title: Tribal Wars

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Tribal Wars (TW) is a browser-based, real-time strategy, massively multiplayer online game set in the Middle Ages. The game is set with each player starting off controlling a small village, with the objective being to slowly expand and conquer new villages through the formation of complex armies and a tactical combat system. The game incorporates multiple components of teamwork, planning, and strategy. The game allows players to collect resources, build armies, construct buildings, combat other armies (players or neutral), and conquer new villages. The game also allows for a level of player-specific customization, in regards to village names, army types, and troop-counts. The game operates under world-specific settings that vary from world to world.

History
Tribal Wars, or Die Stämme as it is known in German, is a browser-based game and was released in 2003 as a text-based game. It was developed and released by the German company InnoGames. The game was originally developed by brothers, Eike Klindworth and Hendrik Klindworth, and their friend, Michael Zillmer, before it expanded steadily over the years. The international version of the game was released in 2006. The game is one of the most popular browser based games in the world, ranking among the top ten in number of players. There are over 59 million registered users. It has been reviewed by Gamestar and Forbes.

In late 2012, Tribal Wars' mobile version became free for use by all players with improved features, including touch screen and graphical upgrades, which developer InnoGames attributed to a shift to "a higher mobile focus in general."

Game mechanics
Each player controls their game from their village. From the main screen, the player can "visit" buildings such as the village headquarters to construct buildings, the barracks, stable, or workshop to recruit units, and the rally point to take command of units. Each screen can be accessed by clicking on a link, and the vast majority of the game is played through a text based interface. Some players choose to place information such as in-game personal allies, ASCII art, or quotes.

Tribes
A large portion of the game revolves around the use of tribes, or semi-official groups of players. These players join together for mutual protection and guidance. The size of different tribes varies from world to world, depending on decisions of the tribal aristocracy (leadership council) and built-in limits on tribe size. Some worlds do not allow tribes of more than twenty-five members, while others have no limit on members. Tribes have the ability to set diplomacy with other tribes and create their own private tribal forum. Tribal diplomacy is non-binding, but any breach of diplomacy is generally frowned upon by other players. The victory of the world usually depends on a tribe-based objective that has to be met.

Most tribes are created after the world in question has begun. However, groups of players will occasionally get together before a world starts to coordinate the set-up of a tribe. These "premade" tribes generally have more experienced players, but are not notably more successful than other tribes.

Each tribe can assign a special set of privileges and titles specific to particular tribe members. Some of these titles involve Duke/Tribe Founder, Baron, Recruiter, Diplomat, Forum Moderator, and Council. Titles and privileges are usually given to players of leadership and experience. Furthermore, the majority of these players utilize a non-in-game mode of communication to ensure "effective," and "covert," conversation.

Combat
Combat in the game is heavily based on statistical attributes of troops, real-time waiting and attacking villages. A player can send their troops to another player's village either to reinforce or attack it. In the case of attacking, casualties are determined based on the number and type of troops sent, and factors such as morale and luck. Attacking troops who survived will then return to their original city with the plundered resources, should they be present in the city at the time of the attack. In order for a player to conquer other villages, a unit called a nobleman must be sent to attack a village and survive. After a successful attack the nobleman decreases the village loyalty anywhere from 20 to 35 points (out of 100). When the village loyalty falls to zero or below, the attacker takes full control of the village. Troops can be recruited for use in combat at the barracks, stable, and workshop, while noblemen can be created at the academy and a paladin can be created at the statue.

Paladin weapons
In some worlds there are weapons that the paladin can equip. These weapons usually enhance certain troops abilities, most commonly attack or defense statistics depending on the weapon. For example, the "Bonfire" looks like a flaming torch and greatly increases the offense and defense values of Catapults. The "Vasco's Scepter" adjusts the nobleman's ability to lower village loyalty to a minimum of 30.

Real-time interaction
All actions in the game take a pre-set amount of time. The time it takes a player's army to reach another village depends on the distance, as well as the predetermined "speed" of the attacking units. All units have their own speed and the entire army moves at the speed of its slowest component. Each building level has a longer base time for completion, though the amount of time a building upgrade actually takes for completion is dependent upon the level of the "Village Headquarters" A higher HQ level provides faster building upgrades. Higher levels troop production buildings, such as barracks, stable, and workshop facilitate faster recruitment speeds. It is not unusual for some actions to take hours, perhaps even days, to complete.

Because the game takes place in real time many of the game's tactics are based on precision timing execution. For example, a common tactic to conquer an opponent's village is known as a "noble train" whereby an attacker sends multiple attacks in rapid succession with the first attack containing a full attack force (clearing out any defenses that may be in the village), while the subsequent attacks contain only one nobleman and a light escort, which will be able to land successfully after defenses have been eliminated. This method is necessary due to the fact that conquering a village requires lowering its loyalty from 100 percent to zero and each successful attacking nobleman lowers a village's loyalty by a randomly generated amount between 20 and 35 percent, while only one nobleman can be effective in a single attack command. While player skill, as well as the world's "attack gap" settings, influence the quality of a noble train, it is common for four man noble trains to have as little as 300 milliseconds difference from first attack landing to final attack landing. Consequently, a common defense that has been developed is known as "sniping" where a player will attempt to have defensive troops absent for the initial clearing attack, but arrive at the village in the milliseconds gap before the final noble lands, thus allowing a successful defense with minimal loss of defensive troops. A snipe may be accompanied by a precision counterattack known as "backtiming." By knowing the speed of the attacking army, and knowing the distance between the player's village and his opponent's village, a skilled player can time a counterattack to land at his target just milliseconds after the attacking army returns to its origin, and subsequently kill the opponent's entire attack force, thus eliminating the threat. The quality of a backtime attack is based on how precisely it lags behind the original attack force, as skilled players may be able to dodge a backtime in less than one second by resending his army out to another village.

In order to execute these techniques effectively will often require a player to become knowledgeable of the features of various web browsers, including the use of shortcuts and tabs, which allow a player to set up a tactic, and quickly switch to new tabs to click appropriate buttons to initiate the actions. There are also an assortment of tools that have been developed to assist players in making the necessary time calculations. Many guides and tutorials have been developed by the player community to assist novice players in developing their tactical skills.

Worlds
There are multiple "worlds" that can be played on, and each world has a unique set of rules to it, two of which are 'world speed' and 'troop speed', which commonly vary somewhere between 0.5 and 2, though some "speed rounds" have world speeds reaching into the hundreds. The world speed regulates how fast every action in the game occurs, while troop speed adjusts the speed of the moving units with respect to world speed.

Furthermore, each world has varied settings upon technology, troops, weapons loot, and tribe limit. Each world adjust the types of troops available to the player, usually varying archers and paladin. The world can also adjust the availability of paladin weapons.

Lastly, each world has its own specified victory qualifications, which a tribe has to meet before being declared the victorious tribe of the world.

Awards system
Tribal Wars utilizes an Award system reminiscent of Achievements/Trophies etc., where players gain "plaques" that they can show off on their profile for milestones. Awards add incentive for players to contribute to offensive operations both internally in their tribe and externally, support friends, and plunder and conquer other villages. Some Awards are satirical such as "Unlucky Fellow," achieved by failing to conquer a village by 1 loyalty point.

There are also five daily Awards: Looter (for farming the most resources), Plunderer (for looting the most villages), Attacker (for destroying the most enemy units as attacker), Defender (for destroying the most enemy units as defender), and Great Power (for conquering the most villages).

Awards have 4 levels - Wood, Bronze, Silver and Gold. Wooden framed Awards are the most basic, consequentially Gold are the best and hardest to achieve. This system shows clearly how well a player has performed in certain aspects of the game.

Awards are not shared between different worlds. Awards on one world are independent there, though they can be displayed on a player's profile on a different world to demonstrate the players previous experience as well as accomplishments.

With the addition of flags to the game dynamic, earning awards of any type results in the reception of a flag of a certain level, correlating directly with the difficulty of the flag.

With the Version 7.0 update, multiple new Awards were introduced, such as The Warlord (for attacking numerous players) and Brothers in Arms (for being a member of a tribe for a period of time).

As of version 8.5, three new achievements were added: Master of Quests (measuring completed quests), Architect Drive (measuring number of construction assignments completed across all villages), and Recruitment Drive (measuring a total count of troops recruited across all villages). A fourth achievement, Out of Time, was announced to be released at a later time.

Victory
Originally, the goal of Tribal Wars was to have a single tribe/player conquer all villages in the world. However, the process of conquering a world could take several years. Recent worlds have alternate ways to achieve victory in an attempt to streamline world completion. such as holding specific villages for a set amount of time, or conquering a certain percentage of the world, while other worlds end after polling the remaining players. Therefore, unique world victory settings have been introduced.

This "dominance" scenario of the endgame involves a tribe or a player to meet the criteria of minimum points/villages for a period of time. The world players are notified when the criteria are met and are provided a certain period of time prior to the world officially being declared "at end".

Most recently the Secrets of Power where many different technologies are assigned to barbarian or bonus villages which need to be taken control of via ennoblement and then kept under a tribes control until one of each Secret is controlled, at which time an end-game counter will start. If the tribe holds on to the Secrets until the counter reaches zero, the world will enter peace settings and the world will eventually be closed. However, you can also achieve victory by defeating all your opponents.

Sequel
On November 20, 2013, InnoGames announced the release of the sequel to their original game after 10 years. The sequel was meant to incorporate its original components of strategy and teamwork, but also incorporates new elements of new artwork, updated game-play style, and modern technology.

On September 2, 2014 the open beta for Tribal Wars 2 was released. It maintained all its original buildings, along with three new ones: Hospital, Tavern, and Hall of Orders. From the Tavern the player can spy on other villages and also counter such spying from others.

