title: Ali Mirdrekvandi

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Ali Mirdrekvandi (also called Gunga Din), () is an Iranian author, known for authoring No Heaven for Gunga Din, a fable, and Noorafkan (trans. Irradiant), a popular epic, both written in broken English in the mid-20th century.

Life and works
Mirdrekvandi wrote The British and American Officer's Book while working at the officer's mess in Tehran during World War II, which was given to his mentor Hemming (then a British officer). Hemming's last contact with Mirdrekvandi was in 1949. At the time of publication the author's history and current circumstances were unknown. Some sources asserted that Mirdrekvandi was fictional, and that the story was actually written by Hemming or Zaehner, which is unlikely given the linguistic structure of the book.

On publication of the book in 1965 the Iranian press conducted a public search for Mirdrekvandi, characterized as a "missing millionaire". His brother, a former classmate, and others who recalled him were found, they provided additional information that was he born some time in 1916–1918 in a village in Lorestan Province in western Iran. According to one source, he was raised by his grandfather after his parents were "taken away by soldiers" and never heard of again. This would have been around the time the Pahlavi dynasty crushed a rebellion by the nomadic Lurs of Lorestan. Young Ali's talents were noted and he was sent to a school for sons of tribal leaders to, "not to learn banditry and robbery." He reportedly left school after a dispute with the son of the school director, and was working for a railway when British and Soviet forces entered Iran at the beginning of World War II.

It was later discovered that Derikvandi had been living in impoverished circumstances in the town of Borujerd, where he was notable for reading many English language books. He is reported to have written several other stories, which he burned after reading them to fellow homeless people, and as having died on November 26, 1964, just prior to the publication of his book. He had expected his British and American Officer's Book would soon be published but suffered from drug addiction and memory loss. One other unpublished manuscript by Derikvandi remains in Hemming's archives.

Notes

Sources

 Edited and introduction by John Hemming, foreword by Professor R. C. Zaehner.

 In Persian with English subtitles.

 With introduction by P. G. Kreyenbroek.

People from Khorramabad
20th-century Iranian people
Persian-language writers
1916 births


title: Opolian Silesia

text:
Opole Silesia or Opolian Silesia (, also known as Opolszczyzna, , , ), is a loosely defined historical region of Poland, part of Upper Silesia.

Throughout a large part of its history, the region had been ruled by the Duchy of Opole and other Silesian Duchies. Following the Silesian Wars the region found itself within Prussia. In accordance with the Oder–Neisse line, Poland received Opole Silesia in 1945.

See also
Opole cuisine
Opole Voivodeship
Regierungsbezirk Oppeln

References

Geography of Opole Voivodeship
Opolian Silesia
Opolian Silesia


title: Pacolet Mills Historic District

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Pacolet Mills Historic District is a national historic district located at Pacolet, Spartanburg County, South Carolina. It encompasses 126 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site in the mill village of Pacolet.  Pacolet Mills village that was laid out and built in 1919, with most worker and supervisor houses were built between 1915 and 1920.  Also located in the district are the Pacolet Mills Cloth Room and Warehouse, Pacolet Mill Office, and two churches.  The three main Pacolet Mills (1883, 1888, and 1891) and a fourth mill (1894) were demolished in the late 1980s.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

References

External links
Pacolet Mills community website

Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
Buildings and structures in Spartanburg County, South Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Spartanburg County, South Carolina


title: Tickley

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Tickley is a small hamlet in the large civil parish of Bentworth in Hampshire, England. It is considered a part of neighbouring Burkham which is situated  away; however, it is an individual settlement.

The nearest town is Alton, which lies about 4.2 miles (6.9 km) to the south-east. Its nearest railway station was formerly the Bentworth and Lasham railway station on the Basingstoke and Alton Light Railway, until its closure in 1932. The nearest railway station is now 3.6 miles (5.8 km) east of the village, at Alton.

References

Villages in Hampshire


title: Beast (Nico Vega song)

text:
"Beast" is a song written by the American alternative rock band Nico Vega. The song was originally recorded for the EP chooseyourwordspoorly (2006) but a later version was released as a single in 2013. It reached No. 26 on the Billboard Hot Rock Songs chart.

Versions
"Beast" was first recorded for the 2006 EP chooseyourwordspoorly. This is the shortest version of the song at just 2:36.

A reworked version of the song was recorded for eponymous debut album Nico Vega in 2009. The track runs for 4:01, but owing to non-song content afterwards the track time is 5:40. This version, minus the extra content, was rereleased on the Fury Oh Fury EP in 2013. (For unconfirmed reasons, digital downloads of Nico Vega no longer include "Beast" but the track remains available on physical CD pressings or as part of Fury Oh Fury.)

An acoustic version of the reworked song was recorded for the Nico Vega Covers Nico Vega & Rod Stewart EP in 2011. This version runs to 3:01.

The single version of the song (known as the 'extended version') was released in July 2013 and runs for 5:00. This version mixes portions of the 2009 and 2011 versions.

Live performances and media use
Nico Vega performed "Beast" live on Last Call with Carson Daly (2009).

"Beast" has been used repeatedly in other media. It featured in the films The Collector (2009) and Answers to Nothing (2011), commercials for the TV show Major Crimes and for films Jack Reacher (2012) and Pacific Rim (2013), and the teaser trailer to Vampire Academy: Blood Sisters (2014).
Professional wrestler Drew Gulak used "Beast" as his entrance theme from 2009 to 2012. "Beast" is featured in the popular 2013 video game BioShock Infinite, with the extended version of the song used heavily in the game's marketing - this appearance was credited by lead singer Aja Volkman as "one of the biggest things that's ever happened to my band". "Beast" is featured on the NBA 2K17 soundtrack.

In 2020, this music was featured in Netflix film Spenser Confidential.

Music video
Nico Vega released the music video for "Beast" on February 6, 2013.

Charts

References

External links
 Nico Vega official website

Nico Vega songs
2013 songs


title: Lancaster bus station

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Lancaster bus station serves the city of Lancaster, Lancashire, England. The bus station was funded by both the Lancashire County Council and Lancaster City Council. The station, situated in the centre of the city, was re-built and opened in 2001, is staffed full-time, completely covered and consists of 20 stands, a travel centre, a refreshment kiosk, on site toilet facilities and an electronic passenger information board. Directly outside the bus station is Lancaster's main taxi rank.

Services
The main operators from the bus station are Stagecoach Cumbria & North Lancashire operating under the name Stagecoach in Lancaster with the remainder of the local services being run by local firms Travellers Choice, Kirkby Lonsdale Coaches and Battersby's Silver Grey. Buses mainly travel from the bus station around the Lancaster, Morecambe, Heysham and Carnforth areas, but  regular services also  run as far afield as Preston, Blackpool and Knott End on Sea in Lancashire. Skipton, Hawes, Settle, Bentham and Ingleton in North Yorkshire and Kirkby Lonsdale, Kendal, Keswick and the central Lake District in Cumbria (route 555). There is also a single seasonal Sunday and Bank Holiday service that runs directly to Clitheroe. Preston Bus also run a seasonal return Sunday and Bank Holiday service to Richmond and Leyburn in North Yorkshire that calls at both Lancaster bus station and Lancaster University.

Pre booked excursion and long distance coaches also arrive and depart from Lancaster bus station with National Express running direct services to Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, Birmingham, Leicester, Milton Keynes, London, Exeter, Plymouth, Glasgow, Dundee, Aberdeen, and Edinburgh.

Railway station
Lancaster railway station, which is approximately half a mile from the bus station and is on the West Coast Main Line, has a regular number 11 service from the bus station. From the railway station, there are direct services to London, Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Manchester, Coventry, Carlisle, Barrow-in-Furness, Windermere, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Leeds and Liverpool.

External links
 Lancaster bus and rail information  - Lancaster City Council
 Stagecoach Cumbria & North Lancashire
 National Express Destinations
 Megabus website

Bus stations in Lancashire
Buildings and structures in Lancaster, Lancashire
Transport in the City of Lancaster


title: Robert Oxland

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Air Vice Marshal Robert Dickinson Oxland,  (4 April 1889 – 27 October 1959) was a senior Royal Air Force officer and member of Bomber Command during the Second World War. He was air officer commanding No. 1 Group from 1940 to 1943.

Early life
Robert Dickinson Oxland was born in Sydenham on 4 April 1889, the son of Charles Oxland, a Mining Engineer, and his wife Eleanor.  He was educated at Bedford Modern School.

Career
At the outbreak of the First World War, Oxland joined the County of London Yeomanry.  He was commissioned in 1915 and seconded to the Royal Flying Corps in 1916 having learned to fly in Norwich, earning RAeC Certificate No. 2444 on  9 February 1916. He was with No. 20 Squadron in France in 1916 and with No. 38 Squadron in 1918.

Oxland transferred to the Royal Air Force in 1918. As a qualified meteorological observer his first postings were in Iraq as a specialist staff officer.  He returned to England in 1925 as a squadron leader and was the first commanding officer of No. 502 Squadron RAF. In 1926, he was responsible for organising the formation of No. 503 Squadron RAF and was its commanding officer until 1930.

Oxland was promoted to wing commander in 1930 and thereafter ‘took a series of staff appointments at home and overseas’.  In 1934 he was appointed to the Directorate of Operations and Intelligence at the Air Ministry. In 1936, as Director of the Air Ministry's Operational Requirements, Oxland was Chairman of the Committee that decided to produce the four-engined heavy bombers resulting in the Stirling, Halifax and Lancaster.   In 1938 he was promoted to air commodore and the post of Director of Personal Services at the Air Ministry.

In November 1940 he was promoted to air officer commanding (AOC) No. 1 Group. During his time at HQ Bomber Command, "he concentrated on the direction of operations in support of Operation Overlord whilst Hugh Walmsley oversaw the area bombing programme". In February 1943 he was succeeded as AOC of No. 1 Group by Air Vice Marshal Edward Rice. Thereafter he held a ‘special appointment' at HQ Bomber Command and his final position from 1945 was AOA, HQ Air Command South East Asia.

