Yuliya Polishchuk is a London-based fashion designer who was born in Ukraine.

Career
Polishchuk launched MissU in 2012. 'Very often women are hiding the real "I" and are afraid to let the world know about it. I'm trying to create things with a real identity and elegance', the designer explained during an interview.

Following this slogan, in March 2013 Yuliya Polishchuk has presented a new line of evening dresses under her own name, which has been recognized by the audience and fashion critics in Ukraine. A woman from Yuliya Polishchuk is sophisticated and elegant. Since March 2012, Polishchuk is a resident of the Ukrainian Fashion Week in Kyiv. At the moment her portfolio includes two different fashion labels. The MissU trademark has been developed specifically for young women: they are mischievous and thoughtful, careless and serious but at the same time both feminine and romantic. Whereas, Yuliya Polishchuk brand is dedicated to confident and successful women whose unique and charming style are enhanced by elegant and exclusive evening dresses.

Yuliya's work was presented for the first time in February 2009, during Sunrise in Baku Fashion Project. The fashion project was broadcast for a month on Fashion TV (Europe, America and Middle East), BBC Azeri, and MTV, and Yuliya's work attracted much of the spotlight during the show.

Other activities
Yuliya Polishchuk actively supports education and student programs in the fashion industry, and regularly delivers lectures at universities in London and Kyiv. Recently, the designer initiated Fashion Move On, a unique art project that she run in partnership with the Ukrainian Fashion Week. The project was created to support and develop collaborations between designers, filmmakers and contemporary artists. The collaboration occurred in the form of short films that were officially presented to the press and public during the Ukrainian Fashion Week.

References

1983 births
Living people
21st-century Ukrainian women artists
Businesspeople from Kyiv
Ukrainian designers
Ukrainian fashion designers
Ukrainian women fashion designers


Juliane may refer to:

Emilie Juliane of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (1637–1706), German countess and hymn writer
Juliane Aisner (1919–1980), World War II French Resistance Agent
Juliane Banse (born 1969), German soprano and lieder singer
Juliane Köhler (born 1965), German theatre, television, and film actress
Juliane Koepcke (born 1954), sole survivor of the 1971 crash of LANSA Flight 508 in the Peruvian rainforest
Juliane Kokott (born 1957), the German Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Communities
Juliane Leopold (born 1983), German journalist
Juliane Rasmussen (born 1979), Danish rower
Juliane Rautenberg (born 1966), former German television actress
Juliane Schenk (born 1982), female badminton player from Germany
Juliane Sprenger-Afflerbach (born 1977), retired German hurdler
Juliane Werding (born 1956), German singer
Marianne and Juliane, 1981 film directed by Margarethe von Trotta
Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1781–1860), German princess of the ducal house of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld

German feminine given names
Feminine given names


The Fabarm SDASS Tactical is a shotgun designed for police and/or security uses and has some special features such as folding front sight, built-in Picatinny rails on the top of the receiver, lengthened forearm to provide better control over the gun. SDASS shotguns are manufactured in a variety of differing styles.

SDASS Tactical

This is the main production variant; the others stem off of this design with slight body differences. However the internal mechanisms are the same. SDASS stands for Special Defence And Security Shotgun and is aimed for security personnel.

The receiver is manufactured from Ergal 55 alloy which makes for a lightweight shotgun at only 3 kg, light compared to many other tactical shotguns such as the Franchi SPAS-12 which weighs close to 5 kg.

The bolt is locked into place by a piece of aluminum which swings into place and engages a notch in the barrel extension to lock the bolt to the barrel. This prevents a misfire from dropping as it acts as a crude safety device. Misfires from dropping are common in shotguns such as double-barreled shotguns.

The SDASS has an under-barrel tubular magazine like many other semi-automatic shotguns and holds 7 cartridges plus 1 in the chamber giving a total capacity of 8.

The stock is made from a composite polymer which is the most changed structural feature among the different SDASS variants. Common changes to the stock include shortening, addition of a pistol grip and changing the material of the stock altogether like in the SDASS Trainer.

A variety of sights can be placed on the Picatinny rail above the receiver such as red dot sights. As well as sights, tactical lights and laser pointers can also be placed on this rail.

The standard Fabarm SDASS Tactical retails for $649 however its variants range in price from $600 all the way to $900.

Variants

SDASS Composite
This is the same layout as the SDASS Tactical except it doesn't have the Picatinny rail.

SDASS Heavy Combat
The Heavy Combat has a longer 61 cm barrel which is also much heavier. It also has a pistol grip like the Benelli M3 instead of a built in grip like the Mossberg 500.

SDASS Trainer
The SDASS Trainer is the lightweight version of the SDASS Composite. It is the only variant to come in more than one finish and they are black, nickel and carbon. To make the gun lighter the barrel heat shield has holes drilled into it to reduce weight and the heavier alloys are replaced with lighter alloys.

SDASS Compact
The SDASS Compact as the name suggests is a compact shotgun for close quarters combat. It has a pistol grip and no rear stock. A folding stock however can be attached onto a clip at the rear of the gun. The rest of the external and internal mechanisms are the same as the Tactical model.

Users

 : Used by Portuguese Army (Special Operations Troops Centre), Polícia Aérea (NOTP), National Republican Guard, Polícia de Segurança Pública and Foreigners and Borders Service.

Related weapons

Akdal MKA 1919
Benelli M3
Franchi SPAS-12
Heckler & Koch FABARM FP6
Safir T-14

References

External links
 FABARM SDASS Tactical on manufacturer website
 Modern Firearms - FABARM SDASS Tactical

Shotguns of Italy
Pump-action shotguns


Otto Schrader (born 28 March 1855 in Weimar; died 21 March 1919 in Breslau) was a German philologist best known for his work on the history of German and Proto-Indo-European vocabulary dealing with various aspects of material culture, such as the names of domesticated plants and animals, the names of the metals, etc.

Education and early life
Schrader came from a civil servant family in Thuringia, attended Gymnasium in Weimar, and studied in Jena, Leipzig, and Berlin. When he received the Dr. phil. degree, in 1878 he received a teaching position at the Großherzogliches Gymnasium in Jena. There he received his habilitation in 1887 and in 1890 received the title of Professor. In 1909 he moved to Breslau, where he was an "ordentlicher Professor". In 1879 Schrader married Marie von Wilms, with whom he had four children. He described himself as a national liberal.

Support of Hehn's Theory
Schrader supported Victor Hehn's thesis that the Indo-Europeans were originally nomads. According to this thesis, they domesticated only the horse, which they ate. Since there are no common Indo-European words for donkey or camel, Schrader assumed that the original homeland of the Indo-Europeans was in the steppes north of the Black Sea, on the Caspian Sea, and on the Aral Sea, an area referred to as the Pontic–Caspian steppe, where wild horses were a native species. Schrader's theory would ultimately serve as the basis of Marija Gimbutas' Kurgan theory.

Publications
No complete list of Schrader's works has been compiled up to now, so the list below is incomplete.
Quaestionum dialectologicarum Graecarum particula, Dissertation, Leipzig 1877
Die älteste Zeittheilung des indogermanischen Volkes, Berlin 1878
Aus der Geschichte der Hausthiere. Eine linguistische Studie, in: Nord und Süd 15 (1880), pp. 335–348.
Sprachvergleichung und Urgeschichte. Linguistisch-historische Beiträge zur Erforschung des indogermanischen Altertums, 1st edn. Jena 1883, 2nd edn. Jena 1890, 3rd edn. Jena 1906.
Thier- und Pflanzengeographie im Lichte der Sprachforschung. Sammlung gemeinverständlicher wissenschaftlicher Vorträge, Heft 427 (1883), Berlin 1884.
Victor Hehn. Kulturpflanzen und Hausthiere in ihrem Übergang aus Asien nach Griechenland und Italien sowie in das übrige Europa: Historisch-linguistische Skizzen, new edition by Otto Schrader. With botanical contributions by Adolf Engler, 6th edn. Berlin 1884, 7th edn. 1902, 8th edn. 1911
Linguistisch-historische Forschungen zur Handelsgeschichte und Warenkunde, vol. 1, Jena 1886
Über den Gedanken einer Kulturgeschichte der Indogermanen auf sprachwissenschaftlicher Grundlage, Jena 1887. Probevorlesung vom 7. Februar 1887
“Etymologisches und Kulturhistorisches”, ZVS 30, N.F. 10 (1890): 461–485
Sprachvergleichung und Urgeschichte, vol. 2. Jena: Hermann Costanoble 1890
Prehistoric antiquities of the Aryan peoples: a manual of comparative philology and the earliest culture. Trans. Frank Jevons. New York: Scribner and Welford, 1890.
“Linguistisch-historisches”, in Symbola doctorum Ienensis gymnasii in honorem gymnasii Isenacensis collecta. Edited by Gustav Richter. Jena: 1895.
“Etymologisch-Kulturhistorisches”, in Philologische Studien, Festgabe für Eduard Sievers zum 1. Oktober 1896. Halle: 1896, pp. 1–11
Vom neuen Reich ("Deutsches Reich und Deutscher Kaiser", "Die Deutschen und das Meer"), zwei sprachlich-geschichtliche Vorträge. Allgemeiner Deutscher Sprachverein, Berlin 1897
Reallexikon der indogermanischen Altertumskunde: Grundzüge einer Kultur- und Völkergeschichte Alteuropas, 1st edn. Strassburg: Trübner, 1901; 2nd edn., edited by Alfons Nehring, Berlin–Leipzig: 1917–1929.
“Nachwort”, in Victor Hehn, Das Salz, eine kulturhistorische Studie, 2nd edn. Berlin 1901
Über den stand der indischen philosophie zur zeit Mahāvīras und Buddhas; Leipzig, Druck von G. Kreysing, 1902.
Die Schwiegermutter und der Hagestolz. Eine Studie aus der Geschichte unserer Familie, Braunschweig 1904
Totenhochzeit. Ein Vortrag gehalten in der Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte zu Jena, Jena 1904
“Über Bezeichnungen der Heiratsverwandtschaft bei den indogermanischen Völkern”, IF 17 (1904).
Johannes Hoops, Waldbäume und Kulturpflanzen im germanischen Altertum, Straßburg 1905, review, in: Deutsche Literaturzeitung 1906
Hermann Hirt, Die Indogermanen, ihre Verbreitung, ihre Urheimat und ihre Kultur, vol. 1. Strassburg 1905, review, in: Deutsche Literatur-Zeitung 7/1906
Hermann Hirt, Die Indogermanen, ihre Verbreitung, ihre Urheimat und ihre Kultur, vol. 2. Strassburg 1907, review, in: Deutsche Literatur-Zeitung [...]/1907
“Zu nhd. ‘buche’”, in Zeitschrift für deutsche Wortforschung 11 (1909).
Bilder aus dem russischen Dorfleben, in: Westermanns Monatshefte 53. Jahrgang, Jan.-März 1909, with eight black and white illustrations
Der Hammelsonntag. Eine Reisestudie aus dem Gouvernement Olonetz. In: IF 26 (1909)
(Stichworte) “Aryan Religion; Blood-Feud; Charms and Amulets; Chastity; Crimes and Punishments; Death and Disposal of the Death; Divination; Family; Hospitality; Kingship”, in James Hastings, Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics, vols. 2-7. Edinburgh: 1909-1914
Begraben und Verbrennen im Lichte der Religions- und Kulturgeschichte. Ein Vortrag in der Schlesischen Gesellschaft für Volkskunde, Breslau 1910
“Neuhochdeutsch „Wirt“ (hospes)”, in Wissenschaftliche Beihefte zur Zeitschrift des Allgemeinen deutschen Sprachvereins, V. Reihe, Heft 32, 1910.
Die Indogermanen. Wissenschaft und Bildung 77, Leipzig 1911, new edition by Hans Krahe, Leipzig 1935
Die Anschauungen Viktor Hehns von der Herkunft unserer Kulturpflanzen und Haustiere im Lichte neuerer Forschung, Berlin 1912
Germanen und Indogermanen. In: Die Geisteswissenschaften 8/1913, sowie in: Korrespondenzblatt des Gesamtvereins der deutschen Geschichts- und Altertumsvereine, 1914.
„Vaterland“. Gedächtnisrede zur hundertsten Wiederkehr des Geburtstages des Fürsten Bismarck, gehalten am 10. Mai 1915, Breslau 1915
(Nachruf) Alfons Nehring, Otto Schrader, in: Indogermanisches Jahrbuch 6 (1918), pp. 152–160, Berlin 1920
(Nachruf) Wilhelm Streitberg, Otto Schrader, in: Frankfurter Zeitung, 11. April 1919

