Low-rise pants

Low-rise pants, also known as "low-cut jeans", "lowriders" or "rap pants", are a type of pants that sit low on, or below, the hips, usually at least 8 centimetres (3 inches) lower than the navel. Low-rise pants have been available since the 1900s, in styles for both men and women, with popularity increasing in the 2000s.

Terminology
The "rise" of any bottom apparel is determined by the distance between the crotch and the waist and is usually around 30 cm (12 inches) on regular pants. In comparison, the average measurement of low-rise trousers is roughly 20 cm (8 inches), with some as little as 7–10 cm (3-4 inches). Several jeans brands also reflect the rise on the zipper, by creating pants with zippers far shorter than regular pants, usually between 5 and 7 cm (2-3 inches), and some manufacturers, such as Dorinha Jeans Wear, even provide 2.5 cm (1 inch) zippers. The latter can also be classified as "ultra low-rise jeans", and the small zipper no longer has its traditional function, but is rather a display of fashion.

History
Hip-huggers, the precursor to low-rise pants, rose to popularity during the mid 1960s due to the mod subculture, and eventually by the hippies in the late 1960s. Often worn with light-cotton, paisley-printed tops or nehru-collared jackets, bell-bottomed hip-huggers were popularized by rock icons such as Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, and Robert Plant. Later, hip-huggers became a staple of popular culture and were incorporated into the disco scene of the 1970s.

During the late 1970s and early 1980s, however, waistlines moved higher as wide, flared, bell-bottoms gradually gave way to designer straight-legged jeans. Throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s, as more women entered the corporate workforce, the high waist design remained predominant, with commercial designers such as Gloria Vanderbilt and Calvin Klein at the forefront.

The 1990s revival of low-rise jeans can be credited to British fashion designer Alexander McQueen, who first showed his famous low-rise "bumster" trousers in his 1996 "Taxi Driver" collection show. One commentator observed: "The bumster for me is what defined McQueen. For me it was the look that put him on the map because it was controversial. Those little bumsters were in his first shows. It was like 20 people in England were wearing them back then." Following McQueen's lead, the fashion of low-rise pants gradually spread.
The iconic low-rise fashion emerged in 2000, particularly among youth; Britney Spears is most credited with popularizing the fashion in the US after she started wearing them that same year.  Although its popularity also increased among women and men of other ages, the major focus of advertising is still directed at teenage girls and boys, with typical teen stores selling low-rise jeans in different styles and colors. Most American teenage and twenty-something-oriented retail stores that carry jeans (e.g., Guess, American Eagle, Abercrombie & Fitch, Stitches) only or mostly carry low-rise jeans.

Styles

Low-rise jeans are manufactured in many styles, including boot-cut, flared, loose, straight, baggy, skinny, boyfriend, and slim. Due to the popularity of low-rise jeans, manufacturers have also begun making low-rise styles of other kinds of pants, such as cargo pants and dress pants.

Low-rise jeans may be worn to display more skin at the waist, torso, and hips. Accordingly, they are sometimes worn in combination with crop tops, giving a glimpse of skin between the jeans and the top, or (more commonly in the summer or in warmer countries) showing their entire midriff including the navel. From 2001 to 2007, the low rise style frequently revealed the thong or G-string underneath, but after 2007 this fell out of favor and thongs began their decline. When the wearer sits down or bends forward, sometimes cleavage is visible. When a thong is exposed above a pair of low-rise jeans on the back, it is commonly referred to as a whale tail, due to its somewhat similar shape. When boxer shorts become visible this is known as "sagging".  Because underwear was no longer always hidden, more men and women choose their underwear to function with their low-rise jeans.

Medical concerns

In the Canadian Medical Association Journal 2003, Dr. Malvinder S. Parmar pointed out that wearing tight low-rise jeans may put pressure on a sensory nerve, the lateral cutaneous nerve of the thigh, which can cause pain and paresthesia in the nerve's area of distribution. This is known as meralgia paresthetica and is associated with a tingling or a burning sensation on the lateral aspect of the thigh. The condition was diagnosed in three obese women who had worn low-rise jeans for 6–8 months. The condition resolved itself after they avoided wearing low-rise jeans for 4–6 weeks.

See also
Navel in popular culture
Hip-huggers
Jean skirt
Crop top
Buttock cleavage
Halterneck
Muffin top
Sagging (fashion)

References

External links
telegraph.co.uk Ultra-low bikini jeans - only for the daring
Canadian Medical Association Journal
The woes of low-rise pants-Has America's low-rise obsession gone too far? - Amanda Fortini

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Category:Trousers and shorts
Category:20th-century fashion
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Nerkin Giratagh

Nerkin Giratagh (), is an abandoned village in the Kajaran Municipality of Syunik Province, Armenia.

See also
 Lernadzor

History
Nerkin Giratagh was formerly part of the rural community of Verin Giratagh, which was merged into the community of Lernadzor.  The National Statistical Service of the Republic of Armenia (ARMSTAT) reported that Nerqin Giratagh was uninhabited at the 2001 and 2011 censuses.

References

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1987–88 NCAA football bowl games

The 1987–88 NCAA football bowl games concluded the 1987 NCAA Division I-A football season, featuring 18 games. Twenty ranked teams participated, and seven of the eighteen matchups were between two ranked teams. The Miami Hurricanes were declared the national champions, after upsetting #1 Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl.

Seventeen of the bowl games ended with a winner, while there was a lone tie (Auburn vs Syracuse in the Sugar Bowl).

Nine independent teams competed, along with six SEC teams, four Big Ten, four Pac-10, three WAC, three Big 8, three SWC, two ACC, one MAC, and one PCAA.

The largest margin of victory occurred twice; Clemson beat Penn State and Texas A&M beat Notre Dame, both 35-10.

The "bowl week" started on December 13 with the California Bowl, and concluded on January 2, 1988 with the Hall of Fame Bowl and the Peach Bowl.

Bowl schedule

References

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2013 Great West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

The 2013 Great West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was held March 14–16, 2013, in Chicago, Illinois at the Emil and Patricia Jones Convocation Center. Per NCAA regulations as a new Division I conference, the Great West champion would not have received an automatic bid into the NCAA Tournament until 2020.  The winner, however, did receive an automatic bid to the CollegeInsider.com Tournament.  This was the final GMC men's basketball tournament as the conference dissolved after the season due to its member schools joining other conferences.

Format
With North Dakota joining the Big Sky Conference for the 2012-13 season, the conference used the same 5-team format they used for 2012 as the outline.

Five teams participated in the 2013 Great West Tournament. This was the last Great West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament as Houston Baptist left the conference after this season to join the Southland Conference and Utah Valley, UTPA and Chicago State left the conference after this season to join the Western Athletic Conference.

Bracket
The entire tournament was streamed online by CSU-TV.

References

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279th Infantry Regiment (United States)

The 1st Battalion, 279th Infantry Regiment is headquartered in Sand Springs, Oklahoma. It is a part of the 45th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, Oklahoma Army National Guard.

The 279th Infantry saw action during World War II and the Korean War as part of the 45th Infantry Division and again in Afghanistan and Iraq as part of the 45th Infantry Brigade.

History

Lineage

Shared lineage with the 180th Infantry Regiment
Parent unit constituted in 1890 in the Oklahoma Volunteer Militia as the 1st Infantry Regiment.

(Oklahoma Volunteer Militia redesignated in 1895 as the Oklahoma National Guard.)

Organized 21 December 1895 from existing units with headquarters at Guthrie.

Consolidated with elements from Arizona, New Mexico, and the Indian Territory and mustered into federal service 4–23 July 1898 as the 1st Territorial Volunteer Infantry; mustered out of federal service 11–15 February 1899 at Albany, Georgia.

Former 1st infantry Regiment reorganized in 1899 in the Oklahoma National Guard as the 1st Infantry with headquarters at Guthrie.

Mustered into federal service 27 June - 1 July 1916 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma; mustered out of federal service 1 March 1917 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.

Mustered into federal service 5 August 1917 at Fort Sill, Oklahoma; concurrently, drafted into federal service.

Consolidated 15 October 1917 with the 7th Infantry, Texas National Guard; consolidated unit concurrently reorganized and redesignated as the 142d Infantry and assigned to the 36th Division.

Demobilized 17 June 1919 at Camp Bowie, Texas.

Elements of the former 1st Infantry in eastern Oklahoma consolidated 1920-1921 with elements of the 3d Infantry (organized and federally recognized 3 September 1918 in the Oklahoma National Guard with headquarters at Muskogee) and consolidated unit designated as the 3d Infantry (elements of the former 1st Infantry in central Oklahoma consolidated with the 2d Infantry - hereafter separate lineage.)

Redesignated 14 October 1921 as the 180th Infantry and assigned to the 45th Division.

Inducted into federal service 16 September 1940 at home stations.

(45th Division redesignated 11 February 1942 as the 45th Infantry Division.)

Inactivated 22–29 November 1945 at Camp Bowie, Texas.

New separate lineage
Former elements of the 180th Infantry in northeastern Oklahoma reorganized and federally recognized 20 September 1946 as the 279th Infantry, with headquarters at Okmulgee (former elements of the 180th Infantry in southeastern Oklahoma reorganized as the 180th Infantry – hereafter a separate lineage.)

Ordered into active federal service 1 September 1950 at home stations.

(279th Infantry [NGUS] organized and federally recognized 30 October 1952 with headquarters at Okmulgee.)

Released 30 April 1954 from active federal service and reverted to state control; federal recognition concurrently withdrawn from the 279th Infantry (NGUS).

Reorganized 1 May 1959 as a parent regiment under the Combat Arms Regimental System to consist of the 1st Battle Group, an element of the 45th Infantry Division.

Reorganized 1 April 1963 to consist of the 1st and 2d Battalions, elements of the 45th Infantry Division.

Reorganized 1 February 1968 to consist of the 1st Battalion, an element of the 45th Infantry Brigade.

Withdrawn 1 May 1989 from the Combat Arms Regimental System and reorganized under the United States Army Regimental System.

Reorganized 1 November 2005 to consist of the 1st Battalion, an element of the 45th Infantry Brigade.

(1st Battalion ordered into active federal service 20 January 2004 at home stations; released from active federal service 17 July 2005 and reverted to state control.)

Redesignated 1 October 2005 as the 279th Infantry Regiment.

