Elaine King

Elaine King is a Certified Financial Planner, writer and motivational speaker born in Lima, Perú. She lives in Miami. King has focused her career in financial education for families. She is the author of eight financial planning books for parents, teens, children and immigrants. In 2017 King was included in the list of the 25 most powerful Latina women in the United States published by "People" magazine and in 2020 she appeared on the Top 100 Financial Advisors list on the "Investopedia" website.


Poway Group

The Poway Group is a geologic group in San Diego County, Southern California. It preserves fossils dating back to the Paleogene period.


Find New Zealand Artists

Find New Zealand Artists (FNZA) is a database that was created in 2013 by Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki and Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu. It was compiled from the records held by 12 New Zealand art galleries and libraries and at the outset contained information on over 17,000 New Zealand artists.

The project began as a collaboration between Catherine Hammond of the AAG and Jenny Harper of the CAG and received an initial grant from Te Papa National Services.

As of March 2021, the web-based database holds records on more than 20,000 artists.


What's Expected of Us

”What's Expected of Us” is a science fiction short story by American writer Ted Chiang, initially published on 6 July 2005 by "Nature". The story was also included in the 2006 anthology "Year's Best SF 11" and in the 2019 collection "".


Danish Civil War

The Danish Civil War were of a series of civil wars fought in the Kingdom of Denmark, first from 1131 to 1134 over the murder of Canute Lavard, and a war of succession fought intermittently between 1146 and 1157, after the abdication of Eric III of Denmark, the only monarch in Danish history to have abdicated. The first phase of the war was fought between King Eric II of Denmark and King Niels joined by Magnus the Strong. The second phase of the war was fought between the son of Eric III, Canute V of Denmark, the son of Eric II of Denmark, Sweyn III of Denmark, and his cousin Valdemar I of Denmark, son of Canute Larvard. The war was the near peak of Holy Roman influence in Denmark, and for a time after, Denmark was a vassal state of Emperor Frederick I. The war ended with the deaths of Niels I, Magnus the Strong, Eric II, Canute V and Sweyn III.


Battle of Ascurum

The Battle of Ascurum was a battle in 46 BC during Caesar’s Civil War which saw the defeat of an Optimate force under Pompey the Younger in battle against the Mauretanians

In 51 BC a civil war broke out within the Roman Republic between the supporters of the general Julius Caesar, a prominent Populares, and the supporters of the general Pompey the Great, a prominent Optimate. The Kingdom of Mauretania decided to support Julius Caesar in this struggle, probably because their rivals Numidia supported Pompey. When a pro-Optimate rebellion broke out in Spain, Bogud of Mauretania intervened and helped put down the rebellion.

The Mauretanians seemed to have picked the right side as the war swung in the favour of Julius Caesar following the Battle of Pharsalus and Pompey the Great’s murder in Egypt. The remaining Optimates fled to North Africa and set up at Utica. Here the Optimate leader Cato chastised Pompey’s son, called Pompey the Younger, stating how his father had achieved much more at his age. This convinced Younger Pompey to go on a campaign of his own and he decided to attack Mauretania to neutralise what was a potential threat.

With a small force numbering around 2,000 Pompey landed on the Mauretanian coast and approached the town of Ascurum. The garrison of the town let Pompey approach very close until he was right outside the walls then launched a sudden sally. The surprised Pompeians, possibly outnumbered by the garrison whose size is unknown, were quickly broken and fled back to their ships. Full of shame Pompey did not return to Utica but instead fled to the Balearic Islands.

This attack spurred the Mauretanians into action, and with the help of the mercenary Publius Sittius they invaded and seized much of Numidia. Following Caesar invasion of Africa and victory at the Battle of Thapsus many prominent Optimates fled westward only to find their escape blocked by the Mauretanians, with many captured and killed and others committing suicide. Pompey the Younger, still in the Balearics, would later go to Spain and meet with any other remaining Optimates, who would launch a final rebellion against Caesar which was put down at the Battle of Munda where the Younger Pompey was killed.


Lusik Aguletsi

Lusik Aguletsi (); born Lusik Zhorzhiki Harutyunyan; was a Nakhichevan-born Armenian painter, ethnographer, and Honored Cultural Worker of the Republic of Armenia.

Aguletsi was famous for being the last Armenian to regularly wear her traditional Armenian dress in Yerevan.


Madascincus polleni

The Madagascar coastal skink ("Madascincus polleni") is an extant species of skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to Madagascar.


2021 Le Samyn

The 2021 Le Samyn was the 52nd edition of the Le Samyn road cycling one day race in Belgium. It was a 1.1-rated event on the 2021 UCI Europe Tour and the first event in the 2021 Belgian Road Cycling Cup. The long race started in Quaregnon and finished in Dour, with almost four laps of a finishing circuit that featured several cobbled sections and climbs.


Tour Alto

Tour Alto is an office skyscraper in Courbevoie, in La Défense, the business district of the Paris metropolitan area.

The tower was built in 2020 by Bouygues. The building is from the street and 150 m from the slab of La Défense on its eastern facade alone for a total of 38 floors. Its rounded shape gradually widens upwards and extends its hold in space by an offset of 12cm towards the outside of the edge beam, on each floor. Thanks to this singular shape, the surface of the levels goes from 700 m2 at the foot of the Tower to 1,500 m2 at the top.

Work began in September 2016 for delivery in 2020.

located in the administrative territorial entity


Augustí Julbe

Augustí Julbe Bosch (born 3 May 1972) is a Spanish basketball coach who currently serves as head coach for Zamalek.


Flexiseps alluaudi

Flexiseps alluaudi is a species of skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to Madagascar.


Doris Doscher

Doris Doscher (January 24, 1882 – March 9, 1970) was an American actress and model who appeared in the movie "The Birth of a Race" (1915), playing the role of "Eve." She posed as Liberty for the Standing Liberty quarter (1916–1930) by Hermon Atkins MacNeil. She was also the model for the Pulitzer Fountain of Abundance by Karl Bitter (completed by Isidore Konti and Karl Gruppe in 1915) in front of the Plaza Hotel in New York City.


Hellisey

Hellisey () is an island in the Vestmann Islands, south of Iceland. It is 6 km southwest of Heimaey and 13 km northeast of Surtsey.
Hellisey only has an area of 0.1 km ² and extends to about 100 m above sea level.


Mladen Tepavčević

Mladen Tepavčević (Serbian Cyrillic: Младен Тепавчевић; born October 26, 1976 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia) is an Olympic swimmer from Serbia. He swam for Serbia and Montenegro at the 2004 Olympics. He also qualified to represent Serbia at the 2008 Olympics, however, he did not swim.

Tepavčević holds the Serbian record in all men's breaststroke events (50-m 0:28.10; 100-m 1:02.60 and 200-m 2:22.54). He has competed for Serbia and Montenegro at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece in the 100 m breaststroke, where he registered a time of 1:03.52, enough for an overall 29th position out of 60 swimmers.

He qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics with the 1:02.80 he swam for 33rd at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships in the 100 m breaststroke.

He also swam at the 2003 and 2005 World Championships.


Türkisch für Anfänger

Türkisch für Anfänger ("Turkish for Beginners") is a German television comedy-drama series, which premiered on 14 March 2006 on Das Erste. It was created by Bora Dağtekin and produced by Hoffmann & Voges Ent.

The show focuses on the German-Turkish stepfamily Schneider-Öztürk, their everyday lives and particularly on the eldest daughter, Lena, who narrates the show. During its run of 52 episodes, the show covered topics including typical problems of teenagers and cross-cultural experiences.

Due to popular demand, a 16-episode third season aired in late 2008.

The show was successful in foreign markets, being broadcast in more than 70 countries.

A namesake feature film was released in 2012, which the cast that includes actors from the show; the plot is completely original, though loosely based on the show's premise.


The Roman Catholic Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle is a Roman Catholic diocese of the Latin Rite centred on St Mary's Cathedral in the city of Newcastle upon Tyne in England. The diocese is one of the six suffragan sees in the ecclesiastical Province of Liverpool and covers much of North-East England.


Dwellers in the Crucible

Dwellers in the Crucible is a 1985 "Star Trek: The Original Series" novel written by Margaret Wander Bonanno. A bestseller, it was the author's breakout novel, retelling the central "Star Trek" story of the friendship between James T. Kirk and Spock through the experiences of two female civilians, Egyptian Cleante al Faisal and Vulcan T'Shael. It is noted for its emphasis on interpersonal relationships over action, and for the minimal role played in the story by the franchise's established characters.


Carol Brice

Carol Brice (April 16, 1918 - February 15, 1985) was an American contralto. Born in Sedalia, North Carolina, she studied at Palmer Memorial Institute and later at Talladega College in Talladega, Alabama, where she received a Bachelor of Music in 1939. She continued her studies at the Juilliard School of Music from 1939 to 1943. She attracted considerable attention for her role in a 1939 production of "The Hot Mikado" at the New York World's Fair, where she worked with Bill "Bojangles" Robinson. Brice made her recital debut in 1943, that year becoming the first African-American to win the Walter Naumburg Award. Her concerts often featured the piano accompaniment of her brother, Jonathan Brice.

She was the featured contralto on the February 5, 1946 recording of Manuel de Falla's "El Amor Brujo" conducted by Fritz Reiner with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. (Columbia Masterworks MM-633, 3 12" 78 RPM discs. Also LP ML-2006).

Her performances on Broadway included the role of Kakou in the original 1959 cast of "Saratoga", the role of Maude in a 1960 revival of "Finian's Rainbow", the role of Catherine Creek in the original 1971 musical production of "The Grass Harp", and the role of Maria in a 1976 revival of "Porgy & Bess". Her opera performances included roles in Clarence Cameron White's "Ouanga" and Marc Blitzstein's "Regina".

Brice began teaching at the University of Oklahoma at Norman in 1974. She later founded the non-profit Cimarron Circuit Opera Company in Oklahoma with her husband, the baritone Thomas Carey. Brice died in Norman, Oklahoma of cancer, survived by her husband, brother, two children and six grandchildren.


Roman Málek

Roman Málek (born September 25, 1977) is a former Czech professional ice hockey goaltender who played in the Czech Extraliga, Russian Superleague, and Swedish Hockey League. He was selected by the Philadelphia Flyers in the 5th round (158th overall) of the 2001 NHL Entry Draft but did not play in America.

Málek played with HC Vítkovice in the Czech Extraliga during the 2010–11 season. He is now a Goalie Coach in Slavia Prague and runs Goalie Service Camps for young goalies.

He has recently build a training goalie net for his offsprings to practice during the coronavirus pandemic.


CZ 805 BREN

The CZ 805 BREN modular assault rifle is a gas-operated (short-stroke gas piston) selective fire self-loading rifle with a rotating breechblock, cold hammer forged chrome lined barrel designed and manufactured by Česká zbrojovka Uherský Brod. The modular design currently enables users to change the calibre of the weapon to 5.56×45mm NATO or 7.62×39mm intermediate cartridges by quick change of barrel with gas tubes, breech block, magazine bay and magazine.

