title: Desislava Stoyanova

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Desislava Stoyanova (; born 10 April 1992) is a retired Bulgarian biathlete. She was born in Berkovitsa. She competed at six Biathlon World Championships between 2011 and 2017, and at the 2014 and 2018 Winter Olympics. Her best individual result in the Biathlon World Cup is a 22nd place in the sprint. Her best individual result at World Championships is the 38th place in the sprint at the Biathlon World Championships 2015. Her best Olympic individual result is the 61st place in the sprint at the 2014 Winter Olympics. She is engaged to fellow biathlete Dimitar Gerdzhikov from whom she has one child.

References

External links

1992 births
Living people
Biathletes at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Biathletes at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Bulgarian female biathletes
Olympic biathletes for Bulgaria
21st-century Bulgarian women
21st-century Bulgarian people


title: List of number-one singles of 2014 (Poland)

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This is a list of the songs that reached number-one position in official Polish single chart in ZPAV in 2014.

Chart history

Number-one artists

See also
 Polish Music Charts
 List of number-one albums of 2014 (Poland)

References

Poland
2014
No On


title: Park Hyun-bin

text:
Park Ji-ung (; born October 28, 1982), better known by his stage name Park Hyun-bin (), is a South Korean trot singer. Dubbed the "Prince of Trot", he made his debut in 2006 and has released three studio albums. His songs have become popular chants and rally songs sung at sporting events or election campaigns due to their catchy lyrics and tunes.

Early life
Park was born and raised in Gwangmyeong and moved to the Incheon area when he was in middle school. He was exposed to music from an early age as his father was an amateur saxophone player and his mother is a former vocal instructor. After completing his mandatory military service in the Republic of Korea Air Force, where he was part of the band, he decided to pursue a career in music and majored in voice at the Chugye University for the Arts. During his second year in college, he auditioned at Jang Yoon-jeong's agency and was selected.

Career
Park debuted in 2006 with the album Gondre Mandre. At that time he was given the sobriquet "Male Jang Yoon-jeong" by netizens and fans as both were under the same management and embodied a new generation of trot singers who possessed good looks and charismatic stage presence. He was recognized by the Korean Traditional Music Promotion Association (ko) with the Rookie of the Year award in 2007.

In 2008 Park released his second album, Shabang Shabang in 2008. He won the award in the Trot category at the Seoul Music Awards that year, beating veterans such as Tae Jin-ah and Song Dae-kwan. In 2011 he released a Japanese version and it became a hit in Japan, topping the USEN Enka charts. He was one of the performers at the 2011 Music Bank World Tour and became the first trot singer to perform at the Tokyo Dome and the only trot singer in the line-up, which mostly consisted of pop singers and idol groups. That year he returned to the domestic music scene and released his third album Hourglass.

Personal life
In 2015 Park married traditional dancer Kim Joo-hee. They have a son and a daughter, both of whom have appeared with him on The Return of Superman.

Park is the younger of two sons. His older brother Ji-su is an opera singer (baritone) based in Germany and graduated from Kyung Hee University and the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig. The brothers performed together during the episode of Immortal Songs: Singing the Legend broadcast on May 24, 2019 and were the final winners.

Discography

 Gondre Mandre (곤드레 만드레) (2006)
 Shabang Shabang (샤방샤방) (2008)
 Hourglass (모래시계) (2011)

Filmography

Television shows

Awards

References

External links
Artist Profile at Melon

1982 births
Living people
People from Gwangmyeong
Singers from Gyeonggi Province
Trot singers
Chugye University for the Arts alumni
21st-century South Korean  male singers
South Korean Buddhists


title: Olga Podchufarova

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Olga Vladimirovna Podchufarova (; born 5 August 1992) is a retired Russian biathlete. She competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, where she placed 49th in the individual competition.

Results

Olympic Games

World Championships

Biathlon World Cup

World Cup Highlights
2015, , Pokljuka,  3rd at mass start
2016, , Antholz-Anterselva,  1st at sprint

References

External links

1992 births
Living people
Biathletes at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Russian female biathletes
Olympic biathletes for Russia
Biathlon World Championships medalists
Skiers from Moscow
State University of Management alumni


title: Manila Sotang

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Manila Sotang () is a Nepali singer.

Music
Manila was trained in music early in life by her uncle who taught her to sing bhajans. After singing playback for the film Mayalu, she was noticed as a singer. Manila has sung more than 200 songs to date. She has 10 music albums with her husband Uday Sotang. The husband-wife musical couple have contributed to Nepali Adhunik (modern) music for two-and-a-half decades.

Albums
 Jhajhalko
 Darpan
 Muskan
 Katha
 Aatma Katha
 Bhid Dekhi Bahira
 Sandesh
 Marma
 Upama
 Sambaad
 Together (Hindi ghazal album)

Personal life
Manila Sotang is originally from Darjeeling, India. She moved to Kathmandu along with her husband Uday Sotang to pursue their musical career in the late 1980s. Her daughter Shreya Sotang is a singer who has also released an album.

References

External links
 Songs by Manila Sotang

Living people
21st-century Nepalese women singers
People from Darjeeling district
Year of birth missing (living people)
Nepali-language singers from India


title: Uday Sotang

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Uday Sotang Rai (), credited as Uday Sotang is a Nepali musician and singer. He has written and composed numerous songs, and sung many of them himself. Most of his songs have been rendered by his wife Manila Sotang.

Personal life
Uday Sotang is originally from Tukvar, near Darjeeling, India. He moved to Kathmandu to pursue his musical career in 1988. Uday Sotang is married to Manila Sotang who is a Nepali singer. Their daughter Shreya Sotang is an upcoming singer who has already released an album.

Music
With more than 200 songs to his credit, Uday Sotang is considered to be one of the popular and successful Nepali musicians. He is based in Kathmandu, Nepal. The husband-wife duo of Uday and Manila have produced more than 10 music albums. They have produced many albums under the name "U ani Ma" (U standing for Uday, meaning "the other person" in Nepali; and Ma standing for Manila, meaning "me" in Nepali).

Albums
 Jhajhalko
 Darpan
 Muskan
 Katha
 Aatma Katha
 Bhid Dekhi Bahira
 Sandesh
 Marma
 Upama
 Sambaad
 Together (Hindi ghazal album)

References

External links
 Music of Uday Sotang

21st-century Nepalese male singers
People from Darjeeling district
20th-century Nepalese male singers

Year of birth missing (living people)
Nepali-language singers from India


title: Dubai Canal

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Dubai Canal is an artificial water canal unveiled on 2 October 2013 and inaugurated on 9 November 2016. The canal side-walk comprises one shopping centre, four hotels, 450 restaurants, luxury housing, walkways and cycle paths. It is a  long project starting from Business Bay into the Arabian Gulf through Safa Park and Jumeirah. The width ranges from  to . It is  feet deep and be crossed by  high bridges. It creates new public places and facilities with a total area of  with private marinas for boats and a trade centre at the entrance of the canal. The development was designed by AE7 Architects and Planners.

Built by BESIX Group subsidiary Six Construct, the canal is crossed by 3 pedestrian/bicycle bridges, including the Dubai Water Canal Bridge, better known as the Twisted Bridge and now renamed Bridge of Tolerance, so named by His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai on November 15, 2017.

Infrastructure

Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) built bridges over the canal for Sheikh Zayed Road, Al Wasl Road and Jumeirah Road. The Sheikh Zayed road bridge has eight lanes in each direction and three lanes in each direction on Al Wasl Road and Jumeirah Road. The crossings are 8.5 meters above the water to allow boats to pass underneath.

The project also includes three pedestrian crossings in addition to footpaths on all three new bridges and four marina stations for public transport.

As of July 2014, the earthworks for the project near Sheikh Zayed Road had commenced.

It was unveiled on 2 October 2013 and inaugurated on 9 November 2016. The canal and its bridges were built between 2014 and 2016 by BESIX subsidiary Six Construct.

One of the first projects launched on Dubai Water Canal is Marasi Business Bay, which broke ground in June 2017.

References

2016 establishments in the United Arab Emirates
Canals in the United Arab Emirates
Geography of Dubai


title: Diana Haller

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Diana Haller (born 11 November 1986) is a Croatian mezzo-soprano and active in opera, oratorio, and recital. She was named "Nachwuchssängerin des Jahres 2013" (Young singer of the year 2013) by the magazine Opernwelt.

Haller was born in Rijeka (Croatia), in a family of Croatian and Italian background. She grew up in an artistic family being a great-granddaughter of the pianist Emilia Haller, granddaughter of the painter Antun Haller, and nephew of the musicians Roberto Haller and his wife Ingrid Haller.

References

Operatic mezzo-sopranos
21st-century Croatian women opera singers
Living people
1986 births


title: Sukmit Gurung

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Sukmit Gurung (Nepali:सुकमित गुरुङ) is a modern classical Nepali female singer who sang popular Nepali songs such as Priyatam and Relimai in the 1990s and worked as a playback singer in various Nepali cinemas. She has sung more than 400 songs including those with contemporary musicians such as Gopal Yonzon, Ambar Gurung, and Sambhujeet Baskota. She also sang in Newari and Japanese language. She is originally from Sikkim, India, but has settled in Nepal.

Biography
Gurung was born in Gangtok, Sikkim. Her childhood name was Sukmit Ongmu Lepcha (Nepali:सुकमित ओङ्मु लेप्चा).Her father Bi Ongmu Lepcha had a job in Indian Army and mother Pasang Chiring Lepcha worked for the Sikkim women police force.  She started singing for church from her early age and performed in stage for the first time at the age of 14.

In 1970s, she came to Nepal temporarily with her sister who was working for American Embassy in Nepal. In the visit, she met another musician Prakash Gurung in Kathmandu who encouraged to participate in the voice contest organized by Radio Nepal which was the only radio media in Nepal at that time. She won the contest, which allowed her to work in Nepali music industry permanently as a young female artist.

She debuted in Nepali music in Ambar Gurung's musical play Malati Mangale. Her first recorded musical clips were for advertisement jingles. Her first recorded song was Sunchadi Bhanda Mahango which was a duet with another prominent singer Om Bikram Bista and music was provided by Prakash Gurung. The song that established her in the Nepali music industry was Priyatam which was composed by Deepak Thapa. Another popular song was Relimai which was a duet with Madan Nepal and composed by Subha Bahadur Sunam. She was 28 and pregnant when she sang Relimai. The song was converted in to a music video and is among the early music videos of Nepal. Later, she sang Pal Pal, Dhoka Dieu Timile which were also well received. Her song Pal Pal was reused 15 years later in Nepali film Romeo and Muna

Because of her contribution to Nepali music, she was appointed as the assistant music director in Nepal Pragya Prathisthan, a government organization to promote Nepali literature, music, art and culture.

