title: Paul Emile Diou

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Paul Emile Diou (6 September 1855 – 23 August 1914) was a French general. Diou entered the army in 1873 and spent much of his early career superintending the training of army personnel. He saw extended service in Tunisia with the Army of Africa and also in the Far East. Diou was praised for his work in Morocco in 1908 and was subsequently appointed to brigade command. In the opening stages of the First World War he led his brigade in an attack on German positions and was mortally wounded.

Early life and career
Diou was born on 6 September 1855 at Saint-Julien-lès-Metz in Moselle where a plaque marks his birthplace. His parents were Joseph Diou, a lecturer in rhetoric who was later principal of Mirecourt College, and Marie Francoise Feultier Diou.  Following the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1 his home town was annexed by Germany.  Following the terms set out by the Treaty of Frankfurt, Diou was one of the Alsatians and Lotharingians who chose to retain their French citizenship. Diou volunteered for a five year period of service with the French Army on 22 October 1873 and entered the Ecole Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr two days later. He was commissioned as a sous lieutenant on 1 October 1875 with the 69th Infantry Regiment (Diou's graduating class was named for Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen who had fought against France's enemy Prussia in the Austro-Prussian War). As a subaltern he was reportedly a "shy and timid character, but an energetic worker" and was commended by the Minister of War (Jean Auguste Berthaut) on 31 January 1877 for survey work undertaken in the vicinity of Toul. Later that year he won the army's regional shooting championship at the camp at Châlons-en-Champagne.

Colonial Service
Diou was promoted to lieutenant in the 110th Infantry Regiment on 17 September 1880 and served in Tunisia from 11 September 1881 until 9 April 1883. There was a break in his service in that country between May and September 1882 and he may have returned to France to recover from Typhoid fever that he contracted in Tunisia. Diou was promoted to captain in the 45th Infantry Regiment on 29 December 1885 and held responsibility for preparing enlisted candidates for the non-commissioned officer examinations at the Ecole Militaire in Saint-Maixent. He wrote a dissertation on the development of defensive positions at Farbus in 1888 and returned to the Ecole Spéciale Militaire as a lecturer in musketry on 18 October 1890.

Diou left St-Cyr on 11 October 1894 when he rejoined the 69th Infantry Regiment, assuming responsibility for their musketry and training. In early 1895 he received command of a company before, on 29 December 1895, he was promoted to chef de bataillon in the 4th Regiment of the Algerian Tirailleurs with the Army of Africa. He served with them in Tunisia from 6 February 1896 and was appointed a chevalier of the Legion of Honour on 29 December. Transferred to command the 4th Battalion of the Light Infantry of Africa on 29 December 1897, Diou received praise for his service at Gabès which was acknowledged as a difficult posting. He remained in Tunisia until November 1900 and received the Colonial Medal for his service there.

Diou served in the French possession of Tonkin, Indo-China in 1900–1 and also apparently saw action in the Boxer Rebellion, receiving the 1901 China expedition commemorative medal. He returned to Tunisia on 21 October 1901, was appointed an officer of the Tunisian Order of Glory on 14 June 1903 and was promoted to lieutenant-colonel of the 121st Infantry Regiment on 31 December. Diou was appointed a commander of the Order of Glory on 3 May 1904. He transferred to the 2nd Regiment of Algerian Tirailleurs on 21 May 1906 and served in Algeria and the wider Sahara region until 29 August 1907. Diou was posted to Morocco on 30 August 1907, transferred to the 56th Infantry Regiment on 21 January 1908 and was promoted to colonel of the 81st Infantry Regiment on 23 February 1908. He was engaged in the action at Taddert on 11 July 1907 and at the affair at Sidi Bahin on 25 July 1907. Diou saw action in the landings at Casablanca in 1908 that led to the establishment of the French protectorate of Morocco and commanded the French column operating upon the Moroccan coast thereafter. He fought eight battles in Morocco in early 1908 and was mentioned in dispatches at the army level for actions against the enemy at Oued Aceila on 8 March 1908.

The French commander in Morocco, General Albert d'Amade, praised Diou's actions there stating that he "took part in almost all the engagements of the historic campaign in Casablanca and the outlying regions" and that he was sure to set an "example of calm and constancy of duty" in his new post. He left for France on 3 May 1908 and was appointed an officer of the Legion of Honour on 12 July 1910. Diou was appointed acting commander of the 63rd Infantry Brigade at Narbonne on 22 June 1912, receiving command of the 62nd Infantry Regiment two days later and of the 86th Infantry Regiment on 24 September. Diou's command of the brigade was confirmed on 21 December when he was appointed général de brigade.  Diou was also appointed military commander of the Narbonne and Perpignan military subdivisions.

First World War
Diou's brigade was mobilised as part of General Louis Émile Taverna's 16th Army Corps and saw action in the Battle of Lorraine in August 1914. The 143rd Infantry Regiment, part of Diou's brigade, were holding a defensive position in the Mulhewald Woods where they fought off German probing attacks on 19 August. Diou and Colonel Berguin, commander of the regiment, were commended for their coolness and courage under shellfire in this action. Diou's brigade was ordered to attack German positions at Bénestroff the next morning at 4 am in heavy fog. Before the attack could begin a German offensive launched from Cutting, Loudrefing and Mittersheim hit the regiment, supported by heavy artillery fire. The 143rd's 2nd battalion was able to hold off the attack long enough for the 1st and 3rd battalions to gain defensive positions before withdrawing to join them. Diou led a counterattack at 6 am that fared well initially, pushing the German troops back to a wooded area where, favoured by the terrain and the poor light, they were able to mount a strong defence.  Several charges were made by the French troops but they were eventually forced to withdraw under heavy defensive fire. During this attack Diou, who led from the head of his troops with gun in hand, fell wounded in action. His brigade's second in command, Commandant Jacques, was later killed in action in the same engagement and the 143rd also lost Colonel Berguin and most of their medical staff. Diou died of his wounds on 23 August 1914 at Dieuze.

Diou is buried alongside 812 French soldiers in the centre of the L'Esperence War Cemetery at Cutting, Moselle.  His grave lies next to the cemetery's memorial obelisk.  His name is inscribed on the French generals' war memorial at the L'Hôtel des Invalides in Paris.

References

1855 births
1914 deaths
Officers of the Legion of Honour
French generals
French military personnel killed in World War I


title: Valentin Lavigne

text:
Valentin Lavigne (born 4 June 1994) is a French footballer who plays as a right midfielder for Fleury.

Club career
Lavigne is a youth exponent from Lorient. He made his Ligue 1 debut on 10 August 2014 against AS Monaco, replacing Yann Jouffre after 81 minutes and scoring the winning goal six minutes later. Lorient won 2–1, their first ever away win at Monaco. In January 2016, Lavigne joined Ligue 2 side Stade Lavallois on loan for the remainder of the 2015–16 season. He went on to play eight league matches for the club. For the 2016–2017 season, he was again loaned out, this time to Brest. He was loaned out again for the 2017–18 season, to Paris FC.

In September 2018 Lavigne departed from Lorient and signed for Championnat National club US Concarneau.

In July 2020, Lavigne signed a one-year contract, with the option of a one-year extension, with newly promoted Championnat national club Stade Briochin.

In June 2022, Lavigne moved to Fleury in the fourth tier.

Career statistics

References

External links

1994 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Lorient
Footballers from Morbihan
French men's footballers
France men's youth international footballers
Men's association football midfielders
FC Lorient players
Stade Lavallois players
Stade Brestois 29 players
Paris FC players
US Concarneau players
Stade Briochin players
FC Fleury 91 players
Ligue 1 players
Ligue 2 players
Championnat National players
Championnat National 2 players
Championnat National 3 players


title: Nikolai Shanin

text:
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Shanin () (25 May 1919 Pskov – 17 September 2011) was a Russian mathematician who worked on topology and constructive mathematics. He introduced the delta-system lemma and the caliber of a topological space.

Further reading

External links

Nikolai Aleksandrovich Shanin at the Steklov Institute of Mathematics at St. Petersburg

Russian mathematicians
1919 births
2011 deaths
People from Pskov


title: Tom Kyle

text:
Tom Kyle (born 15 June 1959) is an Australian wheelchair basketball coach who coaches the Queensland Spinning Bullets and the Australian women's national wheelchair basketball team. He was assistant coach of the Australian men's national wheelchair basketball team from 2009 to 2013, during which time it won gold at the IWBF Wheelchair Basketball World Championship, and silver at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London.

Biography
Tom Kyle was born on 15 June 1959 in Cooma, New South Wales, where his father worked for the Snowy Mountains scheme. As a boy he played cricket, and was captain of the Australian Capital Territory side at the age of 12. He also played rugby league, rugby union, Australian football, soccer and tennis. He began playing basketball when he was 12 or 13, and played with the Cooma Under 18 team when he was 14, and the senior men's team when he was 16. At that age he also began coaching, his first team being an Under 14  basketball side.

Kyle decided to become a basketball coach, and he repeated Year 12 in order to get sufficient marks for a scholarship to study Physical Education at the Wollongong Institute of Education, which merged with the University of Wollongong in 1982. He completed a double major in Health and Physical Education, receiving  degrees from both the Wollongong Institute of Education and the University of Wollongong, from which he graduated in 1983. While there he played basketball for the university, and coached some university sides, learning practical coaching skills from Adrian Hurley.

After graduation, Kyle married, and moved to Brisbane, where he began teaching and coaching basketball and tennis at Anglican Church Grammar School. He became involved with the Brisbane Bullets, the local National Basketball League team, who trained at the school, and coached junior basketball. In 1985, he moved to Sydney, where he looked after the sports centre at the Harbord  Diggers Memorial Club, and coached the Manly-Warringah Basketball senior men's and teams. He was director of the  Warringah Aquatic Centre for a time before returning to Brisbane in 1989, to take up a job as a marketing officer at the Brisbane City Council  Department of Recreation. While there he coached basketball at Marist College Ashgrove, which his two sons attended. He started his own IT company, selling software he had written that managed leisure centres. In 2000 he joined Jupiters Hotel and Casino as a business analyst. By 2003 his sons had graduated from high school and he had divorced his first wife. He accepted an offer to coach basketball at Villanova College, and worked various jobs, eventually joining Suncorp Metway as a project manager.

In 2008 Kyle and his second wife Jane became coach and team manager respectively of the Brisbane Spinning Bullets, Queensland's National Wheelchair Basketball League (NWBL) team. Through this he got to know Ben Ettridge, who coached a rival NWBL team, the Perth Wheelcats, but also the Australian men's national wheelchair basketball team, known as the Rollers. At Ettridge's invitation, he participated in a national training camp in Canberra. He then accepted an offer from Ettridge to join the Rollers at a training camp in Varese, and the Paralympic World Cup in Manchester, quitting his job at Subcorp Metway to do so. Afterwards, he accepted another offer from Ettridge, to become an assistant coach of the Under 23 national side at the 2009 IWBF U23 World Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Paris. He became an assistant coach of the Rollers in 2010, and participated in the Rollers' campaign at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, where they won silver. In 2013, he became head coach of the Under 23 national side, selecting David Gould, who had been the assistant coach in London of the Australian women's national wheelchair basketball team, known as the Gliders.

