title: Proxima Midnight

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Proxima Midnight is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.  Created by writer Jonathan Hickman, she first appeared in New Avengers #8 (September 2013). She is a prominent member of the Black Order working for Thanos.

The character has made several appearances in media, such as animated television series, the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame with Carrie Coon voicing the role, and video games. Coon returned to voice an alternate timeline version of the character in the Disney+ animated series What If...? (2021).

Publication history
Proxima Midnight debuted in New Avengers #8 (September 2013), created by writer Jonathan Hickman. She later appeared in the 2013 Infinity series. She appeared in the 2017 Unworthy Thor series.

Fictional character biography
Proxima Midnight is a member of Thanos' Black Order. Thanos chose her for her expert combatant skills. Proxima is the wife of fellow Order member Corvus Glaive. She was sent to Earth to retrieve an Infinity Gem from Namor, but came into contact with the New Avengers. She battled Spectrum and Luke Cage where she found herself evenly matched. She was humiliated by Thanos' disapproval of her actions as well as the fact that Namor did not actually possess the Gem. Proxima and the rest of the Order were directed by Namor to Wakanda to search for the Gem, but were distracted when Ebony Maw revealed the location of Thane, Thanos' son. Thane wanted nothing to do with his father and imprisoned him and Proxima in amber where they were taken to Necropolis.

Namor freed Proxima, as well as Thanos, and asked that they join his Cabal due to his own anger towards Earth. However, Namor soon found himself hating the Cabal's tactics and vowed to work with the Illuminati to defeat them. Namor himself was betrayed and found himself and the Cabal stuck on an earth that was to be destroyed. They all managed to escape into the Ultimate Marvel Universe and vowed to get their revenge. They crafted a "life raft" and managed to live past the destruction of all universes. The Cabal ended up on Battleworld where they proceeded to attack the locals. However, God Emperor Doom dispersed the group to the various corners of Battleworld and Proxima, along with Corvus Glaive, were imprisoned by Apocalypse.

She managed to return to her own home when the Mainstream Marvel Universe was rebuilt. She met up with Thanos and a cloaked figure, later revealed to be Hela, and teamed up with her to retrieve Mjolnir. Their quest would lead them into battling Thor, Beta Ray Bill, The Collector and others. Ultimately, Proxima and Hela were humiliated and forced to return empty handed. To prove herself worthy, Hela killed Proxima in front of Thanos, adding one last humiliation for her.

During the "No Surrender" arc Challenger revived Proxima Midnight when the Black Order was reformed with Black Swan, Ebony Maw, a psychic projection of Supergiant, and a revived Black Dwarf and Corvus Glaive. The group competed with an alien version of the Lethal Legion formed by Grandmaster in a contest where Earth is the battlefield.

Powers and abilities
Proxima Midnight possesses the typical attributes of a super powered individual including superhuman strength, speed, endurance and durability. Being able to survive planetary reentry without injury, she was also a master combatant and owned a spear created from a star trapped in a quantum singularity by Thanos himself.

The spear is capable of drastic harm based on how it is thrown and who it is used against, becoming a multi-pronged lance of poisonous energy that follows their target, never missing. Said force was fatal to whomever it pierced, killing the victim in minutes. It could revert to star form, gaining infinite mass which weighed down prey in an energy entanglement. This effect could even bind and revert an enraged Hulk back to Bruce Banner upon removal.

In other media

Television
 Proxima Midnight appears in Avengers Assemble, voiced by Kari Wahlgren.
 Proxima Midnight appears in Guardians of the Galaxy, voiced again by Kari Wahlgren. While initially a member of the Black Order, she later becomes a member of the Universal Believers.

Marvel Cinematic Universe
Proxima Midnight appears in media set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with Carrie Coon providing the voice and facial capture of the character. Stuntwoman Monique Ganderton also physically portrayed her through motion capture.

 She is introduced in the live-action film Avengers: Infinity War. She is a member of the Black Order and assists her father Thanos in finding the Infinity Stones. While attempting to claim the Mind Stone, she and her husband Corvus Glaive attack Wanda Maximoff and Vision. However, they are repelled by Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanoff, and Sam Wilson. During a second attempt, Midnight attempts to kill Maximoff, only to be stopped by Romanoff and Okoye before Maximoff kills Midnight.

 An alternate timeline version of Proxima Midnight appears in the live-action film Avengers: Endgame, with Monique Ganderton reprising her role without Carrie Coon due to Midnight having no dialogue. She travels through time with Thanos to stop the Avengers from foiling Thanos' plans. She is disintegrated after Tony Stark uses the Infinity Stones.
 An alternate timeline version of Proxima Midnight appears in the Disney+ animated series What If...?, voiced again by Carrie Coon.

Video games
 Proxima Midnight appeared as a mini-boss and a boss in Marvel Avengers Alliance.
 Proxima Midnight appears as a support character in Marvel Puzzle Quest.
 Proxima Midnight appears as a mini-boss and unlockable playable character in Marvel Contest of Champions.
 Proxima Midnight appears as a boss and unlockable playable character in Marvel Future Fight.
 Proxima Midnight appeared as a boss in Marvel Avengers Academy during the "Return of A-Force" event.
 Proxima Midnight appears as an unlockable playable character in Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2. She is part of the DLC "Marvel's Avengers: Infinity War Movie Level Pack."
 Proxima Midnight appeared as a playable character in Marvel End Time Arena.
 Proxima Midnight appears as a boss in Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order, voiced again by Kari Wahlgren.

References

External links
 Proxima Midnight at the Marvel Wiki

Characters created by Jonathan Hickman
Comics characters introduced in 2013
Female characters in film
Female soldier and warrior characters in comics
Fictional polearm and spearfighters
Marvel Comics aliens
Marvel Comics characters who can move at superhuman speeds
Marvel Comics characters with superhuman durability or invulnerability
Marvel Comics characters with superhuman strength
Marvel Comics extraterrestrial supervillains
Marvel Comics female supervillains
Marvel Comics film characters


title: Corvus Glaive

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Corvus Glaive is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is a prominent member of the Black Order, a team of aliens who work for Thanos.

The character has made several appearances in media, such as animated television series, video games, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, in which he was portrayed by Michael James Shaw.

Publication history
The character was created by Jonathan Hickman and Jim Cheung and first appeared in Infinity: Free Comic Book Day (May 2013).

The character was described by Hickman as "Thanos' most favored. Corvus is cruel, arrogant and the most loyal of the Black Order. A warrior who betrayed his people and sold his soul to Thanos to pursue a different kind of glory".

Editor Tom Breevort has said:

Fictional character biography
Corvus Glaive is a member of Thanos' Black Order. He was chosen for his mastery in combat and tactical abilities and thus was chosen to lead them. He is also the husband of fellow order member Proxima Midnight. His first order was attacking Earth to please his master. He attacked the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning, but was called away when Ebony Maw found Thanos' son Thane. Corvus was obliterated by Hyperion while Thane overpowered the group and froze Thanos and Proxima in amber. However, due to Corvus' powerful glaive, he was able to revive himself and returned to normal.

Corvus meets up with Namor who frees Proxima and Thanos, and asks that they join his Cabal due to his own anger towards Earth. However, Namor soon found himself hating the Cabal's tactics and vowed to work with the Illuminati to defeat them. Namor himself was betrayed and found himself and the Cabal stuck on an Earth that was to be destroyed. They all managed to escape into the Ultimate Marvel Universe and vowed to get their revenge. They crafted a "life raft" and managed to live past the destruction of all universes. The Cabal ended up on Battleworld where they proceeded to attack the locals. However, God Emperor Doom dispersed the group to the various corners of Battleworld and Corvus and Proxima were imprisoned by Apocalypse.

He managed to return to his own home when the Mainstream Marvel Universe was rebuilt, and proceeded to make his own Black Order, slowly building his army all over the galaxy. However, Thanos returned and the two battled with Corvus' former master as the victor. Not wanting a horrific death by Thanos's cruel hand, Corvus took pieces of his destroyed glaive and killed himself.

Corvus Glaive later returned from the dead when the Black Order was reformed by Challenger with the group also consisting of Black Swan, Ebony Maw, a psychic projection of Supergiant, and a revived Proxima Midnight and Black Dwarf. The group faced off against an alien version of the Lethal Legion formed by Grandmaster in a contest where Earth is the battlefield. He is killed by Rogue, who is enraged by the death of the Human Torch. After the contest is over, Corvus Glaive turns up alive as he and the rest of the Black Order regroup on the planet Angargal. They are approached by Grandmaster who had an offer for them.

Powers and abilities
Corvus possessed the typical attributes of a super powered individual including super strength, speed, endurance, senses and some invulnerability. Corvus' immortality stems from his weapon, a glaive that when remaining in one piece allows him to survive anything, including being obliterated. The glaive itself can slice through any known thing and person in the universe. Corvus himself can recall his weapon to his hand whenever he throws it with a gesture.

In other media

Television
 Corvus Glaive appears in Avengers Assemble, voiced by David Kaye. He serves the Black Order under Thanos.
 Corvus Glaive appears in Guardians of the Galaxy, voiced again by David Kaye.

Marvel Cinematic Universe
Corvus Glaive appears in media set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, voiced and motion-captured by Michael James Shaw.
 Glaive is introduced in the live-action film Avengers: Infinity War. He and the Children of Thanos assist their father Thanos in finding the Infinity Stones. Glaive and his wife Proxima Midnight attempt to retrieve the Mind Stone from Vision, but are defeated by Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanoff, and Sam Wilson. During a second attempt in Wakanda, Glaive infiltrates Shuri's lab to attack Vision again. However, Vision defends himself and knocks Glaive into a window, with both falling into a nearby forest below. Rogers intervenes, but Glaive incapacitates him before Vision kills the latter.
 An alternate timeline version of Glaive appears in the live-action film Avengers: Endgame. He travels with Thanos and his army via the Quantum Realm to stop the Avengers from foiling Thanos' plans, only to be killed in battle by Okoye. His body was then disintegrated after Tony Stark uses the Infinity Stones.
 An alternate timeline version of Glaive appears in the Disney+ animated series What If...? episode "What If... T'Challa Became a Star-Lord?"

Video games
 Corvus Glaive appeared as a mini-boss and a boss in Marvel Avengers Alliance.
 Corvus Glaive appears as a boss and unlockable playable character in Marvel Future Fight.
 Corvus Glaive appears as an unlockable playable character in Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2. He is available through the DLC "Marvel's Avengers: Infinity War Movie Level Pack".
 Corvus Glaive appears as an unlockable playable character in Marvel Contest of Champions. He was also featured as a mini-boss during the story event "Infinity Nightmare".
 Corvus Glaive appears as a support character in Marvel Puzzle Quest.
 Corvus Glaive appeared as a playable character in Marvel End Time Arena.
 Corvus Glaive appears as a boss in Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order, voiced again by David Kaye.

