title: Lander, Nevada

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Lander is a ghost town  in Lander County in Nevada in the United States. The site is approximately 24 miles southeast of Battle Mountain.

History
The town of Lander was established in the 1870s. Early silver mines include the Silver Side, Grey Eagle and Lovie. In 1883 there were 100 people in Lander. Several mills were built in that year and  were open until 1885 when mills were closed. Ore extraction was waning and stopped by 1890. Only temporary efforts were made after that year but a school was built in 1889 and was open until 1898 serving Lander and also Utah Mine camp and Mud Springs. In 1905, Charles Montgomery discovered gold 2 miles to the southeast of Lander, which became the site of Tenabo, Nevada. In the summer of 1906 several were newly opened and were working.  Lander had a post office from October 1906 until October 1909.  By 1907 Lander reached its peak with 75 residents. However the good times finished when mines were abandoned. Lander became in a ghost town and  was abandoned in 1921.

References

External links
 Information about Lander

Ghost towns in Lander County, Nevada
Mining communities in Nevada
Gold mining in Nevada
Populated places established in 1880


title: Leffert Lefferts

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Leffert Lefferts (April 12, 1774 – March 22, 1847) was the first President of the Long Island Bank, the first bank in Brooklyn, New York.

Early life
Lefferts was born at the Bedford homestead on April 12, 1774.  He was the son of Leffert Lefferts (1727–1804) and Dorothy (née Couwenhoven) Lefferts (1738–1816).  The Lefferts family were an important family in the history of Brooklyn and were among the financiers of the State of New York.

He attended Columbia College in 1794.

Career
Lefferts, a Federalist, twice ran, unsuccessfully, for U.S. Congress, losing to his own cousin, John Lefferts, a Democratic-Republican, in 1813.  He was also the first judge of Kings County.  In 1824, Lefferts, along with Jehiel Jagger, Fanning C. Tucker, Jacob Hicks, Thomas Everitt Jr., founded the Long Island Bank, the first bank in Brooklyn, of which Lefferts served as president.

Judge Lefferts also owned substantial land holdings, which were managed by his son-in-law, James Carson Brevoort, who served as private secretary to Washington Irving when Irving was appointed as United States Minister to Spain in 1842.  While members of his family owned slaves, including John Lefferts, Leffert himself did not, and instead, the 1830 census shows "three free people of color" living with members of his family.

Personal life
Lefferts was married to Maria Benson (1793–1875). Maria was the daughter of Dinah (née Couwenhoven) Benson and Lieutenant Colonel Robert Benson (1739–1823), Clerk of the New York State Senate. She was also the sister of New York City Alderman Egbert Benson and niece of U.S. Representative, Egbert Benson. Together, Maria and Leffert were the parents of:

 Elizabeth Dorothea Lefferts (1824–1896), who married James Carson Brevoort (1818–1887), a collector of rare books and coins, in 1845.
 Leffert Lefferts (1826–1827), who died young.

Lefferts died on March 22, 1847.  He is buried at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.

Descendants
Through his daughter Elizabeth, he was the grandfather of Henry Lefferts Brevoort (1849–1895), who married Elizabeth Schermerhorn (1852–1928), a daughter of Alfred Schermerhorn and Elizabeth (née Barnewall) Schermerhorn (sister of Louisa Barnewall Van Rensselaer).

References

External links

 The Lefferts Family Papers at Brooklyn Historical Society.

1774 births
1847 deaths
Lefferts family
American bank presidents
History of Brooklyn
People of the Province of New York
Columbia College (New York) alumni


title: João Antônio

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João Antônio Ferreira Filho (January 27, 1937 – October 31, 1996) was a Brazilian journalist and short story writer, who became known for portraying the lives of marginalized people inhabiting the outskirts of large cities, such as bandits, workers, vagrants and malandros.

Biography
Born into a family of small shopkeepers in a suburb of São Paulo, João Antônio worked in low-paid jobs before releasing his first collection of short stories, Malagueta, Perus e Bacanaço, in 1963, for which he won several awards: two Jabuti Prizes (best new author and best book of short stories), the Prêmio Fabio Prado and the Prêmio Municipal da Cidade de São Paulo. The double Jabuti award was an unprecedented feat for a rookie writer. Malagueta was originally written in 1960, but the manuscript was destroyed in a fire. Antonio then spent the following two years rewriting it.

This literary success led him into a career in journalism, his first job being with the Jornal do Brasil. He was a member of the founding team of Realidade magazine (1966), which published the first short story of Brazilian journalism, Um Dia No Cais (1968). He subsequently worked for Manchete magazine, the newspaper O Pasquim and various alternative press outlets, opposing the military regime in Brazil. During this period, João Antonio alternated residence between Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.

In 1967, he married Marilia Mendonça Andrade; his only son, Daniel Pedro, was born in the same year. In the late 1960s he decided to radically change his life. He quit his job, sold his car, left his wife and began to devote himself entirely to literature.

Antônio wrote fifteen books in total, but he always refused to participate in ceremonies and to join groups and literary academies, only accepting invitations to speak at schools and universities. He traveled throughout Brazil in 1978 and Europe in 1985. In 1987 he was awarded a scholarship and settled in Germany, where he remained until 1989. During this period, he also visited the Netherlands and Poland, holding numerous conferences.

Antônio died alone in 1996, in Rio de Janeiro, his body only being discovered fifteen days after his death. His collected archives were donated by his family and are housed in the CEDAP (Centro de Documentação e Pesquisa-Center of Documentation and Research) at the São Paulo State University campus in Assis.

Works

1963: Malagueta, Perus e Bacanaço
1975: Leão-de-chácara
1975: Malhação do Judas carioca
1976: Casa de Loucos
1977: Lambões de Caçarola (Trabalhadores do Brasil!)
1977: Calvário e Porres do Pingente Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto
1978: Ô Copacabana!
1982: Dedo-duro
1984: Meninão do caixote (coletânea)
1986: Abraçado ao meu rancor
1991: Zicartola e que tudo mais vá pro inferno! (Editora Scipione)
1992: Guardador
1993: Um herói sem paradeiro
1996: Patuléia
1996: Sete vezes rua (Editora Scipione)
1996: Dama do Encantado

Adaptations to other media
In 1977, the title story of Malagueta, Perus e Bacanaço, about three pool players from the underground of São Paulo, was turned into a film called O Jogo da Vida, directed by Maurice Capovila and starring Lima Duarte.

References

1937 births
1996 deaths
Writers from São Paulo
Brazilian male short story writers
20th-century Brazilian short story writers
Brazilian journalists
Brazilian male journalists
20th-century Brazilian male writers
20th-century journalists


title: Masters W35 pole vault world record progression

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This is the progression of world record improvements of the pole vault W35 division of Masters athletics.

Key

References

Masters Athletics Pole Vault list

Masters athletics world record progressions
Pole vault


title: Arent Jacobsz Koets

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Arent Jacobsz. Koets (c.1600 – 1 March 1635), was a Dutch Golden Age concierge of the Haarlem schutterij.

Biography
He was a member of the St. James guild (St. Jacobsgilde), and married Guertje Henricksdr., the daughter of Henrick Lamberts and Meyntgen Thijmens. He was portrayed by Frans Hals in The Banquet of the Officers of the St George Militia Company in 1627.

On 1 March 1635 he was buried in Haarlem.

References

Arent Jacobsz. Koets in De Haarlemse Schuttersstukken, by Jhr. Mr. C.C. van Valkenburg, pp. 50–51, Haerlem : jaarboek 1961, ISSN 0927-0728, on the website of the North Holland Archives

1600s births
1635 deaths
Frans Hals
People from Haarlem


title: Patrick Casey (runner)

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Patrick Casey (born May 23, 1990) is an American middle-distance runner. He ran his first four-minute mile on February 4, 2011. He attended Montana State University before transferring to the University of Oklahoma.

Professional

College career

One of the NCAA's top milers and 1500m runners, Casey ran a 4:04:44 mile his freshman year, which equates to 3:59.19 after NCAA's altitude-adjustment formula because [Bozeman, Montana] has a 4,800-foot elevation. He ran the first four-minute mile in Montana without altitude-adjustment on February 4, 2011 at 3:59.76.
He transferred from Montana State University to the University of Oklahoma in 2012.

Casey finished second in the 1500 m race at the 2014 USA Track & Field Championships.

In 2015, Casey holds the record for the fastest mile run at Montana State University, with a time of 3:54.59.

High school career

Casey attended Laurel High School (Montana), coached by head coaches James Haskins and Lisa Condon. In his senior year, he won the individual title in XC, the 800m, 1600m, and 3200m in the state championships. He currently holds the record in the Montana Mile, one of the flagship events of the Montana State Games, running 4:07.09 in 2010.

Personal Bests

References

1990 births
Living people
American male middle-distance runners
American male steeplechase runners
Track and field athletes from Oklahoma
Montana State Bobcats men's track and field athletes
Oklahoma Sooners men's track and field athletes


title: Haga Church (Norway)

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Haga Church () is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Samnanger Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Haga. It is one of the two churches for the Samnanger parish which is part of the Hardanger og Voss prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Bjørgvin. The white, wooden church was built in a fan-shaped design in 1995 using plans drawn up by the architect Helge Hjertholm. The church seats about 230 people.

History

In 1903, a small prayer house was built in Haga. In 1920, the prayer house was consecrated as an annex chapel within the parish. A church association was founded in 1944 to raise money for a new church. In 1967, the municipality gave land for the new church. Helge Hjertholm was hired to design the new church, but money ran short and the work could not go forward. In 1982, an association was again set up to manage the fundraising and the volunteer work in connection with the future construction, but it was not until 1991 that municipal approval and grants came through and work began. The foundation stone was laid on 11 October 1992. The church was consecrated on 5 February 1995.

See also
List of churches in Bjørgvin

References

Samnanger
Churches in Vestland
Wooden churches in Norway
Fan-shaped churches in Norway
20th-century Church of Norway church buildings
Churches completed in 1995
1995 establishments in Norway


title: Masters W40 pole vault world record progression

text:
This is the progression of world record improvements of the pole vault W40 division of Masters athletics.

Key

References

Masters Athletics Pole Vault list

Masters athletics world record progressions
Pole vault


title: Firelands Museum

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The Firelands Museum in Norwalk, Ohio is the oldest operating museum in the state of Ohio. It was founded by the Firelands Historical Society and began collecting artifacts in 1857. Many founders of the society were pioneers from the Connecticut Western Reserve (or their immediate ancestors).

