List of Native American artists from Oklahoma

This list indexes notable Native American artists from Oklahoma, Oklahoma Territory, or Indian Territory.  Artists listed in this index were born in, at one time lived in, or presently live in what is now Oklahoma.

Basket weavers
 Lena Blackbird, Cherokee Nation, basket weaver
 Mike Dart (born 1977), Cherokee Nation, basket weaver
 Mavis Doering (1929–2007), Cherokee Nation, basket weaver

Bead artists

 Tahnee Ahtoneharjo-Growingthunder, Kiowa/Muscogee/Seminole
 Richard Aitson (born 1953), Kiowa/Kiowa Apache
 Martha Berry, Cherokee Nation
 Les Berryhill, Yuchi/Creek, bead artist
 Judy Coser, Kickapoo/Sac and Fox, bead artist
 Vanessa Jennings, Kiowa/Kiowa Apache/Pima, beadwork, traditional clothing and tipi maker
 Lois Smoky Kaulaity (1907–1981), Kiowa bead artist and painter (one of the Kiowa Six)

Ceramic artists
 Mel Cornshucker, United Keetoowah Band, (born 1952) ceramic artist
 Anita Fields, Osage/Muskogee-Creek, (born 1950) potter
 Anna Mitchell, Cherokee Nation (1926-2012), revived the art of Cherokee pottery for the Western Cherokee
 Jane Osti, Cherokee, potter
 Jeri Redcorn, Caddo/Potawatomi (born ca. 1940)

Dancers
 Yvonne Chouteau (1929–2016), Shawnee Tribe, ballerina
 Rosella Hightower (1920–2008), Choctaw ballerina
 Moscelyne Larkin (born 1925), Peoria/Shawnee ballerina
 Maria Tallchief (1925–2013), Osage ballerina
 Marjorie Tallchief (born 1926), Osage ballerina

Diverse traditional artists

 Mildred Cleghorn (1910–1997), Fort Sill Apache Tribe, dollmaker
 Vanessa Jennings, Kiowa/Pima, beadwork, customary clothing and tipis
 Alice Littleman (1910-2000), Kiowa, beadwork and traditional clothing
 Ardina Moore, (born 1930) Osage/Quapaw, dance regalia, beadwork, fashion design, ribbonwork
 Josephine Myers-Wapp, (1912–2014) Comanche, fingerweaver, beader, textile artist
 Georgeann Robinson, (1917–1985) Osage, traditional apparel, ribbonwork
 Hastings Shade (1941–2010), Cherokee Nation, marble- and gig-maker
 Tommy Wildcat, Cherokee Nation/Muscogee Creek/Natchez, flute maker
 Sandy Fife Wilson (born 1950) Muscogee Creek, basket maker, fingerweaver, shell carver, textile artist, fashion designer

Draftspeople
 Roy Boney Jr., Cherokee Nation, draftsman, painter, animator
 St. David Pendleton Oakerhater, "Making Medicine" (1847–1931), Southern Cheyenne, ledger artist
 Joseph L. Erb, Cherokee Nation, painter, sculptor, animator

Fashion designers
 Ardina Moore (Quapaw/Osage)
 Lloyd Kiva New (Cherokee Nation), (1916–2002), educator, fashion designer, painter, textile designer
 Wendy Ponca, Osage, (born 1960), fashion designer, textile designer
 Margaret Roach Wheeler, (Chickasaw/Choctaw) (born 1943), weaver

Installation artists
 Edgar Heap of Birds (born 1954), Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes installation artist, painter, conceptual artist
 Richard Ray Whitman (born 1949), Yuchi/Muscogee Creek Nation, actor, photographer, painter, installation artist

Jewelers
 Heidi Bigknife, Shawnee Tribe, jeweler, mixed-media artist, sculptor

Painters

 Mary Adair (born 1936) Cherokee Nation painter
 Spencer Asah (c. 1905–1954), Kiowa, painter (one of the Kiowa Six)
 James Auchiah (1906–1975), painter (one of the Kiowa Six)
 Jean Bales (1946–2003), Iowa painter
 Louis W. Ballard (1931–2007) Honga-no-zhe, Quapaw/Cherokee, painter and composer
 Fred Beaver (1911–1976), Muscogee Creek/Seminole, painter
 Archie Blackowl (1911–1967), Cheyenne, painter
 Acee Blue Eagle (1907–1959), Muscogee Creek/Pawnee/Wichita, painter
 Roy Boney, Jr., Cherokee Nation, draftsman, painter, animator
 Parker Boyiddle, Jr. (born 1947) Kiowa/Wichita/Delaware, painter
 Blackbear Bosin (1921–1980), Kiowa/Comanche, painter, sculptor
 T.C. Cannon (Pai-doung-u-day), Kiowa/Caddo
 Sherman Chaddlesone (1947–2013), Kiowa, painter
 Mirac Creepingbear, (born 1947), Kiowa/Pawnee/Arapaho, painter
 Woody Crumbo (1912–1989), Potawatomi, painter
 Talmadge Davis (1962–2005), Cherokee Nation painter
 Cecil Dick (1915–1992), Cherokee, painter
 Joseph L. Erb, Cherokee Nation, painter, sculptor, animator
 Gina Gray, (1954–2014) Osage painter, mixed-media designer
 Franklin Gritts (1915–1996), Cherokee, painter
 Enoch Kelly Haney (born 1940), Seminole/Muscogee Creek, painter, sculptor
 Albert Harjo (born 1937), Muscogee Creek
 Benjamin Harjo, Jr. (born 1945), Seminole/Absentee Shawnee, painter
 Sharron Ahtone Harjo (born 1945), Kiowa, painter, ledger artist
 Edgar Heap of Birds (born 1954), Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes installation artist, painter, conceptual artist
 Valjean McCarty Hessing (1934-2006) Choctaw, painter
 Joan Hill (born 1930), Muscogee Creek/Cherokee, painter
 Jack Hokeah (1902–1973), Kiowa, painter (one of the Kiowa Six)
 Allan Houser (1914–1994), Chiricahua Apache, sculptor and painter
 Norma Howard (born 1958), Choctaw Nation/Chickasaw/Mississippi Choctaw, painter
 Sharon Irla (born 1957), Cherokee Nation painter
 Ruthe Blalock Jones (Chu-Lun-Dit) (born 1939), Eastern Shawnee-Delaware-Peoria
 Merlin Little Thunder, Southern Cheyenne, painter
 Jane McCarty Mauldin (1936-1997) Choctaw, painter
 Barbara McAlister (born 1941), Cherokee Nation painter, opera singer
 America Meredith (born 1972), Cherokee Nation painter, printmaker
 Stephen Mopope (1898–1974), Kiowa, painter (one of the Kiowa Six)
 Jackson Narcomey (1942–2012), Muscogee Creek, painter and printmaker
 Fernando Padilla, Jr. (born 1958), San Felipe Pueblo/Navajo painter and sculptor
 Harvey Pratt (born 1941), Cheyenne-Arapaho painter, sculptor
 Robert Redbird (1939-2016), Kiowa painter
 Paladine Roye (1946–2001), Ponca painter
 Silver Horn (1860–1940), Kiowa, painter
 Lois Smoky Kaulaity (1907–1981), Kiowa painter (one of the Kiowa Six)
 Ernest Spybuck (1883–1949), Absentee Shawnee painter
 Jimmie Carole Fife Stewart (born 1940) Muscogee Creek "Master Artist" painter and fashion designer
 Virginia Stroud (born 1951), United Keetoowah Band-Muscogee painter
 Carl Sweezy (1881–1953), Arapaho painter
 Dana Tiger (born 1961), Muscogee Creek/Seminole/Cherokee painter
 Jerome Tiger (1941–1967), Muscogee Creek/Seminole painter
 Johnny Tiger, Jr. (1940–2015), Muscogee Creek/Seminole painter and sculptor
 Monroe Tsatoke (1904–1937), Kiowa, painter (one of the Kiowa Six)
 W. Richard “Dick” West, Sr. (1912–1996), Cheyenne painter
 David E. Williams (1933–1985) Kiowa/Tonkawa/Kiowa Apache painter

Photographers
 Jennie Ross Cobb (1881–1959), Cherokee
 Shan Goshorn (1957–2018), Eastern Band Cherokee
 Sharon Irla (born 1957), Cherokee Nation
 Parker McKenzie (1897–1999), Kiowa
 Horace Poolaw (1906–1984), Kiowa
 Richard Ray Whitman (born 1949), Yuchi/Muscogee Creek Nation photographer, painter, installation artist

Printmakers
 T.C. Cannon (Pai-doung-u-day), Kiowa/Caddo
 Benjamin Harjo, Jr. (born 1945), Seminole/Absentee Shawnee, painter
 Ruthe Blalock Jones (Chu-Lun-Dit) (born 1939), Eastern Shawnee/Delaware/Peoria
 America Meredith (born 1972), Cherokee Nation painter, printmaker
 Jackson Narcomey (born 1942), Muscogee Creek, painter, printmaker

Sculptors

 Sara Bates (born 1944), Cherokee, mixed media artist, sculptor
 Blackbear Bosin (1921–1980), Kiowa/Comanche, painter, sculptor
 Joseph L. Erb, Cherokee Nation, painter, sculptor, animator
 Enoch Kelly Haney (born 1940), Seminole Tribe of Oklahoma/Muscogee Creek, painter, sculptor
 Allan Houser (1914–1994), Chiricahua Apache, sculptor and painter
 Fernando Padilla, Jr.  (born 1958), San Felipe Pueblo/Navajo painter and sculptor
 Harvey Pratt (born 1941), Cheyenne-Arapaho painter, sculptor
 Johnny Tiger, Jr. (born 1940), Muscogee Creek/Seminole painter and sculptor

See also
 List of Native American artists
 List of indigenous artists of the Americas
 Bacone school

External links
American Indian Art, Oklahoma Historical Society
American Indian Cultural Center and Museum, Oklahoma City
Southeastern Indian Artists Association

References

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Yuya Uchida (singer)

was a Japanese singer, record producer, and actor. With a career spanning six decades, he was a major figure in Japanese popular music.

