title: 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup Pool B

text:
Pool B of the 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup was composed of 2010 World Cup champions New Zealand, Ireland, United States and Kazakhstan. Ireland won the group with three wins—including a surprise win over New Zealand—and one bonus point (against Kazakhstan).

New Zealand vs Kazakhstan

United States vs Ireland

United States vs Kazakhstan

New Zealand vs Ireland

Ireland vs Kazakhstan

New Zealand vs United States

Notes

Pool B
2014–15 in Irish rugby union
2014 in American rugby union
2014 in New Zealand rugby union
rugby union
rugby union
rugby union
rugby union


title: Diomus

text:
Diomus is a genus of lady beetles in the family Coccinellidae. There are at least 20 described species in Diomus.

Species
These 65 species belong to the genus Diomus:

 Diomus akonis (Ohta, 1929) g
 Diomus amabilis (LeConte, 1852) i c g b (amiable lady)
 Diomus arizonicus Gordon, 1976 i c g
 Diomus austrinus Gordon, 1976 i c g
 Diomus balteatus (LeConte, 1878) i c g
 Diomus bigemmeus (Horn, 1895) i c g b
 Diomus caledoniensis (Bielawski, 1973) g
 Diomus debilis (Leconte, 1852) i c g b
 Diomus floridanus (Mulsant, 1850) i c g
 Diomus gillerforsi Fursch, 1987 g
 Diomus humilis Gordon, 1976 i c g
 Diomus liebecki (Horn, 1895) i c g b (Liebeck's lady)
 Diomus myrmidon (Mulsant, 1850) i c g
 Diomus notescens (Blackburn, 1889) i
 Diomus ochroderus (Mulsant, 1850) g
 Diomus pseudotaedatus Gordon, 1976 i c g b
 Diomus pumilio (Weise, 1885) i c g
 Diomus roseicollis (Mulsant, 1853) i c g b
 Diomus rubidus (Motschulsky, 1837) g
 Diomus sexualis (Fauvel, 1903) g
 Diomus taedatus (Fall, 1901) i c g
 Diomus terminatus (Say, 1835) i c g b
 Diomus texanus Gordon, 1976 i c g b
 Diomus thoracicus (Fabricius, 1801) g
 Diomus xanthaspis (Mulsant, 1850) i c g b
Australian species
     Diomus ancorus Pang & Slipinski, 2009
     Diomus australasiae (Blackburn, 1892)
     Diomus australis (Blackburn, 1889)
     Diomus bimaculatus Pang & Slipinski, 2009
     Diomus brisbanensis (Blackburn, 1895)
     Diomus brookfieldi Pang & Slipinski, 2009
     Diomus bunya Pang & Slipinski, 2010
     Diomus capital Pang & Slipinski, 2009
     Diomus carbine Pang & Slipinski, 2010
     Diomus casuarinae (Blackburn, 1889)
     Diomus circus Pang & Slipinski, 2010
     Diomus corticalis (Lea, 1908)
     Diomus cowleyi (Blackburn, 1895)
     Diomus cucullifer (Blackburn, 1892)
     Diomus denhamensis Weise, 1929
     Diomus elutus (Lea, 1902)
     Diomus ementitor (Blackburn, 1895)
     Diomus ferrugineus Weise, 1895
     Diomus flavolaterus (Lea, 1926)
     Diomus frater (Lea, 1902)
     Diomus gilvus Pang & Slipinski, 2010
     Diomus gingera Pang & Slipinski, 2010
     Diomus hamatus Weise, 1895
     Diomus hebes Pang & Slipinski, 2010
     Diomus impictus (Blackburn, 1895)
     Diomus inaffectatus (Blackburn, 1892)
     Diomus insidiosus (Blackburn, 1889)
     Diomus inusitatus (Blackburn, 1889)
     Diomus jocosus (Blackburn, 1892)
     Diomus kamerungensis (Blackburn, 1895)
     Diomus kioloa Pang & Slipinski, 2010
     Diomus kosciuszko Pang & Slipinski, 2009
     Diomus kuranda Pang & Slipinski, 2009
     Diomus leai Pang & Slipinski, 2010
     Diomus lord Pang & Slipinski, 2010
     Diomus lubricus (Blackburn, 1889)
     Diomus macrops (Lea, 1929)
     Diomus maestus (Lea, 1926)
     Diomus mareebensis (Blackburn, 1895)
     Diomus marmorosus Pang & Slipinski, 2009
     Diomus micrus Pang & Slipinski, 2010
     Diomus millaamillaa Pang & Slipinski, 2009
     Diomus ningning Pang & Slipinski, 2009
     Diomus notescens (Blackburn, 1889)
     Diomus obumbratus (Blackburn, 1895)
     Diomus operosus (Blackburn, 1895)
     Diomus pisinus Pang & Slipinski, 2010
     Diomus planulatus (Blackburn, 1895)
     Diomus poonindiensis (Blackburn, 1889)
     Diomus prodigialis Pang & Slipinski, 2010
     Diomus pumilio Weise, 1885
     Diomus reidi Pang & Slipinski, 2009
     Diomus robustus (Weise, 1929)
     Diomus scapularis (Weise, 1885)
     Diomus sedani (Blackburn, 1889)
     Diomus simplex (Blackburn, 1889)
     Diomus sphragitis (Weise, 1885)
     Diomus storeyi Pang & Slipinski, 2009
     Diomus striatus (Lea, 1902)
     Diomus subclarus (Blackburn, 1895)
     Diomus subelongatulus (Blackburn, 1892)
     Diomus sublatus (Blackburn, 1892)
     Diomus sydneyensis (Blackburn, 1892)
     Diomus tasmanicus Pang & Slipinski, 2010
     Diomus tenebricosus (Boheman, 1859)
     Diomus tinaroo Pang & Slipinski, 2009
     Diomus torres Pang & Slipinski, 2009
     Diomus triangularis (Lea, 1902)
     Diomus variiceps (Lea, 1929)
     Diomus victoriensis (Blackburn, 1892)
     Diomus villus Pang & Slipinski, 2010
     Diomus weiri Pang & Slipinski, 2009
     Diomus whittonensis (Blackburn, 1892)
     Diomus yarrensis (Blackburn, 1895)
     Diomus zborowskii Pang & Slipinski, 2009

Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net

References

Further reading

External links

Coccinellidae
Coccinellidae genera
Taxa named by Étienne Mulsant


The Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Costume Design is an annual merit by the Africa Film Academy to reward films with the best costume for the year. It was introduced in 2005 as Best Costume

References

Lists of award winners
Africa Movie Academy Awards
Awards for film costume design


title: Henry Sherburne House

text:
The Henry Sherburne House is a historic house at 62 Deer Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Built about 1766, it is a well-preserved example of late Georgian architecture in the city, distinctive for its scrolled pediment entrance surrounded, the only in situ period example of its style.  The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

Description and history
The Henry Sherburne House stands on the west side of The Hill, a cluster of historic houses southwest of the junction of Deer and High Streets. Many of these houses, the Sherburne House among them, were relocated to this area as part of a road widening project.  It is a two-story wood-frame structure, with a hip roof, clapboarded exterior, set facing west toward Deer Street near its junction with Russell Street.  Its front-facing roof is pierced by three gabled dormers, whose scrolled pediments echo that found above the main entrance.   The front facade is five bays wide, with the main entrance at its center, flanked by pilasters and topped by an entablature and elaborate broken scrolled pediment.  The roof line is adorned with a heavy modillioned cornice.

This house was built sometime between 1766 and 1770, and originally faced east toward Deer Street prior to being moved to this location. It is an unusually large house for this part of Portsmouth in the late Georgian period.  Its front doorway is also distinctive, as the only known in situ scrolled pediment doorway to survive from the period in the entire state.  It is believed that this pediment was used as a model by preservationist Wallace Nutting when he undertook the restoration of the Wentworth-Gardner House.

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

References

Houses completed in 1770
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in New Hampshire
Georgian architecture in New Hampshire
Houses in Portsmouth, New Hampshire
National Register of Historic Places in Portsmouth, New Hampshire
1770 establishments in New Hampshire


title: 2014–15 FK Partizani Tirana season

text:
In the 2014–15 season, Partizani Tirana competed in the Kategoria Superiore for the second consecutive season.

Players

Italics players who left the team during the season.
Bold players who came in the team during the season.

Transfers

In

Out

Pre-season and friendlies

Competitions

Kategoria Superiore

League table

Results summary

Results by round

Matches

Albanian Cup

First round

Second round

Quarter-finals

Notes

References

External links
Official website

Partizani
FK Partizani Tirana seasons


title: Roy C. Jensen

text:
Roy C. Jensen (August 7, 1909 – March 6, 2011) was an American farmer and politician.

Born in Willmar, Minnesota, Jensen owned a dairy farm near Priam, Minnesota. He was also president of a cooperative telephone company. Jensen also served on the school and township boards. He served in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 1951 until 1954 and was a Republican. He died in Willmar, Minnesota.

Notes

1909 births
2011 deaths
People from Willmar, Minnesota
Businesspeople from Minnesota
American centenarians
Men centenarians
American Lutherans
Republican Party members of the Minnesota House of Representatives
20th-century American businesspeople
20th-century Lutherans


title: Columbia Historic District II

text:
Columbia Historic District II is a national historic district located at Columbia, South Carolina.  The district encompasses 113 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site in a former residential section of Columbia. They were built between the early-19th century and the 1930s (majority between 1900 and 1918) and are now mostly used for commercial purposes.  The buildings are in the Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Classical Revival, and the “Columbia Cottage” styles.  Notable buildings include the Robert Mills House, Debruhl-Marshall House, Hampton-Preston House, Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, Crawford-Clarkson House, Maxcy Gregg House, Hale-Elmore-Seibels House, St. Paul's Lutheran Church, and Ebenezer Lutheran Church.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.  It was enlarged in 1982, and underwent a boundary adjustment in 2018.

References

External links

Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
Buildings and structures in Columbia, South Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Columbia, South Carolina


title: List of mountain passes in South Carolina

text:
The following is a list of mountain passes and gaps in the U.S. state of South Carolina.

See also

References

External links

Mountain passes


title: Jérôme Jarre

text:
Jérôme Jarre (pronounced ) is a French entrepreneur, creator and humanitarian. He is best known for being a Vine and Snapchat celebrity. As of June 2014, he was the fourth most followed individual on Vine. That same month he became one of the first Snapchat celebrities.

After starting several businesses in China and Canada, Jarre started posting videos on Vine the day of its launch. Thereafter he left his business to completely focus on Vine. In May 2013, he co-founded GrapeStory, a talent agency for Vine and Snapchat stars.

In 2014, he turned down a $1,000,000 offer from a top NYC advertising agency because the product clashed with his principles.

