The second USS Canonicus was the Southern Pacific freighter El Cid temporarily converted for planting the World War I North Sea Mine Barrage.  Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company launched El Cid at Newport News, Virginia on 7 October 1899 for service between New York City and Gulf of Mexico seaports of New Orleans and Galveston, Texas.  The United States Shipping Board took control of the ship from Southern Pacific Steamship Company in 1917.

She was fitted out for United States Navy service by Morse Dry Dock and Repair Company at Brooklyn, New York.  Work began on 22 November 1917.  Gun platforms were added for two anti-aircraft guns forward and a 5"/51 caliber gun aft.  The minelaying conversion enabled her to carry mines on three decks, and included six Otis elevators individually capable of transferring two mines every 20 seconds from the storage decks to the launching deck.  Stern ports were cut for launching the mines and the rudder quadrant was raised to give adequate clearance.  Watertight subdivision was improved by strengthening existing bulkheads and building two new bulkheads to divide the largest compartments so the ship might stay afloat if only one compartment were flooded.  Quarters were enlarged to accommodate messing and berthing arrangements for a crew of about 400.  The main machinery was overhauled and auxiliary machinery was added for the elevators, for heating the berthing spaces, for refrigerated food storage, for additional fresh water distilling capacity, for magazine sprinklers and galley and washroom plumbing, and enlarged electric generators for lighting and radio communications.  Existing coal bunkers on the third deck were replaced with a bunker in the hold forward of the boiler room with chutes to load coal over the mines.  Larger boats and heavier anchors required larger davits and anchor windlass, and the mines required specialized handling machinery.

USS Canonicus was commissioned on 2 March 1918.  Canonicus cleared Newport, Rhode Island on 12 May 1918 and reached Inverness, Scotland on 27 May 1918.  While operating as part of Mine Squadron 1 from 7 June until the close of the war on 11 November 1918, Canonicus:
 planted 763 mines during the 1st minelaying excursion on 7 June,
 planted 710 mines during the 2nd minelaying excursion on 30 June,
 planted 798 mines during the 3rd minelaying excursion on 14 July,
 planted 810 mines during the 4th minelaying excursion on 29 July,
 planted 170 mines during the 5th minelaying excursion on 8 August,
 planted 640 mines during the 6th minelaying excursion on 18 August,
 planted 810 mines during the 7th minelaying excursion on 26 August,
 planted 820 mines during the 8th minelaying excursion on 7 September,
 planted 830 mines during the 9th minelaying excursion on 20 September,
 planted 860 mines during the 10th minelaying excursion on 27 September,
 planted 860 mines during the 11th minelaying excursion on 4 October,
 planted 820 mines during the 12th minelaying excursion on 13 October, and
 planted 890 mines during the final 13th minelaying excursion on 24 October.

Canonicus returned to Hampton Roads, Virginia, on 3 January 1919 and was assigned to the Cruiser and Transport Force on 7 February 1919.  She made three voyages as a troop transport between the United States East Coast and France, returning 4,166 troops to the United States.  Canonicus was decommissioned on 7 August 1919 and returned to the Southern Pacific Steamship Company.

Big Four
In the words of British Rear Admiral Lewis Clinton-Baker, the North Sea mine barrage was the "biggest mine planting stunt in the world's history."  The United States converted eight civilian steamships as minelayers for the 100,000 mines manufactured for the barrage.  The largest of these were four freighters owned by Southern Pacific Steamship Company.  Southern Pacific Transportation Company had evolved from the First transcontinental railroad to become the dominant transportation provider in California.  Owners of the original Central Pacific Railroad were known as the Big Four.  Sailors similarly referred to these former Southern Pacific ships as the Big Four.
 El Siglo became No. 1694
 El Dia became No. 1695
 El Cid became No. 1696
 El Rio became No. 1697

References

External links
Department of the Navy: Naval Historical Center: Online Library of Selected Images: U.S. Navy Ships: USS Canonicus (ID # 1696), 1918-1919

World War I mine warfare vessels of the United States
Transports of the United States Navy
1899 ships
Unique minelayers of the United States Navy
Ships built in Newport News, Virginia


Class 69 may refer to:
British Rail Class 69, a class of diesel locomotive converted from existing class 56 locomotives
NSB Class 69, a Norwegian passenger train
 DRG Class 69, a German 2-2-2T passenger locomotive class operated by the Deutsche Reichsbahn following the annexation of Austria prior to World War II and comprising:
BBÖ Class 12, locomotives 69 001 - 002
KkStB Class 112, locomotive 69 011

See also
 Type 69 (disambiguation)


Kurt Georg Hugo Thomas (25 May 1904 – 31 March 1973) was a German composer, conductor and music educator.

Life
Thomas was born in Tönning. The family lived from 1910 in Lennep where he attended the  from 1913 to 1922. Completing with the Abitur on 21 April 1922, he studied law and music at the Leipzig University. He completed his studies in 1925 and worked as a lecturer of music theory at the Landeskonservatorium der Musik zu Leipzig. He composed a Mass in A minor as his Op. 1, which earned him the Beethoven Prize of the Preußische Akademie der Künste in 1927. Initiated by Karl Straube, he was appointed a teacher of composition and leader of the Kantorei (chorale) of the  (Institute of church music). The choir was named "Kurt-Thomas-Kantorei" and toured in Germany.

Thomas was professor of choral conducting at the Akademische Hochschule für Musik in Berlin from 1934 to 1939. During this time, he composed a cantata for the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936, the Kantate zur Olympiade 1936 (Olympic Cantata 1936) as an entry for a competition of the Reichsmusikkammer, which won a silver medal. He became a member of the NSDAP in 1940, number 7.463.935.

From 1939 to 1945, Thomas was director of the Musisches Gymnasium Frankfurt (High school with main courses in music). Among his students were choral conductors Heinz Hennig and Hans-Joachim Rotzsch, composers Alfred Koerppen, Wolfgang Pasquay, Wolfgang Schoor, Siegfried Strohbach, Paul Kuhn, and organist .

From 1945, Thomas was Kantor (church musician) at the Dreikönigskirche in Frankfurt. From 1947 to 1955, Thomas was professor of conducting, especially choral conducting, at the Nordwestdeutsche Musikakademie, now the Hochschule für Musik Detmold. His students there have included composers , Diether de la Motte and Gerd Zacher, and church musicians  and . He kept his position at the Dreikönigskirche to 1957.

Thomas was the Thomaskantor, the cantor of the Thomanerchor, from 1957 to 1960. He succeeded Günther Ramin on 1 April 1957. When a planned tour of the Thomanerchor to West Germany was cancelled in 1960, he left the post. From 1961, he conducted the concerts of the choir . Simultaneously, he founded in Frankfurt the concert choir Frankfurter Kantorei, mostly of members of the Kantorei of the Dreikönigskirche, and conducted the choir to 1969.

Thomas was also professor at the Musikhochschule Lübeck from 1965. He died in Bad Oeynhausen.

Work
As a composer, Thomas focused on choral music. He returned to a cappella music which he combined with late-romantic musical idioms. Works such as his Messe in a-Moll (Mass in A minor) of 1924 and Markuspassion (St. Mark Passion) of 1927 were part of a reformed music in the Protestant churches after 1920. He published a book on choral conducting in three volumes, Lehrbuchs der Chorleitung, which was reprinted in 1991, revised and expanded.

 Mass in A minor for choir a cappella, Op. 1 (1924)
 Violin Sonata in E minor, Op. 2
 Markuspassion (1927)
 Psalm 137 (An den Wassern zu Babel saßen wir) for four-part choirs a cappella (1928)
 Weihnachtsoratorium, Op. 17 (1930/31); premiered 4 December 1931 by
 Organ Variations, Op. 19, on "Es ist ein Schnitter, heißt der Tod" (1932)
 Motets, Op. 21, including
 Fürwahr, er trug unsre Krankheit
 Gott wird abwischen alle Tränen
 Jauchzet Gott alle Lande
 Herr, sei mir gnädig
 Herr, ich habe lieb die Stätte deines Hauses
 Von der ewigen Liebe
 Cantata for the Olympic Games, Op. 28 (1936)
 Festliche Musik für Orgel, Op. 35
 Saat und Ernte, Op. 36 (oratorio)
 Eichendorff-Kantate, Op. 37 (1938)
 Drei Abendlieder for mezzo-soprano and piano after  (1943)

Recordings
Thomas recorded Bach's Christmas Oratorio twice, with choir and orchestra of the Detmold Akademy in 1951, and with the Thomanerchor in 1958, with the Gewandhausorchester and soloists Agnes Giebel, Marga Höffgen, Josef Traxel and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. He conducted several Bach cantatas with the Thomanerchor in a series Bach Made in Germany, including the first recording of Hermann Prey as the bassist in Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen, BWV 56, and several secular cantatas.

Literature
 : Kurt Thomas. Studien zu Leben und Werk. Merseburger, Kassel 1989, .
 Werner Heldmann: Musisches Gymnasium Frankfurt am Main 1939 – 1945. Eine Schule im Spannungsfeld von pädagogischer Verantwortung, künstlerischer Freiheit und politischer Doktrin. Peter Lang, Frankfurt 2004, .
 Manfred Kluge (ed.): Chorerziehung und neue Musik. Für Kurt Thomas zum 65. Geburtstag. Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden 1969.
 Corinna Wörner: Zwischen Anpassung und Resistenz. Der Thomanerchor Leipzig in zwei politischen Systemen. Studien und Materialien zur Musikwissenschaft, Bd. 123. Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim 2023. (Abstract) ISBN 978-3-487-16232-4

References

External links

 Musensöhne documentary about Kurt Thomas and the Musisches Gymnasium Frankfurt am Main (1939–45)] (90 minutes), WDR 2012
 Kurt Thomas (Conductor, Thomaskantor, Composer) Bach Cantatas Website
 Kurt Thomas (1904-1973), a remarkable Thomas Kantor and Bach conductor  authenticsound.org

1904 births
1973 deaths
People from Tönning
Olympic silver medalists in art competitions
Thomaskantors
Bach conductors
Academic staff of the Hochschule für Musik Detmold
20th-century conductors (music)
20th-century German composers
Medalists at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Olympic competitors in art competitions


Mahadevsthan is a village development committee in Sindhuli District in the Janakpur Zone of south-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 5,772 people living in 913 individual households.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Sindhuli District

Populated places in Sindhuli District


Atherstone Nature Reserve, also known as the Atherstone Collaborative Nature Reserve, is a 23,500 hectare reserve situated close to Dwaalboom, in the Limpopo, province in South Africa. The reserve consists mainly of vast savannah plains with bushveld and Kalahari grasslands ecosystems. Besides antelopes, zebras and giraffes, the south-central black rhinoceros and African bush elephants are one of the highlights of Atherstone.

