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41071862
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalyi%20Jag%20%28group%29
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Kalyi Jag (group)
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Kalyi Jag (Romani for "Black Fire") is a Hungarian Romani folk music group.
The group was founded in Budapest by Vlax Roma members who originated from the Szatmár county. It had roots in the Táncház movement. They were named Young Masters of Folk Art in 1979. The first album was released in 1987 and became a success.
The music is based on traditional Romani music, primarily Vlax Roma music, with some modernization in the interpretations, and the group has included such instruments as the guitar and the mandolin.
Their music style inspired other Romani groups in Hungary. The group is popular in the Roma population in Hungary and neighbouring countries and has held concerts in many European countries.
Early members were
Gusztáv Varga
Ágnes Künstler
József Balogh
József Nagy
References
External links
Hungarian Romani musical groups
Musical groups established in 1978
Romani-language bands
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41071863
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night%20of%20Passion
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Night of Passion
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Night of Passion is a song written by Robert Olausson, Maiti Alfonzetti, Sonja Aldén and Johan Lyander, and performed by The Poodles at Melodifestivalen 2006, ending up fourth.
Single record
The single was released on 13 March 2006 as the first single of the 2006 Poodles album "Metal Will Stand Tall". At the Swedish singles chart the song peaked at second position. The song also charted at Svensktoppen reaching a fifth position on 16 April 2006. On 2 July 2006 the song did its final Svensktoppen visit, peaking at fourth position twice during a chart visit lasting 12 weeks. In 2006 the song also charted at Trackslistan.
Other versions
The song was also performed at Dansbandskampen 2009 by Sannex in an acoustic version, when the Poodles and heavy metal was the theme of the night during the second competition of the year. Sannex also recorded the song on the album Får jag lov? 2011.
Single track listing
Night of Passion (radio mix) - 2:59
Night of Passion (singback mix) - 2:59
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
References
2006 singles
English-language Swedish songs
Melodifestivalen songs of 2006
The Poodles songs
2006 songs
Songs written by Sonja Aldén
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41071881
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homage%20to%20the%20Highest%20Power
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Homage to the Highest Power
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Homage to the Highest Power (朝元圖) is a prime example of Daoist paintings in the Royal Ontario Museum collection. The wall painting was created during the late Yuan Dynasty, . The painting is colored pigments mixed with clay and plaster. It measures 306.5 cm high and 1042 cm in length. This painting is similar to those found in Sanqing Hall of the Yongle Gong in Shanxi province. The Sanqing Hall paintings are dated by an inscription to 1325. Based on the strong stylistic affinities, this work can also be dated to the Yuan dynasty.
Daoist imagery
Homage to the Highest Power is a popular theme in Daoist pictorial art. Daoist theology advocates the concept of Dao (the Way), a primeval force which gives form to all things in the universe. Homage to Dao is expected of all regular followers.
Description
The wall painting is one of a pair from the Pingyang region of southern Shanxi province. This work was created as decoration for the west wall of a temple hall or worship space. It is symmetrically balanced leading your eye first to the central figures and then fanning out on either side. It shows a procession of heavenly beings moving at a leisurely pace to pay homage to the Supreme Power.
The procession is led by a fierce warrior, the Lord of the Southern Dipper (Sagittarius). He leads nine star spirits, female attendants with plant offerings, three important deities, and personifications of the twelve Earthly Branches. The three deities have been identified as Laozi (founder of Daoism) with the Jade Emperor and the Empress of Heaven, or Laozi with the Holy Ancestor and Ancestress of the Song Dynasty (960–1279).
References
14th-century paintings
Collections of the Royal Ontario Museum
Yuan dynasty art
Chinese paintings
Religious art
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41071910
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polylux%20%28TV%20program%29
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Polylux (TV program)
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Polylux, the self-appointed "last/worst on the first [channel]" ("Das Letzte im Ersten"), was a weekly half-hour German television program hosted by Tita von Hardenberg. It was produced by RBB for Das Erste and was broadcast in the timeslot on Thursdays at 11:15 CET.
The show, which was concerned with politics, culture, and social trends, offered a lively blend of documentary and satirical items. Typically it began with a satirical 'report' by Carsten von Ryssen related to a current matter of public concern. The show's essential hipness, which was underlined by Hardenberg's crisp announcements and the visual and thematic backdrop of the city of Berlin, infuses the subsequent documentary pieces with a certain esprit. Thematically, their scope ran from coverage of political and social movements to current trends in underground and popular culture, whereby one piece was usually biographical in nature, setting it off from the more panoramic style of the rest of the show. Less serious segments often echoed the satire of the keynote feature. Regular items included the (usually biweekly) "Berlin for Beginners" ("Berlin für Anfänger") and the show's end note, in which Manfred Dumke, an elderly pensioner, shared his curious insights on current affairs with the rest of Germany from the comfort of his own living room.
The feature "Berlin for Beginners" was in fact a vestige from the beginnings of the program in the mid 1990s when Polylux was still called "Tip TV" and was the televised version of the Berlin city magazine Tip, then already hosted by Hardenberg, but on a regional TV station, FAB. When Tip was taken over in 1997, the new owners didn't want the show, but the ORB was interested in the format, and so it was taken on under the new title of Polylux. In 2000 the ARD adopted Polylux into its late night programming on Das Erste, showing it at 04:00. However the youthful appeal of the program quickly earned it an earlier slot, which was on Mondays at midnight. It was then moved to a slot on Thursdays before it was canceled.
Cancellation
The RBB announced the cancellation of the show, effective by the end of 2008, on May 21 of the same year. The decision was reasoned with a lack of funding. The last show was aired on 18 December 2008. The show's offshoot web portal Polylog.tv was kept available for about two more years, but eventually the domain became expired and is unavailable as of 2016.
Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg
Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg
1997 German television series debuts
2008 German television series endings
German satirical television shows
Television shows set in Berlin
German-language television shows
Das Erste original programming
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41071912
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherena%20Vermette
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Katherena Vermette
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Katherena Vermette (born 29 January 1977) is a Canadian writer, who won the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry in 2013 for her collection North End Love Songs. Vermette is of Métis descent and originates from Winnipeg, Manitoba. She was an MFA student in creative writing at the University of British Columbia.
In addition to writing, Vermette advocates for the equality of Indigenous peoples in Canada, vocalizing her dissatisfaction with the Canadian government and media's apathy and neglect to Indigenous rights.
Early life
Born to a Métis father and Mennonite mother, vermette grew up in the North End of Winnipeg, Manitoba, a neighbourhood distinguished by a relatively high population of Indigenous people (approximately 25%), primarily First Nations and Métis people. Winnipeg, a city often singled out for its high rate of reported crimes, garners further negative outsider attention in its North End because of its dense number of reported crimes. In an interview with CBC Radio, vermette described her childhood as not being "picturesque", in the usual sense of the word. For vermette, growing up in the North End of Winnipeg meant that things were not always simple and, from a young age, she bore witness to the kind of injustice and prejudice that young people are typically spared from. An example of this injustice came when a 14-year-old vermette lost her older brother, the just 18 year-old Donovan, who was missing for six months prior to being found dead. Vermette asserts that the combination of Donovan's young age, the circumstance at his having been at a bar with friends prior to his disappearance, and because he was Cree meant that his disappearance did not get adequate coverage by the media. Vermette cites the general apathy shown by the people of her community and the media surrounding her brother's disappearance as being the factor which instigated her own sense of the unfairness of the discrimination against Indigenous peoples by settler Canadians, leading to her desire to activate for change.
Career
Katherena vermette is known primarily for her poetry, although she is also a writer of prose. From her viewpoint, vermette's penchant for poetry stems from the fluidity and complexity of it as a medium; it combines singing, storytelling, and even painting, yet is something entirely different.
North End Love Songs
Vermette's first published volume of poetry, North End Love Songs functions as an ode to the place she grew up, Winnipeg's North End, and her intimate perspective on a place that is looked down upon for its high levels of reported crime. In the work, she describes her neighbourhood with respect to nature, highlighting the animals, foliage and rivers that coexist within it. In writing North End Love Songs, vermette sought to replace the prejudiced perceptions held by people outside of the North End with the beautiful way that she knows her community. The collection depicts a "young girl or woman struggling with identity and place," says vermette. This conflict between a simultaneous deep sense of affection and of defiance to one's place of origin is precisely what constitutes the idea of home, in vermette's view.
"Heart"
A poem commissioned by CBC Aboriginal, "Heart" similarly depicts the North End of Winnipeg from vermette's personal point of view. Vermette aims to change the narrative from "that North End", known for being "broken", "tired", a "lost cause", and "beaten", to the way she knows it; rather, a place that is "healing", "working", "seeking [for a cause]", and "rising". The poem gets its name for being about the North End which, from vermette's perspective, is the "heart of the Métis nation".
The Seven Teachings Stories
Vermette's children's picture book series The Seven Teachings Stories was published by HighWater Press https://www.portageandmainpress.com/Series/T/The-Seven-Teachings-Stories in 2015. Illustrated by Irene Kuziw, the collection aims to present the Anishnaabe Teachings of the Seven Grandfathers in a way that is easily digestible for young people. The series depicts Indigenous children in a metropolitan context, fostering a sense of representation for historically and continually marginalized Indigenous groups, among those who they are, and have been, marginalized by. The series comprises seven individual volumes: The Just Right Gift, Singing Sisters, The First Day, Kode's Quest(ion), Amik Loves School, Misaabe's Stories, and What is Truth, Betsy?.
The Break
Her debut novel The Break was published in 2016, and was a shortlisted finalist for that year's Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and Governor General's Award for English-language fiction. In November 2017, it won the Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature.
Film and digital media
In 2015, she and Erika MacPherson co-directed the 20-minute National Film Board of Canada documentary This River, about Canadian Indigenous families that have had to search for family members who have disappeared. Partly based on vermette's own experience, the film received the 2016 Coup de coeur du jury award at Montreal's festival, and premiered in vermette's hometown of Winnipeg on October 5, at the Winnipeg Art Gallery. It was named best short documentary at the 5th Canadian Screen Awards. Vermette and NFB producer Alicia Smith also created a related Instagram work, What Brings Us Here, a companion piece to The River, which offers portraits of volunteers behind the community-run Winnipeg search teams the Bear Clan and Drag the Red. Smith has stated that it was vermette's North End Love Songs which helped draw her attention to the perspectives of indigenous youth from the North End and the experience of having missing family members.
Other work
She is a member of the Aboriginal Writers Collective of Manitoba, and edited the anthology xxx ndn: love and lust in ndn country in 2011.
In addition to her own publications, her work has also been published in the literary anthology Manitowapow: Aboriginal Writings from the Land of Water.
Accolades
In 2013, vermette won the Governor General's Literary Award for poetry, for her collection North End Love Songs, an accolade she dubbed a "goal" for poetry, as well as being "completely unexpected". In an interview with CBC Radio, vermette discussed having considered not accepting the award, as a means of protesting the Canadian government’s treatment of the many missing and murdered Aboriginal women at the time, and disagreeing with the government’s policies in general. After consideration, Vermette decided to accept the award because the people who voted for North End Love Songs were a collection of her literary peers, making it a reflection of the Canadian poetry community, rather than the Canadian government.
In 2017, vermette won the Amazon.ca First Novel Award for The Break. Its French translation, Ligne brisée, was defended by Naomi Fontaine in the 2018 edition of Le Combat des livres, where it won the competition.
Her novel The Strangers was the winner of the 2021 Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.
Activism
In addition to writing herself, vermette also works with young people, ostracized for their circumstances and labelled as being "at risk". This workshop focuses on utilizing writing as a means of coping with the struggles associated with growing up marginalized because of that which makes one different from the majority. Vermette seeks to promote the development in young people's artistic voice, through the medium of poetry.
Vermette has described her writing as motivated by an activist spirit, particularly on First Nations issues.
Works
North End Love Songs (2012, poetry)
The Seven Teachings Stories (2015, children's)
The Break (2016, novel)
Pemmican Wars (2017, graphic novel)
river woman (2018, poetry)
The Girl and the Wolf (2019, children's)
The Strangers (2021, novel)
The Circle (2023, novel)
Notes
References
External links
What Brings Us Here on Instagram
Vermette at "Voilà. Catalogue du Canada / Canada's Catalogue"
21st-century Canadian poets
Canadian women poets
Canadian children's writers
Writers from Winnipeg
Métis writers
Mennonite poets
Canadian Mennonites
Living people
Canadian women children's writers
21st-century Canadian women writers
Canadian documentary film directors
Métis filmmakers
Film directors from Winnipeg
21st-century Canadian novelists
Canadian women novelists
Canadian women film directors
Directors of Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners for Best Short Documentary Film
Year of birth uncertain
1977 births
Amazon.ca First Novel Award winners
Canadian women documentary filmmakers
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41071930
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Errors%20in%20early%20word%20use
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Errors in early word use
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Errors in early word use or developmental errors are mistakes that children commonly commit when first learning language. Language acquisition is an impressive cognitive achievement attained by humans. In the first few years of life, children already demonstrate general knowledge and understanding of basic patterns in their language. They can extend words they hear to novel situations and apply grammatical rules in novel contexts. Although children possess an impressive ability to acquire and comprehend language early in life, they make many errors and mistakes as they enhance their knowledge and understanding of language. Three prominent errors in early word use are overgeneralization, overextension, and underextension.
The majority of words that children first learn are often used correctly. However, estimates indicate that up to one-third of the first fifty words that children learn are occasionally misused. Many studies indicate a curvilinear trend in naming errors and mistakes in initial word usage. In other words, early in language acquisition, children rarely make naming errors. However, as vocabulary enhances and language growth accelerates, the frequency of error increases. The amount of error decreases again as vocabulary continues to improve.
Scholars debate the underlying developmental causes and reasons for these mistakes. One theory, the semantic feature hypothesis, states that mistakes occur because children acquire the basic features of a word's meaning before learning its more specific aspects. For instance, the child may initially use the word basketball in reference to any round object, but then change its meaning to a round, orange, and grooved ball that bounces. Children may overextend the meaning of basketball to any round object until they learn the more specific aspects of the word's meaning. Other theories suggest that errors in early word use are the result of an inability on the part of the child to retrieve the correct word. Although the child might have accurately comprehended the word at one time, they are unable to actively retrieve the word or its meaning from their rapidly growing vocabulary.
Overregularization (overgeneralization)
Overregularization is defined as the "application of a principle of regular change to a word that changes irregularly." Examples of overregularization in verb use include using the word comed instead of came. Examples in noun use include using the word tooths instead of teeth. The error is usually seen after children have learned language rules because children apply learned rules to irregular words. Pertaining to the examples, the child using the word comed may have originally used came correctly. Once the child learned the '-ed' suffix rule that commonly forms the past tense; however, the child applied the rule to a verb whose correct grammatical form is irregular. The same applies to the tooths example, but the language rule is the addition of the suffix '-s' to form the plural noun. Overregularization research led by Daniel Slobin argues against B.F. Skinner's view of language development through reinforcement. It shows that children actively construct words' meanings and forms during the child's own development.
Differing views on the causes of overregularization and its extinction have been presented. Gary Marcus et al. published a study in which they monitored the speech of 83 children and recorded the spoken past tense of irregular verbs. They argue that children store irregular verbs in their memory and separately develop a rule for the production of the past tense form of any verb. To correctly use an irregular verb, children must retrieve that verb from their memory and block the rule; however, children's retrieval is often imperfect. They conclude the cause of overregularization with: "When retrieval fails, the rule is applied, and overregularization results." Their study's results found overregularization to be rare with a mean of 2.5% of the spoken irregular verbs, to be used for most irregular verbs from the ages of 2 years old until school ages, to be used less often with the irregular verbs that the child's parents speak more often, and to follow a pattern of "U-Shaped Development" in which the child uses the correct form of the irregular verb before overregularizing it. According to Marcus, overregularization ends when the child develops sufficiently strong memory traces to irregular forms.
Michael Maratsos disagrees with Marcus's causal claim. He argues that the overregularized verb form and the correct irregular form compete for usage, as "the two forms are both initially acceptable alternatives." The child increasingly chooses the irregular form, beating the overregularized one, because the child only experiences the irregular form. Maratsos argues that because children often use both the irregular and overregularized forms of the same verb, even in the same speech sample, the blocking theory proposed by Marcus proves problematic. If retrieval blocks the rule, it is unlikely that the rule would be 'un-blocked' soon after. He argues it seems more likely that environmental input and learning accounts for the gradual decline in overregularization. Moreover, the competition theory accounts for the highly varied rates of overregularization seen in Roger Brown's longitudinal study of Adam, Abe, and Sarah. Abe had an extremely high rate of overregularization, 24%, compared with Adam's rate of 3.6%, and Sarah's of 7.9%. Maratsos claims Abe was intellectually gifted, "likely the best overall learner and retriever of words." If Abe retrieved words well, then having such a high rate of overregularization is incompatible with Marcus's theory, which holds retrieval failure responsible for overregularization. Rather, Abe's bigger vocabulary exposed him to more regular words, resulting in a stronger competition between the irregular and overregularized forms and a higher potential rate of failure.
Overextension
Overextension is an error in early word use in which a child uses a single word to label multiple different things in a manner that is inconsistent with adult usage. There are three types of overextensions. Categorical overinclusions involve using one word within a category to label a closely related referent that falls in the same category. Examples are seen in references to people (e.g. daddy for all men), animals (e.g. dog for horses and other quadrupeds), vehicles (e.g. truck for bus), foods (e.g. apple for oranges), and numerous other categories. Analogical overextensions involve inferring a similarity between a word's standard referent and its labeled referent in the absence of any actual relationship. Inferred similarities are most often perceptual, such as when a child uses ball to refer to all round objects (e.g. the moon). Predicate statements involve an attempt to comment on the relationship between an immediate referent and an absent entity. This is evident when a child uses doll to refer to an empty crib where the doll usually is located.
Like overgeneralizations, overextensions are believed to stem from limitations in vocabulary, which are the result of weak knowledge and/or immature retrieval ability. Clark and Clark (1977) have put forth a two-stage account of how overextensions develop. In the first stage, a child focuses on a particular feature of an object and refers to that feature using a single new word. Gradually, the child realizes that the word has a more specific meaning but does not know the other words that are required to be more precise. In the second stage, the child overextends the word, using it as a form of shorthand when referring to things that are similar to the standard referent. For example, the child uses dog to refer to any animal with similar features, namely four legs.
