The Grishk Dam is a dam and power plant on the Helmand River, located near Grishk in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.

A 2003 technical journal noted that the Grishk power plant was commissioned on an irrigation canal in 1945, and had two damaged and obsolete 1.2 megawatt units which would cost US$3 million to repair.

In 2005, a group of twenty Taliban fighters were captured by a joint US-Afghan operation in their attempt to blow up the dam.

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Dams in Afghanistan
Helmand River
Buildings and structures in Helmand Province
Dams completed in 1945
1945 establishments in Afghanistan


Alimukku is a small town situated on the Punalur-Muvattupuzha State Highway (SH-08) in Kollam district, about 5 kilometres northwest of Punalur and 8 km from Pathanapuram. Other nearby places include Punnala (4 km), Karavoor (5 km), and Pathanamthitta (30 km).

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Villages in Kollam district


Matthew Barker (1619 – 25 March 1698) was an English Independent minister and parliamentarian, known for his work on natural theology and for his participation in English 17th-century politics.

Life

Matthew Barker was born in Great Cransley, Northamptonshire, to parents unknown.  He worked as a schoolmaster in Banbury, Oxfordshire, until the outbreak of the English Civil War, at which point he became preacher to a London parish.  Barker was an avid parliamentarian and was invited to preach a sermon before the House of Commons on 25 October 1648.  The new republic welcomed him, and his moderation earned him the favour of the Cromwell regime, which made him an assistant to the London commission.

After the Restoration of the English monarchy, Barker became a nonconformist, forming his own London congregation.  Following the Glorious Revolution, Barker worked to promote unity among Dissenters.  To this end he published a collection of advice for scholars entering the ministry, entitled Flores intellectuales.  Barker's major published work was Natural Theology in which Barker sought to demonstrate the existence of God from the properties of nature. He died in London.

References

E. C. Vernon, ‘Barker, Matthew (1619–1698)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 23 Jan 2009

1619 births
1698 deaths
Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
English naturalists
Paleobotanists
People from Wellingborough
English Congregationalists
English independent ministers of the Interregnum (England)
Ejected English ministers of 1662


Daniel Joseph Manucci (born September 3, 1957) is a former American football quarterback and sports radio personality.

Manucci played his short National Football League career as a backup for the Buffalo Bills in the early 1980s, and returned to the team in 1987 during the player's strike, playing as a replacement player. He also played for the Canadian Football League's Toronto Argonauts (1981) and the United States Football League's Arizona Wranglers (1983)

He is currently co-host of the sports radio talk show "Roc and Manuch;" a daily local show on KGME in Phoenix, Arizona.

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The Great Mosque of Khost () or simply the Khost Mosque is the largest mosque in the city of Khost, in southeastern Afghanistan. It can hold up to 2,000 worshipers during any prayer.

It is important to note that the city of Khost has a number of other smaller mosques, which are also reported in the news as Khost mosques.

See also
List of mosques in Afghanistan

References

Mosques in Afghanistan
Khost


Hezekiah Woodward (1590–1675) was an English nonconformist minister and educator, who was involved in the pamphlet wars of the 1640s. He was a Comenian in educational theory, and an associate of Samuel Hartlib. He was one of those articulating the Puritan argument against the celebration of Christmas.

Life

In the early 1640s he was a preacher at Aldermanbury in London. At this period he was linked with John Milton, as authors in "the frequent printing of scandalous Books by divers". He was officially examined about his writings at the end of December 1644, being released after two days, and having acknowledged authorship of some work or works, thought to have included the anonymous As You Were. Milton either was not pulled in, or was quickly allowed to go.

Then, at St Michael's Church, Bray, he was an Independent minister, but was ejected in 1662, after the English Restoration of 1660. Subsequently he was in Uxbridge, one of the founders of the Old Meeting Congregational Church there.

Writings
He engaged Thomas Edwards, a major writer on the Presbyterian side. Woodward supported Katherine Chidley against Edwards.

As You Were: or a reducing (1644) was published anonymously, and in support of John Goodwin. It was a reply to Faces About, attributed to George Gillespie. Gillespie hit back in Wholesome Severity, from the Presbyterian side.

On education, he advanced the argument that the current grammar schools lacked provision for the most elementary schooling, to the detriment of the quality of the latter. His A Light to Grammar (1641) makes the case for education based on stimulation; A Gate to Science favoured realism and intelligibility in textbooks.

Parents, in his view, delegated too much of a child's upbringing to teachers. He wrote about his own schooling, in A Childes Patrimony (1640), and Portion (1649).

Family

His daughter Frances married John Oxenbridge. His daughter Sarah married Daniel Henchman (c.1627-1685), a founder of Worcester, Massachusetts.

References
C. B. Freeman, A Puritan Educator: Hezekiah Woodward and His "Childes Patrimony", British Journal of Educational Studies, Vol. 9, No. 2 (May, 1961), pp. 132–142

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1590 births
1675 deaths
Ejected English ministers of 1662
17th-century English educators


The Green Mosque (Pashto: شنه جومات ; ) is a mosque in the city of Balkh, northern Afghanistan. It is believed to have been commissioned by the then ruler of the Eastern Timurid Empire, Shah Rukh, or by his wife Goharshad.

History
After Tamerlane's death in 1405, his empire fell apart with various tribes and warlords competing for dominance. The Black Sheep Turkmen destroyed the western empire in 1410 when they captured Baghdad, but in Persia and Transoxiana, Shahrukh was able to secure effective control from about 1409. His empire controlled the main trade routes between East and West, including the legendary Silk Road, and became immensely wealthy as a region to have had made adjustments to many of the local mosques and borrowing ideas for his own buildings that he built throughout his reign; also, aspects of this building are a precursor to the famous Taj Mahal, as the similarities can be seen.

Architecture
The main building displays a typical Timurid architectural style. However, today much of the building itself has suffered heavy from neglect and damage by warring factions during the Soviet and Afghan civil wars. The main courtyard has been well preserved allowing people to pray in the open spaces. To the back of the building however little care has been given to the paving and gardens. The minaret has either collapsed due to the age of the building or could have been the act of aggression during wartime by the communists. Much of the tile work has disappeared and the wooden doors are in dire need of repair.

See also
 Balkh

References

Religious buildings and structures completed in 1421
15th-century mosques
Mosques in Afghanistan
Buildings and structures in Balkh Province
Balkh


Téo Kardum (born 24 July 1986, in Split) is a Croatian retired association footballer.

Club career
He had a season with Icelandic third tier-side ÍF Huginn.

References

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Johann "Hans" Fraberger (March 23, 1905 – 1948) was an Austrian boxer who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics.

He was born in Vienna.

In 1928 he was eliminated in the first round of the welterweight class after losing his fight to the upcoming bronze medalist Raymond Smillie.

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1905 births
1948 deaths
Sportspeople from Vienna
Welterweight boxers
Olympic boxers for Austria
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Austrian male boxers


Morgan ap Athrwys or Morgan Mwynfawr ('Morgan the Generous'; fl. ) was a king of Gwent and Glywysing (i.e., Morgannwg) in southeast Wales. He was the grandson of Meurig ap Tewdrig and the son of Athrwys ap Meurig.

Reign
Morgan was the grandson and probable successor of King Meurig. Lloyd argues that his timing and joint rule over Gwent and Glywysing makes him the probable namesake for the later realm of Morgannwg (whence modern Glamorgan), although his descendant Morgan the Old is another possibility. Through his grandmother Onbraus ferch Gwrgant Mawr, he may have been heir to the kingdom of Ergyng as well.

The charters, contained in the Book of Llandaff, include a number of grants which he is said to have made, to the church of Llandaff in the time of Bishops Oudoceus and Berthguin.
Other charters in the book, of the time of Berthguin, are attested by him, and an account is also given of ecclesiastical proceedings taken against him by Oudoceus in consequence of his murdering his uncle Ffriog Though the Book of Llandaff was compiled about the middle of the twelfth century, at a time when the see was vigorously asserting disputed claims, it nevertheless embodies a quantity of valuable old material, and is probably to be relied upon, in the general view it gives of the position of Morgan.
He appears as owner of lands in Gower, Glamorgan, and Gwent, and, since the latter two districts were afterwards ruled over by his descendants, was probably sovereign of most of the region between the River Loughor and the River Wye.

He seems to have been succeeded by his son Ithel, before Ithel's many sons divided their patrimony among themselves.

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Bo Asplund served as United Nations Secretary-General’s Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan, the United Nations Resident Coordinator and the Humanitarian Coordinator in Afghanistan. He was appointed to the position by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in August 2007.

Asplund obtained his master's degree in international economics from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and master's and bachelor's degrees in economics, political science and statistics from the University of Lund (Sweden). He also holds a Certificat d’Etudes Politiques from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris.

In the beginning of his career, he worked for the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the Swedish Government in Stockholm. He was also posted to Chile and the Swedish Mission to the United Nations.

Besides his diplomatic experience, Asplund has worked in various capacities for international organizations. He has served as Deputy Assistant Administrator of UNDP’s Regional Bureau for Arab States at the Organization's Headquarters in New York, United Nations Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in Algeria, and UNDP Senior Deputy Resident Representative in the Sudan.  From 2001 to 2007, he was the United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Resident Representative in Indonesia.  Between 1998 - 1999, he was director of Program Management Division of Oil-for-Food program in New York.

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Lashkargah Mosque () is a mosque in the city of Lashkargah, in Helmand province of south-western Afghanistan.

See also
 List of mosques in Afghanistan

Buildings and structures in Helmand Province
Mosques in Afghanistan


Jean Léchelle or Jean L'Échelle (2 April 1760 – 11 November 1793) briefly commanded a French army during the French Revolutionary Wars. Having served in the French Royal Army as a youth, the outbreak of the French Revolution found him employed as a fencing master. He was elected to lead a volunteer National Guard battalion which fought at Valmy and Jemappes in 1792. He earned promotion to general officer after distinguishing himself at the Siege of Valenciennes and saving a representative from an angry mob. He won such favor with the politicians and the war office that he was rapidly catapulted into command of an army in the War in the Vendée. After the capable battalion leader demonstrated his total unfitness for the post of army commander, he was just as quickly arrested and thrown into prison where he died, a probable suicide.

Early life
Léchelle was born on 2 April 1760 at Puyréaux. As a young man he enlisted in the French Royal Army as a private and later became a fencing master at Saintes. When the French Revolution broke out he enrolled in the National Guard of Charente-Inférieure. In 1791 he became lieutenant colonel of the 1st Charente Battalion of volunteers. On 20 September 1792 the battalion fought at the Battle of Valmy as part of the Left Wing under Jean-Pierre François de Chazot. On 6 November that year the 1st Charente was at the Battle of Jemappes where it was included in François Richer Drouet's 1st Brigade of the First Line of the Left Wing under Jean Henri Becays Ferrand.