The CZ 805 BREN was created to replace the Sa vz. 58 in the Czech Army in 2006, which later sprung a family of rifles; CZ 807, CZ BREN 2 and CZ BREN 2 BR.

The CZ 805 BREN is used by the Czech military, Indonesian special forces and Mexican police. In 2014, Slovak Army began to replace its vz. 58 rifles with CZ 805 BREN. In November 2016, the Czech Army received its first batch of CZ BREN 2 modular assault rifles. In 2017, French GIGN received 68 CZ BREN 2 assault rifles chambered in 7.62×39mm and is expected to order more, in order to replace most of its Heckler & Koch HK416. The CZ BREN 2 in 7.62×39mm was also issued to Egyptian airborne forces and Republican Guard in 2017 and 2018 respectively.


Thomas Shine

Thomas Shine KC*HS (12 February 1872 – 22 November 1955) was an Irish-born prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the Bishop of Middlesbrough from 1929 to 1955.

Born in New Inn, County Tipperary, Ireland on 12 February 1872, completing his clerical studies in St. Joseph's Seminary, Leeds and, he was ordained to the priesthood on 29 June 1894. He was appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Middlesbrough and Titular Bishop of "Lamus" on 12 April 1921. His consecration to the Episcopate took place on 29 June 1921, the principal consecrator was Bishop Richard Lacy of Middlesbrough, and the principal co-consecrators were Bishop Joseph Cowgill of Leeds and Archbishop Frederick Keating of Liverpool. On the death of Bishop Lacy on 11 April 1929, Shine automatically succeeded as the Bishop of Middlesbrough. He was appointed the personal title of archbishop on 19 January 1955.
His episcopal motto was rare enough in French: "Briller sans bruler", a wink to his last name 'Shine: 'shining not burning' - the elegant alliteration holds only in French.
Archbishop Shine died in office on 22 November 1955, aged 83.


Keechaka Vadham

Keechaka Vadham () is an Indian silent film produced, directed, filmed and edited by R. Nataraja Mudaliar. The first film to have been made in South India, it was shot in five weeks at Nataraja Mudaliar's production house, India Film Company. As the members of the cast were Tamils, "Keechaka Vadham" is considered to be the first Tamil film. No print of it is known to have survived, making it a lost film.

The screenplay, written by C. Rangavadivelu, is based on an episode from the "Virata Parva" segment of the Hindu epic "Mahabharata", focusing on Keechaka's attempts to woo Draupadi. The film stars Raju Mudaliar and Jeevarathnam as the central characters.

Released in the late 1910s, "Keechaka Vadham" was commercially successful and received positive critical feedback. The film's success prompted Nataraja Mudaliar to make a series of similar historical films, which laid the foundation for the South Indian cinema industry and led to his being recognised as the father of Tamil cinema. Nataraja Mudaliar's works were an inspiration to other filmmakers including Raghupathi Surya Prakasa and J. C. Daniel.


A Gifted Man

A Gifted Man is an American fantasy medical drama television series that premiered on CBS on September 23, 2011. The series is about a talented but self-absorbed surgeon (Patrick Wilson) who starts questioning his purpose in life when he is visited by the spirit of his deceased ex-wife (Jennifer Ehle). The pilot episode was directed by Jonathan Demme, who also served as an executive producer on the show along with writer Susannah Grant. The first thirteen episodes were aired in the Friday 8:00 p.m. timeslot (September 23, 2011 – February 10, 2012), while the final three episodes of the 16 episode season order were aired in the Friday 9:00 p.m. timeslot (February 17, 2012 – March 2, 2012).

On May 10, 2012, CBS canceled the series after one season.


Tamer Peker

Tamer Peker (born 1970, in Istanbul) is a Turkish operatic baritone.

He started as a violinist at the music department of Gazi University in Turkey in 1990. Later he studied singing under Ihsan Ekber and Yalcin Davra. He passed the exam at Antalya State Opera and Ballet and started his career as opera singer there in 1998. He continued his singing education with Luciano Mentefusco. The artist still sings at Antalya State Opera.

Performances
*Giuseppe Verdi's "La traviata" as Alfredo Germont at Antalya State Opera, Ankara State Opera and at the Aspendos International Opera and Ballet Festival
*Pietro Mascagni's "Cavalleria rusticana" as Alfio, Antalya State Opera
*Ruggero Leoncavallo's "Pagliacci" as Tonio at Antalya State Opera and Opera & Ballet Festival
*Giuseppe Verdi's "Nabucco" as Nabucco at Izmir State Opera and Aspendos International Opera & Ballet Festival
*Richard Wagner's "The Flying Dutchman" as The Dutchman at Izmir State Opera
*Georges Bizet's "Carmen" as Escamillo at Antalya State Opera and Aspendos International Opera & Ballet Festival
*Hugo Cole's "Asses' Ears" as Midas at Antalya State Opera
*Baritone in "Carmina Burana" at Antalya State Opera and Aspendos International Opera & Ballet Festival
*Beethoven's 9th Symphony, baritone, at Antalya State Opera
*Giacomo Puccini's "Madama Butterfly" as Sharpless at Antalya State Opera
*"Tosca" as Scarpia at Antalya State Opera
*"Rusalka" as Vodnik at Antalya State Opera
*"Iolanta" as Robert at Antalya State Opera
In 2003, Peker performed with İstanbul State Opera in concert at Kizkulesi and 2010 in a concert in Bulgaria.


Elachistocleis skotogaster

Elachistocleis skotogaster (common name: Santa Victoria oval frog) is a species of frog in the family Microhylidae. It is known with certainty only from the Salta Province in northern Argentina. However, the type locality and some later observations are near the border to Bolivia, and it is possible that some frogs from Bolivia currently attributed to "Elachistocleis ovalis" belong to this species.

"Elachistocleis skotogaster" is known from its type locality, a subtropical montane moist forest, and another humid montane forest locality. There are acoustic observations of calling males from roadside ponds from further two localities, all in the Salta Province of Argentina. Breeding takes place in temporary ponds.


Stumpffia pygmaea

Stumpffia pygmaea is a species of frog in the family Microhylidae. It is endemic to Madagascar, where it is known from only two islands, Nosy Be and Nosy Komba. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, plantations.

Male "Stumpffia pygmaea" have a snout–vent length of , and females a snout-vent length of . "Stumpffia pygmaea" is a terrestrial microhylid frog. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, plantations, and heavily degraded former forest. It is threatened by habitat loss.


Arthroleptella subvoce

Arthroleptella subvoce is a species of frogs in the family Pyxicephalidae. It is endemic to South Africa and only known from the Groot Winterhoek Wilderness Area, Western Cape. Common name northern moss frog has been coined for it. The specific name "subvoce" is Latin for "under voice" and refers to the very subdued male advertisement call of this frog.


Trans-Sahara Highway

The Trans-Sahara Highway is a proposed transnational highway project to pave, improve and ease border formalities on an existing trade route running north–south across the Sahara Desert. It runs between North Africa bordered by the Mediterranean Sea in the north and West Africa bordered by the Atlantic Ocean in the south, from Algiers in Algeria to Lagos in Nigeria, giving it the alternative names of the Algiers-Lagos Highway or Lagos-Algiers Highway.

The Trans-Sahara Highway is one of the oldest transnational highways in Africa and one of the most complete, having been proposed in 1962, with construction of sections in the Sahara starting in the 1970s. Its central section is still little-used though, and still requires special vehicles and precautions to be taken to survive the harsh environment and climate of the center of the desert.


Heysen Tunnels

The Heysen Tunnels are twin tube road tunnels which carry the South Eastern Freeway under Eagle On The Hill in the Mount Lofty Ranges in South Australia. The tunnels were excavated using a tunnelling machine normally used in heavy-duty mining operations which tunnelled through of rock for each tunnel at an average rate of per day. The tunnels were completed in 1998 and opened on 5 March 2000.Each tunnel carries three lanes of traffic. As at 2015, 45,700 vehicles passed through them daily. The maximum height of vehicles permitted in the tunnels is , the same as the Crafers and Mt Osmond interchanges. Laser height detectors monitor traffic to provide warnings to drivers before they attempt to enter the tunnel.

The tunnels are named after artist Sir Hans Heysen.


Cooper Freedman

Dr. Cooper Freedman is a fictional character on the "Grey's Anatomy" spin-off, "Private Practice". He is portrayed by actor Paul Adelstein.


Luciobarbus setivimensis

Luciobarbus setivimensis is a ray-finned fish species in the family Cyprinidae.

It is found only in Algeria. Its natural habitat are rivers, water storage areas, and canals and ditches. It is not considered a threatened species by the IUCN.

The taxonomy and systematics of the Maghreb barbs are subject to considerable dispute. Some authors consider "L. setivimensis" a distinct species, while others include it in the Algerian barb ("L. callensis").


Miss Texas' Outstanding Teen

The Miss Texas' Outstanding Teen competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the U.S. state of Texas in the Miss America's Outstanding Teen pageant. The pageant is held each July at the Charles W. Eisemann Center for Performing Arts in Richardson, Texas.

Katherine Omo-Osagie of Lewisville was crowned Miss Texas' Outstanding Teen on June 26, 2021 at the Renaissance in Richardson, Texas. She will compete for the title of Miss America's Outstanding Teen 2022 at the Loews Royal Pacific Resort at Universal Orlando on July 30, 2021 in Orlando, Florida.


Gastrotheca rebeccae

Gastrotheca rebeccae (common name: Rebecca's marsupial frog) is a species of frog in the family Hemiphractidae. It is endemic to Peru and known from the eastern slopes of the Cordillera Oriental in the Ayacucho Region, at elevations of asl. The specific name honours Dr. Rebecca Pyles from the East Tennessee State University.

Natural habitat of "Gastrotheca rebeccae" is cloud forest. Possible threats to this species are unknown.


Phrynopus juninensis

Phrynopus juninensis is a species of frog in the family Craugastoridae. It is endemic to Peru and only known from Cascas near Huasihuasi, Department of Junín. Records from Department of Pasco probably belong to another species. Common name Junin Andes frog has been proposed for this species.


Slot Racers

Slot Racers is a video game for the Atari VCS (later called the Atari 2600) published by Atari, Inc. in 1978. It was the first game written by Warren Robinett, who went on to create one of Atari's most successful games for the 2600, "Adventure".


Mainz Psalter

The Mainz Psalter was the second major book printed with movable type in the West; the first was the Gutenberg Bible. It is a psalter commissioned by the Mainz archbishop in 1457. The Psalter introduced several innovations: it was the first book to feature a printed date of publication, a printed colophon, two sizes of type, printed decorative initials, and the first to be printed in three colours. The colophon also contains the first example of a printer's mark. It was the first important publication issued by Johann Fust and Peter Schoeffer following their split from Johannes Gutenberg.


