title: Rome, Missouri

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Rome is an unincorporated community in southern Douglas County, Missouri, United States. It is located on Beaver Creek, approximately  southwest of Ava on a county road one-half mile off the end of Route A and  west of Smallett. Arno lies on Beaver Creek, about  north and Brownbranch in Taney County lies on Beaver Creek,  to the southwest.

History
In 1840 Wright's Mill, built by James Wright, was at the location and was perhaps the earliest grist mill on Beaver Creek. Circa 1850, the Lawrence Mill, built by William Lawrence, was at the same location.

During the Civil War, Rome was the location of Lawrence Mill. Union forces built a blockhouse to defend the location. Fort Lawrence consisted of a two-story building or stockade with dimensions of 100 by 40 feet and was defended by militiamen or "Missouri home guards". Forces under the command of Confederate General Marmaduke attacked and burned the fort in January 1863 while on their way to Springfield.

Rome previously had its own post office from 1888–1957. The community was named after Rome, in Italy.

References

Unincorporated communities in Douglas County, Missouri
Unincorporated communities in Missouri


title: Helene Fischer discography

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German singer Helene Fischer has released nine studio albums, seven live albums, five compilation albums and 33 singles.

Albums

Studio albums

Compilation albums

Live albums

Singles

Other charted songs

Guest appearances

Videography

Video albums

Music videos

Television

References

External links
 Helene Fischer discography at Helene-Fischer.de

Discographies of German artists
Schlager music discographies


title: Ovila Légaré

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Ovila Légaré (21 July 1901 - 19 February 1978) was a French-Canadian actor and singer from Quebec.

Life
Légaré was born in Montreal on 21 July 1901, and died there on 19 February 1978.

Career
He was a folklorist, singer, actor, script-writer, and host. Originally a violinist, he injured his hand in a printing accident and took up theatre and singing. He also had a number of significant roles on radio.

He starred in films including Footsteps in the Snow (1966) and on television, including Quentin Durgens, M.P.

Filmography

References

External links
 Discography

1901 births
1978 deaths
Male actors from Quebec
20th-century Canadian male actors
Burials at Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery


title: Astroblepus taczanowskii

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Astroblepus taczanowskii is a species of catfish of the family Astroblepidae. It can be found on the Ucayali River in Peru.

References

Bibliography
Eschmeyer, William N., ed. 1998. Catalog of Fishes. Special Publication of the Center for Biodiversity Research and Information, num. 1, vol. 1–3. California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco, California, United States. 2905. .

Astroblepus
Fish described in 1890
Freshwater fish of Peru


title: Eugène Daignault

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Eugène Daignault (September 14, 1895 in Saint Albans, Vermont – January 27, 1960 in Montreal) was an American-Canadian performer, known for his music, his comedy, and his radio performances – in particular, on the Société Radio-Canada soap opera Un homme et son péché, where he portrayed "Pere Ovide" from 1949 to 1960.

His radio career began in 1922, with a performance on CKAC radio mere days after its launch.

In 1926, he signed a recording contract with the Canadian branch of Starr Records, for whom he recorded 93 songs, some of which were in collaboration with Mary Bolduc; He also recorded for Bluebird Records beginning in 1942.

References

External links

Eugène Daignault items in the collection of Library and Archives Canada

1895 births
1960 deaths
People from St. Albans, Vermont
American emigrants to Canada
American male radio actors
Canadian male radio actors
Male actors from Montreal
20th-century American male actors
20th-century Canadian male actors


title: Hapoel Nahlat Yehuda F.C.

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Hapoel Nahlat Yehuda () is an Israeli football club based in the Nahlat Yehuda neighbourhood of Rishon LeZion. The club currently plays in Liga Bet South A division.

History
The club was founded in 1976, and played in the lower divisions of Israeli football until the 1990s, when the club reached Liga Alef, the third tier of Israeli football.

Following the creation of the Israeli Premier League in 1999, Liga Alef was the fourth tier, up until 2009, when Liga Artzit (then the third tier) was closed, and Liga Alef regained its status as the third tier. the closest the club came to achieve promotion to Liga Artzit, was in the 2006–07 season, when they finished third in Liga Alef South division, one point behind Hapoel Kfar Shalem, which were eventually promoted, as the league winners, Hapoel Maxim Lod, were folded.

The club played in Liga Alef until the 2010–11 season, when they finished third bottom, and relegated to Liga Bet, following a defeat of 0–3 to F.C. Ortodoxim Lod in the Relegation play-offs.

Honours

League

Cups

References

External links
Hapoel Nahlat Yehuda Rishon LeZion  Israel Football Association

Nahlat Yehuda
Nahlat Yehuda
Association football clubs established in 1976
1976 establishments in Israel
Sport in Rishon LeZion


title: Catharina Backer

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Catharina Backer (22 September 1689 – 8 February 1766) was an art collector and an 18th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands.

Biography

Catharina Backer was born in Amsterdam in 1689. Her parents were the lawyer Willem Cornelisz. Backer (1656–1731), of a prominent Amsterdam family, and Magdalena de la Court (1662–1712), the daughter of Pieter de la Court (1618–85) and his second wife, Catharina van der Voort (1622–1674).

Catharina Backer married her first cousin, the merchant and art collector Allard de la Court (1688–1755) of Leiden, on 25 August 1711. He was the son of Pieter de la Court van der Voort (1664–1739), Magdalena de la Court's brother. Allard de la Court and Catharina Backer lived in a house on the Rapenburg in Leiden. Their children included Pieter Allardsz de la Court (1722–73).

Catharina Backer died in Leiden in 1766.

Art collection

Together Allard de la Court and Catharina Backer owned one of the richest art galleries in the Northern Netherlands. Arnold Boonen (1669–1729) painted their portraits in 1713 as part of a series of four that included her two sisters. After the deaths of their fathers in the 1730s, Allard de la Court and Catharina Backer inherited some of the art that their fathers had collected, although a pair of 1635 portraits by Pieter Dubordieu (1609–78) of their mutual great-grandparents, Pieter de la Court the Elder (1590–1657) and Jeanne des Planques (or Jeanne de Planque, 1591–1663), appears to have passed first to Allard's sister, Adriana Catharina de la Court (1690–1752), before entering Allard's collection following her death. Pieter de la Court van der Voort had been an important patron of Willem van Mieris (1662–1747) and commissioned a pair of paintings, still lifes of fruit and flowers, from Rachel Ruysch (1664–1750). These works became important in Catharina Backer's development as an artist. Her father, Willem Backer, had collected specimens of natural history as well as paintings by artists such as Jan van Goyen (1596–1656), Jan Lievens (1607–1674), Frederik de Moucheron (1633–1686), and Jan van der Heyden (1637–1712). Allard de la Court's spending on art increased after his mother died in 1740, and the art collection grew to completely fill the house on the Rapenburg, compelling the family to seek a new residence.

After her husband died in 1755, Backer inherited his art collection. She continued to show and add to the cabinet. In 1766, the year that she died, her estate sold much of her art collection with an auction catalog listing 215 items, including the pair of paintings by Rachel Ruysch. Her own artworks stayed in the family for another century.

Drawing and painting

The Netherlands Institute for Art History describes Catharina Backer as an amateur artist. Such artists did not paint for a living, nor did they receive the kind of artistic training typical for professional artists. In the seventeenth century, amateur artists in the Netherlands usually belonged to families of high status who valued education and cultivation.

As part of her secondary education, Catharina Backer had drawing and painting lessons, arranged by her father. Her brother, Cornelis Backer (1693–1775), catalogued the works of art that she had created by the time of her marriage in 1711. These included ten albums of art as well as paintings. The albums contained her own sketches and drawings, including some that probably date from the time when she was receiving training in art.

A later album of Catharina Backer's drawings, apparently assembled in 1722 but including works that date as early as 1706, has been preserved in the collection of the Amsterdam Museum. The drawings provide some evidence of her artistic education. They depict studies of heads, hands, and the nude figure; studies of fruit; and sketches after other artists. She completed several drawings of sculptures by Francis van Bossuit (1635–1692) as well as a drawing of the Venus de' Medici after François Perrier (1590–1650). The album also features the type of drawings for which she is best known: images of flowers, plants, and insects. Although most of the work in the album is by Catharina Backer, it includes at least one drawing by Cornelis Backer.

Catharina Backer is known for painting many subjects, including flowers, fruit, landscapes, and genre pictures. She became a follower of Willem van Mieris, Rachel Ruysch, and Jan van Huysum (1682–1749), copying examples of their paintings that hung in her house. Late in her career, she created images of flowers in the media of oil on canvas.

Gallery

References

External links

 Catharina Backer in 1001 Vrouwen uit de Nederlandse geschiedenis

1689 births
1766 deaths
18th-century art collectors
18th-century Dutch painters
18th-century Dutch women artists
Painters from Amsterdam
Dutch women painters
Art collectors from Amsterdam
Flower artists


title: Astroblepus theresiae

text:
Astroblepus theresiae is a species of catfish of the family Astroblepidae. It can be found on Ecuador.

References

Bibliography
Eschmeyer, William N., ed. 1998. Catalog of Fishes. Special Publication of the Center for Biodiversity Research and Information, num. 1, vol. 1–3. California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco, California, United States. 2905. .

Astroblepus
Fish described in 1907
Freshwater fish of Ecuador


title: Roman-Kosh

text:
Roman-Kosh () is the highest peak of the Crimean Mountains.

See also
 List of European ultra prominent peaks

References

Sources
 Енциклопедія українознавства. У 10-х томах. / Головний редактор Володимир Кубійович. — Париж; Нью-Йорк: Молоде життя, 1954–1989.

Crimean Mountains
One-thousanders of Ukraine


title: Delta HRA Public Transit

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Delta Human Resources Area Public Transportation (also known as Delta HRA Public Transit for short) is a non-profit transportation service that provides service between Tipton, Fayette, Lauderdale and rural Shelby County, Tennessee, whose region is collectively known as the "Delta Region." The service was formed on December 18, 1989 and charted as a non-profit on January 18, 1990 and is based in Covington, Tennessee and has satellite offices in Ripley, Tennessee and Oakland, Tennessee.

Services
Delta HRA offers service to residents regardless of income and age, workers who need transportation to area jobs and employment, and disabled persons that need transportation to area hospitals or scheduled appointments. However, these trips must be scheduled in advance and have to be prompt prior to arrival. The services are available Monday through Friday from 6a.m. to 6p.m. There is no weekend or holiday services. The agency's fleet is made up of regular vans and cutaway van/buses.

