miércoles, 31 de diciembre de 2014

Scali (bank)

The Scali were one of the three leading Florentine banking families in the Middle Ages. Alongside their competitors (Bardi and Peruzzi), they grew from local cloth traders and deposit bankers to international financiers during the 13th century. By the beginning of the 14th century, the Scalis had become the mightiest commercial house in Italy. In 1326, they abruptly went bankrupt and the company disappeared.
The rise of the house of Scali
The Scali or Scala company had been created in the early years of the 13th century and quickly rose to an important position (one member of the family became consul in 1215). They were members the anti-imperial Guelph movement and in 1248 purged their house of its Ghibelline supporters. Their loggia was located close to the Palazzo Bartolini Salimbeni). Even though they were initially involved in textile production and trade, they eventually achieved continental preeminence in the fields of finance and banking....

Gorguiyeh

Gorguiyeh (Persian: گرگوئيه‎, also Romanized as Gorgū’īyeh; also known as Gorgnow’īyeh and Kargū’īyeh) is a village in Bezenjan Rural District, in the Central District of Baft County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 17, in 6 families.
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Amir Hussain

Amir Hussain is a scholar of religion who specializes in the study of Islam. He is the editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, which is the flagship journal for the study of religion. He is also on the editorial boards of four other scholarly journals for the study of religion. In 2005, he joined the Department of Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University, the Jesuit university in Los Angeles. He has done significant publishing work with Oxford University Press, including editing the fourth editions of two of their main textbooks, World Religions: Western Traditions and World Religions: Eastern Traditions. Professor Hussain is also a senior editor for religion for Oxford Handbooks Online. He has written numerous scholarly articles on Islam and Muslims, and is recognized as an authority on Islam in North America. He is a fellow of the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities.
Biography
Born in Lahore, Pakistan, and...

Charles Robert Malden

Charles Robert Malden (9 August 1797 – 23 May 1855), was a nineteenth-century British naval officer, surveyor and educator. He is the discoverer of Malden Island in the central Pacific, which is named in his honour. He also founded Windlesham House School at Brighton, England.
Biography
Malden was born in Putney, Surrey, son of Jonas Malden, a surgeon. He entered British naval service at the age of 11 on 22 June 1809. He served nine years as a volunteer 1st class, midshipman, and shipmate, including one year in the English Channel and Bay of Biscay (1809), four years at the Cape of Good Hope and in the East Indies (1809–14), two and a half years on the North American and West Indian stations (1814–16), and a year and a half in the Mediterranean (1817–18). He was present at the capture of Mauritius and Java, and at the battles of Baltimore and New Orleans.
He passed the examination in the elements of mathematics and the theory of navigation at the Royal Naval...

Rob Partridge

Rob Partridge (born 11 September 1985) is a Welsh professional cyclist from Wrexham, Wales. He represented Wales in the 2006 Commonwealth Games. Inspired after watching the Tour de France on television, he joined the Wrexham Roads Club at an early age. Partridge rode for the Endura Racing team from 2010 to 2012 and rode for the Rapha Condor-Recycling.co.uk team in 2008 and Team Halfords Bikehut in 2009. He was living with the Under 23 GB Squad in Quarrata, Tuscany until June 2007.
He joined Team UK Youth for 2013. When the team folded at the end of the year he moved to the Velosure-Giordana Racing Team for the 2014 season. After one season Partridge was announced as a member of the NFTO squad for the 2015 season.

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^ a b "Robert Partridge". Cycling Website. 
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Joe Starke

Joe Starke (born in Toronto, Ontario) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender whose name was engraved on the Stanley Cup with Chicago in 1934. The NHL says he never played in a single National Hockey League game. However, some sources say he played two games on defense for Chicago Black Hawks in 1934. Starke played minor professional hockey for several years.
External links

Joe Starke's career statistics at The Internet Hockey Database

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Beke, Amasya

Beke is a village in the District of Amasya, Amasya Province, Turkey.
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Digerati

The digerati (or digiterati) are the elite of the computer industry and online communities. The word is a portmanteau, derived from "digital" and "literati", and reminiscent of the earlier coinage glitterati (glitter + literati). Famous computer scientists, tech magazine writers and well-known bloggers are included among the digerati.
The word is used in several related but different ways. It can mean:

Opinion leaders who, through their writings, promoted a vision of digital technology and the Internet as a transformational element in society;
People regarded as celebrities within the Silicon Valley computer subculture, particularly during the dot-com boom years;
Anyone regarded as influential within the digital technology community.

Term history
The first mention of the word Digerati on USENET occurred in 1992, and referred to an article by George Gilder in Upside magazine. According...

Andrej Hebar

Andrej Hebar (born September 7, 1984) is a Slovenian ice hockey player who currently plays in Austrian Hockey League for KHL Medveščak Zagreb. He participated at the 2011 IIHF World Championship as a member of the Slovenia men's national ice hockey team.
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External links

Andrej Hebar's career statistics at EliteProspects.com
Andrej Hebar's career statistics at The Internet Hockey Database

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Hash-based message authentication code

In cryptography, a keyed-hash message authentication code (HMAC) is a specific construction for calculating a message authentication code (MAC) involving a cryptographic hash function in combination with a secret cryptographic key. As with any MAC, it may be used to simultaneously verify both the data integrity and the authentication of a message. Any cryptographic hash function, such as MD5 or SHA-1, may be used in the calculation of an HMAC; the resulting MAC algorithm is termed HMAC-MD5 or HMAC-SHA1 accordingly. The cryptographic strength of the HMAC depends upon the cryptographic strength of the underlying hash function, the size of its hash output, and on the size and quality of the key.
An iterative hash function breaks up a message into blocks of a fixed size and iterates over them with a compression function. For example, MD5 and SHA-1 operate on 512-bit blocks. The size of the output of HMAC is the same as that of the underlying hash function...

The Best of Keane

The Best of Keane is the first official compilation album by British group Keane. It was released on 11 November 2013 through Island Records. The album contains greatest hits from the band's four studio albums, Hopes and Fears, Under the Iron Sea, Perfect Symmetry and Strangeland, "My Shadow" from the Night Train EP, plus two new songs: "Higher Than the Sun" and "Won't Be Broken", written during the Strangeland era. The deluxe version of the album includes a second disc with singles B-sides, and a previously-unreleased track, titled "Russian Farmer's Song".
Background
The purpose of the compilation album is to celebrate the first 10 years of Keane's career, which began with the release of their first commercial single with Fierce Panda Records, "Everybody's Changing", in 2003. It is the first compilation album ever released by the band.
Promotion
The album is promoted by the single "Higher...

Jeff Kenna

Jeffrey Jude "Jeff" Kenna (born 27 August 1970) is an Irish football manager and former player who played as a defender from 1989 until 2009 notably in the Premier League for Southampton and Blackburn Rovers.
He also played for Tranmere Rovers, Wigan Athletic, Birmingham City, Derby County and Kidderminster Harriers. He then went on to manage Galway United and St Patrick's Athletic whilst also being a player. In 2011 he joined the coaching staff of the IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida.
Playing career
Kenna was born in Dublin, but began his club career in England, beginning at Southampton in 1988. He made his debut on 4 May 1991 in a 6–2 league defeat by Derby County at the Baseball Ground. He became a first team regular in the 1992–93 season and remained a fixture in the first team until 15 March 1995, when he moved to Blackburn Rovers for a fee of £1.5 million, playing a part in the run-in to the club's Premier League title that year....

The Third Clue

The Third Clue is a 1934 British crime film directed by Albert Parker and starring Basil Sydney, Molly Lamont, Robert Cochran and Raymond Lovell. Two criminals try to recover loot hidden in an isolated manor house.
Cast

Basil Sydney - Reinhardt Conway
Molly Lamont - Rosemary Clayton
Robert Cochran - Peter Kerrigan
Alfred Sangster - Rupert Clayton
C.M. Hallard - Gabriel Wells
Raymond Lovell - Robinson, the butler
Adela Mavis - Zeta
Frank Atkinson - Lefty
Ernest Sefton - Newman
Ian Fleming - Mark Clayton
Bruce Lester as Derek Clayton
Mabel Terry-Lewis as Mrs. Fuller

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External links

The Third Clue at the Internet Movie Database

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Andrzej Wach

Andrzej Wach is President of Polskie Koleje Państwowe S.A. (Polish State Railways). He replaced previous president, Macieja Męclewskiego, in September 2004. He has worked for Polish railways since 1980, and previously held the position of Chairman in PKP Energetyka.
He received an Electrotechnics degree from Politechnika Warszawska (Warsaw University of Technology) and a degree of Law and Administration from Uniwersytet Warszawski (Warsaw University).
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Calosoma anthracinum

Calosoma anthracinum is a species of ground beetle in the subfamily of Carabinae. It was described by Dejean in 1831.
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Station Lands (Edmonton)

Station Lands will be a multi-use development in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It is being built in a 9.15-acre (37,030 m2) site north of CN Tower once occupied by the old Canadian National rail yard in the downtown of the city. Expected to be completed in 2019 to 2022, it will include four high-rise towers, a multi-story public plaza, and podium space. There will be 2.5 million square feet (230,000 m2) of office, retail, hotel, and residential space. The total cost of the project is estimated to be C$240 million. On December 7, 2007, it was announced that EPCOR Utilities Inc. has entered into a 20-year lease to become the anchor tenant of Tower A (renamed EPCOR Tower), a commercial office tower that was completed in 2011.
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Station Lands

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First White Terror

The first White Terror was started by a group in the south of France calling themselves The Companions of Jehu. They planned a double uprising to coincide with invasions by Great Britain in the west and Austria in the east. The movement was crushed by Lazare Hoche at Quiberon, 21 July 1795.
The White Terror took place in 1795, during the period known as the Thermidorian Reaction, in the aftermath of the Reign of Terror. It was organized by reactionary "Chouan" royalist forces, and was targeted at the radical Jacobins and anyone suspected of supporting them. Throughout France, both real and suspected Jacobins were attacked and often murdered. These "bands of Jesus" dragged suspected terrorists from prisons and murdered them much as alleged royalists had been murdered during the September Massacres of 1792. Just as during the Reign of Terror, trials were held with little regard for due process. In Paris, the Muscadins, gangs of dandyish youths, roamed the streets attacking...

Urethropexy

A Urethropexy is a surgical procedure where support is provided to the urethra.
One form is the "Burch urethropexy".
It is sometimes performed in the treatment of incontinence (particularly stress incontinence).
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Soestduinen

Soestduinen (52°9′N 5°18′E) is a town in the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is a part of the municipality of Soest, and lies about 3 km south of Soest.
In 2001, the town of Soestduinen had 113 inhabitants. The built-up area of the town was 0.07 km², and contained 45 residences.
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^ Statistics Netherlands (CBS), Bevolkingskernen in Nederland 2001 [1]. Statistics are for the continuous built-up area.

