a cluster of assemblies in one area goals was picked in outlying areas of that cluster to "reduce the immense distances between many Bahá'í communities." 133 goal cities were developed where groups of at least 4 Bahá'ís lived. Some goals were developed "within easy travel" of established communities so that people who could afford only moving narrowly could do so. If a community that was not a goal area were to rise to assembly status they would be counted towards the total and that individuals were free to pioneer anywhere but should not expect other pioneers to be coordinated to join them just because they were there. The Bahá'í directory for 1953-1954 listed 171 local assemblies, 600 locales with groups of 2-8 adult Bahá'ís, and 611 locations with isolated individual Bahá'ís. The first national list of goal cities was published in the Baha'i News in October, 1953. By 1963 there were 331 total assemblies, 649 locations with groups of 2-8 adult Bahá'ís, short of electing an assembly, and 676 locations of isolated Bahá'ís. Before being officially tasked with the work to support the goal some Area Teaching Committees already existed and were in a degree of organization with their own newsletters and conferences by September, 1953. These institutions had existed at least as far back as 1949, sometimes called Regional Teaching Committees. The fact that the Area Teaching Committees were designated central to the achievement of the goal was detailed again in June, 1955. The US sent about 400 pioneers across the plan to the international goals, almost half of whom were women. This was out of a population in the United States of almost 7,000 by 1956 and by 1963 the membership exceeded 10,000, and were increasing by about 1,200 per year. Though there had occasionally been earlier contact with Native American populations, (see for example the story of Nipo T. Strongheart,) this kind of effort was also a point of action during the plan. As a result of international and intranational changes, eras of activity and waves of growth, the cultural norms in the Baháʼí Faith went through major transitions. The first occurred at about the turn of the 20th century when the religion became known beyond its mainly Muslim Middle-Eastern population and spread to Christian North America and Europe. The second major breakthrough started post-World War II when the religion began to spread rapidly in the villages of the Third World. A stated purpose for the coordinating committees appointed to oversee the process was to facilitate a shift in the balance of roles from North American leading guidance and Latin cooperation to Latin leading guidance and North American cooperation. The process was well underway by 1950 and was to be enforced about 1953. In Africa it was emphasized that western pioneers be self-effacing and focus their efforts not on the colonial leadership but on the native Africans - and that the pioneers must show by actions the sincerity of their sense of service to the Africans in bringing the religion and then the Africans who understand their new religion are to be given freedom to rise up and spread the religion according to their own sensibilities and the pioneers to disperse or step into the background. Similar practices were undertake by Australians arriving in Papua New Guinea. Unlike the spread of Christianity within Indian country in the United States, the Baháʼí Faith has never been associated with a fortification of colonial occupation, Euro-American assimilation, or forced conversions of Native Americans. Indeed in 1960 Hand of the Cause Rúhíyyih Khánum asked for forgiveness for the injustices her race had done and praised the great past of the Native Americans. And in 1963 anthropologist Alice Beck Kehoe, a well known researcher of Native Americans, observed that "[The Baháʼí Faith] does not deny the validity of native Indian beliefs, [and]...appeals to many Indians who are seeking a religion that is neither exclusively Indian nor dominated by white values and customs," though while the religion was growing the challenge of broadening respect also continued to be a point of engagement. Mason Remey's schism In 1957 the Baháʼí world came upon a crisis when Shoghi Effendi died without having appointed a successor. The appointed Hands of the Cause organized a way to fill the central leadership until a decision could be made by the Universal House of Justice, which was elected in 1963 and ruled that under the conditions that prevailed, no second Guardian could have been appointed. Prior to the election of the Universal House of Justice, in 1960 one of the Hands, Mason Remey, announced that he was the Guardian and expected the allegiance of the world's Baháʼís. Remey was a prominent member of the American Baháʼí community, having been a contemporary of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá and appointed president of the International Baháʼí Council. His claim was rejected by the Hands of the Cause, and nearly all Baháʼís regarded him as a Covenant-breaker. Remey's division failed to attract sizable following. In 1964 there was a lawsuit and the NSA and won trademark rights. This group splintered and dwindled below 100 members by 2010, with no communal religious life. Involvement in Morocco In the midst of the period leading directly to the election Baháʼís in Morocco had organized their first assembly and begun to suffer persecution. In 1963 the arrest of Baháʼís in Morocco had gotten attention from King Hassan II of Morocco, US Senator Kenneth B. Keating and Roger Nash Baldwin, then Chairman of the International League for the Rights of Man. On March 31, 1963 during a visit to the United States and the United Nations, King Hasan was interviewed on television on Meet the Press, then with Lawrence E. Spivak, and was asked about the treatment of Baháʼís in his own country. He addressed the audience saying that the Baháʼí Faith was not a religion and "against good order and also morals". However, on April 2 he makes a public statement that if the Supreme Court confirms the penalty of death that he would grant them a royal pardon. However, on November 23 the Supreme Court heard the appeals and reversed the decision of the lower court. On December 13 the prisoners were actually released. Since 1963 In 1964 a project developed among the Baháʼís supporting race unity - the same period as the Freedom Summer campaign - with connections at Louhelen and the burgeoning Baháʼí community of Greenville South Carolina. School integration was going to happen that Fall. Training sessions for a project were noted in the Baháʼí News in August at Louhelen. Some 80 youth attended the training in mid-June and some 26 faculty and staff. After the classes in various subjects 27 went to 8 locations: Greenville, SC, Atlanta, GA, locations in MN, NM, AZ, MI and DC. Six youth went to Greenville, SC, under the sponsorship of their local assembly for a 6 week program joined by five local youth. They worked on tutoring some 55 blacks students about to attend newly integrating schools, rural proclamation of the religion, and human rights activities focused on the black minority. The work was capped with a parent-teacher banquet reception at a church and a picnic for the students conducted by the Baháʼí teachers. Firesides were held widely in rural areas around Greenville which featured singing, and the group supported petitioning for the public swimming pool being integrated. In 1965 Baháʼís participated in the Selma to Montgomery marches and arranged for telegrams according to the June issue of Baháʼí News. The National Assembly telegrammed the US President and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Eight Baháʼís including two from Montgomery are documented to have participated. Across the 1960s and 1970s there was a significant suburbanization of the community along with the general society. Populations of Baha'is in major urban centers reduced growth rate and suburban centers and small towns became disproportionately high. Over the same time there were other demographic changes: a significant influx of youth occurred across the late 1960s and early 1970s across the country. National minorities grew in proportions in regions - African Americans in the South but also urban centers, Hispanics, East-Asians, and Indians in the Southwest. The news in 1971 was that the national count of Baháʼís had doubled - The Christian Century noted that in a "one-month, 13-county 'teaching conference' based in Dillon, South Carolina, 9,000 converts, most of them black, joined the Baha'i faith (sic), with hundreds more signing declaration cards in similar efforts throughout the south." The state with the single largest Baháʼí population was now South Carolina. This was followed by a larger demographic change when Persian refugees from the Iranian Revolution of 1978-9 probably adding 15% to the national community though often in just a few urban areas. Overall demographics are not available save to note that the average community size - assembly or not - was about 5 people in 1947 and just over 14 in 1991. At around 77,000 members in America, in 1982 Baháʼís testified before a Congress subcommittee on the situation in Iran following the Islamic revolution and this was followed up a couple years later, and again in 1988. Meanwhile the accelerated growth of the worldwide community in the 1960s-1980s yielded a challenge for the social and economic development of communities. According to the Baháʼí teachings, development should increase people's self-reliance, communal solidarity, giving access to knowledge, and, where possible, removing sources of injustice. Spiritual, moral and material development should be linked together. These priorities are envisioned as crucial to the development of world peace. The religion entered a new phase of activity when a message of the Universal House of Justice dated 20 October 1983 was released. The Office of Social and Economic Development was established and Baháʼís were urged to seek out ways, compatible with the Baháʼí teachings, in which they could become involved in the social and economic development of the communities in which they lived. Worldwide in 1979 there were 129 officially recognized Baháʼí socioeconomic development projects. By 1987, the number of officially recognized development projects had increased to 1482. The Americas as a total held a significant percentage of these. Some examples in the United States: In 1984 the Center for Interracial Understanding was established in the summer of 1984 at Louhelen. Another project called a residential college, was founded at Louhelen in September 1985, and was part of its conception. It was announced in March 1986 it was accepting applications for the September 1986 enrollment combining formal study of the religion with a degree earning study at one or two nearby colleges. Students would live and work at the school, receive training, and go to one of these schools. A temporary effort was that of Tucson Baháʼís aid for 1985 Mexico City earthquake, as there was during and following Hurricane Hugo. Another programs was for youth called the Baháʼí Youth Workshop founded by Oscar DeGruy in 1974, that had groups organize and perform variously in the United States. 1996 was the beginning of the implementation of the Multi-Racial Unity Living Experience(MRULE) project by Richard Walter Thomas and Jeanne Gazel at Michigan State University, in the wake of the OJ Simpson murder case in Oct 1995. Thomas was approached by then provost Lou Anna Simon of MSU to have a means of resolving racial tensions in the midst of increasing diversity on campus. The Tahirih Justice Center was founded in 1997 for individuals seeking protection from human rights abuses. A few communities of Bahá'ís in the country grew to 100s and Los Angeles grew to over one thousand members by the 1980s. In the 1980s the community saw the beginning of a significant increase in supplemental initiatives - special interest groups, academic and professional associations, and newsletters. The United States Baháʼí administration was party to court cases over trademarks in 2005 and 2008, both of which produced rulings in favor of Baháʼí sects resulting from Mason Remey's schism (see - Ruling on Baháʼí trademarks). Modern community In December 1999, the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States stated that out of approximately 140,000 adult (15 and over) members on the rolls, only 70,000 had known addresses, and another estimate was of 137,000 plus Iranian refugees. Nearly 17 percent of US Baháʼís reported being international pioneers, while some 35 percent indicated homefront pioneering experience inside the United States to places the religion had not previously had a presence. The American Religious Identity Survey (ARIS) conducted in 2001, with a sample size of 50,000, estimated that there were 84,000 self-identifying adult (21 and over) Baháʼís in the United States. The Association of Religion Data Archives (relying on World Christian Encyclopedia) estimated there were some 525,000 Baháʼís in the United States in 2005 however internal counts in Feb 2011 show 175,000 excluding Alaska and Hawaiʻi. Danish researcher, Margit Warburg, stated that the Baháʼí figure reported in World Christian Encyclopedia for the United States is highly exaggerated. Nevertheless as of 2020 the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies noted it as the largest non-Christian religion in the country measured by county. With developmental roots back into the 19th century, the Ruhi Institute, an educational institution initially operating under the guidance of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baháʼí Faith in Colombia but has been applied in the United States and studied. The goal is of involving more individuals in study leading to action. A focus of the Institute is to couple an evolving appreciation of virtues with processes of community development. After some decades of development, Baháʼí leadership adopted it as a key component of the evolving nature of Baháʼí life and the culture expressed. Although a majority of Americans are Christians, Baháʼís make up the second-largest religious group in South Carolina . And based on data from 2010, Baháʼís were the largest minority religion in 80 counties out of the 3143 counties in the country. From the same 2010 data set, the largest populations of Baháʼís at the county-by-county level are in Los Angeles, CA, Palm Beach, FL, Harris County, TX, and Cook County, IL. However on a basis relative to the local population the highest relative density is in South Carolina and Bennett County, SD, especially near the Pine Ridge and Rosebud Indian Reservations, and Georgia. About 3,000 Baháʼís live in the Chicago area. While early fictional works relating the religion occurred in Europe a number of them have appeared in the United States since the 1980s, sometimes in mass media - see Baháʼí Faith in fiction. Slowdown in growth Overall religious membership fell precipitously from 70% to 47% among all Americans from 2000 to 2020. The growth of the American Baháʼí community began to stall around the same time, seeing a 50% drop in enrollments from 1997 to 2007, and a 30% increase in withdrawals in 2006; Sen McGlinn, whose membership was rescinded by the Baháʼí administration, suggested that this could be related to a change in culture in the community and that a significant number of those leaving formally might still identify as Baháʼís. The 2005 annual report by the National Spiritual Assembly noted that growth declined by 60% in the previous 7 years, commenting, "By