title: Mugaku Sogen

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, also known as Bukko Kokushi (1226 – 1286) was a prominent Zen Buddhist monk of the 13th century in Japan, an emigre from Song dynasty China. He was adviser to Japan's most powerful ruler of the day, the regent of the shōgun (Shikken) Hōjō Tokimune (as opposed to an Imperial Regent). He founded the Zen temple Engaku-ji in Kamakura, one of Japan's five most important Zen temples.

Early life and priesthood
Mugaku Sogen was born in 1226 in Southern Song (during the Song dynasty; 1127–1279) and became a priest at age 11. He entered the priesthood at Ching-tz'u-ssu temple when he was just 13 years old, and soon afterward, in 1239, he visited Wu-chun Shih-fan, under whom he studied the Zen teachings. In order to further his studies of Zen, he met with many different teachers. In 1279, he was invited to spread Zen in Japan by Hojo Tokimune, the eighth regent of the Kamakura Shogunate. Once in Japan, he lived at Kenchō-ji temple in Kamakura with Tokimune’s support. In 1282, when Hōjō Tokimune built Engaku-ji temple in Kamakura, he invited Sogen to be the founding priest. Two years later, Sogen returned to Kenchō-ji temple where he died. He exerted great spiritual influence on the leaders and warriors of Kamakura.

Yuan Attack
In 1275, Yuan soldiers attacked the temple where Sogen stayed. As the attack progressed, the priests present at the temple fled to safety. Sogen, however, chose to stay behind. According to legend, Sogen sat quietly on the floor in front of the temples main Buddha statue. As one of the Yuan soldiers unsheathed his sword to kill Sogen, Sogen recited a Buddhist precept.

"I did a comprehensive study to seek the real universe, and finally got the answer. That is to say, all is vanity. People are vanity, and even Buddha’s teachings are vanity. Now, I am spiritually awakened, and so, even if you want to kill me with your huge sword, I don’t mind. I already know that I am vanity. This means when you swing your sword, you will just cut through a spring wind."

The soldier could not bring himself to kill Sogen, and expressed his respect for him, then turned and left Sogen in peace.

As advisor to Hōjō Tokimune
Faced with the strong possibility of war with the invasion on the Yuan dynasty, Hōjō Tokimune seized rule as the main decision maker of the then ruling Kamakura shogunate. He became responsible for leading the resistance to the Mongol invaders. He built an army with the support of other samurai, regulated internal conditions under his military control, and formed stone bulwarks to keep out the enemy. Despite the painstaking preparations Tokimune had in place, he found himself mentally and spiritually unaligned. At that time, he was already under the spiritual guidance of Mugaku Sogen.

Tokimune asked Mugaku Sogen, his Zen master also known as Bukko, for advice. Bukko replied he had to sit in meditation to find the source of his cowardice in himself. When Tokimune returned from meditation, Bukko said to him: "Finally there is the greatest event of my life." and asked, "How do you plan to face it?" Tokimune shouted "Katsu!" ("Victory!") as if he wanted to scare all the enemies in front of him. Mugaku responded with satisfaction: "It is true that the son of a lion roars as a lion!"

Later before the second Mongol invasion Tokimune invited him to Kencho-ji Temple from across the sea in 1279, and then often visited him at Kencho-ji. One day during their ongoing conversations, Mugaku Shogen took up his pen and wrote one word for Tokimune: Baku-bon-no (莫煩悩). His meaning and nuance was: "After you finish preparing for something (the battle), don't worry too much. Over-thinking will only make you crazy. It won't help you at all. Your agony is produced by your own mind."

Receiving these words, Tokimune felt ready to face his enemy. He later went on to lead the Japanese to victory.

Founding of Engaku-Ji Temple
After Tokimune successfully repelled a Mongolian-Korean invasion from 1274 to 1281, He commissioned a temple to be built. As a strong follower of the teachings of Zen, Tokimune had planned the construction of the temple to serve as a memorial for the dead from both sides of the conflict. It was to become the resting place of their souls. The temple was also intended to serve as a centre from which the influence of Zen could be spread. Tokimune wanted other samurai to learn how to employ the teachings of Zen Buddhism to face their problems, as he had learned through Sogen. And so, he appointed Mugaku Sogen chief priest of Engaku-ji.

References

External links

Engaku-ji home page

Japanese monks
Chinese emigrants to Japan
People from Ningbo
1226 births
1286 deaths
Founders of Buddhist sects
Kamakura period Buddhist clergy


title: Shangrin

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Shangrin is a village in Doru Shahabad tehsil in Anantnag district in the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. It is one of 62 villages in Doru Shahabad block, along with villages like Gund Now Roze and Chakpath.

Demographics

Kashmiri is the local language here. People also speak Urdu and Hindi.

References

Villages in Anantnag district


title: Hervás (surname)

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Hervás is a Spanish surname. Notable people with the surname include:

 Francisco Hervás  (born in 1962), volleyballer
 Francisco Hervás (born 1981), swimmer
Javier Hervás (born 1989), Spanish footballer
Lorenzo Hervás y Panduro (1735–1809), Spanish Jesuit and philologist
Manu Hervás (born 1986), Spanish footballer

Spanish-language surnames


title: Jaap Leemhuis

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Jacob Pieter "Jaap" Leemhuis (4 December 1941 – 19 September 2014) was a field hockey player from the Netherlands. He competed  at the 1960 and 1964 Summer Olympics, where his team finished in ninth and seventh place, respectively. He played 61 international matches before retiring in 1964. After that he worked for Shell, mostly outside the Netherlands. He was the chair of Haren en Snaren, an organization that helps young classical musicians from Eastern Europe.

References

External links

1941 births
2014 deaths
Dutch male field hockey players
Field hockey players at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Field hockey players at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Olympic field hockey players for the Netherlands
People from De Bilt
Field hockey players from Utrecht (province)
20th-century Dutch people


title: Lakhtar State

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During the British Raj period, Lakhtar State, in the present-day Indian state of Gujarat, was a non-salute princely state and was governed by members of a Jhala rajput dynasty.

Lakhtar state was founded in 1604. The rulers ruled with the title of Thakur Sahib.

Ruler
 1 Thakur Abhaisinhji Chandrasinhji 1604 – 1639
 2 Thakur Vajirajji Abhaisinhji 1639 – 1665
 3 Thakur Sahib Sheshmalji Vajerajji 1665 – 1696
 4 Thakur Sahib Gopalsinhji Sheshmalji 1696 – 1714
 5 Thakur Sahib Karansinhji I Gopalsinhji 1714 – 1741
 6 Thakur Sahib Abherajji Karansinhji 1741 – 1769
 7 Thakur Sahib Raydhanji Abherajji 1769 – 1798
 8 Thakur Sahib Sangramji Raydhanji 1798 (Abdicated)
 9 Thakur Sahib Chandrasinhji Raydhanji (Brother) 1798 – 1803
 10 Thakur Sahib Prithirajji Chandrasinhji 1803 – 1835
 11 Thakur Sahib Vajirajji II Prithirajji 1835 – 12 June 1846
 12 June 1846 – 8 August 1924  Karansinhji II Vajirajji (1846 – 1924)
 13 8 August 1924 – 2 July 1940  Balvirsinhji Karansinhji
 14 2 July 1940 – 15 Aug 1947  Indrasinhji Balvirsinhji (1907 – 1990s)

References

Princely states of Gujarat
1604 establishments in India
Taluka of Surendranagar


title: Danforth Township

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Danforth Township may refer to the following townships in the United States:

 Danforth Township, Iroquois County, Illinois
 Danforth Township, Pine County, Minnesota


title: Frédéric Nsabiyumva

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Frédéric Nsabiyumva (born 26 April 1995) is a Burundian footballer who plays as a defender for Västerås in Sweden and for the Burundi national football team.

International career
He was invited by Lofty Naseem, the national team coach, to represent Burundi in the 2014 African Nations Championship held in South Africa.

Career statistics

International

Statistics accurate as of 30 October 2022

References

1995 births
Living people
Burundian men's footballers
Burundi men's international footballers
2014 African Nations Championship players
Jomo Cosmos F.C. players
Chippa United F.C. players
Västerås SK Fotboll players
Men's association football defenders
Burundi men's A' international footballers
2019 Africa Cup of Nations players
Burundian expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's soccer players in South Africa
Burundian expatriate sportspeople in South Africa
Expatriate men's footballers in Sweden
Burundian expatriate sportspeople in Sweden
South African Premier Division players
National First Division players
Superettan players


title: Yussuf Ndikumana

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Yussuf Lule Ndikumana (born 1 July 1993) is a Burundian professional footballer who plays as a defender for LLB Académic FC in the Burundi Football League.

International career
He was invited by Lofty Naseem, the national team coach, to represent Burundi in the 2014 African Nations Championship held in South Africa.

References

External links

Living people
1993 births
Burundi men's A' international footballers
2014 African Nations Championship players
Burundian men's footballers
Burundian Muslims
Men's association football defenders
Burundi men's international footballers


title: Moein Al Bastaki

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Moein Al Bastaki (; born 29 August 1980) is an Emirati television presenter and magician. Hailing from Dubai, Al Bastaki is best known for his street magic, large illusions, mentalism and performing close up magic for international and Arabic celebrities. He is currently signed with WWE where he hosts WWE Wal3ooha.

Early life
Moein Al Bastaki was born and raised in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. He is the eldest of four siblings. His love of magic began at a very young age. His grandfather, a trader, would return from trips overseas with magic tricks that he had learned. The first trick that Al Bastaki ever witnessed involved the disappearing and reappearing of a coin, which fascinated Al Bastaki and embedded a passion for the art of magic in a six-year-old child. He first performed aged 9 in a magic show that he prepared for his family. The show was not very successful, and his tricks were not well received, but his uncle paid him 5 UAE dirhams as a reward for his performance.
Al Bastaki’s father, Mohammed Al Bastaki, was the owner of a video rental shop, and as a young child, Al Bastaki became fascinated with the David Copperfield Show (1986). As his love for magic grew, he began studying the work of other internationally renowned magicians, and developing his own Arab inspired magic tricks. Al Bastaki’s biggest inspiration is Derren Brown, who triggered a passion for mentalism.

Education

Moein Al Bastaki graduated from Al Imam Malik school in 1998. He then attended Dubai University College where he graduated, with a bachelor's degree in Business, in 2004. Having been deprived of an education himself, Al Bastaki’s father disagreed with Al Bastaki’s choice of career, and insisted that his son focus on education instead, so Al Bastaki continued with his studies and obtained a master's degree in marketing from the University of Wollongong in Dubai in 2008.

Magic career

Al Bastaki began his magic career in 2005 with small performances for friends and relatives. His first professional performance was in 2005 for a New Year's Eve event in Dubai. From 2005 until 2010, Al Bastaki performed close up magic and stage shows at a range of events and festivals across the UAE. He finally began performing on TV and radio, with his first appearance on Sama TV in 2010. Since then, Al Bastaki has performed publicly and appeared on a number of Arabic TV shows, most recently as a weekly guest on Men El Akher, on DMTV.  In 2015 Al Bastaki launched a new line of magic tricks products under his own brand that hit most of UAE and GCC toy shops. In 2016 Al Bastaki took his performances to the next stage using the power of the mind. He undertook a variety of never before seen tricks with a distinct middle eastern flavor.

