title: 2014–15 Azadegan League

text:
The 2014–15 Azadegan League was the 24th season of the Azadegan League and 14th as the second highest division since its establishment in 1991. The season featured 16 teams from the 2013–14 Azadegan League, three new teams relegated from the 2013–14 Persian Gulf Cup: Fajr Sepasi, Damash and Mes Kerman and four new teams promoted from the 2013–14 2nd Division: Shahrdari Ardabil and Etka Gorgan both as champions and Foolad Novin and Shahrdari Tabriz. Tarbiat Yazd replaced Yazd Louleh. The league started on 4 October 2014 and ended on 22 April 2015. Foolad Novin won the Azadegan League title for the first time in their history. Siah Jamegan and Esteghlal Ahvaz promoted to the Persian Gulf Pro League.

Start of season
The league is feature to three teams relegated from Iran Pro League in 2013–14; Mes Kerman, Fajr Sepasi and Damash Gilan.
It featured four teams promoted from 2013–14 2nd Division: Shahrdari Ardabil, Etka Gorgan, Foolad Novin , and Shahrdari Tabriz.

Changes
Two fewer teams participate in the 2014–15 Azadegan League, compared to the previous year.

Teams

Group A

Group B

Standings

Group A

Group B

Azadegan League play-off

Mes Kerman as 2nd-placed team of Group A will faced Mes Rafsanjan as 2nd-placed team of Group B in a two-legged Play-off.

Mes Kerman won 1–0 on aggregate and receives its place in the relegation Play-off of the Persian Gulf Pro League.

Relegation play-off (Persian Gulf Pro League)

Esteghlal Khuzestan as 14th-placed team will faced Play-off winner of 2014–15 Azadegan League, Mes Kerman in a two-legged Play-off.

Esteghlal Khuzestan won 3–0 on aggregate and retained its place in the next edition of the Persian Gulf Pro League.

Relegation play-off (Azadegan League)

Esteghlal Ahvaz as 9th-placed team of Group A will faced Shahrdari Tabriz as 9th-placed team of Group B in a two-legged Play-off.

3–3 on aggregate. Shahrdari Tabriz won on away goals.

Final

Siah Jamegan as winner of Group A will faced Foolad Novin as winner of Group B in a final.

Foolad Novin become champions of the league for the first time in their history.

References

Azadegan League seasons
Iran
2014–15 in Iranian football leagues


title: Hippopsis femoralis

text:
Hippopsis femoralis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Breuning in 1940.

References

Hippopsis
Beetles described in 1940


title: Hippopsis fractilinea

text:
Hippopsis fractilinea is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Bates in 1866.

References

Hippopsis
Beetles described in 1866


title: Hippopsis fratercula

text:
Hippopsis fratercula is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Galileo and Martins in 1988.

References

Hippopsis
Beetles described in 1988


title: Hippopsis freyi

text:
Hippopsis freyi is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Stephan von Breuning in 1955.

References

Hippopsis
Beetles described in 1955


title: Hippopsis gilmouri

text:
Hippopsis gilmouri is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Breuning in 1962.

References

Hippopsis
Beetles described in 1962


title: Hippopsis griseola

text:
Hippopsis griseola is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Bates in 1866.

References

Hippopsis
Beetles described in 1866


title: Hippopsis insularis

text:
Hippopsis insularis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Breuning in 1962.

References

Hippopsis
Beetles described in 1962


title: Hippopsis iuasanga

text:
Hippopsis iuasanga is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Martins and Galileo in 2006.

References

Hippopsis
Beetles described in 2006


title: Hippopsis lemniscata

text:
Hippopsis lemniscata is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1801.

References

Hippopsis
Beetles described in 1801


title: Hippopsis lineolatus

text:
Hippopsis lineolatus is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Amédée Louis Michel Lepeletier and Jean Guillaume Audinet-Serville in 1825.

References

Hippopsis
Beetles described in 1825
Taxa named by Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier
Taxa named by Jean Guillaume Audinet-Serville


title: Saqr (drone)

text:
Saqr a line of Unmanned aerial vehicles produced by the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology for the government of Saudi Arabia.  , three models had been developed: Saqr 2, Saqr 3 and Saqr 4. All three models are manufactured from fiberglass and carbon composite material, making them lightweight and stealthy. The Saudi government has developed the craft for research purposes, and the units are equipped with cameras for aerial photography. According to Prince Turki bin Saud bin Mohammed, the Saqr-1 has a range of more than 2,500 km and can remain airborne for more than 24 hours. The UAV flies at an average altitude of 20,000 feet.

It features a Ka band satellite communications system. These weapons are Chinese AR-1 laser-guided missile and FT-9 guided bomb.

The units were first developed in 2012 with a total of 38 built .

Variants
Saqr 1
Saqr 2
Saqr 3
Saqr 4

References

Sources

Unmanned aerial vehicles of Saudi Arabia


title: Bridgework (album)

text:
Bridgework is an album by American jazz drummer Billy Higgins recorded in 1980 and 1986 and released on the Contemporary label.

Reception

The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow states "the music overall is excellent hard bop with some strong moments but no major surprises".

Track listing
 "Deceptakon" (Charles 'Buster' Williams)
 "I Hear a Rhapsody" (George Fragos, Dick Gasparre, Jack Baker)
 "Plexus (Cedar Walton)
 "Evidence" (Thelonious Monk)
 "Bridgework" (Walton)
 "Old Folks" (Willard Robison, Dedette Lee Hill)
 "The Theme" (Harold Land)

Personnel
Billy Higgins - drums
James Clay (tracks 4-6), Harold Land (tracks 1-3 & 7) - tenor saxophone
Cedar Walton - piano
Tony Dumas (tracks 4-6), Buster Williams (tracks 1-3 & 7) - bass

References

Contemporary Records albums
Billy Higgins albums
1986 albums


title: Agonopterix nyctalopis

text:
Agonopterix nyctalopis is a moth of the family Depressariidae. It is found on the Comoros (Grand Comore).

This species has a wingspan of 23 mm. The head is ochreous-whitish sprinkled light grey, the forewings whitish-ochreous irregularly strigulated brownish.

References

Agonopterix
Moths described in 1930
Moths of Africa


title: Dorcas Makgato-Malesu

text:
Dorcas Makgato was born in Serowe, Botswana and grew up in the capital city Gaborone. She served as a Minister in the Cabinet of Botswana. She was also one of the young hopefuls that marked the 10th anniversary of Botswana's independence with a march past for the first President in 1976. From 2019 she has been serving as Botswana's ambassador to Australia.

Education
She attended Sheffield University in the UK from which she graduated with a BSc Hons in General Management in Catering Systems.

Career
Makgato was chief executive officer of the Botswana Export and Development and Investment Authority between 2007 and 2009 where she identified barriers to investment and lobbied the Botswana Government to make changes for an improved investment climate, involving greater engagement and interaction with critical stakeholders and the private sector. She used her role as the authority's CEO to overhaul the organisation's working structures and improve its practices which led the company to become one of Africa's most admired investment promotion authorities.

Before joining the investment authority, Makgato worked for Barloworld Limited as director of corporate services between 2001 and 2007 and was also the executive director of the Nashua franchise and was responsible for the strategic direction and performance of the company. Lastly, before joining Barloworld she was Head of the Commercial and Human Resource Divisions of Air Botswana.

Her experiences have been helpful in Makgato's former role in the trade and industry ministry. One of her main goals was to strive to make Botswana an attractive place to do business on a global scale. She hoped to use her position to help the country pursue sustainable industries and trade. Since assuming the ministry position in 2010, she has strengthened the relations between Botswana and its neighboring countries in southern and eastern Africa, while introducing initiatives to reinforce Botswana's identity in the diamond industry and that of the country as a whole. She was the Minister of Health and former Minister of Trade and Industry in 2014.

References

External links

 Facebook page

Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Botswana businesspeople
Women chief executives
Alumni of the University of Sheffield
21st-century women politicians


title: Swami Vivekananda Stadium

text:
Swami Vivekananda Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in the capital city of Tripura in Agartala. The ground has capacity of 8,000 persons. The ground is located 2km from the city center.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi also hosted rally during 2014 prime ministerial campaign.

It one of the main stadium in Tripura, with Maharaja Bir Bikram College Stadium and Badharghat Stadium.

References

Multi-purpose stadiums in India
Cricket grounds in Tripura
Sports venues in Agartala
Sports venues completed in 2013
2013 establishments in Tripura


title: Rajesh Thakker

text:
Rajesh Vasantlal Thakker  (born 1954) is May Professor of Medicine in the Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Somerville College, Oxford. Thakker is also a Consultant physician at the Churchill Hospital and the John Radcliffe Hospital, Principal investigator (PI) at the Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism (OCDEM) and was Chairman of the NIHR/MRC Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation (EME) Board until Spring 2016.

Education
Thakker was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he was awarded his Master of Arts (MA), Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MB BChir), Doctor of Medicine (MD) and Doctor of Science (ScD) degrees. He completed his clinical training at Middlesex Hospital Medical School.

Research and career
Thakker's research investigates neuroendocrine tumours such as multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN1) and the molecular basis of disorders of calcium homeostasis. He has supervised nine successful Doctor of Philosophy students and his research has been funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC).

Thakker has edited several books including Genetic and Molecular Biological Aspects of Endocrine Disease, Molecular Genetics of Endocrine Disorders, and Genetics of Bone Biology and Skeletal Disease.

Awards and honours
Thakker was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2014. His nomination reads:

Personal life
Thakker is married to Julie Clare Magee and has one daughter, Clare Thakker, who has qualified as a doctor from Clare College, Cambridge. He is a school governor at Oxford High School, Oxford.

References

Living people
Fellows of the Royal Society
Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences (United Kingdom)
1954 births
Fellows of Somerville College, Oxford
Physicians of the John Radcliffe Hospital


title: Hippopsis macrophthalma

text:
Hippopsis macrophthalma is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Breuning in 1940.

References

Hippopsis
Beetles described in 1940


title: Hippopsis meinerti

text:
Hippopsis meinerti is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius in 1900.

References

Hippopsis
Beetles described in 1900


title: Hippopsis minima

text:
Hippopsis minima is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Galileo and Martins in 1988.

References

Hippopsis
Beetles described in 1988


title: Hippopsis monachica

text:
Hippopsis monachica is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Berg in 1889.

References

Hippopsis
Beetles described in 1889


title: Hippopsis mourai

text:
Hippopsis mourai is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Martins and Galileo in 1994.

References

Hippopsis
Beetles described in 1994


title: James May's Cars of the People

text:
Cars of the People is a series of spin-off factual programmes of the BBC Two factual television series Top Gear, presented by James May, which look at how the motor vehicle became an everyday part of human life.

Broadcast
Although billed as a stand-alone series in the United Kingdom, international broadcasts are billed as special episodes of Top Gear, designed to bridge the gap between the broadcast of each series. Each episode is filmed in the same style as Top Gear, with many of the same cast and crew, as well as featuring jokes which relate to events or sequences in the parent series.

