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Xanthoparmelia isidiovagans is a species of foliose lichen in the family Parmeliaceae
Description
The yellowish-green thallus of Xanthoparmelia isidiovagans reaches a diameter of , comprising elongated, linear lobes measuring wide. It contains several secondary compounds, including stictic acid as a major metabolite, usnic acid, norstictic acid, constictic acid, and cryptostictic acid as minor metabolites, and trace amounts of peristictic acid.
Taxonomy
Found in Spain, it was formally described as a new species in 2005 by lichenologists Oscar Blanco, Ana Crespo, Pradeep Divakar, and John Elix. The type specimen was collected in Torremocha del Pinar (Guadalajara) at an elevation of . Here the lichen was found growing as a vagrant on the soil in open forest dominated by Juniperus thurifera and . The specific epithet isidiovagans alludes to its resemblance to the American species Xanthoparmelia vagans, from which it differs by the presence of isidia.
See also
List of Xanthoparmelia species
References
isidiovagans
Lichens described in 2005
Lichens of Europe
Taxa named by Ana Crespo
Taxa named by Pradeep Kumar Divakar
Taxa named by John Alan Elix |
Peter William Burton (29 April 1945 - 7 November 2011) was an English journalist, publisher, editor and author, considered "the Godfather of gay journalism."
Personal life
Burton was born 29 April 1945 in Hackney, London.
In his first memoir, Parallel Lives, published in 1985, Burton wrote, "From about the age of 13, I had two ambitions: to leave school, and to leave home. Both were accomplished before I was 16 – and essentially, since then, I have been master of my own fate. And things have happened."
He was aware he was homosexual in his teens and shortly after began visiting gay pubs in London's West End. Although homosexuality was illegal at the time, Burton said he never worried about whether his sexuality was "'right' or 'wrong' – because it seemed perfectly natural." He continued, noting, "[B]y the time I had become aware of society and the law’s attitudes, it was too late for me to change mine.”
Burton died of a heart attack at age 66 on 7 November 2011 in Brighton. Though Burton's "partner Ian predeceased him," he was "survived by his sister Pamela Hinchcliffe and her sons, [and] his close companion, Torsten Højer."
Career
After dropping out of school at age 15, Burton took a position at the publicity department of Hamish Hamilton.
On 23 September 1965, Burton wrote his first piece of journalism, a review of The Marriage of Mr Mississippi.
From 1966 to 1968, Burton served as a manager at Le Duce, a local gay bar that operated despite homosexuality being illegal at the time.
In the late 1960s, Burton wrote and edited British gay news outlets, including Spartacus and Jeremy. He explained that at the time, "[T]here was no gay press and although there were plenty of gay journalists, there was no gay journalism ... Those of us who were involved from the very beginning had to find our material and learn to write about it in a style our readers would not have previously encountered."
In 1968, Burton began working with Robin Maugham, helping him complete a number of books, including Conversations With Willie, which Burton is said to have written in total.
He began writing for Gay News in 1973 and in 1976, became the company's literary editor. During this time, Gay News published James Kirkup's poem “The Love that Dares to Speak Its Name,” which led Mary Whitehouse, a social conservative, to sue the newspaper, resulting in the Whitehouse v. Lemon trial for blasphemous libel. Whitehouse won the suit, and Gay News's founding editor, Denis Lemon, was "was sentenced to nine months suspended imprisonment and fined £500." Gay News was fined £1,000. Lemon later referred to Burton as "the Godfather of gay journalism."
During the 1970s, Burton worked for Rod Stewart's manager, Billy Gaff, and handled the American Press for Stewart's tour with Faces, after which Burton published his first book, Rod Stewart: A Life on the Town, in 1977.
After Gay News ceased publication in 1983, Burton became the literary and features editor of Gay Times, a position he held until 2003.
In the 2000s, Burton regularly contributed to Brighton-based publications 360, One80, Daily Express, and The Independent. Beginning in 2006, he was also a literary programmer of Brighton's Clifton Montpelier Powis Festival.
Awards
Publications
Rod Stewart: A Life on the Town (1977)
Parallel Lives (1985)
Talking To--: Peter Burton in Conversation with ... Writers Writing on Gay Themes (1991)
Amongst the Aliens: Some Aspects of a Gay Life (1995)
Somerset Maugham (2000)
Anthologies edited
Vale of Tears (1992)
The Mammoth Book of Gay Short Stories (1997)
Bend Sinister: The Gay Times Book of Disturbing Stories (2002)
Death Comes Easy: The Gay Times Book of Murder Stories (2003)
Serendipity: The Gay Times Book of New Stories (2004)
A Casualty of War: The Arcadia Book of Gay Short Stories (2008)
What Love Is: The Second Arcadia Book of Gay Short Stories (2011)
Anthology contributions
On the Line: New Gay Fiction, edited by Ian Young (1981)
Play Hard, Score Big, edited by John Patrick (1999)
References
1945 births
2011 deaths
20th-century English writers
21st-century English writers
English journalists
Gay journalists
LGBT people from England |
Here are lists of schools which only admit boys in Hong Kong.
Hong Kong Island
Central and Western District
Secondary Government
King's College
Secondary Aided
St Joseph's College
St Louis School
Secondary Direct Subsidy Scheme
St Paul's College
Primary Private
St. Louis School (Primary Section) (聖類斯中學（小學部）)
Eastern District
Secondary Aided
Salesian English School (慈幼英文學校)
Primary Aided
Pun U Association Wah Yan Primary School (番禺會所華仁小學)
Salesian School (慈幼學校)
Southern District
Secondary Aided
(香港仔工業學校)
(香港航海學校)
Primary Direct Subsidy
St Paul's College Primary School (聖保羅書院小學)
Special Aided
HK Juvenile Care Centre Chan Nam Cheong Memorial School (香港青少年培育會陳南昌紀念學校)
Wan Chai District
Government Secondary
Queen's College
Secondary Aided
(香港鄧鏡波書院)
Wah Yan College, Hong Kong
Primary Aided
St Joseph's Primary School (聖若瑟小學)
Kowloon
Kowloon City District
Secondary Aided
Chan Sui Ki (La Salle) College (陳瑞祺（喇沙）書院)
La Salle College (喇沙書院)
Tang King Po School (鄧鏡波學校)
Secondary Direct Subsidy
Diocesan Boys' School (拔萃男書院)
Primary Aided
La Salle Primary School (喇沙小學)
Primary Direct Subsidy
Diocesan Boys' School (拔萃男書院)
Kwun Tong District
Secondary Government
Kwun Tong Kung Lok Government Secondary School (觀塘功樂官立中學)
Secondary Aided
Kwun Tong Maryknoll College (觀塘瑪利諾書院)
Sing Yin Secondary School (聖言中學)
St Joseph's Anglo-Chinese School (聖若瑟英文中學)
Primary Private
St Joseph's Anglo-Chinese Primary School (聖若瑟英文小學)
Special Aided
Society of Boys' Centres Shing Tak Centre School (香港扶幼會盛德中心學校)
Sham Shui Po District
Secondary Aided
Cheung Sha Wan Catholic Secondary School (長沙灣天主教英文中學)
Secondary Direct Subsidy
Ying Wa College (英華書院)
Primary Direct Subsidy
Ying Wa Primary School (英華小學)
Special Aided
The Society of Boys' Centres Hui Chung Sing Memorial School (香港扶幼會－許仲繩紀念學校)
The Society of Boys' Centres Chak Yan Centre School (香港扶幼會則仁中心學校
Wong Tai Sin District
Secondary Aided
Choi Hung Estate Catholic Secondary School (彩虹邨天主教英文中學)
Ng Wah Catholic Secondary School (天主教伍華中學)
Yau Tsim Mong District
Secondary Aided
St Francis Xavier's College (聖芳濟書院)
Wah Yan College, Kowloon (華仁書院（九龍）)
Primary Aided
Tak Sun School (德信學校)
New Territories
East
Sha Tin District
Tak Sun Secondary School (德信中學) (Secondary Direct Subsidy)
West
Kwai Tsing District
(天主教慈幼會伍少梅中學) (Secondary Aided)
Tsuen Wan District
(荃灣聖芳濟中學) (Secondary Aided)
Tuen Mun District
Tung Wan Mok Law Shui Wah School (東灣莫羅瑞華學校) (Special Aided)
Former
Became coeducational
Lung Cheung Government Secondary Technical School (Secondary Government)
Closed
(上葵涌官立中學) (Secondary Government)
See also
List of girls' schools in Hong Kong
References
Girls |
Raphael Peixotto (September 1, 1837 – May 22, 1905) was a Jewish-American merchant from California.
Life
Peixotto was born on September 1, 1837 in Willoughby, Ohio, the son of Dutch immigrant and physician Dr. Daniel L. M. Peixotto. His family was descended from Sephardic Jews expelled from Spain in 1492. His siblings included teacher Judith Salzedo Peixotto and diplomat Benjamin F. Peixotto.
Peixotto moved to San Francisco, California in around 1870 and became a merchant there. He was identified with a number of Jewish institutions in the city and served as president of Congregation Emanu-El.
In 1863, Peixotto married Myrtilla J. Davis in a ceremony performed by Isaac Leesser and Jacques J. Lyons. Their children were Edgar, Ernest, Sydney, Eustace, and Dr. Jessica.
Peixotto died on May 22, 1905.
References
1837 births
1905 deaths
People from Willoughby, Ohio
19th-century American merchants
People from San Francisco
19th-century American Jews
20th-century American Sephardic Jews |
Xanthoparmelia subverrucigera is a species of saxicolous (rock-dwelling), foliose lichen in the family Parmeliaceae. Found in Spain and Zimbabwe, it was formally described as a new species in 2005 by lichenologists Oscar Blanco, Ana Crespo, and John Elix. The type specimen was collected by the authors in (Zaragoza Province) at an altitude of ; here, the lichen was found growing on siliceous rocks. It has also been collected from Rhodes Matopos National Park in Zimbabwe. The specific epithet subverrucigera alludes to its resemblance with X. verrucigera.
Xanthoparmelia subverrucigera contains several secondary compounds, including stictic acid and constictic acid as major metabolites, usnic acid, verrucigeric acid, lusitanic acid, and cryptostictic acid as minor metabolites, and trace amounts of connorstictic acid, and methylstictic acid.
See also
List of Xanthoparmelia species
References
subverrucigera
Lichens described in 2005
Lichens of Europe
Taxa named by Ana Crespo
Taxa named by John Alan Elix
Lichens of Africa |
Ilwaco was a small riverine and coastal steamship built in 1890 which was operated as a passenger vessel for the Ilwaco Railway and Navigation Company, and later served in other roles, including tow and freight boat, cannery tender and fish packing vessel. Ilwaco was originally named Suomi.
Ilwaco served in several areas of the Pacfic Northwest, including the Columbia River, the San Juan Islands, Puget Sound. Ilwaco also served coastal areas near San Francisco Bay, and the Inside Passage in Alaska. Ilwaco was wrecked in 1918 at Green Island, in Chatham Sound, not far from Prince Rupert, British Columbia, in the Inside Passage.
Construction
The steamer Suomi, constructed at Chinook, WA in 1890 for B. A. Seaborg, was purchased by the Ilwaco Railway & Navigation Company in 1891 and renamed Ilwaco. In April 1890, it was reported that Suomi was nearly ready to begin service on the Astoria-Ilwaco run, under the command of Captain Herbert Petit.
Dimensions and power
According to official measurements in 1893, Suomi / Ilwaco was long, with a beam of and depth of hold of . Gross tonnage was 115, and net tonnage was 66. "Ton" in this instance was a unit of volume and not of weight. The merchant vessel registry number was 100514. According to the official registry, the steamer was built in Portland, Oregon and not in Chinook, Washington. The boiler was wood-fired.
Suomi on the Astoria-Ilwaco route
Suomi ran twice daily, Sundays excepted, from the Main Street wharf in Astoria, to Tansy Point (near Warrenton), Fort Stevens, and then, on the Washington side of the river, Fort Canby, and Ilwaco, departing Astoria, at 8:00 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. Passengers disembarking at Ilwaco would be taken by coach to the beach. The fare for the round trip was fifty cents.
Suomi was substituted for the General Canby on the Ilwaco route, and remained on the run, in charge of Captains William Starr, Thomas Parker, and Engineer Charles Smith.
Operations as Ilwaco on Columbia
As of December 1894, Captain Parker was master Ilwaco. In February 1893, Ilwaco was advertised to be departing Astoria, Oregon daily at 7:30 a.m. bound for Ilwaco, Washington, stopping at Tanzy (also spelled "Tansy") Point before arriving in Ilwaco at 10:00 a.m., where it met the northbound train.
The rail line then ran to Nahcotta, Washington, where it ran out a dock to make connections with steamers, running to points on Willapa Bay, South Bend, Sunshine, North Cove, and Grays Harbor.
The route from Ilwaco zig-zagged around the many fish traps on the Columbia before it could reach the main channel of the river. In July 1895 Ilwaco made connections at Astoria with the large fast steamers Telephone and Bailey Gatzert, both owned by the White Collar Line, on the Portland-Astoria run.
Stranding of Kentmere
On November 24, 1894, when the British ship Kentmere went aground on the south side of the Columbia bar, Ilwaco carried the Fort Canby life-boat crew to Sand Island to stand by to effect a rescue.
Local dissatisfaction
In July 1895 there was talk that the side-wheel steamer North Pacific, with a capacity of 350 passengers, would replace Ilwaco on the Astoria-Ilwaco run. Up to that time Ilwaco had been the only vessel on the run, and it had then recently, on April 28, 1895, hauled out of the water for service, including replacement of the wheel and shaft and a new coat of paint.
The prospect of replacement of Ilwaco with North Pacific was welcomed by the Daily Astorian, which described Ilwaco as "a very small light craft [which] accorded the patrons inadequate facilities for comfort."
The editor of the Ilwaco newspaper Pacific Journal was dissatisfied with the steamboat service of the Ilwaco Railway & Navigation Company, publishing a sardonic "advertisement" for the line, at right.
Later service
In the fall of 1899 Ilwaco was engaged in towing work, bringing a barge laden with lumber into Goble, Oregon on September 15. In 1899 the Cook Canning Company bought Ilwaco, with the intent of transferring it to Port Townsend to be used as a cannery tender.
Transfer to Puget Sound
Reconstruction in Portland
In February 1900, Ilwaco was brought to the Supple ship yard in Portland for work on its engines. The steamer remained under repair until April, when it was remeasured by Deputy Barnes of the Steamboat Inspection Service. Ilwaco had been rebuilt with new house. After reconstruction, it measured out at length, beam, and depth of hold. The steamer's overall size was 106 gross and 22 net tons, with "ton" being a unit of volume in this instance and not of weight.
The rebuilt Ilwaco was launched from the Supple yard on the Monday, May 17, 1900, The Morning Oregonian described the rebuilt vessel as a "fine commodious little steamer." Veteran steamboat captain W.H. Whitcomb was placed in command. By Friday, May 11, Ilwaco had reached Astoria, bound for Puget Sound, where it was to be placed into service as a cannery tender.
Loss of tow
Ilwaco departed Astoria for Puget Sound on Thursday, May 10, 1900, taking with it in tow the scow-schooner Pathfinder. Off Grays Harbor, Ilwaco encountered bad weather which threatened to swamp the steamer. As a result, Ilwacos captain ordered Pathfinder released from the tow. Ilwaco reached Port Townsend safely, but Pathfinder was left adrift. Pathfinder was reported to have been entirely new, having been built at a cost of $3,000 and launched the same week as the tow commenced.
Ilwaco had been purchased by the Port Townsend Canning Company. The company had fish traps at Waldron Island and a canning plant at Port Townsend, which in the summer of 1905 had packed 24,000 cases of sockeye salmon. On September 4, 1901, Ilwaco towed to the Port Townsend cannery the scows and boats that had been used at the Waldron Island traps during the summer.
Return to Columbia River
In November 1902 it was reported that Ilwaco, then running on Puget Sound, had been purchased by Ilwaco lumber merchant George L. Colwell, for the purpose of towing log rafts from Baker Bay, on the south side of the Long Beach Peninsula to lumber mills in Portland. The Ilwaco Railway and Navigation Company was carrying an increased amount of logs, and the only existing log-towing steamer on the route, Jordan was reported to be unwilling to continue the tow work. Colwell intended to bring Ilwaco back from Puget Sound at the first indication of good weather.
On Saturday, December 13, 1902, Ilwaco departed Port Townsend, bound for the Columbia River. Arriving at the mouth of the Columbia, Ilwaco found the conditions at the river's bar to be so severe that the steamer could not enter the river. Ilwaco was forced to return to Port Townsend, arriving there on December 18, where, it was reported, the steamer would be laid up until the next spring.
On February 18, 1903, Ilwaco was reported to have arrived in Astoria from Port Angeles, having made the voyage in 24 hours.
Transfer to San Francisco
On December 26, 1903, Ilwaco, under the command of Captain Leffingwell, arrived in San Francisco after a fifty-six hour trip from Astoria. The steamer's sides had been boarded up high to keep out the sea. Captain Leffingwell was reported to have been unsure what to do with Ilwaco on arrival in San Francisco.
On May 19, 1904, Ilwaco sailed from San Francisco bound for Pigeon Point, California, returning on May 27, five hours out of Pigeon Point. Ilwaco continued to make runs to and from San Francisco, Half Moon Bay, and Pigeon Point until the first part of July, 1904.
In late July 1905, the Morning Astorian reported that Ilwaco had been sold to San Francisco interests and transferred to California.
Return to Puget Sound
On Thursday, July 13, 1905, Ilwaco sailed from San Francisco, under Captain Hanson, bound for Seattle. The next day, Friday, July 14, 1905, Ilwaco was in Drake's Bay, California, and reported to be in distress. The tug Sea Fox was sent to the assistance of Ilwaco, but returned to San Francisco and reported that Ilwaco was in no trouble and did not require assistance.
