I'll Be Around (Rappin' 4-Tay song)

"I'll Be Around" is the second single released from Rappin' 4-Tay's second album, Don't Fight the Feelin'. The song both sampled the music and retained the original chorus of The Spinners' song of the same name, though Rappin' 4-Tay replaced the song's original lyrics with his own. The Spinners were credited as featured artists and songwriters Thom Bell and Phil Hurtt were both given writing credits.

The song became 4-Tay's second consecutive Top 40 single, peaking at #39 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #5 on the Hot Rap Singles, becoming his biggest hit on that chart. It also made #30 on the UK Singles Chart. The single became The Spinners' last Top 40 hit in both the US and UK, some 34 years after their first, 1961's "That's What Girls Are Made For".

Chart history

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

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Attica Blues (album)

Attica Blues is an album by avant-garde jazz saxophonist Archie Shepp. Originally released in 1972 on the Impulse! label, the album title is a reference to the Attica Prison riots.

Reception
The Allmusic review by Steve Huey states: "Attica Blues is one of Shepp's most successful large-group projects, because his skillful handling of so many different styles of black music produces such tremendously groovy results". Stephen Davis of Rolling Stone said that it was "not just a masterpiece of protest: [...] it is more a politico/religious experience, an appeal to higher human consciousness to, for God's sake, help us out of this torment."

Track listing
All compositions by Archie Shepp except as indicated
 "Attica Blues" (lyrics by Beaver Harris) – 4:49
 "Invocation: Attica Blues" (Harris) – 0:18
 "Steam, Part 1" – 5:08
 "Invocation to Mr. Parker" (lyrics by Bart Gray) – 3:17
 "Steam, Part 2" – 5:10
 "Blues for Brother George Jackson" – 4:00
 "Invocation: Ballad for a Child" (Harris) – 0:30
 "Ballad for a Child" (lyrics by Harris) – 3:37
 "Good-Bye Sweet Pops" (Cal Massey) – 4:23
 "Quiet Dawn" (Massey) – 6:12
Recorded at A&R Recording, NYC, January 24–26, 1972
(Track timings slightly differ from one issue to another, due to merging tracks.)

Personnel
 Archie Shepp - tenor saxophone (1, 6, 8, 10) and soprano saxophone (3, 5, 9)
Brass and reed section on tracks 1, 6, 9 and 10
 Clifford Thornton - cornet
 Roy Burrows, Charles McGhee, Michael Ridley - trumpet
 Charles Greenlee, Charles Stephens, Kiane Zawadi - trombone
 Hakim Jami - euphonium
 Clarence White - alto saxophone
 Roland Alexander, Billy Robinson - tenor saxophone
 James Ware - baritone saxophone
String section on tracks 1, 3, 5, and 8—10
 John Blake, Leroy Jenkins, Lakshinarayana Shankar - violin
 Ronald Lipscomb, Calo Scott - cello
 Marion Brown - alto saxophone (1, 6), bamboo flute (3), flute (4), percussion (3—5)
 Walter Davis, Jr. - electric piano (1, 6), piano (6, 8—10)
 Dave Burrell - electric piano (3, 5)
 Cornell Dupree - guitar (1, 3, 5, 8)
 Roland Wilson (1, 3, 5–6, 8), Gerald Jemmott (1) - Fender bass
 Jimmy Garrison - bass (3—5, 9, 10)
 Beaver Harris (1, 3, 5–6, 8) - drums
 Ollie Anderson, Nene DeFense, Juma Sultan - percussion (1, 6, 10)
Vocals
 Henry Hull (1, 8), Joe Lee Wilson (3, 5) - vocals
 William Kunstler (2, 7), Bartholomew Gray (4) - narrator
 Joshie Armstead, Albertine Robertson - backing vocals (1)
Featured exclusively on tracks 9 and 10, written by Cal Massey
 Romulus Franceschini - conductor and co-arranger
 Cal Massey - fluegelhorn (10)
 Waheeda Massey - vocals (10)
 Billy Higgins - drums

References

External links
 BBC Music Review, Attica Blues
 Allmusic Review, Attica Blues

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Cholamandalam Investment and Finance Company

Cholamandalam Investment and Finance Company Limited (CIFCL) is a financial and investment service provider in India. It is headquartered in Chennai and has 1029 branches across the country. It is one of the 28 businesses under the Murugappa Group. It employees over 7,000 employees and also has about 16,000 people who assist in various business activities, with the majority being in smaller towns.

The company has total assets under management at Rs 54,279 crore with a Net income of Rs 1,885.34 crore as on March 31, 2019. The company was ranked 9th among the top 50 NBFCs in India by The Banking and Finance Post.

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Francisco Mejia-Guinand

Francisco Mejía-Guinand is a New York-based architect and visual artist who was born in Bogotá, Colombia in 1964.

Education
Mejía-Guinand studied Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture and Design of The Pontifical Xavierian University, Bogotá. He received a Degree in Architecture in 1988.

Career
Mejía-Guinand has spent his entire career in examining ideas of abstraction and expanding his spatial and temporal approach to sculpture. In his most recent work, developed in New York, he focuses primarily on arrangements of tetrahedrons systems, which highlight his interes in balance and the contrast between positive and negative fractal space, explores the mathematical notion of self-similarity and the idea of multidimensional geometry. He is best known for his geometric sculptures based on Mathematics, Russian Avant-garde, Sacred Geometry and Origami principles. His work steadily incorporates a range of metals including bronze, aluminium,stainless steel, titanium, brass, cooper tubing and cast aluminium and precious metals. As a painter, he has remained dedicated to exploring the tradition of painting as an artistic medium. His large-scale densely layered abstract oil paintings, built up through layers of oil paint on canvas, overlaid with mark-making using charcoal. His paintings style displays the influences of Willem de Kooning, and Joan Mitchell.  Evoking the themes of time and space.

He has taught in several Colombian Universities and also, he has been invited to lecture at prestigious Institutions such as Museo Nacional de Colombia and Biblioteca Virgilio Barco.

Mejía-Guinand's drawings, collages, paintings, sculptures and architectural models  have been exhibited in numerous solo and group shows, building a strong reputation over the last decade in Colombia, United States,Europe and Asia.

Mejía-Guinand's first solo museum exhibitions, "Francisco Mejía-Guinand the Order of an Inner World" was held in 2003 at the Art Museum of the Americas, Organization of American States OAS,Washington D.C. Since then, other Solo exhibitions include:
	"Francisco Mejía-Guinand, The Triumph of the painting" at The Embassy of Colombia at Washington D.C., March 25 April 24, 2015, a comprehensive show featuring work of 25-Years survey.
	"Francisco Mejía-Guinand 's Geometrics Jewelry " at Latin American Art Gallery PROMO-ARTE, in Tokyo, a first comprehensive overview of Mejía-Guinand 's Drawings, Paintings and Sculpture in Japan and a body of work that spans the years from 1986 to 2014 (in collaboration with  Colombian Embassy in Japan).

His paintings are in the permanent collections of the (i) Art Museum of Americas, Organization of American States OAS Washington D.C., (ii) El fons d'art contemporani del Consell de Mallorca and (iii) El Museo de arte Moderno y Contemporáneo EsBaluard. Palma de Mallorca, Spain,(IV) Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá MAMBo, Bogotá, Colombia.

Mejía-Guinand gained prominence in the 1990s as an artist who merged architecture with sculpture and painting.

Francisco Mejía-Guinand lives and works in New York and Bogotá.

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Le parti pris des choses

Le parti pris des choses is a collection of 32 short to medium-length prose poems by French poet and essayist Francis Ponge first published in 1942 (see 1942 in poetry). The title is often translated into English as The Voice of Things, The Way Things Are, or The Nature of Things (perhaps to echo Lucretius, though the book's philosophical underpinnings are more often associated with phenomenology).

Background

Life and career

Francis Ponge was born in 1899 in Montpellier, France. He started writing at a relatively young age, gaining notice even in the early 1920s. Like many French writers of his time, he was also politically associated, joining the ranks of the Socialist Party in 1919. As a writer, he joined the Surrealist movement for a short time during the 1930s; this also had political ramifications, influencing him to join the Communist Party. However, his most notable works were to come later in his life.

He fought in both World Wars, and it was after his stint in the army in World War II that he decided to leave the Communist Party. It was at this time, in 1942, that he joined the French Resistance and also published what is considered his most famous work, Le parti pris des choses.  This text was in fact written over the span of 15 years, from 1924 to 1939.

After his publication of Le parti pris des choses, Ponge was not unnoticed in the literary world. He was praised heavily by literary heavyweights Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre in the early 1960s. Furthermore, the French literary magazine Tel Quel also touted his work during this time period. While he has only recently gained more popularity in the United States, he also spent the later part of his years lecturing across the country and also was a visiting professor at Barnard College and Columbia University.

Francis Ponge won several prestigious awards late in his career. This included the Neudstadt International Prize for Literature in 1974.

Motivation

Ponge's works often describe mundane objects – for example "The Pebble" or "The Oyster" – extensively, but in such a way that his works are categorized as prose poetry. Robert W. Greene, a literary critic, noted about the intentions of his works,  "He seeks a balance of equivalences, an equation between the order of things and the order of words".

Ponge was also influenced by the ideas of his time. He has his own ideas about the absurd, influenced by Albert Camus in a number of ways. Ponge himself wrote in the Tome Premier that he believed in the unreliability of language and criticized Camus’ views of the search for a single principle as opposed to a number of principles. Many of his writings can be seen as a way to both return to the concrete values of language while also revealing its absurdity.

Contemporaries

Ponge was well respected by his contemporaries in France and they often helped drive his literary career. An example of this was Tel Quel'''s praise for Ponge's works throughout the 1960s. Camus and Sartre both respected his work immensely. The philosophical movements of the time in which both Camus and Sartre were leaders in turn influenced Ponge's own work. For instance, Ponge used Camus’ ideas about absurdity to form his own views. It was in fact partly due to Sartre's praise of Ponge that he was able to win the prestigious Neudstadt Prize.

Style

Ponge stated that his overarching goal was to create a "single cosmogony" through his works, an aim readily apparent in poems like "Le Galet" which is a miniature cosmogony all by itself. Each of the works in the collection explores some object in the corporeal world, "borrowing the brevity and infallibility of the dictionary definition and the sensory aspect of the literary description". Lee Fahnestock, one of Le parti pris des choses’ translators, describes the work as "construct[ing] a new form of definition-description". The style shown in Le parti pris des choses was Ponge's first foray into what would become his definitive trademark.