References

External links

2003 video games
Browser-based multiplayer online games
Browser games


title: Elmer Wilhoite

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Elmer Ellsworth Wilhoite (May 3, 1930 – August 19, 2008) was an American football player and boxer. He played college football for the USC Trojans and was a consensus selection at the guard position on the 1952 College Football All-America Team.

Early years
Wilhoite was born in Merced County, California, in 1930. He attended Merced High School. He was a star athlete in the shot put while in high school, throwing the 12-pound shot 56 feet, 6 inches, breaking a high school athletic record set by Bob Mathias.

USC
Whilhoite enrolled at the University of Southern California and, while there, played at the guard position on the USC football team in 1951 and 1952. In the UCLA–USC rivalry in 1952, both teams were undefeated and untied and played for a spot in the 1953 Rose Bowl. Wilhoite set up the game-winning touchdown when he intercepted a Paul Cameron pass and returned it 72 yards to UCLA's eight-yard line. The Trojans won the 1953 Rose Bowl by a 7–0 score over Wisconsin, and Wilhoite was a consensus selection for the 1952 College Football All-America Team.

Later years
Wilhoite was selected by the Cleveland Browns in the 12th round of the 1953 NFL Draft, but he instead pursued a career as a boxer. In his first fight, he won by a knockout after 45 second of the first round against Humphrey Jiminez at Merced, California. In September 1953, he won his second professional bout by a second-round technical knockout (TKO) over Clayton Mann in a match at the Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles.

In 1954, he tried out with the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League (CFL), but he was released in early August 1954. He signed with the Baltimore Colts in December 1954, but did not make the team in 1955. In July 1957, he signed with the Calgary Stampeders of the CFL.

Wilhoite returned briefly to boxing in 1958. He later operated H&S International, a salvage company. Wilhoite was married to Judy Berg and had a son, Edward, in addition to her sons, Anthony and Bill, from a previous marriage. The couple later divorced. He had six grandchildren: Travis Wilhoite (Edward), Courtney, Kyle, Angela and Rachel Vassalo (Bill), and Lily Vassalo (Anthony). Wilhoite died in 2008 at Hawthorne, Nevada.

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1930 births
2008 deaths
All-American college football players
American football guards
USC Trojans football players
Sportspeople from Merced, California
Players of American football from Merced County, California


title: A Place in Time

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A Place in Time is a 2007 American documentary film directed by Angelina Jolie in her directorial debut.

Synopsis

The film takes a look at the daily lives of people in more than two dozen countries around the world during the course of a week.

Cast
 Hazel Armenante
 Nicole Barré
 Anne Hathaway
 Jude Law
 Djimon Hounsou
 Wyclef Jean
 Hilary Swank
 Angelina Jolie
 Bai Ling
 Olivier Martinez
 Jonny Lee Miller

Production
It was Jolie's directorial debut.

Release
On Friday, April 27, 2007, Jolie, Wyclef Jean, Jude Law, Hilary Swank, and others involved in the film debuted it at New York City's Tribeca Film Festival. The audience included over 600 New York high-school students. It was distributed through the National Education Association.

References

External links

 Trailer

2007 films
2007 documentary films
Films directed by Angelina Jolie
American documentary films
2007 directorial debut films
2000s English-language films
2000s American films


title: Ann Daniels

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Ann Daniels (born 1964 or 1965) is a British polar explorer and motivational speaker. She and her team-mate Caroline Hamilton were the first women to reach both the North Pole and South Pole as part of all-women teams, in 2002.

Daniels was born Bradford, England, and grew up there, with four older brothers. Her father was an insurance salesman, her mother a secretary. She worked for NatWest, achieving promotion to assistant bank manager, a post which she gave up in 1994, when her triplets were born.

She first reached the North Pole on in the 1997 McVities Penguin Polar Relay, and has been there at least six times in all.

Her first attempt to reach the North Pole solo, walking from Russia, was called off in 2005.

She appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 21 January 2007, and was awarded an honorary DUniv degree Staffordshire University in the same year.

She led Catlin Arctic Survey expeditions in 2009, 2010 and 2011, with Pen Hadow.

She is the mother of four children, three of them (two girls and a boy) triplets from her first marriage, plus a daughter from a second partner.

References

External links

1962 births
Year of birth uncertain
People from Bradford
English polar explorers
Living people


title: 2014–15 Associação Académica de Coimbra – O.A.F. season

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This article shows Associação Académica de Coimbra – O.A.F.'s player statistics and all matches  that the club plays during the 2014–15 season. This season will be their 13th consecutive season in the top-flight of Portuguese football.

Competitions

Pre-season

Primeira Liga

League table

Results by round

Matches

Taça de Portugal

Third round

Taça da Liga

Third round

Players

Current squad
As of 1 June 2015.

Transfers

In

Out

References

External links
 Official club website

2014-15
Portuguese football clubs 2014–15 season


title: Pacifastin

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Pacifastin is a family of serine proteinase inhibitors found in arthropods. Pacifastin inhibits the serine peptidases trypsin and chymotrypsin.

All pacifastin members that have been characterized at the molecular level are precursor peptides composed of an N-terminal signal sequence followed by a precursor domain and a variable number of inhibitor domains. Each of these inhibitor domains carries a six-cysteine motif – see below.

The first family members to be identified were isolated from Locusta migratoria migratoria (migratory locust) which were HI, LMCI-1 (PMP-D2) and LMCI-2 (PMP-C). A further five members, SGPI-1 to 5, were then isolated from Schistocerca gregaria (desert locust), and a heterodimeric serine protease inhibitor was isolated from the haemolymph of Pacifastacus leniusculus (Signal crayfish), and named pacifastin.

Function
Peptide proteinase inhibitors are in many cases synthesised as part of a larger precursor protein, referred to as a propeptide or zymogen, which remains inactive until the precursor domain is cleaved off in the lysosome, the precursor domain preventing access of the substrate to the active site until necessary. Proteinase inhibitors destined for secretion have an additional N-terminal signal-peptide domain which will be cleaved by a signal-peptidase.  Removal of these one or two N-terminal inhibitor domains, either by interaction with a second peptidase or by autocatalytic cleavage, will activate the zymogen.

Very little is known about the endogenous function of pacifastin-like inhibitors except that they may play roles in arthropod immunity and in regulation of the physiological processes involved in insect reproduction.

Structure

The inhibitor unit of pacifastin is a conserved pattern of six cysteine residues (Cys1 – Xaa9–12 – Cys2 – Asn – Xaa – Cys3 – Xaa – Cys4 – Xaa2–3 – Gly – Xaa3–6 – Cys5 – Thr – Xaa3 – Cys6). Detailed analysis of the 3-D structure shows that these six residues form three disulfide bridges (Cys1–4, Cys2–6, Cys3–5), giving members of the pacifastin family a typical fold and remarkable stability.

Pacifastin is a 155kDa protein composed of two covalently linked subunits, which are separately encoded. The heavy chain of pacifastin (105 kDa) is related to transferrins as it carries three transferrin lobes, two of which seem to be active in iron binding. A number of the transferrin family members are also serine peptidases, and belong to MEROPS peptidase family S60 (INTERPRO). The light chain of pacifastin (44 kDa) is the proteinase inhibitory subunit, and consists of up to nine cysteine-rich inhibitory domains that are homologous to each other. The locust inhibitors share a conserved array of six residues with the pacifastin light chain. The structure of members of this family reveals that they consist of a triple-stranded antiparallel beta-sheet connected by three disulphide bridges.

This family of serine protease inhibitors belongs to MEROPS inhibitor family I19, clan IW. They inhibit chymotrypsin, a peptidase belong to the S1 family (INTERPRO).

References

Protein families


title: Kasper Goski

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Kasper Goski  was a Polish doctor, astrologer and the mayor of Poznań.

Kasper Goski was born the son of a burgher in Sochaczew. He began his studies at the Lubrański Academy before continuing at the Kraków Academy from 1541–1547. After earning his magister, he taught at the university, as well as that the parochial school attached to the Church of St. Anne in Kraków, where he also served as rector.

He returned briefly to Poznań in 1547, leaving two years later for Padua where he earned a medical degree in 1551. Back in Poland he was the doctor of primate Mikołaj Dzierzgowski until the latter's death in 1552, at which point Goski set up his own medical practice in Poznań.

As an astrologer, Goski achieved some fame for having correctly predicted the victory of the Holy League over the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Lepanto in 1571.

Gorski served as  mayor of Poznań in 1555–1557, 1563, 1565, and 1574–1575, and as wójt in 1569 and 1573. In 1556-57 he represented the city at the Warsaw sejm, and again at both of the elections sejms in 1572–1576. A wealthy man throughout his life, he owned a house on the Old Market Square (Stary rynek) in Poznań Old Town.

Kasper Gorski died in Poznań on 25 November 1576.

Bibliografia
 Gąsiorowski, Antoni, and Jerzy Topolski, eds. Wielkopolski Słownik Biograficzny, p. 215. Warsaw; Poznań: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1981.

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1576 deaths
Polish astrologers
16th-century astrologers
16th-century Polish physicians
Year of birth unknown
Physicians from Poznań
Jagiellonian University alumni
People from Poznań
Mayors of Poznań
Mayors of places in Poland


title: Huapaya

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Huapaya is a surname, and may refer to;

Huapaya derives from wapa which means coffee colored alpaca in Quechua and ya from the Spanish expression ¡Ya està! (there it is).

Alfonso Huapaya Cabrera - Peruvian football player
José Moisela Huapaya - Peruvian football player
Marcial Francisco Buitrón Huapaya - Mayor of Punta Negra from 1990 to 2002

Quechuan-language surnames


title: Klaus Nenninger

text:
Klaus Nenninger is a retired West German slalom canoeist who competed from the mid-1960s to the early 1970s. He won a bronze medal in the C-2 team event at the 1967 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Lipno.

