title: Ryan Sutton

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Ryan Sutton (born 2 August 1995) is an English rugby league footballer who plays as a  and  for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs in the National Rugby League (NRL).

He previously played for the Canberra Raiders in the NRL and the Wigan Warriors in the Super League, and on loan from Wigan at Workington Town in the Kingstone Press Championship.

Background
Sutton was born in Billinge, Wigan, England. He played junior rugby league for Ince Rose Bridge.

Career

Wigan Warriors
Sutton made his team début as a substitute on 21 April 2014 in an 84–6 sweep over the Bradford Bulls. He made his first starting appearance for Wigan against Salford.

He played in the 2016 Super League Grand Final victory over the Warrington Wolves at Old Trafford.

Sutton played in the 2017 Challenge Cup Final defeat by Hull F.C. at Wembley Stadium.

Sutton played in the 2018 Super League Grand Final victory over the Warrington Wolves at Old Trafford.
Sutton signed with the Canberra Raiders for the 2019 NRL season.

Canberra Raiders
Sutton made a total of 20 appearances for Canberra in the 2019 NRL season as the club reached their first grand final in 25 years.  He did not play in the 2019 NRL Grand Final in which Canberra were defeated by the Sydney Roosters 14-8 at ANZ Stadium. Sutton went on to play a total of 75 games for Canberra between 2019 and 2022.

Canterbury Bulldogs
On 3 March 2022, The Daily Telegraph reported that Sutton had signed a three-year deal with the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs from 2023 onwards. He made his club debut in round 1 of the 2023 NRL season against the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles which Canterbury lost 31-6.
Sutton played a total of 13 matches for Canterbury in the 2023 NRL season as the club finished 15th on the table.

International career
In July 2018 he was selected in the England Knights Performance squad.

He was selected in England 9s squad for the 2019 Rugby League World Cup 9s.

References

External links
Canberra Raiders profile
Wigan Warriors profile
SL profile

1995 births
Living people
Canberra Raiders players
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs players
England Knights national rugby league team players
English rugby league players
Rugby league players from Billinge, Merseyside
Sportspeople from the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens
Rugby league props
Wigan Warriors players


title: Nedyu Rachev

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Nedyu Rachev (, born 4 October 1915, date of death unknown) was a Bulgarian cyclist. He competed in the sprint event at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

References

External links

1915 births
Year of death missing
Bulgarian male cyclists
Olympic cyclists for Bulgaria
Cyclists at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Place of birth missing


title: Great Wass Island Preserve

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The Great Wass Island Preservation is a  open space reserve located on the coast of Maine,  east of Ellsworth, Maine on Great Wass Island. The reserve, managed by the land conservation non-profit organization The Nature Conservancy, is notable for its subarctic plants and coastal jackpine.

Geography and Recreation
The Great Wass Island Preservation contains heaths and thin acidic soil on coastal bedrock. It is noted for a diverse plant population which includes carnivorous plants, subarctic iris (Iris hookeri), and coastal jackpine (Pinus banksiana). The preserve offers  of trails for hiking. An interpretive brochure is provided at the trailhead kiosk.

History
The Nature Conservancy acquired the land of the preservation in 1978.

References

Nature Conservancy preserves
Nature reserves in Maine


title: Luísa Costa Gomes

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Luísa Costa Gomes (born in Lisbon, June 16, 1954) is a Portuguese chronicler, librettist, novelist, playwright and screenwriter.

Biography
Luísa has a degree in philosophy from Universidade de Lisboa and was a high school teacher. Her first published piece was "13 Contos de Sobressalto" (1982) and from then on she wrote short stories, novels and theater. She collaborated with newspaper O Independente, Público and Diário de Notícias as chronicle writer. Luísa works with literary translation, namely for theater, and edited magazine Ficções dedicated to short stories both by Portuguese and foreign authors.
Luísa also co-writes works, such as the novel "O Defunto Elegante", together with Abel Barros Baptista; the libretto for "Corvo Branco", opera by Philip Glass and staged by Bob Wilson, debuted for Expo 98 in Lisbon; the cantata "Sobre o Vulcão", with music by Luís Brangança Gil.

Awards
Luísa received the award "Prémio D. Dinis" in 1988 by "Fundação da Casa de Mateus" for her novel O Pequeno Mundo. She was awarded in 1994 the Prémio Máxima de Literatura for her novel Olhos Verdes. In 2010, she was also awarded the Prémio Fernando Namora for the novel Ilusão ou O Que Quiserem.

Works

Short stories
 "Treze contos de sobressalto" (Bertrand, 1982)
 O Gémeo Diferente (Difel, 1984)
 Contos Outra Vez (Cotovia, 1997) Grande Prémio de Conto Camilo Castelo Branco
 Império do Amor (Tinta Permanente, 2002)
 Setembro e outros contos (Dom Quixote,2007)

Novel
 O Pequeno Mundo (Quetzal, 1988)
 Vida de Ramón (Dom Quixote, 1994)
 Olhos Verdes (Dom Quixote, 1994)
 O Defunto Elegante - com Abel Barros Baptista (Relógio d’Água, 1996)Educação para a Tristeza (Editorial Presença, 1998)
 A Pirata (Dom Quixote, 2006)
 Ilusão (ou o que quiserem) (Dom Quixote, 2009)
 Cláudio e Constantino (Dom Quixote, 2014)

Theater
 Nunca Nada de Ninguém (Cotovia, 1991)
 Ubardo (Dom Quixote, 1993)
 A Minha Austrália (Dom Quixote, 1993)
 Clamor (Cotovia, 1994)
 Duas Comédias (Relógio d’Água, 1996)
 Vanessa vai á luta (1997)
 O Céu de Sacadura (Cotovia, 1998)
 A Vida em Vénus (2007)

Opera
O Corvo Branco (Expo Lisboa 1998)
Educação para a Tristeza

Screenplay
The Baron (screenplay)

References

Living people
Portuguese women novelists
Place of birth missing (living people)
1954 births


title: RT Trianguli Australis

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RT Trianguli Australis, or RT TrA, is a BL Herculis variable (type II Cepheid) in the constellation of Triangulum Australe.

Variable
RT TrA varies between apparent magnitudes 9.4 and 10.2 over a period of 1.95 days. It was first discovered to be variable by Annie Jump Cannon in 1910 and initially classified as an RR Lyrae variable. Later authors segregated it and the similar V533 Centauri as RW Aurigae stars. In time it became clear that RT TrA was unrelated to RW Aur, instead being a member of a group of stars on the instability strip somewhat above the horizontal branch. These stars were then named as a group after BL Herculis, the brightest known member. BL Her stars have periods shorter than eight days. Like other BL Her variables, the light curve of RT TrA has a hump, in this case on the descending branch. The light curve is slightly asymmetric, with the minimum occurring at phase 0.6.

Properties
RT TrA is a cool giant star with a radius of , although its spectral luminosity class verges on the supergiant level at times  during its pulsations. As it pulsates, the effective temperature varies between 5,200 and 6,500 K and its luminosity between . Its physical properties place it on the instability strip of the H–R diagram.

Carbon star
RT TrA is unusual in that it is a carbon-rich cepheid variable. Unlike true carbon stars, it does not show an excess of s-process elements. It has very high surface abundances of carbon, nitrogen, iron, and some light metals, but not oxygen. The unusual abundances are believed to result from the convection of triple-alpha fusion products to the surface, and so it is expected that there will also be a high proportion of helium. Most other BL Her stars such as U TrA, do not show the same surface carbon excess. The elemental abundances are comparable to the cooler type-R stars.

References

Triangulum Australe
Trianguli Australis, RT
BL Herculis variables
G-type supergiants
G-type bright giants
CPD−62 5377
081157
J16343089-6308009


title: Pablo Echenique

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Pablo Echenique Robba (born 28 August 1978 in Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina) is an Argentine-born Spanish physicist and politician.

He came to Spain aged 13 to live in Zaragoza. He had Spinal muscular atrophy. Echenique was elected a member of the Congress of Deputies in the April 2019 Spanish general election along with the left-wing political party Podemos. Previously, Echenique was one of the five MEPs elected by Podemos in the 2014 European Parliament election, and was a member of the Aragonese Corts between 2015 and 2017.

As a scientist, he holds a position at the Spanish National Research Council in Zaragoza (CSIC).

