Union of the Snake

"Union of the Snake" is the ninth single by the English new wave band Duran Duran, released on 17 October 1983.

"Union of the Snake" was the lead single from the band's third album "Seven and the Ragged Tiger" (1983), and preceded its release by one month.
It was originally titled, "The Union at Stake", when the band were interviewed on The Oxford Road Show in March 1983 before their first performance of "Is there something I should know?" on U.K. television.
It became one of Duran Duran's most popular singles, hitting number one on the US "Cash Box" and peaking at number three on the US "Billboard" Hot 100 for three consecutive weeks at the end of 1983. Further chart movement was prevented by "Say Say Say" by Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson and "Say It Isn't So" by Daryl Hall and John Oates. It also reached number three on the UK Singles chart.


Ultrabithorax

Ultrabithorax (Ubx) is a homeobox gene found in insects, and is used in the regulation of patterning in morphogenesis. There are many possible products of this gene, which function as transcription factors. Ubx is used in the specification of serially homologous structures, and is used at many levels of developmental hierarchies. In "Drosophila melanogaster" it is expressed in the third thoracic (T3) and first abdominal (A1) segments and represses wing formation. The Ubx gene regulates the decisions regarding the number of wings and legs the adult flies will have. The developmental role of the Ubx gene is determined by the splicing of its product, which takes place after translation of the gene. The specific splice factors of a particular cell allow the specific regulation of the developmental fate of that cell, by making different splice variants of transcription factors. In "D. melanogaster", at least six different isoforms of Ubx exist.

Mutations of the Ubx gene will lead to transformation of dorsal and ventral appendages of the third thoracic segment (T3), which includes the haltere and third leg, into the counterparts on the second thoracic segment (T2). If Ubx is present in T3, it will prevent the original fate of the T2 segment. Such mutations can produce the second set of wings observed in the bithorax phenotype.


Lacey Township High School

Lacey Township High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades, located in the Lanoka Harbor section of Lacey Township, in Ocean County, United States, which operates as part of the Lacey Township School District.
The school is overseen by the New Jersey Department of Education and has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools since 1983.

As of the 2019–20 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,167 students and 96.9 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.0:1. There were 236 students (20.2% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 74 (6.3% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.

Its mascot is a lion, the symbol is a paw, for the "Lacey Lions." The school's colors are navy blue, silver, and cardinal

Lacey Township High School has implemented a random drug testing policy. Students participating in any extracurricular activities including after school sports, clubs or any school event must sign a waiver that allows them to be drug tested randomly. The first offense includes suspension from all after school activities for 10 days.

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John Leonard Orr

John Leonard Orr (born April 26, 1949) is an American former firefighter, novelist, and convicted arsonist and murderer. Orr was the fire captain and arson investigator for the Glendale Fire Department in Southern California. He was convicted of serial arson and four counts of murder. In the 1980s and 1990s, Los Angeles was plagued by a series of fires that cost millions of dollars in damages and claimed four lives. Orr was found to be the cause of most of those fires. During his arson spree, Orr was nicknamed "The Pillow Pyro" by arson investigators due to the location of the fires inside shops.

His "modus operandi" was to set fires using an incendiary timing device, usually comprising a lit cigarette, three matches wrapped in ruled yellow writing paper and secured by a rubber band, in stores while they were open and populated. He would also set small fires often in the grassy hills, in order to draw firefighters, leaving fires set in more congested areas unattended.


Venezuelan Army

The Venezuelan Army, officially the National Army of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (), is one of the six professional branches of the Armed Forces of Venezuela. Also known as Bolivarian Army ("Ejército Bolivariano", EB), its role is to be responsible for land-based operations against external or internal threats that may put the sovereignty of the nation at risk. The army is the second largest military branch of Venezuela after the Bolivarian Militia ("Milicia Bolivariana", MB).

Its current commander is Major General Domingo Antonio Hernández Lárez. The army depends directly on the Ministry of Popular Power for Defense, under the orders of the general commander and the president of the Republic in his position as commander in chief of the National Bolivarian Armed Forces. It is divided into six combat arms and four commands; operations, logistics, education and Army Aviation.

The command officers, troop officers, technicians and military surgeons belonging to the Venezuelan Army are graduates of the military academies of the Bolivarian Military University of Venezuela and are commissioned with the rank of Second Lieutenant, the academies are as follows:

* Military Academy of the Bolivarian Army,
* Military Academy of Troop Officers C-in-C Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías,
* Bolivarian Military Technical Academy,
* Military Academy of Health Sciences
* Military Medical Academy

Unlike most of the officer corps the sergeants (professional NCOs) and recruits completing basic training, as well as Army officer candidates of civilian background, study in separate schools.

The Venezuelan Army marks its birth by its victory in the Battle of Carabobo on 24 June 1821 over the Empire of Spain, which led to the independence of the nation. It later contributed to the independence of the present-day countries of Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, and Bolivia.


Collado Villalba

Collado Villalba () is a municipality of the Community of Madrid, in central Spain. It is located 40.3 kilometres north-west of the city of Madrid, at an altitude of 917 meters above sea level. It has a population of 63,679 (2019), with a population density of about 2,400 per km². Collado Villalba has a hot summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen "Csa").

I.E.S Lázaro Cárdenas of Collado Villalba conducts an annual student exchange program with Burlington High School in Burlington, Massachusetts. It has been managed by Professor Ramón José García Rubio for over 20 years. I.E.S María Guerrero has also started an exchange with Minervaskolan High School of Umeå, located 600 kilometres north of Stockholm, in Sweden. In addition to this school-to-school exchange, the municipality has been twinned since 1991 with the French city of Bègles, located in the Bordeaux metropolitan area in Southwestern France.


Apt Pupil

Apt Pupil (1982) is a novella by Stephen King, originally published in the 1982 novella collection "Different Seasons", subtitled "Summer of Corruption".


Bewnans Ke

Bewnans Ke ("The Life of Saint Ke") is a Middle Cornish play on the life of Saint Kea or Ke, who was venerated in Cornwall, Brittany and elsewhere. It was written around 1500 but survives only in an incomplete manuscript from the second half of the 16th century. The play was entirely unknown until 2000, when it was identified among the private collection of J. E. Caerwyn Williams, which had been donated to the National Library of Wales after his death the previous year. The discovery proved one of the most significant finds in the study of Cornish literature and language.

"Bewnans Ke" is one of only two known Cornish plays based on a saint's life; this and other evidence suggests some relationship with the other such work, "Beunans Meriasek". The story has much correspondence with a French text, a translation of a lost medieval Latin hagiography of Kea, allowing gaps in the narrative to be tentatively filled. The play is divided into two distinct sections, which may indicate that it was intended for a two-day performance. The first section deals with the deeds and miracles of Kea, including his conflicts with the tyrannical king Teudar. The second is a long Arthurian episode, describing King Arthur's wars with the Romans and with his nephew Mordred; it does not mention Kea in its current form.


Medford Lakes School District

The Medford Lakes School District is a community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade from Medford Lakes, in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States.

As of the 2018–19 school year, the district, comprising two schools, had an enrollment of 514 students and 43.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.0:1.

The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "I", the second-highest of eight groupings. District Factor Groups organize districts statewide to allow comparison by common socioeconomic characteristics of the local districts. From lowest socioeconomic status to highest, the categories are A, B, CD, DE, FG, GH, I and J.

Public school students from Medford Lakes in ninth through twelfth grades attend Shawnee High School, together with students from Medford Township, where the school is located. Shawnee is part of the Lenape Regional High School District, a regional secondary school district in Burlington County that serves the eight municipalities of Evesham Township, Medford Lakes, Medford Township, Mount Laurel Township, Shamong Township, Southampton Township, Tabernacle Township and Woodland Township at its four high schools. As of the 2018–19 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 1,597 students and 127.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.6:1.


Lapitch the Little Shoemaker

Lapitch the Little Shoemaker () is a 1997 animated feature that was originally released by Croatia Film. Produced on vintage cel equipment during the early 1990s, this was the third feature from Croatia Film's animation unit and director Milan Blažeković, after "The Elm-Chanted Forest" (1986) and "The Magician's Hat" (1990).

It is based on "The Brave Adventures of Lapitch", a 1913 novel by Croatian author Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić. In this adaptation, all of the characters are animals, and the title character is a mouse, rather than the human character of the original work. As with the book, the film is about a shoemaker's apprentice who leaves the confines of his ill-tempered master, and sets off on an adventure. During his journey, he befriends a circus performer named Gita, and fights against the evil Dirty Rat.

"Lapitch" remains Croatia's most successful production in terms of viewership, and became that country's official selection for the 1997 Academy Awards (in the Best Foreign Language Film category). Its popularity led to the production of a 26-episode television series, also called "Lapitch the Little Shoemaker", at the end of the 1990s.

In February 2000, it first appeared in North America as the initial entry in Sony Wonder's short-lived "Movie Matinee" video series. The Disney Channel also premiered it on U.S. cable television later that same month.


Terri Kwan

:"This is a Chinese name; the family name is Chen. In the stage name, the surname is Kwan."

Terri Kwan (; born 2 July 1976) is a Taiwanese actress, model, singer and author.


2010 Beijing International Challenger

The 2010 Beijing International Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the first edition of the tournament which is part of the 2010 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Beijing, China between 2 and 8 August 2010.


Newberry Wolves

The Newberry Wolves are the athletic teams that represent Newberry College, located in Newberry, South Carolina, in NCAA Division II intercollegiate sports.

The Wolves compete as members of the South Atlantic Conference for twenty of twenty-two varsity sports; the remaining two sports, field hockey and wrestling compete in the South Atlantic Conference Carolinas. Erskine will add Women’s Triathlon in 2021.


La Bressola

La Bressola () is a cultural association founded in Perpignan, France in 1976 to promote a network of community-run schools engaged in Catalan language immersion programs in France, particularly in the comarques of North Catalonia. The first center was opened in Sant Galdric (Perpignan) in September 1976. Subsequently, other centers have been opened in El Vernet, Pontellà, Prades, El Soler and Sant Esteve del Monestir.

Since 1983, the schools of La Bressola have hosted students from two to eleven years. In 2005, they maintained eight educational centers for nursery and primary school children, one of them (El Soler) being, since 2003, the first to impart secondary education in Catalan in France. With seven primary schools and one high school, some 600 students are currently being taught.

Together with the Calandretas, the Diwan schools, the Seaska (the Ikastolas of the French Basque country) and the "association ABCM-Zweisprachigkeit" (French-Alsatian bilingual schools), form a confederation of bilingual schools in France.


Lipliūnai

Lipliūnai is a village in Kėdainiai district municipality, in Kaunas County, central Lithuania. It is located by the Smilga river, near the Josvainiai forest. According to the 2011 census, the village has a population of 182 people.

