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Sir Richard Steele's Cottage, Hampstead is a landscape painting by the British artist John Constable begun in 1831 and completed the following year. It shows a view from Haverstock Hill in then rural Hampstead looking southwards towards London with its skyline dominated by St Paul's Cathedral. The painting takes its name from the cottage to the right of the road, formerly home to the Irish writer and politician Richard Steele, a member of the Kit Cat Club. On the left of the street is a public house the Load of Hay, popular with travellers on their way to Hampstead Heath. The stretch was part of Hampstead Road which connected the city to Hampstead and still retains its historic alignment. The cottage was demolished in 1867 during the development of Belsize Park as a residential area, but is still commemorated by the name of Steele Road. |
Constable lived in Hampstead from 1819 and painted many scenes of the surrounding area. It was exhibited at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition in 1832. |
The painting was bequeathed by Paul Mellon to the Yale Center for British Art in Connecticut in 2001. A mezzotint based on the painting by David Lucas is now in the Tate Britain. |
Maldivian parliamentary election, 2024 |
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Daisy×Daisy () is the solo project of Japanese singer MiKA (born on October 4, 1983, in Ehime, province to the northwest of Shikoku). It was originally a duo with MiKA (vocals/lyrics) and yuuki (guitarist/composer/lyricist) created in 2005, but yuuki decided to leave in 2008. However, MiKA carried on as a solo act, but kept the name DaisyxDaisy. In 2009, the single "brave your truth" reached 19th in the Oricon chart. |
MiKA comes from a family of musicians. She studied Enka, a traditional Japanese style of music, from the age of four. She then moved to Tokyo, where she learned music from an Enka master. However, she felt like experimenting with different styles, and ended up forming a band. Since then, many have considered her to be a rock singer. |
She has performed abroad, having gone to Brazil in 2018 to São Paulo at Anime Dreams; and in Recife at Anima Recife. |
2016 Jamaican local elections |
The 2016 Jamaican local elections were held on November 28, 2016. |
Ground News is a news aggregator service that allows users to compare media coverage from across the political spectrum. The service is available through a website, mobile apps, and browser extensions. |
When searching for a news topic, a user is served with a selection of articles. Rather than show results based on popularity, the Ground News algorithm is meant to serve results based "on a number of factors like length of existence, citations in other publications, what they [the news organization] have published already, and social media presence." Articles are labeled to indicate a publication's ownership, an assessment of the publication's typical reporting quality, and possible political bias on a left-right spectrum. Users are meant to compare headlines from publications of differing ideological biases, as well as compare how coverage changes based on location (from local or international news sources) and time. |
"Media Bias Ratings" of news publications are sourced from Ad Fontes Media, AllSides, and Media Bias/Fact Check. Publications can be given ratings ranging from "Far Left" to "Center" to "Far Right." The "Average Bias Rating" is meant to reflect an average of the three ratings, and can be edited by users subscribed to the "Pro" tier. "Factuality" ratings reflect how frequently a publication uses credible sources, gives adequate context to articles, word choice in articles, and how quickly inaccuracies are corrected. Scores include "Low," "Mixed," and "High." Media Bias Ratings and Factuality ratings are determined for publications, not individual articles. |
Ground News maintains a "Blindspot" feed, as well as a "Blindspot Report" newsletter, which highlights news topics that are largely being reported by publications on only one side of the political spectrum. |
The Ground News app has a citizen journalism feature that allows users to verify the content of reports that happen locally. |
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2024 United States House of Representatives election in United States Virgin Islands |
The 2024 United States House of Representatives election in the United States Virgin Islands is an upcoming election on November 5, 2024, to elect a non-voting Delegate to the United States House of Representatives from the United States Virgin Islands' at-large congressional district. The election coincides with the larger 2024 United States House of Representatives elections and the legislative election in the United States Virgin Islands. |
