Hall Green Stadium

Hall Green Stadium was a greyhound racing stadium located in the Birmingham suburb of Hall Green, which existed from 1927 until 2017.

The track itself was a 412-metre long oval track with a sand covered surface. The capacity of the stadium was between 2,500 and 3,000.

Facilities
The stadium's main stand facilities included outside terracing along the main straight, fast food outlets, a bar on the first floor, and an indoor seated area with glass frontage overlooking the track on second floor. Also on the second floor was the a la carte restaurant. Executive suites that can hold between 18 and 100 people were located on the first bend of the track.

Related facilities included a hotel situated on bends 3 and 4 which opened in 1990, some rooms of which offered views of the track and a purpose built snooker hall along the back straight with 21 full sized tables. Conference facilities were also provided and managed by the stadium.

Renovations
Investment in 1970 resulted in the track becoming one of the major provincials in the country and the GRA spent over £750,000 renovating the club house into a four tier restaurant and a new electronic display tote board was built. The track kennels were demolished during the renovation resulting in a contract trainer system.

In 1981 the track changed to an all-sand surface which replaced the former grass straights, an 'Outside McKee Scott' hare and undersoil heating were also installed. Further stadium improvements in 1987 including a large snooker club to the tune of £400,000 and another face lift in 1989 to the tune of £1 million saw an extension to the restaurant and construction of a 48 bedroom hotel called ‘The Lodge’. A new track surface was also installed during this latest investment.

Greyhound Racing

Origins & Opening
The Greyhound Racing Association (GRA) bought the land that was known as the Olympia Sports Ground in the Birmingham suburb of Hall Green and constructed a greyhound track. Opened on 24 August 1927 it was the first greyhound track to be built in the city. A crowd of 20,000 turned up to experience racing for the first time despite the fact that another Birmingham track Kings Heath Stadium had just opened three months previous. The first race on that Wednesday evening was won by Lock Latham owned by Lady Lock and Mr P.Latham and was over 500 yards in a winning time of 29.66. Appearing that same night was Bonzo who duly won his race and would go on to win the first ever running of the Champion Hurdle race at White City Stadium, London, and this event would soon be called the Grand National.

Early history
In the late 1920s a 440-yard circumference track was a decent size circuit with long straights and fairly easy turns. Handicaps and an 'Inside Sumner' hare were features of the track and the main distances were 500 and 700 yards. Facilities at the time included the main stand which offered the Hall Green Sports Club and Enclosure Club with stands on the opposite side of the track to accommodate the large patronage. A small annual subscription allowed patron's admittance to the clubs and it was not long before a restaurant service was introduced. Similar to other larger tracks of the time there was a resting kennel located away from the track and the Hall Green resting kennels were found nearby at Bogay Hall Farm in Solihull. The stadium hosted speedway races between 1928 and 1938, with a team called the Birmingham Bulldogs racing out of the stadium.

After the war the track introduced a major event for the first time and it was called the Midland Flat Championship and the centre green was home to the Hall Green Amateurs football team between 1951 until 1965.

Later history
After the completion of the new facilities in 1970 the stadium recruited one of the country's finest trainers at the time in Geoffrey DeMulder. In 1973 another trainer Sid Mann retired ending a 43-year association with the GRA, Mann had originally taken out a licence in 1930. Sometime later Racing Manager Jeff Jefcoate joined Northern Sports at Ramsgate Stadium and his assistant Horace Peplow retired after 50 years leaving Sidney Wood the deputy chief Racing Manager for the GRA in charge and he was joined by Simon Harris. As 1984 came to an end the great Scurlogue Champ set two track records, one in December 1984 and another the following year.

In 1993 the British Breeders Forum Produce was switched from Wembley to Hall Green and Simon Harris was replaced by Gary Woodward. The Television Trophy was hosted at the track for the third time in 1997 following the previous staging in 1979 & 1988 and in 1999 the Blue Riband competition was brought to the track following the demise of Wembley with the Grand National switching to sister track Wimbledon Stadium. Under General Manager Stephen Rea two new races were inaugurated by the track, they were the Gymcrack in 2000 and the Prestige in 2003 but the Midland Flat was discontinued, it had been the tracks oldest race.

Competitions
 Blue Riband (1999-2012)
 Golden Jacket (1985)
 Grand National (1985-1998)
 Gymcrack (2000-2010)
 Midland Flat (1946-2006)
 Prestige (2003-2017)
 Produce Stakes (1993-2008)

Achievements
1973 Hall Green lost a closely fought battle with Wembley in the Duke of Edinburgh Cup Grand Final by 64 points to 56.
1974 & 1979 Geoff DeMulder won two English Greyhound Derby triumphs in 1974 & 1979 with Jimsun and Sarahs Bunny respectively.
 1992 Kildare Slippy trained by Paddy Hancox set some unbelievable track records. He recorded 28.52 winning a 474-metre hurdle race which was a sensation because it was four spots quicker than the 474 metre flat track record. This incredible run must go down as one of the greatest performances in racing history.

Closure
In 2014 the National Asset Management Agency (parent company of the Greyhound Racing Association) sold Hall Green and Belle Vue stadiums but retained a lease agreement for both venues; with Hall Green Stadium being purchased by Euro Property Investments Limited for £3 million. It was revealed on 23 February 2016 that the stadium is to be closed down and demolished in the near future due to a housing planning application made by owner Euro Property Investments Limited. The planning submission to the local council was originally declined in June 2016; but this ruling was subsequently overturned by appeal during the following month, and consequently a decision to allow demolition of the stadium was ratified by the council. In June 2017, it was revealed by the stadium's chief executive Clive Feltham that the stadium would close at the end of the following month; and the stadium's final night of racing occurred on 29 July 2017. Demolition of the stadium to make way for the housing estate subsequently commenced in May 2018.

Track records

At closing

Former

Pre Metric

+ Record holder during year

References

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George Leite

George Leite was an American author, poet, publisher, bookstore, gallery, and native plants nursery owner active in California's San Francisco Bay Area starting in the 1940s. Born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1920, he was raised in the then Portuguese-American enclave of San Leandro, California and died in 1985 in Walnut Creek, California.

Leite was the founder of daliel's Bookstore (stylized with a lowercase 'd') at 2466 Telegraph Avenue between Dwight and Haste Streets in Berkeley, where he published Circle Magazine and published books, pamphlets, and audio recordings under the Circle Editions imprint. Many of the important regional writers of the period such as Kenneth Rexroth were published by him, and daliel's Gallery was the site of concerts by composer Harry Partch and exhibitions by artist Jean Varda. He lived for a while near Henry Miller's cabin on the Big Sur coast.

Leite and novelist Jody Scott co-authored the novel cure it with honey (AKA I'll Get Mine) under the pseudonym Thurston Scott. It was published in 1951 and won the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for best first novel in 1952.

References

External links
Circle History, from Varda's ferryboat's website

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Midnight: A Gangster Love Story

Midnight: A Gangster Love Story originally scheduled to be published October 14, 2008, is a novel by Sister Souljah that was published November 4, 2008, by Atria/Simon and Schuster. It is a prequel of The Coldest Winter Ever (1999), the novel that spawned the contemporary street literature movement. It follows a young Black Sudanese Muslim immigrant in Brooklyn with whom Winter Santiaga associated before she was sent to prison.

Characters
Midnight, the narrator and title character, is a 14-year-old Black Sudanese immigrant. He learns about the struggles that occur in the US. He proceeds to criticize the way that modern African Americans act in contrast to the way he and the men in Sudan behave and, in contrast, they have loose behavior. He also learns to find love and trains in Ninjutsu so that he can protect the people whom he loves and cares for.
Umma, Midnight's and Naja's mother, is content with the way woman act in her country and is trying to make a notable life for her two children since their move to the United States by founding a business through which she designs and sells elaborate traditional garments.
Naja, Umma’s daughter, is Midnight's 7-year-old sister. Midnight and Umma try to protect her from the world at large.
Akemi, a 16-year-old Japanese girl who lives in Queens where she is working for her uncle while in America on an art fellowship from Japan. Akemi speaks Japanese, Mandarin, and Korean, but she is slowly learning English. An art prodigy, she attends college-level classes at Pratt Institute. She and Midnight love each other romantically.
Ameer, described as one of Midnight’s close friends, is a 15-year-old Five Percenter who is mostly interested in girls. Ameer and Midnight fight frequently in a playful way. After a street fight between the two characters ends, Midnight explains his and Akemi's relationship.
Chris, another of Midnight's close friends, plays basketball for money in a hustlers’ league, and lives with his mother and strict, protective father.
Marty Bookbinder, the owner of a bookstore with whom Midnight plays chess and is offered sage advice and life lessons.

Plot
Midnight is born into a prominent Islamic Black Sudanese family in which he enjoys a life of comfort, confidence, and protection. His father provides him with a veil of privilege and deep, devoted love, but he never hides the truth about the fierce challenges of the world outside of his estate. In the mid 1980s, his father abandons the family, disappears, and is never heard from again. Just before his disappearance, he instructs Midnight and his immediate family to move to the United States. Midnight, his mother, and his sister eventually settle in project housing in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. They are repulsed by American culture and try to live as comfortably as possible without fully engaging with their new home.

In the streets of Brooklyn, a young Midnight uses his Islamic mind-set and African intelligence to protect the ones he loves, build a business, reclaim his wealth and status, and remain true to his beliefs.

Over the course of four years, Midnight eschews traditional school and eventually enrolls into a Japanese martial-arts dojo, where he trains to be as nimble as a Japanese ninja. When a strange man professes his attraction to Umma, Midnight hunts him down and kills him in Prospect Park—a perfect murder that the police never solve. He also learns how to play basketball and is one of the star players in a hustlers’ league, where he meets his two closest friends, Ameer and Chris. He is also obsessed with protecting his family and procures a stash of weapons for protection. He frequents a small bookstore where he plays regular games of chess with its owner. However, he is extremely guarded and no one outside of his immediate family ever finds out whom he really is or even what his real name is.