Gurung has sung for charity nationally and internationally, such as in Britain. She also sang for joint venture movies made in Pakistan and Bangladesh as playback singer for films such as Hami ek hou (हामी एक हौं)  and Dharti Aakash(धर्ती–आकाश).

In her late carrier, she also sang comical songs Chanchale (Nepali:चञ्चले) and Barabar (बराबर) with Hari Bansa Acharya, which were well received in Nepal.
When her vocal cord got infected, she became distant from the stage and singing industry.

She married Balram Gurung in 2045 BS and has three children.

Albums
Kahin ta Birsanu Timile, it was her debeu album published in 1981 BS
Palpal
Timi nai bhana
Utsav
Rangeen Lahar
Trishana

References

External links
List of songs in Music Nepal.

Living people
Nepali-language singers from India
Singers from Sikkim
Year of birth missing (living people)
Gurung people


title: Brunei–Japan relations

text:
Brunei–Japan relations (, ) refers to bilateral foreign relations between Brunei and Japan. Brunei has an embassy in Tokyo, and Japan has an embassy in Bandar Seri Begawan.

History
Relations has been established since 2 April 1984. Brunei and Japan had a long close and friendly ties especially in economic with Brunei heavily relies on Japan for imports such as motor vehicles, construction equipment, electronic goods and household appliances which dominate the Bruneian market.

Relations between Brunei Royal Family and Japan Imperial Family
The Sultan of Brunei paid a state visit to Japan in April 1984. For the first time in history, the Sultan of Brunei made an audience with Emperor Hirohito at the Tokyo Imperial Palace. During the Sultan's visit, both monarchs had exchanged state honours. The Sultan awarded the Emperor 1st Class - Darjah Kerabat Laila Utama Yang Amat Dihormati - D.K. (Laila Utama) while the Emperor bestowed the Sultan Collar of the Supreme Order of the Chrysanthemum.

The relations between both royal families continue in touch. The Sultan of Brunei attended the funeral of Emperor Hirohito in 1989. A year later, the Sultan attended the coronation of Emperor Akihito on 12 November 1990.

In September 1996 Prince Hitachi and Princess Hitachi visited Brunei. They became the first members of the Imperial Household to visit the sultanate.

On 9 September 2004, among the royal guests who were invited, Crown Prince Naruhito attended the royal wedding of Crown Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah to Pengiran Anak Sarah at Istana Nurul Iman in Bandar Seri Begawan.

On 5 October 2017, on the occasion of the Golden Jubilee of the Sultan of Brunei to the throne, Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko signed the congratulatory book to convey their warmest congratulations to the Sultan. The signing took place at the Brunei Embassy in Tokyo.

Economic relations
Several agreements such as the Japan–Brunei Economic Partnership and avoidance of tax has been signed. In oil and gas industry, over 82% Bruneian liquefied natural gas (LNG) were sold to Japan and Brunei provides over 5 million tons of the LNG per year to three Japanese utilities. Japanese companies have been active in investing in Brunei and were planning on new projects in other areas such as on petrochemicals and halal food. Both countries also seek co-operation in the field of renewable energy and in energy saving, and keen to expand relations in education, agriculture and health.

Security relations
On security, the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe said that Japan would exert every effort toward the success of multilateral exercises under the ASEAN Defense Ministers Meeting Plus which were held in Brunei on 2013. Both Brunei and Japan confirmed that they would continue strengthening cooperative relations in the fields of disaster relief and maritime security.

Further reading
 Japan-Brunei Relations Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Japan)
 Call for closer Brunei, Japan ties The Brunei Times
 SULTAN, JAPANESE PM UNVEIL SYMBOLIC LOGO BruDirect
 Celebrating 25th anniversary of Japan-Brunei diplomatic ties Borneo Bulletin

References

External links
 Embassy of Japan in Brunei Darussalam
 Embassy of Brunei Darussalam in Tokyo

Japan
Bilateral relations of Japan


title: Angelo Henderson

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Angelo B. Henderson (c. 1962 – February 15, 2014) was an American journalist, radio broadcaster and minister from Detroit, MI. In 1999, Henderson won the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Feature Writing. Henderson remains the only African American journalist to win the Pulitzer Prize for The Wall Street Journal.

As part of Henderson's advocacy efforts to encourage Detroit citizens to embrace civic involvement, he co-founded The Detroit 300, a citizen's patrol group aiding Detroit police; the Angelo B. Henderson Community Commitment Award has since been established in his name.

References

1960s births
2014 deaths
American male journalists
Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing winners
The Wall Street Journal people
American radio journalists
American Christian clergy


title: Popular Songs of Great Enduring Strength and Beauty

text:
Popular Songs Of Great Enduring Strength And Beauty is a compilation album by American alternative rock group
Camper Van Beethoven released in 2008 on the Cooking Vinyl label.

Track listing
The Day That Lassie Went To The Moon (3:13)  [from Telephone Free Landslide Victory (1985)]
Border Ska (2:50)  [from Telephone Free Landslide Victory (1985)]
Take the Skinheads Bowling (2:28)  [from Telephone Free Landslide Victory (1985)]
Pictures Of Matchstick Men (4:08) [re-recorded, original version from Key Lime Pie (1989)]
Skinhead Stomp (1:48)  [from Telephone Free Landslide Victory (1985)]
Opie Rides Again/Club Med Sucks (3:53)  [from Telephone Free Landslide Victory (1985)]
Eye of Fatima Parts 1 & 2 (4:55)   [re-recorded, original version from Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart (1988)]
ZZ Top Goes To Egypt (3:08)  [from II & III (1986)]
Sad Lover's Waltz (4:09)  [from II & III (1986)]
When I Win The Lottery (3:37)  [re-recorded, original version from Key Lime Pie (1989)]
The History Of Utah (2:52)  [from Camper Van Beethoven (1986)]
Seven Languages (4:07) [from Vampire Can Mating Oven (1987)]
All Her Favourite Fruit (8:41)  [re-recorded, original version from Key Lime Pie (1989)]
Good Guys And Bad Guys	(4:49)  [from Camper Van Beethoven (1986)]
Circles (3:03)  [from II & III (1986)]
One Of These Days (3:26)   [re-recorded, original version from Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart (1988)]
Ambiguity Song	(2:29)  [from Telephone Free Landslide Victory (1985)]
Shut Us Down (1:16)  [from Camper Van Beethoven (1986)]

References

External links

Camper Van Beethoven albums
2008 compilation albums
Cooking Vinyl compilation albums


title: Angel of Destruction

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Angel of Destruction is a 1994 film directed by Charles Philip Moore and starring Maria Ford, and Charlie Spradling. The film, produced and distributed by Concorde-New Horizons, was a Roger Corman production.

Plot
A controversial rock star Delilah, is hoping her new upcoming album will give her success after a previous two failed albums. After a topless cabaret/glam-metal performance at a local S&M club, she finds a finger with a ring in a box left for her within the dressing room. The sender is a psychotic fan Robert Kell, a sexual predator/mercenary/ex-military man in town, who has returned to the area to seek revenge on various underworld mobsters who "left his men to die in Angola", during the Angolan War of Independence.

This situation leads Delilah, and her lover/co-conspirator Reena, to seek a female bodyguard for protection. She has a dislike of the police, as her father was a cop, and he had once raped her. They seek undercover cop Brit Alwood, who agrees to take the case. However moments after the pair leaving Alwood's office, Brit is killed by Kell.

When Brit's kid sister Jo finds out about the crime, she sets out for revenge and agrees to protect Delilah, assisted by her lover Aaron Sayles, who is a detective. Jo is pulled into the dark, erotic world of sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll, and is forced to confront the crazed mind of a vicious serial killer. The two scour the town, interrogating Vietnam veterans that might know Kell's whereabouts.

At the same time Danny Marcus, Delilah's manager and abusive lover, starts causing problems for the talent when her record label owner Sonny Luso wants her to change her bad girl image. Sonny stands to lose $2 million if she won't change her image and the new album fails. He could collect $1.5 million on an insurance policy if she winds up dead – which leads to an assassination attempt that is thwarted by both Jo and Kell, who she believes is trying to save Delilah for a sick and twisted fantasy finale.

Cast
 Maria Ford as Jo Alwood
 Charlie Spradling as Brit Alwood
 Jessica Mark as Delilah
 Antonio Bacci as Aaron Sayles
 Chanda as Reena Jacobs
 Jimmy Broome as Robert Kell
 Bob McFarland as Sonny Luso
 Chuck Moore as Chet Wailner
 Timothy D. Baker as Tony
 James Gregory Paolleli as Danny Marcus
 Jim Moss as Sgt. Rooney
 Steve Nicholson as Dino
 Mark Duffy as Rodman
 Henry Strzalkowski as Louis
 Zenaida Amador as Mrs. Kona
 Paul Holmes as Coroner
 John Kater as Carl Wells

Background
The film is a remake of the 1992 action film Blackbelt, starring Don 'The Dragon' Wilson, which had involved the same writers and producers as Angel of Destruction, as well as also being directed by Moore, and produced by Corman. The roles were changed however, with a martial arts expert being replaced with a female undercover cop instead. The actor Bob McFarland appeared as different characters in both films. Three of the film's major actors Jessica Mark, Antonio Bacci and Jimmy Broome, have never appeared in any other films before or after Angel of Destruction. Although set in Hawaii, the film was actually filmed in the Philippines. Although the film is mainly known for its title Angel of Destruction, it has also been named Furious Angel.

Concorde-New Horizons originally gave the film its small theatrical release in 1994. New Horizons Home Video issued the first VHS release on April 7, 1998, in America. On May 25, 2004, the film was given its first DVD release by New Concorde Home Entertainment. This was issued as part of "The Maria Ford Collection". The film's tagline reads "So hot she'll knock you out cold."

In 1998 the film was one subject of the documentary The Dark Side of Hollywood, which looked behind the scenes of Hollywood's low-budget movie industry, and featured clips and discussion on Angel of Destruction.

Reception
Hal Erickson of Allmovie gave the film one and a half stars. He stated, "Angel of Destruction" stars female martial-arts expert Maria Ford in the title role. In the tradition of the "B" westerns of Yore, Ford sets out to avenge her sister's murderer. She's essentially a woman of peace, though she leaves a lot of her opponents in pieces. There's gore galore before she corners the killers, and it is for this reason, rather than the frequent glimpses of the leading lady's bare torso, that the film is rated R. The saving grace of "Angel of Destruction", for non-chopsocky fans, is the fact that Maria Ford actually has a soupcon of acting ability."