Literature

References

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Linguists from Germany
Germanic studies scholars
Historical linguists
Indo-Europeanists
Linguists of Germanic languages
Linguists of Indo-European languages
1855 births
1919 deaths


Peter James Griffiths (born 14 August 1957) is an English former footballer who made 98 league appearances on the right-wing in the English Football League for Stoke City, Bradford City, and Port Vale in the 1980s. He also played non-League football for Bideford, Salisbury United (Australia), Newcastle KB United (Australia), Stafford Rangers, Northwich Victoria, Matlock Town and Milton United. He played in the First Division for Stoke, and helped Port Vale to win promotion out of the Fourth Division in 1985–86.

Career

Stoke City
Griffiths moved from Bideford (Western League) to Alan Durban's Stoke City for a £15,000 fee after a successful trial in November 1980, giving up his job as a self-employed panel beater in the process. He scored his first goal at the Victoria Ground on 27 December 1980, in a 2–2 draw with Coventry City; this was his only goal in five starts and five substitute appearances in the 1980–81 season. Everton made a £150,000 offer for Griffiths, which was rejected by the Stoke board. He scored three goals in 33 games in the 1981–82 season, finding the net against Aston Villa, Middlesbrough and Swansea City early on in the campaign. He soon fell out of the first team picture under Richie Barker, and made just 11 First Division starts in the 1982–83 campaign, finding the net once in a 4–1 win over Birmingham City at St Andrew's on 4 September. He featured just five times for the "Potters" in the 1983–84 season, and was loaned out to Bradford City. He played two Third Division games for Trevor Cherry's "Bantams", in a brief stay at Valley Parade.

Port Vale
Griffiths was signed by Stoke's rivals Port Vale in July 1984. He played regular football in the 1984–85 season, scoring four goals in 39 games, until tearing a groin muscle in April 1985. Upon his recovery he failed to gain his first team spot back at Vale Park, and featured just nine times in the 1985–86 Fourth Division promotion winning campaign. "Valiants" manager John Rudge handed him a free transfer in May 1986.

Later career
He emigrated to Australia to play for Salisbury United, and then National Soccer League side Newcastle KB United, before returning to Staffordshire to play for Conference club Stafford Rangers. After leaving Rangers he played for Northwich Victoria, Matlock Town (Northern Premier League) and Milton United.

Career statistics
Source:

A.  The "Other" column constitutes appearances and goals in the Football League Trophy.

Honours
Port Vale
Football League Fourth Division fourth-place promotion: 1985–86

References

Sportspeople from Barnstaple
Footballers from Devon
English men's footballers
Men's association football wingers
Bideford A.F.C. players
Stoke City F.C. players
Port Vale F.C. players
English expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's soccer players in Australia
Salisbury United FC players
Newcastle KB United players
Bradford City A.F.C. players
Stafford Rangers F.C. players
Northwich Victoria F.C. players
Milton United F.C. (Staffs) players
Matlock Town F.C. players
Western Football League players
English Football League players
National Soccer League (Australia) players
National League (English football) players
Northern Premier League players
1957 births
Living people


Cù Bị is a commune (xã) and village in Châu Đức District, Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu province, in Vietnam.

References

Populated places in Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu province
Communes of Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu province


Kim Long is a commune (xã) and village in Châu Đức District, Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu province, in Vietnam.

Populated places in Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu province
Communes of Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu province


Xà Bang is a commune (xã) and village in Châu Đức District, Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu province, in Vietnam.

Populated places in Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu province
Communes of Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu province


Quảng Thành is a commune (xã) and village in Châu Đức District, Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu province, in Vietnam.

Populated places in Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu province
Communes of Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu province


Hazard pictograms form part of the international Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS). Two sets of pictograms are included within the GHS: one for the labelling of containers and for workplace hazard warnings, and a second for use during the transport of dangerous goods. Either one or the other is chosen, depending on the target audience, but the two are not used together. The two sets of pictograms use the same symbols for the same hazards, although certain symbols are not required for transport pictograms. Transport pictograms come in wider variety of colors and may contain additional information such as a subcategory number.

Hazard pictograms are one of the key elements for the labelling of containers under the GHS, along with:
an identification of the product;
a signal word – either Danger or Warning – where necessary
hazard statements, indicating the nature and degree of the risks posed by the product
precautionary statements, indicating how the product should be handled to minimize risks to the user (as well as to other people and the general environment)
the identity of the supplier (who might be a manufacturer or importer)

The GHS chemical hazard pictograms are intended to provide the basis for or to replace national systems of hazard pictograms. It has still to be implemented by the European Union (CLP regulation) in 2009.

The GHS transport pictograms are the same as those recommended in the UN Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods, widely implemented in national regulations such as the U.S. Federal Hazardous Materials Transportation Act (49 U.S.C. 5101–5128) and D.O.T. regulations at 49 C.F.R. 100–185.

Physical hazards pictograms

Health hazards pictograms

Physical and health hazard pictograms

Environmental hazards pictograms

Transport pictograms

Class 1: Explosives

Class 2: Gases

Classes 3 and 4: Flammable liquids and solids

Other GHS transport classes

Non-GHS transport pictograms
The following pictograms are included in the UN Model Regulations but have not been incorporated into the GHS because of the nature of the hazards.

Notes

References

 (the "CLP Regulation")
 ("UN Model Regulations Rev.15")
 ("UN Manual of Tests and Criteria Rev.4")

External links

 GHS pictogram gallery from the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe

Hazard pictograms
Pictograms


Láng Lớn is a commune (xã) and village in Châu Đức District, Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu province, in Vietnam.

Populated places in Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu province
Communes of Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu province


Congregation Beth Yeshurun is a Conservative synagogue in Houston, Texas.

Founded in 1891 as Adath Yeshurun, it merged in Congregation Beth El in 1946, taking its current name.  In 2002 Beth Yeshurun absorbed the membership of Shearith Israel of nearby Wharton, Texas.

It includes the Beth Yeshurun Day School (BYDS).

History
Beth Yeshurun was formed as a merger of the Adath Yeshurun and Beth El congregations.

Adath Yeshurun

Congregation Adath Yeshurun was founded in 1887 as an Orthodox alternative to Temple Beth Israel (Houston, Texas) which in 1874 had moved from Orthodox to Reform. It was a Russian-Polish congregation. After a period during which the congregation met for prayers in private homes, a wood-framed, former church was purchased at the corner of Walker Ave. and Jackson street. Adath Yeshurun merged into Congregation Adath Yeshurun in 1891. Growth of the congregation, especially an influx of members who moved to Houston at the turn of the twentieth century; the congregation dedicated a large, new synagogue at the corner of Preston and Hamilton in 1908.

Congregation Beth El
Congregation Beth El was founded in 1924. It was the first Conservative Judaism synagogue founded in Houston. In 1925 it occupied the former Beth Israel building.

Current synagogue
The original building was established in 1945 in the Third Ward area and in proximity to the University of Houston.

Beth Yeshurun moved from its building at 3501 Southmore Avenue to its present location at 4525 Beechnut Street in 1962.  From 1998 to 2004, the synagogue undertook a major renovation and more than 30,000 square feet of building were added.  The synagogue's foyer has a memorial to the Jews murdered in the Holocaust. A  ark with a Burning Bush-motifed stained-glass background serves as the focus of the synagogue's sanctuary. The synagogue includes a social hall. The walls of the social hall are decorated with needlepoint recreations of Reuven Rubin's series of biblical lithographs. Beth Yeshurun houses the Louis and Mollie Kaplan Museum of Judaica, which includes ritual objects and books.

Beth Yeshurun Day School
Beth Yeshurun Day School was the first Jewish Day School in Texas, founded in 1949 under the leadership of Rabbi William S. Malev, the rabbi of the congregation at that time.

During the COVID-19 pandemic in Texas, as of 2022, more students attended Beth Yeshurun Day School than previously. An organization called Prizmah stated in a 2021 report that families with a preference for education in a school setting during a pandemic, as opposed to via the internet, often preferred schools that continued offering such.

See also

 History of the Jews in Houston

References
 Bell, Roselyn. "Houston." In: Tigay, Alan M. (editor) The Jewish Traveler: Hadassah Magazine's Guide to the World's Jewish Communities and Sights. Rowman & Littlefield, January 1, 1994. p. 215-220. , 9781568210780.
 Content also in: Tigay, Alan M. Jewish Travel-Prem. Broadway Books, January 18, 1987. , 9780385241984.

Notes

External links
 http://www.bethyeshurun.org/index.php

External links
 Congregation Beth Yeshurun
 Beth Yeshurun Day School

Jews and Judaism in Houston
Conservative synagogues in Texas
Religious buildings and structures in Houston
Religious organizations established in 1887
Independent Schools Association of the Southwest
1887 establishments in Texas


Bàu Chính  is a commune (xã) and village in Châu Đức District, Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu province, in Vietnam.