The battalion formed part of the garrison during the Siege of Valenciennes which lasted from 25 May to 27 July 1793. The French defenders led by Jean Ferrand surrendered to the Coalition army under Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany after 1,000 soldiers were killed or died of sickness out of 9,800 troops. The survivors were released on the promise not to fight against the Coalition army for one year. As the French troops marched out of the city to lay down their arms they were set upon by the inhabitants of Valenciennes who then raised the Bourbon flag. Léchelle protected the representative Charles Cochon de Lapparent when the civilians threatened to do him harm, and Cochon secured his appointment as general of brigade on 17 August 1793. In any case, Léchelle earned the promotion by displaying courage and persistence during the defense of Valenciennes.

The War in the Vendée was an armed rebellion against the conscription of men for the army and against the National Convention's hostility toward priests. Led by the local nobility, the Vendeans soon proved to be a formidable foe. To deal with the threat, the French government formed three armies, the Army of the Coasts of La Rochelle from the Gironde to the mouth of the Loire River, the Army of the Coasts of Brest from the Loire to Saint-Malo and the Army of the Coasts of Cherbourg from Saint-Malo to the Authie River east of the Somme River. On 9 June 1793 the Vendeans drubbed Jacques-François Menou's division in the Battle of Saumur. Though Jean Baptiste Camille Canclaux defeated the rebels in the Battle of Nantes on 29 June, the Vendeans won the Battle of Vihiers on 18 July when a large part of the Republican forces simply ran away.

On 23 July 1793 the Prussian army successfully ended the Siege of Mainz. The Prussians thoughtlessly allowed the 16,000-man French garrison to go home on the condition not to fight against the Coalition for one year. Army of the Rhine commander Alexandre de Beauharnais suggested that using the garrison to fight in the Vendée would not be a violation of their parole. By 25 August the so-called Army of Mayence (the French name for Mainz) under Jean-Baptiste Annibal Aubert du Bayet assembled at Tours. Its 14,000 well-trained troops included Jean Baptiste Kléber newly promoted to general of brigade. The Austrians and English having made the same blunder as the Prussians, the 6,000 fit troops from the garrison of Valenciennes were sent first to the Siege of Lyon and later to the Vendée.

Army command

La Tremblaye and Cholet

In early October 1793, as the French were about to launch a new offensive, Canclaux was suspended from command of the Army of the Coasts of Brest and du Bayet was also removed from his post. The dismissals were brought about by the scheming of Charles-Philippe Ronsin who convinced the minister of war Jean Baptiste Noël Bouchotte that Canclaux and du Bayet were responsible for the lack of success. A protégé of Bouchotte, Léchelle was called to be commander-in-chief of the Army of the West on 30 September. He had been promoted to general of division at about the same time. The new army took over the troops of the Army of the Coasts of La Rochelle, which was formerly led by Jean Antoine Rossignol, plus the Army of Mayence. On 6 October Rossignol went to command the Army of the Coasts of Brest. Léchelle was officially in command from 6 October. He was with the La Rochelle division at first and Kléber served as the interim commander of the Nantes and Mayence divisions in his absence. Leaving the La Rochelle division in charge of Alexis Chalbos, Léchelle assumed command from Kléber on 9 October.

The Committee of Public Safety believed Léchelle combined "audacity with the necessary talents to end the war". Unfortunately, he turned out to be worse than Rossignol who, though brave, was generally understood to be incompetent. When Léchelle arrived at headquarters at Montaigu, Kléber placed a map in front of him and explained the strategy of his predecessor Canclaux. Without bothering to glance at the map, Léchelle replied, "On this terrain it is a question of display. One must march majestically and in mass". As Kléber quietly put away the map, the representative Antoine Merlin de Thionville declared that the government was appointing the most ignorant generals possible. After discussion, it was agreed that the Nantes and Mayence divisions would continue to march from the west toward Cholet where it would meet converging columns from Luçon and Les Sables d'Olonne in the south and from Bressuire in the east. After starting at La Châtaigneraie, Chalbos and François Joseph Westermann devastated the countryside as far as Bressuire where they were joined by columns from Saumur and Thouars, making a body of 20,000 soldiers.

On 14 October 1793, Léchelle ordered the Luçon column to march through Mortagne-sur-Sèvre to make contact with the advance guard of the Mayence division under Michel de Beaupuy. A blundering staff officer failed to notify Beaupuy of the intended junction and the Luçon division marched into a Vendean ambush. After its commander was hit, François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers took charge of the column and fought off the Vendeans in the Battle of La Tremblaye on 15 October. Beaupuy marched to the guns and helped repulse the rebels whose leader Louis Marie de Lescure was badly wounded.

The Vendean army evacuated Cholet the following day and it was occupied by 22,000 Republicans with 30 guns. Kléber deployed the troops of Beaupuy and Nicolas Haxo on the left, the Luçon division in the center under Marceau and Louis Antoine Vimieux's men on the right. During the early hours of the morning, 9,000 troops under Chalbos and François Muller arrived from the east. On 17 October 41,000 Vendeans attacked in the Second Battle of Cholet. Charles de Bonchamps and Maurice d'Elbée assaulted the center with 14,000 rebels while Henri de La Rochejaquelein and Jean-Nicolas Stofflet attacked the flanks. Beaupuy's division was driven back and 12 guns were lost, but Marceau and Vimieux both held their ground against desperate assaults. No sooner did Muller's 4,000-man division appear on the field than it panicked and fled. Finally, the reserve helped Beaupuy's division defeat the Vendeans in front of him. The Vendeans mounted a last gasp assault which failed and Bonchamps and Elbée were both shot down. The defeated army retreated north to Beaupréau that evening. Though Léchelle was nominally in command, Kléber wrote the battle dispatch. The Republicans suffered 4,000 killed and wounded while the Vendeans sustained 8,000 casualties.

Entrames

While Westermann's cavalry plundered Beaupréau, the Vendean army slipped away to Saint-Florent-le-Vieil on the Loire. The next day the Vendean army crossed to the north side of the river, avoiding Westermann who arrived too late and expended his fury by devastating the area. The responsibility for escape of the rebel army was due to Léchelle's failure to push the pursuit but also to 10,000 Republican troops north of the Loire that failed to block the crossing. Léchelle took Marceau, newly promoted to general of brigade, as his chief of staff after Cholet. Kléber was also promoted to general of division. The move of Vendeans north of the Loire was inspired by the hope that they might capture a port and contact the British fleet. The rebel army, now under La Rochejaquelein, numbered about 30,000 combatants and 20,000 women and children. Stopping at Laval the Vendeans hoped that Bretons would flock to their banners but few joined.

After the Army of the West crossed to the north bank of the Loire, Kléber and Marceau advised moving in several columns but Léchelle overruled them, insisting that the army move in a single column. Kléber was incredulous, writing that, "it seemed most extraordinary to us, but we had to obey". On the evening of 25 October the reckless Westermann blundered into an ambush at Croix-de-Bataille south of Laval and fell back to a fine defensive position at Entrammes. On 26 October Léchelle and main body of the 25,000-strong army reached Château-Gontier. He ordered Westermann to retreat from his position and Kléber to continue marching to Villiers-Charlemagne. Kléber and Marceau recommended that the army halt at Château-Gontier while they devised a two-pronged attack along both banks of the Mayenne River. Urged on by the representatives on mission, Léchelle and the council of war insisted on making contact with the rebels the next day.

The Battle of Entrames started at 11:00 am on 28 October 1793 when Beaupuy's division accompanied by Marceau encountered the Vendeans on the heights of Entrammes. Kléber brought his division up in support of Beaupuy who had come under assault. Unfortunately, Léchelle had jammed the entire army into a single column in which the rear was unable to come to the assistance of the vanguard, nor could the army commander issue the orders required to remedy the situation. Though they were facing the army's best troops, the Vendeans mounted an extremely effective attack which steadily drove back the Republicans. Finally, seeing the rear of the column start to disintegrate, the divisions of Kléber and Beaupuy took to their heels. That evening the Republicans tried to hold Château-Gontier, but the rebels drove them from there. Troops from the Army of the West scattered as far as Nantes, Angers and Rennes. One source placed Republican losses as 12,000 men and 19 artillery pieces out of 30,000. A more modest estimate is 4,000 Republican casualties out of 25,000 against 2,100 Vendeans killed and wounded out of 31,000. As his soldiers fled, Léchelle shouted, "What have I done that I should command such cowards?" A soldier responded, "What have we done that we should be commanded by such a shit?"

On 28 October Kléber and Marceau could only scrape together 7,000 soldiers at Le Lion-d'Angers. When Léchelle tried to inspect the troops with Kléber he was met with cries of, "Down with Léchelle! Long live du Bayet! Why don't you leave us? Long live Kléber!" The brutal Westermann announced, "No, I shall not obey a coward!" There are several stories of what happened next. In one account, the representatives got Léchelle to resign for reasons of sickness and, "he played the invalid so well that he soon died". In a second account, Merlin de Thionville had him arrested and brought to Nantes, where he died in prison from poison or despair. The final account stated that he was so ashamed that he went to Nantes and committed suicide. He died on 11 November 1793. Chalbos took command of the Army of the West on 28 October.

Commentary
Writer Louis Gabriel Michaud described Léchelle as, "without education and totally devoid of the talent for command". Kléber wrote that Léchelle was, "the most cowardly of soldiers, the worst of officers, and the most ignorant leader ever seen. He did not understand maps, hardly knew how to sign his name, and did not once approach within cannon shot of the rebels; in a word, there was nothing comparable to his poltroonery and his inefficiency, except his arrogance, his brutality, and his obstinacy". Marceau's biographer Thomas George Johnson called Léchelle, "pompous and inexperienced".

Notes

References

Michelet, Jules. Révolution française

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Kardum is a Croatian surname. Notable people with the surname include:

 Ivan Kardum (born 1987), Croatian footballer
 Maria Kardum (born 1968), Swedish swimmer
 Teo Kardum (born 1986), Croatian footballer

Surnames of Croatian origin


Nightlight (also known as View of Terror) is a 2003 television film directed by Louis Bélanger.

Plot
The film opens with a voyeur taking pictures of an unknown woman dressing up. He later sets her house on fire while she lies unconscious in the room.

Celeste Timmerman is a woman with a successful career, an attractive boyfriend named Brent, and a good friend she can trust with all of her secrets. Lately, she has done nothing but fight with Brent, and she decides she wants to move out. Although Brent is reluctant about her moving out, Celeste buys a new apartment. Soon an unknown man begins to stalk her repeatedly by telephone. The caller says he can see her. Celeste asks her best friend Tasha for help, and Tasha suggests that Celeste block his phone calls. Meanwhile, Brent is mad over Celeste leaving and starts trying to reach her constantly. Celeste thinks he is the stalker, but Tasha tells her he couldn't be. What Celeste doesn't know is that Tasha is meeting Brent secretly, and is trying to seduce him. He is only interested in Celeste, however, and wants to protect her against the stalker.

