Ņukši Parish () was an administrative territorial entity of Ludza Municipality, Latvia.

Towns, villages and settlements of Ņukši Parish

References

Parishes of Latvia
Ludza Municipality


Anton Ritter Jaksch von Wartenhorst (10 April 1810, Stráž pod Ralskem – 2 September 1887, Luhov) was an Austrian-Czech physician. He was the father of internist Rudolf von Jaksch (1855–1947).

Biography
He studied medicine at the University of Prague under Julius Vincenz von Krombholz, and at the University of Vienna, where he had as instructors Joseph Škoda, Jakob Kolletschka and Carl von Rokitansky. He earned his doctorate in 1835, afterwards working as an assistant at the second medical clinic in Prague.

From 1842 to 1846 he was a lecturer at the newly established thoracic department at Prague, and in 1846 became director at the second medical clinic. In 1849 he was appointed rector of the university. From 1850 to 1881 he was in charge of the first medical clinic.

Selected publications
 Abhandlung über das perforirende Magengeschwür in diagnostischer und therapeutischer Hinsicht, 1844.
 Ueber die spontane Heilung der Krankheiten der Herzklappen (On the spontaneous cure of diseases of the heart valves).
 Bericht über Duchenne's de Boulogne Faradisation localisée und Claude Bernard nach einem längeren Aufenthalte in Paris 1852 (Report on Duchenne de Boulogne's localized faradisation and on Claude Bernard according to a lengthy stay in Paris in 1852), 1860.
 Über Blutvergiftung durch Hautresorption (About blood poisoning through skin absorption), 1844.
 Einige Mitt. über die Wichtigkeit des Gesichts- und Tastsinnes bei Erforschung der Krankheiten der Respirationsorgane, 1847.
 Klinische Vorträge über die Lehre von der Syphilis innerer Organe (Clinical lectures on the doctrine of syphilis of internal organs), 1864.

References
 Parts of this article are based on a translation of an article on Anton von Jaksch from the German Wikipedia.

1810 births
1887 deaths
People from Stráž pod Ralskem
German Bohemian people
Habsburg Bohemian nobility
19th-century Czech physicians
19th-century Austrian physicians
Academic staff of Charles University


Pasiene Parish () was an administrative unit of the now defunct Ludza District in Latvia. As a result of the 2009 administrative divisions reform of Latvia, Lauderi Parish was absorbed by Zilupe Municipality. Since 1 July 2021, Lauderi Parish is part of Ludza Municipality.

Towns, villages and settlements of Pasiene parish
 Pasiene

References

Ludza Municipality
Parishes of Latvia
Latgale


IrAero is an airline based in Irkutsk, Russia. It operates domestic and international scheduled passenger services, charter and cargo flights. Its main base is in Irkutsk Airport.

History
The airline was established in 1999 in Irkutsk, Russia.

IrAero carries out international flights from Turkey, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Uzbekistan, China to Russia(2023). This company somehow raises money by the Visa and MasterCard systems for its flights. This directly contradicts the principle of the economic sanctions against Russian corruption authority.

Destinations

IrAero operates a dense network of metropolitan and rural domestic destinations within Russia and also serves few routes to neighboring countries.

Fleet

Current fleet
As of July 2022, the IrAero fleet comprises the following aircraft:

Historical fleet
The IrAero fleet previously also included the following aircraft types:
 Antonov An-140
 Boeing 737-800
 Boeing 777-200ER

Accidents
On 8 August 2011 IrAero Flight 103, operated by an Antonov An-24 (RA-46561), overran the runway at Ignatyevo Airport near Blagoveshchensk during landing at the end of a flight from Chita. Nine passengers and three crew of the five crew and 31 passengers on board were injured, but there were no casualties.

References

External links

Airlines of Russia
Airlines established in 1999
Airlines banned in the European Union
Companies based in Irkutsk
1999 establishments in Russia
Russian brands


Pilda Parish () is an administrative unit of Ludza Municipality, Latvia. It is also one of the rare places where people have some knowledge of the Ludza dialect

Towns, villages and settlements of Pilda Parish
Lielie Tjapši

References

Parishes of Latvia
Ludza Municipality


Kristin Cashore (born 1976) is an American young adult and fantasy writer, best known for the Graceling Realm series.

Early life
Cashore grew up in the Pennsylvania countryside, the second of four daughters. She has a bachelor's degree from Williams College. She received her master's degree in Children's Literature from the Center for the Study of Children's Literature at Simmons College in 2003. She has worked as a dog runner, a packer in a candy factory, an editorial assistant, a legal assistant, and a freelance writer. She writes her novels by hand.

Literary career
Her debut novel, Graceling, was published in October 2008. The book was nominated for the Andre Norton and William C. Morris awards and earned a place on the Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year for 2008. Her second book, Fire, was released in October 2009, and is described as being a 'prequel-ish companion book' to Graceling. Fire received the Amelia Elizabeth Walden Book Award.

Bitterblue, the third book of the Graceling Realm series, was released in May 2012. As of 2017, the Graceling Realm series had sold more than 1.5 million copies and been translated into 33 languages.

Cashore's fourth book, Jane, Unlimited, was released in September 2017. Jane, Unlimited is her first published novel that takes a step away from the Graceling Realm, and is told in multiple genres.