In 1899, the Dr. Kettredge house on the site of the present Norwalk Public Library was purchased to house the museum. With a monetary contribution from steel magnate Andrew Carnegie, the library building opened in 1905. The historical museum was housed on the ground floor at that time, where the historical society celebrated its golden anniversary in 1907. By 1953 the museum had grown crowded and a new location was pursued. The Preston-Wickham mansion on West Main Street was to be torn down for a new commercial building, and the society rallied to buy it and move the oldest part behind the library. Samuel Preston built the house in 1834. He was the founder of the Norwalk Reflector newspaper, which was published in the house for several years.

The house was thoroughly renovated and opened to the public as the Firelands Historical Society's headquarters and museum in May 1957, the society’s centennial. A half-block down Case Avenue from the main museum, the society bought and opened the building in 1988 which now houses more exhibits, a research center and meeting room. Included in the exhibits are various organs and pianos made by the A.B. Chase Piano Company, a Norwalk firm which operated from about 1876 to 1930. Another treasure is their impressive collection of hundreds of antique pistols and rifles, many of which were donated by Norwalk business leader George Titus.

References

External links
 Firelands Museum - official site

Museums in Huron County, Ohio
Historical society museums in Ohio


title: Kerk Street Mosque

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The Kerk Street Mosque, also known as the Jumah Mosque, is located in Johannesburg, South Africa.

The mosque, situated on stand 788, is one of the oldest mosques and places of worship in Johannesburg.

The first Muslim community to occupy the land set up a tent in the closing years of the nineteenth century, then in 1906 built a wood and corrugated iron structure. In 1918 construction of a brick walled structure was completed. The brick mosque was demolished in 1990 and was replaced with the modern Kerk Street Mosque designed by Driehaus Prize winner Abdel-Wahed El-Wakil.

History

The arrival of the Malay slaves and political prisoners by the Dutch East India Company in 1654 from Batavia was the first introduction of Islam in Cape Town and subsequently South Africa. The Malays were not initially given worshiping rights but the growing number of slaves brought in by the Dutch East India Company from Indonesia and India, including Bengal and the Malabar coast spread Islam which forced the Cape Colony to give rights to worship Islam. This saw the first application for land to build the first Mosque in 1793 in the Cape of Good Hope.

After the discovery of gold in Johannesburg and the growing number of Muslims, Jumah Masjid was built in 1906 and renovated and enlarged in 1918 due to the increase in worshippers. Before the 1990 rebuilding, the Jumah Masjid could accommodate about 230 worshippers.

Design
The site measures 740m2, bounded by Sauer Street and Kerk Street. Although the site has been used as a mosque since the 1890s, the first formal structure was built on this site 76 years ago (1918). Structural collapse and inadequate facilities led to the commissioning of the current project. The unique feature of this mosque is that it follows the city grid of Johannesburg but the inside is designed to face Makkah. From Johannesburg, that is 11° east of the strict northerly pole. It is built along the strict northerly line of the street and has been angled internally to exactly 11°.

Architect Muhammad Mayet's design has a substantial vocabulary of traditional elements contained within its various parts: domes, squinches, pendentives, fan vault and cross vaults. Artisans from Morocco were flown in to do the intricate plasterwork, a craftsman from Egypt was responsible for the wood carving and Turkish professionals hand carved the delicate marble used to adorn the mosque. The exterior is plastered and painted white, creating a plain but elegant appearance that allows the form to be clearly read.

The prayer hall consists of a series of arches on pillars with segmental arches over supporting segmental vaults which run parallel to the Qibla wall. The vaults are interrupted in the middle by a dome which establishes a central axis pointing towards Makkah. The direction of Makkah is emphasized by the main dome on the north side which is raised on a drum which filters light into the interior directly above the mihrab.

The building is of load-bearing brick and masonry construction built on top of a combination of pile and raft concrete foundations. This construction means the temperature inside the mosque remains a constant 23 °C. It can accommodate up to 2000 people at a time.

Heritage status
The mosque was declared a national monument by the National Monument Council "because of its historical, aesthetic and cultural value". The Kerk Street Mosque is historically and culturally significant for the following reasons:
 The Kerk Street Mosque is situated on the oldest Muslim mosque site in Johannesburg
 The Kerk Street Mosque is associated with the Muslim community of Johannesburg and carries both religious and cultural significance
 The Kerk Street Mosque is a beautiful building exhibiting high quality design and craftsmanship giving it aesthetic significance

References

Mosques in South Africa
Religious buildings and structures in Johannesburg
Mosques completed in 1990
Heritage Buildings in Johannesburg
New Classical architecture
Abdel-Wahed El-Wakil buildings
20th-century religious buildings and structures in South Africa


title: The King's Daughter (2022 film)

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The King's Daughter is a 2022 action-adventure fantasy film directed by Sean McNamara from a screenplay by Barry Berman and James Schamus. It is based on the 1997 novel The Moon and the Sun by Vonda N. McIntyre. The film stars Pierce Brosnan as King Louis XIV, Kaya Scodelario as Marie-Josèphe, and Benjamin Walker as Yves De La Croix. It was William Hurt's final screen performance to be released before his death in March 2022, though not his final film work, as it had been filmed eight years earlier.

Principal photography began in early April 2014 in Versailles, France. After the two-week shoot in France, production then began on April 23 in Melbourne, Australia. Shooting wrapped up at the end of May.

Originally intended to be released in April 2015, the film was delayed just three weeks prior in order to complete post-production effects. It sat in development hell for over five years, until the distribution rights were acquired by Gravitas Ventures, which theatrically released it on January 21, 2022 to negative reviews.

Plot
Marie-Josèphe, born and raised in a convent in France, is a rebellious free spirit who often causes trouble for the Abbess. Marie-Josèphe's father, King Louis XIV, fears for his own mortality after being wounded by an assassin's bullet, but is told by Dr. Labarthe about a magical underwater creature that can grant him immortality; the procedure involves cutting out the creature's heart during an eclipse. Louis sends a group of fishermen, led by Captain Yves De La Croix, to capture the creature, a mermaid. Her mate is also caught, but Yves releases him before heading back to France.

Per the king's request, father La Chaise travels to the convent to bring Marie-Josèphe back, giving her the impression that she is traveling to play music in Versailles. Upon arriving in Versailles, Marie-Josèphe befriends a servant named Magali, but no one else knows she is the king's daughter. The following morning, Louis meets with Jean-Michel Lintillac, son of a wealthy baron who is gravely ill and ready to pass on, making Lintillac inherit a fortune and prestige. While out for a stroll with Magali, Marie-Josèphe meets Yves, and the two fall in love. She also encounters Lintillac and her father for the first time, though he still doesn't tell her about his relation to her.

The mermaid is brought into a chamber beneath the castle. Later, as Marie-Josèphe tries to practice in her room, she follows a strange noise to the mermaid's prison, where she encounters both the creature and Yves. At a grand ball the next day, Marie-Josèphe shares a dance with Louis, and later finds him outside painting a picture of a woman called Louise, telling Marie-Josèphe that she reminds him of her.

Louis appoints Lintillac with the title of Duke, and later holds a dinner in his honor. Marie-Josèphe visits the mermaid again and joins her underwater. Yves later takes Marie-Josèphe for a horse ride, but she falls and severely breaks her arm; Labarthe states that the arm will need to be amputated. Yves brings Marie-Josèphe and Magali to the mermaid, who completely heals Marie-Josèphe's arm. Marie-Josèphe assumes that Louis has brought the mermaid to France to heal the citizens, but she is told that the mermaid is for the king's purpose only.

Louis arranges for Lintillac to marry Marie-Josèphe so that they can share in Lintillac's fortune. He comes clean to Marie-Josèphe about being her father and that he wants her to marry Lintillac. She refuses and runs away crying, leaving Louis feeling remorseful.

La Chaise visits the mermaid and, realizing she is a sentient being, he confronts Labarthe and Louis, but both refuse to change their minds. Marie-Josèphe visits the mermaid, who shows her a telepathic vision of her capture. Meanwhile, Yves slips a picture of the procedure under Marie-Josèphe's door, alerting her to the king's true plans. She confronts Louis, telling him that she will marry Lintillac if he lets the mermaid go, but he refuses. As everyone prepares for the wedding, La Chaise and Marie-Josèphe go to the chamber where Yves is trying to get the mermaid out. They are found by Labarthe, but they fight him off to give the mermaid time to escape. Labarthe shoots Yves, who falls into the water and is taken along by the fleeing mermaid. Marie-Josèphe gets Labarthe caught in a water wheel that pulls him underwater, drowning him.

Marie-Josèphe makes it to a cliff where she has promised to rendezvous with Yves and his crew, and finds Yves healed by the mermaid. Louis and his men arrive and prepare to kill the mermaid as the eclipse approaches, but giving him the choice to save either his own life or hers, Marie-Josèphe jumps off the cliff and hits the water hard. Louis has no choice but to tell his men to stand down so that the mermaid can revive Marie-Josèphe. Louis watches Marie-Josèphe and Yves leave, and the mermaid swims home. La Chaise tells Louis he is now a great king and a great man.

In the epilogue, Marie-Josèphe and Yves sail to find the city of Atlantis so that Marie-Josèphe may reunite with the mermaid, and she takes her underwater to see the city up close.

Cast
 Pierce Brosnan as King Louis XIV
 Kaya Scodelario as Marie-Josèphe
 Benjamin Walker as Yves De La Croix
 William Hurt as Père La Chaise
 Rachel Griffiths as Abbess
 Fan Bingbing as the Mermaid
 Ben Lloyd-Hughes as Jean-Michel Lintillac
 Paul Ireland as Benoit
 Pablo Schreiber as Dr. Labarthe
 Crystal Clarke as Magali
 Julie Andrews as Narrator
 Earl Gough as the Horseman

Production

The film is based on the 1997 novel The Moon and the Sun, written by Vonda N. McIntyre. The earliest development for the film began in 1999, when producer Michael London planned to acquire filming rights. He said he was drawn to "the weird juxtaposition (of) a completely imagined creature in this very specific historical world". London proposed the film to The Jim Henson Company, who would release the film through their film company, Jim Henson Pictures. Theatre director Christopher Renshaw signed on to direct, while Laura Harrington would write the screenplay with McIntyre's involvement. Stephanie Allain and Kristine Belson signed on as executive producers for Jim Henson Pictures. Following Sony terminating their joint venture with The Jim Henson Company, thus ending Jim Henson Pictures, production was shelved until film producer Bill Mechanic joined production and revived the film with Walt Disney Pictures after signing a five-year deal with the company in December 2001. Mechanic planned for the film to start pre-production in early 2002, with Natalie Portman to star, James Schamus to revise the script, and Gregory Hoblit to possibly direct. The Jim Henson Company would also remain as a producer.