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Navantia

Navantia is a Spanish state-owned shipbuilding company, which offers its services to both military and civil sector. It is the fifth largest shipbuilder in Europe, and the ninth largest in the world with shipyards all over Spain.
Company
Navantia, the Spanish shipbuilder, 100% owned by SEPI, the Spanish Government Industrial Holding, is engaged in the design, construction and integration of warships, as well as ship repairs & modernizations. It is also engaged in the design and manufacture of Integrated Platform Management Systems, Fire Control Systems, Command and Control systems, Propulsion Plants and through life support for all its products. Even though its main line of activity is in the naval field, Navantia designs and manufactures systems for the Army and the Air Force.
Navantia has a shiprepair line of activity that goes from regular repairs to refurnishment programmes, including conversions. The company has the facilities and know...

Ko Jong-soo

Ko Jong-Su (Hangul: 고종수, born October 30, 1978) is a football coach and former Korean football player.
Career
He rose to stardom during the 1998 World Cup, along with Lee Dong-Gook, and Ahn Jung-Hwan. He was once called "the greatest technician in Korea," for his pace, skillful free kicks, and his left foot. He can operate in central midfield as well on the left wing. He was traded to Chunnam for the services of Kim Nam-Il who went to Suwon in exchange, but did not renew the contract. He is not a free agent under the regulations. He had no choice but to play for any other team but Chunnam.
In September 2006, he has stated that he has managed to shed over 20 lbs weighing 78 kg whereas he weighed about 76 kg during his heyday. In spite of renewed hopes of his much anticipated return, the latest Ko sighting was in December 2006. Ko was reportedly not in football shape and evaded reporter questions by driving off in a white Mercedes Benz. (But Ko denied...

Rasmus Jönsson

Rasmus Jönsson (born 27 January 1990) is a Swedish footballer currently playing for Danish Superliga club Aalborg Boldspilklub who are defending league champions and cup winners.
Career
Helsingborgs IF
He plays as a striker and got his breakthrough in 2008, scoring four goals in Allsvenskan alongside Henrik Larsson in Helsingborgs IF. Jönsson is commonly called "Sugröret" (The Straw) among his teammates. During the season 2010 in Allsvenskan, Helsingborgs IF Finished in second place just two points short of Malmö FF. Helsingborg however didn't allow this to let them down after a good season and finished it off on a high winning the Svenska Cupen in a final against Hammarby IF with Rasmus scoring the only goal in the game late on. On 29 August 2011, Helsingborgs IF confirmed that a deal had been agreed for Jönsson to join Bundesliga side VfL Wolfsburg on a four-year deal. Jönsson said that he was sad to leave Helsingborg but happy to take...

Breznik

Breznik (Bulgarian: Брезник) is a town in western Bulgaria, 50 km away from Sofia. It is located in Pernik Province and is close to the towns of Bankya and Pernik. It has 4,500 inhabitants. Villages in the municipality include Dushintsi and Velkovtsi.
Breznik was first mentioned in the 11th-century Story of Isaiah and Bulgarian Apocryphal Chronicle as БР(Ѣ)ЗНИКЪ; it was already a city by then. The town was mentioned throughout the 15th-19th centuries, attesting its continuous existence. Its name is derived from the Bulgarian word breznik, referring to a birch forest, from the word for birch, бреза (breza). It is cognate to the Czech placename Březník.
Honour
Breznik Heights on Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica is named after Breznik.
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Eflatun Pınar

Eflatun Pınar (Turkish: Eflatunpınar, "lilac-colored spring") is the name given to a spring which rises up from the ground, creating an oasis and fountain. The spring lies 80 miles west of Konya, and drains into Lake Beyşehir in Anatolian peninsula at ancient Pisidia region. In ancient times a small temple was built here to honor one of the ancient Hittite gods, later interpreted as a shrine to Plato.
Overview
Eflatun Pınar's location near the lake shore corresponds to an almost exact level with other important ruins on the opposite shore, those of Kubadabad Palace, which are Seljuk.
Eflatun Pınar was briefly examined by the University of Oxford archaeologist Dr. Lucia Nixon in her paper on Çatalhöyük, and she makes use of F.W.Hasluck's early-20th century work. The site remains largely unexplored to date. Unfortunately it is currently (spring 2012) being systematically destroyed by Turkish "restoration" work.
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Vasily Vasilyev

Vasily Pavlovich Vasilyev or Wassiljew (Василий Павлович Васильев; 1818-1900) was the preeminent Russian sinologist of the Victorian era.
Vasiliev was born in Nizhny Novgorod and entered the Oriental department of the Kazan University in 1834. It was the first school of Oriental studies in Russia. During a ten years' residence at the Peking Orthodox Mission (1840-50) Vasiliev was able to study a number of obscure Buddhist manuscripts. Back in Russia in 1850, he was offered the chair in Chinese philology at the university of Kazan. He was elected into the Petersburg Academy of Sciences in 1886 and was in charge of the Department of Oriental Studies at the University of St. Petersburg between 1878 and 1893.
Vasiliev's magnum opus is a three-volume history of Buddhism (1857, 1860, 1865). The first volume was quickly translated into German and French. Another important work, Islam in China, did not appear in English until 1958. Some of Vasiliev's most ambitious...

Flying Wedge Pizza

Flying Wedge Pizza Company is a Canadian franchised pizza chain consisting of 20 stores—19 in Metro Vancouver, and 1 in Calgary.
History
Their first restaurant opened on Peace Day 1989 by three University of British Columbia students in Kitsilano, a Vancouver neighbourhood.
Since 1993, Flying Wedge has been volunteering each year with Dreams Take Flight. The franchise has won over 45 local awards.
See also

List of Canadian pizza chains
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Biocrates Life Sciences AG

Biocrates Life Sciences AG is an Austrian company, based in Innsbruck. The company is dedicated to further developing and harnessing a relatively young technology referred to as targeted metabolomics, offering mass spectrometric based standard kits and services, suited primarily for medical research, clinical research, preclinical research, translational research, pharmaceutical research and diagnostics.
History
Foundation and early years
Founded in 2002 in Innsbruck Biocrates became operative in 2003. The founders were three leading university professors from Munich and Innsbruck (Günther Bonn, Hartmut Glossmann, Adelbert Roscher) as well as Bionorica, a German phytocompany. The company was equipped with significant seed grants from national and regional organizations. 2006 Biocrates established its analytical services lab. In 2006, the renowned German MIG Fonds completed a Series A financing, followed by a Series B financing in 2008. 2008 the...

University of Liverpool School of Dentistry

The School of Dentistry at the University of Liverpool is the university's dental school. The dental school is attached to an associated hospital, which contains more than 160 dental units, where students train on NHS patients under supervised practice from dentists.
History
The Liverpool School of Dentistry was founded in 1861, twenty years before the formation of the University of Liverpool in 1881. Originally called the Liverpool Dispensary for Diseases of the Teeth, it was operated by Captain W J Newman, who in his own private clinic devoted three mornings a week to treating patients for free. By 1863 his dental rooms at 82 Russell Street were renamed the Liverpool Dental Hospital. Gradually more dentists joined Newman, offering their service for free.
The school was recognised by the Royal College of Surgeons in 1876, and in 1880, with a growing number of dentists, patients and students, the hospital moved to 50 Mount Pleasant. This was the...

Méddy Lina

Méddy Lina (born January 11, 1986) is a Guadeloupean professional football player.
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Damen Bell-Holter

Damen Bell-Holter (born April 13, 1990) is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for Pertevniyal İstanbul of the Turkish Basketball Second League. He played college basketball at Oral Roberts University.
Professional
Bell-Holter went undrafted in the 2013 NBA draft. On August 7, 2013, he signed with Telekom Baskets Bonn of Germany for the 2013–14 season. However, he was later released by Bronn on August 28, 2013.
On September 30, 2013, he signed with the Boston Celtics. However, he was later waived by the Celtics on October 26, 2013. On October 31, 2013, he was acquired by the Maine Red Claws as an affiliate player.
On July 29, 2014, he signed with BC Körmend of Hungary for the 2014–15 season. He later left before appearing in a game for them. On October 9, 2014, he signed with Pertevniyal İstanbul of the Turkish Basketball Second League.
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External links

Profile at Eurobasket.com
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Orthodox Celts (album)

Orthodox Celts is the debut album by the Serbian Irish folk/Celtic rock band Orthodox Celts released in 1994. It is the only Orthodox Celts album which features only covers of Irish traditional songs.
The album was reissued in 1999.
Tracklist

"Bog Down The Valleye" - 01:55
"Weila Waila" - 02:47
"Irish Rover" - 03:00
"Sonnys" - 02:40
"All For Me Grog" - 2:39
"Poor Old Dicey Riley" - 02:40
"Nancy Whiskey" - 02:43
"Couragie / Fox Hunters" - 03:51
"Gentleman Soldier" - 02:04
"Wild Rover" - 02:51
"The Four Poster Bed / Colonel Rodney" - 02:02
"A Grand Old Team" - 02:06

Personnel

Aleksandar Petrović - vocals
Viktorija Jevtić - vocals
Dejan Lalić - banjo, guitar, vocals
Dušan Živanović - accordion, drums, percussion, vocals
Sava Đustibek - guitar
Ana Đokić - violin
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Ira Flatow

Ira Flatow (/ˈaɪərə ˈfleɪtoʊ/; born March 9, 1949) is a radio and television journalist and author who hosts Public Radio International's popular Science Friday. On TV, he hosted the Emmy Award-winning Newton's Apple, a television science program for children and their families. He hosted the PBS series Big Ideas and has published several books, the most recent titled Present At The Future: From Evolution to Nanotechnology, Candid and Controversial Conversations on Science And Nature.
Personal life
Flatow is a native of New York and currently lives in Connecticut.
Career
In 1965, Flatow began his career in broadcasting working in television at KHD-21 TV at H.Frank Carey High School in Franklin Square, NY. In 1969, Flatow began working in radio at WBFO, in Buffalo, New York, first as a reporter covering Vietnam anti-war demonstrations and riots and then as news director, 1971. During this time, he was working on...

Mount Holm-Hansen

Mount Holm-Hansen (77°36′S 162°11′E) is a prominent mountain rising to 1,920 metres (6,300 ft) between the lower David Valley and Bartley Glacier in the Asgard Range of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1997 after Osmund Holm-Hansen, a plant physiologist, who, working in the 1959–60 season, was one of the first American scientists to visit and conduct research in both Taylor Valley and Wright Valley. Holm-Hansen was a Research Biologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography from 1962, and his extensive field research from 1976 includes studies of microbial populations in McMurdo Sound, the Ross Sea, and other ocean areas south of the Antarctic Convergence.
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 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Holm-Hansen, Mount" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).
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Encephalomyelitis

Encephalomyelitis is a general term for inflammation of the brain and spinal cord, describing a number of disorders:

Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis or postinfectious encephalomyelitis, a demyelinating disease of the brain and spinal cord, possibly triggered by viral infection;
Encephalomyelitis disseminata, a synonym for multiple sclerosis;
Equine encephalomyelitis, a potentially fatal mosquito-borne viral disease that infects horses and humans;
Myalgic encephalomyelitis, a syndrome involving inflammation of the central nervous system with symptoms of muscle pain and fatigue; the term has sometimes been used interchangeably with chronic fatigue syndrome, though there is still controversy over the distinction.
Experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), an animal model of brain inflammation.