After increasing until a certain point, overextensions diminish over time as the child receives corrective feedback. This feedback most often comes from parents and teachers, who help the child revise his or her word meaning boundaries. However, parents can also unintentionally prolong the use of overextensions. Parents often respond to overextensions with acceptance, and the use of joint labeling (e.g. referring to both wolves and dogs as puppies) reinforces overextended language.
Underextension
Underextension, which is roughly the opposite of overextension, occurs when a child acquires a word for a particular thing and fails to extend it to other objects in the same category, using the word in a highly restricted and individualistic way. For example, a child may learn the word flower in connection with a rose but fail to extend its meaning to other types of flowers. Although research more commonly addresses the underextension of nouns, this error can also apply to verbs. For example, a child might underextend the verb sit and only use it with reference to the family dog's sitting but no one else's.
Underextension is generally thought to be less common, or perhaps just less noticeable, than overextension, but according to Margaret Harris, recent research shows an increasing number of reports of underextension. According to Harris, there are two different kinds of underextension. The first is "context bound", in which a child produces a word only in a limited and specific context. An example is when a child only uses the word duck when hitting a toy duck off the bathtub and chuff-chuff only when pushing a toy train.
The second type of early underextension involves restricting a word to a particular referent instead of a particular situation. This kind of underextension is not context-bound but contextually flexible, and suggests that children are using words in a genuinely referential way. Harris mentions examples of this type of underextension from her own research, such as the use of the word clock only to refer to wall clocks and light only to refer to ceiling lights with a shade.
As is the case with overextension, parents can contribute to a child's prolonged underextension of words. When speaking to their children, parents may not give every instance of a category of objects its correct name, especially in unusual situations, triggering word errors. In a study by Thomas G. White, preschool children ages 3 to 5 did not apply labels (e.g., food) to category instances that were rated as atypical by adults. The study also showed that mothers used superordinate terms much less in atypical instances than typical instances. This suggests that the labels children hear their parents apply may affect underextension. However, as children grow older, their vocabularies grow and instances of underextension decline.
References
Language acquisition
Lexical semantics
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41071933
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pueblo%20a%20Pueblo
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Pueblo a Pueblo
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Pueblo a Pueblo is a 501(c)(3) organization that provides programs in health, education, and food security in rural communities in Latin America, especially Mayan communities in Guatemala.
Background
Pueblo a Pueblo is a 501(c) organization launched in 2001 to provide educational opportunities for children in rural Mayan communities in Guatemala.
Hospital
Pueblo a Pueblo received international mention in 2005 for relief efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Stan in which a mudslide swept through Panabaj, leaving over 200 people dead and 300 missing. Six months prior, Pueblo a Pueblo had facilitated refurbishment, reopening and staffing of a local hospital closed for 15 years because of the civil war. Pueblo a Pueblo helped establish a local firefighting group to drive emergency relief, and provided education scholarships for students in families that relocated to Chuk Muk, a settlement east of Santiago along the shore of Lake Atitlán.
Schools
Since 2005, Pueblo a Pueblo has started programs in health, education, and food security for communities in rural Guatemala like Panabaj. It focuses on coffee communities and works mostly out of primary schools.
Awards
In 2013, Pueblo a Pueblo was awarded the Specialty Coffee Association of America's Sustainability Award for its Organic School Garden Project, which introduces primary school children to the basics of nutrition and sustainable agriculture.
Pueblo a Pueblo has been featured in magazines such as Fresh Cup, Coffee Talk, The Specialty Coffee Chronicle and Qué Pasa.
In 2012–13 Pueblo a Pueblo was chosen by Catalogue for Philanthropy as one of 24 high-impact non-profit organizations in the greater Washington, DC area.
Funding
Pueblo a Pueblo is funded by Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, the Research Triangle Institute, and by a number of small foundations and individuals.
References
External links
Pueblo a Pueblo web site
Pueblo a Pueblo 2012 annual report
BBB Wise Giving Alliance report, July 2012
Charities based in Wisconsin
Organizations established in 2001
Foreign charities operating in Guatemala
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41071951
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lulaman
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Lulaman
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Lulaman (, also Romanized as Lūlamān) is a village in Lulaman Rural District, in the Central District of Fuman County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 551, in 151 families.
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Populated places in Fuman County
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41071953
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mavardian
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Mavardian
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Mavardian (, also Romanized as Māvardīān) is a village in Lulaman Rural District, in the Central District of Fuman County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 551, in 138 families.
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Populated places in Fuman County
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41071954
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasrollahabad%2C%20Fuman
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Nasrollahabad, Fuman
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Nasrollahabad (, also Romanized as Naşrollāhābād) is a village in Lulaman Rural District, in the Central District of Fuman County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 81, in 18 families.
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Populated places in Fuman County
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41071955
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamesar
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Pamesar
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Pamesar (, also Romanized as Pāmesār and Pāmsār) is a village in Lulaman Rural District, in the Central District of Fuman County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 328, in 90 families.
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Populated places in Fuman County
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41071958
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qassabali%20Sara
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Qassabali Sara
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Qassabali Sara (, also Romanized as Qaşşāb‘alī Sarā) is a village in Lulaman Rural District, in the Central District of Fuman County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 347, in 91 families.
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Populated places in Fuman County
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41071960
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siah%20Piran-e%20Kashani
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Siah Piran-e Kashani
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Siah Piran-e Kashani (, also Romanized as Sīāh Pīrān-e Kāshānī; also known as Sīāh Pīrān) is a village in Lulaman Rural District, in the Central District of Fuman County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 400, in 102 families.
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Populated places in Fuman County
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41071961
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siah%20Piran-e%20Kasmai
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Siah Piran-e Kasmai
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Siah Piran-e Kasmai (, also Romanized as Sīāh Pīrān-e Kasmā’ī; also known as Shālgā and Shālkā) is a village in Lulaman Rural District, in the Central District of Fuman County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 212, in 61 families.
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Populated places in Fuman County
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41071965
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shir-e%20Tar
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Shir-e Tar
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Shir-e Tar (, also Romanized as Shīr-e Tar) is a village in Lulaman Rural District, in the Central District of Fuman County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 178, in 60 families.
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Populated places in Fuman County
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41071967
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanbeh%20Bazar
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Shanbeh Bazar
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Shanbeh Bazar (, also Romanized as Shanbeh Bāzār; also known as Sabzqabā) is a village in Lulaman Rural District, in the Central District of Fuman County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 697, in 188 families.
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Populated places in Fuman County
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41071968
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ala%20Sar
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Ala Sar
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Ala Sar (, also Romanized as Ālā Sar) is a village in Rud Pish Rural District, in the Central District of Fuman County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 276, in 94 families.
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Populated places in Fuman County
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41071973
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiran
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Chiran
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Chiran (, also Romanized as Chīrān) is a village in Rud Pish Rural District, in the Central District of Fuman County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 1,204, in 283 families.
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Populated places in Fuman County
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41071974
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giga%20Sar
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Giga Sar
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Giga Sar (, also Romanized as Gīgā Sar, Gīgāsar) is a village in Rud Pish Rural District, in the Central District of Fuman County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 909, in 259 families.
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Populated places in Fuman County
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41071975
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gol%20Afzan
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Gol Afzan
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Gol Afzan (, also romanized as Gol Afzān; also known as Kilavzan) is a village in Rud Pish Rural District, in the Central District of Fuman County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 798, in 214 families.
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Populated places in Fuman County
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41071978
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorbeh%20Kucheh
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Gorbeh Kucheh
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Gorbeh Kucheh (, also Romanized as Gorbeh Kūcheh; also known as Gorbeh Kūjeh) is a village in Rud Pish Rural District, in the Central District of Fuman County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 105, in 25 families.
References
Populated places in Fuman County
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41071980
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gushlavandan
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Gushlavandan
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Gushlavandan (, also Romanized as Gūshlavandān; also known as Gūshī Lavandān, Koshlyavandan, and Kūshalvandān) is a village in Rud Pish Rural District, in the Central District of Fuman County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 940, in 242 families.
References
Populated places in Fuman County
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41071988
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewbaker%20v.%20Regents
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Brewbaker v. Regents
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Brewbaker v. Regents, - N.W.2d - (Iowa 2013), was a unanimous decision of the Iowa Court of Appeals dated October 23, 2013, that held it does not violate double jeopardy or separation of powers for an administrative agency to modify the terms of probation to deny State educational services following a criminal judgement hearing if the modification protects "the integrity of the community".
Issues
Double jeopardy, Separation of powers, Free speech, Due process, Equal protection, and Abuse of discretion
Prior proceedings
Brewbaker was charged with simple misdemeanor annoying speech. Under Iowa Court Rule 2.67(6) Brewbaker was only allowed a jury of six members. Upon a guilty verdict Brewbaker was fined $65 in the District Court for Story County Iowa on an annoying speech conviction in November 2009 and placed on one year of probation. Brewbaker applied for discretionary appeal to the Iowa Supreme Court on grounds that the term 'annoying' was void for vagueness, see Coates v. Cincinnati, but the application was denied.
Subsequently, the Iowa Board of Regents in a public hearing upheld a modification to Brewbaker's probation suspending him from State educational services at Iowa State University for the same transaction as the simple misdemeanor. Brewbaker's application for review of agency action to the District Court for Polk County was denied.
Subsequent proceedings
Brewbaker applied for further review on November 12, 2013, noting Vogel gave a false account of the facts in Kocher to frame it as controlling instead of Dressler where the conviction preceded administrative sanctions.
The Iowa Supreme Court denied further review. On March 3, 2014, Iowa Court of Appeals Chief Judge Danielson entered an order for publication. Publication, if accepted by the Iowa Supreme Court, would also overturn Klouda v. Sixth Judicial Dist. Dept. giving the Iowa executive branch new powers to independently modify conditions of probation set by criminal courts.
See also
Ex parte Lange.
References
Iowa state case law
2013 in United States case law
2013 in Iowa
Iowa State University
United States administrative case law
United States Double Jeopardy Clause case law
United States education case law
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41071995
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siah%20Piran
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Siah Piran
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Siah Piran () may refer to:
Siah Piran-e Kashani
Siah Piran-e Kasmai
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41072015
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shalka%2C%20Iran
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Shalka, Iran
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Shalka (, also Romanized as Shālkā) is a village in Tulem Rural District, Tulem District, Sowme'eh Sara County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 30, in 5 families.
References
Populated places in Sowme'eh Sara County
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41072023
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalyi%20Jag
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Kalyi Jag
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Kalyi Jag may refer to:
Kalyi Jag (album), 2000 debut album to Ektomorf
Kalyi Jag (group), a Hungarian Romani folk music group
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41072030
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piccadilly%20Circus%20%28song%29
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Piccadilly Circus (song)
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"Piccadilly Circus" is a song written by Lars Andersson and Bruno Glenmark, and performed by Pernilla Wahlgren at Melodifestivalen 1985, where the song ended up fourth behind "Bra vibrationer", performed by Kikki Danielsson. The single peaked at second place at the Swedish singles chart. On 9 March 1985 the song entered Trackslistan. The song lyrics describe a love meeting at Piccadilly Circus.
Wahlgren entered stage with the brothers Vito and Emilio Ingrosso as dancers. Wahlgren was later criticised for wearing an Iron Cross-like item on stage, which was referred to as Nazi propaganda.
A Framåt fredag parody version was called "Inga djur på cirkus", describing Miljöpartiet in 2005 asking for stop using animals at circus shows in Sweden.
Track listing and formats
Swedish 7-inch single
A. "Piccadilly Circus" – 2:57
B. "Don't Run Away from Me Now" – 3:40
Credits and personnel
Pernilla Wahlgren – vocals
Lasse Andersson – songwriter, producer, arranger
Bruno Glenmark – songwriter, producer
Maggie Williams – cover art, photographer
Credits and personnel adopted from the Pernilla Wahlgren album and 7-inch single liner notes.
Charts
References
1985 singles
1985 songs
Melodifestivalen songs of 1985
Pernilla Wahlgren songs
Song recordings produced by Bruno Glenmark
Songs about London
Songs written by Bruno Glenmark
Swedish-language songs
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41072075
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Colourist
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The Colourist
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The Colourist is an American rock band from Orange County, California, formed in 2009 by Adam Castilla, Maya Aoki Tuttle, Justin Wagner, and Kollin Johannsen. The band has been inactive since Aoki Tuttle's departure in December 2016 but reunited in 2021 and has been making music since then.
History
2007–2012: Beginnings
Castilla and Aoki Tuttle met while performing in the band Paper Thin Walls, who rose to notoriety after being chosen to play the 2007 Led Zeppelin reunion concert in London. The name "The Colourist" was borne out of a conversation with a friend of the band—a film student working with a film colorist at the time. Because the name was not already used, the ensemble decided to use the British/Canadian spelling for aesthetic and availability reasons.
After years of performing concerts in their hometown, the ensemble captured the eyes of major record labels during their residency at Los Angeles' Bootleg Theater. In July 2012, the band signed a record contract with Universal Republic Records.
In 2013, the band's debut single "Little Games" became the No.1 song on Hype Machine.
2012–2014: Debut EP and studio albums
In late 2012 and early 2013, the ensemble spent five months in Eagle Rock, California recording fourteen songs with producer Carlos De La Garza, twelve of which went on the full-length studio album. Weeks after the recording was complete, the quartet performed at Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California. On August 20, 2013, the band released their debut EP Lido.
On March 25, 2014, The Colourist also released their debut studio album, The Colourist.
2014–2015: Inversions and Will You Wait for Me
In October 2014, the ensemble released their first remix EP entitled Inversions.
On March 5, 2015, radio station KSRY FM in Los Angeles published the single "When I'm Away." Laura Neumayer of The Eagle Online describes the song as "complete with a groovy guitar riff reminiscent of The Lighthouse and the Whaler's "Venice."
On May 25, 2015, "When I'm Away" was featured as the theme song on a television commercial for Hulu. At that time, it was announced that the tune will be featured on Will You Wait for Me, the third EP from the ensemble.
On July 23, 2015, "Romancing" was released streaming on several outlets, including indieshuffle.com, as the 2nd single from the EP.
On November 9, 2015, the group announced via their Facebook page that they are working on new music, with a subsequent post early the next year that Johannsen and the ensemble would be parting ways.
2016–2020: Hiatus and side projects
On December 18, 2016, the group announced Aoki Tuttle's departure from the band. Following it, the band went on a hiatus from 2016 through 2021.
2021–present: Reunion and recent developments
On November 2, 2021, the band announced on their Twitter page they've reunited, and in December 2021, they revealed they are in the studio working on new music. On June 3, 2022, Aoki Tuttle confirmed that her departure was so that she could pursue voice acting and still maintains a closeness with the band. She further hinted at "surprises" with the group in the future, implying a possible future collaboration.
Appearances
Television Appearances
In 2013, The Colourist starred in a national commercial and ad campaign for Nokia, which aired on primetime television for three months. The commercial featured the band playing their single "Little Games" to a packed audience at LA's Opheum Theater.
In March 2014, the band's sold-out performance at The Troubadour in LA was featured on Last Call With Carson Daly
On May 21, 2014, The Colourist appeared on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson to perform their 2nd single "We Won't Go Home".
Other Appearances
In October 2015, it was announced that "Little Games" would be featured on Guitar Hero Live, by Activision. It also featured with the St. Lucia remix version in the EA Sports football video game, FIFA 14.
Band members
Current members
Adam Castilla – lead vocals, guitar (2009–present)
Justin Wagner – keyboard (2009–present)
Former members
Kollin Johannsen – Bass guitar (2009–2016)
Maya Aoki Tuttle – drums/lead vocals (2009–2016)
Discography
Studio albums
Charting singles
Extended plays
Trivia
In October 2015, Aoki Tuttle recorded the song "Back 2 U" with Raeko (the alter ego of Jason Suwito from Sir Sly).
References
External links
Alternative rock groups from California
Musical groups from Orange County, California
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hottonia
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Hottonia
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Hottonia is a genus of aquatic flowering plant in the family Primulaceae. It comprises two species, both of which are known by the common name featherfoil:
Hottonia palustris, or water violet, native to Europe and western Asia
Hottonia inflata, or American featherfoil, native to North America
The two species differ markedly in the size of the flowers, which are showy in the Eurasian H. palustris but much smaller in the North American H. inflata, and in the thickness of the stem, which is swollen in H. inflata but not in H. palustris. The two species also differ in their breeding system: H. palustris is heterostylous, whereas H. inflata is not.
Carl Linnaeus named the genus in his 1753 book Species Plantarum, commemorating the botanist Peter Hotton.
References
Further reading
External links
Primulaceae
Primulaceae genera
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus
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41072084
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khoda%20Shahr
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Khoda Shahr
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Khoda Shahr (, also Romanized as Khodā Shahr; also known as Khodashekhr) is a village in Rud Pish Rural District, in the Central District of Fuman County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 223, in 61 families.
References
Populated places in Fuman County
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41072085
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halqeh%20Sara
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Halqeh Sara
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Halqeh Sara (, also Romanized as Ḩalqeh Sarā; also known as Ḩalqeh Sar and Khalgeser) is a village in Rud Pish Rural District, in the Central District of Fuman County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 139, in 39 families.
References
Populated places in Fuman County
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41072087
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khorram%20Bisheh
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Khorram Bisheh
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Khorram Bisheh (, also Romanized as Khorram Bīsheh) is a village in Rud Pish Rural District, in the Central District of Fuman County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 303, in 91 families.
References
Populated places in Fuman County
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41072089
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khesmakh
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Khesmakh
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Khesmakh (, also Romanized as Khasmakh; also known as Khesmah) is a village in Rud Pish Rural District, in the Central District of Fuman County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 1,142, in 285 families.
References
Populated places in Fuman County
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41072091
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khatib%20Gurab
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Khatib Gurab
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Khatib Gurab (, also Romanized as Khaţīb Gūrāb) is a village in Rud Pish Rural District, in the Central District of Fuman County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 109, in 28 families.
References
Populated places in Fuman County
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41072095
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohneh%20Gurab%2C%20Fuman
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Kohneh Gurab, Fuman
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Kohneh Gurab (, also Romanized as Kohneh Gūrāb) is a village in Rud Pish Rural District, in the Central District of Fuman County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 675, in 185 families.