The first series of three episodes began on 10 August 2014, bridging the gap between Series 21 and 22 of Top Gear. A second series of three episodes was set to be broadcast in 2015; but was indefinitely delayed due to the scandal which saw presenter Jeremy Clarkson dropped from the parent series, which in turn led to the departures of both Richard Hammond and May. The second series was eventually broadcast in January 2016. May has confirmed that no further episodes will be produced due to his commitment to Amazon Prime Video.

Episodes

Series overview

Series 1 (2014)

Series 2 (2016)

Home media
The first series was released on DVD in Australia on 5 August 2015.

References

External links

Cars Of The People
2014 British television series debuts
2016 British television series endings
BBC television documentaries
English-language television shows


title: Todd Blodgett

text:
Todd Blodgett (born September 10, 1960) is an American conservative Republican political writer, who served as a member of the White House staff of President Ronald Reagan and on the Bush/Quayle election committee. Following the 1988 presidential election, Blodgett, who was a protege of the late Lee Atwater, then served on the staff of the Republican National Committee, where he worked until 1991. He was a one-time co-owner and operator of Resistance Records, the world's largest neo-Nazi music label. As has been reported by the Associated Press, The London Independent, Fox News, newspapers published by Lee Enterprises, Inc., Washington Post and in other media, Blodgett worked as a full-time, paid informant for the FBI. In this capacity, he was assigned to infiltrate/surveil neo-Nazis, KKK members, fascist Skinheads, professional anti-Semites, and Holocaust deniers in the United States, Europe, Canada, and the Caribbean.

Todd Blodgett has worked with notable American far-right figures such as William Pierce, David Duke, Don Black, Ed Fields, Paul Hall, Jr., Chris Temple, Richard Butler and Willis Carto. He also worked with and employed Mark Cotterill, a British neo-fascist who founded the American Friends of the British National Party (BNP), and other European racists, including John Tyndall, Nick Griffin, Richard Barnbrook and Steven Cartwright. From March 2000 to November 2002, Blodgett was retained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to supply information concerning organizations and individuals affiliated with the racist Far right. He regularly met with and reported to FBI and  JTTF (the Joint Terrorism Task Force) agents and other officials, after attending gatherings hosted by Holocaust Deniers and White Supremacist  groups, which featured racist, far-right extremists who were of interest to American anti-terrorism law enforcement officials and agencies.

In 1972, Blodgett met J. Neil Reagan, whose younger brother was Ronald Reagan, the-then Governor of California. Neil ‘Moon’ Reagan introduced Blodgett to Ronald Reagan in 1976; between 1976 and 1980, Blodgett met with Ronald Reagan several times, all in Iowa. After graduating from Drake University in 1983, he worked for U.S. Senator Roger W. Jepsen. After Jepsen's 1984 defeat, Blodgett served on the Reagan-Bush Presidential Inaugural Committee, and then as a member of the Reagan White House staff, from 1985–1987.

In November, 1987, Blodgett began working for GOP strategist Lee Atwater on the presidential campaign of then-Vice President George H.W. Bush.  He served on Bush's campaign staff through the 1988 election, after which Atwater hired Mr. Blodgett to work at the Republican National Committee, where Mr. Atwater was chairman. At the RNC, Blodgett specialized in opposition research and what were known as ‘wedge issues’, for use in the campaigns of Republican candidates. Blodgett remained with the RNC until 1991 when he formed an advertising agency in Washington, D.C.

Previous to his political career, Blodgett attended Shattuck-Saint Mary's as a young man and was an active alumni of the school.

References

American political writers
American male non-fiction writers
Drake University alumni
Federal Bureau of Investigation informants
1960 births
Living people
Sigma Alpha Epsilon members


title: List of people from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

text:
The following list includes notable people who were born or have lived in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

Academics and engineering

Business

Media and music

Politics and law

Sports

Baseball

Basketball

Football

Hockey

Tennis

References

Bloomfield Hills
Bloomfield Hills


title: Delfines de Coatzacoalcos

text:
Club Atlético Delfines de Coatzacoalcos, A.C. is a team of football from the city of Coatzacoalcos, that is in the Tercera División de México.

History
The team was founded in 1997 and they first appeared in Segunda División de México. They lasted six seasons until they were crowned champions in the Clausura 2003 and eventually won the final for promotion to the Primera Division 'A' against Coras Tepic. The team had good performances in the Second Division, but in the Clausura 2004 were relegated.

They achieved promotion again in 2005 after winning the final of the Segunda División de México against Pumas Naucalpan by a score of 5–4 on penalties. In regulation time the match ended 4–4 in aggregate after the first match held in Coatzacoalcos, the Delfines won 2–1; while in the second match they lost 3–2 to Pumas Naucalpan.

Their history in the Primera Division 'A' finished in 2006 when the franchise was sold to make way for the Guerreros de Tabasco.

In 2013 another team ended up setting up in the same area with the same name. Club de Fútbol Delfines Atlético Coatzacoalcos managed to win the Segunda Division de Mexico in 2014 and promotion to Ascenso MX. Atlético Delfines de Coatzacoalcos managed to be promoted to the Liga de Ascenso MX after winning the final against Linces de Tlaxcala, but were unable meet the standards by the Mexican Federation of Football and was replaced by Tepic.

Honors

National Tournaments
Diego Olsina (Goal scoring Champion Ascenso MX): Clausura 2006,  15 goals

Segunda División de Mexico (2): Clausura 2003, Apertura 2005

Footnotes

Football clubs in Veracruz
Ascenso MX teams

Atlético Delfines de Coatzacoalcos


title: World Cyber Games 2001

text:
The World Cyber Games 2001 was held in Seoul, South Korea from the December 5th to the 9th. Total prize money was $245,000.

Official games

First-person shooter (FPS)
 Half-Life: Counter-Strike
 Quake III: Arena
 Unreal Tournament

Real-Time Strategy (RTS)
 Age of Empires II: The Conquerors
 StarCraft: Brood War

Sport
 FIFA 2001

Results

World Cyber Games events
2001 in esports
2001 in South Korean sport
Esports in South Korea


title: Refractory Obdurate

text:
Refractory Obdurate is the seventh studio album by the American rock band Wovenhand. The album was released on April 29, 2014 through a partnership between Glitterhouse Records and Deathwish Inc.

The album was met with generally favorable reviews, and ranked at number 47 on Billboard Top Heatseekers chart.

Track listing
All songs written by David Eugene Edwards, except where noted.
 "Corsicana Clip" – 4:47
 "Masonic Youth" – 3:39
 "The Refractory" – 4:53
 "Good Shepherd" – 4:00
 "Salome" – 5:19
 "King David" – 4:47
 "Field of Hedon" – 3:33
 "Obdurate Obscura" (Edwards, Chuck French) – 5:20
 "Hiss" – 3:53
 "El-Bow" (Edwards, French, Ordy Garrison, Neil Keener) – 2:42

Personnel

Wovenhand
 David Eugene Edwards
 Chuck French
 Ordy Garrison
 Neil Keener

Production
 Collin Jordan – mastering
 Sanford Parker – engineer, mixing

Artwork
 Jacob Bannon – design
 Neil Keener – artwork

References

External links
 Refractory Obdurate at Bandcamp

2014 albums
Wovenhand albums
Deathwish Inc. albums


title: BCSA

text:
BCSA may refer to:
Baltimore County State's Attorney
Bible College of South Australia
Book Collectors Society of Australia
British Columbia Soccer Association
British Constructional Steelwork Association


title: Rozalyn Anderson

text:
Rozalyn (Roz) Anderson is a professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. She studies aging and caloric restriction in primates.

Education
Anderson received her bachelor's degree from Trinity College, Dublin and her Ph.D. in biochemistry from University College Dublin. In 2000 she moved to Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts for a post-doctoral fellowship with David Sinclair, where she studied caloric restriction and aging in yeast. She began studying mammalian aging during a second post-doctoral fellowship with Richard Weindruch at the University of Wisconsin Institute on Aging and as an assistant scientist at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center. She is currently a professor at the University of Wisconsin in the Department of Medicine in the Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology. Since 2014, Anderson has also been affiliated with the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism.

Research
In the Sinclair laboratory at Harvard Medical School, Anderson researched the regulation of the lifespan by calorie restriction in yeast, demonstrating that lifespan could be extended by genetic manipulation of the NAD+ salvage pathway, and that calorie restriction downregulates NAD+.

Anderson worked as part of the University of Wisconsin team that demonstrated that caloric restriction has a beneficial effect in rhesus monkeys, improves survival, and lowers the incidence of diseases including diabetes, cancer, and cardiovascular disease over the course of nearly three decades. She continues to study caloric restriction, focusing on primate skeletal muscle, white adipose tissue, inflammation, mitochondrial dysfunction, and metabolic regulators of cancer growth.

In a 2014 interview discussing the different results of the National Institute of Aging and University of Wisconsin rhesus monkey caloric restriction studies, Anderson points out that due to the experimental setup, both the control and experimental groups were calorie restricted to some degree, which explains why no significant improvement was found in the experimental group. She also points out that the two studies are more informative due to their differing designs than if they had been performed identically.

In 2013, Anderson won the Nathan Shock New Investigator Award from the Gerontological Society of America.

From 2019-2021, Anderson served as the President of the American Aging Association.

Anderson is the co-editor-in-chief of The Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences.

References

External links
 YouTube lecture

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American women biologists
University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty
Place of birth missing (living people)
Alumni of Trinity College Dublin
Alumni of University College Dublin
American women biochemists
American women academics
21st-century American women scientists


title: Three Cocks Junction railway station

text:
Three Cocks Junction railway station (colloquially as Lucky Man Junction) was a station in Three Cocks, Powys, Wales. The station closed in 1962. The station had a signal box.

References

Sources

Further reading

Disused railway stations in Powys
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1864
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1962
1864 establishments in Wales
1962 disestablishments in Wales
Former Midland Railway stations
Former Cambrian Railway stations


title: Rospigliosi family

text:
The House of Rospigliosi is an ancient noble Italian family from Pistoia. Attested since the Middle Ages, it became wealthy through agriculture, trade and industry, reaching the apogee of its power and the high nobility status in Rome thanks to Giulio Rospigliosi, elected pope in 1667 with the name of Clement IX.