History

Norman Edward Atherstone, who was originally a cattle farmer and become the first game farmer In this area, did a lot to re-introduce some game on his farmland, which was then called the Atherstone Game Reserve. He never had a wife nor children and, in his last will, he donated his farms to the former Transvaal Nature Conservation Department. In 1990 the Atherstone Nature Reserve was founded; it became the Atherstone Collaborative Nature Reserve in 1994, after some private farms were also incorporated into the reserve.

Animals

The following list of animals were taken from pamphlet of the nature reserve.

Common animal species found in the reserve:

Common bird species found in the reserve:

See also
 Protected areas of South Africa
 Limpopo Tourism and Parks Board

References

Further reading

External links
 Limpopo Tourism & Parks

Nature reserves in South Africa


TKH Toruń is a Polish ice hockey team from Toruń, Poland playing in the Polska Hokej Liga, the top level ice hockey league in Poland.

Team information
 Full name: Klub Sportowy Toruń HSA
 Address: Bema 23/29, 87-100 Toruń
 Home arena name: Tor-Tor
 Home arena capacity: 3,200

Trophies and successes
 Polish League 2nd place: 1968
 Polish League 3rd place: 1928, 1950, 1967, 1969, 1996
 Polish 1. Liga champions: 2002, 2011
 Polish Cup winner: 2006
 Polish Cup finalist: 2004

Latest seasons in PHL/Polish 1. Liga

Current roster
Updated January 25, 2009

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Staff
 Head coach: Jarmo Tolvanen
 Assistant: Andrzej Masewicz
 Director: Jarosław Ciesielski
 Doctor: Wojciech Piotrowski
 Masseur: Bartosz Nienartowicz

See also
 Polska Hokej Liga
 Polish 1. Liga

External links

 Nesta Mires Toruń club profile on eurohockey.com

Ice hockey teams in Poland
Ice hockey clubs established in 1924
Sport in Toruń


Mahendrajhayadi  is a village development committee in Sindhuli District in the Janakpur Zone of south-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3,738 people living in 568 individual households.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Sindhuli District

Populated places in Sindhuli District


Tribhuvan Ambote  is a village development committee in Sindhuli District in the Janakpur Zone of south-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 2,895 people living in 526 individual households.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Sindhuli District

Populated places in Sindhuli District


The Men's Discus Throw F33-34/52 had its Final held on September 8 at 17:00.

Medalists

Results

References
Final

Athletics at the 2008 Summer Paralympics


East Timor–Russia relations () are the bilateral relations between East Timor and Russia. Neither country has a resident ambassador. Russia was one of the first countries to recognize East Timor's independence and took part in nearly all UN aid programs, providing food and relief personnel, including civil and transport aviation pilots.

Diplomatic ties
On 20 May 2002, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed an ukaz recognising the independence of East Timor, and instructed the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to establish diplomatic relations with the newly independent state. On 24 June 2002, Alexander Vladimirovich Yakovenko of the Russian Foreign Ministry announced that following negotiations with East Timorese representatives, it was confirmed that Russia had established diplomatic relations with East Timor. Russia is represented in East Timor through its embassy in Jakarta (Indonesia).

After the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine had begin, East Timor expressed concern and called on the parties to the conflict to agree to an immediate ceasefire and seek a diplomatic solution. According to an official statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, "Ukraine's independence must be respected." At the eleventh emergency special session of the United Nations General Assembly on 2 March 2022, East Timor voted to condemn Russia for attacking Ukraine and to demand an immediate withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine. East Timor also supported the suspension of Russia's membership of the UN Human Rights Council.

Humanitarian ties
In June 2001, Russian airline TyumenAviaTrans (now known as UTair), was awarded a one-year contract to supply the United Nations Mission of Support to East Timor with helicopter support utilising the Mil Mi-26, in a contract worth US-Dollar 6.5 million.

See also

Foreign relations of East Timor
Foreign relations of Russia

References

Bilateral relations of Russia
Russia


The history of ambassadors of the United States to Ukraine began in 1992. Until 1991, the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic had been a constituent SSR of the Soviet Union.

History
Upon the breakup of the USSR, the parliament of Ukraine declared the nation's independence on August 24, 1991. On December 1, 1991, the people of Ukraine voted to approve the declaration by a wide margin.

The United States recognized Ukraine on December 26, 1991, and the U.S. embassy in Kyiv was established on January 23, 1992, with Jon Gundersen as Chargé d'Affaires ad interim. The first ambassador was commissioned in May 1992.

The U.S. Embassy in Ukraine is located in Kyiv. In January 2022, the embassy requested the evacuation of non-essential personnel and their families as the 2021–2022 Russo-Ukrainian crisis escalated.

Chiefs of mission

See also

 Ukraine–United States relations
 Ambassadors of the United States
 Embassy of the United States, Kyiv
 Embassy of Ukraine, Washington, D.C.
 Ambassadors of Ukraine to the United States of America

Notes

References
United States Department of State: Background notes on Ukraine

External links
 United States Department of State: Chiefs of Mission for Ukraine
 United States Department of State: Ukraine
 United States Embassy in Ukraine

Ukraine

United States


The men's C-1 1000 metres event was an open-style, individual canoeing event conducted as part of the Canoeing at the 2000 Summer Olympics program.

Medallists

Results

Heats
18 competitors were entered on 26 September. The top three finishers in each heat moved on to the final. Fourth through seventh-place finishers from each heat and the fastest eighth-place finisher advanced to the semifinal

Overall Results Heats

Semifinal
The top three finishers in the semifinal advanced to the final.

Kilingaridis's disqualification was not disclosed in the official report.

Final

References
2000 Summer Olympics Canoe sprint results.
Sports-reference.com 2000 C-1 1000 m results.
Wallechinsky, David and Jaime Loucky (2008). "Canoeing: Men's Canadian Singles 1000 Meters". In The Complete Book of the Olympics: 2008 Edition. London: Aurum Press, Limited. p. 481.

Men's C-1 1000
Men's events at the 2000 Summer Olympics


Zenon Kitowski (born 1962) is one of the most talented and recognized clarinet players of Poland. He was born in a Kashubian town of Kartuzë (pol. Kartuzy). After winning the Kurpiński International Clarinet Competition in Włoszakowice (Poland) in 1982, Kitowski accepted principal clarinetist position with Jerzy Maksymiuk’s Polish Chamber Orchestra and Sinfonia Varsovia.  As a renowned musician, Zenon has appeared frequently as soloist with the Polish Radio and Television Orchestra in Warsaw where he has been holding the principal clarinetist chair since 1993. Zenon Kitowski also collaborates with various chamber ensembles and while his playing captivates with agility and ease, his rich and warm tone combined with incredible control which affords him with the superior skills needed to express full dynamic and emotional range of any orchestral or soloist work.

Kitowski is also an accomplished clarinet teacher. A student of late Władysław Świercz and Ryszard Sztajerwald, Zenon not only developed his trademark warm, wooden clarinet tone but also a unique ability to convey years of his professional experience to students, who often share these qualities.

References
Jack Brymer, Clarinet. (Yehudi Menuhin Music Guides) Hardback and paperback, 296 pages, Kahn & Averill.
David Pino, The Clarinet and Clarinet Playing. Providence: Dover Pubns, 1998.
Cyrille Rose, Artistic Studies, Book 1. ed. David Hite. San Antonio: Southern Music, 1986.
Various, Play Clarinet Today!. Leonard Hal Inc., (Creator.)
Hyacinthe Klose, Celebrated Method for the Clarinet: Complete Edition. Carl Fischer.

1962 births
Living people
People from Kartuzy
Kashubians
Polish musicians
21st-century clarinetists


The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (; ) (BMA) is the local government of Bangkok (also called Krung Thep Maha Nakhon in Thai), which includes the capital of the Kingdom of Thailand. The government is composed of two branches: the executive (or the Governor of Bangkok) and the legislative (or Bangkok Metropolitan Council). The administration's roles are to formulate and implement policies to manage Bangkok. Its purview includes transport services, urban planning, waste management, housing, roads and highways, security services, and the environment.

According to the Thailand Future Foundation, Bangkok employs a workforce of 97,000, including 3,200 municipal officers in Bangkok city,  200 in the city Law Enforcement Department, and 3,000 in district offices.

Departments
BMA has 65 departments in total, 50 of which are departments respective to the 50 districts of Bangkok. The rest consist of: Strategy and Planning Department, Finance Department, Bureau of the Budget, Public Works Department, Drainage and Sewerage Department, Department of Social Development, Department of Environment, Culture, Sports and Tourism Department, Health Department, Bangkok Educational Office, Traffic and Transport Department, Department of Planning and Urban Development, Office of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation and the Medical Services Department.

Department of Law Enforcement
City Law Enforcement Department is the primary unit for overseeing security and orderliness of Bangkok with more than 3,000 quality personnel. Which has 5 important tasks which are to organize the city,  Security,  Traffic supervision, Tourism Administration and other special missions. Responsible for overseeing, investigating, arresting, prosecuting and enforcing Bangkok Metropolis regulations and other laws within the jurisdiction of Bangkok including operations beyond the authority of the district office or in the case of serious danger to most people.

Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation
The Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation operates the city's fire and rescue services. The Bangkok City Council reported in February 2018 that, of Bangkok's 874 fire trucks, only 88 were in "good" condition. Another 340 were rated "only just usable", 232 were "dilapidated", and 225 were parked permanently. Firefighting boats were found to be in roughly the same shape: three of 31 vessels were ranked in "good" condition and 21 were out of service and permanently docked. The BMA's firefighting unit has not been allocated a vehicle maintenance budget for nearly 10 years. The BMA employs 1,800 firefighters .

Department of Medical Services
The Department of Medical Services operates 11 hospitals and is headquartered at BMA General Hospital (Klang Hospital) in Pom Prap Sattru Phai District. Other hospitals include Taksin Hospital, Charoenkrung Pracharak Hospital, Sirindhorn Hospital, Lat Krabang Hospital, Luang Pho Taweesak Hospital, Wetchakarunrasm Hospital, Ratchaphiphat Hospital, Khlong Sam Wa Hospital, Bang Na Hospital and the Bang Khun Thian Geriatric Hospital. The department also operates the Erawan Medical Centre for emergency medical services.

Department of Planning and Urban Development
The Department of Planning and Urban Development are divided to Secretarial Office, Town Planning Office, Urban Development and Renewal Office, Geo-Informatics Office, Town Planning Control Division, Policy and Planning Division. The department has a duty to planning of the city including planning for the development of specific areas, planning for conservation Rehabilitation and planning for urban development and also an agency for controlling, promoting and inspecting the use of land and buildings.