Oxland retired in May 1946.

Awards and honours
Oxland was invested as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1929. In 1942 he was invested as Commander of the Order of the British Empire and a Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta. In 1943 he was made Companion of the Order of the Bath.

Oxland was also twice mentioned in despatches, on 1 January 1943 and 8 June 1944.

Family life
Oxland was a member of the United Service Club. In 1929 he married Ethel Barbara Williams, daughter of Colonel Henry David Williams.  They had two daughters.  He died in Maidenhead, Berkshire on 27 October 1959.

References

1889 births
1959 deaths
Royal Air Force air marshals of World War II
Royal Flying Corps officers
Companions of the Order of the Bath
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
British Army personnel of World War I
Recipients of the Order of Polonia Restituta
People educated at Bedford Modern School


title: Elvis Mashike Sukisa

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Elvis Mashike Sukisa (born 6 June 1994) is a Congolese professional footballer who plays as a forward for Azerbaijani Premier League club Araz-Naxçıvan.

Career

FC ViOn Zlaté Moravce
He made his professional debut for ViOn Zlaté Moravce against Ružomberok on 19 July 2014.

References

External links

 Futbalnet profile
 Fortuna Liga profile
 Eurofotbal profile

1994 births
Living people
Republic of the Congo men's footballers
Republic of the Congo expatriate men's footballers
Men's association football forwards
TJ Baník Ružiná players
ŠKF Sereď players
FC ViOn Zlaté Moravce players
MFK Zvolen players
FK Senica players
MŠK Žilina players
FK Loko Vltavín players
SK Dynamo České Budějovice players
FC Slovan Liberec players
FK Viktoria Žižkov players
FC Slavoj Vyšehrad players
Ħamrun Spartans F.C. players
Slovak First Football League players
2. Liga (Slovakia) players
3. Liga (Slovakia) players
Czech First League players
Czech National Football League players
Democratic Republic of the Congo expatriate sportspeople in Slovakia
Democratic Republic of the Congo expatriate sportspeople in the Czech Republic
Expatriate men's footballers in Slovakia
Expatriate men's footballers in the Czech Republic
Expatriate men's footballers in Malta
21st-century Democratic Republic of the Congo people


title: Miniopterus macrocneme

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Miniopterus macrocneme is a bat in the genus Miniopterus. It is found primarily in the Loyalty Islands of New Caledonia, though it is also found in New Guinea. It has been considered a subspecies of Miniopterus pusillus in recent years. It lives in caves in large numbers, though it can also be found in forests.

References

Further reading
Flannery, T.F. 1995. Mammals of New Guinea. Chatswood, New South Wales: Reed Books, 568 pp.
Flannery, T.F. 1995. Mammals of the South-West Pacific & Moluccan Islands. Chatswood: Reed Books, 464 pp.

Miniopteridae
Mammals described in 1914
Bats of Oceania


title: Paul Wexler (linguist)

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Paul Wexler (born November 6, 1938, , ) is an American-born Israeli linguist, and Professor Emeritus of linguistics at Tel Aviv University. His research fields include historical linguistics, bilingualism, Slavic linguistics, creole linguistics, Romani and Jewish languages.

Wexler is known in Yiddish linguistics mainly for his hypothesis that Eastern Yiddish is ultimately derived from Judaeo-Slavic, a hypothesis that has been widely rejected by other Yiddish and Germanic linguists   and geneticists.

Wexler has argued that the Yiddish language structure provides evidence that Jews had "intimate contact" with early Slavs in the German and Bohemian lands as early as the 9th century.

Biography
Wexler was born to parents of Ukrainian Jewish background and raised in the United States, earned his B.A. at Yale University in 1960, his M.A. in 1962 at Columbia University, where he studied under Uriel Weinreich and George Shevelov, and his Ph.D. at the same university in 1967. In the same year, while resident at the University of Washington, he wrote a pedagogical grammar of the Aymara language for Peace Corps volunteers. He moved to Israel in 1969. He did his basic training in the IDF in 1974.

Hypotheses on the origins of Jewish languages
Traditionally, Yiddish was regarded as a broken mangled form of German.  With the rise of historical linguistics, a gradual consensus was formed that accorded it equal status with German, with both seen as parallel descendants of an early Germanic language. In the aftermath of WW2, this was challenged by Max Weinreich who proposed that it arose as Romance- speaking Jews Germanized their mother tongue as they migrated further north and east, in the wake of Crusader massacres. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Wexler also subscribed to the traditional view of Yiddish as a very Slavicized dialect of Middle High German, dating back to its formation around the 9–10th century, when Romance-speaking Jews settled in the Rhineland and Bavaria. By the early 1990s he became sceptical of this mainstream theory. In the 1980s, Alice Faber and Robert King proposed a Knaanic origin, in West Slavic dialects as spoken notably in the Czech lands, and also in the areas of Poland, Lusatia, and other Sorbian regions.

In 1990, Wexler published a book titled The Schizoid Nature of Modern Hebrew: A Slavic Language in Search of a Semitic Past in which he argued that Modern Hebrew is not a direct continuation of the Hebrew language, but rather a Slavic language. He noted that several scholars of distinction had expressed a minority view casting doubt on the semitic, as opposed to the European, character of modern Hebrew, among them specialists in Semitic languages like Gotthelf Bergsträsser and Henri Fleisch. Wexler also noted that one writer, K. Kacnelson, even suggested in 1960 that modern Hebrew was a dialect of Yiddish. He argued that the modern language spoken by Israelis was simply Yiddish relexified to Biblical Hebrew and Mishnaic Hebrew.  Wexler advanced the view that Yiddish itself arose from Sorbian, and, given the strong influence of the former on Modern Hebrew, in this perspective Modern Hebrew can be considered a Slavic language.

There are 3 distinct theories regarding the origin of Yiddish, and Wexler's approach differs radically with the two main theories positing a Western Rhineland origin or a Bavarian/Czech genesis, and does so by breaking the genetic link between the Slavic countries and those Jews who lived in medieval Germany. Wexler argues that Yiddish began as two distinct languages: Judeo-French (Western Yiddish) and a Judeo-Sorbian dialect spoken in eastern Germany. The former died out while the latter formed the basis for the later Yiddish language. Eastern Yiddish, he hypothesizes, is derived from an interlanguage in which Sorbian played a germinal role. He hypothesizes this second relexification of Eastern Yiddish took place in the 15th century, at which time the descendants of the Khazars no longer spoke a Turkic language but rather a mixed Slavo-Turkic.

Wexler's hypotheses are based on analyses of numerous Jewish languages and introduce creolization as a factor in the formation of many of them. Other than linguistic analysis, he separates Jewish cultural areas into Judeo-Greek, Judeo-Romance, Judeo-Germanic, Judeo-Turkic, Judeo-Tat, Judaeo-Georgian, Judeo-Arabic and Judeo-Slavic. While he acknowledges that many Jewish languages have a Hebrew substratum,  Wexler's hypothesis holds that these languages were derived from various proselyte groups who retained the grammar of their old non-Jewish languages, while relexifying them through the extensive adoption of new vocabularies. This approach reflects Wexler's interpretation of Jewish ethnogenesis, according to which Jews are not a Semitic "people" so much as a "religious community" of diverse ethnic backgrounds, among which "Semitic" Arabs and Aramaeans form only a very minute component.

Wexler considers it possible that the Slavicized descendants of the Khazars immigrated north and westward, causing some Eastern Slavic terms for Jewish holidays to becoming part of Western Slavic. Wexler states that his hypothesis does not require Yiddish to contain a significant Turkic substratum. Wexler rejects the theory that the differences between Eastern and Western Yiddish were caused by the former's greater exposure to Slavic, instead viewing the two dialects as two largely separate languages.

In his 1993 book he stated that Ashkenazi Jews could be considered ethnically Slavic. He asserts that the Ashkenazi are not of Mediterranean origin. Considering the logical outcome of his linguistic hypotheses to be that Ashkenazi Jews are the descendants of Iranian, Turkic, and Slavic proselytes. He has also applied his linguistic hypotheses to Sephardic Jews suggesting similarly that they are in fact also of non-Jewish origin, originating from Berber proselytes rather than from Spain.

Herbert Paper in his 1995 paper on two of Wexler books rejects two of Wexler's hypotheses: first, that Yiddish is derived from an undiscovered Judeo-Sorbian language and secondly that Modern Hebrew is in fact a Slavic language. He prefers to describe languages Max Weinreich described as Eastern and Western Knaanic as, rather, Judeo-Slavic. In more recent work, Wexler has proposed three origins of Yiddish, by dividing it into two distinct languages: he regards Western Yiddish as a Judaized German; Eastern Yiddish is interpreted as developing from Judeo-Slavic relexified to High German and then again to Yiddish. He has also argued however that that eastern Yiddish is a relexification of Judeo-Turkic and linked to the Khazars and Karaites.

Katz has argued that Wexler's methodology is inconsistent with the accepted methods of historical linguistics. Since the conventional comparative method, used throughout the field of historical linguistics, suggests that Yiddish is descended from Old High German, and furthermore that the dialects of both Western and Eastern Yiddish can be reliably traced back to a Proto-Yiddish phonology, Wexler's arguments about the origin of Eastern Yiddish are considered by some critics to be "in the realm of unsupported speculation" and marginal within the field of linguistics.

Paul Wexler has revised or refined his earlier views on both Yiddish and the Turkic-Iranian-Khazar origins given in several papers between 2000 and 2009. In 2021 he proposed that there is a significant Afro-Eurasian component in Yiddish and adduced 20,000 forms from roughly 270 such languages in support of his thesis, relating them to over 5,000 pieces of Yiddish evidence, concluding that:-
the Khazar Empire and its Turkic minority population probably did not play a major role in the ethno-linguistic genesis of Yiddish and the Ashkenazic Jews ... the Khazar Empire did emerge as a central venue for the creation of several Jewish languages (including Yiddish and its forebears) and for the conversion of many non-Turkic non-Jews to Judaism who desired access to the lucrative Silk Road trade that was dominated widely by the Jewish merchants.