By August 2013, Sean McNamara was hired direct the film. The casting included Pierce Brosnan as King Louis XIV, Fan Bingbing as the mermaid, and Bill Nighy as Père De La Chaise, a character created for the movie. Nighy pulled out of the film due to a scheduling conflict and was replaced by William Hurt weeks before filming. Mechanic, still remaining on the film, had also revised the script with Barry Berman and Ronald Bass. The Chinese film company Kylin Films invested $20.5 million in the film, making it China's biggest financial contribution to a non-studio film produced outside China. Julie Andrews was cast as the narrator of the film.

Principal photography on The Moon and the Sun began in early April 2014 on location at the Palace of Versailles, France. After the two-week shoot in France, production moved to Australia for shooting at Docklands Studios Melbourne and on location in Melbourne, Victoria. Filming commenced on April 23 in and around Melbourne Docklands. From May 6 to 8, filming took place at the Melbourne City Marina on the tall ship Enterprize for scenes set on board a ship in the Northern Sea on a stormy night in 1648. On May 2, scenes were filmed in Old Quad at the University of Melbourne, with the set transformed into a Versailles abbey. Filming in Australia wrapped up at the end of May.

Release
Originally set to be released by Focus Features, Paramount Pictures announced the release date for the film as April 10, 2015, while international sales were to be handled by Good Universe. Just three weeks before the film was due for wide release, Paramount cancelled without specifying a future release date. A source close to the film claimed that more time was needed to complete the special effects work. The film was later retitled The King's Daughter. In May of 2017, Open Road Films bought the distribution rights. The distribution rights ended up going to Open Road's successor Global Road Entertainment before Global Road dropped the film. In June 2020, Arclight Films acquired distribution from Open Road during the Cannes virtual event. The following year in October, Gravitas Ventures acquired distribution rights to the film, and set it for a January 21, 2022, release.

The film was released for VOD on April 5, 2022, followed by a Blu-ray and DVD release on April 19.

Reception

Box office
In the United States and Canada, the film earned $723,150 from 2,170 theaters in its opening weekend, and made $440,846 in its second weekend.

Critical response
  Audiences polled by PostTrak gave the film a 66% positive score, with 33% saying they would definitely recommend it.

Notes

References

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American historical fantasy films
Biographical films about French royalty
Films about Louis XIV
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title: Fábio Szymonek

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Fábio Szymonek (born 11 May 1990), sometimes simply known as Fábio, is a Brazilian footballer who plays for Desportivo das Aves, as a goalkeeper.

Career
Born in Osasco, Szymonek was joined Palmeiras' youth categories in 2004, aged 15. After a loan stint with Juventus, he was promoted to the first-team squad in 2012, acting as a backup to Deola and Bruno.

On 4 October 2012, Szymonek signed a new five-year deal with Verdão, and played his first match as a professional on 12 November of the following year, as the club was already promoted, starting and playing the full 90 minutes in a 0–1 loss at Paysandu for the Série B championship.

In 2014, after Bruno's poor performances and Fernando Prass' injury, Szymonek was selected as Palmeiras' first-choice. On 28 June 2018, Szymonek signed with the Portuguese club Aves.

Personal life
Szymonek is of Polish descent through his father.

Honours
Palmeiras
Campeonato Brasileiro Série B: 2013
Copa do Brasil: 2015

References

External links
Palmeiras official profile

1990 births
Living people
Footballers from Osasco
Brazilian men's footballers
Brazilian people of Polish descent
Brazilian expatriate men's footballers
Men's association football goalkeepers
Campeonato Brasileiro Série A players
Campeonato Brasileiro Série B players
Primeira Liga players
Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras players
Clube Atlético Juventus players
Oeste Futebol Clube players
Esporte Clube São Bento players
Esporte Clube Taubaté players
C.D. Aves players
Expatriate men's footballers in Portugal


title: Samnanger Church

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Samnanger Church or Ådland Church ( or ) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Samnanger Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Ådland. It is one of the two churches for the Samnanger parish which is part of the Hardanger og Voss prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Bjørgvin. The white, wooden church was built in an octagonal design in 1851 using plans drawn up by the architect Andreas Grønning. The church seats about 250 people.

History
The earliest existing historical records of the church date back to the year 1329, but it was not new that year. This first church in Samnanger was a wooden stave church that may have been built as early as the 12th century. The church stood a little to the southwest of the present church building. Little is known of the medieval stave church. In 1652, that church was replaced with a new timber-framed long church. That church was long and narrow—about . That church was replaced in 1851 with the present church building and it was located slightly to the northeast of the old church site. It was designed by Andreas Grønning who gave it a basilica style, but also gave it an octagonalal floor plan. The lead builder was Johannes Øvsthus. The church was completed and consecrated in 1851. A sacristy was built in 1908 or 1910, and the tower was rebuilt in 1907. In connection with the 100th anniversary in 1951, the interior was renovated and redecorated using designs by the architect Ole Landmark.

Media gallery

See also
List of churches in Bjørgvin

References

Samnanger
Churches in Vestland
Wooden churches in Norway
Octagonal churches in Norway
19th-century Church of Norway church buildings
Churches completed in 1851
12th-century establishments in Norway


title: Nicolaes le Febure

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Nicolaes le Febure (16 April 1589 – 13 July 1641) was a Dutch Golden Age mayor of Haarlem.

Biography
He was the son of Mahu Nicolaesz of Herzele, and Jannetje Gillis. He became judge, magistrate, and mayor. He married Margaretha Deyman on 22 September 1612. He was portrayed by Frans Hals in The Banquet of the Officers of the St George Militia Company in 1627. Because he was a dwarf, Hals portrayed him standing so that he appears the same height as the men sitting. The tallest man in the group was positioned behind him, however, to accentuate his stature. On 13 July 1641, he was buried in Haarlem.

References

Nicolaes le Febure in De Haarlemse Schuttersstukken, by Jhr. Mr. C.C. van Valkenburg, pp. 50–51, Haerlem : jaarboek 1961, ISSN 0927-0728, on the website of the North Holland Archives

1589 births
1641 deaths
Frans Hals
Mayors of Haarlem
People with dwarfism
Dutch politicians with disabilities


title: 2010 Country Music Association Awards

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The 2010 Country Music Association Awards, 44th Annual Ceremony, is a music award ceremony that was held on November 10, 2010, at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee and the show was hosted for the third time by Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood.

Background
Miranda Lambert was the lead nominee with 9 total. Lambert broke a record for most CMA nominations ever received by a female artist in a single year.

Winners and nominees

Winners are shown in bold.

Performers

References

Country Music Association
CMA
Country Music Association Awards
Country Music Association Awards
November 2010 events in the United States
2010 awards in the United States
21st century in Nashville, Tennessee
Events in Nashville, Tennessee


title: Pregs Govender

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Pregaluxmi "Pregs" Govender (born 15 February 1960) is a South African human rights activist, author, and politician.

Brought up in a political family she was taking action against apartheid by the age of 14. She became a teacher in Durban joining unions and the ANC. In 1994 she entered the first South African Democratic parliament where she argued for women's rights including the laws permitting abortions.

Life
Govender was born in 1960 in Durban and she was brought up in a family of five in a two room flat. Her parents were obliged to live there because the Apartheid government was passed laws that made it illegal for people of some races from living in the place of their choice. This was known as urban apartheid. Govender was exposed to many visitors to their home and by the age of fourteen she was an activist against apartheid. She attended university and worked as a teacher in Durban.

Democratic South African Parliament (1994-2002)
In 1994, Govender was elected as a member of parliament for the African National Congress party. She co-edited SA's country report to the 1995 Beijing Conference and served on leadership structures that established the National Gender Machinery and the national empowerment policy framework. During her term (1996-2002), the JMCIQLSW ensured that 80% of its feminist legislative priorities, including the  Domestic Violence Act, the Customary Marriages Act, the Child Maintenance Act and changes to labour laws advancing women's rights in the workplace were enacted. In 1996, Govender declined to be the ANC's woman speaker of government's neo-liberal economic policy GEAR) launch in parliament and her pro-choice abortion speech in support of the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1996 received a prize from a newspaper.

Commenting on Govender's career as an MP, political scientist Tom Lodge said, "In 2001, the most obviously independent ANC parliamentary initiatives were to be found in the joint monitoring committee on the status of women, chaired by Pregs Govender, which challenged government on spending priorities and Aids policy. In 2001, Govender abstained from voting on the defence budget. Such assertive behaviour may become increasingly exceptional."

Govender's clarity in the face of former President Thabo Mbeki’s HIV/Aids denialism during her tenure as an MP is widely respected. Author and journalist Mark Gevisser explained in 2007 how, “Only one elected ANC representative, Pregs Govender, the chair of a parliamentary committee on the status of women, resigned and publicly criticised Mbeki. And even behind closed doors only one or two people actually had the courage to tell Mbeki they thought he was wrong.”

South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) and Independent Consultancies
In 2007, Govender was elected Chair of the Independent Panel Assessment of Parliament, which proposed stronger oversight and electoral reform. As Commissioner for the South African Human Rights Commission and as its Deputy Chair (2009-2015), Govender drove implementation of SAHRC findings at local and provincial level. She secured a country-wide status report and action plan from the Presidency on water and sanitation. This is still widely used by organisations and the media to monitor government implementation and raise awareness of corporate accountability for water pollution, wastage and theft.

Govender works as an independent writer and consultant. She wrote the concept note and facilitated the South African Parliament's first Africa-wide conference on gender and economics. For the Inter-Parliamentary Union’s first global conference on HIV and AIDS, Govender wrote a concept paper on the role of MPs in ensuring affordable medicine. She facilitated the International Feminist University Network's Curriculum Workshop on Feminism and Globalisation. She has conducted local and international  workshops on using the power of love and courage to be insubordinate to injustice, including teaching practical skills in relation to gender budgets and policy.

Awards and recognition
Govender's voluntary contributions include being patron of Gun-free SA and previously on the global Panel on Human Dignity. Her awards include the Ashoka Fellowship, an honorary doctorate in Law and one in Philosophy, the inaugural Ruth First fellowship for courageous writing and activism, the Thousand Currents Artist in Residence, and the International Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) Inspiration Award for her “initiative, leadership, and unrelenting commitment [that] have made a significant impact in advancing gender equality and social justice around the world”.

