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{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_(disambiguation)"} | Look up angel in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Angels are a type of creature present in many mythologies.
Angel or Angels may refer to:
Places
People
Stage name or nickname
Art, entertainment, and media
Fictional entities
Films
Fine art
Gaming
Literature
Manga
Music
Groups
Albums
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Television
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null | French cinematographer
Steeven Petitteville is a French cinematographer.
He worked with directors Phil Joanou, Maurice Barthelemy, Vernie Yeung or Franck Khalfoun among others and has accompanied various artists, writers and choreographers such as Youssef Nabil, Bret Easton Ellis, Benjamin Millepied, William Forsythe, John McIlduff and Brian Irvine on their directorial debuts and later work.
Steeven is a member of the French Society of Cinematographers "AFC".
Filmography
Awards
US international film and video festival 2016:
Film moves Belfast Film Festival 2013 short film Awards: | 56122647-6405-41cd-86c7-1873184f9a49 |
null | The Mulago Foundation is a private foundation focused on high impact philanthropy: investing in charities and philanthropic opportunities that have the highest impact. The foundation was originally envisioned by Rainer Arnhold, a San Francisco pediatrician and philanthropist, who taught at Mulago Hospital, Uganda. The foundation was officially created by his brother Henry Arnhold after Rainer Arnhold's death in 1993.
Operations
Criteria for funding organizations
The Foundation's stated goal is to identify and invest in the highest impact giving opportunities. On their "How we fund" page, they write that they are looking for three things: a priority problem, a scalable solution, and an organization that can deliver. Once they identify an organization they wish to fund, they provide unrestricted and continued funding. Unlike most foundations, the Mulago Foundation does not accept or solicit proposals, but rather, the foundation itself tries to locate organizations to give to.
Organizations funded by Mulago
As of August 2012, the Mulago Foundation website listed about 30 organizations funded by the foundation. These included the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab and Innovations for Poverty Action, which are two of the foremost organizations that use randomized controlled trials and other methods to evaluate the effectiveness of poverty alleviation programs and other programs aimed at helping poor people. Also on the list were VillageReach (which charity evaluator GiveWell listed as its top rated charity from 2009 to November 2011), Living Goods (which has been profiled in many media outlets), Bridge International Academies (a for-profit company focused on low-cost private education in the developing world), Peepul India (that works to improve learning in government education systems in India), mothers2mothers, KOMAZA, D-Rev, Samasource, VisionSpring, Root Capital, Muso, and The MicroDreams Foundation.
Organizations listed as of December 2022 include Babban Gona, Blue Ventures, Bridges to Prosperity, Development Media International, Digital Green, Foundation for Ecological Security, Friendship Bench, Global Forest Watch, Kheyti, Mountain Hazelnuts, Nudge Institute, One Acre Fund, SaveLIFE Foundation, Ubongo Learning, Urgewald and Youth Impact.
Reception
Charity evaluator GiveWell described the Mulago Foundation as an "impact-focused" grantmaker (alongside the Gates Foundation, Skoll Foundation, Children's Investment Fund Foundation, Jasmine Social Investments, and Peery Foundation). GiveWell stated in 2011 that it would consider the list of Mulago Foundation grantees (along with those of the other impact-focused grantmakers listed above, as well as the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation) as part of its list of charities to review to see if they qualified for GiveWell's highest ratings.
The Mulago Foundation was also mentioned on the Tactical Philanthropy blog, and Kevin Starr of Mulago wrote a guest post for the blog.
Kevin Starr of Mulago wrote an article for the Stanford Social Innovation Review describing Mulago's definition of impact and some of the subtleties associated with the concept. His piece was referenced on the Acumen Fund blog.
On March 11, 2014, Kevin Starr and Laura Hattendorf of the Mulago Foundation wrote a lengthy article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review skeptical of cash transfer charity GiveDirectly's accomplishment so far, saying that the evidence so far was underwhelming, though there might still be bigger gains a few years down the line. They contrasted GiveDirectly with other charities that they felt delivered more bang for the buck: One Acre Fund, VisionSpring, KickStart International, and Proximity Designs. Holden Karnofsky of GiveWell wrote a lengthy response countering that GiveDirectly's impact had been more rigorously established, and that Starr and Hattendorf were using flawed metrics to judge impact. The GiveDirectly board independently published a response on the GiveDirectly blog.
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{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Ahorn%C3%A1"} | Úhorná (Hungarian: Dénes) is a village and municipality in the Gelnica District in the Košice Region of eastern Slovakia. Total municipality population was in 2011 150 inhabitants. | ed4d1458-a91f-41a5-8a8b-178af9791ad1 |
null | The Petroleum Licensing (Production) (Seaward Areas) Regulations 2008 (SI 2008/225) are a group of regulations passed for the Petroleum Act 1998 that set out model clauses of a petroleum licence agreement, as amended by SI 2009/3283. These are necessary for companies drilling for oil in the United Kingdom.
Contents
In Schedule 1 of the Regulations, the model clauses are as follows. | 0333e1bc-54ce-4c7b-8fc7-16f0e7738c15 |
null | American journalist and musician
Jim Spellman (born 1968) is an American journalist and musician. Formerly with CNN, Spellman joined CGTN America in 2013. Before that, he also played guitar in the High Back Chairs and Julie Ocean and drums in Velocity Girl which contributed to the soundtrack for the 1995 movie Clueless. | 0f220a9e-c9a9-4d21-8723-99364da161f7 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Raid_Serenades"} | 2006 compilation album by The Hellacopters
Air Raid Serenades is a greatest hits compilation album from Swedish garage rock band The Hellacopters, released in August 2006. The album has tracks from all of the band's previous albums, plus some songs that had previously appeared on EPs and other between-album releases.
Track listing
Personnel | 639d497f-2b3f-4c61-9274-980c77aa4d4b |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrciaria_pallida"} | Species of plant in the family Myrtaceae
Myrciaria pallida is a species of plant in the family Myrtaceae. It is endemic to the south-east of Brazil. | e25a3044-8563-4942-8163-ed8982fe3c71 |
null | Gaffney, Bennett and Associates is a law firm that specializes in lobbying headquartered in New Britain, Connecticut. They are the largest lobbying firm in the state of Connecticut.
History
Gaffney, Bennett and Associates was founded in the mid 1980s by Jay Malcynsky and Brian Gaffney in New Britain, Connecticut. The firm has been heavily involved with representing big companies seeking state aid or tax breaks to expand their presence in Connecticut.
In the late 1990s the firm represented the New England Patriots in negotiations with the State of Connecticut to move the Patriots to Hartford.
In 2009 Gaffney, Bennett and Associates made twice as much as the second largest lobbying firm. In 2011 they made over $4.7 million from lobbying services, again more than twice as much as the second largest lobbying firm.
In 2012 Vernon Mayor George F. Apel ended the town contract with Gaffney, Bennett and Associates which the town had on retainer since 2009.
In 2015 Gaffney, Bennett and Associates revenue was three times that of the second largest lobbying company in the state.
Gaffney Bennett Public Relations
In 2002 Gaffney, Bennett and Associates launched a PR Services arm called Gaffney Bennett Public Relations (GBPR) to handle corporate positioning, media relations, crisis communications, brand management, and cause-related marketing for existing and new clients. GBPR has offices in Connecticut and New York City. In 2011 GBPR launched a line of a la carte PR services called "the Press Release Shop." In 2019 GBPR hired North Carolina based Ted Novin to split his time between their New York office and clients in North Carolina. Novin had previously been a spokesperson for the National Rifle Association and the National Shooting Sports Foundation.
Major clients | 83c930fc-8a13-438f-8feb-72b7323dc1c6 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Spy_Spooky_Mansion"} | 1999 puzzle video game
1999 video game
I Spy Spooky Mansion is a Point & Click PC game developed by Black Hammer Productions and published by Scholastic in 1999 based on the I Spy children's books.
Gameplay
In the game, the player starts at the entrance of a haunted mansion. They enter and are locked inside. The "Guide", a skeleton known as Skelly (Voiced by Amy Birnbaum) informs the player that they must earn puzzle pieces to escape the house. They search various areas in the mansion for hidden objects or words specified at the bottom of the screen. Once all of the items in an area have been found, Skelly appears and awards the player with a puzzle piece. When the player has collected 15 puzzle pieces, they may combine them inside a picture frame to obtain instructions leading to Skelly's secret study in the library. Following Skelly's instructions, the player pulls on three books in the order of blue, green, then red. This causes the head on the bookshelf to move, unlocking the secret entrance to Skelly's study. The player can then escape through the window by climbing down a rope with Skelly, taking them back to the front entrance of the mansion. The player is then invited back into the house for more I Spy riddles. From there, the player must find the ingredients to Skelly's favourite recipe: Shrinking Soup. Once the player fetches all of the ingredients, they are able to eat it and escape the mansion through a mousehole by the front door. This hole takes the player back to the front entrance of the mansion, where Skelly invites the player into the house for a final game of riddles. To escape for a third time, the player must collect all of the parts to fix Skelly's ghost machine. Once the machine is repaired, the player creates ghosts from various objects inside the mansion. After creating six ghosts, the seventh and final ghost is revealed. Skelly crawls into the machine to turn into a ghost called the "Get-Out Ghost". The "Get-Out Ghost" propels the player out of the mansion through the chimney. Having finally escaped, Skelly congratulates the player and the game ends.
Re-releases
Scholastic re-released a "Deluxe" version on September 12, 2004, re-released another version on the iPhone on September 3, 2009, and re-released it on the Wii in October 2010. The re-releases expand on the original game in many ways, by adding an additional story after the secret message is uncovered, and adding additional rooms. They boast over 30 I Spy riddles, however many of these riddles have the player revisiting previous stages multiple times. | 6e3167ed-450f-46a5-aff5-6d540812eb2d |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicol_false_gecko"} | Species of lizard
The Bicol false gecko (Pseudogekko sumiklab) is a species of gecko. It is endemic to the Philippines.
In fact, P. sumiklab is relatively new and found to be the only known member of the Pseudogekko brevipes species.
Habitat
The Bicol false gecko was discovered at the bank of a stream, in a tree, at low elevation in a part of a secondary growth forest on Luzon Island. | 93ca1ed6-88c1-441e-9411-af9f8a826283 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Joachimsthal"} | Georg Joachimsthal (8 May 1863 – 28 February 1914) was a German orthopedist who was native of Stargard in Pommern.
In 1887 he earned his medical doctorate from Friedrich Wilhelm University with a dissertation on scoliosis titled Zur Pathologie und Therapie der Skoliose, and afterwards remained in Berlin as an assistant to Julius Wolff (1836-1902). He received his habilitation in 1898, and two years later founded a private clinic. In 1908 he became an associate professor and director of the orthopedic university polyclinic in Berlin.
In Berlin, Joachimsthal performed important experimental studies involving the physiological effects of orthopedic procedures. He was a founding member of the Deutschen Orthopädischen Gesellschaft (German Orthopedic Society), and in 1910 founded the Berlin Orthopedic Society.
In 1905 he published a highly regarded textbook on orthopedic surgery called Handbuch der Orthopädischen Chirurgie. In 1907 became an editor of the Zeitschrift für Orthopädische Chirurgie. | 1465b6d1-3d5e-4b5d-a5f1-4bc46d81e1e1 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Westover"} | Canadian sport shooter
Arthur W. Westover (9 May 1864 – 14 August 1935) was a Canadian sport shooter who competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics.
In the 1908 Olympics he won the silver medal with the Canadian trap shooting team. In the individual trap shooting event he finished fifth. | b9955ad8-e64a-4956-bb28-0f2a05221bb4 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grilled_(film)"} | 2006 American comedy film
Grilled is a 2006 American dark comedy film directed by Jason Ensler and starring Ray Romano and Kevin James. It was released direct-to-video in the United States on July 11, 2006. Maurice (Romano) and Dave (James) are inept door-to-door meat salesmen who need to make a sale to keep their jobs. After several unsuccessful attempts, they meet a potential client who leads the guys into a complicated series of events culminating with an encounter with a Mafia princess and a deadly mobster.
Plot
Maurice and Dave try, but fail to sell steaks to people through a mail service. Tired of their incompetence, their boss gives them cards with the names and addresses of their highest buyers, warning that this is their last chance. Dave loses all but one of the cards. It leads to a woman named Loridonna.
Loridonna is on the phone with her friend Suzanne, who has swallowed a fish and needs help. Loridonna tells Suzanne that Dave is a doctor and gives him the phone; while Dave is talking to Suzanne, Loridonna talks seductively about wanting Maurice's "meat". Turned on, Maurice tries to seal a deal, but Dave says Suzanne wants to kill herself. They drive Loridonna to Suzanne's house, where they discover that she is an alcoholic whose suicide was a false alarm.
Loridonna and Maurice begin making out, and Suzanne's husband Tony comes home and catches them, but he casually changes clothes while telling Maurice that she was once a man. Suzanne confirms this and tries to explain, but Maurice is too disappointed (and disgusted) to care. Tony then attempts to kill Dave, thinking he tried to seduce Suzanne. After explaining, Dave and Tony become friendly. Tony begins to grill some steaks, then is ambushed, shot, and killed by two hitmen.
Finding some of Tony's guns, Dave and Maurice fight back. The hitmen put them into the trunk of their car and leave them there while attending a party. Maurice manages to get out, then sees Goldbluth, a name from the cards they got from their boss. After freeing Dave, they start describing to party guests the tenderness of their steaks. The hitmen return looking for them. Dave is unable to leave because Goldbluth is rambling on. He signs a contract to buy meat, so they warn Goldbluth that two hitmen are here to kill him. Dave gives Goldbluth the gun Tony had when he was killed.
Maurice and Dave drive off, looking back to see shots fired. Goldbluth comes out without a scratch. Maurice and Dave return to their boss with seven orders and $21,000 up front from Goldbluth.
Cast
Release
Grilled was originally titled Men Don't Quit, and was set for a worldwide theatrical release in 2005. Poor test screenings pushed it back, and the film was only theatrically released in the United Arab Emirates under its new title. The film was released in other territories straight-to-video.
Reception
Box office
The film only saw a theatrical performance in the United Arab Emirates. In its opening weekend, the film ranked third, grossing $26,012 from 12 theaters with an average of $2,167 per screen. The film dropped to fifth in its sophomore weekend with a decrease of 45.8%, grossing $14,103 from 10 theaters with an average of $1,410 per screen, before being pulled completely from all remaining theaters.
Critical response
The film received negative reviews from critics. Scott Weinberg of DVDTalk gave the film 2 out of 5 stars, writing, "I suppose there's a great comedy to be made on the subject of door-to-door meat salesmen... actually, there probably isn't".
Home media
On the North American Region 1 DVD, bonus features include a single deleted scene, a making-of featurette, and a documentary on Romano and James' real-life friendship. | 687b07ed-3e89-4dee-ba8b-a19d562de02e |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Lane,_Liverpool"} | Street in the city of Liverpool in the north of England
Coordinates: 53°23′13″N 2°55′10″W / 53.38694°N 2.91944°W / 53.38694; -2.91944
Penny Lane is a street situated south off the A562 road in the Mossley Hill suburb of Liverpool, England. The name also applies to the area surrounding the thoroughfare. During the 20th century, it was the location for one of the main bus terminals in Liverpool, and gained international notability in 1967 when the Beatles released their song "Penny Lane" in tribute to their upbringing in Liverpool.
History
Penny Lane appears as an unnamed laneway on maps as early as the 1700s and remained a rural thoroughfare until the 1890s. After the city's expansion, it was the location for a significant tram and bus terminus for several routes, and buses with "Penny Lane" displayed were common throughout Liverpool. The name is also used for the area that surrounds its junction with Smithdown Road, Smithdown Place (where the terminus was located), and Allerton Road, the last of which includes a busy shopping area. It was the terminus for the number 46 and 99 bus routes to Walton, Old Swan and the city centre. At the other end from its junction on Smithdown Road, the street leads down to the University of Liverpool's student halls of residence near Sefton Park.
The street and bus depot became a place of international interest as a result of the Beatles' song "Penny Lane", which was released in February 1967 and was a No. 1 hit around the world. The fireman and fire engine mentioned in the lyrics are the fire station at Mather Avenue, which is close to Penny Lane. The terminus at Penny Lane included a purpose-built bus shelter, with a waiting room and toilets. The shelter is located on its own island, which is "the shelter in the middle of a roundabout" referred to in the song.
Towards the end of the 1970s, businesses in Penny Lane included Penny Lane Records and a wine bar known as Harper's Bizarre, now called Penny Lane Wine Bar. The latter was formerly a doctors' surgery operated by doctors Walton, Endbinder, and Partners, which moved to Smithdown Place in the 1980s. Following the privatisation of UK buses, the Merseyside Passenger Transport Executive bus depot was demolished and replaced with a shopping precinct, supermarket, and pub.[citation needed] In the 1980s, the bus shelter was bought privately and converted to Sgt. Pepper's Bistro. It subsequently closed and remained out of commission until 2015, when it underwent refurbishment with the aim of reopening as a restaurant, although it remains unopened as of May 2022.
The street has long been sought out by Beatles fans touring Liverpool. In the past, Penny Lane street signs were constant targets of street sign theft and had to be continually replaced, but city officials gave up and simply began painting the street name on the sides of buildings and walls. This practice was stopped in 2007, four decades after the release of the song, and more theft-resistant street signs were installed; however, some are still stolen by tourists. The Penny Lane area has acquired a level of trendiness and desirability since the late 2000s, and is now one of the most sought-after areas among Liverpool's large student population for its wholefood outlets, charity shops, cafés, bars, bistros, takeaway food emporiums, and selection of traditional businesses such as WHSmith.[citation needed]
Naming controversy
In July 2006, Liverpool City Council discussed renaming certain streets because their names were linked to Liverpool's role in the slave trade. It was initially believed that the street was named after 18th-century Liverpool slave trader James Penny. Officials said they would modify the proposal to exclude Penny Lane as it was generally accepted that most people associate the street with the Beatles song rather than the slave trade.
In the wake of the June 2020 George Floyd protests, which formed part of the international Black Lives Matter movement, Penny Lane's street signs were defaced. Research corroborated by the city's International Slavery Museum subsequently found no historical evidence linking its name to the slave trade. | 7ee09a60-86c3-4932-932f-e44cd2059e58 |
null | Former Chinese government agency
The Remonstrance Bureau was an important government agency during the Song and Jurchen Jin dynasties. It also existed briefly during the Ming dynasty between 1380 and 1382. Its main function was to scrutinize documents between the emperor and the central government (Zhongshu Sheng and Menxia Sheng), and criticize proposals and policy decisions based on moral and propriety reasons.
The office was first created during the Song dynasty in 1017 or 1020, but it only became important after 1032 during Emperor Renzong of Song's reign when it was significantly staffed. Thereafter, the Remonstrance Bureau performed independently of the central government. | 4547db6f-4acd-4b13-952e-1ad4d758a662 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleasure_Bent"} | 1961 studio album by Roland Alexander with Marcus Belgrave
Pleasure Bent is a debut album by saxophonist Roland Alexander, with trumpeter Marcus Belgrave, recorded in 1961, and released on the New Jazz label.
Reception
The AllMusic review by Alex Henderson stated, "Although the tenor saxman's Coltrane-influenced debut album, Pleasure Bent, was recorded in 1961, this vinyl LP has more in common with the bop-oriented Coltrane of the mid- to late '50s. ... That isn't to say that Alexander is a flat-out clone of Coltrane -- he was also influenced by Sonny Rollins and other hard boppers -- but there is no denying that Coltrane's playing is a strong influence on this record ... his roots were hard bop, and hard bop is exactly what he plays on this decent, if derivative, LP."