References

External links
Corvus Glaive at the Marvel Wiki

Characters created by Jonathan Hickman
Comics characters introduced in 2013
Fictional characters with immortality
Male film villains
Marvel Comics aliens
Marvel Comics characters who can move at superhuman speeds
Marvel Comics characters with superhuman durability or invulnerability
Marvel Comics characters with superhuman senses
Marvel Comics characters with superhuman strength
Marvel Comics extraterrestrial supervillains
Marvel Comics film characters
Marvel Comics male supervillains


title: Eucosma rigens

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"Eucosma" rigens is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

References

Moths described in 1938
Eucosmini
Endemic fauna of the Democratic Republic of the Congo


title: Marty Quinn (Oklahoma politician)

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Marty Quinn is an American politician in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. He served as a member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives from 2010 to 2014 and as a member of the Oklahoma Senate from 2014 to 2022. In 2022 he was term limited from the Oklahoma Legislature.

Early life
Quinn was born and raised in Dierks, Arkansas. He graduated from Dierks High School in 1977.

Career
Quinn owned an insurance company in Claremore until 2021. He also works as a deacon at the Blue Starr Church of Christ in Claremore, Oklahoma.

Oklahoma House of Representatives
Quinn was first elected to the Oklahoma House of Representatives in 2010. He was re-elected in 2012.

Oklahoma Senate
He announced plans to run for the Oklahoma Senate in 2014. He was an unopposed candidate for the Oklahoma Senate in that year. He was re-elected in 2018.

2022 congressional election
In 2022, Marty Quinn announced his candidacy for Oklahoma's 2nd congressional district in the 2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Oklahoma. Quinn placed 6th in the primary.

Electoral history

References

1969 births
21st-century American politicians
Businesspeople from Oklahoma
Candidates in the 2022 United States House of Representatives elections
Christians from Oklahoma
Living people
Republican Party members of the Oklahoma House of Representatives
Republican Party Oklahoma state senators
People from Claremore, Oklahoma
People from Dierks, Arkansas


The 2014 Women's EuroHockey Indoor Championship was the seventeenth edition of the Women's EuroHockey Indoor Championship, the biennial international women's indoor hockey championship of Europe organized by the European Hockey Federation. It was held from 24 to 26 January 2018 in Prague, Czech Republic.

The Netherlands won the tournament for the first time after defeating Germany 3–0 in the final.

The two bottom ranked teams of the tournament were relegated to the 2016 EuroHockey Indoor Nations Championship II.

Qualified teams
The following teams participated in the 2014 EuroHockey Indoor Nations Championship.

Results

Preliminary round

Pool A

Pool B

Fifth to eighth place classification

Pool C
The points obtained in the preliminary round against the other team are taken over.

First to fourth place classification

Semi-finals

Third place game

Final

Statistics

Final standings

Awards

Goalscorers

See also
2014 Men's EuroHockey Indoor Championship
2014 Women's EuroHockey Indoor Championship II

References

Women's EuroHockey Indoor Championship
International women's indoor hockey competitions hosted by the Czech Republic
EuroHockey Indoor Championship
EuroHockey Indoor Championship
Sports competitions in Prague
EuroHockey Indoor Championship Women
2010s in Prague
Women 1


title: Manigonigo Island

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Manigonigo Island (variously Manigonigo Islet and called Islote de Manigonigo during Spanish rule) is an island in northeastern Iloilo, Philippines. It is one of fourteen islands politically administered by the municipality of Carles. The island's lighthouse was built by the Spanish  during Spanish rule.

Location and geography
Manigonigo Island is  northeast of Panay Island coast in the Visayan Sea,  east of Panay and  west of Nabunot Island. The island is small and flat. Two small rocks, the Anegada Rocks, are  southwest of Manigonigo.

Lighthouse
During Spanish rule of the Philippines, the Spanish built 27 major and 33 minor lighthouses throughout the Philippines, including one on Manigonigo Island. On 6 November 1894, the Spanish government gave notice of their intent to erect a lighthouse on Manigonigo on 15 November that same year. The original tower was a steel tourelle and was prefabricated in France. While the original tower was  high, the current tower is only  high; however, the lighthouse's focal point is still  high, flashing once every seven seconds.

See also
 List of islands in the Philippines
 Lighthouses in the Philippines

References

External links
 Manigonigo Island at OpenStreetMap

islands of Iloilo


title: Gaylord (given name)

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Gaylord is a name of Norman French origin, from the Old French gaillard meaning "joyful" or "high-spirited".  People with the given name of Gaylord include the following:

Arts and entertainment

Music
 Gaylord Birch (1946–1996), drummer for the bands Santana, Cold Blood, Pointer Sisters & Herbie Hancock
 Gaylord Carter (1905–2000), American organist and the composer of many film scores
 Gaylord Yost (1888–1958), violinist, composer, and teacher

Writing
 Gaylord J. Clarke (1836–1870), American newspaper editor, lawyer, poet and politician
 Gaylord DuBois (1899–1993), American writer of comic book stories, comic strips, Big Little Books, and juvenile adventure novels
 Gaylord Larsen (born 1932), American crime writer
 Gaylord Shaw (1942–2015), American journalist

Other arts and entertainment
 Gaylord Lloyd (1888–1943), American actor and assistant director, brother of Harold Lloyd
 Gaylord Schanilec (born 1955), American wood engraver and printer

Government
 Gaylord Kent Conrad (born 1948), United States Senator from North Dakota from 1987 to 1992, and again from 1992 to 2013.
 Gaylord Graves (1804–1889), member of the Wisconsin State Assembly
 Gaylord Griswold (1767–1809), United States Representative from New York
 Gaylord Nelson (1916–2005), American politician from Wisconsin and the founder of Earth Day
 Gaylord T. Gunhus (1940–2016), retired American Army officer and 20th Chief of Chaplains of the United States Army

Sports
 Gaylord Bryan (1927–2015), male long and triple jumper from the United States
 (born 1980), French gymnast
 Gaylord Perry (1938–2022), American Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher
 Gaylord Powless (1946–2001), Mohawk lacrosse player
 Gaylord Silly (born 1986), French-Seychellois long-distance runner
 Gaylord Stinchcomb (1895–1973), American football player

Other fields
 Gaylord Granville Bennett (bishop) (1882–1975), American bishop
 Gaylord Donnelley (1911–1992), owner and board member of R. R. Donnelley
 Gaylord Harnwell (1903–1982), American educator and physicist
 George Gaylord Simpson (1902–1984), paleontologist
 Gaylord K. Swim (1948–2005), American businessman
 Gaylord Starin White (1864–1931), American social reformer and activist
 Gaylord Wilshire (1861–1927), land developer, publisher and outspoken socialist

See also
 Gaylord (disambiguation)
 Galliard (disambiguation)
 Gaillard (disambiguation)
 Gayelord Hauser (1895–1984)

References

English-language masculine given names
English masculine given names
Masculine given names


title: Gun Lake Trust Land Reaffirmation Act

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The Gun Lake Trust Land Reaffirmation Act () is an act of Congress that reaffirmed the status of lands taken into trust by the Department of the Interior (DOI) for the benefit of the Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians in the state of Michigan.

The bill was introduced and passed during the 113th United States Congress and became federal law on September 26, 2014 when signed by President Barack Obama. In 2018, the Supreme Court of the United States affirmed the law's constitutionality in Patchak v. Zinke.

Background
In 2009, the Supreme Court held in Carcieri v. Salazar that the term "now under Federal jurisdiction" referred only to tribes that were federally recognized when the Indian Reorganization Act became law, and the federal government could not take land into trust from tribes that were recognized after 1934. This act clarified that the Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band's land trust could not be challenged in court under the Carcieri decision.

Provisions of the bill
This summary is based largely on the summary provided by the Congressional Research Service, a public domain source.

The Gun Lake Trust Land Reaffirmation Act ratifies and confirms the actions of the Secretary of the Interior in taking specified land into trust for the benefit of the Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians.

The act reaffirms that land as trust land.

The act prohibits an action relating to that land from being filed or maintained in a federal court.

Congressional Budget Office report
This summary is based largely on the summary provided by the Congressional Budget Office, as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs on May 21, 2014. This is a public domain source.

S. 1603 reaffirms the status of lands taken into trust by the Department of the Interior (DOI) for the benefit of the Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians in the state of Michigan. The legislation also prohibits any lawsuits related to the trust land. In 2012, the Supreme Court ruled that DOI lacked the authority to take nearly 150 acres into trust.

Based on information provided by DOI, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that implementing the legislation would have no significant effect on the federal budget. The legislation would not significantly increase the cost of managing tribal trust lands. The act would not affect direct spending or revenues; therefore, pay-as-you-go procedures do not apply.

The act contains an intergovernmental and private-sector mandate as defined in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act (UMRA) because it ends rights of action for public and private entities that are currently able to pursue legal actions related to the land held in trust for the Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians. The act prohibits any action relating to the trust land from being brought or maintained in a federal court. The cost of the mandate would be any forgone compensation that would have been awarded through legal actions.

The state of Michigan and several local governments have entered into an agreement with the tribe related to the use of the land, and CBO believes it is unlikely that, without the act, any other public entity would bring an action that would result in significant compensation. Therefore, CBO estimated the cost of the intergovernmental mandate would not exceed the annual threshold established in UMRA for such mandates ($76 million, in 2014, adjusted annually for inflation).

Private entities, however, have no such agreement, and the bill would extinguish all rights to legal actions relating to the trust lands. Awards in such claims are in many cases limited to the value of the land. Because of the commercial properties located on the trust land, the value of awards related to those lands could be significant. However, because both the number of claims that could be barred or terminated and the value of forgone compensation stemming from those claims were uncertain, CBO had no basis for estimating the cost of the mandate. Therefore, CBO could not determine whether the cost of the private-sector mandate would exceed the annual threshold established in UMRA for such mandates ($152 million, in 2014, adjusted annually for inflation).

Procedural history
The Gun Lake Trust Land Reaffirmation Act was introduced into the United States Senate on October 29, 2013 by Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D, MI). The bill was referred to the United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. The committee held a hearing about the bill on May 7, 2014. On June 19, 2014, the Senate voted to pass the bill with unanimous consent. On September 16, 2014, the House of Representatives voted 359-64 to pass the bill. President Barack Obama signed the bill into law on September 26, 2014.