References
Populated places in Fuman County
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41072097
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiaban
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Kiaban
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Kiaban (, also Romanized as Kīābān) is a village in Rud Pish Rural District, in the Central District of Fuman County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 505, in 133 families.
References
Populated places in Fuman County
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41072098
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladmokh%2C%20Fuman
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Ladmokh, Fuman
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Ladmokh (, also Romanized as Lādmokh) is a village in Rud Pish Rural District, in the Central District of Fuman County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 228, in 71 families.
References
Populated places in Fuman County
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41072099
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maaf%20Mahalleh
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Maaf Mahalleh
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Maaf Mahalleh (, also Romanized as Ma‘āf Maḩalleh; also known as Mīr Maḩalleh and Mīr Maḩalleh va Mo‘āf Maḩalleh) is a village in Rud Pish Rural District, in the Central District of Fuman County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 277, in 83 families.
References
Populated places in Fuman County
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41072100
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makhsar
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Makhsar
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Makhsar (, also Romanized as Makhser and Mokhsar; also known as Mahser) is a village in Rud Pish Rural District, in the Central District of Fuman County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 189, in 56 families.
References
Populated places in Fuman County
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41072102
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir%20Mahalleh%2C%20Fuman
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Mir Mahalleh, Fuman
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Mir Mahalleh (, also Romanized as Mīr Maḩalleh) is a village in Rud Pish Rural District, in the Central District of Fuman County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 200, in 49 families.
References
Populated places in Fuman County
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41072103
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molla%20Kuh
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Molla Kuh
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Molla Kuh (, also Romanized as Mollā Kūh) is a village in Rud Pish Rural District, in the Central District of Fuman County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 41, in 9 families.
References
Populated places in Fuman County
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41072123
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Dickenson
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Thomas Dickenson
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Thomas Dickenson (Dickinson), a merchant of York, was an adherent of the Parliamentary cause during the English Civil War. He was also a sheriff, alderman, and twice Lord Mayor of York and a Member of Parliament for York during the Protectorate.
Biography
Dickenson was Sheriff of York in 1640, twice Lord Mayor of York, in 1647 and again in 1657 the year he was knighted by the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell. He was a Member of Parliament for York in the First, Second and Third Protectorate parliaments.
Although a strong partisan of Cromwell, Dickenson was probably moderate in his religious views; and, according to the testimony of a contemporary, more Episcopalian than Presbyterian or Independent. Dickenson was a patron of literary men. John Bulmer, M.D., dedicated to him his Anthropometamorphosis; or, Man Transformed, 4to, 1653; and the Rev. Josiah Hunter dedicated to him a Sermon on Philip iv. 5, 4to, 1656.
Notes
References
Roundheads
Lord Mayors of York
English MPs 1654–1655
English MPs 1656–1658
English MPs 1659
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Dickinson
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Thomas Dickinson
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Thomas or Tom Dickinson may refer to:
Thomas Dickenson, or Dickinson, merchant and politician of York, England
Thomas R. Dickinson, United States Army general
J. Thomas Dickinson, American physicist and astronomer
Tom Dickinson (cricketer), Australian-born cricketer in England
Tom Dickinson (American football), American football player
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladmokh
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Ladmokh
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Ladmokh or Ladmakh () may refer to:
Ladmokh, Fuman
Ladmokh, Sowme'eh Sara
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41072132
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gods%20in%20the%20Spirit
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Gods in the Spirit
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Gods in the Spirit is a collaborative EP by Los Angeles rapper Blu and Virginia record producer Nottz, released on October 22, 2013 through Coalmine Records. The six-track record was entirely produced by Nottz and includes guest appearances from Nitty Scott, MC, Aloe Blacc, ANTHM and Homeboy Sandman among others. The lead single, "Boyz II Men," was leaked on October 2, 2013.
Reception
HipHopDX's Dean Mayorga gave the album a three out of five, saying "While it's enjoyable to varying degrees, Gods in the Spirit is a misleading name for a project with little ambitions beyond being a good listen."
Track listing
All tracks were produced by Nottz.
References
2013 EPs
Collaborative albums
Blu (rapper) EPs
Albums produced by Nottz
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41072162
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20fiction%20set%20in%20Nottingham
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List of fiction set in Nottingham
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List of fiction set in and around Nottingham, England
The list omits most works concerned with Robin Hood.
Books
Each work and/or its author has a Wikipedia page. In date order:
Brummell's Last Riff by Alan Fletcher (1995)
The Learning Curve by Alan Fletcher (1996)
The Blue Millionaire by Alan Fletcher (1997)
Plays
In date order. Some were staged locally for Nottingham audiences for limited runs.
The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd by D. H. Lawrence (1912)
The Green Leaves of Nottingham based on Pat McGrath's novel (Nottingham Playhouse, 1973)
Touched by Stephen Lowe (1977)
Old Big 'ead in the Spirit of the Man by Stephen Lowe (Nottingham Playhouse, 2005)
Mod Crop The Musical by Alan Fletcher and Steve Wallis (Nottingham Theatre Royal 2009 & Lace Market Theatre 2010)
Diary of a Football Nobody adapted by William Ivory from the memoir Steak, Diana Ross... Diary of a Football Nobody by Dave McVay. (Nottingham Playhouse, 2012)
Wonderland by Beth Steele, (Nottingham Playhouse, 2016)
First Touch by Nathaniel Price (Nottingham Playhouse, 2022)
Film
See also listing of films set in Nottingham.
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (film)
Television shows
Boon (TV series), series 3 to 7
References
Fiction
Nottingham
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41072172
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Now%20Deh%2C%20Fuman
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Now Deh, Fuman
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Now Deh (; also known as Nuude) is a village in Rud Pish Rural District, in the Central District of Fuman County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 420, in 113 families.
References
Populated places in Fuman County
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41072173
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neqareh%20Chiyan
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Neqareh Chiyan
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Neqareh Chiyan (, also Romanized as Neqāreh Chīyān) is a village in Rud Pish Rural District, in the Central District of Fuman County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 25, in 8 families.
References
Populated places in Fuman County
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41072174
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pish%20Deh
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Pish Deh
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Pish Deh (, also Romanized as Pīsh Deh) is a village in Rud Pish Rural District, in the Central District of Fuman County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 272, in 70 families.
References
Populated places in Fuman County
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41072175
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rud%20Pish
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Rud Pish
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Rud Pish (, also Romanized as Rūd Pīsh) is a village in Rud Pish Rural District of the Central District of Fuman County, Gilan province, Iran.
At the 2006 National Census, its population was 2,274 in 588 households. The following census in 2011 counted 2,329 people in 682 households. The latest census in 2016 showed a population of 2,140 people in 721 households. It was the largest village in its rural district.
References
Fuman County
Populated places in Gilan Province
Populated places in Fuman County
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41072178
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Send-e%20Bala
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Send-e Bala
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Send-e Bala (, also Romanized as Send-e Bālā) is a village in Rud Pish Rural District, in the Central District of Fuman County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 952, in 255 families.
References
Populated places in Fuman County
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41072181
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Send-e%20Pain
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Send-e Pain
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Send-e Pain (, also Romanized as Send-e Pā’īn and Send-e Pāeen) is a village in Rud Pish Rural District, in the Central District of Fuman County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 338, in 87 families.
References
Populated places in Fuman County
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41072184
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sang%20Bijar
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Sang Bijar
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Sang Bijar (, also Romanized as Sang Bījār; also known as Sangabadzhar, Sangabajar, and Sang Bejār) is a village in Rud Pish Rural District, in the Central District of Fuman County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 805, in 212 families.
References
Populated places in Fuman County
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41072185
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapul%20Konar
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Shapul Konar
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Shapul Konar (, also Romanized as Shapūl Konār) is a village in Rud Pish Rural District, in the Central District of Fuman County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 136, in 33 families.
References
Populated places in Fuman County
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41072187
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tazehabad-e%20Kalashem
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Tazehabad-e Kalashem
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Tazehabad-e Kalashem (, also Romanized as Tāzehābād-e Kalāshem) is a village in Rud Pish Rural District, in the Central District of Fuman County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 512, in 149 families.
References
Populated places in Fuman County
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41072191
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald%20Hocker
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Gerald Hocker
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Gerald W. Hocker (born January 9, 1948) is an American politician who is a Republican member of the Delaware Senate, where he has represented the 20th district since 2012. Hocker previously served in the Delaware House of Representatives where he represented the 38th District from 2002 to 2012. Hocker has been the Senate Minority Leader since 2019.
Hocker was born on January 9, 1948, at Beebe Hospital in Lewes, Delaware. He was raised in Millville, Delaware where he graduated from Lord Baltimore High School in 1966. He then attended the University of Delaware, ultimately graduating with a Bachelor of Science in business administration.
Elections
In 2000, Hocker ran against incumbent Democratic Senator George Bunting for the Senate District 20 seat. He won the Republican primary, but lost the general election to Bunting.
In 2002, Hocker ran against incumbent Democratic Representative Shirley Price for the House District 38 seat. He was unopposed in the Republican primary and won the three-way general election by 57 votes with 4,436 votes total (49.8%) against Price and Libertarian candidate Donna Layfield Sinnamon.
In 2004, Hocker was challenged by Price for a rematch and won the general election with 7,653 votes (61.4%) against Price.
In 2006, Hocker won the general election with 6,849 votes (72.3%) against Democratic nominee Robert Maddex.
In 2008, Hocker won the general election with 9,769 votes (72.1%) against Democratic nominee Mary Ryan.
In 2010, Hocker was unopposed in the general election, winning 9,371 votes.
In 2012, Hocker ran for the Senate District 20 seat left open by the retirement of Democrat George Bunting. Hocker was unopposed for Republican primary and won the general election with 14,290 votes (68.0%) against Democratic nominee Richard Eakle.
In 2016, Hocker won the general election with 17,908 votes (72.4%) against Democratic nominee Perry J. Mitchell.
In 2020, Hocker was unopposed in the general election, winning 24,000 votes.
References
External links
Official page at the Delaware General Assembly
Campaign site
1948 births
21st-century American politicians
Republican Party Delaware state senators
Living people
Republican Party members of the Delaware House of Representatives
People from Lewes, Delaware
People from Ocean View, Delaware
University of Delaware alumni
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41072204
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Hines%20Jr.%20Veterans%20Administration%20Hospital
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Edward Hines Jr. Veterans Administration Hospital
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The Edward Hines Jr. Veterans Administration Hospital is a second-generation Veterans Health Administration hospital in Hines, Illinois, United States. It currently encompasses on its campus and leases an additional to the Loyola University Medical Center.
Construction began in 1918 on land donated by the Edward Hines Lumber Company that was originally Speedway Park, a board track racecourse. The building was originally intended to house casualties from World War I, and Hines wanted the building to serve as a hospital after the war. Hines was successful in lobbying the United States Congress to take over the facility as a veterans hospital in 1920. In 2013, of the campus, including the Old Airmail and Postal Service Buildings from the Maywood Air Mail Field, were listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a historic district.
History
Speedway Park and early developments
The history of the property in Hines, Illinois began in 1835, when the land was sold to Frederick Bronson by the United States government. The land was used for farming until 1914, when the Speedway Park Association purchased the lot to develop a race track. The organization built a oval wooden track on the land and held races starting in June 1915. The track was one of the longest board tracks in the United States. The course was host to a number of national and international racing competitions featuring competitors such as Barney Oldfield, Ralph DePalma, Louis Chevrolet, and Dario Resta. The track was initially very successful, attracting as many as 45,000 spectators. However, the entry of the United States into World War I in April 1917 doomed the financial viability of the racetrack. It was one of the first board tracks to close; most board tracks in the United States were closed by the end of the 1930s.
Early history
The course was purchased in December 1917 by the Edward Hines Lumber Company on behalf of Edward Hines Sr. Once the United States entered World War I, the City of Chicago sought a site for a temporary military hospital. Edward Hines Jr. was killed on the front lines in France in the opening months of American involvement in the war. In his memory, Hines Sr. offered to donate his new property as a potential site of the Chicago facility; it was selected in September 1918. The Field Museum of Natural History was also considered as a location for the facility. However, it was feared that the conversion of the museum to a medical facility would prove too costly. The fact that Hines' hospital was built to be a hospital also played in his favor. Hines intended to build a fireproof building that could house casualties during the war and then operate as a public hospital after the war. Schmidt, Garden and Martin and H. B. Wheelock were awarded the commission to design the facility, and the Shank Company was tasked with its construction.
When World War I ended in November 1918, the agreement with Hines was terminated as there was no longer a need to house casualties. The hospital stood partially constructed for the next two years as Hines led an effort to lobby Congress to have the building taken over by the United States Public Health Service. Secretary of the Treasury Carter Glass disapproved of the plan because no official contract was signed between Hines and the federal government. However, an investigation by the United States Department of War found sufficient evidence of a verbal agreement between the two parties. With help from Congressmen Adolph J. Sabath, James Robert Mann, Martin B. Madden, and Carl R. Chindblom, a Senate vote on the matter passed 33 to 27. $3.4 million was appropriated to the project under the condition that Hines provided an additional $1.6 million. The transfer was approved in March 1920 and construction began again.
The campus was originally known as U.S. Public Health Service Hospital Number 76, and was popularly referred to as Speedway Hospital or Broadview Hospital. In honor of his contribution to see the facility completed, on October 24, 1921, President Warren G. Harding declared that the facility was to be renamed to honor Hines' son. It was the first American veterans hospital to be named after a person. The first patient was admitted on August 8, 1921. A dedication ceremony was held on November 6, 1921 led by Marshal of France Ferdinand Foch and Senator Medill McCormick.
1920s–1940s expansions
The Main Infirmary Building was capable of housing a thousand beds, and by February 1922, was already near capacity. The unique building was only wide, but long so that every room could have sunlight. It was also the largest fireproof hospital in the nation, and featured many state-of-the-art technologies such as an electric call system and an x-ray department. Seven other buildings were erected during initial construction in 1921: the Morgue and Utility Shops; the Recreational and Library Building; the Kitchen, Chapel, and Social Service Building; the Power House; the Subsistence Building; the Garage; and the Supply Depot. The facility was transferred from the Public Health Service to the recently created Veterans Bureau in April 1922. By 1925, the campus saw over 3,100 admissions per year.
In May 1928, President Calvin Coolidge approved a $15 million appropriation to improve veterans health facilities, including $1.1 million for Hines. With this money, the hospital was able to renovate its staff quarters into tuberculosis and behavioral health wards. They also built a new administration building and employee housing, thus opening more space in the Main Infirmary Building, increasing its capacity to 1,600. It was also at this point that the hospital grounds were extensively landscaped with a sunken garden, a new street lighting system, a new east entrance, and new drives. The landscaping is attributed to Jens Jensen, although it is uncertain if Jensen's design was ever implemented. On July 26, 1931, the Doughboy Fountain was donated by the Cook County American Legion Auxiliary in honor of World War I veterans. A memorial to Medal of Honor recipient George Dilboy, who was killed in the war, was unveiled in 1942. Hines Hospital became the national leader in surgery for veterans facilities, performing over 14,600 procedures per year by 1935.
During World War II, a new eighty-three building complex was built adjacent to the property with a $4.5 million appropriation. Known as the Vaughan General Hospital, it was built on the grounds of the former Maywood Air Mail Field to serve the needs of the Army. The first patient was admitted on August 1, 1944. The new campus was added to the Hines complex after the war in April 1946, increasing the capacity of Hines from 1,600 to 3,253 beds. The new campus also afforded Hines the opportunity to manufacture some of its medical equipment and establish a medical research division. In 1946, Hines partnered with five medical schools to become a training center.
1960s to present
In 1962, the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare transferred of the Hines property to the State of Illinois Department of Mental Health so that they could build a new mental health facility. The John J. Madden Clinic took over mental health operations from the hospital, allowing Hines to re-purpose 280 beds to intensive care. Also that year, of the Vaughan campus were leased to Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine to build a new medical school. The 451-bed Foster G. McGraw Hospital, later known as the Loyola University Medical Center, opened on May 29, 1969. This partnership allowed Hines to have one of the most comprehensive residency programs among veterans hospitals.
The Vietnam War brought another influx of injured veterans to Hines. In response, a $32 million, 1,200 bed hospital was built from 1966 to 1970 to replace the Main Infirmary Building. A 120-bed Nursing Home Care Unite was completed in 1982 to treat aging veterans of the two World Wars. By the early 1990s, the complex had sixty-two buildings, including one of five Blind Rehabilitation Centers in the Veterans Affairs network. An eighteen-bedroom Ronald McDonald House was added in 1995. By 1996, the facility had serviced 900,000 patients. The most recent developments are a new Blind Rehabilitation Center and Spinal Cord Injury Center in 2005.
Historical recognition
The historic value of the campus was recognized in 1980, when the Old Airmail and Postal Service Buildings were determined to be eligible for the National Register of Historic Places by the National Park Service. The buildings may be the oldest mail airport structures in the United States, serving the Postal Service between 1922 and 1927. Charles Lindbergh piloted the maiden air mail flight between Chicago and St. Louis, Missouri on April 15, 1926. Today, the buildings house a garage and an inflammable storage building. Two years later, the VA hospital was also determined eligible for listing, although neither property was listed in the following decades. These two entities were combined into the Edward Hines Jr. Veterans Administration Hospital Historic District, which was listed on October 9, 2013. The district includes twenty-six of the early buildings on campus.
References
External links
Official website
Hospital buildings completed in 1918
Government buildings completed in 1918
Buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Cook County, Illinois
Hospital buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Illinois
Hospitals in Cook County, Illinois
Veterans Affairs medical facilities
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Illinois
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ena%20Saha
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Ena Saha
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Ena Saha is an Indian film and television actress who predominantly appears in Bengali films and television shows.
Career
She has appeared in a number of Bengali TV serials, including Raat Bhor Bristi, Bou Katha Kau and Bandhan.
She has appeared in several commercial and art-house Bengali films and a Malayalam film. Her first film is the Bengali film Ami Aadu, directed by Somnath Gupta. In the film 1:30 am she played the role of Nishi. The film was well received by critics in several film festivals. In 2013, she appeared in the Malayalam film Neelakasham Pachakadal Chuvanna Bhoomi, where she played the character Gauri.