Later, Midnight meets a young woman named Akemi, who is an art prodigy from Japan who takes advanced-placement classes at Pratt Institute. Eventually, despite neither of them being able to understand each other’s language, Midnight and Akemi fall in love and decide to marry. Midnight tries to manage his life with Akemi and look out for his family and hang out with his friends while managing his family's newly opened business. He comes to terms with struggles that occur from day to day.

Umma and Naja accept Midnight and Akemi’s decision joyously. When Akemi’s father learns of the marriage, however, he does not approve of the union and takes her back to Japan. In the sequel, Midnight travels to Japan to try to take her back home.

References

External links
 Simon & Schuster

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Don Bosco (disambiguation)

Don Bosco may refer to:

 John Bosco (Italy, 1815–1888), Catholic priest and saint of the Roman Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion
 Salesians of Don Bosco, a Roman Catholic religious order
 Salesian Sisters of Don Bosco, a Roman Catholic religious order
 Don Bosco, Buenos Aires, a city in Argentina
 Don Bosco, Parañaque, a village in the Philippines
 Don Bosco (Panama Metro), a rapid transit station in Panama City, Panama
 Don Bosco FC, a club from Pétion-Ville, Haiti
 Don Bosco FC (Puerto Rico), a club from San Juan, Puerto Rico
 Don Bosco SC, a club from Negombo, Sri Lanka
 Don Bosco Jarabacoa FC, a club from Jarabacoa, Dominican Republic
 CS Don Bosco, a club from Lubumbashi, DR Congo
 DJK Don Bosco Bamberg, an association football club from Bamberg, Germany
 Don Bosco (1935 film), a 1935 Italian film directed by Goffredo Alessandrini
 Don Bosco (1988 film), a 1988 Italian film starring Ben Gazzara and Patsy Kensit
 Don Bosco (author), an author from Singapore
 Don Bosco (telenovela), a Mexican telenovela
 Malvasia di Castelnuovo Don Bosco, an Italian wine
 Don Bosco Parish, a parish in Baguio City, Philippines

See also
 Don Bosco School (disambiguation)


First Congregational Church of Austin

First Congregational Church of Austin, also known as Greater Holy Temple of God in Christ, is a historic church at 5701 West Midway Place in Chicago, Illinois. The church was built in 1905 for a Congregational assembly; it was later used by Seventh-Day Adventist, Roman Catholic, and Church of God in Christ congregations. Architect William Eugene Drummond, a student of Frank Lloyd Wright, designed the church in the Prairie School style; it is an unusual example of a Prairie School church and was influenced by Wright's Unity Temple. The one-story building consists of a tall central section with massive piers and a smaller section to either side. The entrance is recessed in the base of the central section; the doorway features lintels and posts that continue the building's rectilinear emphasis. Leaded glass windows are recessed in the spaces between the central section's piers.

The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 17, 1977.

References

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Dungri

Dungri is a village located in the Valsad district, in the West Indian state of Gujarat.  The village is served by bus and by the Dungri Railway Station, located in the heart of Dungri, close to the Bazzar. Balaji Wafers is located in Dungri, by National Highway 8

Demographics
The highest population is Patel.

Economy
Dungri's economy includes range of agriculture, including mango, rice, and sugar cane.

The economy of Dungri has been growing significantly for the past decade. For the past several years there have been numerous new homes and buildings constructed. The price of the land has significantly grown in the past decade which has attracted more investors to purchase and sell the land.

Banks
HDFC Bank
State Bank Of India
Central Bank

Hospital
Dr. Dineshbhai D. Vaidya, Hospital
Arpan Hospital
Primary Health Centre
Referel hospital

Houses of worship
Bhramadev Bapa Mandir
Ramji Mandir
Amba Mata Mandir
Khodiyar Mataji Mandir
Swaminarayan Mandir
 Shiv temple
Sai Baba Mandir
Joganmata Mandir

Schools
Purav Vibhag Dungari School
Prathamik School
Sarvajanik High School
Jivinana Primary School

Railways
  (DGI)

National highway
National highway no.8

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Jacob van Lennep

Jacob van Lennep (24 March 1802 – 25 August 1868) was a Dutch poet and novelist.

Early years

He was born in Amsterdam, where his father, David Jacob van Lennep (1774–1853), a scholar and poet, was professor of eloquence and the classical languages in the Atheneum. He spent his summers at Huis te Manpad, where his family had a summer home, and where his father convinced the Heemstede city council to place a monument to Witte van Haemstede. This colorful monument influenced him to later write a song about it. Lennep took the degree of doctor of laws at Leiden, and then settled as an advocate in Amsterdam.

Poetry

His first poetical efforts had been translations from Byron, of whom he was an ardent admirer, and in 1826 he published a collection of original Academische Idyllen [Academic Idylls], which had some success.

Historical fiction
He first attained genuine popularity by the Nederlandsche Legenden [The Legends of the Netherlands] (2 vols., 1828) which reproduced, after the manner of Sir Walter Scott, some of the more stirring incidents in the early history of his fatherland. His fame was further raised by his patriotic songs at the time of the Belgian revolution, and by his comedies Het Dorp aan de Grenzen [The Village at the Borders] (1830) and Het Dorp over de Grenzen [The Village Over the Borders] (1831), which also had reference to the political events of 1830. In 1832 he became member of the Royal Institute, which later became the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

In 1833 he broke new ground with the publication of De Pleegzoon [The Adopted Son], the first of a series of historical romances in prose, which acquired for him in the Netherlands a position somewhat analogous to that of Sir Walter Scott in Great Britain. The series included De Roos van Dekama [The Rose of Dekama] (2 vols., 1836), Onze Voorouders [Our Ancestors] (5 vols., 1838). De Lotgevallen van Ferdinand Huyck [The Adventures of Ferdinand Huyck] (2 vols, 1840), Elizabeth Musch (3 vols., 1850), and De Lotgevallen van Klaasje Zevenster [The Adventures of Klaasje Zevenster] (5 vols., 1865), several of which have been translated into German and French, and two - The Rose of Dekama (1847) and The Adopted Son (New York, 1847) into English.

His Dutch history for young people (De voornaamste geschiedenissen van Noord-Nederland, aan zijne kinderen verhaald [The Chief Events of the North Netherlands, narrated to His Children], 4 vols, 1845) is attractively written. Apart from the two comedies already mentioned, van Lennep was an indefatigable journalist and literary critic, the author of numerous dramatic pieces, and of an excellent edition of Vondel's works. For some years, van Lennep held a judicial appointment, and from 1853 to 1856 he was a member of the Second Chamber of the Dutch Parliament, in which he voted with the conservative party. He died at Oosterbeek near Arnhem in 1868.

There is a collective edition of his Poetische Werken [Poetic Works] (13 vols., 1859–1872), and also of his Romantische Werken [Romantic Works] (23 vols., 1855 r872). See also a bibliography by P. Knoll (1869); and Jan ten Brink, Geschiedenis der Noord-Nederlandsche Letteren in de XIX Eeuw [History of the Literature of the Northern Netherlands in the XIXth Century], No. iii.).

References

External links

  The Rose of Dekama, translated from the Dutch by Frank Woodley in 1847. The story is based on the historic Battle of Warns.
 Information about Jacob van Lennep in the digital library of Dutch Literature - DBNL
 Website based on TV Series (in Dutch) that retraces walks through the Netherlands based on his diaries

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The Shoes You're Wearing

"The Shoes You're Wearing" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Clint Black.  It was released in April 1998 as the fourth single from Black's Nothin' but the Taillights album.  The song reached Number One on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) chart and reached number one in Canada.  It was written by Black and Hayden Nicholas.

Critical reception
Chuck Taylor, of Billboard magazine reviewed the song favorably saying that the song is "about equality among people in forthright but not preachy terms" Taylor goes on to say that "the melody and the background have an airy, Eagles-esque feel that sounds radio-friendly."

Music video
The music video was directed by Clint Black and Brent Hedgecock, and premiered in mid-1998.

Chart performance
"The Shoes You're Wearing" debuted at number 52 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of April 11, 1998.

Year-end charts

References

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Church of the Addolorata, Acqui Terme

The Church of the Addolorata (Italian:Chiesa dell’Addolorata) is a Romanesque-style, Roman Catholic basilica church located on Piazza Addolorata, in Acqui Terme, Province of Alessandria, region of Piedmont, Italy.

History

The church is dedicated to the Marian devotion of Our Lady of Sorrows, however, the church is also called San Pietro, since it was once attached to what was once the adjacent Benedictine monastery of San Pietro.

The layout we see today was built in the 11th-century at the site of a late 6th-century paleochristian church located just outside the city walls. It had three naves with an octagonal bell-tower at the southern apse. The simple brick facade has protruding pilasters and shows a trend towards verticality. After 1720, with the closing of the monastery, part of the church was rededicated to the Addolorata. It underwent major restoration after the First World War, that stripped much of the decoration, giving the interior a white-washed simplicity. The apse and the base of the bell-tower retain medieval traces.

The interior conserves a 15th-century Deposition fresco and two 16th-century canvases depicting Christ Crowned with Spines and Christ before Pilate. The wooden statue of the Madonna Addolorata dates to 1720.

References

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Immaculate Conception Parish Church (Los Baños)

The Immaculate Conception Parish Church (Filipino: Simbahan ng Parokya ng Immaculada Concepcion) is the oldest Roman Catholic church in the municipality of Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines. Its titular is the Nuestra Señora del Aguas Santas (also Immaculate Conception) and its feast is celebrated every December 8.