After London, Basketball Australia decided to appoint a full-time head coach for the Gliders for the first time. A selection panel chaired by Basketball Australia's General Manager of High Performance, Steven Icke that also included Rollers' head coach Ettridge, former Australian Opals head coach Jan Stirling and the General Manager of Sport at the Australian Paralympic Committee, Michael Hartung, chose Kyle. In announcing his appointment, the chief executive officer of Basketball Australia, Kristina Keneally, said that "in Tom, we have a coach who has the ability to lead the team to future success and understands the expectations on the Gliders program." Gould became his assistant coach, and Jane Kyle became the team manager. Troy Sachs also became an assistant coach in 2014. At the 2014 Women's World Wheelchair Basketball Championship though, the Gliders came a disappointing sixth. The Gliders did not qualify for the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro after finishing second to China at the 2015 Asia Oceania Qualifying Tournament. In August 2016, David Gould succeeded him  as the Gliders' coach. Kyle went to Rio as assistant coach of the Rollers.

Achievements
 2009: Gold at Paralympic World Cup (Australian Rollers)
 2010: Gold at  Wheelchair Basketball World Championship (Australian Rollers)
 2011: NWBL Coach of the Year
 2011: Sporting Wheelies and Disabled Association Coach of the Year
 2012: Silver at 2012 Summer Paralympic Games (Australian Rollers)

Notes

1959 births
Living people
Australian men's basketball coaches
People from Cooma
Sportsmen from New South Wales
Wheelchair basketball in Australia


title: The Ibsen Cycle

text:
The Ibsen Cycle: The Design of the Plays from Pillars of Society to When We Dead Awaken (1975, revised 1992) is a book by the British literary researcher and Ibsen scholar Brian Johnston (1932–2013). Johnston emphasizes the impact of the German philosopher G.W.F. Hegel (1770–1831) on the final twelve realistic contemporary dramas of Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906). In the Introduction to the book he describes his project as "a complete revaluation and reinterpretation of Ibsen’s methods and intentions as the dramatist of the twelve realistic plays from The Pillars of Society (1877) to When We Dead Awaken (1899)" that interprets them as being part of a single literary cycle that is based on the philosophical ideas of Hegel and follows the structure of Hegel's book The Phenomenology of Mind.

In the foreword to the revised version of The Ibsen Cycle, the American translator of Ibsen and founding president of the Ibsen Society of America, Rolf Fjelde, writes on the influence of Johnston's work: "[I]t is difficult to imagine a time when its influence was prevalent and its argument not widely discussed. ... Johnston ... has permanently altered both the tradition and the prospects of Anglo-American Ibsen criticism by redefining the magnitude of his achievement."

References

External links
 The Ibsen Cycle (online)

Henrik Ibsen
Non-fiction books about theatre
Works about playwrights
Books about Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
1975 non-fiction books


title: Angel Rubio

text:
Angel Rubio (born April 12, 1975) is a former American football defensive end who played one season with the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the seventh round of the 1998 NFL Draft. Rubio played college football at Southeast Missouri State University and attended Ceres High School in Ceres, California. He was also a member of the San Francisco 49ers, Cincinnati Bengals, Orlando Predators, Las Vegas Outlaws, Detroit Fury, Dallas Desperados and Austin Wranglers.

Early years
Rubio garnered All-District and All-League recognition at Ceres High School.

College career
Rubio played for the Southeast Missouri State Redhawks from 1993 to 1997, recording a total of 330 tackles. He set Southeast Missouri career records with 21.5 sacks and 44.0 tackles for loss. He earned American Football Coaches Association and The Sports Network First-team Division I-AA All-American honors as well as Associated Press and Football Gazette Second-team Division I-AA All-American honors his senior year in 1997. Rubio was also named the Ohio Valley Conference Defensive Player of the Year in 1997 after recording 114 tackles and seven sacks. He garnered First-team All-OVC recognition in 1997 as well as Second-team All-OVC accolades in 1994 and 1996. He missed the 1995 season due to a knee injury. Rubio was inducted into the Southeast Missouri Athletics Hall of Fame in 2014.

Professional career
Rubio was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers of the NFL in the seventh round with the 221st pick in the 1998 NFL Draft. He was signed by the Steelers in May 1998. He was traded to the San Francisco 49ers on August 24, 1998. Rubio was waived by the 49ers on September 22, 1998. He was signed by the NFL's Cincinnati Bengals on September 23, 1998, but released a week later. He was then re-signed to the San Francisco 49ers' practice squad in October 1998. Rubio was released by the 49ers on September 6, 1999. He signed with the Arizona Cardinals of the NFL on September 6, 1999. He was released on September 27 and re-signed on November 3, 1999. Rubio appeared in the final two games of the season. He was selected by the Las Vegas Outlaws of the XFL with the 181st pick in the XFL Draft. He was named to the XFL's all league first-team. Rubio was signed by the Orlando Predators of the Arena Football League (AFL) on May 25, 2001. He was traded to the Detroit Fury on November 6, 2002. He was released by the Fury on April 27, 2004. Rubio was signed by the AFL's Dallas Desperados on April 29, 2004. He was released on September 29, 2004. He was signed by the Austin Wranglers of the AFL on November 8, 2004. Rubio was released by the Wranglers on January 10, 2007.

References

External links
Detroit Fury bio (2003)
Just Sports Stats

Living people
1975 births
Players of American football from Los Angeles
American football defensive ends
Southeast Missouri State Redhawks football players
Pittsburgh Steelers players
San Francisco 49ers players
Cincinnati Bengals players
Arizona Cardinals players
Las Vegas Outlaws (XFL) players
Orlando Predators players
Detroit Fury players
Dallas Desperados players
Austin Wranglers players
People from Ceres, California
Players of American football from Stanislaus County, California


title: Lúrio River

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The Lúrio is a river of northeastern Mozambique. It flows to the south of the Ruvuma River and empties into the sea just south of Pemba Bay. The river is characterised by seasonal flows and lined by swamps. There is a notable waterfall located along the river. The Mozambican government has plans to build a 120-megawatt hydroelectric plant on the river to supply electricity to the surrounding provinces of Nampula and Cabo Delgado.

References

Rivers of Mozambique


title: Steven Lampier

text:
Steven James "Steve" Lampier (born 2 March 1984) is a British former road racing cyclist, who currently manages UCI Continental team . He previously rode for  in 2020,  in 2016 and 2017,  in 2015 and  in 2013 and 2014.

Biography
From Helston, Cornwall, Lampier is based in Falmouth, Cornwall. In December 2014  announced that Lampier would join them for the 2015 season.

Major results

2005
 2nd Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships
2010
 1st Stage 3 Tour of Doonhame
 7th Grand Prix Of Al Fatah
 9th East Midlands International CiCLE Classic
2011
 1st  Sprints classification Tour Series
 1st Wally Gimber Trophy
 4th Woking Tour Series
 5th Glade Spring Road Race
 6th Overall Tour of Doonhame
 6th East Yorkshire Classic Premier Calendar
2012
 1st John Hinksman Memorial
 8th Overall Tour Doon Hame
2013
 2nd Grand Prix of Wales
2014
 1st Coalville Wheelers Road Race
 7th Beaumont Trophy
2015
 1st  Overall British Cycling Elite Road Series
4th Stafford Kermesse
4th Ryedale Grand Prix
 1st British Cycling Spring Cup
2nd Chorley Grand Prix
2nd Overall Tour of the Reservoir
 1st Overall Totnes-Vire Stage Race
1st Stage 3
 2nd Wally Gimber Trophy
 4th Sheffrec CC Spring Road Race
2016
 4th Chorley Grand Prix
 5th Overall New Zealand Cycle Classic
2017
 6th Overall New Zealand Cycle Classic
 7th Overall Tour de Normandie
7th Beaumont Trophy
2018
4th Gravel and Tar
2019
 1st  Points classification Tour Series
 9th Rutland–Melton International CiCLE Classic

References

External links

1984 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Truro
English male cyclists
English track cyclists
People from Helston


title: Mocubúri River

text:
The Mocubúri River (known variously as Rio Mukumburi, Rio Mocubúri, Rio Mecuburi, Rio Mecuburi, Rio Mocuburi, Rio Mocubúri, or Rio Mukumburi)
is a river of Mozambique. It flows to the south of the Ruvuma River, and is characterised by seasonal flows and lined by swamps.

References

Rivers of Mozambique


title: Monapo River

text:
The Monapo River is a river of Mozambique. It flows through the town of Monapo and Monapo District. It flows to the south of the Ruvuma River, and is characterised by seasonal flows and lined by swamps.

References

Rivers of Mozambique


title: Montepuez River

text:
The Montepuez River is a river of Mozambique. It flows to the south of the Ruvuma River, and is characterised by seasonal flows and lined by swamps.

References

Rivers of Mozambique


title: Emmanuel Boateng (footballer, born 1996)

text:
Emmanuel Okyere Boateng (born 23 May 1996) is a Ghanaian footballer who plays as a striker for Rio Ave. He also plays for Ghana national football team.

Club career

Rio Ave
Born in Accra, Boateng joined Rio Ave in 2013, after impressing on a trial, from hometown club Charity Stars FC. Initially assigned to the youth setup, he made his professional debut on 31 July 2014, coming on as a second-half substitute for Yonathan Del Valle in a 1–0 away win against IFK Göteborg for the season's UEFA Europa League.

Boateng made his Primeira Liga debut on 17 August 2014, starting in a 2–0 home win against Vitória de Setúbal. His first goal in the category occurred on 1 September, as he scored the last in a 4–0 home routing of Boavista.

Moreirense
On 7 July 2015, Boateng and his Rio Ave teammate Ernest Ohemeng made a permanent move to fellow league team Moreirense. Mainly used as a substitute during his first season, he started to feature more regularly during his second.

Boateng was also regularly used in the Taça da Liga, netting a brace in a 3–1 home success over Benfica on 26 January 2017. Three days later, he replaced Roberto in the final, a 1–0 win against S.C. Braga; it was Moreirense's first ever national title.

Boateng scored his first league double on 30 April 2017, in a 2–2 away draw against Arouca.

Levante
On 16 August 2017, Boateng signed a four-year deal with La Liga side Levante UD.

On 13 May 2018, he scored first career hat-trick against champions Barcelona. Levante won the match 5–4, ending the possibility of an unbeaten season for Barcelona.

Dalian Professional
On 20 February 2019, Boateng signed with Chinese Super League side Dalian Professional (then Dalian Yifang).

Return to Rio Ave
In 2022, Boateng left Dalian to rejoin Rio Ave.

