The Thomas & Evon Cooper International Competition (also known simply as the Cooper International Competition) is a piano and violin competition held annually at the Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio. It is sponsored by Thomas and Evon Cooper and is presented jointly by the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and the Cleveland Orchestra. The competition is for young musicians 13–18 years of age and awards more than $35,000 in prize money, with a first prize of $20,000. The competition gives three finalists the opportunity to play a complete concerto with the Cleveland Orchestra. The competition debuted in the summer of 2010 with a piano competition, followed by a violin competition in 2011, and the competition alternates annually between both instruments. George Li won the first prize in the first piano competition and Sirena Huang won first in the first violin competition.

History
The competition originated as the Oberlin International Festival,  first organized by Emeritus Professor Joseph Schwartz in 1985. In 1995,  Professor Robert Shannon became the director and the first annual Oberlin International Piano Competition was launched. In 1999, Yeol Eum Son won 1st prize. By the time of its final edition, it gave the winners opportunities to perform with leading orchestras in China, such as the Shanghai Philharmonic.   In 2009, the competition was not held due to renovations of the concert hall. In 2010, a new competition named after sponsors Thomas and Evon Cooper replaced it. Since then, the competition holds its final rounds with the Cleveland Orchestra in Severance Hall. In 2016, the competition doubled its prizes to a $20,000 first prize.

Prize winners

Thomas & Evon Cooper International Competition

Oberlin International Piano Competition

References

External links

 A documentary about the first Cooper International Piano Competition
 A documentary about the first Cooper International Violin Competition

Piano competitions in the United States
Violin competitions
Oberlin College


title: H. Lane Mitchell

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Henry Lane Mitchell, known as H. Lane Mitchell (August 17, 1895 – November 8, 1978), was a civil engineer who served from 1934 to 1968 as the elected citywide public works commissioner in his adopted city of Shreveport, Louisiana. Hailed during his tenure as a popular success, his life after retirement was marred by legal troubles which led to his imprisonment upon conviction of theft of multiple city properties under his domain.

References

1895 births
1978 deaths
People from Dublin, Texas
Valparaiso University alumni
20th-century American engineers
Politicians from Shreveport, Louisiana
Louisiana city council members
Louisiana Democrats
United States Army soldiers
American military personnel of World War I
20th-century American politicians
Catholics from Texas
Catholics from Louisiana


title: Bryony Gordon

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Bryony Naomi Gordon (born 5 July 1980) is an English journalist.

Early life
Gordon is the daughter of Sunday Mirror former gossip columnist Jane Gordon. She was educated at a Kew College primary school and later attended the independent Queen's Gate School (an all-girls school) in south Kensington. She briefly studied History of Art at University College London before dropping out after one term.

Career
Gordon began her career as an intern for the Daily Express, writing occasional feature articles for the newspaper. She then began writing a youth-oriented column for the Sunday Express, before writing for The Daily Telegraph teen supplement in 2000. In 2001, Gordon joined the Daily Mirror gossip column known as The 3AM Girls. After the Mirror, Gordon resumed writing for The Daily Telegraph.

Since 2006, Gordon has written the "Notebook" column which appears each Thursday in The Daily Telegraph, as well as additional special features, such as interviews with public figures. She also writes the "How the Other Half Lives" column for The Sunday Telegraph Stella magazine. In 2007, Gordon was shortlisted for Young Journalist of the Year, at the British Press Awards. Gordon also writes for the Telegraph blogs section.

In June 2014, Gordon published her first book, The Wrong Knickers: A Decade of Chaos, a memoir.

In June 2016, Gordon published her second book, Mad Girl, a memoir about her struggles with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), bulimia, alopecia and drug dependency.

Personal life
Gordon married Harry Wilson, a financial journalist, on 5 July 2013. They have a daughter and live in Clapham in London. Gordon ran in the London Marathon on 23 April 2017 to support mental health charities.

Gordon has been open about her mental health difficulties, including OCD and depression. In April 2017 she began her Mad World podcasts with an interview with Prince Harry.  Gordon is a sober, recovering alcoholic.

Bibliography

Gordon, Bryony (2018). Eat, Drink, Run: How I Got Fit Without Going Too Mad.

References

External links
 Bryony Gordon's column
 Bryony Gordon's blog

1980 births
20th-century British journalists
21st-century British journalists
21st-century English memoirists
21st-century English women writers
Living people
Alumni of University College London
English journalists
Daily Express people
The Daily Telegraph people
Daily Mirror people
English columnists
Writers from London
British women columnists
Gossip columnists
People with obsessive–compulsive disorder
English writers with disabilities


title: Himalaya frog

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Himalaya frog may refer to:

 High Himalaya frog (Nanorana), a genus of frogs in the family Dicroglossidae frog found in Asia
 Himalaya bubble-nest frog (Raorchestes annandalii), a frog in the family Rhacophoridae found in India, Nepal, and Bhutan
 Himalaya sucker frog (Amolops himalayanus), a frog in the family Ranidae found in northeastern India and Nepal

Animal common name disambiguation pages


title: 1996 Great Britain Lions tour

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The 1996 Great Britain Lions tour was a rugby league tour by the Great Britain team which took place from September to November 1996. The tour included games in Papua New Guinea, Fiji and New Zealand, however due to the ongoing Super League war and with the Australian team under the control of the Australian Rugby League, the team did not play any matches in Australia. The tour was generally considered as a disaster, with Great Britain failing to win any games in New Zealand, and several players being sent home early from the tour in order to cut costs.

Touring squad
Great Britain coach Phil Larder selected a 32-man squad to take on the tour. A notable omission from the squad was Martin Offiah, who took part in the previous three Great Britain tours, but had told Larder he did not have the enthusiasm for another six-week tour. Several changes were made to the initial squad selected, as Gary Connolly, Lee Jackson and Jason Robinson were informed they would not be allowed to play due to their contracts with the ARL. There were also a number of other withdrawals, with John Bentley returning to rugby union, and Shaun Edwards, Paul Newlove and Steve McNamara all ruled out due to injury.

Former Wigan second row forward Denis Betts, who was playing with the New Zealand-based Auckland Warriors in the Australian Rugby League premiership, made history with his selection. The 25 test veteran became the first player selected to tour while playing in the Australian premiership and not in the English premiership.

Larder's assistant coaches on the tour were Clive Griffiths and Gary Hetherington and the tour manager was Phil Lowe. Andy Farrell was appointed as the tour captain, with Denis Betts named as vice-captain.

Papua New Guinea

Fiji

New Zealand

First Test

2nd Test

3rd Test

References
General

Specific

External links
1996 Great Britain Tour of the Pacific at wigan.rlfans.com
New Zealand vs Great Britain 1996 at rugbyleagueproject.org

Great Britain national rugby league team tours
Rugby league tours of New Zealand
Rugby league tours of Papua New Guinea
Fiji–United Kingdom relations
New Zealand–United Kingdom relations
Papua New Guinea–United Kingdom relations
Great Britain Lions tour
Great Britain Lions tour
Great Britain Lions tour
Great Britain Lions tour
Great Britain Lions tour


title: Halifax School for the Blind

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The Halifax School for the Blind opened on Morris Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia as the Halifax Asylum for the Blind in 1871, the first residential school for the blind in Canada. The first superintendent of the school (1873-1923) was Sir Frederick Fraser who was himself visually impaired and had studied at the Perkins School for the Blind in Boston.

A private school for the first century of its existence, in 1975 the school became a public institution under the newly created Atlantic Provinces Special Education Authority (APSEA), and it provided free education to pupils from throughout Atlantic Canada.

The school closed in 1983 and was replaced by a new school some blocks away, named Sir Frederick Fraser School for the Blind in memory of the founder. A memorial plaque was placed near the site of the old school in 2012.

The Halifax School for the Deaf was established earlier in 1856. The two schools were consolidated at the APSEA Centre on South Street in 1994-1995.

Notable students
 Arthur A. Chisholm
 Vivian Berkeley
 Eric Davidson
 Terry Kelly
 Fred McKenna

Notable teachers
 Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald

References

External links and further reading

 Annual Report. 1939
 School for the Blind Image, Notman Studio
 Frederick Fraser: What we do for the Blind, Toronto Star, 1918
 Shirley Trites. "Reading Hands: The Halifax School for the Blind". 2003
 Nova Scotia Archives, Halifax School for the Blind fonds (Contains Halifax Explosion 1917 eye injury records)

Schools in Halifax, Nova Scotia
Schools for the blind in Canada


title: Leah Remini: It's All Relative

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Leah Remini: It's All Relative is an American reality television series starring Leah Remini. The series premiered on July 10, 2014, and airs on TLC. It follows Remini's day-to-day life as she takes on the roles of mother, wife, and friend.

In March 2015, TLC renewed the show for a second season. The 14-episode season began in July 2015. In 2016 Leah Remini announced on her social page that the show would not return for a third season. However, in September 2017, she revealed that she might be interested in doing another season.

Cast
 Leah Remini, an American actress and comedian
 Angelo Pagán, Leah's husband
 Sofia Pagán, Leah and Angelo's daughter
 Vicki Marshall, Leah's mother
 George Marshall, Leah's step-father
 Shannon Farrara, Leah's sister
 William, Leah's brother-in-law and Shannon's husband
 Trish, Sofia's nanny
 Lou, family friend/handyman/security
 Raffy, Leah's personal assistant

Episodes

Season 1 (2014)

Season 2 (2015)

Reception
Melissa Camacho of Common Sense Media gave the show 3 out of 5 stars.

References

External links
Official page

2010s American reality television series
2014 American television series debuts
2015 American television series endings
English-language television shows
Television shows set in Los Angeles
TLC (TV network) original programming


title: Northway Bank

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Northway Bank, is a community bank located in New Hampshire. It was established in 1997 when the Berlin City Bank and the Pemigewasset National Bank merged, creating Northway Financial and adopting the name Northway Bank in 2005. Today, it is New Hampshire's largest independent commercial bank and the top-ranking SBA lender in the state.

Locations
Northway Bank has a total of 18 branches throughout the state, primarily in the northern portion of the state. Northway's main office is located in Berlin.

