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Salvia 'Celestial Blue' - Wikipedia | Salvia 'Celestial Blue' (also known as celestial blue sage or Las Pilitas sage), is a hybrid cross between Salvia clevelandii (Cleveland sage or chaparral sage) and S. pachyphylla (Rose's sage or mountain desert sage), and possibly involving Salvia 'Pozo Blue' — which is itself a cross between S. clevelandii and S. leucophylla (purple sage). The hybrid parents are native to California.[1]
The plant is a perennial evergreen, with a rounded growth habit and a moderate growth rate. It can tolerate full sun and is adaptable to numerous soil conditions, and is cold hardy down to 15°F.[2]
The foliage smells of musk, and the large, pale violet to periwinkle blue flowers are attractive to bees, hummingbirds, and butterflies. An extremely drought- and heat-tolerant plant, introduced by Las Pilitas, a California native plant nursery, in 1999. It is cultivated in gardens and public landscapes.
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Made, Netherlands - Wikipedia | Made is a town in the Dutch province of North Brabant. It is located in the municipality of Drimmelen, about 10 km northeast of Breda.
The village was first mentioned in 1321 as die Made, and means hay land.[3] Until the 14th century, Made was part of the meadows of Geertruidenberg and was considered part of the city until 1795.[4]
The Dutch Reformed church dates from 1512. In 1944, it was damaged by war and restored in 1952. The Catholic St. Bernardus Church was built in 1870.[4] Made was home to 1,104 people in 1840.[5]
Between 1997 and 1998, "Made" was the name of a municipality, created in the merger of the former municipalities of Hooge en Lage Zwaluwe, Made en Drimmelen, and Terheijden. In 1998, the name of the municipality was changed to "Drimmelen".[6]
Made lies along the highway A59, which puts it in close range of both the A16 and the A27.
Made has public sports associations for soccer, scouting, tennis and hockey, as well as for several indoor sports like badminton, table tennis and gymnastics. There is an outdoor public swimming pool the "Randoet", which opens only between May and October.
Made, Catholic St. Blasius church
Made, Protestant church
Pub in Made
School in Made
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1982 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament - Wikipedia |
The 1982 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament involved 48 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 11, 1982, and ended with the championship game on March 29 in the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana. A total of 47 games were played.
North Carolina, coached by Dean Smith, won the national title with a 63–62 victory in the final game over Georgetown, coached by John Thompson. James Worthy of North Carolina was named the Tournament's Most Outstanding Player.
This tournament was the first to eliminate the national third-place game, which had been held every year since the 1946 tournament. It was also the first tournament to be televised by CBS after it acquired the broadcasting rights from NBC. Gary Bender and Billy Packer (also from NBC Sports) called the Final Four and National Championship games. In addition, it was the first tournament to include the word "Men's" in its official title, as the NCAA began sponsoring national championships in women's sports (including basketball) in the 1981–82 school year.
This was the last NCAA tournament to grant automatic bids to the winners of ECAC regional tournaments for Northeastern Division I independents organized by the Eastern College Athletic Conference, a loose sports federation of Northeastern colleges and universities. The practice had begun with the 1975 tournament to ensure that Northeastern independents would not be excluded, but was discontinued when all remaining Northeastern independents formed new conferences or joined existing ones after this season.[1]
For the first time since 1966, the tournament field did not include UCLA.
The 1982 NCAA Division I Men's Championship Game was between the Georgetown Hoyas and the North Carolina Tar Heels. Both teams had Hall of Fame coaches, Dean Smith for the Tar Heels and John Thompson for the Hoyas. As for players, five future NBA All-Stars were included between the two sides—the Hoyas featured center Patrick Ewing and Eric "Sleepy" Floyd, while the Tar Heels answered with forward James Worthy, forward and center Sam Perkins, and young guard Michael Jordan. This also marked the only NCAA championship game to feature three of the NBA 50 Greatest Players (Jordan, Ewing and Worthy) chosen in 1996 on the occasion of the NBA's 50th anniversary.
The championship matchup was tightly contested throughout, with no team ever leading by more than a few points, and 15 lead changes in the game overall. With slightly over a minute to go, Floyd scored to put Georgetown on top, 62–61. During the ensuing timeout, Smith predicted that Georgetown would heavily guard Worthy and Perkins and drew up a play that would work the ball around to Jordan and then met Jordan's eyes and told him to not be afraid to shoot if he was open. When the ball was worked around, Jimmy Black found Jordan on the left wing, and he rose and hit a jumper with 17 seconds to go to put Carolina back on top, 63–62. Georgetown did not call timeout but immediately pushed the ball up the court. However, guard Fred Brown mistook Carolina's James Worthy for a teammate and passed the ball right to his opponent. Worthy was fouled by Eric Smith with two seconds to go. He missed both free throws, but with no timeouts left (Georgetown coach John Thompson, in a questionable move, used his last one before Worthy's free throws rather than save it to set up a final play) the Hoyas' last desperation shot fell short. On the other hand, Dean Smith's decision to draw up a play for Jordan, rather than Worthy or Perkins, is often regarded as a brilliant coaching move.
His Airness. MJ. Air Jordan. Before Michael Jordan was any of these things, before he was the most recognizable athlete in the world, he was Mike Jordan, the freshman for North Carolina. Then he hit a game-winning shot in the 1982 national championship game, and Mike became Michael Jordan, who became all of the above.
Powell Latimer in the Daily Tar Heel before Jordan's 2009 Hall of Fame induction[2]
Aside from the dramatic finish in the final minute, the 1982 NCAA championship game is today primarily remembered as being the stage on which several eventual basketball legends were introduced to a national audience, particularly North Carolina's Jordan and Georgetown's Ewing, both 19-year-old freshmen at the time of this game. Both had outstanding games - Jordan with 16 points including the game-winner, and Ewing with 23 points and 10 rebounds (but also a few goaltends on blocks that John Thompson supported for intimidation purposes). Jordan and Ewing would go on to have more memorable clashes in the National Basketball Association with the Chicago Bulls and New York Knicks respectively, and both would be inducted into the Hall of Fame. For Jordan's part, his game-winner is often seen as the launching point of his career - the moment that gave him the confidence to become the single greatest basketball player of all time, in no small part due to his clutch performance. Jordan has said multiple times that before he would take game-winning shots with the Bulls, he would sometimes think back to his shot in the 1982 game that propelled North Carolina past Georgetown.
The real star of the 1982 title game, and a third player in this game who would eventually be inducted to the pro basketball Hall of Fame, was Carolina's James Worthy. Worthy scored a game-high 28 points, showing the blazing speed and some of the same authoritative drives to the basket that later became familiar sights during his career with the powerful Los Angeles Lakers of the 1980s. Beyond these three legendary players, two other outstanding pro players of the 1980s and early 90s appeared in this 1982 game: Georgetown's Sleepy Floyd, who went on to an All-Star career in the NBA (including a still-standing record for most points in a quarter and in a half for a playoff game) and Carolina's Sam Perkins, who distinguished himself over a durable NBA career lasting 17 seasons.
The following are the sites that were selected to host each round of the 1982 tournament:
First and Second Rounds
Regional semifinals and finals (Sweet Sixteen and Elite Eight)
National semifinals and championship (Final Four and championship)
* – Denotes overtime period
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Echinoplectanum leopardi - Wikipedia |
Echinoplectanum leopardi is a species of diplectanid monogenean parasitic on the gills of the leopard coralgrouper, Plectropomus leopardus. It has been described in 2006.
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The specific epithet leopardi is the genitive form of leopardus and relates to the type-host.[1]
The leopard coral grouper Plectropomus leopardus is the type-host of Echinoplectanum leopardi. The type-locality is the coral reef off Nouméa, New Caledonia.[1]
In New Caledonia, this fish harbours three species of the genus Echinoplectanum, namely E. leopardi, E. pudicum and E. rarum.[1]
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Thomas Nevile Carter - Wikipedia |
Thomas Nevile Carter (September 1851 – 16 November 1879) was an English amateur sportsman who played for England in the second unofficial football match against Scotland, in November 1870. He was the brother of the Rev William Marlborough Carter KCMG, DD and the nephew of Canon T. T. Carter. He was killed by lightning in South Africa, aged 28.
Carter was born at Eton College, where he was baptised on 16 September 1851.[1][2] He was the fourth son of William Adolphus Carter (1815–1901) and his wife Gertrude née Rogers (1826–1909).[2] His father was a Master, Fellow and Bursar at Eton College.[3]
His father's brother was Thomas Thellusson Carter (1808–1901), who became a significant figure in the Victorian Church of England.[4] His own brothers included William Marlborough Carter (1850–1941), who became Bishop of Zululand and then Bishop of Pretoria, before becoming Archbishop of Cape Town from 1909 to 1930,[5] and Frank Willington Carter (1865–1945), who became a businessman in Calcutta and philanthropist, co-founding the British Empire Leprosy Relief Association.[6][7]
Carter attended Eton College between 1864 and 1871.[3] While at the college, he was a member of the College, Mixed Wall and Field elevens and Keeper of the Field (captain of the football XI) in 1870. He won the School Fives in 1870–71 and was Keeper of the Fives in 1871.[3] He was also the editor of the Eton College Chronicle in 1871.[3]
The Eton Register claims that Carter attended The Queen's College, Oxford, gaining an MA,[3] but there is no evidence of this in the college records.[8]
In November 1870, C. W. Alcock and Arthur F. Kinnaird were organising the second "international" match between an England XI and a Scotland XI. Alcock selected four schoolboys to represent England: Carter (captain of Eton College, aged 19), Walter Paton (captain of Harrow School aged 17), Henry J. Preston (also Eton College, aged 19) and Walpole Vidal (Westminster School, aged 17).[9][10]
The match was played at the Kennington Oval on 19 November 1870 and ended in a 1–0 victory to the English, with the solitary goal coming from R.S.F. Walker.[10][11] Although nominally playing as a defender, Carter had a goal disallowed.[12]
Nothing is known about Carter's life after leaving Eton College in 1871, until his death from a lightning strike in the Transvaal,[8] South Africa on 16 November 1879.[8]
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Margaret Rudkin - Wikipedia | Margaret Loreta Rudkin (née Fogarty, 1897 –1967) was an American businesswoman who founded Pepperidge Farm and first female member of the board at the Campbell Soup Company.
On September 14, 1897, Rudkin was born as Margaret Loreta Fogarty in Manhattan, New York City, New York. Rudkin's parents were Joseph J Fogarty, an Irish clerk, and Margaret Healy. Rudkin was the eldest of her four siblings.[1] Rudkin had reddish hair and green eyes.[1]
Rudkin learned cooking from her grandmother, who started her off with cakes and biscuits.
At 12, Rudkin moved to Long Island. Rudkin graduated valedictorian from her high school.
Rudkin started her career as a bank teller. In 1919, Rudkin worked at McClure Jones and Co., where she met her future husband, Henry Albert Rudkin, a stock broker.
In 1926, the two purchased land in Fairfield, Connecticut, built a home and called the estate Pepperidge Farm after the pepperidge tree "Nyssa sylvatica". Although fairly well off, they suffered somewhat during the Great Depression and made ends meet by selling apples and turkeys.
Margaret Rudkin was inspired to found Pepperidge Farm due to her son Mark's asthma. His reactions to preservatives and artificial ingredients prevented him from eating commercially prepared bread. She created her first product, a whole wheat bread, and offered it to the local doctor, who immediately ordered it to sell to his patients. Rudkin was soon selling it in her town and four months later she was selling it in New York with her husband as delivery man. Soon she was distributing her bread (both whole wheat and white loaves) across the country.
Within three years the endeavor had outgrown the small farm bakery and a large commercial bakery was opened in nearby Norwalk on July 4, 1947. Rudkin designed the interior of the plant herself, positioning the equipment to support her manufacturing process.[2] Although World War II caused problems due to rationing, the bakery was producing 50,000 loaves a week in 1948.
By 1950 Rudkin was appearing in commercials on television. At the same time, under her management the bakery was expanding into other products, including the Goldfish snack.
In 1960, Rudkin was invited to speak about manufacturing to MBA students at Harvard by famed professor Georges Doriot. Her 1963 book, The Margaret Rudkin Pepperidge Farm Cookbook, was the first cookbook to become a national bestseller.[2]
In 1961 Rudkin sold the Pepperidge Farm business to the Camden, NJ based Campbell Soup Company for approximately US$28 million and became a director of that company.[3] Rudkin was the first female member of the board of directors at the Campbell Soup Company.[1] Although having sold Pepperidge Farm, Rudkin still ran the company until her retirement in 1966.
On April 8, 1923, Rudkin married Henry Albert Rudkin, a Wall Street stockbroker. They had three sons. In 1929, Rudkin moved to a property named Pepperidge Farm in Fairfield, Connecticut.[1] On April 22, 1966, Rudkin's husband died at the age of 80. On June 1, 1967, Rudkin died of breast cancer at Yale-New Haven hospital in New Haven, Connecticut. She was 69.[4][5]
Rudkin is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York City. Her son Mark became a landscape architect known for working on famous gardens in France, such as the Jardins du Nouveau Monde.
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International Conference on Rewriting Techniques and Applications - Wikipedia | Rewriting Techniques and Applications (RTA) is an annual international academic conference on the topic of rewriting. It covers all aspects of rewriting, including termination, equational reasoning, theorem proving, higher-order rewriting, unification and the lambda calculus. The conference consists of peer-reviewed papers with the proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series until 2009, and since then in the LIPIcs series published by the Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik. Several rewriting-related workshops are also affiliated with RTA.
The first RTA was held in Dijon, France in September 1983. RTA took part in the federated conferences Federated Logic Conference (FLoC) and Rewriting, Deduction, and Programming (RDP). In 2016, RTA merged with the International Conference on Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications to form the International Conference on
Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD).
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Aleksandra Shelton - Wikipedia |
Aleksandra Anna Socha Shelton (born 30 March 1982) is a Polish sabre fencer, bronze medal in the 2003 World Fencing Championships, European champion in 2004, and European team in 2008. She represented Poland at the time.
Socha was the Polish champion in sabre for the years 1999, 2002, 2003, 2008, 2010, and 2015. As a member of the Polish Sabre Fencing Team she won medals at the European Championships in 2001 (bronze), 2006 (silver), and 2008 (gold). In Individual Sabre she won a gold medal at the 2004 European Fencing Championships and silver at the 2011 European Fencing Championships, as well as gold medals, team and individual, in the 2010 Military Fencing Championship in Caracas, Venezuela, and the 2011 Military World Games in Rio de Janeiro.
She was a member of the Polish Olympic Team for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.[1]
Aleksandra Socha (Ola) was going to represent Poland in Women's sabre and Women's team sabre at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.[2]
Socha graduated from Middle School Nr 2 in Pabianice at age 15 and moved to Warsaw to attend Sport Championship High School and Józef Piłsudski University of Physical Education (Polish: Akademia Wychowania Fizycznego Józefa Piłsudskiego w Warszawie) where she obtained a master's degree in physical education. She is married to Bradley Shelton of Sheridan, Arkansas. She is a certified fencing coach, a fitness trainer, as well as a soldier in the 3rd Command Support Battalion of the Polish Land Forces stationed in Warsaw.
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Lewin Jürgen Rohde - Wikipedia | Lewin (Lewin) Jürgen (Jørgen) Rohde (23 October 1786 – 2 August 1857) was a Danish naval officer, harbour master, cartographer and nautical writer. In 1830 and again in 1831–32, during Frederik Ludvig Christian Pentz Rosenørn's absence, he served as acting Governor of St. Thomas and St. Jan.
Rohde was born on 23 October 1786 on Saint Thomas in the Danish West Indies to merchant Jørgen Lewin Rohde (1735-1793) and Marie née Magens (1754-1833).[1] His sister Anna Elisabeth Rohde (1784-1818) married George Brown (1773-1818), a son of John Brown and Anne Appleby.[2]
Rohde became a naval cadet in 1807. On 3 July 19+8,[clarification needed] he became a second lieutenant. He served in Norway during the Napoleonic War. In 1814, he was granted 9–10 months' leave to visit his family in the Danish West Indies. On St. Thomas, Governor General Oxholm charged him with creating a map of the island's harbour. On 26 July 1816, his travel permit was therefore extended. He was just a few days later promoted to first lieutenant. In 1819, he was offered a position as assistant to harbour master Carl Gottlieb Fleischer. On 14 November 1819, he was promoted to captain lieutenant. In 1821, he succeeded Fleicher as harbour master on St. Thomas, with rank of captain. In 1825, he was appointed as Harbour Captain with rank of commander captain. He served acting governor of the Danish West Indies from 1830 to 1832.[2]
He retired from his position as harbour master on 1 April 1854. He was succeeded by his brother-in-law, Thomas Andreas Kjær.[2]
Om 1922. Rohde published a map and description of the southern part of St. Thomas.[2] In 1828, Rohde published a highly regarded work on the codes of signals at sea. entitled The Universal Sea Language. It was translated into German, French, English, Serdish, Spanish, Dutch and Russian.[3]
Rohde married to his niece Louise Brown, daughter of George Brown and of Anna Elisabeth Rohde. The couple had seven children:[2]
In around 1822–23. Rohde constructed the house at Dronningensgade 26–27, King's Quarter, Charlotte Amalie.[4] He also constructed the country house Louisenhøj on a hillside outside Charlotte Amalie.[2]
In 1826, he was created as Lmight in the Order of the Dannebrog. In 1946, he was awarded the Cross of Honour.[2]
Rohde moved to Copenhagen shortly after his retirement as harbour master in 1954. He died on 2 August 1957. He left an estate of approximately 74,000 rigsdaler.[2]
His former country house Louisehøj is now a ruin. The National Museum of Denmark purchased a painting of it at a Bruun Rasmussen auction in 2002. A portrait painting of Louise Rohde née Brown was sold to another boyer at the same Vruun Rasmussen auction.≠[5] A silver tea set which used to belong to Rohde is also in the collection of the National Museum of Denmark.
A rare collection of 12 daguerreotypes and one ambrotype as well as two poetry books, all dating from the 1840s and 1860s and with relations to the family of Levin Jürgen Rohde, is now in the collection of the National Library of Denmark. It comprises one portrait of Levin Jürgen Rohde, two double portraits of him and his wife, another double portrait of their two daughters, one group portrait of Rodhe, his wife and one daughter, two portraits of their black servants and also a number of unidentified portraits, probably with relations to the Rohde family. Two are from the American photographer John Keenan, 248 South Second Street, Philadelphia.[3]
The Louisehoj ruins in 2010.
Painting of Louisenhøj, National Museum of Denmark.
L- I- Tohde's tea set, National Museum of Denmark.
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Harry Truman Pratt Sr. - Wikipedia | Harry Truman Pratt Sr. (October 17, 1873–September 8, 1945)[1] was an American educator, artist, publisher, businessman, and civic leader. He was the first African American graduate of the Maryland Institute of Art and Design, currently the Maryland Institute College of Art, in 1895.[2]
Pratt served in the field of education for 47 years.[3] He became the first alumni to lead his alma mater Douglass High School, formerly the Colored High School, for eleven years[3] and is credited with introducing the Alpha and Beta intelligence tests in Baltimore's colored schools.[4] Pratt was a member of the Omega Psi Phi fraternity,[5] the Negro Business Men’s League of Baltimore,[6] and a number of local national teacher and principal associations.[5] He was an acquaintance of Booker T. Washington[6] and W. Ashbie Hawkins.[7]
Pratt was born to Louis and Clara Pratt in Baltimore, Maryland.[1] He received his primary and grammar school education in the city’s public schools.[8] Pratt attended the Colored High School[3] where he demonstrated a talent in drawing and music.[8] He was the valedictorian and commencement orator when he graduated in 1894.[4]
On September 3, 1891, Harry T. Pratt was appointed to a scholarship to the Maryland Institute of Art and Design, by councilman Harry S. Cummings.[9] The appointment was made under the $6,000 contract between the city and the Institute.[8] The contract gave each member of the City Council the privilege to appoint one student each year to a three year scholarship to the college.[8] The appointment was a surprise to the Board of the Director because it was the first time “a colored pupil” had been appointed.[8] The Baltimore Sun reported that if the Institute did not accept Pratt they would forfeit their contract.[10] At 15 years old, Pratt entered the college’s evening school architectural department[11] under the premise he would have the same privilege as other students.[12] Pratt graduated from the Institute with honors[5] in 1895 in Freehand drawing.[13]
After graduating from high school and the institute, Pratt worked for the Postal Service for three years before resigning to work for the city school system in 1898.[13] He established Druid Laundry in 1899 with his father and brother, Walter.[14] After his father’s death, the business operated in partnership with Wallis T. Lansey.[5] Lansey would eventually operate the business independently. Pratt also established the Baltimore Times–a short lived weekly newspaper.[3] In 1913, he leased the Times to a publisher in New Jersey.[15]
He also attended Morgan State College in 1922.[5] He headed the Summer School courses from 1924–1927.[16]
Pratt was an educator for 47 years in Baltimore City Public Schools.[3] He is known as a being among the pioneer group of teachers who educated colored pupils in public schools since the Civil War.[3] Pratt taught every grade from first through second year normal school.[5] He served as the principal for numerous schools[1] including Paul Lawrence Dunbar[5] and Benjamin Banneker,[6] to name a few. Pratt is credited with introducing the Alpha and Beta intelligence tests in colored schools.[4]
Pratt retired in June 1945 due to age and health.[3] He died on September 8, 1945 at 69 years old after a stroke.[1]
In 2019, Harry T. Pratt was featured in the Maryland Institute Black Archives (MIBA) and exhibition Blackives: A Celebration of Black History at MICA.[17]
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Robert Sterl - Wikipedia | Robert Hermann Sterl (23 June 1867 – 10 January 1932) was a German painter and graphic artist.
Sterl was born in Großdobritz, now part of Dresden, the son of a stonemason. From 1881 to 1888, he attended the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied under Leon Pohle and Julius Scholtz, later becoming a master student of Ferdinand Pauwels. A stay at the artists' colony in Goppeln near Bannewitz introduced him to impressionism and plein air painting.[1]
After leaving Pauwels' studio, he worked as a landscape painter and portraitist and, until 1904, operated a private painting school for women. In 1893, he became one of the founding members of the Dresden Secession. He was appointed a Professor at the Academy in 1906, where he taught until 1931,[1] and became an associate member of the Berlin Secession in 1909. From 1913 to 1930, he was a member of the Dresdner Galeriekommission and, from 1920, had a seat on the Gallery Advisory Board, both of which positions enabled him to help young artists. When Gotthardt Kuehl died in 1915, Sterl took over his Master Class. During World War I, he worked as a war painter, on the Western Front in 1915 and the southern front in the Dolomites in 1917.[1] After the war, he bought a house in Struppen and built a spacious studio there.
In addition to the usual impressionist subject matter, he painted musicians and workers, especially quarrymen. He was sympathetic to liberal causes, producing many socially conscious works; some of which are set in Russia, where he had travelled briefly before the war. Two of his paintings were labelled "degenerate art" in 1937 and removed from the Galerie Neue Meister. During the GDR years, his works were praised for some of the same reasons the Nazis had condemned them.[1]
He died in Struppen after a long illness and was buried at his home, bequeathing his estate to the Academy for the purpose of discovering and promoting new artists. The "Robert and Helene Sterl Foundation" was created just before his death in 1931 and, since 1981, the home has been operated as a museum and research facility.[1] Beginning in 1997, the Foundation and related organizations have awarded the "Robert Sterl Prize" to a master student at the Academy. The prize includes €3,000 and an exhibit at the museum.[2]
Portrait of Wastl (1903)
Portrait of Christian Georg Schmorl (1921)
Portrait of Arthur Nikisch (1910)
The Quarrymen (1911)
Dredging the Elbe (1905)
Harvest Drink (1903)
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Spencer Jeans - Wikipedia |
Spencer Jeans (born 19 October 2000)[1] is an Australian rugby union player who plays for the Reds in Super Rugby. His playing position is scrum-half. He was named in the Reds squad for the 2022 Super Rugby Pacific season.[2] He made his Reds debut in Round 2 of the 2022 Super Rugby Pacific season against the Waratahs.[3]
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Esmé Berman - Wikipedia |
Esmé Berman (1929 – 4 June 2017[1]) was a South African art historian.[2] She earned a degree in visual arts from the University of the Witwatersrand in 1946.[3] In 1952, she married Hymie Berman, an art collector.[4] She is best known for writing Art and Artists of South Africa, the first comprehensive reference work on South African artists, in 1970.[5] Witswatersrand conferred an honorary doctorate on Berman in 2016 to recognize her contributions to South African art.[6]
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Kevin Calvey - Wikipedia | Kevin Calvey (born July 13, 1966) is an American attorney and politician who has served as an Oklahoma County Commissioner for District 3 since 2019. He previously served in the Oklahoma House of Representatives as the member for the 94th district from 1998 to 2006 and as the member for the 82nd district from 2014 to 2018. Calvey ran for Oklahoma's 5th congressional district in 2006 and 2010, losing the Republican primaries to Mary Fallin and James Lankford respectively. In 2022, was the Republican nominee for Oklahoma County district attorney. He received 45.61% of the vote, losing to Democrat Vicki Behenna with 54.4% of the vote.[1]
Calvey served as a JAG prosecutor from 2007 to 2008 in Baghdad during the Iraq War.