Ilwaco had taken shelter in Drake's Bay when it encountered heavy weather after leaving San Francisco. The life-saving crew at Point Reyes Lifeboat Station saw Ilwaco enter the bay in the fog, and concluded the steamer was in distress. They telephoned their concerns to the Merchants Exchange in San Francisco, which dispatched a tug to Drake's Bay. Ilwaco proved not to need assistance, and resumed its voyage on the morning of July 15. Ilwaco arrived at Coos Bay, Oregon on July 19, 1905.
Operations in the San Juan Islands
Ilwaco arrived in Bellingham, Washington around July 26, 1905, having been purchased by Leonard D. Pike and Captain Eugene H. Simpson. Ilwaco was to be placed on the Bellingham-Blaine-Port Roberts route under the command of J. W. Tarte. Simpson was a resident of Bellingham, and Pike was a resident of East Sound, on Orcas Island.
Once repairs were complete, Ilwaco was to be placed on a route running between Bellingham and Blaine, Washington. This was expected to occur in the first part of August 1905. The Morning Astorian stated at the time that "the Ilwaco is an old-timer and should have been put in the discard years ago."
Collision with Sequoia
On October 27, 1905, at Bellingham, Ilwaco collided in foggy conditions with the lumber schooner Sequoia while Sequoia was being towed to its berth. Both captains claimed their vessels were giving fog signals. Damage to Ilwaco was reported to have not exceeded $100. Sequoia was reported to have been "badly damaged amidships." It was reported that no one was seriously hurt.
Bellingham-Friday Harbor route
On November 13, 1905, Simpson and Pike put Ilwaco on the Bellingham-Friday Harbor run, stopping at waypoints on Orcas Island. The schedule had not definitely been decided upon, but it was thought that it would include all Orcas Island points then served by the steamer Islander (built 1904, 163 g.t.), with the possible exceptions of Deer Harbor and West Sound. By leaving out these two points, it was thought more likely that Ilwaco could provide service to Lopez Island.
According to one report, Ilwaco left Friday Harbor on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings at 6:00 a.m., arrived in Bellingham at about 11:30 a.m., then departed for Point Roberts and Blaine. On Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday mornings, Ilwaco left Blaine at 6:00 a.m., arrived in Bellingham at about 11:00 a.m., and then departed at noon for points in the San Juan Islands, reaching Friday Harbor at about 6:00 p.m. On the Tuesday before November 18, 1905, Ilwaco was reported to have made the Bellingham-Friday Harbor run in five and a half hours, calling at all Orcas Island points along the route.
Passenger accommodation criticized
The Friday Harbor newspaper, San Juan Islander, described Ilwaco as "considerably faster than either of the other steamers on the Bellingham route but her passenger accommodations at present are much inferior to those of the mail boats." Perhaps in response to the newspaper comment as to the inferiority of its passenger accommodations, in early December or late November 1905, the owners of Ilwaco announced their intentions to convert the steamer, after the holidays, into an oil-burner, and also to install electric lighting.
Sale to salmon cannery
It was reported in January 1906 that ''Ilwacos principal owner, Leonard D. Pike, sold the steamer to George & Barker Co., who were salmon canners in Point Roberts, for consideration paid of $6,000. Pike was also a part owner of George & Barker, and he was reported at the time to have sold his interest for $30,000.
Later operations
In July 1907, the Anacortes American reported that J.S. Woodin had secured a position as captain on Ilwaco, which was then running out of Point Roberts, Washington. As of December 1911, Ilwaco was owned by George and Barker Co., which that month placed the steamer into winter storage at Decatur Island. In 1912, Captain T. Jones of Decatur, Washington bought Ilwaco, who converted it into a fish packer powered by a gasoline engine. As a fish packing vessel, Ilwaco was reported by a non-contemporaneous source to have carried a crew of 30.
Wrecked Ilwaco was stranded in Chatham Sound, near the boundary between Alaska and British Columbia, on November 5, 1918, without loss of life. At the time there was a crew of 11 on board. Ilwaco's crew was rescued by lifeboats launched from the steamer Humboldt. The stranding is reported to have been specifically on Green Island, British Columbia.Ilwaco was southbound from southwestern Alaska, as was Humboldt. Ilwaco had the season's catch on board. Heavy seas forced Humboldt to stand by for thirteen hours before conditions improved enough to allow Ilwaco'''s crew to be taken off the reef.
Notes
References
1890 ships
Ships built in Washington (state)
Steamboats of the Columbia River
Steamboats of Washington (state)
Shipwrecks of the British Columbia coast
Steamboats of Oregon
Steamboats of California |
The New Hampshire Department of Administrative Services (DAS) is a state agency of the U.S. state of New Hampshire, headquartered in Concord. The department provides statewide management services for the New Hampshire state government. The department also prepares the Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (ACFR) for the state. The department is authorized as provided in New Hampshire Revised Statutes Annotated (NH RSA) Chapter 21-I.
Organization
The department is organized into several divisions:
Division of Financial Data Management
Division of Public Works Design & Construction
Division of Plant & Property Management
Division of Accounting Services
Division of Risk & Benefits
Division of Personnel
Division of Procurement & Support Services
There are also several administrative functions, including the State Budget Unit and the Cost Containment Unit.
References
External links
Administrative Services
1931 establishments in New Hampshire
Government agencies established in 1931 |
Charles B. Keats (July 21, 1905 – February 18, 1978) was an American politician and journalist who served as Secretary of the State of Connecticut from 1953 to 1955. A Republican from Bridgeport, Connecticut, he worked as a newspaper reporter and editor, Connecticut Republican Party publicity director, gubernatorial press secretary, and deputy secretary of state.
Life and career
Keats was born in Bridgeport and graduated from Syracuse University in 1929, where he taught and coached boxing for two years. He worked as a reporter and editor for newspapers in Bridgeport, New York, and St. Louis from 1931 to 1940, illustrating many of his stories with his own cartoons. He was editor of Connecticut Federationist, the official publication of the Connecticut Federation of Labor. He subsequently worked as publicity director for the Connecticut Republican Party from 1940 to 1951 and as press secretary to Republican governors James L. McConaughy and James C. Shannon from 1947 to 1949.
Keats served as deputy secretary of state from January 1951 to December 1953, when Governor John Davis Lodge appointed him to the office of Secretary. Keats filled the unexpired term of Alice K. Leopold, who had resigned to lead the United States Women's Bureau. He did not run for a full term, and his political career concluded with his term of office in January 1955.
Keats ran his own public relations firm from 1941 to 1965 and was a partner with his brother, Harold A. Keats, in another public relations firm. In 1963 he retired and moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where he and his brother co-owned a cattle ranch. Keats authored six books, including biographies of Amedeo Modigliani and Peggy Eaton. A lifelong artist who lived briefly in Greenwich Village after college, he painted portraits of Connecticut governors and exhibited his work nationwide.
His wife was Katherine (Kane) Keats of Bridgeport, who predeceased him. They had no children.
References
1905 births
1978 deaths
People from Bridgeport, Connecticut
20th-century American politicians
20th-century American journalists
Syracuse University alumni
American newspaper journalists
Journalists from Connecticut
Secretaries of the State of Connecticut
Connecticut Republicans |
Joseph Frederick Waring, more commonly known as J. Fred. Waring was a Confederate officer and later Lieutenant General who was a cavalryman throughout several battles of the American Civil War who was known for being the main Confederate commander at the Bog Wallow Ambush.
Biography
Early life
Joseph was born on February 13, 1832, at Savannah, Georgia as the son of William R. Waring, M.D. and Ann Johnston Waring and the brother of James J. Waring. He enrolled in Yale University and graduated in the class of 1852. He spent his studies at Philadelphia and spent the next year travelling across Europe. When he finally returned, he became a planter at Savannah as well as a city alderman there. He then married Louise Early.
American Civil War
When the American Civil War broke out, Waring became a member of the Georgia Hussars and became a colonel within the unit. A few weeks later, he arrived at Virginia with his company and was then originally assigned to the 6th Virginia Infantry Regiment when he arrived at Richmond, Virginia but this didn't last long as shortly after, on December 4, the Bog Wallow Ambush occurred but was wounded in the face during the fighting.
Three days later after the failed ambush, Waring's company became the new Jeff Davis Cavalry Legion after Col. William F. Martin was promoted to Brigadier General and sent to Western Theater of the American Civil War. The unit served under Wade Hampton III. Waring later led his united through cavalry battles in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War such as Brandy Station, Gettysburg and Trevilian Station. In July 1864, he was promoted to colonel of the Legion and later assisted with Pierce M. B. Young's brigade.
In February 1865, he was assigned to South Carolina to serve in the Campaign of the Carolinas with a worried entry about the campaign of his diary reading:
He participated at the Battle of Monroe's Crossroads but then surrendered at Bennett Place along with Joseph E. Johnston.
Later Years
When the war ended, Waring returned to Savannah and took up a job at the Georgia Central Railway Co. as a forwarding agent. He also became a commanding officer of the Georgia Hussars, a post he would have until his death from a yellow fever epidemic after a visit to the Northern States at Whitesville, Georgia.
References
1832 births
1876 deaths
Yale University 1850s alumni
People of Georgia (U.S. state) in the American Civil War
Confederate States Army brigadier generals |
Cyperus columbiensis is a species of sedge that is native to parts of Colombia.
See also
List of Cyperus species
References
columbiensis
Plants described in 1908
Taxa named by Eduard Palla
Flora of Colombia |
Samantha Pynn is a Canadian interior designer, best known as a host of programming for HGTV Canada.
She was a regular contributor on home design to the daytime talk show CityLine in the 2000s, before debuting on HGTV as the host of Pure Design in 2008. She subsequently hosted Summer Home and Open House Overhaul, and was featured as one of the participating designers in the "all-star" HGTV shows Home to Win and Family Home Overhaul, before replacing Sabrina Smelko as the cohost of Save My Reno with Sebastian Clovis in 2020.
In 2015, she launched her own home decor collection with the La Maison Simons department store.
Pynn and Clovis received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Host in a Lifestyle Series at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022.
References
External links
Canadian interior designers
Canadian television hosts
Living people
Canadian people |
Brent Calderwood is an American journalist, author, and activist. He was named by Out magazine in the magazine’s annual “Out 100” issues, identifying important LGBT newsmakers in both 1995 and 2014... His writing and activism on behalf of LGBTQ youth is documented in the films The Butch Factor and Now We Can Dance: The Story of the Hayward Gay Prom, as well as the television program Lifestories with Gabrielle Carteris. His first book, The God of Longing, was recommended by the American Library Association in 2014 and is housed in the permanent collection of the Library of Congress.
Journalism and Activism
Calderwood’s writing has included essays and op-ed articles, as well as profiles and interviews with artists such as director Guillermo del Toro, musician-composer David Amram, women’s music pioneer Holly Near, Harvey Milk photographer Daniel Nicoletta, painter Lenore Chinn, and the singer-songwriters Mary Lambert and Justin Vivian Bond. His work has been published in Rolling Stone, Out, the San Francisco Examiner, and Noir City magazine.
Calderwood began his journalism career in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1992 as cofounder of InsideOUT magazine, the first nationally distributed magazine for LGBT youth in the United States. As a result of local news coverage of the magazine and his own articles on LGBT youth issues, which were distributed to national newspapers by Pacific News Service, Calderwood became the target of antigay harassment, including vandalism and death threats. In the months following those events, he was invited to speak on the syndicated program Lifestories with Gabrielle Carteris; other guests on the episode, which focused on violence toward LGBT youth, included Mary Griffith, mother of Bobby Griffith, as well as friends and associates of Brandon Teena.
For Calderwood’s activism and writing, he was the only LGBT youth included in the 1995 "OUT 100" issue of Out magazine. A large format two-page comic strip that Calderwood illustrated and wrote, titled “Memoirs from a Closet", was recognized as culturally significant by GLAAD and is still used in classrooms to educate students on homophobia and diversity. Calderwood also lobbied in Sacramento during the 1995-1996 legislative session for AB101, sponsored by Sheila Kuehl, the first Assembly Bill in California to explicitly prohibit discrimination against LGBT students; the bill was eventually passed as AB222, the Freedom for All Students Act, and was signed into law as AB537 in 2000.
Literary Work
Calderwood, a member of the National Book Critics Circle, has served as a judge for those awards as well as the Lambda Literary Awards in poetry and YA fiction. He was the literary editor for Art & Understanding (A&U) magazine from 2011 to 2015; during that time, he cofounded the international Christopher Hewitt Awards in poetry, fiction, and drama, naming the award for the magazine’s original literary editor. Since 2013, the awards have been given to writers from Africa, Asia, South America, Europe, and North America. Calderwood has also been a guest editor for the poetry journals Assaracus, Locuspoint, and The Squaw Valley Review.
In addition to the collected poems in The God of Longing, Calderwood’s poetry and essays appear in dozens of anthologies and journals including The Southern Poetry Anthology, The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, and Gathered Light: The Poetry of Joni Mitchell’s Songs (an essay anthology published with participation from Mitchell in which notable poets such as Cornelius Eady and Kim Addonizio each write about the prosody and literary merits of the lyrics of an individual Mitchell song)
References
21st-century American journalists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
Cryptothecia punctosorediata is a species of corticolous (bark-dwelling) crustose lichen in the family Arthoniaceae. Found in northern Thailand, it was formally described as a new species in 2005 by Laurens Sparrius. The type specimen was collected from Ban Hauy Som Poy (Nan Province) at an elevation of ; here it was found growing on the smooth bark of the mango tree Mangifera indica. It contains the secondary compound gyrophoric acid. The specific epithet punctosorediata refers to the punctiform (dot-like and minute) soralia. At the time of publication, C. punctosorediata was the only species of Cryptothecia known to have discrete soralia.
References
Arthoniomycetes
Lichens described in 2005
Lichens of Asia |
HMS Vesuvius was initially a Steam Vessel second class (later reclassed as a First Class Sloop) designed by Sir William Symonds, Surveyor of the Navy, and built at Sheerness. She was commissioned and participated in the bombardment of Acre in 1840, during the Russian War she was in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov in 1855. Her last overseas posting was in the West Indies. She was sold for breaking in June 1865.
Vesuvius was the eleventh named vessel (spelt Vesuvius or Vesuve) since it was used for a 8-gun fireship, launched by Taylor of Cuckold's Point on 30 March 1691 and expended on 19 November 1693 at St Malo.
Construction
She was ordered on 12 March 1838 with her laid in September at Sheerness Dockyard. She was launched on 11 July 1839. She was completed for sea on 20 April 1840 at an initial cost of £39,505, including £21,707 for hull construction, £13,309 for her machinery and £4,389 for her fitting out.
She was initially commissioned in May 1840 under the command of Lieutenant William Simpson Blount, RN for trials then used as a transport.
Commissioned Service
First Commission
She was commissioned on 31 August 1840 under the command of Commander Thomas Henderson, RN for service in the Mediterranean. She was with the British squadron off the coast of Syria in November 1840. She participated in the bombardment of Acre on 3 November. Commander Erasmus Ommanney, RN took command on 23 August 1841. She returned to Home Waters paying off at Woolwich on 15 November 1844.
Second Commission
She was commissioned on 22 March 1845 under the command of Commander George William Douglas O'Callaghan, RN for service on the North America and West Indies Station. Lieutenant Herbert Grey Austen, RN assumed command on 19 February 1847. She returned to Home Waters paying off on 14 September 1848.
Third Commission
On March 22nd 1852 she was commissioned under Commander Frederick Lamport Barnard, RN, then recommissioned on 17 August 1853 under Commander Richard Ashmore Powell, RN for service in the Mediterranean. During the Russian War she was at the bombardment of Sevastopol on 11 October 1854. Commander Sherard Osborn, RN took command on 16 February 1855. After the occupation of Kertch, she participated in the naval excursion led by HMS Miranda into the Sea of Azov. On 6 June 1855, she was under the command of Commander Francis Marten, RN (borne in Royal Albert) and assigned as tender to HMS Royal Albert. Commander Edward George Hore, RN took command on 29 October 1855 and returned to the Mediterranean. She returned to Home Waters and paid off at Woolwich on 17 January 1856.
Fourth Commission
She commissioned for service on the West Coast of Africa under Commodore Charles Wise, RN as the Senior Officer's Ship, on 20 April 1857. She returned to Home Waters paying off at Deptford on 22 February 1860.
Fifth Commission
She was commissioned on 16 July 1862 under Captain Richard Vesey Hamilton, RN for service in the West Indies. Prior to her departure she had been fitted with an Armstrong 110-pounder gun. She returned to Home Waters and paid off at Portsmuth on 8 November 1864.
Disposition
She was sold in June 1865 to White of East Cowes, Isle of Wight. She was towed to Cowes on 10 November 1865 for breaking.
Notes
Citations
References
Lyon Winfield, The Sail & Steam Navy List, All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815 to 1889, by David Lyon & Rif Winfield, published by Chatham Publishing, London © 2004,
Winfield, British Warships in the Age of Sail (1817 – 1863), by Rif Winfield, published by Seaforth Publishing, England © 2014, e, Chapter 11 Steam Paddle Vessels, Vessels acquired since November 1830, Stromboli Class
Colledge, Ships of the Royal Navy, by J.J. Colledge, revised and updated by Lt Cdr Ben Warlow and Steve Bush, published by Seaforth Publishing, Barnsley, Great Britain, © 2020, e (EPUB)
The New Navy List, conducted by Joseph Allen, Esq., RN, London: Parker, Furnivall, and Parker, Military Library, Whitehall, MDCCCXLVII
The Navy List, published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London
Paddle sloops of the Royal Navy
Sloop classes
1839 ships |
Khatyrka () is a meteorite found in 2011 in the valley of the Iomrautvaam, a tributary of the Khatyrka river, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russian Far East. It is a CV3 (oxidized) chondrite meteorite.
History
The meteorite had fallen in the Iomrautvaam river basin at and was discovered during an expedition to Chukotka in July 2011. Nine small pieces were found, each less than 1 mm in size, buried in a 7,000-year-old layer of dirt. It was named Khatyrka meteorite.