Track listing
All compositions by Roland Alexander except where noted
Personnel | f719c4fa-4efc-4c38-953f-052ffbc273af |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wojciech_Waglewski"} | Polish musician
Wojciech Antoni Waglewski (born 21 April 1953 in Nowy Sącz) is a Polish musician; singer, guitarist, composer, arranger and producer, a member of Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry and Polish Film Academy. He has played in bands such as Voo Voo, Morawski Waglewski Nowicki Hołdys, Osjan and Bemibem, and also performs as a solo artist. As of 2013, he has been nominated to twenty-three Fryderyk awards (Polish equivalent of Grammy) and won five times. In 2010 and 2011, he was the art director of concert tour Męskie Granie.
He is the son of Polish journalist Jerzy Waglewski. Wojciech is married to Grażyna, the couple has two sons (both are hip-hop musicians): Fisz (Bartosz, born 1978) and Emade (Piotr, born 1981).
Discography
Solo albums
Collaborative albums
Soundtracks
Awards and nominations
Fryderyk | 094e727f-569f-4a24-895f-1d49333a5383 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninetta_Vad"} | Hungarian sprint canoer
Ninetta Vad (born 1989) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. She won a silver medal in the K-1 4 x 200 m event at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań. In June 2015, she competed in the inaugural European Games, for Hungary in canoe sprint, more specifically, Women's K-2 500m and the K-4 500m Gabriella Szabó, Anna Kárász, and Danuta Kozák. She earned a bronze medal in the K-2 500m and a gold within the Women's K-4 500m. | 45bb638d-0127-4425-a376-b8456d028e7e |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_European_Athletics_Championships_%E2%80%93_Women%27s_pole_vault"} | The women's pole vault at the 2018 European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympic Stadium on 7 and 9 August.
Records
Schedule
All times are local times (UTC+2)
Results
Qualification
Qualification: 4.55 m (Q) or best 12 performances (q)
Final | fb66d91d-113f-40ab-bae8-6609802096f8 |
null | In Greek mythology, Halmus or Almus /ˈælməs/ (Ancient Greek: Ἄλμος), also Holmos (Ὅλμος), was a Corinthian prince who later founded the Boeotian town of Halmones or Holmones, in the neighborhood of Orchomenus.
Family
Almus was the son of King Sisyphus of Corinth and the Pleiad Merope, daughter of the Titan Atlas. He was the brother of Glaucus, Ornytion (Porphyrion) and Thersandrus.
Halmus had two daughters, Chryse and Chrysogeneia, who consorted with Ares and Poseidon, respectively. Chryse's son with Ares was Phlegyas who inherited the kingdom of Orchomenus as King Eteocles had died childless. Chrysogeneia had by Poseidon a son Chryses who succeeded Phlegyas as king of Orchomenus and in his turn became father of Minyas. In another account, the second daughter was named as Chrysogone and Minyas was given as her son by Poseidon, and not the grandson. Almus was also credited as the possible father of Minyas.
Mythology
Most of the available information concerning Halmus was recorded in Pausanias' Description of Greece. According to the said author, Almus received a small tract of land in Orchomenus from King Eteocles and dwelt there; the village was believed to have been named Almones (later Olmones) after him. This was also mentioned by Stephanus of Byzantium, who referred to Pausanias' work but called the character as Olmus (Ὄλμος) to account for the most recent form of the village's name. | 7deb8d13-7f9e-4b85-960b-2c9de7c4347c |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallarcha_eurychrysa"} | Species of moth
Metallarcha eurychrysa is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1884. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from South Australia, New South Wales and Western Australia. | 1fa46630-7e20-4459-8147-9e5e3fcc3334 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennie_Johansson"} | Swedish swimmer
Jennie Caroline Eleonore Johansson (born 15 June 1988) is a Swedish competitive swimmer. She competed for Sweden at the 2012 Summer Olympics. She won gold in the 50-metre breaststroke at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships in Kazan, Russia.
Jennie Johansson competed in 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro where she participated in the 100 m breaststroke and 4 × 100 m medley relay events, but she did not reach the finals.
In November 2016 it was revealed that Jennie Johansson and fellow Swedish swimmer Michelle Coleman had been barred from participating in international events representing Sweden, due to disciplinary reasons. They were still entitled to use national team training facilities.
Johansson publicly announced her retirement from the sport in March 2018.
Career in 2017
In March 2017 Jennie Johansson competed in the Edinburgh International Swim Meet and won the 100 m breaststroke event with a time of 1:07.43. She also won the 50 m breaststroke silver with a time of 31.30.
Jennie Johansson competed in the 2017 Stockholm Swim Cup in the 50 m breaststroke event which she won the prelims with a time of 30.39, setting a world lead. In the finals she clocked a time of 30.57 and won gold medal in Eriksdal. In the 100 m breaststroke event she won the first place with a time of 1:06.30 which is a new Swedish (national) record and personal best. | 2fcc15a8-0fe6-4142-91c3-2332b13f88db |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualifications_Wales"} | Welsh Government sponsored body
Qualifications Wales (Welsh: Cymwysterau Cymru) is a Welsh Government sponsored body, responsible for the recognition of awarding bodies and the review and approval of non-degree qualifications in Wales. It was established by the Qualifications Wales Act 2015 and became operational from 21 September 2015.
It regulates awarding bodies delivering those qualifications taken in schools and colleges, such as GCSEs and A levels, but also vocational qualifications and the Welsh Baccalaureate. The organisation has over 75 staff, in a mix of regulatory, research, policy and development roles. Its offices are based in Imperial Park, Newport.
Responsibilities
As set out in the Act, the body has two principal aims and responsibilities: | ce030639-0a9a-44c4-bb46-ab680613bd2d |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mzembela"} | Place in Central Region, Malawi
Mzembela is a village in central Malawi 4.9 miles north-west of Chipoka. It is located in Salima District in the Central Region.
Nearby towns and villages include Kalombola (1.0 nm), Lowe (1.0 nm), Mazenjele (1.0 nm), Katumba (1.4 nm), Luwagala (1.9 nm) and Ndindi (3.5 nm). | 6dffe082-7599-4e00-9bdc-aa97c2433dd7 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_New_York_City_FC_season"} | New York City FC 2021 football season
The 2021 New York City FC season was the club's seventh season of competition and its seventh in the top tier of American soccer, Major League Soccer. New York City FC usually played its home games at Yankee Stadium in the New York City borough of The Bronx. Like the 2020 MLS season, the club also played several of their home games at Red Bull Arena in Harrison, New Jersey due to scheduling conflicts with Yankee Stadium and its backup stadium, Citi Field. New York City FC won the clubs' first MLS Cup title by defeating the Portland Timbers 2–4 in penalty shoot-outs with a 1–1 score before going into extra time, in which neither of the teams scored.
In addition to the MLS season, the club also competed in the Leagues Cup for the first time, finishing up in the quarter-finals after losing to UNAM in a penalty shoot-out.
Player movement
In
Out
Current roster
Non-competitive
Preseason
Chicago Fire FC v New York City FC
Orlando City SC v New York City FC
Columbus Crew v New York City FC
New York City FC v Nashville SC
D.C. United v New York City FC
New York City FC v Hartford Athletic
Competitive
Major League Soccer
Standings
Eastern Conference
Source: MLS
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) total wins; 3) total goal differential; 4) total goals scored; 5) fewer disciplinary points; 6) away goal differential; 7) away goals scored; 8) home goals differential; 9) home goals scored; 10) coin toss (2 clubs tied) or drawing of lots (≥3 clubs tied)
(C) Champion
Notes:
Overall table
Source: MLS
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) total wins; 3) total goal differential; 4) total goals scored; 5) fewer disciplinary points; 6) away goal differential; 7) away goals scored; 8) home goals differential; 9) home goals scored; 10) coin toss (2 clubs tied) or drawing of lots (≥3 clubs tied)
(C) Champion
Notes:
Results summary
Source: MLS standings Pld = Matches played; Pts = Points; W = Matches won; T = Matches tied; L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; GD = Goal difference
Results by round
Source: NYCFC schedule
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss
Results
D.C. United v New York City FC
New York City FC v FC Cincinnati
Philadelphia Union v New York City FC
Orlando City SC v New York City FC
New York City FC v Toronto FC
New York City FC v Columbus Crew
Los Angeles FC v New York City FC
New York City FC v New England Revolution
New York City FC v Atlanta United FC
New York City FC v DC United
CF Montréal v New York City FC
Columbus Crew v New York City FC
New York City FC v CF Montréal
New York City FC v Orlando City SC
New York City FC v Columbus Crew SC
Chicago Fire FC v New York City FC
Toronto FC v New York City FC
New York City FC v Inter Miami CF
Philadelphia Union v New York City FC
New York Red Bulls v New York City FC
New York City FC v New England Revolution
Nashville SC v New York City FC
New England Revolution v New York City FC
New York City FC v FC Dallas
FC Cincinnati v New York City FC
New York Red Bulls v New York City FC
New York City FC v New York Red Bulls
Chicago Fire FC v New York City FC
New York City FC v Nashville SC
New York Red Bulls v New York City FC
Atlanta United FC v New York City FC
New York City FC v DC United
New York City FC v Chicago Fire FC
Inter Miami CF v New York City FC
New York City FC v Philadelphia Union
MLS Cup Playoffs
New York City FC v Atlanta United FC
New England Revolution v New York City FC
Philadelphia Union v New York City FC
Portland Timbers v New York City FC
U.S. Open Cup
On July 20, US Soccer finally announced that the tournament would be cancelled for 2021 and would resume in 2022.
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{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Clifford_Pelletier"} | American Businessman and Philanthropist
Robert Clifford "Bob" Pelletier (May 8, 1933 – June 23, 2016) was an American entrepreneur and businessman. He was a pioneer of financial market data and trading analysis and the founder and CEO of Commodity Systems Inc.
Early life
Pelletier had a background in statistics, probability theory, and analytical modeling, worked in the Advanced Analytical Methods Laboratories at the General Electric Co. in New York, and consulted for the US Navy in Hawaii under Planning Research Corp.
Market data
Business
In 1969, Pelletier founded Commodity Systems, Inc., also known as CSI Data. The corporate headquarters were soon established in Boca Raton, Florida. CSI strived to provide clean end-of-day market data that was checked for errors. Pelletier said "If you’re testing data, you want it to be correct when you initially receive it” Pelletier was one of the first users of the Mitel SX-50 phone switching system, which he used to feed data to his customers from four Texas Instruments 990 microcomputers and one Convergent Technologies supermicrocomputer.
Perpetual Contracts
In 1970, Pelletier developed a continuous price series which was trademarked "Perpetual Contracts". It is a weighted average between two futures contracts. It provided a smooth series that was ideal for back-testing futures trading systems. | 40c982fe-ea53-4fba-87f5-037b1e1c370e |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Williams_(ice_hockey,_born_1940)"} | American ice hockey player
Ice hockey player
Thomas Mark "Tommy, The Bomber" Williams (April 17, 1940 – February 8, 1992) was an American professional ice hockey player. A good skater and shooter, he received his nickname due to an incident in the early 1970s when he joked with Toronto customs officials that his bag contained a bomb (he was suspended for one game by the NHL as punishment). During most of the 1960s, Williams was the first regular American player in the NHL.
Amateur career
Born in Duluth, Minnesota, Williams was a member of the U.S. Olympic hockey team that defeated Czechoslovakia and won the Gold Medal at the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley. He scored one goal and had four assists while playing on the second line with Bill Christian and Roger Christian.
Professional career
His National Hockey League career began when he joined the Boston Bruins for the 1961–62 NHL season. After eight seasons with the Bruins (and a serious injury in 1968 that almost ended his career) he joined the Minnesota North Stars, where he played for a season and a half until he was traded to the California Golden Seals.
After just two seasons with the Golden Seals, Williams jumped to the World Hockey Association (WHA) to play for the New England Whalers. Upon his return to the NHL he joined the new expansion team Washington Capitals, led the team in scoring (22 goals, 36 assists) and was awarded the franchise's first penalty shot on December 5, 1974, against the Buffalo Sabres. He retired during the 1975–76 NHL season.
He and younger brother Butch Williams were the first American brothers to play in the NHL.
Post-career
In 1981, Williams was inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame.
He made an appearance on the American gameshow I've Got a Secret, in which his secret was (at the time, in early 1966) that he was the only American-born player in major professional hockey.
Personal life
Williams' life was marred by personal tragedies that also had a negative impact on his playing career. In November 1970 his wife was found dead in a car; it was never determined for certain whether her death was due to accident or suicide. Normally a happy-go-lucky free spirit, he became moody and fought with North Stars manager Jack Gordon, who suspended him before trading him to the Seals. After he had retired from hockey, remarried and found a new career, his 23-year-old son Robert (a Boston Bruins prospect) died in 1987. Williams himself died of a heart attack in Hudson, Massachusetts on February 8, 1992, at the age of 51.
Career statistics
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{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashirabad,_Bushehr"} | Village in Bushehr, Iran
Bashirabad (Persian: بشیرآباد, also Romanized as Bashīrābād) is a village in Zirrah Rural District, Sadabad District, Dashtestan County, Bushehr Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 1,423, in 275 families. | adc5c5f1-40f5-44bc-85c8-71beb55f0bd8 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_H._Anderson_(businessman)"} | American business executive
Richard H. Anderson (born May 2, 1955) is a retired American lawyer and business executive. In his early career, he served as a prosecutor and corporate attorney, before moving into executive positions. His most prominent roles were as CEO of several large companies in the transportation industry: Northwest Airlines (2001–2004), Delta Air Lines (2007–2016), and Amtrak (2017–2020).
Early life and education
Anderson was born in Galveston, Texas, to Hale Anderson, an office worker for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, and Frances Anderson, a medical receptionist. His family, which also included five sisters, moved to Dallas and later Amarillo, Texas. His parents died of cancer when Richard was 20 years old.
Anderson attended Texas Tech University and the University of Houston, graduating from the latter in 1977 with a degree in political science. He earned a J.D. degree in 1982 from the South Texas College of Law before working as a prosecutor for the district attorney office of Harris County, Texas.
Career
Anderson entered the aviation industry after accepting a legal position at Continental Airlines and served as the airline's representative during the investigation of Continental Airlines Flight 1713 in 1987. Anderson, who had never considered a career in the aviation industry, accepted the position at the urging of Ben Hirst, a neighbor who worked at Continental as a legal counsel.
Hirst and Anderson left Continental for Northwest Airlines in 1990, with the latter serving as a deputy general counsel for the airline. At Northwest, Anderson was initially charged with labor relations and government affairs. Despite having no experience in airline operations, he was named senior vice president of technical operations and airport affairs. Anderson was promoted to CEO of Northwest Airlines in June 2001 after the departure of John Dasburg.
Anderson served as Chief Executive Officer of Northwest Airlines from 2001 to 2004, Executive Vice President of United Healthcare from 2004 to 2007, and as CEO of Delta Air Lines from 2007 to 2016, which would later merge with Northwest. In 2010, during his tenure at Delta, Anderson led an anti-union campaign against the Association of Flight Attendants, calling the labor union "un-Christian" and "immoral."
On February 3, 2016, Delta Air Lines announced Anderson would retire as CEO effective May 2, 2016, and assume position as Executive Chairman of the Delta Air Lines board of directors. On October 11, 2016, Anderson announced his retirement from the Board of Directors effective on the same day. He was succeeded by former Chairman and CEO of The Home Depot, Francis Blake.
In June 2017, Amtrak announced Anderson as the organization's next President and CEO, replacing Charles "Wick" Moorman. Anderson assumed the title of President on July 12, 2017. Anderson also assumed the role of co-CEO on that date, serving alongside Moorman. Anderson remained co-CEO with Moorman until the end of 2017, at which time he assumed the role of sole CEO. On March 2, 2020, it was announced that Anderson would step down as CEO on April 15, 2020, after fulfilling his three-year commitment to the company. He remained with Amtrak through the end of the year as a senior advisor to his replacement, William J. Flynn.
Awards and honors
Anderson was named Aviation Week's Person of the Year for 2015. In 2013, he was the recipient of the Tony Jannus Award for distinguished achievement in commercial air transportation. | ce5d6e65-19f2-48fc-8d3e-9b0f0546170f |
null | Kenyan politician
Japhet Kareke Mbiuki is a Kenyan politician. He belongs to the Kenya African National Union and was elected to represent the Nithi Constituency in the National Assembly of Kenya since the 2007 Kenyan parliamentary election. In his first term In parliament he served as an assistant minister in the ministry of livestock and agriculture. He's credited as the brains behind the introduction of free fertiliser and seedlings to farmers. Between 2012 and 2017 he was reelected back to parliament under The National Alliance party. In the 2017 general election he was overwhelming reelected back to parliament under the Jubilee party and currently serving as chair of parliamentary Committee on National environment.
Education
He holds Bachelors of Arts( B.A ) (Economic) from Kenyatta University. | 7fb2b368-6707-4494-ab8c-89f6cb5b7026 |
null | Political party in Cuba
The Democratic Party (Spanish: Partido Demócrata) was a political party in Cuba. They won 21 out of 57 seats in the Cuban parliamentary election in 1942. | 854e761b-5835-4342-b1db-e13342c453f4 |
null | The Inventory of Historic Battlefields is a heritage register listing nationally significant battlefields in Scotland. The inventory was published for consultation in December 2010 by Historic Scotland, an agency of the Scottish Government, and launched as the Inventory in May 2011. Seventeen sites were included in the first phase of the inventory, with a number of other sites under consideration for inclusion at a later date. By the end of 2012 the inventory had expanded to 39 sites. The list is maintained by Historic Environment Scotland, the successor the Historic Scotland. As of 2019[update] there are 40 battlefields on the inventory, the most recent addition being the Battle of Sark which was listed in 2016.
The list of battlefields is intended to guide landowners, developers, local authorities and the Scottish Ministers in the future development of these areas to protect the historic significance and archaeological potential of these sites. The inventory entries summarise historic sources, archaeological evidence and finds, significance, and provide a map defining the extent of the battlefield. Selection criteria used for identifying nationally important sites were: historical association; physical remains and archaeological potential; cultural association; and landscape context.
Battlefields on the Inventory | 01a70de7-9b92-4223-a20d-39ac15299b2f |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhunt_(2017_film)"} | 2017 film
Manhunt (simplified Chinese: 追捕; traditional Chinese; 追捕; pinyin; Zhuībǔ) is a 2017 action thriller film co-written and directed by John Woo, produced by Gordon Chan, and starring Zhang Hanyu, Masaharu Fukuyama, Qi Wei, Ha Ji-won, and Jun Kunimura. The Chinese-Hong Kong co-production is an adaptation of the Japanese novel Kimi yo Funnu no Kawa o Watare by Juko Nishimura, which was previously adapted in a 1976 film of the same name. Woo decided to develop an adaptation to commemorate the film's star Ken Takakura, who had become a cultural icon in China after the film was the first to be released in China following the Cultural Revolution.
The film was shot on-location in Osaka and Kansai, Japan, and features a mixed Chinese, Japanese, and Korean cast, with dialogue in Mandarin, Japanese, and English. It has been described by Woo as a return to his older style of films, specifically mentioning The Killer. The film premiered at the 74th Venice International Film Festival and released in China on 24 November 2017. It was released worldwide on Netflix on 4 May 2018.
Plot
Du Qiu is a Chinese attorney employed by Osaka-based Tenjin Pharmaceuticals, having successfully defended the company against numerous high-profile lawsuits. About to be relocated to the United States by his management, Qiu attends a party where Tenjin President Yoshihiro Sakai appoints his son, Hiroshi, as the new head of research-and-development. Qiu briefly meets a half-Chinese woman, Mayumi, but loses track of her. Sakai tells a mysterious woman to seduce Qiu into remaining in Japan. She dances with him at the party then sneaks to his house before he arrives later.