Typical fares are $5.00 for in-county round trips, with an additional $3.50 for cross-county trips, and $.75 for additional stops. A $14.00 flat fee is set for passengers travelling to Memphis or Jackson but provide no transfers of any type to either Memphis Area Transit Authority or Jackson Transit Authority buses. Seniors 60 and older ride free with some exceptions.

External links
 Delta HRA website

Bus transportation in Tennessee
Paratransit services in the United States
Government agencies established in 1989
1989 establishments in Tennessee


title: CT Serpentis

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CT Serpentis (also known as Nova Serpentis 1948) was a nova that appeared in the constellation Serpens in 1948. It was discovered by Ramze Alexander Bartaya at Abastumani Observatory on 9 April 1946. It is thought to have reached magnitude 6.0, but this is an extrapolation of its light curve as it was not observed until 9 April 1948 when it was at magnitude 9.0 and fading—clearly past its maximum.

References

Novae
Serpens
1948 in science
Serpentis, CT


title: Kingston, Autauga County, Alabama

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Kingston, also known as Old Kingston, is an unincorporated community in Autauga County, Alabama. Kingston served as the county seat of Autauga County from 1830 to 1868, when it was moved to Prattville. Kingston became a ghost town, until a new community was formed around the home of Edmund Meredith Shackelford, an officer who served in the War of 1812. A post office was operated in Kingston from 1830 to 1908.

The community was devastated by an intense EF3 tornado on January 12, 2023. Dozens of mobile homes were completely destroyed, seven people were killed, and 16 others were injured. The tornado came just 9 days after another tornado struck the area, although it was a much weaker one that was rated EF0.

References

Unincorporated communities in Autauga County, Alabama
Unincorporated communities in Alabama
1830 establishments in Alabama


Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes is a 2014 book by evolutionary anthropologist Svante Pääbo. The book describes Pääbo's research into the DNA of Neanderthals, extinct hominins that lived across much of Europe and the Middle East. It is written in the style of a memoir, combining scientific findings with personal anecdotes.

Synopsis

Pääbo describes his early interest in Egyptology, and how his work in sequencing the DNA of a mummy led him into evolutionary anthropology. He touches upon his personal life, reflecting on his father, the chemist Sune Bergström, with whom he had a relatively distant relationship, and on his own marriage and son. He describes the emergence and development of the field of evolutionary genetics, and contributions to it made by himself and colleagues. Much of the book is devoted to his research team's efforts at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology towards mapping the Neanderthal genome as part of the Neanderthal genome project. This work brought Pääbo international fame and recognition with the publication of an initial draft of the genome in the journal Science in 2010, followed by a more complete analysis in 2013. Around this time, Pääbo and his team at Max Planck also sequenced the genome of an unknown hominin, now known as the Denisovans. The events of this discovery are covered in the last chapter of the book.

Reception
The book was well reviewed by The New York Times, with Carl Zimmer calling it "a fascinating account." The book made the paper's Sunday Book Review Editors' Choice List. Peter Forbes of The Guardian, remarking on the book's characterization of the research process, stated that:

"His book is also valuable for showing just how modern research teams work together and, sometimes, fall out. Along the way, a key collaborator became a competitor and, midstream, Pääbo abandoned one collaborating gene-sequencing company for another. The race for the Neanderthal genome is reminiscent of the human genome story of 10 years previously, as recounted in James Shreeve's The Genome War."

References

Human evolution books
Neanderthals


title: Magnificent Sinner

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Magnificent Sinner (original French title: Katia) is a 1959 French drama historical film by director Robert Siodmak about the romance between Tsar Alexander II of Russia and the then-schoolgirl Catherine Dolgorukov, who later became his mistress and finally his morganatic wife. It stars Romy Schneider as Katia, a schoolgirl who becomes the Tsar's mistress and Curd Jürgens as Tsar Alexander II of Russia. The film, originally released as Katia,  was a remake of a 1938 French film of the same name, which starred Danielle Darrieux.

Plot
Produced in France, Magnificent Sinner stars Curd Jürgens as Tsar Alexander II, with Romy Schneider as the schoolgirl Katia who first becomes his mistress, before being elevated to the rank of princess. The romance between a married emperor and an aristocrat leads to court intrigue and a weakening of the ties of loyalty between the Tsar's ministers and their ruler, and is instrumental in Alexander's ultimate assassination.

Cast
 Romy Schneider as Katia
 Curd Jürgens as Czar Alexander II
 Pierre Blanchar as Koubaroff
 Antoine Balpêtré as Kilbatchich
 Françoise Brion as Sophie
 Monique Mélinand as Tsarina Maria
 Michel Bouquet as Bibesco
 Bernard Dhéran as Stéphane Ryssakov
 Margo Lion as La surveillante de I'Institut Smolny
 Jacqueline Marbaux as Mlle Trépeau
 Hubert Noël as Michel Dolgorouki
 Marcel d'Orval as Petit rôle
 Yves Barsacq as Katourine
 Yves Gladine as Petit rôle
 Alain Saury as Soloviev
 Germaine Delbat as La directrice de I'institue Smolny

Reviews
Film critic Leonard Maltin gave the film two out of four stars, describing it as "lackluster." Bosley Crowther of The New York Times equally panned it as "an overstuffed costume picture" and "a hackneyed and ponderous bore."  "It would be just as good, if not better," he continued, "if it had been a tractor with which the Tsar fell in love."

References

External links

The Magnificent Sinner (1959), New York Times listing
Magnificent Sinner, TV guide listing
Magnificent Sinner Mubi listing

French drama films
French historical drama films
Films directed by Robert Siodmak
Films set in Russia
Films set in the 1860s
Films set in the 1870s
Films set in the 1880s
1959 films
Remakes of French films
1950s French films


title: Yenching Academy

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The Yenching Academy (YCA, also Yanjing Academy or Yanjing College; , pinyin: Yānjīng Xuétáng) is a postgraduate college of Peking University, located in Beijing, China. It hosts the Yenching Scholarship, a fully funded prestigious global scholarship program, designed "to cultivate leaders who will advocate for global progress and cultural understanding." The academy offers Yenching Scholars, selected annually from around the world, with full scholarships for one or two years of study leading to a master's degree from Peking University.

Inspired by the classical Chinese academies or shuyuan and the Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford University, Yenching Academy at Peking University will compete with the younger Schwarzman College program at Tsinghua University in China and similar global scholarship programs around the world.

Yenching Scholarship

The Yenching Scholarship program is a two-year fully funded global leadership program designed to provide outstanding young scholars with a broad interdisciplinary postgraduate education that reflects global perspectives. During their studies, Yenching Scholars will live in Yenching Academy, a residential college of Peking University, built specifically for the program and modeled on those at Harvard and MIT in the United States and Oxford and Cambridge in the United Kingdom.

The Yenching Scholarship provides students at Yenching Academy with full funding for their studies including tuition fees, accommodation, transportation, travel, and a living stipend. Annually, around 125 Yenching Scholars are chosen through a highly competitive selection process that seeks future global leaders. The acceptance rate for the most recent cohort is 2.7 per cent. Yenching Scholars are "a diverse group of talented young leaders who demonstrate academic excellence, leadership, innovative thought, and a commitment to the betterment of society." Successful applicants are elite students who have an excellent academic record and demonstrate outstanding leadership potential. Approximately 65% of the 100 inaugural scholars are international students while the remaining 35% are from mainland China. The academy's first cohort of Yenching Scholars were from a number of prestigious universities, with the most numerous coming from Oxford, Harvard, Princeton, Cambridge, Chicago, Stanford, and Yale. Scholars represented 36 countries and regions, from Armenia and Australia to Vietnam and Zimbabwe.

With the arrival of its newest 6th cohort, the program has now hosted students of well over 60 different nationalities. The cohorts consisted of an almost equal distribution of Asian, European, North American, and Southern Hemisphere students. Among the students of the 6th cohort, 40 are from Asia, 4 from Africa, 22 from North America, 20 from Europe, 4 from South America, 1 from Oceania, 1 from the Middle East. The current president of the General Student Union (GSU), Yenching Academy's democratically elected student representatives, is Zecha Mpemba from Kenya.

Yenching Program

Curriculum
Studies at Yenching Academy are divided into mandatory core modules and electives. The core modules are "China in Transition", "Field Study", "Topics in China Studies Lecture Series", and "Compulsory Language Courses". Native Chinese are required to take additional courses in politics and foreign language. The electives are mostly divided into several research areas.

Yenching Academy allows students to pursue a degree in one of 6 different majors. The available majors are "Politics and International Relations", "Economics and Management", "Law and Society", "Philosophy and Religion", "History and Archaeology", and "Literature and Culture". Courses from these fields can be combined freely based on the scholar's research interest. The final degree depends on the topic chosen for the research thesis written and defended in year two.

Yenching Academy offers a host of Yenching-specific courses and electives for the scholars taught by Yenching faculty members selected across the Peking University campus and abroad (for example, He Yafei, the Former Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of China, currently teaches a Yenching course on Chinese diplomacy). Yenching scholars are also offered a wide range of courses from most other schools and departments at Peking University, including Guanghua School of Management, National School of Development, as well as joint programs like the LSE-PKU Master in International Affairs. For scholars with a Chinese proficiency of HSK6, this also extends to courses taught in Chinese.

Furthermore, Yenching Academy invites leading personalities of diverse fields including art, literature, business, and politics as guest speakers throughout the program.

Yenching Campus

Grounds
Yenching Academy's campus is located in the core of Peking University, specifically in Jing Yuan, an ancient Imperial Garden considered to the university's "historic and symbolic heart." It features six above-ground heritage buildings and a new ground-level complex which will stretch down multiple stories with access points and skylights throughout the garden.

Buildings
With feedback from the university community, the campus was designed by Gerald Szeto, a Beijing-based architect at Mo Atelier Szeto, who also designed the recently completed Stanford Center at Peking University. Previously at I. M. Pei & Associates, Szeto has 20 years of experience and is known for iconic structures such as the Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong, the Bank of China Head Office Building in Beijing, the Suzhou Museum and the Chancery Building for the Embassy of the People's Republic of China to the United States in Washington, DC, US.

History

Announcement
Yenching Academy was announced in 2014 and established in 2015 by Peking University. It is expected the program will eventually grow from 100 students in the inaugural year to 200 students.