In October 2020, he was fined €11,040 for the irregular employment of his assistant. In November 2020, he was fined €80,000 for saying that a man who was murdered in 1985 was a rapist.

References

External links

 De retrones y hombres
 Pablo Echenique Robba at the European Parliament

1978 births
Living people
Members of the 13th Congress of Deputies (Spain)
MEPs for Spain 2014–2019
People from Rosario, Santa Fe
People with spinal muscular atrophy
Scientists with disabilities
Podemos (Spanish political party) MEPs
Politicians with disabilities
Spanish physicists
Spanish people with disabilities
Spanish people of Italian descent
Spanish people of Argentine descent
Members of the 14th Congress of Deputies (Spain)
University of Zaragoza alumni
Wheelchair users


title: Nimco Ali

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Nimko Ali  (), alternatively spelled Nimco (born ), is a British social activist of Somali heritage. She is the co-founder and CEO of The Five Foundation, a global partnership to end female genital mutilation (FGM).

Ali underwent female genital mutilation in Djibouti. She released her first book in 2019 that contains 42 stories from 152 interviews that Ali collected from women across 14 countries. Later that year she co-founded The Five Foundation with Brendan Wynne, which is her current full tine role.

In 2020, she also co-founded the Ginsburg Women's Health Board with Mika Simmons. She contested a seat in the 2017 general election under the Women's Equality Party. In 2019, she supported Boris Johnson, endorsed the Conservative Party and campaigned for Conservative candidates. She was appointed as Independent Government Adviser for Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls in 2020, a post which ended in 2022.

Early life
Ali was born  1983 in Somalia. When she was four, her family moved to Manchester in England later moving to Cardiff, Wales. She has four brothers, one of whom, Mohamed, is chair of the Somali Conservatives. Aged seven, Ali underwent female genital mutilation (FGM) in Djibouti while on holiday with her family. She later suffered health complications and had to undergo reconstructive surgery. The experience, and meeting other females who had been incised later inspired her to assist at-risk girls and to call for the practice's eradication. Ali studied law at Bristol University.

Career
In 2010, Ali along with psychotherapist Leyla Hussein founded Daughters of Eve. The non-profit organisation was established to help young women and girls, with a focus on providing education and raising awareness on female genital mutilation.

Ali co-founded The Five Foundation, "The Global Partnership to End FGM", with Brendan Wynne in 2019. This non-profit organisation works to raise the issue of FGM on the international agenda and leverage funding for grassroots organisations working to end FGM. Ali previously worked as a civil servant. She also served as a women's rights activist and an independent training consultant for a number of years. Additionally, Ali served as a Network Coordinator for The Girl Generation. She has also written extensively on national gender rights.

Her book What We’re Told Not to Talk About (But We're Going to Anyway): Women's Voices from East London to Ethiopia was published by Penguin Books in June 2019. It includes stories of women who are sharing experiences they have always been told should be "secret and shameful" as well as Ali's own story of living with FGM. The book contained 42 stories from 152 interviews that Ali had undertaken with women across 14 countries. In The Times, Hannah Betts described the book as "a compelling cross-cultural account of vaginal life". Isobel Shirlaw said in i that it was an important book and that "The chorus of women's voices which provide a multi-dimensional, global view of these hidden issues is powerful". The Guardian review by Arifa Akbar praised the book as "rich collection of intimate and uncensored stories" and wrote that Ali "delivers the physicality of the women's experiences with all the leaking, faecal, bloody mess of the body laid bare", although noting that "deeper reflection is lacking" and criticising the omission of coverage of anyone that was not heterosexual and cisgender. Ali told an interviewer from The Guardian that:

In 2020, Ali and Mika Simmons co-founded the Ginsburg Women's Health Board, to campaign for a more effective and equitable healthcare system for women from the National Health Service. The organisation is named after Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Home Secretary of the United Kingdom Priti Patel appointed Ali as an Independent Government Adviser for Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls, in October 2020. Ali was a direct appointment to the role, which, as is common with such roles, was not advertised. The role involves the formulation of a strategy to reduce violence against women and girls, with recommendations expected to be produced in 2021. The report, with forewords from Priti Patel and from Ali, was published in July 2021. Ali expressed her hope that the strategy would be a foundation to improve safety for women and girls through education and legislation, but that "whole system" change would be required to reduce violence. In December 2022 Ali said she does not want to serve under new Conservative Home Secretary Suella Braverman and was on a "completely different planet" to Braverman on women's rights and ethnic minorities.

Political activity
At the 2017 general election, Ali contested the seat of Hornsey and Wood Green in North London for the Women's Equality Party. Ali polled 551 votes (0.9% of the total), finishing in 5th place out of the 8 candidates that stood and losing her election deposit. During the campaign, Ali's campaign workers received dozens of abusive and aggressive telephone calls, and Ali received a death threat.

Ali is godmother to the son of Boris Johnson, the former prime minister of the United Kingdom, and his wife Carrie Johnson. She endorsed Johnson, who she has referred to as a "real feminist", in the 2019 Conservative leadership election. During the 2019 general election, Ali campaigned on behalf of the Conservatives.

Honours and awards
In 2014, Ali received the community/charity award, jointly with Leyla Hussein, at the 2014 Red Magazine Woman of the Year awards for their work with Daughters of Eve. They also placed sixth in the Woman's Hour Power List 2014. Ali was named one of BBC's 100 Women during 2018.

On International Women's Day 2019 it was announced that the 2019 Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy’s International Women's Rights Award would be awarded to Ali for her "approach to ending FGM by offering holistic support to survivors of the practice". Ali was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2019 Birthday Honours for services to tackling female genital mutilation and gender inequality.

References

External links
The Five Foundation
Daughters of Eve website (Archived homepage from 18 January 2021)

1983 births
Living people
Ethnic Somali people
Somalian health activists
Somalian women activists
English people of Somali descent
Somalian emigrants to the United Kingdom
Women's Equality Party people
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
English health activists
English women activists
People from Manchester
Activists against female genital mutilation
21st-century Somalil women politicians
Alumni of the University of Bristol
Violence against women in Djibouti


title: Leyla Hussein

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Leyla Hussein  () is a Somali-born British psychotherapist, social activist and university administrator. She is the founder of Dahlia project, one of the co-founders of the Daughters of Eve non-profit organization and a Chief Executive of Hawa's Haven. In 2020, Hussein was elected Rector of the University of St Andrews, making her the third woman and first woman of colour to hold this position.

Career
Hussein worked for ten years in reproductive health after being a youth outreach worker. Hussein worked for African Well Women Clinic in Waltham Forest where she worked closely with female genital mutilation (FGM) survivors from the UK. Leyla worked at the NAZ project London as a sexual health advisor working with Somali affected by HIV and AIDS. In 2010, she along with Nimco Ali  and Sainab Abdi founded Daughters of Eve. The non-profit organization was established to help young women and girls, with a focus on providing education and raising awareness on FGM. Hussein herself is a FGM survivor. Following her pregnancy, she wanted to ensure the physical safety of her daughter and that inspired her to start campaigning to make a change on how girls globally are protected from all forms of harm.

Additionally, Hussein is the Chief Executive of Hawa's Haven, a coalition of Somali women campaigners and community activists that aims to raise awareness on gender-based violence. She likewise runs the support therapy group Dahlia's Project, which was established in partnership with Manor Garden Health Advocacy Project where she serves as an Independent Training Consultant, as well as a Community Facilitator.

She is the global ambassador for The Girl Generation, a social change communication programme aiming to end FGM in one generation, currently working in 10 African countries.

As a health professional, Hussein works closely with the Metropolitan Police via its Project Azure. She was formerly an advisor for the END FGM-European campaign supported by Amnesty International, speaking in this capacity before the Cyprus, Vienna and London legislatures. In addition, Hussein sits on the board of trustees of The Special FGM Initiative Advisory Group  and the Desert Flower Foundation Advisory Group, charity funded by Waris Dirie, and Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary advisory group on Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Scrutiny and Involvement Panel by the Crown Prosecution. She also used to sit on Naz Project London Board of Trustees.

Hussein was one of five protagonists in the documentary #Female Pleasure, directed by Swiss filmmaker Barbara Miller and premiered at Locarno Festival 2018. The film talks about sexuality in the 21st century from a woman's perspective and about ongoing repression of women in patriarchal structures.

In 2020, Hussein was elected rector of the University of St Andrews.