Qiu awakens to find the woman dead in his bed. He calls the police and pleads his innocence, but is nonetheless taken into custody. The arresting officer, Yuji Asano, suddenly knocks out another officer and tells Qiu to run. Qiu loses pursuing police by fleeing to a subway station under-construction. Veteran detective Satoshi Yamura is called in with his rookie partner Rika to track down Qiu, much to Asano's chagrin. Following his intuition, Yamura and Rika travel to the construction site where they find Qiu disguised as an employee. Qiu holds Rika hostage with a nail gun, but Yamura surrenders himself and his gun to save Rika. Qiu takes Yamura hostage and claims he is innocent but the two end up in a fistfight, Yamura eventually gets the upper hand but Qiu overpowers Yamura after he is distracted by white pigeons. Qiu manages to escape apprehension and seeks shelter in a nearby shanty town, where he's befriended by the Mandarin-literate local Sakaguchi.
Seeking answers, Qiu contacts Sakai and demands a face-to-face meeting, suspecting that his former employers have set him up. Sakai secretly hires a pair of assassins, Rain and Dawn, to kill Qiu, and sends one of his lawyers to the arranged meeting spot. He explains to Qiu that Sakai and Hiroshi have been secretly developing projects for military contractors. Aiming at Qiu with a sniper rifle, Rain is unable to carry through with the hit because Qiu had earlier shown her kindness, shooting and killing the lawyer instead. Yamura pursues Qiu in a high-speed jet ski chase and nearly catches him, but Qiu is suddenly intercepted by Mayumi, who helps him escape on a Shinkansen.
Fleeing to her remote farmhouse, Mayumi explains that her fiancé, a scientist employed by Tenjin, was falsely accused by the company of stealing their classified formula, and subsequently committed suicide on their wedding day after losing the lawsuit led by Qiu. Qiu apologizes, insisting that the information he was given in regards to the case came directly from the authorities. The two are suddenly ambushed by Rain and Dawn on motorcycles, but Yamura arrives and fends them off while they flee. Yamura pursues Qiu and saves him and Mayumi after their car wrecks before handcuffing himself to Qiu, insisting on taking him in. Mayumi tells Yamura that she was with Qiu at the time of the murder, proving his innocence. The trio hole up at the farmhouse, where they manage to fend off an assault by an army of hitmen, but not before Yamura is shot. Dawn is severely injured and injects herself with a stimulant to recover, but overdoses and dies in Rain's arms. Rika subsequently drives Yamura and Qiu to a hospital, and they let Qiu go.
Blackmailed over his drug addiction, Asano reveals himself to be working for Sakai and demands he be compensated for his part in framing Qiu to divert attention from the real murderer, Hiroshi. Sakai swiftly has Asano killed by Rain. Meanwhile, Rika runs an analysis on Asano's drugs, and finds they match the formula Mayumi's fiancé had been working on. Mayumi gives Rika a secret equation necessary for decoding the formula to properly reproduce the drug, a powerful stimulant, before she is captured by Rain.
Sakaguchi helps Qiu sneak onto a truck carrying Tenjin test subjects, but once at the laboratory he is separated from the others and subjected to an excruciating treatment that causes him to become an involuntarily violent, nigh-invulnerable killer. Sakaguchi tries to kill the other prisoners, but has a moment of clarity and commits suicide. Sakai recognizes Qiu among the subjects and order he be subjected to the treatment, designed to turn a person into a near-superhuman, brainwashed soldier.
Yamura arrives and offers Sakai the decoding equation in exchange for Qiu. Rain, realizing that Sakai is ultimately responsible for Dawn's death, releases Mayumi and gives her a gun. Qiu is injected and forced to fight Yamura, but he manages to break his conditioning and the two turn on the guards with the help of Rain. Qiu, Yamura, Mayumi and Rain end up fighting through hordes of guards through intense firefights. Hiroshi injects himself with the updated formula, surviving several gunshot wounds before finally succumbing and dying, confessing to the murder Qiu was accused of. Sakai shoots Rain, and wounds Qiu but is cornered by Qiu and Yamura, begrieved by his son's death, Sakai commits suicide. Rain dies in Qiu's arms, and Rika arrives with police backup.
Weeks later, Qiu meets Yamura at a train station, where they shake hands and exchange names in Japanese and Mandarin, respectively. Yamura bids Qin farewell as he boards the train with Mayumi, before walking off with Rika.
Cast
Production
Development
After the death of Japanese actor Ken Takakura, Woo searched for material to commemorate him. During this search, he was contacted by Peter Lam, the head of Media Asia, who asked if he would like to do remake of the Japanese film Manhunt. Woo's Manhunt is an adaptation of the Japanese novel Kimi yo Fundo no Kawa o Watare by Juko Nishimura which had previously been adapted into a Japanese film starring Takakura. Woo decided to make a new adaptation of the film, stating that "Ken Takakura is one of my favorite actors in the world. He was my idol, and he has influenced a lot of my films. [Hong Kong actor] Chow Yun-Fat's image in A Better Tomorrow was inspired by Takakura's image and style. I wanted to make a movie dedicated to Ken Takakura." The original film was described by Variety as a "massive hit" when it was released in China in 1978, where it was the first foreign film to be shown in post-Cultural Revolution China.
Pre-production
Manhunt's producers include Gordon Chan and Chan Hing-kai while the film is being backed by the Hong Kong production company Media Asia on a budget ranging between 30 and 40 million. Manhunt marked the end of Woo's previous production company Lion Rock Films following the box-office disappointment of The Crossing which led to Woo and Terence Chang disbanding Lion Rock Productions.
Woo stated that he had "got tired of making big-budget movies. I think about going back to the old times, when it wasn't so much about money but about working with a wonderful, smaller crew to make a real movie." Woo expanded on this later stating that there was great pressure in enjoying the creative process when "being controlled by the numbers during the entire process" or deciding "decide how to shoot a scene because of the budget, not inspiration."
The production team includes Japanese art director Yohei Taneda and cinematographer Takuro Ishizaka. The film features a large Japanese cast including Yasuaki Kurata, Jun Kunimura, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi, Nanami Sakuraba, Naoto Takenaka and Tao Okamoto. In addition, Chinese actress Qi Wei and Korean actress Ha Ji-won were cast in key roles in the film.
Filming
Production started on Manhunt in June 2016 in Osaka. At the beginning of the production, the cast and crew and local government officials held a traditional Japanese kagami biraki ceremony. Woo stated that Manhunt would go back to his older style of filmmaking, referring to his film The Killer specifically.
Manhunt was projected to finished filming in October 2016 and then later reported to be finished filming by the end of November. The China Internet Information Center stated that the film had begun post-production in January 2017.
Release
Manhunt was scheduled to have its world premiere at the 74th Venice International Film Festival. The film was shown out of competition. It had press and industry screenings 6 September 2017 and a public screening on 8 September 2017. Both Woo and actress Ha Ji-won were scheduled to attended the festival in Venice.
The film received its North American premiere at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival as part of their special presentation program. Manhunt had its first press screening in Toronto on 7 September 2017 and was scheduled for a public screening 14 September 2017.
The film was initially set for release in China on 16 February 2018. The China Internet Information Center described that waiting this long for a release is "unusual for a Chinese film". The film was released in China on 24 November 2017.
Soundtrack
映画「マンハント」オリジナル・サウンドトラック was released by Nippon Columbia on February 21, 2018.
Track listing
Reception
Box office
Manhunt has grossed a worldwide total of $18.3 million, against a production budget of $50 million.
Critical response
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 67% based on 27 reviews, and an average rating of 6.2/10. On Metacritic, the film was given an average score of 68 out of 100, based on 14 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
Screen Daily declared the film "a breezy, handsomely mounted fun that shows that Woo has lost neither his mojo nor his sense of poetry." and "Manhunt is a John Woo movie like he used to make ‘em, before his US period including Face/Off and Mission: Impossible 2, and recent Asian historical diptychs Red Cliff and The Crossing." Variety described Manhunt as "underwhelming and undercooked" and that the audience who come to Woo for the action scenes would be satisfied while "those of us for whom the director's best work, like the brilliant Hard Boiled or the transcendently ludicrous Face/Off, is marked out not just by superior gun-fu but by the disarming sincerity with which he always sold the silliness, Manhunt is a disappointment." The Hollywood Reporter referred to the film as a "string of sophisticated and thrilling set pieces." and that "Production values are lavish and some of the metallic sets designed by Yohei Taneda have the complexity of an Escher puzzle. Takuro Ishizaka’s lighting gives even the silly final scenes a visually exciting veneer." The review also commented on the story referring to it as "logic-free" and concluded that the film "isn’t going to go down in history as [Woo's] best film" Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian gave the film four stars out of five, stating that praised the films action sequences as a highlight while stating that the story is a "little absurd" but that the film "offers something that is never in sufficiently plentiful supply: fun." | ea6f4f7e-4985-4ec4-b5b4-8d9fdd2171aa |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldy_Peaches_2000:_Fer_the_Kids/_Live_1999"} | 1999 studio album by The Moldy Peaches
The Moldy Peaches: Fer the Kids/ Live 1999 contains two separate albums and is available in both cassette and CD formats. The artwork proclaims, "It's like two for the price of one!" Many songs on this album were later released with different titles. According to Moldy Peach Kimya Dawson, there are about 80 copies in existence.
A later CD-R version, called "Ferever" (Average Cabbage #3), combined this release with the complete contents of the earlier X-Ray Vision EP.
Side A
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{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domenico_Bruschi"} | Italian painter
Domenico Bruschi (13 June 1840 – 19 October 1910) was an Italian painter and educator. Bruschi also designed tapestries, Renaissance revival wooden furniture, sculptures in stucco and stained glass windows. Bruschi served as the chair of Ornamentor at the Institute of Fine Arts in Rome, was made an official Academician of the Accademia di San Luca, and named Commandatore for his excellence in painting.
Life and Work
Domenico Bruschi was born in Perugia, Italy on 13 June 1840, the son of Anna Monti and Carlo Bruschi. He was a pupil of Silvestro Valeri at Accademia di Belle Arti di Perugia, and where in 1857, he painted the chapel of St. Joseph in the church of St. Peter. From the city of Perugia Bruschi was awarded the Pensionato Perugino which encouraged him to travel to Venice and to study in Florence. With these funds he also studied for some time under Tommaso Minardi and Nicola Consoni.
He became famous after his frescoes on the halls of the provincial council's palace. The frescoes were allegorical scenes alluding to the glory of Perugia. In 1859, he travelled to Florence to work in the studio of Bandinelli. Among his works was the decoration of the Chapel of San Giuseppe at San Pietro dei Cassinensi (1858) in Perugia. Also in 1859 he participated by his father’s side in the liberation of Perugia from under Papal rule. In 1866 he volunteered in Trentino with the Garibaldini forces. In 1869, he frescoed the Chapel of the Rosary in San Domenico, Perugia with depictions of San Stefano, Beati Nicolò e Tomassello, and Pope Benedict XI.
He traveled in 1862 to Scotland to paint for various members of the aristocracy. Bruschi and Giovanni Costa, called Nino, met and became close friends in 1870 and, from this time, the younger Bruschi remained devoted to Costa’s theories. Through trips to London and Paris, and after his early Macchiaioli theories, Costa concluded that a national art could be properly achieved only by looking to the Renaissance. Costa even met Frederic Leighton in the Cafe Greco in 1853 and continued a lasting friendship. Costa later organized reforming groups such as the Circolo degli Artisti Italiani in 1879 (for which Bruschi served as Secretary), the aim of which was to, “embrace and organize our national artists, and to give life and dignity to Italian art.”
Three years later, in 1882, Costa founded the Scuola Etrusca in response to the success of a show held at the Grosvenor Gallery in London. This group also included Bruschi who, with Costa and Leighton, had spent their summers in Umbria throughout the 1870s. Costa’s final group, In Arte Libertas was formed in 1885 and its exhibitions included such celebrated artists as Arnold Böcklin, Edward Burne-Jones, Anselm Feuerbach, Puvis de Chavannes and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. In this way Bruschi would have known many of these artists from his previous trips abroad. Returning to Perugia, he completed the main altarpiece (1890) of the Church of the Annunziata. He was called to Rome to become professor of ornamentation at the Royal Institute of Fine Arts at Via Ripetta. He painted in Rome at the Consulta, at the church of Santissimi Apostoli in Perugia, at the Palace of Montecitorio and other government palaces. Commissioned by the Provincial Deputation of Perugia to paint the Hall of Palace of the Prefecture with extensive frescoes depicting famous persons from Perugia and historical events. In 1876–1877, he frescoed the Baptism Chapel and the Chapel of San Onofrio of the Cathedral of Perugia.
Among his colleagues at the studio of Valeri were Alessandro Vertami, Domenico Belimi, Guglielmo Mangiarelli, Tito Moretti, Annibale Mariani, Lemma Rossi-Scotti, and Pasquale Frenguelli.
He died in Rome on 19 October 1910.
Style
Bruschi was greatly influenced by the art of England, having lived there from 1862 to 1868. In particular Bruschi spoke often of the art of Frederic Leighton. Italian historian Alessandra Migliorati claims that Domenico Bruschi and Giovanni Costa were particularly responsible for the “aesthetic decadence” in Rome during the end of the century.
Writings
Much of what is known about Bruschi's thinking comes in the form of work as an academician. During the risorgimento a Guida per I Giovani was compiled by Romeo Palazzi and Domenico Bruschi to teach the youth of Italy the methods of fine art in the new nation. The Guida was approved in 1883 by King Umberto I and the Ministero della Pubblica Istruzione. Bruschi was very much a part of this effort to revive the gloried past of Rome. To many, decorations like those in the Lincei, were seen as sumptuous and because of this new decorative movement Rome during the 1880s was often called Bizantina to draw attention to the decadence of the city. Domenico Bruschi claimed in a speech delivered in 1885 that “studious artists” do not produce large papers, grand canvases or labor over copies. He wrote in a letter that “I adore and study the classics for their sentiment, without however, imitating them crudely. Rather they inspire me to make me as original as I can without leaving the circle of classical inquiry.” In 1885 Bruschi made an address titled Thoughts on the Art of Painting during the Renaissance. | 491230b3-fe63-4a54-a8d0-0cd4c0960960 |
null | Overview of the events of 1592 in science
The year 1592 in science and technology involved some significant events.
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{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chest_Full_of_Dying_Hawks"} | 2001 compilation album by Sparklehorse
Chest Full of Dying Hawks ('95 - '01) is a promotional compilation album of earlier material written by Sparklehorse, released in 2001 by Capitol Records in the United States. The release came in limited edition, and featured songs from the first three studio albums, as well as three tracks from three other Sparklehorse EPs.
Track listing
All tracks are written by Mark Linkous, except where noted. | 06e0a772-e66c-425d-b3c1-1b86cf1d0313 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scene_of_the_Crime"} | 2007 studio album by Bettye LaVette
The Scene of the Crime is a studio album by American singer-songwriter Bettye LaVette, released in the United States on September 25, 2007 on the label ANTI-. It is a collaboration with Drive-By Truckers as backing band, Spooner Oldham on piano, and other studio musicians. The album debuted at number one on Billboard's Top Blues Albums chart and was nominated for Best Contemporary Blues Album at the 2008 Grammy Awards.
Track listing
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{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_of_Ko%C5%82obrzeg"} | Seaport in Poland
The Port of Kołobrzeg [kɔˈwɔbʐɛk] (
listen) (in Polish generally Port Kołobrzeg) is a Polish seaport in Kołobrzeg, Poland at the Baltic Sea located at the Parsęta river. Port has a yacht harbour, fishing harbour, ferry harbour.
A lighthouse stands on "Fort Ujście"; it was built after the World War II. The old lighthouse was standing ~20 meters closer to sea. When Germans were evacuating from Kołobrzeg, they destroyed the old lighthouse because it was a strategic point for allies.
In 2006, cargo traffic in the seaport equaled 157,600 tons.
In 2006, 18,972 passengers arrived at the port and 18,996 passengers departed in international traffic. | 0ad33c20-4015-4829-bd70-ab8fa76ca63f |
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Raoul Petretta (born 24 March 1997) is a professional footballer who plays as a defender for Toronto FC in Major League Soccer. Born in Germany, he has represented Italy at youth level.
Early life
Petretta began playing football with SC Rheinfelden 03. After three years, he joined Swiss club FC Basel at age six. He spent the remainder of his youth career with Basel, progressing from the U7 level to the U21 level, before joining the first team.
Club career
He began his senior career with Basel II in the third tier Swiss Promotion League. He scored his first goal on 29 October 2016 against FC United Zürich.
In February 2017, he signed a professional contract with FC Basel. He made his professional debut for FC Basel on February 4, 2017 against FC Lugano in a Swiss Super League match. He made his UEFA Champions League debut on September 27, 2017 against Portuguese club Benfica. On 14 October 2017, he scored his first goal against FC Lugano. In December 2020, he suffered a spinal cord injury during a match, but was able to avoid serioud injury. On 15 May 2021 he scored a brace against FC Zurich. During his time with Basel, Petretta played in the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League and UEFA Conference League and won the Swiss Super League in 2016-17 and the Swiss Cup twice in 2016-17 and 2018-19. In May 2022, it was announced that he would depart Basel upon the expiry of his contract, after rejecting a contract extension.
In July 2022, Petretta signed with Turkish Süper Lig club Kasımpaşa. He made his debut on 8 August 2022 against İstanbul Başakşehir. He departed the club in January 2023.
In January 2023, Petretta joined Major League Soccer side Toronto FC on a contract through 2025, with an option for 2026.
International career
Born in Germany to Italian parents, Petretta does not hold German citizenship. On 25 May 2018, he made his debut with the Italy U21 team in a friendly against Portugal.
Career statistics
Club
As of match played 7 January 2023
Honours
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{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Rhijn_(crater)"} | Feature on the moon
van Rhijn is an old lunar impact crater that is located on the far side of the Moon, in the northern hemisphere. It lies due south of the larger crater Störmer, and to the north-northeast of De Moraes.
The outer rim of this crater has been deeply worn and eroded by impacts, with smaller craters intruding into the northeast, northwest, and southeastern parts of the rim. The remaining features of the rim have been softened and rounded, leaving the crater little more than a depression in the surface. The interior floor is relatively flat and featureless, with no significant craters.
Satellite craters
By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to van Rhijn. | dfa52a0f-9a34-4ca4-8da7-7ff9cae4851e |
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Jeff Kirschenbaum is an American film producer and member of the Producers Guild of America. He is known for collaborating with Joe Roth.
Filmography
He was a producer in all films unless otherwise noted.
Film
Miscellaneous crew
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{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AbdulRazzaq_Ibrahim_Salman"} | Nigerian activist
Mallam AbdulRazzaq Ibrahim Salman is a Nigerian Muslim leader and activist from Ilorin, Kwara, best known as the President of Abibakr As-Sidiq Philanthropic Home. Salman was born and raised in Ilorin, Kwara. In 1998 he founded Abibakr As-Sidiq Philanthropic Home, a non-governmental organization in Kwara State, Nigeria. He is serving as the executive director of the World Muslim Congress, Nigerian Office.
Charity Works
Mallam AbdulRazzaq Ibrahim Salman has carried out charitable activities in different regards. He founded Abibakr As-Sidiq Philanthropic Home, an Islamic Charitable organization in Nigeria that helps the poor people in the community. He created AbdulRazzaq Education Trust Fund, that provides cash supports to students in the Ilorin Emirate. | c27225bb-a565-4484-b379-c6bdeef2bb55 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tajno_Podjeziorne"} | Village in Podlaskie Voivodeship, Poland
Tajno Podjeziorne [ˈtai̯nɔ pɔdjɛˈʑɔrnɛ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Bargłów Kościelny, within Augustów County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland. It lies approximately 7 kilometres (4 mi) south-east of Bargłów Kościelny, 17 km (11 mi) south-west of Augustów, and 70 km (43 mi) north of the regional capital Białystok. | 0c38276e-16d2-4f7a-9780-8368baaca669 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nardo_FK"} | Norwegian football club
Football club
Nardo Fotballklubb is a Norwegian football club from Trondheim. The men's team currently plays in the 3. divisjon, having been relegated from the 2. divisjon in 2021. The club played on the second tier from 1993 to 1996.