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Rudolf Leopold

Rudolf Leopold (1 March 1925 – 29 June 2010) was an Austrian art collector, whose collection of 5,000 works of art was purchased by the Government of Austria and used to create the Leopold Museum, of which he was made director for life. Claims had been made by Jewish survivors of the Holocaust that some of the pieces in the collection were Nazi plunder and should be returned to their rightful owners.


Frontera Energy

Frontera Energy (formerly Pacific Exploration and Production) is a Canadian petroleum exploration and production company in the business of heavy crude oil and natural gas. Its focus is on Colombia and Peru where it holds numerous properties including 38 blocks in the Llanos, Sucre-Co Lower Magdalena and Cesar Valley, Rancheria, Upper and Middle Magdalena Valley, Putumayo Valley, Ucayali and Maranon basins.
In early 2010 it was the largest independent oil company operating in South America and in terms of private companies the fastest growing one in Colombia. In 2011 it was responsible for 41% of the growth in oil production in Colombia. In mid-2015 it changed its name from Pacific Rubiales to Pacific Exploration and Production, signalling the diminished importance of the Rubiales oil field in Colombia in the company's total assets and a broader focus in Latin America.
When Pacific Exploration and Production filed for bankruptcy protection on April 27, 2016, it listed Pacific E&P Holdings Corp., Meta Petroleum Corp., Pacific Stratus International Energy Ltd., Pacific Stratus Energy Colombia Corp., Pacific Stratus Energy S.A., Pacific Off Shore Peru S.R.L., Pacific Rubiales Guatemala S.A., Pacific Guatemala Energy Corp., PRE-PSIE Coöperatief U.A., Petrominerales Colombia Corp. and Grupo C&C Energia (Barbados) Ltd. as subsidiaries. In June 2017, it renamed itself Frontera Energy, and was relisted on the Toronto Stock Exchange.


Lake Ikazn

Lake Ikazn () is a lake in the Braslau Lakes National Park of northern Belarus. It liea about 14 km east of Braslau and has an area of 2.38 km ² and length of 2.97 km . The maximum width is 0.8 km and its coastline is 12.7 km in length. The greatest depth is 8.4 m.
The water volume is 7.94 mln m ³ and the catchment area is 25.3 km ². The slopes of the valley are 12–15 m are forested towards the southeast. The lake contains 2 small islands with a total area of 1.2 hectares.


Piero Betello

Piero Betello (born January 11, 1935 in Rome) is a retired Italian professional football player.

He played for 4 seasons (29 games, 1 goal) in the Serie A for A.S. Roma, U.S. Città di Palermo and S.S.C. Napoli.


Karposh Point

Karposh Point (, ‘Nos Karposh’ \'nos 'kar-posh\) is the ice-free point on the north coast of Snow Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is projecting 500 m into Morton Strait, and is situated 2.3 km west of the extreme northeast point of President Head, 2.5 km east-southeast of Gostun Point, and 4.8 km east-southeast of Cape Timblón. Calliope Beach extends for 2.9 km eastwards from the point.

The point is "named after Karposh, leader of a Bulgarian uprising in 1689 AD."


Bronisław Kwiatkowski

Lieutenant General Bronisław Kwiatkowski (5 May 1950 in Mazury – 10 April 2010 in Smolensk) was a Polish military figure, Commander of the Polish Armed Forces Operational Command. He was among the passengers killed in the 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash.


Darius Painter

The Darius Painter was an Apulian vase painter and the most eminent representative at the end of the "Ornate Style" in South Italian red-figure vase painting. His works were produced between 340 and 320 BC.

The Darius Painter's conventional name is derived from his name vase, the "Darius Vase", which was discovered in 1851 near Canosa di Puglia and now on display at the Museo Archaeologico Nazionale, Naples (H3253). Many of his works, mostly volute "kraters", amphorae and "loutrophoroi", are of large dimensions. He most frequently depicted theatrical scenes, especially ones from the Classical tragedies by Euripides, and mythological themes. A number of mythological motifs not represented in surviving literary texts are known exclusively from his vases. On other shapes, especially "pelikes", he also painted as wedding scenes, erotes, women, and dionysiac motifs. In contrast to other contemporary painters, sepulchral scenes ("naiskos" vases) by him are rare; where such motifs occur, they are virtually always on the back of the vessel. Some of his paintings, like those on the Darius Vase itself, show historical subjects.

One of the most striking features of his work is the frequent use of inscriptions. He does not limit these to the normal practice of naming individual figures, but also uses them thematically (such as "persai" – Persians). To some extent these inscriptions can be seen as "titles". He also tends to use all available space on a vase for figural depictions, often arranged in two or three registers. Sometimes, the individual zones are structured by opulent ornamental friezes. The Darius Painter is considered the first painter to have fully exploited the possibilities of large-format vase painting. His drawing style is reputed to be especially good, particular as regards faces, which he often depicts in a three-quarter profile.

The Darius Painter worked in a large factory-like workshop, probably at Taras. It is possible that he was the owner or foreman of his workshop. Many vase-paintings are so close to his style, though not by his hand, that they are attributed to his workshop. He was the last important vase-painter in Apulia; Apulian vase painting rapidly declined in quality in the third century. Stylistically, he follows after the Varrese Painter and his group (e.g. the Painter of Copenhagen 4223), but outdoes their achievements. Contemporaries of his that did not simply produce mass wares include the Perrone Painter and the Phrixos Painter. His most important stylistic successor was the Underworld Painter. Arthur Dale Trendall, a key authority on South Italian vase painting, described the Darius Painter as the most important painter of mythological scenes within the total of the South Italian development.


Ich bin ein Star – Holt mich hier raus!

Ich bin ein Star – Holt mich hier raus!, also known colloquially as the Dschungelcamp ("Jungle Camp"), is a German reality television show, based on the British reality television show "I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!". The show is produced by ITV Studios Germany and began airing on 9 January 2004 on RTL, and until now have been broadcast 14 seasons. The format sees a group of ten to twelve celebrities, who have usually already appeared on television, live for up to two weeks in a so-called jungle camp in Australia under constant surveillance by television cameras. The aim of the participants is to win the favor of the audience and to stay in the camp for as long as possible in order to be crowned as "King or Queen". Since season 13 (2019), the winner has also received a prize of €100,000.

The show is hosted since the first season by Sonja Zietlow and since season 7 together with Daniel Hartwich, replacing the deceased Dirk Bach. The health and wellbeing of the celebrities and crew is looked after by Medic Bob McCarron and his team from EMS.

In summer of 2015, a spin-off show with the title "Ich bin ein Star – Lasst mich wieder rein!" ("I'm a Star - Let me in again!") was aired. Brigitte Nielsen won the show and qualified for the following season of the original show.

On 2021, due the COVID-19 pandemic a new season wasn't aired, but on 15 January 2021 will begin airing a spin-off show with the name "Ich bin ein Star – Die große Dschungelshow" ("I'm a Star - The Great Jungle Show"). In 15 live episodes, the first Campmate for the 2022 anniversary season, is to be found among new prominent applicants. Production takes place in the Nobeo studios in Hürth-Efferen.

Since 2018, the events of the show have been discussed in the spin-off show "Ich bin ein Star – Die Stunde danach" ("I'm a Star - The Hour After"), moderated by Angela Finger-Erben.


Jay Court

The Jay Court refers to the Supreme Court of the United States from 1789 to 1795, when John Jay served as the first Chief Justice of the United States. Jay served as Chief Justice until his resignation, at which point John Rutledge took office as a recess appointment. The Supreme Court was established in Article III of the United States Constitution, but the workings of the federal court system were largely laid out by the Judiciary Act of 1789, which established a six-member Supreme Court, composed of one Chief Justice and five Associate Justices. As the first President, George Washington was responsible for appointing the entire Supreme Court. The act also created thirteen judicial districts, along with district courts and circuit courts for each district.

The Court held its inaugural session on February 2, 1790, at the Royal Exchange in New York City. However, with no cases on the docket and little pressing business, the term lasted for only eight days. It was not until August 1791 that the Court issued its first decision. That same year, the Court moved with the rest of the federal government to Philadelphia.

The Court's business through its first three years primarily involved the establishment of rules and procedure; reading of commissions and admission of attorneys to the bar; and the Justices' duties in circuit riding, to preside over cases in the circuit courts of the various federal judicial districts. It heard only four cases during Jay's chief justiceship.

During his tenure, Jay established an early precedent for the Court's independence in 1790, when Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton wrote to him requesting an advisory opinion on proposed legislation supported by the president. Jay replied that the Court's business was restricted to ruling on the constitutionality of cases being tried before it and refused to allow it to take a position either for or against the legislation. This established a precedent that the Court only hears cases and controversies.


Max Hamburger

Max Hamburger (May 31, 1897 – February 3, 1970) was a German lawyer and legal scholar. He was the author of a definitive handbook of the German law on good will and fair dealing, "Treu and Glauben in Verkehr".

Born in Kitzingen, Bavaria, Hamburger studied at the University of Würzburg and University of Heidelberg from 1918 to 1921, after having served as an officer in the German artillery during World War I. This service and a war medal saved the young Jewish lawyer's life in 1939, when he was released from the Dachau concentration camp and permitted to emigrate to England.

While in London, he researched ancient and legal philosophy. He moved to New York in 1948 to lecture at the New School for Social Research. He also lectured at Columbia University, retiring in 1967 and dying in 1970.

In addition to "Treu und Glauben", his published books include "Deflation und Rechtsordnung", "The Awakening of Western Legal Thought" and articles in scholarly journals. An Aristotelian scholar, he also authored "Morals and Law; The Growth of Aristotle's Legal Theory". A contributor to the German Wiedergutmachung law, his papers are at the Leo Baeck Institute Archives, New York City.


In enzymology, a 2,2-dialkylglycine decarboxylase (pyruvate) () is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction

:2,2-dialkylglycine + pyruvate formula_1 dialkyl ketone + CO2 + L-alanine

Thus, the two substrates of this enzyme are 2,2-dialkylglycine and pyruvate, whereas its 3 products are dialkyl ketone, CO2, and L-alanine.

This enzyme belongs to the family of lyases, specifically the carboxy-lyases, which cleave carbon-carbon bonds. The systematic name of this enzyme class is 2,2-dialkylglycine carboxy-lyase (amino-transferring L-alanine-forming). Other names in common use include dialkyl amino acid (pyruvate) decarboxylase, alpha-dialkyl amino acid transaminase, 2,2-dialkyl-2-amino acid-pyruvate aminotransferase, L-alanine-alpha-ketobutyrate aminotransferase, dialkylamino-acid decarboxylase (pyruvate), and 2,2-dialkylglycine carboxy-lyase (amino-transferring). It employs one cofactor, pyridoxal phosphate.