In March 2017, he started a campaign for Turkish Airlines to deliver aid to Somalia, which garnered the attention of Ben Stiller, Nas Daily, Sarah Silverman, Casey Neistat, Colin Kaepernick, Juanpa Zurita, and other celebrities and influencers. As of September 2017, he helped to raise nearly $4,000,000 to aid people in Somalia suffering from a recent drought. He has posted many videos on Twitter advocating the Somali people and country.

He had more than 15 million followers across social media. but has since become anti-fame and anti social-media, seeking anonymity in order to escape the media and find himself as a human.

Early life and education
Jarre was born in Albertville, France and was raised by his single mother, Agnes Jarre. At 19, he dropped out of Kedge Business School after moving to China. He stayed in China for one year and learned to speak English and Chinese, and created different startups.

Career

Entrepreneur
In China, Jarre started several businesses, one of which became successful and he used the money to move to Toronto and co-founded a software company, Atendy, with Christopher Carmichael.

Creator
While he was in Toronto, he heard about Vine's launch and made an account on the platform. He then moved back to Paris, France and started making Vines while he was still managing his business and later left his business to completely focus on Vine.

Livestream direct cash transfer
Jarre partnered with the American Refugee Committee (ARC) to develop a new humanitarian model. On September 20, Love Army was invited to present their humanitarian work at the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation event GOALKEEPERS during the 2017 United Nations General Assembly. Other presenters included Bill Gates, Barack Obama, Justin Trudeau, and Malala Yousafzai. Jerome Jarre, Casey Neistat and Juanpa Zurita took the stage on behalf of Love Army and ARC. Simultaneously, the ARC team was on the ground with 1000 beneficiaries in 8 different villages gearing them up to receive a life changing mobile money transfer. In a historical first, a livestream was set up between the beneficiaries and the GOALKEEPERS event, which meant everyone there was able to see just where the money raised was going. With everything in place Jerome and his team did something that came as a surprise to everyone in attendance. With no warning, they asked Bill and Melinda Gates to help them meet their fundraising goal of $1 million. The Gates’ agreed and in moments Abdirashid Duale, the CEO of Dahabshiil who was in the audience, was able to transfer the funds from his phone live. Each and every one of the 1000 beneficiaries instantly received $1000, and the moment was captured via livestream.

Social media

Vine
Jarre posted his first Vine in January 2013 on the day Vine launched. Three months after the launch of Vine, he released a video titled Don't be afraid of love, which became one of the earliest viral videos on Vine and was featured twice on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Six months after starting his Vine account, he had 20,000 followers. Most of his vines feature him playing pranks on strangers. According to Jarre, after being featured on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, his account grew from 20,000 followers to 1 million followers in a month. Subsequently, Ellen asked him to cover the Red Carpet ceremony of the 86th Academy Awards, where he made multiple vines with Hollywood actors. Later he was hired by Canal+ to cover 2014 Cannes Film Festival. At the Tribeca Film Festival 2014, he was one of the jurors of the 6 second films competition.

In November 2013, Jarre started a project on Vine called Humans. In this project, he asks strangers the question "what is the most important message you would like to share with the world right now?". The videos of this project have been posted under a separate Vine account, Humans. BuzzFeed's Arielle Calderon wrote of Jarre's series that "this Vine project will restore your faith in humanity."

Jarre has made many vines with several of Hollywood's artists including Robert De Niro, Pharrell Williams, Ashton Kutcher, Ben Stiller, Ansel Elgort, Beyonce, Ariana Grande and Kristen Bell.

In 2015 Jarre left Vine.

Snapchat
After gaining 7 million followers on Vine, Jarre made an account on Snapchat and started using the platform where he makes two-minute narratives for telling stories. Jarre created a snapchat story with Stromae about a carrot looking for his father (Stromae) On 11 July 2014, Jarre went outside Snapchat's office and tweeted "Hey Snapchat, I am outside your office. Let me in if you see this." The hashtag #JeromeInsideSnapchat that he used for his tweet trended at #1 in the US and the UK. He was then asked to come into the Snapchat office, where he made a Snapchat story with the CEO Evan Spiegel.

On one occasion he shared the story on Snapchat and received twenty-six million views.

Ugly Selfie Challenge
In 2015 Jarre started the #UglySelfieChallenge, inviting people to stop trying to take perfect selfies, and post selfies making silly faces; everyone had to nominate three more people to do the same. More than 100,000 ugly faces photos were published.

GrapeStory
GrapeStory is a talent agency founded by Jarre and Gary Vaynerchuk in May 2013. The agency connects mobile content artists with brands looking for marketing content. After gaining a significant following on Vine, Jarre decided to launch a talent agency for Vine, Instagram and Snapchat stars. Jarre was looking for a business partner when he learnt that Vaynerchuk was going to be in Toronto. Jarre had taught himself English by listening to an audio version of Vaynerchuk's self-help book, Crush It! when he was in China. When Jarre pitched his idea, Vaynerchuk liked it and decided to become his business partner. Jarre then left his business in Toronto and moved to New York to work on GrapeStory. As of August 2013, the agency had between 20 and 30 Vine stars signed on, among others.

Litre of Light (The Solar Light Mission)
Jarre launched a campaign where likes on the posts are currency and plastic bottles are used to light up the communities in rural Philippines. He once helped turn 150K Instagram likes into a lit up village in the Philippines.

Controversies
Jarre was strongly criticized by the Vine community for posting a Vine in which he played a kiss prank on John Stamos and Stamos returned the kiss. The vine was posted in June 2014, and the commenters accused him of being gay and threatened to unfollow him for it. Jarre posted a follow-up Vine video the next day to call out these individuals directly. In it, he claimed he's not gay, then proceeded to kiss a fellow Vine star Nicholas Megalis on the mouth to show support for the LGBT community.

On January 5, 2014, Nash Grier and Jarre turned up at a mall in Kópavogur, Iceland to meet their fans. The meet up was organized by the two of them on the social media a day before. They wanted to do a free meet-up, so decided against booking a venue and hiring security. Over 5,000 people gathered there and the police had to be called after the crowd became unmanageable. Minor injuries and damages to the parked cars were also reported. Later Jarre posted an apology on Twitter.

References

External links
Grape Story
Jerome Jarre's TEDxYouth Talk
Jerome Jarre on Vine
Jérôme Jarre Twitter
'King of Vine' Jerome Jarre on Finding Social Media Celebrity

1990 births
Living people
French Internet celebrities
Vine (service) celebrities
People from Albertville


title: Adam Waszkiewicz

text:
Adam Waszkiewicz (born 6 December 1993) is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Legionovia Legionowo.

External links

1993 births
Living people
Footballers from Łódź
Men's association football defenders
Polish men's footballers
Jagiellonia Białystok players
Raków Częstochowa players
Stal Stalowa Wola players
Ekstraklasa players
I liga players
II liga players
III liga players


title: Smith's Corner Historic District

text:
The Smith's Corner Historic District is a historic district encompassing a historic 19th-century rural village center.  Covering about , the district is centered on the junction of Main Avenue (New Hampshire Route 107A), South Road, and Chase Road in northwestern South Hampton, abutting its border with East Kingston.  The village was important as a stagecoach stop.  The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

Description and history
Smith's Corner is located in northwestern South Hampton, a rural community in southeastern New Hampshire.  New Hampshire Route 107A, Main Avenue in South Hampton, was historically a stagecoach route connecting Amesbury and Newburyport, Massachusetts to Kingston, New Hampshire.  This part of South Hampton was agricultural from its settlement in the 18th century, but when the stage route was opened in the 19th century, it developed as a service stop on that route.  It featurered several taverns, of which the Smith House at Main Avenue and Stagecoach Lane is one that still survives.  The George Goodwin House, located a short way west of that junction, was also given a tavern license.  Other properties around the junction were used in other aspects of service in the stagecoach industry.

The buildings in the district are all now residential and/or agricultural in use.  The district includes one of South Hampton's oldest houses, the c. 1750 Moses Eaton House on Stagecoach Road, and several other 18th-century Georgian houses. The Eaton House is a particularly well-preserved example of a New England connected farmstead.  The most prominent buildings were built in the mid-19th century for the stage trade, and are Greek Revival character.

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

References

Historic districts in Rockingham County, New Hampshire
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in New Hampshire
National Register of Historic Places in Rockingham County, New Hampshire
South Hampton, New Hampshire


title: I-Lived

text:
i-Lived is a 2015 American horror thriller film written and directed by Franck Khalfoun.

Plot
A young online app reviewer's latest assignment mysteriously improves his life but also starts to tear him apart, bringing his existence into a downward spiral.

Cast
 Jan Broberg as Josh's Mom
 Franck Khalfoun as Detective McQuee (voice)
 Josh Cowdery as Executive #2
 Shannon Collis as Drunk Girl
 Luis Fernandez-Gil as Roberto Luis
 Jeremiah Watkins as Josh
 Thomas Payton as Zach
 Koral Michaels as Kidnapped Girl
 Nic D'Avirro as Josh's Dad

Production
Filming took place in Los Angeles, California in May 2014.

References

External links

2015 films
2015 horror thriller films
American horror thriller films
2010s mystery thriller films
2015 horror films
American mystery thriller films
Films directed by Franck Khalfoun
Films shot in Los Angeles
Films about the Internet
2010s English-language films
2010s American films


title: Stephen Moulsdale

text:
Stephen Richard Platt Moulsdale (18 August 1872, County Sligo – 25 October 1944, Hintlesham) was an  Irish Anglican priest and academic administrator.

Life and career
The eldest son of the Revd T. H. P. Moulsdale, an Anglo-Irish cleric who was the rector of Ballysumaghan, Stephen Moulsdale was educated initially in Sligo followed by St Aidan's Theological College in Birkenhead. He was ordained in 1896 and became a curate at St Chad's Church in Everton, Liverpool. Later continuing his studies at Durham University as a member of Bishop Hatfield's Hall, he was granted an MA in Divinity in 1903. Moulsdale married Mary Frideswide, the daughter of Aysgarth School headmaster the Rev. C. T. Hales, in 1908. She died in 1933.

In 1903 he was appointed vice-principal of St Chad's Hostel, Hooton Pagnell, and in 1904 was appointed principal. Also in 1904, he was instrumental in founding St Chad's Hall at Durham University as a sister institution to the hostel, becoming its first principal, which he held concurrently with the hostel principalship. The hostel closed in 1916, with all teaching concentrated at the Durham institution, which in 1918 was renamed St Chad's College.

He remained principal of St Chad's College until 1937, serving concurrently as Vice-Chancellor of Durham University from 1934 to 1936.