Calvey served in the Oklahoma House of Representatives from 1998 to 2006.[2]
Calvey ran for Oklahoma's 5th congressional district in 2006.[3] He lost the Republican primary to Mary Fallin.[4]
Calvey joined the Oklahoma National Guard during while in office.[2] He was deployed to Iraq between January 28, 2007, and January 27, 2008 during the Iraq War.[5] While deployed he served as a prosecutor in Baghdad.[2] He reached the rank of Captain and earned a Bronze Star for his service.[5]
In 2010, Oklahoma's 5th congressional district was an open seat after Mary Fallin retired to run for Governor of Oklahoma.[6] Calvey ran for Oklahoma's 5th congressional district in the 2010 United States House of Representatives elections in Oklahoma. He finished first in the Republican primary, but lost the runoff election to James Lankford.[7]
Calvey was reelected to the Oklahoma House of Representatives and served from 2014 to 2018.[8]
In April 2015, during a House debate on a bill to raise the pay for Oklahoma Supreme Court Justices, Calvey said “If I were not a Christian, and didn’t have a prohibition against suicide, I’d walk across the street and douse myself in gasoline and set myself on fire!” He later clarified he was trying to draw attention to Oklahoma Supreme Court rulings that struck down anti-abortion laws.[9][10]
In 2018, Calvey reported threatening phone calls to his legislative office to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation.[11]
Calvey declared his candidacy in 2017 for the District 3 Commissioner of Oklahoma County,[citation needed] seeking to represent portions of Oklahoma City, Edmond and Arcadia.[12] Calvey won the nomination in the June 26th Republican primary.[citation needed] Calvey resigned from the House of Representatives, following the November 6, 2018 general election where he was elected as an Oklahoma County Commissioner.[citation needed]
Calvey was sworn in at the Oklahoma County Commissioners meeting on January 3, 2019.[13]
Calvey chose to not run for reelection as County Commission but instead to run for Oklahoma County district attorney in 2022. He received 45.61% of the vote, losing to Democrat Vicki Behenna with 54.4% of the vote.[1]
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Victoria Road (Dagenham) - Wikipedia |
Victoria Road, currently known as the Chigwell Construction Stadium for sponsorship purposes,[1] is a football stadium located in Dagenham, Greater London, England. The stadium has a capacity of 6,078 and is the home ground of Dagenham & Redbridge and West Ham United Women.[2]
The stadium is primarily used by the National League side Dagenham & Redbridge.[3]
The Women's Super League[4] team West Ham United Women are also using the ground to host their league matches.[5]
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Refia Sultan (daughter of Abdul Hamid II) - Wikipedia | Refia Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: رفیعه سلطان, "exaltated"; 15 June 1891 – c. 1938) was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of Sultan Abdul Hamid II and Sazkar Hanım.
Refia Sultan was born on 15 June 1891 in the Yıldız Palace. Her father was Abdul Hamid II, son of Abdulmejid I and Tirimüjgan Kadın. Her mother was Sazkar Hanım,[1][2][3][4] daughter of Recep Bata Maan and Rukiye Havva Mikanba. She was the only child of her mother and her father's youngest daughter to reach adulthood. In her childhood, she learned how to play the piano from Lombardi Bey, a French music teacher who also taught other children of the sultan.[5]
Towards the end of Abdul Hamid's reign, he bethrothed Refia Sultan to Ali Fuad Bey, the son of Müşir Ahmed Eyüp Pasha. However, at the overthrew of her father in 1909, the princess followed her parents into exile at Thessaloniki. The next year she returned to Istanbul.[3]
The marriage took place on 3 June 1910 on Dolmabahçe Palace, the same day of wedding of her half-sister Hamide Ayşe Sultan. The couple had two daughters, Rabia Hanımsultan born on 13 July 1911, and Ayşe Hamide Hanımsultan born in 1918.[6]
At the exile of the imperial family in March 1924, the couple and their daughters settled firstly in Nice, France where Hamide died at the age of eighteen because an incident in 1936, later the couple settled in Beirut, Lebanon.[3][4]
According to Neslişah Sultan, she was by far the worldliest among the daughters of Sultan Abdul Hamid II. She was a gracious lady, and her husband Fuad Bey was an excellent husband.[7]
Refia Sultan died at the age of forty seven in 1938 in Beirut, Lebanon and was buried in the cemetery of the Sulaymaniyya Takiyya, Damascus, Syria.[6][1][3][2] Her mother outlived her by seven years dying in 1945.[8]
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Bopyridae - Wikipedia |
The Bopyridae are a family of isopod crustaceans in the suborder Cymothoida. There are 1223 individual species contained in this family.[1][2] Members of the family are ectoparasites of crabs and shrimp. They live in the gill cavities or under the carapace where they cause a noticeable swelling. Fossil crustaceans have occasionally been observed to have a similar characteristic bulge.[3]
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Moldova in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 - Wikipedia |
Moldova participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 with the song "Stay" written by Georgios Kalpakidis, Thomas Reil, Jeppe Reil and Maria Broberg. The song was performed by Anna Odobescu. The Moldovan broadcaster TeleRadio-Moldova (TRM) organised the national final O melodie pentru Europa 2019 in order to select the Moldovan entry for the 2019 contest in Tel Aviv, Israel. 28 entries competed to represent Moldova in Tel Aviv, with 10 being shortlisted to participate in the televised national final which took place on 2 March 2019 after auditioning in front of a jury panel. "Stay" performed by Anna Odobescu emerged as the winner after gaining the most points following the combination of votes from a jury panel and a public televote.
Moldova was drawn to compete in the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest which took place on 16 May 2019. Performing during the show in position 3, "Stay" was not announced among the top 10 entries of the second semi-final and therefore did not qualify to compete in the final. It was later revealed that Moldova placed twelfth out of the 18 participating countries in the semi-final with 85 points.
Prior to the 2019 Contest, Moldova had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest fourteen times since its first entry in 2005.[1] The nation's best placing in the contest was third, which it achieved in 2017 with the song "Hey, Mamma!" performed by SunStroke Project. To this point, Moldova have achieved another three top ten placings at the contest: in 2005 where "Boonika bate toba" performed by Zdob și Zdub placed sixth, in 2007 where "Fight" performed by Natalia Barbu placed tenth, and in 2018 where "My Lucky Day" performed by DoReDoS also placed tenth.
The Moldovan national broadcaster, TeleRadio-Moldova (TRM), broadcast the event within Moldova and organised the selection process for the nation's entry. TRM confirmed their intentions to participate at the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest on 7 November 2018.[2] Moldova has selected their entry via a national selection show since 2008, a procedure that was continued for their 2019 participation.[3]
O melodie pentru Europa 2019 was the national final format developed by TRM in order to select Moldova's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2019. The event took place at the TRM Studio 2 in Chișinău, hosted by Elena Băncilă, Iurie Gologan and Doina Stimpovschii with Daniela Crudu reporting from the green room, and included a final to be held on 2 March 2019.[4] The show was broadcast on Moldova 1, Radio Moldova Actualități, Radio Moldova Tineret and Radio Moldova Muzical as well as online via the broadcaster's official website trm.md.[5]
Artists and composers had the opportunity to submit their entries between 14 December 2018 and 18 January 2019. Artists could submit more than one song, and an international act was able to compete only if they were part of a duo or group where 50% of the lead vocalists were of Moldovan nationality.[3] At the conclusion of the submission deadline, 28 valid entries were received by the broadcaster.[6] The live audition round took place on 2 February 2019 at TRM Studio 2 in Chișinău where 10 finalists were selected to advance. The auditions were broadcast on Moldova 2 as well as online via trm.md and via TRM's Facebook and YouTube pages.[7] The jury panel that evaluated the songs during the live auditions and selected the 10 finalists consisted of Vali Boghean (instrumentist, actor, composer), Cristina Scarlat (singer, 2014 Moldovan Eurovision entrant), Andrei Tostogan (singer, composer and producer), Ilona Stepan (conductor) and Alexandru Gorgos (composer).[8] Entries were assessed on criteria such as voice quality, stage presence and strength of the composition.[8]
The final took place on 2 March 2019. Ten songs competed and the winner was selected based on the combination of a public televote and the votes of an expert jury. The jury that voted in the final included Anatol Chiriac (composer), Ilona Stepan (conductor), Eugen Damaschin (director and screenwriter), Andrei Tostogan (singer, composer and producer), Iurie Mahovici (professor at the Academy of Music, Theatre and Fine Arts), Bruno (singer) and Nelly Ciobanu (singer, 2009 Moldovan Eurovision entrant). In addition to the performances of the competing entries, 2008 Moldovan Eurovision entrant Geta Burlacu, 2014 Moldovan Eurovision entrant Cristina Scarlat, 2018 Moldovan Eurovision entrants DoReDoS, 2019 Romanian Eurovision entrant Ester Peony, singers Cristina Pintilie, Marcel and Cornelia Ștefăneț and Nelly Ciobanu, the dance troupe Black and White, and the Orchestra Frații Advahov and Angry Band performed as guests.[9] "Stay" performed by Anna Odobescu was selected as the winner.
Anna Odobescu made several appearances across Europe to specifically promote "Stay" as the Moldovan Eurovision entry. On 5 March, Anna Odobescu performed "Stay" during the final of the Romanian Eurovision national final. On 14 April, Odobescu performed during the Eurovision in Concert event which was held at the AFAS Live venue in Amsterdam, Netherlands and hosted by Edsilia Rombley and Marlayne.[10] On 21 April, Odobescu performed during the Eurovision Pre-Party Madrid event, which was held at the Sala La Riviera venue in Madrid, Spain and hosted by Tony Aguilar and Julia Varela.[11] On 24 April, Anna Odobescu performing during the Eurovision Pre-Party, which was held at the Vegas City Hall in Moscow, Russia and hosted by Alexey Lebedev and Andres Safari.[12]
According to Eurovision rules, all nations with the exceptions of the host country and the "Big Five" (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom) are required to qualify from one of two semi-finals in order to compete for the final; the top ten countries from each semi-final progress to the final. The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) split up the competing countries into six different pots based on voting patterns from previous contests, with countries with favourable voting histories put into the same pot. On 28 January 2019, a special allocation draw was held which placed each country into one of the two semi-finals, as well as which half of the show they would perform in. Moldova was placed into the second semi-final, to be held on 16 May 2019, and was scheduled to perform in the first half of the show.[13]
Once all the competing songs for the 2019 contest had been released, the running order for the semi-finals was decided by the shows' producers rather than through another draw, so that similar songs were not placed next to each other. Moldova was set to perform in position 3, following the entry from Ireland and before the entry from Switzerland.[14]
The two semi-finals and the final were televised in Moldova on Moldova 1 as well as broadcast via radio on Radio Moldova.[15] The Moldovan spokesperson, who announced the top 12-point score awarded by the Moldovan jury during the final, was Doina Stimpovschi.
Anna Odobescu took part in technical rehearsals on 6 and 10 May, followed by dress rehearsals on 15 and 16 May. This included the jury show on 15 May where the professional juries of each country watched and voted on the competing entries.[16] The Moldovan delegation requested an additional technical rehearsal on 12 May, which was later approved by the EBU.[17]
The Moldovan performance featured Lida Isac dressed in a long white gown and performing on stage with a snow artist dressed in a long dark gown who worked on a table with candles and a rose in a golden birdcage.[18][19] The snow art depicted a range of wild animals and natural settings and ended with an image of a galaxy with the rose being freed and placed on top.[18][20] The stage featured LED screen projections of a pre-recorded video of the snow art's creation process.[21] The snow artist that joined Odobescu on stage is Kseniya Simonova, who was previously part of the Ukrainian performance for the 2011 contest.[22] Anna Odobescu was also joined by three off-stage backing vocalists: Andreea Portarescu, Andrei Ștefăneț and Mihaela Andrei.[23]
At the end of the show, Moldova was not announced among the top 10 entries in the second semi-final and therefore failed to qualify to compete in the final. It was later revealed that Moldova placed twelfth in the semi-final, receiving a total of 85 points: 27 points from the televoting and 58 points from the juries.
Voting during the three shows involved each country awarding two sets of points from 1-8, 10 and 12: one from their professional jury and the other from televoting. Each nation's jury consisted of five music industry professionals who are citizens of the country they represent, with their names published before the contest to ensure transparency. This jury judged each entry based on: vocal capacity; the stage performance; the song's composition and originality; and the overall impression by the act. In addition, no member of a national jury was permitted to be related in any way to any of the competing acts in such a way that they cannot vote impartially and independently. The individual rankings of each jury member as well as the nation's televoting results were released shortly after the grand final.[24]
Below is a breakdown of points awarded to Moldova and awarded by Moldova in the second semi-final and grand final of the contest, and the breakdown of the jury voting and televoting conducted during the two shows:
The following members comprised the Moldovan jury:[24]
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Kanaker, Syria - Wikipedia | Kanaker (Arabic: كناكر) is a village in southern Syria, administratively part of the Rif Dimashq Governorate, located southwest of Damascus. Nearby localities include Sa'sa' to the west, Beit Saber to the northwest, Khan al-Shih to the north, Zakiyah, al-Taybah, Khan Dannun and al-Kiswah to the northeast, Deir Ali and Jubb al-Safa to the east, Ghabaghib to the southeast, Kafr Nasej and Deir al-Adas to the south and Jabah to the southwest. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Kanaker had a population of 13,950 in the 2004 census, making it the largest locality in the nahiyah ("subdistrict") of Saasaa.[1] Kanaker marks the western boundary of the Marj al-Suffar plain.[2]
In 1838, Eli Smith noted Kanaker's population as being Sunni Muslims.[3]
Kanaker was settled by Druze from Mount Lebanon in 1862 and by 1867, the Abu Ras family, a prominent Druze clan and ally of the al-Atrash family, gained control of the village.[4] When the chief of the al-Atrash, Ismail Pasha, stayed a night at Kanaker, he massacred its Christian inhabitants before launching an attack on the Christian forces of the Shihab dynasty at Rashaya in Lebanon.[5] Kanaker continued to be inhabited by Druze through 1883 and a certain time beyond.[6]
During the Syrian civil war, on 27 July 2011, the Syrian human rights groups reported that eight or eleven people were killed during a Syrian Army raid in Kanaker and about 250 people were arrested. Four tanks and a bulldozer reportedly entered the village while another 14 tanks surrounded the place.[7] The rebels surrendered the village in December 2016 and turned themselves in to the Syrian Army. In exchange, they had their status legalized.[8][9]
Some Jordanians of 3 villages in the north of the country, Irbid province (Kharja, Saham and Al nu'aimah) have the surname Kanakri. This relates them to Kanaker. These families have migrated from Kanaker-Syria down south to Jordan in the 19th century before the two countries been issuing their independence and new borders been issued.
Of note, some of the families that migrated to present-day Jordan, are from Damascus proper.
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Angon - Wikipedia | The angon (Medieval Greek ἄγγων, Old High German ango, Old English anga "hook, point, spike") was a type of javelin used during the Early Middle Ages by the Anglo-Saxons, Franks, Goths, and other Germanic peoples.[1] It was similar to, and probably derived from, the pilum used by the Roman army and had a barbed head and long narrow socket or shank made of iron mounted on a wooden haft.[1][2][3]
It was rare on the battlefield,[4] despite the claim by the Greek historian Agathias,[5] being found mostly in the grave goods of the wealthy.[4] The Fragmentary Chronicle of Saragossa credits an ango with killing King Amalaric of the Visigoths.[4] By the 7th century it had ceased to be used.[4] It also went out of fashion, together with other forms of throwing spears and javelins, in Francia, by the early 7th century.[6]
They are found in abundance in war-graves in Illerup-Ådal, Denmark. They are also quite common in Norwegian graves from the Migration Era. In Finland, a local version of the weapon was popular during the Early Middle Ages.[7]
Although not very frequent in the Baltic countries, examples have also been found at various sites in Estonia, including burial sites at Sõrve and Hinniala.[8]
Evidence for the length of insular Anglo-Saxon spears is limited, but based on grave finds it has been estimated that they ranged in length from 1.6 to 2.8 m (5 ft 3 in to 9 ft 2 in), compared to continental examples found at Nydam Mose in Denmark which range from 2.3 to 3 m (7 ft 7 in to 9 ft 10 in) long.[9] Although shorter and lighter spears with smaller heads were generally preferred for use as javelins,[10] an exception was the barbed angon, one of which was found at Abingdon with a head measuring 52.5 cm (20.7 in).[11] The barbs were designed to lodge in an opponent's shield (or body) so that it could not be removed and the long iron shank prevented the head from being cut from the shaft.[12] The angon was likely designed for the purpose of disabling enemy shields, thus leaving combatants vulnerable, and disrupting enemy formations.[13] The shaft may sometimes have been decorated or painted, and iron or bronze rings were sometimes fitted onto it which may have marked the center of balance and thus the best place to hold the weapon.[9]
Before the battle lines joined and warriors engaged in hand to hand combat, they would attempt to thin the enemy ranks with ranged weapons. This would begin with archery, followed by an exchange of javelins and throwing axes prior to closing.[10] The scholar Agathias recorded the use of angons by Frankish warriors at the Battle of Casilinum in 554:
Suppose a Frank throws his angon in an engagement. If the spear strikes a man anywhere the point will penetrate, and neither the wounded man nor anyone else can easily pull it out because the barbs which pierce the flesh hold it in and cause terrible pain, so that even if the enemy is not fatally hit he still dies as a result. And if it sticks in the shield, it fixes in it at once and is carried around with it, the butt dragging on the ground. The man who has been hit cannot pull out the spear because the barbs have gone in, and he cannot cut it off because of the iron that covers the shaft. When the Frank sees this he quickly treads on it with his foot, stepping on the ferrule [iron finial on the butt of a spear or other pole weapon] and forcing the shield downwards so that the man's hand is loosened and his head and breast bared. Then, taking him unprotected, he kills him easily either cleaving his head with an axe or piercing his throat with another spear.[3] The poem recording the Battle of Maldon in Essex, England, in 991 AD, describes an encounter between the earl Byrhtnoth and a group of Norsemen in which an exchange of javelins is made before the warriors draw their swords and engage in close combat.[14]
The maximum effective range of the angon and other javelins was probably 12 to 15 m (40 to 50 ft) depending on the length and weight of the weapon and the skill of the thrower.[12] It is not known to have been used in war beyond the 7th century, but during the 16th century it was used sporadically for hunting.[15]
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List of awards and nominations received by Mohanlal - Wikipedia |
Mohanlal is an Indian actor, playback singer and producer who predominantly works in Malayalam cinema and has acted in over 350 films. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest actors in history of Indian cinema. He has won two national awards for best actor, one special award and one special mention for acting and an award for Best Feature Film (as producer) at
National Film Awards, nine Kerala State Film Awards including six best actor awards, one Nandi Award, nine Filmfare Awards South, two Screen Awards, one International Indian Film Academy Award, four South Indian International Movie Awards, and eleven Kerala Film Critics Association Awards and has received numerous other awards for acting.
Mohanlal began his career in 1978 as an antagonist in the romance film Manjil Virinja Pookkal. After appearing in several of such roles, he established himself as a leading actor in the mid 1980s. In 1986, he starred in the comedy drama T. P. Balagopalan M. A., for which he won the Kerala State Film Award for Best Actor. He also received a Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Malayalam that same year for his performance in the comedy drama Sanmanassullavarkku Samadhanam. Two years later, his role in the drama film Kireedam (1989) earned him a Special Mention. In 1991, he produced and starred in the musical film Bharatham, which earned him the National Film Award for Best Actor. Forbes India classified his role in the film in the "25 Greatest Acting Performances in Indian Cinema" compiled on the centenary of Indian film industry in 2013. Four of his films released in 1997—Chandralekha, Guru, Oru Yathramozhi, and Aaraam Thampuran garnered him the Screen Awards South for Best Actor.
He co-produced and starred in the drama film Vanaprastham (1999), his role of a Kathakali artist garnered him the National Film Award for Best Actor, and Kerala State Film Award, Filmfare Awards South, and Kerala Film Critics Association Award for the same category. Mohanlal was nominated for a Filmfare Award for his Hindi debut Company (2002), his performance in the crime drama earned him a Screen Award and an International Indian Film Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He portrayed a patient suffering from Alzheimer's disease in the 2005 drama film Thanmathra for which he won the Kerala State Film Award for Best Actor and a Filmfare Award for Best Actor – Malayalam. Mohanlal portrayed an ageing bedridden man in the 2011 romantic drama Pranayam. His role won him the South Indian International Movie Awards for Best actor and other awards including Kerala Film Critics Association Awards, Asianet Film Awards, Vanitha Film Awards, and Mathrubhumi Film Awards. In 2013, he starred in the thriller film Drishyam, for which he won the Kerala Film Critics Association Awards for Best Actor. In 2017, he won the National Film Award – Special Jury Award for his performance in the films Janatha Garage, Munthirivallikal Thalirkkumbol, and Pulimurugan.
In addition to awards for acting, the Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award of the country in 2001, and Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian award in 2019 for his contribution to the arts. He was given the honorary rank of Lieutenant colonel from Indian Territorial Army in 2009. Mohanlal was awarded the honorary Doctor of Letters from the Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit (2010) and from the University of Calicut (2018), as well as a number of other recognitions.
The National Film Awards established in 1954, are administered by the Directorate of Film Festivals, Government of India. Mohanlal has received five awards (four for acting and one for producing).
The Kerala State Film Awards are presented annually by the Kerala State Chalachitra Academy, Government of Kerala for excellence in Malayalam cinema.
The Nandi Awards are presented by the Government of Andhra Pradesh for honouring artistic skills in Telugu cinema.
The Filmfare Awards are presented annually by The Times Group for excellence of cinematic achievements in Hindi cinema.
The Filmfare Awards South is a part of Filmfare Awards, which is given to the South Indian film industry, that consists of the Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada film industries.
The Screen Awards are annually presented by the Indian Express Limited to honour excellence of cinematic achievements in Hindi and Marathi cinema.
The International Indian Film Academy Awards (IIFA) is annual event organised by the Wizcraft International Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. to honour excellence in the Hindi cinema.
The IIFA Utsavam is an event organised by the Wizcraft International Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. to reward the artistic and technical achievements in South Indian cinema, that includes Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, and Kannada cinema.
The South Indian International Movie Awards (SIIMA) are presented annually by the Vibri Media to recognise the best work in Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, and Kannada film industries.
The Kerala Film Critics Association Awards are presented annually (since 1977) by the Kerala Film Critics Association for excellence in Malayalam cinema.
Ananda Vikatan Cinema Awards is an annual awards ceremony for people in the Tamil film industry.
The All India Radio (or Akashvani) is the national public radio broadcaster of India and is a division of Prasar Bharati.
The Asianet Film Awards are presented annually (since 1998) by the television network Asianet, owned by Star India, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company.
The Vanitha Film Awards is an annual awards ceremony organised by the woman's magazine Vanitha, part of the Malayala Manorama group, since 1998.
The Mathrubhumi Film Awards are presented annually by the daily newspaper Mathrubhumi.
The Amrita Film Awards are presented annually by the television channel Amrita TV.
The Jaihind Film Awards are presented annually by the television channel Jaihind TV.
The Janmabhumi Cinema Awards are presented annually by the daily newspaper Janmabhumi.
The Kochi Times Film Awards are presented by the Kochi Times news division of The Times of India.
The Kerala Film Audience Council Awards are presented by the Kerala Film Audience Council.
The V. Shantaram Awards, established in 1993, was instituted by the Government of India, Government of Maharashtra, and the V. Shantaram Motion Picture Scientific Research and Cultural Foundation.
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Epimimastis porphyroloma - Wikipedia |
Epimimastis porphyroloma is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Oswald Bertram Lower in 1897. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania.[1]
The wingspan is 11–16 mm (0.43–0.63 in). The forewings are deep orange yellow with a rather dark purplish-fuscous apical blotch, the anterior edge convex, running from three-fourths of the costa to before the tornus, marked with blackish fuscous on the lower three-fifths, suffused into the ground colour towards the costa. The hindwings are fuscous, darker posteriorly.[2]
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Galion Iron Works - Wikipedia | Galion Iron Works is the original name of the company that built the Galion brand of construction equipment. Known for their graders, it also manufactured rollers, cranes, asphalt millers and even riding squeegees among other machines.
Gallion changed its name to the Galion Manufacturing Company in 1973. It was acquired by Dresser Industries in 1974, and ultimately subsumed into a Dresser-Komatsu joint venture in 1988.
The Galion Iron Works Company of Galion, Ohio, was founded by David Charles Boyd and his three brothers in 1907. In its early years, the Galion produced a wide range of road-building and other construction equipment, such as drag scrapers, plows, wagons, stone unloaders, rock crushers, and a variety of other "experimental machines". By 1911, Galion began production of light-duty horse-drawn road graders.
The company's success and product diversification brought about its reorganization in 1923, and a name change to Galion Iron Works and Manufacturing Company. The "Light Premier" was an early grader produced in 1915. It was billed as light enough for two horses, but strong enough for four. Its blade could be raised, lowered, angled, tilted, and shifted sideways, just like the blade movements on a modern grader.
Galion was known for building some of the largest pull-type graders in the industry. Popular throughout the 1920s and 1930s, these huge machines were pulled by the largest traction engines and crawler tractors. These graders outperformed other motor graders of the day. Galion continued selling its pull-type graders until 1945, long after other manufacturers discontinued them.
In 1922, Galion was one of the first to develop a self-propelled motor grader. The tractor engine and transmission were located in the rear of the frame, and the operator cockpit was located near the center of the machine. Also in the 1920s, development began on one of Galion's greatest achievements- the Galion hydraulic control. Used on both pull-type and self-propelled graders, this hydraulic system was one of the first to be applied to grader controls.
In 1929, Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ohio, purchased the Galion Organization, but the name of the company remained unchanged.
The motor grader line received the first power-shift transmission, which was a major advance, in 1955. Called the Galion Grade-O-Matic drive, it utilized a torque converter, output shaft governor and power-shift transmission, providing simple two-lever control of speed and direction. The Galion T-700 garnered the world's largest grader title in 1955. Larger than anything else in the grader industry, it had 190 horsepower (140 kW) and weighed over 40,000 pounds.
The graders and rollers built by the Galion Iron Works Company created many of the roads and highways (including the Interstate Highway System) in North America, as well as South America and other countries. After 60 years with the same name, the Galion Iron Works and Manufacturing Company was renamed the Galion Manufacturing Company in 1973. The following year a transaction was completed making Galion a division of Dresser Industries, Inc.[1]
Galion introduced its modern-looking articulated grader line in 1979. It featured a distinctively sloped rear engine hood and was identified as the A-series for "Articulated". Initially three models were introduced, the A-500, A-550, and A-600, weighing up to 30,000 pounds. These models joined the rigid-frame models, which continued in the Galion line until the mid-1980s.