See also
 Patchak v. Zinke: U.S. Supreme Court case finding the law to be constitutional
List of bills in the 113th United States Congress

References

External links

Library of Congress - Thomas S. 1603
beta.congress.gov S. 1603
GovTrack.us S. 1603
OpenCongress.org S. 1603
WashingtonWatch.com S. 1603
Congressional Budget Office's report on S. 1603

Acts of the 113th United States Congress
Legal history of Michigan
Potawatomi
Allegan County, Michigan


title: Ferras (EP)

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Ferras is the second extended play by American recording artist Ferras. It was released on June 17, 2014 in the United States and Canada through Capitol Records and Metamorphosis Music. The album follows the release of his debut album Aliens & Rainbows (2008) which reached 97 on the Billboard 200. The extended play is the first to be released by Unsub Records, a record label founded by Katy Perry in 2014.

Track listing

Source:

References

2014 EPs
Capitol Records EPs


title: Souvankham Thammavongsa

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Souvankham Thammavongsa is a Laotian Canadian poet and short story writer. In 2019, she won an O. Henry Award for her short story, "Slingshot", which was published in Harper's Magazine, and in 2020 her short story collection How to Pronounce Knife won the Giller Prize.

Life
Thammavongsa was born in the Lao refugee camp in Nong Khai, Thailand in 1978. She and her parents were sponsored by a family in Canada when she was one year old. She was raised and educated in Toronto, Ontario.

She has never taken an MFA course, and says that she has learned to write by reading. Some of her favorite authors are Alice Munro, Carson McCullers, Flannery O’Connor, and Tennessee Williams.

Her first book, Small Arguments, won a ReLit Award in 2004. Her second book, Found, was made into a short film by Paramita Nath. Her third book, Light, won the Trillium Book Award for Poetry in 2014. Her short story "How to Pronounce Knife" was shortlisted for the 2015 Commonwealth Short Story Prize out of 4,000 entries. In 2016, two of her stories, "Mani Pedi" and "Paris," were longlisted for the Journey Prize.

Her first short story collection, How to Pronounce Knife, was published in 2020. Australian literary critic Kerryn Goldsworthy wrote of the stories that "their language is economical but they are emotional timebombs." In the book, she draws upon her childhood as the daughter of Laotian immigrants to tell fourteen stories, each an exploration of foreignness and belonging. The book was shortlisted for the Giller Prize, and won the award on November 9, 2020. In 2021, the book was awarded the $20,000 (Canadian) Trillium Book Award, and was a shortlisted finalist for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award in 2021.

Thammavongsa was a judge for the 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize. She was guest editor for 2021 Best Canadian Poetry (Biblioasis).

Works

Poetry collections
 Small Arguments (Pedlar Press, 2003)
 Found (Pedlar Press, 2007)
 Light (Pedlar Press, 2013)
 Cluster (McClelland & Stewart/Penguin Random House, 2019)

Short stories
 "Ewwrrrkk" (Joyland Magazine, 2015)
 "Mani Pedi" (The Puritan, 2015)
 How to Pronounce Knife.  (Granta, #141 special Canada, 2017, pp 168 – 173, with a photo of her and her family 1983)
 How to Pronounce Knife. Stories. Penguin (2020, 192 pp)
 "Good-Looking" (The New Yorker, 2021)

References

1978 births
Canadian women poets
21st-century Canadian poets
Canadian writers of Asian descent
Canadian people of Laotian descent
Living people
Writers from Toronto
21st-century Canadian women writers
Laotian women writers
21st-century Canadian short story writers
Canadian women short story writers
Laotian poets
Laotian short story writers
Laotian women poets


title: Frederic Bonney

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Frederic Bonney (1842–1921) was a British landowner and photographer. He took photographs at Momba Station in New South Wales in the 1870s and he was known for these and his anthropology. He was born and died in Rugeley, Staffordshire.

Life
Bonney was the son of the Reverend Thomas Bonney, headmaster of Rugeley Grammar School. His brothers included Edward Smith Bonney and Thomas George Bonney, who was an academic geologist. He went to school at Marlborough College. His uncle, Charles Bonney, visited England from Australia in 1858 to 1862. Encouraged by his uncle, he and his brother, Edward, travelled to Australia.

Edward went to Australia first and Frederic joined him in 1865 at Momba Station in New South Wales, near Wilcannia. In the late 1860s Momba had an area of . Charles Dickens' son, Plorn, was sent by his father to Momba Station and he arrived a few days before his sixteenth birthday in 1868. He worked as a stockman at Momba until 1872.

Bonney's occupation was as a grazier but his hobby was photography and anthropology. He took many pictures of the Paakantyi people who had traditionally lived along the Paroo River. These people had been devastated by disease and the invasion by foreign immigrants. Bonney's attitude to these people was not as judgmental as many and he took natural pictures which recorded their lives. He was shocked by the racist views of others and he recorded his respect for the "loyalty and integrity" of the native Australians. Bonney's pictures have been published recently and in his time they were exhibited at the Melbourne Exhibition in 1880. Bonney's pictures of Wonko Mary record a mourning tradition—Wonko Mary is shown with a "widow's cap" which she has made from gypsum (kopi) and water, and has moulded to her head.

Edward became ill with terminal syphilis and he returned home in 1879. Frederic had to tidy up their affairs but he also took the opportunity to complete his anthropological and photographic studies. Frederic sold Momba station and he returned to Staffordshire in 1881. He travelled back the long way and he visited Hawaii where he again took photographs during a month there.

Once he was back in his home county he bought Colton House in Rugeley. He established gardens and an arboretum at his house. He continued to record local events using photography (many of these pictures are held in a collection at Colton House). He became chair of the parish council and bred show pigeons. Bonney also volunteered to manage his local hospital and the village reading room.

Legacy
Bonney recorded some important images through his enthusiasm for photography. Some of his original images have been lost, but his work has been published in two books and they include photographs of the Paakantyi people. Unusually for his time, he wrote the people's names on the back of his photographs, and these can be cross-referenced to his notebooks. This information can reveal connections to Paakantyi families living today.

Photographs
Bonney's Australian photographs are held in the State Library of NSW (Mitchell Library) and the Australian National Library, and Colton House holds another collection. His collection of Australian artefacts were kept at his house in England and some of these later went into collections at the University of Cambridge.

Manuscripts
Bonney's important manuscript notebooks, and a copy of his published article, 'On some customs of the Aborigines of the River Darling, New South Wales', were donated to the Mitchell Library in 1924. This paper is still cited.

A book, People of the Paroo, by Jeannette Hope and Robert Lindsay, has been published, containing all Bonney's surviving Australian pictures. Some of these have only recently been identified.

References

1842 births
1921 deaths
20th-century British landowners
Photographers from Staffordshire
People from Rugeley


title: Richard Whitelegh

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Richard Whitelegh (fl. 1362–1394) of Osborn Newton in Churchstow, Devon, was an English politician.

He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Totnes in 1362 and 1394, and for Dartmouth in 1368 and 1386.

References

Year of birth missing
Year of death missing
English MPs 1362
High Sheriffs of Devon
English MPs 1394
English MPs 1368
English MPs 1386
Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for Totnes
Members of the Parliament of England for Dartmouth


title: Adji Ahmat

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Adji Ahmat is a former Chadian professional football player. He made one appearance for the Chad national football team.

See also
 List of Chad international footballers

References

External links

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Chadian men's footballers
Chad men's international footballers
Place of birth missing (living people)
Men's association football midfielders


title: Zetland Gold Cup

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The Zetland Gold Cup is a flat Handicap horse race in Great Britain open to horses aged three-year-old and up. It is run at Redcar over a distance of 1 mile 2 furlongs and 1 yard (2,013 metres), and it is scheduled to take place each year at the end of May or beginning of June.

Winners since 1988

See also
 Horse racing in Great Britain
 List of British flat horse races

References

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Open middle distance horse races
Flat races in Great Britain
Redcar Racecourse


title: Traces Screen Printing Ltd.

text:
Traces Screen Printing Ltd.  is recognized for its environmental practice and stewardship in the Region of Waterloo for its use of chemicals that are drain-safe, non-carcinogenic, air-safe, and water-safe.  The company is also devoted to “reduce, re-use, recycle” in all facets of its operations.

Environmental stewardship and recognition
In 1995, Traces Screen Printing Ltd. was featured in a short film produced by Jangles Productions and sponsored by the Municipal Waste Association entitled ”Stop Waste From Adding Up”.

The company’s dedication to protecting and sustaining the environment has been recognized both locally and regionally:

2004 – “Business Excellence Award: Environmental”, Greater Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber of Commerce

2001 – “Environmental Sustainability Award”, Regional Municipality of Waterloo
1995 – “Environment Award”, Regional Municipality of Waterloo

1994 – “Environmental Achievement Award”, Greater Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber of Commerce

Company Profile
Traces Screen Printing Ltd. was started in [Waterloo, Ontario] in October 1985 by Tracey Johnston-Aldworth with the help of her father Murray Johnston, a retired engineer and business owner, and her sister, Susan Tata, a model and actress who had recently returned from Los Angeles.  Today, Tracey Johnston-Aldworth is the sole owner of the company which is known for its devotion to the environment, energy conservation, and the community.

References

Companies based in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo
Screen printing
Service companies of Canada


title: Mahamat Alhadj

text:
Mahamat Alhadj (born 11 August 1978) is a former Chadian professional football player. He made three appearances for the Chad national football team.

See also
 List of Chad international footballers

References

External links

1978 births
Living people
Chadian men's footballers
Chad men's international footballers
Place of birth missing (living people)
Men's association football midfielders


title: Robert French (English MP)

text:
Robert French (fl. 1377–1386) of Totnes, Devon was an English politician.

He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Totnes in January 1377, November 1384, 1385 and 1386. He married Anne Winard, daughter and heiress of Robert Winard of Sharpham in the parish of Ashprington in Devon.

References

Year of birth missing
Year of death missing
14th-century births
15th-century deaths
English MPs January 1377
Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for Totnes
English MPs November 1384
English MPs 1385
English MPs 1386


title: 2014 Women's EuroHockey Indoor Championship III

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The 2014 Women's EuroHockey Indoor Nations Championship - Division III was the lowest division of EuroHockey Indoor Nations Championship, that was played on January 24–26, 2014 in Poreč, Croatia. The winner got promoted to 2016 Women's EuroHockey Indoor Nations Championship - Division II.

Results

Group stage

Bronze final

Gold final

Final ranking

References

2014
International women's field hockey competitions hosted by Croatia
2014 in Croatian women's sport
2014 in women's field hockey
WOmen 3


title: 2014 NCAA Division I FBS football rankings

text:
Two human polls and a committee's selections comprised the 2014 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) football rankings, in addition to various publications' preseason polls. Unlike most sports, college football's governing body, the NCAA, does not bestow a national championship. Various unofficial titles are bestowed by different polling agencies. Two primary weekly polls began before the season—the AP Poll and the Coaches Poll. Midway through the season, the College Football Playoff (CFP) rankings were released after the eighth week.