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Arawala

Arawala was a village in West Darfur province of the Darfur region of Sudan. In its heyday it used to have a population of 7000 inhabitants; however, this changed after the village was attacked by Janjaweed militia.
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Bruce Sewell

D. Bruce Sewell is the general counsel and senior vice president of Legal and Government Affairs in Apple Inc.
Biography
In 1979, he received a Bachelor of Science degree from the Lancaster University in the United Kingdom. Bruce Sewell was a partner in the litigation firm of Brown & Bain P.C. In 1986, Sewell graduated from the George Washington University as a J.D.. In 1986, he was admitted to the State Bar of California and to the Washington D.C. Bar in 1987. In 1995, he joined Intel as a senior attorney. In 2001, he became vice president and deputy general counsel at Intel. In September 2009, Bruce Sewell left the Intel Corporation and joined the Apple Inc.
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History of America?

History of America? is an album created by Liam Lynch and Matt Crocco. In the framing sequence, Lynch plays Uncle Dr. Sam, an enthusiastic and patriotic inventor, and Croco plays Ross, seemingly a disaffected American teen. Uncle Dr. Sam meets Ross in an arcade and is sad to find that his new friend doesn't know what his favorite country is ("Uncle Doctor Sam Meets Ross"). Uncle Dr. Sam has discovered that time travels up and down, and he's invented a 4-D Time Resonator Elevator to explore the timestream. One can ride the elevator down into the past or up into the future, and Uncle D. Sam soon whisks Ross away on a journey of discovery into the past ("History of America").
They witness George "You may have seen me on the Dollar Bill" Washington and his wife Martha meeting Big Chief Bad Weather and the native Pilgrim tribes who've been already living in the new land that the Washingtons and their friends have just discovered. The Chief takes a fancy to Mrs. Washington...

Triumph TR2

The Triumph TR2 is a sports car produced by the Standard Motor Company in the United Kingdom between 1953 and 1955, during which time 8,636 cars were produced.
The car used a twin SU carburettor version of the 121 cid (1991 cc) four-cylinder Standard Vanguard engine tuned to increase its output to 90 bhp (67 kW). The body was mounted on a substantial separate chassis with coil-sprung independent suspension at the front and a leaf spring live axle at the rear. Either wire or disc wheels could be supplied. The standard transmission was a four-speed manual unit, with overdrive available on top gear as an option. Lockheed drum brakes were fitted all round.
As of Q1 2011 there were approximately 377 licensed and 52 SORN TR2s registered with the DVLA.
History
The TR2 was designed to challenge MG in the sports car export market to North America. It was also built because Sir John Black, the boss of the Standard Motor Company, made a bid for the Morgan...

Little Compton Common Historic District

The Little Compton Common Historic District (or Little Compton Commons) is a historic district in Little Compton, Rhode Island.
The area features a various Greek Revival and Victorian buildings, a Congregational church and a town common, one of only two remaining in Rhode Island. The common contains a large colonial cemetery with many graves, including those of American Revolutionary War veterans and other notable individuals. The area was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
Notable people buried in the Cemetery

Benjamin Church (ranger), King Philip's War hero, father of United States Army Rangers
Elizabeth Pabodie first white woman born in New England, the daughter of Mayflower Pilgrims

See also

National Register of Historic Places listings in Newport County, Rhode Island

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External links

United Congregational Church in Little Compton
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Dammeri

Dammeri is a specific epithet that refers to Carl Lebrecht Udo Dammer. It is found in the following species names:

Cotoneaster dammeri, a plant species
Rhodospatha dammeri, a plant species endemic to Ecuador

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Bremnes IL

Bremnes Idrettslag is a Norwegian sports club from Bremnes in the county of Hordaland, Norway. It has sections for association football, team handball, basketball, track and field and gymnastics.
The club was founded in 1945.
The men's football team plays in the Fourth Division, the fifth tier of Norwegian football. It played in the Third Division from 1993 to 1994, 1996 to 2005 and in the year 2007. Notable players including Geirmund Brendesæter, Martin Hollund and Joakim Våge Nilsen started their careers here.
References

Official site (Norwegian)
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Sigrid Hjørnegård

Sigrid Hjørnegård (born 8 October 1965) is a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party.
She finished her secondary education in Ås in 1984, and graduated from Mære Agricultural School in 1986 and the Norwegian College of Agriculture in 1990. She worked part-time as a research assistant from 1990 to 1992. She was a board member of Norges Bygdeungdomslag from 1986 to 1988, and leader from 1990 to 1992.
From 1988 to 1990 she was a board member of the Norwegian Children and Youth Council. She worked for the Norwegian Agrarian Association locally in Akershus from 1992 to 1996, and nationally as information director from 1996 to 2005. In the Agrarian Association she was a supervisory council member from 1987 to 1988 and board member from 1990 to 1992. From 1992 to 1993 she was a deputy board member of Nei til EU, and chaired the Akershus branch of the organization. Since 1997 she has been a deputy board member of the Norwegian College of Agriculture/Norwegian University...

Len Johnson (cricketer)

Leonard Joseph Johnson (18 March 1919, Ipswich, Queensland – 20 April 1977, Silkstone, Queensland) was an Australian cricketer who played in one Test in 1948.
Cricket career
Johnson gained recognition in the Sheffield Shield competition for Australian troops at Bougainville, in the Solomons, at the end of World War II.
He ended his playing career with a tally of 171 wickets in 43 Shield matches for Queensland, a State record until it was overtaken by Ross Duncan and Peter Allan.
In international cricket he toured New Zealand with an Australian `Second XI' in 1950, but despite his talent he only managed to play for his country once; against India at Melbourne in the final Test of the 1947-48 series. He scored 25 not out and took 3 for 66 and 3 for 8. It is thought that Sam Loxton won preference over him in selection for the 1948 tour of England....

Olympus Master

Olympus Master is a software application that is used with Olympus digital cameras and optical accessories. It can be installed and used on PCs running Windows 2000, Windows XP or (in the case of the Olympus Master 2 software) Windows Vista, and also on Macintosh computers.
Overview
Olympus Master allows users to transfer, browse, print, share and backup images they have taken with their Olympus camera, or other pictures found on the computer. Images are downloaded from the camera via a USB cable or by using a card reader, and are then put in to a gallery. From there, images can be selected and transferred to a CD or a file to be stored on the computer. It is useful for converting Olympus digital (ORF) files, which many software packages cannot open. Images can also be edited using the program. Rotate, crop and red-eye are some common functions in the editing menu. Images can also be printed directly from the software if the user has a photo printer connected to...

Turley Wine Cellars

Turley Wine Cellars is a popular California wine producer with wineries in both Templeton (Southern Cal-Paso Robles wine region) and St. Helena (Northern Cal-Napa Valley wine region). Turley wines are often recognized as "making some of the best, if not the best Zinfandel in California for decades." Becoming a recipient of the winery's private wine club can take up to two years.
Turley specializes in wines made from old-vine red Zinfandel. They source fruit from older vineyards, some date back to the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
In previous issues of Wine Spectator magazine, Turley wines have received favorable reviews.
History
In 1993, Turley Wine Cellars was founded by Larry Turley, brother of the well-known consulting winemaker Helen Turley. Turley, had entered the wine business in 1981 as co-founder of the multi-varietal Frog's Leap Winery, but soon realized that his interest lay in wines made from the Zinfandel grape. Starting...

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Tomohisa

Tomohisa (written: 智久 or 智尚) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:

Tomohisa Asō (麻生 智久), Japanese voice actor
Tomohisa Ishiguro (石黒 智久) (born 1981), Japanese footballer
Tomohisa Otani (大谷 智久) (born 1985), Japanese baseball player
Tomohisa Yamashita (山下 智久) (born 1985), Japanese idol, actor and singer
Tomohisa Yoshida (吉田 智尚) (born 1984), Japanese footballer
Tomohisa Yuge (弓削 智久) (born 1980), Japanese actor

See also

9100 Tomohisa, main-belt asteroid
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Lohana

The Lohana, also referred to as Luvana, are an Indian caste, traditionally largely occupied as merchants.
The Lohanas are divided into three separate cultural groups as a result of centuries apart in different regions. Thus there are significant differences between the culture, language, professions and societies of Sindhi Lohanas (those who migrated from Sind after partition of India), Kutchi Lohanas (those living or having ancestry in Kutch), and those of Gujarati Lohanas (those living or having ancestry in Saurashtra).
History
Although considered to be Vaishya in the Hindu ritual ranking system known as varna, the Lohanas favour a mythical origin as members of the Kshatriya varna. Their claim is to be of Suryavanshi descent from a lineage tracing back to Lava, son of Rama. At least some of them believe that they belong to the Rathor clan, which they consider to be kshatriya. They claim that their name is derived from Lavnam, one of the...

Wireless WAN

A wireless wide area network (WWAN), is a form of wireless network. The larger size of a wide area network compared to a local area network requires differences in technology. Wireless networks of all sizes deliver data in the form of telephone calls, web pages, and streaming video.
A WWAN often differs from wireless local area network (WLAN) by using mobile telecommunication cellular network technologies such as LTE, WiMAX (often called a wireless metropolitan area network or WMAN), UMTS, CDMA2000, GSM, cellular digital packet data (CDPD) and Mobitex to transfer data. It can also use Local Multipoint Distribution Service (LMDS) or Wi-Fi to provide Internet access. These technologies are offered regionally, nationwide, or even globally and are provided by a wireless service provider. WWAN connectivity allows a user with a laptop and a WWAN card to surf the web, check email, or connect to a virtual private network (VPN) from anywhere within the regional boundaries...

Oscar Arizaga

Óscar Gilberto Arizaga (born 20 August 1957) is a Peruvian football midfielder who played for Peru in the 1982 FIFA World Cup. He also played for Atlético Chalaco.
References
External links

FIFA profile
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Suvir Misra

Suvir Misra,(pronunciation:[s̪u ʋiːr miɕrə] सुवीर मिश्र) is an Indian musician, vocalist, musicologist, and is an expert in Rudra Veena, Saraswati Veena, Surbahar, Sitar and Tabla. He is unique in being a left handed artist who has mastered all the three veenas of the Indian classical music - the Rudra Veena, the Saraswati Veena and the Surbahar. He is the inventor of Misr Veena.
Early life
Suvir Misra was born in Harda, Madhya Pradesh and belongs to a family of musicians. He has studied at Delhi Public School, Mathura Road. He started his journey into music at the age of 12.
Personal life
He joined Civil Services of India in 1993, and currently is working as a Joint Commissioner, Customs and Central Excise, New Delhi
Career
Suvir started learning Tabla, Sitar and Khayal form of music an early age of 12. He took his training on the rudra veena from Zia Fariduddin Dagar and simultaneously studied dhruapd vocal from Nirmalya...

