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Jordan Morgan (disambiguation) |
Jordan Morgan (American football) |
Augustin Kibassa Maliba (born 30 November 1971), is a Congolese politician. He was the Minister of Postal Services, Telecommunications and New Information and Communication Services of Democratic Republic of the Congo, under Ilunga government that ran from September 2019 to April 2021, as well as a member of parliament. He is a member of Union for Democracy and Social Progress. |
She Went Out for Cigarettes |
"She Went Out for Cigarettes" is a song written by Ronnie Guilbeau and John McElroy and recorded by American country music artist Chely Wright. It was produced by Tony Brown, Buddy Cannon, and Norro Wilson. The song was released on May 30, 2000, as the third and final single from her fourth studio album "Single White Female" (1999). |
The song was a minor success, peaking at number 49 on the Hot Country Songs chart and number 84 on the Canadian "RPM" Country Tracks chart. |
"Billboard" gave the song a positive review by saying "She possesses a voice that can effectively combine a world -weary strength and vulnerability into a touching concoction. That quality serves her well on this sad, sad tune. Country programmers should find this easy to add to the airwaves." |
The music video for the song was added to CMT's playlists the week of May 8, 2000. |
Commercial performance. |
"She Went Out for Cigarettes" debuted on the US Hot Country Songs the week of June 10, 2000, at number 64. In its fourth week, the song reached its peak position of number 49; it spent eight weeks in total on the chart. |
The song debuted on the Canadian "RPM" the week of July 31, 2000 at number 86. The following week on August 7, it rose to its peak position of number 84. It spent six weeks in total. |
Eels Time! is the upcoming fifteenth studio album by American indie rock band Eels. It is set to be released on June 7, 2024, through E Works/PIAS Recordings. |
"Eels Time!" features 12 tracks and was written by lead member Mark Oliver Everett as their first in-person sessions following the COVID-19 pandemic. It was recorded between Los Feliz, Los Angeles and Dublin, Ireland, and features contributions from various artists, including Koool G Murder, The Chet, Tyson Ritter, and Sean Coleman. On February 29, 2024, the band announced "Eels Time!" and released the lead single "Time" alongside the news. The semi-titular opening "balmy acoustic number" is a track about the concept of time. |
"The Harlot's House" (1885) is a 36-line poem in "terza rima" by Oscar Wilde. It touches on the issue of prostitution in a style which can be seen as either Aesthetic or Decadent. It is considered one of Wilde's finest poems, and has been set to music several times. |
Wandering down a city street by night, the poet and his companion stop outside "the Harlot's house", hearing uproarious noise including a band playing dance-music. They see the shadows of dancers on the blinds, looking like automatons or skeletons. Sometimes one or other of them, "a horrible Marionette", comes out to smoke a cigarette. "The dead are dancing with the dead", the poet says to his love, but she walks inside: "Love passed into the house of Lust". Then the dance ends, |
A holograph manuscript of an early version of "The Harlot's House", dated April 1882, is preserved in the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Los Angeles. The final version of the poem was, according to Wilde's friend and biographer Robert Sherard, written in the spring of 1883 while the author was staying at the Hôtel Voltaire in Paris, and this account is probably accurate. Sherard records Wilde picking up a "demi-mondaine" outside a Paris music hall at this time, and the next day remarking, "Robert, what animals we are", a story which suggests the possibility that the poem reflects Wilde's own experiences. |
Wilde published "The Harlot's House" in "The Dramatic Review" on 11 April 1885, but it was never reprinted elsewhere for the rest of his life. In 1899, the year before his death, he discussed with Leonard Smithers and the artist Althea Gyles the possibility of publishing "The Harlot's House". This project reached fruition, albeit without the permission of Wilde's estate, in 1904 as a pamphlet with five black-and-white illustrations by Gyles. It was reissued in a limited edition in 1905. "The Harlot's House" was collected in the 1905 US edition of Wilde's "Poems" and the 1908 UK one. |
