title: Amran Tablets

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The Amran Tablets or ʿAmrān Tablets are a series of ancient bronze plaques written in the Sabaean language found in the town of 'Amran, Yemen. Now part of the British Museum's ancient Middle Eastern collection, they form an important corpus of information on religious and military practices in South Arabia between the 1st Century BC and 3rd Century AD.

Discovery
The Amran Tablets seem to have been discovered in the mid nineteenth century during the construction of a house at the town of ʿAmrān, which lies just to the north of the city of Sana'a in Yemen. 28 different panels were unearthed at the time (although more may have been melted down and destroyed) which were subsequently presented to the British Museum in 1862 by Brigadier-Colonel William Coghlan and Captain Robert Playfair of the Royal Artillery regiment. Coghlan had been appointed Political Resident and Commandment in Aden in 1854, 15 years after the Colony of Aden had become part of the British Empire.

Description
All the plaques were cast in bronze through the lost-wax casting process and inscribed in the Sabaean script. They probably would have been attached to the walls of a temple as votive offerings to the gods. In the panel illustrated on this page, the inscription identifies the god Almaqah, who was the principle deity in the kingdom of Saba.  The tablet records that it was dedicated in the name of Riyan and his brothers, the grandsons of Marthad from the tribe of Dhu Amran. The top of the plaque shows a pair of sphinxes flanking a lotus blossom and framed by two date palms. At the bottom of the plaque are floral patterns including two rosettes. Other plaques in the series highlight the uneasy relationship between the rival kingdoms of Saba and the Arabs of the Jawf. The text of the panels refer to a number of military conflicts and battles that raged between them, which were often about controlling the trade of frankincense and myrrh, two aromatic products exclusive to the region of South Arabia that generated considerable wealth for the local population.

References

Further reading
F. Frances (Ed), Treasures of the British Museum, London, 1972
D.Colon, Ancient Near East Art, British Museum Press, London, 1995
W. Daum (ed.), Yemen: 3000 years of art and civilization in Arabia (Penguin, 1988)
St J.H. Philby, The Queen of Sheba (London, Quartet, 1981)
St J.H. Philby, The Queen of Sheba, Treasures from Ancient Yemen (London, 2002)

1st-century BC inscriptions
1862 archaeological discoveries
Middle Eastern objects in the British Museum
Sabaeans
Bronze objects
Archaeological discoveries in Yemen
'Amran Governorate
Amran Governorate


title: UK Rampage

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UK Rampage was an annual professional wrestling event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) exclusively for the United Kingdom. With the exception of 1990, it was held from 1989 to 1993. These events aired live on the BSkyB family of cable and satellite channels.

Dates and venues

Results

1989

First WWF UK Event also known as WWF on Sky One was the inaugural UK Rampage event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). It took place on 10 October 1989 from the London Arena in London, England and aired live on Sky 1. The event marked the WWF's first live event in the United Kingdom.

1991

UK Rampage 1991 was the second UK Rampage event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). It took place on 24 April 1991 from the London Arena in London, England and aired live on Sky Movies Plus.

1992

UK Rampage 1992 also referred to as European Rampage Again was the third UK Rampage event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). It took place on 19 April 1992 from the Sheffield Arena in Sheffield, England and aired live on Sky Movies Plus. Some of these matches were shown on Prime Time Wrestling months later.

This event marked the final event of the European Rampage Tour, held in various locations across Europe.

1993

UK Rampage 1993 was the fourth and final UK Rampage event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). It took place on 11 April 1993 from the Sheffield Arena in Sheffield, England and aired live on Sky Sports. On February 5, 2018 UK Rampage 1993 became available on the WWE Network.

See also

Professional wrestling in the United Kingdom

References

Events in London
Professional wrestling in England
1989 in England
1991 in England
1989 in professional wrestling
1991 in professional wrestling
October 1989 events in the United Kingdom
April 1991 events in the United Kingdom


title: Jelena Gavrilović

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Jelena Gavrilović (Serbian Cyrillic: Јелена Гавриловић; born 18 January 1983) is a Serbian actress and singer. She started acting in theatre during primary and high school in Lazarevac, her home town. She graduated from the Art Academy in Acting at the University of Novi Sad.

Gavrilović performed the title roles for musicals Hair at Atelje 212, and Grease at Terazije Theatre, both in Belgrade. She played Marija, one of the main characters, in A Serbian Film. She was also a contestant on the show Tvoje lice zvuči poznato. She ranked 4th in the finals as Branislav Mojićević, but was a public favourite with many favoured imitations fulfilled, such as Jelena Rozga, Pink, Vesna Zmijanac, Predrag Živković Tozovac and many others.

Selected filmography

Film

Television

Video games

References

External links

Interview (Hello! Magazine, in Bosnian)

1983 births
Living people
Actresses from Belgrade
21st-century Serbian actresses
Serbian stage actresses
Serbian film actresses
Serbian voice actresses
Musical theatre actresses


title: Torwoodlee Broch

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Torwoodlee Broch  is the remains of an iron-age broch located near the town of Galashiels in the Scottish Borders.

Description
Torwoodlee Broch () is situated on the site of an earlier hillfort on the shoulder of a ridge. The hillfort is an irregular oval in shape, measuring about 137 metres by 136 metres. The broch itself lies on the southwest side of the fort and partly on top of the defences. The diameter of the broch is 23.2 metres and the outer wall is 5.2 metres thick. The central court has a diameter of about 12 metres.

The broch lies about two miles south of Bow Castle Broch.

Excavations
The broch was first cleared out by James Curle in 1891 at which time much Roman pottery and glass, together with a 1st-century AD coin were found inside it.

It was systematically excavated in 1950 by Stuart Piggott. More Roman pottery and glass was found beneath the wall of the broch. The broch appears to have been built soon after the Romans withdrew from Scotland in about 100 AD, and was thrown down again shortly afterwards, perhaps by a Roman expedition preparing for the reoccupation of 140 AD. The many fragments of Roman material found in the broch might be explained as loot from the nearby legionary fort at Newstead (Trimontium).

References

Further reading
 Piggott, Stuart (1953), Excavations in the broch and hill-fort of Torwoodlee, Selkirkshire, 1950, Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot., Vol.85
Curle, J. (1892) 'Notes on two brochs recently discovered at Bow, Midlothian, and Torwoodlee, Selkirkshire', Proc Soc Antiq Scot, vol. 26, Pages 68–70

External links

Archaeological sites in the Scottish Borders
Brochs
Scheduled Ancient Monuments in the Scottish Borders
Galashiels


title: Carmelo Zito

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Carmelo Zito  (August 13, 1899 – June 9, 1980), born in Oppido Mamertina, Italy and immigrated to the United States circa 1923,  was an outspoken Italian American immigrant who operated the Il Corriere del Popolo Italian-language newspaper in San Francisco, California, from 1935 through 1966.  He was active in the Italian anti-fascist movement in the United States. Family members relate that he fled Mussolini's regime after learning that he was targeted for execution by the Fascists. However, local historians refer that Zito fled to the States after he shot with his hunting rifle, while drunk, a statue of the Virgin Mary: an event that infuriated the people of his village, who vehemently demonstrated against the act of blasphemy.

A veteran of World War I, Zito moved to New York in 1923. He joined an anti-fascist paper there in 1925, then moved to San Francisco in 1931 and took over Il Corriere del Popolo.  During World War II, he testified before congressional and state committees concerning fascist influences that he perceived in Italian-American political and civic organizations.

Death
He died on June 9, 1980.

References

American anti-fascists
People from Reggio Calabria
People from San Francisco
1899 births
1980 deaths
American people of Italian descent
Italian anti-fascists


title: Stevie Blacke

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Stevie Blacke (born in London, England) is an American producer, musician, arranger, and multi-instrumentalist who is best known for having composed string arrangements on many hit records.

Born in London and raised in Ohio, Blacke grew up with the music of Eric Clapton and Pink Floyd, before he attended the Berklee College of Music to study guitar, mandolin and violin. He learned and first recorded cello during a session for a hip hop artist.

Since the 1990s, he recorded for artists such as Snoop Dogg, Dua Lipa, Aaliyah, Anna Nalick, Beck, Brooke Fraser, Backstreet Boys, Timbaland, Minnie Driver, Rihanna, Matchbox Twenty, Colbie Caillat, Weezer, Rick Springfield, the Kooks, Madonna, Pink, We Are Scientists, Staind, Ashlee Simpson, Alice in Chains and since 2010 he appeared on albums by Joe Cocker, Ellie Goulding, Avenged Sevenfold, Mindy McCready, Foreigner, Stone Sour, Seether, Garbage, Editors, Robert Ellis and Cher. In 2014, Blacke performed with Miley Cyrus and Madonna on MTV Unplugged.

Stevie has arranged, contracted and/or performed for TV awards shows (MTV Video Music Awards, American Idol, Billboard Music Awards, and others), and films with artists such as Dua Lipa, Kylie Minogue, Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry, Kesha, Shawn Mendes, Snoop Dogg, Chingy, Ludacris, Pink, Mark Ronson, and Seal to name a few. He has appeared on MTV Unplugged, The Tonight Show, Saturday Night Live, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and in a few movies as well including Popstar and All Nighter.

References

 www.stevieblacke.com
 Live Stevie Blacke Arrangements
 Album String Arrangements
 Spotify Playlist of Stevie Blacke Strings}
 Spotify Playlist of Stevie Blacke Productions

External links

Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American violinists
American cellists
American male violinists
Living people
21st-century American male musicians
21st-century cellists


title: 2007 CR Vasco da Gama season

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The 2007 season was Club de Regatas Vasco da Gama's 109th year in existence, the club's 92nd season in existence of football, and the club's 39th season playing in the Brasileirão Série A, the top flight of Brazilian football.

Players

Squad information

As of 31 December 2007

Transfers

In

from Youth system

Out

Competitions

Brasileirão Série A

Copa do Brasil

Rio de Janeiro State Championship

Copa Sudamericana

Squad appearances and goals
Last updated on 2 December 2007.

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Notes

See also
 2007 Brasileirão Série A
 2007 Copa do Brasil
 2007 Copa Sudamericana

References

External links
Official Site

CR Vasco da Gama
Club de Regatas Vasco da Gama seasons
Vasco da Gama


title: The Fallout (Crown the Empire album)

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The Fallout is the debut studio album by American metalcore band Crown the Empire. It was released on November 19, 2012 through Rise Records and was produced by Joey Sturgis. It is the first album with new vocalist Dave Escamilla and the only album with founding keyboardist Austin Duncan, who left the band prior to the release.

Background and recording
Recording started in August 2012, when they entered the studio with Joey Sturgis. During the recording process, the band introduced Dave Escamilla as an official member and additional vocalist for the album.

For the deluxe edition of the album, the band re-recorded their EP Limitless and intended to release it as part of the deluxe reissue of the album in 2013, the difference being that they have incorporated Escamilla's vocals into them. Also for the release, they released "Limitless" as a single, which was released along with its own lyric video.