Tom May

Thomas or Tom May may refer to:
Politicians

Thomas May (Royalist) (1604–1655), MP for Midhurst, 1640–1642
Sir Thomas May (MP for Chichester) (c.1645–1718), MP for Chichester 1689–1701
Thomas May (MP for Canterbury) (c. 1701–1781), MP for Canterbury, 1734–1741

Sports

Thomas May (cricketer), English cricketer in the 1760s and 1770s
Tom May (rugby union) (born 1979), rugby union player

Others

Tom May (mycologist), mycologist
Thomas May (1595–1650), English poet and dramatist
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Wildgoose Lodge Murders

The Wildgoose Lodge Murders refers to the murder of eight people by burning in Wildgoose Lodge, County Louth in 1816. This event inspired works by William Carleton (1794–1869) in a short story from 1830, and by other authors.
Summary
The Wildgoose Lodge was a farm building in the parish of Tallanstown-Reaghstown in Co. Louth. On the night of 29–30 October 1816, eight people were killed there by burning to death. Those killed included a five-month-old child. Eighteen men, many of them innocent, were executed for this crime.
William Carleton's account
In 1817 William Carleton went to Killanny, Co. Louth, and for six months acted as tutor in the family of a farmer, Piers Murphy. He then stayed with a parish priest. During this period he came upon the gibbeted corpse of Patrick Devan, the leader of the murderers, a fact that so shocked him that he determined in later life to write an account of the Wildgoose Lodge murders.
William Carleton...

1974–75 Golden State Warriors season

The 1974–75 Golden State Warriors season was the 29th season in the franchise's history, its 13th in California and the fourth playing in Oakland. After four seasons of second-place finishes, the Warriors made various changes. Nate Thurmond was traded to the Chicago Bulls for Clifford Ray, a young defensive center. The club drafted Jamaal Wilkes, whose nickname was "Silk". Cazzie Russell had played out his option and joined the Los Angeles Lakers, leaving Rick Barry as the team's leader. Coach Al Attles implemented a team-oriented system that drew on the contributions of as many as ten players during a game. Barry scored 30.6 points per game, led the NBA in free throw percentage and steals per game, and was sixth in the league in assists per game. The Warriors captured the Pacific Division title with a 48–34 record.
In the playoffs, the Warriors got to the Western Conference Finals by beating the Seattle SuperSonics in six games. In the Western Finals, the Warriors looked...

Li Dashuang

Li Dashuang (simplified Chinese: 李大双; traditional Chinese: 李大雙; pinyin: Lǐ Dàshuāng; born 1 November 1973 in Xiantao, Hubei) is a Chinese artistic gymnast and twin of Li Xiaoshuang.
External links

Li Dashuang at Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique
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Chief Bearhart Stakes

The Chief Bearhart Stakes is a Canadian Thoroughbred horse race run annually in late October at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario. Open to horses age three and older, it is contested on turf over a distance of a mile and a quarter (10 furlongs).
Inaugurated on September 29, 2002, the race is named for Sam-Son Farm's Canadian Hall of Fame colt, Chief Bearhart.
The 2006 race was transferred to the dirt track.
Records
Speed record: (Through 1998, Woodbine times were recorded in fifths of a second. Since 1999 they are in hundredths of a second)

2:04.65 - Simmard (2009)

Most wins:

No horse has won this race more than once.

Most wins by an owner:

2 - Gary A. Tanaka (2006, 2007)

Most wins by a jockey:

No jockey has won this race more than once.

Most wins by a trainer:...

The Barn Owl's Wondrous Capers

The Barn Owl's Wondrous Capers is a 2007 graphic novel by Indian graphic artist Sarnath Banerjee. It is the author's second graphic novel after Corridor, which has been widely advertised as the first Indian graphic novel.
Plot summary
The novel reinvents the legend of The Wandering Jew as a Jewish merchant called Abravanel Ben Obadiah Ben Aharon Kabariti who once lived in 18th century Kolkata (Calcutta) and who recorded the scandalous affairs of its British administrators in a book called The Barn Owl's Wondrous Capers. Although it has several subplots, at its core the novel is about the narrator's quest to find this book, which his grandfather Pablo Chatterjee found at an old Jewish trinket shop in Montmartre, Paris, in the 1950s. Pablo's wife gave away the book, as well as her husband's other belongings, upon his death; the narrator tries to recover the book, which was one of his childhood favorites.
The title of the graphic...

Defence Force SC

Defence Force Sport Club (aka Mekelakeya) is an Ethiopian football club, in the city of Addis Ababa. [1] They play in the Ethiopian Premier League, the top level of professional football in Ethiopia. [2]. Addis Ababa Stadium, which has a capacity of 35,000, is their home. The team was named on past Army SC and Mechal SC.
Honours

Ethiopian Premier League: 11




1949, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1956, 1976, 1982, 1984, 1988, 1989




Ethiopian Cup: 12




1946, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1975, 1982, 1990, 2006, 2013



Performance in CAF competitions

African Cup of Champions Clubs: 1 appearance




1977 - First Round




CAF Confederation Cup: 1 appearance




2007 - First Round




CAF Cup Winners' Cup
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Resurrection (The Outer Limits)

"Resurrection" is an episode of The Outer Limits television show. It first aired on 14 January 1996. This episode is the conclusion of the Innobotics story arc, which began with "Valerie 23" and continued with "Mary 25" and "In Our Own Image"; however, the episodes were not broadcast in the order in which they take place.
Introduction
Humanity has destroyed itself in a biological war, and only a few hundred androids remain. Two of the androids have a plan to recreate the human race from DNA samples... but the ruling military androids are violently opposed to recreating their former masters.
Opening narration
Plot
The remaining androids are split into two basic types: servile and military. They live in a small encampment that, before the war, was an android/human interaction facility for the Innobotics Corporation. Two servile androids, Martin and Alicia, recreate a human male, Cain, from DNA samples protected during...

Vladislav Hall

Vladislav Hall is a large room within the Prague Castle complex in the Czech Republic, used for large public events of the Bohemian monarchy and the modern Czech state. Built between 1493–1502 by Benedikt Rejt during the reign of Vladislav II, the hall was the largest secular space (62m x 16m x 13m) in medieval Prague and belongs to the most complex structural and architectural spaces of the late Middle Ages. In particular, the construction of the complex stone vaulting system, spanning 16m, was a refined engineering feat. The third and highest floor of the palace, the hall replaced a group of rooms dating from the 14th century. Immediately underneath, the second floor is a Gothic addition built during the reign of Charles IV in the 14th century, while the lowest, first floor is a Romanesque palace.
The hall was used for banquets, receptions, coronations, and other events of the Bohemian court. It was even large enough accommodate tournaments between knights; the...

Massachusetts Route 183

Massachusetts Route 183 is a north–south state highway in Berkshire County, Massachusetts. The entire route travels from Lenox to Sandisfield at the Connecticut state border. The entire route is 32.0 miles (51.5 km) long (51.50 km), with several miles running in a silent concurrency with other routes (see below).
Route description
Route 183 is essentially divided in two parts. The upper section begins in Lenox at the junction of Walker Street and the Lenox Bypass, a freeway-grade bypass route carrying U.S. Route 7 and U.S. Route 20 around the town center. Route 183 passes through the town's center, and is combined with Route 7A for approximately 0.1 miles (0.16 km). From there, the road turns southward into Stockbridge, passing Tanglewood, the Stockbridge Bowl and Old Curtisville Historic District before passing under Interstate 90 (the Massachusetts Turnpike) without any interchange, just one-third of a mile north of the road's intersection with...

Los exitosos Pells

Los exitosos Pells (Spanish for "The successful Pells") is a 2008-2009 Argentine telenovela, produced by Underground Producciones and Endemol, and aired by Telefe. It started being aired on November 5, 2008, replacing Vidas Robadas at 10:30PM. After a pair of schedule changes, it returned to 10:30PM until its end on July 15, 2009.
The story is about a successful couple of TV hosts from a news channel, Martín Pells (Mike Amigorena) and Sol Casenave (Carla Peterson). In the first episode Martín Pells falls into a coma, and the CEO of the channel hires an underground actor, Gonzalo Echague (also by Amigorena), who happens to be extremely similar to Pells, to replace him. Such replacement is done not only for the TV but also with friends and relatives, in order that nobody suspects the absence of the real Pells. Gonzalo, acting as Martin, discovers that Martin and Sol had broken up long ago and were only acting as a happy couple for the television cameras. In reality, Sol had...

F. W. Williams

F. W. Williams, architect in charge of the Canadian Building at the 1939 New York World's Fair.
The Canadian Building was constructed out of almost entirely Canadian materials. Canadian life and products were depicted in dioramas, animated maps, photo montages, panoramas, and a reflecting pool.
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List of former U.S. National Forests

This is a list of all the former National Forests in the United States. These units were renamed, disestablished, combined with other units or split apart during reorganizations of the U.S. Forest Service system. There was particular turnover during the first decade of the 20th century, when the forest system was reorganized several times, most notably on July 1, 1908. Many smaller holdings of fewer than 100,000 acres (400 km2) were combined. In the 1920s a short-lived program created several National Forests from excess portions of military facilities. Within two years these transfers were reconsidered and rescinded.
See also

List of U.S. National Forests

References
External links

Forest History Society
Listing of the National Forests of the United States and Their Dates (Forest History Society website) Text from Davis, Richard C., ed. Encyclopedia of American Forest and Conservation History. New York:
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HaKfar HaYarok

HaKfar HaYarok (Hebrew: הכפר הירוק, lit. "The Green Village"‎) is a youth village in Israel, located at the south of Ramat HaSharon.
History
The village was founded by Gershon Zak in 1950 (later it was renamed after the third Prime Minister of Israel, Levi Eshkol) and originally was an agricultural village for immigrants. In 1986 Zak, together with HaKfar HaYarok, won the prestigious Israel Prize for lifetime achievement to education.
A third of the students at Kfar Hayarok are boarding school students from deprived socioeconomic backgrounds. Other students commute from communities in the center of the country, attracted by special study courses such as an educational track taught in English, veterinary studies and an arts program.
Today, the village has close to 1,200 students, from ages 12 to 20 (both residential students and external students). Many teachers on the staff make their permanent home on the campus of the village. Each year...

Tateyama, Toyama

Tateyama (立山町, Tateyama-machi) is a town located in Nakaniikawa District, Toyama Prefecture, Japan.
As of 2003, the town has an estimated population of 28,123 and a density of 91.51 persons per km². The total area is 307.31 km².
External links
Media related to Tateyama, Toyama at Wikimedia Commons

Official town website
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Sehra

Sehra may refer to:

Sehra (poetry), prothalamion is a poem sung at a nikah (Muslim wedding) in praise of the groom, praying to God for his future wedded life.
Sehra (headdress), is a headdress worn by the groom during Pakistani, Indian and Bangladeshi weddings. The word also refers to an Urdu poem.