our assessment, that the number of annual enrollments has been declining reflects a period of active reassessment and planning for more systematic approaches to growth and retention" and, "the decline in growth is transitional." According to reports by the NSA, they saw 1,198 enrollments in the year to February 2005, 82 child registrations, 271 withdrawals, and 16 reinstatements; In 2009 there were 2,500 enrollments, 1200 child registrations, 322 withdrawals, and 35 reinstatements; and in 2015 there were 616 enrollments, 345 child registrations, 295 withdrawals, and 28 reinstatements. According to the 2020 Annual Report of the NSA of the Baha'is of the US, there were 526 adult enrollments, 459 deaths and 347 withdrawals during a period of 12 months. Major centres Greater Boston The Baháʼí Faith in Greater Boston, a combined statistical area, has had glimpses of the religion in the 19th century arising to its first community of Baháʼís at the turn of the century. Early newspapers articles on the precursor Bábí religion were followed by a paper by Dr. Rev. Austin H. Wright as an untitled entry whose first quote is "notice of a singular character, who has for some years past played a prominent part on the stage of Persian life" dated February 10, 1851. It is considered the first paper giving an account on Bábism. Circa 1900 the community began to coalesce being near to Greenacre, an interfaith retreat early on. From then on the institution would progressively be associated with Baháʼís - a place where both locals and people from afar came to learn of the religion, and who officially took over controlling interest from 1913 following the wishes and controlling interest of its founder. Leaders rising to national prominence with a national level of organization soon arose after ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, then head of the religion, traveled through the area. Most prominent were from the area were Harlan Ober, William Henry Randall, and Alfred E. Lunt. Broadening recognitions of the community sometimes took the form of publicly noting their persecution in Morocco and then Iran, and presence in local concerts and fairs. In 1988 the national assembly of the United States picked Boston among its four foci for expansion of the religion and a conference of some 800 Baháʼís gathered. The modern community, albeit a tiny fraction of the wider population, is present in some concentrations and thin areas throughout the greater Boston area. Over the last couple decades, it has been systematically pursuing programs of neighborhood community building activities of study circles, children's classes, junior youth groups, and devotional meetings among the activities and observances of the religion. South Carolina The Baháʼí Faith in South Carolina begins in the transition from Jim Crow to the Civil Rights Movement but defines another approach to the problem, and proceeded according to its teachings. The first mention in relation to the history of the religion came in the 1860s in a newspaper article. Following this the first individual from South Carolina to find the religion was Louis Gregory in 1909, followed by individuals inside the state. Communities of Baháʼís were soon operating in North Augusta, Columbia and Greenville struggled with segregation culture through the 1950s externally and internally. However, in the 1969-1973 period, a very remarkable and somewhat unsustainable period of conversions to the religion on the basis of a meeting of Christian and Baháʼí religious ideas established a basis of community across several counties - notably Marion, Williamsburg, and Dillon, served by the Louis Gregory Institute and its radio station WLGI but also across the wider area. That community continues and has gathered news coverage as part of the second largest religion in South Carolina. Alaska Alaska is unusual in that it is not an independent nation recognized by the United Nations, and yet has a National Spiritual Assembly. Its specific statistics are not published, and are often not broken out in non-Baháʼí statistics of the US in general. Hawaiʻi The Baháʼí community in Hawaiʻi had its origins when Hawaiian-born Agnes Alexander, who became a Baháʼí in Paris in 1900, returned to the islands in 1901. Similar to Alaska, the Baháʼís of Hawaiʻi have an independent National Spiritual Assembly from that of the US, though it is itself one of the 50 United States. Independent statistics have not been published. Criticism Juan Cole was an American Baháʼí professor of history who resigned from the religion in 1996 after conflicts with the Baháʼís. Cole went on to critically attack the Baháʼí Faith in several books and articles written from 1998-2000, describing a prominent Baháʼí as "inquisitor" and "bigot", and describing Baháʼí institutions as socially isolating, dictatorial, and controlling, and with financial irregularities. Soon after his resignation, Cole created an email list and website called H-Bahai, which became a repository of both primary source material and critical analysis on the religion. Notable American Baháʼís Outside the religion in general society prominent Baháʼís have been social and civic leaders Alain LeRoy Locke, Patricia Locke, Dorothy Wright Nelson and Layli Miller-Muro, entertainers Seals and Crofts, Dizzy Gillespie, Rainn Wilson, Andy Grammer and among academics Suheil Bushrui, and Dwight W. Allen. See List of Baháʼís for many other Baháʼís that have Wikipedia articles about them, and more generally :Category:American Bahá'ís. Such prominence does not connote authority or priority within the religion but simply a degree of public recognition. William Sears was a sports commentator and television personality, and Louis Gregory was an African-American lawyer, and both become prominent inside the religion as Hands of the Cause. Locke and Nelson were elected to the National Spiritual Assembly. See also Baháʼí Faith in North America Notes References Further reading External links Official website History of religion in the United States
43393000	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/113th%20Battalion%20%28Lethbridge%20Highlanders%29%2C%20CEF	113th Battalion (Lethbridge Highlanders), CEF	The 113th Battalion (Lethbridge Highlanders), CEF, was an infantry battalion of the Great War Canadian Expeditionary Force. The 113th Battalion was authorized on 22 December 1915 as part of a recruiting drive in which men from the same region could enlist and serve together. The battalion trained on the Lethbridge exhibition grounds in 1915. The rank-and-file soldiers were not issued Highland kit, but the battalion did raise three pipes and drums bands who were. Basic training in the CEF involved rifle training, bombing or hand grenade practice, route marches, rifle drill and many inspections. Inspections were very popular for the 113th as many wished to hear their three bands. In late May 1916, the battalion moved to Sarcee Camp outside Calgary for further training that lasted until September. During the time spent at Sarcee the battalion used painted rocks to construct their battalion number on nearby Signal Hill in Calgary. This bold white stone is still visible and preserved in Battalion Park. In early September 1916 orders came for the battalion to entrain for the east and by September 19 the battalion was on its way. On September 26, 1916, the 113th embarked along with the 111th and 145th Battalions on , a transport ship. The trip across the Atlantic took ten days and upon arriving in England the battalion was taken to a holding camp at Sandling near Shorncliffe. It was at Sandling that Lieutenant-Colonel Albert Westhead Pryce-Jones, the commanding officer, learned that the 113th would be broken up for replacements and would not see action as a unit after all. One can only imagine the disappointment of these men as they learned the fate of the 113th, their battalion, after 10 months training together. The 113th was transferred to the 17th Reserve Battalion, CEF, the Nova Scotia Highlanders, affiliated with the Scottish Seaforth Highlanders. The 17th was at Bramshott Camp located South of London. On October 12, 1916, most of the old 113th proceeded to France arriving at a camp near Le Havre France. Almost immediately 300 men of the old 113th were assigned as replacements to one of the most famous battalions in the CEF, the 16th Battalion (Canadian Scottish). An idea of the casualties suffered by the 16th in the Somme fighting of the fall of 1916 until 1917 can be understood by this reinforcement. This would mean that roughly 30% of the 16th were new transfers from the 113th. The battalion disbanded on 1 September 1917. The battalion recruited in, and was mobilized at, Lethbridge, Alberta. The battalion was commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Albert Westhead Pryce-Jones from 6 to 8 October 1916. The battalion was awarded the battle honour . The perpetuation of the 113th Battalion was assigned in 1920 to the 3rd Battalion, the Alberta Regiment. When the Alberta Regiment was split in 1924, the perpetuation was passed to the 2nd Battalion, the South Alberta Regiment. The South Alberta Regiment is now incorporated (through amalgamations) with the South Alberta Light Horse, which carries on the perpetuation. References Sources Canadian Expeditionary Force 1914–1919 by Col. G.W.L. Nicholson, CD, Queen's Printer, Ottawa, Ontario, 1962 113 Military units and formations of Alberta South Alberta Light Horse South Alberta Regiment
29780936	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laclubar%20Administrative%20Post	Laclubar Administrative Post	Laclubar, officially Laclubar Administrative Post (, ), is an administrative post (and was formerly a subdistrict) in Manatuto municipality, East Timor. Its seat or administrative centre is . References External links – information page on Ministry of State Administration site Administrative posts of East Timor Manatuto Municipality
2004531	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Neo%20Geo%20Pocket%20Color%20games	List of Neo Geo Pocket Color games	The Neo Geo Pocket Color is a handheld video game console released by SNK in 1999. Games There are currently games on this list. Games that can be played on the monochrome Neo Geo Pocket are noted as backwards compatible. Notes References External links Complete NGPC Masterlist Neo Geo Pocket Color
30995642	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinook%20High%20School	Chinook High School	Chinook High School may refer to one of the following: Chinook High School (Alberta) Chinook High School (Montana)
44252729	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymphon%20leptocheles	Nymphon leptocheles	Nymphon leptocheles is a species of sea spider first described by Georg Ossian Sars in 1888. The species greatly resembles other members of the genus Nymphon, and species identification from morphological traits alone is therefore a complex task. Habitat The species inhabits the sublittoral zone and occurs amongst hydroids and sea anemones. Diet N. leptocheles feeds on coelenterates. References Pycnogonids Taxa named by Georg Ossian Sars Animals described in 1888
70715692	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PD-2	PD-2	UkrSpecSystems PD-2 is a Ukrainian multi-purpose unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). It is designed for air reconnaissance and for combat use as a carrier of bombs with warheads weighing up to 3 kg. The aircraft can take off from a runway, or be equipped with removable modules for vertical take-off and landing. History From the start of the Russo-Ukrainian War in 2014, the Armed Forces of Ukraine saw the need for unmanned aerial vehicles, primarily for reconnaissance. Volunteers purchased civilian drones, which they used as-is or modified for military use. The People's Project volunteer organization was established to help the Ukrainian military in eastern Ukraine. In attempting to import modern UAVs, the organization faced reluctance from some foreign companies to sell their devices. As an alternative, the unmanned aerial vehicle was developed in cooperation with UkrSpecSystems. "PD" stands for "People's Drone". In 2020, UkrSpecSystems developed the PD-2 drone, which is a deep modernization of the PD-1 with increasing payload, communication range and other improvements. It can climb to 3,000 metres and fly for up to 10 hours. It has a modular construction that allows additional motors to be fitted to convert it from runway take off to vertical take-off and landing. Components and features Two reconnaissance UAVs; ground control station; a mobile control center equipped on the basis of a new all-wheel drive customized chassis; components and spare parts. References Twin-boom aircraft Unmanned aerial vehicles of Ukraine Reconnaissance aircraft Military equipment of the Russian invasion of Ukraine
7489137	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucilla%20Andrews	Lucilla Andrews	Lucilla Matthew Andrews Crichton (born 20 November 1919 in Suez, Egypt – d. 3 October 2006 in Edinburgh, Scotland) was a British writer of 33 romance novels from 1954 to 1996. As Lucilla Andrews she specialised in hospital romances, and under the pen names Diana Gordon and Joanna Marcus wrote mystery romances. She was a founding member of the Romantic Novelists' Association, which honoured her shortly before her death with a lifetime achievement award. Biography Born Lucilla Matthew Andrews on 20 November 1919 in Suez, Egypt, the third of four children of William Henry Andrews and Lucilla Quero-Bejar. They met in Gibraltar, and married in 1913. Her mother was daughter of a Spanish doctor and descended from the Spanish nobility. Her British father worked for the Eastern Telegraph Company (later Cable and Wireless) on African and Mediterranean stations until 1932. At the age of three, she was sent to join her older sister at boarding school in Sussex. She joined the British Red Cross in 1940 as a VAD, and later trained as a nurse at St Thomas' Hospital, London, during World War II. In 1947, she retired and married Dr James Crichton, but discovered that he was addicted to drugs. In 1949, soon after their daughter Veronica was born, he was committed to hospital and she returned to full-time nursing by night, while writing by day. In 1952, she sold her first romance novel, published in 1954, the same year that her husband died. She specialised in doctor-nurse and hospital romances, using her personal experience as inspiration. In 1969, she decided to move to Edinburgh. Her daughter read History at Newnham College, Cambridge, and became a journalist and Labour Party communications adviser, before her death from cancer in 2002. She was a founder member of the Romantic Novelists' Association in 1960 and an inaugural recipient of their Lifetime Outstanding Achievement Award, in the Scottish Parliament shortly before her death. Andrews died on 3 October 2006 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. Plagiarism In late 2006, Lucilla Andrews' autobiography No Time for Romance became the focus of a posthumous controversy. It has been alleged that the novelist Ian McEwan plagiarised from this work's description of Andrews' WWII nursing experiences while writing his novel, Atonement. McEwan has protested his innocence. The acknowledgements on the back page of Atonement had included Andrews' book as an inspiration and source. Andrews herself appeared to be untroubled by the connection between the books or the controversy. Bibliography Standalone novels The Print Petticoat (1954) The Secret Armour (1955) The Quiet Wards (1956) The First Year (1957) A Hospital Summer (1958) The Wife of the Red-Haired Man (1959) My Friend the Professor (1960) Nurse Errant (1961) Flowers from the Doctor (1963) The Young Doctors Downstairs (1963) The New Sister Theatre (1964) The Light in the Ward (1965) A House for Sister Mary (1966) Hospital Circles (1967) Highland Interlude (1968) The Healing Time (1969) Edinburgh Excursion (1970) Ring O'Roses (1972) Silent Song (1973) In Storm and in Calm (1975) Busman's Holiday (1978) The Crystal Gull (1978) After a Famous Victory (1984) Lights of London (1985) The Phoenix Syndrome (1987) Frontline 1940 (1990) The Africa Run (1993) Endel & Lofthouse Trilogy A Few Days in Endel (1967) aka Endel House (originally as Diana Gordon) Marsh Blood (1980) (originally as Joanna Marcus) The Sinister Side (1996) Jason Trilogy One Night in London (1979) Weekend in the Garden (1981) In an Edinburgh Drawing Room (1983) Serialised novels The Golden Hour (Woman and Home; 1955–6) The Fair Wind (Woman's Weekly; 1957) Pippa's Story (Woman's Weekly; 1968) Omnibus My Friend the Professor / Highland Interlude / Ring O' Roses (1979) References External links Obituary in the Scotsman Lucilla Andrews (publisher's website 1919 births 2006 deaths Nurses from London British romantic fiction writers British women novelists Women romantic fiction writers 20th-century British novelists 20th-century British women writers British expatriates in Egypt
