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null | Dransik is an 2d Massive Multiplayer Online Fantasy Role Playing Game, It was originally created by Jason Ely of Asylumsoft Inc and now owned by Pixel Mine Games.
About
Enter the world of Dransik with a few minor possessions and set forth to determine your destiny. Along the road, you will meet and interact with hundreds of players and non players (NPCs) in the world. Seek magic artifacts and explore dark dungeons. Battle great magical beasts and expose ancient secrets.
Below are a list of features that makes Dransik a great role playing experience...
Explore a huge dynamic world. Master dozens of skills. Multiple character races. Endless number of quests to Explore a huge dynamic world. Search for ancient artifacts. Hunt down and engage evil tyrants. Profit from shops and farmers in your communities. Rage large scale wars against your player foes and rival guilds. | b5b7d931-9333-4b89-8030-b1ebb7ffbf47 |
null | Glacier in Antarctica
Deception Glacier (78°33′S 158°33′E / 78.550°S 158.550°E / -78.550; 158.550Coordinates: 78°33′S 158°33′E / 78.550°S 158.550°E / -78.550; 158.550) is a glacier between the Warren Range and the Boomerang Range, flowing south into upper Mulock Glacier. It was so named by the New Zealand party of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1956–58) because it appears to lead directly into Skelton Neve but instead drains southward. | 3341e966-8d7b-4623-a5a2-85cd19c19c57 |
null | American canoeist
Jeff Larimer (born 1 August 1981 in Marietta, Georgia) is an American slalom canoeist who competed at the international level from 2000 to 2014.
At the 2012 Summer Olympics he competed in the C2 event together with Eric Hurd. They did not advance to the semifinals after finishing 12th in the qualifying round. The pair qualified by winning the 2012 Pan American Championship and winning the US trials. His father and Hurd's father were also both competitive canoeists, even training together on the Chattahoochee River.
World Cup individual podiums
1 Pan American Championship counting for World Cup points | 1cb22c2b-4c75-49de-a433-a4b5709a242d |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chile_at_the_2019_World_Athletics_Championships"} | Sporting event delegation
Chile competed at the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar, from 27 September–6 October 2019.
Result
Key
Men
Field events | 7fb44c8c-528c-41e0-b2fe-c36e6859cb78 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skelsmergh_and_Scalthwaiterigg"} | Civil parish in Cumbria, England
Skelsmergh and Scalthwaiterigg is a civil parish in South Lakeland district, Cumbria, England. It was formed on 1 April 2015 by merging the parishes of Skelsmergh and Scalthwaiterigg, which had shared a parish council since 2007.
The parish is divided into two wards, separated by the River Mint and named for the two previous parishes. Skelsmergh parish ward (north of the river) is represented by five councillors, and Scalthwaiterigg parish ward (south of the river) by two councillors, a pattern established in 2007.
The population of the former parish of Skelsmergh was 303 in the 2011 United Kingdom census; the 2011 population of the former parish of Scalthwaiterigg is not available, but its 2001 population was 104. (the 2001 population of Skelsmergh was 271).
The areas of the two former parishes were 7.8435 km2 (3.0284 sq mi) (Skelsmergh) 4.22 km2 (1.63 sq mi) (Scalthwaiterigg), giving an area for the current parish of 12.02635 km2 (4.64340 sq mi). The southern part of the parish includes the 317 metres (1,040 ft) hill Benson Knott, which is classified as a HuMP, a TuMP and a Clem. The A6 from Kendal to Shap, the A685 road from Kendal to Tebay, and the Dales Way footpath from Ilkley to Bowness all pass through the parish.
There are eight listed buildings in the parish, all at grade II. | f61cda3e-6ed3-4577-b8bc-d0a38913dc3b |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mucuna_paniculata"} | Species of legume
Mucuna paniculata is a species of flowering, woody vine in the family Fabaceae, the bean family. It is native to northern Madagascar where it is locally known in Malagasy as vohinkovika. It flowers between June and August.
Distribution and habitat
Mucuna paniculata is found at elevations between sea level to 2,500 m (8,200 ft) in northern Madagascar. These vines can be found in both humid and sub-humid forests, usually near rivers and streams.
Toxicity
Species in the genus Mucuna are known to carry irritant hairs. These hairs contain mucunain, an enzyme which causes itching. This enzyme can be destroyed using heat.
Cultivation
This plant usually grows well in well-drained soil under shade. They are propagated with seeds.
Conservation
It is listed as 'least concern' by the IUCN.
Threats
Habitat destruction by slash-and-burn techniques pose a potential threat to the species.
Protected areas
The species is found in the protected areas of the Betampona Integral Natural Reserve, Manongarivo Special Reserve, Marojejy National Park, Masoala National Park and Montagne d'Ambre National Park. | 54ba7e31-fae9-4bf7-acf2-e8f27d25af91 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbie_Merrill"} | American bass guitar player
Musical artist
Robbie Merrill (born June 13, 1963) is an American bassist, best known as a founding member of Godsmack and Another Animal. He was featured in the Behind the Player interactive music video.
Biography
Born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, Merrill started playing bass at age fourteen, having traded in his train set for the instrument. Before joining Godsmack, Merrill worked as a self-employed carpenter, a trade likewise pursued by Tony Rombola.
Merrill lives in St. Augustine, Florida, with his wife Heather and three daughters. Although he is righthanded, Merrill plays lefthanded due to a birth defect that renders him unable to move the middle finger of his left hand. He is a pet owner and has a dog name Ciege
Musical style
Merrill uses Dunlop Clear "D" plastic fingerpicks on his plucking-hand index and ring fingers, which contributes to his distinctive style of play.
Discography
Godsmack
Another Animal
Gear
According to Merrill, when he is in the studio, he runs a Line 6 guitar POD direct for growly, midrangy distortion, and he blends that with miked cabinets." | 9a92f540-00d0-4e98-acfe-e9c6a67628d9 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Rose_(politician)"} | Canadian politician (1907–1983)
Fred Rose (born Fishel Rosenberg; 7 December 1907 – 16 March 1983) was a Polish-Canadian politician and trade union organizer, best known for being the only member of the Canadian Parliament to ever be convicted of a charge related to spying for a foreign country. A member of the Communist Party of Canada and Labor-Progressive Party, he served as the MP for Cartier from 1943 to 1947. He was ousted from his seat after being found guilty of conspiring to steal weapons research for the Soviet Union.
Shortly after his release from prison, Rose moved to Poland to start an import-export business. While there, his Canadian citizenship was revoked, which prevented him from returning to Canada. His appeal against the revoking of his citizenship ultimately failed, but in 1958, then Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Ellen Fairclough introduced the "Fred Rose amendment" to the Citizenship Act so that such a removal of Canadian citizenship could never happen again.
Early life
Rose was born to a Polish Jewish family in Lublin, which was then part of the Russian Empire and now is in Poland. One of the six children in the family, he attended the "Gymnaste Humaniste de Lublin," a Jewish high school in which he learned to speak French. He emigrated to Canada as a child in 1920, where he attended Baron Byng High School.
Communism
In 1925, he became involved with the Young Communist League of Canada and then joined the Communist Party of Canada while he was working in a canning factory. By 1928, he became a person of interest for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. In April 1931, he published the pamphlet "Smash the Embargo" in which he made his political goals clear.[vague] In his view, the Communist Party of Canada was to "lead the Canadian workers to establish a system similar to that of the Soviet Union."
Rose was jailed during the 1930s for sedition, and won the hatred of Quebec Premier Maurice Duplessis for writing about the close connections between the Duplessis government and the fascist governments of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. He was a close associate of Norman Bethune, a doctor who had aided antifascist and communist fighters first in Spain during the Spanish Civil War and later in China.
Electoral career
He was a candidate for the Communist Party of Canada in the working-class riding of Cartier, in the Montreal area in the 1935 federal election, coming in second with 16.28% of the votes. He ran in the 1936 Quebec general election in the riding of Montréal–Saint-Louis for the Communist Party of Quebec and came in third, at 16.8%.
In the early stages of World War II, the Communist Party of Canada was formally banned, and many of its leaders interned[clarification needed] by the Padlock Law. After a major public campaign, the party was legally reorganized as the Labor-Progressive Party.
Rose ran as a Labor-Progressive candidate in a 1943 by-election in the federal riding of Cartier. He won with 30% of the vote in a tight four-way race, beating David Lewis of the social democratic Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and two others. He was the first, and, as of 2022,[update] remains the only, Communist Party MP elected in Canada.
Rose was re-elected in the 1945 election with 40% of the vote. Most of the riding's immigrant Jewish population voted for Rose, who benefitted from the perception that the Soviet Union was the main hope for saving Europe's Jews from Hitler. Rose's main rival, Paul Massé, of the antiwar Bloc Populaire, who came second, was supported by most French-Canadians.
As a Member of Parliament, Rose proposed the first federal medicare legislation and the first anti-hate legislation.
Gouzenko affair
Rose was caught up in the world political sea change following World War II, when the Soviet Union, a major wartime ally, was now perceived as an enemy in the new reality of the Cold War. Igor Gouzenko, a young cipher clerk in the Soviet embassy in Ottawa, was recalled to his homeland in July 1945. Rather than return home, Gouzenko defected with documents in September 1945 and claimed to have evidence of a massive Soviet spy ring operating in Canada and the United States.
Few took Gouzenko's accusations and evidence seriously at first. A royal commission of inquiry, the Kellock–Taschereau Commission, was ultimately established by the government of William Lyon Mackenzie King in February 1946 to investigate Gouzenko's evidence. Headed by two Supreme Court justices, Roy Kellock and Robert Taschereau, the commission arrested and sequestered Canadians named in Gouzenko's documents without legal counsel and barred them from all contact with the outside world until they were summoned before the commission.
Rose was alleged to lead the ring of up to 20 Soviet spies, which were targeting primarily atomic weapon research from the Manhattan Project. Raymond Boyer, an alleged co-conspirator, testified that Rose was involved in the operation. Rose refused to testify before the commission, which he said was designed to "smear honest and patriotic Canadians." Rose was ultimately found guilty of conspiring to turn over information about the explosive RDX to the Soviets, and was sentenced to prison for a term just one day longer than was required to deprive him of his elected seat in the House of Commons.
Rose wrote to Speaker Gaspard Fauteux from St. Vincent de Paul Penitentiary on 24 January 1947:
Mr. Speaker: If the will of the people is to prevail, if justice is to be done, there can be no question of my expulsion from the house. To the contrary, I should be in my seat in the House of Commons and not in the penitentiary. Parliament is the highest of Courts. Through its actions in my case it will decide whether hysteria is to continue or whether reason and justice are to prevail. Respectfully, Fred Rose, M.P.
His letter was returned to him unread, and on 30 January 1947, he was formally expelled from the House of Commons.
Later life
Rose was released from prison in 1951 after four-and-a-half years, with his health broken. Attempting to find work in Montreal, he was tailed from jobsite to jobsite by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), which pointed out to employers and workmates that he was a convicted spy.
In 1953 he went to Poland to attempt to set up an import-export business and to obtain health treatment that he could not afford in Canada. He worked for many years as English-language editor of Poland, a magazine of Polish culture and civilization designed for sale in the West. While he lived in Poland, his Canadian citizenship was revoked in 1957, and he was unable to return to Canada to lead the fight to clear his name.
His appeal against revoking his citizenship was denied, although Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Ellen Fairclough introduced the so-called "Fred Rose amendment" in 1958 to the Citizenship Act so that such a removal of Canadian citizenship could never happen again. Years later, former federal cabinet minister Allan MacEachen acknowledged that the pages of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's diary dealing with Rose had gone missing, as had most of the other records dealing with his case.
Rose died on 16 March 1983 in Warsaw, having never returned to Canada.
Electoral record
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null | Township in North Dakota, United States
Sauter Township is a township in Walsh County, North Dakota, United States. | 465e7e4b-3e36-4bbb-9e37-62195ffdaed2 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katarzyniec"} | Village in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
Katarzyniec [kataˈʐɨɲet͡s] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Więcbork, within Sępólno County, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-central Poland. It lies approximately 8 kilometres (5 mi) south of Więcbork, 19 km (12 mi) south of Sępólno Krajeńskie, and 40 km (25 mi) north-west of Bydgoszcz.
The village has a population of 20. | aa5a55e2-3b81-4c36-8ddf-699903fb7793 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Peacock_Skirt"} | 1893 illustration by Aubrey Beardsley
The Peacock Skirt is an 1893 illustration by Aubrey Beardsley. His original pen and ink drawing was reproduced as a woodblock print in the first English edition of Oscar Wilde's one-act play Salome in 1894. The original drawing was bequeathed by Grenville Lindall Winthrop to the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University in 1943.
Background
Wilde's one-act play Salome was originally written in French in 1891, while he was living in Paris. Performance of the play was prohibited in England, ostensibly on account of it depicting biblical characters.
The play inspired Beardsley to make an illustration, J'ai baisé ta bouche, Iokanaan ("I have kissed your mouth, Jokanaan"), which was printed with eight other drawings in an article, "A New Illustrator: Aubrey Beardsley", by Joseph Pennell in the first issue of the artistic journal The Studio in April 1893.
Wilde wrote to Beardsley, recognising him as a "kindred spirit" and enclosing a copy of Salome, and commissioned him to illustrate the first edition of the play, which was published in English in 1894.
Description of The Peacock Skirt
The Peacock Skirt was the second of ten illustrative plates published with the English version of Wilde's play. It shows a rear quarter view of a woman, Salome, wearing a long robe decorated with stylised peacock feather pattern. Her headdress is also decorated with peacock feathers, and more long peacock feathers drape down over her back. The head of a peacock is visible over her left shoulder. Salome is turned to the right, to converse with a second figure, probably the "Young Syrian" mentioned in the text of the play, with an androgynous face but masculine hairy knees, elaborate hairstyle and pleated tunic.
The drawing was influenced by James McNeill Whistler's decorations in his 1876–77 Peacock Room, designed for Frederick Leyland's house at 49 Princes Gate, but now in the Freer Gallery of Art. The refined curving lines of Beardsley's drawing were also influenced by Japanese woodblock prints, and anticipate the forms of the Art Nouveau aesthetic.
The print measures 178 by 127 millimetres (7.0 in × 5.0 in).
Other illustrations
The Studio owned the copyright for the original drawing of Iokanaan, so Beardsley drew an adapted version, The Climax, which was published as an illustration for the play. Beardsley added nine other drawings, including The Peacock Skirt, to make ten plates:
Salome also wears a distinctive peacock headdress in plates 6 (The Eyes of Herod) and 7 (The Stomach Dance). Beardsley also drew a peacock feather design for the book's cover, and decorative borders for the title page and contents page.
Reception
Prints of Beardsley's drawings were included in the English edition of Salome, published in 1894 by Elkin Mathews and John Lane of The Bodley Head in London and by Copeland and Day in Boston, Massachusetts, reproduced using a set of wood blocks carved by Carl Hentschel. Beardsley's stylised signature of parallel lines appears in the top right; versions printed from the woodcut also have Hentschel's initials in the bottom left.
The original pen and ink drawings were later reproduced using a photographic lineblock process, in which the original drawings were photographed and the negatives used to create printing blocks on light-sensitive plates. The plate measures 23 by 16.8 centimetres (9.1 in × 6.6 in).
John Lane published a second version of the play on Japanese vellum in 1904 with 16 plates, including the ten original drawings, with the decorative front cover, title page and list of illustrations from the original 1894 book; added to these thirteen prints were an image of John and Solome, a second version of The Toilette of Salome, and an endpiece. Another version was published in 1907 with several new images, including Salome on a Settle.
The face of the (wo)man in the moon with drooping eyes in the first plate appears to be a caricature of Wilde himself; faces with similar features also appearing in plates 4 (The Platonic Lament), 5 (Enter Herodias) and 6 (The Eyes of Herod).
The original pen and ink drawing of The Peacock Skirt was retained by the publisher John Lane and then his widow. It was sold at auction in 1926 to art dealers, and acquired by Grenville Lindall Winthrop in 1927. Winthrop bequeathed it to the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University in 1943. | 9fbbdfc5-5489-4fb7-a773-400f94d3e9fb |
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Topics referred to by the same term | 659278c8-9c58-470c-afc6-14b7b1107124 |
null | England international rugby league footballer
Patrick Dalton (second ¼ 1907 (1907) – death unknown) was an English professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1930s and 1940s. He played at representative level for England, and English League XIII, and at club level for Salford, as a second-row, or loose forward, i.e. number 11, 12 or 13, during the era of contested scrums.
Background
Paddy Dalton's birth was registered in Harrington, Cumberland, England.
Playing career
International honours
Paddy Dalton won caps for England while at Salford in 1934 against Australia and France, in 1935 against France and Wales, and in 1936 against Wales, and represented English League XIII against France.
Challenge Cup Final appearances
Paddy Dalton played right-second-row, i.e. number 12, in Salford's 7-4 victory over Barrow in the 1937–38 Challenge Cup Final during the 1937–38 season at Wembley Stadium, London, in front of a crowd of 51,243.
County Cup Final appearances
About Paddy Dalton's time, there was Salford's 10-8 victory over Swinton in the 1931–32 Lancashire County Cup Final during the 1931–32 season at The Cliff, Broughton, Salford on Saturday 21 November 1931, the 21-12 victory over Wigan in the 1934–35 Lancashire County Cup Final during the 1934–35 season at Station Road, Swinton on Saturday 20 October 1934, the 15-7 victory over Wigan in the 1935–36 Lancashire County Cup Final during the 1935–36 season at Wilderspool Stadium, Warrington on Saturday 19 October 1935, the 5-2 victory over Wigan in the 1936–37 Lancashire County Cup Final during the 1936–37 season at Wilderspool Stadium, Warrington on Saturday 17 October 1936, and he played left-second-row, i.e. number 11, in the 7-10 defeat by Wigan in the 1938–39 Lancashire County Cup Final during the 1938–39 season at Station Road, Swinton on Saturday 22 October 1938.
Les Diables Rouges
Paddy Dalton was one of the players who successfully toured in France with Salford in 1934, during which the Salford team earned the name "Les Diables Rouges", the seventeen players were; Joe Bradbury, Bob Brown, Aubrey Casewell, Paddy Dalton, Bert Day, Cliff Evans, Jack Feetham, George Harris, Barney Hudson, Emlyn Jenkins, Alf Middleton, Sammy Miller, Harold Osbaldestin, Les Pearson, Gus Risman, Billy Watkins and Billy Williams. | f3eb2429-dfcc-4131-ada6-4cbf1deed791 |
null | Bernard Sahlins (/ˈsɑːlɪnz/; August 20, 1922 – June 16, 2013) was an American writer, director and comedian best known as a founder of The Second City improvisational comedy troupe with Paul Sills and Howard Alk in 1959. Sahlins also opened the Second City Theatre in Toronto in 1973.
