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null | Italian alpine skier
Sonia Viérin (born 25 October 1977 in Aosta) is an Italian former alpine skier who competed in the 2002 Winter Olympics.
Her mother Roselda Joux (born 1950) and her nephew Sophie Mathiou (born 2002) are world-class Alpine skiers as well. | 42ff1712-8a35-4d26-bdc0-c5330836e223 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legambo"} | District in Amhara Region, Ethiopia
Woreda in Amhara, Ethiopia
Legambo (Amharic: ለጋምቦ) is a woreda in Amhara Region, Ethiopia. This woreda is named for one of the "Houses" or subgroups of the Wollo Amhara, who were located there. Part of the Debub Wollo Zone, Legambo is bordered on the south by Legahida and Kelala, on the southwest by Wegde, on the west by Debre Sina, on the northwest by Sayint, on the north by Tenta, on the northeast by Dessie Zuria, and on the southeast by Were Ilu. Towns in Legambo include Aqesta and Embacheber.
Elevations in this woreda range from 1500 to 3700 meters; the highest point in this woreda, as well as the Debub Wollo Zone, is Mount Amba Ferit, which lies on the border with Sayint.
Demographics
Based on the 2007 national census conducted by the Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia (CSA), this woreda has a total population of 165,026, an increase of 3.93% over the 1994 census, of whom 81,268 are men and 83,758 women; 7,327 or 4.44% are urban inhabitants. With an area of 1,017.35 square kilometers, Legambo has a population density of 162.21, which is greater than the Zone average of 147.58 persons per square kilometer. A total of 39,078 households were counted in this woreda, resulting in an average of 4.22 persons to a household, and 37,384 housing units. The majority of the inhabitants were Muslim, with 93.34% reporting that as their religion, while 6.5% of the population said they practiced Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity.
The 1994 national census reported a total population for this woreda of 158,785 in 38,182 households, of whom 78,087 were men and 80,698 were women; 4,286 or 2.7% of its population were urban dwellers. The largest ethnic group reported in Legambo was the Amhara (99.9%). Amharic was spoken as a first language by 99.92%. The majority of the inhabitants were Muslim, with 92.99% of the population having reported they practiced that belief, while 6.82% of the population said they professed Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity. | cc20740b-5891-4870-b54c-6ec2a7d95e86 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006%E2%80%9307_FIBA_EuroCup_Challenge"} | Sports season
The 2006–07 FIBA EuroCup Challenge was the fifth edition of Europe's fourth-tier level transnational competition for men's professional basketball clubs. The season had the participation of 16 teams. The Russian club CSK VVS-Samara won the title, after beating the Cypriot club Keravnos in the Final.
Teams of the 2006-07 FIBA EuroCup Challenge | 666e787f-0891-4ee0-9b01-a74c2e50d3f5 |
null | Brazilian businessman
Alexandre Behring da Costa (born 1967) is a Brazilian businessman. He is a co-founder and managing partner at 3G Capital, executive chairman of Restaurant Brands International, a director of Anheuser-Busch InBev, as well as chairman of Kraft Heinz.
Early life
Alex Behring was born in 1967. He has a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC/RJ), and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1995, where he was a Baker Scholar.
Career
In 1989, Behring co-founded the technology company, Modus OSI Technologies, and remained a partner until 1993. The company has offices in Florida, US, and São Paulo, Brazil.
Behring then became a partner in the largest private-equity firm in Latin America, GP Investimentos, from 1994 to 2004. There he learned about investing and mergers and acquisitions from his mentor, the billionaire Brazilian financier and the principal of 3G Capital, Jorge Paulo Lemann. From 1998 to 2004, he ran América Latina Logística (ALL), a private sector railroad company with 13,000 miles of track in Argentina and Brazil.
In 2004, Behring co-founded the global investment firm 3G Capital and he remains the managing partner. The company has offices in New York City and Rio de Janeiro. Behring is chairman of Restaurant Brands International, the Canadian holding company for the American fast food restaurant chain Burger King and the Canadian coffee shop and restaurant chain Tim Hortons.
In December 2014, The Washington Post reported that by moving its HQ to Canada, Burger King could save up to US$1.2 billion in tax over the next three years.
Behring was chairman of Heinz, and is the current chairman of the merged Kraft Heinz.
He is a director of Anheuser-Busch InBev.
The magazine Latin Trade calls Behring, "one of the most prominent representatives of a new generation of aggressive financial investors and managers of consumer-oriented services".
Personal life
Behring lives in Greenwich, Connecticut, US. He is married to Danielle Behring, who was born in Curitiba, Brazil. | 58387d8d-25ea-48bf-8867-ab66456c2d72 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Elisabeth_von_Platen"} | Clara Elisabeth, Countess von Platen-Hallermund (14 January 1648 — 30 January 1700, Schloss Monplaisir, in what is now the Von-Alten-Garten in Hannover) was a German noblewoman, most notable as the mistress of Ernest Augustus (Elector of Hanover, father of George I of Great Britain) and for her involvement in the Königsmarck affair.
Early life
She was the eldest daughter of Georg Philipp von Meysenbug-Züschen (1610-1669) and his wife, who was also his relative, Anna Elisabeth von Meysenbug (1620-1681).
Court life
Clara Elisabeth's father tried to get her and her sister Catharina positions at the French court at Versailles. When this attempt failed, he placed them at the court of Ernest Augustus, where Clara Elisabeth served as lady-in-waiting to the Duchess Sophia and attracted the Duke's attention. Exerting great influence on him, she bore him two children: Ernst August (1674–1726) and Sophia von Kielmansegg (1675–1717). In spite of being the Duke's / Elector's life-long mistress, Clara Elisabeth was married to Franz Ernst, Baron / Count (Reichsgraf since 1689) von Platen-Hallermund (1631–1709).
Bibliography | 3ba9fbb1-7c04-4cb8-9150-89d1f1653572 |
null | Jakubov, Jakubow or Yakubov (Russian: Якубов) is a Slavic masculine surname. Its feminine counterpart is Jakubova, Jakubowa or Yakubova. It may refer to: | 9291c99b-1559-4931-b375-3054965ecefd |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hohe_Gaisl"} | Mountain in Italy
Hohe Gaisl (Croda Rossa d'Ampezzo in Italian), (3,146m) is a mountain in the northern Dolomites, on the border of South Tyrol and Veneto, in northern Italy, located between the Braies Valley and the Val di Landro.
It lies as an imposing and prominent mountain, dominating the valleys underneath it. Its summit has a pyramid shape, and the mountain's slopes glow a deep red colour, a feature it has in common with many Dolomite peaks. The mountain is rarely climbed as it is particularly prone to rockfall. It is more appreciated for its beauty. | fb0d0faf-ab19-40fc-808f-9593b0732c63 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Boy_(novel)"} | Bad Boy is the 19th novel by Canadian detective fiction writer Peter Robinson in the Inspector Banks series. | d3e4a246-9212-4973-9018-1fd4e1fa8009 |
null | Ein Gedi is an oasis in Israel.
Ein Gedi may also refer to:
Topics referred to by the same term | 4d65e11a-458d-4fc1-af48-67731a02a793 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antennaria_argentea"} | Species of flowering plant
Antennaria argentea is a North American species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae known by the common name silver pussytoes or silvery everlasting. It is native primarily to Oregon and to northern and central California with additional populations in Nevada, Idaho, Montana, and Washington.
Antennaria argentea grows in dry coniferous forests. This is a perennial herb forming a basal patch of woolly grayish oval-shaped leaves a few centimeters long and many slender erect stems up to 40 centimeters tall. It is dioecious, with male and female plants producing different types of flowers. Both flower types are clustered in many flower heads with whitish phyllaries. The female plants produce fruits which are achenes with a soft pappus a few millimeters long. | 2d3edb4c-bac3-4b09-871e-ba51006d89ae |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_Wran%C3%A5"} | Swedish curler
Isabella Marianne Peggy Wranå (born 22 June 1997) is a Swedish curler. She is a former skip of the Swedish junior women's team, with whom she won a World Junior championship in 2017. In 2018, she was inducted into the Swedish Curling Hall of Fame.
Career
Juniors
Wranå has skipped the Swedish team in four World Junior Curling Championships, in 2014, 2015, 2017 and 2018. In 2014, she led her team of Jennie Wåhlin, Elin Lövstrand, Fanny Sjöberg and Almida de Val to a fourth-place finish, after they lost in the bronze medal game to Russia. In 2015, she and teammates Wåhlin, Johanna Heldin, Sjöberg and Johanna Höglund again finished fourth after this time losing to Switzerland in the bronze medal game. She was back at it in 2017 when her and teammates Wåhlin, de Val and Sjöberg won the gold medal, defeating Scotland's Sophie Jackson in the final, and lost just two round robin games in the process. The next year the same team went undefeated in the round robin, but ended up losing to Canada's Kaitlyn Jones in the final. This team also represented Sweden at the 2017 Winter Universiade, where they took home the bronze medal.
Women's
As World Junior champions, Wranå qualified for the 2017 Humpty's Champions Cup, her first Grand Slam event. The team did not qualify for the playoffs but did win one game. The team won their first World Curling Tour event at the 2018 AMJ Campbell Shorty Jenkins Classic. A month later, they won the Paf Masters Tour. Over the course of the 2018–19 season, Wranå's team played in four slams, failing to qualify in any of the four. They won one game at the 2018 Tour Challenge, one game at the 2018 National, no games at the 2019 Canadian Open and one game at the 2019 Champions Cup. Also during this season, Wranå skipped her team to a gold medal at the 2019 Winter Universiade.
Team Wranå had a successful 2019–20 season, winning two tour events (the Royal LePage Women's Fall Classic and the Paf Masters Tour once again) and finishing second at the Women's Masters Basel and the Glynhill Ladies International. They played in two slam events, winning one game at both the 2019 Tour Challenge and the 2019 National.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Team Wranå only played in one tour event during the abbreviated 2020–21 season. The team competed at the 2020 Women's Masters Basel, where they missed the playoffs with a 1–2 record. In December, they played Team Hasselborg in the Sweden National Challenge, where they won by a score of 17–12. The Swedish Women's Curling Championship was cancelled due to the pandemic, so Team Hasselborg was named as the Swedish Team for the 2021 World Women's Curling Championship. After the season, longtime lead Fanny Sjöberg stepped back from competitive curling and Maria Larsson joined the team as their new lead.
In their first event of the 2021–22 season, Team Wranå reached the final of the 2021 Euro Super Series where they lost to Rebecca Morrison. They also reached the semifinals of the 2021 Women's Masters Basel before being eliminated by Denmark's Madeleine Dupont. After missing the playoffs at the 2021 Masters, Team Wranå made the playoffs at a Grand Slam event for the first time at the 2021 National before being eliminated in the quarterfinals by Kelsey Rocque. Elsewhere on tour, the team reached the semifinals of both the Red Deer Curling Classic and the International Bernese Ladies Cup. At the Swedish Eliteserien in February, the team defeated Tova Sundberg to claim the event title. They also beat Sundberg in the final of the 2022 Swedish Women's Curling Championship in March. Team Wranå wrapped up their season at the 2022 Players' Championship Grand Slam where they once again qualified for the playoffs. They then lost to Tracy Fleury in the quarterfinal round. A highlight of the Players' Championship came when Wranå lost her broom during one of her shots in the game against Krista McCarville, however, she was still able to deliver the stone.
Mixed
Wranå also represented Sweden at the 2014 European Mixed Curling Championship, throwing third rocks for the team, which was skipped by Patric Mabergs. The team would go on to win the gold medal. Wranå skipped the Swedish mixed team and threw third rocks at the 2017 World Mixed Curling Championship. The team, which included Patric Mabergs, Johannes Patz and Sofia Mabergs went undefeated in group play, but lost to Scotland in the quarterfinals.
Wranå participates in mixed doubles curling with her brother Rasmus. The two won their first mixed doubles tour event at the 2020 Mixed Doubles Bern event. In 2022, the pair represented Sweden at the 2022 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship in Geneva, Switzerland. After a 7–2 round robin record, they lost to Germany's Pia-Lisa Schöll and Klaudius Harsch in a qualification game, eliminating them in fifth place.
Personal life
Wranå attended high school at Härnösands gymnasium. She lives in Stockholm.
Grand Slam record | 2a2e1824-032a-4f39-8d85-374adf8b52d4 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophronica_egenus"} | Species of beetle
Sophronica egenus is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Holzschuh in 2006. | 5d86e605-d9a4-4482-a31a-b6ebcc37dba5 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_Highway_446"} | Highway in Mississippi
Mississippi Highway 446 (MS 446) is a state highway in northwest Mississippi. The route starts at MS 1 near Lobdell, and it travels east through the Dahomey National Wildlife Refuge and Skene. The road enters Boyle, traveling through the center of the town as a boulevard. The route ends at U.S. Route 61 (US 61) and US 278 on the eastern side of Boyle, and the road continues as Peavine Road. The highway was designated in 1955 along its current alignment, after the state had funded projects to improve the preexisting county road. The route was fully paved in asphalt by 1957.
Route description
All of MS 446 is located within Bolivar County. The route is legally defined in Mississippi Code § 65-3-3, and all of it is maintained by the Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT), as part of the Mississippi State Highway System.
MS 446 starts at a T-intersection with MS 1 south of Lobdell and travels eastward through farmland. East of Neblett Road, the route enters the Dahomey National Wildlife Refuge. An entrance to the visitor center is located on the road. Near Woodruff Road, MS 446 leaves the refuge and crosses over Bogue Phalia. The route continues traveling through farmland and crosses over smaller creeks. The road intersects Shaw–Skene Road at the unincorporated area of Skene. The route enters the town of Boyle east of Cypress Drive, and turns into a boulevard near the center of the town. Known as T.M. Jones Highway inside the town, the road crosses over Jones Bayou near Bayou Avenue. The route ends at US 61 and US 278, and the road continues eastward as Peavine Road.
History
In late 1948, the Mississippi State Highway Commission began letting projects along a county road traversing from Lobdell to Boyle within Bolivar County. The first project was proposed in November, for grading and gravel surfacing a 2.82-mile (4.54 km) section of the road. One month later, another project to grade and surface another 10.86-mile (17.48 km) section was proposed. In February 1955, MS 446 was designated for a highway in Bolivar County, along with the name "Margaret A. Green Memorial Highway". A project to pave 10.452 miles (16.821 km) of the road in asphalt began one month later, with a cost of $216,156 (equivalent to $2,186,532 in 2021). By 1956, the route was added to the state highway map, starting from MS 1 and ending at US 61. The majority of road was paved in gravel, and a small section near Boyle paved in asphalt. One year later, all of the route was paved in asphalt. In 1990, the Dahomey National Wildlife Refuge was created, spanning over parts of MS 446.
Major intersections
The entire route is in Bolivar County. | afdac9fd-4dd7-461c-a7a3-d846418d9139 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wola_Przemykowska"} | Village in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland
Wola Przemykowska [ˈvɔla pʂɛmɨˈkɔfska] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Szczurowa, within Brzesko County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It lies approximately 6 kilometres (4 mi) north of Szczurowa, 23 km (14 mi) north of Brzesko, and 53 km (33 mi) east of the regional capital Kraków. | f50e37fc-bc8a-4f7d-b0f3-1b46c8ba8492 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_ICC_Women%27s_World_Twenty20_Qualifier"} | International cricket tournament
The 2013 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier was an international cricket tournament held in Dublin, Ireland, from 23 July to 1 August 2013. The tournament was the inaugural edition of the Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier, with the top three teams advancing to the 2014 World Twenty20 in Bangladesh.
Eight teams played in the tournament. The host, Ireland, was joined by the two lowest-placed teams from the 2012 World Twenty20, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, as well as five teams from regional qualifying tournaments. Pakistan and Sri Lanka both went on to be undefeated at the tournament, sharing the title after the final was interrupted by rain. Ireland defeated the Netherlands in the third-place playoff to also qualify for the World Twenty20.
Qualification and format
Originally, the ICC had determined that only the winner of the tournament would qualify for the World Twenty20, with that tournament then having only eight teams. This decision was altered at the 2013 International Cricket Council (ICC) annual conference in June 2013, as part of a concerted effort to support women's cricket. The eight teams at the qualifier were divided into two groups based on their ranking, with the four teams that failed to make the semi-finals going on to participate in a repêchage tournament (the Shield).
Squads
Group stages
Source: ESPNcricinfo
Group A
Group B
Source: ESPNcricinfo
Shield competition
Shield semi-finals
Shield third-place playoff
Shield final
Main finals
Semi-finals
Third-place playoff
Final
Statistics
Most runs
The top five run scorers (total runs) are included in this table.
Source: CricketArchive
Most wickets
The top five wicket takers are listed in this table, listed by wickets taken and then by bowling average.
Source: CricketArchive
Final standing | f8bfde7a-0e77-438a-b5e4-228cac27322d |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Power_Station"} | Harrison Power Station is a 1.9-gigawatt (1,984 MW) coal-fired electricity-generating power station located in Haywood, West Virginia, owned and operated by FirstEnergy. It has one of the tallest chimneys in the world 1,001 feet (305 m), built in 1994.[citation needed]
Its three identical units, rated at 650 MW each at the time of completion, were launched into service in 1972, 1973, and 1974 by Allegheny Energy at a cost of $400 million to build. | 295d16ab-4e21-4cc3-b740-1227232080f4 |
null | Kazakhstani handball player
Anastasiya Batuyeva (Russian: Анастасия Батуева; born 1987) is a handball player from Kazakhstan. She has played on the Kazakhstan women's national handball team, and participated at the 2011 World Women's Handball Championship in Brazil. | 21572bfa-a54e-46ad-8881-c75944623eeb |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_Opening"} | Chess opening
Chess opening
The Portuguese Opening is a chess opening that begins with the moves:
1. e4 e5
2. Bb5
The Portuguese is an uncommon opening. In contrast to the Ruy Lopez (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5), by delaying Nf3, White leaves the f-pawn free to move and retains the possibility of playing f2–f4. The trade-off is that White's lack of pressure on e5 leaves Black with a freer hand.
Lines
If Black replies 2...Nf6, White can try a gambit with 3.d4. Another Black reply is 2...Nc6, possibly anticipating White will transpose into the Ruy Lopez with 3.Nf3, but a more popular try is to kick White's bishop with 2...c6. The game might continue 3.Ba4 Nf6 and now White can play 4.Nc3 or 4.Qe2.
Graham Burgess remarks that it looks like a Ruy Lopez where White has forgotten to play 2.Nf3. However, the Portuguese is not as bad or nonsensical as it first appears, and Black should proceed carefully. | 6408cc2a-a9a0-4d94-8467-f13d5373bc9f |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_World_Matchplay"} | Darts tournament
The 2014 BetVictor World Matchplay was the 21st annual staging of the darts tournament, the World Matchplay, organised by the Professional Darts Corporation. The tournament took place at the Winter Gardens, Blackpool, from 19–27 July 2014.
Phil Taylor won the event for the seventh consecutive year and 15th in total by beating Michael van Gerwen 18–9 in the final. Taylor also threw the event's only nine-dart finish which he did in the second round against Michael Smith.
Prize money
The prize fund was increased to £450,000 after being £400,000 for the previous five editions of this event. The bonus for a nine-dart finish stood at £10,000 and was won by Phil Taylor.
Format
In previous stagings of the event all games had to be won by two clear legs with no sudden-death legs. However, in 2013 after consulting the host broadcaster Sky Sports, the PDC decided that games will now only proceed for a maximum of six extra legs before a tie-break leg is required. For example, in a best of 19 legs first round match, if the score reaches 12–12 then the 25th leg will be the decider.
Qualification
The top 16 in the PDC Order of Merit qualified as seeded players. The other 16 places went to the top 16 non-qualified players from the PDC ProTour Order of Merit who are unseeded players.
Draw
Statistics
Source: Match reports from the draw. | 73e82f44-85ce-4e30-ada7-abfdf429edf3 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guido_Menasci"} | Musical artist
Guido Menasci (24 March 1867 – 27 December 1925) was an Italian opera librettist.
His best-known work is Cavalleria rusticana written with Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti. He also provided the libretti for Mascagni's I Rantzau, Zanetto, for Umberto Giordano's Regina Diaz and Viktor Parma's Stara pesem (Old Song).
Menasci was born and died in Livorno. | 73f54f00-850f-42df-8328-93bd2d10ff24 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1942%E2%80%9343_Magyar_Kupa"} | Football tournament season
The 1942–43 Magyar Kupa (English: Hungarian Cup) was the 20th season of Hungary's annual knock-out cup football competition.
Final
17:30 (UTC+2)
MOVE-pálya, Budapest
Attendance: 18,000
Referee: Ernő Kiss (Hungary) | b9b11c25-bda9-4dc5-a285-e11f0eddfc0b |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inopsis_scylla"} | Species of moth
Inopsis scylla is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Herbert Druce in 1885. It is found in Panama. | c0039893-9274-4f06-b74a-d1ff5d0f9fda |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT%26T_Digital_Life"} | Home security & automation services
AT&T Digital Life, headquartered in Dallas, Texas, was a maker of wireless home security systems with burglary and fire monitoring for homes and apartments in the United States. Digital Life services are no longer supported starting September 1, 2022.