History
The town of Los Baños started as a visita of Bay under the Augustinian order with St. Nicolas de Tolentino as titular.  In 1590, Franciscans replaced the Augustinians in their missions with Fray Pedro Bautista, later canonized as San Pedro Bautista. He discovered numerous hot springs in the area which locals called Maynit. He created a public bath he called the “Los Baños". After twenty years, the Franciscans established a temporary convent to administer the hot springs that were popular for healing illnesses. A small hospital chapel was built in 1613 in the absence of a church until 1727 dedicated to the Our Lady of Immaculate Conception, with the title Aguas Santas. It was brought down by fire in 1727. A temporary chapel was built out of nipa and cane which was later destroyed again by fire. A big stone church was built in 1790 by Father Domingo Mateo, OFM in its present site. The belfry, sacristy and tile roofing were supervised by Father Manuel Amat in 1851 and the convent in 1852. The convent and bell tower were destroyed during the 1863 earthquake but repairs were made during the administration of Fathers Manuel Rodriguez and Gilberto Martin in 1880. It was also used in World War II as headquarters for the Japanese forces where it was used as a garrison by the Japanese during World War II.

Devotion
The local image of the Virgin Mary under the titular of the Immaculate Conception is known as the Nuestra Señora del Aguas Santas (also Virgin of the Holy Waters). The image of Immaculate Concepcion was said to be miraculous. Some of the miracles includes the wetting of the Virgin’s robes up to the shoulders, amor seco growing from the hems of her garments and mysterious footprints all over the church leading to her altar. Due to the popular devotion to the Virgin and miracles attributed to her, the church is currently petitioning to become a diocesan shrine.

Notes

Bibliography

External links

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Lower Union Street Historic District

The Lower Union Street Historic District is a historic district on Union St. from Water St. to Market St. in
Rockland, Massachusetts.  It is a predominantly residential area, encompassing an area of well-preserved houses from the late 18th to early 20th centuries.  The oldest houses are those of David Lane (64 Union Street) and Deacon Reed (132 Union Street), built in 1816 and c. 1818 respectively.  The Reed house is distinctive because of its brick end walls and its excellent example of a Federal style door surround, with sidelight windows and an elliptical fanlight.

The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Plymouth County, Massachusetts

References

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If I Could (Wiley song)

"If I Could" is a single from English rapper Wiley, featuring vocals from British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran. It is the second single released from his extended-play album, Chill Out Zone. It was released on 15 May 2011 as a digital download in the United Kingdom. The music video was uploaded to YouTube on 1 May 2011. It was shot in Kingston, Jamaica and was directed by Ben Peters.

Track listing
 Digital download
 "If I Could" – 3:07

Credits and personnel
 Lead vocals – Wiley, Ed Sheeran
 Producer – Jay Weathers
 Lyrics – Richard Cowie, Ed Sheeran
 Label – Elusive

Chart performance

Release history

References

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East Fork State Park

East Fork State Park is a state park located in Clermont County, Ohio, United States, about 25 miles east of Cincinnati. It has camping, hiking, swimming and boating opportunities. The state park is home to many junior and collegiate rowing races, including the US Rowing Youth National Championships. The main lake in the park is William H. Harsha Lake. The large earthen dam, and smaller saddle dams, are operated by a crew of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers year round.

Fish found in the lake include largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, Kentucky spotted bass, bluegill, white crappie, black crappie, channel catfish, flathead catfish, bigmouth buffalofish, carp, and hybrid striped bass.

References

External links
East Fork State Park Ohio Department of Natural Resources
East Fork State Park Map Ohio Department of Natural Resources
William H. Harsha Lake Louisville District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

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Mascara Province

Mascara ( ,  ) is a province (wilaya) in Algeria. It was named after its capital, whose name is Arabic for "military garrison", and which is unrelated to "mascara", the cosmetic. Another important locality is the town of Sig.

Administrative divisions
The province is divided into 16 districts (daïras), which are further divided into 47 communes or municipalities.

Districts

 Aïn Farès
 Aïn Fekan
 Aouf
 Bouhanifia
 El Bordj
 Ghriss
 Hachem
 Mascara
 Mohammedia
 Oggaz
 Ouled Attia
 Oued Taria
 Sig
 Tighenif
 Tizi
 Zahana

Communes

 Aïn Fares
 Aïn Fekan
 Aïn Ferah
 Aïn Fras
 Alaimia
 Aouf
 Beniane
 Bou Hanifia
 Bou Henni
 Chorfa
 El Bordj
 El Gaada
 El Ghomri
 Hachem
 El Keurt
 El Menaouer
 Ferraguig
 Froha
 Gharrous
 Guerdjoum
 Guittena
 Ghriss
 Mamounia
 Hacine
 Khalouia
 Makdha
 Maoussa
 Mascara
 Matemore
 Mocta Douz
 Mohammadia
 Nesmoth
 Oggaz
 Oued El Abtal
 Oued Taria
 Ras Ain Amirouche
 Sedjerara
 Sehaîlia
 Sidi Abdeldjebar
 Sidi Abdelmoumen
 Sidi Kada
 Sidi Boussaid
 Sig
 Tighennif
 Tizi
 Zahana
 Zelameta

1994 earthquake
There was an earthquake in the capital of Mascara City on 18 August 1994. The 5.9 Mw oblique-slip shock left 159 dead, 289 injured, and 8,000–10,000 homeless.

References

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Isaac Murphy Award

The Isaac Murphy Award is an American honor presented annually since 1995 by the National Turf Writers Association of the United States to the thoroughbred horse racing jockey with the highest winning percentage who has ridden in a minimum of 500 races during the year. The award is named in honor of Isaac Murphy, a 19th-century African American Hall of Fame jockey.

Since its inception, Hall of Fame jockey Russell Baze has won it every year except for 2004, when he placed second.

Past winners:
1995 : Russell Baze
1996 : Russell Baze
1997 : Russell Baze
1998 : Russell Baze
1999 : Russell Baze
2000 : Russell Baze
2001 : Russell Baze
2002 : Russell Baze
2003 : Russell Baze
2004 : Ramon Dominguez
2005 : Russell Baze
2006 : Russell Baze
2007 : Russell Baze
2008 : Russell Baze

See also

Isaac Murphy
Russell Baze
National Turf Writers Association

References

External links

 Turfwriters.org news

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Perthus Tunnel

The Perthus Tunnel is a twin-bore railway tunnel  between France and Spain under the Eastern Pyrenees, built as part of the high-speed railway line Perpignan-Figueres. The tunnel has made possible the implementation of direct high-speed trains connecting the two countries' railway systems since December 2013, linking the Spanish AVE network with the French TGV.

The tunnel has been designed to allow for freight as well as passenger traffic. It is  long.

History
The tunnel forms part of the  Perpignan-Figueres high-speed rail line, built through a Public–private partnership scheme by the TP Ferro consortium, a joint venture of Eiffage (France) and Dragados (Spain), under a fifty-year concession. It took five years to build and was completed on February 17, 2009, although it wasn't opened for traffic until December 19, 2010. At this time the high-speed (and standard gauge) line ended at Figueres-Vilafant station. An Iberian gauge spur was built from the Barcelona-Figueres conventional line to serve this station. To compensate for this delay, TP Ferro's concession was extended by three years. The high-speed line between Barcelona and Figueres was opened to traffic on 8 January 2013, but until December passengers had to change trains at Figueres Vilafant station, from a French TGV to a Spanish AVE, as neither trainset was approved for use on the other country's network. Finally, direct trains were launched in December 2013.

In France, the tunnel connects to the Perpignan-Villefranche line. Formal design studies for a high-speed Perpignan-Montpellier line to connect to the tunnel were launched in November 2009 by Réseau Ferré de France.

Footnotes

External links
 Structurae database
 LGV Article 7/5/08
 The Pertús Tunnel - TP Ferro

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Zipang

Zipang is an antiquated name for Japan.

The word has also been used as the title of several works:

Zipang, a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Kaiji Kawaguchi. It was adapted into an anime in 2004.
Zipang, a 1990 film by Kaizo Hayashi
Zipang, a character in the video game Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War
Zipang, a fictional State in the My-Otome anime series.
Zipang, a japanese song by Hideto Takarai (HYDE) and Hayashi Yoshiki.


Governor's School of Texas

The Governor's School of Texas, formerly the Texas Honors Leadership Program (THLP), is a summer program for academically talented high school students from Texas, who have completed their sophomore or junior years. The program is a member of the National Conference of Governor's Schools. 100 students are selected each year and scholars, who are nominated by their senior counselors, are invited to serve as junior counselors for the following year. Held at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, the School is an intensive three-week residential program. The program's curriculum is designed to develop skills in creativity, problem-solving, leadership, negotiation and conflict resolution, higher-level thinking, research and study skills and ethical decision-making. As an incentive to foster creativity, the program includes no grades or academic credit.

After classes conclude each afternoon, scholars participate in artistic and athletic activities, including drama, dance, instrumental ensemble, tennis, cross country, strength training, basketball, football, volleyball and cricket.

History
The Texas Education Agency (TEA) established the Office of Gifted and Talented Education in 1976 and developed the first state plan for Gifted Education in 1981 and funded the Texas Governor's Honors Program. From 1986 until 1988, the program was held at the University of Texas at Austin, and in 1989, the program was not held. The Texas Commissioner of Education Dr. Tom Kirby asked Dr. Sisk at Lamar University to plan and develop a Governor's Honors Program, and from 1990–1999 the Texas Governor's Honors Program was held at Lamar. Funding from the Texas Education Agency was withdrawn for 2000–2002; however, Lamar University decided to continue the program by seeking funding from private foundations and individual donors to support the program; and the program was renamed the Texas Honors Leadership Program. In 2008, once again under funding by the TEA, the program reemerged as the Texas Governor's School. As of 2010, there are 4 Governor's School programs in the state of Texas.

