title: Algernon Fuller

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Major-General Algernon Clement Fuller CBE (30 March 18856 August 1970) was a senior British Army officer during the Second World War, and inventor of the Fullerphone.

Biography

Born on 30 March 1885, Algernon Fuller was educated at Bedford School and at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. He received his first commission in the Royal Engineers in 1904. He served during the First World War and, in 1916, he invented the Fullerphone, which enabled telephony and telegraphy to be used simultaneously on the same line, rendering the telegraphy secret. It was used widely during the First World War and thereafter, and Fuller was appointed as Experimental Officer at the Signals Experimental Establishment, Woolwich, between 1916 and 1920. He was Deputy Director of Mechanisation at the War Office, between 1938 and 1940, Director of Engineer and Signals Equipments at the Ministry of Supply, between 1940 and 1941, and Deputy Director-General of the Ministry of Supply, in 1941.

Major General Algernon Fuller became a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1941. He retired from the British Army in 1941 and died on 6 August 1970.

References

External links
Generals of World War II

1885 births
1970 deaths
War Office personnel in World War II
British Army major generals
People educated at Bedford School
Graduates of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich
Royal Engineers officers
British Army generals of World War II
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
British Army personnel of World War I


title: Gelesis

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Gelesis is a biotechnology company located in Boston, Massachusetts that developed the weight loss device Gelesis100 (Plenity) for use in overweight and obesity. The company produces Gelesis100, which is a superabsorbent hydrogel capsule that expands in the stomach, creating a feeling of fullness, helping people reduce the amount of food they eat. The company was founded in 2006 to develop medical devices and treatments for obesity.

History
Gelesis was founded by PureTech Ventures, a life sciences venture firm based in Boston, and ExoTech Bio, an Israel-based research and development company. The company operates as an affiliate of PureTech Health. Former PureTech Ventures partner Yishai Zohar co-founded the company and served as CEO.

The company's technology was co-invented by Alessandro Sannino, a professor of engineering at the University of Salento, who had been researching the idea prior to the launch of Gelesis.

In January 2008, the company raised $16 million in its first financing round, led by OrbiMed Advisors and Queensland BioCapital Funds.

In 2010, the company passed the first human trials of its treatment. The company’s product was originally called Attiva, but was later renamed Gelesis100.

In 2014, Gelesis raised $12 million in its fifth funding round, bringing its total funding to $42 million.

In March 2015, the company closed a $22 million funding round. In April 2015, the company announced an initial public offering (IPO) for $60 million, but pulled out later that year. In December 2015, Gelesis raised $31.5 million shortly after cancelling its IPO.

In 2018, Gelesis raised $30 million in preparation for regulatory submissions in the U.S. and Europe and initial marketing of Gelesis100.

In January 2022, the company completed a business combination with Capstar Special Purpose Acquisition Corp. and commenced trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “GLS."

References

External links
 http://www.gelesis.com/

Biotechnology companies of the United States
American companies established in 2008
Companies based in Boston
Biotechnology companies established in 2008
2008 establishments in Massachusetts


title: Gina Bramhill

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Gina Bramhill (born 30 July 1984) is a British actress.

Background
Gina Bramhill was born in Eastoft, where she grew up on a farm. As a child, she appeared in several school plays. She was trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Shortly after graduating she appeared as Bella in the movie Lotus Eaters. 2012 she got a role as the recurring character Eve Sands in the TV series Being Human. In the same year Bramhill played one of the main roles in the drama pilot The Frontier. In Coronation Street she portrayed the character Jodie Woodward. She got a main role in the movie Pleasure Island, which was shown at the Cannes Film Festival in 2014.

Bramhill also appears on theatre. In 2011 she played the rebellious teenager Annabel in Chicken at the Southwark Playhouse. She was Melody in Bad Jews at the Ustinov Studio in Bath.

Filmography

References

External links

Living people
English film actresses
English television actresses
21st-century English actresses
1986 births
Alumni of RADA
People from the Borough of North Lincolnshire
Actresses from Lincolnshire


title: Zherdevka

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Zherdevka () is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia.

Urban localities
Zherdevka, Tambov Oblast, a town in Zherdevsky District of Tambov Oblast

Rural localities
Zherdevka, Belgorod Oblast, a khutor in Valuysky District of Belgorod Oblast


title: Lantshene Phalane

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Lantshane Phalane (born 21 November 1989) is a South African professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for Moroka Swallows in the South African Premier Soccer League.

References

Living people
1989 births
Men's association football midfielders
People from Lepelle-Nkumpi Local Municipality
Soccer players from Limpopo
South African men's soccer players
Baroka F.C. players
Platinum Stars F.C. players
Milano United F.C. players
University of Pretoria F.C. players
Moroka Swallows F.C. players
Bloemfontein Celtic F.C. players
Royal AM F.C. players
South African Premier Division players
National First Division players


title: Klebit Bok

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The Klebit Bok or Kelavit Bok is the traditional shield of the Kayan and the Kenyah people originating from Borneo. It is similar to the shields used by other Dayak people such as the Kliau of the Iban.

Description
The Klebit Bok is a shield in a shape of a hexagon and painted on both sides. On its front, three demonic faces are often painted, in red, white and black and arranged vertically. Their staring, round eyes and grotesquely fanged mouths are surrounded by tufts of human hair attached with resin.

The front is richly decorated with clumps of human hair forcefully pressed into the narrow cracks of wood before being secured by means of fresh wax. The hair is allegedly from hunted heads. It completes the designs, making the shield all the more terrifying for one's enemies.

The reverse of the shield frequently depicts one or two figures whose heads and limbs dissolve into fantastic tendrils. Its name is derived from klebit (meaning "shield") and bok (meaning "hair") indicating a strong connection between the shield and the hair with which it is decorated.

See also

Kurabit
Baluse

References

Shields
Weapons of Indonesia


title: Huai Prefecture

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Huaizhou or Huai Prefecture () was a zhou (prefecture) in imperial China centering on modern Qinyang, Jiaozuo, Henan, China. It existed (intermittently) from 467 to 1257.

Geography
The administrative region of Huaizhou in the Tang dynasty falls within modern Henan. It probably includes parts of modern:
 Under the administration of Jiaozuo, Henan:
 Jiaozuo: Jiefang District, Shanyang District, Zhongzhan District, Macun District
 Qinyang
 Xiuwu County
 Wuzhi County
 Bo'ai County
 Under the administration of Xinxiang, Henan:
 Huojia County

Between 619 and 621 during the Tang dynasty, the headquarter was temporarily moved west to Jiyuan, Henan.

References

Prefectures of the Sui dynasty
Prefectures of the Tang dynasty
Prefectures of the Song dynasty
Prefectures of the Jin dynasty (1115–1234)
Former prefectures in Henan


title: Gilmanton Ironworks Library

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The Gilmanton Ironworks Library is a historic library building at 10 Elm Street in the Iron Works village of Gilmanton, New Hampshire. Built in 1916–17, it was the first Colonial Revival library building in Belknap County. The building, still serving as a branch of the Gilmanton public library system, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

Architecture and history
The Gilmanton Ironworks Library is located in the center of the village of Gilmanton Ironworks in the east part of the town of Gilmanton, on the west side of Elm Street just south of its junction with New Hampshire Route 140. It is a small single-story wood-frame structure, with a hip roof and clapboarded exterior. Its street-facing facade is three bays wide, with a center entrance sheltered by a gabled portico. The portico features a pair of Doric-style round columns, which support an entablature and fully pedimented gable. The window bays each have three-part windows, with a central picture window flanked by smaller sash windows. The interior layout has a vestibule and central librarian's desk, flanked on one side by the reading room and the other by the stacks.

The first library formed in Gilmanton was a private lending library founded in 1801, and was first located in a private residence near the Smith Meeting House before being moved to Iron Works Village. A second library was founded in 1815 for the use of the Gilmanton Academy, and was located in the town center at Gilmanton Corner Village. The town's public library system was established pursuant to requirement state laws enacted in the 1890s, and by 1915 had branches serving each of the town's three villages. That in Gilmanton Ironworks was located (along with the town selectmen's offices) in one of the village's commercial buildings, which was destroyed in a 1915 fire that wiped out much of the village. Most of its books were saved, however, and it was soon operating again in temporary quarters. The library was designed by architect Willard M. Bacon and built 1916–17. Bacon was based in Boston, Massachusetts, but summered at nearby Crystal Lake. Its Colonial Revival design was the first of that style in the county; most of the libraries built in subsequent years would also be Colonial Revival, marking a shift away from the Classical Revival that had previously dominated their designs.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Belknap County, New Hampshire

References

External links
Gilmanton Ironworks Library page

Libraries on the National Register of Historic Places in New Hampshire
Colonial Revival architecture in New Hampshire
Library buildings completed in 1916
Libraries in Belknap County, New Hampshire
National Register of Historic Places in Belknap County, New Hampshire
Gilmanton, New Hampshire


title: 2010 IPC Swimming World Championships

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The 2010 IPC Swimming World Championships was the sixth edition of the IPC Swimming World Championships, an international swimming competition, the biggest meet for athletes with a disability since the 2008 Summer Paralympics. It was held in Eindhoven, Netherlands and lasted from 14 to 21 August.

Venue

The Championship was staged at the Pieter van den Hoogenband Swimming Stadium located in the south of Eindhoven. The complex contains three outdoor swimming pools.