Biography
Born in Chicago, Sahlins graduated from University of Chicago in 1943. His brother is anthropologist Marshall Sahlins.
When Sahlins received an honorary doctorate from Columbia College Chicago in 2006, theatre department professor Sheldon Patinkin wrote:
In 1953, he became a producer of Playwrights Theatre Club, the first professional theater company in Chicago in many years. It featured such budding actors and directors as Ed Asner, Mike Nichols, Elaine May, Paul Sills, and Byrne and Joyce Piven. In 1956, he took over the empty downtown Studebaker Theatre and did a year of plays which included the Chicago premiere of Waiting for Godot and then in 1959, with Paul Sills and Howard Alk, he opened The Second City where Bernie remained as producer and, eventually, one of the directors until the 1990s. Among the many talents he hired are John and James Belushi, John Candy, Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner, Harold Ramis and Bill Murray. Bernie was also one of the developers and producers of the acclaimed TV show SCTV.
In 1986, Sahlins co-founded both The University of Chicago's Off-Off Campus and The International Theatre Festival of Chicago. Sahlins is the recipient of The Sergel prize for playwriting, The University of Chicago Professional Achievement Award, The Chicago Drama League’s Professional Achievement Award, Joseph Jefferson Awards for directing and professional achievement, The Illinois Arts Alliance "Legend" award, and the Improv Festival Achievement Award.
On June 16, 2013, Sahlins died at his home of pancreatic cancer. Survivors include his wife of 44 years, Jane Nicholl Sahlins, and a brother, Marshall Sahlins, both of Chicago. His first marriage to Fritzi Sager ended in divorce. A daughter from his first marriage, Lee Sherry, died in 2012.
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{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1792_United_States_presidential_election"} | 2nd quadrennial U.S. presidential election
The 1792 United States presidential election was the second quadrennial presidential election. It was held from Friday, November 2, to Wednesday, December 5, 1792. Incumbent President George Washington was elected to a second term by a unanimous vote in the electoral college, while John Adams was re-elected as vice president. Washington was essentially unopposed, but Adams faced a competitive re-election against Governor George Clinton of New York.
Electoral rules of the time required each presidential elector to cast two votes without distinguishing which was for president and which for vice president. The recipient of the most votes would then become president, and the runner-up vice president. The Democratic-Republican Party, which had organized in opposition to the policies of Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, supported Clinton for the position of vice president. Adams, meanwhile, was backed by the Federalist Party in his bid for another term. Neither party had fully organized, and partisan divisions had not yet solidified.
Washington received 132 electoral votes, one from each elector. Adams won 77 electoral votes, enough to win re-election. Clinton finished in third place with 50 electoral votes, taking his home state of New York as well as three Southern states. Two other candidates won the five remaining electoral votes. This election was the first in which each of the original 13 states appointed electors, as did the newly added states of Kentucky and Vermont.
Candidates
In 1792, presidential elections were still conducted according to the original method established under the U.S. Constitution. Under this system, each elector cast two votes: the candidate who received the greatest number of votes (so long as they won a majority) became president, while the runner-up became vice president. The Twelfth Amendment would eventually replace this system, requiring electors to cast one vote for president and one vote for vice president, but this change did not take effect until 1804. Because of this, it is difficult to use modern-day terminology to describe the relationship among the candidates in this election.
Washington is generally held by historians to have run unopposed. Indeed, the incumbent president enjoyed bipartisan support and received one vote from every elector. The choice for vice president was more divisive. The Federalist Party threw its support behind the incumbent vice president, John Adams of Massachusetts, while the Democratic-Republican Party backed the candidacy of New York Governor George Clinton. Because few doubted that Washington would receive the greatest number of votes, Adams and Clinton were effectively competing for the vice presidency; under the letter of the law, however, they were technically candidates for president competing against Washington.
Federalist nomination
Democratic-Republican nomination
Born out of the Anti-Federalist faction that had opposed the Constitution in 1788, the Democratic-Republican Party was the main opposition to the agenda of Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton. They had no chance of unseating Washington, but hoped to win the vice presidency by defeating the incumbent, Adams. Many Democratic-Republicans would have preferred to nominate Thomas Jefferson, their ideological leader and Washington's Secretary of State. However, this would have cost them the state of Virginia, as electors were not permitted to vote for two candidates from their home state and Washington was also a Virginian. Clinton, the Governor of New York and a former anti-Federalist leader, became the party's nominee after he won the backing of Jefferson and James Madison. Clinton was from an electorally important swing state, and he convinced party leaders that he would be a stronger candidate than another New Yorker, Senator Aaron Burr. A group of Democratic-Republican leaders met in Philadelphia in October 1792 and selected Clinton as the party's vice presidential candidate.
Campaign
By 1792, a party division had emerged between Federalists led by Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton, who desired a stronger federal government with a leading role in the economy, and the Democratic-Republicans led by Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson and Representative James Madison of Virginia, who favored states' rights and opposed Hamilton's economic program. Madison was at first a Federalist until he opposed the establishment of Hamilton's First Bank of the United States in 1791. He formed the Democratic-Republican Party along with Anti-Federalist Thomas Jefferson in 1792.
The elections of 1792 were the first ones in the United States to be contested on anything resembling a partisan basis. In most states, the congressional elections were recognized in some sense as a "struggle between the Treasury department and the republican interest," to use the words of Jefferson strategist John Beckley. In New York, the race for governor was fought along these lines. The candidates were Chief Justice John Jay, a Hamiltonian, and incumbent George Clinton, the party's vice presidential nominee.
Although Washington had been considering retiring, both sides encouraged him to remain in office to bridge factional differences. Washington was supported by practically all sides throughout his presidency and gained more popularity with the passage of the Bill of Rights. However, the Democratic-Republicans and the Federalists contested the vice-presidency, with incumbent John Adams as the Federalist nominee and George Clinton as the Democratic-Republican nominee. Federalists attacked Clinton for his past association with the anti-Federalists. Adams easily secured re-election.
Results
Washington was re-elected unanimously, receiving one vote from each of the 132 participating electors. Adams received votes from 77 electors and Clinton 50; the four electors from Kentucky voted for Thomas Jefferson, and one South Carolina elector voted for Aaron Burr. The distribution of the electoral vote between the four runners-up showed a high degree of party discipline, with only two electors voting contrary to the majority in their state. Adams received the support of New England, South Carolina, and the Mid-Atlantic states (excepting New York), while Clinton carried New York and most of the South. Adams as the second-place finisher was elected vice president, serving until his election to the presidency in 1797; each of his three rivals would go on to serve as vice president in turn, Jefferson from 1797 to 1801 (when he alike succeeded to the presidency), Burr from 1801 to 1805, and Clinton from 1805 until his death in 1812.
Nine of the 15 states eligible to chose representatives to the electoral college did so by a vote of the state legislature; the remaining six employed some form of popular vote. Of these, complete returns from Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania survive; surviving returns from Virginia are incomplete, and popular vote records from Kentucky are not known to exist. Of the states with complete returns, only Pennsylvania saw real partisan competition; a Federalist electoral slate pledged to Washington and Adams was selected, although one elector voted for Washington and Clinton. At the time, party organizations were still in their infancy, and the partisan allegiance of the candidates was not always evident: it is therefore difficult to say whether the Pennsylvania vote for Clinton was an instance of a faithless elector, or an elector voting as pledged.
Electoral vote
(a) Only 6 of the 15 states chose electors by any form of popular vote, while pre-Twelfth Amendment electoral vote rules obscure the intentions of the voters, and those states that did choose electors by popular vote restricted the vote via property requirements. (b) Two electors from Maryland and one elector from Vermont did not cast votes.
Popular vote
Source: Dubin, Michael J. (2002). United States Presidential Elections, 1788-1860: The Official Results by County and State. Jefferson: McFarland & Company. pp. 4–6. ISBN 9780786410170.
Source (Popular Vote): A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787-1825
(a) Only 6 of the 15 states chose electors by any form of popular vote. (b) Pre-Twelfth Amendment electoral vote rules obscure the intentions of the voters (c) Those states that did choose electors by popular vote had widely varying restrictions on suffrage via property requirements.
Popular vote by state
Six of the fifteen states chose electors by any form of popular vote. The vote totals of Kentucky and Virginia appear to be lost. Vote totals for 13 of 76 Virginia counties exist.
Electoral votes by state
The states chose 135 electors, out of whom 132 cast ballots. (Two electors from Maryland and one from Vermont were absent and did not vote.) As per the terms of the unamended constitution, each elector was permitted two votes for president, with a majority of "the whole number of electors appointed" necessary to elect a president. Each of the participating electors cast one vote for Washington, who was elected president. The electors were split on their second choice: Adams received 77 votes to Clinton's 50, enough to secure a second-place finish behind Washington and the vice presidency.
Source: A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns 1787-1825
Electoral college selection
The Constitution, in Article II, Section 1, provided that the state legislatures should decide the manner in which their Electors were chosen. Different state legislatures chose different methods:
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{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_in_French_television"} | Overview of the events of 1995 in French television
This is a list of French television related events from 1995.
Events
Debuts
International
Television shows
1940s
1950s
1970s
1980s
Births
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{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shivers_(New_York_City)"} | The Shivers is a musical group formed in 2001 in New York City, led by singer, primary songwriter and only consistent member Keith Zarriello. To date, the only other regular member of the band was Joanne Schornikow, who played keyboards and sang in the band at most performances between 2009 and 2012.
History
The Shivers’ first record, The Shakes, was recorded at Context Studios in Brooklyn. It was released independently and sold at shows, and is now out of print. Shortly thereafter, Erdos left the band, and Zarriello was left to continue on alone playing New York City clubs for the next few years, both solo and with a revolving cast of musicians.
In 2004, Zarriello was spotted by touring musician Red Hunter, who offered to take him on the road and release an album on his label/collective, Whiskey and Apples. The album, CHARADES, released in October 2004 (produced by Zarriello and Brian “Boots” Factor) received little critical attention but began to develop The Shivers a following. The track "Beauty" has gone on, in subsequent years, to receive good reviews on sites such as Pitchfork, who said Zarriello's voice carried a "mesmerizing eroticism", and was a subject of a column in The Guardian and Spin.
While Zarriello was living in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, he was contacted by a former high school classmate, Sheldon Roberts, who had discovered The Shivers' music through a friend and proposed releasing their next album on a label he and friends were forming, Outerborough Records. Zarriello agreed and took measures to return to the United States.
Five-piece band: 2004-2008
Back in New York City, Zarriello started performing again and sending CHARADES to college radio stations around the country. At one station, Fordham University's WFUV, the album was discovered in the garbage can by young intern/DJ, Benham Jones, who reached out to Zarriello at a Tuesday night show at Arlene's Grocery. He offered Zarriello a gig at Fordham and the two became friends. Zarriello, now having his deal with Outerborough, gathered musicians and reached out to Jones to play bass. Jones agreed and helped the band record the album secretly overnight in the studios of WFUV. The album featured William Martina on cello, Matthew Jahn on guitar, Benham Jones on bass, and Alex Saltz and Danny Fischer on drums. Also featured on one track was visiting Australian pianist, Joanne Schornikow.
The album, Phone Calls, released in early 2006. The Shivers continued as a five-piece, including Schornikow on piano and new drummer, Evan Pazner on drums. Schornikow, having an expiring visa, was forced to return to Australia. She was, however, sold on The Shivers, and begun plans to return to the US on an artist's visa with the primary goal of joining The Shivers. Zarriello and Schornikow kept in touch via the mail, sending each other packages and tapes. The five-piece band played the SXSW music festival in 2007.
In 2008, Zarriello decided to fund the production of the next Shivers album himself. Using money he had earned as a real estate agent, Zarriello hooked up with engineer Dan Hewitt and the band recorded the album Beaks To The Moon in four days at the now defunct LoHo Studios on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. The album was released by the band via their own label in April 2008. Once again, the critics largely ignored the release with the growing independent critics/blogs, like Quiet Color championing it.
As a duo: 2008-2012
Frustrated by a lack of commercial success and what he felt was an unacceptable level of commitment to the band, Zarriello dismissed all the band members except Schornikow, and the two continued as a duo. The Shivers had been in talks with Hewitt about releasing a DIY record on his micro-indie, State Capital Records. The label and the band would split all costs and profits. The album, In The Morning, was recorded on a 4-track tape recorder. It was the rawest, most analog/DIY album The Shivers had made since CHARADES and featured a more experimental duo sound. Again it did very little commercially and was primarily used as something to sell while on tour. The Shivers bought out Hewitt and now solely own the record.
The Shivers continued on as a duo doing national tours and short stints overseas, and decided to independently record an album. The band used their own funds from day jobs and donations from their following decided to record their next album at all analog studio, Analogue Catalogue outside of Manchester, England.
The album, More, was recorded by Producer Julie McLarnon and assisted by Rob Ferrier in five days to 2" inch tape. No computers were used. Tom Raysmith played drums. Semay Wu played cello and Jon Thorne played bass. Andrew Southern (bass) and Ryan Thornton (drums) were the rhythm section on the track "Love Is In The Air". The album was released in May 2011 on Silence Breaks Records (US). It was the most regularly released album The Shivers had to that time, and the first that included a proper public relations campaign. The album gained them some further recognition and a wider audience.
Musician and label owner Johnny Lynch The Pictish Trail from Scotland had discovered In The Morning and decided to release More on his Fence Records in the UK in September 2011. The Shivers subsequently toured the UK in late fall of 2011 including performing a sold-out show in London[citation needed] and recording a session for the BBC Radio 1's Rob Da Bank show at Maida Vale Studios. Schornikow has also continued her own career alongside her work with the band, and undertook a small club tour of the U.K with New Yorker Scott Rudd in the summer of 2012.
Forever Is A Word: 2015-present
The Shivers latest album Forever Is A Word was self-released on February 14, 2015. The band is currently working on a new full-length album and playing shows around New York City.
In popular culture
In May 2013, the song "Beauty" was sung by wedding guests at actor Aaron Paul's wedding. The band is featured in Matthew Bonifacio's film The Quitter. The Shivers music appears in other films such as Short Term 12, The Benefactor and Horns.
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{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%BCzce_Province"} | Province of Turkey in East Marmara
Düzce Province (Turkish: Düzce ili) is a province in northwestern Turkey. It is on the coastline of the Black Sea and is traversed by the main highway between Istanbul and Ankara. The main town is Düzce. There are ancient Greek ruins in the province.
Düzce broke off from Bolu province and became a province in its own right after a devastating earthquake in the city in November 1999.
The total population of the province in 2017 was 377,610.
Districts
Düzce province is divided into 8 districts (capital district in bold):
Health
Air pollution in Turkey is a chronic problem here.
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null | Antonius Grech Delicata Testaferrata (21 February 1823 - 31 December 1876) was a Maltese bishop who became the second Bishop of Gozo in 1868.
Grech Delicata Testaferrata was born in Valletta Malta on February 21, 1823, and was baptized in the Collegiate Parish Church of St Paul's Shipwreck in Valletta. He was ordained priest of the Diocese of Malta on October 19, 1845.
Episcopacy
In 1867 Pope Pius IX appointed him as the Titular Bishop of Calydon. Grech Delicata Testaferrata was consecrated by Cardinal Lodovico Altieri on July 14, 1867, in the chapel of Villa Lante al Gianicolo in Rome. On November 16 of the same year he was appointed as the Apostolic Administrator of Gozo. He succeeded Paolo Micallef as administrator who was later was appointed as Archbishop of Pisa in 1871. The see of Gozo was vacant for two years after the death of its bishop Michael Franciscus Buttigieg. It was in 1868 that Bishop Grech Delicata Testaferrata was appointed as the official bishop of the Bishop of Gozo. He was formally installed in the cathedral on January 24, 1869. He spent the remaining seven years as the Bishop of Gozo until 31 December 1876 when he died in Valletta. | e6a20986-9b6c-44e2-9160-8f57a68a737c |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_4683"} | The IBM 4683 was IBM's first PC-based point of sale (POS) system. It was introduced in 1985. The system consists of a PC-based controller and thin client based POS workstations, typically with a Token Ring network. The system requires an IBM AS/400 server to be in the network. The 4683 is still used today by some retailers (such as TOYS "R" US in the UK). However the 4683 has been phased out by some retailers to its more modern successors, the IBM 4693 and the IBM 4694. | 96203521-512d-4d7c-aae8-b8e1245f38f9 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morning_Sentinel"} | Newspaper in Waterville, Maine
The Morning Sentinel is an American daily newspaper published six mornings a week in Waterville, Maine. It is owned by MaineToday Media.
The newspaper covers cities and towns in parts of Franklin, Kennebec, Penobscot and Somerset counties. The paper is printed at the Portland Press Herald press in South Portland, Maine.
History
Founded in 1904 by officials of the Waterville Democratic Party—Waterville mayor Cyrus Davis; future U.S. Senator Charles Fletcher Johnson; and future mayor L. Eugene Thayer, leavened by newspaper veteran Thomas F. Murphy—the Waterville Morning Sentinel, within a year, grew from a three-desk operation to requiring its own building, on Silver Street.
In 1911, a financially ailing Davis sold the paper to bond holders; ten years later, it was bought by Guy Gannett, who was in the process of building a newspaper, radio and television empire in Maine. His holdings included the Portland Press Herald and, after 1929, the Sentinel's in-county competitor, the Kennebec Journal.
Gannett's ownership also saw the paper become less politically biased.
Gannett and his heirs—no relation to the Virginia-based chain called Gannett Company—held the three Maine dailies until 1998, when they sold them to The Seattle Times Company, which rechristened the chain "Blethen Maine Newspapers". Frank Blethen, a descendant of Seattle Times founder Albert Blethen, a Maine native, later called the purchase "the largest and riskiest investment in our history" but a necessary move to keep the newspapers from becoming part of a corporate chain.
It was sold in 2009 to MaineToday Media.
In December 2009, the newspaper was criticized for firing one of its journalists who had made negative remarks about the gay-rights group Human Rights Campaign.
Prices
The Morning Sentinel prices are: $1.30 daily, $2.30 Saturday/Sunday “Weekend Edition”. | b54c27e1-78ef-4721-9461-1891846c3c35 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_Club,_Denver"} | Country Club is a neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. According to the Piton Foundation, "The Country Club neighborhood is bounded by University Boulevard, Cherry Creek, Downing Street, and 8th Avenue. Two main features of the neighborhood are the Denver Country Club and Country Club Place subdivision, designed by William and Arthur Fisher, working with Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. in 1909."
The neighborhood consists of 380 homes, making it one of Denver's smallest in number of homes. However, most of the lots and houses are large. Part of the neighborhood forms the Country Club Historic District, but the boundaries of the historic district and the neighborhood proper are not the same; the historic district is smaller and goes from 1st Ave. to 4th Ave. and from Downing St. to University Ave. At Race St. the district goes from 1st to 6th Ave.