Publications
Govender has written over 300 speeches, media articles, reports and book chapters in local and international publications. Jacana Media published her political memoir, Love and Courage, A Story of Insubordination, in 2007, with a second edition in 2016, which included a new introduction by Govender. Govender has written op-eds for a variety of top South African news publications, including the Mail & Guardian, the Sunday Times and Daily Maverick. Govender has written book chapters in several books, including Singing in the Dark Times, In the Balance: South Africans debate reconciliation, Democracy in the Time of Mbeki, The Virus, Vitamins and Vegetables: The SA HIV/AIDS Mystery and Towards a New Partnership with Africa. She has been profiled in Women Leading Africa, Life and Soul: Portraits of Women Who Move South Africa and Voice, Power and Soul: Portraits of African Feminists. Govender has written forewords to several books, including the SA Women's Budget Initiative's Women's Budget Books and the afterword to Beyond States and Markets: The challenges of social reproduction.

References

1960 births
Living people
African National Congress politicians
Members of the African National Congress
Members of the National Assembly of South Africa
South African feminists
South African human rights activists
South African politicians of Indian descent
South African women writers
Women members of the National Assembly of South Africa
Writers from Durban


title: 2014 Racquetball World Championships – Men's singles

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The International Racquetball Federation's 17th Racquetball World Championships were held in Burlington, Ontario, Canada, from June 14 to 21, 2014. This was the second time Worlds were in Canada. Previously, they were in Montreal in 1992.

In men's singles, American Rocky Carson was the three-time defending champion, and he won gold for a fourth time, which made him the most decorated men's racquetball player at the World Championships. In capturing the gold, Carson won all of his matches in two straight games.

Conrrado Moscoso of Bolivia was the surprise silver medalist. Moscoso defeated the 2012 silver medalist Polo Gutierrez of Mexico in the quarterfinals and the beat fellow Bolivian Carlos Keller in the semi-finals to reach the final.

The other semi-final was between two Americans: Carson and  Jose Rojas. The Americans were on the same side of the draw, because Rojas lost to Fernando Rios of Ecuador in a great match that went tie-breaker in the round robin part of the competition.  Sadly for Rios, his victory didn't lead to a great position in the elimination draw, as he had to play Gutierrez in the second round, as Gutierrez missed one of his round robin matches, which put him fourth in his group. Gutierrez defeated Rios in two games.

Mexican Álvaro Beltrán was the other former World Champion in the men's draw (Beltran won the title in 2000), but he lost early in the elimination round as a result of a forfeit to Jose Daniel Ugalde of Ecuador.

Tournament format
The 2014 World Championships was the first competition with an initial round robin stage that was used to seed players for an elimination qualification round. Previously, players were seeded into an elimination round based on how their countries had done at previous World Championships, and then a second team competition was also played.

Round robin

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Pool D

Pool E

Pool F

Pool G

Pool H

Pool I

Pool J

Elimination round

References

2014 Racquetball World Championships


title: List of Rajya Sabha members from Telangana

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The Rajya Sabha (meaning the "Council of States") is the upper house of the Parliament of India. Telangana elects 7 seats and they are indirectly elected by the state legislators of Telangana. The number of seats allocated to the party, are determined by the number of seats a party possesses during nomination and the party nominates a member to be voted on. After the Bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh, members were allotted to Telangana state for the first time by lucky draw.

Current Members

Members Bifurcated From Andhra Pradesh
Before the bifurcation of states, the combined state of Andhra Pradesh used to represent 18 seats to Rajya Sabha. Post bifurcation, Andhra Pradesh seats were changed to 11 and Telangana has had 7 seats since then. On 30 May 2014, draw was conducted amongst the existing 18 members to select the 7 members of Telangana. In the draw, 3 members of Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and 4 members of Indian National Congress (INC) were selected.

References

External links
Rajya Sabha homepage hosted by the Indian government
Nominated members list
State wise list

Telangana

Telangana-related lists

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title: Idiom (language structure)

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Idiom, also called idiomaticness or idiomaticity, is the syntactical, grammatical, or structural form peculiar to a language. Idiom is the realized structure of a language, as opposed to possible but unrealized structures that could have developed to serve the same semantic functions but did not.

The grammar of a language (its morphology, phonology, and syntax) is inherently arbitrary and peculiar to a specific language (or group of related languages). For example, although in English it is idiomatic (accepted as structurally correct) to say "cats are associated with agility", other forms could have developed, such as "cats associate toward agility" or "cats are associated of agility". Unidiomatic constructions sound wrong to fluent speakers, although they are often entirely comprehensible. For example, the title of the classic book English as She Is Spoke is easy to understand (its idiomatic counterpart is English as It Is Spoken), but it deviates from English idiom in the gender of the pronoun and the inflection of the verb. Lexical gaps are another key example of idiom.

Emic and etic views
Monolingual native speakers in an insulated monolingual-native environment are mostly not conscious of idiomaticness (the quality or state of a construction matching the idiom of the given language), because in general their minds never reach for, or hear, other possible structures. The main exception is when they hear the natural experimentation of children acquiring the language, when they may encounter, for example, overregularization (for example, I seed two deers for I saw two deer). By this correlation, solecism to native-speaking monolingual minds often sounds childish. However, when adults study a foreign language, they become consciously aware of idiomaticness and the lack of it. For example, in English it is idiomatic to use an indefinite article when describing a person's occupation (I am a plumber; she is an engineer), but in Spanish and many other languages it is not (soy plomero; ella es ingeniera), and a native speaker of English learning Spanish must encounter and accept that fact to become fluent.

The count sense of the word idiom, referring to a saying with a figurative meaning, is related to the present sense of the word by the arbitrariness and peculiarity aspects; the idiom "she is pulling my leg" (meaning "she is humorously misleading me") is idiomatic because it belongs, by convention, to the language, whether or not anyone can identify the original logic by which it was coined (arbitrariness), and regardless of whether it translates literally to any other language (peculiarity).

See also
 Bahuvrihi
 Collocation
 Cliché
 Phraseme
 Semantic equivalence (linguistics)
 Usage
 Programming idiom
 Principle of compositionality

References

Linguistics


title: Athletics at the 1998 Commonwealth Games – Men's shot put

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The men's shot put event at the 1998 Commonwealth Games was held on 21 September in Kuala Lumpur.

Results

References

Shot
1998


title: WSNQ

text:
WSNQ may refer to:

 WHNK (AM), a radio station (1330 AM) licensed to serve Marion, Virginia, United States, which held the call sign WSNQ from 2017 to 2020
 WNJD, a radio station (102.3 FM) licensed to serve Cape May, New Jersey, United States, which held the call sign WSNQ from 2013 to 2014
 WNJH, a radio station (105.5 FM) licensed to serve Cape May Court House, New Jersey, which held the call sign WSNQ from 2007 to 2013


title: List of awards and honors received by Jimmy Carter

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U.S. President Jimmy Carter (born October 1, 1924) has received numerous accolades, awards, and honorary degrees. Several places, institutions, and other things have been named for him.

Honorary doctorates
 Doctor of Laws : Morehouse College, 1972; Morris Brown College, 1972; University of Notre Dame, 1977; Emory University, 1979; Kwansei Gakuin University, 1981; Georgia Southwestern College, 1981; New York Law School, 1985; Bates College, 1985; Centre College, 1987; Creighton University, 1987; University of Pennsylvania, 1998; Queen's University, 2012
 Doctor of Engineering : Georgia Institute of Technology, 1979
 Doctor of Philosophy : Weizmann Institute of Science, 1980; Tel Aviv University, 1983; University of Haifa, 1987
 Doctor of Humane Letters : Central Connecticut State University, 1985; Trinity College, 1998; Hoseo University, 1998
 Doctor : G.O.C. University, Haiti,  1995; University of Juba, 2002
 Doctor of Civil Law : University of Oxford, on 20 June 2007
 Doctor of Humanities : Hong Kong Baptist University, 2011; Liberty University, on 19 May 2018

Honorary Fellow
 Honorary Fellow of Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, 2007
 Honorary Fellow of Mansfield College, Oxford, 2007
 He was made an honorary member of The Phi Beta Kappa Society at Kansas State University in 1991.

Accolades
Among the honors Carter has received are the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1999 and the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. Others include:
 Freedom of the City of Newcastle upon Tyne, England, 1977
 Silver Buffalo Award, Boy Scouts of America, 1978
 Gold Medal, International Institute for Human Rights, 1979
 International Mediation medal, American Arbitration Association, 1979
 Martin Luther King Jr., Nonviolent Peace Prize, 1979
 International Human Rights Award, Synagogue Council of America, 1979
 Foreign Language Advocate Award, Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, 1979
 Conservationist of the Year Award, 1979
 Harry S. Truman Public Service Award, 1981
 Ansel Adams Conservation Award, Wilderness Society, 1982
 Human Rights Award, International League of Human Rights, 1983
 World Methodist Peace Award, 1985
 Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism, 1987
 Edwin C. Whitehead Award, National Center for Health Education, 1989
 S. Roger Horchow Award for Greatest Public Service by a Private Citizen, Jefferson Awards, 1990
 Liberty Medal, National Constitution Center, 1990
 Spirit of America Award, National Council for the Social Studies, 1990
 Physicians for Social Responsibility Award, 1991
 Aristotle Prize, Alexander S. Onassis Foundation, 1991
 W. Averell Harriman Democracy Award, National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, 1992
 Spark M. Matsunaga Medal of Peace, US Institute of Peace, 1993
 Humanitarian Award, CARE International, 1993
 Conservationist of the Year Medal, National Wildlife Federation, 1993
 Audubon Medal, National Audubon Society, 1994
 Rotary Award for World Understanding, 1994
 J. William Fulbright Prize for International Understanding, 1994
 National Civil Rights Museum Freedom Award, 1994
 UNESCO Félix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize, 1994
  Grand-Cross of the Order of Vasco Núñez de Balboa of Panama, 1995
 Four Freedoms Award; Freedom Medal, 1995
 Bishop John T. Walker Distinguished Humanitarian Award, Africare, 1996
 Humanitarian of the Year, GQ Awards, 1996
 Kiwanis International Humanitarian Award, 1996
 Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development, 1997
 Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Awards for Humanitarian Contributions to the Health of Humankind, National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, 1997
 United Nations Human Rights Award, 1998
 The Hoover Medal, 1998
 The Delta Prize for Global Understanding, Delta Air Lines & The University of Georgia, 1999
 International Child Survival Award, UNICEF Atlanta, 1999
 William Penn Mott Jr., Park Leadership Award, National Parks Conservation Association, 2000
 Zayed International Prize for the Environment, 2001
 Jonathan M. Daniels Humanitarian Award, VMI, 2001
 Herbert Hoover Humanitarian Award, Boys & Girls Clubs of America, 2001
 Christopher Award, 2002
 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Biography or Autobiography, 2002
 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album, National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, 2007
 Georgia Writers Hall of Fame, the University of Georgia, 2006
 Berkeley Medal, University of California campus, May 2, 2007
 International Award for Excellence and Creativity, Palestinian Authority, 2009
 Mahatma Gandhi Global Nonviolence Award, Mahatma Gandhi Center for Global Nonviolence, James Madison University (shared with his wife, Rosalynn Carter)
 Recipient of 2009 American Peace Award along with Rosalynn Carter
 International Catalonia Award 2010
  Knight-Grand-Cross of the Order of the Crown of Belgium, by Royal Decree of King Albert II of the Belgians, 2011
 International Advocate for Peace award, Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution at Cardozo School of Law, 2013
 The O'Connor Justice Prize, 2015.
 The President's Medal, Emory University, 2015
Liberty and Justice For All Award, LBJ Foundation, 2016
The  Order of Manuel Amador Guerrero of Panama, 2016
 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album, National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, 2016
Georgia Hunting and Fishing Hall of Fame, 2016
Ivan Allen Jr. Prize for Social Courage, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017
Gerald R. Ford Medal for Distinguished Public Service, 2017
 Bill Foege Global Health Award, 2018
 Induction into the Georgia Agricultural Hall of Fame, the University of Georgia, 2018
 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album, National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, 2019
Tzedek v’Shalom award, J Street, 2021

Namesakes

Navy submarine
In 1998, the U.S. Navy named the third and last Seawolf-class submarine the USS Jimmy Carter (SSN-23) in honor of former President Carter and his service as a submariner officer. It became one of the first Navy vessels to be named for a person living at the time of naming.