References

German male canoeists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Medalists at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships


title: Emmanuel Edmond

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AS

Emmanuel Edmond (born 13 June 1996) is a Nigerian footballer who plays as a forward.

Career
On 14 August 2014, Edmond signed a three-year contract for the Slovak side AS Trenčín. He made his debut for AS Trenčín on 17 August 2014 against Košice, entering in as a substitute in place of Patrik Mišák in the 57th minute of the match. Edmond played in the Czech First League for FK Dukla Prague in the 2016–17 season.

References

External links
 AS Trenčín profile

 Futbalnet profile
 Fortuna liga profile

1996 births
Living people
Nigerian men's footballers
Nigerian expatriate men's footballers
Men's association football forwards
AS Trenčín players
FK Dukla Prague players
Czech First League players
Slovak First Football League players
Expatriate men's footballers in Slovakia
Expatriate men's footballers in the Czech Republic
Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Slovakia
Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in the Czech Republic


title: Carol Graham (missionary)

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Carol Graham (1898 – 15 April 1989) was an English Anglican missionary, deaconess of the Church of South India, ecumenist and spiritual writer.

Life
Graham was born in Harrow in 1898, one of five children of a housemaster at Harrow School. After working in child care and a hospital during World War I, for the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel and the College of the Ascension in Birmingham, she visited India with her father in 1926 and came into contact with Samuel Azariah, Bishop of Dornakal. Graham was captivated by his vision of a native Anglican Church and after some appropriate training returned to India to help galvanise potential leaders among women in the Church, working in the Dornakal diocese. In 1933 she was ordained a deaconess. After World War II, Sister Carol was made secretary of a new organisation training women for leadership across the region which in 1947 would become covered by the Church of South India, uniting the Anglican, Methodist and Presbyterian traditions. From this effort was developed the Order of Women, which supported Church of India women workers called to a celibate life, based at Vishranthi Nilayam, the 'House of Refreshment', in a former orphanage in Bangalore. During this time Sister Carol wrote a variety of devotional books, especially encouraging the spiritual life of families in the home. From 1960 to 1963 she worked in North India on the organisation of women's work there.

In 1963 Sister Carol retired and returned to the UK. She had already been discussing the idea of creating a community of women dedicated to working and praying for the unity of the Churches, and Eric Abbott, Dean of Westminster Abbey, offered to act as a sponsor of such a community. Eventually the former house of the Anglican spiritual director Fr Reginald Somerset Ward, 5 Wolseley Road in Farncombe, Surrey, was secured for the venture, which became known as the Farncombe Community. Sister Carol became Head Sister, promoting the work of the Community as well as leading it day-to-day. She travelled widely around the UK leading ecumenical retreats and quiet days.

In accordance with the rules of the Community, Sister Carol retired on the last day of her seventy-fifth year, and went to live with her sister Elizabeth in Farnham. From there she moved to Smiles Home for the Elderly in Woking in 1985 and finally Bernard Sunley House, where she died in 1989.

Works
"Azariah of Dornakal" (1945)
"The Church of South India: A Short Handbook" (1951)
"The Meaning and Practice of Prayer" (1959)
"The Holy Spirit in the Home" (1962)
"Praying Places Along the Way" (1962)
"Record of the Farncombe Community" (1973)

References
P Dharmagnani, "Sister Carol Graham: the Beloved 'Amma'" (CLS: Madras, 1989)
CG Graham, "Between Two Worlds" (c.1985)
P Renyard, "The Farncombe Community & the Fellowship of Prayer for Unity" (Pennington, 2004)

1898 births
1989 deaths
English Anglican missionaries
English religious writers
People from Harrow, London
Anglican missionaries in India
Female Christian missionaries


title: Gunter Trojovsky

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Gunter Trojovsky is a retired West German slalom canoeist who competed in the late 1960s. He won a silver medal in the K1 team event at the 1967 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Lipno.

References

German male canoeists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Medalists at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships


title: President of the Presidency of SAP Kosovo

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In the Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovo, which was at the time one of the two socialist autonomous provinces of the Socialist Republic of Serbia and one of the federal units of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, a single-party system was in place. During this time there were eight heads of state, all from the ranks of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (SKJ). The federal party was organized into six sub-organizations - the republic parties, one for each of the six federal republics. Kosovan politicians and presidents of the presidency of the period were members of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia through their membership in the League of Communists of Kosovo (SKK), the Kosovan part of the federal party (as was respectively the case with all Yugoslav politicians).

See also
 List of rulers of Kosovo
 President of Kosovo
 Prime Minister of Kosovo

References

Government of Yugoslavia
Kosovo
Politics of Yugoslavia
Socialist Republic of Serbia
Politics of Kosovo
Presidents in Europe


title: Vinnytsia water tower

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The Vinnytsia water tower is a landmark of the city of Vinnytsia, Ukraine, constructed in 1912 and located on European Square. It has served as a museum since 1985 and was listed as a cultural monument of local importance on February 17, 1983.

The tower was built in 1912, when the water pipe system was laid out in Vinnytsia. The tower doubled as a fire observation point. The architect was Grigory Artynov. The water was taken from the Southern Bug River and then distributed around the city center.

In 1920, the building stopped functioning as a water tower. During World War II it served as an observation tower, and after the war, it was converted into a residence. In 1985, it was transferred to Vinnytsia Regional Museum. First, it hosted an exposition on the history of the October Revolution and World War II. In 1993, an exposition devoted to the Soviet–Afghan War was added.

The tower has seven floors and is  high. It is made of brick.

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Buildings and structures in Vinnytsia
Buildings and structures completed in 1912
Water towers in Ukraine
1912 establishments in Ukraine
1912 establishments in the Russian Empire


title: 2014–15 PBA Philippine Cup

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The 2014–15 Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Philippine Cup was the first conference of the 2014–15 PBA season. The tournament began on October 19, 2014, and ended on January 21, 2015. The tournament does not allow teams to hire foreign players or imports.

Format
The following format was observed for the duration of the conference:
 Single-round robin eliminations; 11 games per team; Teams are then seeded by basis on win–loss records. Ties are broken among head-to-head records of the tied teams.
 The top two teams after the elimination round will automatically advance to the semifinals.
 The next eight teams will play in a double-phase quarterfinal round. The #3 to #6 seed will have twice-to-beat advantage against their opponent. Phase 1 matchups are:
 QF1: #3 team vs. #10 team
 QF2: #4 team vs. #9 team
 QF3: #5 team vs. #8 team
 QF4: #6 team vs. #7 team
 The winners of Phase 1 will advance to the knockout phase. The match ups are:
KO1: QF1 vs. QF4
KO2: QF2 vs. QF3
 The winners of the quarterfinals will challenge the top two teams in a best-of-seven semifinals series. Match ups are:
 SF1: #1 vs. KO2
 SF2: #2 vs. KO1
The winners in the semifinals advance to the best of seven finals.

Elimination round

Team standings

Schedule

Results

Bracket

Quarterfinals

First phase
In this round, the higher-seeded team in the series has the twice-to-beat advantage.

(3) Alaska vs. (10) NLEX

(4) Talk 'N Text vs. (9) Barako Bull

(5) Barangay Ginebra vs. (8) GlobalPort

(6) Meralco vs. (7) Purefoods Star

Second phase
This is a one-game playoff. The winner advances to the semifinals, while the loser is eliminated.

(3) Alaska vs. (6) Meralco

(4) Talk 'N Text vs. (5) Barangay Ginebra

Semifinals

(1) San Miguel vs. (4) Talk 'N Text

(2) Rain or Shine vs. (3) Alaska

Finals

Awards

Conference
Best Player of the Conference: June Mar Fajardo (San Miguel Beermen)
Finals MVP: Arwind Santos (San Miguel Beermen)

Players of the Week

Statistical leaders

Entire conference

References

External links
PBA Official Website
PBA-Online!

Philippine Cup
PBA Philippine Cup


title: The Last Round

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The Last Round () is a 1976 Italian crime film directed by Stelvio Massi.

Cast

Carlos Monzón: Marco Russo
Luc Merenda: Rico Manzetti
Leonora Fani: Nina
Mariangela Giordano:  Lisa's Mother
Gianni Dei: Beny Manzetti
Giampiero Albertini: Sapienza
Susana Giménez: Maristella
Luisa Maneri (credited as Annaluisa Pesce): Lisa
Mario Brega: Bobo Belmondo
Nello Pazzafini: Henchman of Rico

See also
 List of Italian films of 1976

References

External links

1976 films
1970s Italian-language films
Films directed by Stelvio Massi
Italian crime films
1976 crime films
Films scored by Luis Bacalov
1970s Italian films


title: Heide Schröter

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Heide Schröter is a former West German slalom canoeist who competed in the late 1960s. She won a bronze medal in the K-1 team event at the 1967 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Lipno.

She also won at senior level the Wildwater Canoeing World Championships.

References

External links
 Heidi Schroeter at Sportlerbiographien

1941 births
Living people
German female canoeists
Place of birth missing (living people)
West German female canoeists
Medalists at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships


title: Zaharia

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Zaharia is an Albanian and Romanian variant form of the given name or surname Zechariah/Zacharias.

Notable people with this surname
Zaharia family, an Albanian noble family
Koja Zaharia
Lekë Zaharia
Elia Zaharia
Alexandru Zaharia, Romanian footballer
Alejandro Argudín-Zaharia, Romanian-Cuban athlete
Alin Zaharia, Romanian footballer
Dorel Zaharia, Romanian footballer
Dorin Liviu Zaharia, Romanian singer
Maria Zaharia, Romanian girl killed in World War I
Matei Zaharia, Romanian-Canadian computer scientist
Radu Zaharia, Romanian footballer

Notable people with this given name
Zaharia Bârsan, Romanian actor and playwright
Zaharia Carcalechi, Romanian publisher
Zaharia Stancu, Romanian writer

See also
 Zaharija, usual transliteration of the name from Serbian Cyrillic

Romanian masculine given names
Masculine given names
Romanian-language surnames
Albanian-language surnames


title: Kirsten Stumpf

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Kirsten Stumpf is a retired West German slalom canoeist who competed in the late 1960s. She won a bronze medal in the K-1 team event at the 1967 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Lipno.