Hussein has faced criticism from student newspaper The Saint, which reported in October 2023 that as rector she had failed to attend any meetings of the University Court. The paper quoted Student Association President Barry Will as saying “I don’t think it’s much to ask. There is an obligation to be in those spaces and advocate for students.”

Lectures and talks
Besides her psychotherapeutic and consultancy work, Hussein has been invited to speak on matters of concerning girls, women and human rights on various platforms including TedX, Oslo Freedom Forum, Women of the World Festival, Fuse Festival, AKE Festival, Stylist Live Event and more.

She has spoken in various radio and television programmes including Radio World Service, BBC World, Have Your Say, Woman's Hour, Universal TV, BBC TV, Al Jazeera TV, Channel 5, CNN, ABC. She currently starts on The Guilty Feminists podcasts and was recently interviewed by Jay Nordlinger.

In 2013, Hussein presented The Cruel Cut, a documentary following her work on ending FGM in the UK. It aired on Channel 4 and instantly became groundbreaking documentary that helped change the British policies and law on how to tackle FGM. The documentary and Hussein were nominated for a BAFTA in 2014.

Hussein has been invited to speak in several universities over the last years, including Cambridge, Oxford, UCL, West London University, Columbia, Banard, Georgetown, Harvard and Penn University.

Personal life
Hussein was born in 1980 in Somalia. Her parents were educated professionals, and she came from privileged family.

Hussein later emigrated to the United Kingdom. For her post-secondary education, she earned a postgraduate diploma in therapeutic counseling from the Thames Valley University.

She has a daughter.

Honours and awards
Hussein has received a number of awards for her work. Among these are the 2008 PCT Breaking Down Barriers Award, the 2010 Cosmopolitan Ultimate Campaigner Women of the Year Award, the 2011 Emma Humphrey Award, the Lin Groves Special Award, the 2012 True Honour Award by the Iranian and Kurdish Women's Right organisation, the BBC 100 Women of 2013, the Ambassador for Peace Prize by the Inter-religious and International Peace Federation, Debretts 500 list since 2014.

In addition, Hussein and Ali received a community/charity award at the 2014 Red Magazine Woman of the Year awards for their work with Daughters of Eve. They also placed sixth in the Woman's Hour Power List 2014.

Hussein was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2019 Birthday Honours for services to tackling female genital mutilation and gender inequality.

References

External links

1980 births
Living people
Activists against female genital mutilation
Alumni of the University of West London
English health activists
English women activists
Ethnic Somali people
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Somalian emigrants to the United Kingdom
Somalian health activists
Somalian women activists


title: Hendrick van Balen the Younger

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Hendrick van Balen II or Hendrick van Balen the Younger (1623 in Antwerp – 1661 in Antwerp) was a Flemish painter.

Life

Hendrick van Balen was the son of the painter Hendrick van Balen and Margriet Briers (or 'de Brier').  The family included eleven children of whom three became painters: Jan van Balen, Gaspard van Balen and Hendrick. His sister Maria married the painter Theodoor van Thulden.  He trained under his brother Jan and the landscape painter Jan Wildens.  He became a master in the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke in 1631–1640.

He travelled extensively and resided in Tours from 1645 to 1648, in Rome in January 1653 and in Genua in November 1653.  He was recorded in France until 1661 and returned home to Antwerp shortly before his death. He seems to have had difficulty supporting himself from his art and had to rely on financial support from his brother Jan and brother-in-law Theodoor van Thulden for his living expenses while in Italy.  He left substantial debts at the time of his death.

Work
Hendrick van Balen the Younger was principally a history painter.  Like his father, he collaborated regularly with Jan Brueghel the Younger.

References

Links

1623 births
1661 deaths
Flemish Baroque painters
Painters from Antwerp


title: Howard Wing

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Howard Wing (28 January 1916 – 7 March 2008) was a Chinese cyclist. He competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics and the 1948 Summer Olympics.

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External links

1916 births
2008 deaths
Chinese male cyclists
Olympic cyclists for China
Cyclists at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Cyclists at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Cyclists from Amsterdam
Dutch male cyclists


title: Abhishek Ray

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Abhishek Ray is an Indian film composer, playback singer, instrumentalist, music arranger, and producer working in Bollywood. He is known for having composed the music and done playback vocals for popular and award-winning Bollywood films such as: Paan Singh Tomar, Welcome Back, Saheb, Biwi Aur Gangster, Wedding Anniversary, I Am Kalam, Shagird, Chaar Din Ki Chandni, Prem Mayee, Thoondil, Yeh Saali Zindagi, and Tera Kya Hoga Johnny. Apart from original music, his wildlife preservation and restoration efforts have been recognised across the world and he has been recently awarded with the '"Swabhiman Bharat "' for rewilding an entire hill as wild tiger-leopard corridor.  Ray is known to have invested all his savings in creating the famous Sitabani Wildlife Reserve, India's first private wildlife reserve with wild tiger and leopard presence and home to about 600 bird species.

Ray has composed and sung for solo albums like Udaas Paani, Raat Chand Aur Main, Kab aate ho with the legendary poet Gulzar. In May 2016, he launched a music label called AR Productions with a set of seven classic singles written by the lyricist Gulzar featuring singers like Shreya Ghoshal, Hariharan, Alka Yagnik, Abhijeet Bhattacharya, Udit Narayan and Kavita Krishnamurthy.

 Ray has many other world music albums to his credit like Jaisalmer-Call of the desert, Symphonies of the Taj, Echoes of Khajuraho, Ritu: The Magic of the Six Indian Seasons,Raga Rendezvous.

He composed "Aye Jahaan Aasmaan", the concerto of love with a hundred piece live orchestra and the voices of Sonu Nigam and Shreya Ghoshal. This song won the best song of the year at Mirchi Music Awards 2017 and his song Yeh Dil Ajeeb Hai written by Gulzar and sung by Hariharan simultaneously won the nomination in the same category.

He has also composed music for numerous documentaries like The Maharaja Of Jodhpur: The Legacy Lives On for which he received the 2006 Indian Telly Award for best Music. Others include The Shiamans Of The Himalayas, Apatanis of Arunachal Pradesh, Forced to Kill, and Nirvana for the Discovery Channel. He began his career composing and singing for TV shows and advertisements.

Ray sings, composes, arranges, and mixes his songs and film scores. He works out of his recording studios in Versova, Andheri, Mumbai and Asiad Village, New Delhi. He plays instruments including the piano, electronic keyboards, accordion, wavedrum, conga, thumba, darbouka, electronic drum, and bass.

Ray is also a naturalist and a bonafide government tiger and leopard tracker. He runs his own wildlife reserve next to Corbett National Park called the Sitabani Wildlife Reserve. He is known to have invested all that he earned from Bollywood into rewilding an entire barren hill into dense forest. Today Sitabani Wildlife Reserve is known for wild Bengal tiger and Leopard presence.

He is also the composer singer of India's national anthem on tiger conservation.

Filmography

Films

Non film albums

Film background scores

Playback

Abhishek Ray as playback singer

Music for documentaries

Sources

References

External links

Bollywood playback singers
Living people
Musicians from Mumbai
Indian male playback singers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Musicians from Kolkata


title: Walter Dexel

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Walter Dexel (born 7 February 1890 in Munich, died 8 June 1973 in Braunschweig) was a German painter, commercial graphic designer, and transportation planner. He also functioned as an art historian and directed a museum in Braunschweig during the Second World War.

References

External links

1890 births
1973 deaths
German graphic designers


title: 2014 OEC Kaohsiung – Doubles

text:
Juan Sebastián Cabal and Robert Farah were the defending champion but chose not to compete.
Gong Maoxin and Peng Hsien-yin won the title, beating Chen Ti and Huang Liang-chi 6–3, 6–2

Seeds

  Gong Maoxin /  Peng Hsien-yin (champions)
  Chen Ti /  Huang Liang-chi (final)
  Denys Molchanov /  Yang Tsung-hua (first round)
  Ryan Agar /  Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (first round)

Draw

Draw

References
 Main Draw

OEC Kaohsiung - Doubles
2014 Doubles
2014 in Taiwanese tennis


title: Dry low emission

text:
Dry low emission (abbreviation DLE) is a technology that reduces NOx emissions that exhausts out of gas fired turbines.