Fish species
In 2002, a fish species was given a scientific name after him, the bluegrass darter (Etheostoma jimmycarter), for his environmental leadership and accomplishments in the areas of national energy policy and wilderness protection, and his lifelong commitment to social justice and basic human rights.

U.S. Naval Academy building
In February 2023, the United States Naval Academy changed the name of its engineering building from Maury Hall to Carter Hall in honor of the former president and Naval Academy graduate. The building was previously named for Matthew Fontaine Maury,  an oceanographer and U.S. naval officer who gave up his commission to fight against the United States by serving as a naval officer and diplomatic envoy to England for the Confederacy.

Grammy Awards
President Carter has been nominated for the Grammy Awards 9 times in the Best Spoken Word Album category, winning three times.

Spoken Word Grammy

His win in 2019 at the age of 94 years and 132 days made him the third oldest person to win a Grammy. The current record holder is Pinetop Perkins, who was 97 when he won a Grammy in 2011 (one month before his death). Carter is the oldest still-living Grammy winner.

References`

Jimmy Carter
Carter


title: Maurice Campbell

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Maurice Campbell (November 28, 1919 – July 4, 2014) was a Canadian curler from Trois-Rivières, Quebec.

Campbell was born November 28, 1919 in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec. Educated at the University of Montreal, he joined the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps in 1943 and completed his medical degree in 1945 and was subsequently posted in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He was a specialist in rheumatology and internal medicine and practiced in Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Quebec.

Campbell played in the 1958 Macdonald Brier, playing lead for the Quebec team, skipped by Bob Lahaie.  The team finished 9th, with a 3-7 record.

He was President of the Quebec Curling Association for the 1963-64 season. He served as president of the Canadian Curling Association for the 1970-71 season and was named to the Canadian Curling Hall of Fame.

Campbell died in Trois-Rivières on July 4, 2014.

References

1919 births
2014 deaths
Canadian military personnel of World War II
Canadian military doctors
Curlers from Quebec
Curling Canada presidents
Sportspeople from Saint-Hyacinthe
Sportspeople from Trois-Rivières


title: Uchee, Alabama

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Uchee, also known as Spains Stand,  is an unincorporated community in Russell County, Alabama, United States.

History
Uchee is named after the nearby Uchee Creek, which in turn is named for the Yuchi tribe. The word "yuchi" probably means "at a distance" in the Yuchi language, with yu meaning "at a distance" and chi meaning "sitting down". The Yuchi lived in the area around present day Russell County, Alabama and Fort Benning, Georgia, before being removed to the Indian Territory. The Uchee Methodist Church is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. A post office was operated in Uchee from 1835 to 1907.

Demographics

Uchee appeared on the 1880 U.S. Census as an unincorporated community of 63 residents. This was the only time it appeared on the census rolls.

Notable people
 Johnny Allen, R&B arranger and pianist
 William Henry Denson, U.S. Representative from 1893 to 1895

References

Unincorporated communities in Russell County, Alabama
Unincorporated communities in Alabama
Alabama placenames of Native American origin


title: First Nawaz Sharif ministry

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The first Nawaz Sharif ministry under prime minister Nawaz Sharif was sworn into office on 9 November 1990, after the nine-party Islami Jamhoori Ittehad (IJI) unanimously nominated him the government head.

Cabinet
Sharif's 18-member cabinet was one of the smallest in the country's history, especially compared to the record 58-member cabinet of his ousted predecessor Benazir Bhutto. Sharif insisted on bringing nearly a dozen politicians with links to Gen Zia-ul-Haq.

Amongst the 18 members initially selected for the cabinet, nine were from Punjab, two from the Islamabad Capital Territory, six from Sindh and one from Balochistan. The cabinet was later expanded to include representation from the North-West Frontier Province Although being a member of the IJI alliance, the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) members declined to participate in Nawaz Sharif’s cabinet.

Changes
 9 March 1991 – Chaudhry Amir Hussain is appointed as the state minister for the Ministry of Law for the second time.
 April 1991 – Akram Zaki is made the acting federal minister for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
 10 September 1991
 Syed Ghous Ali Shah is appointed as the federal minister for the Ministry of Defence.
 The prime minister retains the authority of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and appoints Siddiq Khan Kanju as the state minister for the ministry.
 *Chaudhry Abdul Ghafoor is appointed as the federal minister for the Ministry of Law.

Citations

References

1990 establishments in Pakistan
Nawaz Sharif


title: Gordon (1912–1916)

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Gordon, Gordon Armstrong, was a British cyclecar produced in Beverley Yorkshire by 'East-Riding Engineering' from 1912 to 1916. Production was halted by World War I.

History
The parent company of East Riding Engineering was the Armstrong Patents Company which still manufactures shock absorbers for cars. Both companies were founded by Gordon Armstrong.

Models
The initial 1912 models had either a two or four seater body and were powered by a 1,100cc 8 hp J.A.P. V-twin engine mounted at the rear, and driving the rear axle via chains. The bodies formed a unitary construction with the chassis. The four seater cycle car was a rarity in the market. The wheelbase was 2438 mm.

In 1914, the Gordon 9 hp replaced the initial model, still using the same engine but on short 2286 mm wheelbase.

In 1914, a second new model, the Gordon 10 hp was introduced with a 1.35 litre engine.

In 1915, a prototype Gordon 10 hp, front-engined vehicle was built. It was equipped with a water-cooled four-cylinder in-line engine with 1,100cc displacement. Both two and four seater wheelbases were available. The model was planned for export to Australia, but volume production was prevented by World War I.

See also
 List of car manufacturers of the United Kingdom

References

Other sources
 Harald Linz und Halwart Schrader: Die Internationale Automobil-Enzyklopädie. United Soft Media Verlag GmbH, München 2008, .
 Nick Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile, Volume 2 G–O. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001,  (englisch).
 David Culshaw & Peter Horrobin: The Complete Catalogue of British Cars 1895–1975. Veloce Publishing plc. Dorchester (1999). .

Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of England
Cyclecars
Companies based in the East Riding of Yorkshire
Cars introduced in 1912


title: Tell al-Nahr

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Tell al-Nahr () is a Syrian village located in the Subdistrict of the Hama District in the Hama Governorate. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Tell al-Nahr had a population of 1,507 in the 2004 census.

References

Populated places in Hama District


title: 10,000 Buddhas

text:
10,000 Buddhas may refer to:

City of Ten Thousand Buddhas, in Ukiah, California
Kek Lok Si Temple, called the  "Pagoda of the Ten-Thousand Buddhas", in Penang, Malaysia
Ten Thousand Buddhas Monastery, in Hong Kong
Yulin Caves, called the "Ten Thousand Buddhas Caves", in Anxi County, Gansu Province, China
Zhenfeng Pagoda, called the "Ten-thousand Buddhas", in Anqing, Anhui Province, China

See also
List of named Buddhas


title: 2014 Racquetball World Championships – Women's singles

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The International Racquetball Federation's 17th Racquetball World Championships were held in Burlington, Ontario, Canada, from June 14 to 21, 2014. This was the second time Worlds were in Canada. Previously, they were in Montreal in 1992.

In women's singles, Mexican Paola Longoria was the defending champion, and she successfully defended her title by defeating Rhonda Rajsich of the US in the final, 15–6, 15–8. Longoria didn't lose any games en route to the title, including a straight games win in the semi-finals against Maria Jose Vargas, who was playing for Argentina after previously competing for Bolivia.

Unlike Longoria, Rajsich was pushed to tie-breakers twice in the early rounds, as she needed three games to defeat both fellow American Aubrey Kirch (in the second round) and Colombian Cristina Amaya in the quarterfinals. Indeed, Amaya had match points on Rajsich in both games two and three, but couldn't convert them, as Rajsich won 12–15, 15–14, 11–10. But in the semi-final, Rajsich beat Samantha Salas of Mexico in two straight games, 15–11, 15–9.

Tournament format
The 2014 World Championships was the first competition with an initial round robin stage that was used to seed players for an elimination qualification round. Previously, players were seeded into an elimination round based on how their countries had done at previous World Championships, and then a second team competition was also played.

Round robin

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Pool D

Pool E

Pool F

Pool G

Pool H

Pool I

Elimination round

References

2014 Racquetball World Championships


title: Alfred A. Freeman

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Alfred Alexander Freeman (February 7, 1838 – March 27, 1926) was an American politician, judge and diplomat, active during the latter half of the 19th century. He served several terms in the Tennessee House of Representatives in the years following the Civil War, and was the Republican nominee for Governor of Tennessee in 1872.  He also served as United States Assistant Attorney General for the Post Office Department from 1877 to 1885, territorial judge of New Mexico from 1890 to 1895, and United States Consul to Prague in 1873.  He established a lumber company in British Columbia in the early 1900s.

Early life

Freeman was born in Haywood County, Tennessee, the son of Green Freeman (1795–1875).  He attended school only sporadically as a child, and left home at the age of 17.  He studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1859.  He supported the Union during the Civil War.