He appeared in numerous films, such as Nagisa Ōshima's Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, and won two best acting awards. He also starred in the American film Black Rain.

Career
Uchida dropped out of high school at age 17 and began his music career in 1957. He became friends with John Lennon after opening for The Beatles on their 1966 tour of Japan.

Shocked after seeing Jimi Hendrix perform in London in 1967, Uchida returned home and wanted to introduce a similar sound to Japan. He formed Yuya Uchida & The Flowers who released the album Challenge! in 1969, which is composed almost entirely of covers of Western psychedelic rock acts. After replacing all but one member and reverting to a producer/manager role himself, the group changed their name to Flower Travellin' Band and released another cover album, 1970's Anywhere, before relocating to Canada. Before the move they recorded an album of original material in just two days; Satori was released in North America in 1971 by GRT Records. The band produced two more albums, Made in Japan (1972) and Make Up (1973), before separating for 34 years.

In addition to his solo career and Flower Travellin' Band, he worked with a large variety of musicians both domestic and international, and recorded with The Ventures and Frank Zappa in the mid-1970s. In 1975 he produced an international music festival titled "World Rock Festival" which featured artists from around the world performing together. That same year, Uchida also produced the self-titled album by Creation.

He unsuccessfully ran for the 1991 Tokyo gubernatorial election.

Uchida collaborated with pop idol Rino Sashihara for the 2014 duet single "Shekina Baby".

Personal life and legal troubles
Yuya Uchida married actress Kirin Kiki in 1973. The two separated two years later but remained married. Their daughter Yayako Uchida is an essayist/singer and married to actor Masahiro Motoki, who was adopted into the Uchida family as a mukoyōshi. Yuya was the grandfather to three children by his daughter.

Uchida was arrested in September 1977 for violating Japan's Cannabis Control Law. Although Uchida admitted ten years later that he was smoking it at the time, the charges were dropped Nolle prosequi. He was arrested again in 1983 for violating Japan's Firearm and Sword Possession Control Law. Uchida entered the offices of Udo Artists, Inc. with a kitchen knife and threatened a rock promoter for allegedly paying foreign artists far more money than Japanese ones. Again, he was never indicted.

Uchida successfully underwent emergency eye surgery on May 31, 2005 for a blocked retinal artery, which would have led to blindness. In mid-November 2005, his house was broken into and several watches and jackets were stolen.

On May 13, 2011, Uchida was arrested for assault and trespassing after threatening his former girlfriend, whom he began dating in December 2009. The police said that Uchida allegedly hit the 50-year-old woman after she tried ending their relationship in March and began sending her threatening letters. The woman said she had her locks changed, but Uchida then had another locksmith open the door and entered her house on April 19. Uchida acknowledged writing the letters and having spare keys made to her house, but denied threatening her.

Death
Yuya Uchida died from pneumonia in a Tokyo hospital on March 17, 2019, aged 79. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 61st Japan Record Awards on December 30, 2019.

Discography
Singles

"Gonna Make It Tonight/Let's Twist No. 1" (1977)
"What's Happening, Mr. Dylan?/Annie Get Your Guns" (1978)
"Sake, Women & My Life/One Night Lullabye" (1979)
"The Long Goodbye/Farewell My Lovely" (1982)
"Killer in the Rain/Rolling on the Road" (1982)
"Annie for a Cheek Time/No More Comics" (1985)

Albums

Challenge! (1969, Yuya Uchida & The Flowers)
Y.U.Y.A 1815KC Rock'n Roll Broadcasting Station (1973)
Exciting! Rock 'n' Roll Party (1973, Yuya Uchida and the 1815 Super Rock 'n' Roll Band)
Hollywood (1975, Yuya Uchida and The Ventures)

No More Comics (1985)

Filmography

References

External links

 Official international website

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Ouaouizeght

Ouaouizeght is a small town and rural commune in Azilal Province, Béni Mellal-Khénifra, Morocco. At the time of the 2004 census, the commune had a total population of 13,940 people living in 2,885 households.

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Austin Black Senators

The Austin Black Senators were a minor league Negro league baseball team based in Austin, Texas.  The Black Senators adopted the name of their white, Texas League counterparts sometime in the early 1910s.  The team started as an independent, then joined the Texas Colored League in 1923 until 1926.

References

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Talocha

João Carlos Araújo Fonseca Silva (born 30 August 1989), known as Talocha, is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a left back for Latvian club Riga FC.

Club career
Born in Antas, Vila Nova de Famalicão, Talocha developed at hometown club F.C. Famalicão and played his first senior games in the lower divisions for the team, including their 2008–09 nadir in the Braga Football Association's first district league. He transferred across the third tier to F.C. Vizela in 2013. On 17 December 2014, he scored twice against Sporting CP in the last 16 of the Taça de Portugal, albeit in a 3–2 home loss.

On 29 May 2016, Talocha jumped two divisions to the Primeira Liga, signing for Boavista F.C. on a two-year deal. He made his professional debut in the season-opening 2–0 home win over F.C. Arouca. Having barely missed a game, he got his first goal on 14 January 2018 to open a win by the same score against Portimonense S.C. also at the Estádio do Bessa, after a free kick by David Simão.

When Talocha's contract was about to expire in May 2018, Boavista gave him a new deal for the next two years. A year later, he completed a century of matches with the team from Porto in their match with C.S. Marítimo, amidst interest from other clubs.

On 5 August 2019, Talocha reached an agreement to end his contract with a year remaining and headed abroad for the first time, to Atromitos F.C. in Super League Greece; his former employers remained 20% of his economic rights.

On 6 February 2020, he signed with the Latvian champions Riga FC.

References

External links

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Christian Fellowship Congregational Church (UCC)

Christian Fellowship Congregational Church (Christian Fellowship UCC) is a United Church of Christ church located in southeast San Diego in the community of Emerald Hills.  Since 1963 the church has been situated upon the former Emerald Hills Golf Course and Country Club.  The congregation is a progressive, inclusive, bible-based Christian community of faith that seeks in every way to recontextualize Christianity through black liberation theology and praxis.  The church hosts a weekly Sunday evening Jazz Vespers worship services which attracts a very diverse community; Jazz Vespers @ Christian Fellowship UCC.

Brief history
The church was established in 1887 as the Second Congregational Church and later renamed in 1905 the Logan Heights Congregational Church upon locating to the Logan Heights community in the City of San Diego.  The Second Congregational Church, known as the Logan Heights Church, had its beginning on the second Sunday in November, 1887, when Rev. A. B. White, of Toledo, Ohio, began to preach in the schoolhouse on Twenty-seventh Street. On February 19, 1888, the church building at Twenty-sixth Street and Kearney Avenue was dedicated, Mr. Silcox preaching the sermon. The Land & Town Company gave the lots and the members of the First Congregational Church contributed liberally to the building fund.In 1950 the church changed its name to Christian Fellowship Congregational Church, and in 1957 the congregation voted to united with the newly formed United Church of Christ.

On  Sunday, January 29, 2017 at the Annual Meeting of the congregation the congregation voted to become an Open and Affirming and Accessible to All United Church of Christ congregation.