Entertainment Weekly writer Glenn Kenny, gave the film a C− grade in a review published on June 17, 1994. He stated, "In "Angel of Destruction", direct-to-video sexpot Maria Ford swipes a leaf from Cynthia Rothrock's book and goes martial arts. Ford's twist? She occasionally kicks butt whilst half-naked. Mere words cannot do justice to the ludicrousness of Angel's plot, which commences with Ford deciding to avenge the murder of her sister and climaxes when she's forced to do a striptease act at the behest of a psychotic ex-mercenary. You've got to sit through it to not believe it."

In the book The Motion Picture Guide 1995 Annual: The Films of 1994, written by James Pallot and published by CineBooks, it was noted that, "all the elements of "Angel of Destruction" are so familiar that it's easy to think you've already seen it." The 2006 book VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever, by Jim Craddock, gave the film one and a half stars. The Video Source Book of 2008, written by James M. Craddock and published by Thomson Gale, also gave the same rating.

References

External links

American action thriller films
1990s English-language films
1994 films
1994 action thriller films
Films produced by Roger Corman
Films shot in the Philippines
Films directed by Charles Philip Moore
1990s American films


title: 2014 ONGC–GAIL Delhi Open – Women's singles

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This was the first edition of the event.

Wang Qiang won the title, defeating Yuliya Beygelzimer in the final, 6–1, 6–3.

Seeds

Draw

Finals

Top half

Bottom half

References
 Main Draw

2014 ITF Women's Circuit
2014 in Indian tennis


title: Unified Political Command

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A Unified Political Command (, qiyāda siyāsiyya muwaḥḥada), also translated as Joint Political Command or Unified Political Leadership, was agreed in 1964 between the presidents of Egypt and Iraq (Gamal Abdel Nasser and Abdul Salam Arif) as well as between the presidents of Egypt and North Yemen (Nasser and Abdullah as-Sallal). Both projects were parallel but not linked with each other. The Unified Political Command was meant as a kind of transitional government which should prepare the gradual merger of Iraq with Egypt and North Yemen with Egypt in a new United Arab Republic.

Egypt and Iraq

Therefore, on 26 May 1964 Nasser and Arif agreed to form a joint Presidential Council and a Unified Political Command on 16 October 1964. This Unified Command was established on 20 December 1964 and did include the prime ministers of Egypt and Iraq as well as the ministers of economical and financial affairs and social planning of both sides and should act as a joint supreme instrument and highest executive authority to establish the economical, political and military unification of Egypt and Iraq within two years. The Iraqi Abd ar-Razzaq Muhyi ad-Din (Abdel Razzaq Mohieddin) became General Secretary of the Unified Command. In July 1964 an Iraqi Arab Socialist Union was founded as political instrument to collect the support of the population and was formally united with the Egyptian Arab Socialist Union in September 1964. Also in September 1964 Egypt and Iraq agreed to unite their diplomatical corps and representations all over the world. In 1965 Iraq adopted the Egyptian coat of arms eagle and the Egyptian national anthem, declared Iraq as a democratic and socialist republic and announced a programme of nationalization. However, despite a few real meetings and sessions of this Unified Political Command the project stopped when the Nasserist prime minister of Iraq, Arif Abd ar-Razzaq, tried to overthrow president Arif in September 1965 and when Arif died in April 1966.

Egypt and Yemen

Parallelly, but not linked with the Egyptian-Iraqi merger project also between Nasser and as-Sallal a Unified Political Command was established on 13 July 1964. A joint government council of the Egyptian and Yemeni ministers should coordinate and integrate the Foreign, Defense, Economical, Social, Cultural and Information policy towards full unity. A (short-living) Yemeni Arab Socialist Union (later renamed) was established already in 1964 and, in fact, Egyptian generals and officers took over the command of the republican forces in Yemen during the North Yemen Civil War. This civil war, however, prevented any progress and when Egypt withdraw its troops from Yemen after the Six-Day War as-Sallal was overthrown in November 1967 and also this project definitively ended.

Others
Similar Unified Political Commands and Joint Supreme Committees were planned and formed
between the Syrian president Hafez al-Assad and king Hussein of Jordan in July 1975 in order to coordinate and push the military, political and economical integration of Syria and Jordan. The project failed when Syria re-approached Egypt within the Federation of Arab Republics in December 1976
within the Egyptian-Libyan-Syrian Federation of Arab Republics between Egypt, Libya and Sudan in April 1970. Later Syria joined instead of Sudan, but Egypt and Libya agreed to let a Unified Political Command prepare a more substantial union within the federation. The Egyptian-Libyan merger failed 1973 but on 21 December 1976 and in February 1977 the Syrian president Assad and the Egyptian president Anwar Sadat agreed to form a new bilateral Unified Political Command and a Political Supreme Council. In March 1977 Sudan's president Gaafar Nimeiry joined that Unified Political Command and all three presidents announced to form a new Federation of Arab Republics which never was realized and finally collapsed in November 1977 with the begin of Egyptian-Israeli peace talks.
between Syria and Iraq in October 1978 when both sides agreed to improve their military and economical cooperation and even planned to form a Syrian-Iraqi Union. A Supreme Political Authority (Committee) and later also a Joint Political Command was formed with Iraqi president Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, Syrian president Assad and Iraqi vice president Saddam Hussein. The project failed when Saddam Hussein replaced al-Bakr in July 1979.

Sources
Robin Leonard Bidwell: Dictionary of Modern Arab History, page 426f. London/New York 1998
Hanna Batatu: Syria's Peasantry, the Descendants of Its Lesser Rural Notables, and Their Politics, page 282. Princeton 2012
The News and Courier, 6 June 1965: Despite Alliance, Iraq, UAR Never May Be United
Toledo Blade, 21 December 1964: Unified Political Command Formed for UAR, Iraq
The Sydney Morning Herald, 27 January 1965: Mirage In The Middle East
Spokane Daily Chronicle, 2 August 1972: Egypt, Libya Plan to Join as One State
The Times, 25 February 1977: Sudan Expetected to Join Egypt, Syria in Command

20th century in Egypt
Arab nationalism in Egypt
Arab nationalism in Iraq
Arab nationalism in Syria
Arab nationalism in Yemen
Arab Socialist Union
Egypt–Iraq relations
Former confederations
Pan-Arabism
Proposed countries
United Arab Republic


title: Ellis Hooks

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Ellis Hooks (born 1974) is an American soul blues and electric blues singer and songwriter, who has released six albums to date.

The Allmusic journalist, Thom Jurek, noted that Hooks " touches upon Wilson Pickett, Sam Cooke, and Otis Redding, but feels like one of the gritty New York streets Hooks has busked upon."

Biography
Hooks was born in Bay Minette, Alabama, United States, to a Cherokee mother and an African American father, who was a Baptist raised sharecropper. He was the thirteenth of sixteen children. By the age of fourteen, Hooks had heard secular music on the radio and left his strict upbringing. Subsequently hitchhiking across the United States, Hooks also travelled around Europe, residing in Paris and Amsterdam, before relocating to New York in his mid-twenties.  After busking on the streets of the city, by accident he met the record producer, Jon Tiven, who produced Hooks debut album, Undeniable. Hooks secured headline status at the BBC's World Music Festival in 2003, and opened for Terence Trent D'Arby.  Hooks also performed with Carla Thomas at the Montreux Jazz Festival. His 2003 album, Up Your Mind, was nominated for a Blues Music Award.

Uncomplicated (2004) was noted by one reviewer as "somehow both connects with the past while pointing ahead to the future".

The Hand of God (2005) was recorded in New York City and Nashville, Tennessee, and had five of its tracks mixed by Dan Penn.

His next recording, Godson of Soul, was also produced by Jon Tiven, and included contributions from Steve Cropper and Wayne Jackson.

Hooks' next release was Another Saturday Morning, issued in July 2007.

Festival work
In May 2004, Hooks performed at Memphis in May.

Hooks appeared at the Kitchener Blues Festival in August 2014.

Other recordings
In 2003, Hooks recorded his cover version of "Bulbs" for the Van Morrison tribute album, Vanthology: A Tribute to Van Morrison. In addition, Hooks recorded as a backing vocalist on Frank Black's 2005 album, Honeycomb. He performed similar duties in helping Little Milton record his album Think of Me in 2005. In 2006, Hooks backing vocals were part of Frank Black's release, Fast Man Raider Man.

Hooks' co-composed song "40 Days" was recorded by Howard Tate on his 2008 album, Blue Day; whilst Deborah Coleman had earlier recorded Hooks' co-penned song, "Undeniable", for her What About Love? (2004) release.

Discography

Studio albums

See also
List of electric blues musicians
List of soul-blues musicians

References

External links
Zane Records : Ellis Hooks discography

1974 births
Living people
American soul singers
American blues singers
People from Bay Minette, Alabama
Electric blues musicians
Soul-blues musicians
Songwriters from Alabama
21st-century American singers
21st-century American male singers
American male songwriters


title: 1998 Caribbean Series

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The fortieth edition of the Caribbean Series (Serie del Caribe) was held from February 4 through February 10 of  with the champion baseball teams of the Dominican Republic, Águilas Cibaeñas; Mexico, Venados de Mazatlán; Puerto Rico, Indios de Mayagüez, and Venezuela, Cardenales de Lara. The format consisted of 12 games, each team facing the other teams twice, and the games were played at Estadio Alfonso Chico Carrasquel in Puerto la Cruz, Anzoátegui, Venezuela.

Summary

Final standings

Individual leaders

All-Star team

Sources
Bjarkman, Peter. Diamonds around the Globe: The Encyclopedia of International Baseball. Greenwood.
Serie del Caribe : History, Records and Statistics (Spanish)

Caribbean
1998
International baseball competitions hosted by Venezuela
1998 in Venezuelan sport
1998 in Caribbean sport
Sport in Puerto la Cruz
Caribbean Series


title: Old Pine Church

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Old Pine Church, also historically known as Mill Church, Nicholas Church, and Pine Church, is a mid-19th century church located near to Purgitsville, West Virginia, United States. It is among the earliest extant log churches in Hampshire County, along with Capon Chapel and Mount Bethel Church.

The church was constructed in 1838 to serve as a nondenominational "union church". As many of the Mill Creek valley's earliest settlers were of German descent, Old Pine Church may also have been built as a meeting place for Schwarzenau Brethren adherents, known as "Dunkers" or "Dunkards". The church is believed to have also been a meeting place for German Methodist settlers. By 1870, the church was primarily used by the Brethren denomination, and in 1878, the church's congregation split into White Pine Church of the Brethren and Old Pine Church congregations. Both congregations continued to use the church until 1907.

Old Pine Church reportedly housed a school in the early 20th century while still serving as a center for worship. In 1968, residents of the Purgitsville community raised the necessary funds to perform a restoration of the church. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 12, 2012, due to its "significant settlement-era rural religious architecture in the Potomac Highlands."