 Berlin - 9 Main Street, Berlin, NH 03570
 Campton - 414 Route 49, Campton, NH 03223
 Concord - 66 N Main Street, Concord, NH 03301
 Conway Village - 34 W. Main Street, Conway, NH 03818
 Gorham - 260 Main Street, Gorham, NH 03581
 Intervale - 3424 White Mountain Highway, North Conway, NH 03860
 Laconia - 400 S. Main Street, Laconia, NH 03246
 Manchester - 29 Cilley Road, Manchester, NH 03103
 Meredith - 42 Upper Ladd Hill Road, Meredith, NH 03253
 Settler's Crossing - 1500 White Mountain Highway, North Conway, NH 03860
 Pittsfield - 55 Main Street, Pittsfield, NH 03263
 Plymouth - 1-3 Highland Street, Plymouth, NH 03264
 Portsmouth - 750 Lafayette Road, Portsmouth, NH 03801
 Tilton - 5 Market Street, Tilton, NH 03276
 West Ossipee - Routes 16 & 25, West Ossipee, NH 03890
 West Plymouth - 287 Highland Street, West Plymouth, NH 03264

Closed locations
 Ashland - 130 Main Street, Ashland, NH 03217
 Belmont - 9 Old State Road, Belmont, NH 03220
 Franklin - 354 Central Street, Franklin, NH 03235
 Groveton - 3 State Street, Groveton, NH 03582 (sold to Union Bank of Vermont)
 Littleton - 76 Main Street, Littleton, NH 03561 (sold to Union Bank of Vermont)
 North Woodstock - 155 Main Street, North Woodstock, NH 03262 (sold to Union Bank of Vermont)
 North Conway Location - 3278 White Mountain Highway, North Conway, NH 03860 (relocated)

References

Banks based in New Hampshire
Financial services in the United States
Mortgage lenders of the United States


title: James F. Light

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James F. Light (1921-2002) was an American literary scholar, university vice president, and provost. During his academic career, he helped revive the works of satirist Nathanael West, with the first book length critical study of West's work, Nathanael West: An Interpretive Study, (Northwestern Univ. Press, 1961). He was also the leading authority on John William De Forest, the early American realist whose work he critiqued in John William De Forest (Twayne Pub., 1965), and he wrote extensively on J. D. Salinger, Robert Penn Warren and others.  His essay, "The Religion of Death in A Farewell to Arms" was collected by Hemingway scholar Carlos Baker in Baker's Ernest Hemingway:  A Critique of Four Major Novels.

Early life and career

Light was born in Memphis Nov. 5, 1921 to Lois Billings and Luther Light. Soon after moving to Chicago, during the Depression his parents divorced. Although his mother later remarried, he remained an only child, a good student admitted on scholarship to the University of Chicago, where he completed a Master's degree in 1946.

In Chicago, Light was part of the literary circle around Nelson Algren and Jack Conroy, and published an influential story, Christmas Furlough, about a black WWII soldier's inability to get a bus seat home during his brief furlough. In 1948 he married the former Rowena Neal while a professor at the University of Kentucky in Lexington.  After receiving a Ph.D from Syracuse University in 1951, he taught at Radford College, then at Indiana State University for several years, culminating in a Fulbright Scholarship to Keele University in Britain in 1963-1964.

In 1965, Light moved to Connecticut with his second wife, formerly Amy Wolf (after Rowena's death), to become chairman of the English department at the University of Bridgeport. In 1972 he became dean and provost of Lehman College, part of the City University of New York, at a time when students, faculty, and college administrators were often at odds. A long-time champion of educational opportunity, Light also respected academic standards, and sought ways of balancing these goals through the college's open admissions policy. When budget cuts hit as part of New York City's fiscal crisis, his planning helped Lehman, alone among the CUNY campuses, avoid layoffs of tenured faculty.

Light completed his career as vice president of the College of Arts and Sciences at Southern Illinois University.  After another Fulbright Scholarship, this time to New Zealand, he retired to Nashua, New Hampshire where he died on April 15, 2002, at the age of 80.

Books
 Nathanael West: An Interpretive Study(1961)
 John William De Forest (1965)

References

1921 births
2002 deaths
University of Chicago alumni
University of Kentucky faculty
Syracuse University alumni
Radford University faculty
Indiana State University faculty
Literary critics of English


title: Groupe Vendôme SA

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The Groupe Vendome SA was a French cosmetics holding company based in Dijon. The company was established in April 2002 as a result of management buyout arranged by the management team with a €33 million investment from the private equity fund i3.

The company operated several cosmetic brands notably Le Petit Marseillais (shower gels, soaps, baths and hair care products), Laboratories Vendome (skin care products for sensitive skin) and Prim'Age (baby toiletries brand).

It was acquired by Johnson & Johnson in 2006 and merged into Johnson & Johnson Santé Beauté France SAS in 2011. Laboratoires Vendome remained as an independent cosmetic brand within the new company.

History
The history of Groupe Vendôme SA dates back to 1919 when Lucien Monot started a pharmaceutical company Laboratoire Monot in Dijon.

1946 – Pierre Monot, son of the founder, inherited the business.

1967 – Marcel Elias joined the company as an accountant at the age of 24.

1972 – Marcel Elias became general manager and head of the board.

1976 – Gérard Monot headed the company.

1981 – The company started building national distribution and enters cosmetics and personal care market.

1984 – "Laboratoires Vendôme" created as a company and as a brand of personal care cosmetics.

1984 – "Laboratoires Vendôme" acquires "Le Petit Marseillais" brand.

1985 – "Le Petit Marseillais" brand launched into supermarkets with three types of soaps: green, natural white and rose.

1996 – Monot family sells pharmaceutical business to Germany's Merck KGaA.

1998 – Cosmetics business splits into two distinct brands "Le Petit Marseillais" and "Laboratoires Vendôme" (with "Prim'Age Bébé", "Classic" and "Dermatologic" product lines).

2002 – Marcel Elias arranges management buyout of "Laboratoires Vendôme". Groupe Vendôme SA becomes a holding company managing several brands including "Laboratoires Vendôme". By 2002 the company reached €121 million turnover in personal care products.

2006 – Groupe Vendôme SA acquired by Johnson & Johnson.

2007 - Marcel Elias leaves the company.

2011 - Groupe Vendôme SA merged into Johnson & Johnson Santé Beauté France SAS. Laboratoires Vendome stays as a brand name.

2016 - Groupe Vendôme SA was fined by Autorité de la concurrence in France in 2016 for price-fixing on personal hygiene products.

Brands

Le Petit Marseillais
"Le Petit Marseillais" (Little Boy from Marseille) is the biggest brand, comprising roughly 70 percent of the company's sales.

1981 – The brand was established by Bernard Lengellé, a former journalist of "Dauphiné Libéré" newspaper who revived the old recipe of famous Marseilles soap (probably dating back to 1921) and started selling it to pharmacies in Vaucluse. The brand was most likely named after popular newspaper "Le Petit Marseillais" that ceased to exist in 1944.

1984 – "Le Petit Marseillais" was acquired by "Laboratoires Vendôme" for 100.000 or 200.000 francs (around €15 000 Euro). New owners took the business further, relaunching it to supermarkets in 1985.

1986 – Soap brand with story of natural ingredients and Provence origin became popular. By 1986 "Le Petit Marseillais" soap gained 6 percent market share in France.

1989 – Shower gels were launched.

1992 – Liquid soaps introduced to the market.

By 1998 the brand added shower gels, bubble baths, liquid soaps and kids products to the product range.

2003 – Launch of shampoos with the accent on "the authenticity and naturalness, inspired by the Mediterranean origin" and grew the market share in shampoos to 4.1 percent by the end of the year.

Explaining communication "formula" of "Le Petit Marseillais" Stéphanie Perrouty notes that it typically includes "a moment of pleasure and care" as well as characteristics of flavours ("delicate fruit notes", "delicate fresh notes", "intense accents for gourmet", "gourmet fruit notes" etc.).

The brand stands for naturalness, Provence origin and unique combination of fragrances like apple and kiwi, peach and apricot, cherry and almond.

Other brands
In spring 2005 the company acquired cosmetic brands "Persavon", "La Perdrix" and "Parfumerie Bernard" from :fr: Savonnerie et parfumerie Bernard.

References

Chemical companies established in 2002
Cosmetics companies of France
Companies based in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté


title: Ulaskova tsässon

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Ulaskova tsässon is a small Seto chapel, situated in Ulaskova village, Setomaa Parish, Võru County, Estonia.

General information
The building is not state-protected. It is in good condition.

Building data
Ulaskova tsässon is a one-storied pine cross-beam building that has a square floor plan and a gable roof, the outer measurements are 466 x 372 cm, and the building has one interior room (13.9 m2). The outer look of the building has changed significantly: The building used to have an entrance-room and the walls were not covered by boards. The building has a doorway the size of 84 x 155 cm, with a single-sided leaf made from boards fixed on the crosspiece by forged hinges. The door opens on the outside. The building has one wooden window with five panes, painted yellowish-white (45x65 cm). The opening for the window is outlined by profiled boards from the inside.

References

Chapels in Estonia
Setomaa Parish
Buildings and structures in Võru County


title: 2014–15 East Superleague

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The 2014–15 East Superleague (known as the McBookie.com East Superleague for sponsorship reasons) was the 13th season of the East Superleague, the top tier of league competition for SJFA East Region member clubs.

The season began on 6 August 2014 and ended on 3 June 2015. Bo'ness United were the reigning champions.

Ballingry Rovers folded on 25 November 2014 and withdrew from the league with immediate effect. Their playing record was expunged.

Kelty Hearts won their first East Superleague title on 13 May 2015. As champions they entered the preliminary round of the 2015–16 Scottish Cup.

Teams
The following teams changed division after the 2013–14 season.

To East Superleague
Promoted from East Premier League
Penicuik Athletic
Fauldhouse United

From East Superleague
Relegated to East Premier League
St Andrews United
Tayport

Stadia and locations

Managerial changes

League table

Results

East Region Super/Premier League play-off
Broughty Athletic, who finished third in the East Premier League, defeated Armadale Thistle on penalty kicks after drawing 5–5 on aggregate in the East Region Super/Premier League play-off to gain promotion.

References

6
East Superleague seasons


title: 1935 LSU Tigers football team

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The 1935 LSU Tigers football team represented Louisiana State University (LSU) in the 1935 college football season. The team was led by halfback Abe Mickal and end Gaynell Tinsley. It was Bernie Moore's first of thirteen seasons as head coach of the Tigers.

The Williamson System, an NCAA-designated "major selector" of national championships, ranked TCU first, SMU second, and LSU third in its final post-bowl rankings. The accompanying column notes, though, that "there was no undisputable national champion in 1935". In an apparent error, the NCAA records book notes TCU and LSU as Williamson System national co-champions for the season. the LSU athletic department does not recognize the team as national champions, although their media guide does mention the award's inclusion in the NCAA records book.