Cashore returned to the Graceling Realm series with Winterkeep, which was released in January 2021. Seasparrow, released in November 2022, was the fifth book in the series.

Cashore has also written professionally for textbooks, and teacher editions, as well as for The Horn Book Guide.

Her next book, There Is a Door in this Darkness, is expected to be released on June 4, 2024.

Publications

Graceling Realm series
 Graceling (October 1, 2008)
 Fire (October 5, 2009)
 Bitterblue (May 1, 2012)
 Winterkeep (January 19, 2021)
 Seasparrow (November 1, 2022)

Standalone novels
 Jane, Unlimited (September 19, 2017)

Graphic novels
 Graceling: Graphic Novel (November 16, 2021)

References

External links
Official website

Living people
1976 births
21st-century American novelists
American fantasy writers
American women novelists
Novelists from Pennsylvania
Williams College alumni
Women science fiction and fantasy writers
21st-century American women writers


Pureņi Parish () is an administrative unit of Ludza Municipality, Latvia.

Towns, villages and settlements of Pureņi Parish

References

Parishes of Latvia
Ludza Municipality


Wolfgang Lange (3 July 1938 – 29 October 2022) was an East German sprint canoeist who competed in the 1960s. He won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 1963) a silver (K-2 1000 m: 1963), and two bronzes (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1963, K-4 10000 m: 1966).

Lange also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of seventh in the K-1 1000 m event at Rome in 1960.

References

External links

1938 births
2022 deaths
People from Lübz
Canoeists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Canoeists at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Canoeists at the 1968 Summer Olympics
German male canoeists
Olympic canoeists for East Germany
Olympic canoeists for the United Team of Germany
ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak


Sebastián Pablo Cobelli Larese (Born 20 January 1978 in Rosario) is an Argentine football striker.

Career
Sebastián Cobelli made his debut for Newell's Old Boys on November 28, 1996 in a match against Tiro Federal in Argentina. He played 68 times for Newell's before joining Genoa of Italy.

After short stints with Chamois Niortais F.C. of France and Chongqing Lifan of China he returned to Argentina to play for 2nd division side Belgrano and then Huracán.

Between 2005 and 2008 he played in Greece for Panachaiki, Colombia for Deportivo Pereira and in Chile for Antofagasta and Santiago Morning.

In 2008, he returned to Córdoba to join Talleres.

External links
 BDFA profile
 Sebastián Cobelli on Soccerway

1978 births
Living people
Footballers from Rosario, Santa Fe
Argentine sportspeople of Italian descent
Argentine men's footballers
Argentine expatriate men's footballers
Men's association football forwards
Argentine Primera División players
Categoría Primera A players
Newell's Old Boys footballers
FC Nantes players
FC Luzern players
Chamois Niortais F.C. players
Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic F.C. players
Club Atlético Belgrano footballers
Club Atlético Huracán footballers
Talleres de Córdoba footballers
Genoa CFC players
Santiago Morning footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Switzerland
Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland
Expatriate men's footballers in France
Argentine expatriate sportspeople in France
Expatriate men's footballers in Greece
Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Greece
Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Colombia
Expatriate men's footballers in Colombia
Argentine expatriate sportspeople in China
Expatriate men's footballers in China
Expatriate men's footballers in Chile
Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Chile
Expatriate men's footballers in Italy
Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Italy
Expatriate men's footballers in Peru
Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Peru


Alatri Cathedral, otherwise the Basilica of Saint Paul (; Basilica concattedrale di San Paolo apostolo), is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Alatri, Lazio, Italy, dedicated to Saint Paul. It was formerly the cathedral of the Diocese of Alatri. Since 30 September 1986 it has been a co-cathedral of the Diocese of Anagni-Alatri. Pope Pius XII declared it a basilica minor on 10 September 1950.

History

The cathedral was built on what was once the centre of the acropolis of Alatri over the remains of an ancient shrine of the Hernici and of a temple dedicated to Saturn. References to a cathedral go back to the first half of the 11th century: a cathedral chapter is documented here in 930. Under Pope Innocent II (1130–1143), probably in 1132, the relics of the martyred saint Pope Sixtus I were translated here, and in honour of this the cathedral was refurbished: the main altar was completed in 1156. Further works took place through the 13th century, when in honour of the visit of Pope Honorius III the screen and the ambo, both by the Cosmati, were added, of which some traces still remain in the cathedral today.

During the 16th century the internal walls were painted with frescoes of episodes from the translation of the relics of Saint Sixtus, now hidden by the modernising works of the 17th and 18th centuries which produced the cathedral as it appears today. The present façade and campanile by Jacopo Subleyras were added between 1790 and 1808, and the cornice and the tympanum in 1884. Finally, in 1932 the Chapel of St. Sixtus was built to house the relics of Saint Sixtus, in commemoration of the 800th anniversary of their translation to Alatri.

During his visit to the diocese in 1950, Pope Pius XII granted the cathedral the status of basilica minor.

Description

The façade, in stone and opus latericium, is from the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th. The interior has a Latin cross ground plan, with three aisles separated by pilasters and a raised transept.

As well as the relics of Sixtus I, the cathedral also keeps those of the Roman Saint Alexander from the Catacombs of Callixtus, translated to Alatri in 1640, and the Ostia incarnata, from the Eucharistic miracle of Alatri of 1228. The cathedral's works of art include a copy of Guido Reni's Crucifixion; the face of Saint Sixtus in chased and repoussé silverwork (1584); and the Madonna del suffragio, a sculpted wooden group of figures executed in 1639.

