martes, 30 de septiembre de 2014

Since I've Been Loving You

"Since I've Been Loving You" is a song by the English rock band Led Zeppelin, released in 1970 on the album Led Zeppelin III.
Overview
This was one of the first songs prepared for the Led Zeppelin III album. The song was recorded live in the studio with very little overdubbing. It was reportedly the hardest to record. Audio engineer Terry Manning called it "The best rock guitar solo of all time."John Paul Jones played Hammond organ on the song, using the bass pedals for the bassline.
This recording was done using John Bonham's Ludwig Speed King model #201, the pedal he used for his entire career and which was known as the "Squeak King" because of the excessive squeaking that can be heard on some recordings, especially on this track.
Live performances
As an improvisational showcase for all four group members, and especially for Jimmy Page's electric blues guitar solos, "Since I've Been Loving You" became a staple and...

Ain't That a Kick in the Head?

"Ain't That a Kick in the Head?" is a hook-laden song that was written in 1960 with music by Jimmy Van Heusen and lyrics by Sammy Cahn. It was first recorded on May 10, 1960 by Dean Martin, with conducting by Nelson Riddle. Martin performed the song in Ocean's 11 in an alternate arrangement featuring vibraphonist Red Norvo and his quartet.
Versions
The song has been recorded by many performers, including Wolfgang Parker, Robbie Williams, David Slater, Deana Martin, Westlife, Ray Quinn, Hazell Dean and the Cherry Poppin' Daddies. It also appeared in the soundtracks for Ocean's Thirteen, Goodfellas, A Bronx Tale, I Love You, Man, Fools Rush In and Vegas Vacation, and was the opening theme for Blue Collar Comedy Tour: One for the Road. It was also used as the soundtrack to a commercial for Budweiser, which was broadcast during Super Bowl XLI. It was one of the musical selections played during the Victoria...

Steve Moxon

Steve Moxon (born 9 November 1987) is an Australian kickboxer who competes in the middleweight and super middleweight divisions. Known for his speed and knockout power, Moxon captured the ISKA South Pacific Middleweight (−75 kg/165 lb) Championship early in his career before taking the WKF World Middleweight title from Expedito Valin in 2012. He signed with Glory that same year.
Early life
Moxon hails from the small town of Ballan, Victoria. He is a joiner by trade and also served in the Australian Army.
Career
Early career
Debuting as a professional fighter eight months after he first stepped in the gym, Moxon won his first fight by third-round technical knockout against Onur Yudical. He rose to prominence by winning the ISKA South Pacific Middleweight (−75 kg/165 lb) Championship early in his career, and moved to Sydney to train under Peter Graham at the Boxing Works gym. In 2010, he was a competitor on the Enfusion...

Wanderlândia

Wanderlândia is a town and municipality in the state of Tocantins in the Northern region of Brazil.
See also

List of municipalities in Tocantins

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National Register of Historic Places listings in northern Boston, Massachusetts

Boston, Massachusetts is home to a large number of listings on the National Register of Historic Places. This list encompasses those locations that are located north of the Massachusetts Turnpike. See National Register of Historic Places listings in southern Boston for listings south of the Turnpike. Properties and districts located elsewhere in Suffolk County's other three municipalities are also listed separately.
There are 308 properties and districts listed on the National Register in Suffolk County, including 58 National Historic Landmarks. The northern part of the city of Boston is the location of 139 of these properties and districts, including 44 National Historic Landmarks.



This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted September 26, 2014.




Current listings
See also

List of National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts
National
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Integrated urban water management in Medellín, Colombia

Integrated urban water management (IUWM) in Medellín, Colombia is considered to be an overall success and a good example of how a large metropolitan area with moderate income disparity can adequately operate and maintain quality water supply to its many citizens. This is quite remarkable given the large urbanized population in the The Metropolitan Area of the Aburrá Valley (MAAV) of 3.3 million, many of whom live on the slopes of the Aburrá Valley where Medellín is situated and highly prone to landslides and stormwater erosion. Sound urban water management within the Metropolitan Area of the Aburrá Valley is carried out by a set of technically strong institutions with financial independence—and lack of political interference such as Empresas Publicas de Medellin (EPM).
The Metropolitan Area of the Aburrá Valley (MAAV) is located near the equator but with a high elevation, the average climate is quite mild without great variation in temperature and...

Glossary of history

This glossary of history is a list of topics relating to history.
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References

General information


"A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology". Society of American Archivists. Retrieved 2013-02-24. 
USMP Glossary: Paleontology
DCMI Metadata Terms
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Burkholderia pseudomallei

Burkholderia pseudomallei (also known as Pseudomonas pseudomallei) is a Gram-negative, bipolar, aerobic, motile rod-shaped bacterium. It infects humans and animals and causes the disease melioidosis. It is also capable of infecting plants.
B. pseudomallei measures 2-5 μm in length and 0.4-0.8 μm in diameter and is capable of self-propulsion using flagellae. The bacteria can grow in a number of artificial nutrient environments, especially betaine- and arginine-containing ones.
In vitro, optimal proliferation temperature is reported around 40°C in neutral or slightly acidic environments (pH 6.8–7.0). The majority of strains are capable of fermentation of sugars without gas formation (most importantly, glucose and galactose, older cultures are reported to also metabolize maltose and starch). Bacteria produce both exo- and endotoxins. The role of the toxins identified in the process of melioidosis symptom development has not been fully elucidated...

Mountain Well, California

Mountain Well is a former settlement in Nevada County, California. Mountain Well is located 3.5 miles (5.6 km) south of North Bloomfield.
The Mountain Well post office operated from 1858 to 1866.
It still appeared on maps as of 1873.
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Sinners (disambiguation)

Sinners are those who commit acts that violate known moral rules.
Sinners may also refer to:

Sinners (2004 film), an American romance film
Sinners (2007 film), an American drama film
The Sinners (TV Series), an Armenian TV Series
Sinners, the new title of Jackie Collins' novel Sunday Simmons & Charlie Brick

See also

Sin (disambiguation)
Sinful (disambiguation)
Sinner (disambiguation)
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Mutant protein

A mutant protein is the protein product encoded by a gene with mutation.
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Calliostoma formosense

Calliostoma formosense, common name the Formosa top shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Calliostomatidae.

Some authors place this taxon in the subgenus Calliostoma (Benthastelena)

Description
The size of the shell varies between 35 mm and 63 mm.
Distribution
This marine species occurs off Taiwan.
References
External links

Gastropods.com: Calliostoma (Maurea) formosense

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Aghuz Kaleh, Mazandaran

Aghuz Kaleh (Persian: اغوزكله‎, also Romanized as Āghūz Kaleh) is a village in Baladeh Rural District, Khorramabad District, Tonekabon County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 494, in 140 families.
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Mouton, Louisiana

Mouton is an unincorporated community in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana.
The community is named after Jean Mouton and Marin Mouton, two local land owners who settled the area during the 1770s. It is located along West Pont Des Mouton Rd between LA Hwy 182 and I-49 .
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The Warlock in Spite of Himself

The Warlock in Spite of Himself is a science fantasy novel by American author Christopher Stasheff, published in 1969. It is the first book in the Warlock of Gramarye series. The title is a play on the title of Molière's Le Médecin malgré lui (The Doctor, in Spite of Himself).
As the Vietnam War continued, Stasheff's novel clothed his thinly veiled commentary about the proper uses of government and democracy in a fantasy about interstellar travel, fairies, unusual flora and refugees fleeing persecution.
Plot
The novel centers around Rod Gallowglass, a SCENT agent, who stumbles across the planet Gramarye. Immediately upon landing he is thrust into a world of medieval people, witches and warlocks, and all manor of mythical creatures. Rod is aided by his faithful companion Fess, an epileptic robot. While gathering intelligence, Rod discovers the planet is in political turmoil, due to futurian influence on behalf of the PEST...

Friedrich von Gerok

Friedrich von Gerok (19 November 1786 in Weilheim - 2 July 1865 in Stuttgart) was a German theologian.
After studying Gerok began his professional career in 1806, and from 1809 to 1811 he was librarian at Tübingen. From 1811-1814 he was assistant to the professor of classical literature at the University of Tübingen. In 1813 and 1814 he was a deacon in Vaihingen an der Enz and in 1815 at the Stuttgart Collegiate. In 1836 he was deacon and preacher at the hospital in Stuttgart. In 1848 he was appointed General Superintendent in Ludwigsburg, a position he held until his retirement in 1860.
In 1853 Gerok was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Württemberg Crown. He was the father of Karl von Gerok.
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Falkland Current

The Falkland Current (also called Malvinas Current or Falklands Current) is a cold water current that flows northward along the Atlantic coast of Patagonia as far north as the mouth of the Río de la Plata. This current results from the movement of water from the West Wind Drift as it rounds Cape Horn. It takes its name from the Falkland Islands (Spanish: Islas Malvinas). This cold current mixes with the tropical Brazil Current in the Argentine Sea (see Brazil–Falkland Confluence), giving it its temperate climate.
The current is an equatorward flowing current that carries cold and relatively fresh subantarctic water. The Malvinas Current is a branch off of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. It transports between 60 and 90 Sverdrups of water with speeds ranging from a half a meter to a meter per second. Hydrographic data in this area is very scarce and thus various hydrographic variables have a great deal of error. It is interesting to note that the Malvinas...

S. D. Burman

Sachin Dev Burman (Bengali: শচীন দেববর্মণ) was born on 1 October 1906 was an Indian music composer. He was one of the most well-renowned Bollywood film music composers. S D Burman composed music for over 100 movies, including Hindi and Bengali films. Apart from being a versatile composer, he also sang songs in light semi classical and folk style of Bengal. His Son Rahul Dev Burman was also a celebrated music composer for Bollywood films.
S.D. Burman's compositions have been mainly sung to a large extent by the likes of Lata Mangeshkar, Mohammed Rafi, Geeta Dutt, Manna Dey, Kishore Kumar, Hemant Kumar, Asha Bhosle and Shamshad Begum. Mukesh and Talat Mahmood have also sung songs composed by him. He also sang about 14 Hindi and 13 Bengali film songs.
Background
Burman was born on 1 October 1906, in Comilla, British India, now in Bangladesh to Nirupama Devi, of Manipur and Nabadwipchandra Dev Burman, son of Maharaja Ishanachandra Manikya Dev Burman...

Kenneth Mathews (cricketer)

Kenneth Patrick Arthur Mathews (born 10 May 1926) is a former English cricketer. Mathews was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace. He was born at West Worthing, Sussex, and was educated at Felsted School.
Mathews made his first-class debut for Sussex against Cambridge University in 1950. He made three further first-class appearances for the county in that season, against Surrey, Kent and Northamptonshire in the County Championship. He scored his maiden first-class half century against Kent, with a score of 51. The following season, while studying at Clare College, Cambridge, he played first-class cricket for Cambridge University, making his debut for the university against Lancashire at Fenner's. He made eleven further first-class appearances for the university in that season, the last of which came against Oxford University in The University Match at Lord's. He scored 540 runs in his twelve matches for the university, at an average of 25.71, with a high...