The amount of NOx produced depends on the combustion temperature.
When the combustion takes place at a lower temperature the NOx emissions are reduced.
Gas turbines with DLE technology were developed to achieve lower emissions without using water or steam to reduce combustion temperature (Wet Low Emission (WLE) technology).
WLE technology demands cleaning of large amounts of water, is heavy, takes more space and can be difficult to install offshore.
A DLE combustor uses the principle of lean premixed combustion, and is similar to the SAC combustor (Single Annular Combustor) with some exceptions.
A DLE combustor takes up more space than a SAC turbine and if the turbine is changed it can not be connected directly to existing equipment without considerable changes in the positioning of the equipment.
The SAC turbine has one single concentric ring where the DLE turbine has two or three rings with premixers depending on gas turbine type.
DLE technology demands an advanced control system with a large number of burners.
DLE results in lower NOx emissions because the process is run with less fuel and air, the temperature is lower and combustion takes place at a lower temperature.

Background for the technology

Increased focus on environmental issues led to increased research on new and better gas turbines with water and steam cooling methods in the middle of the 1970s.
The best technology could in 1980 reduce NOx emissions to 42 ppm and this was later reduced to 25 ppm.
In the 1990s ammonium and catalysators was tested and late in the 1980s the turbine producers started to develop "Dry Low Emission-technology" (DLE)
to be able to get around the technology that demanded water or steam injection.
During the next ten years the DLE technology was developed and installed in many places leading to a reduction of NOx emissions less than 25 ppm.
It is difficult to achieve less than 9 ppm NOx emissions with DLE turbines.
To achieve a reduction from 25 ppm to 9 ppm more than 6 percent air must pass through the premixer.
Newer generations of DLE burners have an extra injection leading to better control.
Additional systems like "selective catalytic reduction" (SCR) are necessary to achieve emissions lower than 2.5 ppm.
Technologies using water or steam (Wet Low Emission (WLE)) can achieve approximately the same level of NOx emissions (25–42 ppm) when they lower the combustion temperature.

Use of DLE-technology in the world
This is not a complete list, but examples of where and when DLE technology has been implemented or are planned to be implemented.

In Europe
DLE turbines were introduced offshore in Norway in 1998.
All gas turbines installed offshore in Norway after year 2000 which uses only gas as fuel are DLE-turbines.
The Kårstø facilities were planned with DLE technology.
DLE technology is used by Statoil ASA, Hammerfest LNG.
The Norwegian Storting has decided that the Gina Krogh platform shall not be equipped with DLE technology due to the fact that all off Utsirahøyden will have electrical power supplies from the mainland.

30 April 2012 a gas turbine generator with DLE technology was opened in Waidhaus in Bavaria in Germany.

In North America
In Alberta in Canada it was in 2003 planned to use DLE technology in the power supplies.

In Oceania
DLE is planned to be used in Australia.

In Asia
The Malampaya field in the Republic of the Philippines was awarded in August 1998, construction of the topside was begun in June 1999 and completed on 28 March. 2001.
The topside was equipped with the world's first RB211 with DLE technology.

References

Petroleum technology


title: Vialone Nano

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Vialone Nano is an Italian semifino (medium-grain) rice variety. It is typical of the flat, rice-growing areas of the southern Provincia di Verona (Bassa Veronese, "Veronese lowlands"), in Veneto.
Vialone Nano is a cultivar of the Japonica group of varieties of Oryza sativa.

Culinary uses
Similar to the Carnaroli, Vialone Nano is an appreciated risotto rice. While rich in starch (therefore making for creamy risottos), its high amylose content allows it to maintain its shape and absorb much liquid during cooking.

Riso Nano Vialone Veronese IGP
Vialone Nano rice has been grown in Italy since 1937. It was developed by crossing Vialone rice with a variety called Nano because of the plant's low height.

In 1996 Veronese Vialone Nano rice was given the Protected geographical indication (), under the name of Riso Nano Vialone Veronese IGP.

The processed grain should be of medium size, round in shape and semi-long with pronounced tooth and rounded section. It should appear white in color and display an extended pearlescent core.

Area of production
Cultivation and processing of Nano Vialone Veronese IGP is conducted exclusively in the territory of the following 24 municipalities, all within the Provincia di Verona:

Bovolone
Buttapietra
Casaleone
Cerea
Concamarise
Erbè
Gazzo Veronese
Isola della Scala
Isola Rizza
Mozzecane
Nogara
Nogarole Rocca
Oppeano
Palù
Povegliano Veronese
Ronco all'Adige
Roverchiara
Salizzole
Sanguinetto
San Pietro di Morubio
Sorgà
Trevenzuolo
Vigasio
Zevio

See also
Arborio
Carnaroli
Maratelli
Oryza sativa
Italian cuisine

References

Cuisine of Veneto
Italian cuisine
Italian products with protected designation of origin
Japonica rice
Rice varieties


title: VY Pyxidis

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VY Pyxidis is a BL Herculis variable (type II Cepheid) in the constellation of Pyxis.  It ranges between apparent magnitudes 7.13 and 7.40 over a period of 1.23995 days.  Located around 826 light-years distant, it shines with a luminosity approximately 46 times that of the Sun and has a surface temperature of

References

Pyxis
Pyxidis, VY
BL Herculis variables
F-type giants
Durchmusterung objects
043736
076296


title: Monilea gloriola

text:
Monilea gloriola, common name the fawn top shell, is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.

Description
The size of the shell varies between 6 mm and 10 mm.

Distribution
This marine species occurs off Southeast Australia.

References

External links

gloriola
Gastropods described in 1929


title: Al Sellinger

text:
Al Sellinger (July 6, 1914 – April 15, 1986) was an American cyclist. He competed in three events at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

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1914 births
1986 deaths
American male cyclists
Olympic cyclists for the United States
Cyclists at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Newark, New Jersey


title: Maine State Route 231

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State Route 231 (SR 231) is a  state highway located in Cumberland County in southeastern Maine.  It begins at State Route 115 in North Yarmouth and runs north to New Gloucester, where it ends at U.S. Route 202, State Route 4 and State Route 100.  The highway functions as an eastern bypass of Gray.

Route description
SR 231 begins at SR 115 in North Yarmouth, where SR 115 turns northwest on Gray Road towards downtown Gray.  SR 231 proceeds north thRough the town center and crosses the Royal River.  The highway nicks the eastern corner of Gray and crosses into the town of New Gloucester, where it continues north through the town center and terminates at Lewiston Road, which carries US 202 / SR 4 / SR 100.

SR 231 is called New Gloucester Road in North Yarmouth and Intervale Road in New Gloucester.

Major junctions

See also

References

External links

Floodgap Roadgap's RoadsAroundME: Maine State Route 231

231
Transportation in Cumberland County, Maine


title: Jane Hedges

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Jane Barbara Hedges (born 6 April 1956) is a British Anglican priest who has served as Interim Dean of Newcastle since January 2023 Considered a "trailblazer for women in the priesthood", she was previously Dean of Norwich from 2014 to 2022 and acting Dean of Canterbury from June to December 2022.

Early life and education
Hedges grew up in Hampshire and was educated at Sarisbury Secondary School, leaving at the age of 16. After a year of college, she began working as a junior bank clerk when she felt the call to ordination.

She continued her education with a general studies degree at the University of Durham, where she was a member of St John's College, Durham, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1978. She trained for ministry at Cranmer Hall, Durham from 1978 to 1980.

Career
Hedges felt called to the priesthood since the age of 17, at a time when women were not allowed to become priests She became made a deaconess in 1980 and, as Church of England laws on the ministry of women evolved, her career progressed with her ordination as deacon in 1987 and as priest in 1994.

Hedges served as curate of the parish of Holy Trinity with St Columba in Fareham, Hampshire, from 1980 to 1983 and was a team vicar in Southampton from 1983 to 1988. In 1988 she became Stewardship Adviser in the Diocese of Portsmouth and in 1993 was appointed Canon Residentiary of Portsmouth Cathedral.

From 2001 she served in the team ministry of Honiton in the Diocese of Exeter, including as rural dean. In 2006 she became Canon Steward of Westminster Abbey and Archdeacon of Westminster, and in 2013 she was appointed Sub-Dean of the Abbey. Her time there coincided with many notable events, including the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton, the state visit of Pope Benedict XVI and a memorial service for Nelson Mandela at which Desmond Tutu preached.