Events

Classification

Athletes are allocated a classification for each event based upon their disability to allow fairer competition between athletes of similar ability. The classifications for swimming are:
Visual impairment
S11-S13
Other disability
S1-S10 (Freestyle, backstroke and butterfly)
SB1-SB9 (breaststroke)
SM1-SM10 (individual medley)
Classifications run from S1 (severely disabled) to S10 (minimally disabled) for athletes with physical disabilities, and S11 (totally blind) to S13 (legally blind) for visually impaired athletes. Blind athletes must use blackened goggles.

Medalists

Men

Women

Participating nations
Below is the list of countries which participated in the Championships.

Footnotes
Notes

References

External links
2010 IPC Swimming World Championships, Eindhoven

World Para Swimming Championships
2010 in swimming
2010 in Dutch sport
Sports competitions in Eindhoven
International aquatics competitions hosted by the Netherlands
August 2010 sports events in Europe
21st century in Eindhoven


title: Opportunity, Nebraska

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Opportunity is an unincorporated community in Holt County, Nebraska, United States.

History
Opportunity was so named because its founders saw a good opportunity to establish a post office and store there.  The Opportunity post office operated between 1910 and 1942.

Notable person

Fern Hubbard Orme (1903–1993), Nebraska state legislator and educator, was born in Opportunity.

References

Unincorporated communities in Holt County, Nebraska
Unincorporated communities in Nebraska


title: Moira Sound

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Moira Sound is a branching inlet on the east side of the southern end of Prince of Wales Island in U.S. state of Alaska. It is situated within the Tongass National Forest.

Geography
The entrance to this sound, on the west side of Clarence Strait,  northward of Cape Chacon, lies in about latitude 55° 02’, and is about  in width. There are several islets within it. Moira Sound penetrates Prince of Wales Island about  to the southwest, then turns sharply to the northwest for , heading near the heads of Cholmondeley Sound, which comes from north-northeast, and Tliakak Bay, which comes from the southwest from Cordova Bay. The land in the neighborhood of Moira Sound is high and rather steep towards Clarence Strait; but north of Wedge Island, (in latitude 55° 07’) the straight and compact shores are moderately elevated, and the interior country is composed of lofty though uneven mountains, with a forest of pine trees from the water side nearly to their summits.

Hydrography
The best entrance is between Adams Point and Moira Rock. Soundings indicate generally deep water. There are several small indentations, islands, rocks, and reefs on the southern shore of the sound. At  from Moira Rock the sound divides. Western Arm has a length of , and then divides into two short arms. South Arm trends about south for  and has reefs bare at low water. There are several groups of islands across the entrance to Moira Sound, the two principal ones of which are Moira Rock, bare,  high, and marked by a light, and White Bock, which is the bare northeast face of the southeastern one of the two largest wooded islands. There is no passage into Moira Sound south of White Rock. Between Moira Rock and the first island southeastward are three kelp-marked rocks, awash at lowest tides. A kelp patch lies 3/8 to 1/2 mile north-northeast of White Rock, and a ledge bare at low water lies  east-northeast of the rock. Adams Point, the north point at the entrance, is the eastern end of a high peninsula formed by the North Arm and Port Johnson.

History
In 1914, prospecting in the vicinity of Moira Sound amounted to little more than the annual assessment work required by law. Between the head of Moira North Arm and Mineral Lake the copper mines, once active, were idle throughout the year and the only person in the region was a man who looked after the various properties and as opportunity offered did a little prospecting. Efforts were made to prospect further the Navaho claim, formerly called the Hope claim, which lies between Cannery Cove and North Arm. No productive work was done during last year on any of the properties adjacent to Niblack. Only one person now lives in this region, and although part of his time is spent in prospecting little new work has been accomplished. The strongly faulted and deformed structures in this region increased the difficulty and expense of mining. A small prospect lies in the small bight north of Black Point, at the entrance of Niblack Anchorage. The lead had been opened by means of a vertical shaft, and by a short adit. The country rock is an agglomeratic or pyroclastic igneous rock trending east and dipping south. Not far away, an infaulted mass of black shales and slates are exposed.

References

Sounds of Alaska
Bodies of water of Prince of Wales–Hyder Census Area, Alaska
Tongass National Forest


title: Robert Longden

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Robert Knight Longden (27 May 1817 – 19 June 1895) was an English clergyman and a cricketer who played first-class cricket fleetingly for Cambridge University in 1837. He was born at Marylebone in London and died at Lavenham, Suffolk.

Educated at Winchester College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, Longden took a Bachelor of Laws degree at Cambridge, graduating in 1841. His cricket at Cambridge was limited to two games for the university against the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in which he batted in the lower middle order and does not appear to have bowled: in both cases, the full scorecard has not survived, and it is not known if he was right- or left-handed. There was no University Match against Oxford in the 1837 season.

After leaving Cambridge, Longden was ordained as a Church of England priest; he was curate at Groton, Suffolk from 1851 and rector of Brent Eleigh, also in Suffolk, from 1860 until his death in 1895. The account of his funeral in the Bury and Norwich Post newspaper indicates that he was married and had three sons.

References

1817 births
1895 deaths
English cricketers
Cambridge University cricketers
People educated at Winchester College
Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
People from Lavenham


title: European route E511

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E 511 is a European B class road in France, connecting the cities Courtenay – Troyes.

Route and E-road junctions

 Courtenay:  E60
 Troyes

External links
 UN Economic Commission for Europe: Overall Map of E-road Network (2007)
 International E-road network

International E-road network
Roads in France


title: Ossian Wilbur Goss Reading Room

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The Ossian Wilbur Goss Reading Room is a historic library building at 188 Elm Street in the Lakeport section of Laconia, New Hampshire. The architecturally eclectic single-story brick building was designed by Boston architect Willard P. Adden and built in 1905-06 after the collection of the former Lakeport library was moved to the recently built Gale Memorial Library in the center of Laconia. Its construction was funded by a bequest from Ossian Wilbur Goss, a local doctor who had died without natural heirs. The building officially became a branch of the Laconia library system in 1909, and continues to be administered in part by trustees of Goss's legacy. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

Description and history
The Goss Reading Room is located in Laconia's Lakeport village, at the northwest corner of Franklin and Elm streets. It is a single-story brick building with an L-shaped configuration covered by a gabled roof. The gable ends are raised above the level of the slate roof, with caps at the ends. The main facade is dominated by a front-facing gable on the right, and an entrance vestibule at the center. The gable has a large six-part window in segmented-arch openings; the windows are set in a pattern of narrow windows on the outside and a wider one in the center, with sash windows topped by fixed transom windows. The entry vestibule has a shed roof and corner brick piers, with an entrance flanked by double-wide sidelights.

Lakeport was a village of Gilford until 1893, when it was annexed to Laconia. It had a village library, which had no permanent home. When Laconia's Gale Memorial Library was established in 1897, the Lakeport collection was merged into that one, and the library was closed. A lending arrangement was established at a local store, but this system was considered inadequate to village residents. Ossian Wilbur Goss was a local physician, whose house was one of over 100 buildings destroyed by a fire in 1903. His interest in providing a permanent branch library for the village was manifested in his plans to rebuild his residence. His wife and children had predeceased him, so he left a bequest instructing trustees to either adapt his house, or build a new structure, from the majority of his estate. He died in 1903, three weeks after signing the will, without having rebuilt. His appointed trustees oversaw the construction of this building on his house lot. It was designed by Boston architect Willard P. Adden, and was completed in 1907. It was formally accepted as a branch library by the city in 1909. The land and building continue to be owned by the Goss trustees, while the library is administered as part of the city library system.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Belknap County, New Hampshire

References

External links
Laconia Public Library - Goss Reading Room

Libraries on the National Register of Historic Places in New Hampshire
Buildings and structures completed in 1905
Libraries in Belknap County, New Hampshire
Buildings and structures in Laconia, New Hampshire
National Register of Historic Places in Belknap County, New Hampshire
1905 establishments in New Hampshire


title: Zena Skinner

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Zena Skinner (27 February 1927 – 6 March 2018) was a British chef, writer, and cookery expert on television and radio.

Early life
Skinner was from Luton, Bedfordshire. Her father owned an electroplating company.

Career
Skinner served in the Women's Royal Naval Service and decoded signals at Portsmouth during World War II.   After the war, she worked as a demonstrator at the Eastern Electricity Board showroom in Royston; she also demonstrated electrical appliances in Jamaica and East Africa. While working in Kenya, she met Queen Elizabeth II, and her appearance in publicity photos, serving cakes to Maasai men, led her into television work.

Her first TV appearance was in 1959. She presented daytime cookery programmes for the BBC and, later, Channel 4,  through the 1960s and 1970s. Her style tended to the homely and economical, "relaxed and friendly", without fancy techniques or exotic ingredients. She also contributed to the Radio Times, and wrote several cookery books, including Zena Skinner's Book of Recipes (1968) and Zena Skinner's Down to Earth Cookbook (1982).

Skinner was a brand ambassador for Tupperware products. In 1970 she appeared in a Sainsbury's film, "Quick Change", about the shopping and the change to decimal currency. She appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs, on 3 March 1969.  She founded a charity, Keech Hospice Care, in Luton and raised funds for it.

Personal life
Skinner retired from television in 1989 and lived in Redbourn, Hertfordshire. She died on 6 March 2018, aged 91 years, a year after her brother Bruce, at the hospice they both supported in Luton.