Specimens
Three representative fragments were deposited at the Department of Mineral Sciences, NHB-119, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.
See also
Glossary of meteoritics
Khatyrkite
Quasicrystal
Notes
External links
Meteoritical Bulletin Database
Meteorites found in Russia |
Badger was launched in Liverpool in 1775. She made one voyage as a slave ship in the triangular trade in enslaved people. New owners renamed her Molly in 1778 and sailed her as a West Indian. In 1779 she repelled an American privateer in a sanguinary single ship action. Her owners renamed her Lydia. While trading with Tortola she captured one or two prizes. Lydia was herself captured in 1782.
Career
Badger first appeared in an online copy of Lloyd's Register (LR) in the volume for 1776.
Captain Peter Potter sailed from Liverpool on 9 September 1776. Badger acquired slaves at the Cameroon River. She arrived at Dominica on 8 June 1777 with 386 slaves. She sailed for Liverpool on 1 August, and arrived there on 4 October 1777.
The British Admiralty had given notice in April 1777, that they were ready to issue letters of marque for privateers against the Americans. In March 1778, Great Britain broke off relations with France.
Captain Thomas Cragg, of Molly, acquired a letter of marque on 13 February 1778.
Captain Mark Seddon acquired a letter of marque on 10 February 1779. On 2 August Molly, Seddon, master, sailed from Tortola in company with Prosperity, Mandeville, master, of , a vessel bound for London, and a vessel, and two days later parted from them in a gale of wind.
On 7 September 1779, at , Molly encountered an American privateer of 22 guns on her main deck, plus other guns on her Fo'csle and quarterdeck. After an hour-long engagement, the privateer sailed off. Molly had five men killed, including Captain Seddon, and seven wounded. Molly arrived at Liverpool on 18 September.
Her owners renamed Molly to Lydia. Captain William Fell acquired a letter of marque on 26 November 1779.
Lloyd's List reported in January 1781 that as Lydia, Fell, master, was on her way from Leverpool to the Leeward Islands she ran ashore on the Burbo Bank in the Liverpool Bay. She was gotten off but she had sustained considerable damage and had to go back to Leverpool to discharge and refit.
In June Lloyd's List reported that Lydia, Fell, master, had taken a ship of 300 tons that had been sailing from Piscateague to Tenerife. The prize came into Londonderry. The captured vessel, Prosperity, and her cargo of lumber, came into Leverpool in July.
In October, Hannah, from Boston, arrived at Leverpool. She was a prize to Lydia.
Fate
On 15 My 1782, Planter, Corbett, master, arrived at Leverpool from Tortola and reported that Lydia, Fell, master, had been captured.
Citations and references
Citations
References
1775 ships
Liverpool slave ships
Age of Sail merchant ships of England
Captured ships |
Xavier Rivera Marc (16 January 1948 – 19 February 2022) was a Mexican actor, known for his roles in Two Mules for Sister Sara, The Bridge in the Jungle, and The Legend of Zorro.
Life and career
He studied acting at the School of Theatre Arts of the National Institute of Fine Arts, in New York, at the Dimitrio Sarrás Studio, and at the academy of Uta Hagen and Herbert Berghof in New York. He received a grant from the French government to study the Brecht and Stanislavski methods in Paris. At the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) he took classes in screenwriting, acting, singing, and pantomime. He debuted as an actor in the theatre in the play "The Comedy of Errors" in 1960. Marc died on 19 February 2022, at the age of 74.
References
External links
1948 births
2022 deaths
Mexican male actors
Mexican male film actors
Mexican male television actors
Mexican film directors
Mexican cinematographers
People from Jalisco |
On 15 February 2022, a six-year-old boy named Haider fell into a 25-metre narrow well while walking on the side of the road in Shokak village, Zabul, Afghanistan. His body was recovered on 18 February 2022.
Rescue
When Haider fell into the well, rescuers pulled him ten metres, but he became stuck in a place where the well-casing was very narrow. He remained in that position for about 30 hours.
Rescue officials retrieved the boy on 18 February after hours of trying. He had not been heard for 24 hours. Rescuers dug a trench to reach the child, who was airlifted to a hospital in Kabul.
When the incident was reported, Afghan Defence Minister Mohammad Yaqoob and senior Taliban leader Anas Haqqani arrived at the scene and oversaw the rescue operation.
Reactions
Anas Haqqani, a senior adviser to the Taliban's Interior Ministry, said in a tweet ..."With great sadness, little Haider is gone forever".
See also
Death of Rayan Aourram
References
2022 in Afghanistan
Zabul Province
Haider
2022 deaths
Haider
Haider
Child deaths |
The second season of the Philippine television series Masked Singer Pilipinas will premiere on TV5 on March 19, 2022, replacing Sing Galing: Sing-lebrity Edition.
Production
A second season was announced during the finale of the first season. A new logo for the season was published on the official Facebook page of the show. Filming for the second season started on October 29, 2021 and concluded on December 10, 2021. Similar to the previous season, a virtual audience is present via Zoom.
Panelists and host
In September 2021, it was reported that all four panelists from the previous season will return, to be joined by a fifth permanent panelist.
Contestants
This season will feature 16 masked celebrities.
References
Masked Singer
2022 Philippine television seasons |
Karl von Thun und Hohenstein was a Austrian officer who was notable for being the main Austrian commander at the Battle of Blumenau of the Austro-Prussian War.
Biography
Karl was born on January 24, 1803, in Vienna as the son of landowner Count Joseph Johann Anton von Thun und Hohenstein (1767–1810) and Countess Eleonore von Thun und Hohenstein, née Fritsch (1775–1834), and younger brother of politician Joseph Matthias von Thun und Hohenstein (1794 –1863).
Count Thun began his military career in 1820 as a cadet in the cavalry and became a second lieutenant in 1821, a first lieutenant in 1826 and switched to the infantry in 1831 as a captain-lieutenant. In 1840 he became a major and in February 1848, to colonel and commander of the 3rd Infantry Regiment, with whom he took part in practically all battles of the First Italian War of Independence and as a major general and brigadier in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 in the battles of Komárom and Temesvár. In 1850, he acted for a few months as a fortress commander in Budapest and shortly retired for a bit before returning as a brigadier in 1852. In 1854, he became a Field Marshal Lieutenant and General in Opava.
In the Second Italian War of Independence, he commanded the 15th Army Corps, which was newly formed to defend the coast, but was not deployed. He was subsequently commander of the VIII Corps in Italy. He was available again at the end of 1860 and from 1861 he served in Trieste as troop commander for the coast. In August 1862 he became commander of II Corps and commanding general for Lower and Upper Austria, Salzburg and Styria in Vienna. In the Austro-Prussian War in Bohemia, he led his corps under Feldzeugmeister Ludwig Benedek, which was involved in heavy fighting in the Swiepwald against Prussia. Hohenstein himself was slightly wounded in the Battle of Königgrätz. He was then available again but he finally retired in 1867 with the rank of Feldzeugmeister.
Karl von Thun und Hohenstein received the Order of the Iron Crown, III Class in 1848 and in 1867 that of the 1st class. In 1849 he became a Knight of the Order of Leopold. In 1857, he became the owner of Infantry Regiment 29, 1859 Privy Council.
Karl later died on January 16, 1876, at Trieste at the age of 72.
He had been married to Johanna née Freiin von Koller (1809–1891) since March 7, 1833. The marriage remained childless.
References
1803 births
1876 deaths
People of the First Italian War of Independence
People of the Second Italian War of Independence
People of the Austro-Prussian War
Military personnel from Vienna
Thun und Hohenstein |
Ward's long-eared bat (Plecotus wardi) is a species of vesper bat in the family Vespertilionidae. It is found in mountainous regions of South Asia and adjoining regions.
Taxonomy
It was described in 1911 by Oldfield Thomas, but was later reclassified as conspecific with the grey long-eared bat (P. austriacus). However, a 2006 study confirmed it as a distinct species using genetic and morphological evidence, and revived it as such. The results of this study have been followed by the American Society of Mammalogists, the IUCN Red List, and the ITIS. It was named after Colonel A. E. Ward, an amateur naturalist and member of the Bombay Natural History Society.
Plecotus ariel was described as a new species in 1911 by Oldfield Thomas. The holotype is the only individual that has ever been documented. It had been collected in Kangding, China at an elevation of above sea level, as part of the Duke of Bedford's Zoological Expedition, led by Malcolm Playfair Anderson. It was similar in appearance to Ognev's long-eared bat. It was sometimes included as a subspecies of the grey long-eared bat (Plecotus austriacus). However, the same study that revived P. wardi found P. ariel to be synonymous with it, and thus synonymized P. ariel with it. This has been followed by the ASM and the ITIS, although the IUCN still classifies P. ariel as a Data Deficient species.
Distribution and habitat
It is found in the Himalayas and Hindu Kush mountains, ranging from northeastern Afghanistan through the Himalayas of India and Pakistan, south to Nepal and Sichuan, China. It roosts in caves surrounded by coniferous forest, and occasionally in human-built structures.
Description
It has a forearm length of approximately . Its forearm, thumb, and claw lengths are among the greatest in its genus. It has a medium-sized skull relative to other members of its genus, with a greatest length of . Its orbital processes and zygomatic arches are weak, with the orbit (eye socket) elliptical in shape. It can be differentiated from other members of Plecotus by its large body size and darker fur.
Status
It may be threatened by cave tourism and destruction, both of which may lead to a decline in habitat quality. It may also be threatened by the demolition of abandoned buildings that serve as roosting sites. However, due to its wide distribution, it is presently listed as Least Concern.
References
Taxa named by Oldfield Thomas
Mammals described in 1911
Bats of Asia
Plecotus |
Graphis tetralocularis is a species of crustose lichen in the family Graphidaceae. Found in Rwanda, it was formally described as a new species in 2005 by Christina Bock and Markus Hauck. The type specimen was collected by the first author from Akagera National Park at an altitude of ; here it was found growing on a twig of a Nuxia floribunda tree. It is only known to occur at the type locality, which is a dry forest dominated by the trees Nuxia floribunda, Haplocoelum gallense, and Strychnos usambarensis. The lichen has a thin, smooth, whitish grey to grey-green crustose thallus. The specific epithet tetralocularis refers to the unusual morphology of its four-chambered ascospores. Graphis tetralocularis contains trace amounts of atranorin, a secondary chemical that can be detected using the technique of thin-layer chromatography.
References
tetralocularis
Lichens described in 2005
Lichens of Africa |
Masha Islam is a Bangladeshi singer. Her voice was featured in different TVCs and the children's TV series Sisimpur. She is also featured artist on Coke Studio Bangla.
References
Living people
Bangladeshi playback singers
21st-century Bangladeshi women singers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Bangladeshi pop singers
Best Female Playback Singer National Film Award (Bangladesh) winners |
EAMI is a 2022 Paraguayan drama film directed by Paz Encina. It was screened in the 51st International Film Festival Rotterdam and won the Tiger Award.
Cast
Anel Picanerai
Curia Chiquejno Etacoro
Ducubaide Chiquenoi
Basui Picanerai Etacore
Lucas Etacori
Guesa Picanerai
Lazaro Dosapei Cutamijo
Production
The film is an international co-production between Paraguay, Germany, Argentina, Netherlands, France and United States.
Awards and nominations
References
External links
2022 films
2022 drama films
Argentine films
Paraguayan films
German films
French films
American films
Guaraní-language films
Indigenous cinema in Latin America
Films shot in Paraguay
Films based on actual events
Chaco War films
Paraguayan drama films |
James H. Morgan may refer to:
James H. Morgan (Medal of Honor) (1840–1877), American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient
James H. Morgan (politician), member of the California State Assembly 1861–1862 |
Gloria Ui Young Kim is a Korean Canadian film and television director and screenwriter, most noted as director of the films Queen of the Morning Calm and Left for Dead: The Ashley Reeves Story.
Born in Seoul, South Korea, she moved to Toronto, Ontario in childhood. She studied English literature at the University of Toronto, and worked as a journalist for Maclean's before studying filmmaking at the Canadian Film Centre's Directors Lab in 2008.
Kim made a number of short films, including Partial Selves (2000), Rock Garden: A Love Story (2007), The Auction (2010), Why Do I Dance? (2012) and Flamenco Movie (2015) before winning an award from Women in the Directors Chair in 2016 toward the production of Queen of the Morning Calm. The film went into production in November 2018, and had its theatrical premiere at the 2019 Whistler Film Festival. The film was subsequently screened as part of the 2020 Canadian Film Festival, where it won the award for William F. White Reel Canadian Indie, and Kim won the award for Best Director.
The television movie Left for Dead, produced in Canada by Cineflix, premiered in 2021 on Lifetime. Kim received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Direction in a TV Movie at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022.
She has also directed episodes of the television series It's My Party!, Odd Squad, Coroner and Heartland. She received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Direction in a Children's or Youth Program or Series at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards in 2020 for It's My Party!.
References
External links
21st-century Canadian screenwriters
21st-century Canadian women writers
Film directors from Toronto
Canadian women film directors
Canadian women screenwriters
Canadian television directors
Canadian women television directors
Canadian television writers
South Korean emigrants to Canada
Canadian writers of Asian descent
Asian-Canadian filmmakers
Canadian Film Centre alumni
University of Toronto alumni
Writers from Toronto
Living people |
William A. Adamson (May 5, 1834March 1, 1907) was a Canadian American immigrant, farmer, and Republican politician. He served one term in the Wisconsin State Assembly, representing western Fond du Lac County. He later served as sergeant-at-arms of the Assembly during the 1887–1888 session.
Biography
William A. Adamson was born on May 5, 1834, in Kingston, Upper Canada. He emigrated to the United States with his parents in 1837, settling in Jefferson County, New York. He received a common school education until age 14, when he joined the crew of a ship. He spent the next decade in seafaring. He came to Wisconsin in 1856 and settled at Eldorado, in Fond du Lac County.
He became associated with the Republican Party and, in 1879, he was elected assistant sergeant-at-arms of the Wisconsin State Assembly. That fall, he was elected to the Assembly from Fond du Lac County's 1st Assembly district. He served only one term and was not a candidate for re-election. He returned to the Assembly in the 1885–1886 session as assistant sergeant-at-arms, and was then elected sergeant-at-arms for the 1887–1888 session.
He died March 1, 1907, at his home in Eldorado after an illness of several months.
Electoral history
Wisconsin Assembly (1879)
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References
1834 births
1907 deaths
Pre-Confederation Canadian emigrants to the United States
People from Jefferson County, New York
People from Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin
Wisconsin Republicans
Farmers from Wisconsin
Members of the Wisconsin State Assembly
19th-century American politicians |
Sernya ( 'Gold', ) is a site of medieval city ruins in Middle Mokshaland (modern Penza Oblast in Russia) that was razed by Mongols in a 1242 battle. The city was founded c. 3rd century AD. Total settlement area covers 14 hectares which is comparable to the cities of the Rus' principalities in 12-13th centuries. The city fortress area is 2,5 hectares (Moscow fortress 0,8-1,5 hectare appeared in 1150s).
History
The legendary Moksha city ruins were first discovered by Russian archeologist Fedor Chekalin on 22 December, 1893, but excavations started only in 2000. Askizi (Yenisei Kyrgyz) and Volga Bulgar traders stayed in the city. The city was famous for its jewelers.
Sernya battle
The city and its fortress were seized by Subutai in 1242 on return from the Mongol invasion of Europe as revenge to Mokshas that earlier joined the Mongol army. The Mokshan King Puresh and his men were fed up with fighting and suffered heavy losses during their European campaign. They planned to shift sides and had secretly discussed with Henry II the Pious that they would join Silesian army in the early morning of 9 April 1241 before the Battle of Legnica. Subutai discovered the plot and many Moksha warriors were shot dead in their sleep while they were waiting for new weapons to come inside the Mongol camp.
Defending forces used caltrops against the cavalry. Sernya's wooden walls were attacked with Chinese catapults; the Mongols used human fat for setting fire to the fortress. All defendants were killed and civilians were slaughtered during the siege. Puresh's daughter, Princess Narchat, fled with her men out of the burning fortress and headed to Noronshasht where they could hide away in Skanda caves, but they all were slain as Mongols chased them.
External links
Белорыбкин Г. Н. Золотаревское поселение. СПб.- Пенза: Изд-во ПГПУ, 2001.
Мадуров Д. Ф. Волжские земли в истории и культуре России: Материалы Всероссийской научной конференции//Мадуров Д. Ф. События XIII века в истории эрзи и мокши., О сражении на Золотарёвском городище осенью 1237 г. (Dmitry Madurov. 13th Century Events in Moksha and Erzya History., Sernya battle in autumn 1237), Mordovian State University, Saransk: Krasnyy Oktyabr, 2004. Part I — p. 264
Literature
Carpini, Giovanni; Hildinger, Erik (April 27, 2014). The Story of the Mongols: Whom We Call the Tartars (2nd ed.). Branden Books. ISBN 978-0828320177
Based on British Library MS Royal 14.C.XIII Fol. 225r-236r and thus ends prematurely.
Щапов В.А. Символ рода. Пенза, 2003
See also
Mongol invasion of Europe
Battle of Legnica
Narchat
Mokshas
Noronshasht
History of Mokshaland
History of Middle Volga
References
Penza Oblast
Ruins in Russia
Razed cities
Archaeological parks
Defunct towns in Russia
Forts in Russia
Former populated places in Russia
Archaeological sites in Russia |
Doink may refer to:
An often used ominous sound in the TV show Law & Order, stylized as doink doink or chung CHUNG
Doink, an episode of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Doink the Clown, a professional wrestling persona
The Double Doink, a blocked game-winning field goal attempt in the 2018 NFC Wild Card game
The Doink Years, a 1996 album by The Grifters |
Johannes van Genk (born 9 Sep 1803 in Princenhage) was a Dutch clergyman and bishop for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Breda. He was ordained in 1827. He was appointed in 1868. He died in 1874.