History
The club was formed on 14 January 1971 by a group of former Nidelv IL members. The club played its first season in the 6. divisjon (seventh tier) in 1972, and won promotion the next year. After two decades at amateur level, the club earned some success under coach Roar Stokke, and was promoted from the fourth tier to the second tier, where they were fighting for promotion to Tippeligaen, and achieved a fourth place in the 1993 1. divisjon. Stokke resigned from his position in September 1995 after disagreements with the board of directors. In 1996, the club was relegated from the 1. divisjon, and have since alternated between the 2. divisjon and the 3. divisjon. The club won promotion from the 3. divisjon in 2008, after beating Tiller 4-3 on aggregate in the promotion play-offs.
Current squad
As of 14 July 2020. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
Recent history
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Records
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{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cindy_Hyde-Smith"} | American politician (born 1959)
Cindy Hyde-Smith (née Hyde; born May 10, 1959) is an American politician serving as the junior United States senator from Mississippi since 2018. A member of the Republican Party, she was previously the Mississippi Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce and a member of the Mississippi State Senate.
Born in Brookhaven, Mississippi, Hyde-Smith is a graduate of Copiah–Lincoln Community College and the University of Southern Mississippi. In 1999, she was elected to the Mississippi State Senate as a Democrat. She represented the 39th district from 2000 to 2012. In 2010, Hyde-Smith switched parties and became a Republican, citing her conservative beliefs. Hyde-Smith was elected Mississippi agriculture commissioner in 2011, the first woman elected to that office.
On March 21, 2018, Governor Phil Bryant announced his intention to appoint Hyde-Smith to the United States Senate seat being vacated due to the resignation of Thad Cochran. Hyde-Smith was sworn into office on April 9, 2018. She is the first woman to represent Mississippi in Congress. Hyde-Smith was a candidate in the 2018 U.S. Senate special election for the remainder of Cochran's term, which expired in 2021. She finished first in the top-two general election on November 6, 2018, but did not receive more than 50% of the vote, thus advancing to a November 27 special runoff election versus Mike Espy. Hyde-Smith won the runoff election, becoming the first woman elected to Congress from Mississippi.
In January 2021, Hyde-Smith joined a group of Republican senators who objected to certifying some swing states' electoral votes as part of an attempt to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election.
Early life
Hyde-Smith was born in Brookhaven, Mississippi, the daughter of Lorraine Hyde and Luther Hyde, and grew up in Monticello, Mississippi. She attended Lawrence County Academy in Monticello, a segregation academy established in response to Supreme Court rulings ordering the desegregation of public schools. The school's team nickname was the Rebels; the mascot was a "Col. Reb" who carried a Confederate flag.
Hyde-Smith graduated from Copiah–Lincoln Community College with an Associate of Arts (AA) and the University of Southern Mississippi with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in criminal justice and political science. She is one of the few U.S. senators who attended community college. After her studies, she worked as a lobbyist for the Southern Coalition for Safer Highways and National Coalition for Healthcare, with offices in Washington, D.C. and San Francisco. She served as the state director for Mississippi, Louisiana, and Tennessee during her time with the National Coalition for Healthcare, which advocated nationwide healthcare coverage.
Mississippi Senate
Hyde-Smith was a member of the Mississippi Senate, representing the 39th District from 2000 to 2012. For part of her tenure, she chaired the Senate Agriculture Committee, which led her Senate colleagues to encourage her to run for Mississippi Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce. She had a conservative voting record in the state Senate. During her time in the state Senate, 79 of her bills became law. She supported measures to collect DNA samples from people in custody of the Department of Corrections and authored a bill to ban most abortions after 12 weeks. After the abortion restriction bill passed and was signed by then-Governor Haley Barbour, it was overturned in federal court. On the Senate Agriculture Committee, Hyde-Smith also helped manage the fallout from a controversial beef plant that defaulted on a $55 million state loan. The state sued firms involved in the construction of a 400-employee plant in Yalobusha County that closed three months after it opened, in August 2004. The state eventually settled with the plant owners for $4 million. In 2001, Hyde-Smith introduced legislation to name a portion of Highway 51 for Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy, who had no ties to the area. The bill died in committee. Hyde-Smith also voted for resolutions honoring civil rights leader Medgar Evers, the Freedom Riders and Hiram Rhodes Revels, who, through legislative appointment during Reconstruction, became the first African American to represent Mississippi in the U.S. Senate. In 2009, Hyde-Smith led an effort to override Barbour's veto of a bill that sought to restrict the power of eminent domain to public use, thereby prohibiting eminent domain for private economic purposes. The bill passed the state House 119-3 and the state Senate unanimously. Barbour vetoed the bill on the grounds that the restriction could harm the state's business climate. The legislature attempted to override his veto, but was unsuccessful. In the House, the override vote was successful with a 101-19 vote, but it failed in the Senate, 28-22. Hyde-Smith was critical of senators who switched their vote after the veto, saying, "Not only could you never come to this podium again and say 'I protect private property rights', you're still gonna have to say 'I changed my vote to vote against private property rights'."
On December 28, 2010, Hyde-Smith announced that she had switched her party affiliation from Democratic to Republican. Her switch made the Senate equally divided between Republicans and Democrats, with each party holding 26 seats. In 2011, Senator Ezell Lee also switched his party affiliation from Democratic to Republican, which gave Republicans a 27-25 majority heading into the 2011 elections. This marked the first time since the Reconstruction era in which Republicans held a majority of seats in the chamber.
Elections
Hyde-Smith first sought election to the Mississippi Senate in 1999, as she concluded her career as a lobbyist and transitioned back to the state. She returned to Mississippi, gave birth to her daughter, and qualified to run for state Senate all in one year. Her opponent in the 1999 Mississippi Senate Democratic primary was 20-year incumbent W. L. Rayborn. She perceived that Rayborn prioritized his personal interests over his district's and had supported his opponents in the previous two elections. During the campaign, Hyde-Smith refused to criticize him or target specific issues. Rayborn was known for a pet cause—allowing non-dentists to make false teeth. A denturist without a dental degree, he showed up to the Capitol a few days each session adorned with buttons and stickers promoting his bill "The Freedom of Choice Dentures Act." In 1999, his last year in office, it died in committee. Hyde-Smith defeated Rayborn in the Democratic primary and Republican Helen Price and independent Frank Greer in the general election, with 75.36% of the vote.
In the 2003 Democratic primary, Rayborn challenged Hyde-Smith in the newly redrawn state Senate District 39 and lost, 65.47% to 34.53%. Hyde-Smith was unopposed in the general election.
In 2007, Hyde-Smith was unopposed in the Senate District 39 Democratic primary. In the general election, she defeated Republican Edwin V. Case with 79.45% of the vote. This was her last election in the Senate district.
Mississippi Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce
Hyde-Smith was elected Mississippi Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce in 2011 and took office on January 5, 2012. She was reelected in 2015, defeating Democratic nominee Addie Lee Green.
U.S. Senate
Appointment
On March 21, 2018, Governor Phil Bryant announced Hyde-Smith as his choice to fill the United States Senate seat held by Thad Cochran, who indicated he would resign the seat due to health issues. Cochran resigned on April 1, and Bryant formally appointed Hyde-Smith on April 2. Hyde-Smith became the first woman to represent Mississippi in the United States Congress. The Senate was in a district work period and was not conducting legislative business at that time, so she did not take the oath of office until the Senate reconvened for legislative business on April 9. Hyde-Smith announced that she would seek election to the seat in the 2018 special election on November 6.
Elections
2018 special election
The Trump administration reportedly did not support Hyde-Smith's Senate appointment because of her history as a Democrat, but in August 2018, Trump endorsed her for election. He stumped for Hyde-Smith in suburban northern Mississippi.
In the 2018 special election, Hyde-Smith was challenged by Republican Chris McDaniel, who criticized her past Democratic affiliation. Hyde-Smith responded that she had "always been a conservative" and added that she had the support of Republican Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant. She highlighted her support for Second Amendment rights, opposition to abortion, and advocacy for the state's defense business.
Hyde-Smith declined to debate her Democratic opponent, Mike Espy, before the November 6 special election; Cochran had often done the same. After she and Espy each finished with about 41% of the vote, she agreed to debate Espy on November 20 before the runoff election.
During the runoff campaign, while appearing with cattle rancher Colin Hutchinson in Tupelo, Mississippi, Hyde-Smith said, "If he invited me to a public hanging, I'd be in the front row." The remark immediately drew harsh criticism, given Mississippi's notorious history of lynchings and public executions of African-Americans. In response to the criticism, Hyde-Smith downplayed her comment as "an exaggerated expression of regard" and called the backlash "ridiculous." She refused to apologize.
On November 12, 2018, Hyde-Smith joined Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant at a news conference in Jackson, Mississippi, where she was asked repeatedly about her comment by reporters. She repeatedly responded, "I put out a statement yesterday, and that's all I'm gonna say about it." When reporters redirected questions to Bryant, he defended Hyde-Smith's comment and changed the subject to abortion, saying he was "confused about where the outrage is at about 20 million African American children that have been aborted."
On November 15, 2018, Hyde-Smith appeared in a video clip saying that it would be "a great idea" to make it more difficult for liberals to vote. Her campaign said Hyde-Smith was obviously joking and that the video was selectively edited. Both this and the "public hanging" video were released by Lamar White Jr., a Louisiana blogger and journalist.
Also in November 2018, media reports noted that Hyde-Smith attended a school that was created to avoid court-mandated racial integration and made use of various confederate symbols, and that she sent her daughter to a similar school.
The runoff election was held on November 27. Hyde-Smith defeated Espy, 53.9%-46.1%.
Tenure
On October 16, 2018, Hyde-Smith voted to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court of the United States.
On October 26, 2020, Hyde-Smith voted to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court of the United States.
On January 6, 2021, Hyde-Smith was participating in the 2021 United States Electoral College vote count debate about Arizona's electoral votes when Trump supporters stormed the United States Capitol. She and other senators were removed from the Senate floor to an undisclosed location shortly after the Capitol was breached. Her staff had to shelter in her office. During the attack, Hyde-Smith tweeted: "Whatever frustrations any American may have, violence & destruction in the US Capitol, the seat of our democratic government, is unacceptable". She later said that she was afraid during the storming of the Capitol and called the rioters "criminals who need to be prosecuted".
Committee assignments
Political positions
Hyde-Smith identifies herself as a conservative Republican. From 1999 to 2010, she served in elected office as a Democrat. She voted in the Democratic primary in 2008 and described herself as having been a conservative Democrat during her tenure in the state legislature. She switched to the Republican Party in 2010.
In 2012, Hyde-Smith endorsed Republican nominee Mitt Romney for U.S. President.
FiveThirtyEight reported that as of January 2021, Hyde-Smith had voted in line with Donald Trump's political positions about 92% of the time. It also reported that as of November 2022, she had voted in line with President Joe Biden's political positions about 38.9% of the time.
2021 United States Electoral College vote count
On January 6, 2021, Hyde-Smith joined four other senators in voting to object to the certification of Arizona's electoral votes. She said she based her decision on "the erosion of integrity of the electoral process." Hyde-Smith added that her constituents "do not believe the presidential election was constitutional and cannot accept the Electoral College decision." Her position differed from that of fellow Mississippi senator Roger Wicker, who supported certification. She also voted not to certify Pennsylvania's electoral votes. The Jackson Free Press called on Hyde-Smith to "recant or resign" for objecting to the certification of Arizona's and Pennsylvania's electoral votes.
Following the attack on the Capitol, Hyde-Smith did not support invoking the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution to remove Trump from office. She also said she would not vote to convict Trump in the event of an impeachment trial.
On May 28, 2021, Hyde-Smith voted against creating an independent commission to investigate the 2021 United States Capitol attack.
Voting rights
In 2021, Hyde-Smith expressed opposition to the For the People Act, which would expand voting rights, falsely claiming that the bill would nullify voter identification laws in Mississippi. She also objected to allowing people to vote on Sunday, which is the Christian Sabbath and a day that black churches coordinate rides to polling places for their parishioners.
Fiscal policy
Hyde-Smith describes her economic positions as fiscally conservative.
In 2018, Hyde-Smith was one of 29 Republicans who joined all Democrats in opposing Senator Rand Paul's bill to cut federal spending by 1% over 5 years, known as the Penny Bill. Republican opponents of the bill said it could threaten federal defense and domestic programs. She faced criticism from the bill's supporters.
Hyde-Smith supported the Trump-backed Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. As a state legislator, she voted in favor of increasing unemployment benefits and in favor of raising taxes on cigarettes. She also voted with all Mississippi Democrats in the state legislature to restore funding that had been previously eliminated due to budget cuts.
In May 2019, Hyde-Smith was a cosponsor of the Transporting Livestock Across America Safely Act, a bipartisan bill introduced by Ben Sasse and Jon Tester intended to reform hours of service for livestock haulers by authorizing drivers to rest at any point during their trip without it being counted against their hours of service and exempting loading and unloading times from the hours of service calculation of driving time.
In July 2019, Hyde-Smith was one of eight senators to introduce the Agricultural Trucking Relief Act, a bill that would alter the definition of an agricultural commodity to include both horticultural and aquacultural products and promote greater consistency in regulation through both federal and state agencies as part of an attempt to ease regulatory burdens on trucking and the agri-community.
Foreign policy
In August 2018, Hyde-Smith co-sponsored the Israel Anti-Boycott Act (s. 720), which would make it a federal crime for Americans to encourage or participate in boycotts against Israel and Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank if protesting actions by the Israeli government.
Health care
Hyde-Smith opposes the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), saying that it "has failed Mississippi." She is in favor of repealing it but says that she supports keeping provisions ensuring protections for preexisting conditions. While in the Senate, she voted to expand the use of short-term health insurance plans, which can discriminate against people with preexisting conditions.
In July 2019, Hyde-Smith was one of eight senators to cosponsor the Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act (PCHETA), a bill intended to strengthen training for new and existing physicians, people who teach palliative care, and other providers who are on the palliative care team that grants patients and their families a voice in their care and treatment goals.
In October 2019, Hyde-Smith was one of 27 senators to sign a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer advocating the passage of the Community Health Investment, Modernization, and Excellence (CHIME) Act, which was set to expire the following month. The senators warned that if the funding for the Community Health Center Fund (CHCF) was allowed to expire, it "would cause an estimated 2,400 site closures, 47,000 lost jobs, and threaten the health care of approximately 9 million Americans."
Supreme Court
In March 2019 Hyde-Smith was one of 12 senators to co-sponsor a resolution in favor of a constitutional amendment limiting the Supreme Court to nine justices. The resolution was introduced after multiple Democratic presidential candidates expressed openness to expanding the number of seats on the Supreme Court.
Social issues
Hyde-Smith's 2018 campaign described her as having a "strong social conservative voting record with a 100 percent pro-life rating [who is] a lifetime member of the NRA." Gun Owners of America, which supports gun owners' rights and is in favor of loosening restrictions on guns, gave her a rating of 50% in 2018.
Hyde-Smith opposes abortion. As a state senator, she authored a bill requiring that all abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy be performed in a hospital or ambulatory surgical facility; the bill was blocked by federal courts. In 2018, she voted with Senate Republicans to prohibit federal funding from being given to any organization or facility that promotes abortion services or family planning. She opposes Planned Parenthood, describing it as "one of the worst things that has ever happened to us."
In 2018 Hyde-Smith released a statement supporting the Trump administration's travel ban on seven predominantly Muslim countries. Her campaign website says she supports the construction of a wall along the southern US border.
In 2012, as the Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce, Hyde-Smith was personally opposed to a same-sex commitment ceremony at the Mississippi Agriculture & Forestry Museum, but instructed the museum to allow it after consulting with Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood. She declared she would seek a change in state law and request from the legislature "clear and straightforward definitions about what activities can take place on the property owned by the State of Mississippi." In November 2022, she voted against the Respect for Marriage Act, legislation that codifies same-sex marriage rights into federal law.
Confederate States of America
In 2007, Hyde-Smith voted for a resolution that praised a Confederate States Army soldier for his efforts to "defend his homeland". During her first term in the Mississippi Senate, she proposed renaming a state highway after Confederate President Jefferson Davis, but the legislation did not pass. In 2014, Hyde-Smith posted a photo of herself at Davis's home, Beauvoir, wearing a Confederate cap and carrying a rifle, with the caption "Mississippi history at its best!"
Donald Trump
On February 5, 2020, at the first impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, Hyde-Smith voted to acquit Trump. He was acquitted.
On February 13, 2021, at Trump's second impeachment trial, Hyde-Smith voted to acquit Trump. He was acquitted.
Personal life
Hyde-Smith is married to a cattle farmer, Mike Smith. They are members of the Macedonia Baptist Church. They have a daughter who graduated in 2017 from Brookhaven Academy.
Electoral history
Mississippi State Senate
Mississippi Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce
U.S. Senate
2018
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{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Because_They%27re_Young"} | 1960 film
Because They're Young is a 1960 American drama film directed by Paul Wendkos and starring Dick Clark as Neil Hendry, an American high-school teacher who tries to make a difference in the lives of his students. The film co-stars Tuesday Weld, Michael Callan, Warren Berlinger, Roberta Shore, Doug McClure and Victoria Shaw. The screenplay was based on Harrison High, a 1959 novel by John Farris.
Musicians Duane Eddy and James Darren appear in cameo roles, and the film's title song became the biggest hit record of Eddy's career. Bobby Rydell's "Swingin' School" is featured prominently in the film's soundtrack, though Rydell does not appear in the film.
Plot
A crusading high school teacher tries to help his troubled students.
Cast
Production
Original novel
The novel Harrison High was published in 1959 when its author John Farris was 22. He wrote it at the age of 20 while a student at the University of Missouri, and it was based on his high-school experiences in Memphis, though Harrison High is fictional.
The New York Times likened the book to "an interminable adolescent bull session."
Development
Film rights were bought by the Drexel Film Corporation in April 1959, and Drexel arranged to make the film through Columbia. Dick Clark, host of American Bandstand, signed to play the lead.
Jerry Bresler, who had a multi-picture deal with Columbia, was assigned to produce and he hired James Gunn to write a script. Paul Wendkos signed to direct in June.
"Most pictures about teenagers are wrong," said Clark, "They are older people's concepts of how teenagers act... I doubt if there ever can be a truly honest portrayal in films. Not all girls are beautiful and all boys handsome, as they are in films... [But] the script is fairly true to life. Most teenagers are normal."
The cast included several young actors under contract to Columbia, including Michael Callan. Warren Berlinger, who played Buddy McCalla, had just recently appeared in Blue Denim.
Shooting
Filming started on August 12, 1959. The campus and classroom scenes were shot at Hoover High School in Glendale, California.
Clark later wrote in his memoirs that making the film was "an extraordinary experience. Columbia really laid it on; they rented a house in Bel-Air owned by Mercedes McCambridge, provided a maid, a butler and a chauffeur, and gave me a hundred dollars a day in expenses."
Reception
The Los Angeles Times called the film "an agreeable surprise."
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The Graduate School of International Business (GSIB) of the Academy of National Economy under the Government of the Russian Federation is a Moscow-based graduate business school awarding MBA degrees. The school was founded in 1988 and was the first in Russia to start MBA programs in 1992. GSIB in 2010 had the largest MBA student body in Russia, accounting for 10% of all MBA students in the country.
GSIB's dean is Leonid Evenko, who is also president of the Russian Association of Business Education (RABE).
MBA programs and accreditation
GSIB teaches all modes of MBA programs: full-time, part-time and modular.
GSIB has national accreditation from the Russian Ministry of Education. It is internationally accredited by the London-based Association of MBAs (AMBA).
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{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbushe_Airport"} | Airport in England
Blackbushe Airport (IATA: BBS, ICAO: EGLK) is an operational general aviation airport in the civil parish of Yateley in the north-east corner of the English county of Hampshire. Built during the Second World War, Blackbushe is north of the A30 road between Camberley and Hook. For a time, it straddled this road with traffic having to wait whilst airliners were towed across. The south side was used for aircraft maintenance, using wartime-built hangars. Today, only the part of the airfield that lay north of the A30 remains in active use. The historical name for the flat piece of land on which it is sited is Hartford Bridge Flats. The nearest towns are Yateley and Fleet.