References

Populated places in Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu province
Communes of Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu province


Bình Ba is a commune (xã) and village in Châu Đức District, Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu province, in Vietnam. It was the site of the Battle of Bình Ba in June 1969.  Binh Ba is believed to be found in the 1700s. It so has a unique card game called “Bai Noc”

References

Populated places in Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu province
Communes of Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu province


Suối Nghệ is a commune (xã) and village in Châu Đức District, Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu province, in Vietnam. The village was built by engineers from the 1st Australian Civil Affairs Unit in September 1967, during the Vietnam War, as a resettlement village. A total of 1132 persons, comprising 246 families from three villages which were under Viet Cong influence were resettled here.

References

Populated places in Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu province
Communes of Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu province


Bình Trung may refer to:

Bình Trung, Bắc Kạn, Vietnam
Bình Trung, Ba Ria-Vung Tau, Vietnam


Filiberto is a given name and a surname. It derives from a Germanic name, latinized in Filibertus and came to Italian through French. It is composed of the roots filu, "much", and beraht or berhta, "illustrious", "brilliant", and means "very bright" or "very illustrious". Its diffusion in Italy is linked to the fact of being a traditional name of the House of Savoy. The French form Philibert originated by alteration with the Greek φιλος (philos), "beloved".

Notable people with the name include:

Given name
 Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy (disambiguation) (Italian: ), name of several members of the House of Savoy
 Filiberto Azcuy (born 1972), Cuban Olympic wrestler
 Filiberto Colon (born 1966), Puerto Rican Olympic swimmer
 Filiberto Fernández (born 1972), Mexican Olympic wrestler
 Filiberto Ferrero (1500–1549), Italian Roman Catholic cardinal
 Filiberto Hernández Martínez (born 1971), Mexican serial killer
 Filiberto Mercado (born 1938), Mexican Olympic cyclist
 Filiberto Rodríguez Motamayor (1867–1915), Venezuelan writer, lawyer and poet
 Filiberto Petiti (1845–1925), Italian landscape painter
 Filiberto Ojeda Ríos (1933–2005), Puerto Rican leader of the Macheteros
 Filiberto Rivera (born 1982), Puerto Rican basketball player
 Prince Filiberto, Duke of Genoa (1895–1990), Italian duke of Genoa and member of the House of Savoy
 Rafael Filiberto Bonnelly (1904–1979), Dominican lawyer, scholar and president of the Dominican Republic, 1962–1963

Surname
 Juan de Dios Filiberto (1885–1964), Argentine violinist, conductor, poet and composer

See also
  (1893–1920), Italian pre-dreadnought battleship
 2nd Cavalry Division "Emanuele Filiberto Testa di Ferro" (1930–1943), a military unit of Italy in World War II
  (1932–1959), Italian light cruiser warship

Italian masculine given names
Masculine given names


Bình Giã is a commune (xã) and village in Châu Đức District, Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu province, in Vietnam. Bình Giã is known for being the site of a major battle during the Vietnam War.

The Battle of Bình Giã took place from December 28-29, 1964, and was one of the first large-scale engagements between the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) and the National Liberation Front (NLF) or Viet Cong. The battle resulted in a victory for the NLF and dealt a blow to the morale of the ARVN and its American allies.

Bình Giã is home to several historical and cultural sites, including the Bình Giã Temple and the Bình Giã Victory Monument. The temple is dedicated to General Nguyen Tri Phuong, a Vietnamese military leader who fought against the French colonial forces in the 19th century. The Victory Monument commemorates the Battle of Bình Giã and features a statue of a soldier holding a rifle.

Populated places in Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu province
Communes of Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu province


Xuân Sơn is a commune (xã) and village in Châu Đức District, Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu province, in Vietnam.

Populated places in Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu province
Communes of Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu province


Sơn Bình is a commune (xã) and village in Châu Đức District, Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu province, in Vietnam.

Populated places in Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu province
Communes of Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu province


Suối Rao is a commune (xã) and village in Châu Đức District, Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu province, in Vietnam.

Populated places in Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu province
Communes of Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu province


Đá Bạc is a commune (xã) and village in Châu Đức District, Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu province, in Vietnam.

Populated places in Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu province
Communes of Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu province


Phước Long Thọ is a commune (xã) and village in Đất Đỏ District, Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu province, in Vietnam.

Populated places in Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu province
Communes of Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu province


Láng Dài is a commune (xã) and village in Đất Đỏ District, Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu province, in Vietnam.

Populated places in Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu province
Communes of Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu province


Lộc An  is a commune (xã) and village in Đất Đỏ District, Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu province, in Vietnam.

References

Populated places in Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu province
Communes of Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu province


Phước Hội is a commune (xã) and village in Đất Đỏ District, Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu province, in Vietnam.

Populated places in Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu province
Communes of Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu province


Long Mỹ  may refer to several places in Vietnam, including:

Long Mỹ (town), a district-level town of Hậu Giang Province
Long Mỹ district, a rural district of Hậu Giang Province
Long Mỹ, Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu, a commune of Đất Đỏ District
Long Mỹ, Bến Tre, a commune of Giồng Trôm District
Long Mỹ, Vĩnh Long, a commune of Mang Thít District


Cecil John Russell (19 June 1904 – 1995) was an English professional footballer who scored 74 goals in 250 appearances in the Football League playing for Birmingham, Bristol Rovers, Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic, Luton Town and Norwich City. He played as a forward.

Life and career
Russell was born in the Northfield district of Birmingham. He began his football career with local clubs, including Bournville Athletic and Bromsgrove Rovers of the Birmingham Combination, before joining Birmingham of the First Division in February 1924. He made his debut on 18 April 1924, in a 1–0 defeat at Manchester City, but apart from a run of a dozen games at outside left in the 1925–26 season, his Birmingham career consisted of occasional appearances as the replacement for an injured player. In the 1927 close season Russell joined Bristol Rovers. A year later he dropped back into non-league football with Worcester City, and after another two years returned to the Football League with Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic of the Third Division South. For Bournemouth Russell scored goals at a rate approaching one every three games, and twice in a month scored four goals in a game, a club record. In May 1934 he signed for Luton Town, and five months later joined Norwich City. For the 1936–37 season, Russell returned to Worcester City as player-manager. He later played for Shirley Town and Solihull Town.

Russell died in 1995.

References

1904 births
1995 deaths
Footballers from Birmingham, West Midlands
English men's footballers
Men's association football forwards
Bromsgrove Rovers F.C. players
Birmingham City F.C. players
Bristol Rovers F.C. players
Worcester City F.C. players
AFC Bournemouth players
Luton Town F.C. players
Norwich City F.C. players
Shirley Town F.C. players
English Football League players
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An Ngãi is a commune (xã) and village in Long Điền District, Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu province, in Vietnam.

Populated places in Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu province
Communes of Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu province


A mantle (from old French  mantel,  from mantellum, the Latin term for a cloak) is a type of loose garment usually worn over indoor clothing to serve the same purpose as an overcoat. Technically, the term describes a long, loose cape-like cloak worn from the 12th to the 16th century by both sexes, although by the 19th century, it was used to describe any loose-fitting, shaped outer garment similar to a cape. For example, the dolman, a 19th-century cape-like woman's garment with partial sleeves is often described as a mantle.

In English, the idiom "to take up/pick up/assume the mantle" is from the Bible, and means to take a position of authority, leadership or responsibility in a particular area, especially in the sense of carrying on for a previous figure. The most notable appearance in the Bible is in 2 Kings 2:13, where Elisha takes up Elijah's mantle ( ’addereṯ).

Mantelets

A variation on the mantle is the mantelet (also spelled mantelot and mantlet), typically describing a short version of the mantle. The term appears as early as 1386, in "The Knight's Tale" by Geoffrey Chaucer. In the 18th century, a mantelet was a woman's short cloak, and in the early 19th century, it was an ornamental scarf that crossed over the chest and tied behind, usually made of fur or lace. By the end of the 19th century, a mantelet was a woman's shoulder cape with elongated ends in front, sometimes held in position by a belt at the waist.

See also
Mantle (monastic vesture)
Mantle (royal garment)
Gas mantle
Witzchoura

References

Medieval European costume
Robes and cloaks
Coats (clothing)
History of clothing (Western fashion)


Tam Phước is a commune (xã) and village in Long Điền District, Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu province, in Vietnam.

Populated places in Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu province
Communes of Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu province


An Nhất is a commune (xã) and village in Long Điền District, Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu province, in Vietnam.

Populated places in Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu province
Communes of Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu province


Phước Hưng is a commune (xã) and village in Long Điền District, Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu province, in Vietnam.

Populated places in Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu province
Communes of Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu province


Phước Tỉnh  is a commune (xã) and village in Long Điền District, Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu province, in Vietnam.

Populated places in Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu province
Communes of Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu province


From 1930–1962, Fort Wayne, Indiana, was home to the tallest building in Indiana—the Lincoln Bank Tower. Today, the tallest building in the city is the 27-story Indiana Michigan Power Center, which rises  and was completed in 1982. This building stands as the fourth-tallest in Indiana and the tallest outside Indianapolis. It is also the tallest reinforced concrete building in Indiana. The city's second-tallest building is the PNC Center, which rises . Of the 40 tallest buildings in Indiana, three are located in Fort Wayne. As of May 2015, there are two completed skyscrapers and ten completed high-rises in the city, with one under construction.

Tallest buildings
This list ranks buildings in Fort Wayne that stand at least  tall, based on standard height measurement. This includes spires and architectural details but does not include antenna masts. An equal sign (=) following a rank indicates the same height between two or more buildings. The "Year" column indicates the year in which a building was completed.

Tallest under construction, approved and proposed
This lists high-rises that are under construction, approved or proposed in Fort Wayne and planned to rise at least  in height, but are not yet completed. A floor count of 15 stories is used as the cutoff in place of a height of  for buildings whose heights have not yet been released by their developers.

Currently, there are no high-rises over 150 feet planned in Fort Wayne.

Timeline of tallest buildings
This lists buildings that once held the title of tallest building in Fort Wayne.

Notes
A. This building was destroyed in 1993 by fire ignited from a lightning strike.
B. This building was constructed as the Fort Wayne National Bank Building, but has since been renamed PNC Center.
C. This building was constructed as One Summit Square, but has since been renamed Indiana Michigan Power Center.

References
General
Emporis.com – Fort Wayne
Specific

External links
Fort Wayne Skyscraper Diagram on SkyscraperPage.com

Fort Wayne
 List
Tallest in Fort Wayne


The 2005 Pro Tour season was the tenth season of the Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour. On 10 September 2004 the season began with Grand Prix Rimini. It ended on 4 December 2005 with the conclusion of the 2005 World Championship in Yokohama and was thus the longest Pro Tour season ever. The season consisted of 31 Grand Prixs and 7 Pro Tours, held in Columbus, Nagoya, Atlanta, Philadelphia, London, Los Angeles, and Yokohama. At the end of the season Kenji Tsumura was proclaimed Pro Player of the year as the first Japanese player. Also the first class of the Hall of Fame was inducted. The inductees were Jon Finkel, Darwin Kastle, Tommi Hovi, Alan Comer, and Olle Råde.