In 1986, the grader products took on the name of the parent company, Dresser, and the Galion name was temporarily dropped. In 1988, the grader line was consolidated into three articulated models named the 830, 850 and 870. That same year, Galion became part of the Komatsu Dresser Company (KDC) joint venture. The Galion name reemerged in 1992, when the Galion division of KDC was established. From 1995, the three basic Galion graders were badged and renumbered to fit into Komatsu's GD series, and featured modified specifications. The Komatsu-designed GD825A-2 is its largest grader, weighing 58,250 pounds and producing 280 horsepower (210 kW).
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Whitehorse Trail - Wikipedia | Wikimedia | © OpenStreetMap
The Whitehorse Trail is a rail trail in northern Snohomish County, Washington, connecting the cities of Arlington and Darrington. The 27-mile-long (43 km) trail uses a former Northern Pacific Railway spur built in 1901 and abandoned in 1990. The trail has been in development since the county government purchased it in 1993, with some sections open to the public.
The trail's name is derived from the "Whitehorse Express", the historic name of the railroad, which in turn was named for Whitehorse Mountain.[1]
The western terminus of the Whitehorse Trail is in Arlington, at a junction with the Centennial Trail on the north side of the Stillaguamish River at the confluence with its two forks. The Centennial Trail continues north towards Bryant and south towards Snohomish along another former rail corridor. The Whitehorse Trail continues northeast, following the North Fork Stillaguamish River upstream to a trailhead in Trafton, where it crosses the river on a historic trestle bridge.[2] The trail turns east, following State Route 530 on the south side of the North Fork, towards Oso. The trail, 5 miles (8.0 km) east of Oso, passes a memorial to victims of the 2014 Oso mudslide, which had destroyed a section of the trail's corridor.[3][4] From Oso continuing towards Darrington, the Whitehorse Trail passes through the historic towns of Fortson and Hazel, and the modern community of Swede Heaven, which hosts a trailhead.[4] The trail splits north of downtown Darrington, with one branch heading northeast to Whitehorse Community Park on the Sauk River and another heading south to Railroad Avenue in downtown, passing Darrington Municipal Airport.[5][6]
The majority of the planned trail will be 12 feet (3.7 m) wide and have a surface of compacted gravel. It has been designated for use by walkers, cyclists and horseback riders.[7]
The Northern Pacific Railway, owners of the railroad through Arlington, built a 28-mile (45 km) branch line to Darrington in 1901. The railroad primarily delivered lumber from Darrington and intermediate sawmills to Arlington, Everett and other towns, but also carried weekly passenger service.[8][9][10] In 1970, the Northern Pacific was acquired by Burlington Northern, who continued to run a declining number of lumber trains on the branch as Darrington's remaining sawmill switched to truck transport.[10]
In November 1990, major floods in the Stillaguamish River basin left the railroad damaged and unusable, leading to its formal abandonment by Burlington Northern.[10] The county government debated acquiring the railroad for use as either a recreational trail or a scenic railroad, the latter requiring millions spent in repairs.[11] In November 1993, the Snohomish County Council approved $550,000 paid to Burlington Northern to acquire 515 acres (208 ha) on the corridor, with the intent of converting into a recreational trail.[12] The first section of the trail, named the Whitehorse Trail, opened in 2002 near Darrington and covered 7 miles (11 km) of the planned 27-mile (43 km) trail.[1][13]
An unfinished section of the trail was destroyed during the Oso mudslide on March 22, 2014, along with State Route 530. In the aftermath of the mudslide, which killed 43 people, the Whitehorse Trail became a key project in the recovery of the area, employing local workers and drawing tourists.[14] A $75,000 grant from the State of Washington, along with private donations, funded the cleanup of 15 miles (24 km) of the trail and repair of older bridges.[15] A 9.5-mile-long (15.3 km) segment of the Whitehorse Trail from Oso to Cicero Pond was expected to be completed in 2018, using $4.24 million in funds from the county government, Washington State Department of Transportation and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).[7] Rebuilding of the section destroyed by the Oso mudslide was completed in 2016, using FEMA funds.[16]
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Philippine space program - Wikipedia |
The space program of the Philippines is currently maintained by the Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) together with various agencies under the Department of Science and Technology (DOST). The space program includes space research and development, and is funded through the National SPACE Development Program (NSDP) by the DOST and received an initial budget of ₱1 billion in 2020.
The Philippines attempted to establish a formal space program in the 1960s, during the term of President Ferdinand Marcos. A joint-program with the United States was proposed for the purpose of monitoring typhoons in Asia. However such plans did not push through. The Philippine Communications Satellite was established in the same decade which provided satellite communications in Asia.
Development continued in the late 80s led by the private sector, with the country's first satellites, Agila-1 which was originally launched as an Indonesian satellite.[1] A decade later, the Mabuhay Satellite Corporation entered into service Agila-2, the first Filipino-owned satellite to be launched to space, which deployed into orbit by Chinese Chang Zheng 3B rocket and was launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the Sichuan province on 20 August 1997.[2]
It would be almost two decades before the Philippines would launch another satellite into space when government scientists from DOST and researchers from the University of the Philippines partnered with the Tohoku and Hokkaido Universities of Japan under the PHL-microsat program to launch Diwata-1, the first microsatellite designed and constructed by Filipinos and was deployed into orbit on from the International Space Station (ISS) on April 27, 2016.[3] The Philippines in cooperation with foreign space agencies such as NASA of the United States and JAXA of Japan were able to deploy develop and launch two additional small-scale satellites, Diwata-2 and Maya-1, with plans to launch additional satellites by 2022.[4][5]
The Philippine space program was largely decentralized until the establishment of the Philippine Space Agency in 2019.
Prior to the creation of the PhilSA, several government agencies under the DOST ran the country's space program: namely, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA), the National Mapping and Resource Information Authority (NAMRIA), and the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC).[6][7][8] The DOST and the Manila Observatory crafted a 10-year masterplan in 2012 to make the Philippines a "space-capable country" by 2022.[9] New programs and future space missions will be directed by the newly created Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA).[10]
The Manila Observatory was established during the Spanish colonial period in 1865 and was the only formal meteorological and astronomical research and services institution in the Philippines and remained so until the creation of the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) in 1972.[11]
Efforts to establish a Philippine space program started as early as the 1960s, when the government built an Earth satellite receiving station. US President Lyndon Johnson discussed with then-Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos in 1966 about the possibility of establishing a joint US–Philippine space program to monitor storms in Asia. If such plans had pushed through it would have been the first time Asians would have gotten involved in space activities.[12]
The Philippine Communications Satellite (Philcomsat) was established within the same decade when the Marcos government built an Earth satellite receiving station.[13] Philcomsat was a founding member of Intelsat, an international satellite consortium.[14] It also had an exclusive franchise for satellite communication in Southeast Asia, as well as in Korea and Japan. It was also responsible for providing the equipment which enabled people in Asia to watch the Apollo 11 launch, which took place on July 16, 1969.[15] The wholly government-owned company became a private corporation in 1982.[13] Marcos also by the virtue of Presidential Decree No. 286 created the Philippine Aerospace Development Corporation (PADC) a Philippine state owned aerospace and defense technology corporation attached to the Department of National Defense, to establish a "reliable aviation and aerospace industry" in the Philippines, design, manufacture and sell "all forms" of aircraft, as well as to develop indigenous capabilities in the maintenance, repair, and modification of aviation equipment.[16]
On April 23, 1980, the Philippines became one of the initial 11 signatories to the Moon Treaty.[11]
In 1974, the Philippines planned to use satellites to improve communications. The leasing of satellites from Intelsat was considered but it was later decided to lease capacity from the Indonesian Palapa system. There were interests for a national communication satellite but initiatives to obtain one did not start until 1994, when the Philippine Agila Satellite Inc. (PASI), a consortium of 17 companies, was established to operate and purchase domestic satellites.[17][18]
The Mabuhay Satellite Corporation (MSC), another consortium, was formed in the same year by PLDT, which was a former member of PASI. PLDT was the largest member of PASI before its departure from the consortium. MSC was composed of numerous domestic telecommunications and broadcasting companies, along with Indonesia-based Pasifik Satelit Nusantara and China-based Everbright Group.[18]
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Then, President Fidel V. Ramos expressed his desire for a Philippine satellite to be in orbit in time for the APEC Summit to be held in the country in November 1996.[18]
MSC complied with the acquisition of Indonesian satellite Palapa B-2P from Pasifik Satelit Nusantara. The satellite was moved to a new orbital slot on August 1, 1996. The satellite was renamed Agila-1 and became the first satellite in orbit to be owned by the country.[20][21][22]
MSC launched the country's second satellite, Agila-2, with the assistance of China. The communications satellite was launched through the Long March 3B at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center on August 19, 1997. The satellite was acquired by Asia Broadcast Satellite in 2011[23] and was renamed to ABS-3.
The DOST initiated the Philippine Scientific Earth Observation Microsatellite (PHL-Microsat) program to send two microsatellites in 2016 and 2017. The effort is part of the country's disaster risk management program. A receiving station will also be built in the country.[24][25] The efforts were part of a bigger project, together with seven other Asian countries aside from Japan and the Philippines, to create a network of about 50 microsatellites.[26]
The first satellite under the PHL-Microsat program Diwata-1, the first satellite designed and assembled by Filipinos, with cooperation from Hokkaido University and Tohoku University.[27] One of the major goals of the PHL-Microsat program is to boost the progress on the creation of the Philippine Space Agency.[28] The satellite was deployed from the International Space Station on April 27, 2016. This satellite was succeeded on October 29, 2018, by Diwata-2, which was launched directly into orbit from the Tanegashima Space Center in Japan.[29][30][31] The first nanosatellite under the Birds-2 program, Maya-1 was also deployed from the ISS in the Japanese Kibo module along with two other satellites from Bhutan and Malaysia on August 10, 2018.
Despite these advancements, the country's space program still faced two primary challenges: insufficient funding and the lack of a centralized space agency.[32] In the absence of a formal space agency, the DOST funded the National Space Development Program to set up the foundations of a future space agency.[11] President Rodrigo Duterte in February 2018 announced that a precursor to a space agency, the National Space Development Office, will be established. As of March 2018, there are seven pending bills in both the House of Representatives and the Senate seeking to establish the Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA).[32] In the meantime, the DOST has agreed with the Russian space agency Roscosmos, "to proceed with negotiations of an intergovernmental framework agreement on space cooperation that will include use of Russian rockets to launch Philippine payloads such as micro-and nano-satellites as well as the establishment of a receiving station for the Global Navigation Satellite System" (GLONASS), Russia's alternative to American Global Positioning System (GPS)[33]
In late January 2019, the Department of Science and Technology has said that the Philippines is already capable of founding its own space agency with a pending bill already passed in the House of Representatives and pending counterpart legislation already pending in the Senate. By this time since 2010, the science department has already spent ₱7.48 billion (or $144 million) for space research and development, aided 5,500 scholars, trained more than 1,000 space science experts, and established 25 facilities in various parts of the Philippines.[34]
The Philippine Space Agency was established when the "Philippine Space Act" (Republic Act 11363) was signed into law by Pres. Duterte on 8 August 2019.[35][36] The first head of Philippine Space Agency, Joel Marciano Jr. was appointed on December 5, 2019, by President Duterte. The agency is currently focused on developing additional micro and nano-satellites and has not discounted developing rocket launch capability in the long term.[34] The satellite program of the DOST will also transition into the PhilSA's authority.[10]
Maya-2, a nanosatellite under the Birds-4 program, was successfully launched on February 21, 2021.[37][38]
The Philippines does not have a spaceport.[39] In January 2022, Senators Manny Pacquiao and Koko Pimentel met with representatives of SpaceX and discussed the possibility of setting up a launch pad in Mindanao due to its proximity to the equator.[40] Mati, Davao Oriental has been proposed by the Ateneo de Davao University as early as 2019 to be a potential site for a spaceport.[41] PhilSa is still examining proposals for a launch site in Mati as of late 2021.[39]
The Department of Science and Technology–Science Education Institute (DOST-SEI) launched the first Philippine Space Science Education Program (PESSAP) in 2004, to promote science and technology, particularly space science, as a field of study to the Filipino youth.[42]
On October 5, 2017, high school students from St. Cecilia's College-Cebu, Inc. launched 3-feet solid propellant Model rockets for the World Space Week 2017 celebration in Cebu City.[43] The same team was awarded a research grant by the Department of Science and Technology - Philippine Council for Industry, Energy and Emerging Technology Research and Development (DOST-PCIEERD) in 2018 to design and develop the TALA hybrid rocket which can propel a can satellite 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) into the atmosphere.[44] The rocket launch is scheduled to be made in 2023.[45][needs update]
The PHL-Microsat program offers a graduate program called Space Science and Tech Proliferation through Partnerships (Stepup).[46]
Student-researchers and science faculty from St. Cecilia's College - Cebu, Inc. in partnership with Department of Science and Technology-Philippine Council for Industry, Energy and Emerging Technology Research and Development (DOST-PCIEERD) successfully launched the first High-Altitude Balloon Life Support System "Karunungan" (HAB LSS Karunungan) in May 2018 at Minglanilla, Cebu, Philippines and floated above the Armstrong Line to simulate 'space like' conditions for future space flights.[47][48]
In 2019, Orbital Exploration (OrbitX), a private firm was set-up which aims to research on the usage as biofuel like algae to propel space launch vehicles. The company also plans to develop its own "reusable" payload launch vehicle named "Haribon SLS-1".[49][50]
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Operation Safe Haven (1957) - Wikipedia | Operation Safe Haven, also known as Operation Mercy, was a refugee relief and resettlement operation executed by the United States following the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.[1] Headed by task force commander General George B. Dany, it successfully evacuated over 27,000 Hungarian refugees to the United States over a period of 90 days, with an additional 11,000 being settled, also in the US, in the following year. [1] Operation Safe Haven was the most significant European humanitarian airlift since the Berlin Airlift.[2] The operation, ordered by Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower was executed almost simultaneously to that launched by Elvis Presley at the closer of his last appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show, as broadcast live to an audience of 54.6 million on January 6, 1957 and which eventually covered a quarter of a million refugees and their settlement in Austria and England.
The airlift was ordered by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on Dec. 10, 1956, as a Cold War response to the Soviet suppression of the Hungarian revolt. It was a joint endeavor by the United States Bolling and Military Air Transport Services, the United States Navy, and various commercial aircraft. On January 1, 1957, air transports from the 1608th Air Transport Wing from Charleston Air Force Base, S.C., and 175 aircraft from the 1611th Air Transport Wing from McGuire AFB, N.J., relocated 9,700 refugees to the United States, under the direction of Airlift Task Force commander Major General George B. Dany. In addition to air transport, from December 18, 1956, through February 14, 1957, ships of the Navy's Military Sea Transportation Service (USNS Eltinge, Haan, Marine Carp, and Walker) transported 8,944 refugees from Bremerhaven, Germany, to Camp Kilmer, NJ, USA. These refugees were job-classified by the U.S. Labor Department as they made their way to American shores. In total, some 38,000 refugees were permanently resettled in the United States.[1]
On Sunday 28 October 1956, some 56.5 million television viewers in the US were watching the popular Ed Sullivan Show, on which Elvis Presley (1935–77) was headlining for the second time. Earlier, in the day, at 2.30 in the afternoon, he received Dr. Jonas Salk's polio vaccine in front of the world's media. During the actual broadcast, Ed Sullivan made a casual mention of the need to send aid to the Hungarian refugees, but no appeal was formally made. This led to Presley's official request, for his third and last appearance on the show, for Mr. Sullivan, this time on his personal behalf, to ask viewers to send contributions. On 6 January 1957 an estimated 54.6 million viewers watched this episode. In it, Presley made another request for donations and as suggested by Ed Sullivan, dedicated a song which, in his opinion, fit the mood properly as the episode's finale: the African American gospel song "Peace in the Valley". By the end of 1957, some US$6 million were received by the Geneva-based International Red Cross, and which translated into food rations, clothing, and other essentials. These in turn were distributed with the help of the US Air Force, which flew 100 sorties to deliver these supplies to the estimated 250,000 refugees, the majority of whom settled, for life, in Austria and England. One of the transport planes was the same which delivered him and another 40 soldiers back to the United States, on March 3, 1960 after his 16 months in Germany. The plane is now at the Air Force Museum.
On 1 March 2011, Budapest Mayor István Tarlós announced that the city would posthumously make Presley an honorary citizen, as well as name a small park facing the Margaret Bridge (its second oldest crossing) after him. These honors were designed as a gesture of gratitude for his involvement in lessening the plight of the above mentioned quarter million refugees not covered by Operation Safe Haven. As a result, he is the only US-born person to be included in the list of personalities who were named as Honorary Citizens of Budapest, joining the Hungarian born (later US-nationalized) physicist and father of the hydrogen bomb Edward Teller, as well as other eminent personalities including Czech activist and President Václav Havel, Polish dissident, President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Lech Walesa, Swedish diplomat and martyr Raoul Wallenberg, Hungarian chess grandmaster Judith Polgar and inventor Ernő Rubik.
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The Modern Jazz Quartet (album) - Wikipedia | The Modern Jazz Quartet is an album by American jazz group the Modern Jazz Quartet featuring performances recorded in 1957 and released on the Atlantic label.[3]
The Allmusic review stated "Despite the unassuming title, this features a fine rendition of "Night in Tunisia" and a standout "Bags Groove".[1]
Kenny Clarke, Mickey Roker, Albert Heath
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David Novotný - Wikipedia | David Novotný (born 12 June 1969) is a Czech actor.[1] He has appeared in more than forty films since 1985.
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Billy Craig - Wikipedia |
William James Craig (11 September 1929 – 31 August 2011) was a Scottish footballer who played as a wing half in the Football League.
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Meşeler, Çamlıdere - Wikipedia | Meşeler is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Çamlıdere, Ankara Province, Turkey.[1] Its population is 75 (2022).[2]
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Louis III, Cardinal of Guise - Wikipedia | Louis de Lorraine known as the Cardinal de Guise (22 January 1575 – 21 June 1621, Saintes) was the third son of Henry I, Duke of Guise and Catherine of Cleves.[1]
His ecclesiastical post was entirely a sinecure; he was never ordained,[2] and led a dissipated life. Nevertheless, he was made Archbishop of Reims in January 1605,[3] and created cardinal on December 2, 1615. He incurred the displeasure of Louis XIII of France, and was imprisoned in the Bastille in 1620.[2] He joined the royal campaign to besiege the Huguenot stronghold of Montauban in 1621, and there fell ill with scarlet fever and died.[4]
He married, in secret, Charlotte des Essarts,[2] Mademoiselle de La Haye in 1611. They had five children:
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Pays-de-Belvès - Wikipedia |
Pays-de-Belvès (French pronunciation: [pe.i də bɛlvɛs], literally Land of Belvès; Occitan: País de Belvés) is a commune in the Dordogne department of southwestern France. The municipality was established on 1 January 2016 and consists of the former communes of Belvès and Saint-Amand-de-Belvès.[3] Belvès station has rail connections to Périgueux and Agen.
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David Hansen (playwright) - Wikipedia | David Hansen (born July 26, 1968) is an American playwright, actor, director and arts educator. He is the founder of Dobama's Night Kitchen and co-founder of Guerrilla Theater Company and Bad Epitaph Theater Company.[1]
He is a graduate of Bay Village High School, and holds a degree in Theater from Ohio University.[2] He is married to writer Toni K. Thayer.[2] He is currently Education Outreach Associate for Great Lakes Theater.[3]
Hansen often performs in his own plays, and also has a history of performances in new or recently developed works by notable modern playwrights, including:
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Joseph Niklaus Bütler - Wikipedia | Joseph Niklaus Bütler, born Josephus Nicolaus Gallus Bütler (16 October 1822, Küssnacht – 20 January 1885, Düsseldorf) was a Swiss landscape painter; associated with the Düsseldorfer Malerschule.
He was the son of Niklaus Bütler, an artist, and his wife Anna Maria née Trutmann. He received his first art lessons from his father. He began painting around 1840, after his family had taken up residence in Lucerne.
From 1852 to 1853, he attended classes taught by the landscape painter, Johann Wilhelm Schirmer, at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. In 1858, following a brief return to Lucerne, to resolve some financial issues, he settled in Düsseldorf. For a short time, he shared his home with his brother Anton, who was also an artist.
He devoted himself exclusively to landscape painting; presenting scenes from the Swiss Alps, rendered in the popular Heroic [de] style. He was also influenced by the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who spoke of unadulterated nature as a refuge of freedom. Later, he came under the influence of the simpler style employed by the Barbizon school.
In 1868, he married Sophie Antonia Jungheim, a sister of his friend, the painter Carl Jungheim. From 1859 to 1884, he was a member of the progressive artists' association "Malkasten" (Paintbox). He also took part in exhibitions presented by the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen [de], and continued to have showings in Switzerland.
Media related to Joseph Niklaus Bütler at Wikimedia Commons
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Angélique Pitiot - Wikipedia |
Angélique Pitiot (born 1978) is a French retired kickboxer and Nak Muay. She is the former ISKA Muay Thai and K-1 light-welterweight world champion, three time FFSCDA kickboxing and one time muay thai champion, and the WPMF European welterweight champion.
Prior to her transition to kickboxing she spent ten years playing basketball. At the advice of her brother, who at the time trained boxing, she began training kickboxing, and eventually muay thai. After three years, at the age of 30, Pitiot made her professional debut.[4]
She won her first FFSCDA kickboxing title in April 2011, with a unanimous decision win over Saïda Atmani.[5] After this Pitiot won her only FFSCDA Muay Thai title in May 2011, with a unanimous decision win over Sandra Sevilla.[6]
During the Princes Du Ring event Pitiot faced Claire Haigh for the ISKA World K-1 light-welterweight title. Pitiot won the fight by a first-round knockout.[7]
Turing to the amateur scene, Pitiot participated in the 2012 IFMA World championship, where she won the silver medal. Participating in the 2013 and 2015 WAKO World Championships, she won bronze medals in both iterations, and won silver at the 2014 WAKO European Championships.[8][9][10]
In 2013 Pitiot won her second FFSCDA kickboxing title during FK-ONE, with a unanimous decision win over Cindy Perros.[11] In her next fight she fought for her second ISKA world title, the light-welterweight Muay Thai belt, which she captured with a win over Anke Van Gestel.[12] She then fought a rematch against Cindy Perros and won both the rematch, and her third FFSCDA kickboxing title, through a unanimous decision.[13] Following this, Pitiot fought a rematch with Van Gestel during Les Princes de Salm 3. She won with a fifth round TKO.[14]
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Schimmert - Wikipedia | Schimmert (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈsxɪmərt]; Limburgish: Sjömmert [ˈʃœməʀt]) is a village in the Dutch province of Limburg. It is located in the municipality of Beekdaelen.
The village was first mentioned in the mid-11th century as "de Scinmottera". The etymology is unclear.[3] Schimmert is a village with a dries [nl] (type of village square).[4]
The Catholic St Remigius Church is a three-aisled church from irregular blocks of chalk which was constructed between 1924 and 1926 after a design by Pierre Cuypers and Joseph Cuypers. The tower was damaged during World War II and repaired in 1956.[4]
The water tower was built between 1926 and 1927 on the highest point of the plateau in Expressionist style. The tower measures 38 metres (125 ft). In 1935, matching worker's houses were added.[4][5]
Schimmert was home to 215 people in 1840.[5] Schimmert was a separate municipality until 1982, when it was merged with Nuth.[6] In 2019, it became part of Beekdaelen.[5]
Community house
Water tower
Farm
Remnant of a wind mill
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Freccia-class destroyer - Wikipedia |
The Freccia-class destroyer was a class of destroyers built for the Regia Marina (Royal Italian Navy) in the 1930s. Four modified ships were built and delivered in 1933 for Greece.
The Greek Navy ordered four destroyers from Italy in 1929 to a modified design as the Kountouriotis class. The chief difference with the Italian ships was the substitution of four single 120 mm guns (Ansaldo Model 1926) for the twin turrets used in the Italian Navy ships.
The two surviving ships, Spetsai and Kountouriotis, served in the Eastern Mediterranean as part of the Free Greek Navy until late 1943. They were then laid up at Port Said, Egypt for want of Italian spare parts, and because their crews were needed for new ships built in the UK for the Free Greek Navy.
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Hirsh - Wikipedia | Hirsh is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Chick Meade - Wikipedia | Frederick Fleming Meade (March 2, 1891 – death unknown), nicknamed "Chick", was an American Negro league infielder between 1914 and 1922.
A native of Fairmont, West Virginia,[1] Meade made his Negro leagues debut in 1914 for the Philadelphia Giants. He went on to play for the Indianapolis ABCs, Hilldale Club, and Baltimore Black Sox, and finished his career in 1922 with the Harrisburg Giants.[2][3]
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Plastic moment - Wikipedia | In structural engineering, the plastic moment (Mp) is a property of a structural section. It is defined as the moment at which the entire cross section has reached its yield stress. This is theoretically the maximum bending moment that the section can resist – when this point is reached a plastic hinge is formed and any load beyond this point will result in theoretically infinite plastic deformation.[1] In practice most materials are work-hardened resulting in increased stiffness and moment resistance until the material fails. This is of little significance in structural mechanics as the deflection prior to this occurring is considered to be an earlier failure point in the member.
In general, the method to calculate
M
p
{\displaystyle M_{p}}
first requires calculation of the plastic section modulus
Z
P
{\displaystyle Z_{P}}
and then to substitute this into the following formula:
For example, the plastic moment for a rectangular section can be calculated with the following formula:
where
The plastic moment for a given section will always be larger than the yield moment (the bending moment at which the first part of the sections reaches the yield stress).
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Moise H. Goldstein Sr. - Wikipedia | Moise Herbert Goldstein Sr. (September 17, 1882 − December 28, 1972) was an architect in Louisiana during the first half of the 20th century whose work includes hotels, a 23-story bank building, government buildings, airport terminal, the main library building, and a synagogue. In 1936, he was elected to Fellowship status in the American Institute of Architects and was elevated to Member Emeritus in 1961.[2] Goldstein was a founding member of the Louisiana Architect's Association and was an active participant in establishing the School of Architecture at Tulane University.[2]
After attending public schools in New Orleans, Goldstein obtained a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Tulane University in 1902.[2] By 1905, he had earned an MS degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1906, Goldstein attended the American Academy in Rome, devoting a year of study in France, Italy, and Turkey.