72403075	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%20W.%20Workman	Kenneth W. Workman	Kenneth W. Workman (born October 12, 1948) is an American politician. He served as a Democratic member for the 51st and 56-3 district of the Georgia House of Representatives. Life and career Workman was born in Fulton County, Georgia. He attended Georgia State University. In 1981, Workman was elected to the 56-3 district of the Georgia House of Representatives, succeeding Tommy Tolbert. He left office in 1983 when he was elected to the 51st district, succeeding Mobley Childs. He served until 1989, when he was succeeded by Thurbert Baker. References 1948 births Living people People from Fulton County, Georgia Democratic Party members of the Georgia House of Representatives 20th-century American politicians Georgia State University alumni
239012	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apolo%20Ohno	Apolo Ohno	Apolo Anton Ohno (; born May 22, 1982) is an American retired short track speed skating competitor and an eight-time medalist (two gold, two silver, four bronze) in the Winter Olympics. Ohno is the most decorated American at the Winter Olympics and was inducted into the International Sports Hall of Fame in 2017 and the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame in 2019. Raised by his father, Ohno began training full-time in 1996. At the age of 14, he became the youngest U.S. national champion in 1997 and was the reigning champion from 2001 to 2009, winning the title a total of 12 times. In December 1999, he became the youngest skater to win a World Cup event title, and became the first American to win a World Cup overall title in 2001, which he won again in 2003 and 2005. Ohno has been the face of short track in the United States since winning his medals at the 2002 Winter Olympics. He won his first overall World Championship title at the 2008 championships. Ohno's accolades and accomplishments include the United States Olympic Committee's Male Athlete of the Month in October 2003 and March 2008, U.S. Speedskating's Athlete of the Year for 2003, and a finalist for the 2002, 2003, and 2006 Sullivan Award, which recognizes the best amateur athlete in the United States. Since gaining recognition through his sport, Ohno has worked as a motivational speaker, philanthropist, started a nutritional supplement business, and won the 2007 season of Dancing with the Stars. Ohno later became host of a revival of Minute to Win It on Game Show Network and served as a commentator for NBC's coverage of the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi and the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang. Outside of competing, he has been an entrepreneur in the health, wellness, and technology industries. Early life Ohno was born in Seattle, Washington, to a Japanese-born father, and a European-American mother, Jerrie Lee. Ohno's parents divorced when he was an infant, and he was raised in Seattle by his father. He has had little contact with his biological mother and as of 2002 had expressed no interest in knowing her or his older half-brother. Ohno's father, a hair stylist and owner of the salon Yuki's Diffusion, often worked 12-hour shifts, and with no extended family in the United States, found it hard to balance his career with raising a child. His father chose to name his son Apolo after the Greek words apo, which means to "steer away from" and lo, which means "look out; here he comes." When Ohno was very young, his father meticulously researched childcare providers to care for his son during his long work hours. As Apolo grew older, his father became concerned his son would become a latchkey kid, so Yuki got his son involved with competitive swimming and quad-speed roller skating at age 6. He later switched from the instruction of Benton Redford, a National Champion, to a team in Federal Way, Washington, called Pattison's Team Extreme and became a national inline speedskating champion and record holder himself. His father used inline speed skating to fill his spare time. Ohno's days were spent with morning swimming practices, followed by schooling, and finally skating practices in the afternoon. When Ohno was 12, he won the Washington state championship in the breaststroke, but preferred inline speed skating over swimming. He has stated that by the time he turned 13, he attended parties with older teenagers if he did not have competitions on the weekends. His father has stated that it was a struggle balancing his son's desire for independence while helping him reach his potential as a young athlete. Skating career Beginnings When he was 13 years old, Ohno became interested in short track speed skating after seeing the sport during the 1994 Olympics in Lillehammer. His father capitalized on this interest by driving him to short track competitions throughout the northwest United States and Canada, and Ohno won several competitions in his age divisions. His father wanted to encourage Ohno to develop his skills and, although Ohno was underage, he got him admitted to the Lake Placid Olympic Training Center in 1996 to train full-time for short track. At 13, Ohno was the youngest skater admitted to the center. At first, Ohno's commitment at Lake Placid was low until his teammates nicknamed him "Chunky", which motivated him to train harder. In January, he failed to make the 1997 U.S. Junior World Team. Ohno adjusted his training and made a comeback winning the 1997 U.S. Senior Championships overall title, taking a gold medal in the 1500 m, a silver in the 300 m, and came in fourth in the 500 m races. At the age of 14, he became the youngest person to win the title. Ohno then relocated to the Colorado Springs Olympic Training Center to begin training with the senior level skaters, despite being only 14 years old. However, Ohno would struggle at the 1997 World Championships in Nagano, Japan, finishing 19th overall. After this disappointing defeat at his first appearance at a world championships, Ohno returned home to Seattle. He did not train from April to August 1997, so he gained weight and was ill-prepared for the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics. As a result, he finished last in the Olympic trials and did not qualify for the Olympic team. Because of his losses at the World Championships and his failure to qualify for the Olympic team, Ohno recommitted himself to the sport and returned to junior-level skating at Lake Placid, rather than at Colorado Springs. At the 1999 World Junior Championships, Ohno won first overall, placing first in the 1000 m and 1500 m, and winning silver in the 500 m. He won his second senior U.S. national championship in 1999. He finished fourth overall at the 1999 World Championships and earned a silver medal in the 500 m. At the 2000 U.S. Championships, Ohno was unable to defend his title and finished third overall. At the 2000 World Championships, Ohno finished ninth overall. In the 2000–2001 season, Ohno won his first World Cup overall title, regained his National title, and finished second overall in the World Championships, losing to Chinese skater Li Jiajun. 2002 Winter Olympics Qualification race controversy In December 2001, during the U.S. Short Track Speed Skating 2002 Olympic Trials, speed skater Shani Davis was racing for a position on the short track team. Ohno and fellow skater Rusty Smith had already earned slots on the six-man team due to points earned from earlier races. In order for Davis to qualify, he had to place first in the final race—the 1000 m—by overcoming stronger skaters Ohno, Smith, and Ron Biondo. Since Ohno had been dominant in the meet to this point by winning every race he entered, a win by Davis seemed to be unlikely. Though Ohno, Smith, and Biondo were heavily favored to win the 1000 m, the race ended with Ohno finishing third, Smith second, and Davis at the top of the podium. Prior to crossing the finish line, Ohno started celebrating for Davis and Smith. Davis' first-place finish earned enough points to move past Tommy O'Hare in the final point standings and to qualify for sixth place. By finishing second, Smith earned the opportunity to skate individually in the 1000 m. The victory celebration was short-lived as rumors began that Ohno and Smith, both good friends of Davis, intentionally threw the race so Davis would win. After returning to Colorado Springs, O'Hare, who did not skate in the 1000 m, filed a formal complaint. The complaint was founded on Ohno's seemingly deliberate attempt to stop Biondo from being able to pass Smith. Because of that blocking move on Biondo, Smith finished in second place and Davis finished first. For three days, Ohno, Smith, and Davis stood before an arbitration panel of the United States Olympic Committee. During the hearing, Davis was never accused of being at fault and Smith made the statement: "Any allegation that there was a fix, conspiracy, or understanding between Apolo and me, or anyone else, to let Shani win the race is completely false. Shani is a great athlete, skated a great race, and deserves to be on the team." The final verdict was that O'Hare's claims went unproven, all three were absolved of guilt, and the claim was dismissed. After the dismissal, Ohno stated, "I am thrilled that the arbitration process has officially vindicated me... As I've said since the moment of these accusations, they were untrue and I did nothing wrong". Games At the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah, Ohno emerged as the face of short-track speed skating among American fans. He was a medalist in two events but there was controversy associated with the results. After a disqualification in the 500 m race, he was leading the skaters in the 1000 m race. During a turn around the final corner, Ohno, Ahn Hyun Soo, Li Jiajun, and Mathieu Turcotte all fell in a series of collisions. The last man standing was Steven Bradbury from Australia, who was trailing behind at the time, and skated through to win the gold medal, becoming the first person from the southern hemisphere to win a gold medal at a Winter Olympics. Ohno quickly got to his feet and crossed the finish line to win silver with Turcotte winning the bronze. Ohno, coincidentally, was wearing skates made by Bradbury's own boot company, Revolutionary Boot Company. Bradbury emailed Ohno, saying "If you win gold, make sure you give me a mention!" In the 1500 m final race A, with one lap remaining and currently in second place, Ohno attempted to make a pass on the leader Kim Dong-Sung of South Korea, who then drifted to the inside and as a result, Ohno raised his arms to imply he was blocked. Kim finished first ahead of Ohno, but the Australian referee James Hewish disqualified Kim for what appeared to be impeding, awarding the gold medal to Ohno. The South Korean team immediately protested the decision, appealing to the International Skating Union (ISU), the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). The challenges were all denied after video review. South Korean media accused Ohno of simulating foul, using the Konglish word "Hollywood action". The disqualification of Kim upset South Korean supporters, many of whom directed their anger at Ohno and the IOC. A large number of e-mails protesting the race results crashed the IOC's email server, and thousands of accusatory letters, many of which contained death threats, were sent to Ohno and the IOC. Ohno shared his thoughts on the Koreans' hostile reaction by saying, "I was really bothered by it. I grew up around many Asian cultures, Korean one of them. A lot of my best friends were Korean growing up. I just didn't understand. Later on I realized that was built up by certain people and that was directed at me, negative energy from other things, not even resulting around the sport, but around politics, using me to stand on the pedestal as the anti-American sentiment". After Salt Lake Ohno continued to perform well in the sport after the 2002 Winter Games. He declined to participate in a 2003 World Cup short-track event in Korea for security reasons. Despite the absence, he successfully defended his World Cup title during the 2003 season. He continued his dominance by winning the World Cup title again in the 2004–2005 season. At the first event of the 2005 World Cup event in China, Ohno severely sprained his ankle and withdrew from the event. At the second event in South Korea, an estimated 100 riot police stood guard at Incheon International Airport to prevent harm from happening to Ohno. Their concern stemmed from a possible lingering negative reaction from the 2002 Olympic Games disqualification controversy. Ohno won two gold medals, as well as the overall title at the meet despite suffering from a severe stomach illness, and was surprised when the Korean crowd cheered his victories, saying, "I was really happy with the crowd's reaction. It was pretty positive right from the time we landed. I was really happy it wasn't (hostile). Everything went really smooth. We were happy." He was unable to defend his World Cup title from the previous three seasons, finishing third in the 2005–2006 overall standings. At the 2005 World Championships, he finished second overall, winning the 1000 m and 3000 m races. 