Grand Prixs – Rimini, Vienna, Austin

GP Rimini (10–11 September)
Format: Standard
Attendance: 750
 Domingo Ottati
 Florian Pils
 Giovanni Gesiot
 Luka Gasparac
 Davide Ghini
 Jan Brodzak
 Andrea Paselli
 Luca Cialini

GP Vienna (9–10 October)
Format: Rochester Draft
Attendance: 979
 Nicolaus Eigner
 Antoine Ruel
 René Kraft
 Sasha Zorc
 Sebastian Aljiaj
 Daniele Canavesi
 Dario Minieri
 Stefan Jedlicka

GP Austin (9–10 October)
Format: Rochester Draft
Attendance: 386
 Jonathan Sonne
 Eugene Levin
 Chris Prochak
 Gerry Thompson
 Jim Finstrom
 Neil Reeves
 Michael Jacob
 Mike Thompson

Pro Tour – Columbus (29–31 October 2004)

Pierre Canali from France won the inaugural Pro Tour of the season, which was also the first Pro Tour he attended. His deck was an aggressive all-artifact deck called "Affinity". For the first time Japan had three players amongst the final eight while the USA had in the Top 8 for the first time in three Pro Tours.

Tournament data
Prize pool: $200,130
Players: 286
Format: Extended
Head Judge: Jaap Brouwer

Top 8

Final standings

Pro Player of the year standings

Grand Prixs – Helsinki, Brisbane, Yokohama, Porto Alegre, Paris, Chicago, Osaka

GP Helsinki (6–7 November)
Format: Rochester Draft
Attendance: 455
 Olivier Ruel
 Mikko Leiviskä
 Jean Charles Salvin
 Ulrik Tarp
 Anton Jonsson
 Wenzel Krautmann
 Pavlos Akritas
 Erkki Siira

GP Brisbane (13–14 November)
Format: Rochester Draft
Attendance: 222
 Will Copeman
 Anatoli Lightfoot
 Masami Ibamoto
 Andrew Grain
 Tom Hay
 Andrew Varga
 Jarrod Bright
 Bryce Trevilyan

GP Yokohama (20–21 November)
Format: Rochester Draft
Attendance: 707
 Kazuki Katou
 Tomohiro Kaji
 Akira Asahara
 Koutarou Ootsuka
 Masahiko Morita
 Rei Hashimoto
 Takashi Akiyama
 Ren Ishikawa

GP Porto Alegre (20–21 November)
Format: Rochester Draft
Attendance: 342
 Jose Barbero
 Gabriel Caligaris
 Mauro Kina
 Rafael Mendonça
 Guilherme Fonseca
 Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa
 Renato Wholers
 Adilson de Oliveira

GP Paris (27–28 November)
Format: Rochester Draft
Attendance: 1594
 Wilco Pinkster
 Bastien Perez
 Wessel Oomens
 Raphael Lévy
 Giuseppe Reale
 Arnost Zidek
 Stephan Meyer
 Jean-Baptiste Gouesse

GP Chicago (18–19 December)
Format: Team Limited
Attendance: 474 (158 teams)
1. :B
 Timothy Aten
 Gadiel Szleifer
 John Pelcak
2. Gindy's Sister's Fan Club
 Adam Chambers
 Zach Parker
 Charles Gindy
3. The Max Fischer Players
 Igor Frayman
 Joshua Ravitz
 Chris Pikula
4. Voracious Cobra
 Bob Allbright
 Mike Hron
 Paul Artl

GP Osaka (8–9 January)
Format: Team Limited
Attendance: 480 (160 teams)
1. P.S.2
 Masashiro Kuroda
 Katsuhiro Mori
 Masahiko Morita
2. FireBall.Pros
 Jin Okamoto
 Tsuyoshi Ikeda
 Itaru Ishida
3. Gatas Brilhantes
 Ichiro Shimura
 Shu Komuro
 Tomohide Sasagawa
4. One Spin
 Tomohiro Kaji
 Kenji Tsumura
 Tomoharu Saitou

Pro Tour – Nagoya (28–30 January 2005)

Pro Tour Nagoya was the last Pro Tour employing the Rochester Draft format. Shu Komuro from Japan defeated Anton Jonsson in the finals to win the tournament.

Tournament data
Prize pool: $200,130
Players: 236
Format: Rochester Draft (Champions of Kamigawa)
Head Judge: Collin Jackson

Top 8

Final standings

Pro Player of the year standings

Grand Prixs – Boston, Eindhoven, Seattle

GP Boston (5–6 February)
Format: Extended
Attendance: 699
 Masashi Oiso
 Lucas Glavin
 Keith McLaughlin
 Benjamin Dempsey
 Osyp Lebedowicz
 Masahiko Morita
 Anthony Impellizzierei
 Daniel O'Mahoney-Schwartz

GP Eindhoven (26–27 February)
Format: Extended
Attendance: 1012
 Sebastien Roux
 Rogier Maaten
 Xuan-Phi Nguyen
 Tobias Radloff
 Kamiel Cornelissen
 Michael Leicht
 Petr Nahodil
 Bas Postema

GP Seattle (5–6 March)
Format: Extended
Attendance: 390
 Ernie Marchesano
 Taylor Putnam
 Shuhei Nakamura
 Max McCall
 Grant Struck
 John Ripley
 Tsuyoshi Fujita
 Ryan Cimera

Pro Tour – Atlanta (11–13 March 2005)

The Canadian French cooperation team "Nova" won Pro Tour Atlanta, defeating the American team "We Add" in the final. "Nova" consisted of Gabriel Tsang, David Rood, and Gabriel Nassif. For Nassif it was the first Pro Tour victory after five previous final day appearances including three second places. Atlanta was the last Pro Tour using the three-person team Limited format, although it was still used for the team competition at the World Championship that year and the next.

Tournament data

Players: 357 (119 teams)
Prize Pool: $200,100
Format: Team Kamigawa Block Sealed (Champions of Kamigawa, Betrayers of Kamigawa) – first day, Team Kamigawa Block Rochester Draft (Champions of Kamigawa-Betrayers of Kamigawa) – final two days
Head Judge: Sheldon Menery

Top 4

Final standings

Pro Player of the year standings

Grand Prixs – Singapore, Leipzig, Lisbon, Detroit

GP Singapore (19–20 March)
Format: Extended
Attendance: 373
 Itaru Ishida
 Shih Chien Chang
 Ichirou Shimura
 Yeung Sun Kit
 Dennis Yuliadinata
 Shu Komuro
 Oliver Oks
 Gabriel Kang

GP Leipzig (26–27 March)
Format: Sealed and Booster Draft
Attendance: 899
 Rustam Bakirov
 Rosario Maij
 Max Bracht
 Niki Jedlicka
 Philip Fetzer
 Sune Ellegard
 Bernardo Da Costa Cabral
 Mateusz Dabkowski

GP Lisbon (23–24 April)
Format: Sealed and Booster Draft
Attendance: 1169
 Marcio Carvalho
 Luis Sousa
 Mikael Polgary
 David Blazquez
 Joao Martins
 Pierre-Jerome Meurisse
 Marco Manuel
 Anton Jonsson

GP Detroit (23–24 April)
Format: Sealed and Booster Draft
Attendance: 491
 Jordan Berkowitz
 Richard Hoaen
 Michael Krumb
 Jeroen Remie
 Osyp Lebedowicz
 William Postlethwait
 Sam Gomersall
 Patrick Sullivan

Pro Tour – Philadelphia (6–8 May 2005)

Pro Tour Philadelphia featured a tournament system different from those of other Pro Tours. While Swiss system was still used all players with three or more losses and/or draws were automatically dropped from the tournament. Prizes were given out not in relation to the final standings, but for the individual matches won, where matches in later rounds of the tournament were worth more than those in the earlier rounds. It was also announced in the week prior to Pro Tour Philadelphia, that the end of the year payout based on Pro Points would be dropped after the season in favor of the Pro Club. Under the new system a player would receive special benefits based on the total number of Pro Points he had acquired in a season.

16-year-old Gadiel Szleifer defeated 18-year-old Kenji Tsumura in the final to win the tournament. Szleifer played a control deck built around . Former Pro Player of the year Kai Budde received a lot of attention for being undefeated after day one, but was eliminated after he picked up three losses in the first three rounds of day two.

Tournament data

Players: 311
Prize Pool: $194,898
Format: Kamigawa Block Constructed (Champions of Kamigawa, Betrayers of Kamigawa)
Head Judge: Mike Guptil

Top 8

Final standings

Pro Player of the year standings

Grand Prixs – Matsuyama, Bologna

GP Matsuyama (14–15 May)
Format: Sealed and Booster Draft
Attendance: 420
 Akira Asahara
 Masashi Oiso
 Kentarou Nonaka
 Takayuki Toochika
 Osamu Fujita
 Shuhei Nakamura
 Tomoharu Saitou
 Jun'ya Takahashi

GP Bologna (11–12 June)
Format: Sealed and Booster Draft
Attendance: 654
 Olivier Ruel
 David Brucker
 Giulio Barra
 Leonard Barbou
 Tomas Klimes
 Quentin Martin
 Bruno Panara
 Marco Castellano

Pro Tour – London (8–10 July 2005)

Geoffrey Siron from Belgium won Pro Tour London, defeating Tsuyoshi Fujita in the finals. In the Top 8 Siron did not lose a single game.