Celeste is unable to block the stalker's calls, and he becomes angry with her ignoring him. He warns her not to block his calls, not to call the police, and not to have a boyfriend. He threatens to punish her if she disobeys. Celeste ignores his warnings and contacts a detective. She also purchases a telescope to attempt to find the stalker herself. However, the stalker knows Celeste contacted the police, and calls to inform her that she will be punished. Later, returning home, Celeste finds that her curtains have been removed, and she has a voicemail message from the stalker saying that he could be anywhere in her house. Afraid, Celeste immediately leaves the apartment and contacts the police. However, her house boss later tells her that he took the curtains down because they weren't functioning correctly.

One night, Celeste receives another phone call and tries to locate the stalker while he is talking. Believing she has found him, she contacts her house boss. He tells her that what is happening to her also happened to a woman named Justine Jamison, who vanished one day and was never heard from again. Celeste trusts her hotel guard, Derreck, with her suspicions about the stalker's identity, and he reluctantly sneaks her into her suspect's apartment. She finds out that a man named David Jacobson lives there. Later, two investigators, Detective Gillis and Detective Zamora, pay David a visit and find pictures secretly taken from Celeste. Although David swears he has never seen the pictures, he is taken to the police station.

Celeste reunites with Brent, but she receives another threatening call from the stalker ordering her to get rid of Brent. The stalker says he will get rid of Brent if she doesn't. Celeste's fear returns as she realizes that David can't be the caller, because he is in jail. She tries to contact Justine Jamison, the previous stalking victim, but is unable to reach her. Returning home, Celeste realizes her pet bird is missing.

Later, as she discovers that the stalker has put cameras in her house, Celeste is interrupted with a phone call from Justine. They meet and she tells Celeste that the stalker killed her fiancée. Not much later, the stalker also threatens to kill Brent. In addition, he sends a video message of Celeste's bird, threatening to kill and eat the pet.

In the climactic scene, Derreck leads Celeste to the basement, telling her it is the stalker's hiding place. The stalker is then revealed to be Derreck. Brent, who has also come to the basement, gets into a fight with Derreck. Celeste intervenes just as Derreck is about to kill Brent by hitting the stalker in the head with a pole. The police arrest Derreck. Celeste and Brent are finally set free.

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The Abdul Rahman Mosque (; Dari: مسجد عبدالرحمان), also known as the Grand Mosque of Kabul, is one of the largest mosques in Afghanistan. It is located in one of Kabul's central commercial areas called Deh Afghanan, near the Pashtunistan Square, Zarnegar Park, and across the once popular Plaza Hotel. The building is three stories high, built on  of land. One floor of the building is dedicated to women only.

The mosque is named after an influential Afghan businessman named Hajji Abdul Rahman who died but the project was continued by his sons. Construction of the mosque began in 2001 by Hajji Abdur Rahman but was delayed for several years due to red tape. The mosque has the capacity to serve 10,000 people at a time. There is also a madrasa inside the mosque and a library containing 150,000 books.

The major work on the mosque was completed in late 2009 but the official inauguration took place in July 2012, attended by the former Afghan President Hamid Karzai and many other high-ranking officials. The building of the mosque is said to have been initially designed by Afghan architect Mir Hafizullah Hashimi.

See also
List of mosques in Afghanistan

References

2009 establishments in Afghanistan
Mosque buildings with domes
Mosques completed in 2009
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Sergey Vitalyevich Bezrukov (; born 18 October 1973) is a Soviet and Russian film and stage actor, singer, People's Artist of Russia, the laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation. He currently works at Tabakov Studio (the theatre of Oleg Tabakov). He is a member of the Supreme Council of the party United Russia.

Biography

Early life and education
Sergei Bezrukov was born on 18 October 1973 in Moscow. His father was Vitali Bezrukov, an actor and director who worked at the Moscow Satire Theatre. Sergei's mother was Natalia Bezrukova (née Surova), she graduated from the Gorky College of Soviet Trade and worked as a shop manager. Sergei Bezrukov was named in honor of his father's favorite poet, Sergei Yesenin.

After graduating from secondary school No. 402 in the Perovsk district of Moscow in 1990, he entered the Moscow Art Theater School. In 1994 he graduated from the acting department of the Moscow Art Theater School, with the specialization being Actor of Drama Theater and Cinema (Oleg Tabakov's workshop), and was immediately accepted into the troupe of the Moscow Theater Studio under Oleg Tabakov.

Career
Bezrukov made his cinematic debut in Nocturne for Drum and Motorcycle.

From 1995 until 2000, he worked on the satirical program Puppets which aired on the NTV channel. Puppets were used on the show to represent famous people, mainly politicians. He voiced twelve characters on the show, among them such famous personalities as Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Zhirinovsky. Bezrukov gained more exposure as an actor with the show.

In 2002 Bezrukov gained his big break; he got the role of gang leader Sasha Belov in the popular crime TV show Brigada. After the series aired Sergei Bezrukov became a household name in Russia. He voiced the title character of Prince Vladimir animated film. He is also known for his theatre role of Chichikov in Dead Souls (which won the Moskovskij Komsomolets''' award). In 2006, he portrayed Alexander Pushkin, revered as the Russian language's greatest poet, in Pushkin: The Last Duel.

According to the survey of ROMIR Monitoring, in Russia he was called the favorite actor of 2005.

In March 2014 he signed a letter in support of the position of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin on Russia's military intervention in Ukraine.

In 2020, he advocated 2020 amendments to the Constitution of Russia, which, in particular, are defining marriage as a relationship between one man and one woman. He explained his position by saying, that the terms 'parent 1 and parent 2' shouldn't be allowed to exist in Russia. "I propagate love between a man and a woman, and prefer not to have a deal with gender equality", he also said.

In 2022 Bezrukov publicly supported the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

 Sanctions
In July 2022 the EU imposed sanctions on Sergey Bezrukov in relation to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Personal life
From 2000 to 2015 he was married to actress Irina Bezrukova (to marry Bezrukov she broke up with actor Igor Livanov, they became officially married when Sergei was acting in the TV series Brigada''). In 2015 the couple separated.

Sergei Bezrukov married director and screenwriter Anna Matison on 11 March 2016. On 4 July 2016 they had a daughter, Maria.

At the end of 2013, the media, citing Bezrukov's father, reported that Sergei has young children: daughter Alexandra and son Ivan; their mother was identified as a St. Petersburg actress by the name of Kristina Smirnova (born 1983 in Latvia).

Selected filmography

References

External links

 Sergey Bezrukov at Instagram
 Sergey Bezrukov at Twitter
 Sergey Bezrukov at Facebook
 Sergey Bezrukov in a role of poet Sergey Yesenin

1973 births
20th-century Russian male actors
21st-century Russian male actors
Living people
Male actors from Moscow
Academicians of the National Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Russia
Moscow Art Theatre School alumni
Honored Artists of the Russian Federation
People's Artists of Russia
State Prize of the Russian Federation laureates
Russian male film actors
Russian male stage actors
Russian male television actors
Russian male voice actors
United Russia politicians
Anti-Ukrainian sentiment in Russia
Russian individuals subject to European Union sanctions


The Great Mosque of Herat (Pashto: د هرات لوی جومات ; ) or "Jami Masjid of Herat", is a mosque in the city of Herat, in the Herat Province of north-western Afghanistan. It was built by the Ghurids, under the rule of Sultan Ghiyath al-Din Muhammad Ghori, who laid its foundation in 1200 CE. Later, it was extended several times as Herat changed rulers down the centuries from the Kartids, Timurids, Mughals and then the Uzbeks, all of whom supported the mosque. The fundamental structure of the mosque from the Ghurid period has been preserved, but parts have been added and modified. The Friday mosque in Herat was given its present appearance during the 20th century.

Apart from numerous small neighborhood mosques for daily prayer, most communities in the Islamic world have a larger mosque, a congregational mosque for Friday services with a sermon. The Jami Masjid of Herat was not always the largest mosque in Herat; a much larger complex, the Mosque and Madressa of Gawhar Shad, also built by the Timurids, was located in the northern part of the city. However, those architectural monuments were dynamited by officers of the British Indian Army in 1885, to prevent its use as a fortress if a Russian army tried to invade India.

History
The Masjid-i Jami of Herat was the city's first congregational mosque. It was built on a site where religious sites had been located for many centuries. The first known building was a Zoroastrian temple converted into a mosque in the 7th century. Afterward, it was enlarged by the Turkic Ghaznavids. In the second half of the 11th century, a Herat mosque was founded under the rule of the Khwarazmian dynasty. It had a wooden roof and was of smaller dimensions than the following buildings. During an earthquake in 1102, it was almost completely destroyed but was rebuilt. Later, it was also ruined by a fire. Subsequently, the Ghurids constructed a mosque on the existing and adjacent plots.

Ghurid rulers
Planning to expand their territory, the Ghurids seized power in Herat in 1175 CE. Herat is an important city because of its strategic position near the main commercial routes, connecting the Mediterranean to India or China, and the resulting prosperity. At the end of the 12th century, Sultan Ghiyath al-Din Muhammed ibn San initiated the rebuilding of the city's main mosque in Herat. For this purpose, he chose the existing plot of the burned mosque and additional land around it. The land was located in the north-eastern, mainly administrative quarter of Herat and not directly in the center. Scholars believe that this area was topographically elevated. Furthermore, it had a direct water supply from the main channel joy-i-enjil for the fountain of the mosque. By building the mosque on an already known site, the Ghurids could demonstrate their architectural patronage, as well as political power. Some sources also believe that the Sultan ordered the mosque to be built for Imam Fakhr-ul-Razi, a religious leader.

After the Sultan died in 1203, he was buried in the mausoleum, a tomb building in his mosque. His son, Sultan Ghayath-ul-din Mahmood, continued the work on the mosque. By the time it was completed in 1210, his son had added a madrassa, which is a religious school. Stylistic analysis and historical inscriptions found during a renovation in 1964 prove that the building is attributed to the Ghurids.

Kart rulers
In 1221, Mongolian Genghis Khan forces conquered the province. Along with much of Herat, the mosque fell into ruin. It wasn't until after 1245 that any rebuilding programs were undertaken. This was under the rule of Shams al-Din Kart. He was the king of the Kart dynasty, appointed by the Mongols as governor. A devastating earthquake in 1364 left the building almost destroyed. Afterward, some attempts were made to rebuild it. A relic of the Kart dynasty is the bronze basin with a diameter of 1.74 meters. It was commissioned in 1375 by the last Kart ruler specifically for the mosque. This basin has survived all subsequent demolitions, except for a few scratches, and is still located in the mosque.