Sehra may also refer to:
Given name
Sehra can also be a female given name, roughly equivalent to Sarah, Sara, Serass, just like jaspal singh Serass....

Roman ladders

Roman Ladders is an equilibristic circus skill where four or more people perform acrobatics on specially made ladders. The people in the middle push the ladders out, while the people on the outside perform various poses and tricks.
External links

Simply Circus: Roman Ladders — Includes access to the Simply Circus handbook on Roman Ladder acts.

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Nouirate

Nouirate is a small town and rural commune in Sidi Kacem Province of the Gharb-Chrarda-Béni Hssen region of Morocco. At the time of the 2004 census, the commune had a total population of 22639 people living in 3707 households.
References...

Scydmaenidae

Scydmaeninae are a subfamily of small beetles, commonly called ant-like stone beetles or scydmaenines. These beetles occur worldwide, and the subfamily includes some 4,500 species in about 80 genera. Established as a family, they were reduced in status to a subfamily of Staphylinidae in 2009
Many scydmaenine species have a narrowing between head and thorax and thorax and abdomen, resulting in a passing resemblance to ants that inspires their common name. The largest measure just 3 millimeters long, while some very small species only reach half a millimeter in length. Scydmaenids typically live in leaf litter and rotting logs in forests, preferring moist habitats. A number of types are known to feed on oribatid mites, using "hole scraping" and "cutting" techniques to get through the mite's hard shells.
In addition to the two living subfamilies, the prehistoric subfamily Hapsomelinae, known only from fossils, has been placed here.
Selected genera...

President-elect of the United States

President-elect of the United States is the title used for an incoming President of the United States in the period between the general election on Election Day in November and noon eastern standard time on Inauguration Day, January 20, during which he is not in office yet. The title is used for the apparent winner and is finalized when votes of the Electoral College, cast in December, are counted by a joint session of Congress in early January. If a sitting President has won re-election, he is not referred to as a "President-elect" because he is already in office and is not waiting to become president. If a new President is scheduled to enter, then the current-standing one is said to hold the office on a lame-duck basis.
Constitutional criteria
Article II, Section 1, Clause 2 of the United States Constitution, along with the Twelfth and Twentieth Amendments govern the election of the U.S. President. The procedure is also regulated by Federal and State...

Editora Globo

The Editora Globo (Globo Editors) is a respected Brazilian publishing house, property of Fundação Roberto Marinho. It began as a bookstore called Livraria do Globo, created in Porto Alegre, in December 1883, by Laudelino Pinheiro de Barcellos and Saturnino Alves Pinto.
History
The bookstore "Livraria do Globo" begun as in a little store located at "Rua da Praia" (Beach's Road) Number 268. The bookstore worked daily since 6:30 am to 10:00 pm, including Saturdays. With a little business success, the bookstore started working as a graphic house, making bookbidings and other small services and the building where it was located suffered a small reformation.
In 1917, the bookstore became an intellectual point, receiving the daily visit of writers, poets, politicians and liberal thinkers. Its first branch store was created in Santa Maria, near the old ferryway center of Rio Grande do Sul. The "Livraria do Globo's" owners decided to create an own magazine...

LaVerne Jones-Ferrette

LaVerne Janet Jones-Ferrette (born September 16, 1981) is a sprinter from the United States Virgin Islands who specializes in the 100 and 200 meters. She represented her country at the Summer Olympics in 2004, 2008 and 2012. She won the silver medal over 60 meters at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships in a time of 6.97 seconds; a subsequent drug test revealed a banned substance in her system and she was stripped of her medal.
Jones-Ferrette competed at the World Championships in Athletics in 2005, 2007 and 2009, but did not reach an event final on any of those occasions. Her first international medal came at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games, where she was the 100 m silver medalist. She represented her country at the 2007 Pan American Games. She holds all the US Virgin Islands records for the sprint events from 60 to 400 meters.
Career
She grew up on Saint Croix and later moved to the United States on an athletic scholarship...

Ulphia

Ulphia (Ulphe, Olfe, Wulfe, Wolfia, Wulfia) of Amiens (d. 8th century) is a saint of the Catholic Church, venerated particularly at Amiens. She was said to be a young girl living on the banks of the Noye who became a hermit at Saint-Acheul, near Amiens, under the spiritual direction of Saint Domitius (Domice). At the end of her life, she formed and directed a community of religious women at Amiens. Her feast day is January 31.
Legend states that Ulphe placed the frogs in the area around her hermitage (which was built in a swampy area) under interdict as a result of their loud croaking, which kept her awake at nights. Thus, in her iconography, she is depicted as a young nun seated in prayer on a rock with a frog in the pool near her.
A 19th century hagiographer noted that the frogs in the area around the oratory of Saint Ulphe were, indeed, very quiet. However, if these frogs were taken elsewhere, they became boisterous once again.
A statue of Ulphia stands...

Master of the Jewel Office

The Master of the Jewel Office is a position in the British Royal Household. The holders are responsible for running the Jewel Office, which holds the Sovereign's jewellery.
Incumbents
Masters of the Jewel Office

1445–1448: John Merston
1465–1483: Thomas Vaughan
1483–1485: Edmund Chaderton
bef. 1509–?: Sir Henry Wyatt
1524–1532: Robert Amadas
1532–1533: Thomas Cromwell
bef. 1545: Sir Anthony Rous
1545–1557 Anthony Aucher
1558-c. 1595: John Astley
Edward Cary (died 1618)
1618: Sir Henry Mildmay
Francis Layton
1660: Sir Gilbert Talbot
1690: Sir Francis Lawley, 2nd Baronet
1696: Hon. Heneage Montagu
1698: Col. Charles Godfrey
1704: John Charlton
1711: Heneage Finch, Lord Guernsey
1716: Hon. James Brudenell
1730: Charles Townshend, Lord Lynn
1739: William Nevill, 16th
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Bampfylde Moore Carew

Bampfylde Moore Carew (1693–1759) was an English rogue, vagabond and impostor, who claimed to be King of the Beggars.
Life
He was the son of Reverend Theodore Carew, rector of Bickleigh. The Carews were a well-established Devonshire family. Although they had a reputation for adventurousness, Bampfylde Moore Carew took this to extremes, if his picaresque memoirs are to be believed. Little is known about his life beyond these, in which he is described on the title-page as "the Noted Devonshire Stroller and Dogstealer".
The Life and Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew
Literary history
The Life and Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew was first published in 1745. Although it states that the contents were "noted by himself during his passage to America" and it is likely facts were supplied by Carew, the author was probably Robert Goadby, a printer in Sherborne, Dorset, who published an early edition in 1749...

You Shouldn't-Nuf Bit Fish

You Shouldn't-Nuf Bit Fish is the second studio album by American funk musician George Clinton. The album was released by Capitol Records in 1983, during the same week that the CBS Associated Label released Urban Dancefloor Guerillas by the P-Funk All-Stars. The P-Funk live concert tour of 1984 concentrated on tracks featured on both albums. You Shouldn't-Nuf Bit Fish expands on the R&B and dance style of Clinton's debut album, Computer Games (1982), and it incorporates elements of rock with a more mainstream sound.
Track listing

"Nubian Nut" (George Clinton, David Spradley, Lane Strickland, Fela Kuti) 5:59 (released as a single-Capitol 5296 and 12" single-Capitol 8572)
"Quickie" (Andre Williams, Ron Ford, Janice Evans, S. Linn) 6:30 (released as a single-Capitol 5324 and 12" single-Capitol 8580)
"Last Dance" (William Collins, Robert Johnson, S. Linn) 5:11 (released as a single-Capitol 5332 and 12"
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Lispenard-Rodman-Davenport House

The Lispenard-Rodman-Davenport House in New Rochelle, New York a historic residence dating back to the early 18th century. The house is the oldest residential structure in New Rochelle. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
In 1708 Antoine Lispenard bought from Jacob Leisler's son a half interest in the peninsula, or neck, between New Rochelle Creek and Long Island Sound. Six years later he bought the other half. Across the inlet he built a dam and a tidal gristmill. Each incoming tide filled a millpond behind the dam, and then, as the tide ebbed, the water was released through a millrace to turn the mill wheel. Nearby the mill, on the neck itself, Lispenard built his home, a stone house of one-and-a-half stories, with the front eaves extending to form the roof of a wide porch.
In 1732 he sold his property to Joseph Rodman who later doubled the size of the house. By 1776 the house and Neck had passed to John R. Myers who owned it for...

John Verkamp

John Verkamp (born c. 1940) is an American attorney and politician in Arizona; he served as a county attorney for 12 years, and was elected to four terms as a Republican state representative. He served one term as a state senator, but decided not to run for re-election in 2002 after redistricting moved his base of Flagstaff to a primarily Democratic district.
Continuing to disagree with the Republicans over the issues of the Iraq War, which he opposed, in 2005 Verkamp joined the Democrats. He filed to run in 2006 as a Democrat for the United States Senate from Arizona, but was late and failed to qualify for the primary.
Early life and education
John Verkamp was born about 1940 in Grand Canyon Village, Arizona. His family has operated a store at the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park for three generations, since 1906. He went to elementary and high school there.
He earned his Bachelor’s degree from the University of Arizona in 1962. He...

Operación Triunfo (series 6)

This is the sixth series of Spanish version of the reality TV show Operación Triunfo based on the international series Star Academy.
Castings started in Barcelona on February 18, 2008. The season began on April 8 and continued until 22 July, 2008 with 18 contestants. Virginia Maestro was the winner of the series.
Contestants

Virginia - 25, (Jaén) - WINNER
Pablo - 24, Málaga - 2nd place
Chipper - 34, New York, United States - 3rd place
Manu - 17, Villa del Río (Córdoba) - 4th Finalist
Sandra - 24 Córdoba - 5th Finalist
Mimi - 26, Melilla - 6th Finalist
Iván - 24 - Madrid - 7th place
Noelia - 23 Valencia - 8th place
Anabel - 22, Córdoba - 9th place
Tania S - 18, Seville - 10th place
Reke - 24, Murcia - 11th place
Esther - 20, Málaga - 12th place
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List of shop signs in Boston in the 18th century

This is a list of shop signs in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 18th century.