Navamindradhiraj University

BMA autonomously manages Navamindradhiraj University, of which the Faculty of Medicine Vajira Hospital and Kuakarun Faculty of Nursing are part.

Krungthep Thanakom
Krungthep Thanakom Company Limited is the BMA's holding company for public investment projects such as the concession for the BTS Skytrain and a 20 billion baht underground cable project.

Budget
Bangkok's FY2024 budget totals ฿90,570,138,630. Most of the budget goes to civil construction and maintenance projects.

Governor of Bangkok

The Governor of Bangkok (, ) is the head of the local government of Bangkok. The governor is also the chief executive of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA). The governor is elected to a renewable term of four years, currently it is one of the two directly elected executive offices in the kingdom. The office is comparable to that of a city mayor.

From 2016 to 2022 Pol Gen Aswin Kwanmuang acted as Governor of Bangkok. He was appointed by Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha using Section 44 of the interim charter to replace Sukhumbhand Paribatra. The reason given for his ouster was "...because he was involved in many legal cases."

The current incumbent is Chadchart Sittipunt. He was elected in a landslide victory in the 2022 Bangkok gubernatorial election, receiving 52.65 % (1.38 Million) of all votes cast, marking a new record-high, and winning in all 50 districts of Bangkok.

Powers and roles
The powers and role of the office of Governor of Bangkok in accordance with the  ( are as follows:

 Formulate and implement policies for the Bangkok Metropolitan Area.
 Head the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration.
 Appoint and remove deputy governors, advisors, board members, city officials, and public servants.
 Coordinate and carry out the orders of the Cabinet of Thailand, the Prime Minister of Thailand, and the Ministry of Interior.
 Oversee the smooth running of the various agencies and services of the city.
 The governor is also invested with the same powers as any other governor of a province of Thailand and any other mayor.
 The power to draw up legislation and bills for the city, to be considered in the Bangkok Metropolitan Council.

History
Since 1973, the city was administered by a single executive appointed by the cabinet from city civil servants. However soon, it was determined that the executive office should a popularly elected office instead. The passage of the  (, created the Bangkok Metropolis to replace Bangkok Province and created an elected governor with a four-year term.

The first election for the office was held on the 10 August 1975. Thamnoon Thien-ngern was elected as the first Governor of Bangkok. Conflicts between the governor and the Bangkok Metropolitan Council, however, became so fierce that Thanin Kraivichien, the Prime Minister of Thailand removed him and reinstated the appointment system. Elections resumed with the passing of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration Act, BE 2528 (1985). Elections were held on 14 November 1985.

List of governors

Unless otherwise indicated, they were elected.

Bangkok Metropolitan Council

The Bangkok Metropolitan Council or BMC ( is the legislative branch of the administration. It is vested with primary legislative powers as well as the power to scrutinize and advise the governor. The council is headed by the Chairman of the Bangkok Metropolitan Council (. The current chairman, since 2013, is Captain Kriangsak Lohachala.

The number of members depends on the size of Bangkok's population. One member represents one hundred thousand people. From 2010 to 2014 there were 61 members, elected from 57 constituencies (some constituencies elect more than one member) in Bangkok. Each is elected to a four-year term. The last election was held on 22 May 2022. Currently there are 50 members, with Pheu Thai making up 20 seats, Move Forward 14 seats, the Democrat Party 9 seats, Rak Krungthep 3 seats, Phalang Pracharat 2 seats and Thai Srang Thai another 2 seats.

Committees
The council is divided into 11 general committees with five to nine members appointed by the councillors themselves:
 Committee of Cleanliness and Environment
 Committee for Checking the Minutes of Sittings and for Considering Closure of the Minutes of the Secret Sittings
 Committee for the Affairs of the Bangkok Metropolitan Council
 Committee for the Public Works and Utilities
 Committee for Education and Culture
 Committee for Health
 Committee for Community Development and Social Welfare
 Committee for Local Administration and Orderliness
 Committee for Economics, Finance, and Follow-up of Budget Utilization
 Committee for Tourism and Sports
 Committee for Traffic, Transportation, and Drainage

Secretariat of the council
The Secretariat of the Bangkok Metropolitan Council ( is the executive agency of the council. The secretariat helps the council in all its roles including drafting of legislation, organisation of sessions, minutes and procedures of the council. The secretariat also helps members of the council by providing research and legal counsel. The secretariat is headed by the Secretary of the Bangkok Metropolitan Council ( The current secretary is Manit Tej-Apichok. The secretariat itself is divided into nine sections:

 General Administration Section
 Council and Committee Meetings Section
 Working Committees Section
 Legislation Section
 Legal Section
 Foreign Affairs Section
 Council Service Section
 Academic Section
 Secretary Section

Criticism
The Bangkok Post has made the point that, although the city suffers from the "worst traffic congestion in the world after Mexico City", 37 disparate agencies are responsible for traffic management, planning, and infrastructure. It maintains that the city government panders to personal automobile use. As evidence, it points to the city's plans to construct four new bridges across the Chao Phraya River, its runaway air pollution, its lack of green space—less than that of any other Asian capital—and its "...obsession with felling trees along Bangkok streets."

See also
Provinces of Thailand
Districts of Bangkok
History of Bangkok

References

External links
 Bangkok Metropolitan Administration

Metropolitan Administration

1973 establishments in Thailand


"Hi no Tori" *(火の鳥; "Fire Bird", or "Phoenix") is the 12th single by Mika Nakashima, and was used as the ending theme for the NHK anime Hi no Tori. It reached #9 on the Oricon weekly charts and sold roughly 40,000 copies.

Track listing
 "Hi no Tori" (火の鳥; "Fire Bird", "Phoenix"
 "Missing
 "Hi no Tori" (Instrumental)

References

2004 singles
Mika Nakashima songs
2004 songs


The 1937 Giro d'Italia was the 25th edition of the Giro d'Italia, organized and sponsored by the newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport. The race began on 8 May in Milan with a stage that stretched  to Turin, finishing back in Milan on 30 May after a split stage and a total distance covered of . The race was won by Gino Bartali of the Legnano team, with fellow Italians Giovanni Valetti and Enrico Mollo coming in second and third respectively.

Participants

Of the 98 riders that began the Giro d'Italia on 8 May, 41 of them made it to the finish in Milan on 30 May. Riders were allowed to ride on their own or as a member of a team or group; 65riders competed as part of a team, while the remaining 33 competed independently. The four teams that partook in the race were: Bianchi, Fréjus, Ganna, and Legnano. Each team was composed of seven riders. There were also seven groups, made up of five riders each, that participated in the race. Those groups were: Italiani All'Estero, Bertoldo, Il Littoriale, S S. Parioli, Belgi, Svizzeri, and Tedeschi.

The peloton was composed primarily of Italian riders. The field featured four former Giro d'Italia winners with the 1931 race winner Francesco Camusso, 1934 winner Learco Guerra, Vasco Bergamaschi who won the race in 1935, and returning champion Gino Bartali. Other notable Italian riders included Olimpio Bizzi, Giovanni Valetti, and Giuseppe Olmo. Notable foreign entrants were the Belgian riders Alfons Deloor, Alfons Schepers, and Antoine Dignef, and also the Swiss rider Leo Amberg who placed high at the 1936 Tour de France.

Route and stages

Classification leadership

The leader of the general classification – calculated by adding the stage finish times of each rider – wore a pink jersey. This classification is the most important of the race, and its winner is considered as the winner of the Giro.

The liberi classification, one similar to the general classification was calculated, using only independent riders and riders that came as members of groups.

In the mountains classification, the race organizers selected different mountains that the route crossed and awarded points to the riders who crossed them first.

The winner of the team classification was determined by adding the finish times of the best three cyclists per team together and the team with the lowest total time was the winner. If a team had fewer than three riders finish, they were not eligible for the classification. The group classification was decided in the same manner, but the classification was exclusive to the competing groups.

The rows in the following table correspond to the jerseys awarded after that stage was run.

Final standings

General classification

Liberi classification

Mountains classification

Team classification

Group classification

References

Notes

Citations

Bibliography

1937
Giro d'Italia
Giro d'Italia
Giro d'Italia


Youssef Al Thuwaney (born August 14, 1977) is a Kuwaiti footballer who played for Al Arabi Kuwait of the Kuwaiti Premier League as a goalkeeper.

He played for Al-Arabi in the 2007 AFC Champions League group stage.

References

1977 births
Living people
Kuwaiti men's footballers
Men's association football goalkeepers
Kuwait men's international footballers
Khaitan SC players
Al-Arabi SC (Kuwait) players
Kuwait Premier League players


Majhuwa (Nepali:मझुवा) is a village development committee in Sindhuli District in the Janakpur Zone of south-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 2,540 people living in 470 individual households.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Sindhuli District

Populated places in Sindhuli District


The third USS Canonicus (YT-187) was a United States Navy harbor tug which entered service in 1941 and was discarded in 1947.

It was built in Beaumont, Texas as the Thomas E. Moran for the Moran Towing Co., and purchased from them by the navy on 1 May 1941. Renamed Canonicus, it was placed in service on 3 June 1941. It served in the 1st Naval District and 5th Naval District.

Canonicus was transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal on 30 April 1947, and was repurchased by Moran Towing, becoming the Mary Moran. It ultimate fate is unknown.

References

Tugs of the United States Navy
World War II auxiliary ships of the United States


Public water supply and sanitation in Scotland is characterised by universal access and generally good service quality. Water and sewerage services are provided by a single public company, Scottish Water. The economic water industry regulator is the Water Industry Commission for Scotland. It "promotes the interests of water and sewerage customers in Scotland by making sure that householders and businesses receive a high-quality service and value for money by setting prices, monitoring Scottish Water's performance and facilitating competition in the water industry". The environmental regulator is the Scottish Environment Protection Agency. Drinking water standards and wastewater discharge standards are determined by the EU (see EU water policy).

Service quality
The Water Commission measures the service quality of Scottish Water using an overall performance assessment (OPA) index, which takes into account unplanned supply interruptions, pressure, drinking water quality, responses to written complaints, ease of telephone contact, sewer floodings, sewage treatment works compliance and leakage. Scottish Water's OPA score improved from 162 in 2003–2004 to 400 in 2014–2015.

Infrastructure
Scottish Water operates and maintains over  of water pipes,  of sewer pipes, 1,837 waste water treatment works (including 1,206 septic tanks) and 297 water treatment works plus pumping stations, sludge treatment centres and reservoirs.