After returning to New Orleans, Goldstein joined the architectural firm of Diboll, Owen, and Goldstein, but in 1914, he established his own company.[3] It was during this time that he designed the Pine Hills Hotel in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, as well as, the American Bank building and Temple Sinai in New Orleans.[3] In the 1930s, Goldstein designed the original buildings for Dillard University, and served as campus architect from 1934 through 1961.[2][4]
From 1929 to 1946, Goldstein served on the Audubon Park Commission and was active in construction projects at Audubon Zoo.[2] During the Great Depression, Goldstein drafted designs and prepared blueprints for new construction at the zoo, to take advantage of WPA labor and New Deal funding.[5]
In 1947, two architects joined Goldstein as partners, and the new architectural firm became Goldstein, Parham, and Labouisse. Through the 1950s, the firm's designs included an elementary school, a state office building, the main branch of the New Orleans Public Library, a court building, and the Moisant Airport terminal, which became Louis Armstrong International Airport.[3]
In 1962, Goldstein ended his partnership with Parham, and Labouisse, and entered into practice with his son, forming Moise H. Goldstein; Louis A. Goldstein, architects, but the elder Goldstein retired in 1963.[2]
Moise Goldstein died December 28, 1972, and was interred at Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Tyrannicide - Wikipedia | Note: Varies by jurisdiction
Note: Varies by jurisdiction
Tyrannicide or tyrannomachia is the killing or assassination of a tyrant or unjust ruler, purportedly for the common good,[1]
and usually by one of the tyrant's subjects.[2] Tyrannicide was legally permitted and encouraged in the Classical period. Often, the term "tyrant" was a justification for political murders by rivals, but in some exceptional cases students of Platonic philosophy risked their lives against tyrants. The killing of Clearchus of Heraclea in 353 BC by a cohort led by his own court philosopher is considered a sincere tyrannicide. A person who carries out a tyrannicide is also called a "tyrannicide".[3][need quotation to verify]
The term originally denoted the action of Harmodius and Aristogeiton, who are often called the Tyrannicides, in killing Hipparchus of Athens in 514 BC.[4][dead link] In modern terms, carrying out a tyrannicide, as in taking life of another person, is a criminal act, and lawbreakers are liable to police arrest and trial by a court.
Tyrannicide can also be a political theory and, as an allegedly justified form of the crime of murder, a dilemmatic case in the philosophy of law, and as such dates from antiquity.[5] Support for tyrannicide can be found in Plutarch's Lives, Cicero's De Officiis,[6] and Seneca's Hercules Furens.[7] Plato describes a violent tyrant as the opposite of a good and "true king" in the Statesman,[7] and while Aristotle in the Politics sees it as opposed to all other beneficial forms of government, he also described tyrannicide mainly as an act by those wishing to gain personally from the tyrant's death, while those who act without hope of personal gain or to make a name for themselves are rare.[8]
Various Christian philosophers and theologians also wrote about tyrannicide. In late antiquity, they debated whether the Bible justified tyrannicide. Passages such as the Books of the Maccabees, Daniel 7:27, and Acts 5:29 seemed to justify the practice while others such as Romans 13, Exodus 22:27–28, Proverbs 8:15, and 1 Peter 2:13–18 seemed to condemn it. Theologians were also inspired by rumors of Emperor Julian the Apostate, the final pagan Roman Emperor, being killed by a Christian. During the Middle Ages, most theologians were influenced on the subject by Augustine of Hippo's The City of God, which said that Christians should obey secular authority.[9]
In Thomas Aquinas's commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, Aquinas gave a defense not only of disobedience to an unjust authority, using as an example Christian martyrs in the Roman Empire, but also of "one who liberates his country by killing a tyrant."[10] The Monarchomachs in particular developed a theory of tyrannicide, with Juan de Mariana describing their views in the 1598 work De rege et regis institutione,[11] in which he wrote, "[B]oth the philosophers and theologians agree, that the prince who seizes the state with force and arms, and with no legal right, no public, civic approval, may be killed by anyone and deprived of his life..."[6]
The Jesuistic casuistry developed a similar theory, criticized by Blaise Pascal in the Provincial Letters.[12] Before them, the scholastic philosopher John of Salisbury also legitimised tyrannicide, under specific conditions, in the Policraticus, circa 1159.[13] His theory was derived from his idea of the state as a political organism in which all the members cooperate actively in the realization of the common utility and justice. He held that when the ruler of this body politic behaves tyrannically, failing to perform his characteristic responsibilities, the other limbs and organs are bound by their duty to the public welfare and God to correct and, ultimately, to slay the tyrant.[14]
In 1408, the theologian Jean Petit used biblical examples to justify tyrannicide following the murder of Louis I, Duke of Orleans by Petit's patron John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy. Petit's thesis was extensively discussed and eventually anathematized by the church at the Council of Constance. A Shone Treatise of Politike Power, written by John Ponet in 1556, argued that the people are custodians of natural and divine law, and that if governors and kings violated their trust, then they forfeited their power, whether they relinquished their positions voluntarily or whether they had to be removed forcefully.[15] The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates by John Milton in 1649 also described the history of tyrannicide, and a defense of it when appropriate.[16]
Cambridge's David George has also argued that terrorism is a form of tyranny of which tyrannicide is a negation.[17] Abraham Lincoln believed that assassinating a leader is morally justified when a people has suffered under a tyrant for an extended period of time and has exhausted all legal and peaceful means of ouster.[18]
Throughout history, many leaders have died under the pretext of tyrannicide. Hipparchus, one of the last Greek leaders to use the title of "tyrant", was assassinated in 514 BC by Harmodius and Aristogeiton, the original tyrannicides.[19][4] Since then "tyrant" has been a pejorative term, lacking objective criteria. Many rulers and heads of state have been considered tyrannical by their enemies but not by their supporters. For example, when John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln in 1865, he wrote[where?] that he considered Lincoln a tyrant while comparing himself to Marcus Junius Brutus,[20] who stabbed the Roman dictator Julius Caesar in 44 BC.[21] Booth famously shouted "Sic semper tyrannis!" during the assassination.
Tyrannicides have a poor record of achieving their intended outcome. Caesar's death, for example, failed to bring a return to republican power, and instead led to the Roman Empire, but it galvanized later assassins. Several of Caesar's successors (Roman Emperors) came to their demise by assassinations, including Caligula, who was stabbed in 41 by Cassius Chaerea and other Praetorian Guards,[22] and Domitian, stabbed in 96 by a steward of Flavia Domitilla named Stephanus.[23] Many attempts on Commodus's life in the late 2nd century failed, including the one instigated by his own sister Lucilla, but he ultimately fell victim to his own excess by a successful murderous coup.[24] Other emperors assassinated from within include Claudius, Caracalla, Elagabalus, Marcus Aurelius Marius, and Severus Alexander.
After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, tyrannicide continued in the Byzantine Empire when Emperor Andronikos I Komnenos was tied to a pillar, beaten, and dismembered by a mob in 1185.[22] Tyrannicide has also been connected to revolution, with many taking place during successful revolutions, and others sparking revolutionary upheavals. In the midst of the French Revolution, Maximilien Robespierre took power as the President of the National Convention, but after leading the Reign of Terror from 1793 to 1794, he was executed by beheading by the National Convention. The Romanian Revolution, one of the Revolutions of 1989, enabled a group of defected Romanian People's Army soldiers to capture Nicolae Ceauşescu, the country's communist leader, and to stage a trial after which he was executed by a firing squad of paratroopers Ionel Boeru, Georghin Octavian and Dorin-Marian Cirlan.[25]
Many assassins have been killed in the act, such as Rigoberto López Pérez, who shot Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza García in 1956.[26] Claus von Stauffenberg tried to kill Adolf Hitler on 20 July 1944, was sentenced to death by an impromptu court martial and executed a few hours after the attempted murder. Others were prosecuted for the killing: Antonio de la Maza and his conspirators were executed after their shooting of Rafael Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic in 1961,[27] as was Kim Jaegyu, who shot South Korean dictator Park Chung-hee in 1979.[28] Five of the members of Young Bosnia who were involved with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo were sentenced to death by hanging, while eleven were sentenced to various years in prison, including Gavrilo Princip who fired the fatal shot. Khalid Islambouli was one of three members of Egyptian Islamic Jihad executed for the assassination of Anwar Sadat, the autocratic President of Egypt in 1981.[29] Even both Hipparchus's assassins were themselves killed, Harmodius on the spot and Aristogeiton after being tortured, and the major conspirators in the plot to kill Caesar were likewise killed or forced to commit suicide.
Outright revolt was the context for other tyrannicides and allowed individual killers to escape or remain anonymous. During World War II and the Italian resistance movement, Walter Audisio claimed to have led his team of partisans in the abduction and execution by firing squad of Benito Mussolini in 1945.[22][30] The circumstances remain clouded, though Audisio was later elected to both the Italian Chamber of Deputies and the Italian Senate. In 1990, Samuel Doe, the President of Liberia, was tortured to his death. In 1996, during their takeover of Afghanistan, Taliban soldiers captured Mohammad Najibullah, the President of the Soviet-backed Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and dragged him to death. Saddam Hussein, President of Iraq, was executed in 2006. During the 2011 Libyan civil war, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, the self-titled "Brotherly Leader and Guide of the Revolution", was killed in the Battle of Sirte, in unclear circumstances.[22]
Tyrannicide is a popular literary trope. Many works of fiction deal with the struggle of an individual or group of individuals to overthrow and kill an unjust tyrant. Often the tyranny is caused by a usurper to a royal throne, where the conclusion restores the proper heir. Children's literature frequently deals with the subject. Folk tales like The Nutcracker include the act, as do some video games series, like The Legend of Zelda and Star Fox. Examples in Disney animation include The Lion King and Aladdin which both involve the tyrannical takeover of a monarchy and its overhaul. Fantasy works like The Chronicles of Narnia, The Brothers Lionheart, A Song of Ice and Fire and science-fiction series like Star Wars and Doctor Who all deal with the killing of tyrants. Besides Julius Caesar, a number of William Shakespeare's plays deal with the subject, including Hamlet, Macbeth, and Richard III.[31] Friedrich Schiller based the play William Tell and the ballad Die Bürgschaft on existing legends of tyrannicide. The Italian dramatist, poet and philosopher Vittorio Alfieri devoted much of his work to this issue.[32]
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Frederick Bakewell (architect) - Wikipedia |
Frederick Bakewell (1824 - 31 October 1881) was a surveyor and architect based in Nottingham.[1]
He was born in 1824 in Stone in Staffordshire, the son of Thomas and Sarah Bakewell. He started practice in Nottingham in Thurland Street in the late 1850s.
In 1874 he entered into partnership with his nephew Albert Nelson Bromley who had formerly been his pupil. He retired in 1876 when the partnership was dissolved[2] and lived in The Elms, Beeston in Nottingham and also in Lincoln until his death in Norwich on 31 October 1881. He left an estate valued at £586 11s. 5d (equivalent to £63,000 in 2021).[3]
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Abdul Hakeem, Pakistan - Wikipedia |
Abdul Hakeem (also known as Abdul Hakim), (Urdu: عبدُالحکِیم), is a city in Kabirwala Tehsil, Khanewal District in the Punjab province of Pakistan.[1]
The city is situated 10 kilometres from Tulamba and is 3 km from the Ravi River[2] and 28 km from Mian Channu. The tomb of Saint Abdul Hakeem is located in the city centre near Multan road.
The famous event in the city is the yearly Urs of the Saint Abdul Hakeem, held every year from 21 to 23 June. Thousands of the followers of the saint visit the tomb, and a Grand Lok Mela and the Lucky Irani Circus take place during the Urs.
Colleges and schools
Abdul Hakeem has schools and colleges including Dare Arqam school, F.G Public Schools, Army Public School. The city has high schools for girls and boys and a degree college for both genders. There is also a vocational training centre for boys and girls. Now Punjab group of college and Superior college also providing their facilities to the students.
In Abdul Hakeem City, is a rural health center run by the government of Punjab,[3] and some private clinics, these clinics have the facility of many medical services e.g. dialysis, operations and gynaecology.
Abdul Hakeem is also one of the historical city in the region. The city is named after Sufi Saint of Silsila Qadria descent Hazrat Sultan Abdul Hakim (R.A) who came to this place, settled here. The shrine of Sultan Abdul Hakeem is located in the start of City. The city is more than 300 years old.
Important in the city is a 450 MW Rousch thermal power plant working at Sidhnai Barrage in Abdul Hakeem.[4] The city has an old head-work on the historical river Ravi, and a canal named Fazil Shah and a small link canal that are used for irrigation.
The city has the one out of the 3 railway station situated in Kabirwala Tehsil, which is named 'Abdul Hakim', other 2 are named as #Dirkhana and 'Jan Muhammad Wala', while the other 3 Tehsils of Khanewal have one railway station each.
The population of the city depends on agriculture, and there are wheat، rice and cotton factories and flour mills in the city.
The residents of this city do not adhere to any one political party. Every new election here is won by a different party.
The latest development in the city is the junction interchange of the two motorways by CPEC, M3 (Lahore) & M4 (Pindi Bhattian) which will merge the two motorways and will lead to Shujabad near Multan and connect to M5 which will lead further to Sukkur (M6).
The Abdul Hakeem inter change on the Lahore Abdul Hakeem Motorway leads the traffic to Lahore and Islamabad.
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2002 Men's Hockey RaboTrophy - Wikipedia | The 2002 Men's Hockey RaboTrophy was the first edition of the men's field hockey tournament. The RaboTrophy was held in Amsterdam from 22 to 25 August 2002, and featured four of the top nations in men's field hockey.[1]
The Netherlands won the tournament for the first time, finishing top of the ladder at the conclusion of the pool stage.[2]
The four teams competed in a pool stage, played in a single round robin format. Standings at the conclusion of the pool stage determined final placings.
The following four teams competed for the title:
The following umpires were appointed by the International Hockey Federation to officiate the tournament:[3]
All times are local (Central European Time).
The following awards were presented at the conclusion of the tournament:[2]
There were 25 goals scored in 6 matches, for an average of 4.17 goals per match.
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
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Whyville - Wikipedia | Whyville is an educational Internet site geared towards children from ages 8–14+ founded and managed by Numedeon, Inc. Whyville engages its users in learning about a broad range of topics, including science, business, art and geography. Whyville's users (Whyvillians) engage in virtual world simulation based games and role play sponsored by a wide range of governmental, non-profit, and corporate entities. In 2009, the website had a registered base of more than 7 million users.[1]
Whyville was launched in 1999, by Numedeon Inc, which was founded by Dr. James M. Bower, his students and collaborators at the California Institute of Technology, who were interested in whether simulation-based serious gaming could change education, and Whyville's purpose remains primarily educational.
Whyville was one of the first virtual worlds built around learning games. Whyville was also one of the first virtual worlds which used an internal virtual currency.[2] Users earn a 'clam' salary based on their educational activities on the site. With these clams they can buy face parts, projectiles, furniture, bricks, and other virtual goods and services that enhance their life in the Whyville virtual world. In 2007, Whyville partnered with the Spanish Bank Bankinter to build a virtual banking system for Whyville's users through which they manage their clam assets [3]
Whyville was also one of the first sites to emphasize user created content.[2] Tied directly to the clam economy, once a user has accumulated a large enough clam savings, they can start their own Whyville virtual business based on their own created content. Most of these businesses are built around the construction of 'face parts' from which users make their own avatars, using simple pixel by pixel drawing tools. Other businesses design and sell decals for users' virtual Scions (virtual automobiles in Whyville sponsored by Scion owned by Toyota). Players must draw their creations by hand. There is no copying and pasting, and all contributed content is reviewed by site staff for appropriateness. Since the site's launch, thousands of players have created millions of face parts.
A weekly newspaper called "The Whyville Times" comes out every Sunday. Whyvillians send in articles that they have written to the Times Editor. If the article is published, other users may comment on it in the Bulletin Board System (BBS).
Whyville received awards in 2006, 2007, and 2008 from iParenting as the best website for kids, and the best on the web for its safety features.[4] In 2008 Whyville received a NAPPA (National Parenting Publication Award) Gold Award as a site that represented the best in its genre for kids[5]
Whyville has been involved in numerous projects involving schools. For example, Whyville has sponsored several workforce pipeline projects that aim to encourage children to consider technical and scientific careers.
In another example, National Science Foundation awarded funding to ETR Associates to implement a project through middle school classrooms to engage young Hispanic women in computer game design and entrepreneurship.[6]
The Texas Workforce Commission has also funded Whyville to develop workforce related games in advanced manufacturing, biotechnology and energy.[7] In the 2007-2008 school year, Waco Independent School District piloted integration of Whyville into school day activities and creating lesson plans in more than fifty classrooms with over 1,000 students. In April, 2008, as part of its work with the Texas Workforce Commission, Whyville launched a new initiative for teachers called the WhyTexas Challenge.[8] Over three weeks, 300 teachers in Texas signed their students up to compete for their classrooms. The winners, from the Waco Independent school district amassed more than 17,000 clams in the three-week period of time.[9]
Whyville has drawn attention from educational researchers interested in the effect of virtual worlds on children.[10] The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation funded research into how preteens explore and share information about reproductive health using Whyville.[11]
Educational Research on Whyville has now been published in the book "Connected Play: Tweens in a Virtual World" Authored by Yasmin B. Kafai, Deborah A. Fields, and Mizuko Ito.[12]
Whyville has an extensive list of both public and private sponsors. Examples include NASA the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention the J. Paul Getty Trust, Disney, EMI, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Scholastic Publishing the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Next Generation Learning Challenges, the US Department of Labor, the Texas Workforce Commission, and Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History. Whyville's corporate sponsors include Scion, which launched its first virtual world presence in Whyville.[13]
Whyville also has an extensive virtual nutrition project sponsored by the University of Texas System and The School Nutrition Association.[14] In this project, Whyville's citizens elect to eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner each day, and a nutrition calculator then determines their state of health.
Whyville also has games and activities focusing on environmental issues supported by organizations like the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.[15]
Whyville has also recently worked with the Concord Consortium to implement a series of games based on breeding dragons as a way to learn genetics.[16]
Whyville runs on N.I.C.E, Numedeon's Interactive Community Engine. Nice is an online platform that supports the construction and management of immersive virtual worlds. Core components of this engine are protected by U.S. Patents[17] N.I.C.E., and therefore Whyville runs on a standard web browser, and can be run with as little as 56K baud connectivity[18]".
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2021 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships - Wikipedia | The 2021 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships was held from November 7 to 13 at the Almaty Arena in Almaty, Kazakhstan.[1] The top men's team and the top two women's teams qualified for the 2022 World Men's Curling Championship and 2022 World Women's Curling Championship respectively. The next two placed teams of each gender qualified for the World Qualification Event, for a second chance to qualify for the World Curling Championships.[2]
The teams are listed as follows:[3]
Skip: Lin Ting-li
Third: Nelson Wang
Second: Yin Liu Luis
Lead: Cheng Kai-wen
Alternate: Victor Lee
Skip: Jason Chang
Third: Justin Chen
Second: Woody Cheng
Lead: Harry Yew
Skip: Yusuke Morozumi
Third: Masaki Iwai
Second: Ryotaro Shukuya
Lead: Kosuke Morozumi
Skip: Viktor Kim
Third: Adil Zhumagozha
Second: Aidos Alliyar
Lead: Azizbek Nadirbayev
Alternate: Dmitriy Garagul
Skip: Nasser Alyafei
Third: Abdulraham Mohsen
Second: Mouaaz Mlis
Lead: Mohammed Al-Keldi
Skip: Alastair Fyfe
Third: Munir Albeelbisi
Second: Hussain Hagawi
Lead: Suleiman Alaqel
Skip: Kim Chang-min
Third: Kim Soo-hyuk
Second: Jeon Jae-ik
Lead: Kim Hak-kyun
Final round-robin standings
All draw times are listed in Alma-Ata Time (UTC+06:00).[4]
Sunday, November 7, 9:00
Sunday, November 7, 14:00
Sunday, November 7, 19:00
Monday, November 8, 9:00
Monday, November 8, 19:00
Tuesday, November 9, 14:00
Wednesday, November 10, 9:00
Wednesday, November 10, 19:00
Thursday, November 11, 14:00
Friday, November 12, 9:00
Friday, November 12, 14:00
Saturday, November 13, 9:00
Saturday, November 13, 14:00
The teams are listed as follows:[3]
Skip: Ling-Yue Hung
Third: Ada Shang
Second: Ashura Wong
Lead: Pianpian Hu
Skip: Sayaka Yoshimura
Third: Kaho Onodera
Second: Anna Ohmiya
Lead: Yumie Funayama
Skip: Angelina Ebauyer
Third: Sitora Alliyarova
Second: Tilsimay Alliyarova
Lead: Regina Ebauyer
Alternate: Ayazhan Zhumabek
Skip: Kim Eun-jung
Third: Kim Kyeong-ae
Second: Kim Cho-hi
Lead: Kim Seon-yeong
Alternate: Kim Yeong-mi
Final round-robin standings
All draw times are listed in Alma-Ata Time (UTC+06:00).[4]
Sunday, November 7, 9:00
Sunday, November 7, 14:00
Sunday, November 7, 19:00
Monday, November 8, 9:00
Monday, November 8, 14:00
Tuesday, November 9, 9:00
Tuesday, November 9, 19:00
Wednesday, November 10, 14:00
Wednesday, November 10, 19:00
Thursday, November 11, 9:00
Thursday, November 11, 19:00
Saturday, November 13, 9:00
Saturday, November 13, 14:00
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Tommy Graham (Scottish politician) - Wikipedia |
Thomas Graham (5 December 1943 – 16 April 2015) was a Scottish Labour Party politician. A native of Glasgow, Graham worked as an engineer before serving on Strathclyde Regional Council from 1978 to 1987.
He was elected in 1987 as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Renfrew West and Inverclyde, defeating the Conservative incumbent Anna McCurley. Following favourable boundary changes in 1997, he was elected for the new seat of Renfrewshire West.[1]
Graham previously worked for Rolls-Royce as an engineer and as a shop steward for the engineering union AEEU.[2]
Following the suicide of his parliamentary colleague Gordon McMaster in July 1997, a long investigation was launched, since in his suicide note McMaster had accused Graham of smearing him that he had a homosexual affair with a 17-year-old employee of Graham's. In September 1998, Graham was expelled from the Labour Party for "bringing the party into disrepute", despite his categorical denials of any wrongdoing. He became an independent and described himself as a 'Scottish Labour' MP.[citation needed]
Following his expulsion when Graham was asked where he would be sitting in the House of Commons, he replied, 'On my bum.' In fact, he actually sat on the opposition benches of the Commons but continued to vote with the government on many issues.[citation needed] It was thought that Graham would stand again at the 2001 general election, but he did not do so and quietly retired. His successor was Labour's Jim Sheridan. He died on 20 April 2015 following a brief illness.[3]
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Goodbye for Now (song) - Wikipedia |
"Goodbye for Now" is a song by P.O.D. and the lead single from their sixth studio album, Testify, released in 2006. It features a 21-year old Katy Perry vamping over the final chorus of the song. She also appeared in the music video. Her contribution, however, was not enough to earn her a guest appearance at that time.[1][2] The track was later included on Greatest Hits: The Atlantic Years in 2006.
"Goodbye for Now" received considerable radio play and was used in promotional videos for the film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. It is the band's most successful single since 2002's "Youth of the Nation" and reached No. 48 on the Billboard Hot 100 on January 31, 2006 (making it their third Hot 100 entry), No. 41 on the Billboard Pop 100, No. 25 on the U.S. Alternative Songs, and No. 17 on the U.S. Mainstream Rock Tracks charts.
The song's music video also reached the No. 1 spot on MTV's TRL and became P.O.D.'s fourth No. 1 video.
Musically, "Goodbye for Now" reintroduced rap vocals to P.O.D.'s singles catalog; the style had not been prominently heard on any single since 2002's "Satellite." The song also emphasizes clean melody and vocal harmony while lacking any heavy guitar work. Katy Perry's drawn out backup vocals enter during the final chorus shortly before the song comes to an end. P.O.D. frontman Sonny Sandoval described the feel and meaning behind "Goodbye for Now" in an MTV interview:
Producer Glen Ballard introduced Perry to P.O.D., and Sandoval said, "You could tell she came from a good family, and just wanted to show the Jesus tattoo on her wrist. And she was like: ‘I think I saw you guys in a (Christian) youth rally so many years ago.’ I’m like: ‘That’s so cool.’ But here she was in Hollywood trying to do her thing and make her career."[4]
Perry also appeared in the song's music video. She performed the song live with the band during an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.[5] However, the band has not performed the song live since 2007.[4]
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Lívia Libičová - Wikipedia | Lívia Libičová (born 4 May 1977 in Zlaté Moravce) is a Slovak former basketball player who competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics.[1]
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Ghillies (dance shoes) - Wikipedia | Ghillies are specially designed shoes used for several types of dance. They are soft shoes, similar to ballet shoes. They are used by women in Irish dance, by men and women in Scottish country dance, and by men and women in Scottish highland dance.
Ghillies are also sometimes known by a variety of other names that include: light shoes, pomps, pumps, and soft shoes.
Ghillies are soft shoes, almost always made of a supple leather that forms to the foot. They use laces which criss-cross the top of the foot and are tied together similar to a sneaker. Most dancers use laces (required in competitions), although some ghillies do utilize elastic. Some dancers will also wrap the laces/elastics around the soles of the feet. The soles usually stretch across the entire bottom of the shoe (full-soled) and are made from leather. Some ghillies, however, are split-soled, with a leather sole under the heel and under the ball of the foot. Ghillies are most commonly black, although other colours (such as red, green, and white) are manufactured. White ghillies can be dyed a variety of colours to be used for costumes specially choreographed dances such as blue, red, pink and others.
Scottish ghillies are used by men and women for Highland dancing and for Scottish country dancing. They are almost always black, although they often feature coloured stitching and eyelets. Highland ghillies, for Highland dances, generally need to fit snugly but also need to be able to get on the foot around thick socks or hose; for National dances, they fit snugly as they are worn with thin socks or stockings. They are generally worn very tight in order to get a good point.