Since 2022
AT&T Digital Life was discontinued in 2022. Users were given the option to switch to Brinks Home security with upgraded cameras and a touchpad. Users were also allowed to keep their current equipment and use it until the final day of service.
Residential Security
AT&T Digital Life's home security systems consisted of security & automation equipment and 24/7 monitoring.
Products
Each user was able to customize the AT&T Digital Life wireless system to fit their home. AT&T Digital Life offered packages, and with a basic system, users could add extra sensors, video cameras, motion sensors, or other devices. AT&T Digital Life users were able to add additional AT&T Digital Life devices to the system at any time. AT&T Digital Life wireless home security systems were also available to renters and homeowners.[citation needed]
Services
24/7 Professional Monitoring, Video Monitoring, Remote Door Locks, Lighting & Thermostat Control, Water Detection and Fire & Carbon Monoxide Monitoring.[citation needed]
Mobile Access
Users were able to get use of mobile access to arm, disarm and control the AT&T Digital Life security system. Mobile access was able to be used to arm and disarm the system, view video from security cameras, monitor sensors lock and unlock doors, and turn off devices utilizing smart plugs.[citation needed] | 40e8247b-97a3-4d6f-b7a1-3fcd4f880701 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balss_Mask%C4%81"} | Latvian singing competition TV series
Latvian TV series or program
Balss Maskā (Voice in a Mask) is a Latvian reality singing competition television series based on the Masked Singer franchise, which originated from the South Korean version of the show King of Mask Singer. The show was announced in August 2020, the same month shooting for the first season began. It premiered on TV3 Latvia on 13 September 2020.
Production
Format
A group of celebrities compete anonymously on stage, singing in full costumes over a series of episodes. Each episode, a portion of the competitors are paired off into face-off competitions, in which each will perform a song of his or her choice. From each face-off, the panelists and live audience vote: the winner's safe for the week, while the loser is put up for elimination. At the end of the episode, the losers of the face-offs are then subjected to new votes of the panelists to determine who will not continue; the eliminated singer then enters a special room backstage where it turns its back to the camera, takes off its mask, then turns around to reveal his/her identity. In addition to the singing competition, hints to each masked singer's identity are offered during the show. Pre-taped interviews are given as hints and feature the celebrities' distorted voices. The panelists are given time to speculate the identity of the singer after the performance and ask them a single question to try and determine their identity. The show is pre-recorded in a studio in Riga.
Costumes
The costumes are partly replicates that were used in other international versions, notably on the Estonian counterpart, as well as national motifs such as Nelabais, a devil-like creature from the Latvian mythology or Rīga, the patron of the countries capital of the same name. The majority of the costumes were designed by Estonian designer Liisi Eesmaa, while three of them are the creation of Ance Beinaroviča in cooperation with the Latvian National Theatre.
Panelists and host
Season 1 and 2 panelists and host
Samanta Tīna
Baiba Sipeniece-Gavare
Jānis Šipkēvics sr.
Jānis Krīvēns
Mārtiņš Spuris was announced as the show's presenter on 8 August 2020. The panel of judges was announced on 19 August 2020. It consists of popular singer Samanta Tīna (the country's chosen representative for the canceled Eurovision Song Contest in 2020), comedian Baiba Sipeniece-Gavare, Jānis Šipkēvics Sr., journalist and director of Radio SWH, and Jānis Krīvēns, lead singer of the rock group Singapūras Satīns.
Series overview
Season 1 (2020)
The masked singer won their face-off and remained in the competition.
The masked singer lost their face-off and was in the bottom three/two, but was not eliminated.
The masked singer was safe from elimination.
The masked singer was eliminated from the competition and unmasked upon their elimination.
Episodes
Episode 1 (13 September)
Episode 2 (20 September)
Episode 3 (27 September)
Episode 4 (4 October)
Episode 5 (11 October)
Episode 6 (18 October)
Episode 7 (25 October)
Episode 8 (1 November)
Episode 9 (8 November)
Episode 10 (15 November)
Episode 11 (29 November)
Season 2 (2021)
The masked singer won their face-off and remained in the competition.
The masked singer lost their face-off and was in the bottom three/two, but was not eliminated.
The masked singer was safe from elimination.
The mask was a guest and was immediately unmasked after their performance.
The masked singer was eliminated from the competition and unmasked upon their elimination.
Episodes
Episode 1 (7 March)
Episode 2 (14 March)
Episode 3 (21 March)
Episode 4 (28 March)
Episode 5 (4 April)
Episode 6 (11 April)
Episode 7 (18 April)
Episode 8 (25 April)
Episode 9 (2 May)
Episode 10 (9 May)
Season 3 (2023)
The masked singer won their face-off and remained in the competition.
The masked singer lost their face-off and was in the bottom three/two, but was not eliminated.
The masked singer was safe from elimination.
The masked singer was eliminated from the competition and unmasked upon their elimination. | b3894528-9b0d-40f3-95d2-1bee89bcde77 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asuridia_nigrisparsa"} | Species of moth
Asuridia nigrisparsa is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in New Guinea. | 09925d46-75fb-4f07-94ba-090fccd07928 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_ape_language"} | Efforts to teach non-human primates to communicate with humans
Research into great ape language has involved teaching chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas and orangutans to communicate with humans and with each other using sign language, physical tokens, lexigrams, and mimicking human speech. Some primatologists argue that these primates' use of the communication tools indicates their ability to use "language", although this is not consistent with some definitions of that term.
Apes that demonstrate understanding
Non-human animals have been recorded to have produced behaviors that are consistent with meanings accorded to human sentence productions. (A production is a stream of lexemes with semantic content. A language is grammar and a set of lexemes. A sentence, or statement, is a stream of lexemes that obeys a grammar, with a beginning and an end.) Some animals in the following species can be said to "understand" (receive), and some can "apply" (produce) consistent, appropriate, grammatical streams of communication. David Premack and Jacques Vauclair have cited language research for the following animals (but see "Criticisms of primate language research", below):
While communication appears to be a consistent feature utilized by all animals in the wild, the tendency toward autonomic behaviors and displays remains the most common among primates. Behaviors like body posture, facial expressions, vocalizations and scent production have been observed to convey information to other animals revealing emotions or alerts about potential danger. Behavior is also used to solidify hierarchical social rankings. In the natural world, affiliative behaviors such as grooming are used to promote group cohesion and relational status among primates. In contrast, displays of aggression can also create divisions among groups.
Use of sign language
Sign language and computer keyboards are used in primate language research because non-human primate vocal cords cannot close fully, and they have less control of the tongue and lower jaw. However, primates do possess the manual dexterity required for keyboard operation.
Many researchers into animal language have presented the results of the studies described below as evidence of linguistic abilities in animals. Many of their conclusions have been disputed.
It is now generally accepted[according to whom?] that apes can learn to sign and are able to communicate with humans.[citation needed] However, it is disputed as to whether they can form syntax to manipulate such signs.
Washoe
Washoe, a common chimpanzee, was caught in the wild in 1966. When she was about ten months old, she was received by the husband-and-wife research team of Beatrix T. Gardner and Robert Allen Gardner. Chimpanzees are completely dependent until two years of age and semi-dependent until the age of four. Full adult growth is reached between 12 and 16 years of age. Accordingly, the Gardners received her at an appropriate age for research into language development. The Gardners tried to make Washoe's environment as similar as possible to what a human infant with deaf parents would experience. There was always a researcher or assistant in attendance during Washoe's waking hours. Every researcher communicated with Washoe by using American Sign Language (ASL), minimizing the use of the spoken voice. The researchers acted as friends and companions to Washoe, using various games to make the learning as exciting as possible.
The Gardners used many different training methods:
The results of the Gardners' efforts were as follows:
Washoe also taught other chimpanzees, such as Loulis, some ASL signs without any help from humans.
Nim Chimpsky
Linguistic critics challenged the animal trainers to demonstrate that Washoe was actually using language and not symbols. The null hypothesis was that the Gardners were using conditioning to teach the chimpanzee to use hand formations in certain contexts to create desirable outcomes, and that they had not learned the same linguistic rules that humans innately learn.
In response to this challenge, the chimpanzee Nim Chimpsky (whose name is a play on linguist Noam Chomsky) was taught to communicate using sign language in studies led by Herbert S. Terrace, documented in his 1987 book.
Nim was taken from his mother at a young age by Terrace and put into a household of hippy-like people who had no background with sign language, nor did they use it. Nim was treated as more of a house pet than a wild animal. During his time in the house, Nim's family gave him access to both illegal and legal substances, such as marijuana and alcohol, and did not think twice about letting him use them. Nim's experience did not begin as an observational experience, due to the fact that there were no log books kept at this point in his life.
It was not until Nim was introduced to Laura Pettito that he began his journey with learning sign language. To no surprise, Nim was almost unresponsive to sign language unless there was something in it for him if he did the sign. With many observers and trainers guiding Nim in his learning of sign language, the observations gave clear insight on what the outcome truly was. The trainers noted that Nim had made over 20,000 sequences, only for Terrace to disprove that by noticing that Nim was merely repeating signs done by his trainers. This observation had Terrace believing that, in total, Nim knew about 125 signs.
After years of being a test subject, Nim became aggressive and extremely dangerous to those around him. He would attack the researchers, sending some of them to the hospital. He bit Pettito several times, which in one instance, led to her having to get 37 stitches, and he nearly tore off another woman's cheek. In his later years, Nim was housed at a ranch, supported by the Fund for Animals in Texas, where he had access to the interior of the house, and during one incident, a small household poodle barked at him, and was subsequently smashed to death by the chimpanzee.
Overall, the experiment done on Nim did not produce much useful information. Through all of the tests it is seen that Nim merely copied the signs shown to him. This experiment also showed that non-human primates are able to memorize the outcome of certain things and if they enjoy what they get from it, they are more likely to reciprocate it because their memory shows them that they can get what they want with certain signs. Due to that fact that there was little to no meaningful outcomes from this project, scientists determined that non-human primates mimic, are able to memorize things with different outcomes and they have a higher likelihood of becoming dangerous and aggressive when taken out of their natural habitat at a young age.
Koko
Dr. Francine "Penny" Patterson, a student of the Gardners, in 1972 began an ongoing program to teach ASL to a lowlands gorilla named Koko. Unlike the Gardners she did not limit her English speech around Koko, and as a result Koko was reported to understand approximately 1,000 ASL signs and 2,000 English words. Her results were similar to the Gardners' results with chimpanzees; although the gorilla learned a large number of signs, she never understood grammar or symbolic speech, and did not display any cognition beyond that of a 2–3 year old human child.
Approximately 72 hours of video were taken recording Koko’s interactions and learning behaviors. While Koko’s ability to successfully produce language has been argued among researchers, behaviors that appear to mimic speech, such as breathing heavily into a telephone or other learned physical gestures have been labeled as intentional but ultimately not communicative. From a biological standpoint, non-human primates lack the correct anatomy necessary to produce the same audible speech found in humans; however vocalizations, gestures, and expressions remain a common form used to communicate in the natural world. Koko learned and was taught to compensate for this by creating cues to emulate sounds replicating speech and through her use of visual indicators.
Plastic tokens
Sarah and two other chimpanzees, Elizabeth and Peony, in the research programs of David Premack, demonstrated the ability to produce grammatical streams of token selections. The selections came from a vocabulary of several dozen plastic tokens; it took each of the chimpanzees hundreds of trials to reliably associate a token with a referent, such as an apple or banana. The tokens were chosen to be completely different in appearance from the referents. After learning these protocols, Sarah was then able to associate other tokens with consistent behaviors, such as negation, name-of, and if-then. The plastic tokens were placed on a magnetic slate, within a rectangular frame in a line. The tokens had to be selected and placed in a consistent order (a grammar) in order for the trainers to reward the chimpanzees.
One other chimpanzee, Gussie, was trained along with Sarah but failed to learn a single word. Other chimpanzees in the projects were not trained in the use of the tokens. All nine of the chimpanzees could understand gestures, such as supplication when asking for food; similarly, all nine could point to indicate some object, a gesture which is not seen in the wild. The supplication is seen in the wild, as a form of communication with other chimpanzees.
A juvenile Sumatran orangutan Aazk (named after the American Association of Zookeepers) who lived at the Roeding Park Zoo (Fresno, California) was taught by Gary L. Shapiro from 1973 to 1975 how to "read & write" with plastic children's letters, following the training techniques of David Premack. The technique of conditional discrimination was used such that the orangutan could eventually distinguish plastic letter (symbols) as representations of referents (e.g., object, actions) and "read" an increasingly longer series of symbols to obtain a referent (e.g., fruit) or "write" an increasingly longer series of symbols to request or describe a referent. While no claim of linguistic competence was made, Aazk's performance demonstrated design features of language, many similar to those demonstrated by Premack's chimpanzee, Sarah.
Kanzi
Kanzi, a bonobo, is believed to understand more human language than any other non-human animal in the world. Kanzi apparently learned by eavesdropping on the keyboard lessons researcher Sue Savage-Rumbaugh was giving to his adoptive mother. Kanzi learned to communicate with a lexigram board, pushing symbols that stand for words. The board is wired to a computer, so the word is then vocalized out loud by the computer. This helps Kanzi develop his vocabulary and enables him to communicate with researchers.
One day, Rumbaugh used the computer to say to Kanzi, "Can you make the dog bite the snake?" It is believed Kanzi had never heard this sentence before. In answering the question, Kanzi searched among the objects present until he found a toy dog and a toy snake, put the snake in the dog's mouth, and used his thumb and finger to close the dog's mouth over the snake. In 2001, Alexander Fiske-Harrison, writing in the Financial Times, observed that Kanzi was "asked by an invisible interrogator through head-phones (to avoid cueing) to identify 35 different items in 180 trials. His success rate was 93 percent." In further testing, beginning when he was 7+1⁄2 years old, Kanzi was asked 416 complex questions, responding correctly over 74% of the time. Kanzi has been observed verbalizing a meaningful noun to his sister.
Kanzi relies highly on the lexigrams for communication, and frequently uses them to specify where he wants to go, or an item he wants to have. He does this by expressing his goal (location or object) first, and his action (go, chase, carry, give, etc.) last. This notified researchers that Kanzi's way of communicating was different from that of spoken English, especially because Kanzi would communicate many of his action words using simple gestures. In addition, Kanzi is frequently seen linking two action words together using the lexigrams, like "I Tickle", "Chase Hide", or "Chase Bite". These word combinations are not necessarily structured in a way that humans would use spoken English, but they closely resemble lists, consisting of preferred actions, in preferred order of Kanzi's social play. Because of this inconsistency of Kanzi's use of language with the spoken English language, many question whether Kanzi's understanding of English "crosses the boundary with true language".
Attempts to mimic human speech and communication
Great apes mimicking human speech is rare although some have attempted to do so, and Viki, a chimpanzee, is one of them. During the 1940s and 1950s, Keith and Catherine Hayes of the Yerkes Laboratories of Primate Biology began working with a chimpanzee named Viki in an attempt to get her to mimic human speech. After undergoing months of speech therapy, Viki became their success story. Viki learned to say the words: "mama", "papa", "cup" and "up". Over the years she learned to say up to seven words. Viki was extremely intelligent and like many other non-human primates, would lead people to where she wanted to go as well as move the hands of people onto objects she wanted them to manipulate. However, she would rarely point to objects that she wanted; instead she would use signs to indicate what she wanted to do. For example, when she wanted to help with ironing she would move her hand back and forth above the ironing board. This experiment with Viki would inspire other researchers to conduct similar experiments.
Question asking
Despite their impressive (although still sometimes disputed) achievements, Kanzi and other apes who participated in similar experiments, failed to ask questions themselves. Joseph Jordania suggested that the ability to ask questions is probably the central cognitive element that distinguishes human and animal cognitive abilities. (However, a parrot named Alex was apparently able to ask simple questions. He asked what color he was, and learned "grey" after being told the answer six times.) Enculturated apes, who underwent extensive language training programs, successfully learned to answer quite complex questions and requests (including question words "who", "what", "when", "where", and "why"), although so far they failed to learn how to ask questions themselves. For example, David and Anne Premack wrote: "Though she [Sarah] understood the question, she did not herself ask any questions – unlike the child who asks interminable questions, such as What that? Who making noise? When Daddy come home? Me go Granny's house? Where puppy? Sarah never delayed the departure of her trainer after her lessons by asking where the trainer was going, when she was returning, or anything else". The ability to ask questions is sometimes assessed in relation to comprehension of syntactic structures. Jordania suggested that this approach is not justified, as (1) questioning is primarily a cognitive ability, and (2) questions can be asked without the use of syntactic structures (with the use of specific intonation only). It is widely accepted that the first questions are asked by humans during their early infancy, at the pre-syntactic, one word stage of language development, with the use of question intonation.
Criticisms of primate language research
Some scientists, including MIT linguist Noam Chomsky and cognitive scientist Steven Pinker, are skeptical about claims made for great ape language research. Among the reasons for skepticism are the differences in ease with which human beings and apes can learn language; there are also questions of whether there is a clear beginning and end to the signed gestures and whether the apes actually understand language or are simply doing a clever trick for a reward.
While vocabulary words from American Sign Language are used to train the apes, native users of ASL may note that mere knowledge of ASL's vocabulary does not equate to knowledge of ASL. | c73d1846-2d57-476e-a651-36aed57be191 |
null | The Circuit was an African-American newspaper published in Catlett, Virginia from 1937 until 1954. It was described as "Virginia's only colored paper north of Richmond." The Circuit was important to the African American communities in northern Virginia during the Jim Crow era.
As of November 2013[update], only ten issues are known to still exist in archives, five at the Library of Virginia and six at the archives of the Afro-American Historical Association of Fauquier County (AAHAFC) in The Plains, Virginia. Information published in those available copies was important in documenting the historic nature of some African-American communities such as the Ashville Historic District. | e0e44514-3996-46d8-bac6-ad92b82521a3 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Mistook_His_Wife_for_a_Hat_(opera)"} | The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat is a one-act chamber opera by Michael Nyman to an English-language libretto by Christopher Rawlence, adapted from the case study of the same name by Oliver Sacks by Nyman, Rawlence, and Michael Morris. It was first performed at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, on 27 October 1986.
The minimalist score makes use of songs by Robert Schumann, in particular, "Ich grolle nicht" from Dichterliebe, in which Dr. S. accompanies Dr. P., singing the ossia as a descant. Mrs. P. plays the piano, the actor actually playing if possible.
Roles
Synopsis
The plot concerns the investigation by a neurologist of the condition of a singer who suffers from visual agnosia. According to the liner notes, Morris, Rawlence, and Nyman had to spend much time convincing the real Mrs. P. (whose husband is implied to have been a known name) that they were not proposing a musical (her word) that would trivialize her late husband's situation in order to gain her consent.
Film
Rawlence made a film version in 1987. It made brief omissions from the music (most notably the self-referential line, "That's Nyman! Can't mistake his body rhythm," when Dr. P. is watching television) and added documentary segments with Sacks and pathologist John Tighe working with the actual Dr. P.'s brain. They reveal that his condition was the result of Alzheimer's disease that atypically affected only one portion of his brain until its latter stages. Unusually for an opera film not shot on a theatre stage, the singing was recorded live on-set by boom operators.
Returning from the original cast were Emile Belcourt as Dr. S. and Frederick Westcott as Dr. P. Patricia Hooper replaced Sarah Leonard as Mrs. P. The Michael Nyman Band appeared on-screen as Dr. P.'s students. Originally distributed on VHS by Films, Inc., its rarity has caused it to become a popular bootleg favorite[citation needed].
Recordings
CBS Masterworks MK44669 (1987); Emile Belcourt (tenor), Sarah Leonard (soprano), Frederick Westcott (baritone), Alexander Balanescu (first violin), Jonathan Carney (second violin), Kate Musker (viola), Moray Welsh (first cello), Anthony Hinnigan (second cello), Helen Tunstall (harp), conducted by the composer. Carney, Musker, and Hinnigan, who will make up the first lineup of the Balanescu Quartet, make their first of many appearances on a Nyman album with this release.
Nashville Opera Association released a new recording of the opera on Naxos Records in 2016. Associated with a full production of the opera, it is conducted by Dean Williamson and features singers Matthew Treviño, Rebecca Sjöwall, and Ryan MacPherson. Members of the Nashville Opera Orchestra Dave Davidson, Connie Ellisor, Simona Rusu, Michael Samis, Sari Reist, Mary Alice Hoepfinger, and Amy Tate Williams make up the instrumental chamber ensemble. Notably, some elements absent from the sheet music but present on the original recording, such as Dr. P vocalizing while searching for his hat, are omitted.[citation needed] | 382fc8d6-1c57-4c30-8e2e-14b201c590ba |
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null | Azul y Blanco (Spanish for 'Blue and White') was a semi-daily newspaper published from San Pedro Sula, Honduras. Politically, it had a Nationalist orientation.