The church is a large, one-story, gablefront log building sheathed in brown-painted wooden German siding. The original hewn log beams are visible beneath the church, with some bark remaining on the logs. The church's interior ceiling measures approximately  in height and is clad in pressed metal panels. Several of its pews date from 1857. In the church's adjoining cemetery, the earliest extant gravestone dates from 1834, and several unmarked interment sites may exist from as early as 1759. According to architectural historian Sandra Scaffidi, "Old Pine Church and cemetery is an excellent example of one of the area's early rural church complexes."

Geography and setting

Old Pine Church and its cemetery are located along the steeply sloped Old Pine Church Road (West Virginia Secondary Route 220/15), approximately  south of the unincorporated community of Purgitsville. The church and cemetery are situated on  atop a bluff to the west of United States Route 220, at an elevation of . The property is surrounded by old-growth forests.

The church is in a rural area of southwestern Hampshire County within the Mill Creek valley. Patterson Creek Mountain, a forested narrow anticlinal mountain ridge, rises to the west of Mill Creek valley, and the forested western rolling foothills of the anticlinal Mill Creek Mountain rise to the valley's east. The Trough on the South Branch Potomac River is located across Mill Creek Mountain, approximately  to the east of the church.

History

Background
Old Pine Church's land tract was originally part of the Northern Neck Proprietary, a land grant that the exiled Charles II awarded to seven of his supporters in 1649 during the English Interregnum. Following the Restoration in 1660, Charles II finally ascended to the English throne. Charles II renewed the Northern Neck Proprietary grant in 1662, revised it in 1669, and again renewed the original grant favoring original grantee Thomas Colepeper, 2nd Baron Colepeper and Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington in 1672. In 1681, Bennet sold his share to Lord Colepeper, and Lord Colepeper received a new charter for the entire land grant from James II in 1688. Following the deaths of Lord Colepeper, his wife Margaret, and his daughter Katherine, the Northern Neck Proprietary passed to Katherine's son Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron in 1719.

The church is in the Mill Creek valley. As tensions with Native Americans were beginning to ease, Lord Fairfax sought to entice white settlers to the sparsely settled lands of his Northern Neck Proprietary. The valley was one of the first parts of present-day Hampshire County to be settled by whites, beginning in the mid-18th century. Settlers were drawn by the valley's fertility. As the valley's population grew, the unincorporated community of Purgitsville developed along Mill Creek as a trading post village; it was named for Henry Purgitt (or Purgate), who acquired  in the Mill Creek valley on January 7, 1785, and received a further land transfer of  in 1794. Purgitsville continued to develop throughout the course of the 19th century, during which time it grew to include a small store, a post office, and a blacksmith shop.

Establishment
The dates of the earliest church cannot be verified, but a church building may have been constructed at the site of Old Pine Church as early as around 1814, and possibly as early as 1792.

On September 24, 1838, William Pomkrotz and his wife, Milly, deeded a tract of land to a group of trustees, charged with constructing "a church or house for public worship for the use and convenience of Ministers and others of the Christians [sic] Denominations Whatsoever". While the deed mentioned an existing meeting house on the site, there is no extant evidence of a prior structure. According to architectural historian Sandra Scaffidi, no particular Christian denomination received sole ownership of the edifice, which suggests that the church was intended to serve as a nondenominational "union church". The church's earliest resident minister was reportedly Nicholas Leatherman, whose wife, Elizabeth High, was the daughter of George High, one of the church's original trustees.

Brethren affiliation
Few records of the church's history exist, possibly because no single denomination or organization took ownership. Several Christian denominations held meetings at Old Pine Church, including the Schwarzenau Brethren (or German Baptist Brethren), which began holding services at the church in the late 19th century. As many of the Mill Creek valley's settlers were of German descent, the Old Pine Church structure may also have been built as a meeting place for Brethren adherents, known as "Dunkers" or "Dunkards". It is believed that Old Pine Church was also used by German Methodists. The Brethren are a Christian denomination of Anabaptist origin that practiced baptism by triune immersion and exercised nonresistance. Triune immersion consists of dipping a new believer into water three times, once for each of the entities of the Holy Trinity. Brethren adherents believed only in the New Testament, and professed no other creeds. The interior of Old Pine Church, which consists of a single common space for all worshippers, also illustrates the building's connection with the Brethren and the denomination's beliefs regarding slavery. According to the minutes from the 1782 meeting of the Brethren in Franklin County, Virginia, "It has been unanimously considered that it cannot be permitted in any way by the church that a member should purchase Negroes or keep them as Slaves." While many residents in Hampshire County prior to the American Civil War were slaveholders, it is thought that Brethren adherents in the county did not own slaves or depend upon slave labor.

The Brethren denomination had been present in the South Branch Potomac River valley from as early as the 1750s although records of early Brethren congregations are not extant, possibly because they were served by itinerant ministers. As early as 1785, two brothers with the surname of Powers led a Brethren congregation in the area. In Dr. Emmert F. Bittinger's historical research on the Brethren Church in Hampshire County in his Allegheny Passage (1990), it is noted that the Church of the Brethren denomination recognized Old Pine Church as belonging to the larger Beaver Run congregation, which was centered approximately  south of Old Pine Church. The Beaver Run congregation was the first organization of the Brethren in Hampshire County. Old Pine Church and its predecessor structures were probably utilized by members of the Beaver Run congregation because the distance between the northern region of the valley and the church on Beaver Run was too great to traverse easily. Thus, Old Pine Church began as a mission of the Beaver Run congregation. Because of its location in the vicinity of the Hardy County boundary line, the district served by the church spanned both counties.

By 1870, Old Pine Church was primarily used by the Brethren denomination. Around 1870, the Nicholas congregation of Brethren was worshiping at the church and was led by Dr. Leatherman. According to the Beaver Run Church Book, membership at Old Pine Church was 78 in 1879 and numbered 100 in 1881. The Beaver Run congregation modified its district's boundaries in 1879, which may have resulted in a division of the congregation at Old Pine Church into two factions: White Pine Church of the Brethren and Old Pine Church. Both churches continued to worship at Old Pine Church at different times. White Pine Church of the Brethren worshiped at the church from the 1870s until the construction of their own church building in 1907. By 1897, Old Pine Church remained under collective ownership by several Christian denominations although the Brethren were the church's largest shareholders. White Pine Church of the Brethren remained listed in the Brethren Conference Minutes as "Pine Church" until 1912, when members of the church petitioned the Brethren Conference to change their name from "Pine" to "White Pine".

Old Pine Church reportedly housed a school in the early 20th century while still serving as a center for worship. A small one-room addition to the church was constructed to the north façade of the building, which served as the boarding room for the school's teacher. The Old Pine Church also continued to be used for funeral services and reunions.

Restoration
In 1968, residents of the Purgitsville community raised the necessary funds to restore Old Pine Church: the church's original windows were repaired and the unpainted weatherboards painted; a new roof was installed and the original wood floor replaced. The boarding room addition was probably removed (nothing of it now remains) and the pressed metal ceiling may have been added.

Current use
As of 2012, Old Pine Church is still used for community gatherings, funeral services, revival meetings, and an annual church service. Regular church services have not taken place in the church since the middle of the 20th century. The church's adjacent cemetery also continues to be used for burials. Throughout its existence, Old Pine Church has been known by various names, including "Mill Church", "Nicholas Church", and simply "Pine Church".

In 2008, the Hampshire County Historic Landmarks Commission and the Hampshire County Commission embarked upon an initiative to place structures and districts on the National Register of Historic Places following a series of surveys of historic properties throughout the county. The county received funding for the surveying and documentation of Hampshire County architecture and history from the State Historic Preservation Office of the West Virginia Division of Culture and History. Old Pine Church was one of the first eight historic properties to be considered for placement on the register as a result of the county's initiative. The other seven properties were: Capon Chapel, Fort Kuykendall, Hickory Grove, Hook Tavern, North River Mills Historic District, Springfield Brick House, and Valley View. According to Hampshire County Commission's compliance officer, Charles Baker, places of worship were not typically selected for inclusion in the register; Old Pine Church and Capon Chapel were exceptions because both "started out as meeting houses". Old Pine Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 12, 2012, because of its "significant settlement-era rural religious architecture in the Potomac Highlands".

Architecture

Church exterior

Old Pine Church is a large, one-story, gablefront log building. Its symmetrical front façade faces west and encompasses a main entrance consisting of a double set of four-paneled doors. The main entrance is reached by two concrete steps, on either side of which is a modern metal handrail. Above the entrance is a small wooden sign painted white reading "Old Pine Church" in black lettering. On either side of the doors are two nine-over-six double-hung sash wooden windows.

Placed symmetrically in the north and south sides of the church are two nine-over-six double-hung sash wooden windows. Between the two windows on the church's north elevation is an exterior concrete block chimney. The layout of the east-facing rear elevation of the church is also symmetrical, and features three nine-over-six double-hung sash wooden windows, with the center window placed above and between the other two windows. The church's windows have been repaired using materials consistent with original construction.

At the base of each of the church's four corners is a large uncut stone pier. Fieldstones span the church's perimeter foundations, which were added at a later date to discourage intrusion by animals. The original hewn log beams, still retaining bark, can be seen under the church. The church is covered with brown-painted wooden German siding and is crowned by a modern standing-seam metal roof.

Architectural historian Sandra Scaffidi states that the simple form and construction of Old Pine Church are indicative of the early settlers' access to materials and are an example of the log construction techniques used in the religious architecture of Hampshire County's earliest settlers. She adds that Old Pine Church is representative of a "simple design and form common to the early ecclesiastical buildings" and an "excellent example of one of the area's early rural church complexes".

Church interior

The church's interior exhibits an open architectural plan. A plain wooden frame pulpit stands against the rear wall, underneath the middle window. The church's floor consists of pine boards installed during the church's 1968 restoration.

The church's ceiling, measuring approximately  in height, is clad in pressed metal panels. A small opening allows for access to the church's attic. The unadorned window wells measure approximately . The interior walls are covered in plasterboard, which remains unfinished.

The church's small wood-burning stove originally occupied the center of the sanctuary but was moved to the church's north wall in later years. It continues to serve as the church's sole source of heat.

Several of the church's pews date from 1857 and remain in use. The pews, quite simple in form, have a "minimalist appearance". Each pew consists of a long wooden plank that serves as the seat, with a thin rail supported by three spindles as the backrest. The pews are supported by three arched supports joined to the seat by a mortise and tenon joint and reinforced with nails. The newer pews exhibit identical design elements but are constructed with modern nails and timber. Though most of the pews are arranged against the church's west elevation with a center aisle, two are along the north elevation and four are along the south elevation. The pulpit is situated at the east elevation. There is an upright piano in the northeastern corner of the church.