References

External links
 Kirsten STUMPF at CanoeSlalom.net

West German female canoeists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Medalists at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships


title: Francesco Signorelli

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Francesco Signorelli (c.1495–1553) was a 16th-century Italian Renaissance painter.

He was nephew and artistic heir to his uncle Luca Signorelli. Not much is known about Signorelli's life except through his works. He was born, and lived and worked his whole life in and around Cortona. He primarily painted religious-themed paintings for church commissions. One work executed by Francesco Signorelli Madonna and Child is part of the National Museums Liverpool collection.

References

External links
 Web Gallery of Art

1480s births
1550s deaths
15th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
16th-century Italian painters
Italian Renaissance painters
People from Cortona


title: Tetramorium nazgul

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Tetramorium nazgul is a species of Myrmicine ant native to Analalava, Ambohijanahary, and the Zombitse-Vohibasia National Park, Madagascar.  The species is characterized by long, thin, propodeal spines.  Its body is covered in a multitude of long hairs.  General coloration is dark brown or black, with lighter coloration on the legs.  The species is commonly found in leaf litter in tropical dry forests and montane rainforests, typically around elevations of 700 to 1,100 meters.  It was named after the Nazgûl from J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.

References

External links

 Tetramorium nazgul at AntWiki

nazgul
Insects of Madagascar
Insects described in 2012
Organisms named after Tolkien and his works


title: Yarlequé

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Yarlequé is a surname derived from  which means scoffer in the Tallán Quechuan language.

References

Quechuan-language surnames


title: Decree (band)

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Decree is a Canadian industrial band from Vancouver that was founded by Chris Peterson and John McRae in 1991. However, writing and gathering ideas started around 1989. Both musicians have also been working together at the beginning of the 1990s in the electronic music band Will.

Decree released their debut album, Wake of Devastation, in 1996. They subsequently released Moment of Silence in 2004 and Fateless in 2011. In 2018, Artoffact Records released a vinyl collection of the band's albums on vinyl.

Discography
 Wake of Devastation (1996, Decibel, Off Beat)
 Moment of Silence (2004, Metropolis, Minuswelt Musikfabrik, Irond)
 Fateless (2011, Artoffact)

Band members

Current members
 Chris Peterson – keyboard, programming, percussion, engineering
 Sean Lawson – vocals, noise
 Ross Redhead – guitar, bass, cello
 Matt Pease – percussion

Former members
 John McRae – vocals

Television Appearance
The band is featured in "Dance of the Dead", the third episode of the first season of Tobe Hooper's Masters of Horror, performing a song in the "Doom Room" bar.

References

External links

Canadian industrial music groups
Electro-industrial music groups
Musical groups from Vancouver
Musical groups established in 1991
1991 establishments in British Columbia
Noise musical groups
Canadian electronic music groups
Metropolis Records artists
Off Beat label artists


title: Sampaloc Church

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Sampaloc Church () or the Archdiocesan Shrine of Our Lady of Loreto () is a Roman Catholic Church located along Figueras Street (formerly Bustillos) in the district of Sampaloc in the City of Manila. The church is named after and dedicated to the Virgin Mary and her pilgrimage site in Loreto, Italy where tradition states as the site where the Mary's house was relocated.

History
The Franciscans under Father Blas de la Madre de Dios, the Provincial Father of the Philippine Franciscan mission, built the first church on the Sampaloc site in 1613. It was made into a parish that same year, along with the enshrinement of the Marian image of Our Lady of Loreto. A convent was built near the church which in 1621 which served as the first home of the congregation of Poor Clares in the country led by Mother Jeronima de la Asuncion before they moved to Intramuros later that year.

The first church was reconstructed twice, first in 1640 as a result of a 1639 Chinese revolt that burned down the church, and again in 1666 after damage from a 1645 earthquake and because of the needs of a growing community in Sampaloc. The church was also affected by the 1880 earthquake, after which its toppled steeple was reconstructed.

The original jurisdiction of the parish of Sampaloc comprised not only the present Sampaloc district but it also extended into present-day Pandacan and Santa Mesa. Pandacan was separated to have its own parish in 1712 while a separate parish for Santa Mesa was established in 1911. In 1932, another split was made in the parish's territory when a parish was established to serve the community in the eastern part of Sampaloc that is known as Balic-Balic. The administration of the Sampaloc parish by then was given to the Archdiocese of Manila, which was effected in 1899.

The Battle of Manila in 1945 completely destroyed the original church. The church was temporarily rebuilt as a wood and bamboo structure while plans were made for the construction of a more permanent structure. On November 22, 1958, the present church was completed and was rededicated to the Our Lady of Loreto. The church was further adorned with the addition of a bronze sculpture in 1975 by Filipino sculptor Ed Castrillo.

The church was elevated to the status of archdiocesan shrine by the Archdiocese of Manila on December 5, 2002.

Priests

Gallery

St. Anthony of Padua Shrine

Adjacent to the Our Lady of Loreto Archdiocesan Shrine is the St. Anthony of Padua Shrine, a church administered by the Venerable Third Order of the Franciscans (). The church traces its origins in 1794, when the Third Order proceeded to build its own church near the premises of the Loreto Church upon the invitation of their Franciscan brethren who were administering Loreto at that time. The church was originally dedicated to the Our Lady of the Pilgrims (), but it was destroyed along with the original Loreto Church in the Battle of Manila of 1945.

Work proceeded shortly for the construction of the new church, which was completed in 1947. This time the church was dedicated as a shrine to St. Anthony of Padua after Franciscans decided to transfer the devotional activities to St. Anthony from the now destroyed San Francisco Church in Intramuros to Sampaloc Church.

Due to their proximity and shared history, the Loreto and St. Anthony churches have been known alternately as "the twin churches of Sampaloc" and "the twin churches of Bustillos".

References

External links

Roman Catholic churches in Manila
Buildings and structures in Sampaloc, Manila
1613 establishments in the Spanish Empire
Cultural Properties of the Philippines in Metro Manila
Churches in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Manila


title: Gregory Minh

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Gregory Minh (; September 7, 1836 – December 12, 1896 in Saratov), was an epidemiologist, pathologist and former professor at the Department of Pathological Anatomy at the University of St. Vladimir.

Biography

Educated at the grammar school in Saratov and Moscow University, Minh then spent several years as an intern at the therapeutic clinic of Professor Zakharyin.  As a young doctor studying typhoid's effects, he injected himself with typhoid blood, thus contracting the disease and nearly died from its complications.
Between 1863 and 1865, he traveled to Germany to study pathological anatomy. In 1876, he took the chair as director of pathological anatomy at the University of Kyiv, where he was subsequently (four years later) promoted to full professor.

Study of leprosy, vitiligo and tzaraath
Minh spent a decade studying leprosy and vitiligo in various parts of Russia. Having explored the foci of leprosy during a special expedition to Persia, Central Asia and the Caucasus, he gave a description of the clinic and epidemiology of leprosy, and proved that leprosy is an infectious disease. He likewise visited  the Astrakhan steppes, the Kuban region, and as for as a trip to Egypt and the Levant, where he collected extensive material on the history of leprosy since ancient times. Minh maintained that the biblical tzaraath is synonymous with the modern term vitiligo.

Study of anthrax
Studying the epidemiology of typhus and relapsing fever, he found that the carriers of these diseases where blood-sucking insects. His work, "Plague in Russia" (1898), written on the basis of the study of the epidemic in 1878-79 in the village of Vetlyanskaya (Vetluzhsky), was the work of his personal involvement therein; in this work, the characteristic of the clinic and the bubonic plague and pneumonic forms indicated the route of infection. He also found that both intestinal and pulmonary anthrax have a common origin. In 1873, he described the anthrax as bodies that migrate in cells, but was not able to properly assess the significance of this observation.

Vetlyanskoy plague of 1879
Minh acquired widespread recognition due to his report on the vetlyanskoy plague of 1879.

Literary works
 Leprosy (Lepra arabicum) in the south of Russia vol. 1, no. 1-4, Kiev. 1884-87
 Проказа и песь (Leprosy and Vitiligo) [Kiev], 1890.
 The doctrine of the development of false membranes on the serous surfaces - Thesis, Moscow, 1870

Further reading
Torsuev HA, outstanding Russian leprolog Minh N. Gregory, "Bulletin of Dermatology and Venereology" 1949, № 3;
Milenushkin YI, N. Gregory Minh (1836-1896), "Doctoring", 1948, № 2.

References

1836 births
1896 deaths
Physicians from Kyiv
Nobility from the Russian Empire
Russian pathologists
Russian dermatologists
Academic staff of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv


title: Mykhaylo Kononenko

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Mykhaylo Mykhaylovich Kononenko (; born 30 October 1987) is a Ukrainian professional road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Continental team .