Azul y Blanco was directed by Professor Manuel de J. Bueso. Marco A. Rápalo served as the Chief Editor and administrator of the newspaper. It was edited at Tipografía La Marina, owned by Ramón Discua. | da548a01-5f58-4bfc-b378-a3b053d08cb2 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouncing_Babies"} | 1929 film
Bouncing Babies is a 1929 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan. Produced by Hal Roach and released to theaters by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, it was the 92nd Our Gang short to be released.
Plot
Wheezer is jealous of his baby brother, who gets all the attention from his family while Wheezer is ignored and expected to behave like a "big boy". After a failed attempt at making his own breakfast (and being spanked for doing so), Wheezer attempts to run away from home with Pete the Pup. After he happens upon Farina, they both find themselves on the receiving end of Halloween pranks from the gang in their costumes.
Farina tells Wheezer a tall tale about trading in an unwanted baby sibling for a goat and inspires Wheezer to try the same. However, when Wheezer arrives at the hospital with the baby carriage (which unknown to him holds Mary Ann's doll rather than the baby) in order to "change the baby for a goat," a nurse plays along, but also calls Wheezer's mother and informs her of what he has done. Wheezer's mother and his sister Mary Ann pretend to be distraught over the baby's disappearance.
After seeing his mother crying, a remorseful Wheezer rushes back to the hospital to retrieve his brother, but the nurse informs him that it is too late. Wheezer returns home alone, and his mother tells him to pray for the baby to return. Wheezer then drops to his knees and begins praying, only for the baby to come out of hiding and knock him on the head.
Cast notes
Bouncing Babies marks the last Our Gang comedy for Jean Darling and Harry Spear. Some sources list also list Joe Cobb as a cast member, but he does not appear onscreen.
Cast
The Gang
Additional cast | 8f7fe998-a3d2-4653-a379-90b29ae41028 |
null | Ecuadorian footballer (born 1998)
Mateo Alejandro Émile Zambrano Bailón (born 2 April 1998) is a footballer who plays as a striker for El Nacional. Born in France, he was a youth international for Ecuador.
Career
Club career
Before the 2016 season, Zambrano signed for Ecuadorian side El Nacional, where he suffered relegation to the Ecuadorian second division. On 3 November 2019, he debuted for El Nacional during a 1-0 win over Macará. On 19 March 2021, Zambrano scored his first goal for El Nacional during a 1-1 draw with América de Quito.
International career
Zambrano is eligible to represent France internationally through his mother and having been born in Paris. He is the son of Ecuadorian politician Patricio Zambrano [es]. | 6561b103-4f1d-4cf5-9f3c-c084ea2c81b2 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviculariinae"} | Subfamily of tarantulas
The Aviculariinae are a subfamily of spiders in the family Theraphosidae (tarantulas). They can be distinguished from other theraphosids by a number of characters. Their legs have no or few spines on the underside (ventral surface) of the tibial and metatarsal joints of the legs. The last two leg joints (the metatarsi and tarsi) have brushes of hairs (scopulae) that extend sideways, particularly on the front legs, giving them a spoon-like (spatulate) appearance. Females have two completely separated spermathecae.
Taxonomy
The earliest classification of the mygalomorph spiders to include sufficient genera to be reasonably comprehensive was that of Eugène Simon in 1892. He recognized only two mygalomorph families; his Avicularidae taxon includes at least 12 modern families. The earliest equivalent to the modern subfamily Aviculariinae is considered to be Simon's 1889 tribe Aviculariae, which included three genera: Avicularia, Tapinauchenius and Scodra (now Stromatopelma).
The circumscription of the subfamily has varied considerably. Both the limits of the subfamily and the limits of its genera have been controversial. In his 1985 monograph on the Mygalomorphae, Robert Raven included only four genera, Avicularia, Iridopelma, Pachistopelma, and Tapinauchenius. Günter Schmidt in 2003 included Iridopelma in Avicularia, but added Ephebopus and Psalmopoeus to the subfamily. Authors from 2008 onwards have included a wider range of genera, sometimes newly recognized ones.
A 2017 morphological phylogenetic study provided evidence that the subfamily is monophyletic. The authors' preferred hypothesis for the relationships within the Aviculariinae is shown below, based on the species from each genus included in the study.
Genera
A 2017 monograph included the following genera, three newly erected: | 2ccf3bef-7eae-4bf1-8019-21acb10b1a9d |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sondor"} | Swiss audio video equipment manufacturer
Sondor is a manufacturer of Audio Video equipment located in Zollikon, Switzerland until 2017. Sondor was founded in 1952 by Willy Hungerbuehler. Sondor started as a manufacturer of 16 mm film and 35mm film magnetic film equipment. They are noted as inventing the standard for bi-phase interlocking pulse signals to sync sound to film. Sondor added a film transport telecine to it line of film sound equipment. Sondor products are found in many in post-production studios for record and playback and in movie theater for sound playback. playback.
Sondor film transport telecines uses a spinning prism telecine, like the model NOVA and ALTRA.
Some Sound Film followers player-recorder are the: OMA E and BASIC. SOUNDHOUSE is a product to add sound pick up to other telecines, like the Spirit DataCine.
The other major maker of sound followers is Magna Tech. DAT recorders and Direct to disk recording have replaced much of the work done on separate film sound followers.
On December 9, 2016 Digital Film Technology (dft), completed the acquisition of Sondor. DFT is the maker of the Scanity film scanner.
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{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabir_ibn_Abd_Allah"} | Companion of prophet Muhammad
Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr ibn Ḥarām al-Anṣārī (Arabic: جابر بن عبدالله بن عمرو بن حرام الأنصاري, died 697 CE/78 AH), was a prominent companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
Life
Early life
Jabir ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Ansari was born in Yathrib (now known as Medina) 15 years before the Hijra. He belonged to a poor family of Medina. He was from the tribe of Khazraj. His mother was Nasiba bint Uqba ibn Uddi.
Muhammad's era
Jabir ibn Abd Allah al-Ansari is said to have accepted Islam when he was about 7. Also, he is recognised as the Sahaba with the most count of hadith relating to Hajj.
His participation in the Battle of Badr is questioned by some historians; he is known to have fought in 19 battles (including Badr) under command of Muhammad and was a trusted Sahabi. He was present during the conquest of Mecca.
Battle of Uhud
In the Battle of Uhud, Jabir ibn Abd Allah was not allowed by his father Abd Allah to take part in Jihad. Jabir had seven sisters (some historians say nine) and Abd Allah wanted him to take care of his family. So instead of fighting, Jabir served the thirsty soldiers. Jabir's father, Abd Allah ibn Amr ibn Haram al-Ansari was martyred in the Battle of Uhud along with his brother-in-law, Amr ibn al-Jamuh, both having reached nearly 100 years of age.
Miracle of the date pile
Jabir narrates, "When the season of plucking the dates came, I went to Allah's Messenger and said, "You know that my father was martyred on the day of Uhud, and he was heavily in debt, and I would like that the creditors should see you." The Prophet said, "Go and pile every kind of dates apart." I did so and called him (i.e. the Prophet). When the creditors saw him, they started claiming their debts from me then in such a harsh manner (as they had never done before). So when he saw their attitude, he went round the biggest heap of dates thrice, and then sat over it and said, 'O Jabir, call your companions (i.e. the creditors).' Then he kept on measuring (and giving) to the creditors (their due) till Allah paid all the debt of my father. I would have been satisfied to retain nothing of those dates for my sisters after Allah had paid the debts of my father. But Allah saved all the heaps (of dates), so that when I looked at the heap where the Prophet had been sitting, it seemed as if a single date had not been taken away thereof."
Ali ibn Abi Talib era
He fought in all three major civil wars under Ali ibn Abi Talib: Battle of Jamal, Battle of Sifeen and Battle of Nahrawan.
Ali ibn Husayn's (ibn Ali) era (Shia doctrine)
Jabir had a long life and became blind in his old age. According to the Shias, he devoutly waited for the time when he would meet the fifth Imam. Each morning he would come out from his house, sit by the roadside and wait for the sound of the footsteps to recognize the fifth Imam. One such day while he was waiting in the street of Medina, he heard someone walking towards him, the sound of footsteps reminded him of the way Muhammad used to walk. Jabir stood up, stopped the man, and asked his name. He replied, “Muhammad”, Jabir asked, “whose son”? He replied “Ali ibn Hussain”. Jabir immediately recognized the man he was talking to was the 5th Imam. He kissed his hands and conveyed the message of Muhammad.
Abd al-Malik's era and Jabir’s death
It was during this era that he retold the Hadith of Umar's speech of forbidding Mut'ah. Jabir had a long life. According to shia sources he was poisoned by Al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf when he was 94 in, because of his loyalty to Ahl al-Bayt. He died in 78 AH (697) in Medina, Saudi Arabia.[citation needed]
Legacy
He narrated about 1,547 Hadiths (some historians say). After the death of Muhammad he used to deliver lectures in Masjid Nabwi, Medina, Egypt, and Damascus. Such leading Tabi'en scholars as Amr ibn Dinar, Mujahid, Atiyya ibn Sa'd and Ata' ibn Abi Rabah attended his lectures. People gathered around him in Damascus and Egypt to learn about Muhammad and his Hadiths.Upon research it is said that he started and carried out the tradition of Arbaeen 1300 years ago.
List of narrated hadith | 456faca6-8696-4f15-9d93-3147dd071135 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handan_County"} | Handan County (Chinese: 邯郸县) was a county of Hebei, China, under the administration of the prefecture-level city of the same name.
Administrative divisions
Towns:
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null | Seda Domaniç (born 1975) is the editor-in-chief of Vogue Turkey. She is also the president of Doğuş Media Group's publishing division.
Education
Seda Domaniç graduated magna cum laude ("Highest Honor") from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in 1997, after which she received her M.A. degree from Johns Hopkins University SAIS in Bologna. She was awarded a Bologna Center Fellowship in 1998–1999. Upon her return to Turkey she achieved her PhD degree in political science at Sabancı University.
Career
Seda Domaniç began her professional career as a journalist and a reporter at CNN television in Washington, then in Milan with Dow Jones Newswires. Moving back to Turkey, she continued her professional career in CNN Türk television in Istanbul. Following this period, she worked as a communications consultant with Tribeca Communications Consultancy for the European Commission, Ministry of Tourism and various private companies.
In 2002, she started working as a director in the European Union Information Center established in Istanbul. Her post had the objective to improve public awareness of the European Union and Turkey's accession process.
Domaniç then became the secretary general in the Centre for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies (EDAM) [tr] in 2004. She directed EDAM's team of researchers in cooperation with board members and conducted research projects while creating policies on various topics related to Turkish foreign and economic policy.
She joined Doğuş Group, one of Turkey's leading conglomerates, as the external affairs manager in 2006. In 2008, she became the business development and strategic planning director of Doğuş Media Group. Domaniç initiated partnerships and contributed to the brand development of media licensed through CNBC, Condé Nast, Virgin, Billboard, National Geographic, CurtCo Media, Dennis Publishing, Haymarket, IPC Media, Ink Publishing and MSNBC.
Along with her position in Dogus Media Group, she hosted her own TV programme named Business Turkey on CNBC Europe/World television.
Since 2009, Seda Domaniç has been the editor-in-chief of Vogue Turkey, where she oversees management of online and offline brand assets of the company, including the printed monthly magazine, vogue.com, iPad and Android editions, events and social media (with over 1 million followers); managing creative direction and monitoring the editorial content of the magazine. She also provides consultancy in fashion and luxury brands in line with Vogue vision while initiating establishments of joint projects beneficial to both parties.
In 2013 she was promoted to the presidency of DMG's Publishing Group. She is currently directing a team of 92 employees in overall operations, sales, advertising, marketing and editorial teams of Dogus Group magazines and NTV Publications.
Personal interests
Apart from her native tongue, Turkish, she speaks English, French, and Italian, and is currently learning Spanish. She loves travelling and is specifically drawn to the Southern Hemisphere. Domaniç is a certified yoga instructor. | 23cf44a6-e4d6-4d7b-a123-0abab2bd99cc |
null | Football club
Gainsborough United Football Club was an English association football club based in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire. They reached the 3rd round of the FA Vase in 1980. | 4a031dc8-5caf-4d9c-8aa1-b215278fe9ff |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_North_America,_Vol._1"} | 2014 compilation album by Various artists
Native North America, Vol. 1: Aboriginal Folk, Rock, and Country 1966–1985 is a compilation album, released in 2014 on Light in the Attic Records.
Compiled by Kevin "Sipreano" Howes, the album collects rare and out of print recordings by First Nations, Métis and Inuit musicians from Canada and Alaska.
With many of the artists poorly documented in media sources, Howes travelled extensively to interview and document the musicians for the album's booklet. The songs were remastered from the original recordings, which in many cases existed only in Canadian Broadcasting Corporation archives.
A second volume, featuring musicians from the Contiguous United States and Mexico, is slated for future release.
In August 2015, the Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art in Winnipeg, Manitoba staged an event dedicated to the album, featuring appearances by Howes and contributing musician Shingoose, and screenings of the aboriginal-themed documentary films The Paradox of Norval Morrisseau and The Other Side of the Ledger.
The album was a longlisted nominee for the 2015 Polaris Music Prize. The album received a Grammy Award nomination for best historical album in December 2015.
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{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_Highway_25"} | Highway in Mississippi
Mississippi Highway 25 (MS 25) runs from I-55 in Jackson, Mississippi to the Tennessee state line north of Iuka. The largely controlled-access part from Jackson to Starkville connects the state capital with the main campus of Mississippi State University.
MS 25 as it runs through Rankin County, north of Jackson.
MS 25 looking north in Winston County
MS 25 in Monroe County between West Point and Aberdeen
Failure of the Mississippi Highway 25 N/U.S. Route 45 S bridge over the Tombigbee River relief (Big Nichols Creek)/Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway in Aberdeen, Mississippi, during the March 1955 floods.
History
The 1933 Road Map of Mississippi shows MS 25 running northward from Macon roughly along the 2019 alignment of U.S. Route 45 to Brooksville, then roughly along the 2019 alignment of U.S. Route 45 Alternate through Artesia and West Point to Muldon, where the 2019 alignment continues in a northeasterly direction.
As of June 28, 2006, 150 miles (240 km) of continuous four-lane divided highway is open between Starkville, Mississippi, and Jackson, Mississippi. The last leg to open was the 11.9-mile (19.2 km), $27-million section from the intersection of Highway 19 north of Louisville, Mississippi, to Noxapater Creek in Winston County. This is one of the culminations of the 1987 Four-Lane Highway Program (commonly referred to as AHEAD Program) for improving Mississippi roadways.
On May 10, 2006 the next-to-last leg, a 10.1-mile (16.3 km), $23-million section, opened from the Oktibbeha County line west into Winston County.
Legally, Mississippi 25 is defined in Mississippi Code Annotated § 65-3-3, as follows: "Begins at or near Jackson, Hinds County, thence in a northeasterly direction to or near Carthage, Louisville and Starkville, thence along U.S. 82 to its intersection with U.S. 45A, thence along U.S. 45A to Muldon, thence to or near Aberdeen, Amory, Smithville, to U.S. 78, thence continuing to Belmont, Dennis, Tishomingo, Iuka and to the Mississippi-Tennessee state line north of Cross Roads, Tishomingo County."
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Baseball player
John Bernard Graham (December 24, 1916 – December 30, 1998) was an American professional baseball first baseman. He played in Major League Baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Giants, and St. Louis Browns between 1946 and 1949.
He died at age 82 in Los Alamitos, California.
His father, Peaches Graham, also played in the majors. | 366b4f67-7af3-4491-9a36-b93b3cc5c484 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpetbagger"} | Pejorative term for a person
In the history of the United States, carpetbagger is a largely historical term used by Southerners to describe opportunistic Northerners who came to the Southern states after the American Civil War, who were perceived to be exploiting the local populace for their own financial, political, and/or social gain. The term broadly included both individuals who sought to promote Republican politics (including the right of African Americans to vote and hold office) and individuals who saw business and political opportunities because of the chaotic state of the local economies following the war. In practice, the term carpetbagger was often applied to any Northerners who were present in the South during the Reconstruction Era (1865–1877). The term is closely associated with "scalawag", a similarly pejorative word used to describe native white Southerners who supported the Republican Party-led Reconstruction.
White Southerners commonly denounced "carpetbaggers" collectively during the post-war years, fearing they would loot and plunder the defeated South and be politically allied with the Radical Republicans. Sixty men from the North, including educated free blacks and slaves who had escaped to the North and returned South after the war, were elected from the South as Republicans to Congress. The majority of Republican governors in the South during Reconstruction were from the North.
Historian Eric Foner argues:
... most carpetbaggers probably combine the desire for personal gain with a commitment to taking part in an effort "to substitute the civilization of freedom for that of slavery". ... Carpetbaggers generally supported measures aimed at democratizing and modernizing the South – civil rights legislation, aid to economic development, the establishment of public school systems.
Since the end of the Reconstruction era, the term has been used to denote people who move into a new area for purely economic or political reasons, despite not having ties to that place.
Etymology and definition
The term carpetbagger, used exclusively as a pejorative term, originated from the carpet bags (a form of cheap luggage made from carpet fabric) which many of these newcomers carried. The term came to be associated with opportunism and exploitation by outsiders. The term is now used in the United States to refer to a parachute candidate, that is, an outsider who runs for public office in an area without having lived there for more than a short time, or without having other significant community ties.[citation needed]
According to Oliver Temple Perry in his 1912 book, "Notable men of Tennessee, from 1833 to 1875, Their Times and Their Contemporaries", Tennessee Secretary of State and Radical Republican Andrew J. Fletcher "was one of the first, if not the very first, in the State to denounce the hordes of greedy office-seekers who came from the North in the rear of the army in the closing days of the [U.S. Civil] War" within his June 1867 stump speech that he delivered across Tennessee for the re-election of the disabled Tennessee Governor William G. Brownlow:
"No one more gladly welcomes the Northern man who comes in all sincerity to make a home here, and to become one of our people, than I, but for the adventurer and the office-seeker who comes among us with one dirty shirt and a pair of dirty socks, in an old rusty carpet bag, and before his washing is done becomes a candidate for office, I have no welcome."
This was the origin of the term "carpet bag," and out of it grew the well known term "carpet-bag government."
In the United Kingdom at the end of the 20th century, carpetbagger developed another meaning: in British English it refers to people who join a mutual organization, such as a building society, in order to force it to demutualize, that is, to convert into a joint stock company. Such individuals are seeking personal financial gain through such actions.
Background
The Republican Party in the South comprised three groups after the Civil War, and white Democratic Southerners referred to with two derogatory terms. "Scalawags" were white Southerners who supported the Republican party, "carpetbaggers" were recent arrivals in the region from the North, and freedmen were freed slaves. Although "carpetbagger" and "scalawag" were originally terms of opprobrium, they are now commonly used in the scholarly literature to refer to these classes of people. Politically, the carpetbaggers were usually dominant; they comprised the majority of Republican governors and congressmen. However, the Republican Party inside each state was increasingly torn between the more conservative scalawags on one side and the more Radical carpetbaggers with their black allies on the other. In most cases, the carpetbaggers won out, and many scalawags moved into the conservative or Democratic opposition.[citation needed]
Most of the 430 Republican newspapers in the South were edited by scalawags—20 percent were edited by carpetbaggers. White businessmen generally boycotted Republican papers, which survived through government patronage.
Reforming impulse
Beginning in 1862, Northern abolitionists moved to areas in the South that had fallen under Union control. Schoolteachers and religious missionaries went to the South to teach the freedmen; some were sponsored by northern churches. Some were abolitionists who sought to continue the struggle for racial equality; they often became agents of the federal Freedmen's Bureau, which started operations in 1865 to assist the vast numbers of recently emancipated slaves. The bureau established schools in rural areas of the South for the purpose of educating the mostly illiterate Black and Poor White population. Other Northerners who moved to the South did so to participate in the profitable business of rebuilding railroads and various other forms of infrastructure that had been previously destroyed during the war.
During the time most blacks were enslaved, many were prohibited from being educated and attaining literacy. Southern states had no public school systems, and upper-class white Southerners either sent their children to private schools (including in England) or hired private tutors. After the war, hundreds of Northern white women moved South, many to teach the newly freed African-American children. There they joined like-minded Southerners, most of which were employed by the Methodist and Baptist Churches, who spent much of their time teaching and preaching to slave and freedpeople congregations both before and after the Civil War.