2014 was the first season with the new College Football Playoff system which replaced the previous Bowl Championship Series. At the conclusion of the regular season, on December 7, the final CFP rankings determined who would play in the two bowl games designated as semifinals for the first College Football Playoff National Championship on January 12, 2015, at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.

Legend

AP Poll

Coaches Poll

CFP rankings

References

Rankings
Rankings
NCAA Division I FBS football rankings


title: Bangladeshi cricket team in Pakistan in 2007–08

text:
The Bangladeshi national cricket team visited Pakistan in April 2008 and played a five-match Limited Overs International (LOI) series which Pakistan won 5–0. Bangladesh were captained by Mohammad Ashraful and Pakistan by Shoaib Malik.

References

2008 in Bangladeshi cricket
2008 in Pakistani cricket
Bangladeshi cricket tours of Pakistan
International cricket competitions in 2007–08
Pakistani cricket seasons from 2000–01


title: 2014–15 Panathinaikos F.C. season

text:
The 2014–15 season is the Panathinaikos' 56th consecutive season in Super League Greece.

They are also competing in the Greek Cup, UEFA Champions League and in the UEFA Europa League.

Players

Transfers

In

Total spending: €0

Out

Total income:  €2,200,000

Expenditure:   €2,200,000

Pre-season and friendlies

Competitions

Super League Greece

Regular season

League table

Matches

The sixth game, against Panetolikos F.C, which was originally scheduled for October 5, will be held on 4 December.
The eleventh game, against Ergotelis F.C, which was originally scheduled for November 23, will be held on 11 January 2015.
The sixteenth game, against PAS Giannina, started on 4 January 2015 but it stopped due fog. The game continued on 5 January 2015 (time 15:00).

UEFA play-offs

League table

Matches

Greek Cup

Group H

Third round

UEFA Champions League

Qualifying phase

Third qualifying round

UEFA Europa League

Play-off round

Group E

Season statistics (only official games have included)

Top goalscorers

References

External links
 Panathinaikos FC official website

Panathinaikos
Panathinaikos F.C. seasons


title: Alema Nature Reserve

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Alema Nature Reserve is a nature reserve situated in northern Estonia, in Harju County.

The nature reserve has been established to protect the 18 species of orchid identified as existing within the area. There is no other nature reserve in Estonia dedicated only to the protection of orchids. In addition, several carnivorous plants are known to grow within Alema nature reserve, such as common butterwort, sundew and bladderwort. For the convenience of visitors, a trail has been prepared in the nature reserve.

References

Nature reserves in Estonia
Saue Parish


title: Davenport chained rotations

text:
In physics and engineering, Davenport chained rotations are three chained intrinsic rotations about body-fixed specific axes. Euler rotations and Tait–Bryan rotations are particular cases of the Davenport general rotation decomposition. The angles of rotation are called Davenport angles because the general problem of decomposing a rotation in a sequence of three was studied first by Paul B. Davenport.

The non-orthogonal rotating coordinate system may be imagined to be rigidly attached to a rigid body. In this case, it is sometimes called a local coordinate system. Given that rotation axes are solidary with the moving body, the generalized rotations can be divided into two groups (here x, y and z refer to the non-orthogonal moving frame):

 Generalized Euler rotations
 Generalized Tait–Bryan rotations .

Most of the cases belong to the second group, given that the generalized Euler rotations are a degenerated case in which first and third axes are overlapping.

Davenport rotation theorem

The general problem of decomposing a rotation into three composed movements about intrinsic axes was studied by P. Davenport, under the name "generalized Euler angles", but later these angles were named "Davenport angles" by M. Shuster and L. Markley.

The general problem consists of obtaining the matrix decomposition of a rotation given the three known axes. In some cases one of the axes is repeated. This problem is equivalent to a decomposition problem of matrices.

Davenport proved that any orientation can be achieved by composing three elemental rotations using non-orthogonal axes. The elemental rotations can either occur about the axes of the fixed coordinate system (extrinsic rotations) or about the axes of a rotating coordinate system, which is initially aligned with the fixed one and modifies its orientation after each elemental rotation (intrinsic rotations).

According to the Davenport theorem, a unique decomposition is possible if and only if the second axis is perpendicular to the other two axes. Therefore, axes 1 and 3 must be in the plane orthogonal to axis 2.

Therefore, decompositions in Euler chained rotations and Tait–Bryan chained rotations are particular cases of this. The Tait–Bryan case appears when axes 1 and 3 are perpendicular, and the Euler case appears when they are overlapping.

Complete system of rotations

A set of Davenport rotations is said to be complete if it is enough to generate any rotation of the space by composition. Speaking in matrix terms, it is complete if it can generate any orthonormal matrix of the space, whose determinant is +1. Due to the non-commutativity of the matrix product, the rotation system must be ordered.

Sometimes the order is imposed by the geometry of the underlying problem. For example, when used for vehicles, which have a special axis pointing to the "forward" direction, only one of the six possible combinations of rotations is useful. The interesting composition is the one able to control the heading and the elevation of the aircraft with one independent rotation each.

In the adjacent drawing, the yaw, pitch and roll (YPR) composition allows adjustment of the direction of an aircraft with the two first angles. A different composition like YRP would allow establishing the direction of the wings axis, which is obviously not useful in most cases.

Tait–Bryan chained rotations

Tait–Bryan rotations are a special case in which the first and third axes are perpendicular among them. Assuming a reference frame  with a convention as in image 2, and a plane with  axes like in the image 3, lying horizontal on the plane  in the beginning, after performing intrinsic rotations Y, P and R in the yaw, pitch and roll axes (in this order) we obtain something similar to image 4.

In the beginning :

 the plane roll axis is on axis x of the reference frame
 the plane pitch axis is on axis y of the reference frame
 the plane yaw axis is on axis z of the reference frame

The rotations are applied in order yaw, pitch and roll. In these conditions, the Heading (angle on the horizontal plane) will be equal to the yaw applied, and the Elevation will be equal to the pitch.

Matrix expressions for the three Tait–Bryan rotations in 3 dimensions are:

The matrix of the composed rotations is

Of the six possible combinations of yaw, pitch and roll, this combination is the only one in which the heading (direction of the roll axis) is equal to one of the rotations (the yaw), and the elevation (angle of the roll axis with the horizontal plane) is equal to other of the rotations (to the pitch).

Euler chained rotations

Euler rotations appear as the special case in which the first and third axes of rotations are overlapping. These Euler rotations are related to the proper Euler angles, which were thought to study the movement of a rigid body such as a planet. The angle to define the direction of the roll axis is normally named "longitude of the revolution axis" or "longitude of the line of nodes" instead of "heading", which makes no sense for a planet.

Anyway, Euler rotations can still be used when speaking about a vehicle, though they will have a weird behavior. As the vertical axis is the origin for the angles, it is named "inclination" instead of "elevation". As before, describing the attitude of a vehicle, there is an axis considered pointing forward, and therefore only one out of the possible combinations of rotations will be useful.

The combination depends on how the axis are taken and what the initial position of the plane is. Using the one in the drawing, and combining rotations in such a way that an axis is repeated, only roll–pitch–roll will allow controlling the longitude and the inclination with one rotation each.

The three matrices to multiply are:

In this convention Roll1 imposes the "heading", Pitch is the "inclination" (complementary of the elevation), and Roll2 imposes the "tilt".

Conversion to extrinsic rotations

Davenport rotations are usually studied as an intrinsic rotation composition, because of the importance of the axes fixed to a moving body, but they can be converted to an extrinsic rotation composition, in case it could be more intuitive.

Any extrinsic rotation is equivalent to an intrinsic rotation by the same angles but with inverted order of elemental rotations, and vice versa. For instance, the intrinsic rotations x-y’-z″ by angles α, β, γ are equivalent to the extrinsic rotations z-y-x by angles γ, β, α. Both are represented by a matrix

if R is used to pre-multiply column vectors, and by a matrix

if R is used to post-multiply row vectors. See Ambiguities in the definition of rotation matrices for more details.

Relationship with physical motions

Intrinsic rotations

Intrinsic rotations are elemental rotations that occur about the axes of the rotating coordinate system XYZ, which changes its orientation after each elemental rotation. The XYZ system rotates, while xyz is fixed. Starting with XYZ overlapping xyz, a composition of three intrinsic rotations can be used to reach any target orientation for XYZ. The Euler or Tait-Bryan angles (α, β, γ) are the amplitudes of these elemental rotations. For instance, the target orientation can be reached as follows:

 The XYZ system rotates  by α about the Z axis (which coincides with the z axis). The X axis now lies on the line of nodes.
 The XYZ system rotates about the now rotated X axis by β. The Z axis is now in its final orientation, and the X axis remains on the line of nodes.
 The XYZ system rotates a third time about the new Z axis by γ.

The above-mentioned notation allows us to summarize this as follows: the three elemental rotations of the XYZ-system occur about z, x’ and z″. Indeed, this sequence is often denoted z-x’-z″. Sets of rotation axes associated with both proper Euler angles and Tait-Bryan angles are commonly named using this notation (see above for details). Sometimes, the same sequence is simply called z-x-z, Z-X-Z, or 3-1-3, but this notation may be ambiguous as it may be identical to that used for extrinsic rotations. In this case, it becomes necessary to separately specify whether the rotations are intrinsic or extrinsic.

Rotation matrices can be used to represent a sequence of intrinsic rotations. For instance,

represents a composition of intrinsic rotations about axes x-y’-z″, if used to pre-multiply column vectors, while

represents exactly the same composition when used to post-multiply row vectors. See Ambiguities in the definition of rotation matrices for more details.

Extrinsic rotations

Extrinsic rotations are elemental rotations that occur about the axes of the fixed coordinate system xyz. The XYZ system rotates, while xyz is fixed. Starting with XYZ overlapping xyz, a composition of three extrinsic rotations can be used to reach any target orientation for XYZ. The Euler or Tait-Bryan angles (α, β, γ) are the amplitudes of these elemental rotations. For instance, the target orientation can be reached as follows:

 The XYZ system rotates about the z axis by α. The X axis is now at angle α with respect to the x axis.
 The XYZ system rotates again about the x axis by β. The Z axis is now at angle β with respect to the z axis.
 The XYZ system rotates a third time about the z axis by γ.

In sum, the three elemental rotations occur about z, x and z. Indeed, this sequence is often denoted z-x-z (or 3-1-3). Sets of rotation axes associated with both proper Euler angles and Tait–Bryan angles are commonly named using this notation (see above for details).

Rotation matrices can be used to represent a sequence of extrinsic rotations. For instance,

represents a composition of extrinsic rotations about axes x-y-z, if used to pre-multiply column vectors, while

represents exactly the same composition when used to post-multiply row vectors. See Ambiguities in the definition of rotation matrices for more details.