Timurid Rulers
After 1397, the Timurid rulers redirected Herat's growth towards the northern part of the city. This suburbanization and the building of a new congregational mosque in Gawhar Shad's Musalla marked the temporary end of the congregational mosque's patronage by a monarchy. Under Shah Rukh (1405–1444), the mosque was repaired. The ground plan remained, but exterior aspects were changed. The inner courtyard facades were decorated with mosaic of glazed tiles, including the name of Shah Rukh. Also, a marble mihrab was added to the west of the mosque. A mihrab is a niche in the wall that indicates the direction of prayer to Mecca.

Later, under the rule of Sultan Husayn Bayqara, his advisor Mir Ali-Shir Nava'i devoted himself to remodeling the mosque. He made structural changes to the propositions, such as lowering the Ghuridic archway at the southeast corner. He also added lateral archways on both sides at the level of the roof. In addition, he ordered mosaic tiles with geometric patterns to be applied to further parts of the mosque. The marble minbar with nine steps replaced the old wooden one. A minbar is a pulpit from which prayers are delivered.

Mughal and Safavid Rulers
The mosque went through another renovation under the Mughal Empire. During this period, Prince Khurram (Shah Jahan) was fighting for control of the region against the Uzbek tribes, which were controlled by the Safavids. In this battle for Herat, the mosque, as well as the city of Herat itself, was considerably damaged.

Afghan rulers
Under the reign of different kings, the mosque was repaired multiple times. During the 18th century, the frontal facade of the main iwan from the Timurid period collapsed and had to be rebuilt. An iwan is a vaulted room or hall open on one side. Other than that, only repairs were made to maintain the existing form.

20th Century
After repair works in 1913, the mosque was extensively renovated in 1942/1943. The buildings directly adjacent to the mosque were destroyed in order to make the mosque a free-standing building. Among other things, a new east entrance with a high archway and two minarets was built. Minarets are towers from which people are called to prayer. The exterior walls were decorated with glazed tiles in the Timurid style. For these works, a ceramic tile studio was established by UNESCO. This studio in the mosque also preserved all tile decorations and mosaics until 1979. The lettering was substituted by current calligraphers.

The follow-up was a more complete reconstruction from 1951 to 1973 involving structural changes. The square dome of the mausoleum of the Ghurid time was widely destroyed. It was replaced by an octagonal construction and integrated in the northern front. The wall to the east was also changed into an iwan with minarets on both sides. Also, the maqsura iwan, an enclosure reserved for the ruler, was made higher. The minarets next to it were heightened to 35 meters tall. Its porch was renewed. In addition, ten new minarets were added. The facades in the courtyard were tiled with traditional mosaics in seven different colors. The floor was paved with light brown baked bricks. Due to all these works, not much of the original Ghuridic plasterwork or Timurid decoration was visible. The mosque's madrassa was moved to the northeast and given its own entrance. The last significant change was the creation of a park in front of the mosque.

During the Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989), only limited demolition struck the mosque. This was the case despite the abuse of the minarets by Soviet soldiers and huge tanks moving around the area. In 1986, one minaret hit by a rocket crashed into the courtyard. It killed many people and caused damage to the eastern wing. The Soviets sent experts for reparation, but works had not been finished until 1995. Some more traces like bullet holes could be found. The Ghurid portal was not severely damaged.

In 1992, the replacing of the stone plaster in the courtyard started, financed by private sponsoring. A pattern of wide strips of white marble alternating with narrow stripes of black marble was laid. Due to failing donations, it could not be finished until 1998. During the Taliban's rule in Herat between 1996 and 2001, the entry to the mosque was banned for all non-muslims, including UN staff.

21st Century
In 2002, all roofs of the mosque were renovated due to a problem with excessive humidity in the interior. During the renovation of the facades in 2004/05, parts of the old Ghurid decoration were found. These parts are exhibited in frames in the wall covering. In 2012, some fifty Afghan traders promised funds for the renovation of the mosque.

Architecture

The initial plan of the mosque by the Ghurids
The Ghurids built the entire mosque using brick. The layout is a typical 4-iwan plan with an interior courtyard and a water basin. The qibla orientation towards the west was adhered to, although this deviates from the correct direction to Mecca by about 20°. The main iwan was covered by vaults. It formed an axial cross with the other three iwans on each side of the courtyard. These three iwans were intended as meeting and teaching places for smaller audiences.

Mosque at present

The mosque complex is 180 meters long and 120 meters wide, covering an area of about 21,600 square meters. Besides the four large iwans, there are 460 domes, 444 pillars, and 12 minarets (17–36 meters tall). These elements are grouped around the central courtyard (82m by 60m). Pishtaqs, the gateways to the iwan, underline the spatial importance of the iwans. Together with the depth of the iwans, they provide a large surface for ornamentation. A significant part of the present mosque is covered with glazed tiles in bright colors according to Timurid tradition.

Decoration from the Ghurid period in the present mosque
In the southern and western iwan interior, decorative elements of the Ghurid period are uncovered. Made from stucco, they are stamped with floral and geometric patterns. Stucco is a material for molding ornaments. At the southeast corner of the mosque is the Ghurid portal. It has not served as a portal since unknown times. On both sides of the archway, Kufic inscriptions are displayed. This style of Arabic script is typical of Ghurid period inscriptions. The vertically placed bands of inscriptions are made of terracotta and worked into the base's mortar like a mosaic. On the front, they are glazed blue, contrasting with the light red brick tone of the background. The sidewalls of the portal are decorated with geometrical brick mosaic, interspersed with blue glazed tile plugs.

See also
Jama Masjid of Balkh

References

Mosques in Afghanistan
Buildings and structures in Herat
Herat


A positive pressure enclosure, also known as a welding habitat or hot work habitat, is a chamber used to provide a safe working environment for performing hot work in the presence of explosive gases or vapors. They are commonly used in welding environments and are associated with the offshore oil industry.

A positive pressure enclosure works by providing a constant inflow of breathable air, which in turn causes a continuous outflow of gas from the chamber. This outflow of gas prevents the ingress of explosive gases or vapors that are often present in these work environments. This constant venting of gases from the chamber also serves to purge the air inside the chamber of unwanted gaseous byproducts of the welding process. Most commercial versions of positive pressure enclosures are referred to by their manufacturers as habitats.

Safety measures

Air quality

According to Malaysia's Department of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) the ventilation is considered adequate when the number of air changes every hour is not less than 10 under normal conditions (defined as "processes which generate little or no heat, smoke or fume") and no less than twenty ("should there be processes which generate heat, smoke or fume").

The airflow inside the habitat should be arranged in a one-way flow with the inlet (at floor level) and outlet (at top level) on the farthest and opposite side. The habitat ventilation flow rate must be 2,000 cubic feet per minute from a clean source per welder to dilute the polluted air inside the habitat.

Heat stress
The United States Department of Labor OSHA claims that every type of job that raises workers deep core temperature (listed as higher than 100.4 degrees F (38°C)) raises the risk of heat stress, and provides a list of guidelines which might be used to manage work in these environments.

Positive pressure assurance
A minimum positive pressure of 0.1 inch of water or 0.00025 bar (equivalent to 25 Pascal or 0.00363 PSI) shall be maintained inside the Habitat enclosure to prevent ingestion of hydrocarbon in the event of leak occurred outside.

Standards

IEC standard
Many countries are members of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). Positive pressure enclosures, or "welding habitats" are working on the principle of overpressure. This protection principle is regulated by IEC Standard 60079-13.

ATEX directive
The ATEX certification is the national certification standard of the European Union, and mandatory to operate equipment in explosive atmosphere in Europe. ATEX certification is not based on the IECEx certification scheme, certification is bases on the ATEX directive 2014/34/EU – see main article. Under the ATEX 2014/34/EU Directive, all equipment requires a proper manufacturer's EU Declaration of Conformity. For Zone 1 welding habitats this EU Declaration of Conformity must be based on a Notified Body issued EU–Type Examination Certificate for pressurized habitats (rooms) EN 60079-13.

Operating principles

Flammability limits
Flammable gases are not generally explosive under all conditions, . Additionally, oxygen must be present. The flammability limits of gases are expressed in proportions to the other gases present. For example, for methane, research by Akifumi Takahashi et. al. shows limits between 4.4% for the lower explosive limit and the upper explosive limit at 16.3%. A positive pressure enclosure works by ensuring that the methane present in the work area never approaches the lower explosive limit.

Positive pressure
The operating pressure inside a typical isolation chamber is set only marginally above local pressure; typically only 0.05 kilopascals (about 0.007 pounds per square inch) above local atmospheric pressure. This is low enough to be undetectable to operators working inside the enclosure (a person sitting in a bathtub full of water is exposed to higher pressures), but due to the leakages, it needs to ensure that the volume of air inside the enclosure is constantly changing. Intake air is drawn into the enclosure by fan units.

See also

References

Welding safety


The discography of the cast of the American film series High School Musical—primarily composed of Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Lucas Grabeel, Corbin Bleu and Monique Coleman—consists of three soundtrack albums, one live album, five compilation albums, two remix albums, one extended play and twelve singles. All albums and singles were released on Walt Disney Records. Collectively, the three soundtrack albums have sold 9.8 million copies in the United States, as of January 2016.

Albums

Soundtrack albums

Live albums

Compilation albums

Remix albums

Extended plays

Singles

Other charted songs

Notes

References

Discographies of American artists
Film and television discographies


Bamyan Airport , officially named Shahid Mazari Airport, is located in the city of Bamyan, which is the capital of Bamyan Province in Afghanistan. It is a domestic airport under the country's Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation (MoTCA), and serves the population of Bamyan Province. Security in and around the airport is provided by the Afghan National Security Forces.

The airport sits at an elevation of  above mean sea level. It has an asphalt runway measuring . The airport has been expanded and improved from its previous pre-2014 condition. Its official name is in honor of Abdul Ali Mazari, the founder of the Hezbe Wahdat political party in Afghanistan.

Airport

The airport sits alongside a large military base which, until April 2013, was known as Forward Operating Base Kiwibase and was home to coalition troops including USA, New Zealand, and Malaysia, as well as a detachment of police from Europe (EUPOL) and various aid agencies, and was the base of the New Zealand Provincial Reconstruction Team (NZPRT) run by New Zealand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

The airport is used by small fixed-wing aircraft, larger aircraft capable of short take off and landing (including C130 Hercules), and rotary-wing aircraft. A number of civilian airlines, including Embassy Air, land at Bamyan as well as various aid agencies and military forces. Coalition rotary aircraft usually land within the confines of the adjacent Kiwibase, which has a fuel farm capable of refueling aircraft.