2006 Winter Olympics In the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, Ohno stumbled during a semifinal heat in the 1500 m. Finishing fifth, he was unable to defend his 2002 gold medal in the event. Ohno was able to win the bronze medal in the 1000 m, with Korean skaters Ahn Hyun Soo and Lee Ho-suk finishing before him. After two false starts from other skaters, Ohno won gold in the 500 m when he took the lead with an explosive start and held it until the finish. Despite criticism that he appeared to move before the start, a violation of the rules, the race start was validated by the officials. Afterward, Ohno said, "I was in the moment at the time. I thought I timed the start just perfect. The starter had been pretty quick all day, so that's why there were so many false starts at the beginning. But that was really good for me." On the same day as his 500 m gold win, he earned a bronze medal in the men's 5000 m relay, with an inside pass on Italian skater Nicola Rodigari on the final leg to put the United States in third position. Later, during the medals ceremony for the event, the winning South Korean team and the Americans embraced, followed by a group picture featuring the medalists. Post-Olympic hiatus and return Having taken a year off from competitive skating when the 2006 Winter Olympics ended, Ohno returned to win his eighth national title, placing first in every event during the U.S. Championships held from February 23–25, 2007. On April 26, 2007, he was inducted into the Asian Hall of Fame, an award which honors achievements of Asian Americans. From March 9–11, 2007, he competed at the 2007 World Championships held in Milan, Italy, winning gold in the 1500 m due to the disqualification of Song Kyung-Taek, who had blocked a passing attempt made by Ohno. He won bronze in the 1000 m, 3000 m, and the 5000 m relay with teammates, Jordan Malone, Travis Jayner, and Ryan Bedford. Because of his wins, he became the overall bronze medalist, behind silver medalist Charles Hamelin and Ahn Hyun Soo, who became the first man to become a five-time World Champion. On December 24, 2007, in Kearns, Utah, Ohno won his ninth national title, finishing first in the 1000 m and the 1500 m. He also finished first in the 500 m, but was disqualified for crosstracking. In the 3000 m, he finished second. At the 2008 World Championships in Gangneung, South Korea, Ohno won his first overall title, placing first place in the 500 m, second in the 1000 m, and third place in the 3000 m. He defeated South Koreans Lee Ho-Suk, silver medalist and Song Kyung-Taek who finished third in points. He was initially met with loud booing by the crowd, but managed to earn their applause with a clean skate in the 500 m. In 2009, he won his 10th national title and qualified for the world team. Unable to defend his championship, he finished fifth in the overall rankings at the 2009 World Championships in Vienna, Austria, placing second at the 1000 m, and winning gold with the 5000 m relay team. 2010 Winter Olympics In preparation for the 2010 Winter Olympics, Ohno lost over from his weight at the 2002 Winter Games. He went down to a bodyframe and a 2.5% body fat percentage, enduring a 5-month 3-a-day training program combined with a strict nutritional program. As a result, he could lift double the weight he could before the training. With respect to his training regimen, Ohno said: "Come these Games, there's no one who's going to be fitter than me. There's just no way. Whether I can put it together on the ice or not and feel good, that's a different story. But I know, from a physical training standpoint, nobody's even close... I've never prepared like this in my life—for anything. I want to leave nothing on the table." Trials During the U.S. Olympic Trials held September 8–12, 2009, in Marquette, Michigan, Ohno won the overall meet title and defended his national title. He won the finals during the 500 m, 1000 m, and 1500 m races. However, during the 1000 m time trial, Ohno came in second to J. R. Celski despite skating a personal best of 1:24.500 to Celski's personal best of 1:23.981. Celski, who finished second overall and was leading in points after the first two nights of the trials, was injured during a crash in the semifinals of the 1000 m race when his right skate sliced into his left leg; he did not skate in the 1000 m finals. Ohno had a narrow victory in the 500 m, beating out the silver place finisher Jeff Simon by only .039 of a second. Ohno, Celski, Jordan Malone, Travis Jayner, and Simon Cho were the top five finishers at the trials. Afterwards, Ohno said of the nominated team: "This is the strongest team we've ever had. I feel really good about how we will do in the next Olympics." Games In the 1500 m final, Ohno placed second after two Korean skaters, Lee Ho-Suk and Sung Si-Bak, made contact and crashed into the wall during the final turn of the final lap. He was in fourth place leading into the crash, and moved into second place as a result, earning the silver. Fellow American skater J. R. Celski finished with the bronze medal. The gold medal went to South Korea's Lee Jung-Su. Lee Jung-Su criticized Ohno as "too aggressive" in a post-race news conference. Ohno stated in an interview that he was held by one of the Korean skaters, which possibly prevented him from winning gold. He drew anger in South Korea after adding, "I was hoping for another disqualification, kind of like what happened in Salt Lake City." Ohno's silver pushed his tally to six career Olympic medals, tying Bonnie Blair for most medals ever won by a U.S. Winter Olympian. Heading into the 1000 m final, Ohno had won the overall silver medal for the 1000 m during the 2009–10 World Cup by competing in three of the four competitions during the season. During the finals of the 1000 m, Ohno finished in third place, making a comeback from a slip with less than three laps remaining. With the bronze medal win, he became the most decorated American athlete ever at the Winter Games with seven career medals. Bonnie Blair, the former record holder, said she was happy for his accomplishment, adding: "It's a great feat for him, U.S. speedskating, and the United States of America. We hope that more kids will see his accomplishments and want to try our great sport that has been so good to us and taught us so much about what it takes to be successful in life." In the 500 m final, Ohno finished the race in second place behind Canada's Charles Hamelin. However, he was disqualified after impeding François-Louis Tremblay of Canada around the final turn. The silver medal went to Sung Si-Bak, with Tremblay taking the bronze. The 5000 m relay team for the United States finished with the bronze medal. The team, consisting of J. R. Celski, Simon Cho, Travis Jayner, Jordan Malone, and Ohno, were in the fourth position for the majority of the race. With a strong push from Celski with two laps to go, Ohno as the anchor leg was able to pass the Chinese team for third place; Canada won the gold and South Korea took silver. This bronze medal was the eighth Olympic medal of his career. Sponsorships Using his recognition and fame from his sport, he has accumulated a list of sponsors that includes McDonald's, General Electric, The Century Council, Vicks, and Coca-Cola. Ohno's father, Yuki, said about sponsorships: "He's not like a professional athlete who has a multi-million-dollar contract with a team... He has to have sponsorships to pay the bills". Capitalizing on Ohno's fame, Alaska Airlines was his primary sponsor for the 2010 Winter Games and designed a Boeing 737-800 jet with his image on the side. On the other hand, Ohno has criticized the lack of support for athletes who are not at the very pinnacle of their sport. In the HBO documentary The Weight Of Gold (2020), Ohno characterized the attitude of potential sponsors as "How many golds do you have because if you're silver, you're not making money. You're bronze? You're not making money. You didn't medal? I don't even know your name, pal. Go back to the end of the line, OK?" He was critical of the leaders of the U.S. Speedskating Organization when a donation of $250,000 was raised by viewers of the Comedy Central show The Colbert Report for the organization after their largest commercial sponsor, the Dutch DSB Bank, declared bankruptcy and was unable to donate its $300,000 in November 2009. In an email to Time, he wrote it was "a bit embarrassing that our leadership couldn't secure other sponsors three months before the Olympic Games" but credited the show's host Stephen Colbert for "his willingness to help out our nation's greatest athletes". In return for The Colbert Report donation, long track and short track skaters had the "Colbert Nation" logo on their uniforms for World Cup events leading up to the 2010 Winter Games. Ohno did not wear the logo because Alaska Airlines was his primary sponsor for the 2010 Games. He was also part of Oreo's Team DSRL sketch in 2011. Legacy During his skating career in the United States, Ohno is credited with popularizing and being the face of his sport. He said it is amazing being able to be a role model to younger skaters since growing up, he did not have that influence within his sport, but looked up to other athletes outside his sport, such as Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, and Lance Armstrong. After the 2010 Winter Games, he created the Apolo Anton Ohno Foundation and partnered with the Century Council's Ask, Listen, Learn Program to discourage underage drinking of alcohol and to promote a healthy lifestyle. Retirement Ohno retired after the 2010 Olympics and appeared on NBC as a commentator for the 2014 Sochi Games and 2018 Pyeongchang Games. In November 2014 Ohno sponsored a speedskating race in Salt Lake City, UT that featured the four top men and women skaters from the US, China, Canada and the Netherlands. He has appeared in a number of television shows as a host, actor and guest star since his retirement. In 2019, he was inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame. Also in 2019, he announced he is writing a book that chronicles his transition from Olympic athlete to entrepreneur. He says the book will "...pull back the curtain, in a sense, and showcases all the inner workings that go into making an Olympic athlete and then also the other side of what happens after day 17 of the Games when you're no longer competing. You're at the top of your game, you're in top physical condition, top mental condition, and now you're thrust into a world that is very unfamiliar to you and you feel like an alien". The book, Hard Pivot is scheduled for a winter 2022 release. Activism Ohno has supported several causes. He participated in GAP's campaign to fight the spread of HIV/AIDS in Africa by joining Product Red. Half of the proceeds went to The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Besides working with The Salvation Army and the Clothes off our Back Foundations, he used his fame to help raise funds for a Ronald McDonald House in Seattle after the 2002 Winter Games. He helped raise $20,000 for Nikkei Concerns, a provider of care and services for Japanese elders living in the Pacific Northwest. Later that year, Ohno joined Senator Ted Kennedy in Washington, D.C. to show the importance of math and science education by helping launch the "Math Moves U Hippest Homework Happening" program, which gave students the opportunity to do math homework online with celebrities and athletes. He has also volunteered with the Special Olympics and taken part in Unified Sports, which brings together athletes with intellectual disabilities and without on the same team. Ohno served as a Special Olympics Global Ambassador ahead of the 2015 World Summer Games in Los Angeles, California. Television career Ohno has had an interest in pursuing a career in the entertainment world. He participated and won the fourth season of the U.S. reality show Dancing with the Stars with his partner Julianne Hough. He returned for the 15th season which features all-star celebrities. Ohno's interests in fashion led him to be a guest judge on the fashion reality show Project Runway in 2008, and to an endorsement deal with Omega, the maker of luxury watches, in 2010. Omega president Stephen Urquhart said, "We are very proud to support Apolo here in Vancouver and congratulate him on his outstanding performance. He is poised to make history of his own here and we are thrilled that he is part of the Omega family". He also appeared on Minute to Win It as the host of the GSN revival in 2013 since he is a fan of the show. Dancing with the Stars Season 4 (with Julianne Hough) Ohno participated on the fourth season of the reality show, Dancing with the Stars. He was paired with professional dancer Julianne Hough, and both appeared on the show for the first time on March 19, 2007. Together, they received the competition's first perfect score of 30 for their samba routine on April 16, 2007. They were crowned the champions in May 22, 2007. Season 15 (with Karina Smirnoff) In July 2012, it was announced Ohno would return for the fifteenth season, which was an All-Star season made up entirely of stars who had previously competed. This time, he was paired with season 13 champion Karina Smirnoff. They were voted off during the ninth week of the competition. Other appearances Ohno has appeared in a number of television shows as a guest star, an actor and as a host. He has guest starred in the 17th episode of the 2nd season of Hawaii Five-0, (2012) as a suspect and guest starred in The Biggest Loser in Season 12, Episode 9 and Season 15, Episode 12. He appeared as the live guest during the season finale of NBC's live variety show Best Time Ever with Neil Patrick Harris in 2015. Later the following year, Ohno appeared as a guest star on Hollywood Game Night hosted by Jane Lynch on NBC. Also, Ohno appeared in the Nick Jr. series Ryan's Mystery Playdate. The clues Ryan got was an ice rink, 8 medals, and ice skates. In 2012, he appeared as a grocery store produce worker on the CBS show I Get That a Lot. In 2013, Ohno appeared as the character "Stone" in the Syfy Original Movie Tasmanian Devils, as well as the host of GSN's Minute to Win It. In 2016, he made a guest appearance as himself in an American single-camera sitcom television series Superstore. In 2017, Ohno appeared as a host in the second season of the reality-competition series Spartan: Ultimate Team Challenge the second season premiered on June 12, 2017. In the same year, Ohno appeared on an episode of The $100,000 Pyramid this episode aired on July 9, 2017. In 2021, Ohno appeared as a contestant on the NBC game show The Wall to raise money for the Team USA Fund. The episode aired on February 22, 2021. Business After retirement from short track, Ohno began traveling between the U.S. and countries in Asia to pursue business in manufacturing, infrastructure development, software and hardware technologies, and health and wellness supplements. He invested in a Finnish company called Oura Health and is also the cofounder of Allysian Sciences, a health and supplement company. Ohno studied business at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. References Notes Sources Ohno, Apolo Anton; Richardson, Nancy Ann. A Journey: the autobiography of Apolo Anton Ohno, New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2002. . Gordon, Harry. The time of our lives: Inside the Sydney Olympics: Australia and the Olympic Games 1994–2002, Queensland, Australia: University of Queensland, 2003. . Epstein, Adam. Sports Law (The West Legal Studies Series): Volume 2002, Clifton Park, NY : Thomson/Delmar Learning, 2003. . Further reading Ohno, Apolo Anton; Abrahamson, Alan. Zero Regrets: Be Greater Than Yesterday, New York: Atria Books, 2010. . Ohno, Apolo Anton; Richardson, Nancy Ann. A Journey: the autobiography of Apolo Anton Ohno, New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2002. . Lang, Thomas. Going for the gold: Apolo Anton Ohno: Skating on the edge, New York: Avon Books, 2002. . Aldridge, Rebecca. Apolo Anton Ohno, New York: Chelsea House, 2009. . External links Apolo Anton Ohno at the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Hall of Fame 1982 births American autobiographers American writers of Japanese descent American game show hosts American male short track speed skaters American sportspeople of Japanese descent Dancing with the Stars (American TV series) winners Living people Medalists at the 2002 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 2006 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 2010 Winter Olympics Olympic gold medalists for the United States in short track speed skating Olympic silver medalists for the United States in short track speed skating Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in short track speed skating Participants in American reality television series Sportspeople from Federal Way, Washington Short track speed skaters at the 2002 Winter Olympics Short track speed skaters at the 2006 Winter Olympics Short track speed skaters at the 2010 Winter Olympics Sportspeople from Seattle University of Colorado Colorado Springs alumni American male speed skaters
