Norton 961 Commando

The Norton 961/SS Commando is a motorcycle that was produced by Norton Motorcycles, the Oregon based company that bought the rights to the Norton brand name. Owner Kenny Dreer progressed from restoring and upgrading Norton Commandos to producing whole machines. He modernised the design and in the early 2000s went into production of the VR880. This machine was built on the basis of the original Commando, with upgraded components and a significantly modified engine. Dreer produced 50 of these machines before deciding to build an all-new motorcycle. With funding from Oliver Curme, Dreer hired a small design and development team led by Paul Gaudio (Design and Development Director), Simon-Pierre Smith (Lead Engineer), and Patrick Leyshock (Testing, Sourcing.) The 961 Commando never reached production in America due to lack of funding, and the company closed its doors in April 2006. The Commando 961 SS combined traditional Norton cafe racer styling with new technology.  This included carbon fibre wheels to reduce weight, a counterbalanced engine, and a chro-moly tubular steel frame.

Future

After fifteen years of US ownership the Norton brand was secured by Stuart Garner, a UK businessman and owner of Norton Racing Ltd. Garner setup Norton production at the current  Norton factory at Donington Park. The relaunched Norton line includes three new versions of the 961 Commando; the 961 SF, 961 Sport and 961 Café Racer.

See also
 Norton Motorcycle Company
 List of Norton motorcycles

References

External links
Norton Motorcycles web site

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Bits and pieces

Bits and pieces may refer to:

 Bits and pieces, a mosaic technique better known as trencadís
 Bits and Pieces (1985 film), a horror film released in 1985
 Bits and Pieces (1996 film),  an Italian comedy-drama film directed by Antonello Grimaldi
 "Bits and Pieces" (song), a song by 1960s quintet The Dave Clark Five
 Bits and Pieces (TV series), a proposed TV series by Liv and Maddie


Żurawie, Opole Voivodeship

Żurawie  is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Rudniki, within Olesno County, Opole Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It lies approximately  south of Rudniki,  north-east of Olesno, and  north-east of the regional capital Opole.

The village has a population of 81.

References

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California State Legislature, 2005–06 session

The 2005–2006 Session.

Major legislation

Enacted
SB 1613  - Law banning the use of cell phones in cars.

Senate

  Democrats: 25
  Republicans: 15

The party affiliation and district numbers of Senators are listed after their names in this list.

President Pro Tem: Don Perata (D-9)
Majority Leader: Gloria Romero (D-24)
Minority Leader: Dick Ackerman (R-33)

* Tom Harman won the June 6, 2006 special election (and was sworn in on June 12, 2006) for the 35th Senate District seat to replace John Campbell, who vacated his State Senate seat on December 7, 2005 to become a member of the United States House of Representatives.

Assembly

Officers
Speaker Fabian Núñez (D-46)
Speaker pro Tempore Leland Yee, Ph.D. (D-12)
Assistant Speaker pro Tempore Sally J. Lieber (D-22)
Majority Floor Leader Dario Frommer (D-43)
Minority Floor Leader Michael Villines (R-29) from November 10, 2006
George A. Plescia (R-75) from April 17, 2006 to November 10, 2006
Kevin McCarthy (R-32) to April 17, 2006
Chief Clerk E. Dotson Wilson
Sergeant at Arms Ronald Pane
Note: The Chief Clerk and the Sergeant at Arms are not Members of the Legislature

Full List of Members, 2005-2006

* Ted Lieu won the September 13, 2005 special election (and was sworn in on September 21, 2005) for the 53rd Assembly District seat to replace Mike Gordon, who died on June 25, 2005, due to a brain tumor.
* Assemblyman Tom Harman won the June 6, 2006 special election for the 35th District seat in the California State Senate and resigned from the Assembly (and was sworn into the Senate) on June 12, 2006. He would have been term limited at the end of 2006.

See also
 List of California state legislatures

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Nayakudu Vinayakudu

Nayakudu Vinayakudu is a 1980 Telugu comedy film, produced by A. V. Subba Rao under the Prasad Art Productions banner and directed by K. Pratyagatma. It stars Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Jayalalitha in the lead roles and music composed by T. Chalapathi Rao.

It is noted for being the last film of the career of Jayalalithaa as it released after the Tamil film Nadhiyai Thedi Vandha Kadal. It is the last film for which Jayalalithaa ever came for shooting and worked as lead heroine and also her last film in Telugu. This was the last film directed by K. Pratyagatma at the age of 60. The film was recorded as a Blockbuster at the box office.

Plot
Chiranjeevi (Akkineni Nageswara Rao) a Ph.D. scholar & student union leader loves a charming girl Vasantha (Jayalalitha), daughter of Municipal Chairman Vinayaka Rao (Rao Gopal Rao). Vinayaka Rao is a deceitful person who perpetrates anti-social activities in the veil of social welfare and illicitly siphons off the public. Chiranjeevi always opposes his misdeeds, keeping the grudge in mind, Vinayaka Rao grabs Chiranjeevi's brother-in-law Shekar (Lakshmikanth) into his clutches, makes him to desert his wife and compels to get Rs.50,000 for his business. Here helpless, Chiranjeevi decides to sell their ancestors property. During that process, he stays a night at an old building where he acquires magical statuette which grants any wish. Through it, Chiranjeevi effectuates so many wonders and makes fun of Vinayaka Rao. Soon, he realizes all this was his dream and returns. By the time, Shekar is defrauded by Vinayaka Rao, realizes his mistake and pleads pardon from Chiranjeevi. At the point in time, Municipal elections are declared when Chiranjeevi contests against Vinayaka Rao and overthrows him. At last, Chiranjeevi ceases Vinayaka Rao's criminal acts, retain a semblance of order and peace in the society. Finally, the movie ends on a happy note with the marriage of Chiranjeevi & Vasantha.

Cast
Akkineni Nageshwara Rao as Chiranjeevi
Jayalalithaa as Vasantha
Rao Gopal Rao as Vinayaka Rao
P. L. Narayana as Viswasam
Saradhi as Hanumanthu
Sakshi Ranga Rao as Panthulu
Lakshmikanth as Shekar
Jaya Bhaskar as Shankaram
Vankala Satyanarayana as Janaki Ramudu
Arjaa Jannardhan Rao as Mallaiah
Manju Bhargavi as Sivaranjani
Roja Ramani as Madhumathi
Pushpalata as Chiranjeevi's mother

Crew
Art: G. V. Subba Rao
Choreography: Pasumarthi, Sampath, Saleem
Story - Dialogues: C. S. Rao
Lyrics: Acharya Aatreya, C. Narayana Reddy, Kosaraju
Playback: SP Balu, S. Janaki, P. Susheela, Madhapeddi Ramesh, Vijayalakshmi Sarma
Music: T. Chalapathi Rao
Editing: J. Krishna Swamy, Balu
Cinematography: P. S. Selvaraj
Producer: A. V. Subba Rao
Screenplay - Director: K. Pratyagatma
Banner: Prasad Art Productions
Release Date: 1 February 1980

Soundtrack

Music composed by T. Chalapathi Rao. Music released on Audio Company.

References

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Gregory Choniades

Gregory Choniades (also Choniates, Chioniades; ; c. 1240 – c. 1320) was a Byzantine Greek astronomer. He traveled to Persia, where he learned Persian mathematical and astronomical science, which he introduced into Byzantium upon return from Persia and founded an astronomical academy at Trebizond. Choniades also served as Orthodox Bishop in Tabriz.

Biography
Information about Choniades survives from some contemporary sources.  In 1347, George Chrysokokkes writes that "a certain Chioniades, who had been raised in Constantinople, fell in love with mathematics and other sciences.  After he had mastered medicine, he wished to study astronomy; he was informed that in order to satisfy his desire, he would have to go to Persia (then under Ilkhanate rule).  He traveled to Trebizond, where he was given some assistance by the Emperor Alexios II of Trebizond, and thence proceeded to Persia itself, where he persuaded yet another Emperor to aid him.  He eventually learned all that he wished to know, and returned to Trebizond, bearing away from Persia a number of astronomical texts which he translated into Greek."

Sixteen of Choniades' letters have survived, which confirm that he received assistance from Alexios II and traveled to Persia. Choniades translated a number of Arabic and Persian works on mathematics and astronomy, including the astronomical tables of his teacher Ajall Shams al-Din Omar, who had worked at the famous Maragheh observatory under the polymath Nasir al-Din al-Tusi. Choniades played an important role in transmitting several innovations from the Islamic world to Europe. These include the introduction of the universal latitude-independent astrolabe to Europe and a Greek description of the Tusi-couple, which would later have an influence on Copernican heliocentrism. Choniades also translated several Zij treatises into Greek, including the Persian Zij-i Ilkhani by al-Tusi and the Maragheh observatory as well as the Seljuk Sanjaric Tables by Al-Khazini, an Islamic astronomer of Byzantine Greek descent.

Choniades resided in Tabriz, at the time the Mongol capital, from 1295 to 1296, serving as the Orthodox Bishop to the Orthodox living in that city, and later returned to Constantinople. In 1302 he returned to Tabriz as Bishop. According to David Pingree, this may have been in connection with Andronikos II Palaiologos's attempt to form an alliance with Ghazan Khan in the summer of 1302.

He died at Trebizond, probably in the second decade of the fourteenth century.