Château La Tour Blanche

Château La Tour Blanche, or La Tour-Blanche, is a sweet white wine ranked as Premier Cru Classé (French, “First Growth”) in the original Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855. Belonging to the Sauternes appellation in Gironde, in the region of Graves, the winery is located in the commune of Bommes.

Uniquely among classed growth wineries, the estate is the property of the French state, and the site of the La Tour Blanche School of Viticulture and Oenology.


The Chronicles of Spellborn

The Chronicles of Spellborn was a massively multiplayer online role-playing game initially released on November 27, 2008, developed by Spellborn International and distributed by Frogster Interactive, Mindscape and Acclaim Games; set in a post-apocalyptic fantasy world. "Spellborn" used the Unreal Engine, featured a European Art approach and contained notable contributions from Jesper Kyd. In August 2010, the game was shut down. As of 2019, the game is still played on a proprietary private server that is operated by a former developer.


About Safety

About Safety is a children's educational television program which originated in 1972. It was produced by the Mississippi Authority for Educational Television. In the 3 to 6 minute shorts, marionettes, most notably Clyde Frog, taught children about safety and first aid. Mischievous Clyde has a distinctive, high-pitched voice, and would get himself into various troubles. The show illustrated dangers, ranging from traffic, guns, and tornadoes. "About Safety" ran for 47 episodes and the shows were quite successful. MAETV syndicated them throughout the United States.

The character of Clyde Frog later appeared in another MAETV show, "Clyde Frog Show", which taught children about self-esteem, feelings, and attitudes, and ran for ten episodes. An animated version of Clyde Frog has been featured in several episodes of South Park as a favorite toy of Eric Cartman.


WWFF-FM

WWFF-FM is an American radio station licensed to New Market, Alabama, and serving the Huntsville, Alabama, market. Owned by Cumulus Media, the station broadcasts a oldies-leaning country music format branded as "93.3 Nash Icon". Studios are located in Athens, Alabama while its transmitter is located in Huntsville.


Euroberlin France

Euroberlin France was a Franco-German joint venture airline founded in 1988.


NCK1

Cytoplasmic protein NCK1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the "NCK1" gene.


Mold cape

The Mold cape is a solid sheet-gold object dating from about 1900–1600 BC in the European Bronze Age. It was found at Mold in Flintshire, Wales, in 1833.

The cape is thought to have formed part of a ceremonial dress, perhaps with religious connections. It is housed at the British Museum in London.


Someone Else's Happiness

Someone Else's Happiness () is a 2005 Belgian-Dutch film directed and written by Fien Troch. The movie was the Belgian entry for the Academy Awards 2006 in the category Best Foreign Language Film but failed to receive the actual nomination.


Ho Kwok Chuen

Ho Kwok Chuen (; born 20 February 1977 in Hong Kong) is a Hong Kong professional footballer who currently plays for Hong Kong Premier League club Resources Capital. He is also the goalkeeping coach of the club.


Luigi Infantino

Luigi Infantino (; 24 April 1921 – 22 June 1991) was an Italian operatic tenor, particularly associated with the lyric Italian and French repertories.

Luigi Infantino was born in Racalmuto, and studied at the Parma Conservatory with Italo Brancucci. He made his debut in 1943, at the Teatro Regio in Parma, as Rodolfo in "La bohème", which was also his debut role at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, in 1945. With that company, he appeared in London as the Duke in "Rigoletto", and Rodolfo. In 1948, he made his debut at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, as Nadir in "Les pêcheurs de perles", later singing Ramiro in "La cenerentola", which he also sang that same year at the Verona Arena.

The tenor sang regularly in Naples and Bologna, and made guest appearances at the New York City Opera in 1947: "La traviata" (with Enzo Mascherini as Giorgio), "Rigoletto" (opposite Giuseppe Valdengo and Virginia MacWatters), "Madama Butterfly", "La bohème", "Il barbiere di Siviglia" (conducted by Julius Rudel) and "Don Giovanni" (in Theodore Komisarjevsky's production). In 1949, the tenor went on a concert-tour of England and Australia. In 1954, at the Teatro Fenice in Venice, Infantino sang Edgardo to the Lucia of Maria Callas, in "Lucia di Lammermoor". Infantino toured England again in 1957 giving a concert at Cheltenham among others. At the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, he created "Amleto", by Mario Zefred, in 1961, and "La stirpe di Davide" by Franco Mannino, in 1962. In 1964 Infantino reprised his role of Edgardo at the Bombay Opera in India, with soprano Celia Baptista as his Lucia. He was also active throughout his career singing on Italian Radio (RAI), where he gave his last performance in 1973, in Mannino's "Il diavolo in giardino".

A stylish lyric tenor with an attractive voice, Infantino can be heard in complete recordings of "La traviata" (EMI, 1946) and "Il barbiere di Siviglia" (Cetra, 1950, opposite Giuseppe Taddei and Giulietta Simionato). There is also a live recording of "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg", sung in Italian (Melodram, 1962).

In November 1977 Harald Jan Dahle (12 December 1949, Oslo) a writer and journalist from Oslo, Norway, visited Luigi Infantino in his home at Piazza Porto de Ripetta No 1 in Rome. (Luigi's phone number was 6542033) This he did as part of a series of articles he wrote on Italian culture, film and music for Aftenposten, Norway's largest newspaper. In his home Luigi Infantino told about his visit to Hotel La Torre in Sicily where he sang for a group of Norwegian handicapped children, an experience he never forgot. After this occasion he wrote a long poem to express the grace of God for this helpless children and he read the poem for Harald Jan Dahle. Infantino had been to Norway in the early 1950s. He was accompanied then by the Norwegian pianist Robert Levin and the impresario Per Gotschalk in Oslo.

Infantino remembered well the Norwegian Opera which he visited. But, he was not very impressed by the low standard of this opera. He did mention to Harald Jan Dahle that the opera singer Kirsten Flagstad, who at that time was also the director of the Norwegian Opera, made a very good performance, but it was sadly enough hampered by the low standard of the opera itself.

"The opera singer Luigi Infantino is perhaps the most pleasant and vibrant personality I have met with," says Mr. Dahle. "He joked that we in Norway have so much money and Italy has so much sunshine, perhaps we should exchange this for the better of both countries!" Luigi Infantino had an impressive personality, much humor and a big heart. His professional and humanistic character made him one of Italy's Grand Opera singers in our century.
* Operissimo.com

Infantino died in Rome, aged 70.


Mitchell Rales

Mitchell Rales (born 1956) is an American billionaire businessman, and a collector of modern and contemporary art. He co-founded Danaher Corporation in 1983 and is the chairman of its executive committee. Rales is one of the Washington, D.C. region's eleven billionaires. In collaboration with his wife Emily Wei Rales, an art historian and curator, he has established Glenstone, a private museum in Potomac, Maryland, which presents exhibitions of their collection of art.


Light gun shooter

Light gun shooter, also called light gun game or simply gun game, is a shooter video game genre in which the primary design element is aiming and shooting with a gun-shaped controller. Light gun shooters revolve around the protagonist shooting targets, either antagonists or inanimate objects. Light gun shooters generally feature action or horror themes and some may employ a humorous, parodic treatment of these conventions. These games typically feature "on-rails" movement, which gives the player control only over aiming; the protagonist's other movements are determined by the game. Games featuring this device are sometimes termed "rail shooters", though this term is also applied to games of other genres in which "on-rails" movement is a feature. Some, particularly later, games give the player greater control over movement and in still others the protagonist does not move at all.

Light gun shooters typically employ "light gun" controllers, so named because they function through the use of light sensors. However, not all "light gun shooters" use optical light guns, but some may also use alternative pointing devices such as positional guns or motion controllers. Mechanical games using light guns had existed since the 1930s, though they operated differently from those used in video games. Throughout the 1970s mechanical games were replaced by electronic video games and in the 1980s popular light gun shooters such as "Duck Hunt" emerged. The genre was most popular in the 1990s, subsequent to the release of "Virtua Cop," the formula of which was later improved upon by "Time Crisis". The genre is less popular in the new millennium, as well as being hampered by compatibility issues, but retains a niche appeal for fans of "old school" gameplay.


Dragons of Summer Flame

Dragons of Summer Flame is a 1995 fantasy novel by American writers Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. The events of the novel follow the fictional Chaos War in the Dragonlance world.


Muodoslompolo

Muodoslompolo () is a village in Pajala Municipality in the county of Norrbotten in Sweden, located some 110 km north of Pajala. It had 61 inhabitants in 2010.


Jarota Jarocin

Jarota Jarocin is a football club from Jarocin (Poland). They currently play in Polish Third League which is the 4th level in the Polish football league system.


Bold Ruritana

Bold Ruritana (foaled 1990 in Ontario) is a Canadian Thoroughbred Champion racehorse. She was bred and raced by Minshall Farms, the successful horse farm at Hillsburgh, Ontario owned and managed by trainer Barbara Minshall and her husband, Aubrey.

Bold Ruritana was out of the mare, Stage Queen, whose grandsire was Graustark and whose damsire was Nearctic. She was sired by Bold Ruckus, a grandson of the very important North American Champion sire, Bold Ruler.

Conditioned for racing by Barbara Minshall, her husband only saw Bold Ruritana race a short time, dying at age sixty-three in November 1993 following complications from a stroke. Bold Ruritana raced on dirt but by age five had become a successful turf horse, winning the 1995 Sovereign Award for Champion Female Turf Horse. She raced in Canada, from a base at Toronto's Woodbine Racetrack, as well as in the United States where she won the 1994 Cardinal Handicap and 1995 Distaff Turf Mile Stakes at Churchill Downs.

In addition to her fourteen career wins, Bold Ruritana finished in the top three in several other important Canadian and American stakes races including:
* 1993 - Wonder Where Stakes - 2nd
* 1993 - Duchess Stakes - 3rd
* 1994 - Canadian Stakes - 2nd
* 1994 - Dance Smartly Stakes - 2nd
* 1994 - Nassau Stakes - 2nd
* 1994 - E. P. Taylor Stakes - 3rd
* 1995 - Dance Smartly Stakes - 2nd
* 1995 - Yellow Ribbon Stakes - 3rd
* 1996 - Canadian Stakes - 2nd
* 1996 - Churchill Distaff Turf Mile Stakes - 3rd

Retired after her 1996 racing campaign with earnings of more than $1.1 million, as a broodmare Bold Ruritana had her first foal in 1998 followed by five more, the last born in 2005.


Idoménée

Idoménée (English: "Idomeneus") is an opera by the French composer André Campra. It takes the form of a "tragédie en musique" in a prologue and five acts. "Idoménée" was first performed on 12 January 1712 by the Académie royale de musique at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris. The libretto, by Antoine Danchet, is based on a stage play by Crébillon père. It later formed the basis of Giambattista Varesco's libretto for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera "Idomeneo".