The Objeu

Much of Ponge's poetic style reflects his idea of the "objeu," or the "objective play of the mind". The objeu is the act of pointedly choosing language or subject matter for its double meanings, hidden connections, and sensory effects on the reader. Indeed, his attitude toward the depiction of objects is neatly summed up by the saying "Parti Pris des Choses = Compte Tenu des Mots," which translates loosely to "taking the side of things = taking into account the words." Indeed, where pure description is inadequate to truly capture the spirit of an object, Ponge employs auditory effects (e.g. assonance, sibilance, and paronomasia) as well as images that delight all the senses. He anthropomorphized his animal and arboreal subjects to make them more relatable. According to Fahnestock, the objeu allowed him to "say several things on several levels at once, while unobtrusively demonstrating the particular nature of words and things".

However, though Ponge attempted to evoke the feeling of the object he was describing by any possible means, he simultaneously believed that good poems were "the most structured, the most uninvolved, the ‘coldest’ possible". To him, the employment of the objeu was rote enough that the evocation of emotion could still be "cold" and "uninvolved." It comes as no surprise that Ponge admired the art of such artists as Cézanne, Braque, and Picasso – Post-Impressionists and Cubists whose mission was to capture the feeling and significance in addition to the form of their subjects – for Ponge shared their goal.

Though the objeu was prominent, creative interpretation and plays on words never took the reins: description was always the primary goal. When discussing "Le Galet," Ponge stated that "most important for the ‘health’ of the contemplator is the naming, in the course of his investigations, of all the qualities which he discovers: these qualities, which ‘transport’ him, must not transport him beyond the limits of reasonable and accurate expression". To step out of this realm would be to submit to subjectivity and self-indulgence, qualities which Ponge looked down upon above all.

Ponge and the Poetry World

While Ponge's work is most often classified as prose poetry, he publicly rejected the moniker of "poet", stating that he "uses poetic magma… only to get rid of it". While much commentary is focused on this, it appears from his writing style that Ponge's issue was more with the self-indulgent lyricism of some poets than with the concept of poetry itself. Ponge appears to have a very conflicted relationship with poetry. Though he made such statements as "ideas are not my forte," his works abound with ideas: he stated early in his career that "it is less the object that must be painted than an idea of that object," a statement which can be accepted alongside even his later works. Though he looks with disdain upon personal involvement, his own concept of the objeu points to great personal investment in his work.

The style of description and calculated subconscious evocation that Ponge established in his early writings starting with Le parti pris des choses was emulated by later French poets, notably Yves Bonnefoy, Jacques Dupin, and André Du Bouchet, the first two of whom employ the "old master's" techniques of subtle wordplay. Du Bouchet, by contrast, has taken Ponge's style of conveying sense impressions and made it his own. These poets are by no means Ponge devotees, but each has drawn something from their predecessor.

 Poems

Of the poems of Ponge's self-proclaimed "poetic encyclopedia", "Snails", "The Pebble", and "The Mollusk" are often subject to scrutiny. Each displays a characteristic Pongian theme or themes.

The Pebble

"The Pebble", or "Le Galet", is easily the longest poem in the collection, being exceptionally long for the genre of prose poetry on the whole. To describe a pebble, Ponge starts at the beginning, literally, the beginning of time itself, diverging from his usual trend of descriptions and assertions. Instead, the reader gets a condensed cosmogony, describing the formation of the first rock, (the Earth, or however the reader wants to interpret it) as a sort of allegory of The Fall. Venturing through the "expulsion of life", "cooling", large tectonic plates, all the way down to the pebble itself, or the "kind of stone that I [Ponge] can pick it up and turn it over in my hand", the pebble comes to stand for rock as a species or entity. The metaphor not to be missed in this poem is the stone as Time, where the "great wheel of stone" rolls ever on as "plant life, animals, gases and liquids revolve quite rapidly in their cycles of dying". This then can be taken as Ponge's view of humanity, as he himself in an essay on "The Pebble" compares looking within himself to telling the story of the pebble. For Ponge, it is best to "consider all things as unknown, and to ... begin again right from the beginning".

TranslationsLe parti pris des choses has been translated into English many times. In particular, translations by translator Lee Fahnestock, poet Robert Bly, and author Beth Archer Brombert are notable.

Lee Fahnestock

Lee Fahnestock is a well-known translator. She has translated many French works, including those by Victor Hugo, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Francis Ponge. Fahnestock's translation of Le parti pris des choses is entitled The Nature of Things. While she admits that a more exact translation of "le parti pris des choses" would be something more like "taking the side of things" or "the side taken by things" (implying that the things in the poems speak for themselves without humans), Fahnestock argues that humanity "is never absent from the page." She believes that Ponge gives his subjects human qualities, and she incorporates this idea into her translations. She also argues that when translating Ponge's work, it is sometimes best to incorporate things like rhythm, sound, and puns rather than purely literal translations of the original. Thus, she says that her goal in her translation was to maintain these effects in the English rather than always keeping the exact meaning of the words themselves. She admits that any text by Ponge is challenging to translate because of his use of colloquialisms and puns, and that while something is inevitably lost in translation, enough can be retained to demonstrate the beauty of his ideas across the language barrier.

Robert Bly

Robert Bly is very famous for own original poetry as well as his translations. His famous collections include Loving a Woman in Two Worlds, Silence in the Snowy Fields, The Morning Glory, and many more. He has translated the works of many famous authors including Kabir, Tomas Tranströmer, Rainer Maria Rilke, Rolf Jacobsen, and Francis Ponge. Bly's work has been heavily influenced and inspired by Ponge's "object" poems, in which he finds a kind of observation of the world that is neither objective nor subjective. For Bly, Ponge is the master of close observation of objects in poetry. He says, "Ponge doesn’t try to be cool, distant, or objective, nor ‘let the object speak for itself.’ His poems are funny, his vocabulary immense, his personality full of quirks, and yet the poem remains somewhere in the place where the senses join the objects." His work on Ponge is embodied in his book titled Ten Poems of Francis Ponge Translated by Robert Bly and Ten Poems of Robert Bly Inspired by the Poems of Francis Ponge.

Beth Archer Brombert

Beth Archer Brombert is a professional translator and author, and her translation of Ponge's Le parti pris des choses, titled The Voice of Things, is widely recognized. She appreciates Ponge's "description-definition-literary art work" that avoids both the dullness of a dictionary and the inadequacy of poetic description. She claims that his poems lead to an account of "the totality of man's view of the universe and his relationship to it." She compares Ponge's poems in Le parti pris des choses'' to blocks of marble; words are the raw materials, and the objects Ponge describes "emerge as do figures from stone." While she accepts that these poems are like fables in that they use objects to "point to a veiled meaning," she claims that they are not conventional fables because their purpose is not to moralize. Instead, they show the reader that "the condition of life is mortality, but in death there is life," and through his poems he describes the weapons against mortality.

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Psorotichia

Psorotichia is a genus of fungi within the Lichinaceae family. The genus contains about 52 species.

References

External links
Psorotichia at Index Fungorum

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Eudonia gressitti

Eudonia gressitti is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Eugene G. Munroe in 1964. This species is endemic to New Zealand, where it has been recorded from the Campbell Islands.

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Lordopini

Lordopini is a weevil tribe in the subfamily Entiminae.

Genera
Acanthobrachis – Aeuryomus – Alocorhinus – Anidopsis – Atomorhinus – Aulametopus – Conidus – Conothorax – Deroconus – Diaprosomus – Dioryrhinus – Elytroxys – Eudmetus – Eurylobus – Euryomus – Euscapus – Euthyreus – Eutypus – Granadia – Hemieuryomus – Hypoptophila – Hypoptus – Hypsonotolobus – Hypsonotus – Lasiocnemoides – Lasiopus – Leptodomus – Lordopella – Lordops – Merodontus – Microstictius – Nesolordops – Omoionotus – Orthocnemus – Pachyconus – Prasocella – Pseudhypoptus – Rescapus – Stenorhinus – Sulla – Tomometopus – Tomorhinus – Trichocnemus – Tropidorrhinus

References

 Schönherr, C.J. 1823: Curculionides [Tabula synoptica familiae Curculionidum]. Isis von Oken, 1823(10): 1132-1146
 Alonso-Zarazaga, M.A.; Lyal, C.H.C. 1999: A world catalogue of families and genera of Curculionoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) (excepting Scolytidae and Platypodidae). Entomopraxis, Barcelona

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Huayan Temple

Yanhua Temple (), may refer to:

 Huayan Temple (Datong), in Datong, Shanxi, China
 Huayan Temple (Ningde), in Ningde, Fujian, China
 Huayan Temple (Shantou), in Shantou, Guangdong, China
 Huayan Temple (Puning), in Puning, Guangdong, China
 Huayan Temple (Guangzhou), in Huadu District of Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
 Huayan Temple (Harbin), in Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
 Huayan Temple (Xi'an), in Chang'an District of Xi'an, Shaanxi, China


Mesomys

Mesomys is a genus of South American spiny rats in the family Echimyidae.

The genus name Mesomys derives from the two ancient greek words  (), meaning "middle of, between", and  (), meaning "mouse, rat". It refers to the fact that this rodent — literally the "middle mouse" — has been considered as an intermediate form related both to mice and jumping rats.

Extant Species

Phylogeny
Mesomys is a member of the Echimyini clade of arboreal Echimyidae rodents. The closest relative of Mesomys is Lonchothrix, reflecting the fact that these taxa have once been classified in the Eumysopinae, a subfamily now recognized as an artificial assemblage. These two genera share phylogenetic affinities with several taxa and clades: (i) Echimys, Phyllomys, Makalata, Pattonomys, and Toromys ; (ii) the bamboo rats Dactylomys, Olallamys, Kannabateomys together with Diplomys and Santamartamys ; and (iii) Isothrix.

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Harry Miller (American football)

Harry "Red" Miller (born 1889) was an American football player and coach. A graduate and college football player at the University of Notre Dame, Miller served as the head football coach at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska from 1910 to 1914.

He was the father of Notre Dame player Creighton Miller, whom he named after Creighton University. He was also the older brother of Don Miller, one of Notre Dame's famous Four Horsemen.

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His Excellency: George Washington

His Excellency: George Washington is a 2004 biography of the first President of the United States, General George Washington. It was written by Joseph Ellis, a professor of History at Mount Holyoke College, who specializes in the founding fathers and the revolutionary and federalist periods.