The Denver Country Club, a private club, is located on the southern boundary of the neighborhood, along Cherry Creek. | d76b94c4-2eb5-4a9c-b603-002a4c6397d5 |
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Luiz Augusto Zanon (São Carlos, 17 June 1963) is a Brazilian former basketball player and coach. As a player, Zanon won a bronze with the national team at the FIBA Under-19 World Championship, a gold and a silver at the South American Basketball Championship, and competed at the 1991 Pan American Games.
Zanon became a coach in the 2000s, winning the Brazilian championship of men with Limeira, and the women's one with São Carlos. In 2013, Zanon was hired to become the new coach of the Brazilian women's national team. The team won a bronze medal at the 2013 FIBA Americas Championship for Women and qualified for the 2014 FIBA World Championship for Women. He resigned from the national team on December 2015 due to health concerns. | a80c186f-6c29-4419-9267-8d9acf58e01e |
null | Kaʻau Crater is an extinct volcanic crater located on the island of Oahu in the U.S. state of Hawaii near Palolo Valley.
Geology
Kaʻau Crater formed as a result of the Honolulu Volcanic Series, which were a set of eruptions from the Koʻolau Range. The HVS also created other tuff cones throughout Oahu such as Diamond Head.
Legends
According to Hawaiian legend, the crater was formed when the demigod Maui tried pulling the islands of Oahu and Kauai together with a hook and line. Maui failed to do so due to the line snapping. The hook landed somewhere and created an indent, forming Kaʻau Crater.
The word "Kaʻau" comes from "Kaʻauhelemoa", which was the name of a supernatural chicken that lived in the same valley.
Hike
The Kaʻau Crater Hike receives visitors every year. However, due to its hidden appearance, its popularity is overshadowed by other tuff cones in Honolulu. | 6666702e-7add-439f-93c1-182524c5828a |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhengzhou_Sports_Center_station"} | Zhengzhou Sports Center (Chinese: 市体育中心) is a metro station of Zhengzhou Metro Line 1. The station was the western terminus of Line 1 before the opening of phase II project of Line 1 in January 2017.
Zhengzhou Sports Center was originally planned to be built in the surrounding area when the station was constructed. The plan was later changed and the sports center was built in the western area of the city instead, but the name of the station was not changed.
Station layout
The station has 2 floors underground. The B1 floor is for the station concourse and the B2 floor is for the platforms and tracks. The station has one island platform and two tracks for Line 1.
Some trains use Platform 1 as the terminus during rush hours in weekdays.
Exits
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{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charbel_Dagher"} | Charbel Dagher (Arabic: شربل داغر) is a Lebanese professor at the University of Balamand, Koura, Lebanon. He has been an active and prominent voice on the Arab cultural scene, mainly in the fields of poetry, Arabic language, and Arab and Islamic arts. He is a Poet, writer and story-writer in both Arabic and French.
Career
Charbel Dagher was born in Wata Hub, Tannourine, Lebanon on 5 March 1950. He graduated from the New Sorbonne University – Paris III, and is a holder of two PhD's in Modern Arabic Letters (1982) and Aesthetics of Arts (1996). He is a professor at the University of Balamand, Lebanon. As a professor, he cooperated with the University of Toulouse Le Mirail, the University of Metz and the University of Paris V – New Sorbonne in France, the University of Malta in Malta and the University of Bologna in Italy. He also worked as a visiting professor at Higher Institutes for Fine Arts in several Tunisian cities, including Tunis, Sfax and Gabes... Dagher is a consultant in Islamic art and modern fine arts. As a journalist, he wrote in Arabic and French in Beirut, Paris and London. His works were published in several international periodicals such as the UNESCO Courier (Paris) and 'Fikrr wa Fan' (Munich). He has overseen several scientific conferences including "Young Poets: Questions and Challenges" (Al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad University, Morocco, 1987), "Art and Market" (Arab European University and University of Malta, Malta, 1987), "Art and the City" (Arab European University and Bologna University, Italy, 1988), "Arabic Poetry: Modernity Now" (Al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad University, Morocco, 1990), "Arabic in Lebanon" (University of Balamand, Lebanon, 1997) and "Renaissance: Liberal Introductions to Modernity" (American University in Beirut, Beirut, 1998). He was selected as the general coordinator of the international acknowledgement of the president-poet Léopold Sédar Senghor in 1990. He held the position of the Secretary General of the Executive Council of the "Arab-African Cultural Forum" (Rabat) between 1986 and 1988 and the Secretary General of the "African Poetry Award" (Asilah, Morocco) since it was first established in 1989 to 1993. He chaired art juries in various events including the "Fine Arts Festival" in Bahrain (1997, 2000), the 6th Sharjah International Biennial (2003), Oman Fine Arts Festival (2006). He also participated in Liège Biennal (Belgium), Cairo Biennal, Dakar Biennal, and in other cities.
Poetry
Artworks inspired by his poetry
A number of artists and theater directors have chosen Dagher's poems as subjects for their exhibitions or drama performances:
Translation of Poetry
Novels
Literature
Aesthetics
Dagher published several major works which have received high praise from diverse groups of critics in the Arab World. His long list of publications on modern Arabic art and Islamic art includes:
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{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Institution_for_Social_Security_Fund"} | The Public Institution For Social Security (PIFSS; Arabic:المؤسسة العامة للتأمينات الاجتماعية) is the public pension fund of the state of Kuwait, it was founded in 1955 and counts 11 subsidiaries and 45 documented transactions. In 2021, its cash reserves accounted to 4% of its investments down from 11.5% in 2020.
The current worth of the assets of the PIFSS is estimated at $134 billion. It recorded its best ever annual performance year in 2021, recording a 20.9% growth in its assets.
Investments
The pension fund owns 25% of the U.S. private equity firm Stone Point Capital, 25% of Oak Hill Advisors and 10% of TowerBrook Capital Partners. | 3ec2a697-0e0c-4881-b9d2-dda24746ccc2 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_and_Bertram_(1928_film)"} | 1928 film
Robert and Bertram (German: Robert und Bertram) is a 1928 German silent comedy film directed by Rudolf Walther-Fein and starring Harry Liedtke, Fritz Kampers and Elizza La Porta. The film was shot at the Staaken Studios in Berlin with sets designed by the art directors Botho Höfer and Hans Minzloff. It is based on the 1856 Gustav Räder play Robert and Bertram about the adventures of two wandering vagrants.
Cast
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{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauprea_spathulaefolia"} | Species of flowering plants in the family Proteaceae
Beauprea spathulaefolia is a species of flowering plants in the family Proteaceae. It is found in New Caledonia. | 85865726-7712-4b7b-91cb-ef97fee01a2e |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thais_Russomano"} | Thais Russomano (born 25 September 1963) is a Brazilian doctor and scientific researcher specialising in space medicine, space physiology, biomedical engineering, telemedicine and telehealth. She founded the Microgravity Centre (MicroG) at PUCRS university, Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 1999, coordinating it for 18 years until 2017. The MicroG is the first educational and research centre in Space Life Sciences in Latin America. She is a senior lecturer at King's College London, lecturing in Aviation and Space related courses; coordinator of the Space Network (Rede Espaço), University of Lisbon; guest lecturer at Aalto University, Finland in Space and Design; guest lecturer at Pfarrkirchen Institute of Technology, European Campus, contributing to the MSc in Medical Informatics; consultant for the Skolkovo Foundation; member of the Mars One Advisory Board; International Relations Director for the UK-based HuSCO, Human Spaceflight Capitalization Office; and director of two private companies linked to space life sciences and telehealth – InnovaSpace Consultancy (UK) and International Space Medicine Consortium (USA).
Early life
Russomano grew up in the city of Pelotas in southern Brazil and studied medicine at the Federal University of Pelotas, qualifying in 1985. Fours years on an Internal Medicine Residency program followed at Hospital de Clinicas, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Academic career
Russomano pursued a career in Aerospace medicine outside of her home country of Brazil, due to a lack of such courses nationally. In 1991 she completed an MSc in Aerospace Medicine at Wright State University, Ohio, USA. The following year, 1992, Russomano completed a NASA Flight Surgeon training course at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, USA. The years 1994 through till 1998 were spent at King's College London, UK where she became the first person to complete a Ph.D. in respiratory space physiology under the mentorship of Air Vice-Marshall John Ernsting CB OBE FRCP FFOM FRAeS. Subsequent to this, Russomano spent time working at the German Aerospace Centre, Cologne, Germany before returning to Brazil and establishing the Microgravity Centre in 1999. A further period of Post-Doctoral research in Space Life Science was completed at King's College in 2007. Russomano's links remained with King's College London, acting as a visiting professor for a number of years, before being formally employed as a senior lecturer, based in the Centre for Human and Applied Physiological Sciences (CHAPS), School of Basic & Medical Biosciences, Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine, King's College London, contributing to Aviation and Space related Courses. In addition, more recently Russomano has become linked with the University of Lisbon, School of Medicine, where she is a coordinator of the Space Network (Rede Espaço), Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Finland where she conducts workshops in Space & Design; Parrkirchen Institute of Technology, European Campus, contributing to an MSc in Medical Informatics; and the Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre where she is an invited member of a Space Physiology and Extreme Environments research groups. Russomano is an elected academician of the International Academy of Aviation and Space Medicine (IAASM), the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) and the Iberoamerican Aerospace Medical Association (IAMA).
Achievements
The Microgravity Centre, founded by Russomano and coordinated until 2017, has become an internationally recognised research centre in Space Life Sciences and led the way in Latin America. Research and teaching cooperations were formed with many national and international partners including King's College London, UK; Institute of Aerospace Medicine, German Aerospace Centre, Cologne Germany; Greek Aerospace Medical Association, Thessalonik Greece; Medical University of Warsaw, Poland; Kaunas University of Medicine Lithuania; New York University, USA; and the Brazilian Society of Aerospace Medicine.
Selected bibliography
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{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barmeshk"} | Village in Kerman, Iran
Barmeshk (Persian: بارمشك, also Romanized as Bārmeshk) is a village in Nargesan Rural District, Jebalbarez-e Jonubi District, Anbarabad County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 39, in 10 families. | 3ba7d92a-7c92-4ed2-958f-d5a2f77b9745 |
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Phupu Lhamu Khatri (Nepali: फुपु लामु खत्री; born 5 October 1996) is a Nepali female judoka and Olympian. She won a gold medal for Nepal at the 2016 South Asian Games, and went on to bag the Female Player of the Year Award at the NSJF Pulsar Sports Award in the same year.
Khatri has been playing for the senior team since 2012. She claimed a silver medal in Ranking Judo held in Hong Kong in 2015. In the same year, she claimed bronze in the JUA Junior Championship held in Macau. For her gold medal haul in SAG, she eased past her opponents from Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Pakistan by ippon before beating an Indian opponent for gold.
Khatri represented Nepal in the Judo at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's 63 kg category at the 2016 Summer Olympics. She was defeated by Maricet Espinosa of Cuba in the round of 32. In light of her excellent performance in the South Asian Games, she was also chosen to be the flag bearer for Nepal at the 2016 Summer Olympics Parade of Nations.
Early life
Khatri was born in a remote village of Lelep in Taplejung. Her father, Dorje Khatri, was a trekking entrepreneur who died in 2015 Mount Everest avalanches. As a child, she was drawn to judo and had joined the Multi-Purpose Martial Arts Center in Nayabazar, Kathmandu. | 49486e8e-8e38-4677-aadd-9cee5cd33fba |
null | Derk-Jan Dijk (born 1958 in Zwollerkerspel, Netherlands) is a researcher of sleep and circadian rhythms. As of 2005 he is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Surrey and the director of its Sleep Research Centre.
Education and early career
Dijk attended the Meander College in Zwolle. He obtained a BSc and MSc (Cum Laude) in Biology at the University of Groningen. He received his PhD from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Groningen in 1988, under supervision of the biologist Serge Daan, the physicist Domien Beersma and the psychiatrist Rutger van den Hoofdakker. The focus of his research was on testing the predictions of the two-process model of sleep regulation as developed by Alexander Borbely (1982), Serge Daan and Domien Beersma (1984). Dijk then conducted post-doctoral research at the Institute of Pharmacology at the University of Zurich with Alexander Borbely and was a Faculty Member at Harvard Medical School and an associated neuroscientist at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston MA, working closely with Charles Czeisler. Dijk returned to Europe in 1999 to take up a faculty position at the University of Surrey.
University of Surrey
Dijk created the Surrey Sleep Research Centre in 2003 and remains its Director, leading a team that investigates the regulation and function of sleep and biological rhythms at many different levels of organisation, from gene expression to cognition. In 2005 he became a Professor of Sleep and Physiology. He served as Associate Dean (research) for the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences (2013-2015). Dijk was also the Director of Sleep-Wake Research in the University of Surrey's Clinical Research Centre.
Derk-Jan Dijk was from 2009 to 2016 the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Sleep Research, the official journal of the European Sleep Research Society. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Biological Rhythms. In 2021 he was a guest on the BBC Radio 4 programme The Life Scientific to talk about his life and work to a wider audience.
Research
Dijk's research focusses on the regulation and function of sleep and its interaction with the circadian timing system in humans. He examines how sleep, sleep regulation and circadian rhythms change across the lifespan and how sleep and circadian rhythms are affected by environmental factors such as natural and artificial light. Dijk researches how individual differences in preferred timing of sleep is related to the biological clock and genetic variations. Dijk serves as a consultant to the pharmaceutical and lighting industry.
Research findings and highlights
Honours and awards
Dijk is a Fellow of the Society of Biology and the Academy of Medical Sciences Academy of Medical SciencesEurekealert. Dijk's pioneering sleep-wake research was recognised with a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award in April 2013.
Dijk's contribution to sleep research was recognized by the Distinguished Scientist Award from the Sleep Research Society in 2015. This award is the highest award presented by the Sleep Research Society and honors a single individual for research contributions made over an entire career. | 3ad17b60-60fc-4774-9eae-e1e5da16d21e |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailey_Yard"} | World’s largest railway yard (North Platte, Nebraska, USA)
Bailey Yard is the world’s largest railroad classification yard. Employees sort, service and repair locomotives and cars headed all across North America. Owned and operated by the Union Pacific Railroad (UP), Bailey Yard is located in North Platte, Nebraska. The yard is named after former Union Pacific president Edd H. Bailey.
Facilities
Bailey Yard is halfway between Denver and Omaha. It covers a total expanse of 2,850 acres (4.45 sq mi; 11.5 km2) and is over 8 miles (13 km) in length and 2 miles (3.2 km) wide at its widest point; the facility is about 1,000 yards (910 m) wide on average. Bailey Yard has 200 separate tracks totaling 315 miles (507 km) of track, 985 switches, 766 turnouts, and 17 receiving and 16 departure tracks. Union Pacific employs more than 2,600 people in North Platte, most of whom are responsible for the day-to-day operations of Bailey Yard.
An average of 139 trains and over 14,000 railroad cars pass through Bailey Yard every day. The yard sorts approximately 3,000 cars daily using the yard’s two humps. The eastbound hump is a 34 foot (10 m) tall mound, and the westbound hump is 20 feet (6.1 m) high. These are used to sort four cars per minute into one of the 114 "bowl" tracks -- 49 tracks for the westbound trains, and 65 for eastbound. The bowl tracks are used to form trains headed for destinations across North America, including the East, West and Gulf coasts of the United States, and Canadian and Mexican borders.
The yard also includes 3 locomotive fueling and servicing centers called eastbound run thru, westbound run thru, and a service track that handles more than 8,500 locomotives per month, a locomotive repair shop that can repair 750 locomotives monthly, and a car repair facility that can handle nearly 50 cars daily. The car repair shop replaces 10,000 wheel-sets each year. The yard features an in-motion wheel defect detector developed by Union Pacific that uses ultrasound technology to inspect each wheel. It is the only such detector in the world. UP has also developed a method for changing wheels in the field on empty westbound coal trains, which enables four workers to use a hydraulic jack under the couplers between two cars and exchange the trucks. This has reduced the time needed to replace trucks from up to 12 days to 8–12 minutes.
Locomotives can be serviced in a NASCAR-like pit stop facility called a Run-Thru staffed by five different crafts—an electrician, machinist, fireman, oiler, and car inspector. Locomotives are serviced in 45 minutes without detaching them from their trains. The cars go through the car department to get fixed, while the diesel locomotives go to the diesel shop.
Because of the enormous amount of products that pass through Bailey Yard, Union Pacific describes the yard as an “economic barometer of America.”
History
North Platte was first platted as a railroad town by chief engineer Grenville Dodge. He chose the location because of the availability of good water nearby, and its distance from Grand Island, Nebraska. The town, first known as "Hell on Wheels", received its first train in 1866. Dodge then constructed major shop facilities and winter quarters for its crews. In 1867 it began conducting main line operations through the town. The early yard was a flat-switched yard with 20 tracks.
Buffalo Bill located Scouts Rest Ranch at North Platte because it allowed him to move his Wild West Show by train or by wagon across the United States relatively quickly. From 1941 to 1946, the North Platte Canteen served baked goods and refreshments to more than six million service members during a 10-minute stop as they were convoyed across the United States. After 105 years, passenger service was discontinued in 1971.
North Platte became a division point for UP, where trains are sorted, railroad crews are exchanged, and maintenance or repairs are performed on equipment. Bailey Yard was updated after World War II in 1948 as a hump yard with 42 tracks. Another hump yard with 64 tracks was added in 1968, followed by a diesel locomotive shop in 1971, and a railroad car shop in 1974. In 1980, the 1948 hump yard was replaced with a new 50-track yard.
In 1995, as a result of its massive size, the yard was recognized in the Guinness Book of Records as the largest rail yard in the world. It was featured on the "Freight Trains" episode of Modern Marvels on The History Channel. | 7d16c762-625d-44fa-8234-6493d5bbdefb |
null | 1940 film by Roy William Neill
Hoots Mon! is a 1940 British comedy film directed by Roy William Neill and starring Max Miller, Florence Desmond and Hal Walters. It follows an English comedian who attempts his luck on the Scottish stage, and develops a rivalry with a local performer. Miller sings "The Charabanc Song" and his signature tune "Mary from the Dairy".
Production
The film was produced at Teddington Studios by Warner Brothers' British subsidiary. To comply with the 1927 Films Act the company was obliged to distribute a number of British-made films each year, and during the 1930s the company produced a large quantity of films at Teddington. It was the ninth and final film that the music hall star Miller made for Warner Brothers.
The film's sets were by Norman Arnold, the resident art director at Teddington.
Cast | 300eb7d4-349e-4a1c-917a-a5a7f22bf4eb |
null | Tarte Cosmetics is an American cosmetics company headquartered in New York City.