In a chapel are the remains of Blessed Maria Raffaella Cimatti, transferred here on 27 March 2010 from the church of St. Benedict.

Notes

External links

 Cathedral website

Roman Catholic cathedrals in Italy
Alatri


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Pušmucova Parish () is an administrative unit of Ludza Municipality in the Latgale region of Latvia.

Towns, villages and settlements of Pušmucova parish

Parishes of Latvia
Ludza Municipality
Latgale


The SAR supergroup, also just SAR or Harosa, is a clade of Eukaryotes that includes stramenopiles (heterokonts), alveolates, and Rhizaria. The name is an acronym derived from the first letters of each of these clades; it has been alternatively spelled "RAS". The term "Harosa" (at the subkingdom level) has also been used. The SAR supergroup is a node-based taxon. The TSAR clade also includes the Telonemids.

Members of the SAR supergroup were once included under the separate supergroups Chromalveolata (Chromista and Alveolata) and Rhizaria, until phylogenetic studies confirmed that stramenopiles and alveolates diverged with Rhizaria. This apparently excluded haptophytes and cryptomonads, leading  Okamoto et al. (2009) to propose the clade Hacrobia to accommodate them.

A 2021 analysis places Alveolata and Stramenopiles (Heterokonts) in Halvaria, as sister to Rhizaria.

See also
 Amoebozoa
 Archaeplastida
 Excavata
 Opisthokonta

Notes

References


Graceling is a 2008 young adult fantasy novel written by American author Kristin Cashore, her literary debut.

The book earned a place on the Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year for 2008 and received generally favorable reviews. It was followed by a prequel companion book entitled Fire.  A sequel companion, Bitterblue, which takes place eight years after the events in Graceling, was published on May 1, 2012, by Dial, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers Group.

Plot
Graceling takes place in a world in which people with special powers are knowns as Gracelings. Gracelings are identified when their eyes become two different colors. In the Middluns, Gracelings are put in the service of the king. Katsa is a young woman known for her Grace of killing. She has been in the service of her uncle, King Randa, since she was a child, tasked with executing or torturing those who oppose or displease him. She also runs the secret "Council", which aims for justice in the Seven Kingdoms.

A Council mission to save an old Lienid grandfather from a prison unearths a mystery and an unexpected Graced Lienid man whose fighting skills match Katsa's. She renders him unconscious but lets him live, despite the fact that he recognized her. He later arrives at King Randa's court, introduces himself as Prince Greening or "Po", and claims to be seeking his grandfather. Katsa fights Po, but later reveals that they have rescued his grandfather in secret. The two become friends as well as sparring partners, though Katsa feels betrayed when she discovers that Po's Grace is not fighting, but secretly a form of mind reading. When commanded to dole out an unfair punishment, Katsa defies King Randa and sets out with Po to find the true kidnappers of the old Lienid. The two determine that Katsa's Grace is not killing, but survival.

Katsa and Po follow the trail of the kidnappers, and Po's Grace reveals that the revered King Leck of Monsea has committed numerous crimes, though they simultaneously swear that Leck is innocent. Po decides that King Leck, who is one-eyed, must be secretly Graced with the power to make others believe his lies. Katsa and Po set out to rescue Po's Aunt Ashen and her daughter Bitterblue from King Leck. Katsa and Po find Leck, who kills Ashen as she flees. Katsa is overwhelmed by Leck's Graced power and they are forced to flee. Once alone, they are able to find Bitterblue hiding in the forest. Po confronts Leck, but is severely wounded and has to hide in the woods in Monsea, while Katsa and Bitterblue flee through a dangerous and inaccessible mountain pass. Katsa and Bitterblue survive the journey and get to a ship at the port of Suncliff. They convince the ship's captain that they are acting for Prince Po, and make for Po's castle.

At Po's castle, Katsa is shocked to find King Leck has taken over, and is nearly overwhelmed by his Grace. Only Katsa's love for Po enables her to kill Leck when he is about to reveal Po's secret Grace. With Leck dead, his stories are exposed as lies and Katsa and Bitterblue return to Monsea with Bitterblue as queen. They find Po in the woods, but Katsa discovers that Po is blind due to his wounds. Nevertheless, his Grace allows him to sense his surroundings, and he is able to convince the others that he can see. Katsa and Po renew their relationship, and Katsa takes on a mission to teach the girls and women of the seven kingdoms to defend themselves. The lovers promise to reunite in a few months at Po's castle.

Characters

 Lady Katsa - The protagonist. katsa's Grace is initially thought to be killing, because she accidentally killed a cousin who touched her inappropriately when she was eight. Her uncle, King Randa, forced Katsa to torture and kill any who displeased him, causing Katsa to garner a fearful reputation. Katsa and Po eventually realize that her Grace is not killing, but survival. Katsa has fair skin, dark hair and mismatched eyes, one green and one blue.