Schedule

Sugar Bowl
Four days of rain turned an expected passing battle into a punting duel between quarterbacks Sammy Baugh of TCU and LSU's Abe Mickal. The Tigers threatened often, once getting to the six-inch line, but TCU's Taldon Manton kicked a winning 36-yard field goal. LSU scored when All-America end Gaynell Tinsley harassed Baugh into throwing an incompletion in the TCU end zone for an automatic safety.

References

LSU
LSU Tigers football seasons
Southeastern Conference football champion seasons
LSU Tigers football


title: Seen It All

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Seen It All may refer to:

Songs
 "Seen It All" (Jake Bugg song), from the 2013 album Jake Bugg by Jake Bugg
 "Seen It All" (Jeezy song), from the 2014 album of the same name by Jeezy
 "Seen It All", a song by Korn from See You on the Other Side

Albums
 Seen It All: The Autobiography by Young Jeezy, 2014
Seen It All, a 2018 EP by Shea Diamond

See also
 "I've Seen It All", a song by Björk from the album Selmasongs.


title: Lukáš Kožička

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Lukáš Kožička (born 15 October 1987) is a Slovak football midfielder who currently plays for MFK Lokomotíva Zvolen.

Club career

FK Senica
He made his professional Corgoň Liga debut for FK Senica against MFK Ružomberok on 5 May 2010.

FO ŽP Šport Podbrezová
He made his professional Fortuna Liga debut for ŽP Šport Podbrezová against ŠK Slovan Bratislava on 11 July 2014.

References

External links

 ŽP Šport Podbrezová profile
 Eurofotbal profile

1987 births
Living people
Slovak men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
FK Železiarne Podbrezová players
FK Dukla Banská Bystrica players
FK Senica players
MFK Zvolen players
Slovak First Football League players
People from Revúca
Footballers from the Banská Bystrica Region


title: Porta San Paolo Railway Museum

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The Rome Porta San Paolo Railway Park Museum is a museum in Rome (Italy), concerned with railway and tram transportation. It is housed next to the Roma Porta San Paolo railway station and the Piramide station of the metro (line B).

General
The museum, inaugurated on 18 September 2004, is in part in the open, where the restored rolling stock can be seen, and in part indoors, where scale models, devices and technical objects are displayed, providing a full outline of the history of public rail  transport in the Rome area.

Rolling stock
The rolling stock examples kept in the museum include:
 Locomotive Breda AEG, year 1915, s.n. 01 STEFER from the Rome–Fiuggi railway.
 Locomotive Carminati-Toselli TIBB, year 1922, s.n. 05 STEFER from the Rome–Lido railway.
 Electric locomotive ECD "Officine Meccaniche della Stanga" TIBB, year 1931, s.n. 21 from the Rome–Civitacastellana–Viterbo railway.
 Tram STFER series 400, s.n. 404 "Officine Meccaniche della Stanga" TIBB, year 1941, from the Tramvie dei Castelli Romani.
 Tram STEFER, s.n. 70, from the extra-urban service on the Castelli Romani lines.
 STEFER, flat service wagon obtained by modifying a former extra-urban two-axle trailer.
 Power trolley STEFER used for inspections on the Rome–Fiuggi railway.

Photo gallery

Connections
  Piramide station, Line B.

External links
The museum centre of ATAC SpA website, with a description of the exhibits.

Museums in Rome
Railway museums in Italy
Tram museums
2004 establishments in Italy


title: Catherine Lyons

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Catherine Lyons (born 30 August 2000) is a former British artistic gymnast. She has represented Great Britain numerous times in a prodigious junior career, most notably at the 2014 European Championships where she was crowned Junior European Floor Champion as well as taking home a silver with the team. Lyons retired from the sport in 2018, aged 17.

In 2020 Lyons, with fellow gymnast Lisa Mason went public with allegations of serious physical and mental abuse within the British Gymnastics system In response several elite and former elite gymnasts came forward, corroborating Lyons and Mason's allegations in their own careers, including European champions Becky Downie and Ellie Downie and Olympic medallist Amy Tinkler. Later that year, British Gymnastics CEO Jane Allen resigned from her role, although denied her resignation was linked to the Lyons and Mason interviews and their fallout.

Junior career

2014
At the 2014 British Championships, Lyons took home all-around bronze as well as Floor gold and Beam silver. In May, Lyons competed at the 2014 European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria winning a silver with the team and a gold on the Floor.

2015
In March, Lyons competed at the English Championships in Loughborough. In the all-around competition she scored 14.450 on the vault, 12.200 on the uneven bars, 14.550 on the balance beam and 13.500 on the floor exercise finishing with a score of 54.700. Lyons' balance beam was over half a point higher than any senior gymnast in the English gymnast, the highest senior balance beam score was 13.900 posted by Olympic medallist Amy Tinkler, Lyons' all-around total would have been enough for the bronze medal if she were a senior.

Later in March, Lyons competed at the British Championships in Liverpool. Lyons had a solid performance in the all-around competition scoring 14.100 on the vault, 13.200 on the uneven bars, 14.100 on the balance beam and 14.200 on the floor exercise for a total score of 55.600 winning gold and 2.800 points better than the second place gymnast. Lyons medalled in every event final, winning gold in the vault final with an average score of 13.675, a silver in the uneven bars final with 13.600, another gold in the balance beam final after a positive routine and a solid score of 14.700 and another final gold medal in the floor exercise with 14.350 to finish off a positive meet at the championships.

2018

After struggles with injury during transition to the senior ranks, Lyons confirmed her retirement from the sport.

Personal life
Lyons was born on 30 August 2000; making the age requirement for her school year by just two days. She attended St.Anthony's RC Primary School.
She attended Kingsdale Foundation School, taking her GCSE exams in 2016.

Competitive Highlights

References

2000 births
Living people
British female artistic gymnasts
People from Dulwich
Sportspeople from the London Borough of Southwark


title: Diamond Teeth Mary

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"Diamond Teeth" Mary McClain (born Mary Smith, August 27, 1902 – April 4, 2000) was an American blues and gospel singer and vaudeville entertainer, whose career as a performer extended from the 1910s to the 1990s.

Biography
Smith was born in Huntington, West Virginia. She was a half-sister of the blues singer Bessie Smith (Bessie's mother, Laura, née Owens, married Mary's father).  She left home at the age of 13, to avoid beatings, and joined a circus.  She performed as a chorus girl in Memphis, Tennessee, and in various minstrel shows during the 1920s and 1930s, including Irvin C. Miller's Brown Skin Models, the Davis S. Bell Medicine Show, and F. S. Wolcott's Rabbit Foot Minstrels.  She was known as "Walking Mary" until the 1940s. She worked with Bessie Smith and was present at her death in 1937, later saying, "Bessie was lying in a hospital waiting room, her arm hanging by a thread and bleeding in a pan while the white doctors stood by and watched doing nothing. They let her die."

In the 1940s, she had diamonds removed from a bracelet and set into her front teeth, creating a dazzling effect and giving her a new stage name, "Diamond Teeth Mary". The diamonds were eventually removed to help pay her mother's medical bills. She performed in nightclubs and theatres (including the Apollo Theatre) and toured Europe with the United Service Organizations (USO). She also sang at the Cotton Club and Carnegie Hall. At various times she performed with Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Ray Charles, Count Basie, Nat King Cole, and Duke Ellington, and she was often promoted as the "Queen of the Blues".  She continued to play with touring shows, and in 1954 was reported as being the lead blues singer with the Rabbit's Foot Minstrels.

Among the stories she told about her long career were that she had lived for a time with the baseball star Satchel Paige and that the young Elvis Presley "would bring Howlin' Wolf and me liquor from the liquor cabinet." The blues singer Johnny Copeland said of her, "Mary is why I became a musician. I remember peeking under the tent when the medicine show came through town. She was the big star and I was the little boy who said I want to be on that stage too." John Lee Hooker and Big Mama Thornton also credited her with giving them their start in the music business.

In 1960 she settled in Bradenton, Florida, and in 1964 married her second husband, Clifford McClain, who died in 1983. She began singing gospel music rather than secular blues, giving up her nightclub engagements but becoming a star at local church events. In the late 1970s, she was tracked down by Steven Zeitlin of the Smithsonian Institution, and started to be given national exposure. She performed at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival and sang for President Ronald Reagan at the White House in 1980. She was featured in a documentary, Free Show Tonight; toured in Europe in 1981; and appeared in an off-Broadway production, The Vi-Ton-Ka Medicine Show in 1983.

In 1986, she became one of the first recipients of the Florida Folk Heritage Award. She recorded her first album, If I Can't Sell It, I'm Gonna Sit on It, released by Big Boss Records in 1993. She toured Europe again in the 1990s, and continued to perform at blues festivals until shortly before her death in 2000, at the age of 97. Her ashes were scattered on the railroad tracks in West Virginia where she first hopped a train.

A play about her life premiered at the Florida Folk Festival in 2000. Her gowns were later put on display in the Florida State Museum and the Blues Hall of Fame Museum in Memphis.

Discography
1993 - If I Can't Sell It, I'm Gonna Sit on It
1993 - Walking Mary’s Blues

References

1902 births
2000 deaths
American blues singers
Musicians from Huntington, West Virginia
Vaudeville performers
20th-century American singers
Blues musicians from West Virginia
20th-century American women singers
Singers from West Virginia


title: Rampage Knights

text:
Rampage Knights is a 2015 roguelike video game by Czech developer Rake in Grass.

Gameplay
The player controls a Knight who fights enemies in a procedurally generated dungeon. He can upgrade his character as he progresses in the game and also buy him better equipment. The player can also unlock new characters. The game can also be played in cooperative multiplayer on one computer.

Development

The game is inspired by The Binding of Isaac and Golden Axe. It was announced on 8 March 2013 as a mixture of fast action beat 'em up game and dungeon crawler with a focus for exploration.

The developers later changed their plans so the game was to be more linear because the map with exploring was causing too much frustration. The developers also released a playable demo and started an Indiegogo campaign and a Steam Greenlight campaign. The game was Greenlighted on 11 June 2014 but the Indiegogo campaign was unsuccessful. The developers then announced they plan to finish the game. Unsuccess on Indiegogo means stripping of the unnecessary extra features intended. They also mentioned of a possibility that the game will be released in Early Access.

The game was released as early access on 29 March 2015. The game was released on 4 September.

Reception
The game has an 80% on Metacritic.