References

External links

Zena Skinner at the British Film Institute

1927 births
2018 deaths
BBC people
British chefs
Royal Navy personnel of World War II
British television chefs
People from Redbourn
Women's Royal Naval Service ratings


title: Katsuragi-class corvette

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The  was a three-ship class of composite hulled, sail-and-steam corvettes of the early Imperial Japanese Navy.

Design and description
The Katsuragi vessels were designed as iron-ribbed, wooden-hulled, three-masted barque-rigged sloops-of-war, with a basic design based on experience gained in building  and  sloops. The planking was a combination of teak and native keyaki wood.
The Katsuragi-class ships had an overall length of , a beam of , and a normal draught of . They displaced  at normal load. The crew numbered about 231 officers and enlisted men.

Propulsion was by a coal-fired double-expansion reciprocating steam engine with six cylindrical boilers driving a double screw. The engines were rated at , and designed to reach a top speed of .

The Katsuragi-class ships were armed with two Krupp  Krupp breech-loading guns, five  Krupp breech-loading guns, one  Krupp QF gun, four quadruple 1-inch Nordenfelt guns and  torpedo tubes. A major improvement over previous Japanese corvette designs was the use of recessed gun ports, which allowed the two forward guns to fire on a forward arc instead of only on a broadside.

The design for the Katsuragi-class ships was by British-educated Japanese naval architect Sasō Sachū, director of the Yokosuka Naval Arsenal. Two of the three vessels (Katsuragi and Musashi) were built at Yokosuka, and one (Yamato) by built by the private-contractor, Onohama Shipyards in Kobe (a predecessor of Hitachi Zosen Corporation).
In late 1900, the ships were extensively refitted, during which time their sail rigging was removed, and armament changed to eight QF 2.5 pdr guns and six quadruple 1-inch Nordenfelt guns. The torpedoes were upgraded from 15 inch to 18-inch torpedo tubes. However, during the Russo-Japanese War, the ships were regarded as obsolete and were assigned as guard ships in ports in the Japanese home islands.

In 1907, the armament was changed again, this time to four 3-inch and two 2.5-inch guns, and the ships were reclassified as survey ships or as a second-class coastal patrol vessels. Katsuragi was removed from the navy list on 11 April 1913, and Musashi on 1 April 1928. Yamato was removed from the navy list 1 April 1935, but survived as a floating prison until the end of World War II.

Ships

Notes

References

External links

Corvette classes

Screw sloops of the Imperial Japanese Navy


title: ISDAfix

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ISDAFIX refers to a worldwide common  reference rate value for fixed interest rate swap rates. ISDAFIX was restructured and renamed "ICE Swap Rate" in April 2015.

ISDAFIX was developed in 1998 as a cooperative effort of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) with Reuters (now Thomson Reuters) and InterCapital Brokers (now ICAP). It was based on voluntary quotations provided by certain banks that indicated the fixed rate they would pay or receive to enter into a reference swap with a nominal value of 50 million dollars. ISDAFIX fixes as of February 2014 were determined for four currencies (Euros, British pounds, Swiss francs, and U.S. dollars), each in different maturities; the rates for the Hong Kong dollar and the Japanese yen were suspended in April 2013 and January 2014, respectively, because the withdrawal of individual banks reduced the number of available quotations. Thomson Reuters collected quotation messages daily from the reference banks and performed the final calculation of the reference sets for each currency.

The main purpose of the collection of ISDAFIX fixes was to determine an exercise price for the cash settlement of swaptions (that is, options to enter into fixed rate swaps). ISDAFIX sets were also often used to determine close-out payments if interest rate swaps were terminated early. Swap dealers also used ISDAFIX to determine the market value of swap products.

Restructuring
As part of the Libor scandals from 2012 the ISDAFIX fixes came in for criticism. The American Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the UK Financial Conduct Authority investigated manipulation allegations. ICAP, which in the wake of the Libor scandal paid penalties in the amount of $87 million to British and American authorities, during the ongoing investigations in early 2014 lost its role in the data collection for and calculation of the ISDAFIX rates for the U.S. dollar.

ISDA also announced changes to ISDAFIX. The US dollar sets and others were switched to a market-based, automated calculation process; it was also agreed to further reduce the portfolio of offered reference rates when the associated swap market is insufficiently liquid.

References

External links
 Overview on the website of ISDA

Financial markets
Interest rates
Settlement (finance)


The Legal, Financial and Administrative Services Agency () is a Swedish government agency under the Ministry of Finance. Established in 1539 by King Gustav Vasa, it is the oldest still active government agency in Sweden.

Role
It is tasked with providing various services within the public sector, in particular qualified legal and economic expertise, public administration, asset- and risk management. Kammarkollegiet represents the State in indemnity cases, speaks on behalf of the public in certain cases involving the Environmental Code, and in other matters as decided by the Chancellor of Justice. The agency is also responsible for the registration of religious communities, the appointment of those entitled to officiate weddings, setting rates for funeral charges, the authorisation of travel guarantees and use of interpreters and translators. Kammarkollegiet also monitors the State Inheritance Fund's interests and manages its capital. In addition to this, the agency also deals with changes to the regional division of Sweden, and exemptions from the testamentary provisions governing foundations.

Footnotes

References

External links
Kammarkollegiet - Official Site (Swedish)
Kammarkollegiet - Official Site (English)

Government agencies of Sweden
1539 establishments in Sweden


title: Michael Cullimore

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Michael Cullimore was a British artist. He was born in 1936 in Wiltshire and lived in North Wales since 1962, and later Devon. Since 1972, he had become the Curator of University College North Wales Oriel, Bangor, for ten years.
He died in 2021.

Life
Cullimore studied at Goldsmiths' School of Art. He lived in Devon until his death.

Works
Since 1968 Cullimore has exhibited regularly in solo and group exhibitions around UK. His work picks up the tradition of English art where Blake, Palmer, Nash, Spenser and David Jones left off. A list of the series of works gives a clue to the range of interests and influences: Jonah and the Revelation of St. John, Leda, Radiometer, Time, Orpheus and Eurydice, Prospero, Enclosed Gardens.

In Michael's own search for meaning in life, his work changes the way people look at existence and the world. Whether it is through a distillation of poetic, mythological or biblical texts, or through his own vision of nature, his work consistently focuses on moments of transformation; shape-shifting experiments dwelling on the eternal cycles of growth and decay, death and rebirth.

Michael Cullimore's paintings are in a number of public collections including National Museum Wales, Arts Council of Wales, Salisbury Museum, The Creasy Collection, Salisbury Library, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum and Bournemouth, Devizes Museum, The Ceolfrith Gallery, Sunderland; Contemporary Arts Society of Wales; University College of North Wales; The North Wales Arts Association; Hammersmith and Fulham Picture Loans Library; Theatr Clwyd, Mold; Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea and The Swindon Collection.

Exhibitions

Solo Shows
1986, Michael Cullimore Drawings and Paintings, Austin/ Desmond Fine Art, Ascot, Berkshire
2008/2010, Michael Cullimore - The Art Stable, Kelly Ross Fine Art, Blandford, Dorset

Group Shows
2009, Mixed Exhibition of Contemporary Paintings and Sculpture - The Art Stable, Kelly Ross Fine Art, Blandford, Dorset
2008, A Mixed Exhibition to Coincide with Dorset Arts Week - The Art Stable, Kelly Ross Fine Art, Blandford, Dorset
2007, Mixed Summer Exhibition - The Art Stable, Kelly Ross Fine Art, Blandford, Dorset
1982, Art and the Sea - ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

Comments
‘Cullimore has always had an odd and individual way of looking at things; he is a homegrown Symbolist, excited by the way that signs and portents and unexpected allusions seem to be half hidden in every shape of hill and valley, and finds magic and mystery in the most commonplace objects.....’ John Russell Taylor writing in The Saturday Times

"Michael Cullimore is one of those homegrown English mystics at one with nature, seeing occult correspondences between landscape and people… if his works are suggestive of anything happening in English art between the wars, it is rather of the sophisticated and cosmopolitan Paul Nash …". John Russell Taylor, The Times

Michael Cullimore's solo exhibition at The Art Stable was reviewed in the 'Where to buy...' section of 'The Week': ‘Michael Cullimore works mainly in watercolours, and he belongs loosely to the poetic and visionary strand of British landscape painting which starts with Blake and Samuel Palmer and culminates in the airy surrealism of Paul Nash. Cullimore paints bold, solid shapes and sweeping landscape rhythms with terrific fluency and vigour. His colours are sometimes sombre, sometimes subtle and often incandescent, lending a radiant energy to the landscape of, for example, Wiltshire and southwest France. His surreal imagination makes free with natural forms: one painting is called 'Woman Turning into a Galaxy'; in another work, cylindrical hay bales suffer the same fate’.

References

1936 births
2021 deaths
British artists
Artists from Wiltshire


title: House by the Side of the Road

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The House by the Side of the Road is a historic house at 61 School Street in Tilton, New Hampshire.  The house, built c. 1783, is a modest -story Cape style house that is five bays wide, with a center entry and a central chimney.  The house is locally notable as the home of poet Sam Walter Foss in 1877–78, when he was attending Tilton Seminary, and has been known as the "House by the Side of Road" after Foss's poem of the same name, since the 1890s.  The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

Description and history
The House by the Side of the Road is located a short way north of the Tilton School, on the east side of School Street opposite some of the school's athletic fields.  It is set on a small wooded parcel.  It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a side-gable roof, off-center brick chimney, and clapboarded exterior.  The chimney is one of two the house once had, and is covered by a corbelled cap.  The street-facing front facade is five bays wide, with the main entrance at the center, flanked by sidelight windows.  The other windows are rectangular six-over-six sash, framed by simple corner boards.  The house is not architecturally distinguished, and is typical of late 18th-century residential construction in rural New Hampshire.