History

12th – 16th century

The family originated from Milan: in the late 12th century Ridolfo Rospigliosi, possibly to escape Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, settled in Lamporecchio, a village between Pistoia and Empoli, on the slope of the Monte Albano, at the entrance of the Val di Nievole, where the family acquired farms and forests and built a country house. These large possessions were owned by the Rospigliosi until the twentieth century. The family, which had obtained the first nobility titles at the beginning of the 13th century, moved to Pistoia in 1315, and can prove its unbroken descent from a certain Giovanni who lived in 1306. After the Rospigliosi had moved to Pistoia they became active in trade and industry, such as wool, cloth, spices and contracting of local taxes. In 1330 a Taddeo, chief of the militia of Pistoia, was sent to the aid of Montecatini, against the Florentines, and ninety years later, Giovanni was condottiero of a Florentine and Pistoiese soldiery at the service of pope Martin V in the struggle for the reconquest of the Papal States against Braccio da Montone. In name of the pope in 1420 he conquered Orvieto and Narni. Giovan Battista, nicknamed Bati, another valiant man of war, served against the Spaniards at the services of France, standing out especially in the war for Parma (1551–52) and the siege of Mirandola (1551); subsequently he passed to the orders of pope, and in 1566 he was appointed by him admiral of the Holy Roman Church. Other Rospigliosi were Knights of the Order of Saint Stephen or of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. Several members of the family held the office of standard-bearer of the city of Pistoia : the first among them was Filippo Taddeo, who held this office in 1373, and the last Taddeo, who was standard-bearer for three times in the years 1566, 1571 and 1580. In the 16th century the family, still living in Pistoia, split into two lines, that of Pope Clement IX, known as "del Duca" which resided in Palazzo Rospigliosi at via del Duca, bought by Girolamo Rospigliosi, and that founded by Giambattista Bati, which resided in the Palazzo Rospigliosi at Ripa del Sale. During the whole 15th and 16th centuries, the Rospigliosi continued trading and owned a flourishing bank in Pistoia, with branches and correspondents all over Europe. However, until the first half of the 17th century the family still gained most of its income from wool production and trade, and agriculture.

17th century and later

This family of merchants rose gradually to great fame after that Giulio, son of Gerolamo, was elevated to the dignity of the sacred purple in 1657 and became pope in 1667 under the name of Clement IX. In summer 1667, right after the pope's election, the branch of the family which originated from Milanese di Taddeo and which resided in the Palazzo in via del Duca, with the pope's brother Camillo and his sons, moved to Rome, a step that would soon open to them the gates of the Roman, Venetian, Genoese and Ferrarese high nobility. Two nephews of Clement IX were made Cardinals: Giacomo (d. 1684), was appointed Cardinal-nephew by his uncle in 1667, and became internuncio at Brussels, Legato at Avignon and Ferrara, and prefect of the Signatura di Grazia (a papal tribunal); Felice (d. 1688), was appointed Cardinal in 1673 by Pope Clement X. His brother Camillo was appointed general of the pope's army, while another of Camillo's sons, Tommaso, became castellan of Castel Sant'Angelo, and Vincenzo, another nephew of the pope, was appointed commander of the papal galleys. In 1668 he was sent by his uncle in aid of the Venetians in a desperate attempt to rescue the Venetian fortress of Candia during the war against the Ottoman Turks. One year later he was appointed commander in chief of all the allied forces (Venetian, French and papal) collected against the Turks, but at the end the fortress was lost to the Ottomans together with the whole island of Crete.Another nephew Teodoro Giulio Rospigliosi, Royal Ensign was sent in 1647 to Peru by Phillip IV, King of Spain, with offspring.

The move that made of the Rospigliosi one of the first families of the Roman nobility, was the marriage of another pope's nephew, Giambattista (1646–1722), with Maria Camilla Pallavicini, the heir of a rich and noble Genoese family.
Giambattista, nominated general of the Pope and created Prince of the Holy Roman Empire in 1658, bought in 1668 the Duchy of Zagarolo from the Ludovisi. Having married in 1670 Maria Camilla, the last of his branch and granddaughter of Cardinal Lazzaro Sforza Pallavicini, he inherited by the will of the latter the principality of Gallicano and the marquisate of Colonna, with the title of prince and the obligation to take the name and the emblem of the Pallavicini, who would then have to pass on to his descendants in second-line. A niece of Clement X was Donna Caterina Rospigliosi Banchieri, who gave rise to the branch Banchieri Rospigliosi, whose founder was Pietro Banchieri Rospigliosi, depicted in a famous series of paintings, entitled "Il bambino Rospigliosi", now on display at the Museum of Rome.
Favouring his relatives, the pope continued the nepotistic politics of his Barberini, Pamphili and Chigi predecessors, although it should be noticed that the positions that he was assigning were not supposed to generate large revenues, so that this can be seen as a first trend inversion with respect to the recent past of the church government.

In the 19th century, the family expanded further its nobility status, when Giulio Cesare (1781–1859), fourth Prince Rospigliosi, married Margherita Colonna Gioeni, acquiring through that all her titles of nobility. From this marriage were born: Clemente, which gave rise to the branch of the princes Rospigliosi-Gioeni; and Francesco, who was the founder of the branch of the princes Pallavicini-Rospigliosi.

While the Rospigliosi from Ripa del Sale branch came to an end in 1981 with the death of Clemente, the current members of the Del Duca branch live in the Villa Aldobrandini Banchieri Rospigliosi and are still direct descendants from the line of Giulio Rospigliosi, (Pope Clement IX), through her ancestor Olga Banchieri. Actually also direct
descendants are in Buenos Aires, Argentina which is the lineage branch
of Brigadier Generale of the Royal Spaniard Army, Don Pascual
Ibanez y Roca who died in 1805 in
Buenos Aires, and married Maria
Francesca de Rospigliosi e Ramirez de Saguez, founding members of the Ibanez de Rospigliosi family. They
have had three children, Sebastian
Pascual Pablo, founder of the Ibanez de Rospigliosi family in Mendoza City,  Coronel Pedro Nolasco Tiburcio in Buenos Aires,
Edecan of Gral. Belgrano,  and Maria Ramona Francisca who married Gral. Tomas de Rocamora, founder of Gualeguaychu in Argentina.

In 1982, after the death of Clemente Rospigliosi, the last representative of the Ripa del Sale branch, the Forteguerriana Library of Pistoia received as a legacy the family library, where there is a large music section. Among others, Giulio Rospigliosi was passionate about music and before being elected pope wrote several opera libretti.

Residences

The Rospigliosi owned many buildings, in Pistoia, Rome and their surroundings. In the Tuscan city the family resided in the two historical mansions named Palazzo Rospigliosi a via del Duca and Palazzo Rospigliosi a Ripa del Sale. The former, originally the residence of the noble Ammannati family, and then bought by the Malaspina, was so named after that the family acquired in 1667 the title of duchy of Zagarolo. It was acquired at the middle of the 16th century by Girolamo Rospigliosi, and there were born his sons Camillo and Giulio, the future Clement IX. The palace at Ripa del Sale was erected between the middle of 16th and the beginning of 17th century by Gianbattista Bati Rospigliosi, and has been always the seat of this branch of the family until its extinction in 1981. In Rome, they owned the magnificent Palazzo Pallavicini Rospigliosi on the Quirinal Hill, in the Rione Monti. This building, originally belonged to the Borghese, was purchased in 1704 by Prince Giovanni Battista Rospigliosi, Camillo's son and nephew of Pope Clement IX, and his wife, Princess Maria Camilla Pallavicini, and became home of the Rospigliosi Pallavicini family, who still owns the half of it, while the other half was sold to escape the financial ruin due to the attempt of reclaiming the swamps of Maccarese, near Rome.
Also noteworthy are the Villa Rospigliosi at the hamlet Spicchio di Lamporecchio, commissioned by the Pope himself, and built according to a design of Bernini by Mattia de Rossi, the Palazzo Rospigliosi at Zagarolo, near Rome, the Palazzo Rospigliosi-Pallavicini in Florence, and the Palazzo Rospigliosi Banchieri in Pistoia.

Titles of nobility

To the family were conferred several titles, as well as inheriting others via marriage. The papal branch, moved to Rome, has the princely title of Prince Rospigliosi in the Holy Roman Empire, Papal Prince Rospigliosi and Duke of Zagarolo, Prince of Castiglione, Marquis of Giuliana, Count of Chiusa and Baron of La Miraglia and Valcorrente in both the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and the Kingdom of Italy, Lord of Aldone, Burgio, Contessa and Trappeto in the nobility of Rome, and Patrician of Venice, Genoa, Pistoia, Ferrara and Ravenna in the nobilities of both Venice and Genoa. Don Filippo Rospigliosi, a family member, is the present (12th) Earl of Newburgh in the Peerage of Scotland.

See also
 Palazzo Pallavicini-Rospigliosi
 Pallavicini family

Notes

References

External links

Families of post-ancient Rome
Papal families
Nobility of the United Kingdom


title: James Taranik

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James Vladimir Taranik (April 23, 1940 – June 21, 2011) was an American scientist and educator who worked in the area of earth-observation satellite remote sensing.  He was Chief of NASA's Non-Renewable Resources Branch and Program Scientist of the Space Shuttle's first scientific flights with cargo that included experiments related to geology, atmospheric chemistry, meteorology, marine biology, and plant physiology in the earth and life sciences. He also held various positions in the Nevada System of Higher Education, including the Desert Research Institute and the Mackay School of Earth Sciences and Engineering.

Early and personal life
Taranik graduated from Stanford University in 1962 with a B.S. in Geology, where he also earned a varsity letter as captain of the water polo team. He served as Staff Geologist for two years in 1966–1967 for the U.S. Army Engineer Command Headquarters in Vietnam, during which time he was awarded the Bronze Star Medal. In 1975, he received his Ph.D. in Geology from the Colorado School of Mines, for his geological mapping study, Stratigraphic and Structural Evolution of Breckenridge Area, Central Colorado.

He was the great-great-grandson of Sergeant Patrick Gass, an officer of the 1804-1806 Lewis and Clark Expedition, established to explore and map the newly acquired western half of the United States. Gass wrote the first printed journal of the expedition.

Taranik died just nine days before his planned retirement from his position as Director of the Mackay School of Earth Sciences and Engineering. He and his wife, Colleen, had two children, Dan and Debra, and three grandchildren.

Career
Taranik's career began in 1971 at the Iowa Geological Survey, where he founded the Iowa Remote Sensing Laboratory. While in Iowa, he also taught at the University of Iowa, including pioneering aerospace remote sensing courses. He next served as Principal Remote Sensing Scientist at the EROS Data Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, under the auspices of the United States Geological Survey (USGS), from 1975 to 1979. In 1979, he became branch chief of the Non-Renewable Resources section at NASA headquarters in Washington, DC, where he managed NASA's programs for engineering development and flight of aerospace technology for solid earth applications. He was the Program Scientist for the first set of scientific instruments sent up on the Space Shuttle as cargo in 1981, having served in that role for both of the first two Space Shuttle launches. He was awarded NASA's Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal in 1982.

He was dean of the Mackay School of Mines at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) from 1982–1987, during which time he also served as a full professor in UNR's Department of Geological Sciences. Taranik left UNR to become President of the Desert Research Institute — the environmental research arm of the Nevada System of Higher Education — from 1987–1998.

Taranik established the Strategic Materials Research, Education and Policy Center and the Cooperative Institute for Aerospace Science and Terrestrial Applications (CIASTA). He was Founding Program Director and Principal Investigator for the Nevada System of Higher Education NASA Space Grant Consortium and the NASA Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR). Taranik also served on the board of directors for Newmont Gold, and subsequently its affiliate Newmont Mining Corporation, from 1986 to 2010. He was an advocate for Newmont's expansion of its sustainability programs.