Cemetery

Old Pine Church is surrounded on three sides by a cemetery containing approximately 200 interments, the oldest section of which is located to the immediate east and south of the church building. The earliest remaining gravestone dates from 1834, but several unmarked interment sites in the surrounding cemetery may date from as early as 1759. The church's sign along U.S. Route 220 erroneously lists the date of the cemetery's oldest interment sites as 1792.

The cemetery's headstones are oriented both to the east and to the west. The majority are simple in design, inscribed with birth and death dates, and consist of a combination of rounded, arched stones, rectangular stones, and pyramidal-shaped obelisks that appear to be cut from limestone. In the cemetery's southern section are several small rectangular stones that probably serve as footstones. Beginning around 1950, the gravestones erected in the cemetery became more intricate with polished granite surfaces lying atop rough-cut stone foundations.

Old Pine Church's cemetery is surrounded by several mature trees, with a large oak tree overhanging the southwestern area of the cemetery. Outside of the National Register of Historic Places boundary to the northwest of Old Pine Church lies a second parcel of land acquired around 1950 for additional burials. The cemetery is enclosed by a chicken wire fence supported by wooden posts, with a large gate to the north of the church which allows machinery access into the cemetery.

See also
 List of historic sites in Hampshire County, West Virginia
 National Register of Historic Places listings in Hampshire County, West Virginia

References

Bibliography

External links
 Old Pine Cemetery: Inventory of Interments

1838 establishments in Virginia
Brethren cemeteries
Brethren church buildings in the United States
Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia
Churches completed in 1838
Churches in Hampshire County, West Virginia
Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia
Former school buildings in the United States
German-American culture in West Virginia
National Register of Historic Places in Hampshire County, West Virginia
Wooden churches in West Virginia
Log buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia


Cigarettes & Carrot Juice: The Santa Cruz Years is a five-disc compilation album by American alternative rock group Camper Van Beethoven released in 2002 on the label Cooking Vinyl. It includes the band's first three studio albums (Telephone Free Landslide Victory, II & III, Camper Van Beethoven); the rarities compilation Camper Vantiquities; and a new live CD, Greatest Hits Played Faster, mostly recorded in 1990.

External links

Camper Van Beethoven albums
2002 compilation albums


title: John Baines (bobsledder)

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John Baines (born 26 September 1985) is a bobsledder who competes for Team GB, and a comms specialist in the Royal Air Force. His Olympic debut was at the 2014 Winter Olympics in the two-man and four-man bobsleigh events, participating as a brakeman.

Biography
John Baines was born on 26 September 1985 in Middlesbrough, England. He went to school at Ormesby Primary School. In his youth, he competed locally in 100m and 200m track events.

Baines joined the Royal Air Force at age 20; he works as a communications specialist. His first bobsleigh experience was on an RAF bobsleigh team; a few months later, he tried out in the Team GB trials and was accepted. The RAF gave him two years of support so that he could train for the 2014 Winter Olympics.

Baines has competed in bobsledding since 2008. He worked with British bobsleigh pilot Lamin Deen on the Americas Cup circuit, where they competed as GBR2.

Olympics
The Sochi Olympics is Baines' first Olympics. He originally planned to compete only in the four-man bobsleigh team, but after a "career-threatening" injury to Craig Pickering – a slipped disc – Baines was picked to replace Pickering on the two-man bobsleigh. This was announced 12 February 2014, four days before the event. Baines said that although he was sorry for Pickering, "on the other hand, I get to do the two-man as well as the four-man, so I'm quite happy".

Baines' race in the two-man bobsleigh began 16 February 2014, where he was partnered with Lamin Deen. Deen said of his new partner that "I have worked closely in the summer with John though and I'm quite confident that he can put in a great performance". They finished in 23rd place. The four-man bobsleigh was on the final weekend of the Olympics; Baines's team, GBR2, finished in 19. At both events, Baines acted as brakeman.

Personal life
Baines and his wife have a son and a daughter. He has one sister, Laura, who works for the National Health Service.

References

1985 births
Living people
Olympic bobsledders for Great Britain
British male bobsledders
Sportspeople from Middlesbrough
Bobsledders at the 2014 Winter Olympics


title: Myosotis azorica

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Myosotis azorica, common name Azorean mouse-ear or Azorean forget-me-not, is a plant species endemic to the Azores Islands in the North Atlantic Ocean.

Description
Myosotis azorica is a perennial herb with decumbent stems up to 30 cm (12 inches) tall. Leaves are lanceolate, clasping the stem, with numerous soft flexible hairs. Flowers are borne in "scorpioid cymes," i.e. on spirally curving stems resembling a scorpion's tail or a half-unfurled fiddlehead fern leaf. Flowers are deep blue-purple with a yellow center.

Distribution and habitat
Myosotis azorica is endemic to the western Azores, occurring only on the westernmost islands of Flores and Corvo. The last wild populations on Flores went extinct recently. Reports from other islands in the Azores are confusions with the related Myosotis maritima, a strictly coastal species. It grows near waterfalls and on wet rocks and in wet meadows above 500 meters altitude. Its native range covers less than , with the total number of individuals estimated at less than 50, so the species is vulnerable.

References

azorica
Endemic flora of the Azores
Plants described in 1842
Habitats Directive Species

Blue flowers


title: Hickory Grove (Romney, West Virginia)

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Hickory Grove is a historic home located near Romney, Hampshire County, West Virginia. It was built in 1849, and is a three-story, red brick dwelling. It sits on a stone foundation and has a hipped, standing-seam metal roof with four large brick chimneys. The front facade features a Greek Revival style trabeated entrance. The north section was built in 1892, and replaced an earlier log structure.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.

References

1849 establishments in Virginia
Buildings and structures in Romney, West Virginia
Greek Revival houses in West Virginia
Houses completed in 1849
Houses in Hampshire County, West Virginia
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia
National Register of Historic Places in Hampshire County, West Virginia
Plantation houses in West Virginia


title: Plantago hedleyi

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Plantago hedleyi  is a flowering plant in the plantain family. The specific epithet honours Australian naturalist and conchologist Charles Hedley, who helped collect the species in 1893.

Description
It is a perennial herb. The narrowly oblanceolate-elliptic leaves are 7–20 cm long and 1.5–4 cm wide. The scape is 7–25 cm tall. The inflorescence is cylindrical and 2–10 cm long.

Distribution and habitat
The species is endemic to Australia’s subtropical Lord Howe Island in the Tasman Sea. It occurs in rocky sites on the upper slopes and summits of Mounts Lidgbird and Gower at the southern end of the island.

References

hedleyi
Endemic flora of Lord Howe Island
Plants described in 1914
Lamiales of Australia
Taxa named by Joseph Maiden


title: Betty Jaynes (basketball)

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Betty Faith Jaynes (September 1, 1945 – February 10, 2014) was an American basketball coach. She played basketball in high school in Georgia, and coached basketball at James Madison University. She was the first executive director of the Women's Basketball Coaches Association and is inducted into several sports halls of fame. Jaynes was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2000.

Early years and education
Born in Covington, Georgia, Jaynes attended Newton County High School and lettered in basketball for four years. Jaynes played as a stationary guard, which dates to the existence of six-on-six basketball. She earned all-state player honors in her junior and senior years. As a senior, she helped her team to a 33–1 record and a place in the Class AA state championship game in 1963. Jaynes earned her Bachelor of Science degree in physical education in 1967 from the Women's College of Georgia, now known as Georgia College & State University, in the school's last graduating class before it became coeducational that fall. She went on to earn a Master of Science in the same field from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1968.

College coaching career
Jaynes became the head coach of the women's basketball team at Madison College (now James Madison University) in 1970. She continued in that position until 1982, with her teams amassing a record of 142–114.

Formation of the Women's Basketball Coaches Association
1981 was a key year in the history of women's basketball. The AIAW had been conducting post-season tournaments for years, but the NCAA decided to offer a women's basketball tournament starting in 1982. While some coaches preferred the AIAW and some preferred the NCAA, there was no organization of coaches to express the position of the coaching community on this or any other issue. While there was an existing organization of basketball coaches, the NABC, it was an association of men's team coaches, and the organization was not prepared to expand their remit to women's team coaches. With no other suitable alternatives, some of the leading coaches met in 1981 to consider forming an association. Later in the year, a formal organizational meeting convened, and Betty Jaynes was selected as the interim executive director. The organization quickly dropped the "interim" modifier, and Jaynes would go on to serve as Executive Director for 15 years, then "retire" and continue as a consultant.

Death
She died at age 68 at a hospice in Athens, Georgia, following a brief illness.

Awards and honors
 2000: Inducted into Women's Basketball Hall of Fame
 2007: Inducted into Georgia Sports Hall of Fame
 2008: Inducted into Virginia Sports Hall of Fame

Notes

References

External links
Women's Basketball HOF profile
Obituary

1945 births
2014 deaths
American women's basketball coaches
Basketball coaches from Georgia (U.S. state)
Basketball players from Georgia (U.S. state)
Georgia College Bobcats women's basketball players
James Madison Dukes women's basketball coaches
University of North Carolina at Greensboro alumni
People from Covington, Georgia
Sportspeople from the Atlanta metropolitan area


title: BC Virtus Werkendam

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BC Virtus, also known as Virtus Werkendam, is an amateur basketball club based in Werkendam, Netherlands. Virtus played in the Eredivisie as a professional club from 1996 till 2001. In those years, the club won one trophy: the NBB Cup in the 2000–01 season. The team also reached the Eredivisie Finals in the 1999–2000 season. In the 1985–86 season Virtus made an appearance in Europe, losing in the first round of the Korać Cup to Saski Baskonia.

Honours
NBB Cup
Winners (1): 2000–01

Season by season

European record

Notes

References

Basketball teams in the Netherlands
Former Dutch Basketball League teams
Basketball teams established in 1971
Sports clubs and teams in Altena, North Brabant


title: Betty Jaynes

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Betty Jaynes might refer to:

Betty Jaynes (actress) (1921–2018), American actress active 1936–1952
Betty Jaynes (basketball) (1945–2014), American basketball coach


title: List of lemonade topics

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This is a list of lemonade topics.