Irish ghillies are used by women in Irish dancing, whereas men wear reel shoes. Unlike Scottish ghillies, the Irish version rarely feature coloured stitching, and they use loops in the leather, as opposed to eyelets, for the laces. Irish ghillies are available in a solid tan leather sole and a split sole. Irish shoe Pampooties and are the precursors to Irish ghillies, Celtic dance shoes. They are also similar in appearance to American moccasins[1]
Like ballet shoes, ghillies are generally made from leather, and have similar soles. Many dancers who start in Highland or Irish dancing will first use ballet shoes, as the cost is considerably lower.
The most easily recognizable difference between ballet shoes and ghillies is that ghillies use laces to fasten them to the foot, whereas ballet shoes generally use an elastic across the ankle. Also the laces are very long, and are wrapped around the ankle and foot before tied. Other differences are that ghillies do not have a string/elastic around the edge of the shoe to tighten them, and the soles of ghillies are not usually stitched on, but glued on.
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Yamaha SR250 - Wikipedia | The Yamaha SR250 is a single cylinder motorcycle made by Yamaha Motor Company initially from 1980 to 1984 and then 2001 to 2004 for a second generation. It shares styling with the larger Yamaha SR500. The first generation had a 249 cc (15.2 cu in) displacement and the second generation was 239 cc (14.6 cu in).
The SR250 was produced from 1980 to 1982 in the United States, as well as from 1982 to 2002 in Spain, in two versions. While it has stylistic similarities with its older brothers the SR500 and SR400, the SR250 is very much a commuter bike. In 1980 Cycle World's test of the SR250, called the Exciter I in the US with added high, cruiser style handlebars, found a standing 1⁄4-mile (0.40 km) time of 16.36 seconds at 122.89 km/h (76.36 mph), acceleration from 0 to 97 km/h (0 to 60 mph) of 11.5 seconds, and a top speed of 130 km/h (80 mph).[1] Braking distance from 60 to 0 mph (97 to 0 km/h) was 38 m (125 ft), and tested fuel consumption was 76 mpg‑US (3.1 L/100 km; 91 mpg‑imp), giving a range of 269 km (167 mi).[1]
In 2001, Yamaha released their most recent SR250 due to popular demand for reliable commuters. This model is modeled after the SR500. Despite sharing the SR designation, these bikes are very different. The engines are different in the most fundamental sense and the frames are also very different - no seat or tank components are interchangeable without frame modification.
Official website
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Prakovce - Wikipedia | Prakovce (Hungarian: Prakfalva) is a village and municipality in the Gelnica District in the Košice Region of eastern Slovakia.[1] Total municipality population was in 2011 3397 inhabitants[2]
WikiMiniAtlas48°49′N 20°54′E / 48.817°N 20.900°E / 48.817; 20.900
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Key Lime Pie (album) - Wikipedia | Key Lime Pie is a 1989 album by Camper Van Beethoven (CVB). It was the band's final album before breaking up in 1990, although the band has reunited and released new material in recent years. It was produced by Dennis Herring, who had also produced the band's previous album, Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart.
Key Lime Pie was the only Camper Van Beethoven album not to feature founding violinist/multi-instrumentalist/vocalist Jonathan Segel, who left the band before the album was recorded. The band's core lineup on the album consisted of vocalist/rhythm guitarist/frontman David Lowery, bassist Victor Krummenacher, lead guitarist Greg Lisher and drummer Chris Pedersen. Most of the violin parts were played by Don Lax, who was hired only for recording sessions and was not a band member. Near the end of the recording of the album, violinist Morgan Fichter was hired as the replacement for Segel. Fichter played only on the tracks "Opening Theme", "Pictures of Matchstick Men" and "Flowers," although she sings harmony vocals on a few other tracks and appears on the record's cover. On the tour for the album, the band was also joined by steel guitarist/mandolinist/guitarist David Immerglück, a member of CVB's side project Monks of Doom.
Lowery has been quoted in interviews as saying that, although the entire band (save for Fichter) played on the basic tracks, Greg Lisher was the only other member to have contributed significantly to the album's recording, with most of the overdubbing and studio polishing having been done by Lowery, Lisher and producer Dennis Herring.[citation needed] Lisher's distinctive psychedelic lead guitar playing is arguably the album's most distinctive instrumental feature, although the band's use of violin also has a great influence on the sound of the record.
The album featured a darker lyrical outlook as compared to the band's previous record, although there is still a great deal of the band's trademark humor. It was also the most political record that CVB had released, with tracks like "When I Win the Lottery," "Sweethearts" and "Jack Ruby" providing some humorous political and social commentary. Lowery said in an interview that "All Her Favorite Fruit" was based on the romance between Jessica Swanlake and Roger Mexico from the Thomas Pynchon novel Gravity's Rainbow.[7]
It also featured less of the band's world music influence, although there are still elements of CVB favorites like ska and Eastern European music in songs like "Opening Theme" and "Borderline." In place of the world-music influence, there are even more elements of Americana evident in many of the songs. Psychedelia, another staple of the band's eclectic sound, is also very much in evidence, although songs like "The Light From a Cake" and "Flowers" feature a more-orchestrated, less-dissonant version of psychedelic music than did the band's earlier albums.
The album was CVB's most commercially successful record, with the Status Quo cover "Pictures of Matchstick Men" becoming an alternative rock hit and peaking at number one on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart.[8]
All songs written by Krummenacher/Lisher/Lowery/Pedersen, except where noted.
Album - Billboard (United States)
Singles - Billboard (United States)
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Caddo Creek Formation - Wikipedia | The Caddo Creek Formation is a geologic formation in Texas. It preserves fossils dating back to the Carboniferous period.
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List of settlements in Central Province (Sri Lanka) - Wikipedia | Central Province is a province of Sri Lanka, containing the Kandy District, Matale District, and Nuwara Eliya District. The following is a list of settlements in the province.
Abasingammedda, Adhikarigama, Agalakumbura, Agalawatta, Agappola, Agrapatana, Agrapatna, Akarahaduwa, Akkarawatta, Akuramboda, Akurambodwatta, Akurana, Aladeniya, Alagalla Kondagama, Alagalla Pahalagama, Alagoda, Alakagama, Alakola-anga, Alakola-ela, Alakoladeniya, Alakolamada, Alakolamaditta, Alakolawewa, Alanduwaka, Alapalawala, Alapalawela, Alawattegama, Alawattegama, Alawatugama, Alawatugoda, Alayaya, Alhentennawatta, Alkemada, Alubendiyaya, Aludeniya, Alugolla (7°5'N 80°28'E), Alugolla (7°9'N 80°31'E), Alugolla (7°40'N 80°37'E), Alupotawela, Alutgama (7°19'N 80°31'E), Alutgama (7°31'N 80°35'E), Alutgama (7°42'N 80°35'E), Alutgama (7°22'N 80°39'E), Alutgama Mahakumburegammedda, Alutnuwara, Alutnuwara Town, Alutwatta Alutwewa, Aluvihare, Aluvihare Colony, Aluwihare, Alwatta, Ambadeniya, Ambagahahena, Ambagamuwa (7°1'N 80°28'E), Ambagamuwa (7°18'N 80°33'E), Ambagaspitiya, Ambagastenna, Ambakumbura, Ambalapitiya, Ambale, Ambaliyadda (7°10'N 80°46'E), Ambaliyadda (7°1'N 80°54'E), Ambanella, Ambanpola, Ambanwala (7°13'N 80°31'E), Ambanwala (7°13'N 80°31'E), Ambaoruwa, Ambatalawa (6°58'N 80°30'E), Ambatalawa (7°2'N 80°40'E), Ambatenna, Ambawa, Ambawela, Ambetenna, Ambewela, Ambokka, [PPP), Ampitiya, Amuna, Amunewala, Amunugama, Amunumulla, Amunupitiya, Amunupura, Amunupure, Amupitiya, Andagala (7°22'N 80°30'E), Andagala (7°46'N 80°31'E), Andawala, Andawela, Andideniya, Andungama Palkumbura, Andurubebila, Angammana, Angunawala, Angunawela, Anguruwela, Anguruwella, Ankande Colony, Ankendagolla, Ankumbura, Ankumbura Pallegama, Ankumbura Udagama, Appallagoda, Arambagama, Arambegama (7°16'N 80°32'E), Arambegama (7°20'N 80°34'E), Arambepola, Aranpitiya, Arattana (7°13'N 80°34'E), Arattana (7°22'N 80°43'E), Arawwawala, Arukwatta, Aruppola, Asgeriya, Asgiriya, Aswalapitiya, Asweddunwela, Atabage, Atabage Pallegama, Atirahapitiya, Attanakumbura, Attanayakagammedda, Attaragalla, Attaragama, Attaragama Hunnana-oya, Attaragama Hunnanoya, Awulbodale
Badalagama, Badalgammedda, Baddamulla, Bahiragaldowa, Bahirawakanda, Balagahatenna, Balagolla, Balana, Balawatgoda, Bambarabedda, Bambarabedde Devainnegama, Bambaradeniya, Bambaragahawatta, Bambaragaleyaya, Bambaragama, Bambaragaswewa, Bambawa, Bamunupola, Bananga, Banange, Barandare, Barigama, Batadanduwela, Batagalla (7°22'N 80°34'E), Batagalla (7°15'N 80°40'E), Balagolla, Batagolla, Batalawatta, Batugoda, Batumulla, Bebalagama, Beddegama, Beligamuwa, Beliyakanda, Bembiya, Beragama, Beravilla, Berawila, Bibila, Bobella, Bodikotuwa, Bogahapitiya, Bogambara, Bogamuwa, Bogawantalawa, Bogawela, Bokalawela, Bokkawala, Bolagandawela, Bolepe, Bombure, Bomure, Bopana, Bopegammedda, Bopitiya, Boragahamaditta, Boruwagama, Botota, Bowala (7°10'N 80°34'E), Bowala (7°16'N 80°37'E), Bowala (7°9'N 80°43'E), Bowatta, Bowatura, Boyagama, Brookside, Bulanawewa, Bulatwelkandura, Bulugahapitiya, Bulugolla, Bulukohotenna, Bulumulla, Butalanda, Butawatta, Buwelikada (7°13'N 80°34'E), Buwelikada (7°17'N 80°39'E)
Campion, Clodagh Eastern Colony
Dadahogama, Dadohagama, Dagampitiya, Dagewilla, Dalupota, Daluwela, Damana, Dambagahamada, Dambagahamuduna, Dambagolla, Dambagolla, Dambalagala Colony, Dambarawa, Dambarawa, Dambe, Dambul, Dambulla, Dambullagama, Damunumeya, Damunumulla, Damunupola, Damunupola North, Dandenikumbura, Dankanda, Danture, Dara-oya, Daskara, Daulagala, Dawatagahamulatenna, Dedunupitiya, Dehianga, Dehiattawala, Dehideniya, Dehideniya Madige, Dehigahatule, Dehigama, Dehigastenna, Dehintalawa, Dehipagoda, Dehipe, Dehipitiya, Deiannewela, Deiyannewela, Dekinda, Deldeniya, Delgasyaya, Deliwela, Delmada, Delpatkada, Delpawana, Delpitiya, Deltota, Demada-oya, Dembatagastenna, Dembawa, Demodara, Demunapola North, Denapitiya, Denike, Devahandiya West, Devinnegama, Devita, Devon, Dewahandiya, Dewahandiya East, Dewahandiya West, Dewahuwa, Dewatagahamulatenna, Dibburuwela, Dickoya, Diddeniya, Digahawatura, Digala, Digana, Digane, Diggala, Dihintalawa, Dikirillagolla, Dikkumbura, Dikoya, Dimbula, Dimbulgahakotuwa, Dimbulgoda, Dimbulkumbura, Dippitiya, Divulgaskotuwa, Diyabubula, Diyapalagoda, Dodamitiyawa, Dodandeniya, Dodandeniya, Dodangolla, Dodankumbura, Dodankumbura, Dodanwala, Dolapihilla, Dolosbage, Dolosbage Bazaar, Doluwa, Dombagammana, Dombagasdeniya, Dombagoda, Dombawala, Dombawela, Doragomuwa, Dorakumbura, Doraliyadda, Doraliyadda, Doranegama, Dowita, Dowitagammedda, Dullewa, Dulmure, Dulwala, Dulwela, Dumbukola, Dunkumbura, Dunukaula, Dunukebedda, Dunukebedda, Dunukeula, Dunukewatta, Dunuwila, Dunuwila Megodagama
dedigama
Ebbawala, Edanduwawa, Egodagama, Egodakanda, Egodamulla, Egodawela, Ehalagastenna, Ehalamalpe, Ekamuthugama, Ekiriya, Eladetta, Elamaldeniya, Elamalwewa, Elgama, Elhanyaya, Elikewela, Elkaduwa, Ellauda, Ellekumbura, Ellepola, Ellewatta, Elliyadda, Elotuwa, Elpitiya, Embalagama, Embekka, Embilimigama, Embilmeegama, Embitiyawa, Embulambe, Embulpure, Enasalmada, Endarutenna, Enkendagolla, Eramudugolla (7°31'N 80°35'E), Eramudugolla (7°15'N 80°40'E), Eramuduliyadda, Erawula Pahalagama, Eregoda, Ereula Pahalagama, Etabendiwewa, Etakehellanda, Etambagahawatta, Etambagahawatta Udispattu, Etambagolla, Etambegoda, Etamulla, Etipola, Etulgama
Gabbala, Gabbela, Gabbela, Gadaladeniya, Galabadawatta, Galabawa, Galaboda, Galabodawatta, Galagama, Galagedara, Galagoda, Galaha, Galaha Town, Galahitiyagama, Galahitiyawa, Galaliyadda, Galamuduna, Galata, Galauda, Galaudahena, Galboda, Galdola, Galewela, Galgomuwa, Galhinna, Galkadawela, Galketiwela, Gallahawatta, Gallella, Gallinda, Galpitiya, Galuke, Galwadukumbura, Galwaduwagama, Galwangedihena, Galwetiyaya, Gammaduwa, Gammulla, Gammunukumbura, Gampola, Gampola Town, Gampolawela, Gamunukumbura, Ganegalagammedda, Ganegoda, Gangahenwala, Gangoda, Gangodagammedda, Gangodapitiya, Ganguldeniya, Ganhata, Gankewala, Gankewela, Gannoruwa, Gansarapola, Gedaramada, Gedarawela, Gelioya, Gerandigala, Getambe, Getembe, Getiyawala, Gettapola, Gettiyawala, Giddawa, Ginigathena, Ginnoruwa, Giragama, Giragma, Girahagama, Girantalawa, Giraulla, Girihagama, Godagama, Godagama, Godagandeniya, Godakumbura, Godamuna, Godamuduna, Godamunna, Godapola, Godapussa, Godatale, Godawela, Godigamuwa, Golahenwatta, Golegammana, Gollangolla, Gomadale, Gomagoda, Gonapola, Gonawala, Gonawatta, Gonawela, Gondawela, Gondeniya, Gondewala, Gonewala, Gonigoda, Govindala, Gunadaha, Gunnepana Gabadagama, Gunnepana Madige, Gunnepana Pallegammedda, Gunnepana Udagammedda, Gurubebila, Gurudeniya, Gurugala Ella, Gurugalle Ella, Gurugama, Gurukete, Gurulupota, Guruwela
Hakmana, Hakurutale, Haladiwela, Halagama, Halangoda, Halgolla, Haliyadda, Haliyala, Haliyedde, Halmehikandura, Halminiya, Halpola, Handabowa, Handaganawa, Handessa, Hangaran Oya, Hangarandeniya, Hangarapitiya, Hangran Oya, Hanguranketa, Hanguranketa Town, Hanwella, Happawara, Hapudandawala, Hapudandawela, Hapugaha-Arawa, Hapugahamulla, Hapugahapitiya, Hapugaharawa, Hapugasdeniya, Hapugaspitiya, Hapugastalawa, Hapugoda, Hapukanda, Hapupe, Haputale Pallegama, Haputale Udagama, Haputale Udagammedda, Hapuwala, Haragama, Haraggama, Harakola, Harangala, Harankahagoda, Harankahawa, Harasbedda, Harasgama, Harden-huish, Hassalaka, Hatadukkuwa, Hatamunagala, Hataraliyadda, Hathugoda, Hatiyaldeniya, Hatiyalwela, Hatnagoda, Hatton, Hatugoda, Hedeniya, Hedunuwawa, Hegama, Hegasulla, Helambagahawatta, Hemagahahena, Hembarawa, Hemure, Henagahawela, Henagehuwala, Henagehuwala Medagammedda, Henapola, Henaya Rotawewa, Hendeniya, Henegama, Henegama Palkumbura, Henepola, Hepana, Hettigammedda, Hevanewala, Hewaheta, Hewanetenna, Hewanewala, Hewawissa, Hewawisse, Hiddaulla, Hilpankandura, Hilpenkandura, Hilton Colony, Himbiliyakada, Hinagama, Hindagala, Hindagoda, Hindirigama, Hingulwala, Hingulwela, Hingurewela, Hingurukaduwa, Hinnarangolla, Hippala, Hippola, Hiriyalagammana, Hitgoda, Hitgoda Walpola, Hitigegama, Hitigolla, Hiyadala, Hiyadala, Hiyadala Walpola, Hiyarapitiya, Hiyawela, Holbrook, Homagama, Homapola, Hombawa, Horagahapitiya, Horakada, Horton Plains, Huduhumpola, Hulangamuwa, Huluganga, Huluganga Town, Hunnasgiriya, Hunuange Bogaskumburegammedda, Hunuange Imbulkotadeniya, Hunugalpitiya, Hunuketa-ela, Hunuketawala, Hunuketella, Hurikaduwa, Hurikaduwa Madige, Hurikaduwe Madige
Idamagama, Idamelanda, Idampitiya, Ihagama, Ihaladiggala, Ihalagama Niyangama, Ihalakande Bavulana, Illagolla, Illawatura, Illukpelessa (7°7'N 80°49'E), Illukpelessa (7°1'N 80°54'E), Illuktenna (7°10'N 80°55'E), Illuktenna (7°22'N 80°55'E), Illukwatta, Ilpemada, Ilukhena, Ilukpelessa (7°7'N 80°49'E), Ilukpelessa (7°1'N 80°54'E), Ilukpelessa (7°27'N 80°54'E), Iluktenna, Ilukwatta, Imaduwa, Imbulandanda, Imbuldeniya, Imbuletenna, Imbulgolla, Imbulmalgama, Imbulpitiya, Inguruwatta, Inigala, Ipiladana, Irahanda, Iriyagolla, Irrahanda, Ittamalliyagoda, Ivurawala
Jahakagama, Jiwanawatta
Kadadekawewa, Kadadoovapitiya, Kadadora Pallegammedda, Kadadora Udagammedda, Kadadorapitiya, Kadawala, Kadawatgama, Kadugannawa, Kadugawnawa, Kaduwela, Kahagala, Kahalla, Kahapathwela, Kahapatwala, Kahatadanda, Kahatagaha, Kahatagaha Aswedduma, Kahatagastenna, Kahatapitiya, Kahawatta, Kahawatugoda, Kaikawala, Kaineke, Kalaganwatta, Kalagolla, Kalalgamuwa, Kalalpitiya, Kalapathwela, Kalapitiya, Kalawa, Kalawagahawadiya, Kalawala, Kalaweldeniya, Kalotuwawa, Kaludella, Kaludemada, Kaludewala, Kalugal-oya, Kalugala, Kaluganga, Kaluwane, Kambarawa, Kamburadeniya, Kammaltera, Kanakkarapola, Kanangamuwa, Kandalama, Kandangama, Kandanhena, Kandapola, Kande, Kandegama, Kandegama, Kandegama, Kandegedara, Kandekumbura, Kandekumbura, Kandekumbura, Kandemoragolla, Kandewela, Kanduregoda, Kandurugoda, Kandy, Kannadeniya, Kapuliyadda, Kaputupola, Karagala, Karagama, Karagastenna, Karakolagahatenna, Karakolagastenna, Karaliyadda, Karalliyada Kandegammedda, Karalliyadda, Karalliyadda, Karalliyadda Kandegammedda, Karamada, Karamindula, Karandagolla, Karandamaditta, Karuwalagahadewala, Karuwalakelewatta, Karuwalakelle, Katarandana, Katarandena, Kathurupitiya, Katugastota, Katumana, Katupathwela, Kavudupelella, Kavudupitiya, Kavulpana, Kavulpone, Kawdupelella, Kawudupelella, Keenagolla, Keerapone, Kehelella, Kehelwala, Kehelwatta, Kehelwatta, Kekelawatta, Kekulalanda, Kekulalla, Kekulanda, Keliyalpitiya, Kendagolla, Kendagolla, Kendagollamada, Kendaliadda, Kendaliyadda, Kendangamuwa, Kengalla, Kengalla Pahalagammedda, Ketakandura, Ketakumbura, Ketayapatana, Kimbulantota, Kindigoda, Kinigama, Kinigama, Kinigama, Kiralagama, Kiralagolla, Kiralessa, Kirapane, Kirapone, Kiribatkumbura, Kirigankumbura, Kirimedilla, Kirimetiya, Kirimetiyawa, Kirinda, Kirindewela, Kirindiketiya, Kirindiwelpola, Kirioruwa, Kiripattiya, Kiriwan Eliya, Kiriwanagoda, Kiriwaula, Kiriwavula, Kirlulgama, Kitulangomuwa, Kituldora, Kitulpe, Kiul-ulpota, Kiula, Kiulewadiya, Kobbeakaduwa, Kobbekaduwa, Kobbewala, Kobbewehera, Kochchikaduwa, Kohilawatta, Kohodeniya, Koholanwala, Koholanwela, Koholdeniya, Kohomada, Kohonapuwakgaha-ela, Kollawela, Kolonella, Kolongastenna, Kolugala, Konakagala, Konakalagala, Kondadeniya, Kongahakotuwa, Kongahamulla, Kongahawela, Konkalagala, Korahagoda, Korahana, Kosgalla, Kosgama, Kosgolla, Koshinna, Kosinna, Koskote, Kosruppe, Kossinna, Koswana, Koswatta, Kotabogoda, Kotagala, Kotagepitiya, Kotagepitiya, Kotakedeniya, Kotakepitiya, Kotakumbura, Kotaligoda, Kotambe, Kotawagura, Kotikambe, Kotinkaduwa, Kotiyagala, Kotmale, Kottala, Kottinkaduwa
Labugama, Labugolla, Lagamuwa, Landupita, Lappanagama, Legundeniya, Leloya, Lemasuriyagama, Lenadora, Lenawala, Lendora, Lesliewatta, Letiyahena, Leudeniya, Lewdeniya, Lewella, Lewellagolla, Lewla, Lindula, Linipitiya, Liniyaketiya, Liyandeniya, Liyanwela Helagama, Liyanwela Pahalagama, Loolkade, Lunugama
Maberiya, Madadeniya, Madahapolakanda, Madakumbura, Madampitiya, Madanpitiya, Madanwala, Madawala, Madawala Demalabage, Madawala Madige, Madawala Ulpota, Madiligama, Madipola Marakkalabage, Madugalla, Madulkele, Madulkele Bazaar, Madulla, Madumana, Maha Aswedduma, Maha Pattapola, Mahagama Egodagama, Mahagama Megodagama, Mahaiyawa, Mahakumbura, Mahalakotuwa, Mahalevakanda, Mahanurora, Mahanuvara, Mahanuwara, Mahara, Mahawala, Mahawatta, Mahawela, WattegamMahiyangana, Mailapitiya Lower, Mailapitiya Upper, Maiyangana, Makeliyawala, Makempe, Makuldeniya, Makulussa Colony, Malagammana, Malagekumbura, Malanwatta, Maldeniya, Malgammana, Malgandeniya, Malhewa, Maligatenna, Maliyadda, Malulla, Malwanahinna, Mampitiya, Manaboda, Manahinda, Manakola, Mandandawela, Mandaran Newara, Mangalagama, Mangoda, Manilwala, Mapanawatura, Mapanawatura, Maradurawala, Maraka, Marakkalagama, Marassana, Maratugoda, Maratuwela, Marawanagoda, Martuwela, Maruddana, Marukona, Maskeliya, Maswela, Matalapitiya, Matale, Matale Polwatta, Matale Town, Matgamuwa, Mathgamuwa, Maturata, Mawatagama, Mawatapola, Mawatupola, Mawatupola, Mawatura, Mawela, Mawilmada, Meda-Ela, Medabedda, Medagahawatura, Medagama, Medagammedda, Medagoda, Medakanda, Medakele, Medakumbura, Medapihilla, Medapititenna, Medapitiya, Medawala, Meddegoda, Meddehinna, Medilla, Medilletenna, Mediriya, Mediwaka, Mediyapola, Meepitiya, Mellagola, Menikbowa, Menikdiwela, Menikhinna, Menikhinna Town, Metagama, Methagama, Metibembiya, Metibokka, Metideniya, Metihakka, Metiwalatenna, Mideniya, Migahahena, Migammana, Migammana Ihalagammedda, Migammana Mahagammedda, Migammana Pallegama, Migaskotuwa, Millapitiya, Millawana, Millawana Ihalagama, Millawana Pahalagama, Mimura, Mimure, Minigamuwa, Minipe, Minuwangamuwa, Mipitiya, Mirahampe, Mirissala, Miriyakada, Miruppa, Mitalawa, Miwaladeniya, Miwatura, Miyanagolla, Miyanakolamada, Moladanda, Molagoda, Monaruwila, Moragahamula, Moragahamulla, Moragahaulpota, Moragaspitiya, Moragolla, Moragolleyaya, Morahenegama, Morape, Morape Pallegammedda, Morape Udagammedda, Motamure, Mottuwela
Nabadagahawatta, Nagahapola, Nagahatenna, Nagasena, Nagolla (7°27'N 80°37'E), Nagolla (7°22'N 80°52'E), Nalanda (7°40'N 80°38'E), Nalanda (7°31'N 80°34'E), Namadagala, Nanu Oya, Nanumure, Napana Disaneggammedda, Napana Disanekgammedda, Napana Hunuangegammedda, Napatawela, Narandanda, Narangolla, Narangomuwa, Naranpanawa, Naranpanawa Dembatagolla, Naranpanawa Disaneggammedda, Naranpanawa Egodagammedda, Naranpanawa Kandegammedda, Naranpanawa Karagastenna, Naranpanawe Dembatagolla, Naranpanawe Disanekgammedda, Naranpanawe Egodagammedda, Naranpanawe Kandegammedda, Naranpanawe Karagastenna, Narantalawa, Naranwala (7°22'N 80°30'E), Naranwala (7°13'N 80°34'E), Naranwita, Nattarampota, Naula, Navangama, Nawalapitiya, Nawangama, Nawaragoda, Nawayalatenna, Nawayalatenna Bazaar, Nawela, Nayakumbura, Nehiniwala, Nelugolla, Neluwakanda, Nikagolla, Nikahetiya, Nikatenna (7°19'N 80°28'E), Nikatenna (7°22'N 80°31'E), Nikatenna (7°19'N 80°37'E), Nikawatawana, Nikawehera, Nikawella, Nilagama, Nilawala, Nildandahinna, Nilgala, Nillambe, Nira-ella, Nittawela, Nittultenna, Nituletenna, Nitulgahakotuwa, Niyambepola, Niyangama, Niyangandara, Niyangandora, Niyangoda, Niyarepola, Norton, Norton Bridge, Norwood, Norwood Bazaar, Nugahapola, Nugaliyadda, Nugapitiya, Nugatenna, Nugatota, Nugawela, Nugawelagammedda, Nugetenna, Nuwara Dodanwala, Nuwara Dodanwela, Nuwara Eliya, Nuwara Eliya Town, Nuwari-Eliya
Oggomuwa, Ogodapola, Olaganwatta, Old Peradeniya, Oligama, Oluwawatta, Opalagala, Opalgala, Opalgalawatta, Opalla, Otagama, Otalawa, Ovisa, Owala (7°16'N 80°34'E), Owala (7°31'N 80°39'E), Owalapolwatta, Owisa, Oyatenna