Postwar Tennessee politics

Freeman was elected to Haywood County's vacant seat in the Tennessee House of Representatives in July 1865.  His term began in October of that year.  He joined the legislature's Conservative faction, which generally supported the policies of President Andrew Johnson and opposed the Radical Republican agenda of Governor William G. Brownlow.  In March 1866, Freeman was among the legislators who broke quorum in an attempt to prevent the passage of a controversial franchise bill that would have given Brownlow unprecedented power over state elections.  His seat was declared vacant as a result.

In July 1866, Freeman was appointed vice president of the state's Conservative Republican convention in Memphis.  He was a delegate to the National Union Convention in Philadelphia later that year.

Following the enactment of the state's 1870 constitution, Freeman was nominated as a Republican candidate for the Tennessee Supreme Court.  During the campaign, John Freeman, a brother of candidate Thomas J. Freeman (John and Thomas were not related to Alfred), published a scathing article in the Brownsville Bee insulting Alfred Freeman's competence as a lawyer.  Alfred demanded a retraction, but John refused.  On August 2, 1870, the two men met on the courthouse square in Brownsville to settle the matter.  According to one newspaper report, when Alfred had approached to within twenty paces, John drew a gun and fired, but missed.  Alfred returned fire, and a general firing between the two commenced.  John was shot in the arm, while Alfred remained unharmed. After the shooting had stopped, John charged Alfred and wounded him with a bowie knife before friends finally separated them.

Freeman was defeated in the judicial elections in August 1870.  A month later, however, he was nominated as the Republican candidate for Haywood's seat in the Tennessee House, and was easily elected in November.  Former Confederates had been reenfanchised in 1870, and Democrats had regained control of the state government.  Freeman was the only Republican in the House from West Tennessee.

In December 1871, Freeman was involved in a contentious debate on the House floor over a resolution introduced by Democrats which suggested the Ku Klux Klan no longer existed as an organization requiring the state's attention.  Freeman, who had faced threats from the Klan, blasted the resolution, arguing that regardless of whether the "organization" existed, the "individuals" who comprised the organization still existed, and stated "if you will hang them and stop their depredations the country cares but little what becomes of the organization."  When Representative B.A. Enloe asked by which senses, "seeing, feeling or smelling," Freeman had acquired his evidence, Freeman responded, "By all three.  They look like fiends, feel like toads and smell like dogs."  Representative R.M. Cheatham then asked how Freeman had even made it to Nashville if the Klan were such a dangerous threat, to which Freeman responded, "I have said to them as I still say to them, that my blood is at their disposal whenever they think that they have a sufficient amount of their own to give in exchange for it."

In September 1872, Freeman was nominated as the Republican Party candidate for governor.  He spent September and October of that year campaigning and debating the Democratic Party incumbent, former Confederate general John C. Brown.  At a debate in Lebanon, Brown blamed the state's growing debt crisis on Republicans, specifically the Brownlow administration.  He opposed fixing the debt or funding public schools with tax increases.  He blasted the administration of President Ulysses S. Grant as corrupt.  In response, Freeman blamed the debt on pre-war Democratic governors, and argued that debts incurred under Brownlow were to rebuild railroads destroyed during the war.  He supported a tax to fund public schools, and accused Democrats of stealing the state's school fund when they fled Nashville in early 1862.

On election day, Brown defeated Freeman, 97,700 votes to 84,089.  Freeman netted a higher percentage of the vote (46%) than the Republican candidates in the 1872, 1876 and 1878 elections, and more than double the total number of votes received by the party's 1870 candidate, William H. Wisener.

Post-gubernatorial campaign career

In May 1873, President Grant appointed Freeman United States Consul to Prague, which at the time was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.  He departed for his post in June 1873, but by October 1873 he had inexplicably returned home to Haywood County.  In a later interview, Freeman stated he had suffered from extreme loneliness and isolation in Prague, due in large part to the language barrier.

In 1874, Freeman again sought election to Haywood's seat in the Tennessee House of Representatives, but was narrowly defeated by Lewis Bond, 2,008 votes to 1,831.  In April 1876, Freeman purchased the printing press of the defunct Brownsville Bee, and began publishing a pro-Republican newspaper, the Brownsville Free Press.  In May 1876, he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention, where he served on the Committee on Resolutions.  Later that year, he once again sought Haywood's seat in the Tennessee House, and sold the Free Press in October 1876 to focus on his campaign.  In the November election, he defeated the Democratic candidate, John R. Bond.

In April 1877, President Rutherford B. Hayes appointed Freeman United States Assistant Attorney General for the Post Office Department, a position which oversaw the Postal Service's legal affairs.  He obtained this appointment in part due to his friendship with Postmaster General David M. Key.  In October 1879, Freeman issued a ruling authorizing the Postal Service to withhold letters addressed to lottery companies.  This led to a string of lawsuits, and Freeman spent much of his term defending the ruling.  He also argued the federal government's case in Dauphin v. Key, which involved fraudulent mail schemes (and stemmed in part from the lottery ruling), and advised against the formation of controversial star routes.

During the 1880 presidential race, Freeman campaigned for former President Grant, who was seeking an unprecedented third term.  In March 1882, Freeman delivered a speech before the National Republican League opposing a pardon for William Mason, a guard who had attempted to kill Charles Guiteau, the assassin of President James Garfield.  After his term as Assistant Attorney General had ended in 1885, Freeman formed a Washington-based law partnership with ex-Congressman Hernando Money.

New Mexico

In 1890, Congress created a fifth judicial district in the New Mexico Territory.  The district covered Socorro, Lincoln, Chaves, and Eddy counties.  President Benjamin Harrison appointed Freeman to the new judgeship in October 1890, after former Speaker of the House Thomas B. Reed turned it down.  Along with Freeman, the fifth district court included his son-in-law John W. Garner as clerk, Albert Jennings Fountain (who had defended Billy the Kid) as district attorney, and former congressional delegate Trinidad Romero as U.S. Marshal.

New Mexico's district judges were also members of the territorial appeals court, and one of the first (and most important) cases Freeman decided was an appeal involving the Shalam Colony, a religious colony that had been established in 1884.  One of the colonists, Jessie Ellis, had sued the colony in 1887, alleging its founders had abandoned the colony's original ideals.  A district court had ruled in favor of Ellis and awarded him monetary damages.  Freeman reversed the decision, however, and blasted the district court ruling in such mocking fashion that President Harrison was rumored to have considered removing him from the bench.  Freeman's opinion in the Shalam case has been cited in cases involving breach of religious doctrine.

During the 1890s, Freeman and deputy U.S. marshal Dee Harkey used the 1882 Edmunds Act (which outlawed polygamy) to end prostitution in the town of Eddy (modern Carlsbad). This brought death threats from a local crime syndicate, but by the Summer of 1895, most of the town's prostitutes and saloon owners had moved to the Arizona Territory.

After his term ended in early 1895, Freeman briefly formed a law partnership with former lawman Elfego Baca, Freeman having previously granted Baca a law license. Freeman later established a practice with his son-in-law, James O. Cameron (who had married his daughter, Beatrix).  In 1898, he was part of the defense team that won an acquittal for Eddy County sheriff David L. Kemp, who had been charged with murder. In 1900, he was elected President of the New Mexico Bar.

Later life

In late 1907, Freeman and his family moved to British Columbia, where he and his son-in-law, James O. Cameron, established a lumber company.  He spent his later years working as vice president of this company.  He died in Victoria on March 27, 1926.  Freeman and his family are interred in Victoria's Royal Oak Burial Park.

A house Freeman once owned at 1261 Richardson Street in Victoria is listed on the Canadian Register of Historic Places.

References

1838 births
1926 deaths
People from Haywood County, Tennessee
Republican Party members of the Tennessee House of Representatives
Southern Unionists in the American Civil War
People of the American Old West
American consuls
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New Mexico Territory judges
American emigrants to Canada


title: Fury on Wheels

text:
Fury on Wheels, also known as Jump, is a 1971 American car racing film.

Racing sequences were filmed at the now defunct Golden Gate Speedway in Tampa, Florida. Many local drivers can be seen.

Cast
Tom Ligon - Chester Jump
Logan Ramsey - Babe Duggers
Collin Wilcox - April Mae
Norman Rose - Dutchman
Lada Edmund Jr. - Enid
Sudie Bond - Ernestine Jump
Conrad Bain - Lester Jump
Bette Craig - Beulah
Vicky Lynn - Mercy Jump
Jack Nance - Ace

References

External links

1971 films
Films shot in Florida
Golan-Globus films
1970s English-language films


title: 36th Manitoba Legislature

text:
The members of the 36th Manitoba Legislature were elected in the Manitoba general election held in April 1995. The legislature sat from May 23, 1995, to August 17, 1999.

The Progressive Conservative Party led by Gary Filmon formed the government.

Gary Doer of the New Democratic Party was Leader of the Opposition.

Louise Dacquay served as speaker for the assembly.

There were five sessions of the 36th Legislature:

Yvon Dumont was Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba until March 2, 1999, when Peter Liba became lieutenant governor.

Members of the Assembly
The following members were elected to the assembly in 1995:

Notes:

By-elections
By-elections were held to replace members for various reasons:

Notes:

References

Terms of the Manitoba Legislature
1995 establishments in Manitoba
1999 disestablishments in Manitoba


title: Hans Stormoen

text:
Hans Stormoen (29 May 19064 April 1979) was a Norwegian actor.

Family
Stormoen was born in Bergen, the son of the farmers Marius Stormoen and Synnøve Henriksen. He was the half-brother of the actor Harald Stormoen and the uncle of the actor Kjell Stormoen. He was first married to the actress Regina "Vesla" Stenersen, and then to the actress Lill Egede-Nissen from 1943 to 1950. He was the father of the musician and philologist Hans Marius Stormoen.

Career
Stormoen made his stage debut at the National Theater in Bergen in 1934, and his breakthrough came in 1935, as Vingrisen in Nordahl Grieg's play Vår ære og vår makt. He performed at the National Theater until it was damaged in a bombing raid in June 1940. Later in World War II he joined the Norwegian Armed Forces in exile in the United Kingdom. From 1945 to 1948 he played for the Trøndelag Theater. From 1949 onward he toured with the National Traveling Theater, eventually also as a stage director for many years. He also appeared in several Norwegian films.

References

1906 births
1979 deaths
Male actors from Bergen
Norwegian male stage actors
Norwegian male film actors
Norwegian resistance members
Norwegian Army personnel of World War II
20th-century Norwegian male actors


title: Mary Ruth Ray

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Mary Ruth Ray (1956–2013) was an internationally known classical musician who received critical acclaim throughout the United States, Europe and Russia.

Career

Ray was a faculty member at Brandeis University where she taught viola and chamber music from 1980 to 2013. She was appointed Chair of the Music Department at Brandeis in 2005 and held that position for eight years.