Major results
Source:

2008
 1st  Overall Mainfranken-Tour
2010
 1st Stage 5 Grand Prix of Adygeya
 8th Grand Prix of Donetsk
2011
 1st Stage 5 Okolo Slovenska
 2nd Grand Prix of Donetsk
 6th Grand Prix of Moscow
2012
 1st Stage 4 Grand Prix of Sochi
 National Road Championships
2nd Time trial
6th Road race
 5th Overall Baltic Chain Tour
 5th Mayor Cup
 7th Grand Prix of Donetsk
 8th Overall Grand Prix of Sochi
2013
 1st Race Horizon Park 2
 2nd Overall Tour of Romania
1st Prologue (TTT)
 2nd Grand Prix of Donetsk
 National Road Championships
3rd Time trial
5th Road race
 3rd Overall Tour of Bulgaria
 3rd Race Horizon Park 1
 5th Coupe des Carpathes
 5th Grand Prix of Moscow
 5th Memorial Oleg Dyachenko
 6th Overall Tour of Hainan
 6th Tour of Almaty
 7th Mayor Cup
2014
 1st  Overall Tour of Qinghai Lake
1st  Points classification
1st Stage 3
 1st Race Horizon Park 2
 National Road Championships
2nd Time trial
5th Road race
 3rd Overall Baltic Chain Tour
1st Stages 1 & 3
 3rd Memoriał Henryka Łasaka
 10th Overall Grand Prix of Sochi
2015
 1st  Road race, National Road Championships
 1st Memorial Oleg Dyachenko
 1st Race Horizon Park Classic
 1st Stage 2 Five Rings of Moscow
 3rd Overall Tour of Mersin
1st Stage 3
 3rd Race Horizon Park Maidan
 4th Race Horizon Park Race for Peace
 7th Moscow Cup
 8th Overall Tour of Kuban
2016
 1st Memoriał Romana Siemińskiego
 1st Race Horizon Park Classic
 2nd Tour de Ribas
 4th Odessa Grand Prix
 4th Tour of Almaty
 5th Overall Tour of Ukraine
1st Stage 2a (TTT)
 6th Overall Tour of Qinghai Lake
 6th Visegrad 4 Bicycle Race – Kerékpárverseny
 6th Horizon Park Race for Peace
 9th Memoriał Andrzeja Trochanowskiego
2017
 1st Race Horizon Park for Peace
 1st Odessa Grand Prix
 1st Stage 7 Tour of Qinghai Lake
 3rd Overall Tour d'Azerbaïdjan
 5th Overall Tour of Hainan
 5th Tour de Ribas
 6th Overall Tour of Fuzhou
1st Stage 1
 7th Time trial, National Road Championships
 8th Overall Tour of Ukraine
1st Stage 2 (TTT)
2018
 National Road Championships
2nd Time trial
4th Road race
 3rd Overall Tour of Xingtai
 7th Overall Tour of Quanzhou Bay
 7th Overall Tour of Fuzhou
1st Stage 4
 10th Overall Tour of China I
2019
 2nd Overall Tour of Quanzhou Bay
1st Stage 1
 National Road Championships
3rd Road race
4th Time trial
 3rd Overall Tour of Xingtai
 3rd Grand Prix Justiniano Hotels
 6th Overall Tour of Taiyuan
 8th Grand Prix Minsk
 10th Overall Tour of China I
1st Stage 6
2020
 National Road Championships
1st  Road race
1st  Time trial
 1st Grand Prix Cappadocia
 1st Grand Prix Central Anatolia
 3rd Grand Prix Mount Erciyes
 4th Grand Prix Velo Erciyes
 5th Grand Prix World's Best High Altitude
2021
 1st  Time trial, National Road Championships
 1st Grand Prix Develi
2022
 2nd Grand Prix Velo Manavgat
 4th Grand Prix Develi

Notes

References

External links

1987 births
Living people
Ukrainian male cyclists
European Games competitors for Ukraine
Cyclists at the 2015 European Games
Cyclists at the 2019 European Games
Sportspeople from Chernihiv


title: Didier Poissant

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Didier Vital Poissant (30 September 1923 – 27 February 2021) was a French sailor who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics, and won the Snipe European Championship in 1954. He died in February 2021 at the age of 97.

References

External links

1923 births
2021 deaths
French male sailors (sport)
Olympic sailors for France
Sailors at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Finn
Snipe class sailors
Sportspeople from Bordeaux


title: Ezequiel Ponce

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Ezequiel Ponce (; born 29 March 1997) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a forward for Greek Super League club AEK Athens.

He holds Spanish citizenship.

Club career

Newell's Old Boys
Ponce is a youth exponent from his hometown club Newell's Old Boys. Predictably, Ponce was snapped up by local club Newell's Old Boys at the age of eight, progressing through the youth set-up to eventually break into the senior squad in 2013. He made his league debut on 5 October 2013 against Quilmes in a 0–2 away win. At 16 March 2014, he scored his first league goal for the club against Racing Club in a 2–0 home win.

Roma
In August 2015, Italian club Roma announced the signing of Ponce from Newell's Old Boys for a fee of €4.2 million. Ponce started well with Roma by tallying three goals in the UEFA Youth League group stages, but disaster struck in December, as the striker received a torn ligament in his knee, which kept him on the sidelines for four months. He returned to action with a bang in the spring, playing in their reserve squad, winning the Campionato Nazionale Primavera and scoring nine goals in ten matches. He was also summoned to Roma's senior team without being given a chance on the pitch.

Loan to Granada
On 5 August 2016, Ponce was loaned to La Liga club Granada CF for one year. Fifteen days later he scored on his club debut, in a 1–1 home draw against Villarreal CF.

Loan to Lille
On 10 July 2017, after being identified by then Manager Marcelo Bielsa, Ponce was loaned to Ligue 1 club Lille. He made his debut in a 3–0 win against Nantes on 6 August 2017. He scored his first goal on 17 November in a 3–1 win against AS Saint-Étienne.

Loan to AEK Athens
On 19 July 2018, Ponce was loaned to Greek Super League club AEK Athens for one year with a €6 million buy-out. Roma would be entitled to 30% of any resale, although the loan notes that can be eliminated if AEK pays an extra €1 million. The striker is a hard worker, but looking at aspects that need to be improved, he certainly has to start scoring more goals. When joining AEK, Ponce pointed out his excitement at the opportunity to display his talents in the UEFA Champions League. "We all want to play in the Champions League; it’s our main goal. I am glad to be an AEK player, I’m impressed with the people I’ve met, and we must be a united team." he said.
On 25 August 2018, he scored his first goal for the 2018–19 season in a 2–0 home win game against PAS Giannina as he was in the right place at the right time to convert a superb cross from Marko Livaja. On 16 September 2018, he scored in a 4–0 home win game against Panionios from close range after Petros Mantalos sweet and precise cross. On 29 September 2018, Ponce scored his third goal for the club in an away match against OFI, after the ball ricocheted of his body and ended up in the unguarded net to seal a 3–0 away win.

On 28 October 2018, the on-loan Roma forward netted a double within six second-half minutes in a hammering 4–0 home win game against Aris Thessaloniki. On 2 December 2018, he opened the score in a 2–0 home win against Xanthi. On 8 December 2018, he scored with a wonderful volley, after Petros Mantalos' excellent ball, in a 2–0 home win against Lamia. On 14 January 2019, Ponce rose highest to head home powerfully from a pin-point Rodrigo Galo corner, and there was still time for one more goal before half-time as Ponce rose to head home again in the third minute of added time from a great Marko Livaja's cross. On 20 January 2019, he netted with a penalty kick in a comfortable 3–0 home win game against Asteras Tripolis. On 26 January 2019,he scored in the second minute of added time sealing a 2–0 away win against Panionios. On 3 February 2019, the Argentinian winger continued his rich vein of scoring form in style, rising to meet a superb cross from Marko Livaja and glance the ball into the bottom left corner past the dive of Alexandros Paschalakis in a 1–1 draw in an absorbing derby clash at the Olympic Stadium. On 17 February 2019, he opened the score as AEK got off to a dream start in the third minute when Viktor Klonaridis intercepted a pass from Olympiacos defender Jagoš Vuković  and the lightning fast winger surged forward and sent over a low cross which Olympiacos goalkeeper José Sá could only parry into the path of Ponce, who gleefully tapped home from close range. Eventually, AEK lost 4–1 against rivals Olympiacos in a derby for UEFA Champions League next season. On 26 February 2019, the  prolific Argentinian striker took aim from the edge of the penalty area, thumping a fierce half-volley into the left corner past the despairing dive of Christos Theodorakis and opened the score in a thriumphic 3–0 home Greek Cup game against rivals Atromitos.

On 3 April 2019, he opened the score by finding space between the Lamia's central defenders, as he met Petros Mantalos’ pinpoint cross, confidently heading the ball into the right corner in a 2–0 Greek Cup semifinal 1st leg against Lamia. Boasting 18 goals so far, he became the club's highest goalscorer in one specific season since fellow Argentinian player Ismael Blanco struck an incredible 24 goals for AEK in the 2008–09 season. On 7 April 2019,  he scored when as he perfectly brought down Rodrigo Galo’s cross rifling a shot past Živko Živković in a final 3–1 away win game against Xanthi, a result which meant that the team had all but locked up third place in the Super League.

On 25 April 2019, Ponce opened the score as Marko Livaja’s deflected effort struck the right post, but the prolific Argentinian striker was on hand to lash the ensuing rebound into the net in a hammering 4–0 Greek Cup away semi-final second-leg game against Lamia, and for the third consecutive season, AEK met PAOK in the Greek Cup final, whom they beat 3–0, in an ambiguous win. On 5 May 2019, in the last matchday of the season, scored in a 3–0 away win against Levadiakos.

Spartak Moscow
On 21 June 2019, he signed a long-term contract with the Russian Premier League club Spartak Moscow.

In his fourth game for Spartak, he was sent off in the derby in the first half for striking the goalkeeper of Dynamo Moscow, Anton Shunin, with a straight leg during a cross from his teammate.

Elche
On 31 January 2022, Ponce returned to Spain after agreeing to a loan deal with Elche CF in the top tier. On 1 June 2022, Elche exercised the purchase option in the loan contract and signed a four-year contract with Ponce.

Return to AEK Athens
On 5 August 2023, Ponce returned to AEK Athens on a permanent move, signing a four-year contract.

International career
He was called up to the 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup for the summer of 2017. He started for Argentina national under-20 football team in the first match in a 3–0 defeat against England national under-20 football team.