As dean
Hedges's installation as the Dean of Norwich was celebrated at a service held at Norwich Cathedral on 21 June 2014. She was the 39th Dean of Norwich and the first female Dean in the cathedral’s 900 year history. Despite speculation that she might become a bishop, Hedges continued in her role until in October 2021 she announced her intention to retire, effective 1 May 2022.

On 8 May 2022, it was announced that she had been appointed Canon Residentiary of Canterbury Cathedral, and from June to December 2022 she served as acting Dean of Canterbury. On 22 January 2023, she was installed as Interim Dean of Newcastle.

Family
Hedges is married to Chris Hedges, a teacher, and has two sons.

References

1956 births
Living people
21st-century English Anglican priests
Alumni of St John's College, Durham
Alumni of Cranmer Hall, Durham
Canons of Westminster
Deans of Norwich


Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China is a 2013 biography  written by Jung Chang, published by Alfred A. Knopf. Chang presents a sympathetic portrait of the Empress Dowager Cixi, who unofficially controlled the Manchu Qing Dynasty in China for 47 years, from 1861 to her death in 1908. Chang argues that Cixi has been "deemed either tyrannical and vicious, or hopelessly incompetent—or both", and that this view is both simplistic and inaccurate. Chang portrays her as intelligent, open-minded, and a proto-feminist limited by a xenophobic and deeply conservative imperial bureaucracy. Although Cixi is often accused of reactionary conservatism (especially for her treatment of the Guangxu Emperor during and after the Hundred Days' Reform), Chang concludes that Cixi "brought medieval China into the modern age."

Newspaper reviews were positive in their assessment. Te-Ping Chen, writing in The Wall Street Journal, found the book "packed with details that bring to life its central character". Specialists, however, were sometimes less favorable, arguing that Chang had not read recent work in the field or made critical use of Chinese language sources.

The work has been translated into Chinese, Danish, Dutch, French, Finnish, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, and Swedish.

Reception
Katie Baker wrote in The Daily Beast, that the work shows that "the past hundred years have been most unfair to Cixi" and that "the political forces that have dominated China since soon after her death have also deliberately reviled her or blacked out her accomplishments… [but] in terms of groundbreaking achievements, political sincerity and personal courage, Empress Dowager Cixi set a standard that has barely been matched."

The New York Times reported that a number of historians were wary of Chang's conclusions, however, because the book was so laudatory of Cixi. China expert Orville Schell called Chang's biography "absorbing" although sometimes bordering on hagiography. He had high praise for Chang's extensive use of Chinese-language sources, both primary and modern, which have rarely been used in English-language biographers of Cixi. John Delury, assistant professor of Chinese studies at Yonsei University in South Korea, also had praise for Chang's use of new Chinese-language sources. But he cautioned that the book assessed so positively nearly everything that Cixi did that the sources may not have been objectively assessed. He implied that Chang's book was neither very scholarly nor very careful in its use of sources. Mass media reviewers have been similarly distrustful because of the book's overwhelmingly positive tone. James Owne in The Daily Telegraph felt Chang "airbrushed" Cixi, concluding: "One can see why she has fallen in love with her spirited subject, but the woman who ended the custom of foot-binding was capable of great cruelty and stupidity of her own. The smell of blood needs to be acknowledged, not just that of lilies."

Isabel Hilton in The Guardian found Chang's praise for Cixi "a little unqualified". She points out, for example, that Cixi crushed the Guangxu Emperor's Hundred Days' Reform in 1898, but then implemented many more reforms after the Boxer Rebellion. Hilton observes that Chang interprets Cixi's actions in the most positive light possible, and emblematic of Cixi's progressive views. Other historians have interpreted these actions as those of a ruler who wants to cling to power, and whose post-Boxer Rebellion policies were "grudging concessions." But she applauded the book for making "a spirited, if partisan contribution" to the literature on Cixi.

Pamela Kyle Crossley said in the London Review of Books that Chang Jung's claims for Cixi "seem to be minted from her own musings, and have little to do with what we know was actually going in China." Because she does not know the recent Western scholarship, Chang misunderstands, for instance, Cixi's role in the Boxer Uprising. Crossley says the book depicts all who opposed Cixi's declaration of war as "cowardly, corrupt or in actual collusion with one or another of the foreign powers." Crossley says that it is long proven that chief provincial officials simply ignored her orders, and when the Eight Allied Armies invaded, she was two weeks journey away, in Xi'an; Chang does not realize that decisions in the capital were made by Ronglu, and that only his intervention with the victorious Allies kept them from executing her as a Boxer supporter. Although Crossley was sympathetic to restoring women's place in Chinese history, she found "rewriting Cixi as Catherine the Great or Margaret Thatcher is a poor bargain: the gain of an illusory icon at the expense of historical sense."

Notes

References
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  Free access copy here.

2013 non-fiction books
Biographies about royalty
Books by Jung Chang
History books about the Qing dynasty
Alfred A. Knopf books


title: Niels Jacobsen

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Niels Jacobsen (14 September 1865 - 31 January 1935) was a Danish architect and politician who worked primarily in Odense. He was also the Chairman of The Lego Group until his death.

Biography
Born in Aabenraa, Jacobsen was the son of shipbuilder Niels Jacobsen and Marie Kjaer. Jacobsen initially trained as a bricklayer. In September 1884, he began his studies at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, where he studied under Hans Jørgen Holm. Graduating in 1890, he was subsequently employed by Johan Daniel Herholdt, Ferdinand Meldahl, and Martin Nyrop. He opened his own design studio in Odense in 1893. From 1894 to 1908, he taught at Odense Technical College, served on the Board of Directors 1909-25, and participated in architectural competitions as a judge. Jacobsen was a member of the Odense City Council 1909-25, and chairman from 1911. He was honored as a Knight of the Dannebrog. Jacobsen was in Italy in 1891. He exhibited at Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition in 1898, the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900, the City Hall exhibition in Copenhagen in 1901, as well as the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin in 1910.

On August 11, 1893, he married Christiane Sophie Magdalene Bertram Petersen Møller (born 1872, Gråsten). He died in 1935 and is buried in Odense.

Selected works

Odense

 Grand Hotel, Jernbanegade 18 (1896–97, extended 1911 by Jacobsen)
 Telephone exchange, Jernbanegade 16 (1897)
 Extension of Funen Art Museum, Jernbanegade 13 (1897–98)
 Odense Technical College, Hunderupvej 15 (1898, 1921)
 Fyens Forsamlinghus, Kongensgade 64-68 (1900, 1910)
 Handelsbanken, Vestergade 12-14 (1900, partially preserved)
 Ansgars Church (1902)
 Restoration of Sankt Hans Rectory, Odense (1906)
 Fyns Tidenes building, Fisketorvet (1907)
 Electricity Power Station, Klosterbakken (the original part 1908)
 University Society Building, Slotsvæget (1909)
 Gråbrødreplads 6-7 (1910–11)
 Odense Vinkompagni, Klostervej 5-13 (1911–12, 1917)
 Odense Theatre, Jernbanegade 21 (1913–14)
 PC Rasmussen's Department Store, Vestergade 16 (1914)
 Bispegården, Klaregade 17 (1916)
 Det Borgerlige Byggeselskab, tradesman field (1917)
 Foundation Eilschous Boliger, Lahnsgade (1919–20)
 Odense Courthouse, Albanigade 28 (1919–21)
 Expansion of the Odense County and City Hospotal (1926–28);
 Hans Christian Andersen Museum (1929–30)

Elsewhere

 Ommel Church, Æro (1892–94)
 Chapel in Glorup Park (limestone, 1898)
 St. George Church near Aabenraa (1903–04)
 Nordslesvigske Folkebank, Aabenraa (1911–12)
 Tower of Marstal Church (1920)

References

External links

 Niels Jacobsen at Kunstindeks Danmark/Weilbachs Kunstnerleksikon

1865 births
1935 deaths
People from Aabenraa Municipality
People from Odense
Danish architects


title: Richard Dean (civil servant)

text:
Richard Betenson Dean (29 December 1772 − 1 July 1850), born Richard Betenson Brietzcke, was a British civil servant. Dean's family had a history of work in the civil service. His Polish grandfather settled in England and became a confidant to the Duke of Grafton, while Dean's father worked in the Secretary of State's office for most of his life. Following an education at Oxford University, he was called to the bar in 1808, but became a customs commissioner two years later. He served as chairman of the English Board of Customs from 1819; when that Board was merged with its Scottish equivalent in 1823, he took over as chairman of the new Customs Board for the United Kingdom. Despite complements on his work, elements of the press and Parliament became critical of the commissioners' competence in the 1840s. Dean defended their work, but pressure mounted, likely prompting his retirement in 1846; he died at his London residence four years later.