The house was built about 1783, and is a well-preserved example of period vernacular architecture.  It is most noted for its literary association with the poet Sam Walter Foss, who lived here in 1877–78, while attending the Tilton School (then known as Tilton Seminary).

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Belknap County, New Hampshire

References

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in New Hampshire
Houses completed in 1783
Houses in Belknap County, New Hampshire
National Register of Historic Places in Belknap County, New Hampshire
Tilton, New Hampshire


title: House of Vijaya

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The House of Vijaya (also known as the Vijayan dynasty and sometimes referred to as the "Great Dynasty") was the first recorded Sinhalese royal dynasty that ruled over the island, Sri Lanka. According to Sri Lankan historical literature Prince Vijaya is the traditional first king of Sri Lanka, founding the Kingdom of Tambapanni and the dynasty subsequently founding the Kingdom of Upatissa Nuwara and finally the Anuradhapura Kingdom.

There were 37 Vijayan monarchs who reigned during a span of 609 years and ruled all but 80 of them. The dynasty ended when Vasabha of the House of Lambakanna I seized power in 66 AD.

Origins

In 543 BC, prince Vijaya (543–505 BC) arrived in Sri Lanka, having been banished from his homeland in India. He eventually brought the island under his control and established himself as king. After this, his retinue established villages and colonies throughout the country. One of these was established by Anuradha, a minister of King Vijaya, on the banks of a stream called Kolon and was named Anuradhagama.

Reign

Tambapanni

According to popular tradition, the Kingdom of Tambapanni was founded by Prince Vijaya and his 700 followers after landing on the island, in a district near modern day Mannar which is believed to be the district of Chilaw, after leaving Suppāraka. It is recorded the Vijaya made his landing on the day of Buddha's death. Vijaya claimed Tambapanni his capital and soon the whole island come under this name. Tambapanni was originally inhabited and governed by Yakkhas, having their capital at Sirīsavatthu and their queen Kuveni. According to the Samyutta Commentary, Tambapanni was one hundred leagues in extent.

After landing in Tambapanni, Vijaya is believed to have met Kuveni, a legendary queen of the yakkhas, who was disguised as a beautiful woman but was really a  (devil) named Sesapathi.

During the end of his reign Vijaya, who was having trouble choosing a successor, sent a letter to the city of his ancestors, Sinhapura, in order to invite his brother Sumitta to take over the throne. However Vijaya had died before the letter had reached its destination so the elected minister of the people Upatissa, the Chief government minister or prime minister and leading chief among the Sinhalese became regent and acted as regent for a year. After his coronation which was held in the Kingdom of Tambapanni, he left it building another one bearing his own name. While his was king, Upatissa established the new capital Upatissagāma, in which the kingdom was moved to from the Kingdom of Tambapanni. When Vijaya's letter arrived Sumitta had already succeeded his father as king of his country, and so he sent his son Panduvasdeva to rule Upatissa Nuwara.

Upatissagāma was seven or eight miles further north of Tambapanni. It was named after the regent king Upatissa, who was the prime minister of Vijaya.

Anuradhapura

In 377 BC, King Pandukabhaya (437–367 BC) made Anuradhapura his capital and developed it into a prosperous city. Anuradhapura (Anurapura) was named after the minister who first established the village and after a grandfather of Pandukabhaya who lived there. The name was also derived from the city's establishment on the auspicious asterism called Anura. Anuradhapura was the capital of all the monarchs who ruled from the dynasty.

The consecration ceremonies and rituals associated with kingship began during the reign of Devanampiya Tissa, under the influence of Ashoka of India. The whole country was brought under the rule of a single monarch by Dutthagamani for the first time. Before this, it had several principalities independent of the Anuradhapura Kingdom. The king of Anuradhapura was seen as the supreme ruler throughout the island, even at times when he did not have absolute control over it.

Several invasions have been made against the Anuradhapura Kingdom, all of which were launched from South India. The first invasion recorded in the history of the country is during the reign of Suratissa (247–237 BC), where he was overthrown by two horse dealers from South India named Sena and Guththika. After ruling the country for 22 years, they were defeated by Asela (215–205 BC), who was in turn overthrown by another invasion led by a Chola prince named Ellalan (205–161 BC). Elara ruled for 44 years before being defeated by Dutthagamani. The country was invaded again in 103 BC by five Dravidian chiefs, who ruled until 89 BC when they were defeated by Valagamba.

Genealogy

The House of Vijaya claimed a close relationship to the Shakya dynasty, family of the Gautama Buddha.

Timeline

See also
 Sinhapura
 Shakya

Notes

References

Bibliography

External links
 Genealogy of the House of Vijaya

6th-century BC establishments in Sri Lanka
1st-century disestablishments in Sri Lanka


title: European route E512

text:
E 512 is a European B class road in France, connecting the cities Remiremont, Thann, and Mulhouse.

Route and E-road junctions

 Remiremont
 Thann
 Mulhouse:  E25, E54, E60

External links
 UN Economic Commission for Europe: Overall Map of E-road Network (2007)
 International E-road network

International E-road network
Roads in France


title: Incultus brockii

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Incultus brockii is a species of swimmer crab in the family Portunidae. It is found in sandy mud from Japan to the eastern Indian Ocean including China, Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia and Australia.

References

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Portunoidea
Edible crustaceans
Commercial crustaceans
Crustaceans described in 1887
Taxa named by Johannes Govertus de Man


title: Jennifer L. Martin

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Professor Jennifer Louise "Jenny" Martin  is an Australian scientist, academic, and was recently the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Innovation) at the University of Wollongong, in New South Wales. She is a former Director of the Griffith Institute for Drug Discovery at Griffith University. and a former Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland. Her research expertise lies in the areas of structural biology, protein crystallography, protein interactions and their applications in drug design and discovery.

Education
Martin completed a Bachelor of Pharmacy at the Victorian College of Pharmacy in Melbourne from 1979 to 1981, receiving the Gold Medal for the best student in the B Pharm course. After spending a year as a trainee pharmacist, she completed a Masters in Pharmacy, supervised by Professor Peter Andrews, on the application of computational chemistry to opioid analgesics, which piqued her interest in research and led to her first scientific publications. She then left Australia to undertake a DPhil at the University of Oxford supported by a Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 Science Research Scholarship and four other scholarships and bursaries. Under the guidance of Professors Peter Goodford and Louise Johnson, her PhD research used protein crystallography to design glycogen phosphorylase inhibitors as potential anti-diabetic compounds. Martin paid tribute to the positive influence that Louise Johnson had on her career upon her death in 2012. In 2015, Martin completed the London Business School four-week Senior Executive Programme as part of a cohort of 50 industry, government, not-for-profit and academic leaders from around the world.

Scientific career

After completing her PhD she returned briefly to Australia to take up a post-doctoral position at Bond University in 1990. However, the unexpected closure of the School of Science and Technology resulted in her leaving Australia early in 1991 to take up a post-doctoral position with Professor John Kuriyan, a structural biologist, at Rockefeller University in New York to work on the disulfide bond forming family of proteins (DSBs) in Escherichia coli. She solved the structure of the DsbA protein which was published in 1993 in the high impact journal Nature.

In 1993 Martin received an ARC Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship. This enabled her to return to Australia and establish the first protein crystallography lab in Queensland, which is now known as the UQ Remote Operation Crystallisation and X-ray Diffraction (UQ ROCX) Facility, of which Martin is the Foundation Director. She remained at the University of Queensland until 2015, supported by several other fellowships: an Australian Research Council (ARC) Senior Research Fellowship in 1999, and a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Senior Research Fellowship in 2007. In 2009, Martin was one of just 15 researchers, and only two women, to receive an inaugural ARC Australian Laureate Fellowship. In 2016, Martin was appointed Director of the Eskitis Drug Discovery Institute at Griffith University, which hosts unique drug discovery resources including Compounds Australia and NatureBank

Since returning to Australia and establishing her own research group, Martin has continued working on DSB proteins and with collaborators is now developing inhibitors of these bacterial proteins as a potential means of combatting antibiotic resistance. She also began working on other proteins including phenylethanolamine N-methyl transferase (PNMT), an enzyme that catalyses adrenaline synthesis. Martin published the structure of this enzyme and later, as part of her ongoing research into different PNMT substrate-bound complexes, she and her team became the first remote access user of the Australian Synchrotron. Over the past 10 years, she and her team have also contributed significantly to the structural biology of membrane fusion, a fundamentally important process that underpins systems as diverse as neurotransmission and blood glucose control. She wrote an invited commentary for The Conversation in 2013 on this topic, and was invited to present a keynote lecture on her membrane fusion research at the 23rd triennial International Union of Crystallography Congress held in Montreal in 2014. In March 2019 Martin joined the University of Wollongong as Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Innovation).. She stepped down from the role in June 2022.