In 1987, he took on the role of President and CEO of the Desert Research Institute in Nevada, a statewide institute of the Nevada System of Higher Education devoted to cross-disciplinary environmental research. He would hold that position until 1998, when he retired as President Emeritus. As President, he refined DRI's mission for strategic and budgetary planning, created DRI Research Parks, and established new facilities for the Northern Nevada Science Center and the Southern Nevada Science Center. Under his leadership, the first Nevada Medal was awarded in 1988 to recognize exceptional scientific achievement. During this time, Taranik also served as a technical advisor to the Naval Research Laboratory's Hyperspectral Digital Imagery Collection Experiment (HYDICE).

In 1994, Taranik was a designee on the Pre-Launch Review Board for NASA's SIR-C/X-SAR missions. He was a Director of Earth Satellite Corporation (EarthSat) from 1997-2002.

In 1998, Taranik returned to the Mackay School of Mines to resume teaching and research activities as Regents Professor and Chair of the Arthur Brant Endowed Chair of Exploration Geophysics. In 2000, Taranik became the founding director of the Great Basin Center for Geothermal Energy and the Arthur Brant Laboratory for Exploration Geophysics at UNR. In 2003, as Acting Dean, he oversaw Mackay School of Mines's transition to the Mackay School of Earth Sciences and Engineering (MSESE). The following year, he became MSESE's first Director, a position he would hold until 2009, when he stepped down to focus on teaching as part of the Department of Geological Sciences and Engineering faculty.

Professional associations and memberships
 American Association for the Advancement of Science
 American Association of Petroleum Geologists
 American Geological Institute
 American Geophysical Union
 American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics
 American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
 Explorers Club
 Geological Society of America
 International Academy of Astronautics
 Society of Economic Geologists
 Society of Exploration Geophysicists

Selected publications

References

1940 births
2011 deaths
American geologists
Stanford University people
Remote sensing professionals


title: John Frechette

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John David Frechette (December 19, 1942 – July 29, 2014) was a tackle in the National Football League.

Frechette was born John David Frechette on December 19, 1942, in Waltham, Massachusetts.

He played with the Boston Patriots and Green Bay Packers each for a season. He played at the collegiate level at Boston College.

After football, Frechette worked for Roadway Express and Owens-Illinois.  He was on the board of trustees for the University of Toledo Medical Center and Toledo Cultural Arts Center during the 1990s.

Frechette died on July 29, 2014, in hospice care facility in Naples, Florida from complications of Alzheimer's disease.  He was 71.

See also
List of Green Bay Packers players
List of New England Patriots players

References

Sportspeople from Waltham, Massachusetts
Players of American football from Middlesex County, Massachusetts
Green Bay Packers players
New England Patriots players
American football offensive tackles
Boston College Eagles football players
1942 births
2014 deaths


title: Enrico Dalgas

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Enrico Mylius Dalgas K.1 D.M. F.M.I (16 July 1828 – 16 April 1894) was a Danish engineer who pioneered the soil melioration of Jutland.

Early life and family
Dalgas was born on 16 July 1828 in Naples, where his father Jean Antoine was the Danish consul. He was baptised Heinrich D. Dalgas. His mother Johanne Tomine née Stibolt was the daughter of a Danish naval officer from a distinguished family. Jean Antoine was descended from Huguenots who settled in Switzerland after the edict of Fontainebleau, whence his grandfather Antoine settled in Denmark. His brother, Carlo Dalgas, was a noted animal artist. When he was 7, his father died and his mother brought him back to Denmark.

Career
Dalgas joined the Danish Army as an officer of the Engineer Corps (today the Ingeniørregimentet). He mostly served as a highway engineer, reaching the rank of Lieutenant Colonel before he moved to the newly established civilian body of the Highway Authority. He also served as a pioneer officer during the First and Second Schleswig Wars, during which two of his brothers died.

Soil melioration and related work
Dalgas applied the knowledge and skills he gained as a military engineer toward the reclamation and afforestation of western Jutland. After Denmark's defeat in the Schleswig wars and the ensuing loss of territory, the removal of hardpan was considered a national priority. Working on roads across Jutland gave him an intimate knowledge of the different soils present in Denmark, and the organisational skill he gained as a military officer and civil servant helped him manage large planting and forestry projects. As he performed assessments of road damage, he got to know locals and learn about their concerns, gaining knowledge as well as many allies who helped him in his endeavours. Dalgas was among the leading forces behind the planting of heaths, for while they had been cultivated before, their widespread planting was an innovation that required much more organization.

In 1867, Dalgas founded the Danish Heath Society (Hedeselskabet), with jurist Georg Morville and prominent Jutish landowner Ferdinand Mourier-Petersen. It later added a branch in northern Germany, the Haide-Cultur-Verein. Dalgas wrote a number of books on land improvement, forestry, and the natural history of forests and heaths, as well as many pamphlets, and articles published in academic and popular periodicals on a wide range of topics, including agricultural science, mycology, and entomology. Dalgas's work was later used by German soil scientist Carl Emeis (among the founders of the Haide-Cultur-Verein) as the basis for his theory on hardpan and heaths, the first work to explain the role of humic acids in soil.

Personal life
In 1855 Dalgas married Marie Magdalene Christiane Købke, daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Niels Christian Købke. They had three sons: , a forester and the director of the Danish Heath Society; , director of the Royal Porcelain Manufactory; and philosopher . On 16 April 1894, Dalgas died in Aarhus. They had at least one daughter, Ellen Margareth, who emigrated to Brazil and was the mother of engineer and naturalist Johan Dalgas Frisch.

Honours
Enrico Dalgas was made a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog in 1864, received the Cross of Honour of the Order of the Dannebrog in 1867, received the Medal of Merit in Gold in 1875, and was made Commander 1st Class of the Dannebrog in 1887. Dalgas Avenue in Aarhus, Dalgasgade in Herning and Dalgas Boulevard in Copenhagen are named after him, and a number of Danish cities have erected statues of him.

Bibliography
 Oversigt over hederne i Jylland, 1866
 Geografiske billeder I og II, 1867–68
 Vejledning til træplantning, 1871
 Den dybe reolpløjning, 1872
 En hederejse i Hannover, 1873
 Anvisning til anlæg af småplantninger, 1875–83
 Hedemoser og Kærjorder, 1876
 Om engvandring, 1877
 Om plantning i Jylland, 1877
 Hederne og deres Kultivering, 1878

References

1828 births
1894 deaths
Soil scientists
Foresters
Danish naturalists
Danish military engineers
19th-century Danish military officers
Danish conservationists
Danish civil servants
Environmental engineers
19th-century Danish scientists
Recipients of the Cross of Honour of the Order of the Dannebrog
Commanders First Class of the Order of the Dannebrog
Recipients of the Medal of Merit (Denmark)
Danish agronomists
Burials at Nordre Cemetery
Danish civil engineers
19th-century Neapolitan people
19th-century engineers
19th-century Danish military personnel


title: Gavilanes de Nuevo Laredo

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The Club Gavilanes de Nuevo Laredo was a team of football that only competed in the Invierno 2002 season in Primera Division 'A' and Verano 2002 at the Segunda Division de Mexico.

History
The club comes after Roberto de la Garza then president of the Primera Division acquired the franchise Neza which at that time belonged to José Antonio Hernández was already annoyed by the club. The Gavilanes in an attempt to start playing Guadalupe but did not receive consent from Monterrey and Tigres UANL so they established their headquarters in Nuevo Laredo. The team was made up of several veteran players like Robert Dante Siboldi, José Carlos Cancela Uruguay Nelson Laluz, Marco Antonio de Almeida, Mario "Cowboy" Jauregui, Francisco Javier Sánchez; plus another group of youth from Tigres B and Cobras subsidiaries of Monterrey and Tigres.

Gavilanes Laredo debuted at the Invierno 2002 tournament playing in Yucatán tying 0–0; soon evidenced lack of team and group level, tied their second game 1–1 Cihuatlan and then won their only game to Cruz Azul Hidalgo at week 3, 5–0; after this they lost 4–1 against Zacatepec and did not win again. They tied 4 times and accumulated 11 losses, getting 38 goals against and scoring 17 goals leaving them in last place with 9 points. After the completion of the season, the team lived uncertainty in late 2002 and even in January when the Verano 2004 tournament had begun in which they tried unsuccessfully to transfer to Tampico, but debts incurred before the Mexican Football Federation the branch disenrolled on January 27, 2003, then downgraded, after covering their debts, to Second Division where they competed to dissolved later on in the year.

Stadium
The stadium is within a sport unit of the Municipality of Nuevo Laredo, called "Benito Juarez Garcia"; their field is a field with tartan track, and bleachers that can seat 6,500 spectators.

Footnotes

Ascenso MX teams


title: Philadelphia Freedoms (1974)

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The Philadelphia Freedoms were a charter franchise of World Team Tennis (WTT) founded by Dick and Ken Butera. The Freedoms played only one season in Philadelphia before being sold at the end of the 1974 season, moving to Boston and changing their name to the Boston Lobsters. Led by WTT Most Valuable Player Billie Jean King, the Freedoms posted the best regular-season record in WTT's inaugural season with 39 wins and 5 losses. The Freedoms won the Eastern Division Championship and reached the WTT Finals where they lost to the Denver Racquets.

Team history
The Freedoms were founded by Dick and Ken Butera as a charter member of WTT in 1973. The team began play in WTT's inaugural 1974 season. The Freedoms played their home matches at the Spectrum. The centerpiece of the team was tennis legend Billie Jean King who served as its player-coach. King became the first woman to coach a professional sports team that included male players.

Once King was signed on with the Freedoms, her good friend Elton John decided to write and record the song "Philadelphia Freedom" to wish her luck on her new venture with WTT and for the team to use as an anthem. John was such a big fan of the Freedoms that he attended home matches wearing the team's uniform and sat on the bench with the players. Although recorded in the summer of 1974, the song was not released until February 24, 1975, after the Freedoms had already played their final match in Philadelphia.

King heavily recruited then 17-year-old amateur Betsy Nagelsen to sign with the Freedoms. Although Nagelsen has often been listed as a member of the team, including by its 21st century namesake, this is untrue. Nagelsen was not listed on the roster in the game program for the Freedoms' match against the Baltimore Banners on May 17, 1974. After working under King's tutelage for three weeks during the summer of 1974, Nagelsen lost to her in straight sets in the third round of the 1974 US Open. After the match, Nagelsen said she hoped to play with King on the Freedoms in 1975. On the same date the Freedoms were playing in the Match 2 of the WTT Finals, Nagelsen was playing in the final of the Virginia Slims of Newport in what was her first professional tournament.

King's performance on the court earned her the WTT Most Valuable Player Award as she led the Freedoms to 39 wins and 5 losses, first place in the Atlantic Section and the best regular-season record in WTT.