Prince Po - Full name Greening Grandemalion, son of King Ror, and the youngest of the seven princes of Lienid. Po's Grace involves mind reading as well as spacial awareness, as he can sense both the physical world around him and other's thoughts. However, Po can only read others' thoughts on the topic of Po himself. When his mother and grandfather discovered his Po's Grace, they feared people would distrust him or use him because of it, so they taught him to pass it off as a fighting Grace. His mismatched gold and silver eyes earned him the nickname "Po", after the gold and silver leaves of the Lienid Po tree.

King Leck - The King of Monsea and the primary antagonist of the book. Although he is renowned for his kindness towards small animals and children, Leck is actually a sadist who enjoys torturing and experimenting on people and animals alike. Leck keeps his true inclinations hidden with his powerful Grace: the ability to control people through his words. Leck is married to Ashen, King Ror's sister, and has a daughter with her, Bitterblue. Leck wears an eyepatch, which conveniently hides the fact that he is a Graceling. Leck claims that the eyepatch is due to an injury he suffered at a young age.

Bitterblue - The 10-year-old daughter of King Leck, Princess of Monsea, and Po's cousin. Leck's Grace lost power over Bitterblue when she saw him hit her mother. Over the course of the book she grows close to Katsa and Po, her protectors and friends. She is the main protagonist in the sequel, Bitterblue.

King Randa - King of the Middluns, Katsa's uncle, and Prince Raffin's father. Like most kings in the Seven Kingdoms, he is far from being a fair or just ruler. Randa uses Katsa to bully his citizens into submission, often commanding her to kill or maim innoncent people.

Prince Raffin - The Prince of the Middluns, Katsa's cousin, King Randa's son. Mostly ignored by his father, Raffin enjoys working on medicines and cures, a fascination he shares with his assistant and lover, Bann. He secretly works for the Council.

Bann - Prince Raffin's assistant. It is implied that the two are lovers, which is confirmed in Bitterblue.

Lord Giddon - One of Randa's underlords, and a member of the Council. He wants to marry Katsa and is jealous when Katsa becomes closer to Po.

Lord Oll - Randa's captain and spymaster. He secretly works as a member of the Council. Oll helped Katsa learn how to control her Grace.

Helda - Katsa's maidservant. Helda is also a spy and a member of the Council.

Captain Faun - Ship captain and tradeswoman. She is a Graceling with the ability to predict storms.

Awards and nominations
Graceling was shortlisted for the American Library Association's (ALA) William C. Morris YA Award, is an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, was a Cybils finalist (Fantasy/SF category), and was a finalist for both the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy (the SFWA's award for YA given concurrently with the Nebulas) and the Indies Choice Book Awards (Best Indie Young Adult Buzz Book category). Graceling won the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance 2009 Young Adult SIBA Book Award. The book also was awarded:
 Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year 2008
 School Library Journal Best Books of 2008
 Booklist 2008 Top Ten First Novels for Youth
 A Booklist's Editor's Choice for 2008
 2009 Amelia Bloomer List
 2009 Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award Finalist
Won Mythopoeic Fantasy Award For Children's literature in 2009
 Nominated for 2010 Washington Evergreen Award
 Nominated for 2010-2011 Eliot Rosewater Award
On the Bulletin's Center for Children's Books  2009 Blue Ribbon List
2012 California Young Reader Medal

Reception
Sue Ellen Beauregard, author of "Top 10 first novels for youth on audio" of the Audiobook review, said that it had "[m]any layered fantasy adventures." School Library Journal stated that the characters are "compelling and eminently likeable" and called Cashore's style "exemplary". Kirkus Reviews called Katsa an "ideal adolescent heroine" and said that the story is "Grace-full, in every sense." A New York Times review praised Graceling's "rich fantasy world" and deemed it a story of teens' growing into their talents.

It was announced on April 25, 2013, that the film rights had been acquired by Warner Bros. and would be produced by Reliance Entertainment.

Publication history
 2008, USA, Harcourt , Pub date 1 October 2008, Hardback

References

External links
 Author's blog
 Official website

2008 American novels
American fantasy novels
High fantasy novels
Novels about telepathy
2008 debut novels


Reginald Shepherd (April 10, 1963 – September 10, 2008) was an American poet, born in New York City and raised in the Bronx. He died of cancer in Pensacola, Florida, in 2008.

Biography
Shepherd, African-American and gay, graduated from Bennington College in 1988, and received MFAs from Brown University and the University of Iowa, where he attended the prestigious Iowa Writers Workshop. He subsequently taught at Northern Illinois University and Cornell University. In his last year at the University of Iowa, he received the "Discovery" prize from the 92nd Street Y, and his first collection, Some Are Drowning (1994), was chosen by Carolyn Forché for the Association of Writers & Writing Programs' Award in Poetry.

His other collections include: Red Clay Weather (2011); Fata Morgana (2007), winner of the Silver Medal of the 2007 Florida Book Awards; Otherhood (2003), a finalist for the 2004 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize; Wrong (1999); and Angel, Interrupted (1996).

He is also the author of A Martian Muse: Further Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry (published posthumously in 2010), Orpheus in the Bronx: Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry (2007) and the editor of The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries (2004) and of Lyric Postmodernisms (2008).

His work has been widely anthologized, including in four editions of The Best American Poetry and two Pushcart Prize anthologies. His honors and awards include grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Illinois Arts Council, the Florida Arts Council, and the Guggenheim Foundation. His 2008 book of essays, Orpheus in the Bronx, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism.