Honours and leadership roles
In addition to the research fellowships she has been awarded during her career, Martin has also received several honours in recognition of her professional contributions including:
2005 Roche Medal, Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
2005 Queensland Government Smart Women Smart State Award (Research Scientist Category)
2006 Women in Biotech Outstanding Biotechnology Researcher Award
2007 Dorothy Hodgkin Memorial Lecture, Oxford
2007 Honorary Life Membership, Questacon (National Science and Technology Centre), Canberra
2010 Lady Masson Lecture, The University of Melbourne
2011 Women in Technology Outstanding Biotechnology Achievement
2015 Finalist, Newscorp QLD Pride of Australia Inspiration Category
2015 Finalist, NAB Women's Agenda, Mentor of the Year
2016, Finalist, Queensland Telstra Business Women of the Year, Public Sector and Academia
2017, Wunderly Oration and Medal, Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand
2017, Elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science
2017, Elected Eminent Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute
2017, Inducted Bragg Member, Royal Institution of Australia
2018 Made a Companion of the Order of Australia for "eminent service to science, and to scientific research, particularly in the field of biochemistry and protein crystallography applied to drug-resistant bacteria, as a role model, and as an advocate for gender equality in science".
2019  Appointed to the University of Wollongong as Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Innovation).
2020 Leach Lecturer, Lorne Protein Conference

Martin has also held a number of leadership roles on national and international committees. She is a former chair of the National Committee for Crystallography of the Australian Academy of Science (2008–2011), a past President of the Society for Crystallographers in Australia and New Zealand (2003–2005) and a former member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Australian Synchrotron (2002–2009, 2015), the President of the Asian Crystallography Association (2016–2019) and a member of the Executive Committee of the International Union of Crystallography (2017–).

Advocacy and science communication
In more recent years Martin has emerged as a strong advocate for equal opportunity and addressing gender imbalance in academia. She published a letter in the prestigious journal Nature calling for scientific conference organisers to be more transparent with respect to their gender-balance policies and historical data. This inspired Dr Kat Holt to develop a website, "Look Who's Talking", that presents crowdsourced data on gender balance at scientific conferences held in Australia. Martin also writes a blog  which focuses on issues relating to women in academia, and she was a Foundation member of the steering committee for Science in Australia Gender Equity (SAGE) which recently launched a pilot of the UK Athena SWAN charter to address the under-representation of women in science, particularly at senior positions in universities. As an opinion leader she has been invited to speak on gender equity worldwide, and across sectors. In 2017, she presented a keynote lecture on addressing conference gender equity at the  Australia and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists Annual Scientific Meeting, and presented the Wunderly oration at the Thoracic Society Australia and New Zealand and Society of Respiratory Science Annual Scientific Meeting. In 2018 she gave the invited Inaugural Ruth Gall Memorial Lecture for the School of Chemistry at the University of Sydney on International Women's Day and the Chuwen Keynote Address at the 5th national meeting of the Australian Academy of Science EMCR Forum Science Pathways "Diversify your Thinking".

Martin also contributes to science communication initiatives to help a wider audience understand her scientific fields of interest. She has participated in events such as BrisScience, which runs public lectures on science and technology; SCOM BOMB, a Google hangout operated by the Australian Science Communicators, Science Rewired and the Centre for the Public Awareness of Science as part of the No Funny Business science communication website; and the 2014 UNESCO International Year of Crystallography, including a radio interview and public lecture. She also writes articles for The Conversation, an independent, online source of news and views from the academic and research community.

Personal life
Martin grew up in a large family of nine children in Dandenong, Victoria. She currently resides in Wollongong with her husband Michael.

References

External links
 Professor Jennifer Martin's Griffith Experts profile
 cubistcrystal: Jenny Martin's blog

Australian women scientists
Scientists from Brisbane
Alumni of the University of Oxford
Academic staff of the University of Queensland
Monash University alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Scientists from Melbourne
Computational chemists
Companions of the Order of Australia
Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science
People from Dandenong, Victoria
Academic staff of Griffith University
Academic staff of the University of Wollongong


title: Apoballis

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Apoballis is a genus of plants in the  Araceae. It is native to Southeast Asia, primarily the Island of Sumatra in Indonesia. Some authorities regard this group as part of the larger genus Schismatoglottis.

Apoballis acuminatissima (Schott) S.Y.Wong & P.C.Boyce - Sumatra
Apoballis belophylla (Alderw.) S.Y.Wong & P.C.Boyce - Sumatra
Apoballis brevipes (Hook.f.) S.Y.Wong & P.C.Boyce - Sumatra, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia
Apoballis grandiflora (Alderw.) S.Y.Wong & P.C.Boyce - Sumatra
Apoballis hastifolia (Hallier f. ex Engl.) S.Y.Wong & P.C.Boyce - Sumatra
Apoballis javanica (Engl.) S.Y.Wong & P.C.Boyce - Java
Apoballis longicaulis (Ridl.) S.Y.Wong & P.C.Boyce - Sumatra
Apoballis mutata (Scort. ex Hook.f.) S.Y.Wong & P.C.Boyce - Myanmar, Sumatra, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia
Apoballis okadae (M.Hotta) S.Y.Wong & P.C.Boyce - Sumatra
Apoballis ovata (Schott) S.Y.Wong & P.C.Boyce - Sumatra
Apoballis rupestris (Zoll. & Moritzi) S.Y.Wong & P.C.Boyce - Sumatra, Java, Bali, Lombok, Timor
Apoballis sagittifolia (Alderw.) S.Y.Wong & P.C.Boyce - Sumatra

References

Aroideae
Araceae genera


title: Panjumittai

text:
Panjumittai () is a 2018 Tamil language fantasy comedy film written and directed by debutant S. P. Mohan (also known as Sengoda mohan) and produced by Ramesh KV, S. Ganesh and Vinodh Kumar. The film has Ma Ka Pa Anand and Nikhila Vimal in the lead roles, while Sendrayan, Pandiarajan, Pandu and Vidyullekha Raman play supporting roles. D. Imman composed the music for the film, which was based on the short film Kalaru.

Plot
Appu, a married man, begins to suspect his close friend Kuppu having an affair with his wife Ranji, as he finds both of them sharing similar interests.

Cast
Ma Ka Pa Anand as Appu
Nikhila Vimal as Ranji
Sendrayan as Kuppu
Pandiarajan as Psychiatrist
Pandu
Vidyullekha Raman
Bharathimani
Thavasi as Ranji's father

Soundtrack
The soundtrack was composed by D. Imman.

Release and reception
Panjumittai was released on 1 June 2018. The Times of India rated the film 1.5 out of 5 stars. The Indian Express rated it 3 stars out of 5, writing, "Panjumittai is a throwback to the wonderful, sweet escape a cinema hall offered in the past, but in its existing problematic form, also turns out to be a stark reminder of how artificiality can leave a bitter aftertaste."

References

External links

2018 films
2010s Tamil-language films
Features based on short films
Films scored by D. Imman
Indian science fiction comedy films
2010s science fiction comedy films
Indian fantasy comedy films
2010s fantasy comedy films
2018 directorial debut films
2018 comedy films


title: Bill Kuisle

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Bill Kuisle (born January 11, 1958) is a Republican politician and farmer from Minnesota.

Kuisle earned an associate of arts degree from Rochester Community College and attended University of Wisconsin, River Falls. He graduated from Cardinal Stritch University with a degree in Business Management. He was a commissioner for Olmsted County before serving as a state legislator from 1996 to 2004. Jeff Johnson selected Kuisle as a running mate in his 2014 bid for Governor.

References

1958 births
Living people
Republican Party members of the Minnesota House of Representatives
Politicians from Rochester, Minnesota
21st-century American politicians


title: Oreonana clementis

text:
Oreonana clementis, the pygmy mountainparsley, is a perennial plant in the carrot family (Apiaceae) that grows in the United States Sierra Nevada mountain range.

Habitat and range
It can be found in the Sierra Nevada from , in dry, granitic gravels.

Description
A tuft of , gray, hairy leaves are attached directly to the root, with no stems.

Balls of whitish flower clusters on short stems occur from May to August.

References

Apioideae
Flora of the Sierra Nevada (United States)


title: Eilenburg station

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Eilenburg station is one of two railway stations in the district town of Eilenburg in the German state of Saxony. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 4 station. The station is located on the southeastern edge of the town.

The station was opened in 1871 and gained importance over time in passenger and freight transport. Many workplaces were associated with it. Today, regional trains run to Leipzig, Halle (Saale), Hoyerswerda and Cottbus. Since the commissioning of the Leipzig City Tunnel, trains of the Mitteldeutschland S-Bahn stop in Eilenburg.

History
The town of Eilenburg was in an area that was peripheral to Prussia, having been ceded to it by the Kingdom of Saxony at the Congress of Vienna. It was not until 1868, when there was already a dense railway network that the Halle-Sorau-Guben Railway Company () was granted a concession and permit for the construction of a railway to it. The station building was built in 1871, which included service areas, ticket counters, baggage handling, housing for employees and four waiting rooms. The line from Falkenberg (Elster) via Eilenburg to Halle (Saale) was opened a year later, in April 1872. The branch to the Saxon university and trade fair city of Leipzig was opened in November 1874. The end of the line in Leipzig was at the Leipzig Eilenburger Bahnhof (the Eilenburg line station), which it had built as a terminus. The Eilenburg–Lutherstadt-Wittenberg line opened on 20 February 1895. About 1914, the idea had also developed of building a line from Eilenburg to Bitterfeld with its emerging industrial areas. Because of the outbreak of the First World War, this project did not, however, go beyond the planning phase.