A


Sign of Admiral Vernon, King Street
Sign of the Anchor


B


Sign of the Barber's Poll, Long Wharf
Sign of the Basket of Lemons, Middle St.
Sign of the Bellows, Ann Street
Sign of the Bible, Cornhill
Bible and Crown, Dock Square
Bible and Heart, Cornhill
Sign of the Bible and Three Crowns, Ann St.
Sign of the Black and White Horse
Sign of the Black Boy and But, Cornhill
Sign of the Black Horse
Sign of the Blue Ball, Union St.
Sign of the Blue Boar
Blue Dog, Wing's Lane
Blue Dog & Rainbow, Cambridge St.
Blue Glove, Union St.
Sign of the Blue Horse, Cornhill
Sign of the Boot, Marlborough Street
Sign of the Boys and Bullock's Head, Water St.
Sign of the Brazen Head, Cornhill
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Pont de Recouvrance

The Pont de Recouvrance is a vertical-lift bridge in Brest, France, across the river Penfeld. Opened on 17 July 1954, it was the largest vertical-lift bridge in Europe until the opening of the Pont Gustave-Flaubert in 2008. It links the bottom of the rue de Siam to the quartier de Recouvrance, replacing a swing bridge (the pont National) destroyed by Allied bombardment in 1944.
Each pylon is 70m high, and the 525-tonne lift span is 88m long.
Trolley bus
The bridge was crossed by trolleybuses from its opening in 1954 until the closure of the Brest trolleybus system, in 1970.
Trams
The lift span was renewed in 2011 in order to allow the future tram line to cross the bridge. Tram opened by July 2012.
References

Le pont levant de Brest, brochure edited by La Télémécanique Électrique (1954 ?)

External links
Media related to Pont de Recouvrance at Wikimedia Commons...

Droszków, Lower Silesian Voivodeship

Droszków [ˈdrɔʂkuf] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kłodzko, within Kłodzko County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. Prior to 1945 it was in Germany.
It lies approximately 11 kilometres (7 mi) south-east of Kłodzko, and 84 kilometres (52 mi) south of the regional capital Wrocław.
References
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Merrifieldia chordodactylus

Merrifieldia chordodactylus is a moth of the Pterophoridae family. It is found on the Canary Islands and in Spain. It has also been recorded from Algeria and Morocco.
The wingspan is 20–21 millimetres (0.79–0.83 in).
The larvae possibly feed on Lavandula abrotanoides and Lavandula multifida.
References
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KREV (FM)

KREV (92.7 FM), branded as 92.7 REV The Revolution, is a Top 40 music formatted radio station that serves the greater San Francisco Bay Area. Its city of license is Alameda, California, and it is owned by Royce International. The station's studios are located in the Visitacion Valley district of San Francisco, and the transmitter is located on top of Bellaire Tower in the city's Russian Hill neighborhood.
History
Jazz music as KJAZ

See also KJAZ

As KJAZ from August 1, 1959, to July 31, 1994, the station aired a jazz format. Founded by Pat Henry, KJAZ prided itself on broadcasting only jazz music, and a 1965 station brochure proclaimed KJAZ "northern California's first and only fulltime jazz station".
In 1994, KJAZ was sold after owner Ron Cowan, in a financial crisis, deemed the station unprofitable. Since the demise of the jazz format, some KJAZ programmers and announcers have made their way to KCSM...

1993–94 Eredivisie (ice hockey) season

The 1993-94 Eredivisie season was the 34th season of the Eredivisie, the top level of ice hockey in the Netherlands. 10 teams participated in the league, and the Tilburg Trappers won the championship.
Regular season
Final round
Playoffs
Relegation
External links

Season on hockeyarchives.info
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Forces Children's Trust

The Forces Children’s Trust is a British charity devoted to helping dependent children that have lost a parent whilst serving with the Armed Forces.
The Trust is chaired by Denny Wise motivated by his belief that ‘To help a child is an honour'.
On 7 November 2009, the Axholme Connexion held a Remembrance Concert at St Oswald's Church in Crowle, Lincolnshire, England, which raised funds for the Forces Children's Trust and Help For Heroes.
Trustees Mr. Denny Wise, Mr. James Walsh, Mr. Jeremy Webb, Rebecca Wise BA Hons, Flight Lieutenant Owen- Varley BSc Hons RAF
Patrons Mr. Chris Grayling MP, Mr. Simon Weston OBE
Ambassador The Earl of Arundel
References
External links

"The Forces Children's Trust"

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Pleurotomella hypermnestra

Pleurotomella hypermnestra is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.
Description
Distribution
References
External links
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Fronton

Fronton may refer to:

Fronton, Haute-Garonne, a French commune in Haute-Garonne
Fronton (court), court used as playing area for Basque pelota
Paleta Frontón is a Peruvian sport that was born in the capital Lima in 1945
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Jean Gale

Jean Gale (September 13, 1912 – September 26, 1974) was an American vaudeville performer and brief film actress of the 1930s.
Life and career
Born in San Francisco, California as Lenore Gilmartin, she had a twin sister, Joan Gale (née Lorraine Gilmartin; born September 13, 1912 – June 11, 1998), along with another set of twin sisters, Jane Gale (née Helen Gilmartin; born July 6, 1911) and June Gale (née Doris Gilmartin; July 6, 1911 – November 13, 1996), although they were not quadruplets, as has occasionally been misreported. Jean's elder sister June wed Oscar Levant in 1939, to whom she remained married until his death in 1972, and by whom she had three children.
The sisters began performing in "vaudeville" at an early age. This brought Jean to the attention of studios, and led to a small role in the film Bottoms Up (1934), starring Spencer Tracy. That same year she was selected as one of thirteen girls chosen to be "WAMPAS Baby Stars...

Dauphin, Manitoba

Dauphin (French for Dolphin, see Dauphin of France) is a city in Manitoba, Canada, with a population of 8,251 as of the 2011 Canadian Census.
History
The nearby lake was given the name "Dauphin" by the explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye in 1741 in honour of the heir to the French throne. Settlers began arriving in the area in 1883 and two early settlements, Gartmore and "Old Dauphin" were established. With the coming of the railway in 1896 - the line ran roughly halfway between the two villages - settlement shifted to the present site. This coincided with the beginning of Ukrainian settlement in the area: previously most arrivals had been of British extraction.
Incorporated as a village in 1898 and as a town in 1901, Dauphin became an important centre for the transportation of grain. Farming still plays a central role in the economy of the area, but its role has been greatly reduced. The current mayor of Dauphin is...

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Gloucestershire Cricket Board

The Gloucestershire Cricket Board (GCB) is the governing body for all recreational cricket in the historic county of Gloucestershire.
From 1999 to 2003 the Board fielded a team in the English domestic one-day tournament matches, which had List-A status.
See also
List of Gloucestershire Cricket Board List A players
References
External links

Gloucestershire Cricket Board main site
Gloucestershire Cricket Board Play Cricket site
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Olaf Fricke

Olaf Fricke (born January 1, 1951 in Zeitz) is a former West German slalom canoeist who competed in the 1970s.
He won a gold medal in the C-2 team event at the 1973 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Muotathal.
Fricke also finished seventh in the C-2 event at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.
References

Sports-reference.com profile
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Shane Feldman

Shane Feldman (born November 8, 1994) is a Canadian born motivational speaker and critically acclaimed producer. He is one of Canada's Top 20 Under 20.
Feldman is the founder and CEO of Count Me In, the largest youth-led organization in North America.
As CEO (Chief Executive Optimist) at Count Me In, Feldman is the creative strategist behind the organization's core programming, which help young people find their passion through volunteerism. The unique initiative connects youth with community opportunities and causes matching their interests, inspiring local involvement, leadership, and social innovation.
On Tuesday, April 29, 2014, Shane produced Count Me In's first global broadcast. Featuring a diverse line-up of celebrity speakers and entertainers, including Cody Simpson, Nikki Yanofsky, Luke Bilyk and Jessica Tyler of Degrassi fame, Ashley Leggat, Fefe Dobson and other teen icons, the show was designed to motivate young people everywhere to get...

Five-pin billiards

Five-pin billiards or simply five-pins or 5-pins (Italian: [biliardo del] cinque birilli; Spanish: [billar de] cinco quillas), is today usually a carom, but sometimes still a pocket form of cue sport, popular especially in Italy and Argentina but also in some other parts of Latin America and Europe, with international, televised professional tournaments. The game is sometimes referred to as Italian five-pins or Italian billiards (Italian: biliardo all'italiana), or as italiana (in Italian and Spanish).
History
Until the late 1980s, the game (with some rules differences) was a form of pocket billiards, known in English as Italian skittle pool, and was principally played in pubs, with an object ball that was smaller than the two cue balls. Professional and regulated amateur play today exclusively uses pocketless tables and equal-sized balls. Professional competition...

Cumming v. Richmond County Board of Education

Cumming v. Richmond County Board of Education, 175 U.S. 528 (1899) ("Richmond") was a class action suit decided by the Supreme Court of the United States. It is a landmark case, in that it sanctioned de jure segregation of races in American schools. The decision was overruled by Brown v. Board of Education (1954).
Underlying suits
The plaintiffs, "Cumming, Harper and Ladeveze, citizens of Georgia and persons of color suing on behalf of themselves and all others in like case joining with them," originally filed suit by petition against the "Board of Education of Richmond County" (the "Board") and one "Charles S. Bohler, tax collector" in the Superior Court of Richmond County, claiming among other causes of action, that a $45,000 tax levied against the county for primary, intermediate, grammar and high schools was illegal insofar as the high schools of the county were exclusively for white students, and seeking an injunction barring the...

Inside (Presence album)

Inside is the debut studio album released by British rock band Presence; it was released through Smash Records, a subsidiary of Island Records. Although Inside was well received by critics, it was a commercial failure, and the band dissolved shortly afterwards. Nevertheless, this band does spark interest among some Cure fans because of the involvement of Lol Tolhurst. According to an interview with Robert Smith, Michael Dempsey was also involved with this band as he co-wrote two of the tracks off of this album as well as the b-side "Amazed".
In December 2011, this album was made available in MP3 format through Amazon and iTunes.
Reception
Staff writer Dave Thompson of Allmusic gave the album four out of five stars, writing "for anybody still reeling from the horrors of the Cure's own most recent releases, if Wish was the cure, then Inside was the plague with the built-in immunity."
Track listing
All tracks written...

Brighton Heights, Staten Island

Brighton Heights is a neighborhood in New York City's borough of Staten Island.
Silver Lake borders Brighton Heights on the south; however the name "Silver Lake" is applied to the community on the other side of the lake, which is actually a reservoir created in 1917. The word "Heights" denotes the steep hill that rises from Tompkinsville to the east. Victory Boulevard climbs this hill, and as a result the hill itself is often called Victory Hill. Stapleton Heights is on the other side of Victory Hill from Brighton Heights, and north of Brighton Heights is St. George, the island's "downtown" section.
The northern section of Brighton Heights is sometimes referred to as Fort Hill, after a street located therein named Fort Hill Circle.
Brighton Heights has many large, older homes.
Points of Interest
Points of interest include a Jewish Community Center and the Brighton Heights Reformed Church (NRHP).
Transportation
Brighton Heights...

Lockenhaus

Lockenhaus (Hungarian Léka; Croatian Livka) is a town in the district of Oberpullendorf in the Austrian state of Burgenland. The town is well known for the annual Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival founded by violinist Gidon Kremer.
History
The town was (like the whole Burgenland until 1920/21) part of Hungary since the foundation of the kingdom in the year 1000. Since 1898 the name Léka had to be used because of the Magyarization by the government in Budapest. After WWI "Deutsch-Westungarn" (the Burgenland) became part of Austria when the Treaty of Trianon deprived Hungary of about 70% of the territory which it had held for more than nine centuries.
Population
Sights

Burg Lockenhaus
Church of St. Nikolaus, Lockenhaus
Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival

References
Gallery
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11248 Blériot

11248 Blériot is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1178.1207658 days (3.23 years).
The asteroid was discovered on October 16, 1977.
References...