References

External links

2015 video games
Fantasy video games
Indie games
MacOS games
Roguelike video games
Steam Greenlight games
Video games developed in the Czech Republic
Windows games
Early access video games
Rake in Grass games
Multiplayer and single-player video games


title: 7 (Sanna Nielsen album)

text:
7 is the eighth studio album by Swedish singer Sanna Nielsen, released in Sweden on 30 June 2014 by Warner Music. It was preceded by the lead single "Undo " on 23 February 2014. The album debuted at number one in Sweden.

The title refers to the number of attempts it took Nielsen to win Melodifestivalen and earn the right to represent Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest, which had been an ambition of hers for many years.

Promotion
From July 1–10, Nielsen promoted and signed copies of the album in Skansen, Svenljunga, Sölvesborg, Löddeköpinge, Gullbranna, Kosta, Göteborg, Uddevalla, Luleå, Trollhättan, Gullbranna, Kringlan and Södertälje.

On July 14, Nielsen performed at "Victoriadagen" (Victoria Day), which is the celebration of Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Victoria’s birthday.

Critical reception
Peter Dunwoody of 'ESC Xtra' gave the album 7/10, saying: "the album is 'mid-tempo' and 'middle-of-the-road' and while the production is more electronic than in her previous albums, many of the songs could have happily existed ten years ago."  He continued saying "there are very few adventurous moments but the highlights are very satisfying pure pop. The big triumph of the album is the production: it’s crisp, it’s big, and it’s just so Swedish"

Daniel Tew of 'Eurovisionista' said: "Overall, 7 is a collection of songs which flows well and is consistent in its strength. The pop pedigree behind the album is impeccable and the songs contained in it have hit potential" but said "the main downfall of the 7 as an album is the fact that it only contains nine tracks."

Zachary Thomas of 'wiwibloggs' gave the album 9.5/10, saying: "Overall, this album is spectacular and cleverly showcases Sanna in a variety of styles. “Breathe” includes a dub-step backing, and a catchy build-up to the chorus; “All About Love” has a slight Latin flare; “Trouble” is a tad eclectic, and “Ready” is a feel good, up-tempo track that makes you want to sway and clap along".

Track listing

Notes
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Charts

Release history

References

External links

2014 albums
Sanna Nielsen albums
Albums produced by David Kreuger
Albums produced by Per Magnusson


title: Ein as-Sahla

text:
Ein as-Sahla (, ) is an Arab village in Haifa District, Israel. The village is located in the Wadi Ara area of the northern Triangle. The village has about 2,000 residents. Since 1996, it has been under the jurisdiction of the Basma local council. The vast majority of the residents in Ein as-Sahla adhere to Islam.

History
Flint tools from the Epipalaeolithic  (possibly Kebarrian) and Neolithic eras have been found here, as has  pottery sherds from the  Persian  and Hellenistic eras.

Ottoman
According to oral tradition of the residents, the founder of the Kabha clan moved from Bayt Jibrin to Ya'bad in the 18th century. Some of the clan members left Ya'bad in the mid-19th century searching for sources of living, and they found a spring with pastures for their cattle and bought the lands around it and established Barta'a. Ein as-Sahla was established as a daughter village of Barta'a in the 19th century.

British Mandate era
During the British Mandate rule, the village was within the boundaries of Ar'ara.

1948 and after
During the 1948 Arab–Israeli War the village and the surrounding area came under Iraqi control. In March 1949 Jordanian forces replaced the Iraqi forces in Wadi Ara. On 3 April 1949 Israel and Jordan signed an armistice agreement, in which Israel would receive the Wadi Ara area.

After Israeli independence, the population of the village increased and martial law was implemented, which led to the settlement becoming a separate village in 1963. In 1973 the first mosque, named Abu Bakr Al-sidik, was built and in 1989 the second one, named Al-Huda Mosuqe, was built.

Ein as-Sahla lacked municipal status after the establishment of Israel and was under the administration of mukhtars (village headmen) appointed by the Interior Ministry. In 1992, the Interior Ministry established the Nahal Iron regional council, which included Ein as-Sahla and seven other villages. The locals objected to this administrative arrangement, and sought independent municipal status for each village. To allay local concerns, the Interior Ministry established an investigative committee to examine other options, and in 1996, decided to split the regional council into two local councils, Ma'ale Iron and Basma, which includes Ein as-Sahala.

Education
Ein as-Sahla has five kindergartens and an elementary school with 19 classes.

Geography
Ein as-Sahla occupies Mount Al-Khataf, which overlooks Wadi Ara. In the middle of the village there is a spring which gives it its name "Spring of the Plain". The village has a neighbourhood on the foot of the hill which has 350 residents. The village is surrounded by nature, which attracts tourists. The only established entrance to the village is through Ar'ara.

Sports
Ein as-Sahla has a local football club called "Hapoel Ein Sahla", participating in Liga Bet. The club has an adult and a youth team and they host matches in a soccer fields located in Barta'a.

References

Bibliography

External links
Welcome To Khirbat 'Ayn al-Sahla
Survey of Western Palestine, Map 8: IAA, Wikimedia commons

Arab localities in Israel
Triangle (Israel)
Wadi Ara


title: A Season of Giants

text:
A Season of Giants (, also known as Michelangelo: The Last Giant) is a 1990 American-Italian biographical drama television film directed by Jerry London. Based on the Vincenzo Labella's book Una stagione di giganti, it depicts real life events of Michelangelo, his youth, his approach with art, his friendship with Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael, and his involvement in great political and religious events.

Cast

 Mark Frankel as Michelangelo
 John Glover as Leonardo da Vinci
 F. Murray Abraham as Pope Julius II
 Ornella Muti as Onoria
 Ian Holm as Lorenzo De Medici
 Steven Berkoff as Savonarola
 Andrea Prodan as Raphael
 Jonathan Hyde as Solderini
 John Steiner as Cardinal Riario
 Ricky Tognazzi as Niccolò Machiavelli
 Julian Holloway as Aldovrandi
 Alessandro Gassman as Francesco Granacci
 Raf Vallone as Spanish Ambassador
 Pier Paolo Capponi as Burchard
 Angelo Infanti as Jacopo from Fiesole
 Anna Kanakis as Sister Ilaria
 Daniela Poggi as Bianca
 Tony Vogel as Bramante
 Giancarlo Prete as Angolo Poliziano
 Vernon Dobtcheff as Jacopo Galli
 John Hallam as Ludovico Buonarroti
 Mattia Sbragia as Lorenzo Di Pierfrancesco
 Marne Maitland as Romolino
 Venantino Venantini as Cardinal Jean de Lagraulas
 Francesca D'Aloja as Mona Lisa
 Danja Gazzara as Lucrezia Borgia
 Benito Stefanelli as the French Lieutenant
 Giuseppe Cederna as Cardiere
 Enrico Lo Verso as Scultore

References

External links

1990 television films
1990 films
American biographical drama films
1990s biographical drama films
Depictions of Leonardo da Vinci on television
Cultural depictions of Michelangelo
Cultural depictions of Raphael
Cultural depictions of Niccolò Machiavelli
Cultural depictions of Girolamo Savonarola
Cultural depictions of Lucrezia Borgia
Cultural depictions of Lorenzo de' Medici
Pope Julius II
Films directed by Jerry London
Films scored by Riz Ortolani
1990s American films


title: Tobrova tsässon

text:
Tobrova tsässon is a small Seto chapel, situated in Tobrova village, Setomaa Parish, Võru County in southeastern Estonia.

General information
Tobrova tsässon is situated in Tobrova village on Koplioja land unit (near Luikjärve farm buildings), by Tobrova-Helbi road. The feast for this tsässon is Passover (lihavõõdõh), a movable feast. Tsässon is used rarely, in the last years it has mostly been exhibited to visitors. The building is not state-protected. It is in good condition.

Building data
Tobrova tsässon is a small fir wood cross-beam building that has a square floor plan; it is connected by fishtail tenons in the corner. Corner tenons are axe-hewn; the walls of the building have also been hewn from the inside. Some of the wall beams have been replaced by newer ones: the lower log row in the entire building, two lower beams on the north-east side and two lower beams on the northern corner. The wall beams of the building in the corners and in the middle of the wall are standing on granite stones. The dimensions of the tsässon are 508 x 332 cm; the building has one interior room (12.3 m2) and an outer shelter of 2.3 m2. The entrance-room has square beam posts and a vertical boarding barrier. The supporting posts and barrier of the entrance-room has been replaced a few decades ago; a bit earlier, wider, sawn, vertical boards fixed side-by-side were used at the lower part of the barrier. Back then, the posts were axe-hewn square beams. The ceiling of the tsässon is finished by wide boarding, hammered to the rafters and forming a roof-ceiling. There are no ceiling-beams. The building stands on granite stones. The height of the wall from the ground up to where the rafters are attached is 188 cm and the height up to the ridge is 366 cm. The photos of 1974 and 1980 show that the building had a shingle roof that was in good condition, and now has eternit sheets on top of it. The ridge has a simple forged cross on it. A faded entry icon is under the eaves. The floor is made from hand hewn and dressed boards. The building has a door (92 x 146 cm) made from boards fixed on the crosspiece and attached on the hewn tender posts. Forged hinges with tips resembling bird heads are on the door. From the inside, the door does not have a finishing; sheeting with fishtail fluting is hammered on the outside. There is an alms box outside next to the door. The eastern side of the building has a wooden window with a single frame and three panes. The window with a trapdoor opens on the inside. The building has been inventoried during 1974. Fr. Dr. Fr. R. Kreutzwald Memorial Museum expedition. A photo was taken of the tsässon and icons and an inventory record was drawn up where the structure of the building and the icons were described. Tobrova tsässon is said to be one of the best preserved tsässon in Meremäe rural municipality on the inventory record (Kupp 1974). The outer look of the tsässon has not changed much compared to 1974.

Furnishing
A narrow icon table (shelf) with the front edge decorated by a gearwheel pattern is located in the rear wall inside Tobrova tsässon. The icon table has simple tin candlesticks on it, made for thin church candles. There are icons on the shelf as well as on the rear wall. The side walls of the building have tea towels hung on them. Three wooden candlesticks in the tsässon are also quite remarkable. There is a table with a tea-cloth on it in front of the icon shelf that has a basket with Easter eggs on it, as well as a vase with artificial flowers and small Seto and Estonian flags.

Lore and historic information
Festive Seto village parties (kirmas) were held in Tobrova during Easter (Sillaots 2001). Services were held in Tobrova on the first Easter Day at 10 or 13, with a sermon and a small water consecration (Sillaots 2004).