13454580	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald%20Malloy	Gerald Malloy	Gerald Malloy (born October 26, 1961) is a Democratic member of the South Carolina Senate, representing the 29th District since 2002. He replaced Edward Eli Saleeby after he died. In November 2020, Malloy announced that he would run for Senate Minority Leader. He lost to Brad Hutto. References External links South Carolina Legislature - Senator Gerald Malloy official SC Senate website Project Vote Smart - Senator Gerald Malloy (SC) profile Follow the Money - Gerald Malloy 2006 2004 campaign contributions African-American state legislators in South Carolina Democratic Party South Carolina state senators 1961 births Living people 21st-century American politicians 21st-century African-American politicians 20th-century African-American people
61868954	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berezovka%2C%20Pervomaysky%20District%2C%20Altai%20Krai	Berezovka, Pervomaysky District, Altai Krai	Berezovka () is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Beryozovsky Selsoviet, Pervomaysky District, Altai Krai, Russia. The population was 57 as of 2013. There are 6 streets. Geography Berezovka is located 6 km east of Novoaltaysk (the district's administrative centre) by road. Bazhevo and Solnechnoye are the nearest rural localities. References Rural localities in Pervomaysky District, Altai Krai
41951350	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugnosta%20sebasta	Eugnosta sebasta	Eugnosta sebasta is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Mexico (Baja California Norte). References Moths described in 1994 Eugnosta
70235598	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgi%20Tsereteli	Giorgi Tsereteli	Giorgi Tsereteli may refer to: Giorgi Tsereteli (orientalist) (1904–1973), Georgian orientalist Giorgi Tsereteli (writer) (1842–1900), Georgian writer Gigi Tsereteli (born 1964), Georgian politician
3868958	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ports%20collection	Ports collection	Ports collections (or ports trees, or just ports) are the sets of makefiles and patches provided by the BSD-based operating systems, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD, as a simple method of installing software or creating binary packages. They are usually the base of a package management system, with ports handling package creation and additional tools managing package removal, upgrade, and other tasks. In addition to the BSDs, a few Linux distributions have implemented similar infrastructure, including Gentoo's Portage, Arch's Arch Build System (ABS), CRUX's Ports and Void Linux's Templates. The main advantage of the ports system when compared with a binary distribution model is that the installation can be tuned and optimized according to available resources. For example, the system administrator can easily install a 32 bit version of a package if the 64 bit version is not available or is not optimized for that machine. Conversely, the main disadvantage is compilation time, which can be significant. For example, a full installation of a FreeBSD system, using ports, can take several days, depending on the hardware. FreeBSD Ports Jordan Hubbard committed his port make macros to the FreeBSD CVS repository on August 21, 1994. His package install suite Makefile had been committed a year earlier (August 26, 1993). The core ports framework was at first maintained by Hubbard along with Satoshi Asami for several years. The Ports Management Team was later formed to handle this task. NetBSD's pkgsrc NetBSD's pkgsrc ports collection is distinctive in that it aims to be portable and is usable on a number of operating systems aside from NetBSD itself, including the other BSDs, SmartOS/illumos, macOS, MINIX 3, Linux and other Unix-likes. pkgsrc was created in August 1997 based on the existing FreeBSD ports system. It follows a quarterly release schedule and as of October 2018 contains over 22'000 packages. With their 1.4 release, DragonFly BSD announced that they would be adopting pkgsrc as their official package management system. DragonFly BSD however built their own ports implementation called dports with the release 3.4 and switched over to it completely with 3.6. The development is done via their git. OpenBSD ports In contrast to FreeBSD Ports, on which it was originally based, the OpenBSD ports system is intended as a source used to create the end product, packages: installing a port first creates a package and then installs it. Ports are made up of a makefile, text files with descriptions and installation messages, any patches required to adjust the program to work on OpenBSD and a packing list listing the files to be included in the packages. The ports tree uses a set of standard makefiles, some of which are shared with the source tree, to provide the bulk of its functionality; this shared infrastructure includes many utility functions for port developers and means that ports can often be made very simply. In late October 2007, OpenBSD developer Nikolay Sturm announced that -stable ports tree should be considered unmaintained due to the lack of resources. This effectively forced users to run -current ports/base tree in order to keep up with security updates. In 2009, it was decided to revive the -stable ports tree under supervision of Robert Nagy and Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse. There are three unofficial web sites with a listing of OpenBSD ports and packages: OpenPorts.se, originally announced as ports.openbsd.nu in 2006, was a custom-written web-site that does its own parsing of the ports tree structure and the updates, and has the functionality of tracking changes of a given port, having a shortcoming of not supporting some of the more complicated Makefile logic, and thus missing some 15% of packages that require the intricate knowledge of the ports tree structure and the use of the official tools. openports.pl ports.su, announced in February 2013 and is based on the official sqlports database, thus having a complete collection of all the packages and flavours that are available for the amd64 platform. Being based on the official tools, the "virtual" (non-primary) categories are readily available, and so is the information about the library, build and run-time dependencies. The source of the web-site is heavily based on the ports-readmes port, and is readily available in GitHub. See also Android Runtime which does ahead-of-time compilation at installation MacPorts, used in macOS. The name and design is based on the ports system Portage (software), used in Gentoo Linux and inspired by the ports system References External links OpenBSD Porter's Handbook OpenBSD ports The OpenBSD ports manpage FreeBSD Ports pkgsrc: The NetBSD Packages Collection The ideas behind Compile Berkeley Software Distribution Free package management systems
71430424	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20UEFA%20Women%27s%20Championship%20finals	List of UEFA Women's Championship finals	The UEFA Women's Championship is an association football competition established in 1982. It is contested by the women's national teams of the members of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), the sport's European governing body, and takes place every four years. The winners of the first final were Sweden, who defeated England 4–3 on penalties in Luton, after a 1–0 win in Gothenburg and a 1–0 loss in Luton in a two-legged tie. The most recent final was won by England, who beat Germany 2–1 after extra time in London. The Women's Championship final is the last match of the competition, and the result determines which country's team is declared European champion. As of the 2022 tournament, if after 90 minutes of regular play the score is a draw, an additional 30-minute period of play, called extra time, is added. If such a game is still tied after extra time, it is decided by penalty shoot-out. The team that wins the penalty shoot-out are then declared champions. The 13 finals to-date have produced two drawn matches, which were determined by penalty shoot-out (1984) and golden goal (2001). The most successful team is Germany, who have won eight titles. Norway has won the competition twice. Sweden, England and the Netherlands have won one title each, whilst Italy has reached the final twice without winning. List of finals Results by nation Notes References External links UEFA Women's Euro at UEFA.com UEFA Women's Championship
6043297	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lal%20Pur%20District	Lal Pur District	Lal Pur is a district in eastern Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan, bordering Pakistan. Its population is primarily Pashtun and estimated to be 34,516 in 2002 (including 13,800 children under 12). The district center is the village of Lal Pur. Lal Pur is home to many Afghan statesmen of the past century. The Khan of Lalpur Momands, is a well-known family from Lal Pur. "Khan kor" ( Royal Family of khan), are among the most powerful Mohmand's. The Khan was regarded as the king of Momands by many famous Afghans such as Amir Sher Ali Khan of Afghanistan. Khan had Khani over all the Momand's and continues to have influence over Lal Pur. Most influential of them is the Khan Asghar khan, Asghar family and still having khani over lalpura. Lal Pur was a famous trade route. The Khan would collect taxes from the traders. Lal Pur was considered a kingdom. Saadat khan Mohmand of Lal Pur was the father-in-law of Amir of Afghanistan and was the grandfather of the famous Ayub Khan (Emir of Afghanistan), also known as "The Victor of Maiwand" or "The Afghan Prince Charlie". The Khan of Lalpur rule was from Lal Pur, Afghanistan to Peshawar, Pakistan. The Marchakhel was the chief of Momands and had influence over all Momand tribes except the Safi Momand which were under the influence of khan of Bajawar. Marchakhels ruled over all Momands. Marchakhels rule was from Lal Pur, Afghanistan to Peshawar, Pakistan. The Marchakhel family, a sub-tribe of the Tarak Zai Mohmands (Dado khel), is a well-known family from Lal Pur. "Khan kor" ( Royal Family of khan), a sub-tribe of the Marchakhel Mohmands, are among the most powerful Mohmands. The Khan was regarded as the king of Mohmands by many famous Afghans such as Amir Sher Ali Khan of Afghanistan. Khan had Khani over all the Mohmands and continues to have influence over Lal Pur. Most Murchakhel now live in Pakistan. Most influential members of the Royal family of Lalpura are Khan Asghar Khan Momand, Sarwar Khan Momand, Sardar Khan Momand, presently leading Morcha Khel family. References UNHCR District Profile, dated 2002-07-02, accessed 2006-07-20 (PDF). External links Map of Lal Pur district (PDF) Google Map of Lal Pur district Districts of Nangarhar Province
5667392	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20White%20Rose%20%28Cook%20novel%29	The White Rose (Cook novel)	The White Rose is the third novel in Glen Cook's ongoing series, The Black Company. The series combines elements of epic fantasy and dark fantasy as it follows an elite mercenary unit, The Black Company, through roughly forty years of its approximately four hundred-year history. Plot introduction Centuries in the past, the Dominator and his wife, the Lady, (both supremely skilled in the art of magic), had founded an empire legendary for evil. They were overthrown by a rebellion led by the White Rose, but even in defeat, they remained too powerful to be killed; the best the rebels could do was to imprison them and their most powerful minions in the Barrowland. A wizard named Bomanz awakened the Lady in an attempt to learn from her, but she used him to gain her freedom and rebuilt the empire. However, she betrayed her husband by leaving him where he was. A rebellion broke out against the Lady's new empire; the Black Company played a key role in putting it down (as detailed in The Black Company). Later, the Company also assisted the Lady in preventing her husband from escaping his prison (as recounted in Shadows Linger), but it was forced to flee her wrath when she discovered that it had unknowingly sheltered the reborn White Rose. Plot summary The Black Company has taken refuge from the Lady in the Plain of Fear. Its magical, non-human denizens are powerful enough to daunt even her. Among them is Old Father Tree, a god manifesting itself as a tree planted in the exact center of the plain. From this sanctuary, the White Rose rebuilds and directs the rebellion. No wizard in the world can rival the Lady's magical skill and power, but the White Rose is immune to magic and as she matures, the magic-free zone around her expands. (This explains how her former incarnation was able to defeat the Lady and the Dominator.) After several years of relative peace, the pace picks up. The Taken and their armies gather on the borders of the plain, threatening to swamp the vastly outnumbered rebels. Also, couriers begin arriving from the far eastern reaches of the empire, among them Tracker and Toadkiller Dog, a man and his mutt. Each messenger bears a letter for Croaker, describing what some unnamed rebel spy has found out about Bomanz. The last letter claims that the wizard knew the Lady's true name. With the situation becoming increasingly desperate, the White Rose sends Croaker and wizards Goblin and One-Eye to retrieve that vital bit of information. Tracker volunteers to go with them as a guide. When they reach the end of their journey, they soon discover that the letter-writer was Raven, a former Company stalwart (who had staged his death at the end of Shadows Linger). He had made his way to the Barrowland and started doing odd jobs for the soldiers garrisoned there. Once he gained their trust, he received permission to live in Bomanz's old house, where he covertly searched for the old wizard's papers. What he found made him attempt something beyond his abilities; he used a spell to send his spirit to check on the Dominator. His worst fears were confirmed; the bloodthirsty tyrant was awake and actively working to free himself. Fleeing in panic, Raven made a mistake, allowing two of the lesser imprisoned creatures to free themselves and leaving him trapped. Croaker's men search Raven's house, but they arouse the Barrowland guardians' suspicions and are brought in for questioning. With their cover blown, they flee into the surrounding forest, taking Raven's vacant body and the papers he found. When they have trouble shaking their pursuers, Croaker deliberately allows himself to be captured as a distraction. He is taken to the Lady, who has unexpectedly grown fond of him. With the imminent threat of the Dominator looming, she goes with Croaker to see the White Rose, to form an alliance against their common foe. Goblin, One-Eye, Tracker and Toadkiller Dog return shortly afterwards. They all gather in front of Old Father Tree, who recognizes them, especially the latter two. Unmasked as the escaped servants of the Dominator, they try to kill the White Rose and the Lady, but Toadkiller Dog is driven off and Tracker converted