Competition

Funds
While Tsinghua's Schwarzman Scholarship expects to raise about US$550 million (originally 300 million) from mostly foreign donors for its endowment, it is understood that the endowment for Peking's Yenching Scholarship is even better funded through significant donations from Chinese philanthropists and special grants from the Chinese Central Government. For comparison, Oxford's Rhodes Scholarship endowment is currently raising funds to increase its endowment from about US$150 million to at least 200 million, as it expands to be more geographically inclusive (the other leadership programs covered the whole world from their inceptions). Meanwhile, Cambridge's Gates Scholarship endowment currently stands at about US$210 million, its original starting point. As a result of the increased competition among full-scholarship leadership programs, there has been marked growth in fundraising, with the endowments moving towards a half billion USD each. In 2016, Stanford University announced a competing program, Knight-Hennessy Scholars, backed by a US$750 million endowment.

Programs
One major difference between the Yenching and Schwarzman scholarships and the Rhodes and Gates scholarships is that in the former two programs, scholars will be studying in an interdisciplinary residential community created for the program, whereas the latter two programs merely offer a scholarship to study in a regular program with other students at that university.

Upon graduation, graduates will receive one of the following degrees: Master of Law (Politics & International Relations, Law & Society); Master of Economics (Economics & Management); Master of History (History & Archaeology); Master of Literature (Literature and Culture); or Master of Philosophy in China Studies (Philosophy & Religion)The first cohort of scholars have taken a range of paths. Roughly 30% continued to Ph.D. level studies at esteemed universities, while others are employed by Goldman Sachs, McKinsey & Company, Google, J.P. Morgan & Co., the Associated Press, the Boston Consulting Group, General Electric, HNA Group, NEO blockchain, Bank of Korea, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce, and more. All Yenching Scholars write a Master's thesis under the guidance of an adviser and defend it orally before an academic committee. In addition to a fully funded scholarship, scholars also receive a monthly stipend of $500 and round-trip airfare.

Controversy
Many of the Yenching program's features have generated controversy in China. The continued introduction of English courses, which in other colleges at Peking already make up a significant proportion of the courses offered, has drawn criticism for not being inclusive enough of Chinese culture. Additionally, the usage of the central Jing Yuan raised protests from students who were against the development of green spaces on campus. Graduate students at Peking have also found the shorter duration of the Yenching master's degrees to be unfair and expressed concern that Yenching degrees may eclipse their own in prestige. Students also found it unfair that the leadership program would allow interdisciplinary studies, which is still a rarity in China. Likewise, professors have been vocal about the inequity that Yenching professors will introduce to the professoriate.

The reaction among students and professors at Peking to the Yenching announcement is rather illustrative of the politically engaged open-minded nature of the university, where students historically played a major part in the New Culture Movement, May Fourth Movement, Tiananmen Square protest of 1989 and other significant events. In comparison, the reaction at Tsinghua to the Schzwarman program was rather muted, exemplifying its historical character as a politically correct technocratic school.

Launch
The scholarship program was developed with the strong support of leaders from top universities worldwide, including the present and past presidents of Stanford University, Cambridge University, Brown University, National University of Singapore (NUS), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), the Harvard-Yenching Institute, and Peking University itself. The program was announced on 2014 May 5 at the Yingjie Overseas Exchange Center at Peking University with representatives — including 30 university presidents and 45 university vice presidents — from about 50 leading universities worldwide, such as Stanford University, the University of Chicago, the London School of Economics (LSE), Heidelberg University, Melbourne University, National University of Singapore (NUS), Tokyo University, Waseda University, Renmin University, Fudan University, and Zhejiang University, attending the ceremony. At the ceremony, Yenching Academy was inaugurated by Zhu Shanlu, former party chief of Peking University, and Wang Enge, former President of Peking University, along with prominent alumni and donors.

Motivation

International presence
The Yenching and Schwarzman Scholarship programs were designed to increase the global profile of Peking and Tsinghua, the two leading Chinese universities, "as the country seeks more influence in global education and greater international prestige befitting its economic rise." As China has become the world's largest country not only by population but also by production (GDP), it wants to develop an academic system equal to that stature. To do so, the programs will allow both universities to offer more courses bilingually (Chinese and English), while supporting their efforts to attract top students from around the world. Additionally, the interdisciplinary nature of the programs will allow the universities to further innovate their curriculums to be broader and more adaptive. Based on the colleges' endowments, class sizes, and exceptionally low student-to-professor ratios (about 1:1), it is expected that pay for professors will compete with those at top institutions worldwide, such as the Ivy League, on a nominal exchange basis, while top Chinese universities currently pay on par on a purchasing power basis. This will enable the universities to attract top academics from around the world, as the universities continue with reforms to compete with academic institutions worldwide.

Yenching Global Symposium
The Yenching Global Symposium (YGS) is an annual conference organized and hosted by current Yenching scholars in collaboration with Peking University. The Yenching Global Symposium provides a platform for emerging leaders, established practitioners, and Yenching Scholars from around the globe to engage in interdisciplinary dialogues on China through the unique lens of the Yenching Academy of Peking University.

Each year, the Symposium welcomes representatives from prestigious academic programs such as the Rhodes Scholars, Marshall Scholars, Gates Cambridge Scholars, Fulbright Scholars and other major fellowship recipients, as well as outstanding young professionals from the world's leading institutions. In March 2019, the conference drew delegates from 47 different countries. Past conference themes included Women 我们: Retelling the China Stories, Renaissance: China’s Journey in a Global Future, Xinnovation: Identity of Innovation in China and China Meets the World, the World Comes to China.

The theme of YGS 2020 is Sino-Sustainability: Reimagining Global Solutions. As China's interaction with the wider international community continues to develop, the two will need to redefine approaches to the world's long-term sustainability challenges. Sino-Sustainability: Reimagining Global Solutions will explore how China's experiences could impact the rest of the world by examining China's approaches in fulfilling demand, allocating resources, and pursuing longevity.

The symposium draws on renowned speakers from academia, politics, industry, business, and other experts in related fields. Past opening keynote speakers were senior CGTN host Liu Xin,  one of the channel's signature anchors, covering many major events in China and around the world. Other past speakers include author Adeline Yen Mah, Development Reimagined CEO Hannah Ryder, gender and economy researcher Dr. Alicia Giron, former career British diplomat Carma Elliot, and Director of Productions at Twentieth Century Fox Film Xiaoting Huo.

Leadership and governance
Peking University Yenching Academy has assembled an advisory council of leading academics and university administrators to lead and support the academy and its Scholars. The academy's executive administration is mostly drawn from other colleges and departments of Peking University.

Executive administration
 Honorary Dean Yuan Ming, Director, Center for American Studies, Professor of International Relations, Peking University (Ph.D. Peking University)
 Dean Dong Qiang, Knight of the Legion d'honneur of France, Chair, Department of French, Peking University, Professor at the School of Foreign Languages, Peking University
 Associate Dean Bo Wang, Head, Department of Philosophy & Professor of Philosophy, Peking University  (Ph.D. Peking University)
 Associate Dean Hongbin Cai, Dean, Guanghua School of Management & Professor of Economics, Peking University (Ph.D. Stanford University)
 Associate Dean John Holden, Past President, National Committee on U.S.-China Relations; former chairman, Cargill China (M.A. Stanford University)
 Associate Dean Guohua Jiang, Graduate School & Professor of Accounting, Peking University (Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley)
 Director of Graduate Studies Lu Yang, Professor, Department of History (Ph.D. Princeton University)

International academic advisory council
 Gerhard Casper, president emeritus and professor emeritus, and senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University
 Elizabeth Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government at Harvard University and director, Harvard-Yenching Institute
 Alison Richard, senior research scientist and professor emerita, Yale University and Vice-chancellor Emerita, Cambridge University
 Ruth Simmons, professor and president emerita, Brown University
 Shih Choon Fong, university professor and president emeritus, National University of Singapore (NUS) and president emeritus, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
 Michael Spence, professor, New York University Stern School of Business; senior fellow, Stanford University Hoover Institution; dean emeritus, Stanford University Business School; Nobel Laureate in Economics; and Oxford Rhodes Scholar
 Henry Yang, chancellor, University of California Santa Barbara
 Zhang Xudong, professor of comparative literature and professor of East Asian studies, New York University; Cheung Kong Chair Professor of Chinese Literature, Peking University

See also
 Yenching Scholars at Yenching Academy of Peking University
 Schwarzman Scholars at Tsinghua University
 Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford University
 Gates Scholarship at Cambridge University

References

External links
 Yenching Academy

Peking University
Awards established in 2014
2014 establishments in China
Schools in Haidian District
Research institutes of Sinology


title: 1971 Columbus, Ohio mayoral election

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The Columbus mayoral election of 1971 was the 74th mayoral election in Columbus, Ohio.  It was held on Tuesday, November 2, 1971.  Incumbent Democratic mayor Jack Sensenbrenner was defeated by Republican party nominee Tom Moody.

Further reading

1971 Ohio elections
Mayoral elections in Columbus, Ohio
Columbus


title: Derech Chaim (Chabad)

text:
Derech Chaim (, "The Way of Life") is a work on the subject of repentance by the second Rebbe of the Chabad Hasidic movement, Rabbi Dovber Schneuri.

Topics discussed

"Resurrection from sin"
In Derech Chaim, Rabbi Schneuri interprets the second blessing in the Jewish Shemoneh Esreh prayer ("Blessed are You, God, Who revives the dead") as referring to two sets of resurrections. One of the messianic era (following the traditional interpretation) as well as a present resurrection of the souls of the wicked. Rabbi Schneuri, citing the Talmud, states that the wicked are termed "dead" even during their lifetime, however, through repentance those who have sinned may renew their connection with God and are "returned to life". The blessing therefore refers to the idea of resurrection in both present and future tenses.

Two types of orphans
Rabbi Schneuri employs the analogy of two types of orphans, one whose father has died, the other who has no mother, to describe those who commit particular deeds which damage the soul's spiritual "sight" or "hearing" (which Rabbi Schneuri calls the "father and mother" components of the soul). Interpreting the verse "When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up," Rabbi Schneuri describes the former sinner drawing inspiration from God who comforts the "orphan" repentant.

Call for study
In 1956, the seventh Chabad rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, encouraged yeshiva students to study Derech Chaim and other works on the subject of Teshuva during the month of Elul, a time of the year associated with repentance due to its proximity to the Jewish High Holy Days.

Rabbi Shalom Dovber
Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, the sixth Chabad Rebbe, recounted an episode involving his father, Rabbi Sholom Dovber Schneersohn, the fifth Rebbe, and the book Derech Chaim. Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak observed his father and a number of his followers engaged in an ecstatic gathering; Rabbi Sholom Dovber was surrounded by his followers and held the book Derech Chaim and sang the Niggun (Hasidic wordless melody) "Hiney Ma Tov Umanayim."