(1st Battalion ordered into active federal service 19 October 2007 at home stations.)

Converted and redesignated 1 September 2008 as the 279th Cavalry Regiment.

(1st Squadron released from active federal service 21 November 2008 and reverted to state control.)

Converted and redesignated 1 December 2008 as the 279th Infantry Regiment.

(1st Battalion ordered into active federal service 31 March 2011 at home stations; released from active federal service 3 May 2012 and reverted to state control.)

Current units
Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1-279th Infantry at Sand Springs with Detachment at Bartlesville

A Company, 1-279th Infantry at Sand Springs
B Company, 1-279th Infantry at Vinita
C Company, 1-279th Infantry at Broken Arrow
D Company, 1-279th Infantry at Claremore

Additionally, the 279th is supported by its Forward Support Company (FSC)
G Co., 700th Brigade Support Battalion at Sand Springs, OK with Detachment at Broken Arrow

Campaign streamers
World War II
Sicily, W/Arrowhead
Naples-Foggia W/Arrowhead
Anzio
RomeArno
S. France W/Arrowhead
Rhineland
Ardennes-Alsace
Central Europe

Co D additionally entitled to:
Northern Solomons
Luzon

Korea
Second Korean Winter
Korea, Summer/Fall 1952
Third Korean Winter
Korea, Summer 1953

Global War on Terror
Operation Enduring Freedom
Afghanistan, Consolidation I
Afghanistan, Consolidation III
Afghanistan, Transition I

Co D additionally entitled to:
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Iraq Surge

Battlefield or campaign honors, citations and decorations
Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered IRAQ 2008.
Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered AFGHANISTAN 2011-2012.
French Croix de Guerre with Palm, World War II, Streamer embroidered ACQUAFONDATA.
Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered KOREA 1951-1952.
Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered KOREA 1953.

Subordinate elements:
Headquarters Company (Tulsa), 1st Battalion, additionally entitled to:
Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered EUROPEAN THEATER 1944.
Meritorious Unit Commendation (Army), Streamer embroidered EUROPEAN THEATER 1944-1945.

Company D (Claremore), 1st Battalion, additionally entitled to:
Philippine Presidential Unit Citation, Streamer embroidered 17 OCTOBER 1944 TO 4 JULY 1945.

Distinctive unit insignia
Description
A Silver color metal and enamel device 1 3/32 inches (2.78 cm) in height overall consisting of a shield blazoned:  Azure, on a bend Argent two lightning bolts Gules, in chief a fleur-de-lis of the second.  Attached below and to the sides of the shield is a Blue scroll inscribed "MOVIN’ ON" in Silver letters.

Background
The distinctive unit insignia was originally approved for the 279th Infantry Regiment on 26 September 1952.  It was redesignated effective 1 September 2007, for the 279th Cavalry Regiment with the symbolism revised. It was redesignated again, effective December 2008, for the 279th Infantry Regiment with the symbolism revised.

Coat of arms
Blazon
Shield: Azure, on a bend Argent two lightning bolts Gules, in chief a fleur-de-lis of the second.
Crest: That for the regiments and separate battalions of the Oklahoma Army National Guard:  From a wreath Argent and Azure an Indian’s head with war bonnet all Proper.
Motto: MOVIN’ ON.
Symbolism: The colors blue and white are for the Infantry, the original unit designation.  The white bend represents a baldric (sword sling), which is a mark of military honor.  The fleur-de-lis symbolizes service in World War I.  The lightning bolts allude to the swift striking force of the Infantry, and also present the Regiment’s assault landings at Sicily and Southern France in World War II.
Background: The coat of arms was originally approved for the 279th Infantry Regiment on 26 September 1952.  It was redesignated effective 1 September 2007, for the 279th Cavalry Regiment with the symbolism updated.

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Mikołajew, Podlaskie Voivodeship

Mikołajew  is a settlement in the administrative district of Gmina Łomża, within Łomża County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland.

References

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Storageland

Storageland is the first release by musician Mirah, released independently as a vinyl EP in 1997. The album received largely positive reviews, and listeners were "drawn to the unpolished sound...with its sometimes muffled vocals, raw guitars, and background-noise cracklings."

Production
The EP was released independently in 1997. All tracks are on one side of the 12", and the B-side is an etching by Nikki McClure. Mirah is the primary artist, while contributing musicians include Bryce Panic on drums, Molly Burgdorf on bass on tracks, Jessie Breznau on violin, and Pat Maley on organ.

Reception
The album received a positive review in Allmusic, and a score of 3/5. Listeners were "drawn to the unpolished sound...with its sometimes muffled vocals, raw guitars, and background-noise cracklings", wrote Laura Leebove in Venus Zine.

Track listing
"Telescope" – 2:42
"Pretty Eyes" – 1:48
"Where's My Heart?" – 2:54
"In a Sailboat" – 2:48
"Storm" – 3:06
"1982 (Atari)" – 1:30

Personnel
 Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn – guitar, synthesizer, voice
 Bryce Panic – drums on tracks 2–5
 Molly Burgdorf  – bass on tracks 2 and 5
 Jessie Breznau  – violin on track 4
 Pat Maley  – organ on tracks 2 and 5

References

External links
MirahMusic.com

Category:Mirah albums
Category:1997 debut EPs


Dharampur State

Dharampur State was a princely state in India during the time of the British Raj. Its last ruler acceded to the Union of India 10 June 1948.

Geography

Dharampur State had an area of 1,823 km2 and fell under the Surat Agency of the Bombay Presidency.

History
Dharampur State was founded in 1262. Its capital was moved to Mandvegan in 1766 and was renamed Dharampur. On 31 Dec 1802 Dharampur became a British protectorate. The state was ruled by Sisodhyia dynasty. The rulers had the title Rana Maharana Sahib and were accorded a status of 9-gun salute by the British authorities.

Rulers
Rana Maharana Sahibs

Oct 1680 - 1727            Sahadevji                         (d. 1727)
1727 - 1758                Ramdevji II                       (d. 1758)
1758 - 1774                Dharamdevji                       (d. 1774)
1774 - 1777                Narandevji I (Guman Singh)        (d. 1777)
1774 - 1777                Maharani Baiji Kushal             (d. 1784) Kunverba (f) (1st time) -Regent
1777 - 1784                Somdevji II (Abhay Singh)         (d. 1784)
1777 - 1784                Maharani Baiji Kushal             (s.a.) Kunverba (f) (2nd time) -Regent
1784 - 1807                Rupdevji                          (b. 1783 - d. 1807)
1784 - 1800                Maharani Baiji Kushal Kunverba    (d. af.1808) Sahib (f) -Regent
1807 - 1857                Vijaidevji I                      (d. 1857)
1857 - 20 Jan 1860         Ramdevji III Vijayadevji          (d. 1860)
20 Jan 1860 – 17 Sep 1891  Narayandevji Ramdevji              (b. ... - d. 1891)
1891 - 26 Mar 1921  Mohandevji Narayandevji            (b. 1863 - d. 1921)
26 Mar 1921 – 15 Aug 1947  Vijaidevji Mohandevji              (b. 1884 - d. 1952)
1952 - 1990  Sahadevji Vijaidevji
1990 - present Rameshji

References

External links
Heraldry of the princely states of Gujarat

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Chalcides chalcides

The Italian three-toed skink or just the three-toed skink (Chalcides chalcides) is a species of lizard found from Italy (including Sicily, Sardinia and Elba), to northern Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia. It is common in some locations and is usually found in sunny areas with dense vegetation (usually grass up to 40 cm of height) but can also be found in arid areas. They reach about 48 cm in length, out of which the tail constitutes more than half. Its body is long and snake-like, coloured usually between brown and olive and may have dark stripes on the back. Each of the highly reduced legs has three fingers. These skinks are active during daytime and prey mainly on insects. Females of the species give birth to live young. The population of this skink is slowly declining, but it has some tolerance to habitat modification.

Description
This skink superficially looks like a snake except for the possession of tiny limbs with three-toed feet, the middle toe of the hind foot being longer than the other two, a fact that differentiates it from the Western three-toed skink (Chalcides striatus). It has a small head and thick neck and grows to a length of about , more than half of which is tail. There are three different colour variants; Some animals are plain silvery-grey; some have four to six narrow lengthwise lines running along the body; some have these lines but additionally a pale longitudinal, lateral band.

Distribution and habitat
The Italian three-toed skink is native to Italy, where it is common south of the River Po, and including Sardinia, Elba and Sicily, and North Africa, where its range includes Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya. Its typical habitat is damp but sunny areas with dense low vegetation such as meadows, stream verges, marshes, grassy slopes and hedgerows. In upland areas it may inhabit drier, more arid areas with low scrub and degraded slopes. Its altitudinal range is from sea level to .

Status
The Italian three-toed skink is common in suitable habitats over much of its wide range. It is threatened by urbanization and the degradation of its habitat by coastal development, but it is tolerant of some degree of habitat modification. The IUCN has listed it as being of "Least Concern" because, although the population is probably declining, this is not at a fast enough rate to warrant listing it in a more threatened category.

References

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BV RZ

Basketballvereniging Rotterdam-Zuid (in English: Rotterdam South Basketball Club), commonly known as RZ is a basketball club from Rotterdam.

History
RZ was founded in 1956 and has for many years with a great commitment of board members, executives and also ordinary members and players, that can no longer think sports in sport country. RZ fought until the early nineties in the highest national league and even European Cup matches played at European level in Ahoy, as against Maccabi Elite Tel Aviv or Real Madrid. During the heyday played men like John Loorbach, Marcel Welch, Jan Dekker and the "Famous Mister" Jacky Dinkins which was a phenomenon far beyond the border. For years was the home of South Rotterdam, the sports hall Enk, sphere of activity.

After a glorious history in the former decades, also escaped RZ not a drop of the low point in 1996, a fire in the clubhouse and only a membership of 60 members.

Honours

Dutch League
 Winners (1): 1973-74
Dutch Cup
 Runners-up (2): 1972-73, 1974–75

European record

Notable players

  John Loorbach
  Marcel Welch
  Jan Dekker
  Jacky Dinkins

References

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Thomas W. Simons Jr.

Thomas Winston Simons Jr. (born September 4, 1938) is an American diplomat and academic. He served as ambassador to Poland from 1990 to 1993, and ambassador to Pakistan from 1996 to 1998.