Notes

Further reading
 Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw "The Early Palaeologan Renaissance 1261 - C. 1360" 2000
 Westerink L. G. "La profession de foi de Grégoire Chioniadès", Revue des études byzantines, 38 (1980), pp. 233–245. Persee website
 Zehiroğlu, A.M. "Astronomy in the Trebizond Empire", (2016)

External links
 Leichter, Joseph (student of David Pingree)."The Zij as-Sanjari of Gregory Chioniades: Text, Translation and Greek to Arabic Glossary".
  (PDF version)

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2009 Lahore police academy attacks

At 07:31 on 30 March 2009, the Manawan Police Academy in Lahore, Pakistan, was attacked by an estimated 12 gunmen. The perpetrators were armed with automatic weapons and grenades or rockets and some were dressed as policemen. They took over the main building during a morning parade when 750 unarmed police recruits were present on the compound's parade ground. Police forces arrived 90 minutes later and were able to take back the building by 15:30. Five trainees, two instructors and a passer-by were killed. A suspect was captured alive in a field near the school. Three of the attackers blew themselves up to avoid arrest while three others were taken into custody as they tried to escape in police uniforms. The four were taken to undisclosed locations for interrogation by the security forces according to local media.

Initial attacks

The Manawan Police Academy is a training school of the Pakistan Police located on the outskirts of Lahore. At around 07:30 at least 12 gunmen, some dressed in police uniform, attacked the academy during the morning drill hour when around 750 unarmed police recruits were on parade. The gunmen apparently gained access to the site by scaling the perimeter wall before causing three or four explosions on the parade ground, using grenades or rockets, and opening fire with automatic weapons. Several civilians on the road adjacent to the compound were hit by fire from the gunmen apparently when the gunmen attacked a police guard detachment near to a gate.

The academy had only been in a peacetime defensive stance and probably contained just a small armoury of outdated weapons. The attackers proceeded across the parade ground and stormed the academy building, taking hostages from the police trainees and establishing three or four defensive positions including one on the rooftop.

Siege

Elite Forces of Punjab Police arrived on the site within 90 minutes of the attack and were cheered on by a crowd of spectators. The security forces took up position on rooftops around the compound, firing on the gunmen and sealing off any escape routes. The gunmen returned fire with automatic weaponry and grenades and also shot at a police helicopter. Several hours into the attack security forces used explosives to storm the building and retake it from the gunmen after ten to fifteen minutes of sustained firing, capturing the building by 15:30. During the course of the attack and siege eight police personnel, two civilians and eight gunmen were killed and 95 people injured. At least four of the gunmen have been captured alive by the security forces.

A curfew was imposed in the area surrounding the academy. Several hundred civilians poured in from close by localities to watch the operation despite the ‘curfew-like’ conditions in the area. Elite forces declared victory signs on completion of the successful operation. Punjab Police resorted to aerial firing and chanted slogans of Allahu Akbar after the siege successfully ended and hostages were freed and at least three of the would-be suicide bombers were caught alive.

Claims of responsibility

Baitullah Mehsud
The leader of Tehrik-i-Taliban, Baitullah Mehsud took responsibility for the attack. "Yes, we have carried out this attack. I will give details later," Mehsud, an al Qaeda-linked leader based in the Waziristan tribal region told Reuters by telephone. He also said that his next target would be Washington D.C., US.

Mehsud was also accused by the government of Pakistan for carrying out the attack that killed popular Pakistani political leader, Benazir Bhutto in December 2007.

Fedayeen al-Islam
Fedayeen al-Islam, a previously unknown group, claimed responsibility for the assault and added that it would carry out more attacks unless Pakistani troops withdraw from the tribal areas near the Afghan border and the end of US drone attacks in the country.

Arrests
A person named Hijratullah, believed to be part of the group of attackers, was apprehended by local citizens when he was seen hiding in the nearby fields at first and then moving slowly towards the rescue helicopters with two grenades in his hand. He was confirmed by authorities as a resident of Paktika province of Afghanistan. Authorities also confirmed later to have arrested 3 more attackers after the Rangers forced them to lay down their arms. Another gunman Hazrat Gull of Miranshah in Waziristan was also arrested. Ten suspects belonging to a religious organisation were arrested from Sukkur.
Police also arrested Qari Ishtiaq, who was said to be the commander of the Punjabi Taliban. He was arrested from Bahawalpur on the information provided by the Hijratullah who was jailed for 10 years due to his role. Seven other militants were arrested from different parts of Punjab based on his information.

Reaction
Pakistan – Pakistan's President, Asif Ali Zardari, and Prime Minister, Yousuf Raza Gilani, both condemned the attacks.

Interior Minister, Rehman Malik, placed security services on high alert across the country and pointed the finger at extremist groups and hinted Indian involvement. Further he stated that fighters loyal to Baitullah Mehsud were believed to have carried out the attack. Rehman Malik said that all these terrorist outfits were receiving weapons and funds from outside the country. He said "Some rival country, or some hostile Intelligence agency is definitely out to destabilise our democratic forces". He said the attack was impeccably planned.

See also
 Violence in Pakistan 2006–09, table and map providing overview of all violence in Pakistan between 2006 and 2009.

References

External links
 Photo Gallery of the Police Academy Attack

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Phillip Tracey

Phillip John Tracey is a quadriplegic Australian Paralympic swimmer.  At the 1984 New York/Stoke Mandeville Paralympics, he won a bronze medal in the Men's 100 m Freestyle 1A event. He won three silver medals at the 1988 Seoul Games in the Men's 100 m Freestyle 1A, Men's 25 m Backstroke 1A and Men's 50 m Freestyle 1A events. He competed in swimming without winning a medal at the 1992 Barcelona Paralympics,. He was from Murrumbeena, Victoria  and 34 at the time of the Games.

In 2002, Tracey in a specially designed wheelchair for paragliding had a paraglider flight Mystic near Bright, Victoria. This was a first paraglider flight for a quadriplegic. At the time, Tracey was Chairman of Wheelchair Sports Victoria.

References

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Augustin Royer

Augustin Royer was a French architect who lived in the time of Louis XIV.

In 1679 he published a star map; in addition to the 48 constellations of Ptolemy, and the additions of more recent astronomers such as Plancius, he added two constellations of his own, in honour of his patron, Louis XIV; Lilium (the Lily, representing the emblem of France) and Sceptrum et Manus Iustitiae (the Sceptre and the Hand of Justice, depicting the regal symbols).

Neither of these constellations has survived to the modern system.

Royer is often named as the creator of the constellation Columba (the Dove) by splitting off part of the constellation Canis Major, and the constellation Crux (the Southern Cross) with stars from Centaurus but these were in fact already formed (and depicted) in 1589 and in 1592 by Petrus Plancius.

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Sylian Mokono

Sylian Aldren Mokono (born 22 March 1999) is a Dutch football player of South African descent. He plays for Jong FC Utrecht.

Club career
He made his Eerste Divisie debut for Jong FC Utrecht on 27 August 2018 in a game against NEC, as a 63rd-minute substitute for Rick Mulder.

References

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Ahmad Afghan

Ahmad Afghan (born 15 February 1970) is an Iranian wrestler. He competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics.

References

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Nordica

Nordica may refer to:

Companies

 Nordica (airline), an Estonian airline
 Nordica (company), a manufacturer of skis, ski boots, and accessories for skiing

People

 Lillian Nordica, an American operatic soprano

Ships and boats

 MS Stena Nordica, the name of various Stena Line ships, including:
 MS Stena Nordica (2004), built in 2000 as the MS European Ambassador
 MS Regina Pacis, built 1979, named Stena Nordica from 1988 to 1996
Nordica 16, a sailboat design from 1820
 , a Liberty ship launched 1944, scrapped 1965, named after the soprano

See also


Miyankuh-e Sharqi Rural District

Miyankuh-e Sharqi Rural District () is a rural district (dehestan) in Mamulan District, Pol-e Dokhtar County, Lorestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 4,907, in 1,038 families.  The rural district has 44 villages.

References

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Osyris compressa

Osyris compressa (Cape sumach or pruimbos) is a facultatively hemiparasitic, mainly South African plant of the sandalwood family, Santalaceae. Until recently, the favoured  binomial name was Colpoon compressum, but around 2001, the genus Colpoon was included in Osyris on the basis of comparative DNA studies.
That assignment is not final, however, and according to the Kew Gardens plant list, Colpoon compressum P.J.Bergius, though still in review, is the accepted name.

Distribution and description
Cape sumach is a shrub or small tree of up to 5 m tall, though a more typical size for a plant growing in the open would be 2 to 3 m. The leaves are opposite, decussate, blue-green with a greyish bloom, elliptical, smooth, stiff, typically about 20–50 mm long, with thickened, entire margins.  The inflorescence is a terminal panicle, bearing small, slightly fragrant, bisexual flowers. The flowers are creamy-green and unspectacular, but they appear through much of the year, attracting pollinating insects of various types. The ovary has four ovules, but the fruit is a single-seeded drupe, a prolate spheroid in shape. It is about 15 to 25 mm long and perhaps 10 to 15 mm across. The drupe is fleshy with a smooth skin crowned with the perianth lobes in a ring around its tip. Usually by the time the fruit is ripe, a circular groove is all that remains of the perianth. The fruit are colourful, progressing first from greenish blue to bright red, and then to glossy purple or black as they ripen; they mature at different rates, so the successive colours can be quite showy in combination.

The species is mainly South African, occurring from the coastal fynbos in the region of the Cape Peninsula in the west, along the south coast and north into tropical East Africa.

Reproduction and ecology
O. compressa is a tough and adaptable plant. It can withstand frost, heat and winds. It grows fast and survives in poor, sandy soils, even in coastal dunes, where it may play a significant role as a windbreak and in binding sand.  Being monoecious, and with bisexual flowers, and both cross-pollinating and self-fertile, the species produces fertile seeds prolifically. It begins to bear fruit when quite young, and it seeds plentifully practically throughout the year. The fruit attracts a range of birds and mammals that spread the seed effectively.