References

1872 births
1944 deaths
Principals of St Chad's College, Durham
20th-century English Anglican priests
Alumni of Hatfield College, Durham
Alumni of St Aidans College Birkenhead
20th-century Anglo-Irish people


title: Francesco Billari

text:
Francesco C. Billari (born 13 October 1970) is an italian sociologist and demographer, and the Rector of Bocconi University in Milan, as well as Professor of Demography in the Department of Social and Political Sciences

Biography

He graduated from Bocconi University with a degree in Political Economy in 1994, with a specialization in Statistics and Operations Research. In 1997 he was a Doctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, and obtained a PhD in Demography from the University of Padua (Department of Statistical Sciences) in 1998. From 1999 to 2002 he was the leader of a research group at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock.

A Professor of Demography at Bocconi University from 2002 to 2012 (until 2005 Associate and later Full Professor), he subsequently moved to the University of Oxford as Statutory Professor of Sociology and Demography and Director of the Department of Sociology, and as Professorial Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, before returning to his alma mater in 2017.

At Bocconi he has also held the roles of Dean for Development, in charge of Alumni relations and Fundraising, founding Director of the Carlo F. Dondena Center for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy, Director of the Master of Science in Economic and Social Sciences when it was launched, Dean of the Faculty and Deputy Rector.

On 27 June 2022 he has been appointed by the Bocconi board Rector of the University for the 2022/2024 two year period; he took office on 1 November 2022, at the end of Gianmario Verona's six-year Rectorship.

Academic recognitions

He has held several academic positions at an international level, including Distinguished International Scholar at the Department of Sociology and the Population Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania (2008-2009), and Visiting Professor at the Department of Social and Political Sciences at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona (2007).

He was President, Secretary-General and Treasurer of the European Association for Population Studies and President of the Italian Association for Population Studies, a section of the Italian Statistical Society. He has also held positions on the scientific councils of various institutions, including the Center for Demographic Studies at the Institut National d'Études Démographiques, the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute, the Paris School of Economics and the Vienna Institute of Demography.

For his research contributions on demography and study of life courses, sociology and social policies, he was appointed Fellow of the British Academy (2014), Foreign Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (2014) and Fellow of the European Academy of Sociology (2010).

In 2012, the Population Association of America awarded him the Clifford C. Clogg Award for Mid-Career Achievement. He also received an Honorary Doctorate from the Faculty of Economic, Social and Political Sciences and Communication from Université Catholique de Louvain (2013).

Research areas

His research has been published by generalist journals, such as Nature and PNAS, and by top international journals in the demographic, sociological, statistical and epidemiological fields. He has also held editorial roles at Advances in Life Course Research (as founding editor), Population Studies, Demographic Research and Demography. He has obtained competitive research funding from the European Research Council (Advanced Investigator Grant) and other leading programs at national and international levels.

References

Living people
British sociologists
Fellows of the British Academy
Fellows of Nuffield College, Oxford
People from Milan
1970 births
Academic staff of Bocconi University


title: This Is Tomorrow (song)

text:
"This Is Tomorrow" is a song by Bryan Ferry, the former lead vocalist for Roxy Music. It was released in 1977 as the first single from In Your Mind, his fourth solo album but the first consisting entirely of original songs. It was Ferry's tenth single. The single features the non-album track, "As the World Turns" as the B-side. The song peaked at number 9 in the UK Singles Chart, during its nine week run.

Background
The title, "This Is Tomorrow" was inspired by a 1956 exhibition of pop art at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London, devised by Richard Hamilton, who had taught Ferry at Newcastle University.

Personnel
Musicians
 Bryan Ferry – lead vocals, keyboards
 Chris Spedding – guitar
 Paul Thompson – drums
 John Wetton – bass guitar
 David Skinner – piano, keyboards
 Mel Collins – saxophone
 Martin Drover – trumpet
 Chris Mercer – saxophone

References

External links

1977 singles
Bryan Ferry songs
Songs written by Bryan Ferry
Polydor Records singles
1977 songs


title: Smyth Public Library

text:
Smyth Public Library refers to several buildings that have served as the public library of Candia, New Hampshire, United States. The current building, which opened in 2002, is located at 55 High Street. The previous library building at 194 High Street was constructed in 1932 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in September 2007, and the New Hampshire State Register of Historic Places in April 2007.

Early library history in Candia dates back to 1824 with the formation of the Candia Library Literary Society. Over the course of many years it changed its name, but there was always a lending library of some description.

History
In the middle of the nineteenth century, Frederick Smyth was a Candia native who had left his hometown and become successful in business and politics. He made a considerable fortune in banking and railroads, and was governor of New Hampshire from 1852 to 1854 and again in 1864.

In 1888 the private library system in Candia was in severe straits. Local residents called upon then ex-Governor Smyth for help. He pledged $1,000 to open up a library for public use. The first meeting of the Smyth Public Library Association was in May 1888, and Candia had its first library. Fundraising began to buy books, and the library had 740 titles when it first opened. The building it occupied then is known as the Fitts Museum today.

Due to the generous nature of Governor Smyth and his wife Marion, a sum of money was donated to the Library Association to build a new library. The resulting brick building on the hill at 194 High Street opened in 1932; it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

New building
Candia's new  Smyth Public Library opened in December 2002. It is situated between the Candia Elementary School, the Candia Park, and the new (2004-5) Candia Town Pond & Natural Area; it is linked to all three via a new sidewalk and trail system. Among the library's features is a working fireplace in the leisure reading area, an art display gallery, and an outdoor reading garden with extensive perennial flower plantings and comfortable benches overlooking the pond.

The mission of Smyth Public Library is to provide and ensure access to books, information, materials, and services that fulfill the educational, informational, cultural, recreational, and professional needs of Candia's residents in a welcoming, respectful, and supportive environment.

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

References

External links
Smyth Public Library official website

Libraries on the National Register of Historic Places in New Hampshire
Colonial Revival architecture in New Hampshire
Library buildings completed in 1932
Libraries in Rockingham County, New Hampshire
National Register of Historic Places in Rockingham County, New Hampshire
New Hampshire State Register of Historic Places
Candia, New Hampshire


title: 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup Pool C

text:
Pool C of the 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup is composed of France, Australia, South Africa and Wales.

Australia vs South Africa

France vs Wales

Australia vs Wales

France vs South Africa

Wales vs South Africa

Australia vs France

Notes

Pool C
2014–15 in Welsh rugby union
2014–15 in French rugby union
2014 in Australian rugby union
2014 in South African rugby union
rugby union
rugby union


title: Skibstrup railway halt

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Skibstrup halt is a railway halt serving the settlements of Skibstrup and Ellekilde on the coast of North Zealand, Denmark.

The halt is located on the Hornbæk Line from Helsingør to Gilleleje. The train services are currently operated by the railway company Lokaltog which runs frequent local train services between Helsingør station and Gilleleje station.

See also
 List of railway stations in Denmark

External links

Lokaltog

Railway stations in the Capital Region of Denmark


title: List of cricket grounds in Nepal

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This is a list of cricket grounds in Nepal. International matches are currently played at the Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground in Kirtipur and Upper Mulpani Cricket Ground on the outskirts of Kathmandu. Women's international matches have been played at the Pokhara Rangashala in Pokhara. New grounds capable of hosting international matches are under construction in Tilottama Rupandehi, Mulpani, Kathmandu, Lamahi  Dang and Bharatpur, Chitwan.

International cricket grounds

Women's international cricket grounds

Under construction

Domestic cricket grounds

Koshi Province

Madhesh Province

Bagmati

Gandaki

Lumbini

Karnali

Sudurpashchim

Proposed

See also
 Cricket in Nepal
 Cricket Association of Nepal
Nepal national cricket team

References

External links
Grounds in Nepal at CricketArchive.
 Grounds, Nepal at ESPNcricinfo

Cricket grounds
Nepal


Columbia Electric Street Railway, Light & Power Substation is a historic power substation located at Columbia, South Carolina, USA. It was built in 1900 with later additions and alterations, and is a two-story, Italian Renaissance Revival style red brick building. It features an arcade of rounded compound arches or archivolts. From  1900 until 1936, the building served as a power substation for the Columbia Electric Street Railway, Light & Power Company and its successors.

The Columbia Electric Street Railway, Light & Power Company Substation is architecturally significant for its distinctive Italian Renaissance Revival characteristics and historically significant for its direct association with Columbia's street railway or trolley system. The building was designed by W. B. Smith Whaley, an architect well known for his cotton mills throughout the American southeast. The substation, like many of Whaley's designs, is typically Italian Renaissance Revival in many of its defining features. The primary construction material is monochromatic red brick, laid in common or American bond pattern. The primary architectural element is the arcade of rounded compound arches or archivolts springing from broad piers. The massing is heavy, solid, and imposing. This weightiness is further emphasized by the flat roof and the recessed window and door openings. The substation was renovated in 1912 to meet the growing needs of the burgeoning trolley system - the electrical equipment was upgraded, three bays were added to the west end of the building, a second story was added within the volume of the building, the original office space was removed, and the tile floor was replaced with reinforced concrete throughout the building. A monitor roof was also installed (though removed at a later date), and the cornice on the west elevation was removed and reused on the extended north elevation. From its construction in 1900 until 1936, when the trolley system permanently discontinued service, the building served as a power substation (and briefly as the general offices) for the Columbia Electric Street Railway, Light & Power Company and its successors. The trolley system operated by this company and powered by the substation played an integral part in the creation, growth, and subsequent annexation of Columbia's suburbs during the early twentieth century. These developments are illustrative of the broad pattern of trolley-based public transportation and suburban expansion of many American cities in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

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Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
Renaissance Revival architecture in South Carolina
Industrial buildings completed in 1900
Buildings and structures in Columbia, South Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Columbia, South Carolina


title: Terry Pratchett First Novel Award

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The Terry Pratchett First Novel Award was a biennial award for an unpublished science fiction novel written by a UK resident. It was sponsored by British author Terry Pratchett. The winner was chosen by a panel of judges including Pratchett. The prize was a £20,000 advance against a publishing contract with Pratchett's publishers, Transworld Publishers. The award ended with Pratchett's death in 2015.

Winners and nominees

2011

In 2011, the nominees were:

 Postponing Armageddon by Adele Abbott
 The Platinum Ticket by Dave Beynon
 Half Sick of Shadows by David Logan
 Apocalypse Cow by Michael Logan
 Lun by Andrew Salomon
 The Coven at Callington by Shereen Vedam

The award was won jointly by David Logan, for Half Sick of Shadows and Michael Logan for Apocalypse Cow.

Postponing Armageddon also went on to be published by Barking Rain Press.

2013
In 2013 the nominees were:

 The Unspoken Death of the Amazing Flying Boy by Jean Burdett
 Bloodline by Sophie Constable
 The Hive Construct by Alexander Maskill
 The Way Through the Woods by Robin Pearson
 A Kill in the Morning by Graeme Shimmin
 The Shadows of Annwn by Catherine Whittle

The award was won by Alexander Maskill's The Hive Construct.