References
Dutch Roman Catholic bishops
1803 births
1874 deaths |
Henricus van Beek (born 24 Mar 1816 in Amsterdam) was a Dutch clergyman and bishop for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Breda. He was ordained in 1842. He was appointed in 1874. He died in 1884.
References
Dutch Roman Catholic bishops
1816 births
1884 deaths |
The Left and Democratic Front (or Left and Secular Democratic Front) was a pre-poll alliance of political parties in the Indian state of Manipur, which was formed ahead of the 2017 Manipur Legislative Assembly election.
About the alliance
The political parties in the Front had a 35-point common minimum programme. Their manifesto was constituted on the Left Front models of Tripura and Kerala. Moirangthem Nara, who was the general secretary of CPI Manipur, was the Convenor of the alliance.
LDF projected itself as an alternative to both the Congress and the BJP. CPI and MNDF are the dominant parties in the alliance as both have MLAs and ministers in previous Governments. Arvind Kejriwal was invited as their star campaigner in the election.
Constituent parties
The constituent parties in the alliance are:
Communist Party of India (CPI)
Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPIM)
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)
Janata Dal (United) (JD(U))
Aam Admi Party (AAP)
People's Democratic Alliance (PDA)
Manipur National Democratic Front (MNDF)
LDF contested for 52 seats including 2 independents in the 60-member Manipur Legislative Assembly elections of 2017. LDF also had supported Irom Sharmila, who contested from PRJA, on the chief minister's seat. The alliance was dismissed after the election.
See also
Left and Secular Alliance
Manipur Progressive Secular Alliance
References
Political party alliances in India
Political parties in Manipur
2017 establishments in Manipur
Political parties established in 2017 |
Petrus Leyten (born 16 Jul 1834 in Ginneken) was a Dutch clergyman and bishop for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Breda. He was ordained in 1859. He was appointed in 1885. He died in 1914.
References
Dutch Roman Catholic bishops
1834 births
1914 deaths |
The Thirty-Second Wisconsin Legislature convened from to in regular session.
Senators representing odd-numbered districts were newly elected for this session and were serving the first year of a two-year term. Assembly members were elected to a one-year term. Assembly members and odd-numbered senators were elected in the general election of November 5, 1878. Senators representing even-numbered districts were serving the second year of their two-year term, having been elected in the general election held on November 6, 1877.
Major events
January 22, 1879: Matthew H. Carpenter elected United States Senator by the Wisconsin Legislature in Joint Session.
November 4, 1879: William E. Smith re-elected as Governor of Wisconsin.
Major legislation
February 28, 1879: An Act to secure to children the benefits of an elementary education, 1879 Act 121. Created a legal requirement for parents and legal guardians to send their children to school for at least one semester per year between the ages of 7 and 15.
Party summary
Senate summary
Assembly summary
Sessions
1st Regular session: January 8, 1879March 5, 1879
Leaders
Senate leadership
President of the Senate: James M. Bingham (R)
President pro tempore: William T. Price (R)
Assembly leadership
Speaker of the Assembly: David M. Kelly (R)
Members
Members of the Senate
Members of the Senate for the Thirty-Second Wisconsin Legislature:
Members of the Assembly
Members of the Assembly for the Thirty-Second Wisconsin Legislature:
Employees
Senate employees
Chief Clerk: Charles E. Bross
Assistant Clerk: W. S. Reynolds
Bookkeeper: T. S. Ansley
Engrossing Clerk: John P. Mitchell
Enrolling Clerk: A. J. Smith
Transcribing Clerk: Fred. Richards
Proofreader: Thomas A. Dyson
Clerk for the Judiciary Committee: H. M. Pierce
Clerk for the Committee on Claims: L. F. Nickey
Clerk for the Committee on Enrolled Bills: Walter L. Houser
Sergeant-at-Arms: Chalmers Ingersoll
Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms: William A. Adamson
Postmaster: O. N. Russell
Assistant Postmaster: A. C. Martin
Gallery Attendant: O. A. Kluetz
Doc. Room Attendant: William Graham
Doorkeepers:
E. T. Songstad
M. Simon
A. Knudson
John Halls
Porter: John Redman
Night Watch: Eugene A. Steer
Chief Clerk's Messenger: J. G. Hyland
President's Messenger: John Barrows
Messengers:
Jos. Campbell
Jas. H. Welch
Harry M. Hathaway
Thos. Farness
Geo. Roe
Jos. J. Gunkel
Lono Loper
Janitor: Ole Stevenson
Assembly employees
Chief Clerk: John E. Eldred
1st Assistant Clerk: William M. Fogo
2nd Assistant Clerk: S. L. Perrine
Bookkeeper: O. A. Southmayd
Engrossing Clerk: T. J. Vaughn
Enrolling Clerk: Franklin S. Lawrence
Transcribing Clerk: F. W. Rogers
Proof Reader: H. O. Fifield
Sergeant-at-Arms: Miletus Knight
Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms: William Seamonson
Postmaster: J. J. Gibbs
Assistant Postmaster: William Stanton
Doorkeepers:
J. J. Burnard
C. E. Webster
George B. McMillen
Fred Oelhafer
Gallery Attendants:
R. Worts
J. L. Johnson
Porter: C. Schneider
Night Watch: N. V. Chandler
Wash Room Attendant: J. W. Kildow
Speaker's Messenger: E. H. Potter
Clerk's Messenger: Arthur Truax
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John F. Sanderson
Richard Kempter
S. G. Bottum
Harvey Barlow
Candy Nicodemus
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B. F. Oakley
Bertie Carter
Freddie Wittl
Jake Gill
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Pieter Hopmans (born 22 Aug 1865 in Standdaarbuiten) was a Dutch clergyman and bishop for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Breda. He was ordained in 1890. He was appointed in 1914. He died in 1951.
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Jozef Baeten (born 8 April 1893 in Alphen) was a Dutch clergyman and bishop for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Breda. He was ordained in 1917. He was appointed in 1951. He resigned in 1961, and died in 1964.
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Gerardus de Vet (born 15 Nov 1917 in Gilze) was a Dutch clergyman and bishop for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Breda. He was ordained in 1943. He was appointed in 1962. He died in 1967.
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Abigail Borah is an American environmental activist who interrupted Todd Stern at the 2011 United Nations Climate Change Conference and who co-founded Race to Replace Vermont Yankee.
Early life and education
Borah grew up near Princeton and attended Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart.
Borah studied at Middlebury College where she majored in Conservation Biology. While studying, she joined SustainUS, who sent her to the 2010 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun (also known as COP-16.)
Activism and career
In 2011, when she was 21 years old, Borah interrupted US negotiator Todd Stern at the 2011 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP-17) in Durban to say:“I am speaking on behalf of the United States of America because my negotiators cannot. I am scared for my future. 2020 is too late to wait.”Borah was met with applause from the audience and had her credentials allowing her to attend the conference removed by guards. Stern later conceded that he agreed with her points. She was later dubbed as the "Durban Climate Hero" by Climate Progress.
Borah is the co-founder of Race to Replace Vermont Yankee, a campaign that aims to replace nuclear power in Vermont with clean energy.
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Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant
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Pellegrino Bellezze (born 10 Jan 1884 in São José dos Campos) was a Brazilian clergyman and bishop for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Manzini. He was ordained in 1907. He was appointed in 1923. He died in 1961.
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Romualdo Migliorini (born 21 Jun 1884 in Volegno) was an Italian clergyman and bishop for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Manzini. He was ordained in 1901. He was appointed in 1933. He died in 1953.
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The Mexuar (; ) is a section of the Nasrid palace complex in the Alhambra of Granada, Spain. It served as the entrance wing of the Comares Palace, the official palace of the sultan and the state, and it housed various administrative functions. After the 1492 conquest of Granada by Christian Spain the building's main hall was converted into a chapel, though many of the Christian additions were later removed during modern restorations. The palace's two main courtyards were also put to other uses and only their foundations remain visible today.
Etymology
The Spanish name Mexuar comes from the Arabic word mashwar (), meaning "place of counsel" or "conference area". The term is used in North Africa as well, for example to denote a public square or reception area at the entrance of a royal palace in Morocco where public ceremonies took place or petitions were received. The Mechouar Palace in Tlemcen, Algeria, is another example.
History
The Alhambra was a palace complex and citadel begun in 1238 by Muhammad I Ibn al-Ahmar, the founder of the Nasrid dynasty that ruled the Emirate of Granada. Several palaces were built and expanded by his successors Muhammad II (r. 1273–1302) and Muhammad III (r. 1302–1309). In 1314 Isma'il I came to the throne and undertook many further works in the Alhambra. His reign marked the beginning of the "classical" period or high point of Nasrid architecture. Isma'il decided to build a new palace complex to serve as the official palace of the sultan and the state, known as the Qaṣr al-Sultan or Dār al-Mulk. The core of this complex was the Comares Palace, while another wing, the Mexuar, extended to the west and acted as the public sector of the complex and the entrance to the Comares Palace. The Council Hall or Sala del Mexuar was first built in this time.Yusuf I (r. 1333–1354) expanded the Comares Palace. He also built or converted existing towers along the northern walls of the Alhambra to serve new purposes, including the Torre de Machuca in the Mexuar's second courtyard. Under Muhammad V (r. 1354–1359 and 1362–1391) Nasrid architecture reached its apogee, which is evident in the nearby Palace of the Lions which he built to the east of the Comares Palace. Between 1362 and 1365 he rebuilt or significantly refurbished the Mexuar. The writings of Ibn al-Khatib recount that in December 1362 Muhammad V held lavish festivities in the Mexuar to celebrate the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad. The Comares Façade on the south side of the Patio del Cuarto Dorado is dated to 1370 during his reign.
After the 1492 conquest of Granada by the Catholic Monarchs, the Alhambra was converted into a royal palace of Christian Spain. Significant modifications were carried out in the Mexuar and in the environment around the Comares Palace. The Patio de Machuca is so named because the Spanish Renaissance architect Pedro Machuca, who worked on the Palace of Charles V and other additions to the Alhambra for Charles V, resided here in the 16th century. Significant modifications to this courtyard happened during the Christian era of the Alhambra. The Council Hall was converted into a Christian chapel in the 16th century, which entailed the dismantling of the hall's central dome in 1540 in order to add an upper floor. The Patio del Cuarto Dorado was also heavily modified in order to convert it into a residence. Isabella of Portugal resided here when she visited in 1526 with her husband Charles V. The residence was later used by the governors of the Alhambra and was still in use in the 19th century when Washington Irving visited the site.
Restorations were carried out in the late 19th-century and early 20th century. Among other things, they restored the surviving northern arcade of the Patio de Machuca, though most of the Patio de Machuca and the Patio de la Mezquita are visible only as foundations today. introduced a connecting doorway between the Council Hall and the oratory. Some of the Christian features added to the Council Hall for its conversion to a chapel were removed during modern restorations, to recover some of the chamber's original appearance. Likewise, many of the post-1492 additions to the Cuarto Dorado area were removed in the 20th century.
Description
The Mexuar generally consists of four main sections or buildings: two consecutive courtyards, a Council Hall (the Sala del Mexuar), and the Cuarto Dorado and its courtyard. The Cuarto Dorado courtyard served as a transition between the Mexuar and the Comares Palace. These components were all aligned along the same axis from west to east.
Patio de la Mezquita (first courtyard)
Visitors to the Nasrid palace complex entered it from the west and entered into a square courtyard originally known as the "Secondary Mashwar" and now known as the Patio de la Mezquita ('Courtyard of the Mosque' in Spanish). Only the excavated foundations are visible today. Along either side of its central axis was a line of four trees in four planters, a feature unique in Nasrid architecture. The courtyard was surrounded by a series of chambers. According to Ibn al-Khatib's writings, these chambers were used by the sultan's secretaries, which means it was likely here that official documents and records were written and kept. The largest room, on the south side, was likely what Ibn al-Khatib referred to as the Qubbat al-'Ard and may have contained the Dīwān al-Ins͟hā, or Chancery. Its name suggests that there was a dome over part of the room, possibly over the alcove at the back. In the courtyard's southeast corner is a small mosque, with an alignment different from the surrounding structures. The mosque consists of a square chamber which was probably covered by a pyramidal roof, with a square minaret attached to its northwest corner. In a small adjacent room was a fountain used for ablutions. In the middle of the east side of the courtyard was an entrance leading to the second courtyard.
Patio de Machuca (second courtyard)
The second courtyard was known as the "Main Mashwar" and is now known as the Patio de Machuca, named after the 16th-century architect Pedro Machuca who resided here while working in the Alhambra. The courtyard was surrounded on three sides (west, north, and south) by a portico. Only the northern portico, which was used as a stable after the Christian conquest, has survived to the present day, after being restored by Leopoldo Torres Balbás in 1926. Lines of trimmed cypress trees now stand in for the southern and western porticos that have disappeared. At the center of the courtyard was an elaborate fountain. Its water basin, still present, is shaped like a rectangle with three semi-circular extensions at either end. Ibn al-Khatib describes that water spilled into the basin from two gilded bronze lion sculptures.
On the north side of the courtyard, behind the portico, is the Torre de Machuca, one of the fortification towers on the Alhambra's northern wall. Sultan Yusuf I converted this tower into the Bahw an-Naṣr (Mirador of Victory' in Arabic), a square chamber with windows. It seems to have functioned as small alternative throne hall for the sultan (the main throne hall being the Sala del Mexuar). As the room is too small to hold many people, it's likely that during receptions the sultan sat here by himself while his courtiers stood along the portico in front and public guests were received in the courtyard.
The oratory
To the east of the Bahw an-Naṣr, and accessible from it, is a private passage that leads to a small oratory on the northeastern edge of the courtyard. This was a private prayer room for the sultan, equipped with a mihrab and with double-arched windows offering views onto the landscape and the city below, similar to the oratory of the Partal Palace. The mihrab and the walls of the chamber are decorated with carved stucco with arabesque motifs. An inscription on the mihrab includes an excerpt of verse 205 of the seventh surah of the Qur'an. During restorations to the Alhambra between 1868 and 1889 the oratory was incorporated into the Sala del Mexuar by knocking down a part of the wall to create a doorway between them. The floor of the oratory was also lowered from its original level to accommodate this connection – as evidenced by the elevated ledge below the windows and at the base of the mihrab. The room was restored again in 1917.
Sala del Mexuar (Council Hall)
The hall to the east of the Patio de Machuca was known in Arabic as the Majlis al-Qu'ūd ('Council Hall') and known in Spanish today as the Sala del Mexuar. It served as an audience chamber and throne hall for the sultan – at least during some periods – when he was receiving petitions from the public. It's likely that members of the public did not enter the hall itself and had to remain in the courtyards. Instead, their petitions were written down and then brought here to the sultan by court officials. The sultan then deliberated and passed judgement.
The hall's floor is higher than the level of the courtyard and it was originally accessed from the latter via three tall steps leading to a doorway, on the west side of the hall. This entrance, along with the steps, were suppressed and walled off when the hall was converted into a Christian chapel in the 16th century. Another entrance, now used by visitors, is located on the south side and likely dates from the remodeling of Muhammad V. This doorway of this entrance is surrounded by stucco decoration and surmounted by an ornate wooden eave, but the tilework of its lower walls has been lost. This passageway originally connected the Council Hall with another large chamber to the south. The central part of this chamber was covered by a dome supported on L-shaped pillars. This hall functioned as a treasury and pay office. It was also accessible directly from the Patio de Machuca and from the western door of the Comares Façade in the Cuarto Dorado courtyard.
The design of the Council Hall is unusual compared in Andalusi palace architecture, but has parallels with Mamluk throne halls in the Middle East and possibly with the throne hall of the 11th-century Qal'at Bani Hammad in present-day Algeria. Inside the rectangular hall is a central square space delineated by four columns supporting the ceiling. It's likely that this square central space was originally covered by a dome with a lantern that had coloured glass windows, perhaps similar to the coloured glass vault in the Mirador de Lindaraja (in the Palace of the Lions). Arabic sources referred to the dome as the Qubba al-'Ulyā ('High Dome'). The sultan's throne was likely placed on a carpet under this dome. The dome was dismantled around 1540 to create upper-floor room. The walls around the room are decorated with carved stucco and with tilework. The columns in the center uphold a consoles with stucco muqarnas that uphold the wooden ceiling. The Nasrid capitals of the marble columns retain their original polychromatic (colour) decoration. While the wooden ceiling in the center dates from a later era, the wooden ceilings around this edges have preserved their original designs with geometric patterns. The window shutters date from the 16th century when the conversion to a chapel occurred.
On the north side of the hall is another rectangular space that was originally a separate hall that was joined to the main hall during its conversion into a chapel. A wooden gallery above this space was then added (whose railing is still visible today) and served as the choir. The walls of this back area are decorated with mosaic tilework (zellij) that was reused and brought here from other parts of the palace. The mosaics form star-shaped geometric patterns with emblems at their center. The emblems visible today include the Nasrid motto () as well as the double-headed eagle and coat of arms of the later Christian governors of the Alhambra.
Cuarto Dorado
To the east of the Council Hall, accessed by a narrow passage, is a small courtyard known as the Patio del Cuarto Dorado ('Courtyard of the Golden Room' or 'Courtyard of the Gilded Room'). The north side of this courtyard is occupied by a portico that precedes a hall, the Cuarto Dorado ('Golden Room'), while the south side is taken up by the Comares Façade, a highly-decorated wall façade with two doors, one of which grants access to the Comares Palace to the east. Scholar Arnold Felix has noted that the courtyard is like a "miniature palace", with all the elements of a typical Nasrid courtyard palace condensed into a smaller space.
The Cuarto Dorado may have served as a waiting room for visitors about to enter the Comares Palace. The entrance passage to the courtyard may have been narrow in order make it easier for guards to control who entered this space. At the end of the 15th century, after the Christian conquest, the north portico was partially obscured by the addition of a large horseshoe arch in front of it, which was dismantled in 1965. Likewise, an upper-floor wooden gallery and upper chambers were added at some point after this before eventually being dismantled in the early 20th century. These additions were made to convert this space into a residence. A well-known drawing by J.F. Lewis in 1835 illustrates the state of the courtyard before modern restorations began.