Barby Ferry

The Barby Ferry, also known as the Ronney Barby Ferry, is a cable ferry across the Elbe river between Barby and Walternienburg in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Technically, the ferry is a reaction ferry, which is propelled by the current of the water. The ferry is attached to a floating cable which is anchored firmly in the riverbed upstream of the ferry. To operate the ferry, it is angled into the current, causing the force of the current to swing the ferry across the river on the cable.


Harmas de Fabre

The Harmas de Fabre, also known as the Musée Harmas Jean-Henri Fabre, is a museum, botanical garden, and herbarium located on the Route d'Orange, Sérignan-du-Comtat, Vaucluse, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. It is open daily except Wednesday in the warmer months; an admission fee is charged.

The museum contains the house and the garden of naturalist and entomologist Jean Henri Fabre (1823-1915) who moved into this house in 1879, after which he devoted the rest of his life to the study of insects and flora. The word "harmas" means "fallow ground" in Provençal. In 1922 the "Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle" acquired the site, and in 1955 nearly 700 watercolors, hand painted by Fabre, were found in attics of Harmas by his grandson. In 1998 the site was classified as a "monument historique"; restored by the Ministry of Culture and Communication, it opened to the public in 2006.

Today the museum contains Fabre's collections of fossils, minerals, 594 watercolors of mushrooms, manuscripts, a private herbarium of more than 20,000 specimens including plants harvested by Fabre during his stay in Corsica (1849-1852), and the small table on which his manuscripts were written, most notably the "Souvenirs Entomologiques". The gardens contain 20 historic trees and over 500 plant species, as well as trails and a pool, and a small cold greenhouse built in 1880.


Joseph-Elzéar Bernier

Joseph-Elzéar Bernier (January 1, 1852 – December 26, 1934) was a Canadian mariner from Quebec who led expeditions into the Canadian Arctic in the early 20th century.
He was born in L'Islet, Quebec, the son of Captain Thomas Bernier and Célinas Paradis. At the age of 14, he became a cabin boy on his father's ship. Three years later, he became captain of his own ship and commanded sailing ships for the next 25 years. Bernier was named governor for the jail at Quebec City in 1895. From 1904 to 1911, he explored the Arctic archipelago on annual voyages in his ship the CGS "Arctic" and officially claimed the islands for Canada. Bernier retrieved documents that had been stored in caches by earlier Arctic explorers. He also established Royal Canadian Mounted Police posts in the Canadian north. During World War I, Bernier commanded a ship which transported mail along the eastern coast and carried goods in convoys across the Atlantic. He returned to patrolling the arctic after the war's end, continuing until his retirement in 1925, when he was awarded the Royal Geographical Society's Back Award.

Historian and expert on Northern Sovereignty Michael Byers noted that Bernier placed a plaque on Melville Island, in 1909, claiming Canadian Sovereignty over not only the entire Arctic Archipelago, but a wedge of the Arctic Ocean "from longitude 60°W to 141°W up to latitude 90°N," ie, all the way to the North Pole. Byer characterized this claim as an articulation of sector theory, and noted how diplomats had widely rejected Russia's claims to a wedge of the Arctic, extending to the North Pole.

Bernier died of a heart attack in Lévis at the age of 82.

He published "Master Mariner and Explorer: A Narrative of Sixty Years at Sea ..." in 1939.

Joseph Idlout's daughter, Leah Idlout, has said that her father was the son of Bernier. It is thought that Idlout may have been the only son of Bernier.

Joseph-Elzéar Bernier and his Northern expeditions are featured on pages 12 & 13 of the 36 page Canadian Passport.


Zangasso

Zangasso (also Sangasso) is a small town and commune in the Cercle of Koutiala in the Sikasso Region of southern Mali. The commune covers an area of 452 square kilometers and includes 10 settlements. In the 2009 census it had a population of 19,925. The small town of Zangasso (or Sangasso), the administrative centre ("chef-lieu") of the commune, is 30 km southwest of Koutiala on the Route Nationale 11 that links Koutiala with Sikasso.

The French explorer René Caillié stopped at Zangasso on 12 February 1828 on his journey to Timbuktu. He was travelling with a caravan transporting kola nuts to Djenné. In his book "Travels through Central Africa to Timbuctoo" published in 1830, he spelled the name of the village as Sanasso. He wrote:

As we advanced the soil became sandy and well cultivated. The country was generally open, yet there were some cés and nédés "rhamnus lotus" and "nauclea". We met a numerous caravan from Jenné, laden with salt. This caravan was composed of about two hundred men, sixty women, and twenty five asses. About nine o'clock in the morning we halted at Sanasso. From Toumaré to Jenné, wood is so scarce that the greater part of the inhabitants burn millet stubble. Sanasso is shaded by bombaces and baobabs. Like all Bambara villages in this region, it is built of bricks baked in the sun. The houses have only a ground floor: they are very dirty, and surrounded with walls.

Caillié recorded details of many of the plants. The "cés" are shea trees "Vitellaria paradoxa" (formerly "Butyrospermum parkii") from which shea butter is made. "Nédé" is "Parkia biglobosa". "Rhamnus lotus" is a synonym for "Ziziphus lotus", and his "nauclea" were probably "Mitragyna inermis".


Eridania quadrangle

The Eridania quadrangle is one of a series of 30 quadrangle maps of Mars used by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Astrogeology Research Program. The Eridania quadrangle is also referred to as MC-29 (Mars Chart-29).

The Eridania quadrangle lies between 30° and 65° south latitude and 180° and 240° west longitude on the planet Mars. Most of the classic region named Terra Cimmeria is found within this quadrangle. Part of the Electris deposits, a 100–200 meters thick, light-toned deposit covers the Eridania quadrangle. Many slopes in Eridania contain gullies, which are believed to be caused by flowing water.


Histria Agata

Histria Agata is a Chemical/Oil Products Tanker owned by the Romanian shipping company Histria Shipmanagement and is registered in Valletta, Malta.


Histria Coral

Histria Coral is a Chemical/Oil Products Tanker owned by the Romanian shipping company Histria Shipmanagement and is registered in Valletta, Malta.


The Rock, Rhosymedre

The Rock, Rhosymedre, near Wrexham, Wales is the current home stadium for Welsh Premier League team Cefn Druids.

In March 2009 planning permission was granted to demolish Cefn's old stadium, Plaskynaston Lane, and replace it with a Tesco supermarket. Delays to the beginning of construction put the project back by 12 months and the club moved into the new stadium in August 2010.


Mercer Bears

The Mercer Bears are the athletic teams of Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, United States. Mercer is the only private university in Georgia with an NCAA Division I athletic program and fields teams in eight men's and nine women's sports. The university competes in the Southern Conference for most sports. In 2013, the football team competed in the Pioneer Football League.

Mercer joined the Southern Conference as a full member on July 1, 2014; all university-sponsored sports will compete in the Southern Conference except women's lacrosse and women's beach volleyball, which are not sponsored by the conference.


Miss Ecuador 2009

The Miss Ecuador 2009 pageant was held on March 13, 2009. There were 21 candidates for the national title. The Miss Ecuador 2009 was Sandra Vinces from Manabí, she was crowned by Domenica Saporitti from Guayas. She represented Ecuador at Miss Universe 2009.


Yunnan Tin

Yunnan Tin Group (Holding) Company Limited (YTC) is the largest tin producer and exporter in China and the world. It is headquartered in Kunming, Yunnan. It involves in the production, processing and export of tin metal, and also for the production of tin-based and arsenic-based chemicals. It was established in 1883 by the Government of Qing Dynasty as the Gejiu Manufacture & Commercial Bureau (China Merchants).

It owns two listed subsidiaries, Yunnan Tin Company Limited () and Sino-Platinum Metals Company Limited (). It was established in 1998 and listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange in 2000. It is the only stock company in the Chinese tin industry.


2009 Asian Five Nations

"For divisional competitions, see: 2009 Asian Five Nations division tournaments"

The 2009 Asian Five Nations, known as the 2009 HSBC Asian 5 Nations due to its sponsorship by HSBC, was the second series of the rugby union Asian Five Nations, the flagship competition devised by the International Rugby Board to develop the sport in the Asian region. The tournament played a role in qualifying for the 2011 Rugby World Cup, with Singapore, the last place team, being relegated to Division 1. As the 2010 edition will serve as the final round of Asian qualifying, Singapore is effectively eliminated.


Matthias Henn

Matthias Henn (born 28 April 1985 in Birkenfeld, Rhineland-Palatinate) is a German retired footballer who played as a defender.

He spent three seasons in the Bundesliga so far, one with Eintracht Braunschweig and two with 1. FC Kaiserslautern. After eight seasons in Braunschweig, Henn joined Hansa Rostock in 2015.


Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa

Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa () is a 2010 Indian Tamil-language romantic drama film written and directed by Gautham Menon, featuring Silambarasan and Trisha in the lead roles. Jointly produced Elred Kumar, Jayaraman, VTV Ganesh and P. Madan under the banner Escape Artists Motion Pictures and RS Infotainment, the film was distributed by Udhayanidhi Stalin's Red Giant Movies. The story was simultaneously shot in Telugu as "Ye Maaya Chesave", starring Naga Chaitanya and Samantha Ruth Prabhu, however, with a different cast and climax. In 2012, the film was remade is "Ekk Deewana Tha" , starring Prateik Babbar and Amy Jackson.

Launched after a wave of publicity posters with no details about the cast and crew. "Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa" began its first schedule of filming in February 2009. Shooting continued through 2009, with the film garnering significant media interest, through schedules in Malta and the United States. Before release, it became the first Tamil project to have a music soundtrack premiere outside of India, with a successful launch at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTAs) in London. The features soundtrack composed by A. R. Rahman, cinematography by Manoj Paramahamsa and editing by Anthony Gonsalves.

"Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa" explores the complicated relationship between a Hindu Tamil boy, Karthik Sivakumar, and a Malayali Christian girl, Jessie Thekekuttu from Alappuzha, Kerala. Karthik falls in love with Jessie only to be met by her indifference and reluctance as they belong to different religions and her strict conservative family will never consent to their union. The film released on 26 February 2010, along with the Telugu version to advance bookings worldwide. It was later remade in Hindi as "Ekk Deewana Tha". A short film/sequel titled "Karthik Dial Seytha Yenn", again directed by Menon with Silambarasan and Trisha reprising their roles, was released in May 2020.


The 2009 Viña del Mar International Song Festival was held from Monday 23 February until Saturday 28 February.
This festival was the number 50, and had a special award for the 50 years, the "Gold Song", elected between the winner songs from 2001 to 2008 versions of Festival. Finally, "Gold song" in the folk contest was "Cuecas Al Sol" (2005 winner), and in the international contest was "Ayer te vi" (2001 winner).