Wexler's approach has often been harshly criticized by many other specialists in the field, the majority of whom reject them. Alexander Beider states: "Sometimes I even wonder if he himself believes in what he writes. If he does not believe, but merely wants to provoke, his writings of the last 20 years are oriented just to prove that Jews are not Jews. In this case, there is nothing to discuss."

Linguistics and genetics
In 2016, Wexler and geneticist Eran Elhaik co-authored a study that analyzed the geographical origin of Yiddish speakers using a method called Geographic Population Structure (GPS) to analyze their DNA. They claimed that the DNA has originated in Northeastern Turkey in four villages whose names were, they argued, derived from the word "Ashkenaz." The predicted location was also on the hub of Silk Road routes and close to the Khazarian Empire, as predicted by Wexler and in contrast with the predictions of the Rhineland hypothesis. The authors argue that this is where a non-Germanic "pre-Yiddish" was developed as an undocumented language for trade and that with the Judaization of Slavs it acquired its alleged Slavic component. A group paper by geneticists headed by Pavel Flegontov, together with the linguist George Starostin criticized this paper, arguing that it had serious methodological flaws in the evaluation of the linguistic and genetic components. Appealing to the consensual view that Yiddish is descended from Old High German, they also argue that the Geographic Population Structure (GPS) tool is not suitable "for admixed populations and for tracing ancestry up to 1,000 years before present, as its authors have previously claimed." In reply, Elhaik, Wexler et al., dismissed the Flegontov paper as marred by lack of knowledge of Jewish history and a failure to evaluate relexification.

In 2021 Wexler published a new work, his Silk Road Linguistics: The Birth of Yiddish and the Multiethnic Jewish Peoples on the Silk Road. In this monograph, running to well over 1,400 pages, Wexler discusses the origins and relations of almost 300 lexemes he considers part of the "Afro-Eurasian elements in Yiddish".

Criticism
Dovid Katz considers his approach inconsistent with conventional methods of historical linguistics and the comparative method, arguing that such methods demonstrate that both Eastern and Western Yiddish are descended from a Middle High German dialect with components of Aramaic and Hebrew vocabulary, and underwent the same regular sound changes as those undergone by the German components.

Wexler was also a co-author on a controversial population genetics paper with Eran Elhaik that claimed that Ashkenazi Jews have genetic origins in Turkey. The inclusion of Wexler's linguistic theories to support the theory proposed by the article was criticized by linguists and geneticists.

Controversy
In 1988, Wexler was suspected of having written, under the Ukrainian pseudonym Pavlo Slobodjans'kyj, a harshly-worded review in the journal Language of a volume entitled "Origins of the Yiddish Language". While criticising others, the writer excluded Wexler's work, contained in the same volume, from criticism. Dovid Katz, whose claim that Aramaic-speaking Jews immigrated to Germany prior to 10th century was dismissed as "incredible",  raised strong protests over the putative use of a pseudonym, with evidence suggesting that the review had all the hallmarks of Wexler's polemical style and that the submission had been sent from the address of one of Wexler's relatives. The journal where it was published, Language, later published an apology and retracted the review.

Bibliography

See also
 Khazar hypothesis
 Pseudoscientific language comparison

Notes

Citations

Sources

1938 births
American emigrants to Israel
Historians of Jews and Judaism
Israeli Jews
Khazar studies
Linguists from Israel
Linguists from the United States
Linguists of Yiddish
Living people
Pseudolinguistics
Academic staff of Tel Aviv University


title: 2014–15 Olympique de Marseille season

text:
The 2014–15 Olympique de Marseille season was the 65th professional season of the club since its creation in 1899 and 19th consecutive season in the top flight.

This was the first season in ten years that Marseille did not participate in the UEFA Champions League or UEFA Europa League, having finished sixth in the 2013–14 Ligue 1 season. The club was coached by legendary Argentine tactician Marcelo Bielsa, who signed a two-year contract in May 2014.

This was also the first season in which the side played at the renovated Stade Vélodrome, with the stadium having completed renovations which took place over the last three years. Capacity went up to 67,000 - from 48,000 last season, and 42,000 the season before. The stadium is rated five-star by UEFA, and was used ahead for the UEFA Euro 2016.

Players

French teams are limited to four players without EU citizenship. Hence, the squad list includes only the principal nationality of each player; several non-European players on the squad have dual citizenship with an EU country. Also, players from the ACP countries—countries in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific that are signatories to the Cotonou Agreement—are not counted against non-EU quotas due to the Kolpak ruling.

Current squad

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Coaching Staff

Transfers
The club made their first transfer of the season in June when they signed Belgian striker Michy Batshuayi for a rumoured €8 million from Standard Liège. The club then signed Romain Alessandrini, the Marseille-born Rennes winger for €5 million a few days later.

So far, Larry Azouni has been transferred to Nîmes and Florian Raspentino has departed to Caen.

In

Out

Competitions

Pre-season and friendlies

Ligue 1

League table

Results summary

Results by round

Matches

Coupe de France

Coupe de la Ligue

Statistics

Appearances and goals

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References

Olympique de Marseille seasons
Marseille


title: Albizia amara

text:
Albizia amara is a tree in the family Fabaceae. Its range includes southern and Eastern Africa, from South Africa to Sudan and Ethiopia. It is also found in India and Sri Lanka.

Description
Albizia amara is a mid-sized, deciduous tree which resembles acacia without the thorns. The bark of the tree is grey in color and is grainy and scaly. The leaves consist of up to 15 pairs of side stalks and the leaflets are tiny and can consist of about 15–35 pairs. The flowers are whitish-yellow powder puffs with long stamens and golden pollen. The pods are flat and are about 20 cm long. The leaves thin out during February–March and are renewed in April. The flowers are present throughout May and the fruits ripen during October and November. It is a host plant for Achaea janata.

Ecology
Albizia amara is intolerant of shade, and resistant to drought. In Africa it grows mainly in sandy woodlands.

Albizia amara and Hardwickia binata are the dominant canopy trees in the Central Deccan Plateau Dry Deciduous Forests ecoregion of India. It is also found in the Anamalai, Palani and Cardamom hills of Western Ghats and the Godavari area, the Javadi Hills of Eastern Ghats in South India.

Uses

Medicinal uses

 The leaves and flowers are used for treatment of boils and ulcers. The leaf is also used for treatment of erysipelas.
 Paste of leaf and rootbark is used to cure both skin diseases and poisonous  bites. [This journal is probably a predatory journal].
 The seeds are regarded as astringent and used in the treatment of piles, diarrhea and gonorrhea.
 The flowers are used as a remedy for cough, ulcers, dandruff and malaria.
 The  pharmaceutical compounds of seeds and leaves has potential broad spectrum of anticancer  activity.

Its wood is used for construction and furniture, and as a firewood. Albizia amara provides many environmental services: control of soil erosion, wind break, shade provider. It is also an ornamental tree in urban areas. Ruminants can feed its leaves.

In colonial times, in India, its "plentiful" wood was extensively used as railway fuel.

Gallery

References

amara
Trees of Africa
Flora of India (region)
Trees of Sri Lanka


title: Glenn Springs Historic District

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Glenn Springs Historic District is a national historic district located at Glenn Springs, Spartanburg County, South Carolina. It encompasses 18 contributing buildings and 3 contributing sites in the historic health resort of Glenn Springs. The community developed as a resort around the mineral springs between about 1840 and 1940. The district includes several residences, two boarding houses, Cates House Ruins, Calvary Protestant Episcopal Church, Presbyterian Church, Cates Store, Glenn Springs Post Office, a pavilion, a cemetery, and the site of the Glenn Springs Hotel.  It includes notable buildings in the Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Queen Anne, and Bungalow styles.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

References

Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
Greek Revival architecture in South Carolina
Gothic Revival architecture in South Carolina
Queen Anne architecture in South Carolina
Buildings and structures in Spartanburg County, South Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Spartanburg County, South Carolina


title: Giswil Tunnel

text:
The Giswil Tunnel is a tunnel in central Switzerland. The tunnel bypasses the town of Giswil in the canton of Obwalden, and forms part of the A8 motorway. The tunnel was completed in 2004, and is  long.

References

Buildings and structures in Obwalden
Transport in Obwalden
Road tunnels in Switzerland


title: Dimitar Andonov (footballer)

text:
Dimitar Veselinov Andonov (; born 19 October 1987) is a Bulgarian footballer who currently plays as a midfielder.

References

External links

 Profile at Beroe.eu

1987 births
Living people
Bulgarian men's footballers
First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players
PFC Beroe Stara Zagora players
OFC Sliven 2000 players
FC Marek Dupnitsa players
FC Haskovo players
PFC Septemvri Sofia players
Men's association football midfielders
Sportspeople from Haskovo Province


title: MyEx.com

text:
MyEx.com was a controversial, free revenge porn website focusing on nude photographs of people posted by former lovers along with their real names.

Concept
MyEx.com provided an opportunity for former lovers to upload pornographic photos of their ex-lovers acquired during the course of the relationship.  Photos were generally posted with the full names of the person pictured nude and without that person's consent. Sexual comments about the subjects of the photos were solicited from visitors to the site.  The site made its money through what has been described by opponents of the site as a form of blackmail—requiring subjects wishing to remove their photos pay a fee for doing so. As of January 9th of 2018, MyEx.com was shutdown by the FTC.

Controversy

Revenge porn in general is highly controversial and has been the subject of repeated attempts in different jurisdictions to criminalize it.  A Missouri woman obtained a restraining order against her abuser, an ex-husband.  The man then posted her nude photos on MyEx.com.  She lobbied for a change in Missouri laws after she discovered there were no laws against posting sexually explicit nude photos, even with a restraining order in effect.  A Seattle man was convicted and sentenced to one year in jail after posting topless and nude photos of his female clients on MyEx.com.  He obtained the photos illegally through his work as a computer consultant.  His specific crime appeared to be the stealing of the photos—as well as stalking the women—rather than the revenge porn per se.  In addition, civil lawsuits have been filed in connection with specific alleged postings on MyEx.com.  An ex-wife of former
New York Giants player Jeff Roehl alleged that the former NFL star posted her nude photos on MyEx.com.  Job loss has also resulted from postings on MyEx.com.  MyEx.com, along with Google and Yahoo, has also been sued for copyright infringement based upon posted photos.