Conversion between intrinsic and extrinsic rotations

Any extrinsic rotation is equivalent to an intrinsic rotation by the same angles but with inverted order of elemental rotations, and vice versa. For instance, the intrinsic rotations x-y’-z″ by angles α, β, γ are equivalent to the extrinsic rotations z-y-x by angles γ, β, α. Both are represented by a matrix

if R is used to pre-multiply column vectors, and by a matrix

if R is used to post-multiply row vectors. See Ambiguities in the definition of rotation matrices for more details.

The proof of the conversion in the pre-multiply case
The rotation matrix of the intrinsic rotation sequence x-y’-z″ can be obtained by the sequential intrinsic element rotations from the right to the left:

In this process there are three frames related in the intrinsic rotation sequence. Let's denote the frame 0 as the initial frame, the frame 1 after the first rotation around the x axis, the frame 2 after the second rotation around the y’ axis, and the frame 3 as the third rotation around z″  axis.

Since a rotation matrix can be represented among these three frames, let's use the left shoulder index to denote the representation frame. The following notation means the rotation matrix that transforms the frame a to the frame b and that is represented in the frame c :

An intrinsic element rotation matrix represented in that frame where the rotation happens has the same value as that of the corresponding extrinsic element rotation matrix:

The intrinsic element rotation matrix Y’ and Z″  represented in the frame 0 can be expressed as other forms:

The two equations above are substituted to the first equation:

Therefore, the rotation matrix of an intrinsic element rotation sequence is the same as that of the inverse extrinsic element rotation sequence:

See also

Matrix decomposition
Givens rotation

References

Rotation in three dimensions
Euclidean symmetries
Angle
Aerodynamics


title: Miguel Nunes

text:
Miguel Nunes (born 11 August 1976) is a Portuguese sailor. Together with Álvaro Marinho he competed in the 470 at four Olympics from 2000 to 2012. His best result was at the 2000 Summer Olympics where he finished fifth.

References

External links

1976 births
Living people
Portuguese male sailors (sport)
Olympic sailors for Portugal
Sailors at the 2000 Summer Olympics – 470
Sailors at the 2004 Summer Olympics – 470
Sailors at the 2008 Summer Olympics – 470
Sailors at the 2012 Summer Olympics – 470
21st-century Portuguese people


title: Scleria foliosa

text:
Scleria foliosa is a plant in the family Cyperaceae. It grows as an annual or perennial.

Distribution and habitat
Scleria foliosa grows widely in Africa and is also found in Madagascar. One instance has been reported from India's Karnataka state. Its habitat is seasonal wet areas and shaded areas near water.

References

foliosa
Flora of West Tropical Africa
Flora of Ethiopia
Flora of East Tropical Africa
Flora of Burundi
Flora of Angola
Flora of Zimbabwe
Flora of Southern Africa
Flora of Madagascar
Flora of Karnataka
Plants described in 1850


title: Bangladeshi cricket team in Pakistan in 2003–04

text:
The Bangladeshi national cricket team visited Pakistan in August to September 2003 and played a three-match Test series against the Pakistani national cricket team. Pakistan won the Test series 3–0. Bangladesh were captained by Khaled Mahmud and Pakistan by Rashid Latif. In addition, the teams played a five-match Limited Overs International (LOI) series which Pakistan won 5–0.

Test series summary
 1st Test at National Stadium, Karachi – Pakistan won by 7 wickets
 2nd Test at Arbab Niaz Stadium, Peshawar – Pakistan won by 9 wickets
 3rd Test at Multan Cricket Stadium, Multan – Pakistan won by 1 wicket

References

2003 in Bangladeshi cricket
2003 in Pakistani cricket
Bangladeshi cricket tours of Pakistan
International cricket competitions in 2003–04
Pakistani cricket seasons from 2000–01


title: Teen Choice Award for Choice TV Actor Drama

text:
The following is a list of Teen Choice Award winners and nominees for the Choice TV Actor – Drama award, which was formerly known as the Choice TV Actor – Action/Drama award.

Winners and nominees

1990s

2000s

2010s

References

Drama Actor


title: I've Got a Dream

text:
"I've Got a Dream" is a song written by composer Alan Menken and lyricist Glenn Slater from Disney's 2010 animated feature film, Tangled. It is performed by Brad Garrett, Jeffrey Tambor, Mandy Moore and Zachary Levi.

Synopsis
I've Got a Dream is performed by the threatening and masculine patrons at a seedy pub known as "The Snuggly Duckling" who initially intimidate Rapunzel and Flynn Rider after recognizing Flynn as a wanted fugitive, however the patrons, led by Hook Hand, eventually subvert expectations by revealing their dreams and passions to Rapunzel, who, in turn, reveals her dream of watching the floating lanterns in person. This endears her to them, and as royal guards arrive, the patrons help Rapunzel and Flynn escape the pub through a secret passage.

Critical reception
ComingSoon said the song was "memorable for the silly barbarians". In regard to the lyrics quality of the song, for example "rhym[ing]
'femurs' and 'dreamers' and has a line that goes, 'I’ve got scars and lumps and bruises/plus something here that oozes'", Vulture commented: "Very nice". On the men's desires, BitchFlicks wrote "Even tough guys have nuance and feminine qualities!". The Independent Critic deemed it "very Enchanted like" The Dive Review said "If Tangled’s laughs resemble anything, it’s probably closest to the absurd, surreal comedy of Monty Python’s Flying Circus, particularly moments like the big "I’ve Got a Dream" production number". TheScoreCard wrote ""I’ve got a dream" is the only song I will be able to remember. I appreciate it even if it's grammatically incorrect. It's fast and fun. It reminds me of "Gaston" from Beauty and the Beast". The site also said it was the best scene. WeAreMovieGeeks wrote "Luckily "I’ve Got a Dream" is livened up by some great animation of the forest thugs. I found it distracting that these medieval folks were using modern phrases like "downer" and "freak-out". Perhaps I'm nitpicking too much." FilmTracks wrote " At least there's no yodeling in "I've Got a Dream" (behold Home on the Range for that pleasure), and Moore's contribution actually works well when mixed with all the colorful secondary voices."

Certifications

References

External links

 Sing-along video from Disney's official YouTube channel

2010 songs
Songs about dreams
Songs from Tangled
Songs with music by Alan Menken
Songs with lyrics by Glenn Slater
Song recordings produced by Alan Menken


title: Gödel operation

text:
In mathematical set theory, a set of Gödel operations is a finite collection of operations on sets that can be used to construct the constructible sets from ordinals.  introduced the original set of 8 Gödel operations 𝔉1,...,𝔉8 under the name fundamental operations. Other authors sometimes use a slightly different set of about 8 to 10 operations, usually denoted G1, G2,...

Definition

 used the following eight operations as a set of Gödel operations (which he called fundamental operations):

The second expression in each line gives Gödel's definition in his original notation, where the dot means intersection, V is the universe, E is the membership relation, and so on.

 uses the following set of 10 Gödel operations.

Properties

Gödel's normal form theorem states that if φ(x1,...xn) is a formula in the language of set theory with all quantifiers bounded, then the function {(x1,...,xn) ∈ X1×...×Xn | φ(x1, ..., xn)) of X1, ..., Xn is given by a composition of some Gödel operations. This result is closely related to Jensen's rudimentary functions.

References

Inline references

Constructible universe


title: John Edwin Hilary Skinner

text:
John Edwin Hilary Skinner (1839–1894) was an English barrister and journalist, known as a war correspondent.

Life
The elder son of Allen Maclean Skinner, Q.C., and a descendant of Matthew Skinner, was born in London in January 1839, and educated at London University, where he graduated LL.D. in 1861. In the same year he was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn, and went the northern circuit.

A good linguist, he obtained a commission from the Daily News as special correspondent with the Danish Army in the Second Schleswig War. He was present during the campaign down to the Battle of Als at the end of June, when Christian IX of Denmark presented him with the Dannebrog order. He visited America, and then reported the Austro-Prussian War of 1866.

In 1867 Skinner ran the blockade into Crete, then part of the Ottoman Empire. During the Franco-Prussian war of 1870, he was attached to the staff of the Crown Prince of Prussia's staff, and described the war from the battle of Wörth to the battle of Sedan. He carried his account of the decisive battle from Donchery, near Sedan, to London, riding neck and neck with William Howard Russell of The Times, and crossing from Ostend in the same boat. Their stories appeared simultaneously on 6 September, having been anticipated only in the Pall Mall Gazette.

For a short time, in the spring of 1881, Skinner was assistant judicial commissioner in Cyprus. In 1885 he unsuccessfully contested the constituency of  against Lord Randolph Churchill.

Skinner died at Sétif in Algeria, where he had gone for his health, early in November 1894.

Works
Skinner wrote:

The Tale of Danish Heroism (London, 1865) attempted to deal with the Schleswig-Holstein question.
After the Storm (London, 1866), dealing with the United States, Canada (of which he advocated the independence), and Mexico.
Roughing it in Crete (London, 1867), advocating the cession of Crete to Greece.
Turkish Rule in Crete in the Eastern Question Association papers (No. ix. 1877), against Turkish government.

Notes

Attribution

1839 births
1894 deaths
English barristers
English male journalists
19th-century British journalists
English male non-fiction writers
19th-century English male writers
19th-century English lawyers


title: Festival Accès Asie

text:
Festival Accès Asie is an Asian multidisciplinary art festival which takes place annually in Montreal in order to celebrate Asian Heritage Month. The festival presents Canadian artists with Asian origins.

History
Festival Accès Asie was formed as the Montreal Asian Heritage Festival and founded on an Asian Heritage Month mandate which was established in the United States in 1976. This was further developed by the Toronto Asian Heritage Month Group in 1993. The Toronto Asian Heritage Month does not exist anymore. The national network of Asian Heritage Month groups and activities vary in mandate from arts presentations to forums, discussions to tributes of outstanding members from the Asian Canadian communities. The Montreal version of this mandate was revised to reflect the city's cultural climate.

Festival Accès Asie was created in 1995, and is the oldest Asian Heritage Month organization in Canada. The festival strives to create an environment for the promotion of art and culture of Canadian with Asian origin in Québec. Events are organized to highlight all artistic disciplines, including dance, comedy, theatre, video, film, visual arts, culinary art, music, poetry and new media. Artists come from over twenty countries: East Asia (Japan, China, Korea); Southeast Asia (Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore); South Asia (Pakistan, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka); Central & Middle Eastern Asia (Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Afghanistan and Armenia).

Under the leadership of General Manager and artistic director, Khosro Berahmandi, Festival Accès Asie is a predominantly volunteer-based festival run by a small staff of employees and interns, a board of directors composed of artists and members of the Asian community, and an Honorary Advisory Committee. In addition to federal and provincial funding organizations, the festival benefits from the generous support of partners, collaborators and sponsors. Festival Accès Asie is a bilingual organization offering events and activities in both official languages.