British Accreditation Council

The British Accreditation Council (BAC), formerly known as The British Accreditation Council for Independent Further and Higher Education, is an educational accreditation agency recognised by the British Government for international students entering the United Kingdom on student visitor visas. The British Accreditation Council was established in 1984, making it the oldest national independent accrediting body for non-EFL independent further and higher education providers in the UK.


1433 Geramtina

1433 Geramtina, provisional designation , is a stony Gefion asteroid from the central regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 14 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered by Belgian astronomer Eugène Delporte at the Royal Observatory of Belgium in Uccle on 30 October 1937.

The asteroid was named "Geramtina" after the sister of Swedish astronomer Bror Asplind. "Geramtina" has an ordinary chondritic composition and has been considered a candidate for being the parent body of the H chondrites. However, results are inconclusive, and recent HCM analysis suggest that "Geramtina" is a Gefionian interloper rather than a core member of the family. The asteroid has a tentative rotation period of 14 hours.


3047 Goethe

3047 Goethe, provisional designation , is a bright background asteroid from the central regions of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter. It was discovered on 24 September 1960, by Dutch astronomer couple Ingrid and Cornelis van Houten on photographic plates taken by Dutch–American astronomer Tom Gehrels at the Palomar Observatory in California, United States. The asteroid was named after German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.


Harford County Public Schools

Harford County Public Schools is an American public school system serving the residents of Harford County, Maryland.


KDELR1

KDEL (Lys-Asp-Glu-Leu) endoplasmic reticulum protein retention receptor 1, also known as KDELR1, is a protein which in humans is encoded by the "KDELR1" gene.


Rodrigo Sperafico

Rodrigo Sperafico (born 23 July 1979) is a Brazilian professional racing driver. He currently drives in the Stock Car Brasil series. He belongs to the Sperafico family of racing drivers, which includes twin brother Ricardo (with whom his career has been closely linked), along with cousins Alexandre and the late Rafael.


Meryl O'Loughlin

Meryl Abeles O'Loughlin (June 8, 1933 – February 27, 2007) was an American television and film casting agent and casting director.

She was born in Chicago, Illinois, and was Jewish. She held positions as casting supervisor, executive-in-charge of talent, casting consultant, and talent executive. She was nominated twice for a Casting Society of America Award in 1997 & 1999 for "The Young and the Restless".

Her son, Chris O'Loughlin, was a member of the 1992 U.S. Olympic team in épée fencing. She was the former wife of actor Gerald S. O'Loughlin.

Meryl O'Loughlin died from ovarian cancer, aged 73, in Santa Monica, California.


8967 Calandra

8967 Calandra, provisional designation "", is a carbonaceous background asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 9 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 13 May 1971, by Dutch astronomer couple Ingrid and Cornelis van Houten at Leiden Observatory, on photographic plates taken by Dutch–American astronomer Tom Gehrels at the Palomar Observatory in California. It is named after the corn bunting "(Emberiza calandra)".


Morphome

Morphome is one of the omes in biology to map and classify all the morphological features of species. Morphome is different from phenome in that it is the totality of morphological variants while phenome includes non-morphological variants.


Claudius Agathemerus

Claudius Agathemerus (Gr. ) was an ancient Greek physician who lived in the 1st century. He was born in the Lacedaemon, and was a pupil of the philosopher Cornutus, in whose house he became acquainted with the poet Persius about 50 AD. In the old editions of Suetonius he is called "Agaternus", a mistake which was first corrected by Reinesius, from the epitaph upon him and his wife, Myrtale, which is preserved in the "Marmora Oxoniensia" and the "Greek Anthology." The apparent anomaly of a Roman praenomen being given to a Greek may be accounted for by the fact which we learn from Suetonius, that the Spartans were the hereditary clients of the gens Claudia.


Atlasjet Flight 4203

Atlasjet Flight 4203 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Istanbul Atatürk Airport in Istanbul to Isparta Süleyman Demirel Airport in Isparta Province, Turkey. On 30 November 2007, the aircraft operating the flight – a 1994-built McDonnell Douglas MD-83 which Atlasjet had leased from World Focus Airlines just five months before – crashed in the vicinity of Keçiborlu between the villages of Yenitepe and Çukurören while on approach, approximately west of the destination airport. The flight had taken off from Istanbul at 00:51 EET with 50 passengers and 7 crew members on board. All 57 occupants perished in the accident.


1988 Vuelta a España

The 1988 Vuelta a España was the 43rd Edition Vuelta a España, taking place from 25 April to 15 May 1988. It was a bicycle race which consisted of 20 stages over , ridden at an average speed of . Sean Kelly started the race as the principal favourite after performance in the 1987 Vuelta a España in which he was leading the General classification with several days remaining in the race when he was forced to withdraw due to injury. Luis "Lucho" Herrera returned to defend his title while 1985 Vuelta winner Pedro Delgado had decided to ride the 1988 Giro d'Italia in preparation for the 1988 Tour de France. The BH team directed by Javier Mínguez, presented solid opposition with the strong climbers Álvaro Pino (winner of the 1986 Vuelta a España) and Anselmo Fuerte. In the end, Kelly won the race and became the first Irish winner of the Vuelta a España.

general classification of race participants


Ignasi Giménez Renom

Ignasi Giménez Renom (born 29 October 1979, Castellar del Vallès) is the mayor of Castellar del Vallès (Barcelona, Spain).

After having earning his PhD in law at the Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona, Renom worked as a journalist in Cadena Ser and in the City council of Badia del Vallès. Weeks after the murder of Ernest Lluch, Ignasi Giménez affiliated to the Socialists' Party of Catalonia and in the Spanish municipal elections of 2003 became a councillor of Castellar of Vallès by the socialist municipal group. At the end of October 2004 he became First Secretary of the socialist local association and in 2005 was chosen as a candidate to the mayorship in the municipal elections of 27 May 2007, with the support of the political platform Castellar en positiu. On 27 May 2007 the PSC-PM became the most voted political party in Castellar del Valles with 41.25% of popular vote and 10 councillors, one of whom was the former deputy José Eduardo González Navas. On 16 June 2007, Giménez became the sixth mayor of Castellar del Vallès (first mayor from a left-wing party) from the reinstauration of the democracy in Spain.

On 22 May 2011, with 50.14% of the popular vote, Giménez was reelected.


Achille De Bassini

Achille De Bassini (5 May 1819 – 3 July 1881) was an Italian baritone, particularly noted for his performances in Verdi's operas. He created the roles of Francesco Foscari in "I due Foscari" (1844), Pasha Seid in "Il corsaro" (1848), Miller in "Luisa Miller" (1849) and Fra Melitone in "La forza del destino" (1862).

Bassini was born and studied in Milan, and is thought to have made his début at Voghera in 1837 in the title role of Donizetti's "Belisario". Although he had a talent for portraying noble, suffering characters, Verdi also recognized his capacity for humorous roles and wrote the character of Fra Melitone specifically for him. He sang throughout Italy and from 1852–1863 in St. Petersburg as well. He made his London debut in Covent Garden in 1859.

De Bassini was married to the soprano Rita Gabussi. Their son, Alberto De Bassini, was also an opera singer, first as a tenor, and later as a baritone. Achille died, aged 62, at Cava de' Tirreni.


Boganida

The Boganida () is a river in Krasnoyarsk Krai in Russia. It is a left tributary of the Kheta (Khatanga basin). The river is long, and its drainage basin covers . The Boganida is formed by the confluence of the Kegerdi and Khopsokkon, which both originate from Lake Labaz.


Romanisches Café

The Romanisches Café ("Romanesque Café") was a café-bar in Berlin well known as a meeting place for artists. It was located in what is now Breitscheidplatz at the end of the Kurfürstendamm in the Charlottenburg district (although that section of the Kurfürstendamm was renamed "Budapester Straße" in 1925). The name was derived from the Neo-Romanesque style of the building.


L-amino-acid alpha-ligase

In enzymology, an L-amino-acid alpha-ligase () is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction

:ATP + an L-amino acid + an L-amino acid formula_1 ADP + phosphate + L-aminoacyl-L-amino acid

Thus, the two substrates of this enzyme are ATP and L-amino acid, whereas its 3 products are ADP, phosphate, and L-aminoacyl-L-amino acid.

This enzyme belongs to the family of ligases, specifically those forming carbon-nitrogen bonds as acid-D-amino-acid ligases (peptide synthases). The systematic name of this enzyme class is L-amino acid:L-amino acid ligase (ADP-forming). Other names in common use include L-amino acid alpha-ligase, bacilysin synthetase, YwfE, and L-amino acid ligase.


Phosphopantothenate—cysteine ligase

In enzymology, a phosphopantothenate-cysteine ligase also known as phosphopantothenoylcysteine synthetase (PPCS) is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction which constitutes the second of five steps involved in the conversion of pantothenate to Coenzyme A. The reaction is:

:NTP + (R)-4'-phosphopantothenate + L-cysteine formula_1 NMP + diphosphate + N-[(R)-4'-phosphopantothenoyl]-L-cysteine

The nucleoside triphosphate (NTP) involved in the reaction varies from species to species. Phosphopantothenate—cysteine ligase from the bacterium "Escherichia coli" uses cytidine triphosphate (CTP) as an energy donor, whilst the human isoform uses adenosine triphosphate (ATP).


Max Launch Abort System

The Max Launch Abort System (MLAS) was a proposed alternative to the Maxime Faget-invented "tractor" launch escape system (LES) that was planned for use by NASA for its Orion spacecraft in the event an Ares I malfunction during launch required an immediate abort.

Designed by NASA engineers and reported on the website NASASpaceFlight.com on December 6, 2007, the proposed MLAS used four existing Huntsville-built Thiokol solid-rocket motors (built in 1988) placed at 90° intervals within the Orion's bullet-shaped fairing. The fairing was originally designed to protect the Orion spacecraft from aerodynamic stresses during launch, and to provide an interface between the spacecraft's crew module with the LES.

The MLAS was designed with the aim of reducing the height of the Orion/Ares I stack while also reducing weight and center-of-gravity issues of a traditional LES. The bullet-shaped MLAS was also expected to provide better aerodynamic qualities during the first two minutes of flight, reducing stresses when the vehicle encounters the "max Q" region of hypersonic flight. The MLAS was also expected to simplify production, as existing hardware would be employed.

There are several drawbacks to MLAS. First, the bullet-shaped protective cover would have to be modified and reinforced to allow for the use of the solid-rocket motors, something not needed with the LES, which bolts on top of the LIDS docking ring assembly. Second, the necessity to fire multiple motors (LES uses one motor and multiple nozzles) simultaneously for an abort decreases the theoretical reliability of the launch abort system by introducing more failure modes.