A Kill in the Morning also went on to be published by Transworld.

References

Science fiction awards
British speculative fiction awards
Lists of speculative fiction-related award winners and nominees
First book awards
Terry Pratchett


title: Nihal Sarin

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Nihal Sarin (born 13 July 2004) is an Indian chess grandmaster and chess prodigy.  In 2018, he passed the Elo rating of 2600 at 14 years old, which at the time made him the third youngest player in history to do so.

As a junior player, Nihal was the World Under-10 champion in 2014. In 2015, he tied for first place in the World Under-12 championship, taking the silver medal on tiebreaks. Nihal won the Gold Medal as part of the Indian team in the FIDE Online Chess Olympiad 2020. He won the U-18 World Youth Championship held online in rapid format in 2020.

Early childhood
Nihal was born on 13 July 2004 in Thrissur, Kerala, India. Sarin Abdulsalam, Nihal's father, is a dermatologist while his mother, Shijin Ammanam Veetil Ummar, is a psychiatrist. He has a younger sister, Neha. His family spent their first few years in Kottayam.

He could recognize the capitals and the flags of 190 countries by the age of three. At the same age, he also had managed to know and recite from memory the scientific names of insects and plants. By the time he was in upper kindergarten, he spoke fluent English, and by the age of six, having just enrolled into the first grade, he knew all the multiplication tables until sixteen.

Nihal began learning chess at the age of six. In order for his son to not feel bored during school vacations, his father introduced Nihal to a chess set, and his grandfather A. A. Ummar taught him the rules at Kottayam, where he was a student of Excelsior English School. Nihal's first coach was Mathew Joseph Pottoore, the school's chess coach who instructed him twice a week in the beginning and then gave Sarin special individual classes.

In 2011, Nihal and his family returned to Thrissur where Nihal joined Devamatha CMI Public School.

Junior career
Nihal won the Kerala State Championship in the Under-07 category in 2011, the Under-09 title twice, the Under-11 title twice and Under-15 title once. He became runner-up in 2015 State Senior championship in Irinjalakuda at the age of 10 years, thus becoming eligible to represent Kerala in the 2015 National Challengers Championship. He was twice the State Under-19 Runner-up at the age of 8 and 10 years, respectively.

Nihal was the 2013 National Under-9 Champion in Chennai, the 2014 National Under-11 Bronze medalist at Puri, and the National Under-11 Silver medalist, 2015 in Pondicherry.

Nihal won the gold medal in the World Blitz Championship in the Under-10 category in Al-Ain in 2013. In the same category, he was the Rapid and Blitz gold medalist in the Asian Youth Championship in Tashkent in 2014.

At the age of 10 at Thodupuzha, Kerala, Nihal played simultaneously against 112 players of all age categories and won all his games.

At the end of 2013, Nihal began working with Ukrainian GM Dimitri Komarov, an experienced coach with international success in his playing days, whom he met by accident at a tournament while Komarov was coaching the United Arab Emirates team. Dimitri would go on to coach Nihal for several years.

2014-2016: World Youth Championship and IM title

Nihal's first big break came at the World Youth Chess Championship in the Under-10 category, which was held in Durban, South Africa in September 2014. He scored 9/11 to be crowned the Under-10 World Champion. For this achievement, he was conferred the Candidate Master (CM) title by FIDE.

Right after his World Youth success in 2014, Nihal scored his first victory over a titled player, IM Jonathan Westerberg of Sweden, at the World Junior Championship 2014 in Pune, India. For a year, Nihal was a regular in all the tournaments of importance held in India, including the National Challengers Championship in Nagpur. He would regularly hold titled players to draws.

The next year in 2015, he won the silver medal in the Under-12 category of World Youth Chess Championship in Greece. In the last rounds of the tournament, Nihal successively defeated the top two seeds of his category: IM Awonder Liang and FM Nodirbek Abdusattorov. He was conferred the FIDE Master (FM) title by the World chess Federation in the same year as he had crossed live Elo rating of 2300.

He was a guest competitor in the Malayalam TV quiz show Aswamedham in March 2015.

In the 2016 edition of the tournament held in Batumi, Georgia, Nihal tied for the second spot with three others. He was fourth on tiebreak.

In February 2016, Nihal played his first International Open outside India, the Cappelle-la-Grande Open, and registered his first International Master norm. In the process, he defeated a grandmaster for the first time in his career.

In Hasselbacken Open 2016 held at the turn of April in Stockholm, Nihal beat Lithuanian grandmaster Eduardas Rozentalis. The database website Chess-DB dubbed this performance as the 'Game of the Day'.

On Children's Day in 2016,  Nihal was chosen as one of the recipients of 'National Child Award For Exceptional Achievement' awarded by the former President of India Pranab Mukherjee.

At the Sunway Sitges Open 2016, Nihal registered his second International Master norm by scoring 5½/9. His third International Norm was registered in the Aeroflot B Open 2017 held in February, where Nihal scored 5½/9 as well, performing at 2539, to cross the 2400-mark and become an International Master.

2017-2020: GM title
At the World Youth Chess Olympiad in December 2017, Nihal played for India Green, helping the country secure a silver medal. He also won an individual gold.

At the TV2 Fagernes International 2017, Nihal tied for the second place to finish with 6.0/9. He was fourth on the tiebreak and stayed undefeated throughout the tournament. In the process, he scored his maiden Grand Master norm. In 2017, Nihal increased his rating by 192 elo points to cross 2500 in rating.

At Reykjavik Open 2018 held in March, Nihal scored 6.0/9 with a rating performance of 2668 to score his second GM norm. He scored wins against grandmasters Ahmed Adly and Elshan Moradiabadi and drew with Richard Rapport, Gata Kamsky and Mustafa Yilmaz.

Nihal made his debut at the Isbank Turkish Super League in July 2018, leading the team Genc Akademisyenler on the first board. He scored 6.0/12 against an opposition made up of an average rating of 2590.

At the Abu Dhabi Masters 2018 held in August, Nihal tallied 5½/9 with a rating performance of 2626 to secure his third GM norm. He became the 53rd grandmaster of India and the twelfth youngest in history at the time. On the day Nihal had become a grandmaster, his home state Kerala was ravaged by the 2018 Kerala floods, the biggest natural disaster in the state's history. Nihal contributed by raising Rs. 174,463/- (approximately US$2500) via a live YouTube show hosted by Indian chess news portal ChessBase India.

Nihal competed in the Tata Steel Rapid Championship 2018. Starting as the last seed, Nihal scored 3.0/9, with draws against Viswanathan Anand, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Sergey Karjakin, Pentala Harikrishna, Vidit Gujrathi, and Surya Shekhar Ganguly, losing only three games to Hikaru Nakamura, Levon Aronian, and Wesley So. The event marked Nihal's first game against the legendary five-time world champion Anand who graciously commented after the game, "Going by the evidence so far, I would not rule it out (Nihal becoming a world champion in future). It’s a long journey forward. At the end, he is just 14. I felt that he would really struggle in this tournament and he would be a bit out of place. It seemed the opposite. He seemed quite comfortable here. Not fully there, but he’s a huge talent what I’ve seen of him.”

Nihal ended 2018 at the World Blitz Championship in Saint Petersburg, Russia where he scored 13½/21 with a rating performance of 2777, taking the 11th place on tiebreak.

In the 2019 TePe Sigeman & Co. Masters tournament held in Malmo, Sweden, Nihal finished 6th place to cross the 2600 Elo mark in rating. He was the third youngest player in history and the youngest Indian to do so at the time. At the 2019 French Team Chess Championship, Nihal scored 6.0/11 on the first board and helped Mulhouse Philidor finish a historic third place. In 2019, aged 15, Nihal had become the youngest Indian to play in the World Cup 2019 where he managed to reach the second round after beating Peruvian Jorge Cori 2–0 in the first round. In the second round, Nihal beat Azeri GM Eltaj Safarli. Nihal lost the second round and the tiebreakers to crash out of the tournament.

Since 2019, Nihal is sponsored by Akshayakalpa, an Indian Organic Milk Company.

In January 2020, Nihal competed in the Tata Steel Challengers tournament and scored 7.0/13 to share the sixth spot. Nihal was a part of the Indian Chess Team that won the FIDE Online Chess Olympiad 2020.

After the Online Chess Olympiad 2020, Nihal's run of wins continued with him winning the Junior Speed Chess Championship conducted by Chess.com. A few weeks later he went to win the Capechecs Online Trophy in October 2020. He also helped the Indian team win the silver medal at the Asian Teams Online Championship 2020. On 10 December, Nihal registered his third successful win by defeating Arjun Erigaisi in the finals of the Super Juniors Cup organized by Chessbase India. His fourth tournament win for the year 2020 came after he defeated GM Shant Sargsyan of Armenia in the finals of the World Youth Chess Championship 2020 held online and organized by FIDE. He was crowned under-18 World Youth Chess Champion on 22 December 2020, and won the Gazprom Brilliancy Prize for his game against IM Francesco Sonis.

Nihal won the World Online Youth Championships 2020 in the Under-18 category by defeating GM Shant Sargsyan from Armenia.

2021
In April 2021, Nihal participated in the Julius Baer Challengers Chess Tour, becoming one of 19 young chess players who were selected to receive training sessions from Judit Polgár and Vladimir Kramnik as well as participating in a number of head-to-head games against various grandmasters. On 19 April 2021, the 19 participants faced off against then-world champion Magnus Carlsen in a Blitz format with 3 minutes being allotted per move with no time increment. Nihal was among two of the 19 participants who were able to defeat Carlsen in the event. This game marked Nihal's first victory against the world champion in an official event. Nihal had previously beaten Carlsen in an unofficial online Blitz game on 27 May 2020, prompting the world champion to remark that Nihal was "one of the young guns" and "one of the better blitz players around".

In June 2021, playing the Silver Lake Open in Serbia, his first over the board tournament since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Nihal scored 8.0/9 with a 2807 rating performance to take first place. In July 2021, Nihal won his second consecutive tournament by winning the Serbia Open Masters in Belgrade with 7.5/9 and a rating performance of 2786.

In October 2021, Nihal defeated Raunak Sadhwani to win the Junior Speed Chess Championship organized by Chess.com.

Adult career

2022-2023: Peak ranking
Nihal lost to Hikaru Nakamura in the semifinals of the 2022 Speed Chess Championship.

For the first time, Nihal broke into the 2700 barrier in live rating after he won with the black pieces against GM Paulius Pultinevicius in Round 2 of the European Chess Club Cup in 2023.

Training
Nihal's first coach was Mathew P. Joseph Pottoore, a chess coach at his school. Nirmal E P, the Kerala State Champion, started training Nihal when he was eight years old.