Career statistics

References

External links

1997 births
Living people
Footballers from Rosario, Santa Fe
Argentine men's footballers
Argentina men's under-20 international footballers
Men's association football forwards
Argentine Primera División players
La Liga players
Ligue 1 players
Super League Greece players
Russian Premier League players
Newell's Old Boys footballers
AS Roma players
Granada CF footballers
Lille OSC players
AEK Athens F.C. players
FC Spartak Moscow players
Elche CF players
Argentine expatriate men's footballers
Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Italy
Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Spain
Expatriate men's footballers in Italy
Expatriate men's footballers in Spain
Expatriate men's footballers in France
Expatriate men's footballers in Greece
Expatriate men's footballers in Russia
Naturalised citizens of Spain
Spanish people of Argentine descent
Olympic footballers for Argentina
Footballers at the 2020 Summer Olympics


title: John Stefanidis

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John Stefanidis is a British-based, Egyptian-born interior designer and founder of the London-based interior design firm John Stefanidis Brands, Ltd. His clients include the Bank of England, Claridges and Rocco Forte's Le Richemond Hotel.

Early life and education
John Stefanidis was born in Cairo, Egypt, to Alexandrine Greek parents, Panayotis Constantinos Stefanidis and Eliane Sophie Mordo, both of whose grandmothers were born on the Ionian island of Corfu; Panayotis Petsalis in a devout Greek Orthodox family, and Eliane’s grandmother, née Viterbo, in a Sephardic Jewish family.

Early in the Second World War, John's father Panayotis Constantinos Stefanidis had to choose whether to join the then exiled Greek Army, which was in disarray, although it later proved to be a great help to the Allies, or to accept the honorary rank of major in the British army, serving in the Occupied Enemy Territory of Eritrea, newly won by the British from the Italians in the Ethiopian campaign. He chose the latter, a choice that would determine young Stefanidis’ formative years.

His young wife, Eliane, and four-year-old John, who attended the Lycée Français, remained in Cairo, but not for long, as Eliane Stefanidis defied the prohibition on wives and children joining their husbands in the newly occupied country. Taking a job with BOAC (British Overseas Airlines Corporation), Eliane and her son embarked on a seaplane that landed on the Nile in Khartoum, where they spent the night before boarding a Dakota aircraft for Asmara, where they were met by a very surprised Panayotis. Although he worked in the capital, Asmara, John and his mother lived in Massawa on the Red Sea, in a cool, trellised house with verandahs, built in the Italian style, with gazelles in the garden to entertain his young son.

John initially attended a small Greek school (where Stefanidis recalls cane-wielding priests), but when the restriction imposed on wives and children was lifted, a small school was scratched up, where John spoke English, in addition to the Greek and French he spoke at home.
As a child, John was ferried around in a ‘calessino,’  a racy horse-drawn carriage,  the obliging driver in khaki uniform and dashing red tarboosh. As this and other digressions were considered too spoiling, he was dispatched to Cairo where he would be raised by his maternal aunt and her brother. His aunt, who was a radiologist at the Croissant Rouge Hospital, beloved by its doctors who were mostly Copt, had a habit of collecting the poor and unfortunate from the street and taking them to the hospital for treatment. Having had a French education as a teenager while stranded in Paris during the First World War where she was being treated for tuberculosis, she read the classics of French literature aloud to her young nephew.

His uncle was an eccentric whose bedside reading was Dante’s Divine Comedy. His Arabic was so good, which was most unusual for a non-Egyptian, that he went regularly to the popular Egyptian theatre, reminiscent of Goldoni in its wits and exuberance, and over the years relentlessly marched his nephew through the Cairo Museum of Antiquities, instilling in him an avidity for history and the cultures of the past.

Education
John Stefanidis attended the Gezira Preparatory School in Cairo, on the island of Zamalek in the Nile, before progressing at age twelve to the English school in Heliopolis.

In an interview, John recalls that, "The school was very cosmopolitan, with Armenians, Greeks, Saudis, Syrians, Lebanese, German, Chinese, as well as the Egyptian elite, who were Muslims, Christians, Copts and Jews. The rule was that only English was learnt, as otherwise it would have become a Tower of Babel at the edge of the desert." Short holidays were spent with his paternal grandmother or maternal cousins in Stefanidis’ beloved Alexandria. Summer holidays lasted three months to avoid the Egyptian heat, during which he was sent to the much cooler Eritrea or travelled to Europe with his parents.

In 1955, Stefanidis left Egypt to attend Brasenose College, Oxford, knowing that he would never live in the land of his birth again. King Farouk had been exiled and Nasser was ridding the country of all foreigners, which meant the dissipation and exile of a large part of the Italian, Jewish, British, French, and Greek communities, many of whom had lived peacefully side by side for hundreds of years. Their schools and institutions were closed, and their members scattered to the ends of the earth. Stefanidis graduated from Oxford in 1958.

He began his professional life in advertising, working for a year in London at Coleman Prentis & Varley, and then for five years in Milan. In a newspaper article, he said: "The architecture, the pictures, the beauty of Italy served to develop my eye."

While traveling, he and the artist Teddy Millington Drake came upon the remote Dodecanese island of Patmos, where St. John received what was to become the New Testament book, Revelations.
Beneath the fortified eleventh-century Byzantine monastery of St John the Theologian is the ancient village of Chora where Millington-Drake and Stefanidis bought and restored a house. Stefanidis went on to design another ten houses, which established an aesthetic standard that he has maintained ever since.

On Patmos, he found his metier
Stefanidis’ reputation for design grew internationally, and in 1967, he founded his London-based design practice. He quickly established a reputation for reliability, speed, and excellence. His style was described as 'having a sense of form & a technique reminiscent of a painter...a Stefanidis home is filled with light..well-prepared and extremely comfortable.'

The Stefanidis studio in Chelsea employed mainly graduates of the Royal College of Art, and was considered a very prestigious place to work. It became a seedbed for many successful designers, notably Anthony Collett, Philip Hooper, Gael Camu, Bruce Cavell. The studio provided a full house service, designing exteriors and interiors as well as textiles, carpets, and furniture for a diverse clientele, incorporating geography, history, and climate for each unique project

Drawing on his fifty-year experience as a pioneer in the industry, Stefanidis continues to be engaged in a mix of international projects both private and commercial, as well as diverse consultancies. An upcoming, much-anticipated project is a new hotel in Majorca, Spain, which will open in the summer of 2022.

Among his clients:
The Bank of England
N.M. Rothschild
Claridge’s Hotel, The Berkley Hotel, Le Richmond Geneva- Rocco Forte Hotel
The British Embassy, Washington, D.C.

Private commissions include:
Princess Aida Abdul Aziz, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
His Excellency Mr. Ali Jeddah, London and Surrey
Mr. and Mrs. John Angelicoussis, Athens
Mr. William L. Bernhard, New York and Patmos
M. and Mme. George Lillaz, Paris and Geneva
Mrs. Michael Chandris, Gstaad
Lord and Lady Paul Channon, London
Mrs. Ann Getty, London and San Francisco
Lord and Lady Glenconner, London and Mustique
Mr. John L. Goulandris, Athens
Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, Patmos
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Joost, San Francisco
Sir Henry and the Hon. Lady Keswick, London and Wiltshire
Lord and Lady Lambton, London
Mr. and Mrs. A Leventis, London and Spetses, Greece
The Hon. Mrs Marten, Crichel House, Dorset
M. and Mme. O Plouvier, Paris and St. Tropez
Dr. Mortimer Sackler, London
Lord Weidenfeld, London
The Duke and Duchess of Westminster, London, Cheshire, Lancashire, and Scotland
Mr. and Mrs. Galen Weston, Fort Belvedere, Surrey; Toronto, Windsor; Florida
Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Wexner, Ohio, New York, Georgia, London, Warwickshire
Mr. and Mrs. R. Cisneros, Caracas
Mr. and Mrs. Hasan Çolakoglou, Istanbul
Mr. Axel Springer, Patmos
Countess Cinzano, London and Portugal

Bibliography

See also
Teddy Millington-Drake

References

External links

Place of birth missing
Year of death missing
Place of death missing
Alumni of the University of Oxford
People from Alexandria
British interior designers
British people of Greek descent
Egyptian people of Greek descent
1937 births


title: Albany Cardinals

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The Albany Cardinals were a minor league baseball club, based in Albany, Georgia, that existed between 1935 and 1958. It was member of the Class D Georgia–Florida League and an affiliate with the St. Louis Cardinals, through most of their existence. The team began play in 1935 as the Albany Travelers from 1935 through 1938. The took up the Cardinals name in 1939 and won 4 of the league's titles.

References
 Baseball Reference – Albany, Georgia

Baseball teams established in 1935
Baseball teams disestablished in 1958
Defunct Georgia-Florida League teams
Professional baseball teams in Georgia (U.S. state)
St. Louis Cardinals minor league affiliates
1935 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
1958 disestablishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
Defunct baseball teams in Georgia (U.S. state)


title: Yury Nikandrov

text:
Yury Nikandrov (; 22 November 1923 – 21 December 2018) was a Soviet sport shooter who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics, in the 1956 Summer Olympics, and in the 1960 Summer Olympics.

References

External links
Profile at Infosport.ru

1923 births
2018 deaths
Trap and double trap shooters
Soviet male sport shooters
Olympic shooters for the Soviet Union
Shooters at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Shooters at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Shooters at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Moscow


title: Amanda Eliasch

text:
Amanda Eliasch (born 1959/1960) is an English photographer, artist, poet, and filmmaker.

Early life and education
Amanda Eliasch was born in 1959 or 1960 in Beirut, Lebanon,  where her father Anthony Cave Brown worked as a foreign correspondent for the Daily Mail, and later wrote several books on espionage and World War II. Her mother, opera singer Caroline Gilliat, left him in 1962. She is the daughter of film director Sidney Gilliat. She returned to England when she was six weeks old, and was brought up by her grandfather, film director Sidney Gilliat, who encouraged her with artistic pursuits.