Ahmad Latiff Khamaruddin

Ahmad Latiff Khamarudin (born 29 May 1979) is a professional footballer who plays for the Tanjong Pagar United in the S.League.
Once touted as a successor to golden boy Fandi Ahmad, he can play as an attacking midfielder or striker with his talented playmaking skills.
However, due to his consistent bad disciplinary track record for the national team and club sides, he is deemed as the 'bad boy' of Singapore football.
His various nicknames include the frequently used "bad boy of Singapore football" for his disciplinary problems on and off the pitch, and also "the blond bombshell" in reference to his bleached blond hair.
Club career
Ahmad Latiff started his career at Police FC (now known as Home United FC) in 1996, before moving to Geylang United FC the following year.
In 1998, his sparkling performances led Singapore to win the Tiger Cup, the nation's first international trophy, despite getting sent off in the final against...

Archduke Joseph Karl of Austria

Archduke Joseph Karl of Austria (German: (Erzherzog) Josef Karl (Ludwig) von Österreich, Hungarian: Habsburg–Toscanai József Károly (Lajos) főherceg; Pressburg, 2 March 1833 – Fiume, 13 June 1905) was a member of the Habsburg dynasty. He was the second son of Archduke Joseph, Palatine of Hungary (7th son of Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor) and Duchess Maria Dorothea of Württemberg.
Like many junior members of royal families, Archduke Joseph Karl entered the military. He became a Major General in the Austrian Army in 1860. In 1867, he became Palatine of Hungary after the death of his childless half-brother Stephen, though the post by that time was symbolic only.
The archduke had an interest in Romani language and occasionally wrote on this topic to Albert Thomas Sinclair, an American lawyer who shared this interest. A bio of Sinclair notes that the archduke sent a copy of his work, “a large octavo volume handsomely bound It is a most important and valuable...

Mictlantecuhtli (comics)

Mictlantecuhtli is a fictional character appearing in the independent comic book series, El Muerto: The Aztec Zombie, published under the Los Comex imprint. Based on the god of the same name from Aztec mythology and created by Javier Hernandez, the character made his first appearance in the first issue of El Muerto titled "Daze of the Dead: The Numero Uno Edition" in 1998.
Fictional character history
The Aztec god of death, Mictlantecuhtli, was displeased at the outcome of the Spanish Conquest. The rebirth of Mexico left the gods behind and removed him from his seat of power. He, along with Tezcatlipoca, hatched a plot in order to regain his throne. Eventually, their plans led them to kidnap 21-year-old Diego de la Muerte. Diego was a Mexican-American living in Whittier, California. He was anticipating the upcoming Dia de Los Muertos festival and had purchased an undead Mariachi suit. He also applied the traditional facial markings and had...

Buddhism and Eastern religions

Buddhism has interacted with several East Asian religious traditions since it spread from India during the 2nd century AD.
Confucianism
Confucianism in particular raised fierce opposition to Buddhism in early history, principally because it perceived Buddhism to be a nihilistic worldview, with a negative impact on society at large. "The Neo-Confucianists had therefore to attack Buddhist cosmological views by affirming, in the firstplace, the reality and concreteness of the universe and of man." The prominence of Confucianism in the Chinese society forced Buddhism to endorse certain uniquely Confucianist values. Over time as Buddhism became increasingly accepted by the Chinese intellectual class, relation between these two philosophies became more symbiotic. For example, Buddhism shares many commonalities with Neo-Confucianism, which is Confucianism with more religious elements.
Shinto
"Before Prince Shotoku made Buddhism the national...

Sessions 84–88

Sessions 84–88 is a compilation album released in 2003 alongside Eurotechno on the Rephlex label. Brian Dougans, under the alias Humanoid; it is mostly experimental in nature and similar to the Stakker Humanoid release from Dougans also; Sessions also includes a remix of that track.
Track listing

Stakker Humanoid (Snowman Mix) (4:47)
Positive Electron (2:37)

Keyboards, Effects [Vox Fx] - Colin Scott, Mark McLean


Negative Electron (2:42)
Rotation (2:34)
Your Body Robotic (0:54)

Keyboards, Effects [Vox Fx] - Colin Scott, Mark McLean


Swamp Amp (1:24)
Interlude Whistle (0:05)
Delay Decay (0:53)
Motion Static (3:28)
E Prom Contact (2:37)

Keyboards, Effects [Vox Fx] - Colin Scott, Mark McLean


Hulme Slipway (1:38)
Pulsar (2:16)
Small Cluid (2:33)
Jet Stream Tokyo
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Billy Vojtek

Billy Vojtek (born 29 September 1943, Independent State of Croatia) is a retired Croatian Australian footballer. He migrated to Australia with his family as a child, he would go on to become one of the leading players in Australia during the 1960s and 70s. In his career he played for the Melbourne Knights (where he spent most of his career), Sydney United, Brunswick Juventus, Green Gully and the St Albans Saints. He also represented Australia on 44 occasions and was controversially left out of the Australian squad for the 1974 World Cup.
Vojtek is now the coach of the Melbourne Knights (Melbourne Croatia) U/16 squad located in Sunshine Melbourne, where he has been serving as coach for one season now.
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^ OzFootball
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Burj al-Taqa

The Burj al-Taqa, also known as the Dubai Energy Tower is a skyscraper that was to be built in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. Like the World Trade Center (Manama), it was to incorporate power generation assets into its structure, including a 200-foot (61 m) wind turbine on the roof and solar panels.
The project was not publicly cancelled following the global financial crisis, but it has been quietly mothballed. No ground has been broken on the structure site and there are no plans to begin construction as of January 2012.
See also

World Trade Center (Manama)

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Rellinars

Rellinars is a municipality in the province of Barcelona and autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain. The municipality covers an area of 17.79 square kilometres (6.87 sq mi) and as of 2011 had a population of 738 people.
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Mind Body Spirit Festival

The Mind Body Spirit Festival is a festival that first took place at the Olympia Exhibition Centre in London in 1977. It was founded by Graham Wilson. The theme was the relationship between religion, the paranormal, spirituality, natural healing, consciousness and personal growth with the aim of making these ideas more accessible to everyone.
Today thousands of visitors from the UK and abroad attend the biannual celebrations in London, attracted by an eclectic mix of musicians, international workshop leaders, best-selling authors, artists and cutting edge exhibitors
The Mind Body Spirit Festival was subsequently presented in New York, Los Angeles, Cork, San Francisco, Sydney, Melbourne and in most major cities, often using the Mind Body Spirit name and following the successful formula of exhibitors, leading authors and authorities giving lectures and workshops, as well as a mix of new-age music and performances.
Over 35 years later, the Mind Body Spirit Festival...

Blue's Mills, Nova Scotia

Blue's Mills is a small community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in Inverness County on Cape Breton Island.
References

Blue's Mills on Destination Nova Scotia
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Catherine Warren

Catherine Ann Warren (born February 12, 1984) is a beauty queen from Lake Forest, Illinois who has competed in the Miss USA pageant and the Miss International (USA) pageant.
Warren won the Miss Illinois USA 2006 title in a state pageant held in late 2005. This was the fourth time she competed for this title, having competed in 2003, placed 1st runner-up in 2004 and 2nd runner-up in 2005. On April 21, 2006 she competed for the title of Miss USA 2006 in Baltimore, Maryland and placed in the top 15. Warren was one of twenty six Miss USA Delegates who appeared on Deal or No Deal in 2006.
Warren graduated from Lake Forest High School in 2002 and attended the University of Kansas. She is currently a student at DePaul University. She intends to further her education by earning a Masters degree from a university in Chicago. Warren plans to utilize her education to fulfill her goal of owning and operating her own child care facility.
She is involved in promoting community...

Southwark Council election, 2010

Elections for Southwark Council were held on 6 May 2010. The 2010 General Election and other local elections took place on the same day.
In London council elections the entire council is elected every four years, opposed to some local elections where one councillor is elected every year for three of the four years. Southwark has 21 wards, each electing 3 councillors giving a total number of seats as 63.
The Labour Party gained overall control, which they had previously had until 2002, replacing the previous Lib Dem-Tory coalition. The Labour Party increased their vote substantially, which it was suggested was caused by the high turnout. Turnout was approximately double that of the 2006 elections, due to the general election being held on the same day.
Green London Assembly member Jenny Jones lost her seat.
Summary of results
Ward results
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2014 LEB Oro playoffs

The 2014 LEB Oro playoffs was the final stage of the 2013–14 LEB Oro season. They started on 11 April 2013, and finished on May 18.
The quarterfinals were played in a best-of-3 games format, while the semifinals and the finals in a best-of-5 games format. The best seeded team plays at home the games 1, 2 and 5 if necessary. Ford Burgos was the winner and promoted to 2014–15 ACB season with River Andorra MoraBanc, the champion of the regular season.
Bracket

Quarterfinals
Quesos Cerrato Palencia – Instituto Fertilidad Clínicas Rincón
Ford Burgos – Cocinas.com
Ribeira Sacra Breogán Lugo – Peñas Huesca
Leyma Natura Básquet Coruña – Unión Financiera Baloncesto Oviedo
Semifinals
Quesos Cerrato Palencia – Unión Financiera Baloncesto Oviedo
Ford Burgos – Ribeira Sacra Breogán Lugo
Final
Quesos Cerrato Palencia – Ford Burgos
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Poganaya molodyozh'

Poganaya molodyozh (Russian: Поганая молодёжь, Goddam Youth) is the first studio album by the Russian band Grazhdanskaya Oborona. The album was released in 1985. It was recorded concurrently with its follow-up Optimizm.
Even though the copyright date on the album states 1985, the album was recorded in 1988. There is a long and involved history as to why. The original versions of Poganaya molodezh and Optimizm were recorded in 1984 with Egor Letov and Konstantin Ryabinov (Kuzya Waugh) and intended to be a Posev album. In late 1984, when the KGB found out about Poganaya molodezh, the band was forcibly broken up; Waugh was conscripted into the army and Letov was sent to a mental asylum. Three months later, on 8 December 1984, Letov was released. The KGB ordered him to destroy the masters, but the albums were already circulating.
In 1988, after Letov finished his army service, he decided to reconstruct Poganaya molodezh...

Farm to Market Road 156

Farm to Market Road 156 (or FM 156) is an FM highway located in North Texas.
Route description
FM 156 begins at an intersection with Bus. US 287 in Fort Worth, near Meacham International Airport. The highway runs in an east-west direction traveling along Terminal Road, before turning north onto Blue Mound Road. After crossing I-820, FM 156 enters into the southeastern section of Saginaw. The highway briefly enters into the town of Blue Mound, before re-entering Saginaw. The highway runs back into Fort Worth, passing by the Bureau of Printing and Engraving, before intersecting US 81/US 287. North of US 81/287 FM 156 runs through sparsely populated areas of the city's northwest area. At School House Road, the highway loops around a rail line and enters Haslet.
Leaving Haslet, FM 156 turns to the east, passing a few miles to the west of Alliance Airport. The highway briefly enters Fort Worth again, interchanging with SH 114 near Texas Motor Speedway...