The U.S. Virgin Island's non-voting delegate is elected for a two-year term in office. Incumbent delegate Stacey Plaskett, a Democrat who was first elected in 2014, and most recently re-elected with 98.7% of the vote in 2022, to a sixth term. |
2024 Valencia residential building fire |
Laura Wharton (in Hebrew: לורה ורטון, born December 21, 1962) is a member of the Jerusalem City Council and a lecturer of the Political science in the Hebrew University. She serves as the chairman of the Meretz faction in "The Jerusalem Union" electoral list. Wharton holds the portfolio for promoting women's status and gender equality, the portfolio for service quality and the portfolio for promoting pensioners' welfare. She won the "Prime Minister's Award" for her doctorate about the social policy of the Mapai and the Israeli Labor Party parties. |
Wharton was born and raised in New Jersey, the United States. Her mother, Eleanor Walden, was an educator and an administrator in higher education, and her father, Ralph Wharton, practiced psychiatry and neurology at the School of Medicine at Columbia University, New York. She attended Phillips Exeter Academy and completed a bachelor's degree in Political Science at the Harvard University. After graduating, she immigrated to Israel in 1984 and enlisted in the Israel Defense Forces, as a lone soldier. Wharton served as a corporal at the Nahal and lived in the kibbutz Kfar Blum. After her military service, she was accepted as a member in the kibbutz, and worked as a teacher of mathematics at the Emek Hahula High School. She completed her master's degree and the doctorate at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. |
Guadalupe San Miguel |
Guadalupe San Miguel Jr. (born 19 January 1950) is an American professor and non fiction writer. His works includes; "Let All of Them Take Heed" (1987), "Tejano Proud" (2002), "Brown, Not White" (2005). |
Guadalupe is a professor of history at the University of Houston and has written articles and books on history of Mexican American, Chicana, and Latina including political reviews. |
Early life and beginning. |
Guadalupe San Miguel Jr. received his M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. His research interests span topics such as ethnicity, religion, and politics in the schooling of Mexican children, Latino activism in school reform, and the role of music in Mexican American culture. |
Notably, his book "" shared light on a little-known struggle for educational reform in Texas during the early 1970s. |
Miguel became a professor of history at the University of Houston and he had taught Chicano studies, covering topics such as Tejano Music, Latino politics, Chicano history, and the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement in the 20th century. |
Leadership and awards. |
Dr. San Miguel has served as president of the National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the same association. His work has been recognized with awards including; the Public Forum Distinguished Lecture Award and an Outstanding Book Award for his impactful research. |
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Link Michael Wilfley (born July 5, 1979) is an American former rugby union international. |
Born in Denver, Wilfley is the great-great-grandson of mining engineer Arthur Wilfley, who invented the Wilfley table. |
Wilfley attended East High School in Denver and played varsity rugby union for Oregon State University, where he was also backup placekicker to José Cortez on the football team. |
A utility back, Wilfley was best suited as a fly-half, but also played centre and fullback during his time with the national team, from 2000 to 2003. He was capped a total of 20 times, which included an appearance at the 2003 Rugby World Cup, coming on as a substitute against Scotland in Brisbane. |
Wilfley played professional rugby union in England for Rotheram. |
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List of mandals in Andhra Pradesh |
The is a Kofun period burial mound, located in the Yohara neighborhood of the town of Kanda, Miyako District, Fukuoka Prefecture Japan. The tumulus was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 1936, with the area under protection expanded in 2012, 2020 and 2022. Along with the Ishizukayama Kofun (also located in Kanda) it is one of the largest burial mounds in the Buzen region, and is estimated to have been constructed in the mid-late Kofun period.. |
The tumulus is approximately ten minutes by car from Kanda Station on the JR Kyushu Nippō Main Line. The top of the "kofun" is now occupied by a Shinto shrine. |