Ownership
MyEx.com was owned by Websolutions Netherlands BV.

Taken Down
MyEx.com was taken down in mid January 2018 after complaints were filed by the US Federal Trade Commission and the State of Nevada.

References

Dutch erotica and pornography websites
Internet properties established in 2013


title: Edward Terry (author)

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Edward Terry (1590–1660) was an English chaplain at the English embassy to the Great Mogul and an author who wrote about the Mogul empire and South Asian cuisine.

History
In 1616, the British East India Company appointed Terry as one of its fleet chaplains for a trip to India.  While en route in the Indian Ocean,  the fleet engaged and destroyed a Portuguese carrack. Terry later described this battle in his work, A Voyage to East-India.

When Terry arrived in India, Sir Thomas Row, the English ambassador, asked Terry to become the new chaplain for the English embassy. Terry's predecessor had just recently died. Terry spent the next two and half years with Row as they followed the Mogul court around what is today Gujarat, India and Bihar, India.

After returning to England, Terry served as rector of the Church at Great Greenford, in Middlesex, England until his death in 1660.

Published work
Terry wrote A Voyage to East-India as an expanded version of a manuscript that was first published in Purchas his Pilgrimes in 1625.

What distinguished Voyage was Terry's detailed descriptions of the different ethnic groups in the region, including their cultures, languages, and religious beliefs.  Terry was one of the first writers to describe Indian-style vegetarianism to Early Modern England.  Given that Terry only visited two regions of the Indian Subcontinent, much of his commentary was probably based on other research.

Voyage was a popular work in England that was later translated into other languages.  It was included in the Travels of Pietro della Valle.

References

Bibliography

 (William Henry, Prince of Orange later reigned as William III of England)

 (For the title word, see Eleutheria)

External links

1590 births
1660 deaths
17th-century English Anglican priests
English travel writers


title: Mindanao frog

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Mindanao frog may refer to:

 Eastern Mindanao frog (Limnonectes diuatus), a frog in the family Dicroglossidae endemic to the Philippines
 Mindanao fanged frog (Limnonectes magnus), a frog in the family Dicroglossidae endemic to the Philippines
 Mindanao horned frog (Megophrys stejnegeri) a frog in the family Megophryidae endemic to the island of Mindanao in the Philippines

Animal common name disambiguation pages


title: Ben Wiczynski

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Ben C. Wiczynski (January 1, 1895 – February 2, 1972) was an American politician, educator and businessman.

Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Wiczynski went to South Division High School. He then went to Milwaukee Teachers State College and Marquette University. During World War I, he was a member of the Field Artillery Central Officers Training Band. He worked for the Gut-Wiczynski Realty Firm and helped start the Capitol Building and Loan Association. In 1931, he served in the Wisconsin State Assembly as a Republican. He retired from Milwaukee Public Schools after being a teacher and school principal.

Notes

1895 births
1972 deaths
Politicians from Milwaukee
Military personnel from Milwaukee
Businesspeople from Milwaukee
Marquette University alumni
University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee alumni
Republican Party members of the Wisconsin State Assembly


title: MagNet Bank

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MagNet Bank (), known as the HBW Express Savings Co-operative () until 2010, is the only community bank in Hungary that practises ethical banking. It is owned by Hungarian citizens.

MagNet Bank has a network of 12 branches along its center in the capital Budapest. It offers the following financial products: retail, loan, term deposits, community banking products, online banking, debit cards, insurance.

Since 2013 September the MagNet Bank standardised the debit MasterCard. The bank has ATMs at each branch.

See also
 List of banks in Hungary

External links
Official website
 Bloomberg BusinessWeek: Company Overview of MagNet Bank Zrt.
 Reuters.com: Italy's Banco Popolare sells Hungarian unit

Banks of Hungary
Banks established in 1995
Ethical banking


title: Matović

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Matović (Cyrillic script: Матовић) is a Serbian patronymic surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Darjan Matović (born 1988), Bosnian goalkeeper
Dušan Matović (born 1983), Serbian footballer
Ivana Matović (born 1983), Serbian basketball player
Vera Matović (born 1946), Serbian singer
Igor Matovič (born 1973), Slovak politician, former Prime Minister of Slovakia

Surnames of Serbian origin
Patronymic surnames


title: Converse Heights Historic District

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Converse Heights Historic District is a national historic district located at Spartanburg, Spartanburg County, South Carolina. It encompasses 460 contributing buildings in a residential section of Spartanburg. The district documents the prevalent housing types for middle and upper class citizens from about 1900 to 1940. It includes residences representative of the Queen Anne,  American Foursquare, American Craftsman, Spanish Mission, Tudor, Colonial Revival, and Neo-Classical styles.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

References

Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
Colonial Revival architecture in South Carolina
Mission Revival architecture in South Carolina
Tudor Revival architecture in South Carolina
Neoclassical architecture in South Carolina
Queen Anne architecture in South Carolina
Buildings and structures in Spartanburg, South Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Spartanburg County, South Carolina


title: Mountain Heights Academy

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Mountain Heights Academy is a non-profit online charter high school in the United States. It received its charter in 2007 and opened in 2010 as Open High School of Utah. In January 2013, the school was renamed Mountain Heights Academy.

History
Open High School of Utah was founded by David A. Wiley in 2007.

Teaching Model
Open High School of Utah existed as a virtual high school, with students attending online. Teachers curated Open Educational Resources aligned to the content to Utah state standards.

Open Educational Aspects
Creating Open Educational Resources was a fundamental aspect of the school's charter. On 7 September 2010, Open High School of Utah released ten semesters of high school curriculum under a CC-BY license.

References

External links
 Mountain Heights Academy home page

Charter schools in Utah
Public high schools in Utah
Online schools in the United States


title: Alex Candelario

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Alex Candelario (born February 26, 1975) is an American former professional cyclist. After retiring from cycling, Candelario formed Big Island Bike Tours, a bicycle touring company on the island of Hawaii.

Major results

2003
 1st Stage 6 Cascade Cycling Classic
2004
 1st Stage 4 Redlands Bicycle Classic
 1st Stage 6 Cascade Cycling Classic
2005
 1st Stage 17 International Cycling Classic
 1st Stage 4 Tour de Nez
2006
 International Cycling Classic
1st Stages 16 & 17
2007
 1st Overall Tour de Nez
1st Stage 1
2008
 2nd Criterium, National Road Championships
 3rd Overall U.S. Air Force Classic
2010
 2nd Road race, National Road Championships
 3rd Overall Bucks County Classic
2012
 2nd Overall Tour de Korea
1st Stage 2

References

External links

1975 births
Living people
American male cyclists
Sportspeople from the Las Vegas Valley


title: Amber Kaldor

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Amber Kaldor (born 16 October 1990) is an Australian female acrobatic gymnast. With partners Mei Hubnik and Madison Chan, Kaldor achieved 15th in the 2014 Acrobatic Gymnastics World Championships.

References

1990 births
Living people
Australian acrobatic gymnasts
Female acrobatic gymnasts
Place of birth missing (living people)


title: Mei Hubnik

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Mei Hubnik (born 10 March 1995) is an Australian female acrobatic gymnast. With partners Amber Kaldor and Madison Chan, Hubnik achieved 15th in the 2014 Acrobatic Gymnastics World Championships.

References

1995 births
Living people
Australian acrobatic gymnasts
Female acrobatic gymnasts


title: Madison Chan

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Madison Chan (born 26 October 1997) is an Australian female acrobatic gymnast. With partners Mei Hubnik and Amber Kaldor, Chan achieved 15th in the 2014 Acrobatic Gymnastics World Championships.

References

1997 births
Living people
Australian acrobatic gymnasts
Female acrobatic gymnasts


title: 2006 Atlantic 10 Conference baseball tournament

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The 2006 Atlantic 10 Conference Baseball Championship was held from May 24 through 28 at Jim Houlihan Park at Jack Coffey Field in The Bronx, NY. It featured the top six regular-season finishers of the conference's 14 teams. Fifth-seeded Saint Louis defeated St. Bonaventure in the title game to win the tournament for the first time, earning the Atlantic 10's automatic bid to the 2006 NCAA tournament.

Seeding and format
The league's top six teams, based on winning percentage in the 27-game regular-season schedule, were seeded one through six. The top two seeds, Rhode Island and St. Bonaventure, received byes into the second round of play in the double elimination tournament.

Bracket

All-Tournament Team
The following players were named to the All-Tournament Team. Saint Louis pitcher Ryan Bird, one of two Billikens selected, was named Most Outstanding Player.

George Washington's Josh Wilkie (2005) and St. Bonaventure's Joe Rizzo (2004) were second-time selections.

Notes

 The George Washington-Rhode Island 17 inning game was the longest in tournament history

References

Tournament
Atlantic 10 Conference baseball tournament
Atlantic 10 Conference baseball tournament
Atlantic 10 Conference baseball tournament
2000s in the Bronx
Baseball in New York City
College sports in New York City
Sports competitions in New York City
Sports in the Bronx


title: 2014 Mountain Province bus accident

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The 2014 Mountain Province Bus accident was a bus accident that occurred when a Florida Trans bus fell off a road in Sitio Paggang, Talubin, Bontoc, Mountain Province of the Philippines. The accident occurred on February 7, 2014. Fourteen people were killed and more than 32 people were injured. Comedian Tado and two more artists died in this accident.

Accident
The accident occurred in Barangay Talubin, Bontoc, Mountain Province at around 7:20 am   The bus was traveling on the Mountain Province when it fell 100 to 120 meters deep off the mountain.

As a result, 14 people were killed and 32 were left injured. Two foreigners, a Dutch and a Canadian national, were among the casualties. Visual artist Gerard Baja, musician David Sicam, and comedian Tado were also killed in the accident. Those who sustained injuries were brought to the Bontoc General Hospital. The driver was among those injured while the bus conductor was killed.