Economic motives
Initiatives such as the Southern Homestead Act, Sherman's field orders, and Reconstruction-era legislation by Radical Republicans aimed to strip the land, assets, and voting rights of Southerners believed, without evidence, to have supported the Confederates during the war. Although the stated purpose of these initiatives was to empower freedmen politically and economically, many carpetbaggers were businessmen who purchased or leased plantations. They became wealthy landowners, hiring freedmen and white Southerners to do the labor through the development of sharecropping. [citation needed]
Carpetbaggers also established banks and retail businesses. Most were former Union soldiers eager to invest their savings and energy in this promising new frontier, and civilians lured south by press reports of "the fabulous sums of money to be made in the South in raising cotton." Foner notes that "joined with the quest for profit, however, was a reforming spirit, a vision of themselves as agents of sectional reconciliation and the South's "economic regeneration." Accustomed to viewing Southerners—black and white—as devoid of economic initiative, the "Puritan work ethic", and self-discipline, they believed that only "Northern capital and energy" could bring "the blessings of a free labor system to the region."
Carpetbaggers tended to be well educated and middle class in origin. Some had been lawyers, businessmen, and newspaper editors. The majority (including 52 of the 60 who served in Congress during Reconstruction) were veterans of the Union Army.
Leading "black carpetbaggers" believed the interests of capital and labor were identical, and that the freedmen were entitled to little more than an "honest chance in the race of life."
Many Northern and Southern Republicans shared a modernizing vision of upgrading the Southern economy and society, one that would replace the inefficient Southern plantation regime with railroads, factories, and more efficient farming. They actively promoted public schooling and created numerous colleges and universities. The Northerners were especially successful in taking control of Southern railroads, aided by state legislatures. In 1870, Northerners controlled 21% of the South's railroads (by mileage); 19% of the directors were from the North. By 1890, they controlled 88% of the mileage; 47% of the directors were from the North.
Prominent examples in state politics
Mississippi
Union General Adelbert Ames, a native of Maine, was appointed military governor and later was elected as Republican governor of Mississippi during the Reconstruction era. Ames tried unsuccessfully to ensure equal rights for black Mississippians. His political battles with the Southerners and African Americans ripped apart his party.
The "Black and Tan" (biracial) constitutional convention in Mississippi in 1868 included 30 white Southerners, 17 Southern freedmen and 24 non-southerners, nearly all of whom were veterans of the Union Army. They included four men who had lived in the South before the war, two of whom had served in the Confederate States Army. Among the more prominent were Gen. Beroth B. Eggleston, a native of New York; Col. A. T. Morgan, of the Second Wisconsin Volunteers; Gen. W. S. Barry, former commander of a Colored regiment raised in Kentucky; an Illinois general and lawyer who graduated from Knox College; Maj. W. H. Gibbs, of the Fifteenth Illinois infantry; Judge W. B. Cunningham, of Pennsylvania; and Cap. E. J. Castello, of the Seventh Missouri infantry. They were among the founders of the Republican party in Mississippi.[citation needed]
They were prominent in the politics of the state until 1875, but nearly all left Mississippi in 1875 to 1876 under pressure from the Red Shirts and White Liners. These white paramilitary organizations, described as "the military arm of the Democratic Party", worked openly to violently overthrow Republican rule, using intimidation and assassination to turn Republicans out of office and suppress freedmen's voting. Mississippi Representative Wiley P. Harris, a Democrat, stated in 1875:
If any two hundred Southern men backed by a Federal administration should go to Indianapolis, turn out the Indiana people, take possession of all the seats of power, honor, and profit, denounce the people at large as assassins and barbarians, introduce corruption in all the branches of the public administration, make government a curse instead of a blessing, league with the most ignorant class of society to make war on the enlightened, intelligent, and virtuous, what kind of social relations would such a state of things beget.
Albert T. Morgan, the Republican sheriff of Yazoo, Mississippi, received a brief flurry of national attention when insurgent white Democrats took over the county government and forced him to flee. He later wrote Yazoo; Or, on the Picket Line of Freedom in the South (1884).[citation needed]
On November 6, 1875, Hiram Revels, a Mississippi Republican and the first African-American U.S. Senator, wrote a letter to U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant that was widely reprinted. Revels denounced Ames and Northerners for manipulating the Black vote for personal benefit, and for keeping alive wartime hatreds:
Since reconstruction, the masses of my people have been, as it were, enslaved in mind by unprincipled adventurers, who, caring nothing for country, were willing to stoop to anything no matter how infamous, to secure power to themselves, and perpetuate it. ... My people have been told by these schemers, when men have been placed on the ticket who were notoriously corrupt and dishonest, that they must vote for them; that the salvation of the party depended upon it; that the man who scratched a ticket was not a Republican. This is only one of the many means these unprincipled demagogues have devised to perpetuate the intellectual bondage of my people. ... The bitterness and hate created by the late civil strife has, in my opinion, been obliterated in this state, except perhaps in some localities, and would have long since been entirely obliterated, were it not for some unprincipled men who would keep alive the bitterness of the past, and inculcate a hatred between the races, in order that they may aggrandize themselves by office, and its emoluments, to control my people, the effect of which is to degrade them.
Elza Jeffords, a lawyer from Portsmouth, Ohio who fought with the Army of the Tennessee, remained in Mississippi after the conclusion of the Civil War. He was the last Republican to represent that state in the U.S. House of Representatives, having served from 1883 to 1885. He died in Vicksburg sixteen days after he left Congress. The next Republican congressman from the state was not elected until eighty years later in 1964: Prentiss Walker of Mize in Smith County, who served a single term from 1965 to 1967.[citation needed]
North Carolina
Corruption was a charge made by Democrats in North Carolina against the Republicans, notes the historian Paul Escott, "because its truth was apparent." The historians Eric Foner and W. E. B. Du Bois have noted that Democrats as well as Republicans received bribes and participated in decisions about the railroads. General Milton S. Littlefield was dubbed the "Prince of Carpetbaggers", and bought votes in the legislature "to support grandiose and fraudulent railroad schemes". Escott concludes that some Democrats were involved, but Republicans "bore the main responsibility for the issue of $28 million in state bonds for railroads and the accompanying corruption. This sum, enormous for the time, aroused great concern." Foner says Littlefield disbursed $200,000 (bribes) to win support in the legislature for state money for his railroads, and Democrats as well as Republicans were guilty of taking the bribes and making the decisions on the railroad. North Carolina Democrats condemned the legislature's "depraved villains, who take bribes every day"; one local Republican officeholder complained, "I deeply regret the course of some of our friends in the Legislature as well as out of it in regard to financial matters, it is very embarrassing indeed."
Escott notes that extravagance and corruption increased taxes and the costs of government in a state that had always favored low expenditure. The context was that a planter elite kept taxes low because it benefited them. They used their money toward private ends rather than public investment. None of the states had established public school systems before the Reconstruction state legislatures created them, and they had systematically underinvested in infrastructure such as roads and railroads. Planters whose properties occupied prime riverfront locations relied on river transportation, but smaller farmers in the backcountry suffered.
Escott claimed, "Some money went to very worthy causes—the 1869 legislature, for example, passed a school law that began the rebuilding and expansion of the state's public schools. But far too much was wrongly or unwisely spent" to aid the Republican Party leadership. A Republican county commissioner in Alamance eloquently denounced the situation: "Men are placed in power who instead of carrying out their duties ... form a kind of school for to graduate Rascals. Yes if you will give them a few Dollars they will liern you for an accomplished Rascal. This is in reference to the taxes that are rung from the labouring class of people. Without a speedy reformation I will have to resign my post."
Albion W. Tourgée, formerly of Ohio and a friend of President James A. Garfield, moved to North Carolina, where he practiced as a lawyer and was appointed a judge. He once opined that "Jesus Christ was a carpetbagger." Tourgée later wrote A Fool's Errand, a largely autobiographical novel about an idealistic carpetbagger persecuted by the Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina.
South Carolina
A politician in South Carolina who was called a carpetbagger was Daniel Henry Chamberlain, a New Englander who had served as an officer of a predominantly black regiment of the United States Colored Troops. He was appointed South Carolina's attorney general from 1868 to 1872 and was elected Republican governor from 1874 to 1877. As a result of the national Compromise of 1877, Chamberlain lost his office. He was narrowly re-elected in a campaign marked by egregious voter fraud and violence against freedmen by Democratic Red Shirts, who succeeded in suppressing the black vote in some majority-black counties. While serving in South Carolina, Chamberlain was a strong supporter of Negro rights.[citation needed]
Some historians of the early 1930s, who belonged to the Dunning School that believed that the Reconstruction era was fatally flawed, claimed that Chamberlain was later influenced by Social Darwinism to become a white supremacist. They also wrote that he supported states' rights and laissez-faire in the economy. They portrayed "liberty" in 1896 as the right to rise above the rising tide of equality. Chamberlain was said to justify white supremacy by arguing that, in evolutionary terms, the Negro obviously belonged to an inferior social order.
Charles Woodward Stearns, also from Massachusetts, wrote an account of his experience in South Carolina: The Black Man of the South, and the Rebels: Or, the Characteristics of the Former and the Recent Outrages of the Latter (1873).[citation needed]
Francis Lewis Cardozo, a black minister from New Haven, Connecticut, served as a delegate to South Carolina's 1868 Constitutional Convention. He made eloquent speeches advocating that the plantations be broken up and distributed among the freedmen. They wanted their own land to farm and believed they had already paid for land by their years of uncompensated labor and the trials of slavery.
Louisiana
Henry C. Warmoth was the Republican governor of Louisiana from 1868 to 1874. As governor, Warmoth was plagued by accusations of corruption, which continued to be a matter of controversy long after his death. He was accused of using his position as governor to trade in state bonds for his personal benefit. In addition, the newspaper company which he owned received a contract from the state government. Warmoth supported the franchise for freedmen.
Warmoth struggled to lead the state during the years when the White League, a white Democratic terrorist organization, conducted an open campaign of violence and intimidation against Republicans, including freedmen, with the goals of regaining Democratic power and white supremacy. They pushed Republicans from political positions, were responsible for the Coushatta Massacre, disrupted Republican organizing, and preceded elections with such intimidation and violence that black voting was sharply reduced. Warmoth stayed in Louisiana after Reconstruction, as white Democrats regained political control of the state. He died in 1931 at age 89.
Algernon Sidney Badger, a Boston, Massachusetts native, held various appointed federal positions in New Orleans only under Republican national administrations during and after Reconstruction. He first came to New Orleans with the Union Army in 1863 and never left the area. He is interred there at Metairie Cemetery.
George Luke Smith, a New Hampshire native, served briefly in the U.S. House from Louisiana's 4th congressional district but was unseated in 1874 by the Democrat William M. Levy. He then left Shreveport for Hot Springs, Arkansas.
Alabama
George E. Spencer was a prominent Republican U.S. Senator. His 1872 reelection campaign in Alabama opened him to allegations of "political betrayal of colleagues; manipulation of Federal patronage; embezzlement of public funds; purchase of votes; and intimidation of voters by the presence of Federal troops." He was a major speculator in a distressed financial paper.
Georgia
Tunis Campbell, a black New York businessman, was hired in 1863 by Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton to help former slaves in Port Royal, South Carolina. When the Civil War ended, Campbell was assigned to the Sea Islands of Georgia, where he engaged in an apparently successful land reform program for the benefit of the freedmen. He eventually became vice-chair of the Georgia Republican Party, a state senator and the head of an African-American militia which he hoped to use against the Ku Klux Klan.
Arkansas
The "Brooks–Baxter War" was a factional dispute, 1872–74 that culminated in an armed confrontation in 1874 between factions of the Arkansas Republican Party over the disputed 1872 election for governor. The victor in the end was the "Minstrel" faction led by carpetbagger Elisha Baxter over the "Brindle Tail" faction led by Joseph Brooks, which included most of the scalawags. The dispute weakened both factions and the entire Republican Party, enabling the sweeping Democratic victory in the 1874 state elections.
William Furbush
William Hines Furbush, born a mixed-race slave in Carroll County, Kentucky in 1839 received part of his education in Ohio. He migrated to Helena, Arkansas in 1862. After returning to Ohio in February 1865, he joined the Forty-second Colored Infantry.
After the war, Furbush migrated to Liberia through the American Colonization Society, where he continued to work as a photographer. He returned to Ohio after 18 months and moved back to Arkansas by 1870. Furbush was elected to two terms in the Arkansas House of Representatives, 1873–74 (from an African-American majority district in the Arkansas Delta, made up of Phillips and Monroe counties.) He served in 1879–80 from the newly established Lee County.
In 1873 the state passed a civil rights law. Furbush and three other black leaders, including the bill's primary sponsor, state senator Richard A. Dawson, sued a Little Rock barkeeper for refusing to serve their group. The suit resulted in the only successful Reconstruction prosecution under the state's civil rights law. In the legislature Furbush worked to create a new county, Lee, from portions of Phillips, Crittenden, Monroe and St. Francis counties in eastern Arkansas, which had a black-majority population.[citation needed]
Following the end of his 1873 legislative term, Furbush was appointed as county sheriff by Republican Governor Elisha Baxter. Furbush twice won reelection as sheriff, serving from 1873 to 1878. During his term, he adopted a policy of "fusion", a post-Reconstruction power-sharing compromise between Populist Democrats and Republicans. Furbush was originally elected as a Republican, but he switched to the Democratic Party at the end of his time as sheriff. Democrats held most of the economic power and cooperating with them could make his future.
In 1878, Furbush was elected again to the Arkansas House. His election is notable because he was elected as a black Democrat during a campaign season notorious for white intimidation of black and Republican voters in black-majority eastern Arkansas. He was the first-known black Democrat elected to the Arkansas General Assembly.
In March 1879 Furbush left Arkansas for Colorado. He returned to Arkansas in 1888, setting up practice as a lawyer. In 1889, he co-founded the African American newspaper National Democrat. He left the state in the 1890s after it disenfranchised black voters. Furbush died in Indiana in 1902 at a veterans' home.
Texas
Carpetbaggers were least numerous in Texas. Republicans controlled the state government from 1867 to January 1874. Only one state official and one justice of the state supreme court were Northerners. About 13% to 21% of district court judges were Northerners, along with about 10% of the delegates who wrote the Reconstruction constitution of 1869. Of the 142 men who served in the 12th Legislature, some 12 to 29 were from the North. At the county level, Northerners made up about 10% of the commissioners, county judges and sheriffs.
George Thompson Ruby, an African American from New York City who grew up in Portland, Maine, worked as a teacher in New Orleans from 1864 until 1866 when he migrated to Texas. There he was assigned to Galveston as an agent and teacher for the Freedmen's Bureau. Active in the Republican Party and elected as a delegate to the state constitutional convention in 1868–1869, Ruby was later elected as a Texas state senator and had wide influence. He supported construction of railroads to support Galveston business. He was instrumental in organizing African-American dockworkers into the Labor Union of Colored Men, to gain them jobs at the docks after 1870. When Democrats regained control of the state government in 1874, Ruby returned to New Orleans, working in journalism. He also became a leader of the Exoduster movement. Blacks from the Deep South migrated to homestead in Kansas in order to escape white supremacist violence and the oppression of segregation.
Historiography
The Dunning school of American historians (1900–1950) espoused White supremacy and viewed "carpetbaggers" unfavorably, arguing that they degraded the political and business culture. The revisionist school in the 1930s called them stooges of Northern business interests. After 1960 the neoabolitionist school emphasized their moral courage.
Modern use
United Kingdom
Building societies
Carpetbagging was used as a term in Great Britain in the late 1990s during the wave of demutualizations of building societies. It indicated members of the public who joined mutual societies with the hope of making a quick profit from the conversion. Contemporarily speaking, the term carpetbagger refers to roving financial opportunists, often of modest means, who spot investment opportunities and aim to benefit from a set of circumstances to which they are not ordinarily entitled. In recent years the best opportunities for carpetbaggers have come from opening membership accounts at building societies for as little as £100, to qualify for windfalls running into thousands of pounds from the process of conversion and takeover. The influx of such transitory 'token' members as carpetbaggers, took advantage of these nugatory deposit criteria, often to instigate or accelerate the trend towards wholesale demutualization.
Investors in these mutuals would receive shares in the new public companies, usually distributed at a flat rate, thus equally benefiting small and large investors, and providing a broad incentive for members to vote for conversion-advocating leadership candidates. The word was first used in this context in early 1997 by the chief executive of the Woolwich Building Society, who announced the society's conversion with rules removing the most recent new savers' entitlement to potential windfalls and stated in a media interview, "I have no qualms about disenfranchising carpetbaggers."[citation needed]
Between 1997 and 2002, a group of pro-demutualization supporters "Members for Conversion" operated a website, carpetbagger.com, which highlighted the best ways of opening share accounts with UK building societies, and organized demutualization resolutions. [full citation needed] This led many building societies to implement anti-carpetbagging policies, such as not accepting new deposits from customers who lived outside the normal operating area of the society.
The term continues to be used within the co-operative movement to, for example, refer to the demutualization of housing co-ops.
Politics
The term carpetbagger has also been applied to those who join the Labour Party but lack roots in the working class that the party was formed to represent.
World War II
During World War II, the U.S. Office of Strategic Services surreptitiously supplied necessary tools and material to resistance groups in Europe. The OSS called this effort Operation Carpetbagger. The modified B-24 aircraft used for the night-time missions were referred to as "carpetbaggers". (Among other special features, they were painted a non-glossy black to make them less visible to searchlights.) Between January and September 1944, Operation Carpetbagger operated 1,860 sorties between RAF Harrington, England, and various points in occupied Europe. British Agents used this "noise" as cover for their use of Carpetbagger for the nominated Agent who was carrying monies [authentic and counterfeit] to the Underground/Resistance.[citation needed]
Australia
In Australia, "carpetbagger" may refer to unscrupulous dealers and business managers in indigenous Australian art.
The term was also used by John Fahey, a former Premier of New South Wales and federal Liberal finance minister, in the context of shoddy "tradespeople" who travelled to Queensland to take advantage of victims following the 2010–2011 Queensland floods.
United States
In the United States, the common usage, usually derogatory, refers to politicians who move to different states, districts or areas to run for office despite their lack of local ties or familiarity. For example, West Virginia Congressman Alex Mooney was attacked as a carpetbagger when he first ran for Congress in 2014, as he had previously been a Maryland State Senator and Chairman of the Maryland Republican Party. 2022 Republican nominee for Pennsylvania Senator Mehmet Oz was prominently attacked as a carpetbagger by his opponent John Fetterman for previously living in New Jersey until months before the election. Fetterman won the election, with some claiming that this attack was vital to his victory.
The awards season blog of The New York Times is titled "The Carpetbagger".[better source needed]
Cuisine
A carpetbag steak or carpetbagger steak is an end cut of steak that is pocketed and stuffed with oysters, among other ingredients, such as mushrooms, blue cheese, and garlic. The steak is sutured with toothpicks or thread, and is sometimes wrapped in bacon. The combination of beef and oysters is traditional. The earliest specific reference is in a United States newspaper in 1891. The earliest specific Australian reference is a printed recipe from between 1899 and 1907.
France
Politics
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The Animal Demography Unit (ADU) is a formally recognized research unit of the University of Cape Town (UCT) located within the Department of Biological Sciences of UCT. (The Department of Biological Sciences was formed from the merger of the Department of Botany and the Department of Zoology at the start of the 2013 academic year). The Animal Demography Unit, popularly known as the ADU, was responsible for the management of the First and Second Southern African Bird Atlas Projects SABAP1 and SABAP2. The unit has submitted over eight million georeferenced biodiversity records to GBIF.
History
The Animal Demography Unit (formerly the Avian Demography Unit), or ADU as it is mostly known in the vernacular, is a research unit of the University of Cape Town. Initially it was built on the nucleus of the South African Bird Ringing Unit (SAFRING) and the Southern African Bird Atlas Project (SABAP). The ADU was established in December 1991 within the Department of Statistical Sciences at the University of Cape Town. Over the years, the ADU has grown far beyond its starting point.
The concept on which the ADU is based can be traced back to 1983, when a workshop was held in Johannesburg on the establishment of a Bird Populations Data Bank for South Africa. This workshop was held in conjunction with a "Birds and Man" symposium which had been organised by the Southern African Ornithological Society (now BirdLife South Africa).
The ADU has continued to be closely associated with BirdLife South Africa. and has a formal partnership relationship with that organization, with the objective of fostering the development of further ornithological projects. This close association is appropriate because much of the research of the ADU continues to focus on large scale demographic studies in which participation by amateurs is a vital element.
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{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olonetsky_District"} | District in Republic of Karelia, Russia
Olonetsky District (Russian: Оло́нецкий райо́н; Karelian: Anuksen piiri) is an administrative district (raion), one of the fifteen in the Republic of Karelia, Russia.
Its administrative center is the town of Olonets.
Olonetsky district is equated to the districts of the far north.
Refers to national areas.
Geography
About 90% of the district's territory is occupied by forests and swamps. There are 49 lakes and 11 rivers on the territory of the district.
The nature of the relief is mainly flat. In the north and east of the district there are hills, the most significant is Mount Zheleznaya (97 m).
Climate
The climate is mild, moderately continental. The average temperature in January is -9.9 °C, in July — +16.5 °C. The average annual precipitation is 584 mm.