He was trained by Dimitri Komarov from 2013 to 2019. He has been working with Srinath Narayanan since 2016. Since late 2020, Nihal is also trained by Viswanathan Anand as part of the WestBridge-Anand Chess Academy.

See also

References

External links

2004 births
Living people
Chess grandmasters
Indian chess players
Sportspeople from Thrissur
Malayali people
Chess Olympiad competitors


title: Charles de Visscher

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Charles Marie Joseph Désiré de Visscher (2 August 1884 – 2 January 1973) was a Belgian scholar and practitioner of international law, as well as judge on the Permanent Court of International Justice and International Court of Justice.

Early life and education
Charles de Visscher was born in Ghent on 2 August 1884. Orphaned at twelve years old following the death of his father, a professor at Ghent University, Charles de Visscher and his younger brother Ferdinand (d. 1964) were placed in the care of Abbé Watté.

The elder de Visscher attended Ghent University where he earned his Docteur en Droit—at the time, an initial law degree—graduating 8 October 1907. He earned a second degree, this time in political science, graduating 2 February 1909.

Career
In 1911, de Visscher became professor at the Ghent University faculty of law. He taught courses on civil law, criminal law and private international law, succeeding Albéric Rolin.

After World War I, de Visscher worked as a legal advisor to the Belgian Foreign Ministry. In 1924, he was elected Dean of the Ghent University faculty of law. In 1931, de Visscher left Ghent University due to the Flamenpolitik, and began teaching at the Catholic University of Louvain.

First appearing before the Permanent Court of International Justice was in 1927, de Visscher served as counsel for the Romanian government during their dispute over the Danube Commission. In 1931, de Visscher represented Poland in Access to, or Anchorage in, the Port of Danzig of Polish War Vessels, and subsequently in Treatment of Polish Nationals and Other Persons of Polish Origin or Speech in the Danzig Territory. His final appearance as counsel before the Permanent Court was in 1933, where he represented Denmark in Legal Status of Eastern Greenland.

Following the death of Judge Rolin-Jaequemyns in 1936, de Visscher was appointed as Belgium's ad hoc judge in the Permanent Court of International Justice. He was elected a full judge in 1937, in which position he served until the court's dissolution. He subsequently served on the International Court of Justice from 1946 until 1951. Couvreur states that the consensus is de Visscher's not being re-elected, while unexpected, was due to "the subtle interplay of political equilibria", rather than any particular failing of de Visscher himself. After leaving judicial work, de Visscher returned to academia, but also participated in arbitral bodies. In 1954 de Visscher became a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

In 1966, the American Society of International Law awarded de Visscher the Manley O. Hudson Medal.

Personal life
Charles de Visscher's wife Hélène (née Mertens) died on 2 August 1958. The couple's marriage bore seven children. The eldest, Jacques de Visscher, died near the Albert Canal on 10 May 1940 while on a mission. Two sons became priests, while another became a monk. Paul de Visscher went on to teach law at the Catholic University of Louvain. Two grandchildren also teach law: Françoise Leurquin-de Visscher and François Ost. He died in Brussels on 2 January 1973.

Notes

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Permanent Court of International Justice judges
International Court of Justice judges
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1884 births
Jurists from Ghent
Academic staff of the Catholic University of Leuven (1834–1968)
Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Belgian judges of United Nations courts and tribunals
Belgian judges of international courts and tribunals
20th-century Belgian judges


title: John C. Calhoun State Office Building

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John C. Calhoun State Office Building is a historic office building located at Columbia, South Carolina. It was built in 1926, and is a five-story, I-shaped limestone clad building over a raised basement in the Italian Renaissance Revival style.  It housed the South Carolina State Highway Department until 1952. The National Guard seized and occupied the Calhoun Building from October to December 1935 under the orders of Governor Olin D. Johnston.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

References

Office buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
Renaissance Revival architecture in South Carolina
Office buildings completed in 1926
Buildings and structures in Columbia, South Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Columbia, South Carolina


title: Priam, Minnesota

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Priam is an unincorporated community in Kandiyohi County, Minnesota, United States.

Notable person
Roy C. Jensen, Minnesota legislator and farmer, owned a dairy farm near Priam.

Notes

Unincorporated communities in Kandiyohi County, Minnesota
Unincorporated communities in Minnesota


title: Deutsches Currywurst Museum

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The Deutsches Currywurst Museum was a museum in Berlin dedicated to German currywurst sausage.

The museum was located in Berlin-Mitte near Checkpoint Charlie and was the first and only museum about currywurst. The museum received approximately 350,000 visitors annually.

The museum has been permanently closed since 21 December 2018.

History
The museum opened on 15 August 2009, 60 years after the invention of currywurst in 1949 by Berliner Herta Heuwer. Museum founder, Martin Löwer came up with the idea for the museum during a holiday trip to Jamaica. There he visited an exhibition about the yam root and started thinking about what food type would be as popular in Berlin. Löwer considered the currywurst to possess "cult status" in Germany and used the sausage's fame as justification to create the museum.

Exhibit
Patrons followed a "sauce trail" through the history of currywurst. The museum was interactive, with exhibits and displays aimed at engaging the senses of sight, smell, and sound. Highlights included a spice chamber with sniffing stations, a sausage-shaped sofa, audio stations playing currywurst-themed songs, and a virtual currywurst making game called "Curry Up!" The museum also had special installations at children's eye-level.

References

Museums in Berlin
Food museums in Germany
Buildings and structures in Mitte
Museums established in 2009
Museums disestablished in 2018


title: Toshio Aoki

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Toshio Aoki or Tershui Aoki (青木年雄 Aoki Toshio, born 1854, in Yokohama, Japan – 1912, in San Diego, California) was a Japanese American artist and painter who lived and worked in California at the turn of the 20th century.

Aoki found significant success among the American upper class and was known for hosting social events. Guests of his are alleged to have included John D. Rockefeller and J. P. Morgan.

He was born in Yokohama, Japan in 1854. He emigrated to San Francisco in 1880 at the invitation of a department-store owner. Upon his arrival, he began work as a commercial artist for the Deakin Brothers of San Francisco. He also worked as a cartoon illustrator for a San Francisco newspaper. Eventually, he became one of the preeminent Japanese artists working in the United States. He later relocated to Pasadena, California, where he received commissions to decorate the interiors of Arts and Crafts houses whose architecture, such as the famed residences by Greene and Greene, often reflected Japanese aesthetics. During this time, he was also featured in an article by the "Los Angeles Herald", entitled "To See Yourselves As Aoki Sees You". It was clear that he had already gained prominence. He was active until 1910 and died in San Diego on April 26, 1912.

Not much is known about his personal life and marriage; however, he is known to have adopted a seven-year-old girl named Tsuru. While being based in Pasadena, Aoki maintained a studio in San Francisco where he met Tsuru and her guardians.

Aoki "painted portraits and murals in the homes of prominent people and became very successful." His works were handled by George T. Marsh &
Company. He exhibited at the World's Columbian Exhibition in Chicago in 1893, and the Art Institute of Chicago gave him a showing in 1924.

The Fine Arts Gallery of San Francisco State University said of him: "Much of Aoki's early life in Japan is speculation, ranging from artistic pursuits (student of acting, or street artist) to the grand and spectacular (a Samurai opposed to the new Japanese government). . . . [he painted] 'spontaneous seki'e ('on the spot' or 'before the viewers' eyes'). He built a reputation as a storyteller, sketching comical figures and eventually landing an illustrating job with the San Francisco Call."

After moving to Pasadena, Aoki "worked hard to shed his reputation as an amusing character and storyteller and to be taken seriously as an artist. He began to work on 'Oriental receptions,' creating an atmosphere of a Japanese masquerade ball."

He died on June 26, 1912.

Biography
Toshio Aoki was born in 1854 in Yokohama, Japan. Not much is known about his early life, but he emigrated to the United States around 1880 with in a department store as a commercial artist when Japonisme took prominence during the era.  It is unknown on how long he worked under the Deakin Brothers, as he worked for other establishments making decorative works and commissions, then working with G.T. Marsh in 1895 during his time in Pasadena for commercial ventures. Achieving success in California through Nihonga, he created works that utilized Japanese imagery such as deities and icons from the Meiji period. Aoki created works in multiple media, some of which include oil on canvas and Japanese water-soluble media. He was also known as a performer, hosting a cherry blossom dinner at Pasadena where J.P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller participated, as well as a craftsman due to his works of hand painted parasols and clothing sought out by the governor of Colorado and the vice president of the United States. Though he spent most of his life in San Diego, California, he made work in Pasadena during his later years due to social and economic limitations for the Asian exports. Though known for his involvement in Japonisme art, he wasn't given positive recognition in his home country due to the racial obstacles he faced in America, being considered as a street performer in 1908 when working for G.T. Marsh. Not much is known about his personal life aside from his marriage and divorce from a Caucasian woman during his early years in America and his adoption of Tsuru Aoki. At 1898, Aoki met Tsuru and her guardians, raising her as they faced financial difficulty in California, using his career to provide for her boarding school at Colorado Springs.

Gallery

See also
 Japonisme
Nihonga
 Tsuru Aoki

References

External links

Further reading
  "Gossip of the Corridors," Los Angeles Herald, January 5, 1895
  Untitled, Los Angeles Herald, January 7, 1895
  "To See Yourselves as Aoki Sees You: Some Pictured Day Dreams of a Famous Japanese Artist," Los Angeles Herald, February 17, 1895
  "Society's Helping Hand: Fashionable Ladies to Give an Entertainment for Kindergartens," San Francisco Call, October 25, 1896
  "Brilliant Entertainment for Charity on 'Nob Hill,'" San Francisco Call, November 1, 1896
  "A Bower of Beauty: Scene at Cherry Blossom Dinner: Japanese Artists' Taste for the Beautiful," Los Angeles Herald, March 9, 1903
  Chelsea Foxwell, "Crossings and Dislocations: Toshio Aoki (1854-1912), A Japanese Artist in California, Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, Autumn 2012

Artwork
  "Hope," ink and color on paper
  Figure in fluttering robes holding a white rabbit and standing on a flying bat before a full moon
[10] "Change-e Fleeting to the Moon", Ink and colors

1854 births
1912 deaths
Japanese artists
American photographers
Artists from Yokohama
Japanese emigrants to the United States


title: Tony Fisher (puzzle designer)

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Tony Fisher is a British puzzle designer who specialises in creating custom rotational puzzles. He is acknowledged by cubing enthusiasts as a pioneer in the creation of new puzzle designs and new manufacturing techniques. In 2017 the Guinness Book of World Records acknowledged Fisher as the creator of the world's largest Rubik's cube.