Lemonade brands
 Citrus Hill
 Cottee's
 Country Time
 Del's
 Fruitopia
 Jones Soda
 Leed (soft drink)
 Lemonsoda
 Leninade
 Lorina
 Maine Soft Drinks Ltd
 Mike's Hard Lemonade Co.
 Minute Maid
 R. White's Lemonade
 Woodroofe

Regional varieties

 Chanh muối
 Leonese lemonade
 Limonada cimarrona
 Limonana
 Papelón con limón
 Shikanjvi

Cocktails and mixed drinks
 Arnold Palmer (drink)
 John Daly (drink)
 Shandy
 Snowball (cocktail)
 Tom Collins

Other topics

 Baron von Lemon
 Lemonade stand
 When life gives you lemons, make lemonade
 Lemonade (Beyoncé album)

See also

 List of juices
 List of lemon dishes and beverages
 Preserved lemon
 Lemon-lime drink

External links

Lists of drinks


title: Tusk (Camper Van Beethoven album)

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Tusk is a 2003 studio album by American alternative rock group Camper Van Beethoven, a song-for-song remake of the Fleetwood Mac album of the same name.

Tusk is the first album the band released following its reunion, and the band initially claimed that it was recorded before their break up. However, it was recorded in the period leading up to their reunion tour.

In an interview with the Chicago Tribune, bass player Victor Krummenacher admitted that some of the band members hate the 1979 album, saying that it was "like the Magnificent Ambersons of rock, a work that's supposed to be good, but is really just a cocaine-damaged horror of excess. Which is why we took it on, I suppose, and I think we improved upon it."

Track listing
Disc 1
 "Over and Over" (Christine McVie) – 4:48
 "The Ledge" (Lindsey Buckingham) – 2:06
 "Think About Me" (Christine McVie) – 2:48
 "Save Me a Place" (Lindsey Buckingham) – 3:23
 "Sara" (Stevie Nicks) – 4:56
 "What Makes You Think You're the One" (Lindsey Buckingham) – 3:30
 "Storms" (Stevie Nicks) – 6:01
 "That's All for Everyone" (Lindsey Buckingham) – 3:13
 "Not That Funny" (Lindsey Buckingham) – 1:55
 "Sisters of the Moon" (Stevie Nicks) – 4:00

Disc 2
 "Angel" (Stevie Nicks) – 5:27
 "That's Enough for Me" (Lindsey Buckingham) – 1:55
 "Brown Eyes" (Christine McVie) – 3:39
 "Never Make Me Cry" (Christine McVie) – 2:16
 "I Know I'm Not Wrong" (Lindsey Buckingham) – 3:13
 "Honey Hi" (Christine McVie) – 2:39
 "Beautiful Child" (Stevie Nicks) – 5:35
 "Walk a Thin Line" (Lindsey Buckingham) – 4:00
 "Tusk"  (Lindsey Buckingham) – 10:15
 "Never Forget"  (Christine McVie) – 3:41

References

External links

2003 albums
Camper Van Beethoven albums
Fleetwood Mac tribute albums


title: Godfrey Township

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

 Godfrey Township, Madison County, Illinois
 Godfrey Township, Polk County, Minnesota


title: List of wind tunnels

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References

Wind tunnels


title: Capon Lake Whipple Truss Bridge

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The Capon Lake Whipple Truss Bridge (), formerly known as South Branch Bridge or Romney Bridge, is a historic Whipple truss bridge in Capon Lake, West Virginia. It is located off Carpers Pike (West Virginia Route 259) and crosses the Cacapon River. The bridge formerly carried Capon Springs Road (County Route 16) over the river, connecting Capon Springs and Capon Lake.

The bridge's Whipple truss technology was developed by civil engineer Squire Whipple in 1847. J. W. Murphy further modified Whipple's truss design in 1859 by designing the first truss bridge with pinned eyebar connections. The design of the Capon Lake Whipple Truss Bridge incorporates Murphy's later modifications with double-intersections and horizontal chords, and is therefore considered a Whipple–Murphy truss bridge. The Capon Lake Whipple Truss Bridge is West Virginia's oldest remaining example of a Whipple truss bridge and its oldest extant metal truss bridge.

The Capon Lake Whipple Truss Bridge was originally constructed in 1874 as part of the South Branch Bridge (or alternatively, the Romney Bridge), a larger two-span Whipple truss bridge conveying the Northwestern Turnpike (U.S. Route 50) across the South Branch Potomac River near Romney. The larger Whipple truss bridge replaced an 1838 wooden covered bridge that was destroyed during the American Civil War. In 1874, T. B. White and Sons were charged with the construction of a Whipple truss bridge over the South Branch; that bridge served travelers along the Northwestern Turnpike for 63 years until a new bridge was constructed in 1937.

Dismantled in 1937, the bridge was relocated to Capon Lake in southeastern Hampshire County to carry Capon Springs Road (County Route 16) between West Virginia Route 259 and Capon Springs. The bridge was dedicated on August 20, 1938. In 1991, a new bridge was completed to the south, and the Capon Lake Whipple Truss Bridge was preserved in place by the West Virginia Division of Highways, due to its rarity, age, and engineering significance. The Capon Lake Whipple Truss Bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 15, 2011.

Geography and setting
The Capon Lake Whipple Truss Bridge is located in a predominantly rural agricultural and forested area of southeastern Hampshire County within the Cacapon River valley. Baker Mountain, a forested narrow anticlinal mountain ridge, rises to the immediate west, and the western rolling foothills of the anticlinal Great North Mountain rise to the bridge's east. The confluence of Capon Springs Run with the Cacapon River lies just north (downstream) of the bridge. George Washington National Forest is located to the bridge's southeast, covering the forested area south of Capon Springs Road.

The bridge is located along Carpers Pike (West Virginia Route 259) in the unincorporated community of Capon Lake,  southwest of Yellow Spring and  northeast of the town of Wardensville. The historic Capon Springs Resort and the unincorporated community of Capon Springs are located  east of Capon Lake on Capon Springs Road (West Virginia Secondary Route 16). The bridge is located immediately north (downstream) of the intersection of Carpers Pike with Capon Springs Road, which is carried across the Cacapon River via the current Capon Lake Bridge, a Girder bridge built in 1991 to replace the Whipple truss bridge for conveying vehicle traffic. The property containing the Capon Lake Whipple Truss Bridge is less than  in size.

Architecture

The Capon Lake Whipple Truss Bridge is an early example of the use of metal truss bridge load-bearing superstructure technology, which defined highway bridge design well into the 20th century. Because of "its uncommon innovative design and age", the bridge is one of West Virginia's most historically significant bridges. It is the oldest remaining example of a Whipple truss bridge in West Virginia, and the oldest extant metal truss bridge in the state. The metal truss technology of the bridge displays distinctive innovations developed by the prominent civil engineers and bridge designers Squire Whipple and J. W. Murphy; the innovations are evident in the bridge's double-intersection diagonals and counter-diagonals with pin connections.

Approximately  in width and  in length, the bridge is built atop a reinforced concrete abutment and pier. Its truss structure exhibits a double-intersection configuration, constructed of 14 bays, each measuring approximately  wide and  in height, with the diagonals extending across two bays each. The bridge is fabricated of wrought iron bracketed with pins. Spanning the full length of the bridge is a wooden pedestrian walkway that consists of an observation deck and wooden seating near the bridge's midspan.

History

Whipple truss development
The bridge's Whipple truss technology was developed in 1847 by civil engineer Squire Whipple, who received a patent from the U.S. Patent Office the same year. Whipple was one of the first structural engineers to use scientific and mathematical methods analyzing the forces and stresses in framed structures to design the bridge, and his groundbreaking 1847 book, A Work on Bridge Building, had a significant influence on bridge engineering. Whipple's truss bridge design incorporated double-intersection diagonals into the standard Pratt truss, thus allowing the diagonals to extend across two truss bays. Engineer J. W. Murphy further modified Whipple's truss design in 1859 when he designed the first truss bridge with pinned eyebar connections, which utilized pins instead of trunnions. Murphy's design removed the need for riveted connections and allowed for easier and more widespread construction of truss bridges. In 1863, Murphy designed the first pin-connected truss bridge with both wrought iron tension and compression components and cast iron joint blocks and pedestals. Murphy's truss design consisted of double-intersection counter-diagonals, and along with the eyebar and pin connections, permitted longer iron bridge spans.

The technological design advances made by Whipple and Murphy, in addition to further advances in steel and iron fabrication, made wrought iron truss bridges a major industry in the United States. The Capon Lake bridge was a Whipple–Murphy truss bridge, since it incorporated Murphy's later modifications with double-intersections and horizontal chords. At the time of the bridge's original fabrication in 1874, metal truss bridges were ordered from catalogs by county courts and other entities responsible for transportation construction and maintenance. These entities provided the desired width, length, and other specifications, and the truss materials were shipped to the construction site and assembled by local construction teams. Metal truss bridges were more economically feasible, could span longer distances, and were simpler to construct than stone bridges, and they were more durable than wooden bridges. They were also marketed as detachable and transportable structures that could be dismantled and reassembled. The technology used in the Capon Lake Whipple Truss Bridge revolutionized transport throughout West Virginia. While the Whipple truss bridge had waned in popularity by the 1890s, the bridges were commonly disassembled and re-erected for use on secondary roads, as was the case with the Capon Lake Whipple Truss Bridge in 1938.

T. B. White and Sons
The construction company that built the Capon Lake Whipple Truss Bridge, T. B. White and Sons, was established in 1868. Its founder Timothy B. White had been a carpenter and contractor in New Brighton, Pennsylvania since the 1840s. White also operated factories for iron cars and woolen mill machinery until 1859, when he began to concentrate solely on bridge construction. White's bridge company operated from a factory on the Beaver River in New Brighton until the factory was destroyed by fire in 1878. After the fire, the company relocated across the river to Beaver Falls and restructured as the Penn Bridge and Machine Works. In addition to iron truss bridges, the company produced a range of structural and architectural components and continued to expand; it employed over 500 workers by 1908. Penn Bridge and Machine Works fended off purchase by the American Bridge Company and continued to operate independently, unlike similar small bridge companies founded in the 19th century. The most prolific of its kind in the Pittsburgh region, the company was responsible for the construction of bridges throughout the United States.

South Branch Bridge

The Capon Lake Whipple Truss Bridge was originally constructed in 1874 as part of the South Branch Bridge (or the Romney Bridge), a larger two-span Whipple truss bridge conveying the Northwestern Turnpike (U.S. Route 50) across the South Branch Potomac River  west of Romney. The 1874 Whipple truss bridge across the South Branch replaced an 1838 wooden covered bridge that had been chartered by the Virginia General Assembly during the construction of the Northwestern Turnpike. Before the construction of the covered bridge in 1838, a public ferry conveyed traffic across the river. Isaac Parsons (1752–1796) operated a ferry there following its establishment by an act of the Virginia General Assembly in October 1786. The 1838 covered bridge remained in use until it was destroyed by retreating Confederate forces during the American Civil War. Throughout the course of the war, Romney reportedly changed hands 56 times between Confederate and Union forces, and the crossing of the South Branch Potomac River served as a strategic point due to its position along the Northwestern Turnpike, an important east–west route.