Mass media
Newspapers and magazines
History
The district was formed on August 29, 1927 as part of the Autonomous Karelian SSR. In 1930, the Vidlitsky district of the Autonomous Karelian SSR became part of the district.
During the Soviet-Finnish War (1941-1944), the territory of the district was occupied. The territory of the district was liberated by Soviet troops in the summer of 1944 during the Svir-Petrozavodsk operation.
On May 23, 1957, part of the territory of the abolished Pitkyarantsky district was annexed to the Olonetsky district.
Administrative and municipal status
Within the framework of administrative divisions, Olonetsky District is one of the fifteen in the Republic of Karelia and has administrative jurisdiction over one town (Olonets) and sixty-four rural localities. As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Olonetsky Municipal District. The town of Olonets and eight rural localities are incorporated into an urban settlement, while the remaining fifty-six rural localities are incorporated into eight rural settlements within the municipal district. The town of Olonets serves as the administrative center of both the administrative and municipal district.
Economy
The basis of the district's economy is the forestry industry, timber processing and agriculture (crop production, meat and dairy farming, animal husbandry). Tourism activity is developing.
Transport
Automobile communication
The federal highway «Kola» passes through the district.
The district is connected by regular bus routes with Petrozavodsk, St. Petersburg, Sortavala. Commuter flights from Olonets to Verkhny Olonets, Vidlitsa, Ilyinsky, Tuksy, Kovera, Megrega, Rypushkalitsa and Verkhovye.
Railway
Railway line Yanisjarvi — Lodeynoye Pole.
Attractions
More than 130 monuments of historical and cultural heritage have been preserved on the territory of the district.
Demographics
Olonetsky District is the only district in the republic where Karelians form a majority of the population (63.4% in 1989).[citation needed] Natural population growth rate was -12.02 per 1,000 in 1994.[citation needed]
Notable natives and residents
Artamonov Ivan Ilyich (1914-1985) — Hero of the Soviet Union, a native of the village of Stepannavolok.
Vladimir Egorovich Brandoev (1931-1990) was a Karelian poet and translator, a native of Berezhnaya village.
Mikhail Konstantinovich Kononov (1923-2005) was an economic and party leader, a native of the city of Olonets.
Ivan Petrovich Kuzmin (1928-2002) — Honored School teacher of the RSFSR, a native of the village of Matchezero.
Heroes of Socialist Labor worked in the district — I. V. Chaikin, S. V. Sablin, F. F. Koshkin. | 9bbb15cd-68d5-468a-a406-df0a12be0fcd |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Berliner"} | American politician
Roger Berliner (born February 12, 1951) is a former member of the Montgomery County Council from 2006 to 2018. He represented District 1, which includes parts of Poolesville, Potomac, Bethesda, and Chevy Chase.
Early years
Berliner was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on February 12, 1951.
Berliner earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Dartmouth College and a Juris Doctor from the McGeorge School of Law of the University of the Pacific.
Berliner was an attorney specializing in energy law and a partner for Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP. Some of the clients he represented included Canadian gas producers, the Government of Guam, and Nevada Power Company. On behalf of his client Pacific Gas and Electric, Berliner sent a petition to the Maryland Public Service Commission proposing to give customers the option of paying an additional four dollars per month to fund the planting of trees to reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Berliner is the president of Berliner Law PLLC.
Early political career and activism
Berliner served as legislative director for United States Senator Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio. He served as senior policy advisor for Congressman Henry Waxman of California. Berliner worked as director of Congressional liaison for the Carter administration.
Berliner was the Maryland coordinator for Bill Bradley's presidential campaign in 1999.
Montgomery County Council
2000 election
On January 11, 2000, Betty Ann Krahnke announced that she would resign from representing District 1 on the Montgomery County Council. Krahnke had been battling Lou Gehrig's disease for the preceding 18 months, and she was unable to walk or speak. Krahnke said she would leave office after a special election would be held to fill her seat. Krahnke had represented District 1 since the Council was changed in 1990 to include district seats.
Berliner announced that we would run for the seat on the Council. Tony Puca also ran for the seat. Puca was a life insurance agent who was known for volunteer work with elders and people with developmental disabilities. Ilene Solomon, a special education teacher, also ran for the Democratic nomination. Howard A. Denis, former state senator; Casey Aiken, a real estate attorney; Sharon Constantine, a local activist; Scott Dyer, a computer engineer; and Mary Kane, an attorney.
Berliner supported transportation improvements including building the Intercounty Connector. Baptiste preferred improving transportation without building the Purple Line and Intercounty Connector.
Incumbent Krahnke endorsed Democrat Patricia Baptiste and donated her remaining campaign funds to Baptiste's campaign, which alarmed local Republican party officials.
Baptiste won the Democratic primary by 17 percentage points. Denis won the Republican primary and went on to win in the general election.
2006 election
In January 2006, Berliner announced he would run to represent District 1 on the Council again. In his announcement, Berliner said he would increase regulation and oversight of development, reduce traffic, and modernize public schools. Berliner proposed mandatory sustainable building standards for government buildings. He supported an unimplemented law giving a tax credit for purchasing hybrid vehicles and a tax surcharge for purchasing vehicles with low fuel efficiency.
Duchy Trachtenberg considered running for the District 1 seat, but Trachtenberg ended up running for an at-large seat instead.
Berliner ran against incumbent Howard A. Denis. Neither faced opposition in the primary election.
Berliner said that, as a Democrat, he could do more for his constituents than Denis, the only incumbent Republican. Berliner said that Denis' sway in the Council was diminished because of his party affiliation, and that residents would be better represented by a Democratic Council member. Berliner criticized Denis for being a populist, rather than someone with consistent principles. Berliner criticized Denis for hiding the fact that he had sought to be a delegate for President George W. Bush in 2004, while Berliner had helped John Kerry's presidential campaign in Florida.
Berliner criticized Denis' vote to lift a tax on developers that was intended to pay for new roads and schools to ease the impact of development. Berliner also characterized Clarksburg's development problems as a failure by Denis. Denis said he had advocated for anti-developer bills, such as one to prevent developers from destroying large trees to build mansions.
The editorial board of The Washington Post endorsed Denis' reelection. The editorial board complimented Denis' hard work on the Council, although it disagreed with his stance against the Purple Line.
Denis received the endorsement of Neighbors for a Better Montgomery, an organization advocating slower growth. Denis was also proud to his successful passage of legislation to restrict residents from erecting mansions on small residential lots. Berliner won the general election, receiving 56 percent of the vote.
First term
Berliner took the oath of office on December 4, 2006.
The Council considered instituting a moratorium on subdivision developments. The proposal would have stalled 72 projects that were under consideration. Berliner voted against the moratorium.
Responding to the practice of demolishing small, older homes and building larger homes in their place, Berliner helped create a task force to evaluate and propose solutions. The task force was composed of residents, representatives of the home building industry, an architect, and a real estate agent. Berliner introduced the task force's proposed bill, which reduced the size of homes allowed on small lots, changed the building heights allowed, and changed neighborhood notification procedures.
Asked whether he would support building another bridge over the Potomac River in Montgomery County, Berliner said he would not.
Berliner sponsored a proposal to ban fences and other structures on property near the C&O Canal National Historical Park. The proposal was intended so that the park's visitors would not have to see a large wall next to the park. Berliner also supported a proposed ordinance that would require the County's approval before the removal of a tree from a residential lots.
Berliner supported a proposed bill to require people employing domestic workers to provide written contracts describing working conditions, hours, and pay to employees working at least 20 hours a week. The laws regarding overtime and pay frequency that apply to other types of employees would also apply to domestic workers. Workers who live in their employer's house would need to be given a private room for sleeping with a door that can be locked as well as access to a kitchen, a bathroom, and laundry facilities.
In December 2008, the Council unanimously elected Berliner to a one-year term as the Council's next vice president. Berliner's term ended in August 2009, when Councilmember Valerie Ervin was elected vice president of the Council.
In January 2009, the Maryland/D.C./Virginia Solar Energy Industries Association awarded its annual Solar Champions of the Year Award to Berliner. The award was in recognition of legislation Berliner supported that would allow property tax credits for installation of solar panels. In 2010, Berliner proposed a carbon dioxide tax on major polluters in the county. He proposed a tax of five dollars per ton in excess of one million tons per year. At the time, only a coal-fired power plant in Dickerson exceeded one million tons of carbon dioxide. The power plant was the source of twenty-five percent of the county's carbon dioxide emissions. Berliner said the $15 million that the bill would raise could give tax credits to residents who install energy-efficiency products in their homes. The bill passed the Council. The power plant company sued the county, saying the tax targeted it.
In 2009, Berliner supported giving people the option of paying for parking meters using a cell phone.
Berliner supported a bill that would require the County's contractors and subcontractors to provide benefits to spouses and registered domestic partners of their employees, without regard to gender.
Berliner voted in favor of a bill to give a tax credit to local small businesses engaged in the research, development, or commercialization of innovative and proprietary technology that comprises, interacts with, or analyzes biological material.
Berliner criticized the County's government's deal with Live Nation for the Fillmore Silver Spring. The deal gave Live Nation a special exemption from zoning and design rules, the County paid for most increased construction costs, and $80,000 in annual tax breaks. Berliner thought the money spent on the deal should not have taken priority when the county was also cutting critical services.
The Council elected Berliner to the position of vice president of the Council on December 3, 2008. His term ended on December 2, 2009, when Valerie Ervin was elected to the position of vice president.
2010 election
In 2010, Berliner ran for reelection. He was challenged in the Democratic primary by community activist Ilaya Hopkins of Bethesda.
Berliner told The Washington Post that most urgent problem facing his constituents was the county government's budget. Berliner said the County's budget problems were caused by too much development too quickly. He supported the cuts that the Council had already made and that he had voted for.
Hopkins blamed the County's fiscal problems on Berliner's irresponsibility on the Council. Hopkins also criticized Berliner for inaction after electricity outages.
Berliner won the Democratic primary with 75 percent of the vote.
In the general election, Berliner was challenged by Republican Rob Vricella of Chevy Chase Village.
Rob Vricella predicted that the Council would balance the county government's budget by increasing taxes. Vricella said the County's most urgent problem was the county's fiscal health. Vricella said that Montgomery County's tax rates were stunting economic growth and leading to job losses. He said the key was to reduce the county government's spending.
The editorial board of The Washington Post endorsed Berliner's candidacy in the general election. Former Council member Howard Denis endorsed Vricella's candidacy.
Berliner won the general election with 68 percent of the vote.
Second term
After electricity outages following a snowstorm, Berliner criticized Pepco's performance, saying that Pepco's shareholders have benefited while residents have not. Berliner said Pepco had allowed its power system to degrade, leading to unacceptably unreliable electricity service. When Pepco asked the Council for expanded authority to trim trees on private property, Berliner said that excessive power outages were due to Pepco's perpetual lack of maintenance on its system, not overgrown trees.
Berliner co-sponsored legislation that would require county permits for any work done in the county right-of-way that affects roadside trees. The Department of Permitting Services would make sure that roadside trees would be saved if possible. Berliner also supported a bill to require property owners who apply for a sediment control permit to plant trees.
In May 2011, the Council voted to institute a five-cent tax on plastic and paper bags provided at most retail stores. Paper bags from restaurants, bags holding prescription drugs, dry-cleaning bags, and bags for perishable and bulk items were exempted from the tax. The tax revenue funds improvements in the water quality of streams and reductions in the impact of stormwater runoff. Berliner voted in favor of the tax.
In 2011, Berliner voted in favor of giving Westfield Corporation $4 million to pay for construction costs related to Costco's move to Westfield Wheaton.
Peterson Companies proposed to build a retail, office, and hotel project on 100 acres (0.40 km2) east of Interstate 270 in Clarksburg. Located near the site was Ten Mile Creek, one of the last unpolluted creeks in Montgomery County. The Council listened to scientific testimony that the runoff from the development would pollute the clean creek. There was also a study that the development could damage the viability of Clarksburg Town Center, which had been planned to be built nearby. Berliner joined with the majority of the Council to vote to limit the size of the development by about half.
The Council elected Berliner to the position of vice president of the Council in December 2010. He served in that position until December 2011, when the Council elected Nancy Navarro to the position. The Council elected Berliner to the position of president of the Council on December 6, 2011. He served as president until the Council elected Nancy Navarro to the position on December 5, 2012.
2014 election
Berliner ran for a third term on the Council. Duchy Trachtenberg challenged Berliner in the Democratic primary. A family therapist by profession, Trachtenberg had been a president of the Maryland chapter of the National Organization for Women and an at-large Council member from 2006 to 2010.
An engineering firm connected to a proposed development in Clarksburg criticized Berliner's vote to limit development in Clarksburg to reduce pollution of Ten Mile Creek. Berliner defended the vote, saying it was appropriate and that he was proud of his record of supporting development elsewhere such as in White Flint.
Berliner's reelection was endorsed by the Sierra Club and Service Employees International Union Local 500. Trachtenberg's candidacy was endorsed by Democracy for America, Metropolitan Washington Council AFL–CIO and Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 35.
Berliner won the Democratic primary with 79 percent of the vote.
In the general election, Republican Jim Kirkland challenged Berliner. Kirkland was a part-time yard worker. Kirkland supported relaxing of enforcement of drunk driving laws because they hurt businesses and discourage social drinking. Kirkland said that the County's enforcement of building code violations was part of a plan to drive out working class residents.
After The Washington Post received an email from Kirkland with anti-Semitic slurs, the Montgomery County Republican Party dropped its endorsement of Kirkland's candidacy and deleted his name from its website. Asked by a reporter about the email, Kirkland said he stood by his email's content. Kirkland defended the email saying he had sent it to The Washington Post before he had begun campaigning and that he had not used any anti-Semitic language since campaigning.
Berliner won with 68 percent of the vote.
Third term
Berliner co-sponsored a bill to prohibit the use of electronic cigarettes in public places where traditional tobacco smoking is prohibited. The bill also required child-resistant packaging for liquid nicotine containers sold in retail outlets.
Berliner sponsored a bill to create a green bank that would provide low-cost financing for residential and commercial solar electricity projects and energy-efficiency improvements. The green bank would receive its initial fundraising from revenue from the merger settlement with Pepco-Exelon.
Berliner voted for a Council resolution that asked the Maryland General Assembly to reform the county's liquor control system. The resolution asked the state to lift Montgomery County Department of Liquor Control's monopoly on selling liquor in the county. Berliner said the poor performance by the Department of Liquor Control's poor performance was the reason he supported the resolution.
Berliner voted against a bill to ban the use of certain pesticides on county-owned and private lawns.
Berliner cosponsored a bill to allow people age 65 and older, with individual or combined gross incomes of $80,000 or less, to defer increases on property taxes on their principal residence until they sell their home. The $80,000 threshold was chosen to make sure approximately half of the senior citizens living in the county would qualify.
2018 election
Berliner ran for Montgomery County Executive in 2018. Berliner lost the Democratic primary election, coming in fourth place out of six candidates on the ballot.
Electoral history
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2006
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Studies in culinary arts at Umeå University started in 1996. In 2002 the Umeå University's School of Restaurant and Culinary Arts was inaugurated. Courses are given for a bachelor's degree in creative cooking or restaurant hosting. | 4e824301-77b6-4558-bf55-5bbdafbbbebd |
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Hiroshi Takano (高野 寛, Takano Hiroshi) (born December 14, 1964) is a Japanese singer, composer, lyricist, music arranger, guitarist and producer. In the end of 1980s and early 1990s, he recorded some successful records which were produced by Todd Rundgren. He has contributed to the works of many musicians, such as Towa Tei and Ryuichi Sakamoto.
Discography
Studio albums
Compilations
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{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Banja_Luka_Challenger_%E2%80%93_Doubles"} | 2018 tennis event results
Marin and Tomislav Draganja were the defending champions, but only Tomislav chose to defend his title, partnering Alessandro Giannessi. Tomislav Draganja lost in the quarterfinals to Andrej Martin and Hans Podlipnik Castillo.
Martin and Podlipnik Castillo won the title after defeating Laurynas Grigelis and Alessandro Motti 7–5, 4–6, [10–7] in the final.
Seeds
Draw
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{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012%E2%80%9313_EHF_Champions_League"} | The 2012–13 EHF Champions League was the 53rd edition of Europe's premier club handball tournament and the 20th edition under the current EHF Champions League format. THW Kiel was the defending champion. The final four was played on 1–2 June 2013.
HSV Hamburg won their first title by defeating FC Barcelona 30–29 in the final.
Overview
Team allocation
Notes
Round and draw dates
All draws held at EHF headquarters in Vienna, Austria unless stated otherwise.
Qualification stage
Qualification tournament
A total of 14 teams will take part in the qualification tournaments. The clubs will be drawn into three groups of four and play a semifinal and the final. The winner of the qualification groups advance to the group stage, while the eliminated clubs will go to the EHF Cup. Matches will be played at 8–9 September 2011. The draw will take place on 3 July, at 11:00 local time at Vienna, Austria.
Seedings
The two remaining teams from Pot 1 and 4 will play a knock-out match, the winner will go into the group stage. The draw was held on 3 July 2012.
Qualification tournament 1
RK Partizan organized the event.
Qualification tournament 2
Haslum HK organized the event.
Qualification tournament 3
HCM Constanța organized the event.
Play-off
HC Dinamo-Minsk and Beşiktaş J.K. played a playoff series to determine a participant for the group stage.
Dinamo-Minsk wins 61–46 on aggregate.
Wild card tournament
Group stage
The draw for the group stage took place at the Gartenhotel Altmannsdorf in Vienna on 6 July 2012 at 11:00 local time. A total of 24 teams were drawn into four groups of six. Teams were divided into six pots, based on EHF coefficients. Clubs from the same pot or the same association could not be drawn into the same group, except the wild card tournament winner, which did not enjoy any protection.
Seedings
th Title holder. The title holder automatically gets the top position of seeding list.
Notes
Group A
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Group B
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Group C
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Group D
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Knockout stage
In the knockout phase, teams played against each other over two legs on a home-and-away basis, except for the final four.
Last 16
The draw was held on 26 February 2013 at 12:30 in Vienna, Austria. The first legs were played on 13–17 March, and the second legs were played on 20–24 March 2013.
Quarterfinals
The first legs were played on 17–21 April, and the second legs were played on 24–28 April 2013.
Final four
The draw was held on 2 May 2013.
Top goalscorers
(excluding qualifying rounds)
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null | Ryōko Shintani (新谷良子, Shintani Ryōko, born March 31, 1981) is a Japanese voice actress and singer from Kanazawa, Ishikawa.[better source needed] She is under the Lantis and Vi-vo Recording Label and famous as the voice of Milfeulle Sakuraba in the Galaxy Angel Series. She also sang along with Yukari Tamura, Miyuki Sawashiro, Mayumi Yamaguchi and Mika Kanai as the group Angel-Tai.
Filmography
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Discography
Singles
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{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borneo_peat_swamp_forests"} | Ecoregion in Borneo
The Borneo peat swamp forests ecoregion, within the tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests biome, are on the island of Borneo, which is divided between Brunei, Indonesia and Malaysia.
Location and description
Peat swamp forests occur where waterlogged soils prevent dead leaves and wood from fully decomposing, which over time creates thick layer of acidic peat. The peat swamp forests on Borneo occur in the Indonesian state of Kalimantan, the Malaysian state of Sarawak and in the Belait District of Brunei on coastal lowlands, built up behind the brackish mangrove forests and bounded by the Borneo lowland rain forests on better-drained soils. There are also areas of inland river-fed peat forest at higher elevations in central Kalimantan around the Mahakam Lakes and Lake Sentarum on the Kapuas River. Borneo has a tropical monsoon climate.
Recent history
Over the past decade, the government of Indonesia has drained over 1 million hectares of the Borneo peat swamp forests for conversion to agricultural land under the Mega Rice Project (MRP). Between 1996 and 1998, more than 4,000 km of drainage and irrigation channels were dug, and deforestation accelerated in part through legal and illegal logging and in part through burning. The water channels, and the roads and railways built for legal forestry, opened up the region to illegal forestry. In the MRP area, forest cover dropped from 64.8% in 1991 to 45.7% in 2000, and clearance has continued since then. It appears that almost all the marketable trees have now been removed from the areas covered by the MRP. What happened was not what had been expected: the channels drained the peat forests rather than irrigating them. Where the forests had often flooded up to 2m deep in the rainy season, now their surface is dry at all times of the year. The Indonesian government has now abandoned the MRP.
Fires
Fires were used in an attempt to create agricultural lands, including large palm tree plantations to supply palm oil. The dried-out peat ignites easily and also burns underground, travelling unseen beneath the surface to break out in unexpected locations. Therefore, after drainage, fires ravaged the area, destroying remaining forest and large numbers of birds, animals, reptiles and other wildlife along with new agriculture, even damaging nature reserves such as Muara Kaman and filling the air above Borneo and beyond with dense smoke and haze and releasing enormous quantities of CO2 into the atmosphere. The destruction had a major negative impact on the livelihoods of people in the area. It caused major smog-related health problems amongst half a million people, who suffered from respiratory problems.