Career
Fisher is both a puzzle collector and designer. He first bought a Rubik's Cube in 1980 when it was first released in the UK. He worked out his own solution to solve it. Fisher first began creating puzzles in 1981, when he modified two existing Rubik’s cubes by joining them along one edge to create a new device called the Siamese cube. This has been accredited as the first example of a “handmade modified rotational puzzle”.

In 1995 Fisher further modified the conventional rotational puzzle design by shifting its cutting planes to create a 3x3x4 cube. 3 years later the similar technique was used to build the world's first fully functional 3x4x4 cuboid which required more complex structure of edge and corner pieces. This invention was further adapted in the creation of 2x2x3, 2x3x4, 3x3x5, 4x4x5 and 5x5x6 puzzles. Another technique, initially developed by Geert Hellings, rounded the centre piece of a conventional 4x4x4 cube to create additional turning layers for a uniform 2x2x4, 6x6x6 and non-uniform 2x2x6. Tony Fisher adapted this idea to create a giant 2x2x6 which had proportional(square) cubies.
In 2008, when the V-cube 6 had come into production, Tony Fisher started thinking about building fully functional 5x5x6 or 5x6x6 cuboids. In June 2009 he finished making the world's first fully functional 5x5x6 cuboid which was made by modifying the internal V-cube 6 by partially rounding some of the layers and covering this moving core with 15mm cubies. The 5x6x6 idea was abandoned since, as Tony Fisher saw from the 5x5x6, the corner stalks of the 5x5x6 cuboid were already fractional in thickness. Fisher’s Golden Cubes, initially intended to be released as the Millennium Cube, began production in the early 2000s. Created by modifying the Skewb, it is the first example of a rotational puzzle that features just one colour scheme, requiring the solver to restore the cube’s shape without the visual aid of having separate colours for each side. The Golden Cube is considered to be Fisher’s most unusual contribution to the design of new combination puzzles, and has been mass-produced by Uwe Meffert.

The overlapping cube and ball in a cube puzzles were followed by using the modified mechanism from an Eastsheen 4x4x4 cube, and in 2007 the Hexaminx puzzle, a cubic version of the Megaminx for which Fisher has used new manufacturing techniques involving polyurethane resins to make the tiny extensions as one solid piece.

Since 1981 Fisher has designed and crafted around 100 puzzles based on different puzzle mechanisms. As well as puzzle manufacturing, he has also worked for Suffolk County Council as an archaeologist.
In 2021 Tony Fisher made some twisty puzzle chess sets. Each chess figure was acting like a 2x2x2 with some bandaging. In 2022 he presented the “Floppy floppy cube”, made from a “very weird material”.

Guinness World Record
At the beginning of 2016 he built the world's largest Rubik's Cube, which took him a total 156 hours to build in his garage. It was 1.57 metres tall and weighed 100 kilograms. He released a sped-up video showing how he spent two days working to solve the massive puzzle.

In 2017 the Guinness Book of World Records acknowledged Fisher as the creator of the world's largest Rubik's cube, which measured 1.57m long, created in 2016.

Other novelty cubes
In June 2016 Fisher also created the world's smallest functioning Rubik's Cube which measured only 5.6 millimetres on each side.

In December 2017 he unveiled a Rubik’s Cube which was made from 95% ice. His other creations include a Rubik's Cube made from candles; one made from cheese; and one made from chocolate.

Fidget spinner
In June 2017 he unveiled the world largest(at that moment) fidget spinner. The spinner had a diameter of over 3.3 metres, and took him 40 hours to build.

Puzzle designs

Examples of Fisher’s puzzle designs can be found at the Puzzle Museum, including his Cylinder Cube, Golden Cube, Hexagonal Prism, Truncated Octaminx and Truncated Octahedron.

References

External links

 Puzzle Museum
 Tony Fisher Rotational Puzzles

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Puzzle designers
Toy inventors
British designers


title: T'aqañawi

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T'aqañawi or T'aqa Ñawi (Quechua t'aqa separation, a group of separated things of the same kind, ñawi eye, "separated eye", Hispanicized names Tacañahui, Toccañahui, Tocañahui) is a mountain in the Andes of Peru, about  high. It is situated in the Puno Region, Melgar Province, in the districts Ayaviri and Umachiri. T'aqañawi lies near Ayaviri at a plain called Pampa T'aqañawi (Pampa Tacañahui).

References

Mountains of Peru
Mountains of Puno Region


title: Efird's Department Store

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Efird's Department Store, also known as Lourie's Department Store, is a historic department store building located at Columbia, South Carolina. It was built about 1870, and is a rectangular brick building renovated and expanded in 1919. This included the addition of a third story and the installation of a new brick façade and store entrances. Between 1919 and 1958, it housed the Columbia branch of the Charlotte, North Carolina based Efird's Department Store chain. It currently houses a Mast General Store, which moved in on May 25, 2011.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.

References

Defunct department stores based in South Carolina
Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
Commercial buildings completed in 1919
Buildings and structures in Columbia, South Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Columbia, South Carolina
Commercial buildings completed in 1870


title: Melody (TV series)

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Melody is a British preschool mixed-media music childseries created by Luke Howard, and produced by Wish Films and LAAH Entertainment for the BBC. Designed with disabled children in mind, it features a little girl with a visual impairment as the main character. Melody is also available on BBC iPlayer for over a year.

Melody was developed with help from the RNIB Pears Centre in Coventry, which supports children with sight problems and additional needs. While helping to create the programme, the Pears Centre conducted research into animation and soundtracks that are easier for blind and partially sighted people to follow.

Premise
Melody introduces pre-school children to classical music through the main character's imagined stories, and specially created animations that are more enjoyable for visually impaired viewers.

In each episode Melody undertakes an everyday activity with her mother. The fun she has, or the frustrations or difficulties she experiences, prompts her to want to listen to a piece of music. Her mother suggests a piece and gives Melody some headphones and an MP3 player to listen to it. Through animation, we are taken on an adventure through Melody's imagination as she listens to the music.

Cast and characters

Production
The animations were produced by six different animation studios:
Kingbee animation
Keyframe Studios
Finger Industries
Tentacle Media
Sea Monster
Factory Transmedia

Character design was by the art director Keith Robinson who also oversaw the overall look of the animations. He also designed the logo and branding for the series. Lizzie Dyson designed the background.

One of the show's producers, Will Brenton, explains that Melody's sight difficulties are never mentioned directly. "We often see her using her white cane, or placing her hand on top of her mum's whilst they cut something," he says. "It is never about what Melody can't do or needs help with, but always about what she can do and the methods she uses to do as much as most children."

Broadcast
The first series of 20 programmes was broadcast on CBeebies, in the United Kingdom, in December 2013 and January 2014, with a two-week break after the tenth programme. These episodes are also audio-described; an additional vocal narrative track fills gaps in the dialogue with helpful information for those who can't see what's happening on screen.

A second series of 20 programmes started being broadcast in March 2015.

Episodes

Series 1

Series 2

Reception
Reaction from the partially sighted community has been "very exciting" according to Brenton. "They can really connect with an aspirational, capable character overcoming the same or similar obstacles."

On the CBeebies Grownups blog, one parent writes: "I find it difficult to find TV programmes for my visually impaired son that are easily accessible. I love the idea of having a young girl starring that is visually impaired, these sort of programmes are great in helping children that have additional needs feel less isolated."

References

External links

 LAAH Entertainment
 YoungCalibre Chat with CBeebies Melody
 UCAN (Unique Creative Arts Network)
 MACS (The Micro and Anophthalmic Children’s Society)

BBC children's television shows
British children's adventure television series
British children's musical television series
British preschool education television series
2010s preschool education television series
2013 British television series debuts
English-language television shows
2010s British children's television series
CBeebies
Television series about children


title: Kevin Vermeulen

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Kevin Vermeulen (born 20 November 1990) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Kozakken Boys. He formerly played for Excelsior, RKC Waalwijk and FC Dordrecht.

Club career
On 1 July 2022, Vermeulen signed a two-year contract with Kozakken Boys.

References

External links

 Voetbal International profile

1990 births
Living people
Dutch men's footballers
Excelsior Rotterdam players
RKC Waalwijk players
FC Dordrecht players
Kozakken Boys players
Eredivisie players
Eerste Divisie players
Footballers from Zwijndrecht, Netherlands
Men's association football midfielders


title: Lacken Celtic GFC

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Lacken are a Gaelic football club from County Cavan in Ireland.  They are affiliated to Cavan GAA.

History

Lacken Celtic GFC was formed in the 1890s by men who returned from working overseas in Scotland. The club got its name in honour of the Glasgow Celtic Soccer Club and the team wore the green and white jerseys synonymous with the Celtic club.

At the time, the home pitch was known as "The Green" and was located on the banks of the River Erne (beside Scarvey Bridge, Corlismore). The club did go out of existence however for a few years before being reformed in 1907.

1908 Senior Championship

The GAA was only in existence for 24 years when Lacken won their first and only senior championship. The County Championship of 1908 began in September and was run on league basis. The county was divided into two divisions East and West. Lacken Celtics were in the western division along with Cavan Slashers, Crosserlough Young Irelanders, Mullahoran Dreadnoughts, Cornafean, Crubany Sarsfields, Drumlane Sons of O’Connells and Ballyconnell First Ulsters. Games were played on a double round league system with teams of seventeen players.

Lacken Celtics topped the western division in March 1909 when they defeated Cornafean in the divisional final in the Show Grounds, Cavan (Terry Coyle Park). They then faced Lavey) Joe Biggars in the county final who were victorious in the Eastern Division. The county final was played in Crosserlough on 27 June 1909 and it was Lacken who finished on top on a score line of seven points to three points becoming the 1908 Senior Champions. Unfortunately, to this day, Peter Maguire is the only Lacken captain to lift the Senior Championship Cup.

Kit
After returning from Scotland the founders decided that Lacken Celtic should wear the same colours as Glasgow Celtic, green and white hooped jerseys. Now they wear sky blue jerseys with navy trims, navy shorts and navy socks.

Notable players
 Raymond Galligan
 Thomas Galligan

Honours
 Cavan Senior Football Championship: 1
 1908
 Cavan Intermediate Football Championship: 4
 1967, 1997, 2004, 2012
 Cavan Under-21 Football Championship: 2
 2005, 2017*, 2021* (*Southern Gaels (Gowna/Lacken)
 Cavan Minor Football Championship: 3
 1960, 1971, 2014*, 2020*  (*Southern Gaels (Gowna/Lacken))

References

External links
Official Cavan GAA Website
Cavan Club GAA

1890 establishments in Ireland
Gaelic games clubs in County Cavan
Gaelic football clubs in County Cavan


title: Mike Sheppard (baseball)

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Mike "Shep" Sheppard Sr. (April 12, 1936 – April 6, 2019) was an American college baseball coach, mainly as the head coach at Seton Hall from 1973 to 2000 and 2002 to 2003. In 30 seasons as head coach, he led Seton Hall to 10 NCAA tournaments and two College World Series. He had an overall record of 998-540-11.