Early life
Richard Betenson Brietzcke was born on 29 December 1772, one of four children of Charles Brietzcke (1738–1795), of London, and his wife Catherine (d. 1830), daughter of Richard Ware (d. 1756), a bookseller of Ludgate. Charles was employed in the Secretary of State's office for most of his life, entering the service in 1756 and rising to become Under Secretary; his diary has since been transcribed by Elma Hailey and published in the journal Notes and Queries. Charles' father was Daniel Brietzcke, who came to England from Poland and became a civil servant and confidant to Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton; Daniel's wife, and Brietzcke's grandmother, was Elizabeth Deane, who was Under Housekeeper at Somerset House.

Richard Brietzcke was educated at Charterhouse School from 1784 to 1790 and then admitted to Christ Church, Oxford, matriculating in 1790 and graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1794, before proceeding to a Master of Arts degree in 1796. After commencing his studies at Oxford, he was admitted to Lincoln's Inn in 1792 and was called to the Bar in 1808. He adopted Dean as his surname in 1801.

Career and later life
Dean was appointed a Commissioner of Customs for England and Wales in 1810, after Sir Alexander Munro's post on the Board was vacated. At that time, William Roe was Chairman of the Customs Board, and he was joined in 1813 by Francis Fownes Luttrell; both men retired in 1819 and Dean became chairman, with Snowdon Barne as his Deputy. During his long tenure as chairman, he was called to answer questions by Parliamentary Select Committees on a number of occasions.

As chairman, Dean has been described as "a remarkable man, extremely clever and industrious, yet eccentric". Nevertheless, the Committee of Inquiry became increasingly critical of the Board and its management during the early 1840s; finding that, of the nine members of the Board, none, except Dean and his deputy, "had done any work worthy the name". In turn, Dean protested to the Committee that their scrutiny of the board should cease; while acknowledging that appointments to it were not meritocratic, he nonetheless defended the men as "gentlemen—men of education". In 1843, The Times published two articles which heavily criticised the Board and its practices; accusing them of "partiality and vindictiveness", the writer also stated that "with the exception of the chairman and vice-chairman, the Commissioners know as much of the affairs passing through their own departments as their own washerwomen." The Board came to understand that the writer was known to the Committee of Inquiry, prompting Dean and his commissioners to protest over what they claimed amounted to libel; however, the Inquiry pressed ahead. In the criticism which followed, several members "retired"; Dean too retired in 1846, and it is possible that he was prompted to leave under these circumstances. He was succeeded by Sir Thomas Fremantle in June 1846.

Personal life
In 1806, he married Sobieskie Owen, fourth daughter of William Mostyn Owen of Woodhouse, Shropshire, and his wife Rebecca Dod, a daughter of Thomas Dod of Edge, Cheshire, and had issue:

 Sobieskie Judith Dean (c. 1807–1828).
 Captain Charles Augustus Brietzcke Dean (1808–1839), who was commissioned into the 71st Highlanders after completing his education at Charterhouse.
 Richard Ryder Brietzcke Dean (1810–1885), who was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, from 1827, receiving a BA in 1831 and proceeding to MA in 1836; he was a barrister-at-law from 1836 and later became a director of the London and North-Western Railway Company.
 The Reverend Edward Brietzcke Dean (died 1878). He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, matriculating in 1831 and receiving his Bachelor of Arts in 1835. He became a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, 1836–1855, received a Bachelor of Civil Law in 1838 and a Doctor of Civil Law in 1843.
 Mary Beilby Dean (c. 1817–1887).
 Caroline Laura Dean (born 1821).

Dean lived in Albemarle Street, Middlesex, where he died, on 1 July 1850. His widow, Sobieskie Dean, died, aged 81, on 24 November 1858 and was buried in the parish of St. Marylebone.

References

Notes

Citations

Bibliography
 R.L. Arrowsmith, Charterhouse Register: 1769–1872, 1974
 H. Atton and H. H. Holland, The King's Customs, volume ii, 1908
 J. Foster, Alumni Oxonienses: 1715–1886, volume i, 1887
 J. Haydn, Beatson's Political Index Modernised: The Book of Dignities, 1851, p. 500
 T. Nelson, The Letters and Diaries of John Henry Newman, volume xxxii, 1961
 V.L. Oliver (ed.), More Monumental Inscriptions: Tombstones of the British West Indies, 1993

1772 births
1850 deaths
People educated at Charterhouse School
Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford


title: Ray Hicks (cyclist)

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Raymond Hicks (3 March 1917 – 12 January 1974) was a British cyclist. He competed in the sprint and  1km track time trial events at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Cycling career
Hicks' first race of his cycling career took place at Chichester, Sussex on March 1934, where he won a 1-mile handicapped race. Throughout the year, he earned victories in both one and half-mile events. The following year, Hicks earned the National Cyclists' Union London Centre and Southern Counties 1,000-metre sprint titles. In 1936, he was beaten by Dennis Horn during the NCU One Mile Grass Track Championship.

Hicks was selected for the sprint and 1km track time trial at the 1936 Summer Olympics, finishing 7th in the latter. He competed in the sprint in the 1937 World Championships at Copenhagen, Denmark the following year, but was eliminated after a training accident the day before the event. He lost three nails off his heavily bandaged right hand, skin from one of his thighs, and received ankle injuries. Hicks also competed in the 1938 British Empire Games at Sydney, Australia and won second place behind William Maxfield in the 10-mile track scratch event.

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External links

1917 births
1974 deaths
British male cyclists
Olympic cyclists for Great Britain
Cyclists at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Place of birth missing
Commonwealth Games medallists in cycling
Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England
Cyclists at the 1938 British Empire Games
Medallists at the 1938 British Empire Games


title: Choreveco (Tacna)

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Choreveco (possibly from Aymara churi dull yellow, wiqu a corner in a house, a mountain cove) is a mountain in the Andes of southern Peru, about  high. It is located in the Tacna Region, Candarave Province, Candarave District, and in the Tarata Province, Susapaya District. Choreveco lies northeast of the volcano Yucamane. It is situated between the mountain Chiarjaque in the west and the lake Vilacota in the east.

References

Mountains of Peru
Mountains of Tacna Region


title: Barni Ahmed Qaasim

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Barni Ahmed Qaasim (, ) is a Somali multimedia artist and filmmaker. She has a BA in Political Science, with a minor in Interdisciplinary Arts and a Masters of Arts in Broadcasting. Her work includes photo and video journalism, music videos and documentary film. From 2004 to 2009, Qaasim was a member of Third World Majority, an Oakland, California-based media collective, for which she later served as Director of Production. Between 2008 and 2012, she served as an instructor with Seventh Native American Generation (SNAG) magazine, teaching youngsters skills in video production. Qaasim's first documentary, A Little Rebirth, was centered on her Somali community and won a Somali Association of Arizona award. She also directed and produced Catching Babies, a feature-length documentary on midwifery on the United States/Mexico border. The film was awarded the Excellence in Documenting Women's Health prize from Puente a la Salud in 2013. Additionally, Qaasim was an Associate Producer for the documentary Under Arpaio by J. M. Aragón of Pan Left Productions, which won the 2012 Best of Arizona Award at the Arizona International Film Festival and was chosen for the Sundance Institute's Creative Change Artists Retreat. She was likewise an Assistant Editor on Into the Current, a documentary directed by Jeanne Hallacy that was selected for the Lucerne International Film Festival and One World International Human Rights Film Festival. Presently, Qaasim is a board member of the Somali Association of Arizona, an organization to which she has contributed photography, video and graphic design skills since joining in 2006. She is also a member of Puente and serves as a mentor for the Puente Visión youth media collective.

References

Living people
Ethnic Somali people
Somalian film directors
Somalian emigrants to the United States
Year of birth missing (living people)


title: Al Saqib Fi al-Manâqib

text:
Al Saqib Fi al-Manâqib is a book on the miracles of Muhammad, other prophets, and Shiite imams. It has also been called Saqib Al Manaqib. The book was written by Ibn Hamzeh Tousi, also known as Emad al Din Tousi, an Imami jurist in the sixth year of Hijrah.