Clergy serving from 1887 to present
     The Reverend A.B White (1887–1888)
     The Reverend F. B. Perkins (1888–1890)
     The Reverend George A Hall (1890–1895)
     The Reverend R. T. Earl (1895–1902)
     The Reverend J. L Pearson (1902–1905)
     The Reverend E. E. P. Abbot (1905–1908)
     The Reverend Stephen G. Emerson (1908–1914)
     The Reverend F. C. Reid (1914–1917)
     The Reverend W. H. Harmaford (1918–1920)
     The Reverend Arthur Metcalf (1921–1926)
     The Reverend C. H. Baldwin (1927)
     The Reverend J. Frederick Saunders (1927–1930)
     The Reverend J. Dayton Auxill (1932–1940)
     The Reverend Alvin G. Rowe (1941–1942)
     The Reverend Raymond E. Kinney (1943–1944)
     The Reverend E. Lowell Cantrell (1945–1946)
     The Reverend E. Major Shavers (1946–1963)
     The Reverend John Everett (interim pastor)
     The Reverend Adlai Mack (1978–1984)
     The Reverend Dr. James Hester Hargett (1986–1997, Pastor Emeritus)
     The Reverend Dr. Arthur L. Cribbs, Jr. (1999–2007)
     The Reverend Dr. Ameila Walker (interim pastor, 2008-09)
The Reverend Virginia Brown (sabbatical pastor, 2018)
     The Reverend Dr. J. Lee Hill, Jr. (2010 – present)

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Rita Pogosova

Rita Pogosova is a former female table tennis player from Soviet Union. She won a gold medal in the Women's team event at the World Table Tennis Championships in 1969.

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Golda Meir

Golda Meir (born Golda Mabovitch; May 3, 1898 – December 8, 1978) was an Israeli teacher, kibbutznik, stateswoman, politician and the fourth Prime Minister of Israel.

Born in Kiev, she emigrated  to the United States as a child with her family in 1906, and was educated there, becoming a teacher. After marrying her husband, the couple emigrated to then Palestine in 1921, settling on a kibbutz. Meir was elected prime minister of Israel on March 17, 1969, after serving as Minister of Labour and Foreign Minister. The world's fourth and Israel's first and only woman to hold the office, she has been described as the "Iron Lady" of Israeli politics; the term was later applied to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Former Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion used to call Meir "the best man in the government"; she was often portrayed as the "strong-willed, straight-talking, grey-bunned grandmother of the Jewish people."

Meir resigned as prime minister in 1974, the year following the Yom Kippur War. She died in 1978 of lymphoma.

Early life

Golda Mabovitch was born on May 3, 1898, in Kiev, Russian Empire, present-day Ukraine, to Blume Neiditch (died 1951) and Moshe Mabovitch (died 1944), a carpenter. Meir wrote in her autobiography that her earliest memories were of her father boarding up the front door in response to rumours of an imminent pogrom. She had two sisters, Sheyna (1889–1972) and Tzipke (1902–1981), as well as five other siblings who died in childhood. She was especially close to Sheyna.

Moshe Mabovitch left to find work in New York City in 1903. In his absence, the rest of the family moved to Pinsk to join her mother's family. In 1905, Moshe moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in search of higher-paying work, and found employment in the workshops of the local railroad yard. The following year, he had saved up enough money to bring his family to the United States.

Golda's mother Blume Mabovitch ran a grocery store on Milwaukee's north side, where by the age of eight Golda had been put in charge of watching the store when her mother went to the market for supplies. Golda attended the Fourth Street Grade School (now Golda Meir School) from 1906 to 1912. A leader early on, she organized a fundraiser to pay for her classmates' textbooks. After forming the American Young Sisters Society, she rented a hall and scheduled a public meeting for the event. She graduated as valedictorian of her class.

At 14, she studied at North Division High School and worked part-time. Her employers included Schuster's department store and the Milwaukee Public Library. Her mother wanted Golda to leave school and marry, but she declined. She bought a train ticket to Denver, Colorado, and went to live with her married sister, Sheyna Korngold. The Korngolds held intellectual evenings at their home, where Meir was exposed to debates on Zionism, literature, women's suffrage, trade unionism, and more. In her autobiography, she wrote: "To the extent that my own future convictions were shaped and given form  ... those talk-filled nights in Denver played a considerable role." In Denver, she also met Morris Meyerson (also "Myerson"; December 17, 1893, Chicago, Illinois, US – May 25, 1951, Israel), a sign painter, whom she later married on December 24, 1917.

Return to Milwaukee, Zionist activism, and teaching

In 1913, Golda returned to North Division High, graduating in 1915. While there, she became an active member of Young Poale Zion, which later became Habonim, the Labor Zionist youth movement. She spoke at public meetings and embraced Socialist Zionism.

She attended the teachers college Milwaukee State Normal School (now University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee) in 1916, and probably part of 1917. In 1917, she took a position at a Yiddish-speaking Folks Schule in Milwaukee. While at the Folks Schule, she came more closely into contact with the ideals of Labor Zionism. In 1913, she had begun dating Morris Meyerson (Myerson). She was a committed Labor Zionist and he was a dedicated socialist. During this time, she also worked part-time at the Milwaukee Public Library.

When Golda and Morris married in 1917, settling in Palestine was her precondition for the marriage. Golda had intended to make aliyah straight away, but her plans were disrupted when all transatlantic passenger services were canceled due to the entry of the United States into the First World War. She threw her energies into Poale Zion activities. A short time after their wedding, she embarked on a fund-raising campaign for Poale Zion that took her across the United States. The couple moved to Palestine in 1921, together with her sister Sheyna, and joined a kibbutz.

Meir said in the 1975 edition of her autobiography My Life that

It is not only a matter, I believe, of religious observance and practice. To me, being Jewish means and has always meant being proud to be part of a people that has maintained its distinct identity for more than 2,000 years, with all the pain and torment that has been inflicted upon it.

She strongly identified with Judaism culturally, but was an atheist in religious belief.

Immigration to Mandatory Palestine

In the British Mandate of Palestine, Meir and her husband joined a kibbutz. Their first application to kibbutz Merhavia in the Jezreel Valley was rejected, but later they were accepted. Her duties included picking almonds, planting trees, working in the chicken coops, and running the kitchen. Recognizing her leadership abilities, the kibbutz chose her as its representative to the Histadrut, the General Federation of Labour.

In 1924, the couple left the kibbutz and lived briefly in Tel Aviv before settling in Jerusalem. There they had two children, their son Menachem (1924–2014) and their daughter Sarah (1926–2010).

In 1928, Meir was elected secretary of Moetzet HaPoalot (Working Women's Council), which required her to spend two years (1932–34) as an emissary in the United States. The children went with her, but Morris stayed in Jerusalem. Morris and Golda grew apart, but never divorced. Morris died in 1951.

Histadrut activities
In 1934, when Meir returned from the United States, she joined the Executive Committee of the Histadrut and moved up the ranks to become the head of its Political Department. This appointment was important training for her future role in Israeli leadership.

In July 1938, Meir was the Jewish observer from Palestine at the Évian Conference, called by President Franklin D. Roosevelt of the United States to discuss the question of Jewish refugees' fleeing Nazi persecution. Delegates from the 32 invited countries repeatedly expressed their sorrow for the plight of the European Jews, but outlined why their countries could not help by admitting the refugees.

The only exception was the Dominican Republic, which pledged to accept 100,000 refugees on generous terms. Meir was disappointed at the outcome and she remarked to the press, "There is only one thing I hope to see before I die and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore."

Prestate political role
In June 1946, the British arrested many leaders of the Zionist Yishuv (see Black Sabbath). Meir took over as acting head of the Political Department of the Jewish Agency during the incarceration of Moshe Sharett. Thus she became the principal negotiator between the Jews in Palestine and the British Mandatory authorities. After his release, Sharett went to the United States to attend talks on the UN Partition Plan, leaving Meir to head the Political Department until the establishment of the state in 1948.

In January 1948, the treasurer of the Jewish Agency was convinced that Israel would not be able to raise more than seven to eight million dollars from the American Jewish community. Meir traveled to the United States, and she raised $50,000,000, which was used to purchase arms in Europe for the young country. Ben-Gurion wrote that Meir's role as the "Jewish woman who got the money which made the state possible" would go down one day in the history books.

On May 10, 1948, four days before the official establishment of Israel, Meir traveled to Amman, disguised as an Arab woman, for a secret meeting with King Abdullah I of Transjordan, at which she urged him not to join the other Arab countries in attacking the Jews. Abdullah asked her not to hurry to proclaim a state. Meir replied: "We've been waiting for 2,000 years. Is that hurrying?"

As the head of the Jewish Agency Political Department, Meir called the mass exodus of Arabs before the War of Independence in 1948 "dreadful", and she likened it to what had befallen the Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe.

Diplomatic and ministerial career

Meir was one of 24 signatories (including two women) of the Israeli Declaration of Independence on May 14, 1948. She later recalled, "After I signed, I cried. When I studied American history as a schoolgirl and I read about those who signed the U.S. Declaration of Independence, I couldn't imagine these were real people doing something real. And there I was sitting down and signing a declaration of establishment." Israel was attacked the next day by the joint armies of neighboring countries in what became the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. During the war, Israel stopped the combined Arab assault, and then it launched a series of military offensives to defeat the invading Arab armies and to end the war.