As co-founder and violist of the Lydian String Quartet she was awarded prizes at competitions in France, England and Canada, and was a 1984 winner of the Naumburg Award for Excellence in Chamber Music. During her 33-year career she performed at such world-class venues as Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center and the Library of Congress.

She performed as guest artist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Fromm Series at Harvard University, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, the Bard Music Festival, Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music, Boston Musica Viva, Juneau Jazz and Classics, and was invited to present a featured concert/demonstration of the Bach Cello Suites for the 13th International Viola Congress.

As a member and soloist with Emmanuel Music in Boston, she performed the complete cycle of over two hundred sacred cantatas by J.S. Bach as well as chamber music of Debussy, Brahms, Schubert, Schumann, and John Harbison on its acclaimed "encyclopedic exploration of great composers" series.

Ray was a recording artist with CRI, Nonesuch, Centaur, Harmonia Mundi, New World, and Tzadik Records. Several of her 30-plus recordings with the Lydian String Quartet were chosen "Best of the Year" by The New York Times.

Ray also played on the motion picture soundtrack recording of Saving Private Ryan (composed and conducted by John Williams), and appeared on screen as violist-performer in the movie Yes, Giorgio (starring Luciano Pavarotti, with the Boston Pops Orchestra).

Personal life
Ray was a graduate of the State University of New York at Purchase. She was known to friends and colleagues as "Violet," "Vi" and "U.V." She married violist Leonard Matczynski in 1978 and had a son.

Death
She died from breast cancer at age 56 on January 29, 2013.

References

External links

1956 births
2013 deaths
American classical musicians
American classical violists
American women violists
Brandeis University faculty
Deaths from breast cancer
State University of New York at Purchase alumni
Women in classical music
20th-century classical musicians


title: Ivanovic–Janković rivalry

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Serbian tennis players Ana Ivanovic and Jelena Janković are both former world No. 1 and met 12 times. Their overall head-to-head series is 9–3, in Ivanovic's favor. Janković is two years older than Ivanovic. They are the first female players to achieve major successes for independent Serbia.

Head-to-head

Ivanovic–Janković (9–3)

Breakdown of the rivalry
Hard courts: Ivanovic, 5–2
Clay courts: Ivanovic, 3–1
Grass courts: None
Carpet: Ivanovic, 1–0
Grand Slam matches: Ivanovic, 2–0
Grand Slam finals: None
Year-End Championships matches: Jankovic, 1–0
Year-End Championships finals: None
Fed Cup matches: None (Both players are representing Serbia)
Matches won after saving match points: Ivanovic, 1–0
All finals: None

History of matches

Ivanovic and Janković have played each other 12 times with Ivanovic having the advantage 9 to 3 in match wins. The pair played their first match against each other in an abandoned swimming pool used as a tennis court in Belgrade. A 9-year old Janković won the match, beating the 7-year old Ivanovic 7–1. When asked why Ivanovic has posed such a problem for herself, Janković remarked that she struggles to read Ivanovic's game mostly due to the fact Ivanovic likes to play short points. Ivanovic leads 2–1 on clay, 6–2 on hard courts and 1–0 on carpet courts.

2005–2006: A little matches

In 2005 Ivanovic had her Grand Slam debut, and in her third appearance (in French Open) she reached her first slam quarterfinal. From the other side, two years older Jankovic had a little more experience at the moment and reached semifinal of the US Open in 2006. Also Ivanovic captured her first title and then second, which category is Tier I (now Premier Mandatory). Jankovic won her first title in 2004, but in 2005 and 2006 she didn't win any title, although she played four finals.
In this period, when both players were rising stars, they met just two times with one victory for all. First match was in third round of Zurich in 2005, when 17-year-old Ivanovic trashed Jankovic with 6–2, 6–1 victory for place in quarterfinal. Match was finished in just 51 minutes. But in 2006 Los Angeles quarterfinal clash, Jankovic was winner with straight sets win, 6–4, 7–6, in an hour and 30 minutes battle. Although they should play their third match in Montreal, just a week later after Los Angeles, Ivanovic got walkover from Jankovic and then went on to win the title.

2007–2008: Most matches

This two years were the best years of their careers. Both players were ranked No. 1 in 2008 and also they had their best grand slam results, with Ivanovic winning Roland Garros trophy, after reaching first two Grand Slam finals previously and Jankovic who got into her first Grand Slam final in New York and also reached 3 semi-finals previously. So, normally in this period they had most clashes. Total matches that they played then is 6, with three meetings in 2007 and another three in 2008.
Ivanovic won first five matches of this six, although three of them gone into the third set. First match was in quarterfinal of Tokyo when Ivanovic triumphed after losing first set, 3–6, 6–4, 6–2. In 2006 Ivanovic won just one match after losing first set, but now won two back-to-back matches in that way, doing the same in previous round. Jankovic gave a big battle comparing to semifinal match against then World No. 1 Maria Sharapova, when Sharapova retried against Ivanovic, but after a first set blowout, 6–1. Next match was on Amelia Island, again quarterfinal, when Ivanovic won in two sets, 7–5, 6–3. But this match was just 15 minutes shorter than previous match in Tokyo, which was in three sets. Duration of this match shows that it was a big battle, although it were two sets. They met then for a second time in Los Angeles, after last year quarterfinal clash which Jankovic won. Ivanovic won, but now in three sets – 4–6, 6–3, 7–5. This was the longest match contested between the two. In a match lasting two and a half hours, Ivanovic recovered from a 4–1 third set deficit, saving two match points en route, to defeat Janković on her way to the title. It was their last match of 2007.

In 2008, their first match was in semifinals of Indian Wells. Ivanovic continued winning in their matches, with a straight set victory, 7–6, 6–3. The most significant match between the pair took place in the semi-finals of the French Open, with the winner having assured of becoming World No. 1 and with both women bidding to win their first Grand Slam title. Ivanovic won the match, recovering from a 3–1 final set deficit and also 4–3 deficit when Jankovic broke, to defeat Jankovic for the fifth consecutive time, 6–4, 3–6, 6–4. Ivanovic then won Roland Garros trophy. Jankovic's win at the 2008 WTA Tour Championships in Doha later that year snapped a 5 match losing streak against her compatriot. Their head-to-head record was then 6–2, in Ivanovic's favor.

2009–2011: Least matches

After successful years, both players had decline in form. They had some good results, but they were not as constant as it was earlier. Ivanovic fall out of top 20 in 2009. Jankovic was on top, but not as good as in 2008. She reached one semifinal of Grand Slam but without beating top players. On other grand slams her best result was fourth round. So, followed with their results, especially Ivanovic's, they couldn't meet for a long time. In 2009 Ivanovic and Jankovic didn't meet anytime. But, after more than a year, they met again in second round of 2010 Mutua Madrilena Madrid Open. The situation was interesting, because Ivanovic was the first wildcard in WTA history to receive a bye in the first round as she had reached semifinals of Rome previous week. Jankovic did the same and they were drawn to play against each other automatically in the second round. Jankovic won for a second straight time with a three sets victory, 4–6, 6–4, 6–1, although Ivanovic had a set advantage and a break in second set. This was the lowest round, and still is, where Ivanovic and Jankovic played against each other. In 2011, they met for the second time in Indian Wells and Ivanovic won 6–4, 6–2 and got into quarterfinals. This was the first win for Ivanovic in their matches since 2008 Roland Garros semifinal.

2013–2016

Although they didn't met in 2012, at the start of the 2013 they met at Australian Open. Ivanovic won match 7–5, 6–3. A little later in that year, Jankovic suddenly got back to top 10, after being ranked out of top 20 at start of the year. Ivanovic had a slower return to top, but improves in 2014 caused back to top 10 for the first time since 2009. This improve of both caused the meeting in semifinal for the first time since 2008. It was in 2014 Stuttgart, when Ivanovic won 6–3, 7–5 and improved to 9–3 in head-to-head. The rivalry ended in 2016, as the two went out of top 50. With Ivanovic retired from tennis in late 2016, Jankovic became the Serbian no. 1 female tennis player.

Relationship
The relationship between pair has been strained. Both have openly admitted in the past to not liking each other and have been involved in a number of high-profile spats on and off court.

Ivanovic was criticized both by Janković and her mother after Ivanovic decided to withdraw from Serbia's Fed Cup World Group play-off tie against Slovakia, citing her poor form in 2010 which left Jankovic the only high-profile player to play the tie which Serbia lost 3–2. During the same weekend, Ivanovic was photographed having coffee with her then-boyfriend Adam Scott at the island resort of Palma, Majorca. Snezana Jankovic denounced Ivanovic in the Serbian press

Another high profile controversy was after the pair's first meeting in two years in the second round of the 2010 Mutua Madrilena Madrid Open in Madrid where the match was marred however by an incident in where off court cameras appeared to catch Janković mocking Ivanovic's trademark fistpumps towards her mother and camp after the match. Jankovic admitted she found Ivanovic's fistpumps "irritating" and but that it was not meant to be offensive and was in the heat of the moment.

After their match in Indian Wells in 2011 however, Ivanovic stated she felt there were no real issues with Janković and both agreed that they have both put the past behind them, an opinion echoed again by Jankovic after their Australian Open encounter in 2013.

Grand Slam performance timeline comparison

Grand Slam tournaments

 Bold = players met during this tournament

By Year

2004–2009

2010–2016

Combined singles performance timeline (best result)
This table contains best result of either Jankovic or Ivanovic at Grand Slams.

Grand slams where both players reached at least quarterfinal are in bold font.
Grand slams where both players met each other are in italic font.

Year-end WTA ranking timeline

References

Tennis rivalries


title: 2014 Racquetball World Championships – Men's doubles

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The International Racquetball Federation's 17th Racquetball World Championships were held in Burlington, Ontario, Canada, from June 14 to 21, 2014. This was the second time Worlds were in Canada. Previously, they were in Montreal in 1992.

The men's doubles final was between two surprise finalists, as neither the #1 seeded USA team of Ben Croft and Tom Fuhrmann nor #2 seeds Mexicans Álvaro Beltrán and Edson Martinez made the final. In fact, the Mexicans didn't even make the podium.

Instead, Colombians Sebastian Franco and Alejandro Herrera defeated Canadians Mike Green and Vincent Gagnon in the final, 15–11, 15–5, which was the first Men's doubles World Championship not won by either the USA or Mexico. The Canadians had defeated the Colombians in two straight games in the round robin stage of play, but Colombia was able to reverse that result in the final.