Release and promotion
The first single released off the album was "Makeshift Chemistry" on October 23, 2012. "Memories of a Broken Heart" was released on November 8, 11 days before the album's release. The album was made available to stream on November 15, the same day the music video for "The Fallout" was released.

The album itself was released on November 19, 2012 on CDs and digital download. The deluxe edition was released on December 9, 2013, which contained all seven tracks from the band's debut EP Limitless, re-recorded with David Escamilla.

Critical reception

The album received mixed reviews by critics. The AbsolutePunk review called the album's sound post-hardcore, and while it had good characteristics, it continued to call the album generic, and that the focus throughout the album was random, stating that at certain parts of the album, it can either have too much effort or not enough, and also went on to say that the lyrics were cliché however relate-able, and went on to praise the vocals and range of different vibes and sounds.

Alternative Press called the album's sound primarily metalcore although comparing its efforts and overall sound to the likes of The Dillinger Escape Plan, Botch and Breach, gave it a poor overview, and criticized its addition to dubstep sounds and elements throughout the album.

Track listing

Notes:
 On the deluxe reissue, the track "Graveyard Souls" is mis-titled as "Journals" for unknown reasons.
 Britni Michelle Horner and Denis Stoff do not reprise their roles as guest vocalists on the re-recorded versions of "Voices" and "Limitless" respectively; instead, they are both are replaced by Cassie Marin and co-lead vocalist Dave Escamilla.
 "Lead Me Out of the Dark" was not re-recorded for the deluxe edition and instead is the original version from Limitless.

Personnel
Credits adapted from AllMusic.

Crown the Empire
 Andrew "Andy Leo" Rockhold – lead vocals
 Dave Escamilla – co-lead vocals
 Bennett "Benn Suede" Vogelman – lead guitar, backing vocals
 Brandon Hoover – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
 Hayden Tree – bass
 Brent Taddie – drums, percussion
 Austin Duncan – keyboards, programming

Additional musicians
 Cassie Marin – guest vocals on "Voices"

Additional personnel
 Joey Sturgis – engineering, mastering, mixing, production
 Nick Scott – engineering
 Jeff Dunne – drum editing
 Brendan Barone – composition
 Crown the Empire – composition
 Derek Brewer – management
 JJ Cassiere and Tom Taaffe – booking
 Forfathers – art direction

Charts

References

2012 debut albums
Rise Records albums
Crown the Empire albums
Albums produced by Joey Sturgis


title: 1994–95 NK Rijeka season

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The 1994–95 season was the 49th season in Rijeka's history. It was their 4th season in the Prva HNL and 21st successive top tier season.

Competitions

Prva HNL

Classification

Results summary

Results by round

Matches

Prva HNL

Source: HRnogomet.com

Croatian Cup

Source: HRnogomet.com

Squad statistics
Competitive matches only.  Appearances in brackets indicate numbers of times the player came on as a substitute.

See also
1994–95 Prva HNL
1994–95 Croatian Cup

References

External links
 1994–95 Prva HNL at HRnogomet.com
 1994–95 Croatian Cup at HRnogomet.com
 Prvenstvo 1994.-95. at nk-rijeka.hr

HNK Rijeka seasons
Rijeka


The 2007–08 Montenegrin First Handball League was second season of the Montenegrin First League of Men's Handball, Montenegro's premier handball league.

Participants

The league regularly consists of eight teams, but in the season 2007/08 there were seven participants, because the team of Pljevlja quit. In the second part of season, four best clubs participated in the TOP4 league for champion, and the last three played in relegation league.

The following seven clubs participated in the Montenegrin First League 2007/08.

First part

During the first part of the season, all members played 12 games. Four best placed teams - Berane, Sutjeska, Mornar and Lovćen continued season in the TOP4 league for champion. Other teams were playing league for relegation.

Table of the first part of the season:

TOP4 / relegation league

At the final phase, RK Berane won the first champions' title in the club history.
In the relegation league, at the bottom was RK Boka.

TOP4 League

Relegation League

Summary

 Promotion to the EHF Cup 2008/09: Berane, Lovćen Cetinje
 Promotion to the EHF Cup Winners' Cup 2008/09: Sutjeska Nikšić
 Promotion to the EHF Challenge Cup 2008/09: Mornar Bar, Budućnost Podgorica
 Relegation to the Second League 2008/09: Boka Tivat
 Promotion to the First league 2008/09: Stari Grad Budva, Rudar Pljevlja

Handball leagues in Montenegro
Hand
Hand
Monte


title: Lu (surname 陸)

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Lu is the pinyin and Wade–Giles romanization of the Chinese surname written  in simplified character and  in traditional character. It is also spelled Luk or Loke according to the Hong Kong Cantonese pronunciation. Lu 陆 is the 61st most common surname in China, shared by 4.2 million people. Most people with the surname live in southern China; 44% live in just two provinces: Jiangsu and Guangxi.  Lu 陸 is listed 198th in the Song dynasty classic text Hundred Family Surnames.

Demographics
As of 2013, Lu 陆 is the 61st most common surname in China. It is shared by 4.2 million people, or 0.33% of the Chinese population. Lu 陆 is predominantly a southern surname. Jiangsu province has the highest number of Lu's, accounting for 23% of the national total. Guangxi is a close second, with 21%. Guangdong, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Guizhou, and Anhui, all southern provinces, account for another 33%. Lu 陆 is the 6th most common surname in Guangxi's capital and largest city of Nanning and the 10th most common name in Shanghai.

Origins
According to tradition, there are three main sources of the Lu 陆 surname:

1. From Luzhong (陆终), a great-great-grandson of the legendary emperor Zhuanxu. Luzhong's father Wuhui (吴回) was put in charge of fire by Emperor Ku and given the title of Zhu Rong. Luzhong's clan migrated to Pinglu County, Shanxi, and later moved to Pinglu of Shandong, in present-day Wenshang County.

2. From Luhun (陆浑), a tribe of the Rong nomads who established a state in modern Song County, Henan. In 525 BC, Luhun was annexed by the State of Jin, a major power during the Spring and Autumn period. Many of the Luhun people adopted Lu as their surname.

3. From the Tian (Chen) lineage of the Gui clan (妫), the ruling family of the State of Chen during the Spring and Autumn period. Chen Wan (later called Tian Wan), a prince of Chen, escaped to the State of Qi after losing a power struggle in his home state. Tian Wan's descendants prospered in Qi and eventually usurped the throne of the kingdom, which became known as Tian Qi. During the Warring States period, King Xuan of Qi enfeoffed his youngest son Tian Tong at Lu 陆 (in modern Laoling, Shandong), which was named after a branch of the Luzhong clan. Tian Tong's descendants adopted Lu as their surname.

Later adoption
During the Xianbei Northern Wei dynasty, Emperor Xiaowen (reigned 467–499 AD) implemented a drastic policy of sinicization, ordering his own people to adopt Chinese surnames. The Bulugu (步陆孤) tribe of Xianbei adopted Lu as their surname. The Xianbei people have since completely assimilated into the Han Chinese. The Xianbei Lu later became highly prosperous. Out of the four most prominent Lu 陆 clans in history, which were based in the commanderies of Henan, Henei, Pingyuan, and Wu, two (Henan and Henei) traced their ancestry to the Bulugu tribe.

Notable people
 Lu Gu (陸賈; 240–170 BC), Western Han politician and Confucian scholar
 Lu Xun (Three Kingdoms) (陸遜; 183–245), Eastern Wu general and politician
 Lu Mao (陸瑁; died 239), Eastern Wu politician, Lu Xun's younger brother
 Lu Ji (Gongji) (陸績; 187–219), Eastern Wu official, one of The Twenty-four Filial Exemplars
 Lu Kai (陸凱; 198–269), Eastern Wu politician
 Lu Kang (Three Kingdoms) (陸抗; 226–274), Eastern Wu general, Lu Xun's son
 Lu Ji (Shiheng) (陸機; 261–303), Eastern Wu and Western Jin writer and politician, son of Lu Kang
 Lu Dunxin (陸敦信), Tang dynasty chancellor
 Lu Xiangxian (陸象先; 665–736), Tang dynasty chancellor
 Lu Yu (陸羽; 733–804), Tang dynasty writer, author of The Classic of Tea
 Lu Zhi (Tang dynasty) (陸贄; 754–805), Tang dynasty chancellor
 Lu Yi (陸扆; 847–905), Tang dynasty chancellor
 Lu Guimeng (陸龜蒙; died 881), Tang dynasty poet
 Lu You (陸游; 1125–1209), Southern Song dynasty poet
 Lu Jiuyuan (陸九淵; 1139–1192), Southern Song philosopher
 Lu Xiufu (陸秀夫; 1236–1279), Southern Song chancellor and patriot
 Lu Rong (陸容; 1436–1494), Ming dynasty official and scholar
 Lu Cai (陸采; 1497–1537), Ming dynasty playwright
 Imperial Noble Consort Qinggong, or Lady Lu (1724–1774) imperial consort from the Qing dynasty
 Lu Jianying (陸建瀛; died 1853), Qing dynasty governor
 Loke Yew (陸佑; Lu You; 1845–1917), Malayan businessman and philanthropist
 Lu Rongting (陸榮廷; 1856–1927), Qing dynasty general, and warlord in the Republican period
 Lu Haodong (陸皓東; 1868–1895), late Qing dynasty revolutionary
 Look Tin Eli (陸潤卿, aka Look Tin Sing, Luk Tin-Sun; 1870–1919), successful businessman in San Francisco
 Lu Zhengxiang (陸徵祥; 1871–1949), twice served as Premier of the Republic of China
 Lu Zongyu (陸宗輿; 1876–1941), diplomat
 Lu Xiaoman (陆小曼; 1903–1965), painter
 Keye Luke (陸錫麒; 1904–1991), American actor
 Lu Dingyi (陆定一; 1906–1996), politician
 Loke Wan Tho (陆运涛; Lu Yuntao; 1915–1964), founder of the Cathay Organisation
 Wing Luke (陸榮昌; 1925–1965), American politician
 Lu Jiaxi (陆家羲; 1935–1983), mathematician
 Lu Youquan (陆有铨; 1943–2019), education scholar
 Lu Bing (陆兵; born 1944), politician
 Lu Hao (陆浩; born 1947), Communist Party official and administrator
 Christine Loh (陸恭蕙; Lu Gonghui; born 1956), Hong Kong legislator
 Lu Yi-ching (陸弈靜; Lu Yijing; born 1960), Taiwanese actress
 Yadong Luo (陆亚东; Lu Yadong; born 1963), Chinese-American international business professor, scholar and author
 Qi Lu (computer scientist) (陆奇; Lu Qi; born 1961), computer programmer and executive
 Lu Hao (born 1967) (陆昊; born 1967), Governor of Heilongjiang province
 Lu Chuan (陆川; born 1971), filmmaker and screenwriter
 Lu Yi (actor) (陆毅; born 1976), actor and singer
 Lu Li (陆莉; born 1976), gymnast
 Loke Siew Fook or Anthony Loke (陆兆福; born 1977), Malaysian politician
 Luk Koon Pong (陸冠邦; Lu Guanbang; born 1978), Hong Kong football player
 Lu Bofei (陆博飞; born 1979), football player
 Sharon Luk (陸詩韻; Luk Sze-wan; born 1980), Hong Kong actress
 Lu Feng (陆峰; born 1981), football player
 Lu Yong (陆永; born 1986), weightlifter
 Michael Luk (陸志豪; Lu Zhihao; born 1986), Hong Kong-born Canadian football player
 Lu Chunlong (陆春龙; born 1989), gymnast
 Victoria Loke (陆詠怡; born 1992), Singaporean actress
 Lu Ting (陆婷; born 1992), Chinese singer, actress, and member of Chinese idol group SNH48
 Marie Lu, Chinese-American author

References

Chinese-language surnames
Individual Chinese surnames


title: Cycling at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Men's individual pursuit

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The Men's Individual Pursuit was a cycling event at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California over a distance of 4000m.