Like many members of the family Santalaceae, it exploits a facultative hemiparasitic ecological strategy to supplement its nutrient supplies, especially in dry conditions or poor soils. Its roots form haustoria that tap into the roots of nearby plants and extract their sap. Although these plants can grow without a host, this habit helps them to flourish in relatively poor coastal sands, and they need hosts if they are to grow at their best. In this respect, O. compressa resembles some other hemiparasites in related families such as Nuytsia floribunda in the Loranthaceae.

Being parasitic does not protect O. compressa from other parasites; several species of mistletoe in the genus  Viscum (currently recognised as members of the same family as Osyris) often parasitise its branches. Also, given it is a root parasite, it in turn may be host to another root parasite in the same family, Thesidium fragile, and possibly related species. It is not clear which, if either, of these rival root parasites benefits from the other when their roots meet.

Being a densely leaved shrub with plentiful, if inconspicuous, flowers and edible fruit, O. compressa is of importance as a shelter and food plant for many animals. Of these probably the best-known is the butterfly Mylothris agathina, a member of the family Pieridae.

Cultivation
This plant is popular in coastal gardens as an ornamental. It grows in coastal dunes and because of its vigorous and compact growth habit, it can be shaped into a dense hedge. It also produces attractive multicoloured berries throughout the year that are ornamental and attract frugivorous birds.
Osyris compressa has been grown in programs to stabilize coastal dunes.

The leaves and bark used to be valued for tanning. The wood is high-quality and fine-grained, but the plant seldom produces trunks or limbs large enough for most uses. Although not much active cultivation of the plant occurs, it seems to be of interest as a source of incense and essential oil in much the same way as sandalwood.

The flesh of the berries is edible and formed part of the diet of the local Khoikhoi, both fresh and preserved as the dried pulp. It shows little promise as a popular fruit for westerners, however, having a "tingly sour taste", according to some reports. Others however describe it as "plum-like", and the Afrikaans name pruimbos means "plum bush".  An extract from the boiled bark has been used to flavour tea.

Osyris compressa can be propagated by seed.

References

External links
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2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 1500 metres

The  men's 1500 metres at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium between 15–19 August. Among the favoured athletes in the event were defending champion Bernard Lagat, European champion Mehdi Baala, and the Kenyan season leaders Asbel Kiprop, Haron Keitany and Augustine Choge.

All the favoured athletes progressed through a series of tactically-run heats on the first day of competition, with Baala, Kiprop, Choge and Deresse Mekonnen the four race winners. Moroccan Amine Laalou won the first semi-final, followed by Americans Lopez Lomong and Lagat, while Kiprop and Leonel Manzano both finished quickly to take the top two qualifying spots in the second race. The only high-profile athlete to be eliminated in the semi-finals was Keitany, who did not start, putting an end to any hopes of a Kenyan medal sweep.

The final race began slowly and, as the athletes reached the last lap, they remained in a tight pack led by Mekonnen. Choge and Mohamed Moustaoui closely followed as he approached the final straight, but the race remained open. Yusuf Saad Kamel took the lead in the final straight, scoring a surprise gold medal. Mekonnen maintained his pace to take the silver medal and defending champion Lagat had a quick burst near the finish to win the bronze. Kiprop, one of the pre-race favourites, left himself too much ground to cover, eventually ending up fourth, with Choge and Baala alongside him.

Bahrain's Kamel, born in Kenya as Gregory Konchellah, followed in the footsteps of his father Billy Konchellah, who won the 800 m at the 1987 and 1991 World Championships. Mekonnen's silver was Ethiopia's first ever World Championship medal in the 1500 m. Lagat's bronze was his third in the 1500 m, after his silver in 2001 and a gold in 2007.

Medalists

Records

Qualification standards

Schedule

Results

Heats
Qualification: First 5 in each heat(Q) and the next 4 fastest(q) advance to the semifinal.

Key:  PB = Personal best, Q = qualification by place in heat, q = qualification by overall place, SB = Seasonal best

Semifinals
Qualification: First 5 in each semifinal(Q) and the next 2 fastest(q) advance to the final.

Final

References
General
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Phil for Short

Phil for Short is a 1919 American silent comedy film directed by Oscar Apfel and starring Evelyn Greeley. It was produced and distributed by World Film Company.

Cast
Evelyn Greeley as Damophilia Illington
Charles Walcott as Professor Illington
James Furey as Pat Mehan
Jack Drumier as Donald MacWrath
Ann Egelston as Eliza MacWrath
Hugh Thompson as John Alden
Henrietta Simpson as Mrs. Alden
Ethel Grey Terry as Angelica Wentworth
Edward Arnold as Tom Wentworth
John Adrizani as Ivanovitch
Tony Merlo as Clifford Brown
Florence Short as Prudence
Henry Hallam as President of College

Preservation status
A copy is housed in the Library of Congress collection.

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Miriam Braverman

Miriam Ruth Gutman Braverman (1920-2002) was an American librarian. She attended library school at Pratt Institute. She was part of the socialist movement in the 1940s and 1950s. In the 1960s she set up libraries in Freedom Schools in Mississippi, and she worked at the Brooklyn Public Library beginning in 1964. She was also one of the founders of the American Library Association's Social Responsibilities Round Table, which was founded in 1969. She wrote a history of young adult services at three public libraries, titled Youth, Society and the Public Library (1979). She was a leader in the fight which led to the American Library Association condemning the Vietnam War. She taught at the School of Library Services of Columbia University (from which she earned her doctorate) until 1982.
In 1982 she conducted a study which led to the creation of the Langston Hughes Library and Cultural Center in Queens.
She was a member of the Progressive Librarians Guild, and joined their Coordinating Committee during the last year she was alive.

The Miriam Braverman Memorial Prize is named after her.

On Friday, December 8, 2006 Major Owens of New York praised her on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives.  Owens referred to her as a “Great Point-of-Light for all Americans…a great humanitarian as well as a Librarian…, who understood that the power of information was continually escalating… as an advocate in the classroom and a fighter on the street.”

Bibliography
Teenage reading and the public library (1963)
Public library and the young adult : the development of the service and its philosophy in the New York Public Library, Cleveland Public Library, and Enoch Pratt Free Library (1974)
Young adults : not too distant, not too dim (1976)
Youth, society, and the public library (1978)
Langston Hughes, from experiment to institution : final report (1982)
The Classical shape : decorated pottery of the ancient world (1984)

Further reading
"On the Picket Line with Miriam," by John Berry, Library Journal 127 no.19 (2002): 8.

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Bagar, Pauri Garhwal

Bagar is a small village in Pauri Garhwal district in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. The population of Bagar is around 1,275, 644 being male, and 631 being female; 247 children, ages 0 to 6, live there as of 2011. Literacy rates run around an average of 53.4%, with 66.8% for men and 40.12% for women. Bagar covers a wide geographical area of 155.22 hectares.

The main source of income is agriculture. The village has a primary and secondary school, which is common for many villages around. Few children attend the school because of migration of citizens to nearby towns and cities. Children go to Rikhnikhal / Siddhkhal for senior schooling.

There are two temples there which resemble Mata Sherawali Mandir.

References

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1974–75 League Cup (rugby league)

This was the fourth season for the League Cup, which was again known as the Players No.6 Trophy for sponsorship reasons.

Bradford Northern won the trophy by beating Widnes by the score of 3-2. The final was played at Wilderspool, Warrington. The attendance was 5,935 and receipts were £3305.

Background
This season saw no changes in the  entrants, no new members and no withdrawals, the number remaining at eighteen.
For the  first time in the competition, there were no drawn matches.

Competition and results

Round 1 - First round
Involved 16 matches and 32 clubs

Round 2 - Second round
Involved  8 matches and 16 clubs

Round 3 -Quarterfinals
Involved 4 matches with 8 clubs

Round 4 – Semifinals
Involved 2 matches and 4 clubs

Final

Teams and scorers

Scoring - Try = three (3) points - Goal = two (2) points - Drop goal = one (1) point

Timeline in the final

Prize money
As part of the sponsorship deal and funds, the  prize money awarded to the competing teams for this season is as follows :-

Note - the  author is unable to trace the  rest of the  award amounts. Can anyone help ?

Notes and comments
1 * The News of The World/Empire News annual 1975–76 gives the score as 15-10 but others including The John Player Yearbook 1975–76 give it as 15-6
2 * Lock Lane are a Junior (amateur) club from Castleford
3 * The John Player Yearbook 1975–76 gives the attendance as 1,000 but the Rothmans Rugby League Yearbooks 1990-91 and 1991-92, and RUGBYLEAGUEproject and Wigan official archives give it as 537
4 * Wigan official archives gives the  score as 12-6 but The News of The World/Empire News annual 1975–76, RUGBYLEAGUEproject and The John Player Yearbook 1975–76 gives it as 12-8
5 * Kippax White Swan are a Junior (amateur) club from Castleford
6 * The John Player Yearbook 1975–76 gives the attendance as 513 but Rothmans Rugby League Yearbooks 1990-91 and 1991-92  and RUGBYLEAGUEproject give it as 453
7 * The News of The World/Empire News annual 1975–76, Wigan official archives and RUGBYLEAGUEproject  give the score as 21-14   but The John Player Yearbook 1975–76 give it as 22-14
8 * Hull F.C. official website shows Hull playing away at Leeds in December in the JPT, an obvious error
9 * Swinton No 8 Brian Butler was sent off in the 36th minute for "interfering in a tackle by Green on David Hill" and Wigan hooker Colin Clarke was sent off in the 6th minute for dissent.
10 * The News of The World/Empire News annual 1975–76 gives the score as 13-6  but Wigan official archives,  RUGBYLEAGUEproject and The John Player Yearbook 1975–76  give it as 33-6
11 * The News of The World/Empire News annual 1975–76 gives the score as 13-6  but Wigan official archives,  RUGBYLEAGUEproject and The John Player Yearbook 1975–76  give it as 33-6
13  * Wilderspool was the home ground of Warrington from 1883 to the end of the 2003 Summer season when they moved into the new purpose built Halliwell Jones Stadium. Wilderspool remained as a sports/Ruugby League ground and is/was used by Woolston Rovers/Warrington Wizards junior club.
The ground had a final capacity of 9,000 although the record attendance was set in a Challenge cup third round match on 13 March 1948 when 34,304 spectators saw Warrington lose to Wigan 10-13.