Following the conclusion of the war, nearly all bridges along the Northwestern Turnpike had been destroyed, including the South Branch Bridge. In order to restore local businesses and industry, Hampshire County citizens called a meeting and steps were taken at the local level to proceed with the construction of new bridges. Local citizens and the South Branch Intelligencer newspaper of Romney campaigned for the immediate replacement of the bridge because of "continual risk, danger and inconveniences arising from want of the South Branch Bridge at Col. Gibson's (destroyed during the war)...". Hampshire County began issuing bonds for the construction of a new bridge over the South Branch in 1868, and by 1874, construction of the Whipple truss bridge had commenced. T. B. White and Sons were charged with the bridge's construction.

The South Branch Intelligencer published periodic updates on the progress of the South Branch Bridge's construction. According to the newspaper, the bridge was scheduled to be completed by July 1875. During the course of construction, John Ridenour lost a finger while working on the bridge. The new South Branch Bridge was completed well ahead of schedule in October 1874. The October 12, 1874, edition of the South Branch Intelligencer characterized the new bridge as a "complete, handsome and durable structure", and further recounted that "the contractors, Messrs. White & Sons, New Brighton, Pennsylvania 'Penn Bridge & Machine Works,' have given us, in general opinion, a first rate, durable work, and deserve our best commendations.... We are confident that ours will realize a very handsome income and fully vindicate the wisdom of the County Court in voting its construction."

Following its construction in 1874, the Whipple truss bridge over the South Branch Potomac River served Romney and travelers along the Northwestern Turnpike for 63 years. In 1935, the West Virginia State Road Commission began organizing a project to replace the Whipple truss bridge, and construction of the new bridge had begun by 1936. In November of that year, a car collided with the south side of the eastern Whipple truss span, which knocked the span completely off its eastern abutment. The car plunged into the South Branch Potomac River, followed by the compromised truss span, which collapsed on top of the car. Unaware of the span's collapse, a car traveling from the west drove off the end of the west span at the bridge's center pier, and fell onto the collapsed span. According to the Hampshire Review, the only serious injury sustained was a broken wooden leg. Following the collapse of the eastern Whipple truss span, a temporary wooden span was hastily constructed between the western truss span and the eastern abutment, so that traffic was uninterrupted until the new bridge was completed and opened on June 21, 1937. The 1937 bridge was used until 2010 when it was replaced by the current South Branch Bridge.

Capon Lake Bridge

Because Whipple truss bridges were easily disassembled and re-erected, the remaining western span of the Whipple truss over the South Branch was dismantled in 1937 and relocated to Capon Lake in southeastern Hampshire County to convey Capon Springs Road (West Virginia Secondary Route 16) between West Virginia Route 259 and Capon Springs. According to Branson Himelwright, a Capon Springs resident who had been a construction worker involved in the re-erection of the Whipple truss span at Capon Lake, the only two ways to cross the Cacapon River to reach Capon Springs were to cross a swinging footbridge or ford the river. During the bridge's construction, a new pier and abutments were constructed to carry the Whipple truss span and a connected Pratt truss that had been salvaged from an unknown bridge. Himelwright and Jacob "Moss" Rudolph, who had also participated in the bridge's construction, stated in interviews that both the site excavation and concrete work for the pier and abutments were completed by hand.

The newly erected Capon Lake Bridge was dedicated on August 20, 1938, with a ceremony including musical performances by the Romney High School and Capon Springs Resort bands. Former West Virginia Governor and Capon Springs native Herman G. Kump, West Virginia State Road Commission Secretary Cy Hammill, and numerous other state officials were in attendance at the dedication.

In 1991, the new steel stringer Capon Lake Bridge was constructed  to the southwest of the Capon Lake Whipple Truss Bridge, after which the Whipple truss bridge was closed to vehicle traffic. Due to its rarity, age, and engineering significance, West Virginia Division of Highways District 5 decided to preserve the Whipple truss bridge. During the bridge's restoration, the Pratt truss span was removed due to significant deterioration, and the roadway deck was also removed. A wooden pedestrian walkway and observation deck were constructed across the full span of the remaining truss bridge.

The Capon Lake Whipple Truss Bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 15, 2011, for its "engineering significance as an excellent example of a Whipple/Murphy Truss bridge." Since its listing, the bridge has been maintained as a historic site for pedestrians by the West Virginia Division of Highways District 5. In 2012, the West Virginia Division of Highways, in association with the West Virginia Archives and the history department of the West Virginia Division of Culture and History, installed a historical marker at the northwestern entry to the bridge as part of the West Virginia Highway Historical Marker Program. The marker reads:

See also
 List of historic sites in Hampshire County, West Virginia
 National Register of Historic Places listings in Hampshire County, West Virginia
Hayden Bridge (Springfield, Oregon) – another example of a notable Whipple-Murphy truss bridge

References

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title: Untitled (Thought Forms and Esben and the Witch EP)

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Untitled (referred to in Spotify as Split LP) is a split EP by British rock bands Thought Forms and Esben and the Witch, which was released on 7 April 2014 through Invada Records. It was also released as a digital download and on 12" silver vinyl, limited to 500 copies. The EP contains four songs by Thought Forms and two songs by Esben and the Witch, and the songs "Sound of Violence" by Thought Forms and "No Dog" by Esben and the Witch were uploaded to SoundCloud.

Track listings
A side (Thought Forms)
Your Bones
Sound of Violence
For the Moving Stars
Silver Kiss

B side (Esben and the Witch)
No Dog
Butoh

References

2014 EPs
Split EPs


title: The Comedy of Charleroi

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The Comedy of Charleroi () is a 1934 short story collection by the French writer Pierre Drieu La Rochelle. It consists of six loosely connected stories based on Drieu La Rochelle's experiences as a soldier during World War I. An English translation by Douglas Gallagher was published in 1973.

Plot

So began the battle of Charleroi, Belgium, August 21, 1914, in the first month of the (not so) Great War.  Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, a 21-year-old, inexperienced French officer, was at first exhilarated, a fighting man at last, and then chastened by a shrapnel wound.  Returning to the lines weeks later he was wounded again. After recovering from that he and other French soldiers joined the British in the Dardanelles, from which he was evacuated with amoebic dysentery.  Recovered from that he joined a regiment at the Battle of Verdun to be so seriously wounded he was removed from active service.  This slender volume (212 p) of short-story/memoirs is his looking back at some of the events, the men he knew, the ideas and emotions that swept through him.

Contents
 "The Comedy of Charleroi" ("La comédie de Charleroi")
 "A Living Dog Is Better than a Dead Lion" ("Le chien de l'écriture")
 "Expedition to the Dardanelles" ("Le voyage des Dardanelles")
 "The Infantry Officer" ("Le lieutenant de tirailleurs")
 "The Deserter" ("Le déserteur")
 "End of a War" ("La fin d'une guerre")

References

External links
 The Comedy of Charleroi at the French publisher's website

1934 short story collections
French-language books
French short story collections
World War I books
World War I fiction
Works by Pierre Drieu La Rochelle
Éditions Gallimard books
Short stories set in Belgium
Short stories set in France


title: Hello, Good-bye

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is a Japanese adult visual novel developed and published by Lump of Sugar. It was released on December 17, 2010 for Windows as Lump of Sugar's sixth title. A trial edition was released in October 2010 rated for all ages. The primary focus of the game is the appeal of the four female main characters. The story resolves around the protagonist, Kaito Toubu, a secret agent tasked with infiltrating the demilitarised territory of Morino in an alternate universe Japan.

In April 2011, an official fan book was published by Enterbrain, which contained a Hello, Good-bye four-panel manga titled Lump of Comic: HGB illustrated by Fumitake Moekibara who also provided the illustrations and character designs for the game. In August 2011, a Hello, Good-bye drama CD was produced by Marine Entertainment.

Gameplay

Hello, Good-bye is  romance visual novel in which the player assumes the role of Kaito Toubu. Much of its gameplay is spent on reading the story's narrative and dialogue. The text in the game is accompanied by character sprites, which represent who Kaito is talking to, over background art. Throughout the game, the player encounters CG artwork at certain points in the story, which take the place of the background art and character sprites. Hello, Good-bye follows a branching plot line with multiple endings, and depending on the decisions that the player makes during the game, the plot will progress in alternative directions.

There are four main plot lines that the player will have the chance to experience, one for each of the four heroines: May Yukishiro, Suguri Saotome, Natsume Rindo and Koharu Hiiragi.  Throughout gameplay, the player is given multiple options to choose from, and text progression pauses at these points until a choice is made. Some decisions can lead the game to end prematurely, which offer an alternative ending to the plot. To view all plot lines in their entirety, the player will have to replay the game multiple times and choose different choices to further the plot to an alternate direction. Hello, Good-bye also features an achievement system. Once the player has accomplished all the tasks or completed the routes, they will receive the privilege of having a glossary of terms from the game and their definitions, background CG and music libraries, a sprite viewer and even an additional minigame starring the Lump of Sugar mascot, Azrael. There are scenes with sexual CGs depicting Kaito and a given heroine having sex.

Plot

Setting
In Japan, there are two conflicting factions,  in the west and  in the east. Despite them still opposing each other, they have made a temporary suspension of fighting known as . This treaty has existed for at least a century and many have decided to worship it. The story is set at the , a catholic school located on an island that provides education from kindergarten to university. Sister Therese teaches history there.

Main characters

 (drama CD)
Kaito Toubu is the protagonist, and a secret agent undercover whose job is to infiltrate the neutral grounds Morino and gather intelligence for the United provinces of Japan. His training as a soldier enables him to think calmly and rationally about things. He has the ability to see déjà vu's. He is affiliated with The United Provinces of Japan and his related arcana is The Fool.

May Yukishiro is one of the heroines in the story, and the first to be met by Kaito. She is a sweet, kind and sometimes a rather clumsy girl, but tends to be slow at times, this is due to her innocent and caring nature. In the beginning May is willing to help Kaito as much as she can, since she is always kind and helpful, especially to uncivilized people. She is oblivious to many things making her a naive person. May is very calm and reserved most of the time. Taking care of flowers seems to be one of her hobbies, as she is first seen by Kaito looking after lilies blooming on a hill. Her route in the game focuses on unraveling the truth about Kaito. She is affiliated with The United Provinces of Japan and her related arcana is The Empress.

Suguri Saotome is also a heroine in the story, the second heroine met by Kaito. She is best friends with May, and is just as kind and helpful as her, but is more of a tomboy. She is an outgoing, high spirited girl despite her tsundere appearance. In the beginning, she accidentally mistakes Kaito for her childhood friend, and then pulverizes him for it. She is affiliated with The Morino Ceasefire Treaty and her related arcana is The Star.