Celebrity

Al Bastaki has performed tricks for a number of internationally recognized celebrities including John Travolta and Mike Tyson, WWE stars such as The Miz, John Cena, CM Punk and R-Truth, sports personalities such as Diego Maradona and Fabio Cannavaro. He has also performed for a number of famous Arabic celebrities including Sami Yusuf, Abdulhussain Abdulredha, Hayat El Fahad, Saad Al-Faraj, Ibrahim Al Sallal, Jasim El Nabhan, Ahmed El Sakka, Ahmed Bedair and Dawood Hussain.

TV Appearances

Al Bastaki has appeared on a number of TV stations including MBC, Al Arabiya, CNN, BBC, Abu Dhabi TV, Dubai One, Dubai Television, Dubai Sports, Rotana, Qatar TV, Orbit TV, DMTV and Future Television, and radio stations including MBC FM, Panorama FM, Saudi Radio and Dubai FM
He has appeared on the following shows:
 Pulse 95 ( Sharjah Broadcasting Authority )
 Men El Akher
 Ya Halla (Rotana)
 Saba Al Kheir Ya’Arab (MBC)
 MBC this week
 Inside the Middle East
 Al Forsah (Sama Dubai)
 Studio One (Dubai One)
 BBC World News
 Spotlight (OSN)

WWE

In 2017, Moein Al Bastaki became a TV presenter of a new weekly Arabic show WWE Wal3ooha on MBC Action. Titled WWE Wal3ooha, meaning ‘light it up’, the weekly show sees presenters Moein Al Bastaki and Nathalie Mamo delivering exclusive interviews, highlights and stories from the week’s key matches to WWE fans in the region.

Additional sources
Emirati illusionist plans to open magic school in Dubai
Tempo Planet "Magical Moein"
Time Out Dubai "Moein Al Bastaki: UAE's only magician"
Moein Al Bastaki Wows Travolta
FirstPost "Moein Al Bastaki Performing a magic trick with the WWE Superstar John Cena in Dubai & Abu Dhabi "
Magicaean World Magic News "Dubai based magician Moein Al Bastaki recently posted this encounter with private airline pilot and actor John Travolta."
Khaleej Times "Passion not an illusion"
WWE Wal3ooha will take fans to the heart of the WWE Universe - Presented by Moein Al Bastaki and Nathalie Mamo for the region, from the region
WWE and OSN announce new weekly Arabic show WWE Wal3ooha

External links
Official website

1980 births
Living people
People from Abu Dhabi
Emirati magicians
Mentalists


title: Issa Hakizimana

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Issa Hakizimana (born 28 August 1994) is a Burundian professional footballer who plays as a defender for Football League club Flambeau du Centre FC and the Burundi national team.

International career
He was invited by Lofty Naseem, the national team coach, to represent Burundi in the 2014 African Nations Championship held in South Africa.

References

1994 births
Living people
Burundian men's footballers
Men's association football defenders
Futuro Kings FC players
Burundi men's international footballers
Burundi men's A' international footballers
2014 African Nations Championship players
Burundian expatriate men's footballers
Burundian expatriates in Equatorial Guinea
Expatriate men's footballers in Equatorial Guinea


title: Sandra Lahire

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Sandra Lahire (November 19, 1950 - July 27, 2001) was a central figure in the experimental feminist filmmaking that emerged in the UK in the 1970s and 1980s.

Life and career
Lahire studied Philosophy at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (BA), Fine Art Film at St Martin's School of Art, London, (1984) and Film & Environmental Media at the Royal College of Art, London (MA 1986). It was at St Martin's that she entered the world of independent film, working with artists including Malcolm Le Grice, Lis Rhodes, Tina Keane, Vera Neubauer and studying alongside the film-maker Isaac Julien.

Her poetic short films were made in the context of the London Film-Makers’ Cooperative which “developed a new form of mixed-genre film-making [….] which marked a new stage in experimental film in Britain”, according to Jacqueline Rose. Of this generation Rose has described Lahire as “one of the most gifted, innovative and bold experimental film-makers”.

Her first film, "Arrows", 1984, was a meditation on anorexia, a subject that threaded throughout her work. In 1986 she made ‘’Terminals’’, ‘’Edge’’, and ‘’Plutonium Blonde’’. In 1987, working with film-makers Jean Matthee and Anna Thew, Lahire made ‘’Uranium Hex’’. ‘’Serpent River’’,1989, explored the toxic effects of a uranium mining corporation, owned by Rio Tinto Zinc, on the residents and inhabitants of Serpent River and Elliot Lake in Ontario, Canada.   In 1991 she made ‘’Lady Lazarus’’, the first part of a trilogy ‘’Living on Air’’, which was inspired by the poetry of Sylvia Plath and which she made across the span of nine years. The film incorporated an interview with Plath given just before she died. The lead of ‘’Living on Air’’ was played by fellow film-maker Sarah Turner. ‘’Eerie’’ followed in 1992. The second part of the Plath trilogy, ‘’Night Dances’’, 1995, presented Hebrew inscriptions on worn gravestones and allusions to Yom Kippur through which Lahire explored Jewish aspects of her identity. ‘’Persephone’’ and ‘’Knife Born’’ were made in 1997-98, with the final of the Plath trilogy, ‘’Johnny Panic’’, appearing in 1999.

Marina Grzinic has noted Lahire's “profound filmic commentary on anorexia. The body, always that body that is coming near the image of a spectre, that is connected solely with 'air and bones' while minimizing the flesh to zero, is also the primal element she uses to establish her relationship with her surroundings, particularly with a landscape destroyed by pollution or nuclear waste.” Grzinic also underscores the centrality of light and sound in her works, with which  “she recreated emotional situations and connections between personal obsession(s) and social structures.”

An essay by Lahire, Lesbians in Media Education, appeared in the anthology Visibly Female: Feminism and Art, edited by Hilary Robinson in 1998. She also wrote an essay for Coil Magazine 'The Fairies Banquet', 1999, on Sarah Pucill's film Swollen Stigma (1998) who was her fellow filmmaker and partner at the time. For Make Magazine Issue 7, which was a special issue on the Miniature 1999, she wrote an essay, 'Little Deaths', on her film Johnny Panic (1999) and Sarah Pucill's film Cast (1999).

Reflections on Lahire and her work by film-makers Sarah Pucill (who was her partner in the last 6 years of her life), Lis Rhodes (for whom Lahire wrote a score for her film Just About Now) and Sarah Turner appeared in Vertigo magazine in Spring 2002.

See also

 Feminist art

References

External links

British feminists
British women film directors
British experimental filmmakers
Feminist filmmakers
British Jews
Jewish feminists
Anorexia nervosa
Uranium mining
1950 births
2001 deaths
British lesbian artists
20th-century British LGBT people


title: Stefan Bałuk

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Stefan Bałuk (15 January 191429 January 2014) was a Polish general and photographer.

World War II

Born on 15 January 1914, Bałuk was a law student at the University of Warsaw at the onset of World War II.  After joining the Home Army, Bałuk fought in the Invasion of Poland, and then transferred to the 10th Motorized Cavalry Brigade.  Bałuk received parachute commando training in Glasgow before being dropped back into Poland in April 1944 as Cichociemni.  Bałuk "engaged in the production of false documents for Polish intelligence officers, made photo documentation of German military installations in Warsaw and took part in the Warsaw Uprising."  After his release from Nazi prisoner-of-war camp Oflag II-D in Großborn, Bałuk traveled to his mother's and sister's home in Praga; he found their house destroyed, but with a note saying they had fled to safety.

During his World War II service, Bałuk was promoted to the (21st-century equivalent) rank of generał brygady and awarded both the Virtuti Militari and the Armia Krajowa Cross.

Post-war
After the war, Bałuk was imprisoned by the Soviet Union from November 1945 to March 1947.  He later worked as a taxicab driver and took up photography as a hobby—publishing several photo albums.  In 2008, Bałuk published his memoirs: Byłem Cichociemnym (released in English as Silent and Unseen: I Was a WWII Special Ops Commando).  Bałuk died on 29 January 2014.

He was posthumously awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta by Polish President Bronisław Komorowski, and later buried in Powązki Military Cemetery.  In May 2023, Bałuk was one of 19 insurgents honored by Warsaw and the Warsaw Rising Museum with a tree planted in Insurgents Park in Wola.

References

External links

1914 births
2014 deaths
20th-century photographers
21st-century photographers
burials at Powązki Military Cemetery
Cichociemni
Grand Crosses of the Order of Polonia Restituta
Home Army officers
men centenarians
military personnel from Warsaw
photographers from Warsaw
Polish centenarians
Polish generals
Polish military personnel of World War II
Polish prisoners of war
Polish September Campaign participants
recipients of the Armia Krajowa Cross
recipients of the Virtuti Militari (1943–1989)
taxi drivers
Warsaw Uprising insurgents
World War II prisoners of war held by the Soviet Union


title: Hassan Hakizimana

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Hassan Hakizimana (born 26 October 1990) is a Burundian former footballer who played as a defender for Atlético Olympic FC and the Burundi national team.

International career
He was called up by Lofty Naseem, the national team coach, to represent Burundi in the 2014 African Nations Championship held in South Africa.

References

External links

Living people
1990 births
Burundian men's footballers
Burundi men's international footballers
Men's association football defenders
Atlético Olympic FC players
Burundi men's A' international footballers
2014 African Nations Championship players
Footballers from Bujumbura


title: Naturism in Portugal

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Organised naturism in Portugal existed from around 1920, but was suppressed until 25 April 1974.
The FPN - “Federação Portuguesa de Naturismo” (Portuguese Naturist Federation) – was founded on 1 March 1977, at a meeting in Lisbon. The oldest and most representative club in the Portuguese Naturist Federation, is the Clube Naturista do Centro, founded on November 20, 1988

History
Naturism in Portugal had its first historical record around 1920, linked to Portuguese Naturist Society, of which the anarcho-syndicalist José Peralta was a prominent member. Social Nudity was already being practiced on “Costa da Caparica” beaches. With the development of the dictatorial regime, the naturist movement were limited to vegetarian and alternative medicines, since nudity was banned, and associated with the crime of "indecency". Only after the end of the dictatorial regime in 1974 (April 25th) the activities linked to the practice of nudity was resumed.

The FPN – “Federação Portuguesa de Naturismo” (Portuguese Naturist Federation) was founded on the 1st of March 1977, at a meeting in Lisbon.

After its foundation the FPN applied to join INF/FNI-International Naturist Federation, which was then represented in Portugal by the Portuguese Vegetarian Association, which succeeded “Sociedade Portuguesa de Naturalogia” in this task.  The FPN was admitted to the International Federation in October 1977 and attended its World Congress, in the following year, already entitled with a right to vote.

FPN immediately started to established contacts at the highest level, focusing in the development of legal practice in Portugal. For this purpose, a meeting was held the day after its founding with the then-Secretary of State for tourism .

In its continuous struggle for the recognition of Naturism, in 1988, only a little more than a decade of various contacts, campaigns, advances and setbacks, the FPN managed to see the first Naturist Law in Portugal discussed and approved at the Portuguese Parliament, as it can be read in.