Content
The book has fifteen chapters. The first focuses on Muhammad's miracles, while following chapters look at Ali, Fatimah, and Hasan Ibn Ali's miracles.

The text focuses only on miracles and wonderworks (Karamat), rather than the figures' biographies. Included miracles include speaking with animals, knowledge to Absent Things, and an instance when Hasan Ibn Ali was able to change the sexuality of a man and a woman.

Sources
Some sections of the text draw from other books, including:

Bosatan Al Kiram by Muhammad Ibn Ahmad Ibn Shazan Qommi
 Mafakhir Al Riza by Hakem Neishabouri
 Helyat Al Oliyya by Hafiz Abu Naeem Isfahani
 Fazael Al Batoul by abu Mousa
 Siyyar Al Aemmah (destinies of Imams) by Moulini

References

Shia hadith collections
Shia bibliography


title: Lever Building

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Lever Building is a historic commercial building located at Columbia, South Carolina. It was built in 1903, and is a three-story building faced with brown brick and terra cotta.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

References

Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
Commercial buildings completed in 1903
Buildings and structures in Columbia, South Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Columbia, South Carolina


title: John de Wolf (politician)

text:
John Anthony St. Etienne de Wolf (ca. 1931 – May 28, 2003) was a journalist, economist and politician in British Columbia, Canada. He served as leader of the British Columbia Conservative Party from 1969 to 1971.

De Wolf was a special adviser to the Canadian finance minister and then worked as a journalist in the field of finance and economics. He was elected to the Conservative party leadership in June 1969. De Wolf was defeated by Derrill Warren in a convention held in November 1971. After losing the party leadership, he worked as a consultant and also was a policy adviser to the provincial government.

De Wolf died at St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver in 2003.

References

2003 deaths
British Columbia Conservative Party leaders
Year of birth uncertain


title: Surender Singh Barwala

text:
Surender Singh Barwala (born 2 August 1951) has been elected the Member of Parliament from Hisar constituency in 12th and 13th Lok Sabha, the lower house of Indian Parliament.

He was born in village Sangatpura, Jind district in Haryana, he did his B.A. from Dyal Singh College, Karnal, followed by L. L. B. from Kurukshetra Law College, Kurukshetra University.

He has defeated heavy weights and business tycoon from Haryana Om Prakash Jindal of Jindal Steel Industries and Congress Stalwarts like Brinder Singh, Jaiprakash. He has also been elected to Vidhan Sabha from Barwala in 1987 and was made the Forest Minister and later Education Minister. He was in Indian National Lok Dal a regional outfit. He is now in Bhartiya Janta Party and contested for MLA from Jind Stood second by a narrow margin of 2,000 votes. He joined the party in presence  of BJP President Amit Shah and Health Minister Govt. Of India Shri J.P.Nadda on 12 September 2014.

On 6 June 2020, an FIR was registered with the Delhi Police against his son Prashant Barwala who is allegedly accused by a woman for raping her and impregnating her on the promise of marrying her and getting her a job. The victim later approached Delhi High Court to get police protection, which was granted to her as she was allegedly being threatened by the Barwala family.

On 15 July 2022, an FIR was registered with the Haryana Police against his sister-in-law Dr. Renu Malik and others for allegedly forging the ‘Will of Inheritance’ of her mother-in-law Late. Nirmla Malik and using it as genuine, in collusion with her husband Vineet Malik and father-in-law Randhir Singh Malik.

References

1951 births
Living people
Lok Sabha members from Haryana
India MPs 1998–1999
India MPs 1999–2004
Indian National Lok Dal politicians
Haryana MLAs 1987–1991
State cabinet ministers of Haryana
People from Jind district
Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Haryana


title: Palazzo Cellammare, Naples

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The Palazzo Cellamare or Cellammare is a monumental palace located in via Chiaia 139 in the Quartiere San Ferdinando of Naples, Italy. The entrance is near the church of Santa Caterina a Chiaia.

History
The palace was erected in the 16th century by Giovanni Francesco Carafa, Prince of Stigliano and a member of the House of Carafa. Giovanni Francesco's son Pier Luigi Carafa later commissioned Ferdinando Manlio to make the palace conform to the typical characteristics of its era.

During the Masaniello revolt in 1647, the palace was sacked by mobs and in 1689 it became the property of the state.

In the 18th century, it was acquired by the Prince of Cellamare, Antonio del Giudice, who hired Ferdinando Fuga to design the chapel between 1726 and 1727. It later became the residence of the Spanish Michele Imperiali Simeana, Prince of Montena and Francavilla (d. 1782), a friend of Casanova, and avid collector of statuary. The palace was briefly known as the Palazzo Francavilla. Further reconstructions were entrusted to the architect Francesco Antonio Picchiatti.

The palazzo contains ceiling frescoes by Giacomo del Po, Pietro Bardellino, Giacinto Diano, and Fedele Fischetti.

Little remains of the once sprawling gardens.

References

Cellamare
16th-century establishments in Italy


title: Consolidated Building (Columbia, South Carolina)

text:
Consolidated Building is a historic commercial building located at Columbia, South Carolina. It was built in 1912, and is a two-story building faced with elaborate colored and glazed terra cotta. The second floor features a central tripartite round-headed window.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

References

External links

Historic American Buildings Survey in South Carolina
Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
Buildings and structures completed in 1912
Buildings and structures in Columbia, South Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Columbia, South Carolina
1912 establishments in South Carolina


title: Tappoch Broch

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Tappoch Broch, better known as Torwood Broch, is an iron-age broch located in a remote spot in dense woodland near Falkirk, Scotland.

History
Tappoch broch was first excavated in 1864  by Colonel Joseph Dundas. Small-scale excavations have taken place near the site sporadically since. Recently, a conservation project run by Archaeology Scotland and grant aided by Forestry Commission Scotland cleared the site of scrub vegetation. The broch was then surveyed by laser scanning.

Description
The chamber of the broch, whose walls are about six metres thick, still reach a height of two or three metres, but in recent times whole wall sections have collapsed. The dry stonework is built of large, irregular stone blocks from the immediate vicinity. The oval chamber measures 10.8 to 9.8 metres, is paved and has a large fire spot in the middle. Access, with some of the fallen stones still in situ, is from the southeast. About halfway down the passage is a stop for a door with a latch for the door beam. In the south-west of the chamber a short aisle branches off to the right and leads to an unusually well-preserved staircase in the wall. In 1864 there were still eleven steps, some of which were later lost. The side walls of the stairs slope inwards, which indicates that it was originally designed as a cantilever vault. A small chamber in the north-east of the wall appears to be of modern origin.

The site has been designated a scheduled monument.

Archaeological Finds
Unlike other Lowland Brochs such as Leckie Broch artefacts recovered from Tappoch were relatively sparse with no Roman material on site. Finds included saddle and rotary querns, a potential stone 'lamp' and several sherds of coarse pottery.

Images

References

 Part of this article is based on the equivalent article (:de:Broch von Tappoch) on German Wikipedia.

External links

 Tappoch Broch - Undiscovered Scotland: The Ultimate Online Guide
 Torwood Broch Poster - Forestry Commission Scotland

Brochs
Scheduled Ancient Monuments in Falkirk


title: Vincenzo Di Benedetto

text:
Vincenzo Di Benedetto (12 January 1934 – 19 or 20 July 2013) was an Italian classical philologist.

Life
Born to the tailor Saverio Di Benedetto and his wife Maria Gaetana (née Santoro) he grew up in Saracena (Calabria) and acquired a sound knowledge of Latin and Classical Greek at the Liceo Classico in Castrovillari. Having received a scholarship from the Scuola Normale Superiore, he went on to study from 1952 to 1958 in Pisa and Oxford (Corpus Christi College). Apart from his academic mentors, he also acknowledged the influence of his friend, Latinist Sebastiano Timpanaro and his mother, historian of philosophy Maria Timpanaro Cardini. From 1969 onwards until his retirement in 2006 he taught Greek literature at the University of Pisa, and, from 1971 until 1993, Classical Philology at the Scuola Normale. In 1996, he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and used a wheelchair since 2006. Despite this, he managed to continue working until shortly before his death.

On May 14, 1972, he married philologist Diana Fiorini; their son Saverio was born on November 27, 1972.