Blackbushe Aerodrome has a CAA Ordinary Licence (Number P693) that allows flights for the public transport of passengers or for flying instruction as authorised by the licensee (Blackbushe Airport Limited). The aerodrome is licensed for night use.
One of several airfields eclipsed since 1958 by the growth of Heathrow and Gatwick airports, Blackbushe was once a significant airport for passenger and cargo charter flights for the London area.
Currently based aircraft include several corporate jets, two flying schools, a helicopter training facility, as well as Aerobility, a flying charity. The airport is open to the general public and is also popular for walks around its perimeter and to see the wildlife in Yateley Common and Castle Bottom National Nature reserve.
Royal Air Force
The airport started life in 1942 as RAF Hartford Bridge, and it was used by RAF squadrons throughout the remainder of Second World War for reconnaissance, defence and strike operations using Spitfires and Mosquitoes. It was also the home of the Free French Squadron (Lorraine).
A number of important people landed at the airport including King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Field Marshal Montgomery.
RAF Hartfordbridge was also the home of a new system known as "FIDO" (Fog Investigation and Dispersal Operation) built by the Airforce Construction Unit. Pipes were laid down both sides on Runway 26, and fed with fuel. The pipes had small holes, and if the airfield was shrouded in fog, the fuel was ignited. The heat created would cause the fog to rise and disperse.
On 18 November 1944, the airfield was renamed to RAF Blackbushe, due to confusion over a similar area in Norfolk. On 15 November 1946, the RAF had moved out, and the airport was handed over to the Ministry of Civil Aviation, becoming Blackbushe Airport. The A30 was reopened to traffic.
Ministry of Civil Aviation
In February 1947 the airfield was opened as Blackbushe Airport under the control of the Ministry of Civil Aviation. Full customs facilities were provided for both air transport operators and the private owners of light and executive aircraft.
Over the next few years, airlines such as Britavia, Westminster Airways, Airwork, and Silver City all moved in operating Lancastrians (passenger aircraft derived from Lancaster bombers), DC-3s, and Bristol Freighters. Movements by 1950 had risen to 11,000 per year, with 16,000 passengers.
The 1950s saw further expansion, Air Contractors started a scheduled service to the Channel Islands, and Eagle Aviation launched several routes to Europe on DC-3s and Viking airliners. Britavia and Airwork also brought in the Hermes airliner, flying charters to Africa and Australia. Blackbushe became a robust diversion airport for London Heathrow, and as a home for aircraft visiting the Farnborough Airshow. The facilities were constantly being upgraded with new buildings, runway extensions, and new navigational aids and lighting.
Overseas-based charter airlines often used Blackbushe for their flight to the UK, normally finding that the airfield was open for operations, even when other airports in the London area were closed by fog. The airfield's hilltop position helped in this respect. The Avro Yorks of Tropic Airways of Johannesburg visited for several years.
Blackbushe was used as a major location for the 1956 film The Crooked Sky in which the former RAF station buildings and then current commercial aircraft are seen.
The airport was also used as a filming location in the making of the 1951 film No Highway in the Sky directed by Henry Koster, starring James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich and Jack Hawkins.
United States Navy operations
From the early 1950s, the United States Navy (USN) had a facility on the north-east edge of the airport which frequently handled visiting naval aircraft. These included patrol types such as the Lockheed P2V Neptune and the Martin P4M Mercator. Large USN transports that used the airport regularly were the Douglas R5D Skymaster and Douglas R6D Liftmaster. In 1955 USN UK-based communications and liaison aircraft of FASRON 200, previously attached to RAF Hendon, in north London, were switched to Blackbushe.
By 1955 the airport was handling 36,000 movements per year. The US Navy also set up a base as a communications headquarters. This brought new aircraft such as Beech Expediters, Dakotas, DC-7s and Super Constellations. In the late 1950s, BOAC launched operations of the Comet airliners. Other operators such as Pan-Am, SAS, and BEA were using Blackbushe regularly as a diversion from Heathrow. However, with the newly built Gatwick airport, the lease on Blackbushe was not granted, and these operators were forced to start using Gatwick.
On 31 May 1960 the airport closed. All of the infrastructure, fixtures, and fittings were auctioned off. Parts of the runways were dug up. The airport remained closed until 6 October 1962 when it was formally reopened as a general aviation field. During the closure, many light aircraft continued to use the airfield.
Private ownership
The airport passed into private ownership and was formally reopened as a general aviation field on 6 October 1962. There had been a fight to reopen the airport, as there were many objections; however the reopening was due to one man and his resolve, Air Vice Marshal Don Bennett, CB, CBE, DSO. Born in Toowoomba, Australia and best known for his RAF Pathfinder exploits in the Second World War and his escape after being shot down during the raid on the German battleship Tirpitz, he evaded capture and escaped to Sweden, from where he was able to return to Britain.
The Hampshire County Council Planning Committee rejected an application on 25 August 1961, one of two applications for the development of a private aerodrome on the site of Blackbushe Airport. The applications, made by AVM Bennett, were for the use of an area of 325 acres as a private aerodrome, and for the erection of aircraft hangars. The vice-chairman of the committee, Lord Porchester, said that the Ministry of Aviation was not supporting AVM Bennett in his attempt to re-open Blackbushe for private flying. The reported reasons for the committee's decision were that most of the land was to be an open space, so that the proposal would be detrimental to the amenities of Yateley village, and it would interfere with safety and traffic flow on the Basingstoke - London trunk road. Despite many objections AVM Bennett battled the red tape and finally owned and opened the aerodrome in 1962.
The airport became a base for a large collection of historic World War II aircraft, including four Junkers Ju 52s, six Douglas DC-3s and a number of smaller planes, such as Spitfires, which were rarely seen on the tarmac. The finest was, perhaps, a Heinkel bomber, but this was sold in order to purchase a replacement which then crashed soon afterwards.
On 15 July 1978, the airfield hosted an all-day open-air concert, the Picnic at Blackbushe Aerodrome, which was attended by some 200,000 people. Bob Dylan headlined, with Eric Clapton, Joan Armatrading, Graham Parker and the Rumour, Lake, and Merger also appearing.
From 1985 to 2015, the airport was owned by British Car Auctions (BCA), who refurbished the terminal building, and replaced the tower in 1992.
From 1998 to 2009 The Queen's Helicopter was based there.[citation needed].
In 2008, the newly formed Blink launched their European air-taxi service from Blackbushe to over 600 destinations using a fleet of Cessna Citation Mustang aircraft. These were a regular sight at Blackbushe until Blink was closed by its new French owners in 2018.
In 2014, PremiAir, who had been based at Blackbushe since the early 2000s, and who operated light jets and executive helicopters from Blackbushe, went into administration. They were evicted from the 40,000 sq ft of hangars on the north side, and BCA repurposed them as part of their auction facilities.
Present day
In 2015, the airport was sold to a group of investors led by Sir Peter Ogden. These investors had previously founded Blink in 2008. The north side hangars were not included in the sale, so Blackbushe currently has no hangar facilities.
The new owners plan to invest in the refurbishments of the airport and bring the facilities into the 21st century, including building new hangars to replace the space lost on the north side.
Investment has been made in repairs to the taxiways and parking areas, as well as repainting all of the airside markings.
In late 2017, a new airport management team was put in place. They have set about supporting the general aviation activities at the airport.
De-registration of common land and future development
Blackbushe Airport sits on part of Yateley Common. Despite access to the active airfield site being restricted since the 1940s, and provisions of the Aviation Security Act 2018 prohibiting trespass on an aerodrome, development of new facilities is restricted by this common land status. In November 2016, an application was submitted by Blackbushe Airport to Hampshire County Council to deregister the active aerodrome.
Blackbushe Airport have published its vision for the airport's future, which includes a new terminal building, a new café, hangarage for maintenance and aircraft parking, and a club house for general aviation activities.
A public inquiry was held at the Elvetham Hotel on 2–5 April 2019. On 12 June 2019, the Planning Inspectorate issued a decision granting the application to deregister the airport from Yateley Common.
Hampshire County Council subsequently sought a Judicial Review of the Inspector's decision which was held at the Royal Courts of Justice on 11–12 February 2020. On 23 April 2020, the High Court ruled in favour of Hampshire County Council, referring the matter back to the Planning Inspectorate to make a new decision. Blackbushe Airport issued a statement saying they were considering appealing to the Court of Appeal.
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{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaji_Iguro"} | Japanese ski jumper
Masaji Iguro (Japanese: 伊黒正次; May 14, 1913 – October 4, 2000) was a Japanese ski jumper who competed in the 1930s.
At the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, he finished seventh in the individual large hill competition. | 35ad38bb-6ef0-4637-a77c-c29782c6f225 |
null | 22nd professional season of the top-flight football league in Mexico
Football league season
Statistics of the Primera División de México for the 1964–65 season.
Overview
In order to increase the number of team from 14 to 16 for the 1964–65 season, the league made a Promotional Tournament. The top 2 teams would be in Primera Division. The playoff was composed of the lowest team from Primera division and the 2nd-5th teams in the standings from Segunda Division as Cruz Azul had earned automatic promotion. Nacional finished first securing another season in top flight. Veracruz finished in second place, and was promoted to Primera Division.
Cruz Azul (Jasso) was promoted to Primera División.
The season was contested by 16 teams, and Guadalajara won the championship.
Nacional was relegated to Segunda División.
Teams
League standings
Source: [citation needed]
Results
Updated to match(es) played on 27 December 1964. Source: RSSSF
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win. | 4bcc7e85-1cd5-4eec-96da-875633c8e6fd |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charron,_Charente-Maritime"} | Commune in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
Charron (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁɔ̃] (
listen)) is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in southwestern France. It is situated at the outflow of the Sèvre Niortaise into the Atlantic Ocean.
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{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Engineering_Centre"} | R&D centre of Cardiff University, Wales
The Manufacturing Engineering Centre (MEC) is an international R&D Centre of Excellence for Advanced Manufacturing and Information Technology. The MEC was founded in 1996 under the directorship of Professor Duc Truong Pham. The Centre forms part of Cardiff University, which dates back to 1883 and is one of Britain's major civic universities.
The MEC's purpose is to conduct research and development in all major areas of Advanced Manufacturing and use the output to promote the introduction of new manufacturing technology and practice to industry. It was the first autonomous research centre created by Cardiff University.
Research
The MEC conducts basic, strategic and applied research as well as technology transfer with partners from 22 countries in Europe, Asia and the Americas. The research spans a broad spectrum of subjects, including robotics and microsystems, sensor systems, high-speed automation and intelligent control, rapid manufacturing, micromanufacturing, nanotechnology, quality engineering, multimedia, virtual reality and enterprise information management.
Since 1996, the Centre has received over £50 million in grants and contracts and has attracted hundreds of industrial partners. In 2004, the MEC won two EC 6th Framework Networks of Excellence contracts totalling 15M Euros in value. The two Networks of Excellence led by the MEC, I*PROMS and 4M, involve some 50 centres of excellence in the field of Advanced Manufacturing across the EU.
As a Centre of Excellence for Technology and Industrial Collaboration (CETIC) sponsored by the Welsh Assembly Government (WAG) and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), the MEC has contributed significantly to the Welsh economy, having completed thousands of projects with local companies and helped to generate and safeguard jobs in the region.
Awards
Under Professor Pham's leadership, the MEC was awarded the DTI University/Industry First Prize by the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry for its success in building research partnerships with industry (March 1999), and the Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education in recognition of its contribution made to the economy (February 2001). | bd802106-0390-404f-89bb-f6892d999512 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bir_el-Bey_train_collision"} | The Bir el-Bey train collision occurred on 24 September 2010, at Bir el-Bey, Tunisia, when two trains collided with each other. One person reportedly died as a result of the accident, and 57 people were reported injured.
Accident
A train coming from Tunisia's Sfax derailed and toppled over after being hit by the other train at the tail wagon at 3 p.m. local time (14:00 UTC) at Bir el-Bey train station.
Cause
The collision was caused by poor visibility, the result of a violent rainstorm. | 85c12d34-cf23-4f7c-89d3-c6ab7afd4d29 |
null | Lake Independence, often known simply as Lake I, is an electoral constituency in the Belize District represented in the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belize since 2015 by Cordel Hyde. Hyde previously served as area representative from 1998 to 2012.
Profile
The Lake Independence constituency was one of 10 new seats created for the 1984 general election. It occupies portions of western and southern Belize City, bordering the Belize Rural Central, Freetown, Pickstock, Collet and Port Loyola constituencies.
Area Representatives
Elections | a8c7c89d-f783-4917-8a3c-22f082e4884c |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boydtown,_New_South_Wales"} | Town in New South Wales, Australia
Boydtown is a village on Twofold Bay near Eden, on the far south coast of New South Wales, Australia. It was the original settlement in the bay, founded by Benjamin Boyd in 1843 to service his properties on the Monaro plains. The remains of whaling stations and the local landmark Boyd's Tower, a stone spotting tower used to look for whales, are all nearby.
Boyd imported sandstone from Sydney to construct a lighthouse on south head. He also commissioned inns and churches, housing and store rooms, wharves and stock-yards.
When Boyd's finances collapsed, the town was abandoned from the 1840s until the first renovation of the Seahorse Inn in the 1930s.
In modern times, Boydtown is the smaller of the two towns in the bay, consisting mainly of housing, tourist caravan parks and the more recently (2006) refurbished Seahorse Inn. | a0398889-11dd-4a47-9023-d9a86c2c4001 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Journal_(Seneca,_SC_newspaper)"} | Newspaper in Seneca
The Journal is a newspaper published in Seneca, South Carolina five days a week, Tuesday through Saturday, the paper delivered Saturday being labeled as a weekend edition. It serves the western portion of upstate South Carolina, primarily Oconee County and western Pickens County, including Clemson University and the city of Clemson. Its Facebook page lists its founding date as 1903. | 7175b0bb-aff3-438d-b6a0-47cbfa05207f |
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null | Canadian poker player
Jason Warner (born c. 1985) is a Canadian hardware store worker who won a World Series of Poker bracelet in the 2007 $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em short handed. Warner does not like playing poker online, preferring to play at the River Rock Casino near Vancouver. Prior to winning his bracelet he participated in one other WSOP event and a Canadian Poker Tour event where he won $22,000. After winning a bracelet at the WSOP, he finished in the money at World Poker Tour's $10,000 Bellagio Cup III tournament.
As of 2008, Warner has tournament winnings in excess of $490,000.
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null | Below is a list of official residences of India.
Union
State
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{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_in_the_decathlon"} | This page lists the World Best Year Performance in the year 1998 in the men's decathlon. One of the main events during this season were the 1998 European Championships in Budapest, Hungary, where the competition started on August 18, 1998, and ended on August 19, 1998.
Records
1998 World Year Ranking | 09b392ce-51d4-4fd2-8e02-c40ef9b40a6c |
null | Polish painter
Walenty Żebrowski (died 15 May 1765 in Kalisz) was a notable 18th-century Polish painter and a member of the Bernardine order.
It has been documented that Walenty Żebrowski was a native of Lubawa and that his given name at birth was Antoni. However, as was common in the era, the specific year, or even decade, of his birth remained unrecorded. Nearly two-and-a-half centuries after his death in Kalisz, he is remembered as the creative artist behind a series of late-baroque polychromes in Bernardine churches in Poznań, Warsaw, Warta, Skępe, Ostrołęka and Kalisz. | 0d8d29e0-d15c-4161-97c8-41653e128b8d |
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{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhonePe"} | Indian financial MR technology company
PhonePe is an Indian digital payments and financial technology company headquartered in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. PhonePe was founded in December 2015, by Sameer Nigam, Rahul Chari and Burzin Engineer. The PhonePe app, based on the Unified Payments Interface (UPI), went live in August 2016. It is owned by Flipkart, a subsidiary of Walmart.
The PhonePe app is available in 11 Indian languages. Using PhonePe, users can send and receive money, recharge mobile, DTH, data cards, make utility payments, pay at shops, invest in tax saving funds, liquid funds, buy insurance, mutual funds, gold and silver. PhonePe also allows users to book their Ola rides, pay for Redbus tickets, book flights and hotels on Goibibo through its Switch platform.
PhonePe is accepted as a payment option by over 2.5 crore offline and online merchant outlets across 15,700 towns and villages. The app served more than 10 crore users as of June 2018, and processed 500 crore transactions by December 2019. It currently has over 35 crore registered users with over 15 crore monthly active users.
PhonePe is licensed by the Reserve Bank of India for issuance and operation of a Semi Closed Prepaid Payment system with Authorisation Number: 75/2014 dated 22 August 2014.
History
PhonePe was incorporated in December 2015. In April 2016, the company was acquired by Flipkart and as part of the acquisition, the FxMart license was transferred to PhonePe and rebranded as the PhonePe wallet. PhonePe's founder Sameer Nigam was appointed as the CEO of the company.
In August 2016, the company partnered with Yes Bank to launch a UPI-based mobile payment app, based on the government-backed UPI platform.
Within three months of launch, the app was downloaded by over one crore users. In 2018, PhonePe became the fastest Indian payment app to get a five crore badge on the Google Play Store. The PhonePe app overtook BHIM to become the market leader in UPI transactions in August 2017.
Innovation and partnerships
PhonePe helps merchants to accept payments through all UPI-based apps, debit and credit cards, as well as wallet (Including third party wallets) on the app.
2017
In October, PhonePe launched a low-cost POS device built in India. The Bluetooth enabled POS device looks like a calculator and works with AA batteries. The hardware uses Bluetooth connectivity and enables payments through all the mobile devices that can access the PhonePe app.
2018
PhonePe partnered with Freecharge in January 2018. This partnership enabled PhonePe users to link their existing Freecharge wallets to the PhonePe app. PhonePe has also entered similar partnerships with Jio Money and Airtel Money.
PhonePe has partnered with RedBus, Ola, eat.fit, Goibibo, Swiggy along with over 300 consumer brands for integrating their existing PWAs (progressive web apps) or mobile sites to its Switch platform. These partnerships enable businesses of all sizes to build and deploy apps on PhonePe Switch with a unified login and payments experience for users.
2019
PhonePe launched tax-saving funds to help customers minimise their tax burden by investing in equity-linked saving schemes. In the same year, PhonePe also became the first payment app to allow customers to make bids for initial public offerings through the UPI platform.
2020
In January, PhonePe became the first digital payment platform in India to launch international travel insurance. PhonePe also launched Liquid Fund in association with Aditya Birla Mutual Fund to provide the combined benefits of a fixed deposit and a mutual fund.
In February, PhonePe launched the chat feature on its app to enable its users to have conversations with each other within the app while requesting money or confirming the receipt of payment.
In May, PhonePe partnered with general insurers Bajaj Allianz and ICICI Lombard to launch two separate coronavirus-specific insurance products for covering hospitalisation costs during the COVID-19 pandemic. It also launched Super Funds in the same month to aid long-term wealth creation by helping customers invest in equity, debt, and gold funds of mutual fund companies.
In June, the company launched domestic multi-trip insurance to cover all risks associated with all modes of travel within India at an affordable annual premium.
In July, the company formed a partnership with ICICI Lombard to launch Hospital Daily Cash insurance that covers expenses incurred during hospitalisation due to injury or illnesses.
In September, PhonePe became one of the largest insurance tech distributors in the country with over 5 lakh insurance policies sold on its platform. The company also expanded its Mutual Funds lineup in the same month by launching 7 new categories.
In October, the company ventured into motor insurance with the launch of car and bike insurance policies. PhonePe emerged as the fastest-growing insurtech company in India.
In November, PhonePe is the largest digital platform for buying gold with a 35% market share.
In December, Flipkart partially hived off PhonePe into a separate entity in order to access dedicated capital. As a part of this hive-off, PhonePe secured US$700 million in primary capital at a post-money valuation of US$5.5 billion from existing investors of Flipkart led by Walmart.