References

Chapels in Estonia
Setomaa Parish
Buildings and structures in Võru County
Churches completed in 1930
20th-century establishments in Estonia


title: Schlesser

text:
Schlesser is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Émile V. Schlesser (born 1986), Luxembourgish film director, screenwriter, composer, and multimedia artist
Jean-Louis Schlesser (born 1947), French racing driver
Jo Schlesser (1928–1968), French racing driver


title: Lacul Lebedelor

text:
Lacul Lebedelor ("Swan Lake") is an artificial lake in the center of Bucharest, Sector 1, in Cișmigiu Gardens, close to Lake Cișmigiu. It is reserved to water birds. Over 90 species of birds and animals can be seen on another lake in Bucharest, Lake Văcărești.

See also
List of lakes in Bucharest

Lebedelor


title: Rampone

text:
Rampone is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Christie Rampone (born 1975), American women's soccer defender
Salvatore Rampone (born 1962), Italian scientist and bodybuilder


title: Vukajlo

text:
Vukajlo () is a Serbian given name, derived from the masculine given name Vuk. All the derivatives from vuk were regarded as apotropaic names. It may refer to:

Vukajlo Radonjić, Montenegrin guvernadur
Vukajlo N. Božović, Orthodox priest and revolutionary in Ibarski Kolašin, father of Grigorije Božović
Vukajlo Đukić, footballer.

See also
Vukajlović, surname

References

Serbian masculine given names
Masculine given names


title: Serga tsässon

text:
Serga tsässon is a small Seto chapel situated in Serga village, Setomaa Parish, Võru County in southeastern Estonia.

General information
Serga tsässon is situated in the middle of the Serga village. The vicinity of the tsässon is used as a village square and has a swing, a flag post and some benches. Serga tsässon is dedicated to Saint Anastasia and the feast for this tsässon is on the 11 November (Nahtsipäev) (29 October according to Julian calendar). Tsässon is still used today. According to the data based on dendrochronological research, the probable time of building is 1784 (Läänelaid et al 2005). The building is not state-protected. It is in good condition. The tsässon got hit by a shrapnel shell during a battle in the War of Independence that shifted it off the stone foundation. Splinters and the damage they did can be seen today in the east and north wall of the building. During Nahtsipäev (11 November) in 2007, father Rafael re-inaugurated Serga tsässon after a thorough renovation. Local builders Ain Raal and Väino Järv replaced the lower beams, the floors, the ceilings and installed a new aspen shingle roof during the renovation. Serga tsässon was near to a new Taeluva church; therefore, the communication between the villagers and popes was frequent. Tsässon was actively used during Soviet times (Sillaots 2001).

Building data
Serga tsässon is a small, square one-storied pinewood cross-beam building with a gable roof; the dimensions of it are 565 x 438 cm. The building has one interior room (14.1 m2) and an outer shelter of 4.8 m2. The shelter is a construction supporting on six wooden posts, with a meter-high barrier made from vertical boards, the front edge has a gate about the same height. The building has walls made from round unhewn pine logs in the inside as well as on the outside, the height from the foundation up to where the wall and rafter are joined is 197 cm and up to the ridge 380 cm. The logs are tied in the corners by axe hewn backwards halving, that is typical for older log constructions in the region. The upper beams on the side walls are also quite remarkable, as the edges that extend over the wall are profiled by an axe. The building is standing on granite stones. For about 90 years, the building was off the stones and the lower logs were rotting. In 2007, it was raised on the stones again and the rotten logs were replaced by new ones. Half-beams that are axe-hewn on the top have been placed on the floor and rest on the slots in the front wall. The roof used to support on raising-plates and probably had a board-roof. By now all that is left is a raising-plate on the ridge and holes for former raising-plates in the head walls. The building has three pairs of rafters with roof boarding suitable for shingle roof fitted on it. A threefold aspen shingle-roof was installed on the tsässon during 2007 renovation. The door of the building (160 x 86 cm) is fixed on the hewn tender posts by forged hinges that are shaped like bird heads. The leaf of the door is made from boards fixed on the crosspiece and it opens on the inside. There is an old-time metal padlock, hasp and a clamp fixed on the door as well as an old-time forged handle with a ring. A millstone is used for a doorsill. There is a window with six panes in the eastern wall (45 x 64 cm). Signs of the place where a former cauldron hole (50 (w) x 30 (h) cm) can be seen next to the window.

References

Chapels in Estonia
Setomaa Parish
Buildings and structures in Võru County
Churches completed in 1784
18th-century establishments in Estonia


title: Fluker, Louisiana

text:
Fluker (also Hyde) is an unincorporated community in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, United States. Its ZIP code is 70436.

Notes

Unincorporated communities in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana
Unincorporated communities in Louisiana


title: Vukajlo Božović

text:
Vukajlo Božović (; d. 1926), known as Priest Vukajlo (поп Вукајло) was a Serbian Orthodox priest and revolutionary. Božović participated in the Balkan Wars, as a commander of a detachment in Ibarski Kolašin. He was the father of writer Grigorije Božović.

First Balkan War

During the Serbian mobilization of the First Balkan War, the Chetnik detachments of the Serbian 3rd Army included: Medveđa, colon headed by captain Dušan Sekulić, Ljubomir Vulović and Nikodim Racić (Lisica-Prapaštice-Priština), and colon headed by Božin Simić (Svirci-Novo Brdo-Kačanik); Kuršumlija, under the command of captain and Chetnik vojvoda Vojislav Tankosić and captain Dragutin Nikolić (Kuršumlija-Merdare-Malo Kosovo-Štimlje-Crnoljeva-Prizren-Ljuma); Lukovo, under the command of captain Pavle Blažarić (Lukovo-Madljika-Drenica); and Kolašin, under the command of prota Vukajlo Božović. Alongside these detachments, were two smaller ones located at the front of the Ibar Army, the first headed by reserve lieutenant Panta Miladinović, the second headed by Chetnik vojvoda Živko Gvozdić. The commander of all these detachments was major Alimpije Marjanovic.

See also
 List of Chetnik voivodes
Rista K. Popović (1870–1917), priest and fighter
Jevto Popović, priest and fighter
Prokopije Vujišić, priest and fighter
Jovan Grković-Gapon, priest and fighter
Stevan Dimitrijević, priest and fighter
Mihailo Petrović, priest and fighter

Annotations
Full name: Vukajlo N. Božović

References

Sources

1926 deaths
People from Zubin Potok
Military personnel from Mitrovica, Kosovo
Kosovo Serbs
Chetniks
Serbian Orthodox clergy
Armed priests
Serb priests
Royal Serbian Army soldiers
20th-century Eastern Orthodox clergy
Serbian military personnel of the Balkan Wars
Serbian military personnel of World War I
20th-century Serbian people
Year of birth missing


title: James Parker (art historian)

text:
James Parker (January 22, 1924 – June 20, 2001) was an American art historian.  He served for nearly three decades as a curator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Early life
James Parker was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 22, 1924, to Elizabeth Gray of Boston and Cortlandt Parker of Newark, New Jersey. His father, Cortlandt Parker, was a major general in the United States Army and his paternal grandfather, James Parker, served as a general as well. His maternal grandfather, Morris Gray, had served as president of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts from 1914 to 1924. Due to his father's military career, his formative years were spent in many places, including Vermont, England, Hawaii, and Massachusetts.

He graduated from St. Mark’s School in Southborough, Massachusetts, in 1942. He enrolled at Harvard College in 1942 to study modern European history and left in 1943 to serve in the United States Army. He was in the 150th Field Artillery Regiment, 38th Infantry Division of the Indiana Army National Guard and served in the Pacific War of World War II. He was honorably discharged in December 1945 after twenty-two months of service, where he became a technician fifth grade. He returned to Harvard College in February 1946 and graduated with a degree in modern European history in 1948.

Career
Parker began his career as a specialist in European decorative arts at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1951, was appointed assistant curator in 1954, associate curator in 1962 and curator in 1968. He was appointed Curator Emeritus in 1993, upon his retirement. Over the course of his career he developed a specialization in French and English furniture. He was once described by a colleague as a “curator’s curator,” who quietly inspired his associates as his duties developed and expanded over the course of his four-decade career. Heeding the advice of the Metropolitan’s director, Francis Henry Taylor, Parker traveled abroad in 1948 to gain experience by working as an apprentice in museums across Europe. He divided the next two years interning at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, The Louvre, Paris, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. In 1950, he briefly assisted at Wiesbaden Collecting Point, one of the World War II restitution archival depots for recovered art objects established in Germany by the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program. During his time abroad, he studied under Pierre Verlet and Sir John Pope-Hennessy, art historians and curators at
the Louvre and the Victoria and Albert Museum, respectively.

Upon his return to the United States in 1951, Parker joined the Department of Renaissance and Modern Art (as the decorative arts contingent of the Metropolitan Museum of Art was then called) as a curatorial assistant. He was appointed assistant curator in 1954, and associate curator in 1962. In 1968, Parker was elected curator, a position he held until his retirement in 1993, when he was elected Curator Emeritus. The name and scope of the department continued to evolve, ultimately adopting its current nomenclature European Sculpture and Decorative Arts. Parker’s specialization in French furnishings and interiors of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, earned him a guiding role in the installation of the Wrightsman Galleries, an extensive ensemble of period rooms. These spaces, including both rooms taken from historic buildings and recreations intended to show related works of decorative art in an authentic setting, reflect the encyclopedic collection of French decorative arts of two of the Museum’s most significant contemporary patrons, Charles and Jayne Wrightsman. This project occupied Parker for nearly three decades, as various rooms were installed, refurbished and reinstalled. In 2007, the galleries’ technical infrastructure was modernized, the lighting revamped, and the objects rearranged; yet Parker’s meticulous research and work is still evident, and the galleries are among the Museum’s most renowned installations.

In addition to the French period rooms, Parker supervised the installation of a number of permanent spaces devoted to English and German objects. Parker wrote scores of articles on subjects ranging from Rococo furniture to gilt-bronze ornaments, as well as assisting in the research and writing for several publications devoted to the Kress, Sheafer and Wrightsman collections. He lectured and served as
an adjunct professor at New York University. Parker felt that the decorative arts were, in a sense, an undiscovered realm, and his meticulous research efforts and concern for historic interiors and objects led to several important findings. It was Parker, for example, who discovered that windows in the Metropolitan's Sagredo bedroom had originally been located on the opposite wall, but were
interchanged during installation and relocation to allow for natural and then electric light. He considered the importance of adaptation and original intention with regards to Museum installations, and he attempted to impart that knowledge whenever possible.