Born in Crosby, Minnesota, Simons is of German, English and Scots-Irish descent. He attended Karachi Grammar School and Sidwell Friends School and is a graduate of Yale and Harvard. Simons escorted Duke Ellington during his tour of the Middle East and Pakistan.

He taught at Stanford University upon his retirement from the United States Foreign Service, and holds visiting appointments at Harvard and Cornell. Prior to joining the Foreign Service, Simons was an adjunct professor at Brown University.

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Wallace Station

Wallace Station is a small farming community located in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Wallace Station was established in 1887 after the Oxford & New Glasgow Railway built its line along the north shore of Nova Scotia from the Intercolonial Railway at Oxford Junction to Pictou.  In the early 1890s, the ICR took over this line and in later years it was operated as CN Rail's Oxford Subdivision.

CN abandoned passenger service through Wallace Station in 1960 and freight service in February 1986.  The rails were lifted through the area by 1989.

The passenger station at Wallace Station served the nearby village of Wallace and surrounding areas.  Wallace Station was also a junction between the Oxford Subdivision and a small private 3 mile spur which ran to the sandstone quarry and shipping pier at Wallace.  At its peak the community had a store, post office, and one room school (later converted to an Orangeman's Hall).  The local Orange Lodge has since been dissolved and in 1997, the hall was moved several miles away and is now used as a workshop.

The abandoned rail bed now serves as part of the Trans Canada Trail system.

Category:Communities in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia


František Křižík

František Křižík (; July 8, 1847 – January 22, 1941) was a Czech inventor, electrical engineer, and entrepreneur.

Biography
Křižík was born into a poor family in Plánice, located at the time within the Austrian Empire. In spite of this, Křižík managed in 1866 to study engineering at the Technical University of Prague ČVUT.

Křižík is considered the pioneer in practical electrical engineering and in electrification of Bohemia (and Austro-Hungarian empire) and at the time was often compared to Thomas Edison. In 1878 Křižík invented a remotely operated signalling device to protect against collision between trains. Křižík's cores are magnetic
solenoids cores shaped so as to insure an approximately uniform pull in different positions in the solenoid.

His first experiments in Plzeň (Pilsen) resulted in invention in 1880 of the automatic electric arc lamp, the so-called "Plzen Lamp"  which was displayed at the International Exposition of Electricity in Paris in 1881. This lamp, with self-adjusting brushes, won the gold medal from among 50 similar devices. Later he successfully defended his patent against Werner Siemens claim to have created it first. His lamps were successfully used in many cities for street lighting. The restored and fully functional patented arc lamp with automated electrode adjustment can be viewed at the Museum of Pilsen.

In 1895 Křižík built one of first electromobiles in Austrian empire.

In 1884 Křižík set up his own company building city lighting, tramway lines, street cars, power stations, and various electric equipment.

A Prague subway station was named after František Křižík – Křižíkova.

Electric railway Tábor – Bechyně

František Křižík built the first electric railway in the Austro-Hungarian empire in 1903. The track gauge was . The maximum speed was .

Railroad Stations:
Tábor – Horky u Tábora – Slapy – Libějice – Malšice – Čenkov u Malšic – Třebelice – Všechlapy – Bechyňská Smoleč – Sudoměřice u Bechyně – Bežerovice – Bechyně zastávka – Bechyně

Legacy
The main belt asteroid 5719 Křižík was named in his honour.

References

External links

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Crunchbase

Crunchbase is a platform for finding business information about private and public companies.

Crunchbase information includes investments and funding information, founding members and individuals in leadership positions, mergers and acquisitions, news, and industry trends. Originally built to track startups, the Crunchbase website contains information on public and private companies on a global scale.

Crunchbase sources its data in four ways: the venture program, machine learning, an in-house data team, and the Crunchbase community. Members of the public can submit information to the Crunchbase database. These submissions are subject to registration, social validation, and are often reviewed by a moderator before being accepted for publication.

History

Crunchbase was originally founded in 2007 by Michael Arrington, as a place to track the startups that parent company TechCrunch featured in articles. From 2007 to September 2015, TechCrunch maintained control of the Crunchbase database.

In September 2010, AOL acquired TechCrunch and Crunchbase as one of TechCrunch's portfolio companies.

In November 2013, AOL entered into a dispute with start-up Pro Populi over the company's use of the entire Crunchbase dataset in apps that Pro Populi developed despite having distributed the data under the Creative Commons CC-BY attribution license. Pro Populi was represented by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. AOL eventually conceded that Pro Populi could continue to use the dataset but adopted the CC BY-NC license for future revisions. As of August 2019, a snapshot of the 2013 dataset is still available for download under the CC-BY license on the Crunchbase website.

In 2014, Crunchbase added incubators, venture capital partners, and a new leaderboard feature to the startup database.

In 2015, Crunchbase separated from AOL/Verizon/TechCrunch to become a private entity. In September 2015, in conjunction with the spin out, Crunchbase announced $6.5 million in funding raised from Emergence Capital. This was shortly followed with a follow-up round of $2 million in November 2015.

In 2016, the company rebranded from CrunchBase to Crunchbase and launched its first product: Crunchbase Pro.

In April 2017, Crunchbase announced an $18 million Series B from Mayfield Fund. At the same time, Crunchbase launched two new products – Crunchbase Enterprise and Crunchbase for Applications.

In 2018, Crunchbase launched "Crunchbase Marketplace".

In October 2019, Crunchbase announced an $30 million Series C led by Omers Ventures. Existing backers Emergence, Mayfield, Cowboy Ventures and Verizon also participated.

Products
Crunchbase Pro
Designed for advanced users, this tool offers more in-depth search capabilities, market trend analytics, and alerts to track industries, people, companies, and investors.

Crunchbase Marketplace
Marketplace allows users to search and analyze companies with integrated third-party data sources. Users can also access additional data like web traffic, tech stack, and IT budgets.

Crunchbase Enterprise
Enterprise lets users perform typical business intelligence and analytics queries, such as setting up and following investment trends, identifying and tracking growth industries, and identifying companies that are close to their own.

Crunchbase for Applications
This tool allows users to integrate Crunchbase data into their product, providing their customers the ability to automatically contextualize prospects to prioritize their sales pipeline and identify key buy signals.

User base
Crunchbase has more than 560,000 active community contributors on the platform. Over five million users access the Crunchbase website each month.

References

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Barbara Kinney

Barbara Kinney is an American photojournalist based in Seattle, Washington. Born in Evansville, Indiana, she is a graduate of the Allen White School of Journalism at the University of Kansas. Her career began in 1982. She was US President Bill Clinton's personal photographer for six years of his tenure. Her photographs have won the first place award from the World Press Photo Foundation and appeared in Time, Newsweek, LIFE and American Photo magazines, among others.

Before her White House years, Kinney was a picture editor and photographer for USA Today during the paper's first six years and a freelance photographer in Washington from 1989 to 1992.

Kinney left the White House in 1999 and became Reuters' Global Entertainment Editor and taught photography at the American University and Gallaudet University. She was a mentor on America Photo treks to India, Ireland and Israel.

Kinney served as the official photographer for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential bid.

References

External links
 Official website

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Category:American women photographers
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Category:People from Evansville, Indiana
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)


Peter Stewart (Medal of Honor)

Gunnery Sergeant Peter Stewart (February 17, 1858 – June 17, 1914) was a member of the United States Marine Corps and a recipient of the Medal of Honor.

He was one a group of U.S. sailors and Marines dispatched to guard the United States legation in Beijing during the Boxer Rebellion, and was awarded the medal for his extreme gallantry in four separate actions during June 1900.

Stewart was buried at the Cypress Hills National Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York, Section 2, Grave 7303.

Medal of Honor citation
Rank and organization: Gunnery Sergeant, U.S. Marine Corps. Born: 17 February 1858, Airdrie, Scotland. Accredited to: Washington, D.C. G.O. No.: 55, 19 July 1901.

Citation:

In action with the relief expedition of the Allied forces in China during the battles of 13, 20, 21, and 22 June 1900. Throughout this period and in the presence of the enemy, Stewart distinguished himself by meritorious conduct.

See also
List of Medal of Honor recipients
List of Medal of Honor recipients for the Boxer Rebellion

References

Category:United States Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipients
Category:United States Marines
Category:1858 births
Category:1914 deaths
Category:Burials at Cypress Hills National Cemetery
Category:Scottish-born Medal of Honor recipients
Category:Scottish emigrants to the United States
Category:People from Washington, D.C.
Category:American military personnel of the Boxer Rebellion
Category:Boxer Rebellion recipients of the Medal of Honor


THSE Szabadkikötő

Tintahalak Sportegyesület Szabadkikötő is a professional football club based in Sashalom, Budapest, Hungary, that competes in the Nemzeti Bajnokság III, the third tier of Hungarian football.

History
THSE Sashalom is going to compete in the 2017–18 Nemzeti Bajnokság III.

On 12 August 2017, Sashalom beat Csepel FC 2–1 at the Béke téri Stadion, Csepel, Budapest on the first matchday of the 2017-18 Nemzeti Bajnokság III season.

Honours

Domestic
Blasz I:
Winner (1): 2016–17

Managers
 Marcell Strebek

External links
 Profile on Magyar Futball

References

Category:Football clubs in Hungary
Category:Association football clubs established in 2000
Category:2000 establishments in Hungary


1944 NCAA baseball season

The 1944 NCAA baseball season, play of college baseball in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) began in the spring of 1944.  Play largely consisted of regional matchups, some organized by conferences, and ended in June.  No national championship event was held until 1947.

Conference winners
This is a partial list of conference champions from the 1944 season.

Conference standings
The following is an incomplete list of conference standings:

References


2015 NRL Auckland Nines

The 2015 NRL Auckland Nines (known as the Dick Smith NRL Auckland Nines due to sponsorship) was the second NRL Auckland Nines tournament, contested between all sixteen teams of the National Rugby League. The draw was released on 16 September 2014. It was a two-day, nine-a-side, knockout tournament held at Eden Park in Auckland, New Zealand. All sixteen NRL clubs and 288 players competed over the one weekend (January 31 – February 1) with AUD$2.4 million prize money split between the teams. In 2015, the pool names were chosen by a public vote. The pool names were: Rangitoto, Waiheke, Piha and Hunua Ranges. The event included two international women's teams, the Kiwi Ferns and the Jillaroos, who competed in a three-game series with the Kiwi Ferns winning 2-1.