She is now a Producer along with her mom Banani Saha under the banner of 'Jarek Entertainments'.
Filmography
Web series
TV shows
References
External links
Actresses in Bengali cinema
Indian film actresses
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Actresses from Kolkata
Bengali actresses
Actresses in Malayalam cinema
Actresses in Hindi cinema
Actresses in Telugu cinema
Bengali television actresses
21st-century Indian actresses
Bigg Boss Bangla contestants
Year of birth missing (living people)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jag%20vill%20om%20du%20v%C3%A5gar
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Jag vill om du vågar
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"Jag vill om du vågar" is a song written by Pontus Assarsson, Jörgen Ringqvist (lyrics and music) and Daniel Barkman (lyrics), and performed by Pernilla Wahlgren at Melodifestivalen 2010. Participating in the fourth semifinal in Malmö, it ended up in third place, reaching Andra chansen. Once there it defeated the songs by Pain of Salvation and Crucified Barbara, and reached the final in the Stockholm Globe Arena on 13 March 2010. It subsequently ended up in tenth and final place, scoring 12 points.
Charts
References
External links
Information at Svensk mediedatabas
2010 singles
2010 songs
Melodifestivalen songs of 2010
Swedish-language songs
Pernilla Wahlgren songs
Songs written by Pontus Assarsson
Songs written by Jörgen Ringqvist
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machakh
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Machakh
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Machakh (; , Maçax) is a rural locality (a selo), and one of two settlements in Babushkinsky Rural Okrug of Verkhoyansky District in the Sakha Republic, Russia, in addition to Boronuk, the administrative center of the Rural Okrug. It is located from Batagay, the administrative center of the district and from Boronuk. Its population as of the 2010 Census was 66; down from 108 recorded in the 2002 Census.
References
Notes
Sources
Official website of the Sakha Republic. Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic. Verkhoyansky District.
Rural localities in Verkhoyansky District
Yana basin
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elysius%20ochrota
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Elysius ochrota
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Elysius ochrota is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by George Hampson in 1901. It is found in Bolivia.
References
Moths described in 1901
ochrota
Moths of South America
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coolrain
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Coolrain
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Coolrain (), is a village in County Laois, Ireland. It is situated near the Slieve Bloom Mountains. The nearest town is Mountrath, and the closest village is Camross.
In 1828 Coolrain was spelt Coleraine and was in the parish of Offerlane, Queens County (which is now called County Laois)
In 1855 Coolrain had a corn and flour mill, a dispensary and police barracks.
In 1901 the population of Coolrain's townlands, was 304, and by 1911 the population was 364.
The townlands of Coolrain in 1901 and 1911 were: Anatrim/Anatrin, Coolnagour (1828 Colenagour), Coolrain (1828 Coleraine), Derryduff, Derrynaseera (1828 Dernaserea), Glebe, Larch Hill, Laurel Hill, Shanderry, Tinnakill (1828 Tennakilly).
References
Towns and villages in County Laois
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20doping%20cases%20in%20sport%20%28B%29
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List of doping cases in sport (B)
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This is a sub-list from List of doping cases in sport representing a full list of surnames starting with B.
List
References
B
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elysius%20pretiosa
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Elysius pretiosa
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Elysius pretiosa is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Peter Jörgensen in 1935. It is found in Paraguay.
References
Moths described in 1935
pretiosa
Fauna of Paraguay
Moths of South America
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polylux%20%28overhead%20projector%29
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Polylux (overhead projector)
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The Polylux was an overhead projector produced in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). It also functioned as a generic name for overhead projectors in the GDR.
The Polylux was produced in the VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb: people’s enterprise) Phylatex-Physikgeräte DDR, in Frankenberg near Chemnitz (then known as Karl-Marx-Stadt). It was, amongst others, widespread in educational institutions in the GDR. After 2004, Polylux was a registered trademark of the company Polytechnik Frankenberg GmbH, which as a successor firm of the original Polylux producer continued to produce the device. Until the Wende in 1989, 27,000 devices were produced on average each year, and were also exported to the Soviet Union. In the year 2004, 6,000 devices were still being produced.
In 2006, the enterprise closed down.
The word Polylux (from Greek and Latin, meaning "much light") originates with Erich Schöpe, a physicist and former director of the Polylux manufacturer. Today, the word enjoys cult status as a typical GDR word and is still widespread in everyday language of the East German states.
A television show produced by Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg (now Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg) was named after the Polylux with reference to the "enlightening" function of the device.
The body of the Polylux consisted of plastic and contained a ventilator with delayed shutdown in order to avoid a heat build-up. The light source was a halogen light bulb for a standard line voltage. It contained a switch for two different light intensity levels.
Originally, the lenses of the device were made out of glass. In order to reduce the weight, lenses made of plastic were later used. In particular, the Fresnel lens with its large surface area, on which transparencies were placed, was made out of plastic.
German brands
Projectors
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elysius%20rabusculum
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Elysius rabusculum
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Elysius rabusculum is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Paul Dognin in 1905. It is found in Peru.
References
Moths described in 1905
rabusculum
Moths of South America
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil%20Ogden
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Neil Ogden
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Neil Ogden (born 29 November 1975 in Higher End, England) is an English former footballer. Neil retired football in 2006 to look after his children.
Children
Alexa Ogden (Born 2006)
Club career
Ogden was an apprentice at hometown club Wigan Athletic and made his Football League debut at Vetch Field on the 4 May 1993. After three seasons Ogden briefly played in the Football Conference and the Premier Soccer League before moving to Sligo Rovers in the summer of 1997 under Nicky Reid. He made his League of Ireland debut on the 30 August 1997. During that 1997-98 League of Ireland season, Sligo won their first ever FAI League Cup.
Ogden signed to the Shelbourne for the 1999-2000 League of Ireland season under Dermot Keely, and made his debut in the 1999 UEFA Intertoto Cup tie against Neuchâtel Xamax at the Stade de la Maladière (1924). However, after only 5 league appearances he moved to Galway United in November 1999. In January 2000, the Tribesmen knocked the defending League champions out of the FAI Cup and beat Sligo 5–0 with Ogden scoring.
Ogden signed for Portadown F.C. in the summer of 2000 and in his second season won the IFA Premiership. He made two appearances in the 2002–03 UEFA Champions League against FC Belshina Bobruisk At the end of the 2002–03 Irish League season, Ogden signed to Larne F.C. Under Jimmy McGeough, Larne reached the 2004–05 Irish Cup Final, where Ogden opened the scoring in a 5–1 loss. In November 2005, Ogden's contract at Inver Park was terminated by Kenny Shiels.
Honours
Irish League
Portadown 2001/2002
Mid-Ulster Cup: 2
Portadown 2001/2002, 2002/2003
League Cup
Sligo Rovers 1997/98
References
1975 births
Living people
English men's footballers
Wigan Athletic F.C. players
Northwich Victoria F.C. players
AmaZulu F.C. players
Sligo Rovers F.C. players
Shelbourne F.C. players
Galway United F.C. (1937–2011) players
Portadown F.C. players
Larne F.C. players
Men's association football defenders
English Football League players
National League (English football) players
League of Ireland players
NIFL Premiership players
Expatriate men's association footballers in the Republic of Ireland
Expatriate men's soccer players in South Africa
People from Higher End
Footballers from Greater Manchester
Sportspeople from the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amastus%20rubicundus
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Amastus rubicundus
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Amastus rubicundus is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Hervé de Toulgoët in 1981. It is found in Peru.
References
Moths described in 1981
rubicundus
Moths of South America
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown%20of%20Creation%20Meets%20Friends
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Crown of Creation Meets Friends
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Crown of Creation Meets Friends is the second album released by West German synthpop/pop group Crown of Creation. It was released in January 1998, and produced by Matthias Dorn and Philippe Beaucamp.
Track listing
All songs written by Thomas Czacharowski. "Gimme Hope" and "Better and better" are written by Thomas Czacharowski and Nicci Knauer. "Friends" was composed by Adrian Lesch and Thomas Czacharowski. Frank Müller wrote the songs for Frank & Friends.
Personnel
Crown of Creation
Nicci Knauer: Vocals
Thomas Czacharowski: Synthesizer
Adrian Lesch: Synthesizer
Olaf Oppermann: Guitar
Additional musicians
Jeanette: Backing vocals
Olaf: Backing Vocals
Production
Produced by Matthias Dorn (Ibex Studio, Großenheidorn, all tracks except 3) & Philippe Beaucamp (Studio Adam, Roissy-en-Brie, France, track 3)
Recorded & Engineered by Matthias Dorn
Technical Assistance: Thomas Czacharowski & Adrian Lesch
Mixed by Matthias Dorn
Tracks on samplers
2003: Berenstark 10 (with When Time is lost)
2004: Berenstark 11 (with Friends)
2010: Abstürzende Brieftauben – TANZEN (with When Time is lost)
External links
Official website
References
1998 albums
Crown of Creation (band) albums
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabhani%20dynasty
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Nabhani dynasty
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The Nabhani dynasty (or Nabhanids; ʾusrat banī nabhān), members of the Bani Nabhan family, also referred to as the Sultans of Sohar, were rulers of Oman from 1154 until 1624, when the Yaruba dynasty took power.
One of their most visible legacies is the Bahla Fort, a large complex of mud brick buildings on stone foundations which is registered as a UNESCO world heritage site.
Background
After the early days of Islam, the tribes in the interior of Oman were led by Imams, who held both spiritual and temporal power.
The Yahmad branch of Azd tribes gained power in the 9th century.
They established a system where the ulama of the Banu Sama, the largest of the Nizari tribes of the interior, would select the Imam.
The authority of the Imams declined due to power struggles.
During the 11th and 12th centuries Oman was controlled by the Seljuk Empire. They were expelled in 1154, when the Nabhani dynasty came to power.
Rule
Bani Nabhan were one of the Arab tribes of the interior with an ascribed Azdi origin. After the collapse of the Makramid dynasty, the Buyids appointed the Bani Nabhan as the governors of Sohar. The Nabhanids retained their power under the transition to Seljuk rule, and emerged as sovereign rulers after the waning of the Seljuk state. They eventually came to control cities in the interior such as Nizwa and Rustaq, but these were won back by the Ibadi Imamate.
The best quality frankincense, a valuable product in the Middle Ages, comes from Dhofar in the interior of southern Oman.
The Banu Nabhan controlled the trade in frankincense on the overland route via Sohar to the Yabrin oasis, and then north to Bahrain, Baghdad and Damascus.
Muhammed al-Fallah of the Banu Nabhan emerged as a powerful leader in 1151 and had taken control by 1154.
He lived until 1176.
The Nabhans ruled as muluk, or kings, while the Imams were reduced to largely symbolic significance.
The Imams lost moral authority since the title came to be treated as the property of the dominant tribe at any time.
According to the historian Sirhan bin Said there were no records of Imams from 1153, when Imam Musa bin Abu Ja'afar died, until 1406, when Imam Hubaise bin Muhammad died.
The Nabhan came to make their capital at Bahla.
The Bahla Fort is called Hisn Tammah, and is said to take its name from an Iranian ruler of the town before the Islamic period. The fort testifies to the power of the Nabhani in their heyday.
The period is poorly documented. It seems that at times the Nabhani only controlled part of the interior of the country, and at other times also ruled over the coastal lands. The Oman suffered from Persian invasions, and at one point the coast was controlled by the Kingdom of Hormuz. The Nabhan coordinated themselves politically with the Kingdom of Hormuz while they managed matters of the Omani interior. The Banu Nabhan were dominant over the other tribes until the end of the 15th century.
There are records of personal visits by Nabhani rulers to Ethiopia, Zanzibar, the Lamu Archipelago of what is now Kenya, and Persia.
The al-Nabhani dynasty of Pate Island in the Lamu Archipelago claimed descent from the Omani dynasty.
Aqueel Bin Nabhan
Decline and fall
Oman had an elected Imam and a hereditary Nabhani sultan from the 15th century into the 17th century, with the Imams gaining the ascendancy.
The Nabhani ruler Suleiman bin Mudhafar was removed by the Imam Muhammad ibn Ismail (1500–29).
However, the Nabhanis clung to power in the Bahla region.
In 1507 the Portuguese captured the coastal city of Muscat, and gradually extended their control along the coast up to Sohar in the north and down to Sur in the southeast.
Omani histories record that the Bahla fort was destroyed in the early 17th century shortly before the Ya'Aruba dynasty took control of Oman, although it is possible that parts of the old structure remained and were used as the basis for later construction.
In 1624 Nasir bin Murshid of the Ya'Aruba took over control of Oman.
Later years
The Nabahina retained power at the beginning of the Ya'rubi state and they treated Jabal al-akhdar (The Green Mountains located in the interior of Oman) as an emirate.
Thus, the Nabahinah transferred their loyalties from the Banu Rawahah to the Banu Riyam at the beginning of the seventeenth century.
They became the tamimah of the Banu Riyam and princes of the Jabal al-Akhdar, and survived as such until they were defeated in the war of Jabal Akhdar in 1956.
At the time the Sheikh of the Bani Riyam was Suleiman bin Himyar Al-Nabhani, Lord of the Jebel Akhdar-and descendant of the ancient Nabahina dynasty.
After the war Suleiman bin Himyar fled to Saudi Arabia where he remained in exile until he returned to Oman on Thursday, 28 November 1996, where he lived his remaining days in Muscat until he died on Thursday, 7 May 1998 - most of his kin remain to this day living in Muscat the capital of Oman.
Although the Ya'Aruba ruled under the title of Imam, since they originated from the Nabahina kings dynasty they actually continued to rule as kings inheriting the title of Imam through vertical succession, thereby contradicting the Imamate tradition which provides that the Imam must be chosen from amongst the ahl al-hal wal ‘aqd transliterated as "those who loosen and bind". (This concept evolved during the period of the Khulafa ar-Rashidoon as a mechanism to choose the leader of the Muslims. The ahl al-hal wal ‘aqd are the leading personalities of society who are knowledgeable and have a proven track record of sincerity and sacrifice. They have no personal or class interests. The person who is appointed leader also does not covet such a position but is seen as most suitable for the job.)
List of sultans
Notes and references
Notes
Citations
Sources
Omani monarchy
Omani imams
History of Oman
12th century in Asia
1154 in Asia
1624 in Asia
1624 disestablishments
Arab dynasties
Omani Ibadi Muslims
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazaeras%20mediofasciata
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Mazaeras mediofasciata
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Mazaeras mediofasciata is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by James John Joicey and George Talbot in 1916. It is found in Peru.
References
Moths described in 1916
Phaegopterina
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhubahashini%20Disanayaka%20Ratnayaka
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Madhubahashini Disanayaka Ratnayaka
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Madhubhashini Disanayaka Ratnayaka is a Sri Lankan academic and author. Her novel There is Something I Have to Tell You won the Gratiaen Prize in 2011. She is the Head of English Language at the University of Sri Jayewardenepura.
Early life
Madhubhashini Disanayaka Ratnayake is the daughter of Professor Emeritus J. B. Disanayaka. She was educated at Ladies' College, Colombo and went on to gain a BA at the University of Allahabad and won a Fulbright scholarship to study for a Masters in American and English Literature at the New York University.
Works
The works she has authored include;
Novels
There is Something I have to Tell You
Short stories
Driftwood
Tales of Shades and Shadow
A strange Tale of Love
Radio plays
Voices from Afar
Children's stories
Raththa
Animal Tales
Non fiction
Contemporary Sinhala Fiction
Awards and honors
2011: Gratiaen Prize, winner, There is Something I have to Tell You
2004: Gratiaen Prize, short-list, A strange Tale of Love
2001: Gratiaen Prize, short-list, Tales of Shades and Shadow
1990: State Literary Award, Best Collection of Short Stories in English, Driftwood
References
The Gratiaen Prize 2011 - Shortlisted Authors
Living people
Sri Lankan novelists
Sri Lankan women novelists
Sinhalese academics
English-language writers from Sri Lanka
New York University alumni
University of Allahabad alumni
Alumni of Ladies' College, Colombo
Year of birth missing (living people)
Sri Lankan women academics
Sri Lankan expatriates in the United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Biggest%20Game%20in%20Town%20%28game%20show%29
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The Biggest Game in Town (game show)
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The Biggest Game in Town was a British quiz show that aired on ITV between 10 September and 21 December 2001. The programme was broadcast live and was based on the game of bingo. It was presented by Steve Le Fevre.
Premise
The programme was broadcast live on ITV each afternoon, originally at 1pm, but later moved to midday. On Fridays, an extra game was played at 5:30pm, which was known as the 'Friday Flyer'.
Each show featured two separate games that ran concurrently, a studio game between three contestants with a top prize of £5,550 and a home game with a daily jackpot pool of £5,000. Friday Flyer editions featured a larger home jackpot, starting at £7,500 plus any unclaimed cash prizes from the past week. The cash prizes in the studio game were also doubled but the top prize remained the same.
There was also a viewer competition in each show with different prize on offer each time.
Bobby Davro stood in as host for three editions, including a Friday Flyer celebrity special, towards the end of the series when Le Fevre was unable to host due to illness.
Studio game
The studio game was divided into three rounds with the main aim being the first to fill up their game board of 15 squares. Each correct answer put a ball in one of the empty spaces of the game board, whilst incorrect answers resulted in contestants being frozen out of the next question, this was later changed to having a ball removed from their board.
Round 1
In the first round, contestants played to fill the four corners on their game board. Questions were based on the past day's news stories (or the past week's events in Friday Flyer editions), with £250 (£500 in Friday Flyer editions) won for the first to fill all four corners.
Round 2
In the second round, contestants played to fill the middle line of their game board. Questions were on various subjects of entertainment, usually movies, music and television. Some of the questions in this round were based on programmes being shown on ITV1 that evening. £500 was won (£1,000 in Friday Flyer editions) for the being the first to fill the middle line.
Round 3
The third and final round of the main game saw contestants compete to fill the remaining spaces on their board with all questions being on general knowledge. The first to fill their board or with the most balls on their board when a time up klaxon sounded won the game. A full house was worth £1,000 to the contestant, otherwise an extra £50 was added to their winnings per each ball added in that round. These values were doubled to £2,000 and £100 respectively in Friday Flyer editions.