The dry years of 1997-8 and 2002-3 (see El Niño) in particular saw huge fires in the drained and drying-out peat swamp forests. A study for the European Space Agency found that the peat swamp forests are a significant carbon sink for the planet, and that the fires of 1997-8 may have released up to 2.5 billion tonnes, and the 2002-3 fires between 200 million to 1 billion tonnes, of carbon into the atmosphere. Using satellite images from before and after the 1997 fires, scientists calculated (Page et al, 2002) that of the 790,000 hectares (2,000,000 acres) that had burned 91.5% was peatland 730,000 hectares (1,800,000 acres). Using ground measurements of the burn depth of peat, they estimated that 0.19–0.23 gigatonnes (Gt) of carbon were released into the atmosphere through peat combustion, with a further 0.05 Gt released from burning of the overlying vegetation. Extrapolating these estimates to Indonesia as a whole, they estimated that between 0.81 and 2.57 Gt of carbon were released to the atmosphere in 1997 as a result of burning peat and vegetation in Indonesia. This is equivalent to 13–40% of the mean annual global carbon emissions from fossil fuels, and contributed greatly to the largest annual increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration detected since records began in 1957.
Indonesia is currently the world's third largest carbon emitter, to a large extent due to the destruction of its ancient peat swamp forests (Pearce 2007).
Ecology
About 62% of the world's tropical peat lands occur in the Indo-Malayan region (80% in Indonesia, 11% in Malaysia, 6% in Papua New Guinea, with small pockets and remnants in Brunei, Vietnam, the Philippines and Thailand). They are unusual ecosystems, with trees up to 70 m high - vastly different from the peat lands of the north temperate and boreal zones (which are dominated by Sphagnum mosses, grasses, sedges and shrubs). The spongy, unstable, waterlogged, anaerobic beds of peat can be up to 20 m deep with low pH (pH 2.9 – 4) and low nutrients, and the forest floor is seasonally flooded. The water is stained dark brown by the tannins that leach from the fallen leaves and peat – hence the name 'blackwater swamps'. During the dry season, the peat remains waterlogged and pools remain among the trees.
Despite the extreme conditions the Borneo peat swamp forests have as many as 927 species of flowering plants and ferns recorded (In comparison, a biodiversity study in the Pekan peat swamp forest in Peninsular Malaysia reported 260 plant species). Patterns of forest type can be seen in circles from the centre of the swamps to their outer fringes which are made up of most of the tree families recorded in lowland dipterocarp forests although many species are only found here [citation needed]. Many trees have buttresses and stilt roots for support in the unstable substrate, and pneumatophores and hoop roots and knee roots to facilitate gas exchange. The trees have thick, root mats in the upper 50 cm of the peat to enable oxygen and nutrient uptake.
The lowland peat swamps of Borneo are mostly geologically recent (<5,000 years old), low-lying coastal formations above marine muds and sands but some of the lakeside peat forests of Kalimantan are up to 11,000 years old.
One reason for the low nutrient conditions is that streams and rivers do not flow into these forests (if they did, nutrient rich freshwater swamps would result), water only flows out of them, so the only input of nutrients is from rainfall, marine aerosols and dust. In order to cope with the lack of nutrients, the plants invest heavily in defences against herbivores such as chemical (toxic secondary compounds) and physical defences (tough leathery leaves, spines and thorns). It is these defences that prevent the leaves from decaying and so they build up as peat. Although the cellular contents quickly leach out of the leaves when they fall, the physical structure is resistant to both bacterial and fungal decomposition and so remains intact, slowly breaking down to form peat (Yule and Gomez 2008). This is in stark contrast to the lowland dipterocarp forests where leaf decomposition is extremely rapid, resulting in very fast nutrient cycling on the forest floor. If non-endemic leaf species are placed in the peat swamp forests, they break down quite quickly, but even after one year submerged in the swamp, endemic species remain virtually unchanged (Yule and Gomez 2008). The only nutrients available for the trees are thus the ones that leach from the leaves when they fall, and these nutrients are rapidly absorbed by the thick root mat. It was previously assumed that the low pH and anaerobic conditions of the tropical peat swamps meant that bacteria and fungi could not survive, but recent studies have shown diverse and abundant communities (albeit not nearly as diverse as dry land tropical rainforests, or freshwater swamps) (Voglmayr and Yule 2006; Jackson, Liew and Yule 2008).
Fauna
These forests are home to wildlife including gibbons, orangutans, and crocodiles. In particular the riverbanks of the swamps are important habitats for the crab-eating macaque (Macaca fascicularis) and the silvery lutung (Presbytis cristata) and are the main habitat of Borneo's unique and endangered proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus) which can swim well in the rivers, and the Borneo roundleaf bat (Hipposideros doriae). There are two birds endemic to the peat forests, the Javan white-eye (Zosterops flavus) and the hook-billed bulbul (Setornis criniger) while more than 200 species of birds have been recorded in Tanjung Puting National Park in Kalimantan. Rivers of the peat swamps are home to the rare arowana fish (Scleropages formosus), otters, waterbirds, false gharials and crocodiles. Another small species of fish are the Parosphromenus which are also extremely endangered. The parosphromenus species are small fish of extreme beauty.
Preservation
Attempts at preservation have been minimal in comparison to recent devastation while commercial logging of peat swamp forest in Sarawak is ongoing and planned to intensify in Brunei. One plan by the environmental NGO Borneo Orangutan Survival is to preserve the peat swamp forest of Mawas using a combination of carbon finance and debt-for-nature-swap. Peatland conservation and rehabilitation are more efficient undertakings than reducing deforestation (in terms of claiming carbon credits through REDD initiatives) due to the much larger reduced emissions achievable per unit area and the much lower opportunity costs involved. About 6% of the original peat-forest area is contained within protected areas, the largest of which are Tanjung Puting and Sabangau National Parks. | 194f3f1a-4d6d-447c-84ad-b68f05ae2d7b |
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Function
This gene encodes a protein that shares sequence similarity to nucleosome assembly factors, but may be localized to the cytoplasm rather than the nucleus. Expression of this gene is downregulated in hepatocellular carcinomas. This gene is located within a differentially methylated region (DMR) and is imprinted and paternally expressed. There is a related pseudogene on chromosome 4. [provided by RefSeq, Nov 2015]. | 6cd1e945-bdbb-4e4e-a1c5-357a9b98578c |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isonocardicin_synthase"} | In enzymology, an isonocardicin synthase (EC 2.5.1.38) is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction
S-adenosyl-L-methionine + nocardicin E
5'-methylthioadenosine + isonocardicin A
Thus, the two substrates of this enzyme are S-adenosyl-L-methionine and nocardicin E, whereas its two products are 5'-methylthioadenosine and isonocardicin A.
This enzyme belongs to the family of transferases, specifically those transferring aryl or alkyl groups other than methyl groups. The systematic name of this enzyme class is S-adenosyl-L-methionine:nocardicin-E 3-amino-3-carboxypropyltransferase. This enzyme is also called nocardicin aminocarboxypropyltransferase. | d54e7bf7-e08e-4804-819c-824540cb0d13 |
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Baseball player
Claire Lobrovich Krumpotich (April 5, 1923 – July 29, 2011) was an outfielder who played from 1947 to 1948 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. She batted and threw right handed.
Lobrovich was born in Campbell, California, to Mitchell and Mary (née Brayevich) Lobrovich. Her father, born Mihovil Lobrović, was Croatian, while her maternal grandparents were Slovenian emigrants. She spent two seasons in the league, including a year with the 1948 pennant-winning Rockford Peaches.
'Buttons', as her teammates dubbed her, posted a batting average of .209 (54-for-258) with three doubles and two triples in 81 games, driving in 21 runs and scoring 22 times while stealing 15 bases. At outfield, she recorded 69 putouts with seven assists and committed six errors in 82 total chances for a .927 fielding average.
In 1988, Claire Lobrovich received further recognition when she became part of Women in Baseball, a permanent display based at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York, which was unveiled to honor the entire All-American Girls Professional Baseball League rather than any individual figure.
In 1951, she married John Krumpotich, a semi-professional baseball player. She resided in Watsonville, California until her death in 2011.
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{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Scottish_Men%27s_Curling_Championship"} | The 2012 Co-operative Funeralcare Scottish Men's Curling Championship was held from February 13 to 19 at the Dewars Centre in Perth, Scotland. It was held in conjunction with the 2012 Scottish Women's Curling Championship. The winner of the championship, Tom Brewster, represented Scotland at the 2012 Capital One World Men's Curling Championship in Basel, Switzerland.
Teams
The teams are listed as follows:
Round robin standings
Final Round Robin Standings
Round robin results
All times listed in Western European Time (UTC+0).
Draw 1
Monday, February 13, 4:15 pm
Draw 2
Tuesday, February 14, 8:00 am
Draw 3
Tuesday, February 14, 4:00 pm
Draw 4
Wednesday, February 15, 12:00 pm
Draw 5
Wednesday, February 15, 8:00 pm
Draw 6
Thursday, February 16, 12:00 pm
Draw 7
Thursday, February 16, 8:00 pm
Draw 8
Friday, February 17, 8:00 am
Draw 9
Friday, February 17, 4:00 pm
Tiebreakers
Round 1
Friday, February 17, 8:30 pm
Round 2
Saturday, February 18, 9:00 am
Playoffs
1 vs. 2 Game
Saturday, February 18, 2:30 pm
3 vs. 4 Game
Saturday, February 18, 2:30 pm
Semifinal
Saturday, February 18, 7:40 pm
Final
Sunday, February 19, 3:10 pm | 07339fe7-25af-46de-9923-48272d3141d6 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grande_Otelo"} | Grande Otelo (October 18, 1915 – November 26, 1993) was the stage name of Brazilian actor, comedian, singer, and composer Sebastião Bernardes de Souza Prata. Otelo was born in Uberlândia, and was orphaned as a child. He kept running away from the families that adopted him; only when he took up art did his life become settled.
Grande Otelo started his film career in 1935 in the movie Noites Cariocas. He was also renowned for the comic duo he formed with Oscarito.
He died, aged 78, in Charles de Gaulle Airport, near Paris, France and was buried in São Pedro cemetery in Uberlândia, Brazil
Biography
1920: Childhood and youth
Otelo was the son of Antenor Prata and Maria das Dores de Souza. His father, who was a cowboy, died when Sebastião was only two years old. According to the actor himself, his career in acting began a few short years after in UIberlândia in 1924 in a circus ring:
"To me, the first entry that I made was beautiful because I was already a city clown, with my young age. Therefore, in that day the circus was full to see Bastiãozinho (...). I was about seven years old...Bastiãozinho dressed in a long dress and a pillow on the butt, wiggling arm in arm with the clown. Everyone laughed, everyone found it funny..."
When the young boy was eight years old, his mother gave him up for adoption and he was taken to São Paulo . In the city, he fled from his adopted family a few times, which always led him to the juvenile court. In 1927, though still a child, he participated in the Companhia Negra de Revistas which was funded by Jayme Silva and the black artist De Chocolat who also had had Pixinguinha as a conductor. His presentations quickly became well known, leading to the following quote from the Jornal do Comércio (Newspaper of Commerce):
"As part of the cast as a great attraction the great Othelo, a little six year old artist, is a real astonishment. The great little artist sings in diverse languages, with a verve and an extraordinary spontaneity. Newspapers of São Paulo and many other citys have called him the greatest artist of the Portuguese language."
After a few escape attempts, he passed from tutor to tutor until being adopted by the family of the politician Antonio de Queiroz. Otelo then studied at the Heart of Jesus Lyceum until he was in junior high.
Personal life
His life was full of a variety of tragedies. His father died from a stabbing before Grande Otelo was born and his mother was an alcoholic. In 1948, he officially married his first companion Lucia Maria Pinheiro. In the following year, Lucia shot the six year old child and then killed herself. In 1954, Otelo married for a second time, this time to Olga Vasconcellos. He remained in a relationship with her for 20 years. His final marriage was to a dancer named Joséphine Helene, which lasted 13 years.
He had four children, one of whom also became an actor: José Prata ("O Pratinha"), who initiated his artistic career at 14. He acted in the 1986 version of the soap opera Sinhá Moça (in the role of Bentinho) in addition to participating in the sitcom As Aventuras do Tio Maneco, and in the plays "O Pagador de Promessas" and “A Turma do Pererê”. In the 2010s, Pratinha worked as a cellphone repairman. Another of Otelo's Children, Carlos Sebastião Vasconcelos Prata, had become homeless around the same time.
Effects of racism on his career
Grande Otelo is seen by many as a great success story. He is widely known today because of the prolific nature of his acting career. However, his career was marked by racism and prejudice. In one of his first roles, that of Sebastião in the film Onde Estás Felicidade, Grande Otelo's character is subject to many racial stereotypes. Incorrect stereotypes were a theme in many of his works, even well into his later years. Additionally, Grande Otelo faced prejudice against his acting abilities. It was and still is difficult to obtain leading roles for black actors. The leading roles that he managed to secure were all shared with a white co-star.
Selected filmography | fd5d987a-3a47-4c53-b351-6889fb31e195 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sporobolus_rigens"} | Species of grass
Sporobolus rigens is a species of grass in the family Poaceae.
It is native to Argentina. | 1a1b97d0-8385-48c9-816e-4d4bf043595a |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einar_L%C3%B6nnberg"} | Swedish zoologist and conservationist
Axel Johann Einar Lönnberg (24 December 1865 – 21 November 1942) was a Swedish zoologist and conservationist. Lönnberg was born in Stockholm. He was head of the Vertebrate Department of the Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet (Swedish Natural History Museum) from 1904 to 1933.
In 1891 he obtained his PhD from the University of Uppsala, spending the next twelve years as an inspector in the fisheries service. During this time-frame he made scientific trips to Florida (1892 – 1893) and the Caspian Sea (1899). In 1904 he was appointed head of the department of vertebrates at the Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet in Stockholm. In 1910 – 1911 he participated in an expedition to East Africa. From 1925 to 1942 he served as prefect of the Kristineberg Marina Forskningsstation (Kristineberg Marine Zoological Station).
In regard to his zoological research, his primary focus dealt with mammals, birds and fish, but he also made significant contributions in his studies of reptiles and amphibians. He was the binomial authority of numerous taxa, and has several species named after him, such as Onykia loennbergii (Japanese hooked squid). The Belgian-British zoologist George Albert Boulenger named a small, secretive, venomous, endemic New Guinea elapid snake Apisthocalamus loennbergii in his honour, although this species is now synonymised with Toxicocalamus loriae (Loria's forest snake). In his obituary in the ornithological journal, Ibis, it was written: "that since the days of Linnaeus hardly anyone has known so much about so many branches of zoology as Lönnberg".
In 1904 he founded the influential journal of biology, Fauna och Flora. As a conservationist he worked hard for laws protecting waterfowl and reindeer. In 1922 he became an honorary member of the British Ornithologists' Union.
Some species that Lönnberg described
Reptiles
Mammals (subspecies)
Fish
Co-authored with Lars Gabriel Andersson
Written works by Lönnberg that have been published in English | db18e995-9dc0-47f0-b43f-7f003508f40a |
null | Village in Altai Krai, Russia
Volodarka (Russian: Володарка) is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Volodarsky Selsoviet of Topchikhinsky District, Altai Krai, Russia. The population was 736 in 2016. There are 17 streets.
Geography
Volodarka is located 54 km northwest of Topchikha (the district's administrative centre) by road. Belovo is the nearest rural locality. | 43103655-069c-484a-beb4-39af62ce5ec0 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kenzo_Nakamura_United_States_Courthouse"} | Courthouse in Seattle, Washington
The William Kenzo Nakamura United States Courthouse is a federal courthouse in Seattle, Washington primarily used by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Built in 1940 as the United States Courthouse to consolidate federal agencies within the city, it was renamed for Medal of Honor recipient William K. Nakamura in 2001. The Ninth Circuit started using the building in the 1970s and became the principal tenant in 2004 when most other users moved to the new 23-story United States Courthouse in the Denny Triangle.
The 10-story Art Deco building at 1010 Fifth Avenue houses 5 courtrooms and is one of four regular meeting places for the Ninth Circuit, where appeals from northern Districts are heard. With a mix of Neoclassical and modern abstract features, the Nakamura Courthouse overlooks a large sloping lawn (landscaped with a large central walkway, planters, hedges, and oak trees) which has become one of the more significant public green spaces in downtown Seattle.
History
Approved by Congress in 1936, with construction begun in 1936 and completed in 1940, the United States Courthouse in Seattle was the first single-purpose federal courthouse in the western United States. The building represents the United States' commitment to democratic ideals and evokes the stability, permanence, and authority of the federal government.
Opened ten years after the Great Depression halted virtually all Seattle construction, the building signaled the potential for new growth in downtown Seattle and substantial federal investment in the region. Constructed on the former site of Seattle's first hospital, the Courthouse cost $1.7 million to complete and brought together federal agencies previously scattered throughout the city. These included the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Clerk's Office, Probation Office, United States Secret Service, and the Alcohol Tax Unit. Additionally, naturalization ceremonies for immigrants to the Pacific Northwest occurred here. The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit moved into the courthouse in the early 1970s.
The building interior was renovated in 1983–1984. In 2001, the Courthouse was renamed to honor Seattle native Private First Class William Kenzo Nakamura. Before joining the U.S. Army in 1942, Nakamura and his Japanese family were sent to a Japanese American internment camp. He was killed near Castellina, Italy on July 4, 1944, while singlehandedly protecting his platoon by his own initiative. Nakamura was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor in 2000.
Most tenants moved to the new United States Courthouse in the Denny Triangle starting in August 2004, and the Nakamura Courthouse underwent extensive renovations from 2006 to 2009. It now serves as one of four regular meeting places for the Ninth Circuit and houses the chambers of Seattle-based judges. Along with Pioneer Courthouse in Portland, Oregon, this is where appeals are heard from the northern Districts (Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and Alaska) of the Ninth Circuit.
Architecture
Located at the eastern edge of a large site in Seattle's Central Business District, the courthouse's expansive lawn, with views of Elliott Bay to the west, is a distinctive open space in the densely developed district. The consulting design architect was Gilbert Stanley Underwood, who designed numerous Union Pacific railroad stations and the Neoclassical Modernist San Francisco Mint of 1936–1937. The building's final plans were likely approved by Supervising Architect of the Treasury Louis A. Simon, who in the 1930s went to Europe to study emerging Modern design techniques with a goal of incorporating them into new federal architecture. This experience shaped the use of modernized Classicism on hundreds of federal buildings with designs Simon oversaw in the 1930s and 1940s.
The courthouse is ten stories with a penthouse, creating a monumental and restrained but modern presence. Its elevations are of a solid, symmetrical, Neoclassical massing. Its east-facing facade presents the illusion of an elevated, abstracted temple colonnade. The building's reinforced concrete skeleton frame is clad in terracotta plates, with Art Deco accents of patterned terracotta, metal moldings, and glass.
The abstracted Neoclassical features seen upon this building are characteristic of many federal buildings constructed in the 1930s. The courthouse is distinguished by its location on the eastern third of a large parcel that slopes down the hill twenty-four feet toward Fifth Avenue, facing Elliott Bay in the distance. As originally constructed, the landscape surrounding the building is an integral part of the building's design. An axial, centered walkway, flanked by polished granite planters and cheek blocks, leads to three centered entries and reiterates the building's formality. The large landscaped area between the front elevation and Fifth Avenue consists of lawn and symmetrically placed groupings of hedges and large oak trees. This green space is among the largest in downtown Seattle and has become a popular public gathering place.
Exterior ornamentation occurs primarily on the first three stories, which form a broad pedestal. The main body of the building steps back from the pedestal base, rises seven more stories, and is capped by a recessed, two-story penthouse. On the principal facades, west and east, the pedestal and main building mass is broken up into a series of solid bays with vertical bands of recessed glass and decorated cast metal spandrel panels in the upper stories, creating a pronounced feeling of verticality. Three entrance doors are recessed into the first-story portions of both west and east elevations. The north and south elevations complement the west and east, with one centrally located continuous vertical window bay.
In contrast to the relatively restrained exterior design, the public interior spaces are distinguished by exuberantly colored tile and other ornamentation, such as Art Deco aluminum radiator covers and pyramid-shaped light fixtures. Each floor of the building is accessed through a public elevator lobby. On the first two floors, the walls are surfaced with salmon, turquoise, and mustard terracotta panels and the floors are highly polished starburst-patterned terrazzo in shades of brown and beige. The ceilings are accented with stepped coffers. The courthouse features five courtrooms with fifteen-foot windows, engaged columns of walnut in the Doric order, aluminum stars and wheat staff ornamentation.