History
Prior to 1945, there were 210 separate organisations involved in drinking water supply in Scotland, but no mandatory requirement for such provision. This changed in 1946, when local authorities were required to provide a water supply to their communities. The first major rationalisation of the system took place as a result of the Water (Scotland) Act 1967, which created 13 Regional Water Boards, drawing together all the smaller suppliers. Although they worked well on a technical level, the issues of funding had not been adequately addressed. Because the cost of providing new sources of clean water was often beyond the abilities of local authorities to cope, the Central Scotland Water Development Board was also created by the Act and given the responsibility of providing new sources. They would then supply the water to local authorities in bulk. With the passing of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, larger regions were created, and responsibility for water supply, alongside other local services, passed to the nine regional councils of Highland, Grampian, Tayside, Fife, Lothian, Borders, Central, Strathclyde, and Dumfries and Galloway. A tenth Island Area included Shetland, Orkney and the Western Isles, although they continued to act independently. The regional councils were also given responsibility for sewage treatment, which prior to the Act had been handled by 234 separate organisations.

Unlike in England and Wales, the assets of the industry were owned by local governments, many of which were not governed by the Conservative Party at the time of the water privatisation in England and Wales in 1989. However, with the passing of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994, the UK government merged the water and sewerage responsibilities of the Regional and Island Councils into three regional public service providers, the North of Scotland Water Authority, the West of Scotland Water Authority, and the East of Scotland Water Authority, to prepare them for privatisation. In 1994, the Strathclyde water referendum, an unofficial referendum organised by Strathclyde Regional Council, the largest of the regional councils by population, was held, in which voters voted overwhelmingly against the privatisation proposals. There was also a more general Save Scotland’s Water campaign, and in the face of public opposition, the water industry in Scotland remained in the public sector.

In 2002 the Scottish Parliament passed the Water Industry (Scotland) Act 2002 merging the three providers into a single one, Scottish Water. In 2005 it passed the Water Services etc. (Scotland) Act 2005 allowing competition for "retail services" – defined as metering, billing and customer service – to business customers beginning in 2008, while wholesale services – defined as providing water and removing wastewater – remain a public monopoly. Besides Business Stream, 18 other companies have been licensed by the regulator to operate in the retail water services market. The companies buy bulk water at a discount of about 25% from the retail price and compete for retail customers.

Financial aspects and efficiency
Tariffs The charge for the average household bill in Scotland in 2015–16 is around £346, which is lower than the average bills of all of the private water companies in England and Wales.

Investments Between 2010 and 2015, around £2.5 billion has been invested in Scotland in
maintaining and improving the industry's assets, with £1 billion of this committed to improving
drinking water quality, environmental and customer service performance.

Efficiency After its creation in 2002, Scottish Water was able to make large gains in efficiency, reducing operating expenditure by almost 40% between 2001–02 and 2009–10. Over the course of the 2010–15 regulatory period Scottish Water's controllable operating expenditure (spending that management is reasonably able to affect) increased by around 1.5%. The level of leakage at Scottish Water has declined from 1104 Megalitres (Ml) per day in 2005–2006 to 544 Ml per day in 2014–15.

See also
 Northern Ireland Water
 Water Framework Directive
 Water supply and sanitation in England and Wales
 Water supply and sanitation in the United Kingdom

Bibliography

References

External links
  Scottish Water
 Water Industry Commission for Scotland
 Water UK
 Scottish Environment Protection Agency

Environment of Scotland
Health in Scotland


La fièvre d'Urbicande is a graphic novel by Belgian comic artists François Schuiten and Benoît Peeters, the second volume of their ongoing Les Cités Obscures series. It was first published in serialized form starting in 1983 in the Franco-Belgian comics magazine À Suivre (#68–73), and as a complete volume first in 1985 by Casterman, winning the Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize for Best Album in the same year. In English, it was published as Fever in Urbicand (Cities of the Fantastic) in 1990 by NBM Publishing.

In 2008, Casterman published an expanded edition appended with "La légende du réseau", an illustrated text, and "La dernière vision d'Eugen Robick", an epilogue. The entirety of the 2008 edition is collected in Book 1 of the intégrale edition of Les Cités Obscures, a hardcover compilation published in 2017, which is yet further appended with Urbicande Opéra, a libretto adaptation of the story. This supplemental content has not been published in English.

Casterman published a newly coloured edition in 2020, and IDW Publishing released a new English translation of the coloured edition in 2022 as The Fever in Urbicande.

Plot

In a lengthy, impassioned letter, Eugen Robick, "Urbatect" of the city of Urbicande, implores the Urbicande High Commission to approve the Bridge III construction project. Out of three planned bridges connecting Urbicande's North and South Bank neighbourhoods, only Bridge III remains unbuilt. Robick, a proponent of symmetry in architecture and urban planning, has already orchestrated years of transformative redevelopment on the South Bank, but laments this far outstripping the urban decay of the North, and dreams of yet more grand renovations to bring the city into aesthetic balance. The Commission denies his plans, in order to limit freedom of movement between the North and South Banks.

One day, workers unearth a small, unbreakable cubic frame from a construction site and bring it to Robick's office. The frame rapidly grows into a cubic lattice, expanding in both tessellation and scale and passing directly through solid objects. It soon emerges into the open outside of Robick's home. Robick's acquiescent attitude towards the lattice alienates the alarmist Thomas, his friend and political ally.

The lattice's encroachment ferments social unrest, with the Commission attempting in vain to suppress its presence. Sophie, Robick's neighbor and the madam of a brothel, forms an anti-establishment political movement with Robick as figurehead. Though Robick does not join the movement, he is jailed for several days as a political prisoner. Upon his release, he disappoints his newfound followers by urging against action.

The lattice spreads over nearly all of Urbicande after only weeks, then stops growing. It now bridges the North and South Banks, permitting unchecked illegal crossings. Sophie invites Robick to visit the North Bank with her, over his protests and aversion, and they both experience life in the squalid, yet lively, neighbourhood for the first time.

Now a fixture of the city landscape, the lattice becomes a foundation for new construction and a nexus for travel, commerce, and leisure, permitting citizens to form new friendships and enterprises. The Commissioners resign in the face of such sweeping social change. Robick becomes detached from the outside world, preoccupied with mapping the new cityscape. After turning down Sophie's entreaty to run for political office against Thomas, Robick grows apart from her.

The following year, the lattice suddenly resumes its growth, and all the buildings, thoroughfares, and public infrastructure supported by its frame catastrophically collapse. Amidst the ensuing turmoil, Thomas secures leadership of the Commission. Even as the lattice grows beyond the city limits to gargantuan proportions, its grip on the public remains unabated. Forced to recant his anti-lattice policies, Thomas seeks Robick's services in overseeing a man-made replacement lattice. Robick rejects Thomas's plan, but, even as the construction proceeds without him, Robick begins chiseling a copy of the original lattice by hand, believing that it will one day return.

Supplemental content

In 1985, a limited-edition booklet, Le Mystere d'Urbicande, was distributed independently from the album. The booklet is presented as an in-universe monograph by a highly skeptical scholar, adulterated with handwritten notes from Robick. The printed passages denounce the veracity of the events depicted in the album, while Robick's notes vehemently refute the author's arguments.

The booklet hints at fallout from the events of the album, describing widespread death and madness in various cities across the same continent, which barricaded themselves for reasons lost to history. The booklet is illustrated with drawings of the lattice as allegedly witnessed in far-flung regions and extreme environments. Urbicande itself is stated to have been destroyed by an unknown cataclysm.

The 1996 book Le Guide des Cités further extends this narrative, stating that survivors of Urbicande's destruction later recreated the city in its entirety elsewhere, while the original city remains in ruins.

"La légende du réseau" reproduces portions of Le Mystere d'Urbicande, speculating that the story of the album ends abruptly due to the sudden destruction of Urbicande. This text also presents theories for the nature of the lattice, based in chemistry, psychology, literary allusion, and theology.

In "La dernière vision d'Eugen Robick", a much older Robick visits the real-world city of Brasília, and is interviewed on television as an architectural celebrity. The lattice rises out of the ground, startling the locals, and Robick declares his belief finally vindicated.

Editions

In French

 La fièvre d'Urbicande, 1985, Casterman
 La fièvre d'Urbicande, 1993, Casterman
 La fièvre d'Urbicande, 1996, Casterman
 La fièvre d'Urbicande, 2002, Casterman
 La fièvre d'Urbicande (colour), 2020, Casterman

In English

Fever in Urbicand (Cities of the Fantastic), 1990, NBM Publishing
The Fever in Urbicande (colour), 2022, IDW Publishing

References

External links
 The Fever of Urbicande: A French Masterpiece You Probably Haven't Read, a detailed examination of the book by Julian Darius
 The city of a thousand bridges, introduction to La Fièvre d'Urbicande by François Schuiten and Benoît Peeters
 Fever in Urbicande, short review by Ville Forss
 La Fièvre d'Urbicande, review
 Series overview on A comprehensive review of the Obscure Cities series for English-speaking fans
 Les Cités Obscures by Juliani Darius on The Continuity Pages

Steampunk comics
Belgian comics titles
Belgian comic strips
Books about urbanism
1985 graphic novels
1983 comics debuts
Fantasy comics
IDW Publishing titles
NBM Publishing titles


Netrakali  is a village development committee in Sindhuli District in the Janakpur Zone of south-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 2,779 people living in 452 individual households.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Sindhuli District

Populated places in Sindhuli District


Crowne is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:

John Crowne (1641–1712), British dramatist, son of William
William Crowne (1617–1682), English officer of arms, politician, and colonel

See also
Crowne Plaza

English-language surnames


Rhydwyn (; Rhyd-Wyn) is a village in the community of Cylch-y-Garn, in the north west of Anglesey, Wales. Rhydwyn is named after a little stream that once crossed the centre of the village. "Rhyd" meaning Ford and "Wyn" white. It now runs through a culvert under the road.

References

External links

Villages in Anglesey
Cylch-y-Garn


La Tour is a graphic novel by Belgian comic artists François Schuiten and Benoît Peeters, the third volume of their ongoing Les Cités Obscures series. It was first published in serialized form in the Franco-Belgian comics magazine À Suivre (#96-106), and as a complete volume first in 1987 by Casterman. In English, it was published as The Tower (Stories of the Fantastic) in 1993 by NBM Publishing, and as The Tower in 2022 in a new translation by IDW Publishing.