The passenger bus involved was a DMMC Aero Adamant with body no. 206 and is mounted on UD Nissan Diesel RB46S platform.

Investigation
Mountain Province Senior Superintendent police chief Oliver Emmodias said mechanical problems and a defect in the vehicle could have been the cause of the accident.

Aftermath

Sanctions
The Land Transportation Franchising Regulatory Board (LTFRB) imposed a 30-day preventive suspension to GV Florida Transport 186 of its franchised units on February 10, 2014. The Court of Appeals lifted the suspension on June 2014, citing grave abuse of discretion from the LTFRB, which found no "violations or willful and contumacious refusal to comply with the rules or regulations" but suspended the bus company anyway; on the same decision, the court affirmed the cancellation of certificates of public convenience to 10 other Florida buses.

Commemoration
On July 6, 2014, an artwork called "Every Bus is a Bus Full of Dreamers" was painted in front of the Sampaloc GV Florida Transport terminal.

References

Bus incidents in the Philippines
History of Mountain Province
2014 in the Philippines
2014 disasters in the Philippines


title: Lucille Godiveau

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Lucille Godiveau (born 18 April 1987) is a French female rugby union player. She represented  at the 2010 Women's Rugby World Cup.

She was a member of the 2013 squad that played  and .

References

1987 births
Living people
French female rugby union players
France international women's rugby sevens players
France women's international rugby union players


title: Excise and taxation department, Punjab (Pakistan)

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The Excise, Taxation & Narcotics Control Department is a department of Government of Punjab, Pakistan. The Excise, Taxation & Narcotics Control Department collects various taxes and duties and suggests ways and means for additional resource mobilization in the Province.

Various type of taxes department collects include:
 Motor Vehicle Tax
 Property Tax
 Excise Duty
 Professional Tax
 Entertainment Duty
 Luxury House Tax on Houses & Farm Houses
 Cotton Fee

See also
 Ministry of Finance (Pakistan)
 Department of Revenue (Pakistan)
 Federal Board of Revenue
 Finance Department
 Economy of Punjab

References

External links
 Excise and Taxation Department Finance Department

Departments of Government of Punjab, Pakistan
Economy of Punjab, Pakistan
Taxation in Pakistan


title: Alexander House (Spartanburg, South Carolina)

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Alexander House (also known as Alexander Music House) is a historic house located at 319 East Main Street in Spartanburg, Spartanburg County, South Carolina.

Description and history
It was built in 1904 and is a two-story, wood-framed and weatherboard house in the Neo-Classical style. The front facade features a full-height entry porch with lower full-width porch. In 1969, the house was renovated and converted for use as a musical instruments store.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 11, 2003.

References

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
Neoclassical architecture in South Carolina
Houses completed in 1904
Houses in Spartanburg, South Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Spartanburg, South Carolina


title: Joe Philbin (rugby league)

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Joe Philbin (born 16 November 1994) is a professional rugby league footballer who plays as a  and  for the Warrington Wolves in the Super League. He has played for Ireland, Great Britain and England at international level.

He has spent time on loan from Warrington at the Swinton Lions and the Bradford Bulls in the Championship, and the North Wales Crusaders in Championship 1 and the Rochdale Hornets in League 1.

Background
Philbin was born in Warrington, Cheshire, England.

Playing career
Philbin his junior rugby at local amateur clubs Culcheth Eagles and Latchford Albion before joining Warrington Wolves, aged 16.

Warrington Wolves
He broke into the Warrington first team in 2014. His début was against the Hull Kingston Rovers, where he unfortunately picked up a hip injury. Philbin returned for the first team a month later against the London Broncos.

Philbin scored his first career try against the Catalans Dragons in February 2015, and the following week he scored again, this time against Hull Kingston Rovers.

Philbin played in the 2018 Challenge Cup Final defeat by the Catalans Dragons at Wembley Stadium.
Philbin played in the 2018 Super League Grand Final defeat by Wigan at Old Trafford.
Philbin played in the 2019 Challenge Cup Final victory over St. Helens at Wembley Stadium.
Philbin played 20 games for Warrington in the 2023 Super League season as Warrington finished sixth on the table and qualified for the playoffs. He played in the clubs elimination playoff loss against St Helens.

Bradford
He was sent on a month's loan to Super League side Bradford in January 2014.

Swinton
Philbin featured in two matches via dual registration for Swinton, and scored one try.

International career
In 2016 he was called up to the Ireland squad for the 2017 Rugby League World Cup European Pool B qualifiers.

In 2018 he was selected for the England Knights on their tour of Papua New Guinea. He played against Papua New Guinea at the Lae Football Stadium and the Oil Search National Football Stadium.

He was added to the Great Britain Lions Elite Performance squad in September 2019.

He was selected in squad for the 2019 Great Britain Lions tour of the Southern Hemisphere.

References

External links
Warrington Wolves profile
SL profile
(archived by web.archive.org) Statistics at rlwc2017.com

1994 births
Living people
Bradford Bulls players
English people of Irish descent
England Knights national rugby league team players
English rugby league players
Ireland national rugby league team players
Irish rugby league players
North Wales Crusaders players
Rochdale Hornets players
Rugby league players from Warrington
Rugby league second-rows
Swinton Lions players
Warrington Wolves players
Great Britain national rugby league team players
England national rugby league team players


title: 1999 Bolsover District Council election

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The 1999 Bolsover District Council election took place on 6 May 1999 to elect members of Bolsover District Council in Derbyshire, England. The whole council was up for election and the Labour party stayed in overall control of the council.

Election result

References

1999
1999 English local elections
1990s in Derbyshire


title: Crassula ovata

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Crassula ovata, commonly known as jade plant, lucky plant, money plant or money tree, is a succulent plant with small pink or white flowers that is native to the KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape provinces of South Africa, and Mozambique; it is common as a houseplant worldwide. Much of its popularity stems from the low levels of care needed; the jade plant requires little water and can survive in most indoor conditions. It is sometimes referred to as the money tree; however, Pachira aquatica also has this nickname.

Description

The jade plant is an evergreen with thick branches. It has thick, shiny, smooth leaves that grow in opposing pairs along the branches. Leaves are a rich jade green, although some may appear to be more of a yellow-green. Some varieties may develop a red tinge on the edges of leaves when exposed to high levels of sunlight. New stem growth is the same colour and texture as the leaves, becoming woody and brown with age.

It grows as an upright, rounded, thick-stemmed, strongly branched shrub and reaches stature heights of up to . The base is usually sparsely branched. Sometimes a single main trunk of up to  in diameter is formed. The succulent shoots are gray-green. The bark of older branches peels off in horizontal, brownish stripes. Although becoming brown and appearing woody with age, stems never become true lignified tissue, remaining succulent and fleshy throughout the plant's life.

The oppositely arranged, ascending to spreading, green leaves are stalked with up to 5 millimetres short. The fleshy, bare, obovate, wedge-shaped leaf blade is  long and . The sharp-edged leaf margins are often reddish.

Numerous varieties and cultivars have been selected, of which C. ovata 'Hummel's Sunset' has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

Inflorescence
When it matures, it produces small white or pink, star-like shaped flowers in winter. The terminal inflorescence is a top round thyrsus with numerous dichasia. It has a length and a diameter of about 5 centimetres. The inflorescence stem has a length of 15 to 18 millimetres and a diameter of 2 millimetres. The flower stalks are 5 millimetres long.

The sweet-scented, hermaphroditic flowers have radial symmetry and double perianths. The five sepals, each about 2 millimetres long, are fused to one another at the base. The pink or white flower crown is star-shaped and has a diameter of about 15 millimetres. Its lanceolate petals are 7 millimetres long and 2.5 millimetres wide. The stamens have a length of 5 millimetres. The combination of shorter days, cold nights and lack of water for several weeks will produce flowering around the beginning of winter.

Cultivation

As a succulent, Crassula ovata requires little water in the summer and even less in the winter. It is susceptible to overwatering, especially during the cold season. Watering excessively can cause leaf fall and root rot. However, a lack of water can also damage it. It should be grown in a porous substrate with good drainage, which will vary depending on the climate it is grown in. It requires about four to six hours of direct sun or medium shade exposures with bright light. In regions of mild weather it can withstand some light frost, provided that the substrate is kept dry.

C. ovata may display a red tinge around its leaves when grown with bright sunlight. In more extreme cases, the green colour of the plant is lost and can be replaced by yellow. This is caused by the jade plant making pigments such as carotenoids to protect from harsh sunlight and ultraviolet rays. The plant also flowers in the wintertime, particularly during a cooler, darker, dry spell. C. ovata is sometimes attacked by mealybugs, a common nuisance of the succulents.

Propagation
The jade plant is also known for its ease of propagation, which can be carried out with clippings or even stray leaves which fall from the plant. Jade plants may readily be propagated from both with success rates higher than with cuttings. In the wild, vegetative propagation is the jade plant's main method of reproduction. Branches regularly fall off wild jade plants, and these branches may root and form new plants.

Like many succulents, jade plants can be propagated from just the swollen leaves which grow in pairs on the stems. While propagation methods may vary, most follow similar steps. Typically, the wounds on the leaves are left to dry and callus over. Then, the leaves are placed in or on soil. Roots begin to grow on severed leaves about four weeks after being removed from the stem. Environmental factors such as temperature and humidity affect the speed at which the roots and new plants develop. Foliage usually appears soon after new roots have formed.

Parasites and diseases
Scale insects are common pests of Crassula ovata and can cause deformation of the plant during growth. An infestation can be eliminated by killing each insect with a cotton bud or brush that has been soaked in rubbing alcohol. This process is repeated daily until all mealybugs have been killed, as well as new insects that may still hatch after the mealybugs living on the plant have been killed. Aphids are also common pests, but they tend to infest the stems of flowers. Spider mites can also cause problems. Exposure to sap or leaves can cause dermatitis in humans.