Books

Poetry
Some Are Drowning (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994)
Angel, Interrupted (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996)
Wrong (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999)
Otherhood (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003)
Fata Morgana (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007)
Red Clay Weather (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011)

Criticism
A Martian Muse: Further Readings on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry (Poets on Poetry Series, University of Michigan Press, 2010)
Orpheus in the Bronx: Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry (Poets on Poetry Series, University of Michigan Press, 2008)

Anthologies
The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries (University of Iowa Press, 2004)
Lyric Postmodernisms (Counterpath Press, 2008)

Letters
Song After All: Letters of Reginald Shepherd and Alan Contreras (CraneDance Publications, 2013)

References

External links
 Shepherd's blog

1963 births
2008 deaths
American male poets
Bennington College alumni
Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni
African-American poets
African-American LGBT people
American LGBT poets
American gay writers
20th-century American poets
20th-century American male writers
20th-century African-American writers
21st-century African-American people
20th-century American LGBT people
African-American male writers
Gay poets


Stefanie Noelle Scott (born December 6, 1996) is an American actress and singer. Scott began acting with the comedy film Beethoven's Big Break (2008), and thereafter released her debut extended play New Girl in Town (2009). This was followed by a supporting role in the romance film Flipped (2010), which won her a Young Artist Award. She played the role of Lexi Reed on Disney Channel's A.N.T. Farm (2011–2014), which won her a second Young Artist Award and introduced her to a wider audience. While on Disney, she recorded a number of Disney Channel promotional singles, which were released between 2008 and 2012.

Scott made her foray into mainstream film and television with a voice role in the animated film Wreck-It Ralph (2012), for which she won a BTVA Award. She then played the leading role of Quinn Brenner in the horror film Insidious: Chapter 3 (2015)—her highest-grossing film—and co-starred in the musical film Jem and the Holograms (2015), for which she additionally contributed to its soundtrack. Her subsequent film roles have consisted of independent features, such as the neo-noir Small Town Crime (2017), the biopic Beautiful Boy (2018), the high-school drama Good Girls Get High (2018) and the thriller Mary (2019). She currently leads the Peacock original series The Girl in the Woods (2021).

Early life
Scott was born in Chicago, Illinois and has two older brothers. She lived in Indialantic, Florida and attended Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy, before becoming home schooled in 2010.

Career

2008–2012: Early work and Disney stardom

Scott was first a California Discovery Girl in the 2009 August/September issue of Discovery Girls magazine. She appeared in the role of Katie in Beethoven's Big Break. She appeared in the feature film Flipped directed by Rob Reiner as well as in the film titled No Strings Attached where she played a young version of the main character.

Scott was the voice of Emma on the Disney animated TV series Special Agent Oso premiering in April 2009 on Disney Channel. Scott had a guest-starring role in the Fox series Sons of Tucson as well as on NBC series Chuck playing the 12-year-old Sarah Walker. Scott released her second song entitled, "Shoulda Woulda Coulda".

In 2011 she starred in the Disney Channel Original Series A.N.T. Farm as one of the main characters, Lexi Reed. She also served as second assistant director in the show's first season. Scott released a song entitled, "Girl I Used to Know" in the same year. The official music video for the song premiered on October 26, the music video features an appearance by Orlando based band Before You Exit portraying as her band.

2013–present: Mainstream film and television
In 2013 Scott was a guest star on the fifteenth season of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Clare Wilson. Scott provided the voice of Moppet Girl in Wreck-It Ralph. Scott also guest-starred on the Disney Channel show Jessie, as Maybelle. From 2013, Scott has sponsored girls through Shoeboxes for Haiti, and is a cookie ambassador with the organization Cookies for Kids Cancer.

In 2014, Scott began to film four films, Insidious: Chapter 3 (released in June 2015), Jem and the Holograms, 1 Mile to You, and Caught. Caught was screened at the premiere of the 2015 Los Angeles Film Festival on June 12, 2015. Also in 2015, Scott appeared in Hayley Kiyoko's music video for "Girls Like Girls". In 2015, Scott appeared as the daughter of Pierce Brosnan and Anna Friel, in crime thriller film I.T. (2016), directed by John Moore.

In August 2016, it was announced that Scott would play the lead role in the independent sci-fi feature film At First Light (2018), directed by Jason Stone. In February 2021, Scott appeared as the main character Sara Cody in the Lifetime movie Girl In The Basement, based on the infamous Fritzl kidnapping case. In May 2021, she played the lead as Carrie in the Crypt TV supernatural drama series The Girl in the Woods.

Filmography

Film

Television

Music videos

Discography

Extended plays

Singles

Promotional singles

Other appearances

Music videos

Awards and nominations

References

External links

1996 births
Living people
21st-century American actresses
Actresses from Chicago
Actresses from Florida
American film actresses
American television actresses
Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy alumni
People from Indialantic, Florida
21st-century American singers
21st-century American women singers


Rafael Muñoz may refer to:

 Rafael Muñoz (swimmer) (born 1988), Spanish swimmer
 Rafael Muñoz (journalist) (1899–1972), Mexican journalist and writer
 Rafael Muñoz (musician) (died 1961), Puerto Rican big band director
 Rafael Muñoz Núñez (1925–2010), bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Aguascalientes, Mexico
 Rafael Calderón Muñoz (1869–1943), Costa Rican politician
 Rafa Muñoz (born 1966), Spanish retired footballer and manager