Medalists

Final results

Results

Qualifying round

Round 1

Quarter finals

Semi finals

Bronze medal race

Gold medal race

References

Cycling at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Cycling at the Summer Olympics – Men's individual pursuit
Track cycling at the 1984 Summer Olympics


title: Hydra World Tour

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The Hydra World Tour was a concert tour by Dutch symphonic metal band Within Temptation in support of their sixth studio album, Hydra, released by Nuclear Blast on 31 January 2014. To date, it was their eight major tour and their third to see them playing worldwide. The tour passed over four continents and was divided into several legs according to the local of playing, presenting minor setlist variations from concerts of the same leg and a few more variations from leg to leg. A special leg was entitled "Theatres on Fire", in which saw the band playing seated shows at theatres in the Netherlands and Luxembourg.

The tour was commercially successful and the band managed to play in even bigger spaces, an improvement already seen on their previous world tour, as well presenting their first concert at the Wembley Arena and selling out theatre tickets for their theatre seated concerts in the Netherlands. The band also managed to play at several big festivals, like Download Festival, Bloodstock Open Air, and Wacken Open Air. A live album with footage from the Amsterdam concert was released later in 2014, under the name of Let Us Burn – Elements & Hydra Live in Concert.

Background
The tour was originally planned to start in January 2014, but then it was postponed to a month later, so the band could polish more the songs before releasing the album and also have more time to rehearsals for the following tour. After a period of radio and television appearances for acoustic performances and interviews, the band scheduled to embark officially on the tour. On 20 January, the band announced a try-out show for testing the songs live at the Effenaar, in Eindhoven (NL), to be held on 20 February, having the tickets sold out on the same day. The first official show happened on 26 February, in Helsinki, Finland, and the arena tour is going to pass primarily in Europe, arranging a few summer festivals. Due to great demand, several venues were changed to big ones in the purpose to comport more people. Due to the great reception of Hydra in the US, the band decided to tour again in North America, travelling from West to East coast and passing over twelve cities, being two in Canada and having some venues with sold out tickets, while on the last tour the band passed over only five cities. On 2 May, the band announced through their Facebook page that they were going to record the concert at the Heineken Music Hall, Amsterdam, in which happened on the same evening. The great part of the concert would late appear on the DVD Let Us Burn – Elements & Hydra Live in Concert together with some parts of the previous tour Elements 15th anniversary show. As the end of the European leg, the tour had an attendance of over 120.000 people. After the great reception of the previous albums on North America as well the North American leg of the Hydra World Tour, Nuclear Blast decided to release a together re-issue of both Enter and The Dance on 10 November 2014, to give the new listeners access to the band early material.

The band opted to focus on playing Hydra songs in its majority, being "Dog Days" the only one not played yet, and maintain their signature songs from previous releases, as Stand My Ground and Ice Queen, during great part of the presentations. As the album contains four invited vocalists, their part in the respective songs are played on tape as the videos are shown on the big screen, allowing these artists to appear somehow during the concerts, except for "Whole World is Watching" in which was played with guest vocalist Piotr Rogucki on Polish dates and was played only by den Adel in an acoustic version.

Theatre concerts
Right after the end of the arena concerts, the band announced via their website that on early 2015 they were going to embark on a new theatre tour  passing over Dutch cities and later one extra show in Luxembourg. The special leg of the tour came out differently from their previous theatre concerts in which the band used to present primarily acoustic renditions of their songs, with the Hydra seated leg featuring only a few acoustic versions and somewhat different renditions from them. The theatre leg ambientation was made sightly different from the common concerts to also present a visual spectacle in support of the music. The band made use of holographic projections to auxiliate the stage design and effect of some songs, such as a pre-recorded virtual orchestra playing on the stage and virtual holographic duets such as the one from den Adel and Anneke van Giersbergen during the presentation of "Somewhere".

Reception

The tour received generally positive reviews amongst critics.

In reviewing the bands presentation at the Wembley Arena, London, Ian Gittins from The Guardian classified the performance with 3 stars out of 5. Gittins commented the diversity the band delivered during the concert, praising the transition of "the portentous Our Solemn Hour" in which sampled "a Winston Churchill speech and veers off into cod Latin" to the "melodramatic romanticism of the sultry arthouse original and bellow it from a windswept mountaintop" that the band offered with a cover of Lana Del Rey's "Summertime Sadness" during the final encore. Gittins ended his review classifying the band as a "complete hokum and yet oddly enjoyable".

British website Bring the Noise also considered "Our Solemn Hour" and the final encore containing "Summertime Sadness" as the night main highlights, also praising den Adel's vocal ability and the stage additional effects as the use of pyrotechnics, giving the concert a 10/10 score.

However, Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet cited "Summertime Sadness" as the weakest point of the concert at the Sweden Rock Festival.

Robert van Gijssel, reviewing the first Amsterdam concert for Dutch newspaper Volkskrant also gave the presentation a three out of a possible five score. van Gijssel criticized the use of video recordings on the big screen during the songs that were originally duets, commenting that it "felt like you were standing up watching a music video" and classifying it as "showstoppers". On the other hand, van Gijssel praised the "extraordinarily in shape" voice of den Adel and cited "Our Solemn Hour", "Angels" and Dutch early 2000s hit "Ice Queen" as the highlight moments of the concert.

Flemish newspaper De Morgen also criticized the use of video recordings during the Antwerp concert, naming the show as the "Disneyland of virtual duets", but giving a score of 3.5 out of a possible 5 stars and praising den Adel's "angelic voice" as well the constant band interaction with the public. Also Flemish Gazet van Antwerpen praised the performance, commenting not only about the style variation of the band but also the public, in which contained "from blushing teen girls tattooed to thirty year old Metallica-shirt men".

Metal Hammer commented more positively about the use of virtual duets on the screen, saying that it may be a low point on the concert but den Adel manages to overcome it with her performance in songs like "Fire and Ice" and also "get the crowd jumping" during "Stand My Ground" and "Ice Queen".

French newspaper Le Parisien commented positively about their passage through Paris, stating that the group delivered "a very good performance with a few remarks about", praising den Adel's vocal performance particularly during "Angels" and "Jillian (I'd Give My Heart)". On 12 September 2014, the band received the award for Best Live Band at the Metal Hammer Awards.

Opening acts
 Amaranthe (North America)
 Delain (United Kingdom, Germany, France, Belgium and Netherlands dates)
 Serenity (Austria)

Setlist

Songs performed

Setlists

Tour dates

 A Rescheduled to 31 March due to political problems in Ukraine.
 B Canceled due to festival management issues.
 C Open air concert with Lacrimas Profundere.
 D Extra club concert.
 E Attendance and revenue based exclusively on the reported concerts.

Extra concerts

Personnel

Within Temptation
 Sharon den Adel – vocals
 Ruud Jolie – lead guitar
 Stefan Helleblad – rhythm guitar
 Martijn Spierenburg – keyboards
 Jeroen van Veen – bass guitar
 Mike Coolen – drums

Guest musicians

 Piotr Rogucki – featured vocals on "Whole World Is Watching" on 8 and 9 March 2014, 30 July 2015 and 24 June 2016
 Robert Westerholt – growls on "Silver Moonlight" on 2 and 3 May 2014, "The Dance" on 20 and 21 December 2015 and "Candles" on 20 and 21 December 2015 and 14 August 2016
 Henrik Englund – growls on "Silver Moonlight" on 5 October 2014
 Jonas Pap – cello on 9 August 2014, 8 August 2015 and "Theatres on Fire" leg
 Camila Van Der Kooij – violins on "Theatres on Fire" leg and at Black Christmas concerts
 Ivar de Graaf – featured vocals on "Gothic Christmas" at Black Christmas concerts
 Caroline Westendorp – growls on "Silver Moonlight" on 4 June 2016
 Tarja Turunen – vocals on "Paradise (What About Us?)" on 18 June and 14 August 2016

References

External links
 Within Temptation Official Website
 Within Temptation Tour Dates
 Within Temptation Tour Archive

2014 concert tours
2015 concert tours
Within Temptation concert tours
Concert tours of Europe
Concert tours of Germany
Concert tours of Russia
Concert tours of the United Kingdom
Concert tours of the United States


title: Mateo González Manrique

text:
Mateo González Manrique was a soldier who served as governor of West Florida between 1813 and 1815. During his administration he helped the British in their fight against the Americans in the War of 1812, providing them with troops and slaves, and allowed them to garrison British troops in the fortifications at Pensacola, capital of West Florida. He thereby earned the enmity of Andrew Jackson, who invaded the city in 1814, although he returned it to Manrique after the British fled.

Career
Manrique joined the Spanish army in his youth, rising to the ranks of lieutenant colonel and sergeant major. In 1813, Manrique was appointed governor of Spanish West Florida.

War of 1812

Although the Spanish government was officially neutral during the War of 1812, Manrique assisted the British with material aid and allowed them to use the Spanish fortifications at Barrancas and Saint Michael as well as to supply their Native American allies.

According to historian Sean Michael O'Brien, Manrique, fearing a possible attack by Jackson's forces, invited Edward Nicolls, an Anglo-Irish officer of the British Royal Marines, to land his troops at Pensacola, where they soon took control of the port. Nicolls tried to recruit the Seminoles as allies against the United States, operating from a position occupied in April 1814 at Prospect Bluff. When Nicolls arrived at Prospect Bluff in August with 300 British uniforms and 1000 muskets, Manrique, fully aware of the threat the Americans posed to Florida, requested the redeployment of British forces to Pensacola. Manrique cooperated with Nicolls, allowing him to train and equip Creek refugees. In addition to the Seminoles and Creek, Nicolls and the British military officer George Woodbine recruited about 500 Red Sticks (also referred to as "Redsticks"), Seminoles, and Blacks in Pensacola to serve in the British Army against the Americans.