into Old Father Tree's slave. Scorn and Blister, two of the new Taken, try to assassinate their mistress but fail and pay the ultimate price for their treachery. Soon, both the Black Company and the Lady and her minions travel back to the Barrowland to confront the Dominator, taking along a sapling, the offspring of Old Father Tree. There, both Bomanz and Raven are revived. Meanwhile, Toadkiller Dog lurks uncaptured, awaiting his chance to help his master. While preparations are being made, the Lady, emotionally vulnerable due to her growing fear of the outcome, and Croaker grow closer. The final battle begins. The White Rose carefully approaches the burial mounds of each of the lesser minions, one by one, nullifying the spells that bind them. When they emerge, they are powerless within her zone of influence and relatively easy to kill. Finally, it is the turn of the Dominator. Even without his magic, he is practically immortal and immensely powerful, but eventually he is overcome, though at the cost of the Lieutenant and Elmo. His body is burned, his malevolent spirit infused into a silver spike which is driven into the trunk of the scion of Old Father Tree. In the aftermath, the Limper tries to utter the Lady's true name, but guesses the wrong one. His head is chopped off by Croaker while he is helpless in the White Rose's vicinity. Then the Lady speaks the name of the White Rose, depriving her of her unique ability. Finally, Silent, of all people, speaking for the first time in Croaker's memory, truly names the Lady, rendering her powerless. Because the Lady had tied the Taken to her fate, the Taken are destroyed. The remnants of the Company, now led by Croaker as the highest ranked surviving officer, sneak away, taking the not-unwilling Lady with them. Characters in The White Rose The Black Company Croaker - the Company's doctor and historian The Lieutenant - leader of the Black Company Silent, Goblin, One-Eye - moderately talented Company wizards Elmo - the Sergeant Otto and Hagop - veteran mercenaries Darling - believed to be the White Rose reincarnated. When she was a young girl, she had been rescued and adopted by the Company. She is surrounded by a null, a field in which magic does not work. The Empire The Lady The Taken Limper - the last of the surviving original Taken who remained in the North The New Taken - Whisper, Journey, Blister, Scorn, Benefice, Learned, Creeper Case - a young soldier stationed at the Barrowland Others The Dominator Old Father Tree - a deity in the form of a tree on the Plain of Fear Bomanz - the wizard responsible for freeing the Lady from centuries of imprisonment Raven - the rescuer of Darling and later deserter from the Company. He works in the Barrowland under the pseudonym of Corbie, while searching for the information that Bomanz uncovered. Tracker and Toadkiller Dog - a warrior and his dog, or rather two creatures in the shape of a man and a dog External links Novels by Glen Cook 1985 American novels American fantasy novels Tor Books books
26890227	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar%20Brookin	Oscar Brookin	Oscar Brookin (or Brookins) (19 July 1869 in Byron, Wisconsin – 18 August 1938) served in the United States Army during the Spanish–American War. He received the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Battle of El Caney. Brookin joined the army from Milwaukee, Wisconsin in January 1893, and served until being discharged in March 1899. He died in 1938 and is buried in Sunset Cemetery in Galloway, Ohio. Medal of Honor citation His award citation reads: For The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Private Oscar Brookin, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism on 1 July 1898, while serving with Company C, 17th U.S. Infantry, in action at El Caney, Cuba. Private Brookin gallantly assisted in the rescue of the wounded from in front of the lines and under heavy fire from the enemy. See also List of Medal of Honor recipients References 1869 births 1938 deaths Military personnel from Wisconsin United States Army soldiers American military personnel of the Spanish–American War United States Army Medal of Honor recipients Spanish–American War recipients of the Medal of Honor People from Byron, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin
28144109	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntersville%2C%20Norfolk%2C%20Virginia	Huntersville, Norfolk, Virginia	Huntersville is a historic neighborhood in Norfolk, Virginia. It is located near downtown Norfolk. One of Norfolk's "most intact settlements remaining from the late 19th century," Huntersville "is unique because it was not planned by a company or commission, but developed over time." Location It is bordered on the west by Church Street and Elmwood Cemetery, the north by the Lindenwood neighborhood, the east by Tidewater Drive, and the south by Huntersville Park and the Barberton neighborhood. More specifically: History Part of Huntersville was land that belonged to Samuel Boush c. 1761. By the end of the 19th century, it "consisted of small frame houses mostly clustered in the area of Church Street." Huntersville is "one of Norfolk's oldest and most intact settlements remaining from the late 19th century," and "is unique because it was not planned by a company or commission, but developed over time." At various times, there were "a botanical and zoological park named Lesner's Park ... an 'old Burying Ground'," and several industries, including a railroad and a brewery. Most of the land at the turn of the century was owned by Caucasians, which included a few prominent residents, but mostly they rented to a "demographic mix" of native Whites, "European immigrants" of Jewish extraction, Asians, and Blacks. Huntersville was annexed to the city of Norfolk in 1911. In 1916, a team of canvassers were able to raise $3,500 in donations from the residents of the area in two days, in order to build a hospital, a huge amount for that time. Neighborhood character Huntersville is primarily residential in character. According to the official city history, "It was the only predominantly Black neighborhood to be annexed during the more than 70 years of annexation." Today, it is, as it was in the early 20th century, a mixed, "cosmopolitan" neighborhood. It is served by a city of Norfolk community center. The center provides many social services, including HIV testing, and employment counseling by the Urban League. The Head Start program has a program in Huntersville. It appears on some maps as "Olde Huntersville". In 2007, the Olde Huntersville Development Corp. became defunct after owing over $245,000 it had misspent "in violation of federal regulations." A Pop Warner football league plays regularly at Huntersville park. The neighborhood has a large number of poor persons who require indigent burials; according to an area funeral home director, it has recently had three such funerals per month. References External links Huntersville Neighborhood Center Norfolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority Site of defunct Olde Huntersville at iBegin Old maps of Huntersville, at the Norfolk, Virginia Public Library Website of Councilman Paul R. Riddick Historic districts in Virginia Neighborhoods in Norfolk, Virginia
1656112	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basile%20Bouchon	Basile Bouchon	Basile Bouchon () (or Boachon) was a textile worker in the silk center in Lyon who invented a way to control a loom with a perforated paper tape in 1725. The son of an organ maker, Bouchon partially automated the tedious setting up process of the drawloom in which an operator lifted the warp threads using cords. This development is considered to be the first industrial application of a semi-automated machine. The cords of the warp were passed through the eyes of horizontal needles arranged to slide in a box. These were either raised or not depending on whether there was not or was a hole in the tape at that point. This was similar to the piano roll developed at the end of the 19th century and may have been inspired by the patterns that were traditionally drawn on squared paper. Three years later, his assistant Jean-Baptiste Falcon expanded the number of cords that could be handled by arranging the holes in rows and using rectangular cards that were joined together in an endless loop. Though this eliminated mistakes in the lifting of threads, it still needed an extra operator to control it and the first attempt at automation was made by Jacques Vaucanson in 1745. But it was not until 1805 that the wildly successful Jacquard mechanism was finally produced. References Further reading Poncelet, Jean-Victor, Travaux de la Commission Française. L’Exposition Universelle de 1851, vol. 3, part 1 (Machines et outils appliqués aux arts textiles), section 2, pages 348-349 (1857). [Poncelet's history of the Jacquard loom is the basis for most subsequent accounts.] Usher, Abbot Payson. A History of Mechanical Inventions. Revised edition. (Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, Inc., 1988), pages 289-291. (Originally published in 1929 by Harvard University Press in Cambridge, Mass.) Randell, Brian, ed. The Origins of Digital Computers: Selected Papers, 3rd ed. (N.Y., N.Y.: Springer-Verlag, 1982), page 5. Eymard, Paul (1863) “Historique du métier Jacquard” Annales des Sciences physiques et naturelles, 3rd series, vol. 7, pages 34–56; see especially page 37. ( published in Lyon, France by Barret) Ballot, Charles. L’introduction du machinisme dans l’industrie française. (Lille-Paris: F. Rieder, 1923), page 339. Ballot, Charles. Revue d'histoire de Lyon: Études, Documents, Bibliographie (Lyon, France: A. Rey et Co., 1913), vol. 2, pages 6–10. Barlow, Alfred. The History and Principles of Weaving by Hand and by Power (London, England: Kessinger Publishing, 2007). See Chapter 11. (Originally published in 1876 by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington in London.) History of Computers External links Photograph of replica of Bouchon loom 18th-century French inventors Textile workers Year of birth missing Year of death missing Engineers from Lyon
1060181	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20mayors%20and%20lord%20mayors%20of%20Brisbane	List of mayors and lord mayors of Brisbane	This is a list of the Mayors and Lord Mayors of the City of Brisbane, a local government area of Queensland, Australia. The current Lord Mayor of Brisbane is Adrian Schrinner. Mayors of the Brisbane Municipal Council (1859–1903) The Town of Brisbane, established in 1859, was led by a mayor. Mayors of the Brisbane City Council (1903–1925) The City of Brisbane, established in 1903, replaced the Town of Brisbane and was led by a mayor. Lord Mayors of the Brisbane City Council (1925–present) The new City of Brisbane, established in 1925, replaced the former City of Brisbane and is led by the Lord Mayor. Historical party names Prior to 1976, conservative councillors stood on a variety of different platforms: the United Party, Nationalist Citizens Party, Civic Reform League, the Citizens' Municipal Organisation, the Liberal Civic Party and the Brisbane Civic Party. The United Party and its successor the Nationalist Citizens Party were created as the vehicle for conservative candidates to campaign against Labor candidates in the newly formed Brisbane City Council. The Nationalist Citizens Party was doomed when the very conservative Civic Reform League was created on 12 December 1930. This saw most of the conservative councillors from the Nationalist Citizens Party - led by Acting Mayor Watson - defect to the Civic Reform League, which failed to win the subsequent elections. The Progress Party was created at the same time and for the 1931 election saw only three of its candidates win, including John Greene, who became Lord Mayor as a compromise candidate amongst the 20 alderman. The Citizens' Municipal Organisation (CMO) was ostensibly a nonpartisan grouping, but was informally aligned with firstly the United Australian Party, then the Liberal Party (after 1944). The CMO was formed on 23 June 1936 and was the platform for the election campaigns of Sir John Chandler and Sir Reg Groom. Finally in the 1976 election, the Liberal Party began to contest the elections directly. References External links Brisbane's Lord Mayors Brisbane Mayors History of Brisbane
31352432	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malecon%20%28cocktail%29	Malecon (cocktail)	The Malecon is a cocktail named after the El Malecón, the winding beachfront avenue atop the seawall in Havana, Cuba. The cocktail has at least three different main types: a pre-prohibition version from Cuba itself, an updated American version afterwards in 1941, and a more modern version from 2007. Malecon cocktail (1915) From John Escalante's Cuban cocktail guide, Manual Del Cantinero. The drink called for equal parts Cognac and Chambéry vermouth (likely a blanc, such as Dolin) as the base, with additions of one dash of gum (sugar) syrup and one dash of Angostura bitters. Garnish with a strawberry. Malecon cocktail (1941) From Crosby Gaige's drink book, Cocktail Guide and Ladies' Companion. He said the drink was meant to evoke "the leisure and luxury of Old Havana". 1.5 oz. White Rum 1.5 oz. Swedish Punsch 1.5 oz. Dry Gin A dash of apricot brandy El Malecón cocktail (2007) As updated by Erik Lorincz when he bartended at the Connaught Bar, London. 50ml (1 3/4 oz) Bacardi Superior white rum 15ml (1/2 oz) Smith Woodhouse 10-year port 10ml (1/3 oz) Don José Reserva Oloroso sherry 30ml (1 oz) lime juice 2 bar spoons / teaspoons [10ml] (1/3 oz.) caster sugar 3 drops Peychaud's Bitters Lorincz said he was inspired to make the cocktail after a trip to Havana, and that the cocktail represents the feelings the Malecón evoked in him as he walked along its sea wall: simplicity, joy, and life's sweetness balanced by a touch of bitterness. I have read that the essence of what it means to be Cuban is to accept the inevitabilities of human existence, that we are born and must die, and to make the very best of the life in between and have as good a time as possible. With this admirable attitude in mind, I wanted to create a drink that could be enjoyed at any time of day or night, and that would be at home in the most elegant London cocktail bar and equally at the Malecón in Havana with music, laughter and tobacco smoke in the air. El Malecón was Lorincz's entry in the "Bacardi Legacy 2007" rum cocktail contest and was one of the reasons he was chosen in 2010 to head the revitalized American Bar at the Savoy Hotel. The Savoy Cocktail Book included the recipe for the original version of a cocktail known as the Havana in 1937. Similar cocktails The original recipe for the Havana cocktail listed in books such as the 1937 Cafe Royal Cocktail Book, The Official Mixers Manual, as well as the Savoy Cocktail Book shares many aspects of the 1941 Malecon cocktail both in terms of the backstory of its name and its gin, punsch, and apricot brandy ingredients. The Havana contains much more apricot brandy than the 1941 Malecon however, representing half of the cocktail, and did not contain rum. Compared to the original Havana, the 1941 Malecon cocktail was made less sweet and made more indicative of Cuba by lowering the amount of apricot brandy and calling for white rum (such as Havana Club). Additional reading Cuba’s Overlooked Role in Cocktail History References Cuban cocktails Cocktails with rum Cocktails with Swedish Punsch Cocktails with gin Cocktails with liqueur Cocktails with wine