It was founded by Maureen Kelly in 1999; her first product was a cheek stain that was used the following year for the cover of Self magazine. Also in 2000, Tarte Cosmetics debuted its first order at Henri Bendel. In 2003, Tarte products were being stocked by Sephora and in 2005 at QVC. By 2010, the company's products were being sold by Ulta Beauty.
Tarte products are sold in U.S. department stores, including Macy's and Beauty Brands, and in Sephora stores internationally.
History
Tarte Cosmetics was founded by Maureen Kelly. She was pursuing a PhD in psychology at Columbia University when she decided to pursue her interest in cosmetics because she could not find effective makeup she liked; she wanted natural makeup that gave a glamorous look. Kelly started the company with the support of her first husband. Kelly began to research cosmetics and worked out of her apartment until her cheek stain was developed. The cheek stain caught the attention of beauty writers a week after launching in Henri Bendel. Kelly spent much of the first two years delivering sample products to the mail rooms of magazine publishers, hoping they would invite her back. As sales continued, Tarte launched in Sephora in 2003 and two years later on QVC.
In March 2014, a 93.5 percent stake in Tarte Cosmetics was acquired for $135 million by Japanese company Kosé Corporation, which wanted to expand into North America.
In June 2018, Tarte announced the revival of its sister brand, Awake, which produces a line of cruelty-free skincare products.
Ingredients
Maureen Kelly has stated that she wanted makeup that uses natural ingredients, including Amazonian clay, goji berry extract, passionfruit and vitamins A, C, and E.
Tarte Cosmetics does not use parabens, mineral oil, synthetic fragrances or gluten in their products. Parabens are excluded because they are known to disrupt hormones. Mineral oil is also not included because it clogs pores and can be contaminated with toxins.[unreliable source?] Synthetic fragrances are avoided due to the risk of allergic reactions. Gluten is not included because if it is accidentally consumed, it will cause a reaction.
Tarte is a cruelty-free makeup brand. They do not test on animals or sell products where animal testing is legal. Tarte is certified by PETA. Tarte is not 100% vegan, but some of their individual products contain only vegan ingredients.
Philanthropy
Maureen Kelly partnered with Sustainable Amazon Partnership, which encouraged forest stewardship, created new jobs, boosted living conditions, and offered educational opportunities. On 28 August 2017, Tarte announced the company's support of an anti-cyberbullying campaign with the Tyler Clementi Foundation. Tarte asked consumers to take a self-portrait and upload it to Instagram with a hashtag #kissandmakeup. For each self-portrait uploaded, a donation was made to the foundation and one poster received a lifetime supply of Tarte Cosmetics. | a7700adb-58fb-450d-be85-0cf685f02b4a |
null | Defunct blog that covered the Democratic Party of Kentucky
BluegrassReport.org is a defunct Democratic Party-oriented political blog that covered Kentucky politics, especially with regard to former Governor Ernie Fletcher (R), as well as state government in general and federal government officeholders representing the state. The blog, which further covered ongoing intra-party operations, political issues and scandals, was started in June 2005 by Democratic consultant Mark Nickolas, former campaign manager for both Speaker of the Kentucky House Jody Richards and U.S. House Rep. Ben Chandler's 2003 gubernatorial campaign . The blog, edited solely by Nickolas for most of its active period, described itself as "An Unfiltered and Candid Look at Politics, Politicians and the Media in Kentucky".
The chief recipient of the blog's criticism was Governor Fletcher. Fletcher and many of his subordinates were indicted as part of the state's 2005–2006 merit system investigation, and this, in addition to other controversies surrounding the Fletcher administration, had become the focus of a large number of posts. Other major targets were Kentucky Supreme Court Chief Justice Joseph Lambert, Republican Senate President David L. Williams and former Kentucky Democratic Party chairman Jerry Lundergan.
On May 24, 2007, Nickolas announced on the blog that he would be moving with his girlfriend to Montana, her home state, at the end of the month. Nickolas continued blogging up until a week before he closed the blog permanently on July 2. In Montana, Nickolas started a new blog called Rocky Mountain Report.
After an infusion of financial support, BluegrassReport.org was revived on August 6, 2007 to continue running at least through the 2007 Fall statewide campaigns in Kentucky. According to the Internet Archive, the last post on the blog occurred on August 19, 2008 and the website was shut down sometime in 2009.
Controversy and legal issues
In June 2006, the blog became the focus of a controversy involving a state government clampdown on the access of particular genres of websites, including political blogs, where BluegrassReport.org amongst a range of blogs was blocked, while some blogs remained accessible, leaving a widely reported impression that the blocks were selective and perhaps political in nature. On July 10, 2006, Public Citizen filed a lawsuit on behalf of Nickolas challenging the constitutionality of the state government's blocking actions.
On January 17, 2007, Nickolas was indicted on charges of willfully failing to file any state income tax returns for 2003, 2004 or 2005. The Courier-Journal reported that Nickolas told the paper he paid his state income taxes in full for those years in December 2006, after the state Revenue Cabinet informed him that he was under investigation. The Lexington Herald-Leader reported that Nickolas paid those taxes with checks from an account in the name of the nonprofit foundation through which he runs his blog. The case against Nickolas was dropped on May 18, 2007.
Awards
BluegrassReport.org tied with Tennessee Guerilla Women to win the 2005 Koufax Award for "Best State or Local Blog". | 279998e9-2f4c-4e4a-a1fc-5034532b4ebd |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoichi_Nagaya"} | Japanese field hockey player
Kyoichi Nagaya (born 17 November 1948) is a Japanese field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1968 Summer Olympics. | 9c3ee269-4dc9-41a8-9d72-5c356aa5f5e7 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chung_Eui-yong"} | South Korean politician
Chung Eui-yong (Korean: 정의용; Hanja: 鄭義溶; born 14 April 1946) is a South Korean diplomat and a politician served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2021 to 2022. Chung was previously President Moon Jae-in's first Director of National Security from 2017 to 2020.
Career
A 1968 graduate of Seoul National University, Chung joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1971. He subsequently served as Korean Ambassador to Israel (1997–1998), Deputy Minister for Trade (1998–2001), and as Korean Ambassador to the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Korea to the UN Secretariat and International Organizations in Geneva (2001–2004). He was returned to the 17th National Assembly in the 2004 elections as a proportional representative for the Uri Party. In the National Assembly, he was a member of the Special Committee on United States–Korea Free Trade Agreement. He then became Secretary-General of the International Conference of Asian Political Parties. On 20 May 2017, newly-inaugurated president Moon Jae-in appointed him as the ministerial-level Director of the National Security Office. In July 2020, Chung was replaced by Suh Hoon and reshuffled to President Moon's Special Advisor on Foreign Affairs, Diplomacy and National Security. In January 2021, he replaced Kang Kyung-hwa as the new South Korean Foreign Minister.
Political activity
In March 2018, as South Korea's Special Envoy to North Korea, Chung Eui-yong visited Pyongyang to discuss the required steps to denuclearise North Korea. He then flew to the United States for a meeting with President Donald Trump and to announce the Trump-Kim summit.
On November 4, 2019, at a waiting room on the sidelines of the ASEAN Plus 3 (Japan, China, and South Korea) summit held near Bangkok, when Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe talked with South Korean President Moon Jae-in for 11 minute, Chung Eui-yong took photos, and they were published without the approval of the Japanese side.
Chung had been in charge of bilateral intelligence-sharing agreement, the General Security of Military Information Agreement (GSOMIA), with Japan. | b1dce549-e2c8-4948-b199-8ebaf3ba40c5 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Riffey"} | American basketball player (1923–2018)
James R. Riffey (December 14, 1923 – January 30, 2018) was an American professional basketball player. Riffey was selected in the second round (19th overall) of the 1950 NBA Draft by the Fort Wayne Pistons after a collegiate career at Tulane. He played for the Pistons in 35 total games in 1950–51. He died in January 2018 at the age of 94. | 993b9acb-bce0-4beb-9b5b-fbca7406c8f0 |
null | The MIBOR (Mumbai Inter-Bank Offer Rate) is a financial instrument.
The Committee for the Development of the Debt Market that had studied and recommended the modalities for the development for a benchmark rate for the call money market. Accordingly, NSE had developed and launched the NSE Mumbai Inter-bank Bid Rate (MIBID) and NSE Mumbai Inter-bank Offer Rate (MIBOR) for the overnight money market on June 15, 1998. The success of the Overnight NSE MIBID MIBOR encouraged the Exchange to develop a benchmark rate for the term money market. NSE launched the 14-day NSE MIBID MIBOR on November 10, 1998, and the longer term money market benchmark rates for 1 month and 3 months on December 1, 1998. Further, the exchange introduced a 3 Day FIMMDA-NSE MIBID-MIBOR on all Fridays with effect from June 6, 2008, in addition to existing overnight rate.
The MIBID/MIBOR rate is used as a bench mark rate for majority of deals struck for Interest Rate Swaps, Forward Rate Agreements, Floating Rate Debentures and Term Deposits.
Fixed Income Money Market and Derivative Association of India (FIMMDA) has been in the forefront for creation of benchmarks that can be used by the market participants to bring uniformity in the market place. To take the process of development further, FIMMDA and NSEIL have taken the initiative to co-brand the dissemination of reference rates for the Overnight Call and Term Money Market using the current methodology behind NSE – MIBID/MIBOR. The product was rechristened as 'FIMMDA-NSE MIBID/MIBOR'. The 'FIMMDA-NSE MIBID/MIBOR' is now jointly disseminated by FIMMDA as well as NSEIL through their websites and other means and simultaneous dissemination of the information would be as per international practice.
The rate is fixed on the basis of "volume based weighted average of traded rates from 9 to 10 in the morning". | 01eb14fd-f985-4f4c-be84-dea1800b747d |
null | Species of moth
Pseudocomotis chingualana is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Ecuador.
The wingspan is about 21.5 mm. The ground colour of the forewings is white and is preserved in the form of fasciae with pale orange inner dots. The distal third of the wing is suffused and reticulate brown, with some white and orange dots. The hindwings are whitish, in the distal part strigulated (finely streaked) with brownish grey. | a5d4ca1f-2925-4d19-a1d0-fd7a02734099 |
null | Johann Agricola may refer to: | 08307db8-dd33-41c6-9382-c84ae65fefa4 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuglebjerg"} | Town in Region Sjælland, Denmark
Fuglebjerg is a town , with a population of 2,268 (1 January 2022), in Næstved Municipality on Zealand in Region Sjælland in Denmark.
Fuglebjerg was the municipal seat of the former Fuglebjerg Municipality, until 1 January 2007.
Fuglebjerg Church
Fuglebjerg Church consist of a Romanesque nave and a late Gothic weapon house facing north. The tower dates back to 1838.
Fuglebjerg Municipality
Fuglebjerg Municipality was a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Vestsjælland County on the west the island of Zealand (Sjælland) in south Denmark. The municipality covered an area of 141 km2, and had a total population of 6,582 (2005). Its last mayor was Henrik Willadsen, a member of the Venstre (Liberal Party) political party.
On January 1. 2007, Fuglebjerg Municipality ceased to exist as the result of Kommunalreformen ("The Municipality Reform" of 2007). It was merged with existing Fladså, Næstved, Holmegaard, and Suså municipalities to form the new Næstved Municipality. This created a municipality with an area of 681 km2 and a total population of 78,446 (2005).
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{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suszek"} | Settlement in Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
Suszek [ˈsuʂɛk] German: Friedental is a settlement in the administrative district of Gmina Czersk, within Chojnice County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.
For details of the history of the region, see History of Pomerania.
The settlement has a population of 40. | 3f9aa652-0cf1-48df-ae7f-dfd4fe07ec7a |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Kigusiuq"} | Inuit artist
Janet Kigusiuq (b. 1926 Putuqsuqniq camp, near Garry Lake, Nunavut; d. 2005 Baker Lake, Nunavut) was an Inuit artist. Kigusiuq came from a large family of artists: she was the eldest daughter of Jessie Oonark, her siblings included artists Victoria Mamnguqsualuk, Nancy Pukingrnak, Peggy Qablunaaq Aittauq, Mary Yuusipik Singaqti, Josiah Nuilaalik, Miriam Marealik Qiyuk, and William Noah, and she was married to Mark Uqayuittuq, son of Luke Anguhadluq, themselves both artists.
Work
Kigusiuq's bright, bold and graphic work focused on camp life activities like hunting and fishing and supernatural forms inspired by Inuit spirituality and stories. The source of these motifs are principally drawn from childhood experiences at the family camp, Kitikat in the Back River region.
Throughout her career she experimented with many artistic mediums, including drawing, print, textiles, wall hangings. She adopted printmaking following the family's move to Baker Lake and between 1970 and 1988 she contributed to the Baker Lake print collections. Her mature work saw the development of pencil crayon colour fields and collage techniques, the latter prompted by the onset of arthritis.
Selected exhibitions
Collections
Her work can be found in a number of museum and gallery permanent collections such as: | f00b3808-bae8-4d59-bad0-af6d98201a1c |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mananantanana"} | River in Madagascar
The Mananantanana is a river in Haute Matsiatra region, is located in eastern Madagascar. It flows into the Mangoky River.
It has its springs in the Andringitra Massif. Together with the Matsiatra it forms the Mangoky River. | 1106e952-a025-4e50-84dd-d636ecfe6f73 |
null | Trimaran sailboat
The Searunner 31 is a trimaran sailboat designed by Jim Brown in the 1960s. It is the most popular boat in the Searunner series, which includes models from 25 ft (7.6 m)—40 ft (12 m).
Reception
Jim Brown stayed with Piver's narrow-waisted hulls while introducing the centerboard, center cockpit, and cutter rig. Of the 47 multihulls we spoke outside U.S. waters, 13 were Brown designs. While poor payload capacity and hobby-horsing are owner complaints with the 31 and 37, his 40-footer gets high marks. The Searunner's safety record is outstanding. Its divided accommodation provides the best ventilation of any boat in the tropics.
— Randy Thomas, Yachting (1985) | 6f4e7dc0-3db2-4a97-9f88-2b3db99381ea |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Z._Doty"} | American screenwriter
Douglas Zabriskie Doty (October 15, 1874 – February 20, 1935) was an American screenwriter and editor. Doty wrote the screenplays for more than 60 films between 1920 and 1938, the last one being Always Goodbye released in 1938, three years after his death. Doty also worked as an editor for The Century Company.
Together with his co-writers Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast and Donald Ogden Stewart, he was nominated for the 1931 Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Story) for the film Laughter.
He was born in New York, New York and died in Los Angeles, California.
Filmography | 02f55c42-97de-46de-ad1b-b63740a233ea |
null | Khutor in Bashkortostan, Russia
Shulka (Russian: Шулька; Bashkir: Шүлкә, Şülkä) is a rural locality (a khutor) in Itkulovsky 1st Selsoviet, Baymaksky District, Bashkortostan, Russia. The population was 181 as of 2010. There are 3 streets.
Geography
Shulka is located 49 km northwest of Baymak (the district's administrative centre) by road. Nadezhdinsky is the nearest rural locality. | 9792da7d-a400-43fc-bd49-5a2a02834b7d |
null | The 1932–33 New York Americans season was the Americans' eighth season of play. The Americans again did not qualify for the playoffs. This was the fourth-straight season that they missed the playoffs and the seventh time out of eight seasons.
Offseason
Regular season
Final standings
Note: W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, GF = Goals For, GA = Goals Against, Pts = Points
Teams that qualified for the playoffs are highlighted in bold.
Record vs. opponents
Game log
Playoffs
They didn't qualify for the playoffs
Player stats
Regular season
Scoring
Goaltending
Awards and records
Transactions | b84d1018-430f-4081-932f-20780030f51d |
null | Daphne Elizabeth Trimble, Baroness Trimble (née Orr; born July 1953), is a Northern Ireland academic and former politician. Having served as a member of the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland, she was appointed as a part-time Commissioner in the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC) in 2008, and publicly opposed its proposals for a Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland.
She resigned from the NIHRC to contest the May 2010 UK general election, unsuccessfully, for the Ulster Conservatives and Unionists in the Lagan Valley constituency.
After graduating in Law from Queen's University Belfast, she married her former lecturer David Trimble in August 1978, acquiring the title of Lady on his elevation in June 2006 to the House of Lords. They have two sons and two daughters (Richard, Victoria, Nicholas, and Sarah).
Daphne has also worked in schools across the Armagh area, such as Portadown College.
In August 2022, she endorsed Liz Truss for the leadership of the Conservative Party in that summer's leadership election. | 5e809cd0-a81d-4fb7-a9c5-a9286c895960 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Monza_Superbike_World_Championship_round"} | The 2007 Monza Superbike World Championship round was the sixth round of the 2007 Superbike World Championship season. It took place on the weekend of May 11–13, 2007, at the 5.793 km (3.600 mi) Monza circuit in Italy.
Superbike race 1 classification
Superbike race 2 classification
Supersport classification | d0baef1c-7175-4970-8093-1afe4a3a82a1 |
null | Pierre-François Olivier de Vézin (also Vésin and Vézain) (28 April 1707 – 20 April 1776) was a Canadian ironmaster and chief surveyor of Louisiana sent by King Louis XIV. He served in the Cabildo as chief councilor and died in New Orleans 20 April 1776. He married Marie-Joseph Duplessis, daughter of Jean-Baptiste Gastineau Duplessis. His children, grandchildren, many generations were established, well known in New Orleans. Some include Gerard de Marigny de Mandaville, P.G.T. Beauragaurd, C.C. Claiborne, Francois -Marie Chevalier di Reggio, and many more. Pierre-François' daughter Victore-Francios, became mother superior at Ursulines Convent and led prayers in the streets in the Battle of New Orleans. She is responsible for the veneration of Our Lady of Prompt Succor mass at Thanksgiving that is still celebrated on 8 January annually.
Early years
Olivier de Vézin was born in Aingoulaincourt, Haute-Marne, France to Hugues Olivier and Louise Le Roux. He became an ironmaster, first working in Sionne, France. He was later hired to investigate the Forges du Saint-Maurice in New France, which had been abandoned since 1733. Vézin left France on the Héros and arrived in Quebec on 3 September 1735. After a month of investigation, Olivier de Vézin sent his report to French Minister of the Marine, Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux. He appended a cost estimate for reusing the ironworks and began overseeing the development himself.