Minister Plenipotentiary to Moscow

Carrying the first Israeli-issued passport, Meir was appointed Israel's minister plenipotentiary to the Soviet Union, with her term beginning on September 2, 1948, and ending in March 1949. At the time, good relations with the Soviet Union were important for Israel's ability to secure arms from Eastern European countries for the struggle that accompanied its independence. In turn, Joseph Stalin and Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov sought to cultivate a strong relationship with Israel as a means of furthering the Soviet position in the Middle East. Soviet–Israeli relations were complicated by Soviet policies against religious institutions and nationalist movements, made manifest in actions to shut down Jewish religious institutions as well as the ban on Hebrew language study and the prohibition of promoting emigration to Israel.

During her brief stint in the USSR, Meir attended Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services at the Moscow Choral Synagogue. She was mobbed by thousands of Russian Jews chanting her name. The Israeli 10,000-shekel banknote issued in November 1984 bore a portrait of Meir on one side and the image of the crowd that turned out to cheer her in Moscow on the other.

Labor minister

In 1949, Meir was elected to the Knesset as a member of Mapai and served continuously until 1974. From 1949 to 1956, she served as Minister of Labour. While serving in this position, Meir carried out welfare state policies, orchestrated the integration of immigrants into Israel's workforce, and introduced major housing and road construction projects. From 1949 to 1956, 200,000 apartments and 30,000 houses were built, large industrial and agricultural developments were initiated, and new hospitals, schools, and roads were built. Meir also helped in the development of the National Insurance Act of 1954, which introduced Israel's system of social security, together with the country's maternity benefits programme and other welfare measures.

In 1955, on Ben-Gurion's instructions, she stood for the position of mayor of Tel Aviv. She lost by the two votes of the religious bloc who withheld their support on the grounds that she was a woman. (Mayors then were elected by the city council, rather than elected directly as has been the case since 1978, see Municipal elections in Israel.)

Foreign minister
In 1956, she became Foreign Minister under Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion. Her predecessor, Moshe Sharett, had asked all members of the foreign service to take a Hebrew surname. Upon her appointment as foreign minister, she shortened "Meyerson/Myerson" to "Meir", which means "illuminate". As foreign minister, Meir promoted ties with the newly established states in Africa in an effort to gain allies in the international community. She also believed that Israel had experience in nation-building that could be a model for the Africans. In her autobiography, she wrote:

"Like them, we had shaken off foreign rule; like them, we had to learn for ourselves how to reclaim the land, how to increase the yields of our crops, how to irrigate, how to raise poultry, how to live together, and how to defend ourselves." Israel could be a role model because it "had been forced to find solutions to the kinds of problems that large, wealthy, powerful states had never encountered".

Meir's first months as Foreign Minister coincided with the Suez Crisis, which is also known as the Second Arab-Israeli War, the Tripartite aggression (in Arab countries), Sinai Campaign, and Operation Kadesh (by the Israeli government) and others. Israel invaded Egypt in late 1956, followed by Britain and France. The aims were to regain Western control of the Suez Canal, remove Egyptian president Nasser, and provide a more secure western border and freedom of navigation through the Straits of Tiran for Israel.  Meir was involved in planning and coordination with the French government and military prior to the start of military action. During United Nations debates about the crisis, Meir took charge of the Israeli delegation. After the fighting had started, the United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Nations forced the three invaders to withdraw.  As a result of the conflict, the United Nations created the UNEF military peacekeeping force to police the Egyptian–Israeli border.

On October 29, 1957, Meir's foot was slightly injured when a Mills bomb was thrown into the debating chamber of the Knesset. David Ben-Gurion and Moshe Carmel were more seriously injured. The attack was carried out by 25-year-old Moshe Dwek. Born in Aleppo, his motives were attributed to a dispute with the Jewish Agency, but he was described as being "mentally unbalanced".

In 1958, Meir was recorded as having praised the work of Pope Pius XII on behalf of the Jewish people shortly after the pontiff's death. Pope Pius's legacy as a wartime pope has been controversial into the 21st century.

The same year, during the wave of Jewish migration from Poland to Israel, Meir sought to prevent disabled and sick Polish Jews from immigrating to Israel. In a letter sent to Israel's ambassador in Warsaw, Katriel Katz, she wrote:
A proposal was raised in the coordination committee to inform the Polish government that we want to institute selection in aliyah, because we cannot continue accepting sick and handicapped people. Please give your opinion as to whether this can be explained to the Poles without hurting immigration."

In the early 1960s, Meir was diagnosed with lymphoma. In January 1966, she retired from the Foreign Ministry, citing exhaustion and ill health. She soon returned to public life as secretary-general of Mapai, supporting Prime Minister Levi Eshkol in party conflicts.

Premiership

After Levi Eshkol's sudden death on February 26, 1969, the party elected Meir as his successor. Meir came out of retirement to take office on March 17, 1969, serving as prime minister until 1974. Meir maintained the national unity government formed in 1967 after the Six-Day War, in which Mapai merged with two other parties (Rafi and Ahdut HaAvoda) to form the Israeli Labor Party.

Six months after taking office, Meir led the reconfigured Alignment, comprising Labor and Mapam, into the 1969 general election. The Alignment managed what is still the best showing for a single party or faction in Israeli history, winning 56 seats. This is the only time that a party or faction has approached winning an outright majority in an election. The national unity government was retained.

In 1969 and the early 1970s, Meir met with many world leaders to promote her vision of peace in the Middle East, including Richard Nixon (1969), Nicolae Ceaușescu (1972) and Pope Paul VI (1973). In 1973, she hosted the chancellor of West Germany, Willy Brandt, in Israel.

In August 1970, Meir accepted a U.S. peace initiative that called for an end to the War of Attrition and an Israeli pledge to withdraw to "secure and recognized boundaries" in the framework of a comprehensive peace settlement. The Gahal party quit the national unity government in protest, but Meir continued to lead the remaining coalition.

On February 28, 1973, during a visit in Washington, D.C., Golda agreed with Henry Kissinger's peace proposal based on "security versus sovereignty": Israel would accept Egyptian sovereignty over all Sinai, while Egypt would accept Israeli presence in some of Sinai's strategic positions.

Munich Olympics

In the wake of the Munich massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics, Meir appealed to the world to "save our citizens and condemn the unspeakable criminal acts committed". Outraged at the perceived lack of global action, she ordered the Mossad to hunt down and assassinate suspected leaders and operatives of Black September and the PFLP. The 1986 TV film Sword of Gideon, based on the book Vengeance by George Jonas and Steven Spielberg's film Munich (2005) were both based on these events.

Dispute with Austria
During the 1970s about 200,000 Russian-Jewish emigrants were allowed to leave the Soviet Union for Israel by way of Austria. When seven of these emigrants were taken hostage at the Austria–Czechoslovakia border by Palestinian militants in September 1973, the Chancellor of Austria, Bruno Kreisky, closed the Jewish Agency's transit facility in Schönau, Austria. A few days later in Vienna, Meir tried to convince Kreisky to reopen the facility by appealing to his own Jewish origin, and described his position as "succumbing to terrorist blackmail". Kreisky did not change his position, so Meir returned to Israel, infuriated. A few months later, Austria opened a new transition camp.

Yom Kippur War
In the days leading up to the Yom Kippur War, Israeli intelligence could not conclusively determine that an attack was imminent. However, on October 5, 1973, Meir received official news that Syrian forces were massing on the Golan Heights. The prime minister was alarmed by the reports, and believed that the situation was similar to what preceded the Six-Day War. Her advisers, however, assured her not to worry, saying that they would have adequate notice before a war broke out. This made sense at the time; after the Six-Day War, most Israelis felt it unlikely that the Arabs would attack. Consequently, although the Knesset passed a resolution granting her power to demand a full-scale call-up of the military (instead of the typical cabinet decision), Meir did not mobilize Israel's forces early. Soon, though, the threat of war became very clear. Six hours before the outbreak of hostilities, Meir met with Minister of Defense Moshe Dayan and general David Elazar. While Dayan continued to argue that war was unlikely and favored calling up the air force and only two divisions, Elazar advocated full-scale army mobilization and the launch of a full-scale preemptive strike on Syrian forces.

Meir approved full-scale mobilizing but sided with Dayan against a preemptive strike, citing Israel's need for foreign aid. She believed that Israel could not depend on European countries to supply Israel with military equipment, and the only country that might come to Israel's assistance was the United States. Fearing that the United States would be wary of intervening if Israel were perceived as initiating the hostilities, Meir decided on October 6 against a preemptive strike. She made it a priority to inform Washington of her decision. U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger later confirmed Meir's assessment by stating that if Israel had launched a preemptive strike, Israel would not have received "so much as a nail".