End Game
The winner of the studio game had 45 seconds to fill a cash board with three different amounts - £50, £500 and £5,000 - hence the show's top prize of £5,550. Every correct answer added one digit to the board and if the board was filled in time, the entire £5,550 was won, otherwise the contestant went away with the total value of the cash filled on the board, e.g. if the contestant filled in the £50 the £500 values but only filled the 5 and first zero of the £5,000 value, their total winnings for the round would be £600.
Home game
The home game was done in the more traditional bingo standard of crossing off numbers on their board. In order to be within a chance of winning either the entire or a share of the jackpot pool, they had to register their game card by telephoning a hotline number before the show began. Game cards were available on a three week basis, each containing three weeks worth of game boards, and they were only available to collect for free by the show's internet website to be mailed to the recipient's home address.
In each game, every correct answer in the studio generated a number between 1 and 45 for home players to mark on their card. When each round in the studio game was completed, double numbers were generated for the home game and later editions saw double numbers used for every correct answer in the final round. A live leaderboard was used to track the progress of those who had registered their cards to play during the game.
The game was designed in such a way that a home winner was always determined first before that day's winner of the studio game.
Midway during the show's run, the voiceover artist Richard Easter, doubled as a co-presenter from the studio gallery, recapping the numbers generated before the advert break, and then giving an update on the location of the jackpot winners at the end of the show. On Friday Flyer editions, this role was taken up by Ted Robbins.
Demise
The show was not recommissioned at the conclusion of the original series. Whilst no apparent reason was given, it has been suggested that low uptake of the home game was part of the reason for its abrupt cancellation, many viewers were reluctant in having to call a paid telephone line each day in order to take part.
References
External links
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2001 British television series debuts
2001 British television series endings
2000s British game shows
English-language television shows
ITV game shows
Television series by ITV Studios
Television shows produced by Granada Television
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedaiellidae
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Fedaiellidae
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Fedaiellidae is an extinct family of fossil sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Neritimorpha.
Distribution
Fossils of the genus Fedaiella are found in the marine strata of the Quaternary of Japan, the Paleocene of Poland and the Triassic of Italy.
References
Paleobiology Database
Prehistoric gastropods
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listed%20buildings%20in%20Baddiley
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Listed buildings in Baddiley
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Baddiley is a civil parish in Cheshire East, England. It contains nine buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England as designated listed buildings. Of these, one is listed at Grade I, the highest grade, and the others are at Grade II. Apart from the village of Baddily, the parish is entirely rural. The listed buildings consist of the village church, houses and farm buildings. The Llangollen Canal runs through the parish, and the three locks on the canal in the parish are also listed.
Key
Buildings
References
Citations
Sources
Listed buildings in the Borough of Cheshire East
Lists of listed buildings in Cheshire
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluefire%20Reader
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Bluefire Reader
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Bluefire Reader is an e-book reader application for Android (superseded by Cloudshelf Reader), iOS and Windows operating systems that supports white-labelling. It supports the EPUB and PDF formats for digital publications and incorporates facilities for browsing online catalogs, and downloading them directly into the user's personal library. The application features a library that lets users navigate their collection of eBooks, as well as provides a customizable reading experience through configurable font and background color, font size and type, margin size, display brightness, page turn mode, etc. Additionally, the application allows users to import their own books to read them on the go.
Features
In-app browsing and downloading capability
Read detailed descriptions before purchase & download
Adjust front, background, link, layout & text alignment
Day/Night themes: switch between day/night mode when reading in high/low-luminosity areas
Brightness Control
Customizable navigation modes
Full support for Table of Contents
Bookmarks: allows users to create their own bookmarks anywhere in a book to remember sections of interest
Progress: allows users to check their reading progress in a chapter and in a book
Share: allows users to recommend books to others via email, Facebook, Twitter, SMS...
The reading engine automatically adjusts to the size of the device’s display
Library management: books can be organized by Collections
Edit detailed book information (title, author, tag, collection, rating)
Sort books by title, author, download late, last read date or rating
Import: allows users to import their own books to read them on the go
Open images within a book in a separate viewer
Open links within a book on browser
Full text search: allows users to search any word globally within a book
Dictionary lookup: allows users to look up any word definition in an online dictionary using Google define.
Option to lock display orientation on iOS
Option to set text alignment to left, justify or right
Go To: allows users to quickly access any position within a book
Support for Adobe DRM
References
External links
Bluefirereader.com, Bluefire Reader's official website
Bluefire Cloudshelf Reader, Google Play Store Link (Free)
iOS App Store Link
See also
Bluefire jellyfish
EPUB readers
Android (operating system) software
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists%20of%20rulers%20in%20the%20Low%20Countries
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Lists of rulers in the Low Countries
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These are Lists of monarchs in the Low Countries.
List of counts of Artois
List of Belgian monarchs
List of lords and margraves of Bergen op Zoom
List of counts van Bergh
List of dukes of Bouillon
List of lords of Bouillon
List of dukes of Brabant (including the counts of Louvain, counts of Brussels, landgraves of Brabant, dukes of Lothier, and rulers of Limburg)
List of dukes of Burgundy (1384–1795, see also List of counts of Burgundy)
List of bishops and archbishops of Cambrai
List of counts of Chiny
List of counts and dukes of Cleves
List of lords and counts of Egmont
List of counts of Flanders (see also List of countesses of Flanders by marriage)
List of monarchs of Frisia (including the kings/dukes of Frisia (600–775), counts of Frisia (775–885), and counts of Holland and West-Frisia (885–1433))
List of counts and dukes of Guelders
List of counts of Hainaut
List of counts of Holland and West Frisia (see also List of rulers of Frisia#House of West Frisia)
List of counts and dukes of Jülich
List of counts of Loon
List of kings and dukes of Lorraine (Middle Francia (843–855), Lower Lorraine (959–1190))
List of bishops and prince-bishops of Liège
List of counts and dukes of Limburg
List of monarchs of Luxembourg (including counts, dukes and grand dukes)
List of counts and margraves of Namur
List of kings of Holland (1806–1810)
List of monarchs of the Netherlands (1813–present)
List of abbesses of Thorn Abbey
List of bishops and archbishops of Utrecht
List of counts of Zutphen
Leaders of Frisii, Belgae, Canninefates and Batavi (before 400)
See also
Style of the Dutch sovereign
Succession to the Dutch throne
List of counts of East Frisia
List of governors of the Habsburg Netherlands
List of Grand Pensionaries (Holland, Zeeland, Batavian Republic)
List of heirs to the Dutch throne
List of stadtholders in the Netherlands
List of monarchs of the Netherlands#Stadtholderate under the House of Orange-Nassau
Notes
References
Works cited
Low Countries
Low Countries
Lists of Belgian nobility
Lists of Dutch nobility
Lists of Luxembourgian nobility
Rulers
Rulers
History of the Low Countries
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/444%20Combat%20Support%20Squadron
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444 Combat Support Squadron
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444 Combat Support Squadron is an Air Force unit with the Canadian Armed Forces. Based at CFB Goose Bay, it provides helicopter support to the base operations.
History
444 Fighter Squadron was formed in March 1953 at CFB St. Hubert, Quebec and moved to CFB Baden-Soellingen in West Germany.
Disbanded 1967, it was re-formed as 444 Tactical Helicopter Squadron at CFB Lahr, West Germany in 1972 as part of Canadian Forces Europe until 1991 and again in CFB Goose Bay in 1993.
Past Aircraft
de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk April 1948 – 1949
Auster AOP.6 June 1948 – 1949
CL-13 Sabre 1953–1962
CF-104 Starfighter 1962–1972
CH-112 Nomad 1961–1972
CH-136 Kiowa 1972–1991
CH-135 Twin Huey 1993–1996
References
Military units and formations of Quebec
Royal Canadian Air Force squadrons
Canadian Forces aircraft squadrons
Military units and formations established in 1953
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final%20Battle%202013
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Final Battle 2013
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Final Battle 2013 was the 12th Final Battle professional wrestling event produced by Ring of Honor (ROH), which occurred on December 14, 2013 at the Hammerstein Ballroom in Manhattan, New York.
Background
Final Battle 2013 featured eight professional wrestling matches, which involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds, plots, and storylines that played out on ROH's television programs. Wrestlers portrayed villains or heroes as they followed a series of events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.
Results
See also
List of Ring of Honor pay-per-view events
References
External links
Ring of Honor's official website
2013 in professional wrestling
2013 in New York City
2013
Professional wrestling in New York City
Events in New York City
December 2013 events in the United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960%20NCAA%20University%20Division%20baseball%20season
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1960 NCAA University Division baseball season
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The 1960 NCAA University Division baseball season, play of college baseball in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) began in the spring of 1960. The season progressed through the regular season and concluded with the 1960 College World Series. The College World Series, held for the fourteenth time in 1960, consisted of one team from each of eight geographical districts and was held in Omaha, Nebraska at Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium as a double-elimination tournament. Minnesota claimed the championship.
Conference winners
This is a partial list of conference champions from the 1960 season. Each of the eight geographical districts chose, by various methods, the team that would represent them in the NCAA tournament. 10 teams earned automatic bids by winning their conference championship while 16 teams earned at-large selections.
Conference standings
The following is an incomplete list of conference standings:
College World Series
The 1960 season marked the fourteenth NCAA baseball tournament, which culminated with the eight team College World Series. The College World Series was held in Omaha, Nebraska. The eight teams played a double-elimination format, with Minnesota claiming their second championship with a 2–1 win over Southern California in the final.
Award winners
All-America team
References
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20G.%20Lawson
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David G. Lawson
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David G. Lawson (born October 29, 1946) is an American politician and a Republican member of the Delaware Senate, where he has represented the 15th District since 2011.
Biography
Lawson was born on October 29, 1946, in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and raised on a farm in the Allegheny Mountains.
Lawson enlisted in the United States Air Force and completed a tour of duty in Vietnam before being honorably discharged in 1969. After his retirement from the Air Force, Lawson settled in Harrington, Delaware, where he served as a volunteer with the Harrington Fire Company. He began a career in law enforcement with the Milford Police Department where he worked as a policeman until transferring to the Delaware State Police in 1973. He retired in 1992 and served as a Delaware State Police Range Instructor and as the Lieutenant of the Special Operations Response Team. Lawson attended Glendale Community College, Delaware Technical Community College, and the Delaware State Police Academy.
Lawson was rebuked by Senate President pro tempore David McBride in April 2017 after Lawson called it "despicable" to allow two Muslims to read from the Quran for the daily invocation. Lawson also claimed that the Quran "calls for our very demise". Muslim leaders and others in Delaware condemned Lawson's comments and described them as Islamophobic. Lawson subsequently blamed McBride for holding up legislation that would require courts to use American law, claiming that McBride felt the bill was "anti-Muslim".
In 2019, Lawson was criticized for pushing a bill to prevent "foreign laws" from being utilized in local courts, which was seen as targeting Islam in particular. Lawson responded by questioning whether Muslim Americans want to "subvert our constitution".
Elections
In 2016, Lawson was unopposed for the Republican primary and won the general election unopposed with 15,036 votes.
In 2012, Lawson was unopposed for the Republican primary and won the three-way general election with 9,547 votes (50.6%) against Democratic nominee Kathleen Cooke and Independent candidate Catherine Samardza.
In 2010, Lawson was unopposed for the Republican primary and challenged incumbent Democratic Senator Nancy W. Cook in the general election, winning with 8,370 votes (52.3%).
References
External links
Official page at the Delaware General Assembly
Campaign site
1946 births
Living people
21st-century American politicians
Republican Party Delaware state senators
Glendale Community College (California) alumni
People from Kent County, Delaware
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIETC
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WIETC
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Weihai International Economic & Technical Cooperative Co., Ltd. (abbreviated as WIETC) is a Chinese construction contractor that specializes in overseas construction and engineering projects. Based on international project revenue of $228.8 million in 2012, the company was listed among the 250 largest international contractors by the Engineering News-Record.
The company has a major presence in building key infrastructure in Congo-Brazzaville including 15 projects, according to a 2009 report. One project is the construction of upgrades to Maya-Maya International Airport in a $160 million project. The upgrades consisted of primarily building two modules of a new terminal for handling domestic and international traffic separately, and work on a new runway, rehabilitation of another runway, and building of a transformer sub-station. The company works with the Congolese government in a public-private partnership to build up the national housing stock, a shortage that is one of the main concerns of poverty alleviation.
In China Safari, a book published in 2008 about China-Africa relations, the company features prominently in a chapter about Congo-Brazzaville. The author documents a symbiotic relationship between the Congolese minister of construction and housing, Claude Alphonse N'Silou, who needed to get public goods delivered fast to win his parliamentary seat, with WIETC which was able to build infrastructure at a speed that impressed the minister. In the book the minister heaps praise on the company in the following quote: "They come from so far away, yet look how quickly they adapt. They live modestly, as we do, and we all get along very well with one another."
References
Government-owned companies of China
Construction and civil engineering companies of China
Companies based in Weihai
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominic%20Selwood
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Dominic Selwood
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Dominic Selwood (born 19 December 1970) is an English historian, author, journalist and barrister. He has written several works of history, historical fiction and historical thrillers, most notably The Sword of Moses. and Anatomy of a Nation. A History of British Identity in 50 Documents. His background is in medieval history.
Early life and career
Selwood was born on 19 December 1970 in England, and grew up in Salisbury, Cyprus, and Germany. He went to school at Edge Grove School and Winchester College, and studied law and French law at the University of Wales.
He was awarded a scholarship to the University of Poitiers, where a chance meeting in a local café with the publisher (and early sponsor of Private Eye) Anthony Blond led to a collaboration on Blond's Roman Emperors. His doctoral research on medieval religious and military life, specialising in the Knights Templar and Knights Hospitaller, the two leading military orders of the Crusades, was undertaken as a member of New College, Oxford. While conducting his research, he won a research scholarship to the Sorbonne in the history of Byzantium and the Christian Near-East, where he was awarded a double first class.
In 1997 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and he is also an elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
He was called to the Bar in London by Lincoln's Inn, joined a set of barristers' chambers in the Inner Temple, and was a member of the Western Circuit. In a 2014 interview he said that his work as a criminal barrister had been formative for writing thrillers. He is one of the founders of Arabesque Partners.
Selwood says he is "obsessed with the weirder side of the past", and describes himself as a "deeply fuzzy and laissez-faire English Catholic". He speaks regularly about history at schools, universities, literary festivals, learned societies and institutions like the British Library and British Museum.
Selwood served in the British Army Reserve, attending the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, before commissioning into the General Service Corps, reaching the rank of Captain.
In 2023 he was a non-fiction writing mentor for London Jewish Book Week's Genesis Emerging Writers' programme.
Journalism and media
Newspapers and magazines
Selwood writes as a non-political journalist for the UK's Daily Telegraph newspaper and is currently a resident history columnist, including the daily 'On this Day' column. His writing has been described as a "must read", "a fascinating change from the usual dusty history books", and "strident debunkery". He has also written and reviewed for The Times Literary Supplement, The New Statesman, The Spectator, The Independent, CityAM, Prospect Magazine, The Harvard Business Review, The Tablet and The Catholic Herald.
Television and radio
He appears regularly on television and radio as a historical commentator and adviser, and on discussion shows like the BBC's The Big Questions. He appears often on international news programmes explaining historical events, and is a regular on the Discovery Channel's prime time series Mysteries of the Abandoned.
Bibliography
Non-fiction
Henry I, in Kings and Queens: 1200 Years of English and British Monarchs edited by Iain Dale, (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2023)
Anatomy of a Nation. A History of British Identity in 50 Documents (Constable, London, 2021)
Punctuation Without Tears: Punctuate Confidently – in Minutes!, illustrated by Delia Johnson, (Corax, London, 2018) , voted five stars by The Independent for putting simplicity and fun back into good writing.
Spies, Sadists and Sorcerers: The History You Weren't Taught at School (Crux Publishing, London, 2015)
Knights of the Cloister (The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 1999) , a study of the medieval Knights Templar and Knights Hospitaller, the first study to deal in detail with their lives and activities in the south of France (their European headquarters), demonstrating how they raised the manpower, money and weapons to support the crusades in the East.
Fiction
Novels
The Apocalypse Fire (Canelo, London, 2016; Corax, London, 2016) , a best-selling thriller described by the British Army's official magazine as "the best of James Bond and The Da Vinci Code".
The Sword of Moses (Corax, London, 2013; Canelo, London, 2015) , a best-selling thriller, voted Editor's 'Pick of the Week' by the Daily Express (7 February 2014) and one of 'The Five Best Religious Thrillers of All Time' by BestThrillers.com (3 December 2014).
Ghost stories
Cotton Cleopatra F VIII: The Abbess's Tale (Corax, London, 2022)
Suffer the Children (Corax, London, 2015)
The Voivod (Corax, London, 2015)
Filmography
Revelation, Cyclops Vision, starring Terence Stamp, Udo Kier, written and directed by Stuart Urban
Views
Museums
Selwood has defended universal museums, stressing their origin as Enlightenment foundations as opposed to colonial or imperial trophy cabinets. He has argued for the accurate labelling of museum exhibits to take into account their full histories. He has, in particular, advocated for a historic understanding of the British Museum's acquisition of the Elgin Marbles, noting that the Seventh Earl of Elgin obtained a firman from the Sublime Porte of Constantinople to transport them to Britain, and that Parliament investigated the lawfulness of his possession of the sculptures before purchasing them from him and donating them, in trust, to the British Museum.
In May 2022 Selwood debated Stephen Fry at the Oxford University Union on the subject of repatriating cultural artefacts.
British Catholicism
Along with Eamonn Duffy, Selwood has written of Britain's strong Catholic heritage before the Reformation, pointing to its vibrancy and long heritage, locating it within a unified European Christendom, and noting the extreme measures used by the Tudors to suppress it.
Shroud of Turin
Pointing to medieval church records, Selwood has argued for a medieval origin for the Shroud of Turin. In support of this he has pointed to the scientific evidence. After much toing and froing, the shroud was finally carbon dated in 1988 under the supervision of the British Museum. Laboratories in Oxford, Tucson, and Zurich were each sent a 40-gram section the size of a postage stamp, along with three control samples. The laboratories worked entirely independently of each other, and when the results were in, they all concurred, providing 95 per cent confidence in a date range of AD 1260–1390.