Tournament Games

Rangitoto pool

Waiheke pool

Hunua Ranges pool

Piha pool

Finals

Kiwi Ferns v. Jillaroos

Players

Team of the Tournament

Brisbane Broncos

Canberra Raiders

Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs

Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks

Gold Coast Titans

Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles

Melbourne Storm

Newcastle Knights

North Queensland Cowboys

Parramatta Eels

Penrith Panthers

South Sydney Rabbitohs

St. George Illawarra Dragons

Sydney Roosters

New Zealand Warriors

Wests Tigers

Jillaroos

Kiwi Ferns

References

External links

Category:NRL Auckland Nines
Category:South Sydney Rabbitohs
Auckland Nines


Test Handicap

The Test Handicap was an American Thoroughbred horse race first run on July 25, 1896 at Brighton Beach Race Course in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, New York where it continued annually through 1909. A race for horses age three and older, it was run on dirt over a distance of one mile.

On June 11, 1908, the Republican controlled New York Legislature under Governor Charles Evans Hughes passed the Hart-Agnew anti-wagering bill. The owners of Brighton Beach Race Course and other racing facilities in New York State struggled to stay in business without wagering revenue. Racetrack owners had no choice but to drastically reduce the purse money being paid out which saw important stakes worth as little as twenty-five percent of what they were just two years earlier. Although the Test Handicap had been scheduled for July 23, 1908, all stakes races were canceled at Brighton Beach Race Course and put on hiatus.

There was no Test Handicap in 1908 and 1909  but the following year Empire City Race Track took over the race dates belonging to the Bright  Beach Race Course and in 1910 hosted the Test Handicap. The race was won by Everett, a three-year-old colt owned by James Francis Johnson's Quincy Stable. However, further restrictive legislation was passed by the New York Legislature in 1910 which resulted in the deepening of the financial crisis for track operators and led to a complete shut down of racing across the state during 1911 and 1912. When a Court ruling saw racing return in 1913 it was too late for the Brighton Beach facility and it never reopened.

Records
Speed record: (at 1 mile)
1:38.00 - Voter (1900) (New World Record).
1:38.00 - Hermis (1904)

Most wins by a jockey:
 2 - Danny Maher (1898, 1899)

Most wins by a trainer:
 3 - Thomas Welsh (1897, 1901, 1903)

Most wins by an owner:
 2 - Julius Fleischmann (1897, 1903)
 2 - James R. Keene (1900, 1905)

Winners

References

Category:Discontinued horse races
Category:Open mile category horse races
Category:Horse races in New York (state)
Category:Brighton Beach Race Course
Category:Yonkers Raceway
Category:Recurring sporting events established in 1896
Category:Recurring sporting events disestablished in 1910
Category:1896 establishments in New York (state)
Category:1910 disestablishments in New York (state)


King–Nash House

The King–Nash House, also known as Patrick J. King House, is a combination of Sullivanesque, Colonial Revival, and Prairie styles house at 3234 West Washington Boulevard in the East Garfield Park area of Chicago, Illinois, United States.  The house was built in 1901 by George W. Maher for Patrick J. King. From 1925 until his death in 1943, it was home to Chicago political boss Patrick Nash.

It was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1983.  It was designated a Chicago Landmark on February 10, 1988.

Gallery

References

External links
"George Washington Maher – architect of the King–Nash House"
Page on the fireplace surround in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art collection and "Becoming Movable," a project by artist Ryan Griffis commissioned by LACMA about the object

Category:Houses completed in 1901
Category:Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Chicago
Category:Landmarks in Chicago


Before You Go (film)

Before You Go is a 2002 comedy film directed by Lewis Gilbert (his final directorial effort).  The imperfect lives of three sisters are revealed at their unloved mother's funeral.

Cast
Julie Walters as Teresa
John Hannah as Mike
Joanne Whalley as Mary
Victoria Hamilton as Catherine
Tom Wilkinson as Frank
Patricia Hodge as Mother

References

External links

Category:2002 films
Category:Films directed by Lewis Gilbert
Category:British films
Category:British comedy films
Category:2000s comedy films


Bachelor of Powalgarh

The Bachelor of Powalgarh, also known as the Tiger of Powalgarh, was an unusually large Bengal tiger, and is said to be 10 feet 7 inches (3.23 meters) long when measured between pegs. From 1920 to 1930, this male tiger was the most sought-after big-game trophy in the United Provinces. When the tiger was shot in the winter of 1930 by Jim Corbett, he detailed the story in his book Man-Eaters of Kumaon, published by Oxford University press in 1944.

Size and previous hunter attempts
In 1923, Corbett first discovered the tiger in a steep ravine within a secure retreat.  Government rules prohibited night-time shooting, which inadvertently helped the highly sought after tiger to survive.

Corbett took Commissioner Wyndham (who he said "knows more about tigers than any other man in India") and two experienced shikaris, to view the pug marks of the tiger. After the four examined and measured the pugmarks, Wyndham believed the tiger to be ten feet long between pegs. One shikari said he was 10'5" over curves, while the other said he was 10'6" or more. All four said they had never seen larger pugmarks.

Before Corbett, many attempts had been made to bag the animal, with no one having ever shot him. Two famous hunters, Fred Anderson and Huish Edye, came close, though small mistakes were the cause of their failures. Anderson described the tiger as "big as a Shetland pony," while Edye said it was as big as a donkey. A herder and former poacher, who was attacked by the tiger, said to Corbett that the Bachelor was a shaitan, the Hindi word for 'devil', of a tiger, the size of a camel.

Seven years after the commissioner measured the pugmarks, Corbett and his sister measured the tiger's body twice, albeit without independent witnesses present to certify the measurements, which was 10'7" over curves.

First encounter with the tiger
In the winter of 1930, Corbett made his first hunt for the tiger, bringing his dog Robin with him. He followed the words of an old dak runner who said he saw the largest pugmarks he'd ever seen lead east to a well-wooded valley. The next morning, Robin picked up the scent of a tiger while Jim noticed large, fresh pugmarks. Fifty yards later, Robin located the tiger within a patch of clerodendron forty yards wide. Picking up Robin and entering the plants slowly, Corbett noticed the patch directly ahead swaying. After waiting for the tiger to leave the bush, Corbett went forward with his rifle drawn, but the tiger was nowhere in sight. Robin then signalled that the tiger had gone to the left, into a deep and narrow ravine. Not armed for dealing with a tiger in close quarters, and it being breakfast time, Corbett and Robin returned home.

After breakfast, Corbett returned alone, this time armed with a .450 rifle. He heard shouting and found a man up a tree, swinging an axe and yelling. The man told Corbett that he arrived in time to save him and his buffaloes from a tiger, the size of a camel, who had threatened the herder for hours. After retreating safely to his village, the man pleaded with Corbett to put his photography hobby aside for once and kill the tiger, which he said was big enough to eat a buffalo a day, and would wipe out his livestock in twenty-five. Corbett promised to do his best.

Returning to the plains in which he led the herder's buffaloes through, he heard the call of the bachelor searching for a mate. Corbett imitated a tiger call in reply, then laid down on his elbows in the open, waiting for the tiger to come. After Corbett gave another tiger call, the bachelor called back from a hundred yards away. Eighty seconds later, the tiger's head appeared above bushes four feet high, within ten yards to Corbett's right, and looking directly at him. Corbett slowly turned his rifle, and shot the tiger an inch under his right eye. Instead of dropping dead, as Jim expected, the big cat jumped straight into the air, well above the bushes, then out of panic attacked the tree beside him, tearing it to bits while roaring. Knowing that the tiger knew where he was, Corbett feared to reload his rifle, lest the sound attract the bachelor's attention. He lay on the ground motionless for half an hour until the branches of the tree and nearby bushes stopped waving, and the roaring became less frequent. After all the sounds of thrashing had stopped, Corbett waited for thirty more minutes before slowly crawling thirty yards backwards and hiding in a nearby tree for shelter. After several more minutes, when he was sure that the tiger was gone, Corbett left for home.

Tracking the tiger
The next morning Corbett returned to the location, along with one of his men, an expert tree climber. After reaching the open grounds, the man climbed a tree, noticing many flattened bushes around, but no signs of the tiger itself. Corbett then instructed the man back in the tree to watch over him as he scoured the ground. Near the tree Corbett found blood profusely sprinkled everywhere, and two large pools of blood and a piece of bone two square inches, which was concluded to be the part of the tiger's skull. As a wounded tiger would growl or charge after hearing a gunshot again, Corbett fired a hundred rounds at bushes near a blood-stained tree, but to no avail. Not finding the tiger within the area, Corbett went home.

Final encounter with the tiger
The following morning the herder approached Corbett. He learned that the tiger was shot through the head and, upon his buffaloes finding dried spots of blood, concluded that the tiger must be dead. He offered Jim to use his buffaloes to find the tiger's body using their keen sense of smell, which Corbett agreed upon. Reaching the location where he shot the tiger, Corbett found a hollow filled with dead leaves, flattened with patches of blood around it. Corbett concluded the bachelor must have been lying in the same spot yesterday while he was expending a hundred cartridges. Being uncomfortable with the thought of possibly being between a wounded tiger and a herd of buffaloes, Corbett told the herder that the next day he will search for the tiger alone.

After four days of roaming the jungle, Corbett found pugmarks of a big male tiger. Following the pugmarks led Corbett to a semul tree, which was founded by tigers. After zig-zagging through nearby bushes for an hour or more, Corbett found a tiger, head and body hidden behind a tree with only a leg sticking out. Due to there being another tiger in the area, and not wanting to risk having to deal with two wounded tigers, Corbett choose not to shoot the tiger at that moment. The tiger then moved away. Upon inspecting the spot the tiger had been standing, Corbett found drops of blood, realizing that it was the bachelor all along.

While attempting to follow the tiger, Corbett heard a sambhar cry, then he heard a dry twig snap in the same spot as the cry, which was in a crowded bush area. Crawling on the ground, Corbett saw something red through the bushes. Crawling two yards to the right Corbett looked up to find the tiger in front of him, staring directly at him. Two bullet shots later the tiger fell to his side without a sound, ending the hunt for the province's most sought after trophy of the decade. He did not need to examine this tiger's pugmarks to know it was the Bachelor of Powalgarh, for his proportions were magnificent. The bullet wound from four days ago was hidden by a wrinkle of skin on the front of his head, while the back of the head had a large hole, surprisingly clean and healthy.