50174204	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utica%20station	Utica station	Utica station may refer to: Union Station (Utica, New York) Utica station (Buffalo Metro Rail)
21626299	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake%20Up%20Call%20%28Phil%20Collins%20song%29	Wake Up Call (Phil Collins song)	"Wake Up Call" is a double A-side 2003 single release by English drummer Phil Collins from his seventh solo album Testify, released in 2002. The song was released in a double A-side format alongside "The Least You Can Do". The music video made for "Wake Up Call", showed Collins waking early and going around Geneva giving a wake-up call to local residents. Before long, a crowd gathers to follow him and starts to pester him with questions, of which the last question enquires about a possible Genesis reunion, to which Collins shakes his head and makes a funny face. However, he did re-unite with the band in 2007 for Turn It On Again: The Tour. The question about the reunion was meant to be asked by Tony Smith, the manager of both Phil Collins and Genesis, but when he refused to appear on camera, it posed by the video's producer, Paul Flattery. Flattery and his director/partner Jim Yukich had made virtually all the videos, concert films and television specials for both Phil and Genesis since the early eighties. The song failed to make a huge impact on the charts, suffering from the poor reception Testify received upon release. Track listing UK single "The Least You Can Do" – 4:23 "Wake Up Call" – 4:14 "Hey, Now Sunshine" – 5:02 European single "Wake Up Call" – 4:14 "Tears of a Clown" – 3:25 "Hey, Now Sunshine" – 5:02 Credits "Wake Up Call" All instruments played by Phil Collins except: Tim Pierce – guitars James Sanger – additional programming Arranged by Phil Collins and Daryl Stuermer Charts Notes References 2003 singles Phil Collins songs Songs written by Phil Collins Song recordings produced by Rob Cavallo Atlantic Records singles
25476415	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled%20clinical%20trials	Controlled clinical trials	Controlled clinical trial may refer to: Clinical trial, the medical research technique Contemporary Clinical Trials, the continuation of the discontinued journal Controlled Clinical Trials
69739193	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decachaetophora	Decachaetophora	Decachaetophora is a genus of flies in the family Sepsidae. Species Decachaetophora aeneipes (Meijere, 1913) References Sepsidae Diptera of Asia Diptera of North America Taxa named by Oswald Duda Brachycera genera
23753484	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amir%20Kror%20Suri	Amir Kror Suri	Amīr Krōṛ Sūrī (), also known as Jahan Pahlawan, is a legendary character in Afghan national history and is claimed to have become the King of Mandesh in Ghor. Amir Kror Suri is considered to be the first poet of Pashto language. He is not to be confused with Amir Suri, the king of Ghor in the 9th-10th centuries. Description in Pata Khazana According to Pata Khazana, Amir Kror Sori was son of a man named Amir Polad Suri who was the governor of Ghor. Allegedly, he lived in the time of Abu Muslim Khorasani in the 8th century, and became the first poet of Pashto language. According to legend, Amir Kror was a renowned fighter and challenged several people at a time, despite a small body he was a large soul. Because of his bravery and strength, he is given the Pashto title Kror, meaning "hard" and "strong". It is claimed that he had conquered the fortresses of Ghor, Balishtan, Kheisar, Tamran and Barkoshak and assisted the Caliphate of Islam, but there are no historical documents or proofs for this claim, Death and succession According to legend, Amir Kror Suri died in 154 H./771 A.D. in the Battle of Poshanj (which is a village in ancient city of Herat) and was succeeded by his son, Amir Naser, who took control of the territories of Ghor, Sur, Bost and Zamindawar. See also Amir Suri, a Ghurid king in the 9th and 10th century who was defeated in war with the Saffarid ruler Ya'qub ibn al-Layth al-Saffar Qais Abdur Rashid, whose three legendary sons are said to have founded the modern Pashtun nation Sur (Pashtun tribe) Further reading Afghanistan by Manohar Singh Batra. PP. 9–14 Pata Khazana: Abdul Hai Habibi Amir Kror and his Ancestry: Abdul Hai Habibi – Footnotes External links Online version of Pata Khazana Translated by Khushal Habibi Year of birth unknown 771 deaths Pashto-language poets Pashtun people
69247788	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muriel%20Amy%20Jackson	Muriel Amy Jackson	Muriel Amy Jackson (1902–1989) was a British painter and illustrator. Biography Jackson was born in London and was the daughter of Eva Amy and the artist Albert Edward Jackson, 1873–1952. She attended Berkhamsted High School before studying at the Hastings School of Art. After further study in London at the Central School of Arts and Crafts between 1915 and 1918, Jackson studied under Philip William Cole until 1922. Jackson worked as an illustrator for the Amelgamated Press and other publishers. She created illustrations for magazines and children's books with flowers and architectural topics being among her regular subjects. Jackson was an elected member of the East Sussex Art Club and exhibited works with the Battle Arts Group and the Highgate Artists' Society in London. She lived in Hastings in Sussex and died in 1989, after a period of suffering from Parkinson's disease. References 1902 births 1989 deaths 20th-century English women artists Alumni of the Central School of Art and Design Artists from London English illustrators
50568810	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPSat	UPSat	UPSat was the first satellite manufactured in Greece to be successfully launched into orbit, by the University of Patras and Libre Space Foundation (an earlier Greek-made communications satellite, HELMARS-SAT, although entirely constructed by 1999, was not launched due to budget limitations). It was part of the QB50 mission with ID GR-02. The UPSat mission was the first satellite launched into orbit made entirely of open-source software and open-source hardware. Open-source The UPSat mission developed an open-source hardware and software 2U cubesat, minimizing the use of commercial off the shelf components, and providing hardware and software designs under the provisions of the CERN-OHLv2 and GNU-GPLv3 licenses respectfully. The vast majority of its components were designed from scratch in an open-source software and hardware way. Mission UPSat, as part of the QB50 cubesat constellation, was launched to the International Space Station at April 18, 2017 11:11 EDT at Cape Canaveral in Florida, on board an Atlas V rocket transferring the Cygnus cargo spacecraft to dock with the International Space Station with supplies and other scientific experiments. UPSat was released in orbit by the NanoRacks deployer from the International Space Station at 08:24 UTC 2017-05-18. After 30 minutes, UPSat subsystems commenced normal operations in orbit. The SatNOGS ground-station network began receiving telemetry signals from UPSat in several ground-stations deployed globally shortly after its deployment. All data and telemetry is publicly available. UPSat decayed at November 13, 2018. Subsystems General EPS (Electrical Power System) An EPS designed from scratch around an STM32L1 MCU, utilizing software MPPT, harnessing power from 7 solar panels and having a 3-cell battery system. OBC (On board Computer) An OBC designed from scratch around an STM32F4 MCU, with software built around the FreeRTOS Operating System ADCS (Attitude Determination and Control System) An ADCS designed from scratch around STM32F4 MCU, determining attitude and position through sensor fusion (GPS, magnetometer, gyro, sun sensor). The sensor fusion algorithm used is based on an alternative implementation of Wahba's problem, in order to accommodate gyro measurements, as introduced in. This implementation uses a virtual vector base, propagated by the gyro reading, fused with the vectors provided by the sun sensor and the magnetometer, as per Wahba's problem. This forms essentially a complementary filter in SO(3) between the gyro and the vector measurements. The reference vectors in ECI frame are calculated by and IGRF model, respectively, given the satellites position is known by the GPS and SGP4 model. The control system is based on a spin torquer, which is used as a reaction wheel for pitch control and also to stiffen roll and yaw to the satellite's orbit plane (Gyroscopic torque and momentum bias). Magneto-torquers are also used to dampen the roll and yaw motion while also control pitch angle. SU (Science Unit) (see primary payload) COMM (Communications system) A COMM designed from scratch around an STM32F4 MCU, using the TI CC1120 transceivers, with contingency around TX operations combined with a custom Antenna deployment system with an integrated GPS antenna. IAC (Image Acquisition Component) (see secondary payload) Structure The structural sub-system is based on a “hybrid” approach of both Aluminum (frame) and CFRP components (4 faces), built in-house. Primary payload On-board UPSat, the primary payload, a science unit is integrated. The science unit (designed by the University of Oslo and supplied through the Von Karman Institute as part of the QB50 program) will be used for plasma measurements during the mission duration. The science unit is a multi-Needle Langmuir Probe instrument works by measuring the current collected individually from four needle probes, placed in front of the satellite's shock front. The collected current is converted to voltage, filtered, digitalized and then sent to the central telemetry system. Secondary payload As a secondary payload UPSat sports an embedded Linux board (DART-4460) running a modified version of the OpenWRT operating system controlling a b/w camera (MU9PM-MH) with 1 / 2.5’’ sensor size. References External links UPSat mission website Satellites of Greece CubeSats Spacecraft launched in 2017 2017 in Greece Open-source hardware Free software
46578213	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Streatfeild	Richard Streatfeild	Richard Streatfeild (1 October 1559 – 18 September 1601) of Chiddingstone, Kent was an ironmaster who established the financial base for this significant Kentish family. Origins Richard Streatfeild was born (or baptised) on 16 October 1559. He lived all his life, as far as is known, in the village of Chiddingstone, in the Weald of Kent. He was the son of Henry Streatfeild (1535-1598) and Alice Moody (1535-1575) and grandson of Robert Streatfeild the patriarch of the family. Occupation Richard was an ironmaster which means he ran a foundry and forges. He is recorded as leasing Canserns (also spelt Canserne or Cansiron) Forge in Hartfield, Sussex, in 1589 and Pilbeams (Ashurst) Forge in Chiddingstone and Withyham on the borders of Kent and Sussex in 1592, and he died in possession of the latter in 1601. A tilt hammer shaft and wooden anvil base found at Cansiron Forge are in the Anne of Cleaves Museum in Lewes. The details of the lease of Pilbeams Forge in 1592 reflect some of what was involved in the work. The lease included: “A forge or ironwork called Pilbeames Forge with buildings, cottages, coalhouses, coal-places, ground to lay sows of raw iron and all ponds, dikes, bays, floodgates, tools as shown in the schedule, access to the forge through the lands of John Pylcock and Richard Hart all in Chiddingstone and Withyham and two parcels of land on the south side of the forge in Withyham containing 6a. called Cleyes in the occupation of John Tantos; George Stace of Mereworth, yeoman, to Richard Streatfeild of Chiddingstone, yeoman, for a year at £25.” Richard was certainly the one who established the strong economic foundation for the Streatfeild family. In his will he was still termed a yeoman, though by this time he had become a lord of a manor, and thus a gentleman, the manor of Cowden Leighton having been purchased in 1591 by himself and his father from a neighbouring noble family in decline, the Burgh family of Starborough Castle in Lingfield, Surrey. Further lands of the Burgh family were purchased in the same year and in 1596 the manors of Chiddingstone Cobham and Tyehurst were mortgaged by Thomas, Lord Burgh, to Richard Streatfeild's trustees. The mortgage was never repaid and the manors remained in the possession of members of the Streatfeild family. There is an article about Richard displayed in an oak frame on the north side of the west wall of St. Mary’s church in Chiddingstone. The source and date of it are not shown, but it refers to the memorial of Richard Streatfeild, which is an iron slab on the nave floor of the Church. Family Richard married Anne Fremlyn on 15 November 1583 in Kemsing, Kent. Anne was born about 1560. After Richard’s death in 1601 Anne married William Birsty of Hever, Kent in 1602. Some documents say Anne died about 1630, but it seems to be after 1636. Anne was the daughter and co-heir (with her sister Catherine, wife of Silvester Page, Esq.) of John Fremlyn of Kemsing. William Birsty, Anne’s second husband was buried in the nave at Chidingstone, where there is a brass to his memory, inscribed:- "Guilemus filius Tho de Birchensty Com. Sussex ex Anna una cohaeredum Johannis Fremling duas relinquens filias, Annam et Catharinam obiit XX°., die mensis, Maij Ao Dni MDCXXXVII, Aetatis LXVIII." Above are the Birsty arms, incorrectly differenced by a crescent instead of a star, impaling Fremling, namely "Gules, a chevron between three helmets argent plumed and vizored or." Administration of his estate was granted on 15 June 1637 to Anna Birsty, relict, out of Shoreham Peculiars. This brass points to Anne’s father being John, but also points to her death date being after 1637, as she was stated as William’s widow. Richard died on 18 September 1601 and was buried at St Mary's Church, Chiddingstone. There cast iron grave slab in Richard's memory in Chiddingstone Church which is one of the earliest known, made locally when iron making was an important industry in the Weald. Richard and Anne had three sons and a daughter: Henry, his heir, baptised on 11 December 1586 in Chiddingstone, married Suan Lambe of Staplehurst Kent, and died in 1647. Margaret, married 4 October 1608, to Edward Moody. Silvester, of the Inner Temple, filacer of Kent, Sussex, and Surrey, baptised 25 January 1589, died unmarried. Thomas, of Shoreham, Kent, baptised 11 June 1592, buried at Chiddingstone, 27 March 1627, married in 1614, Frances, daughter of John Reeves, of London, and by her (who married secondly, John Seyliard, and died in 1650) left four daughters, his coheirs. Posterity Richard Streatfeild is recognised as the one who established the financial base of the Streatfeild family in Chiddingstone. His descendants include: Henry Streatfeild (1706–1762), substantial British landowner Thomas Streatfeild (1777–1848), renowned antiquarian and churchman in the early 19th century Richard Streatfeild (cricketer) (1833–1877), English cricketer Rev. William Champion Streatfeild (1839-1912), 19th century clergyman Alexander Streatfeild-Moore (1863–1940), English cricketer William Champion Streatfeild (1865–1929), Anglican Bishop of Lewes for a brief period in the second quarter of the 20th century Richard Alexander Streatfeild (1866-1919), English musicologist and critic Edward Champion Streatfeild (1870-1932), English cricketer Philip Streatfeild (1879–1915), English painter and bohemian Sidney Streatfeild (1894–1966), Scottish Unionist Party politician Ruth Gervis (1894–1988), artist, art teacher and illustrator of children's books Noel Streatfeild (1895–1986), author, most famous for her children's books Geoffrey Streatfeild (born 1975), English actor His great grandson Henry Streatfeild (1639-1719) converted the family home High Street House from a house in the High Street to the Restoration style that it is now. References The Streatfields of Kent English ironmasters People from Chiddingstone 1559 births 1601 deaths People from Withyham