WTT playoff series in the division semifinals and division championship series in 1974, were played over two legs, one match on the home court of each team. The team with the best aggregate score over the two matches was the winner. As the higher seed, the Freedoms had the choice to play either the first or the second match at home. The Freedoms met the Cleveland Nets in the Eastern Division Semifinals and won both matches, 26–22 in Cleveland and 23–22 at home. The Freedoms clinched the series when Fred Stolle playing mixed doubles in the fifth set served an ace on match point in the second match.

The victory over the Nets advanced the Freedoms to the Eastern Division Championship Series against the Pittsburgh Triangles. Again, the Freedoms chose to open on the road and won the first match, 31–21, in Pittsburgh and then lost the second, 24–21, at home. By an aggregate score of 52–45, the Freedoms won the Eastern Division Championship and advanced to the WTT Finals.

In the WTT Finals, the Freedoms met the Denver Racquets. The Racquets swept the best-of-three series, winning 27–21 in Denver and 28–24 in Philadelphia, to win the title and end the Freedoms' season.

At the 1974 WTT draft, player-coach King made the selections for the Freedoms. In the seventh round, she chose Bobby Riggs, against whom she had won the Battle of the Sexes 14 months earlier. In announcing the selection, King said, "We haven't made up our mind in which division we'll play him." The following day, Riggs was quoted as saying, "It sounds like a great idea, but is the money right?" He added that he didn't know how King "plans to use me—as a mixed doubles partner or as a ladies' doubles partner." Since they had been unable to sign her after selecting her in the 1973 draft, the Freedoms also chose Nagelsen in order to protect their rights to her. The Freedoms had previously rejected an offer from the Houston E-Z Riders who sought to acquire Nagelsen in a trade. Many WTT teams selected celebrities such as Johnny Carson and Bill Cosby at the 1974 draft. The Freedoms' colorful draft choice was Elton John.

Following the 1974 season, WTT owners were looking to develop a plan for growth of the league. Many were of the opinion that it would be in all their interests to have a successful franchise in New York City. With some encouragement from his fellow owners, Dick Butera traded King to the New York Sets in a complicated deal, on February 5, 1975. Upon announcing the trade, Butera said, "It's not an easy thing to let Billie Jean go. I feel like King Faisal giving away his oil wells."

After King was traded, a group of investors that included Bob Mades, Paul Slater, Herbert S. Hoffman, Robert K. Kraft and Harold Bayne expressed interest in buying the original Boston Lobsters. However, the Lobsters had already been contracted by WTT. With the Buteras far less enthusiastic about their team after trading King, the two sides struck a deal, and the group purchased the Freedoms on March 27, 1975, and moved the team to Boston. In order to claim the name of the original Lobsters, the new ownership group would be required to settle some of the debts of the former team. The new owners decided to do this and renamed the team the Boston Lobsters.

1974 season record

Roster
 Billie Jean King, Player-Coach, 1974 WTT Most Valuable Player
 Julie Anthony
 Brian Fairlie
 Tory-Ann Fretz
 Kathy Kuykendall
 Buster Mottram
 Fred Stolle

Billie Jean King and Fred Stolle have been enshrined in the International Tennis Hall of Fame.

See also

 Boston Lobsters (1974–1978)
 Philadelphia Freedoms

References

External links
 World TeamTennis official website

Defunct World TeamTennis teams
1973 establishments in Pennsylvania
Tennis in Pennsylvania
Sports clubs and teams in Philadelphia
Sports clubs and teams established in 1973
Sports clubs and teams disestablished in 1975
1975 disestablishments in Pennsylvania


title: Divinas palabras (1977 film)

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Divinas palabras (English: Divine Words) is a 1977 Mexican film directed by Juan Ibáñez and starring Silvia Pinal and Mario Almada. The film is based on the play of the same name by Spanish author Ramón del Valle-Inclán.

Plot
Mari Gaila (Silvia Pinal), is a lady who lives between ragged, thieves, prostitutes, dwarfs and other misshapen beings, in a rare box at a country and a vague time. Her husband, is a poor sacristan who agrees with other relatives to do business with the display of his orphaned nephew, a mentally retarded dwarf. Caught in committing deception with her lover, Mari Gaila is caged naked and punished by the people.

Cast
 Silvia Pinal ... Mari Gaila
 Mario Almada ... Séptimo Miau
 Rita Macedo ... Benita la costurera
 Guillermo Orea... Pedro Galio
 Martha Zavaleta ... Tatula
 Martha Verduzco ... Marica
 Carmen Flores ... Simoniña
 Xavier Estrada ... Laureano

Comments
This plot of del Valle-Inclán, had given to the young Mexican director Juan Ibáñez very successful when he carried to the theater before his start as a film director with Los Caifanes (1966), striking and innovative film.
The actress Silvia Pinal revealed: "I was going to do this movie with Luis Buñuel in Spain, but he struggled with the copyright."

References

External links

 FilmAffinity: Divinas palabras (1977)

1977 drama films
1977 films
Mexican films based on plays
1970s Spanish-language films
Mexican drama films
1970s Mexican films
Spanish-language drama films


title: Sumant Sinha

text:
Sumant Sinha (born 12 February 1965) is an Indian businessman. He is the Chairman and Managing Director of ReNew Power, which was founded by him in 2011. Before Founding the company in 2011, he has worked with Aditya Birla Group, Citibank & ING Barings in various capacities.

Early life and education
Sumant Sinha was born in Delhi as the son of Yashwant Sinha and Nilima Sinha.

He completed his schooling from St. Columba's School, Delhi in the year 1983. In 1987, he graduated from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi with a bachelor's degree in technology. Later, in 1989, he earned his master's degree in business administration from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. In 1991, after two years of working with Tata Administrative Services, Sinha obtained another master's degree in international finance from the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University. He is also a CFA charter holder and a member of the institute.

Career
Sumant Sinha started his career with a two year stint at Tata Administrative Services in 1989. After graduating from Columbia University, Sinha worked as an investment banker at Citicorp Securities and ING Barings in the United States and United Kingdom respectively.

Sinha returned to India in 2002 and became the chief financial officer of India's third-largest conglomerate, the Aditya Birla Group. It was during his time as CFO that Aditya Birla Group acquired Ultratech Cement, Novelis, and Idea Cellular. Sumant was also instrumental in the creation of Aditya Birla Group's retail arm, Aditya Birla Retail Limited, where he served as chief executive officer from 2007 to 2008.

Later, in 2008, he joined Suzlon Energy as chief operations officer of India's then one of largest wind energy company. He worked for next 15 months in Suzlon, helping it through the 2008 financial crisis.

In 2011, he founded ReNew Power, an independent renewable power producer headquartered in Gurgaon.

ReNew Power
Sinha set up ReNew Power in 2011 with a plan to have at least 1000 MW of capacity by 2015. In March 2014, ReNew Power won its first solar power bid, a 57.6MW project in Madhya Pradesh. Sinha led ReNew Power from front, going from zero to 5,800 MW of commissioned capacity in six years, making it one of India's largest independent renewable energy producers. In 2017, the company had an equity valuation of US$2 billion.

In 2016, Sinha established "Sumant Sinha ReNew Centre of Excellence for Energy & Environment" in IIT Delhi.

Family
Sinha is married to Vaishali Nigam Sinha. They have two children.

Awards and recognition

References

1965 births
Living people
Businesspeople from Bihar
Indian chief executives
School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University alumni
People associated with wind power
Businesspeople from Haryana
Indian Institute of Management Calcutta alumni
IIT Delhi alumni
CFA charterholders


title: Melvin Vissers

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Melvin Vissers (born 11 February 1996) is a Dutch footballer who plays as a midfielder.

Club career
On 30 March 2012, Vissers signed a three-year contract with Ajax, tying him down to the club until 30 June 2015. He made his debut for Jong Ajax as a 61st-minute substitute for Davy Klaassen in an Eerste Divisie match against Achilles '29 on 8 September 2013. In the Summer of 2015, Vissers returned to Sparta Rotterdam having won the Dutch under-19 league title twice with Ajax A1, having made two appearances in the Eerste Divisie for the reserves team Jong Ajax as well.

Career statistics

Honours

Club
Ajax A1 (under-19)
 A-Junioren Eredivisie (2): 2013–14, 2014–15

Sparta Rotterdam
 Eerste Divisie: 2015-16

References

External links

1996 births
Living people
Dutch men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Sparta Rotterdam players
AFC Ajax players
Jong Ajax players
Eerste Divisie players
Footballers from The Hague


title: Soweto (album)

text:
Soweto is the debut album led by American jazz drummer Billy Higgins recorded in 1979 and released on the Italian Red label.

Reception
The AllMusic review by Ron Wynn states "this was a welcome entry by a good group that unfortunately didn't work together longer."

Track listing
All compositions by Billy Higgins except as indicated
 "Soweto – 9:20
 "Clockwise" (Cedar Walton) – 8:08
 "Neptune" (Bob Berg) – 5:36
 "Back to Bologna" (Walton) – 8:05
 "Bahia, Bahia, Bahia" – 10:20

Personnel
Billy Higgins – drums, guitar, vocals
Bob Berg – tenor saxophone
Cedar Walton – piano
Tony Dumas – bass

References

Red Records albums
Billy Higgins albums
1979 albums


title: Makati Hope Christian School

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Makati Hope Christian School (Abbreviation: MHCS; simplified Chinese 马加智嘉南学校; traditional Chinese: 馬加智嘉南學校; pinyin: Majiā zhì Jiā Nán xué xiào; Hokkien: Makāti ka lám Hào) is a Filipino-Chinese school in Makati founded in 1985.  Its students have consistently performed well in government-administered examinations such as the National Achievement Test (NAT).  In school year 2012-2013, its High 4 students ranked first in the NAT among private schools in Makati.

History
MHCS started operation with just a handful of kindergarten pupils and school personnel in 1985.  To date, the student population has steadily increased along with school personnel.
In 1986, the Early Childhood Department (formerly known as the Preschool Department) was granted recognition by DECS permit No. P-0066 series 1986.  In 1989, the Elementary Department was granted recognition permit No. E-0001 series 1989.  In 1993, government recognition was granted to the High School Department by virtue of DECS permit No. S-103 series 1993.  The school has graduated 20 batches of high school students since that time.

School Logo
The circular shape of the logo signifies the holistic and multifaceted education espoused by the school.  The orange flame signifies the school’s fervor to promote lifelong learning in the school community and to foster a passionate commitment to do God’s work in God’s world, represented by the blue globe.  The red cross symbolizes the redemptive work of Jesus Christ.

Academics
The MHCS curriculum incorporates a three-fold blend of classroom instruction, mentoring intervention, and experiential learning.

The Early Childhood program – which offers Pre-Nursery, Nursery, Kinder and Grade 1 – adopts a developmentally appropriate and progressive approach that aims to provide effective and fun training for young children. This prepares them for the demands of the curriculum for the elementary level.

The elementary and high school program, meanwhile, aims to develop competencies that will equip the students to meet the demands of the changing times and to prepare them for greater challenges in college. The program includes Scholastic (English language learning software), Practical Music Course, computer and accounting subjects, alongside the expanded Math and Science program.