Background
[[File:Giovanni Battista Piranesi - Le Carceri d'Invenzione - Second Edition - 1761 - 03 - The Round Tower.jpg|thumb|right|upright|The Round Tower, plate III of Piranesi's Imaginary Prisons etchings, is an example of inspiration for The Towers artwork.]]
The time is about 400 AT (After the Tower), which is the number of years since the Tower's ongoing construction has begun. As the story takes place centuries before the other Obscure Cities albums, The Tower exhibits the least connection to steampunk fiction out of the entire series. Instead, the Tower's design, architecture, and clothing show Medieval influences of time periods between the 10th and the 15th centuries, particularly technology and architecture of the segue between Medieval Gothic art and the early Renaissance period, as well as Pre-Romanesque, Romanesque, Gothic, and early Renaissance art. The technology used is therefore more reminiscent of clockpunk.

The main character, Giovanni Battista, is explicitly named after Giovanni Battista Piranesi, whose Imaginary Prisons series of etchings is cited as the main influence on the book's artwork. Schuiten illustrated Battista based on Orson Welles playing Falstaff in Chimes at Midnight. The IDW edition of the book makes the further claim that, during the creative process for The Tower, Welles personally posed as a live model for Schuiten's artwork, though this story is "collected by Isidore Louis," a fictional archivist, and likely gestures at the meta narrative Schuiten and Peeters have crafted around The Obscure Cities themselves being real.

 Plot

Giovanni Battista delivers a theatrical monologue, foreshadowing the story to come.

Giovanni has been employed for many years as one of many maintainers of an enormous stone edifice called only the Tower, permanently stationed alone within one part of its frame, where he is responsible for repairing failing masonry by perilously navigating beams and columns. Even as Giovanni diligently performs his job, working long days with little rest and leaving himself disheveled, he notices that his fellow maintainers and the inspectors overseeing them have abandoned their duties. Unable to keep up with a mounting rate of failures, he decides to lodge complaints with his superiors at the Base of the Tower.

Climbing down, Giovanni finds one maintainer who has succumbed to paranoia, and another long dead. He builds a parachute to safely descend the tower, but is carried higher by an updraft. After crash-landing, he is rescued by an older man named Elias and a younger woman named Milena, who reside in a newer, bustling community of Tower-dwellers. Elias earns money by charging admission to learn about the Tower from his collection of books, artifacts, and paintings. The paintings, which purport to depict the nobility residing at the Base, the Pioneers still at work constructing the Tower at its top, as well as the Tower's past and future, are the first coloured artwork thus far among otherwise black-and-white line art.

Elias, who believes that the Tower's deterioration is accelerating and that its very conception was unplanned and misguided, teaches Giovanni all he knows about the Tower and prophesies that Giovanni will discover the Tower's secret at its top. Milena is charmed by the romantically inexperienced Giovanni, and they fall in love. Together, she and Giovanni use a secret passage to glimpse the centre of the Tower, a dark void of unknown depth; Milena resolves to leave with Giovanni on his prophesied journey.

Sent by Elias on a forbidden path out of the community, Giovanni and Milena travel through myriad regions of the Tower, each abandoned in the ever-upward construction. They find a ransacked community full of corpses, and a lone survivor zealously guarding a machine that he cannot operate or explain. Finding even the very top of the Tower abandoned, Giovanni and Milena are left dispirited, but find solace in each other.

Angered by the Pioneers' desertion, Giovanni follows their trail down the hollowed centre of the Tower. Giovanni and Milena find heaps of hastily discarded valuables, but Giovanni notices that the Pioneers refused to part with their paintings, only leaving behind the empty frames. By operating a giant pulley, the two manage to descend the centre of the Tower; encountering Elias on their way down, Giovanni lies about the Pioneers to comfort him.

Reaching the bottom, Giovanni finds a coloured, torn scrap of a painting depicting a dying soldier, and is suddenly encouraged; Milena explains that Elias's paintings even have the power to heal the sick.

The two exit the Tower into a fully coloured world where they alone are drawn in black-and-white. An unidentified army forcibly conscripts them both into an ongoing battle. Though he has never seen the bayonets the soldiers carry, Giovanni quickly adapts to the fighting, and kills an enemy soldier, creating the same scene shown on the painting scrap. Giovanni rallies the soldiers on his side even as the sudden collapse of the Tower nearly routs their forces.

Giovanni briefly speaks of winning the battle and entering a new world, but stops his story out of sudden melancholy. Nothing is shown of subsequent events except a full-length, framed portrait of Giovanni, fully-coloured, groomed and in magisterial robes, accompanied by not Milena but a statue bearing her name.

 Editions

 In French

La Tour (softcover edition), 1987, Casterman
La Tour (hardcover edition), 1987, Casterman
La Tour, 1993, Casterman
La Tour, 2008, Casterman

 In English

The Tower (Stories of the Fantastic), 1993, NBM Publishing
The Tower, 2022, IDW Publishing

 References

 External links
 La Tour, a few annotated pictures from the album (French)'''
 Series overview on A comprehensive review of the Obscure Cities series for English-speaking fans''
 Les Cités Obscures by Juliani Darius on The Continuity Pages

1986 comics debuts
1987 graphic novels
Belgian comics titles
Comics set on fictional planets
Cultural depictions of Orson Welles
Fictional towers
IDW Publishing titles


Nipane  is a village development committee in Sindhuli District in the Janakpur Zone of south-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 1,944 people living in 342 individual households.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Sindhuli District

Populated places in Sindhuli District


Gil Marquez is a hamlet of the municipality of Almonaster la Real, in Andalusia (Spain), with 73 inhabitants. It is 8 kilometres from Almonaster.

Economy

Its inhabitants are agriculturalist and ranchers.

Monuments

Bridge of Las Tres Fuentes
Church of "El Carmen".

Local celebration

Local festival of "El Carmen" in July.

Environs

Spa el Manzano
Arroyo el Moro

Populated places in the Province of Huelva


Following are the results of the 2008–09 FC Dynamo Kyiv season.  FC Dynamo Kyiv () is a professional football club based in the Ukrainian capital city of Kyiv. Founded in 1927, the club currently participates in the Ukrainian Premier League and has spent its entire history in the top league of Soviet and later Ukrainian football. Dynamo Kyiv has won thirteen league titles, nine Ukrainian Cups, one UEFA Super Cup and two UEFA Cup Winners' Cups, and played three times in the semi-final of the UEFA Champions League.

Key Dates
Dates to be added as season goes on

Squad

First-team squad
Updated 7 September 2008

Reserve and Youth Squad

UEFA Champions League Squad

Transfers

In

Out

Loaned Out

Statistics

Appearances and goals

Top scorers
Includes all competitive matches

Club

Coaching staff
{|class="wikitable"
!Position
!Staff
|-
|Head coach|| Yuri Semin
|-
|rowspan="3"|Assistant coach|| Oleh Luzhnyi
|-
| Sergei Ovchinnikov
|-
| Valeriy Zuyev
|-
|Goalkeeping coach|| Serhiy Krakovskiy
|-
|First team fitness coach|| Vincenzo Pinkolini
|-
|rowspan="2"|Dynamo-2 head coach|| Yuriy Kalitvynstev
|-
| Gennadiy Litovchenko
|-
|Reserve and Youth team coach|| Volodymyr Muntyan
|-
|rowspan="3"|Club doctor|| Victor Berkovskyi
|-
| Volodymyr Maliuta
|-
| Andriy Shmorhun

Competitions

Overall

Pre-season

Ukrainian Premier League

League table

Results by round

Matches

UEFA Champions League

Ukrainian Cup

References

External links
Dynamo Kyiv Official Website

FC Dynamo Kyiv seasons
Dynamo Kyiv
Ukrainian football championship-winning seasons


Handan is a Turkish name. Notable people with the name include:

Handan Sultan (died 1605), concubine of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed III, mother and Valide Sultan of Sultan Ahmed I.
Handan Biroğlu (born 1981), Turkish Paralympian female archer
Handan İpekçi (born 1956), Turkish screenwriter and film director
Handan Kara (1939–2017), Turkish classical music singer
Handan Kurğa (born 1993), Turkish women's footballer

See also
Handanovič, Bosnian surname derived from the given name

Turkish feminine given names
Feminine given names


downhere (independent) is the only independent album release (Slyngshot Records/CMC Distribution) by Christian rock band downhere, before they were signed to a major record label (Word Records).  At the time of this recording, all four members of the band were students at Briercrest Bible College in Caronport, Saskatchewan. Previous band member Tyson Manning played bass. Manning relinquished his position in the band upon signing with Word Records, so that he could complete his studies at Briercrest Bible College in Caronport, Saskatchewan.

The songs Larger Than Life, Raincoat, Breathing In, Reconcile, Calmer Of The Storm, & So Blue were rerecorded for their Word Records album downhere. Grown Man was rerecorded for a compilation album, "Win This War," and that version was later released on Downhere's B-sides album, Two at a Time: Sneak Peeks & B-Sides. Dusty Roads, Postcard, Maybe I Could Learn, Vertical, and Revive Me have not been released on any subsequent releases. Copies of their independent release are hard to find today due to it being out of print.

Track listing
 Larger Than Life - 4:28
 Raincoat - 4:04
 Breathing In - 3:44
 Reconcile - 3:43
 Calmer of the Storm - 4:16
 Dusty Roads - 4:20
 So Blue - 3:43
 Grown Man - 3:59
 Postcard - 3:00
 Maybe I Could Learn - 5:06
 Vertical - 4:23
 Revive Me - 4:01

References

1999 debut albums
Downhere albums


La route d'Armilia is a graphic novel by Belgian comic artists François Schuiten and Benoît Peeters, the fourth volume of their ongoing Les Cités Obscures series. It was first published in an early, notably different version in Danish as Vejen Til Armilia in 1987, in its final form in the Franco-Belgian comics magazine À Suivre (#123), and as a standalone French album first in 1988 by Casterman. Although subsequently also published in at least Dutch and German, La route d'Armilia remains unpublished in English as of 2008; however, an English translation authorized by Casterman is available on the internet as a .txt file (see External links below). An unofficial digital edition (available online) has been produced by lettering French scans with this English manuscript.