The interior of the building was renovated in 1983–1984, when the original steel windows were replaced. The public elevator lobbies and major courtrooms retain their original finishes and locations, although interior corridors and office spaces are altered. In 1985, GSA's Art in Architecture program commissioned two oil-on-canvas paintings titled The Effects of Good and Bad Government from artist Caleb Ives Bach. Originally located in the lobby, the paintings were conserved in 2008 and reinstalled in the law library.
From 2006 to 2009, the building underwent an extensive renovation project. A new secured underground facility was added and the building was upgraded to meet current seismic standards. The renovation received LEED certification for design, energy efficient building systems, reuse and recycling of existing materials and other measures.
A fictional version of the courthouse is featured in the 2020 video game The Last of Us Part II.
Timeline | 76b57ba8-a364-4663-84cd-2c8f13013634 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriphila_anceps"} | Species of moth
Agriphila anceps is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Augustus Radcliffe Grote in 1880. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from California. | f1bf9502-1545-4800-b6ce-b8a312317e6b |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazusada_Higuchi"} | Japanese professional wrestler
Kazusada Higuchi (樋口和貞, Higuchi Kazusada, born October 24, 1988) is a Japanese professional wrestler, currently working for the Japanese professional wrestling promotion DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT), where he is current KO-D Openweight Champion in his first reign.
Professional wrestling career
Independent circuit (2014–present)
Higuchi made his professional wrestling debut at DDT Pro-Wrestling's DDT Dramatic Fanclub Vol. 1, event from October 18, 2014, where he defeated Kota Umeda. He worked a match at BJW/DDT/K-DOJO Toshikoshi Pro-Wrestling 2015, a cross-over event held between Big Japan Pro-Wrestling, DDT, and Kaientai Dojo from December 31, where he teamed up with Yoshihisa Uto, falling short to Harashima and Yuko Miyamoto in the Shuffle Tag Tournament. Higuchi participated in the Block B of the Pro Wrestling Noah 2018 Global League, where he scored 6 points after facing Go Shiozaki, Kaito Kiyomiya, Muhammad Yone, Takashi Sugiura, Atsushi Kotoge, Maybach Taniguchi and Cody Hall. At TJP The God Of Pro Wrestling - My Arms Fell! event of Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling from December 27, 2018, Higuchi teamed up with Antonio Honda in a losing effort to Disaster Box (Harashima and Yuki Ueno). He worked a match for Evolve/WWN, at EVOLVE 125, from April 4, 2019, where he defeated Curt Stallion. One day later, at WWNLive SuperShow - Mercury Rising 2019, on April 5, he challenged JD Drake for the WWN Championship but unsuccessfully.
DDT Pro-Wrestling (2014–present)
Higuchi is a multiple-time KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Champion, title which he won on different occasions. His first title reign began at Into The Fight 2016, where he teamed up with Kouki Iwasaki and Shunma Katsumata to defeat T2Hii (Kazuki Hirata, Sanshiro Takagi and Toru Owashi). In the second reign, he held the titles with Kouki Iwasaki and Mizuki Watase, winning them at Best Western Lariat Series 2017 on January 22, by defeating Shuten-dōji (Kudo, Masahiro Takanashi and Yukio Sakaguchi) in a three-way tag team match also involving Antonio Honda, Konosuke Takeshita and Trans-Am★Hiroshi. In the third reign, he won the titles alongside fellow Eruption stablemates Yukio Sakaguchi and Saki Akai at DDT TV Show! #7 from June 20, 2020. Higuchi is also a KO-D Tag Team Champion, title which he won with Yukio Sakaguchi again under the Eruption banner, at Road to Ultimate Party 2020 on October 25. At Judgement 2018: DDT 21st Anniversary, Higuchi teamed up with Daisuke Sekimoto as SekiGuchi to defeat Harashima and Naomichi Marufuji for the KO-D Tag Team Championship.
On July 3, 2022, Higuchi won the 2022 King of DDT Tournament by defeating Naomi Yoshimura in the final, and consequently won the KO-D Openweight Championship.
Championships and accomplishments | bbe61abd-904a-49a9-824e-3616962deb97 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dix"} | Look up Dix or dix in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
DIX or Dix may refer to:
Computing
People
Surname
Dix is a Jewish German originating in the Rhineland, Germany
Given name
Places
Switzerland
United States
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null | British electropop artist
Mike Fantastic is a British electropop artist formed in 2010. Mike Fantastic was initially made notable by their début on Britain's Got Talent in May 2010, and have since released an album and two singles.
History
The band's first performance and début TV appearance was as an audition for the 2010 series of Britain's Got Talent, in which they were well received. They performed with five band members, consisting of Owen Sheppard on vocals, Michael Rudge on keyboards and electronics, Matt Birch on bass. Michael Rudge subsequently left the band as a result of pre-existing commitments. They have performed on tour with Peter Andre and have also played with The Overtones, Olly Murs and performed alongside them.
In November 2011, the band ended for a short period due to management issues, returning in February 2012 with Owen being the only remaining member.
Musical style and influences
The band's music is influenced by funk, disco-pop and dubstep music from current and past decades, and draws inspiration from Earth Wind & Fire, Prince, La Roux and Alphabeat, among others.
Their music style was created through a desire to move away from guitars and the 'generic rock' sounds of their previous bands.
Band members
Current members
Former members
Discography
Albums
Singles | 2b5037df-6789-422d-be97-9dcab082fd6b |
null | OFX may refer to:
Topics referred to by the same term | 5cdcceb1-44e2-4b97-b177-55249959976d |
null | Art magazine
Art on Paper was a bi-monthly art magazine published from 1996 to 2009. The magazine's editorial scope included limited-edition prints and artists' books, drawings, photographs, and ephemera.
History
The magazine was founded in New York City in 1970 as The Print Collectors Newsletter by Paul Cummings, with Judith Goldman as editor. Within a year, Cummings sold it to Jacqueline Brody, who continued to publish it until 1996.
Art on Paper ceased publication in December 2009, having lost 60% of its advertising base in the Great Recession. | 4efec291-2d8a-466f-8e56-114341b95069 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bharatiya_Sangeet_Vadya"} | Bharatiya Sangeet Vadya (Indian Musical Instruments) is a book (ISBN 81-263-0727-7) written by Lalmani Misra. It was published under the Lokodya Granthmala series (Granthak / Volume No.: 346) of Bharatiya Jnanpith, New Delhi. The first edition was published in 1973, the second in 2002. The book was written in Hindi. It was described in a 1974 review in Ethnomusicology, the journal of the Society for Ethnomusicology, as "the most complete, authoritative work ever published on the history of Indian musical instruments."
The book carries an exhaustive documentation of musical instruments, right from the ancient to modern times, with an emphasis on establishing that modern Indian instruments have their origins in ancient Indian, rather than in Muslim and Western, culture. The book has always been in great demand by scholars and musicians for it also gives insight into fundamentals of playing instruments and traces the development in content along with that of the instrument.
Chapters
The book has fourteen chapters: | 2402e6b0-d4cc-496d-9820-eecf4cfd1a64 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czechoslovakia_at_the_World_Artistic_Gymnastics_Championships"} | Gymnastics sporting event delegation
Czechoslovakian men first competed at the 1907 World Championships as Bohemia. They started competing as Czechoslovakia at the 1922 World Championships. Women didn't start competing at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships until 1934, where the Czechoslovakian women's team won gold. At the start of 1993 Czechoslovakia split into two separate nations: the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Medalists
Medal tables
By gender
By event | 144b9a27-43f2-431a-bfa7-f71239fa1f3f |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oncology_Reports"} | Academic journal
Oncology Reports is a peer-reviewed medical journal of oncology published monthly by Spandidos Publications. The editor-in-chief is Demetrios A. Spandidos. The journal was established in 1994.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 4.136. | 24220753-590a-4a60-96df-02e32c9fb96e |
null | American businessman (1926–2018)
James C. Sanders (November 7, 1926 – March 31, 2018) was an American businessman who served as Administrator of the Small Business Administration from 1982 to 1986. | 2571db2d-8d49-41cc-81d7-60212b7297f5 |
null | Biography
Saadiya Kochar is an Indian woman photographer and solo traveller. Her works can be broadly classified into art and social documentary photography, although she dabbles into portraiture, street and fashion as well.
Early Years and Education
Saadiya was born into a Sikh family. Her birthplace is Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir. Kochar's education was from a missionary school, Convent of Jesus and Mary in Delhi but she never went to a regular college. Having studied mass communication, from Sri Aurobindo Institute of Mass communication she went on to study at Triveni Kala Sangam, under world renowned artist O. P. Sharma, a photographer famous for black and white images. She got a diploma in photography from ICPP, Australia.
Career
When she was 24, this Indian photographer published her first book, Being.....
Kochar, has worked in Kashmir for over a decade, has taught photography at the Pearl Academy of Fashion and is the creative head of astudio, in Delhi. In 2012, she organised a solo show, in New Delhi, of her images from Kashmir, titled Loss. Saadiya has shown her photographs through a few solo shows, earlier as well, titled- Being...( thoughts, emotions and self-discovery displayed through the body), Zikr-the remembrance (Sufi practices) has been a part of a number of group shows, in India as well as abroad. {https://saadiyakochar.com/} Being.Daring in black and white A book on the human form was released in 2004. Kochar has worked on a short video art project called Loss, about the troubles faced by Kashmiri Muslims and the Kashmiri Pandits. She continues to travel and work in Kashmir.
In 2013, she began a blog about her personal journey as a single, female photographer, navigating through the city, archiving her experiences of loss and longing, through photographs and writings . In 2017, she travelled through India by herself, covering the Northern, Eastern, Southern and Western Corridors. The project Road Tripping-Photowalli Gaadee is a pan India project that made its debut at the India Art Fair in a group show and at Cafe De Art in a solo one. | 06850bca-8c7f-4087-a030-20da087ca5b3 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Divisi%C3%B3n_de_Honor_de_B%C3%A9isbol"} | Football league season
División de Honor de Béisbol 2012 is the 27th season since its establishment. 2012 season started on February 25.
El Llano BC was promoted from 1ª División and replaces relegated team Sevilla Red Sox. After FC Barcelona baseball team was disbanded, the players created a new team called Béisbol Barcelona.
The two first teams of the regular season will play a best-of-five series playoff for the title. The last team will be relegated to 1ª División.
Regular season standings
Final playoffs
The regular season leader will play at home games number 3, 4 and 5. | dd75f045-3392-478a-9466-3c6fc0ffb1c9 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wimbledon_Chase"} | Human settlement in England
Wimbledon Chase is a south-west London suburb part of the wider Wimbledon area. It takes its name from Wimbledon Chase railway station and thus it is an informal definition: parts vie with the definitions of Merton Park, which has a tram link stop to the east of Wimbledon Chase station. Also contemporary suburb names which compete with the definition of this modestly-sized district of Merton to the west and south are Raynes Park and South Merton, respectively.
The area contains Wimbledon Chase Primary School and is largely residential in character, with a small parade of shops on Kingston Road (including a Co-operative Food, a Tesco Express and a BP garage with an M&S concession).
History
See Merton, London (parish)
Local geography
Wimbledon Chase is in southwest Wimbledon. | 4f10f3e4-b13c-4d02-8f59-be14a949bbc5 |
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Events from the year 1676 in England.
Incumbents
Events
Undated
Births
Deaths | 66c73fd1-74ad-48e8-86ed-4eee82951f01 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Wirt_Tillotson"} | Joseph Wirt Tillotson (1905-1959) was a pulp painter and illustrator who used the name Robert Fuqua in his works.
Biography
Joseph Wirt Tillotson was born January 30, 1905, in Greenville, Mississippi to parents William Wirt Tillotson and Belle Fuqua Oursler. Between 1938 and 1951, Tillotson painted an estimated 80 covers for the pulp magazine, Amazing Stories. Between 1949 and the late 1950s, he illustrated stories for 'Our Bible in Pictures published by David C. Cook.
He married Marian Tillotson, a sociology professor at the University of Chicago. They had no children. Tillotson died of liver cancer on September 1, 1959. | 2fc6aa2f-561f-4618-99cc-cb0244ab2b3e |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lena_Wermelt"} | German footballer
Lena Wermelt (born 29 September 1990 in Steinfurt) is a German footballer, playing for HSV Borussia Friedenstal in the Fußball-Bundesliga (women). | 1b60e453-f20f-4586-b633-29a805136a6e |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximising_measure"} | In mathematics — specifically, in ergodic theory — a maximising measure is a particular kind of probability measure. Informally, a probability measure μ is a maximising measure for some function f if the integral of f with respect to μ is "as big as it can be". The theory of maximising measures is relatively young and quite little is known about their general structure and properties.
Definition
Let X be a topological space and let T : X → X be a continuous function. Let Inv(T) denote the set of all Borel probability measures on X that are invariant under T, i.e., for every Borel-measurable subset A of X, μ(T−1(A)) = μ(A). (Note that, by the Krylov-Bogolyubov theorem, if X is compact and metrizable, Inv(T) is non-empty.) Define, for continuous functions f : X → R, the maximum integral function β by
A probability measure μ in Inv(T) is said to be a maximising measure for f if
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{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karam_Singh_(historian)"} | Karam Singh (1884–1930) was a Sikh historian. He was born in Jhabal a town 8 kilometres (5 mi) south of Amritsar. His father Jhanda Singh belonged to traditional Sikh family.
Education
Having studied primary school in Jhabaal, Middle from Khalsa Collegiate School, Amritsar, he attended Khalsa College, Amritsar for higher studies. He had good command in Punjabi, Hindi, Urdu, and English. During his college time while he was nearing to complete his B.A. degree an idea struck him that since aged persons of Maharaja Ranjit Singh times will die soon, why not collect historic narrations from their mouth. He left college to pursue his interest in oral history.
After Education
In year academic year 1905–06, near dec 2005 he left studies against will of his family members and friends, when he was about to complete his graduation in 3 months. There was no one to support his passion of collecting notes and references. He thought of purchasing daily diaries of Ranjit Singhs’ Darbar available with various sources but no one came to his support . In order to earn livelihood he learned techniques of making blocks and successfully started a poster production business producing pictures of historic heroes and Sikh gurus. He also served Patiala State as Historian . In spite of being a Sikh, he undertook a long travel to Baghdad by being dressed as Muslim. His intention was to travel to Mecca and collect some historic evidences for Guru Nanak's visit there. He was recognised by some of his co travellers and he had to come back from Baghdad. In order to support his expenses he even purchased land and became a successful agriculturist. But simultaneously all along he kept writing articles on Sikh history in Phulwari monthly and published many books of great historic value.
Contributions
He was a prolific author. He wrote extensively and his writings have reached us in the form of numerous notes, diary entries and manuscripts. Some of his published works are as under:
Recognition in Society and death
On 22 December 1929 at a meeting held at AkalTakhat Amritsar, he established Sikh Historical Society of which he was its secretary. At the same time management of Khasa College wanted to establish Sikh History Research department under him. But he became terribly ill with attack of pneumonia and died on 18 September 1930. Khalsa College established this department at his blog ceremony later. | af4674dd-7557-43c3-a5db-9f22386a0a37 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_(horse)"} | Irish-bred Thoroughbred racehorse
Sovereign (foaled 9 April 2016) is an Irish Thoroughbred racehorse, best known for winning the 2019 Irish Derby. He showed promising form as a juvenile in 2018 when he won one minor race as well as finishing third in the Eyrefield Stakes and fourth in the Beresford Stakes. In the following year he was placed in the Ballysax Stakes and the Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial before running unplaced when acting as a pacemaker in the 2019 Epsom Derby. He was given little chance in the Irish Derby but won easily at odds of 33/1. He failed to win in 2020 but was placed in the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, Vintage Crop Stakes and Bahrain International Trophy.
Background
Sovereign is a chestnut colt with a white blaze and three white socks bred in Ireland by the County Wicklow-based Barronstown Stud. He entered the ownership of the Coolmore Stud organisation and was sent into training with Aidan O'Brien at Ballydoyle. Like many Coolmore horses, the official details of his ownership have changed from race to race but he has usually been described as being owned by a partnership of Michael Tabor, Derrick Smith and Susan Magnier.
He was sired by Galileo, who won the Derby, Irish Derby and King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes in 2001. Galileo became one of the world's leading stallions, earning his tenth champion sire of Great Britain and Ireland title in 2018. His other progeny include Cape Blanco, Frankel, Golden Lilac, Nathaniel, New Approach, Rip Van Winkle, Found, Minding and Ruler of the World. Sovereign's dam Devoted To You showed good racing ability, winning one minor race and finishing second in the Debutante Stakes. Devoted To You's dam Alleged Devotion was a half-sister to Balanchine.
Racing career
2018: two-year-old season
On his racecourse debut Sovereign started at odds of 100/30 for a maiden race at Leopardstown Racecourse on 21 June and finished fifth, beaten seven and a half lengths by the Dermot Weld-trained winner Masaff. He was ridden in this race by Padraig Beggy a Ballydoyle work rider who had come to prominence in 2017 by winning the Epsom Derby on the 40/1 outsider Wings of Eagles. Two months later he was partnered by Michael Hussey in a similar event over one mile at the Curragh and came home sixth of the fourteen runners as victory went to his stablemate Mount Everest. On 18 September at Galway Races the colt started favourite for a maiden over eight and a half furlongs on heavy ground in which he was ridden by his trainer's son Donnacha O'Brien. Sovereign took the lead soon after the start, went clear of his rivals approaching the last quarter mile and recorded his first success as he won "easily" by fourteen lengths despite being eased down by O'Brien in the closing stages.
Twelve days after his win at Galway the colt was stepped up in class and started the 3/1 second choice in the betting behind Mount Everest in the Group 2 Beresford Stakes at Naas Racecourse. With O'Brien in the saddle he led for most of the way but was outpaced in the last two furlongs and came home fourth as the Ballydoyle third string Japan won narrowly from Mount Everest. He ended his season in the Group 3 Eyrefield Stakes at Leopardstown on 27 October in which he made the running before being overtaken in the final furlong and finishing third to Guaranteed (trained by Jim Bolger) and Masaff.
In the official ratings for Irish-raced juveniles for 2018 Sovereign was given a mark of 103, making him 18 pounds inferior to the top-rated Quorto.
2019: three-year-old season
On his first two runs as a three-year-old Sovereign was partnered by Seamie Heffernan. He began his campaign in the Group 3 Ballysax Stakes over ten furlongs at Leopardstown on 27 April when he proved no match for his stablemate Broome and was beaten eight lengths into second place after briefly leading two furlongs out. In the Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial over the same course and distance two weeks later he kept on well in the straight without looking likely to win and finished third behind Broome and the Ballydoyle pacemaker Blenheim Palace. Sovereign was reunited with Beggy when he was one of seven O'Brien runners to contest the 2019 Epsom Derby and started a 50/1 outsider. Acting as a pacemaker for the stable's more highly regarded contenders, he went to the front and led the field into the straight before fading to come home tenth of the thirteen runners, just over nine lengths behind the winner Anthony Van Dyck.
Sovereign was expected to fulfil a similar pacemaking role when he started at odds of 33/1 in an eight-runner field for the Irish Derby over one and a half miles at the Curragh on 29 June. Anthony Van Dyck started favourite ahead of Broome and the Epsom Derby runner-up Madhmoon while the other four runners were Rakan (King George V Cup), Norway (Zetland Stakes), Il Paradiso and Guaranteed. Beggy sent the colt to the front soon after the start, opened up a clear advantage at half way and increased his lead entering the straight. He never looked in the slightest danger of defeat in the closing stages and won "easily" by six lengths from Anthony Van Dyck. Aidan O'Brien commented "Padraig was in front and he was comfortable and his horse kept coming. I'd say anytime that you make the running you have to get the fractions right, and he did. The Curragh is a big, open galloping track and he has a massive stride. The undulations at Epsom might not have suited him as much". He went on to mention the Grand Prix de Paris, King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes and St Leger as possible future targets.
In September Aidan O'Brien announced that Sovereign would not race again in 2019, saying "He hasn't had a setback, we just want to give him time".
2020: four-year-old season
The 2020 flat racing season in Britain and Ireland was restructured as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak and Sovereign made his first appearance of the year in the fourteen furlong Vintage Crop Stakes which was run behind closed doors at the Curragh on 27 June. Under a gentle ride from Heffernan he kept on well from the rear of the field to finish third of the seven runners, beaten three lengths by the winner Twilight Payment. Four weeks later the colt started the 12/1 outsider of three runners for the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot Racecourse in which he set the pace and opened up a big lead before being overtaken approaching the final furlong and finishing second to Enable. In his three remaining races of 2020 the colt was ridden by Ryan Moore. On 13 September he started 5/2 favourite for the Irish St Leger but after leading for most of the way he faded in the straight and came home sixth behind Search For A Song. Sovereign ended his European campaign in the British Champions Long Distance Cup over two miles at Ascot Racecourse on 17 October. Starting the a 14/1 outsider he tracked the leaders and moved up into second place in the straight but was unable to make further progress and finished fifth of the fourteen runners behind Trueshan. For his final run of the year the colt was sent to Sakhir Racecourse in Bahrain to contest the Bahrain International Trophy over 2000 metres on 20 November. He was in contention from the start and stayed on strongly in the closing stages to finish a close third, beaten a neck and a nose by Simsir and Global Giant.
