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Ismail Ragab (born 21 June 1921, date of death unknown) was an Egyptian weightlifter.
He competed in the men's middleweight event at the 1952 Summer Olympics.
Tris(cyanoethyl)phosphine
Tris(cyanoethyl)phosphine is the organophosphorus compound with the formula P(CHCHCN).
It is white solid that is air stable, which is unusual for a trialkylphosphine.
It is prepared by the hydrophosphination of acrylonitrile with phosphine.
The compound has been the subject of much research.
For example, it is an effective reagent for the desulfurization of organic disulfides.
Carole Ann Haswell
Carole Ann Haswell is a British astrophysicist and current Professor of Astrophysics and Head of Astronomy at the Open University.
She is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society.
She has been involved in the detection of several exoplanets, including Barnard's Star b.
Haswell was born in Saltburn-by-the-Sea, North Yorkshire, and grew up in Dormanstown.
Her father worked on an ammonia recovery plant at Imperial Chemical Industries.
She became interested in space as a child, when her father told her about the Apollo astronauts as they gazed at the moon while on Redcar beach.
Although she originally wanted to be an astronaut, she realised at the age of ten that this was impractical.
She attended Huntcliff School where she worked towards her GCE Ordinary Levels.
Whilst a student at Prior Pursglove and Stockton Sixth Form College, Haswell was interested in art, mathematics and physics, and was a fan of the television show "Star Trek".
One of her physics teachers was rumoured to be biased against girls, and despite Haswell achieving the highest grades possible in her A-level exams, refused to write her a reference to study physics at university.
She eventually studied mathematics at the University of Oxford, but wanted to apply mathematics to the real world and became tired of abstract proofs.
Haswell eventually spoke to Donald Blackwell who helped her transfer courses, and enrolled on a physics degree at University College, Oxford.
During her time as an undergraduate student, Haswell was President of the Oxford University Astronomical Society and rowed in the Summer Eights.
Haswell earned her doctorate at the University of Texas at Austin, where she worked on black hole binaries.
She attended the Hubble Space Telescope launch in 1990.
She later joined the Space Telescope Science Institute, where she worked on accretion flow and multi-wavelength observations.
In 1994, Haswell moved to Columbia University, where she worked on black hole X-ray transients and cataclysmic variable stars.
She was made a lecturer at the Barnard College where one of her students was Lauryn Hill.
Haswell moved back to the United Kingdom in 1996 and was made a lecturer at the University of Sussex.
Since 1999, she has been at the Open University, at first still working working on black holes and accreting binary stars and switching to exoplanet research in 2003.
Early work on exoplanets was not well funded, and Haswell has spoken about using second hand Canon camera lenses to make suitable telescopes.
First working on accreting binary stars, and then exoplanets.
In particular, Haswell studies short period exoplanets.
Since 2012 she has led the "Dispersed Matter Planet Project", which involves the analysis of light from nearby stars to identify which host mass-losing planets.
In 2018 Haswell was part of the team that was first to identify a planet around Barnard's Star, the closest single (non-binary) star to Earth, a red dwarf star that is six light years away from Earth.
Using the radial velocity method, the team discovered Barnard's Star b.
The solar system around Barnard's Star touches on the edge of the Oort cloud.
Barnard's Star b has a mass three times that of Earth and orbits Barnard's Star in 233 days.
Haswell has predicted that the planet may have a similar surface temperature to Europa.
In 2019 Haswell used the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) to discover six extraordinarily hot exoplanets (with surface temperatures between 1100 and 1800 °C).
At temperatures this high the atmosphere and surface levels of the planet can be lost, and the materials disperse into a thin sheet of gas.
The gas filters the light from nearby stars, which allowed Haswell and colleagues to study the chemical composition of the atmosphere of the gas sheet.
The planets have masses equivalent to 2.6 times the mass of the Earth with almost half the mass of Jupiter.
Haswell has proposed that these planets could be used to understand the geology of the rocky planets in Earth's solar system.
She is part of the team for CHaracterising ExOPlanets Satellite (CHEOPS), which will examine known exoplanets to improve our understanding of their sizes.
CHEOPS, which features a 35 cm telescope, launched in December 2019.
Haswell has been featured in a Royal Astronomical Society exhibition on women fellows.
She regularly provides expert opinion to the national media and is involved with various outreach programmes through the International Astronomical Union.
Haswell was awarded the Open University Outreach and Public Engagement Award for her work targeted at people with low science capital in Teesside.
Haswell has a daughter.