Brady Boyd (Born January 11, 1967, Logansport, Louisiana) is the senior pastor of New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Boyd finished Simsboro High School in 1985 and graduated from Louisiana Tech University in 1989 with a degree in journalism. He has worked as a high school English teacher, basketball coach and sports broadcaster. Boyd has been married to Pam Boyd since August 12, 1989, and has two children: Abram, born in 1998, and Callie, born 2000. He was a lay leader at Trinity Fellowship in Amarillo, Texas from 1997 to 1998 and the senior pastor of Trinity Fellowship Church in Hereford, Texas from 1998 to 2001. In March 2001, he became associate senior pastor at Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas under Pastor Robert Morris. He became the senior pastor of New Life Church in August 2007, after the resignation of Ted Haggard, where he continues to lead today.

Books
 Oceans of Grace: A Year of Devotions Celebrating 15 Years of God's Goodness (2022) ISBN 979-8840477373
 Extravagant: Discovering a Life of Dangerous Generosity (2020) ISBN 1-9821-0140-7
Remarkable: Living a Faith Worth Talking About (2019)
Speak Life (2016)
 Addicted to Busy (2014)
 Let Her Lead (2013)
 Sons and Daughters: Spiritual Orphans Finding Our Way Home (2012)
 Fear No Evil (2011)

References

External links
 Official Website of New Life Church
 denverpost.com
 denverpost.com

1967 births
Living people
American evangelicals
American evangelists
Louisiana Tech University alumni
People from Logansport, Louisiana


In the United Kingdom, the term military police refers to the three branches of service police, responsible for policing armed forces personnel. The Royal Military Police polices the British Army, the Royal Navy Police polices the Royal Navy, and the Royal Air Force Police polices the Royal Air Force.

There are also a number of civilian police forces whose role is to police parts of the Defence Estate, in the UK and overseas, such as the Ministry of Defence Police, but such forces are not considered military police.

Service police

In the UK, service police are the formations of the British Armed Forces responsible for policing armed forces personnel. Each of the services has its own service police branch, a standalone unit responsible for policing, close protection of VIPs and, in the case of the Royal Military Police and Royal Air Force Police, other matters such as traffic control.

 The Royal Navy is policed by the Royal Navy Police, members of which are traditionally referred to as Regulators (or Master-at-Arms if a Chief Petty Officer or Warrant Officer). The Royal Navy Police also has Royal Marines specialising as Service Policemen. Prior to 2009, the Royal Marines Police was an independent organisation within the Corps of Royal Marines.
 The British Army is policed by the Royal Military Police.
 The Royal Air Force is policed by the Royal Air Force Police who are responsible not only for the policing of service personnel, but also a number of specialist security roles such as physical security, cybersecurity and information security.

The Special Investigation Branch is the name given to the detective branches of all three Service police arms: the Royal Navy Police, Royal Military Police and Royal Air Force Police. In December 2022 the separate SIBs were amalgamated into a single joint service unit called Defence Serious Crime Unit (DSCU).

Civilian police forces

There are several civil police forces responsible to the Ministry of Defence. They each have specific roles and are staffed by police officers who are not part of the armed forces and have the powers of a constable.

The Ministry of Defence Police is the UK-based civilian police force of the Ministry of Defence. It is responsible for providing police, investigative and guarding services to Ministry of Defence property, personnel, and the Defence estate throughout the United Kingdom.
The Sovereign Base Areas Police provide policing services for both the Eastern and Western Sovereign Base Areas of Cyprus.
The Gibraltar Defence Police provide policing services on Ministry of Defence land and waters in Gibraltar.

See also
 Military police vehicle#United Kingdom

References


Hotel Post was a service offered by remote Swiss hotels for the carriage of mail to the nearest official post office.

Origins

In the nineteenth century, Switzerland developed an important tourist industry. Some hotels in remote areas that were not serviced by the Swiss Post Office offered a service to guests of carrying their mail to the nearest official post office for a fee paid by the purchase of a specially printed stamp. The first hotel stamp was issued by Rigi Kaltbad in 1864, followed by hotels at Rigi Scheideck, Belalp, Kurort Stoos, Maderanerthal and Rigi Kulm.

Last usage in Switzerland

These services became unnecessary as the Swiss railway was extended and a normal postal service introduced. After 20 September 1883, all remaining services were prohibited by the Swiss government.

Use in other countries

Hotels in several other countries have issued stamps including in Austria, Hungary, Egypt (Shepheard's Hotel, Cairo), Japan (The Imperial Hotel, Tokyo), Romania and Singapore (Raffles Hotel). In Hungary stamps were issued at Carpathian resorts for Kurhaus auf der Hohen Rinne between 1895 and 1926, Magura in 1903 and 1911, and Bistra in 1909 to 1912. These resorts were part of Rumania after World War One. In Austria stamps were issued for Kesselfall-Alpenhaus and Moserboden between 1927 and 1938 and Katschberghohe in 1933-38. Stamps were also issued at a hotel in the Kulmi Mountain region of Liechtenstein.

Classification

Hotel stamps are regarded as local or cinderella stamps.