International career
He was part of the Ghana national under-20 football team, who played the 2015 FIFA U-20 World Cup in New Zealand. He scored one goal in the competition on 5 June 2015, in a 1–0 win against Panama. On 30 May 2018 he made his senior appearance for the Black Stars. He marked his debut with a goal when he scored a penalty in the 51st minute of the game.

Career statistics

Club

International goals
Scores and results list Ghana's goal tally first.

Honours
Moreirense
Taça da Liga: 2016–17

References

External links

1996 births
Living people
Footballers from Accra
Ghanaian men's footballers
Men's association football forwards
Primeira Liga players
La Liga players
Chinese Super League players
Rio Ave F.C. players
Moreirense F.C. players
Levante UD footballers
Dalian Professional F.C. players
Ghana men's international footballers
Ghana men's under-20 international footballers
Ghanaian expatriate men's footballers
Ghanaian expatriate sportspeople in Portugal
Ghanaian expatriate sportspeople in Spain
Ghanaian expatriate sportspeople in China
Expatriate men's footballers in Portugal
Expatriate men's footballers in Spain
Expatriate men's footballers in China
Ghana men's youth international footballers
Charity Stars F.C. players


title: George Smith (died 1658)

text:
George Smith or Smyth was an English lawyer.

Biography
The son of John Smith, of Kirdford, Sussex, he matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford on 29 January 1619, age sixteen. In 1633 he was a barrister-at-law of Gray's Inn. He was appointed a commissioner for the administration of justice in civil matters for Scotland in 1652, and sat in the Protectorate Parliament for the sheriffdom of Midlothian from 1654 to 1655, and for the sheriffdom of Dumfries from 1656 until his death on circuit at Inverness, on 26 September 1658.

References

1600s births
1658 deaths
People from Kirdford
Alumni of Trinity College, Oxford
Members of Gray's Inn
English MPs 1654–1655
English MPs 1656–1658
Politics of Midlothian
Politics of Dumfries and Galloway
17th-century Scottish judges


title: Harold Salt (British Army officer)

text:
Major-General Harold Francis Salt  (30 December 1879 – 10 August 1971) was a senior British Army officer.

Salt was the son of Thomas Salt and Mary Anderdon.  He was commissioned into the Royal Regiment of Artillery in 1900. He served in the First World War, being promoted to Brigade Major in March 1915. His appointments as a Staff Officer saw him deployed on a variety of fronts, such as the Western Front, Gallipoli, Salonika, Palestine and Syria. He finished the war with the temporary rank of Brigadier-General. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order in 1918 and made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1919.

He was Assistant Commandant at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich between 1925 and 1929, Commander Royal Artillery in the 54th (East Anglian) Infantry Division between 1930 and 1931, and Commander of the Territorial Army Air Defence Formations from 1931 to 1935. He was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1932. He subsequently held military appointments in India until his retirement in April 1939.

Salt married Phyllis Dulce Cameron on 5 August 1914, and together they had one child.

References

1879 births
1971 deaths
Royal Artillery officers
British Army generals of World War I
Companions of the Order of the Bath
Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George
Companions of the Distinguished Service Order
Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France)


title: Stig-Göran Johansson

text:
Stig-Göran Johansson (July 18, 1943 – April 20, 2002) was a Swedish professional ice hockey player.

He competed as a member of the Sweden men's national ice hockey team at the 1972 Winter Olympics held in Japan.

On May 17, 2012, Stig-Göranson was elected into the Swedish Hockey Hall of Fame.

References

External links

1943 births
2002 deaths
Ice hockey players at the 1972 Winter Olympics
Olympic ice hockey players for Sweden
People from Surahammar Municipality
Södertälje SK players
Swedish ice hockey right wingers
Ice hockey people from Västmanland County


title: Gallos Blancos de Hermosillo

text:
The Hermosillo Gallos Blancos was a soccer team that played in the Primera Division 'A' between the 1995 to 1996. They played in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico.

History
The origin of the club goes back to the 1994-95 season, when Querétaro was reborn after Tampico-Madero had problems with their stadium and changed its name to Tampico Madero Gallos Blancos to play the remaining 9 games of the season. At the end of the season the team would drop to Primera Division 'A', and this would lead to the origin of the club Hermosillo.

Entrepreneurs turned their gaze to new destinations with footballing future, so they decide to move the team of Querétaro to Hermosillo, a city located in northwest Mexico where, at the time, football was virtually an unknown sport. The challenge was to attract fans in a baseball-dominated region. The old team Tampico Madero Gallos Blancos would be called Gallos Blancos de Hermosillo, with Alejandro Dominguez as coach and owners at the time were the Alverde brothers.

They would play only one season in the city but achieved several successes including reaching the final of the 1995-96 season against Pachuca, which lose promotion to Primera Division Mexicana. The two meetings would be in favor of Pachuca with a score of 2-1, with an aggregate of 4-2.

Stadium
The Gallos Blancos played their matches at the biggest stage of the capital city of the state of Sonora, the Estadio Héroe de Nacozari. The stadium holds 22,000 seats and has also hosted other football teams like Coyotes de Sonora and Búhos de Hermosillo.

Honours
Runner-up Primera Division 'A' (1): 1995-96

References

Ascenso MX teams
Association football clubs established in 1995
Association football clubs disestablished in 1996
1995 establishments in Mexico
1996 disestablishments in North America
Defunct football clubs in Mexico
Football clubs in Sonora
Sport in Hermosillo


title: Marek Kodr

text:
Marek Kodr (born 17 August 1996) is a professional Czech footballer who plays as a defender for S.S. Arezzo.

He made his career league debut for SK Slavia Prague on 10 August 2014 in a 4–1 home win against FC Slovan Liberec, one week before his 18th birthday.

References

1996 births
Living people
Czech men's footballers
Czech Republic men's youth international footballers
Czech expatriate men's footballers
Men's association football defenders
SK Slavia Prague players
FK Varnsdorf players
FK Baník Sokolov players
FC Slavoj Vyšehrad players
FK Příbram players
SS Arezzo players
Czech First League players
Czech National Football League players
Serie C players
Expatriate men's footballers in Italy
Czech expatriate sportspeople in Italy
Footballers from Prague


title: Gulalai Ismail

text:
Gulalai Ismail (; ; born 30 October 1986) is a Pakistani human rights activist from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. She is the chairperson of Aware Girls, a global ambassador for Humanists International, and a leading member of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM). She speaks on the subject of promoting peace and women's empowerment at conferences internationally, and is the recipient of the International Humanist of the Year Award, the Chirac Prize for Conflict Prevention, and the Anna Politkovskaya Award.

In 2019, Ismail fled Pakistan and took refuge in the United States after fearing for her life for speaking out against sexual assaults and disappearances allegedly carried out by the Pakistani military. In March 2021, she became a global ambassador for Humanists International.

Early life and activism
Ismail was born to a Pashtun family in Swabi and from the age of nine was brought up in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The daughter of teacher and human rights activist Muhammad Ismail, she was educated from a young age about gender discrimination and women's rights. She graduated from Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad in 2012 with a Master of Philosophy degree in biotechnology.

In 2002, when she was a 16-year-old first-year pre-medical student at Frontier College for Women, Peshawar, she founded the non-governmental organization Aware Girls with her 15-year-old sister Saba Ismail, aiming to challenge the culture of violence and the oppression of women in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Ismail aimed to bring peace activists together in order to discuss ways to promote peaceful resistance to the Pakistani Taliban and encourage more women into politics, and investigate the psychological impact of terrorism on children and families. Malala Yousafzai, the youngest Nobel Prize laureate, who was shot by the Pakistani Taliban at the age of 15 in 2012 because of her activism for female education, was an attendee of Aware Girls in 2011. In an interview in 2011, Ismail said:

Ismail's organisation widened its scope to include education on topics such as access to HIV and AIDS prevention and treatment, access to safe abortions, and she continues to speak at international conferences to promote awareness of peace-building, tolerance and women's rights. Both Gulalai and her sister Saba Ismail have also acted as advisers on peace and women's rights to the United Nations and US governmental departments. In 2013, Ismail set up the Marastyal Helpline to give advice and assistance to women at risk from, and victims of, gender-based violence. The service gives advice on legal and medical aid as well as emergency ambulance information and emotional counseling and operates from Peshawar. Ismail criticised the British government's prevent strategy, saying it could lead to alienation of Muslims and could turn vulnerable individuals towards extremism. Ismail also spoke out against the laws of blasphemy in Pakistan and the effect this had on progressive speech, secular activism, and the safety of secular activists. She said: "I am convinced that without a secular democracy, we will not achieve peace in Pakistan."

In addition to Aware Girls, which she continues to chair, Ismail set up the Seeds of Peace Network in 2010, training young people in human rights and political leadership, encouraging the participation of women in politics in Pakistan, and encouraging tolerance between people of differing faiths. Seeds of Peace was a response to what Ismail saw as the increased "Talibanisation" of young men and women vulnerable to militants in Swabi District and other Pashtun rural areas. According to the World Humanist Congress, "her work is characterised by promoting peace and pluralism; challenging religious extremism and militancy; promoting good governance in areas stricken by militancy; providing civic education to young people; strengthening democracy; and political mainstreaming of young women." Between 2009 and 2011, Ismail was on the Executive Committee of the Young Humanists International, and between 2010 and 2012 she was a Board Member of the Women's Global Network for Reproductive Rights. She also works for the Gender Working Group of the United Network of Young Peacebuilders (UNOY), and is a member of the Asian Democracy Network. Ismail was a board member of Humanists International from 2017 until 2021 and now serves as its global ambassador.

Aware Girls have been forced to organise their community meetings by invitation only, in hotel rooms protected by armed guards, where they know the owners and staff. Its delegates suspect they are being monitored by Pakistan's intelligence agency, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). Ismail has been threatened and forced to flee her home in the past because of her activism. On 16 May 2014, four armed gunmen attempted to force their way into her family home in Peshawar, shouting for Ismail who was luckily not home at the time; she had been delayed at the airport because she had lost her luggage after a flight. The gunmen were making threats and started shooting guns into the air when her father refused to open the door. "I thought that sooner or later I’d be attacked, but I never thought it would happen to my family," Gulalai Ismail said. She did not know if the gunmen were Taliban, Pakistan's security services, or criminals trying to kidnap her for ransom. “We cannot trust anyone,” she added. In an interview with the BBC, she said:

Intimidation and detentions
In November 2017, the head of a Pakistani youth parliament in Mardan, Hamza Khan, falsely accused Ismail of blasphemy, a charge which in Pakistan carried the death penalty, and urged his followers to kill her. The accuser was seemingly unhappy with her activism. Ismail denied the blasphemy allegation and in February 2018, she filed a legal case against the accuser, after which he was arrested by the police. In a statement, Ismail said: "I stand not only for myself – this legal move will give voice to other people in Pakistan who are falsely charged with blasphemy." Blaming the system of education in Pakistan, Ismail said, "it’s not the fault of Hamza Khan or his friends. The real perpetrator is the state that intentionally indoctrinates our children and youth in educational institutions."