Editions

In French

La route d'Armilia, 1988, Casterman (type font on cover and inside)
La route d'Armilia, 1988, Casterman (hand-lettered font on cover and inside)
La route d'Armilia, 1993, Casterman

External links
 The Road to Armilia, English translation of La route d'Armilia (.txt file), translated by NBM Publishing translator Joe Johnson, authorized by Casterman (right-click on link to save)
 La route d'Armilia, a few annotated pictures from the album (French)
 La route d'Armilia, review
 Series overview on A comprehensive review of the Obscure Cities series for English-speaking fans
 Les Cités Obscures by Juliani Darius on The Continuity Pages

Steampunk comics
Belgian comics titles


Handanović (In Slovene also Handanovič) is a Bosnian Muslim surname, traditionally found in northwestern Bosnia and Herzegovina. A 1925 ethnographic study recorded 9 houses of a Handanović family in the village of Vikići. A 1930 ethnographic study recorded the mahala (hamlet) of Handanovići and 5 houses of a Handanović family in the village of Hrustovo, Sanski Most, a family which originated from Lika (tradition holds that most Hrustovo Muslim families fled Lika after Stojan Janković expelled them). It may refer to:

Damir Handanović (born 1987), Serbian composer
Jasmin Handanović (born 1978), Slovenian footballer
Samir Handanović (born 1984), Slovenian footballer
Rasema Handanović, Bosnian victim of wartime rape and war criminal
Reuf Handanović, Yugoslav communist

References

Surnames of Bosnian origin


Brüsel is a graphic novel by Belgian comic artists François Schuiten and Benoît Peeters, the fifth volume of their ongoing Les Cités Obscures series. It was first published in serialized form in the Franco-Belgian comics magazine À Suivre (#158-160, 171-173), and as a complete volume first in 1992 by Casterman. In English, it was published as Brüsel (Cities of the Fantastic) in 2001 by NBM Publishing.

Editions

In French

Brüsel, 1992, Casterman
Brüsel, 1993, Casterman
Brüsel, 1996, Casterman
Brüsel, 1997, Casterman
Brüsel, 2008, Casterman

In English

Brüsel, 2001, NBM Publishing

External links
 Brüsel, review
 Brüsel, a few annoted pictures from the album (French)
 Series overview on A comprehensive review of the Obscure Cities series for English-speaking fans
 Les Cités Obscures by Juliani Darius on The Continuity Pages

Steampunk comics
Belgian comics titles


"Seven" is the 11th single by Mika Nakashima. It was used as the Kanebo Kate CM song. It reached #3 on the Oricon charts and charted for seven weeks, selling around 53,000 units.

Track listing
 Seven
 Seven (Coldfeet Remix)
 Venus in the Dark (Coldfeet Remix)
 Seven (Instrumental)

References

2004 singles
Mika Nakashima songs
Songs written by Mika Nakashima
2004 songs


West Down was a constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland.

Boundaries
West Down was a county constituency comprising part of western County Down. It was created when the House of Commons (Method of Voting and Redistribution of Seats) Act (Northern Ireland) 1929 introduced first-past-the-post elections throughout Northern Ireland. West Down was created by the division of Down into eight new constituencies. It survived unchanged, returning one Member of Parliament, until the Parliament of Northern Ireland was temporarily suspended in 1972, and then formally abolished in 1973.

The seat included the town of Banbridge, and also certain district electoral divisions of the rural districts of Banbridge and Newry No.1.

Politics
The seat had a substantial unionist majority and was always won by Ulster Unionist Party candidates. It was contested on three occasions by independent unionists, each of whom won over 40% of the votes cast, and once by a communist candidate.

Members of Parliament

Election results

At the 1929 Northern Ireland general election, Robert McBride was elected unopposed.

At the 1949, 1953 and 1958 Northern Ireland general elections, John Edgar Bailey was elected unopposed.

At the 1959 by-election and the 1962 Northern Ireland general election, David John Little was elected unopposed.

At the 1965 by-election and the 1965 Northern Ireland general election, John Dobson was elected unopposed.

References

Historic constituencies in County Down
Northern Ireland Parliament constituencies established in 1929
Constituencies of the Northern Ireland Parliament
Northern Ireland Parliament constituencies disestablished in 1973


Pipalmadi  is a village development committee in Sindhuli District in the Janakpur Zone of south-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3,853 people living in 552 individual households.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Sindhuli District

Populated places in Sindhuli District


L'enfant penchée (literally, The Leaning Child) is a graphic novel by Belgian comic artists François Schuiten and Benoît Peeters, the sixth volume of their ongoing Les Cités Obscures series. It was first published in serialized form in the Franco-Belgian comics magazine À Suivre (#193-212), and as a complete French volume first in 1996 by Casterman.

Although subsequently also published in at least Dutch and German, for many years, L'enfant penchée remained unpublished in English. However, in March 2014 Alaxis Press published the official English translation under the title The Leaning Girl.

Background

L'enfant penchée was originally based on the short illustrated children's book Mary la penchée (1995) by Schuiten & Peeters. With L'enfant penchée, they majorly elaborated on the same story.

Plot
Mary von Rathen, daughter of an industrial magnate family of the city of Mylos, lives a willful and fanciful childhood, in sheer contrast to her pragmatic and businesslike father and brother. During a family trip to the city of Alaxis, as the von Rathens ride a roller coaster, the skies darken and the ground shakes inexplicably. Immediately after, Mary's entire body begins leaning heavily to one side involuntarily, rendering her unable to stand up straight without support. This unique condition leaves Mary a social outcast, disdained by all for what they see as attention-seeking behavior.

Running away from boarding school, Mary joins a traveling circus, garnering fame over several years as a gravity-defying tightrope walker and gymnast. A newspaper editor takes notice of her condition and advises her to visit the renowned scientist and inventor Axel Wappendorf in the hope of seeking a cure. Mary's father, identifying Mary from newspaper coverage, immediately departs Mylos to follow her trail.

Mary finds Wappendorf at the Mont Michelson observatory, where he and a team of researchers are constructing a crewed spacecraft to attempt spaceflight to a theoretical planet called "Antinea". The darkening of the skies years ago, as well as Mary's condition, prove to Wappendorf that Antinea's gravitational pull is acting upon their own world. Mary's father arrives at Mont Michelson just as the spacecraft launches with Wappendorf, and the stowaway Mary, on board; at the shock of this realization, he suffers a fatal heart attack.

Mary and Wappendorf land not on Antinea, but in a subterranean lake filled with an endless expanse of massive, vibrating spheres. As they pass by the many spheres, Mary's leaning begins to diminish, while Wappendorf begins to lean as Mary previously did. Mary finds one sphere among all the rest where she is able to stand up straight.

Meanwhile, Wappendorf meets Jules Verne, who attests that he is on an expedition to Wappendorf's world, having traveled from his own world using his imagination and inspired by a painting by the artist Augustin Desombres. Upon seeing that one of the spheres has cracked into fragments, Wappendorf realizes that the two worlds are governed by the same force, and that Mary's condition was caused by a disruption in the connection.

In several sequences illustrated using photos rather than inked art, Desombres, a Parisian 19th-century painter, spurns the criticism of the art world and departs to the Aubrac countryside in solitude. There, he finds a lone, deserted estate in the wilderness, and begins compulsively creating new paintings on the house's walls. Without understanding his inspiration, he recreates scenes of Wappendorf's spacecraft and the cave filled with spheres, depicting one of them as damaged. While struggling to add a female figure to the painting, he passes through the walls of the house and emerges on the same sphere where Mary waits, where he transforms into an ink drawing version of himself. The two of them embrace in spontaneous passion.

Wappendorf deduces that Desombres's paintings have power over the connection between worlds. Over Mary's protests, Wappendorf convinces Desombres to return to his own world, where, despite his regret in leaving Mary, he repairs the damaged sphere in his painting and restores the worlds to normal. One of Desombres's hands remains as an ink drawing, as proof of what he experienced.

Mary accepts the responsibility of succeeding her father among the Mylos oligarchy, and becomes an influential figure in enacting liberalizing reforms credited with restoring the "grandeur" of the city.

Differences between editions

Editions

In French

L'enfant penchée, 1996, Casterman
L'enfant penchée, 2007, Casterman

References

External links
 The Leaning Child, English translation of L'enfant penchée (.txt file), translated by NBM Publishing translator Joe Johnson, authorized by Casterman (right-click on link to save)
 L'enfant penchée, a few annoted pictures from the album (French)
 Series overview on A comprehensive review of the Obscure Cities series for English-speaking fans
 Les Cités Obscures by Juliani Darius on The Continuity Pages

1994 comics debuts
1996 graphic novels
Belgian comics titles
Comics about parallel universes
Comics set in France
Comics set in the 1900s
Comics set on fictional planets
Cultural depictions of Jules Verne
Comics set in circuses
Photocomics
Spaceflight in fiction
Steampunk comics
Works about painters
Comics set in the 1890s


Eleanor Percy, Duchess of Northumberland (1820–1911) was the wife of Algernon Percy, 4th Duke of Northumberland.

Biography
Elearnor was born on 22 October 1820, the daughter of Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Marquess of Westminster and Lady Elizabeth Mary Leveson-Gower. She married Lord Prudhoe (later 4th Duke of Northumberland) on 27 August 1842, and it was considered an excellent marriage since his older brother Hugh Percy, 3rd Duke of Northumberland was childless after 26 years of marriage. He was born 1792, and was thus 28 years her senior and 50 years old at the time of the marriage. Prudhoe succeeded to the title on 11 February 1847.

There were no children of the marriage. The Duchess was widowed on 12 February 1865, and died on 4 May 1911, aged 90, at Stanwick Park in Stanwick St John in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire.

For many details of her life see The Lost Stanwick Hall: remnants of the Duchess Eleanor of Northumberland, her time and people printed in Darlington, Co Durham in 2005. This was written as an accompaniment to an exhibition of her life after she was widowed during which time she was resident, for the most part, at Stanwick Hall, demolished in 1923. The entire contents are readable on the Stanwick St John Website, as are further articles on her life and her times in this small part of North Yorkshire.

References

1820 births
1911 deaths
Daughters of British marquesses
Eleanor
Eleanor Percy, Duchess of Northumberland


The kkStB 112 was a class of express train 2-2-2 tank engine operated by the Imperial Royal Austrian State Railways (kaiserlich-königliche österreichische Staatsbahnen or kkStB).

In order for the kkStB to provide a fast feeder service to express train stations, a requirement arose for small, fast locomotives. Karl Gölsdorf designed Class 112 for this purpose. The compound locomotive engines were well built, enabled a top speed of  to be attained for short periods of time and could haul 100 tonnes continuously at . On their deliver in 1907 by Krauss in Linz the two engines were fitted with a small smokebox superheater, that was later removed.

The small locomotives were initially used to haul newspaper trains between Vienna and Linz. Later they hauled the shuttle (Pendler) between Hütteldorf and Unterpurkersdorf, a connecting line to the Vienna Stadtbahn, where they were marshalled in the centre of the train.

Number 112.02 was retired in 1937, whilst 112.01 went into the Deutsche Reichsbahn as number 69 011 where it was withdrawn from service in 1942.