Tournament data

Players: 314
Prize Pool: $200,130
Format: Booster Draft (Champions of Kamigawa-Betrayers of Kamigawa-Saviors of Kamigawa)
Head Judge: Jaap Brouwer

Top 8

Final standings

Pro Player of the year standings

Grand Prixs – Minneapolis, Niigata, Taipei, Salt Lake City, Mexico City, Nottingham

GP Minneapolis (16–17 July)
Format: Block Constructed
Attendance: 404
 Alex Lieberman
 Mark Herberholz
 Dustin Marquis
 Adam Yurchick
 Celso Zampere
 Andrew Stokinger
 Gerry Thompson
 Sean Inlow

GP Niigata (23–24 July)
Format: Block Constructed
Attendance: 476
 Katsuhiro Mori
 Tomohiro Aridome
 Akira Asahara
 Masashi Oiso
 Takuya Oosawa
 Kenji Tsumura
 Ryouma Shiozu
 Suhan Yun

GP Taipei (6–7 August)
Format: Block Constructed
Attendance: 261
 Osamu Fujita
 Masahiko Morita
 Jun'ichirou Bandou
 Shu Komuro
 Tai Chi Huang
 Aik Seng Khoo
 Masashi Oiso
 Masahiro Kuroda

GP Salt Lake City (27–28 August)
Format: Block Constructed
Attendance: 250
 Antonino De Rosa
 Karl Briem
 Kenji Tsumura
 Mark Ioli
 Frank Karsten
 Gadiel Szleifer
 Gabe Walls
 Rogier Maaten

GP Mexico City (3–4 September)
Format: Block Constructed
Attendance: 305
 Julien Nuijten
 Edgar Leiva
 Frank Karsten
 Maximiliano Liprandi
 William Postlethwait
 Gerard Fabiano
 Daniel Fior
 Rasmus Sibast

GP Nottingham (3–4 September)
Format: Block Constructed
Attendance: 560
 Nikola Vavra
 Roel van Heeswijk
 Nikolaus Eigner
 Philip Reich
 Jean Charles Salvin
 Ricard Tuduri
 Jure Trunk
 Alfred Benages

Pro Tour – Los Angeles (28–30 October 2005)

Antoine Ruel defeated Billy Moreno in the finals to become champion of Pro Tour Los Angeles. He played a blue-black control deck, built around Psychatog.

Tournament data

Players: 340
Prize Pool: $200,130
Format: Extended
Head Judge: Gijsbert Hoogendijk

Top 8

Final standings

Pro Player of the year standings

Grand Prixs – Melbourne, Copenhagen, Kitakyuushuu, Philadelphia, Bilbao, Beijing

GP Melbourne (5–6 November)
Format: Extended
Attendance: 140
 James Zhang
 Paul Chalder
 Tim He
 David Zhao
 Andrew Vance
 Hugh Glanville
 Ben Fleming
 Sam Atkinson

GP Copenhagen (5–6 November)
Format: Extended
Attendance: 340
 Julien Nuijten
 Kim Valori
 Alexandre Rathcke
 Wessel Oomens
 Olivier Ruel
 Pasi Virtanen
 Bodo Rösner
 Nikolaos Lahanas

GP Kitakyuushuu (5–6 November)
Format: Extended
Attendance: 272
 Tomohiro Kaji
 Ryo Ogura
 Makihito Mihara
 Masashi Oiso
 Masahiko Morita
 Jin Okamoto
 Itaru Ishida
 Akira Asahara

GP Philadelphia (12–13 November)
Format: Legacy
Attendance: 495
 Jonathan Sonne
 Chris Pikula
 Pasquale Ruggiero
 Tom Smart
 Paul Serignese
 Pat McGregor
 Ben Goodman
 Lam Phan

GP Bilbao (19–20 November)
Format: Extended
Attendance: 938
 Olivier Ruel
 Marcio Carvalho
 Geoffrey Siron
 Jacob Arias Garcia
 Rogier Maaten
 Jonathan Rispal
 Gonzalo Domingo
 Sergi Herrero

GP Beijing (26–27 November)
Format: Extended
Attendance: 159
 Dong Zhong
 Masashi Oiso
 Olivier Ruel
 Katsuhiro Mori
 Li Gong Wei
 Tomoharu Saitou
 Ming Da Tsai
 Kenji Tsumura

2005 World Championships – Yokohama (30 November – 4 December 2005)

The tournament began with the first Hall of Fame induction ceremony. Jon Finkel, Darwin Kastle, Tommi Hovi, Alan Comer and Olle Råde were honored for their accomplishments and their determination to the game. In the final of the 2005 World Championship Katsuhiro Mori defeated Frank Karsten, thus completing an all-Japanese Worlds in Yokohama. The Top 4 also included Japanese players Akira Asahara and Tomohiro Kaji, shortly before Japan had won the team competition, and even the Pro Player of the year went to Japanese Kenji Tsumura.

Tournament data

Prize pool: $208,130 (individual) + $195,000 (national teams)
Players: 287
Formats: Standard, Booster Draft (Ravnica), Extended
Head Judge: Collin Jackson, Sheldon Menery

Top 8

Final standings

National team competition

  Japan (Ichiro Shimura, Takuma Morifuji, Masashi Oiso)
  United States (Jonathan Sonne, Antonino De Rosa, Neil Reeves)

Pro Player of the year final standings

After the World Championship Kenji Tsumura was awarded the Pro Player of the year title as the first Japanese player.

References

Magic: The Gathering professional events


Ratko (Cyrillic script: Ратко) is a male given name of Slavic origin. It is a diminutive form of the names Ratibor and Ratimir.

Notable people

Ratko Čolić (1918–1999), Serbian footballer
Ratko Dautovski, Macedonian percussionist, interested in world percussion
Ratko Delorko (born 1959), German pianist, composer, producer and conductor
Ratko Đokić (1940–2003), Yugoslavian-Swedish mob boss, a leader of the so-called "Cigarette Mafia"
Ratko Dostanić (born 1959), Serbian football (soccer) head coach
Ratko Glavina (born 1941), Croatian actor
Ratko Janev (1939–2019), physicist
Ratko Kacian (1917–1949), Croatian footballer
Ratko Mladić (born 1942), Chief of Staff of the Bosnian Serb Army during the Bosnian War of 1992–1995
Ratko Nikolić (born 1977), Serbian handballer
Ratko Ninković (born 1967), football manager and former player from Bosnia-Herzegovina
Ratko Perić (born 1944), the Bishop of Mostar-Duvno and Apostolic Administrator of Trebinje-Mrkan
Ratko Radovanović (born 1956), basketball player
Ratko Rudić (born 1948), Croatian water polo coach
Ratko Stevović (born 1956), Montenegrin football manager
Ratko Štritof (born 1972), Croatian water polo player
Ratko Svilar (born 1950), former Serbian football goalkeeper
Ratko Vansimpsen (born 1989), Belgian footballer
Ratko Varda (born 1979), Serbian professional basketball player
Ratko Vujović (1916–1977), Montenegrin political activist and soldier

See also
Ratko: The Dictator's Son, 2009 film
Ratković (disambiguation)

Slavic masculine given names
Bosnian masculine given names
Croatian masculine given names
Masculine given names
Czech masculine given names
Montenegrin masculine given names
Slovak masculine given names
Slovene masculine given names
Serbian masculine given names


Kaluga is a city in Central Russia.

Kaluga may also refer to:
Kaluga Oblast (created 5 July 1944 as part of the Soviet Union), now a federal subject of Russia
Kaluga Province (1719-1775), Russian Empire
Kaluga Governorate (1796-1929), Russian Empire
Kaluga, Poland, a village in southern Poland
Kaługa, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, a village in north-central Poland
Kaluga, Oryol Oblast, a village in Oryol Oblast, Russia
Kaluga-Solovyovka, a village (selo) in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia
Kaluga (fish), a sturgeon found in the Amur River basin
Kaluga Queen, the largest cavier producer in the world
 FC Kaluga, football club from Kaluga
 FC Lokomotiv Kaluga
 FC Turbostroitel Kaluga
 Kaluga crater
 Kaluga Airport

See also
Kaluzhsky (disambiguation)


Ditlev (or Ditlef) Ludvig Rogert (1742–1813) was a Danish songwriter who is credited with composing the music for Denmark's royal anthem "Kong Kristian stod ved højen mast". He was also a High Court judge and violinist.

The lyrics to the anthem first appeared in May 1778, in Johannes Ewald's vaudeville play, The Fishermen. It has long been debated who composed the music to the song. It was originally accredited to Johann Hartmann, the same composer who wrote the score for The Fishermen; however his original romantic score for the vaudeville was entirely different from the score commonly used today. Following the dismissal of the possibility that Hartmann could have composed the score, it was suggested that Rogert had been the original composer, a claim that was backed up by several 19th century intellectuals. In 1880, Vilhelm Carl Ravn presented his theory that the score significantly preceded Ewald's poem and had no one particular composer. This is the most commonly supported theory today. The song was adopted as a national anthem in 1780.

References

1742 births
1813 deaths
Danish composers
Male composers
Danish jurists
Danish classical violinists
Male classical violinists


John Edward Flowers (born 26 August 1944) is an English former footballer who played as a midfielder for Stoke City, Doncaster Rovers, Port Vale, and Eastwood in the 1960s and 1970s. He scored four goals in 206 league games in a nine-year career in the Football League, with the bulk of these appearances coming at Doncaster, where he won the Fourth Division title in 1968–69. He is the younger brother of Ron Flowers, and the nephew of George Flowers.

Career
Flowers was born in Edlington into a sporting family and he followed in their footsteps joining Stoke City in 1963. He spent most of his time at the Victoria Ground in the reserves and after making just nine first team appearances in three seasons he was sold to Third Division Doncaster Rovers for £10,000. In his first season at Belle Vue the newly-promoted "Donny" suffered relegation back into the Fourth Division. They finished 10th in 1967–68 before winning the title in 1968–69 under the stewardship of Lawrie McMenemy. Flowers was an ever-present in 1969–70 playing in all of Rovers' 52 fixtures. He played 33 times in 1970–71 as Doncaster were again relegated to the Fourth Division. Flowers scored four goals in 186 first team games in his five years at Belle Vue. He was signed by Port Vale manager Gordon Lee for a "small fee" in August 1971. He played 37 league and cup games in the 1971–72 season but was handed a free transfer away from Vale Park in May 1972 on account of his "mixed form"; apparently this inconsistency was caused by his other job as a pub licensee. He moved on to non-League Eastwood.

Personal life
He is the younger brother of Ron Flowers who played for England. His uncle was George Flowers who also played for Doncaster Rovers. He was married to Maureen Flowers, a former world champion of darts.

Career statistics
Source:

Honours
Doncaster Rovers
 Fourth Division: 1968–69

References

1944 births
Living people
People from Edlington
Footballers from Doncaster
English men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Stoke City F.C. players
Doncaster Rovers F.C. players
Port Vale F.C. players
Eastwood Hanley F.C. players
English Football League players


Rene Farrell (born 13 January 1987) is an Australian cricketer. A fast-medium pace bowler, she is a current member of the Australian team. On 1 December 2019, Farrell announced her retirement from Women's Big Bash League.

Although Farrell was successful in age-group interstate cricket, she did not make her senior debut for New South Wales until late in the 2006–07 season a month before turning 20. Her state made the finals series, and in the first match she took 3/27 and was unbeaten on one as they took a one-wicket victory—the closest possible result in a winning run-chase. New South Wales went on to claim the title, and Farrell was then selected for the national team to play New Zealand in the Rose Bowl series after only five matches—half a season of senior domestic cricket. Making her debut in the fourth of five matches, Farrell took 3/36 to help Australia seal the series. However, her rapid rise came to a halt during the 2007–08 season. She took only eight wickets in the WNCL season and was dropped from the national team, missing three bilateral series for Australia before the start of the following summer. Farrell transferred to Western Australia and while taking nine wickets, she also made 172 runs at a batting average of 34.40, a figure comparable to those of specialist batsmen, earning herself a recall to the Australian team. She took 3/26 against New Zealand in her first match back and played in six of Australia's seven matches at the 2009 World Cup, totalling seven wickets. After taking five wickets in three Twenty20 matches against New Zealand before departing for the 2009 Twenty20 in England, Farrell played in all of Australia's four matches despite taking only one wicket at an economy rate of 8.92, and was sometimes used as a pinch-hitter to score quick runs.