Career
Olivier de Vézin and two former partners in the mill agreed to collaborate, receiving royal approval in 1736. The company was formed on 16 October 1736 with a total of five partners, who formally signed the paperwork establishing the Society and Company for the Exploitation of Iron Mines on 11 February 1737. Despite having friendly relations with colonial officials, the projects did not progress smoothly and went over budget. The Intendant, Gilles Hocquart, questioned Olivier de Vézin's competence, a doubt which was justified as de Vézin had masked an error regarding the stream used in the ironworks. The ironworks' furnace was first lit in August 1738, and that month de Vézin became the company's director. The following year he retrieved more labourers from France, as well as his brother Sieur Darmeville. This was followed by violent disputes between de Vézin and his partners; the partners blamed Olivier de Vézin for the ironworks' lack of profit and ill-willed workers. With bankruptcy fast approaching Olivier de Vézin resigned on 13 October 1740 and immediately returned to France. In a letter to the king dated 13 March 1742, de Vézin offered to return to the Saint-Maurice ironworks. The king instead commissioned Olivier de Vézin as chief road officer in Louisiana. This position dissatisfied Olivier de Vézin, but he went to Louisiana, where he unsuccessfully attempted to exploit iron mine. He may have died in France. | 79d70fda-fc2b-48f3-8e16-053b8bac8ffc |
null | Residential condominium skyscraper in Makati, Philippines
The Residences at Greenbelt – Laguna Tower is a residential condominium skyscraper in Makati, Philippines. It is the first of three buildings being constructed as part of The Residences at Greenbelt (TRAG) complex, and is the basis of the now being constructed The Residences at Greenbelt - Manila Tower. It is expected to be one of the tallest skyscraper in the Philippines with a height of 170.75 metres from the ground to its architectural top.
The building has 48 floors above ground, which includes a 4-level podium with commercial establishments, and 3 basement levels for parking. It is considered to be one of the most prestigious residential building in the Philippines.
Location
The Residences at Greenbelt complex is located along Arnaiz Avenue (formerly known as Pasay Road), and the entire complex block is bounded by Paseo de Roxas, Greenbelt Drive and Esperanza Street. The complex was formerly the site of the old Coronado Lanes bowling center and parking lot. Being inside the Makati Central Business District, it is strategically located near malls, hotels, offices, schools, and entertainment areas. As with its name, it is part of the Greenbelt Complex which includes the Greenbelt Mall. Just right across Greenbelt Drive is the Renaissance Makati City Hotel.
The Project Team
The Residences at Greenbelt – Laguna Tower was designed by Architecture International, in cooperation with local architectural firm GF & Partners Architects. Structural design for the building was provided by Aromin & Sy + Associates, and reviewed by international engineering firm Skilling Ward Magnusson Barkshire.
The buildings mechanical engineering works was designed by R.J. Calpo & Partners; electrical engineering works design was provided by R.A. Mojica & Partners. Sanitary / plumbing engineering design and fire protection design was provided by NBF Consulting Engineers and NBF Firetech Fire Protection Systems, respectively.
Other members of the design team are Shen Milson & Wike Paoletti {Acoustics Consultant); Windtech Consultants {Wind Tunnel Consultants]; Glover / Resnick & Associates (Security Consultant); Roy Barry & Associates (Elevator Design Consultant); International Parking Design (Parking Design Consultant); ACL Asia {now E.A. Aurelio + ADI Ltd. Inc. - Landscape design); ALT Cladding & Design Philippines (Exterior Cladding); Periquet Galicia Inc. (Space Planning Consultant); and Master Joseph Chau Kam Shing (Feng Shui Consultant).
The construction team is composed of Design Coordinates Inc. (Project / Construction Management); Rider Hunt Liacor Inc. (Quantity Surveying); and EEI Corporation (General Contractor).
Property management is provided by Ayala Property Management Corporation.
During the construction phase, it is also known as the TRAG-1 Project. | add10df8-72d7-4224-aa6f-5e3b87d3003e |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choir_of_Trinity_College,_Cambridge"} | The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge is a mixed choir whose primary function is to sing choral services in the Tudor chapel of Trinity College, Cambridge. In January 2011, Gramophone named the choir the fifth best choir in the world.
The choir has taken various forms since its foundation, and has existed in its present form since 1982 when, shortly after the admission of women to the college, female voices were used for the first time for the choir's top lines. Three regular services are sung per week in full University Term, and the choir sings Latin grace from the minstrels' gallery in the college's Great Hall at a number of feasts.
In addition, the choir undertakes projects outside term-time such as recordings, concerts, radio broadcasts and tours.
The choir is typically made up of 36 members, many of whom are students in Trinity College.
Directors of Music
The director of music is Stephen Layton, who succeeded Richard Marlow in September 2006.
History of the Choir
Trinity College's choral associations date back to the establishment of King's Hall by Edward II in 1317 (Chaucer's "Solar Hall" in The Canterbury Tales). This college, incorporated by Edward III in 1337, was amalgamated with an adjacent early 14th century foundation, Michaelhouse, when Henry VIII created Trinity in 1546. From the time of Edward II, Chapel Royal choristers, on leaving the Court, customarily entered King's Hall to continue their academic studies, alongside other undergraduates training for service in the royal administration.
The constitution of the medieval chapel choir remains obscure, but the choral foundation which Mary Tudor established in 1553 (ten choristers, six lay clerks, four priests, an organist, and a schoolmaster) survived essentially unchanged for over 300 years. Among the musicians associated with the choir during this time were the Tudor composers Thomas Preston, Robert White and John Hilton the elder; Robert Ramsey was organist just before the English Commonwealth;[citation needed] the lutenist and writer Thomas Mace was a lay clerk for around 70 years from 1635; and Thomas Attwood Walmisley was organist in the early 19th century.
At the turn of the 20th century, shortly after Ralph Vaughan Williams had graduated from Trinity and Alan Gray had succeeded Charles Villiers Stanford as Organist, the college choir school was closed down. Thereafter, a choir of boy trebles (holding scholarships at a local grammar school), lay clerks (some of whom shared their duties with the choirs of King's and St John's Colleges) and students continued the regular pattern of choral services until the 1950s. This traditionally-constituted body then gave way to a choir of undergraduate tenors and basses during Raymond Leppard's tenure as Director of Music, to be replaced with a mixed choir by Richard Marlow in 1982.
Tours and Concerts
The choir has toured to destinations such as Australia, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, the United States, Canada, the Canary Islands, India, South Africa, Namibia and Zimbabwe, Peru, and Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Particularly notable events include singing mass at the installation of Abbot Martin Werlen, O.S.B. as Abbot of Einsiedeln, Switzerland, and becoming the first western choir to tour India.
The choir also performs concerts in the UK, at home in Cambridge and in London (South Bank Centre, St John's Smith Square, Spitalfields Festival), and around the country. ‘Livings tours’ allow the choir to visit parishes around the country of which the college is patron and sing services and concerts; these include villages in the Isle of Wight, North Yorkshire, County Durham, Norfolk and the Lake District.
May Week
On the final Sunday of the academic year the Choir performs two outdoor concerts. At midday the choir sings antiphonally from two of the towers in the college's Great Court, with a brass ensemble performing from the third. In the evening the choir inaugurates May Week with the traditional River Concert, in which the madrigals and part-songs are performed upon punts moored at Trinity Backs. The evening's entertainment concludes, as dusk gives way to darkness, with Wilbye's madrigal Draw on, sweet night performed as the choir is punted down the river and out of sight.
Recordings
Under Richard Marlow
Under Stephen Layton
Directors of Music of the College
Organ Scholars
TCCA
In 2004 the Trinity College Choir Association ("TCCA") was formed by a group of choir alumni. It provides a framework for all current and past members of the choir, organists and clergy to keep in touch, meet up and make new acquaintances, and to keep abreast of the current activities of the choir. It also comprises a body of people to help and support the interests and the future of the choir.
Awards and nominations | 4ee4a115-3beb-45c4-b33e-6d3c5bdc5eee |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_Bridge,_New_York"} | Census-designated place in New York, United States
Natural Bridge is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in Jefferson County, New York, United States. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 365.
It is located in the northeastern corner of the town of Wilna and is east of Watertown. The name "Natural Bridge" was derived from a natural rock formation along the Indian River. Natural Bridge Station is a location along a railroad line southeast of the community in Lewis County.
History
In 1812, a hunter, Aleaser Carr, crossed the Indian River on what he assumed to be a log while hunting. Much to his amazement while hunting a short time later, he again came to the river on the same side as before he crossed. After an examination by himself and a party of hunters, it appeared that he had unknowingly recrossed the river on what turned out to be a limestone arch. Consequently, this is how Natural Bridge received its name.
Settlement began in the area in 1818. The former king of Spain, Joseph Bonaparte, known in America as the Count de Survilliers, owned land consisting of a one-mile square. After coming to look at his land in 1828, he was impressed by the limestone arch and with being so close to his lake, "Lake Bonaparte" (8 miles (13 km) to the northeast), he decided to build a second summer residence in Natural Bridge in 1829. He resided here with his "Madame" until 1835. The house was destroyed in September 1905 in a fire that also consumed two hotels and their barns, the country store, and another dwelling house.
An old story which still proves to be a mystery today is of the Joseph Bonaparte residence. The cellar of the residence was supposedly connected by secret passage to the caverns so that if he ever needed to escape, he had this passage.
Geography
Natural Bridge is located along the eastern edge of Jefferson County at 44°4′7″N 75°29′41″W / 44.06861°N 75.49472°W / 44.06861; -75.49472 (44.068527, -75.494749), in the eastern part of the town of Wilna. It is bordered to the east by the town of Diana in Lewis County.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 1.4 square miles (3.6 km2), all land. The Indian River flows northward through the community to the east of the downtown area.
Natural Bridge is located on New York State Route 3 southeast of Fort Drum, at the western edge of the Adirondacks. Watertown, the Jefferson county seat, is 23 miles (37 km) to the southwest via Routes 3 and 3A, while Harrisville is 11 miles (18 km) to the northeast.
Demographics
As of the census of 2010, there were 365 people, 139 households, and 100 families residing in Natural Bridge. The racial makeup of the population was 94.8% White, 1.1% African American, 2.2% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.3% Asian, and 1.1% from two or more races. 2.2% were Hispanic or Latino, 1.4% Mexican and 0.8% Puerto Rican.
There were 139 households, out of which 30.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 48.9% were Husband and Wife, 15.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 28.1% were Nonfamily. 23.0% of all households were made up of individuals, and 8.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.63 and the average family size was 3.05.
In the village the population was spread out, with 29.6% under the age of 18, 6.4% from 18 to 24, 30.9% from 25 to 44, 23.2% from 45 to 64, and 9.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 34 years. For every 100 females, there were 104.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 93.0 males.
The median income for a household in the community was $26,838, and the median income for a family was $25,662. Males had a median income of $18,571 versus $15,536 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $10,349. About 20.4% of families and 26.4% of the population were below the poverty line, including 43.8% of those under age 18 and none of those age 65 or over. | c9f82898-b8f8-4790-8415-c1e2419ef726 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lufthansa_Flight_2904"} | 1993 passenger plane crash in Warsaw, Poland
Lufthansa Flight 2904 was an Airbus A320-200 flying from Frankfurt, Germany to Warsaw, Poland that overran the runway at Okęcie International Airport on 14 September 1993.
Incident description
Lufthansa Flight 2904 was cleared to land at Okęcie International Airport Runway 11 and was informed of the existence of wind shear on the approach. To compensate for the crosswind, the pilots attempted to touch down with the aircraft banked slightly to the right and with a speed about 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) faster than usual. According to the manual, this was the correct procedure for the reported weather conditions, but the weather report was not up to date. At the moment of touchdown, the assumed crosswind turned out to be a tailwind of approximately 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph). With the resulting increased speed, the airplane hit the ground at approximately 170 knots (310 km/h; 200 mph) and far beyond the normal touchdown point; its right gear touched down 770 metres (2,530 ft) from the runway threshold. The left gear touched down nine seconds later, 1,525 metres (5,003 ft) from the threshold. Only when the left gear touched the runway did the ground spoilers and engine thrust reversers start to deploy, these systems depending on oleo strut (shock absorber) compression. The wheel brakes, triggered by wheel rotation being equal to or greater than 72 knots (133 km/h; 83 mph), began to operate about four seconds later.
The remaining length of the runway (left from the moment when braking systems had begun to work) was too short to enable the aircraft to stop. Seeing the approaching end of the runway and the obstacle behind it, the pilot steered the aircraft off the runway to the right. The aircraft departed the runway at a speed of 72 knots (133 km/h; 83 mph) and rolled 90 metres (300 ft) before it hit the embankment and an LLZ aerial with the left wing. A fire started in the left wing area and penetrated into the passenger cabin. Two of 70 occupants died, including the training captain (seated in the right seat) who died on impact and one passenger who was unable to escape because he lost consciousness from the smoke in the cabin.
Causes of the accident
The main cause of the accident was the incorrect decisions and actions of the flight crew. Some of these decisions were made based on wind shear information that was received by the crew. The wind shear was produced by the front passing over the airport, accompanied by intensive variation of wind parameters, as well as by heavy rain on the runway itself.
Contributing to the cause was the lack of current wind information at the tower. For that reason, no up-to-date wind information could be transmitted to the crew.
Further additional causes involved certain design features of the aircraft. Computer logic prevented the activation of both ground spoilers and thrust reversers until a minimum compression load of at least 6.3 tons was sensed on each main landing gear strut, thus preventing the crew from achieving any braking action by the two systems before this condition was met.
Aircraft systems
To ensure that the thrust-reverse system and the spoilers are only activated in a landing situation, the software has to be sure the aeroplane is on the ground even if the systems are selected mid-air. The spoilers are only activated if there is at least 6.3 tons on each main landing gear strut or if the wheels of the plane are turning faster than 72 knots (133 km/h; 83 mph).
The thrust reversers are only activated if the first condition is true. There is no way for the pilots to override the software decision and activate either system manually.
In the case of the Warsaw accident, neither of the first two conditions was fulfilled, so the most effective braking system was not activated. Because the plane landed inclined (to counteract the anticipated crosswind), the required pressure of 12 combined tons on both landing gears necessary to trigger the sensor was not reached. The plane's wheels did not reach the minimum rotation speed because of a hydroplaning effect on the wet runway.
Only when the left landing gear touched the runway did the automatic aircraft systems allow the ground spoilers and engine thrust reversers to operate. Because of the braking distances in the heavy rain, the aircraft could not stop before the end of the runway. The computer did not actually recognize that the aircraft had landed until it was already 125 meters beyond the halfway point of Runway 11.
Passengers and crew
As a result of the impact, a fire broke out and penetrated into the cabin, killing one of the passengers. The co-pilot also died as a result of the collision. A total of 51 people were seriously injured (including two crew members), and five were slightly injured. | 49c4a7fe-c606-4e10-b3b5-44128123f5d1 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisherman%27s_Restaurant_and_Bar"} | Seafood restaurant in Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Fisherman's Restaurant and Bar is a seafood restaurant in Seattle, in the U.S. state of Washington.
Description
Fisherman's is a seafood restaurant housed in Miner's Landing at Pier 57 in Seattle's Central Waterfront. The menu has included chowders and Alaskan halibut. In 2014, Dominic Holden of The Stranger wrote: "At the end of this pier is the Fisherman's Restaurant & Bar, which contains two massive brick patios (more than 80 tables between two levels) that jut out into Elliott Bay next to the Great Wheel. Bedecked with umbrellas, the seating is shady and the views are unbeatable: ferries, mountains, water, the whole Seattle thing. And it's inexpensive, and it's got lots of beer on tap, a full bar, and a happy hour, and—most of all—it feels nothing like the rest of Miner's Landing."
History
The restaurant was owned by Great Western Pacific, Inc. as of 2009–2020. In 2018, the restaurant hosted a beer garden at KEXP-FM's Rocks the Dock event. Nick Novello served as chef as of 2019–2020. For Thanksgiving in 2019, the restaurant served a five-course prix fixe "with a seafood twist".
In 2021, the restaurant began serving four-course dinners at the neighboring Great Wheel. The special menu has included prawn cocktail, Caesar salad, grilled salmon, pilaf, vegetables, and chocolate pot de creme. | c864f284-60ed-4dc6-b58d-88c998a1eba6 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskan,_Markazi"} | Village in Markazi, Iran
Eskan (Persian: اسكان, also Romanized as Eskān) is a village in Pol-e Doab Rural District, Zalian District, Shazand County, Markazi Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 469, in 149 families. | bbd4f5c0-c780-4e94-815e-dbba6069737c |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohd_Zaman_Khan"} | Malaysian police officer (1941–2021)
Tan Sri Mohd Zaman Khan bin Rahim Khan (21 December 1941 – 11 September 2021) was a former Malaysian police officer.
He was well-known for handling many high-profile cases in the 1990s, such as the Mona Fandey murder case, bringing down local gangster P. Kalimuthu (Bentong Kali), and helping to coordinate rescue efforts during the Highland Towers apartment collapse.
Early life and education
Mohd Zaman Khan was born on 21 December 1941 at Pasir Mas, Kelantan. He was educated at Victoria Institution in 1959.
Police career
Mohd Zaman Khan joined the Royal Federation of Malaya Police as a Cadet Assistant Superintendent of Police on 1 June 1962.
He had served as District Police Chief in different places such as Batu Gajah, Grik, Klang and Georgetown (1964–1972). He was attended a Special Course on Policing in America in 1969. Later, he was promoted to Head of Traffic Department in Kuala Lumpur (1972–1974), District Police Chief in Petaling Jaya (1974), Head of Selangor Criminal Investigation Department (1975–1977), Negeri Sembilan Police Chief (1977–1979), Penang Police Chief (1979–1984) and was later promoted as Kuala Lumpur Police Chief (1984–July 1987) and his deputy at that time was SAC (Rtd.) Dato' Ahmad Tajuddin Shahabudin.
Subsequently, he was promoted to Director of Internal Security and Public Order Department at the Bukit Aman Police Headquarters (August 1987–1989) and was later transferred as the Director of Criminal Investigation Department at the Bukit Aman Police Headquarters from 20 November 1989 to 1994. He also conducted operations on the arrest of Bentong Kali or also known as P. Kalimutu, and his last position before his retirement was Director-General of the Prisons Department (1994–1997).
He was also involved in the rescue operation of the victims of the Highland Towers Tragedy.
Death
Mohd Zaman Khan died at the National Heart Institute, Kuala Lumpur on 11 September 2021 and was buried at the Bukit Kiara Muslim Cemetery.
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null | Church
St Paul's Church is a church dedicated to Paul the Apostle on Camden Square in Camden, north London. It is called St Paul's because the estate was owned originally by the canons of St Paul's Cathedral.
It was built in 1849 to designs by Frederick W. Ordish and John Johnson. The builder, John Kelk (later knighted) built the Albert Memorial.