FPN is the only accredited Federation in Portugal for the issuing of the "Naturist Identity card", useful and necessary to all who wish to join, with advantages in "naturist world" and in the diversity of their national and international offer.

Facilities
The Portuguese Naturist Federation became the coordinating entity of the naturist activity in Portugal since 1998, federating several clubs and associations, maintaining specialty cores and organizing some activities aimed preferably at its federated members, without forgetting the essential role of promoting a naturist practice in order to develop the physical and mental health of the human being, in particular, through natural means, favoring its integration in nature.

Over the past 44 years, the FPN has achieved important "goals" that constitute a reference landmarks for all naturists. Some examples are: the laws 92/88, 29/94 and 53/10, the recognized official beaches of Meco, Bela Vista, Ilha de Tavira (Barril), Salto, Adegas, Alteirinhos and Deserta, the opening of the first naturist activity in a council swimming pool and in a health club, and the support given to the development of infrastructures of tourist accommodation, like the campsites  “Monte Barão” and “Quinta do Maral”  and "Terra Nua"

See also
 List of beaches in Portugal
 List of social nudity places in Europe
 Naturism

References

Notes

External links
Portuguese Naturist Federation
Clube Naturist of Center
Pensamentos ao Vento - Associação (Thoughts in the Wind - Association)
Clube Naturista do Algarve (Algarve Naturist Club)

Portugal


title: Stéphane Rugonumugabo

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Stéphane Rugonumugabo is a Burundian professional footballer who plays as a defender for LLB Académic FC in the Burundi Football League.

International career
He was invited by Lofty Naseem, the national team coach, to represent Burundi in the 2014 African Nations Championship held in South Africa.

References

Living people
1990 births
Burundi men's A' international footballers
2014 African Nations Championship players
Burundian men's footballers
Men's association football defenders
Lydia Ludic Burundi Académic FC players


title: Serzhik, go away!

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Serzhik, go away! ( Serzhik, herrats’ir) is a political slogan of the Armenian opposition which was spread since 2008 when Serzh Sargsyan already had been the President of Armenia about a year.

This slogan firstly was sounded on the meeting of The Armenian National Congress, but after some time it has become non-partial and now it's very popular among the all political parties and the whole people, including the veterans of the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.

This slogan also is fairly common in the Armenian diaspora. It has been used in Strasbourg, Prague, Paris, Los Angeles etc.

According to the director of the Armenian center of strategic and national researches Manvel Sarkisyan, "Serzhik, go away!" slogan purchased the universal character against economical and social-political stagnation.

See also

References

Political catchphrases
Politics of Armenia
Serzh Sargsyan


title: Maraština

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Maraština (Rukatac, Maraškin, Mareština, Krizol, Višana) is an indigenous white grape variety from the Dalmatian coast, recommended for all Dalmatian sub-regions, and the Croatian Coast, except Istria. On the island of Cres, it is known as krizol, and in other parts of Dalmatia it is known as rukatac. As it is widely grown, other local names exist, for example đurđevina, kačebelić, kače-debić, kukuruz, mareština, and marinkuša.

DNA analysis has shown that maraština is closely related to the Italian variety Malvasia del Chianti. Croatian dessert wine prošek also uses this grape.

Production
Maraština is a variety of grape abundant and easy to cultivate. It can be found throughout the Mediterranean, including most of the Croatian coast (except for Istria). In the south of Dalmatia is called Rukatac; on Cres Island is Krizol; Višana, Malvasia del Chianti, Malvasia Bianca Lunga in Italy, Pavlos in Greece.

Only recently it was shown that Maraština is genetically the same as all those other varieties from the Mediterranean. Some experts believe that it was originated in Dalmatia and spread due to its features and quality.

Maraština can be found in the south of Croatia on the island of Hvar, Korčula, peninsula Pelješac, and Konavle region. The island of Lastovo and Mljet count with small Maraština vineyards. The region around Zadar is branding its local Maraština.

Features
The grapes give high yields and have a high content of sugar when is grown in an adequate location. Traditionally, it's been used to complement other wine varieties. Because it's fragrant and fruity, it's described as "a female wine".  Its color is golden yellow and it's full-bodied with hints of vanilla and quite low alcohol content. The grape is low acid. For that reason, many producers blend it with varieties that have higher acids. Around 10 °C is the preferred temperature for serving. It can be pairing with seafood, salted anchovies, various risottos, or goat cheese.

References

External links
 Croatian Institute of Viticulture, Enology and Pomology

Grape varieties of Croatia
Dalmatian grape varieties
White wine grape varieties


title: GHOne TV

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GH One TV is a Ghana-based entertainment TV channel, whose content includes lifestyle, music, fashion, series, children's programs, comedy, and tourism. It is now owned by Excellence In Broadcasting (EIB) Networks, which has broadcaster Bola Ray, as its CEO. The station was formerly owned by Charter House Productions.
According to a survey conducted by GeoPoll, GH One is the 5th most watched TV station in Ghana. Nana Aba Anamoah is the current General Manager of the station

References

External links

Ghanaian culture
Television stations in Ghana


title: Ulakhan-Kyuyol

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Ulakhan-Kyuyol () may refer to:

Ulakhan-Kyuyol, Churapchinsky District, Sakha Republic, a selo in Sylansky Rural Okrug, Churapchinsky District, Russia
Ulakhan-Kyuyol, Verkhoyansky District, Sakha Republic, a selo in Tabalakhsky Rural Okrug, Verkhoyansky District, Russia
Lake Ulakhan-Kyuyol, in Zhigansky District


title: Ride Me (album)

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Ride Me is the first Japanese studio album of South Korean pop duo Donghae & Eunhyuk, a subgroup of the boy band Super Junior. The album was released on February 26, 2014 under Avex Trax in Japan.

Background
Donghae & Eunhyuk revealed during Super Show 5 in Osaka that they would release their first album, followed by their first tour, in Japan. Their first album, Ride Me was released on February 26, 2014. "Motorcycle" was the lead single of the album. The short version music video was released through Avex's YouTube channel on February 2. The song became the main theme of the Japanese TV show, 'Sukkiri'. The album also includes the song "Teenage Queen" which was originally created and written in English by 5 Seconds of Summer.

Track listing

DVD
 "Motorcycle" music video
 "Oppa, Oppa" music video
 "I Wanna Dance" music video
 "Motorcycle" music video making clip
 Ride Me JK making clip

Oricon

References

External links
 Official Japanese Avex website of Super Junior Donghae & Eunhyuk

SM Entertainment albums
2014 albums
Avex Group albums


title: Vestingmuseum Oudeschans

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Vestingmuseum Oudeschans (; ) is a local museum in the village of Oudeschans in the Netherlands. The museum shows the history of the 16th-century fortification of Oudeschans and has a collection of archaeological findings.

The museum opened on 12 September 1987. The building was renovated in 2009. The museum lost its structural municipal subsidy in 2010. The museum staff consists of volunteers only. With 1,195 visitors in 2015, it is one of the lesser-visited museums in Groningen.

Location
The museum is located at the Molenweg in the village Oudeschans in the municipality Bellingwedde in the east of the province Groningen near the Dutch–German border.

The Bellingwolderschans (Sconce of Bellingwolde) was a fortification created in 1593 by William Louis, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg during the Eighty Years' War. It was renamed Oudeschans (Old Sconce) after the construction of the nearby Nieuweschans (New Sconce) in 1628. Oudeschans was used for military purposes until 1814. In the 1980s, the fortification was partially reconstructed. In 1991, the fortification became a state protected village area ().

History
The museum was opened on 12 September 1987.

In 2009, the museum building underwent a major renovation.

Exhibitions

The museum shows the history of the fortification of Oudeschans and of other fortifications in the area.

On display in the museum are archaeological findings from the 17th and 18th century, such as pottery, household objects, shoes, weapons, and ammunition. There are information panels and a video presentation in Dutch and German.

The museum also has temporary exhibitions.

Administration

The museum staff and board consist of only volunteers. The museum receives an annual subsidy of around 1000 euro of the municipality.

Vestingmuseum Oudeschans is one of the lesser-visited museums in the province of Groningen. In the years 2010 to 2015, the museum had 750 to 1,500 visitors per year.

The museum is a member of Museumhuis Groningen (Groningen Museum House), an umbrella organization for museums and heritage institutions in the province of Groningen.

References

External links

  Vestingmuseum Oudeschans

Fortifications in the Netherlands
History museums in the Netherlands
Local museums in the Netherlands
Military and war museums in the Netherlands
Museums in Groningen (province)
Westerwolde (municipality)


title: Leland Historic District (Leland, Michigan)

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The Leland Historic District is a historic district roughly bounded by the park, Main Street, Avenue A, and the harbor, in Leland, Michigan.  It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1973 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. The district consists of two contiguous areas: Leland's downtown and the nearby commercial fishing area colloquially known as Fishtown. The Fishtown area was listed separately on the National Register in 2022.

History
In 1853, Leland pioneer Antoine Manseau constructed a dam across the Carp River at this location. Manseau built a sawmill and docks, setting up Leland as a wooding station for steamers.  By 1867, 200 people had settled in Leland.  The area also began to develop a fishing fleet, with commercial increasing in importance from the 1870s through the 1890s.  More development followed, and in 1886 the county seat was moved to Leland.

In the early 1900s, fishermen began enclosing their open boats and adding gasoline engines, which increased the scale of fishing operations. By 1937, two breakwaters were constructed in the waters of Lake Michigan, which also facilitated the rise of the local fishing industry.  However, in the 1940s, the whitefish and trout populations in the lake were decimated by sea lampreys.  Although commercial fishing operations continued, the area relied more heavily on tourism and charter operations.  In the 21st century, the harbor area contains a mix of commercial fishing and tourist operations.

 Beginning in 2019 and intensifying in 2020, many of the historic shanties have become inundated with water on a regular basis due to record high waters in Lake Michigan and increased flow from the Carp river. The owner of the site, Fishtown Preservation, is raising funds to raise, repair, and stabilize the shanties and preserve current and future fishing operations. The first shanty to be moved, on January 10, 2020, was the Village Cheese shanty, with the Morris Shanty scheduled to be raised in the winter of 2020–21.

Description
The Leland Historic District, containing both commercial and residential structures, is located at the mouth of the Carp River.  It encompasses one of Michigan's most scenic villages; the structures in the district are substantially original, with few alterations.  The district includes  Leland's commercial area, containing historic buildings, the fishing shanties, smokehouses, and docks in the outlet of the river.

The commercial area of the district contain a series of relatively plain commercial buildings, many with Gothic Revival detailing. The most prominent of these is the two-story Harbor House, whose first story is a commercial space and the second had been a meeting hall. It has recessed doorways and six over six windows under Italianate window hoods on the second floor. Also included in the district is the Hendrickson Cottage, the oldest known building in Leland. It is a one and a half story frame cottage.

The fishing section of the district, known as Fishtown, is also separately listed on the Register. It consists of structures lining both sides of the Leland River. These include vernacular wood-clad former and current commercial fishery buildings, most of which were constructed by the fishermen before 1930. Additionally, the district includes wood-frame vernacular buildings which are part of the historic Manitou Island ferry service. The district also has docks for Fishtown's commercial fishing vessels, Joy and Janice Sue, along with charter boats, private recreational vessels, and the Mishe-Mokwa ferry.