She is a graduate of the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts.

Work
Eliasch works in art photography.

Her first black and white photographic show was 'Three Way Mirror', held in London in 1999 at the Cork Street Gallery. Her photography work often consists of glossy fashion-shoot images and black and white nudes. In November 2001 she exhibited a series of photographic contact sheets in a London exhibition, at The Proud Gallery, called 'Peep'. Her early work was given a review in British Journal of Photography. Her portraits of 47 British artists  were published (with text by Gemma De Cruz) in British artists at work in 2003, and were chosen by both Publishers Weekly and Art Monthly for their lists of seasonal highlights; the collection was also published in French as Artistes contemporains: Londres. From this book Eliasch started her own collection through photographing and entertaining many artists including Tracey Emin and Polly Morgan in her St Tropez home. According to photographer Bob Carlos Clarke, she served ostrich eggs for breakfast.

Her photographs have appeared in Made by Indians (2007), a book on Indian contemporary art curated by Fabrice Bouret, and Made by Brazilians (2014), a book on Brazilian contemporary art curated by Fabrice Bouret.

She has also published poetry. In 2008, Chipmunka Publishing published her book of poetry, Cloak & Dagger Butterfly. Based on the book and a letter she wrote to her father, a theatrical production was produced by Eliasch As I like it at London's Chelsea Theatre in July 2011; later that year it was transferred to the Macha Theatre in Los Angeles.
In 2010 she published Sins of a Butterfly, a poetry collection.

During the Summer of 2011 Eliasch produced the Rebel Show of James Franco at the Venice Film Festival with Liberatum

Eliasch exhibited artworks in July 2011 at the Leadapron Gallery, Los Angeles. Called Peccadillos, the exhibits were neon sculptures inspired by cartoons of her committing the seven deadly sins with neon artist Michael Flechtner in Los Angeles, they were drawn by her friend Kay Saatchi. The exhibition later transferred to the Doyle Devere Gallery in Notting Hill Gate, London.

The same year, Eliasch worked as a film director and writer, making a "jarringly frank" documentary drama The Gun, the Cake and the Butterfly, which contained the line: "When a woman confronts her loneliness she is free." It was based on her book and the theatrical production. In 2013 it won the Lena Wertmuller prize for best Documentary Drama and was screened at the Ischia International Film and Music Festival and the Bel Air Film Festival, Los Angeles, where she won Best Edit and best documentary made by a woman. The film has reportedly been called 'shockingly frank' by critics.

In 2014 she was producer of The Vortex by Noël Coward at the Matrix Theatre in Los Angeles.

She confronted her doppelganger, who was using her name to gatecrash parties. 2016 Her work appeared in Desire Magazine The Laboratory Collective.

Since 2008, Eliasch has also worked as the fashion editor for Genlux Magazine in Los Angeles.

Recognition and awards
Eliasch was presented with the "Most Imaginative Documentary Film Award" at the 11th annual Ischia Global Film & Music Festival in June 2013. It also received an honorary award for the Most Imaginative Documentary at the New York City International Film Festival. She was named Best Female Director at the Burbank Film Festival and won the most exceptional documentary award at the La Jolla Indie Fest.

Personal life and other activities
Eliasch was married to Johan Eliasch, chairman of Head, from 1988 to 2006; the couple has two sons, Charles  and Jack. Eliasch has publicly defended her friend Charles Saatchi during his divorce proceedings with Nigella Lawson. She has been linked romantically with Sir Tim Rice since 2007 and plastic surgeon Jean-Louis Sebagh which ended in 2007.

In 2013 she contributed to Nicky Haslam's album Midnight Matinee. That year the writer Katie Glass from the Sunday Times said she looked "like Marilyn Monroe dressed as a gothic Japanese schoolgirl".

Her current London residence and studio is in Cheyne Walk, where her art collection is on display, including pieces by Michael Ayrton and Oriel Harwood, a white elephant by Marc Quinn and Jake and Dinos Chapman. She divides her time between London and Los Angeles, and also has a home in Paris.

Eliasch sponsors the  British Film Institute as part of the Directors Cut programme, and The Elephant Family. In 2016 she supported The Evening Standard Film Awards for best screenplay in memory of her great grandfather George Gilliat, editor of the Evening Standard in 1930, and his son the screenwriter Sidney Gilliat.

Eliasch is pro-Brexit and is interested in politics and supports the UK branch of Turning Point USA, an organisation to encourage free speech.

Eliasch decided to sell some of her belongings for charity in 2020, among them some Tally Ho chairs by artist Mark Brazier-Jones.

Eliasch appeared in "Inside Chelsea, London's wealthiest borough".

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Living people
1960s births
British film directors
English women photographers
British socialites
Artists from Beirut
Alumni of the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts


title: Pedro Massana

text:
Pedro Massana Calvet (19 December 1923 – 28 July 1991) was a Spanish rower who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics. He was born in Barcelona.

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1923 births
1991 deaths
Spanish male rowers
Olympic rowers for Spain
Rowers at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Rowers from Barcelona
European Rowing Championships medalists


title: Barteria

text:
The genus Barteria is in the family Passifloraceae in the major group angiosperms (flowering plants). It contains 8 described species, however, only 6 are accepted.

They are native to Tropical Africa and found in the countries of Angola, Benin, Burkina, Cabinda, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Island, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda and Zaïre.

Accepted species
 Barteria dewevrei
 Barteria fistulosa
 Barteria laevigata
 Barteria nigritana
 Barteria pubescens
 Barteria solida

Taxonomy
The genus name of Barteria is in honour of Charles Barter (1821 – 1859), was a Scottish gardener and botanist who trained at Kew Gardens in London from 1849 to 1851.
It was first described and published in J. Proc. Linn. Soc., Bot. Vol.5 on page 14 in 1860.

References

Passifloraceae
Malpighiales genera
Taxa named by Joseph Dalton Hooker
Plants described in 1860
Flora of Africa


title: SAIC Motor UK

text:
SAIC Motor Technical Centre (also known as SMTC UK) is the European subsidiary of the Chinese automaker SAIC Motor via SAIC Motor UK Holdings. SAIC Motor also controls MG Motor UK for sales and distribution, but is independent of the technical subsidiary.

History
SAIC Motor UK formed when SAIC Motor bought out MG Motor from Nanjing Automobile in 2006.

SAIC Motor UK Technical Centre is a subsidiary of the SAIC holding company, and evolved from the Ricardo 2010 consultancy that was working with SAIC including devleping the Roewe models and helping production of the Rover KV6 engine in China. In 2007 it formally transferred into SMTC.

In 2019 there were large scale redundancies to the technical teams as SAIC downsized the SMTC in Longbridge.

Brands under SAIC UK
MG
Morris
Austin
Wolseley

Operations

Research and development

SAIC Motor UK was the major developer of MG and Roewe cars for SAIC. Its best known developed car is the MG 6.

References

External links
SAIC Motor UK—SMTC UK

SAIC Motor divisions and subsidiaries
Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 2006
Car manufacturers of the United Kingdom
MG Motor
British subsidiaries of foreign companies


title: Mauricio Tévez

text:
Mauricio Alejandro Tévez (born 31 July 1996) is an Argentine footballer who plays as a forward for Chacarita Juniors.

Club career

Tévez is a youth exponent from Newell's Old Boys. He made his league debut at 10 August 2014 against Boca Juniors in a 0-1 away win. Tévez scored the only goal of the game.

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1996 births
Living people
Argentine men's footballers
Argentine expatriate men's footballers
Footballers from Rosario, Santa Fe
Men's association football forwards
Argentine Primera División players
Paraguayan Primera División players
Primera Nacional players
Newell's Old Boys footballers
Instituto Atlético Central Córdoba footballers
Defensa y Justicia footballers
AD Oliveirense players
Sportivo Luqueño players
Chacarita Juniors footballers
Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Portugal
Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Paraguay
Expatriate men's footballers in Portugal
Expatriate men's footballers in Paraguay
Guaireña F.C. players


title: Gerry Fairhead

text:
Arthur Gerald "Gerry" Fairhead (March 23, 1923 – July 5, 2019) was a Canadian sailor. He placed eighth in the Star class at the 1948 Summer Olympics.

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1923 births
2019 deaths
Canadian male sailors (sport)
Olympic sailors for Canada
Sailors at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Star


title: Abdallah Sidani

text:
Abdallah Sidani (born 1923) is a Lebanese retired wrestler who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics.

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1923 births
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Lebanese male sport wrestlers
Olympic wrestlers for Lebanon
Wrestlers at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Date of birth missing (living people)


title: Mike Townsend

text:
Mike Townsend (born March 19, 1952) is a former American football defensive back who played one season in the World Football League (WFL) with the Jacksonville Sharks and Memphis Southmen. He was drafted by the Minnesota Vikings in the fourth round of the 1974 NFL Draft. He played college football at the University of Notre Dame.  Townsend was a captain on the Notre Dame 1973 national championship team. He led the nation with ten interceptions as a junior. He was a consensus All-American in 1973.

References

External links
Just Sports Stats

Living people
1952 births
Players of American football from Ohio
American football defensive backs
African-American players of American football
Notre Dame Fighting Irish football players
Memphis Southmen players
Jacksonville Sharks (WFL) players
All-American college football players
Sportspeople from Hamilton, Ohio
21st-century African-American people
20th-century African-American sportspeople


title: Dallas Marvil

text:
Joshua Dallas "Dal" Marvil (October 24, 1910 – March 12, 1977) was an American football player and coach.  He played at the tackle position for the Northwestern Wildcats football team and was a consensus first-team All-American in 1931.  He played for three Big Ten Conference championship teams at Northwestern University, two in football (1930, 1931) and one in basketball (1930–31).  He also served as an assistant football coach at the University of San Francisco.