Toxicity
Some sources claim that some species from the Crassulaceae family, including the jade plant are possibly toxic to horses, cats, and dogs, as well as mildly toxic to humans with skin contact, but such claims remain unproven. Crassula ovata is known to be used as medicinal plant in some regions.

Cultivars
 'Crosby's Compact' (syn. 'Crosby's Dwarf', 'Crosby's Red', 'Red Dwarf Jade Plant') -The variety has smaller leaves that are usually red in color. The branches are also smaller than that of other varieties, giving the impression that it is miniature.
 'Monstruosa' (syn. 'Cristata', 'Gollum', 'Hobbit') – A trumpet-shaped, skimpy branched, shrubby cultivar up to  tall and around  wide, with tubular leaves that have a reddish tint. The flowers are small and star-like, white or pinkish-white in colour. Resembling a small tree, its trunk becomes thick with age. They grow in well-drained, regularly watered soils in bright airy conditions under a few hours of sunshine in a day, as well as in part shade. They have a superficial resemblance to Sedum rubrotinctum. They are colloquially known as spoon jade, hobbit jade, Gollum jade, ET’s fingers, finger jade, trumpet jade, and ogre ears.
 'Tricolor' – A slow-growing branching shrub with stout stems that has round, variegated bright green leaves which are creamy yellow and white in colour. Drought-tolerant, it still relies on occasional water in summer but virtually none in winter (unless grown in container). This variety can also be referred to as Crassula Ovata ‘Lemon & Lime’.
 'Undulata' – A variety with curly leaves.

AGM cultivars
The following have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit:-
 Crassula ovata
 'Gollum'
 'Hummel's Sunset'

Gallery

See also
 Crassula arborescens
 Kleinia petraea, an unrelated similar looking trailing plant

References

External links

 Crassula ovata at succulent-plant.com

ovata
Flora of Mozambique
Flora of the Cape Provinces
Flora of KwaZulu-Natal
Albany thickets
Garden plants
House plants
Plants used in bonsai


title: Đurović

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Đurović (; also transliterated Djurovic) is a Serbian patronymic surname derived from a masculine given name Đuro. It may refer to:

 Borislav Đurović (1952–2003), Montenegrin football player
 Dragan Đurović (born 1959), Montenegrin politician
 Jelena Đurović (born 1973), Montenegrin journalist and political activist
 Nemanja Đurović (born 1986), Serbian-Bosnian football player
 Nenad Đurović (born 1986), Montenegrin football player
 Žarko Đurović (born 1961), Serbian football manager

See also
 Đurić, surname
 Đurđević (disambiguation), surname
 Đurovski, surname

Surnames of Serbian origin
Patronymic surnames


title: Bottisham Hall

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Bottisham Hall is a country house in Bottisham, Cambridgeshire, England.

Built in 1797 for the Reverend George Leonard Jenyns to replace the family's previous home on the same estate, it is set in 56 hectares of parkland. It is listed Grade II on the National Heritage List for England.

References

Country houses in Cambridgeshire
Grade II listed buildings in Cambridgeshire
Grade II listed houses
Houses completed in 1797
Hall


title: Anti-twister

text:
Anti-twister can mean:

 Anticyclonic tornado, a type of tornado
 Anti-twister mechanism, a mechanism that allows continuous rotation of an object attached by a link


title: Punjab Food Department (Pakistan)

text:
Punjab Food Department is a department of Government of Punjab, Pakistan.
Food Department is responsible for regulating business of food grains which include purchase, storage, sales and milling.

Functions
Functions of the Food Department are:
 Procurement of wheat for issuance to the mills
 Ensure Food Security in wheat and wheat products
 Transportation from surplus to deficit regions
 Protection of wheat from pest and other hazards
 Undertaking all activity related to export of wheat up to supply at port

Attached Departments
 Ministry of National Food Security & Research
 Punjab Agriculture Department
 Punjab Food Authority

External links
 Punjab Food Department

References

Departments of Government of Punjab, Pakistan
Agriculture in Punjab, Pakistan


title: Fu Shanxiang

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Fu Shanxiang (; 1833 – 1864) was a Chinese scholar from Nanjing who became Chancellor under the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, a rebel Chinese state opposed to the Qing dynasty in the 1850s. Fu is known as the first (and last) female Zhuangyuan in Chinese history (though her examinations were under the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, not the Qing dynasty).

Career
The historical record on Fu Shanxiang is brief and unclear, but scholars agree on the outlines. She was a daughter of the scholar Fu Qizheng, a native of Nanjing, who was orphaned at an early age. The rebel armies of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom took control of the city in 1853, and proclaimed revolutionary social policies, including the equality of women. They arranged the first examinations for women in the history of China. The exam was held on January 13, 1853, the birthday of the Taiping Heavenly King, Hong Xiuquan. Fu achieved the highest score, earning her the title Zhuangyuan, the first and only time in Chinese history that the honor had been (allowed to) and earned by a woman. After her success, no more examinations for women were held.

Fu was appointed Chancelloress in the court of Yang Xiuqing, the East King (Dong Wang), where she dealt with correspondence and official papers. Since Yang was illiterate, having been orphaned at an early age and receiving no schooling, Fu Shanxiang read documents aloud to him. She issued pardons in Yang's name for many who had broken the laws against opium and alcohol.

However, at one point she spoke disrespectfully to Yang, and may have been smoking tobacco or using alcohol, each of which was in itself a capital offense under the puritanical Taiping codes. At Yang's request, the Heavenly King, Hong Xiuquan, issued "An Edict Condemning A Chancelloress," which noted that while drunk, Fu had insulted the East King and shown extreme disrespect. Alcohol was forbidden in the Taiping Kingdom, therefore her punishment should have been immediate decapitation. But Hong took into account her record of good service and that she was under the influence of alcohol when she lost control of her words (the nature of the words is not indicated). Hong decreed that the "lightest punishment will be given," namely that Fu should wear the cangue on seven Sabbath days, after which she could regain office and redeem herself.

Fu then wrote a letter of penitence in what she called "extreme fear of her unpardonable crime." She thanked Yang, the Eastern King, for his role in getting her such light punishment:
In drunken carelessness, by a slip of the tongue I offended the Eastern King. Were the Eastern King to confer death upon this maidservant, how could she begrudge him her death? But now, by an excessive expression of mercy, execution has not been imposed; instead I only have been made to wear the cangue as a display of light punishment.... Yet the life of an ant is not safe night or day. On my part, as a woman, I have had extraordinary fortune in having been given administrative authority over women and having risen to heights in the feminine world. Already gloriously fortunate to the extreme, what regrets would I have in death? ... With regret I look back to your kind regard without which I can no longer sustain myself in this world.... The pair of gold bracelets which Your Majesty kindly gave me, I, at the brink of death, return by messenger to you, wrapped in some red gauze which I myself have worn.... If your Highness should one day think of my humble service, when you see this it will be like seeing me, your maidservant.  ("Letter from A Chancelloress to the Tung Wang (Dong Wang)," (n.d.) )
Fu resumed her service, taking special responsibilities for women's hostels.

In March 1854, Yang, delivering his edicts as the word of God, declared that the heroes of the Chinese past were to be respected and certain core values maintained. His orders responded to the unease of many people in newly occupied areas who did not agree with Hong Xiuquan's radical program of attacking tradition. A rift opened between Yang and Hong. Because he respected her knowledge of the classics, Yang ordered Fu to write an edict explaining why the heroes of former times should in fact be honored.  She earned Yang's praise when she wrote
Heroes are those who, by the grace of the Heavenly Father [that is, Jehovah], have been inspired by the spirit and therefore are born intelligent and become discreet and decent when they grow older. They honor filial piety at home and practise loyalty and patriotism when they are in society.... when they die, their heroic exploits will be transmitted in history. They enjoy eternal glory in having their meritorious achievement and deeds recorded in books which, as ordained by the Heavenly Father, should never be destroyed.

Yang Xiuqing was assassinated in September, 1856, presumably on Hong's orders, and thousands of his followers killed. Fu was not killed in this slaughter, but committed suicide in 1864 by poison when the emperor's forces began recapturing Nanjing.

In popular culture
Fu Shanxiang caught the attention of later playwrights and novelists. She is presented in the 1943 play Tianguo chunqiu by Yang Hansheng as having a romance with Yang Xiuqing leading to a tragic conclusion because of jealousy with Hong Xuanjiao, sister of Hong Xiuquan.   This incident also appears in the 2000 CCTV series, The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and her fate is depicted in a section of Xu Xaobin's 1998 novel, Yu she, translated as Feathered Serpent.

Notes

References and further reading

External links
 太平之花 傅善祥 (Taiping zhi hua: Fu Xiangshan; Flower of the Taiping: Fu Xiangshan)  Video (in Chinese) of excerpts and discussion of the opera.

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title: Selwyn Goldsmith

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Selwyn Goldsmith (11 December 1932 – 3 April 2011) was an architect, town planner, writer and disabilities advocate who was instrumental in the development of the universal approach to design. He wrote numerous books which became standard texts for designers and architects.

Biography
Goldsmith was born in Newark, Nottinghamshire on 11 December 1932. He was educated at Abbotsholme school, Staffordshire, and read architecture at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, completing his qualification at the Bartlett School, University College London, in 1956. He contracted polio in that same year and was paralysed down the right hand side of his body for the rest of his life.

Research

Dropped kerb
While working in Norwich in 1967, he interviewed wheelchair users, research that led to the concept of the idea of the dropped kerb. 15 of these being installed in the city. After this development Goldsmith realised the impact this can have on all users, such as mothers with pushchairs. This led to his interest in Universal principles of design.

Universal design
Goldsmith worked with Gordon Ricketts, the secretary of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Together they developed the idea behind Designing for the Disabled which was a new concept within the UK. This resulted in the book Designing for the Disabled (1963), which is an architectural planning manual on access for disabled people to facilities and buildings. He later revised this book after retirement. In his later life he further developed the idea of Universal Design in a book of the same title. This work considered that having "different" or "extreme" needs is not unusual, but in fact "normal". That urban design, architecture and digital content should be design for all as a standard and not be considering a certain group as special. The architect who takes the bottom-up route to universal design works on the premise that the building users he or she is serving, including those with disabilities, are all people who can be treated as normal people. The architect does not start with the presumption that people with disabilities are abnormal, are peculiar and different, and that, in order to make buildings accessible to them, they should be packaged together and then, with a set of special-for-the-disabled accessibility standards, have their requirements presented in topdown mode as add-ons to unspecified normal provision.