The television channels from the festival this year is "Canal 13" and "TVN", and was held in Viña del Mar, Chile


Mónica Vergara

Mónica Vergara Rubio (born 2 May 1983) is the manager for Mexico women's national football team. Prior to her role, she was a member of the senior team herself, playing as a defender. She also held positions as a coach for the U-15, U-17, and U-20 teams. She led the U-15 squad to a third place finish at the Youth Olympic Games and, most notably, took the U-17 team to the championship game of the 2018 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.


Oliver Straube

Oliver Straube (born December 13, 1971) is a German former footballer who became a coach. As of February 2009, he is managing an amateur team FV Obereichstätt. He spent four seasons in the Bundesliga with 1. FC Nürnberg, Hamburger SV and SpVgg Unterhaching.


Petr Šachl

Petr Šachl (born December 12, 1977) is a Czech professional ice hockey forward who currently plays for HDD Olimpija Ljubljana of the Erste Bank Eishockey Liga.

Šachl was picked 128th overall in the 1996 NHL Entry Draft by New York Islanders from HC České Budějovice. He then spent a year in the Western Hockey League for the Tri-City Americans before returning to České Budějovice. He moved to North America in 1999-00 and played one game in the West Coast Hockey League for the Tacoma Sabercats and then played three games in the United Hockey League for the Asheville Smoke before playing 55 games of the Fort Wayne Komets in the same league. In 2000, he was traded to Nashville Predators, and spent two seasons playing for the Milwaukee Admirals of the American Hockey League. He then moved to Finland in the Sm-liiga for Ässät and then for SaiPa and then briefly played in Sweden's Elitserien for Brynäs IF before returning to the Czech Extraliga with HC Liberec in 2005. On 9 October 2009, it was announced he had signed for HC Košice of the Slovak Extraliga.

On July 30, 2010, Sachl signed with HDD Olimpija Ljubljana of the Erste Bank Eishockey Liga.


Cardiospermum

Cardiospermum is a genus of approximately 14 species in the soapberry family, Sapindaceae, which are native to the American, Indian, and African tropics. The genus name is derived from the Greek words καρδία, meaning "heart," and σπέρμα, meaning "seed." Common names of the members of this genus include balloon vine, love in a puff, heartseed, and heartseed vine. These plants are classified as invasive species in parts of the Southern United States and South Africa.


Daily Mercury

The Daily Mercury is the only daily newspaper serving the Mackay region in Queensland, Australia and is published Monday to Saturday. The newspaper is printed by Mackay Printing and Publishing and is owned by News Corp Australia.

The circulation of the "Daily Mercury" is 16,045 Monday to Friday and 19,839 on Saturday.


Giovanbattista Branconio dell'Aquila

Giovanbattista Branconio dell'Aquila (1473 – 1522) was a papal protonotary and chamberlain, as well as a friend of the artist Raphael (who painted "The Visitation"; Raphael designed the palace of Palazzo Branconio dell'Aquila on via Alessandrina in the Borgo for him).

Branconio, who was born in L'Aquila, was also the personal keeper of Hanno, the white elephant brought to Rome in 1514.


The 2004 Icelandic Men's Football League Cup was the ninth staging of the Icelandic Men's League Cup. It featured all the 2003 Úrvalsdeild karla teams and the top 6 teams from 1. deild karla in 2003.

The competition started on 20 February 2004 and concluded on 8 May 2004 with FH beating KR 2-1 in the final.


The Richmond News Leader

The Richmond News Leader was an afternoon daily newspaper published in Richmond, Virginia from 1888 to 1992. During much of its run, it was the largest newspaper source in Richmond, competing with the morning "Richmond Times-Dispatch". By the late 1960s, afternoon papers had been steadily losing their audiences to television, and "The News Leader" was no exception. Its circulation at one time exceeded 200,000, but at the time of its closing, it had fallen below 80,000.

Notable alumni of the newspaper included historian and biographer Douglas Southall Freeman, future television journalist Roger Mudd, conservative commentator James Kilpatrick, and editorial cartoonist Jeff MacNelly. During its run, it garnered a reputation as being one of the most politically conservative newspapers in the United States.


The Association of Arentèle-Durbion-Padozel communes (French: "Communauté de communes de l'Arentèle-Durbion-Padozel") is a former French administrative association of communes in the Vosges "département" of eastern France and in the region of Lorraine.

Created in 2003, the association had its administrative offices at Girecourt-sur-Durbion. It was merged into the Communauté de communes Bruyères - Vallons des Vosges in January 2014.


Catahoula Lake

Catahoula Lake () is a large freshwater lake located in La Salle Parish and Rapides Parish of central Louisiana, United States.

Catahoula Lake is the largest natural freshwater lake in the state covering just over . It is owned by the State of Louisiana and managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.

Catahoula is a shallow, and poorly drained wetland supported by the Little River and several creeks. It was drained by the Old River, French Fork and a number of bayous until several flood control projects changed the lake's drainage characteristics.

It is known as the largest moist soil unit in North America and supports a variety of waterfowl including geese, duck, and wading birds and is a recreational area for hunting, fishing, hiking, sight seeing, and bird watching. Access to the lake is limited on the western shores due to private and corporate fencing.


Western Australia Day

Western Australia Day or simply WA Day (formerly known as Foundation Day) is a public holiday in Western Australia, celebrated on the first Monday in June each year to commemorate the founding of the Swan River Colony in 1829. Because of the date of Western Australia Day, WA does not have the Queen's Official Birthday public holiday in June, as do the other Australian states; it is held in September or October instead.


XIV International Brigade

The XIV International Brigade was one of several international brigades that fought for the Spanish Second Republic during the Spanish Civil War.


Politics of Veneto

The Politics of Veneto, a Region of Italy takes place in a framework of a semi-presidential representative democracy, whereby the President is the head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the Regional Government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the Regional Council.

The Statute of Veneto was promulgated in 1971 and largely rewritten in 2011. Article 1 defines Veneto as an "autonomous Region", "constituted by the Venetian people and the lands of the provinces of Belluno, Padua, Rovigo, Treviso, Venice, Verona and Vicenza", while maintaining "bonds with Venetians in the world". Article 2 sets forth the principle of the "self-government of the Venetian people" and mandates the Region to "promote the historical identity of the Venetian people and civilisation".

On 22 October 2017 an autonomy referendum took place in Veneto: 57.2% of Venetians participated and 98.1% voted "yes".

The current president of Veneto is Luca Zaia of Liga Veneta–Lega, by far the largest party in the Regional Council.


Three-sector model

The three-sector model in economics divides economies into three sectors of activity: extraction of raw materials (primary), manufacturing (secondary), and service industries which exist to facilitate the transport, distribution and sale of goods produced in the secondary sector (tertiary). The model was developed by Allan Fisher, Colin Clark, and Jean Fourastié. in the first half of the 20th century, and is a representation of an industrial economy. It has been criticised as inappropriate as a representation of the economy in the 21st century.

According to the three-sector model, the main focus of an economy's activity shifts from the primary, through the secondary and finally to the tertiary sector. Countries with a low per capita income are in an early state of development; the main part of their national income is achieved through production in the primary sector. Countries in a more advanced state of development, with a medium national income, generate their income mostly in the secondary sector. In highly developed countries with a high income, the tertiary sector dominates the total output of the economy.

The rise of the post-industrial economy in which an increasing proportion of economic activity is not directly related to physical goods has led some economists to expand the model by adding a fourth quaternary or fifth quinary sectors, while others have ceased to use the model.


Spring Branch School of Choice

The Spring Branch School of Choice (SBSC) is an alternative school in the Spring Branch Independent School District in Spring Valley Village, Texas, United States. It serves grades 9-12.

SBSC was formerly known as Spring Branch High School (SBHS), which was the first high school in the district. The high school opened in 1948 with an initial enrollment of a few hundred students. By the late 1950s and early 1960s, the school's enrollment was exceeding its capacity and causing overcrowding. In response, the school district opened Memorial High School (MHS) in 1962 on the other side of Old Katy Road. Enrollment at SBHS however, continued to grow. Another high school, Spring Woods High School, opened in 1964. Northbrook High School opened in 1974 to ease additional overcrowding at Spring Branch and Spring Woods. By the mid-1980s, a decline in the school-age population across the district caused a decrease in enrollment at all high schools in the district. The district's board of trustees voted to close both SBHS and Westchester High School at the end of the 1984-85 school year. Most students who previously attended SBHS were rezoned to Northbrook and Spring Woods. Some SBHS students were rezoned to MHS. SBSOC was then opened in the former SBHS building as an alternative school for students not suited to the district's more traditional schools.

Many of the buildings that had made up SBHS were torn down in 2015 so that a new facility for the SBSC could be built in its place. A museum containing memorabilia from the former SBHS opened in October 2017 on the site of the old school's library.


Renae Jacobs

Renae Jacobs (born February 1, 1957) is an American voice actress, who is perhaps best known for voicing journalist and reporter April O'Neil in the original "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" animated series.


CVS Health

CVS Health (previously CVS Corporation and CVS Caremark Corporation) is an American healthcare company that owns CVS Pharmacy, a retail pharmacy chain; CVS Caremark, a pharmacy benefits manager; Aetna, a health insurance provider, among many other brands. The company's headquarters is in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. It is the largest U.S.-only corporation in the world, and also the largest to only serve one country.

Consumer Value Stores (CVS) was founded in 1963 by three partners: brothers Stanley and Sidney Goldstein and Ralph Hoagland, who grew the venture from a parent company, Mark Steven, Inc., that helped retailers manage their health and beauty aid product lines. The business began as a chain of health and beauty aid stores, but within several years, pharmacies were added. To facilitate growth and expansion, the company joined the Melville Corporation, which managed a string of retail businesses. Following a period of growth in the 1980s and 1990s, CVS Corporation spun off from Melville in 1996, becoming a standalone company trading on the New York Stock Exchange as .

It later completed a merger with the pharmacy benefit management company Caremark Rx in 2007, and was renamed CVS Caremark Corporation. The company was renamed CVS Health in 2014, following its decision to remove tobacco products from CVS Pharmacy store shelves. CVS Health's assets include CVS Pharmacy, CVS Caremark, CVS Specialty, and the retail clinic MinuteClinic.

In 2020, it ranked 5th on the Fortune 500 and 13th on the Fortune Global 500 list with $194.58billion in annual revenue. In December 2017, CVS agreed to acquire Aetna for $69billion and completed the acquisition in November 2018. Legal issues related to the merger were resolved in September 2019.

In February 2020, CVS Health announced changes to its Board of Directors. Directors Richard "Dick" Swift, Richard Bracken and Mark Bertolini will no longer stand for re-election at the company's 2020 Annual Meeting and the Board will be reduced from 16 to 13 directors.