The marble basin and fountain at the center of the courtyard is a replica of an original Nasrid fountain basin that was found in the Lindaraja Courtyard, moved there from its original context, and now kept in the Alhambra Museum. The portico on the north side consists of three arches, of which the central arch is larger than the two others. The arches are decorated with carved stucco and supported by slender marble columns, much of which is still original. The capitals of the columns have older Almohad-like designs instead of the usual Nasrid designs. A barred opening in the east wall next to the portico provides light to an underground passage that was used by Nasrid guards to move around the palace.
The Cuarto Dorado hall behind the portico is accessible through three decorated archways, of which the central one is again larger than the others and surmounted by two windows. The hall itself is an elongated rectangular space covered by a vaulted wooden ceiling with geometric motifs. In 1499, after the Christian conquest, this ceiling was painted and gilded with ornamental motifs by Juan Caxto and Jorge Fernández, which gave the hall its current name. The golden motifs include emblems of the Catholic Monarchs and other heraldic motifs. Along the back wall of the chamber there were probably three windows originally, but after the Christian conquest the two side windows were walled up (visible now only as niches in the wall) and the central window was transformed into a small balcony with benches and a double-arched window with views onto the city below.
The Comares Façade
The monumental, richly-decorated southern façade of the Cuarto Dorado courtyard has been interpreted as the "façade" of the Comares Palace and is known as the Comares Façade or Façade of the Comares Palace. This façade dates from the time of Muhammad V. It has two identical doors, with the left (eastern) door leading via a winding passage to the Court of the Myrtles and the right door leading to other private chambers, including the treasury (mentioned above) connected to the rest of the Mexuar. The façade is one of the most heavily-decorated walls in the Alhambra, covered in stucco decoration for most of its surface except for tile decoration along the lower portions (some of which comes from modern restorations). The carved stucco includes an Arabic inscription featuring a poem by Ibn Zamrak (d. 1393) and the Throne Verse of the Qur'an (2:255), which may indicate that this area was sometimes used by the sultan to hold audiences or other ceremonies. Above the doors are two double-arched windows and one single-arched window between them. Above these is a muqarnas cornice that precedes a wide wooden eave, which in turn would have sheltered the seat of the sultan at the top of the courtyard steps.
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Costantino Maria Attilio Barneschi (born 24 Jun 1892 in Foiano della Chiana) was an Italian clergyman and bishop for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Manzini. He was ordained in 1951. He was appointed in 1965. He died in 1953.
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Girolamo Maria Casalini (born 17 Dec 1915 in Siena) was an Italian clergyman and bishop for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Manzini. He was ordained in 1938. He was appointed in 1965. He died in 1982.
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Aloysius Isaac Mandlenkhosi Zwane (born 6 May 1932 in Msunduze) was an Liswati clergyman and bishop for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Manzini. He was ordained in 1964. He was appointed in 1976. He died in 1980.
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Euroferry Olympia, a ferry carrying 288 people from Greece to Italy caught fire on February 18, 2022, leaving at least 12 missing. Twenty-eight passengers were evacuated from the northwestern Greek island of Corfu after a fire engulfed the Olympia on its way from Greece to Italy on Friday.
Shipping Minister Ioannis Plakiotakis in a statement. said "A team from the Maritime Accident Incident Investigation Service is at the scene and is investigating".
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The New Hampshire Department of Agriculture, Markets, and Food is a state agency of the U.S. state of New Hampshire, headquartered in Concord. The department's mission is "to support and promote agriculture and serve consumers and business for the benefit of the public health, environment and economy."
Organization
The department is organized into six divisions:
Division of Agricultural Development
Division of Animal Industry
Division of Pesticide Control
Division of Plant Industry
Division of Regulatory Services
Division of Weights and Measures
Administratively attached to the department are the New Hampshire Agriculture in the Classroom program and the State Conservation Committee.
Commissioners
The department has had seven commissioners since it was formed in 1913:
Andrew L. Felker of Meredith (1913–1953)
Perley I. Fitts of Durham (1953–1962)
Frank T. Buckley of Derry (1962–1972)
Howard C. Townsend of Lebanon (1972–1982)
Stephen H. Taylor of Plainfield (1982–2007)
Lorraine S. Merrill of Stratham (2007–2017)
Shawn N. Jasper of Hudson (2017–present)
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Trials of the Amaons is a seven issue Crossover event from DC Comics written by Becky Cloonan, Michael W. Conrad, Jordie Bellaire, Vita Ayala and Joelle Jones. The story details a civil war between the Amazons, and will have Wonder Woman cross path with Nubia, Yara Flor (the new Wonder Girl), Cassie Sandsmark, Donna Troy, Hippolyta, and Artemis of Bana-Mighdall.
Publication History
In October 2021, DC Comics announced that it will have its first Wonder Woman comic book event since 1992 called Trial of the Amazons where Wonder Woman must bend the relationships between different Amazon tribes or else there will be a civil war.
Plot summary
Prelude
After the events of Dark Nights: Death Metal where Wonder Woman sacrificed herself to defeat The Batman Who Laughs, she is transported to Asgard where she travels throughout dimensions to get back to Earth. On the way to Earth, she meets Greek Gods where she overhears that there is a civil war between Amazons. Yara Flor (an Amazon with ties to Brazilian) is traveling to Brazil when the Greek Gods, Amazons from Bana-Mighdall, and Diana's tribe all feel threatened by Yara for mysterious reasons and everyone targets Yara. Artemis of Bana-Mighdall and Wonder Girl go try to find Yara Flor, but are interrupted by Brazilian Amazons. Eros takes down the plane Yara was at, but accidentally nicks himself with the arrow and falls in love with Yara.
Eros takes Yara to Mt. Olympus where Yara meets Hera, who plans to have Yara marry Eros and become a god-like being. Artemis and Wonder Girl defeat the Brazilian Amazons and go to their headquarters. Yara meets a Brazilian Amazon name Potira who reveals that the Gods created a tribe of powerful warriors, however they were defeated by the darkness and after regaining their humanity they were split in half: The Amazons and the Bana-Mighdall. An Amazon name Aella broke free from both tribes and fell in love with a human, but was separated and landed in Brazil where she met a female Brazilian warrior tribe and gave birth to Yara, however the Greek Gods killed Aela as punishment for deserting the Amazons tribes. Artemis and Wonder Girl arrive, and tell Yara that if she allies with Hera then there will be a path of destruction that the Amazons cant stop.
The next day, Yara Flor refuses to drink the elixir of immortality, and escapes Mt. Olympus. Wonder Girl meets Potira, where they travel to the Brazilian Amaon's headquarters called Akahim and plan to invade Themiscyra as punishment for taking Yara Flor against her will, and Wonder Girl meets Donna Troy. Hephaestus arrives and sends Yara to Tartarus. but Yara escapes and arrives at Mt. Olympus the same time her Brazilian allies plan to attack. Yara Flor is attacked by Greek Gods, and realizes that one of them is Eros who killed her mother so that he can be with her. Yara Flor opens the gates of Mt. Olympus, and Donna Troy, Wonder Girl, and the Brazilian allies help Yara fend off the Gods, and Wonder Girl calms Zeus down.
When Wonder Woman comes back to Earth, she is greeted warmly by Superman, Batman, Black Canary, Green Arrow, Hawkgirl, The Flash, Cyborg, Doctor Fate, and her mother Queen Hippolyta. When Wonder Woman saves a group of innocent civilians, the whole world hears her return and everyone is celebrating except Artemis and Yara Flor. After defeating a person name Attum, Wonder Woman receives a message saying that something is happening in Themiscyra, Wonder Woman flies off. Artemis introduces a new Amazon to her tribe, when she hears that they are under attack by a creature. After defeating the creature, Artemis realizes that creature came from Themyscira. The Bana-Mighdall believe Yara is responsible, but Artemis defends Yara. Faruka (a Bana-Mighdall) wants to take down Themiscyra so the rest of the tribe can have immortality and win back Themyscira. Artemis meets up with Hippolyta and pledges allegiance to her to try to unite the Amazons against an evil enemy.
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Palair or Paleru is a village in Kusumanchi tehsil, Khammam district, in the state of Telangana, India. It is located on the Khammam to Suryapet road. It is location about from the district headquarters of Khammam, on the banks of the Paleru lake. As of the 2011 Census of India, Palair has a population of of which were males while females numbered .
Government and politics
At the state level, Palair is a part of Palair (Assembly constituency) of the Telangana Legislative Assembly. As of 2018, it is represented in the assembly by Kandala Upender Reddy of the Indian National Congress.
At the national level, Palair is a part of Khammam (Lok Sabha constituency) of the Lok Sabha. As of 2019, it is represented in the parliament by Nama Nageswara Rao of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi.
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Samile the Vladik, bishop and witness to the Fall of Constantinople
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Shelagh O'Brien is a Canadian television director. She is most noted as a three-time Canadian Screen Award winner, receiving awards for Best Direction, Variety or Sketch Comedy at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards in 2016 for the opening ceremony of the 2015 Pan American Games, for Best Direction, Lifestyle or Information at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards in 2020 for her direction of the 2019 Giller Prize gala broadcast, and Best Direction, Reality/Competition at the 9th Canadian Screen Awards for the Canada's Drag Race episode "U Wear It Well".
She is also a frequent director of Crave's television comedy specials from the Just for Laughs festival.
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The 10th Parliament of Solomon Islands, determined by the 2014 general election, is the National Parliament of Solomon Islands from 2014 until 2019. It was preceded by the ninth and followed by the eleventh.
The 10th Parliament consists of 50 representatives, elected from 50 single-seat constituencies.
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Garanshin, are the guardian deities of the Buddhist temple (Sangharama), equivalent to the Taoism "realm master deity", and is also the Buddhist Dharmapala. It is also a Buddhist Dharmapala. It is dedicated to protecting the monastery area and the four disciples.
Garanshin in the time of the Buddha
Karan Bodhisattva originally refers to the eighteen holy protectors of the Dharma in the Seven Buddhas and Eight Bodhisattvas Great Dharani Mantra Sutra:
Later on, the three meritorious ministers of the Gion Refuge, the King of Kingdom, Pasenadi (Sanskrit name: Prasenajit, Pali name: Pasenadi), Prince Gita, and Anathapindika (Anathapindik, also known as Sudatta, meaning "Good Grant") donated the Gion Tree for the Lonely Garden to Gautama Buddha because of the donation of the Jetavana. Anathapindik (also known as Sudatta, meaning "good grant") was included in the Gautama Sages because of the donation of "Jetavana" to Siddhartha, increasing the number of Gautama Sages to twenty-one.
Chinese Buddhist Worship Tradition
In the Tang Song of China, Zen Bodhimaṇḍa already had a custom for worshipping the Bodhisattva of Garan. The Temple is protected by eighteen gods, and those who live in it should also encourage themselves and not be lazy for fear of incurring present retribution. And: "All Gods have countless dependents, that is, they are assigned to guard. To this day, the Buddhism Bodhimaṇḍa recites the Karan Praise during the daily morning and evening recitations: "Lord Karan, the temple's mighty spirit, is dedicated to the Buddha's edict to convey sincerity; to protect the city of the Dharma King, to be a screen for Han, and to bring eternal peace to the temple. In gratitude for the virtue of the Bodhisattva's protection of the Dharma. Some people also print the Dharmapala on the end pages of Buddhism books in the hope of receiving the protection of the Dharmapala.
However, most Chinese Buddhist Bodhimaṇḍas today portray the Garan Bodhisattva in the form of Guan Yu, rather than the original twenty-one Garan holy beings.
Guan Yu as the God of Karan
The Buddhist scriptures do not record Guan Yu as the Bodhisattva of Garan, and there was no such custom before the Sui dynasty. The origin of this is said to be related to the Tiantai Sect founder, Zhiyi Masters.
Legend has it that Zhiyi was searching for a site to build a temple on Jade Spring Hill in Jingzhou when Guan Yu appeared while he was meditating in the mountain at night and offered to help him build the temple. After the temple was completed, Guan Yu became a disciple of the Buddha by following the refuge of Master Zhi Shi and vowed to be the protector of Buddhism. From then on, the Temples of the Tendai sect began to worship Guan Yu.
However, replacing the original twenty-one bodhisattvas with Guan Yu alone does not seem to be the original intention of Master Zhi Shi. The fourth volume of the "Biography of the Wise Master" records this matter: "On the evening when the clouds opened up and the moon was clear, I saw two men, with all the ministers, as majestic as kings, the elder one with beautiful beard and rich, the younger one with crowned hat and beautiful hair, coming forward to pay homage! The teacher asked where he came from? He said he was Guan Yu, the former general of Shu, and pointed to the young man and said: My son Guan Ping also. The Han dynasty at the end of the chaos, Nine Provinces split, Cao Cao unkind, Sun Quan self-preservation, I righteous subject Shu Han, hope to restore the emperor's family, the time is contrary, have the will to fail, die with residual martyrdom. "The teacher then held the furnace and gave the five precepts." In these accounts, there is no mention that the Master of the Wise Men wanted to replace the original twenty-one holy saints with Guan Yu alone.
However, after the precedent of worshipping Guan Yu was set by the Tiantai Buddhist monasteries, all the monasteries followed suit, and gradually Guan Yu became the two major Dharmapala in Chinese Buddhist monasteries, along with Skanda (you can see Guan Yu standing to the right of the statue of Wijunda in the painted or sculpted Quan Tang Buddha Statue). In temples where Buddhism and Taoism are fused and where there is a Three Jewels Hall or a Guanyin Hall, it is common to have the statues of Skanda and Guan Yu standing left and right in front of the hall.
Later on, Guan Yu's festival day - the 13th of May or the 24th of June on the Chinese calendar - is regarded as the Christmas of Garan Bodhisattva. Some Buddhist temples also hold special Buddhist services to commemorate this occasion. What's more, a few Buddhist temples have also built "Guan-Di Hall" (or "Hall of Demons") for Guan Yu.
Unlike other religions that worship Guan Yu, the statue of Guan Yu is always in a standing position (or in a seated position if worshiped in a separate temple), and it is customary for the statue to have an additional ribbon to wrap around the deity without wind; however, the ribbon is not inevitable, for example, the statue of Guan Gong in Chung Tai Chan Monastery does not have a ribbon.
Other Garanshin
The use of Guan Yu as a deity in Han Buddhist temples is a phenomenon of Buddhist fusion with Chinese culture, with Han deities guarding Buddhist temples, showing the transfer of folk culture to Buddhism, or Buddhism's desire to attract (or draw in) folk beliefs. Buddhist temples also have other gods:
Daikonshuuri Bodhisattva: According to legend, he is the seventh son of Ashoka.，The title of "Daquanshuli (Rī)" is "Daquanshuli Bodhisattva". He was once escorted to China by Śarīra and was later revered as "Daquanshuli Bodhisattva". This deity is worshipped in the Caodong school monasteries as the god of Garan, and this culture has spread to Japan.
The king of the Kama-vipassana family is also known as Kapila. He is the guardian deity of Karan, so he is called the King of Karan. He is one of the four night gods who protects the east, and is also known as the Yellow Shirt God. The god of wealth and fortune, if you pray for good fortune, you will be able to fulfill your wishes.
The name of the god is Zhang Bo, and the word Bo Qi.
Dong Yue Da Di
Ping Shui Da Wang: The Great Yu the Great.
Hwagwang Daedei: The god of Hwagwang Daedei is worshiped at the Puji Temple in Mount Putuo and at the Huangbaku sect's Daifuji Temple in Kyoto, Japan.
The God of Five Blessings: The God of Five Blessings is worshipped at Tantou Town in Changle City, for example.
See Also
Sangharama
Dharmapala
External Links
伽藍聖眾之由來及其訛傳
References
Dharmapalas
Pages with unreviewed translations
Zen art and culture
Taoism
Buddhist art |
At 11 pm on the night of 20 September 1988, a huge rockslide occurred in the Darbang region of Nepal. The landslide killed 109 people and buried all the houses in the right bank of the river. The volume of landslide was estimated to be about 5 million cubic meters with a dimension of about 750m high ranging from the elvation of 1750 to 1000 m and width of 500m. The debri dammed the Myagdi river for three hours. The debri was gradually eroded by the river without causing flooding in the downstream region.
The cause of slide is not known clearly because there was no rainfall in the area during the landslide period or any earthquake. However, about a month early, an earthquake of 6.7 richer scale had occurred in the eastern Nepal. About 62 years early a similar landslide killed about 500 people in the same region.
References
Landslides in Nepal
Natural disasters in Nepal |
Zhang Bu may refer to:
Zhang Bu (Xin dynasty) (died 32), warlord during the Xin and Han dynasties
Zhang Bu (Eastern Wu) (died 264), Eastern Wu general |
Joan Anita Nabirye (born 1 July 1993) is a Ugandan professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Kenyan Women's Premier League club Vihiga Queens FC, and the Uganda women's national team.
References
External links
Living people
Ugandan women's footballers
Uganda women's international footballers
Women's association football midfielders |
The Burma Tournament 1995 (), alternatively known as the 4-nation Tiger Trophy, was an international association football friendly tournament organised by Myanmar Football Federation (MFF). It took place from 27 October to 4 November 1995 in Myanmar.
Participants countries
The following four teams will contest in the tournament. FIFA ranking as of 17 October 1995.
Venue
All matches were held at the Thuwunna Stadium in Yangon, Myanmar.
Group stage
The four teams competing against each other in the group stage in a single round-robin method. At the end of group matches, the top two teams advanced to the final and two teams were eliminated, all that is known otherwise is that Myanmar and Bangladesh finished 1st and 2nd while Sri Lanka lost all matches without scoring a goal.