The title may owe something to Joshua 2:1, "And they went, and came into an harlot's house", but more secular influences on the body of the poem have been detected from the French Decadent poets and from Edgar Allan Poe. The theme, originally medieval, of the dance of death, and some of the phrasing, may have been suggested by Baudelaire's "" (in "Les Fleurs du mal"), Gautier's "Bûchers et tombeaux" and "Variations sur le Carnaval de Venise" (in "Émaux et Camées"), Poe's "The Haunted Palace" (in "The Fall of the House of Usher") or his "Masque of the Red Death". |
On first publication, "The Harlot's House" made a great stir. Wilde's friend Frank Harris later remembered the author's admirers acclaiming it. "On all sides one was asked: 'Have you seen Oscar's latest?' And then the last verse would be quoted – 'Divine, don't ye think?'". Other readers were shocked at the poem's subject-matter, and it was sufficiently notorious to provoke a parody, "The Public-House", published two months later in "The Sporting Times". |
Today, it is one of the handful of poems on which Wilde's reputation as a poet rests. When Penguin Books published their "Major Works" of Oscar Wilde only three of his poems were included, "The Ballad of Reading Gaol", "The Sphinx", and "The Harlot's House". It has been called a stylistic and technical tour de force, and has been said to have proved, along with a few others of his best poems, "his ability to compose, had he but dared, a body of poems, on themes of sin, suffering and remorse, which might have been the "Fleurs du Mal" of English literature". |
"The Harlot's House" has been adapted several times, either separately or in conjunction with other poems, by notable composers: |
2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 400 metres |
The women's 400 metres at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships took place on 1 and 2 March 2024. |
Qualification: First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) advance to the Semi-Finals |
The heats were started on 1 March at 10:20. |
Qualification: First 3 in each heat (Q) advance to the final. |
The semi-finals were started on 1 March at 20:50. |
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Jordan Morgan (offensive lineman) |
Indiano was the colloquial name for the Spanish emigrant in America who returned enriched, a social typology that had become a literary cliché since the Golden Age. The name was extended to their descendants, with admiring or pejorative connotations depending on the case. |
The "Indianos" became local leaders in the era of caciquismo (late 19th and early 20th century), a period in which large contingents of young people, especially from regions with easy access to the sea, such as Galicia, Asturias, Cantabria, the Basque Country, Catalonia and the Canary Islands, were forced at that time to "do" what was known as "the Americas": emigrate in search of a better fortune in Latin American countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Mexico, Uruguay and Venezuela. In some cases, they came at the request of their relatives already established in those places, forming remarkably successful family businesses. Most were not so fortunate, and found no better fate in America than the poverty from which they were fleeing. |
Those who managed to amass real fortunes and decided to return years later to their places of origin, sought prestige by acquiring some noble title, buying and restoring old "casonas" or pazos, or building new palaces, in a very colourful colonial or eclectic style, which came to be called "casonas", "casas de indianos" or "casas indianas"" (in some areas, such as the Asturian town of Somao, they are particularly abundant). They often incorporated palm trees in their gardens as a symbol of their adventure in tropical lands. They also established their "mecenazgo" in charitable or cultural institutions, subsidising the construction of schools, churches and town halls, building and repairing roads, hospitals, asylums, water and electricity supplies, etc. Literature and art often made reference to the history of emigration to America and the return of the Indianos. |
The cleanliness of the origins of some of these fortunes was always in question, especially those of those who enriched themselves through the slave trade (such as Antonio López y López, ennobled with the title of Marquis of Comillas), and who, in collusion with the landowners established overseas, set up the slave-owning lobby to obstruct any kind of abolitionist legislation that might be developed in the metropolis, such as the reforms promoted by Julio Vizcarrondo (himself a descendant of slave-owning landowners). Prominent among the pro-slavery group were Antonio Cánovas del Castillo (brother of José Cánovas del Castillo, who had become wealthy in Cuba) and Francisco Romero Robledo. Slavery was not definitively abolished in the Spanish colonies until October 7 of 1886. |