Knowing people heard his rifle, Corbett hurried home to relieve the anxiety of the villagers and to gather a carrying party. With his sister, Robin, and twenty men, Corbett returned to the spot where the tiger lay. Corbett measured the tiger twice, one on the spot and another at home, seven years after Wyndham and his men measured the tiger. Corbett and his sister found the tiger to be 10' 7" (322.58 cm), over curves.

Sources
Information about the male Bengal tiger comes from a documentary-style story written by hunter, conservationist, and author Jim Corbett in his book Man-Eaters of Kumaon, published by the Oxford University Press in India in 1944.

See also
 Tiger versus lion
 Champawat Tiger
 Prishibinsk tiger
 Corbett National Park
 Jim Corbett
 Man-eating tigers
 Man-Eaters of Kumaon
 Tiger attack

References

External links
 Jim Corbett Foundation

Category:Individual tigers in India
Category:1930 in India
Category:1930 animal deaths
Category:Individual wild animals


Leslie Ferguson

Leslie Ferguson (8 September 1892 – 30 January 1957) was an Australian cricketer. He played four first-class cricket matches for Victoria between 1920 and 1924.

See also
 List of Victoria first-class cricketers

References

External links

Category:1892 births
Category:1957 deaths
Category:Australian cricketers
Category:Victoria cricketers
Category:Cricketers from Melbourne


Das Almas River (Tocantins)

The Das Almas River is a river of Tocantins state in central Brazil.

See also
List of rivers of Tocantins

References
Brazilian Ministry of Transport

Category:Rivers of Tocantins


Boys Ranch High School

Boys Ranch High School is a public high school located in the Texas Panhandle, 37 miles northwest of Amarillo, Texas and classified as a 2A school by the UIL. The school is a part of the Boys Ranch Independent School District located at Cal Farley's Boys Ranch.  As of 2013, the school is rated "Not Rated" by the Texas Education Agency.

Athletics
The Boys Ranch Roughriders compete in the following sports

Cross Country, Football, Basketball, Wrestling, Tennis, Rodeo, Track & Baseball.

They no longer have golf.

State Titles
Boys Cross Country
1984(3A), 1987(3A), 1988(2A), 1989(2A), 1991(2A), 1993(3A), 1996(2A), 2005(2A), 2011(1A)
One Act Play
1977(2A), 1979(2A), 1991(2A)

References

External links
Boys Ranch ISD
Cal Farley's Boys Ranch

Category:Public high schools in Texas
Category:Schools in Oldham County, Texas


Greywacke

Greywacke or graywacke (German grauwacke, signifying a grey, earthy rock) is a variety of sandstone generally characterized by its hardness, dark color, and poorly sorted angular grains of quartz, feldspar, and small rock fragments or lithic fragments set in a compact, clay-fine matrix. It is a texturally immature sedimentary rock generally found in Paleozoic strata. The larger grains can be sand- to gravel-sized, and matrix materials generally constitute more than 15% of the rock by volume. The term "greywacke" can be confusing, since it can refer to either the immature (rock fragment) aspect of the rock or its fine-grained (clay) component.

The origin of greywacke was unknown until turbidity currents and turbidites were understood, since, according to the normal laws of sedimentation, gravel, sand and mud should not be laid down together. Geologists now attribute its formation to submarine avalanches or strong turbidity currents. These actions churn sediment and cause mixed-sediment slurries, in which the resulting deposits may exhibit a variety of sedimentary features. Supporting the turbidity current origin theory is that deposits of greywacke are found on the edges of the continental shelves, at the bottoms of oceanic trenches, and at the bases of mountain formational areas. They also occur in association with black shales of deep sea origin.

Greywackes are mostly grey, brown, yellow or black, dull-colored sandy rocks which may occur in thick or thin beds along with shales and limestones. They are abundant in Wales, the south of Scotland, the Longford Massif in Ireland and the Lake District National Park of England; they compose the majority of the main alps that make up the backbone of New Zealand; sandstones classified as feldspathic and lithic greywacke have been recognized in Ecca Group in South Africa. They can contain a very great variety of minerals, the principal ones being quartz, orthoclase and plagioclase feldspars, calcite, iron oxides and graphitic, carbonaceous matters, together with (in the coarser kinds) fragments of such rocks as felsite, chert, slate, gneiss, various schists, and quartzite. Among other minerals found in them are biotite, chlorite, tourmaline, epidote, apatite, garnet, hornblende, augite, sphene and pyrites. The cementing material may be siliceous or argillaceous and is sometimes calcareous.

As a rule greywackes do not contain fossils, but organic remains may be common in the finer beds associated with them. Their component particles are usually not very rounded or polished, and the rocks have often been considerably indurated by recrystallization, such as the introduction of interstitial silica. In some districts the greywackes are cleaved, but they show phenomena of this kind much less perfectly than the slates. Some varieties include feldspathic greywacke, which is rich in feldspar, and lithic greywacke, which is rich in tiny rock fragments.

Although the group is so diverse that it is difficult to characterize mineralogically, it has a well-established place in petrographical classifications because these peculiar composite arenaceous deposits are very frequent among Silurian and Cambrian rocks, and are less common in Mesozoic or Cenozoic strata. Their essential features are their gritty character and their complex composition. By increasing metamorphism, greywackes frequently pass into mica-schists, chloritic schists and sedimentary gneisses.

See also
 Greywacke zone
 Torlesse Greywacke

References

External links

 National Park Service site Presidio
 Franciscan Greywacke/Shales

Category:Sedimentary rocks
Category:Sandstone


2016 in Poland

Incumbents

Events

August
August 5-21 — 87 athletes from Poland compete at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

September
September 3 — Poland win the eighteenth edition of the Eurovision Young Musicians in Cologne, Germany

December
From December 16 — protests against law limiting of freedom of the press

See also
 2016 in Polish television

Category:2016 in Poland
Category:2010s in Poland
Category:Years of the 21st century in Poland
Poland
Poland


Puente (song)

"Puente" is a latin pop song by Guatemalan recording artist Ricardo Arjona, released on August 9, 2010 as the lead single from his twelfth studio album, Poquita Ropa (2010). The song was written by Arjona, who produced it with longtime collaborators Dan Warner and Lee Levin under their stage name Los Gringos. Two versions of the song were made, one of them being a mixture of salsa, merengue along with Cuban music influences; and the other an acoustic version made with piano and percussion.

Lyrically, "Puente" is a song related to the actual situation of Cuba and the immigration to the United States. The song received critical praise, with a critic stating that it "brings the album to an extraordinary conclusion", and received comparisons with Fito Páez song "Habana". Commercially, "Puente" did not attain commercial success, managing only to reach number 36 on the US Billboard Latin Pop Songs chart.

An accompanying music video for "Puente" was released in August 2010. It was directed by Joaquín Cambré and filmed between Mexico and Argentina. The clip, which showcases the problematic issues of migration in Cuba, was filmed by Arjona while he was on the Quinto Piso Tour with the collaboration of children from 5 to 13 age old. As of 11 July 2012, the video has reached 1.4 million views on YouTube.

Background

With Poquita Ropa, Arjona wanted to drastically change his musical style. He tried to use as few instruments as possible, resulting in a production that sounds like a capella performances. Arjona said about the album, "music and women look better with little clothes", and that "they [the songs] are like women; they get things up and are so concerned about this that they forget that the less clothes, more beauty. The songs are often overwhelmed by ourselves, because we saturate them with arrangements looking to exalt their qualities and we end up hiding them."

Arjona produced the album with the assistance of Dan Warner, who has worked with Shakira, Celine Dion and Christina Aguilera. Jason Birchmeier from Allmusic commented that Poquita Ropa "finds Arjona at his most naked, backed by spare arrangements of acoustic guitar, piano, and Hammond B-3 along with occasional touches of strings, woodwinds, and chorus vocals." Poquita Ropa was the first album that Arjona recorded without producer Tommy Torres, whose last production was 5to Piso (2008). The album is similar in style to Arjona's work on Galería Caribe (2000).

Composition

"Puente" is a latin pop song with salsa, merengue and Cuban music influences crafted in eight and a half minutes and divided in three parts. The first one is an a cappella song, sang mainly with a piano. The second part is a ballad with Caribbean and Latin sounds, with some salsa and Cuban influences. The third is a mixture of salsa and merengue, with Cuban influences. The song was written by Arjona, who produced it alongside longtime collaborators Dan Warner and Lee Levin, under their stagename Los Gringos. Mónica Maristain from newspaper La Nación compared it with a song released by Fito Páez in 1999, "Habana". Jason Birchmeier from Allmusic praised the song, stating that it "brings the album to an extraordinary conclusion."

In the song, Arjona sings: "Habana / siempre en las mitades, tan mitad española, tan mitad africana / saben bien las olas que en cada ventana siempre hay un testigo / Habana." He also said that "Puente" was the only song that was "not allowed to undress". When asked about "Puente"'s main theme, Arjona commented, "Although many believe is a threshed topic, it isn't for a Cuban, be it on the island or Florida. The status of this dispute hasn't changed since 1959 and I've never seen something as disgusting as a rivalry between people occasioned from politics. Chávez can fight with Uribe, Fidel with Obama, but what has this to do with two third-generation cousins that inherit an enmity for a politic matter[?]".

Music video

The music video for "Puente" was released on 17 August 2010. It was directed by Argentinian director Joaquín Cambre, who also worked with Arjona on the music video for "Sin Ti, Sin Mi". In the video, to brothers live separately, one of them in La Havana, and the other in Miami, Florida. The video ends with the boys encountering each other in a bridge, along many other people. The video shows the problematic about the migration on Cuba. Arjona shot the video while on his Quinto Piso Tour. It was filmed between Mexico and Argentina, with the collaboration of children from 5 to 13 age old. Coambre commented about the video that ""Puente" for me is an array of images that tell the same story in opposite realities. Two boys exactly alike; one lives in an abandoned hotel on the beach and the other lives in a big city skyscraper, yet both are equally lonely. Miami and Havana are where those two boys are in their own worlds and see that the only way out of their realms are when they decide to encounter one another."