In the past, Bamyan was a very challenging airport at which to land and take off. The airport consisted of a long dirt-and-gravel airstrip, on which aircraft have been known to suffer punctures. Aircraft usually landed from the east regardless of wind conditions due to the high cliffs off the north-western corner. It is at an altitude of approximately 2591 m above sea level, meaning the air is much thinner and the weather more extreme than at sea level.

It is frequently closed by snow in the winter and can reach temperatures as low as −20 °C in the winter and 40 °C in the summer. It had no terminal buildings. It is approximately 2595 m long and 23 m wide and fenced by chain link fences approximately 2.5 m high. Along the length of this fence are several gates which remain open when the runway is not in use, and local residents used to cross the runway freely as a main thoroughfare from the southern part of Bamyan City to the main Bazaar. The gates were secured by NZPRT soldiers using padlocks when aircraft were due to land. The soldiers were then required to maintain a security patrol to prevent the fence being breached by inconvenienced locals who may have tried to cross in the path of aircraft, and more serious breaches to the security of the aircraft.

The runway had a slight bend in it approximately halfway down which added to the challenges faced by pilots during takeoff and landing. The bend also mean that a section of the chain link fence was incomplete on the southern side of the airfield to enable an aircraft wing to pass over a steep drop off into a gully to the south. This section was loosely and ineffectively strung with Razor Wire. Local residents frequently used this weak point to cross the runway when it was closed, only to be stuck on the northern side where the fence was mostly complete.

In 2021, Taliban soldiers captured the airport during the 2021 Taliban offensive.

Airlines and destinations

Accidents and incidents

 On April 18, 1973, a de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 100 (YA-GAT) of Bakhtar Afghan Airlines crashed during takeoff, killing 4 of the 19 occupants (2 crew and 2 passengers). 14 of the passengers were Americans and Canadians. This was Afghanistan's first fatal airliner crash.
 On August 21, 1997, an Antonov An-32 (registration unknown) of the United Front Air Force crashed after overshooting the runway, killing all 7 occupants, including a number of anti-Taliban leaders. The plane was arriving from Mazar-I-Sharif.

See also
 List of airports in Afghanistan
 Tourism in Afghanistan

References

External links
 Airport record for Bamiyan Airport at Landings.com.

Airports in Afghanistan
Bamyan Province
Hazarajat


Chaghcharan Airport (; ; ) is located in the eastern section of Chaghcharan, which is the capital of Ghor Province in Afghanistan. It is a domestic airport under the country's Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation (MoTCA), and serves the population of Ghor and nearby provinces. Security in and around the airport is provided by the Afghan National Security Forces.

Sitting at an elevation of  above sea level, Chaghcharan Airport has one asphalt runway measuring . It is capable of supporting small to medium (C130) sized aircraft. The Hari River runs south and east of the airport. The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) became occupants of the airport until their mission ended in late 2014. It was developed and made more useful during that time.

The other closest airports to Chaghcharan are: Maymana Airport in Faryab Province to the north; Bamyan Airport in Bamyan Province to the east; Nili Airport in Daykundi Province to the southeast; Bost Airport in Helmand Province to the southwest; Farah Airport in Farah Province to the southwest; Herat International Airport in Herat Province to the west; and Qala i Naw Airport in Badghis Province to the northwest.

Airlines and destinations

See also
List of airports in Afghanistan

References

External links
 Chaghcharan Airport opening ceremony - made by CCR PRT PIO OF1 Paulius Babilas (1)
 Airport Records by Dr. Günther Eichhorn

Airports in Afghanistan
Ghor Province


Farah Airport  is located in the eastern section of Farah in Afghanistan, which is the capital city of Farah Province. The airport is under the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation (MoTCA), and serves the population of southwestern Afghanistan. It currently provides domestic flight services to several cities but may include international flights sometime in the future.

Farah Airport was used for military purposes in the past by the United States Armed Forces and the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), including the Afghan Air Force (AAF). It was renovated and expanded recently, with new facilities added for the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF).

Airlines and destinations

See also
List of airports in Afghanistan

References

External links
 (a documentary on the airport by ASR TV, July 1, 2019)
 Airport record for Farah Airport at Landings.com.

Airports in Afghanistan
Farah Province


William Green (1760–1823) was an English artist, poet, writer, and landscape painter, who made images mainly of the Lake District, determined to make them "adhere as faithfully as possible to nature." His biographer, Charles Roeder, stated: "his novel method is notable, as the artists have all a conventional and uniform style in regard to the representation of mountains. Those of Mr Green are veritable mountains; he says that he knows their anatomy and he is undoubtedly right."

In 1819, Green completed a major work, The Tourist's New Guide to the Lake District. But he became troubled, and by 1820 his constitution was weakened.

His daughter, Elizabeth, married Walter H Mayson, a famous British violin maker.

References

External links

William Green on the Armitt Website

1760 births
1823 deaths
18th-century British painters
British male painters
19th-century British painters
19th-century British male artists


Khwahan Airport ()  is a private use airport located near Khwahan, Badakhshan, Afghanistan.

See also
List of airports in Afghanistan

References

External links
 Airport record for Khwahan Airport at Landings.com.

Airports in Afghanistan
Buildings and structures in Badakhshan Province


Qala i Naw Airport ; () is a small airport serving the city of Qala i Naw in Badghis Province, Afghanistan. It is also known as Qala Nau Airport. It previously had scheduled services with the now defunct Pamir Airways. This airport is unique in the fact that the runway was originally a highway utilized when there was no air traffic. The runway lies adjacent to the site of a former Spanish forward operating base (FOB), now transferred to the Afghan government. The airport is mainly used for military purposes, including by the Afghan Air Force (AAF). Qala e Naw Airport has located next to Qala i Naw Airport.

See also
List of airports in Afghanistan

References

External links
 Airport record for Qala-I-Naw Airport at Landings.com.

Airports in Afghanistan
Badghis Province


Zaranj Airport (; ) , also known as Nimruz Airport, is located some  east of the city of Zaranj in Afghanistan. It is a domestic airport under the country's Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation (MoTCA), and serves the population of Nimruz Province. Security in and around the airport is provided by the Afghan National Security Forces.

Sitting at an elevation of  above sea level, Zaranj Airport has one asphalt runway measuring around . The airport was located in the past in the northern section of Zaranj, which site is now under the Ministry of Defense. In addition to the Afghan Armed Forces and Afghan National Police, the U.S military and the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) also had presence there.

The other closest Afghan airports to Zaranj Airport are Farah Airport in Farah Province to the north and Bost Airport in Helmand Province, which is around  highway driving distance to the east.

Airlines and destinations

The airport also handles charter civilian and military flights.

See also
List of airports in Afghanistan

References

External links

 Airport Records by Dr. Günther Eichhorn

Airports in Afghanistan
Nimruz Province
Buildings and structures in Nimruz Province


Millennium 88FM was a temporary local radio service for Dublin operated by RTÉ from 1988 to April 1989 to mark 1988 at the year of the Dublin Millennium.

The station broadcast from studios at the GPO Arcade in Dublin from 7am to 6pm daily. The studio was a short distance from where the first Irish radio station 2RN had begun broadcasting on 1 January 1926.
Millennium 88FM broadcast on 88.0 MHz FM, and 1278 kHz (235 metres) on medium wave.

A number of well-known radio names passed through this station:
 Gareth O'Callaghan (2FM, Galway Bay FM and 4FM),
 Jimmy Greeley (RTÉ News, Radio 1, 2FM, 98FM and 4FM),
 Robbie Irwin (Century Radio, Radio Ireland/Today FM, 2FM and RTÉ Sports and RTÉ Gold,)
 Declan Meehan (RTÉ2, London's Capitol Radio, Century Radio, FM104, Today FM and East Coast FM),
 Mark Byrne (Century Radio, Atlantic 252, FM104, Radio Ireland/Today FM, 98FM, Lite FM/Q102 and 4FM),(now currently working as a pilot)
 Nails Mahoney, aka Brian McColl (2FM, Atlantic 252, Radio Ireland, 98FM,East Coast FM,4FM and Q102),
 Scott Williams (2FM, Century Radio, Capital Radio/Rock104/FM104, Limerick's Live 95FM and Lite FM/Q102),
 Andrew Hanlon (TV3 Head of News)
 Al Dunne (Atlantic 252, Lite FM/Q102, 4FM and RTÉ Gold)
 Maxi (RTÉ Radio 1)
 Theresa Lowe (RTÉ TV)
 Brian Jennings (RTÉ News)

References

Defunct RTÉ radio stations
Mass media in Dublin (city)


The Martin T or TT was a training biplane produced in the United States in 1913 for military use. It was a conventional, three-bay biplane with unstaggered wings of equal span. The pilot and instructor sat in tandem, open cockpits with dual controls. Fixed, taildragger undercarriage was fitted, which could be exchanged for a single pontoon under the fuselage and wingtip floats.

Early examples were delivered to the Army without engines, so the Army could power them with engines salvaged from other aircraft, but later TTs came equipped with Curtiss, Hall-Scott, or Sturtevant engines.

In 1915, a Model TT was piloted by Oscar Brindley to win the Curtiss Marine Trophy for the longest flight within 10 consecutive hours in one day, covering 444 mi (710 km).

The Model T was the basis for the Martin S Hydro seaplane, with a lengthened fuselage, a greater span, and upper wing ailerons.

The first Martin T acquired, Signal Corps Number 31, was deployed to Texas in April 1915 as the Army massed around Brownsville in response to civil war in Mexico involving forces under Pancho Villa. On April 20, S.C. 31 became the first American military aircraft to be fired on by a hostile force. Although not hit by a machine gun firing at it from the Mexican side of the border, the returning pilot taxied it into a ditch and damaged it beyond repair.

Variants
Martin T
Two-seat training biplane for the US Army, three built (S.C. 31-33)
Martin TT
Variant with Curtiss, Hall-Scott, or Sturtevant piston engines, 14 built (S.C. 37-38, 50-51, 54-55, 96-101, 330-331)

Operators
United States Army
Aeronautical Division, U.S. Signal Corps
Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps

Specifications (TT)

References

Further reading

1910s United States military trainer aircraft
T
Aircraft first flown in 1913


Bhaterchar is a village in Belabo Upazila, Narsingdi District, Bangladesh.

Covering an area of approximately 3 square km, it has a population of approximately 3,100.

References

Populated places in Narsingdi District


Taloqan Airport  is an airport serving the city of Taloqan (also known as Taluqan) in Takhar Province, Afghanistan.

See also
List of airports in Afghanistan

References

External links
 Airport record for Taluqan Airport at Landings.com.