References

External links

Fishtown Preservation

Geography of Leelanau County, Michigan
Michigan State Historic Sites
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Michigan
Tourist attractions in Leelanau County, Michigan
National Register of Historic Places in Leelanau County, Michigan


title: Jean-Claude Ndarusanze

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Jean-Claude Ndarusanze is a Burundian professional footballer who plays as a forward for LLB Académic FC in the Burundi Football League. He was topscorer in the 2017–18 Rwanda Premier League with 15 goals, when played for APR F.C.

International career
He was invited by Lofty Naseem, the national team coach, to represent Burundi in the 2014 African Nations Championship held in South Africa.

International goals
Scores and results list Burundi's goal tally first.

References

Living people
2014 African Nations Championship players
Burundi men's A' international footballers
Burundian men's footballers
1988 births
Men's association football forwards
Burundi men's international footballers


title: Amir Shahreen Mubin

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Amir Shahreen Abd Mubin (born 27 June 1983) is a Kazakhstan born Malaysian professional footballer. He operates as a midfielder for Malacca United F.C.

Malacca United F.C.
On 8 February 2014, Amir scored his first goal for Malacca United F.C. in a friendly match against Harimau Muda A.

References

External links
 https://web.archive.org/web/20140222060602/http://www.ifball.com/index.php?option=com_joomleague&view=player&p=8%3Apfa-2014&tid=41%3Amelaka-telekom&pid=1250%3Aamir-shahreen-abd-mubin
 http://www.goal.com/en-ng/people/kazakhstan/66705/amir-shahreen-bin-abdul-mubin
 https://web.archive.org/web/20140521221711/http://www.sport195.com/athletes/amir_shahreen_mubin_6930/preview
 https://web.archive.org/web/20140222055037/http://www.sports247.my/tag/amir-shahreen-mubin/

Malaysian men's footballers
Living people
1983 births
FELDA United F.C. players
Place of birth missing (living people)
Melaka United F.C. players
Kazakhstani emigrants to Malaysia
Citizens of Malaysia through descent
Men's association football midfielders


title: Jean Gentil Nduwimana

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Jean Gentil Nduwimana is a Burundian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Olympic Star in the Burundi Football League.

International career
He was invited by Lofty Naseem, the national team coach, to represent Burundi in the 2014 African Nations Championship held in South Africa.

References

Living people
Burundi men's A' international footballers
2014 African Nations Championship players
Burundian men's footballers
1986 births
Men's association football forwards
21st-century Burundian people


title: Aimé Nzohabonayo

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Aimé Nzohabonayo (born 7 September 1989) is a Burundian professional footballer, who plays as a forward for AS Inter Star in the Burundi Football League.

International career
He was invited by Lofty Naseem, the national team coach, to represent Burundi in the 2014 African Nations Championship held in South Africa.

References

Living people
1989 births
Burundi men's A' international footballers
2014 African Nations Championship players
Burundian men's footballers

Men's association football forwards


title: Eugnosta asthenia

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Eugnosta asthenia is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Guatemala.

References

Moths described in 1968
Eugnosta


title: Danville Township

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Danville Township may refer to the following townships in the United States:

 Danville Township, Vermilion County, Illinois
 Danville Township, Des Moines County, Iowa
 Danville Township, Worth County, Iowa
 Danville Township, Blue Earth County, Minnesota


title: Gilbert Tuyihimbaze

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Gilbert Tuyihimbaze is a Burundian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Guêpiers du Lac in the Burundi Football League.

International career
He was invited by Lofty Naseem, the national team coach, to represent Burundi in the 2014 African Nations Championship held in South Africa.

References

Living people
1993 births
2014 African Nations Championship players
Burundian men's footballers
Men's association football forwards
Burundi men's A' international footballers


title: A View from the Bridge (film)

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A View from the Bridge (, ) is a 1962 drama film directed by Sidney Lumet, based on the Arthur Miller play of the same name. The film was an international co-production between French and Italian studios, with exteriors shot on-location in Brooklyn and interiors filmed in Paris, France. It was written for the screen by Norman Rosten and Jean Aurenche, and stars Raf Vallone as Eddie Carbone, Maureen Stapleton as Beatrice, Carol Lawrence as Catherine, Jean Sorel as Rodolpho, Raymond Pellegrin as Marco, and Morris Carnovsky as Alfieri.

Plot

The Carbones are a working class Italian-American family living in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn - patriarch Eddie, his wife Beatrice, and their niece Catherine. Eddie is a longshoreman on the waterfront, and he and Beatrice have raised 18-year old Catherine from infancy.

When two of Beatrice's cousins from Sicily, Marco and Rodolpho, illegally enter the United States and take refuge in Eddie's home, an attraction develops between Catherine and the handsome young Rodolpho. Eddie's incestuous love for his niece drives him into cruel criticism of Rodolpho, including the accusation that he is an opportunist who plans to marry Catherine only to obtain his U.S. citizenship papers.

When Eddie's efforts fail to influence Catherine, he brands Rodolpho a homosexual and degrades him in front of Catherine by kissing him on the lips. His desperation only serves to further alienate Catherine, however, and when she and Rodolpho make plans to marry, Eddie betrays both Marco and Rodolpho to the immigration authorities. As the two brothers are led away, Marco spits on Eddie, denouncing him as an informer.

A waterfront lawyer, Alfieri, succeeds in winning freedom for Rodolpho because of his pending marriage, but Marco is slated for deportation. While out on bail, Marco goes to the Carbone house and forces Eddie to his knees; humiliated before his family and neighbors, Eddie commits suicide by plunging a cargo hook into his chest.

Cast

Production
A View from the Bridge was filmed in separate English and French versions. Its exterior sequences were filmed on-location on the waterfront of Brooklyn, New York, where the play and the film take place. The interiors were shot at a studio in Paris, France. It was Sidney Lumet's first time directing a film outside the United States.

The film was the first time that a kiss between men was shown on screen in America, in the sequence in which an intoxicated Eddie Carbone kisses his wife Beatrice's male cousin Rodolfo in an attempt to demonstrate the latter's alleged homosexuality. However, this overture was intended as an accusation of someone being gay, rather than a romantic expression.

Unlike the play, in which Eddie is stabbed to death with his own knife in a scuffle with his wife Beatrice's cousin Marco toward the end, in the film Eddie commits suicide by plunging a cargo hook into his chest.

Reception
A View from the Bridge premiered in the United States on January 22, 1962 by Continental Film Distributors, to generally negative reviews. In Film Quarterly, Pauline Kael called the film "not so much a drama as a sentence that's been passed on the audience." Stanley Kauffmann's review for The New Republic was titled "The Unadaptable Adapted."

A more favorable review came from The New York Times film critic Bosley Crowther, who praised Sidney Lumet's realistic depiction of the Brooklyn waterfront and his choice of actors but believed that principal character Eddie Carbone lacked depth and dimension. "The rumbling and gritty quality of the Brooklyn waterfront," he wrote, "the lofty and mercantile authority of the freight ships tied up at the docks, the cluttered and crowded oppressiveness of the living rooms of the dockside slums are caught in his camera's comprehension, to pound it into the viewer's head that this is an honest presentation of the sort of personal involvement that one might watch—might spy upon—through a telescope set on Brooklyn Bridge." However, "The one great obstruction to the drama — and a fatal obstruction it becomes—is the slowly evolving demonstration that the principal character is a boor. As much as his nigh-incestuous passion and his subsequent jealousy may be credible and touching, they are low in the human emotional scale and are obviously seamy and ignoble. They haven't the universal scope of greed or envy or ambition or such obsessions as drive men to ruin."

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 80% based on reviews from 5 critics.

As of 2021, the film has never been released on home video in the United States.

Accolades
For his performance as Eddie Carbone, Raf Vallone won the David di Donatello for Best Actor.

References

External links

1962 films
1962 drama films
1962 LGBT-related films
French drama films
French LGBT-related films
Italian drama films
Italian LGBT-related films
English-language French films
English-language Italian films
Films set in Brooklyn
Films shot in New York City
Films shot in Paris
Films about illegal immigration to the United States
Films directed by Sidney Lumet
1960s Italian films
1960s French films


title: Gaël Duhayindavyi

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Gaël Duhayindavyi (born 3 October 1990) is a Burundian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Rwandan side Mukura Victory Sports and the Burundi national team.

International career
He was called up by national team coach Lofty Naseem to represent Burundi in the 2014 African Nations Championship held in South Africa.

International goals
Scores and results list Burundi's goal tally first.

References

1990 births
Living people
Burundian men's footballers
Burundi men's international footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Burundi men's A' international footballers
2014 African Nations Championship players
2019 Africa Cup of Nations players
Atlético Olympic FC players
Vital'O FC players
Mukura Victory Sports F.C. players
Burundian expatriate men's footballers
Burundian expatriate sportspeople in Rwanda
Expatriate men's footballers in Rwanda
Footballers from Bujumbura


title: Uno sguardo dal ponte

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Uno sguardo dal ponte is an opera in two acts by composer Renzo Rossellini. The work uses an Italian language libretto by Gerardo Guerrieri which is based on Arthur Miller's play A View from the Bridge. The opera premiered at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma on March 11, 1961 using a staging by Franco Rossellini, the composer's son. The premiere cast included Clara Petrella, Gianna Galli, Alfredo Kraus, Giuseppe Valdengo, and Nicola Rossi-Lemeni. The Philadelphia Lyric Opera Company presented the United States premiere of the opera on October 17, 1967 with Rossi-Lemeni as Eddie Carbone and Gloria Lane as Beatrice.

Roles
Alfieri (bass)
Eddie Carbone (baritone)
Louis (bass)
Catherine (soprano)
Beatrice Carbone (soprano)
Tony (tenor)
Rodolfo (tenor)
Marco (bass)
Mike (tenor)
1 Immigration Officer (baritone)
2 Immigration Officer (tenor)
A woman (soprano)
Old woman (mezzo-soprano)

References

Compositions by Renzo Rossellini
1961 operas
Italian-language operas
Operas
Operas based on plays
Operas set in the United States


title: Christophe Nduwarugira

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Christophe Nduwarugira (born 22 June 1994) is a Burundian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder or centre-back for Liga Portugal 2 club Académico de Viseu.

International career
Nduwarugira was invited by Lofty Naseem, the national team coach, to represent Burundi in the 2014 African Nations Championship held in South Africa.