The video starts showing Arjona inside a room powering on an old video projector and singing while watching a black and white film projected on the wall. This scenes are shown until the music style of the song changes into salsa. Then, after the musical change, scenes of two twin brothers are shown, interpolated, one of them living in Havana, the other living in Miami, Florida. The following scenes show the technological differences to which the brothers are attached, before going into the musical change to merengue and cuban music, on which two large group of kids, led by the two brothers, are shown sprinting throughout two shores until they meet and start to celebrate. Then, the final musical change is shown, along a collage of different scenes from the United States and Cuba. Finally, Arjona is shown again sit along the video projector, and the clip ends. As of 14 July 2012, the video has reached 1.4 million views on YouTube.

Trackslisting
Digital Download
"Puente" (Caribe) — 8:29
Digital Download — Acoustic
"Puente" (Acoustic) — 4:46

Credits and personnel
The credits are taken from the iTunes exclusive digital booklet.

"Puente" (Acoustic)

Ricardo Arjona — Composer, chorus
Dan Warner — guitars, mandoline
Matt Rollings — piano, piano arrangements
Pete Wallace — Hammond B-3, melody
Lee Levin — percussion, drums
Briang Lang — bass
Wendy Pedersen — background vocals
Roger Silvestre Ramírez — background vocals
Andrés Saavedra — recording engineer
Isaías García — recording engineer

"Puente" (Caribe)

Ricardo Arjona — Composer, chorus
Dan Warner — guitars
Matt Rollings — piano, piano arrangements
Lee Levin — percussion
Wendy Pedersen — background vocals
Roger Silvestre Ramírez — background vocals
Efraín Dávila — arrangements, musical production, acoustic piano, keyboards, programming
José Tabares — bass
Luisito Quintero — percussion
José Sibaja — trumpet
Ismael Vergara — saxophone (tenor)
Alberto Barros — trombone
Ahmed Barroso — tres cubano
Gianko "Yanko" Gomez — chorus
Andrés Saavedra — recording engineer
Isaías García — recording engineer

Technical credits

Xarah - Pro Tools
Chris Zalles — Pro Tools
Sebastian Krys — mixing engineer
Gavin Lurseen — mastering engineer
Reuben Cohen — mastering assistant
Guido Díaz — sound engineer on "Puente" (Caribe)
Juan Mario Aracil — sound engineer, mixing engineer on "Puente" (Caribe)
Ricardo Arjona — creative direction
Carlos R. Perez — creative direction
Elasticpeople.com — graphic design

Charts

Release history

References

Category:Ricardo Arjona songs
Category:Songs written by Ricardo Arjona
Category:2010 songs
Category:2010 singles
Category:Spanish-language songs
Category:Warner Music Latina singles


Alpers, Oklahoma

Alpers is an unincorporated community in Carter County, Oklahoma. The elevation is 965 feet. A post office operated in Alpers from July 15, 1918, to November 14, 1931.

References

Category:Unincorporated communities in Carter County, Oklahoma
Category:Unincorporated communities in Oklahoma


Shandong Subdistrict

Shandong Subdistrict () is a subdistrict in Shapingba District, Chongqing, China. , it has 2 residential communities under its administration.

See also
 List of township-level divisions of Chongqing

References

Category:Township-level divisions of Chongqing
Category:Shapingba District


Antonio R. Frausto

Antonio R. Frausto (1897–1954) was a Mexican film actor. A leading character actor he became a familiar face during the Golden age of Mexican cinema, appearing more than ninety films. He played the nineteenth century dictator of Mexico Porfirio Díaz on screen several times.

Selected filmography
 Let's Go with Pancho Villa (1936)
 Beautiful Mexico (1938)
 The Coward (1939)
 Narciso's Hard Luck (1940)
 Doña Bárbara (1943)
 My Memories of Mexico (1944)
 The Escape (1944)
 The Hour of Truth (1945)
 Tragic Wedding (1946)
 Midnight (1949)
 Over the Waves (1950)
 María Montecristo (1951)
 Now I Am Rich (1952)

References

Bibliography
 Mora, Carl J. Mexican Cinema: Reflections of a Society, 1896-2004. McFarland, 2005.

External links

Category:1897 births
Category:1954 deaths
Category:Mexican male film actors
Category:Male actors from San Luis Potosí
Category:20th-century Mexican male actors
Category:People from San Luis Potosí City


Yasin Aslan

Yasin Aslan is a Turkish author. He was born in Arpacay Town of Kars Province in Turkey in 1953. He finished Primary and Secondary Schools in Aralik Town of Kars Province and finished High School in Tokat Province. He graduated from Faculty of Education of Seljuk University in 1977. After graduating, he worked as a teacher of English at the English Department of Faculty of Education of Seljuk University over eight years. Then he moved to Munich in 1985 to work in Azerbaijani Department of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. He worked as a Senior Editor and Program Specialist in Azerbaijani Service of Radio Liberty until 1995. After working 10 years in Radio Liberty, in 1998 he was invited to Ankara to work as an advisor to the Prime Minister of Republic of Turkey. He worked with 3 different Prime Ministers until 2003 and then he retired.

He is specialized on Caucasus. He is the author of 13 books mostly on Caucasus and Caspian Region. He also has hundreds of articles both published in Turkey and abroad.

Yasin Aslan is married and has two children.

Published Books:

Under the Light of Secret Documents, The Attempts of Ethnic Groups to Takeover the State `The Handle of The Axe Is From Us`. First Edition 2005, Second Edition 2009
Advanced Translation Methods, First Edition 2004, Second Edition 2008
Balance of Powers in Eurasia in the 21st Century, `Yellow Invasion`, 2004
 Caspian Oil, Causcasus Gordian Knot and Turkey, First Edition 1997, Second Edition 2005.
A Turning Point in the History of Armenia, First Edition 1996, Second Edition 1997.
Geopolitical Wished of Third Rome, 1995
New Democratic Russian Tsars and Turkish Reality, 1994
Azerbaijan on the Path of Total Independence, 1992
Azerbaijan`s  Struggle for Independence, 1992
Today Panturkism and Panislamism in Azerbaijan, 1990
Soul Azerbaijan, 1990

Translations:

The Way Leading to the Bloody Saturday Night in Baku, Bakhtiyar Vahapzadeh, 1990
The Last Drive to the South by Vladimir Jirinosky,1995

Published Articles: Dozens of articles published in English Report on the USSR, Eurasian Studies, Turkish Daily News etc.

Headlines of some of the articles

Azerbaijani Intellectuals Express Concern over Native Language
Azerbaijani Press Discusses Link Between Ecological Problems and Health Defects
Environmental Pollution, Infertility and Divorce in Azerbaijan.
Founder of Independent Azerbaijan Rehabilitated
Independent Azerbaijan, 1918-1920: Call to Reevaluate History of Former Nation-State.
Azerbaijani Intellecftuals Discuss Legeacy of Alphabet Reforms.
Mosques Reopened in Azerbaijan
Muslim Support for Baltic Independence
Psot-Aliev Era Has Already Started
Power Struggle in Ruling Elite Intensifies in Azerbaijan
Turkey Holds Key to the Caucasus Conflict
Azerbaycan Yeniden Hassas Bir Sürece Girmiştir.
Azerbaycan Türkiye ile Birleşebilir
Caspian Oil and Pipelines-Interviwes-Rusya ve İran göz ardı edilmemeli

Symposiums and Conferences

He took part several times both in national and international Symposiums and Conferences shown below
Convention of World Azerbaijanis Congress,October 21–22, 2000. Strasburg-France
Convention of World Azerbaijanis Congress,10-12,2001. Malmo-Sweden
Conference on Turkish Periodicals, 1997. Haarlem-Holand.
Integration of Turkish Community to German Society, 1996. Munich-Germany.
Türkiye, Azerbaycan ve Orta Asya Cumhuriyetlerinde Demokrasi ve Piyasa Ekonomisine Geçiş Sürecinde Bazı Pratik Sorunlar, 16-23 Kasım 1992. Bakü-Azerbaycanç
Demokrasi ve Pazer Ekonomisine Geçişte Türkiye'nin Tecrübesi ve Eski Sovyet Cumhuriyetlerinin Yeniden Yapılanması, 16-19 Eylül 1991. Yalıkavak-Bodrum-Türkiye.
First Friendship, Brotherhood and Cooperation Convention of Turkish States and Turkish Speaking Communities, 1993. Antalya-Turkey
Second Friendship, Brotherhood and Cooperation Convention of Turkish States and Turkish Speaking Communities, 1994. Izmir-Turkey
Third Friendship, Brotherhood and Cooperation Convention of Turkish States and Turkish Speaking Communities, 1995. Izmir-Turkey
Fourth Friendship, Brotherhood and Cooperation Convention of Turkish States and Turkish Speaking Communities, 1996. Ankara-Turkey
Fifth Friendship, Brotherhood and Cooperation Convention of Turkish States and Turkish Speaking Communities, 1997. Istanbul-Turkey
Sixth Friendship, Brotherhood and Cooperation Convention of Turkish States and Turkish Speaking Communities, 1998. Bursa-Turkey
Seventh Friendship, Brotherhood and Cooperation Convention of Turkish States and Turkish Speaking Communities, 1999. Denizli-Turkey
Eight Friendship, Brotherhood and Cooperation Convention of Turkish States and Turkish Speaking Communities, 2000. Samsun-Turkey
Ninth Friendship, Brotherhood and Cooperation Convention of Turkish States and Turkish Speaking Communities, 2001. Istanbul-Turkey

References

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Estonian Small Cup

The Estonian Small Cup is a knock-out competition for Estonian amateur teams, which play in the 4th or lower level. The first competition was won by Kohtla-Järve JK Alko in 2005 and the latest title was given to Saue JK. Finals are held in Tallinn, A. Le Coq Arena since 2007.

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Earl Hand

Captain Earl McNabb Hand   (10 March 1897 – 19 March 1954) was a Canadian World War I flying ace credited with five confirmed aerial victories and two unconfirmed ones.

Biography

Early life
Hand was born in Saint Ste. Marie, the son of Thomas A. Hand and Hannah Jane Hand.

Military service
Hand joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force on April 7, 1916. Soon, he was sent to France's Western Front.