The last section of the Eilenburg–Wurzen railway was opened in 1927. Its construction was also almost abandoned due to the First World War.

The station was a major employer from its opening. In 1910, there were a total of 233 employees and in 1933 this had risen to 570. These were distributed as follows: railway workers (250), rail workshop (40), rollingstock maintenance (6), carriage cleaning (4), track maintenance (Bahnmeisterei) together with signal maintenance and artisans (220) and freight and baggage handling and ticketing (50). The station was a powerful force for the economic development of the whole town.

On 29 March 1945, the most serious accident happened in the history of the station. On that day at about 12:45 a freight train loaded with Nebelwerfer mortar projectiles caught fire, as the wood wool that was used to complete the charge had ignited. To minimize the damage from an explosion, the affected wagon was detached and pushed out from the station to the west towards Wedelwitz. At about 13:00 clock, there was an explosion and the shock wave was felt throughout the while town. 40 people were killed when it detonated and the fire-fighting operation is said to have lasted until the following morning.

Eilenburg station was in the territory of the Reichsbahndirektion (railway division) of Halle (Saale), which was dissolved in 1994. In the 1980s, the freight depot had reached its capacity. Approximately 1,000 cars were loaded each month and twice as many were unloaded. 30 freight trains daily were formed or broken up. In passenger services, express trains (Durchgangszug) running on the Kraków–Erfurt, Frankfurt (Oder)–Mönchengladbach and Cottbus–Eisenach routes and semi-fast trains on the Cottbus–Leipzig route stopped in Eilenburg. In 1995, an InterRegio service running from Lübeck via Schwerin, Magdeburg and Leipzig to Cottbus replaced the express trains. The long-distance service had been abandoned by 2000 and replaced by two Regional-Express services.

Passenger services were abandoned from Eilenburg to Wurzen in 1978. 20 years later, the state of Saxony ended scheduled passenger traffic on the route to Wittenberg between Eilenburg station and Bad Düben.

The external appearance of Eilenburg station was improved by the Zweckverband für den Nahverkehrsraum Leipzig (the Leipzig local transport authority) and DB Station&Service in 2010 in preparation for the 1050 anniversary of the town. Vandalism to the station building was removed and platform 1 was rebuilt at a cost of about €200,000. In the western area of the station, catenary, rail tracks and signals have been under reconstruction since June 2011; this will create better conditions for freight train formation and allow for a faster entrance into the station from Leipzig and Halle. The cost will be around €7 million.

Description

Passenger station

The infrastructure of the passenger station includes the red brick entrance building, which has a tower on its west side. It was built in the 1870s and was extensively renovated in the 1990s. It is now heritage-listed. The Deutsche Bahn-owned restaurants closed a short time after the renovation. Two small retail spaces have also been untenanted recently. The remaining DB travel agency, which included a newsagency, was closed in late 2011. The waiting hall also remains closed. In May 2012, it was announced that the DB had sold the building to an Eilenburg telecommunications company. There are plans to upgrade the building by the autumn of 2012 as the company's headquarters. The tracks are located south of the entrance building and on the other side of them is federal highway 87. The station has two platforms with four edges for transport services: the platform 1 has a length of 470 metres and platform 2 is 325 metres long and is reached by a pedestrian underpass. Both have a platform height of 38 centimetres. On platform 2, there are still a waiting room and the office of the platform supervisor, both of which are now unused. The main platform, as well as a 150-metre-long outside platform, which connects to platform 2 are no longer used for the embarkation and disembarkation of passengers. The station building is accessible by the disabled, but the platforms can only be reached by stairs.

Freight yard

In Eilenburg, close to the south end of the passenger station, there are about ten tracks of a freight yard with a hump. There are also sidings for the use of freight cars and locomotives to the east of the entrance building and the Railion social facility. In this area on track 39, there is still a power supply point and there was formerly a loading dock. Today there is a loading road next to track 34. In addition to the dispatcher signalbox (coded Ew) there is an office of DB Netz. The supervisor of the freight yard is no longer available.  A Voith Gravita diesel locomotive (class DB-261) series is used for marshalling. Previously, this task required one to two diesel locomotives of class V 90. A class 232 locomotive is used to haul the connecting freight trains.

Locomotive depot

A locomotive depot (Bahnbetriebswerk) was established in Eilenburg in 1926. It oversaw the locomotive depots in Torgau and Schildau and, after 1964, also the locomotive depots in Wurzen. It operated 16 to 18 locomotives of classes 38, 52.80, 55.72 and 94 for operations in Eilenburg. There were also six to eight locomotives in Torgau, two in Schildau and three in Wurzen.

The Eilenburg depot, including its three branches, employed a total of about 350 people in management, locomotive despatch, locomotive maintenance, maintenance of technical systems and stationary personnel. The engine crew alone had 90 employees. Marshalling operations included, among other things, the operation of the sidings at Eilenburg Ost station, the Eilenburg chemical plant (Eilenburger Chemiewerk) and the Dermatoid works. The depot included a roundhouse with 12 tracks, of which four were part of the workshop.

In the mid-1960s, the first diesel locomotives of DR classes V 100 and V 60 were put into service. Shortly afterwards, these were followed by three locomotives of DR class V 200. These gradually took over from the steam locomotives. After the electrification of the Halle (Saale)–Eilenburg line in the late 1980s, electric locomotives of classes 211, 242, 243 and 250 were also put into service.

The Eilenburg depot lost its status as an independent agency in 1969. In 1995, the turntable and the slag conveyor were demolished and the two water towers were closed. The social area and the changing rooms were still in use until 1999.

Transport services

History

From the opening of the station until at least the end of the Second World War, it handled through traffic from Halle to Cottbus, unlike today. To get to Leipzig, it was necessary to change in Eilenburg. This was because Eilenburg and Halle were in Prussia, while Leipzig was in Saxony. In 1944, an express train (Durchgangszug) and a semi-fast train (Eilzug) ran from Halle to Cottbus each day as well as an express train from Leipzig to Cottbus. In addition, five passenger trains ran from Halle to Falkenberg (Elster), some continuing to Cottbus. In addition, seven passenger trains ran from Leipzig to Eilenburg each day. There were four daily services to Lutherstadt Wittenberg and three from Wittenberg each day.

During the existence of East Germany, there were many commuter trains in the morning and in the afternoon. In 1970, through trains mainly ran from Leipzig to Cottbus, so that now travellers to and from Halle had to be change in Eilenburg. Three express and three semi-fast trains ran each day in each direction between Leipzig and Cottbus, which invariably stopped in Eilenburg. Then there were thirteen passenger services to and from Leipzig or over part of the line through Taucha (b Leipzig). On the Halle–Eilenburg line, there were, apart from a pair of express trains each day, only regional services. So there were thirteen passenger trains in each direction. There were seven continuous connections between Eilenburg and Wittenberg in each direction in 1970. On the Eilenburg–Wurzen branch line, on which passenger services ended in 1978, there were four pairs of trains a day in 1970.

Passenger services

There have been no long-distance services on the lines connecting to Eilenburg since 2000. Eilenburg station, listed in sections 209.43, 218.1, 501.4 and 501.9 of the timetable, is served by the following regional transport services operated by DB Regio:

The Regional-Express services operate daily at 120-minute intervals. With the addition of a service of the Mitteldeutschland S-Bahn, services on the Eilenburg–Falkenberg (Elster) section run every 60 minutes. From 5:00 (Saturdays from 7:00, Sundays from 9:00) to 21.30, the S-Bahn service to Leipzig runs every 30 minutes.

The new S9 line of the Mitteldeutschland S-Bahn was introduced at the timetable change in December 2017. It replaced the previous regional railway services between Eilenburg and Halle.

Regional bus services

Eilenburg station is on the southern edge of the town and is connected to the centre by Bahnhofstraße (“station street”). The station is an interchange between the local rail services and urban and regional bus services operated by SaxBus and other companies. The main transfer point of Eilenburger Busverkehr (Eilenburg bus transport) with five bus platforms is at the station.  15 regional bus lines operate from here, some hourly hourly. In addition, the Bahnhof bus station is the meeting point of the two city bus services running every half-hour to Eilenburg-Ost and Eilenburg-Berg. For easy interchange between the two lines, another bus platform was created in front of the station building. As a station mainly used by commuters, 50 car and 80 bike parking spaces have been unstalled at Eilenburg station. There is also a taxi rank In front of the station building.

References

Railway stations in Saxony
Railway stations in Germany opened in 1871
station


title: Azersun Arena

text:
The Azersun Arena or Tofiq Ismayilov Stadium, also referred as Surakhani Stadium () is a football stadium in Yeni Suraxanı, Baku, Azerbaijan, opened in June 2015. The main tenant of the stadium is Qarabağ, who moved from their home at the Tofiq Bahramov Stadium when it was completed.

Construction
The stadium has a capacity of 5,800 viewers and is based in Yeni Suraxanı. The stadium opened in 2015.

History
Azersun Arena hosted a 2023–24 UEFA Europa Conference League first qualifying round match between Dinamo Minsk and Željezničar.

See also
 List of football stadiums in Azerbaijan
 List of European stadiums by capacity

References

Football venues in Baku
Multi-purpose stadiums in Azerbaijan


The 2009–10 Drexel Dragons men's basketball team represented Drexel University during the 2009–10 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Dragons, led by 9th year head coach Bruiser Flint, played their home games at the Daskalakis Athletic Center and were members of the Colonial Athletic Association.