Tomifobia Nature Trail

The Tomifobia Nature Trail (French: Sentier Nature Tomifobia) is a 19 km rail trail in the Eastern Townships region of Quebec. It follows the old route of a Canadian Pacific railway from Ayer's Cliff to Stanstead. In between, it passes through parts of Stanstead-Est, Stanstead Township, and Ogden.
The trail is made of a gravel surface, and is open for cyclists, hikers, and cross-country skiers. It closes for maintenance between mid-March and mid-May every two years. The trail is maintained by the Memphremagog Regional County Municipality with funds from adhering municipalities.
The trail was completely converted for touristic purposes after the removal of the railway tracks in 1992, however parts of it were already informally used by hikers for a decade prior to opening. The last Quebec Central revenue freight train to use the line was on December 5, 1988(the last Canadian Pacific train, a detour freight, ran on November 29, 1988).
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Épieds-en-Beauce

Épieds-en-Beauce is a commune in the Loiret department in north-central France.
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Communes of the Loiret department
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Arnold Powell

Arnold Cecil Powell (18 September 1882 – 15 November 1963) was an English schoolmaster, educationalist and clergyman who was head master of several schools successively, ending his career as Custos of St Mary’s Hospital, Chichester.
Early life
The son of W. H. Powell, he was educated at St Olave's Grammar School, London, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was an open Exhibitioner and took his degree in the Natural Sciences Tripos.
Career
Powell's first post was as an assistant master at Gresham's School. He next taught at King’s School, Grantham, and at Sedbergh School. His first appointment as a headmaster came at Skipton Grammar School, from where he was appointed head at Bedford Modern School in 1917, before serving as head master at Epsom College from 1922 to 1939. In 1939 Powell became Rector of Graffham with Lavington, where he remained until 1947, and served also as Rural Dean of Petworth from 1945 to 1947. In 1947 he was appointed...

Pan Mei

Pan Mei (潘美) (c. 925 – 20 July 991) was a military general and statesman in the early years of imperial China's Song Dynasty. In the 970s, he was the main commander in Song's conquest of Southern Han and also played pivotal roles in the conquest of Southern Tang and Northern Han. Afterwards he fought the Khitan-ruled Liao Dynasty on Song's northern border.
In 986 he was demoted by 3 ranks for contributing to the death of fellow Song general Yang Ye during battles against Liao. At this time one of his daughters had married into the imperial House of Zhao. The antagonist Pan Renmei (潘仁美, also known as Pan Hong 潘洪) in the largely fictional Generals of the Yang Family legends is based on Pan Mei from this episode.
Early life
Pan Mei's father Pan Lin (潘璘) was a local militia captain (軍校) in Changshan (常山, around modern Shijiazhuang, Hebei). In his 20s, Pan Mei worked as an usher (典謁) at his hometown of Daming...

1993 Caribbean Series

The XXXV edition of the Caribbean Series (Serie del Caribe) was played in 1993. It was held from February 4 through February 9 with the champions teams from the Dominican Republic, Águilas Cibaeñas; Mexico, Venados de Mazatlán; Puerto Rico, Cangrejeros de Santurce, and Venezuela, Águilas del Zulia. The format consisted of 12 games, each team facing the other teams twice, and was played at Estadio Teodoro Mariscal in Mazatlán, Mexico.
Summary
It was the second straight Caribbean Series held in Mexico, as an attempt to keep high attendance after the economic collapse happened in the previous two editions played at Miami.
The Series had to go more than the scheduled 12 games when both Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico teams ended with a similar 4-2 record. The Cangrejeros de Santurce of Puerto Rico clinched the title after beating the Águilas Cibaeñas in a tiebreaker game. In the decisive match, Santurce got revenge for two round-robin defeats...

Miminegash, Prince Edward Island

Miminegash is a small fishing settlement located 8 miles (13 km) NW of Alberton and 11 miles (18 km) SW of Tignish, in the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island. It is part of a small area known as either the St. Louis, Palmer Road, or Miminegash area. This area, if not viewed as a single settlement on its own, is often associated with Tignish due to the shared Acadian roots between these areas.
Community
Miminegash is within 4 to 5 miles (8.0 km) of the following communities, known collectively as the St. Louis–Miminegash area. The area is a major source and processing center for Irish Moss harvested locally from the sea. Once processed into carageenan, it is used as an emulsifier or a source of gloss for things such as ice cream, chocolate milk or lipstick. The Seaweed Pie Cafe in Miminegash also hosts an Irish Moss Interpretive Center.
External links

Government of PEI profile

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Dana Evan Kaplan

Dana Evan Kaplan (born October 29, 1960) is a Reform rabbi known for his writings on Reform Judaism and American Judaism. He has advocated for a theologically coherent approach to Reform Judaism rather than encouraging a pluralistic approach to belief without limits.
Biography
Kaplan was born in Manhattan and grew up in New York until the age of fourteen, when he moved to Waterbury, Connecticut. He studied at Ramaz School, Friends Seminary, and Chase Collegiate School. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Yeshiva University, received rabbinical ordination from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Jerusalem in 1994 and a PhD in History from Tel Aviv University in 1997. He has been the rabbi of Shaare Shalom United Congregation of Israelites in Kingston, Jamaica since August 2011.
Kaplan is known to be an avid scuba diver with dives in Mexico, South Africa, Indonesia, Honduras, and many other countries. He has trekked in Nepal where he...

The Hearth

The Hearth is a live album featuring a performance by Cecil Taylor with Tristan Honsinger and Evan Parker recorded in Berlin on June 30, 1988 as part of month long series of concerts by Taylor and released on the FMP label.
The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek states "This is a devastatingly fine gig, and one of the best Taylor played the entire month he was in Berlin".
Track listing

All compositions by Cecil Taylor, Tristan Honsinger and Evan Parker.


"The Hearth" - 61:31




Recorded in Berlin on June 30, 1988



Personnel

Cecil Taylor: piano, voice
Tristan Honsinger: cello
Evan Parker: tenor saxophone

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Texas river cooter

The Texas river cooter (Pseudemys texana) is a species of freshwater turtle native to creeks, rivers, and lakes of the US state of Texas. They are found in the river basins of the Colorado, Brazos, Guadalupe, and San Antonio Rivers. It is one of two species of cooter native to the state, the other being the Eastern River Cooter.
Description
The Texas River Cooter is a relatively large turtle, capable of growing to a shell length of 12+ inches (30.5 cm). They are green in color, with yellow and black markings that fade with age. Males can be distinguished from females by their longer tails, longer claws, and overall smaller size.
Taxonomy
The Texas Cooter was once reclassified to a subspecies of the Eastern Cooter, Pseudemys concinna, but was given full species status in 1991.
Similar species
The Red-eared slider (Trachemys scripta elegans) shares its range and habits, but can easily be distinguished from...

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Janette Pallas

Janette Pallas, is the Business Incubation and Enterprise manager, De Montfort University, Leicester. In 2008, she was awarded the Queen's Award for Enterprise Promotion.
References
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Tjeerd Borstlap

Tjeerd Borstlap (born January 10, 1955) is a former field hockey player from the Netherlands, who played eight international matches for the Dutch National Men's Team in the years 1978–1979. He played club hockey for the hockey club HC Klein Zwitserland from Den Haag.
References

(Dutch) Dutch Hockey Federation
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Chronux

Chronux is an open-source software package developed for the loading, visualization and analysis of a variety of modalities / formats of neurobiological time series data. Usage of this tool enables neuroscientists to perform a variety of analysis on multichannel electrophysiological data such as LFP (local field potentials), EEG, MEG, Neuronal spike times and also on spatiotemporal data such as FMRI and dynamic optical imaging data. The software consists of a set of MATLAB routines interfaced with C libraries that can be used to perform the tasks that constitute a typical study of neurobiological data. These include local regression and smoothing, spike sorting and spectral analysis. The package also includes some GUIs for time series visualization and analysis. Chronux is GNU GPL v2 licensed (and MATLAB is proprietary).
History
From 1996 to 2001, the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) at Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA hosted a workshop on the analysis...

2005 Mr. Olympia

The 2005 Mr. Olympia contest was an IFBB professional bodybuilding competition and the feature event of Joe Weider's 2005 Olympia Weekend held October 15–16, 2005 at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Results
The total prize amount given during the exhibition was $711,000, an increase of 32% from 2004. The total prize money for the men's Mr. Olympia was $550,000.
Notable Events

Ronnie Coleman wins his eighth consecutive Mr. Olympia title, tying with Lee Haney for most wins


Gustavo Badell won $50,000 in the Challenge Round.


Jay Cutler won $10,000 in the Vyo Tech's Best Wheels.

See also

2005 Ms. Olympia

References
External links

Mr. Olympia
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Durham District

The City of Durham was, from 1974 to 2009, a non-metropolitan district of County Durham in North East England, with the status of borough and city.
Formation
The district was formed on 1 April 1974 by the merger of the existing City of Durham and Framwelgate with Brandon and Byshottles Urban District and Durham Rural District. The district was abolished as part of the 2009 structural changes to local government in England.
Durham City Council
The Council was made up of 50 councillors elected in all-out elections every four years (last elections 2007). The last political composition was Liberal Democrat 27, Labour 15, Independent 8. The 2003 elections saw the Liberal Democrats gain overall political control of the council from Labour, benefiting from boundary changes and substantial gains in Durham's eastern suburbs. Labour had held overall control of the City Council continually since the early 1980s.
Mayors
Mayors of the...

9104 Matsuo

9104 Matsuo (1996 YB) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on December 20, 1996 by T. Kobayashi at Oizumi.
References
External links

JPL Small-Body Database Browser on 9104 Matsuo
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Oceanic basin

In hydrology, an oceanic basin may be anywhere on Earth that is covered by seawater, but geologically ocean basins are large geologic basins that are below sea level. Geologically, there are other undersea geomorphological features such as the continental shelves, the deep ocean trenches, and the undersea mountain ranges (for example, the mid-Atlantic ridge) which are not considered to be part of the ocean basins; while hydrologically, oceanic basins include the flanking continental shelves and shallow, epeiric seas.
History
Older references (e.g., Littlehales 1930) consider the oceanic basins to be the complement to the continents, with erosion dominating the latter, and the sediments so derived ending up in the ocean basins. More modern sources (e.g., Floyd 1991) regard the ocean basins more as basaltic plains, than as sedimentary depositories, since most sedimentation occurs on the continental shelves and not in the geologically-defined ocean...