Makati Hope offers intensive Chinese language instruction from Early Childhood to High School. Christian Education is also integrated in all subject areas, as well as chapel services and other enrichment activities, to instill Christian values and principles.

Through the Information and Technology program, students learn about Visual Basic and C programming, web design, application, desktop publishing, and media software.

Clubs
Students may choose from various co-curricular and extra-curricular organizations such as the Student Council (SC), varsity teams, Young Christian Scientists’ Society (YCSS), Candle Pen, Kapisanan ng mga Mag-aaral ng Filipino (KaMFil), Library Enthusiasts’ Club (LEC), Art Club, Anvil of Christian Talents (ACTs), Robotics Club, and more.

References

Chinese-language schools in Metro Manila
Schools in Makati
Christian schools in the Philippines


title: Scleria mikawana

text:
Scleria mikawana is a plant in the family Cyperaceae. It grows as a tall, slender annual sedge.

Description
Scleria mikawana grows up to  tall. The leaves measure  wide.

Distribution and habitat
Scleria mikawana grows widely in tropical Africa, South Asia, Japan, China, Indochina, Malesia and Australia. Its habitat is wet grassy locales and swamps.

References

mikawana
Flora of Africa
Flora of the Indian subcontinent
Flora of Japan
Flora of Yunnan
Flora of Indo-China
Flora of Malesia
Flora of the Northern Territory
Plants described in 1913


title: History of Iraq (2011–present)

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The departure of US troops from Iraq in 2011 ended the  period of occupation that had begun with  the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003. The time since U.S. withdrawal has been marked by a renewed  Iraqi insurgency and by a spillover of the Syrian civil war into Iraq. By 2013, the insurgency escalated into a renewed war, the central government of Iraq being opposed by ISIL and various factions, primarily radical Sunni forces during the early phase of the conflict. The war ended in 2017 with an Iraqi government and allied victory, however ISIL continues a low-intensity insurgency in remote parts of the country.

ISIL forces seized the majority of Al Anbar Governorate, including the cities of Fallujah, Al Qaim, Abu Ghraib and (in May 2015) Ramadi, leaving them in control of 90% of Anbar. Tikrit, Mosul and most of the Nineveh Governorate, along with parts of Salahuddin, Kirkuk and Diyala Governorates, were seized by insurgent forces in the June 2014 offensive. ISIL captured Sinjar and a number of other towns in the August 2014 offensive, but Sinjar became a contested city in December 2014.

Insurgency (2011–2013)

Sectarian violence continued in the first half of 2013 with at least 56 people killed in April when a Sunni protest in Hawija was interrupted by a government-supported helicopter raid. On 20 May 2013, at least 95 people died in a wave of car bomb attacks that was preceded by a car bombing on 15 May that led to 33 deaths; also, on 18 May, 76 people were killed in the Sunni areas of Baghdad.
On 22 July 2013, at least five hundred convicts, most of whom were senior members of al-Qaida who had received death sentences, broke out of Iraq's Abu Ghraib jail when comrades launched a military-style assault to free them. The attack began when a suicide bomber drove a car packed with explosives into prison gates. James F. Jeffrey, the United States ambassador in Baghdad when the last American troops exited, said the assault and resulting escape  "will provide seasoned leadership and a morale boost to Al Qaeda and its allies in both Iraq and Syria ... it is likely to have an electrifying impact on the Sunni population in Iraq, which has been sitting on the fence."

War (2013–2017)

By mid-2014 the country was in chaos with a new government yet to be formed following national elections, and the insurgency reaching new heights. In early June 2014 the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) took over the cities of Mosul and Tikrit and said it was ready to march on Baghdad, while Iraqi Kurdish forces took control of key military installations in the major oil city of Kirkuk. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki asked his parliament to declare a state of emergency that would give him increased powers, but the lawmakers refused.

In summer 2014 U.S. President Obama announced a renewed military intervention in the form of aerial support, with the aim of halting the advance of ISIS forces and rendering humanitarian aid to stranded refugees and stabilize the political situation.

Since June 2014, al-Maliki had faced growing pressure to resign, including from the United States.  In July 2014, the Kurdistan Region demanded his resignation, and his own party (the Islamic Dawa Party) began looking for a new leader.

On 14 August 2014, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki succumbed to the pressure at home and abroad to step down.  Iraq's new president, Fuad Masum, appointed a new prime minister, Haider al-Abadi on 19 August 2014. However, for the appointment to take effect, al-Abadi needed to form a government and be confirmed by Parliament, within 30 days.  After initially expressing opposition to al-Abadi's selection, al-Maliki endorsed al-Abadi and said he would not stand in the way.

In what was claimed to be revenge for the aerial bombing ordered by President Obama, ISIL, which by this time had changed their name to the Islamic State, beheaded an American journalist, James Foley, who had been kidnapped two years previously. Despite U.S. bombings and breakthroughs on the political front, Iraq remained in chaos with the Islamic State consolidating its gains, and sectarian violence continuing unabated. On 22 August 2014, suspected Shia militants opened fire on a Sunni mosque during Friday prayers, killing 70 worshipers. Separately, Iraqi forces in helicopters killed 30 Sunni fighters in the town of Dhuluiya. A day later, apparently in retaliation for the attack on the mosque, three bombings across Iraq killed 35 people.

Kurdistan Region has participated in fighting ISIL, while also taking other territory (such as Kirkuk). Since August 2014, the U.S. has also been bombing ISIL positions. In late January 2015, Iraqi forces recaptured the entire province of Diyala from the Islamic State.
On 2 March, Second Battle of Tikrit began. and after more than a month of hard fighting, Iranians, Iraqis and Shiite militia overcame ISIL fighters and took Tikrit. This success was off-set in late May, by ISIL's capture of the provincial capital of Ramadi in Anbar Governorate.

Iraqi Prime Minister, Haider al-Abadi officially announced the liberation of the city of Mosul from the control of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant on 10 July 2017.

Parliamentary elections (2018)

Parliamentary elections were held on 12 May 2018. Kurdish politician, Barham Salih was elected as president by parliament in October 2018. Former Finance Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi was selected to form a new government. The new government was approved by the Council of Representatives on 24 October 2018.

2018–19 protests

Protests over deteriorating economic conditions and state corruption started in July 2018 in Baghdad and  other major Iraqi cities, mainly in the central and southern provinces. The latest nationwide protests, erupting in October 2019, had a death toll of at least 93 people, including police.

2020-

On 3 January 2020, a U.S. drone strike killed Qasem Soleimani, leader of Iran's Quds Force, and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy commander of the Popular Mobilization Forces, as their convoy left Baghdad International Airport.

In November 2021, Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi survived a failed assassination attempt.

Cleric Muqtada al-Sadr’s Sadrist Movement was the biggest winner in the 2021 parliamentary elections.  Governmental stalemate lead to the 2022 Iraqi political crisis.

In October 2022, Abdul Latif Rashid was elected as the new President of Iraq after winning the parliamentary election against incumbent Barham Salih, who was running for a second term. The presidency is largely ceremonial and is traditionally held by a Kurd.

On 27 October 2022, Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, close ally of former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, took the office to succeed  Mustafa al-Kadhimi as new Prime Minister of Iraq, the most powerful post in the country.

See also
 Iraqi insurgency (2011–2013)
 Iraqi conflict (2003–present)
 Northern Iraq offensive (June 2014)
 Northern Iraq offensive (August 2014)
 Arab Winter
 2018 Iraqi parliamentary election
 History of Iraq

References

History of Iraq (1958–present)


title: Huynh Thanh My

text:
Huỳnh Thanh Mỹ (March 29, 1938 – October 10, 1965) was a Vietnamese photographer working for the Associated Press. While covering a fight between the Viet Cong and SVN Rangers in the Mekong Delta, Huynh Thanh My was wounded in the chest and arm. He was shot while awaiting medical evacuation for his wounds when the Viet Cong overran the makeshift aid station of a South Vietnamese army position. Huynh left behind his 19-year-old widow and seven-month-old daughter. Later his wife and the already 10-year-old daughter were evacuated to Los Angeles when the war ended.

Huỳnh Thanh Mỹ was the older brother of photojournalist Nick Ut.

References

1938 births
1965 deaths
Associated Press photographers
People from Long An Province
Vietnamese photographers
War photographers killed while covering the Vietnam War


title: Atletas Campesinos

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Atletas Campesinos was the first Querétaro football team who played Primera Division, also played for the defunct Segunda Division de Mexico now known as Ascenso MX and hosted its games at Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico.

History
They are remembered in the town of Santiago de Querétaro to be the first city team to play in the Primera Division. In the late 1970s, Armando Presa purchased Estudiantes de Querétaro from the Segunda Division de Mexico, and renamed them to Atletas Campesinos.

On June 22, 1980, by the management of Antonio Carbajal and Antonio Ascencio, the team achieved promotion to Primera Division after defeating Osos Grises of Toluca in the final, by a score of 2–1 as a visitor in the Estadio Nemesio Díez, after a tie in Estadio Municipal de Querétaro.

The team played two seasons, spent the 1980–81 season with more pain than glory and in the 81–82 season, with reinforcements, a better season was achieved, but without reaching playoffs. For the 1982–83 season, the team was sold to the STPRM (Sindicato de Petróleos Mexicanos / Union of Petroleum Mexicans) and taken to the city of Tampico, with the nickname La Jaiba Brava. Its leading figure was Leonardo Cuellar. The current successor of that team is the Querétaro.

The original team shirt showed a tractor but the Mexican Football Federation accused the directors of display advertising on the shirt since back then it was forbidden but the tractor did not show or promote any brand tractors in particular. The Federation, began to mistreat the team, one of the reasons why it was sold.

Team was reformed and began operation in the Tercera División de México on June 25, 2011, having the memorable presence of Antonio Carbajal  who as coach helped get the team promoted in the late 70's and early 80's. They played in Group IX of the Central Region.

At the end of 2012 there were administrative problems and the club that had been refurbished disappeared again, becoming the franchise  Cobras de Querétaro.

Footnotes

Ascenso MX teams


title: The Soldier (album)

text:
The Soldier is the second album led by American jazz drummer Billy Higgins recorded in 1979 and released on the Dutch Timeless label. Digitally remastered in 2015 the album was reissued on the Japanese label Solid Records in their Timeless Jazz Master Collection.

Reception
The AllMusic review by Michael G. Nastos states "This recording with Cedar Walton (p) presents post-bop standards, well-played".

Track listing
 "Sugar and Spice" (Monty Waters) – 4:50
 "Midnite Waltz" (Cedar Walton) – 9:47
 "Just in Time" (Jule Styne, Betty Comden, Adolph Green) – 5:45
 "If You Could See Me Now" (Tadd Dameron, Carl Sigman) – 7:20
 "Peace" (Horace Silver) – 5:17
 "Sonny Moon for Two" (Sonny Rollins) – 6:43

Personnel
Billy Higgins – drums
Monty Waters – alto saxophone
Cedar Walton – piano
Walter Booker – bass
Roberta Davis – vocals (on "Sugar and Spice")

References

Timeless Records albums
Billy Higgins albums
1981 albums


title: Acoustic Classics

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Acoustic Classics is the fifteenth solo studio album by British singer/songwriter Richard Thompson. It was released by Beeswing Records via Proper Records on 21 July 2014 in the UK and 22 July 2014 in the US.