Airports in Afghanistan
Buildings and structures in Takhar Province


The Jackson Hole American Legion Post No. 43 is a log building in Jackson, Wyoming, home to the local post of the American Legion. The post was built in 1928-29 and functioned as a community center. During its period of significance from 1929 to 1953 the post was instrumental in the shift of economic and political interests in Jackson Hole from a rural emphasis to urban interests.

References

External links
Jackson Hole American Legion Post No. 43 at the Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office

American Legion buildings
Buildings and structures in Teton County, Wyoming
Clubhouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Wyoming
Rustic architecture in Wyoming
National Register of Historic Places in Teton County, Wyoming


Craig Arnold Tracy (born September 9, 1945) is an American mathematician, known for his contributions to mathematical physics and probability theory.

Born in United Kingdom, he moved as infant to Missouri where he grew up and
obtained a B.Sc. in physics from University of Missouri (1967).
He studied as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow
at the Stony Brook University where he obtained a Ph.D. on the thesis entitled Spin-Spin Scale-Functions in the Ising and XY-Models (1973)
advised by Barry M. McCoy,
in which (also jointly with Tai Tsun Wu and Eytan Barouch) he studied Painlevé functions in exactly
solvable statistical mechanical models.

He then was on the faculty of Dartmouth College (1978–84) before
joining University of California, Davis (1984) where he is now
a professor. With Harold Widom he worked on the asymptotic analysis of Toeplitz determinants and their various operator theoretic generalizations.  This work gave them both the George Pólya and the Norbert Wiener prizes, and the Tracy–Widom distribution is named after them.

Awards
Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, 1967–68.
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship 1991
2002 Pólya Prize (SIAM) shared with Harold Widom
Fellow American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2006
Norbert Wiener Prize 2007, shared with Harold Widom.
Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, 2012

References

20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
1945 births
University of Missouri alumni
Mathematicians from Missouri
Stony Brook University alumni
Dartmouth College faculty
University of California, Davis faculty
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
Living people
Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics


Redwan Nawi
  Zamzuri Md Isa
  Hasmawi Hassan
  Mohd Bunyamin Umar
  Zairol Fitree Ishak
  K. Soley
  Megat Amir Faisal Al Khalidi Ibrahim
  Akmal Rizal Ahmad Rakhli
  Mohd Fauzi Nan
  Mohd Rafdi Abdul Rashid
  Shariman Che Omar
  Liew Kit Kong
  Ooi Hoe Guan
  Badrul Afzan Razali
  Redzuan Mohd Radzy
  Irwan Fadzli Idrus
  Danial Fadzly Abdullah
  Somchat Na Rong
  Manzoor Azwira Abdul Wahid
  Zainuddin Mohd Ariffin
  Amirul Nizam Mahadzir
  Tan Cheng Hoe
  Adrien Jurad Chamrong
  Cheah Kean Seng
  Roslan Abdul Rahim
  Mazlan Abdul Wahed
  G. Shanmugan
  Che Zambil Ahmad
  Yap Wai Loon
  Badulhisham Abdullah
  Khairul Anuar Baharum
  S. Ragesh
  Norizam Ali Hassan
  Mat Zahir Wahab
  Che Hisamuddin Hassan
  Maizal Hairi Marzuki
  Khattul Anuar Abdul Hamid
  Anuar Abdul Aziz
  Yew Choh Hooi
  Zulfatah Dzulkarnain
  Ahmad Zalghafari Manaf
  Amran Omar
  Azrin Shah Zainal
  Mohd Shawal Johadi
  Fakhzan Salleh
  Khamal Idris Ali
  Hashim Mustapha
  Muhamad Radhi Mat Din
  Manja Man
  Feriza Ismail
  Farouk Ismail
  Lee Thean Ewe
  Lim Teong Kim
  S. Thanasegar
  Lee Kin Hong
  Mohd Nidzam Adzha Yusoff
  Faridzuan Che Hamid
  Jelani Wilastra
  V. Thinagaran
  Ahmad Sabri Ismail
  Azmi Mahmud
  Ng Chew Beng
  Chan Keat Swee
  Mohamad Ramli
  Abdul Aziz Azizan
  Syed Alwi Syed Abdullah
  Romli Ghani
  Husin Jaafar
  Norazam Ishak
  K. Ravichandran
  Naina Mohamad
  Idris Man
  Hamizan Ishak
  Abdull Rahman Tasu
  Koet King Heong
  Karim Pin
  Faridzul Kassim
  Khor Sek Leng
  Mosthakeen Omar
  Syed Ahmad
  Roshidi Shaari
  Looi Loon Teik
  Yusof Bakar

See also
List of Kedah FA honours and achievements

Kedah Darul Aman F.C. players
Association football player non-biographical articles
Kedah


Airship Ventures Inc. was a private company that offered sight-seeing rides (which the company called "flightseeing") in a 12-passenger Zeppelin NT out of a World War II United States Navy hangar at Moffett Federal Airfield near Mountain View, California.

, their airship, built by Zeppelin Luftschifftechnik GmbH, is in a state of disassembly, but is still one of three zeppelins in the world. The ship was dedicated and christened Eureka at the 75th anniversary celebration for Moffett Field on November 21, 2008; its flight from Beaumont, Texas, where it was shipped, to the Bay Area was the first zeppelin flight in the United States in 71 years.

At  long, it was the largest airship in the world until the U.S. Army's LEMV had its maiden flight in 2012.

The company was owned by the husband and wife team of Alexandra and Brian Hall of Los Gatos, California.  Alexandra Hall previously ran the Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland, California, and Brian Hall is the CEO of telecommunications software company Mark/Space. Two of their pilots, Katherine "Kate" Board (who left the company to fly another Zeppelin NT in Germany) and Andrea Deyling, are the only female zeppelin pilots in the world.

Airship Ventures was based out of the Bachelor Officer Quarters in Building 20 in the NASA Research Park. The airship was stored in the World War II era Hangar Two - a former blimp hangar.

On November 14, 2012, the company announced that it was closing its doors and grounding flight operations due to a lack of long-term sponsorship. In mid-December the decision was announced to wind up the company and disassemble the Eureka, which was shipped back to Germany.

See also
Deutsche Zeppelin Reederei (DZR), both the historic and current German Zeppelin passenger transport company

References

External links

 Official website as archived in September 2012, prior to cessation of operations
 NASA Welcomes Airship Ventures Zeppelin To Moffett Field 2008-10-23

Companies based in Santa Clara County, California
American companies established in 2007
Airlines established in 2008
Moffett Field
Aviation in California
Aviation in the United States
Airships
Airships of the United States


The Miller Cabin complex consists of three buildings that were the residence of Robert A. Miller, the first superintendent of Teton National Monument. A house, a barn and a cabin built by the U.S. Forest Service are included. The property was eventually transferred to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in what became the National Elk Refuge. The buildings are a component of the closely related Grace and Robert Miller Ranch.

Robert Miller was born at Wisconsin  in 1863. He took up permanent residence in Jackson Hole in 1885, settling on land along Flat Creek. A prominent local citizen, Miller helped to organize the town of Jackson, Wyoming in 1901 and was president of the local bank. His wife served two terms as mayor of Jackson in the 1920s. Miller was chosen by Abraham Archibald Anderson, administrator of the new Yellowstone Timberland Reserve to be administrator of the Teton Division of the reserve from 1903, running the operation from his cabin.

As a result of local rancher, photographer and Wyoming legislator S.N. Leek's efforts, the National Elk Refuge was established in 1912 from nearly  of Miller's land, and was administered from the house adjoining Miller's cabin.

The original cabin was Miller's home during his time with the Forest Service. The adjoining two-story house was used as the headquarters for the National Elk Refuge in its early years.

References

External links
Miller Cabin at the Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Wyoming
Houses in Teton County, Wyoming
Ranches in Wyoming
National Register of Historic Places in Grand Teton National Park
1890s establishments in Wyoming
Houses completed in the 19th century


Indian Institute of Technology Ropar (IIT Ropar) is a public technical university located in Rupnagar, Punjab, India. It is one of the eight newer Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) established by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India under The Institutes of Technology (Amendment) Act, 2011 to expand the reach and enhance the quality of technical education in the country.

History
IIT Ropar was established by MHRD in 2008. The classes for academic session 2008–2009 were held at IIT Delhi. The Institute started functioning from its transit campus in Rupnagar from 1st August 2009. Foundation stone for the permanent campus of IIT Ropar was laid down on 24 February 2009 by the then Union HRD Minister Shri Arjun Singh.

Campus

Permanent Campus

IIT Ropar has shifted to its permanent campus since June 2019, except for the departments of Humanities, Mathematics, Physics, Chemical Engineering and Civil Engineering, and some hostels and labs. Architecture of the entrance gate is inspired by Indus Valley civilisation with four 41 feet high stone carved pillars at the entrance. The institute started to operate from its permanent campus in July 2018. Some phases of this campus were still under construction. The campus was being built on the land earlier known as Birla Seed Farms. It is located over an area of . IIT Ropar celebrates its Foundation Day on 24 February every year. The contract was given to CPWD and a Bangkok-based construction company was assigned the task of finishing the first phase. The Computer Science Department has been shifted to this campus in July 2018. A part of the administration office was shifted on 17 June 2018. In June 2019, the Administration and Departments of Electrical, Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering completely shifted to the permanent campus.

The institute, in the past, operated in two different transit campuses located in Rupnagar.

Transit Campus I

The transit campus I of IIT Ropar is the former Women's Polytechnic, Rupnagar. The academic and administration buildings of the Women's Polytechnic, Ropar were renovated to accommodate all the requirements of the institute.

This campus houses four hostels: three for boys (Mercury, Jupiter and Neptune Houses) and one for girls (Venus House). The day-to-day management of hostels is taken care of by a committee consisting of student representatives, faculty members (as Wardens) and administrative staff (caretakers, office-heads).

This campus currently houses the central library of the institute. It also has an independent post office and a branch of State Bank of India.

Sports facilities include a cricket field, three tennis courts, a football field, a gymnasium, a basketball court, two volleyball court and also a number of facilities for several athletics. The Students Activity Center (SAC) has a gymnasium and rooms for different activity clubs.

Organisation and administration

Governance

All IITs follow the same organization structure which has President of India as visitor at the top of the hierarchy. Directly under the president is the IIT Council. Under the IIT Council is the board of governors of each IIT.
Under the board of governors is the director, who is the chief academic and executive officer of the IIT. Under the director, in the organizational structure, comes the deputy director. Under the director and the deputy director, come the deans, heads of departments, registrar.