Publication
Derech Chaim was originally published in Kapust, in 1819, during the lifetime of Rabbi Dovber. The work was later reprinted a number of times by the central Chabad publishing house, Kehot Publication Society, beginning in 1947.

See also
 Chabad philosophy
 Rabbi Dovber Schneuri

References

External links
 Full Hebrew text of Derech Chaim on HebrewBooks.org
 English translation of Derech Chaim by Shimon Markel on TrueKabbalah.com

Chabad-Lubavitch texts
Hasidic literature
1819 non-fiction books
1955 non-fiction books


title: Hispanics and Latinos in Maryland

text:
Hispanic and Latino Marylanders are residents of the state of Maryland who are of Hispanic or Latino ancestry. As of the year 2019, Hispanics and Latinos of any race were 10.4% of the state's population.  The largest concentration of Hispanics/Latinos is in the National Capital Area, where Hispanics and Latinos constitute 16.04% of the total population (17.02% of Montgomery County and 14.94% of Prince George's County). Some Maryland communities such as Langley Park, Riverdale Park, East Riverdale, Templeville, and Marydel have Hispanic and Latino-majority populations. Other communities such as Wheaton, Glenmont, and Aspen Hill have a Hispanic/Latino plurality population.

History
In the early 18th century, a Sephardi Spanish and Portuguese Jewish community was established in Maryland. This small community of Sephardim was centered in Baltimore.

Baltimore

Politics
As of 2016, 35.8% of Maryland's Hispanic and Latino population was eligible to vote. By contrast, 80% of non-Hispanic white Marylanders are eligible to vote. Maryland had 199,000 Hispanic/Latino eligible voters, ranking 20th in the United States by state. 5% of all eligible voters in Maryland are Hispanic/Latino.

Hispanic or Latino by national origin

See also

Hispanics and Latinos in Washington, D.C.

References

External links

Hispanics in Maryland: Health Data and Resources


title: Rick Lax

text:
Rick Lax (born April 17, 1982) is an American author, entertainer, and magician. He is a notable creator of viral content on Facebook.

Early life and education
Born in Detroit, Lax's interest in magic began at age 5, inspired by David Copperfield. After attending Michigan State University and studying political science at the University of Michigan, he earned a Juris Doctor degree from DePaul University, and subsequently passed the Illinois bar.

Career
Lax was a friend and the first manager of rock band Tally Hall, beginning in 2004. He also appeared in videos by the band.

From 2011 to 2013, Lax worked as a behind-the-scenes consultant for Copperfield and wrote two books about Las Vegas. He also created the TV show Wizard Wars, which aired for two seasons on the Syfy network in 2014.

In 2015, Lax competed on The CW's Penn & Teller: Fool Us. He performed an original card trick called Binary Code, and was the only contestant to fool Penn & Teller during the episode.

Lax continues to work as a show producer and behind-the-scenes magic consultant.

In 2015, Lax started releasing videos on Facebook. By 2019, he was gaining more than a billion views every month. Also that year, Lax launched Making Magic, which features Lax interviewing fellow magicians. Lax later launched a network of over 180 content creators dedicated to creating viral content for Facebook. Notable content created by Richard Lax's network includes pranks, life hacks, "shocking interactions between strangers" (some of which were pre-existing clips purchased from sites like Jukin Media) "weird inspirational content", and gross-out videos featuring food.

By October 2020, Lax's Facebook page had the second highest reach on the entire Facebook platform. Lax and his associates made considerable money as a result of their videos, but Lax has said he has received thousands of death threats as a result of his content. Lax's network was severely negatively impacted by changes to Facebook's algorithm in March 2022 that penalised "watchbait" videos that create "arbitrary" curiosity gaps or "promise sensational revelations".

Publications

References

External links

 Official website

1982 births
21st-century American Jews
DePaul University College of Law alumni
Jewish American entertainers
Jewish American writers
Living people
University of Michigan alumni


Sri Rama and Bhaktha Gentela Narayana Rao Government Degree College(Autonomous) in short SR&BGNR Degree College(A) is the major degree college in Khammam, Telangana offering Degree and Post graduate courses. Recently it is accredited with A++ with 3.64 CGPA in NAAC Accredition that is highest in India for any Govt, Non Professional, Multidisciplinary Degree College. There is no other Govt, Non Professional, Multidisciplinary Degree College in entire India having A++ Grade. It is affiliated to Kakatiya University.

History
Established in 1956, it acted as a major graduation place for the entire district of Khammam.

Before taking the decision of establishing this college, the government said there is a lack of funds for land acquisition and building the college. Then a committee said as it is degree college for Khammam District, to raise money go for auction of ornaments of Badhradri Rama which were made by Baktha Ramadasu.

Baktha Gentela Narayana Rao is a strong worshipper of Lord Sri Rama. This decision made him sorrow and said do not go for auction, I will give my 200 acres land surrounded by Wyra Road and Yellandu road to the government for building Govt. Degree College. Later the land is utilized for building District Court and its Quarters, Stadium, University PG College, Medicinal Park, etc.. Recently it got A++ with 3.64 CGPA in NAAC Accreditation, that is highest in India for a Non-Professional, Government Multi-disciplinary Degree College

Sports
The college campus ground was given away for the construction of Sardar Patel Stadium. This ground hosts major inter district and inter state sports events. The college organises various leadership programs under National Service Scheme(NSS).

Archaeological research
The history department has made significant research in major megalithic sites around Khammam District. Some of the artifacts were hosted in the college. There was also a proposal to construct a museum. Prof KP Rao of University of Hyderabad has guided the research team to excavate Megalithic pottery.

See also
Education in India
Literacy in India
List of institutions of higher education in Telangana

References

External links

Arts colleges in India
Commerce colleges in India
Education in Khammam district
Universities and colleges established in 1956
1956 establishments in Andhra Pradesh


title: 8th Vijay Awards

text:
The 8th Vijay Awards ceremony honouring the best of the Tamil film industry in 2013 was held on 5 July 2014 at Chennai. The event was hosted by Gopinath and Divyadharshini.

Jury
The jury members were director Prathap K. Pothan, cinematographer Ravi K. Chandran, and Yugi Sethu.

Winners and nominees
Source:

Jury awards

Special Jury Awards
 Vijay Sethupathi (Actor)
 Soodhu Kavvum (Film)

Favorite awards

Multiple nominations

The following eleven films received four nominations or more:

The following seven films received multiple awards:

References

External links

Vijay Awards
2014 Indian film awards


title: List of lakes of Desha County, Arkansas

text:
There are at least 78 named lakes and reservoirs in Desha County, Arkansas.

Lakes

 Alligator Lake, , el.
 Amos Bayou, , el.
 Austin Brake, , el.
 Bar Lake, , el.
 Bar Lake, , el.
 Bear Lake, , el.
 Bear Lake (historical), , el.
 Belcoe Lake, , el.
 Big Round Lake, , el.
 Billy Moore Lake, , el.
 Blue Hole, , el.
 Blue Hole, , el.
 Blue Hole, , el.
 Blue Hole, , el.
 Bobs Blue Hole, , el.
 Bobtail Lake, , el.
 Callie Lake, , el.
	Clear Lake, , el.
	Deep Lake, , el.
	Double Cabin Lake, , el.
	Dry Bayou, , el.
	Eagles Nest Lake, , el.
	East Moon Lake, , el.
	Echubby Lake, , el.
	Elbow Lakes, , el.
	Fishing Bayou Waterhole, , el.
	Graddy Blue Hole, , el.
	Grindle Hole, , el.
	Half Moon Lake, , el.
	Hog Pen Hole, , el.
	Hole in the Wall Lake, , el.
	Jefferson Lake, , el.
	Kate Adams Lake, , el.
	Lake Beulah, , el.
	Lake Cheatham, , el.
	Lake Defiance, , el.
	Lake Isaacs, , el.
	Lake Lenox, , el.
	Lake Lenox, , el.
	Lake Whittington, , el.
	Little Clear Lake, , el.
	Little Goose Lake, , el.
	Little Jefferson Lake, , el.
	Long Lake, , el.
	Long Lake, , el.
	Lower Parish Lake, , el.
	Lower Swan Lake, , el.
	Lower Taylor Lake, , el.
	Minnie Anderson Old River, , el.
	Mixture Lake, , el.
	Moon Lake, , el.
	Mossy Lake, , el.
	Mound Lake, , el.
	Mud Lake, , el.
	Old River Lake, , el.
	Oxbow Lake, , el.
	Oxbow Lake, , el.
	Ozark Lake, , el.
	Paradise Bayou, , el.
	Parish Lake, , el.
	Pelican Lake (Arkansas), , el.
	Pothole Lake, , el.
	Prairie Lakes, , el.
	Prices Lake, , el.
	Red Fork Lake, , el.
	Silver Lake, , el.
	Smith Lake, , el.
	Swan Lake, , el.
	Swan Lake, , el.
	Swan Lake, , el.
	Swan Lake, , el.
	Timber Lake, , el.
	Upper Old River Lake, , el.
	Walnut Lake, , el.
	Webfoot Lake, , el.
	Whisky Lake, , el.
	Whitehill Lake, , el.

Reservoir
 Frenchie Lake, , el.

See also

 List of lakes in Arkansas

Notes

Bodies of water of Desha County, Arkansas
Desha


title: Multiprogram Research Facility

text:
The Multiprogram Research Facility (MRF, also known as Building 5300) is a facility at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. It is used by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) to design and build supercomputers for cryptanalysis and other classified projects. It houses the classified component program of the High Productivity Computing Systems (HPCS) project sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

History
The High Productivity Computing Systems program was launched in 2004 as a multiagency project led by DARPA with the goal of increasing computing speed a thousandfold, creating a supercomputer capable of one petaflop (a quadrillion [1015] floating-point operations a second). The project is sited at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee and is split into two tracks, one top secret and one unclassified, housed in separate facilities. The secret facility, used by the NSA, is located within Building 5300 at the laboratory and is known as the Multiprogram Research Facility.

The MRF was constructed in 2006 at a cost of $41 million. Located on the laboratory's East Campus, the building covers  and rises five stories high. As of 2012, it is staffed by 318 computer scientists and engineers.

While the unclassified portion of the HPCS project succeeded in designing the 1.3 petaflop Cray XT5 supercomputer in 2007, the MRF succeeded in developing an even faster machine, designed specifically for cryptanalysis and targeted against one or more specific algorithms, such as the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). A former NSA official called the MRF's breakthrough "enormous", giving the agency the ability to break current public encryption standards. The data upon which the supercomputer operates is stored at the agency's Utah Data Center in Bluffdale, Utah.