Parker died on June 20, 2001, and was survived by nieces Elizabeth K. Parker and Nancy Gray Parker Wilson, and nephews, Cortlandt Jr. and Stephen Ward; as well as fourteen grandnieces and nephews.

References
Draper, James David. “A life at The Met: James Parker and the collecting of Italian furniture.” Apollo, January 1993, pages 20-24.
Dulling, Corey. “James Parker, at 77; was Met curator for 4 decades.” Boston Globe, June 24, 2001, page A25.
Johnson, Ken. “Gilding the Ancien Régime.” The New York Times, November 9, 2007, page E44.
Metropolitan Museum of Art (Manhattan, New York). Period rooms in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: The Museum : H.N. Abrams, 1996.
Metropolitan Museum of Art (Manhattan, New York). “Recent Deaths : James Parker, Curator Emeritus, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts.” The biweekly: A newsletter for the Staff and Volunteers of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 6, 2001, page 6.
Oral History Project interview with James Parker, August 9, 12, 19, 1994, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Archives.
Parker, James. “J. Parker’s Report on his World War II Army Service 7/3/87.” Photocopy, Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Vogel, Carol. “James Parker, 77, Curator of European Decorative Arts at the Met: A love of art that ran in a family was fulfilled in creating period rooms.” The New York Times, June 23, 2001, page A11.
Vogel, Carol. “James Parker, Curator of European Decorative Arts at the Met, Dies at 77” The New York Times, June 23, 2001.

External links
Finding aid for the James Parker Records in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Archives.
A Guide to the Wrightsman Galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Entries by James Parker, curator and Clare LeCorbeiller, associate curator, Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts.
Oral history interview with James Parker, 1994 August 9-19 from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Archives, New York.

1924 births
2001 deaths
American art historians
American art curators
United States Army personnel of World War II
Writers from Boston
Harvard College alumni
People associated with the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Historians from Massachusetts
American expatriates in the United Kingdom
United States Army soldiers
Military personnel from Massachusetts
St. Mark's School (Massachusetts) alumni


title: Western tree frog (disambiguation)

text:
The western tree frog is a species of frog in the family Rhacophoridae endemic to India.

Western tree frog may also refer to:

 Western Andes tree frog, a frog endemic to Colombia
 Western green tree frog, a frog found in Southwest Australia
 Western Highland tree frog, a frog found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea

Animal common name disambiguation pages


title: Gloucester Historic District

text:
Gloucester Historic District may refer to:
Central Gloucester Historic District in Gloucester, Massachusetts
Gloucester Downtown Historic District in Gloucester, Virginia
Gloucester County Courthouse Square Historic District in Gloucester, Virginia


title: Athletics at the 1998 Commonwealth Games – Men's 5000 metres

text:
The men's 5000 metres event at the 1998 Commonwealth Games was held 18–19 September on National Stadium, Bukit Jalil.

Medalists

Results

Heats
Qualification: First 5 of each heat (Q) and the next 5 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.

Final

References

5000
1998


title: Mitacs

text:
Mitacs is a nonprofit national research organization that, in partnerships with Canadian academia, private industry and government, operates research and training programs in fields related to industrial and social innovation.

History
Mitacs was founded by Canadian mathematicians in 1999. The organization, whose name originally stood for "Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems", worked in the field of mathematical sciences and associated disciplines but has since expanded. In 2004, the Mitacs Accelerate program was launched and has since supported over 10,000 internships nationally.
https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/201908/rnoti-p1290.pdf

Programs
As of late 2020, Mitacs operates six main programs:

Accelerate

The organization's flagship program has supported over 10,000 research internships for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows since 2004 and has since replaced the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council's Industrial Postgraduate Scholarships Program.

Elevate

The two-year program has the objective of providing postdoctoral fellows with professional and leadership development training while leading a long-term research project with a partner organization.

Globalink

The international program supports two-way research collaboration between Canada and research partners abroad. In 2016, the Globalink Research Internship program welcomed 565 students across Canada.

Canadian Science Policy Fellowship

The program matches PhD-level researchers to government agencies to influence evidence-based policy-making.

Entrepreneur International

The program offers travel grants to Canadian start-ups housed in university-linked incubators. The grant enables start-ups to connect with international incubators.

Business Strategy Internship

The program provides funding to students who develop innovative projects designed to help Canadian businesses.

Awards
Mitacs presents annual awards in seven categories:
 Alejandro Adem Legacy Award for Outstanding Innovation — Indigenous
 Mitacs Award for Outstanding Innovation — International
 Mitacs Award for Outstanding Innovation — Master's
 Award for Outstanding Innovation — PhD
 Mitacs Award for Outstanding Innovation — Postdoctoral
 Mitacs Award for Exceptional Leadership — Professor
 Mitacs & NRC–IRAP Award for Commercialization

Funding
Mitacs is jointly funded by the federal and provincial Canadian governments, academic partners and research partners. Between 2006 and 2015, the organization received $128 million in investments from the federal government. In 2015, the federal government pledged $56.4 million over four years (starting in 2016) to Mitacs in support of graduate-level research and development internships.

References

External links
Official website

Funding bodies of Canada
Scientific organizations based in Canada
Higher education in Canada
1999 establishments in Canada


title: 1936 LSU Tigers football team

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The 1936 LSU Tigers football team was an American football team that represented Louisiana State University (LSU) as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) during the 1936 college football season. In their second year under head coach Bernie Moore, the Tigers complied an overall record of 9–1–1, with a conference record of 6–0, and finished as SEC champion. LSU won their second consecutive Southeastern Conference championship and earned their second straight trip to the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans. The defense allowed only 33 points the entire season, which still ranks fourth in school history for the fewest points allowed by a Tiger defense.

The team was rated No. 1 by the contemporary Houlgate System and presented with the Foreman & Clark national championship trophy.

Schedule

Auburn
The Tigers made their way to Birmingham's Legion Field to battle rival Auburn. One of the highlights of the game constituted LSU RB Cotton Milner's 90-yard touchdown run in the Tigers 19–7 victory over Auburn. The run ranks fourth on LSU's list of longest rushing touchdowns in school history.

Southwestern Louisiana
The Tigers' game at home against Southwestern Louisiana saw the Tigers score 52 points in a half, which ranks second in school history, and 93 points in a single game, which is the most points scored by LSU in a game.

References

LSU
LSU Tigers football seasons
Southeastern Conference football champion seasons
LSU Tigers football


title: Pressure (Youngblood Hawke song)

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"Pressure" is a song by American indie pop band Youngblood Hawke.

Critical reception

"Pressure" has been met with positive critical reviews. Mind Equals Blown gave the song a 7.5/10 rating, calling the song "a funky, energetic, modern indie song," also comparing the song to Neon Trees and Grouplove. Ear Buddy stated that the song was just as good as the band's debut album, Wake Up.  Fender says that the song "stays true to the...band’s happy-go-lucky indie pop, but it also boasts a slinky, club-ready feel to it."  Surviving the Golden Age said the song "continues the band’s mastery of harmonies, vivid imagery and  uplifting hooks."

References

External links

2014 singles
Republic Records singles
Songs written by Matt Squire
2014 songs
Songs written by Simon Katz


title: Sant Agustí

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Sant Agustí may refer to:

Sant Agustí de Lluçanès, municipality in the comarca of Osona
Sant Agustí des Vedrà, village in the municipality of Sant Josep de sa Talaia, Ibiza


title: Husser, Louisiana

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Husser is an unincorporated community in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, United States. Its ZIP code is 70442.

This area, which was once known to the Choctaw as Chappepeela, meaning “Hurricane River,” was generally the same area known as Husser today. Later named for some of its earliest and most entrepreneurial settlers, Husser extends over approximately 16 square miles.

Husser is home to two sites listed on the National Register, only one of which is open to the public. The Husser Community Center was originally constructed in 1921 and served as the Husser School for over 20 years before being closed due to consolidation. In 1946 the community organization purchased the school and two acres at highest auction bid, and transformed the school into the community Center. In 2019, after being dormant for nearly 20 years, the Husser Community Organization began soliciting funds to restore the building to its former glory, as its suffered some age and decay. In December 2020, the building was officially added to the National Register of Historic Places.

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Unincorporated communities in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana
Unincorporated communities in Louisiana


title: Bulous

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Bulous () is a Syrian village located in the Hirbnafsah Subdistrict in Hama District. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Bulous had a population of 681 in the 2004 census.

References

Populated places in Hama District


title: Al-Biyah

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al-Biyah () is a Syrian village located in the Hirbnafsah Subdistrict in Hama District. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), al-Biyah had a population of 1,703 in the 2004 census. Its inhabitants are predominantly Christians.

References

Populated places in Hama District
Christian communities in Syria


title: Al-Humayri

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Al-Humayri () is a Syrian village located in the Hirbnafsah Subdistrict in Hama District. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), al-Humayri had a population of 1,797 in the 2004 census. Its inhabitants are predominantly Alawites.

References

Alawite communities in Syria
Populated places in Hama District


title: Jidrin

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Jidrin (, also spelled Jadrin) is a Syrian village located in the Hirbnafsah Subdistrict in Hama District. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Jidrin had a population of 1,215 in the 2004 census. Its inhabitants are predominantly Alawites. It was recorded as a Sunni Muslim village in 1838.

References

Bibliography

Alawite communities in Syria
Populated places in Hama District


title: Al-Jafiah

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Al-Jafi'ah () is a Syrian village located in the Hirbnafsah Subdistrict in Hama District. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), al-Jafi'ah had a population of 833 in the 2004 census. Its inhabitants are predominantly Sunni Muslims.

References

Bibliography

Populated places in Hama District


title: Camp Cuba Libre

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Camp Cuba Libre was a rallying point for American forces during the Spanish–American War. Established in Jacksonville, Florida, in May 1898, it was constructed after forces assembling in Tampa became too crowded, and was the rallying point for Maj. General Fitzhugh Lee's Seventh Corps.

Early 1898
The camp was originally known as Camp Springfield, taking the name of the area north of downtown Jacksonville. The boundaries of the camp were set by "Ionia Street on the east, 8th street on the north, Main Street on the west, and 1st street on the south." The camp saw its greatest activity as the rallying point for the 30,000 men of the Seventh Corps shortly after its construction. As an overflow camp, supplies were scarce, and resources were being directed towards the Fifth and Eighth Corps, which were being deployed to the Philippines and Cuba.