Lamar University
The Texas Governor's School for Leadership Development at Lamar University in Beaumont is a free three week residential program with focus on leadership in the Humanities, Language Arts, Mathematics, Fine Arts, and Science.
Eligible participants are Texas residents who complete the sophomore or junior year of high school, is enrolled in a tenth or eleventh grade state approved program for gifted students or was in a state approved honors or advanced placement course; or displays outstanding achievement and performance.

Texas A&M University-College Station
The Texas Governor's School in Arts and Humanities for Urban Leadership at Texas A&M University in College Station is a free three-week, intensive residential summer educational program.
The program is open to high achieving high school students who complete the sophomore or junior year of high school. "High Achieving" must be documented in the application essays by any one or more of the following: top ten percent of high school class; active participation in a gifted and talented program; outstanding scores on achievement tests or TAKS test; leadership in school organizations; leadership in community organizations; significant accomplishments in the arts and humanities.

University of North Texas

In 2003, another Governor's school, focusing on science and technology, The Texas Governor's School in Mathematics and Science, was established at the University of North Texas in Denton. A 3-week program, the School focuses on enriching and developing a student's abilities in science and technology as well as exploring the impacts of these fields on past, present, and future societies including ethics, history, and the arts.

Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

In 2009, the Texas Higher Education Commission awarded a 3-year grant to Texas A&M University in Corpus Christi to establish a 3-week residential summer program for 100 gifted and talented high school students who are interested in teaching the subjects of science and math. The Governor's Academy for Teaching Excellence (GATE) will commence on July 12.  Located on the gulf of Mexico, the Island University's program features excursions on research vessels, field trips to the Texas State Aquarium and the national seashore, and the exclusive "kids college" school within a school. You can link to GATE at: gate.tamucc.edu.

External links
Lamar University - Texas Governor's School
The Texas Governor's School

References

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Names of Australian rules football

The sport of Australian football has been called by a number of different names throughout its history; but since 1905, after the formation of the Australasian Football Council, the game has been officially called "Australian football"; and the name has been codified by the sport's governing body, the AFL Commission, as the game's official name, in the "Laws of Australian football". Historically, the sport has been called "Victorian rules" (referring to its origins in Melbourne), the "Victorian game", the "bouncing game", "Australasian rules", the "Australian game" and "national football", as well as several other names. Today, the common names for the sport are "Australian rules football" or "football", and common nicknames for the sport are "footy", "Aussie rules" or sometimes "AFL" (a genericised abbreviation of Australian Football League, the sport's largest competition and only fully professional league).

Historical names
The first "Laws of Australian football" were established in Melbourne in 1859 by Tom Wills of the Melbourne Football Club. This led to the development of the terms "the Victorian Game" or "Victorian Rules", although in Victoria, the general term was just "football" as early as 1860. As late as 1954, the term "Melbourne Rules" was being used by newspapers in New South Wales and Queensland to differentiate the game from other football codes. Another term was "the bouncing game", used mostly in Western Australia in the 1880s and 1890s to differentiate from the other codes, where bouncing was not permitted.

The name "Australian football" was in use outside of Victoria by the late 19th century. A variant of this, acknowledging the popularity of the sport in New Zealand, was "Australasian football". The 1908 Jubilee Australasian Football Carnival featured a team from New Zealand, but the popularity of the sport declined there after World War I. In 1927, the Australasian Football Council changed its name to the Australian National Football Council, to acknowledge that the sport was no longer being played competitively in New Zealand. State leagues were encouraged to include the term "Australian National" in their title, with the South Australian Football League (SAFL) becoming the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) in 1927, the Tasmanian Football League (TFL) becoming the Tasmanian Australian National Football League (TANFL) in 1928, and the West Australian Football League (WAFL) becoming the Western Australian National Football League (WANFL) in 1931. It was proposed that the Victorian Football League (VFL) become the Victorian Australian National Football League; however, this did not occur.

Several distinctions were made in the three major footballing states regarding the quality of play across different leagues. In Victoria, the League football was considered superior to Association football (not to be confused with British association football, also known as soccer); and for a time in the 1930s and 1940s, the distinction between the two competitions was necessary because they had sufficiently significant differences in rules that they were considered to be separate codes, similar to the distinction between rugby league and rugby union. In Western Australia, this distinction was also made between the West Australian Football League and the West Australian Football Association (formerly the 1st Rate Juniors competition), though the latter integrated into the WAFL reserves in 1921. There was also a distinction made in WA between the "coastal" (WAFL) and "'fields" (Goldfields Football League) leagues, who played each other regularly in the state premiership. In the 19th century, there was also a distinction made in most leagues between "senior" and "junior" football; this was not to do with age, rather with quality of play.

In December 1948, a controversy occurred when Dame Enid Lyons, the Member for Darwin, referred to Australian football as "our national game" in Parliament. This was rebuffed by the Prime Minister at the time, Ben Chifley, a New South Welshman, who suggested Lyons was "treading on dangerous ground". The secretary of the ANFC, Percy Page, sent a telegram reading: "Congratulations on your stand.  The Prime Minister's obvious lack of knowledge of Australian sport is most regrettable."

Nicknames
The most common nicknames for the sport are "footy" and "Aussie rules". For much of the middle part of the 20th century, particularly in Canberra, the latter was shortened further to simply "Rules", but this usage is now obsolete.

The term "AFL" (an abbreviation of Australian Football League) is commonly used in areas where the game is not widely played and thus no one particular name for the sport is ingrained in the local population. The Australian Football League has encouraged competitions to include the term "AFL" in their name: the Queensland Football League changed its name to AFL Queensland in 1999, the New South Wales Australian Rules Football League changed its name to Sydney AFL in 1998, and the Australian Capital Territory Football League changed its name to AFL Canberra in 1999. Leagues outside of Australia also make use of this term. Most major newspapers in Australia use either "AFL" or "football" to refer to the sport.

The derogatory term "aerial ping-pong" is sometimes used mockingly by fans of other codes to refer to the sport.

References

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Stolephorus commersonnii

The Commerson's anchovy (Stolephorus commersonnii), also known as Devis's anchovy, long-jawed anchovy, Teri anchovy, is a species of anadromous fish in the family Engraulidae. It is known as Haalmassa in Sri Lanka, where it is widely used as a nutrient-rich fish meat. It is widely used as a live or dead bait in tuna fishery.

Description
It is a small schooling fish found in depth of 0–50m in most of the tropical areas of the Indo-Pacific oceans, including Madagascar and Mauritius eastward and towards Hong Kong and further east to Papua New Guinea in westwards. Maximum length do not exceed 10 cm. It has no dorsal soft rays and possess only 18 to 19 anal soft rays. There are 0 to 5 small needle-like scutes on the belly region. Belly is slightly rounded. Body color is same as other engraulids, where body is light transparent fleshy brown with a pair of dark patches behind occiput, followed by a pair of lines to dorsal fin origin. The silver stripe present on flanks. Indian anchovy usually feeds on surface plankton. Female lay oval eggs in grassy sea beds.

This fish, with the much larger Indian anchovy, is part of the cuisine of the South- and Southeast Asian marine regions. It can be crisp-fried, used to make fish-based culinary products like fish sauce or in curries. In Sri Lanka, this variety of fish is made into a tasty snack by dipping in a batter of flour, then rolled in bread crumbs and deep fried in oil. It is also popular as a ‘white curry’, i.e.a curry made with coconut milk. A spicier variant is made with dry chilli gravy and served with scraped fresh coconut to offset the hotness of the gravy.

Vernacular names
Commerson's anchovy is known as:
Haalmassa (හාල්මැස්සා) in Sinhala
Netthallu (నెత్తళ్ళు) in Telugu

See also
List of fish in India
List of marine bony fishes of South Africa
List of common commercial fish of Sri Lanka

References

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Hadenoecus barri

Hadenoecus barri, or Barr's cave cricket, is a species of camel cricket in the family Rhaphidophoridae. It is found in North America.

References

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Bemposta Dam

Bemposta Dam () is a concrete arch dam on the Douro, where the river forms the national border line between Spain and Portugal. It is located in the municipality Mogadouro, in Bragança District, Portugal.

Construction of the dam began in 1957. The dam was completed in 1964. It is owned by Companhia Portuguesa de Produção de Electricidade (CPPE).

Dam
Bemposta Dam is an  (height above foundation) and  arch dam with a crest altitude of 408 m. The volume of the dam is 316,000 m³. The dam contains four crest spillways (maximum discharge 11,500 m³/s) and one bottom outlet (maximum discharge 200 m³/s).

Reservoir
At full reservoir level of 402 metres the reservoir of the dam () has a surface area of 4.05 km² and its total capacity is 129 mio. m³ (active capacity 20 mio. m³).

Power plant
The power plant is a run-of-the-river hydroelectric power station. It is owned by CPPE, but operated by EDP.

Bemposta I
Bemposta I has a nameplate capacity of 240 (210)MW.  Its average annual generation is 924.1 (918, 1,034 or 1,086) GWh.

The power station contains three Francis turbine-generators with 79.5 (70) MW each in an underground powerhouse. The turbine rotation is 150 rpm. The minimum hydraulic head is 59 m, the maximum 71 m. Maximum flow per turbine is 152 m³/s.

Bemposta II
In January 2008 construction began on the Bemposta II power plant. In December 2011 work on an additional underground powerhouse was completed and a further Francis turbine with a 191 MW capacity went online. Its average annual generation is 134 GWh.