Loktevsky District

Loktevsky District (Russian: Ло́ктевский райо́н) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the fifty-nine in Altai Krai, Russia. It is located in the southwest of the krai. The area of the district is 2,340 square kilometers (900 sq mi). Its administrative center is the town of Gornyak. Population: 29,658 (2010 Census); 33,984 (2002 Census); 34,562 (1989 Census). The population of Gornyak accounts for 46.9% of the district's total population.
References
Notes
Sources

Алтайский краевой Совет народных депутатов. Закон №28-ЗС от 1 марта 2008 г. «Об административно-территориальном устройстве Алтайского края», в ред. Закона №53-ЗС от 19 июня 2014 г. «Об упразднении разъезда 44 км Контошинского сельсовета Косихинского района Алтайского края и внесении изменений в отдельные Законы Алтайского края». Вступил в силу 8 марта 2008 г. Опубликован: "Алтайская правда", №67, 8 марта 2008 г. (Altai Krai Council of People's Deputies
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Fuzzy Control (band)

Fuzzy Control (ファジー コントロール, Fajī Kontorōru) is a three-piece Japanese rock band currently signed to DCT Records. They gained prominence in Japan after being featured as vocalists and musicians on Dreams Come True's singles "Good Bye My School Days" and "Sono Saki e". Fuzzy Control has played at the 2005 Summer Sonic Festival and their single "Think Twice" was used as the ending theme for the Mushiking: King of the Beetles anime. They also appeared at the 60th NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen, having been featured on Dreams Come True's "Sono Saki e".
Members

Juon Kamata (鎌田 樹音, Kamata Juon, (1985-03-08)March 8, 1985): Vocals & guitar
Satoko Suganuma (菅沼 知子, Suganuma Satoko, (1982-09-10)September 10, 1982): Drums & chorus
Joe Hoshino (星野 譲, Hoshino Jō, (1981-08-05)August 5, 1981): Bass & chorus

Discography
Albums

Chicken - September 27, 2003
First
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Kocina, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship

Kocina [kɔˈt͡ɕina] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Opatowiec, within Kazimierza County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. It lies approximately 8 kilometres (5 mi) north of Opatowiec, 15 km (9 mi) east of Kazimierza Wielka, and 66 km (41 mi) south of the regional capital Kielce.
References

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Don Caley

Donald Thomas Caley (born October 9, 1945) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender.
Playing career
Caley played junior hockey in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League for the Weyburn Red Wings for three seasons as well as one game in the Ontario Hockey Association's Junior A division with the Peterborough Petes. On June 6, 1967, Caley was claimed in the 1967 NHL Expansion Draft by the St. Louis Blues and played one game during the 1967-68 NHL season. He was traded to the New York Rangers during the off-season but never played for them, instead suiting up for the Omaha Knights as well as one game for the Buffalo Bisons.
On July 3, 1969, Caley was traded to the Western Hockey League's Phoenix Roadrunners where he became their starting goalie. In February 1970, Caley suffered severe whiplash in a car accident and missed the remainder of the season though he recovered in time for the next season. He retired after the 1972-73 season to become...

Tomio Imamura

Tomio Imamura (Imamura Tomio, 7 October 1958) is a Japanese master of Shotokan karate. He has won the JKA's version of the world championships for kumite on 2 occasions. He has also won the JKA All-Japan championships for kumite on 2 occasions. He is currently an instructor of the Japan Karate Association.
Biography
Tomio Imamura was born in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan on 7 October 1958. He studied at Takushoku University. His karate training began during his 1st year of university.
Competition
Tomio Imamura has had considerable success in karate competition.
Major Tournament Success

36th JKA All Japan Karate Championship (1993) - 2nd Place Kumite
4th Shoto World Cup Karate Championship Tournament (Tokyo, 1992) - 1st Place Kumite
33rd JKA All Japan Karate Championship (1990) - 1st Place Kumite
32nd JKA All Japan Karate Championship (1989) - 2nd Place Kumite
31st JKA All Japan
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Faker (band)

Faker is an Australian alternative rock band, formed in Sydney in 1996. The band consists of Nathan Hudson (lead vocals and guitar), Nicholas Munnings (guitar and backing vocals), Liam O'Brien (bass guitar) and Daniel Wright (drums).
The band has released three studio albums, and despite forming in 1996, Faker's first studio album Addicted Romantic, was only released in 2005. Prior to that, the band played multiple local gigs, and also released two EPs. In 2007, Faker became a mainstream success with their second album, Be the Twilight, and went on to continue touring nationally. Get Loved, their third album, was a digital-only free release, delivered in December 2011.
History
Formation and early releases
Faker was formed in Sydney, Australia, in 1998. It initially consisted of Nathan Hudson, Paul Youdell, Chris Deal, Marco2000 and Andrew Day. The band spent five years performing small gigs around Sydney. They also released...

Widener Partnership Charter School

The Widener Partnership Charter School is a public charter school located at 1450 Edgmont Avenue, Chester, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. Originally a K-3 school it had grown by Fall 2013 to educate K-7 elementary students. The goal of this school is to educate each and every student in the way that they will become component, self-motivated, and lifelong learners. The program not only focuses on how a child learns, but it focuses on the whole child as well. There is a ratio of 17 to 1 students to teacher in each class allowing for more personal attention with each child. The school mandates students wear a standardized uniform. Widener Partnership enrollment was 250 pupils in 2010 and grew to 300 in 2011. Fourth grade was added to the school in 2009-10. Fifth grade was added in 2010-11. In November 2011, the school received approval to add sixth through eighth grades from the Chester Upland School Board.
The school has an active Parent Caregiver Council with membership...

Norwegian Church (disambiguation)

Norwegian Church may refer to:
Organisations in Norway

Church of Norway

Norwegian Church Abroad
Norwegian Church Aid


Evangelical Lutheran Free Church of Norway

Organisations outside Norway

The Norwegian Lutheran Church in the United States
United Norwegian Lutheran Church of America
Synod of the Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Conference of the Norwegian-Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church of America

Church buildings

Churches in Norway

Brampton Lutheran Church in Western Norway Emigration Center, Radøy, Norway, formerly location Brampton Township, North Dakota



South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

Norwegian Lutheran Church (Grytviken, South Georgia)

United Kingdom

Norwegian Church, Cardiff
Norwegian Church, Swansea
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List of colonial governors in 1892

This is a list of the governors of colonies, protectorates, or other dependencies in 1892. Where applicable, native rulers are also listed.
Belgium

Congo Free State

Camille-Aimé Coquilhat, Governor of the Congo Free State (1891–1892)
Théophile Wahis, Governor-General of the Congo Free State (1892–1908)



France

French Somaliland – Léonce Lagarde, Governor of French Somaliland (1888–1899)
Riviéres du Sud –

Noël-Eugène Ballay, Lieutenant-Governor of Riviéres du Sud (1891–1892)
Paul Jean François Cousturier, Lieutenant-Governor of Riviéres du Sud (1892–1893)



Portugal

Angola –

Gilherme Auguste de Brito Capelo, Governor-General of Angola (1886–1892)
Jaime Lôbo de Brito Godins, Governor-General of Angola (1892–1893)



United Kingdom

British Virgin Islands – Edward
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Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de Belle-Isle

Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de Belle-Isle (22 September 1684 – 26 January 1761) was a French general and statesman.
Life and career
Born in Villefranche-de-Rouergue, Belle-Isle was the grandson of Nicolas Fouquet, who served as Superintendent of Finances under Louis XIV. His family was in disgrace because of Fouquet’s brash ambition in the eyes of Louis XIV. Determined to blot out his family’s prior disgrace, he entered the army at an early age and was made proprietary colonel of a dragoon regiment in 1708. He rose during the War of the Spanish Succession to the rank of brigadier, and in March 1718 to that of Maréchal de Camp. He was present at the capture of Fuenterrabía in 1718 and of San Sebastián in 1719 during the War of the Quadruple Alliance (1718-1720.)
Aided by the rise of Cardinal Fleury, Belle-Isle was made lieutenant-général, and grew in influence over French military policy. In the War of the Polish Succession he commanded a corps under...

Dead pedal

In an automobile, the dead pedal, often also called the foot rest, is typically a non-moving piece of rubber or metal that the driver is supposed to rest his or her left foot on when driving. Although the dead pedal serves no function in the car, many cars opt to implement it because it provides a number of benefits to the driver. In manual transmission cars the dead pedal is designed to promote a smoother actuation of the clutch by keeping the drivers foot in the same plane as the pedal. Automatic transmission cars can also benefit from the dead pedal because it prevents fatigue by offering a stable inclined surface on which the driver can place his or her foot. Even if a car does not have a dead pedal installed, there are a variety of aftermarket accessories that can be installed.
History
The dead pedal was not a staple component in original design of automobile pedals. Cars such as the original Ford Model T, 1908, did not have dead pedals and had an...

Stavros Xenidis

Stavros Xenidis (Greek: Σταύρος Ξενίδης), (1924 - 2 November 2008) was a Greek actor. He was married to actress Margarita Lambrinou.
Biography
Stavros Xenidis was born in Istanbul, Turkey. He studied acting in Karolos Koun's Theatro Technis and made his theatre début in 1944. His theatre career was closely associated with Kostas Moussouris' theatrical company during the 1950s and the 1960s . As a film actor, he took part in more than 70 movies, mostly in secondary roles; his first film role was in "The Song of Pain" (1953) (greek title: "Το Τραγούδι του Πόνου") and his last was in "Red White" (1993) ("Άσπρο Κόκκινο").
He also appeared in several TV shows since 1971; His last appearance on television was in 1994.
He died in a retirement home in Athens on 2 November 2008, after suffering a number of strokes.
Selected filmography
Cinema
Television
References
External...

Kałuszyn

Kałuszyn [kaˈwuʂɨn] is a small town in Masovian Voivodeship, Poland.
External links

Jewish Community in Kałuszyn on Virtual Shtetl
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Weir's Falls

Weir's Falls is a 3.4 metre high overhang ribbon waterfall found on private property, (private with permission to access), in Flamborough, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Nearby attractions include Bruce Trail, Dundas Valley Conservation Area, Hermitage ruins, Royal Botanical Gardens, Dundurn Castle, Crooks Hollow Conservation Area, Christie Lake Conservation Area.
Directions
From Highway 403 take the Highway 52 (Copetown) exit and head north on Highway 52/ Trinity Road. Turn right onto Governor's Road and then turn left onto Weirs Lane. Cross over the railway tracks. The waterfall is located across from 178 Weir's Lane.
References
External links

Hamilton- "The Waterfall Capital of the World" (www.cityofwaterfalls.ca)
Bruce Trail (www.brucetrail.org)
Vintage Postcards: Waterfalls in and around Hamilton, Ontario

Maps

Hamilton Waterfall Map PDF. (http://map
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Legionnaire (disambiguation)

Legionnaire could refer to:

A member of the French Foreign Legion
A member of the ancient Roman Army
A member of the Iron Guard (The Legion of the Archangel Michael)
The 1998 film Legionnaire
The illness known as Legionnaire's disease
The 1982 video game Legionnaire
The Legionnaire, a passenger train operated by Chicago Great Western Railway
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Unit Interventie Mariniers

The Unit Interventie Mariniers (Marine Intervention Unit, UIM), formerly known as the Bijzondere Bijstands Eenheid (BBE), is an elite Dutch special forces unit, which is specially trained for intervention missions. It consists of a selection of specially trained marines of the Dutch Marine Corps, and it is part of the Maritime Special Operations Forces (MARSOF), which is the maritime counterpart of the Dutch Army's Korps Commandotroepen.
The Unit Interventie Mariniers is a special forces unit that is specialized in counter-terrorism operations. It is able to operate in and outside of the Netherlands, with emphasis on maritime special operations. This also includes long-range reconnaissance, direct action and military assistance operations, both foreign and domestic, often in conjunction with SF units of the Maritime Special Operations Forces (MARSOF).
Similar units are the French GIGN, German GSG 9, British SBS and Irish ARW....