2021
In September, PhonePe partnered with Indian Super League club Kerala Blasters FC as their official payments partner for the 2021–22 Indian Super League season.
In March, PhonePe became the first digital payments platform to cross 100 crore monthly transactions on UPI, clocking almost 130 crore transactions across all of its payment offerings, including third-party debit and credit cards and its own digital wallet.
PhonePe also emerged as the leader in terms of transactions processed on Bharat Bill Payment System. It reportedly registered over 10 lakh UPI-enabled AutoPay mandates since the launch of the AutoPay functionality feature. It had also processed over 200 crore monthly transactions on its platform by October.
2022
In May 2022, PhonePe announced the acquisition of India-based Wealth Management fund WealthDesk for $50 million and Smart Beta Wealth Management Platform, OpenQ for $25 million. The deals were worth $75 million and done with the aim of widening PhonePe's offerings in the payments market.
Ownership
Financial
Licenses received in 2021
Awards and recognition
Legal challenges
On 14 January 2017, ICICI bank blocked PhonePe transactions, citing the reasons that it did not meet the NPCI guidelines. Initially, on 19 January 2017, NPCI instructed ICICI to allow UPI transactions via PhonePe. During this period, Airtel too blocked PhonePe transactions on its platforms. A day later, on 20 January 2017, NPCI renounced the previous instructions citing the reason that PhonePe indeed violated the UPI norms.
After this, PhonePe closed its operations on Flipkart's website, to align itself with the terms stated in the updated verdict from NPCI. By February, 2017, PhonePe resolved the issues with ICICI and Airtel.
Donations
During COVID-19 pandemic in India, PhonePe decided to contribute ₹10 for every single user who pays to the PM CARES fund via their app with a aim to donate ₹100 crore.
ESOP
PhonePe allots employee stock options (ESOPs) to its full time employees. In November 2021, PhonePe was reported to have conducted a buyback of ESOPs worth ₹135 crore, covering 75% of its current workforce who have completed at least a year of service. | 9336872d-3be7-44de-97f9-756185235dd3 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilkes-Barre/Scranton_Pioneers"} | Arena football team
The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Pioneers were a minor league arena football team that played in the AF2. The team was part of the East Division in the American conference. The Pioneers were an expansion team for the league's 2002 season, and were the runners-up in ArenaCup VIII and ArenaCup X.
Franchise history
2001
The AF2 announced their expansion into the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton area on July 24, 2001. Ownership would comprise a Baltimore-based group, Smith Sports International, and NFL legend Johnny Unitas. The team signed a 10-year lease with the First Union Arena at Casey Plaza (later Wachovia Arena and now Mohegan Sun Arena) and would begin play with the 2002 season in the league's Northeast Division. Terry Karg was hired as the team's first head coach.
The team name was chosen on September 20 following a name-the-team contest. Of over 1500 entries, the name Pioneers was chosen in recognition of the early settlers of Northeastern Pennsylvania.
2002
The Pioneers got off to a shaky start in the AF2. The team took a 21-10 lead into halftime against the Greensboro Prowlers, but the Prowlers would come back to win the game 42-28, handing the Pioneers their first franchise loss and first loss at home. Wilkes-Barre/Scranton lost their next five games before finally taking a win against division rivals New Haven Ninjas in New Haven. With a 3-3 record following the win, the Pioneers were still in the playoff hunt and could secure a berth with a win against the Rochester Brigade or a loss by the Brigade to the Mohegan Wolves the following week. Both the Pioneers and Wolves lost, ending Wilkes-Barre/Scranton's hopes for a playoff spot. Their season came to a close with a 6-10 record.
Following the season, head coach Karg resigned and left the Pioneers. Larry Kuharich, who had played for the AFL's Tampa Bay Storm and was running back coach for the New Orleans Saints, was hired as the team's second head coach.
2003
The Pioneers’ second season got off to the same start that their first one did with an opening game loss to the Greensboro Prowlers. Soon afterwards, Coach Kuharich resigned as head coach to be replaced by Dean Cokinos. The Pioneers would finish the season with a 6-10 record, the same as in 2002, and without a spot in the playoffs.
Attendance for home games fell in 2003. After averaging nearly 6200 fans per game in 2002, attendance dropped more than 1000 to average 4975 per game in 2003. The ownership blamed itself, rather than the product on the field, for moving games to Friday nights from Saturday nights; they vowed to return to Saturdays as often as possible in 2004.
Following a tumultuous season that included the resignation of both the head coach and general manager, the Pioneers hired Les Moss, who had been working with the Orlando Predators of the AFL, as the team's fourth head coach.
2004
Wilkes-Barre/Scranton's third season began on a noticeably different note than the previous two seasons. In a first-time matchup against the Columbus Wardogs, the Pioneers won their home and season opener. The team would continue to win, going 5-0 until suffering their first loss to the Albany Conquest. The Pioneers went on to lose only two more games, ending with a 13-3 record. They had not only secured a playoff spot, but they had won the Northeast Division and earned a first-round bye. Their first playoff game, against divisional rival Cape Fear Wildcats, resulted in a win, propelling them to the Conference Championships. The Pioneers would lose the championship game to the Florida Firecats, ending their first postseason run.
Following their first playoff season, Coach Moss was named the AF2 Coach of the Year. He also signed on to coach the Pioneers in 2005, becoming the first Pioneers coach to remain for a second season.
2005
The Pioneers returned to action in 2005 with nine players returning from the 2004 roster, including 2004 AF2 Rookie of the Year J. R. Thomas. With nine scores on ten possessions, the Pioneers won their season and home opener over the Oklahoma City Yard Dawgs. Wilkes-Barre/Scranton won two more games before 2004 starting quarterback Tim Hicks was traded to the Bossier-Shreveport Battle Wings. The Pioneers then suffered three straight losses and the loss of star receiver Thomas to a broken leg. The Pioneers would endure a further hardship with the hospitalization of coach Moss due to a "weight-related issue". Despite the problems, the Pioneers would finish fourth in the Eastern Division with a 9-7 record and clinched a wildcard playoff berth.
With a win over the Green Bay Blizzard, the Pioneers advanced to the Conference Semifinals to face Florida, the top-seeded team in the conference. Their championship aspirations would die in the second round in a 59-45 loss.
Following the season, Coach Moss signed a three-year contract with the Orlando Predators as an assistant coach, leaving the Pioneers to find their fifth coach in as many seasons. Pittsburgh native Rich Ingold, former Quad City Steamwheelers coach and Dallas Desperados coordinator, was hired in this capacity for the 2006 season.
2006
Ingold's first game with the Pioneers began with new quarterback Mike Granieri throwing two interceptions against the Louisville Fire; it ended with a score of 45-37 and a win. The Pioneers would continue their season-opening winning streak to 5-0 before losing to the Tulsa Talons. After two wins in the next four games, Ingold released receiver Thomas for "insubordination". A four-game losing streak would befall the team, but a victory over Albany in the season closer would propel them into the playoffs with a 9-7 record. Their season would end one week later, losing the first playoff round to Manchester.
In the offseason, the Pioneers signed former Penn State quarterback Zack Mills to lead the offense. However, Mills only spent four days training with the Pioneers before departing from the team, citing a waning passion for the game.
2007
For the fourth straight season, the Pioneers opened with a win, this time against Manchester. In their second game, against the Cincinnati Jungle Kats expansion team, Wilkes-Barre/Scranton's 94-25 win set a team record for most points scored in a game; the 69 points of separation was also the fourth-highest margin of victory in league history. The Pioneers would extend their winning streak to 13 games before losing to Albany in week 16. They finished the regular season with a 14-2 record and home field advantage throughout the playoffs.
The Pioneers defeated the Tri-Cities Fever in the first round of the playoffs. In the second round, they emerged victorious over the Central Valley Coyotes to advance to their second-ever American Conference Championship, where they overcame defending conference champions Green Bay to advance to ArenaCup VIII. Playing against the Tulsa Talons, the only team in the league with a better record, the Pioneers lost the championship 73-66 on a dropped touchdown pass to end the game.
2008
In 2008, the Pioneers began to reload to take another shot at the ArenaCup. The team re-signed several key players from the 2007 squad, including quarterback Ryan Vena. The season got off to a rocky start, however, when the team lost the season opener to the Quad City Steamwheelers. After winning handily over the Daytona Beach ThunderBirds, the Pioneers began their season at Wachovia Arena with a win over the Mahoning Valley Thunder. The Pioneers lost only one game in their division in 2008 and won all of their home matches, giving them seventeen straight regular season home victories dating back to the 2006 season. The Pioneers began their playoff run with a victory over the Steamwheelers but lost in the conference semifinals to eventual ArenaCup champion Tennessee Valley.
2009
The 2009 campaign began in the same way the 2008 season did: rebuilding a strong team with the ArenaCup in sight. Several key players returned to the team in 2009, including Ryan Vena, David Davis, and Micheaux Robinson. The Pioneers began the season with two home wins over division opponents but dropped the Week 3 contest to the Kentucky Horsemen. The Pioneers lost only two other games in 2009, one to Tulsa and one to Spokane. Wilkes-Barre/Scranton also kept up the tradition of winning at home, racking up another perfect season at Wachovia Arena and extending their regular season home win streak to 25. The Pioneers locked up the Eastern Division crown for the third straight year and held homefield advantage throughout the playoffs.
All of the Pioneers playoff games would be rematches from the 2009 regular season. The team took easy wins over Albany and Kentucky and won a nail-biter against Green Bay to advance to the ArenaCup. The Pioneers took a tie game into halftime against the Spokane Shock in the ArenaCup, but the game ended in disappointment again; the Pioneers were denied the ArenaCup.
Sale
Shortly after the Pioneers lost ArenaCup X, owner Cosmo DeNicola announced that he had put the team up for sale. DeNicola, a resident of the Philadelphia area, cited his other business responsibilities and length of time away from home during the AF2 season as the reasons for putting the team on the market. He had hoped that an owner could be found in northeast Pennsylvania to keep the team in Wilkes-Barre and that an owner could be found in time to field a team for the 2010 season. No one was found to step in as owner, and the team announced that it was in the process of shutting down the team offices and would not field a team in 2010, though any potential investors were still encouraged to step up and begin negotiations to purchase the franchise. (As it would turn out, the entire league would disband in 2010, with several of its teams "moving up" into a reorganized, one-tier Arena Football League that year.)
In popular culture
In multiple episodes of the American television comedy, The Office, Michael Scott and other characters are seen wearing Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Pioneers sweatshirts and undershirts. The Office takes place in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Also in some episodes, the gold AFL football with the blue stripe is seen on some of the employees' desks.
Season-by-season
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Mike Larry is a former American football coach. He was the head football coach at the Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin, serving for three seasons, from 1992 to 1994, and compiling a record of 2–25.
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{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Primates"} | Producer & DJ duo
Space Primates are a DJ/songwriting/production duo from England. They have made records with artists such as Katy Perry, David Guetta, DJ Snake, Chris Brown, Maluma, Flo Rida, Ozuna, Ciara, DVBBS, Gashi, Enrique Iglesias, Upsahl and many more. Their music has been featured in shows and films such as Baywatch, The Secret Life of Pets 2, Kevin Hart's What Now, The Mindy Project and on the NFL. In 2019 they were nominated for a Daytime Emmy for their work on the Green Eggs and Ham main title.
History
Space Primates met in 2010. Throughout college they both played Guitar in wedding bands, and for a range of acts such as Krept and Konan, Sneakbo, and Rama Katani. They both took an interest in music production during their time at college and began collaborating. Shortly after leaving college they entered a remix competition on Indaba Music for Capital Cities which they won. They then decided to travel to Los Angeles in the hopes of finding bigger artists and publishers to work with. In 2015 they signed a publishing deal with Dr. Luke's company Prescription Songs. Shortly after they had their first major release with "Whip It!" by LunchMoney Lewis which charted globally. Following on from this they wrote and produced The X Factor runner ups Reggie 'n' Bollie's debut single "New Girl (song)" before moving to LA in late 2016.[citation needed]
Artist career
2018 saw Space Primates release their debut record as artists, "My Life" which has seen over three million streams across all platforms. The follow up "Fade Out" with Norwegian artists Seeb and Olivia O'Brien has amassed over 40 million streams. In 2021 they collaborated with Dvbbs and Gashi for the single "Say It".
Discography
Production and Songwriting Credits | 2d6ad378-d84c-466b-8273-5272da9b1cdc |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gezelligheid"} | Dutch social/situational notion evocative of conviviality, coziness, fun
Look up gezellig in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Gezelligheid (Dutch pronunciation: [ɣəˈzɛləxɛit] (
listen)) is a Dutch word which, depending on context, can be translated as 'conviviality', 'coziness', 'fun'. It is often used to describe a social and relaxed situation. It can also indicate belonging, time spent with loved ones, catching up with an old friend or just the general togetherness that gives people a warm feeling.
A common trait to all descriptions of gezelligheid is a general and abstract sensation of individual well-being that one typically shares with others. All descriptions involve a positive atmosphere, flow or vibe that colours the individual personal experience in a favorable way and in one way or another corresponds to social contexts.
Being a vague, abstract notion, the word is considered by some to be an example of untranslatability, and one of their hardest words to translate to English. Some consider the word to encompass the heart of Dutch culture.
"Congenial" has also been used as an form of Gezelligheid in English translations.
Etymology
The word derives from gezel which means 'companion' or 'friend'. During the Middle Ages a gezel was also the Dutch term for a 'journeyman', which in the Dutch guild system formed a group around a single master craftsman; hence the added meaning of 'belonging'.
Use
Gezellig in English language could be used in places or with a party of people (one or more) that are 'easy to relax into' and 'heartening'.
The adjective gezellig can be used in a wide variety of situations:
Gezellig can also be used as an exclamation, which can either carry the meanings described above or be used sarcastically or ironically or to express enthusiasm for an upcoming event such as one of the above.
The antonym to gezellig is ongezellig, which is used to describe places and situations that are uninviting, lacking in warmth or atmosphere, a person who is cold, distant, unsociable, unwilling to engage in a social situation.
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{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phippsburg,_Maine"} | Town in the state of Maine, United States
Town in Maine, United States
Phippsburg is a town in Sagadahoc County, Maine, United States, on the west side of the mouth of the Kennebec River. The population was 2,155 at the 2020 census. It is within the Portland–South Portland–Biddeford, Maine, metropolitan statistical area. A tourist destination, Phippsburg is home to Bates-Morse Mountain Conservation Area, Fort Popham State Historic Site; it is also home to Fort Baldwin which overlooks Fort Popham, and Popham Beach State Park, as well as Pond Island National Wildlife Refuge. The town includes part of Winnegance.
History
Site of the Popham Colony, Phippsburg was—between 1607 and 1608—the first known English settlement attempt in New England. During its brief existence, colonists built Virginia of Sagadahoc, the first ship in Maine's long history of shipbuilding.
The next British settlement at the mouth of the Kennebec River began in 1653; Thomas Atkins, a fisherman, purchased from the sachem Mowhotiwormet, commonly called Chief Robinhood, the southern end of Phippsburg (with the exception of Popham). Atkins Bay bears his name. The population gradually increased until King Philip's War, when Indians in August 1676 attacked the eastern side of the Kennebec River, massacring and scalping the colonists, or else carrying them into captivity. Dwellings were burned and stocks of cattle killed. The entire area was abandoned.
Resettlement commenced in 1679 at Newtown, located on the southern end of Arrowsic Island (across the river from present-day Phippsburg Center). About 1684, Francis Small had a trading post at Cape Small, which bears his name. But in 1689 the area was again destroyed and deserted during King William's War. With the Treaty of Portsmouth in 1713, conflict was formally ended between the Abenaki Indians and English settlements. In 1714, Newtown was reestablished, then incorporated in 1716 as Georgetown-on-Arrowsic by the Massachusetts General Court. Also in 1716, the Pejepscot Proprietors established a little fishing village called Augusta at the Small Point Harbor area of Phippsburg. Dr. Oliver Noyes, director of the colony, erected a stone fort 100 feet (30 meters) square to protect it. In 1717, Governor Samuel Shute held a conference at Georgetown-on-Arrowsic with tribal delegates, who arrived in a flotilla of canoes and encamped on Lee Island.
But in summer of 1723 during Dummer's War, the Norridgewocks and 250 of their Indian allies from Canada, incited by the French missionary Sebastien Rale, attacked the area. Again it was deserted, with the stone fort destroyed. Governor William Dummer's Treaty of 1725 restored peace, and in 1737 an attempt was made to resettle Cape Small Point. The boundaries of Georgetown-on-Arrowsic were enlarged to encompass most of present-day Phippsburg, Bath (which then included West Bath), Woolwich and Georgetown.
Slow resettlement of the Phippsburg peninsula found ten farms along the Kennebec River by 1751, with five more on the Casco Bay side. But the districts gathered into Georgetown-on-Arrowsic began splitting away; in 1759, Woolwich withdrew, followed in 1781 by Bath. In 1814, Phippsburg was set off and incorporated. The original petition requested that it be named Dromore after one of the town's oldest sections, but Massachusetts chose instead to honor one of its royal governors, Sir William Phips—actually a native of Woolwich.
Between 1842 and 1890, wooden ships were built at Phippsburg. It also had numerous tidal mills.
Fort Popham was built during the Civil War to guard the mouth of the Kennebec, on the site of a much smaller battery built in 1808. It became the control center for an underwater minefield in the 1890s. The more modern Fort Baldwin was built between 1905 and 1912 and was garrisoned in both World Wars.
In 1891 Phippsburg ceded Ragged Island to Harpswell, but in 1917 it further added to its roster of islands by annexing nine Casco Bay islands including Bushy, Hen, Bear, Malaga, Burnt Coat, Black Snake, Wood, Little Wood, and Gooseberry Islands. Malaga was later offered to, but refused by, Harpswell.
During the Gilded Age, Popham Beach developed into a resort area, with steamboats transporting excursionists from Bath. Today, the town's principal industries are fishing and tourism.
In 1971, Phippsburg was the site of the discovery of the Spirit Pond runestones, purported evidence of pre-Columbian European exploration of North America, considered widely a hoax by academics. The three stones were found by Walter J. Elliot, Jr., a carpenter from Bath, Maine. The runestones are now in the possession of the Maine State Museum in Augusta, Maine.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 71.20 square miles (184.41 km2), of which, 28.58 square miles (74.02 km2) of it is land and 42.62 square miles (110.39 km2) is water. Connected to Bath by a bridge and causeway over Winnegance Creek and sharing a border with West Bath to the east of Winnegance, Phippsburg is on a peninsula dividing the Kennebec River from Casco Bay in the Gulf of Maine, part of the Atlantic Ocean.
Phippsburg is crossed by state routes 209 and 216. Separated by water, the peninsula is near the towns of Harpswell to the west, West Bath to the northwest, Bath to the north, Arrowsic to the northeast, and Georgetown to the east.
Demographics
2010 census
As of the census of 2010, there were 2,216 people, 963 households, and 665 families living in the town. The population density was 77.5 inhabitants per square mile (29.9/km2). There were 1,748 housing units at an average density of 61.2 per square mile (23.6/km2). The racial makeup of the town was 97.5% White, 0.5% African American, 0.3% Native American, 0.3% Asian, 0.1% from other races, and 1.4% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.0% of the population.
There were 963 households, of which 22.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 58.5% were married couples living together, 6.5% had a female householder with no husband present, 4.0% had a male householder with no wife present, and 30.9% were non-families. Of all households 24.0% were made up of individuals, and 9.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.30 and the average family size was 2.67.
The median age in the town was 49.8 years. 16.5% of residents were under the age of 18; 6.1% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 19.4% were from 25 to 44; 36.5% were from 45 to 64; and 21.5% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the town was 50.3% male and 49.7% female.
2000 census
As of the census of 2000, there were 2,106 people, 859 households, and 622 families living in the town. The population density was 73.0 inhabitants per square mile (28.2/km2). There were 1,554 housing units at an average density of 53.8 per square mile (20.8/km2). The racial makeup of the town was 98.53% White, 0.28% African American, 0.24% Native American, 0.24% Asian, and 0.71% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.57% of the population.