Padeniya, Padiwitagama, Padiwitawela, Padiyapelella, Paduangoda, Padupola, Paduwangoda, Pahaladiggala, Pahalagammedda, Pahalakande Bavulana, Pahalawela, Pahalawewa, Paladoraella, Palagolla, Palapatwela, Palawa, Paldeniya, Palipana, Palkade, Palkumbura, Pallama, Palle Aludeniya, Palle Deltota, Palle Galadebokka, Palle Hapuwida, Palle Henepola, Palle Ihagama, Palle Mailapitiya, Palle Makuruppe, Palle Talawinna, Palle Talawinna Udagammedda, Palle Weragama, Palleaswedduma, Pallegama, Pallegama Ihalagammedda, Pallegama Pahalagammedda, Pallegammedda, Pallehaduwa, Pallehena, Pallekanda, Pallekele Kadawidiya, Pallemaoya, Pallepola, Palletenna, Pallewatta, Pallewela, Palleyaya, Palu Rotawewa, Palugama, Palukopiwatta, Pamunudeniya, Pamunuwa, Panabokke, Panangammana, Pananwala, Panatale, Panawelulla, Pangala, Pangollamada, Pannagama, Pannala, Pannala I, Pannala II, Pannampitiya, Pannanpitiya, Panwatta, Panwila, Panwila Town, Panwilatenna, Paradeka, Paragahamada, Paragahawela, Paragoda, Parakatawella, Paranagama, Paranagama Hapukotuwegammedda, Paranagama Mandandawela, Patkolagolla, Pattitalawa, Pattiwela, Pattiyamulla, Pattunupitiya, Payingomuwa, Pelawa, Pelena, Pelenegama, Pellepitiya, Penahetipola, Penalaboda, Penideniya, Peradeniya, Peradenya, Petiyagoda, Piharallegama, Pilapitiya, Pilawala, Piligalla, Piligama, Pilihudugolla, Pilihudugolla Ihalagama, Pilihudugolla Pahalagama, Piliwela, Pinnalandawatta, Pinnawala, Pitakanda, Pitawala, Pitiyagedera, Pitunugama, Poddalgoda, Poddalgoda Megodagama, Pohaliyadda, Poholiadda, Pohoranwewayaya, Pokunuwatta, Polgaha-anga, Polgahange, Polgolla, Polmalagama, Polommana, Polpitiya, Polwatta, Polwatta Colony, Polwatte Ihalagama, Polwattekanda, Poppitiya, Potawa, Pottallinda, Pottatawela, Pottepitiya, Pottila, Pubbarawela, Pubbiliya, Puliyadda, Pulleniwatta, Punchlrambadagalla, Pundaloya, Pundaluoya, Punduloya, Pupuressa, Puraamkumbura, Purankumbura, Purijjala, Pussalagolla, Pussalakandura, Pussalamankada, Pusse-Ela, Pussella, Pussellagolla, Pussellawa, Pusulpitiya, Puwakgahagala, Puwakpitiya
Rabbegamuwa, Radagoda, Radewala, Radunnewela, Ragala, Rahatungoda, Raitalawa, Raitalawela, Rambawela, Ramboda, Rambuke, Rambukella, Rambukewela, Rambukkewela, Rambukkoluwa, Rambukpitiya, Rambukpota, Rambukpota-anga, Rambukwella, Rammalaka, Rammalakandura, Ranamure, Ranatalawa, Ranawa, Ranawana, Rangala, Rangama, Rangomuwa, Rankiriyagolla, Rannantalawa, Ranwantalawa, Ranwediyawa, Rasingolla, Rassagoda, Ratalawewa, Ratmalakaduwa, Ratmeewala, Ratmiwala, Ratninda, Ratninda, Rattota, Ratwatta, Rawanagoda, Rekatwala, Rekitipe, Retiyagama, Ridiella, Rikillagaskada, Rilamulla, Rogersongama, Rottipehilla, Rozella, Rupaha, Rusigama
Samarakonehena, Sangilipalam, Sangilipalama, Selagama, Selagama Colony, Serudandapola, Serugolla, Singhapitiya, Sinhapitiya, Sirangahawatta, Sirimalwatta, Sita Eliya, Sivurupitiya, Siyambalagahawela, Siyambalagastenna, Siyambalagoda, Siyambalapitiya, Siyambalawewa, Suduhakurugama, Suriyagoda
Tahalpitiya, Talagasyaya, Talagoda, Talagune, Talakiriyagama, Talakiriyagma, Talakiriyawa, Talakolawela, Talapelellagoda, Talatuoya, Talawakele, Talawatta, Talawatura, Talgahagoda, Talwatta (7°17'N 80°39'E), Talwatta (7°16'N 80°40'E), Tammitiya, Taralanda, Tawalantenna (7°4'N 80°40'E), Tawalantenna (7°13'N 80°47'E), Telambugahawatta, Teldeniya, Teldiniya, Telihigala, Telihunna, Tembiligala Pallegama, Tembiligala Udagama, Tenna, Tennehena, Tennehenwala, Tennekumbura, Tepugolla, Teripaha, Teripehagama, Thine Kanuwa, Thinniyagala, Thumbara, Tibbotugoda, Tibbotuwawa, Tientsin, Tillicoultry, Tinipitigama, Tiniyagala, Tirappuwa, Tismada, Tismoda, Tispane, Tittapajjala, Tiyambara-ambe, Torapitiya, Tumpelawaka, Tumpelawake, Tundeniya, Tunhitiyawa, Tunoathliyadda
Uda Aludeniya, Uda Aramba, Udadumbara, Uda Galadebokke, Uda Hapuwida, Uda Henepola, Uda Iluka, Uda Madapota, Uda Mailapitiya, Uda Makuruppe, Uda Pussellawa, Uda Pussellawa Estate, Uda Talawinna, Uda Talawinna Megodagammedda, Uda Talawinnamadige, Uda Weragama, Udabowala, Udagaladebokka, Udagalauda, Udagama, Udagama Pallegama, Udagammedda, Udahaduwa, Udahentenna, Udakottamulla, Udakumbura, Udalugama, Udalugaputenna, Udalumada, Udamadura, Udamaluwa, Udamulla, Udangomuwa, Udapadiyapelella, Udapitawela, Udatenna, Udattawa, Udawatta, Udawela, Udispattuwa, Udowita, Udu Nuwara and Yatinuwara, Ududaha, Ududeniya, Ududeniya Madige, Ududeniya Sinhalagama, Udugalpitiye Kuppayama, Udugama, Udugoda, Udumulla, Udupihilla, Udurawana, Udurawana Megodagammedda, Uduwa, Uduwawala, Uduwela Pallegama, Uduwela Udagama, Uduwella, Uduwelwala, Uduwerella, Uggahakumbura, Uguresapitiya, Uguressapitiya, Ukutule, Ukuwala, Ukuwela, Ulakkonde, Ulandupitiya, Ulapane, Ullandupitiya, Ullekumbura, Ulpotagama, Ulpotagama Iluka, Ulpotapitiya, Unagolla, Unambuwa, Unantenna Pallegammedda, Unantenna Pallegammedde, Unapandureyaya, Unaweruwa, Upcot, Uradeniya, Urapola, Urawala, Urawela, Urugala, Urugalakadawidiya, Uruherapola, Urulemulla, Urulewatta, Ussettawa
Vetastenna, Viguhumpola, Vilana Pallegama, Vilana Udagama,
Wadagolla, Wadakahamada, Wadawala, Wadawalakanda, Wademada, Wadiya, Wadiyagoda, Wahacotte, Waharakgoda, Wahugepitiya, Wahunkoho, Wahunkoha, Wahupitiya, Waikkal, Walagama, Walagedara, Walakumbura, Walakumbura, Walala, Walala Megodagammedda, Walalawela, Walaswewa, Walatalawa, Walawela, Waldeniya, Walgama, Walgampaya, Walgovuwagoda, Walgowagoda, Wallahagoda, Walliwela, Walmoruwa, Walpola, Walpoladeniya, Walpolamulla, Walugama, Wanduramulla, Wannipola, Waradiwala, Waragashinna, Warakadeniya, Warakagoda, Warakalawita, Warakamure, Warakawa, Waralaggama, Warapitiya, Wariyapola, Wataddora, Watadeniya, Watagoda, Watapana, Watapuluwa, Watawala, Wathumulla, Wattahena, Wattappola, Wattegama, Wattegammedda, Wattegedara, Wattehena, Watuliyadda, Watumulla, Watupola, Waturakumbura, Watuwala, Wavinna, Wawinna, Wayikkal, Wedagolla, Wedigammedda, Wegala, Wegama, Wegama Lower, Wegiriya, Wegodapola, Wehera, Wehigala East, Wekanda, Wekumbura, Welagama, Welaihala Udugoda, Welamboda, Welampe, Welandagoda, Welangahawatta, Welapahala, Welata, Welegedara, Welemulla, Welgahawadiya, Weligalla, Weliganwala, Weligodapola, Weliketiya, Welivitta, Weliwaranagolla, Weliwita, Weliwita Ihalagama, Weliwita Pahalagama, Wellagiriya, Wellangolla, Wellatota, Welletota Kadaweediya, Welpanala, Wepatana, Weragalawatta, Weragama, Weragamtota, Weragantota, Werakonkanda, Weralanda, Weralugastenna, Werapitiya, Werapitiya Ihalagama, Werapitiya Pahalagammedda, Werawala, Werella, Werellagama, West Watta, Wetagepota, Wetakedeniya, Wetakepotha, Wetalawa, Wetasseyaya, Weteggama, Wettehena, Wettewa, Wewagammedda, Wewakele, Wewala, Wewatenna, Wewelmada, Wewelobe, Wiguhumpola, Wijebahukanda, Wilawala, Wilgomuwa, Wilwala, Wiyanamulla
Yaggala, Yahala, Yahalatenne, Yahaletenna, Yakadagoda, Yakgahapitiya, Yakkuragala, Yalegoda, Yalkumbura, Yamanmulla, Yapagama, Yasanampura, Yatala, Yatapana, Yatawara, Yatawatta, Yatawatta, Yatigammana, Yatihalagala, Yatihalagala Pallegama, Yatimadura, Yatipiyangala, Yatirawana, Yatiwawala, Yatiwehera, Yatiwella, Yattakule, Yodagannawa, Yombuweltenna, Yompana, Yonpane
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Tom Clougherty - Wikipedia | Tom Clougherty is a British academic who has been the Head of Tax at the Centre for Policy Studies[1] since April 2018. He was previously the editorial director of the Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives at the Cato Institute. He was also managing editor of the Cato Journal. Clougherty previously served as executive director of the Adam Smith Institute, a free-market think tank based in London. Clougherty holds a B.A. in law from the University of Cambridge.[2][3]
Clougherty has appeared regularly on the television network CNBC to discuss economic issues relevant to the United Kingdom.[4]
Clougherty has also been research director at the Globalisation Institute, and is a senior fellow at The Cobden Centre, an Austrian economics think-tank. [5] Before joining Cato in February 2015, Clougherty was managing editor at Reason Foundation.
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Athletics at the 2022 Commonwealth Games – Men's 200 metres - Wikipedia |
The men's 200 metres at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, as part of the athletics programme, took place in the Alexander Stadium on 4th, 5th and 6th of August 2022.
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Games records were as follows:
The schedule was as follows:[1]
All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1)
First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 8 fastest (q) advance to the Semifinals.[2]
Wind:
Heat 1: +2.1 m/s, Heat 2: +0.2 m/s, Heat 3: +3.4 m/s, Heat 4: +2.7 m/s, Heat 5: +1.4 m/s, Heat 6: +0.1 m/s, Heat 7: +0.8 m/s , Heat 8: 0.0 m/s
First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) advance to the Final.[3]
Wind:
Heat 1: +2.1 m/s, Heat 2: +1.9 m/s, Heat 3: +0.1 m/s
The medals were determined in the final.[4]
Wind: +1.1m/s
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Contracting Officer's Technical Representative - Wikipedia | A Contracting Officer's Technical Representative (COTR) is a business communications liaison between the United States government and a private contractor. The COTR is normally a federal or state employee who is responsible for recommending actions and expenditures for both standard delivery orders and task orders, and those that fall outside of the normal business practices of its supporting contractors and sub-contractors. Most COTRs have experience in the technical area (e.g., electronics, chemistry, public health, etc.) that is critical to the success of translating government requirements into technical requirements that can be included in government acquisition documents for potential contractor to bid and execute that work. A COTR must be designated by a Contracting Officer (CO). The CO has the actual authority to enter into, administer, and/or terminate contracts and make related determinations and findings. Other terms for COTR include Contracting Officer's Representative (COR) and Project Officer (PO). The terminology may be agency specific.
The Contracting Officer's Technical Representative is responsible for monitoring the contractor's progress in fulfilling the technical requirements specified in the contract. Should the contractor fail to fulfill the contractual requirements, the COTR must inform the CO of such failure. The COTR maintains administration records, approves invoices and performs quarterly monitoring reports to confirm the contractor is meeting the terms and conditions under the contract.[1]
There are limits to the authority delegated to the COTR from the CO. The COTR is not authorized to make any commitments or obligations on behalf of the government, the CO is the only authorized authority that can commit or obligate on behalf of the government. The COTR may not grant the contractor permission to deviate from the requirements stated in the contract, nor direct the contractor to perform any work outside that stated in the contract, these actions can only be done by the CO.
On November 26, 2007 the Office of Management and Budget, issued a memorandum which established a standardized training program for Contracting Officer's Technical Representatives. The program was developed by the Federal Acquisition Institute in coordination with all executive agencies. The program applies to all Technical Representatives except those subject to Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act. All Technical Representatives appointed after November 26, 2007 must be certified no later than six months from their date of appointment. Technical Representatives who received their appointment before November 26, 2007 must ensure that training is obtained, and they are recertified no later than 12 months from the effective date of the memorandum
The COTR must have a minimum of 40 hours of training, including 22 hours of training in essential COTR competencies. The COTR competencies include project management, decision making, market research, problem solving and negotiations. The remaining 18 hours of training should include courses relating to the specific needs of the agency and program office. Once the COTR receives their certification they are required to earn 40 continuous learning points every two years thereafter.
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Phintella kaptega - Wikipedia |
Phintella kaptega is a species of jumping spider in the genus Phintella that lives in Kenya. The species is named after the area around the Kaptega river where it was first found. The spider was first described in 2016 by Angelika Dawidowicz and Wanda Wesołowska in 2016, and is distinguished by the large pockets in the female's epigyne. It is a small spider with a light brown carapace that has a dark line along its edge. The abdomen is between 1.95 and 2.2 mm (0.077 and 0.087 in) long and has light brown markings on a yellow background.
Phintella kaptega was first identified in 2016 by Angelika Dawidowicz and Wanda Wesołowska.[1] The species name is derived from the name of the area where it first found.[2] It is one of over 500 species identified by Wesołowska.[3] The genus Phintella was raised in 1906 by Embrik Strand and W. Bösenberg. The genus name derives from the genus Phintia, which it resembles.[4] The genus Phintia was itself renamed Phintodes, which was subsequently absorbed into Tylogonus.[5] There are similarities between spiders within genus Phintella and those in Chira, Chrysilla, Euophrys, Icius, Jotus and Telamonia.[6] Genetic analysis confirms that it is related to the genera Helvetia and Menemerus and is classified in the tribe Chrysillini.[7][8]
The spider was initially described by Angelika Dawidowicz and Wanda Wesołowska in 2016 based on the collection of the Swedish arachnologist Åke Holm.[9] The species is similar to Phintella aequipes but differs in the copulatory organs. The spider has a very light brown carapace which has a dark line along its edges. The clypeus is similarly dark. The abdomen is generally oval in shape and yellow with a pattern of brown markings. The female is slightly smaller and lighter than the male. The male's abdomen is 2.2 mm (0.087 in) long, while the female's is 1.95 mm (0.077 in) long. The cephalothorax is smaller, measuring between 1.5 and 1.7 mm (0.059 and 0.067 in) in length. The male has small, light brown pedipalps and a short spiky embolus. The female has very large pockets that occupy almost half of the epigyne, which is distinctive for the species.[2]
Phintella kaptega was first identified from examples discovered on the slopes of Mount Elgon in Kenya near the Kaptega River.[2]
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Wang Niansun - Wikipedia | Wang Niansun (Chinese: 王念孫; 1744–1832), courtesy name: Huaizu (懷祖) was a Chinese scholar of the Qing Dynasty.
A native of Gaoyou, Jiangsu, he worked as a government official specializing in channelization before retiring to devote himself to his studies. As an official, he is still remembered today for having the guts to impeach the corrupt high-ranked official Heshen.
A student of Dai Zhen, Wang is most famous for his commentary on the ancient thesaurus Guangya, Guangya shuzheng (廣雅疏證 "Guangya Annotations and Proofs"), which he spent a whole decade to complete. In his commentary he demonstrated his philological principle of "looking for the ancient meaning by considering the ancient sound ... not constrained by the structure of the character" (就古音以求古義......不限形體). Although he was not the first one to point out this principle, he was the first one to demonstrate it in an exemplary manner.
His Dushu zazhi (讀書雜誌 Miscellaneous Notes on the Classics) is also a philological treasure house, especially valuable for its textual criticism of ancient texts.
His son Wang Yinzhi (王引之) was also an important philologist. They are often referred together as "Father and Son Wang of Gaoyou" (高郵王氏父子).
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Dráusio - Wikipedia |
Dráusio Luis Salla Gil (born 21 August 1991) is a Brazilian footballer who plays centre back.
Throughout his career, Gil has proven his ability to use both feet equally well.
On the 2016-17 season, Draúsio play for Catania.[1]
On 22 August 2017, Draúsio signed three years contract with Marítimo.[2]
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Joseph August Knip - Wikipedia | Joseph August Knip (sometimes Latinized to Josephus Augustus Knip; baptized 3 August 1777 in Tilburg – buried 1 October 1847 in Berlicum) was a Dutch painter.
Son of decorative painter Nicolaas Frederik Knip, who was his first teacher, he moved with his family to 's-Hertogenbosch when he was eleven years old. In 1794, the French besieged and captured the town. At nineteen he became the family breadwinner after his father went blind. He was the first teacher of his younger sister Henriëtte Geertruida Knip.
In 1801, he established himself in Paris, where he accepted commissions for topographical paintings. He also became drawing master to Napoleon III of France. He spent nine years in Paris. At the end of 1809 he went to Rome, where he remained until 1812. He also travelled, making trips to Naples, the Sabine Hills, the Alban Hills, and the Campagna. Watercolors exist from these trips, from places ranging from Palestrina to Terni. In 1813, he returned to the Netherlands with his wife, the painter Pauline Rifer de Courcelles. He settled in 's-Hertogenbosch, where he worked as a painter. He later lived in Amsterdam and in Paris. He went blind in 1832, after which he was given a pension by William I of the Netherlands.
His daughter, of whom he was the first teacher, was Henriëtte Ronner-Knip, who was named after his sister.
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Long ciliary nerves - Wikipedia | The long ciliary nerves are 2-3[1] nerves that arise from the nasociliary nerve (itself a branch of the ophthalmic branch (CN V1) of the trigeminal nerve (CN V)). They enter the eyeball to provide sensory innervation to parts of the eye, and sympathetic visceral motor innervation to the dilator pupillae muscle.
The long ciliary nerves branch from the nasociliary nerve as it crosses the optic nerve (CN II).[1]
Accompanied by the short ciliary nerves, the long ciliary nerves pierce and enter[1] the posterior part of[citation needed] the sclera near where it is entered by the optic nerve, then run anterior-ward between the sclera and the choroid.[1]
The long ciliary nerves are distributed to the ciliary body, iris, and cornea.[1]
The long ciliary nerves provide sensory innervation to the eyeball, including the cornea.[citation needed]
The long ciliary nerves contain post-ganglionic sympathetic fibers from the superior cervical ganglion for the dilator pupillae muscle.[1] The sympathetic fibers to the dilator pupillae muscle mainly travel in the nasociliary nerve but there are also sympathetic fibers in the short ciliary nerves that pass through the ciliary ganglion without forming synapses.[citation needed]
Pathways in the Ciliary Ganglion.
This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 888 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)
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Ahmad Wais - Wikipedia | Ahmad Badreddin Wais (born 15 January 1991) is a Syrian cyclist and Olympian, who currently rides for French amateur team Hexagone–Corbas Lyon Métropole. He represents the refugee team at the Olympics. He rode in the time trial at the UCI Road World Championships in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020.[3][4][5]
Ahmad Badreddin Wais was born January 15, 1991, in Aleppo, Syria. He would begin cycling at age 14, and go onto to compete in the 2009 UCI Juniors World Championship. Wais would continue training through the Syrian Civil War his family leaving him as they fled to Turkey in 2013.[6] He would live alone in Damascus as a student until 2014, when he decided to leave the country as a refugee.[7][8]
In 2014 Wais would begin his journey as a refugee, traveling by car through Syria and Lebanon, ultimately taking a boat to Turkey to reunite with his family.[8] He would then travel by ship to Greece and eventually gain refugee status in Switzerland which he arrived in by plane.[7] Wais would not compete again until 2017, citing the physical and emotional toll of the ordeal; going so far as to put off training until 2015.[6] In 2016, he was a member of the Dutch Marco Polo team.[1]
He would become a prospective candidate for the 2016 Refugee Olympic Team.[6][9]
Wais has not returned to Syria since leaving, because he is classified as having evaded conscription by the Syrian Military.[6]
He did not attend the 2016 Olympics, however two female swimmers from Syria were selected for the very small refugee team. By 2020 his country was still in a state of civil war and this time he was named to the Olympic team, which took place in 2021 due to the worldwide pandemic. He rode in the individual time trial event.
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Joan Vila-Grau - Wikipedia | Joan Vila i Grau (14 August 1932 – 11 November 2022) was a Spanish painter and stained-glass artist.[1]
The son of artist Antoni Vila Arrufat, Vila-Grau studied at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona [es] from 1950 to 1955, although he eventually practiced painting. Interested in liturgical art, he specialized in stained glass for religious buildings, notably with the Sagrada Família in Barcelona. He created art alongside Joan Miró.[2]
Vila-Grau established himself as a theoretician, founding the magazine Qüestions d'Art. He also wrote works such as Els vitrallers de la Barcelona modernista, Descoberta de la taula de vitraller de Girona, El vitrall renaixentista, Le vitrail dans l'architecture de Gaudí.[2]
Vila-Grau was the director of the Instituto del Vitral in Barcelona, a member of the Reial Acadèmia Catalana de Belles Arts de Sant Jordi, and a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona [es].[2] In 2010, he received the Creu de Sant Jordi from the Generalitat de Catalunya.[2]
Joan Vila-Grau died in Barcelona on 11 November 2022, at the age of 90.[3]
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It's in the Water - Wikipedia | It's in the Water is a 1997 independent film. Written and directed by Kelli Herd, the film touches on themes of homosexuality, AIDS, coming out and small-town prejudice. The film stars Keri Jo Chapman, Teresa Garrett, Derrick Sanders, Timothy Vahle, Nancy Chartier and John Hallum.
Alex is a married Junior Leaguer with a penchant for interesting shoes. Her Junior League chapter's annual project is to volunteer at Hope House, an AIDS hospice that recently opened in her home town of Azalea Springs, Texas. Alex and her League friends, including her friend Sloan, tour Hope House. Alex runs into her best friend Spencer, whose lover Bruce is a resident, and Grace, a friend from high school who had recently moved back to Azalea Springs to work at Hope House as a nurse.
That night at the town's annual Azalea Ball, a drunken Spencer tells a society matron that his homosexuality was caused by drinking the local water. An equally drunken Sloan overhears and spreads the story. A panic ensues, with the local newspaper printing the story and commissioning testing of the water supply. Mark, the son of the publisher, objects to his father, but because Mark is himself struggling with his homosexuality and attending meetings of an ex-gay group at the local church, he's limited in what he can do to mitigate the story and the resultant damage. The leader of the ex-gay group, Brother Daniel, announces plans to protest for the closing of Hope House.