General information for those unfamiliar
The council of the Rugby Football League voted to introduce a new competition, to be similar to The Football Association and Scottish Football Association's "League Cup". It was to be a similar knock-out structure to, and to be secondary to, the Challenge Cup. As this was being formulated, sports sponsorship was becoming more prevalent and as a result John Player and Sons, a division of Imperial Tobacco Company, became sponsors, and the competition never became widely known as the "League Cup"
The competition ran from 1971–72 until 1995-96 and was initially intended for the professional clubs plus the two amateur BARLA National Cup finalists. In later seasons the entries were expanded to take in other amateur and French teams. The competition was dropped due to "fixture congestion" when Rugby League became a summer sport
The Rugby League season always (until the onset of "Summer Rugby" in 1996) ran from around August-time through to around May-time and this competition always took place early in the season, in the Autumn, with the final usually taking place in late January
The competition was variably known, by its sponsorship name, as the Player's No.6 Trophy (1971–1977), the John Player Trophy (1977–1983), the John Player Special Trophy (1983–1989), and the Regal Trophy in 1989.

See also
1974–75 Northern Rugby Football League season
1974 Lancashire Cup
1974 Yorkshire Cup
Player's No.6 Trophy
Rugby league county cups

References

External links
Saints Heritage Society
1896–97 Northern Rugby Football Union season at wigan.rlfans.com
Hull&Proud Fixtures & Results 1896/1897
Widnes Vikings - One team, one passion Season In Review - 1896-97
The Northern Union at warringtonwolves.org
Huddersfield R L Heritage
Wakefield until I die

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Doctor Atomic

Doctor Atomic is an opera by the contemporary American composer John Adams, with libretto by Peter Sellars. It premiered at the San Francisco Opera on October 1, 2005. The work focuses on the great stress and anxiety experienced by those at Los Alamos while the test of the first atomic bomb (the "Trinity" test) was being prepared. In 2007, a documentary was made about the creation of the opera, titled Wonders Are Many.

Composition history
The first act takes place about a month before the bomb is to be tested, and the second act is set in the early morning of July 16, 1945 (the day of the test). During the second act, time frequently slows down for the characters and then snaps back into reality. The opera ends in the final, prolonged moment before the bomb is detonated. Although the original commission for the opera suggested that U.S. physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the "father of the atomic bomb," be fashioned as a 20th-century Doctor Faustus, Adams and Sellars deliberately attempted to avoid this characterization. Alice Goodman worked for two years with Adams on the project before leaving, objecting to the characterization of Edward Teller, as dictated by the original commission.

The work centers on key players in the Manhattan Project, especially Robert Oppenheimer, General Leslie Groves, and also features Kitty Oppenheimer, Robert's wife. Sellars adapted the libretto from primary historical sources.

Doctor Atomic is similar in style to previous Adams operas Nixon in China and The Death of Klinghoffer, both of which explored the characters and personalities that were involved in historical incidents, rather than a re-enactment of the events themselves.

Libretto
Much of the text from the opera was adapted from declassified U.S. government documents and communications among the scientists, government officials, and military personnel who were involved in the project. Other borrowed texts include poetry by Charles Baudelaire and Muriel Rukeyser, the Holy Sonnets of John Donne, quotes from the Bhagavad Gita, and a traditional Tewa Indian song.

Opening chorus

Marvin Cohen, professor of physics at UC Berkeley and president of the American Physical Society at the time, criticized some parts of the libretto for not being strictly scientifically correct, in particular the original opening lines which were excerpted from the 1945 Smyth Report:
"Matter can be neither created nor destroyed but only altered in form.
Energy can be neither created nor destroyed but only altered in form."

Following Cohen's criticism, Adams rewrote the opening chorus, so that it now reads:
We believed that
"Matter can be neither
created nor destroyed
but only altered in form."
We believed that
"Energy can be neither
created nor destroyed
but only altered in form."
But now we know that
energy may become matter,
and now we know that
matter may become energy
and thus be altered in form.

Conclusion of act 1

The aria, sung by Oppenheimer, uses text from Donne's Holy Sonnet XIV:
Batter my heart, three person’d God; For you
As yet but knock, breathe, knock, breathe, knock, breathe
Shine, and seek to mend;
Batter my heart, three person’d God;
That I may rise, and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend
Your force, to break, blow, break, blow, break, blow
burn and make me new.

I, like an usurpt town, to another due,
Labor to admit you, but Oh, to no end,
Reason your viceroy in me, me should defend,
But is captiv’d, and proves weak or untrue,
Yet dearly I love you, and would be lov’d fain,
But am betroth’d unto your enemy,
Divorce me, untie, or break that knot again,
Take me to you, imprison me, for I
Except you enthrall me, never shall be free,
Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.

The act 2, scene iii chorus

This was borrowed from the Bhagavad Gita (translated into English by Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood) and reads:
At the sight of this, your Shape stupendous,
Full of mouths and eyes, feet, thighs and bellies,
Terrible with fangs, O master,
All the worlds are fear-struck, even just as I am.

When I see you, Vishnu, omnipresent,
Shouldering the sky, in hues of rainbow,
With your mouths agape and flame-eyes staring—
All my peace is gone; my heart is troubled.

Act 2 traditional Tewa song

This act is peppered with a repeated refrain from Pasqualita, the Oppenheimers' Tewa Indian housemaid. The text comes from a traditional Tewa song, and subsequent reiterations repeat the text with the direction changed to west, east, and south:
In the north the cloud-flower blossoms
And now the lightning flashes
And now the thunder clashes
And now the rain comes down! A-a-aha, a-a-aha, my little one.

Performance history

Subsequent productions
In June 2007 this production made its European première at De Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam. It then opened in December 2007 at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, again directed by Sellars, with Finley and Owens reprising their roles. Adams and Sellars made "some significant changes" to the opera and production in response to feedback from the San Francisco, Amsterdam, and Chicago productions.

A new production of the opera, directed by the film director Penny Woolcock and conducted by Alan Gilbert, was performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in October 2008 and was part of the Metropolitan Opera Live in HD series on November 8, 2008. The assistant conductor for this production was also Donato Cabrera. The HD video of the production was later televised nationally on PBS as well, in the Great Performances at the Met series. On January 17, 2009, the Met production of the opera was heard on NPR as part of the Saturday afternoon Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts. Penny Woolcock's production was restaged by the English National Opera in London, February 25 to March 20, 2009 with Gerald Finley reprising his portrayal of the lead.

Roles

Adams had written the role of Kitty Oppenheimer for the mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson. However, she was unable to commit to the project due to her health (she died soon after the work premiered). The work was sung in the world premiere by mezzo Kristine Jepson. For the second major production, at De Nederlandse Opera, Adams reworked the role for a soprano, Jessica Rivera. For the Metropolitan Opera Premiere, the role was again sung by a mezzo, Sasha Cooke.

Doctor Atomic Symphony
In 2007, Adams adapted the opera into the Doctor Atomic Symphony. Music was taken from the overture, various interludes and orchestral settings were made of arias like Oppenheimer's signature "Batter My Heart." The work was first premiered by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and conducted by the composer on August 21, 2007, at a BBC Proms concert. The work was later performed at Carnegie Hall in Spring 2008. Originally composed in four movements and lasting 45 minutes, the symphony was revised by Adams to just three movements (played without a break) and 25 minutes' length. This version was recorded in 2008 by the St. Louis Symphony, conducted by David Robertson and released by Nonesuch Records on July 20, 2009.

Recordings
2008: DVD widescreen DTS sound; or Blu-ray widescreen Dolby True HD sound  with Gerald Finley as J. Robert Oppenheimer; conductor: Lawrence Renes; Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus; Studio: Opus Arte
2012: Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording-winning audio recording with Gilbert, Finley, Cooke, Fink, Glenn, Metropolitan Opera, 2008 Sony
2018: Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording-Nominated  Official audio recording with Gerald Finley, Julia Bullock, Jennifer Johnston, Brindley Sherratt, Andrew Staples, Marcus Farnsworth, Aubrey Allicock, BBC singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra, John Adams, 2018 Nonesuch Records

See also

Copenhagen, a play by Michael Frayn about a 1941 meeting of Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg in Copenhagen

References

External links
Doctor Atomic, John Adams' website
Synopsis, Metropolitan Opera
The Making of the Doctor Atomic Libretto – Details the sources and quotes in the libretto
Detailed synopsis
Scene-by-scene plot
The characters
Historical Personalities of Doctor Atomic
The Manhattan Project
Doctor Atomic reviews from ionarts
"Doctor Atomic: Commentary on an Opera" the San Francisco Exploratorium
Wonders Are Many (2007 documentary), the making of the opera and preparation for its San Francisco debut ()
Essay for Metropolitan Opera production by Thomas May
Doctor Atomic symposium at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Voices of the Manhattan Project, from the New York Times

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Chiswell Islands

The Chiswell Islands are a group of rocky, uninhabited islands, accessible only by boat or airplane, within the Kenai Peninsula Borough of Alaska in the Gulf of Alaska. These islands are 35 miles south of Seward, Alaska. They are part of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge and an important bird sanctuary. The area is very active seismically and evidence of this can be seen in the rugged landscape, a rough hewn landscape that has also been carved by high tides and rough seas. These island appear to rise vertically out of the sea; there are no horizontal beaches. Starfish, barnacles and other sea life that thrive in a rocky habitat are abundant. The islands are inhabited by millions of marine birds and mammals  and is the location of a small rookery of endangered Steller sea lions.