The church was severely damaged in the Second World War and replaced with a single-storey church hall building which, though meant to be temporary, still houses the church's congregation at one end. Plans for a replacement were put forward in July 2008, incorporating the hall as well as new social housing and worship area. It and its parish are part of the St Pancras team of parishes, which also includes St Pancras Old Church, St Michael's Church, Camden Town, and St Mary's Church, Somers Town. | 93a221c0-ae44-4074-9c40-6a0b6d9a0aef |
null | American politician
Michael A. Gin (甄榮峰) was mayor of Redondo Beach, California and was a Republican candidate in the special election to fill the seat in California's 36th congressional district left vacant by the resignation of Jane Harman.
Early life
Gin was born in the South Bay region of Los Angeles, California to Chinese American parents.
Gin earned a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from the University of Southern California in 1984. In 2007, Gin completed Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government program for Senior Executives in State and Local Government as a David Bohnett LGBTQ Victory Institute] Leadership Fellow.
Career
Gin served on the Redondo Beach City Council from 1995 to 2003. In May 2005, he was elected mayor of Redondo Beach after receiving 61% of the vote in a runoff election against councilman and fellow Republican Gerard Bisignano. Gin faced no opposition during his mayoral re-election bid in March 2009.
On March 1, 2011, Gin announced that he would be a candidate in the special election to fill the seat in California's 36th congressional district left vacant by the resignation of Jane Harman. He finished fifth in the May 17, 2011 primary election.
Personal
Gin and his husband, Christopher Kreidel, married in California in 2008. | 0b569dd2-6ecb-49af-8f4e-e764b4e7203f |
null | Cambodian footballer
Wut Tola (born 6 October 2002) is a Cambodian footballer who plays as a forward for Cambodian League club Prey Veng and the Cambodia national team.
Career statistics
International
As of match played 4 June 2021 | e0ef9557-f814-420e-8846-217948254aad |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephemerella_maculata"} | Species of mayfly
Ephemerella maculata is a species of spiny crawler mayfly in the family Ephemerellidae. It is found in North America. | 6f86f5f0-52bd-463e-acfc-78d897c742aa |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bray_Cove_Halt_railway_station"} | Bray Cove Halt railway station served a cove to the south of the town of Bray in County Wicklow, Ireland. The station was also known as Naylor's Cove Halt.
The station opened on 3 September 1906, and closed finally in August 1929. The station was only open for two short periods, the first of 2 years, the second of only 2 months.
Routes | ece73a0e-353c-4584-9e84-e8d1f42e1e1d |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxyptilus_pilosellae"} | Species of plume moth
Oxyptilus pilosellae (hieracium plume moth) is a moth of the family Pterophoridae first described by Philipp Christoph Zeller in 1841. It is found in most of Europe, east to Russia and Asia Minor. It was released as a biological control agent for Hieracium in New Zealand in 1998.
Description
The wingspan is 15–24 mm. Adults are on wing from May to August in western Europe.
Young larvae feed within the roots of hawkweeds (Hieracium species), including mouse-ear hawkweed (Hieracium pilosella). Later instars feed on the flowerheads, beneath a silken web. | 4c90e7fd-829b-4810-bbcd-117c8a5186cf |
null | Tanner Sisters may refer to: | 00fa535f-593c-474a-8607-6820547259cf |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua%27s_Vision_of_St_Michael"} | 13th-century Russian icon
Joshua's Vision of St Michael or The Apparition of the Archangel Michael to Joshua is a 13th-century Russian icon. It is exhibited in Dormition Cathedral, Moscow. It shows an episode in Joshua 5.13-15 where "a man ... with a drawn sword in his hand" appeared to Joshua - that man was later interpreted as Michael the Archangel.
History
The icon seems to have originated in the church dedicated to St Michael on the site of the present-day Cathedral of the Archangel in Moscow. The earlier church was built by Mikhail Khorobrit, prince of Moscow. According to Igor Grabar, "if [the author of the icon] was not Byzantine, he was Souzdalien", although there is no precise attribution.
It and the Saviour with Gold Earrings were moved to the Cathedral of the Dormition in Moscow under Vasili III and Metropolitan Varlaam. It was discovered in the 1920s by the researchers of the Russian Restoration Commission. In 1927 it appeared in the "Third Restoration Exhibition", organised by Igor Grabar Centre for Scientific and Artistic Restoration in Russia, followed by "Russian Art of the Scythians to the Present-Day" in Paris in 1966–1967. | f7ac3074-b60c-4f91-a3be-00a2e5877d49 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Wettenhall"} | Australian politician
Stephen Peter Arthur Wettenhall (born 15 February 1963) was the Labor Member of the Parliament of Queensland for Barron River. He was first elected in the 2006 Queensland state election, and was defeated in the 2012 state election.
Politics
Born in Melbourne, he obtained his Bachelor of Arts and Laws at Monash University where he was politically active on campus and was elected by the student body as Chair of the Monash Association of Students. He established his own legal firm in Cairns in 1993. For the next 13 years he specialised in criminal defence advocacy. His firm expanded and accepted instructions in a wide variety of matters including criminal injuries compensation and discrimination and employment cases. He also continued to represent indigenous clients in Cape York and was retained periodically by Aboriginal legal services in the Torres Strait, Gulf of Carpentaria, Mount Isa and Cairns to represent their clients. He takes a very strong and active interest in environment and conservation issues and has served two terms as President of the Cairns and Far North Environment Centre. He is also a founding and honorary life member of the Cairns Community Legal Centre. After the 2009 state election, Wettenhall was appointed Parliamentary Secretary for Tourism and in February 2011, he was appointed Parliamentary Secretary assisting the Premier for Economic Development in the Far North
State committee service
Wettenhall was a member of the panel of temporary Speakers, the Legal, Constitutional and Administrative Review Committee, the Parliamentary Crime and Misconduct Committee and the Investigation into Altruistic Surrogacy Select Committee. He also sat on various Parliamentary Caucus Committees.
He was also a member of the Regional Queensland Council reporting to the Minister for Communities. In this role he was an ex officio member of the FNQ Regional Disability Council, a ministerial advisory body. He also chaired the FNQ Ministerial Regional Community Forums.
Current
Wettenhall has returned to legal practice in Cairns under his own name and is also a nationally accredited and Queensland Law Society approved mediator trading as Cairns Mediation. | a25a87a8-64eb-489c-8465-2e182954d44e |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Day_(Hayley_Warner_song)"} | 2009 single by Hayley Warner
Good Day is the debut single by Australian singer, Hayley Warner who was the runner-up in the 2009 season of Australian Idol. The song was written by Andy Stochansky, Greg Critchley and Damhnait Doyle and was available for digital download on 22 November 2009. The single was later released to radios and on physical CD on 11 December 2009 after signing a record contract with Sony Music.
The single debuted at #11 on the ARIA Singles Chart on 20 December 2009.
Chart performance
Track listing
Release history | d3d3b91b-a401-4f02-a137-1aa336c32a68 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%27s_Dyke,_Sussex"} | English valley
Devil's Dyke is a 100 metre deep V-shaped dry valley on the South Downs in Sussex in southern England, 5 miles (8.0 km) north-west of Brighton. It is managed by the National Trust, and is also part of the Beeding Hill to Newtimber Hill Site of Special Scientific Interest. Devil's Dyke was a major local tourist attraction in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It is now a popular viewpoint and site for walking, model aircraft flying and hang gliding. The South Downs Way passes the site.
Geological history
The Dyke is formed in rocks of the Chalk Group which originated as marine sediments during the Cretaceous period.
It is a misconception common amongst local residents of Brighton that the valley was formed by some kind of glacial action, the myth of a 'glacier' being a misunderstanding of accounts such as this one from the Encyclopaedia of Brighton by Timothy Carder (1990):
"In reality the 300-foot-deep valley was carved by tremendous amounts of water running off the Downs during the last Ice Age when large amounts of snow thawed and the frozen chalk prevented any further absorption; erosion was aided by the freeze-thaw cycle and the valley was deepened by the 'sludging' of the saturated chalk.".
The Devil's Dyke V-shaped dry valley is the result of solifluction and river erosion. More than fourteen thousand years ago, the area experienced an intensely cold climate (but not glacial conditions). Snowfields capped the South Downs. Permafrost conditions meant that the chalk was permanently frozen. In summer, the snowfields melted and saturated the top layer of soil, because the water could not permeate the frozen chalk underneath. Waterlogged material situated above the permafrost slid down the gradient, removing material by friction, exposing deeper layers of frozen chalk. When the Ice Age ended, the snowfields covering the South Downs melted, and rivers formed across Sussex. The Devil's Dyke valley was completed by one such river.
Geography
The hills surrounding the valley rise to 217 metres and offer views of the South Downs, The Weald, and – on a clear day – the Isle of Wight. It is the site of ramparts, all that remain of an Iron Age hillfort, and a pub. It is a popular local beauty spot for the Brighton and Hove area, being an easy journey of just a few miles.
History
Ancient history
Before and after the Iron Age, Devil's Dyke was used as a defensive site. This was probably because of its commanding view of the surrounding terrain, and also its steep edges surrounded by large expanses of flat land.
In the Iron Age, Devil's Dyke was an important site. All the vegetation was scraped off the white chalk, leaving Devil's Dyke as an impressive monument to both attract and intimidate the populace.
Victorian times
In late Victorian times Devil's Dyke became a tourist attraction, complete with a fairground, two bandstands, an observatory and a camera obscura, all served by a branchline from Hove. During its heyday, Devil's Dyke was a huge attraction for the Victorians, with 30,000 people visiting on Whit Monday in 1893.
Traces remain of all three ventures, including the remains of concrete pylon supports for the cable car system.
Current use
Devil's Dyke has also become a popular site for hang gliding and (more recently) paragliding.
Folklore
Local folklore explains the dyke as the work of the Devil. The most popular form of the story begins with the conversion of the Kingdom of Sussex to Christianity. Sussex was the last of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms to embrace the new faith, and its conversion infuriated the Devil as he thereby lost his last stronghold in England. He therefore resolved to exterminate its inhabitants by digging a trench through the South Downs so that the sea would flood through and drown the people of the Sussex Weald. The hermit Cuthman of Steyning found out about the Devil's intentions and came up with a plan to stop him. He proposed a wager - if the Devil could complete the trench in a single night he could have Cuthman's soul, but if he failed then he would have to abandon the project and leave the people of Sussex alone for good. The Devil accepted the wager and began work that night, working his way southward from Poynings toward the sea. The mounds of earth thrown up by his digging formed the nearby hills of Chanctonbury Ring, Cissbury Ring, Mount Caburn and Firle Beacon, and the Isle of Wight in the English Channel. At first Cuthman bided his time, but shortly after midnight he displayed a lit candle in his window while also startling a cock so that it would start crowing in alarm. The light and the sound of the cock crowing convinced the Devil that dawn was about to break, and thus that he had lost his wager with Cuthman. He therefore ran away in disgrace, leaving behind the unfinished trench henceforth known as Devil's Dyke.
At the bottom of the Dyke are two humps, known as 'the Devil's Graves', under which the Devil and his wife are supposedly buried. Legend has it that if a person runs backwards seven times around these humps whilst holding their breath, the Devil will appear. | fcaff1b9-93b3-4e14-86dc-3e05c8e3f7db |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Stritmatter"} | Reverend Andrew Stritmatter (33 October 1847 - 22 November 1880) was a missionary with the Methodist Episcopal Church in China from 1867-1880. He served The North China Mission. His spouse, Dr. Lucinda L. Combs Stritmatter, was the first physician assigned to China by the Women's Foreign Ministry Society. They married in 1877. Reverend Stritmatter had two sons both of whom were born abroad in China. He died in Denver, Colorado after traveling home to Ohio following an infection of tuberculosis. His grave is located in Denver, Colorado.
Early life
Andrew Stritmatter was born to Methodist parents Thomas and Margaret Stritmatter in Pennsylvania on October 31, 1847. When he was a young boy, his parents relocated their family to Ohio. He enrolled at Ohio State University. At Ohio State, the Reverend Mr. Brown, a missionary of many years in India came to speak and upon hearing his lecture, Stritmatter was convinced of his calling to missionary work.
Missionary life
Appointment
In 1872, he met with Bishop I.W Wiley whom he asked for approval to serve as a missionary in China. The mission appointed him to Kiukiang, China thereafter. He embarked on his journey on June 5, 1873 from San Francisco accompanied by other missionaries. On the journey he met Lucinda Combs, who had been appointed by the Women's Foreign Missionary Society (Philadelphia) to Peking, China and who would later become his wife. Once he arrived, he quickly began learning the language, and began his evangelical duties. He preached regularly and distributed scriptures in the surrounding areas. Towards the end of his commission, he focused heavily on translating and preparing books for his mission.
Relationships
Stritmatter met and started a relationship with his future wife while traveling on a missionary ship. Due to her commission as a missionary, however, they were not able to continue their relationship and were separated upon arrival in China. After Lucinda's contract with the Women's Foreign Missionary Society came to a close, the couple, who had stayed in contact after their separation, married on November 19, 1877 in Shaughai. Shortly following the union, the new couple moved to Stritmatter's station in Kiukiang. The Stritmatter's had two sons, Albert and Edward, both of whom were born in China.
Death
After contracting tuberculosis, Reverend Stritmatter was advised to return to his home in the states. In October 1880, the family began their journey to Reverend Stritmatter's family home in Ohio. He did not finish the journey home and died on November 22, 1880 in Denver, Colorado at just 33 years old. His grave can be visited at Riverside Cemetery in Denver, Colorado. | 3d8e8608-0547-4946-b970-0ef1416d3698 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chancellors_of_Vanderbilt_University"} | The following is a list of chancellors of Vanderbilt University | 59a1fd49-e13d-4fc1-9b61-370340c8bd98 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Her_Fatal_Millions"} | 1923 film by William Beaudine
Her Fatal Millions is a 1923 American Metro Pictures silent comedy film directed by William Beaudine. It stars Viola Dana, Huntley Gordon, and Allan Forrest. It is not known if the film currently survives, which suggests that it is a lost film.
Cast | c8283fc8-d4b3-41c9-a82e-5ae9e7f1ed8f |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellsburg_Historic_District"} | Historic district in West Virginia, United States
United States historic place
Wellsburg Historic District is a national historic district located at Wellsburg, Brooke County, West Virginia. It encompasses 693 contributing buildings in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of Wellsburg. Notable buildings include the Brooke County Courthouse (1836), Northwestern Bank of Virginia (1835), Christ Episcopal Church (1887), First Methodist Church (1853), Patrick Gass Cottage (1797, c. 1850), and Crescent Glass factory (c. 1900). Also in the district are a number of residences in popular architectural styles including Greek Revival and Late Victorian. Located within the district are the separately listed Miller's Tavern and Wellsburg Wharf.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. | 7b51191c-030a-46e5-a93b-d2bc2741d3c5 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Food_City_500"} | Motor car race
The 2017 Food City 500 was a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race that was scheduled for April 23, 2017, but was postponed until April 24, 2017 due to rain at Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tennessee. Contested over 500 laps on the 0.533 miles (0.858 km) concrete short track, it was the eighth race of the 2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season.
Report
Background
Bristol Motor Speedway, formerly known as Bristol International Raceway and Bristol Raceway, is a NASCAR short track venue located in Bristol, Tennessee. Constructed in 1960, it held its first NASCAR race on July 30, 1961. Despite its short length, Bristol is among the most popular tracks on the NASCAR schedule because of its distinct features, which include extraordinarily steep banking, an all concrete surface, two pit roads, and stadium-like seating.
Entry list
First practice
Erik Jones was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 15.009 seconds and a speed of 127.843 mph (205.743 km/h).
Qualifying
Qualifying for Friday was cancelled due to rain and Kyle Larson, the point leader, was awarded the pole as a result.
Starting Lineup
Practice (post-qualifying)
Second practice
Kyle Busch was the fastest in the second practice session with a time of 14.890 seconds and a speed of 128.865 mph (207.388 km/h).
Final practice
Kyle Busch was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 14.925 and a speed of 128.563 mph (206.902 km/h).
Race
First stage
The race was scheduled to be held on Sunday, April 23, but rain delayed it to Monday, April 24.
Kyle Larson led the field to the green flag at 1:11 p.m. The first caution flew on lap 54 when Kurt Busch bounced off Trevor Bayne exiting Turn 4, slid down the front stretch and hit the inside wall. Chris Buescher slammed into the back of Reed Sorenson while slowing down to avoid Busch. Buescher went on to finish last. This brought out the red flag for five minutes and 10 seconds to facilitate cleanup in Turns 1 and 2.
The race restarted on lap 71. It remained green the remainder of the stage, that was won by Larson, and went back under caution on lap 125 for the end of the stage.
Second stage
The race restarted on lap 137. Martin Truex Jr. passed Larson in Turn 2 to take the lead on lap 202. The third caution flew on lap 210 when Kyle Busch suffered a right-front tire blowout and slammed the wall in Turn 2.
The race restarted on lap 217 and the fourth caution flew the same lap when Dale Earnhardt Jr. suffered a right-front tire failure and slammed the wall in Turn 1. “We broke something in the oil system and oil got onto the tires,” Earnhardt told USA TODAY Sports. “We got into the wall.” He added that his crew "said there was some oil in the pit stall after our pit stop. I noticed when I was getting lined up double file for the restart the car was smoking. I just thought maybe we had a tire rub for some reason, but I couldn’t remember what might have caused that. And went into Turn 1 on the restart and the car went straight into the wall with oil all over the tires. Came into the garage there and they are working on where the hole in the system is. Just something is messed up, but that is going to be the finish for us."
The race restarted on lap 228. Truex won the second stage and the fifth caution flew for the conclusion of the stage. Landon Cassill opted not to pit and assumed the lead.
Final stage
The race restarted on lap 260 and Truex passed Cassill with ease exiting Turn 2 to retake the lead. David Ragan attempted to pass through the middle of teammate Cassill on top and Danica Patrick on the bottom exiting Turn 2 on lap 323, but Patrick hit him and sent them both spinning into the backstretch wall, bringing out the sixth caution.
The race restarted on lap 329 and Joey Logano, restarting on the outside line, took the lead from Truex on the restart. The seventh caution flew with 116 laps to go when Busch suffered another right-front tire blowout and slammed the wall in Turn 3.
The race restarted with 110 to go. Jimmie Johnson made contact with Logano as he took the lead with 106 to go. The eighth caution flew with 80 to go when Erik Jones made contact with Gray Gaulding, cut his right-front tire and slammed the wall in Turn 3. A. J. Allmendinger clipped Jones's left-rear corner while trying to avoid him. Denny Hamlin assumed the lead by taking just 2 left side tires only. Larson restarted from the tail-end of the field for speeding on pit road.
The race restarted with 73 to go. Johnson took back the lead with 67 to go. The ninth caution flew with 37 to go when Kasey Kahne hit the wall in Turn 3 and was rear-ended by Paul Menard. Kevin Harvick took the lead by not pitting along with Hamlin who also did not pit. Truex exited pit road first and would've restarted third, but restarted from the tail-end of the field after he was busted for speeding on pit road.