Achievements
His areas of expertise included the history of Greek grammar, Greek tragedy, the so-called Hippocratic Corpus, Sappho, and the Homeric epics, but also the works of Dante, Foscolo, and Manzoni. He published numerous monographs as well as bilingual editions, intended both for a larger public and experts. A household name in his native Italy, he never quite achieved the international recognition he deserved, although his last major work, a bilingual commented edition of the Odyssey (2010), received excellent reviews, such as by Barbara Graziosi, who referred to the book as "a monumental achievement“. Even the selection of his minor works, titled Il richiamo del testo and published by Riccardo Di Donato in 2007, takes up four weighty volumes, containing some of his most important insights, such as his proof that Aristotle, when quoting his sources, had been far more reliable than had hitherto been assumed.

Selection of works
 La tradizione manoscritta euripidea, Padua 1965, ASIN: B0063Y3D5G.
 Euripidis Orestes, introduzione, testo critico, commento e appendice metrica a cura di V. Di Benedetto, Florence 1965.
 Euripide: teatro e società, Turin 1971, .
 L'ideologia del potere e la tragedia greca. Ricerche su Eschilo, Turin 1978, .
 with Alessandro Lami: Filologia e marxismo. Contro le mistificazioni, Naples 1981, .
 Sofocle, Florence 1983 (2nd edition 1988), .
 Il medico e la malattia. La scienza di Ippocrate, Turin 1986, .
 with Franco Ferrari: Saffo, Poesie, Introduzione di Vincenzo Di Benedetto. Traduzione e note di Franco Ferrari, Milan 1987, .
 Lo scrittoio di Ugo Foscolo, Turin 1990, .
 Ugo Foscolo, il sesto tomo dell' Io, edizione critica e commento a cura di V. Di Benedetto, Turin 1991, .
 Nel laboratorio di Omero, Turin 1994 (considerably enlarged edition 1998), .
 La tragedia sulla scena: la tragedia greca in quanto spettacolo teatrale (with Enrico Medda). Turin 1997, .
 Guida ai Promessi sposi. I personaggi, la gente, le idealità, Milan 1999, .
 Euripide, Le Baccanti, premessa, introduzione, traduzione, costituzione del testo originale e commento a cura di V. Di Benedetto, appendice metrica di E.Cerbo, Milan 2004, .
 Omero, Odissea, Milan 2010, .

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1934 births
2013 deaths
Neurological disease deaths in Tuscany
Deaths from Parkinson's disease
Italian classical philologists
Academic staff of the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
Academic staff of the University of Pisa
University of Pisa alumni
Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa alumni


title: S. H. Kress and Co. Building (Columbia, South Carolina)

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Kress Building is a historic commercial building located at Columbia, South Carolina across the street from the Columbia Museum of Art. It was built in 1934 by S. H. Kress & Co., and is a two-story, Art Deco style building faced with white terra cotta and colored terra cotta ornamentation. It features rounded storefront windows and cornice that contains the word "Kress" and surmounted by a stepped parapet.

As of 2016, the bottom floor is a Brazilian Steakhouse and the 2nd floor houses apartments. A penthouse is planned for the roof.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

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Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
Art Deco architecture in South Carolina
Commercial buildings completed in 1934
Buildings and structures in Columbia, South Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Columbia, South Carolina
S. H. Kress & Co.
1934 establishments in South Carolina


title: Al-Quds Hospital

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The al-Quds Hospital is a hospital located in the Tel al-Hawa area of Gaza Strip (territory of the State of Israel), which was damaged by Israeli forces in 2009. Plans for repairing the hospital started soon afterwards, with the support of France and Qatar.

See also
 The Red Crescent Society, Jerusalem runs a teaching hospital at Al-Quds University.

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Hospitals in Gaza City
2001 establishments in the Palestinian territories
Shuja'iyya


title: Ciavenasca goat

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The Ciavenasca is an indigenous breed of domestic goat from the Valchiavenna, in the northern part of the province of Sondrio, in Lombardy in northern Italy. It is raised only in that area; the name of the breed derives from that of the valley or the town of Chiavenna. The Ciavenasca belongs to the group of polychrome or multi-coloured Alpine goat breeds and displays several distinct coat types, each of which has a name in the local dialect. Management is extensive: the animals are kept on high alpine pasture in the summer months. They are extremely hardy and well adapted to mountain terrain.

The Ciavenasca is not officially recognised as a breed. It is not among the forty-three autochthonous Italian goat breeds of limited distribution for which a herdbook is kept by the Associazione Nazionale della Pastorizia, the Italian national association of sheep- and goat-breeders, nor is it reported to the DAD-IS database of the FAO. In 2002, it was reportedly in the process of being recognised. The population was estimated at 3000 at that time.

Use

The Ciavenasca is a dairy breed, but is kept mainly for meat, both from kids and from mature animals. Local food specialities derived from it include the viulìn de càvra de Ciavéna (), a goat's meat prosciutto or spalla; there is also a salume called filùn, made in a similar way from the backbone and back muscles of the animal, salted and seasoned in well-ventilated natural caves. The milk is used to make Mascarpin cheese, which may be smoked or peppered.

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Goat breeds
Meat goat breeds
Goat breeds originating in Italy


title: List of Portuguese novelists

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This is a list of Portuguese novelists.

C
Mario de Carvalho (born 1944)
Camilo Castelo Branco (1825–1890)
Luísa Costa Gomes
Afonso Cruz (born 1971)

D
Júlio Dinis (1839–1871)
José Riço Direitinho (born 1965)

F
Rosa Lobato de Faria (1932–2010)
Vergílio Ferreira (1916–1996)
Raquel Freire (born 1973)

G
Almeida Garrett (1799–1854)
Olga Gonçalves (1929–2004)
Pedro Guilherme-Moreira (born 1969)

H
Alexandre Herculano (1810–1877)
Maria Teresa Horta (born 1937)

L
António Lobo Antunes (born 1942)

M
valter hugo mãe (born 1971)
Dulce Maria Cardoso (born 1964)
Guilherme de Melo (1931–2013)
Luís de Sttau Monteiro (1926–1993)

N
Fernando Goncalves Namora (1919–1989)
Vitorino Nemésio (1901–1978)
António de Vasconcelos Nogueira (born 1961)

O
Raquel Ochoa (born 1980)
Carlos de Oliveira (1921–1981)

P
José Luís Peixoto (born 1974)
Ana Teresa Pereira (born 1958)
Ana Plácido (1831–1895)

Q
José Maria de Eça de Queirós (1845–1900)
Francisco Teixeira de Queiroz (1848–1919)

R
Wanda Ramos (1948–1998)
Aquilino Ribeiro (1885–1963)

S
Rui Miguel Saramago (born 1969)
José Saramago (1922–2010)

T
Gonçalo M. Tavares (born 1970)
Miguel Sousa Tavares (born 1952)

Z
Richard Zimler (born 1956)

See also
 List of Portuguese writers
 Portuguese literature
 List of novelists by nationality

References

Novelists
Portuguese


title: Vittoria Di Silverio

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Vittoria Di Silverio, also known as Maria Vittoria Ghirighini, was an Italian film, television, and stage actress. She was best known for her roles in films such as L'homme orchestre (1969) and The Conquest of the Citadel (1977).

Biography
Di Silverio's career in stage acting began in 1917. Once spotted, this was followed by many appearances on Italian television, from the mid-1950s until the early 1980s, with her final public appearance at the Taormina Film Fest in 1993. She was the mother of actor, stuntman, and model Biagio Gambini (1926–1986), grandmother of actress Nella Gambini (1953–2016) and aunt of the actor Luciano Catenacci (1933–1990) and actress Francesca Romana Coluzzi (1943–2009).

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Italian film actresses
Italian stage actresses
Italian television actresses
1907 births

Year of death missing


National Loan and Exchange Bank Building, also known as the Barringer Building, is a historic bank and office building located at 1338 Main Street, Columbia, South Carolina. It was built in 1903, and is a 12-story, steel frame building faced in brick and stone.  It measures 184 feet high and is considered Columbia's first skyscraper. The building was owned by the Barringer Corporation from 1953 until 1974.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

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Skyscrapers in South Carolina
Office buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
Bank buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
Buildings and structures completed in 1903
Buildings and structures in Columbia, South Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Columbia, South Carolina
Skyscraper office buildings in South Carolina
1903 establishments in South Carolina