Every year   millions of birds of various species nest on the refuge islands. Birds that nest on these islands include horned puffins, black-legged kittiwakes (which nest on the exposed rock face of cliffs), tufted puffins and various auklets such as Cassin's auklet and the whiskered auklet.

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Moringuidae

The Moringuidae are a small family of eels commonly known as spaghetti eels or worm eels, although the latter name is also shared with other families of eels.

Moringuid eels are found in shallow tropical waters worldwide. They range from about  to  in length, and have very narrow, cylindrical bodies, giving rise to their common name.

The family contains 14 species in its two genera.

References

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New Mexico State Road 556

New Mexico State Road 556 (NM 556) is a  state highway entirely within Bernalillo County, New Mexico. For most of its length, NM 556 is signed as Tramway Boulevard in Albuquerque, although from I-25 to its northern terminus at NM 47, NM 556 is signed as Roy Road. The highway's southern terminus is at an intersection with NM 333 and Historic U.S. Route 66 (Historic US 66), or Central Avenue. The highway then moves north intersecting with Interstate 40 (I-40). The highway is a divided four-lane road until its intersection with Tramway Road. After that, the highway narrows to two lanes and takes a westerly turn to intersect with I-25. The highway's northern terminus is at an intersection with NM 47.

Route description

State Road 556 begins at Tramway Boulevard's intersection with Central Avenue, which carries NM 333 and is also the historic route of US 66. NM 556 proceeds north from this intersection, passing through a half-diamond interchange with Interstate 40. The route travels north through the northeastern areas of Albuquerque, along the base of the Sandia Mountains. This portion of the route is a four-lane divided expressway with a speed limit of 55 mph. It eventually intersects Paseo del Norte (NM 423), a major east-west arterial through northern Albuquerque, before coming to a stop sign at Tramway Road, which provides access to the Sandia Peak Tramway. Here, NM 556 becomes a two-lane undivided road and turns to the west as Tramway Road. After crossing Interstate 25, the name of the route changes to Roy Road. Shortly thereafter, NM 556 comes to an end at its junction with NM 47.

Major intersections

See also

References

External links

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David Lloyd Owen

Major General David Lanyon Lloyd Owen  (10 October 1917 – 5 April 2001) was a British soldier and writer. During the Second World War he commanded the Long Range Desert Group.

Early life and military career
Born in Hampton, in the county of Middlesex, England, on 10 October 1917, David Lloyd-Owen, the son of Captain Reginald Charles Lloyd-Owen, was educated at Winchester College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Upon passing out from the latter, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) on 27 January 1938. He was with the 2nd Battalion of his regiment, then commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Robert Ross, in Palestine during the Arab revolt. Among Lloyd Owen's fellow officers in the battalion was Michael Forrester, another future major general. He later served in the Western Desert from 1939 to July 1941, during World War II, when he joined the Long Range Desert Group (LRDG).

World War II
He took part in a number of operations, including the SAS raid on Tobruk in August/September 1942, which earned him the Military Cross. He was wounded in an air raid on the LRDG base at Kufra in October 1942 and nearly lost an arm. He rejoined the LRDG in February 1943, when they underwent training in Lebanon before being sent to the Aegean.

He took command of the LRDG at the end of 1943 after the death of his predecessor Jake Easonsmith during the Battle of Leros.  He based himself at Bari in southern Italy from which he mounted a successful raid on Corfu and staged operations in the Dalmatian islands and Yugoslavia. In September 1944, he was parachuted into Albania at night. Shortly after landing he fell 30 ft into a ravine and severely damaged his spine.

Despite being in continual pain, Lloyd Owen directed special forces operations in the mountains for the next three months. Eventually he was evacuated to Italy, was successfully operated on, and told not to return to his former activities. He managed to bluff his way past a medical board and returned to Albania, although this time by boat. The LRDG was eventually disbanded in June 1945. For his leadership in the Balkans, Lloyd Owen was awarded the Distinguished Service Order that year.

Post-War
After the war, he had various appointments in Britain, including a period on the staff at Sandhurst. In 1952, he was appointed Military Assistant to the High Commissioner in Malaya. He then commanded the 1st Battalion of the Queen's Royal Regiment from 1957 to 1959. In the early 1960s he led 24 Infantry Brigade Group in Kenya and was then, from 1966 to 1968, GOC, Cyprus District. From 1968 to 1969 he was GOC, Near East Land Forces and, from 1969 to 1972, president of the Regular Commissions Board. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1954 and Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1971.

He wrote two books about his experiences – The Desert My Dwelling Place published by Cassell in 1957 and again by Panther Books the following year, and more recently Long Range Desert Group 1940–1945: Providence Their Guide, republished by Leo Cooper/Pen & Sword Books in 2001.

Personal life
He married his wife Ursula Barclay (known as Ursie) and had three sons; Michael, Piers and Christopher.

Bibliography
Fitzroy Maclean's Eastern Approaches (Jonathan Cape Ltd)
Bill Kennedy Shaw's Long Range Desert Group (Collins).

References

External links
British Army Officers 1939−1945
LRDG website info on David Lloyd Owen taken from his Daily Telegraph obituary
Imperial War Museum Interview

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Antrodiella lactea

Antrodiella lactea is a species of fungus in the family Steccherinaceae. Found in China, it was described as new to science in 2018 by mycologist Hai-Sheng Yuan. The type collection was made in Maoershan Nature Reserve (Xing'an County, Guangxi), where it was found growing on a fallen angiosperm branch. The specific epithet lactea refers to the cream-coloured fruit body. The fungus has a trimitic hyphal system, and its generative hyphae have clamp connections. Its smooth, thin-walled spores range in shape from oblong to ellipsoidal, and typically measure 3.1–3.6 by 2.1–2.4 μm.

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Alkham

Alkham is a village and civil parish in the Dover district of Kent, England, about five miles west of Dover. Within the parish are the settlements of Chalksole and Ewell Minnis; the parish population was 691 people (2001 census), reducing slightly to 688 at the 2011 Census.

Alkham's Grade I listed  Anglican church is dedicated to St Anthony. The former Wesleyan chapel on Slip Lane is now a private residence.

The parishes of Alkham and River form the River ward in the Dover local government district.

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Claudio Fäh

Claudio Fäh (born 29 March 1975) is a Swiss film director, producer and screenwriter.

Career
Fäh has directed films such as Coronado, Hollow Man 2, Sniper: Reloaded and Sniper: Ultimate Kill, as well as webisodes of Ghost Whisperer: The Other Side, the online companion series to CBS's Ghost Whisperer.

During fall 2013, he directed Northmen: A Viking Saga.

Personal life
As of 1999, Fäh lives in Los Angeles, California. He married Martina Meier, a doctor in 2003. Together, they have two daughters.

Filmography

Ghost Whisperer: The Other Side (16 episodes) – "Episode #1.1", "Episode #1.2", "Episode #1.3", "Episode #1.4", "Episode #1.5", "Episode #1.6", "Episode #1.7", "Episode #1.8", "Episode #1.9", "Episode #2.0", "Episode #2.1", "Episode #2.2", "Episode #2.3", "Episode #2.4", "Episode #2.5", "Episode #2.6", "Episode #2.7", "Episode #2.8"

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Diego Montoya

Diego Montoya may refer to:

Sportspeople
Diego Montoya (cyclist), Colombian road racing cyclist, see 2006 Vuelta a Colombia
Diego Montoya (footballer), with Bolivian club Nacional Potosí
Diego Montoya (racing driver), former Colombian racing driver

Others
Diego León Montoya Sánchez, Colombian drug trafficker
 Diego Montoya (artist)


Gus Kahn

Gustav Gerson Kahn (November 6, 1886October 8, 1941) was an American lyricist.

Life and career
Kahn was born in 1886 in Koblenz, Germany, the son of Theresa (Mayer) and Isaac Kahn, a cattle rancher. The Jewish family immigrated to the United States and moved to Chicago in 1890. After graduating from high school, he worked as a clerk in a mail order business before launching one of the most successful and prolific careers from Tin Pan Alley. Kahn married Grace LeBoy in 1916 and they had two children, Donald and Irene.

In his early days, Kahn wrote special material for vaudeville. In 1913 he began a productive partnership with the well-established composer Egbert Van Alstyne, with whom he created several notable hits of the era, including "Memories" and, along with Tony Jackson, "Pretty Baby." Later, he began writing lyrics for composer and bandleader Isham Jones. This partnership led to one of Kahn's best-known works, "I'll See You in My Dreams," which became the title of a 1951 movie based on his life, starring Danny Thomas as Kahn and Doris Day as his wife, Grace LeBoy Kahn.

Throughout the 1920s, Kahn continued to contribute to Broadway scores such as Holka Polka (1925), Kitty's Kisses (1926), Artists and Models (1927), Whoopee! (1928), and Show Girl (1929). He went on to write song lyrics for several movies, primarily for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

By 1933, Kahn had become a full-time motion picture songwriter, contributing to movies such as Flying Down to Rio, Thanks a Million, Kid Millions, A Day at the Races, Everybody Sing, One Night of Love, Three Smart Girls, Let's Sing Again, San Francisco, Naughty Marietta, and Ziegfeld Girl.

He also collaborated with co-lyricist Ira Gershwin and with some of the finest composers, including Grace LeBoy Kahn (his wife), Richard A. Whiting, Buddy DeSylva, Al Jolson, Raymond Egan, Ted Fio Rito, Ernie Erdman, Neil Moret, Vincent Youmans, George Gershwin, Harry Akst, Harry M. Woods, Edward Eliscu, Victor Schertzinger, Arthur Johnston, Bronisław Kaper, Jerome Kern, Walter Jurmann, Sigmund Romberg, and Harry Warren, though his primary collaborator was Walter Donaldson.