Airco DH.10 Amiens

The Airco DH.10 Amiens was a twin-engined heavy bomber designed and produced by the British aircraft manufacturer Airco. It performed the first nighttime air mail service in the world on 14-15 May 1919.

The DH.10 was developed in the final years of the First World War in response to a requirement to equip the newly-formed Royal Air Force (RAF) with an expanded offensive bombing capability. It was based upon the earlier Airco DH.3 bomber, which had not been pursued largely due to disinterest in heavy bombers at that time. The first prototype performed its maiden flight on 4 March 1918; dissatisfaction with its performance led to the aircraft being redesigned with more powerful engines and a tractor configuration, which was received more favourably. Over 1,200 DH.10s were on order at one stage.

Only a handful of DH.10s had been delivered to the RAF, and a single offensive mission conducted, before the Armistice of 11 November 1918 came into effect, ending the conflict. The diminishing need for bombers meant orders for the type were reduced and production was scaled back substantially. Neverthless, over 250 DH.10s were constructed and were operated during the interwar period, seeing use in the Third Anglo-Afghan war as well as for air mail services in various regions. The type was replaced by more capable bombers during the early 1920s.


Alžbeta Havrančíková

Alžbeta Havrančíková (born 27 September 1963) is a Czechoslovak and Slovak former cross-country skier who competed from 1984 to 2000. Competing in four Winter Olympics, she earned her best finish of sixth in the 4 × 5 km relay at Albertville in 1992 and her best individual finish of eighth in the 15 km event at Lillehammer in 1994.

Havrančíková's best finish at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships was fourth twice at Lahti in 1989 (10 km, 30 km). She earned two individual World Cup victories (5 km: 1988, 30 km: 1989).


Contemporary history

Contemporary history, in English-language historiography, is a subset of modern history that describes the historical period from approximately 1945 to the present. Contemporary history is either a subset of the late modern period, or it is one of the three major subsets of modern history, alongside the early modern period and the late modern period. The term "contemporary history" has been in use at least since the early 19th century.

Contemporary history is politically dominated by the Cold War (1945–1991) between the United States and the Soviet Union whose effects were felt across the world. The confrontation, which was mainly fought through proxy wars and through intervention in the internal politics of smaller nations, ultimately ended with the dissolution of the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact in 1991, following the Revolutions of 1989. The latter stages and aftermath of the Cold War enabled the democratisation of much of Europe, Africa, and Latin America. In the Middle East, the period after 1945 was dominated by conflict involving the new state of Israel and the rise of petroleum politics, as well as the growth of Islamism after the 1980s. The first supranational organisations of government, such as the United Nations and European Union, emerged during the period after 1945, while the European colonial empires in Africa and Asia collapsed, gone by 1975. Countercultures rose and the sexual revolution transformed social relations in western countries between the 1960s and 1980s, epitomised by the Protests of 1968. Living standards rose sharply across the developed world because of the post-war economic boom, whereby major economies such as Japan and West Germany emerged. The culture of the United States, especially consumerism, spread widely. By the 1960s, many western countries had begun deindustrializing; in their place, globalization led to the emergence of new industrial centres, such as Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and later China, which exported consumer goods to developed countries.

Science made new advances after 1945: spaceflight, nuclear technology, laser and semiconductor technology were developed alongside molecular biology and genetics, particle physics, and the Standard Model of quantum field theory. Meanwhile, the first computers were created, followed by the Internet, beginning the Information Age.

In 2020, an outbreak of the COVID-19 disease, first documented in late 2019 in Wuhan, China, spread to other countries becoming a global pandemic, which caused a major socio-economic disruption all over the world. Many countries ordered mandatory lockdowns on movement and closures of non-essential businesses. The pandemic was described by some commentators as the most important global event of the 21st century, as well as the greatest crisis of modern times.


Fortunatus of Casei

Saint Fortunatus of Casei () is venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church. Tradition makes him a member of the Theban Legion, and thus martyred at Agaunum. However, his relics were situated in the catacombs of Saint Callixtus in Rome until 1746, when Cardinal Guadagni, Roman vicar to Benedict XIV, re-exhumed and displayed Fortunatus’ relics in the collegiate church of Santa Maria in Via Lata in Rome. It is unclear how the relics of Fortunatus reached Rome from the saint's supposed place of death in the Swiss Alps.

From Santa Maria in Via Lata, Fortunatus’ relics were translated to Casei Gerola in 1765, as a gift to the church there from the Holy See. Casei Gerola, in the province of Pavia, was an important village of the diocese of Tortona, which had close ties to the papacy. His relics were kept in an urn; Fortunatus’ skull was crushed, indicating the cause of death to be a fatal blow to the head.

Another source states that he was venerated in the catacombs of Saint Priscilla in Rome until 1600, when some of his relics were translated to Turbigo, although his relics were also claimed by Casei from 1700 onwards. There may have been two saints with the same name of Fortunatus. Some of his relics are also claimed by the parish of Lonate Pozzolo.

He was proclaimed patron saint of Pantelleria after he is believed to have aided the island through miraculous intervention during an earthquake in 1831 and a seaquake in 1891. A procession in honor of the saint is held on October 16; a statue of the saint is carried on a boat.


CHOX-FM

CHOX-FM is a Canadian radio station that broadcasts a francophone adult contemporary format at 97.5 FM in La Pocatière, Quebec.

The station originally signed on as CHGB in 1938 and changed through a number of different AM frequencies, until it moved to its last spot at 1310 AM before being authorized to move to the FM band in 1990 and adopting its current callsign. On April 23, 1992, CHOX signed on and in June 1992, the former AM transmitters left the air.

The station is currently owned by Groupe Radio Simard.


At Montreux Jazz Festival

At Montreux Jazz Festival is a 1998 album by Israeli singer Ofra Haza. The recording which captures Haza and a five-piece band live at the Montreux Jazz Festival in July 1990 comprises material from her international studio albums "Shaday", "Yemenite Songs" and "Desert Wind", including hit singles like "Im Nin' Alu", "Galbi", "Shaday", "Ya Ba Ye", as well as Yemeni Jewish traditionals and the a cappella performance of "Love Song" with lyrics from "The Song of Songs".

The album was first issued in 1998 and re-released internationally on the Locust Music label in 2005.
The live concert film released in 2007.


Moschellandsbergite

Moschellandsbergite is a rare isometric mineral made up of a silver-white amalgam of mercury and silver with the chemical makeup Ag2Hg3.

It was first described in 1938 and named after Moschellandsberg Mountain near Obermoschel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is considered a low-temperature hydrothermal mineral which occurs with metacinnabar, cinnabar, mercurian silver, tetrahedrite–tennantite, pyrite, sphalerite and chalcopyrite.


The Storm Warriors

The Storm Warriors is a 2009 Hong Kong "wuxia" fantasy film produced and directed by the Pang brothers. It is the second live-action film adaptation of artist Ma Wing-shing's manhua series "Fung Wan", following the 1998 film "The Storm Riders". "The Storm Warriors" is based on "Fung Wan"s "Japanese Invasion" story arc "The Death Battle". Ekin Cheng and Aaron Kwok respectively reprise their roles as Wind and Cloud, who this time find themselves up against Lord Godless (Simon Yam), a ruthless Japanese warlord bent on invading China. The film is a co-production between Universe Entertainment and Sil-Metropole Organisation.

A sequel to "The Storm Riders" was first announced in March 2008 after Universe gained rights to the "Fung Wan" franchise from former film distributor Golden Harvest. The Pangs aimed on creating a big-budgeted film involving visual effects and stated that "The Storm Warriors" would not be a direct sequel to its 1998 predecessor. Principal photography for "The Storm Warriors" began in April 2008 and ended in July; filming took place in three studios located in Bangkok, Thailand. The film is notable for being the first Chinese language film shot in bluescreen. During post-production, effects artists worked on scenes involving computer-generated imagery, focusing on the film's setting and backgrounds.

"The Storm Warriors" was released theatrically in Hong Kong on 10 December 2009.


Bamboo Among the Oaks

Bamboo Among the Oaks is the first Hmong American anthology of creative writing, published in 2002 by the Minnesota Historical Society Press. Many of the pieces contained in "Bamboo Among The Oaks" first appeared in the "Paj Ntaub Voice" Hmoob literary journal.

Edited by Mai Neng Moua, "Bamboo Among the Oaks" features the work of 23 Hmong writers from across the country. Some wrote using pseudonyms or pen-names due to the sensitivity of their subjects and concerns that the community might not distinguish between the narrator's voice and the author.

Until the 1950s the Hmong did not have a written language in the course of their 4,000 year history. Due to the war in Laos between 1954 and 1975 and the subsequent refugee years, it was not until the 1990s that a significant body of creative literary work began to emerge from the Hmong community.

In her introduction, editor Mai Neng Moua posited that most of the writers included in the anthology shared the following characteristics:

#They are emerging
#They are young.
#They write in English.
#They are from the Midwest.

There are significant exceptions to some of these conditions. Dia Cha and Kao Xiong are the oldest of the writers included in the anthology, while Soul Choj Vang resides in California, for example. While the pieces are written in English, many writers frequently employ Hmong terms within their work.

"Bamboo Among The Oaks" contains poetry, short stories, play excerpts, modern adaptations of traditional folklore, philosophical essays, and mixed genre pieces.

While Hmong American writers have been featured in other anthologies such as "Tilting the Continent" and "Yell-oh Girls!", "Bamboo Among The Oaks" is the first anthology to feature exclusively Hmong American writers, edited by their peers.

Many of the writers included in the anthology have since gone on to continue creative and literary writing at more professional levels, and many continue to give public readings and performances of their work.

The introduction features a history of the Hmong and outlines the history of contemporary Hmong literature and art, including the "Paj Ntaub Voice" Hmoob Literary Journal and the Center for Hmong Arts and Talent, and the relationship of Hmong writing to Asian-American literature of the 20th century.


MiniLiner

Miniliner S.r.L., trading as MiniLiner was a cargo airline based in Bergamo, Italy. It operated scheduled and ad hoc cargo services. Its main base is Orio al Serio Airport. Its license was suspended on 31 January 2015.


André Pernet

André Pernet (6 January 1894 – 17 June 1966) was a French bass-baritone opera performer.

After serving as a military officer in World War I, Pernet studied at the Paris Conservatory before making his operatic debut in Massenet's Hérodiade at Nice, in 1921. He sang at the Paris Opéra beginning in 1928. He also performed in Amsterdam, Brussels, London and Monte Carlo.

He is perhaps best remembered today for his role as the father in the 1939 film version of Gustave Charpentier's "Louise", directed by Abel Gance and also featuring Grace Moore and Georges Thill. He was noted for singing the title parts in "Mefistofele", "Boris Godunov", "Don Giovanni" and "Don Quichotte". Among the operas in which he created roles during the premiere performances were "Le marchand de Venise" (Hahn), "Oedipe" (Enesco), "Maximilien" (Milhaud) and "Vercingétorix" (Canteloube).