Activities and mandate
May is the Asian Heritage Month, and Festival Accès Asie organizes a wide range of diverse cultural and artistic events. The festival is also present at Culture Days that takes place over three days in late September since 1997 whose founding body is "Culture for all". Each year this organization mobilizes other cultural organizations to offer the public many free artistic activities.

References

External links

 Archives of previous years

Festivals in Montreal
Asian-American festivals
Art festivals in Canada
Performing arts in Montreal
Theatre festivals in Quebec
Music festivals in Quebec
Literary festivals in Quebec


title: Al-Fadl ibn Rawh ibn Hatim al-Muhallabi

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Al-Fadl ibn Rawh ibn Hatim al-Muhallabi () (d. 794) was a member of the Muhallabid family and a provincial governor for the Abbasid Caliphate. He was the last of the Muhallabid governors of Ifriqiya, serving there from 793 until his death.

Career
Al-Fadl was the son of Rawh ibn Hatim al-Muhallabi, who was governor of Ifriqiya from 787 until 791. Following Rawh's death, Nasr ibn Habib al-Muhallabi became governor of the province, but al-Fadl, who was then in charge of the Zab region, wanted the position for himself. He therefore left Ifriqiya and made his way to the court of the caliph Harun al-Rashid, who he convinced to give him the appointment instead. Nasr was then dismissed and al-Muhallab ibn Yazid was made interim governor, until al-Fadl returned to the province in the spring of 791 and took up his new position.

Al-Fadl's governorship quickly became troubled due to his poor relations with the garrison troops (jund), who he dealt with harshly as a result of their continued preference for Nasr. These tensions became particularly acute in Tunis, where al-Fadl's governor and nephew al-Mughirah ibn Bishr ibn Rawh was detested by the local jund. The latter eventually wrote to al-Fadl, asking that a new governor be appointed, but al-Fadl refused their request. In response, the jund took matters into their own hands, organizing themselves under 'Abdallah ibn al-Jarud and expelling al-Mughirah from the city.

Following al-Mughirah's expulsion, Ibn al-Jarud initially attempted to reach an accord with al-Fadl, writing him to insist that no disloyalty against him was meant and asking that a suitable replacement be sent. Al-Fadl responded by appointing his cousin 'Abdallah ibn Yazid ibn Hatim over Tunis and sent him to take command of the city. When 'Abdallah ibn Yazid drew near to Tunis, however, he was met by a group sent by Ibn al-Jarud to speak to him; defying Ibn al-Jarud's orders, they attacked 'Abdallah ibn Yazid and killed him.

Now believing that reconciliation with al-Fadl was impossible, Ibn al-Jarud instead decided to rebel against him. He wrote to the commanders of each city in Ifriqiya, reminding them of how al-Fadl had abused them and urging them to join his cause. With much of the jund flocking to Ibn al-Jarud's side, al-Fadl was forced to march against the rebels. In the resulting battle, al-Fadl was defeated and he retreated back to al-Qayrawan; Ibn al-Jarud's army, however, pursued him and besieged the city for a short time. Eventually the inhabitants of al-Qayrawan agreed to open their doors to the rebels, allowing Ibn al-Jarud and his army to enter it in September 794. Following the conquest, al-Fadl and his followers departed from the city and headed to Qabis, but Ibn al-Jarud decided to not allow this and instead had al-Fadl killed.

Notes

References

794 deaths
Abbasid governors of Ifriqiya
Muhallabids
Year of birth missing
8th-century Arab people
Ifriqiya under the Abbasid Caliphate
8th-century people from Ifriqiya


title: John Pasford

text:
John Pasford or Pafford (fl. 1371–1394) of Devon, was an English politician.

He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Dartmouth in 1371 and for Totnes in 1386 and 1394.

References

Year of birth missing
Year of death missing
English MPs 1371
Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for Totnes
English MPs 1386
English MPs 1394
Members of the Parliament of England for Dartmouth


title: Pasford

text:
Pasford may refer to:

Pasford, Staffordshire on List of United Kingdom locations: Par-Pay
John Pasford (fl. 1371–1394), English politician and member of Parliament


title: Rock on Top of Another Rock

text:
Rock on Top of Another Rock is a sculpture by the artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss which was exhibited outside the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens in 2013.  It consists of one large rock balanced on top of another large rock.  An earlier incarnation of the work was a similar sculpture on the plateau of Valdresflya which was one of the artworks installed on each of Norway's eighteen scenic highways.

Inspiration
The motto of Fischli and Weiss is "Am schönsten ist das Gleichgewicht, kurz bevor's zusammenbricht" — balance is most beautiful just at the point when it is about to collapse.  Fischli spoke about the work at its unveiling in March 2013:
In Norway and here, to put one rock on top of another rock in the wilderness is the first thing you do if you want to make a mark. When you walk and you want to find your way back...you make this mark. It is a very archaic, simple thing, but it is referencing the Venturi duck. We wanted to make something that forces you to stop your car and get out to take a photograph.

Construction
The first incarnation of the work was constructed for the Norwegian Public Roads Administration which commissioned artworks for its 18 tourist routes.  The artists used a picture of a toy Playmobil crane lifting a large rock to illustrate their proposal, which was to place one large rock on top of another.  This would be in the style of a wayfarer's cairn — a marker to show that someone had passed this way — but on a grand, monumental scale.  In that case, the lower rock was already in place, and a real crane was used to place another rock on top of it.

The two granite boulders used for the Serpentine work were natural rocks deposited by glacial action in North Wales.  They weighed almost 30 tons each so their exact shape was mapped using lidar and then 3D models were constructed to determine a position in which they would balance without aid.  This work was led by Alice Blair of the Arup engineering consultancy.  The installation in London is temporary, as it was planned to be moved to its permanent site in Doha after a year.   The exhibition in London was extended until September 2014 and complemented the new Serpentine Pavilion of Smiljan Radic, which also features large boulders.

Reception

Radic liked the work and commented, "A Fischli and Weiss rock is different from a Smiljan Radic rock. We are thinking about the same objects in a different way. How we put it in a space is really different. [Although] in the end, it's a rock".

Director Hans-Ulrich Obrist has been enthusiastic about Fischli and Weiss' work since seeing their photographic exhibition, Equilibres/Quiet Afternoon,  which was created in 1984 and is still on display at the gallery.  He sees their new work as a meeting point, "We can meet each other beneath the rocks and talk about a rock on top of another rock."

Author John Costella praised the "sheer dynamics of its size and balance.  The Swiss artists ... are to be applauded for their amazing sculpture."

See also
 Mabley Green Boulder
 Rock balancing

References

External links

Steinplassen — Gallery of pictures of the sister work in Norway

2013 sculptures
Glacial erratics of Great Britain
Installation art works
Outdoor sculptures in London


title: A Bride from the Bush

text:
A Bride from the Bush is the first novel written by E. W. Hornung. He started writing the book while working as a tutor for Charles Joseph Parsons in Mossgiel Station, New South Wales, Australia. The novel was initially published by Smith, Elder & Co. as a serial in the Cornhill Magazine, and then published in book format by the same company in October 1890. As with Tiny Luttrell and The Unbidden Guest, two of Hornung's other early novels, A Bride from the Bush points out flaws in British society by presenting the country through an Australian perspective. A reviewer from The New York Times called the novel "a most piquant contrast between civilization and crudity". The writer Thomas Alexander Browne called the titular character of A Bride from the Bush "a libel to Australian womankind". A Punch editor made the opposite claim, arguing that the protagonist of the novel is more kind-hearted and attractive than actual Australians.

Hornung's later stories in the A. J. Raffles series achieved much more popularity than A Bride from the Bush. Nonetheless, he himself liked A Bride from the Bush and his other Australian stories better than those of Raffles. When he published the novel Peccavi in 1900, a critic from The Advertiser wrote a scathing review, writing that Hornung should go back to Australia so he would be inspired to write something as good as A Bride from the Bush again. Upon Hornung's death, a tribute in The Freeman's Journal called A Bride from the Bush "the best and the best known" of Hornung's Australia-related stories. In 1924 André Cœuroy and Theodore Baker argued in The Musical Quarterly that Hornung's characterisation of the novel's hero as being pitiable for being unable to appreciate anthems demonstrates that A Bride from the Bush is typical of other novels of the time in favouring vocal church music.

References

1890 British novels
Australia–United Kingdom relations
Novels about colonialism
Novels set in the United Kingdom
Works by E. W. Hornung
1890 debut novels


title: L. Ken Jones

text:
Dr. L. Ken Jones is the chancellor of Lubbock Christian University in Lubbock, Texas.  Dr. Jones served as the fifth president of LCU from 1993 until 2011 when he was named chancellor. L. Timothy Perrin succeeded Dr. Jones as president of LCU. In addition to being chancellor, Dr. Jones also took on the interim role of President of the LCU Foundation in 2014.

Early career
Jones began an engineering career in 1974 as a civil engineer in hydrology subsection for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Tulsa, Oklahoma.  A year later Jones moved to Perry, OK, to be an area engineer for the Soil Conservation Service from 1975 until 1978 when he accepted an assistant professor of agricultural engineering position at Oklahoma State University.

Jones switched his career goals from engineering to ministry in 1982 when he became the pulpit minister for North Garland Church of Christ in Enid, OK, for six years. In 1988 Jones moved to Lubbock, Texas, to serve as pulpit minister at Sunset Church of Christ.  Jones then became president of Lubbock Christian University in 1993, where he served for eighteen years, making Jones the longest sitting president in LCU’s history. Jones stepped down from the presidency to pursue more public speaking opportunities as LCU’s first Chancellor in 2011.

Publications
Dr. Jones authored The Ultimate Leader (2002) and Leadership after God’s Own Heart (Star Bible 1999).

Education
Dr. Jones received his Agricultural Engineering bachelors (’73), masters (’74), and Ph.D. (’81) from Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, OK.

In 2013 Dr. Jones earned his Emotional Intelligence Certification, Leadership Coaching Certification, and Appreciative Inquiry Facilitator Training.  He frequently speaks on leadership at churches, educational groups, businesses, and major corporations, and he often hosts leadership seminars.

Personal life
Dr. Jones, born and raised in Oklahoma, has a particular interest in farming and ranching. His son continues to ranch for the family business near Cordell, Oklahoma. Other hobbies include reading, writing, and speaking.

References

Living people
Lubbock Christian University faculty
Oklahoma State University alumni
American members of the Churches of Christ
People from Tulsa, Oklahoma
People from Lubbock, Texas
People from Perry, Oklahoma
Year of birth missing (living people)


title: Valeria Hontareva

text:
Valeriia Oleksiivna Hontareva, also spelled as Valeria Hontareva and Valeria Gontareva, () (born 20 October 1964 in Dnipropetrovsk) was Governor or Chairwoman of the National Bank of Ukraine. She submitted her resignation on 10 April 2017 and left the bank on 11 May 2017.