He had a long friendship with Walter Donaldson.  Their first collaboration was the song My Buddy in 1922.  They went on to compose over one hundred songs together.

Death and legacy
Kahn died in Beverly Hills, California, on October 8, 1941 of a heart attack at age 54. He was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.

His catalog contained some of the greatest collections of songs from the first half of the 20th century, and it is for this reason that he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970, nearly 30 years after his death. He was survived by his son, songwriter and musician Donald Kahn, who died at the age of 89 on April 11, 2008, in Beverly Hills, California.

Gus Kahn's most famous songs include: "My Buddy" (1922) with music by Walter Donaldson, "It Had To Be You" (1924) with music by Isham Jones, and "Makin' Whoopee" (1928) with music by Walter Donaldson. Kahn was also the lyricist for the Ted Healy/Three Stooges short film Beer and Pretzels (1933), with music by Al Goodhart. Kahn has been incorrectly associated with the song "Side by Side" which has words and music by Harry Woods.

Kahn's papers are housed at the Great American Songbook Foundation.

Selected songs
"Everybody Rag with Me" (1914)
"Memories" (1915)
"Pretty Baby" (1916)
"So Long, Mother" (1917). m: Egbert Van Alstyne
"Cherry Blossom" (1917). m: Harry Ramond
"On the Road to Home Sweet Home" (1917). m: Egbert Van Alstyne
"Scouting in the U.S.A" (1917). m: Edith Goodland Bartlett
"For the Boys Over There" (1918). m: Egbert Van Alstyne
"What Are You Going to Do to Help the Boys?" (1918). m: Egbert Van Alstyne
"For Your Boy and My Boy" (1918). m: Egbert Van Alstyne
"Give a Little Credit to the Navy" (1918). m: Albert Gumble
"It Might as Well Be You" (1918). L: Egbert Van Alstyne
"Put Your Hands in your Pocket and Give, Give, Give" (1918). m: Egbert Van Alstyne
"Tell the Folks in Dixie I'll Be Back There Some Day" (1918). m: Egbert Van Alstyne
"Your Eyes Have Told Me So" (1919)
"I Can't Get Along Without You" (1919). m: Robert Van Alstyne
"I'll Wait for You" (1919). m: Egbert Van Alstyne
"Ain't We Got Fun?" (1921)
"Carolina in the Morning" (1922)
"Toot, Toot, Tootsie (Goo' Bye!)" (1922)
"My Buddy" (1922)
"On the Alamo" (1922)
"Swingin' Down the Lane" (1923)
"Charley, My Boy" (1924)
"I'll See You in My Dreams" (1924)
"It Had to Be You" (1924)
"When You and I Were Seventeen" (1924)
"Sometime" (1925)
"I Wonder Where My Baby Is Tonight" (1925)
"Yes Sir, That's My Baby" (1925)
"Ukulele Lady" (1925)
"Let's Talk About My Sweetie" (1926)  m: Walter Donaldson
"Persian Rug" (1927)
"Chlo-e" (1927)
"Love Me or Leave Me" (1928)
"Makin' Whoopee" (1928)
"Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away)" w/ Ira Gershwin (1929)
"Goofus" (1930)
"My Baby Just Cares for Me" (1930)
"I'm Through with Love" (1931)
"Dream a Little Dream of Me" (1931)
"Guilty" (1931)
"Thanks for the Pines" (1931)
"Carioca" (1934)
"San Francisco" (1936)
"Waltzing in the Clouds" (1940)
"You Stepped Out of a Dream" (1940)

Further reading
 Donaldson, Walter and Gus Kahn. Vocal Selections from Whoopee!: A Musical Comedy. S.l., U.S.A.: Macmillan, 1979.
 Ewen, David. American Songwriters: An H.W. Wilson Biographical Dictionary. New York : H.W. Wilson, 1987.
 Furia, Philip. American Song Lyricists, 1920–1960. Detroit : Gale Group, 2002.
 Kahn, Gus. I'll See You in My Dreams. Warner Bros. Publications, 1989.
 Kahn, Gus, Bronislaw Kaper, and Walter Jurmann. To-Morrow Is Another Day. New York: Robbins Music Corp, 1937.
 Whorf, Michael. American Popular Song Lyricists: Oral Histories, 1920s–1960s. Jefferson, NC : McFarland, 2012.

References

External links

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Gus Kahn at Jazz Standards
Gus Kahn Interview - NAMM Oral History Library (2001)

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Oxford Parliament (1258)

The Oxford Parliament (1258), also known as the Mad Parliament and the First English Parliament, assembled during the reign of Henry III of England. It was established by Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester. The parlour or prolocutor (Speaker) was Peter de Montfort under the direction of Simon de Montfort. Simon de Montfort led the Parliament and the entire country of England for 18 months, from 1264 until his death at the Battle of Evesham.

Background
King Henry III of England had agreed with Pope Innocent IV that his (Henry's) son Edward should become King of Sicily following the death of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor. The Pope offered to partly fund the efforts to overthrow the Holy Roman Empire forces still in Sicily, but following Innocent's death and the succession of Pope Alexander IV, issues began to arise. Alexander did not want to fund the ongoing efforts, and should Henry not complete his task then he would be excommunicated. As a result, the King sought further taxation to repay his efforts from Parliament, existing Royal funds failing to cover debts owed, even after selling Edward's lands to William de Valence.

Arguments and settlement
In the parliament in London on 2 April 1258, the great magnates' disaffection with the King reached a breaking point. An agreement was made to look at the issues of supply on behalf of the King, to which Henry and Edward agreed on 2 May. At the Oxford Parliament on 11 June, led by Simon de Montfort, Henry accepted a new form of government, laid out in the Provisions of Oxford, in which power was placed in the hands of a privy council, a council of fifteen members who were to supervise ministerial appointments, local administration and the custody of royal castles. Parliament, meanwhile, which was to meet three times a year, would monitor the performance of this council.

Henry agreed to these terms, and as a result a parliament consisting of fifteen was formed. These members included both Montfort, and Peter de Montfort, who acted as parlour or prolocutor for the proceedings. The remaining twelve consisted of Boniface of Savoy in his role as the Archbishop of Canterbury, Walter de Cantilupe as the Bishop of Worcester, the Earl of Norfolk, the Earl of Gloucester, the Earl of Hereford, the Earl of Warwick, the Earl of Albemarle, Hugh de Bigod, Peter de Saveye, Roger de Mortimer, James de Audeleye and John Maunsel.

Aftermath

The resolution of the Parliament did not last for long. The Pope excused the King of his obligations related to the throne of Sicily, meaning that he no longer required the funds provided by the additional taxation given to him by Parliament. The issue was one which was brought before King Louis IX of France, acting as arbitrator between Henry and the Barons at the Mise of Amiens. Louis made a decision entirely in favour of his fellow King, overturning the agreement made at the Oxford Parliament and absolved Henry's need to allow Parliament to appoint ministers, instead restoring that power to him.

This soon resulted in the Second Barons' War, with forces led by Simon de Montfort rebelling against the King. Following an initial attack by the Barons, Henry's feudal army was summoned and won a battle at Northampton. The forces of Montfort and Henry failed to come to terms, resulting in the Battle of Lewes where the Barons were victorious and the Mise of Lewes resulted. Prince Edward escaped his captors within a few months, and began to re-conquer England. The forces of Montfort found themselves trapped at Evesham, and in the ensuing battle, he was killed and his forces were routed by Edward's. The Barons continued to resist, but the Dictum of Kenilworth in October 1266 granted pardons, resulting in their surrender.

The parliament came to be known as "Mad" as a result of an entry in Liber de Antiquis Legibus which read "Hoc anno fuit illud insane parliamentum apud Oxoniam".  However, historians Dr A.G. Little and Dr R.L. Poole have shown that the word "insane" was overwritten in the original text, and may have originally read "insigne" instead.

Legacy
Peter de Montfort's role as parlour or prolocutor was the forerunner for Speaker of the House of Commons which officially began in 1377.

See also
 List of Parliaments of England
 Oxford Parliament (1644)
 Oxford Parliament (1681)
 Henry de Bracton

Notes

References

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Rhagonycha

Rhagonycha is a genus of soldier beetle belonging to the family Cantharidae.  There are at least 140 described species in Rhagonycha.

See also
 List of Rhagonycha species

References
 Biolib

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Orrouer

Orrouer  is a commune in the Eure-et-Loir department in northern France.

Population

See also
Communes of the Eure-et-Loir department

References
INSEE

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Now Dad

Now Dad (, also Romanized as Now Dād) is a village in Pol Beh Bala Rural District, Simakan District, Jahrom County, Fars Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 355, in 73 families.

References

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Onychogomphus uncatus

Onychogomphus uncatus, the large pincertail or blue-eyed hook-tailed dragonfly, is a species of dragonflies belonging to the family Gomphidae.

Distribution
This species is present in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Switzerland.

Habitat
These dragonflies can be encountered close to running water and lakes.

Description

The adults of Onychogomphus uncatusgrow up to  long. The eyes are widely separated and bright-blue or gray-blue  eyes, never green. The front black line on the side of the thorax does not touch the midline. The yellow collar at the front of the thorax is interrupted by a black bar. It has four cells on the anal triangle of the rear wing, but no yellow line on the 'vertex'. Cercoids are always yellow.

This dragonfly is bigger and rarer than the small pincertail (Onychogomphus forcipatus), but they are rather similar. The two species can be distinguished on the basis of the shape and extension of the black markings, especially on the thorax and on the last abdominal segments.