There were 859 households, out of which 28.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 62.5% were married couples living together, 5.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 27.5% were non-families. Of all households 21.8% were made up of individuals, and 8.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.45 and the average family size was 2.82.
In the town, the population was spread out, with 22.4% under the age of 18, 5.3% from 18 to 24, 26.5% from 25 to 44, 30.7% from 45 to 64, and 15.1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 43 years. For every 100 females, there were 105.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 101.7 males.
The median income for a household in the town was $46,739, and the median income for a family was $53,631. Males had a median income of $33,214 versus $26,250 for females. The per capita income for the town was $22,205. About 5.8% of families and 9.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 8.8% of those under age 18 and 14.4% of those age 65 or over.
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{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichomeris_tepens"} | Species of moth
Dichomeris tepens is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1923. It is found on Madagascar.
The wingspan is about 17 mm (0.67 in). The forewings are ferruginous ochreous with a cloudy ferruginous-fuscous dot in the disc at one-fourth. The stigmata is moderate, cloudy, ferruginous fuscous, the plical somewhat before the first discal, the second discal transverse. The hindwings are light grey. | 3771037d-f132-4fcf-a703-b828c516dc68 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunil_Raut"} | Sunil Raut is a Shiv Sena politician from Mumbai. He is Member of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly representing Vikhroli Assembly Constituency as member of Shiv Sena. He is the younger brother of Shiv Sena Leader and Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut.
Positions held | 0fac8085-e48e-46f4-a0f6-75c8371b21cc |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagery"} | Commune in Grand Est, France
Lagery is a commune in the Marne department in north-eastern France.
Pope Urban II was born in the Château de Lagery in 1042. | 86329c72-060a-414e-b6a9-05296b38e128 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmoset_rat"} | Species of rodent
The marmoset rat (Hapalomys longicaudatus), also known as the greater marmoset rat, is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found in Malaysia, Myanmar, and Thailand. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. It is threatened by habitat loss. | 765ba497-31c1-40e3-af64-4211eda6e4d6 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_EJ12"} | Formula One racing car
The Jordan EJ12 was the car with which the Jordan team competed in the 2002 Formula One season. The car was driven by Giancarlo Fisichella and Takuma Sato.
The EJ12 incorporates heavy design revisions to the front of the chassis, therefore requiring a re-packaged front suspension system. New materials and production techniques have been utilised in the chassis to further reduce weight and the centre of gravity position, with the revised side-pods making the side impact structures smaller, but more efficient.
Due to a drop in sponsorship money the team slipped backwards. Fisichella often exceeded the car's abilities in qualifying, a sixth place on the grid for Montreal surprising many onlookers. Yet results-wise, the Italian had to make do with a trio of fifth places and a final point from Hungary. Sato showed flashes of speed, but managed just two points, at Suzuka. Despite the drop in form, Jordan still managed sixth in the championship with nine points, ahead of BAR.
Complete Formula One results
(key) (results in bold indicate pole position) | 44c96a1d-032d-449f-8d15-418705dce2d5 |
null | Wellington (County) was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, created in 1856 and named after Wellington County and including Wellington. There was also a separate Wellington and Bligh, covering part of Wellington County. In 1859, it was largely replaced by Wellington.
Members for Wellington (County)
Election results
1856
Polling was conducted on 10 April 1856. Samuel represented Counties of Roxburgh and Wellington in the old Legislative Council.
1858 | 64f7d4eb-07c1-4b15-bbcb-d8f0a91aa1ac |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigma_Delta_Kappa"} | Sigma Delta Kappa (ΣΔΚ) is a Professional Fraternity in the field of Law. It was founded in 1914 at the University of Michigan Law School.
History
Sigma Delta Kappa was founded as a Men's Professional Fraternity for Law on August 14, 1914.
The founders were:
It joined the Professional Interfraternity Conference in 1933, and was a chartering organization of the Professional Fraternity Association.
Chapters
The chapters of Sigma Delta Kappa as of the printing of Baird's manual in 1977 (reprinted in the 1991 ed.) were as follows. Active chapters at that time noted in bold, inactive chapters noted in italics:
Publications
Publications included the Si-De-Ka and a newsletter. | ce4a9aa4-a3c8-477e-869f-302b6cc4dc52 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girls%27_Generation_Complete_Video_Collection"} | 2012 video by Girls' Generation
Girls' Generation Complete Video Collection is the sixth music DVD and Blu-ray release from South Korean girl group Girls' Generation. It was released on September 26, 2012 in Japan.
History
The Blu-ray/DVD features all their music videos, Japanese, Korean and English, as well as performances from their first Japanese tour. It will be released in four versions; regular Blu-ray and DVD editions coming with a poster (first press only) and limited Blu-ray and DVD boxsets housed in a film can, including a bonus disc with interview footage of the members talking about their music videos, two deluxe booklets, playing cards, a mobile earphone jack, a ballpoint pen with a projector playing with a member's image (one randomly chosen between nine kinds), and 10 postcards. Comes in a large tin case (Diameter: 28 cm approx.). First Press Comes with Poster.
Track list
DVD 1 (Interview) [First Press edition]
DVD 2 (Japanese Ver.)
DVD 3 (Korean Ver.)
Chart performance
The DVD and Blu-ray for “Girls’ Generation Complete Video Collection” reached number one on the “Oricon Weekly DVD” and “Oricon Weekly Blu-Ray” charts, with 40,000 DVDs and 19,000 Blu-ray discs sold. This is the first time Girls’ Generation earned first-place rankings on the single and Blu-ray charts since their Japanese debut in September 2010. They are the first female artist or group to reach number one on all three charts — Oricon's Weekly Single, DVD, and Blu-ray Rankings — in the same week. The only other group to accomplish this same feat was Mr. Children, a Japanese pop rock band formed in 1988.
Charts
Sales and certifications
Release history | 2742cf9d-7ad6-4d45-9086-2a15f46d4510 |
null | Mr. Basketball is an unofficial award given to the person chosen as the best high school boys basketball player in many American states, regions, or metropolitan areas.
Mr. Basketball may also refer to: | 00746717-ab68-4cc1-b9ff-67386a446217 |
null | The sport of association football in the country of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is run by the Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Football Federation. The association administers the national football team, as well as the NLA Premier League. Cricket is the most popular sport in the country, followed by association football. | df710eec-d75c-45f0-93f8-4fbfbc362064 |
null | 2011 studio album by Vic Anselmo
In My Fragile is an album written by Vic Anselmo. It was released in 2011.
Track listing | 543f6939-8c1b-451e-9067-24fc9d9da576 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Grieshop"} | American swimmer
Sean Grieshop (born November 23, 1998) is an American competitive swimmer. Grieshop swam for Nitro Swimming in Texas, and after setting numerous National Age Group records, he now swims for the University of California Berkeley Golden Bears. At the 2014 Junior Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, he won the bronze medal in the 1500 meter freestyle with a time of 15:29.87. While competing at the 2015 World Junior Championships, he set his first Junior World Record in the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay with teammates Grant Shoults, Maxime Rooney, and Grant House. At the same meet, he won the gold medal in the 400m individual medley as well as bronze in the 200m individual medley.
At the 2016 U.S. Olympic Trials, Grieshop set his first individual Junior World Record in the 400 individual medley with a time of 4:14.00. In August, at the 2016 Junior Pan Pacific Swimming Championships in Maui, Hawaii, he won the gold medal in the 400 meter individual medley with a 4:16.05 and a silver medal in the 4×200 meter freestyle relay with a final relay time of 7:22.73, contributing a split time of 1:50.76 for the fourth leg of the relay.
In 2018, Grieshop qualified for the Pan Pacific Championships in the 400 Individual Medley.
In 2019, Grieshop placed 2nd in the 400 IM at the World University Games.
In 2021, Grieshop placed 16th in the 400 IM at the US Olympic Trials.
He has been named to the United States National Team (USA Swimming) for 3 consecutive years. | 86aa1700-36c4-4249-bff0-dfc40081d556 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pac-Man_Games"} | 2012 video game
Pac-Man Games was an iOS application by Namco Bandai Games that contained timed "S" (Score Attack) versions of six different Namco games, with the games being Pac-Man S, Dig Dug S, Galaga S, Rally-X S, Gator Panic S, and Pac-Chain S. The game also came with a "My Room" mode where the player could dress up their avatar and decorate their room. Points earned from the games could be used to purchase items for the avatar and the avatar's room. The application was also linked to Facebook. It was available from 29 March 2012 to 30 March 2014. | 3a1ca740-60da-4448-8e87-a4b1ed8f13e6 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cane_Hill"} | Battle of the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War
The Battle of Cane Hill (also known as the Engagement at Cane Hill) was fought during the American Civil War on November 28, 1862, in northwestern Arkansas, near the town of Cane Hill. Union troops under Brig. Gen. James G. Blunt had entered northwestern Arkansas, and Major General Thomas Hindman of the Confederate Army sent a force under John S. Marmaduke to Cane Hill to intercept Blunt. Blunt attacked on November 28, and quickly broke Marmaduke's first line. An effective rear guard action by Joseph O. Shelby allowed the Confederates to form a second position on Reed's Mountain, but Blunt also broke this line, with the help of his artillery. Blunt's Union troops pursued the retreating Confederates, and darkness ended the action. The battle set the stage for the Battle of Prairie Grove, which occurred the next month.
Background
After driving a Confederate army commanded by Earl Van Dorn and Sterling Price from northwestern Arkansas in 1862 at the Battle of Pea Ridge, Union general Samuel R. Curtis was promoted to Major General and assigned to command the Department of the Missouri. Curtis replaced John M. Schofield. In October of the same year, Curtis formed a new army named the Army of the Frontier and appointed Schofield to command it. Schofield's new army was composed of three divisions, commanded by James G. Blunt, James Totten, and Francis J. Herron. Opposing Schofield was the command of Confederate Thomas Hindman. On May 31, 1862, Hindman had been assigned to command the Trans-Mississippi Department, but he was later relieved of command because his strict control of the region angered prominent Arkansas civilians. Hindman was replaced by Theophilus Holmes. Despite his replacement as department commander, Hindman retained a field command and formed a serviceable army out of the scattered Confederate troops in the region.
In early November, Herron's and Totten's divisions were stationed near Springfield, Missouri, while Blunt's division was south of Bentonville, Arkansas. A Confederate cavalry force under Emmett MacDonald had reached Cane Hill, Arkansas. Blunt was informed of MacDonald's presence, and sent a small force under Colonel William F. Cloud to confront MacDonald. After a brief clash, MacDonald's horsemen retreated. After Cloud's force left the area, Hindman sent Brigadier General John S. Marmaduke with 2,000 cavalrymen to reoccupy Cane Hill. Union intelligence soon learned of the movement. Cane Hill was a smaller plateau within the larger Ozark Plateau, and this high ground provided a position for Marmaduke to base his lines on. Once Marmaduke learned that Blunt was approaching his position, Marmaduke prepared for battle and sent his supply train away towards relative safety.
Battle
After learning that Marmaduke had advanced to Cane Hill, Blunt moved south to confront him with 5,000 men. Marmaduke countered Blunt's advance by moving a brigade under Colonel Joseph O. Shelby, including Quantrill's Raiders, forward to block the road Marmaduke expected Blunt to advance down. In addition to Shelby's brigade, Marmaduke's force also contained a brigade commanded by Colonel Charles A. Carroll.
However, Blunt approached along a different road than anticipated by the Confederates, creating an element of surprise. A brief artillery duel segued into an infantry assault by Blunt's force, with Cloud's brigade as the spearhead doing the most damage. The initial Confederate position had to be abandoned. Besides his numerical advantage, Blunt had a sizable advantage in material, contributing to the collapse of the Confederate line. Blunt had 30 cannons with his force, while Shelby had four and Carroll an additional two. A substantial part of the Confederate force was also armed only with shotguns, while the Union had substantially better weapons.
The collapse of this initial Confederate position rendered the position of Carroll's brigade unsustainable, and Carroll's Arkansas cavalry fell back. With Carroll's brigade in collapse, Shelby organized a rear guard in order to keep Blunt at bay until the Confederates could retreat to a better position. Shelby divided his force into small segments, and then organized them in a successive line along the path of retreat. As Blunt pursued the retreating Confederates, the Union forces would run into one of Shelby's segments, which would hold Blunt's much-stronger force off for as long as possible. Once each position became untenable, the segment would retreat and Blunt would reach the next one. This system worked long enough to enable the Confederates to form a general secondary line. The broken nature of some of the ground the Union army had to move over also slowed Blunt's pursuit.
Marmaduke's attempt to form a secondary line was abandoned after another brief artillery duel, due to the fact that Blunt's cannons had a clear advantage over Marmaduke's. After falling back from that position, Marmaduke formed another defensive line at Reed's Mountain. Reed's Mountain was a locally prominent height noted for the lack of vegetation on its slopes, providing an open space where Marmaduke could better align his artillery. Again, Union artillery fire wreaked havoc in the Confederate line, although Blunt also order an infantry assault by the 11th Kansas and the Third Indian Home Guard. The Confederates began to run out of ammunition for both their artillery and cavalry, and one of the Confederate cannons was damaged to the extent that it was no longer usable. The Confederates were forced to fall back from that position as well, and were pursued by Blunt. Again, the broken nature of some of the ground along the path of the Confederate retreat slowed the Union pursuit. Eventually, darkness ended the fighting.
Aftermath
The number of casualties incurred by each side are not known for certain. One historian places Blunt as suffering eight men killed and 36 wounded, for a total of 44 casualties and Marmaduke at ten killed and a minimum of 70 wounded and missing, for a total of at least 80. However, other sources place Blunt's casualties at a total of 41 and Marmaduke's at a total of 45. Blunt claimed victory, although the escape of Marmaduke's command in relatively good order allowed the Confederates to view the action as only a setback. Blunt remained in the Cane Hill area after the battle, while Marmaduke retreated to Van Buren, Arkansas.
While Blunt was encamped at Cane Hill after the battle, the Army of the Frontier's two other divisions, Totten's and Herron's, were still in the Springfield area, roughly 100 miles away. Deep in enemy territory, Blunt had a tenuous supply line, and the distance to Springfield would mean that reinforcements would take some time to reach his position. With Blunt isolated, Hindman decided to move his army north to attack Blunt at Cane Hill before Herron could arrive with the other two Union divisions. However, Herron sent the two divisions on a hard march, and the Union reinforcements reached Blunt around the same time as Hindman's army did. This resulted in the Battle of Prairie Grove, in which the combined forces of Herron and Blunt fought Hindman to a standstill. However, lack of ammunition and reinforcements forced Hindman to retreat, giving the Union control of northwestern Arkansas.
Battlefield preservation
A significant portion of the battlefield, about 5,750 acres (2,330 ha), was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994 as the Cane Hill Battlefield. The Arkansas Civil War Centennial Commission erected a highway marker near the battle site to interpret the fighting. In addition to the marker, a driving tour explaining the Cane Hill battlefield has been developed. | 4bce3cf0-c45a-48a9-94d4-5ed5b05c797a |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka_Navy_25th_Anniversary_Medal"} | Award
The Sri Lanka Navy 25th Anniversary Medal (Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා නාවික හමුදා 25වන සංවත්සර පදක්කම Śrī Laṃkā nāvika hamudā visipasvana sangwathsara padakkama) was awarded to all ranks of both the regular- and volunteer forces of the Sri Lanka Navy, as well as civilians employed within the Navy who have completed a minimum of ten years of service by any time point within the 9 December 1974 to 8 December 1975 period, the year of the 25th anniversary of the Navy. | c72fdef1-e507-45eb-ab69-2986dabbbe6b |
null | Regiae (or Regiæ) was an ancient city and former bishopric in Roman North Africa. It is currently a Latin Catholic titular see. Its presumed location is Arbal, in modern Algeria.
History
The city was important enough in the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis to become a suffragan diocese of its capital Caesarea Mauretaniae's Metropolitan archbishopric. However it later faded.
Titular see
The diocese was nominally restored as a Latin Catholic titular bishopric in 1933, the Italian Curiate title being Regie.
It has had the following incumbents, all of the lowest (episcopal) rank : | f8f4f247-973a-4408-8529-c5b31e466f81 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Colbys"} | American soap opera
American TV series or program
The Colbys (originally titled Dynasty II: The Colbys) is an American prime time television soap opera that originally aired on ABC from November 20, 1985, to March 26, 1987. Created by Richard and Esther Shapiro and Eileen and Robert Pollock and produced by Aaron Spelling, it is a spin-off of Dynasty and revolves around the Colbys, another vastly wealthy family who own a large multinational conglomerate and are connected to the Carringtons of Dynasty. Intended to surpass its predecessor in opulence, the series' producers were handed an immensely high budget for the era, and cast a handful of well-known movie stars among its leads.
The Colbys stars Charlton Heston as tycoon Jason Colby, Barbara Stanwyck as his sister Constance, Stephanie Beacham as his wife Sable, Katharine Ross as Sable's sister and Jason's lover Francesca, and Ricardo Montalbán as Jason's business rival Zach Powers. John James and Emma Samms also star as their Dynasty characters Jeff Colby and Fallon Carrington. The Colbys was ultimately a ratings disappointment, and was cancelled after two seasons.
Premise
On Dynasty, presumed-dead heiress Fallon Carrington Colby (Emma Samms) reappears alive, suffering from amnesia and using the name Randall Adams. Drawn to California after recognizing the name "Colby", she meets playboy Miles Colby (Maxwell Caulfield), not realizing that he is the cousin of her ex-husband, Jeff (John James). A mutual business venture brings the Colbys of California to the Denver mansion of Fallon's father Blake Carrington (John Forsythe).
Set in Los Angeles, The Colbys focuses on the extended Colby family as Jeff relocates to California to start his life anew—and comes face to face with Fallon, now married to his cousin Miles. A fierce rivalry is sparked between Jeff and Miles, and the love triangle spans the series. Miles's father, billionaire Jason Colby (Charlton Heston), has a rocky marriage to the manipulative Sable (Stephanie Beacham), and a longtime attraction to Sable's sister Francesca (Katharine Ross)—Jeff's estranged mother, and the former wife of Jason's deceased brother Philip. Other characters include Jason's powerful sister Constance Colby (Barbara Stanwyck), Miles's twin sister Monica (Tracy Scoggins) and their third sibling Bliss (Claire Yarlett).
In addition to Forsythe's Blake, Dynasty characters Adam Carrington (Gordon Thomson), Steven Carrington (Jack Coleman), and Dominique Deveraux (Diahann Carroll) also made guest appearances on the show between 1985 and 1986.
Storylines
The first season's storylines include the construction of an oil pipeline; Zach Powers' vendetta against the Colbys; the romance between Jason and his brother Philip's widow Francesca; the subsequent collapse of Jason's marriage to Sable; and eventually the revelation that Jason, not Philip, is in fact Jeff's father. There were initially a number of crossovers featuring members of the Dynasty cast, most notably Blake Carrington, his sons Adam and Steven, and half-sister Dominique Deveraux. At the end of the season, Fallon learns that Miles could be the father of her unborn child, Monica's plane crashes, and Sable has Jason arrested for assault and battery, claiming that he had inflicted the injuries she actually sustained by falling down a flight of stairs.
In the second season, Jason manages to divorce Sable and plans to marry Francesca, but the presumed-dead Philip reappears alive. Previously romantically linked to both Zach's nephew and former stepson, Bliss falls in love with a Russian dancer watched by the KGB, the son Monica had given up eight years before re-enters her life, and Constance and Hutch are killed in a plane crash in India. At the end of the season, Miles's wife Channing phones to say she will abort their unborn baby; Sable kidnaps Monica's son; Francesca seemingly dies after a car crash involving herself and Philip; and Fallon, stranded in the desert, is seemingly abducted by aliens in the finale. The series' most infamous cliffhanger proved to be its last when the series was subsequently cancelled.