On 12 August 2018, she delivered a speech at the PTM public gathering in Swabi, which was organised by the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the 1948 Babrra massacre. Ismail and 18 other PTM activists were charged with making "anti-state" and "anti-military" comments at the rally.

In October 2018, when she returned from attending a Humanists UK conference in the United Kingdom, Ismail was detained by airport officials at Islamabad International Airport in Islamabad and her passport was withheld from her. After detention, she was released on bail. The airport officials said her name had been on the Exit Control List (ECL), barring her from leaving Pakistan. Her legal representative petitioned the Islamabad High Court to have her passport and travel documents returned to her and her name removed from the ECL on the grounds that it was a violation of basic human rights.

It was revealed during proceedings that Pakistan's premier intelligence agency, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), had instructed the Federal Investigation Agency to place her name on the ECL. In November 2018, she was taken to ISI headquarters. "They told my father that if you do not make sure that your daughter is silenced, we are going to kill her," Gulalai Ismail said. On 14 March 2019, the court set aside the decision to place her on the ECL as she had not been given an opportunity of a hearing as required by Section 8 of the Passport Act 1974 and directed that her passport be returned to her. The court, however, allowed that her passport might be confiscated at a later date if the correct procedures are followed.

On 18 January 2019, a video surfaced in which a 13-year-old boy, Hayat Khan from Khaisor, North Waziristan, said Pakistani security forces had arrested his father and brother, and that his family had been facing harassment due to frequent visits by two security personnel to his home when he was the only male among the females present at home. On 27 January, Ismail visited Khaisor along with five other female PTM activists, Ismat Shahjahan, Bushra Gohar, Jamila Gilani, Sanna Ejaz and Nargis Afsheen Khattak, to express solidarity with Hayat's mother and to also interview the local women about other incidents of sexual harassment. Ismail said that due to the bombing of their homes by the armed forces, "the mental health of women from the tribal areas has deteriorated so much that they cannot endure another day of war.” Ismat Shahjahan added, "[dozens of] women came out of their homes when we visited them, pleaded and cried, and asked us to help them bring their missing sons back. We cried with them."

On 6 February 2019, Ismail was arrested outside the National Press Club in Islamabad along with dozens of other PTM activists including Abdullah Nangyal, at an event protesting the murder of Pashtun rights activist Arman Loni. Ismail was shifted to an undisclosed location after her arrest. During the detention, she was kept hungry and thirsty for two days in a cold, dirty room which had a urine-soaked carpet. The arrests received widespread criticism in Pakistan and internationally, including condemnation from Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, Amnesty International, and the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP).

On 23 May 2019, as Ismail and other activists were protesting in Islamabad against the murder of Farishta Momand – a 10-year-old Pashtun girl who had been abducted in Islamabad, allegedly raped, and then killed with a knife and thrown in a forest where animals ravaged her body – Ismail became the subject of another first information report for allegedly defaming state institutions during the protest rally against Farishta's murder. According to Farishta's family, the child was reported missing on 15 May, but the police refused to investigate the case or register a missing person report for five days. Farishta's father told the BBC that the police did not take the case seriously, and instead the police would ask him to "carry out chores for them around the police station for several days, including cleaning their offices and bringing them fruit for their iftar [fast-breaking dinner during Ramadan]." Because of the protests against Farishta's murder, Ismail received a 30-day travel ban and a further application was raised to block her social media accounts. Justice Aamer Farooq of the Islamabad High Court remarked that it was necessary to take appropriate action if anybody talked against the state or its institutions. Besides Ismail, the court also issued notices to her fellow PTM leaders Manzoor Pashteen, Ali Wazir and Mohsin Dawar.

After the Kharqamar incident on 26 May 2019, the government intensified its crackdown on PTM, arresting Ali Wazir, Mohsin Dawar and other PTM activists. Because of receiving death threats and the treason allegations against her, Ismail decided to go into hiding. On 10 June 2019, several local news outlets reported that  Ismail was arrested in Peshawar but her father said the news had not been confirmed by the police. Her father told the Voice of America: "Last night, police raided our relatives and family friends’ houses in Peshawar in an attempt to arrest her, but she was not there. I have no contact with her and don’t know her whereabouts." A massive police operation was launched to find her but she was able to evade capture, eventually able to cross out of Pakistan. Ismail's family and relatives, however, were kept under digital and physical surveillance for several months, with raids on her family home and torture of her friends in an attempt to get information about her. In July 2019, Humanists International and more than 40 other humanist organizations signed an open letter to the United States Congress, urging it to intervene and question the visiting Pakistani delegation in the US led by prime minister Imran Khan. Humanists International’s director of advocacy, Elizabeth O’Casey, made a statement to the United Nations Human Rights Council, saying "we call on Pakistan, a member of this Council, to revoke the charges against Gulalai with urgency, to instead protect and cherish a citizen who speaks truth to power in defence of countless women and girls." After staying in hiding for four months, Gulalai Ismail took refuge in New York, US in September 2019. She said, "if I had ended up in prison and tortured for many years, my voice would have been silenced. The last few months have been awful. I have been threatened, harassed, and I am lucky to be alive."

After she went into hiding, both of Gulalai Ismail's parents were charged with "terrorism financing" in a case that lasted for more than a year. The Ismail family said their home in Islamabad was raided by security forces five times while she was in hiding. "They all come in, in plain-clothes with their guns out. They surround the area, with 30 or 40 vehicles. Everyone comes out and enters the house, searching from the bathrooms to the roof," her father said. However, the Pakistan Army spokesman Major General Asif Ghafoor denied that the military had any role in the raids. In July 2020, a Peshawar anti-terrorism court judge dismissed the case against her parents for lack of evidence, but a few weeks later, authorities re-filed the case with the additional allegation that her parents had directly facilitated the Pakistani Taliban in the Peshawar church bombing in 2013 and the Peshawar Shia mosque attack in 2015. The charges were refuted by the Ismail family.

Separately, her father, retired professor Muhammad Ismail, was also charged with sharing "anti-state content" on social media and expressing dissent against the government. In January 2021, a judge ordered him to "stop sharing objectionable content." After the hearing of the case, Muhammad Ismail told Al Jazeera: "Honouring the orders of the court, I hereby surrender my right to share my dissident voices on social media, therefore I say goodbye to Facebook and Twitter." On 2 February 2021, Muhammad Ismail was again arrested on terrorism charges, which rights groups said was part of a sustained campaign of judicial harassment against him. After spending more than two months in jail, he was released on bail on 15 April 2021. Gulalai Ismail said, "my father’s bail is a relief, but his health is fragile and even after the release he will have to attend the trial court dates on daily basis, which will have a huge toll on his already deteriorating health."

Awards and recognition

Ismail won the 2009 YouthActionNet Fellowship and the 2010 Paragon Fellowship. She was recognised as an Agent of Change by the British High Commission, Islamabad.

In 2013, she received the Democracy Award from the National Endowment for Democracy, and was acknowledged as one of the 100 Leading Global Thinkers of 2013 by Foreign Policy magazine.

In August 2014, she was awarded the International Humanist of the Year Award by Humanists International at the World Humanist Congress in Oxford, England. She was elected to Humanists International's Board of Directors in 2017. In 2021, she was appointed Humanists International's first ever Ambassador.

In recognition of her efforts to further women's empowerment, she received the 2015 Asia Region Commonwealth Youth Award for Excellence in Development, under the theme of Democracy and Human Rights.

In 2016, her organisation Aware Girls was awarded the Fondation Chirac Peace Prize for Conflict Prevention, which was presented to Ismail by the then French president Francois Hollande.

In 2017, Ismail was the joint winner, along with the murdered Indian journalist-turned-activist Gauri Lankesh, of the Anna Politkovskaya Award, Reach All Women in War (RAW in WAR) award, for campaigning against religious extremism.

See also
 Malala Yousafzai
 Sanna Ejaz
 Bushra Gohar
 Asma Jahangir
 Fouzia Saeed

References

External links
  "I Advocated for Women’s Equality in Pakistan. Then I Was Attacked.", article by Gulalai Ismail, TheHumanist.com, 29 May 2014
  Tribute to Gulalai Ismail at the 2013 Democracy Award, National Endowment for Democracy, 17 July 2013

1986 births
Living people
Pashtun nationalists
Pakistani human rights activists
Pakistani humanists
Pakistani feminists
Feminism in Pakistan
Women's rights in Pakistan
Josef Korbel School of International Studies people
 University of Denver alumni
Quaid-i-Azam University alumni
People from Peshawar
People from Swabi District
Pashtun women
Pashtun Tahafuz Movement politicians
Pakistani prisoners and detainees
Pakistani emigrants to the United States
Pashtun activists


title: Stig Johansson

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Stig Johansson may refer to:

 Stig-Göran Johansson (1943–2002), Swedish ice hockey player
 Stig Johansson (linguist) (1939–2010)
 Stig Johansson (water polo) (1924–2007)
 Stig H. Johansson (born 1945), Swedish trotting trainer and former driver


title: Administration Police F.C.

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Kenya Police Football Club is an association football club based in Nairobi, Kenya. The team currently competes in the Kenya Premier League, after achieving promotion from the Kenyan National Super League after beating Vihiga United by an aggregate of 2:1 in a two legged final. They play their home games at the APTC Ground.

The club chair is one Nyale Munga and the CEO is Chris Oguso. The club is owned and run by the Kenyan Administration Police.

References

Football clubs in Kenya
Police association football clubs in Kenya


title: Precambrian Research

text:
Precambrian Research is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering the geology of the Earth and its planetary neighbors. It is published by Elsevier and, , the editor-in-chief is V. Pease (Stockholm University). It was established in 1974. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2022 impact factor of 3.8.

References

External links

Geology journals
Elsevier academic journals
English-language journals
Academic journals established in 1974


title: Samuel Vallée

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Samuel Vallée (11 from Nantes) is a French pianist and composer.

Biography

Of French origin, Samuel Vallée is known as an author and writer but above for his piano present albums in the French audiovisual directory (France3, Canal+, France5) and also on Internet labels like Virgin or Imeem. His best-known songs are "Another world", "Feel all around you", "Reflection on me".

He began the practice of the piano around the age of 7 years at the Reunion Island where he lives. At age 11, he went to France where he studied music in Nantes. When he enrolled in 1997 at the technical school of photography and audiovisual (ETPA)  Rennes, he studied with such artists as saxophonist François Jeanneau or Jean-Pierre Ruh (cesar of French cinema).