Andrew Jackson criticized Manrique for allowing British agents to operate in Pensacola and warned him that he would consider him personally responsible for any depredations suffered by American citizens, and that he would encourage the Indians to take revenge against him.

Peter McQueen, a Métis and Creek chief, prophet, trader and warrior from Talisi, decided to confront the Americans over their frequent incursions on Creek lands. He demanded that Manrique supply him with ammunition, and warned that he would burn Pensacola to the ground if the governor did not cooperate. Manrique informed his superiors of the intention of McQueen and the Red Sticks to launch a war against the Americans. Manrique considered the Red Sticks to be an important ally against the American forces, although initially he had sent Spanish troops against them.

Jackson, believing that the British were conspiring with the Spanish and the Creeks against American interests, demanded that Manrique expel them from Florida. He then led an American army to seize the city, and arrived there on November 6, 1814. During the battle, the Spanish garrison offered little resistance to Jackson's assault. The British consequently abandoned Fort Barrancas and left Florida, fleeing with several hundred Indians in a British ship. Jackson considered that he had extinguished the conspiracy and returned Pensacola to Manrique.

According to historian Eric Beerman, in December 1814 prior to the Battle of New Orleans, Nicolls moved once again into Pensacola where he took Spanish soldiers and slaves as prisoners of war to use against the Americans in New Orleans campaign. Andrew Jackson, however, returned to Pensacola with his forces, forcing the British to retreat and Nicolls to keep the prisoners in the British headquarters at Prospect Bluff on the Apalachicola River, 250 kilometers east of Pensacola. Manrique sent Lt. Luis Urcullú with transport ships to negotiate a return of the prisoners, but was rebuffed. After the British defeat at the Battle of New Orleans in January 1815, Manrique instructed Captain Vicente Sebastian Pintado to travel to Apalachicola and confer with British vice-admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane. Cochrane agreed with Pintado, and ordered the return of all Spanish troops and slaves taken by the British to Pensacola aboard one of his ships under the command of Richard Spencer.

Manrique's term as governor of West Florida ended in 1815; he was replaced by José de Soto.

References

External links
 The Block of 1812: A running documentary of the War of 1812. Letter to Mateo Gonzalez Manrique from Andrew Jackson

Royal Governors of La Florida
Spanish colonial governors and administrators
People of the War of 1812
Year of birth missing
Year of death missing


title: Serbia national rugby sevens team

text:
The Serbia national rugby sevens team is controlled by Serbian rugby federation. In 2015 Serbia won second place in the European Championship B division and is qualified to compete in 2016 in A division of European Series. For the 2022 season, the team played in the Rugby Europe Sevens Conference 1.

Current squad
Serbian current squad for the 2015 European Championship - B division:
Igor Dejanović
Andrija Janković
Andrej Banduka
Danijel Kajan
Vitor Ljubičić
Aleksandar Nedeljković
Istok Totić
Marko Knežević
Marko Isailović
Uroš Babić
Miladin Živanov
Milan Marinković

References

External links
Serbian rugby federation

Rugby union in Serbia
r
National rugby sevens teams


title: Astragalus tuyehensis

text:
Astragalus tuyehensis is a plant species native to Iran. Type locale is in Semnan Province, 35 km north of Damghan City, near Tuyeh at an elevation of approximately 2000 m (6700 feet).

Astragalus tuyehensis is a perennial herb up to 13 cm tall. Much of the shoot is covered with a dense white coat of woolly hairs. Leaves are odd-pinnately compound, with 2 or 3 pairs of elliptical leaflets, each leaflet up to 9 mm long, densely woolly on both sides. Inflorescence is oval to spherical, with 3-10 flowers. Flowers yellow to yellowish-brown. Fruit up to 10 mm long with a beak at the end.

References

tuyehensis
Flora of Iran


title: Obrazovanshchina

text:
Obrazovanshchina (, 'educationdom', 'educaties', 'smatterers') is a Russian ironical, derogatory term for a category of people with superficial education who lack the higher ethics of an educated person.

The term was introduced by Alexander Solzhenitsyn in his 1974 essay "Obrazovanshchina" (translated as "The Smatterers") as a criticism of the transformation of the Russian intelligentsia, which, in his opinion had lost high ethical values. The essay and the term caused criticism from liberal intelligentsia, such as Solzhenitsyn's long-time opponent Grigory Pomerants and , as well as being among the reasons of the bitter contention between Solzhenitsyn and the Russian "third wave" of emigration (of dissidents).

Wykształciuchy is a similar term used in Poland, a country that shares the concept of 'intelligentsia' with Russia.

Solzhenitsyn defines obrazovanshchina as the category of people who refer to themselves as "intelligentsia" solely on the basis of having a higher than middle education. Solzhenitsyn explains the selection of the term by reference to Vladimir Dahl's dictionary, which distinguished the terms  ('to educate') and  ('to enlighten'), the former concept having a superficial character, "external gloss."

A similar criticism of Russian intelligentsia came from Nikolai Berdyaev, who coined the ironic word intelligentshchina for the part of intelligentia locked in their own world, isolated from the rest of the Russian society.

See also
Atel (slang)
Egghead, a derogatory term criticizing other aspects of educated people
Wykształciuch, Polish wiki

References

Social groups
Society of Russia
Social class in Poland
Russian words and phrases
Pejorative terms for people
Works by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Quotations from literature
1974 neologisms


title: Russell Dauterman

text:
Russell Dauterman is an American comic book illustrator known for work on Supurbia for Boom! Studios and Nightwing for DC Comics. Before breaking into comics Dauterman served as a costume illustrator in the movie industry, working on such films as Captain America: The First Avenger.

In July 2014, Marvel Comics announced that Dauterman would be the artist on Thor series with writer Jason Aaron, which would debut that October, and feature a female Thor.

Bibliography
The Mis-Adventures of Adam West #1  (pencils only, with writers Darren G. Davis, Adam West and Reed Lackey, Bluewater Productions, July 2011)
Annie Automatic: Killer in Disguise #0 (illustrator, with writer Sam Scott, Whisper City Productions, July 2011)
Supurbia Vol. 1 #1–4 (pencils and inks, with writer Grace Randolph, Boom! Studios, March 2012 – June 2012)
Supurbia Vol. 2 #1–12 (pencils and inks, with writer Grace Randolph, Boom! Studios, November 2012 – October 2013)
Nightwing #28–29 (pencils and inks, with writer Kyle Higgins, DC Comics, February 2014 – March 2014)
Cyclops (2014) #1–3 (pencils and inks, with writer Greg Rucka, Marvel Comics, May 2014 – July 2014)
Thor (2014) #1–4, 6–8 (pencils and inks, with writer Jason Aaron, Marvel Comics, October 2014 – May 2015)
The Mighty Thor (2015) #1–5, 8–12, 15–20, 22, 700, 702–706 (pencils and inks, with writer Jason Aaron, Marvel Comics, November 2015 – April 2018)
Unworthy Thor #4 (pencils and inks, with writer Jason Aaron and artists Frazer Irving, Esad Ribić, Olivier Coipel and Kim Jacinto, Marvel Comics, February 2017)
War of The Realms #1–6 (pencils and inks, with writer Jason Aaron, Marvel Comics, April 2019 – June 2019)
Giant Size X-Men: Jean Grey and Emma Frost #1 (pencils and inks, with writer Jonathan Hickman, Marvel Comics, February 2020)
Marauders (covers, with writer Gerry Duggan, Marvel Comics, October 2019 – present)
Giant-Size X-Men: Storm #1 (pencils and inks, with writer Jonathan Hickman, Marvel Comics, September 2020)
X-Men (Vol. 5) #21 (pencils and inks, with writer Jonathan Hickman, Marvel Comics, June 2021)
X-Men: Hellfire Gala #1 (pencils and inks, with writer Gerry Duggan, Marvel Comics, July 2022)
Scarlet Witch (Vol. 3) #5 (pencils and inks, with writer Steve Orlando, Marvel Comics, May 2023)

Filmography
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) Costume illustrator
Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) – Costume illustrator

References

External links

Russell Dauterman at the Big Comic Book DataBase

Living people
American comics artists
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American illustrators
Place of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American male artists


title: Tyrel Griffith

text:
Tyrel James "Ty" Griffith (born December 22, 1985) is a Canadian curler from Kelowna, British Columbia.

Personal life
Griffith was born in Calgary. He is employed as a Canada golf operations manager/PGA of Canada  Golf professional at the Black Mountain Golf Club. He is married.

Teams

References

External links

1985 births
Curlers from British Columbia
Living people
Curlers from Calgary
Sportspeople from Kelowna
Canadian male curlers
Canada Cup (curling) participants


title: Fundrise

text:
Fundrise is a Washington, D.C.-based financial technology company founded in 2010 that operates an online investment platform. Fundrise has been labeled as the first company to successfully crowdfund investment into the real estate market.

, Fundrise had originated approximately $1.1 billion in both equity and debt investments deployed across approximately $4.9 billion of real estate property.

History

Fundrise was founded in 2010 by brothers Ben and Dan Miller and launched in 2012 before the passing of the JOBS Act, which enacted securities regulation to streamline the process of equity crowdfunding in the United States. Their father, Herb Miller of Western Development Corp., developed 20 million square feet of real estate based in Washington, D.C. Ben Miller worked as President of Western Development Corp. and Managing Partner of WestMill Capital Partners prior to Fundrise. Prior to Fundrise, Dan Miller worked for Western Development Corp. and also as Managing Partner of WestMill Capital Partners. The brothers founded the company with the idea to allow residents in the D.C. area to invest in real estate development projects they were building. Fundrise's first project, Maketto, in the H Street NE Corridor in Washington D.C. raised $325,000 from 175 investors, where any resident of D.C. or Virginia could invest for as little as $100, making it the first crowdfunded real estate project in the United States.

Early growth
After the initial project, Fundrise was contacted by real estate companies looking to use the Fundrise platform to raise capital. Soon thereafter, the company expanded its platform to allow conventional real estate investments from commercial developers across the United States.

By May 2014 the company reported to have facilitated $15 million in investments involving 1,000+ investors. One of Fundrise's most publicized investments came in January 2015 when it began offering bonds for the construction of 3 World Trade Center, the location of the third tallest tower at the site of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan. The initial offering was for $2 million of the $5 million worth of bonds purchased by Fundrise for the financing of the $1 billion project. Bonds were offered for $5,000 each with a 5% tax-free gross annual return for five years.

Fundrise also raised more capital in its first-round of Series A investment than any other crowdfunding company, totaling $38 million. Funding was led by Chinese social networking company Renren who invested $31 million of the total $38 million. Additional Series A investors include Guggenheim Partners, Justin Elghanayan of Rockrose Development Corporation, and James Ratner of Forest City Enterprises. By February 2015, Fundrise had commitments from six institutional investors for an additional $100 million in investment into the company's real estate offerings. In October 2015, co-founder and president Daniel Miller left the company.