Episodes
Production and broadcast
In early 1985, news outlets began reporting that ABC was developing a spin-off of Dynasty, then the #1 rated show in the US. Dynasty actors Rock Hudson, Ali MacGraw, Jack Coleman, Heather Locklear, and John James were mentioned as potential stars of the new series, tentatively titled The Colbys, and ABC was purportedly wooing Pamela Sue Martin to reprise her role as Fallon Carrington. It was also reported that Dynasty stars John Forsythe, Linda Evans, Joan Collins, and guest star Elizabeth Taylor would appear in the first two episodes of the spin-off, which would initially air after Dynasty on Wednesdays but would move to a time slot opposite Dallas on Fridays.
In March 1985, ABC announced that its rumored Dynasty spin-off had been greenlighted, to debut the following season. The Colbys would star John James as his Dynasty character Jeff Colby, with General Hospital actress Emma Samms as Fallon Carrington. The project was originally titled Dynasty II: The Colbys of California, which was shortened to Dynasty II: The Colbys and ultimately simplified to The Colbys. In May 1985, ABC unveiled its fall 1985 schedule, which placed The Colbys into the Thursday 9 pm time slot, preceded by The Fall Guy and followed by 20/20.
In June 1985, Dynasty co-creator Esther Shapiro approached Charlton Heston about the role of patriarch Jason Colby, the brother of Dynasty's Cecil Colby (Lloyd Bochner). Doris Day was considered, and both Burt Lancaster and Katharine Hepburn reportedly turned down roles in the series. In early July 1985, it was reported that in addition to Heston, ABC was pursuing Barbara Stanwyck and Faye Dunaway for starring roles, as well as James Coburn to play Ben Carrington, the brother of Dynasty's Blake Carrington (John Forsythe). On July 9, 1985, it was reported that The Colbys' versions of Dynasty rivals Krystle Carrington (Linda Evans) and Alexis Colby (Joan Collins) were going to be called Anthea (later changed to Francesca) and Sabella (nicknamed "Sable").
Heston's casting was confirmed in July 1985, as producers were negotiating with Angie Dickinson to play his character's wife. Ultimately, Dunaway, Dickinson, Elizabeth Ashley, and Diana Rigg all turned down the role of Jason's wife Sable. In August 1985, producers cast British actress Stephanie Beacham, "a household name" in the UK who had starred in the title role of the ITV drama Connie. Stanwyck and Maxwell Caulfield joined the cast in July 1985 as Jason's sister Constance and son Miles, with Stanwyck having a clause in her contract that she would not be required to do press interviews. That month, Elizabeth Taylor made a statement that she would not be appearing on Dynasty or The Colbys, then or in the future.
In August 1985, it was reported Heston would be paid $85,000 per episode and Stanwyck would be paid $75,000. The same month, Katharine Ross was cast as Francesca. In September 1985, it was reported that Ricardo Montalban would appear as a "conniving shipping tycoon" described as "ambitious and scheming, but with a kind of charm that can allow him to get away with almost anything." The final cast included Tracy Scoggins and Claire Yarlett as Jason and Sable's daughters, Monica and Bliss Colby.
The 13 bedroom, 15,000 sqft Jay Paley House in Holmby Hills (at the time owned by Paris Hilton's grandfather Barron Hilton) featured as the family palatial Bel Air mansion, The Belvedere. The attached stables were filmed at the Will Rogers State Historic Park.[citation needed]
The Colbys premiered at 10 pm on Wednesday, November 20, 1985, after Dynasty's eighth episode of the season, and was a ratings success. The next episode of The Colbys was scheduled to air the next night, Thursday, November 21, in the show's own new time slot, but was preempted by a televised speech by US President Ronald Reagan. It was later reported that Heston, an old friend of Reagan's, had phoned the President to request the speech be rescheduled, to no avail. Episode two aired on Wednesday, November 27, 1985, before Dynasty, and then The Colbys moved to its new night on Thursday, November 28, 1985.
Ratings for The Colbys dropped considerably in the new time slot, though a March 1986 episode featuring Jeff and Fallon's wedding garnered a high rating at a level not seen since the series' first two episodes. In January 1986, it was reported that Heston had extended his stay on The Colbys from 17 to 24 episodes, and Stanwyck ultimately extended from 13 to 24 episodes. ABC renewed The Colbys for a second season in March 1986, with Stanwyck stating she only wanted to appear in 6 or 7 episodes. The same month, Ron Miller of the Evening Independent suggested that The Colbys "appears to be so prohibitively expensive that future payoff in syndication seems very chancy."
In June 1986, it was reported that Stanwyck would not be returning for season two. She had purportedly complained for some time about her character's development, and in leaving suggested that Constance be killed. In July 1986, Kim Morgan Greene was cast as magazine reporter Channing Carter. In December 1986, it was reported that Heston had sent co-star Caulfield a letter admonishing him for unprofessional behavior on set, while calling the rest of The Colbys team "the best I've worked with in 30 years." ABC cancelled The Colbys after its second season.
Home media
On May 12, 2015, Shout! Factory released The Colbys: The Complete Series on DVD in Region 1 for the very first time. The 12-disc set features all 49 episodes of the series as well as all new cast interviews with Stephanie Beacham, John James and Maxwell Caulfield.
On July 20, 2015, The Colbys was released in Germany (Region 2). The DVD is split in two, the first season and the second season. The DVDs have a German cover (Die Colbys - Das Imperium) but are spoken in English and dubbed in German. The series has also been released on DVD in Spain in four volumes (two per season).[citation needed] In the UK, it was released as a single boxset of 12 discs (identical to the US release) by the DVD distributor MediumRare Entertainment in 2018.
The distribution rights to The Colbys, originally owned by Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution, transferred to CBS Paramount Network Television in 2006.[citation needed]
Ratings and criticism
The fifth season of Dynasty was ranked No. 1 in the Nielsen ratings in the United States. The Colbys debuted during Dynasty's sixth season, which saw Dynasty drop to 7th in the ratings. Although The Colbys garnered high ratings for its premiere episode and won a 1986 People's Choice Award for New Dramatic TV Program, the first season finished in 35th place, in part due to competition with NBC's Cheers and Night Court on Thursday nights. The Colbys was renewed for a second season but, scheduled opposite Cheers and Night Court—as well as a few weeks against rival soap Knots Landing on CBS -- The Colbys finished 64th for the year and was subsequently cancelled. Dynasty fell to No. 24 for its seventh season.
Like Dynasty, the series employed the standard melodrama of soap operas and added well-known performers and elaborate sets and wardrobe. Lee Margulies of the Los Angeles Times wrote, "It's not a spin-off, it's a clone—as close a replica as ABC and the Dynasty producers could concoct, right down to the credits." In their Directory To Primetime TV Shows, television historians Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh stated that the series likely failed because it was "too close a copy" of Dynasty. Barbara Holsopple of The Pittsburgh Press compared the scripts to Dick and Jane books for children, and criticized the acting.
When Stanwyck opted to end her contract and leave the series after its first season in 1986, she reportedly called the show "a turkey", and told co-creator Esther Shapiro "This is the biggest pile of garbage I ever did" and that "It's one thing to know you're making a lot of money off vulgarity, but when you don't know it's vulgar—it's plain stupid." Conversely, Heston always supported the show and stated its cancellation "was premature" as "we were coming closer to being a creative production team that could make the kind of show we'd planned on from the beginning." Dynasty star Joan Collins categorically refused to make any appearances in The Colbys herself, believing it would have caused "massive confusion between the two shows".
Aftermath
Following the cancellation of The Colbys, the characters of Jeff and Fallon were immediately reintroduced into Dynasty during that series' eighth-season premiere, "The Siege – Part 1". Sable (now divorced from Jason, who was still involved with Frankie, who survived the car crash) and Monica (who no longer had contact with ex-lover Cash or their son Scott) also later reappeared on Dynasty for the series' ninth (and final) season in 1988–89. During the final season of Dynasty, it is revealed that Monica and her twin Miles might not have been Jason's children, as Sable had been raped around the time they were conceived. Miles (who refers to Jeff as his half-brother, leading to the assumption that Jason was his and Monica's father after all) later appears in the miniseries Dynasty: The Reunion (1991), reunited with Fallon, and participates in Jeff's rescue from the Consortium. The Jeff-Fallon-Miles love triangle is finally resolved, as Fallon leaves Miles for Jeff once again. | 59e710db-3dc8-46fc-a798-3d2a753871a6 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Wilhelm_von_Fersen"} | Swedish field marshal
Otto Wilhelm von Fersen (1623, Reval – 1703, Kurna) was a Swedish general and nobleman of the Fersen family, governor general of Ingmermanland and Kexholm from 1691 to 1698, field marshal 1693. He was the son of Hermann von Fersen the elder and cousin to Fabian von Fersen.
After his death he was buried in St Mary's Cathedral, Tallinn, where a sarcophagus, probably created by the sculptor Johann Gustav Stockenberg, was erected in his memory. | eccd9b81-f097-4e76-b15f-ec3354a74daa |
null | Hong Kong-based asset management company
Value Partners Group Limited (SEHK: 806) is a Hong Kong-based asset management company.
History
The company was founded in 1993 as a boutique firm by the present Chairman & Co-chief investment officer Dato' Seri Cheah Cheng Hye, and businessman Yeh V-nee, a non-official member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong from 2009 to 2012.
Value Partners positions itself as a value investor and adopts value investing strategy for its funds. Headquartered in Hong Kong, Value Partners has offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and London. It has a global client base and is regarded as one of Asia's largest asset management firms by the industry.
Value Partners was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (Stock code: 806 HK) in November 2007 and it is the first asset management firm listed in Hong Kong.
In 2018, Value Partners was listed among the 200 top-performing public companies on Forbes Asia's "Best Under A Billion list." It dropped off that list in 2019.
Value Partners disposed its 49% equity interests in Goldstate Capital Fund Management Co., Ltd. to a company under Yunnan Jiutian Investment Enterprises Ltd in 2015, for a consideration of RMB45 million.
In 2019, Value Partners launched an investment fund towards China for British and European investors after demands for this service had increased. The move comes one year after an assessment by American asset manager Northern Trust, which found that Asian investment funds find it difficult to compete in the European market. According to the study, Value Partners only sourced $211 million, accounting for just 1.3% of its total assets under management. | 978a507d-a163-4098-adf4-4f3bdce908ef |
null | 1923 film
Traición is a 1923 Chilean silent film, the second film of Carlos F. Borcosque. It stars María Brieba, Yvonne D'Albert, Jorge Infante and boxer Luis Vicentini.
Cast | 429c0dfd-b627-4dae-b1ee-745f29c61d2a |
null | Fakhrul Hasan Boiragi is a Bangladesh actor and director who has acted in films and TV dramas and worked as assistant director in movies like Ki Je Kori (1976), Razia Sultana (1984), Prem Juddho (1994) and acted in films like Surjo Dighol Bari (1979), Suruj Mia (1984), Dahan (1985) and Moroner Pore (1990) etc. On 7 August 2016, his wife Razia Hassan filed a missing diary as he was missing for 40 days. Later, he was rescued.
Awards
Filmography
Director | d75d0a16-32ba-4bf3-b9d9-2ed99ab38397 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilkie_Collins_bibliography"} | This is a bibliography of the works of Wilkie Collins.
Novels
Short fiction
Non-fiction
Plays
Films based on his novels | eb9c3281-4a38-4219-9931-b8234f08bb4a |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churchtown,_County_Tyrone"} | Human settlement in Northern Ireland
Churchtown is a townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. The town of Castlederg is located within this townland. Many local places and organisations are named after the townland such as the Churchtown Community Centre, Churchtown Football Club and Churchtown Park.
Historic sites
Two megalithic tombs are known within the townland, a wedge tomb called "Todd's Den" and a portal tomb called "Druid's Altar". | 40b4125d-f591-4423-8bdd-2af9c0a9b909 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sengkang_Riverside_Park"} | Sengkang Riverside Park is a riverine park located at Anchorvale Street and Fernvale Street abutting Sungei Punggol, Singapore. The park consist of three open-space land parcels and is also home to a constructed wetland. The Sengkang Sports Centre is located just adjacent to the riverine park, connected by a floating wetland.
History
The 21-hectare park was opened to the public in November 2008. The park is situated alongside Sungei Punggol. The integration of urban planning and protection of Singapore's water resources has earned Sengkang Riverside Park an ABC Waters Certification.
Sengkang Floating Wetland
On 7 November 2010, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong officially opened the floating wetland that is designed with a "fruitful" theme. The wetland is about half the size of a football field, and connects the Sengkang Riverside Park with the Sengkang Sports Centre. The floating wetland helps to collect and filter rainwater naturally through its aquatic plants. The wetland also acts as a habitat for fish, birds and other wildlife. Since the completion of the wetland, more birds and dragonflies were noticed to be attracted in the area.
Facilities
Visitor centre
The Visitor Centre is a covered meeting point, located at the central part of the park. The sheltered centre provides visitors to the park with a shelter from bad weather. Public toilets and vending machines are also available here.
Fruit Tree Trail
Sengkang Riverside Park is also unique for its Fruit Tree Trail that consist of 16 different fruit trees, with some that cannot be found in the local supermarkets. The trail runs along the parameters of the constructed wetlands. The 16 different fruit trees that can be found in the trail are Mangosteen Tree, Ordeal Tree , Custard Apple, Pomelo, Lime, Weeping Tea Tree, Island Lychee, Mango, Pond Apple Tree, Asam Tree, Java Olive Tree, Elephant Apple, Fish Killer Tree, Starfruit, Pig's Mango and Wine Palm.
Others
Visitors to the park can use the available facilities to cycle and exercise at the park. There are various resting points throughout the park and along the tracks. The Civic Event Lawn at the park provides a venue for events to be hosted here.
Travel
The park can be reach via the Sengkang LRT line at Farmway LRT station & Kupang LRT station. Visitors can also choose to reach there by car, where the park's car park is located in front of the Visitor Centre. | adaf224f-19eb-4429-b34a-27487b8bc9b4 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herzog_Hospital"} | Hospital in West Jerusalem
Herzog Hospital (formerly Ezrat Nashim Hospital) (Hebrew: בית חולים הרצוג) is a geriatric-psychiatric hospital in West Jerusalem. It is the third largest hospital in the city. Herzog Hospital specializes in nursing care for the elderly. The director-general of the hospital is Jacob Haviv.
History
The Ezrat Nashim society was established in 1895 to provide care for the chronically ill.
The original building was planned by Israel Prize winner, architect Arieh Sharon in 1961. Until the late 1960s, the hospital specialized in psychiatric inpatient cases. Since then, it has been a geriatric hospital that treats both the elderly and the mentally ill, and engages in clinical research in geriatrics and psychiatry.
Herzog Hospital has 330 beds, 70 percent designated for geriatric patients. It also operates outpatient clinics to treat problems associated with aging.
Herzog Hospital has installed a Snoezelen room for the rehabilitation of geriatric and other patients. According to Caine, the facility can improve the abilities of patients with mental, psychological, cognitive, movement and other problems. The room is furnished with carefully selected elements that stimulate the senses.
Herzog Hospital runs a program to train young Ethiopian women as nurses' aides. The goals of the program are to alleviate the shortage of trained personnel in the field of geriatric care-giving, and encourage Ethiopian immigrants to join the workforce.
In 2006, Herzog opened a Children's Respiratory Care Unit to provide long-term respiratory care for children ranging in age from 3 months to 17.
The hospital's Resilience Unit has developed psychotrauma programs utilizing the vast experience that Israeli psychologists have accumulated in treating terror-related post-traumatic stress.
Development plans
In 2012, work began on a new medical pavilion comprising two basement levels and six patient floors, adding 240 beds to the hospital. | e975c0cf-78a6-4b32-922f-e9a06d3c5fa0 |
null | US photographer, motion-picture executive, broadcaster and author (1928-2001)
Roger Andrew Caras (May 24, 1928 – February 18, 2001) was an American wildlife photographer, writer, wildlife preservationist and television personality.
Known as the host of the annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, Caras was the author of more than 70 books, a veteran of network television programs including Nightline, ABC World News Tonight and 20/20 before devoting himself to work as president of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. "Animals are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole" -Roger Caras
Biography
Early life and education
Born May 24, 1928, in the rural town of Methuen, Massachusetts, Caras was raised in a family that encouraged love of animals. His parents allowed him to foster a menagerie of pets, and during the Depression he went to work at the age of 10 to help pay for his pets' upkeep. His first job, working in the stables of an SPCA shelter, was his first experience with animal rescue in the shelter's haven for abused horses. He completed his education at Boston's Huntington Preparatory School and immediately enlisted in the U.S. Army near the end of World War II.
Caras returned to Boston after his tour of duty and then enrolled as a zoology major at Northwestern University. In 1950, he transferred to Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, but interrupted his education for military service again, this time in the Korean War from 1950 to 1952.
Career
Caras returned to civilian life as a West Coast resident, attending the University of Southern California, where he earned a degree, not in zoology but in cinema, and stepped from academic life to executive-level work in the motion picture industry. During 15 years in the film world, Caras held a number of assignments, including serving as press secretary for actress Joan Crawford, and from 1965 to 1969 as vice president of Stanley Kubrick's production company, Hawk Films, working with Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke on the science fiction epic 2001: A Space Odyssey. During his Hollywood years, Caras also launched his writing career, contributing articles on animal and environmental issues to such periodicals as "Audubon" and publishing his first book, "Antarctica: Land of Frozen Time,” in 1962.
In 1964, Caras made his broadcasting debut on the NBC News program The Today Show, spending nearly a decade as the program's "house naturalist." His skills in broadcasting, research, biology, and zoology led to his acceptance as one of the media's best-regarded animal authorities. He was sought out by the Walt Disney conglomerate as a consultant on their Florida Animal Kingdom park.
Acting as a special correspondent, Caras reported from around the globe on a variety of animal and environmental issues that ranged from exposes on laboratory animals to the plight of the endangered Giant Panda in China and to investigation of the black market commerce in exotic animals and poaching.
Caras spent from 1975 to 1992 as a regularly featured reporter on ABC Evening News (later World News Tonight with Peter Jennings,) as well as contributing to Nightline, 20/20, and Good Morning America. He also hosted radio programs, including Pets and Wildlife on CBS, Report from the World of Animals on NBC, and the ABC series The Living World.
Caras won an Emmy Award for his reporting. His books include The Bond and his last book, Going for the Blue: Inside the World of Show Dogs and Dog Shows, which was published in time for the 2001 Westminster competition.
Caras’s work with and on behalf of animals led to his 1991 election as the 14th president of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the oldest humane-treatment-of-animals organization in the United States. During his tenure, the ASPCA expanded its care, protection and education programs, and adopted a number of internal practices to improve its work. Caras retired in 1999 and became president emeritus, acting as a consultant and public speaker for the organization.
Death and afterward
Caras made his home in Freeland, Baltimore County, Maryland, where he and his wife, Jill Langdon Barclay, maintained a farm that became home for a variety of animals. In 2001, in the last year of his life, Caras shared his farm with 12 dogs (7 Greyhounds, 3 retrievers and 2 hounds), nine cats, all of mixed origin, five horses, two cows, a pair of alpacas and a llama. After his death, his wife, his son, Dr. Barclay Caras, and daughter, Pamela Caras, requested that people wishing to honor his memory donate memorial contributions to the ASPCA in his name.
Selected works
Books | 84748717-db43-4525-b76c-1b9c5cef7912 |
{"document_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969%E2%80%9370_Delaware_Fightin%27_Blue_Hens_women%27s_basketball_team"} | Intercollegiate basketball season
The 1969–70 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens women's basketball team represented the University of Delaware during the 1969-70 school year. A committee approached the university's athletic council in early 1969 to gain approval for the university to begin sanctioning women's intercollegiate sports. Women's basketball, field hockey, and swimming were approved on an experimental two-year basis. Delaware played a six game season, finishing with a 1-5 record.
Roster
Schedule | 0c9d5426-743b-4a84-8be1-11d34b587df1 |
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