See also

 List of power stations in Portugal

References

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Three Furnaces

The term Three Furnaces () refers to the especially hot and oppressively humid summer weather in several major cities in the Yangtze River Valley, within China. It was coined during the ROC period of China, and refers to the following cities:

Chongqing
Wuhan
Nanjing

Sometimes, Changsha or Nanchang are added, making the Four Furnaces (). In addition to the above 5 cities, Hangzhou and Shanghai are added to form the Seven Furnaces (七大火炉).

Yet the above names originate mainly from popular opinion, not necessarily on the basis of data.  The next seven hottest cities (2000—2009), are Changsha, Wuhan, Haikou, Nanchang, Guangzhou, Xi'an, and Nanning. Unlike the other cities, Xi'an, the capital of Shaanxi province, lies within the northwest.

See also
Yangtze River

References

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Granite Pass

Granite Pass may be one of the following:

Mountain passes
Granite Pass (Arizona) – a pass in La Paz County, Arizona, United States
Granite Pass (Fresno County, California) – a pass in Fresno County, California, United States
Granite Pass (Riverside County, California) – a pass in Riverside County, California, United States
Granite Pass (Drinkwater Lake, California) – a pass in San Bernardino County, California, United States
Granite Pass (Van Winkle Spring, California) – a pass in San Bernardino County, California, United States
Granite Pass (Colorado) – a pass in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, United States
Granite Pass (California Trail) – a pass in Cassia County, Idaho, United States
Granite Pass (Idaho-Montana) – a pass between Clearwater County, Idaho, and Missoula County, Montana, United States
Granite Pass (New Mexico) – a pass in Hidalgo County, New Mexico, United States
Granite Pass (Okanogan and Skagit counties, Washington) – a pass between Okanogan County and Skagit County, Washington, United States
Granite Pass (Pend Oreille County, Washington) – a pass in Pend Oreille County, Washington, United States
Granite Pass (Snohomish County, Washington) – a pass in Snohomish County, Washington, United States
Granite Pass (Wyoming) – a pass between Big Horn County and Sheridan County, Wyoming, United States


Lou Rees

Lewis "Lou"/"Lew" Morgan Rees (7 January 1910 – 21 December 1976) was a Welsh dual-code international rugby union, and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1930s and 1940s. He played representative level rugby union (RU) for Wales, and at club level for Treorchy RFC and Cardiff RFC, as a flanker, i.e. number 6 or 7, and representative level rugby league (RL) for Wales, and at club level for Oldham (both pre- and post-World War II), as a , i.e. number 8 or 10, during the era of contested scrums.

Background
Rees was born in Treherbert, Wales, and he died aged 66 in Manchester.

International honours
Lou Rees won a cap for Wales (RU) while at Cardiff on Saturday 11 March 1933 against Ireland, and won 5 caps for Wales (RL) in 1935–1938 while at Oldham.

References

External links
Statistics at orl-heritagetrust.org.uk

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Leptospira santarosai

Leptospira santarosai is a pathogenic species of Leptospira.

References

Further reading

External links
Type strain of Leptospira santarosai at BacDive -  the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase

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Russian anti-corruption campaign

The Russian anti-corruption campaign is an ongoing effort by the Russian government to curb corruption, which has been recognized as one of Russia's most serious problems. Central documents in the campaign include the National Anti-Corruption Plan, introduced by President Dmitry Medvedev in 2009, and the National Anti-Corruption Strategy, introduced in 2010. The central organization in the campaign is the Anti-Corruption Council, established in 2008. Medvedev has made fighting corruption one of the top agendas of his presidency. According to Transparency International, Russia's position in the Corruption Perception Index has improved thanks to the anti-corruption campaign.

Background
Fighting corruption was one of the key areas of Dmitry Medvedev's presidency. On 19 May 2008, Medvedev signed a decree on anti-corruption measures, which included creation of an Anti-Corruption Council. In the first meeting of the Council on 30 September 2008, Medvedev said:

Measures

Anti-Corruption plan

In July 2008, Medvedev's National Anti-Corruption Plan was published in the official Rossiyskaya Gazeta newspaper. It suggested measures aimed at making sanctions for corruption more severe, such as legislature to disqualify state and municipal officials who commit minor corruption offences and making it obligatory for officials to report corruption. The plan ordered the government to prepare anti-corruption legislation based on these suggestions. The bill that followed, called On Corruption Counteraction, was signed into law on 25 December 2008 as Federal Law N 273-FZ. According to Professor Richard Sakwa, "Russia now at last had serious, if flawed, legislation against corruption, which in the context was quite an achievement, although preliminary results were meagre."

Anti-corruption strategy

On 13 April 2010, Medvedev signed presidential decree No. 460 which introduced the National Anti-Corruption Strategy, a midterm government policy, while the plan is updated every two years. The new strategy calls corruption "a systemic threat" to the country and emphasises the need to get the public involved in fighting corruption. The strategy stipulates increases in fines for corruption, greater public oversight of government budgets and sociological research. The head of presidential administration Sergey Naryshkin gave Medvedev annual updates on progress regarding the strategy. According to Georgy Satarov, president of the Indem think tank, the introduction of the new strategy "probably reflected Medvedev's frustration with the fact that the 2008 plan had yielded little result."

Further measures
In January 2011, President Medvedev admitted that the government had so far failed in its anti-corruption measures.

On 4 May 2011, Medvedev continued his anti-corruption efforts by signing the Federal Law On Amendments to the Criminal Code and the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation to Improve State Anti-Corruption Management. The bill raised fines for corruption to up to 100 times the amount of the bribe given or received, with the maximum fine being 500 million rubles ($18.3 million).

Implications
Russia's score in Corruption Perceptions Index rose from 2.1 in 2008 to 2.2 in 2009, which "could be interpreted as a mildly positive response to the newly-adopted package of anti-corruption legislation initiated and promoted by president Medvedev and passed by the Duma in December of 2008", according to Transparency International's CPI 2009 Regional Highlights report.

In 2011, Russia's position in the Corruption Perception Index improved by 11 places. According to Transparency International, the improvement was a result of the successful implementation of President Medvedev's anti-corruption campaign. The organisation especially highlighted implementation of anti-bribery legislation and signing the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's anti-bribery convention as anti-corruption measures that appear to be working.

See also

 Combating Corruption
 List of people convicted of bribery in Russia

References

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Werder, Ethiopia

Werder (; ) is a town in eastern Ethiopia. Located in the Werder Zone of the Somali Region,  Werder has a latitude and longitude of  with an elevation of 541 meters above sea level. It is the administrative center of Werder woreda.

The Walwal wells, site of the notorious clash between Italian and Ethiopian troops which triggered the Second Italian-Abyssinian War, are at about 12 kilometers to the north-east of the town.

History
One of the forts Mohammed Abdullah Hassan constructed in 1910 was built here, following the relocation of his capital to Taleex the year before, allowing him to consolidate his control over the Ogaden.

During 1933-34 the Italians built a road to carry motor traffic from Italian Somaliland to Werder in the Ogaden by way of Geladi and, also the fort of Walwal was a crucial component for the Italians to win the war. The subjects of the Sultans Jasin and Refle were forced to accept Italian rule, otherwise they would not be permitted to draw water at Werder.

The eastern part of Ogaden was administered by Ethiopian officials for the first time on 23 September 1948 when Ethiopian administrators were sent to Kebri Dahar, Kelafo and Werder.

Although Werder remained in Somali hands at the end of the Ogaden War, Ethiopian units under Brigadier-General Demisse Bulto, commander of the First Revolutionary Army, recovered Werder as part of Operation Lash by November 1980, and used the town as one of its three bases to successfully clear the rest of eastern Ethiopia of foreign Somali troops by 3 December.

Government security forces and members of the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) clashed in Werder on 23 February 1994. More than 50 people were reported killed during the initial incident and in the three days of skirmishes that followed. The fighting forced the town's population to flee and seek shelter in the surrounding countryside.

On 26 January 2008, the Ethiopian military placed staff members of the Dutch chapter of the NGO Doctors without Borders (MSF) under house arrest in Werder, accusing them of providing medical support to the ONLF. The MSF reported in September 2008 that refugees from fighting in the local conflict between Somali insurgents and the Ethiopian government had flocked to Werder in search of food and water. "An estimated 8,000 to 10,000 people are currently living in squalid conditions," the MSF stated, "under makeshift shelters, with limited access to water, no sanitation, and the carcasses of dead animals around them."

Demographics
Based on figures from the Central Statistical Agency in 2005, this town has an estimated total population of 18,357, of whom 9,737 are men and 8,620 are women. The 1997 census reported this town had a total population of 12,309 of whom 6,433 were men and 5,876 women. The largest ethnic group reported in this town was the Somali (98.2%). This is a slightly lower share than in the woreda as a whole (99.9%), because over 88% of the non-Somali inhabitants of the woreda live in the town.

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Polk Street

Polk Street (also sometimes referred to by its German name, Polkstrasse) is a street in San Francisco, California, that travels northward from Market Street to Beach Street and is one of the main thoroughfares of the Polk Gulch neighborhood traversing through the Tenderloin, Nob Hill, and Russian Hill neighborhoods. The street takes its name from former U.S. President James K. Polk.

The street also has bike lanes, which were approved in 2002. San Francisco bike route 25 runs along Polk Street, and is the only North-South route suitable for casual bicycle travel within at least a mile in either direction. There is an ongoing debate on whether to increase the level of these improvements.

Name
Polk Street is named for James Knox Polk (November 2, 1795 – June 15, 1849) the 11th President of the United States (1845–1849). During the Mexican–American War, and after the Texas annexation, Polk turned his attention to California, hoping to acquire the territory from Mexico before any European nation. The main interest was San Francisco Bay as an access point for trade with Asia.