Franco and Herrera defeated Beltran and Martinez in the quarter-finals, denying the Mexicans a place on the podium, and then beat Bolivians Conrrado Moscoso and Mario Mercado in the semi-finals. Green and Gagnon beat Americans Croft and Fuhrmann in the other semi-final. Croft won gold in Men's doubles (with Mitch Williams) at his previous appearance at Worlds in 2010.

Tournament format
The 2014 World Championships was the first competition with an initial round robin stage that was used to seed players for an elimination qualification round. Previously, players were seeded into an elimination round based on how their countries had done at previous World Championships, and then a second team competition was also played.

Round robin

Pool A
Source

Pool B

Pool C

Pool D

Pool E

Elimination round
Source

References

Men's Doubles


title: Lorenzo Mendoza Fleury Science Prize

text:
The Lorenzo Mendoza Fleury Science Prize, also known as the "Premio Fundación Empresas Polar" is the most important award offered by the private sector to contemporary scientists from Venezuela who have shown outstanding talent, creativity and productivity during a given period.

History
The prize was created in 1982 by "Fundación Empresas Polar" and is named after the founder of Empresas Polar, a Venezuelan corporation owning one of the largest breweries in the country but whose operations also include an array of industries, mostly related to food processing and packaging. The award was established as part of the Corporate social responsibility of the group. Every two years since 1983 the prize has been systematically awarded to Venezuelan scientists in the fields of Biology, Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry and their interdisciplines. For each biennial edition, the Board of Directors of Empresas Polar Foundation appoints a Selection Committee composed of seven scientists having extensive academic experience in their respective research fields. This committee then propose candidates, evaluate nominees, select winners, and write and submit the verdict to the Board of Polar Foundation. The selection process evaluates the talent, creativity and productivity of each candidate in their respective specialties. Besides giving public recognition to the awardees, the prize also includes a diploma and a freely spendable amount of cash to each one of them.

Award statistics
Since the prize started its first edition in 1983, there have been 90 awardees, including 15 women, with the following specialties: Biology:32, Physics:21, Mathematics:18 and Chemistry:18.
Awardees have been members of the following institutions:
 Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC): 31
 Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV): 18
 Universidad de Los Andes (ULA): 17
 Universidad Simón Bolívar (USB): 13
 Centro de Investigaciones de Astronomia (CIDA): 4
 Universidad de Oriente (UDO): 2
 Universidad de Carabobo (UC): 1
IBM: 1
Intevep: 1
Universidad del Zulia (LUZ): 1
Instituto de Estudios Avanzados (IDEA): 1

Award recipients
The list of scientists who have received the prize is shown below:
I. 1983
 José Luis Ávila Bello
 Reinaldo Di Polo
 Carlos Di Prisco
 Heinz Krentzien
 Miguel Octavio
II. 1985
Miguel Alonso
Rodrigo Arocena
Luis Herrera Cometta
Klaus Jaffé
Ernesto Medina
III. 1987
Gustavo Bruzual
Núria Calvet Cuni
Carlos Caputo
Gerardo Mendoza
Gustavo Ponce
IV. 1989
Rafael Apitz
Julio Fernández
Claudio Mendoza
Manuel Rieber
Roberto Sánchez Delgado
V. 1991
Anamaría Font Villarroel
Narahari Joshi
Leonardo Mateu
Raúl Padrón
Carlos Schubert
VI. 1993
Miguel Méndez
Ernesto Medina D.
Leonardo Enrique Mora
Fernando Ruette
Benjamín Scharifker
VII. 1995
Luigi Cubeddu
Luis Hernández
Ferdinand Liprandi
Alejandro Müller
Hebertt Sira
VIII. 1997
José Rafael León R.
Carlos G. Rincón Ch.
Egidio L. Romano R.
Antonio R. Tineo Bello
Julio A. Urbina R.
IX. 1999
Luis Báez Duarte
Wilmer Olivares Rivas
Álvaro Restuccia Núñez
Bernardo Rodríguez Iturbe
Víctor Villalba Rojas
X. 2001
Anwar Hasmy
Hugo Leiva
Jesús A. León
Vladimiro Mujica
Irene Pérez Schael
XI. 2003
Sócrates Acevedo
Yosslen Aray
Jesús González
José Rafael López Padrino
Lázaro Recht
XII. Year 2005.
Manuel Bautista, physics
Pedro Berrizbeitia, mathematics
José Bubis, biology
José Luis Paz, chemist
Félix J. Tapia, biology
XIII. Year 2007.
Carlos Uzcátegui, mathematics
María Antonieta Sobrado, biology
Alejandra Melfo, physics
Gustavo Benaím, biology
Juan Anacona, chemistry
 XIV. Year 2009.
Mireya Rincón de Goldwasser, chemistry
Stefania Marcantognini, mathematics
 Flor Hélène Pujol, biology
Anna Katherina Vivas Maldonado, astrophysics
 Juan B. De Sanctis, biochemistry
XV. Year 2011.
Carenne Ludeña Cronick, mathematics
César Briceño Ávila, physics
César Lodeiros Seijo, biology
Joaquín Brito Gonzálvez, chemistry
Luis Rincón Hernández, chemistry
XVI. Year 2013.
Trino Baptista, biology
Ismardo Bonalde, physics
Jimmy Castillo, chemistry
Jon Paul Rodríguez, biology
Víctor Sirvent, mathematics
XVII. Year 2015.
Mario Cosenza (physics, ULA),
Liliana López (chemistry, UCV),
Patricia Miloslavich (biology, USB),
Ramón Pino (mathematics, ULA)
Fermín Rada (biology, ULA)
XVIII. Year 2017.
Rafael Almeida (chemistry, ULA),
Gloria Buendía (physics, USB),
Yamilet Quintana (mathematics, USB)
Pedro Rada (biology, ULA)
Wilmer Tezara (biology, UCV)
XVIII. Year 2019.
María Eugenia Grillet
Henryk Gzyl
Jafet Nassar
Alberto Paniz Mondolfi

References

Venezuelan science and technology awards
Awards established in 1982
1982 establishments in Venezuela


title: Pavillon Noir

text:
The Pavillon Noir is a choreographic center in Aix-en-Provence, France.

Location
The Pavillon Noir is located at 530 avenue Mozart in Aix-en-Provence. It is near the Bibliothèque Méjanes.

History
The building was designed by Algerian-born French architect Rudy Ricciotti. Its construction began in 2004 and it was completed in 2006. It is made of steel and concrete. According to its officially website, it has "four rehearsal studios and one performance hall with 378 seats."

It was built especially to be the main rehearsal and performance center of the Ballet Preljocaj, a dance company choreographed by Angelin Preljocaj.

References

Buildings and structures in Aix-en-Provence
Sports venues completed in 2006
Rudy Ricciotti buildings
2006 establishments in France
21st-century architecture in France


title: Fontana del Carciofo, Naples

text:
The Fontana del Carciofo or Fountain of the Artichoke is a monumental public fountain in central Naples, located in Piazza Trieste e Trento, just adjacent to the Piazza del Plebiscito. In the 1950s, plans were made to move the historic  Fountain of Monteoliveto depicting the Spanish King to this site. However opposition to the move by the Consiglio Superiore delle Belle Arti, led the city to install this modern fountain featuring a vegetable instead and it was inaugurated in 1956. The area is maintained by the adjacent Caffe Gambrinus. The Church of San Ferdinando faces the piazza.

References

Carciofo, Naples


title: Stoke Place

text:
Stoke Place is a country house in Stoke Poges in Buckinghamshire.

Patrick Lamb

Patrick Lamb built Stoke Place in 1690. For about 50 years he was Master Cook to several monarchs, including King Charles II, King James II, King William, Queen Mary and Queen Anne.

He was born in 1650 in the parish of St Martin-in-the-Fields in London. His father was Patrick Lamb (1613–1683), the sole merchant of wine, spirits and tobacco in the Whitehall area. His mother was Martha Russell.

Lamb started his career at an early age as pastry assistant and rose rapidly in the kitchen hierarchy. He became very prosperous and wrote a well-known, still extant book, Royal Cookery, whose front page is shown. In 1685 he prepared King James II's Coronation Feast, which was described in detail by Francis Sandiford in his book. The King was so pleased with his work that he gave him a large number of gold coins.

After Patrick had built Stoke Place in 1690, he continued to work as Master Cook for Queen Anne. When he died in 1708, the property appears to have been inherited by his son, William Lamb. In 1764 Field Marshal Sir George Howard bought the estate, which became his family's home for 200 years.

The Howard family
Field Marshal Sir George Howard lived at Stoke Place from 1764 until 1796. He was born in 1718 into a military family.  His father was Lieutenant General Thomas Howard. He had a very distinguished military career and in 1763 was appointed Colonel of the 7th (the Queens Own) Regiment of Dragoons. The following year he bought Stoke Place. Howard commissioned Stiff Leadbetter to add two wings to the house over the next few years. Capability Brown the famous landscape architect, recorded in his account book that from 1765 until 1767 he constructed a lake with islands for which he charged 800 pounds.

In 1747 he married Lady Lucy Wentworth and had one daughter Ann Howard. Unfortunately his wife died in 1771 and he married Elizabeth Beckford. While he lived at Stoke Place the King and Queen made numerous visits to the house which were reported in the newspapers of that time. In 1780 his daughter Ann married General Richard Vyse and the couple had one daughter Georgiana and one son Richard William Howard Vyse. Sadly Ann died while giving birth to this child in 1784. Subsequent generations adopted the surname Howard-Vyse. When Sir George Howard died in 1796 he left Stoke Place to this grandson. Richard William Howard Vyse (1784-1853) was only 12 when his grandfather died so his inheritance was placed in trust until he came of age. In 1812 he took the additional name of Howard so that his and his heirs from then on had the surname of Howard-Vyse. When he died in 1853 Richard Henry Howard-Vyse (1813-1872) inherited the property. After his death Howard Henry Howard-Vyse (1858-1927) his eldest son became the owner. Following Howard Henry Howard-Vyse's death in 1927, his eldest son Richard Granville Hylton Howard-Vyse inherited the house.

Richard Granville Hylton Howard-Vyse was born in 1883. He was educated at Eton and gained a post in the Royal Horse Guards in 1902. He was rapidly promoted and in the First World War he led several important battles. After the war he was awarded the D.S.O and the C.M.G.

Richard and his wife lived at Stoke Place until his death in 1962. After this it was sold to South Bucks District Council. It operated as a hotel and conference centre, under lease from the Council and under the management of Novtej and Sarina Dhillon until January 2016 when it was acquired by Cairn Hotel Group.

Gallery

References

External links

Stoke Place Hotel website

Country houses in Buckinghamshire
Gardens by Capability Brown