References

Further reading

Switzerland
 Kottelat, Marcel. Studie über die schweizerische Hotelpost 1864-1900. Bern: Zumstein & Cie/Inhaber Hertsch & Co., 1995.
 Leemann, Hans. Die schweizerische Hotelpost. Basel: Sandoz A.G., 1960. Also published in French and English.
 Leutwyler, Hans. Die schweizerische Hotelpost und der Hôtel-Telegraphen- und Telephondienst im 19. Jahrhundert. Bern: H. Leutwyler, 1962.

Hungary and Romania
 Dragoteanu, Mircea. Hotel Posts of Transylvania. Cluj-Napoca: The Author, 2010 398p.
 Dragoteanu, Mircea. Istoria postelor locale transilvane: Paltinis (Hohe Rinne), Bistra, Magura. Cluj-Napoca: The Author, 1998 , 192p.
 Ettre, Leslie S. Hotel Post of the Siebenburgischer Karpathenverein Hohe Rinne and Bistra. Norwalk, CT: Society for Hungarian Philately, 1977, 32p.
 Williams, L.N. and M. Hotel posts of Hungary & Roumania: being a handbook & catalogue of the private local stamps of Hohe Rinne, Magura, and Bistra. London: L.N. Williams, 1962.

External links
 Image of a stamp issued by the Hotel du Mont Prosa, St. Gotthard.
 Further examples of Swiss Hotel Post stamps
 United States Hotel Sherman poster stamps.
 Hotel Posts of Transylvania: Doctoral Thesis

Philatelic terminology
Cinderella stamps
Philately of Switzerland


The ancient Egyptian Hill-country or "Foreign land" hieroglyph (𓈉) is a member of the sky, earth, and water hieroglyphs. A form of the hieroglyph in color, has a green line-(banding) at the base of the hieroglyph. The hieroglyph refers to the hills, and mountains, on both sides of the Nile River, and thus the green references the verdant black farming land adjacent to the river proper. It is coded N25 in Gardiner's sign list, and U+13209 in Unicode. It is a determinative hieroglyph, simply conveying a meaning, and has no phonetic value.

Various colors, and patterning, may adorn the rest of the hieroglyph when the bottom is green.

Three major uses

The ancient language hilly land hieroglyph has three major uses:

1 – hill country, or hills
2 – a reference to arid, desert land
3 – Determinative, for foreign lands

The language meaning of the hieroglyph is as an ideogram or a determinative in the word khast (khaset), and is often translated as hilly land, desert, foreign land, or district.

Use as determinative

One major use of the hill-country hieroglyph is as the determinative for land, but especially the names of foreign lands. For example in the Merneptah Stele, foreign lands are mentioned, including the name of Hatti.

Partial list with land determinative
List of uses of the foreign land determinative:
 Ashkelon
 Canaan
 Hatti
 Retjenu
 Parthia 𓊪𓃭𓍘𓇋𓍯𓈉, p-rw-t-i-wꜣ
 Kingdom of Kush 𓎡𓄿𓈙𓈉, kꜣš

The Nine bows (foreigners or rebels)

One spelling of the foreign peoples, the Nine bows, is represented by the Hill country hieroglyph, "t", and nine single strokes. The nine foreign lands used for the Nine Bows are also iconographically shown inside of cartouches, with their names. The cartouches are the 'bodies' of the "prisoner", or "captive", arms tied behind the back, the name of the land/city inside the cartouche.

See also

Gardiner's Sign List#N. Sky, Earth, Water
List of Egyptian hieroglyphs

References

Betrò, Maria Carmela.  Hieroglyphics: The Writings of Ancient Egypt, c. 1995, 1996-(English), Abbeville Press Publishers, New York, London, Paris (hardcover, )
Budge.  An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary, E.A.Wallace Budge, (Dover Publications), c 1978, (c 1920), Dover edition, 1978. (In two volumes) (softcover, )

Egyptian hieroglyphs: sky-earth-water


Ori Biton (; born 2 October 1987) is an Israeli professional footballer who plays for Maccabi Tel Aviv.

Honours
Maccabi Tel Aviv
 Israeli Noar Leumit League: 2004–05

References

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Living people
Israeli Jews
Israeli men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
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Hapoel Ra'anana A.F.C. players
Hapoel Marmorek F.C. players
Maccabiah Games medalists in football
Maccabiah Games gold medalists for Israel
Israeli people of Moroccan-Jewish descent
Israeli Premier League players
Liga Leumit players


Dmitry Ivanovich Mushketov (;  – 18 February 1938) was a Russian Empire and Soviet geologist and paleontologist, one of the victims of the Great Terror.

Biography
Dmitry Mushketov was born in Saint Petersburg to the family of Ivan Vasilyevich Mushketov, a famous explorer and professor at the Mining Institute, and Ekaterina Pavlovna Mushketova.

His early education by his mother gave him a fluency in German, French, and English, which allowed him later in life to travel to Western Europe, to correspond with foreign specialists, and to represent Soviet geology abroad. He entered the Mining Institute in 1899 and graduated with honours in 1907.

In 1905 he was awarded Minor Silver Medal of the Russian Geographical Society.

He attained Master of Science degree in  1915 and awarded honorary Doctorate in Geology and Mineralogy from the Mining Institute, 1936.