He produced his debut on television in 1999 under the label France 3 Ouest Production, that will be heard on the documentary "Habiter la Mer (Living in the sea)," portrait of Jacques Rougerie, then at the festival of the sea in the year 2000 in Saint Malo. Spotted in 2003 by Stomp Production, a Korean label of Universal Music, he composed in the shadow more than 60 music for famous pianists Korean and Japanese of the Asian market. He then became one of the first self-taught pianists French to inspire Asian artists such as Yiruma or Dong-Min Lim... thanks to his passion for music film romantic Paris (France).

In 2007, he inaugurated in an unusual place (estate of Vaulx de Cernay, its seventh music album at the piano.

In January 2008, he produced "Love Paradox", an album that traces the various emotional components related to love. That same year, fans of Twilight (chapter I, Fascination) hoped that "a river flows in you (River Flows in You)" would be retained by the production as the Lullaby for Bella, but it is a composition of Carter Burwell has finally been chosen.

His album "A Little Touch of Jazz" published in 2009 is a retrospective of this music composed between 2000 and 2008, revisited in a personal style "Jazzo-romantic".

Discography
 1992: Element of Spirit
 1993: Paris Newyork Paris
 1996: Ombre et lumière (Shadow & Light)
 1998: Requiem of ghost
 1999: Pulsation (for France3/Canal Plus TV Documentary)
 2003: Destiny of love
 2004: Juste un instant (Just a moment)
 2005: The Music that you are
 2006: Papillon (Butterfly)
 2007: Eveille-toi (Awake up)
 2007: Toi (You)
 2008: Paradoxe de l'amour (Paradox of love)
 2008: Inese from Latvia
 2009: A little touch of Jazz
 2014: Some emotive notes
 2015: Jazz injection

References

Living people
20th-century French composers
21st-century French composers
French male composers
21st-century French male pianists
1976 births
Musicians from Paris
20th-century French male pianists


title: 2014–15 LEN Champions League

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The 2014–15 LEN Champions League was the 52nd edition of LEN's premier competition for men's water polo clubs. It ran from 26 September 2014 to 30 May 2015, and it is contested by 26 teams from 13 countries. The Final Six (quarterfinals, semifinals, final, and third place game) took place on May 28 and May 30 in Barcelona.

Overview

Team allocation

8 teams are directly qualified for the preliminary round.

Round and draw dates
The schedule of the competition is as follows.

Qualifying rounds

Qualification round I
26-28 September
Twelve teams will take part in the Qualification round I. They will be drawn into two groups of six teams, whose played on 26–28 September 2014. Top 5 teams of each group advance to qualification round II. Teams finishing 6th continue in 2014–15 LEN Euro Cup qualification.

Group A
CN Marseille has the right to organize the tournament.

Group B
Jadran Herceg Novi has the right to organize the tournament.

Qualification round II
 17–19 October
Sixteen teams will take part in the Qualification round II. These clubs will form four groups of four and will have round robin tournaments at four host cities on 17–19 October. Top 2 of these groups advance to play-off (qualification round 3), Teams finishing 3rd, 4th continue in 2014–15 LEN Euro Cup qualification.

Group C
Waspo Hannover has the right to organize the tournament.

Group D
Orvosegyetem SC has the right to organize the tournament.

Group E
HAVK Mladost has the right to organize the tournament.

Group F
Radnički Kragujevac has the right to organize the tournament.

Qualification round III
29 October 2014 1st match
12 November 2014 2nd match

Eight teams will take part in the Qualification round III. These teams played against each other over two legs on a home-and-away basis. The mechanism of the draws for each round was as follow:
In the draw for the Qualification round III, the four group winners were seeded, and the four group runners-up were unseeded. The seeded teams were drawn against the unseeded teams, with the seeded teams hosting the second leg. Teams from the same group could not be drawn against each other.
The first legs were played on 29 October, and the second legs were played on 12 November 2014.

Preliminary round

The regular season was played between 29 November 2014 and 2 May 2015.
If teams are level on record at the end of the preliminary round, tiebreakers are applied in the following order:

 Head-to-head record.
 Head-to-head point differential.
 Point differential during the Regular Season.
 Points scored during the regular season.
 Sum of quotients of points scored and points allowed in each Regular Season match.

In each group, teams played against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The matchdays were 29 November, 17 December 2014, 14 January, 28 January, 11 February, 4 March, 25 March, 8 April, 18 April, and 2 May 2015. The top three teams advanced to the final six.

The Final Six (quarterfinals, semifinals, third place game and final) will be played in Barcelona, Spain from 28 to 30 May 2015.

Group A

Group B

Final Six (Barcelona)
Piscines Bernat Picornell, Barcelona, Spain

Quarter-finals

5th place

Semi-finals

Third place

Final

Final standings

Awards

See also
2014–15 LEN Euro Cup

References

External links
LEN Champions League (official website)

LEN Champions League seasons
Champions League
2014 in water polo
2015 in water polo


title: God Is Dead (comics)

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God Is Dead is a comic book series created by Jonathan Hickman and Mike Costa, published by American company Avatar Press. It deals with ancient gods and goddesses from mythologies around the world coming to Earth to lay claim to the world of man.  The subplot deals with a group of people named the Collective, who resist the ancient gods.

Publication history

God is Dead began as a six-issue limited series in September 2013, with Hickman and Costa as co-writers.  Once the initial six-issue story arc concluded, the comic became an ongoing series with Costa as the only writer.
In August 2014, Alan Moore and Simon Spurrier contributed to the first issue of a new story arc entitled God Is Dead: The Book of Acts.  The series concluded in 2016 with its 48th issue.

Cover art

The cover art of the comics typically featured five different covers.  The initial one would be a solid color with a religious symbol.  The other styles of covers were "Enchanted", "Iconic", "Carnage", and "End of Days".

Plot

In 2015, a man claiming to be Zeus, the ancient Greek god of thunder, arrives in Vatican City and claims the Earth as his domain. This event becomes known as the Second Coming.  In subsequent months, several other figures claiming to be gods and goddesses emerge as if from nowhere, and begin to divide the Earth into different territories. Fighting between the various gods breaks out, and drags the Earth into war.

Unknown to the gods, an underground society known as the Collective suspects that the gods are not who they appear to be, and seek to create their own new gods to rival those of the ancient pantheons.  The Collective is eventually destroyed by the gods, but one member, Gaby, survives, and a generation later has risen to take the identity of the Earth Mother, Gaia.

As Gaia, Gaby rules over the world virtually unchallenged by the gods that still remain. One of her followers, Tansy, travels to Australia, which has been abandoned since the events of the Second Coming.  Once there, she meets a man named Albert Spencer, who survived the Second Coming and has been residing in the Dreamtime with a ragtag group of humans. Together, they use a device to go to Heaven and find the Judeo-Christian God with his head blown off.  Albert then decides to unite the remnants of Earth's pantheons to lead an assault on Gaia.

As Albert attempts to form alliances, at Gaia's palace, her servants begin to question her motives and her divinity after she kills multiple members of the community that worship her. Hephaestus forms his own alliance among Gaia and Baldr, and organizes a counterattack against the lesser gods, which is successful, until the lesser gods attack. Hephaestus then descends into the bowels of a nearby mountain, and releases the Titans to do battle. Meanwhile, Lily, Gaia's high priestess who discovers the Collective's hideout, flies with a massive dragon, carrying a nuclear weapon.  A final battle is waged between the Titans and the remnants of the gods, ending with Lily dropping a nuclear weapon and killing Gaia. In doing so, the Earth begins to dry and shrivel, until Jesus, dressed as a normal human man, emerges in a flash of light.

Soon after, Albert shoots Jesus in the head, saying he has had enough of Saviors and gods. However, he soon discovers the world dissolving, including the Dreamtime. Jesus shows up in Australia and resurrects not only the Earth, but the population as well.  Albert rushes home and finds his family alive and well.  As they explore the city, they are attacked by a group of thugs, and his family is attacked and seemingly killed.  But he discovers they are alive, although maimed.  He goes and confronts Jesus, Dionysus, and Tansy as they celebrate.  Jesus and Tansy escape, but Dionysus is torn apart.  Across the world in Greece, Hephaestus, who has escaped from the Underworld with Apollo, arrives in Olympus, and to his shock finds Zeus alive and well, having been resurrected by Jesus's powers.

Accused of treachery by the other Olympian gods, Hephaestus is imprisoned, and soon after it is revealed that Jesus's resurrection magic worked not only on the Olympian pantheon, but all the other Pantheons as well as the Norse Gods arrive led by Odin to lead an assault on Olympus.  The attack results in every Olympian being massacred, with Zeus being sent to the Underworld underneath his brother Hades.  In the Underworld, it is revealed that there is a tentative alliance between Hades and Satan, who is having relations with Hades' wife, Persephone.  A city is founded called Apollonia, named after the sun god Apollo, which only allows the most perfect physical specimens of mankind into its walls.  In Australia, in order to stop the suffering of all the people in the world who cannot die from their horrific wounds, Tansy releases the dragon Baphomet who bites Jesus in half and kills him, enabling people on Earth to die again.

As people now find that they are able to die again, an assault is led on the Titans to stop them from destroying the Earth.  In a final desperate attempt, Atlas calls upon Gaia, Mother Earth, herself to avenge him and his brethren.  She resurrects and begins to destroy the Earth and the heavens, even going so far as to devour the moon.  The only who can stop her is Gaby, who is still human in this resurrected timeline.  In order to stop Gaia, she chooses to take the concoction that made her Gaia, and emerges as a stone encrusted female figure.  She attacks Gaia, but the resulting attack succeeds in destroying the Earth and opening a black hole.  Satan reveals this was the plan all along, even though it will result in his destruction.  He is consumed by Baphomet and the Earth vanishes, along with the deities, into a black hole.

In a limbo, all the deities have been resurrected and are constantly fighting under the eyes of the death deities of various Pantheons.  The Hindu Pantheon receive a visitor in the form of a nude woman who calls herself Siddharta and the Buddha, and that she is here to spread learning and knowledge to the Pantheons.  It is revealed that she has actually come from another universe where there is no belief in gods, where she sought enlightenment and ended up travelling between dimensions to the limbo where the deities are.  As she travels to visit the various gods to collect artifacts, the death gods become curious as to where the portal she came through leads.  One of them, the African deity Ogbunabali, decides to investigate and falls into a void to land in Siddharta's mortal body on the other side.  Crazed with the ability to feel life, he goes on a murderous rampage.

Elsewhere, the mention in the world of the name Zeus summons the Greek deity from limbo to this world.  Once there, he goes about establishing himself by bringing Hermes with him and having sex with multiple women to bring his bastards into the world.  Sensing new territory, the Egyptian pantheon follows suit, and soon are engaged into another battle with the Greek deities.  The Aztecs are soon called upon to fight for this world, but all the Pantheons are shocked when God is resurrected.