Table
Final
Statistics
Goalscorers
All the goalscorers in this tournament cannot be found
References
International association football competitions hosted by Myanmar
1995 in Myanmar
International association football competitions in Asia
November 1995 sports events in Asia |
Dylan León Masa, known professionally as Dillom, is an Argentine rapper. Born in Buenos Aires, Dillom rose to fame in 2018 with the self-produced track "Dripping". He is known as one of the most prominent figures in the "second wave of Argentine trap", as well as for his "saturated, euphoric" sound and "raw" lyricism. His debut album, Post Mortem, was released in 2021.
Early life
Dillom was born on December 5, 2000, in Balvanera, Buenos Aires and was raised in Colegiales by his parents. They divorced when he was only 8 years old. His mother became addicted to drugs and eventually ended up in jail, which made Dillom move with his father, who converted to Orthodox Judaism and was living with his new girlfriend. During an interview with El Planteo, he described living with his father negatively: "They went full-on old-fashioned, Orthodox, and I've never been an Orthodox. In fact, I wasn't even Jewish [...] They suddenly made me follow their customs, didn't let me use my phone or do homework on Fridays because it was Shabbat." Their troubled relationship made his father kick him out of the house. Dillom slept in a plaza and later moved with a friend.
Career
Dillom said to be interested in pursuing a music career since he was a child. He was a bassist in a punk band and, at age 15, produced hip hop beats and instrumentals for local rappers in Barrio 31, a villa miseria in Retiro. This was his first encounter with urban music, a style he would later use for his own compositions. In 2018, he released his debut single "Dripping" and founded the creative team Rip Gang alongside artists Ill Quentín, Muerejoven, Odd Mami, Taichu and Saramalacara. He would later release "Superglue", "Draco", "Casipegado" and collaborated with producer and DJ Bizarrap on "Bzrp Music Sessions Vol. 9", turning him into a viral phenomenon. The Rip Gang marked a "new wave of Argentine trap", causing outrage among earlier rappers, particularly Duki. Fans of the "first wave" disapproved of newer musicians, making Dillom's session with Bizarrap the producer's most disliked video on YouTube.
In 2020, Dillom was featured on Russian punk rock band Pussy Riot's "1312". He founded his own record label, Bohemian Groove, and released his most successful solo single, "Dudade". As of February 2022, the song amassed over 33 million streams on Spotify and over 38 million on YouTube. During an interview with Indie Hoy, Dillom confessed that he didn't like the song initially, although he "felt that people would like it".
In January 2021, Dillom released "Sauce" as a stand-alone single. The song was noted for its funk production, marking a departure from his usual trap sound. In March, he collaborated with cumbia sensation L-Gante on "Tinty Nasty". The song proved to be a hit, peaking at No. 15 on Billboard Hot 100 Argentina and amassing 80 million views on YouTube and 22 million streams on Spotify. They would later become friends, with Dillom expressing admiration for L-Gante's lyricism and sense of humor. In May, he released "Opa" as the lead single from his upcoming debut album Post Mortem. He also released "Piso 13" and "Pelotuda" as second and third singles, respectively, to critical acclaim. In November, the album cover and release date were revealed on social media. Post Mortem was finally released on December 1, 2021.
In February 2022, Dillom kicked off the Post Mortem Tour at Cosquín Rock Festival in Córdoba, Argentina. He is also set to perform at Lollapalooza Argentina on March 18. More tour dates are yet to be announced.
Artistry
Dillom's music is mostly categorized as trap, although he doesn't relate to the term. During an interview with El Capital, he expressed his disagreement with labels in music. His lyrics were described by Forbes as "elaborate" and "bilingual", packed with pop culture references and "sordid" storytelling. They also depicted him as the "Latino Eminem". When asked about the explicit nature of his lyrics and cancel culture, Dillom said that "art should be a little offending or it would be boring", although he also expressed that "there should be cleverness behind [an offensive line] [...] If it's just an unfunny joke only meant to offend, you're a jerk."
Dillom has said to be influenced by Lil Uzi Vert, 21 Savage, Tyler, the Creator, Daft Punk, Pharrell Williams, Marvin Gaye, Chic, Bee Gees, The Ramones, AC/DC, Snoop Dogg, Cypress Hill, among others. In his songs, he mentions a variety of musicians such as Tame Impala, Elvis Presley, Lil Pump, B.B. King and Red Hot Chili Peppers. His image and visuals are heavily influenced by horror films, most notably A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Poltergeist and Chucky. He also describes himself as a "character that reflects [his] most mundane side, the evil side that we all have".
Discography
Studio albums
Post Mortem (2021)
Stand-alone singles
"Dripping" (2018)
"Keloke" (featuring Peco) (2018)
"Superglue" (featuring Ill Quentín) (2019)
"Draco" (2019)
"Casipegado" (featuring Muerejoven and Kuribo) (2019)
"A$AP" (featuring Muerejoven and Haipe) (2019)
"Kelly" (featuring Muerejoven and KAKTOV) (2020)
"Dudade" (2020)
"Sauce" (2021)
References
2000 births
Living people |
Sheikh Hassan Arif is a judge of the High Court Division of Bangladesh Supreme Court.
Early life
Arif was born on 20 April 1967 to Faizur Rahaman and Hosne Ara Begum. He completed a bachelor of law and a M.S.S. degree from the University of Chittagong. He completed a second law degree from the University of Wolverhampton.
Career
Arif became a lawyer of the District Courts on 12 October 1995.
On 18 January 1998, Arif became a lawyer of the High Court Division of Bangladesh Supreme Court.
Arif was appointed an additional judge of the High Court Division of Bangladesh Supreme Court on 18 April 2010.
In January 2011, Arif and Justice Md. Imman Ali issued a verdict which banned corporal punishment in all educational institutions in Bangladesh.
On 15 April 2012, Arif was made a permanent judge of the High Court Division. In November 2012, Arif felt embarrassed to hear the bail plea of Shukho Ranjan Bali, defense witness for convicted war criminal Delawar Hossain Sayedee, after he initially indicated he would prefer a later date for the hearing. The senior member of the High Court bench, Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed, wanted to hear the bail plea at which point Arif announced he was embarrassed to hear it which sent the plea to the bench of the chief justice.
On 25 September 2014, Arif and Justice Muhammad Ullah rejected a petition filed to seek the appointment of A B M Altaf Hossain to a permanent judge of the High Court from his post of Additional judge.
In October 2019, Arif and Justice Razik-Al-Jalil refused to hear a petition seeking compensation for the family member of Abrar Fahad. On 20 October 2019, Arif and Justice Razik-Al-Jalil declared the government's recent announcement for minimum age of freedom fighters (veterans of Bangladesh Liberation war) illegal and unconstitutional.
On 10 February 2020, Arif and Justice Md Mahmud Hassan banned the playing of card and dice games, and housie in social clubs as it viewed the activities as illegal gambling. Arif and Justice Razik-Al-Jalil ordered the jail authorities to provide divisional facilities to Mainul Hosein.
Arif and Justice Ahmed Sohel in November 2021 issued a verdict saying a lower court would discover if the father of Monnujan Sufian, State Minister of Labour and Employment, was a member of the East Pakistan Central Peace Committee during Bangladesh Liberation war on a petition filed by historian Muntassir Mamoon. Mamoon had been sued by Sufian in 2019 after he claimed her father was a collaborator and member of the peace committee during the war and Mamoon filed a petition challenging the lawsuit by Sufian.
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Living people
1967 births
University of Chittagong alumni
Alumni of the University of Wolverhampton
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Bangladeshi people |
Mary Robinson Meriwether was born to a prominent business couple Robert J & Sara Robinson. While little is known of her mother's heritage, her father's father was the grandson of Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron and his mother was the daughter of Captain William S. Neville, brother of Joseph Neville Jr. Mary was raised as one of eight children and graduated from Oberlin in 1870. While being one of the institution's earliest black graduates she was also the oldest living member of her 1870 class and member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc until her death in 1942.
Once she graduated from Oberlin she was appointed to the faculty of the first Negro high school in Washington where she taught until her marriage to James H. Meriwether, who practiced law in the District of Columbia. Mrs. Meriwether was active in religious, cultural, and civic life in Washington. As two of the founders of the Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church, she and her husband served on nearly every committee. They also helped to secure home rental and ownership for other negro families in the DC area. She and her husband raised five successful children who all gave richly to their communities. Her children were Robert H. Meriwether, Agnes Meriwether Brownley, Mary E. Meriwether Henderson, Sarah Meriwether Nutter, & Edith Meriwether Washington Shehee, who all became civic servants in their own rights.
Her chief interest was the development and maintenance of “The National Home for the Relief of Destitute Colored Women and Children,” established by an Act of Congress in 1863.
In 1917, a movement was launched to take away this institution from those in authority. Mrs. Meriwether appeared before a United States Congressional Committee and the continued existence of this organization was due largely to her efforts. When the Young Men's Christian Association was organized in Washington, she served as president of the Women's Auxiliary.
Soon after her affiliation with Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, she presented this organization with the table which was used in negotiating the establishment of Howard University and gave her consent to have the table presented to the university. She was also an Initial charter member of Xi Omega, chapter of AKA and a long time subscriber to the Colored American.
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1942 deaths
Oberlin College alumni
American women educators
American educators |
The 2022 Brisbane Broncos season will be the 35th in the club's history. Coached by Kevin Walters and captained by Adam Reynolds, they will compete in the NRL's 2022 Telstra Premiership.
Player movements
Source:
Gains
Adam Reynolds from South Sydney Rabbitohs
Kurt Capewell from Penrith Panthers
Brenko Lee from Melbourne Storm
Corey Jensen from North Queensland Cowboys
Jordan Pereira from St. George Illawarra Dragons
Ryan James from Canberra Raiders
Billy Walters from Wests Tigers
Losses
Xavier Coates to Melbourne Storm
Tevita Pangai Junior to Canterbury Bankstown Bulldogs
Brodie Croft to Salford Red Devils
Alex Glenn to Retired
Anthony Milford to Released
John Asiata to Leigh Centurions
Ethan Bullemor to Manly Warringah Sea Eagles
Isiah Tass to South Sydney Rabbitohs
Danny Levi to Huddersfield Giants
Jesse Arthars to New Zealand Warriors
Fixtures
Pre-season
Regular season
References
Brisbane Broncos seasons
Brisbane Broncos season
2022 NRL Women's season |
CCPO Muhammad Umer Sheikh is a Pakistani police officer belongs to Khanpur, Rahim Yar Khan District, Punjab.
Sheikh received his early education from a government school. His parents had migrated from Daska on the outskirts of Sialkot to Khanpur. His father was in the leather business. Sheikh did his MBA from University of the Punjab Lahore and then passed the CSS exam. Hoping to become a police officer, he started re-preparing for CSS, this time succeeding in gaining a prominent position and then he started his police career with the 20th Common Group. He has also studied cybercrime and digital forensics at George Washington University in the United States. He has also received training in London from the British intelligence agency MI6.
Omar Sheikh has also served as Director General of Anti-Terrorism in Motorway Police and National Counter Terrorism Authority. In his 28-year police career, Omar Sheikh has been the police chief of ten districts of Sindh and Punjab from 1997 to 2008.
References
Living people
Pakistani police officers
People from Rahim Yar Khan District
University of the Punjab alumni
George Washington University alumni
Pakistani civil servants
Pakistani people |
The Feminine Monarchie, or the History of Bees is a 1609 science treatise by the English naturalist and apiarist Charles Butler. It is considered the first work on the science of beekeeping in the English language. The text brought into the public consciousness that a bee colony is presided over by a queen bee (noticed by Luis Mendez de Torres in 1586, and later conclusively proven by Jan Swammerdam). Butler also provided information on the keeping and forming of skeps, as well as his own personal enjoinders on the most effective beekeeping techniques. The book was the authoritative text on the topic for over two centuries, before the invention of the moveable comb made it somewhat obsolete. The book is organized into ten chapters. It also contains of madrigal of Butler's: "The Queen bee's song". The book sustained at least one further edition edited by Butler released in 1629. Another musical excursus of Butler's was an attempt to musically notate the "piping" noises of the queen bee.
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1609 books
Treatises
Beekeeping in the United Kingdom |
Saša Todorović (; born 1974) is a politician in Serbia. He served in the Assembly of Vojvodina from 2008 to 2014 and was the mayor of Sombor from 2014 to 2016. Originally a member of the far-right Serbian Radical Party (Srpska radikalna stranka, SRS), he later joined the breakaway Serbian Progressive Party (Srpska napredna stranka, SNS).
Early life and career
Todorović was born in Sombor, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He graduated from the University of Novi Sad's Department of History, and from 2002 to 2013 he worked as a history teacher at a variety of schools in Sombor.
Politician
From 2004 to 2015, Vojvodina used a system of mixed proportional representation for provincial elections. Todorović was given the twenty-sixth position on the Radical Party's electoral list in the 2008 provincial election and was awarded a mandate when the list won twenty seats. (During this period, mandates were awarded to political parties or coalitions rather than individual candidates, and it was common practice for the mandates to be assigned out of numerical order. Todorović's position on the list had no specific bearing on his chances of election.) The coalition around the Democratic Party (Demokratska stranka, DS) won a majority victory, and the Radicals served in opposition. Todorović also led the SRS list for Sombor in the 2008 Serbian local elections and was elected to the city assembly when the list won twenty-three mandates. As at the provincial level, the Radicals served in opposition.
The Radical Party experienced a serious split later in 2008, with several members joining the more moderate Progressive Party under the leadership of Tomislav Nikolić and Aleksandar Vučić. Todorović sided with the Progressives.
Serbia's electoral system was revised in 2011, such that mandates were awarded in numerical order to candidates on successful lists. He was given the fourteenth position on the SNS's list in the 2012 Vojvodina provincial election and was re-elected when the list won exactly fourteen mandates. The DS alliance again won the election, and Todorović continued to serve in opposition. He also received the eleventh position on the SNS list for Sombor in the 2012 local elections and was re-elected when the list won eleven seats. The DS initially continued in government at the city level as well.
During his second term in the provincial assembly, Todorović was deputy chair of the committee for co-operation with the committees of the National Assembly of Serbia in exercising the competencies of the province. He was also a member of the committee on education, science, culture, youth, and sports.
Shifting political alliances brought the Progressives to power in Sombor in April 2014, and Todorović was chosen as the city's new mayor. By virtue of holding this position, he was required to resign from the provincial assembly, which he did on 23 September.
Todorović led the Progressives to victory in Sombor in the 2016 local elections. He did not continue as mayor after the election and resigned from the city assembly on 19 July 2016. He was subsequently appointed as a consular officer at the embassy of the Republic of Serbia in Sweden.
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1974 births
Living people
People from Sombor
Members of the Assembly of Vojvodina
Mayors of places in Serbia
Serbian Radical Party politicians
Serbian Progressive Party politicians |
Apollon Aleksandrovich Maykov (Russian:Аполлон Александрович Майков, 1761 — 20 December 1838, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian poet, military officer, Active State Councillor, and a Director at the Imperial Theatres. He was from a family of notable figures, including his uncle, the poet and playwright, Vasily Maykov; his younger brother, the poet ; and his son, the painter Nikolay Maykov.
Biography
His father, Aleksander, was a descendent of Nil Sorsky. His mother, Kleopatra née Telepevna, was also from a noble family. As a young man, he served in the military guards. He wrote and published his first poems in 1786. Around 1790, he married Natalia Ivanovna Serebryakova (1768–1832). They had seven sons and five daughters; two of whom died before reaching adulthood. In 1795, he was awarded the Prussian Pour le Mérite.
In 1802, he began working at the Imperial Theatre in Saint Petersburg; as a member of the "Directorate of Spectacles and Music' and head of the acting troupes. By 1806, he was in charge of the Directorate's financial affairs. According to memoirs by his associates, he was more capable at handling their finances than their repertoire.
He was appointed a manager of the Moscow theatres in 1810. During the War of 1812, he succeeded in removing the theatrical props, saving the cash drawer, and evacuating the actors, just before the French entered Moscow. As soon as they were able to return, the performances resumed. Shortly after, he was appointed a Chamberlain.
From 1821 to 1825, he served as Director of the Imperial Theatres in Saint Petersburg. As of 1823, he was a member of the Committee for Theatrical Affairs. He resigned his positions in 1825, in protest of a decision that made the Director completely subordinate to the Committee.
He later returned to Moscow, was awarded the Order of Saint Anna in 1826, and served as a 'permanent member" of the Kremlin Armoury from 1828 to 1831.
His works include numerous odes and a one-act comedy, Unsuccessful Pact, or Betrothed, But Not Married, that was staged at the Hermitage Theatre in 1794. In addition to his children by Natalia, he had two daughters and a son by Ekaterina Lukyanovna Azarevich; a dancer and former serf. Their younger daughter, , became a well-known actress.
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External links
1761 births
1838 deaths
Russian poets
Russian theatre directors
Russian theatre managers and producers
Place of birth unknown
Russian nobility |
Epipremnum obtusum is a species of flowering plant belonging to the genus Epipremnum and the family Araceae.
It was first described by Adolf Engler and Kurt Krause.
Distribution and habitat
The plant occurs in New Guinea.
References
obtusum
Taxa named by Adolf Engler
Flora of Papua New Guinea
Plants described in 1916 |
Ephutomorpha ferruginata is a species of parasitoid wasp in the family Mutillidae endemic to Australia.
References
Mutillidae
Insects described in 1843
Hymenoptera of Australia |
The Amsden Building collapse occurred on July 23, 1906, in Framingham, Massachusetts. 12 people were killed when the building, which was under construction, suddenly collapsed. A thirteenth person later died from injuries suffered in the accident. The building's contractor and architect were indicted for manslaughter, but the charges were later dropped by the district attorney.
Collapse
On July 23, 1906, masons, plumbers, and Italian immigrant laborers were working in the George M. Amsden Building, a three-story concrete-and-steel office building which was under construction on Concord St. in South Framingham. Contractor Andrew Jensen was rushing to finish the job, which was supposed to have been completed on July 1. At 3:40 pm, the steel girders on the north side of the building caved in from the side walls and all three floors collapsed into the center of the ground floor. There were about 50 men in the building at the time it fell.