Biology
Adults of these dragonflies can be found from mid April through late August. Their life cycle lasts about three years.

Gallery

References

 Schutte, C., P. Schridde & F. Suhling. 1998. Life history patterns of Onychogomphus uncatus (Charpentier) (Anisoptera: Gomphidae). Odonatologica, 27:71-86.
 Suhling, F. 1995. Temporal patterns of emergence of the riverine dragonfly Onychogomphus uncatus (Odonata: Gomphidae). Hydrobiologia, 302:113-118
 Manuel Ferreras-Romero; Philip S. Corbet - Seasonal patterns of emergence in Odonata of a permanent stream in Southwestern Europe Aquatic Insects: International Journal of Freshwater Entomology Volume 17, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 123 - 127

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Spencer High School

Spencer High School may refer to:

Spencer High School (Georgia) — Columbus, Georgia
Spencer High School (Iowa) — Spencer, Iowa
Spencer High School (Wisconsin) — Spencer, Wisconsin
Spencer County High School — Taylorsville, Kentucky
South Spencer High School — Rockport, Indiana
Spencer/Naper High School — Spencer, Nebraska
Star Spencer High School — Spencer, Oklahoma
Spencer-Van Etten High School — Spencer, New York


Ran Danker

Ran Danker (; born Khalil Yosef Danker on January 7, 1984) is an Israeli actor, singer and model. He starred in hit Israeli series such as HaShir Shelanu (2004–2007),  The Gordin Cell (2012–2015), and currently appears in Miguel (2018–present). Danker received an Ophir Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Eyes Wide Open (2009).  Danker was also nominated for an Ophir Award for Best Actor for his role in Doubtful (2017).

Early life
Danker was born in Virginia, United States, to a Jewish family. He is the son of Israeli actor Eli Danker. He went to Israel with his mother when he was 2 years old. He grew up in the Bavli neighborhood in Tel Aviv. During that time he was a member of the Ha-Horesh tribe choir of the scouts youth movement. Towards his Junior High year, Ran and his mother moved to Poleg, Netanya. Between high school and his army service, Ran participated in a few TV commercials: a promo of Channel 10; a commercial of Bank Leumi; and the cell phone company Cellcom. As a teenager, Ran was a delivery boy for Domino's Pizza in Netanya. He was a helicopter technician during his military service in the Israel Defense Forces.

Career
As well as acting and singing, Danker is a fashion model in Israel and has appeared in campaigns for Diadora.

Film and television
In 2004 he landed a part in the hit musical TV series HaShir Shelanu (Our Song) that ran for four seasons. He was also in two children's shows, a musical production of The Sound of Music in Tel Aviv and later Haifa and the Festigal (an annual Hanukkah song festival) in 2004 and 2005. In December 2005, Ran won the Gold Screen Award as the best actor, for his role in Our Song. On January 2006, he won the Kids Channel Award, for the same category. Danker also contributed his voice to the main character of Walt Disney's animated movie Chicken Little for Israel's Hebrew-dubbed version. Readers of the popular "Pnai Plus" TV digest awarded him actor of the year in 2006. In 2008 he began appearing as the titular character in the musical daily drama Danny Hollywood.

He plays, with the actor Zohar Strauss, the main role, as a gay lover, in the 2009 Israeli drama film Eyes Wide Open. Danker received an Ophir Award nomination as Best Supporting Actor for his role. Between 2012 and 2015, he appeared in the TV drama Gordin Cell playing the main character, Eyal "Alik" Gordin. Haaretz praised the show as "among the world's best suspense shows." It was also remade in the United States as Allegiance (2015). In 2017 he received an Ophir Award nomination for Best Actor for his role in Doubtful as a man that has to serve his community service by working with juvenile delinquents.

In 2018, Danker began appearing in the Hot TV series, Miguel. Danker plays a gay man who is determined to fulfil his dream of adopting a child. The series received its world premiere at the first ever Canneseries festival. Miguel won the special performance prize for best ensemble cast at Canneseries. In 2020 Danker stars in Honeymood, a new romantic comedy by Talya Lavie, director of Zero Motivation.

Stage
In The Sound of Music he played Rolf the Nazi postman who fell in love with Liesl, the oldest daughter of the von Trapp family. Ran performed in 40 shows until he left for Festigal 2005. In 2015 he played the German lawyer, Hans Litten in the Habima Theatre production of Taken at Midnight. Danker plays a lawyer who represented opponents of the Nazis at important political trials between 1929 and 1932, defending the rights of workers during the Weimar Republic. In 2017 he returned to Habima Theatre to play Che in the Israeli production of the hit musical, Evita.

Music
In 2007, Danker released his debut album, Shavim (Hebrew: שווים, "equal"), with guitarist Ilai Botner. Danker released a new Hebrew-language album, "Something Different" in 2018.

Personal life
Danker was previously in a high-profile relationship with fellow HaShir Shelanu star, Ninet Tayeb. Israeli media labelled the pair "Raninet". Following the break up he was named the most eligible bachelor in 2007 by "Pnai Plus". He also reportedly dated his other HaShir Shelanu co-star, Ania Bukstein as well as the supermodel, Bar Refaeli. Danker and Refaeli's mothers are close friends. Danker and Tayeb remain friends and when asked in a 2019 Ynet interview about his former partner, Danker said that they will soon be in touch and will collaborate together.The pair performed together in September 2019.

In July 2015, Danker came out as bisexual. He also stated that he has been in a relationship with a man for three years. In an interview Danker said "I simply fell in love, what's more surprising to me than being in a relationship with a man is that I’ve been in any relationship for three years. Period." He continued to say that "sexuality is another way for the soul to define itself, it's complicated and combines many components. The total of people is the total of sexual possibilities. I’m attracted to both women and men. Why should we narrow ourselves into a definition? I don't want to define myself."

He has been described as a "heart-throb", and as one of the two most talked-about male stars in Israel (along with Yehuda Levi), Tayeb's former partner.

Filmography

Discography
 Shavim (2007)
 Something Different (2018)

References

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Jussive mood

The jussive (abbreviated ) is a grammatical mood of verbs for issuing orders, commanding, or exhorting (within a subjunctive framework). English verbs are not marked for this mood. The mood is similar to the cohortative mood, which typically applies to the first person by appeal to the object's duties and obligations, and the imperative, which applies to the second (by command). The jussive however typically covers the first and third persons. It can also apply to orders by their author's wish in the mandative subjunctive.

Examples

German
In the German language, the jussive mood is expressed using the present subjunctive (named "Konjunktiv I" or "Möglichkeitsform I" in German). It is typical of formal documents or religious texts, such as the Bible. Because it was more common in past centuries, it has often survived in proverbs:

{|
|Es||kehre||jeder||vor||seiner||eigenen||Tür.
|-
|It||sweep+++||everyone||in front of||his||own||door
|-
|colspan="7"|Everybody should sweep in front of his own door (Everybody should mind his own business).
|}

It is still common that recipes are written in jussive mood:
{|
|Man||nehme||drei||Eier
|-
|One||take+++||three||eggs
|-
|colspan=4|Take three eggs
|}

Apart from that, jussive mood is still quite common in contemporary German. However, the pronouns he, she, and it might not be used directly; otherwise jussive would be mistaken for a dated form of courteous imperative. Instead, they will have to be replaced by "who", "someone", "everyone", "the new colleague" and so on:

{|
|Wer||noch||eine||Karte||braucht, ||melde||sich||bei||mir
|-
|Who||still||a||ticket||need+++, ||report+++||self||at||me
|-
|colspan=9|If someone still needs a ticket, just contact me.
|}

Finally an example for jussive that would have served as a courteous imperative when addressing people of lower, but not lowest, rank:

{|
|Komme||Er||her||und||helfe||Er||mir!
|-
|come+++||he||here||and||help+++||he||me!
|-
|colspan=8|Come over and help me!
|}

Note that Er is written in capital letters here. Even if this construction is not used anymore in common German, it will be recognized as being an imperative (German Wikipedia lists the example "Sei Er nicht so streng!" as a historic form of an imperative).

Latin
In the Latin language, the present subjunctive can convey jussive meaning in the third person (jussive subjunctive or coniunctivus iussivus):
Adiuvet ("Let him help.")
Veniant ("Let them come.")

A jussive use of the present subjunctive is also attested for the second person in sayings and poetry, as well as in early Latin.
iniurias fortunae [...] relinquas ("Leave behind [...] the wrongs of Fortune", saying from Cicero's Tusculanae Disputationes)
doceas iter ("Show us the way", poetry from Virgil's Aeneid)

Russian
The jussive mood in modern Russian serves as an imperative (for issuing orders, commanding or requesting), but covers third person instead of second person. Always formed with a particle пусть, which is derived from the verb пускать (to let, to allow).

Imperative: Беги! (Run!)
Jussive: Пусть бежит (similar to Let him run)

Finnish
While there is a separate imperative form in Finnish, the jussive mood is used for the third person, where the imperative is not suitable. The jussive's ending is -koon ~ -köön in the singular and  -koot ~ -kööt in the plural. The jussive can be used to express speakers' positions or opinions that somebody is allowed to do something or that somebody is expected to do something.
Eläköön! ("Let-he/she/it-live", Hooray!)
Noudattakoon ("person-is-declared-to-obey", typical expression in legislative context)
Tapahtukoon tahtosi ("Let-it-happen your-will", let thy will be done)

Esperanto
The jussive mood, called the volitive in Esperanto, is used for wishing and requesting, and serves as the imperative. It covers some of the uses of the subjunctive in European languages:
Iru! (Go!)
Mi petis, ke li venu. (I asked him to come.)
Li parolu. (Let him speak.)
Ni iru. (Let's go.)
Benu ĉi tiun domaĉon. (Bless this hovel.)
Mia filino belu! (May my daughter be beautiful!)