Background

Acoustic Classics is an album of acoustic versions of songs from Thompson's back catalogue, both as a solo
artist and as part of the folk rock duo Richard & Linda Thompson.

Thompson states that the album "was conceived to be something to sell at acoustic shows" as he did not have anything available that was "representative of a solo show".

The album includes his first solo studio version of "Persuasion," which was previously available in a live recording and a studio duet with son Teddy Thompson. Thompson wrote the music with Peter Filleul for the Sweet Talker soundtrack; Tim Finn, formerly of Crowded House & Split Enz, later wrote lyrics for it. Finn had a minor hit (43 on UK chart) with the song when released as a solo single in 1993. The song was included on Finn's solo album Before & After, also released in 1993.

"From Galway to Graceland" is a song about an Irish woman who is convinced she is married to Elvis Presley and travels to Graceland to kneel by his grave before being ejected at closing time.

The album was released on CD and digital download.

Equipment

According to the album credits, Thompson plays Lowden guitars on Acoustic Classics. An article in Acoustic quotes George Lowden as stating that Thompson has played such a guitar since the
early 80's and that he built a signature model for Thompson based on the Lowden F model guitar, with a cedar soundboard and
ziricote wood for the back and sides and (as on most standard Lowden models) no position markers on the fingerboard.

Critical reception

On the Metacritic website, which aggregates reviews from critics and assigns a normalised rating out of 100, Acoustic Classics received a score of 76, based on 1 mixed and 9 positive reviews.

The album was widely reviewed, with critics giving mostly positive comments. Martin Chilton in The Daily Telegraph states that the album is "full of interesting guitar flourishes and rhythms which bring an imaginative touch to classics" and that "you will still find much to enjoy listening to a master re-touch some of his best works". John Paul of PopMatters writes that "Acoustic Classics serves as a fitting showcase for not only Thompson’s undeniable skills as a virtuoso guitarist, but also as a phenomenal songwriter capable of deftly tapping into a wealth of human emotions". He also states that the album "plays like an hour-long live performance stripped of crowd noise, giving it an intimate immediacy that draws in the listener and makes them feel as though this were a command performance for one". The Financial Times critic David Honigmann feels differently, writing in his review that "this attempt to capture the spirit of Thompson’s celebrated acoustic concerts is unexpectedly bloodless". Timothy Monger of AllMusic states that "it's a true pleasure to hear (Thompson's) effortless command of the instrument as well as his rich, commanding baritone in the warm, unplugged format" and feels Acoustic Classics is an essential album for Thompson fans and British folk fans in general". The Guardian review by Neil Spencer is more conservative, writing that "most of these pieces are best heard in original form" but does concede that "Thompson brings the experience of his years to bear on 14 dazzlingly good songs, singing more intensely while playing more nimbly". American Songwriter'''s Hal Horowitz writes that "these updated versions bring a newfound fire and/or subtlety" and comments that you can "relish these terrific songs played and sung by a master still at the top of his game and wise enough to realize he actually can improve on the originals." Joe Breen writing in The Irish Times writes that "there has always been a tension in Thompson’s writing...here it sounds even starker in this solitary performance" and that "the “live” performance seems naked without applause". Colin Irwin writes in Mojo'' that these versions of the songs "are scarcely comparable to the original band versions...but there's a certain magic in hearing the classics in such intimate form". He summarises by stating that
"the increasingly rugged, bluesy quality of Thompson's voice can be fully appreciated".

Track listing
All tracks written by Richard Thompson except “Persuasion” by Thompson and Tim Finn

Personnel
Richard Thompson - guitars and vocals

Chart performance

References

Richard Thompson (musician) albums
2014 albums
Proper Records albums


title: Delys Bird

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Delys Margaret Bird  is a Western Australian writer, academic and editor. She was editor of literary journal Westerly from 1993 to 2015 and has acted as editorial consultant since then.

Biography

Bird was born in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. After living in Sydney for a period, Bird’s tertiary education began as a mature age student at the University of Western Australia in the 1970s. She began teaching at the university in 1980 and joined the faculty of Arts in 1985, where she was a member of the English Department as well as director of the Centre for Women’s Studies until her retirement in 2003.

Bird was editor of Western Australian literary journal Westerly from 1993 to 2015 and is currently editorial consultant to that publication. She had previously served as the journal's poetry editor. Bird has also conducted extensive research in Australian literature, with a focus on women writers and feminist theory.

Awards
In 2011, Bird was the recipient of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature’s A.A Philips award for her long period of excellence in the editing of Westerly. Bird was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours in recognition of her "significant service to higher education, and to gender studies and literature".

Selected publications

Books

Journals
Westerly (literary magazine), Editor 1990–present
  Pdf.

References

External links
http://www.uwa.edu.au/people/delys.bird
http://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A20660
https://web.archive.org/web/20140812205032/http://westerlymag.com.au/about/staff/

Australian non-fiction writers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Members of the Order of Australia
People from Kalgoorlie
Writers from Western Australia
University of Western Australia alumni
Academic staff of the University of Western Australia
20th-century Australian women writers
21st-century Australian women writers


title: Friedrich Karl Köpke

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Friedrich Karl Ludwig Köpke, also spelt Koepke (19 March 1785 – 15 March 1865 in Berlin) was a German schoolmaster who specialized in Germanic studies.

Born in Medow, a town near Anklam, in Swedish Pomerania, Köpke went to the village school there, but his father also taught him, to supplement his education. At the age of ten, he was sent to live with a maternal uncle named Hasselbach, in Anklam, to attend the Latin school there. He went on to study philology at the University of Halle, receiving his doctorate at Erfurt in 1808.

In 1810, Köpke was appointed as a senior instructor at the Collegium Fridericianum in Königsberg. From 1817 to 1857 he was a schoolmaster at the Joachimsthal Gymnasium in Berlin, under the directorships of Bernhard Moritz Snethlage and August Meineke.

Köpke was buried at the Matthäus-Kirche in Tiergarten, Berlin, on 19 March 1865, when his age was recorded as 78 years, two months, and 26 days.

Published works
Köpke was the editor of a collection of 13th century legends titled "Das Passional : eine Legenden-Sammlung des dreizehnten Jahrhunderts" (1852). Other noted works by Köpke include:
 "Barlaam und Josaphat, von Rudolf von Montfort", (1818) – An edition of Rudolf von Ems' "Barlaam and Josaphat".
 "Geschichte der Bibliothek des königl. joachimsthalschen Gymnasiums : nebst einigen Beilagen", (1831) – History of the library at the Joachimsthal Gymnasium.

References

1785 births
1865 deaths
University of Halle alumni
University of Erfurt alumni
People from Vorpommern-Greifswald
German philologists
19th-century German historians
German male non-fiction writers


title: Malaysia at the 2002 Commonwealth Games

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Malaysia competed in the 2002 Commonwealth Games held in Manchester, England from 25 July to 4 August 2002.

Medal summary

Medals by sport

Multiple medalists
Malaysian competitors that have won at least two medals.

Medallists

Athletics

Men
Track event

Field event

Women
Track and road events

Key
Note–Ranks given for track events are within the athlete's heat only
Q = Qualified for the next round
q = Qualified for the next round as a fastest loser or, in field events, by position without achieving the qualifying target
NR = National record
N/A = Round not applicable for the event
Bye = Athlete not required to compete in round

Badminton

Individual

Doubles

Team

Boxing

Men

Cycling

Road

Track
Sprint

Pursuit

Points race

|}

Diving

Men

Women

Gymnastics

Artistic

Men

Hockey

Women's tournament

Pool 1

Seventh and eighth place match

Ranked 8th in final standings

Lawn bowls

Men

Women

Rugby sevens

Men's tournament
Malaysia has qualified a rugby sevens team.

Pool D

Bowl
Quarterfinal

Shooting

Men
Pistol/Small bore

Shotgun

Full bore

Women
Pistol/Small bore

Squash

Individual

Doubles

Swimming

Men

Women

Synchronized swimming

Table tennis

Singles

Doubles

Team

Triathlon

Men

Weightlifting

Men

Powerlifting

References

Malaysia at the Commonwealth Games
Nations at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
2002 in Malaysian sport


The West Coast Historical and Mechanical Society is based at the Shantytown Heritage Park. The society has three steam locomotives and one diesel. One loco, Kaitangata (otherwise known as "Katie") is a 0-6-0st steam locomotive built by Sharp, Stewart & Co. in 1896. It is an improved version of the 88 F class locomotives.

Locomotives and rolling stock
The society has 5 steam locomotive plus a diesel shunter:
 An 'A' class locomotive class locomotive (otherwise known as "Opossum")
 Heisler 1494
 Climax 1203
 Kaitangata 4270 "Katie"
 L 508 "Gertie"
 TR 107 "Rosie"

They also have in care of the remains of A 65 and two bush diesel locos from the Dispatch Foundry. Plus two other locos from the foundry with one on static display and one awaiting restoration. TR 38 was once preserved by the Society, but was on-sold to The Plains Railway on 4 January 1982.

Locomotives

References

External links
 Shantytown Heritage Park's official website

Heritage railways in New Zealand
Railway museums in New Zealand
Grey District


title: Fort ship

text:
The Fort ships were a class of 198 cargo ships built in Canada during World War II for use by the United Kingdom. They all had names prefixed with "Fort" when built. The ships were in service between 1942 and 1985, with two still listed on shipping registers until 1992. A total of 53 were lost during the war due to accidents or enemy action. One of these, , was destroyed in 1944 by the detonation of 1,400 tons of explosive on board her. This event, known as the Bombay Explosion, killed over 800 people and sank thirteen ships. Fort ships were ships transferred to the British Government and the Park ships were those employed by the Canadian Government, both had the similar design.

Description
The Fort ships were  long with a beam of . They were assessed at . The ships were of three types, the "North Sands" type, which were of riveted construction, and the "Canadian" and "Victory" types, which were of welded construction. They were built by eighteen different Canadian shipyards. Their triple expansion steam engines were built by seven different manufacturers.

History
The ships were built between 1941 and 1945 by ten different builders. The first to be built was , which was laid down on 23 April 1941 and launched on 15 October. The eight ships built by Burrard Dry Dock cost $1,856,500 each. During World War II, 28 were lost to enemy action, and four were lost due to accidents. Many of the surviving 166 ships passed to the United States Maritime Commission. The last recorded scrapping was in 1985, and two ships, the former  and , were listed on Lloyd's Register until 1992.

Crew
Park ships were armed. There were merchant seamen gunners. Also many British and Canadian merchantmen carried volunteer naval gunners called Defensively equipped merchant ship or DEMS gunners. The American ships carried Naval Armed Guard gunners.  Merchant seamen crewed the merchant ships of the British Merchant Navy which kept the United Kingdom supplied with raw materials, arms, ammunition, fuel, food and all of the necessities of a nation at war throughout World War II literally enabling the country to defend itself.  In doing this they sustained a considerably greater casualty rate than almost every branch of the armed services and suffered great hardship. Seamen were aged from fourteen through to their late seventies.
The lost are remembered in the Royal Canadian Naval Ships Memorial Monument in Spencer Smith Park in Burlington, Ontario.