International goals

References

External links

1994 births
Footballers from Bujumbura
Living people
Burundian men's footballers
Burundi men's A' international footballers
Burundi men's international footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Lydia Ludic Burundi Académic FC players
FC Chibuto players
C.F. União players
Amora F.C. players
Varzim S.C. players
Leixões S.C. players
Académico de Viseu F.C. players
Liga Portugal 2 players
Campeonato de Portugal (league) players
2014 African Nations Championship players
2019 Africa Cup of Nations players
Burundian expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Mozambique
Burundian expatriate sportspeople in Mozambique
Expatriate men's footballers in Portugal
Burundian expatriate sportspeople in Portugal


title: Byuteydyakh

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Byuteydyakh () is the name of several rural localities in the Sakha Republic, Russia:
Byuteydyakh, Megino-Kangalassky District, Sakha Republic, a selo in Byuteydyakhsky Rural Okrug of Megino-Kangalassky District
Byuteydyakh, Verkhnevilyuysky District, Sakha Republic, a selo in Dyullyukinsky Rural Okrug of Verkhnevilyuysky District


title: Hussein Shabani

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Hussein Shabani is a Burundian professional footballer, who plays as a midfielder for AS Kigali FC.

Club career
In January 2019, Shabani joined Ethiopian club, Ethiopian Coffee SC. In August 2019, Shabani moved to Bugesera FC in Rwanda.

International career
He is also known for having a name double. Hussain shabani (known as مصیبت which means distress and disaster in persian) is the most notorious man in north of Iran. Hussein shabani was invited by Lofty Naseem, the national team coach, to represent Burundi in the 2014 African Nations Championship held in South Africa.

International goals
Scores and results list Burundi's goal tally first.

References

External links

Living people
1990 births
Burundian men's footballers
Burundi men's international footballers
Burundian expatriate men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Flambeau de l'Est FC players
Vital'O FC players
Rayon Sports F.C. players
Baroka F.C. players
Bugesera FC players
South African Premier Division players
2014 African Nations Championship players
2019 Africa Cup of Nations players
Burundi men's A' international footballers
Burundian expatriate sportspeople in Rwanda
Burundian expatriate sportspeople in South Africa
Burundian expatriate sportspeople in Ethiopia
Expatriate men's footballers in Rwanda
Expatriate men's soccer players in South Africa
Expatriate men's footballers in Ethiopia


title: Shassiri Nahimana

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Shassiri Nahimana (born 5 August 1993) is a Burundian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Ligue A club Vital'O and the Burundi national team.

Early life
Shassiri Nahimana was born in Buyenzi, Bujumbura. Nahimana is the third born among his siblings and grew up playing football. Supported by his parents, in 2005, at the age of 12 he joined Rafina FC. Few years later in 2009–2010 he joined Havana FC, where he participated in a local competition and was soon scouted by Inter Star to attend a trial at the club. Though initially scared, he eventually attended the trials and got signed up by the club.

Club career
After first joining Inter Star in 2012, he went to Vital'O in 2014, where he won two consecutive Burundi Premier League in the 2014–15 and 2015–16 season. At the end of the 2015–16 season, Nahimana was named the Best Player of the Season, winning the award over teammates Arakaza MacArthur and Hussein Shabani. He also played a pivotal role in his teams 2016 Burundian Cup run, where Vital'O lost 4–3 on penalties to Le Messager Ngozi in the final.

After a successful career at Vital'O, he joined Rwandan club Rayon Sports in 2016. On 24 December 2016, he scored his first hat-trick for Rayon Sports, thrashing Musanze 4–1. On 17 May 2019, he won the 2016–17 Rwanda Premier League with the club, after Rayon won 2–1 against Mukura Victory Sports and took an unassailable 13 point lead over rivals and former champions APR FC, with four matches to spare.

At the end of the 2017–18 season, Nahimana joined Omani club Nizwa, and in January 2019 moved to Saudi club Al-Mujazzal on a 1-year deal.

International career
Nahimana was invited by Lofty Naseem, the national team coach, to represent Burundi in the 2014 African Nations Championship held in South Africa.

On 21 June 2015, he scored his first ever international goal in a 2–1 win against Djibouti in the 2016 African Nations Championship qualification. Burundi progressed to the next round by winning 4–1 on aggregate, but failed to qualify for the finals after losing 3–2 on aggregate to Ethiopia in the next round.

On 11 June 2019, Nahimana was named in Burundi's 23-man squad for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt.

Stats

International goals
Scores and results list Uganda's goal tally first.

Honours

Club

Vital'O
Burundi Premier League (2): 2014–15, 2015–16
Rayon Sports
Rwanda Premier League (1): 2016–17

Individual
Amstel Ligue Best Player of the Season: 2015–16

References

External links

1993 births
Living people
Footballers from Bujumbura
Burundian men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Vital'O FC players
Rayon Sports F.C. players
Al-Mujazzal Club players
Al-Entesar Club players
Futuro Kings FC players
Saudi First Division League players
Saudi Second Division players
Burundi men's international footballers
Burundi men's A' international footballers
2014 African Nations Championship players
2019 Africa Cup of Nations players
Burundian expatriate men's footballers
Burundian expatriate sportspeople in Rwanda
Expatriate men's footballers in Rwanda
Burundian expatriate sportspeople in Saudi Arabia
Expatriate men's footballers in Saudi Arabia
Burundian expatriate sportspeople in Oman
Expatriate men's footballers in Oman
Burundian expatriate sportspeople in Equatorial Guinea
Expatriate men's footballers in Equatorial Guinea


title: Francis van 't Hooft

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Jan Francis van 't Hooft (born 3 January 1940) is a retired field hockey player from the Netherlands. He competed  at the 1964 Summer Olympics where his team finished in seventh place. He played six matches and scored two goals.

References

External links

1940 births
Living people
Dutch male field hockey players
Field hockey players at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Olympic field hockey players for the Netherlands
Sportspeople from Semarang
20th-century Dutch people


title: Mossi Moussa

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Mossi Moussa is a Burundian professional footballer, who plays as a midfielder for Le Messager FC in the Burundi Football League.

International career
He was invited by Lofty Naseem, the national team coach, to represent Burundi in the 2014 African Nations Championship held in South Africa.

References

1992 births
Living people
2014 African Nations Championship players
Burundi men's A' international footballers
Burundian men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders


title: Corinne Masiero

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Corinne Masiero (born 3 February 1964) is a French actress. She was born in Douai. She began acting in her late 20s, initially appearing in the theatre before moving on to the screen. She is best known for her lead role in the 2012 film Louise Wimmer, for which she was nominated for the Cesar Award for best actress. She has also had notable roles in Rust and Bone, 11.6, and plays the lead role in Capitaine Marleau.

Debut
Masiero began acting relatively late in life. She also lived on the streets for a few years before discovering theatre. At the age of 28, after having worked at various odd jobs, she joined a theatre company. Her early roles were in comedies by Georges Feydeau and adaptations of Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

Political commitment
In 2014, during the municipal elections, Masiero ran on the Left Front slate in Roubaix. She supported François Ruffin, for La France insoumise during the 2017 French legislative election.

At the 2021 César Awards, Masiero stripped naked in protest against the French government's plan of Covid-19 restrictions.

Filmography

References

External links

French film actresses
1964 births
Living people
People from Douai
20th-century French actresses
21st-century French actresses
French stage actresses
French television actresses
French people of Italian descent


title: Ester Ledecká

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Ester Ledecká (, born 23 March 1995) is a Czech snowboarder and alpine skier. At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, Ledecká won gold medals in the super-G in alpine skiing and in the parallel giant slalom in snowboarding, becoming the first person to not only compete in the Winter Olympics using two different types of equipment (skis and snowboard) but to go further and win two gold medals and do so at the same Winter Olympics. She was the second woman to win an Olympic gold in two separate disciplines but the first to do so at the same Winter Olympics. She was the first Czech to win the parallel giant slalom in snowboarding at the FIS Snowboard World Cup.

Early life
Ester Ledecká was born in Prague, to mother Zuzana, a figure skater, and father Janek Ledecký, a well-known musician in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. She comes from a sporting family: her maternal grandfather is a former ice hockey player Jan Klapáč, who was a seven-time World Championship and two-time Olympic medallist. In 2014, she was still at high school, attending a distance-learning programme in Prague.

Ice hockey was the first sport she took up as a child, before taking up skiing at the age of four and later adding snowboarding. "I was following what my brother did," Ledecká says. "He is one and a half years older than me, and so when he started with a board, I wanted to do it too. I was five years old when I started snowboarding, and I did freestyle snowboarding and boardercross until I was about thirteen years old. And again, it was my brother who started with alpine snowboarding, and I wanted to beat him, so I learned that too."

Her hobbies include playing the guitar and singing. She also enjoys participating in summer sports such as beach volleyball and windsurfing.

Career
Ledecká competed in her first World Cup tournament in the 2012–13 competition, finishing in 13th place in the parallel giant slalom event. In March 2013, at the age of 17, she won gold in the parallel slalom event at the Junior World Championships, her second gold of the competition. She was named "Junior Sportsperson of the year" at the Czech Republic's 2013 Sportsperson of the Year awards.

During the 2013–14 FIS Snowboard World Cup, Ledecká placed second behind Patrizia Kummer in the first parallel slalom event in Bad Gastein and third in the second event. She subsequently won gold at Rogla in the parallel giant slalom event at the same competition, becoming the first Czech to do so. In doing so, she also became just the third Czech to win any World Cup snowboarding event.

Ahead of the 2014 Winter Olympics, The Daily Telegraph's Andrew Lawton mentioned Ledecká as the "one to watch" in the women's snowboarding competition. She was among the Czech athletes most expected to win a medal at the games, along with Martina Sáblíková, Gabriela Soukalová and fellow snowboarder Eva Samková. After she had finished ninth in qualifying for the alpine skiing event at the Winter Olympics, the Czech Ski Association attempted to register her as a competitor. However, the FIS rejected the proposal, reiterating that only eight Czechs could compete.

Ledecká made her Olympic debut at the 2014 Winter Olympics on 19 February 2014 in the parallel giant slalom snowboarding event. She reached the quarter-final stage before being eliminated by Patrizia Kummer, who went on to win the gold medal in the event. Ledecká was classified as seventh overall.

Ledecká has combined her snowboarding career with competing in alpine skiing: she made her debut on the FIS Alpine Ski World Cup in February 2016, finishing 24th in her first race, the Kandahar downhill in Garmisch. She went on to score points in four of her first five World Cup races, competing in the downhill and Super-G disciplines.  In 2017 she became the first sportsperson to compete in World Championships in both skiing and snowboarding, taking a gold in the parallel giant slalom and a silver in the parallel slalom at the Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Championships in Sierra Nevada, Spain, and scoring top 30 finishes in the downhill, super-G and alpine combined at the Alpine Skiing World Championships in St. Moritz, Switzerland.

Ledecká made her Olympic debut in alpine skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics while also being qualified for alpine snowboarding. She won the gold medal in super-G in alpine skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics in a historic upset. She was visibly shocked after finishing 0.01 seconds ahead of the 2014 Olympics defending gold medalist Anna Veith, who had already been proclaimed the winner by many media outlets. Ledecká was ranked 49th in the event before the Olympics and had never medalled in any World Cup level international skiing event. To make the feat even more surprising to reporters, she was rumored to be allegedly racing on skis borrowed from Mikaela Shiffrin (both racers are sponsored by Atomic). She refused to remove her goggles for the post-victory press conference, insisting that this is her trademark (which is true), and when pressed by reporters, she cleverly stated that she had skipped wearing makeup as she had not expected to win the event. Her snowboard coach, American Justin Reiter, arrived at the start of the Ladies PGS event with his reversible Czech team jacket confidently already turned gold side out. After victory in the parallel giant slalom she became the first ever female athlete to win an Olympic gold medal in two different disciplines during the same Winter Olympics (Anfisa Reztsova had previously won gold in different disciplines but not at the same Olympics: cross country skiing in 1988 and biathlon in 1992 and 1994). Ledecká was chosen as the flag bearer for the Czech Republic at the closing ceremony.