Coaching career
After playing for Ownie Carroll at Seton Hall, Sheppard coached high school baseball. He became the head coach at Seton Hall after Carroll retired at the end of the 1972 season.

In Sheppard's first seven seasons (1973–1979), the Pirates played in six NCAA tournaments and two College World Series. The team went 22–8 in his first season. It reached the District 2 Regional, where it lost consecutive games to Penn State and Temple. In 1974, Seton Hall went 3–0 in the District 2 Regional to reach the College World Series, where it lost to Southern Illinois, 5–1, and Texas, 12–2. In 1975, the team returned to the College World Series, where it went 1–2 with an elimination-game win over Florida State. The Pirates also qualified for NCAA tournaments in 1976, 1977, and 1979, reaching the Northeast Regional final against Maine in 1976.  Future major leaguers Rick Cerone and Dan Morogiello played for Sheppard during the 1970s.

Seton Hall appeared in the NCAA tournament three more times in the 1980s (1982, 1984, and 1987). Their deepest run came in 1984, when they again lost to Maine in the Northeast Regional final. The program began competing the Big East Conference in 1985. In its first six seasons in the conference (1985–1990), it won the South Division five times and played in the Big East tournament five times. It won the tournament in 1987. Sheppard was named Big East Coach of the Year in 1985, 1987, and 1989.  Several notable players played for Sheppard in the 1980s: John Morris, Tony DeFrancesco, Pat Pacillo, Rich Scheid, Craig Biggio, John Valentin, Kevin Morton, and Mo Vaughn.

In the 1990s, Seton Hall won a regular-season conference championship in 1990 and was placed second multiple times but failed to qualify for an NCAA tournament. Its highest win total came in 1995, when the team went 38–16. Future major leaguers Mike Moriarty, Matt Morris, and Jason Grilli played for Sheppard during the decade.

In 2000, Seton Hall returned to the NCAA tournament. The Pirates went 36–14 in the regular season. They lost in the Big East championship game, but received an at-large bid to the 2000 NCAA tournament. As the third seed in the Columbia Regional, they went 0–2, losing games to second-seeded Wake Forest and fourth-seeded Liberty.

Sheppard missed the entire 2001 season while recovering from triple-bypass surgery. His son, Rob, served as interim coach during the season.

Sheppard returned for two seasons but resigned following the 2003 season in controversial circumstances. In March 2003, Steve Politi of the Newark Star-Ledger published an article in which former players and their parents accused Sheppard, an ex-Marine, of using harsh punishments and racial slurs. Others, including other Former players, fellow coaches, and media members, defended Sheppard and argued there was no proof of such behavior. Seton Hall conducted a confidential investigation of the incident, the results of which were not published. Sheppard resigned in summer 2003; the university's press release about his resignation cited "health reasons and a desire to spend more time with his children and grandchildren." Including games during the 2001, when his son Rob served as interim head coach, Sheppard retired with 998 career victories. Rob served as Seton Hall's interim head coach in 2004 before being named to the position permanently for the 2005 season.

Head coaching record
Below is a table of Sheppard's yearly records as a collegiate head baseball coach.

Personal
Three of Sheppard's sons are also baseball coaches. Rob replaced him as Seton Hall's head coach, and Mike Jr. and John are high school baseball coaches. His son-in-law, Ed Blankmeyer, is the manager of the Brooklyn Cyclones.

Sheppard is an inductee of the Newark Athletic Hall of Fame (1988) and American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) Hall of Fame (2011).

Seton Hall's softball venue is named for Sheppard, who died on April 6, 2019, six days before his 83rd birthday.

Notes

References

1936 births
2019 deaths
Seton Hall Pirates baseball players
High school baseball coaches in the United States
Seton Hall Pirates baseball coaches


title: 2014 Crédit Agricole Suisse Open Gstaad – Doubles

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Jamie Murray and John Peers were the defending champions, but lost in the quarterfinals to Facundo Bagnis and Federico Delbonis.
Andre Begemann and Robin Haase won the title, defeating Rameez Junaid and Michal Mertiňák in the final, 6–3, 6–4.

Seeds

Draw

Draw

References
 Main Draw

Credit Agricole Suisse Open Gstaad - Doubles
2014 Doubles
2014 Crédit Agricole Suisse Open Gstaad


title: Cross House

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Cross House may refer to:

Places and structures

United Kingdom
 Cross House, Linlithgow, a Category A listed building in West Lothian, Scotland
 Cross House, Southampton, a Grade II listed building in Southampton
 Cross House, Tewkesbury, a Grade II* listed building in the Borough of Tewkesbury

United States
 T. D. Cross House, Safford, Arizona, listed on the NRHP in Graham County, Arizona
 Cross House (Beebe, Arkansas), NRHP-listed
 Williams House (Odessa, Delaware), also known as Cross House, NRHP-listed
 Col. H.C. and Susan Cross House, Emporia, Kansas, listed on the NRHP in Lyon County, Kansas
 Cross Manor, St. Inigoes, Maryland, NRHP-listed
 Hamilton Cross House, Stillwater, Oklahoma, listed on the NRHP in Payne County, Oklahoma
 Harvey Cross House, Oregon City, Oregon, NRHP-listed
 Curtis Cross House, Salem, Oregon, NRHP-listed
 Orndoff-Cross House, Martinsburg, West Virginia, NRHP-listed

See also
 Cross Houses


title: Jurgen Mattheij

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Jurgen Mattheij (born 1 April 1993) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a centre back for Bulgarian club CSKA Sofia.

Club career

Born in Rotterdam, Mattheij began his professional career at Excelsior in 2011. In his eight seasons with the club, he played in 188 games and scored 9 goals. In June 2019, he joined Sparta Rotterdam before moving to CSKA Sofia a year later. Mattheij soon established himself as a key player for "the reds", becoming the team's captain.

He also developed a knack for scoring decisive goals, including a last-minute one in extra time in the second leg against Viktoria Plzeň, held on 26 August 2021, to secure the team's entry into the UEFA Europa Conference League group stage, and the winning goal against Bulgarian champions Ludogorets Razgrad in a First League match that took place on 20 December 2021.

During 2021, he managed a career-high 7 goals in all tournaments. Mattheij's winning strike against CSKA 1948 on 8 November was voted Goal of the Season for 2021.

Career statistics

Honours

Team
CSKA Sofia
 Bulgarian Cup: 2020–21

Individual
Best goal in Bulgarian football for 2021
Best defender in Bulgarian football for 2021
Best foreign player in Bulgarian football for 2021 (shared with Jordy Caicedo)

References

External links

1993 births
Living people
Dutch men's footballers
Men's association football central defenders
Excelsior Rotterdam players
Sparta Rotterdam players
PFC CSKA Sofia players
Eredivisie players
Eerste Divisie players
First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players
Dutch expatriate men's footballers
Dutch expatriate sportspeople in Bulgaria
Expatriate men's footballers in Bulgaria
Footballers from Rotterdam


title: Spotted scrubwren

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The spotted scrubwren (Sericornis maculatus) is a bird species native to coastal southern Australia, from  Adelaide westwards to Shark Bay in Western Australia. It was formerly considered conspecific with the white-browed scrubwren, and is known to hybridize with that species where their ranges overlap in the Adelaide area. Genetic analysis in a 2018 study of the family found that this taxon was more divergent from the white-browed scrubwren than the Tasmanian or Atherton scrubwrens and hence proposed its reclassification as a species. It was reclassified as a species in 2019.

Taxonomy
Sericornis maculatus includes the following subspecies:
 S. m. ashbyi - Mathews, 1912
 S. m. mellori - Mathews, 1912
 S. m. maculatus - Gould, 1847
 S. m. balstoni - Ogilvie-Grant, 1909

References

Sericornis
Birds of Western Australia
Birds described in 1847
Birds of South Australia


title: Michail Kostarakos

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General Michail Kostarakos (, February 1956 – 2 June 2023) was a Hellenic Army officer who served as Chief of the Hellenic National Defence General Staff in 2011–2015 and as Chairman of the European Union Military Committee in 2015–2018.

Life and career
Michail Kostarakos was born in Thessaloniki in February 1956. He was the son of Major General Dimitrios Kostarakos, who fought in the last battles of the Greek Civil War and in the Korean War. He completed his school studies in the University of Thessaloniki's Experimental School, before enrolling in the Hellenic Military Academy in 1974, from which he graduated in 1978 as a Second Lieutenant of Artillery. Kostarakos served in various posts in both field and especially anti-aircraft artillery (the MIM-23 Hawk system), attended various schools and academies (including the US Army's Hawk course at Fort Bliss), as well as in senior staff positions in NATO's International Military Staff, the KFOR's Joint Operation Center, and Greece's NDC-GR.

As a field officer (Brigadier General in 2006), he commanded the 96th National Guard Higher Command at Chios, the 3rd Bureau and the Operations Command of the Hellenic Army General Staff, the 12th Mechanized Infantry Division, and finally the III Army Corps/NDC-GR, before being promoted to full General and assuming the post of Chief of the Hellenic National Defence General Staff on 1 November 2011. On 13 November 2014, he was elected as the next Chairman of the European Union Military Committee, with a three-year tenure starting from November 2015.

Kostarakos was awarded several distinctions, including the Grand Cross of the Order of the Phoenix, the Grand Commander of the Order of Honour, the Armenian Medal for Military Co-operation, and the NATO Medal for the Balkans.

General Kostarakos was married and had two daughters. He also spoke English and French, completed a graduate degree in the Law School of the University of Athens, and held a post-graduate degree in Diplomatic and Strategic Studies.

On 20 August 2015, the Government Council for Foreign Affairs and Defence decided the retirement of Kostarakos and his replacement with the hitherto Chief of the Hellenic Navy General Staff, Vice Admiral Evangelos Apostolakis, taking effect on 15 September. Kostarakos was immediately recalled to active duty pending his assumption of the post of Chairman of the European Union Military Committee, which took place on 6 November 2015.

Kostarakos died on 2 June 2023, at the age of 67.

References

1956 births
2023 deaths
Military personnel from Thessaloniki
Hellenic Army generals
Grand Crosses of the Order of the Phoenix (Greece)
Chiefs of the Hellenic National Defence General Staff
20th-century Greek military personnel
21st-century Greek military personnel
Chairmen of the European Union Military Committee
Greek officials of the European Union


title: Tari Mangal

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Tari Mangal () is a town in the Kurram Valley at the Durand Line, near Spin Ghar, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan. Tari Mangal is  away from Parachinar, and  from the town of Aryob in Zazi District, Afghanistan. The Pashtun tribe Mangal has been living in Tari Mangal since 1600 AD. From 1977–1988, during the Soviet–Afghan War, the city served as a Mujahideen camp. Weapons and funds from the United States, en route to Pakistan, were delivered to Afghanistan through the border at Tari Mangal, as well as its neighbouring region Torkham. Due to Tari Mangal's normal weather in summer, many people from hot areas in Pakistan visit Tari Mangal to enjoy cold weather.