Richard III
Selwood has argued for the guilt of Richard III in the death of the Princes in the Tower.Cui bono? is still the starting point for murder investigations the world over, and the main beneficiary of the princes’ permanent exit from the succession was undoubtedly Richard. Not only did he have the strongest motive, but he also had the boys under his absolute control, along with a proven disregard for their entitlements and well-being. He also never made any attempt to explain publicly where they were, or what had happened to them under his ‘protection’. Selwood has also questioned the accuracy of the DNA tests that identified a skeleton found under a carpark in Leicester in 2012 as the remains of Richard III, pointing to the wrong radio carbondating range until adjusted for a fish diet, a wrong male-line Y-chromosome, and likely wrong hair and eye pigmentation.
Music
Selwood played bass in London hard rock band The Binmen with The Sweet and Slade singer Mal McNulty and Ozzy Osbourne and Necromandus drummer Frank Hall. In 2022 he was a guest DJ on Planet Rock radio.
He has dealt extensively with music in his journalism, and wrote the obituary of Lemmy, founder of Motörhead. in The Spectator, describing him as "a national treasure – a unique collision of swing and amphetamines".
References
External links
Official web site
Author reading from Anatomy of a Nation for New College Oxford Reads To You
Author reading of J L Borges The Witness for New College Oxford Reads To You
Articles at The Telegraph
Author interview
1970 births
Living people
People from Salisbury
People from Wiltshire
People educated at Winchester College
Alumni of New College, Oxford
University of Paris alumni
University of Poitiers alumni
Alumni of the Inns of Court School of Law
Fellows of the Royal Historical Society
British medievalists
English historians
21st-century English novelists
English thriller writers
Ghost story writers
British barristers
English male journalists
English bloggers
English Roman Catholic writers
English male novelists
21st-century English male writers
British male bloggers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sniper%20Elite%20III
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Sniper Elite III
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Sniper Elite III is a 2014 third-person tactical shooter stealth video game developed and published by Rebellion Developments. The game is a prequel to its 2012 predecessor Sniper Elite V2, and is the third installment in the Sniper Elite series. A direct sequel, Sniper Elite 4, was released in 2017.
Sniper Elite III is set around three years prior to the events of V2, following the exploits of OSS officer Karl Fairburne as he participates in the North African conflict during World War II, and works to stop the development of a deadly new weapon and eliminate the renegade Nazi commander responsible for it.
Gameplay
The game retains and builds on the mechanics of Sniper Elite V2. Players go through large sandbox-style battlefield maps based on locations from the North African theater of World War II.
The sniper rifle is the player's primary weapon, though additional weapons, including submachine guns and pistols (silenced or not depending on the situation) are available. In addition to hand grenades, the player can deploy tripwire booby traps, two different types of land mines, and dynamite. Binoculars can be used to tag enemies, displaying their position and movements. Small fires can be set to distract enemies or detonate explosives. The player-character can hold their breath while aiming to properly line up a shot. A red icon appears in the scope, marking the projected point of impact. There are weapon parts spread out all over the game or found when looting dead enemies, allowing players to customize their weapons in the pre-deployment menu; the menu also allows equipment loadouts.
Stealth mechanics have been reworked. An eye icon squints or opens to denote the player's level of detection by the enemy. Enemy soldiers will also have a circle meter over their heads to indicate alert status. Players are also forced to relocate periodically to prevent detection with a white ghost image to mark their last known position if spotted; enemy soldiers will search the surrounding area either individually or in groups. As in the previous game, loud sounds may be used to mask sniper shots, however, the player now has the option to sabotage generators as a means of creating noise.
A points system is instituted for actions such as stealth close-combat or using traps to kill enemies, with the points accumulating towards promotion to higher ranks. Players can go around the map to collect special reward items such as collectors' cards and unlock "sniper nests" built into the environment. Journal pages also provide further backstory into the events of the game.
V2s X-Ray kill cam system is retained as well. Where the previous game only allowed the player to see the body's internal structure at point of impact, the new game expands to visualize the rest of the cardiovascular, skeletal, and muscular systems. The player can still target vehicles, but now has a chance to shoot the engines and disable the vehicle, making it easier to destroy.
Multiplayer
Multiplayer in Sniper Elite III consists of five modes of competitive gameplay: Team Deathmatch, Deathmatch, Distance King, No Cross, and Capture the Flag. Similar to the main campaign, there are a large selection of maps to play on with large open environments.
Plot
In June 1942, during the Battle of Gazala, American sniper Karl Fairburne (Tom Clarke-Hill) takes part in an effort by British troops to stop Erwin Rommel and the Afrika Korps from seizing the vital port city of Tobruk. Fairburne eliminates several German artillery positions, but the enemy takes the city and he is forced to abandon his fellow soldiers. Nevertheless, his performance in the battle brings him to the attention of British Naval Intelligence, who recruit him to hunt down General Franz Vahlen, a favorite of Hitler's who is rumored to be working on a top-secret weapon.
Fairburne heads to the Gaberoun oasis in Libya, assassinating several German and Italian officers at a supply and logistics outpost while searching for intel on Vahlen. He only finds a document revealing the name of Vahlen's project: "Project Seuche" (German for "plague"). Naval Intelligence then asks Fairburne to rescue one of their agents, who was captured while gathering information on Vahlen's work. The informant is being held at Fort Rifugio, a POW camp formerly occupied by the British during Operation Compass. The Long Range Desert Group agrees to transport Fairburne in exchange for his help in capturing the German-held Halfaya Pass; Fairburne infiltrates the enemy camp and destroys several Flak 88s.
Fairburne successfully infiltrates Fort Rifugio and frees the informant, Brauer. He gives Fairburne the location of Vahlen's command, a desert village at the Siwa Oasis in Western Egypt. Fairburne, now referred to as the Wüstengeist (Desert Ghost) by the Germans for his exploits, sneaks into the town and finds out that Vahlen's discontented officers plan to betray him, having stolen his personal notebook which reveals his plan to get rid of Rommel. Fairburne kills the officer tasked to take the notebook to Berlin and escapes with Brauer's help. He discovers that Vahlen, hungry for glory and fame, intends to use his new weapon to destroy the Allies in North Africa and then go on to conquer all of Europe.
Fairburne and Brauer locate Vahlen's secret field HQ near the Kasserine Pass and open the general's personal safe, which contains a film reel that reveals "Project Seuche" is a supertank codenamed Ratte. Brauer is subsequently killed by a round from a Tiger I before Fairburne is able to destroy it. He buries Brauer, taking a bullet from his gun. As the Africa Korps begin to lose ground to the Allies, Fairburne joins the LRDG in assaulting the German-controlled Pont du Fahs Airfield, cutting off Vahlen's last supply line and finding a map leading to the Ratte production facility, which is nestled inside the Midès canyon. Fairburne enters the factory, sabotages its electrical supply and plants explosive charges to destroy the Ratte prototype, before detonating a massive pile of ammunition to level the complex. Vahlen is trapped by debris while fleeing the crumbling factory; Fairburne takes his Luger, loads it with Brauer's bullet, and shoots him in the head before escaping.
A voiceover by Fairburne during the end credits reveals that the intelligence he acquired on the Ratte prompted the USAAF and the RAF to launch Operation Chastise and the Battle of the Ruhr, resulting in extensive damage to German heavy industry and forcing the German high command to cancel efforts to build more Ratte tanks.
Release and downloadable content
Sniper Elite III was released worldwide for Microsoft Windows on 27 June 2014. The game was simultaneously released in PAL regions for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One, and in North America on 1 July by 505 Games.
On 21 July 2014, Rebellion Developments announced a new downloadable content (DLC) pack for Sniper Elite III. The DLC pack adds three new missions, one of which the player needs to save Winston Churchill from a German assassination attempt. In the first mission, "In Shadows", Fairburne must uncover the identity of Churchill's would-be assassins. He does this by sneaking back into the Siwa Oasis in Western Egypt which by this point has been won and lost by the Allies since his last visit. In the process, he learns the identity of the assassins and their leader. In the second mission, "Belly of the Beast", Fairburne must infiltrate the assassins' base in the Rif mountains in Morocco. Along the way, he uncovers evidence of a dangerous prototype weapon, the plans that describe how the assassination will be carried out, and where it will take place. During the final mission, "Confrontation", Fairburne must save Churchill from his would-be killers as the Prime Minister heads to the Casablanca Conference. Fairburne must eliminate any and all threats to Churchill including mortars, mines, rocket launchers, tanks, elite German soldiers and a mysterious masked marksman known only as Raubvogel. Other DLCs include new weapon packs. A definitive version of the game containing most of the DLC titled Sniper Elite III Ultimate Edition was released for consoles on 10 March 2015 in North America and on 13 March 2015 in Europe and APAC regions. A version for Nintendo Switch self-published by Rebellion Developments was released worldwide for the Nintendo Switch on 1 October 2019.
Reception
Sniper Elite III received "mixed or average" reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic.
Hardcore Gamer Matt Whittaker gave the game a 3/5, writing: "Though its stealth-based sniping gameplay can provide some exciting moments, Sniper Elite III is a decidedly mixed bag. Its abysmal narrative, outdated mission design, boring protagonist and weak non-campaign modes overshadow everything that it does well."
Tyler Wilde of PC Gamer criticised graphics ("the character faces are plastic-like") and enemy AI, but praised the player's freedom ("It's a lot of fun to come up with a plan and execute it, and Sniper Elite 3 gives me the freedom and tools to do that"). As far as stealth is concerned, Tyler enjoyed the fact that you can shoot during another sound, thus hiding your position. On the other hand he wrote "there are no surround sound settings, and the audio system is a terrible judge of distance". Finally, he wrote: ”Some of Sniper Elite 3s failures are funny [...] and some of them are frustrating, but its ideas are good and I hope they don't end here. [...] Realistically, I expect we'll have to wait for Sniper Elite 4 for significant improvement" and scored the game a 70/100.
Mikel Reparaz of IGN scored the game an 8.2/10 and wrote: "More than just a showcase for slow-motion gore, Sniper Elite III shines for its open-ended approach to stealth." Reparaz disliked the story, which, according to him, is "awash in clichés and occasionally laughable dialogue", as well as "shaky" artificial intelligence, but spoke positively of the interesting setting, large levels, "immensely satisfying" gore, and multiplayer modes. He also likes the freedom the player has ("how you reach and tackle those objectives is up to you").
Josh Harmon of EGM criticised the plot further ("You go places and shoot bad people, and that’s all you really need to know"), calling the approach to plot "pornographer’s approach to game design". He writes about kill-cam: "The level of variety and detail verges on psychopathic", but "If you get a thrill out of wreaking that sort of anatomical havoc, then Sniper Elite III will offer plenty of excitement".
The EGM reviewer, however, likes sniping. He finds weapons other than rifle badly designed ("The secondary weapons feel weightless, impotent, and inaccurate", "[...] trip mines and dynamite, are aggressively situational to the point of being practically worthless in the wide-open levels"), however he finds stealth using melee attacks and pistol enjoyable.
He sums up: "What we’re left with, then, is a game that revels in split-seconds but struggles to fill the minutes in between." The EGM's review does not concern multiplayer, though.
David Roberts from GamesRadar gave the game a 3 out of 5. He too praised the large environments for allowing strategic play, but felt that the Kill-cam, though a cool feature, "loses appeal fast". Roberts particularly enjoyed the feeling of nailing a perfect shot from a mile away, saying it "never gets old". Roberts' main problems with the game were concerning an "overall lack of polish", and the "flat narrative" and "generic objectives". "Sniper Elite 3 certainly has its share of thrilling moments," Roberts said, "whether you’re hunting blissfully unaware soldiers or being tracked by countersnipers in ghillie suits, but there are too many technical and narrative issues to simply ignore."
Eurogamer Dan Whitehead wrote in his review: "The package as a whole is still very much a rough diamond, but it's a definite improvement over its predecessor. The gruesome kill-cam remains a deliciously wrong thrill and the unifying force that holds the game together, but it's doubtful that it would be enough to paper over the cracks in a fourth game without a major overhaul of the AI and physics code. Even with its flaws, though, Sniper Elite 3 is a solidly enjoyable mid-tier action game. It may not hit the bullseye, but it's getting closer with every shot." Whitehead gave the game a 7/10.
Game Informer Tim Turi wrote: "I openly admit that I love gory kills and living the hero sniper fantasy, but Sniper Elite III only partially delivers on the latter. If you can't get enough of dramatic, transparent shots of enemies getting shredded by sniper fire, Sniper Elite III has you covered in spades. If you're interested in more motivation beyond the glory of the kill, look elsewhere." Turi scored the game a 6.5/10 and had mixed feeling about the visuals, sound, Kill-cam, and controls. The GameRevolution reviewer Gil Almogi wrote that kill-cam "was a visual novelty", however "The effect loses its luster after a few times". The reviewer wrote of "satisfying sniping and stealth gameplay", but complained about narrative: "Sniper Elite III, lacking an interesting or commanding narrative to guide Karl Fairburne’s actions, devolves into just a series of missions and objectives". The GameRevolution reviewer praised visuals: "The texture work is excellent, and various environmental effects like windswept sand and sunlight filtering through bushes keep the visuals feeling natural", but complained the player shoots "the same face over and over ad nauseam, regardless of whether he speaks German or Italian", even though the reviewer admitted this is not unique to this game only. The reviewer seemed to enjoy gadgets in the game, especially trip mines.
GameSpot Josiah Renaudin gave the game a 6/10. Renaudin disliked the balance between sniping (which he admired) and stealth, opining that the stealth is dull and overstays its welcome. Renaudin called the slow-motion kill-camera "devilishly satisfying", and praised the colourful environments for being an improvement over the previous games' instalments. Lastly, even though Renaudin thought the story was "uninspired" and disliked online matchmaking for being "broken", he too praised the level design for encouraging creativity.
Sequel
On 7 March 2016, it was confirmed that a sequel, Sniper Elite 4, would be released in 2016 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. In a blog post dated 10 June 2016, Rebellion co-founders Chris and Jason Kingsley revised the release date to 14 February 2017.
Notes
References
External links
2014 video games
505 Games games
Cultural depictions of Adolf Hitler
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Nintendo Switch games
PlayStation 3 games
PlayStation 4 games
Rebellion Developments games
Sniper Elite
Sniper video games
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot%20Road
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Hot Road
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is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Taku Tsumugi. It was adapted into a live action film that was released on 16 August 2014.
Characters
Kazuki Miyaichi lives with her mother. Kazuki does not like her mother's boyfriend and she feels that she is not loved by her mother. This leads Kazuki to get into trouble.
Kazuki's mother
Hiroshi Haruyama is a troubled kid who does part-time jobs for a living instead of going to school. He is a member of the motorcycle gang “Nights”.
Tōru Tamami
Live-action film
A live-action film based on the manga was released on August 16, 2014.Takahiro Miki directed the film. The film stars Rena Nōnen as Kazuki Miyaichi and Hiroomi Tosaka as Hiroshi Haruyama.
References
External links
1986 manga
Manga adapted into films
Shueisha franchises
Shueisha manga
Shōjo manga
Yankī anime and manga
Japanese romantic drama films
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avraham%20Bar-Am
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Avraham Bar-Am
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Avraham Bar-Am (; born c. 1933) is a retired Israeli general. Bar-Am was the second in command of Israel's Northern Army Command in the 1982 Lebanon War; he retired in 1984. In 1986 he was one of 17 indicted in the Brokers of Death arms case involving the proposed sale of $2bn of US-made Israeli arms to Iran; the case was dropped in 1989 after prosecutors said it could not prove the defendants did not believe their dealings were officially sanctioned.
Career
Bar-Am was an armored battalion commander in the 1967 Six-Day War, with the rank of colonel. Bar-Am blocked the retreat of Egyptian forces through the Sinai's Mitla Pass, against superior numbers and with little fuel and ammunition. He was promoted to brigadier and commanded an armored division in the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Bar-Am was the second in command of Israel's Northern Army Command in the 1982 Lebanon War; he retired in 1984.
References
Israeli generals
Israeli people of the Yom Kippur War
1933 births
Living people
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20doping%20cases%20in%20sport%20%28C%29
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List of doping cases in sport (C)
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This is a sub-list from List of doping cases in sport representing a full list of surnames starting with C.
References
C
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsi%20Agarwal
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Tulsi Agarwal
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Tulsi Agarwal (born 16 June 1959, in Kesinga, Kalahandi district, Odisha) is an Indian politician and a national executive member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Political career
Agarwal was instrumental in the formation of Biju Janta Dal (BJD) in Odisha and its alliance with the BJP. In 2010 he formed an alliance in Jharkhand under the leadership of Shri Arjun Munda. He has had close relations with the top brass of BJP such as the former PM Atal Bihari Vajpaye, Lal Krishna Advani, late Shri Promod Mahajan, Arun Jaitley and others. He is involved in IT/ITES infrastructure development in NCR and was the director of the nationalized Dena bank. Agarwal has been the vice president of the Roller Skating Federation of India since 1990, and because of his efforts, roller skating has received recognition from India's ministry of sports.
Personal life
Tulsi Agrawal is married to Dr. Deepika Agrawal, an associate professor at the University of Delhi. He has a son and 2 daughters.
References
External links
BJP Official Website
Living people
1959 births
People from Kalahandi district
Delhi University alumni
Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Odisha
Biju Janata Dal politicians
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Reimold
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Daniel Reimold
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Daniel Ryan Reimold (January 25, 1981 – August 20, 2015) was an assistant professor of journalism at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. There, he advised The Hawk, the student-run newspaper. He also wrote the college journalism blog College Media Matters.
Career
Daniel Reimold earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in communication studies from Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, and his master's degree in journalism from Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He earned his Ph.D. in journalism and mass communication, and a certificate in contemporary history from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. He had taught at the University of Tampa, in Tampa, Florida. Reimold was a visiting assistant professor of journalism in Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and maintained the student journalism industry blog 'College Media Matters', which is affiliated with the College Media Association.
Death
Reimold's death was announced on August 21, 2015. Coroners reported that he suffered a seizure. He was 34 years old.