In February 2016, Fundrise terminated its senior accountant for allegedly attempting to extort over $1 million from the enterprise over a claim that "the company acted inappropriately concerning two real estate deals." The accountant denied the allegations of extortion and claimed that the termination was retaliation for reporting "serious fraudulant behavior." The company denied the claims and hired an outside audit firm to conduct an investigation into the allegations, which ultimately concluded there was no reasonable basis to the allegations.

eREIT launch
On December 3, 2015, Fundrise launched the Fundrise Real Estate Investment Trust, the world's first online real estate investment trust or "eREIT" with an initial offering of $50 million pursuant to Regulation A+.

The Fundrise eREIT offering provides prospective investors with the opportunity to invest in an intended portfolio of properties across the United States for a minimum of $1,000. The aim of the eREIT is to use new technology to give both accredited and unaccredited investors the option to invest in U.S. real estate. This financial offering was made possible by the expansion of Regulation A under the JOBS Act.

The company subsequently opened a second eREIT, the Fundrise Equity REIT, in February 2016.

In December 2016, the Fundrise Income eREIT was the first company to raise $50 million, the maximum amount allowed under Regulation A. Later in December 2016, the Fundrise Growth eREIT became the second ever issuer to raise $50 million pursuant to Regulation A.

eFund launch
In June 2017, Fundrise announced the eFund, a diversified portfolio of for-sale housing in major U.S. cities. The first eFund was the Los Angeles eFund, with an initial offering of $50 million under Regulation A+. In conjunction with the eFund launch, Fundrise introduced a goal-based investing and an advisory service.

Amazon HQ2
In 2018, Fundrise announced that it had acquired thirty residential properties in the Washington, D.C. area in anticipation of Amazon's HQ2 announcement. Fundrise is establishing the HQ2 DC eFund, to invest as much as $50M in residential properties throughout Washington, D.C.

2021
In 2021, Fundrise received $300 million in credit from Goldman Sachs to invest in developing single family homes in the Sun Belt.

Awards
Fundrise was selected for the Forbes Fintech 50 list in 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2019. In 2018, Fundrise placed position 35 overall and position 1 in the financial services industry on the Inc. 5,000 list.

See also
 Alternative investment
 Disruptive innovation
 Financial Technology
 Registered Investment Adviser
 Regulation A

References

Further reading

External links
 Fundrise official website

Privately held companies based in Washington, D.C.
Crowdfunding
Real estate companies established in 2010
Real estate services companies of the United States
Investment companies of the United States
American companies established in 2010
2010 establishments in Washington, D.C.


title: Eze Vincent Okeuhie

text:
Eze Vincent Okeuhie (born 6 June 1993) is a Nigerian footballer, who plays as a winger.

Career
Born in Lagos, and often referred to simply as Vincent Eze, he arrived to Turkish side Çaykur Rizespor in the start of the season 2012–13, however, they loaned him for the second half of the season to Kartal S.K. Playing with Kartal S.K. in the TFF First League, he made 9 appearances for the club.

Afterwards, he played with Cypriot clubs Apollon Limassol, Nea Salamina and Omonia. In 2016 he joined Tunisian CA Bizertin, but quickly left the team without making an appearance, before moving to Serbia and joining FK Metalac Gornji Milanovac. On 16 January 2018, Okeuhie signed a three-year-deal with Vojvodina. On 28 January 2020, Okeuhie signed a two-year-deal with Čukarički. On 17 January 2021, Okeuhie joined Belarusian Premier League champions Shakhtyor Soligorsk.

References

1993 births
Living people
Nigerian men's footballers
Men's association football forwards
Nigerian expatriate men's footballers
Nigerian expatriate sportspeople in Cyprus
Expatriate men's footballers in Turkey
Expatriate men's footballers in Cyprus
Expatriate men's footballers in Tunisia
Expatriate men's footballers in Serbia
Expatriate men's footballers in Belarus
Cypriot First Division players
Serbian First League players
Serbian SuperLiga players
Çaykur Rizespor footballers
Kartal S.K. footballers
Apollon Limassol FC players
Nea Salamis Famagusta FC players
AC Omonia players
CA Bizertin players
FK Metalac Gornji Milanovac players
FK Vojvodina players
FK Čukarički players
FC Shakhtyor Soligorsk players


title: Brighton by-election

text:
Brighton by-election may refer to several by-elections in Brighton, England:

1st–16th Parliaments  of the UK (1801–1857)
 1842 Brighton by-election, won by Lord Alfred Hervey, standing as a Conservative
 1853 Brighton by-election, won by Lord Alfred Hervey, standing as a Peelite

17th–26th Parliaments (1857–1900)
 1860 Brighton by-election, won by James White, Liberal
 1864 Brighton by-election, won by Henry Moor, Conservative
 1884 Brighton by-election, won by William Thackeray Marriott, standing as a Conservative
 1885 Brighton by-election, won by William Thackeray Marriott
 August 1886 Brighton by-election, won by William Thackeray Marriott
 November 1886 Brighton by-election, won by William Tindal Robertson, Conservative
 1889 Brighton by-election, won by Gerald Walter Erskine Loder, Conservative
 1893 Brighton by-election, won by Bruce Canning Vernon-Wentworth, Conservative

27th–35th Parliaments (1900–1931)
 1905 Brighton by-election, won by Ernest Villiers, Liberal
 1911 Brighton by-election, won by John Gordon, Conservative
 1914 Brighton by-election, won by Charles Thomas-Stanford, Conservative

36th–38th Parliaments (1931–1950)
 1940 Brighton by-election, won by Lord Erskine, Conservative
 1941 Brighton by-election, won by Anthony Marlowe, Conservative
 1944 Brighton by-election, won by William Teeling, Conservative

39th–47th Parliaments (1950–1979)
 1969 Brighton Pavilion by-election, won by Julian Amery, Conservative


The Serbia women's national rugby sevens team represents Serbia in international rugby sevens competitions and is controlled by Serbian rugby federation. Serbia currently competes in European B division.

External links
Serbian rugby federation
FIRA-AER website, B division teams

Rugby union in Serbia
r
Women's national rugby sevens teams


title: Phacelia mammillarensis

text:
Phacelia mammillarensis, common name Nipple Beach phacelia, is a plant species native to Kane County, Utah. Type locale there, as recorded on the herbarium label, is about 9.6 km (6 miles) east of Glen Canyon City.

Phacelia mammillarensis is an annual herb with simple oblong to lanceolate leaves up to 7 mm (0.3 inches) long, covered with small glandular hairs. Inflorescences are terminal and lateral, each in the shape of a "scorpoid cyme", i.e. curled in a spiral like a scorpion's tail or like a half-open fiddlehead fern. Flowers are yellow to white.

References

mammillarensis
Flora of Utah
Flora without expected TNC conservation status


title: Kal Chat

text:
Kal Chat (, also Romanized as Kal Chāt) is a village in Howmeh Rural District, in the Central District of Iranshahr County, Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 43, in 9 families.

References

Populated places in Iranshahr County


title: Jeffrey Gural

text:
Jeffrey Gural (born July 6, 1942) is a New York real estate developer.

Early life and education
Gural was born to Jewish American real estate developer Aaron Gural and Harriet Feil. His mother died in 1945. His father was part owner of Newmark & Company and served as its chairman from 1957 to 1998. He was raised in Woodmere, New York and has two sisters: Jane Gural Senders and Barbara Gural. He graduated with a B.S. in civil engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Career
In 1968, he worked for Morse-Diesel Construction Company where he was responsible for the supervision and construction of more than one million square feet of new office space.

In 1972, he joined the family business managing its real estate assets (8.5 million square feet of real estate worth about $3 billion in 2010) and helping the growth of his family's Manhattan brokerage firm then known as Newmark Grubb which he has headed since 1978.

Gural with his partner, Barry Gosin, propelled the firm's growth in the 1970s and 1980s, via an aggressive acquisition strategy, including commercial and residential buildings and even racetracks. Gural runs the harness racing track Meadowlands Racetrack in East Rutherford, New Jersey as well as the racinos Tioga Downs in Nichols, New York and Vernon Downs in Vernon, New York.

In 2001, they invested in family-owned national appraiser Koeppel Tener Real Estate Services, founded by Alfred J. Koeppel.

In 2006, Newmark Grubb formed a strategic partnership with London-based real estate firm Knight Frank becoming Newmark Grubb Knight Frank.

In October 2011, Newmark Grubb Knight Frank was acquired by BGC Partners. Like his father, his strategy has always been to hold onto real estate over the long term.

In 2015, he was mentioned in the biography of Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York (The Contender: Andrew Cuomo) in a book chapter describing the evolution of New York State Racing, including the international investment sector. Jeffrey Gural was the owner and operator of Vernon Downs Racetrack during the research report, Reflections on Community Integration in Rural Communities in Upstate New York (Racino, 2014).

In 2017, Gural became chairman of GFP Real Estate LLC when Newmark Holdings diverged from Newmark Group and changed its name.

Philanthropy and activism
Gural is committed to cleaning up the harness racing industry: all horses that run on his tracks are subject to blood and urine samples to test for illicit drugs and the training centers or farms can be inspected at any time by his investigator.

In 2014, Gural applied for a license to add table games to Tioga Downs. The state government rejected his application. Gural publicly expressed anger over the rejection. Governor Andrew Cuomo immediately requested that the state gaming commission add a casino upstate; As of 2015, Gural was the only applicant for that license. Gural and his wife have donated to several of Cuomo's political campaigns.

In 2016, Gural was an important backer of Public Question 1, a ballot measure that would amend New Jersey's constitution to allow casino Gambling in North Jersey. After numerous polls showed that Question 1 had no chance to pass Gural, along with Paul Fireman, pulled their financial support for the measure. Bill Cortese, the leader of Trenton’s Bad Bet, a group opposed to the question, said, “Trenton’s Bad Bet will not be distracted by billionaire developers throwing temper tantrums because they don’t get what they want.”  Gural blamed the failure of Question 1 on the general political climate and said that he might sponsor a similar ballot measure in 2018.

Gural is a former chairman of the board of the Times Square Business Improvement District, the Alliance of Resident Theatres New York, and the Eldridge Street Synagogue. He serves on the board of directors of the Real Estate Board of New York, the UJA Federation, Eugene Lang College, the U.S.O.; New York City Outward Bound, the Jewish Community Center of the Upper West Side, and the Settlement Housing Fund. He also served as president of the New York Chapter of The Starlight Children's Foundation; is chairman emeritus of enCourage Kids Foundation and served as chairman of "I Have a Dream-NY"; and is a co-sponsor of the Chelsea-Elliot "I Have a Dream" Project.

Personal life
He married his college sweetheart, Paula Gural, a geologist; they have three children. His son, Eric Michael Gural, has taken over most of his responsibilities. He is a  major donor to the Democratic Party and President Barack Obama. Gural is a breeder of racehorses at his farm in Stanfordville, New York. He is a supporter of the Two-state solution in the Middle East.