Flashing forward, churches are being constructed.  Siddharta seeks asylum in the realm of the Japanese Kami, as the other Pantheons are attacked by the angels of God.  She makes an alliance with the Kami and travels to the trickster Gods, asking them for help in retrieving her body. With the help of them and the Kami, she is able to take control of her body and banish Ogbunabali from it.  As Siddharta recovers, Satan leads the remainder of the Norse gods to Heaven and begins an assault on it, while Loki on a mission to start Ragnarok obtains two god killers, who are able to end the lives of gods permanently. He is betrayed by Ogbunabali, who kills Loki and takes control of the god killers.  Satan kills God and takes control of heaven as Siddharta takes control of the global news network.

In the final conflict, Ogbunabali is killed by Amaterasu, and this leads the two god killers to go on a rampage, killing all the members of every Pantheon on Earth.  With all the deities destroyed, Siddharta kills herself, appearing in spirit form before the god killing brothers, and summons them to an eternal paradise as the world has no more need of deities.  Years later, society has rebuilt, but in a final shot, the skull Siddharta drew can be seen on a wall in an alleyway.

Pantheons

The comic features the members of many of the Pantheons of the Ancient world.  The following have made appearances in the series:

The Aboriginal Pantheon
Altjira
Green Ants

The Ashanti Pantheon
Anansi

 The Aztec Pantheon
Huitzilopochtli
Mictlantecuhtli
Mictecacihuatl
Quetzalcoatl
Tezcatlipoca

The Babylonian Pantheon
Dagon

Brazilian Folklore
Saci

Buddhism
Chakrasamavara

The Canaanite Pantheon
Astoreth
Moloch

The Celtic Pantheon
Arianrhod
Artio (issue #8 cover only)
Branwen
Rhiannon
The Cù-sìth
The Nuckelavee

The Egyptian Pantheon
Anubis
Bastet
Horus
Isis
Ra
 The Ogdoad

The Greek Pantheon
Aphrodite
Apollo
Ares
Artemis
Athena
Cerberus
Chimera
Clio
Demeter
Dionysus
Enyalius
Euterpe
Eris
Eros
Hades
Hecate
Helios
Hephaestus
Hermes
Janus
Moros
Nike
Oizys
Pan
Persephone
Phantasos
Phobetor
Poseidon
Thanatos
Zeus

The Hindu Pantheon
Brahma
Ganesha
Kartikeya
Mara
Parvati
Sheshanaga
Shiva
Trimurti – While not an actual deity, Vishnu, Brahma, and Shiva could merge to form a giant being referred to as the Trimurti.
Vishnu

The Igbo Pantheon
Ogbunabali

The Japanese Pantheon
Amaterasu
Izanagi
Izanami
Kagutsuchi
Susanoo

The Judeo-Christian Pantheon
Adam
Azazel
Baphomet
Beelzebub
Eve
God
Jesus
Jibreel
Mammon
Michael
Satan
Serpent
Uriel
The Seraphim

The Norse Pantheon
Baldr
Bergelmir
Fenrir
Heiðr
Heimdallr
Hel
Jormungandr
Loki
Móðguðr
Odin
Ratatoskr
Surtr
Thor
Váli

The Polynesian Pantheon
Māui
The Adaro
The Moai

The Slavic Pantheon
Baba Yaga

The Sumerian Pantheon
Thammuz

The Titans
Arke
Atlas
Cronus
Gaia
Iapetus
Perses
Phoebe
Oceanus
Rhea

The Arabic Pantheon
 Iblis
 Ifrit

Native American Pantheon
Bakbakwalanooksiwae – A cannibalistic deity from the far North of America.
Coyote
Deer Women
Nayenezgani and Tobadzistsini – Two brothers who have the ability to kill gods.
Wendigo

Reception

The series has received mostly negative reviews. Hugh Armitage of Digital Spy said that the series is an old concept, and that the characters are too one-dimensional. Armitage went on to say that the portrayal of the Hindu gods would be offensive to modern Hindus.
Cheryl CS of The Pulp praised the art and fight scenes, but called the main story "cheesy" and "confusing."

References

Classical mythology in comics
2013 comics debuts
2016 comics endings
Fiction set in 2015
Comics set in the 2010s
Vatican City in fiction
Avatar Press titles
American comics titles
Comics by Jonathan Hickman
Limbo
Fiction about deities
Baphomet
Cultural depictions of Jesus
Egyptian mythology in comics
Norse mythology in comics


title: National Workers' Union (Poland)

text:
The National Workers' Union (, NZR) was a political party in Poland.

History
The NZR was established in June 1905 in Congress Poland by National Democracy (ND) in order to increase its support amongst the working class. However, following the Revolution of 1905, it broke away from ND, which had adopted a more pro-Russian approach. By 1906 the party had 15,961 members. It subsequently left the National League and joined the Temporary Commission of Confederated Independence Parties in 1912 after adopting a more pro-Austrian position.

The party ran in the January 1919 elections to elect the first Sejm of the Second Polish Republic, and although it only received 1.2% of the vote, it won 32 seats. On 23 May 1920 the party merged with the National Party of Workers to form the National Workers' Party.

References

Political parties of minorities in Imperial Russia
Defunct political parties in Poland
Political parties established in 1905
Political parties disestablished in 1920
1905 establishments in the Russian Empire


title: Eddie Duran

text:
Edward Lozano Duran (September 6, 1925 – November 22, 2019) was an American jazz guitarist from San Francisco. He recorded often with Vince Guaraldi and was a member of the Benny Goodman orchestra during the 1970s.

Career
Duran started on piano at age seven and switched to guitar at 12. By fifteen he was performing professionally with jazz musicians who visited San Francisco in the 1940s and 1950s. He was in a trio with his brothers, Carlos Duran and Manny Duran, from 1948 to 1952. Beginning in the 1950s, he worked in San Francisco with Chet Baker, Charlie Parker, Red Norvo, George Shearing, and Flip Phillips.

Around 1957, Duran was the guitarist in the CBS Radio Orchestra under the direction of Ray Hackett for the Bill Weaver Show, a variety show broadcast by CBS's San Francisco affiliate, KQW, later renamed KCBS, from the Palace Hotel. While playing with the CBS Orchestra, Duran met Brunell and performed on her debut album, Intro to Jazz of the Italian-American. The album was recorded by San Francisco Jazz Records, a short-lived label that was part of the production of the radio station.

In 1954, his friend, Vince Guaraldi, who had been playing with Cal Tjader, started a trio with Duran and bassist Dean Riley. Guaraldi introduced Tjader to Duran and his two brothers. All three Duran brothers were members of Cal Tjader's Mambo Quintet in the mid 1950s.

In 1958, Duran played a concert at the Marines Memorial Auditorium with Tjader and Stan Getz six years before Getz became famous. The concert was recorded by Fantasy. In an interview, Duran said, "There was no rehearsal before the date, no alternates, no second takes. It went very smoothly. It just kind of fell into place. The feeling was happy and relaxed." Also in 1958, Duran was joined by Manny Duran on Tjader's album San Francisco Moods. Duran led a trio from 1960 to 1967. In 1962, he was joined by Carlos Duran on Benny Velarde's album Ay Que Rico.

From 1976 to 1981, Duran was a member of Benny Goodman's orchestras, which included an acclaimed performance with Goodman's octet at Carnegie Hall on June 28, 1976, in connection with the Newport Jazz Festival. Between 1980 and 1982, Duran recorded with Tania Maria. In the late 1980s, after his last two children had grown, Duran moved to New York City and performed in a quartet that he organized. Duran crossed paths with Getz again in 1983 while recording the Dee Bell studio album, Let There Be Love. On October 19, 1983, he married Madeleine ("Mad") Askew in Sonoma County, California. Mad Duran, who is twenty-eight years younger than Eddie Duran, is a classically trained clarinetist and saxophonist and music educator. Duran and his wife have collaborated on five albums, including From Here to the Moon: Mad and Eddie Duran, which they produced in 1996.

Duran was once a licensed barber.

He died on November 22, 2019 at the age of 94.

Discography

As leader
 Jazz Guitarist (Fantasy, 1957)
 Ginza (Concord Jazz, 1979)
 From Here to the Moon (Mad Eddie, 1997)

As sideman
With Vince Guaraldi
 Vince Guaraldi Trio (Fantasy, 1956)
 A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing (Fantasy, 1958)
 In Person (Fantasy, 1963)
 Jazz Impressions (Fantasy, 1964)
 The Latin Side of Vince Guaraldi (Fantasy, 1964)
 Vince Guaraldi with the San Francisco Boys Chorus (D&D, 1967)
 Oh Good Grief! (Warner Bros.-Seven Arts, 1968)
 The Eclectic Vince Guaraldi (Warner Bros.-Seven Arts, 1969)
 Alma-Ville (Warner Bros.-Seven Arts, 1969)
 North Beach (D&D, 2006)
 An Afternoon with the Vince Guaraldi Quartet (V.A.G. Publishing, 2011)

With Tania Maria
 Piquant (Concord Jazz Picante, 1981)
 Taurus (Concord Jazz Picante, 1982)
 Come with Me (Concord Jazz, Picante 1983)

With Cal Tjader
 San Francisco Moods (Fantasy, 1958)
 Tjader Plays Tjazz (Fantasy, 1956)
 Last Night When We Were Young (Fantasy, 1975)

With others
 Dee Bell, Let There Be Love (Concord Jazz, 1983)
 Dee Bell, One by One (Concord Jazz, 1985)
 Stan Getz, Cal Tjader-Stan Getz Sextet (Fantasy, 1958)
 Benny Goodman Band, Aurex Jazz Festival '80: King of Swing (Eastworld, 1980)
 Jon Hendricks, Tell Me the Truth (Arista, 1975)
 Earl Hines, Fatha Plays Fats (Fantasy, 1956)
 Eiji Kitamura, Teddy Wilson, Cal Tjader, Seven Stars (Concord Jazz, 1982)
 Gus Mancuso, Cal Tjader, Vince Guaraldi, Introducing Gus Mancuso (Fantasy, 1956)

References
Notes

Inline citations

1925 births
2019 deaths
American jazz guitarists
Hard bop guitarists
Swing guitarists
American jazz composers
American male jazz composers
Guitarists from San Francisco
American male guitarists
20th-century American guitarists
Jazz musicians from San Francisco
20th-century American male musicians


title: Malcolm Johnson (wide receiver)

text:
Malcolm Alexander Johnson (born August 27, 1977) is a former American football wide receiver who played two seasons in the National Football League (NFL) with the Pittsburgh Steelers and New York Jets. He was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the fifth round of the 1999 NFL Draft. He played college football at the University of Notre Dame and attended Gonzaga College High School in Washington D.C. He was also a member of the Ottawa Renegades of the Canadian Football League (CFL).