Acker and Evans Law Office

Acker and Evans Law Office (also known as Ogdensburg Bank) is a historic office building located at Ogdensburg in St. Lawrence County, New York. It is a rectangular Greek Revival style structure with a facade of smooth-faced, locally quarried white marble. It was built about 1830 as a bank, then used as a ticket agency, insurance office, express office, and finally as a law office.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
References
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Gabriel Sénac de Meilhan

Gabriel Sénac de Meilhan (May 7, 1736 – August 16, 1803) was a French writer.
Biography
Son of Jean-Baptiste de Sénac, physician to Louis XV, he was born in Versailles. He entered the civil service in 1762; two years later he bought the office of master of requests, and in 1766 further advanced his position by a rich marriage. He was successively intendant of La Rochelle, of Aix-en-Provence and of Valenciennes. In 1776 he became intendant-general for war, but was soon compelled to resign.
He had hoped to be made Minister of Finance, and was disappointed by the nomination of Necker, of whom he became a bitter opponent. He was intimate with the comtesse de Tess, sister of the duc de Choiseul, and in 1781 met Madame de Créquy, then sixty-seven years of age, and began a long friendship with her. His first book was the fictitious Mémoires d'Anne de Gonzague, princesse palatine (1786), thought by many people at the time to be genuine. In the next...

Lincolnshire Poacher cheese

Lincolnshire Poacher is a hard unpasteurised cow's milk cheese that is generally of a cylindrical shape with its rind resembling granite in appearance. It is made on Ulceby Farm, in Lincolnshire, England, by craft cheesemaker Richard Tagg. The cheese is matured between 14 and 24 months, depending on when the milk was collected. Lincolnshire Poacher Cheese supply The Cheese Shop, Louth with all three of its cheeses, both maturities, and also Lincolnshire Red.
Awards

Supreme Champion at the 1996/7 British Cheese Awards
Best British Cheese at the World Cheese Awards in 2001/2
Gold Medals at the British Cheese Awards 2003/4 for both Lincolnshire Poacher and Smoked Lincolnshire Poacher

See also

The Lincolnshire Poacher
List of smoked foods

References
External links

Official website
Local tourist site describes the cheese

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Benington Castle

Benington Castle is a ruined castle in the village of Benington, near Stevenage in Hertfordshire at grid reference TL296236. It is a scheduled ancient monument.
It was built as a motte and bailey fortress in the late 11th or early 12th century, founded by Peter de Valoignes. In 1136, Roger de Valoignes built a stone castle with a keep. In 1177, King Henry II ordered that the tower be demolished but in 1192 the castle was in use again. It was finally destroyed in 1212, after Robert Fitzwalter rebelled against King John. Only the foundations of the keep and some earthworks now remain. In 1832, George Proctor added a neo-Norman gatehouse, summerhouse and curtain wall.
References

Benington Castle 1
Benington Castle 2
Fry, Plantagenet Somerset, The David & Charles Book of Castles, David & Charles, 1980. ISBN 0-7153-7976-3

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Phuz

Phuz is a Filipino-American rock pop indie band from Houston, Texas, US. The band has been through multiple changes in style and currently performs music with a plush, ambient sound influenced by rock, R&B, and pop.
Phuz was founded by brothers Casapaos and Ken Sarmiento. Dea joined in 1995 as a backup vocalist, followed by Ruggiero in 1999. The following year, Phuz overhauled its lineup and musical direction. In addition to frequent shows in Houston, Phuz toured nationally, playing shows with Sade, India.Arie, Tony Bennett and k.d. lang, as well as Sting, Blue Man Group, Alanis Morissette, Natalie Merchant, and Alicia Keys.
The band has played several times on KPFT 90.1 FM radio's eclectic "Soular Grooves" show. Phuz was also featured in The Houston Press and received two nominations in the newspaper's 2001 Music Awards, including Best New Act and Best Funk/R&B. They eventually won the "Critic's Pick" award in the latter category. They had their national...

Kim Ran-kyung

Ran-Kyung Kim (born 16 December 1992) is a South Korean female professional golfer playing on the LPGA of Korea Tour.
References
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The Wonder Spot

The Wonder Spot was a tourist attraction located off US Route 12 in Lake Delton, Wisconsin from 1949 to 2006. A popular side trip for visitors to nearby Wisconsin Dells, the Wonder Spot was advertised as a place "where the laws of natural gravity seem to be repealed." Visitors walked down a ravine into a cabin, where seemingly no one could stand up straight, water flowed backwards, and chairs could be balanced on two legs. Guides attributed the effects to igneous rock formations, but in truth, the cabin was built perpendicular to a hillside, and the purported gravitational anomalies were merely optical illusions.
Louis Dauterman of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin opened the Wonder Spot in 1952, and Bill Carney purchased it in 1988. According to Carney, as many as 50,000 visitors came to the site each year during the mid-1990s. However, when more sophisticated theme parks and water parks in the area began threatening his business, Carney decided to sell the site to the village of...

History of California wine

California wine has a long and continuing history, and in the late twentieth century became recognized as producing some of the world's finest wine. While wine is made in all fifty U.S. states, up to 90% (by some estimates) of American wine is produced in the state. California would be the fourth largest producer of wine in the world if it were an independent nation.
History
Early years
The first recorded planting of a vineyard was by the Jesuit Missionary Eusebio Francisco Kino at Misión San Bruno in Baja California in 1683, but since the mission at San Bruno was abandoned about a year and a half after its founding, the vineyard likely never matured or was harvested, and the site is now in Mexico. In 1779, Franciscan missionaries under the direction of Father Junípero Serra planted California's first sustained vineyard at Mission San Diego de Alcalá. Father Serra founded eight other California missions before his death in 1784, these initially...

2011 Aegon GB Pro-Series Bath – Women's Doubles

This is the first edition of the tournament.
Tímea Babos and Anne Kremer won the tournament after defeating Marta Domachowska and Katarzyna Piter 7–6(5), 6–2 in the final.
Seeds
Draw
Key
Draw
External links

Main Draw
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KSBO-CA

KSBO-CA is a low-power Class A television station in San Luis Obispo, California, broadcasting locally in analog on UHF channel 42 as an affiliate of Azteca America. Founded on December 29, 1994, the station is owned by Una Vez Mas.
Previously, this station was KPXA-LP, running programs from the PAX TV network.
Rebroadcasters
External links

Una Vez Mas official site
Azteca America official site
Query the FCC's TV station database for KSBO-CA
Query the FCC's TV station database for KDFS-CA
Query the FCC's TV station database for KLDF
Query the FCC's TV station database for KZDF
Query the FCC's TV station database for KASC
Query the FCC's TV station database for KPAO

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Rhos-y-garth

Rhos-y-garth is a hamlet in the community of Llanilar, Ceredigion, Wales, which is 68.7 miles (110.6km) from Cardiff and 174.7 miles (281.1km) from London. Rhos-y-garth is represented in the National Assembly for Wales by Elin Jones (Plaid Cymru) and the Member of Parliament is Mark Williams (Liberal Democrats).

References
See also

List of localities in Wales by population


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1816

Year 1816 (MDCCCXVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar. This year was known as the 'Year Without a Summer' because of low temperatures in the northern hemisphere, the result of the Mount Tambora volcanic eruption in Indonesia in 1815.
Events
January–March

January 6 – Tsar Alexander I of Russia signs an order for the expulsion of the Jesuits from St. Petersburg and Moscow.
January 7 – Sir Humphry Davy tests the Davy lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery.
January 17 – Fire nearly destroys the city of St. John's, Newfoundland.
February 8 – The Governorate of Estonia of the Russian Empire emancipates its peasants from serfdom.
February 10 – Friedrich Karl Ludwig, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, dies and is succeeded by Friedrich Wilhelm, his son and founder
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New Year Pass

New Year Pass (83°28′S 160°40′E) is a low snow pass between the Moore Mountains and Mount Weeks in Queen Elizabeth Range. This pass was used on New Year's Day, 1958, by a New Zealand party of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1956–58) to get from Marsh Glacier to January Col, Prince Andrew Plateau, overlooking Bowden Neve.
 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "New Year Pass" (content from the Geographic Names Information System)....

Scotch Irish Township, Rowan County, North Carolina

Scotch Irish Township is one of fourteen townships in Rowan County, North Carolina, United States. The township had a population of 1,820 according to the 2010 census.
Geographically, Scotch Irish Township occupies 35.22 square miles (91.2 km2) in northwestern Rowan County. There are no incorporated municipalities in Scotch Irish Township. The township's northern boundary is with Davie County and its western border is with Iredell County.
Residents are served by the Rowan–Salisbury School System.
Adjacent townships

Calahaln Township, Davie County – north
Cleveland – south
Cool Springs, Iredell County – west
Turnersburg, Iredell County – northwest
Unity – east

References
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Rauno Alliku

Rauno Alliku (born 2 March 1990) is an Estonian professional footballer, who plays in Estonian Meistriliiga, for FC Flora Tallinn. He plays the position of striker or winger.
Club career
On 31 July 2008, Alliku was signed by Flora and was immediately sent on loan to Vaprus, where he played until the next summer. Then he was moved to Flora's farm club Tulevik to gain experience in the Meistriliiga. In the 2010 season he played 28 games and scored 8 times in the league for Flora.
Statistics
As of 10 August 2011.
International career
In December 2010, Alliku was called up by Tarmo Rüütli for the Estonia squad to play China and Qatar. On 18 December 2010, he started the match against China, getting his first cap for Estonia alongside FC Flora Tallinn teammates Markus Jürgenson and Marko Meerits.
Honours
Player

FC Flora Tallinn

Estonian Top Division: 2010
Estonian


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Barbus harterti

Barbus harterti is a ray-finned fish species in the family Cyprinidae. It is found only in Morocco.
Its natural habitat is rivers. It is threatened by habitat loss.
The taxonomy and systematics of the Maghreb barbs are subject to considerable dispute. Some authors include B. paytonii in B. harterti, while others consider them distinct.
References

Crivelli, A.J. 2005. Barbus harterti. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 19 July 2007.
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Brandon, Lincolnshire

Brandon is a small village in South Kesteven, south Lincolnshire, England, part of the civil parish of Hough-on-the-Hill.
The village is also part of the ecclesiastical parish of Hough on the Hill, part of the Loveden Deanery of the Diocese of Lincoln. There is a chapel of ease dedicated to St John the Evangelist, linked to the main church at Hough.
Geography
It is situated between Stubton and Caythorpe, just west of the River Brant, from which the village gets its name. The East Coast Main Line is just over 1 mile (1.6 km) to the south-west.
The village's placename is likely derived in part from the name of the river, and thus means "hill by the River Brant". The placename is thus composed of two Old English elements: brant (meaning "steep", "deep") and dūn (meaning "hill").[1]
History
A notable building is Brandon Old Hall, built in the 16th century. Built of coursed dark gold bands of ironstone, light...