The MRF's next goal is to achieve a machine capable of one exaflop (1018 floating-point operations per second) and then one zetaflop (1021). To achieve an exaflop machine by 2018, the NSA has proposed constructing two connecting buildings, totaling , called the Multiprogram Computational Data Center. The buildings will store dozens of computer cabinets that will comprise the exaflop machine. The facility will eventually use about 200 megawatts of power—enough to power around 200,000 homes—and will require  of cooling equipment.

See also
 Exascale computing

References

National Security Agency facilities
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
DARPA projects
Buildings and structures in Roane County, Tennessee
National Security Agency cryptography
Supercomputer sites


title: Tribhuvan Challenge Shield

text:
The Tribhuvan Challenge Shield is Nepal's second oldest association football tournament, founded in 1948 by King Tribhuvan.

History
In 1947 (2004 BS), Tribhuvan Challenge Shield was introduced by late H. M. King Tribhuvan for the development of this football game which was organized at Tudikhel in front of Haribhavan. In that tournament Naresh XI led by Nar Shumsher secured first position and N. R. T. team secured second position. In the same year Shree 3 Padma Shumsher introduced the Ram Janaki cup which was continuously won thrice by Police Force team. The same cup was again introduced but was renamed as Martyr's Memorial league football and hence League matches were introduced in Nepal.

In the year 1951 (2008 BS), Tribhuvan Challenge Shield knock-out football tournament was organized in which the team of Jaleshwor-11 bagged the shield. Police force team secured 1st position and N. R. T. second in the Marty's Memorial League tournament organized in the same year. Balsakha Dal introduced a new shield called Devi Maya Memorial Shield in the year 1952 (2009 BS) and in 1953 (2010 BS) Sankata Boys Sports team won the shield. Other tournaments of football were played in Singh Durbar itself up to the year 1953 (2010 BS). Although the construction of Dasharath Stadium had started just before the coronation of H. M. King Mahendra but football match was played there too on the occasion of coronation of H. M. King Mahendra.

Dasarath Rangasala tragedy

On 12 March 1988, at least 93 people were killed and 100 more injured in a stadium crush at Dasarath Rangasala Stadium in Kathmandu, Nepal. The Tribhuvan Challenge Shield Cup match, between a team from Kathmandu and one from Bangladesh drew 30,000 fans. However the events spiralled out of control when a storm broke over the city, bringing lightning, 50-mph wind and hailstones.

Nepal often experiences significant hailstorms during early spring, but the stadium only had one covered grandstand. Spectators panicked in their efforts to escape the pelting hail, and rushed to the sheltered west stand. When police pushed them back, they turned toward the exits. All but one of the stadium's eight exits were locked, and witnesses reported that most of the deaths occurred there as fans found the other gates closed.

Table

*Thimpu refused to participate in penalty shoot-out

See also
Football in Nepal
All Nepal Football Association

References

External links
Nepal football history

Football competitions in Nepal
1948 establishments in Nepal


Americans for Safe Access v. Drug Enforcement Administration was a case in which the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit held that the DEA's denial of a petition by plaintiff Americans for Safe Access for removal of cannabis from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act survives review under the deferential arbitrary and capricious standard.  requires that cannabis be found to have no "currently accepted medical use" in order to remain in Schedule I. This DEA, pursuant to regulations that the court had approved in Alliance for Cannabis Therapeutics v. DEA, interpreted this to require "adequate and well-controlled studies proving efficacy" in order for cannabis to be removed from Schedule I. The court deferred to the agency's interpretation and found that substantial evidence supported the DEA's determination that such studies do not exist. This case was the third attempt to get the D.C. Circuit to order that cannabis be rescheduled.

Further reading

References

Controlled Substances Act
Cannabis law in the United States
Drug control case law
2012 in cannabis


title: Francisco de Paula (actor)

text:
Francisco de Paula (1914–1985) was an Argentine film actor. He appeared in more than thirty films during his career including The Story of a Bad Woman.

Selected filmography
 24 Hours in the Life of a Woman (1944)
 Wake Up to Life (1945)
 El Capitán Pérez (1946)
 Story of a Bad Woman (1948)
 Passport to Rio (1948)
 The Earring (1951)
 Rebeldía (1975)

References

Bibliography
 Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

External links

1914 births
1985 deaths
Argentine male film actors
People from Córdoba Province, Argentina
20th-century Argentine male actors


title: Jeff Zabin

text:
Jeff Zabin (born 1965) is an American business author and executive who specializes in digital business transformation and technology marketing. He is best known for popularizing the term precision marketing, which he describes as a process for capturing and managing customer data, analyzing the data to derive actionable insights, and using those insights to drive more profitable customer interactions. In 2009, he founded Gleanster, a now-defunct IT market research firm. In 2013, he founded Starfleet Media, which focuses on content marketing for technology solution providers in various industry sectors, including hospitality, retail, and healthcare. He also serves as research director at Starfleet Research, the IT market research arm of Starfleet Media, and as managing editor of the industry publications Hotel Technology News and Restaurant Technology News.

Zabin co-authored two business books. The Seven Steps to Nirvana, with Mohanbir Sawhney, and with a foreword by Don Tapscott, was published by McGraw-Hill in 2001. Precision Marketing, with a foreword by Philip Kotler, was published by Wiley in 2004. Both books were translated into multiple languages. Zabin has also published hundreds of research reports and articles, on topics ranging from business intelligence and text analytics to IoT security and robotics. He is often quoted in business magazines like Forbes.

Zabin previously directed the thought leadership practice at Fair Isaac Corporation (FICO) and served as Vice President and Research Fellow at Aberdeen Group. He served on the advisory boards of the Kellogg Foundation's New Options Initiative (For Youth) and the Taproot Foundation. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin - Madison. He began his career at Houghton Mifflin and later served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Bolivia.

References
Interview: Gleanster founder Jeff Zabin looking forward to life in the trenches

1965 births
Living people
American marketing businesspeople


title: Peter Unwin

text:
Peter William Unwin  (born 20 May 1932) is a British writer and retired diplomat. He was Ambassador to Hungary from 1983 to 1986 and Ambassador to Denmark from 1986 to 1988. He served as Deputy Secretary General of the Commonwealth from 1989 to 1993. Having retired from the Diplomatic Service, he is an author and occasional contributor to The Times.

Military service
On 5 February 1955, as part of National Service, Unwin was commissioned into the Intelligence Corps, British Army, as a second lieutenant. On 25 September 1956, he was transferred to the Army Emergency Reserve of Officers. He was promoted to lieutenant on 18 November 1956.

Career

Diplomatic career
On 2 September 1956, Unwin joined the Foreign Service as an Officer in Branch A.

Works

References

1932 births
Living people
Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Denmark
Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Hungary
Commonwealth Deputy Secretaries-General
British writers
Intelligence Corps officers
Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George


title: Susan Andrews

text:
Susan Elizabeth Andrews (born 26 May 1971 in Hobart, Tasmania) is an Australian retired athlete who mostly competed in the 400 metres. She represented her country at two Summer Olympics, in 1992 and 2000.

She has personal bests of 51.55 seconds in the 400 metres (Melbourne 1998) and 2:00.32 minutes in the 800 metres (Brisbane 2000).

Competition record

References

1972 births
Living people
Australian female sprinters
Athletes (track and field) at the 1990 Commonwealth Games
Athletes (track and field) at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Olympic athletes for Australia
Sportspeople from Hobart
Sportswomen from Tasmania
Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics
Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia
World Athletics Indoor Championships medalists
Olympic female sprinters
Medallists at the 1990 Commonwealth Games
Medallists at the 1998 Commonwealth Games


The 2014 Little League Softball World Series was held in Portland, Oregon from August 3 to August 13, 2014.  Six teams from the United States and four from throughout the world competed for the Little League Softball World Champions.

Teams

Each team that competes in the tournament will come out of one of the 10 regions.

Results

All times US PST.

Elimination round

References

Little League Softball World Series
2014 in softball
2014 in sports in Oregon
Softball in Oregon


title: Leaf frog (disambiguation)

text:
The leaf frogs (Phyllomedusinae) are a subfamily of frogs in the family Hylidae.

Leaf frog may also refer to:

 Leaf frog (Africa) (Leptopelis), a genus of frog in the family Arthroleptidae found in Africa
 Leaf frog (Southeast Asia) (Hylarana erythraea), a frog in the family Ranidae found in Southeast Asia

Animal common name disambiguation pages


title: 2014 Little League Softball World Series qualification

text:
All the qualified teams, qualify for the 2014 Little League Softball World Series in Portland, Oregon.

United States

Central
The tournament took place in Indianapolis, Indiana from July 19–24.

East
The tournament took place in Bristol, Connecticut from July 18–25.

Southeast
The tournament took place in Warner Robins, Georgia from July 24–29.

Southwest
The tournament took place in Waco, Texas from July 26–30.

West
The tournament took place in San Bernardino from July 19–26.

Oregon District 4
The tournament took place in Portland, Oregon at Alpenrose Dairy from July 15–19.

International

Asia Pacific
The tournament took place in Clark, Philippines from June 29–July 1.

Canada
The tournament took place in Victoria, British Columbia from August 2–4.

Europe and Africa
The tournament took place in Kutno, Poland from July 24–27.

Latin America
The tournament took place in Maunabo, Puerto Rico from July 16–20.

References

2014 in softball
Little League Softball World Series


The 2014–15 Davidson Wildcats women's basketball team represented Davidson College during the 2014–15 college basketball season. Michele Savage resumed the responsibility as head coach for a fifth consecutive season. The Wildcats were new members of the Atlantic 10 Conference and play their home games at the John M. Belk Arena. They finished the season 5–25, 1–15 in A-10 play to finish in last place. They lost in the first round of the A-10 women's tournament to La Salle.

2014–15 media

Davidson Wildcats Sports Network
Select Wildcats games were broadcast on Teamline with Derek Smith and Leslie Urban hosting and commenting. Most home games were also featured on the A-10 Digital Network. Select games were televised.

Roster

Schedule

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!colspan=9 style="background:#FFFFFF; color:#970213;"| Regular Season

|-
!colspan=9 style="background:#970213; color:#FFFFFF;"| Atlantic 10 Tournament

Rankings
2014–15 NCAA Division I women's basketball rankings

See also
 2014–15 Davidson Wildcats men's basketball team
 Davidson Wildcats women's basketball

References

Davidson Wildcats women's basketball seasons
Davidson
2014 in sports in North Carolina
2015 in sports in North Carolina


title: List of lakes of Drew County, Arkansas

text:
There are at least 11 named lakes and reservoirs in Drew County, Arkansas.