References

External links
Just Sports Stats
College stats

Living people
1977 births
American football wide receivers
Canadian football wide receivers
African-American players of American football
African-American players of Canadian football
Gonzaga College High School alumni
Notre Dame Fighting Irish football players
Pittsburgh Steelers players
New York Jets players
Ottawa Renegades players
Players of American football from Washington, D.C.
21st-century African-American sportspeople
20th-century African-American sportspeople


title: Joseph R. Swedish

text:
Joseph Robert Swedish (born 1951) is an American healthcare executive and leader. He is a former senior adviser to the board of directors at Anthem, Inc., a Fortune 29 company, and was the CEO of Anthem, Inc. from 2013 to 2017. For 12 years in a row Swedish was named Modern Healthcare’s one of the 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare.

Early life and education
Swedish is the son of Eastern European immigrants.  His father changed the family name from "Szwedzicki" to "Swedish" upon emigration through Ellis Island in 1949 from post WW II Europe as Displaced Persons. He was born in Richmond, Virginia and attended elementary school at an orphanage while growing up on his parents’ farm in Virginia. Swedish also attended a Catholic ROTC military college preparatory high school.

Swedish received his bachelor's degree from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and then a master's degree in health administration from Duke University.

Business career

Anthem, Inc.
From 2013 to 2018, Swedish served as chairman, president and CEO of Anthem, Inc. Under Mr. Swedish's leadership, the company experienced remarkably strong financial performance and growth. As CEO, Anthem's membership grew by four million, or 11 percent, the average share price nearly quadrupled from approximately $60 per share to $250 per share, and operating revenue increased 39 percent to over $89 billion. Core strategic imperatives included improving medical costs, working with physicians to improve healthcare quality and access, and improving the consumer experience. During his tenure, Swedish reinvigorated Anthem's culture by aligning the company's leadership to create a unified, inclusive and values-centered culture where associates are committed to an authentic mission.

Trinity Health
From 2005 to 2013, Swedish served as president and CEO of Trinity Health, a 22-state integrated healthcare delivery system. Under Swedish's direction, the healthcare system operated 47 acute-care hospitals, 423 outpatient facilities, 32 long-term care facilities, and 34 home health offices and hospice programs. During his tenure, he led the development of the nation's first large scale electronic medical records system, and accelerated its financial and operational performance, growing revenue by nearly 50 percent from less than $6 billion to approximately $9 billion in 2012. He successfully managed the merger with Catholic Healthcare East in 2012 to create the then second largest Catholic healthcare system in the United States.

Centura Health
From 1999 to 2005, Swedish served as president and CEO of Colorado's Centura Health, which was the state's largest hospital system and fourth largest private employer. Under his leadership, Centura improved its financial stability, strengthened its voice on healthcare policy issues, and made major investments in system expansion with strategic capital deployment to grow, to scale and improve the quality of care and services.

Hospital Corporation of America
From 1994 to 1998, Swedish served as president and CEO for the Central Florida Division and East Florida Division of Hospital Corporation of America, which consisted of 21 hospitals and 12 joint ventured ambulatory surgery centers in six markets from Orlando to South Florida (Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Palm Beach).

Additional CEO positions
Prior to 1994, Swedish held several leadership positions including serving as the president and CEO of Winter Park Memorial Hospital and Park Health Corp, in Winter Park Florida; president and CEO of Mary Washington Hospital, in Fredericksburg, Virginia; and CEO of Horizon HealthCorp. subsidiary of Memorial Mission Medical Center in Asheville, North Carolina.

Board roles
Concord Health Partners, LLC, original co-founder & partner; currently Partner Emeritus
IBM, board of Directors
 CDW, board of directors
 Mesoblast, board of directors, member and chairman of the board
 Centrexion Therapeutics, board of directors
Previous Anthem, Inc., executive chairman, president and CEO, Anthem Board of Directors
 Previous chairman of America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP)
 Previous chairman of the board, Catholic Health Association
 Duke University's Fuqua School of Business board of visitors, member and past chairman of the board
 Swedish has also held board and advisory positions with American Hospital Association; Coventry Health Care, RehabCare Group, Inc.; BankFIRST, Cross Country, Inc;, National Quality Forum; Winter Park Health Foundation; and Loyola University Chicago

Awards and recognition

 Under Swedish's CEO leadership, Anthem was recognized by Ethisphere on the 2018 list of World's Most Ethical Companies
 2005–2017 Modern Healthcare’s 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare
 2016 Crain Communications’ Top 100 Innovators list
 2003 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year—Rocky Mountain Region award, regarded as one of the most prestigious business award programs in the country
 University Medal, board of regents, University of Colorado
Fellow, American College of Healthcare Executives

References

American chairpersons of corporations
Living people
University of North Carolina at Charlotte alumni
American health care chief executives
1951 births


title: Yabrud

text:
Yabrud may refer to:
 Yabroud a city in Syria
 Yabrud, Ramallah, a Palestinian village in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate


title: Dorothy Cowlin

text:
Dorothy Cowlin (16 August 1911 – 10 January 2010) was a British novelist, poet, newspaper columnist and article writer with strong associations to North Yorkshire.

During her life she wrote eight novels which were all published by Jonathan Cape, four biographical novels aimed at younger readers, and four collections of poetry. All her work was published under her maiden name rather than her married name, Dorothy Whalley.

Biography
Dorothy Cowlin was born in Grantham, a market town in Lincolnshire, England in 1911. She studied Geography at the University of Manchester and was awarded a BA. She was a teacher in Stockport before marrying Ronald Whalley on 12 April 1941 at the parish church of Hampton Bishop whilst he was serving as a chiropodist in the RAF Hospital at Locking. At that time a married woman could not continue working, so she turned her attention to writing which she had always had an ambition to do. She had a single daughter on 15 October 1942 whom she named Virginia after Virginia Woolf, an author whose work she greatly admired. Her first novel, "Penny To Spend", was published by Jonathan Cape in 1941 and was followed by seven others, but her style of writing fell out of favour, and she turned her attention to poetry.

The family first moved to Pickering, North Yorkshire in late Autumn 1948 when Ronald came to teach at a school in the neighbouring village of Thornton-le-Dale. Dorothy fell in love with the countryside of the nearby Dales, and her writing often used the local environment as a background She wrote columns for Malton newspaper the Gazette & Herald for more than 30 years, a long running series of articles for Scarborough's weekly paper The Mercury, and articles for magazines like The Dalesman, Yorkshire Life and Yorkshire Ridings, which often concerned local history and her own reminiscences. A collection of 25 articles that originally appeared in the Gazette & Herald was published in 2000 under the title Do You Remember? Pickering 50 years ago. Her poems appeared in The Dalesman and many other magazines.

Her poem The Sound of Rain has been featured by BBC Radio 4's programme Poetry Please, and her poem Pennine Tunnel was the winner of a competition run by Yorkshire Television's magazine programme Calendar and judged by David Morley

Bibliography

Novels
 Penny to Spend (1941)
Her first novel was advertised in the Glasgow Herald where its theme was described as “an experiment with time”; something which was noted in a review by Stevie Smith to be impossible, but made plausible by the author's skill.
 Winter Solstice (first published 1942 by Jonathan Cape in the UK and 1943 by Macmillan in the US; republished 1991 by Merlin Press with an introduction by Gabriele Griffin)

 The Holly and the Ivy (1950)

 The Slow Train Home (1951)

 Rowanberry Wine (1952)

 An End and a Beginning (1954)
 Draw the Well Dry (1955)
 The Pair of Them (1956)

Biographical novels
 Greenland Seas: The story of Scoresby the whaler (published 1965 by E. J. Arnold & Son Limited of Leeds, with illustrations by Ray Bailey)
A Woman in the Desert: The story of Gertrude Bell (published 1967 by Frederick Muller Limited of London, with illustrations by Penny Carey)
 Elizabeth Barrett Browning (published 1968 by Frederick Muller, with illustrations by Sheila Bewley)
 Cleopatra: Queen of Egypt (published 1970 by Wayland Publishers)

Other works
 The Sound of Rain (1991)
 Winter Rooks (1998)
 Do you remember? Pickering 50 Years Ago (2000, Blackthorn Press)
 Pigeon Past (2002)
 The Sound of Rain and 99 other poems (2009, self-published)

Notes

References

External links

 "The Sound of Rain" The Collected Poetry of Dorothy Cowlin, 30 April 2021
 "The way of the Wolds" An article published in the Gazette & Herald, 14 June 2006
 "When words mean so much more" An article published in the Gazette & Herald, 27 December 2001
 "On the grand tour with the over 50s" An article published in the Gazette & Herald, 30 November 2006
 "All change in Pickering" An article published in the Gazette & Herald, 26 February 2003
 "The nuns of Pickering" An article published in the Gazette & Herald, 25 September 2002
 "Meet one of the founding fathers of Beck Isle Museum" An article published in the Gazette & Herald, 14 March 2002

1911 births
2010 deaths
20th-century British novelists
People educated at Kesteven and Grantham Girls' School
People from Grantham
People from Malton, North Yorkshire


title: Albert Barnes & Co

text:
Albert Barnes & Co were Rhyl based manufacturers of miniature steam locomotives. A number of them are preserved at the Rhyl Miniature Railway. Albert Barnes was the owner of  Rhyl Amusements Ltd. Six 4-4-2 locomotives were built.

Locomotive list

References

Barnes


title: Cerium(III) methanesulfonate

text:
Cerium(III) methanesulfonate is a white salt, usually found as the dihydrate with the formula Ce(CH3SO3)3·2H2O that precipitates from the neutralisation of cerium(III) carbonate with methanesulfonic acid, as first reported by L.B. Zinner in 1979. The crystals have a monoclinic polymeric structure were each methanesulfonate ion forms bonds with two cerium atoms, which present a coordination number of 8. The anhydrous salt is formed by water loss at 120 °C. Similar methanesulfonates can be prepared with other lanthanides. Cerium(III) methanesulfonate in solution is used as a precursor of electrogenerated cerium(IV), which is a strong oxidant and whose salts can be used in organic synthesis. The same principle of Ce(IV) electrogeneration is the fundamental reaction in the positive half-cell of the zinc–cerium battery.

See also
 Cerium
 Zinc–cerium battery

References

Cerium(III) compounds
Oxidizing agents
Sulfonates


title: List of ministerial by-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom

text:
Ministerial by-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom at Westminster were held from 1801 to the 1920s when a Member of Parliament (MP) was appointed as a minister in the government. Unlike most Westminster by-elections, ministerial by-elections were often a formality, uncontested by opposition parties. Re-election was required under the Succession to the Crown Act 1707. This was in line with the principle established in 1624 that accepting an office of profit from the Crown would precipitate resignation from the House, with the option of standing for re-election. Typically a minister sought re-election in the constituency he had just vacated, but occasionally contested another seat which was also vacant. In 1910 The Times newspaper noted that the relevant Act had been passed in the reign of Queen Anne "to prevent the Court from swamping the House of Commons with placemen and pensioners", and described the process as "anomalous" and "indefensible" in the 20th century. The Re-Election of Ministers Act 1919 ended the necessity to seek re-election within nine months of a general election, and the Re-Election of Ministers Act (1919) Amendment Act 1926 ended the practice in all other cases.