Content

Events and themes
In the text, Ellis focuses on three main areas of Washington's life:
 military adventures during the Seven Years' War (French and Indian War)
 generalship in the American Revolution
 service as first President of the United States.

According to Ellis, Washington was always searching for a means to control his inner passions and his destiny.  He fumed under the control that the British held over him during the Colonial America period. In particular, he was frustrated by the lack of respect offered for his military achievements to granting land claim rights in the west.  As a general, he bemoaned the lack of control the fledgling Continental Congress had over the colonies which composed it. (Later as President, he supported legislation to ensure control by the federal government over the states).

As a man forced to make his own destiny, he made the theme of control central to his life. He asserted such control in his decisions at his beloved plantation, Mount Vernon.

Chapters
 Preface: The Man In The Moon
 Chapter One: Interior Regions
 Chapter Two: The Strenuous Squire
 Chapter Three: First In War
 Chapter Four: Destiny's Child
 Chapter Five: Introspective Interlude
 Chapter Six: First In Peace
 Chapter Seven: Testaments

Quotes
 He was the epitome of the man's man: physically strong, mentally enigmatic, emotionally restrained.
 If his views on slavery were typical of his time and his class, there was one area in which he proved an exception to the pattern of behavior expected of a prominent Virginia gentleman: he was excessively and conspicuously assiduous in the defense of his own interests, especially when he suspected he was being cheated out of money or land.
 Because he could not afford to fail, he could not afford to trust. For the rest of his life, all arguments based on the principle of mutual trust devoid of mutual interest struck him as sentimental nonsense.
 Ideals were not irrelevant to Washington, but he was deeply suspicious of any idealistic agenda that floated above the realities of power on the ground.
 He was that rarest of men: a supremely realistic visionary, a prudent prophet whose final position on slavery served as the capstone to a career devoted to getting the big things right. His genius was his judgment.
 Unlike Julius Caesar and Oliver Cromwell before him, and Napoleon, Lenin, and Mao after him, he understood that the greater glory resided in posterity's judgment. If you aspire to live forever in the memory of future generations, you must demonstrate the ultimate self-confidence to leave the final judgment to them. And he did.
Washington's task was to change the improbable into the inevitable.

Reviews
The historian Gordon S. Wood, who has also written about the Revolutionary and federalist periods, wrote in his review in The New Republic that "Ellis's portrait of Washington thus humanizes the man without knocking him off the pedestal where his contemporaries placed him. This Washington is all the greater because he is a real human being with both passions and principles." He also wrote, "Joseph J. Ellis ... has been a one-man historical machine... Ellis has entered the ranks of that tiny group of popular historians, including David McCullough, Walter Isaacson, and Ron Chernow, who sell copies of their books in the tens and even hundreds of thousands."

References

External links
 Steve Inskeep, "New Book Takes Fresh Look at George Washington", Morning Edition, NPR, 25 October 2004
 Jonathan Yardley, Review: "'His Excellency, George Washington'", The Washington Post, 28 October 2004

 His Excellency, George Washington, collected reviews and quotes, Powell's Books

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Pazhuvil

Pazhuvil is a small village in Trissur district of Kerala state, south India. It is 17 km from Thrissur town, on the Cherpu - Triprayar road.

Location
Pazhuvil village is very close to city yet retains many qualities of an age old Kerala village. It has all modern facilities for dwellers (Hospital, Schools, Church, Masjid, Auditoriums etc.). It is divided into east and west officially and is surrounded by paddy fields.

The main centers are the Chazhoor road Junction, Hospital junction, Pazhuvil centre, Panchayat Junction. There is an aided School (more than seventy years old) run by the church  and a private CBSE school.

Landmarks
The village has a well run Mission hospital and a Homeopathic hospital for the health care of the villagers. The government run veterinary hospital is nearly 50 years old and helps villagers to maintain their livestock.

History
The Village boasts of one of the early movers in the Co-operative movement in the state. The Pazhuvil Service Co-operative Society is more than a century old. For many years villagers were depending on the Bank run the Society for their financial transactions. It is one of the leading co-operative banks of the District. The financial transactions of the NRI's also has helped the growth of the bank.  The contribution of the bank to the farming .

Church History

The origin of Thattil family in Thrissur is linked with one of the army Chief of The King of Kochi. He was killed in a battle with Zamorin of Kozhikode at a place called Enamavu in Thrissur. As a mark of respect and memory of this great warrior, King promised to construct a church, where his body is buried. Accordingly, his body was buried in Pazhuvil in Thrissur and a church was constructed there. Velayanad church near  Vellangallur is founded by Thattil Muthi. Thattil Clan, Which has its origin in the ancient Christian settlement of Pazhuvil located in the western part of Thrissur District, 17 km from the city in the Thrissur-Thriprayar Road. By virtue of its nobility and culture this family finds an important place among the ‘Nazrani’-Thomas Christians of Kerala – families, legendarily claiming to be the descendants of those ancestors directly baptized by St. Thomas, one of the twelve Apostles of Lord Jesus Christ. Thattil Mapila who belonged to this clan and whose tomb is situated in the graveyard of Pazhuvil Catholic Church was built in the year 883 AD and catered to the spiritual needs of the Christians including those in Thrissur and its outskirts of the village is appreciable. The writer of Puthen pana, Arnos Padiri was lived and died here in Pazhuvil formerly Known as Pazhayoor " the land of fruits".  The tomb of Arnos Padiri is situated in Pazhuvil. It has the credibility of the IV th ancient churches in the Diocese of Trichur.

Economy
Many job seekers from Pazhuvil migrated to middle east during the 70s & 80s and helped their neighbours, friends and family members to migrate. You may find a person from Pazhuvil in all major areas of middle east.

Places of worships
The village has an old Subramanian temple and "vendrasery shiva temple"  "vellanchery kalinada kavu" Hindu temple with a temple pond for the devotees. The temple was scientifically analyzed to be around 2000 years old. 'SHASHTI' is the most prominent festival associated with the temple, during which a particular form of dancing, Kavadi aatam  is performed.
St. Antony's Foraine Church is a Catholic church and the first church in India named after St. Antony. It was founded in 960 AD. This church is one of the famous pilgrimage centers in Kerala. It is renowned for the feast of St. Antony on the second Sunday after Easter, celebrated at the old shrine nearby the river.

Pazhuvil Mosque is the only Sunni juma Masjid in the road side of Thrissur-Cherpu-Thriprayar Road .

Personality
Johann Ernst Hanxleden, a Jesuit missionary from Germany (known locally as Arnos Pathiri) came to Kerala in the beginning of the 18th century, learned Sanskrit and Malayalam, and wrote Puthen Pana based on the New Testament, sitting by the well of Pazhuvil church. Pathiri died of a snake bite on 20 March 1732 and was buried near the church. Later a memorial was built and his mortal remains were removed to the memorial. In order to maintain his memory a historical museum has also been started.

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Takydromus septentrionalis

Takydromus septentrionalis, the China grass lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Lacertidae. It is endemic to China.

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Intate stone age settlement ruins

is an archaeological site containing the ruins of a middle to late Jōmon period settlement located in what is now part of the city of Tōmi, Nagano in the Chūbu region of Japan. The site was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 1933.

Overview
The site is located on the southern slopes of a hill 770 meters above sea level between the Nishizawa and Osuzawa Rivers. Discovered in 1930, early excavations uncovered the foundations of a pit dwelling, hearth, bone fragments and a polished stone ax, which led the site to be designated a National Historic Site. Despite is name, the site is from the Jōmon period and not the Japanese Paleolithic. A restored pit dwelling, one the first such faux restorations, was constructed on the site, but it was later destroyed by lightning. Further excavations from 1983-1984 discovered that the pit dwelling was part of a much larger village, covering a 63,000 to 80,000 square meter area. Several restored pit houses were reconstructed in 1988, forming an archaeological park.

See also
List of Historic Sites of Japan (Nagano)

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Tōmi official site

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Helvig of Schauenburg

Helvig of Schauenburg () (1398–1436), also known as Hedvig of Holstein  and also Hedwig of Schauenburg, was a duchess of Schleswig and a countess of Holstein from the family of Schauenburg, and ancestor of the Danish Royal houses of Oldenburg and Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg.

She was a daughter of Gerhard VI of Holstein-Rendsburg and his wife, Catherine Elisabeth of Brunswick-Lüneburg. Her brother was Adolf VIII/I, Count of Holstein/Duke of Schleswig. Through their father, they were cognatic descendants of King Eric V of Denmark while through their mother, they were cognatic descendants of King Abel of Denmark.

On 18 April 1417 Helvig was married to Prince Balthasar of Mecklenburg, who died of the plague in 1421. In 1423 she was married to Dietrich, Count of Oldenburg. From her second marriage she had the following children:
 Christian (1426–1481), who succeeded his father as Count of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst. In 1448, partly because of his mother's ancestry, he was elected King of Denmark. He also inherited the counties of Schleswig and Holstein upon the death of his childless uncle, Adolf VIII.
 Maurice V of Delmenhorst (1428–1464); when his elder brother became king, he was given the County of Delmenhorst.
 Gerhard VI of Oldenburg (1430–1500); when his eldest brother had become king, he was given the county of Oldenburg, and from his other brother's heirs he also inherited Delmenhorst in about 1483.
 Adelheid of Oldenburg (1425–1475); first married Ernest III, Count of Hohenstein (died 1454) and then in 1474 Gerhard VI, Count of Mansfeld (died 1492).

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Danish royal descent

See also
 Counts of Schauenburg and Holstein

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Muiredach of Killala

Saint Muiredach mac Echdach, also known as Murtagh, was the founding Bishop of Killala, Ireland in the 6th century.

Muiredach is described as an old man of Patrick's family, and was placed at the head of the Church of Killala by St. Patrick, patron saint of Ireland as early as 442 or 443.

He was connected to the royal family of King Lóegaire mac Néill. He allegedly met with St. Columba in the year 575, in a town called Ballysadare. He probably resigned after a few years, and retired to an island off the Sligo coast in Donegal Bay.

The uninhabited island, Inishmurray, bears his name. He may also be the patron of the monastery that was on that island. He died there as a hermit, and his feast day is August 12.