Hand began his victory roll while flying a Sopwith Camel for 45 Squadron. He tallied his first win when he drove an Albatros D.V down out of control at Langemark-Poelkapelle, Belgium on 15 November 1917. After 45 Squadron shifted from the Western Front to Italy, Hand had a couple of unconfirmed claims on 11 January 1918; he then scored four times between 30 January and 9 May 1918. A summary of his victories shows four destroyed enemy airplanes, one confirmed and two unconfirmed driven down out of control. On 1 June 1918, Hand was shot down by Austro-Hungarian ace Frank Linke-Crawford. Linke-Crawford hit the gas tank of Hand's Camel and set it afire; somehow, Hand survived both the flames and the impact of the crash. However, he was badly burned and taken prisoner.

Later life
Hand was repatriated in 1919 and returned to Canada. He became a magistrate. He also helped found the Toronto Flying Club.

Sources of information

References
Above the Trenches: a Complete Record of the Fighter Aces and Units of the British Empire Air Forces 1915-1920. Christopher F. Shores, Norman L. R. Franks, Russell Guest. Grub Street, 1990. , .

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Battle of Focșani

The Battle of Focșani (also Battle of Fokschani or Battle of Focsani; ) was a battle in the Russo-Turkish War (1787–1792) fought on 1 August 1789 between the Ottoman Empire and the alliance of the Russian Empire and the Habsburg Monarchy near Focșani, Moldavia (now in Romania). The Russians were led by Alexander Suvorov, the Austrians by Prince Josias of Coburg, and the Ottomans by Osman Pasha.

The Austrian army numbered 18,000 Austrian and Hungarian troops. The Russian contingent was made up of 7,000 soldiers. The Ottomans mustered ca. 30,000 soldiers.

The allies stormed the Ottoman entrenched camp and drove the Turks out of Moldavia.

The Moldavian campaign begins
As the campaigning season of 1789 began, Koca Yusuf Pasha, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire, took steps to defend the provinces of Moldavia and Wallachia. He faced the prospect of offensives from two directions. To the northwest lay an Austrian army of 18,000 men under Coburg. Meanwhile, Suvorov was marching Russian troops into Moldavia from the northeast. Yusuf Pasha determined to attack the Austrian forces before they could link up with their Russian allies. To this end, he ordered Osman Pasha to lead an army of 30,000 men north to Focșani. The town was an important trade center strategically located on the border between Moldavia and Wallachia. Learning of the Ottoman approach, Coburg asked his Russian counterpart for assistance.  Suvorov marched with 7,000 men.  He left his position at Buirlad on July 28 and marched 40 miles in 28 hours to reach Coburg the next day on the Siret River.

Preparation for battle
The Russians and Austrians advanced from the Siret in two columns. Suvorov commanded the left column, Coburg the right. They made contact with Osman Pasha's outposts on July 31 and drove them back on the main Turkish army at Focșani.

On August 1, Suvorov and Coburg drew up their forces in two lines, with their infantry in squares. The illustration accompanying this article shows infantry in square formations.

In previous engagements with the Ottomans, the Russian Army had deployed its infantry in line. Russian commanders soon found that using linear tactics against the Turks led to disaster. The Ottomans attacked the long and thin Russian lines with masses of excellent cavalry, which were able to pierce the Russian formations and break them into fragments. Suvorov and others reorganized their battle formations into square. These squares could repel Ottoman cavalry charges and then advance to win battles. Suvorov used squares made up of individual regiments and battalions, disposed in a checkerboard pattern, with skirmishers in loose order. His battlefield deployment led to more flexibility, speed, mutual fire support, ability to break through the Ottoman defenses, and steadfastness in repelling Turkish cavalry and light infantry attacks.

The Austrians had reached a conclusion similar to that of the Russians. In the Austro-Turkish War (1737–1739), the Austrians had used linear tactics against the Ottomans. Now they adopted infantry squares arranged to offer mutual support.

Ironically, by the late 18th century, Ottoman cavalry such as feudal sipahis and deli volunteers, had declined substantially in quality and importance. The mainstays of an Ottoman army were the professional artillery corps and the infantry, including salaried troops such as janissaries and auxiliaries such as those fielded by the boyar aristocracy of Moldavia and Wallachia.

The Battle of Focșani
The battle began around 9:00 a.m. on August 1, 1789, as the Russian and Austrian artillery opened fire on the Turkish lines.  The Turks had fortified their camp with a line of entrenchments. Ottoman troops in the Balkans were experienced at erecting field fortifications, which could include ditches, earthen ramparts, and wooden palisades and towers. The Ottomans sortied from their defenses to attack the allies all along their battle line. Allied artillery and musket fire drove the Turks back.

Suvorov then attacked the Turkish right flank. The Russian cavalry was repulsed, but the Russian infantry attack was successful. The Turks were pushed back into their entrenchments under close range Russian fire. On the Ottoman left, the Austrian infantry also threw back the defenders. Defeated on both ends of their line, the Ottomans fled. The victory was complete by 4:00 p.m. The allies lacked the resources to pursue the Turks and advanced no further into Ottoman territory.

The Turkish casualties numbered 1,500 dead and 2,500 wounded. Allied casualties amounted to 800. The allies had captured 12 Ottoman guns.

Aftermath
With Osman Pasha beaten and driven from Moldavia, Yusuf Pasha's replacement as Grand Vizier, Cenaze Hasan Pasha, had to come up with a new strategy. In September, the Vizier himself went on the offensive with 100,000 men.  Again, Suvorov joined Coburg, and the result was a great allied victory at the Battle of Rymnik.

Order of battle
The following is a list of the units that comprised the Austro-Russian army at Focșani.

Russian units:
Apsheron Musketeer Regiment
Rostov Musketeer Regiment
Smolensk Musketeer Regiment
Jäger regiment
2 grenadier battalions
Razan Dragoon Regiment
Starodub Dragoon Regiment
Tschernigov Dragoon Regiment
Cossacks

Austrian units:
Kaiser Infantry Regiment
Kaunitz Infantry Regiment
Schröder Infantry Regiment
Wenzel Colloredo Infantry Regiment
First Szekler Grenz Regiment
Second Szekler Grenz Regiment
Karl Toscana Grenadier Battalion
Khevenhüller Grenadier Battalion
Mittrowsky Grenadier Battalion
Pellegrini Grenadier Battalion
Levenher Chevauxleger Regiment
Barco Hussar Regiment
Kaiser Hussar Regiment
Szekler Hussar Regiment
Arnauten (Albanian auxiliaries). or local auxiliaries: Wallachian for Habsburg forces, "armed Moldavian" in Russian forces

References

Sources

Black, Jeremy. The Cambridge Illustrated Atlas of Warfare: Renaissance to Revolution, 1492-1792. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Criste, O., Kriege under Kaiser Josef II. Vienna: K.u.K. Kriegsarchivs, 1904. Nafziger Collection, http://usacac.army.mil/cac2/CGSC/CARL/nafziger/789GAA.pdf, http://usacac.army.mil/cac2/CGSC/CARL/nafziger/789HAA.pdf (accessed December 20, 2017).
Field, Jacob F. "Focsani, 1 August 1789", R.G. Grant, ed., 1001 Battles that Changed the Course of History. New York: Universe Publishing, 2011.
Onacewicz, Wlodzimierz. Empires by Conquest. Fairfax: Hero Books, 1985.
Nicolle, David, and Angus McBride. Armies of the Ottoman Empire, 1775-1820. London: Osprey, 1998.
Tucker, Spencer C., ed. "Aleksandr Vasilievich Suvorov", A Global Chronology of Conflict: From the Ancient World to the Modern Middle East. ABC-CLIO, 2010.

External links
Medal For the Victory over Turks at the Battle of Focsani (accessed December 22, 2017)

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Lacemaker (Portrait of Štefka Batič)

Lacemaker (Portrait of Štefka Batič) (in Slovenian: Čipkarica (Portret Štefke Batičeve)) is a picture of the Slovenian painter Veno Pilon from 1923.

Description
The picture is painted in oil on canvas and has dimensions of 103.5 x 77.5 cm.

The picture is part of the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana.

Analysis
The portrait presents Shtefke Batic with lace, which is caught with the right hand on the top edge and the bottom adhere left hand. The painting is part of a series of portraits of Veno Pilon, he portrays friends, relatives and loved ones. With them he enters own new period, going from expressionism to a new reality. The colors are dark, unclear, and the overall feel of the image is static, even still. At the same time, his work marks a new emphasis on volume and with a clear purpose paints everyday life. His portraits express peace.

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Emma of Anjou

Emma (or Emme) of Anjou (c.1140–c.1214) was an illegitimate daughter of Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, and thus the half-sister of King Henry II of England. She was married to Dafydd ab Owain Gwynedd, a Welsh prince. She is occasionally confused with Emma de Laval (1200-1264), the daughter of Guy V de Laval, or alternatively with her mother, Emma de Dunstanville, who is sometimes also known as Emma of Anjou.
Emma married Dafydd in the summer of 1174, after an unsuccessful rebellion by the queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and her older sons had led her half-brother the king to disperse Eleanor's court in Aquitaine and bring Emma back to England.

Emma had four children by Dafydd:

 Owain
 Einion
 Gwenllian
 Gwenhwyfar, who married one Meurig ap Roger, the son of a Powys nobleman who had allied himself with Henry II

In 1176, after her husband's rule in the Kingdom of Gwynedd had been challenged by his brother, Emma is known to have visited King Henry II and received a gift of manors in Shropshire and Worcestershire. After Henry's death in 1189, she continued to attempt to protect her children's interests by making representations to Henry's heirs.

In 1196, Emma and her husband, at the request of their son, Owain, gave property to Haughmond Abbey. Shortly afterwards, Dafydd was deposed by his nephew, Llywelyn the Great, and was forced into exile in England, where he died in 1203.

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Anni Rehborn

Anni Rehborn (20 November 1907 – 30 November 1987) was a German swimmer who won a bronze medal in the 4×100 m freestyle relay at the 1927 European Aquatics Championships. She entered the 1928 Summer Olympics, but did not compete for unknown reasons. During her career she won eight national titles in the 100 m backstroke (1923–1925, 1927–1929) and 100 m freestyle events (1923–1924).