References

External links

1942 births
20th-century American Jews
American real estate businesspeople
Living people
People from Woodmere, New York
People from Dutchess County, New York
21st-century American Jews


title: Charlotta Löfgren

text:
Catharina Charlotta Löfgren (January 1720, Linköping – 14 February 1784), was a Swedish lady of letters and poet.

Biography
Charlotta Löfgren was the daughter of the local official Anders Löfgréen (d. 1728) and Anna Schreibe and the sister of the poet Henrik Anders Löfgren. She married in 1738 to the vicar Petrus Lagerman (1706–1790), who occasionally wrote poems as well. She lived in Norrköping from 1746, where she was a local literary celebrity and wrote poems for festive public occasions.

Löfgren was published both in name and anonymously, which means that a significant amount of her poems are unidentified. She is believed to be the author "C.C.L", who published numerous poems in the period of 1742–1764. Most of her poems describe individual women, and in one poem from 1748, she makes herself the spokesperson of women and salutes Pagan Roman gods. Her correspondence, partially written in verse, with Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht, Hedvig Löfwenskiöld, Hedwig Walldorff finns and her brother Henrik Anders Löfgren, has been preserved.

Löfgren has been identified with the pseudonym Climene, to whom Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht addresses a poem in the form of a letter from 1759, which is counted as a sketch to the latter famous feminist poem Fruentimrets försvar (The Defense of Women), where Nordenflycht defense the intellectual capability of females and states that intellectual inferiority is caused by the lack of education and knowledge rather than the natural effect of gender. Nordenflycht was enthusiastic in her ambition to encourage literary talent in other females, and was reportedly happy about the female collective of writers in Norrköping, which consisted of Löfgren, Hedvig Löfwenskiöld, Hedwig Walldorff and Margareta Gryzell.

References
 Ann Öhrberg (2001). Vittra fruntimmer. Författarroll och retorik hos frihetstidens kvinnliga författare. Stockholm: Gidlunds Förlag.
 Sven G. Hansson (1991). Satir och kvinnokamp. I Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflychts diktning.. Carlsson Bokförlag.

1720 births
1784 deaths
18th-century Swedish women writers
Swedish poets
Place of birth missing
Swedish women poets
18th-century Swedish poets
Age of Liberty people


The 2008–09 Montenegrin First Handball League was third season of the Montenegrin First League of Men's Handball, Montenegro's premier handball league.

Participants

In the Montenegrin First League 2008/09 participated eight teams. For the first time, league didn't have two parts of competition. So, the clubs played 28 legs in the unique league.

The following eight clubs participated in the Montenegrin First League 2007/08.

Final table

During the season, all members played 28 games. At the end, Budućnost won their first national trophy, with five points more than Lovćen.

Final table:

Budućnost and Lovćen rivalry

Season will be remembered by the big rivalry between Lovćen Cetinje and Budućnost Podgorica. Their match in Podgorica, which decided about national champion, played in 26th Leg on May 17, 2009, was the most attended game in the history of Montenegrin First League (4,000 spectators). Budućnost won 28:26 (18:14) and hold the first title in the club history. Match ended with incidents in Sports center 'Morača', with the clash of supporters, but the players Goran Đukanović (Budućnost) and Igor Marković (Lovćen) too.

Four days later, Lovćen and Budućnost played another important match - final of the Cup of Montenegro. In front of 2,000 spectators in Cetinje, Lovćen won 26:25 (13:12).

During the season, match Berane - Lovćen, played in March, was dissolved too, after big incidents and fights on the ground.

Summary

 Promotion to the EHF Champions League - qualifiers 2009/10: Budućnost Podgorica
 Promotion to the EHF Cup Winners' Cup 2009/10: Lovćen Cetinje
 Promotion to the EHF Cup 2009/10: Sutjeska Nikšić
 Promotion to the EHF Challenge Cup 2009/10: Berane, Budvanska rivijera Budva
 Relegation to the Second League 2009/10: Mojkovac (due to finances)
 Promotion to the First league 2009/10: Danilovgrad

Handball leagues in Montenegro
Hand
Hand
Monte


title: Vishal Punjabi

text:
Vishal Punjabi (born 10 July 1980) is a Ghanaian Indian film director and producer who predominantly works in Bollywood and Hindi cinema. Punjabi is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Mumbai film production company, The Wedding Filmer. In 2013, Vishal Punjabi's documentary film Heartbeats became India’s first wedding film to enter an international film festival.

Biography
Born in Accra, Greater Accra, and ten years after Punjabi being born in Ghana, Vishal Punjabi migrated to England to continue his education in IT, Drama, Filmmaking and Business. After dabbling in the dot com boom at the turn of the 21st century, Punjabi shifted careers to join Red Chillies Entertainment as a line producer. While working on his second feature film Main Hoon Na, his knack for visual art was picked up by his film bosses. Punjabi was allowed to set up a team for Visual Art by putting together visual effects productions for Bollywood films like Aśoka, Main Hoon Na, Paheli, Don and Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd.. Punjabi then moved into the advertising division within Red Chillies Entertainment to produce and direct television commercials for clients and products like Hero Honda, Pepsi, Hyundai, ITC Foods, Wipro, Videocon, Emami Group and ICICI Bank, to name a few. Punjabi, the young film producer and visual artist has also worked with agencies like FCB/ULKA, J. Walter Thompson, Saatchi & Saatchi, Ambience, and more.

Filmography

Feature films
Vishal Punjabi's feature films include:
Aśoka (2001)
 Main Hoon Na (2004)
Paheli (2005)
Don (2006)
Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd. (2007)

Vishal Punjabi also directed the wedding documentary Heartbeats in which was nominated for four indie film festivals including the D.I.Y Film Festival. Heartbeats is India’s first wedding film to enter an international film festival.

External links

References

1980 births
Living people
Ghanaian film directors
Ghanaian screenwriters
Ghanaian people of Indian descent


title: Hedvig Löfwenskiöld

text:
Hedvig Apollonia Löfwenskiöld, as married Lillienanckar (1736–1789), was a Swedish writer, lady of letters and poet.

She was the daughter of the official and poet Henrik Anders Löfvenskiöld and the niece of the poet Charlotta Löfgren. The correspondence between her and her colleagues Charlotta Löfgren, Samuel Älf and Hedwig Walldorff is preserved. She was a member of the literary society Apollini Sacra, a daughter academy of the Utile Dulci. In one poem, she states that the intellectual inferiority of females was the consequence of the lack of education and knowledge and that given the same schooling, the intellect of the genders would be equal.

References
 Ann Öhrberg (2001). Vittra fruntimmer. Författarroll och retorik hos frihetstidens kvinnliga författare. Stockholm: Gidlunds Förlag.
 Sven G. Hansson (1991). Satir och kvinnokamp. I Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflychts diktning.. Carlsson Bokförlag.

1736 births
1789 deaths
18th-century Swedish women writers
Swedish poets
Place of birth missing
Swedish women poets
18th-century Swedish poets
Age of Liberty people


title: Gerald Meehl

text:
Gerald Allen "Jerry" Meehl (born 1951) is a climate scientist who has been a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research since 2001.

Early life and education
Meehl, who was born in Denver, is the son of a family of wheat farmers from Hudson. It was the conversations Meehl had with his father about the future weather, and how that might affect their crops, that sparked his interest in the weather and climate. He received his B.S. (with distinction), M.S., and PhD from the University of Colorado.

Scientific career
He was a lead author of the sixth chapter of the IPCC Second Assessment Report, published in 1995, and helped oversee the chapter about climate projections in the IPCC AR4, published in 2007. He is an ISI highly cited researcher, and is known for his research linking global warming to extreme weather. He has also done much research into the use of global climate models. One of these studies, in which Meehl et al. showed that models could not reproduce recent warming without including anthropogenic influences, was featured in a 2004 review of climate science by the George W. Bush administration. His research has also shown that record high temperatures in the continental United States were more than twice as common as record lows in the 2000s, that it may soon be possible to predict heat waves three weeks in advance (rather than 10 days, which is the best current forecasts can do), and that the global warming hiatus observed over the last 15 years or so may be caused by more heat accumulating in the deep ocean. When Meehl joined Matthew England to publish one such study in Nature Climate Change in 2014, Meehl said that this study "...makes the case that, though other factors could contribute somewhat to the early-2000s hiatus, the Pacific is a major driving force in producing naturally-occurring climate variability that can overwhelm the warming from ever-increasing greenhouse gases to produce the hiatus." He also proposed that this occurred because of the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation switching to its negative phase. In September 2014, Meehl et al. published another study on this topic, in which they attempted to simulate the hiatus with currently available climate models. They found that these models were able to simulate the hiatus, and concluded that it was largely caused by natural variability.

Awards and honors
In 1999, Meehl received the editor's award from the Journal of Climate. He also received the Jule G. Charney Award from the American Meteorological Society in 2009, and was elected a fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2014.

Other writings
Meehl has also written several historical books about World War II in the Pacific. His interest in World War II began when he heard his uncles tell stories about their experiences fighting in the war when he was growing up, and he focused on the Pacific because he was sent on an expedition to Tutuila while an undergraduate at the University of Colorado.

References

1951 births
Living people
People from Denver
University of Colorado alumni
American climatologists
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change lead authors
National Center for Atmospheric Research faculty
Historians of World War II
Fellows of the American Geophysical Union


title: 1940 Deutsche Lufthansa Ju 90 crash

text:
On 8 November 1940, a Deutsche Lufthansa Junkers Ju 90 passenger aircraft crashed near the municipality of Schönteichen, Germany, killing all 29 people on board.

The aircraft, registered D-AVMF and named Brandenburg, was en route from the German capital Berlin to Budapest, Hungary when ice formed on its tail, causing the airplane to lose control and crash. At the time, the accident was the worst one on German soil.

References

1940 in Germany
Aviation accidents and incidents in 1940
Airliner accidents and incidents caused by ice
Aviation accidents and incidents in Germany
20th century in Saxony


title: Beata Rosenhane

text:
Beata Rosenhane (21 January 1638 in Norrköping – 1 June 1674) was a Swedish Baroness and writer. She was known for her learning and received an education unusual for a female of her epoch, and has as such been the subject of research.

Biography
Beata Rosenhane was the daughter of Beata Sparre and the diplomat Baron Schering Rosenhane. As a Swedish diplomat, her father was stationed abroad at several occasions, and it is believed that it was during his visit to Paris in France during the age of the Précieuses, when it was the fashion in France to educate females, that he decided to give his daughters equal education to that of his sons, something unique at the time at least in Sweden. The result was that his daughters are counted as the most learned and educated females in 17th-century Sweden alongside Queen Christina. This was particular the case of Beata, who apparently was the most gifted among her sisters. From the age of seven onward, she was trained in rhetoric by conversation and by writing essays in various subjects in which she was also, in parallel, educated. She also wrote poetry and acquired a literary reputation, though her poems were not published: "She had a rare talent, wide knowledge and great learning in the literature of foreign countries and had herself attempted poetry, though none of her writings has been printed". Her poems as well as her written study work and books have been preserved and are an object of research.