Awards
2007 Graduate Associate Outstanding Teacher Award at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio
2004 First recipient of The Philadelphia Inquirers Ralph Vigoda Memorial Award for passion in journalism
Past worksPublished articles in outlets such as
Journalism History
College Media Review
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Tampa Bay Times (formerly known as St. Petersburg Times)
Poynter Online
The Washington Post Published articles in books including:'''
Peck, Lee A., and Guy Reel. Media Ethics at Work: True Stories from Young Professionals. Thousand Oaks: CQ, 2013. Print.
Kanigel, Rachele. The Student Newspaper Survival Guide. Ames, IA: Blackwell, 2006. Print
Books
Reimold, Daniel. Journalism of Ideas: Brainstorming, Developing, and Selling Stories in the Digital Age. New York, N. Y.: Routledge, 2013. Print.
Reimold, Daniel. Sex and the University: Celebrity, Controversy, and a Student Journalism Revolution.'' New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 2010. Print. According to WorldCat, the book is held in 888 libraries
References
External links
Huffingpost.com
Usatodayeducate.com
Collegemediamatters.com
Pbs.org
Poynter.org
1981 births
2015 deaths
Place of birth missing
Saint Joseph's University faculty
Ursinus College alumni
Temple University alumni
Ohio University alumni
University of Tampa faculty
American male journalists
21st-century American journalists
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich%20Lang
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Heinrich Lang
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Heinrich Lang (born in Württemberg, 14 November 1826) was a German Protestant pastor who was well known for preaching that all were equal before God without class distinction.
Early life and teaching
Although known for works in Switzerland, Lang grew up in the German state of Württemberg near Frommern. He was the eighth of ten children. In Frommern his father was a pastor and the ministry had been the family's occupation for generations. His father's teachings were highly influential, and from them Heinrich took his understanding of supernatural revelation, and his belief that all people are equal before God. Heinrich and his brothers were taught Latin by their father while preparing for divinity school.
Heinrich studied theology in Tübingen, where he was influenced by Ferdinand Christian Baur. In 1840, he graduated from college with honors, continued his education, and began living in a Roman Catholic school where he taught.
In 1866, he was promoted and began teaching at a college and living at a monastery. He experienced bouts of melancholy while teaching mathematics, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, but he said that he was reinvigorated by each new group of students.
Works and ministry
Lang's theology writings got him invited to the Saint Peter Church in Zürich, Switzerland as a pastor, where he served until his death.
In 1859, Lang became the editor of the Zeitstimmen für die reformierte Schweiz periodical, which was replaced by Reform in 1872. The Protestáns Society was formed in Hungary in 1860 as a result of Lang's ideas.
In 1863, he moved from the bank of Lake Zürich to Meilen. He was invited to the Saint Peter Church in Zürich as a pastor, where Lang served until his death.
He died in 1876.
Works
Versuch einer christlichen Dogmatik (2. ed. 1865);
Ein Gang durch die Welt (2. ed. 1870);
Religiöse Charaktere (2. ed. 1872);
Stunden der Andacht (1862–65, 2 vol);
Das Leben des Apostels Paulus (1866);
Martin Luther (1870);
Sources
Pallas Nagy Lexikona
References
German Protestant clergy
1826 births
1876 deaths
People from the Kingdom of Württemberg
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20Graz
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Timeline of Graz
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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Graz, Austria.
Prior to 14th century
1180 – Graz becomes capital of the Duchy of Styria.
1239 – Graz Friary active.
14th–16th centuries
1379 – Graz becomes capital of Inner Austria; Leopold III in power.
1438 – Graz Castle built.
1462 – Graz Cathedral built.
1560 – Clock tower built on the Schlossberg.
1585 – University of Graz founded.
1588 – Belltower built on the Schlossberg.
1590 – Dobel Castle built.
17th–18th centuries
1619 – Habsburg Ferdinand II becomes Holy Roman Emperor; relocates from Graz to Vienna.
1635 – Eggenberg Palace built (approximate date).
1640 – Mausoleum of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor consecrated.
1645 – Styrian Armoury built.
1652 – Grabenkirche (church) dedicated.
1724 – Mariatrost Basilica (church) built.
1776 – Schauspielhaus Graz (theatre) built.
1780 – Count John D'Alton becomes Governor.
1786 – Catholic See of Seckau prince-bishop residence relocated to Graz.
1794 – Prison in use.
1797 – French in power.
19th century
1809 – June: Battle of Graz.
1811
Landesmuseum Joanneum (museum) established.
Graz University of Technology founded by Archduke John of Austria
1816 – Music school established.
1823 – Population: 40,000 (approximate).
1828 – Graz Mutual Insurance Company founded.
1844 – Southern Railway in operation (approximate date).
1847 – Central Railway Station opens.
1850 – Historical Society of Styria founded.
1855 – Grazer Telegraf newspaper begins publication.
1864 – Technical High School and Thalía Theatre active.
1872 – Grazer Waggon- & Maschinen-Fabriks-Aktiengesellschaft (manufacturer) in business.
1876 – Steiermärkische Fechtklub (fencing club) founded.
1878 – Horse trams begin operating.
1885 – Grazer Congress (concert hall) built.
1887 – Sacred Heart of Jesus Church built.
1888 - Grazer Alpenclub (hiking club) formed.
1889 – Club der Amateurfotografen (photography club) founded.
1894 – Schlossbergbahn funicular railway begins operating.
1899
Graz Opera house inaugurated.
Electric tram begins operating.
1900 – Population: 138,370.
20th century
1900s–1950s
1902 – Grazer AK (sports club) formed.
1904 – Kleine Zeitung newspaper begins publication.
1909
SK Sturm Graz (football club) formed.
Grand Hotel Wiesler in business.
1912 – LKH-Universitätsklinikum (hospital) built.
1913 – Volkskundemuseum (folkloric museum) opens.
1914 – September: Talerhof concentration camp in operation near city.
1919 – Vinzenz Muchitsch becomes mayor.
1920 - Population: 157,032.
1925 – Graz Airport active.
1938
February: City becomes part of Nazi Germany.
Julius Kaspar becomes mayor.
1941 – Trolleybuses begin operating.
1945
Allied occupation of Austria begins; Styria overseen by British forces.
Eduard Speck becomes mayor.
Die Wahrheit communist newspaper begins publication.
1951
Population: 226,476.
Die Aula magazine begins publication.
1955 – July: Allied occupation of Austria ends per Austrian State Treaty.
1960s–1990s
1960
Gustav Scherbaum becomes mayor.
Hafnerriegel (residence building) constructed.
Forum Stadtpark (art gallery) opens.
1963 – Eisstadion Liebenau (sports arena) built.
1971 – Tramway Museum Graz founded.
1973 – Alexander Götz becomes mayor.
1985 – Alfred Stingl becomes mayor.
1993 – Nausner & Nausner Verlag (publisher) in business.
1995 – Das Megaphon newspaper begins publication.
1997 – Schwarzenegger-Stadium opens.
1998
Diagonale film festival active.
Schreibkraft magazine founded.
1999 – Old Town designated an UNESCO World Heritage Site.
21st century
2001
Magna Steyr automobile manufacturer headquartered in Graz.
Springfestival begins.
2002 – Stadthalle Graz (assembly hall) opens.
2003
Graz Art Museum built.
City designated a European Capital of Culture.
Murinsel (amphitheatre) opens.
Homeless World Cup football contest held.
Siegfried Nagl becomes mayor.
2005 – Elevate Festival begins.
2007
Rondo built.
Einkaufszentrum Murpark (shopping mall) in business.
2013 – Population: 265,778.
2015 – A van and knife attack kills three and injures 36.
2016 Overnight stays in Graz Hotels exceed 1.1 million for the first time
See also
Graz history
History of Styria
Timelines of other cities in Austria: Linz, Salzburg, Vienna
References
This article incorporates information from the German Wikipedia.
Bibliography
published in 17th-19th centuries
published in 20th century
(+ 1871 ed., 1907 ed.)
External links
Items related to Graz, various dates (via Europeana)
Graz
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20States%20Department%20of%20Energy%20Global%20Energy%20Storage%20Database
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United States Department of Energy Global Energy Storage Database
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The United States Department of Energy's Global Energy Storage Database (GESDB) is a free-access database of energy storage projects and policies funded by the U.S. DOE, Office of Electricity, and Sandia National Labs.
In 2013, the database covered 409 projects; it aimed to cover all energy storage projects globally by 2014. By 2020, it covered 1,686 projects, comprising 22 GigaWatt power of US grid storage capacity. Pumped-storage hydroelectricity is around 90% of the energy capacity. Storage facilities are 80% efficient.
See also
List of energy storage projects
Energy storage
Hydroelectricity
Hydropower
United States Department of Energy
References
External links
U.S. Dept of Energy - Energy Storage Systems
U.S. Dept of Energy - Energy Storage Systems Database
Dams in the United States
Energy storage
Pumped storage power stations
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Aaron Nusbaum
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Aaron E. Nusbaum (January 8, 1859July 1, 1936), later Aaron Norman, was an American entrepreneur and philanthropist who is best known as one of the two men who acquired 50% of the stock in the fledgling Sears, Roebuck and Co. from Richard Sears and started it on the road to becoming a retail giant.
Early career
By 1893 he was a successful businessman in Chicago and earned his first fortune when he obtained a concession to sell soda water soft drinks at the World’s Columbian Exposition. He received the contract by doing a favor for Marshall Field, a member of the Fair’s planning commission. His profit for the summer’s work was $150,000.00. ($3,750,000.00 in 2010). He invested part of that money in Bastedo Tube Company, a pneumatic tube manufacturer whose product is used to deliver messages and money in department stores between floors and departments. A sales call in 1895 led to his investment in Sears.
Purchase of Sears
In 1895 Nusbaum had a meeting with Richard Sears, the co-founder of Sears Roebuck and Company. Nusbaum thought the meeting would involve selling pneumatic tubes to Sears however Richard Sears had other plans. The company was short of cash and Sears offered to sell Nusbaum half of the company for $75,000.00. In 1890 Julius Rosenwald had married Augusta Nusbaum, Aaron's sister. Nusbaum asked his brother-in-law if he would be willing to buy a quarter of Sears Roebuck for $37,500.00. Rosenwald agreed and they paid Richard Sears $75,000.00 for one-half interest in Sears Roebuck and Company. The sale took place in 1895 and at that time the company was grossing about $800,000.00 a year. By 1900 that figure had grown to $11,000,000.00.
In 1901 Sears and Rosenwald had a dispute with Nusbaum, bought him out for $1.25 million and Nusbaum resigned as Secretary and Treasurer. He was succeeded as Secretary by the Company’s outside lawyer, Albert Henry Loeb of Loeb & Adler (now known as Arnstein & Lehr, LLP) who had prepared the papers for Nusbaum’s departure and had also had structured the original sale to Nusbaum and Rosenwald and the incorporation of Sears in Illinois. The decision to oust Nusbaum was difficult for Rosenwald. Despite repeated attempts by his wife Gussie for reconciliation, Nusbaum never spoke again with his brother-in-law or sister.
Later years
After Nusbaum left Sears, he took an extended trip to Europe. On returning, he changed his name to Aaron Norman and his investments added to his wealth. He founded Abacus & Associates, a wealth investment firm, which is still operated by his family. Upon his death in 1936, Nusbaum willed a million dollars to the Assistance Fund, Inc, a New York charitable organization.
References
External links
American businesspeople
American philanthropists
1859 births
1936 deaths
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobbio%20Missal
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Bobbio Missal
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The Bobbio Missal (Paris, 13246) is a seventh-century Christian liturgical codex that probably originated in France.
The Missal contains a lectionary, a sacramentary and some canonical material (such as a penitential). It was found in Bobbio Abbey in Italy by the Benedictine monk Jean Mabillon between June 4 and June 9 of 1686.
The Missal is the earliest liturgical manuscript surviving from the medieval period. Its specific authorship and provenance is much disputed, though general agreement points to the valley of the Rhône, with Besançon (Mabillon's suggestion) and Vienne given as two popular options.
Contents
"The manuscript is small in format, 180 x 90 mm (130 x 70 mm) with an average of 22 long lines to the page. That is, it is slightly narrower and taller than a modern paperback book. It has the appearance of a chunky (at 300 folios/600 pages) and easily transportable working copy of the crucial mass texts it contains". According to E.A. Lowe: "The Missal proper is written by one hand, designated as M... the few pages in uncial - the Mass pro principe, written by another hand - are referred to as M2... the pages containing added matter, in two different styles of crude writing, one showing distinct majuscule and the other as distinct minuscule traits, are referred to as A and a".
List of contents
Excerpts from Pseudo-Theophilus’ commentary on the Gospels (later addition)
Pseudo-Augustine's sermon De Dies Malus (later addition)
Daily readings
Canon Missae
Adventus
Vigilia natalis Domini
Natalis Domini
St. Stephen
The Holy Innocents
Sts. Jacob and John
Circumcisio Domini
Epiphania
Cathedra Sancti Petri
In Sollemnitate Sanctae Mariae
Quadragesima
d Aurium Apertionem
Expositio Symboli
Traditio Symboli
Cena Domini
Lectiones in Parasceue
Sabbato Sancto
Orationes in Vigilio Paschae
Benedictio Caerei
Ad Christianum faciendum
Ordo Baptismi
Vigilia Paschae
Pascha
Inventio Sanctae Crucis
Litaniae
Ascensio Domini
Quinquagesima
A daily reading
St. John the Baptist
St. John's Passion
St. Peter and Paul
St. Sigismund
Martyrs [unspecified]
A Martyr [unspecified]
A Confessor [unspecified]
St. Martin
A Virgin [Unspecified]
Dedication of a Church
For the sick
St. Michael
Pro iter agentibus
For a priest [Sacerdos]
Missa omnimoda
Votive Masses
For the living and the dead
In domo cuiuslibet
Sunday Masses
Apologia
Missa Pro Principe (later addition)
Devotiones sive imprecationes (later addition)
Missae cotidianae dominicales
Depositio sacerdotis
For the Dead
Exorcismi salis et aquae
Oratio in domo
Various Benedictions
Orationes vespertina et matutina
Exorcismum olei
Benedictio olei (later addition)
Penitential
Orationes super paenitentem
Benedictio hominis cum domo sua (later addition)
De lege ad missam celebrandam (later addition)
De septem gradibus ecclesiae (later addition)
De Peccatis ad infirmum ducentibus (later addition)
De tempore nativitatis Christi (later addition)
Orationes pro paenitentibus (later addition)
Benedictiones panis (later addition)
De omnibus cursibus (later addition)
Symbolum apostolorum (later addition)
De libris canonicis (later addition)
Orationes ad missam (later addition)
Provenance
Jean Mabillon believed the Missal to be of the Frankish tradition. He cited the collections "post nomina", "ad pacem" and the formula of the "Contestatio" as being characteristic of Gallican Liturgy. He also cited similarities between the Bobbio Missal and the Missale Gothicum (and Gallicanum Vetus) and the Lectionary of Luxeuil. The order of some significant feast days in the Bobbio Missal were also similar to the Gallican tradition; this ruled out the Mozarabic, Ambrosian or Roman traditions. The order of the liturgy in the Bobbio is Ambrosian, such as the placement of the scripture readings and the Pax Vobiscum. distinguishes it from the African tradition (here Mabillon quotes St. Augustine to support his deductions).
The content of the Missal do not completely match with the contents of the Gallican Missale Gothicum. Mabillon explains that liturgy was not uniform in Francia prior to Charlemagne and his reforms. Thus differences between dioceses and even parishes in their liturgy were common.
Mabillon dated the Missal to the late 7th century. As proof, he mentions that the name “Bertulfus” was found in the margin of a leaf. That would refer to the Abbot of Bobbio in the mid 7th century.
The contents of the Missal listed as collections, readings from the prophets, the apostles and the gospels, contestations of the Mass for the whole year and a penitential. The penitential is particularly of interest to Mabillon, as it increases our understanding of that era.
Mabillon states that it is possible the Missal could have come from, and been in use at, Besançon, the location of the Luxeuil Abbey. This is because the Missal includes the mass for St. Sigismund, King of Burgundy. Mabillon states unequivocally that the Missal could not have originated in Bobbio, as it does not refer to or contain any local saints or St. Columbanus and his disciples. In addition, the Missal does not contain monastic materials used at that time in Bobbio by the monks.
As the Missal does not contain anything about Columbanus and his disciples, Mabillon guesses that St. Columbanus himself may have been involved with the Missal, placing it in the Celtic tradition - but Mabillon does not elaborate on this. The Catholic Encyclopedia (1917) in its entry on the Celtic Rite, lists the Bobbio Missal in its section entitled "Manuscript sources - Irish (whether insular or continental)".
Mabillon notes that in the "Missa Pro Principe" (Mass for the Prince), after the "Contestatio" in the Canon, the name of the martyr Eugenia is commemorated as well as the other usual saints, this being a unique occurrence. It also happens in the mass for Christmas Eve. This special inclusion of Eugenia could be linked to a province or part of Frankia where a cult of Eugenia was prevalent, but Mabillon knew of no such place.
Mabillon's title for the manuscript is Sacramentario de Ecclesia Gallicana (Sacramentary of the Gallican Church) - that is, a book about Gallican liturgy. He deemed that more correct than calling it a Gallican Liturgy or a Liturgy from Bobbio, both of which titles refer specifically to books containing only liturgy.
Modern scholarship
Many modern scholars consider the Bobbio Missal to be "one of the most intriguing liturgical manuscripts from early medieval Francia". The most comprehensive study to date is Yitzhak Hen and Rob Meens’ The Bobbio Missal: liturgy and religious culture in Merovingian Gaul. This book of collected works by international scholars who met in Utrecht in 2001 examines in detail "virtually all of the issues that have swirled around the Bobbio missal". It was published in 2004, and summarizes the history of scholarship on the manuscript in terms of philology, paleography, Latin spelling and orthography, theology and liturgy amongst other aspects.
Rosamond McKitterick suggested that the Missal could have been a gift to a certain priest or bishop, in celebration of his ordination or perhaps a special appointment. She says, "the book itself, therefore, may be witness to a complex web of social and pastoral association, and possibly to the relationship between a bishop and his clergy. Such a gift... would most likely have been a working copy, designed for constant reference and use". McKitterick also indicated that the additions to the Missal, which occurred at a later time, may have been added by members of the community in which the book was used, for practical purposes. McKitterick agrees with Mabillon on the origin of the manuscript in Provençal or somewhere in South-East France, around the late 7th/early 8th century, and that it was not designed for use in a monastic community.