Like the existing LES, the MLAS would provide protection to the Orion spacecraft crew during the first minutes of flight, with the MLAS being jettisoned, along with the service module's fairing panels, after the solid-rocket first stage was jettisoned. If implemented, the Orion/Ares I stack would have resembled the towerless Gemini-Titan stack used between 1965–1966, in which ejection seats were used as the primary form of escape for the astronauts who flew on the ten Gemini missions.

The MLAS concept was dropped with the transformation of the Crew Exploration Vehicle into the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, and the switch of the launch vehicle from Ares I (with its perennial underperformance) to the Delta IV Heavy or Space Launch System.


HD 141937

HD 141937 is a star in the southern zodiac constellation of Libra, positioned a couple of degrees to the north of Lambda Librae. It is a yellow-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 7.25, which means it is too faint to be seen with the naked eye. This object is located at a distance of 108.9 light years from the Sun based on parallax, but is drifting closer with a radial velocity of −2.2 km/s. It has an absolute magnitude of 4.71.

This is a G-type main-sequence star with a stellar classification of G1V. It is a solar-type star with slightly higher mass and radius compared to the Sun. The metallicity is higher than solar. It is an estimated 3.8 billion years old and is spinning with a projected rotational velocity of 6 km/s. The star is radiating 1.2 times the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 5,890 K.

The star has a substellar companion (HD 141937 b) announced in April 2001 by the European Southern Observatory. It has a minimum mass of 9.7 . In 2020, the inclination of the orbit was measured, revealing its true mass to be 27.4 , which makes it a brown dwarf. A 653-day orbit places the orbital distance 1.5 times farther away from the star as Earth is from the Sun, with a high eccentricity of 41%.


ATP Bordeaux

The ATP Bordeaux is a defunct men's tennis tournament that was held annually under variations of the name Grand Prix Passing Shot and was part of the Grand Prix tennis circuit tour from (1979-1989) it then became an ATP Tour event until 1995. The tournament was played on two different surfaces during its tenure: clay from 1979 through 1990 and hard from 1991 through 1995.

Guy Forget was the only man to win the tournament more than once, doing so in 1990 and 1991. Yannick Noah, the only other Frenchman to triumph in the singles event, won the inaugural event of 1979.


Ngāti Rārua

Ngāti Rārua are descendants of the Polynesian explorers who arrived in Aotearoa aboard the waka (canoe) Tainui.

Ngāti Rārua stem from the marriage of Rāruaioio and Tūpāhau and find its origin at Kāwhia, Marokopa and Waikawau on the West Coast of the Waikato King Country region.

In 1821 Ngāti Rārua migrated southwards in a series of heke (migrations) led by Te Rauparaha of Ngāti Toa which saw the Iwi relocate to Nelson Marlborough.

Ngāti Rārua tribal lands (rohe) overlap those of Ngāti Koata, Ngāti Tama, Te Āti Awa, Ngāti Kuia, Ngāti Apa and Rangitāne

Since the arrival in Te Tau Ihu, Ngāti Rārua have maintained continuous ahi kā in Golden Bay, various locations in the Abel Tasman National Park, Marahau, Kaiteriteri, Riwaka, Motueka, Nelson, and Wairau.


Billefjorden

Billefjorden is the central fjord of the three branching from the innermost part of the Isfjorden to the northeast, in Svalbard, Norway. It is 30 km long and 5–8 km wide. Billefjorden lies between Dickson Land to the northwest and Bünsow Land in the southeast. Located on its northwestern shore is the former Russian mining community of Pyramiden (abandoned in 1998). To the northeast is Nordenskiöldbreen.

The fjord is named after the Dutch whaler Cornelius Claeszoon Bille, who is mentioned as being active in 1675 by the Dutchman Cornelius Gisbert Zorgdrager. Originally another bay (now known as Adventfjorden) had been labeled as "Klass Billen Bay", but Dunér and Nordenskiöld moved it to its present location.


HD 89307 b

HD 89307 b is an extrasolar planet orbiting the star HD 89307 located approximately 108 light-years away in the constellation of Leo. The planet takes 187 megaseconds to orbit (roughly 2164 days or 5.9 years). The planet's minimum mass is 1.92 MJ since the inclination is unknown. As it is typical for most of the long-period planets, the eccentricity is greater than any planets in the Solar System, orbiting at the average distance of 491 gigameters. The speed of the wobble caused by the planet's gravity is 31 meters per second. The average orbital velocity is 16.6 m/s.


Corinne Luchaire

Corinne Luchaire (11 February 1921 – 22 January 1950) was a French film actress who was a star of French cinema on the eve of World War II. Her association with the German occupation led her to be sentenced to "national indignity" after the war, and after writing an autobiography, she died from tuberculosis aged only 28.


Christian du Plessis

Christian du Plessis (born 2 July 1944) is a South African baritone, largely based in England, and particularly associated with the bel canto repertory.

Born in Vryheid, South Africa, he studied in Johannesburg with Teasdale Griffiths and Esme Webb, and made his stage debut there, with the Transvaal Opera, as Yamadori in "Madama Butterfly", in 1967. Further studies followed in London with Otokar Kraus, making his debut there in 1970, as Mathieu in "Andrea Chénier".

He became a member of the English National Opera, where he sang the standard baritone repertory: Valentin, Luna, Posa, Marcello, Cecil, also Germont in a recording of "La traviata", etc.

In the mid-1970s, he began concentrating in the bel canto repertory,
making a specialty of lesser-known works by Donizetti and Bellini, appearing in concert performances for the London Opera Society and stage productions by Opera Rara, notably the title role in "Torquato Tasso", Corrado in "Maria de Rudenz", Ernesto in "Il Pirata".

A warm-voiced and stylish singer, he can be heard on several Opera Rara recordings; "Ugo, conte di Parigi", "Gabriella di Vergy", "L'assedio di Calais" and "Maria Padilla". He is also featured in a major recording of the opera Rigoletto featuring Luciano Pavarotti and Dame Joan Sutherland.

He formally retired from the stage in 1988.


St. John Henry Newman Catholic Secondary School (formerly Cardinal Newman Catholic Secondary School until 2019) is a Catholic secondary school located in the community of Stoney Creek in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. It is part of the Hamilton-Wentworth Catholic District School Board and is known for its sports teams as well as its various stage performances.


Salh d'Escola

Salh d'Escola (; fl. 1195) was a troubadour from Bergerac in the Périgord, a former province of France. The meaning of his name, also spelled Sail or Saill, uncertain; it may be an unusual given name. His surname, likewise, may be a family name, but there is no known location called "Escola" that could render it a toponymic. The entire name may be a nickname meaning "defector from school" or "escapee from the cloister" , indicating that he quit his education, either in a school or a monastery. On the other hand, it may signify a pedant.

The details of Salh's life are provided in two main sources, one contemporaneous and one late. The first source is the poem "Pos Peire d'Alvernh′ a chantat" composed by the troubadour monk of Montaudon in 1195. In it he good-naturedly criticises a gallery of troubadour, each in turn, usually humorously. One of those criticised is Salh d'Escola. According to the monk, Salh was a "jongleur" who went to Bergerac and became a merchant. The later source is Salh's "vida" (a short biography), which probably relied on "Pos Peire d'Alvernh′" to piece together its story. According to the anonymous biographer, Salh was the son of a merchant and became a "jongleur". He then went to Narbonne and stayed for a long time at the court of "Ainermada de Narbona", the Viscountess Ermengard of Narbonne. Upon her death (1197), Salh entered the cloister at Bergerac and abandoned his "inventing [songs] and singing".

Only on work by Salh, a "canso" (love song), has been preserved: "Gran esfortz fai qui chanta ni.s deporta". It is an amorous confession to his lady for telling her to "die" in a moment of desperation or irritation.


Jurf al-Nasr

Jurf al-Nasr (), formerly known as Jurf al-Sakhar () until late 2014 and its reconquest by the Iraqi Government forces from ISIS forces, is a small town in Iraq, located about 60 kilometers southwest of Baghdad. It is near Musayyib and approximately 80 kilometers east of Fallujah.

At the start of 2014, it had about 89,000 people, mostly Sunni Muslims from the al-Janabi tribe. Ever since the Sunni Arab population of the town and surrounding countryside have been made to leave after the retaking of the town from ISIS. The former residents are now largely refugees in Fallujah, Yusofiyya, Al Musayyib.

Jurf al-Sakhar housed a large military complex including the Al Hakum facility, at one time Iraq's most sophisticated and largest biological weapons production factory.

During the Iraq War troop surge of 2007, Jurf al-Sakhar was one of the first towns under the "concerned citizens" program, in which the local populace was paid to secure the town via checkpoints along its roads, funded by money supplied by the U.S. military. The influx of money led to an almost instantaneous decrease in violence in the area. It is also the location of some of the most bitter fighting during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Nine medals for valor were awarded to the paratroopers of Apache Company, 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment (Geronimo), for their actions in and around the town. The unit was also awarded the Valorous Unit Award, the second highest unit award in the US Army.


Bourdous

The Bourdous is a short mountain river that flows through the Alpes-Maritimes department of southeastern France. It is long. Its source is in the Maritime Alps, and it flows into the river Var in Entraunes.


Newgrange cursus

The Newgrange cursus is an Neolithic monument used as a ceremonial procession route within the Brú na Bóinne complex. The ancient trackway is 100m long and 20m wide. It is located at Newgrange, in County Meath, Ireland.


Palazzina di caccia of Stupinigi

The Palazzina di caccia of Stupinigi (Italian: "The hunting residence of Stupinigi") is one of the Residences of the Royal House of Savoy in northern Italy, part of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites list. Built as a royal hunting lodge in the early 18th century, it is located in Stupinigi, a suburb of the town of Nichelino, southwest of Turin.


Kudo-kai

The is a yakuza group headquartered in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka on the Kyushu island of Japan, with an estimated 280 active members. An article by the Independent newspaper refers to the Kudo-kai as an affiliate of the Yamaguchi-gumi, The Kudo-kai has been a purely independent syndicate ever since its foundation, and has caused numerous conflicts with the Yamaguchi-gumi (at least on eight separate occasions in 2000; at least one Yamaguchi-affiliate boss was shot to death by the Kudo-kai in 2000). The Independent article may mean "Kodo-kai".

The Kudo-kai is the largest yakuza group in the Kitakyushu area, and like other yakuza groups based in the northern Kyushu region, it is noted for its extremely militant stance, by using the likes of machine guns and hand grenades in their activities. The Kudo-kai is regarded as the best example of Kyushu yakuza who strongly oppose the police, get angry easily, and "fight with pride".