Alex and Grace renew their friendship and Grace comes out as a lesbian to her. Grace returned to Azalea Springs because her husband found out about an affair she was having with another woman and is now in prison for assaulting Grace.
At an ex-gay meeting, Mark meets Tomas, a painter. Mark hires Tomas to re-paint his dining room.
The Junior League decides not to continue volunteering at Hope House. Alex, who's resigned from the League, goes to work full-time at the hospice over her husband Robert's objections.
Alex develops some curiosity about her possible lesbianism and rents a number of classic lesbian-themed films: Desert Hearts; Lianna; Personal Best; Heavenly Creatures; Bar Girls; Claire of the Moon; The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love; an unnamed, presumably pornographic video; and, mixed in among them, The Godfather Part III, which serves as mainstream cover for the other selections and elicits a bemused look from the counter clerk, who has been loudly reading out the titles.
At Hope House, Alex gives in to her growing attraction to Grace and they kiss passionately in a supply room. Sloan catches them and spreads the story all over town. After Tomas paints Mark's dining room, they go out on a dinner date, where Mark learns that Tomas stumbled into the ex-gay meeting by mistake. After dinner they go to Tomas's studio and Tomas shows Mark his paintings. They make love. Reaction is immediate and hostile, with Alex suffering indignities great and small, everything from the breakup of her marriage to the closing of her credit account at the local fried pie shop.
Following this, Mark gains the courage to break up with the woman he's been dating as a "beard" and to come out to his father. He demands that his father drop the story on the water supply (testing proves that the water is completely ordinary) and stop the negative coverage of Hope House.
Mark and Tomas and Alex and Grace go out dancing at a big-city gay club, where they see Ray Ray, the son of Alex's family housekeeper, performing as a drag queen called Obsession. Ray Ray leads Mark and Tomas to a leather bar where they catch ex-gay leader Brother Daniel in full leather gear (Mark has a photo published in the paper to discredit Brother Daniel's anti-Hope House protests). Meanwhile, Alex and Grace go to a hotel room where they make love for the first time.
Back in Azalea Springs, Spencer's lover Bruce dies of AIDS-related complications. At his funeral, Alex's father comforts her and her mother, while still upset over Alex's lesbianism, shows that she still loves her daughter (by insulting her shoes, something she's done repeatedly through the film).
AfterEllen.com summed up with "the film is cheesy but enjoyable. There aren't many lesbian romantic comedies about middle and upper-middle-class women, and that combined with the two strong female leads, an interesting story, and good production quality make this film better than most independent lesbian films, and worth watching."[1]
It's In the Water was released on Region 1 DVD on May 9, 2000.
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2019 Grand Prix of Portland - Wikipedia | The 2019 Grand Prix of Portland was the 16th And penultimate round of the 2019 IndyCar Series season. The race was held on September 1 at Portland International Raceway, in Portland, Oregon. Colton Herta started on pole but, the race was won by Will Power with Felix Rosenqvist finishing second and Alexander Rossi third.[1]
All cars utilized Dallara chassis with the Universal Aero Kit 18, and Firestone Firehawk tires
Graham Rahal was given a time penalty to where instead of finishing behind car numbers 7, 5, and 26 whom were terminally disabled behind him, he finished behind those cars instead.[clarification needed]
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Henry Munro-Butler-Johnstone - Wikipedia |
Henry Alexander Munro-Butler-Johnstone (7 December 1837 – 17 October 1902) was a British author and Conservative Party politician.
Born as Henry Alexander Butler-Johnstone,[1] he was the son of Henry Butler-Johnstone (himself born Hon. Henry Butler), a younger son of the 13th Baron Dunboyne, by his wife Isabella Margaret Munro, daughter of Sir Alexander Munro.[2] His father took the surname Butler-Johnstone to honour an inheritance from his wife's uncle, and he himself took the additional surname Munro from his mother in 1874.[3]
He was educated at Eton and at Christ Church, Oxford,[2] graduating in 1861 with a first-class Bachelor of Arts degree in classics.[2] In 1862 he was elected Member of Parliament for Canterbury, a position he resigned in 1878. From 1868 he sat as an independent. He was also Deputy Lieutenant for Ross-shire, and in 1875 published the book The Eastern Question.[1]
He died in Paris on 17 October 1902.[3] In 1909 his body was cremated and his ashes transferred to England, where he was buried.
Munro-Butler-Johnstone married in 1877 Maria Irina Gabriella, Countess de Soyres, who died in 1880.[3] He remarried in December 1896 Mrs. Skipp Lloyd, widow of Joseph Skipp Lloyd, formerly Clerk of the Cheque and Adjutant of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms.[4]
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Ankenes - Wikipedia | Ankenes is a former municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The 2,028-square-kilometre (783 sq mi) municipality existed from 1884 until 1974. It encompassed most of the present-day Narvik Municipality, surrounding of the town of Narvik which was once its own municipality. The administrative centre of Ankenes was the village of Ankenesstrand, situated along the west side of the Beisfjorden, where the Ankenes Church is located.[3][4]
Today, the name Ankenes is often used to refer to the suburban Ankenesstrand area, just outside the town of Narvik. The European route E6 highway is the main thoroughfare through Ankenes and it follows the shoreline of the Ofotfjorden and Beisfjorden and it then crosses the fjord over the 375-metre (1,230 ft) long Beisfjord Bridge where it then reaches the town of Narvik.
The old municipality of Ofoten was established on 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt law). Ofoten Municipality included all of the land surrounding the inner part of the Ofotfjorden, including the Ankenes area. On 1 January 1884, Ofoten Municipality was dissolved and split into two municipalities: Ankenes (population: 1,734) and Evindnæs (population: 2,397). In 1901, the Narvik (population: 3,705) received town status as a kjøpstad. Soon after, on 1 January 1902, the new town of Narvik was separated from Ankenes to form a separate municipality. The split left Ankenes with a population of 3,023. On 1 January 1974, the municipality of Ankenes was merged with the town of Narvik to form a new, larger Narvik Municipality. Prior to the merger, Ankenes had 7,022 inhabitants and Narvik had 12,758.[5]
The municipality (originally the parish) is named after the old Ankenes farm since the first Ankenes Church was built there. The first element is derived from the diminutive form of the old male name Anki which is short for Arnkell. The last element is nes which means "headland".[6]
While it existed, this municipality was responsible for primary education (through 10th grade), outpatient health services, senior citizen services, unemployment, social services, zoning, economic development, and municipal roads. During its existence, this municipality was governed by a municipal council of elected representatives, which in turn elected a mayor.[7]
The municipal council (Kommunestyre) of Ankenes was made up of 25 representatives that were elected to four year terms. The party breakdown of the final municipal council was as follows:
The mayors of Ankenes:[17]
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Proxflyer - Wikipedia | Proxflyer refers to a family of micro R/C helicopter prototypes based on a dual coaxial counter-rotating rotor concept developed and patented by Norwegian Petter Muren. The concept differs from the swashplate designs in conventional helicopter flight controls and enables a helicopter to be passively stable in hover. Elimination of the conventional cyclic and collective pitch controls allows for simpler and lighter helicopters to be developed. A helicopter based on this design achieves stability without the use of gyroscopes or any form of active stabilization and thus is made up of much fewer parts than other model helicopters. The two counter-rotating rotors keep the helicopter very stable relative to the surrounding air. Altitude control is performed by varying the speed for both main rotors while Yaw control is achieved by increasing the speed of one rotor and reducing the speed of the other rotor by the same amount. A horizontally oriented tail rotor controls the helicopter’s forward or backward movement by shifting its center of lift with respect to the center of gravity (CG).
The Proxflyer co-axial rotor system utilize the combination of 3 features to achieve passive stability:
1. The typically 4-bladed rotor has a generally fixed geometry and it is tiltably connected to the rotor shaft enabling the rotor to tilt almost freely in any direction.
2. Furthermore, the outer parts of the rotor blades have a pitch angle that is fixed relative to the rotational plane of the rotor (the tips are fixed to a ring encircling the rotor).
3. Finally the inner part of the rotor blades have a pitch angle fixed relative to a reference plane perpendicular to the rotor shaft (to be able to do this the blades are flexible and can twist in the longitudinal direction).
This combination of features enables the rotor to respond to aerodynamic forces and tilt in any direction without introducing mechanical bending forces between the rotor and the rotor shaft. At the same time it is possible to control the rotor by tilting the rotor shaft (helicopter) in the desired direction of flight. The forward speed is however limited because the rotors have a high tendency to tilt up to counteract any horizontal movement. The rotors increased tilting tendency is an important part of achieving passive stability but it at the same time makes it almost impossible to use this rotor system in a helicopter flying in anything but calm weather. The Proxflyer rotor system is designed for indoor use only and it is claimed to be the rotor system that enables the most stable yet controllable indoor helicopters.
The main benefits are believed to be:
- Passively stable
- Simple electronics without any - Relative simple mechanics
- High efficiency
- Very low noise level
The main limitations are:
- Relative slow forward speed
- Not possible to operate in wind (outdoors)
The helicopters shown above are one-off prototypes built by Petter Muren. None of these helicopters are for sale, however, the Proxflyer rotor system is licensed to Interactive Toy Concepts.[1] The company’s R/C helicopters, which include Bladerunner and Micro Mosquito,[2] are all based on the Proxflyer rotor design. The Bladerunner is considered by some to be the first successful indoor R/C helicopter. Up until the beginning of 2007, the total number of toy helicopters produced using the Proxflyer rotor system is estimated to be about one million. Helicopters utilizing the Proxflyer rotor system are also used in some science projects around the world.[3] Petter Muren's designs were showcased as part of the 1st US-European MAV event in Garmisch Germany (MAV-05).[4][5][6]
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Alexandros Lolis - Wikipedia | Alexandros Lolis (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Λώλης; born 5 September 2002) is a Greek professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Super League club PAS Giannina.[1]
Lolis was part of PAS Giannina youth system before he signed a professional contract in summer 2019.[2] On 1 December 2019, Lolis made his professional debut for PAS Giannina against Platanias.[3] On 27 September 2020, Lolis made his debut in Super League Greece, against Aris at the Kleanthis Vikelidis Stadium in a 2-2 draw.[4]
Lolis represented Greece internationally at youth level, making his debut against Scotland.[5]
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Nosratabad, Hamadan - Wikipedia | Nosratabad (Persian: نصرت اباد, also Romanized as Noşratābād; also known as Ghal’eh Jowzan, Noşratābād-e Qūzān, Qal‘eh Qowzān, Qal‘eh Qūzān, and Qal‘eh-ye Qowzān)[1] is a village in Jowkar Rural District, Jowkar District, Malayer County, Hamadan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 89, in 21 families.[2]
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Colville (surname) - Wikipedia | Colville is a surname of Hiberno-Norman origin, that means somebody originating from one of the places called Colleville in Normandy, France. Notable people with the surname include:
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Girotti - Wikipedia | Girotti is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Jean-François Boyer - Wikipedia | Jean-François Boyer (12 March 1675 in Paris – 20 August 1755 in Versailles), was a French bishop, best known for having been a vehement opponent of Jansenism and the Philosophe school.
Boyer was a preacher, and the bishop of Mirepoix, Ariège from 1730 to 1736. In 1735 he was tutor to Louis, Dauphin of France, and in 1743 he was head chaplain to Maria Josepha of Saxony, Dauphine of France.
In 1736 Boyer was elected a member of the Académie française, in 1738 to the French Academy of Sciences, and in 1741 to the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres.
Boyer had several benefices by royal appointment. According to Evelyne Lever, the favorite royal biographer, during the Jubilee Year of 1750 Pope Benedict XIV Boyer tried unsuccessfully to break the relationship between the King and the Marquise de Pompadour.
Boyer promulgated the "Statements of Confession" that the faithful had to sign to show their compliance with Pope Clement XI's Unigenitus Bull, and to be entitled to receive the sacrament. This caused an outcry in Paris.
As bishop of the Ancient Diocese of Mirepoix Boyer also hounded the Philosophe school. In 1743, he plotted against Voltaire at the Académie française, when he ran for the seat vacated by Cardinal de Fleury.
In 1751, Boyer set the King's mind against the editors of the Encyclopédie and his machinations caused their articles to be monitored and censored. But he failed in his goal of suppressing the undertaking completely.
Voltaire, who also commented on other matters in which Boyer was involved, wrote: ...on est obligé d’avouer ici, avec toute la France, combien il est triste et honteux que cet homme si borné ait succédé aux Fénelon et aux Bossuet.[1] ...I am obliged to confess here, with all of France, how sad it is and shameful that such a narrow-minded man has succeeded Fénelon and Bossuet. But Boyer's eloquence was appreciated by some of his contemporaries, as Charles Le Beau recorded:
...il ne songe pas à charmer, mais à convertir ; au lieu de lui applaudir, on se condamne ; on l’oublie pour n’entendre que la voix de l’Évangile, dont il porte une forte teinture et dont il représente le naturel, le pathétique, l’insinuant, l’auguste et victorieuse simplicité[2]...he does not try to charm, but to convert, instead of applauding him, we should damn ourselves, in forgetting the word of the Gospel, with its natural, pathetic, and simple and august language. | 2023-09-03 05:55:16 |
Clifton Heights Historic District - Wikipedia |
The Clifton Heights Historic District is a 26-acre (11 ha) historic district in Natchez, Mississippi, USA, that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. It then included 41 contributing buildings.[1]
The neighborhood started as a subdivision, one of the first in Natchez, in 1888 by the Clifton Heights Improvement Corporation. Its historic buildings were built mostly during 1888–1910 in Queen Anne and Colonial Revival styles of architecture. It includes all three known Natchez examples of Shingle Style article, at 217 and 219 and 310 Linton Avenue, and also the only known Tudor architecture in Natchez. Other architecture also appears.[2]
The district was deemed significant as "the most architecturally and historically significant collection of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century residences in Natchez".[2]: 11
Clifton Heights Historic District is located on an elevation more than 200 feet above the Mississippi River. The district is split up from the river by steep bluffs, the jagged edges of which the historic district’s western boundary of the western side is formed, and by the low-lying lands underneath the bluffs from which the river bank is formed. The district emerged on the grounds of, and got its name from, Clifton, the early 19th-century suburban mansion that was demolished in 1863 at the time of the Union occupation of Natchez. Evolved as one of the earliest corporate subdivisions of the city in the late 19th century, the district boundaries follow the 1888 subdivision plat with the exception that the district excludes the northern side of Maple Street, formerly recognized as Cemetery Road, which stands east of Ridge Alley and Postlethwaite Alley. This area was developed after the adjoining streets to the west; while being developed, it did not maintain the character of the primary Clifton Heights development.
The Historic District illustrates the most architecturally and historically remarkable collection of late 19th and early 20th century houses in Natchez. The architectural magnitude is based on the high degree of architectural finish portrayed by many of the houses, on their individual architectural significance, and on the overall integrity of the locality. Situated inside the district boundaries, are the only Natchez examples of the Shingle and Tudor Styles as well as some of the town’s finest examples of Queen Anne and Colonial Revival architecture. Clifton Heights was one of the earliest corporate subdivisions of Natchez which was created in 1888 by the Clifton Heights Improvement Corporation. Partners Isaac Lowenburg and Henry Frank were remarkable Natchez merchants. They acquired the land from the Surget family, whose splendid mansion Clifton was demolished by the Union Army at the time of the Civil War occupation of the city. However, the Historic District got its initial historical importance from its connection to the Jewish community of Natchez.
Most of the houses were built for famous Natchez Jewish families—the elegance of the residences shows the town’s Jewish citizens’ prosperity and prominence in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Less affected economically by the Civil War than the Natchez planters, the Jewish citizens, who in the first place were engaged in the mercantile business, blossomed after the war to such an extent that they played leading roles in the cultural, social, economic, and political life of Natchez in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The flourishing Jewish community, which currently has dwindled to a small number of families failing to assist the services of a rabbi, was responsible for the construction of most of the magnificent post-Civil War commercial and residential establishments of Natchez.
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David Roche (footballer) - Wikipedia |
David Roche (born 13 December 1970) is an English former professional footballer who played for Newcastle United, Peterborough United, Doncaster Rovers and Southend United in the English football league in the 1990s. Roche played 41 times for Newcastle United, during which time he was loaned to Peterborough where he played 4 games. Then manager Kevin Keegan sold him to Doncaster Rovers for £85,000. In his midfield role he scored 8 goals in 53 appearances for Rovers before being sold to Southend in 1994 for £55,000 where he made just 4 substitute appearances before disappearing.[1]
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Rhodesia and Nyasaland at the 1960 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia |
Rhodesia competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy. It was the first time in 32 years that the nation was represented at the Olympic Games. Fourteen athletes—Southern Rhodesians and one Northern Rhodesian, boxer Abe Bekker—competed under the name Rhodesia while representing the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (1953–1963).[1]
One shooter represented Rhodesia in 1960.
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Laini Saba - Wikipedia | Laini Saba is a slum of Nairobi, the capital of Kenya.[1] It belongs to the major slum of Kibera.[2] As for Lindi, another village within Kibera, its population is estimated at 100,000.[3] Soweto East is another village belonging to Kibera.[4] The price of water there clearly is above Nairobi average.
[5] A Laini Saba Primary School exists.
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The Rendez-Vous of Déjà-Vu - Wikipedia | The Rendez-Vous of Déjà-Vu (original title: La Fille du 14 juillet) is a 2013 French comedy film directed by Antonin Peretjatko.
Hector tries to seduce during a short summer Truquette, since the government decided to reduce the vacation to one month due to the economic crisis.
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Zakaria Hashemi - Wikipedia | Zakaria Hashemi (Persian: زکریا هاشمی; born in 1936 in Rey, Tehran Province, Iran) is an Iranian actor and film director.
Hashemi spent his childhood in southern Tehran.[1]
He has acted in several films including The Night of the Hunchback, The Brick and the Mirror. He also directed some films, like The Gamble. In the film The Brick and the Mirror (dir. Ebrahim Golestan), Hashemi plays a taxi driver named Hashem who finds a baby in the back of his cab, left by a woman in a black chador (Forough Farrokhzad).[2]
As actor:
As director:
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Austin Murphy (hurler) - Wikipedia |
Austin Murphy (born 1985) is an Irish former hurler. At club level he played with Clara and was also a member of the Kilkenny senior hurling team.[1] He usually lined out at midfield or as a forward.
Murphy first came to prominence at juvenile and underage levels with the Clara club before eventually joining the club's top adult team. After being part of the club's All-Ireland Club Championship-winning team at intermediate level in 2013, he went on to win County Senior Championship titles in 2013 and 2015.[2][3][4] Murphy first appeared on the inter-county scene as part of the Kilkenny team that won the All-Ireland Minor Championship title in 2003, before later winning an All-Ireland Under-21 Championship title in 2006.[5][6] He was still a member of the under-21 team when he was simultaneously included on the Kilkenny intermediate and senior teams. Murphy was a non-playing substitute when Kilkenny beat Cork in the 2006 All-Ireland final.[7]
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vile (text editor) - Wikipedia | vile is a text editor that combines aspects of the Emacs and vi editors. These editors are traditionally located on opposing sides of the editor wars, as users of either tend to have strong sentiments against the editor they do not use. vile attempts to reconcile these positions.
vile is an acronym which stands for "VI Like Emacs".
vile 9.6 is featured in Chapter 18 of the O'Reilly book "Learning the vi and Vim Editors".[1]
An older version (vile 8.0) was presented in Chapter 12 of the O'Reilly book "Learning the vi Editor".[2]
The program is also known as xvile[3] for the X Window System, and as winvile for Microsoft Windows.
vile was created and originally maintained by Paul Fox. In 1996, maintenance was taken over by Thomas Dickey,[4] who had provided many major contributions to the codebase over the preceding years.
Historically, vile's documentation has focused on differences from vi. This is in contrast to the other common vi-clones (elvis, nvi and vim), which have combined their respective extensions with the original vi documentation.
vile's documentation is three parts:
vile is built from a combination of hand-crafted code and tables processed by a special-purpose program. The predefined information from the tables can be rendered in various ways, including showing the available commands, providing name-completion, etc. In other flavors of vi, the analogous tables are not distinct from the hand-crafted code.
In other vi flavors, the information shown is static, requiring interaction from the user to make it update. In vile, however, this information is dynamic—it updates these special windows as changes are made to the features they render, e.g., the list of all buffers in memory, the mode-settings corresponding to the buffer which has focus, etc.
While many of vile's features are now found in other vi-compatible editors, some of the most powerful were implemented before widespread adoption in the others.
For example, multiple windows were early features in vile (and xvi) from the start. The same applies to reading from pipes, complex fences. Some of this is brought out in the O'Reilly book, though no careful study has been made of the way in which features are adopted and adapted across the vi and emacs variants.
vile supports command completion for several elements of a command: the command name, filename, directory name, and mode values.
Both vi and emacs have modes, which are settings which affect the behavior of the program. vile extends the vi modes such as list, number, etc., by providing three levels of mode: global, buffer and window. The buffer modes are associated with the buffer contents, e.g., line-terminators, read-only attributes. All of those modes are predefined. vile can be customized by defining majormodes, which combine specific settings of the buffer modes with an association to the file type. These majormodes have as well special modes such as the association with a specific syntax filter.
vile performs syntax highlighting by running a syntax filter program which parses the buffer contents. Initially this was a separate program. However, to improve performance and avoid display problems, these syntax filters usually are compiled into the editor. Most of the syntax filters are implemented with lex (preferably flex), with the remainder in C to address irregular grammars such as Perl and Ruby. All of the syntax filters follow the same design:
vile paints the markup information on top of the buffer contents using in regions delimited by line and column numbers. The markup is not attached to the underlying buffer contents. To update the markup as the buffer is changed requires reanalysis. This is done automatically when the user pauses.
vile has been under continuous development since 1990.[5]
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Chrysoblephus laticeps - Wikipedia |
Chrysoblephus laticeps ('golden-eyed broad head'), also known as the red roman or roman seabream, is a species of sea bream from southern Africa, ranging from Namibia to the Eastern Cape. There are also old records from Madagascar and Mauritius, but the validity of these is doubtful.[1] This demersal fish grows to a maximum length of 50 centimetres (20 in) and a recorded mass of 4.2 kilograms (9.3 lb).[3] It is a slow-growing species showing late sexual maturity, and is closely related to the Red Stumpnose. It is found above rocky bottoms and reefs, in water up to 100 metres (330 ft) in depth and is often caught from the beach by anglers. Juveniles mature in seaweed beds and feed on mollusks, crustaceans, worms and fish. Adults are benthic feeders, living on crustaceans, sea urchins and polychaete worms.[3]
Mature females transform into territorial males upon further growth (see Protogyny).[4] The species forms pairs before an elaborate courtship ritual and spawning, the eggs being released well above the seafloor.[5]
The Red Roman is of robust build, orange to red in colour, showing a striking white saddle and white bar over the gill cover, with a horizontal blue line linking the eyes. Its canines are prominent and it has several rows of molars in both upper and lower jaws.
South African research shows that individuals occupy a territory ranging of 1,000–3,000 square metres (11,000–32,000 sq ft), and that the extent is independent of fish size or habitat quality. These small home ranges suggest that dispersal of the species is mainly by planktonic larvae. Activity is markedly reduced during the night, and when cold-water upwelling occur, fish seek the shelter of caves. Over the spawning period, females wander beyond their normal home boundaries.[6]
This species is sought after by line fishers, operating from the shore or from boats within the inshore zone. Linefishing is the least destructive fishing method, having little impact when carried out with rod and reel or a handline. Other methods, such as spearfishing, lead to overfishing and a population decline in areas such as Port Elizabeth and False Bay. Its slow growth renders the species particularly vulnerable. There is evidence of some recovery of numbers within Marine Protected Areas.[7]
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Olango Island Group - Wikipedia |
The Olango Island Group is a group of islands found in the Central Visayas region of the Philippines. It comprises Olango island and 6 satellite islets namely: Caubian, Camungi, Caohagan, Gilutongan, Nalusuan, Pangan-an, and Sulpa. The island group has a total land area of approximately 1,030 hectares (2,500 acres). It is divided under the jurisdiction of the city of Lapu-Lapu and the municipality of Cordova, Cebu. It lies 5 kilometers (3.1 mi) east of Mactan and is a major tourist destination in Cebu.[4] It is known for its wildlife sanctuary. The entire area is the first declared Ramsar Wetland Site in the Philippines, as recognized in 1994.
The Olango Group of islands consists of seven islands. Located 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) east of Mactan Island, Olango Island and its satellite islets lies between the Cebu Strait to the south and the Camotes Sea to the north. To the west is the Hilutangan Channel (which separates it from Mactan Island) while to the east is the Olango Channel (which separates it from Bohol).[5]
Olango Islands has a total land area of approximately 1,030 hectares (2,500 acres).[1] The reef flat-lagoon surrounding the island of Olango is considered one of the most extensive reef areas in the Central Visayas.[1] A total of 4,482 hectares (11,080 acres) of extensive sandy beach, rocky shoreline, inshore flats, seagrass beds, coral reefs, mangrove forest, mudflats, and salt marsh grass surround Olango and its satellite islets.[1]
The Olango group of islands is an island group composed of the island of Olango and six satellite islets. The six neighboring islets are Sulpa, Gilutongan (also spelled Hilutangan), Nalusuan, Caohagan, Pangan-an, and Camungi. These are bound by continuous fringing reefs (steep reef wall on the west and sloping reef at the east coast of Olango) and reef flats. The islands are low-lying with elevation reaching no more than 10 metres (33 ft) above sea level.[1] At the center of these islands is a vast tidal flat, which includes the 920-hectare (2,300-acre) area of the Olango Island Wildlife Sanctuary.
Olango Islands are raised coral reefs. Like most of Cebu province,[6] the lithology of the island consists of two unit types: As a consequence of the geology, water supplies are hard.
The climate is typically equatorial – temperature range over the year is less than three degrees Celsius change (5.4 °F), and annual rainfall exceeds 1,500 millimetres (59 in). January to April inclusive are less wet than the other months. This supports at least two rice crops per year. The climate in Cordova falls within Coronas climate type III, characterised by not very pronounced maximum rainfall with a short dry season from one to three months and a wet season of nine to ten months. The dry season starts in February and lasts through April sometimes extending to mid‑May.