Roster

Schedule

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Awards
Chris Fouch
CAA Rookie of the Year
CAA All-Rookie Team
CAA Player of the Week
CAA Rookie of the Week (3)

Samme Givens
CAA Player of the Week

Jamie Harris
CAA All-Conference Third Team
CAA Player of the Week

Derrick Thomas
CAA Rookie of the Week

References

Drexel Dragons men's basketball seasons
Drexel
Drexel
Drexel


title: Bakoa

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Bakoa is a genus of plants in the family Araceae. It has three known species, all endemic to the island of Borneo.

Bakoa brevipedunculata (H.Okada & Y.Mori) S.Y.Wong - Kalimantan
Bakoa lucens (Bogner) P.C.Boyce & S.Y.Wong - Sarawak
Bakoa nakamotoi S.Y.Wong - Kalimantan

References

Endemic flora of Borneo
Aroideae
Araceae genera


title: Kurt Petersen (inventor)

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Kurt E. Petersen (born February 13, 1948) is an American inventor and entrepreneur. He is known primarily for his work on  microelectromechanical systems. Petersen was elected a member of the United States National Academy of Engineering in 2001.

Biography
Petersen received his BS degree cum laude in Electrical Engineering from The University of California at Berkeley in 1970.  In 1975, he received a PhD degree in EE from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He established a micromachining research group at IBM from 1975 to 1982, during which he wrote the review paper “Silicon as a Mechanical Material,” published in the IEEE Proceedings (May 1982).  This paper is a highly referenced work in the field of micromachining and micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS);  it is considered to have helped establish MEMS as its own branch of technology. As of September 2017, Google Scholar reported 3,795 citations.

Career
Since 1982, Dr. Petersen has co-founded six successful companies in MEMS technology, including Transensory Devices Inc. in 1982 and NovaSensor, a company which develops low-cost micromachined blood pressure sensors using bulk silicon micromachining technology, in 1985. In 1996, he co-founded Cepheid, a company which uses microfluidic technology for rapid PCR detection. Dr. Petersen also co-founded SiTime in 2004 and Profusa in 2008. In 2009, he co-founded Verreon and joined as Chief Technology Officer, helping to coordinate the company’s sale to Qualcomm in 2010.

In 2011, Petersen joined the  Band of Angels in Silicon Valley, an angel investment group which mentors and invests in early stage, high-tech, start-up companies.  He served as co-chair for the Band of Angel’s hardware subgroup. He joined the Board of Directors for Innovative Micro Technology (IMT) in 2013.

Dr. Petersen has published over 100 papers and has been granted over 35 patents over the course of his career. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and is a Fellow of the IEEE.

Honours
In 2001, he was elected a member of the United States National Academy of Engineering for "contributions to the research and commercialization of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)," and he received the Fellowship of the IEEE in recognition of his contributions “for pioneering contributions and successful commercialization of micromechanical systems”. That same year, he was awarded the IEEE Simon Ramo Medal.

In 2002, Red Herring ranked him as a Top Ten Innovator. In 2019, Petersen received the IEEE Medal of Honor.

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American businesspeople
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title: 2014 US Open – Men's singles qualifying

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2014 US Open – Men's draws and results at the International Tennis Federation

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title: John England (engineer)

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John England MICE (1822 – 14 September 1877) was a British civil engineer prominent in the history of the Colony of South Australia.

History
John England junior, as he was generally known, was the second son of John England, a prominent solicitor of Hull, Yorkshire. He was educated at the local High School and was articled to the eminent engineer (later Sir) William Fairbairn. On gaining his degree, he was put in charge of design and construction of engines for the HMSS Megara and her sister ship. When Fairbairn was commissioned by Brunel to design girders for the Menai Bridge, England and a Mr. Murray were charged with investigating various tubular forms and constricting a one-fourth scale model of the bridge to test its breaking strain. His work drew the attention of Charles Vignoles, who then employed England to supervise construction of the suspension bridge over the Dnieper at Kiev, a job which took five years, from 1842 to 1847. In recognition of his work he was offered the post of Captain in the Imperial Engineer Corps, but his health had suffered from the cold climate, and he decided to move to South Australia.

He arrived in Adelaide in 1851, and after a brief sojourn in Melbourne, he set up a contracting business in Adelaide, and after constructing a number of wooden bridges, submitted a design for a tubular steel bridge over the Torrens, together with a plan for extending King William Street (as King William Road) to North Adelaide. He and William Robson Coulthard erected the Glenelg jetty, the first screw-pile structure in Australia. He was appointed City Surveyor, but resigned that position to take over the Adelaide Waterworks on the retirement of George Ernest Hamilton in 1858 and the amalgamation of that position with that of Resident Engineer of South Australian Railways. He supervised construction of the Thorndon Park reservoir and its reticulation. He was instrumental in the erection of the Port Adelaide lighthouse and upgrading the Troubridge lighthouse.

He left the Public Service in 1867 after a Select Committee found he had authorized over-payment to the Thorndon Park contractor, and joined the firm of Wallace and Morel, who were laying the railway north from Port Augusta. This project was abandoned, and England left for Japan, where he had been appointed Chief Engineer of the Japanese Imperial Railways. He died in Tokyo.

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title: 2014 US Open – Women's singles qualifying

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 Qualifying draw
2014 US Open – Women's draws and results at the International Tennis Federation

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title: Ilir Bajri

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Ilir Bajri (born 1969) is a Kosovo Albanian jazz composer, pianist, and the director of Prishtina Jazz Festival. He has been a member of Classic Jazz Trio, Quasi Fusion Band, Ilir Bajri Quartet and has performed in different countries including Italy, Spain, and the United States.

Bajri is a member of Kosovan satirical political party Partia e Fortë.

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1969 births
Kosovo Albanians
Kosovan composers
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Musicians from Pristina
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title: L Marsland Gander

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Leonard Marsland Gander (1902-1986), who wrote as L Marsland Gander) was a journalist, war correspondent, and radio and television correspondent, chiefly for The Daily Telegraph. He was also a contributor to the Telegossip section of Television and Short-Wave World magazine.

In 1935 he was appointed as the first ever television critic by the Daily Telegraph, having already worked on the paper as their radio correspondent. During World War II he served as a war correspondent, and was at the Battle of Monte Cassino in May 1944, and the Liberation of Amsterdam in 1945.

In 1946 Gander returned to his earlier post at The Daily Telegraph as the radio and television correspondent and critic, remaining on the paper's staff until his retirement in 1970. His autobiography After These Many Quests was published in 1950.

Gander was a castaway on an edition of the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs broadcast on 17 March 1969.

His private papers are in the Imperial War Museum in London.

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title: Croatiella

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Croatiella is a genus of plants in the family Araceae. It has only one known species, Croatiella integrifolia, endemic to Ecuador.

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Aroideae
Monotypic Araceae genera
Endemic flora of Ecuador


title: Henry Lansdell

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Henry Lansdell (10January 18414October 1919) was a nineteenth-century British priest in the Church of England. He was also a noted explorer and author.

Life
Born in Tenterden, Kent, Lansdell was the son of a schoolmaster and home schooled before attending St John's College in Highbury, north London. He then studied at the London College of Divinity before his ordination as a deacon in 1868 and his assignment as a curate in Greenwich. He subsequently became secretary to the Irish Church Missions (1869–79) and founder and honorary secretary of the Homiletical Society (1874–86). He established the Clergyman's Magazine in 1875, which he edited until 1883.

After spending holidays in Europe, Lansdell began long and often arduous journeys to little-known parts of Asia. He distributed multi-lingual religious tracts and bibles provided by London missionary societies wherever he went, most notably in prisons and hospitals in Siberia and central Asia.

Lansdell had considerable experience of visits to prisons. He had first visited Newgate Prison in 1867, followed by other visits to prisons at Winchester, Portland, Millbank, Dover, York, Exeter, Geneva, Guernsey, and Edinburgh. However, the systematic visits of continental prisons first emerged in 1874. He decided to set out together with the Rev. John Philip Hobson (1849-1925), a fellow curate of Greenwich, where they distributed religious literature, primarily supplied by the Religious Tract Society in the prisons. As he wrote:

 “I started for Russia & Denmark, Sweden, and Finland, intending to return through Poland, Austria, and Prussia. We saw the prisons of Copenhagen and Stockholm, but they were well supplied with books, and needed not our help; whereas, in the old castles used as prisons at Abo and Wiborg, our papers were thankfully accepted.”
Lansdell was initially surprised at the reception they had received in Russia in 1874 “we sent 2,000 pamphlets into the prisons of Petersburg, reserving a third thousand for giving away on the railway to Moscow, not knowing at that time that for such open distribution a permission is needed”. Further visits in Europe were followed again in 1876, 1877. However, it was in 1878 and a longer journey in 1879 that he primarily concentrated on Russia and Siberia and they became the basis of his book Through Siberia.  His attention to Siberian prisons had been first brought to him by the Finnish teacher and philanthropist Alba Hellman (1845-1894) whom he had met in Finland and who had corresponded with him. Lansdell quoted from one of her inspirational letters to him:
 “You (English) have sent missionarys round the all world, to China, Persia, Palestina, Africa, the Islands of Sandwich, to many places of the Continent of Europe ; but to the great, great Siberia, where so much is to do, you not have sent missionarys. Have you not a Morrison, a Moffatt, for Siberia. Pastor Lansdell, go you yourself to Siberia!"
At the beginning of May 1879 he reached St. Petersburg. His rosy-coloured depiction of Russian prisons would elicit considerable criticism from Russian emigrees such as Kropotkin and Stepniak, and in 1883 from Eleanor Marx, who ridiculed Lansdell’s article that was actually a reply to Kropotkin’s criticism of him, that he considered unfounded. Lansdell's article  “A Russian Prison”, had appeared in The Contemporary Review, Vol. XLIII.  February 1883. Eleanor Marx chided “his optimist views of Russian prisons” in her own review in the March edition of the socialist magazine Progress.