Departments and Centres
The institute currently has 11 departments, 1 multi-disciplinary centre  and 1 DST Technology Innovation Hub. The departments are:
 Chemical Engineering
 Chemistry
 Civil Engineering
 Computer Science and Engineering
 Electrical Engineering
 Humanities and Social Sciences
 Mathematics and Computing
 Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
 Mathematics
 Mechanical Engineering
 Physics
 Biomedical Engineering

DST Technology Innovation Hub
In 2020, the Department of Science of Technology (DST) has established a Technology Innovation Hub (TIH) in the application domain of Agriculture & Water, named Agriculture and Water Technology Development Hub (AWaDH), at IIT Ropar in the framework of National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (NM-ICPS) with a grant of Rs. 110 crore. IIT Ropar TIH is primarily working on (i) Water and Soil Quality Assessment Processes, (ii) Water Treatment and Management, (iii) Agriculture Automation and Information Systems, (iv) Stubble Management and Urban Farming, (v) IoT Systems, and (vi) Instrumentation for mapping hazardous substances in water and soil, towards eco-friendly farming practices and to make farming more profitable for the grower. The technology innovation hub is led by Prof. Pushpendra P. Singh.

Academics

Programmes
The institute offers undergraduate programmes awarding Bachelor of Technology in various engineering areas. Admission to these programmes is through JEE Advanced. The institute also offers postgraduate degrees awarding MTech and MSc (Research) in various engineering fields, as well as MSc in basic sciences. PhD courses in various fields are also offered.

Rankings

IIT Ropar has ranked 351–400 in the QS Asia Ranking 2022.
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings ranked it 501–600 globally in the 2022 ranking.
The National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) ranked it 22nd among engineering colleges in 2022

Research
The institute stresses in inter-disciplinary research areas including Renewable and Clean Energy, Artificial intelligence (AI), Bio-imaging and Bio-instrumentation, Agriculture & Water, Rural Technology Development, Hydrogen power, etc. A Central Research Facility has been established encompassing equipment from various departments.

From the academic year 2017–18, the institute organises Research Conclave every year.

Student life

Cultural festivals
Zeitgeist is the annual cultural festival of Indian Institute of Technology Ropar and is held annually as a three-day festival in October or November. It was conceived in September 2010. Advitiya, with its maiden edition in 2017, is the annual technical festival, which is held for three days in February or March. An annual sports festival, Aarohan is also held annually during February. It is currently in its second edition. These college fests are managed financially and conducted entirely by the students. An annual Indian classical music and dance event SPIC MACAY is also organized by the students and the faculty.

Events such as Inter Batch Cultural Championship (IBCC) and Inter Year Sports Championship are the intra-college events that are organized annually for the students of the institute.

The management of student activities is done by many boards functioning under the Student Affairs Department. These boards have elected student representatives known as General Secretaries, and an overall elected President of the Student Council. They have various societies and clubs to promote extra curricular and co-curricular activities.

Alumni Association
The IIT Ropar Alumni Association was founded on 1 February 2013.

See also
 List of universities in India
 Indian Institutes of Technology
 Education in India
 Engineering colleges in Punjab, India

References

Ropar
Educational institutions established in 2008
Rupnagar
Engineering colleges in Punjab, India
Research institutes in Punjab, India
2008 establishments in Punjab, India


Zwolle is the main railway station of Zwolle in Overijssel, Netherlands. The station opened on 6 June 1864 and is on the Utrecht–Kampen railway, also known as the Centraalspoorweg, the Zwolle–Almelo railway, the Arnhem–Leeuwarden railway, the Zwolle–Stadskanaal railway and the Lelystad–Zwolle railway, also known as the Hanzelijn.

The station is a major hub for the Northern Netherlands. It is the only way trains can get from the north of the country, to any other region of the Netherlands.

ZwolleSpoort
On 31 August 2010, the principal stakeholders in the railway station—ProRail, Nederlandse Spoorwegen and the municipality of Zwolle—started the ZwolleSpoort project. This project included a major renovation of the existing station, an increase in capacity and an overhaul of the entire public transportation organization in the city. The immediate starting point for the project was the Hanzelijn project, which was expected to increase passenger traffic by 33% in the period up to 2020. In order to deal with the extra traffic, the passenger tunnel (which was 5 meters wide) in the station was replaced by a new tunnel 17 meters wide and 120 meters long. The new tunnel, which opened on 26 June 2015, leads onto a new bus terminal at the southern end of the station. The tunnel also features shopping facilities.

In addition, the project entailed increasing the capacity and efficiency of the railway emplacement. The new Hanzelijn was accommodated by a new, fourth railway platform and by replacing the 34 points near the station with 15 longer ones which allow a more efficient railway pattern and allow trains to pass at higher speeds.

Train services
, the following train services call at this station:
Express services:
Intercity: The Hague, Schiphol, Amsterdam Zuid, Almere, Lelystad, Zwolle, and Groningen
Intercity: The Hague, Schiphol, Amsterdam Zuid, Almere, Lelystad, Zwolle, and Leeuwarden
Intercity: Rotterdam, Utrecht, Amersfoort, Zwolle, and Groningen
Intercity: Rotterdam, Utrecht, Amersfoort, Zwolle, and Leeuwarden
Intercity: Zwolle, Deventer, Arnhem, Nijmegen, 's-Hertogenbosch, and Roosendaal
Sneltrein: Zwolle, Hardenberg, and Emmen
Sneltrein: Zwolle, Hardenberg, and Coevorden (peak hours)
Local services:
Stoptrein: Zwolle, Hardenberg, and Emmen
Sprinter: Utrecht, Amersfoort, and Zwolle
Sprinter: The Hague, Leiden, Amsterdam, Almere, Lelystad, and Zwolle
Sprinter: Zwolle, Almelo, Hengelo, and Enschede
Sprinter: Zwolle, and Kampen
Sprinter: Zwolle, Assen, and Groningen

Bus services

Many bus services also depart from the bus stations outside the station. These include services all over the city and regional services to Harderwijk, Apeldoorn, Urk, Steenwijk, Meppel, Coevorden, Ommen, Raalte and Deventer. NS means the service calls at the railway station.

 1 – Stadshagen to Frankhuis, Deltion Campus, Zwolle railway station, and Oosterenk (town service)
 2 – Ittersumbroek to Oldenerlanden, Zwolle railway station, Diezerpoort, and Holterbroek (town service)
 3 – Zwolle railway station to Assendorp, Diezerpoort, and Berkum (town service)
 4 – Ittersumbroek to Oldenerbroek, Schellerhoek, Zwolle railway station, Arcadia, Berkum-Brinkhoek, and AA-landen (town service)
 5 – Zwolle railway station to Westenholte (town service)
 7 – Zwolle railway station to Assendorp, and Oosterenk (town service)
 8 – Zwolle railway station to Schellerlanden Campus (town service)
 9 – Zwolle railway station to Deltion Campus (town service)
 11 – Zwolle railway station to Stadion, and Rechterland (town service)
 29 – Zwolle railway station to Ruitenveen, Nieuwenleusen, Balkbrug, Dedemsvaart, Lutten, Slagharen, De Krim, and Coevorden NS
 40 – Zwolle railway station to – Lichtmis – Rouveen – Staphorst – Meppel NS – Nijeveen – Steenwijk NS
 70 – Zwolle railway station to Genne, Hasselt, Zwartsluis, Giethoorn, and Steenwijk NS
 71 – Zwolle railway station to Hasselt, Zwartsluis, Zieltje, St Jansklooster, Vollenhove, Marknesse, Kraggenburg, and Emmeloord
 74 – Zwolle railway station to Hasselt, Genemuiden, IJsselmuiden, and Kampen NS
 100 – Zwolle railway station to Oldebroek, Wezep, Elburg, and Nunspeet
 141 – Zwolle railway station to 's-Heerenbroek, Wilsum, Kampen NS, Kampereiland, Ens, Emmelooord, Tollebeek, and Urk
 161 – Zwolle railway station to Windesheim, Wijhe, Den Nul, Olst, Boskamp, Diepenveen, and Deventer NS
 166 – Zwolle railway station to Wijthmen, Lenthe, Raalte, and Heino NS
 167 – Zwolle railway station to Wijthmen, Hoonhorst, Dalfsen NS, Oudleusen, and Ommen NS
 171 – Zwolle railway station to Hasselt, Zwartsluis, Zieltje, St Jansklooster, Vollenhove, Marknesse, and Emmeloord
 200S – Zwolle railway station to Oldebroek, Elburg, and 't Harde (peak hours only)
 201 – Zwolle railway station to Apeldoorn NS (express via A50 motorway)
 203 – Zwolle railway station to Hattem, Wapenveld, Heerde, Epe, and Apeldoorn NS

See also
Railway stations in the Netherlands
Dutch railway services

References

External links

Buildings and structures in Zwolle
Railway stations in Overijssel
Railway stations opened in 1864
Railway stations on the Centraalspoorweg
Railway stations on the Emmerlijn
Railway stations on the Hanzelijn
Railway stations on the IJssellijn
Railway stations on the Staatslijn A
Railway stations on the Veluwelijn
Railway stations in the Netherlands opened in the 1860s


Begunbari is a slum mahallah (neighborhood) in Ward 37 of Tejgaon Thana, Dhaka, Bangladesh. According to the 2011 Bangladesh census, it had 9,034 households and a population of 34,517.

See also
 Hatirjheel

References

Further reading

Neighbourhoods in Dhaka


Onze Lieve Vrouwekerk (Church of Our Lady)(Syriac: ܥܕܬܐ ܕܝܠܕܬ ܐܠܗܐ , Ito dyoldath Aloho) is a Syriac Orthodox church in the centre of Amsterdam. The church is used both by the Syriac Orthodox community and the Roman Catholic of Opus Dei. Emphasis is placed on the hearing of confessions and of choral liturgy. The building has the Dutch status of a Rijksmonument.

History
The church was founded in 1854 by the Redemptorist Fathers and was designed by architect Theo Molkenboer. In 1985 the Redemptorists left the church due to the lack of redemptorist priests. The church was acquired by the Syriac Orthodox Church in the Netherlands and the parish was renamed to Moeder Godskerk (Church of the Mother of God). However, the church never closed its doors for the Roman and Surinam Catholic believers.

Services

Syriac Orthodox
Saturday:
17.00 Vespers (16.30 during winter)
Sunday:
8.45 High Mass

Catholic
Sunday:
19.00 Vigil Eucharist (Saturday evening)
11.15 High Mass with Gregorian choir, translation of the readings is available.
12.00 Eucharist for Italian Community in the Chapel nr. 218B-Except in summer, check web
13.00 Eucharist for the Surinam Community
18.00 Mass in English - Families with little children are welcome
Monday-Friday:
12.15 Eucharist in the Day Chapel
19.30 EucharistThursday:
11.00-12.15 Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament'every week from Thursday 13.00 until Friday at 20.00 also during the night Adoration of the Blessed SacramentConfession: half an hour before the daily masses a priest is available for confessions. Also during''' the High Mass on Sunday of 11.15. It is possible to make an appointment as well.