Resignation
Following the Yom Kippur War, Meir's government was plagued by infighting and questions over Israel's lack of preparation for the war. The Agranat Commission appointed to investigate the war cleared Meir of "direct responsibility". It said about her actions on Yom Kippur morning:

Her party won the elections in December 1973, but Meir resigned on April 11, 1974. She believed that was the "will of the people" and that she had served enough time as premier. She believed the government needed to form a coalition. She said, "Five years are sufficient  ... It is beyond my strength to continue carrying this burden." Yitzhak Rabin succeeded her on June 3, 1974.

In 1975, Meir published her autobiography, My Life.

On November 19, 1977, President of Egypt Anwar Sadat became the first Arab leader to visit Israel in an official capacity when he met Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, and spoke before the Knesset in Jerusalem about his views on how to achieve a comprehensive peace in the Arab–Israeli conflict. He recommended the full implementation of UN Resolutions 242 and 338. On November 21, President Sadat again drove to the Knesset for meetings with the various Israeli Knesset factions. Meir was the first to speak for the Labor Party. She congratulated Sadat as the first Arab leader to come to Israel for the sake of the next generations' avoiding war. Meir praised Sadat for his courage and vision, and expressed the hope that while many differences remained to be resolved, that vision would be achieved in a spirit of mutual understanding.

Death

On December 8, 1978, Meir died of lymphatic cancer in Jerusalem at the age of 80. Meir was buried on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.

Awards and recognition
In 1974, Meir was awarded the honor of World Mother by American Mothers.
In 1974 Meir was awarded the James Madison Award for Distinguished Public Service by Princeton University's American Whig–Cliosophic Society.

In 1975, Meir was awarded the Israel Prize for her special contribution to society and the State of Israel.

In 1985, Meir was inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame.

Legacy

Portrayals in film and theater

Meir's story has been the subject of many fictionalized portrayals. In 1977, Anne Bancroft played Meir in William Gibson's Broadway play Golda. The Australian actress Judy Davis played a young Meir in the television film A Woman Called Golda (1982), opposite Leonard Nimoy. Ingrid Bergman played the older Meir in the same film. Actress Colleen Dewhurst portrayed Meir in the 1986 TV movie Sword of Gideon.

In 2003, American Jewish actress Tovah Feldshuh portrayed her on Broadway in Golda's Balcony, Gibson's second play about Meir's life. The play was controversial for implying that Meir considered using nuclear weapons during the Yom Kippur War.
Valerie Harper portrayed Meir in the touring company production and in the film version of Golda's Balcony. In 2005 actress Lynn Cohen portrayed Meir in Steven Spielberg's film Munich.

Tovah Feldshuh assumed the role of Meir again in the 2006 English-language French movie O Jerusalem. She was played by the Polish actress Beata Fudalej in the 2009 dramatic film The Hope directed by Márta Mészáros.

Commemoration

 Golda Meir School, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
 Golda Meir School, in Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
 Golda Meir Library, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Wisconsin
 Golda Meir Boulevard, Jerusalem, Israel (and various other streets, neighborhoods and schools in Israel)
 Golda Meir Center for the Performing Arts – home to the Israeli Opera and the Cameri Theater, Tel Aviv
 Golda Meir sculpture at Golda Meir Square, New York City
 Golda Meir Center for Political Leadership at Metropolitan State University of Denver
 Golda Meir House, Denver, Colorado
 Golda Meir House, Newton, Massachusetts

Cultural references
In Israel, the term "Golda's shoes" (na'alei Golda) has become a reference to the sturdy orthopedic shoes that Golda favored. These shoes were also supplied to women soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces from its foundation to 1987.

Published works
 This Is Our Strength (1962) – Golda Meir's collected papers
 My Father's House (1972)
 My Life (1975). Putnam, .

See also
 Évian Conference
 List of Israel Prize recipients

Notes

References

Sources

Further reading

 Skard, Torild (2014) "Golda Meir" in Women of Power – Half a century of female presidents and prime ministers worldwide. Bristol: Policy Press, .

External links

 Golda Meir at the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs
 Meir, Golda (née Mabovitch; 1898–1978) at the Jewish Agency For Israel
 Women's International Center

 Video Lecture on Golda Meir by Dr. Henry Abramson
Prime Minister Golda Meir, Exhibition in the IDF&Defense establishment archives
 Golda Meir Personal Manuscripts, Shapell Manuscript Foundation
 The Golda Meir Mount Carmel International Training Center (MCTC) – established in 1961 to assist in the training of women engaged in community work in the newly emerging states in Africa and Asia

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Kazimierz Krasiński

Count Kazimierz Krasiński (1725–1802) was a Polish noble, politician and patron of art. He was the son of Antoni Krasiński and Barbara Zielińska.

The last Grand Camp Leader of the Crown (since 1763) of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. He was Chamberlain of King Stanisław Leszczyński and starost of Krasnystaw and Nowe Miasto Korczyn.

In the youth he stayed on the court of King Louis XV and then educated on the Military Cadet School of Stanisław Leszczyński in Lunéville.

He was Marshal of the Sejm (ordinary) from 30 September to 9 November 1782 in Warsaw.

During the Four-Year Sejm in 1788, he was a member of the Military Commission of the Commonwealth and a supporter of the 3rd May Constitution.

He financed and participated in the Kościuszko Uprising in 1794. After the Partitions of Poland, he patronized Polish independence organisations and financed scientific publications and printing of books.

He was also a benefactor of the church.

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Sitiawan Airport

Sitiawan Airport  is an airport in Sitiawan, Manjung, Perak, Malaysia.

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Qianshan National Park

Qianshan National Park () is a mountainous national park in Liaoning Province, China, 17 km by road, south east of  Anshan. It is in the Qianshan Mountains (), named after itself, that extends from the Changbai Mountains in the China-North Korea border, first westward to Liaoyang, then southward to Dalian in the southern corner of Liaoning Province.

Name origin
The park is referred to as 'The Northeast Pearl'. The name Qianshan literally means 'Thousand mountains'. This is actually an abbreviation of the full name, Thousand Lotus Flower Mountains (). According to legend, a long time ago the four corners of the sky collapsed. The Goddess Nüwa wanted to save the people living below so she patched up the sky with stones. One stone was accidentally dropped to the ground where is splashed, throwing the earth into thousands of peaks in the shape of a lotus blossom. Thus Nüwa created Qianshan. The park area of 44 square kilometres, is filled with both Buddhist and Taoist temples, monasteries and nunneries. Here is one of few locations where both religions are found sharing the same site. Among the peaks, a naturally wrought statue of the Buddha stands 70 meters high. It is claimed to be largest naturally occurring image of Maitreya Buddha in the world.

The area has a long history of religious worship dating back to the Tang dynasty of China. The site was enhanced during both Ming and Qing dynasties. The revolutions of the twentieth century saw the site abandoned and some buildings damaged. The park has since be restored and expanded with new Pagoda and temples for the Maitreya Buddha.

At its highest point, Qianshan reaches an elevation of 708.3 metres. The park is densely wooded with 95% of the area covered by forests. Over ten thousand of the pine trees have been estimated to be older than 100 years in age. Rare flora and fauna are found here along with a large number of plants used in traditional Chinese medicines. Over a hundred different species of birds can be observed in the park including the rare black-headed stork.

Motor cars are not allowed within the park. Tourists must either walk or hire one of the electric carts. Many paved footpaths climb steeply up the hillsides through thick forest. These footpaths lead past stelae honouring the dead, small shrines, pagodas and temples. Three cable car routes connect to several of the park's scenic peaks. However, none of the cable cars go the whole way up, leaving visitors some climbing if they wish to attain the summit.

Among Qianshan's scenic spots is a new discovery – a mountain which has been shaped by nature in such a way that it resembles the Maitreya Buddha. The Buddha stands 70 metres high and 46 metres wide and is claimed to be the largest naturally occurring image of Maitreya Buddha in the world. Several temples have been built on the peaks overlooking the Maitreya Buddha. These include: The Pagoda of Maitreya, Great Buddha Temple, Pavilion of Buddha, Greeting Gate, Holographic Buddhist Character and Tachibana Hoxdox. The park has become the venue for the Qianshan Great Buddha Festival in June every year.

Image gallery

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Ron Ingram

Ronald Walter Ingram (July 5, 1933 – June 30, 1988) was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman.

Born in Toronto, Ontario, Ingram played junior hockey with the Toronto Marlboros then moved onto senior hockey's Stratford Indians. He played 114 games in the National Hockey League for the New York Rangers, Chicago Black Hawks, and Detroit Red Wings as a reliable midseason call-up.  During that time, he also played extensively in the American Hockey League for the Cleveland Barons and then the Buffalo Bisons.

Ingram spent the later portions of his career solely in the minors, first with the Baltimore Clippers and then again with the Bisons.  After ending his playing career in 1970, Ingram became a coach, leading the Syracuse Blazers to 2 championships, one each in the Eastern Hockey League and the North American Hockey League.  He also coached the San Diego Mariners, Indianapolis Racers, San Diego Hawks, and the US International University Gulls.