The National Police Agency's official report refers to the Kudo-kai as a "particularly nefarious group". One notable incident happened in March 1988, while feuding with a Chinese mafia syndicate attempting to enter the Kitakyushu area, the Kudo-kai attacked the Consulate General Fukuoka office of the People's Republic of China, which had nothing to do with the mafia, with shotguns and a dump truck.

The Kudo-kai is a member of an anti-Yamaguchi fraternal federation, the Yonsha-kai, with three other northern-Kyushu based organizations, the Taishu-kai, Dojin-kai, and Kumamoto-kai. The Yonsha-kai had been known as the "Sansha-kai" until 2005 when the Kumamoto-kai joined it. The Kudo-kai is the principal member of this federation.


La Isla Bonita

"La Isla Bonita" (; ) is a song by American singer Madonna from her third studio album "True Blue" (1986). It was released as the fifth and final single from "True Blue" on February 25, 1987, by Sire Records. The song was written and produced by Madonna and Patrick Leonard, with additional songwriting by Bruce Gaitsch. The initial composition of the song was first offered to Michael Jackson before Madonna both accepted it and wrote the lyrics and melody. "La Isla Bonita" is noted for being the first Madonna song to contain Latin influences, with arrangements of Cuban drums and Spanish guitar, maracas, harmonicas, and a mix of synthesized and real drumming. The lyrics of the song tell about a "beautiful island" and, according to Madonna, was a tribute to the beauty of the Latinos.

Upon its release, "La Isla Bonita" received positive reviews from music critics. The song became Madonna's fourth number-one single in the United Kingdom, giving her the record for most number-one singles for a female artist on the UK Singles Chart. "La Isla Bonita" additionally topped the charts in Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Iceland and Switzerland, while peaking within the top-five in Belgium, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Sweden and the United States. In the latter country, the song became Madonna's 11th consecutive top-five single. "La Isla Bonita" was the best-performing single of 1987 in Europe.

In the accompanying music video, Madonna portrayed two opposite characters – a young, pious Catholic woman, and a glamorous, passionate Latina. The Latin style and the Andalusian flamenco red dress she wore became a trend later. "La Isla Bonita" is one of the most performed live songs by Madonna, appearing in seven of her concert tours, the most recent being on the Madame X Tour (2019–2020). Madonna has regularly performed the song in its Spanish form, sometimes with tribal or folk songs and remixes to accompany it. The song has been covered by various artists across the world, including Byanka (Mexico), Elvy Sukaesih (Indonesia) and Alizée (France).


Skarnsund Bridge

The Skarnsund Bridge ( or ) is a long concrete cable-stayed bridge that crosses the Skarnsundet strait, in the municipality of Inderøy in Trøndelag county, Norway. When finished in 1991, it replaced the Vangshylla–Kjerringvik Ferry and it gives the communities in the municipalities of Mosvik and Leksvik easier access to the central areas of Innherred. The bridge is the only road crossing of the Trondheimsfjord, and is located along Norwegian County Road 755.

The bridge has a span of , making it the longest of its type in the world for two years. The two tall pylons are located at Kjerringvik on the west side, and at Vangshylla on the east side. Following the opening, there was a seventeen-year collection of tolls, needed to finance 30% of the investment. In 2007, the bridge was listed as a cultural heritage. In 2012, the municipalities of Mosvik and Inderøy (on either side of the bridge) were merged to form one large municipality of Inderøy.


Rain Lover

Rain Lover (1964-1989) was a champion Australian Thoroughbred racehorse best remembered for his back-to-back wins in the 1968 and 1969 VRC Melbourne Cup.


Nebraska National Forest

The Nebraska National Forest is a United States National Forest located within the U.S. state of Nebraska. The total area of the national forest is 141,864 acres, or 222 sq miles (574 km2). The forest is managed by the U.S. Forest Service's Nebraska Forests and Grasslands Supervisor's Office in Chadron, Nebraska. The national forest includes two ranger districts, the Bessey Ranger District and the Pine Ridge Ranger District. In descending order of land, the forest lies in parts of Thomas, Dawes, Blaine, and Sioux counties.


Nikola Gruevski

Nikola Gruevski ( ; born 31 August 1970) is a politician from North Macedonia who served as Prime Minister of the then-Macedonia from 2006 to 2016, and led the VMRO-DPMNE party from 2004 to 2017. Previously, he was Minister of Finance in the VMRO-DPMNE government led by Ljubčo Georgievski until 2002.

Under the Pržino Agreement mediated by the European Union, Gruevski agreed to resign and left his post on 18 January 2016.

In May 2018 he was sentenced to two years in prison on corruption charges. In November 2018 he was ordered to serve his sentence but failed to check-in with authorities and instead fled to Hungary, where he sought and was granted political asylum.

Gruevski has been accused of promoting the controversial identity politics called antiquization. Under his leadership the country which had pro-European and pro-NATO policy, has changed sides to pro-Russian, pro-Serbian and anti-Western one. Gruevski has opposed to the Friendship treaty signed with Bulgaria in 2017 and the Prespa agreement signed with Greece in 2018, despite both neighboring states being NATO and EU members.


Jaslovské Bohunice

Jaslovské Bohunice is a small village in Slovakia in the Trnava District. It is best known for the nearby Bohunice Nuclear Power Plant complex.

The village arose in 1958 through a merge of Jaslovce (pop. 578 in 1948) and Bohunice (pop. 619 in 1948). The former village of Paderovce was amalgamated in 1976. The first written reference dates back to 1113 (to Bohunice).


Moruya High School

Moruya High School is a government-funded co-educational comprehensive secondary day school, located in Moruya, in the South Coast region of New South Wales, Australia.

The school enrolled approximately 570 students in 2018, from Year 7 to Year 12, of whom 15 percent identified as Indigenous Australians and four percent were from a language background other than English. The school is operated by the NSW Department of Education; the principal is Richard Schell.


Ottone

Ottone, re di Germania ("Otto, King of Germany", HWV 15) is an opera by George Frideric Handel, to an Italian–language libretto adapted by Nicola Francesco Haym from the libretto by Stefano Benedetto Pallavicino for Antonio Lotti's opera "Teofane". It was the first new opera written for the Royal Academy of Music (1719)'s fourth season and had its first performance on 12 January 1723 at the King's Theatre, Haymarket in London. Handel had assembled a cast of operatic superstars for this season and the opera became an enormous success.

The story of the opera is a fictionalisation of some events in the lives of Adalbert of Italy, his mother Willa of Tuscany (called "Gismonda" in the opera), Otto II, and the Byzantine Princess Theophanu, who became the wife of Otto II in a state marriage intended to form an alliance between the Byzantine and Holy Roman empires.


Alongside Night

Alongside Night is a dystopian novel by science fiction writer J. Neil Schulman intended to articulate the principles of Agorism, an anarcho-capitalist political philosophy created by Samuel Edward Konkin III, to whom Schulman dedicated the work. It was first published during 1979 by Crown Publishers, with subsequent paperback editions released by Ace Books during 1982, Avon Books during 1987, Pulpless.com during 1999, and Amazon Kindle during 2009.

The novel received endorsements from Anthony Burgess and Milton Friedman and was entered into the Libertarian Futurist Society's Prometheus Hall of Fame in 1989. Ross Ulbricht credited the novel and Konkin’s writings as inspirations for the creation of the online marketplace Silk Road.

A film adaptation, written and directed by Schulman, was released in 2014 via Tugg and later on Amazon Prime and home video. It was accompanied by an audiobook version of the novel as well as a graphic novel adaptation of the screenplay.


Galanthus nivalis

Galanthus nivalis, the snowdrop or common snowdrop, is the best-known and most widespread of the 20 species in its genus, "Galanthus". Snowdrops are among the first bulbs to bloom in spring and can form impressive carpets of white in areas where they are native or have been naturalised. They should not be confused with the snowflakes, in the genera "Leucojum" and "Acis".


FMA IAe 33 Pulqui II

The FMA IAe 33 Pulqui II (in the indigenous language Mapuche, "Pulqúi": Arrow) was a jet fighter aircraft designed by Kurt Tank in the late 1940s in Argentina, under the Perón government, and built by the Fábrica Militar de Aviones (FMA). Embodying many of the design elements of the wartime Focke-Wulf Ta 183, an unrealized fighter project, the FMA envisioned the IAe 33 Pulqui II as a successor to the postwar Gloster Meteor F4 in service with the "Fuerza Aérea Argentina". The Pulqui II's development was comparatively problematic and lengthy, with two of the four prototypes being lost in fatal crashes. Despite one of the prototypes being successfully tested in combat during the "Revolución Libertadora", the political, economic and technical challenges faced by the project meant that the IAe 33 was unable to reach its full potential, and the Argentine government ultimately chose to purchase F-86 Sabres from the United States in lieu of continuing development of the indigenous fighter to production status.


Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park

Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park is a state park in southwestern Utah, United States, located between Mount Carmel Junction and Kanab, south and west of U.S. Highway 89 in Kane County. The park features uniquely pink-hued sand dunes located beside red sandstone cliffs.

The dunes are formed from the erosion of pink-colored Navajo Sandstone surrounding the park. High winds passing through the notch between the Moquith and Moccasin Mountains pick up loose sand particles and then drop them onto the dunes as a result of the Venturi effect. The dunes are estimated to be between 10,000 and 15,000 years old.

The park allows camping, hiking, off-road vehicle driving, and photography. There is a conservation area of , and the total grounds include . It was established as a Utah state park in 1963.

The Coral Pink Sand Dunes tiger beetle ("Cicindela albissima") is endemic to the dunes, being found nowhere else in the world. The park also contains most of the remaining individuals of the rare plant known as Welsh's milkweed ("Asclepias welshii"), a federally listed threatened species.


Leucophyllum

Leucophyllum (barometer bush or barometerbush) is a genus of evergreen shrubs in the figwort family, Scrophulariaceae, native to the southwestern United States and Mexico. It is sometimes placed in the family Myoporaceae. The dozen-odd species are often called "sages", although they have no relationship to the genus "Salvia".

The solitary axillary flowers are bell- or funnel-shaped, with five lobes and two lips, and colors ranging from white to magenta to purple. The generic name is derived from the Greek words λευκός ("leukos"), meaning "white," and φυλλον ("phyllos"), meaning "leaf," referring to the trichome-covered foliage.

These shrubs are found in sandy soils and have a high salt tolerance. They have become popular for edge and area plantings in warmer areas and in xeriscaping; they require minimal water, are easily shaped into hedges, and bloom over their entire surface. Cultivars of "L. frutescens", "L. candidum,
"L. laevigatum", "L. langmaniae", "L. pruinosum", "L. revolutum", and "L. zygophyllum" have been developed.

"Leucophyllum" shrubs are legendary for their ability to "forecast" rain, usually blooming several days prior to a rainstorm, apparently in response to humidity. They are sometimes called "barometer bush" for this reason. It is believed to be a survival trait in the plants' semi-desert habitats.