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Pazzi Madonna

The Pazzi Madonna  is a rectangular "stiacciato" marble relief sculpture by Donatello, now in the sculpture collections of the Bode-Museum in Berlin. Dating to around 1425-1430, it was probably originally produced for private devotion in the Palazzo Pazzi della Congiura in Florence at the beginning of Donatello's collaboration with Michelozzo. It was extremely popular and is known in several copies.

The Virgin Mary is shown three-quarter-length, holding the Christ Child in her arms. Neither of them are shown with haloes and the emphasis is instead on their tender and intense intimacy, developing themes from the Eleusa-type icon in Byzantine art. The child reaches out his arm to his mother, but both their expressions are melancholy, with the Virgin reflecting on her son's future Passion.

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Ormosia nobilis

Ormosia nobilis (sometimes incorrectly: Ormosia novilis) is a tree-forming plant species in the genus Ormosia. It grows in tropical South America, primarily in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Paraguay, and Venezuela.  The Ormosis nobilis tree is known as "sirari" and it produces a commercial hardwood which is also known as sirari.

Growth characteristics
The tree grows in the rain forests and reaches heights of up to , with very straight and cylindrical trunks.

Uses
The wood is commercially cut for hardwood floors. The seeds are used in native handicrafts.

Names
The tree and the wood are known by a variety of names including:
 Amargo blanco,
 Baracara,
 Chocho,
 Jatobahy do igapo,
 Kokriki,
 Mekoe,
 Palo de matos,
 Peonio, and
 Tento

Varieties
Varieties include:
 Ormosia nobilis Tul. Var. bolivarensis Rudd
 Ormosia nobilis Tul. Var. nobilis
 Ormosia nobilis Tul. Var. santaremnensis (Ducke)Rudd

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Amarendranath Chatterjee

Amarendranath Chatterjee () (1 July 1880 – 4 September 1957) was an Indian independence movement activist. In charge of raising funds for the Jugantar movement, his activities largely covered revolutionary centres in Bihar, Odisha and the United Provinces.

Early life
Born 1 July 1879 at Uttarpara, in the Hooghly district, near Kolkata, Amarendra was the son of Upendranath Chatterjee. On completing his primary education at Uttarpara and secondary at Bhagalpur, Amarendra joined the well-respected Duff College (now Scottish Church College) at Kolkata, where his classmates included Upendranath Banerjee and Hrishikesh Kanjilal, future revolutionary colleagues. After graduation, he and his friends accompanied Surendranath Banerjee in his lecture tours throughout India and, under the latter's influence, opened centres of social service. During the anti-Partition agitations, identifying with the programme of boycotting British goods, Amarendra led the National Volunteer Movement.

First steps
Sponsored by Raja Pyarimohan and his son Rajendranath Mukherjee ('Misri Babu'), he established the Uttarpara Shilpa-samiti, installed a carpentry, bought six handlooms and began selling homespun textile. Very soon he looked after the Poragacha unit in Nadia, giving assistance to Jatindra Nath Mukherjee (Bagha Jatin or Jatin Mukherjee). They collaborated in the formation of the Chhatra Bhandar ("Students' Emporium"), which would be transformed later into the Shramajibi Samabaya ("Workers' Cooperative").

While Jatin Mukherjee "worked directly under the orders of Aurobindo Ghose" since 1903, Amarendra met Sri Aurobindo in 1907 and received initiation with these words: "Surrender yourself to God and in the name of the Divine Mother get along with the service of India. That is my diksha to you." He was further told by Sri Aurobindo: "If we want to secure the freedom of the country, we have to sacrifice everything for it, and we should be ready to give up even our life for it. If we want to free the country, we shall have to conquer the fear of death." Encouraged by Sri Aurobindo to collect funds for the Extremists' movement, he came closer to Jatin Mukherjee. Behind their commercial activities, their centres sheltered freedom fighters from regional units, as well as provided meeting places for Jatin and other Jugantar leaders.

Jugantar
Jatin's elderly revolutionary associate Preonath Karar (Sri Yukteswar Giri) of Serampore – friend of Hrishikesh Kanjilal and of the restless Vedic Pandit Mokshada Samadhyayi – had founded an Ashram at Puri in 1900; it had been in connection with Lokamanya Tilak's initiative to turn Benares and other Hindu shrines into seats of Extremist politics. Long before the hatching of the daily Jugantar at Benares, Puri instituted a religious procession in celebration of the advent of a New Era (yuga+antar).  Sealy in his Report admits : "It would be extremely rash to argue that the place has not been freely used by the anarchist for sealing the compact of many a vow against the Government or that it has not been a recognised place of refuge for the fugitive from justice or surveillance by the police."

A few months before the Surat Congress, Suranath Bhaduri of Benares, on reaching Calcutta after travelling all over Bengal, "formed a central committee at the Sandhya office, with the help of Jatin Banerji (alias Niralamba Swami) and with Kartik Dutta; Mukhada Samadhyayi, Shyamsundar Chakravarti, Arabindo Ghose, Tarakhepa, Annada Charan Kaviraj and others as members(…) Measures are being devised for freeing India and for proclaiming the divine commands which have been received in the matter (…) After this Suranath went to Puri with Preo Nath Karar alias Sri Yukteswar Giri (…) Attempts are being made to get hold of such of the ruling Chiefs as are patrons of the Bharat Dharma Mahamandal. Raja Sasisekhareswar of Tahirpur … is being fully converted to this creed." The Maharaj of Darbhanga was the General President of the Mahamandal; Suranath's father, Somnath Bhaduri, was the Maharaja's Private Secretary; Amarendra Chatterjee's father-in-law, Preonath Banerjee, was the Manager of the Darbhanga Raj; the link was further close because one of Preonath Banerjee's nephews, Natbihari Chatterjee (son-in-law of the great Surendranath Banerjee), was munsif at Cuttack; another nephew, Dhiren Mukherjee, taught at the Ravenshaw Collegeate School. Amarendra had a free access not only to these patriots but, also, to the headmaster of this School (later Principal of the Ravenshaw College), Khirodchandra Ray Chaudhuri, who edited and published the "scurrilous" (to quote Sealy) daily, Star of Utkal.

Khirodchandra's son, Sukumar, practised as a barrister at Cuttack and had married a daughter of Dr Aghore Nath Chatterjee "who was deported by the Nizam of Hyderabad for intriguing against the British Government." The most illustrious of Aghore Nath's children was Virendranath Chattopadhyay ("Chatto", the revolutionary of international reputation); among the others was the patriotic Mrinalini Chatterjee who formed a trio with Kumudini Mitra and Sarojini Ghose (respectively cousin and sister of Sri Aurobindo). The poet Harin and the politician Sarojini Naidu were two other of Aghore Nath's children. Another member of this circle was the pleader Bishwanath Kar of Cuttack who enjoyed a close friendship with eminent national leaders such as Dr Sundari Mohan Das, Surendranath Banerjee and Bipin Chandra Pal.

These leaders had also been mentors for the significant revolutionary Bairagi Tripathi of Patia (district Cuttack) who was personally helped in his education by Madhusudan Das and the Raja of Kanika; on reaching Calcutta, Bairagi had become – in imitation of the Hyde Park spirit in London - "a troublesome agitator and lecturer of the Calcutta open air platform. His first appearance was at a meeting presided over by Amarendra Chatterjee and after Liaqat Hossain was served with an order under the Calcutta Police Act, Bairagi became very vehement at meetings organised by Liaqat and himself on almost all political questions (…) Bairagi himself was evicted from Bengal and was eventually interned at Cuttack."

The Ramakrishna Mission had a branch at Puri, known as the Sashi Niketan and, according to the Police reports, this place had always been visited by "suspicious strangers", including Jatin Mukherjee and Amarendra Chatterjee. According to Sealy's Report, in 1910, the latter made a determined effort to establish an Ashram at Puri, in a building near the Jagannath Temple, called Srikshetra Sevashram, ostensibly for philanthropic purposes but, in reality, for the education and training of political missionaries. This institution, too, was under the patronage of the Raja of Tahirpur. In addition to Basanta Biswas, Amarendra was helped by Sushil and Sushen, brothers of Satish Mukherjee (who had been sentenced in 1908 in connection with the Alipore Bomb Case, and came to be known as Swami Muktananda) : all of them served as links with the Benares unit.  During the ratha-yatra festival, Amarendra and his associates wore red crosses and distributed medicines to pilgrims. The Temple Manager wrote to the District Magistrate in 1911 that he had "noticed signs of attempts by Bengali agitators to turn the temple into a centre for the Swadeshi movement and political agitation." This letter rejoiced the divide and rule policy of the English, while Amarendra had to abandon the idea.

Indo-German conspiracy

Since Sri Aurobindo's retiring to Pondicherry in 1910, Amarendra closely associated with Jatin's followers such as Atulkrishna Ghosh, M.N. Roy and Bepin Ganguli, and served as intermediary between Jatin Mukherjee and Rasbehari Bose, becoming a key-figure in the Indo-German Conspiracy under Jatin during World War I. Two of his faithful lieutenants – Basanta and Manmatha Biswas went to North India to assist Rasbehari in an attempt to murder Lord Hardinge; immediately after Basanta's capital punishment in this connection, Amarendra was blacklisted by the Police.

Bholanath Chatterjee and Parikhit Mukherjee had been working with Naren Bhattacharya under Jatin Mukherjee's direct leadership. Since March 1915, they were "sent off to Sambalpur side, to prospect establishing connection along the Bombay line to Nagpur connected up with Nilgiri and Mayurbhanj." At Chakradharpur they received hospitality from Ashu Kundu of Kumarkhali (Nadia) and stayed in Manoharpur, hired a house at Kalunga in August, went to Banposh, Bisra, Mohanpur and Sonua, where they stayed with Girindra Mukherjee who had visited Shyamji Krishna Varma in Europe and Myron Phelps in the US, and had been in correspondence with them. Reminding that one of the addresses to which money from the Far East could reach the revolutionaries was Sonua Stone & Lime Co. with its office at 101/1 Clive Street, Calcutta, Sealy points out how its owner, Sudhangshu Mukherjee – one of the directors of the Shramajibi Samabaya – was "a puppet in Amarendra Chatterji’s hands."