Pernet's smooth, elegant, well-produced voice can be heard on a number of recordings which he made between the two world wars. Some of his records are available on CD re-issues.


The Adventures of Sam

The Adventures of Sam was an Australian children's animated television serial, written by Ken Kelso, that aired on the ABC in 1999. Set in the 1850s, it followed a sea-faring boy named Sam Donahue as he goes on many adventures around the world while trying to find his brother Tom and discovers new worlds and different cultures.

The show ran for 13 episodes and is produced by the Australian Film Finance Corporation and Southern Star Entertainment in association with the ABC. It was also well known for its theme music by Nerida Tyson-Chew which was nominated for several awards. The show was also released on three videos in 1999 by PolyGram Video each containing four episodes featuring all episodes except for the final episode "Begin Again". It also aired on Toon Disney and The Disney Channel in the United Kingdom, TV2 in New Zealand, Kids Central in Singapore, Arutz HaYeladim in Israel, K-T.V. World in South Africa, France 5 in France, Disney Channel in Malaysia and RTÉ2 in Ireland being shown on the long running children's block "The Den".


Butyrometer

Butyrometer is a measuring instrument used to measure fat content in milk or milk products in general. The method used in the determination is Gerber's method as invented by Swiss chemist Niklaus Gerber.


Karl E. Meyer

Karl E. Meyer (May 22,1928 – December 22, 2019) was an American-based journalist. The third generation of his family to be engaged in that occupation, Meyer's grandfather, George Meyer, was the editor of the leading German language newspaper in Milwaukee, the "Germania"; his father, Ernest L. Meyer, was a columnist for "The Capital Times" in Madison, Wisconsin and then the "New York Post". In 1979, he joined The New York Times as the senior writer for foreign affairs, a position he held until his retirement in 1998.


Jabiru's Palace

The Jabiru's Palace () is the official residence of the Vice President of Brazil. The building was designed, along with the rest of the city of Brasília, by Oscar Niemeyer and inaugurated in 1977. It is located near the Palácio da Alvorada in Brasília. The name comes from a common bird of the region, the Jabiru.

The Jaburu was designed in 1973 and inaugurated in 1977 – seventeen years after the inauguration of Brasília. Adalberto Pereira dos Santos, Vice President of Ernesto Geisel was the first resident, followed by Aureliano Chaves (Vice President of João Figueiredo) and Itamar Franco (Vice President of Fernando Collor). Marco Maciel (Vice President of Fernando Henrique Cardoso) occupied the Palace from 1995 to 2002.


Adolf Fierla

Adolf Fierla (16 January 1908 – 8 September 1967) was a Polish writer and poet from the region of Cieszyn Silesia.

He was born 16 January 1908 in Orlová to a coal miner's family and graduated from the local Juliusz Słowacki Polish Gymnasium. Fierla later studied Polish studies at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and Slavic studies in Prague. He later worked as a teacher of Polish language at Polish elementary schools in Zaolzie and eventually at the Polish Gymnasium in Orlová.

When World War II broke out Fierla fled like many other Poles to the east. After his return Nazi German authorities jailed him in 1940 and incarcerated in Dachau and later in Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camps. Released from the camp, he worked as a worker in Pietwałd. In 1944 Fierla was forced to join the German Army and was captured in France by the British forces. Fierla then stayed in the Western Europe, initially in Italy, where he taught in lyceum for Polish girls in Porto San Giorgio; in France, where he taught in one of Polish gymnasiums, and then from 1958 in the United Kingdom. He continued his literary life there cooperating with Polish press and several other organizations of which he was a member, e.g. Zrzeszenie Ewangelików Polaków w Wielkiej Brytanii (Association of Polish Protestants in the United Kingdom). Fierla died 8 September 1967 in London and is buried in the Finchley district of London.

Fierla wrote his works in literary Polish and also in Cieszyn Silesian dialect. He focused mainly on the life of the people of Cieszyn Silesia, especially those of the Beskids mountain ranges and coal basin around the city of Karviná. His works includes many religious motives. Fierla also translated the works of Czech poet Jiří Wolker to Polish.

Fierla's typical motive of his native coal mining region can be observed in the "Kopalnie" (Coal Mines) poem from his debut poetry collection "Przydrożne kwiaty" (Roadside Flowers):


Sudan Airways Flight 109

Sudan Airways Flight 109 was a scheduled international Amman–Damascus–Khartoum passenger flight, operated with an Airbus A310 by the flag carrier of Sudan, Sudan Airways. On 10 June 2008, at approximately 17:00 UTC, the Airbus A310 crashed on landing at Khartoum International Airport, killing 30 of the 214 occupants on board.

The investigation was conducted by Sudan's Air Accident Investigation Central Directorate with assistance from the French Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety (BEA). The investigation concluded that the accident was caused by the long flaring distance of the flight on a wet runway, aggravated with the non-deployment of the autobrake and one of the Airbus A310's two engine reversers. The inclement weather condition and the crew's lack of information on the weather were cited as contributing factors. Following the accident, Sudan's Air Accident Investigation Central Directorate issued several recommendations, mainly on better training and better infrastructure on the airport.


Manzhou Beach

The Manzhou Beach () is a beach in Kenting National Park, Hengchun Township, Pingtung County, Taiwan.


2021 Per sempre Alfredo

The 2021 Per sempre Alfredo was the 1st edition of the Per sempre Alfredo road cycling one day race, which was held on 21 March 2021, starting in the city of Florence and finishing in Alfredo Martini's home town of Sesto Fiorentino.

The race was won in a sprint by Matteo Moschetti () ahead of Mikel Aristi () and Samuele Zambelli (Italy).


Boges

Boges was a Persian official and military commander, who functioned as governor ("hyparchos") of Eion in Thrace (Achaemenid satrapy of Skudra) under the King of Kings Xerxes I (486–465 BC). According to Herodotus, following the Persian defeats at Plataea and Mycale, Boges refused to abandon Eion when it was besieged by the Athenians and Cimon (son of Miltiades) in 476/5. When he perhaps could have surrendered the town and marched out safely, Boges decided to endure till the end, as he wished not to suffer the ignominy of falling into the enemy’s hands. When the provisions of Eion had finally run out during the protracted siege, Boges built a large fire, killed his wife, children, concubines and servants, and threw them into the fire. He then reportedly collected all pieces of silver and gold that were stored in Eion and threw them into the river Strymon. He then threw himself onto the fire. Boges was highly honored by Xerxes I for his valiance and loyalty, and even Herodotus himself concurred. When Herodotus wrote his "Histories" in the second half of the fifth century BC, Boges was still praised by the Persians for his deeds. The children of Boges who survived within the Achaemenid Empire were also greatly honoured by Xerxes I.


Kosmos 2396

Kosmos 2396 ( meaning "Cosmos 2396") is one of a set of three Russian military satellites launched in 2002 as part of the GLONASS satellite navigation system. It was launched with Kosmos 2394 and Kosmos 2395.

This satellite is a GLONASS satellite, also known as Uragan, and is numbered Uragan No. 793.

Kosmos 2394/5/6 were launched from Site 81/23 at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. A Proton-K carrier rocket with a Blok DM upper stage was used to perform the launch which took place at 07:37 UTC on 25 December 2002. The launch successfully placed the satellites into Medium Earth orbit. It subsequently received its Kosmos designation, and the international designator 2002-060B. The United States Space Command assigned it the Satellite Catalog Number 27618.

It was in the third orbital plane in orbital slot 20. It is no longer part of the GLONASS constellation.


TowerFall

TowerFall is an action indie video game created by Maddy Thorson through their company Matt Makes Games. In the game, players control up to four archers in a multiplayer platform fighter. It was released on the Ouya microconsole in June 2013 and was later ported to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, OS X, and Windows as TowerFall Ascension and to the Nintendo Switch under its original title of TowerFall.

"TowerFall" was Thorson's first commercial game. It followed from a June 2012 game jam single-player prototype. Thorson tested the game on their indie developer colleagues with whom they lived, and developed its capacity as a party game. Its mechanics were inspired by games of Thorson's youth, such as "Bushido Blade" and "GoldenEye 007", and influenced by demo feedback at the Evolution Championship Series fighting game tournament. "TowerFall" was known as the standout title for the Ouya at the console's launch. In its first year, the game sold around 7,000 copies on Ouya, resulting in a gross revenue of about $105,000. When the Ouya exclusivity expired, Thorson signed another exclusivity agreement for the PlayStation 4, where "Ascension" received an expanded single-player mode, and new levels, weapons, and gameplay variants. A PlayStation Vita release followed in 2015, and Xbox One and Switch versions have been released as well. A standalone eight-player edition for Windows released in 2016.

"Ascension" was met with generally favorable reception. Critics recommended it as a party game reminiscent of "Super Smash Bros." and praised its balance. However, some felt that its single-player mode was a low point, and lamented the lack of an online multiplayer mode.


Shellie McMillon

Shellie McMillon, Jr. (March 11, 1936 – July 11, 1980) was an American professional basketball player. McMillon was selected in the 1958 NBA Draft by the Detroit Pistons after a collegiate career at Bradley University. He played for the Pistons and St. Louis Hawks during his four-year NBA career.

Although their surnames are spelled differently, McMillon was the older brother of Ernie McMillan, who played 15 seasons with the NFL's St. Louis Cardinals. Ernie's son Erik McMillan was a defensive back for the New York Jets.

Shellie McMillon was one of the stars of a DuSable High School team from Chicago that won back-to-back Chicago Public League championships and in 1954 became the first team with black players and a black coach to play in the Illinois state championship game.


Natal forest tree frog

The Natal forest tree frog ("Leptopelis natalensis") is a species of frog in the family Arthroleptidae, subfamily Leptopelinae, and is endemic to the eastern coastal area of South Africa. A typical tree frog, it has large eyes and a broad mouth. Its colouration is highly variable: Some may be bright green, others cream coloured, and some may be cream with olive-green blotches.

Its natural habitats are temperate forests, temperate shrubland, subtropical forests, swamps, intermittent freshwater marshes, and rural gardens.
It is threatened by habitat loss.

These frogs usually live in the foliage and branches of forest trees. They lay eggs on banks of ponds and quiet streams, or on broad leaves near the water's edge. The tadpoles hatch and drop into the water where they grow and develop into frogs. Its call is somewhat akin to "bwee YACK-yack". The first part of the call being described as "soft buzzing".


Lothar Sieber

Lothar Sieber (7 April 1922 – 1 March 1945) was a German test pilot who was killed in the first vertical take-off manned rocket flight, in a Bachem Ba 349 "Natter".

Before he became a test pilot for Bachem, he piloted an Arado Ar 232 in highly risky sorties. Shortly before his flight, he had become engaged to Gertrud Naudit, a Luftwaffenhelfer. Sieber had held the rank of second lieutenant but was demoted to private after an alcohol-related AWOL. Posthumuously he was promoted to Oberleutnant.