"Indianos" of Galicia. |
Galician emigration to Argentina and Cuba was so abundant that the epithet "Galicians" is still given there to any Spaniard, regardless of their regional origin. Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao coined the phrase: "the Galician does not ask, he emigrates". Among the most fortunate were Pancho de Reádegos, Basilio Álvarez, Benjamín Cudeiro, Juan and Jesús García-Naveira, Modesto Estévez, etc. |
"Indianos" of Asturias. |
Asturias has been, together with Galicia, the region from which most emigrants left for America. On their return, many of them built large houses that form part of the rich "Indiano" architecture in the Principality, especially in the eastern and western wings. Among the most conspicuous Asturian "Indianos" were Ramón Argüelles Alonso, later Marquis of Argüelles, Manuel Ibáñez Posada (who acquired the title of Count of Ribadedeva), his brother Luis Ibáñez Posada (who founded the "Banco Hispano Americano" with the repatriation of capital after the disaster of 1898), Íñigo Noriega Mendoza, Ulpiano Cuervo, Íñigo Noriega Laso, Manuel Suárez y Suárez and others. |
Indianos of La Montaña. |
Among the "Indianos" of La Montaña (the traditional name of the current autonomous community of Cantabria), the figures of the Marquis of Comillas, the Marquis of Valdecilla, the Marquis of Manzanedo, the Count of La Mortera, Santiago Galas, Eusebio Gómez and Mateo Haya Obregón stand out. In his honour, in 1978, the "Monumento al Indiano" was erected at the top of Peña Cabarga, a privileged viewpoint overlooking the bay of Santander and the port from which thousands of emigrants left for the new continent. |
"Indianos" from the Basque Country. |
"Indianos" of Catalonia. |
Among the Indianos who returned to Catalonia, the figure of Miguel Biada Buñol stands out. After working in the merchant navy throughout his life between Maracaibo and Havana, he was the driving force behind the Barcelona-Mataró Railway until 1848, the first railway line on the Iberian Peninsula and the second in Spain after La Havana-Güines Railway. He was a member of the Cortes Generales. He invested all or most of his fortune in this process and died before its inauguration. |
Also noteworthy are José Xifré y Casas, Facundo Bacardí, Agustí Vilaret, Josep Maria Huertas, etc. |
The Marquis of Comillas, originally from Las Montañas, settled in Barcelona on his return to Spain. |
"Indianos" of the Canary Islands. |
Emigration from the Canary Islands was very intense from the 17th century until the beginning of the second half of the 20th century, and was especially intense in the latter period. The main destinations were Puerto Rico (19th century), Cuba (early 20th century), Argentina (1920s and 1930s) and Venezuela (mid-20th century). Other earlier emigrations were to a lesser extent to Uruguay (the city of Montevideo, the capital of that country, was founded by Canarians), the Dominican Republic and Texas (where Canarian emigrants founded the city of San Antonio). Such is the influence that emigration has had on Canarian society and culture that there are even several festivals in honour of the returned "Indianos" (Carnival of Santa Cruz de La Palma). |
On 20 February 2023, after the pandemic, the "Fiesta de los Indianos" was celebrated again, bringing together more than 70,000 people. |
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Aggregatorygma lichexanthonicum |
Aggregatorygma lichexanthonicum is a species of corticolous (tree-bark dwelling), crustose lichen in the family Graphidaceae. Found in Brazil, it is characterised by the presence of lichexanthone in its thallus. |
The lichen was formally described in 2022 by the Dutch lichenologist André Aptroot. The type specimen was collected by the author in Reserva Cristalino in Mato Grosso, Brazil, at an altitude of ; there, it was found growing on tree bark within a primary rainforest. The species name alludes to its chemical marker, lichexanthone. This species is the third identified within its genus, all of which were described from Brazil. |
The thallus of "Aggregatorygma lichexanthonicum" is crustose and continuous, extending up to about in diameter and up to 0.1 mm thick. It appears rather smooth and dull, almost white, and lacks a prothallus border. The within is (green algae). Ascomata (fruiting bodies) are superficial on the thallus, sessile with a constricted base, initially solitary but soon dividing into aggregates of linear, simple or slightly branched within a pseudostroma that is distinctly in outline. measure 1–4 mm in width and 0.4–0.7 mm in height, with individual lirellae 0.2–0.4 mm wide and up to 3 mm long. The is pale grey and densely white , often showing splits or cracks. The is brownish with numerous small crystals, likely calcium oxalate, while asci are . , uniquely singular per ascus, are hyaline and densely . Pycnidia have not been observed to occur in this species. |