37223187	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cillian%20O%27Connor	Cillian O'Connor	Cillian O'Connor (born 1992) is an Irish Gaelic footballer who plays for Ballintubber and the Mayo county team. O'Connor is the leading all-time top scorer in the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship. Career O'Connor made his Ballintubber club debut whilst still a teenager in 2010. A year later, he made his county debut for Mayo in the Connacht Senior Football Championship against London at Emerald GAA Grounds in South Ruislip after being called up by former Ballintubber manager James Horan, who had given O'Connor his Ballintuber debut as well. O'Connor was named as the captain of Mayo in 2013 after having won two Young Player of the Year awards in the previous two years and led them to the 2013 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final. In 2014, he was awarded a GAA GPA All-Star Award after being the top scorer in the 2014 season and leading Mayo to the 2014 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship semi-finals. He won his second GAA GPA All Stars award for his performance in the 2020 season. In 2015, O'Connor was in the running for the Golden Boot and initially finished tied for top with Fermanagh's Seán Quigley. However, following a review of Mayo's championship winning DVD, the Gaelic Athletic Association realised they had incorrectly noted O'Connor's score as they had recorded him as having scored 1-6 but he had actually scored 1–7. As a result, O'Connor's tally was increased by 1 which allowed him to claim the Golden Boot. In 2019, O'Connor became the highest scoring player in the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, surpassing Kerry's Colm Cooper's record. He had done this by scoring in all of his previous 51 previous Championship matches prior to the record breaking match, except for one game against London in 2013 when he had been black carded. He broke the scoring record for a single championship game with four goals and nine points in the 2020 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship semi-final at Croke Park. O'Connor sustained an injury to his achilles tendon in the first half of his county's 2021 National Football League promotion play-off win against Clare at Cusack Park and later underwent surgery. It was his 100th appearance for the team. The injury meant he could not play for Mayo again that season. He made his return to Senior Inter County Football off the bench after 56 minutes in the 2022 National League Final. Scoring record Honours Inter-county Connacht Senior Football Championship (6): 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2020 ,2021, National Football League (2): 2019, 2023 FBD League: 2023 Club Mayo Senior Football Championship (5): 2010, 2011, 2014, 2018, 2019 Mayo U21 A Football Championship (2): 2009, 2010 Individual GAA/GPA Young Footballer of the Year (2) 2011, 2012 All Star: (2) 2014, 2020 Mayo Footballer of the Year (1) 2011 References External links Interview with The Mayo News 1992 births Living people Alumni of St Patrick's College, Dublin DCU Gaelic footballers Ballintubber Gaelic footballers Irish schoolteachers Mayo inter-county Gaelic footballers People educated at St Gerald's College, Castlebar Sportspeople from Castlebar
60220469	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danyil%20Sukhoruchko	Danyil Sukhoruchko	Danyil Anatoliyovych Sukhoruchko (; born 21 February 2000) is a Ukrainian professional football player who plays for Livyi Bereh Kyiv. Club career He made his Ukrainian Premier League debut for FC Arsenal Kyiv on 8 December 2018 in a game against FC Zorya Luhansk. Honours Dynamo Kyiv Ukrainian Super Cup: 2018 References External links 2000 births Living people People from Sloviansk Ukrainian men's footballers Men's association football forwards FC Arsenal Kyiv players FC Dynamo Kyiv players FC Chornomorets Odesa players FC Nyva Ternopil players Ukrainian Premier League players Ukrainian First League players Footballers from Donetsk Oblast
46835825	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20Sammoutis	Jack Sammoutis	Jack Odysseas Sammoutis (; born 15 January 1994) is an English-born Cypriot semi-professional footballer who plays for Isthmian League South East Division club Cray Valley Paper Mills as a central midfielder. His nickname is Jackaldinho.He has represented Cyprus at Under-19 level. Club career Millwall Sammoutis joined the Millwall academy at the age of 15, and went on to play for the Under-18s and Under-21s. In March 2013, he was released after failing to be offered a professional contract. Sammoutis trained with Isthmian Premier Division club Margate in pre-season following his departure. Metropolitan Police In August 2013, Sammoutis joined Isthmian Premier Division side Metropolitan Police. He made his senior debut in a 2–1 defeat at Enfield Town on 10 August, and went on to make six appearances for the club. Margate Sammoutis joined league rivals Margate, alongside former Millwall teammate Daniel Newman, in September 2013. He scored his first senior goal in a 2–1 defeat against Bury Town on 12 October. A week later, he scored two goals in a 9–4 FA Trophy win at Wroxham. In June 2014, Sammoutis left Margate by mutual consent in order to return to Cyprus of personal reasons. AC Omonia In August 2014, Sammoutis joined Cypriot First Division club AC Omonia. Scoring the only goal in a 1–0 pre-season victory at Nea Salamis Famagusta, he marked his league debut with an assist in the final minute to earn a 1–0 victory against Othellos Athienou. Sammoutis made a total of five appearances for the club, into two Cypriot Cup fixtures. Walton Casuals In July 2015, Sammoutis returned to England and joined Isthmian Division One South club Walton Casuals two months later. He scored eight times in 33 appearances in his inaugural season, and was rewarded with a trial at League Two club Barnet in March 2016. After returning for a second trial in the summer, he spent pre-season with National League side Bromley, but committed to Walton Casuals for the 2016–17 season. Greenwich Borough Sammoutis completed a move to league rivals Greenwich Borough in May 2017. Making his debut in a 1–1 draw with Whyteleafe on the opening day of the season, he scored his first goal for the club in a 4–1 Kent Senior Cup win at Ramsgate a week later. On 28 August, he scored a brace in a 3–0 win against Phoenix Sports. Sammoutis was dismissed for the first time in his senior career during a 4–0 win against Guernsey on 23 December. Walton Casuals In February 2018, Sammoutis rejoined league rivals Walton Casuals. On 17 February 2018, he made his debut in a 2–1 win against South Park – the same opponent and scoreline from his debut for the club. A week later he scored his first goal since returning to the club in a 3–2 defeat to Whyteleafe and added another in the subsequent 2–2 draw with Guernsey. On 17 April, he completed the scoring in a 2–0 win at Shoreham. Named as a substitute in the Isthmian League South Division Play-Off Semi-Final, Sammoutis came off the bench and scored the final goal of a 5–2 victory in the 90th minute. He was then rewarded with a start in the Play-Off Final at Corinthian-Casuals as his team went on to secure promotion with a penalty shoot-out. On 15 May, Sammoutis announced he would not return for the club for the 2018–19 season, citing the league restructuring and unfeasible travel times in a new division. Hythe Town In May 2018, he joined Isthmian League South East Division club Hythe Town. Greenwich Borough On 14 March 2019, he returned to fellow South East Division club Greenwich Borough. Cray Valley Paper Mills He joined Cray Valley Paper Mills during the summer of 2019. He also plays for Sunday league club SE Dons alongside Zak Ansah. International Sammoutis began his international career in November 2012, when he made his first appearance for Cyprus at Under-19 level in a European Championship qualifier. He went on to make a further four appearances at youth level. Personal Sammoutis is part of the Sport on Screen agency, founded by former professional footballer Andy Ansah. In February 2016, he was part of filming for a Nike advert ahead of the 2016 European Championships. The advert, led by Cristiano Ronaldo, was released in June 2016. Career statistics Honours Walton Casuals Isthmian League South Division Play-Off Champions: 2017–18 References 1994 births Living people English men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Millwall F.C. players AC Omonia players Metropolitan Police F.C. players Margate F.C. players Walton Casuals F.C. players Greenwich Borough F.C. players Footballers from Greater London
53305692	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lukman%20Niode	Lukman Niode	Lukman Niode (21 October 1963 – 17 April 2020) was an Indonesian swimmer. He competed in numerous domestic and international events including three events at the 1984 Summer Olympics, but was eliminated in the heats in all three events. Lukman died on 17 April 2020 in Pelni Hospital in Jakarta at the age of 56, due to COVID-19 during the pandemic. References External links 1963 births 2020 deaths Indonesian male swimmers Olympic swimmers for Indonesia Swimmers at the 1984 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Jakarta Asian Games medalists in swimming Asian Games bronze medalists for Indonesia Swimmers at the 1978 Asian Games Swimmers at the 1982 Asian Games Swimmers at the 1986 Asian Games Medalists at the 1978 Asian Games Medalists at the 1982 Asian Games Medalists at the 1986 Asian Games SEA Games medalists in swimming SEA Games gold medalists for Indonesia SEA Games silver medalists for Indonesia SEA Games bronze medalists for Indonesia Competitors at the 1977 SEA Games Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia 20th-century Indonesian people
33360680	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntington%20Municipal%20Airport%20%28Utah%29	Huntington Municipal Airport (Utah)	Huntington Municipal Airport is a county-owned, public-use airport located three nautical miles (3.5 mi, 5.6 km) northeast of the central business district of Huntington, a town in Emery County, Utah, United States. Facilities and aircraft Huntington Municipal Airport covers an area of 333 acres (135 ha) at an elevation of 5,915 feet (1,803 m) above mean sea level. It has three runways: 8/26 (formerly 7/25) is 4,048 by 75 feet (1,234 x 23 m) with an asphalt surface; 12/30 is 3,640 by 70 feet (1,109 x 21 m) with a dirt surface; 18/36 is 2,079 by 56 feet (634 x 17 m) with a dirt surface. For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2007, the airport had 1,724 aircraft operations, an average of 143 per month: 99% general aviation and 1% air taxi. Character This airport serves as a backcountry airport gateway; it offers camping and showers for flyers who start or end their backcountry trips there. The airport has also been used considerably for emergency and state law enforcement flights. See also List of airports in Utah References External links Airports in Utah Buildings and structures in Emery County, Utah Transportation in Emery County, Utah
10132497	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse%20storm	Pulse storm	A pulse storm is a single cell thunderstorm of substantial intensity which only produces severe weather for short periods of time. Such a storm weakens and then generates another short burst – hence "pulse". Description Single cell thunderstorms ordinarily form in environments with low wind shear and moderate instability, with the low wind shear contributing to a short average lifespan of less than an hour. When the instability, calculated by convective available potential energy (CAPE), is strong, the updraft will bring a larger amount of humid air very high above ground and generate a cumulonimbus cloud with high water and ice content. When the rain content, and even hail, falls from it, they can generate damaging winds brought about by downbursts. Rarely, a weak tornado develops in association with a pulse storm as the environment is only weakly sheared, or not at all. Life cycle One can distinguish three stages in the evolution of a pulse storm: Formation: the upward current of the cell intensifies and allows the condensation of water vapor from the rising air parcel. This forms a cumulus congestus, then a cumulonimbus when ice crystals form at its apex which spreads horizontally in contact with the tropopause. Maturity: downdrafts are emerging. This stage is accompanied by characteristic phenomena such as lightning and thunder, showers, and gust front. Dissipation: the cold pool descending from the cloud extends to the earth's surface and helps to block the feed by pushing the updraft downstream. The outflow can then serve as a trigger for other single cell thunderstorms. See also Project NIMROD References Severe weather and convection fr:Orage#Orage ordinaire et pulsatif
64314435	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysis%20mediata	Chrysis mediata	Chrysis mediata is a Palearctic species of cuckoo wasp. References External links Images representing Chrysis mediata Hymenoptera of Europe Chrysididae Insects described in 1951
49397929	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzain%20Fatima	Suzain Fatima	Suzain Fatima (born 16 November 1986) is a Pakistani actress. She has acted in many television series in Pakistan and also played a leading role in the Indian television series, Parwaaz. She is known for her role as Fatima in Meri Maa and Mehru in Behnein Aisi Bhi Hoti Hain. She will made her cinematic debut with upcoming film Delhi Gate. Career Modeling She is doing modeling for many years now. From bridal to causal Still shoots she has done all of them. Suzain is yet to make her debut on Ramp. She has done many commercials as well in Pakistan such as Olpers, Dawlance, Mobilink Jazz, Askari Bank, Knorr and many others. Acting She started her Professional career in 2004 and her first play was Mohabbet Hai Zindagi which was on aired on PTV Home. She has also worked in Indian television series Parwaaz which was on aired on Zee TV. She gained popularity with her portrayal of a leading role in ARY Zindagi's Behnein Aisi Bhi Hoti Hain. Hosting In 2015, she hosted the season 2 of Haan Qabool Hai on ATV. Filmography Film Delhi Gate (upcoming) Television References External links Official site 1986 births Living people
46673192	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray%20Orchard	Ray Orchard	Raymond Edward Orchard (born 9 August 1946) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Richmond in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Notes External links Living people 1946 births Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Richmond Football Club players Dandenong Football Club players
40895227	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eilema%20bipartita	Eilema bipartita	Eilema bipartita is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It is found in Tanzania and Uganda. References bipartita Insects of Tanzania Moths of Africa Moths described in 1910

Subsets and Splits

No community queries yet

The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.