The street is sometimes still referred to by its German name Polkstrasse or Polk Strasse ("Straße" being the German word for "street"), dating back to the time when it was the main commercial street for San Francisco's German immigrants. In 1912, the German community built California Hall on the corner of Polk and Turk Street, a building resembling a German-style town hall (rathaus).

Polk Gulch is the neighborhood around a section of Polk Street, and its immediate vicinity, that runs through the Nob Hill and Russian Hill neighborhoods from approximately Geary Street to Union Street.  The name, somewhat humorous, arises because the street runs over an old stream at the bottom of a gently-sloped valley.

Polk Gulch was San Francisco's main gay neighborhood from the 1950s until the early 1980s, although around 1970 many gays began to move to The Castro (formerly Eureka Valley) and SOMA because many large Victorian houses were available for low rent or could be purchased with low down payments. Several gay, lesbian, and transgender bars and clubs remain in the area.

As the original center of the city's LGBT community, it has remained one of the core centers along with The Castro and the South of Market (SOMA). On New Year's Day 1965, police raided a gay fundraising party for the newly founded Council on Religion and the Homosexual in California Hall on Polk Street, an incident that, according to some, marked the beginning of a more formally organized gay rights movement in San Francisco. In 1972, Polk Street was the location of the first official San Francisco Gay Pride Parade. In the 1950s through the 1970s Halloween on Polk Street became a major attraction for tourists and locals. In the 1990s and 2000s the neighborhood started to gentrify. It remains prominent for its nightlife.

Other notable locations
The San Francisco Police Department Northern Station serves Polk Gulch.  The street remains a busy business district with many restaurants, cafes, and numerous bars.  Today, the Academy of Art University owns a building on the street for academic purposes.

McTeague
Frank Norris's 1899 novel McTeague is about a dentist whose office is on Polk Street. In 2008, McTeague Saloon, located at 1237, opened in his honor.

References

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Vardø Airport, Svartnes

Vardø Airport, Svartnes (; ) is a short take-off and landing airport located at Svartnes in Vardø Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. Owned and operated by the state-owned Avinor, it served 14,664 passengers in 2012. The airport has a  runway aligned 15–33. It is served by Widerøe who operate Bombardier Dash 8 aircraft to Kirkenes and other communities in Finnmark. The airport is located  from Vardøya and the town center of Vardø.

Svartnes was built by the German Luftwaffe 1943, where it served fighter aircraft to protect German convoys. The airport was abandoned in 1944 but reopened by the Norwegian Armed Forces for military passenger flights. Plans to start civilian operates were launched in the 1960s and from 1970 Norving started irregular flights to the airport. An upgrade to the terminal and runway were carried out between 1984 and 1990. Widerøe took over flights in 1991.

History
Svartnes was constructed by the Luftwaffe during the German occupation of Norway during World War II. The background for the establishment was Soviet attacks on supply convoys operating to Kirkenes. During construction, on 12 July 1943, eight Soviet Ilyushin Il-2s attacked Svartnes, but all were shot down. While the war remained in the area Soviet air attacks continued on the air base. The airport was completed in the fall of 1943, it was exclusively used for fighter aircraft detachments of Jagdgeschwader 5. These were used as part of the defense of German ship traffic around Varangerhalvøya. The original wooden runway was . The Wehrmacht operated a prisoner of war camp at the military base. The air base fell into disuse following the German evacuation in 1944.

The wooden runway was pillaged by locals to accumulate building materials for reconstruction. The Norwegian Armed Forces established itself in Vardø in the mid-1950s. The airport was renovated; a terminal was built consisting of two simple barracks, one used as a passenger terminal and the other as a tower, consisting of a glass addition on the roof. The  gravel runway received portable runway lights. The Royal Norwegian Air Force served the airport with de Havilland Canada Twin Otter and Shorts Skyvan aircraft to transport military personnel.

The first plans for a civilian airport at Svartnes was launched by Varangfly, later renamed Norving, in 1964. Vardø was mentioned as one of five villages in Finnmark which the airline hoped to open with simple airfields which could serve air taxi and air ambulance flights. Two years later several major airlines proposed a network of short take-off and landing (STOL) airports in Northern Norway, and Vardø was proposed as a possible location. A county committee was established in 1966 to look into the matter. It considered seven locations in Finnmark, including Vardø and recommended in its report that planning continue. Simultaneously the Ministry of Transport and Communications was working on a plan for larger short take-off and landing airports. It decided that such airports will first be built in Helgeland, then Lofoten and Vesterålen and finally in Troms and Finnmark.

Norving started operating irregular air taxi flights to Vardø after they took delivery of an eight-seat Britten-Norman Islander in April 1970. In addition, the airline used the air field for air ambulance services. Norving received permission to operate a scheduled taxi route from Vardø to Kirkenes Airport, Høybuktmoen and Båtsfjord Airport from the late 1970s.

Construction of a new terminal and upgrading the airport to regional standard started in 1984. In February 1987 Vardø Municipality received operating permission from the government. The investments cost NOK 11.4 million, of which NOK 10 million was to be financed through a loan and the rest through subsidies from the government and the county. The latter was also responsible for covering the operating deficit. The upgraded airport opened on 6 April 1987. The first two months Norving continued its taxi route service to the airport, but from 1 June a regular concession scheduled service was introduced. Widerøe took over the services in 1991. At first the airport was served using Twin Otters, but from the mid-1990s the Dash 8 was introduced. From 1996, Svartnes and 25 other regional airports were taken over by the state and the Civil Aviation Administration (later renamed Avinor). Widerøe lost the bid to operate the services between 2000 and 2003 to Arctic Air, but resumed services in 2003. Airport security was introduced on 1 January 2005. There has several times been discuss whether to close down the airport, having in mind that Vadsø Airport is 67 km away by road. In 2002 there was political support in Stortinget to close it if the road was upgraded, but neither happened. In 2015 Avinor stated that closing Vardø would give least passenger trouble related to the financial support in the country, but that no decision on it would be made before 2019. Because of lack of available aircraft for purchase, before 2030 all short airports must be extended, closed or be flown with very small planes. Vardø has no room for extension.

Facilities
The airport has a single terminal building which has an integrated control tower. The passenger terminal has a capacity for thirty passengers per hour. The airport is located  driving from the town center. Taxis are available at the airport. In 2012 the airport had 13,889 passengers, 2,518 aircraft movements and 0.7 tonnes of cargo handled.

Airlines and destinations
The airport is served by Widerøe with 39-seat Dash 8-100 aircraft connecting the community to Tromsø, Kirkenes and other communities in Finnmark. The routes are operated on public service obligation with the Ministry of Transport and Communications.

Accidents and incidents
On 5 March 1978 a Partenavia P.68 LN-MAD operated by Norving Airlines crashed at Falkefjell during approach to Vadsø Airport. The crew of two and a passenger all survived, but the aircraft was written off.

References

Bibliography

External links

Category:Airports in Finnmark
Category:Avinor airports
Category:Luftwaffe airports in Norway
Category:Royal Norwegian Air Force airfields
Category:Vardø
Category:1943 establishments in Norway
Category:Airports established in 1943
Category:Military installations in Finnmark


Lake O'Hara

Lake O'Hara is a lake at an elevation of 2,020m (6627 ft) in the alpine area of Yoho National Park, in the province of British Columbia, on the western side of the Great Divide with the province of Alberta and Banff National Park to the east. The lake and the valley are accessible through a bus service that is run by Parks Canada or by an 11 km hike along a road with an elevation gain of approximately 500m. However, people who hike up the road are not guaranteed a bus ride down. People who have reservations have priority for the bus spots for the ride down. Reservations for the bus, for day use, can be made through the Parks Canada Reservation website. Campsite reservations can be made up to three months in advance through the Lake O'Hara reservation line. It is strongly recommended that visitors make reservations in advance, as the bus does fill up and standby bus spots are not sold the day of bus departures.

The area is known for its scenery as well as its alpine hiking. Visitors often follow the climbing trails which ascend from Lake O'Hara to Lake Oesa and to Opabin Lake. The number of people who access the area by bus has been limited in order to preserve the sensitive alpine environment.

The area is named after Colonel Robert O'Hara, an Irishman from Derryhoyle, Galway who heard about the area from J.J. McArthur, a government surveyor.

The Elizabeth Parker Alpine Club Hut is in the Meadows about a 15-minute walk from the Lodge. It is a ski destination in the winter, with many skiers doing it as a day trip.

See also
List of lakes in Yoho National Park

References

External links

Lake O'Hara Lodge
Lake O'Hara Trails Club
Lake O'Hara – Yoho National Park

Category:Lakes of British Columbia
Category:Yoho National Park
Category:Columbia Country
Category:Canadian Rockies


Johnson Papyrus

The Johnson Papyrus (London, Wellcome Library, MS 5753) is a fragment of an early 5th century AD herbal.  It is the oldest extant manuscript illustration of a plant.  The papyrus fragment shows a sphere of dark blue-green leaves supported by some small scraggly roots.  Below the illustration is a fragment of Greek text. The illustrated plant has been identified as "symphyton" (modern comfrey), which was an important medicinal plant. However the illustration does not closely resemble comfrey, so that, if the identification is correct, the illustration would have had been of little use as an aid to identification.

References
 Pavord, Anna. The Naming of Names: In search of order in the world of plants. (New York: Bloomsbury, 2005), pg 78.

Category:Botany books
Category:Scientific illuminated manuscripts
Category:5th-century illuminated manuscripts
Category:Papyrus
Category:Symphytum
Category:Byzantine illuminated manuscripts


2012 Oregon state elections

On November 6, 2012, the U.S. state of Oregon held statewide general elections for four statewide offices (secretary of state, attorney general, treasurer, and commissioner of labor), both houses of the Oregon Legislative Assembly, and several state ballot measures.