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The is a Kofun period burial mound, located in the Tamiku neighborhood of the town of Kanda, Miyako District, Fukuoka Prefecture Japan. The tumulus was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 1985. Along with the Goshoyama Kofun (also located in Kanda) it is one of the oldest and largest burial mounds in the Buzen region, and is estimated to have been constructed in the early Kofun period.. |
The Ishiyamazuka Kofun is a , which is shaped like a keyhole, having one square end and one circular end, when viewed from above. It is located on a low hill overlooking the Gulf of Suo on the Seto Inland Sea in eastern Fukuoka Prefecture. It was very close to the coastline at that time, with the front facing toward the sea. The surrounding area has been slightly carved out, and the total length is estimated to be approximately 130 meters, and the height of the circular three-tier posterior portion part is approximately 17 meters with a diameter of 70 meters. This surface was leveled when a Shinto shrine was built on top of the mound in the Edo period. The anterior rectangular portion extends long and narrow from the constriction and widens slightly at the tip, which is a style consistent with the beginning of the 4th century. The tumulus has "fukiishi", but existence of "[[haniwa]"] has not been confirmed. |
The tumulus is approximately 15-minutes on foot from [[Kanda Station (Fukuoka) |Kanda Station]] on the [[JR Kyushu]] [[Nippō Main Line]]. |
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Adamivka, Cherkasy Oblast |
Adamivka () is a rural settlement in Uman Raion, Cherkasy Oblast (province) of Ukraine. It belongs to Zhashkiv urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. It is located southwest of the city of Zhashkiv. |
Near the rural settlement of Adamivka, there is a hydrological reserve called Shuliaky Swamp. |
Adamivka suffered as a result of the genocide of the Ukrainian people carried out by Soviet government in 1932-1933 and 1946–1947. |
Until 18 July 2020, Adamivka was previously located in the Zhashkiv Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Cherkasy Oblast to four. The area of Zhashkiv Raion was merged into Zvenyhorodka Raion. |
The Fathers of the Church |
The Fathers of the Church: A New Translation (FOTC or FC) is an ongoing book series of English translations of patristic texts from early Christian writers published by The Catholic University of America Press. Inaugurated by its first volume in 1947, "The Apostolic Fathers", and initially planned by its founder and first editorial director Ludwig Schopp to span 72 volumes, the series aimed to supersede the nineteenth-century "Ante-Nicene Fathers" and "Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers" collections, making use of critical editions of the relevant texts that had since become available and coupling each volume with useful features such as scholarly introductions, footnotes, bibliographies, and Scripture indices. Although originally focused on creating newer translations of previously translated texts, the series would later refocus to prioritize publishing texts never before translated into English. |
In 1989, a new series titled The Fathers of the Church: Medieval Continuations was created, inaugurated by the first of six volumes of letters by St. Peter Damian, to expand the scope of translations beyond the first centuries of Christianity. |
Francis Bemiy (born March 16, 1999) is a Canadian football defensive lineman for the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He played college football at Southern Utah. |
Bemiy first played high school football at Dorval-Jean-XXIII on the Island of Montreal before transferring to Carnegie Schools Riverside in Riverside, California. He also participated in basketball and track and field in high school. |
Bemiy played college football at Southern Utah from 2018 to 2022. He played in 10 games in 2018, recording 13 tackles. He appeared in 11 games in 2019, totaling 51 tackles, two sacks and one forced fumble. The 2020 season was moved to spring 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Bemiy played in all six games during the spring 2021 season, accumulating 25 tackles and four sacks, earning first team All-Big Sky Conference honors. He appeared in 11 games during the fall 2021 season, recording 48 tackles, four sacks, one forced fumble and one fumble recovery. He played in 11 games in 2022, totaling 26 tackles and three sacks. |
Professional career. |
Bemiy was selected by the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League (CFL) in the first round, with the ninth overall pick, of the 2023 CFL Draft. He signed with the team on May 31, 2023. He spent a portion of the 2023 season injured reserve. Overall, he played in nine games in 2023, recording five tackles on defense. |
1980 Tennessee State Tigers football team |