Ministerial by-elections

34th Parliament (1924–1929)

31st Parliament (1919–1922)

30th Parliament (August 1914 – 1918)

10th Parliament (1831–1832)

9th Parliament (1830–1831)

8th Parliament (1826–1830)

7th Parliament (1820–1826)

6th Parliament (1818–1820)

5th Parliament (1812–1818)

4th Parliament (1807–1812)

3rd Parliament (1806–1807)

2nd Parliament (1802–1806)

1st Parliament (1801–1802)

See also
 List of ministerial by-elections to the Parliament of Great Britain (pre-1801)

References

Ministerial


title: Valentine Abt

text:
Valentine Abt (born Pittsburgh June 13, 1873 – died Mayview, Pennsylvania July 16, 1942) was an American composer who specialized in the mandolin. In the book Popular American Composers, Frank L. Boyden named Abt one of America's most "prominent specialists of the mandolin", saying that he should be appreciated in Europe as well as America as "one of the greatest artists of any instrument."

Abt was a proponent of the duo-style of mandolin playing, in which one players plays back and forth between melody, counter-melody and harmony so quickly that it sounds as if two instruments are playing. Boyden credited Abt with founding a musical movement around the duo-style, as well as "trio" and "quartet" styles (that sound like three and four different instruments at once). The golden age of the mandolin around the turn of the 20th-Century included other prominent mandolin players using the style, including Samuel Siegel, W. Eugene Page, and Seth Weeks.

Recordings
Abt recorded with Victor Records:
  Valse brillante Valentine Abt (5/29/1905) (composed by Valentine Abt)
  Angel's serenade"" Valentine Abt (5/29/1905)
 Sweet memories Valentine Abt and Roy Butin (8/5/1908) (composed by Valentine Abt)
 Manzanillo Valentine Abt and Roy Butin (8/5/1908
 Artist's valse Valentine Abt and Roy Butin (composed by Valentine Abt)
 Evening star Valentine Abt and Roy Butin (8/5/1908)
 Barcarolle Valentine Abt and Roy Butin (8/5/1908)
 Fantasie Valentine Abt and Roy Butin (12/8/1909) (composed by Valentine Abt)
 Sweet memories Abt's Mandolin Orchestra (12/8/1909) (composed by Valentine Abt)

Biography
 The biography of Valentine Abt : mandolin and harp virtuoso, composer, and teacher, 1873-1942  by John L. Abt., 2nd ed., with additions and revisions. Published/Created Fort Lauderdale, Fla. : J.L. Abt ; Kensington, Md. : Distributed by Plucked String, 2003. , LCCN 2004560789, LC classification (full) ML419.A12 A63 2003. Includes discography (p. 75-78), bibliographical references (p. 149-153), and index.
 The biography of Valentine Abt : mandolin and harp virtuoso, composer, and teacher'', 1873-1942 by John L. Abt. 1st ed., Published/Created Fort Lauderdale, Fla. : J.L. Abt ; Kensington, Md. : Distributed by Plucked String, 2002. , LCCN 2003269818, LC classification (full) ML419.A12 A63 2002. Includes discography (p. 70-72), bibliographical references (p. 130-134), and index.

See also
List of mandolinists (sorted)

References

American male composers
American composers
American mandolinists
Musicians from Pittsburgh
1873 births
1942 deaths


title: Patrick (footballer, born 1992)

text:
Patrick Bezerra do Nascimento (born 29 July 1992), simply known as Patrick, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays  as a midfielder for Atlético Mineiro.

Club career
Born in Rio de Janeiro, Patrick was rejected as a youth by hometown sides Flamengo, Vasco da Gama and Botafogo before becoming a youth graduate of Operário Ferroviário. He made his first team debut for the latter on 27 August 2011, coming on as a second-half substitute for Zé Leandro in a 1–0 Série D away win over Oeste.

Patrick scored his first senior goal on 10 March 2013, netting the equalizer in a 1–1 Campeonato Paranaense away draw against Coritiba. In May of that year, he was loaned to Marcílio Dias, and joined Caxias in September also in a temporary deal.

On 5 December 2013, Patrick was presented at Comercial de Ribeirão Preto, with his former team Operário stating that the transfer was illegal as the player had contract with them until December 2014. He nonetheless played the 2014 Campeonato Paulista for Comercial before joining Turkish Süper Lig side Gaziantepspor on 3 August 2014.

Patrick failed to play a single minute abroad, and returned to Brazil on 5 January 2015, signing a contract with former side Caxias. On 14 May, he was presented at Série A side Goiás.

Patrick made his top tier debut on 16 May 2015, starting in a 2–0 home win over Atlético Paranaense. He featured in 31 league matches during the campaign, as his side suffered relegation.

On 3 June 2017, after winning two Campeonato Goiano titles in a row, Patrick left Goiás and joined Sport Recife in the main category. He scored his first goal in the division on 20 July, netting the opener of a 4–0 home routing of Atlético Goianiense.

On 29 December 2017, Patrick signed a two-year deal with Internacional. On 12 March 2019, the club bought 50% of his economic rights (which belonged to a group of businessman and were assigned at Monte Azul), and he renewed his contract until 2021. On 18 June 2021, he renewed his contract with Inter until June 2023.

On 8 January 2022, Patrick joined São Paulo FC on a two-year deal. He made 55 appearances, scored nine goals and assisted eight others in the 2022 season.

On 19 January 2023, Patrick signed a three-year contract with Atlético Mineiro.

Career statistics

Honours
Marcílio Dias
Campeonato Catarinense Divisão Especial: 2013

Goiás
Campeonato Goiano: 2016, 2017

Atlético Mineiro
Campeonato Mineiro: 2023

References

External links

1992 births
Living people
Footballers from Rio de Janeiro (city)
Brazilian men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Campeonato Brasileiro Série A players
Campeonato Brasileiro Série B players
Campeonato Brasileiro Série C players
Campeonato Brasileiro Série D players
Operário Ferroviário Esporte Clube players
Clube Náutico Marcílio Dias players
Sociedade Esportiva e Recreativa Caxias do Sul players
Comercial Futebol Clube (Ribeirão Preto) players
Gaziantepspor footballers
Atlético Monte Azul players
Goiás Esporte Clube players
Sport Club do Recife players
Sport Club Internacional players
São Paulo FC players
Clube Atlético Mineiro players
Brazilian expatriate men's footballers
Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in Turkey
Expatriate men's footballers in Turkey


title: Willie Esterhuizen

text:
Willie Esterhuizen is an Afrikaans actor, writer and director. He is known for his roles in the popular TV series Vetkoekpaleis and Gauteng-aleng-aleng.

Esterhuizen received dance training at the University of Cape Town, after which he studied drama for two years at the Arts Educational School in London. Two years later he became a member of KRUIK and moved to Johannesburg to do television work.

Filmography
As director:
 Vir Beter of Baie Beter (TV-series), 2014
 Molly en Wors (TV-series)
 Stoute Boudjies, 2010
 Vaatjie sien sy gat, 2008
 Poena is Koning, 2007
 Begeertes (TV-series), 2006
 Lipstiek Dipstiek, 1994
 Orkney Snork Nie 2, 1993
 Orkney Snork Nie (Die Moevie), 1992
 Orkney Snork Nie (TV-series), 1989-1992

As writer:
 Vir Beter of Baie Beter, 2014
 Stoute Boudjies, 2010
 Vaatjie sien sy gat, 2008
 Begeertes (TV-series), 2006
 Vetkoekpaleis, 1996-2000
 Gauteng Aleng(TV-Series), 2003 - 2004
 Lipstiek Dipstiek, 1994
 Orkney Snork Nie (TV-series), 1989-1992

As actor:
 Faan se Trein, 2014
 Stoute Boudjies, 2010
 Vaatjie sien sy gat, 2008
 Liewe Hemel, Genis!, 1987 as Visser Botes (Vissertjie)
 Vetkoekpaleis, 1996-2000
 Wie Laaste Lag, 1985 as Lafras
 Koöperasiestories (TV-series) as Vissertjie, 1983
 Wat Jy Saai, 1979 as Christiaan MacDonald

Awards
 Golden Loerie Award for TV advertising (2002)
 Avanti Award for Best Actor (1999)
 Avanti Award for Best Comedy Production (1999)
 Avanti Award for Best Writer (1999)
 Star Tonight award: Best Writer (1994)

References

External links

South African male film actors
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people


title: 2014 NACAC U23 Championships in Athletics

text:
The 8th NACAC Under-23 Championships in Athletics were held at the Hillside Stadium in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada from August 8–10, 2014. A total of 44 track and field events were contested, divided evenly between the sexes.

Medal summary

For medal winners and complete results, see footnote

Men

Women

Medal table (unofficial)

Participation
According to an unofficial count, 197 athletes from 19 countries participated.

 (1)
 (5)
 (3)
 (2)
 (1)
 (37)
 (9)
 (4)
 (4)
 (15)
 (14)
 (2)
 (10)
 (2)
 (1)
 (5)
 (2)
 (77)
 (3)

External links
 Official website

References

NACAC Under-23 Championships in Athletics
NACAC Under-23 Championships
NACAC Under-23 Championships
Sport in Kamloops
International track and field competitions hosted by Canada
NACAC Under-23
2014 in youth sport
August 2014 sports events in Canada


title: Alberto Domínguez (footballer)

text:
Alberto Manuel Domínguez Rivas (born 11 February 1988), known simply as Alberto, is a Spanish footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Coruxo FC.

Club career
Born in Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Alberto graduated from Deportivo de La Coruña's youth setup, and made his senior debut while on loan at local club Montañeros CF. He returned to the Estadio Riazor in summer 2008, being immediately assigned to the reserves in the Segunda División B.

In June 2009, Alberto signed for SD Compostela in the same league, but after appearing sparingly he agreed to a deal at Coruxo FC of the same division in August 2010. On 3 July 2012 he joined another reserve team, Getafe CF B, occasionally being called up to the main squad.

On 18 July 2013, Alberto moved to Albacete Balompié also of the third division. Initially a backup to Francisco Dorronsoro, he became first-choice in mid-February 2014 and appeared in 18 games during the season (play-offs included), as the club returned to Segunda División after a three-year absence.

Alberto played his first match as a professional on 24 August 2014, starting in a 2–3 home loss against AD Alcorcón. He lost his importance in the squad due to the arrival of Diego Rivas as well as injury problems, and was released at the end of the campaign.

On 3 August 2015, Alberto signed with third-tier SD Ponferradina.

Career statistics

Club

References

External links

1988 births
Living people
Spanish men's footballers
Footballers from Santiago de Compostela
Men's association football goalkeepers
Segunda División players
Segunda División B players
Tercera División players
Segunda Federación players
Deportivo Fabril players
SD Compostela footballers
Coruxo FC players
Getafe CF B players
Albacete Balompié players
SD Ponferradina players