Ps and queues
Goldsmith worked with his wife, Becky Goldsmith, on the issue of inequality in toilet facilities in major buildings from 1989. Their research highlighted the issue of the poor level of toilets for women over that of men. This led to numerous articles and reports for the UK Department of the Environment. He called a subsequent article on the subject "Ps and Queues".

The Selwyn Goldsmith Award
Since 2011 The Civic Trust has been awarding buildings and interior designs which allow all to use with dignity and equality.

References

1932 births
2011 deaths
Alumni of University College London
People from Newark and Sherwood (district)
Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge
Architects from Nottinghamshire
British male writers
English people with disabilities


title: Divljana Monastery

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Divljana Monastery, also known as the Monastery of St. Demetrius, is a Serbian Orthodox monastery located near the village of Divljana and Divljana Lake,  south of Bela Palanka, in the foothills of Suva Planina,  above sea level. It is dedicated to St. Demetrius, who is celebrated on 8 November. The monastery was first built in 394 at this location, which became the property of the Mrnjavčević brothers at the end of the 13th century after the destruction of the monastery. In the monastery complex, there are records of ancient burials from the 4th century, some of which can be seen two of the capitals. Around 880, with the revival of Christianization, there were also new eparchies. Based on physical evidence and the Charter of the Byzantine emperor Basil II, archaeologists believe that the site also included an early Christian building from the 9th century related to a renewal of church life in Middle Ponišavlje.

Geography
The monastery is located  south of Bela Palanka, not far from the ancient road to Skopje and Thessaloniki. Situated  above sea level in the foothills of the south-eastern part of Suva Planina, there are wooded slopes around the monastery, offering a unique view of the Svrljig Mountains and Šljivovački vrh.

History
Over the years, many churches similar to the medieval church have been demolished and rebuilt in the area. According to some sources, the first Christian church was built in 394. This church was built on the foundation of a pagan temple dedicated to the sun god Mitras. The place was long considered sacred; thus, when Christianity became the religion of the former state, the monastery complex was built here. The temple dedicated to Mitras was not the first structure. It had been preceded by many other pagan temples.

Prehistoric and ancient sites
Based on various records and sources, it can be assumed that the site of the present village of Divljana was one of the sacred sites of the Triballi (Thracians) tribe who lived there in ancient times. Only  from the current location of the monastery, there was a Bronze Age settlement, Igrište, from around 1200 BC.  from location of the monastery, burial pits were discovered with the ashes of the deceased in various ceramic containers. Within a radius of less than  around the monastery, there were several settlements in Roman times (Stasovac, Bils, Villa Rustica, Teberna).  from the location of the monastery, there was the ancient settlement of Remesiana, or today's Bela Palanka. However, in the village of Divljana, there is little evidence of the various pagan temples. The only indication stems from legends about fairies who were closely related to ancient nymphs. This ancient shrine was closed in 392, just before the founding of the first Christian monastery dedicated to St. Demetrius, in whose interior were placed reliquiae from the old church (marble icons of a nymph and a Thracian horseman).

Temples dedicated to the sun god Mitras were placed close to main roads and sources of water. This was characteristic for the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD, especially in the Ponišavlje district. This is based on the presence of two bequeath altars, one in Divljana and another in village of Osmakova, and of two relief icons, one in village Ragodeš and another in village of Rasnica, within . Temples of Mitras were built in smaller sizes, usually  and generally oriented east–west, as opposed to the later churches, which had the altar on the west side and entrance on the east. There is a wealth of ancient materials at the site, one of the richest in south-eastern Serbia. Other remains include:
a large stone impost capital,  in height, with a diameter of  at the bottom expanding to  at the top, bearing the engraving of an old Christian cross within the circle on the front side, and omegas on all the vertical edges
two circular stone-sided base, part of the capitals
Three hulls of the ancient stone pillars,  in depth
two ancient stone pillars, square-based with  base line and  long
an ancient stone pillar for a fountain
a fragment of an ancient stone monument with the Latin word: "dici"
holy throne made of stone (column of reddish sandstone,  in height above the floor holding the stone plate with dimensions )

Origin of the name of the monastery
The name Divljana is derived from Latin Divus, meaning "divine" or "god". Professor S. Petrović mentions toponyms with the base and root words: giant (Ser. див) and wild (Ser. Дивји). Giants were part of Serbian pre-Christian mythology. The Serbian word div (Ser. див), itself was derived from the word dievo, and related words were used in Indo-European languages for naming gods: Indian Deva, Old-Persian Daeva or Divus, and Latin Deus. However, it is obvious that the present name Divljana comes from the Latin word Divian, which means "land of the gods" (sr. Боговина).

Early Christian church
The first church at this location was an early Christian three-nave basilica. This can be seen from the period of its construction, from archaeological research and by comparison with other churches of the same type in the area. Christian churches in Remesiana from that era were generally oriented east–west with the altar on the east side, where the dimensions were . Above the main entrance stood a porch which would have been borne by two massive pillars with bases and capitals. On the capitals, there were usually engravings of the early Christian sign of the cross and the letter omega. The floors and wall paneling were made of marble. The Church of St. Demetrius in Divljana had dimensions of . The former church in Divljana was very similar to the present-day church which was almost the same size, with the same foundation and at the same location, except that it had a larger western portal. The present church was built in the Romanesque and Renaissance styles. The church had a two-story roof in combination with west facade and thus created the impression of a three-nave church. Here there is no dome but its decorations include 124 blind arcades, pilaster strips and trefoil.

The founder of this church was Nicetas of Remesiana (338–420). It was built between 392 and 395. Nicetas is well known by his achievements throughout the Roman Empire, where he was an active missionary and writer. He held the position of bishop in Remesiana (366–420), leaving many of the oldest churches and monasteries in the area. His importance is reflected by the fact that other early monasteries were established at the time: in Milan between 374 and 379 by Bishop Ambrose, in Tugasta in 398 by St. Augustine, and in Marseille in 415 by John Cassian. However, at the time when the Divljana Monastery was created, the Roman Empire suffered frequent incursions by the Goths across the Danube, and the monastery was frequently destroyed. In these times, bishop Nicetas, who was in touch with senior state and church officials, did his utmost to protect Christianity in the region.

Based on research undertaken by M. Kostić, it is no coincidence that the monastery was located where it stands. Choosing a place to build a monastery dedicated to St. Demetrios was not only due to its extraordinary natural environment, but also because it is very close to the Divljana hot springs. Like other hot springs, these were known for their medicinal composition and their sacred connotations, but over time there were changes to the composition of the water due to demineralization. In the Middle Ages, the function of the holy place resulted in the Divljana monastery. The role of the place "Diviana" becomes clearer when the Thracian Triballi tribe from Ponišavlje began to worship at hot springs and rivers, especially in spas and other sources of healing waters. They developed a cult of the gods of health and vitality. All this led to the founding of a Christian monastery.

After the closing of the pagan temple in 392, the monastery was built on the same site between 392 and 395, at a time when Christianity had already been established as the official religion in the Roman Empire. Based on archaeological research, it remains to be proven whether the original church of the Divljana monastery was on the same site as the medieval church.

The selection of the Thessaloniki miracle worker St. Demetrius as patron of the monastery was by the Bishop Niketa, indicating the rapid development and expansion of the worship of this saint in Thessaloniki. Thessaloniki had been the capital of the prefecture of Illyria, to which Remesiana (Bela Palanka) belonged at the end of the 4th century. It is not known exactly when the first church, dedicated to St Demetrius, was built, but prefect Leontius built a large basilica in Thessaloniki, and later, in 412, he built another in the Sirmium. Niketa had multiple connections with Thessaloniki, and some of these connections were with his master chief of the church with whom he discussed everything; another connection was that he traveled by boat from Thessaloniki to east and west, and also met with the Emperor Theodosius. All this becomes clearer from the fact that Thessaloniki for Niketa was the same as for St. Sava 800 years later.

The main temple of Middle Ponišavlje

Divljana monastery survived the fall of the Roman Empire, and around it there was a permanent settlement of pagan Slavs in the Ponišavlje district around 614. But soon after that, Christian life on that location disappeared for the next two centuries, clearly confirming the renewal and reaffirmation of worship in 870 when re-Christianization began. The re-opening of dioceses and parishes was undertaken by the Greek hierarchy of the Patriarchate of Constantinople. All shrines that were in evidence as Christian churches were restored. Since Remesiana had been destroyed, Divljana monastery became a center of this region for an extended period, as can be seen from a charter by Emperor Basil II from 1019. The temple has survived much rebuilding. In one reconstruction, elements in the Byzantine style were taken. This region was the center of Christianity in Ponišavlje until the Turks arrived, leading to its destruction and abandonment. Before the devastation, the monastery owned  of land as well as Prnjavor (an earlier name for the village of Divljana) which covered another .

One of the final demolitions occurred in 1386, during the great military campaign of the Turks at Niš, when they destroyed and burned the whole Ponišavlje district, including towns, villages and monasteries. In that military campaign, the Turks moved from Sofia to Niš, under the leadership of Sultan Murad, who later was killed in Kosovo. Another demolition took place in 1389 with the battle of Kosovo, leading to heavy battles in the Pirot region. The church was restored in 1395 and stood until 1902 when it was destroyed for the last time. Thereafter came the present church. Based on travel writer Stephan Gerlach's notes in 1578, five monks in the monastery held school there. From the Turkish cadastral census of 1595, we see that Divljana monastery is not new and that means that the monastery had already come under Turkish rule from 1574, requiring payment of 300 groat in tax to the Turkish authority. Also, from the stone monument from 1670, we learn of Stojan Vuja from Suračevo. One oktoih was repaired in 1714. The same sources reveal that in 1723, a fair was held in the name of Mary (mother of Jesus). In 1719, the Austrian diplomat K. Drish mentioned that monks were living in the monastery by the rules of St. Basil, the most prominent in the clergy.