In the 2018–19 Alpine Ski World Cup, Ledecká finished 24th in the downhill standings and 28th in super-G. In December 2019, Ledecká scored her first win on the Alpine Ski World Cup in downhill at Lake Louise, eclipsing her previous personal best World Cup downhill result of seventh at the same venue two years previously. In December 2020, she won her first  World Cup Super-G race.

Ledecká continued to split her time between snowboarding and Alpine skiing, finishing second in World Cup Alpine skiing in the downhill for the 2020 season and third for the 2022 season, as well as third in the combined in 2020, the last season it has been contested due to the COVID-19 pandemic.  In the 2022 Winter Olympics, Ledecká repeated as the snowboarding gold medalist in parallel giant slalom, while in Alpine skiing she finished fifth in super-G and fourth in
combined.  However, she was injured while training during the summer of 2022 and targeted a possible return during February 2023. Ultimately, she was unable to return for the Alpine skiing world championships in February but made it back for the final snowboarding races in March at Berchtesgaden, where she won the women's parallel slalom for her only win of the season.

World Cup results
All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS).

Snowboarding

Season titles
 7 titles – (4 parallel overall, 3 parallel giant slalom)

Season standings

Race podiums
 21 wins – (18 PGS, 3 PSL)
 35 podiums – (27 PGS, 8 PSL)

Alpine skiing

Season standings

Race podiums
 3 wins (2 DH, 1 SG)
 8 podiums (6 DH, 1 SG, 1 AC)

Olympic results
 3 medals – (3 golds)

Snowboarding
 2 medals – (2 golds)

Alpine skiing
 1 medal – (1 gold)

World Championships results

Snowboarding
 3 medals – (2 gold, 1 silver)

Alpine skiing

See also
 List of multi-sport athletes - Snowboarding
 Dual sport and multi-sport Olympians
 Czech Republic at the 2014 Winter Olympics
 Czech Republic at the 2018 Winter Olympics
 List of multiple Olympic gold medalists in one event

References

External links
  (as snowboarder)
  (as alpine skier)

1995 births
Czech female snowboarders
Olympic gold medalists for the Czech Republic
Snowboarders at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Snowboarders at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Snowboarders at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Olympic snowboarders for the Czech Republic
Medalists at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Medalists at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiers at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiers at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Olympic alpine skiers for the Czech Republic
Sportspeople from Prague
Living people
Czech female alpine skiers
Olympic medalists in alpine skiing
Olympic medalists in snowboarding


title: The Abilene Reflector-Chronicle

text:
The Abilene Reflector-Chronicle is a daily newspaper in Abilene, Kansas with a circulation of about 3,000. The newspaper also maintains an online presence. It is a union of the Abilene Daily Chronicle (founded 1933) and the Abilene Daily Reflector (founded 1888).

In October 2012, Junction City, Kansas-based Montgomery Communications purchased the Reflector-Chronicle from Cleveland Newspapers of Birmingham, Alabama. In March 2016, the White Corporation, whose flagship publication is the Emporia Gazette, purchased the Montgomery papers, including the Reflector-Chronicle.

See also
 List of newspapers in Kansas

References

External links
 The Abilene Reflector-Chronicle official website

Newspapers published in Kansas
Dickinson County, Kansas


title: Baburao Paranjpe

text:
Baburao Paranjpe (बाबूराव परांजपे; 1922–1999) was an Indian politician. Shri Paranjape was a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party and a member of Lok Sabha from Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh. He was a member of Seventh Lok Sabha (1982–84) after winning bye-election in 1982, Ninth (1989–91), Eleventh (1996–98) and Twelfth (1998–1999) Lok Sabha. He was the defeated BJP candidate from Jabalpur in 1984 and 1991 elections, when there was pro-Congress sympathy wave after the assassinations of Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi respectively.

He was Mayor of Jabalpur from 1957 to 1975. Paranjpe joined Azad Hind Fauj and saw action during the Second World War in 1944. He died on 27 September 1999.

References

Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Madhya Pradesh
People from Jabalpur
India MPs 1980–1984
1922 births
1999 deaths
Indian National Army personnel
India MPs 1989–1991
India MPs 1998–1999
India MPs 1996–1997
Lok Sabha members from Madhya Pradesh
Mayors of places in Madhya Pradesh


title: Satagay

text:
Satagay () is the name of several rural localities in the Sakha Republic, Russia:
Satagay, Amginsky District, Sakha Republic, a selo in Satagaysky Rural Okrug of Amginsky District
Satagay, Vilyuysky District, Sakha Republic, a selo in Kyrgydaysky Rural Okrug of Vilyuysky District


title: Eugnosta beevorana

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Eugnosta beevorana is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Arizona and California.

The wingspan is 18–21 mm. Adults have been recorded on wing from December to March.

References

Moths described in 1940
Eugnosta


title: Special Affairs Team TEN

text:
Special Affairs Team TEN (; also known simply as TEN) is a South Korean crime procedural television series starring Joo Sang-wook, Jo An, Kim Sang-ho and Choi Woo-shik. It was broadcast by cable channel OCN.

Season 1 aired from November 18, 2011 to January 13, 2012 on Fridays at 24:00 for 9 episodes. It was a hit on Korean cable, reaching a peak viewership rating of 3.91%. It also won the Grand Prize (Daesang) at the 6th Cable TV Broadcasting Awards in 2012.

Season 2 aired from April 14 to June 30, 2013 on Sundays at 23:00 for 12 episodes.

Series overview

Season 1

Plot
"Special Affairs Team TEN" is a criminal investigation unit that tackles the most violent, hardcore crimes in South Korea. These crimes usually have less than a 10% rate for arrests. Following the motto of "No more unsolved cases," the detectives chase those who attempt to commit the perfect crime, facing some of the most twisted and perverted criminals that they have ever encountered in their careers.

Yeo Ji-hoon (Joo Sang-wook) was a former ace detective with keen deductive powers and a strong logical mind, who now works as a police academy instructor. But he gives up teaching crime-solving to get back into the field after the brutal murder of his wife. Called "the monster who catches monsters" for thinking like his targets, Ji-hoon is tasked to be the lead investigator of the special task force TEN. The team includes: Nam Ye-ri (Jo An), a profiling specialist; Baek Do-shik (Kim Sang-ho), a veteran cop who possesses a keen sense of intuition, which he honed from 24 years on the job, and who good-naturedly chides the team to always treat people like human beings; and Park Min-ho (Choi Woo-shik), a "pretty boy" rookie who impressed Ji-hoon in class, and is the man on the ground who does all the running and grunt work.

Cast
Joo Sang-wook as Yeo Ji-hoon
Jo An as Nam Ye-ri
Kim Sang-ho as Baek Do-shik
Choi Woo-shik as Park Min-ho
Kim Hae-in as Kim Eun-young/Seo Eun-bi (ep 1)
Oh Min-suk as Kim Sun-woo, manager of Queen's Nest (ep 4)
Oh Chang-seok as Seung Yi-han (ep 4)
Jang In-sub as Kim Yoon-seok
Yoon Ji-hye as Seo Yoo-rim
Choi Min as Gwangsoo unit detective
Kim Ji-young as Min Chae-won
Kim Moon-ho as Sal In-ja
Oh Hee-joon as young cop
Choi Beom-ho as Bureau chief Jung Woo-shik
Min Woo-ki as panty man
Kahlid Elijah Tapia as Jason
 Park Byung-eun
 Lee Moo-saeng as Ji Jin-hyeok

Season 2

Plot
Yeo Ji-hoon has suddenly disappeared. The other members of the team, Baek Do-shik, Nam Ye-ri and Park Min-ho are initially confused by the situation, but they soon find a message which explains Ji-hoon's intentions. Team TEN then chases after a serial killer known as "Murderer F." As they get closer to Murderer F, they are in for a shock.

Cast
Joo Sang-wook as Yeo Ji-hoon
Jo An as Nam Ye-ri
Kim Sang-ho as Baek Do-shik
Choi Woo-shik as Park Min-ho
Yoon Ji-hye as Seo Yoo-rim
Choi Jae-woong as Shin Young-geun
Yoo Jae-myung as chief
Oh Seung-yoon as Shim Yi-ho (ep 3)
Kim Hyun-sung as Kang Jong-yoon (ep 4-5)
Lee Hyun-kyung as Choi Sang-hee (ep 6)
Jung So-young as Yang Sun-hwa (ep 6)
Kang Sung-min as Do Sung-gyu (ep 6)
Jung Hye-sung as Bae Seo-yeon (ep 7)
Lee Hee-jin as Song Hwa-young (ep 8)
Jang Won-young as Park Eun-soo (ep 8)
Song Yoo-ha as Kang Jin-wook (ep 8)
Jang In-sub as Kim Yoon-uk (ep 8)
Min Sung-wook as Jang Seok-beom (ep 9)
Kang Ki-hwa as Lee Ji-soo (ep 9)
Im Seung-dae as Ji-soo's husband (ep 9)
Choi Song-hyun as Yoon Seo-hyun (ep 9)
Sung Ji-ru as Ma Seok-gi (ep 11-12)
Lee Moo-saeng as Ji Jin-hyuk (ep 11-12)
 Lee Jun-hyeok

References

External links
Special Affairs Team TEN official website

TEN 2 official website

OCN television dramas
2011 South Korean television series debuts
2011 South Korean television series endings
South Korean crime television series
South Korean thriller television series
Television series by MBC C&I


title: The Big Reunion (series 1)

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The first series of the British reality-documentary series The Big Reunion began airing on ITV2 on 31 January 2013 until 28 March 2013. The show features chart-topping bands who were big names in the UK pop music scene between the 1990s and early 2000s, and the programme follows them as they reunite for the first time in a decade and go through their two weeks of intensive rehearsals before finally stepping back on stage for a comeback performance. The bands who reunited for the first series were Five, 911, Atomic Kitten, B*Witched, Honeyz and Liberty X. Blue also joined later on.

The Big Reunion proved to be an unexpected hit for ITV2, achieving both ratings and critical success. The first episode brought in 1.2 million viewers, becoming the channel's highest rated premiere in five years, and the show went on to achieve over 1 million viewers every week, making it one of the channel's most popular shows. Additionally, tickets for the bands' comeback went on sale shortly after the end of the premiere episode and sold out in under five minutes. Due to this, the producers of the show decided to announce a full UK arena tour. The tour took place in May 2013 and, along with other behind-the-scenes action, was broadcast on ITV2 from 5–19 September as The Big Reunion: On Tour. Also, a Christmas special called The Big Christmas Reunion aired on 12 December 2013. It featured the bands recording a Christmas charity single for Text Santa and looking at how Text Santa helps vulnerable people.

Production

Conception
On 18 October 2012, it was announced that pop groups Five, 911, Atomic Kitten, B*Witched, Honeyz and Liberty X—who were big names in the UK pop music scene in the 1990s and early 2000s—would be reuniting for an ITV2 documentary series entitled The Big Reunion, followed by a comeback performance at some point in 2013.