Lakes
 Austin Brake, , el.
 Big Lake, , el.

Reservoirs
 Bynum Lake, , el.
 Byrd Lake, , el.
 Dura Craft Lake, , el.
 Hopper Pond, , el.
 Lake Wallace, , el.
 Marsh Lake, , el.
 Seven Devils Lake, , el.
 Seven Devils Swamp, , el.
 Wells Lake, , el.

See also

 List of lakes in Arkansas

Notes

Bodies of water of Drew County, Arkansas
Drew


title: German Beekeepers Association

text:
The German Beekeepers Association, "Deutscher Imkerbund", (DIB) is the umbrella organization of German beekeepers based in Wachtberg, Germany.  It was founded in 1907 for the purpose of promoting beekeeping and marketing of local honey under the trademark Genuine German honey.

References

External links
Official Website
Professional Beekeeping

Beekeeping organizations
Organisations based in North Rhine-Westphalia
Beekeeping in Germany
1907 establishments in Germany
Organizations established in 1907
Agricultural organisations based in Germany


title: Campylocera

text:
Campylocera is a genus of flies in the family Pyrgotidae.

Species

References

Pyrgotidae
Diptera of Africa
Taxa named by Pierre-Justin-Marie Macquart


title: Jimmy McCree

text:
James McCree (16 November 1902 – 21 October 1984) was a Scottish amateur football half back who played in the Football League for West London rivals Brentford and Fulham. Playing for most of his career as an amateur, he also represented Civil Service and London Caledonians, winning the FA Amateur Cup with the latter club in 1923. McCree played for Scotland Amateurs in a match against England Amateurs on 14 March 1930.

Honours
London Caledonians

 FA Amateur Cup: 1922–23

Career statistics

References

English Football League players
Brentford F.C. players
Fulham F.C. players
Middlesbrough F.C. players
Civil Service F.C. players
London Caledonians F.C. players
Scotland men's amateur international footballers
Isthmian League players
Men's association football midfielders
Scottish men's footballers
Queen's Park F.C. players
Watford F.C. players
1902 births
1984 deaths
Footballers from Glasgow


title: Tampa (novel)

text:
Tampa is the debut novel by author Alissa Nutting, in which middle school teacher Celeste Price recounts her molestation of Jack Patrick, her fourteen-year-old student.

Plot
Celeste Price is a beautiful 26-year-old woman who is unhappily married to Ford, an alcoholic police officer with a wealthy family. She is secretly a hebephile, and has constructed her life to facilitate the pursuit of 14-year-old boys. The novel opens just before her first day as an English teacher at Jefferson Junior High, where she plans to seduce a student.

Celeste sets her sights on a shy student of hers named Jack Patrick. She repeatedly directs classroom discussion towards sexual matters, and begins to groom Jack by keeping him after class to discuss Romeo and Juliet, which the class is reading.

Celeste discovers Jack's address and drives to his house. As she hides in her car she masturbates to Jack doing mundane things in the windows. One night she watches him masturbate in his bedroom. The next day, she keeps Jack after class and claims that she accidentally saw him when she was in the area. Jack is humiliated, but Celeste tells him that she is attracted to him and the two begin a relationship. A week later, Celeste picks up Jack, who has told his father he would be working on a school project. Celeste takes Jack's virginity. When Celeste ignores Ford, distracted by fantasies about Jack, a drunk Ford criticizes Celeste for apparent disgust towards him and he violently grabs Celeste's arm.

Jack and Celeste begin meeting at his house when his father is at work. She tells him about Ford (leaving out that he is a cop), the rules of their relationship, and states that they can talk only on the burner phone Celeste gave him. Celeste is increasingly annoyed by Jack's wants for an emotional relationship. He writes her poems, asks her to say that she loves him, and insinuates the two can be publicly together when he is eighteen, a thought that revolts Celeste.

One day Jack's father Buck comes home earlier than expected. Buck is a middle-aged divorcé who immediately begins hitting on Celeste. Later, Jack suggests that she lead Buck on so she can visit more often. Celeste is able to lead on Buck, but does not have sex with him. After Buck gives her a key, Celeste visits Jack more frequently. However, her energy at home is drained from dates with Buck, and she becomes more irritated with Ford and refuses sex with him; in response, he insists on masturbating in her presence. Before Jack leaves Tampa to visit his mother over Christmas break, Jack voices that he feels threatened by Buck's interest in Celeste, which she finds humorous.

Before the start of the spring semester, Buck unexpectedly returns home early. In order to distract Buck, Celeste initiates sex with him, nearly vomiting during the encounter. Jack accidentally sees the pair having sex and runs off. Afterwards, Celeste is unable to say goodbye to him or explain what happened. Later that night, she is bombarded with calls from Jack, which she ignores.

Before class with Jack the next day, Celeste becomes increasingly paranoid. She fears that Buck was bribing Jack into manipulating her to him or that Jack killed him out of anger. Jack arrives but is angry at Celeste, believing that she wanted Buck all along. She tries to convince Jack that she is uninterested in Buck. The two embark in painful, unsatisfying anal sex. Afterward, Jack takes a picture of Celeste naked, which is against her rules. She lets him keep the photo with the intention of taking his phone to delete it later.

Celeste and Jack continue to have sex, but he is still upset and is worried about being caught again by Buck, and Celeste becomes unsatisfied. She proposes they drug Buck; Jack is hesitant but eventually agrees. Celeste spikes Buck's wine with the same drugs she uses to knock herself out during sex with Ford. She and Jack drag him up to his bedroom, where they have sex in front of the unconscious Buck.

When Celeste is at Jack's house, Buck returns home unexpectedly and witnesses them having sex, then has had a heart attack. He realizes Celeste's true nature as she watches him die without helping him. In Jack's room, Celeste asks him to fondle her breasts before breaking the news to him. He runs from the room. Celeste tries and fails to find the nude photo on his phone before he returns, distraught. She performs oral sex on him then instructs him to wait before calling emergency services. She takes his burner phone and leaves the scene. When she arrives home, Ford questions where she had been. Celeste lies that she was with her coworkers.

After two weeks of truancy, Jack phones Celeste and asks her to visit him after school. She is skeptical, but goes anyway. Jack reveals that after he finishes the school year he will have to move in with his mother in Crystal Springs. Celeste coerces him into sex despite his despondency. After, Jack bleakly announces that they murdered Buck; Celeste argues with him, but knows he is right.

Over summer vacation, Celeste becomes increasingly frustrated. Jack manages to visit occasionally, but she is uninterested in his emotional troubles and plans to end the relationship. Ford's new work schedule means Celeste cannot avoid spending time with him. She fantasizes about the new students to choose from in the upcoming school year.

When school starts again, Celeste selects another boy, Boyd, as Jack's replacement. Boyd is not as shy as Jack and Celeste is concerned about his ability to be discreet, but their sexual relationship progresses rapidly. Boyd's parents are married, so they primarily meet at Buck's abandoned house for privacy. Celeste also continues her relationship with Jack, keeping both boys in the dark about each other.

One night while Celeste and Boyd are at Buck's house, Jack suddenly appears and attacks Boyd, giving him a serious head wound that gets blood on all three of them. Jack berates Celeste, having finally realized the truth about her, and then runs off. She grabs a knife and runs outside after him, naked and covered in Boyd's blood. Police arrive and take Celeste in for questioning. The nude photo on Jack's SIM card is discovered, and she is accused of molesting the boys. The interrogation is interrupted by an attorney hired by Ford's family. Celeste is told that she must apologize to Ford publicly (and is offered $15,000 if she weeps).

The case becomes a media circus, and Celeste publicly plays the role of a young, innocent woman desperate for affection. At the trial, the defense argues that Celeste is too attractive to go to prison. One night during the trial, Ford arrives drunk at Celeste's cell to confront her, trying to make sense of their relationship, but she rebuffs him and he leaves in tears, never seeing her again. Boyd and Jack are called to the stand at the trial the next day. Boyd's testimony about their relationship is over-eager, which helps make the relationship appear consensual. Jack answers questions briefly, crying, while Celeste suppresses disgust at his appearance, which has matured during his year in juvenile detention. The next day, the prosecution offers Celeste a plea bargain: she is placed on probation for four years, cannot go near a school or spend any unsupervised time with minors, and has to attend group meetings.

A year later, Celeste is given permission to move to a different town, where she gets an under-the-table job at a cabana bar under a fake name. She frequents the beach, having sex with teenage boys vacationing with their families at a nearby hotel. She thinks about Boyd and Jack, but is disgusted at the thought of them nearing adulthood. In order to stay aroused by their memory, she fantasizes that, on the night Jack discovered her with Boyd, Boyd had died from his injuries and that she finally caught up to Jack and murdered him.

Background
Tampa is the debut novel of Alissa Nutting, an essayist and creative writing professor whose first book was the 2010 short story collection Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls. Nutting was inspired by Debra Lafave, a Tampa teacher charged with raping one of her middle school students in 2013. Nutting went to high school with Lafave; seeing someone she knew on the news raised her awareness of the issue of female predators and changed her mind about the reality of underage male rape.

Reception
The detail of sexual content gained mixed reactions from critics. Some bookstores declined to offer the novel for sale for being too explicit in its depiction of child sexual abuse by women.

In August 2016 filmmaker Harmony Korine stated that he was working on an adaptation of the novel.

References

2013 American novels
Black comedy books
American erotic novels
Obscenity controversies in literature
Ecco Press books
2013 debut novels
Hebephilia in literature
Tragicomedy novels


title: 2014 Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships in Athletics

text:
The 2014 Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships were held at the Complejo Deportivo Bicentenario in Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico, between 4–6 July 2014.

In the junior category, a total of 43 events were contested, 21 by boys and 22 by girls, whereas in the youth category, a total of 42 events were contested, 21 by boys and 21 by girls.

Medal summary
Complete results can be found on the Central American and Caribbean Athletic Confederation webpage.

Boys U-20 (Junior)

Girls U-20 (Junior)

Boys U-18 (Youth)

Girls U-18 (Youth)

Medal table
An unofficial medal count is in agreement with published official numbers.

Participation
According to an unofficial count, 431 athletes from 24 countries participated.