At the time of the collapse, Framingham did not have a building inspector or building department and did not require permits to construct a building. The town had one plumbing inspector, a hardware merchant who was killed in the collapse. Because the Amsden Building was not a factory, was not intended to have more than 10 people employed above the second floor, and was not going to serve as a tenement house or lodging for more than then people, it did require supervision from a state building inspector either.
Rescue efforts
The Framingham Fire Department and the 9th regiment of the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia were summoned to the scene, but could not begin rescue efforts until the building's broken pillars were shored up. By the following day, 11 bodies had been found in the rubble and efforts shifted from rescuing survivors to recovering bodies. The body of a twelfth victim was found on July 25. The search ended on July 26 when authorities were satisfied that all of the men in the building at the time of the collapse had been accounted for. Chester Nicholson, a 21-year old carpenter who initially survived the accident was paralyzed and remained hospitalized until his death two years later.
Investigation
George A. Winsor, a civil engineer and concrete expert with 12 years experience in testing cement and concrete, was chosen by the town to investigate the collapse. He found the probable cause of the collapse to be concrete footing used for the basement piers. According to Winsor, the bottom five or six inches of the piers were in such bad shape that it could be broken apart by thumb in some places. He also concluded that attempts were made to repair cracks in one of the walls showed those responsible for the building knew things weren't proper.
An inquest was held before Judge Willis A. Kingsbury of the First Southern Middlesex District Court. His report found that the cause of the accident was "the inadequacy of the pier-footings, aggravated by the overloading of the roof and first floor, and by the steel-frame construction, too light in many positions to bear even the dead weight of the building". He blamed the architect for poor supervision of the project and for accepting the steel work even though it was not up to his specifications, the contractor from overloading the building with construction material and for constructing shoddy pier-footings, and the subcontractor responsible for the steel work for erecting an unsafe frame. "the passage of a law requiring architects to pass examinations as to their qualifications" before being allowed to practice. The report was forwarded to a grand jury on March 8, 1907.
A grand jury indicted contractor Andrew Jensen and architect Charles E. Barnes for manslaughter, however on October 2, 1907, district attorney Hugh Bancroft nol prosed the cases.
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1906 in Massachusetts
1906 disasters in the United States
Building collapses in the United States
Construction accidents in the United States
Disasters in Massachusetts
Framingham, Massachusetts
July 1906 events |
Nux vomica is part of the binomial nomenclature for the plant species Strychnos nux-vomica.
Nux Vomica may also refer to:
Nux Vomica, an album by the Veils
"Nux Vomica", a song by Squarepusher (credited as the Duke of Harringay) on the album Alroy Road Tracks |
The Historie of Travaile Into Virginia Britannia is a 1612 historical book by William Strachey, one of the most prominent primary sources on the earliest English colonization efforts in North America. He was a settler at Jamestown, and wrote extensively of the Powhatan civilization. Because of its critiques of the London Company, it did not receive publication in its own time; delayed until 1849 when the Hakluyt Society finally pressed and released the text. It was also feared to have a negative contrast with John Smith's own book, published in the same year.The subtitle is: "Expressing the Cosmographie and Comodities of the Country, Together with the Manners and Customes of the People".
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1612 books |
2022 South American Indoor Championships in Athletics was the second edition of the biennial indoor athletics competition between South American nations. The event was held in Cochabamba, Bolivia, on 19 and 20 February at the Estadio de Atletismo del Gobierno Autónomo Municipal de Cochabamba.
Medal summary
Men
Women
Medal table
Participation
Eleven member federations participated in the championships.
See also
2021 South American Championships in Athletics
Athletics at the 2020 Summer Olympics
2021 South American Under-23 Championships in Athletics
2022 World Athletics Indoor Championships
2022 World Athletics Championships
2022 Ibero-American Championships in Athletics
Athletics at the 2022 South American Games
References
External links
Results
Live results
Day 1 morning results
Day 1 evening results
Day 2 morning results
Day 2 evening results
2022
International athletics competitions hosted by Bolivia
Sport in Cochabamba
South American Championships in Athletics
South American Championships in Athletics
Athletics Championships
South American Championships in Athletics |
Cyclone Carlos was a strong tropical cyclone that made landfall in Australia and resulted in $12.3 million USD in damages. Carlos was first spotted on February 14 near Batchelor and it intensified to a Category 3 cyclone on February 22. The storm affected Australia for most of its life.
Meteorological history
On 14 February the Tropical Cyclone Warning Centre (TCWC) in Darwin reported that a tropical low formed near latitude 13.2S, longitude 130.7E, about west southwest of Batchelor. A severe weather warning was issued for northwest Darwin-Daly District and the Tiwi Islands. Heavy rain pounded the area on 15 February with reports of Marrara recording and Darwin International Airport of rain. This was later followed by of rain in just 24 hours, which is the highest 24-hour rainfall for the city on record.
On 16 February the slow moving system strengthened into After looping around the Darwin area overnight and back over land the system weakened on 17 February and BOM downgraded it to a Tropical low. A record three-day total of rain was recorded at Darwin International Airport due to the lingering of the system.
The system moved slowly southwest on 18 February moving towards the Northern Territory/Western Australian border with a possibility of restrengthening. The community of Daly River received of rainfall. On 19 February the system passed into the Northern Kimberley region. Rainfall totals were not as large as in previous days. Wyndham recorded while Kalumburu recorded of rainfall.
In the early hours of 21 February the system returned to the open waters of the Indian Ocean, causing it to redevelop back into a cyclone. The system was located northwest of Broome. The cyclone continued to track southwest at a relatively fast pace and produced a squall line that generated four tornadoes in the mining town of Karratha. It also strengthened steadily to become a category 2 cyclone.
On 22 February the system moved parallel to the Pilbara coast. Varanus Island recorded of rainfall and the highest wind gust recorded in the area was at Bedout Island. The system became more organised and on 23 February the record rainfall amount of was recorded at Barrow Island. The strongest gusts of recorded at Varanus Island. The cyclone crossed the North West Cape and lashed Onslow and Exmouth with high winds up to and rain.
As Carlos moved away from the western coast of Australia on 24 February it strengthened into a Severe Tropical Cyclone. Carlos also caused a mini tornado to hit Ellenbrook, Perth, Western Australia on 28 February. The system dissipated on February 27.
Impact
Tropical Cyclone Carlos caused localized flooding and damage to homes, with fallen trees, resulting in schools in Darwin being closed, along with Darwin International Airport and East Arm Wharf. The tornadoes the system produced damaged 38 homes as well as numerous cars, buildings and a school. Overall, the system caused about $16 million AUS$ ($12.3 USD).
References
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Tropical cyclones in 2011
2010–11 Australian region cyclone season
February 2011 events in Australia
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Sartor respectus is a species of headstander endemic to Brazil.
It is found in the upper Xingu River basin, Brazil.
References
Géry, J., 1977. Characoids of the world. Neptune City ; Reigate : T.F.H. [etc.]; 672 p.
Anostomidae
Fish of Brazil
Endemic fauna of Brazil
Taxa named by George S. Myers
Taxa named by Antenor Leitão de Carvalho
Fish described in 1959 |
The 2022 Tobago Council of the People's National Movement election will be held on April 24, 2022. For the second time, a one member, one vote voting system will be adopted for all 17 positions contested since being implemented in the last election. The winner will automatically become a deputy leader of the PNM at the national level. This election precedes the internal election of the leadership of the party at the national level in the 2022 People's National Movement leadership election.
Background
The announcement of an early election for political leader, chairman, vice-chairman and secretary with the election for the other 13 executive positions whose terms ended in January was made on February 10, 2022. This leadership election follows a rapid decline for the PNM since 2013, with the party losing votes and seats in the 2013 Tobago House of Assembly election under the leadership of Kelvin Charles and the PNM's deadlock result in the January 2021 Tobago House of Assembly election and historic landslide defeat in the December 2021 Tobago House of Assembly election, under the leadership of Tracy Davidson-Celestine who was elected as the party's first female political leader in the 2020 Tobago Council of the People's National Movement leadership election, and would have made history as the first female Chief Secretary of Tobago and the subsequent resignation of five of the party's executives.
Positions contested
All 17 positions on the Executive of the Tobago Council will be contested:
Candidates
Roles in bold are currently held.
Declared
Potential
See also
2022 People's National Movement leadership election
December 2021 Tobago House of Assembly election
January 2021 Tobago House of Assembly election
Notes
References
External links
Official website
Tobago House of Assembly
People's National Movement leadership election
Trinidad and Tobago
People's National Movement leadership election
Indirect elections
Politics of Trinidad and Tobago
Elections in Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago |
Ephutomorpha ruficornis is a species of parasitoid wasp in the family Mutillidae endemic to Australia.
Defenses
Ephutomorpha ruficornis is believed to use Müllerian mimicry by mimicking the colorations of Fabriogenia species.
References
Mutillidae
Insects described in 1775
Hymenoptera of Australia |
Sartor elongatus is a species of headstander endemic to Brazil.
It is found in the Trombetas and Mapuera River basins in Brazil. This species reaches a length of .
References
Garavello, J.C. and H.A. Britski, 2003. Anostomidae (Headstanders). p. 71-84. In R.E. Reis, S.O. Kullander and C.J. Ferraris, Jr. (eds.) Checklist of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America. Porto Alegre: EDIPUCRS, Brasil.
Anostomidae
Fish of Brazil
Endemic fauna of Brazil
Taxa named by Geraldo Mendes dos Santos
Taxa named by Michel Louis Arthur Marie Ange François Jégu
Fish described in 1987 |
Cigarrales de Toledo (English:Weekend Retreats of Toledo) is a 1624 work by Tirso de Molina. The book is a collection of verse, stories, drama, and criticism arranged in the aesthetically pleasing Italian style of the time. The encircling premise of the book is that all its contents can be used for recreation and merriment on summer holiday. A group of friends ostensibly gather in a "cigarrale", or Tagus summer cottage, and spin the tales and verse for their entertainment. The three comedies contained amidst the other inclusions are: "The Shameful Man in the Palace", "How Friends Must Be", and "The Jealous Prudent".
References
1624 books |
Final Set () is a 2020 French sports drama film written and directed by Quentin Reynaud. It stars Alex Lutz as an aging tennis player who competes in the qualifying rounds of the French Open for one last attempt at glory. The film premiered at the 2020 Angoulême Film Festival. It was later released in France on 16 June 2021.
Premise
Thomas Edison was once renowned as a young tennis prodigy, but never had the career he hoped for. At 37, despite his declining physical fitness and shattered knee he decides to compete in the intense qualifying rounds of the French Open at Roland-Garros for one last attempt at glory. Although his wife Eve and mother Judith advise him to give up, Thomas obsessively pushes forward. He will have to fight his own demons and will ultimately face a determined young player who reminds him of his younger self.
Cast
Alex Lutz as Thomas Edison
Ana Girardot as Eve, Thomas's wife
Kristin Scott Thomas as Judith Edison, Thomas's mother
Jürgen Briand as Damien Thosso
Tariq Bettahar as Marc
Quentin Reynaud as JB
Paul-Henri Mathieu as himself
Lionel Chamoulaud as himself (commentator)
Arnaud Boetsch as himself (commentator)
Production
Final Set was writer-director Quentin Reynaud's second film following Paris-Willouby, released in 2015. Reynaud, himself a former tennis player, sought to create a tennis film with tennis at the forefront of the story. To this end, he became the first French director to be authorized to film on the Roland-Garros grounds, specifically Court 14. Alex Lutz had to undergo training to be able to achieve the realistic "posture" of a tennis player and worked extensively with Reynaud to achieve that. Prior to filming, Lutz claimed that he had the tennis skill of a "beach badminton" player, so he worked to create specific mannerisms on the court.
Jürgen Briand, who portrayed the young prodigy Damien Thosso, is himself a current French tennis player achieveing a career high ATP rating of 594.
Reception
Box office
In France, the film earned $418,659, where it premiered for five weeks.
Critical response
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 88% of eight critics' reviews are positive.
References
External links
French sports drama films
French films
2020 films
2020s sports drama films |
Sartor tucuruiense is a species of headstander endemic to Brazil.
It is found in the Tocantins River basin in Brazil. This species reaches a length of .
References
Garavello, J.C. and H.A. Britski, 2003. Anostomidae (Headstanders). p. 71-84. In R.E. Reis, S.O. Kullander and C.J. Ferraris, Jr. (eds.) Checklist of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America. Porto Alegre: EDIPUCRS, Brasil.
Anostomidae
Fish of Brazil
Endemic fauna of Brazil
Taxa named by Geraldo Mendes dos Santos
Taxa named by Michel Louis Arthur Marie Ange François Jégu
Fish described in 1987 |
Cyperus colymbetes is a species of sedge that is native to eastern parts of Africa.
See also
List of Cyperus species
References
colymbetes
Plants described in 1867
Taxa named by Theodor Kotschy
Taxa named by Johann Joseph Peyritsch
Flora of Mozambique
Flora of Madagascar
Flora of Kenya
Flora of Sudan
Flora of Uganda
Flora of Tanzania |
Gladys Blake was an American author of juvenile fiction (b. Fayetteville Tenn.; d. ) of George Everett and Blanche (Morgan) B. Educated in Nashville, Tennessee public schools. Writer of The Mysterious Tutor, 1925; The Old King's Treasure, 1926; At Bow View, 1926; The Scratches on the Glass, 1927; Doris Derides, 1927; Dona Isabella's Adventures, 1928, The Pomdexter Pride, 1929; Fortunate Shipwreck, 1936; Sally Goes to Court, 1937; The Mystery of the Silver Chain, 1939; Henrietta and the Governor, 1964. Contributor to Youth's Comp. and various other publications. General character writing, juvenile fiction. Lived at 850 Ponce de Leon Ave., N. E., Atlanta, Georgia.
Sources
WHO'S WHO AMONG NORTH AMERICAN AUTHORS VOL - IV 1929 - 1930 by ALBERTA LAWRENCE p. 108 link
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Year of birth missing
Year of death missing
American people |
Fantastickes is a 1626 book by the English Renaissance writer Nicholas Breton. It is arranged in the style of the The Kalender of Shepherdes; it contains customs, techniques, and natural history writings. It was written by Breton for the "perpetuall prognostication" of posterity. Alexander Balloch Grosart, who compiled and edited Breton's complete works, wrote of it: "Carry it to the greenwood with you, Reader, and if thou art not charmed, I dub thee—soulless.” The book's subtitle was in fact: "Serving for A Perpetuall Prognostication". The Paris Review detailed Breton's whimsical designations of the twelve months within the book.
References
1626 books |
Adam Krupski (, ; July 7, 1706 – March 8, 1748) was a professor of philosophy and Jesuit priest in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Legal expert in the legislation of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, author of a school dialogue. His handwritten lectures on philosophy have survived. In his teaching activities, he adhered to the ideas of the Enlightenment.
Biography
July 14, 1723 – joined the Jesuit order in Vilnius.
In 1736–1737 – Professor of rhetoric at the Jesuit College in Polotsk (Belarus).
In 1737–1738 – Prefect of the school in Ilūkste (Latvia).
In 1739–1740 – Professor of philosophy at the (Belarus).
In 1740–1742 – Professor of philosophy at the Jesuit College in Kražiai (Lithuania).
In 1742–1746 – Procurator of the province of the Jesuit Order (Society of Jesus).
In 1746–1748 – Professor of philosophy at the (Belarus).
References
Sources
(Belarusian) Вялікае княства Літоўскае: Энцыклапедыя / рэд. кал.: Г. П. Пашкоў (галоўны рэд.), Т. У. Бялова і інш. ; мастак З. Э. Герасімович. — 2-е выданне. — Мінск : Выд. «Беларуская Энцыклапедыя імя Пятруся Броўкі, 2005—2010. — Т. 1—3. — .— С. 285, Т. 3.
(Lithuanian) Plečkaitis Romanas, «Lietuvos filosofijos istorija: Viduramžiai — Renesansas — Naujieji amžiai», 1 tomas, Kultūros, Filosofijos ir Meno Institutas, Vilnius, 2004. ()
(Polish) «Encyklopedia wiedzy o jezuitach na ziemiach Polski i Litwy 1564—1995», Oprac. Ludwik Grzebień i inni. — Kraków 2004. — S. 335.
Poszakowski - s. 451
Lit 65 f. 45 (nekr.)
BUWiL 1229 (wyklady z filoz.)
External links
(Polish) Encyklopedia wiedzy o jezuitach na ziemiach Polski i Litwy, 1564—1995, Opracował Ludwik Grzebień SJ przy współpracy zespołu jezuitów, Wydz. Filozoficzny TJ, Kraków, 1996 s. XVI + 90 (in PDF, on the website «Ignatianum») 2004 r. — 880 s. —
1706 births
1748 deaths
Christian philosophers
Catholic priests
Belarusian Jesuits
Belarusian philosophers
Religious workers
Lithuanian philosophers
Lithuanian Jesuits
Polish philosophers
Roman Catholic monks
Polish Jesuits |
FUSION: Science, Pirate, Secular, Climate Emergency, commonly known as Fusion Party Australia or Fusion, is a political party in Australia created by the merging of the Science Party, Pirate Party, Secular Party, Vote Planet, and Climate Change Justice Party.
Formation
The party was formed in 2022 following the passing of the Electoral Legislation Amendment (Party Registration Integrity) Bill 2021 to amend the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918. The effects of the legislation included increasing the minimum membership requirement for non-parliamentary parties from 500 to 1,500 unique members and new party naming rules, in order to "[ensure] there exists a genuine base of community support for political parties and reduce the risk of voter confusion".
Climate Emergency Action Alliance: Vote Planet remained registered for federal elections and is undergoing a name change to FUSION: Science, Pirate, Secular, Climate Emergency as of February 2022. In the course of the amalgamation, the Science Party and Secular Party were deregistered in January 2022 by the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC). The Pirate Party was deregistered in April 2021.
Fusion has a federated structure, with the merging former parties retaining a degree of autonomy as formal branches.