WHA coaching record

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Operate

"Operate" is a song written and recorded by Peaches. The song was released as a double limited vinyl A-side with "Shake Yer Dix" to promote the release of her second studio album Fatherfucker.

Track listing
UK CD single
 "Operate" – 3:28
 "Shake Yer Dix" – 3:32

Song usage
"Operate" has been used in movies Mean Girls and Waiting....  The song was also used in the American television series Las Vegas (episode title: New Orleans).
The song's drum rhythm was sampled in Taylor Swift's "Look What You Made Me Do" The song also talks about necrophilia and oral sex.

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Mexican Federal Highway 92D

Federal Highway 92D is a toll highway in Guerrero, with contiguous segments connecting Taxco to Rancho Viejo and Rancho Viejo to Zacapalco. The road is operated by Caminos y Puentes Federales, which charges 42 pesos per car to travel Highway 92D (14 for the first segment and 28 for the second).

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Karl Eikenberry

Karl Winfrid Eikenberry (born November 10, 1951) is a retired United States Army lieutenant general who served as the U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan from April 2009 to July 2011. From 2011 to 2019, he was the Director of the U.S. Asia Security Initiative at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center and a Stanford University professor of the practice; a member of the Core Faculty at the Center for International Security and Cooperation; and an affiliated faculty member at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law, and The Europe Center.

Eikenberry is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences where he co-directs the Academy's multiyear project on civil wars, violence, and international responses, and a member of the Academy's Committee of International Security Studies. He serves on the board of The Asia Foundation, American Councils for International Education, the Asia Society of Northern California, Academic Exchange, and the National Committee on American Foreign Policy. He is a faculty member of Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University in Beijing, and a member of the Working Group on Science and Technology and U.S.-China Relations organized by the UC San Diego 21st Century China Center and the Asia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations. Additionally, Eikenberry is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Academy of Diplomacy, and Institute for International Strategic Studies.

Early life and education
Eikenberry was born in 1951 in Hammond, Indiana and graduated from Goldsboro High School in Goldsboro, North Carolina, in 1969. He then attended the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant upon graduation in 1973.

He received an M.A. in East Asian Studies from Harvard University, where he would later return as a National Security Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. He also earned an M.A. in political science from Stanford University. In addition, Eikenberry has studied in Hong Kong at the UK Ministry of Defence Chinese Language School, earning the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office's Interpreter's Certificate for Mandarin Chinese, and at Nanjing University, earning an advanced degree in Chinese history.

Military career

In the Army, Eikenberry commanded and held staff positions in airborne, ranger, and mechanized infantry units in the United States, Korea, and Europe. He also served as Assistant Army Attaché and later as the Defense Attaché in the United States Embassy in Beijing, People's Republic of China. His other political-military assignments included Senior Country Director for China and Taiwan in the Office of Secretary of Defense, Foreign Area Officer Division Chief and Deputy Director of the   Strategy, Plans and Policy Directorate on the Army Staff, and Director of Strategic Planning and Policy Directorate, United States Pacific Command, Camp Smith, Hawaii.

Eikenberry served two tours of duty in the war in Afghanistan. His first tour in Afghanistan, from September 2002 to September 2003, he filled two positions—his primary duty was as the U.S. Security Coordinator for Afghanistan and the second position was the Chief of the Office of Military Cooperation-Afghanistan (OMC-A). As the Security Coordinator, he worked closely with Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Afghanistan and Pakistan Lakhdar Brahimi to forge a unified international effort to build a cohesive security sector.

Security sector reform (SSR) followed a lead-nation approach agreed upon in January 2002, in which the G8 nations would each lead a specific sector—the United States was responsible for the Afghan National Army; Germany, the Afghan Police; UK, counter-narcotics; Italy, judicial reform; and Japan and the United Nations took on the task of disarming, demobilizing, and reintegrating the militias. In his role as Chief of the OMC-A he was the chief architect of the strategy that established the new Afghan National Army.

Eikenberry succeeded Lieutenant General David Barno as Commander, Combined Forces Command-Afghanistan, on May 4, 2005. During his second tour from May 2005 to February 2007, he was responsible for transferring operational responsibility for southern and eastern Afghanistan to the NATO International Security Assistance Force and the international training of the Afghan National Army and Police Forces. He also commanded the military task force sent to Pakistan to provide humanitarian assistance and disaster relief in the wake of the October 8th, 2005 Kashmir earthquake. He completed his military career in Brussels, Belgium as the Deputy Chairman of the NATO Military Committee.

Ambassador

On January 29, 2009, the New York Times reported that President Barack Obama had chosen Eikenberry to be the next U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, replacing William Braucher Wood. The choice of a career army officer for the sensitive post was described by The Times as "highly unusual". On April 3, 2009, the Senate confirmed Eikenberry's nomination, and on April 29, 2009, he was sworn in as the U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan. The official announcement of his nomination was made on March 11. Following his confirmation as ambassador, he retired from the U.S. military with the rank of Lieutenant General on April 28, 2009. As the U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, he led the civilian surge directed by President Obama, overseeing the growth of the embassy staff from 350 to 1400 civilian personnel from eighteen United States Government departments and agencies, and the administration of bilateral development assistance budget of over $4 billion USD annually.

Leak of classified cables
In November 2009, Eikenberry sent two classified cables to his superiors in which he assessed the proposed U.S. strategy in Afghanistan. A description of the content of the cables was leaked soon after. In January 2010, the New York Times obtained and published the cables, which "show just how strongly the current ambassador feels about President Hamid Karzai and the Afghan government, the state of its military, and the chances that a troop buildup will actually hurt the war effort by making the Karzai government too dependent on the United States". In June 2010, General McChrystal was described in a Rolling Stone profile as feeling blindsided by Eikenberry's statements in the leaked cables. On the other hand, Eikenberry is described elsewhere as being frank and vocal about his concerns about the Karzai government as being an unreliable partner for the United States in its efforts in Afghanistan.

Career at Stanford University

After his position as ambassador in Afghanistan, in September 2011 Eikenberry became the Payne Distinguished Lecturer at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University and subsequently the William J. Perry Fellow in International Security at the Center for International Security and Cooperation. While at Stanford University, Eikenberry joined the faculty of the Ford Dorsey Program in International Policy Studies, served as a member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences congressionally mandated Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences, acted as a consultant for NATO and the RAND Corporation, and lectured and written on civil-military relations, U.S. Asia-Pacific strategy and Sino American relations, counter-insurgency and state-building strategies, and the contribution of the arts and humanities to America's international competitiveness.

Writings

Awards and decorations

Personal decorations and badges
Eikenberry's personal decorations include:

Non-U.S. service medals and ribbons
  NATO Medal for Former Yugoslavia

Foreign military and civil decorations
  Meritorious Service Cross (M.S.C.) Canada
  Cross of Merit of the Minister of Defence of the Czech Republic, First Class
 Alliance Medal (Hungary)
 French Officer Order of the Legion of Honor
  State Medal of Ghazi Amir Amanullah Khan (Afghanistan)
 State Medal of Ghazi Wazir Mohammad Akbar Khan (Afghanistan)

Foreign badges
 German Parachutist Badge in silver ()

Academic Awards
Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Centennial Medal

Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters Degree, North Carolina State University

Honorary Doctorate of Laws Degree, Ball State University

Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters Degree, University of San Francisco

Other
George F. Kennan Award for Distinguished Public Service

State of North Carolina Order of the Long Leaf Pine Award

Goldsboro High School Athletic Hall of Fame

In August 2007 Eikenberry was given the key to the city of Goldsboro, North Carolina by the mayor.

In November 2018, Eikenberry was the Keynote Speaker at the Stanford Model United Nations Conference.

References

External links
Karl Eikenberry at Stanford, including his publications
The Runaway General:Stanley McChrystal, Obama's top commander in Afghanistan, Rolling Stone (June 22, 2010)
Former general talks on U.S., war The Tartan, Carnegie Mellon University, September 13, 2013.
Eikenberry and Michael McFaul on Foreign Policy, Stanford University, November 11, 2014.

Interviews
Interview with Asia Source (May 2, 2006)
Interview with NPR (February 13, 2007)
Afghanistan: A Campaign Assessment at Harvard Institute of Politics (March 20, 2007)
Interview at the 25th Anniversary Chicago Humanities Festival (November 8, 2014).

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Roy Fernandez

Roy Robert Fernandez  (28 January 19282 May 2014) was an Australian public servant and diplomat.

Fernandez was born on 12 January 1928 in Melbourne, Victoria.

In January 1970, Fernandez was appointed Ambassador to Yugoslavia. Then Minister for External Affairs William McMahon announced in March 1970 that Fernandez would also be accredited to Romania during his posting to Belgrade.