David Ganz reports that the script in the Bobbio Missal is the "earliest true minuscule, a script which allowed scribes to save space without sacrificing legibility".
Marco Mostert, building on E.A. Lowe's division of the script into four characteristic styles of writing - M, M2, a and A - asserts that three of these styles were meant to be read aloud: "Having considered the punctuation and word spacing of the oldest quires, we have found the conventions of M to be consistent with those of late antique (liturgical) books meant for reading aloud by a native speaker of Latin - even if the consistency of the punctuation may leave something to be desired... M2 follows M’s conventions, as did A. The scribe of a, however, does not seem to have meant his texts to be read aloud (or performed) by anyone but himself".
Charles and Roger Wright note that additions were made to the Bobbio Missal - that is, texts were added some time afterward by a subsequent scribe, notably the sermon "De Dies Malus" and an untitled question/answer dialogue primarily regarding biblical and ecclesiastical history. The somewhat confusing grammatical state of these texts may have been due to the scribe's intention to utilize them as a basis or template for reading aloud, and thus was not designed to have been grammatically accurate.
Yitzak Hen hypothesizes, along with Lowe, that the Bobbio Missal was created by an individual in his private capacity for practical purposes, and that its small size indicates it traveled with its owner: "Judging from the script and the manuscript layout, it is well justified to describe the Bobbio Missal as a vade mecum of a Merovingian clergyman...It seems, therefore, safe to conclude that the Bobbio Missal is indeed a vade mecum of a bishop or even a priest, who offered liturgical services to secular, clerical and monastic communities...its unique and practical selections of prayers and benedictions supports this conclusion. A sacramentary like the Bobbio Missal would have been inadequate for the liturgical celebration in a Merovingian episcopal church".
A facsimile volume of the Bobbio Missal was produced for the Henry Bradshaw Society by E. A. Lowe in 1917 and an edition of the text in 1920.
References
Notes
Reference bibliography
External links
Digital Images of the Bobbio Missal available from Gallica
7th-century manuscripts
7th-century Latin books
Missals
7th-century writers in Latin
7th-century Frankish writers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnett%20Field
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Barnett Field
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Barnett Field was a baseball ballpark located in Fargo, North Dakota, United States. The field, named after area attorney William H. Barnett, was a Works Progress Administration project that hosted its first games in 1936. It was home to the Fargo-Moorhead Twins, a minor league baseball team, until 1960. It was demolished in 1963. Fargo North High School was built in its place.
External links
Barnett Field gallery
References
Defunct sports venues in North Dakota
Defunct minor league baseball venues
Works Progress Administration in North Dakota
Buildings and structures in Fargo, North Dakota
1936 establishments in North Dakota
Sports venues completed in 1936
1963 disestablishments in North Dakota
Sports venues demolished in 1963
Demolished sports venues in the United States
Baseball venues in North Dakota
Sports in Fargo, North Dakota
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banco%20Alfa
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Banco Alfa
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Alfa Bank is a Brazilian commercial bank based in São Paulo. The bank's president is Aloysio de Andrade Faria.
History
The bank dates to 1925, when it was founded as Banco da Lavoura de Minas Gerais, whose name was changed in 1972 to Banco Real. In 1998 its controlling interest was sold to ABN AMRO. The financial companies that weren't sold became Alfa Financial Conglomerate, which later merged with Alfa Bank.
The company was acquired in November 2022 by Banco Safra.
References
External links
http://www.alfanet.com.br/default.aspx?pagid=ELNCONUM&menuid=570
1925 establishments in Brazil
Banks established in 1925
Banks of Brazil
Companies listed on B3 (stock exchange)
2022 mergers and acquisitions
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosferatu%20molango
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Nosferatu molango
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Nosferatu molango (previously placed in the genus Herichthys), also known as Atezca Cichlid, is a species of cichlid endemic to the "Laguna Atezca", in the headwaters of the Rio Moctezuma (Rio Panuco Basin), in the municipality of Molango, state of Hidalgo, Mexico at 1,270 meters above sea level. It is distinguished from other species of the genus in "having a slender (slightly broader than long), well-spaced, unicuspid and conical, posterior slightly flattened, indented lower pharyngeal plate (instead of having large molars), with 2 rows of 8–9 medium-sized, lightly pigmented molars that flank the midline; 11–13 nonenlarged conic teeth along the posterior margin. Distinguished from all other species in the genus by a combination of the following characters: predorsal contour deep and nonacute, which is not concave before the eye; head short (mean 35%, SD 3%), rostral tip to the pectoral fin origin distance (mean 33%, SD 1%); caudal peduncle short (mean 15%, SD 1%) and deep (mean 16%, SD 1%), long anal fin (origin to hypural base distance; mean 40%, SD 1%); wide preorbit (mean 30%, SD 3%); eye small (mean 21%, SD 2%). Peritoneum is uniformly very dark."
Its live color is light goldenrod to olive in dorsal areas and very light on the flanks and belly. Snout and head are densely covered with speckles that extend posteriorly to nuchal area and onto gill cleft. Scales over flanks fringed by diamond-shaped darker outlines (scale-pockets), thicker over posterior-ventral half, giving the flanks a reticulate appearance. All specimens with red marking at axil, behind pectoral fin. Dorsal and caudal fins are same color as the body with four lines of red dots extending onto soft areas and conspicuous on inter-radial membranes. Tip of caudal fin reddish.
Conservation
The Aztec cichlid has been effectively extirpated from Laguna Azteca. The species and its habitat have been severely impacted by the introduction of tilapias, largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) and sunfish (Lepomis spp.), which greatly threaten the viability of the entire N. molango population.
References
molango
Cichlid fish of Central America
Fish described in 2013
Taxa named by Mauricio De la Maza-Benignos
Taxa named by María de Lourdes Lozano-Vilano
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Harrow
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Richard Harrow
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Richard Harrow is a fictional character on the television series Boardwalk Empire, played by the actor Jack Huston.
Fictional biography
Backstory
Richard was a sharpshooter in the US Army during World War I. He was badly disfigured during the war, losing his eye, upper jaw and most of the cheekbone on the left side of his face. He has also suffered some throat damage which causes him to speak in a low, muffled voice. Because of his appearance, Harrow wears a tin mask in public that is molded to mirror the intact right side of his face.
After the war he returned to Plover, Wisconsin where his twin sister, Emma (Katherine Waterston), cared for him while his wounds healed. Once he was able to care for himself he left to live in Chicago.
Season 1
Richard meets fellow veteran Jimmy Darmody (Michael Pitt) in an army hospital in Chicago, and they become fast friends. To prove his loyalty, Richard kills a local gangster who had disfigured a young prostitute with whom Jimmy was close. Jimmy invites Richard to stay with him and his family, and brings him on as muscle in his bootlegging outfit.
Richard accompanies Jimmy back to New Jersey, where he becomes a hit man working for Jimmy under Nucky Thompson (Steve Buscemi). After an attempt on Nucky by the D'Alessio brothers, Richard temporarily moves into the Thompson home where he acts as a bodyguard to Nucky, his companion Margaret Schroeder (Kelly Macdonald) and her two small children. At first Margaret and her children are frightened by Richard's appearance, but they eventually warm up to him. After a truce is made between Nucky and Arnold Rothstein to resolve their conflict, Richard, Jimmy and Al Capone are dispatched to assassinate the remaining D'Alessio brothers.
Season 2
Richard is now established as the right-hand man on Jimmy's bootlegging crew. Jimmy and Richard have now gone into business with Charlie "Lucky" Luciano (Vincent Piazza), Meyer Lansky (Anatol Yusef) and Al Capone (Stephen Graham). Richard befriends Jimmy's wife Angela (Aleksa Palladino). Angela, a painter, asks Richard if she can do his portrait; he reluctantly agrees. During their session, Richard confides in Angela that he and his sister have not spoken since he left home. Richard then voluntarily removes his mask, and she paints his portrait.
Richard ventures out into a secluded forest during a Remembrance Day memorial, intending to commit suicide. As he puts a shotgun in his mouth, a stray dog runs off with his tin mask. Richard chases the dog, and finds two hobos sitting around a campfire, who convince him to keep on living.
Richard serves as Jimmy's lieutenant throughout a turf war with Nucky, and remains loyal even as they suffer serious financial losses. Richard is devastated when Angela is murdered by Manny Horvitz (William Forsythe) as revenge for an attempt by Jimmy to assassinate him over a $5,000 debt Jimmy refused to pay him, and begins to wonder if their business is worth the price they pay.
To mend fences with Nucky, Richard and Jimmy go to Alderman James Neary (Robert Clohessy), scheduled to testify against Nucky, force him to type a note at gunpoint exonerating Nucky, then Richard shoots him in the head and stages his death as a suicide. When Nucky calls Jimmy and says they have captured Horvitz, both Jimmy and Richard sense a trap, and Richard offers to go along. Jimmy refuses and tells Richard to try and put the war behind him. After Jimmy is murdered, Richard moves in with Jimmy's mother Gillian (Gretchen Mol) at her estate.
Season 3
One year later, Richard is a permanent resident in Gillian's brothel. Richard now acts as a caretaker at the brothel, and looks after Jimmy's son Tommy. Richard also seeks vengeance on Horvitz, who has now become a partner in Nucky's gang, for Angela's death. On New Year's Eve, Richard waits outside Horvitz's house, and after killing his driver, shoots him in the face with a shotgun as he is leaving to pursue a thief who stole from one of Nucky's warehouses.
Richard ventures off one evening to a veteran's legion for support and to discuss compensation which has been promised to wounded veterans. It's here that Richard meets Paul Sagorsky (Mark Borkowski), a bitter drunk who lost his son in the war. Richard looks after Paul when he is injured in a bar fight, and meets Paul's daughter Julia (Wrenn Schmidt). He falls in love with her, and they begin a courtship, despite her father's objections.
Later in the season, Gillian's brothel is occupied by New York gangster Gyp Rosetti (Bobby Cannavale), who is at war with Nucky. Fearing for Tommy's safety, Richard attempts to remove the boy to Julia's house, but Gillian finds out about the plan and, angered, she has Rosetti's men kick Richard out. After Joe Masseria withdraws his support for Rosetti's campaign against Nucky, his men withdraw from the brothel, giving an opening for Richard to arm himself and methodically kill almost everyone in Rosetti's own gang (save for Rosetti himself, his right-hand Tonino Sandrelli, and two others), recovering Tommy, whom he leaves at the Sagorsky home. Richard then flees Atlantic City.
Season 4
One year later, Richard makes his way to his childhood home in Wisconsin to visit Emma. Richard returns home to find Emma widowed, pregnant and in debt. During his visit with his sister, Richard finds it difficult to put down the family dog. During this time Richard is tracked down by a former client who had hired Richard previously to carry out an assassination contract that was not honored. They corner Richard in the barn; during the ensuing struggle, Richard kills one of the gangsters, but the other one breaks Richard's hand and nearly kills him. Emma arrives just in time and kills the gangster, saving Richard's life. Richard realizes he is a danger to his sister and decides to go back to Atlantic City.
Upon returning to Atlantic City, Richard bumps into Sagorsky, who is dying of cirrhosis of the liver. Richard finds out that Julia is locked in a custody battle with Gillian over Tommy. Richard returns to the Sagorskys' home to help Julia, whom he marries. To provide for his new family, Richard gets a job washing dishes at the Onyx Club, with the help of Nucky.
When Gillian is arrested for murder, Richard and Julia see an opportunity to get permanent custody of Tommy. Gillian claims that the body found on her estate was that of her son, Jimmy, and with the body having been cremated, there is no way to prove otherwise. In order to undermine her story, Richard asks Nucky for the location where Jimmy's body is actually buried. Nucky agrees to tell Richard, but for a price: he must eliminate New York gangster Dr. Valentin Narcisse (Jeffrey Wright), who is causing problems for Nucky and his associate Chalky White (Michael K. Williams). As he prepares to shoot Narcisse, he hesitates and his hand shakes, and he accidentally kills White's daughter Maybelle (Christina Jackson) when she unexpectedly steps into the line of fire. Richard is mortally wounded in the ensuing gunfire, but manages to make his way to the Atlantic City Boardwalk, where he dies. His dying visions show him returning to the farm in Wisconsin to meet his entire family, with his face complete and healed.
Interview
Jack Huston was interviewed by Rolling Stone magazine. Huston stated that he was only told that his character was going to die during the filming of the episode depicting Harrow's death. Huston stated that it was very appropriate for Harrow, a tragic character, to die tragically. Feeling honored rather than upset about the ending, Huston claimed that the writers wrote "the most unbelievably beautiful ending, and it made so much sense." Glad to have played a longer-than-initially-expected role in Boardwalk Empire, Huston stated that it was the start of his career in acting. Terence Winter said that if Harrow were not fatally wounded after shooting Maybelle, then Harrow would have committed suicide. Huston agrees that Harrow would have done that, as killing Maybelle would be unforgivable in Harrow's mind. Huston stated that at first "Richard was a brilliant killer"; then he gave up killing, losing confidence; later, he was intuitive and expected himself to err; after shooting Maybelle he hesitated, allowing himself to be shot. Huston posited that Harrow's scrapbook became a reality: he fell in love, married, and had a family. Regarding Harrow's vision at the end of his life, Huston stated "In a way he reached heaven in his life."
References
External links
Richard Harrow at HBO.com
Richard Harrow on IMDb
Boardwalk Empire
Fictional assassins
Fictional gangsters
Fictional World War I veterans
Television characters introduced in 2010
Fictional characters from Wisconsin
Drama television characters
Fictional characters with disfigurements
Fictional attempted suicides
American male characters in television
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hag%20ha-Gez
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Hag ha-Gez
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Hag ha-Gez or Re´shit ha-Gez was the biblical festival or celebration of the shearing of the sheep.
Hag ha-Gez took place once a year, at the beginning of the spring, once the winter cold was gone. Although lacking the liturgical importance of the pilgrim festivals related to the harvest of cereals at the beginning of the agricultural season or to the harvest of grapes and the ingathering of fruits at the end of the period, the shearing of the sheep was, nonetheless, a memorable convivium that brought together people of different localities to enjoy banquets "fit for royalty". The "first fruits of the shearing of the flock" were entitlements of the priests, just as it were the first fruits of grain, wine and oil and portions of the animals sacrificed.
No specific celebration of the shearing of the sheep takes place in present-day Israel (The attempts at kibbutzim to introduce any new kind of agricultural festival of secular nature haven't succeeded). Leah Bergstein created a choreography for a sheep-shearing festival but it was held only twice. The possibility exists, however, that Lag BaOmer, a joyful celebration of obscure origin and forgotten meaning, observed since Geonic times in mid-spring and in which highly religious Jews give their three-year-old boys their first haircut, could somehow echo the ancient event.
References
Sources
Gen. 31:19, 38:12; Deut. 18:4; I Sam. 25:2; 2 Sam. 13:23-27; 2 Kings 3:4.
Freedman, D.N. (ed.), Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible, Grand Rapids, Mi., W.B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2004.
The Harpercollins Bible Dictionary, N.Y., Harpercollins Publishers, 2011.
The New Encyclopedia of Judaism, N.Y., New York University Press, 2002.
Encyclopaedia Judaica, Jerusalem, Keter Publishing House, 1972.
Jewish culture
Jewish festivals
Religious festivals in Israel
Spring (season) events in Israel
Sheep shearing
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos%20Augusto%20Le%C3%B3n
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Carlos Augusto León
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Carlos Augusto León Arocha (Caracas, October 20, 1914 – May 13, 1997) was a Venezuelan poet, essayist, historian, politician and scientist.
He gained a doctorate degree in physical science and mathematics from the Central University of Venezuela in 1936. He also gained a teaching degree in history and geography from the National Pedagogical Institute, and taught for over 5 years at the Andrés Bello Lyceum School in Caracas. In the last twenty years of his employed life he worked as a professor of contemporary literature at the Central University of Venezuela, an institution in which he also served as director of the Department of Publications.
In the second half of his life Augusto Leon was preoccupied with writing poetry and being outspoken in politics, particularly in defense of the common people and disadvantaged social groups. During the dictatorship of General Marcos Pérez Jiménez he was imprisoned and then exiled for a long time. He took advantage of his time in exile by taking his political message and poetic word to many Latin American and European countries. In 1953 he traveled to Russia where he was awarded the World Peace Council Prize. He later returned to Venezuela and held notable political posts, such as City Council member of Caracas and then Senator in the National Congress.
As in his politics, Augusto León's poetry carried a social message, characterized by its defense of the common people.
Literary Awards
National Prize for Literature (1949) for his poem A solas con la vida.
Municipal Prize for Prose (1946) for his essay Las piedras mágicas, which pays tribute to the life and work of the Venezuelan writer José Antonio Ramos Sucre.
Works
Los pasos vivientes (México: Ed. Morelos, 1940)
Canto de mi país en esta guerra (Caracas: Ed. Suma, 1944)
Homenaje a Jorge Manrique (Caracas: Ed. Bolívar, 1947)
Los nombres de la vida (Caracas: Ed. Séneca, 1947)
La niña de la calavera y otros poemas (Caracas: Litografía del Comercio, 1948)
A solas con la vida (Caracas: Ed. Ávila Gráfica, 1948)
Canto a Corea (Caracas: Tipografía Vargas, 1949)
Canto de paz (Caracas: Ed. Ávila Gráfica, 1950)
Tres poemas (Caracas: Tipografía Vargas, 1951)
Poesías (México: Ed. Beatriz de Silva, 1954)
Solamente el alba (Caracas: Universidad Central de Venezuela, Dirección de Cultura, 1973)
Una gota de agua (Caracas: Imprenta Universitaria, 1974)
Los dísticos profundos (Caracas: Ediciones de la Presidencia de la República, 1984)
Juegos del yo (1989)
References
1914 births
1997 deaths
20th-century Venezuelan poets
People from Caracas
Central University of Venezuela alumni
Academic staff of the Central University of Venezuela
Venezuelan politicians
Venezuelan essayists
Male essayists
Venezuelan male poets
20th-century essayists
20th-century male writers
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