Women at Camp Cuba Libre
The Spanish–American War was one of the first wars in which nurses were used in an institutional capacity. The Daughters of the American Revolution Hospital Corps contracted four Catholic Lakota nuns as nurses who were sent to Camp Cuba Libre, before being assigned to Camp Columbia in Havana.

White female nurses from the north who were serving with the Red Cross reported the suspicion with which they were received at Cuba Libre by the chief surgeon, who questioned the need for his staff to be aided by female nurses, channeling the suspicion that women volunteering for intimate contact with male soldiers were "camp followers" (a euphemistic term for prostitutes who opportunistically followed armies). To counter this perception, Chief Nurse Edna Copeland instituted "strict sexual surveillance" on her nurses, which seemed to prompt accusations of misconduct by the women at one another.

References

External links
 Camp Cuba Libre Collection at the University of South Florida

Spanish–American War
History of Jacksonville, Florida
Military in Jacksonville, Florida


title: Sant Quirze

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Sant Quirze, Catalan for Saint Cyriacus, may refer to:

Sant Quirze de Besora, municipality in the comarca of Osona
Sant Quirze de Colera, Benedictine monastery in Rabós
Sant Quirze del Vallès, town in the comarca of the Vallès Occidental
Sant Quirze Safaja, municipality in the comarca of the Vallès Oriental


title: Cartennae

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Cartennae or Cartenna was an ancient, Carthaginian, and Roman port at present-day Ténès, Algeria. Under the Romans, it was part of the province of Mauretania Caesariensis.

Name

Cartenna's name was variously recorded by the Greeks as Karténna (), Kártina (), Kártinna (), and Karténnai (). It was usually Latinized as Cartennae or Cartenna, but appears as Cartinna in Mela. These names seem to combine the Punic word for "city" () with a Berber placename element (), also seen in the Phoenician names for Cirta, Tipasa, and Sabratha. The name does not derive from the river but from nearby Cape Tenes. The plural form Cartennae seems to allude to a second Berber settlement that existed  upstream. Notionally refounded as a Roman colony, it was also known as  after its imperial patron.

History

Phoenician colony
Cartennae was established as a Phoenician colony by the 8th centuryBC. It lay at the mouth of the Wadi Allala (the classical Cartennus). In addition to trading in the usual ivory, hides, and cedar of the interior, Cartennae was apparently the site of an important copper mine. Like other colonies in the western Mediterranean, Cartennae eventually fell under Carthaginian control.

Roman colony
After the Punic Wars, Cartennae was dominated by the Romans. The first emperor Augustus established a colony of veterans from the 2nd Legion there in 30BC and the city started to grow in importance. Augustus even founded in what is now coastal Algeria the following Roman colonies: Igilgili, Saldae, Tubusuctu, Rusazu, Rusguniae, Aquae Calidae, Zuccabar and Gunugu. All these colonies were connected to Cartennae in a military way with strong commercial links.

During the centuries of Roman domination Cartennae was a rich city with a forum, theater, baths, library and aqueducts, but it was devastated during the revolt of Firmus in the years 372–375.

Despite the continuation of its name in modern Ténès, identification of the site was long delayed by misinformation in surviving geographical accounts of Roman North Africa, including Ptolemy the Antonine Itineraries. Distances in the gazetteers were apparently thrown off by Ptolemy's misreckoning of longitude and by the lack of Roman roads in the area, requiring distances to be estimated by sailors. The French first confused Cartennae with Mostaganem,  to the west, but the discovery of epitaphs a few years later in Ténès helped solve the mistake. A necropolis has been excavated and formerly served as a public park.

Later history

Cartennae was sacked by the Vandals during their 5th-century invasion of Roman North Africa and presumably reconquered by the Byzantines during their resumption of control over the area. It was almost entirely destroyed following the conquest of the area by the Umayyad Caliphate. The bleakness of its situation militated against resettlement; medieval Tenes was a separate settlement about  away, settled by Spaniards in the 9th century.

Following the town's surrender to the invading French in 1843, the former site of Cartennae became the center of the new French town established in 1847.

Religion

Cartennae was a Christian bishopric in antiquity and the early medieval period and was reëstablished as a Catholic titular see in the 20th century.

The earliest known bishops of Cartennae were Rogatus and Vincentius, who espoused the schismatic or heretical belief ("Rogatism") that the church should not use force to compel orthodox belief, particularly against the Donatists; their arguments survive only in the form of StAugustine's invective against them. Other known bishops are Rusticus, who in 418 assisted at the disputation between Saint Augustine and the Donatist Emeritus in Caesarea in Mauretania; Victor, a contemporary of Genseric (and therefore of the mid-5th century) and the author of several works; and Lucidus, one of the Catholic bishops whom Huneric summoned to Carthage in 484 and then exiled.

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See also

 Mauretania Caesariensis
 Caesarea of Mauretania

Phoenician colonies in Algeria
Archaeological sites in Algeria
Roman towns and cities in Mauretania Caesariensis
Ancient Berber cities
Populated places established in the 1st millennium BC
8th-century BC establishments
1st-millennium BC establishments


title: XHVSL-TDT

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XHVSL-TDT, branded on air as Televalles, is a television station licensed to Ciudad Valles, San Luis Potosí, Mexico. Broadcasting on channel 8 from a main transmitter located east of Ciudad Valles on Cerro El Abra, XHVSL is a local independent station.

History
XHVSL signed on in 1996, under the concessionaire Alfonso Esper Bujaidar. Upon Esper's death in 2008, Adrián and Alfonso Esper Cárdenas inherited the station, and they consolidated their interest under the company TV Ocho, S.A. de C.V. Since this station signed on, it has been co-operated with XEIR-AM, which migrated to FM as XHIR-FM.

Programming
Televalles produces a large quantity of local programming. The station produces a local newscast on weekdays, known as NTV, as well as programs such as Conexión Universitaria, a program for students of the Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí.

XHVSL was previously a local affiliate of Televisa's Nueve and FOROtv networks.

Translators
XHVSL has two translator stations that extend the station's signal to the north and south:

Unlike many translator stations, both translators of XHVSL have separate names and identities: "TV Tamazunchale" and "TV Mante".

References

Television stations in San Luis Potosí
Television stations in Ciudad Mante


title: St. Patrick's College, South Africa

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St Patrick's College is a co-educational boarding school in Kokstad, in the heart of East Griqualand, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa.

References

External links

Private schools in KwaZulu-Natal
Boarding schools in South Africa
Nondenominational Christian schools in South Africa
Kokstad


title: Visa requirements for Fijian citizens

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Visa requirements for Fijian citizens are administrative entry restrictions by the authorities of other states placed on citizens of Fiji. As of 13 October 2020, Fijian citizens had visa-free or visa on arrival access to 88 countries and territories, ranking the Fijian passport 57th in terms of travel freedom according to the Henley Passport Index.

Visa requirements map

Visa requirements

Dependent, Disputed, or Restricted territories
 Unrecognized or partially recognized countries

 Dependent and autonomous territories

See also
Visa policy of Fiji
Fijian passport
Foreign relations of Fiji

References and Notes
References

Notes

Fijian
Foreign relations of Fiji


title: George Irumbayam

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George Irumbayam is an Indian literary critic and literature researcher. Author of 39 literary and 7 spiritual books.

Early life
He was born on 19 December 1938 as the eldest child of Irumbayam Poovathunkal Varkey and Annamma, who totally had four children. He studied in the Kaarikkodu-Pothi-Thalayolapparambu schools between 1945 and 1956, and at St. Thomas College Pala from 1956 to 1957.  He also studied at Sacred heart college Thevara (1958-1961), University college, Trivandrum (1961-1962) and at aMaharajas College (1962-1963). He received his Masters from Kerala University  for Malayalam and English, and the Masters Gandhism from Madhura university, Ph.D from Calicut university, and passed B.A. and M.A. with first rank.

Career
George worked as the president of the Malayalam Protection Council (Malayala Samrakshana Vaedi) from 1989 onwards

He got T.K.Joseph gold medal for first rank in BA and Dr. Godavarma award for first rank in MA (Malayalam). Then he became a Malayalam college lecturer in 1963 at Sacred heart college, Thevara and from 1966 onwards in Government colleges at Madappally, Kozhikode, Palakkad and as professor at Thalassery, Calicut. He retired from Ernakulam Maharaja's as head of department in 1994 after his start there in 1986.

He edited novels and wrote many literary criticism books. He was a member of the editors' committee of periodicals such as Kerala digest, Kolaya, Sahithya Niroopanam and the Keralsamskara. He served as president of Calicut Book Club. He was a member of many government -university committees and academic councils. Gaandhi's autobiography was translated into Malayalam by George Irumbayam, which sold over 400,000 copies in 4 years. Also, he has translated one of the Sherlock Holmes books. He has written and published many spiritual books as well.

Personal life
George is married to Theresa Valavi, and he has three children - Two sons named Jaison and Jesus, and a daughter named Sindhu. The couple live in Kochi.

References

Malayalam-language writers
Malayali people
20th-century Indian translators
1938 births
Living people


title: Meremäe Town Hall

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Meremäe Town Hall () is a building in Estonia, the site of the office of the Meremäe rural municipality.

History
In the beginning, the municipality office was situated in the household of Kärner family in Põrste village. Arguments about the location of the centre and name of the rural municipality, it was decided to build it to the geographical centre of the municipality. They settled on Mihailova puustus (wasteland), at the intersection of the historic Võru-Petseri and Pankjavitsa-Kiirova-Orava-Räpina roads. The present rural municipality building is the second of the buildings built for that purpose. The first building built specially to become Meremäe rural municipality building is now the home to Meremäe Youth Centre. The new rural municipality building was finished in autumn of 1932 and was considered very spacious at the time, noticed and praised by the journalists of that time.

New building
On 31 January 1929, the owner of Unkipa farm and a citizen of Meremäe rural municipality Sement Prokofi p. Põhja and Efim Liivik, the deputy for Meremäe rural municipality community signed a contract of gift in Petseri with the public notary, Johan Piip, according to which Semen Põhja grants Meremäe rural municipality community a vacant plot the size of 0.575 hectares under the name “Meremäe rural municipality building”. With it, the rural municipality acquired the land unit beneath the building. Developmental works were launched and from the 6 March 1931 issue of “Technology Magazine” one could read: “the Road Office has confirmed the new building plan for the Meremäe rural municipality, with Anatoli Rozanski, fully trained engineer as the author”. Soon after that the building began and on 8 September 1932, the rural municipality mayor opened the door of the safe in his spacious office. The building itself, with sizes 23 x 11.5 m cost 76,792.33 euros. It was built with the help of the locals (who provided construction materials as well as workforce). Inauguration of the new rural municipality building took place on the 25 September 1932. Meremäe rural municipality 10th birthday celebrations took place at the same time.