In 1971, Fernandez was appointed Minister in the Australian Embassy in Washington DC. Staff at the post numbered around 350.

In March 1980 Fernandez was appointed Ambassador to Belgium.

Fernandez took up an appointment as Ambassador to the Philippines in November 1982. In the Philippines, Fernandez was outspoken about the bad state of the country's economy.

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2019 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship

The 2019 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship was the 132nd staging of the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship, the Gaelic Athletic Association's premier inter-county hurling tournament, since its establishment in 1887. The draw for the 2019 fixtures took place on 11 October 2018. The championship began on 11 May 2019 and concluded on 18 August 2019.

Limerick were the defending champions.

Carlow returned to the Leinster Championship for the first time since 2016, replacing Offaly who were relegated in 2018. Carlow lost all their four games in 2019 and were automatically relegated to the 2020 Joe McDonagh Cup.

Tipperary were the winners, defeating Kilkenny in the final.

Competition format

The current All-Ireland hurling championship format featuring five-team groups in both Leinster and Munster and the two Joe McDonagh Cup finalists was introduced in 2018 for an initial three-year period.

All-Ireland championship

In the Leinster and Munster provincial championships, five teams compete in single round-robin matches, home or away. The top two teams in each provincial group contest the provincial final, with the provincial winners advancing to the two All-Ireland semi-finals and the losing provincial finalists advancing to the two quarter-finals.

The third-placed teams in Leinster and Munster compete in All-Ireland preliminary quarter-finals against the two Joe McDonagh Cup finalists with the Joe McDonagh Cup teams having home advantage.

Promotion and relegation in Leinster or Munster championships

If a non-Munster team wins the Joe McDonagh Cup, the bottom team in the Leinster championship is relegated to next year's Joe McDonagh Cup and is replaced in next year's Leinster championship by the Joe McDonagh Cup winners. This arrangement allows teams from Connacht and Ulster to gain promotion to the tier 1 championship.

If a Munster team wins the Joe McDonagh Cup, they playoff against the team that finished bottom in the Munster championship for the right to play in next year's Munster championship, thereby ensuring that only Munster teams compete in the Munster hurling championship.

Teams

A total of twelve teams compete in the championship – five in the Leinster championship, five in the Munster championship, and the two Joe McDonagh Cup finalists who enter at the preliminary quarter-final stage.

Teams and venues
Each team has a nominal home stadium for the round-robin series of the provincial championships.

In the knockout stage, teams from the provincial round-robin series will not have home advantage, if avoidable. The only teams to play knockout games at home are the two Joe McDonagh Cup finalists, who have home advantage in the preliminary quarter-finals. The Munster final was held at a neutral venue which was decided based on the qualifying teams, while the locations of the two quarter-finals were decided based on similar considerations. The Leinster final, and the semi-finals and final of the All-Ireland series are held in the 82,300-capacity Croke Park in Dublin, headquarters of the GAA.

Personnel and colours

Leinster Senior Hurling Championship

For official fixtures and results see Leinster Senior Hurling Championship at gaa.ie

Leinster group table

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Carlow are relegated to the Joe McDonagh Cup for 2020, because the winners of the 2019 Joe McDonagh Cup were from Leinster (Laois).

Leinster group matches
Leinster Round 1

Leinster Round 2

Leinster Round 3

Leinster Round 4

Leinster Round 5

Leinster Final

Munster Senior Hurling Championship

For official fixtures and results see Munster Senior Hurling Championship at gaa.ie

Munster group table

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Munster group matches

Munster Round 1

Munster Round 2

Munster Round 3

Munster Round 4

Munster Round 5

Munster Final

2019 Joe McDonagh Cup

The second ever Joe McDonagh Cup, the second tier of senior inter-county championship hurling, was contested by Antrim, Kerry, Laois, Offaly and Westmeath in 2019. Each team plays the other four teams once in a round-robin format. The top two teams compete in the Joe McDonagh Cup final and also advance to the two All-Ireland preliminary quarter-finals, where they play the teams that finish third in the Leinster and Munster championships.

 Promotion to the All-Ireland senior hurling championship

 If the Joe McDonagh champions from Connacht, Leinster or Ulster they are promoted directly to the Leinster Championship for 2020.
 If the Joe McDonagh champions are from Munster they compete in a relegation-promotion playoff against the bottom team in the Munster Championship.

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Laois defeated fellow Leinster county Westmeath in the 2019 Joe McDonagh Cup final. Laois were promoted to the 2020 Leinster Championship, while both teams advanced to the All-Ireland preliminary quarter-finals.

All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship

Bracket

All-Ireland preliminary quarter-finals
The third-placed teams in the Leinster and Munster championships play the two teams who competed in the Joe McDonagh Cup Final, with the two Joe McDonagh finalists having home advantage. The Joe McDonagh champions, Laois, face third-placed Leinster team, Dublin, in the first preliminary quarter final, while the runners-up, Westmeath, meet Cork, the third-placed team from Munster, in the other preliminary quarter final.

All-Ireland quarter-finals
The beaten Leinster and Munster finalists play the winners of the two preliminary quarter-finals. If a third-place finisher from a provincial round-robin wins their preliminary quarter-final, they will be kept apart from the team they have already met in the round-robin phase to prevent a repeat fixture. Both games are held at neutral venues.

All-Ireland semi-finals

The Leinster and Munster champions play the winners of the two quarter-finals. The semi-finals take place in Croke Park in the last weekend of July.

All-Ireland final

Championship statistics

Top scorers

Top scorers overall

Top scorers from open play

Top scorers in a single game

Scoring Events
Widest winning margin: 23 points
 Cork 1-40 – 0-20 Westmeath (preliminary quarter-final)
Most goals in a match: 5
Kilkenny 2-22 – 3-20 Galway (Leinster SHC)
Kilkenny 2-27 – 3-18 Cork (quarter-final)
Most points in a match: 60
 Cork 1-40 – 0-20 Westmeath (preliminary quarter-final)
Most goals by one team in a match: 3
Carlow 1-14 – 3-22 Kilkenny (Leinster SHC)
Clare 0-17 – 3-21 Tipperary (Munster SHC)
Kilkenny 2-22 – 3-20 Galway (Leinster SHC)
Kilkenny 2-27 – 3-18 Cork (quarter-final)
Tipperary 1-28 – 3-20 Wexford (semi-final)
Tipperary 3-25 – 0-20 Kilkenny (final)
Most goals without winning: 3
Kilkenny 2-27 – 3-18 Cork (quarter-final)
Tipperary 1-28 – 3-20 Wexford (semi-final)
 Highest scoring match: 63 points
 Cork 1-40 – 0-20 Westmeath (preliminary quarter-final)
Lowest scoring match: 32 points
Galway 0-16 – 0-16 Wexford (Leinster SHC)

Miscellaneous

 The Leinster Championship meeting between Carlow and Kilkenny was their first championship meeting since 20 June 1993.
 On 19 May, Patrick Horgan of Cork became only the fifth player ever to record a cumulative total of 400 points in the championship.
 Galway's Micheál Donoghue became the first manager to secure three victories over Brian Cody's Kilkenny in the championship.
 Kilkenny suffered their first home championship defeat at Nowlan Park since 1949.
 The Munster final between Limerick and Tipperary was their first meeting at this stage of the championship since 2001.
Wexford won their first Leinster championship since 2004, and reached the All-Ireland semi-finals for the first time since 2007.
The All-Ireland preliminary quarter-final was the first ever championship meeting between Cork and Westmeath.
Laois reached the All-Ireland quarter-finals for the first time since 1979.
Cork scored forty points in the preliminary quarter-final against Westmeath, a record (they won 1-40 to 0-20). The previous record was 35, scored by Waterford against Offaly in 2017.
 Patrick Horgan scored a hat-trick for Cork against Kilkenny, but ended on the losing side. The last time this happened was Seamus Callanan in 2015, who scored a hat-trick for Tipperary as they lost to Galway.
 This is the very first time two teams beaten in their respective provincial finals meet at the Final stage.

Live televised games

RTÉ, the national broadcaster in Ireland, will provide the majority of the live television coverage of the hurling championship in the third year of a five-year deal running from 2017 until 2021. Sky Sports will also broadcast a number of matches and will have exclusive rights to some games.

Awards
Sunday Game Team of the Year
The Sunday Game team of the year was picked on 18 August, which was the night of the final.
The panel consisting of Brendan Cummins, Cyril Farrell, Jackie Tyrell, Ursula Jacob, Graeme Mulcahy, Derek McGrath and Enda Rowland picked Noel McGrath as the Sunday game player of the year while Kilkenny’s Adrian Mullen was selected as Young Hurler of the Year.