The 1980 Tennessee State Tigers football team were an American college football team. They represented Tennessee State University as an independent during the 1980 NCAA Division I-A football season. Led by 18th-year head coach John Merritt, the Tigers compiled a record of 9–1. |
The Hot and Copper Sky |
The Hot and Copper Sky is a 1962 British radio play by Bruce Stewart about the bushranger Ben Hall, originally written for BBC radio. |
Stewart adapted it into a TV play "The Night of Ben Hall" which the BBC optioned for two years but did not use. |
Stewart used the same title for an unrelated 1982 novel. |
The play was recorded for Australian radio in 1963. |
Ben Hall and two fellow-bushrangers, Dunn and Jack Gilbert, arrive at the small township of Canowindra. As there are no police or, the outlaws proceed to take over the town, until a "town leader" Mr Grace makes plans to take action. |
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Styphelia lucens is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae and is endemic to coastal areas of north Queensland. It is a shrub with densely hairy branches, erect, lance-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and white, tube-shaped flowers. |
"Styphelia lucens" is a shrub with densely hairy branchlets, that typically grows to a height of . Its leaves are pointed upwards, lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide on an indistinct petiole. The leaves are concave, and mostly glabrous, the upper surface dark green and shiny and the lower surface pale green and slightly shiny. The flowers are mostly arranged singly or in pairs in upper leaf axils on a peduncle long, with broadly egg-shaped to more or less round bracts and broadly elliptical bracteoles long. The sepals are long and the petals are white, forming a tube long with lobes long and densely hairy on the inside. Flowering has been observed from March to August and the fruit is an elliptic drupe long. |
"Stypheli lucens" was first formally described in 2020 by Anthony Bean in the journal "Austrobaileya" from specimens collected on the upper slopes of Gloucester Island in 1994. The specific epithet ("cognata") means "shining", in reference to it similarity to the glossy leaves of this species. |
Distribution and habitat. |
This styphelia is found in near-coastal areas between Gloucester Island and near Townsville where it grows in shrubland on soils derived from granite, with an outlier near Pentland. |
Davao Occidental–San Juan basketball rivalry |
The Davao Occidental–San Juan basketball rivalry refers to the rivalry between the Davao Occidental Tigers and San Juan Knights. It is one that has stretched across multiple leagues in the Philippines, most prominently in the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League, where the two teams met in the National Finals twice in back-to-back seasons (2019 and 2021). Although Davao Occidental has since left the MPBL, the two teams still compete in other leagues such as FilBasket and the Pilipinas Super League. |
As of February 2024, the two teams have played against each other fifteen times, with the Tigers leading the series 8–7. |
Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League. |
The rivalry began during the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League's 2018–19 season, when both the Davao Occidental Tigers and San Juan Knights joined as expansion teams. Their first regular season match-up came on December 18, 2018, at Rizal Memorial Colleges in Davao City, with the host Tigers winning the game 87–75. Both teams went on to finish the season with identical 20–5 records as they would meet in that season's National Finals. The series went back-and-forth as both teams alternated wins leading to a game 5 at RMC. Heading into the final minute, Davao Occidental was leading by three points, but then Jhonard Clarito scored four consecutive points to give San Juan the lead with only eight seconds left. Emman Calo then attempted a two-point field goal that unfortunately missed, giving San Juan their first MPBL championship. |
In the following 2019–20 season, their regular season match-up would come January 18, 2020 at the University of Southeastern Philippines. This time around, it was San Juan who won the game 84–65. Following, a one-year suspension of league play due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the two teams would meet in a rematch for the National Finals. In game 4, with Davao Occidental leading 2–1, Mark Yee would make a three-pointer to give Davao Occidental the lead and eventually winning the championship, exacting their revenge against their rivals. |