Early life and career
Hontareva was born on 20 October 1964 in Dnipropetrovsk. She graduated in 1987 from Kyiv Polytechnic Institute and in 1997 from Kyiv National Economic University with a master's degree in Economics.

After obtaining her degree in 1987, she was a junior researcher at the Ukrainian Centre for Standardization and Metrology for two years, and from 1989 to 1993, Hontareva worked as a design engineer in the institute "Hiprostrommashyna". In 1993 Hontareva started her career in the financial sector and she held top positions in the Kyiv branches of ING Bank and Societe Generale.

In 1996 she became director of resource management at Societe Generale in Ukraine and in 2001 deputy chairman of ING Bank (in 2007 for six months first deputy). From 2007 to 2014, she served as Chairwoman of then Investment Capital Ukraine (now ICU), Kyiv based financial group.

She officially sold her stakes in the company before becoming governor of the NBU.
President Poroshenko hired for the sale of his Roshen holding her former employer company ICU beside Rothschild Group.

In her official public income declaration for 2013, Hontareva stated an income of ₴3,884,679, a car park with an Infinity FX35, a Porsche Cayenne, a Porsche Panamera, a Toyota Landcruiser, and several real estates. According to Hontareva's e-declaration for 2016, her total income amounted to ₴57 million (the most of which was due to the third tranche of selling her shares in ICU Holdings Limited - ₴52.57 million).

Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine
On 19 June 2014 Hontareva replaced Stepan Kubiv as Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine. Hontareva is the first female to lead the bank.

For the time of Hontareva's work in the NBU, hryvnia depreciated almost three times.

International financial institutions representatives state that the biggest reform achievement in Ukraine under Hontareva's rule has been the clean-up of the banking system with the grand finale of the nationalization of Privatbank.

Hontareva had reduced the size of the central bank bureaucracy from 12,000 to 5,000. She has let the country's currency, the hryvnia, float, which stabilized the economy. And, above all, in an effort to clean up the ailing banking sector, she has named 87 banks insolvent with about 60 percent of the sector's assets. According to the EBRD managing director (Eastern Europe and the Caucasus) Francis Malige, Hontareva is No. 1 changemaker in Ukraine.

The National Anti-corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) has opened criminal proceedings in a case, which according to them involved Hontareva's Deputy Kateryna Rozhkova, regarding the 'Platinum Bank's' withdrawal from the market. Hontareva was accused of deliberately bringing the bank to bankruptcy, and of speculation on the growth of the dollar exchange rate. The rallies from the allegedly deceived depositors of the failed banks repeatedly gathered outside the National Bank of Ukraine.
Hontareva has a good reputation among professionals as the Ukrainian central bank for the first time started to act independently from the interests of oligarchs and politicians. She fulfilled modern monetary policy similar to the policy of the European Central Bank or the United States’ Federal Reserve System moving to targeting inflation instead of targeting exchange rates. On the contrary, the predecessors of Hontareva on firsthand wanted to maintain the stable national currency exchange rate.

On 10 April 2017, Hontareva submitted her resignation. On 11 May 2017, while still not formally dismissed, she left the bank and Deputy Governor Yakiv Smoliy took over her duties.

“My mission is complete. First, the country has moved to a flexible exchange rate and implemented a new monetary policy of inflation targeting. Secondly, the banking system has been cleansed of insolvent banks, and its future resilience strengthened. Thirdly, the National Bank has been completely transformed, all the processes have been reset and today our central bank is a strong modern organization,” Valeriia Hontareva concluded during her resignation announcement.

During her nearly three years in office, the National Bank headed by Valeriia Hontareva has succeeded in stabilizing the macroeconomic situation, fundamentally transforming the banking sector landscape and building a modern central bank despite war and political instability, deep economic crisis, and empty government treasury.

On 1 October 2018 Hontareva  became a member of the Institute of Global Affairs, an initiative of the London School of Economics.

28.03.2019 right before the 2nd round of the presidential election, a new agency UNIAN published fake news "In particular, Gontareva, together with ICU top manager Konstantin Stetsenko, is charged with 'assisting in a criminal organization and assisting in the illegal seizure of another's property – monetary funds of PJSC Agrarian Fund worth ₴2.069 billion through the conclusion by JSC Brokbusinessbank of fake contracts of sale and purchase of government domestic loan bonds with the Agrarian Fund under direct repurchase agreements with the National Bank of Ukraine".
The press secretary of the General Prosecutor's office Andrey Lysenko in a comment to Hromadske denied the information about the announcement of suspicions around President Petro Poroshenko, in particular the former head of the presidential administration [Boris Lozhkin], the former head of the NBU Valeria Hontareva and the deputy head of the Presidential Administration Alexei Filatov.

Personal life
Hontareva is married and has two sons. In 2018 she moved to London.

Notes

References

External links
 of the National Bank of Ukraine

Governors of the National Bank of Ukraine
1964 births
Living people
Businesspeople from Dnipro
Ukrainian bankers
Women bankers
Kyiv Polytechnic Institute alumni
Kyiv National Economic University alumni
Ukrainian businesspeople in the United Kingdom
Recipients of the Honorary Diploma of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine


title: The Alternative (France)

text:
The Alternative (French: L'Alternative) was an electoral coalition created the fall of 2013 by Jean-Louis Borloo and François Bayrou. It reunited the two major French centrists political parties: the Union of Democrats and Independents and the Democratic Movement. The Alternative united movements that had formerly been part of the Union for French Democracy and presented itself in the municipal elections of 2014 and in the following European Parliament election.

Defunct political party alliances in France
Union for French Democracy breakaway groups


title: Syd Gibbons

text:
Syd Gibbons (24 March 1907 – 17 July 1953) was a professional footballer in the 1930s.

Career

Early career
Gibbons started his football career with Birmingham School Boys, before going on to sign for Wolverhampton Wanderers who played in the Third Division North, as an amateur in March 1924. On 9 December 1924, he was signed on professional forms for £2-10-0 per week, he made several reserve team appearances but never made the first team.

In April 1925 he was granted a free transfer and joined Walsall who also played in Third Division North in the summer of 1925. He went on to play four games for the first-team in 1925–26 (v Grimsby in August 1925, v Halifax on Boxing Day 1925 and v Chesterfield and New Brighton, both in February 1926).

At the end of the 1925–26 season he was released and joined the now defunct Cradley Heath in the Birmingham League, at the time one of the strongest leagues outside the Football League, and won the Worcestershire Senior cup with them in that season.

It is commonly thought that he also represented England Juniors v Scotland in 1927. He did not in fact represent England at any level. He represented Birmingham County Football Association (known wrongly in some quarters as England Juniors) who played an annual match against Scotland Juniors, it was popularly known as the Junior International.

On 14 April 1927, he was signed by Manchester City for a transfer fee of £400. In his first season City won the 2nd Division and he made five first team appearances. In his next two seasons with City in the First Division he only made a further six first team appearances.

Fulham
On 12 May 1930, he was transferred to Fulham, who played in the Third Division for £400.00.

He soon became a first team regular and along with Len Oliver and Albert Barrett, he formed a superb half back line, which helped win the Third Division title in 1931–32 season, being the only ever present in that season. He was also an ever-present the following season when they just missed promotion to the First Division of the football league, finishing third behind Stoke City and Tottenham.

He played all the games in their famous F.A. Cup run in 1936, beating First Division sides Chelsea and Derby County before finally losing in the semi-final to Sheffield United.

He became a Fulham legend and was known as 'Carnera' because of his imposing physique and similarity to Primo Carnera, the Italian world heavyweight boxing champion.

On 3 November 1934, in an amazing home match. Fulham were 3–0 down, against Southampton with 15 minutes to play. Syd, saved the day,  by scoring a hat-trick, to earn a 3–3 draw. He is the only Fulham defender to score a hat-trick in open play.

He played for Fulham from 1930 to 1938 and made 318 appearances (including 299 league appearances). This places him in the top 20 of all-time appearance holders for Fulham.

Later career
After leaving Fulham, he moved on to the Southern League Worcester City F.C. as player-manager in 1938. His major success came in 1940 winning the Southern League Cup, in a two-legged final against Chelmsford 7–3 on aggregate. They also won the Worcestershire Senior Cup in the same season. Further cup success followed in 1941. He remained them until 1942 when senior football stopped, due to the second world war. He briefly returned in 1946 as club secretary.

Syd went on to run a newsagents in Putney and worked part-time for Fulham after the war ended, as a scout, but died aged 47 on 17 July 1953.

Career statistics

References

http://www.thegiantkillers.co.uk/1936fulham.htm

1907 births
1953 deaths
English men's footballers
Men's association football defenders
English Football League players
Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. players
Walsall F.C. players
Cradley Heath F.C. players
Manchester City F.C. players
Fulham F.C. players
Worcester City F.C. players
Place of birth missing


title: Hassane Brahim

text:
Hassane Brahim (; 16 November 1994) is a Chadian football player. He has made three appearances for the Chad national football team.

Career

Hassane won Coupe de Ligue de N'Djaména with Elect in 2012 and 2014, and played with his club in CAF Confederation Cup 2 times: in 2013 and 2015. He was the club captain. He currently plays for Mangasport in Gabon. He was best goalscorer of the season 2014 in Chad, with 19 goals, and best goalscorer of the Gabonese D1 league in season 2016/17, with 16 goals.

International career

Hassane debuted for Chad on 15 April 2014 in Doha, in a friendly match against Yemen.

See also
 List of Chad international footballers

References

1994 births
Living people
Footballers from N'Djamena
Chadian men's footballers
Chad men's international footballers
Elect-Sport FC players
AS CotonTchad players
AS Mangasport players
Etincelles F.C. players
Men's association football forwards
Chadian expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Gabon
Chadian expatriate sportspeople in Gabon
Expatriate men's footballers in Rwanda


title: John Row (MP)

text:
John Row or Rauf (fl. 1388) of Totnes, Devon, was an English politician.

He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Totnes in February 1388.

References

Year of birth missing
Year of death missing
English MPs February 1388
Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for Totnes


title: Rauf

text:
Rauf or Rawuf (Arabic: رَؤُوف ra’ūf or rawūf) is an Arabic male given name or surname which is a noun and the exaggerated form of the name Raif (or Raef) meaning "kind, affectionate, benign", "sympathetic, merciful" or compassionate.

The name comes from the Arabic verb ra’afa (رَأَفَ) "to have compassion for, have mercy upon, be merciful toward".

However, the name Rauf is an exaggerated form and Raif is an agent noun which is also exaggerated in nature.