References

 Heribert Schröpfer, Triebfahrzeuge österreichischer Eisenbahnen - Dampflokomotiven BBÖ und ÖBB, alba, Düsseldorf, 1989

See also
 Deutsche Reichsbahn
 List of DRG locomotives and railbuses

2-2-2T locomotives
121
Railway locomotives introduced in 1907
Standard gauge locomotives of Austria
Krauss locomotives
Passenger locomotives


Purano Jhangajholi  is a village development committee in Sindhuli District in the Janakpur Zone of south-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census, it had a population of 4,474 people living in 816 individual households. The village is notable for a highway reportedly among Asia's most dangerous; small mirrors cover its retaining wall to draw on Seti Devi Mata, a deity, to prevent accidents.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Sindhuli District

Populated places in Sindhuli District


Marion Catherine "Kitty" Barne (17 November 1882 – 3 February 1961) was a British screenwriter and author of children's books, especially on music and musical themes. She won the 1940 Carnegie Medal for British children's books.

Biography
Barne was born in Petersham, Surrey, but was brought up in Somerset and Sussex, and later studied at the Royal College of Music.  On 12 April 1912, in Eastbourne, she married Eric Streatfeild, thus becoming the cousin-in-law of another popular children's writer Noel Streatfeild. Eric Streatfeild was the first cousin of Noel Streatfeild's father.

Barne was a member of the Women's Voluntary Service, responsible for the reception of children evacuated to Sussex.  During the war years, she published six novels, most notably Visitors from London about evacuees (J. M. Dent, 1940). For that work she won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject.

She is possibly best known now for her pony books Rosina Copper and its sequel Rosina and Son, about the true story of an Argentine polo pony mare that was rescued from neglect after being ordered to be killed. They were illustrated by Alfons Purtscher and Marcia Lane Foster respectively.

Apart from her novels, she wrote some non-fiction books, including a biography of Elizabeth Fry (who was her husband's great-grandmother) in 1950, a book about the orchestra, a history of the Girl Guides and a book of Camp Fire Songs (1944).  She was Commissioner for Music and Drama for the Girl Guides  for some years where she was assisted by Mary Chater.
Ruth Gervis, the illustrator of a number of her books, said of her:

She died on 3 February 1961 after a long illness.

Selected works

The Easter Holidays aka Secret of the Sandhills (1935)
She Shall Have Music (1938)
Family Footlights (1939)
Visitors from London (1940)
Listening to the Orchestra (1941)
May I Keep Dogs? aka Bracken, My Dog (1941)
We'll Meet in England  (1942)
The Amber Gate (1942)
Three and a Pigeon (1944)
In the Same Boat  (1945)
Here Come the Girl Guides (1946)
Musical Honours (1947)
Bracken My Dog (1949)
Dusty's Windmill (1949)
Roly's Dog (1950)
Elizabeth Fry: a story biography (1950)
The Windmill Mystery (1950)
Barbie (1952)
Admiral's Walk (1953)
Music Perhaps (1953)
Rosina Copper (1954)
Tann's Boarders (1955)
Rosina and Son (1956)

See also

References

External links

Cheri Lloyd (2006) A Nation at War: The Work of Kitty Barne and Mary Treadgold in Pat Pinsent (ed.) Out of the Attic

British children's writers
Pony books
Carnegie Medal in Literature winners
Alumni of the Royal College of Music
1882 births
1961 deaths


Zbigniew Turski (21 July 1908 – 6 January 1979) was a Polish composer. He was born in Konstancin and died in Warsaw. In 1948 he won a gold medal in the art competitions of the Olympic Games for his Symfonia Olimpijska ("Olympic Symphony").

Selected film music
 The Nutcracker (1967 film)

References

External links
Profile

1908 births
1979 deaths
20th-century composers
Polish composers
Chopin University of Music alumni
Medalists at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists in art competitions
Olympic competitors in art competitions
Recipients of the State Award Badge (Poland)


Sultan Aboobakar I Sri Bavana Sooja Mahaa Radun was the sultan of Maldives for 20 years. He was the 11th sultan to ascend the throne of Maldives from Hilaaly Dynasty. He was the son of Hilaaly Hassan I of the Maldives. King Aboobkar succeeded his brother to the throne. He married Kolhumadulu Atoll Kandoodhoo Reki rani kamanaa faan.

15th-century sultans of the Maldives


San Andrés is a small town in the Mexican state of Chihuahua.
It serves as the municipal seat for the surrounding Riva Palacio Municipality.

As of 2010, the town had a population of 662, down from 667 as of 2005.

History
San Andrés, Chihuahua was founded in 1696. This area was ruled by San Francisco de Asís at the end of the 17th century, but afterwards it came under the control of General Trias' political power. The municipality of San Andrés is established on October 18, 1887. In honor of General Vicente Riva Palacio, it was granted the name Riva Palacio by order in December 1932. On January 22, 1992, the municipality of Riva Palacio's capital once again adopted the name San Andrés.

Demographics
There were 702 people living in San Andrés in 2020. 360 women and 342 men, respectively, made up the gender split.  The population has increased steadily over the years; we can notice a rise from 667 people in 2005 to 702 people in 2020.

References

Populated places in Chihuahua (state)


Ranibas  is a village development committee in Sindhuli District in the Janakpur Zone of south-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3,911 people living in 688 individual households.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Sindhuli District

Populated places in Sindhuli District


Armanda Maria De Jesus Lopes, better known as Maria Armanda, is a former Portuguese child singing sensation. She was 5 years old when she topped the charts in 1981 with her single "Eu vi um sapo".

In 1979 she was invited to participate in the First Gala Internacional dos Pequenos Cantores (International Gala of the Small Singers) da Figueira da Foz. She won a competition by singing the song  “Eu vi um sapo" ("I saw a frog"), a song written by César Batalha Carvalho. She later launched a single entitled Coro Infantil de Santo Amaro de Oeiras.

The song was chosen to represent Portugal, in Bologna, in the 1980 edition of the Zecchino d'Oro, a festival of little known songs with profits going to the well-known charity UNICEF, with Armanda Maria emerging victorious with a song entitled "Ho visto un rospo". She released the record “Eu vi um sapo”, which features some participation of the Piccolo dell'Antoniano Choir.

In 1981 she continued her career with the launching of two new singles, entitled “Escola é vida (School Is Life)” and “Balão Azul" (Blue Balloon)”.

In 1986, she released yet another song entitled “Mãe tens razão" (Mum You are Right), before ending her career.

After her musical career was finished. she began presenting a program with a radio station in the local area.

Discography
 "Eu vi um sapo" ( I saw a frog) (Single, Vadeca, 1980)
 "Escola é vida" (School is life) /Balão Azul (Blue Balloon)(Single, Vadeca, 1981)
 "Maria Armanda (A Kikas)" (Album)
 "Mãe tens razão" (Mum you are Right) - (Single, CBS, 1986)

In 1991 a new CD album was released under the title "SIMPLESMENTE" , with 16 fados.
Its recordlabel : Discosete, CD 817000. On this album Maria Armanda sings no children's songs anymore, but real fados.

References

External links
Lyrics and photos

20th-century Portuguese women singers
Portuguese child singers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)


The descendants of Alfonso XIII, Bourbon monarch of the Kingdom of Spain, are numerous. With his wife, Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, he had a total of six legitimate children, with an additional child Ferdinand having been stillborn. Outside of his marriage, Alfonso was known to have had some issue, but they are not in the line of succession for any throne. The modern day king and royal family of Spain is descended from Alfonso, as is the legitimist claimant to France.

Legitimate issue by Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg

Alfonso, Prince of Asturias

Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia

Infanta Beatriz of Spain

Infanta Maria Cristina of Spain

Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona

Infante Gonzalo of Spain

Illegitimate issue

Alfonso also had six known illegitimate children:

by French aristocrat Mélanie de Gaufridy de Dortan (1876–1937), married to Joseph-Marie-Philippe Lévêque de Vilmorin, he had:
  (12 September 1905 – 20 July 1980), who was recognized by Philippe de Vilmorin

by Pauline of Saint Glen, he had:
 Charles Maxime Victor of Saint Glen (3 July 1914 – 20 May 1934)

by Béatrice Noon, he had:
 Juana Alfonsa Milán y Quiñones de León (19 April 1916 – 16 May 2005)

by Spanish actress María del Carmen Ruiz y Moragas (1898 – 20 May 1936), he had:
 Ana María Teresa Ruiz y Moragas (9 October 1925 – 6 September 1965)
  (26 April 1929 – 18 June 2016), officially recognized by Spanish Courts on 21 May 2003 as Leandro Alfonso Luis de Borbón y Ruiz Moragas (or simply Leandro de Borbón)

by Marie Sousa, he had:
 Alonso of Borbon Sousa (28 December 1930 – 30 April 1934)

References

Lists of Spanish nobility
Spanish royalty
House of Bourbon (Spain)
Descendants of individuals


North Bengal Medical College and Hospital (NBMC&H) is located in Sushrutanagar, on the outskirts of Siliguri, West Bengal, India. It is the largest and the oldest healthcare teaching institute in North Bengal region of West Bengal, serving as a tertiary referral institute. The college has teaching programs for graduation and postgraduation. It is one of the 26 government medical colleges in West Bengal and the largest in terms of area. Patient influx is also huge .The hospital has a bed strength of approx 1,500 of which 843 are officially sanctioned and caters to a large population of 15 million in North Bengal, from the surrounding states of north east India and the neighbouring countries of Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh. It has a Bed Occupancy Rate (BOR) of 137%, which is highest in the state.

History
It was established in 1968 as the first medical college of North Bengal. Originally envisioned by Dr. B. C. Roy, the planning was executed by Ajit Kumar Panja, the then state health minister. Prof. Ajit Kr. Duttagupta joined as the first official principal of the college which was then known as North Bengal University Medical College. NBUMC was rechristened in August 1978 to North Bengal Medical College & Hospital and the administrative control went from North Bengal University to Govt. of West Bengal.

The first batches

 The premedical classes started on 6.11.67 in a makeshift arrangement at Jackson medical school, Jalpaiguri. 2nd to 6th batch of students undertook their premedical course at Raigunj University College. 7th batch onwards, the students started their premedical course at NBMC campus, Sushrutanagar, their own place.

 Classes for 1st-year MBBS course for 1st batch started on 18.11.68 in NBU campus. MBBS classes started in Sushrutanagar, the present site of NBMC in 1972. The first 5 batches had to migrate to SSKM hospital for their clinical lessons after passing 2nd prof. First 2 batches completed internship and housemanship there. The college got its recognition from the Medical Council of India in 1978.