In 1909, Amarendra brought out a Bengali edition of Sri Aurobindo's  Karmayogin; the paper collapsed in 1910 after having published a violent letter. He adopted the guise of a monk. Amarendra's next enterprise was the above-mentioned "Labour League" (Shramajibi Samabaya), a flourishing Limited Liability Company, with the real object of defraying the expenses of preaching Nationalism. In 1911, at Puri, he became the leader of a "gang of sannyasis" banded together with the object of disseminating sedition. He was found selling a book entitled The Life of Arabindo Ghose. In "A Note on the Ramakrishna Mission", Charles Tegart recognised that the flood relief in 1913 in the districts of Burdwan, Hooghly and Midnapore "was eagerly seized upon by the revolutionary parties, both of the Eastern and Western Bengal, who (…) doubtless utilised the opportunity thus afforded to map out their future plan of campaign." Describing Amarendra "to be an exceedingly active and dangerous conspirator at the present time," Tegart proved how the Mission financed him for these relief operations.

Denham, in 1914, kept under observation for a considerable time Naren Bhattacharya's mess at 133 Lower Circular Road in Calcutta, which was visited by Amarendra and Makhan Sen to see and confer with Jatin Mukherjee. In the same Report, dated 22 April 1914, Tegart states that even up to date, the Ramakrishna Mission at Belur and its recognised branches were not entirely free from objectionable features: "For instance, on the seventy-ninth birthday anniversary of Ramakrishna, which was celebrated at Belur on 1 March last, in the presence of a very large gathering, it is reported that Amarendra Nath Chatterjee and Makhan Sen (…), Jatindra Nath Mukherjee and other prominent members of the revolutionary party, were noticed feeding the poor and generally assisting the authorities of the Math in attending to the welfare of their visitors."

In April, 1915, Jatin Mukherjee agreed to leave Calcutta for Balasore: having supervised the expedition, Amarendra and Ramchandra Majumdar reminded the escorts: "Never forget that the Soul of Bengal is entrusted to you." After spending a few days with the regional leader Atul Sen, Headmaster of the local school, the party left with Pandit Hem Mukherjee to his village Kumar-Ada near Mahishadal. Then, via Balasore and Nilgiri, they reached Kaptipoda.

At this juncture, before setting out for the Far East, Naren Bhattacharya – after having brought to his colleagues at Calcutta the good news of Jatin Mukherjee's convenient settling at Kaptipoda and the exact modes of getting orders from Balasore for the route to Kaptipoda – returned there to receive blessings from his Guru, Jatin. With a passport issued in the name of C.A. Martin, he arrived at Batavia (Djakarta) on 30 April, and was welcomed by Erich Windels, the German Consul, who presented him also to the brothers Helfferich, Theodor and Emil, officially designated by the German Government to deal with the Maverick project. In addition to their family plantations, the Helfferichs looked after a flourishing business there; as manager of the Behn Meyers Company, Theodor took down from Naren detailed instructions sent by Jatin Mukherjee concerning the delivery of the Maverick consignment. He noted also the addresses of Harry & Sons (Harikumar Chakravarti) and of Shramajibi Samabaya (Amarendra Chatterjee) at Calcutta for all urgent communications.

Satisfied with his trip to Batavia, on 15 May 1915, Naren sent a telegram to Harikumar from Weltevreden, Java: "Sugar business helpful. Martin". Having probably made a detour by China, on 29 May he sent another message to Calcutta: "Back here ; business good; sugar contracted; shipment after 2 weeks; anxious for affairs there. Wire. Martin." Having received from the Helfferichs a first remittance of 43.000 rupees, Naren worked out with Abdur Salam – a Kashmiri Muslim actively involved in the Extremists' project – to transfer a great portion of this money to Harry & Sons through the intermediary of the firm Chotirmull & Co, belonging to Indian tradesmen from the Sindh, having its dynamic branch offices in the Far East.

Fish of the deep
At the top of a period of hectic preparations from the revolutionaries' side, when on 7 August 1915, Denham searched the Harry & Sons and the Shramajibi Samabaya, he had no warrant for arresting Amarendra, but warned the latter: "You are a fish of the deep water!" That was the last contact the police had with Amarendra, just before he absconded. Sealy's Report desperately added: "In 1915 his very important share in the gun-running conspiracy [under Jatin Mukherjee] and its ramifications came to light but he disappeared and has completely baffled all efforts to trace him."

While absconding in Chandernagore after Jatin Mukherjee's heroic self-undoing in 1915, Amarendra narrowly escaped in the teeth of an armed Police cordon, travelled through Assam, Uttar Pradesh and Punjab, received initiation as a Sikh monk, tirelessly visiting pilgrimages all over India, under the identity of the Punjabi Sadhu ("Hermit"). After the War, on learning about the amnesty during a lecture tour in the South, still disguised as a sannyasi, he paid a visit to Sri Aurobindo, who received heartily the old disciple.

Later life
On returning to Bengal, Amarendra took up the Cherry Press to issue the Atmashakti, offering to Deshabandhu Chitta Ranjan Das the full sympathy of his Jugantar fellows within the framework of the Swarajya Party. On serving a short term prison, he was released in 1923 and was appointed by Suresh Majumdar (Bagha Jatin's follower) as the President of the Karmi Sangha ("Community of Workers"). In the early 1920s, Suresh is said to have received considerable help from Amarendra in financing and founding the Anandabazar group of papers. Elected to the Assembly in 1929, he joined the Dundee March in 1930 and spent a year in the prison. As a member of the Central Legislative Assembly, representing Madan Mohan Malaviya's Congress Nationalist Party (1937-1945), he preferred the programme of his revolutionary associate M.N. Roy (Naren Bhattacharya) and joined the Radical Democratic Party in 1945. He died in Uttarpara in 1957.

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Bleialf transmitter

Bleialf transmitter is a facility of the Deutsche Telekom AG on the Black Man mountain at Bleialf, Germany for FM- and TV-broadcasting. It uses as antenna tower a 224 metre tall guyed steel-tube mast.

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Chamaemyia hungarica

Chamaemyia hungarica is a species of fly in the family Chamaemyiidae. It is only found in Hungary.

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Berwickshire (Parliament of Scotland constituency)

Before the Act of Union 1707, the barons of the sheriffdom or shire of Berwick (also called the Merse) elected commissioners to represent them in the unicameral Parliament of Scotland and in the Convention of Estates. The number of commissioners was increased from two to four in 1690.

During the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland the sheriffdom was represented by one Member of Parliament in the Protectorate Parliament at Westminster. After 1708, Berwickshire returned one member to the House of Commons of Great Britain and later to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.

List of shire commissioners

 1612: William Cockburn of Langton
 1612, 1621: Robert Swinton of that Ilk
 1625: James Cockburn of Ryslaw
 1630: Sir Patrick Hume of Polwarth
 1639, 1640–41, 1645–46, 1649–50: Sir David Home of Wedderburn
 1640–41: Sir William Cockburn of Langton
 1644–45: Sir Alexander Swinton of that Ilk
 1649, 1650, 1654–55, 1656–58, 1659–60: John Swinton of that Ilk
 1661–63: Colonel John Hume of Plandergaist
 1661–63: Sir Robert Douglas of Blaikerstone
 1665 convention, 1667 convention, 1669–74: Sir Robert Sinclair of Longformacus
 1665 convention, 1667 convention, 1669–74, 1689 convention, 1689–90: Sir Patrick Hume of Polwarth (ennobled 1690)
 1678 convention: Sir Roger Hog of Harcarse
 1678 (convention), 1685–86, 1689 (convention), 1689–1702: Sir Archibald Cockburn of Langton
 1681–82: John Edgar of Wedderlie
 1690–1706: Sir John Home of Blackadder
 1690–1702, 1702–07: Sir John Swinton of that Ilk
 1702–07: Sir Robert Sinclair of Longformacus
 1702-07: Sir Patrick Home of Rentoun
 1702–05: Sir John Home of Blackadder (died c.1705)
 1706–07:  Sir Alexander Campbell of Cesnock

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 List of constituencies in the Parliament of Scotland at the time of the Union

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Association for Inherited Cardiac Conditions

The Association for Inherited Cardiac Conditions is the UK national professional body for experts in genetics and cardiology dealing with inherited diseases of the heart. These include heart muscle diseases such as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, dilated cardiomyopathy, noncompaction cardiomyopathy, and arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (also known as arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia), as well as inherited arrhythmia disorders such as long QT syndrome, Brugada syndrome, and catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT). The AICC also represents experts in aortic disease such as Marfan syndrome and other systemic diseases which affect the heart or circulation.

Individually, many of these diseases are rare, but in total they affect a large number of people worldwide. They are an important cause of sudden death in young people.

The AICC was set up in 2009 as part of NHS improvement. The first President was Professor William McKenna. It holds an annual conference as well as sessions at the annual meeting of the British Cardiovascular Society and the Heart Rhythm Congress. Its members are involved in research into the natural history, diagnosis and management of these diseases, including projects such as the 100,000 Genomes Project run by Genomics England

References

External links
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Inherited Cardiac Conditions


Ab Conway

Charles Abbott "Ab" Conway (7 October 1914 – 10 March 2001) was a Canadian middle-distance runner. He competed in the men's 800 metres at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

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Treasure Buddies

Treasure Buddies is a 2012 Disney direct-to-DVD family film, directed by Robert Vince and produced by Anna McRoberts. It is the 6th installment in the Air Buddies franchise. The Buddies head to the ruins of Ancient Egypt, where, with the help of a monkey named Babi and a camel named Cammy, explore tombs, escape booby traps, and race against a Sphynx cat named Ubasti in search of treasure. The film was released by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment on DVD, Blu-ray, and as a film download on January 31, 2012.

Plot
The film opens with a pickpocketing monkey named Babi who tells his nephew, Babu how he met the Buddies. The Buddies' great-grandfather, Digger was the partner of an archaeologist, Thomas Howard, who retrieved one half of a dial which would lead to Queen Cleocatra's tomb. He never found the other half and retired. The scene then switches to present Fernfield where Thomas is giving his grandson, Peter a tour of the Egyptian exhibit. The Buddies, Budderball, B-Dawg, Buddha, Mudbud and Rosebud are also at the exhibit. Peter stays behind with his grandfather who gives Mudbud, Digger's bandanna. A British archaeologist, Phillip Wellington along with his cat Ubasti meets Thomas in his office and reveals to have the other half of the dial, and insists on bringing him and Peter along for the ride, but refuses to bring along Mudbud due to certain allergies. Fortunately, Mudbud and the other Buddies stowaway in Phillip's DC-3 Douglas airliner via a box of TNT.