Although both teams would not meet again in the MPBL since following Davao Occidental's departure from the league, both teams would still meet whenever they take part in the same league. In time for FilBasket's inaugural tournament, the 2021 Subic Championship, the Tigers would sign John Wilson, who won the 2020 MPBL Most Valuable Player Award with San Juan. When both teams met in the elimination round on November 8, 2021, the game went to double overtime as Davao Occidental would win the game 120–115. Heading into the playoffs, both teams once again had identical records (7–3) and would even meet in the semifinals of the tournament. San Juan would win in the knockout game, 85–84, to advance to the finals. |
The Davao Occidental Tigers would join the Pilipinas Super League in 2022 for the Pearl of the Orient Cup. In the 2022–23 DUMPER Cup, multiple MPBL teams took part during the league's off-season, including the San Juan Knights, who competed as the San Juan Kings. On February 9, 2023, both teams would play in their first professional meeting at RMC, with San Juan winning the game, 76–71. San Juan would go 15–0 while Davao Occidental went 12–3, marking the first time one team had the lead over the other. Both teams wouldn't meet in the playoffs, however, as the Tigers advanced to the finals while the Kings were eliminated in the semifinals by the Pampanga G Lanterns. Their most recent meeting came on February 29, 2024, in the PSL's 2023–24 President's Cup, with Davao Occidental beating San Juan yet again, 75–73. |
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Joseph Whama Boayue (born April 25, 1922) was a Liberian civil engineer and Secretary of Public Works from March 8, 1961, to September 5, 1962 |
Joseph Whama Boayue was born on April 25, 1922, to Nya Kwai and Yhenpu Gelemein Boayue. |
Boayue was sponsored by an American missionary by the name of Mildred Black and received his primary school education at the Ganta Methodist Mission School. After receiving his primary school education, Boayue was granted a scholarship to attend the Booker Washington Institute in Kakata, from which he graduated in 1942. |
Following his graduation from BWI, Boayue received another scholarship to further his studies at the College of West Africa in Monrovia, where he graduated from in 1946 with honors. |
In 1949, Boayue was provided with the opportunity to work with Major Grandville Wilson, an American civil engineer employed by the Public Health Service of Liberia. This sparked Boayue's interest in civil engineering, and while working with Wilson, Boayue drew the first modern map of Monrovia. |
Boayue was granted a crusade scholarship to study medicine in the United States at the advice of Dr. George Way Harley. Boayue traveled to the United States with the initial goal of studying medicine, however, his interest in civil engineering convinced him to change his study focus to civil engineering. Boayue graduated from Iowa State College on December 18, 1953, with honors. |
Upon returning to Liberia after graduating, Boayue was appointed to the position of Resident Engineer at the Department of Public Works and Utilities. As a part of his job duties, Boayue was assigned to Harper, Liberia, in Maryland County. Boayue laid out the streets in Harper and oversaw the creation of a road connecting Harper and Webbo. |
President William Tubman recognized Boayue's work, and on December 10, 1957, Boayue was appointed to the position of Chief of the Division of Highways of the Department of Public Works and Utilities. Boayue worked alongside then Secretary of Public Works Thomas Buchanan and represented Liberia at a variety of conferences overseas. |
On January 20, 1960, Boayue was appointed to the position of Under Secretary of Public Works and Utilities. Following the death of Public Works Secretary Buchanan, Joseph Boayue was appointed to the position of Secretary of Public Works on March 8, 1961. Boayue was Liberia's first native Public Works Secretary. As Secretary of Public Works, Boayue traveled internationally with President Tubman, even accompanying Tubman to the White House for his 1961 visit with John F. Kennedy. Boayue received many awards for his service and was recognized by the Government of Liberia and the governments of Madagascar, Ivory Coast, and Senegal. |
Following pressure from Americo-Liberians who took issue with a native Secretary in Tubman's cabinet, Tubman requested Boayue's resignation. Boayue resigned from the office of Secretary of Public Works on September 5, 1962. After leaving public life, Boayue worked within the business world, serving as a consulting engineer for the Liberia Iron and Steel Corporation. |
Boayue was married to Betty Carter in 1955, and their three children were Joseph Whama Jr, Irving, and Bendu. Their marriage later came to an end. Boayue later remarried Sophie Dunbar in 1964, who was a descendant of Baptist Minister Francis Burns (minister). Their three children were Yanay Miaway, Minisiah Whama, and Zoadah Tealah. |