The race restarted with 32 to go. Harvick held off challenges for his lead at first, but his old tires were no match for Johnson's four fresh tires and lost the lead to Johnson with 21 to go. Johnson drove on to score the victory.
Post-race
Driver comments
“Yeah, it was kind of interesting because when the No. 42 (Kyle Larson) was there, it just created an environment to run the top and I wasn't as good on the top,” Johnson said in victory lane. “The No. 42, not being up there and that first couple of cars; the bottom was really where it was at for the short run. This Lowe’s Chevrolet was flying! This track has been difficult over the years and we really hit on something Saturday afternoon in that last practice session around the bottom and honestly, it's what I’ve been looking for here for 16 years and we finally figured it out. So, I'm very, very happy.”
Clint Bowyer, who finished second, said of the final pit stop that he believed "the 48 (of Johnson) was the other one (to take four tires) and he won the race, so the right strategy was there. The team effort was there. You know, that's what a weekend is all about. It's just been this long since I've won a race and here is pretty special. It would have been pretty cool to be over there in Victory Lane."
Race results
Stage results
Stage 1 Laps: 125
Stage 2 Laps: 125
Final stage results
Stage 3 Laps: 250
Race statistics
Media
Television
Fox Sports covered their 17th race at the Bristol Motor Speedway. Mike Joy, five-time Bristol winner Jeff Gordon and 12-time Bristol winner – and all-time Bristol race winner – Darrell Waltrip had the call in the booth for the race. Jamie Little, Chris Neville, Vince Welch and Matt Yocum handled the pit road duties for the television side.
Radio
PRN had the radio call for the race which was also be simulcasted on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio. Doug Rice, Mark Garrow and Wendy Venturini called the race in the booth when the field was racing down the frontstretch. Rob Albright called the race from atop the turn 3 suites when the field raced down the backstretch. Brad Gillie, Brett Mcmillan, Jim Noble, and Steve Richards covered the action on pit lane.
Standings after the race | f6bce434-d2c6-4e33-93b5-1f67834f4488 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Gottlob_Carpzov"} | Johann Gottlob Carpzov (26 September 1679, Dresden – 7 April 1767, Lübeck) was a German Christian Old Testament scholar, a nephew of Johann Benedict Carpzov II and a son of Samuel Benedict Carpzov. He was the most famous and most important Biblical scholar of the Carpzov family.
After attending universities at Wittenberg, Leipzig and Altdorf, he was titular professor of Oriental languages at Leipzig from 1719 to 1730, and preacher and theologian until his death. Like his uncle, he was an opponent of the Pietists. His critical works were: Introductio in libros canonicos bibliorum Veteris Testamenti 1721, 4th ed. 1757; Critica Sacra (I. Original text, II. Versions, III. Reply to Whiston), 1728; Apparatus Historico-Criticus Antiquitatum et Codicis Sacri et Gentis Hebrææ, 1748. The Apparatus is in the form of annotations to Thomas Goodwin's Moses and Aaron, and appended to it are dissertations on "The Synagogue Treated with Honor" (a statement of what the Christian Church has retained of ancient Jewish customs), on "The Charity System of the Ancient Jews" (discussion of the question whether צדקה in the Old Testament ever means "alms"), and others.
According to the Jewish Encyclopedia,
Carpzov represents both an advance and a retrogression in Biblical science — an advance in fullness of material and clearness of arrangement (his Introductio is the first work that deserves the name), and a retrogression in critical analysis, for he held fast to the literal inspiration of the Hebrew text of the Old Testament and bitterly opposed the freer positions of Simon, Spinoza, and Clericus. His antiquarian writings are still interesting and useful. | a88d02ce-9b56-48ea-959a-231d933a3c0b |
null | Melodic death metal/doom metal band
Hinayana (sometimes stylized as HINAYANA) is an American Melodic death metal/doom metal band from Austin, Texas. Hinayana was originally formed as a one-man project in 2014 by vocalist/guitarist Casey Hurd, who released Endless the same year. Hinayana rounded out their lineup and released their debut full-length, Order Divine, in 2018. In 2020, Hinayana signed to Napalm Records. Their first release under Napalm Records, the Death of the Cosmic EP, has a release date of August 28, 2020. Hinayana's current lineup is: Casey Hurd (vocals/guitar), Erik Shtaygrud (guitar), Daniel Vieira (drums), Michael Anstice (keyboard), and Matt Bius (bass).
Origin and History
Vocalist/guitarist Casey Hurd formed Hinayana as a one-man project in 2014. The word “Hinayana” is a Sanskrit word, meaning the “smaller vehicle” or “lesser path” to enlightenment. In the context of the band name, it was chosen to represent the inner struggle and suffering one must conquer to find the truth in every aspect of life, nature, the esoteric, and the universe – seeing both the beautiful and not-so-beautiful sides of it all. Eventually rounding out a full line-up, Hinayana self-released their debut full-length album, Order Divine, in 2018. Hinayana has shared the stage with acts such as Eluveitie, Ensiferum, Septicflesh, Carach Angren, Mors Principium Est, Alestorm, Gloryhammer, and others. In October 2018, Hinayana entered into a Re release and distribution deal with Black Lion Records (Sweden). The band began working on material for a new EP, titled Death of the Cosmic in 2019 and signed with Napalm Records in 2020. Hinayana will release their EP under the record label on August 28, 2020. The first single and music video from the EP, Cold Conception, was released on July 7, 2020.
Endless (Demo) - 2014
Casey Hurd wrote and recorded the Endless (Demo), released August 28, 2014. This is Hinayana's first official release and leading to Hurd beginning to flesh out a full lineup, including current guitarist Erik Shtaygrud and drummer Daniel Vieira. The runtime is 29:37, and consists of 5 tracks. Once Hurd recruited the full band, a music video for Bringers of the Dawn was released on October 10, 2016. The music video was shot and produced by drummer Daniel Vieira.
Order Divine - 2018
After filling out a full line-up, including adding keyboardist Michael Anstice, Casey Hurd went to work on the band's first full-length album, Order Divine. Hurd recorded guitars, bass, and vocals, and Daniel Vieira recorded drums. The album was recorded, mixed, and mastered by Kevin Butler at Orb Recording Studios. A music video for Order Divine was released on March 12, 2018 to promote the release of the album on March 19, 2018. The video was shot and produced by drummer Daniel Vieira. A music video for The Window was released on December 3, 2018, and was shot by Vieira and produced by Vieira and Hurd. Order Divine has a run time of 33:15, and includes 7 tracks. It was distributed worldwide by Black Lion Records (Sweden).
Death of the Cosmic EP - 2020
Hinayana began working on the follow-up to Order Divine in 2019, while playing shows throughout Texas. They also picked up their current bass player, Matt Bius. Released on August 28, 2020, Death of the Cosmic EP is Hinayana's first release under Napalm Records. The EP was primarily self-produced by the band, with mixing/drum recording from Kevin Butler and mastering by Swallow the Sun's Juho Raiha. Guitars and bass were written/recorded by Casey Hurd, and Erik Shtaygrud wrote/recorded the solos on Death of the Cosmic and Cold Conception. The EP features guest appearances by late Tengger Cavalry frontman Nature Ganganbaigal (Cold Conception) and Hanging Garden's Toni Toivonen (In Sacred Delusion). Death of the Cosmic EP features 5 songs, including a re-recording of Pitch Black Noise. A music video for Cold Conception was released on July 7, 2020 and immediately received positive feedback. The video concept was developed by Hurd, and was directed and edited by Chris Thompson.
Hurd explains that the EP "is based on the severed connection between ourselves and the cosmic, spiritual force in the universe and the loss of hope for the cold, modern world man has created in nature’s place. Sonically, we wanted to make something that was beautiful but crushing at the same time, demonstrated in the title track of this EP, which in concept might be viewed as a microcosm of the whole EP itself. Something we tried to do was stray away from some of the more cliché elements of melodic death metal and instead focus on what is the very root/core of HINAYANA and what gives the band its own sound". The album art was done by Travis Smith. | b9a78f7c-3a36-44af-82c5-1f818a17c891 |
null | Hugh Lowther may refer to: | a7149675-be20-4c46-8026-ba9debd94443 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_(metal_band)"} | English/American industrial metal band
Two (stylized
) was an English/American industrial metal band, formed by former Judas Priest lead singer Rob Halford after the break-up of his previous band Fight.
Biography
Halford and guitarist John 5 formed the band in 1996 under the name Gimp and would record an album's worth of demos. While attending Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Halford met Trent Reznor and presented him a copy of the material, which in return, Reznor stepped in as producer and released it under his Nothing Records label. Upon discovering that another band was using the Gimp name, the group was redubbed 2wo. In March 1998, the album Voyeurs was released. It sold poorly and was not well received. After a headlining tour, 2wo disbanded and John 5 would join Marilyn Manson. Halford initially began demos for a follow-up album, but eventually called the band quits and would use the material for his next band Halford.
Discography
Studio albums
Singles
Videography
Halford hired porn director Chi Chi Larue to direct the video for the first single, "I Am a Pig". This video featured grainy S&M scenes of the band and various porn stars, including a few brief glimpses of Janine Lindemulder, in a sex dungeon. It also incorporates some of the album's artwork into the concept. It was not widely shown because of its content, but was not banned. | 7cce5073-a804-4692-8c51-e31c12145a54 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_Bind"} | Japanese animation studio
Studio Bind, Inc. (Japanese: 株式会社スタジオバインド, Hepburn: Kabushiki-gaisha Sutajio Baindo), is a Japanese animation studio founded in November 2018 as a joint venture by White Fox and Egg Firm.
History
The company was founded in November 2018 as a joint venture between animation studio White Fox and production, planning and management company Egg Firm. The first work of the studio was on the anime Karakuri Circus for the episodes 22 and 31, while the first work of the company as a lead animation studio is Mushoku Tensei, which debuted in 2021.
On January 31, 2021, Egg Firm CEO and Mushoku Tensei chief producer Nobuhiro Osawa stated that he built the new production studio for Mushoku Tensei. In October 2019, production company Egg Firm explained their rationale for setting up a separate studio from the existing White Fox studio, stating they "needed a system that would allow us to move forward with the project in a continuous, long-term, and systematic manner" so they "will be able to concentrate more on the production of Mushoku Tensei." Egg Firm noted that "Studio Bind will use Mushoku Tensei as a launchpad for its full-scale animation production business.
Works
Television series
OVAs | c4af79ed-96f9-40f6-a4a9-1c82333d015d |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timmy_Thiele"} | German footballer
Timmy Dennis Mario Thiele (born 31 July 1991) is a German professional footballer who plays as a forward.
Career
Thiele scored his first goal for Burton Albion in a 5–1 win over Colchester United on 28 November 2015. He joined Oldham Athletic on loan in March 2016. He was released by Burton Albion at the end of the 2015–16 season.
During the summer of 2016 he joined Regionalliga Nordost side FC Carl Zeiss Jena.
In June 2018, Thiele left Jena for league rivals 1. FC Kaiserslautern. The transfer fee paid to Jena was reported as €400,000 plus possible bonuses.
Thiele moved to FC Viktoria Köln in August 2020.
Career statistics
As of matches played 24 August 2020. | 5e3a7ec8-87d4-4037-a9ad-6a2879b272f9 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_CIS_University_Cup"} | The 2013 CIS Men's University Cup Hockey Tournament (51st Annual) was held March 14–17, 2013. It was the first of two consecutive CIS Championships to be held at the Credit Union Centre in Saskatoon hosted by the University of Saskatchewan. The defending champions were the McGill Redmen, but they would not be able to defend their title having been eliminated in the first round of the OUA-East playoffs by the Nipissing Lakers.
The best team in each Pool advances to the final. All pool games must be decided by a win, there are no ties. If a pool has a three-way tie for 1st (all teams have 1-1 records) than GF/GA differential among the tied teams is the first tie-breaker.
Road to the Cup
AUS playoffs
The AUS playoffs were held from February 13 to March 7, 2013.
OUA playoffs
The OUA playoffs were held from February 13 to March 9, 2013.
Note 1: The Queen's Cup championship game must be held in Ontario (part of the arrangement when the RSEQ hockey league merged with the OUA). When a Quebec based OUA-East representative is the higher seed and should 'host' the game - the game shall be hosted by the OUA-West team instead, but the OUA-East team shall be the 'home' team and have last change.
Note 2: Since the University Cup wild-card spot was allocated to the AUS Conference, the OUA did not hold a 3rd Place/Bronze medal game.
Canada West playoffs
The Canada West playoffs were as follows:
University Cup
The six teams to advance to the tournament are listed below. The wild-card team was selected from the AUS Conference as the OUA was provided the wild-card in 2012 and CW teams are ineligible as they are the host conference.
Pool A - Afternoon
Note: Saint Mary's becomes the 4th team to advance to the Championship Final with a 1-1 record (Alberta-2008, Western-2009 and McGill-2011).
Pool B - Evening
Championship Final
Bench assignments for the championship finals are based on each advancing team's 2 pool games, not their tournament seed. UNB was determine the home team with a record of 2-0 versus Saint Mary's with a record of 1-1.
Fewest Goals
The 2 goal aggregate in the Championship final represented the lowest ever to date - one lower than the previous record of 3 (1990, 2-1 and 2003 3-0). The shutout was the fourth shutout in a Championship final (1972, 2003, 2011 & 2013) and the first time a team has accomplished it twice (UNB's 4th Championship title in 2011 was a 4-0 shutout of McGill).
Tournament All-Stars
Tyler Carroll, from the UNB Varsity Reds, was selected as the Major W.J. 'Danny' McLeod Award for CIS University Cup MVP. Carroll led all players in goals (4) and was second in points with 4.
Joining Carroll on the tournament all-star team were: Forward: Nick MacNeil (UNB Varsity Reds) Forward: Cory Tanaka (Saint Mary's Huskies) Defenseman: Jesse Craige (Alberta Golden Bears) Defenseman: Marc-Antoine Desnoyers (UNB Varsity Reds) Goalie: Dan LaCosta (UNB Varsity Reds) | 4d083f43-7cc0-4aae-9101-d5ad90c022e7 |
null | Village in Cayo District, Belize
Duck Run III, alternatively known as Duck Run 3, is a village in the Cayo District of central interior Belize.The village is in an agricultural region where the most common crops are citrus and banana. It is one of 192 village level municipalities for census purposes. The village had a population of 400 in 2010. This represents roughly 0.6% of the district's total population. No census record was taken for the village in 2000. Duck Run III is one of three recognized municipalities with the name "Duck Run" south of Spanish Lookout having its own local government. The other two communities are Duck Run I and Duck Run II. | 5ca5a5d0-4739-416b-8482-31428973f937 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_bittern"} | Extinct species of heron
The New Zealand bittern (Ixobrychus novaezelandiae) is an extinct and enigmatic species of heron in the family Ardeidae. It was endemic to New Zealand and was last recorded alive in the 1890s.
Common names for this species include New Zealand little bittern, spotted heron, and kaoriki (Māori). The scientific species name also has numerous junior synonyms.
Taxonomy
The species has sometimes been regarded as a subspecies of little bittern (Ixobrychus minutus), or conspecific with the black-backed bittern (Ixobrychus dubius) of Australia and New Guinea, though it was first described by Alexander Callender Purdie in 1871 as Ardeola novaezelandiae. In 1980, New Zealand palaeontologist Peter L. Horn found subfossil bones of a bittern from Lake Poukawa, which he named Dupetor flavicollis. In 1991, Philip Millener identified Horn's material as remains of the New Zealand bittern.
Description
Although a small bittern, the species was larger (length about 14.75 inches (38 cm)) than the little bittern (25–36 cm). Few specimens are known, and of these doubt exists even about the sex of some, making published descriptions unreliable. Differences from the little bittern include a larger buff patch on the upper wing, black upper parts streaked light brown, under parts streaked dark brown and rufous-buff.
Distribution and habitat
In recent times, the bird is only known with certainty to have inhabited the South Island of New Zealand, with most records from Westland. Although subfossil remains have been found in the North Island, reports of living birds may have been of misidentified Australasian bitterns. The first scientific specimen was reportedly obtained at Tauranga in the North Island by the Reverend Mr Stack in 1836, but is now untraceable. The holotype specimen in the Museum of New Zealand was taken from the head of Lake Wakatipu in Otago. The recorded habitat for the species includes the wooded margins of saline lagoons and creeks.
Behaviour
Walter Buller quotes a Mr Docherty, who was familiar with the bird in Westland:
They are to be found on the salt-water lagoons on the seashore, always hugging the timbered side of the same. I have seen them in two positions, viz.:— standing on the bank of the lagoon, with their heads bent forward, studiously watching the water; at other times I have seen them standing straight up, almost perpendicular; I should say this is the proper position for the bird to be placed in when stuffed. When speaking of lagoons as the places where they are to be found, I may mention that I caught one about two miles in the bush, on the bank of a creek; but the creek led to a lagoon. They live on small fishes or the roots of reeds; I should say the latter, because at the very place where I caught one I observed the reeds turned up and the roots gone. They are very solitary, and always found alone, and they stand for hours in one place. I heard a person say that he had opened one and found a large egg in it. They breed on the ground in very obscure places; I never heard their cry.
Feeding
The bittern is recorded as eating mudfish and worms in captivity, when given in water.
Voice
Two calls were recorded by Buller, a "peculiar snapping cry" as an alarm call, and a "cry not unlike that of a kingfisher, though not so loud". | 654adbe7-81f7-400b-a9ea-ce8a9e2a75ba |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Milo!"} | 2013 American film
Bad Milo! is a 2013 American horror comedy film written by Jacob Vaughan and Benjamin Hayes and directed by Jacob Vaughan. The film stars Ken Marino, Gillian Jacobs, Peter Stormare, Stephen Root, Mary Kay Place, and Patrick Warburton. The film had its world premiere at SXSW on March 10, 2013, and was released on video on demand on August 29, 2013, prior to being released in a limited release on October 4, 2013, by Magnet Releasing.
Plot
A man named Duncan lives with his wife, Sarah, who worries about his constant stress. One day, he schedules an appointment with a gastroenterologist after experiencing a rather serious level of gastric stress the night before. During the appointment, the doctor and nurse spot a large "polyp" in his intestinal tract. After seeing a large amount of stress at a very fast pace from work with his boss placing him in charge of firing employees, where a man his age is in a relationship with his mother, and his wife is making him see a very eccentric therapist who keeps asking about his father issues, something unusual happens. The polyp forms into a 2-foot-tall sentient being, and begins killing each person the creature sees as a source of stress with each day. The local news reports the attacks as having been committed by a rabid racoon.
Duncan's therapist informs him that the creature is the living manifestation of his life's stress built up over time, and that mythology of this type of being states that the best way to eliminate it is to bond with it so it doesn't act so irrationally. In an effort to bond with it, Duncan names this strange anal-dwelling creature Milo.