Leifang

, often written as Lei Fang, is a player character in the "Dead or Alive" fighting game series by Team Ninja and Koei Tecmo. She was introduced in the original "Dead or Alive" in 1996 and has appeared in the series' subsequent installments. She is a Chinese college student and martial artist who competes in the Dead or Alive tournaments to prove her superiority over fellow combatant Jann Lee.

One of the "Dead or Alive" series' more popular characters, Leifang has appeared on series merchandise and the feature film "". She has received mainly positive public and critical reception for factors such as her sex appeal and in-game costumes.


2 Chronicles 1

2 Chronicles 1 is the first chapter of the Second Book of Chronicles the Old Testament of the Christian Bible or of the second part of the Books of Chronicles in the Hebrew Bible. The book is compiled from older sources by an unknown person or group, designated by modern scholars as "the Chronicler", and had the final shape established in late fifth or fourth century BCE. This chapter belongs to the section focusing on the kingship of Solomon (2 Chronicles 1 to 9). The focus of this chapter is Solomon's ascension and wealth.


BR-401

BR-401 is a federal highway in the state of Roraima in Brazil. The road connects Boa Vista with Normandia and the road network of Guyana.

The over the Branco River was completed on 29 August 1975. The Takutu River Bridge was completed in 2009, and provides access to the road network of Guyana. The bridge switches between left- and right-hand drive automatically.

In 2018, the section between Boa Vista and the border with Guyana was fully paved. As of 2020, a section of almost 80 kilometres between Bonfim and Normandia is still unpaved.


Rubén Rocha Moya

Rubén Rocha Moya (born June 15, 1949) is a Mexican politician from the state of Sinaloa and the Governor-elect of Sinaloa, currently a senator on leave from his position. He is a member of the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA).

A longtime educator, Rocha had previously been the rector of the Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa (UAS) in the 1990s and a former state deputy and gubernatorial candidate.


Menziken–Aarau–Schöftland railway line

The Menziken–Aarau–Schöftland railway line is a metre gauge railway line in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. It provides a through service, in the form of an inverted 'V', from Menziken to Schöftland via Aarau. The two parts of the V were built separately, with the Aarau–Menziken railway line running through the Wynental, and the Aarau–Schöftland railway line running through the Suhrental.

The line is owned and operated by the Aargau Verkehr company, which also operates the Bremgarten–Dietikon railway line and a number of bus services. Until 2012, there used to be a limited freight service in the Wynental, mainly to the metal works of Alu Menziken, but today the line's sole usage is for passenger services, which are operated as Aargau S-Bahn route .


1 Kings 1

1 Kings 1 is the first chapter of the Books of Kings in the Hebrew Bible or the First Book of Kings in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. The book is a compilation of various annals recording the acts of the kings of Israel and Judah by a Deuteronomic compiler in the seventh century BCE, with a supplement added in the sixth century BCE. This chapter belongs to the section focusing on the reign of Solomon over the unified kingdom of Judah and Israel (1 Kings 1 to 11). The focus of this chapter is the reign of David and Solomon, the kings of Israel.


2020 Salvadoran protests

The 2020 Salvadoran protests is massive protests by workers, unions, doctors and students calling for the resignation of president Nayib Bukele over the 2020 Salvadoran political crisis and murder, unpaid wages and delay of payments, internet services, working conditions, crime and many more issues in El Salvador. Protesters wore Wichita cloth and have reportedly erected roadblocks and have blockaded small highways, university students led marches from 15 to 16 July and nurses led strikes from 13 to 15 May. Discontent with arbitrary arrests began in late-March against no food or jobs, leading poor citizens to protest and unrest against the arrests of survivors have been ongoing. In March-April, small groups of old and middle-class men have held protests against no work or housing in San Salvador.


René Dalize

René Dalize, born René Dupuy des Islettes (Paris, 30 November 1879 - 7 May 1917 at Chemin des Dames) was a French writer. He was a friend of Guillaume Apollinaire. Apollinaire dedicated his collection "Calligrammes" to him.


2021 Dwars door het Hageland

The 2021 Dwars door het Hageland was the 18th edition of the Dwars door het Hageland road cycling one-day race, which was held on 5 June 2021 in the Belgian province of Flemish Brabant. It was a 1.Pro event on the 2021 UCI Europe Tour and the 2021 UCI ProSeries calendars, and the fourth event of the 2021 Belgian Road Cycling Cup. The race was long, starting in Aarschot and finishing in Diest, and featured 14 cobbled sectors and short, steep climbs each.


Kepler-296c

Kepler-296c is a confirmed exoplanet located in the binary star system Kepler-296. It was discovered in 2014 by the Kepler space telescope using the transit method. During a study by members of the NASA Ames Research Center on two other planets in the Kepler-296 system, Kepler-296f and Kepler-296e, they were able to confirm that Kepler-296 c is an exoplanet with "more than 99% confidence".


Calen Addison

Calen Addison (born April 11, 2000) is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman currently playing for the Minnesota Wild of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected in the second round, 53rd overall, by the Pittsburgh Penguins in the 2018 NHL Entry Draft.


Nuestra Belleza Latina 2014

Nuestra Belleza Latina 2014 was the eight season of "Nuestra Belleza Latina" and the eighth season to be aired on Univision. The season premiere was on Sunday February 16, 2014 at 8pm/7c, the earliest premiere of all eight seasons. The season finale was on Sunday, May 18, 2014.

The auditions will be shown Sundays, prior to the final 12 are revealed. Auditions were held from December 2013 through January 2014 in five major US cities (Miami, Florida; Chicago, Illinois; New York City, New York; San Antonio, Texas; Los Angeles, California) and in San Juan, Puerto Rico with also Online Castings available. During the audition process, 60 young women were given passes to the semi-finals in Miami. Two contestants were chosen from online Auditions, with the help of public votes.

The winner of the contest will be awarded a contract to be one of the new personality faces on many of Univision's programs and award shows and a chance to win $200,000 in cash and prizes; a prize reduction from previous four seasons and back to its original format. In addition, she will appear on the cover of "Cosmopolitan" en Español magazine. She will also be a host for Sabado Gigante and reign as Nuestra Belleza Latina for 2014.

The winner of Nuestra Belleza Latina 2014 is Aleyda Ortiz from Puerto Rico.


Samsung Galaxy J

The Samsung Galaxy J is a smartphone developed and manufactured by Samsung which works on the Android platform. This phone was originally developed for Japanese cellular carrier NTT DoCoMo in fall 2013, and the overseas version initially released in Taiwan in December 2013.
The device features a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 quad-core 2.3 GHz processor with 3GB of RAM and a Full HD Super amoleddisplay.


Abdulla Yameen

Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom ( ; born 21 May 1959) is a Maldivian politician who was the 6th President of the Maldives from 2013 to 2018. He left office on 17 November 2018 following his defeat in the 2018 presidential election, in which he sought to win a second 5-year term. As of February 2020, he was imprisoned in Maafushi Prison for money-laundering crimes.

Yameen was elected president in the 2013 presidential election as the candidate of the Progressive Party (PPM), defeating Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) leader and former president Mohamed Nasheed in the second round of the re-run, after the initial election was annulled. He was the second democratically elected president of the Republic of the Maldives.


Neuroinflammation

Neuroinflammation is inflammation of the nervous tissue. It may be initiated in response to a variety of cues, including infection, traumatic brain injury, toxic metabolites, or autoimmunity. In the central nervous system (CNS), including the brain and spinal cord, microglia are the resident innate immune cells that are activated in response to these cues. The CNS is typically an immunologically privileged site because peripheral immune cells are generally blocked by the blood–brain barrier (BBB), a specialized structure composed of astrocytes and endothelial cells. However, circulating peripheral immune cells may surpass a compromised BBB and encounter neurons and glial cells expressing major histocompatibility complex molecules, perpetuating the immune response. Although the response is initiated to protect the central nervous system from the infectious agent, the effect may be toxic and widespread inflammation as well as further migration of leukocytes through the blood–brain barrier.


Braden Birch

Braden Birch (born September 25, 1989) is a Canadian ice hockey defenceman. His is currently playing with HIFK in the Finnish Liiga. Birch was selected by the Chicago Blackhawks in the 6th round (179th overall) of the 2008 NHL Entry Draft.

Birch made his Liiga debut playing with HIFK during the 2013–14 Liiga season.


Waun Fawr, Puncheston

Waun Fawr, Puncheston is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (or "SSSI") in Pembrokeshire, South Wales. It has been designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest since March 1995 in an attempt to protect its fragile biological elements. The site has an area of 8.26 hectares and is managed by Natural Resources Wales.


Theloderma phrynoderma

Theloderma phrynoderma is a species of frog in the family Rhacophoridae. It is endemic to Myanmar and known from two widely separated localities: Thao, its type locality in the Karen Hills in south-central Myanmar where it was collected by Leonardo Fea in 1888, and the Tanintharyi Nature Reserve in southern Myanmar near the Thai border where it was collected in 2009–2010. Common name Burmese bug-eyed frog has been coined for it.


Negros fruit dove

The Negros fruit dove ("Ptilinopus arcanus") is a species of bird in the pigeon and dove family, Columbidae. It is endemic to the island of Negros in the Philippines. This fruit dove is known from a single female specimen collected from the slopes of Mount Kanlaon in the northern part of the island. While it was found at a high elevation, it is suspected that the species originally lived in the lowland dipterocarp forests and was driven to higher elevations by habitat destruction. While some have suggested that the specimen is either a runt or a hybrid instead of a valid species, this is not widely accepted. The female Negros fruit dove was a small fruit dove with vivid dark green plumage and an ashy-grey forehead. It had a distinctive ring of bare yellow skin around its eye, and yellow fringes to some of its feathers gave it the appearance of having a yellow wingbar when perched. The throat was white, while the undertail and vent were yellow.

The original specimen was shot along with a bird suspected to be its mate from a fruiting tree. Nothing else is known about its behavior. The species has not been definitively reported since its original discovery in 1953, and as several searches of Mount Kanlaon and the surrounding forests have not discovered any sign of the bird, many believe that it may be extinct. However, a local hunter from southern Negros claimed to have shot it the nineties, and the discovery of many species formerly thought endemic to Negros on the nearby island of Panay have given some hope that the species may persist. As such, it is currently listed as Critically Endangered by the IUCN. Any surviving population would be very small, likely numbering fewer than 50 individuals, and would be threatened by habitat destruction and hunting.


British Museum Act 1902

The British Museum Act 1902 (2 Edw 7 c. 12) was an Act of Parliament of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, given the royal assent on 22 July 1902 and repealed in 1963.
In order to alleviate the storage problems at the British Museum in London, England, it empowered the trustees to remove "newspapers and other printed matter which are rarely required for public use" to a new storage building at Hendon, on the condition that suitable arrangements were put in place for these materials to be consulted at the main buildings on request. These are to be found in the British Library Newspapers section located in Colindale.