External links

 http://www.moedergodskerk.nl/
 http://www.olvkerk.nl/

Our Lady
Roman Catholic churches in the Netherlands
Rijksmonuments in Amsterdam
Redemptorist churches
Former Roman Catholic church buildings
Syriac Orthodox churches
Oriental Orthodoxy in the Netherlands


The Army of the Centre (armée du Centre) was one of the first French Revolutionary Armies, named after the location it was set up, the Centre region.  It was established by the order of King Louis XVI on 14 December 1791 and attached to Champagne.  It had only an ephemeral existence after the Battle of Valmy and the Prussians' evacuation of the territory.

Its name reflects its position occupying the centre of the French order of battle on the northern and eastern frontiers, between the armée du Nord and armée du Rhin, the 3rd and 4th military divisions on their creation, then also the 2nd division from 23 March.

By a National Convention decree of 1 October 1792, it was renamed the armée de la Moselle, but remained known as the armée du Centre whilst Kellermann was at its head (i.e. until 7 November 1792).

Generals
 14 December 1791 - 11 July 1792 : général La Fayette
 12 July - 1 September 1792 : maréchal Luckner, as part of his supreme command of the armée du Rhin
 2 September - 7 November 1792 : général Kellermann, subordinated to général Dumouriez to leave 19 September.

Sources
 C. Clerget : Tableaux des armées françaises pendant les guerres de la Révolution (Librairie militaire 1905) ;

Centre
Field armies of France
War of the First Coalition
Military units and formations established in 1791
1791 establishments in France


The Digital Personal Workstation, code named "sports car", is a family of entry-level to mid-range workstation computers developed and manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). These workstations are based on the DEC Alpha and Intel Pentium Pro or Pentium II microprocessors. Members of this family can run the Digital UNIX, OpenVMS, and Windows NT operating systems.
The i-Series, based on Pentium Pro, was introduced first, on September 23, 1996.

i-Series

The Digital Personal Workstation i-Series is based on the Intel Pentium Pro or Pentium II microprocessor and runs Windows NT.

Models include the:

 180i - 180 MHz Pentium Pro, introduced on September 23, 1996
 200i - 200 MHz Pentium Pro, introduced on September 23, 1996
 200i² - 200 MHz Pentium Pro, introduced on September 23, 1996
 266i - 266 MHz Pentium II
 300i - 300 MHz Pentium II
 350i - 350 MHz Pentium II
 400i - 400 MHz Pentium II
 266i+ - 266 MHz Pentium II
 300i+ - 300 MHz Pentium II
 333i+ - 333 MHz Pentium II

These workstations support either one or two microprocessors and use standard Intel chipsets: Pentium Pro models use the Intel 440FX, Pentium II models suffixed with "i" use the Intel 440BX whereas ones suffixed with "i+" use the Intel 440LX. A superscript "2" suffix indicates a dual processor configuration.

The i-Series has four DIMM slots on its main logic board and supports standard unbuffered or registered 100 MHz ECC SDRAM DIMMs. Using unbuffered memory, the i-Series can support 32 to 512 MB of memory, with registered memory, 64 MB to 1 GB is supported. Unbuffered and registered DIMMs cannot be mixed in the same system. Unbuffered DIMMs have capacities of 32, 64 and 128 MB, whereas registered DIMMs have capacities of 64, 128 and 256 MB.

a-Series

The Digital Personal Workstation a-Series, code named "Miata", uses the Alpha 21164A microprocessor. Models suffixed with "a" run Windows NT (with AlphaBIOS) as shipped, whereas models suffixed with "au" run Digital UNIX or OpenVMS (with SRM). Both models can be switched between AlphaBIOS and SRM via the system firmware. At COMDEX 1997, the Digital Personal Workstation 500a was a finalist in Byte magazine's Best of Show award for the best workstation category.

Models included the:

 433a/433au - 433 MHz Alpha 21164A
 500a/500au - 500 MHz Alpha 21164A
 600a/600au - 600 MHz Alpha 21164A

The Alpha microprocessor is socketed in a zero insertion force (ZIF) socket and can be upgraded. These workstations use Digital's 21174 chipset, also known as the "Pyxis" chipset. To increase flexibility and to reduce cost, the L3 cache is optional in these models. If the L3 cache is required, a cache module that contained the SRAMs which implemented the cache can be installed into a cache slot. The cache module has two capacities: 2 or 4 MB.

Two revisions of the Miata motherboard were produced, known as MX5 and MiataGL respectively. The later MiataGL motherboard has a revised Pyxis chipset (which fixes a PCI DMA bug), a different ATA controller, an on-board QLogic 1040 SCSI host adapter, and a USB interface.

The a-Series has a 144-bit memory bus, with 128 bits used for data and 16 bits for ECC. There are three memory banks, each consisting of two DIMM slots, for a total of six DIMM slots, which supports 32 MB to 1.5 GB of memory. These machines accept standard unbuffered only PC100 ECC SDRAM DIMMs with a maximum capacity of 256 MB per DIMM, which must be installed in identical pairs in order to match the width of the memory bus.

References

 Weiss, Kenneth M.; House, Kenneth A. (1997). "Digital Personal Workstations: The design of high-performance, low-cost Alpha systems". Digital Technical Journal 9 (20): pp. 45–56.

DEC workstations
Computer-related introductions in 1996


The 120 members of the sixteenth Knesset were elected on 28 January 2003. The breakdown by party was as follows:

Likud: 38
Labor Party-Meimad: 19
Shinui: 15
Shas: 11
National Union: 7
Meretz-Yachad and the Democratic Choice: 6
National Religious Party: 6
United Torah Judaism: 5
Hadash-Ta'al: 3
One Nation: 3
Balad: 3
Yisrael BaAliyah: 2
United Arab List: 2

List of members

Replacements

External links
Knesset members in the Sixteenth Knesset Knesset website

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"Cha Cha Twist" is a 1960 song by Brice Coefield. A song called "Cha Cha Twist" was also recorded by Connie Francis in 1962 on MGM, and by Paul Gallis on Heartbreak Records.

Detroit Cobras version
The track was the debut CD and 7" single of American band The Detroit Cobras in 2004.

Track listing

CD version
 "Cha Cha Twist" - 2:30
 "The Real Thing" - 1:48
 "Cha Cha Twist" (Video)

Vinyl version
 "Cha Cha Twist"
 "Hey Sailor"

References

1960 songs
2004 singles
Rough Trade Records singles


Higginbotham's is an Indian bookstore chain and publisher based in the city of Chennai. The company's first bookstore at Mount Road, Chennai is India's oldest bookshop in existence. The company's second bookstore in Bangalore, located at M. G. Road, opened in 1905 and is the oldest existing bookstore in the city. Since 1949, Higginbotham's has been owned by the Amalgamations Group.

History

An English librarian named Abel Joshua Higginbotham established Higginbotham's after reportedly arriving in India as a British stowaway. The captain of the ship ejected him from the ship at Madras port, after he was discovered on board. In the 1840s, he found employment as a librarian with a bookstore named Wesleyan Book Shop run by Protestant missionaries. However, the store suffered heavy losses and the missionaries who ran the business decided to sell their shop for a low price. Higginbotham purchased the business, set up his own store and called it "Higginbotham's" in the year 1844. Higginbotham's is, therefore, India's oldest bookstore in existence. It soon gained a reputation for quality. John Murray, in his Guidebook to the Presidencies of Madras and Bombay in 1859, describes Higginbotham's as the "premier bookshop of Madras". In March 1859, in a letter to Lord Macaulay, Lord Trevelyan, the Governor of Madras wrote:

Higginbotham's started selling stationery and also publishing and printing their own books from the 1860s onwards. When the British Crown took over the governance of India from the British East India Company by the Queen's Proclamation of 1858, Higginbotham's printed copies of the Proclamation in English and Tamil and distributed them all over the Presidency. Higginbotham's were appointed as the "official booksellers to His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales" during the latter's visit to India in 1875. Its first publication ‘Sweet Dishes: A little Treatise on Confectionary' by Wyvern, came out in 1884. Higginbotham's became official book-supplier to government and to various institutions, with different customers from British Prime Minister Clement Attlee (in office 1945-1951) to the last Maharaja of Mysore, Jayachamaraja Wodeyar.  Abel Joshua Higginbotham served as the Sheriff of Madras in 1888 and 1889. From 1890 to 1920, Higginbotham's were the sole suppliers to the Connemara Public Library. James Higgs, who was the Managing Director from 1890 onwards, was a prominent Freemason who had previously served as the Grand Deacon of England and the Deputy District Grand Master of Master.

Higginbotham's was renamed Higginbotham & Co in 1888. Abel was Sheriff of Madras during 1888 and 1889. During this period, he involved his son C. H. Higginbotham in the business. On Abel's death in 1891, the firm passed on to the hands of his son C. H. Higginbotham. C. H. expanded the business beyond Madras, and across South India. Since 1944, Higginbotham bookstalls were established in many railway stations on the South Indian Railway and the Southern Mahratta Railway. In 1904, the company's diamond jubilee year, the bookstore shifted to its current location on Mount Road. The new bookstore was specifically built for the firm, and designed to house books. Its high, sloping roof provided improved air circulation, and very few windows were built to prevent dust from entering. In 1929, Higginbotham's had as many as 400 employees.

Higginbotham's opened its first bookstore in Bangalore at M.G. Road (then known as South Parade) in 1905. The store was located in a two-storey Graeco-Roman-style building constructed in 1897. This is the oldest bookstore in existence in the city.

In 1925, John Oakshott Robinson of the Spencer's conglomerate purchased Higginbotham's, and merged the company with his printing firm Associated Printers, to establish Associated Publishers. Associated Publishers was acquired by S. Anantharamakrishnan of Amalgamations Group in 1945, and has remained a part of the conglomerate ever since. Some of Higginbotham's famous customers included Clement Attlee, Chakravarti Rajagopalachari and S. Radhakrishnan. Rev. Miller, a pioneer of the Madras Christian College, was another regular at Higginbotham's.

Higginbotham's was the largest bookstore in India until the 1990s. In 1989, renovations helped restore the original look to the Mount Road building.

In mid-2015, the Bangalore bookstore was closed for renovations to revamp its interiors. The store was re-opened in February 2017.

Branches
Higginbothams has a chain of 22 outlets spread across the South Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Kerala.

See also

 Heritage structures in Chennai
 A H Wheeler & Co

References

Further reading

Bookstores of India
Book publishing companies of India
Publishing companies established in 1844
Retail companies established in 1844
Buildings and structures in Chennai
Buildings and structures in Bangalore
Heritage sites in Chennai
Indian companies established in 1844