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{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VfR_Aalen"} | German association football club from Aalen, Baden-Württemberg
Football club
Verein für Rasenspiele 1921 Aalen e.V., known simply as VfR Aalen, is a German football club based in Aalen, Baden-Württemberg. The football team is part of a larger sports club which also offers its members gymnastics, table tennis, and cheerleading. The club's greatest success came in 2011–12 when it finished second in the 3. Liga and earned promotion to the 2. Bundesliga for the first time.
History
The club was founded on 8 March 1921 out of the football department of the gymnastics club MTV Aalen and has led a largely unremarked existence as a lower division side. In 1939, Aalen was promoted to the first division Gauliga Württemberg, one of sixteen top-flight leagues established through the 1933 re-organization of German football under the Third Reich. They played there until 1945, typically finishing in the lower half of the table.
After the war the club was joined by Boxclub Aalen in 1950. They went on to the third tier Landesliga Württemberg and in 1951 captured the title in what had become the Amateurliga Württemberg (III). After a single season appearance in the 2nd Oberliga Süd in 1951–52 they returned to play in the III and IV divisions over the next two decades. The club slipped to fifth division play in the late 1970s for a couple of seasons before recovering itself. At the turn of the millennium, Aalen managed an advance to the third division Regionalliga Süd and played at that level as a mid-table side from 1999 onwards. A fourth-place finish in 2007–08 qualified them for the new 3. Liga. They were immediately relegated after just one season, but captured the Regionalliga title in 2011, and returned to third-tier play. A second-place result in 2011–12 earned the team promotion to the 2. Bundesliga. After two good seasons in the league the club finished last in the league in 2014–15 and was relegated.
Following relegation the club experienced financial difficulties and was initially unable to provide coverage for the required €5.6 million for a 3. Liga licence but was eventually able to apply for one. It deregistered its reserve team, VfR Aalen II, playing in the fifth tier Oberliga, to save money. In December 2016, the club filed for bankruptcy while competing in the 2016–17 season, leading to a nine point-deduction decided by the DFB on 10 March 2017.
Honours
Players
Current squad
As of 23 September 2021
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
Recent managers
Recent managers of the club:
Recent seasons
The recent season-by-season performance of the club:
Key
Stadium
The team plays its home matches in the OSTALB-ARENA – popularly known as the Rohrwang – which has a capacity of 11,183. | f2dc69bf-5bd6-482f-b474-8bcca273a556 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_Rhein_Fire_season"} | The 1995 Rhein Fire season was the inaugural season for the franchise in the World League of American Football (WLAF). The team was led by head coach Galen Hall, and played its home games at Rheinstadion in Düsseldorf, Germany. They finished the regular season in fifth place with a record of four wins and six losses.
Offseason
World League draft
NFL allocations
Personnel
Staff
Roster
Schedule
Standings
Game summaries
Week 1: at Scottish Claymores
Week One: Rhein Fire at Scottish Claymores – Game summary
at Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh, Scotland
Week 2: vs London Monarchs
Week Two: London Monarchs at Rhein Fire – Game summary
at Rheinstadion, Düsseldorf, Germany
Week 3: at Barcelona Dragons
Week Three: Rhein Fire at Barcelona Dragons – Game summary
at Estadi Olímpic de Montjuïc, Barcelona, Spain
Week 4: vs Frankfurt Galaxy
Week Four: Frankfurt Galaxy at Rhein Fire – Game summary
at Rheinstadion, Düsseldorf, Germany
Week 5: at Amsterdam Admirals
Week Five: Rhein Fire at Amsterdam Admirals – Game summary
at Olympisch Stadion, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Week 6: vs Scottish Claymores
Week Six: Scottish Claymores at Rhein Fire – Game summary
at Rheinstadion, Düsseldorf, Germany
Week 7: at Frankfurt Galaxy
Week Seven: Rhein Fire at Frankfurt Galaxy – Game summary
at Waldstadion, Frankfurt, Germany
Week 8: at London Monarchs
Week Eight: Rhein Fire at London Monarchs – Game summary
at White Hart Lane, London, England
Week 9: vs Barcelona Dragons
Week Nine: Barcelona Dragons at Rhein Fire – Game summary
at Rheinstadion, Düsseldorf, Germany
Week 10: vs Amsterdam Admirals
Week Ten: Amsterdam Admirals at Rhein Fire – Game summary
at Rheinstadion, Düsseldorf, Germany | 46e84912-f6e0-4bf6-9f23-e8a46cc90b73 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWF_The_Music,_Vol._5"} | 2001 soundtrack album by World Wrestling Federation
WWF The Music, Vol. 5 is a soundtrack album by WWE (then known as the World Wrestling Federation, or WWF). Released on February 20, 2001 by Koch Records (now eOne Records), it features entrance theme music of various WWE superstars, all of which were composed and performed by Jim Johnston (with the exception of one song, performed by Motörhead). The album was a commercial success, charting at number two on the US Billboard 200.
Composition
All songs on WWF The Music, Vol. 5 were written, composed and performed by WWE composer Jim Johnston, with the exception of "The Game" which was performed by English heavy metal band Motörhead, and "Pie" which features rapper Slick Rick. Music website AllMusic categorised the album as heavy metal, hard rock and alternative metal, while a review on Slam! Wrestling also identified the gospel style on "Pie".
Reception
Commercial
WWF The Music, Vol. 5 was a commercial success. In the US, the album reached number two on the US Billboard 200 and topped the Independent Albums chart; in Canada, it reached number five on the Canadian Albums Chart. It was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America, indicating sales of over 500,000 units. The album also reached number 11 on the UK Albums Chart. WWF The Music, Vol. 5 sold 176,000 units in its first week on sale, and as of April 2002 had shipped over 640,000 units.
Critical
Music website AllMusic awarded the album two out of five stars. Writer Darren Ratner noted that "the diehard wrestling fanatic will certainly appreciate it," but proposed that the tracks are more well suited to remaining as entrance themes on television. Ratner praised "The Game" and "I've Got It All", but criticised the original song "Pie". Alex Ristic of Slam! Wrestling also praised Triple H's entrance theme and criticised "Pie", but criticised the album for its inclusion of older material and concluded that "even a long time fan might not find enough enticing material." A review by Russell Baillie of The New Zealand Herald described the album as "truly, truly brutal."
Track listing
All tracks are written by Jim Johnston, except where noted.
Charts
Certifications | ba8a89fa-3416-4fb0-80a7-2122eb31a3ce |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vyacheslav_Prokopovych"} | Vyacheslav (Viacheslav) Kostyantynovych Prokopovych (Ukrainian: В'ячеслав Костянтинович Прокопович) (1881, Kiev – 1942, Bessancourt) was a Ukrainian politician and historian.
Starting in 1905, he was a politician of the Ukrainian Democratic-Radical Party (UDRP), established in Kiev. At the end of World War I, he was a member of the Ukrainian Party of Socialists-Federalists (UPSF) and Central Rada. In 1918, he served as the minister of education in a cabinet of Ukrainian People's Republic (UNR), headed by Vsevolod Holubovych. On 26 May 1920, Viacheslav Prokopovych became the prime minister of the UNR until 14 October 1920.
At the beginning of 1921 the government went into exile. The cabinet was headed twice by Prokopovych (March – August 1921, and May 1926 – October 1939). In 1925–1939, he was also a founder and chief editor of Tryzub, published in Paris. | 4d5ee4b9-e286-4661-8a52-dab3cdb2661e |
null | Indian actress
S. N. Parvathy is an Indian actress who appears in supporting roles in Tamil films and serials. She often plays roles of a mother in films. She has worked in popular movies like Anubavi Raja Anubavi, Pasi, Palaivana Solai, Agaya Gangai, Enga Ooru Pattukaran, Anna Nagar Muthal Theru and Chinna Mapillai. Her debut movie was Panam Tharum Parisu, released in 1965. She has acted in more than 200 films and 5000 dramas. She won the Kalaimamani award in 1985.[citation needed]
Film career
Parvathy has acted seven plays in the same day. She started playing dramas at the age of 13. A. V. M. Rajan has acted in several plays from Troupe to Kathadi Ramamurthy's Troupe. She first acted as a mother in the film Panam Tharum Parisu. At the time, she was only 17 years old. Her life was spent in hardship until he starred in the movie Pasi. Since then, she has become a supporting actress.
Awards
Parvathy is a recipient of the state government's Kalaimamani and Kalaiselvam awards.
Television
Filmography
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1980s
1990s
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null | Kaskatamagan Sipi Wildlife Management Area is a protected wildlife management area located northeast of Shamattawa First Nation, Manitoba, Canada. The WMA is considered to be a Class Ib protected area under the IUCN protected area management categories. It is 133,820 hectares (516.7 sq mi) in size.
History
Kaskatamagan Sipi Wildlife Management Area was established in 2009 under the Manitoba Wildlife Act. The designation was part of the Manitoba Protected Areas Initiative.
Geography
Kaskatamagan Sipi Wildlife Management Area lies northeast of the remote community of Shamattawa, within the traditional territory of Shamattawa First Nation. There are no roads or facilities for visitors.
Drainage flows generally to the north east. The Machichi River flows through the WMA towards its mouth in Hudson Bay. The WMA includes the headwaters of several of its left tributaries.
Ecology
Kaskatamagan Sipi Wildlife Management Area is within the Hudson Bay Lowland Ecoregion in the Hudson Plains Ecozone.
The WMA provides winter range for caribou who summer near the coast of Hudson Bay. The WMA is at the northern extent of the northern leopard frog in Manitoba.
Bird species found in the WMA include:
Mammal species found in the WMA include: | 51fe5daf-64a0-490b-abf7-b0ea41a517e9 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jalan_Kuala_Perlis"} | Road in Malaysia
Jalan Kuala Perlis, Federal Route 263, is a federal road in Kuala Perlis, Perlis, Malaysia. The Kilometre Zero is located at Persiaran Putra Timur junctions.
Federal Route 263 was built under the JKR R5 road standard, allowing a maximum speed limit of 90 km/h.
List of junctions and towns | 8c4d9122-aa33-4fde-8a28-9c14c5465600 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasti"} | Place in Maharashtra, India
Sasti is a census town in Chandrapur district in the Indian state of Maharashtra.
Geography
Sasti is situated only a few miles from the Wardha River.
Demographics
As of the 2011 Census of India, Sasti has a population of 4,320. Males constitute 52% of the population and females make up 47%. Sasti has an average literacy rate of 81.43%, lower than the state average of 82.34%. Male literacy is 88.82%, and female literacy is 73.23%. In Sasti, 11.76% of the population are under 6 years of age. Dit is allemaal fake huts a niffo
Work Profile
Out of the total population, 1,720, or 39.81%, are engaged in work or business activity. Of this portion, 1,266 (29.31%) are male while 454 (10.51%) are female. In the census survey, "worker" is defined as a person who does business or has a job in service, agriculture, or labor. Of the total working population, 87.38% were engaged in Main Work while 12.62% of total workers were engaged in Marginal Work Its fake bc its fake | 56438601-c3ac-4512-a053-2ce8b7428ede |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Voice_Story"} | 2012 compilation album by Nick Howard
My Voice Story is a compilation album by British singer-songwriter from Brighton, Nick Howard. It was released in Germany on 21 December 2012. The album has charted in Germany and Austria. The album is a compilation of all the songs Nick performed the songs on The Voice of Germany.
Singles
Track listing
Chart performance
Release history | a2aa8c9a-fe07-4c75-bae1-edcabb4ebec5 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raini_Rodriguez"} | American actress
Raini-Alena Rodriguez (born July 1, 1993) is an American actress and singer. She is known for her roles as Trish in the Disney Channel original series Austin & Ally, Maya Blart in Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009) and Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 (2015), and Tess in Prom (2011). She won Best Young Television Actress at the 2013 Imagen Awards.
Early life
Rodriguez was born in Bryan, Texas. She is the older sister of actor Rico Rodriguez. She has two other brothers, Ray and Roy Jr. Her parents, Diane and Roy Rodriguez, own a business called Rodriguez Tire Service. She is of Mexican descent.
Raini was discovered at an IMTA showcase, by Susan Osser, a California talent agent. After viewing Raini's performance, Osser suggested to Raini's mother that Osser should become Raini's manager and come to California to give Raini a year for career opportunities. At the time, Raini was 11 years old. Her mother agreed. Raini and her brother Rico moved to Los Angeles with their mother, while their father stayed in Texas to run the tire shop. Their mother home-schooled them to support their careers.
On March 12, 2017, Rodriguez's father, Roy, died at age 52.
Filmography
Film
Television
Discography
Singles
As lead artist
As featured artist
Promotional singles
Videography
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{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henriettella"} | Genus of flowering plants
Henriettella is a genus of plants in the family Melastomataceae.
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{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_hockey_at_the_1992_Winter_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Rosters"} | The ice hockey team rosters at the 1992 Winter Olympics consisted of the following players:
Canada
Dave Archibald, Todd Brost, Sean Burke, Kevin Dahl, Curt Giles, Dave Hannan, Gordon Hynes, Fabian Joseph, Joé Juneau, Trevor Kidd, Patrick Lebeau, Chris Lindberg, Eric Lindros, Kent Manderville, Adrien Plavsic, Dan Ratushny, Sam St. Laurent, Brad Schlegel, Wally Schreiber, Randy Smith, Dave Tippett, Brian Tutt, Jason Woolley
Czechoslovakia
Patrick Augusta, Petr Bříza, Jaromír Dragan, Leo Gudas, Miloslav Hořava, Petr Hrbek, Otakar Janecký, Tomáš Jelínek, Drahomír Kadlec, Kamil Kašťák, Robert Lang, Igor Liba, Ladislav Lubina, František Procházka, Petr Rosol, Bedřich Ščerban, Jiří Šlégr, Richard Šmehlík, Róbert Švehla, Oldřich Svoboda, Radek Ťoupal, Peter Veselovský, Richard Žemlička
Finland
Timo Blomqvist, Kari Eloranta, Raimo Helminen, Hannu Järvenpää, Timo Jutila, Markus Ketterer, Janne Laukkanen, Harri Laurila, Sakari Lindfors, Jari Lindroos, Mikko Mäkelä, Mika Nieminen, Timo Peltomaa, Arto Ruotanen, Timo Saarikoski, Simo Saarinen, Keijo Säilynoja, Teemu Selänne, Ville Sirén, Petri Skriko, Raimo Summanen, Jukka Tammi, Pekka Tuomisto
France
Peter Almásy, Michaël Babin, Stéphane Barin, Stéphane Botteri, Philippe Bozon, Jean-Marc Djian, Patrick Dunn, Gérald Guennelon, Benoît Laporte, Michel LeBlanc, Jean-Philippe Lemoine, Fabrice Lhenry, Pascal Margerit, Denis Perez, Serge Poudrier, Christian Pouget, Pierre Pousse, Antoine Richer, Bruno Saunier, Christophe Ville, Petri Ylönen, Arnaud Briand, Yves Crettenand
Germany
Rick Amann, Thomas Brandl, Andreas Brockmann, Helmut de Raaf, Peter Draisaitl, Ron Fischer, Karl Friesen, Dieter Hegen, Mike Heidt, Joseph Heiß, Uli Hiemer, Raimund Hilger, Georg Holzmann, Axel Kammerer, Udo Kießling, Ernst Köpf, Jörg Mayr, Andreas Niederberger, Jürgen Rumrich, Michael Rumrich, Mike Schmidt, Bernd Truntschka, Gerd Truntschka
Italy
Jim Camazzola, Anthony Circelli, Georg Comploi, Michael De Angelis, David Delfino, Joe Foglietta, Robert Ginnetti, Emilio Iovio, Bob Manno, Giovanni Marchetti, Rick Morocco, Frank Nigro, Robert Oberrauch, Santino Pellegrino, Marco Scapinello, Martino Soracreppa, Bill Stewart, Lucio Topatigh, John Vecchiarelli, Ivano Zanatta, Mike Zanier, Bruno Zarrillo
Norway
Steve Allman, Morgan Andersen, Arne Billkvam, Ole Eskild Dahlstrøm, Jan-Roar Fagerli, Jarle Friis, Martin Friis, Rune Gulliksen, Carl Gunnar Gundersen, Geir Hoff, Tommy Jakobsen, Tom Johansen, Jon-Magne Karlstad, Erik Kristiansen, Ørjan Løvdal, Jim Marthinsen, Øystein Olsen, Eirik Paulsen, Marius Rath, Petter Salsten, Rob Schistad, Kim Søgaard, Petter Thoresen
Poland
Janusz Adamiec, Marek Batkiewicz, Krzysztof Bujar, Marek Cholewa, Mariusz Czerkawski, Dariusz Garbocz, Henryk Gruth, Janusz Hajnos, Kazimierz Jurek, Andrzej Kądziołka, Mariusz Kieca, Waldemar Klisiak, Krzysztof Kuźniecow, Dariusz Płatek, Mariusz Puzio, Gabriel Samolej, Jerzy Sobera, Rafał Sroka, Andrzej Świstak, Robert Szopiński, Wojciech Tkacz, Mirosław Tomasik, Sławomir Wieloch
Sweden
Peter Andersson, Peter Andersson, Charles Berglund, Patrik Carnbäck, Lars Edström, Patrik Erickson, Bengt-Åke Gustafsson, Mikael Johansson, Kenneth Kennholt, Patric Kjellberg, Petri Liimatainen, Håkan Loob, Mats Näslund, Roger Nordström, Peter Ottosson, Thomas Rundqvist, Daniel Rydmark, Börje Salming, Tommy Sjödin, Tommy Söderström, Fredrik Stillman, Jan Viktorsson
Switzerland
Samuel Balmer, Sandro Bertaggia, Andreas Beutler, Patrice Brasey, Mario Brodmann, Manuele Celio, Jörg Eberle, Keith Fair, Doug Honegger, Patrick Howald, Peter Jaks, Dino Kessler, André Künzi, Sven Leuenberger, Alfred Lüthi, Gil Montandon, Reto Pavoni, André Rötheli, Mario Rottaris, Andreas Ton, Renato Tosio, Thomas Vrabec
Unified Team
Sergei Bautin, Igor Boldin, Nikolai Borschevsky, Vyacheslav Butsayev, Vyacheslav Bykov, Evgeni Davydov, Darius Kasparaitis, Nikolai Khabibulin, Yuri Khmylev, Andrei Khomutov, Andrei Kovalenko, Alexei Kovalev, Igor Kravchuk, Vladimir Malakhov, Dmitri Mironov, Sergei Petrenko, Vitali Prokhorov, Mikhail Shtalenkov, Andrei Trefilov, Dmitri Yushkevich, Alexei Zhamnov, Alexei Zhitnik, Sergei Zubov
United States
Greg Brown, Clark Donatelli, Ted Donato, Ted Drury, David Emma, Guy Gosselin, Scott Gordon, Bret Hedican, Steve Heinze, Sean Hill, Jim Johannson, Scott Lachance, Ray LeBlanc, Moe Mantha, Shawn McEachern, Marty McInnis, Joe Sacco, Tim Sweeney, Keith Tkachuk, Dave Tretowicz, C. J. Young, Scott Young
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Ice hockey player
Joel Persson (born 4 March 1994) is a Swedish professional ice hockey defenceman who plays under contract for the Växjö Lakers of the Swedish Hockey League (SHL).
Playing career
Persson previously played with his hometown club, Kristianstads IK. Following the 2016–17 season in the Hockeyettan where Persson scored 40 points in 38 games, he was signed by the Växjö Lakers of the Swedish Hockey League (SHL) to a three-year contract on 27 April 2017.
In the 2017–18 season, Persson made his debut in the top tier SHL appearing in 51 games for Växjö. He posted 28 assists for 34 points in the regular season before also contributing with five points in 13 playoff games, helping Växjö capture the Le Mat Trophy.
On 18 May 2018, Persson was signed to a one-year contract by the Edmonton Oilers of the National Hockey League (NHL). The Oilers immediately announced that Persson would be loaned back to the Växjö Lakers for the 2018–19 season.
Persson made his NHL debut with the Oilers on 5 October 2019 in a 6–5 win over the Los Angeles Kings. On 8 November, he recorded his first career points (two assists) in a 4–0 win over the New Jersey Devils. Persson also skated in 27 games for the Oilers' American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the Bakersfield Condors.
On 24 February 2020, Persson was traded to the Anaheim Ducks in exchange for Angus Redmond and a 2022 conditional seventh-round pick. He was assigned directly to AHL affiliate, the San Diego Gulls, featuring in 7 games before the remainder of the season was cancelled due to COVID-19.
On 6 June 2020, Persson as a restricted free agent from the Ducks, signed a three-year contract to return Sweden with former club, Växjö Lakers of the SHL. His NHL rights' were later relinquished by the Anaheim Ducks.
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