Telenzepine

Telenzepine is a selective M1 antimuscarinic used in the treatment of peptic ulcers. Telenzepine is atropisomeric, in other words the molecule has a stereogenic C–N-axis; in neutral aqueous solution it displays a half-life for racemization of the order of 1000 years. The enantiomers have been resolved. The activity is related to the (+)-isomer which is about 500-fold more active as the (–)-isomer at muscarinic receptors in the rat cerebal cortex.
See also

Pirenzepine

References
External links

Telenzepine is at least 25 times more potent than pirenzepine--a dose response and comparative secretory study in man, Gut., 1987 July; 28(7): 888–895


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Drenge

Drenge may refer to:

Boys (1977 film), a 1977 Danish film, originally Drenge
Drenge (band), a band formed in 2011 in Castleton, Derbyshire

Drenge (album)


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IPXE

iPXE is an open-source implementation of the Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) client firmware and bootloader, created in 2010 as a fork of gPXE. It can be used to enable computers without built-in PXE support to boot from the network, or to extend an existing PXE client implementation so it supports additional protocols.
While standardized PXE clients use TFTP to transfer data, non-standardized iPXE client firmware adds the ability to retrieve data through other protocols, including HTTP, iSCSI, ATA over Ethernet (AoE), and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE). Also, on supported hardware iPXE firmware can use a Wi-Fi link rather than requiring a wired connection. iPXE firmware cannot be considered as a "drop-in" replacement for PXE firmware.
PXE implementation
iPXE can be booted by a computer either by replacing (re-flashing) the existing standard PXE ROM on a supported network interface card (NIC), or by booting the NIC's standard PXE ROM and...

NFL on CBS music

1960s
In the '60s and early '70s, CBS used a marching band-like composition called "Confidence" (taken from Leon Carr's score from the 1964 off-Broadway musical The Secret Life of Walter Mitty) as their theme.
1970s
By 1975, CBS had several themes (technically, CBS had different opening songs and graphics per crew) to open their broadcasts. They ranged from David Shire's "Manhattan Skyline" from the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack to "Fly, Robin, Fly" by the Silver Convention.
From roughly, 1977-1979, CBS used the disco-style version of John Williams' main theme from Star Wars.
1980s
Starting in 1980, CBS frequently used the beginning guitar riff of Heart's "Crazy on You" when they went to commercial.
In 1981, CBS changed the game opening music and kept it through the 1985 season. The 1981-1985 NFL on CBS theme was a peppy, fanfare-styled theme. The patriotic-like opening graphic showed the Stars...

Liberty League (UK)

The Liberty League, is a Classical Liberal non-profit organization based in the United Kingdom. It promotes free market and classical liberal ideology. It “acts as an organisation and a network for societies across the intellectual and political spectrum, helping to inform, recruit and develop supporters of Liberty”. It is non-partisan, with no set opinion or policy, nor political party affiliations. Liberty League promotes the expansion of student societies and hosts the largest free market conference in the UK annually.
Liberty League Freedom Forum
The Liberty League Freedom Forum is the UK's largest annual 'pro-Liberty' conference. It is a three day event with discussions and lectures across philosophy, politics and economics. Its rapid expansion has been cited by The Economist as evidence of a Liberal resurgence in the UK.
Past speakers have included Mark Littlewood of the Institute of Economic Affairs, Steve Baker MP, Douglas Carswell MP, Dr...

HMS Jamaica

Six vessels of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Jamaica, after the island colony of Jamaica:

HMS Jamaica (1710), a 14-gun sloop launched in 1710 and wrecked in 1715
HMS Jamaica (1744), a 14-gun sloop launched 1744 and foundered 1770 off Jamaica
HMS Jamaica (1779), a 16-gun sloop purchased in 1779 and sold in 1783
HMS Jamaica, formerly the French 26-gun corvette Perçante, which HMS Intrepid captured in February 1796; she was taken in as a 26-gun 6th-rate and sold in 1814.
HMS Jamaica (1825), a 52-gun 4th-rate ordered in 1825 and cancelled in 1829
HMS Jamaica (C44), a Crown Colony class cruiser launched in 1940 and scrapped in 1960

References

Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176
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Constituency NA-234

Constituency NA-234 (Sanghar-I) (Urdu: این اے-۲۳۴، سانگھڑ-۱‎) is a constituency for the National Assembly of Pakistan.
Election 2002
General elections were held on 10 Oct 2002. Haji Khuda Bux Nizamani of PML-F won by 61,741 votes.
Election 2008
General elections were held on 18 Feb 2008. Muhammad Jadam Mangrio of PML-F won by 71,394 votes.
Election 2013
General elections were held on 11 May 2013. Pir Bux Junejo of PML-F won by 90,787 votes and became the member of National Assembly.
References
External links

Election result's official website

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Meigs Raid

The Meigs Raid (also known as the Battle of Sag Harbor) was a military raid by American Continental Army forces, under the command of Connecticut Colonel Return Jonathan Meigs, on a British Loyalist foraging party at Sag Harbor, New York on May 24, 1777 during the American Revolutionary War. Six Loyalists were killed and 90 captured while the Americans suffered no casualties. The raid was made in response to a successful British raid on Danbury, Connecticut in late April that was opposed by American forces in the Battle of Ridgefield.
Organized in New Haven, Connecticut by Brigadier General Samuel Holden Parsons, the expedition crossed Long Island Sound from Guilford on May 23, dragged whaleboats across the North Fork of Long Island, and raided Sag Harbor early the next morning, destroying boats and supplies. The battle marked the first American victory in the state of New York after New York City and Long Island had fallen in the British campaign for the city in...

James Fletcher (industrialist)

Sir James Fletcher (29 March 1886 – 12 August 1974) was a New Zealand industrialist who founded Fletcher Construction, one of the country's largest firms. His son, Sir James Fletcher Junior, continued to build the corporation.
Early life
Fletcher was born at Kirkintilloch, Scotland, and was educated in Glasgow. He was the sixth of thirteen children. He migrated to Dunedin, New Zealand in 1908. He donated New Zealand Marble to the town of Kirkintilloch in 1925 to construct a War Memorial which stands today at the entrance to the town's Peel Park.
Fletcher Construction
In 1908 he established a building business with his brother William John, known as Fletcher Brothers. In 1916, his brother John emigrated to Dunedin and joined the company, and the partnership was formed as a limited liability company, and from 1919 was called the Fletcher Construction Company. In 1940, the company was renamed Fletcher Holdings. James Fletcher moved the businesses...

Heinrich Brunn

Heinrich Brunn (January 23, 1822, Wörlitz – July 23, 1894, Josephstal near Schliersee, Upper Bavaria) was a German archaeologist. He was known for taking a scientific approach in his investigations of classical Greek and Roman art
Brunn studied archaeology and philology at the University of Bonn, where he was influenced by the teachings of Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker (1784-1868) and Friedrich Ritschl (1806-1876). In 1843 he received his doctorate degree with the work Artificum liberae Graeciae tempora, afterwards moving to Rome, where for several years he was associated with the German Archaeological Institute (DAI).
In 1853, he received an appointment at Bonn, but within a few years, returned to Rome as second secretary of the DAI, serving under Wilhelm Henzen (1816-1887). In 1865 he was chosen inaugural professor for archaeology at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich. Among his pupils were Gustav Körte, Adolf Furtwängler, Paul Arndt, Walther Amelung...

Lokundje River

The Lokundje is a river of southwestern Cameroon. It flows near Bipindi and Fifinda and the Ebea Falls. The river played a military role in the French battle against Germany during World War I.
References...

Messier 55

Messier 55 (also known as M55 or NGC 6809 or "The Summer Rose Star") is a globular cluster in the constellation Sagittarius. It was discovered by Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in June 16, 1752 while observing from South Africa. Starting in 1754, Charles Messier made several attempts to find this object from Paris, France, but the low declination meant it never rose sufficiently far above the horizon to allow for easy observation. He finally observed and catalogued it in 1778. The cluster can be seen with a pair of 50 mm binoculars, although resolving the individual stars requires a medium-sized telescope.
M55 is at a distance of about 17,600 light-years away from Earth. It has a mass of about 269,000 times that of the Sun. As with other Milky Way globular clusters, it has a low abundance of elements other than hydrogen and helium compared to the Sun—what astronomers term the metallicity of the cluster. This quantity is normally listed as the base–10 logarithm...

Armeena Khan

Armeena Rana Khan (born March 30, 1987) is Canadian film actress and model based in London and Dubai.
Khan attended high School and college in Canada. She holds a degree in business administration from Manchester Metropolitan University as well as a diploma in Science.
Khan featured in the Faysal Bank print and television advertisement campaign of 2010. This was followed in 2011 by her campaign for Nisha linen by Nishat Group, which was repeated in a larger campaign in 2012. In 2014 Khan collaborated with Gohar Textile Mills PVT to launch her own clothing line. In May 2013 Khan appeared in the British film Writhe, directed by Shiraz Khan, which was screened at the 2013 Cannes film festival.
References
External links

Armeena Rana Khan at the Internet Movie Database
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Twas the Night Before Christmas (musical)

Twas the Night Before Christmas is a 1995 children's musical with a book and lyrics by Bruce C. Miller, music by Bruce C. Miller and Carol Gully, and additional music by Ron Barnett. The show is based on the poem 'Twas the Night Before Christmas, also known as The Night Before Christmas and A Visit From St. Nicholas.
Synopsis
The show takes place in New York, December, 1822. We are introduced to the town as people prepare for Christmas. Clement Moore is particularly urgent, as his daughter, Charity, is terminally ill. Every year he writes a Christmas poem, and he wants it to be so good this year that Charity will have enough cheer to fight the disease. However, he is not able to write anything that is not awful (Welcome to Our Town). Clement and Eliza are discussing Charity and Santa Claus when Charity comes in crying that she accidentally broke the Christmas candles. Eliza goes to make her bed, and Charity tells her father she sometimes...

Christine Beasley

Dame Christine Joan Beasley, DBE (born 13 June 1944, Essex, England, UK) is a British nurse and NHS healthcare administrator.
Career
Beasley began training in 1962 at the Royal London Hospital and worked as a staff nurse. In the 1980s/early 90s she took on senior roles at the Ealing and Riverside Health Authorities, before moving into wider regional nurse director posts at North Thames Regional Health Authority.
She has held a range of senior posts with a broad experience of policy development, leadership and general management including Head of Development with the Directorate of Health and Social Care and Director of Nursing, Human Resources & Organisational Development with the NHS Executive. She established the London Standing Conference, engaging nurses across the capital in leading service improvement and contributing to improvements in clinical practice across the country.
Beasley was appointed as Chief Nursing Officer for England...