Family
Rehborn was the wife of Dr. Karl Brandt, one of Adolf Hitler's personal physicians. The two married on 17 March 1934. The couple had one child, Karl Adolf Brandt, born 4 October 1935. With her husband a part of Hitler's inner circle, Rehborn became close friends with both Eva Braun and Margarete Speer, wife of Albert Speer.
Karl Brandt led the Action T4 euthanasia programme started by a decree from Hitler in September 1939, in which disabled and handicapped patients were executed by the regime. Karl Brandt was tried for crimes against humanity at the Doctors' Trial, found guilty and executed by hanging.

Her elder brother Julius and sister Hanni were Olympic divers.

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Ilmārs

Ilmārs is a Latvian masculine given name and may refer to:
Ilmārs Bricis (born 1970), Latvian biathlete
Ilmārs Liepiņš (1947–2007), Latvian footballer
Ilmārs Rimšēvičs (born 1965), Latvian economist
Ilmārs Poikāns (born 1978), Latvian artificial intelligence researcher
Ilmārs Starostīts (born 1978), Latvian chess Grandmaster
Ilmārs Verpakovskis (born 1958), Latvian footballer

Cognates
Ilmar, a similar, Estonian masculine given name
Ilmari, a similar, Finnish masculine given name

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Tana Ramsay

Cayetana Elizabeth Ramsay (née Hutchenson, born 23 August 1974) is an English author of books on cookery and a TV broadcaster. She is married to celebrity chef and television personality Gordon Ramsay.

Early life
Cayetana Hutchenson was born in Croydon, Surrey, UK, and raised on a farm in Kent. Her father, Chris Hutcheson, is a businessman. Hutchenson worked for her father before pursuing a career in education. She trained as a Montessori teacher.

Career

In 2010, Ramsay appeared on the ITV show Dancing on Ice, partnered by professional skater Stuart Widdall, being eliminated in the fourth week. She has been a presenter of UKTV's food show Market Kitchen. In 2014, she appeared in the  American version of cooking show MasterChef, co-hosted by her husband, Gordon Ramsay. Since 2015, Ramsay has starred in her daughter's show Matilda and the Ramsay Bunch on CBBC.

Personal life
A Montessori-trained former schoolteacher, Ramsay married Gordon Ramsay in London on 21 December 1996. They have five children: Megan, Holly, Jack, Matilda, and Oscar. The fifth child was born after Ramsay had a miscarriage in 2016. In an interview, Gordon Ramsay detailed how he and his wife struggled to conceive due to her polycystic ovarian syndrome.

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Willian (footballer, born 1986)

Willian Gomes de Siqueira (born 1 March 1986), simply known as Willian, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a forward for Palmeiras.

Club career

Early career
Born in Três Fronteiras, São Paulo, Willian joined Guarani's youth setup in 2002. He made his first team – and Série A – debut on 22 August 2004, coming on as a second half substitute for Sandro Hiroshi in a 1–1 home draw against Vasco da Gama.

Willian appeared rarely for the club during the season, as his side suffered relegation. He appeared more regularly in the following year, but was still sparingly used.

Atlético Paranaense
On 23 December 2005, Willian signed for Atlético-PR. He scored his first goal in the top tier for the club on 30 August 2006, netting the winner in a 2–1 home win against Santos.

Willian was rarely used in the following years, also suffering a knee injury in 2007. On 3 February 2009, he was loaned to Vila Nova until December.

While on loan, Willian scored eight goals during the year's Série B, being the club's top goalscorer as his side avoided relegation. Highlights included braces against Campinense (two times) and América-RN.

On 26 January 2010, after returning from loan, Willian rescinded his contract with Atlético.

Figueirense
In February 2010, Willian joined Figueirense. He was the top goalscorer of Campeonato Catarinense with 13 goals in only 15 matches, being also elected the best player of the tournament.

Willian also scored a further 12 goals during the Série B championship, being one of the key units as the club achieved top level promotion as second.

Corinthians
On 3 January 2011, Willian signed for Corinthians, with Atlético still retaining part ownership. He made his debut for the club late in the month, replacing Morais in a 2–2 draw at São Bernardo.

Willian scored his first goals for Timão on 13 March 2011, netting a brace in a 3–2 away win against Mirassol. Mainly used as a substitute during the Campeonato Paulista, he became a regular starter for the club during the year's Brasileirão; he scored a double in a 2–0 home win against Fluminense on 12 June.

Willian also appeared regularly in 2012 Copa Libertadores, helping Corinthians to lift their first-ever title in the competition.

Metalist Kharkiv
On 2 July 2012 Willian moved abroad, moving to Ukrainian Premier League club FC Metalist Kharkiv. He scored his first goal abroad on 18 August, netting the second in a 3–0 win at FC Hoverla Uzhhorod.

Willian made his continental debut on 23 August 2012, starting in a 2–0 away win against FC Dinamo București in the UEFA Europa League. Again mainly used as a substitute, he returned to his homeland in the following year.

Cruzeiro
On 14 July 2013, Willian signed a one-year loan deal with Cruzeiro, with Diego Souza moving permanently in the opposite direction. Roughly one year later, he was bought outright for a fee of €3.5 million; he also appeared regularly as his side achieved back-to-back Brasileirão titles in 2013 and 2014.

During the 2015 campaign, Willian became an undisputed starter under new manager Mano Menezes; during the manager's debut on 6 September, he scored four goals in a 5–1 home routing of Figueirense.

Career statistics

Honours

Club
Corinthians
Campeonato Brasileiro Série A: 2011
Copa Libertadores: 2012

Cruzeiro
Campeonato Brasileiro Série A: 2013, 2014
Campeonato Mineiro: 2014

Palmeiras
Campeonato Brasileiro Série A: 2018

Individual
Campeonato Catarinense Best player: 2010
Campeonato Catarinense Team of the year: 2010

References

External links

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Petseling Monastery

Petseling Monastery () is a gompa in the dzong style of Bhutan built near Jakar, Bumthang District in 1769 with support from the Penlop of Trongsa and the dzongpen (governor) of Jakar.

Like the great Boddhisattva Manjushri and Vairocana who lived for the welfare of all sentient beings, the highly accomplished master Drupthop Namgyal Lhundup, the First Petseling Trulku went to Lhasa and took a vow before Jow statue and started to recite Phagpa Zangpo Chodpai Monlam for the welfare of all sentient beings. At that time, the Jowo Statue spoke thus:

“Son! Don’t be very ambitious
Go instead to the south
East of Kurje Lhakhang in Bumthang is a place
Make it your monastic seat
You will fulfil your dreams
Name it Jangchub Pelri.”

East of Kurjue Lhakhang, this prophesied place is located atop a ridge and amidst forests where even tree branches bow as if to welcome all visitors. Wild flowers and medicinal herbs are common sight. One particular flower, Dongdola blossoms both in summer and winter and fill the whole area with sweet fragrance, like offerings to gods and goddesses. No wonder many birds including cuckoos make it their home and sing in praise of the monastery. The Monastery was built in 1769 with support from Trongsa Chila and Jakar Dzongpon, Bhutan.

Reference:

Blossoms of Dongdola: Biographies of Drupthob Namgyal Lhundup and Successive Padtshaling Trulkus by Jangchub Pelri Dratshang (Chamkhar, Bumthang, Bhutan: Jangchub Pelri Dratshang, 2011).

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State of Reason

The State Of Reason Mystery, a science fiction novel series by Miles A. Maxwell,
tells the story of step-brothers Franklin Reveal, a Congregational minister, and Everon Student, an industrialist, after New York City is hit by an atomic bomb.

Releases to date in the mystery-thriller series include the novels Loss Of Reason, Search For Reason, and Finding Reason.

The main themes of the novels are the validity of religious belief, the value of philosophy, property rights and the value of government.

Die By The Pen, a novel that ties tangentially into the State Of Reason Mystery series, was released by Maxwell on May 1, 2016. The novel features FBI Agent Naomi Soul, who is to play an important role helping the brothers and journalist Victoria Hill investigate who destroyed New York in Book Three of the mystery series, Finding Reason. Naomi investigates the deaths of famous authors killed using the methods in their stories.

Drone, a prequel to the State Of Reason Mystery series, was released by Maxwell on June 22, 2016. The new short story features a terrorist who creates a constitutional crisis related to the U.S. Presidential election and the taking of office in the series by President Christopher Wall.

Vibrate, a novel that ties tangentially into the State Of Reason Mystery series, was released by Maxwell on July 29, 2019. The novel continues the story of now former FBI Agent Naomi Soul, who has become a private detective in New York City investigating the mysterious deaths of Manhattan multi-millionaires whose deaths appear to be from natural causes, but all seem to be dying from the same symptoms.

References

External links
Miles A Maxwell's State Of Reason website
Booktastic Interview

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Tolpia

Tolpia is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae. The genus used to be included in the family Noctuidae.

Species
The odor species-group
 Tolpia odor Fibiger, 2007
 Tolpia fyani Fibiger, 2007
The unguis species-group
 Tolpia sikkimi Fibiger, 2007
 Tolpia unguis Fibiger, 2007
 Tolpia buthani Fibiger, 2007
 Tolpia indiai Fibiger, 2007
 Tolpia andamani Fibiger, 2007
 Tolpia hainanensis Fibiger, 2010
 Tolpia paraunguis Fibiger, 2010
 Tolpia mons Fibiger, 2010
The peniculus species-group
 Tolpia peniculus Fibiger, 2007
 Tolpia kampungi Fibiger, 2007
 Tolpia multiprocessa Fibiger, 2008
The conscitulana species-group
 Tolpia orientis Fibiger, 2007
 Tolpia alexmadseni Fibiger, 2007
 Tolpia talauti Fibiger, 2007
 Tolpia palawani Fibiger, 2007
 Tolpia conscitulana Walker, 1863
The crispus species-group
 Tolpia crispus Fibiger, 2007
 Tolpia knudlarseni Fibiger, 2007
The montana species-group
 Tolpia montana Fibiger, 2007
 Tolpia sarawakia Fibiger, 2007
 Tolpia parasarawakia Fibiger, 2007
 Tolpia kuchingia Fibiger, 2007
 Tolpia kalimantania Fibiger, 2011
The mccabei species-group
 Tolpia mccabei Fibiger, 2007

Former species
 Tolpia myops Hampson, 1907

References
 Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
 Tolpia at funet.fi
  2011: Revision of the Micronoctuidae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea). Part 4, Taxonomy of the subfamilies Tentaxinae and Micronoctuinae. Zootaxa, 2842: 1–188. Preview

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