Personnel
The programme was ordered by Angela Jain, ITV's Director of Digital Channels, and Katy Thorogood, ITV's factual and daytime commissioner. ITV Studios' Kevin Lane acted as series producer, while creative director Michael Kelpie and Phil Mount acted as executive producers. Kelpie said: "To reunite these bands, tell the stories of what has happened to them since their heyday and follow them as they prepare to step back on the stage for the first time in a decade is a dream come true." Jain added, "We are thrilled to bring the stories of these pop groups up to date...A lot has happened in the time these bands have been apart - marriages, divorces and changes in careers - and who knows quite what will happen when they reunite!"

During rehearsals for the comeback performance and arena tour, Paul Domaine acted as the bands' choreographer, while Yvie Burnett, who formerly worked on The X Factor and currently works on The Voice UK, acted as their vocal coach.

Series overview

The Big Reunion
Filming for the show began in mid-2012, with the members of each band telling their individual stories about their bandmates and displaying their own personal lives nowadays, and later meeting together again for the first time in several years. Whilst all the other bands reunited several weeks before rehearsals began, Liberty X did not reunite until the night before, due to Michelle Heaton undergoing a double mastectomy. The rehearsals for the comeback performance took place at the Lilian Baylis Studio in London, beginning on 7 January 2013 and continuing for two weeks. Atomic Kitten's Kerry Katona was the last to arrive for rehearsals due to her being on This Morning talking about Dancing on Ice. The comeback performance took place at the Hammersmith Apollo on 26 February, and was broadcast on ITV2 on 28 March.

Atomic Kitten's three founding members, Katona, Liz McClarnon and Natasha Hamilton, took part in the show, even though it had previously been reported that their comeback was in doubt due to a fight between Katona and former member Jenny Frost, who replaced Katona when she initially left the group in 2001. Frost was unable to take part in the show due to her pregnancy. Honeyz's reformation came in the form of a third different line-up that consisted of founding members Célena Cherry and Heavenli Denton, and Mariama Goodman, who replaced Denton when she initially left the group in 1999, and vice versa when Goodman herself departed in 2000. Original member Naima Belkhiati decided not to take part in the reunion, so Cherry called up Goodman as her replacement. Additionally, Five only reunited as a four-piece as founding member Jason "J" Brown, who had attended previous meetings for the show, backed out at the last minute after claiming that he no longer wanted to be in the public eye. During filming for the show, the remaining four members, Abz Love, Sean Conlon, Ritchie Neville and Scott Robinson, discussed the possibility of auditioning a new fifth member. After they put out a notice, three people auditioned to join the band – ex-Northern Line member Dan Corsi, model and singer Luke Boyden, and Nathan Rawlings, who made it to judges' houses on The X Factor in 2010 as part of boy band The Reason 4. However all auditionees were unsuccessful. As a result, Five continued on with just the four of them.

The first three episodes featured Five, Liberty X, Atomic Kitten, 911, Honeyz and B*Witched telling their backstories of their time in their respective groups and about their lives since splitting up. The next two episodes featured the groups reuniting for the first time in a decade and discussing how they felt about performing again. The next three episodes were concerned with rehearsals for the comeback gig, midway through which Blue joined the show and told their stories as well. The final episode featured the sold-out comeback gig and backstage action.

When asked why they chose to join the comeback gig, Blue said: "Phil Mount, The Big Reunions producer, has always been a long time supporter of the band, giving us our first TV break, he really wanted us to be surprise special guests announced halfway through the series and to perform on the Hammersmith Apollo show. This sounded like a lot of fun, giving us the perfect chance to perform together again in the UK for our fans and reconnect with the other acts, many of whom friends of ours and started out around the same time as us. For us the 'Big Reunion' is a great chance for all of us bands to come together for one BIG party on Tuesday night!" Reaction to Blue joining The Big Reunion was initially negative among the other groups, as well as fans of the show, due to the fact that, unlike them, Blue were not reuniting, having already been back together since 2011 and represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011.

The Big Reunion: On Tour and The Big Christmas Reunion
A three-week mini-series called The Big Reunion: On Tour aired in September 2013, featuring the bands as they embarked on their arena tour. Founding Five member Jason "J" Brown also returned to hit back at accusations made by his bandmates.

On 12 December 2013, a Christmas special called The Big Christmas Reunion aired. It featured the bands uniting to recording a cover of "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday" for Text Santa. It gave an insight into the work undertaken by Text Santa charities Age UK, Barnardo's, BeatBullying, the British Heart Foundation, CLIC Sargent and Help the Hospices.

Bands
 Five (without Jason "J" Brown)
 911
 Atomic Kitten (original line-up)
 B*Witched
 Honeyz (Célena Cherry and Heavenli Denton from original line-up, Mariama Goodman from second line-up)
 Liberty X
 Blue (joined later during episode 7 and performed at some of the concerts)

Episodes

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The Big Reunion: On Tour

The Big Christmas Reunion

Reception

Critical reception
After watching the first episode, which focused on the rises and falls of Five and Liberty X, Adam Postans of MSN said: "I'll be honest; I tuned in to this series opener to take the merciless mickey out of a bunch of pop has-been wannabes (come to think of it, 'Has-Been Wannabes' would have been a brilliant name for the losing quintet on the original ITV talent show, Popstars)...So I'm delighted and surprised to say that The Big Reunion wasn't the tiresome, drawn-out hour I'd assumed it would be..." Postans called it: "A surprisingly sober tale of the downfalls of being a pop star."

Of the second episode, which focused on the rises and falls of Atomic Kitten and 911, Caroline Frost of The Huffington Post said: "This week's 'The Big Reunion', bringing back together six girl-and boy bands for a one-off concert, concentrated on 911 and Atomic Kitten, which meant one thing - Kerry Katona-watch - but also a couple of harsh life lessons...This week's lessons - fame won't mend a broken heart, and success will challenge your friendships however robust they are, and turn the sweetest kitten into a clawing puss. And I still can't wait for Bew*tched to unravel their demons. Roll on next week of this car-crash guilty pleasure. Loving every minute."

Of the third episode, which focused on the rises and falls of B*Witched and Honeyz, Frost said: "This week's 'Big Reunion' showed the strength – AND shortfalls – of girl power, and shared two more of life's harsh lessons along the way."

Grace Dent, writing for The Independent, reviewed The Big Reunion very positively: "Sometime back in January a small TV brain-fart named The Big Reunion appeared on the schedule. Real low-rent reality TV fodder. The sort of thing I lap up at home with my ankles raised, eating noodles, while you are possibly ironing your own face to stay alert during that new Poliakoff five-parter. I won, however, and hooray for me, because The Big Reunion has been bloody fantastic." Dent went on to state that, "I am truly thankful that we live in an era when washed-up stars can make TV comebacks." Rosie Gizauskas from NOW magazine said that Five were the most "fascinating" band on the show.

Ratings
The first episode was seen by an average of 957,000 UK viewers, though it peaked at 1.2 million, making it ITV2's highest rated new show since Bionic Woman in 2008. The ratings increased for the second episode, which was watched by over 1.3 million, helping ITV2 finish third in the 9:00pm slot in front of BBC Two, Channel 4 and Channel 5. The overnight audience fell sharply to 670,000 for the third episode (but official figures were 941,000), being beaten in its timeslot by Junior Doctors: Your Life in Their Hands on BBC Three. Ratings continued to slide for episode 4, which overnight viewing figures showed was only watched by 630,000 viewers (less than half the audience of the episode of Celebrity Juice) that followed at 10:00pm, although the official rating was 826,000.  The sixth episode brought in 606,000 viewers when up against the series finale of Mayday on BBC One and UEFA Europa League coverage on ITV. 638,000 watched episode 7 and 593,000 watched episode 8. The ratings shot back up for the final episode, as an audience of 974,000 tuned in to watch the highlights and behind-the-scenes action of the Hammersmith Apollo concert. Official ratings show that with the addition of ITV2+1, The Big Reunion averaged over 1 million viewers every week.

References

External links
Official website

2013 British television seasons
2013 in British television


title: The Big Reunion (series 2)

text:
The second series of the British reality-documentary series The Big Reunion began airing on ITV2 on 6 February 2014 and ended on 27 March 2014. The show features 'teen' bands, some of whom were big names in the UK pop music scene between the 1990s and early 2000s, and the programme follows them as they reunite for the first time in a decade and go through their two weeks of intensive rehearsals before finally stepping back on stage for a comeback performance.

The bands who reunited for the second series were 3T, A1, Damage, Eternal and Girl Thing. Additionally, Kenzie from Blazin' Squad, Dane Bowers from Another Level, and former soloists Adam Rickitt, Kavana and Gareth Gates, joined together to form the supergroup 5th Story.

Background
Due to the massive success of the first series of The Big Reunion, which saw the reunions of Five, 911, Atomic Kitten, B*Witched, Blue, Honeyz and Liberty X, it was widely reported that a second series would be commissioned. Groups were rumoured to be reuniting for series 2 included Big Brovaz, Hear'Say, S Club 7, Busted, Mis-Teeq, East 17, All Saints, Eternal, A1, Cleopatra and Another Level. S Club 7 were reportedly in talks to reform for their own rival show to The Big Reunion. In regards to Hear'Say reuniting, Myleene Klass said, "I just can't imagine it. What are we going to do - sing 'Pure and Simple' on loop? It was nice and it was a great time in our lives, and where it was at that time is just perfect." It was also reported that Eternal could reform without Louise Redknapp, who initially walked away from the group in 1995.

On 27 December 2013, ITV announced that the six bands taking part in the show's second series would be A1, Eternal, Damage, 3T, Girl Thing and a supergroup called 5th Story, which consists of Gareth Gates, Another Level's Dane Bowers, Adam Rickitt, Kavana and Blazin' Squad's Kenzie. As previously reported, Eternal reunited for the show as a three-piece as Redknapp chose not to take part in their reunion. Additionally, Damage's Coreé Richards and A1's Paul Marazzi chose not to take part either, although Richards did appear on the show to talk about the band. Richards chose not to take part due to conflicts with the band.

Another Level were on the verge of signing up for the show, but Bowers' ex-bandmate Wayne Williams has since announced that he will not take part. In an interview with MTV UK, he said: "I decided not to participate in The Big Reunion because it wouldn't feel right to me...I'm in a totally different space in my life and I don't feel any need to look back."

On 26 January 2014, it was announced that series 2 would begin airing on ITV2 on 6 February 2014. The bands' comeback gig at the Hammersmith Apollo took place on 21 February 2014.

Bands
 3T
 A1 (without Paul Marazzi)
 Damage (without Coreé Richards)
 Eternal (without Louise Redknapp)
 Girl Thing
 5th Story (supergroup consisting of Kenzie from Blazin' Squad, Dane Bowers from Another Level, Adam Rickitt, Kavana and Gareth Gates)

Episodes

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Reception

Ratings
The first episode of the series was seen by an audience of 463,000, less than half the audience of the series 1 premiere. The second episode fell even further, bringing in 324,000 viewers.