During the bilateral series that followed against the hosts, Farrell made her Test debut, taking a total of 3/36, but she managed only one wicket in five ODIs. Afterwards, she stayed in England for a stint with Nottinghamshire and hit two centuries to end with 413 runs at 59.00. Returning to Australia for the 2009–10, she had her most prolific WNCL campaign, scoring 171 runs and taking 18 wickets, including her first five-wicket haul. Farrell played in the Rose Bowl series afterwards, and after taking one wicket in each of the five ODIs in Australia, was dropped for three fixtures in New Zealand.

Early career
In March 2002, Farrell was selected for New South Wales to play in the Under-17 interstate championships. She scored 26 runs at a batting average of 26.00 and took six wickets at a bowling average of 16.66. New South Wales won every match up until the final, where they collapsed for 60 to lose to Queensland. In January 2003, Farrell was selected for the Under-19 team and played in five matches. Her best performance was to score 49 and take 4/14 in a 123-run win over Tasmania. She took only one more wicket to end with five at 19.00 and scored 103 runs at 25.75. Farrell returned the following year and took 4/1 from three overs in the first match as New South Wales defeated Tasmania by ten wickets after dismissing them for 24. She then took 4/19 against Western Australia and ended with 11 wickets at 9.54 and scored 62 runs at 31.00 in two matches.

Domestic debut
Despite the strong performances in her final year in age group state cricket, Farrell was unable to break into senior ranks until late in the 2006–07 season. She made her debut for New South Wales in a closely contested match against Western Australia, the sixth of eight qualifying matches in the Women's National Cricket League (WNCL). After taking 1/19 from her six overs, she came to the crease in the closing stages of the match as New South Wales' tail struggled to reach the target of 134. Farrell was run out for two, but her state held their nerve to scrape home by two wickets. She was omitted for the penultimate match of the season before taking 0/13 from four overs in an eight-wicket win over South Australia. New South Wales, the defending champions placed second and qualified for the finals series hosted by Victoria. Farrell retained her position in the team and was a key player in the first match, taking 3/27 from her ten overs as the hosts were dismissed for 136. New South Wales struggled and Farrell came to the crease and scored one not out and was present when the winning runs were scored, sealing a one-wicket win. The rest of the series was not so dramatic. Farrell took one wicket in each of the two remaining matches; Victoria won the first by eight wickets and New South Wales won the deciding game by three wickets to retain their title. Farrell was not required to bat in this last match and ended the season with 3 runs at 1.50 and six wickets at 21.16.

Farrell was rewarded at the end of the season with selection in the Australia Youth team to play against New Zealand A. She took a wicket in each of her two matches and ended with two wickets at 31.00 and 36 runs at 18.00.

International debut

During July in the Australian winter of 2007, a Rose Bowl series was held against New Zealand in the tropical northern city of Darwin. Farrell was selected for the senior national squad after only five senior domestic matches, as cover for the injured pair of Lisa Sthalekar and Clea Smith.

After Australia had taken a 2–1 lead in the five-match series, Farrell was given her debut in the fourth match. She took 3/36 from nine overs, taking three middle-order wickets. She also completed a catch to help restrict the tourists to 9/196. Australia found the target difficult and won by three wickets and seal the series, sparing Farrell the need to bat on her debut. In the final match, Farrell batted for the first time, scoring three not out. She took 1/23 from five overs as New Zealand won by four wickets.

Farrell had her first full WNCL season in 2007–08, playing in all eight of New South Wales' matches. After taking only one wicket in the first four matches, she took six wickets in the last four round-robin matches, with best figures of 2/9 against Queensland. New South Wales won all but their final match to qualify first and host the final against South Australia. Persistent rain forced the abandonment of the match and New South Wales retained their title on account of placing first in the round-robin phase. Farrell took eight wickets at 19.25 at the high economy rate of 4.52 and scored 16 runs at 8.00. In two Twenty20 matches, she took three wickets at 8.66 at and economy rate of 5.20 and was not required to bat as New South Wales won both games.

Farrell was dropped from the Australian team after these performances in the WNCL and missed the home series against England and the Rose Bowl in New Zealand at the end of the season. Instead, she played for Australia's Under-21 team in three matches against England and the senior Australian team ahead of their international series. Farrell took five wickets at 17.00 at an economy rate of 4.20 and scored 33 runs at 33.00. In the first match against England, she took 3/22 in a 52-run win, and in the second match she scored an unbeaten 30 as the Australian Under-21s were dismissed for 174 to cede a 75-run loss.

At the start of the 2008–09 season, Farrell was also left out of the home series against India. For the new WNCL season Farrell moved to Western Australia, and her batting improved markedly after her transfer. In her first match for her new state, Farrell hit an unbeaten 29 to steer them to a four-wicket win over South Australia. In the penultimate match of the season, she hit an unbeaten 59 in a tied match against Queensland. Farrell ended the season with 172 runs at 34.40 from eight matches, an average superior to many specialist batsmen. Her bowling remained steady, never taking more than two wickets in a match. She ended the WNCL with nine wickets at 27.33 at an economy rate of 3.48. Western Australia won only two of their eight matches and did not make the final. In two T20 matches, Farrell scored 21 in her only innings and took one wicket at 40.00 at an economy rate of 8.00.

2009 World Cup and World Twenty20

Farrell was recalled to the Australian team for the Rose Bowl series in New Zealand in February and the 2009 World Cup held in New South Wales and Canberra the following month. Farrell played in the first and third matches against New Zealand, taking 3/26 in the first match as the hosts scraped home by two wickets. She was expensive in the next match, taking 1/35 from five overs in a heavy defeat, ending the series with 20 runs at 20.00 and four wickets at 15.25 and an economy rate of 4.69.

In two warm-up matches ahead of the World Cup, Farrell had mixed results. She made 15 not out but was hit for 37 runs in six wicketless overs against England. In the next match against Sri Lanka, she scored 23 and took 1/12 in a comfortable 230-run win.

Farrell was retained for the opening match against New Zealand, taking 1/20. She did not bat as Australia failed in their run-chase. In the next match against South Africa, she took 2/30 from 6.3 overs as Australia won by 61 runs, and omitted for the last group match against the West Indies, a 47-run win as the hosts reached the next round. In the first Super Six match, Farrell took 1/30 from 10 overs and made 20 not out, attempting to engineer the end of the run-chase as Australia fell 16 runs short of India's 5/234.  She then took 2/23 against Pakistan in a 107-run win. By this time, Australia's two losses had already made it impossible to make the final. Farrell took 1/15 from six overs in the final super Six match against England, which Australia won, and they met India in the third-place playoff. Farrell was bowled by Jhulan Goswami for nine and took 0/17 from four wickets at the hosts lost by three wickets to finish fourth. She ended with seven wickets at 19.42.

Farrell was selected for Australia's team for the inaugural Women's World Twenty20 held in England in 2009. The Australians hosted New Zealand for a three-match series in tropical Darwin at the beginning of June before the World Cup, and Farrell showed good form taking five wickets at 9.80 at an economy rate of only 4.45, with a best of 3/13 from four overs in the first match. However, she could not maintain the form. She took 1/29 from four overs in the team's only warm-up on English soil, against the hosts, and was retained for all the matches, despite going wicketless in each of the three group matches and conceding 84 runs at an economy rate of 9.33. However, she was effective with the bat, scoring 13, 31 and 12, all unbeaten, against New Zealand, West Indies and South Africa respectively, the second innings coming when she was promoted up the order in an eight-wicket win. Australia lost to New Zealand but won the last two matches to reach the semi-finals. There she scored one not out before England overhauled Australia's score of 5/163 to reach the final, which they won. Farrell was again ineffective, taking 1/32 from four overs. She ended the tournament with one wicket at 116.00 at an economy rate of 8.92.

Farrell and the Australians stayed in England for a bilateral series against the hosts, who were the reigning world champions in both ODIs and T20s, after the end of the World Twenty20. She took 2/16 from her four overs as Australia upset England in the only T20 by 34 runs. She played in all of the five ODIs, scoring 39 not out as Australia collapsed to be all out for 133. Farrell ended the series with 70 runs at 35.00 and again struggled with the ball taking one wicket at 119.00 at an economy rate of 4.40.

England won all the ODI matches except the last, which was washed out. Farrell made her Test debut against England in a one-off match at County Road in Worcestershire. Batting at No. 10, she scored 8 in Australia's 309, bowled by Nicki Shaw. Opening the bowling, Farrell trapped Caroline Atkins for two in the third over of the innings to claim her maiden Test wicket, and then removed the other opener Lydia Greenway for five to leave England at 2/11. She later bowled English paceman Katherine Brunt to end a 46-run seventh-wicket partnership at 7/183. Farrell ended with 3/32 from an economical display of 30 overs to help Australia dismiss England for 268 and take a 41-run lead. She then made 4 as Australia set the hosts a target of 273 before the match was drawn. She took 0/4 from seven overs in the second innings, six of which were maidens, meaning that she had conceded less than one run per over throughout the match.

County stint in England

At the end of the tour of England, Farrell stayed on for a period to play for Nottinghamshire. During this stint she was successful mainly as a batsman. Before making her debut for the county, she struck 123 for Ransome & Marles against Warrington. In her debut for Nottinghamshire in the one-day competition, Farrell scored 129, contributing more than 70% of her team's 179 as wickets fell around her regularly. She took 1/20 from her 10 overs but it was not enough to prevent a six-wicket defeat at the hands of Sussex. In her third match, she took 4/20 and scored 26 in a six-wicket win over Somerset. In the next match, she was attacked by the Kent batsmen, taking 1/69 from 10 overs. She responded by scoring 122 herself, but Nottinghamshire fell 15 runs short of Kent's 6/256. In her seventh and final match for the county, she hit 80 in a 23-run win over Surrey. In total, Farrell scored 413 runs at 59.00 and took seven wickets at 25.28 at an economy rate of 3.21.