 1. Eoin Murphy (Kilkenny)
 2. Sean Finn (Limerick)
 3. Ronan Maher (Tipperary)
 4. Cathal Barrett (Tipperary)
 5. Brendan Maher (Tipperary)
 6. Padraig Walsh (Kilkenny)
 7. Padraic Maher (Tipperary)
 8. Diarmuid O’Keeffe (Wexford)
 9. Noel McGrath (Tipperary)
 10. Lee Chin (Wexford)
 11. TJ Reid (Kilkenny)
 12. Colin Fennelly (Kilkenny)
 13. Aaron Gillane (Limerick)
 14. Seamus Callanan (Tipperary)
 15. Patrick Horgan (Cork)

All Star Team of the Year
On 1 November, the 2019 PwC All-Stars winners were presented at Dublin's Convention Centre. Séamus Callanan was named as the All Stars Hurler of the Year with Adrian Mullen named the All Stars Young Hurler of the Year.

References

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Lee Sampson

Lee Sampson (born February 16, 1939) was a Canadian football player who played for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Toronto Argonauts. He won the Grey Cup with the Tiger-Cats in 1965. He played college football at New Mexico State University.

References

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Category:Living people
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Joseph Adams

Joseph Adams may refer to:

 Joseph Adams (businessman) (c. 1700–1737), British-born Canadian governor of the Hudson's Bay Company
 Joseph Adams (physician) (1756–1818), British physician and surgeon
 Joseph Alexander Adams (1803–1880), American engraver and electrotyper
 Joe Adams (baseball) (1877–1952), American baseball player
 Joseph Quincy Adams Jr. (1880–1946), Shakespeare scholar
 Joe Adams (actor) (1924–2018), American actor, disk jockey, businessman and manager
 Joe Adams (quarterback) (born 1958), American football player
 Joe Adams (wide receiver) (born 1989), American football player
 Joe Adams (footballer) (born 2001), Welsh footballer
 Joseph Adams (mercenary), American private investigator and mercenary
 Joe Adams (Missouri politician) (born 1944), member of the Missouri House of Representatives


Marcos Juárez

Marcos Juárez is a city in the province of Córdoba, Argentina. It has 24,226 inhabitants per the , and is the head town of the Marcos Juárez Department. It is located 267 km southeast from the provincial capital Córdoba, on National Route 9, near the provincial boundary with Santa Fe

The city was the site of the 1983 World Five-pin Billiards Championship (won by Miguel Angel Borrelli of Argentina).

Climate

References

External links
 Municipality of Marcos Juárez — Official website.
 City of Marcos Juárez — Portal of the city.

 Multimedios Creative Group — Official Project Manager. Official contact: Sr. Gustavo A. Biagiotti

Category:Populated places in Córdoba Province, Argentina
Category:Populated places established in 1887


Long Branch State Park

Long Branch State Park is a public recreation area occupying  adjacent to the Long Branch Reservoir in Macon County, Missouri. The state park consists of three units located some two miles west of Macon, Missouri on U.S. Highway 36.

History
Flooding along the Little Chariton River was an ongoing problem for the residents of Macon County and elsewhere in northeast Missouri since the area was first settled in the 1830s. Extensive channelization of the main Chariton River by private entities, local governments, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, while alleviating flooding issues in some areas, exacerbated them for others. Long Branch Dam was authorized by Congress in 1965 as a multi-purpose project for water supply, flood control, recreation, downstream water quality and fish/wildlife management. Construction began in 1973 and the dam was placed into operation in 1980.

Long Branch Lake is the reservoir created by the dam, with about 24 miles of shoreline and a flood-control capacity of 98,000 acre-feet. In addition to the adjacent state-run state park, the dam has a visitors center at its southern end, and the Atlanta State Wildlife Area at its northern end near Atlanta, Missouri.

Long Branch State Park was created by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources in 1983 after reaching a long term lease agreement with the Corps of Engineers for use of the land.

Activities and Amenities
The state park features a wide variety of outdoor activities including boating, swimming, water skiing, fishing, hiking trails, picnicking facilities, three boat ramps, marina, and camping area. The large public acreage surrounding the lake provide opportunities for viewing white-tailed deer, wild turkey, and migratory waterfowl.

References

External links

Long Branch State Park Missouri Department of Natural Resources
Long Branch State Park Map Missouri Department of Natural Resources

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Category:Protected areas of Macon County, Missouri
Category:Protected areas established in 1983
Category:United States Army Corps of Engineers dams
Category:1983 establishments in Missouri


Pascal Tokodi

Pascal Tokodi (born 21 April 1993), officially known as Pascalino Lpesinoi Lenguro Tokodi, is a Kenyan musician, actor, comedian and song writer. Pascal debuted as a professional actor in 2012 when he featured in Citizen Tv's Makutano Junction gig, a few months after completing high school, taking the role of Thomas. He appeared on shows such as Groove Theory (Africa's first TV Musical drama), Pray and Prey, Machachari and Wrath and Selina (2018). His music debut was in 2016, with singles, "Sitaki" and "Mama".

Career

In 2012, Tokodi then joined professional acting after featuring in the Citizen TV's Makutano Junction, a Kenyan soap opera that premiered in 2006.

In 2013, Tokodi acted in Kenya's first Musical TV Drama Series, Groove Theory, taking the role of Guy, a member of the prestigious Victoria University Campus Choir.

In 2014, Tokodi featured in Pray & Prey, a Kenyan dramedy.

In 2015, he featured in Fox Africa's Wrath.

In 2016, he released his first single, "Sitaki", after participating in the Tecno Own The Stage competition.

In 2017, he released more songs and collaborations. Among them were Hii si Kwaheri ft friends of CEEL, Forget ft King Kaka (rapper)|, Milele ft King Kaka (rapper), Asante Mama ft Rapper Phill, African Lady and Songa.

In 2018, he featured in the Maisha Magic East's riveting Swahili Telenovela dubbed Selina, where he played Nelson.

Singles
 "Sitaki" – 2016
 "Hii si Kwaheri ft friends of CEEL"- 2017
 "Forget ft King Kaka(rapper)" – 2017
 "Milele ft King Kaka(rapper)" – 2017
 "African Lady" – 2017
 "Asante Mama ft Rapper Phill" – 2017
 "Songa" – 2017

Awards and nominations
 He came second runner-up in the Tecno Own the Stage competition where he won one million Kenyan Shillings.
 He was the best actor, three years in a row in Kenya.

References

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Category:Living people
Category:Musicians from Nairobi
Category:Kenyan actors


Cantando por un sueño

Cantando por un Sueño (Singing for a Dream) is a television contest produced by the Mexican television network Canal de las Estrellas which also aired on Univision in the United States.  As with its twin show Bailando por un sueño (Dancing for a Dream), celebrities are paired with common, everyday people. However, in Cantando por un Sueño, contestants have to sing, rather than dance to impress the panel of judges and win.  The panel of judges is made up of famous Latin American singers.
Prizes generally include costly interventions to help people in unfortunate situations including blindness, deafness, paralysis, mortal diseases, bankruptcy, etc.
Mexican singer Thalía is the "godmother" of this contest, and she sings the title song of the show too.
Cantando por un Sueño had three seasons of about seven episodes each and concluded in a final fourth season Called "Reyes de la Canción" (Song's Royalty) where the winners, runners-up and 3rd-place finishers of the first three seasons compete in a final showdown. (In the third season, 4th place went to "Reyes", because before being eliminated, they received the highest score).

On air

Hosts
 Adal Ramones
 Liza Echeverría
 Alessandra Rosaldo

Judges
 Yuri
 Ricardo Montaner
 Adrian Posse (1st and 2nd season)
 Susana Zabaleta (1st and 2nd season)
 Manuel Mijares (3rd season)
 Kiko Campos (3rd season)
Substitutes:
Amanda Miguel (3rd season) (substituting Yuri)

Contestants

Season 1

Season 2

Reyes De La Canción
Everyone against everyone; no teams were selected for this season. The final 3 groups from all previous seasons were featured in this season, "Kings/Queens of The Song".
Rocío Banquells
Carlos García
Alan
Lorena Schlebach
Chantal Andere
Gerardo Urquiza
Raquel Bigorra
Francisco Castillo – Male Winner
Patricio Borghetti
Samia Karima
Maya
Marco Antonio Gutierrez
Sheyla – Female Winner
Everardo Ramírez
Cipriano Hernández
Kika Edgar – Female Runner-Up
Raúl Juárez
Ernesto D'Alesio -Male Runner-Up
Ruth Vázquez

Argentine version: Cantando por un Sueño
For the Argentine version, visite Cantando por Sueño (Argentina)

External links
 Official Website
20 questions to Susana Zabaleta
    official website in the USA by Univision
    Everardo Ramirez, One of the finalists

Category:Mexican reality television series
Category:Las Estrellas shows
Category:Singing talent shows


Rosenbergia lactiflua

Rosenbergia lactiflua is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Fairmaire in 1883. It is known from Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands. It includes the varietas Rosenbergia lactiflua var. coerulescens.

References

Category:Batocerini
Category:Beetles described in 1883