Thomas, Peter, and the Buddies enter the town of Bastati in a truck. Budderball farts after eating some TNT and Seti and Tarik run away frantically, afraid that it might explode. While exploring the marketplace, Peter meets a native girl named Farah. When he introduces himself, Farah does not understand him but it is revealed that she does know and speak English when she tells him that he called her a cucumber when Peter tried to speak Arabic. The Buddies split up to find Thomas and Peter. A woman at the marketplace gives Rosebud a veil and Budderball is given a kebab. Babi steals the kebab from Budderball and he is caught taking it away. He tells them that he was just trying to take it out of the fear that might choke on the bones. Babi agrees to help find Thomas and Peter and gives Budderball a fez and the Buddies a place to sleep in a warehouse stable.

A stolen Camel named Cammy is sent in by a camel thief and the Buddies ask Cammy why she is sent there. She explains that she was stolen by a group of thieves and sent to the town to be sold to the local tribesmen. They agree to help her find her Bedouin tribe. Meanwhile, Babi spies on Thomas, Peter, and Philip trying to solve the riddles and puzzles in order to find the lost tomb of Cleocatra. Thomas connects two halves together and puts them in the hole, causing the tip of the obelisk to rotate facing the moon and the light of the moon to light the way. Babi tells the Buddies that they are heading to the oasis. In the morning, Babi rips off a hose from their truck to delay Phillip from heading there first. As they leave, Cammy spits regurgitated food at the thieves and they start leaving for the oasis. Babi hitches a ride on the truck to the desert.

At the oasis, Thomas tells the story of Cleocatra, the cat god Bastet gave a special necklace called "The Cat's Eye Necklace" to Cleopatra the ruler of Egypt. Her cat Cleocatra was angry that Bastet gave the necklace to a human, so she decided to steal the necklace. A puppy named Buddasi saw Cleocatra, so he informed Cleopatra what was going on. Cleopatra was very enraged at her trusted cat, so she decided to use the necklace to make dogs man's best friend, and cats were banished from the palace. Peter thanks Thomas for bringing him on the adventure. Meanwhile, the Buddies realized that fate sent them on the adventure and journeys have deeper meanings as they go to sleep. In the morning, Farah surprises Peter by hiding behind a well, and Amir asks Peter if Thomas knows him well. He says that he met him a few days ago and Amir tells Peter to tell Thomas that he should not be trusted.

In the morning, they start looking for clues. They brush off sand revealing the Cat's Eye symbol. Babi spies on them opening the door into the well. Inside, they wipe off a symbol of royalty and the menet. Meanwhile, Babi slashes a hole in their tire with a knife to delay them more. Ubasti catches Babi and he runs away. The Bedouins start leaving the oasis. Budderball starts hallucinating from dehydration that a picnic is there and starts rolling on the sand. Budderball spots an oasis and start heading there for water. They find the stairway entrance to the well and start splashing around. As they come out, dates start falling on them, they realize Babi is shaking the tree and they are glad to see him. Mudbud asks where Thomas and Pete are located and says they are on the way to the oasis. Phillip's car suddenly stops and he blames Seti and Tarik on the flat tire. Meanwhile, the Buddies make it to the Bedouins and Cammy is reunited with her mother Mala. At night they watch the tribe dance and eat a feast.

At night Peter overhears Phillip talking about getting rid of Thomas and him so that the treasure will be theirs. Remembering what Amir said about Phillip, he races to the tent and wakes up Thomas and tells him about Phillip. Phillip comes into the tent saying that Thomas will do whatever he says and Thomas says that he is done helping him. In the morning, the tribe crafts a hot air balloon in order so they can find Thomas and Peter. Peter spots the balloon but Thomas keeps Phillip from discovering by saying that there are no baboons in the desert. The Buddies and Babi attempt to land in the desert and land on a sand dune, falling in fast motion into the sand. They enter the temple and make it in time to escape a sandstorm. They meet a cobra named Slither, who guards Cleopatra's tomb. If Slither hypnotizes Buddha, they become his supper, if Buddha hypnotizes Slither, he is considered a descendant of Buddasi and can pass to the tomb. Buddha passes his test and Slither lights the way to the tomb.

Phillip, Thomas, Peter, Seti, and Tarik make it to the tomb while the Buddies and Babi are inside the tomb facing booby traps and challenges including a giant game of senet and a quicksand trap. Ubasti finds out that the Buddies are already there and chases after them. B-Dawg is saved from the pit of snakes at the giant game of senet but Seti is eaten by the snakes in the pit. The Buddies make it into the tomb, B-Dawg starts wearing the Cat's Eye Necklace and starts acting like a cat. The statues start to come to life and Ubasti commands the cats to chase the Buddies. Two of the cats fall into the pit of snakes and another two Budderball traps in the scarab beetle chamber. The last group of cats are eaten by Slither.

Phillip, Thomas, and Peter make it to the tomb chamber and Ubasti scratches Phillip's face because she didn't want Phillip to take it. She puts on the Cat's Eye Necklace, and becomes ruler of the cats only to be turned into stone by the tomb because of a curse that any cat that wanted power would gain everlasting life in the form of a statue. A door opens with riches inside and Phillip decides to steal it. Phillip then challenges Thomas to a fierce duel. Phillip is about to win when Peter knocks him out with a shield. Phillip regains consciousness and escapes with the Cat's Eye Necklace and is chased by the Buddies. Babi gets on Phillip's head and bangs a pot on his head multiple times, making Phillip drop the Cat's Eye Necklace. Cammy spits at Phillip's face and is captured by the Bedouins, tied to a camel and (per request) is placed under the custody of the British embassy. At a dance in Bastati, Amir congratulates Thomas and Peter for helping to find the Cat's Eye Necklace while Farah shows Peter some of the moves the dancers make. At the museum opening, Thomas and Peter are declared national heroes along with the Buddies, and Amir and Farah clap for them at the grand opening. The collar is put on permanent display in the museum in Fernfield. Babu believes him to have exaggerated the story but Babi smiles and takes out Cleocatra's collar from a mummy coffin behind him, revealing he stole it from the Fernfield museum.

Cast
Richard Riehle as Thomas Howard
Edward Herrmann as Phillip Wellington
Mason Cook as Pete
Adam Alexi-Malle as Amir Sabbagh
Mo Gallini as Tarik
Christopher Maleki as Seti
Ranya Jaber as Farah
Anna Primiani as Cleopatra

Voice cast
Skyler Gisondo as B-Dawg
Charles Henry Wyson as Buddha
Ty Panitz as Mudbud
Tucker Albrizzi as Budderball
Genevieve Hannelius as Rosebud
Maulik Pancholy as Babi, a mischievous pick-pocketing capuchin monkey. He helps the Buddies look for Cammy's parents.
Kaitlyn Maher as Cammy, a baby dromedary camel. She goes with the Buddies in order to look for her parents.
Elaine Hendrix as Ubasti, the primary antagonist. She is a Sphynx cat.
Bonnie Somerville as Mala, a dromedary and Cammy's mother.
Ryan Stiles as Slither, a mystical cobra.
Tim Conway as Deputy Sniffer
Aidan Gemme as Babu

Release

Home media
Treasure Buddies was released on DVD, Blu-ray, and as a film download on January 31, 2012. The physical release was produced in 2 different packages: A 2-disc Blu-ray / DVD combo pack and a 1-disc DVD. The movie download was produced in both standard and high definition. Bonus features for the release included "DIGS: B-Dawg Edition" and a music video for "Roam."

References

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Angolan Basketball League

The Angolan Men's Basketball League, (in Portuguese: Campeonato Nacional de Basquetebol em Séniores Masculinos) is the top tier men’s basketball league in Angola. Formerly known as BAI Basket, BIC Basket, and now Unitel Basket, named after its major sponsors, formerly Banco Africano de Investimentos, Banco de Investimento e Crédito and now Unitel, the competition is organized by the Angolan Basketball Federation.

In 2014, the Angolan Basketball Federation signed a sponsoring deal with Angola's Banco de Investimento e Crédito, which it claimed to be more favourable than the one with Banco Africano de Investimentos. Such agreement caused the league to be renamed as BIC Basket.

Primeiro de Agosto has been the most successful club in Angola with a total 17 titles won, followed by Petro de Luanda, with 12, ASA, 3, Recreativo do Libolo and Sporting Clube de Luanda, 2, whereas Clube Ferroviário de Luanda have won a title.

Before independence

It wasn't until 1963 that the Portuguese national basketball championship began to include clubs from the províncias ultramarinas (overseas provinces) of Angola and Mozambique. This new format began with one team from each of the three locations and then changed to two teams from the host and one from each of the remaining two locations, who played a round-robin (then double round-robin) tournament to determine the champion of Portugal, with the championship taking place alternatively at each of the three capitals: Luanda (Angola), Lourenço Marques (Mozambique) and Lisbon/Porto (Portugal). From 1963 to 1974, 12 championships were held, with only one Angolan club succeeding to win the championship: Benfica de Luanda in 1967

Total league championships

BAI/BIC Basket seasons and finals

MVP award winners and statistical leaders

Total league championships

League details (2000s)

League details (1980s)

See also
 Angola 2nd Division Basketball
 Angola Cup
 Angola Super Cup
 Federação Angolana de Basquetebol

External links
Official Website
Eurobasket.com League Page

References

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Manoelzinho

Manoel de Aguiar Fagundes (22 August 1907 – 22 November 1953) is a former Brazilian football player.

References

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Category:1953 deaths
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Category:1930 FIFA World Cup players
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Category:Canto do Rio Football Club players

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Don Bosco School, Park Circus

Don Bosco School, Park Circus is a private, Roman Catholic, English-medium school for boys in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It was established in 1958 and is part of the Salesians of Don Bosco. It is affiliated to the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations.

History
The Catholic order of Salesians of Don Bosco first came to Calcutta in 1925. In early 1955, the order acquired two large plots of land in the Circus Park area of the city on which to build a school. In September of that year work began on constructing the new school. In November 1957, with the building's completion in sight, Rev. Fr. Charles Dyer was appointed the first Rector and Principal of Don Bosco Park Circus. The school officially opened on 15 January 1958 with an intake of 460 boys. The school now has an enrollment of 3000 students. It celebrated its golden jubilee in 2008, the culmination of a year of festivities which began in March 2007.

The school celebrated its Diamond Jubilee in January 2018, having completed 60 years. The festivities were spread over three days. There was a carnival, an art gallery, performances by alumnus Arko Pravo Mukherjee, the band 'Distorted' (also formed by an alumnus) an all-faith prayer service, a panel discussion by eminent alumni and two shows.