Early years
Marvil was raised in Laurel, Delaware.  He played basketball and was a "weight man" for the track team at Laurel High School.

Northwestern
Marvil played college football at the tackle position for Northwestern University.  In 1930, he helped lead the Wildcats football team to a Big Ten Conference championship and was selected by the Associated Press as a second-team All-Western player.  In 1931, he was selected as the team captain, led the Wildcats to their second consecutive Big Ten championship, and was a consensus first-team member of the 1931 College Football All-America Team. Marvil was six feet, three inches, and weighed 233 pounds while playing football at Northwestern.

Marvil was a member of Beta Theta Pi and also played basketball at Northwestern.  Despite his size, weighing 254 pounds in December 1929, he reportedly "handle[d] his bulk well" on the basketball court.  Northwestern's 1931 basketball team won the Big Ten championship and compiled a record of 16-1.  The Chicago Daily Tribune in October 1931 commented on Marvil's weight: "Dal's chassis is of such a roly poly nature that it is very deceptive to his opponents. He has proved conclusively that a boy who looks blubbery may have plenty of muscle and sinew concealed about him."

Later years
In February 1932, Marvil was hired to serve during the 1933 season as the head line coach for the University of San Francisco football team. In April 1933, he became engaged to Dorothy Florence Ames of LaGrange, Illinois, who he met while attending Northwestern.  As of 1946, he was the president of the "N Men's club."

Marvil died in Broward County, Florida, on March 12, 1977, at the age of 66.

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1910 births
1977 deaths
American football tackles
Northwestern Wildcats football players
San Francisco Dons football coaches
All-American college football players
People from Laurel, Delaware
Players of American football from Delaware


title: Janice Charette

text:
Janice Charette is a Canadian public servant and diplomat who has served as clerk of the Privy Council and secretary to the Cabinet from 2014 to 2016 and again from 2021 to 2023. Charette was the Canadian high commissioner to the United Kingdom from 2016 to 2021.

Early and personal life
Born and raised in Ottawa, Ontario, Charette attended Carleton University, where she completed a Bachelor of Commerce degree. Charette is married to Reg Charette. Together they have two adult children.

Career
Charette joined the public service in 1984, working in the Department of Finance.

 1988 – 1989— Policy Analyst, Office of Privatization and Regulatory Affair.
 1989 – 1991— Senior Departmental Assistant, Office of the Minister of Finance.
 1991 – 1992— Senior Policy Adviser, Federal-Provincial Relations Office.
 1992 – 1993— Senior Departmental Assistant, Office of the Minister of Finance, then Executive Assistant to the Chief of Staff, Office of the Prime Minister.
 1994 – 1996— Co-ordinator, Base Closures Task Force, then Director of Operations, Program Review Secretariat, and Executive Director, Strategic Projects Unit, Privy Council Office.
She served as the deputy minister for Citizenship and Immigration Canada from 2004 until 2006, and as the deputy minister of Human Resources and Skills Development Canada from 2006 until 2010.

Charette was appointed as the clerk of the Privy Council and Secretary to the Cabinet on August 20, 2014, when Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced that she would replace Wayne Wouters, who served from 2009 to 2014. She is the second woman to have held that post, which is the top civil service position in the federal government.

On January 22, 2016, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that Michael Wernick would replace Charette as clerk of the Privy Council.

On July 19, 2016, she was appointed as the Canadian high commissioner to the United Kingdom. This was seen as a consolation prize after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau abruptly removed Ms. Charette as the country's top bureaucrat shortly after taking power.

On March 1, 2021, Prime Minister Trudeau announced that Charette would serve as interim clerk of the Privy Council Office starting on March 9, 2021 while current clerk Ian Shugart underwent cancer treatment. She was subsequently permanently named to the position on May 25, 2022.

Volunteer work
Charette is a member of the board of directors of Royal Ottawa Healthcare Group and on the advisory board of the School of Policy Studies at Queen’s University.

In 2008, she was national Chair for the United Way’s Government of Canada Workplace Charitable Campaign, raising over CA$136 million for communities and national health charities across Canada.

References

Living people
Clerks of the Privy Council (Canada)
High Commissioners of Canada to the United Kingdom
People from Ottawa
Canadian women ambassadors
Carleton University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)


title: Valdete Idrizi

text:
Valdete Idrizi (born 1973) is the executive director of the CiviKos platform (in 2017). She was the executive director of the NGO Community-Building Mitrovica, which she founded, and which works for peace and builds community in the Mitrovica region in northern Kosovo. For six years prior to 2008, Community-Building Mitrovica was the only organization in Mitrovica which encouraged reconciliation and rebuilding of relationships between ethnic Albanians and Serbs. Idrizi herself is an ethnic Albanian from Kosovo in North Mitrovica who lost her home in 1999 when the Serbs invaded.   In 2008 her home was still occupied by Serbs. Community-Building Mitrovica has managed to arrange the return of some Serbs to their homes in Kosovo, for which  Idrizi received death threats from Kosovar Albanian militants.

Idrizi received a 2008 International Women of Courage Award and the 2009 Soroptimist International Peace Award.

She was chosen as CiviKos Platform Executive Director in December 2011; CiviKos is an initiative of civil society organizations in Kosovo "aimed at creating an enabling environment for [the] cooperation of [the] formal civil society sector and the Government."

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Kosovan women
Living people
1973 births
Recipients of the International Women of Courage Award


title: Victório Ferraz

text:
Victório dos Reis Ferraz (27 January 1924 – 2006) was a Brazilian sailor who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics. Ferraz died in 2006.

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1924 births
2006 deaths
Brazilian male sailors (sport)
Olympic sailors for Brazil
Sailors at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Swallow


title: Philips de Marlier

text:
Philips de Marlier (nickname Dicke Lup) (c. 1600 – 1668) was a Flemish Baroque painter and copyist mainly known for his still lifes of flowers and garland paintings.

Life
He was probably born in Antwerp between 1595 and 1605. He was registered in the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke as an apprentice in 1617-18.  He was a pupil of Carel van Ferrara. He became a master in the Guild in the year 1621-1622.

He worked for several years in Portugal.  Legend has it that in Portugal he stabbed a Dominican priest to death.  This event forced him to flee the country and return to Antwerp.  Here he established a workshop where he trained several pupils, including Carstian Luyckx, Gabriël van Baesrode and Frans van Oorschot. He was also active as an art dealer and produced several copies of the work of other Antwerp artists such as Frans Francken the Younger.

He died in Antwerp in 1667 or 1668.

Work

Only a few signed works of him exist and on the basis of these works some more works are attributed to him.  He was a still life painter, in particular of flower pieces often including insects.  As in the work of other Antwerp painters of his generation such as Jan Brueghel the Younger, some of his flower paintings were dedicated to the presentation of a single variety of flowers.

He also created garland paintings.  Garland paintings are a special type of still life developed in Antwerp by artists such as Jan Brueghel the Elder, Hendrick van Balen, Frans Francken the Younger, Peter Paul Rubens and Daniel Seghers. They typically show a flower garland around a devotional image or portrait.  Garland paintings were usually collaborations between a still life and a figure painter.    De Marlier and his studio often produced garland paintings in collaboration with other painters, such as Frans Francken the Younger, who painted the figures while de Marlier painted the garland.

His oeuvre includes an early signed breakfast style still life (now in Abdij van 't Park, Heverlee, Belgium).  This work, which is dated 1634, resembles similar still life paintings by Antwerp painters such as Osias Beert.

The landscapes and history paintings attributed to him are likely copies of paintings by other masters made by him or his studio.

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Flemish Baroque painters
Flemish still life painters
Flemish landscape painters
Painters from Antwerp
1600s births
1668 deaths


title: Red Lion Inn, Southampton

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The Red Lion Inn is a Grade II* listed pub, built in the late 15th/early 16th century, at 55 High Street, Southampton, Hampshire SO14 2NS. It is on the Campaign for Real Ale's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors.

The half-timbered room known as the court room was the site of the trial of the conspirators in the Southampton Plot. This appears to be a local legend. The trial took place in 1415, about 75 years before the foundation of this building, and there is no documentary evidence from 1415 that would locate it here. In any case, the plotters were imprisoned in the castle and it is unlikely that they were moved down the High Street for a trial in an inn when the castle afforded ample facilities. A mournful procession of ghosts reportedly sighted leaving from the inn has been linked to the plotters.

It has been claimed that the inn itself is haunted by a barmaid, described as being in her sixties and only visible above the knees, who reportedly drifts through the bar area.

During his exile after 1852, Juan Manuel de Rosas, the former governor of Buenos Aires, used to frequent the place.

References

Grade II* listed pubs in Hampshire
National Inventory Pubs
Pubs in Southampton
Reportedly haunted locations in South East England
Timber framed buildings in Hampshire


title: Mamani

text:
Mamani is a surname, and may refer to;

Abdoulaye Mamani (1932–1993), Nigerian poet, novelist and trade unionist
Mohammad Reza Mamani (born 1982), Iranian footballer
Moisés Mamani (1969–2020), Peruvian politician
Elías Blanco Mamani (born 1962), Bolivian biographer
Isabella Mamani (born 1982), Aymara activist and politician from Chile
Roberto Mamani Mamani (born 1962), Aymara artist from Bolivia
Teobaldo Nina Mamani (born 1965), Peruvian painter and teacher
Freddy Mamani (architect) (born 1971), Bolivian architect
Freddy Mamani (born 1974), Bolivian politician
Manuel Incra Mamani (died 1871), a Bolivian plant collector

Other uses
Mamani (album), 2002
Queen Mamani of the Amampondomise

Quechuan-language surnames
Aymaran-language surnames
Surnames of African origin