Such activities sometimes aroused the suspicions of the Russian authorities and on one occasion he was arrested while travelling on the Perm Railway after it was thought he was distributing revolutionary pamphlets.

Lansdell's accounts of his travels across the Central Asian Steppe published in 1887 by Harper's Magazine describe in detail the Turko-Tartar, Caucasian and ethnic diversity of the region, as well as the geographic, topographic and climate diversity.

Lansdell's journey from Hotan to Yarkand in present-day Xinjiang "across deserts abominable" was probably the first by any Englishman.

He was the author of a number of books including Chinese Central Asia: A Ride to Little Tibet, which ran to five editions in English and was also translated into German, Danish, and Swedish. The two volumes recorded part of Lansdell's  journey through Europe and Africa to Asia. He travelled from Lake Balkash through Kashgar to Little Tibet (now known as Baltistan) by horse and yak at heights of up to , in the process crossing the entire mountain systems of Central Asia. Lansdell's objective was to deliver a letter from the Archbishop of Canterbury to the Dalai Lama, which he hoped would grant him access to the then closed capital of Tibet at Lhasa. In the end he was unable to obtain the requisite permission and had to make do with purchasing items from a trader who had been to Tibet.

Lansdell was a member of the Royal Asiatic Society, the Royal Geographical Society (elected 1876), and a life member of the British Association for the Advancement of Science on whose committee he served.

He died on 4 October 1919 at home in Blackheath, London, and is buried in St Mary’s Church, Greenwich at his own request.

Legacy
In 1922, Lansdell's wife Mary bequeathed a large collection of items he had collected on his travels to Canterbury Museum (now Canterbury Heritage Museum) as "a memorial to my late husband".

Works
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1841 births
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title: Star, Nebraska

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Star is an unincorporated community in Holt County, Nebraska, United States.

History
The founder selected the name Star for its simplicity. Star once had a post office.

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Unincorporated communities in Holt County, Nebraska
Unincorporated communities in Nebraska


title: Blow book

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The blow book, better known as a magic coloring book in modern variations, is a classic magic trick that has been performed for hundreds of years. It was most popular from the 16th to the 19th century, when variations of the concept were a staple of the book publishing trade. It has been referred to as the oldest example of a manufactured prop used for magic. It remains a common trick today, albeit mostly performed for children, preferably at birthday parties or other events due to the visual nature of the illusion.

Effect
The magician presents a book and riffles through it, showing a number of images in black and white. The book is then closed and a flourish is performed, normally involving audience participation, originally having an audience member blow on the outside of the book. The magician picks up the book and riffles it again, revealing that the images are now colored, or have changed completely into different images depending on the nature of the book.

History
The blow book is one of the oldest magic tricks. It has a history that is well-documented in historical sources, because the trick is based on a device that was only really practical after the widespread introduction of the printing press in 1450, which created a market for inexpensive paper and binding that the trick relies upon.

The earliest known mention of the concept was by Gerolamo Cardano in 1550, who described the trick by mentioning "conjurors show different and always unlike pictures in one and the same book". Another early mention is by Reginald Scot in his book The Discoverie of Witchcraft, published in 1584. This work examined witchcraft and revealed the tricks involved, ultimately concluding that witchcraft was not real. As part of this discussion he mentions the use of blow books, and goes on to describe how to prepare a book that the magician would then "whew you everie leafe to be painted with birds, then with beasts, then with serpents, then with angels, etc." He realized that the preparation might be beyond the capabilities of many would-be magicians, and directs his readers to "buie for a small value the like booke, at the shop of W. Brome in Powles churchyard", the earliest known example of a magic prop for sale. William Broome of St. Paul's in London was active between 1577 and 1591. A similar description of the blow book was published in French the same year by Jean Prévost.

The blow book is mentioned in Hocus Pocus Junior, the earliest known collection of magic tricks in the English language, published in London in 1635. In this text the concept is called a "iugling booke" ("juggling book") or "booke for Waggery". It contains a complete description of how to prepare a blow book. The author suggests presenting the book by saying "this booke is not painted thus as some of you may suppose, but it is of such a property, that whosoever bloweth on it, it wil give the representation of whatsoever he is naturally addicted unto". He further mentions that in order for the trick to work, one must use a "bold and audacious countenance, for that must be the grace of all your trickes". Many of the tricks in the book feature the magician or an audience member blowing on the prop; this was a common fixture of the trade. The trick continues to appear in many books on magic through time, often with references to where to buy copies; in The Whole Art of Legerdemain of 1748 it's mentioned that "the blowing Books ... may have them at my Shop on little Tower-hill".

None of these very early examples of blow books are known to exist today. The earliest surviving examples are a Belgian version from the 16th century, and French and Italian books from the second half of the 18th century. By the 19th century prices on printed materials had dropped so much that the trick was quite well known, and it was not uncommon for magicians of the period to hand them out after their performances. Quaker Oats even gave out a version in their cereal. The basic concept has never gone out of print for long, and modern examples remain widespread today, along with descriptions on how to make your own. Modern versions are typically in the form of children's coloring books and remain popular, even appearing on The Wiggles.

The mechanical resemblance of the blow book to the early animation concept known as a flip book has been a subject of some consideration in animation circles. Whether the blow book inspired the flip book remains an unanswered question.

Description
The most basic version of the blow book is based on alternating pages being different widths. The book is assembled by alternating the different pages, wide, narrow, wide, narrow (etc.), and then binding them together. Images of one type, black and white for instance, are drawn on every set of facing pages with narrow on the left and wide on the right. The alternate set of images, color in this example, are drawn on the alternate sets of pages with the wide page on the left and narrow on the right. The result is a series of alternating images on sets of facing pages.

To perform the trick, the book is held by the binding in one hand and riffled with the other; for right handed magicians this will normally mean the binding is in the left hand and the riffling is performed with the right hand. By carefully grasping the right side close to the edge, the fingers or thumb are only touching the wider pages, so when the book is riffled two pages flip each time, the wider page under the thumb, and the narrower one on top of it. This way the audience is always seeing the face side of a wide page and the back of a narrow one. To complete the trick, the book is simply riffled with the right hand inverted, or more commonly, by rotating the entire book around its transverse (horizontal) axis while the audience is directed elsewhere. This causes the upper side of the narrow pages to display along with the back of the wider ones. Images drawn on alternating pages are thus shown or hidden depending on where the thumb is placed.

More complex versions of the same basic concept can be used to have multiple sets of pages with different images. In these cases the pages are wider or narrower in a pattern along the entire length of the outer edge, creating a number of "hot spots" where the book can be riffled to cause different pages to appear. Hocus Pocus creates a similar concept by using small pieces of paper pasted to the pages to create the same effect, allowing the magician to grasp the tabs while they riffle. This version allows any number of pages per flip, the Pocus version using sets of eight pages.

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 Magic Coloring Book Revealed

Magic tricks


title: Incarum

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Incarum is a genus of plants in the family Araceae. It has only one known species, Incarum pavonii, native to western South America (Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia).

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Aroideae
Monotypic Araceae genera
Flora of Southern America


title: St Martin's Church, Puig-reig

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St Martin's Church ( () is a Romanesque church from 12th century in Puig-reig, Spain,   near the modern parochial church and the former Puig-reig Castle.

Exterior
The church's construction comprises large stone blocks of various sizes, and its thick side-walls are carried by a number of side-buttresses. The exterior of the church is completely plain, without ornamentation, except at the west wall. Atop the west wall stands the bell-gable with its twin openings, and below it is the main door, which has a simple three-arch archivolt, supported in part by four columns and their capitals.

Interior

The church has a single nave, covered with a barrel vault and finished by a semicircular apse. The apse vault begins as a simple-impost cornice, and is separated from the nave by a triumphal arch. At its rear is a single narrow window, vaulted with a voussoir arch. It still contains some of its original Romanesque murals.

References

External links
 More pictures at Sant Martí de Puig-reig, Art Medieval (in Catalan).

12th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Spain
Churches in Catalonia
Romanesque architecture in Catalonia
Berguedà


title: Anncar, Nebraska

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Anncar is an unincorporated community in Holt County, Nebraska, United States.

History
A post office was established in Anncar in 1900, and remained in operation until being discontinued in 1931. Anncar is the portmanteau of the name of a settler, Ann Carroll.

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Unincorporated communities in Holt County, Nebraska
Unincorporated communities in Nebraska


title: Lorenzia

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Lorenzia is a genus of plants in the family Araceae, first described in 2012. It has only one known species, Lorenzia umbrosa, endemic to Amapá state in north-eastern Brazil.

Etymology
The name of the genus comes from the surname of the Brazilian agronomist and botanist Harri Lorenzi, to whom Eduardo G. Gonçalves paid homage.

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Aroideae
Monotypic Araceae genera
Endemic flora of Brazil