Apollo Bridge

Apollo Bridge (, provisionally known as "Most Košická" during construction, after the street leading to it) in Bratislava is a road bridge over the Danube in the capital of Slovakia. It is located between the Starý most and Prístavný most Bridges, a site which allowed almost perpendicular bridging, resulting in the shortest possible span.

Construction of the bridge began in 2003. The bridge was opened to the public on September 5, 2005. It is named for the "Apollo" (modern successor: Slovnaft) oil refinery which was situated on the left river bank in this area before World War II. Its curved lines, inclined arches and virtual absence of right angles make the geometric shape of the bridge very sophisticated. In an unprecedented maneuver, the 5,240-ton steel structure, spanning 231 metres, was rotated across the river from its construction site on the left bank into its final position on a pillar 40 metres from the right bank. The Apollo Bridge was the only European project named one of five finalists for the 2006 Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement Award (OPAL Award) by the American Society of Civil Engineers.


Codorus State Park

Codorus State Park is a Pennsylvania state park in Heidelberg, Manheim, Penn, and West Manheim Townships in southwestern York County, Pennsylvania in the United States. The park was created around Lake Marburg, an artificial lake covering , and is named for Codorus Creek, which forms the lake. Codorus State Park is located on Pennsylvania Route 216, from the borough of Hanover.


Satsuma Domain

The , officially known as the , was a domain ("han") of the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan during the Edo period from 1602 to 1871.

The Satsuma Domain was based at Kagoshima Castle in Satsuma Province, the core of the modern city of Kagoshima, located in the south of the island of Kyushu. The Satsuma Domain was ruled for its existence by the "tozama" "daimyō" of the Shimazu clan, who had ruled the Kagoshima area since the 1200s, and covered territory in the provinces of Satsuma, Ōsumi, and Hyūga. The Satsuma Domain was assessed under the "Kokudaka" system and its value peaked at 770,000 "koku", the second highest domain in Japan after the Kaga Domain.

The Satsuma Domain was one of the most powerful and prominent of Japan's domains during the Edo period, conquering the Ryukyu Kingdom as a vassal state after the Invasion of Ryukyu in 1608, and conflicting with the British at the Bombardment of Kagoshima in 1863 after the Namamugi Incident. The Satsuma Domain formed the Satchō Alliance with the rival Chōshū Domain during the Meiji Restoration and became instrumental in the establishment of the Empire of Japan. The Kagoshima-han was dissolved in the abolition of "han" and establishment of "ken" in 1871 by the Meiji government when Kagoshima-han became Kagoshima-ken, with some parts of the domain separated as part of Miyakonojō Prefecture (:ja:都城県, Miyakonojō-ken). The first prefectural governor of Kagoshima was Ōyama Tsunayoshi until 1877 when he was executed in the Satsuma Rebellion. Since the 1880s, the former territory of Kagoshima Domain is now part of Kagoshima and Miyazaki Prefecture which was ultimately split from Kagoshima in 1883.


Rhys Wakefield

Rhys Wakefield (born 20 November 1988) is an Australian actor and director. Wakefield starred in season 3 of HBO's "True Detective" as Freddy Burns"" after starting out on the Australian TV series "Home and Away" where he starred in 363 episodes. Wakefield has played the lead in James Cameron's thriller "Sanctum", the Polite Leader in "The Purge" franchise and was nominated for Best Actor in a Feature Film by the Australian Film Institute and the Film Critics Circle of Australia for his performance in "The Black Balloon". TVLine listed him as one of their 'Breakout Stars to Watch' for his leading performance in Reprisal on Hulu. Wakefield's first directed feature film, "Berserk", was released in American cinemas on 5 April 2019. It stars Nick Cannon, James Roday, Nora Arnezeder, Erin Moriarty, and Jack Falahee. It was executive produced by Brian Kavanaugh-Jones.


Stuart v. Laird

Stuart v. Laird, 5 U.S. (1 Cranch) 299 (1803), was a case decided by United States Supreme Court notably a week after its famous decision in "Marbury v. Madison".

"Stuart" dealt with a judgment of a circuit judge whose position had been abolished by the repeal of the Judiciary Act of 1801. Stuart's lawyer was Charles Lee, who also represented William Marbury. John Laird asked the Supreme Court to uphold the judge's ruling. Stuart's team argued that only the court rendering a judgment could enforce it and that the Judiciary Act of 1802 had been unconstitutional, to which Stuart lost on both accounts. The Court reviewed and upheld the Judiciary Act of 1802 and averted a dangerous showdown between the legislative and the judicial branches of the United States government.


Marie Bankhead Owen

Marie Bankhead Owen (September 1, 1869 – March 1, 1958) was Director of the Alabama Department of Archives and History for over three decades, as well as a documentarian of Alabama history who authored numerous books on the subject. Owen served as an advisor for the Federal Writers' Project history of the state. In 1939, Owen helped select the Alabama state motto. She was actively opposed to a Federal mandate giving women the right to vote, and believed in the supremacy of the white race. Owen was inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame in 1975. Her niece was actress Tallulah Bankhead.


Glyn Chamberlain

Glyn Chamberlain (born 27 May 1958) is an English football manager whose last position was for one game as caretaker manager at Macclesfield Town

Chamberlain played professionally at Burnley, Chesterfield, and Halifax Town He later played non-League football at Kettering Town, Buxton, Hyde United, Macclesfield Town, Gainsborough Trinity, and Droylsden

As a manager, he managed Newcastle Town and Congleton Town Alongside his managerial work at Congleton Town he worked as a scout at Fulham In 2001, he became full-time scout at Fulham, and in 2005 he became chief scout at Crewe Alexandra He left Crewe in 2009 to become scout at Burton Albion

In 2010, he was named Gary Simpson's new assistant manager at Macclesfield Town On 30 April 2012 he was named caretaker manager at Macclesfield Town following the departure of Brian Horton. However, Chamberlain and the Silkmen parted company shortly after the end of the 2011–12 season.

Following his departure from Maccelsfield Chamberlain returned to scouting and worked for Doncaster Rovers and Burnley before being appointed as chief scout of Cardiff City in March 2017.


Lingeer

Lingeer (also: "Linger" or Linguère) was the title given to the mother or sister of a king in the Wolof kingdoms of Cayor, Baol,Walo and the empire and Kingdom of Jolof ; it was also used in the Serer kingdoms of Sine, and Saloum in pre-colonial Senegal. The word "Lingeer" means "queen" or "princess" in Wolof language and was adopted by the Serer who modeled many of their royal and political institutions and titles after Wolof royal and political institutions. The Lingeer was considered the “great princess of royal courts.” These kingdoms utilized a system, as a candidate for kingship could not succeed to the throne if he was not a member of the reigning materlineage, and thus, the Lingeer's maternal lineage was highly significant. In similarity, a candidate could not succeed to the throne as king if he was not a member of the noble reigning patriclans. That was particular so among the Serer who retained much of their old culture, customs and traditional religion where women played a significant role compared to the Wolof who adopted Islam. Various Lingeers like the Wolof Lingeer of Waalo Ndàte Yàlla have been noted for their resistance efforts to colonial conquest.

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Miguel Zamacoïs

Miguel Zamacoïs (8 September 1866 in Louveciennes – 22 March 1955 in Paris) was a writer, novelist, poet and journalist French writer. He was the son of the Spanish painter Eduardo Zamacois y Zabala, nephew of the writer Niceto de Zamacois, the singer Elisa Zamacois, and the actor Ricardo Zamacois, and also was cousin of the writer Eduardo Zamacois and the music composer Joaquín Zamacois.


2012 Eneco Tour

The 2012 Eneco Tour was the eighth running of the Eneco Tour cycling stage race. It started on August 6 in Waalwijk in the Netherlands and ended on August 12 in Geraardsbergen, Belgium, after seven stages. It was the 20th race of the 2012 UCI World Tour season.

The race was won by rider Lars Boom, who claimed the leader's white jersey on the final day after finishing second to rider Alessandro Ballan on the queen stage, and held enough of an advantage to assume the leader's jersey with his result. Boom's winning margin over runner-up Sylvain Chavanel of was 26 seconds, and his team-mate Niki Terpstra completed the podium, 23 seconds down on Chavanel and 49 behind Boom. rider Svein Tuft had originally finished third on the road, but was given a 20-second penalty for a water bottle infringement.

In the race's other classifications, 's Giacomo Nizzolo won the red jersey for the points classification, after winning a stage during the event, and Laurens De Vreese of won the "combativity" classification for most points awarded at each of the intermediate sprints during the event. Despite not winning a stage during the event, finished at the head of the teams classification, after placing three riders – Chavanel, Terpstra and Michał Kwiatkowski, who was eighth – in the top ten of the final general classification standings.


Arpad Viragh

Arpad Viragh (12 January 1888 – 31 May 1930) was a Hungarian cinematographer. He began his career in his native Hungary going on to work in the film industries of several European nations but primarily in Germany. He died on Capri in 1930 during the shooting of "City of Song" after contracting typhoid.


Mount Okukane

is a mountain located between the towns of Tateyama and Kurobe in Toyama Prefecture, Japan. The mountain has an elevation of . Mount Okukane rises dramatically between the Kurobe Gorge and the Haba Valley to form, at , one of the foremost sheer rock faces in Japan. The mountain is primarily composed of granite and is part of the Hida Mountains, also known as the Northern Japan Alps. Mount Okukane, together with the Kurobe and Sarutobi gorges, were designated a Special Natural Monument and Special Place of Scenic Beauty in 1964.


Thomas Geve

Thomas Geve (born October 27, 1929) is a Jewish engineer, author and holocaust survivor of German descent. He was born in Stettin in 1929 and lived as child in Beuthen, before moving to Berlin with his mother in 1939. During the war years, he worked for some months as a gravedigger at the Weißensee Cemetery. He was deported to Auschwitz in June 1943 with his mother, who perished in the camp. He stayed in Auschwitz till its evacuation in January 1945, after which he still survived the death march, Gross-Rosen concentration camp and Buchenwald concentration camp before the latter was self-liberated by the inmates in April 1945. Upon liberation he was too weak to leave the camp and proceeded to record camp life in 79 different drawings. After the war, he went to a camp in Switzerland for orphaned shoah survivors, and when his father was located, he was reunited with him in England. In 1950 he emigrated to Israel and settled in Haifa.

His experiences are retold in two books and two documentary films. The first book, "Youth in Chains", recounting his wartime years, was subsequently republished and translated into six other languages. His second book, recounting his experiences after the war, was published in German. In addition, his drawings have also been published separately and made into a French-language documentary. Today, he lectures about the Shoah at schools in Germany and other countries.