Chemical analysis reveals the thallus to be UV+ (yellow) and the disc UV+ (bluish white), with spot tests for C, K, KC, and P being negative. Thin-layer chromatography shows the presence of lichexanthone. |
Habitat and distribution. |
"Aggregatorygma lichexanthonicum" is found exclusively on tree bark within primary rainforests in Brazil. |
Augustin Kibasa Maliba |
A. E. Backus Gallery & Museum |
Daniel Ato Kwamina Mensah |
Attempted genocide by Israel in their 2023 attack on Gaza |
On the night between May 16 and 17, 2020, militants from the Lendu CODECO killed twenty-two civilians in the Hema village of Ndjala, in Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. |
Lendu farmers and Hema herders have been in conflict for centuries in Ituri, with both groups forming militias during the Second Congo War between 1999 and 2003. Conflict renewed between the two groups in December 2017 in Djugu territory, with Lendu militias growing exponentially. The main Lendu militia, CODECO, began attacks against Congolese forces and other militias, and killing civilians across Ituri province. |
The attack began around 1am at the Hema village of Ndjala. The attack targeted all Hema in the village, with many people being slashed by machetes. A local administrator in Djugu territory, where Ndjala is located, stated at least twenty people were killed in the initial aftermath and over fourteen were injured. This rose to seventeen wounded, and twenty-two people killed by the next day. |
While no group initially claimed responsibility for the attack, CODECO was suspected due to the Lendu-Hema conflict. |
West African Manuscripts |
Joel Curtis (born 4 November 1999) is an Australian cricketer. He made his first-class debut for Western Australia against Queensland on 28 November 2023 in 2023–24 Sheffield Shield season. |
Charles Street, Wrexham |
Charles Street () is a street in Wrexham city centre, North Wales. It contains multiple listed buildings. |
It was originally considered part of the High Street, but later became known as "Beast Market Street" due to its importance as a drovers' road towards Wrexham's Beast Market. Today, the street is known for its small independent businesses. |
The listed buildings on the street include the No. 20–23 terrace, and parts of the Wynnstay Arms Hotel and former Feathers Hotel. The street was also home to the Elephant and Castle pub, a historically notorious pub in Wrexham. |
No. 20, 21, 22 and 23, collectively form a 19th-century four-building terrace, located to the rear of the Wynnstay Arms Hotel, on Charles Street, of which all are now shops with accommodation on their upper floors. The terrace is an adaptation of an earlier, possibly 17th-century, timber-framed building. The building's front is made of brick, while its internal cross walls (and possibly the structure of its roof) have surviving timber framing. It has chamfered arches of brick serving as its doorways and shop windows, as well as a similarly arched central entrance. Its roof is steeply pitched slate. No. 20 to 23 are a notable surviving timber-framed structure in Wrexham, as well as known for its late 19th century shop design. |
Behind No. 22 was a tannery, belonging to Meredith Jones, while No. 22 was the premises of the last wooden clog-maker in Wrexham, Fletchers. |
No. 23 was previously the site of a hotel known as the "Blossoms Hotel", located at the rear of the Wynnstay Arms Hotel, and had a stable. It had been an inn since 1723 at least. It was later demolished, with the hotel becoming part of the Wynnstay Arms. |
The "Feathers Hotel" is located on the corner of Charles Street and Chester Street. On its Charles Street side, remnants of its old stables and coach house can be seen behind the main building at its rear. This references the period when it was a coaching inn, due to its location on Charles Street, which was a drovers' road towards Wrexham's Beast Market. In the Victorian times, its stable yard could have accommodated 30 horses. |
The "Wynnstay Arms" is located on the corner of Charles Street and Yorke Street. The earliest 18th-century parts of the building are on this corner, while its Charles Street side also has a blocked carriage entry. Large parts of the building were demolished and rebuilt in the 1970s with only its Yorke Street façade being retained. The Wynnstay Arms incorporated a former Charles Street hotel known as the "Blossoms Hotel", located at its rear at No. 23 Charles Street, but was later made part of the Wynnstay Arms. |