The WNCL was expanded in 2009–10 with the addition of the ACT, so ten round-robin matches were scheduled, and Farrell played in all, scoring 171 runs at 17.10. Her top-score of 52 came in a 127-run defeat at the hands of New South Wales. She also had her most prolific season with the ball taking 18 wickets at 21.44 and an economy rate of 4.42. After taking four wickets in the first four matches, she took 3/32 and 2/33 against the Australian Capital Territory, but then wen wicketless in two matches against her native state, conceding almost five runs per over in heavy defeats by 127 runs and ten wickets. In the last two matches of the season, Farrell's performance peaked. She took 5/57 from her ten overs and completed three catches to help bowl out Queensland for 213, setting up a three-wicket win, and the next day, she took 4/27 and a catch to help seal a 138-run win. Western Australia won only four of their ten matches and did not make the final.

Farrell had a successful time in the domestic T20s, now part of a full interstate tournament, scoring 99 runs at 19.80 and taking five wickets at 19.00 at an economy rate of 4.75. Her best score of 38 came in a win over the Australian Capital Territory and her best bowling of 3/11 came against Tasmania. Western Australia did not make the final.

In the 2010 Rose Bowl series, Farrell played in each of the five ODIs during the Australian leg of the competition. She took one wicket in each of the matches and made ducks in both of her innings. She ended the ODIs with five wickets at 21.60 and an economy rate of 3.25 as Australia won all five matches. The ODIs were followed by five T20 internationals, three at Bellerive Oval in Hobart and the last two in New Zealand. Farrell played in all but the fourth T20 game, taking five wickets at 17.80 and an economy rate of 6.35 and she batted twice, scoring two runs at 2.00. New Zealand won all five T20s and Farrell was left out of the three ODIs on New Zealand soil.

2010 World Twenty20 triumph
Farrell was selected for the 2010 World Twenty20 in the West Indies and played in every match of Australia's unbeaten campaign. In the first warm-up match, she bowled two overs late in the innings, taking 0/15, and did not bat as Australia lost to New Zealand by 18 runs. In the last warm-up match, she was again not required to bat and took 2/16 in a three-over spell at the start of the innings, removing Nain Abidi and Bismah Maroof as the Australians defeated Pakistan by 82 runs.

Australia were grouped with England, South Africa and the West Indies. In the first match against England, Farrell caught top-scorer Sarah Taylor from the bowling of Sthalekar and then caught and bowled Lydia Greenway for 14 as England collapsed from 3/75 to be 104 all out with 15 balls unused. In pursuit of 105 for victory, Australia were in difficulty when Farrell came to the crease to join Sthalekar with the score at 8/86 after 16.3 overs. Australia still needed 18 runs from 21 balls. The pair put on 11 from 14 balls before Sthalekar fell with seven balls remaining, bringing last batsman Clea Smith in. Seven runs were needed from the final over and English captain Charlotte Edwards brought herself on to bowl. Farrell hit a four off the first ball, and scored two off the third ball, tying the scores. However, she then panicked and was run out for 13 from 13 balls by Beth Morgan while going for the winning run from the next ball, leaving the scores tied.

A Super Over eventuated, and Laura Marsh bowled for England. A strong hitter, Farrell was sent in with Leah Poulton. Farrell scored two runs from two balls, hitting a single from each delivery she faced. Poulton fell on the fourth ball and Alyssa Healy was run out on the sixth and final ball of Australia's Super Over while attempting a second run, leaving them at 2/6. England also ended with 2/6 after a run out in an attempt to secure the winning run on the final ball. Australia was awarded the match because they had hit more sixes in the match—Jess Cameron scored the solitary six.

In the next match against South Africa, Farrell came in at 7/151. She lasted two balls before being run out for one late in the innings. Her dismissal was part of a sudden collapse as Australia lost 6/16 including the last four wickets for four runs to be all out for 155 with three balls unused. She took 0/20 from her four overs and caught Dane van Niekerk from the last ball of the match as Australia completed a 22-run win. In the final group match against the hosts, Farrell was promoted up the order came in at 4/78 in the 12th over with the intention of lifting the run rate, but made only 5 from 6 balls before being dismissed before Australia finished on 7/133. She combined with Ellyse Perry to run out Juliana Nero in the second over, before bowling Cordel Jack for a duck in the next over to reduce the hosts to 2/16. She ended with 1/25 from her four overs as Australia won by nine runs to finish the group stage unbeaten at the top of their quartet.

Australia went on to face India in the semi-final. Farrell removed Indian batsman Sulakshana Naik from the third ball of the match and ended with 1/22 from her four overs. She was not required to bat as Australia reached their target of 120 with seven wickets and seven balls to spare.

Australia batted first in the final against New Zealand and had their least prolific batting display of the tournament. Farrell came in at 7/99 with seven balls remaining in the innings. She made three runs from four balls. The innings ended with a one-handed catch by New Zealand captain Aimee Watkins, who leapt high at cover to catch and prevent a drive from Farrell going for four. In a low-scoring match, Farrell was the most expensive of the Australian bowlers. Her first over, the second of the innings saw a six from Suzie Bates over long-on, and Farrell was taken out of the attack. New Zealand then began losing wickets and were in trouble at 4/29 in the eighth over. Australia were in the ascendancy for most of the run-chase and New Zealand needed 24 runs from the last 8 balls, but Sophie Devine hit a four and a six from the last two balls of the 19th over bowled by Farrell to leave New Zealand requiring 14 runs from the last over. However, they managed only 10 and Australia won by three runs.

2015 Ashes

In June 2015, she was named as one of Australia's touring party for the 2015 Women's Ashes in England.

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Chemi Shalev (; born 14 April 1953) is an  Israeli journalist.

Biography
Menachem (Chemi) Shalev was born in Washington, D.C. Shalev is married with three daughters and lives in Givatayim.

Journalism career
Shalev began his journalism career at the Jerusalem Post under David Landau. He was the US correspondent for Haaretz newspaper in 2011-2016. He publishes an English-language blog called "West of Eden" dealing with Israel–United States relations and the American Jewish community. Previously, Shalev was deputy editor and diplomatic commentator for Israel Hayom newspaper. He served as diplomatic correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, Davar and Ma'ariv.

Shalev was the Jerusalem correspondent for the New York-based Jewish weekly, The Forward. In 2007, he returned from a four-year stay in Australia, where he was associate editor of The Australian Jewish News.

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Kaluga  is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Żabno, within Tarnów County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It lies approximately  north-west of Żabno,  north-west of Tarnów, and  east of the regional capital Kraków.

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Châu Pha is a commune (xã) and village in the district-level town of Phú Mỹ, Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu province, in Vietnam.

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Vladan (, ) is a Serbo-Croatian masculine given name, a shorter form of Slavic dithematic names with the element vlad meaning "to rule, ruler". It is attested in Serbian society since the Middle Ages. The patronymic surname Vladanović is derived from the name. Feminine forms are Vladana and Vladanka.

It may refer to:

Vladan Alanović (born 1967), Croatian basketballer
Vladan Batić (born 1949), Serbian politician and statesman
Vladan Desnica (1905–1967), Yugoslav writer
Vladan Đogatović (born 1984), Serbian footballer
Vladan Đorđević (1844–1930), Serbian politician and statesman
Vladan Grujić (born 1981), Bosnian footballer
Vladan Kostić, Montenegrin footballer
Vladan Kujović (born 1978), Serbian footballer
Vladan Lukić (born 1970), Serbian footballer
Vladan Marković, Serbian swimmer
Vladan Matić (born 1970), Serbian handballer
Vladan Milosavljević (born 1980), Serbian footballer
Vladan Milovanović (born 1970), Serbian footballer
Vladan Pavlović (born 1984), Serbian footballer
Vladan Radača (born 1955), Serbian coach and former footballer
Vladan Savić (born 1979), Montenegrin footballer
Vladan Spasojević (born 1980), Serbian footballer
Vladan Vasilijević, Yugoslav specialist in criminal law
Vladan Vićević (born 1967), Yugoslavian-born Salvadoran football (soccer) player
Vladan Vukosavljević (disambiguation), several people
Vladan Živković (born 1941), Serbian actor

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Andre Payette (29 July 1976 – 28 September 2022) was a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger.

Payette was drafted in 1994 by the NHL Philadelphia Flyers, and won a Calder Cup with their American Hockey League affiliate, the Philadelphia Phantoms.

Payette signed for the Manchester Phoenix of the English Premier Ice Hockey League in the summer of 2009, following the organisation's move into the EPL from the EIHL.  Payette is known for his physical play and amassed more than 3,000 minutes in the penalty box during his time in the United Kingdom.

On 23 November 2010, it was announced that Payette had signed to play for Sheffield Steeldogs of the English Premier Ice Hockey League.

Payette was released from his contract as Head Coach of the Sheffield Steeldogs in 2015, and replaced by Dominic Osman, who the club had signed from Hull Stingrays of the Elite Ice Hockey League. He later signed for the Whitley Warriors and played two seasons in the north east.

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Hắc Dịch is a ward of Phú Mỹ town, Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu province, in Vietnam.

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Mỹ Xuân is a ward of Phú Mỹ town, Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu province, in Vietnam.

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Phước Hoà  is a commune (xã) and village in Tân Thành District, Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu province, in Vietnam.

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Sông Xoài is a commune (xã) and village in the district-level town of Phú Mỹ, Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu province, in Vietnam.

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Tân Hải is a commune (xã) and village in the district-level town of Phú Mỹ, Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu province, in Vietnam.

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Tân Hoà is a commune (xã) and village in the district-level town of Phú Mỹ, Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu province, in Vietnam.

Populated places in Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu province
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Tân Phước  is a commune (xã) and village in Tân Thành District, Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu province, in Vietnam.

Populated places in Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu province
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Tóc Tiên is a commune (xã) and village in the district-level town of Phú Mỹ, Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu province, in Vietnam. In 2009, Charm Urban Development Ltd Co announced that it would build a $600 million Toc Tien Urban Area.

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Same-sex marriage has been legally recognized in Wyoming since October 21, 2014. The U.S. state of Wyoming had previously prohibited state recognition of same-sex marriages by statute since 1977 and had enacted a more explicit ban in 2003. An attempt to enact legislation recognizing domestic partnerships as an alternative to marriage for same-sex couples failed in 2013. On October 17, 2014, a federal district court found the state's ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional. Its ruling took effect on October 21 when state officials notified the court that they would not appeal the decision.

Legal history

Restrictions on same-sex unions

Statutes
In 1977, the Wyoming State Legislature passed a ban on same-sex marriage. In 2003, the State Legislature passed another ban on same-sex marriage. The statutes read: "marriage is a civil contract between a male and a female person". Wyoming law also states that "All marriage contracts which are valid by the laws of the country in which contracted are valid in this state" and it does not qualify that statement. Lawsuits have cited this provision when challenging the state's denial of recognition to same-sex marriages established in other jurisdictions.