References

City and town halls in Estonia
Setomaa Parish
Buildings and structures in Võru County


title: Acanthocephalus echigoensis

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Acanthocephalus echigoensis is a species of parasitic worm in the phylum Acanthocephala. Found both in California and in Thailand, it has been known to parasitize the sockeye salmon, chum salmon, rainbow trout, and barramundi.

References

Echinorhynchidae
Animals described in 1920
Fauna of California
Invertebrates of Thailand


title: Athletics at the 1998 Commonwealth Games – Women's 5000 metres

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The women's 5000 metres event at the 1998 Commonwealth Games was held on 17 September on National Stadium, Bukit Jalil.

Results

References

5000
1998
1998 in women's athletics


title: Paeromopus

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Paeromopus is a genus of large cylindrical millipedes endemic to the U.S. state of California. All species exceed 10 centimeters (4 inches) in length, and the largest, P. paniculus, reaching 16.5 cm (6.5 inches) is the longest millipede species in North America. The genus was named by German entomologist Ferdinand Karsch in 1881 and contains four species: three occupying small ranges in the Sierra Nevada mountains and one occupying a large range including the Sierra Nevada and much of Northern California to the Central Coast.

Description
Paeromopus millipedes are long and cylindrical, measuring  in length and up to 8 mm (0.3 in) wide, with 68 to 80 body segments. The body color in most is brown to black with bands of light brown or yellow, although some individuals are dark gray or bluish gray with indistinct bands. The legs are relatively long, and the first pair of legs in males is extremely reduced in size. Like other paeromopodids, species of Paeromopus have fine parallel grooves (striae or striations) on each body segment, giving a somewhat roughened appearance.

The simple eyes (ocelli) occur in two patches- one on each side of the head; each patch may include up to 31 ocelli of unequal sizes, arranged in rows.

Distribution
There are four species of Paeromopus. P. angusticeps, divided into two subspecies, has the largest geographical range, occupying much of Northern California in a large arc extending from Monterey County on the central coast, north along the Coast Ranges to Humboldt County, and descending along the Cascades and Sierra Nevada range of eastern California.  Each of the remaining three species are known from relatively few locations within the Sierra Nevada .

Taxonomy
The genus Paeromopus was first named in 1881 by German entomologist Ferdinand Karsch, however the earliest-named species now assigned to Paeromopus, P. angusticeps, was described in 1864 by the American naturalist Horatio C Wood under the name Spirobolus angusticeps, based on specimens collected in San Francisco. In 1881 Karsch described a species he named Paeromopus lysiopetalinus, which was the first establishment of the genus "Paeromopous". In 1949, Ralph V. Chamberlin suggested that "S. angusticeps" belonged to the genus Paeromopus, and renamed it P. angusticeps. Subsequently P. lysiopetalinus was recognized as a taxonomic synonym of P. angusticeps- a different name applied to what turned out to be the same species. Paeromopus is now recognized as a member of the family Paeromopodidae in the order Julida, while Spirobolus proper belongs to the family Spirobolidae of the order Spirobolida.

Additional species of paeromopodids were described throughout the 20th century. In 1938, German entomologist Karl Wilhelm Verhoeff described the species Paeromopellus sphinx, and at least eight species of Paeromopus have been proposed, but subsequently several named species and Paeromopellus were brought into synonymy with previously named species, or assigned to the closely related genus Californiulus. The most recently described species was P. paniculus, described in 1997.

The meaning of the name Paeromopus was not specified by Karsch, although the suffix -pus refers to legs.

References

Julida
Millipedes of North America
Endemic fauna of California
Taxa named by Ferdinand Karsch


title: Caspar Brülow

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Caspar Brülow (1585-1627) was a Pomeranian scholar and dramatist who wrote in Latin and German. He is remembered for his Latin language dramas on Biblical and Classical subjects which were performed by his students.

Born in Falkenburg, he moved to Strasbourg to study philology in 1607. Like his later colleague Matthias Bernegger, he began his career as a teacher at the Protestant Gymanasium school, starting there in 1612 and spending the rest of his life in Strasbourg. In 1615 he was appointed to the Academy, at which he specialised in Latin rhetoric. In 1616 he was awarded the title of  Poet Laureate. In 1622 he was appointed director of the Gymnasiusm.

Brülow is primarily noted for his dramatic poetry in Latin. From 1612, he wrote a play in Latin each year, to be performed at the Strasbourg Academy Theatre. A version in German was always also written. His play Chariclia is known to have been performed in German at the Dresden court.

Brülow was apparently a popular teacher, as evidenced from the notes of his pupil Johann Michael Moscherosch, who provides details of Brülow's annual theatrical productions. The dramas involved a chorus singing at the end of each act, in imitation of the Greek dramatic chorus. However, these were at least as much musical interludes as summations and commentary on the action in the manner of Ancient Greek drama. The music was generally composed by Thomas Walliser. Like the contemporary English Renaissance theatre, the plays did not obey the classical unities and mixed tragedy with comedy.

In addition to his dramas Brülow wrote textbooks and a Latin epic about Martin Luther entitled "De vita rebusque gestis Martini Lutheran".

Brülow died in 1627 at the age of 41 in his adopted home of Strasbourg.

Works
 Andromeda. Tragoedia.  Straßburg 1612
 Elias. Drama Tragicum.  Straßburg 1613
 Chariclia. Tragico-comoedia.  Straßburg 1614
 Nebucadnezar. Comoedia sacra.  Straßburg 1615
 Cajus Julius Caesar. Tragoedia.  Straßburg 1616
 Moses, sive Exitus Israelitarum ex Aegypto. Tragico-comoedia sacra.  Straßburg 1621

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1585 births
1627 deaths
17th-century writers in Latin
People from the Duchy of Pomerania
People from Złocieniec
People from the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth


title: Richard Johnson (cricketer, born 1829)

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Richard Cubitt Johnson (13 October 1829 – May 1851) was an English cricketer who played in two matches for Cambridge University that are now considered to have been first-class. He was born at Lavenham, Suffolk and died at Cambridge.

Johnson was the eldest son of the rector of Lavenham, also named Richard Johnson, and his wife, the former Mary Ann Cubitt. He was educated at Bury St Edmunds Grammar School and at Clare College, Cambridge. He was followed to Cambridge and into the cricket team there by his younger brother, George Randall Johnson – whose son, Peter Randall Johnson, took the same path 50 years later and was then a famous Somerset cricketer.

Johnson played cricket for Cambridge University in two matches, one each at home and away, against the Marylebone Cricket Club in 1850, batting as a middle-order batsman. It is not recorded whether he batted right-handed or left-handed and the scorecards for both matches are incomplete, and so it is not recorded that he bowled, but if he did, he took no wickets. His top score of 28 came in the match at Lord's.

Johnson died suddenly at Cambridge from typhoid fever while still an undergraduate; his close friend Edmund Keble White, who had been at school with him and was at Trinity College, Cambridge – their fathers had been fellows at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge – also died in the same typhoid outbreak.

References

1829 births
1851 deaths
English cricketers
Cambridge University cricketers
People from Lavenham
People educated at King Edward VI School, Bury St Edmunds
Alumni of Clare College, Cambridge
Deaths from typhoid fever


title: XELD-TV

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XELD-TV (channel 7) was a television station located in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, whose over-the-air signal also covered the Rio Grande Valley across the international border in the United States. The station broadcast in English and Spanish from September 15, 1951, to April 29, 1954.

History

Opening
The 1948 freeze on new television station licenses placed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the United States stalled any development of television on the American side of the Río Grande, which was allotted VHF channels 4 and 5. Meanwhile, per international agreement, Matamoros had received the allotments for channels 2, 7, and 11, along with channel 9 in Reynosa (which also received channel 12 in 1952).

Meanwhile, channel 7 in Matamoros was being built out by XESE-TV. XESE was owned by Compañía Mexicana de Televisión, S.A., whose owner, Manuel D. Leal, was vice president and general manager of KIWW radio in San Antonio. Other partners included Pedro de Lille, W.B. Miller, and Noel Alrich Solano. However, new partners entered into the picture.

Romulo O'Farrill, a television pioneer who signed on Mexico's first television station, XHTV, in 1950, saw the need for a television station in this market and realized that it could be filled using the Mexican channel 7 allocation. A $300,000 investment was made in facilities and a  transmitter tower. The station, under the new call sign XELD-TV, signed on September 15, 1951, from its Mexican transmitter and studio, with a sales office in downtown Brownsville, Texas. The station was groundbreaking: not only was it the first television station in the state of Tamaulipas (and the third in the nation), it was the first Mexican television border blaster and the first Mexican station to obtain affiliation with an American network. Eventually, XELD boasted affiliations with all four American networks, though its primary affiliation was with CBS. The station was run much like an American station; it even had an American television representative, Blair TV.

Emilio Azcárraga, owner of XEW radio and TV in Mexico City, was a half-owner of XELD.

Closure
When the FCC freeze was lifted in April 1952, channels 4 and 5 remained in the Brownsville–Harlingen–Weslaco area, and prospective station owners in the United States got their chance. In September 1953, KGBT-TV, licensed to Harlingen, took to the air, taking with it the primary CBS and NBC affiliations. This began the decline of XELD. By January 1954, O'Farrill had sought and won approval to move channel 7 to Monterrey or Guadalajara, both large Mexican markets without television stations at the time.

On April 10, 1954, KRGV-TV signed on from Weslaco, becoming a secondary affiliate of ABC and primary NBC outlet. Later that month, on April 29, XELD "temporarily suspended" operations; a spokesman cited a devalued peso and a major breakdown in the station's generator as the main reasons for this move, which included the dismissal of all employees and the closure of the station's offices. Two months after, Hurricane Alice struck the region and destroyed XELD's facilities, putting a permanent end to the station. However, the station still led to the development of a new television market, with some 18,000 television sets in place. O'Farril and Azcarraga, along with XHGC-TV owner Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena, went on to form what is now Televisa the next year.

Channel 7 in Matamoros would remain vacant for almost 15 years, until a new television station, XHAB-TDT, began operating on it in 1968.

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Defunct television channels in Mexico
Television channels and stations disestablished in 1954
Television channels and stations established in 1951
Television stations in Matamoros, Tamaulipas
1951 establishments in Mexico
1954 disestablishments in Mexico