First, Milo kills his co-worker, then the E.D. doctor he didn't need, yet who wouldn't stop calling him. Soon enough, Milo kills Duncan's boss in an elevator during an investigation by the FBI at his office building. When it finally attacks his father, who apparently had a being of the same species, and begins killing the other being, Duncan loses his grip and moves Milo and himself to a hotel room far away and someplace safe. This doesn't work, much as it seems to at the outset and Milo tracks Sarah down to her house party where a violent battle ensues between Duncan and Milo. Ultimately Duncan dismembers Milo's left arm and legs, and finally saves its life, vowing to never ignore Milo's important influence and make amends with Milo, successfully doing so before Sarah reinserts Milo back up his anus.
Ultimately Milo's bloodline is discovered to be carried on through Duncan's unborn son, the embryo of the new creature being seen in the system of the unborn fetus.
Cast
Release
The film had its world premiere at the SXSW film festival on March 10, 2013. Shortly after it was announced Magnet Releasing had acquired distribution rights to the film. The film went on to screen at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival on June 29, 2013. The film was released on August 29, 2013, through video on demand, before being released in a limited release on October 4, 2013.
Reception
The film holds a 58% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 36 reviews; the consensus states: "Bad Milo! sets some deliriously low expectations with its gross premise – and then manages to match most of them in sick, entertaining style." | a906540f-c30b-45d1-b1d9-bc564e43c317 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Kyong-jin"} | North Korean judoka
Kim Kyong-Jin (also Kim Gyeong-Jin, Korean: 김 경진; born February 25, 1986) is a North Korean judoka, who played for the extra-lightweight category. He won two medals, silver and bronze, for the 60 kg division at the Asian Judo Championships (2008 in Jeju City, South Korea and 2009 in Taipei, Taiwan).
Kim represented North Korea at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed for the men's extra-lightweight class (60 kg). He defeated Madagascar's Elie Norbert and Armenia's Hovhannes Davtyan in the preliminary rounds, before losing out the quarterfinal match, by two yuko and a kata gatame (shoulder hold), to Austria's Ludwig Paischer. Because his opponent advanced further into the final match, Kim offered another shot for the bronze medal by entering the repechage rounds. Unfortunately, he finished only in ninth place, after losing out the second repechage bout to Great Britain's Craig Fallon, who successfully scored a waza-ari (half-point) and a kuchiki taoshi (single leg takedown), at the end of the five-minute period.
It is believed that Kim is an illegitimate son of North Korea’s founder, Kim Il-sung, and his then-mistress Kim Ok, who was a musician at the time of his birth. Kim Ok would later serve as secretary and mistress to Kim Il-sung’s son, Kim Jong-il. | da4f56b0-19f6-4a02-bcb7-4c63abade394 |
null | Charles Rankin, PLS (1797 − 1886 or 12 October 1888) was an early Irish-born and Scottish-descended settler and land surveyor in Upper Canada (the predecessor to the province of Ontario, Canada). He is significant due to his role in the surveying and early settlement of large areas of Upper Canada, including much of the Bruce Peninsula and south shore of Lake Huron, and notably the city of Owen Sound. Born in 1797 at Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Ireland, he died in either 1886 or 1888 in Owen Sound, a city whose founding he had been instrumental in.
Biography
Early life
Rankin's father, George Rankin, was born in 1762 at Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, in what was then the British-governed Kingdom of Ireland, and which today is a part of Northern Ireland. His ancestors had originally migrated from Ayrshire, Scotland, to participate in the 17th-century Plantation of Ulster. George married Mary Stuart (born in Bunker Hill, Massachusetts to Scottish immigrants) and the couple had seven children: John (who became a medical doctor in Picton, Ontario), Charles, George Junior (who became an army surgeon in India), James (died young), Susan, Kate, and Arthur, the seventh child, who also became a land surveyor.
Charles was born in 1797, also in Enniskillen, but after the end of the War of 1812, he accompanied his parents and siblings to Montréal in Lower Canada, where his younger brother Arthur was born in 1816. The elder Rankins would later move to Amherstburg, York (now Toronto), and finally Bytown (now Ottawa), but Charles' life would diverge from theirs before that point.
Surveying career
Deputy provincial surveyor
After the War of 1812, Upper Canada experienced a significant immigration wave. Militiamen and soldiers received land grants, and the re-fortification of the north shore of the Great Lakes during the war enriched the merchants, farmers, and mill owners who supplied the forts. With the districts around Detroit and Niagara already settled from the previous generation of pioneers (who had settled the area during and after the American Revolutionary War), the government of Upper Canada, under the control of the oligarchical Family Compact, sought to colonize areas which were further away from the American border, which could be a defensible "heartland" for the province. Development agencies like the Canada Company were formed, and by the middle of the 19th century the government would be laying out the colonization roads to key destinations, with townships along the way, creating secure land-based routes between the previously scattered and isolated lakeshore settlements which had been vulnerable to American interdiction and blockade during the War of 1812. Surveyors were suddenly in significant demand, and became an important profession in the province.
On 27 December 1820, Charles Rankin was appointed deputy provincial land surveyor for Upper Canada's Hesse (or Western) District by Peregrine Maitland, the 4th lieutenant governor of Upper Canada, who was also an early advocate of the Canadian Indian residential school system as a means to deepen British control of the province's indigenous population. Initially based in the township of Malden near Amherstburg, Rankin developed a close understanding of the region's natural geography throughout the 1820s. He would not stay there, however. In the early 1830s, he would survey a number of townships scattered throughout the province in rapid succession: in 1830, Eldon and Fenelon in what would become Victoria County (now the city of Kawartha Lakes); in 1831, Presquisle or Presqu'ile Point; in 1833, the Nottawasaga Bay area (where he settled on some 200 acres (0.81 km2) of land west of the present town of Thornbury); and in 1834, Loughborough (now the community of Sydenham in Frontenac County), Gore, Crowland (now a part of the city of Welland in Niagara Region), Humberston or Humberstone (now a part of Port Colborne), and Blanford or Blandford (now the township of Blandford-Blenheim in Oxford County). He began surveying his first colonization road, the Garafraxa Colonization Road from Oakville to Owen Sound, in 1837, but was only able to survey as far as Arthur when the Upper Canada Rebellion broke out. The survey would be finished several years later by a different surveyor, John McDonald.
Owen Sound
Rankin would surface again in 1840, undertaking the surveying of a new township at a strategic location: the intersection of the Sydenham River, the Pottawatomi River, and an inlet on Lake Huron's Georgian Bay, which had been named Owen Sound a few decades earlier by the British explorer William Fitzwilliam Owen. This had been intended as the northern terminus of the Garafraxa Colonization Road, with the road and town site being a part of an 1836 plan by Francis Bond Head, Upper Canada's new, 6th lieutenant governor. In a shift from the policies of Maitland (which leaned toward assimilation and close management of indigenous people), Head believed that indigenous people could never be "civilized", and that the best course of action was to keep indigenous and settler populations geographically and administratively apart, with the ultimate goal of relocation of indigenous people to Manitoulin Island. This policy was enacted with the 1836 Saugeen Tract Agreement, intended to clear indigenous people from the Saugeen, Bruce, or so-called "Indian" Peninsula.
By the time of Rankin's arrival, the inlet's Ojibwe inhabitants had become displeased with intrusions on their territory. This resulted in Rankin being forced to stay on the east side of the Sydenham River, away from their village to the northwest. It was at this location where, on 7 October 1840, he would meet with a party led by John Telfer, the Crown land agent for the area. Telfer would quickly begin to oversee the construction of buildings and settling of Europeans in the town site (then named Sydenham) laid out by Rankin, along with a number of buildings in the Ojibwe settlement to the northwest, which became the Newash or Nawash "Indian Village" and was an official reserve. This would only last a few years, however, as the Ojibwe would be relocated to a new reserve on Colpoy's Bay, then again to Cape Croker. Today these scattered groups are referred to as the Saugeen Ojibway Nation, and the original Nawash reserve land is a part of the city of Owen Sound.
Marriage and later career
Also in 1840, Rankin married his wife, Elizabeth Leech. A governess by occupation, she had come to Canada in 1838 with the family of George Arthur, the brief, 7th lieutenant governor of Upper Canada. She was also the aunt of John Leech, the noted English caricaturist and illustrator for Punch. With Charles largely absent due to his survey work, Elizabeth opened a private school for young women in a large frame building standing at the northwest corner of King Street and York Street, on a site which would later be occupied by the Palmer House hotel. This house is where their only child, Mary, would be born on 26 November 1844.
Throughout the early 1840s, Rankin continued his survey work around Owen Sound and the south shore of Lake Huron, laying out secondary town sites as well as separate townships: Holland and Sullivan in Grey County in 1845; Saugeen, Indian Bay, and Derby (also Grey County) in 1846; and Kempenfeldt and Barrie Park in 1847. This was followed by the surveying of a number of roads between existing settlements, as well as additional plots for these settlements.
In 1847, Rankin had a brief period of activity on Lake Huron's north shore as well as its south shore, joining his brother, Arthur, in surveying around present-day Bruce Mines in the early 1840s. Indigenous-made copper jewellery had been attested to for years by Europeans throughout the Great Lakes, and archaeologists working in the 1970s discovered copper caches dating as far back as the Archaic period (8,000 to 3,000 BP, or c. 6,000 to 1,000 BCE). French documents from the 1650s also alluded to the presence of organized mining efforts by indigenous people, though no concrete archaeological evidence of the methods have been established, and the mining activities may have been confined to placer mining and sifting. Nevertheless, rumours of vast mineral resources drew a number of European surveyors and prospectors to the north shore, such as the Rankin brothers, as well as another prominent Upper Canada surveyor of the era, Albert Salter. This venture would be extremely profitable for the Rankins, as Arthur would later sell his shares in the Montreal Mining Company for £30,000, insulating him from the eventual crash of the Bruce Mines copper rush in 1876 due to flooding and cave-ins at the mines, and allowing him to finance his 1850s political career.
Charles, meanwhile, moved to Owen Sound permanently in 1850. He returned to surveying even more townline roads, townships, and township plots around Georgian Bay throughout the 1850s, notably the townships of Artemesia, Arran, Minto, and Southampton. He was also present at the signing of the 1854 Saugeen Surrenders (also known as Crown Treaty No. 72), which saw the signing away of the original Saugeen Ojibwe reserve lands for settlement in exchange for the currently-held five tracts.
Later life
Rankin continued to live in Owen Sound in a home on the west side of the harbour for much of the rest of his life. His wife, Elizabeth, died in 1872. Mary, his daughter, married Samuel Victor Hutchins, the eldest son of the Reverend Henry Hutchins of Prairie du Sac, Sauk County, Wisconsin. Hutchins worked as a manager at various Molson's Bank locations in Ontario, and later worked in the audit department of the City of Toronto's treasury. They had nine children.
Charles Rankin's death date and burial location are disputed, with sources variously claiming that he moved to Millbrook to live with his daughter, where he died on 15 March 1886 and was buried in St. James Cemetery in Toronto, alongside his wife and parents; or that he died on 12 October 1888 and is buried at Greenwood Cemetery in Owen Sound. His Ontario Heritage Plaque in Owen Sound lists his death as being in 1886.
Legacy
Rankin's legacy largely exists in the form of the many roads and townships he laid out or whose early settlement he was involved in, such as the Garafraxa Colonization Road, which largely still exists in the form of Ontario Highway 6, or most notably, his role in the settlement and founding of the city of Owen Sound. As such, he had a strong role in shaping the modern human geography of much of Southwestern Ontario, especially Grey County and Bruce County. A river in Bruce County, the Rankin River, is named after him.
In 1990, legal proceedings began over a strip of land along the Sauble Beach lakeshore, with the Canadian federal government upholding Saugeen First Nation's claim to it as a part of the Saugeen 29 reserve. Rankin's work as a surveyor came under modern scrutiny when the Saugeen First Nation used it as evidence in their land claims dispute with the town of South Bruce Peninsula, arguing that an 1855 survey map authored by him validated their claims. In another claim filed in 1994, both the Saugeen First Nation and Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation challenged the Crown on its alleged failure to uphold the terms of Treaty 72, which instructed "[t]hat the interest of the principal sum arising out of the sale of our lands be regularly paid, to ourselves and our children in perpetuity, so long as there are Indians left to represent our tribe, without diminution, at half-yearly periods," and requested reparations in the form of $90 billion, as well as the return of unsold Crown lands in the Treaty 72 area, much of it still existing in the form of twenty-metre shore allowances left by surveyors like Charles Rankin. Trial proceedings began in April 2019. | 1ca479f5-b27a-497f-8f1d-9d0cc8c6c3be |
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Nadia Ghazzali (born April 3, 1961) is a Canadian statistician, the former president of the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, where she continues to work as a professor in the department of mathematics and computer science. As a statistician, she is known for her work on NbClust, a package in the R statistical software system for determining the number of clusters in a data set.
Education and career
Ghazzali was born on April 3, 1961, in Casablanca. After studying at the University of Rennes 1 in France, she came to Canada as a postdoctoral researcher at McGill University, and joined the faculty at the Université Laval in 1993.
She was president of the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières from 2012 until 2015, when she resigned after facing criticism from the Auditor General of Québec over management practices in university construction.
Ghazzali is current (2021-2023) Deputy President of INWES, the International Network of Women Engineers and Scientists.
Recognition
At Laval, Ghazzali was given the NSERC Chair for Women in Science and Engineering in 2006. In the same year, she was named a corresponding member of the Hassan II Academy of Sciences and Technologies. | 88c44471-e780-4f1c-9777-3c35ef8fc14d |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahlaf"} | Town in Casablanca-Settat, Morocco
Ahlaf is a town in Benslimane Province, Casablanca-Settat, Morocco. According to the 2004 census it had a population of 12,841. | b32af00b-8ffe-4799-a03e-e7eee9879ba4 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Birtchnell"} | Percy Birtchnell (8 April 1910 – 12 March 1986) was a British writer and historian. He was especially noted for his writing about the history of his home town of Berkhamsted in West Hertfordshire. His publications include A History of Berkhamsted and Bygone Berkhamsted, both published by Clunberry.
Life and career
Birtchnell was born in Highfield Road, Berkhamsted in Hertfordshire in 1910.
After working as a typesetter at Cooper's printing works (later the Clunbury Press), he opened a menswear shop in the parade of shops next to the newly built Rex Cinema. He was one of the founders of the Berkhamsted & District Local History Society in 1950. His menswear shop later moved west along the High Street to new premises.
From an early age, Birtchnell developed an interest in history, especially local history, and began writing articles for local papers when he was aged fifteen. He had articles published in the Berkhamsted Gazette and the Watford Observer. He also contributed historical articles to the Berkhamsted Review, a local parish magazine, writing under the pen name Beorcham, which was an archaic name for Berkhamsted.
Death and legacy
Percy Birtchnell died from a heart attack on 12 March 1986. Birtchnell's menswear shop continued to trade after his death and closed in 2010. Following structural damage, the building collapsed unexpectedly in January 2011 and was demolished.
When Augustus Smith Middle School merged with Thomas Bourne CofE Middle School in 1990 one proposed name for the new school was Percy Birtchnell Middle School,[full citation needed] before the name Thomas Coram Middle School was eventually selected.
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Tired of Kissing Frogs (Spanish: Cansada de besar sapos) is a 2006 Mexican comedy film directed by Lisa Reino.
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{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_in_Israel"} | Israel-related events during the year of 1988
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The most prominent events related to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict which occurred during 1988 include:
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null | The Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Togo is a church of the Bremen Mission, which began its work in the Volta region in Ghana. The first congregation was established in 1893. The church was established at the end of the 19th century. At the time of World War I, the church had 22,000 members. After the departure of the German missionaries, the church sought to maintain its unity, and in 1922 the Evangelical Ewe Church was established, uniting the francophone and anglophone churches. The French-speaking church was established by the Paris Foreign Missions Society.
The new evangelisation resulted in the founding of several hospitals, dispensaries, and schools. In 1959 the United Church of Christ in the United States started its own mission work in North Togo. In the same year, the church gained full independence, and one year later the country became independent. In 1965 it faced[clarification needed] the dictatorship in Togo. The church began mission work in the north west of the country in 1984.
The church has 200,000–300,000 members, 516 congregations, and 516 house fellowships. The church affirms the Apostles Creed. It is a member of the World Communion of Reformed Churches. | 79bdb6cd-a077-42e3-85ee-48cf8ff9d6e8 |
null | John Christian Bailar Jr. (May 27, 1904 – October 17, 1991) was a professor of inorganic chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his B.A. at the University of Colorado and his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan. His father was a member of the chemistry staff of the Colorado School of Mines.
At the University of Illinois, he developed an active research program on coordination chemistry. He is referred to as the “Father of Coordination Chemistry in the United States,” as prior to his time, this area of chemistry received little attention in the U.S. The Bailar twist in coordination compounds is named after him. He helped found the book series Inorganic Syntheses and the journal Inorganic Chemistry. His work was widely recognized culminating in the award of the Priestley Medal from the American Chemical Society, an organization of which he was also president. He was the father of two sons, one of whom was John Christian Bailar III. | 8cc64830-cbab-4187-99f9-f0ab33be77da |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnye_Machen_Institute"} | Organization
The Amnye Machen Institute is based in Dharamshala working in the field of Tibetan studies. It began along liberal and humanist lines, focusing primarily on secular subjects with emphasis on the contemporary and the neglected aspects of Tibetan culture and history.
History
The Amnye Machen Institute was founded on July 16, 1992 in Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh, India by Tashi Tsering, Pema Bhum, Jamyang Norbu and Lhasang Tsering. The institute aimed at advancing an international and secular culture within traditional Tibetan society.
The institute started with the blessing and Rs. 50,000 seed money from the Dalai Lama and became the central point of intellectual and social movement in the exile community. They started fortnightly newspaper called Mangtso (English: Democracy) and publish scholarly magazine called Lungta (English: Windhorse).
Objectives
The institute focuses on addressing the limitations of the Tibetan people inside and outside Tibet in the intellectual, social and cultural life by undertaking scientific studies into Tibetan history, culture, society and politics.
The Amnye Machen Institute explores external cultures, ideologies and nations that have influenced the Tibetan history and search for a new path in Tibetan studies by focusing on contemporary Tibetan art, literature and women's studies.
Significance
The institute studies the past to understand and direct Tibetan people to prepare for the future, through raising cultural and intellectual awareness, by making literature, culture and scientific knowledge readily available.
It provides service and platform to various writers, academics, poets, artists and musicians for their creative growth and promotes their work.
Award
The institute was awarded the Poul Lauritzen Prize for Freedom award in 1994 and 1996.
List of founding directors
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