Pendle Water

Pendle Water is a minor river in Lancashire.
Rising on Pendle Hill, Pendle Water cuts a deep valley between Barley Moor and Spence Hill, where it feeds the two Ogden Reservoirs, before making its way eastward through Roughlee, collecting Blacko Water, draining the valley near Wheathead, at Water Meetings - 1 mile west of Blacko, then moving south by Higherford and Barrowford, where it is joined by Colne Water.
Pendle Water subsequently runs by the Lomeshaye Industrial Estate west of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal to its confluence with the River Calder in Reedley Hallows northwest of Burnley.
The water was once supplier to Burnley Water Treament Works which is situated on Wood End Lane....

Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation

Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation (TIDCO) is a governmental agency in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. It is responsible for the development of industries in the state by formulating policies that help industry growth, and by establishing industrial estates. It often partners with TANSIDCO (Small Industries Development Corporation). TIDCO has established the Tidel Park in Chennai and Tidel Park in Coimbatore for information technology companies, and Ticel Park in southern Chennai(near to Tidel Park) for chemical companies.
History
TIDCO was registered under the Companies Act, 1956, as a public limited company with the Registrar of Companies, Tamil Nadu, on 21 May 1965.
Objectives
TIDCO was established with the following objectives

To plan and execute projects for setting up of industries or developing lines of production.
To establish and administer industries for production of plant, machinery, tools
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Otterburn (Bedford, Virginia)

Otterburn is a Palladian-influenced Greek Revival house near Bedford in Bedford County, Virginia. The house was built in 1828 for Benjamin A. and Sally Camm McDonald, but burned in 1841 and was reconstructed by 1843. At this time the final form of the house was created with the introduction of a loggia, cross-gable roof and Greek Revival detailing. The house was the seat of a 1,651-acre (668 ha) estate by 1825, with a mill, sawmill, and dependent structures.
After McDonald's death in 1871 the property passed through several owners until 1950, when the house became the Hines Memorial Pythian Home, an orphanage operated by the Knights of Pythias. A detached dormitory was added at this time. The orphanage ceased operations in the early 1960s, but operated for two years in the late 1960s as the Otterburn Academy, a private school formed as a response to desegregation. In later years the property was operated as a rest home for the elderly. The house is being restored....

Eduard Bomhoff

Eduard Jan Bomhoff (born 30 September 1944) is a Dutch Economist and Academic, and was Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport and Deputy Prime Minister in the First Balkenende cabinet.
Personal life
Bomhoff was born in Amsterdam and lived there until 1957, when his family moved to Leiden. His father was a minister and, later, a professor of literature.
Bomhoff attended the Stedelijk Gymnasium Leiden and went to university in the same city. After earning his doctorate in economics from the Netherlands School of Economics (now the Erasmus University), Bomhoff worked as a lecturer in monetary policy there. He earned the rank of professor in 1981, and served as director of the Rochester-Erasmus Executive MBA program from 1986 to 1989. He later served as a professor of finance at the Nyenrode Business University.
In addition to his academic career, Bomhoff founded the NYFER institute in 1995, an economic research institute designed as an...

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Bianca Jackson

Bianca Butcher (also Jackson) is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Patsy Palmer. The character was introduced by executive producer Leonard Lewis and appeared initially from 1993 to 1999, when Palmer opted to leave. In 2002 executive producer John Yorke brought the character back for a special spin-off show. She returned to EastEnders as a full-time character in April 2008, reintroduced by executive producer Diederick Santer. Palmer took maternity leave in 2010, and Bianca was temporarily written out from 21 January to 15 December 2011. Palmer took another break from the show in 2012, with Bianca absent from the series from 27 April to 27 November 2012. Palmer quit EastEnders in 2014, and Bianca departed on 12 September 2014.
During her first run on the show during the 1990s, she was known for her bizarre sense of style, her sharp tongue, fiery temper and for screaming "Rickaaaaaaay!" at her husband. Bianca has...

Emmett Chapman

Emmett Chapman (born September 28, 1936) is a jazz musician best known as the inventor of the Chapman Stick and maker of Chapman Stick family of instruments.
Originally a guitarist, Chapman began recording and performing beginning in the late 1960s. He played with several different popular artists, including Jazz guitarist Barney Kessell and popular singer/songwriter Tim Buckley, before taking his own band on the road.
In 1969, Chapman modified his homemade nine-string "Freedom Guitar" to accommodate his "Free Hands" tapping method. While some guitarists had done two-handed tapping with the fingers of the right hand parallel to the strings, Chapman's method had the fingers of both hands perpendicular to the strings. This culminated in the creation of the Electric Stick, which he later named the Chapman Stick. He founded his company, Stick Enterprises in 1974, and has made more than 6,000 instruments since then. Chapman holds 14 patents for various aspects of the...

The Origin of Painting

The Origin of Painting is an interactive luminous graffiti, shadow wall and electromagnetic sound installation created and exhibited by art group Disinformation. The installation is titled after "The Maid of Corinth, or The Origin of Painting" depicted by the painter Joseph "Wright of Derby" in 1782 (Paul Mellon Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington). Joseph Wright depicted a theme suggested to him by the myth described in William Hayley's poem "An Essay on Painting", in which a woman sketched around the outline of the shadow cast by her departing lover in lamp light against a wall... "Inspired by love, the soft Corinthian maid, Her graceful lover's sleeping form portray'd..." (William Hayley 1778).
The resemblance of its imagery to silhouettes left by the atomic flashes at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the image of mortality that visitors see reflected in the act of separating from their fading shadows, cause "The Origin of Painting" to function as an active...

Ronald Ribman

Ronald Burt Ribman (born May 28, 1932) is an American author, poet and playwright.
Biography
Ribman was born in Sydenham Hospital in New York City to Samuel M. Ribman, a lawyer, and Rosa (Lerner) Ribman. He attended public school in Brooklyn, and graduated P.S. 188 in 1944. Ribman attended Mark Twain Jr. High School, graduating in 1947, and Abraham Lincoln H.S., graduating in 1950. Ribman is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, receiving his bachelor's degree in 1954, his master's degree in 1958, and his Ph.D. in 1962. In August 1967, he married Alice Rosen, a registered nurse. The Ribmans have two children, James and Elana.
Ribman served in the United States Army from 1954 to 1956. Following his military service, Ribman worked as a coal broker for the J.E. Ribman Coal Co of Johnstown, PA from 1956 to 1957. Ribman was an Assistant Professor of English Literature at Otterbein College from 1962 to 1963, and left academia to focus on...

Telekom Romania

Telekom Romania (formerly known as Romtelecom and Cosmote România) is a Romanian telecommunications company headquartered in Bucharest. It is the result of the brand merger between the formerly Greek-owned telecommunications companies of Romtelecom and Cosmote. In September 2014, in order to reflect the changes, Romtelecom and Cosmote România changed their respective legal names to Telekom Romania Communications SA (replacing Romtelecom SA) and Telekom Romania Mobile Communications SA (replacing Cosmote Romanian Mobile Telecommunications SA).
Romtelecom
Romtelecom was founded in 1991, after several reforms that divided the former Communist era Posts, Telephone and Telegraph Romania into the Romanian Post, Romtelecom and Bancpost.
Cosmote
The company launched on the Romanian mobile telephony market in 1998 as Cosmorom. In 2005, Cosmorom was rebranded as Cosmote România. At the end of 2013, Cosmote România...

Kyle of Lochalsh Line

The Kyle of Lochalsh Line is a primarily single track railway line in the Scottish Highlands, running from Dingwall to Kyle of Lochalsh. The route is sparsely populated, but the scenery is beautiful and can be quite dramatic, the Kyle line having been likened to a symphony in three parts: pastoral, mountain and sea. Many of the passengers on the trains are tourists but one can also expect to meet locals visiting Inverness for shopping, and commuters. All services are provided by First ScotRail and run to Inverness. To maintain the passenger link beyond Inverness, one daily train runs through to Elgin (in the current 2013-14 timetable) having in the past come from Glasgow, Edinburgh or Aberdeen. The line has some sections of double track north of Dingwall and all trains are diesel-powered, since none of the line is electrified.
History
The route was built in three sections:

Inverness and Ross-shire Railway between Inverness and Dingwall
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Adelpha plesaure

Adelpha plesaure, common name Pleasure Sister, is a species of butterfly of the Nymphalidae family.
Description
Adelpha plesaure has a wingspan reaching about 48 millimetres (1.9 in). The uppersides of the wings are generally deep brown. The anterior wings have a large orange patch, while the hindwings are crossed by a broad white band. The undersides are pale chocolate colour, crossed by several white bands, with brown edges.
Distribution
This species can be found in Guyana, Bolivia and Brazil.
Subspecies

Adelpha plesaure plesaure (Brazil)
Adelpha plesaure phliassa (Godart, 1824) (French Guyana, Surinam, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia)
Adelpha plesaure pseudomalea Hall, 1938 (Venezuela)
Adelpha plesaure symona Kaye, 1925 (Trinidad)

References

Funet

External links

Adelpha plesaure
Neotropical
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Yurt

A yurt is a portable, bent dwelling structure traditionally used by nomads in the steppes of Central Asia as their home. The structure comprises a crown or compression wheel, usually steam bent, supported by roof ribs which are bent down at the end where they meet the lattice wall (again, steam bent). The top of the wall is prevented from spreading by means of a tension band which opposes the force of the roof ribs. The structure is usually covered by layers of fabric and sheep's wool felt for insulation and weatherproofing.
Etymology and synonyms

Yurt - originally from a Turkic word referring to the imprint left in the ground by a moved yurt, and by extension, sometimes a person's homeland, kinsmen, or feudal appanage. The term came to be used in reference to the physical tent-like dwellings only in other languages. In modern Turkish the word "yurt" is used as the synonym of homeland or a dormitory. In Russian the structure is called "yurta" (юрта
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Aberdeen East End F.C.