The name is also one of the names of Allah, al-Ra'uf or commonly "Ar-Ra'uf/ Rawuf", meaning "the Kind, the Pitying" or "Most Kind, the Ever-Compassionate".

Surname
Abdul Rauf (anti-Taliban cleric), Afghan cleric
Abdul Rauf (Taliban governor), Taliban politician
Abdur Rauf (cricketer) (born 1978), Pakistani cricketer
Asad Rauf (1956–2022), Pakistani cricketer
Atif Rauf (born 1964), Pakistani cricketer
Bulent Rauf (1911–1987), Turkish-British mystic, spiritual teacher, translator and author
Faiza Rauf (1923–1994), Egyptian princess and a member of the Muhammad Ali Dynasty
Feisal Abdul Rauf (born 1948), American Sufi imam, author, and activist
Haris Rauf (born 1993), Pakistani cricketer
Javeria Rauf (born 1989), Pakistani cricketer
John Rauf (fl.1388), English politician
Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf (born 1969), American basketball player
Onjali Q. Raúf, English author and human rights campaigner
Rana Abdul Rauf (born 1953), Pakistani politician
Rashid Rauf (1981–2008), alleged Al-Qaeda operative

Given name
Rauf Rashid Abd al-Rahman (born c. 1941), Iraqi judge
Rauf Adigozalov (1940–2002), Azerbaijani violinist and singer
Rauf Aliyev (born 1989), Azerbaijani football player
Rauf Denktaş (1924–2012), first president of Northern Cyprus
Rauf Hasağası (1900–1992), Turkish sprinter
Rauf Huseynli (born 2000), Azerbaijani football player
Rauf Khalid (1957–2011), Pakistani actor
Rauf Khalilov (born 1981), Azerbaijani film director
Rauf Klasra, Pakistani journalist
Rauf Lala (born 1970), Pakistani actor
Rauf Mamedov (born 1988), Azerbaijani chess player
Rauf Olaniyan (born 1960), Nigerian politician
Rauf Orbay (1881–1964), Turkish politician
Rauf Abu Al-Seoud (1915–1982), Egyptian diver
Rauf Siddiqui, Pakistani politician
Rauf Yekta (1871–1935), Turkish musician

See also
Rauf & Faik, Russian trap duo
, Liberia-flagged Turkish powership
Shahid Mohammad Rauf, a village in Beygom Qaleh Rural District, in the Central District of Naqadeh County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran
Raouf

References

Arabic-language surnames
Turkish masculine given names
Masculine given names


title: Kossadehil Danaye

text:
Kossadehil Danaye (born 6 July 1982) is a former Chadian professional football player. Danaye made two appearances for the Chad national football team.

See also
 List of Chad international footballers

References

External links

1982 births
Living people
Chadian men's footballers
Chad men's international footballers
Place of birth missing (living people)
Men's association football midfielders


title: Walter Browning

text:
Walter Browning (fl. 1388) was an English politician.

He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Totnes in February 1388.

References

Year of birth missing
Year of death missing
English MPs February 1388
Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for Totnes
Mayors of Totnes


title: Psammodesmus

text:
Psammodesmus is a genus of platyrhacid millipedes found from Panama to Peru. The 11 species constitute the platyrhacid subfamily Psammodesminae (formerly the tribe Psammodesmini).

Species
Psammodesmus atratus (Chamberlin, 1947)
Psammodesmus bryophorus Hoffman, Martínez & Flórez, 2011
Psammodesmus cainarachus (Chamberlin, 1941)
Psammodesmus calius (Chamberlin, 1952)
Psammodesmus camerani Silvestri, 1897
Psammodesmus chuncho (Chamberlin), 1941
Psammodesmus cos Cook, 1896
Psammodesmus dasys (Chamberlin, 1941)
Psammodesmus fasciolatus Silvestri, 1898
Psammodesmus remotus Loomis, 1964
Psammodesmus schmitti Loomis & Hoffman, 1953

References

Polydesmida
Millipedes of Central America
Millipedes of South America


title: Rassemblement bleu Marine

text:
Rassemblement bleu Marine (, RBM) was a French political coalition of right-wing and far-right political parties created by Marine Le Pen in 2012 before the legislative elections. It originally consisted of the National Front, the  Sovereignty, Independence and Liberties (SIEL) party of Paul-Marie Coûteaux, the party Republican Entente (ER) led by Jacques Peyrat, the Republican Gathering (RR) of Jean-Yves Narquin,  Patrie et citoyenneté (the Fatherland and Citizenship party; PeC), and a few other small right-wing political parties and independent politicians. It also has the support of the minor Party of Innocence led by Renaud Camus, although they are not officially part of the coalition. SIEL left the coalition in 2016.

See also
Miscellaneous right

References

Defunct political party alliances in France
Marine Le Pen
National Rally (France)
Right-wing parties in France


title: Richard Bruce Stopford

text:
Hon. Richard Bruce Stopford MA (1774 – 12 December 1844) was a Canon of Windsor from 1812 to 1844.

Family
He was the fourth son of James Stopford, 2nd Earl of Courtown. On 19 Nov 1800 he married Eleanor Powys, daughter of Thomas Powys, 1st Baron Lilford and they had the following children:
George Stopford (born 29 August 1801)
Eleanor Elizabeth Stopford (4 September 1802 - 12 Oct 1851)
Richard Henry Stopford (born 22 November 1803)
Rev. Charles Stopford (19 January 1805 - 10 March 1864)
William Bruce Stopford-Sackville (1 April 1806 - 29 May 1872)
James Sydney Stopford (14 April 1808 - 8 July 1885)
Capt. Edward Stopford (20 August 1809 - 14 October 1895)
Lucy-Charlotte Stopford (born 16 October 1811)
Robert Stopford (16 April 1813 - 25 May 1878) married Matilda Caroline Birch Reynardson, on 11 Aug 1853; Ancestor of Eugen Michael Simon (1992-)
Harriet Jane Stopford (19 September 1816 - 13 December 1902)

Career

He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford where he was awarded BA in 1796,  MA in 1799.

He was appointed:
Rector of Barton Seagrave 1798
Vicar of Nuneaton 1803
Prebendary of Bullinghope in Hereford Cathedral 1810-1844
Chaplain to Queen Victoria

He was appointed to the sixth stall in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle in 1812, a position he held until 1844.

Notes

1774 births
1844 deaths
Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford
Canons of Windsor
Richard Bruce
Younger sons of earls


title: Manor House Street railway station

text:
Manor House Street station (also known as Kingston Street station) was the original terminus station of the Hull and Selby Railway, opened in 1840 adjacent to the Humber Dock in Kingston upon Hull, England. In 1848 the station was superseded by Hull Paragon station after which it was primarily used for goods traffic.

As a goods station the facility was known as Railway Street Goods station. Most of the buildings were demolished in 1959 as part of a modernisation programme converting the English Street Goods station into a main regional depot.

Sidings remained on the site until the 1980s when housing development occupied the western part of the site. The site of the station buildings site was developed as a multi-storey housing development Freedom Quays in the 2000s.

History

Manor House Street station (1840–1854)
The station was constructed as the original Hull terminus of the Hull and Selby Railway. The station was located on a site of around  adjacent to the Humber Dock and Kingston Street. The main building was a two-storey structure of white brick and stone, known as Railway Office, was constructed facing onto Humber Dock. The office was  deep by wide with waiting rooms, and ticket and parcel offices on the ground floor; a passage led from the station front to the train shed behind; the first floor contained the company offices including the director's room. The design is thought to be by James Walker and John Timperley, with Simminson & Hutchinson as the building contractors, ironwork by James Young.

The main train shed was  long by wide, connected at the east end to the offices, with trains arriving at the west end. There were four lines of track, and raised platforms at either side; the trainshed roof was supported on cast iron columns. An exit in the north wall led to a station road, which separated the passenger station from the goods shed to the north.

The railways workshops of around  were located west of the station, also facing Kingston Street, and included facilities for engine, wagon and carriage work, with power supplied by a 10 hp stationary engine.

The goods shed and warehouse was a two-storey building  long by wide, with a single line of track within, and two on either side, all running the entire length. Within the building the floor was  above the level the track for ease of loading. The second floor had access to the lower throughout the shed, allowing movement from train to warehouse under cover. In addition to the goods warehouse the company had a wharf nearby at Limekiln Creek.

On the opening day (1 July 1840) after a return trip from Hull to Selby a banquet with speeches was held in the upper warehouse. Public services started on 2 July, and goods service on 19 August.

Initially passenger trains pulled into the station by a rope and capstan – this led to an accident where the uncontrolled momentum imparted led to the train crashing through the booking office wall. Later the train would have the engine detached, run round and used to shunt the train backwards into the trainshed. The railway followed the practice used on early British railways of stopping the train outside the station for ticket inspections.

In 1847 an act of Parliament allowed the construction of a new station, this opened in May 1848 as Hull Paragon station, and the station at Kingston Street closed to passengers. From June 1853 a suburban service of passenger trains running on the Victoria Dock Branch Line began terminating at the Station, running to and from Victoria Dock. The service was ended in 1854.

Railway Street goods station (1854–1961)

After the opening of Paragon station the old station was used as a goods station. Expansion was soon required and land including the old Gaol (west of Manor House Street) and houses on Bell Vue Terrace were acquired and demolished and the  station expanded. In 1858 the existing buildings were demolished and the site redeveloped in one piece as a goods station.

The new goods station was designed by NER architect Thomas Prosser; the  main building was  long, initially with four platforms. The station was expanded in the mid-1860s increasing the number of platforms to right. A second shed was added to the west adjoining Railway Street. Built for the NER, the warehouse also provide service to other railways with running powers to Hull; the Lancashire and Yorkshire and London and North Western Railway; the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway used a wharfe and warehouse at  Limekiln creek for lighter services across the Humber, replaced   with a new warehouse and water channel at Railway Creek,  built as replacement  for the loss of the former  during the construction of the new West Dock.

In 1959 a modernisation plan envisaged converting the English Street Goods station into one of the seven main depots in BR's North-eastern region, to be known as Hull Central goods depot. The Railway Street station was demolished in 1961.

The Railway Street site remained in use as part of the Central Good's operations (opened October 1960) handling wagonload traffic and used for storage.

Some sidings remained on the site until 1984, when housing was built on the entrance tracks. Much of the station site was redeveloped as Freedom Quays, a housing and multi-storey car park development between 2003 and 2008; the northern part is used as a Ship chandler; Hull Marina's boat yard is also located on the site.

References

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Maps

Former Hull and Selby Railway stations
Disused railway stations in Kingston upon Hull
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1840
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1854
History of Kingston upon Hull
Port of Hull


title: John Statham

text:
John Statham (fl. 1388) was an English politician.

He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Totnes in September 1388.

References

Year of birth missing
Year of death missing
English MPs September 1388
Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for Totnes