Traditions and houses
The school's patron saint is St. Dominic Savio, a pupil of St. John Bosco, who died at the age of fourteen and was made a saint on the basis of his having displayed "heroic virtue" in his everyday life.

The school has four houses into which each student is divided. They are named after Salesian Saints. The houses are as follows:
 Bosco House (Blue), named after St. John Bosco, the founder of the Salesian Order
 Rua House (Green), named after Blessed Michael Rua, the first Rector Major of the Salesian
 Savio House (Red), named after St Dominic Savio, the patron Saint of the School
 Francis House (Yellow), named after Francis De Sales, the patron of the Salesians of Don Bosco, and the peron after whom the order has been named

Campus
The campus is dominated by the H-shaped four-storey main school building which has an outer courtyard with the statue of Mary, Mother of Jesus Christ and an inner courtyard with a bust of St. John Bosco. In 2013, the school's new library block with further laboratories and classrooms was inaugurated.

Events

In addition to its annual celebration of Rabindra Jayanti (the birthday of Rabindranath Tagore), the school hosts several interschool events in Kolkata, the most prominent of which is Bosco Fest. One of Kolkata's oldest inter-school festivals, it is held annually in late July or early August. The fest initially began with just two events—Bosco Beat (an inter-school band event) and Jubilee Quiz (an Inter-school quizzing event). The fest has changed completely and there are more than 16 events, which are organized by several action groups. Some of the events include Bosco Tango, Bosco Enigma and Bosco Jukebox. The fest has its own website and mobile app. Other events also take place throughout the year such as Bosco MUN (Model United Nations), Bosco Bit, Bosco Proscenium and Bosco Polemic. The four houses compete against each other for various intramural events like the patriotic song competition, choral recitation competition and carol singing competition.

Twinning and exchange programmes
Since 2009, the school has established links with the Salesian School, Chertsey, close to London. Thereafter, students from the UK have been visiting Don Bosco School, Park Circus every year. The school has also signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Goethe Institut for greater collaboration and the teaching of German in school. This has allowed students to visit Germany for Inter-cultural language programmes since 2010, under the  (Schools: Partners for the Future) initiative of the Goethe Institut and the Federal Republic of Germany.

Notable alumni
 Samit Basu, novelist and filmmaker
 Rakesh Gangwal, businessman. He is one of the founders of IndiGo.
 Amitabha Ghosh, planetary geologist
 Devashish Makhija, filmmaker, screenwriter, graphic artist, fiction writer and poet
 Neel Mukherjee, writer
 Arko Pravo Mukherjee, composer-singer and lyricist
 Aninda Sinha, theoretical physicist
 Anish John, sound engineer

Gallery

References

External links

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JSFiddle

JSFiddle is an online IDE service and online community for testing and showcasing user-created and collaborational HTML, CSS and JavaScript code snippets, known as 'fiddles'. It allows for simulated AJAX calls. In 2019, JSFiddle was ranked the second most popular online IDE by the Popularity of Programming Language (PYPL) index based on the number of times it was searched, directly behind Cloud9 IDE, worldwide and in the USA.

Concept
JSFiddle online IDE is design to serve a single HTML/JS/CSS page into a its visual result. Its interface is minimalist, with 4 main frames, corresponding to editable HTML, JS and CSS fields, completed on the bottom right by the end result. Since early on, JSFiddle adopted smart source-code editor with programming features. As of 2020, JSFiddle uses CodeMirror to support its editable fields, providing with multicursors, syntax highlighting, syntax verification (linter), brace matching, auto indentation, autocompletion, code/text folding, Search and Replace to assist web developers in their actions. On the left, a sidebar allows to integrate external resources such as external CSS stylesheets and/or external JS libraries. The most popular JS frameworks and CSS frameworks being suggested and available via a click. JSFiddle therefor provides easy-to-use starters, allowing

The words can be publicly saved, multiple times, for free, with each version being saved online on URL address with an incremental numbered suffix. The work can therefor be re-accessed later or shared with other parties, still editable into a new different version, or forked into a new line.

JSFiddle is therefore widely used among web developer sharing simple tests or demos. JSFiddle is widely used on Stackoverflow, the dominant question-answer online forum for the web industry.

History
JSFiddle was created in 2009 by Piotr Zalewa, originally called MooShell. In 2010, the platform was made freely available when Oskar Krawczyk joined.

In 2017, Michał Laskowski and Andrzej Kała joined the company.

References

External links
 https://jsfiddle.net

Category:Technology websites


Anna Plichta

Anna Plichta (born 10 February 1992) is a Polish racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . She rode at the 2014 UCI Road World Championships and 2015 UCI Road World Championships. Plichta also represented Poland at the 2015 European Games in the women's road race and women's time trial.

In September 2016 she was announced as part of the  squad for 2017. Plichta was meant to join Belgian team  in 2018, but the team was disbanded in late October 2017 when their title sponsor Lensworld's new parent company, LensOnline decided to not continue sponsorship of the cycling team. After it was announced that Nikki Brammeier would leave  at the end of 2017 to concentrate on cyclo-cross, Plichta was offered the position on  in early November 2017.

Major results
2019
 1st  Time trial, National Road Championships

References

External links

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Baron Kingston

Baron Kingston is a title that has been created twice in the Peerage of Ireland and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The first creation came in 1660 when the military commander Sir John King was made Baron Kingston, of Kingston in the County of Dublin. He was the elder brother of Sir Robert King, 1st Baronet, of Boyle Abbey (from whom the Earls of Kingston descend). Two of his sons, the second and third Barons, both succeeded in the title. The title became extinct in 1761 on the death of the latter's son, the fourth Baron, who had no surviving male issue. However, the title was revived three years later when his kinsman Sir Edward King, 5th Baronet, of Boyle Abbey, was made Baron Kingston, of Rockingham in the County of Roscommon. He was also created Viscount Kingston in 1766 and Earl of Kingston in 1768.

In 1821, George King, 3rd Earl of Kingston, was made Baron Kingston, of Mitchelstown, in the county of Cork, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, enabling him to sit in the House of Lords. See the earldom title for more information on this creation.

Barons Kingston; First creation (1660)
John King, 1st Baron Kingston (died 1676)
Robert King, 2nd Baron Kingston (died 1693)
John King, 3rd Baron Kingston (–1728)
James King, 4th Baron Kingston (1693–1761)
Hon. William King (died 1755)

Barons Kingston; Second creation (1764)
see Earl of Kingston

Barons Kingston; Third creation (1821)
see Earl of Kingston

See also
Viscount Lorton

References

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Kriegsspiel (disambiguation)

Kriegsspiel is a genre of wargaming developed by the Prussian army in the 19th century to teach tactics to officers.

Kriegsspiel or Kriegspiel may also refer to:

Kriegspiel (chess), a chess variant of imperfect information
Le Jeu de la Guerre, a wargame developed by Guy Debord, discussed in his 1987 book
Kriegspiel, a board game developed by Avalon Hill in 1970.
"Kriegspiel", a song by Patrick Wolf from The Bachelor

Category:German words and phrases


Club Industriel de Kamsar

Club Industriel de Kamsar is an association football club from Guinea based in Kamsar. They are members of the Guinée Championnat National.

Honours
Guinée Coupe Nationale: 0
Runner-up (3 times): 2004, 2006, 2013

External links

Team profile – soccerway.com

Category:Football clubs in Guinea


Smooth Rock Falls

Smooth Rock Falls is an incorporated town in the Cochrane District in Northeastern Ontario, Canada, with a population of 1,330 at the 2016 census.

Geography and transportation
The town lies on the Mattagami River and on Highway 11. The next full-service towns in each direction are Cochrane, about 59 km (37 mi) to the east and slightly south by road, and Kapuskasing, about 65 km (40 mi) to the west and slightly north. Highway 634 connects Smooth Rock Falls northward with the community of Fraserdale, and Highway 655, starting in Driftwood east of Smooth Rock Falls, provides easier access to Timmins, the dominant regional centre, about 102 km (63 mi) south by that route.

The town is served by the Ontario Northland Railway for freight service, and by Ontario Northland passenger buses.

Economy

The Smooth Rock Falls economy was dominated by the Tembec Malette pulp mill, which was closed on December 5, 2006. Prior to that, the mill had been in a state of indefinite shutdown since July 31, 2006. The closure of the mill meant the loss of about 210 jobs.

The town of Smooth Rock Falls made a series of announcements regarding community investments since Tembec's departure and the closure of the pulp mill. On July 13, 2007 a joint news conference between the town and the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources revealed the former Tembec pulp mill would be converted into a value-added cedar plant. Quebec-based Hardy Cedar Lumber took control of the mill and was provided with 50,000 cubic metres of cedar from the province. The cedar project would provide the community with as many as 44 full-time jobs.

One month prior to the cedar announcement, the town made public an investor's plan to build a new seniors retirement home, 80-100 room hotel and establish a new Indian restaurant. Nightingale Premier, an investment company based in Great Britain, first met with town officials in November 2006. The British company made its plans for a new seniors home, hotel and restaurant known on June 13, 2007.

In 2017 the town announced incentives to encourage new construction that included up to $2,500 off building permit fees, property tax forgiveness over three years of 100%, 75% and 25% per year and 90% of the market value of building lots. The long closed motel reopened in August 2017.

NorthernTel, Ontera, and Persona Communications provide telecommunications services.

Demographics

The population reached its peak of 2,208 in the 1986 census. Since then, it has continuously declined, dropping to 1,330 at the 2011 census, losing almost half its population.

In 2001, approximately 45 were aboriginal, and approximately ten had been born outside of Canada. 1,530 residents identified their religion as Roman Catholic. Over 1,000 used French or some combination of English and French most often at work. Unemployment was substantially higher and workforce participation lower, but among all persons with income and among workers, annual incomes were higher than Ontario averages.

Politics
Smooth Rock Falls is part of the provincial electoral district of Mushkegowuk—James Bay and the federal electoral district of Algoma—Manitoulin—Kapuskasing. Its Member of Provincial Parliament is Guy Bourgouin, a New Democrat, and its Member of Parliament is Carol Hughes. Bisson's constituency office serves Smooth Rock Falls locally with weekly hours at Town Hall.

Health care
The Smooth Rock Falls Hospital includes 14 acute care and 23 long-term care beds, and its Cochrane District Detoxification Centre serves the larger region.