Aberdeen East End F.C. are a Scottish football club from the city of Aberdeen. Members of the Scottish Junior Football Association, they currently play in the SJFA North Division One. The club are based at New Advocates Park, 500 metres from Pittodrie Stadium, home of Aberdeen F.C., and their colours are black and gold.
Honours

North East Premier Division winners: 1977–78
Aberdeen & District Junior League winners: 1926–27, 1933–34
North Division One winners: 2006–07
North East First Division winners: 1984–85, 1986–87, 1992–93
Archibald Cup: 1927–28, 1929–30, 1933–34, 1976–77, 1977–78, 1978–79, 1993–94
McLeman Cup: 1926–27, 1929–30, 1954–55, 1965–66
Duthie (Acorn Heating) Cup: 1904–05, 1906–07, 1922–23, 1927–28, 1929–30, 1931–32, 1966–67
North East League Cup: 1989–90
Aberdeen & District Junior League Cup: 1925–26
Morrison Trophy: 1974–75, 1998–99, 2006–07
Aberdeen
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Anson Burlingame

Anson Burlingame (November 14, 1820 – February 23, 1870) was an American lawyer, legislator, and diplomat, born in New Berlin, Chenango County, New York. In 1823 his parents (Joel Burlingame and Freelove Angell) took him to Ohio, and about ten years afterwards to Michigan. Between 1838 and 1841 he studied at the Detroit branch of the University of Michigan, and in 1846 graduated from Harvard Law School. On June 3, 1847 he married Jane Cornelia Livermore. They had sons Edward Livermore Burlingame (born 1848) and Walter Angell Burlingame (born 1852), as well as a daughter Gertrude Burlingame (born 1856).
Early career
He practiced law in Boston, and won a wide reputation by his speeches for the Free Soil Party in 1848. He was a member of the Massachusetts constitutional convention in 1853, of the state senate from 1853 to 1854, and of the United States House of Representatives from 1855 to 1861, being elected for the first term as a Know Nothing and afterwards...

Skjervøya

Skjervøya (Northern Sami: Skiervá) is an island in the municipality of Skjervøy in Troms county, Norway. The island lies to the east of the island of Kågen and south of Laukøya. The Kvænangen fjord lies to the east of the island. The village of Skjervøy is the main population centre on the 11.7-square-kilometre (4.5 sq mi) island. Fishing is one of the main industries on the island. Skjervøya is connected to the mainland by a bridge and then a tunnel. The Skjervøy Bridge connects the island to Kågen island to the west. The undersea Maursund Tunnel the connects Kågen to the mainland.
See also

List of islands of Norway

References
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Bork (comics)

Bork is a fictional character, a superhero in the DC Comics universe. Created by Bob Haney and Neal Adams, the character first appeared in Brave and the Bold series 1 #81 (December 1968) and was later re-introduced in JLA #61/2 (February 2002).
Fictional character biography
Early years
Carl Andrew Bork was a criminal dock worker from Gotham City who went by the nickname King of the Docks. After a shipboard theft in the South Pacific during which he saved a young native boy from drowning, he discovers Desolation Island. In thanks for Bork's rescue of the young boy, the Desolation Island natives give him a 'magic' statue which eventually transforms him, and makes him invulnerable to physical harm. The Flash found the statue on Desolation Island and tried to destroy it, but all his attempts failed until he was able to throw it into the sun. Once the statue was destroyed Bork's invulnerability disappeared....

Sorkh Geriveh

Sorkh Geriveh (Persian: سرخ گريوه‎, also Romanized as Sorkh Gerīveh; also known as Sorkh Chārī, Sorkh Geryeh, and Surkhchari) is a village in Shohada Rural District, Yaneh Sar District, Behshahr County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 342, in 98 families.
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United States – New Zealand Council

The United States – New Zealand Council (US–NZ Council) is an independent non-profit, non-partisan organisation dedicated to promoting a strong bilateral relationship between the United States and New Zealand. It is the premier private organisation in the United States engaged in encouraging the expansion of trade, investment and commercial ties between the two countries and in the Asia-Pacific region and is a well-recognised source of information and support for American companies seeking business opportunities there.
History
The US-NZ Council was founded by Anne Martindell, a former United States Ambassador to New Zealand in 1986. The Council was designed to promote a better understanding of New Zealand in the United States, and to foster communication, friendship and co-operation between the two countries.
This came at a time when the US–NZ relationship was most strained following the New Zealand government's decision to bar all nuclear powered...

Umbilical region

The umbilical region, in the anatomists' abdominal pelvic nine-region scheme, is the area surrounding the umbilicus (navel). This region of the abdomen contains part of the stomach, the head of the pancreas, the duodenum, a section of the transverse colon and the lower aspects of the left and right kidney. The upper three regions, from left to right, are the left hypochondriac, epigastric, and right hypochondriac regions. The middle three regions, from left to right, are the left lumbar, umbilical, and right lumbar regions. The bottom three regions, from left to right, are the left inguinal, hypogastric, and right inguinal regions.
External links

Abdominal Viscera Basics - Page 1 of 10 anatomy module at med.umich.edu

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Kannur University

Kannur University was established in 1996 to provide development of higher education in Kasaragod, Kannur, and Wayanad districts of Kerala, India. It was established after the passing of Act No. 22 of 1996 of the Kerala Legislative Assembly. A university by the name of "Malabar University" had come into existence even earlier by the passing of an ordinance by the Governor of Kerala, on 9 November 1995.
Kannur University was inaugurated on 2 March 1996 by the Hon. Chief Minister of Kerala. The objective of the Kannur University Act, 1996 was to establish in the state of Kerala a teaching, residential and affiliating university to provide for the development of higher education in Kasargod and Kannur revenue Districts and the Mananthavady Taluk of Wayanad District.
Kannur University is a multi-campus university, at Kannur, Kasargod, Mananthavady, Payyannur, Thalassery, and Kanhangad.
Departments

Kannur University includes the following
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Kikomdan

Kikomdan (Persian: كيكمدان‎, also Romanized as Kīkomdān; also known as Kīkomdān-e Pā’īn) is a village in Doshman Ziari Rural District, Doshman Ziari District, Mamasani County, Fars Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 39, in 12 families.
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Anwar Mohamed Boudjakdji

Anwar Mohamed Boudjakdji (born September 1, 1976 in Tlemcen, Algeria) is an Algerian football player who plays as a midfielder for WA Tlemcen in the Algerian Championnat National.
National team statistics
Honours

Won the Algerian League once with JS Kabylie in 2006
Won the Arab Champions League once with WA Tlemcen in 1998
Won the Algerian Cup once with WA Tlemcen in 1998
Has 12 caps for the Algerian National Team

References

Anwar Mohamed Boudjakdji at National-Football-Teams.com
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Turkowice, Greater Poland Voivodeship

Turkowice [turkɔˈvit͡sɛ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Turek, within Turek County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It lies approximately 4 kilometres (2 mi) south of Turek and 118 km (73 mi) south-east of the regional capital Poznań.
The village has a population of 776.
References
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Hartsville Post Office

Hartsville Post Office, also known as the Hartsville Memorial Library and Hartsville Museum, is a historic post office building located at Hartsville, Darlington County, South Carolina. It was built in 1930, and designed under the supervision of James A. Wetmore, Office of the Supervising Architect, United States Department of the Treasury. It is a one-story, five bay, brick Colonial Revival style building. It has a rectangular plan and flat roof with parapet. The symmetrical façade features large arched window openings with decorative keystones. This building served as Hartsville’s post office until 1963, when a new post office was built; since that time it has housed the Hartsville Memorial Library.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.
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Herm Winningham

Herman Son Winningham (born December 1, 1961 in Orangeburg, South Carolina) is a former professional baseball player. He played all or part of nine seasons in Major League Baseball, primarily as a center fielder, for the New York Mets, Montreal Expos, Cincinnati Reds and Boston Red Sox.
Drafted by the New York Mets in the 1st round of the 1981 amateur draft, Winningham made his major league debut with the Mets on September 1, 1984. At one time a highly regarded prospect in the New York Mets chain, he was a part of the Gary Carter trade, along with Hubie Brooks, Floyd Youmans and Mike Fitzgerald. His talents never caught up to his statistics as he was primarily a reserve outfielder for most of his career. His final game was with the Boston Red Sox on October 3, 1992.
Winningham was a member of the Cincinnati Reds team that defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 1990 National League Championship Series and the Oakland Athletics in the 1990 World Series. In the last...

Jason Snell (footballer)

Jason Snell (born 27 July 1977) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong in the Australian Football League (AFL).
When Snell arrived at Geelong from the Eastern Ranges, it was as a midfielder but he was often used up forward in the AFL. The 34th pick of the 1995 AFL Draft, he kicked five goals in a quarter against Port Adelaide in 1997 and put together 16 games in 1998. He played all but one game in 1999 and the following season averaged 15.60 disposals.
After starting the 2001 AFL season, with a 22 disposal and two goal effort in a win over the West Coast Eagles, Snell's career came to an end two rounds later when he severely injured his leg. His injury, sustained against Melbourne at the MCG, was so serious that the bone pierced the skin, he got up and screamed for the trainer. Snell had to have his left ankle fused and announced his retirement in 2002 after being told he would never be able to run again.
Following his football career...

The Christmas Shoes (song)

"The Christmas Shoes" is a Christmas-themed song by the Christian vocal group NewSong. The song was released through Benson Records as a bonus track on their 2000 album Sheltering Tree, and it reached No. 31 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. "The Christmas Shoes" spent one week at No. 1 on the Adult Contemporary chart and No. 42 on the Hot 100 chart. It was written by Eddie Carswell and Leonard Ahlstrom.
The song is apparently based on an email chain letter passed around in the 90's called "The Golden Slippers."
Content
The song recounts the events experienced by a narrator completing the last of his gift-shopping on Christmas Eve.
In the checkout aisle, a young boy is ahead of him, wishing to purchase a pair of expensive shoes for his terminally ill mother, explaining to the cashier that he hasn't much time remaining before she finally succumbs to the undisclosed illness and that he wants her to appear presentable before...

Peggy Cummins

Peggy Cummins (born 18 December 1925) is a retired Welsh-born Irish actress, best known for her performance in Joseph H. Lewis' Gun Crazy (1949), playing a trigger-happy femme fatale who robs banks with her lover (played by John Dall).
Early life
She was born Augusta Margaret Diane Fuller in Prestatyn, Denbighshire, Wales. She was born in Wales—but that particular locale was but an accident. Her Irish parents happened to be there and a storm kept them from returning to their home in Dublin.
Peggy lived most of her early life in Dublin where she was educated and later in London. Her mother was actress Margaret Cummins (1889–1973), who played such film roles as Anna in Smart Woman (1948) and Emily in The Sign of the Ram. In 1938 actor Peter Brock noticed Cummins at a Dublin tram stop and introduced her to Dublin's Gate Theatre Company. She then appeared on the London stage in the title role of Alice in Wonderland...

Leominster by-election, 1876

The Leominster by-election was a by-election held on 15 February 1876 for the British House of Commons constituency of Leominster in Herefordshire.
The by-election was caused by the resignation on 8 February 1876 of the serving Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP), Richard Arkwright. After a close-fought campaign, the result was a gain for the Liberal candidate, Thomas Blake, with a majority of 85 over the Conservative, Charles Spencer Bateman Hanbury Kincaid-Lennox, brother of Lord Bateman. This came as something of a surprise as no Liberal had been elected to the constituency for the previous 25 years.
Votes
References

Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "L" (part 2)

See also

List of United Kingdom by-elections
Leominster constituency

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Manuel Octavio Bermúdez

Manuel Octavio Bermúdez Estrada, a.k.a "El Monstruo de los Cañaduzales" (The Monster of the Cane Fields) (born 1961) is a Colombian rapist and serial killer. He confessed to killing 21 children in remote areas of Colombia.
Biography
Manuel Octavio Bermúdez was born in Trujillo, Valle del Cauca, Colombia in 1961 and was orphaned after birth. He was adopted by an abusive mother who threw him off a balcony, breaking his hand and foot. This gave him a permanent limp. He was given to another family in the city of Palmira. His new parents were alcoholics and his father was described as abusive. Bermudez later had several kids of his own.
Bermúdez raped and killed at least 21 children in several towns of Valle del Cauca from 1999 to 2003. He had worked as an ice cream vendor and would lure his victims to corn fields with offers of money for picking corn. Bermúdez would then rape and strangle them to death while sometimes injecting them with a syringe to drowsy...