Olango has a tropical climate, which is typical to the Central Visayas. Most months of the year are marked by significant rainfall. The short dry season has little impact. This location is classified as Am (Tropical monsoon climate) by Köppen–Geiger climate classification system.
The area is relatively hot and humid, with a mean daily temperature range of 23.2 to 33.1 °C (73.8 to 91.6 °F). Daily mean relative humidity ranges from 60 to 94 percent. The annual rainfall averages about 1,562 mm (61.5 in) at Mactan–Cebu International Airport and 1,440 mm (56.7 in) in brgy Maribago, which is located along the eastern coastline of Mactan Island.[1]
Although, the Philippine archipelago lies within the typhoon belt, the island of Olango is shielded from typhoons by the islands of Mactan and Bohol.
Olango and its satellite islets are under the jurisdiction of 2 local government units, the city of Lapu-Lapu and the municipality of Cordova:
Olango and its satellite islets had a total population of 21,928, composed of 4,382 households in 1995.[8] The average population density of Olango is 34.2 inhabitants per hectare (13.8/acre) individuals, with Gilutongan Island having the highest density of all the barangays at 96.8 individuals per hectare.[9] In the 2010 census, the total population reached 30,996 people.[2]
Elementary schools are found in all barangays and 4 high schools operating in 4 barangays. At present, there are no college or vocational courses being offered in the island.[9]
The traditional occupations of Olango residents are fishing[10] and coastal-related activities such as shellcraft,[10] aquarium fish collection, boat operations, and seaweed farming. Other sources of income include rainfed farming, personnel services, livestock raising, small enterprise (sari-sari store) and, recently, various types of employment from tourism activities.[9]
Olango Island is a diverse coastal ecosystem consisting of extensive coralline sandflats, mangroves, seagrass beds, and offshore coral reefs. The island's mangroves are most extensive in the Cebu province, and its offshore corals are home to scores of various marine species. The island is virtually flat, and it is surrounded by warm seas and partly sheltered from monsoons and strong trade winds.[11]
Olango Island, situated off Mactan Island in Cebu, is one of the seven best-known flyways in the world for migrating birds. Its main attraction is its 920-hectare Olango Island Wildlife Sanctuary,[12] a haven for migratory birds from Siberia, Northern China, and Japan. These birds flock to the island seeking refuge from the winter climate of other countries.[13] The sanctuary supports the largest concentration of migratory birds found so far in the Philippines. There are 97 species of birds in Olango, 48 of which are migratory species, while the rest are resident birds of the island.[14]
The birds use Olango as a major refueling station as well as a wintering ground. The birds stop by the island on their southward journey to Australia and New Zealand and on their journey back to their nesting grounds. Among the frequent guests are Chinese egrets, Asiatic dowitchers, eastern curlews, plovers, sandpipers,[15] black-tailed godwit and red knot.[14] It is best to visit Olango around the months of July to November just in time for winter in the Northern Hemisphere.
Then President Corazon Aquino declared the 1,020 hectares tidal flats in Olango a protected area under Proclamation No. 903[12] on May 14, 1992.[12] It was included on the Ramsar List of Wetlands of International Importance on July 1, 1994.[12] It is the Philippines' first wetland of international importance for waterfowl.[14]
Eastern curlews Numenius madagascariensis
Little terns Sternula albifrons
Chinese egrets Egretta eulophotes
Asiatic dowitchers Limnodromus semipalmatus
The island of Olango is also known for its dive sites.[11] Tourists can dive in three[16] different sites around the island.
Situated in the northern tip of the island is Mabini Point. Descending to around 35m at the drop-off, one can watch sharks, including hammerheads and the occasional whale shark.[17] Currents around the site are strong and unpredictable.[16]
Olango Island has one of the deepest wall dives around.[11] Baring is along the North-Western side of the island and the wall starts at 60 ft/20m and ends down to about 220 ft/73m before disappearing on a gradual slope. Grey reef sharks, tuna, barracuda, snappers and jacks can be found around the area.[16]
Slightly further south is Santa Rosa. The dive starts with a sandy bottom covered in soft corals, leading to a drop-off at 15m, descending to 50m. There is a good variety of reef fish in the shallows here, while further down are fusiliers, catfish, jacks, snappers and sweetlips, among others.[16]
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58th Air Transport Squadron - Wikipedia |
The 58th Air Transport Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last active at McGuire Air Force Base in July 1960, where it was assigned to the 1611th Air Transport Group.
The squadron was first active during World War II as a ferrying unit on the North Atlantic Ferry Route. It was activated again in the 1950s when Military Air Transport Service replaced its Table of Distribution air transport squadrons with Table of Organization and Equipment units.
The squadron was first activated at Houlton Army Air Field, Maine in September 1942 as the 58th Air Corps Ferrying Squadron. It moved to Iceland, then Canada, where it supported the North Atlantic Ferry Route for Air Transport Command. It was replaced by Station 9, North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command in a general reorganization of Air Transport Command units in the fall of 1943.
The squadron was redesignated as the 58th Air Transport Squadron and activated at Kelly Air Force Base in July 1952, when it assumed the mission of 1286th Air Transport Squadron[1] The 1286th had been organized at Kelly only four months earlier, on 7 March 1952,[2] when Military Air Transport Service moved the Douglas C-124 Globemaster II aircraft stationed at Kelly to McChord Air Force Base, replacing them with Douglas C-54 Skymasters from McChord.[3] It remained non-operational until May, when it received its first aircraft.[4][note 1] In June 1955, the squadron moved to McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey and was reassigned.[5] In 1958, the squadron airlifted the Bob Hope and Tex Ritter United Service Organizations shows to Europe to perform for troops stationed there.[6]
This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency.
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Aisha Falode - Wikipedia | Aisha Falode is a sports journalist in Nigeria. She is also the President of Nigeria Women Football League (NWFL).[1][2]
Afterwards when Raymond Dokpesi was planning his own broadcasting station now known as the African Independent Television (AIT) that she became involved. This later led her to acquire a graduate degree in Mass Communications. Prior this she also worked briefly with NITEL (Nigerian Telecommunication Limited) and again with the Graduate Telephone Operators Scheme of the then NITEL.[3][4][5]
Her success story as a sports journalist stems from her involvement in both sports and radio broadcasting.[6]
In January 2017, she was inaugurated by Nigeria Football Federation as the head of Nigeria Women Football League, the body that organizes Aiteo Cup and Nigeria Women Premier League.[7]
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Cavorting - Wikipedia | "Cavorting" is the first single by the Manchester indie rock band the Courteeners. The single was released in the United Kingdom on 6 August 2007 as both a CD single[1] and a 7-inch vinyl.[2] It was the lead single from the band's first album, St. Jude.
"Cavorting" was met with local success on its release on 6 August 2007, debuting on the UK chart at number 192.[3] It was NME's Single of The Week.[4]
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.
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Gavin Trippe - Wikipedia |
Gavin Trippe (1940 – 2 July 2018) was a motorcycle racing promoter, journalist, and publisher who was inducted to the Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 2005.[1][2] He died following an automobile accident in California.[3]
Trippe was a motorcycling journalist in the UK until he founded a motorcycling magazine, Motor Cycle Weekly, in the United States in 1969.[1] In the early 1970s he brought European style motocross racing to the US by founding the Carlsbad USGP.[4][5][6] Trippe was also the creator of supermoto racing, which attracted a large US television audience from 1979–1985, and had a resurgence, first in Europe and then beyond, since the early 2000s.[1][7][8] Since 2007 Trippe worked to create a single cylinder racing class with low barriers to entry for amateur racers and young riders.[9]
After working for the British publication Motor Cycle News, he co-founded, with Bruce Cox, Motor Cycle Weekly in America in 1969. Motor Cycle Weekly ceased publication in 1975.[1] He wrote "The Spoken Wheel" column for the online publication Motorcycle USA.[10]
Trippe started the Carlsbad United States Grand Prix in 1973, and invented supermoto in 1979. Trippe also helped create the AMA Superbike Championship in 1976. Other events Trippe promoted included the Trans-AMA motocross series, the Trans-Atlantic Match Races, and Ascot half-mile dirt track racing.[4] In 2007 he proposed a new American single cylinder class based on the success of European supermono.[2]
Trippe introduced European-style 500 cc motocross racing to the US in the early 1970s,[4][11] creating an event at Carlsbad, California which grew into a major international venue. The 1971 motocross race at Carlsbad Raceway attracted 21,000 spectators and 15 million television viewers.[5] In 1973, his company, Trippe-Cox Associates, secured the sponsorship of leisure apparel maker Hang Ten International,[5] and the event became the Hang Ten Carlsbad United States Grand Prix (USGP), run under the auspices of the American Motorcyclist Association (AMA), and sanctioned as a Grand Prix event by the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM).[6] It was the 7th round of the 1973 Trans-AMA, the only US event at the time to pay points in the FIM World 500 cc Championship.[5] For the race, Trippe-Cox Associates made improvements to the Carlsbad facility, including new water sprinklers, fencing, spectator bridges and billboards.[5] The series proved commercially successful, with a significant television audience.[12] For second year of the event, 1974, the course was lengthened by ¼ mile, to 1+1⁄2 miles (2.4 km), with the new section having a left turning uphill corner followed by a sharp right turn into a ravine.[13] The 1974 purse grew to US$30,000, and 60 riders from 13 countries competed in the race, by then the eighth stop on the race circuit earning points to the 500 cc championship.[13]
Carlsbad was the oldest venue of the US motocross season's main events[6] until the last USGP there in 1986.[14] Motocross popularity declined in the 90s, and by 1995 there was no motocross Grand Prix in the US,[15] until the FIM championship returned in 2010.[16] In 1984 Trippe began to worry that development was encroaching on Carlsbad Raceway, and that the site would be sold when his lease expired.[17]
Trippe was the inventor and early promoter of supermoto, which combines on a single course three genres of motorcycle racing: the hard-packed, flat dirt of track racing, the uneven obstacles and jumps of motocross, and the high speed straights and turns of paved road racing. The original purpose was to find out who was the best overall motorcycle racer from the three disciplines.[18] Trippe built first course at Carlsbad Raceway.[18] The machines are motocross-style motorcycles, but with smoother, road race style tires, though in the beginning 750 cc Harley-Davidson flat trackers competed as well.[18]
The seed of the idea for Superbikers began was when reporter Bob Iger asked Trippe[1] at a motocross event why Kenny Roberts wasn't competing, and Trippe replied, puzzled, "Because he is a road racer."[18] Trippe began thinking that, "The huge mass doesn't know the difference between dirt track, motocross and road racing." The ten best riders from each discipline, motocross, dirt track and road racing, would be race together because, "All these riders know one another and respect one another, but they never race one another. This is a way we can pitch them all in together. We've tried to lay out a course where all branches will be competitive," said Trippe.[18] Motocross riders won five of the first six Superbikers championships, promoting Trippe to consider changing the course to have less off-road and more paved stretches to give the track and the road riders a better shot.[18]
He trademarked it as "Superbikers" and was one of the original promoters of the Superbikers segment on ABC's Wide World of Sports from 1979–1985.[7] Besides combining road racing with dirt racing, Superbikers brought together top riders from different specialties, like an all-star game.[1][19] After the end of Superbikers television run, supermoto declined in the US but grew in Europe,[1][20] until 2003 when AMA Pro Racing began a supermoto championship.[21]
Trippe proposed the creation of a new US single cylinder road racing class based on repurposed 450 cc (27 cu in) motocross bikes. It was to be called "Super Single" but later the proposed name was changed to Formula 450, or F450. Trippe had been lobbying for the creation of a Formula 450 class because it would be more affordable to rookie and under-21-year-old riders, compared to 600 cc supersport sport bike racing.[9] He said, "Formula 450 is a great way to encourage young riders. It's back-to-basics racing, emphasizing riding skill over horsepower, and you don't need a six-figure sponsorship just to make the grid."[9] One reviewer described the machines as, "a single cylinder 450 cc dirt bike that's been converted into an entry-level road racer. The frame, subframe, swing arm, motor and transmission are all stock, but the wheels, tires, suspension and bodywork have all been modified for on-track use and general skulduggery."[22]
After a few years of development and testing, Formula 450s became motocross bikes which had been converted to road racing by installing 17-inch wheels, larger front brakes, clip on handlebars and aerodynamic fairings.[9] Replacing the forks with parts from supersport sport bikes was unsuccessful because the forks were too short, leading to too little trail.[9] Instead the stock motocross front and rear suspension components were kept, but reconfigured.[9] According to Trippe, the cost of preparing such a bike was under US$10,000 and tires last three race weekends, longer than a 600 cc class supersport.[9]
For the 2009 season, the United States Grand Prix Racers Union (USGPRU) club-level racing organisation added a Formula 450 class on a trial basis to five of their rounds, to test the prototype motorcycles and gauge interest in adding the class.[23][24][25] The USGPRU also published a detailed technical account of how to build Formula 450 racer from a donor motocross bike.[26] Formula 450 was not run in 2010 or scheduled for 2011.[27]
Inspired by Trippe's development and promotion of this idea, the AMA announced in July 2009 there would be a single cylinder series to be called Formula 450, but as a spec series, with identical bikes built, owned, and maintained by single manufacturer provided to all riders, rather than bikes adapted by riders from motocross bikes.[28] Two months later, AMA Pro Road Racing announced that the new class would be called GT3, an expansion of the SunTrust Moto-GT.[29][30]
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Sheikh Rehana - Wikipedia |
Sheikh Rehana Siddiq (born 13 September 1955) is a Bangladesh Awami League politician.[3] She is the younger sister of the current Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and the daughter of the first President of Bangladesh Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.[4][5] She is also the mother of Tulip Siddiq, a British Labour Party politician and elected Member of Parliament (MP) for the Hampstead and Kilburn constituency.
Rehana was born to Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the first president of Bangladesh, and Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib. She was placed under house arrest in Dhanmondi along with her family by the Pakistan Army during Bangladesh Liberation War.[6] She was in West Germany[7][8] with her elder sister Sheikh Hasina when her family was assassinated in a military coup by the Bangladesh Army.[9][10]
Rehena was allocated a government house in Dhanmondi for "Token" 100 taka in 2001 by the government of Bangladesh. The building was used to house her personal staff. The allocation was cancelled when Bangladesh Nationalist Party came to power. In 2014 she was allocated a house in Gulshan after Awami League came to power for a token price of 1001 taka.[11] In 2015 she and her children were given lifelong protection by the government of Bangladesh through the Special Security Forces. The government also announced free utility for life for her and her family.[12] She was made councilor of Awami League Dhaka South unit in 2016.[13]
Rehana is married to Shafique Ahmed Siddique, retired professor of Department of Accounting & Information Systems, Faculty of Business Studies (FBS), University of Dhaka.[14] Her son, Radwan Mujib Siddiq Bobby, is a councilor of Bangladesh Awami League.[15] Her daughter, Tulip Siddiq, is a Member of Parliament for the Labour Party in the United Kingdom House of Commons for the Hampstead and Kilburn constituency, her other daughter is Azmina Siddiq.[16]
Rehana often accompanies Sheikh Hasina on her official trips including the state funeral of Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom in 2022 and Coronation of Charles III and Camilla in 2023.[17]
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B4-mount - Wikipedia | The B4 lens mount was standardized in 1992 by the Broadcasting Technology Association (BTA) and is defined in BTA S-1005.[1] This standard defines the physical mount, but also optical properties and some electrical connections. The B4 mount defines the sensor to have a diagonal size of 11 mm (a so-called 2/3" size sensor). The B4-mount is used by practically all 2/3" broadcast lenses and cameras (as of 2019).
Although the standard was set in 1992, the B4 mount already existed before 1980. The Sony BVP-300, produced from 1978, was possibly the first camera with a B4 mount. Further, all Sony Betacam cameras had a B4 mount.[2]
The BTA was formed by Japanese broadcaster NHK and included members from Canon, Fuji, Hitachi, Ikegami, JVC, Matsushita (Panasonic), Nikon, Sony and Toshiba. It was formed in the mid-1980s and set various standards for television. It is now part of ARIB, Association of Radio Industries and Businesses.[3][4]
The flange of the mount defines the positioning of the lens relative to the image sensor. A ring is present around the opening on the camera which, when rotated, tightly locks the flange of the lens against the camera. A pin on the top side of the lens flange and a hole in the camera mount make sure the lens cannot be mounted at an angle.[5]
The B4-mount has its image projected at 48 mm behind the lens mount flange (in air). The standard defines that a prism splits the light to form separate images planes for the colours red, green and blue. A correction for chromatic aberration is also part of the standard: the red sensor should be 10 μm further, and the blue one 5 μm further than 48 mm. This fitted well with established TV-camera technology using 3 tubes, and also with 3CCD, a technology in development at the time of the definition of the standard.[6]
The standard defines that the diagonal size of the projected image should be 11 mm, but does not define a resolution to be used. In the past standard definition was captured at 4:3 aspect ratio. Nowadays, cameras with the same mount capture HD with 16:9 aspect ratio, or even 4K video, thanks to improved lenses.[7]
The lens mount is accompanied by a connector for the electrical connections. It powers the lens motors, controls the iris and allows a few buttons on the lens handle to control camera functions. The connectors are made by Hirose. On the camera is a HR10-10R-12S receptacle, and on the lens a cable with a HR10-10P-12P plug.[8]
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Nina Springle - Wikipedia |
Nina Meredith Springle (born 6 March 1973) is an Australian politician. She was a Greens member of the Victorian Legislative Council, having represented South Eastern Metropolitan Region from 2014 to 2018.[1][2]
In 2014 Springle became the first Greens MP to represent the South Eastern Metropolitan Region in Victoria's Parliament. Springle has worked as a consultant in the community and education sectors.
During her term of office, Springle was the Victorian Greens spokesperson for Families and Children, Multicultural Affairs, Women, Health, Youth Justice, Prevention of Family Violence, Older People, Employment, Industrial Relations, Industry & Trade, Small Business, Digital Rights and Waste Management.
Nina Springle initiated the "Plastic Free Sea" campaign, which aims to stop marine plastic pollution in Victoria, and has worked on developing a container deposit scheme to reduce plastic and metal litter.
Springle was appointed the first Deputy Leader of the Victorian Greens on 12 October 2017, a role she retained until losing her seat at the 2018 state election.[3] She resigned from the party after the election, citing dissatisfaction with the "party establishment" and its response to the loss of seats.[4]
On 9 November 2022, Springle announced that she had joined the Reason Party, and would be contesting the North-Eastern Metropolitan Region in the Legislative Council at the 2022 state election.[5]
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SC-FDE - Wikipedia | Single-Carrier Frequency Domain Equalization (SC-FDE) is a single-carrier (SC) modulation combined with frequency-domain equalization (FDE). It is an alternative approach to inter symbol interference (ISI) mitigation.[1][2]
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Scott Ferson (professor) - Wikipedia |
Scott David Ferson is Chair of Uncertainty in Engineering at University of Liverpool, Professor in its School of Engineering, and director of the Institute for Risk and Uncertainty there. Before joining the University of Liverpool, Ferson taught as an adjunct professor at Stony Brook University and did research at Applied Biomathematics, a small think tank on Long Island, New York.[1] He is a Fellow of the Society for Risk Analysis and a recipient of its Distinguished Educator Award in 2017.[2][3] From Shelbyville, Indiana, Ferson received a Ph.D. from Stony Brook University and an A.B. from Wabash College.[1]
Ferson is author or editor of several books and an author of over 100 other scholarly publications, mostly in methods for analyzing risks and uncertainty for environmental and engineering problems.[4] He developed the notion of the probability box and probability bounds analysis, a technique for distribution-free risk analysis or sensitivity analysis for probabilistic assessments. He authored a series of reports[5] that have been influential in uncertainty quantification for engineering risk assessment and design problems.
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Halley's method - Wikipedia |
In numerical analysis, Halley's method is a root-finding algorithm used for functions of one real variable with a continuous second derivative. It is named after its inventor Edmond Halley.
The algorithm is second in the class of Householder's methods, after Newton's method. Like the latter, it iteratively produces a sequence of approximations to the root; their rate of convergence to the root is cubic. Multidimensional versions of this method exist.
Halley's method exactly finds the roots of a linear-over-linear Padé approximation to the function, in contrast to Newton's method or the Secant method which approximate the function linearly, or Muller's method which approximates the function quadratically.[1]
Edmond Halley was an English mathematician who introduced the method now called by his name. Halley's method is a numerical algorithm for solving the nonlinear equation f(x) = 0. In this case, the function f has to be a function of one real variable. The method consists of a sequence of iterations:
beginning with an initial guess x0.[2]
If f is a three times continuously differentiable function and a is a zero of f but not of its derivative, then, in a neighborhood of a, the iterates xn satisfy:
This means that the iterates converge to the zero if the initial guess is sufficiently close, and that the convergence is cubic.[3]
The following alternative formulation shows the similarity between Halley's method and Newton's method. The expression
f
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{\displaystyle f(x_{n})/f'(x_{n})}
is computed only once, and it is particularly useful when
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{\displaystyle f''(x_{n})/f'(x_{n})}
can be simplified:
When the second derivative is very close to zero, the Halley's method iteration is almost the same as the Newton's method iteration.
Consider the function
Any root of f which is not a root of its derivative is a root of g; and any root r of g must be a root of f provided the derivative of f at r is not infinite. Applying Newton's method to g gives
with
and the result follows. Notice that if f′ (c) = 0, then one cannot apply this at c because g(c) would be undefined.
Suppose a is a root of f but not of its derivative. And suppose that the third derivative of f exists and is continuous in a neighborhood of a and xn is in that neighborhood. Then Taylor's theorem implies:
and also
where ξ and η are numbers lying between a and xn. Multiply the first equation by
2
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{\displaystyle 2f'(x_{n})}
and subtract from it the second equation times
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to give:
Canceling
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{\displaystyle f'(x_{n})f''(x_{n})(a-x_{n})^{2}}
and re-organizing terms yields:
Put the second term on the left side and divide through by
to get:
Thus:
The limit of the coefficient on the right side as xn → a is:
If we take K to be a little larger than the absolute value of this, we can take absolute values of both sides of the formula and replace the absolute value of coefficient by its upper bound near a to get:
which is what was to be proved.
To summarize,
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Michael Connolly (footballer) - Wikipedia |
Michael Connolly (1922 – 17 July 2002) was an Irish soccer player during the 1940s.
Connolly played for Bohemians during the 1948/49 and 1949/50 seasons. He was a defensive midfielder who made his final appearance for Bohs on 3 May 1950 against Cork Athletic.
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Batesville, Missouri - Wikipedia |
Batesville is an unincorporated community in eastern Butler County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.[1] The community is located in the flatlands of southeast Missouri on Missouri Route 51 between Broseley to the south and Rossville to the north. Poplar Bluff is 8.5 miles (13.7 km) to the northwest.[2]
A post office called Batesville was established in 1902, and remained in operation until 1910.[3] The community was named after Horace Bates, owner of the site.[4]
WikiMiniAtlas36°41′56″N 90°14′46″W / 36.69889°N 90.24611°W / 36.69889; -90.24611
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Rudolph Karstadt Department Store, Szczecin - Wikipedia | The Rudolph Karstadt Department Store (German: Warenhaus Rudolph Karstadt, German pronunciation: [ˈvaːʁənˌhaʊ̯s ˈʁuːdɔlf ˈkaʁʃtat]) was a department store of pre-war Szczecin, which was located at today's Stefan Wyszyński Street, in the Old Town, in the Śródmieście district. The store was destroyed in World War II, though some of the ruins remained uncleared until the 1960s.
The first building of the Szczecin branch of the Rudolph Karstadt department store was erected between 1912 and 1916 at then Breite Straße.[1] The site for its construction was obtained by demolishing four older tenement houses.[2] The store took its form from the Hamburg branch.[3] Between 1923 and 1924, tenement houses no. 23 and 24, adjacent to the right gable wall, were adapted to the needs of the commercial space.[4] During World War II, the buildings were bombed. The ruins of the larger building survived the longest: until the mid 1960s.[5] After their demolition, the plot remained undeveloped until 2002, when the "Atrium Katedra" office and hotel building was constructed.[6]
The department store consisted of two buildings. The larger one was two-storey, 33-axial with an attic. It was adjacent to the Aronheim & Cohn Department Store building with its left gable wall. The smaller one was a two-storey, 7-axial building with an attic. Both buildings had gambrel roofs with dormers.[7]
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Robert Hanhart - Wikipedia | Robert Hanhart (born July 6, 1925) is a Swiss Protestant theologian known for his scholarship of the Septuagint, the Greek version of the Jewish scriptures. He is a professor emeritus of the Old Testament at the Faculty of Theology, University of Göttingen and served as the director of the Göttinger Septuaginta-Unternehmen [de] (Göttingen Septuagint Company), an institute of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities dedicated to creating critical editions of works of the Septuagint.
Robert Hanhart was born in St. Gallen, Switzerland on July 6, 1925. He studied classical philology and classical history at the University of Basel. He earned his doctorate in 1954. He first worked for a year at Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch, a project to create a medieval Latin dictionary. He then moved to the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Germany, where he worked as a research assistant at the Göttinger Septuaginta-Unternehmen [de]. The first book released under his editorship was a 1959 critical edition of the book 2 Maccabees in its Greek Septuagint form which he had taken over from the work of Werner Kappler [de]. In 1961, he was appointed head of the department. In 1962 he received a doctorate in theology from the Faculty of Theology, University of Göttingen. He completed a habilitation in 1965 with his thesis being his edition of the Book of Esther; this allowed him to be appointed an adjunct professor of the Old Testament at Göttingen in 1967. In 1977, he became a full professor. He took emeritus status and retired from his professorship in 1990, and retired as director of the Septuagint Company in 1993. However, he continued to work in the field, writing the book Studien zur Septuaginta und zum hellenistischen Judentum in 1999 and providing forwards, commentary, and editorship for other projects.[1][2]
Hanhart has received honorary degrees from both the University of Helsinki's theology department as well as the University of Bologna in recognition of his work on the Septuagint.[3][2]
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