Losses
Twenty-eight ships were lost due to enemy action and a further 25 due to accidents.

Enemy action
On 17 May 1942,  was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean by .
On 17 August 1942,  was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean by .
On 6 March 1943,  was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean by .
On 17 March 1943,  was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean by  and .
On 20 March 1943,  was torpedoed and sunk in the Indian Ocean by .
On 30 March 1943,  was torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea by .
On 17 April 1943,  was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean by  and .
On 11 May 1943,  was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean by .
On 11 June 1943,  was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean by .
On 16 July 1943,  was torpedoed and sunk in the Indian Ocean by .
On 20 July 1943,  was bombed and sunk at Augusta, Sicily, Italy.
On 24 July 1943,  was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean by .
On 6 August 1943,  was torpedoed, shelled and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean by .
On 13 September 1943,  was bombed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean by Luftwaffe aircraft.
On 19 September 1943,  was torpedoed and sunk in the Pacific Ocean by .
On 23 September 1943,  was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean by .
On 30 September 1943,  was torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea by .
On 4 October 1943,  was bombed and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea off Cape Ténès, Algeria by Dornier Do 217 aircraft of Kampfgeschwader 100, Luftwaffe.
On 2 December 1943,  was sunk by the explosion of the Liberty ship  during the air raid on Bari.
 On 2 December 1943,  was sunk by the German Luftwaffe during the air raid on Bari.
On 20 January 1944,  was torpedoed and sunk in the Indian Ocean by .
On 25 January 1944,  was torpedoed and sunk in the Arctic Ocean by  and .
On 25 January 1944,  was torpedoed and sunk in the Indian Ocean by .
On 15 February 1944,  was torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea by .
On 3 March 1944,  was torpedoed, shelled and sunk in the Indian Ocean by .
On 19 May 1944,  was torpedoed and damaged in the Mediterranean Sea by . The fore section sank. The stern section was taken in tow but sank the next day.
On 3 August 1944,  was damaged by a Kriegsmarine radio-controlled explosives boat off Normandy, France. She was subsequently beached at Appledore, Devon, and was scrapped in 1949.
On 23 August 1944,  was torpedoed and sunk in the English Channel by .
On 15 December 1944,  struck a mine and sank in the North Sea.

Accident
On 16 July 1943,  caught fire at Algiers, Algeria. She was beached and was consequently declared a total loss.
On 4 August 1943,  caught fire and exploded at Algiers.
On 14 April 1944,  was severely damaged by the explosion of Fort Stikine at Bombay, India. She was reduced to a hulk and was scrapped in 1948.
On 14 April 1944,  exploded at Bombay and was obliterated. Twelve other vessels were lost.
On 21 June 1945, Fort La Prairie or Fort La Pairie, 7138 tons, cargo ship, British, ran aground about 0.5 miles SSW of Muckle Skerry light, Muckle Skerry, Out Skerries. Location cited as N60 29 W0 52, she was towed off by Ocean Salvage Ship RFA Salfeda, assisted by local fishermen. She was renamed Elm Hill (1950) and scrapped in 1967.
On 1 February 1946,  collided with Thornaby and sank in the North Sea.
On 23 August 1946,  was wrecked on the Grand Shoal, off Saint Pierre and Miquelon.
On 18 February 1949, LEmerillon (formerly ) ran aground on the Sorelle Rocks off Malta.
On 28 September 1956, Bedford Earl (formerly ) ran aground in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan, in a typhoon.
On 14 June 1953, Bedford Prince (formerly ) ran aground in the Gulf of Paria. She was consequently scrapped.
On 10 February 1954, Catherine M. S. (formerly ) ran aground off Mojima Saki, Japan. She was consequently scrapped.
On 16 October 1954, Travelstar (formerly ) ran aground and caught fire in Buckner Bay. She was declared a total loss.
On 24 March 1955, Yaffo (formerly ) ran aground in Baffy Bay. She was refloated in 1957 and taken in to Monrovia, Liberia. No further service recorded.
On 27 May 1959, Aghios Spyridon (formerly ) ran aground off Havana, Cuba, and caught fire. Although refloated, she was declared a constructive total loss.
On 1 July 1960, Rita (formerly ) ran aground off Goa, India, and broke in two.
On 1 February 1961, Cape Drepanon (formerly ) ran aground in Long Island Sound. She was consequently scrapped.
On 20 December 1963, Corfu Island (formerly ) suffered an engine failure and was consequently wrecked in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.
On 8 April 1964, Irene X (formerly ) ran aground off Haiphong, China. She was subsequently refloated and scrapped.
On 21 November 1964, Zakia (formerly ) was in collision with the tanker Hyperion off Cape St. Vincent, Portugal. She sank the next day.
On 1 June 1966, Aktor (formerly ) sprang a leak and foundered in the Pacific Ocean.
On 3 November 1966, Progress (formerly ) was wrecked in a typhoon at Madras, India.
On 26 January 1967, Bodoro (formerly ) was in collision with Beaver State  in Chesapeake Bay. She was beached but was consequently declared a constructive total loss.
On 12 April 1967, Silver Peak (formerly ) ran aground in the South China Sea  off the coast of Taiwan. She was declared a total loss and subsequently scrapped.
On 25 February 1968, African Marquis (formerly ) ran aground on Kasos, Greece, and broke in two.
In 1968, Zhan Dou 76 (formerly ) became stranded. She was subsequently scrapped.
On 18 December 1969, Ibrahim K (formerly ) ran aground at Tocra, Libya and broke up.

Ships in class

See also
Empire ship
Liberty ship
Victory ship
Ocean ship

Further reading
 Syd C. Heal, A Great Fleet of Ships: the Canadian forts & parks, Vanwell Publishing, 1999

References

Ships built in Canada
Ministry of War Transport ships
World War II merchant ships of the United Kingdom


title: World Cyber Games Challenge

text:
The World Cyber Games Challenge was held in Yongin, South Korea from the October 7th to the 15th in 2000. Total prize money was $200,000.

Official games

First-person shooter (FPS)
 Quake III Arena

Real-Time Strategy (RTS)
 Age of Empires II
 StarCraft: Brood War

Sport
 FIFA 2000

Results

References

2000 in esports
2000 in South Korean sport
World Cyber Games events
Esports in South Korea


title: Bandar Kundang

text:
Kundang is a town in Gombak District, Selangor, Malaysia. This town is also known as Rawang by the locals due to its close proximity to nearby Rawang town. The town is governed by the Selayang Municipal Council (MPS), which also governs other areas of the Gombak district such as Selayang, Rawang, Kundang, Gombak Setia, Kuang, Batu Arang (part of Batu Arang), Sungai Buloh (part of Sungai Buloh), and Hulu Kelang (part of Hulu Kelang).

References

Gombak District
Towns in Selangor


title: Once More (Billy Higgins album)

text:
Once More is the third album led by American jazz drummer Billy Higgins recorded in 1980 and released on the Italian Red label.

Reception
Ken Dryden of AllMusic recommends the album.

Track listing
  "Plexus" (Cedar Walton) - 7:28
 "Lover Man" (Jimmy Davis, Ram Ramirez, Jimmy Sherman) - 7:33
 "Sabiá" (Antonio Carlos Jobim) - 4:26
 "Amazon" (Bob Berg) - 6:15
 "Estaté" (Bruno Martino) - 7:07
 "Horizons" (Manfred Schoof) - 8:16

Personnel
Billy Higgins - drums
Bob Berg - tenor saxophone
Cedar Walton - piano
Tony Dumas - bass

References

Red Records albums
Billy Higgins albums
1980 albums


title: Malathy Lakshman

text:
Malathy (or Malathi) Lakshman (born 27 August 1973) is a female Indian Telugu/Tamil language playback singer.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.vikatan.com/news/celebrity/singer-malathy-lakshman-shares-about-her-inspirational-words | title=நடுராத்திரி, நடு ரோட்டில், தனியா காரைத் துரத்திட்டு ஓடினேன்..!" - பாடகி மாலதி லக்ஷ்மன் | publisher=vikatan.com | date=20 January 2020 | access-date=15 August 2020 }}</ref> She is known for singing the song "Aa Ante Amalapuram"  from Arya''.

Notable filmography

References

1973 births
Living people
Women musicians from Tamil Nadu
Indian women playback singers
21st-century Indian singers
Singers from Tamil Nadu
21st-century Indian women singers


title: Hope Wood Academy

text:
Hope Wood Academy is an academy based in Easington Colliery, County Durham. The school caters for pupils aged 2–19 with Special Educational Needs.

Originally known as Glendene School, it converted to academy status since September 2012 and was renamed Glendene Arts Academy. It was formally reopened by Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh following a £2.3 million refurbishment.

In 2014, a report was released by the Education Funding Agency—who are responsible for funding and monitoring the finances of free schools and academies—alleging financial mismanagement and demanding the school repay £162,000 of taxpayers' money. A spokesperson said that the school had engaged in a "serious mismanagement of funds" Following the publication of the report, three people connected to the school were arrested by police on suspicion of fraud and released on bail.

The school has since been renamed Hope Wood Academy and is now sponsored by the Ascent Academies’ Trust.

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Academies in County Durham
Special schools in County Durham


title: William John Cooper Academy

text:
William John Cooper Academy is a middle school in Fresno, California operated by the Fresno Unified School District.

The school implements the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Program. The IB program was given to Cooper Middle School (the name of the school before it was Cooper Academy), since most students from Cooper Middle School would later on attend Fresno High School, a high school that implements the IB Diploma Program. During the 2012–2013 school year, there were about 430 students attending Cooper Academy.

The school was first approved to be built by the Fresno City Board of Education in November 1956 and opened as a junior high school (grades 7, 8 and 9) in the fall of 1959 with John Solo as the inaugural principal. In the fall of 1978, William John Cooper Junior High School officially became William John Cooper Middle School (grades 7 and 8), when Hamilton Junior High School was made into a new "freshman school," educating only ninth graders. The school is named for William John Cooper, a Californian, who served as United States Commissioner of Education under Presidents Coolidge, Hoover and Roosevelt from 1929 to 1933. In August 2012, Cooper Middle School became Cooper Academy, starting with the sixth and seventh grade levels only. In August 2013 the eighth grade level was added.

Author William Saroyan lived two blocks from the school from 1964 to 1981, sometimes interacting with students.

Notable alumni
 Mark Scott (Class of 1964)
 Bill McEwen (Class of 1969)
 John Hoover (Class of 1977)
 Cliff Harris (Class of 2005)

See also
  Fresno Unified's I.B. program move causes outrage with parents - February 27, 2012, www.abclocal.go.com
Education in California

References

Education in Fresno County, California