History
Current-day Tari Mangal is control by the Mangal tribe since 1600 AD.  At that time, prior to the partition of India and formation of an independent Pakistan in 1947, Tari Mangal was a part of British India.

Education
Tari Mangal, like Parachinar, was growing and thriving until war came to the area in 2007. Due to the Kurram Agency War April 2007, many government services were discontinued.  For example, from 2007 to 2014, all government schools were closed. With the exception of the Government Girls Primary School, all have now reopened. There are now three schools in Tari Mangal:
 Government High School Tari Mangal, On 4 May 2023 Parachinar school shooting took place here killing five teachers and two labors.
 International Public School Tari Mangal, administered by education reformer and political activist Syed Ahmad Shah
 Government Girls Primary School, organized by the federal government

Climate
Climate conditions in Tari Mangal are generally favorable. January and February are the harshest months due to snow, rain, and cold temperatures. Occasionally, heavy fog and cold air coming from the Spin Ghar mountain range add to adverse weather conditions. From the middle of June to the middle of August, temperatures can be warm. During the rest of the year, however, the climate is moderate and considered to be ideal. Even in the summer months, there is generally no need for air conditioning or fans.

Population demographic
Many people use the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan for business and trade. However, nowadays a significant number of locals reside and work abroad in places like the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, bringing prosperity back to the area.

Tari Mangal post
Tari Mangal Post is a fort located in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas in Pakistan.It was constructed by British Government in 1905. Its estimated elevation is 2174 meters above sea level.
Latitude: 33°57'25.98"
Longitude: 69°53'38"

Ali Mangal Post

Tari Mangal is located 0.8 km from Ali Mangal Post.  Its estimated elevation is 2079 meters above sea level, 6820.87 ft, 81850.44 in.
Latitude: 33° 57' 44" North
Longitude: 69° 56' 5" East

Nearby villages
 Kotri Mangal
 Sursurang
 Gido
 Gobazana
 Haq Dara
 Pewar Tangai
 Shelozan Tangai

See also
 Mangal (Pashtun tribe)
 Loya Paktia

References

Populated places in Kurram District


title: Carlo Dalla Pozza

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Carlo Dalla Pozza (October 16, 1942 in Taranto – July 18, 2014 in Lecce) was an Italian philosopher of science and logician.

Biography
Carlo Dalla Pozza was born in Taranto, in the Southern region Apulia, from Luigi Dalla Pozza, an officer of the Italian Navy from Veneto region, and Cecilia Pontrelli from Apulia. During high school studies at the Liceo Scientifico Battaglini of Taranto, Giovanni De Tommaso, a tough old-style teacher of mathematics, gave him the taste for mathematical problems and for the elegance of proofs. Carlo studied literature and philology at the University of Bari, where he graduated with a dissertation on Renato Serra under the supervision of Aldo Vallone. Throughout his life Carlo manifested his love for Italian literature, in particular for the 19th-century poets Giacomo Leopardi, Giosuè Carducci (teacher of Serra) and Gabriele d'Annunzio. Among Italian classics he preferred Dante and Torquato Tasso.

After his dissertation Carlo studied Theoretical Linguistics with the Italian translator of Ryle's The Concept of Mind, Ferruccio Rossi-Landi, and later at the University of Pisa, before studying Formal Methods at the Catholic University in Milano. A turn in his intellectual career came from his participation to meetings held in Torino by Norberto Bobbio, developing new ideas on problems in the philosophy of law, especially on the work of Hans Kelsen, and on the formalization of deontic logic, working hard on the axiomatization of the principles of a theory of law for Luigi Ferraioli's Principia Juris.
Carlo Dalla Pozza worked for many years as a high school teacher in the province of Taranto, while he was scientifically very active, attending conferences and giving lectures on various occasions. Only around 1990
he obtained a permanent position at the University of Salento, Lecce, first as "tecnico laureato" and then as "ricercatore". A petition signed by Italian and foreign scholars asking that he should be promoted to Associate
Professor came too late in view of compulsory retirement policies in European academia.

Among the influences on his studies on linguistics and Semiotic Textology, Janos Petöfi asked him to work with him in Constanz, but Dalla Pozza preferred to work in Italy where he was very influential through connections with the Society of Logic and Philosophy of Science and the Society of Analytic Philosophy, and also through his lectures in logic, philosophy of science and computer science (mainly in the nineties) at the University of Verona (where he lectured continuously on Logic and Foundations of Computer Science from 1996 to 2002 and also after retirement until 2013),  Padua, Bolzano, and his lectures on Deontic Logic at the University of Rome.

Besides the influences of Petöfi and Kelsen, his main philosophical ancestors are to be found in Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell and Rudolf Carnap, to whose works he devoted continuous thought. In 1988 he publishes a very classical contribution for a formal treatment of some argument in quantum physics (see references). A link between his interest in linguistics and his work in logic is given by the formal theory of pragmatics (speech acts), based on an original connection between classical logic (concerning the content of the assertion) and intuitionistic logic (concerning the act of assertion). The first move of the theory was published on Erkenntnis in 1995.

Presenting his theory of a formalization of pragmatics Dalla Pozza defines the Frege-Reichenbach-Stenius model for the formal treatment of assertions, showing that the main problem with their solution is that the assertion sign (introduced by Frege) can be used only with elementary assertive formulae. He then introduces a set of pragmatic connectives which allows for the construction of complex assertive formulae. The "content" of assertive formulae is given through the classical interpretation of classical truth-conditional connectives; pragmatic connectives, on the other hand, have an intuitionistic interpretation as justified or not justified. In this way the formal system may treat the justification value of an assertion, distinguishing it from the truth value of the proposition expressed by the formula. Besides explaining the irreducibility of Frege's assertion sign to classical metalogical tools, and introducing the proper foundation of a formal theory of speech acts, Dalla Pozza's theory gives also an original solution to the problem of the compatibility between classical and intuitionistic logic.
The Erkenntnis paper was followed by other works on the logic of questions and answers, on deontic logic and on substructural logic (see references below). Dalla Pozza's work has raised interest in different contexts, both in philosophy and computer science (see for instance the work of Richard S. Anderson 2009, and the work of Kurt Ranalter 2008). In 2008 an issue of Fundamenta Informaticae has been devoted to his ideas in formal pragmatics.

Legacy
The work by Dalla Pozza has found application in the formalization of legal systems, in the formalization of pragmatics as a theory of speech acts, on a peculiar trend in the philosophy of quantum physics (see the works of Claudio Garola) and on some developments in computer science and logic (see the works by Gianluigi Bellin on a pragmatic interpretation of bi-intuitionism and on co-intuitionistic linear logic).

Works
Lists of his works can be found at Carlo Dalla Pozza's home page and on academia.edu, from which we take some basic information:

 On the logical foundations of the Jauch-Piron approach to Quantum Physics (with G. Cattaneo, C. Garola, G. Nisticò), in International Journal of Theoretical Physics, Vol. 27, n° 11, 1988
 Un’interpretazione pragmatica della logica proposizionale intuizionistica, in Usberti G. (ed.), Problemi fondazionali nella teoria del significato, Leo S. Olschki, Firenze, 1991
 Una fondazione pragmatica della logica delle domande, unpublished handwritten (draft, May 1991)
 Parlare di niente. Termini singolari non denotanti e atti illocutori, in 'Idee', anno VIII, n° 23, 1993
 A pragmatic interpretation of intuitionistic propositional logic (with C. Garola), in Erkenntnis, 43, 1995 (pp. 81–109)
 Una logica pragmatica per la concezione “espressiva” delle norme, in Martino A. (ed.), Logica delle Norme, S.E.U., Pisa, 1997
 A pragmatic interpretation of substructural logics (with G. Bellin), in W. Sieg, R. Sommer and C. Talcott (eds.), Reflections on the Foundations of Mathematics. Essays in Honor of Solomon Feferman - ASL Lectures Notes in Logic, Natick Massachusetts, 2003
 Il problema di Gettier: osservazioni su giustificazione, prova e probabilità (with D. Chiffi), talk at the SIFA conference Analytic Philosophy and European Culture, Genoa, 2004
 A pragmatic logic for the expressive conception of norms and values and The Frege-Geach problem, Editoria Scientifica Elettronica, 2008
 Come distinguere scienza e non-scienza: verificabilità, falsificabilità e confermabilità bayesiana (with A. Negro), Carocci, 2017, ,

References

1942 births
2014 deaths
Italian philosophers
University of Bari alumni
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore alumni
Academic staff of the University of Salento


title: Margaret Brazier

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Margaret Rosetta "Margot" Brazier  is a professor at the University of Manchester's School of Law.

Margaret is married to Rodney Brazier, a professor of constitutional law also at the University of Manchester.

Academic work
Brazier researches legal issues in the field of medicine, including medical ethics. She is a barrister, ex-member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (1998-2001), Editor of the Medical Law Review, and ex-president of the Society of Legal Scholars (formerly, Society of Public Teachers of Law) (1997-1999). Brazier was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2014, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.

She has chaired a number of committees, including:
Chair of the Animal Procedures Committee 1993–98.
Chair of Review of Surrogacy Arrangements 1996–98.
Chair of the Retained Organs Commission 2001–2004.
Chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics Working Party The Ethics of Prolonging Life in Fetuses and the Newborn 2004–2006.

Recognition
Order of the British Empire (1997).
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (1993).
Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (2007).
Queen's Counsel (honoris causa) (2008).
Fellow of the British Academy (2014).

References

British King's Counsel
Academics of the University of Manchester
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Fellows of the British Academy
Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences (United Kingdom)
21st-century King's Counsel
Honorary King's Counsel
1950 births
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)


title: South Carolina Memorial Garden

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South Carolina Memorial Garden is a historic memorial garden located at Columbia, South Carolina. It was established in 1944-1945 by the Garden Club of South Carolina.  It was designed by noted landscape architect Loutrel W. Briggs (1893-1977).  It includes a variety of ornamental plants and complementary design elements such as a gate house or tea room (1957), tool house or gardener's shed (1949-1951), walls (1948), gates (1948), walks, fountain terrace and fountain (1951-1952), sculpture (1952, 1954), and garden furniture.  It was the first memorial garden sponsored by a state garden club in the United States that recognized veterans of World War II.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.

References

World War II memorials in the United States
Parks on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
Buildings and structures completed in 1957
Buildings and structures in Columbia, South Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Columbia, South Carolina