On February 22, 2007, a bill to prohibit Wyoming from recognizing same-sex marriages from other states was defeated by one vote in a committee of the Wyoming House of Representatives. On January 24, 2011, the House passed a bill that would have prohibited the state from recognizing same-sex marriages performed outside the state. On February 18, it was passed by the Senate, but after further legislative action it failed.

Constitution
In 2009, the House considered an amendment to the State Constitution, House Joint Resolution 17, known as the "Defense of Marriage" resolution, defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman. After an intense, emotional debate on the matter, the measure was defeated by the House on February 6, with 35 votes against and 25 in favor.

On January 27, 2011, the Senate approved, by a two-thirds majority, a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. The proposal died when the House adjourned without taking action on it. Speaker Tom Lubnau said he "didn't want to spend hours of floor time debating a bill that didn't have the votes to pass". The Wyoming Democratic Party opposed the bill; "[We don't] think it was an appropriate thing to put in the Wyoming Constitution.", said Brianna Jones, the party's communication director.

Attempts to recognize same-sex unions
On January 28, 2011, the House Judiciary Committee rejected a bill to legalize same-sex civil unions.

On January 14, 2013, legislators filed a bill to legalize same-sex marriage in Wyoming by defining marriage as a civil contract between "two natural persons". On January 28, a House committee defeated the marriage bill by a vote of 5–4. A domestic partnership bill allowing same-sex couples to "obtain the rights, responsibilities, protections and legal benefits provided in Wyoming for immediate family members" was passed by a House committee on a vote of 7–2 on January 28. Legislators who favored same-sex marriage supported the legislative tactic of offering the alternatives. Governor Matt Mead said he favored domestic partnerships. The House rejected the bill on January 30, 2013 in a 24–35 vote.

The House considered a same-sex marriage bill in 2014 but defeated it on February 13, 2014 by a vote of 17–41.

Lawsuits
Wyoming Governor Matt Mead said that despite action by the U.S. Supreme Court on October 6, 2014, which left standing as binding precedent on courts in Wyoming rulings of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals that found bans on same-sex marriage unconstitutional, the Attorney General, Peter K. Michael, "will continue to defend Wyoming's constitution defining marriage between a man and a woman", mistakenly referring to the State Constitution, which does not define marriage. Clerks in Laramie, Natrona and Teton counties said they had received inquiries about issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, but were waiting for a change in state law or an order from a judge.

Guzzo v. Mead
On October 7, 2014, after the U.S. Supreme Court declined appeals in two cases from the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, Kitchen v. Herbert and Bishop v. Smith, allowing decisions invalidating state bans on same-sex marriage to become binding precedent on courts in Wyoming, four same-sex couples and Wyoming Equality filed a lawsuit in federal court, Guzzo v. Mead, asking for an immediate order to end the state's denial of marriage rights to same-sex couples. Three of the couples had earlier initiated a lawsuit in state court and the fourth had just been denied a marriage license. They were represented by private attorneys and the National Center for Lesbian Rights. U.S. District Judge Scott W. Skavdahl ruled for the plaintiffs on October 17 and stayed enforcement of his ruling until 5 p.m. MDT on October 23 or until the defendants informed the court that they would not appeal to the Tenth Circuit, whichever was first. Governor Mead's office released a statement that the state would decline to appeal the ruling, and notified the court on October 21 of that decision, at which point the judge lifted his stay and same-sex couples began obtaining marriage licenses. Wyoming is also required to recognize same-sex marriages from other jurisdictions.

Jeran Artery of Wyoming Equality welcomed the court decision, and said "I wonder what Matthew Shepard would think if he were alive today to see all this progress we've made in Wyoming and how hearts and minds have changed. I would really hope that if I could have a conversation with him that he would say, 'Job well done. You are changing Wyoming and it makes me proud.'" Representative Gerald Gay said the issue should have been decided by voters. Among the first couples to receive a marriage license in Wyoming were Linda Mahaffey and Teresa Bingham, plaintiffs in Guzzo, who obtained a license in Laramie on Tuesday morning, October 21. Travis Gray and Dirk Andrews were the first couple to be issued a license in Casper, and A.J. McDaniel and Jennifer Mumaugh, also plaintiffs in Guzzo, were the first in Cheyenne, the state capital.

Courage v. Wyoming
On March 5, 2014, four same-sex couples and Wyoming Equality filed a lawsuit, Courage v. Wyoming, in the First Judicial District, challenging Wyoming's statutory ban on same-sex marriage and the recognition of same-sex marriages performed in other jurisdictions. The plaintiffs were couples from Cheyenne, Casper, Laramie and Evanston who had married in Canada or Iowa or who had been denied marriages licenses by the Laramie County clerk. In April, former Senator Alan Simpson expressed his support for same-sex marriage, releasing a video in association with Freedom to Marry, "Whether you're gay or lesbian or straight, if you love someone and you want to marry them, marry them. [...] I'm a Republican. The party's basic core is, government out of your life and the right to be left alone." The state sought to dismiss the case, and on July 1, 2014 the plaintiffs sought summary judgment. On July 29, a judge denied the state's request for a stay of proceedings, but deferred a hearing on the motion for summary judgment for 90 days to give the state an opportunity to conduct discovery. On October 6, a joint motion was filed to lift the stay and enter judgement.

Christiansen v. Christiansen
In November 2010, a district judge ruled that he lacked jurisdiction to grant a divorce to two Wyoming women who had married in Canada in 2006. On June 6, 2011, the Wyoming Supreme Court, in Christiansen v. Christiansen, unanimously reversed the district court decision and granted the divorce. Its decision said: "Nothing in this opinion should be taken as applying to the recognition of same-sex marriages legally solemnized in a foreign jurisdiction in any context other than divorce. The question of recognition of such same-sex marriages for any other reason, being not properly before us, is left for another day."

Developments after legalization
On June 26, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Obergefell v. Hodges that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry under the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment. The decision legalized same-sex marriage nationwide in the United States.

In March 2017, the Wyoming Supreme Court issued a ruling 3–2 discipling a judge, Ruth Neely from Pinedale, who had, in violation of her oath of office, said she would not marry same-sex couples. Neely had informed a local newspaper in 2015 that she would "not be able to" perform the marriages due to her religious beliefs, and compared homosexuality to alcoholism and theft. The Wyoming Commission on Judicial Conduct and Ethics opened an investigation into her, and concluded that Neely had violated the Wyoming Code of Judicial Conduct and recommended that she be removed from her judicial position: "Judges do not enjoy the same freedom to proselytize their religious beliefs as ordinary citizens." The commission said that her statement amounts to a conclusion that "adherence to the law is optional". Neely appealed directly to the Supreme Court in August 2016. The court rejected Neely's claims but modified her penalty, issuing instead a "public censure" and demanding that she either marry all couples, regardless of sexual orientation, or none.

On February 14, 2018, two Republican representatives introduced the Marriage and Constitution Restoration Act to the Wyoming House of Representatives. The bill sought to reenact the state's same-sex marriage ban, and ban the state's political subdivisions from "granting, endorsing, respecting or recognizing any marriage not between a man and woman". The bill would have thus been in violation of Obergefell and the U.S. Constitution. House lawmakers refused to consider the bill and killed it merely two days after its introduction to the House.

Native American nations
Same-sex marriage is recognized on the Wind River Indian Reservation, a Native American reservation shared by the Eastern Shoshone and the Northern Arapaho peoples. The first same-sex marriage at the Shoshone and Arapaho Tribal Court in Fort Washakie was registered on November 14, 2014. Arapaho culture has traditionally recognized two-spirit people who were born male but wore women's clothing and were regarded as "esteemed persons with special spiritual powers". They are known as  (, plural: ) in the Arapaho language. Many  married cisgender men without indication of polygyny. The two-spirit status thus allowed for marriages between two biological males to be performed in the tribe. In the eastern dialect of the Shoshone language, two-spirit people, who "act[ed] like women" and did women's work, are known as  (), but unlike the Arapaho hoxúx, they would never marry.

Economic impact
The Williams Institute estimated in September 2014 that if marriage were extended to same-sex couples in Wyoming, the state would see an economic boost of $2.4 million over the course of three years. This net impact would be the result of savings in expenditures on state means-tested public benefit programs and an increase in state income and sales tax revenue.

Demographics and marriage statistics
Data from the 2000 U.S. census showed that 807 same-sex couples were living in Wyoming. By 2005, this had increased to 1,044 couples, likely attributed to same-sex couples' growing willingness to disclose their partnerships on government surveys. Same-sex couples lived in all counties of the state and constituted 0.7% of coupled households and 0.4% of all households in the state. Most couples lived in Natrona, Laramie and Fremont counties, but the counties with the highest percentage of same-sex couples were Niobrara (0.69% of all county households) and Fremont (0.65%). Same-sex partners in Wyoming were on average younger than opposite-sex partners, and less likely to be employed. The average and median household incomes of same-sex couples were lower than different-sex couples, and same-sex couples were also far less likely to own a home than opposite-sex partners. 20% of same-sex couples in Wyoming were raising children under the age of 18, with an estimated 501 children living in households headed by same-sex couples in 2005.

On October 21, 2015, exactly one year after the ruling in Guzzo v. Mead, the Vital Statistics Services office of the Wyoming Department of Health estimated that 201 marriage licenses had been issued to same-sex couples in the state. This constituted about 5% of the 3,850 marriage licenses issued in Wyoming in that time.

Public opinion
A July 2013 Public Policy Polling survey found that 57% of Wyoming voters thought same-sex marriage should be illegal, while 32% thought it should be legal and 11% were not sure. A separate question on the same survey found that 64% of respondents supported legal recognition for same-sex couples, with 28% supporting same-sex marriage, 36% supporting civil unions but not marriage, 32% opposing all legal recognition and 3% not sure.

A University of Wyoming survey conducted between October 13 and October 28, 2014 found that 53% of respondents agreed that "homosexual couples should be allowed to get married", while 39% disagreed and 8% declined to answer. This was a big change in comparison to 2004, when 24% of Wyoming respondents supported same-sex marriage.

2015 and 2016 polls from the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) found that 48% and 49% of Wyoming residents supported same-sex marriage, respectively. In 2017, the PRRI placed support for same-sex marriage in Wyoming at 62%, while opposition stood at 30%, and 8% were undecided. A 2020 PRRI survey showed that 75% of Wyoming respondents supported same-sex marriage, while 17% were opposed and 8% were undecided or did not answer. According to a survey conducted by the same polling organization between March 11 and December 14, 2022, 62% of Wyoming respondents supported same-sex marriage, while 38% were opposed.

See also

 LGBT rights in Wyoming
Same-sex marriage in the United States

References

External links
 Guzzo v. Mead, United States District Court for the District of Wyoming, October 17, 2014

2014 in LGBT history
2014 in Wyoming
LGBT in Wyoming
Wyoming


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