The primary elections were held on May 15, 2012. Both elections also included national races for President of the United States and five U.S. House Representatives. Numerous local jurisdictions — cities, counties, and regional government entities — held elections for various local offices and ballot measures on these days as well.

Federal

President of the United States

Democratic incumbent Barack Obama defeated his Republican opponent Mitt Romney in the national presidential election. In Oregon, the voters also chose Obama, giving him all of Oregon's 7 electoral votes.

United States House of Representatives

All five of Oregon's seats in the United States House of Representatives were up for re-election in 2012.  All five incumbents ran for and won re-election, including Democrat Suzanne Bonamici who won a special election in District 1 earlier in the year to replace Democrat David Wu.

Statewide

Attorney General
Incumbent Oregon Attorney General John Kroger, first elected in 2008, announced in October 2011 that he would not seek a second term, citing undisclosed medical issues. In April 2012, he announced would resign his office in June to become president of Reed College. On June 29, Democrat Ellen Rosenblum was sworn in as interim Attorney General. Rosenblum, a former judge on the Oregon Court of Appeals, also defeated former U.S. Attorney Dwight Holton in the Democratic primary and will compete for a full term in November against Republican attorney James Buchal, who had a successful write-in campaign in the Republican primary.

Democratic primary

Candidates
Dwight Holton, former interim U.S. Attorney for Oregon
Ellen Rosenblum, former Oregon Court of Appeals judge

Results

Republican primary

Candidates
No Republican filed to run in the primary, but a few weeks before the primary election, party officials sent postcards to Republicans urging them to write in Portland lawyer James Buchal. Buchal qualified for the general election with more than half the more than 25,000 write-in votes cast.

Results

General election

Candidates
 James Buchal (Republican), attorney
 Chris Henry (Progressive), truck driver
 James E. Leuenberger (Constitution, Libertarian), attorney
 Ellen Rosenblum (Democrat), interim Attorney General, former Oregon Court of Appeals judge

Polling

Results

Secretary of State
Incumbent Oregon Secretary of State Kate Brown, first elected in 2008, is seeking a second term. She defeated perennial candidate Paul Damian Wells in the Democratic primary and faces Republican orthopedic surgeon Knute Buehler in the general election. Buehler was unopposed in the Republican primary and also won the Independent Party nomination.

Democratic primary

Candidates
Kate Brown, incumbent
Paul Damian Wells, machinist

Results

Republican primary

Candidates
Knute Buehler, surgeon

Results

Independent Party of Oregon
Oregon allows candidates to be cross-nominated by up to three political parties. The Independent Party of Oregon holds a month-long online primary to select which candidate receives their nomination. The party chose candidates in a number of legislative and local races but only one statewide race, Secretary of State.

Candidates
Kate Brown, incumbent
Knute Buehler, surgeon

Results

General election

Candidates
Kate Brown (Democrat, Working Families), incumbent
 Knute Buehler (Republican, Independent), orthopedic surgeon
 Bruce Alexander Knight (Libertarian), store manager
 Robert Wolfe (Progressive), wine salesman
 Seth Woolley (Pacific Green), software engineer

Polling

Results

State Treasurer
Incumbent Oregon State Treasurer Ted Wheeler was appointed to the position in March 2010 following the death of Ben Westlund. Wheeler subsequently won a November 2010 special election to complete the remainder of Westlund's term. He is seeking re-election to a full term in 2012. Tom Cox, a management consultant who ran for Governor as the Libertarian nominee in 2002, won the Republican nomination as a write-in candidate.

Democratic primary

Candidates
Ted Wheeler, incumbent

Results

Republican primary

Candidates
No Republican filed to run in the primary, but a few weeks before the primary election, party officials sent postcards to Republicans urging them to write in Tom Cox, who won 5% of the vote as the Libertarian candidate for Governor in 2002. Cox won the majority of the more than 24,000 write-in votes to advance to the November general election.

Results

General election

Candidates
 Tom Cox (Republican), management consultant
 John F. Mahler (Libertarian), retired plant engineer
 Michael Paul Marsh (Constitution), retired landscaper, custodian, and paralegal
 Ted Wheeler (Democrat, Working Families), incumbent
 Cameron Whitten (Progressive), student

Polling

Results

Labor Commissioner
The Oregon Commissioner of Labor serves as the head of the state Bureau of Labor and Industries (BOLI), and is a nonpartisan position. Brad Avakian, a Democrat who has served as Commissioner since 2008, is running for re-election. Republican state Senator Bruce Starr is challenging Avakian.

General election

Candidates
 Brad Avakian, incumbent
 Bruce Starr, state senator

Polling

Results

Legislative

The Democrats had a 16–14 majority  in the Oregon State Senate in the previous session. 16 of the 30 senate seats were up for election. In the Oregon House of Representatives, which was evenly split between Democrats and Republicans, all 60 seats were up for election. Democrats retained their 16–14 majority in the Senate, and took a 34–26 majority in the House.

Ballot measures
Nine measures appeared on the November ballot. Two were legislative referrals, four were initiated constitutional amendments, and three were initiated state statutes.

Measure 77

Referred by the legislature. Amends Constitution: Governor may declare "catastrophic disaster;" requires legislative session; authorizes suspending specified constitutional spending restrictions.

Measure 78

Referred by the legislature. Amends Constitution: Changes constitutional language describing governmental system of separation of powers; makes grammatical and spelling changes.

Measure 79

Initiated constitutional amendment. Amends Constitution: Prohibits real estate transfer taxes, fees, other assessments, except those operative on December 31, 2009.

Measure 80

Initiated statute. Allows personal marijuana, hemp cultivation/use without license; commission to regulate commercial marijuana cultivation/sale.

Measure 81

Initiated statute. Prohibits commercial non-tribal fishing with gillnets in Oregon "inland waters," allows use of seine nets.

Measure 82

Initiated constitutional amendment. Amends Constitution: authorizes establishment of privately owned casinos; mandates percentage of revenues payable to dedicated state fund.

Measure 83

Initiated statute. Authorizes privately owned Wood Village Casino at the closed Multnomah Greyhound Park; mandates percentage of revenues payable to dedicated state fund.

Measure 84

Initiated statute. Phases out existing inheritance taxes on large estates, and all taxes on intra-family property transfers.

Measure 85

Initiated constitutional amendment. Amends Constitution: allocates corporate income/excise tax "kicker" refund to additionally fund K–12 public education.

See also
 Elections in Oregon

References

External links
Elections Division at the Oregon Secretary of State
Oregon at Ballotpedia
Oregon judicial elections, 2012 at Judgepedia
Oregon 2012 campaign finance data from Follow the Money
Oregon Congressional Races in 2012 campaign finance data from OpenSecrets.org
Outside spending at the Sunlight Foundation


Lucas Herbert (footballer)

Lucas Herbert (born 13 September 1977) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Adelaide in the Australian Football League (AFL).

Herbert was a primarily a ruckman, but could also play as a key forward. Originally from Mount Gambier, he started his SANFL career at Glenelg but was with North Adelaide when he was picked up in the 1998 AFL Draft. Although Adelaide were premiers of the previous two years, Herbert was picked for the opening round of the season against the Western Bulldogs and had 10 disposals, 14 hit outs and a goal. He made a further 13 appearances in 1999 and finished the year with the second most hit outs at Adelaide, behind David Pittman, but would be delisted.

He continued playing for North Adelaide and then returned to Glenelg in 2004.

References

External links

Category:1977 births
Category:Australian rules footballers from South Australia
Category:Adelaide Football Club players
Category:Glenelg Football Club players
Category:North Adelaide Football Club players
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Pseudatteria dognini

Pseudatteria dognini is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Ecuador.

The length of the forewings is about 14–15 mm.  The forewings are orange, but yellowish white in the subcostal and apicoterminal areas. The markings are bluish black. The hindwings are orange with black, with rotundate (rounded) marginal spots.

References

Category:Moths described in 1966
Category:Pseudatteria


Fantasia of Life Stripe

Fantasia of Life Stripe is the second full album by Japanese rock band Flumpool. The album was released on January 26, 2011 in Japan under their record label A-sketch in two editions: a limited edition premium package and a normal package. The album was certified gold by the RIAJ in January 2011.

Album information
Both editions contain fourteen tracks; however, the limited edition premium package comes with a 48-page booklet and a special CD titled Fantezie muzicală de curcubeul vieţii (Fantasia of Life Stripe~Bloody Remix~). This CD is a remixed version of the album by a project called Red Dracul Scar Tissue.

The title of the album is derived from the theme of the album. The word "Fantasia" represents the songs in the album which are created freely without deciding on the rules and styles of creating them. The words "Life Stripe" represent an artwork of the actions done in daily lives which are replaced with 21 colors.

Songs
Fantasia of Life Stripe contains three of the band's previously released singles: "Zanzō", "reboot~Akiramenai Uta/Nagareboshi" and "Kimi ni Todoke".
"Zanzō" was used as the theme song for the second season of the drama Bloody Monday. "reboot~Akiramenai Uta~" was used as a support song of Japanese television network NTV's coverage of the FIFA World Cup. "Kimi ni Todoke" was used as the theme song for the movie with the same title. The song "Snowy Nights Serenade~Kokoro Made mo Tsunagitai~" included in the album is the original version of the song "Snowy Nights Serenade~Kokoro Made mo Tsunagitai~ Xmas ver." which was released in December 2010 as a single limited to the members of the band's mobile fan club.

"two of us", the second track, is being used as the theme song for the show "Ainori 2".