Ideology
It describes itself as "A party determined to secure a safe climate and environment, a humanist society, and free culture, held together by science". The party supports the separation of church and state referring to its policy as secular humanism. It supports removing religious prayers, rituals, and bias from government and public institutions and their documentation and abolishing blasphemy laws. It supports a transparent government, such as by disclosure of political donations above $1000, open access to advice behind policy decisions and removal of restrictions of speech on public servants. It also defines itself as anti-corruption and wants to create an anti-corruption commission and implement protections for whistleblowers and activists. The party also wants to enshrine network neutrality and freedom of expression in law, supports freedom of speech, the creation of a constitutional bill of rights and removing bans on voluntary euthanasia and decriminalise physician-assisted dying.
Member parties
See also
Environmental issues in Australia
Environmental movement in Australia
Euthanasia in Australia
Free-culture movement
Humanism
Irreligion in Australia
List of political parties in Australia
Secularism
Separation of church and state in Australia
References
External links
Fusion Party website
Fusion Party Twitter
Fusion Party Facebook
2022 establishments in Australia
Environmentalism in Australia
Euthanasia in Australia
Free culture movement
Freedom of expression
Humanist parties
Political parties established in 2022
Political parties in Australia
Secular humanism
Secularism in Australia
Secularism
Whistleblowing in Australia |
These are the full results of the 2022 South American Indoor Championships in Athletics which took place in Cochabamba, Bolivia, on 19 to 20 February at the Estadio de Atletismo del Gobierno Autónomo Municipal de Cochabamba.
Men's results
60 meters
Heats – February 19
Final – February 19
400 meters
Heats – February 19
Final – February 20
800 meters
February 20
1500 meters
February 19
3000 meters
February 20
60 meters hurdles
February 20
4 × 400 meters relay
February 20
High jump
February 20
Pole vault
February 19
Long jump
February 20
Triple jump
February 20
Shot put
February 20
Heptathlon
February 19–20
Women's results
60 meters
February 19
400 meters
February 20
800 meters
February 20
1500 meters
February 19
3000 meters
February 20
60 meters hurdles
February 20
4 × 400 meters relay
February 20
High jump
February 20
Pole vault
February 20
Long jump
February 19
Triple jump
February 20
Shot put
February 19
Pentathlon
February 19
References
South American Indoor Championships in Athletics – Results
South American Indoor Championships in Athletics |
Mehmet Tahir (1864–1909), also known as Ibn Hakkı Mehmet Tahir, Baba Tahir, Malumatçı Tahir, was an Ottoman period publisher who was one of the significant figures in the Ottoman journalism. He published numerous periodicals and newspapers, including Malumat and Hanımlara Mahsus Gazete. He is also known for his criminal offenses.
Biography
Mehmet Tahir was born in 1864. He owned a publishing house in Istanbul where he published many periodicals and newspapers.
Mehmet Tahir had close connections with Sultan Abdulhamit. In 1898 he was awarded a medal by the Sultan and given a higher imperial rank, rütbe. In addition, he was also appointed clerk at the palace.
He published newspapers in Egypt which featured articles opposing the Ottomans. These publications were, in fact, fabricated by him to blame the Young Turks and to create further tensions between Sultan Abdulhamit and the group. In 1900 another conflict occurred because of the news published in his papers Malumat and Servet. The papers accused the Dutch colonial rule of being hostile to the Muslims living in the Dutch East Indies, including Java. Upon these news the Dutch ambassador Wilhelm Ferdinand Heinrich von Weckherlin sent a note to the Sultan demanding the cancellation of these publications. The request of the Dutch was followed for a while, but the news continued from 1901. Mehmet Tahir's another improper journalistic activities were the publication of his newspapers without paying the tax stamps and the licences. He also involved in the illegal patent business and sold them to Europeans. Although he was not punished for these illegal operations for a while in 1907 he was arrested and sent to exile in Tripoli. Next year he could return to Istanbul following the constitutional revolution.
Mehmet Tahir was married to Fatma Şadiye Hanım who was among the contributors of Hanımlara Mahsus Gazete. He died in Istanbul in 1909.
References
19th-century journalists
19th-century newspaper publishers (people)
19th-century people of the Ottoman Empire
1864 births
1909 deaths
Turkish newspaper editors
Businesspeople from Istanbul
Turkish expatriates in Libya |
Clavis mathematicae (English: The Key of Mathematics) is a mathematics book written by William Oughtred, originally published in 1631 in Latin. It was an attempt to communicate the contemporary mathematical practices, and the European history of mathematics, into a concise and digestible form. The book contained an addition in its 1647 English edition, "Easy Way of Delineating Sun-Dials by Geometry", which had been written by Oughtred earlier in life. The original addition brought the autodidactic Oughtred acclaim amongst mathematicians, but the English republication brought him celebrity, especially amongst tradesman who made use of the arithmetic in their labors. The book is also notable for using the symbol "x" for multiplication, a method invented by Oughtred.
References
1631 books
Mathematics books |
Alkalilacustris is a Gram-negative, aerobic and short-rod-shaped bacterial genus from the family Rhodobacteraceae with one known species (''Alkalilacustris brevis). Alkalilacustris brevis has been isolated from water from a soda lake in Jili in China.
References
Rhodobacteraceae
Bacteria genera
Taxa described in 2019
Monotypic bacteria genera |
Joseph Griffin may refer to:
Joseph Ruble Griffin (1923–1988), Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi from 1986 to 1988
Joe Griffin (born c. 1972), American basketball player
See also
Arthur Joseph Griffin (born 1988), American professional baseball pitcher
Daniel Joseph Griffin (1880–1926), New York lawyer and Democratic politician
John Joseph Griffin (1802–1877), English chemist and publisher
Martin Ignatius Joseph Griffin (1842–1911), American Catholic journalist and historian |
Kevin Meyer may refer to:
Kevin Meyer (director), American filmmaker, director and writer
Kevin Meyer (politician) (born 1956), American politician
See also
Kevin Mayer (born 1992), French athlete
Kevin A. Mayer (born 1962), American business executive
Kevin Myers (born 1947), English-born Irish journalist and writer |
The 2022 SuperUtes Series (known for sponsorship reasons as 2022 Haltech SuperUtes Series) will be the fourth running season of the motorsport series.
Calendar
Teams and drivers
References
2022 in Australian motorsport |
Bandang Lapis (stylized as Bandang LAPIS) is a pop band from Rizal, Philippines, known for their viral all-Tagalog compositions online.
The band is composed of Lesther Abaño (lead vocals), Mark Jay Nievas (lead guitar, backing vocals), Lenrey Beltran (rhythm guitar), Ryan Paul Marangga (bass guitar), Jomari Luna (keyboards, backing vocals), Leandro Repuno (drums, percussion, backing vocals), and Ivan Morallos (spoken word poetry).
The band is known for their hit songs Sana'y Di Nalang, Kabilang Buhay, Kung Saan Ka Masaya, and Nang Dumating Ka.
Their song, Kabilang Buhay, became one of the top streamed songs on YouTube Philippines. As of 2022, its official music video reached 51 million views while its lyric video reached 77 million views. Their live performance of the song in Wish 107.5 also reached 70 million views.
History
The band started out with childhood friends Mark Jay Nievas and Lenrey Beltran playing songs together in their local neighborhood at Rodriguez, Rizal in 2017. Nievas was already composing his own original songs prior to the formation of the band. Nievas then decided to invite his other childhood acquaintances and network of schoolmates who are into music until they finalized the current lineup in 2018. Lesther Abaño was already joining amateur singing contests as a solo artist before joining the band.
The final lineup started joining local band competitions where they performed their original compositions (mostly composed by Nievas). They were hailed champions in their first competition together as a band. In 2019, the group started uploading their songs in streaming media sites such as YouTube, Spotify and Apple Music. The band broke into Spotify's Viral 50 (Philippines) chart, initially making their debut at No. 33 then making the big jump to No. 17 just inside a week with the song Kabilang Buhay. The song was written by Nievas and was inspired by drummer Leandro Repuno's friend whose girlfriend died. The actor in the song's official music video was the one who lost his girlfriend. In 2020, before the COVID-19 pandemic, the band signed with major record label Viva Records. The band was named the Philippines' "Biggest Breakout Band of 2020".
Other songs of the band also reached over a million views in streaming sites such as Sana'y Di Nalang, Kung Saan Ka Masaya and Nang Dumating Ka. Some of the band members are still in school and are finishing their studies while continuing doing music. The group also performed at Coke Studio Philippines Season 4 in 2021.
Etymology
The band's name, which translated to English as "Pencil Band", was suggested by Nievas and is a reference to their major influence Eraserheads and their song Huwag Mo Nang Itanong. It is also a nod to their songwriting process where pencil is their primary tool. As per lead singer Abaño, philosophically, "a pencil has the capability to erase and rectify an error, similar to that in life". Additionally according to Nievas, "it is an easy enough word to remember".
Members
Lesther Abaño – lead vocals
Mark Jay Nievas – lead guitar, backing vocals, chief songwriter
Lenrey Beltran – rhythm guitar
Ryan Paul Marangga – bass guitar
Jomari Luna – keyboards, synths, backing vocals
Leandro Repuno – drums, percussion, backing vocals
Ivan Morallos – spoken word poetry, rap, percussion, synths, additional acoustic guitar
Discography
Notable singles
"Sana'y Di Nalang"
"Kabilang Buhay"
"Kung Saan Ka Masaya"
"Pagsisisi"
"Nang Dumating Ka"
"Ayaw" (cover)
"Pag-asa" (with Syd Hartha)
"Dating Tayo"
"Pagbilang Ng Tatlo"
"Huling Mensahe"
EPs
Bandang LAPIS Acoustic (2021)
References
External links
Kabilang Buhay by Bandang LAPIS at VIVA official website
Filipino pop music groups
Musical groups established in 2020
2020 establishments in the Philippines |
CASS is an acronym of Collective Accumulation of Single Scattering. This technique collects faint single scattering signal among the intense multiple scattering background in biological sample, thereby enabling conventional diffraction-limited imaging of a target embedded in a turbid sample.
Principle
CASS microscopy makes use of time-gated detection and spatial input-output wave correlation. Theoretical description is given below.
Let be a planar object function that we wish to reconstruct. Then, it is related to its Fourier transform by
where represents a 2-dimensional wavevector.
Now, let's take a look at the relation between input and output wave in reflection geometry.
where we assumed the incoming wave is plane wave.
Then, the angular spectrum of the output field with given input field is
where has been used.
Application
Rat brain imaging through skull
CASS microscopy has been used to image rat brain without removing skull. It has been further developed such that light energy can be delivered on the target beneath the skull by using reflection eigenchannel, and about 10-fold increase in light energy delivery has been reported.
References
Microscopy |
Bryconexodon juruenae is a species of characins endemic to Brazil.
It is found in the upper Tapajós River basin in Brazil. This species reaches a length of .
References
Oyakawa, O.T., 1998. Catalogo dos tipos de peixes recentes do Museu de Zoologia da USP. I. Characiformes (Teleostei: Ostariophysi). Pap. Avuls. Zool. 39(23):443-507.
Characidae
Fish of Brazil
Endemic fauna of Brazil
Taxa named by Jacques Géry
Fish described in 1980 |
Allgaiera is a bacterial genus from the family Rhodobacteraceae with one known species (''Allgaiera indica).
References
Rhodobacteraceae
Bacteria genera
Taxa described in 2020
Monotypic bacteria genera |
Squeak is a programming language.
Squeak may also refer to:
Squeak!, a 2003 children's television series
Squeak, a fictional character from the Doctor Who episode "Survival"
Squeak, a fictional character from the comic strip Garfield
"Squeak", a song by Squarepusher (credited as Tom Jenkinson) from Bubble and Squeak
See also |
Amory Kinney (1793–1859) was an American abolitionist and attorney who represented Polly Strong in the landmark State v. Lasselle case, tried in the Indiana Supreme Court, that freed Strong and set a precedent for other enslaved people in the state of Indiana. The following year, he represented Mary Bateman Clark, an indentured servant, and won her freed at the state Supreme Court. The cases foretold the end of bondservants in Indiana.
He served three terms as a member of the Indiana House of Representatives, during which he codified the Indiana statutes and advocated for free schools. He also drafted Terre Haute, Indiana's first ordinances when he sat on the town council. For a few years, he was the publisher of the The Western Register in Terre Haute, where he served on the board of trustees for the Terre Haute Public School.
Personal life and education
Amory Kinney, the son of Congregational minister Jonathan Kinney, was born April 13, 1793, in Bethel, Vermont. He left the state for Cortlandville, New York in 1815, to study law under Samuel Nelson, who was later a U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice.
Kinney married Hannah Bishop on January 6, 1821 in Knox County, Indiana. She was the daughter of Thomas L. Bishop, Esquire of Homer, New York. After living in Vincennes, they moved to Terre Haute, Indiana in 1826. Hannah died on September 2, 1831. He then married Hannah's sister Lucy in 1833. He was married a third time to Mary Hobart in 1852. Mary was born in Vermont in 1813.
He helped found the First Congregational Church in 1835. Kinney went to Vermont to improve his health. He died in Plainfield, Vermont on November 20, 1859 of a heart attack.
Career
Kinney moved to Vincennes, Indiana. John W. Osborn, a friend and his brother-in-law, also moved to Vincennes and became the editor of the newspaper The Western Sun. Osborn married Hannah's sister, Ruby.
On February 12, 1819, Kinney was admitted to practice law in Indiana Circuit Courts. Osborn, also an attorney, was Kinney's law partner. They worked with Moses Tabbs and Col. George McDonald to represent Polly Strong in her court cases against her slaveholder.
Since she was born after the Northwest Ordinance that prohibited slavery, and slavery was prohibited by the Constitution of Indiana of 1816, they felt that she should be free. The case was first tried in the Knox County Circuit Courts, which ruled that Strong should remain enslaved. In the State v. Lasselle case they appealed the decision with the Indiana Supreme Court. The court ruled on July 22, 1820, that the Indiana Constitution made it clear that "slavery can have no existence in the State of Indiana". She was freed and the case set a precedent for other enslaved people to argue for their freedom. After the verdict, Kinney suffered significant injuries after being attacked by a proslavery mob.
In 1821, Kinney filed a suit, Mary Clark, a woman of color vs. General W. Johnston, to free an indentured servant, Mary Bateman Clark. As with Strong's case, Clark lost in the Circuit Court, but appealed the decision with the Indiana Supreme Court, where they won with the Supreme Court ruling on November 6, 1821. This was a landmark case for indentured servants and foretold the end of bondservants in Indiana.
He was admitted to the Terre Haute bar in 1824. Two years later, the Kinneys moved to Terre Haute, Indiana, following the Osborns who moved there a few years earlier. In 1827, Kinney was appointed justice of the peace. He published The Western Register from 1828 to 1830. Osborn founded the paper, sold it to Kinney, who sold it back to the journalist.
In 1830, Kinney was elected to the Indiana House of Representatives, serving Vigo County, Indiana, along with George W. Cutter. Kinney led a group that codified Indiana statutes in 1830, resulting in the Indiana Revised Code of 1831. He served a third term as a legislator in 1846, where he backed establishment of free schools. Kinney believed in graded schools for all children, with grades providing a measure of their progress. He was appointed presiding judge in 1831 by Governor Noah Noble, and he served as a circuit court judge from 1831 to 1838. Terre Haute was incorporated in 1838 and Kinney was a member of the town council for its first two years. During that time, he drafted the town's first ordinances.
Kinney started the law firm Kinney, Wright and Gookins with Samuel Barnes Gookins and Salmon Wright, which operated for seven years. George W. Cutter and other students read law with him. From 1852 to 1856, Kinney served as the first judge of the Vigo County Court of Common Pleas. He served on the board of trustees for the Terre Haute Public School beginning in January 1853.
His law parter Samuel Gookins said of him, "With a clear, comprehensive and scrutinizing apprehension of legal principles he combined a firm, conscientious, and discriminating sense of justice and right."
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Laurențiu Chițanu (born 1 September 2000) is a Moldovan footballer who plays as a striker for Spartak (Varna).
Career
Portuguese sixth tier side Marinhense B. Before the second half of 2019–20, he signed for Scandicci in the Italian fourth tier. In 2021, Chițanu signed for Moldovan club Florești, where he made 12 league appearances and scored 1 goal. On 8 August 2021, he debuted for Florești during a 1–4 loss to Milsami. On 6 November 2021, Chițanu scored his first goal for Florești during a 1–5 loss to Dinamo-Auto. Before the second half of 2021–22, he signed for Spartak (Varna) in Bulgaria after trialing for Spanish team Castellón.
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2000 births
Association football forwards
Expatriate footballers in Bulgaria
Expatriate footballers in Italy
Expatriate footballers in Portugal
FC Florești players
FC Spartak Varna players
Living people
Moldovan expatriate footballers
Moldovan expatriate sportspeople in Bulgaria
Moldovan expatriate sportspeople in Italy
Moldovan expatriate sportspeople in Portugal
Moldovan footballers
Moldovan National Division players
Scandicci Calcio players
Sportspeople from Chișinău |
Allosediminivita is a Gram-negative and short-rod-shaped bacterial genus from the family Rhodobacteraceae. Roseivivax pacificus has been recalssified to Allosediminivita pacifica.
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Rhodobacteraceae
Bacteria genera
Taxa described in 2020
Monotypic bacteria genera |
Antarcticimicrobium is a bacterial genus from the family Rhodobacteraceae.
References
Rhodobacteraceae
Bacteria genera
Taxa described in 2020 |
Bryconexodon trombetasi is a species of characins endemic to Brazil.
It is found in the Trombetas River basin in Brazil. This species reaches a length of .
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Characidae
Fish of Brazil
Endemic fauna of Brazil
Taxa named by Geraldo Mendes dos Santos
Taxa named by Michel Louis Arthur Marie Ange François Jégu
Taxa named by Efrem Jorge Gondim Ferreira
Fish described in 1991 |
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