Natsume Rindo is another one of the heroines in the story, and the third heroine to be met by Kaito. In the beginning of the story, she is a transfer student. At first, she seems to be a serious, and simply put, a very well behaved girl, but she is actually an innocent girl who is easily embarrassed by romance and the like. It is shown that Natsume has an extreme fondness for sweets. She is affiliated with The Federation of Japan and her related arcana is Judgment.

Koharu Hiiragi is the fourth and final heroine in the story. She is a mysterious, small statured girl who insists she is Kaito's imouto (younger sister). Koharu's favorite food is meat. She is affiliated with The Morino Ceasefire Treaty and her related arcana is Wheel of Fortune.

Minor characters

Munenori Iwashimizu is a perverted classmate of Kaito's. He wears glasses and his related arcana is The Magician.

Sister Therese works in a church, and is also a teacher teaching history in a catholic school called Cathedral School and her related arcana is Tempelance.

Shidō is a retired, elderly man who is referred to as 'uncle' by May. He is the foster parent of Kaito.

A woman operator whose real name is unknown.

Development and release

Hello, Good-bye is Lump of Sugar's sixth game. The scenario was written by Tetsujin. Character design and art direction was headed by Fumitake Moekibara. Hello, Good-bye music was composed by Shigenobu Ōkawa and Yūta Yamaguchi. The videos featured in the game were produced by RMG and the animation in the game was produced by Silver Link. A trial edition, rated for all ages, was released by Lump of Sugar in Japan on October 16, 2010. The full, adult game was released on December 17, 2010 for Windows as a limited edition version. The trial and limited edition are fully voiced. Promotional videos were released commercially, with four different versions featuring one of the four heroines in Hello, Good-bye: May, Suguri, Natsume or Koharu.

Related media

Printed media
Enterbrain published a 144-page visual fan book was on April 1, 2011. The fan book contains a terminology dictionary, story and character introductions, interviews, autographs, an illustration gallery, comments from staff, and a short four-panel manga titled Lump of Comic: HGB, which can also be read online. The manga is illustrated by Fumitake Moekibara. The Hello, Good-bye characters are designed to give the appearance of chibis in the comic strips.

Music and audio CDs
Marine Entertainment released a spin-off drama CD titled  on August 12, 2011 written by Lump of Sugar. The drama CD features an episode called "School Festival".

The opening theme for Hello, Good-bye is  by Masami Okui, with lyrics written by Trinity, and arrangement by Macaroni☆. The ending theme  is by Haruka Shimotsuki, with lyrics by Mao Sumita. The opening and ending themes were released on two separate CDs, also containing the instrumental versions of the two songs. Hello, Good-bye contains two insert songs". The first is  by Kicco, with lyrics by Akko and composition by Kan Sayuri. The second is  by Tohko, with lyrics by YoshiShina. A two-disc original soundtrack was also produced.

Merchandise
Merchandise has been produced for Hello, Good-bye, including figurines produced by Volks Inc., special stick posters, rough line art books, desktop accessories, Hello, Good-bye school attire cosplay, bed sheets, pillow cases, and booklets regarding the game. There are also collectible Lump of Sugar trading cards that depict the characters from their existing visual novels, including Hello, Good-bye.

Reception
Hello, Good-bye was the sixth best selling visual novel in 2010 on Getchu, and was the number one best selling visual novel of December 2010 sold on Getchu. In January 2011, the ranking lowered to 20th place. Hello, Good-bye was ranked first as the most pre-ordered visual novel game in Japan in November 2010. Getchu.com awarded Hello, Good-bye first place for the visual novel with the best quality movie-making in 2010. Moe Game Award gave Hello, Good-bye silver (second place) for the best visual novel song in 2011, which was "Goodbye Crisis" sung by Masami Okui, losing only to Grisaia no Kajitsu which achieved gold. On Hello, Good-bye official website, a popularity poll was held for the characters. May Yukishiro came in fourth place with 2,092 votes, Natsume Rindo came in third place with 2,179 votes, Suguri Saotome came in second place with 2,306 votes, and Koharu Hiiragi came first place with 2,317 votes, and Koharu then received a special wallpaper as a prize.

References

External links

Official website
Official drama CD website

2010 video games
Action games
Alternate history video games
Bishōjo games
Eroge
Harem anime and manga
Harem video games
Japan-exclusive video games
Manga based on video games
Romance video games
School-themed video games
Silver Link
Video games developed in Japan
Video games set in Japan
Visual novels
Windows games
Windows-only games
Yonkoma
Lump of Sugar games


title: Palazzo Cappello Layard

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The Palazzo or Ca' Cappello Layard is a palace situated in the sestiere of San Polo of Venice, Italy,  overlooking the Grand Canal at the confluence between this and the smaller Rio di San Polo and Rio delle Erbe. On the Grand canal, it is located between Palazzo Barbarigo della Terrazza and Palazzo Grimani Marcello. It is particularly noteworthy for having been the residence of Austen Henry Layard, discoverer of Nineveh.

Description

Located on the confluence of three canals, it is thus an unusual structure in that it presents three facades rather than the customary one.
 Façade on the Grand Canal. It is the widest of the facades, it is characterized by a sober aspect and a large number of lancet windows. The first piano nobile is enriched by a large rectangular three-mullioned window that opens onto a terrace next to Palazzo Grimani Marcello
 Façade on the Rio delle Erbe. The least impressive of the facades
 Façade on the Rio di San Polo. It is enriched by two balconied three-mullioned windows, with elaborate capitels, flanked by an elegant couple of lancet windows. Nineteenth-century stone-carved patera of romanesque taste enrich the façade.

Origins and lost fresco cycle by Veronese and Zelotti

Ca' Cappello is a grand palace of Gothic origin, but substantially restructured during the course of the sixteenth century under the direction of its owner, the procurator of Saint Mark Antonio Cappello, who had supervised some of the most important projects of construction and renovation in sixteenth-century Venice, in particular the commencement of work on Rialto bridge, the edification of the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana and the supervision of the construction of the Golden staircase at Ducal Palace or the redecoration of the room of the Council of Ten within the palace.

For these important works Antonio had frequently commissioned painters Paolo Veronese and Giovanni Battista Zelotti, to who he had ties through common friend Michele Sanmicheli. Veronese and Zelotti were thus commissioned to decorate with frescoes the renovated Renaissance palace. The fresco cycle was noted by Giorgio Vasari as one of Veronese’s notable works “who painted with the same [Zelotti] the façade of the palace of M. Antonio Cappello that is in Venice overlooking the Grand Canal”. The frescoes were more extensively described by erudite Carlo Ridolfi in his 1648 Le Meraviglie dell’arte, “over the Grand Canal in the house of the Cappelli Veronese coloured some figures of Cerere, Pomona, Pallas and other deities. The figures above were painted by his friend Zelotti”. The cycle did not survive long. In his 1674 Miniere della Pittura Veneziana the erudite Marco Boschini noted surviving but damaged work by Zelotti, and wrote that much had already been lost in a fire. The deities painted by Zelotti were however still visible in 1760 when Anton Maria Zanetti printed his Varie Pitture a Fresco de principali maestri Veneziani, and reproduced in engravings the four surviving figures. It is not certain when these remaining and worn out frescoes were finally lost, but by the nineteenth century they were certainly no longer visible.

Ca Cappello and the salon of the Layards

Ca Cappello was purchased, at a date given variously as 1874 and 1878 by sources, by the English archeologist, diplomat and politician Austen Henry Layard, with the help of the doyen of the British community in Venice, the historian Rawdon Brown. Layard, who had shipped his great collection of Italian Renaissance paintings to Venice in 1875, inhabited the palazzo stably following his withdrawal from the diplomatic career after political debacle in Istanbul and deep disagreement with Gladstone until his death by cancer, on the occasion of a rare visit to London, in 1894. The frescoes by Zelotti and Veronese were no longer visible, but Layard managed significant renovation works in the palace. Red, yellow and green felt covered the walls inside, and Spanish silks festooned outside of balconies and windows gave the palazzo an unmistakable appearance. Assyrian reliefs from Nineveh and a Hellenistic funerary piece from Samos were installed into the staircase wall, though these were in 1892 donated to the Museo Civico Correr, and replaced with floral paintings by Neapolitan artist Francesco Lavagna.

More significant was the collection of paintings assembled by the Layards in a gallery in the palazzo, with the most significant work being the Portrait of Mehmet II by Gentile Bellini.
Because of Layard’s particular standing, the palazzo quickly became a meeting place for “the greatest representatives of British and international cultural, political and diplomatic intelligentsia between the final quarter of the 19th century and the first decade of the XXth”. The Layards quickly rose amongst a thriving expat community in Venice, their patronage ensuring the edification of St. George’s Anglican church in Venice, where glass windows commemorate the founder. The death of Austen Henry Layard did not interrupt social activity, and his widow, Lady Enid, maintained an equally intense social activity in the palazzo. The intense social activity around the salon of Austen Henry Layard and his wife Enid is recorded in Lady Layard’s diary. Frequent visitors included art historians John Ruskin and Giovanni Morelli, the Victorian poet Robert Browning, of whose poetic abilities Lady Layard had a low opinion, and the historian Horatio Brown, as well as local nobles such as countess Annina Morosini, supposedly the most beautiful woman in Venice at the time, but whom Lady Layard found “vulgar”.
Royalty acknowledged the Layards, and Lady Enid in particular enjoyed a special relationship with queen Alexandra and the German empress consort Victoria. Writing about Lady Layard in 1898 her friend Lady Gregory remembered that “the emperor [the Kaiser, son of empress Victoria] passed this house [Ca Cappello] recognized Lady Layard on the balcony and touched his hat two or three times”. In 1911 the Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and Lord Kitchener even held private meetings in Ca Cappello.

Later History and controversial swap
The death of Lady Layard in 1912 and the outbreak of the war saw an end to Ca Cappello’s role as a leading literary and social salon in Venice. It was later acquired by the Carnelutti family, before passing in 1967 into the possession of the University of Venice Ca’ Foscari.

It is currently the object of a controversial swap operation that would see it transferred, together with sixteenth-century palace Ca Bembo and the modern Palazzo Cosulich, two other university properties, to a property investment fund in exchange for a 1957 former state electricity company edifice. The swap has aroused considerable criticism and investigative weekly L'Espresso has noted the absence of a public auction and problems connected with an apparent violation - only supposed - with Italian heritage law, that forbids the swap of listed property. The chancellor Carlo Carraro has defended the operation on budget grounds, arguing it will help stave off large cuts to scholarships and research funding.

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Cappello Layard