James E. Held

James E. Held was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.
Biography
Held was born on February 16, 1938 in Racine, Wisconsin. He graduated from St. Catherine's High School, Marquette University, and the Georgetown University Law Center. He practiced law and worked for the Milwaukee County Executive office. Held died on October 15, 1967.
Career
Held was elected to the Assembly in 1966 and remained a member until his death. He was a Republican.
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Mordellistena stoeckleini

Mordellistena stoeckleini is a species of beetle in the Mordellistena genus that is in the Mordellidae family. It was described by Ermisch in 1956.
References
External links

Coleoptera. BugGuide.

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Voces en Función

Voces en Función (Voices in Performance) was a Puerto Rican singing competition series and Variety show hosted by Puerto Rican singer Lou Briel, televised from 1995 to 2001 on PBS member station WIPR-TV & WIPM-TV.
Format
The potential contestants had to try out to be on the show, then the ones selected would be presented on the show with two other contestants as well, for a total of three per program and 39 for the series. A jury, composed of all-rounders, selected by cognition, would secretly vote for their favorites during 10 weeks, and choose the 20 semi-finalists. The latter would then compete again in the Semi Finals, separated in two groups of 10, for two weeks, and only 10 contestants would make it to the end.
The final gala called, Festi-Voces (Festi-Voices), would be the last one of the season, composed of 13 weeks each, and it would be broadcast in a two hour special. The winner, would receive a trophy, a cash prize, and his or...

2014 San Marino and Rimini's Coast motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2014 San Marino and Rimini's Coast motorcycle Grand Prix was the thirteenth round of the 2014 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It was held at the Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli in Misano Adriatico on 14 September 2014.
Classification
MotoGP
Moto2
Moto3
References

"MotoGP Official Website". Retrieved 1 September 2014. 


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Rock Island Line

"Rock Island Line" is an American blues/folk song first recorded by John Lomax in 1934 as sung by inmates in an Arkansas State Prison, and later popularized by Lead Belly. Many versions have been recorded by other artists, most significantly the world-wide hit version in the mid-1950s by Lonnie Donegan. The song is ostensibly about the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad.
The chorus to the old song reads:

The verses tell a humorous story about a train operator who smuggled pig iron through a toll gate by claiming all he had on board was livestock.
History
The earliest known version of "Rock Island Line" was written in 1929 by Clarence Wilson, a member of the Rock Island Colored Booster Quartet, a singing group made up of employees of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad at the Biddle Shops freight yard in Little Rock, Arkansas. The lyrics to this version are largely different...

Alpine Lake / Ata Puai

Alpine Lake / Ata Puai is a small lake in the West Coast Region of New Zealand. The lake is located 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) south of Okarito and 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) west of the larger Lake Mapourika. "Alpine" is something of a misnomer as the lake is only 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) from the sea and at an elevation of less than 100m.
References
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Tychy railway station

Tychy railway station is a railway station in Tychy, Poland. As of 2012, it is served by PKP Intercity (Ekspres and TLK services), Przewozy Regionalne (local and InterRegio services) and Koleje Śląskie. The station was opened in 1868
References

Tychy railway station at kolej.one.pl

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Abruzzo (wine)

Abruzzo (Abruzzi) is an Italian wine region located in the mountainous central Italian region of Abruzzo along the Adriatic Sea. It is bordered by the Molise wine region to the south, Marche to the north and Lazio to the west. Abruzzo's rugged terrain, 65% of which is mountainous, help to isolate the region from the winemaking influence of the ancient Romans and Etruscans in Tuscany but the area has had a long history of wine production.
Today more than 42 million cases of wine are produced annually in Abruzzo, making it the fifth most productive region in Italy, but only 21.5% of which is made under the Denominazione di origine controllata (DOC) designation. The majority of the region's wine (more than two-thirds) is produced by co-operatives or sold in bulk to negociants in other Italian wine regions in Tuscany, Piedmont and the Veneto for blending. The most notable wine of the region is Montepulciano d'Abruzzo produced by the Montepulciano grape...

Edmonton Rustlers

The Edmonton Rustlers were a women's ice hockey team that competed during the Great Depression.
Monarchs rivalry
In 1933, the Edmonton Monarchs suffered their first loss in four years at the hands of the newly formed Rustlers team. The members of the Rustlers were aged 15 to 18 years. During the entire year, the Rustlers were undefeated in regular season and post season play versus the Monarchs.
Defeat of Preston
In winter 1933, Lady Bessborough, the wife of Governor General of Canada Lord Bessborough donated a championship trophy for the Dominion Women’s Amateur Hockey Association. The trophy would be contested between the Edmonton Rustlers and the Preston Rivulettes.
The success of the Edmonton Grads women's basketball team winning the National Basketball Championship in 1932 was essential to the Rustlers gaining support for the National Hockey title.
In the championship game, the Rivulettes were down by a score of 2-0. They came...

Fusanosuke Kuhara

Fusanosuke Kuhara (久原 房之助, Kuhara Fusanosuke, July 12, 1869 - January 29, 1965) was a businessman and politician of Japan.
He was a syndicalist, zaibatsu owner, and mining industrialist.
He was nephew to the Denzaburo Fujita, and brother-in-law to mining leader Gisuke Ayukawa. Born in Hagi, and died in Tokyo. He graduated from Tokyo Commercial School (now Hitotsubashi University) in 1885, and graduated from Keio University in 1889.
As a businessman
Through an investment from his uncle Fujita, Kuhara purchased the Hitachi Mine, formerly the Akasawa Silver Mine, in December 1905, and in two years it grew to become one of the four largest copper mines in Japan at the time. Using the success of this investment, in 1912, Kuhara founded Kuhara Trading Co., Ltd.
In 1915, copper poisoning in the area prompted Kuhara to knock down the shorter, older smoke stack in favour of a chimney 155 metres tall (the tallest chimney...

Barisano da Trani

Barisano da Trani was an Italian sculptor of the 12th century. He is best known for his bronze relief door panels on the doors of churches such as Trani Cathedral (1185) and Monreale Cathedral in Monreale (1179). Barisano da Trani also made relief door panels for churches in Astrano and in Ravello on the Amalfi Coast.
Barisano preferred panels on doors which included religious figures, often making them decorative and symbolic. His carving showed similarities with Nordic sculpture and in some works recalls the Sassanid art of the Middle East.
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List of zombie films

The following is a list of zombie feature films which are popular or with a relatively high budget. Zombies are fictional creatures usually portrayed as reanimated corpses or virally infected human beings. They are commonly enacted as cannibalistic in nature. While zombie films generally fall into the horror genre, some cross over into other genres, such as comedy, science fiction, thriller, or romance. Distinct sub-genres have evolved, such as the "zombie comedy" or the "zombie apocalypse". Zombies are distinct from ghosts, ghouls, mummies, or vampires, so this list does not include films devoted to these types of undead.
Victor Halperin's White Zombie was released in 1932 and is often cited to be the first zombie film. The 1910 film Frankenstein features a reanimated corpse. The 1942 film The Living Ghost is another zombie movie with two examples of artificially created zombie characters.
Films
The films in this category satisfy...

José Antonio Hernando

José Antonio Hernando de Juana (born January 30, 1963) is a retired boxer from Spain, who represented his native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. There he was stopped in the quarterfinals of the lightweight division (– 51 kg) by Puerto Rico's eventual silver medalist Luis Ortiz.
References

Spanish Olympic Committee

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Combined school

Combined School is a term used in the United Kingdom which has begun to lose its original meaning.
When, in 1967, the Plowden Report recommended a change in the structure of primary education in England, it proposed an arrangement of first and middle schools, catering for pupils aged 4–8 and 8-12 respectively. It also proposed the use of the term combined school to refer to those through schools which accepted pupils from age 4 to 12.
Some Local Education Authorities, such as Buckinghamshire introduced a large number of this type of school, but have since adapted their structures such that all such schools are now regular primary schools catering for pupils up to age 11. However, many of the schools have retained their former name as a combined school.
There remains a small number of combined schools, in the original sense, in Poole, Dorset....

Phước Long, Giồng Trôm

Phước Long, Giồng Trôm is a rural commune (xã), of Giồng Trôm District in Bến Tre Province. It is well known for its coconut farms.
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Eozoon canadense

Eozoön canadense (literally, "dawn animal of Canada") is a pseudofossil.
John William Dawson (1865) described the banded structures of coarsely crystalline calcite and serpentine as a gigantic Foraminifera, making it the oldest known fossil. It was found in Precambrian metamorphosed limestone of Canada, at Côte St. Pierre near Grenville (Quebec) in 1863. It was later found in several other localities. Dawson called it "one of the brightest gems in the scientific crown of the Geological Survey of Canada". In 1894, it was shown that the place where it was found was associated with metamorphism (O'Brien, 1970; Adelman, 2007).
Similar Eozoön structures were subsequently found in metamorphosed limestone blocks erupted from Mt. Vesuvius, where high-temperature physical and chemical processes were responsible for their formation (O'Brien, 1970).
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Adelman, J. (2007). "Eozoön: debunking the dawn animal". Endeavor 31 (3)
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Eaglehawk–Inglewood railway line

The Eaglehawk - Inglewood line is a freight only railway in northern Victoria, Australia. It links the Piangil line towards Swan Hill to the Robinvale and Kulwin lines. It was opened in 1876.
Operations
The line operates using the Train Order Working system of safeworking. A crossing loop is provided at Bridgewater. The maximum speed limit is 50 km/h, with all mainline locomotives permitted, albeit with some speed restrictions. The line was booked out of service in May 2007.
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Hydroxyacylglutathione hydrolase

In enzymology, a Hydroxyacylglutathione hydrolase (EC 3.1.2.6) is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction

(R)-S-lactoylglutathione + water glutathione + a 2-hydroxy carboxylate

Hence, this enzyme has two substrate, (R)-S-lactoylglutathione and water, and two products, glutathione and a 2-hydroxy carboxylate. With the common substrate methylglyoxal, the product is D-lactate.
This enzyme belongs to the family of hydrolases, specifically the class of thioester lyases. This enzyme is commonly known as glyoxylase II. This enzyme participates in pyruvate metabolism.
References

Ball JC, Vander Jagt DL (1979). "Purification of S-2-hydroxyacylglutathione hydrolase (glyoxalase II) from rat erythrocytes". Anal. Biochem. 98 (2): 472–7. doi:10.1016/0003-2697(79)90169-6. PMID 496013. 
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