Beata Rosenhane long refused to marry, though she was, after the death of her father in 1663, pressured by her family to do so. She explained that she had seen many fiances become husbands and that she did not believe them capable of any love which could give a woman happiness: that she believed that a marriage should be founded on love and that the man selected by her family was not to her taste and would not be able to pass the test and love her. Eventually, she saw herself forced to give in because of the alternative as a spinster, which would be even less independent than that of a wife. In accordance to the contemporary civil law, an unmarried woman regardless of age were placed under the guardianship under her closest male relative for life; and though a married woman was under the guardianship of her husband, she obtained legal majority as a widow. Before her marriage, she pointed out to her brother, that she gave in and agreed to marry only because as a spinster, she would not have the power to live by herself and do as she pleased, and that she would have been able to so, had she been born a male. She admitted that between the alternative of a wife and a spinster, the former was the better of two evils: "You do of course find it necessary to realize, that an unmarried woman would be far worse off than an unhappily married one".

In 1671, she finally married colonel lieutenant Baron Erik Ribbing af Zernava (1640-1675). As was the custom in the Swedish nobility until the late 18th-century, she kept her own name after marriage. She died childless of fever. Her brother, who disliked her way of thinking, decided that her independence had been caused by her education, and resolved that his own daughter would be raised without any education to become a woman without will.

See also
 Vendela Skytte

References

Sources
 Norrhem, Svante (2007). Kvinnor vid maktens sida : 1632-1772. Lund: Nordic Academic Press. Libris 10428618.
 Ann Öhrberg (2001). Vittra fruntimmer. Författarroll och retorik hos frihetstidens kvinnliga författare. Stockholm: Gidlunds Förlag.
 Stina Hansson: Salongsretorik : Beata Rosenhane (1638–74), hennes övningsböcker och den klassiska retoriken = [Rhetoric for the salons] : [Beata Rosenhane (1638–74), her exercise books, and classical rhetoric] /
 http://www.stockholmskallan.se/Soksida/Post/?nid=5332
 Scheutz, Lisbet, Berömda och glömda stockholmskvinnor : sju stadsvandringar : 155 kvinnoporträtt. - 2001. - S. 127-131
 Svenska adelns ättar-taflor / Afdelning 3. von Nackreij - Skytte /
 Stånd och genus i stormaktstidens Sverige, Kekke Stadin
 http://www.adelsvapen.com/genealogi/Rosenhane_nr_29

Further reading

1638 births
1674 deaths
17th-century Swedish people
17th-century Swedish women writers
Swedish poets
Swedish women poets
17th-century Swedish poets
People from the Swedish Empire


title: Volleyball at the 1958 Asian Games – Men

text:
This page presents the results of the men's volleyball tournament at the 1958 Asian Games, which was held from 25 May to 31 May 1958 in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

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Final standing

References
 Results

External links
OCA official website

Men's volleyball


title: Amata kuhlweini

text:
Amata kuhlweinii, the cool handmaiden, is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Alexandre Louis Lefèbvre de Cérisy in 1832 (or 1831). It is found in South Africa and Tanzania.

References

kuhlweini
Moths described in 1832
Moths of Africa


title: Stańczyk (disambiguation)

text:
Stańczyk  was a famous court jester in Polish history.

Stańczyk may also refer to:

Stańczyk (painting)
Janusz Stańczyk (born 1955), Polish diplomat
Przemysław Stańczyk (born 1985), Polish swimmer
Stanley Stanczyk (1925–1997), American weightlifter
Tomasz Stańczyk (born 1978), Polish sailor
Xawery Stańczyk (born 1985), Polish poet, sociologist, essayist

See also
Stanczak


title: Nine-a-side volleyball at the 1958 Asian Games – Men

text:
This page presents the results of the Men's 9-man Volleyball Tournament at the 1958 Asian Games, which was held from 25 May to 31 May 1958 in Tokyo, Japan.

Results

Final standing

References
 Results

External links
OCA official website

Men's Volleyball


title: Amata lagosensis

text:
Amata lagosensis is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1907. It is found in Nigeria.

References

Endemic fauna of Nigeria
lagosensis
Moths described in 1907
Moths of Africa


title: Amata lateralis

text:
Amata lateralis is a species of moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Jean Baptiste Boisduval in 1836. It is found in Senegal.

References

lateralis
Moths described in 1836
Moths of Africa


title: Amata leimacis

text:
Amata leimacis is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by William Jacob Holland in 1893. It is found in the Republic of the Congo and Gabon.

References

leimacis
Moths described in 1893
Moths of Africa


title: Rudolf Sturany

text:
Rudolf Sturany (13 April 1867, Vienna – 28 February 1935, Vienna) was an Austrian zoologist who specialized in the field of malacology, the study of mollusks.

He studied zoology at the University of Leipzig under Rudolf Leuckart and at the University of Vienna, where his instructors included Carl Claus, Friedrich Moritz Brauer and Karl Grobben. In 1891 he obtained his PhD at Vienna.

In September 1889 he began work as a volunteer at the Natural History Museum of Vienna, later serving as a curator, being entrusted with the collections of mollusks, bryozoans, brachiopods and tunicates. During his career, he took frequent trips for scientific research in Bosnia, Herzegovina, Dalmatia, Montenegro, Albania and Crete. In 1924 he retired from museum work due to a deteriorating eye condition.

Sturany was the taxonomic authority for numerous mollusk species, a few examples being: Spelaeoconcha paganettii, Pseudobithynia pentheri and Mitra gonatophora. The land snail genus Sturanyella, in all likelihood, is named after him.

Selected writings
 Lamellibranchiaten des Rothen Meeres, 1899 – Lamellibranches of the Red Sea.
 W.A. Obrutschew's Mollusken-Ausbiete aus Hochasien, 1900 – Wladimir Afanasjewitsch Obrutschew's collection from Central Asia.
 Gastropoden des Rothen Meeres, 1904 – Gastropods of the Red Sea.
 Über schalentragende Landmolusken aus Albanien und Nachbargebieten, 1915 – On shell-bearing land mollusks of Albania and neighboring areas.

References

1867 births
1935 deaths
Scientists from Vienna
Austrian zoologists
Austrian malacologists
Zoologists from Austria-Hungary


title: Luk

text:
Luk or LUK may refer to:

Surname
Luk or Loke is the Cantonese romanization of several (but not all) Chinese surnames that are romanized as Lu in Mandarin. It may refer to:

Lu (surname 陆)
Lu (surname 禄)
Lu (surname 逯)
Lu (surname 鹿)

Other uses
Luk (band), a Ukrainian band
LuK, a Schaeffler Group brand
Cincinnati Municipal Lunken Airport, US, IATA airport code
Leucadia National, US company, NYSE symbol

See also
Gospel of Luke
Luc (surname)


title: Amata leucerythra

text:
Amata leucerythra is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by William Jacob Holland in 1893. It is found in Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon.

References

leucerythra
Moths described in 1893
Moths of Africa


title: VA-72 (U.S. Navy)

text:
Attack Squadron 72 (VA-72) was an aviation unit of the U.S. Navy. It was established as Bomber Fighter Squadron 18 (VBF-18) on 25 January 1945. The squadron was redesignated as Fighter Squadron 8A (VF-8A) on 15 November 1946, as VF-72 on 28 July 1948, and finally as VA-72 on 3 January 1956. It was disestablished on 30 June 1991.

The squadron's nickname from 1945 to 1950 was "Bearcats", followed by "Hawks" until 1962, and the Blue Hawks from that point forward. Its first insignia, a bearcat, was approved in 1946; a new one, featuring a peregrine falcon, was approved in 1950. Its last insignia, with a blue hawk, was current from 1956 until the squadron's disestablishment 35 years later.

Operational history

 September–December 1946: Participated in 's shakedown cruise in the Caribbean Sea and a goodwill cruise to South America for the inauguration of Chile’s President Gabriel González Videla.
 19 August 1948: Squadron commanding officer, Lieutenant Commander B. F. Haker, lost at sea while attempting a carrier approach.
 25 January 1949: Cross deck operations with the British carrier  in the Mediterranean.
 April 1961: The squadron operated from  in an area south of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, during the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the unsuccessful invasion of Cuba by American supported Cuban exiles.
 22 October–22 November 1962: Participated in the Cuban Quarantine while embarked on Independence.

10–16 May 1963: A detachment of three aircraft deployed on  to provide courier service during a Project Mercury space flight of the Faith 7 capsule.
 17 October 1965: The squadron’s executive officer, Commander H. B. Southworth, led the first successful strike against a surface-to-air SA-2 missile installation in North Vietnam. The strike was composed of four VA-72 A-4Es and one A-6A from VA-75.
 18 September 1970: While operating in the Caribbean aboard , the squadron was ordered to deploy with the carrier to the Mediterranean due to the fighting between Jordanian and Palestinian forces and the intervention of Syria on behalf of the Palestinians.
 October 1973: With the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War, Kennedy and her air wing, while operating in the North Atlantic after just completing a Mediterranean deployment, were ordered back to the Mediterranean. VA-72 conducted flight operations while the carrier was on station south of Crete, from the latter part of October through mid November.
 17–19 September 1985: VA-72, along with other units of CVW-1, were the first to conduct flight operations from a carrier operating inside a fjord.  operated in Vestfjorden, Norway, during this evolution.
 22–27 March 1986: During Freedom of Navigation Exercises in the Gulf of Sidra and the resulting combat action with Libyan forces, VA-72 flew patrols to protect the task force from attack by surface ships or submarines and also provided aerial refueling missions for fighters flying combat air patrols.
 14 April 1986: The United States initiated Operation Eldorado Canyon, air strikes against targets in Libya. VA-72 provided air-to-surface missile support for possible employment against surface-to-air missile radar sites.
 September–October 1990 and December 1990–January 1991: The squadron participated in Operation Desert Shield, the buildup of American and Allied forces to counter a threatened invasion of Saudi Arabia by Iraq and as part of an economic blockade of Iraq to force its withdrawal from Kuwait.
 17 January 1991: Operation Desert Storm, combat operations to remove Iraqi forces from Kuwait, was launched. The squadron’s A-7Es participated in the first combat strike against Iraqi targets in Baghdad.
 29 January 1991: Squadron aircraft flew their first combat mission in the Kuwait theater, striking Iraqi troops, tanks and artillery positions.
 27 February 1991: Squadron aircraft participated in the last naval air combat strike of the war, hitting retreating Iraqi troops east of Najaf, Iraq. During the 43 days of war the squadron flew 362 sorties without the loss of a pilot or aircraft.
 8 June 1991: The last two squadron aircraft participated in the Desert Storm Victory Parade flyover in Washington, D.C.