"Snowy Nights Serenade~Kokoro Made mo Tsunagitai~", the fourth track, was used as the ending theme song for December for the show "Onegai!Ranking".

Track listing
All lyrics written by vocalist, Ryuta Yamamura.

Charts and sales

References

External links

Category:2010 albums
Category:Flumpool albums


Mennonite Church (1683–2002)

The Mennonite Church (MC), also known as the "Old" Mennonite Church, was formerly the oldest and largest body of Mennonites in North America. It was a loosely-affiliated collection of Mennonite conferences based in the United States and Canada, mainly of Swiss and South German origin. The group dated to the settlement of Germantown in 1683 and included 112,311 members in North America in 1997. Many of the conferences that were considered part of the "Old" Mennonite Church participated in the Mennonite General Conference from 1898-1971 and the Mennonite General Assembly from 1971-2002. The Mennonite General Assembly voted to merge with the General Conference Mennonite Church at a joint session in Wichita, Kansas in 1995. In 2002, the two groups merged and then divided along national lines into Mennonite Church USA and Mennonite Church Canada.

Origins
The conferences that made up the Mennonite Church originated from two groups, Mennonites and Amish.

Polity and ministry
The polity of the Mennonite Church varied because of influences of various originating groups and settlement patterns. It also changed over time. The basic pattern was a conference -based polity with conferences having authority over local congregations. Conferences had authority on doctrine and practice and could discipline ministers and congregations. Congregations selected ministers and owned church buildings. The parts of the Mennonite Church with Amish origin tended to give more authority over doctrine and practice to leaders of local congregations.

The traditional pattern of ministry was a plural unsalaried ministry with a bishop, preacher, and deacon. In many conferences, bishops were assigned to several congregations, though Amish-origin congregations often had a single bishop per congregation. In the 1950s and 1960s, this pattern began to change. Congregations began calling pastors to replace preachers. In the more progressive parts of the Mennonite church, these pastors were seminary-trained and salaried. The office of bishop was renamed as a superintendent or overseer in many conferences. The office of deacon declined in usage. By the 1990s, most of the conferences participating in Mennonite General Assembly had a pastor for each local congregation and district superintendents or overseers rather than traditional plural ministry, with the significant exception of the strong bishop system in Lancaster Mennonite Conference.

Participating conferences
In 1957, the conferences that participated in Mennonite General Conference were:

 Franconia (no official delegates to General Conference)
 Lancaster (no official delegates to General Conference)
 Washington County, Maryland and Franklin County, Pennsylvania (no official delegates to General Conference)
 Ontario
 Virginia
 Ohio and Eastern
 Indiana and Michigan
 Illinois
 Allegheny
 Iowa and Nebraska
 South Central
 Alberta and Saskatchewan
 Pacific Coast
 Conservative Mennonite (no official delegates to General Conference)
 North Central
 Ontario Amish Mennonite (no official delegates to General Conference)
 South Pacific
 Puerto Rico
 India
 Argentina

In 1997, the conferences that participated in Mennonite General Assembly were:

 Allegheny Mennonite Conference
 Atlantic Coast Conference of the Mennonite Church
 Franconia Mennonite Conference
 Franklin Mennonite Conference
 Gulf States Mennonite Conference
 Illinois Mennonite Conference
 Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference
 Iowa-Nebraska Conference of the Mennonite Church
 Lancaster Mennonite Conference
 Mennonite Conference of Eastern Canada
 New York Mennonite Conference
 Pacific Southwest Mennonite Conference
 Puerto Rico Mennonite Conference
 Rocky Mountain Mennonite Conference
 South Central Mennonite Conference
 Southeast Mennonite Conference
 Virginia Mennonite Conference

References

Category:Mennonitism
Category:1683 establishments
Category:21st-century disestablishments
Category:Amish


Qaleh-ye Kohneh

Qaleh-ye Kohneh or Qaleh Kohneh () may refer to various places in Iran:
 Qaleh Kohneh, Bushehr
 Qaleh-ye Kohneh, Khorrambid, Fars Province
 Qaleh Kohneh, Mamasani, Fars Province
 Qaleh Kohneh, Kermanshah
 Qaleh-ye Kohneh, Khuzestan
 Qaleh Kohneh, Kani Shirin, Divandarreh County, Kurdistan Province
 Qaleh Kohneh, Obatu, Divandarreh County, Kurdistan Province
 Qaleh Kohneh, Saqqez, Kurdistan Province
 Qaleh-ye Kohneh, Sistan and Baluchestan

See also
 Kohneh Qaleh (disambiguation)


List of people from Donetsk

The citizens of Donetsk are commonly called Donechyani (, ). The following is a list of famous people that were born or brought up in the city:

Academics
 Alexander Anoprienko, Professor of Computer Engineering
 Volodymyr Biletskyy, Ukrainian scientist.
 Anatoly Timofeevich Fomenko, Russian Mathematician and lecturer at the Moscow University. Promoter of New Chronology.
 Valeriy Konovalyuk, an economist and businessman.
 Alexander Kuzemsky - Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist.
 Kirill Borisovich Tolpygo, Soviet physicist and a Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Artists
 Viktor Burduk, an artist, a blacksmith.
 Pavlo Vigderhaus, Soviet architect, Monument to a Miner creator.

Athletes
 Polina Astakhova, Ukrainian gymnast.
 Serhiy Bubka, Ukrainian pole vault athlete; Olympic Games champion: 1988; World Champion: 1983, 1987, 1991, 1995, European Champion: 1986; Champion of the USSR: 1984, 1985.
 Yuriy Dehteryov, Soviet goalkeeper.
 Yuriy Gavrilov, Volleyball player, Olympic gold medallist.
 Julia Glushko (born 1990), Ukrainian-born Israeli tennis player
 Aleksandr Lebziak, Russian boxer.
 Denys Lyashko, footballer
 Natalya Mammadova, Azeri volleyball player.
 Ilya Mate, Olympic champion in 1980.
 Oleksiy Pecherov, a Ukrainian basketball player.
 Lilia Podkopayeva, a Ukrainian gymnast, and the 1996 Olympic All Around Champion
 Sergiy Rebrov, footballer.
 Viktor Smyrnov, Paralympic swimmer.
 Viktor Sidyak, fencing, first Soviet individual sabre Olympic gold medal in Munich 1972, multiple times winner of World Championships and Olympic medalist (1968, 1972, 1976 and 1980).
 Nadezhda Tkachenko, Olympic-gold winning pentathlete.
 Oleg Tverdovsky, Russian ice hockey player.
 Alexander Yagubkin, boxer.
 Oleg Vernyayev, Gymnast, Olympic gold medallist.
 Artem Yevlyanov, footballer

Business
 Rinat Akhmetov, Ukraine's wealthiest businessman, founder of System Capital Management, No. 47 in Forbes The World's Billionaires.
 Serhiy Arbuzov, head of Ukrainian Bank.
 Akhat Bragin, businessman and mobster.
 Valeriy Konovalyuk, an economist and businessman.
 Ihor Sorkin, head of the Ukrainian National Bank.

Entertainers
 Vera Filatova, actress.
 Yuri Kara, Russian film director and producer.
 Tatyana Kravchenko, Soviet and Russian actress.
 Make Me Famous - English language Metalcore band.
 Master SheFF, the leader of Bad Balance and creator of Russian hip hop.
 Siouzana Melikián, a Russian-Mexican actress.
 Vadim Pisarev, Ukrainian dancer and art Director of Donetsk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre named after Solovyanenko.
 Aleksandr Revva, comedian.
 Denis Shaforostov, Ukrainian musician, vocalist for Asking Alexandria
 Oleg Stefan, Russian actor.
 Anatoliy Solovyanenko, Soviet opera singer.
 Vladimir Grigoryevich Zakharov, Soviet composer.

Journalists
 Stanislav Aseyev, Ukrainian writer and journalist.
 Dmytro Gnap, journalist, investigating corruption.
 Oleksiy Matsuka, corruption investigator, Reporters Without Borders named Matsuka in its list of 100 Information Heroes.

Military
 Fyodor Berezin, Russian-language science fiction writer and Deputy Minister of Defence of the Donetsk People's Republic.
 Mikhail Krichevsky, the last surviving World War I veteran who fought for the Russian Empire.
 Aleksandr Zakharchenko, Prime Minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (deceased).

Politicians
 Zalman Aran (Aharonovich), Israeli social-democratic politician, minister of education (1955–1960) and (1963–1969).
 Mykola Azarov, former Prime Minister of Ukraine
 Nikita Khrushchev, General Secretary of the CPSU and Premier of the Soviet Union 1953–1964 (born in Kalinovka, Kursk Oblast, Russia but grew up in Yuzivka).
 Volodymyr Rybak, Mayor of Donetsk and Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada.
 Natan Sharansky, former Soviet dissident, anticommunist, Zionist, Israeli politician and writer.
 Petro Symonenko, head of the Communist Party of Ukraine.
 Viktor Yanukovych, deposed former president of Ukraine (due to Euromaidan Revolts of 2013–2014)
 Aleksandr Zakharchenko, Prime Minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (deceased).

Writers
 Emma Andijewska, Ukrainian poet.
 Fyodor Berezin, Russian-language science fiction writer and Deputy Minister of Defence of the Donetsk People's Republic.
 Vladislav Adolfovitch Rusanov, Russian-language science fiction writer and chairman of the Donetsk People's Republic Writer's Union.
 Vasyl Stus, Ukrainian poet and publicist, one of the most active members of Ukrainian dissident movement.

Other
 Yevgeny Khaldei, Soviet photographer.
 Dmytriy Leonidovich Cherniavskiy, senior manager and political adviser.
 Evgenij Miroshnichenko, Ukrainian chess player.
 Marina Tsvigun, religious sect leader, new age movement.

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