Introduction of Postgraduation courses

In 2004, the institute achieved the milestone to be reckoned as the Post-graduate institute with introduction of MD/MS courses in five specialised disciplines like Anatomy, Physiology, Community Medicine, Pathology and Anesthesiology, which were recognized by the Medical Council of India in 2007. Since then more postgraduate courses were added in the fields of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, General Medicine, General Surgery, Gynaecology & Obstetrics, Orthopaedics, Paediatrics, Ophthalmology,Radiodiagnosis, Psychiatry, Otorhinolaryngology and other subjects.

Increase of undergraduate seats

From 2013 onwards Undergraduate seats had been increased by 50, which made the annual undergraduate students intake to 150 but from the year 2017 the newly added 50 seats were slashed by the MCI on grounds of lack of infrastructure but again in the year 2018, intake was increased to 150. From 2019 intake was again increased to 200 (EWS Scheme).

Campus

North Bengal Medical College & Hospital is located in Sushrutanagar, locally known as Noukaghat, to the west of Siliguri, connected to the town by the 3rd Mahananda bridge. Sushrutanagar, Darjeeling, (situated at Thiknikata Gram Panchayet), otherwise referred to as ‘medical’ by the local people, is more or less 5 km from proper Siliguri. The nearest Railway Station is New Jalpaiguri about 11 km away and the nearest Airport is Bagdogra Airport about 9 km from the Campus

The college and hospital buildings, spread over a sprawling campus of , are connected by very long corridors which total a length of 2.6 km. The North Bengal Dental College and the Nursing Training College are also located in the same campus.

Organisation and administration

Governance
The college and hospital are funded and managed by the Government of West Bengal.

Principals
Prof A K Dutta gupta 09.11.1970 to 30.11.1973
Dr. S C Laha 01.12.1973 to 11.07.1974
Dr. L K Ganguli 12.07.1974 to 31.03.1978
Dr. J N Bhadury 01.04.1978 to 03.03.1981
Dr. S K Biswas 04.03.1981 to 21.10.1982
Dr. A K Ram 22.10.1982 to 21.03.1983
Dr. J.N Bhadury 22.03.1983 to 10.12.1985
Dr. A Nandy 11.12.1985 to 14.08.1985
Dr. P K Gupta 15.08.1986 to 31.03.1987
Dr. S P Banerjee 02.04.1987 to 04.08.1988
Dr. G K Das 05.08.1988 to 10.11.1992
Dr. P K Mukherjee 11.11.1992 to 04.05.1995
Dr. A K Kar 04.05.1995 to 14.06.1995
Dr. S K Basu 14.06.1995 to 25.03.1998
Dr. B Sarkar 25.03.1998 to 27.10.1999
Dr. Dipti Basu 27.10.1999 to 07.09.2001
Dr. Udayan Ganguly 07.09.2001 to 06.09.2002
Dr. Utpal Kumar Datta 06.09.2002 to 31.03.2004
Dr. Sangita Bhattacharyya 31.03.2004 to 31.03.2006
Dr. J B Saha 31.03.2006 to 28.07.2006
Dr. Udayan Ganguly 28.07.2006 to 21.08.2009
Dr. J.B Saha 21.08.2009 to 17.01.2011
Dr. T. K. Bhattacharya 17.01.2011 to 30.06.2011
Dr. Anup Kr. Roy 04.07.2011 to 2015
Dr. Samir Ghosh Roy 2015 to 2018.
Dr. P.K. Deb (GEN) 2018 to 2021
Prof. (Dr.) Indrajit Saha (present principal)

Academics

Affiliation
The college was affiliated to the North Bengal University since its inception. Starting from the 2003 admission batch, it is formally affiliated to the newly formed West Bengal University of Health Sciences.

Admission

Entrance to the college for MBBS is on the basis of ranks achieved by the student in National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (Undergraduate) conducted by the NTA, as is the case with nearly all other medical colleges in the country by a Supreme Court order.

For postgraduate courses, one has to clear the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (Postgraduate).

Academic programmes

The courses offered are:

Undergraduate courses

 M.B.B.S. (Annual intake of 200 students)
 B.Sc. in Nursing
 GNM Nursing
 ANM Nursing

Post-graduate courses
 MD Anaesthesiology (11 seats)
 MD Biochemistry (4 seats)
 MD Community Medicine (3 seats)
 MD Forensic Medicine and Toxicology (2 seats)
 MD General Medicine (18 seats)
 MD Paediatrics (4 seats)
 MD Pathology (7 seats)
 MD Physiology (4 seats)
 MD Psychiatry (2 seats)
 MD Radiodiagnosis (6 seats)
 MS Anatomy (4 seats)
 MS Gynaecology and Obstetrics (9 seats)
 MS Ophthalmology (2 seats)
 MS Orthopaedics (2 seats)
 MS Oto-rhino-laryngology (2 seats)
 MS General Surgery (6 seats)
 M.Sc Nursing

Research level (super-specialization)
 Nephrology
 Cardiology
 Neurology
 Rheumatology
 Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
 Pediatric Surgery
 Neurosurgery
 Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery
 Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
 Selected by ICMR-NICED for establishment of Model Rural Health Research Unit (MRHRU).

Paramedical and technologist

 D.M.L.T - Diploma in Medical Lab Technology
 D.P.T - Diploma in Physical Medicine
 D.Dial - Diploma in Dialysis.
 D.R.D - Diploma in Radiology.
D.C.C.T-DIPLOMA IN CRITICAL CARE TECHNOLOGY

Conferences and workshops

The college hosts numerous Undergraduate & Postgraduate Conferences throughout the year.
Notable Conferences hosted/will be hosted by the institution includes-

 NUMESCON- It is the national undergraduate medical students' conference of North Bengal Medical College held in the month of March. The conference has hands-on workshops, sessions by eminent speakers of the medical fraternity and various other interactive events.
The First Numescon was in 2015 and saw participation from all over India as well as neighbouring countries as Bangladesh.
 Embarkon – an annual intra-college Undergraduate conference & workshop

Hospital services

 Emergency
 Outdoor services
 Indoor services
 Regional Blood Transfusion Centre (RBTC)
 Hybrid Critical Care Unit (HDU+CCU)
 Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU)
 Intensive Coronary Care Unit (ICCU)
 Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
 Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)
 Sick Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (SNCU)
 Trauma Care Facility (Level II)
 A.R.T Centre
 V.C.T.C
 V.R.D.L
 Preventive Cardiology
 Tele-Medicine
 Counselling
 Diagnostic & Investigation
 Fair Price Medicine Shop
 Intermediate State Reference Laboratory for Multi Drug Resistance-TB
 Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation centre (under PMR department)
Pain Clinic (under PMR department)
Super speciality Block
Selected under MoHFW PMSSY scheme (phase III) for super Speciality care (along with Medical College Kolkata, Bankura Sammilani Medical College & Malda Medical College)
which would include 255 beds for super speciality care in neurosurgery, CTVS, Plastic surgery and Burn, Paediatric Surgery, Cardiology, Neurology and so forth.

Student life

Demography

Every year 200 (Initially it was started with 50 seats, increased to 100 then 150; 50 more seats increased from 2019) students graduate from the college. Besides, there are postgraduate students in various streams. Most students are from outside Siliguri and stay in the campus hostels. From the 2013 to 2014 session, it has been decided to increase the number of undergraduate (MBBS) seats by 50.

Hostels

Boys
 J.B.H. (Junior Boys Hostel) - for 1st year and 2nd-year students. (4 storied)
 N.B.H. (A.K Dutta Memorial Hostel) - for 3rd year and 4th-year students. (4 storied)
 S.B.H. (Senior Boys Hostel) - for final year students and interns
 Intern Hostel - for House staffs and Internees. The postgraduate trainees are also accommodated in the same hostel. (Near the Emergency Gate)
 P.G Boys Hostel- for post graduate students.

Girls
 L.H. (Ladies Hostel) - 2nd year and 3rd-year students and house staffs.
 K.G.H (Kadambini Ganguly memorial Girl's Hostel) - for 4th year, final year students, interns and house staffs.
 N.G.H. (New Girls Hostel) - for 1st-year students.
 P.G Girls hostel - for post graduate students.

Associations
 NBMC ex-students association

Cultural programmes

 The annual inter-college fest Plasma spanning 4 days is held in the month of September. It is a big event with noted artists performing and students displaying their creative fervour. Other than NBMC students, Plasma also sees active participation by students from nearby colleges like North Bengal Dental College, Siliguri Institute of Technology, North Bengal University, Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College.
 Ujan (উজান) - This is a popular Cultural Forum formed by the Medical, Dental and Paramedical students of this institution. "নবচেতনা"(Nabachetana) is the official magazine of Ujan.
 Students also celebrate Martyrs' day of Saheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh, Mastarda Surya Sen, Khudiram Bose and birthday of Netaji, Dr Norman Bethune every year.
 The ex-students re-union Nostalgia is held in the post weekend of 18 November o every year for two days in a row.
 The freshers' welcome takes place every year to greet the new batch of MBBS students.
 Students celebrate Saraswati Puja every year in traditional style.
 Rabindra Jayanti is another annual event marking the birthday anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore.
 The college Foundation Day is observed every year on 18 November.
 College also organises Grand Iftar, during Ramadan.
 Students also celebrates Kali Puja, During Diwali, Which is a unique event.

The college students have formed their own bands. Umami, Whistling Woods, Intoxication, Doctors Chamber, Bipolar and Phonation are the most famous in the campus.
2017, the Golden Jubilee year Plasma, was celebrated with the welcome of eminent band like Fossils.

See also
 List of institutions of higher education in West Bengal

References

Refer New Super-Specialty Hospital To Be Handed Over To NBMCH | Siliguri Times | Siliguri News Updates

Rs 150cr to NBMCH for super-speciality status - Hospital to use the funds to improve infrastructure and introduce new types of surgery

NBMCH plan for new units

External links
 NBMC Ex Students Association

Medical colleges in West Bengal
Universities and colleges in Darjeeling district
Affiliates of West Bengal University of Health Sciences
Education in Siliguri
Educational institutions established in 1968
1968 establishments in West Bengal


Ranichauri  is a village development committee in Sindhuli District in the Janakpur Zone of south-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 7,170 people living in 1,229 individual households.

There is a village by the same name of Ranichauri in the North Indian State of Uttarakhand, in Tehri Garhwal district. A neighbouring town is Chamba. This Ranichauri is known for housing the Uttarakhand University of Horticulture and Forestry.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Sindhuli District

Populated places in Sindhuli District


Siddheshwari  is a village development committee in Sindhuli District in the Janakpur Zone of south-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 16,759 people living in 3,080 individual households.

References

External links
UN map of the municipalities of Sindhuli District

Populated places in Sindhuli District