Home port assignments
The squadron was assigned to these home ports, effective on the dates shown:
Naval Air Station Astoria – 25 January 1945
Naval Air Station San Diego – 22 April 1945
Naval Air Station Quonset Point – 14 November 1945
Naval Air Station Oceana – 3 September 1957
Naval Air Station Cecil Field – 15 February 1966

Aircraft assignment
The squadron first received the following aircraft on the dates shown:
 F6F-3/5 Hellcat – 7 February 1945
 F8F-1 Bearcat – 10 August 1945
 F8F-1B Bearcat – January 1947
 F8F-2 Bearcat – 20 March 1948
 F8F-1 Bearcat – 1 December 1948
 F8F-1B Bearcat – 9 February 1950
 F9F-2 Panther – 16 March 1951
 F9F-5 Panther – 11 October 1951
 F9F-2 Panther – February 1952
 F9F-5 Panther – February 1953
 A4D-1 Skyhawk – September 1956
 A4D-2 Skyhawk – 12 February 1958
 A4D-2N/A-4C Skyhawk – March 1961
 A-4E Skyhawk – May 1964
 A-4B Skyhawk – March 1967
 A-7B Corsair II – January 1970
 A-7E Corsair II – 13 September 1977

See also
 Attack aircraft
 List of inactive United States Navy aircraft squadrons
 History of the United States Navy

References

Attack squadrons of the United States Navy
Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Aviation Squadrons


title: French corvette Bacchante (1795)

text:
The French corvette Bacchante was launched in 1795 as the second of the four-vessel Serpente class of corvettes. She served for almost two years as a privateer, before returning to the service of the French Navy. After  captured her in 1803, the Royal Navy took her in under her existing name as a 20-gun post ship. Bacchante served in the West Indies, where she captured several armed Spanish and French vessels before the Navy sold her in 1809.

French service
Bacchante was built to a design by Charles-Henri Tellier. She was a "flat-bottomed vessel, destined to protect the entrances to rivers".

Between 1797 and 1798 Bacchante served as a privateer under Captain Pierre Lefortier.

By 1801 Bacchante was back in naval service and at Havre under the command of lieutenant de vaisseau Bellenger. In 1802 and 1803, sailed Brest-San Domingo-Brest. At the outbreak of war after the collapse of the Treaty of Amiens, Bacchante came under the command of lieutenant de vaisseau François-Louis Kerimel and joined Volage and Observateur.

Capture
On 25 June 1803 Endymion captured Bacchante near the Azores, after a chase of eight hours. Bacchante was returning to Brest after a three-month voyage to San Domingo. Kerimel's attempts to escape resulted in Bacchante losing eight men killed and nine wounded; her return fire caused no casualties on Endymion. Captain Charles Paget of Endymion described Bacchante as a "remarkably fine Ship, of large Dimensions, quite New, and sails very fast."

British career
Bacchante arrived at Plymouth on 23 July 1803. She then remained there undergoing fitting between October 1803 and February 1804. Captain Charles Dashwood commissioned Bacchante in November 1803. On 18 February Bacchante was at Plymouth under orders to proceed station herself off Falmouth to meet the Lisbon and Oporto convoys and escort them to their ports.

Dashwood then sailed her for Jamaica in June 1804.

On 3 April 1805, Bacchante captured the Spanish naval schooner Elizabeth of ten guns and 47 men under the command of Don Josef Fer Fexegron. Elizabeth had been carrying dispatches from the Spanish governor of Pensacola, but had thrown these overboard before her capture.

Dashwood found out that there were three privateers at Mariel, a little west of Havana, and decided to try to capture them. The first step was to send in Bacchantes boats to take a round tower that was protecting the harbour. The tower stood 40' high, had three 24-pounders on its top, loopholes for muskets around its circumference, and had a garrison of a captain and 30 men. The attack commenced in the evening of 5 April, with the British capturing the fort despite heavy fire. The 13 British seamen and marines suffered one man wounded before they landed; the Spanish had two killed and three wounded. Leaving a sergeant and six marines to guard the prisoners, the boats then headed into the harbour. There they discovered that the privateers had left the day before. Still, despite heavy small-arms fire, the British succeeded in bringing out two schooners carrying sugar.

One month later Bacchante was off Havana. Here, on 14 May, she captured the Spanish letter of marque Felix. Felix, pierced for ten guns though carrying six, had a crew of 42 men under the command of Francisco Lopez and was carrying a cargo of beeswax and coffee when Bacchante captured her after a four-hour chase. Felix had left Havana the day before and was the first vessel to have left that port since the imposition of the British embargo.

By 27 May Bacchante had arrived at Deal in company with the hired armed ship . They brought in four returning East Indiamen as well as a number of other vessels from Jamaica, Lisbon, and Oporto. On 22 June Bacchante and the frigate  left Portsmouth escorting a convoy for the West Indies.

Circa July 1805 Commander Randall M'Donnell assumed command of Bacchante. On 18 November she captured the Spanish privateer Dos Azares. Bacchante was off the north-east end of Cuba when she sighted a schooner near land. Knowing that Bacchante was not fast, M'Donnell, rather than chasing the schooner, pretended to take flight, luring the privateer into chasing him. When the privateer realised her mistake, M'Donnell gave chase and after about seven hours succeeded in capturing her. Dos Azares was armed with two 3-pounder guns and had a crew of 36 men under the command of Captain Ealletam Garcia. She was four days out of Cuba and had not yet captured anything. In the engagement, Dos Azares had three men wounded; Bacchante had no casualties.

In August 1806 Commander James Dacres replaced M'Donnell. On 29 August, in the evening, Bacchante was patrolling off Santa-Martha. Dacres sent her boats to capture or destroy some Spanish vessels at anchor in the harbour. At 1 A.M. on 30 August the boats arrived at the entrance of the harbour and immediately made for the vessels. As they did so, they came under a tremendous, but completely ineffective fire from the vessels, the batteries, and the beach, where several field-pieces had been stationed. The boats brought out three armed vessels, one a brig and two feluccas without having suffered any casualties. (A latter report said she had one man wounded.) Dacres reported that the three vessels were:

 Brig of unknown name and four guns. A later report referred to her as a French brig whose crew had escaped.
 Spanish letter of marque Sebastian of one gun and 30 men, which had been traveling from St Sebastian to Vera Cruz;
 Spanish privateer Desiade of one gun and 30 men, which had been bound for St Jago do Cuba.

The brig was the William, of four guns, which had been sailing from Liverpool to Africa when the Spanish captured her. Bacchante and her prizes arrived at Jamaica on 5 September.

On 14 February 1807, Bacchante captured the French navy schooner Dauphin off Cape Raphael after a 10-hour chase. Dauphin mounted one long 12-pounder gun and two 4-pounders, but she threw the 4-pounders overboard during the chase. She had a crew of 71 men and Dacres was extremely happy to have captured her as she had been preying successfully on British trade.

Dacres then fell in with Captain Wise and Mediator in the Mona Passage. Both were patrolling, looking for French warships and privateers, so Dacres took Mediator under his command and hatched a plan to raid the port of Samana, "that nest of privateers". Dacres had Dauphin come into the harbour under her French flag, with Bacchante disguised as her prize and Mediator, a former merchantman, appearing to be a neutral ship. This stratagem permitted the British vessels to navigate into the harbour and anchor within a half a mile of the fort before the enemy realised that they were British vessels. After a four-hour exchange of fire with a fort manned primarily by men from the privateers in the harbour, the fort fell to a land attack by the seamen and marines from Bacchante and Mediator, the landing party being under Wise's command. The British captured two French schooners undergoing fitting as privateers, and an American ship and a British schooner, both prizes to French privateers. Before they left on 21 February, the British destroyed the fort and its guns. Mediator bore the brunt of the fort's fire. Dacres had four men wounded; Wise had two men killed and 12 wounded. Dacres estimated that French casualties had been high, but did not have a number as the Frenchmen took to the woods as the fort fell.

The Lloyd's Patriotic Fund subsequently awarded both Dacres and Wise a sword each worth £100 that bore the inscriptions:
 "From the Patriotic Fund at Lloyd's to James Richard Dacres Esqr. Capt. of H.M.S. Bacchante for his Gallant Conduct in the Capture of the French National Schooner Dauphin and the Destruction of the Fort and Cannon in the Harbour of Samana on 16th February 1807 effected by the Bacchante in company with H.M.S. Mediator as Recorded in the London Gazette of the 25th of April".
 "From the Patriotic Fund at Lloyd's to William Furlong Wise Esq. Capt. of H.M.S. Mediator for his Gallant Conduct in Storming and Destroying with the Seamen and Marines belonging to His Majesty's Ships Bacchante and Mediator the Fort and Cannon in the Harbour of Samana on 16th of February 1807 as Recorded in the London Gazette of the 25th of April".

By September 1807 Bacchante was under the command of Commander Samuel Hood Inglefield. On 13 September,  was chasing a suspicious schooner when Bacchante came up and cut the quarry off, which then struck. The vessel turned out to be the Spanish privateer Amor de la Patria under Captain Josse de Tournecy. She was armed with three guns and had a crew of 63 men. She was five days out of (St Iago) but had not taken any prizes.

On 5 October Bacchante recaptured the Atalanta, Kneal, master.

On 11 May 1808 Bacchante captured the French navy brig Griffon off Cape Antonio. Bacchante pursued Griffon for almost seven hours, and fought her for a half an hour, Griffon only struck when she found herself crowded some 100 metres from the breakers with Bacchante only some 200 meters from her. Griffon was armed with fourteen 24-pounder carronades and two 6-pounder guns, and had a crew of 105 men under the command of lieutenant de vaisseau Jacques Gautier. In the engagement Griffon had five men wounded, while Bacchante had suffered no casualties.

Griffon had sailed from Rochefort to Martinique via Pensacola. Bacchante sent her into Jamaica. There the Royal Navy took Griffon, which was relatively new, into service as HMS Griffon.

On 10 June 1808 Commander William Ward of Pelican received promotion to post captain in Bacchante, replacing Inglefield, who transferred to . Ward then sailed Bacchante back to Britain.

Fate
The Commissioners of the Navy offered Bacchante for sale at Portsmouth in July 1809. She was sold on 2 July.

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Captured ships
1795 ships
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Ships built in France
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title: Amata magnopupillata

text:
Amata magnopupillata is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Emilio Berio in 1941 and is found in Eritrea.

References

External links
 Arctiidae genus list at Butterflies and Moths of the World of the Natural History Museum

Endemic fauna of Eritrea
magnopupillata
Moths described in 1941
Moths of Africa


title: Amata magrettii

text:
Amata magrettii is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Emilio Berio in 1937 and is found in Eritrea.

References

 Arctiidae genus list at Butterflies and Moths of the World of the Natural History Museum

Endemic fauna of Eritrea
magrettii
Moths described in 1937
Moths of Africa