25714 Aprillee

25714 Aprillee (provisional designation: 2000 AW160) is a main-belt minor planet. It was discovered by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research project in Socorro, New Mexico, on January 3, 2000. It is named after April S. Lee, an American high school student whose plant sciences project won second place at the 2009 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair.
See also

List of minor planets: 25001–26000

External links

25714 Aprillee at the JPL Small-Body Database




Discovery · Orbit diagram · Orbital elements · Physical parameters


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Sufi, East Azerbaijan

Sufi (Persian: صوفي‎, also Romanized as Şūfī) is a village in Chahardangeh Rural District, Hurand District, Ahar County, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its existence was noted, but its population was not reported.
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Gmina Rudka

Gmina Rudka [ˈrudka] is a rural gmina (Polish:gmina wiejska) in Bielsk County, Podlaskie Voivodeship. It is located in north-eastern Poland.
Geography
Gmina Rudka is located in the geographical region of Europe known as the Wysoczyzny Podlasko – Bialoruskie (English: Podlaskie and Belarus Plateau) and the mezoregion known as the Równina Bielska (English: Bielska Plain).
The gmina covers an area of 70.21 square kilometres (27.1 sq mi).
Location
It is located approximately:

132 kilometres (82.0 mi) north-east of Warsaw, the capital of Poland
53 kilometres (32.9 mi) south-west of Białystok, the capital of the Podlaskie Voivodeship
32 kilometres (19.9 mi) west of Bielsk Podlaski, the seat of Bielsk County

Climate
The region has a continental climate which is characterized by high temperatures during summer and long and frosty winters . The average amount of rainfall during...

Platypodium viride

Platypodium viride is a species of tree in the Fabaceae found in Peru. It is one of two accepted species of Platypodium, the other being P. elegans. It was first described by Julius Rudolph Theodor Vogel in 1837.
References...

Seventh Day Baptist Church (DeRuyter, New York)

Seventh Day Baptist Church is a historic Baptist church located at DeRuyter, Madison County, New York. It was built about 1835 and is a two story, rectangular frame meeting house, sheathed in clapboard and with a gable roof. It features a small projecting pavilion on the front facade and a multi-stage centered steeple. The church membership decided to close in 1991 and the building was deconsecrated in 2000. The building was subsequently acquired by the Tromptown Historical Society.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
References
External links

Tromptown Historical Society website

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Mamluk architecture

Mamluk architecture was a flowering of Islamic art during the reign of the Mamluks (1250–1517 AD) which is most visible in medieval Cairo. Religious zeal made them generous patrons of architecture and art. Trade and agriculture flourished under Mamluk rule, and Cairo, their capital, became one of the wealthiest cities in the Near East and the center of artistic and intellectual activity. This made Cairo, in the words of Ibn Khaldun, "the center of the universe and the garden of the world", with majestic domes, courtyards, and soaring minarets spread across the city.
Contributors
The architectural identity of Mamluk religious monuments stems from the major purpose that individuals erected their own memorials, therefore adding a high degree of individuality. Each building reflected the patron's individual tastes, choices, and name. Mamluk architecture is oftentimes categorized more by the reigns of the major sultan, than a specific design. Interestingly...

Le Anne Schreiber

Le Anne Schreiber (born August 4, 1945) is a former ESPN ombudsman.
Schreiber replaced George Solomon in this position, who had served for twenty-one months as ombudsman. Schreiber had a two-year contract as ombudsman and wrote at least one column a month, with her tenure coming to an end in March 2009.
Prior to her work as the ESPN ombudsman, Schreiber had been a sports editor for The New York Times. She has also covered the 1976 Montreal Olympics and been editor-in-chief of womenSports magazine. She is also a decorated journalist, having won a National Magazine Award in 1991.
Schreiber, the author of Midstream: An Intimate Journal of Loss and Discovery, is divorced and lives in rural upstate New York. She has a master's degree from Harvard and has been a professor at University at Albany, SUNY and Columbia. Her book Light Years was a New York Times 1996 Notable Book of the Year.
Originally from Evanston, Illinois...

Petruška

Petruška is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Patrik Petruška (born 1991), Czech ice hockey player
Richard Petruška (born 1969), Slovak basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association

See also

Petrushka
Petrushka (disambiguation)
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Die PARTEI

Die PARTEI (English: The [Political] Party), formally Partei für Arbeit, Rechtstaat, Tierschutz, Elitenförderung und basisdemokratische Initiative (English: Party for Labour, Rule of Law, Animal Protection, Promotion of Elites and Grassroots Democratic Initiative), is a German political party that was founded in 2004 by the editors of the German satirical magazine Titanic. It is led by Martin Sonneborn. In the 2014 European Parliament election, the party won a seat, marking the first time that a satirical party has won a seat to the European Parliament.
Name
"PARTEI" is an acronym for Partei für Arbeit, Rechtsstaat, Tierschutz, Elitenförderung und basisdemokratische Initiative ("Party for Labour, Rule of Law, Animal Protection, Promotion of Elites and Grassroot-Democratic Initiative"). At the same time, "Partei" is German for party. Usage of the definite article ("die PARTEI") is evocative of...

Marko Tuulola

Marko Tuulola (born February 7, 1971 in Hämeenlinna, Finland) is a Finnish professional ice hockey defenceman. He currently represents HPK formerly for Jokerit in the Finnish SM-liiga.
Achievements

Pekka Rautakallio trophy for best defenseman in the SM-liiga - 2003

References
External links

Marko Tuulola's career statistics at The Internet Hockey Database
Marko Tuulola profile at Eurohockey.com

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Esso Trinidad Steel Band

The Esso Trinidad Steel Band was a steel band from Trinidad, active from 1942 to 1976.
History
The group began in 1942 as the Tripoli Steel Band, named after a lyric in the United States Marines' Hymn. In 1951, the group came under the leadership of Hugh Borde, who directed the ensemble to greater technical skill and established them as contenders in local Carnival competitions. In 1964, the group won the Steel Band Music Festival. The following year, the petroleum corporation Esso began sponsoring the group, who renamed themselves the Esso Trinidad Steel Band. Under Esso's sponsorship, the group grew to 28 members and was outfitted with uniforms and new instruments, and in 1967 they appeared at the Montreal Expo.
The band's performance at the Expo led to a record contract with ARC Sound, a label based in Toronto. Following this, Warner Bros. Records picked them up, and Van Dyke Parks produced a full-length album which was released in 1971. Soon after...

Arnold, Brooke County, West Virginia

Arnold is an unincorporated community on Cross Creek in Brooke County, West Virginia, United States.
References
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Kansas Children's Discovery Center

The Kansas Children's Discovery Center is a nonprofit children's museum for children and families to explore and discover science, art, engineering, and nature together. The Discovery Center is located in Topeka's treasured Gage Park at 4400 SW 10th Ave Topeka, Kansas.
External links

Kansas Children's Discovery Center Official website
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Robert Henry (bowls)

Robert Henry is a former lawn bowls competitor for New Zealand.
At the 1950 British Empire Games in Auckland he won the men's pairs gold medal alongside Evan Exelby.
References
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Rovt, Dobrova–Polhov Gradec

Rovt (pronounced [ˈɾoːu̯t]) is a dispersed settlement in the hills west of Polhov Gradec in the Municipality of Dobrova–Polhov Gradec in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia.
Name
The name Rovt is derived from the common noun rovt 'glade, clearing', referring to a meadow on cleared land in a hilly area. The Slovene word rovt is derived from Old High German rût 'clearing'. Like other places with similar names (e.g., Rovte, Rut), this name refers to a local geographical feature.
References
External links

Rovt on Geopedia

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Jeremy McKinney

Jeremy Adam McKinney (born January 6, 1976) is a former American football offensive guard who played two seasons in the National Football League with the Cleveland Browns and Dallas Cowboys. He played college football at the University of Iowa and attended Horizon High School in Thornton, Colorado. He was also a member of the St. Louis Rams and Houston Texans.
References
External links

Just Sports Stats
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The Weightless EP

The Weightless EP is the first release under the name Stillman by singer-songwriter Chaz Craik.
Recording
The EP was performed and recorded in Craik's home studio with the exception of the drums played by Ben Townsend at an unknown studio. Craik took the edited audio files to Propagation House, Holsworthy, Devon where he oversaw the mixing and mastering of the EP. Upon return to London he decided the mastering process had overly-flattened the music's dynamics and remastered the mixes himself.
Cover Art
The cover art was done by Craik himself and features an early version of what would go on to become the Stillman logo, namely the stick figure in the circle. Craik has said that it originally represented a magnifiying glass focused on a person falling off the edge off the world. A theme that is set out in the lyrics of the title track. The image seemed to strike a chord with listeners of the album and it was differently interpreted...

Tsarong

Tsarong Dazang Dramdul (Tibetan: ཚ་རོང་ཟླ་བཟང་དགྲ་འདུལ་, Wylie: tsha-rong zla-bzang dgra-'dul; Chinese: 擦绒·达桑占堆; pinyin: Cāróng Dásāng Zhānduī) commonly known simply as Tsarong or by his title Tsarong Dzasa, born Namgang (1888–1959) was a Tibetan diplomat, military figure, economist, civil engineer and close aide of the 13th Dalai Lama. He was an important figure in the early twentieth century conflict with the Chinese and was active in protecting Tibet militarily as the Commander in Chief of Tibet. Eager to accelerate economic progression and pursue the modernisation of Tibet, Tsarong believed that the old order in Tibet had to be broken by hierarchical reforms to prepare the way for a more modern society which would be compatible with the outside world. In his efforts to build up Tibet's defense systems and relations with European powers as well as to facilitate trade and strengthen the Tibetan currency, he made a series of diplomatic visits...

Per Tønder

Per Tønder (born 6 April 1911) is a Norwegian priest and politician for the Labour Party.
He served as a deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway from Troms during the terms 1954–1957, 1958–1961 and 1961–1965. He served as mayor of Salangen from 1964 to 1984. He spent most of his career there, as vicar for twenty-five years since 1957. As mayor he was also a member of Troms county council.
He is decorated with the King's Medal of Merit in gold. In 2012 he celebrated his 101st birthday, now residing in Nøtterøy.
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USS Long Beach (PF-34)

The second USS Long Beach (PF-34) was a Tacoma-class frigate in commission from 1943 to 1945. She later served in the Soviet Navy as EK-2 and then in the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force as Shii (PF-17) and Shii (PF-297) and YAS-44.
Construction and commissioning
Long Beach was laid down 19 March 1943 as a patrol gunboat, PG-142, for the Maritime Commission by Consolidated Steel Corporation, in Wilmington, California. Reclassified as a patrol frigate, PF-34, on 15 April 1943, she was launched on 5 May 1943, sponsored by Mrs. Walter Boyd; and acquired by the Navy and commissioned on 8 September 1943, with Lieutenant Commander T. R. Midtlying, USCG, in command.
Service history
U.S. Navy, World War II, 1943-1945
Following shakedown off California, Long Beach departed San Diego, on 12 January 1944 for Cairns, Australia, arriving there...