Education
District School Board Ontario North East operates
Smooth Rock Falls Public School (JK-6)
Smooth Rock Falls Secondary School
Conseil scolaire catholique de district des Grandes-Rivières operates
L'École catholique Georges-Vanier.

For postsecondary education, a Contact North distance education access centre serves the town. The Smooth Rock Falls Resource Centre offers Adult Education for those who want to upgrade or finish their grade 12 secondary school diploma.

Media
CKGN-1, a repeater of CKGN-FM Kapuskasing, provides community radio service for the Franco-Ontarian population.

Attractions
Town attractions include the Reg Lamy Cultural Centre, which includes a hockey arena and Smooth Rock Falls Curling Club; the Smooth Rock Falls Golf Course (9 holes), a public library, and a public swimming pool.

Each year the town hosts the Smooth Truck Fest, a popular festival that features truck pulls and other motorized pull contests alongside children's activities, concerts, canoe races and much more.

Notable people

Notable people from Smooth Rock Falls include:
Jeffrey Buttle, figure skater
Louise Pitre, singer and actress
J. P. Parisé, NHL/ Team Canada 1972 hockey left winger, and father of NHL hockey forward Zach Parise
Charlotte L'Écuyer, Quebec politician and current Member of National Assembly of Pontiac
Dick Mattiussi, NHL and AHL hockey player

See also
List of francophone communities in Ontario

References

External links
Town of Smooth Rock Falls
Community Adjustment Committee final report, September 2005

Category:Municipalities in Cochrane District
Category:Single-tier municipalities in Ontario
Category:Towns in Ontario


Patrick B. Devereux Sr.

Patrick Brady Devereux Sr. (November 4, 1926 – August 3, 2003) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse trainer.

He is best known for training Royal Harmony owned by his father Thomas F. Devereux. The gelding won three consecutive editions of the Fayette Handicap at Keeneland Race Course. He is the only trainer in the history of Keeneland to saddle the same horse to victory in the same stakes race, three years running.

A resident of Lexington, Kentucky, Devereux was still active in racing at the time of his death in 2003. His son Patrick Devereux Jr. also trains thoroughbreds.

References

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Adlumia

Adlumia is a genus of two species in the Papaveraceae family. One species, Adlumia fungosa, is commonly known as the Allegheny vine, climbing fumitory, or mountain fringe. It is found in the eastern US, north of VA and TN, as far west as IA and MN, as well as in eastern Canada. The other species, Adlumia asiatica, is native to Korea and immediately neighbouring parts of China and southeast Russia.

The genus name derives from John Adlum (1759–1836), a surveyor, associate judge, plantsman and agriculturist who ran an 80 ha (200 acre) experimental farm in Georgetown, Washington, D.C..

References

External links
Connecticut Botanical Society: Adlumia fungosa

Category:Fumarioideae
Category:Papaveraceae genera


Bramfeld

Bramfeld () is a quarter of Hamburg, Germany, in the borough of Wandsbek. It is located on the southeastern border of the borough, which lies in the northeastern part of the city. Bramfeld includes the former village of Hellbrook, but consists today out of residential as well as of commercial areas. Around 51,000 inhabitants live in the quarter.

Geography
Bramfeld borders the quarters of Sasel, Farmsen-Berne, Wandsbek, Barmbek-Nord, Steilshoop, Ohlsdorf and Wellingsbüttel. The lake of Bramfelder See is located at Bramfeld boundaries on Steilshoop territory. The streams of Seebek (former Grenzbach, lit. border stream) and Osterbek flow also at the boundaries of Bramfeld. The Seebek forms the border to Barmbek-Nord and Steilshoop, while the Osterbek marks the border to Wandsbek and Farmsen-Berne.

History
In 1271 Bramfeld was first recorded as a village. The name refers to genista, Ginster and also Brambusch in German, which characterized the landscape at that time. The bush is also in the blazon of Bramfeld. In 1913/14 the church of Osterkirche (Easter church) was built. Bramfeld was incorporated into Hamburg in 1937 with the Greater Hamburg Act. There are plans to build an underground line to the quarter.

References

External links
 Bramfeld, Hamburg.de

Category:Quarters of Hamburg
Category:Wandsbek


Antonina Zubkova

Antonina Leontievna Zubkova (; 12 October 1920 — 13 November 1950) was a captain in the 125th Guards Dive Bomber Regiment of the 4th Bomber Guards Aviation Division, 1st Bomber Aviation Corps, 3rd Air Army, 1st Baltic Front, during World War II. For her service in the military she was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 18 August 1945.

Civilian life
Zubkova was born on 12 October 1920 to a Russian peasant family in the city of Semion in the Ryazan district of the Russian SFSR. After secondary school she transferred to the mathematics department of Moscow State University in 1938.

Military career
When three all-female aviation regiments were founded by Marina Raskova in October 1941, the faculty of the university recommended Zubkova join one of the regiments as a navigator because of her background in mathematics. She joined the military in 1941 and went through navigation training at Engels; the course normally lasted three years but because of the war the time was shortened to three months.

Throughout the course of the war Zubkova fought mostly on the Baltic and East Prussia fronts as well in Stalingrad, Kuban, Crimea, and Belorussia, flying combat sorties as navigator in a Petlyakov-2 with squadron commander Nadezhda Fedutenko, who was also awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. She made 56 sorties in the war.

Later life
After the war, she joined the reserve, and on 18 August 1945 she was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union along with her colleague Fedutenko and three other members of her regiment. She returned to her studies at Moscow State University, graduating in 1948, afterwards teaching at the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy. She committed suicide on 13 November 1950 and was buried in the Vagankovo Cemetery in Moscow.

Awards
 Hero of the Soviet Union (18 August 1945)
 Order of Lenin (18 August 1945)
 Two Orders of the Red Banner (5 September 1943 and 10 July 1944)
 Order of the Red Star (18 June 1943)
 campaign medals

See also

 List of female Heroes of the Soviet Union
 125th Guards Dive Bomber Regiment
 Petlyakov Pe-2

References

Bibliography

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Category:1950 deaths
Category:Heroes of the Soviet Union
Category:Soviet World War II bomber pilots
Category:Women air force personnel of the Soviet Union
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Frederick Bellenger

Captain Frederick John Bellenger (23 July 1894 – 11 May 1968) was a British surveyor, soldier and politician.

Early life
Born in Bethnal Green, London, he was the son of Eugene Bernard Bellenger, a dairyman, and his wife Isabella Annette née Henner. He received only an elementary education before starting work aged 14. He worked in various jobs: in a tea warehouse in Houndsditch, as a messenger boy for the Post Office and as a clerk to an export company in the City of London.

World War I

With the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914, Bellenger volunteered to join the British Army. He became a gunner in the Royal Field Artillery, arriving at the Western Front in the following year. He was twice wounded, and rose through the ranks, being commissioned as a second lieutenant in 1917. Following the armistice in November 1918, he served in the forces occupying the Rhineland. He was demobilised in 1919.

In Cologne he had met Marion Theresa Stollwerck, daughter of Generalkonsul Karl Stollwerck, a wealthy German chocolate manufacturer; the couple married in 1922. They had five sons and one daughter.

Early political career

Following the war, Bellenger worked as a surveyor and estate agent in west London. He became active in the local Conservative Association, and was elected to Fulham Borough Council as a Municipal Reform Party councillor representing Baron's Court ward in 1922 and 1925. He did not stand for election in 1928, and shortly afterwards joined the Labour Party.

In June 1930, Bellenger was selected by the Labour Party as their prospective parliamentary candidate at Bethnal Green South West, but withdrew his candidature a year later on health grounds. When the Labour Party split over the formation of a National Government in August 1931, he remained with the majority faction opposing the move.

In November 1933, he was chosen to contest Bassetlaw in Nottinghamshire, a seat held by Malcolm MacDonald of the National Labour Organisation and son of its leader, Ramsay MacDonald, a long-serving Secretary of State in the coalition National Government and first Labour Prime Minister. At the 1935 general election Bellenger gained the seat for Labour, and held it comfortably at each election until his death.

World War II
Bellenger remained in the army's emergency reserve, and when the Second World War broke out in 1939 he was automatically recalled to service. He was commissioned as a captain in the Royal Artillery in February 1940. He went to France as a staff officer in April of that year as part of the British Expeditionary Force. He returned to the United Kingdom briefly in May to take part in the Norway Debate in the Commons that led to the fall of Neville Chamberlain's government. Evacuated from France in June 1940, two months later he resigned his commission. Apart from his parliamentary activities, Bellenger wrote a column for the Sunday Pictorial under the byline "Voice of the Services".

Attlee government
When the Labour Party returned to government with a landslide at the 1945 general election, Bellenger was appointed Financial Secretary to the War Office. In October 1946, he became Secretary of State for War. Although not a cabinet position he was appointed a Privy Counsellor at the same time. He proved an unpopular minister with Labour backbenchers, and was attacked by those on the left of the party. It came as no surprise when he was removed from office at a ministerial reshuffle in October 1947.

Later life
Bellenger remained on the Labour backbenches for the rest of his life. He became increasingly disconnected from the mainstream of the party, being unsympathetic to trade unions, opposing the decriminalisation of homosexuality and supported the Unilateral Declaration of Independence by white Rhodesians. He was close to members of the Conservative Party, including their Chief Whip Martin Redmayne and, against the arguments of his dining companion, Margaret Thatcher, privately supported the retention of prime minister Harold Macmillan at the time of the Profumo scandal in 1963 along with Julian Critchley, another of his Conservative friends. Following the 1966 general election, the Bassetlaw Constituency Labour Party deselected him (for any future election) over his opposition to steel nationalisation and his position on Rhodesia.

Bellenger was still Bassetlaw's MP when he died at his Kensington, London, home in May 1968, aged 73. He had received the honorary freedom of the Borough of Worksop two days earlier.

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Hazel Orencio

Polytechnic University of the Philippines

Hazel Tapales Orencio (born September 21, 1986) is a Filipino character actress best known for her award-winning performances in Philippine New Wave films by director Lav Diaz such as Mula sa Kung Ano ang Noon (From What is Before, 2014), Elehiya sa dumalaw mula sa himagsikan (Elegy to the Visitor from the Revolution, 2011), and Ang Panahon ng Halimaw (Season of the Devil, 2018).

See also
 Lav Diaz
 Season of the Devil

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