Kosmos 2469

Kosmos 2469 ( meaning "Cosmos 2469") is a Russian US-K missile early warning satellite which was launched in 2010 as part of the Russian Space Forces' Oko programme. The satellite is designed to identify missile launches using optical telescopes and infrared sensors.

Kosmos 2469 was launched from Site 16/2 at Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia. A Molniya-M carrier rocket with a 2BL upper stage was used to perform the launch, which took place at 17:01 UTC on 30 August 2010. The launch successfully placed the satellite into a molniya orbit. It subsequently received its Kosmos designation, and the international designator 2010-049A. The United States Space Command assigned it the Satellite Catalog Number 37170.

It was the last launch of a US-K satellite and the last launch of a Molniya-M rocket.


Bartłomiej Heberla

Bartłomiej Heberla (born 19 June 1985), in Rybnik is a Polish chess Grandmaster. As of January 2021, he was ranked 15th among all Polish players.


Majestic Hotel Cellars

Majestic Hotel Cellars (French: Les caves du Majestic) is a 1945 French mystery film directed by Richard Pottier and starring Albert Préjean, Suzy Prim and Denise Grey. It is based on the Maigret novel "Maigret and the Hotel Majestic" by Georges Simenon.

The film's sets were designed by the art director Guy de Gastyne.

The film earned admissions in France of 1,870,814. It was the last production of the German-controlled French film production company Continental Films, which was dissolved after the Liberation of Paris.


Giorgos Stathakis

Giorgos Stathakis (; born 8 November 1953) is a Greek politician and economist. From 27 January to 28 August 2015, he served as the Minister of Economy, Infrastructure, Shipping and Tourism in the cabinet of Alexis Tsipras. He has also been a Member of the Hellenic Parliament for Chania since May 2012.

Stathakis is a professor of political economy at the University of Crete, but has been on leave since being elected as an MP. He was formerly a Vice-Rector of the university.


2015 Le Samyn des Dames

The 2015 Le Samyn des Dames was the fourth running of the women's Le Samyn, a women's bicycle race in Hainaut, Belgium. It was held on 4 March 2015 over a distance of starting in Quaregnon and finishing in Dour. It was rated by the UCI as a 1.2 category race.


Olivier Brandicourt

Olivier Brandicourt (born 13 February 1956) is a French business executive and physician, and the former chief executive officer of Sanofi.


Potsdam Medienstadt Babelsberg station

Potsdam Medienstadt Babelsberg station is a station on the Berlin–Blankenheim railway located in the east of the Potsdam district of Drewitz near Babelsberg, the historic center of the German film industry, and the former West Berlin exclave of Steinstücken. The station's DS-100 code is BDW and its station’s numerical code is 5013. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 5 station.

The station was opened on 15 May 1879 with the name of Drewitz. It was a freight border crossing point from East Germany to West Berlin from 1949 to 1990. Numerous safety devices were installed for this purpose such as special points that would prevent an unauthorized movement of a locomotive towards Berlin-Wannsee in the American sector of Berlin. This meant that some sets of points would cause trains making unauthorized movements to derail.

After the reunification of Germany, an ICE connecting train ran from Berlin Zoologischer Garten through Drewitz station to Michendorf as electrification had not been completed on any line from the west to Berlin.

On 28 May 2000, the station’s name was changed to the current name in order to emphasize its proximity to the Babelsberg Media City ("Medienstadt"), including Babelsberg Studio.

The entire building is under heritage protection.

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Kim Hyun-jun

Kim Hyun-jun (Hangul: 김현준; June 3, 1960 – October 2, 1999) was a South Korean basketball player.

He played as a shooting guard. He was 182 cm (5 ft 11.75 in) tall. He competed at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games, where the South Korean team finished in ninth position.

His former teams include Samsung Electronics, and he appointed assistant coach of Samsung Electronics after he retired a player.

He died of a car accident in Seongnam on October 2, 1999.


Jens Lööke

Jens Lööke (born 11 April 1997) is a Swedish professional ice hockey forward. He is currently playing with the Timrå IK of the Swedish HockeyAllsvenskan (Allsv). Lööke was drafted 83rd overall by the Arizona Coyotes in the 2015 NHL Entry Draft.


Dunaiv

Dunaiv () is a village in Peremyshliany Raion, Lviv Oblast in western Ukraine. Local government is administered by Dunaivska village council.
Area of the village totals is 2.84 km2 and the population of village is 683 persons.


Item-item collaborative filtering

Item-item collaborative filtering, or item-based, or item-to-item, is a form of collaborative filtering for recommender systems based on the similarity between items calculated using people's ratings of those items. Item-item collaborative filtering was invented and used by Amazon.com in 1998. It was first published in an academic conference in 2001.

Earlier collaborative filtering systems based on rating similarity between users (known as user-user collaborative filtering) had several problems:
* systems performed poorly when they had many items but comparatively few ratings
* computing similarities between all pairs of users was expensive
* user profiles changed quickly and the entire system model had to be recomputed

Item-item models resolve these problems in systems that have more users than items. Item-item models use rating distributions "per item", not "per user". With more users than items, each item tends to have more ratings than each user, so an item's average rating usually doesn't change quickly. This leads to more stable rating distributions in the model, so the model doesn't have to be rebuilt as often. When users consume and then rate an item, that item's similar items are picked from the existing system model and added to the user's recommendations.


Saint Mary's Battery

Saint Mary's Battery (), also known as Comino Battery (), is an artillery battery on the island of Comino in Malta. It was built by the Order of Saint John between 1715 and 1716 as one of a series of coastal fortifications around the coasts of the Maltese Islands.


Balkrishna Industries

Balkrishna Industries Limited (BKT) is an Indian multinational tyre manufacturing company based in Mumbai, India. Balkrishna Industries manufactures off-highway tyres used in specialist segments like mining, earthmoving, agriculture, and gardening in five factories located in Aurangabad, Bhiwadi, Chopanki, Dombivali, and Bhuj. In 2013, it was ranked 41st among the world’s tyre makers.

Balkrishna Industries is currently an OEM vendor for heavy equipment manufacturers like JCB, John Deere, and CNH Industrial. In 2014, BKT held a 6% market share of the global off-the-road tyre segment.

Balkrishna Industries predominantly caters to the replacement market in North America and Europe. Its North American office is located in Akron, Ohio, with one warehouse in Wando, South Carolina. About 80 percent of Balkrishna Industries' business in the United States is in the farm market.

BKT Tires has been the official and exclusive tyre sponsor for Monster Jam since 2014. In July 2018, BKT purchased naming rights for Italian football's second division, Serie B for three years, with the league being known as Serie BKT under the agreement. On 15 January 2020, BKT signed an agreement with LFP to rename the French football second division as Ligue 2 BKT for four years.


Sir John Gage, 1st Baronet

Sir John Gage, 1st Baronet (died 3 October 1633) was an English baronet and landowner, and ancestor of the Viscounts Gage.

Gage was the son of Thomas Gage and Elizabeth Guilford. He married Penelope Darcy, a daughter of Thomas Darcy, 1st Earl Rivers and Mary Kitson, on 28 June 1611. They had eight children. Through his mother-in-law, Gage came into the possession of Hengrave Hall in Suffolk which would later become the seat of his descendants, the Rokewode-Gage baronets. He was made a baronet, of Firle in Sussex in the Baronetage of England, by Charles I on 26 March 1622. He was succeeded in his title by his eldest son, Thomas. His third son, Edward, was also created a baronet. John Gage sister Elizabeth was the mother of English nun Dame Gertrude More


Kosmos 801

Kosmos 801 ( meaning "Cosmos 801"), also known as DS-P1-I No.16 was a satellite which was used as a radar target for anti-ballistic missile tests. It was launched by the Soviet Union in 1976 as part of the Dnepropetrovsk Sputnik programme.

It was launched aboard a Kosmos-2I 63SM rocket, from Site 133/1 at Plesetsk. The launch occurred at 14:39 UTC on 5 February 1976.

Kosmos 801 was placed into a low Earth orbit with a perigee of , an apogee of , 71 degrees of inclination, and an orbital period of 95.3 minutes. It decayed from orbit on 5 January 1978.

Kosmos 801 was the sixteenth of nineteen DS-P1-I satellites to be launched. Of these, all reached orbit successfully except the seventh.


Faleia

Faleia ( or ; or ) is a village in the Paphos District of Cyprus, located 3 km south of Agios Fotios. Prior to 1974, it was inhabited exclusively by about 200 Turkish Cypriots. , only 2 people lived in Faleia. The village is now in a desolate state.


Railpower GG20B

The Railpower GG20B "Green Goat" is a low-emissions diesel hybrid switcher locomotive built by Railpower Technologies Corp. It is powered by a single Caterpillar C9 six cylinder inline engine developing , which is also connected to a large battery bank where both sources combine for a total power output of . To date, there have been more than 50 GG20B diesel-electric hybrid switchers manufactured since their first introduction in 2004.


This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the city of Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map.

There are 286 properties and districts listed on the National Register in Fairfield County, including 9 National Historic Landmarks. The city of Bridgeport is the location of 55 of these properties and districts; they are listed here. Ones in Greenwich or Stamford are covered in National Register of Historic Places listings in Greenwich, Connecticut or in National Register of Historic Places listings in Stamford, Connecticut. The remainder are covered in National Register of Historic Places listings in Fairfield County, Connecticut.


Midtjyske Jernbaner

Midtjyske Jernbaner A/S (abbreviated MJBA) is a Danish railway company operating in Region Midtjylland, Denmark.

The company was founded in 2008 as a merger of the operating companies Vemb-Lemvig-Thyborøn Jernbane A/S and Hads-Ning Herreders Jernbane A/S. Headquartered in Lemvig, the company is responsible for running the former Lemvigbanen and Odderbanen lines.


2013 Western Australian state election

The 2013 Western Australian state election was held on Saturday 9 March 2013 to elect 59 members to the Legislative Assembly and 36 members to the Legislative Council. The Liberal Party won a majority of seats in the Legislative Assembly for the first time since the election of 1996, retaining government with 31 seats. The Labor Party won 21 seats and the National Party won 7 seats. In the Legislative Council, the Liberals won 17 of the 36 seats.


Street Hawk

Street Hawk is an American superhero television series that aired for 13 episodes on ABC in 1985. The series is a Limekiln and Templar Production in association with Universal Television. Its central characters were created by Paul M. Belous and Robert Wolterstorff, and its core format was developed by Bruce Lansbury, who had initially commissioned the program's creation. This series was originally planned for the fall of 1984, Mondays at 8:00PM Eastern/7:00PM Central; however, ABC executives changed their minds when the summer series "Call to Glory" did well, and "Street Hawk" was pushed to mid-season. "Street Hawk" made its debut on January 4, 1985, on ABC at 9:00PM Eastern/8:00PM Central and ran until May 16, 1985.