She is interested in the stock market and has used her understanding of astrophysics to buy and sell stocks.
Haswell's publications include:
Oldknows Factory, Nottingham
The Oldknows Factory is a former lace factory on St Ann's Hill Road, in the city of Nottingham in England.
The factory is formed of two 18th century factories, which have since been joined.
The original purpose of both factories was the manufacture of lace.
It's since been converted to house artist studios, workshops, and offices to rent.
The original structure remains as a Grade II-listed building.
Lata Brandisová
Countess Marie Immaculata Brandisová, also known as Lata Brandisová or Lata von Brandis, (26 June 1895 – 12 May 1981) was a Czech equestrian and the only woman to win the Great Pardubice Steeplechase.
Her victory over the Nazi officers at the 1937 race, seen as a symbol of Czech resistance against Nazi Germany, was celebrated with parades attended by thousands of people.
She is the subject of Richard Askwith's book "Unbreakable: The Woman Who Defied The Nazis In The World’s Most Dangerous Horse Race".
Brandisová was born on 26 June 1895 at Schäffer Castle in Úmonín, Austria-Hungary (now the Czech Republic) to Count Leopold von Brandis and Johanna von Schäffer.
She was a member of an old Tyrolean family that had been ennobled in 1580, but later became impoverished.
Her father, a horse breeder, had served as a lieutenant colonel in the Austrian army.
Her mother was the daughter of Christian Ritter von Schäffer.
Her paternal grandmother, Countess Barbara Kinská, was the sister of Count Oktavian Kinsky, who was one of the founders of the Great Pardubice Steeplechase.
She had a twin sister, Countess Marie Kristýna Brandisová.
In 1897 they moved from Schäffer Castle to a chateau in Řitka owned by her mother.
Brandisová began horseback riding when she was eight years old and grew up attending horse races with her father.
In 1916, at the age of 21, she competed in her first horse race.
During the First World War, her father and brother, Count Nicholas von Brandis, went off to fight.
Her brother was killed in action in Italy.
Much of their property was seized y the government during the war.
After the establishment of Czechoslovakia, the family lost much of their remaining property.
She continued her training at the Prague-Velká Chuchle Racecourse and, in 1921, won her first women's race.
In 1926 her cousin Count Zdenko Radslav Kinský, a nephew of Oktavian, invited her to Orlík Castle to breed Kinsky horses for hurdle racing.
She continued to train as a horse racer at Velká Churchle and Veveří Castle under the coaching of Karel Šmejda.
In 1927 she signed up to race in the Great Pardubice Steeplechase.
Her enlistment in the race caused controversy, and she was faced with protests as the race was seen as too dangerous for a woman.
Petitions were made to the Czechoslovak Jockey Club to have Brandisová removed from the race.
The Jockey Club decided that she would be allowed to race, following advice from the Royal Jockey Club in Great Britain.
The Great Pardubice of 1927 was the first time a woman raced, and the first time a French rider raced (Count Alexandre de la Forest).
Brandisová placed fifth, after falling three times on the race track.
In 1933 she raced in the Great Pardubice on a mare named Norma and placed third.
A year later she placed second, and in 1935 she placed fifth.
In 1937 she raced with Norma in the 56th Great Pardubice.
At this time, there was extreme tension between Czechoslovakia and the neighboring Nazi Germany, with the Czechs fearing an invasion.
Over 40,000 people attended the race, hoping to see a Czech jockey defeat the Germans, who had been consecutive champions in the Great Pardubice over the last few years.
On 17 October 1937, Brandisová became the first woman to win the race, seven lengths ahead of a German rider.
Celebrations culminated with a 10,000 person parade from the racecourse to town square in Pardubice.
The race was not held again until after World War II.
Germany invaded Czechoslavkia in 1939, and Brandisová's estate was seized by the Nazi government.
During the war, she joined the Czech Resistance, providing food for resistance fighters and tending to wounded soldiers during the Liberation of Prague.
After the war, Brandisová raced again in the Grand Parduice, failing to finish in 1947.
After the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1948, she and her sisters moved into cottage in the woods, where they lived in relative poverty throughout the Communist regime.
She died from pneumonia in Reiteregg, Austria on 12 May 1981.
2020 MNL-2
The 2020 National League 2, also known as the 2020 MPT Myanmar National League 2, is the 8th season of the MNL-2, the second division league for association football clubs since its founding in 2012.
The 1st transfer window is from 9 November 2019 to 10 January 2020 .
The 2nd mid season transfer window is from 6 April 2020 to 7 May 2020.