Arabic
Classical and Standard Arabic verbs conjugate for at least three distinct moods in the imperfect: indicative, subjunctive and jussive. In the dialects, these moods are not morphologically marked.

The jussive is used after the preposition li- 'to' to express a command to a third person.

li-yaf‘al-hu
to-do-it
'Let him do it.'

A further use of this mood is in negative commands.

lā ta’xudh dhālika l-laḥm
not take that the-meat
'Don't take that meat.'

The jussive form is also used in past tense sentences negated by lam (but not mā).

lam ta’kuli d-dajāj
not eat the-chicken
'She didn't eat the chicken.'

References

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Saints Faith, Hope and Charity

Saints Faith, Hope and Charity (, New Testament Greek:  Pistis, Elpis, and Agape, Church Slavonic: Вѣра, Надежда, Любовь Věra, Nadežda, Ljubov) are a group of Christian martyred saints, venerated together with their mother,  Sophia ("Wisdom").

Although earlier editions of the Roman Martyrology commemorated Saints Faith, Hope and Charity on 1 August and their mother Sophia on 30 September, the present text of this official but professedly incomplete catalogue of saints of the Roman Catholic Church has no feast dedicated to the three saints or their mother: the only Sophia included is an early Christian virgin martyr of Picenum in Italy, commemorated with her companion Vissia on 12 April; another early Christian martyr, Saint Faith (Fides), of Aquitania (southern France), is celebrated on 6 October, a Saint Hope (Spes), an abbot of Nursia who died in about 517, is commemorated on 23 May, and saint Charity (Caritas) is included, although saints with somewhat similar names, Carissa and Carissima, are given, respectively under 16 April and 7 September. Their feast day of August 1 was not entered in the General Roman Calendar, and they have since been removed from the Roman Martyrology.

References of the time of Gregory the Great suggest two groups of martyrs, mother and daughters, one buried on the Aurelian Way and the other on the Via Appia.
According to the Passio, Sophia was a widow of Milan who gave away her possessions and moved to Rome with her daughters. Her daughters were martyred before her and she buried them at Via Appia. She died a natural death three days later while praying at the grave of her daughters.
The oldest version of the Passio is BHL 2966. Caesar Baronius introduced the saints to the Roman Martyrology in the late 16th century.

Their tomb in a crypt beneath the church afterwards erected to Saint Pancratius was long a place of resort for pilgrims, as detailed in various documents of the seventh century, such as an Itinerarium (or guide to the holy places of Rome compiled for the use of pilgrims) still preserved at Salzburg, the list, preserved in the cathedral archives of Monza, of the oils gathered from the tombs of the martyrs and sent to Queen Theodelinda in the time of Gregory the Great, etc.

Saxer (2000) notes that early Christians from the 4th century indeed often took in baptism mystical names indicative of Christian virtues, and Sophia, Sapientia, Fides are attested as names of Christian women in Catacomb inscriptions. The veneration of the three saints named for the three theological virtues probably arose in the 6th century based on such inscriptions. Critical scholarship is unanimous in assuming that the hagiographical tradition is spurious, likely inspired by Latin inscriptions referring to the theological either to concepts of Holy Wisdom, Faith, Hope and Charity. Her veneration is first recorded in the late 6th century, her being mentioned in the inventory of holy chrisms collected on behalf of Theodelinda, queen of the Lombards.

The veneration of Sophia of Milan became indistinguishable from that of Sophia of Rome in the medieval period. Relics either of her or of Sophia of Rome  were transferred to the women's convent at Eschau in Alsace in 778 from where her cult spread to Germany. She is the patron saint of widows. A 14th-century fresco of the saints is in St. Agnes chapel in Cologne Cathedral.

References

 Migne, P.G. CXV, 497; Mombritius, Vitae Sanctorum, II, 204

See also
Sophia the Martyr, their purported mother
St Trophimus' Church, Eschau, where their relics are venerated
St Faith of Aquitaine
Holy Wisdom

External links

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 Saint Sophia (Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese)
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Eudasyphora

Eudasyphora is a large genus from the fly family Muscidae.

Species List
E. canadiana Cuny, 1980
E. cordilleriana Cuny, 1980
E. kempi Aubertin & Emden, 1965
E. cyanella (Meigen, 1826)
E. cyanicolor (Zetterstedt, 1845)
E. zimini (Hennig, 1963)

References

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List of Hot Country Singles & Tracks number ones of 1993

Hot Country Songs is a chart that ranks the top-performing country music songs in the United States, published by Billboard magazine.  In 1993, 33 different songs topped the chart, then published under the title Hot Country Singles & Tracks, in 52 issues of the magazine, based on weekly airplay data from country music radio stations compiled by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems.

The number one song at the start of the year was "Don't Let Our Love Start Slippin' Away" by Vince Gill.  It remained in the top spot until the chart dated January 16, when it was replaced by "Somewhere Other Than the Night" by Garth Brooks.  Brooks also topped the chart with three other songs during the year, "That Summer", "Ain't Goin' Down ('Til the Sun Comes Up)" and "American Honky-Tonk Bar Association", giving him the most number ones of an artist in 1993.  The total of five weeks which the songs spent at number one was the highest total by any act during the year.  Tracy Lawrence and Vince Gill each had three number ones during the year, Gill's total including "The Heart Won't Lie", a duet with Reba McEntire.  The longest unbroken run at the top was the four weeks which Alan Jackson spent at number one with "Chattahoochee".

In 1993, Toby Keith, who would go on to become one of the most successful artists in country music history, scored his first number one when "Should've Been a Cowboy" reached the top spot in June. The song would go on to become the most-played country song of the 1990s, having received three million spins since its release, according to Broadcast Music Incorporated.  Other artists to reach the top spot for the first time in 1993 included Sammy Kershaw with "She Don't Know She's Beautiful" in April, John Michael Montgomery with "I Love the Way You Love Me" in May, Clay Walker with "What's It to You" in October, and Doug Supernaw, whose song "I Don't Call Him Daddy" was the final number one of the year.

Chart history

See also
1993 in music
List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. country chart

References

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Emma Burgess

Emma Burgess (born Brandi Emma) is an American singer-songwriter who released her first album, Swim, produced by Rusty Anderson and Ofer Moses, in 2007 on Love Yourself Records. The album features musicians Josh Freese, Joey Waronker and Mike Garson.

Her cover of The Outfield song "Your Love" appeared on ABC Family show Wildfire in February 2008.

References
 Emma Burgess on MySpace
 brandiemma.com
  - Emma Burgess on AllMusic.com

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Lake Kristi

Lake Kristi is a private water skiing-site located in Greenville, North Carolina containing two artificial lakes. The lake is named after former water skiing champion Kristi Overton Johnson. Although specifically designed for water skiing, Lake Kristi is also used as a cross country course.

Description
The original Lake Kristi was finished in 1981 at a length of  and width of . The second lake, nearby, was finished in 2000 at a length of  and width of . The lakes are described as championship calibre.

Location
Lake Kristi, located eight miles from Greenville, is built in Parker Overton's backyard, originally built for his daughter, Kristi Overton Johnson at the age of 12. The lake was built as the nearest location for water skiing at the time was a river over 1 hour away.

Usage
The lake's surrounding area, approximately , is predominately used for cross country running meetings, including National Collegiate Athletic Association Regional Championships (2003 & 2005) and Conference USA Championship (2001 & 2006) meets.

The lake previously hosted the 1996 and 1997 U.S. Open Water Ski Championships. Lake Kristi hosted Greenville's first Pro Tour event as part of the U.S. Open. In 1989, Lake Kristi was listed as one of over 150 supersites in the United States, with only three of these sites being in North Carolina.

Aside from being used as a tournament site, Kristi was also used as test site for Overton's marine business.

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Wiraqucha (Cusco)

Wiraqucha (Quechua wira fat, qucha lake, wiraqucha or Wiraqucha mister, sir, gentleman / god / one of the greatest Andean divinities (Wiraqucha) / the eighth emperor of the Tawantinsuyu (Wiraqucha Inka), also spelled Wiracocha) or Wiraquchan (-n is a suffix, Hispanicized Huirajochan) is a mountain in the Andes of Peru, about  high. It is situated in the Cusco Region, Quispicanchi Province, in the districts Andahuaylillas, Huaro and Urcos, south-east of the higher mountain named Quri and north-west of Huaro (Waru). The Willkanuta River flows along the mountain. The lake Quyllur Urmana lies at its feet.

On top of Wiraqucha there is a pair of rocks which resemble two toads, one of them looking at "Apu" Ausangate and the other one looking at "Apu" Pachatusan. This pair, known as Wak'a Los Sapos de Wiraqucha (Spanish los sapos de the toads of), has been considered a wak'a by the local people.

References

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Sarsippius' Ark

Sarsippius' Ark, also referred to as Sarsippius' Ark (Limited Edition), due to its cover, is the second album from Infectious Grooves and was released February 2, 1993. The album features various skits from Mike Muir as the character Sarsippius, the title character of the album. The album reached Number 109 on The Billboard 200 charts and Number 1 on the Billboard Heatseekers charts that same year. Videos were made for "These Freaks Are Here to Party" and "Three Headed Mind Pollution".

Track listing

Credits

Band Members
 Mike Muir - Vocals, Producer
 Robert Trujillo - Bass, Producer
 Dean Pleasants - Guitar
 Adam Siegel - Guitar
 Josh Freese - Drums
 Dave Dunn - Keyboards
 Aladin Sulemanagic - Sarsippius Ark

Production Staff
 Mark Dodson - Producer
 Tom Fletcher - Producer
 Paul Northfield - Producer, Mixing

Chart performance

Charts

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