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References

External links
Official CACAC Website
Full results (archived)

Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships in Athletics
Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships in Athletics
Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships in Athletics
Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships in Athletics
Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships in Athletics
21st century in Michoacán
Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships in Athletics
International athletics competitions hosted by Mexico
Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships in Athletics
Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships in Athletics
Morelia
Sport in Michoacán


title: Philip Hill-Pearson

text:
Philip Hill-Pearson is a British actor. He trained at East 15 Acting School, graduating in 2009. Shortly after graduating from the drama school, he was cast as Bruce Donnelly in the comedy drama series Shameless. Following on from this, he went on to work in a range of differing television programs, including Good Cop and Doctors, and also films such as United, with David Tennant, and Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's War Horse. Alongside his extensive work in British film and television, Pearson also worked with the Hull Truck Theatre on their stage production of The Rise and Fall of Little Voice in 2011, playing the role of Billy.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

21st-century British male actors
Living people
British male film actors
Place of birth missing (living people)
1987 births


title: Philip H. Nicklin

text:
Philip Houlbrooke Nicklin (1786 – 2 March 1842) was an American bookseller, publisher and writer.  In 1829, Nicklin was elected to the American Philosophical Society. In 1834, a trustee himself, he reported to the trustees of the University of Pennsylvania "concerning the universities of Oxford and Cambridge in England".

Nicklin studied at Nassau Hall graduating in 1804. He died suddenly in Philadelphia in 1842.

Bibliography
 Letters Descriptive of the Virginia Springs (1835) (as Peregrine Prolix)
 A Pleasant Peregrination Through the Prettiest Parts of Pennsylvania (1836) (as Peregrine Prolix)
 A Report Made to the Board of Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, etc... (1834)
 Remarks on Literary Property incorporating work by Joseph Lowe

References

1786 births
1842 deaths
American male writers


title: 1928 Montana gubernatorial election

text:
The 1928 Montana gubernatorial election took place on November 6, 1928. Incumbent Governor of Montana John E. Erickson, who was first elected governor in 1924, ran for re-election. Erickson only narrowly won the Democratic primary against future Governor Roy E. Ayers, and advanced to the general election, where he was opposed by U.S. Attorney Wellington D. Rankin, the former Attorney General of Montana. Although Herbert Hoover carried the state in a landslide in the presidential election that year, Erickson won re-election to his second term as governor in a landslide over Rankin.

Democratic primary

Candidates
John E. Erickson, incumbent Governor of Montana
Roy E. Ayers, former Associate Justice of the

Supreme Court of Montana

Results

Republican primary

Candidates
Wellington D. Rankin, U.S. Attorney for the District of Montana and former Attorney General of Montana
Lee Dennis, former chairman of the Montana Railroad and Public Service Commission
W. J. Paul, former state senator
J. W. Walker

Results

General election

Results

References

Montana
Gubernatorial
1928
November 1928 events in the United States


title: List of songs recorded by Marilyn Manson

text:
The following is a list of recorded songs by American rock band Marilyn Manson.

Manson


title: Robert Nunnemacher

text:
Robert Nunnemacher (April 7, 1854 – March 8, 1912) was a member of one of Milwaukee's pioneer families of Swiss origin. In the 1890s through the turn of the century, Mr. Nunnemacher was among the most successful businessmen in America, expanding on his father's (Jacob Nunnemacher) business empire. Robert Nunnemacher is best known for the system of malting drum he developed. It involved a rotating drum and humidified air between a central duct, and other periphery ducts to condition germinating grain.

He was president and secretary of the Kraus Merkel Malting company of Milwaukee, and then went on to be founder and president of the Galland Henning Pneumatic Malting Drum Manufacturing Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, known today as Galland Henning Nopak, Inc. The company name stemmed from Mr. Nunnemacher's acquisition of the American manufacturing rights to equipment that originated from Nicholas Galland, a Frenchman, and a German named Julius Henning. Now in its 137th year of operation, the company remains family-owned and professionally-managed with fourth-generation family member Heath A. Nunnemacher, a Family Business Magazine "NextGen to Watch", serving as Executive Chairman. Heath Nunnemacher is also employed as Vice President of Global Electronics Sourcing with Techtronic Industries, the world’s largest cordless leader in power tool and floorcare products.

Robert Nunnemacher was a member of the board of directors for First National Bank, the Milwaukee Mechanic's Insurance Company, the Prospect Hill Land Company, and board of trustees of the Milwaukee Public Museum. He was also affiliated with the Merchants Exchange Bank and the American Malting Company in the 1890s.

He died in Milwaukee on March 8, 1912.

Mining
Nunnemacher purchased Milwaukee and Superior Mining Company at a sheriff sale which was located in the Gogebic Range.

He was director of Twin Buttes Mining and Smelting located in Twin Buttes, Arizona.

Residences of historical and architectural significance
His Milwaukee residence was located at 2409 N. Wahl Avenue in 1906. It was in a symmetrical Jacobethan style, brick with stone quoins designed by Alexander C. Eschweiler and was added to the NRHP in 2000.

The Nunnemacher Summer Clubhouse was in Pauline's Woods on Pine Lake, which is in Chenequa, Wisconsin.

References

External links
 Galland Henning Nopak, Inc.

Businesspeople from Milwaukee
1854 births
1912 deaths
19th-century American businesspeople


title: Federal Firearms Act of 1938

text:
The Federal Firearms Act of 1938 (FFA) imposed a federal license requirement on gun manufacturers, importers, and persons in the business of selling firearms. The term federal firearms licensee (FFL) is used to refer to those on whom the license requirement is imposed. "FFL" is also used to refer to the license itself.

In addition to the licensing component of the FFA, the law required licensees to maintain customer records, and it made illegal the transfer of firearms to certain classes of persons, such as convicted felons. These classes of persons are commonly referred to as "prohibited persons." The circumstances resulting in the prohibition (such as a felony conviction) are often referred to as "disabilities." The FFA was repealed by the Gun Control Act of 1968 (GCA), though many of its provisions were reenacted as part of the GCA, which revised the FFA and its predecessor, the National Firearms Act of 1934 (NFA).

The FFA was enforced by the Alcohol Tax Unit, one of the precursors of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

See also
Firearm Owners Protection Act - Significantly amended the GCA and eased many of the restrictions on firearms sellers.
Gun law in the United States

References

External links

15 U.S. Code § 901 to 910 - Repealed

1938 in American law
75th United States Congress
United States federal criminal legislation
United States federal firearms legislation
United States federal privacy legislation
June 1938 events


title: Pseudodama

text:
Pseudodama is an extinct genus of deer found in Europe during the Late Pliocene to Early Pleistocene. It has been suggested by some authors to be ancestral to Dama, with some authors choosing to subsume its species into that genus.

References

Cervines
Prehistoric deer
Prehistoric mammals of Europe
Prehistoric even-toed ungulate genera
Miocene even-toed ungulates


title: 1924 Montana gubernatorial election

text:
The 1924 Montana gubernatorial election took place on November 4, 1924. Incumbent Governor of Montana Joseph M. Dixon, who was first elected governor in 1920, ran for re-election. Dixon won a competitive Republican primary, and moved on to the general election, where he faced John E. Erickson, a former district court judge and the Democratic nominee; and Frank J. Edwards, the 1916 Republican nominee for governor and the Farmer–Labor Party nominee. Ultimately, Erickson managed to defeat Dixon in his bid for re-election, winning what would be the first of three terms as governor.

Democratic primary

Candidates
John E. Erickson, former Eleventh Judicial District Judge
Roy E. Ayers, former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Montana
Miles Romney Sr., former State Senator, former Mayor of Hamilton
I. G. Denny, former Missoula County Attorney
Sam J. Hampton

Results

Farmer–Labor Party primary

Candidates
Frank J. Edwards, 1916 Republican nominee for Governor of Montana

Results

Republican primary

Candidates
Joseph M. Dixon, incumbent Governor of Montana
Lee Dennis, former Chairman of the Montana Railroad and Public Service Commission

Results

General election

Results

References

Montana
Gubernatorial
1924
November 1924 events


title: Treichelia

text:
Treichelia is a genus of plants in the Campanulaceae. It contains two known species, both endemic to Cape Province of South Africa.

 Treichelia dodii Cupido
 Treichelia longibracteata (H.Buek) Vatke

References

Campanuloideae
Campanulaceae genera
Endemic flora of the Cape Provinces


title: Dena Thompson

text:
Dena Thompson (born 1960), commonly known as The Black Widow, is a British convicted murderer, confidence trickster and bigamist who is also suspected of having killed a second individual. She habitually met men through lonely hearts columns and stole their money. She was imprisoned for murdering former media manager Julian Webb, her second husband (though she was still married to her first). She had previously been acquitted of the attempted murder of her next husband Richard Thompson (who she married in 1998 after her divorce), having attacked him with a baseball bat and a knife but being cleared on the grounds of self-defence. Despite her acquittal for the attempted murder of Thompson, police became suspicious of the circumstances in which previous husband Webb had died, and after Webb's remains were exhumed and analyzed she was convicted of murder and sentenced to life. A High Court ruling in 2007 determined she would serve 16 years, meaning she would not be eligible for release until 2019. She was also convicted of theft and defrauding former lovers.

Following her 2003 conviction, Detective Chief Inspector Martyn Underhill stated: "This woman is every man's nightmare, the most dangerous woman I have ever met. For a decade, she has targeted men sexually, financially and physically. The men of Britain can sleep safe tonight knowing she has been taken off the streets." A judge described her as: "one of the most fluent liars I have come across." Detective Chief Inspector Martyn Underhill observed Thompson was a misandrist: "I think the events of her childhood have made her hate men. If you look at her life, it is always men she has targeted." After her murder conviction it was revealed that police were investigating the suspicious disappearance of a previous partner she had in Bulgaria, who has never been found.

As of May 2022, Thompson was being held in an open prison with day release provisions (either HM Prison Askham Grange or HM Prison East Sutton Park as these are the only two open prisons for women in England). Thompson was granted release on parole in May 2022, and was released in June.

Early life
Thompson was born Dena Holmes in 1960 in Hendon, North London. She worked for a building society. Her father was described in 2000 as a retired prison warder. She moved to Sussex in the 1980s with her first husband. At the time of her arrest Thompson was living at an address in Cullompton, Devon.

Lee Wyatt
Thompson married Lee Wyatt in 1984, having met two years previously. She convinced Wyatt he had received £50 million for a toy he had patented and was wanted by the mafia. He was forced to live homeless for years in order to 'escape' the mafia. The defence described Wyatt as a "fantasist". She had previously secured an injunction against Wyatt after making false claims of being assaulted by him.

During their marriage, she stole £23,000 from the building society in which she worked then attempted to blame it on Wyatt. She was jailed for 18 months in 1995 for this crime. They divorced in 1997.