The Act was repealed by the British Museum Act 1963.


São Martinho do Bispo e Ribeira de Frades (officially União das Freguesias de São Martinho do Bispo e Ribeira de Frades) is a civil parish in the municipality of Coimbra, Portugal. The population in 2011 was 16,049, in an area of 24.68 km2. It was the result of two "freguesias" joining together on 28 January 2013; São Martinho do Bispo and Ribeira de Frades.


Nieheimer

Nieheimer is a sour milk cheese made using cow's milk and named after Nieheim, a town in Höxter district in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is prepared from curds that are first formed into a cake form and aged for around five to eight days. After this time, the cakes are broken down into smaller pieces, salt and caraway seeds are added, and the pieces are then covered with straw while drying. Milk or beer is also sometimess added at this time. After being flavored, the cheese is then placed into casks that are packed with layers of hops and further ripened. Nieheimer is prepared without the use of rennet.

It is a firm cheese that may even be hard at times, has a "yellowish to gray-green" colored rind, has a 28% fat content, and is sometimes purveyed covered with hop leaves. It is commonly grated or shaved when being used.

In some areas, Nieheimer is referred to informally as "hop cheese", although hop cheese itself is a different type of cheese.


Moon Sung-wook

Moon Sung-wook (Korean: 문승욱, born 1965) is a South Korean government official currently serving as Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy under President Moon Jae-in from May 2021. He previously served as the 2nd Deputy Minister for Government Policy Coordination from 2020 to 2021, the Deputy Governor of South Gyeongsang from 2018 to 2020, and the Deputy Minister of Defence Acquisition Programme Administration from 2016 to 2017.


Lake Panache

Lake Panache is a lake in the Canadian province of Ontario. It is located in the Sudbury District, although a small portion of the lake lies within the southernmost city limits of Greater Sudbury, approximately 10 kilometres south of the community of Whitefish.

The lake's westernmost point lies within Foster township near Espanola, and its easternmost point lies within Bevin township south of Lively.

Its main water inflow and outflow is the Whitefish River system. Part of the lake's southern shore forms the boundary of Killarney Lakelands and Headwaters Provincial Park, an extension of Killarney Provincial Park which was designated in 2006.

The lake was originally named "Panache" (in the sense of style or flair) for its resemblance to a moose antler. It is not known exactly when the lake was so named, although the name appears on maps of the area dating as far back as 1863. Over time, however, the common English spelling of the name morphed into "Penage". More recently, official usage has reverted to the original "Panache" spelling, although "Penage" is still sometimes seen in everyday usage.

A popular recreational cottage lake in the region, the lake is accessible by two roads, Municipal Road 10 (Panache Lake Road) in Greater Sudbury and Penage Lake Road in Espanola. Much of the lake, however, is accessible only via boat from marinas at the ends of the two access roads.

The eastern portion of the lake was served by two full service marinas. Gemmell's and Whitehead's are competing marinas providing car and boat parking, fuel, groceries, bait and water taxi service. Gemmell's changed hands in the fall of 1966 and was purchased by the Lundgren and Sutinen families and was renamed Penage Marina.

Whitehead's marina was purchased by Bill Blanchard and then resold to Vic and Judy Erola. In the late-1970s, Delky and Louis Dozzi purchased the Erola interests and renamed the marina Penage Bay Marina. In the early-1970s, the Lundgren's sold out to the Sutinen family. In June 1980 the Dozzi brothers purchased the Penage Marina from the Sutinens. After 30 years of ownership, Louis Dozzi sold the Penage Bay Marina in 2007 to Guy Richard.

The Panache Campers Association has been in the forefront in providing a safe environment for all on the lake. The Association funds and maintains the hazard beacons on the lake as well as being the stewards for a safe and clean environment for all.

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Pabasa

The ancient Egyptian noble Pabasa was chief steward of the God's Wife of Amun Nitocris I during the Saite Period. He is buried in tomb TT279, which is located in the El-Assasif, part of the Theban Necropolis, near Thebes.

His sarcophagus was acquired in Paris in 1836 by Alexander Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Duke of Hamilton and was kept at Hamilton Palace until it was given to the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow by the Hamilton Estate Trustees in 1922.

One of Pabasa's grandsons was Pedubast, the chief steward and overseer of Upper Egypt, whose burial was discovered in 2015, located within the tomb TT391 at El-Assasif.


1st Annual Latin Grammy Awards

The 1st Annual Latin Grammy Awards were held in Los Angeles at the Staples Center on Wednesday, September 13, 2000. The big winners were Luis Miguel, Santana and Maná with 3 awards; Juan Luis Guerra, Shakira, Fito Páez and Emilio Estefan Jr. received 2 awards each.

Winners were chosen by voting members of the Latin Academy from a list of finalists. The inaugural ceremony was broadcast live on CBS that year and was seen in more than 100 countries across the world. The two-hour show was the first bilingual broadcast ever to air on network television during prime time.


Orestes Quércia

Orestes Quércia () (18 August 1938 – 24 December 2010) was a Brazilian politician. He was the 28th governor of São Paulo State.

Quércia moved with his family from Pedregulho to the city of Campinas, where he graduated in journalism. He was also a lawyer and an entrepreneur since 1962, with a diploma from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica.

He was married to Alaíde Barbosa Ulson Quércia since the 80s until his death after a long battle against prostate cancer on 24 December 2010 link label. He died with 72 years old, leaving his four children and the wife.


DAIA ("Delegación de Asociaciones Israelitas Argentinas") is the umbrella organization of Argentina's Jewish community. As such, it represents the community in official events and conducts all contact with authorities. DAIA is the Argentine affiliate of the Latin American Jewish Congress and World Jewish Congress (WJC), the world-wide umbrella organization of Jewish communities.

DAIA has been strongly involved in fighting antisemitism in Argentina, and claiming for justice in the 1994 AMIA bombing (AMIA being the body that manages the main operations of the Jewish community in Buenos Aires and other cities, namely education, hospitals, retirement houses, and burial).

In 2007, the group reported that antisemitic attacks in Argentina increased by 32% in 2006 in comparison to 2005.

In 2011 the group filed an injunction to stop Google from advertising on 76 "highly discriminatory" websites. DAIA noted, "The common denominator on these sites is the incitement of hate and the call to violence". Indeed, the judge agreed, concluding that "the terms mentioned (in the lawsuit) as well as the results obtained through 'suggested searches' could be described as discriminatory acts and/or at least, incitement and/or encouragement for discrimination".


Spring Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area is an Illinois state park on in Tazewell County, Illinois, United States.

The state park is centered on "Spring Lake", an long alluvial lake that lies parallel to the Illinois River. The lakebed lies by the foot of the river's sandstone bluff in an abandoned bed of the river. It is a shallow lake that is no more than deep.

The lake, located in the southwestern corner of Tazewell County, has been extensively altered by dikes built in the 1900s (decade) and the 1950s. The second dike system was built around both old Spring Lake and a second, smaller lake, Saiwell Lake, and caused the two lakes to almost merge into each other. The two lakes are now only separated by a spur dike, and both lakes are now called halves of modern "Spring Lake".

The nearest major town is Manito, Illinois.


Ardglen Tunnel

The Ardglen Tunnel, also called the Liverpool Range tunnel, is a heritage-listed summit rail tunnel located on the Main North railway between Ardglen in the Liverpool Plains Shire and Murrurundi in the Upper Hunter Shire local government area, both in New South Wales, Australia. The tunnel crosses under the Liverpool Range near its east end, below Nowlands Gap (otherwise known as Murrurundi Gap), the crossing used by the New England Highway, and provides a vital link between Newcastle and Werris Creek. The tunnel was completed in 1877 and is owned by the Transport Asset Holding Entity, a state-owned corporation of the Government of New South Wales. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.


The Communauté d'agglomération du Pays de Fontainebleau is a "communauté d'agglomération" in the Seine-et-Marne "département" and in the Île-de-France "région" of France. It was formed in January 2017 by the merger of the former Communauté de communes du pays de Fontainebleau, the Communauté de communes entre Seine et Forêt and several communes from other communities.


James Richburg

James Richburg is an American poker player from Long Beach, California.

Richburg has won two World Series of Poker bracelets. The first came in the razz event in 2006. He won his second in the $2,500 HORSE event in 2007.

As of 2017, Richburg's total live tournament cashes exceed $525,000.


The Two Dianas

The Two Dianas () is a historical novel published in 1846-47 under the name of Alexandre Dumas but mostly or entirely written by his friend and collaborator Paul Meurice. The "two Dianas" of the title are Diane de Poitiers (the mistress of Henry II) and her supposed daughter Diana de Castro. The novel's setting is earlier than Dumas's better known "Valois trilogy". The principal character is Gabriel, comte de Montgomery; other characters include Martin Guerre, Catherine de Médicis and Ambroise Paré. When Meurice later published a dramatisation of the novel, a letter supposedly written by Dumas was attached as a preface, stating that he had never even read the book and that Meurice was the real author. Nevertheless, it has been argued that Dumas was at least somewhat involved in its composition. According to F. W. J. Hemmings, "The Two Dianas" is "entirely lacking in Dumas's usual deftness of touch".


Nebraska Highway 15

Nebraska Highway 15 (N-15) is a highway in eastern Nebraska, United States. It has a southern terminus at the Kansas border south of Fairbury and a northern terminus northeast of Maskell at the South Dakota border.


Jürgen Glowacz

Jürgen Glowacz (born 30 September 1952) is a German former football player. He spent 11 seasons in the Bundesliga with 1. FC Köln, SV Werder Bremen and Bayer 04 Leverkusen. He is a vice-president of 1. FC Köln.


Großer See (Pinnow)

Großer See (Pinnow) is a lake in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. At an elevation of 10 m, its surface area is 0.64 km².


Wockersee

Wockersee is a lake in Parchim, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. At an elevation of 44.1 m, its surface area is 0.6 km².


Zarrenthiner Kiessee

Zarrenthiner Kiessee is a lake in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. At an elevation of 7.2 m, its surface area is 0.54 km².


Besenreepsee

Besenreepsee is a lake in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. At an elevation of 57 m, its surface area is 0.084 km².


Domjüchsee

Domjüchsee is a lake in the course of a stream named Stendlitz in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. Its elevation is and its surface area is .


Banking Act 2009

The Banking Act 2009 (c 1) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that entered into force in part on the 21 February 2009 in order, amongst other things, to replace the Banking (Special Provisions) Act 2008. The Act makes provision for the nationalisation of banks, amends the law on bank insolvency and administration, and makes provision about the Financial Services Compensation Scheme. It also makes provision about the regulation of inter-bank payment schemes (e.g. BACS), amends the law on the issue of banknotes by Scottish and Northern Irish banks, and makes other miscellaneous amendments to the law on banking.