Critical reception
Reviewing the first episode, Digital Spy's Catriona Wightman wrote, "if this first episode proved anything, it's that The Big Reunion is not about the music. It never has been, really - our obsession with Abz was really down to his hats, farming and tough post-fame life. And with Girl Thing, their story of the hype, the arguments and the crashing fall was an interesting enough insight into the world of the music business that we stopped caring about the fact that they never made it big. Honestly, that was kind of the point." In a negative review, the Daily Mirrors Kevin O'Sullivan said, ""This rigidly formulaic show is simply repeating itself. But take it away hopeless narrator Andi Peters: They scaled the icy unforgiving edifice of the artistic mountain we call pop..." Who writes this crap?'

References

External links
Official website

2014 British television seasons
British music television shows


title: Theo Terlingen

text:
Theodorus Bernardus Maria "Theo" Terlingen (26 May 1939 – 1 May 2006) was a field hockey player from the Netherlands. He competed  at the 1960, 1964 and 1968 Summer Olympics where his team finished in ninth, seventh and fifth place, respectively. A defense player, he scored two goals in 1964 and one in 1968.

References

External links

1939 births
2006 deaths
Dutch male field hockey players
Field hockey players at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Field hockey players at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Field hockey players at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Olympic field hockey players for the Netherlands
Sportspeople from Bussum
Field hockey players from North Holland
20th-century Dutch people


title: Herzsprung

text:
Herzsprung is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
 Bernd Herzsprung (born 1942), German actor
 Hannah Herzsprung (born 1981), German actress, daughter of Bernd

German-language surnames


title: 1999 Campeonato Brasileiro Série C

text:
The Campeonato Brasileiro Série C 1999, the third level of the Brazilian National Football League, was played from 27 August to 23 December 1999. The competition had 36 clubs and two of them were promoted to Série B.

Fluminense finished the final phase group with most points and was declared 1999 Brazilian Série C champions, claiming the promotion to the 2000 Série B along with São Raimundo, the runners-up. However, with the creation of the Copa João Havelange, Fluminense was promoted directly to the equivalent of the Série A, the Group Blue, while five quarterfinalists (Serra, Náutico, Figueirense, Caxias and Americano), along with Brasil de Pelotas, Villa Nova (reached the second phase), Bangu, Fortaleza, Anapolina and CSA (eliminated in the first phase)  were promoted to the Group Yellow.

Stages of the competition

First phase
Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Group E

Group F

Second phase

Quarterfinals

Final stage

Sources
 rsssf.com

Campeonato Brasileiro Série C seasons
1999 in Brazilian football leagues


title: Bulgarian Lovers

text:
Bulgarian Lovers () is a 2003 Spanish romantic comedy-drama film directed by Eloy de la Iglesia. It is based on the novel of the same name by Eduardo Mendicutti.

Plot
The plot centers around Daniel, a well-off gay lawyer in Madrid. He is part of a group of gay Spanish men who cruise for sex, which is treated as a form of domination. Daniel forms a relationship with an attractive Bulgarian expatriate, Kyril, for whom he makes extraordinary efforts, such as forging papers and smuggling uranium. Daniel and his wealth are contrasted with Kyril and his good looks.

Cast

Production
The film was produced by Cartel, Altube Filmeak, Cuervo Films, and Conexión Sur.

Release
The film screened in the 53rd Berlin International Film Festival in February 2003.

Reception
David Stratton of Variety deemed the film to be "full of charm, entertaining enough as it unfolds, good looking, but not especially memorable in retrospect".

Stephen Holden of The New York Times assessed that the film  manages to observe "the interplay of sex, power and money with a cool, amused attitude and a fine sense of social detail", "without becoming preachy or lapsing into fatuous psychological jargon".

See also
 List of Spanish films of 2003

References

External links

2003 comedy-drama films
2003 films
Spanish LGBT-related films
Gay-related films
Films directed by Eloy de la Iglesia
2000s Spanish films
2000s Spanish-language films
Films set in Madrid
Films based on Spanish novels


title: Mohamed Mediouri

text:
Mohamed El Mediouri (; born 8 April 1938 in Marrakesh) is the former chief of the personal security, and the senior bodyguard, of King Hassan II of Morocco.

Outside his official security position inside the palace he was the president of Kawakab Marrakesh football club and the Moroccan Athletics federation.

After the death of Hassan II he married the king's widow Lalla Latifa and settled in France. He was discharged of all of his official positions.

El Mediouri was also involved in business, he was the exclusive distributor of Motorola Talkie Walkies in Morocco. His son reportedly still runs this business.

Early life

Mohammed Mediouri started his career as policeman in the CMI (compagnie marocaine d'intervention), the riot control division of the Moroccan police. After the coups attempts of the early 1970s Hassan II realised that his security was insufficient and tasked Raymond Sassia (former bodyguard of Charles de Gaulle) with the formation of a new security for the monarch. Sassia recruited and trained, with the assistance of Hadj Ahmed El Faqir, Mediouri among others, but he became close to the king and he eventually replaced Sassia in the late 1970s as chief of security in the royal palace. In 1999, he married the widow of King Hassan II.

See also
Aziz Jaidi
Lalla Latifa

References

1938 births
Living people
Moroccan police officers
People from Marrakesh
20th-century Moroccan businesspeople
Moroccan expatriates in France
Bodyguards


title: Darwin Township

text:
Darwin Township may refer to the following townships in the United States:

 Darwin Township, Clark County, Illinois
 Darwin Township, Meeker County, Minnesota


title: Chagda

text:
Chagda () is the name of several rural localities in the Sakha Republic, Russia:
Chagda, Aldansky District, Sakha Republic, a selo in Chagdinsky Rural Okrug of Aldansky District
Chagda, Kobyaysky District, Sakha Republic, a selo in Nizhilinsky Rural Okrug of Kobyaysky District


title: Hesme

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

Annelise Hesme (born 1976), French actress
Clotilde Hesme (born 1979), French actress


title: Sara Camara

text:
Sara Camara (born 18 June 1940) is an athlete from Mali

He started at the Summer Olympics 1964 in Tokyo in Men's 100 metres. He finished seventh and last in his heat in the first round.

References

1940 births
Living people
Malian male sprinters
Athletes (track and field) at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Olympic athletes for Mali
21st-century Malian people


title: Kutana

text:
Kutana () is the name of several rural localities in the Sakha Republic, Russia:
Kutana, Suntarsky District, Sakha Republic, a selo in Kutaninsky Rural Okrug of Suntarsky District of the Sakha Republic
Kutana, Aldansky District, Sakha Republic, a selo in Anaminsky National Rural Okrug of Aldansky District of the Sakha Republic


title: Hesselbein

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

Dianne Hesselbein (born 1971), American politician
Frances Hesselbein (1915–2022), American writer and management consultant


title: Karin Bergöö Larsson

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Karin Larsson, née Bergöö, (3 October 1859 – 18 February 1928) was a Swedish artist and designer who collaborated with her husband, Carl Larsson, as well as being often depicted in his paintings.

Early life and education

Karin Bergöö was born in Örebro and grew up in Hallsberg, where her father, Adolf Bergöö, was a successful businessman. Her younger sister, Stina, married the English geologist Francis Arthur Bather. Karin showed early artistic talent, and after attending the Franska Skolan in Stockholm, studied at the Slöjdskolan (Handicrafts School; now Konstfack) and from 1877 to 1882 at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts. After completing her studies there, she went to Grez-sur-Loing, outside Paris, where there was a colony of Scandinavian artists, to continue painting.

Life with Carl Larsson

In Grez-sur-Loing she met Carl Larsson; they fell in love and in 1883 returned to Stockholm and were married, returning together to Grez-sur-Loing, where their first child, Suzanne, was born in 1884. The following year, they returned to Sweden.

In 1888 the Larssons went to Paris, on the suggestion of Pontus Fürstenberg of Gothenburg, who wanted a large painting by Carl to add to his art collection. They left their two children with Karin's parents in Hallsberg, and upon their return a year later, decorated the Bergöös' new house. They then moved into Lilla Hyttnäs, a stuga (cottage) in Sundborn on the outskirts of Falun where her father had been born. They enlarged it to accommodate their growing family and it became known as the Larsson farm.

Karin acted as a sounding-board and critic for Carl's work, in addition to being his primary model. With children and a large house to manage, she channelled her own artistic impulses into design. She designed and wove a large amount of the textiles used in the house, embroidered, and designed clothes for herself and the children and furniture which was created by a local carpenter. For example, the pinafores worn by her and other women who worked at Sundborn, known as karinförkläde in Swedish, were a practical design by her. The style in which the house was decorated and furnished to Karin's designs, depicted in Carl's paintings, created a new, recognisably Swedish style: "In total contrast to the prevailing style of dark heavy furnishings, its bright interiors incorporated an innovative blend of Swedish folk design and fin-de-siècle influences, including Japonisme and Arts and Crafts ideas from Britain." In the "Swedish room" with which she replaced the little used drawing room, she removed curtains and placed furniture along the walls around a raised dais, creating a room within a room that was much used by the family, as shown in Carl's paintings, with a sofa in a corner for naps, shown in Lathörnet (Lazy Nook). Her textile designs and colours were also new: "Pre-modern in character they introduced a new abstract style in tapestry. Her bold compositions were executed in vibrant colours; her embroidery frequently used stylised plants. In black and white linen she reinterpreted Japanese motifs." She is buried in Sundborn cemetery.

1997, Victoria and Albert Museum in London showed her interior design at the Carl Larsson exhibition.

2009 she was highlighted with an exhibition in Sundborn.

2018, the exhibition Carl Larsson and His Home: Art of the Swedish Lifestyle at Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Museum of Art, showed textiles made by Karin, and paintings of their home, made by Carl.

In popular culture
Larsson was the inspiration for Katherine Ashenburg's 2018 novel Sofie & Cecilia which is a fictionalized retelling of her life.

Paintings

References

Further reading
Axel Frieberg. Karin. En bok om Carl Larssons hustru. Stockholm: Bonnier, 1967.
Ingrid Andersson. Karin Larsson: Konstnär och konstnärshustru. Stockholm: Gidlunds, 1986.
Ingrid Zakrisson.
Michael Snodin and Elisabet Stavenow-Hidemark. Carl and Karin Larsson: Creators of the Swedish Style. Exhibition catalogue. London: V & A, 1997.

External links

 Föreningen Karin Bergöö Larssons vänner

1859 births
1928 deaths
People from Örebro
20th-century Swedish women artists
20th-century Swedish painters
19th-century Swedish women artists
19th-century Swedish painters
Swedish embroiderers


title: Seebarn Cricket Ground

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Seebarn Cricket Ground is a cricket ground in Seebarn, Austria. It was opened in 1995 as the first dedicated Cricket Ground in Austria. In 2000 a permanent sight screen was added to the ground and in 2001 a pavilion.

The ground is the home base of Austria's national cricket team as well as the Vienna Cricket Club and has hosted a number of international tournaments.

Between 2001 and 2004 there was a second ground adjacent to the remaining ground.

References

External links
Seebarn Cricket Ground at ESPNcricinfo

Cricket grounds in Austria
Sports venues completed in 1995
1995 establishments in Austria
20th-century architecture in Austria