No. 14 dates to at least 1650. While the large building on the left side of Charles Street when entering from the High Street was built by Thomas Penson, who lived in it. It served as the offices of the Wrexham Waterworks Company, and by the later 19th century under William Bernie, as a pawnbroker on its ground floor. There is a narrow passage near the building, and between two buildings known as "Cutler's Entry", named after the trade practices of the tenant of the house. |
No. 18 was a wattle and daub building, dating to at least the 17th century, and is now a taxi office. |
Near the end of the street, next to the former Elephant and Castle (see below) and the old Beast Market, is a 1621 timber and thatch building, formerly the "Hat Inn", and now an opticians. By the 19th century, this building was neighboured by a half-timbered building between it and Market Street. This neighbouring building later served as a fish and chip shop but was burned down on a Bonfire Night, with the fire spreading to the "Hat" and seriously damaging its upper floors and roof. |
Elephant and Castle. |
The "Elephant and Castle", was a pub on Charles Street, first recorded in 1788, notorious for its incidents, and poor local reputation. It was described by an 1879 police superintendent as the "greatest curse of Wrexham", as well as the place of the suicide of the father of Annie Chapman, who was later the second victim of Jack the Ripper. Behind the pub was "Elephant Yard", which was a crime hotspot, and following its closure the pub was described as the most famous among Wrexham's lost pubs. It lost its license in 1999, later becoming a Thai restaurant. The building is now home to the Magic Dragon Brewery Tap since 2019, which brews its own beer and was named the best pub in Wales in 2023 by CAMRA. A former saw mill was located at its rear. |
The origin of the name "Charles Street" is unknown, some claim it is named after Charles I, but it only appeared at the earliest by 1788 and on gravestones by the 1830s. |
Charles Street was a drovers' road towards Wrexham's Beast Market, which attracted farmers from across the borders region. |
The street was previously known as "Beast Market Street" until the late 18th century, and before that it was considered part of the High Street. By 1620, the land on the northern side of the street was still farmland. Behind Charles Street was the local corporation's original slaughterhouses, near the Beast Market. There is also evidence the street was widened. |
In 1998, the street was considerably altered, with new buildings built and it pedestrianised, becoming a "more attractive" compact retail street in the city centre. The street was known for its independent shops by 2011, and in the 2020s was described as a hub for small businesses in Wrexham, including one of the "best cafe[s] in Wales", and multiple salons and barbers. Although in 2011, local traders expressed concerns of public disorder on the street, and called for a dispersal order applied to other parts of central Wrexham to apply to them. |
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21 Charles Street, Wrexham |
22 Charles Street, Wrexham |
23 Charles Street, Wrexham |
République du Dahomey |
List of 21st century battles |
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Battle of Ceuta (1339) |
The Battle of Ceuta (1339) was one of the battles of the Battle of the Strait. |
The 14th century saw a gradual increase in fleets as the war in the Straits became more fierce. In 1334 a peace treaty was signed between Morocco, Granada and Castile and in 1336 Pere the Ceremonious agreed to extend the peace with Granada, but the peace could not be maintained for long time for conflicting ambitions. |
The Marinid dynasty planned to reunify the Maghreb, taking Tilimsen in 1337, and the fleet of Alphonse XI of Castile was in the Straits of Gibraltar from the spring of 1338 and requested help from Peter the Ceremonious to complete the Straits fleet, signing the pact of Madrid, by which the two kingdoms pledged to help each other to wage war in Morocco and Granada while the Marinids did the same with the Hafsids. |
Admiral Jofre Gilabert de Cruïlles left Barcelona on June 1 of 1339 with four galleys, to join Valencia with six other galleys and a galiot that from there set course for the Strait. |
On September 6 of 1339 in the Alboran Sea, in front of Ceuta a flock of eight gallers Catalans commanded by Jofre Gilabert de Cruïlles and Galceran Marquet defeats a naval force of thirteen Moroccan galleys and a Genoese. |
Charles Street (Wrexham) |
Karlsbader Aufguss-Kanne |