Julian Webb
Thompson bigamously married Julian Webb in 1991. She murdered him on his 31st birthday in June 1994 by poisoning a curry. Webb had a penchant for very hot curry and it is speculated that this would have masked the taste of the anti-depressants. He died of an overdose of anti-depressants and ground aspirin in a drink. As he lay dying in bed, his mother had called to speak to him on his birthday, but she was told by Thompson that he was too unwell. His mother told her to call a doctor but she did not.

The inquest into his death recorded an open verdict. Thompson unsuccessfully attempted to have his body cremated. The very next morning after Webb died she had tried to collect money amounting to £35,000, which would be released from his pension plan, in the event of his death but Webb's mother was able to establish that Thompson was not his next of kin, as she was still married to her first husband. Webb's mother later testified that she had warned her son about marrying a woman whom he had known for only three months.

Richard Thompson
Dena Holmes married Richard Thompson, her third husband, in 1998. They lived together in Rustington near Brighton, Sussex. Soon after they married, on 1 January 2000, she attempted to kill her bound and gagged husband with a baseball bat. She had asked him if she could tie him up and blindfold him for a sexual game, but once she did so she returned to the room with the bat and a knife and attacked him. He managed to free his hands and fight back against her, and despite bleeding profusely from the head managed to force her to drop the knife. After this she broke down, saying "It's all been a lie. I've spent all your money". Richard later recounted his subsequent feelings on an episode of Crimewatch Solved in 2009:

Thompson left the house and the next day an estate agent turned up unexpectedly, explaining that he had been told by Thompson that he was to sell the house and stating he expected Richard would be in Florida. It emerged that Thompson had planned to kill her husband and then sell their house while he was on a long-planned trip to Florida, as no one would be suspicious of his disappearance since they would have thought he was away in America.

Richard contacted the police and his wife was soon arrested. Police interviewed her former partners and found that she had stolen money from all of them and emptied their bank accounts of funds. Richard Thompson's accounts were likewise discovered to have been emptied. She admitted to police to conning money from men but denied trying to kill her husband. She claimed that he had attacked her following the revelation that she had defrauded him and had retaliated in self-defence. At the trial, the jury acquitted her of attempted murder charges, but she was convicted on 15 counts of deception, which she had admitted before the trial, and sentenced to three years and nine months imprisonment for the money she stole from Thompson and two other lovers. Richard Thompson later described Dena as "pure evil'.

Murder inquiry
Despite her acquittal for attempted murder, investigating officers had grown suspicious of the circumstances of the death of Thompson's second husband, Julian Webb, 6 years previously. They announced that they would be exhuming Webb's body, which was done in October 2001. A friend of Thompson's came forward to tell police that she had indicated to him that she had given the overdose of drugs to her husband in a hot curry.

Conviction for murder
In 2003, Thompson was convicted of Webb's murder after a trial at the Old Bailey and sentenced to life. She was told her sentence would run to 16 years at a 2007 High Court ruling, meaning she would not be eligible for release until 2019. The judge at her 2003 trial described her as "utterly ruthless and without pity". Wyatt, her first husband had contacted her at the home she shared with Webb, and the motive for murder, according to the prosecution, was her fear the two men would meet and her double life would be exposed. Webb was also unaware of her attempts to try and implicate Wyatt for her thefts from the building society.

She was dubbed "The Black Widow" in the press, as a black widow spider will kill their male counterparts after mating with them.

As of 2016, Thompson was imprisoned in HM Prison Send, but she became eligible for parole in 2019.

Additional suspected victim
Following her 2003 conviction, it was reported that Thompson was being investigated about the disappearance of another of her previous partners, Stoyan Kostov. Investigators had tried to trace all of Thompson's former lovers in order to establish if she had committed potentially criminal acts against further victims, stating "we cannot rule out the possibility that other partners have been injured in some way". It was discovered that Kostov, who she dated in the 1970s and 1980s, had been missing since he had dated Thompson while she was training as a gymnast in Bulgaria. In 2010, media interest was renewed in the disappearance after a new probe was launched, with investigators stating that "some sort of incident seems to have happened in Bulgaria but we don't know what it was". As of 2021, Kostov had never been found.

Release
In April 2022, the parole board announced that they would consider Thompson’s case for release and publish their decision in May. It was revealed that Thompson was already being held in an open prison with day release provisions (either HM Prison Askham Grange in York or HM Prison East Sutton Park in Kent, as these are the only open prisons for women in England). Sean McDonald, the officer who led the investigation into Thompson, expressed his concern at her potential release, stating: "I believe she will reoffend, she won’t be able to stop herself. She has no remorse but will be the model prisoner and say all the right things. Her potential release concerns me and everybody who has been involved with her." Richard Thompson, the former husband of Thompson, also stated that he hoped Thompson would stay in prison, saying: "She definitely tried to kill me, and they proved that she murdered her second husband. So, she would have been a serial killer if she had been successful. And God knows what else she has done." He also complained he had not been notified of the parole hearing.

On 23 May, it was announced that Thompson's release on parole had been granted and she would be released in early June. In a document setting out their decision, the Parole Board stated that they were satisfied from her progress in prison that she was suitable for release, although it was also noted that Thompson had previously been a "deceptive" individual that "could hold grudges" and did not always have "control of her temper".

In August 2022 it was reported that Thompson had been seen out shopping having been released.

In popular culture

Documentaries
Thompson's case has featured in multiple documentaries:
On 29 June 2005, Channel 4 aired a documentary on Thompson titled 'The Black Widow'. It was part of their Cutting Edge series.
On 6 January 2009, Thompson was the subject of an episode of Crimewatch Solved.
On 31 August 2012, Thompson was the subject of a season 6 episode of Deadly Women. It was titled 'Insatiable Greed'.
On 3 October 2013, an episode of Britain's Deadly Women was aired that featured Thompson's case.

Books
A book was published about Thompson in 2010 by Adrian Gatton. It was titled Black Widow: The True Story of How Dena Thompson Lured Men into a Twisted Web of Sex, Lies and Murder.

References

Further reading

1960 births
20th-century English criminals
British female murderers
Confidence tricksters
English people convicted of murder
English prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment
Living people
People convicted of murder by England and Wales
People from Hendon
English female criminals
Poisoners
Violence against men in the United Kingdom


title: Alauddin Mahmud Syah I

text:
Sultan Alauddin Mahmud Syah I (died 1781) was the twenty-fifth sultan of Aceh in northern Sumatra. He ruled from 1760 to 1781, although his reign was twice interrupted by usurpers (1764–1765, 1773).

Troubled enthronement

Known in his youth as Tuanku Raja or Pocut Bangta, he was the son of the preceding Sultan Alauddin Johan Syah and a lady from the Asahan Sultanate. His father encountered internal opposition towards the end of his reign and died in August 1760. Tuanku Raja was proclaimed sultan under the name Alauddin Mahmud Syah. However, not all the regions heeded his claim. People from the XXII Mukims (one of the three regions or sagis of Aceh) held the prestigious Baiturrahman Grand Mosque in the capital and opposed the new sultan. They were eventually driven out by force. It was only in December 1760 that all the three sagis agreed to acknowledge Alauddin Mahmud Syah. The most influential person at the court was Mantri Makota Raja, a scion of the sultan's family of Siak Sri Indrapura who handled affairs on behalf of the young ruler. According to the account of the British navigator Thomas Forrest the sultan's relationship with the orang kayas (grandees) was poor during his first years. The sultan tried to control trade and circumcise the powers of the orang kaya. This had worked during the heyday of the sultanate in the seventeenth century, but at this time it created internal instability. On the other hand he had ambitions to expand the influence of Aceh along the west coast which had once belonged to the sultanate. Events in the mid-eighteenth century also gave an upswing to Aceh's economic role: The British were established in the Sumatran ports Natal and Tapanuli in 1751 and 1756 in order to support the pepper trade of Bengkulu. The French also sought good relations with Aceh. The period therefore saw an increasing number of European ships and traders visiting the coast of Aceh. The ships often purchased pepper and other local products in local ports rather than via the capital Kutaraja.

First expulsion

Disturbances broke out in 1763. The background was the inner tensions in the sultanate; the ruler tried to control commercial activities in the various parts of his kingdom without having the bureaucratic apparatus to implement this, which enraged the chiefs. The uprising led to the expulsion of Alauddin Mahmud Syah in the following year. Mantri Makota Raja was made sultan under the name Badr ul-Alam Syah. Alauddin Mahmud Syah escaped to Kota Musapi by the coast where he was assisted by a cleric, qadi Malik ul-Adil. With the help of the qadi he attacked Badr ul-Alam Syah and managed to kill him in August 1765. The sultan was thus restored in his dignity, although his position was considerably weakened. His elder son Muhammad was later on married to the daughter of Badr ul-Alam Syah, apparently as an attempt of reconciliation between the political factions of Aceh.

Second expulsion

Alauddin Mahmud Syah remained undisturbed in his governance for some years. The British negotiated about trading conditions in 1767, 1771 and 1772-73, and found the sultan to be a weak and capricious type. Meanwhile the Acehnese panglima laut (sea commander) continued to expand the influence of the sultanate on the northern west coast. Some port towns were blockaded and the Dutch garrison in Barus was attacked in 1771. However, the inner cohesion of the state was once again declining. When Thomas Forrest returned to Aceh in 1772 he found an agitated situation. As he reported, discontent groups of people sometimes appeared threateningly outside the palace compound in the night. At this time the palace was guarded by a corps of sepoys under an Indian from Cuddalore, which had been provided by the British in Madras. In April 1773 the XXII Mukims and XXV Mukims rose against him. In his stead an official called Raja Udahna Lela was placed on the throne under the name Sultan Sulaiman Syah. However, he only lasted for two months before Alauddin Mahmud Syah returned with his adherents and expelled the usurper. After this he remained in power until his death in June 1781. There were suspicions that he may have been poisoned. The sultan left two sons, Tuanku Muhammad and Tuanku Cut, of which the former succeeded him as Alauddin Muhammad Syah.

References

Literature

 Djajadiningrat, Raden Hoesein (1911) 'Critische overzicht van de in Maleische werken vervatte gegevens over de geschiedenis van het soeltanaat van Atjeh', Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 65, pp. 135–265.
 Lee Kam Hing (1995) The Sultanate of Aceh: Relations with the British, 1760–1824. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press.
 Zainuddin, H.M. (1961) Tarich Atjeh dan Nusantara, Jilid I. Medan: Pustaka Iskandar Muda.

Sultans of Aceh
1781 deaths
18th-century Indonesian people

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