Later, the monks Arsenius and Maksimus were recorded in the  Kardzhali pogrom in 1796, on the territory of Ponišavlje district; two years later, in 1798, a well was dug for the monastery. Before the battle of Čegar, the monastery was burned during the First Serbian Uprising in 1809. Thereafter, the monastery library and whole church interior were reconstructed, and the sponsor of this work, Thracian guild from Pirot, donated an icon of St. Spyridon in 1820. In 1873, the narthex was demolished, and in 1876–77 the monastery quarters were burnt with the fire reaching the library and destroying two parchment manuscripts. After the liberation from the Turks in 1878, it was decided a new church should be built with construction beginning in 1902 and ending in 1908. In 1902, the nave was demolished and after that the church was completed as it stands today. The author of the new church was the architect Milorad Rudivić. During the Bulgarian occupation between 1915 and 1916, Bulgarians looted and vandalized the monastery, which was the last seen of an old record which told of how St. Sava spent a time at the monsatery.

After the liberation and the October Revolution, Russian nuns, doctors and officers escaped in large numbers, and some of them came to Divljana monastery. They painted and arranged the new temple, and in 1933, they built a winter church dedicated to Sarov miracle worker St. Seraphim. They lived in the monastery until the beginning of World War II, when the remains of a sorority of Serbian nuns moved into the monastery. After the war, all property was revoked from the monastery, and a church dedicated to St Demetrius was restored; the monastery quarters were demolished and on its foundation a new one was built in 2005.

Architects D. Milutinović and M. Valtrović made color illustrations and measured drawings of the church, immediately after liberation from the Turks in 1878. After that, the monastery was visited by M. Milicević between 1878 and 1882, F. Kanic in 1889, Stevan Sremac in 1892, Vulić and Premeštajn in 1900, and A. Belić in 1901.

Not far from the monastery is an oak tree more than 1000 years old, which is an attraction for tourists.

References

Serbian Orthodox monasteries in Serbia
Pirot District
14th-century Serbian Orthodox church buildings
Medieval sites in Serbia
Christian monasteries established in the 14th century
Medieval Serbian Orthodox monasteries


title: Isabel Piczek

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Isabel Helen Piczek (November 14, 1927 – September 29, 2016) was a Hungarian born ecclesiastical artist perhaps best known for her study of the Shroud of Turin, and who lived in Los Angeles. Her sister, Edith Piczek [died 2012], was also a noted religious artist.

Piczek, and her sister Edith, were born in Hungary, where her father  Zoltán Piczek (1897-?]was a noted artist and art professor, and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest. After World War II, the sisters fled to Rome during the Communist dictatorship in Hungary to pursue their work in sacred art. There, whilst still only teenagers, they won a 1949 competition to paint a mural at Rome’s Pontifical Biblical Institute.

By 1955 they were in Canada and shortly after arrived in Los Angeles to pursue their combined talents. In Las Vegas, Edith designed the 2,000 square-foot mosaic on the façade of Guardian Angel Cathedral that illustrated the roles of the Guardian Angel. Isabel created the Stained glass windows that portray the Stations of the Cross for the same church. The two also collaborated on mosaics and the windows for Holy Family Cathedral in Orange, California and artwork in Saint Thomas Aquinas Cathedral in Reno, Nevada. Isabel created a 300 square foot figurative stained glass entrance for the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C.

In 1992, Piczek was honored by Pope John Paul II in recognition of her prolific artistic achievements, examples of which can be found in nearly 500 different cathedrals, churches and other buildings across the world. Cardinal Roger Mahony, Archbishop of Los Angeles, conferred on Piczek admission into the Order of St. Gregory the Great, and the title Dame of Saint Gregory, whereby she became one of only 70 Knights and Dames throughout the world to hold this honor.

External links
  Obituary via Orange County Register

References

1927 births
Dames of St. Gregory the Great
Shroud of Turin
2016 deaths
Hungarian University of Fine Arts alumni
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American women painters
20th-century American painters
20th-century American women artists
20th-century American women scientists
21st-century American painters
21st-century American women artists
Painters from Los Angeles


title: 2014 BB&T Atlanta Open – Doubles

text:
Édouard Roger-Vasselin and Igor Sijsling were the defending champions, but chose not to participate.
Vasek Pospisil and Jack Sock won the title, defeating Steve Johnson and Sam Querrey in the final, 6–3, 5–7, [10–5].

Seeds

Draw

Draw

References
 Main Draw

BBandT Atlanta Open - Doubles
2014 Doubles


title: KMIS

text:
KMIS may refer to:

 KMIS (AM), a radio station (1050 AM) licensed to serve Portageville, Missouri, United States
 KMIS-FM, a radio station (103.9 FM) licensed to serve Gideon, Missouri
 KMIS-Knowledge Management Information System, BPM Software, Mexico City


title: Basic Elementary Skills Test

text:
The Basic Elementary Skills Test (BEST) is a test used to verify the ability of children in mathematics and English (writing, reading, and spelling). Currently the test is available in Cambodian, Chinese, Persian, Vietnamese, Arabic, and Spanish.

Different sub-tests
The reading test requires the child to read a list of words as quickly as possible. The writing test examines the ability of the child to write sentences or paragraphs based on their age. The mathematics sub-test involves identifying numbers and solving simple problems. In the spelling test the child's ability to spell words correctly is measured.

Scoring marks
Marks are awarded for each correct answer, except for writing test where points are taken away for making mistakes and more points are earned for longer sentences. The raw marks are converted to approximate grade levels which are then used to determine if the child needs intervention classes.

References

Achievement tests
Mathematics tests


title: Principal orbit type theorem

text:
In mathematics, the principal orbit type theorem  states that compact Lie group acting smoothly on a connected differentiable manifold has a principal orbit type.

Definitions

Suppose G is a compact Lie group acting smoothly on a connected differentiable manifold M.

An isotropy group is the subgroup of G fixing some point of M.
An isotropy type is a conjugacy class of isotropy groups.
The principal orbit type theorem states that there is a unique isotropy type such that the set of points of M with isotropy groups in this isotropy type is open and dense.
The principal orbit type is the space G/H, where H is a subgroup in the isotropy type above.

References

Lie groups
Group actions (mathematics)


title: W.B. Brydon

text:
W.B. Brydon (born William Brydon Bell; 20 September 1933) is a British actor.

Brydon is primarily known as an actor, best known for the feature films The Age of Innocence (1993) and Trading Places (1983) and the television miniseries The Adams Chronicles (1976).

Brydon provided the voice-over narration for many commercials, including ads for Oxy Skin Care products from the 1980s through the mid-1990s. His other voice work included ads for Raid insecticide, Fashion Bug clothing stores and the Shell MasterCard from Chemical Bank.

Filmography

References

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1933 births
Living people
Male actors from Newcastle upon Tyne
English male voice actors
English male film actors


title: Louis Verhelst

text:
Louis Verhelst (born 28 August 1990 in Menin) is a Belgian former professional cyclist.

Major results

2008
 1st Grand Prix Bati-Metallo
2011
 6th Paris–Roubaix Espoirs
 9th Dwars door de Antwerpse Kempen
 9th GP van de stad Geel
2012
 1st Stage 3 Tour de l'Eure-et-Loir
 1st Stage 4 Three Days of Cherbourg
 5th Paris–Roubaix Espoirs
 8th Grand Prix Criquielion
 9th De Kustpijl
 10th Ronde Pévéloise
2013
 Boucle de l'Artois
1st  Mountains classification
1st Stage 1
 1st Stage 1 Circuit des Ardennes
 1st Stage 1 Tour de Bretagne Cycliste
 5th Overall Course de la Solidarité Olympique
 5th Memorial Van Coningsloo
 8th Grand Prix de la Ville de Lillers
2014
 6th Halle–Ingooigem
 10th Overall World Ports Classic
2017
 2nd Overall Tour de Côte d'Ivoire
1st Stages 4, 5 & 6

References

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1990 births
Living people
Belgian male cyclists
People from Menen
Cyclists from West Flanders


title: Nora Schaefer

text:
Nora Schaefer (born July 19, 1993) is a German female acrobatic gymnast. With partners Luise Zscheile and Franca Schamber, Schaefer competed in the 2014 Acrobatic Gymnastics World Championships.

References

1993 births
Living people
German acrobatic gymnasts
Female acrobatic gymnasts


title: Luise Zscheile

text:
Luise Zscheile (born December 30, 1993) is a German female acrobatic gymnast. With partners Nora Schaefer and Franca Schamber, Schaefer competed in the 2014 Acrobatic Gymnastics World Championships.

References

1993 births
Living people
German acrobatic gymnasts
Female acrobatic gymnasts


title: Bon Haven

text:
Bon Haven, also known as The Cleveland House, was an historic house located in Spartanburg, Spartanburg County, South Carolina.  It was built about 1884, and was a two-story, brick Second Empire style dwelling with 1920s Neo-Classical style additions. It featured a mansard roof, central tower and massive Ionic order columns and portico. Its builder, John B. Cleveland, was a founder and trustee of Converse College, a trustee of Wofford College, and played a role in the establishment of Spartanburg's city school system.  It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

Left to rot by its owner, the property was in a state of despair. A couple from Greenville offered to purchase Bon Haven for ~$380,000 and promised to historically restore the property and make it a venue or bed and breakfast. Bon Haven was demolished on September 25, 2017.  It was removed from the National Register in 2020. An apartment complex, also named Bon Haven, was built on the former site of the house in 2021.

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2017 disestablishments in South Carolina
Buildings and structures demolished in 2017
Demolished buildings and structures in South Carolina
Former National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
Houses completed in 1884
Houses in Spartanburg, South Carolina
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Spartanburg, South Carolina
Neoclassical architecture in South Carolina
Second Empire architecture in South Carolina