D. I. Mushketov's geological interests were very wide including the worldwide study of tectonics and seismology, but he concentrated his work in Central Asia, covering also the fields of stratigraphy, geomorphology, glaciers, and mineral resources. His scholarly output was prodigious, with "more than 50 scientific works, several textbooks and manuals included, before 1926". Between 1909 and 1916 he carried out the geological survey of eastern Fergana which contributed to the geological map of Central Asia. His name is particularly well known for the high-quality revisions and additions that he made to each edition of the textbook on physical geology that was originally written by his father (published in 1888–91).

In 1918 he was appointed director of the Mining Institute and was director of the  in 1926–1929.

He participated in International Geological Congress abroad in 1922 (XIII, Belgium), 1926 (XIV, Spain), and  1929 (XV, South Africa). In addition, he was entrusted with making a bid for the International Geological Congress (XVI) to take place in the USSR in 1933 and was Chairman of the Organizing Committee for the Third All-Russia Geological Congress in Tashkent, 1928.

Repression

In 1933 he was forbidden to attend the International Geological Congress (XVI, USA), 1933. The Soviet delegation to the congress was led instead by Ivan Gubkin.

On June 29, 1937, Mushketov was arrested upon a falsified accusation, a month before the International Geological Congress  (XVII, Moscow, July 21, 1937). In response to an official request for information filed by the Commission on Geological Study of the USSR March 29, 1962, the following information was provided by the Military Board of the USSR Supreme Court, May 31, 1962:

D. I. Mushketov was sentenced to death and executed on February 18, 1938.
He was fully exonerated (rehabilitated), posthumously, on December 8, 1956.

Several colleagues were executed on the same day in Leningrad: Nikolay Bobkov, Vsevolod Cherkesov, and G. N. Frederiks.

References

Further reading
Yu. Ya. Solov'ev (2001) " 'Only the Ministry of Internal Affairs Knows the Date of His Death ...'. Dmitrii Ivanovich Mushketov (1882–1938)," Voprosy istorii Estestvoznaniya i Tekhniki (Problems of the History of Natural Sciences and Technology), 2:75–92.

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Great Purge victims from Russia
Recipients of the Order of Saint Stanislaus (Russian), 3rd class
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Explorers from the Russian Empire
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Saint Petersburg Mining University alumni
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Yosmani Piker (born 26 April 1987 in Havana) is a male judoka from Cuba, who won the silver medal in the extra lightweight division (–60 kg) at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He represented his native country at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, PR China.

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Sir Edward Rogers ( – 3 May 1568) was an English gentleman who served as an Officer of State in various capacities during the Tudor period.  He rose to become Comptroller and Vice-Chamberlain of the Household to Elizabeth I of England from 1560 to 1568.

Life
Edward Rogers was born in about 1498, the son of George Rogers of Langport (d. 1524) and his wife Elizabeth.  Before 1528, he married Mary Lisle, daughter and co-heiress of Sir John Lisle of the Isle of Wight. They had three daughters and a son:
 George, his father's heir and executor (d. 1582)
 Jane, married Thomas Throckmorton
 Anne, married Thomas Harmon
 Mary, married John Chettel

Royal service
Rogers was made Esquire of the Body to Henry VIII before 1534. At the Dissolution of the Monasteries, he was granted the former nunnery at Cannington in Somerset, which became the family seat. He was a Justice of the Peace for Dorset and Somerset and was elected a Member of Parliament for Tavistock in 1547, the year of Henry VIII's death.

Rogers had quarreled with the powerful Seymour family, but at the fall of the Lord Protector in 1549 he once again advanced at court.  He was knighted at the coronation of Edward VI in 1549 and served Edward as one of his four principal gentlemen of the privy chamber.  As a member of Edward's council he witnessed the will appointing Lady Jane Grey as Edward's heir to the throne of England.

He was knight of the shire for Somerset throughout most of Queen Mary's reign (1553, 1558, 1559 and 1563). A staunch Protestant, Rogers opposed Mary's restoration of Catholicism, and was imprisoned in the Tower of London in 1554. He was released in January 1555 and pardoned in July on payment of £1,000 to keep the peace.

On her accession in 1558, Queen Elizabeth appointed him Vice-Chamberlain, Captain of the Guard, and Privy Councillor on the recommendation of his old friend Sir Nicholas Throckmorton. He was appointed to succeed Sir Thomas Parry as Comptroller when Parry was named Lord Treasurer in 1560. Rogers held the office of Comptroller until his death in 1568.

Rogers' granddaughter, Mary Rogers, married Queen Elizabeth I's godson Sir John Harington on 6 September 1583.

Notes

References
History of Parliament ROGERS, Sir Edward (1498/1502-68) of Cannington, Somerset

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Nijoni is a village and jamoat in north-western Tajikistan. It is part of the city of Istaravshan in Sughd Region. The jamoat has a total population of 10,350 (2015).

References

Populated places in Sughd Region
Jamoats of Tajikistan


Sabriston (, formerly: Frunze) is a jamoat in north-western Tajikistan. It is part of the city of Istaravshan in Sughd Region. The jamoat has a total population of 16,822 (2015). It consists of 3 villages: Rugund (the seat), Vogat and Yakkatol.

References

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Govind Swarup (March 23, 1929 – September 7, 2020) was a pioneer in radio astronomy.  In addition to research contributions in multiple areas of astronomy and astrophysics, he was a driving force behind the building of "ingenious, innovative and powerful observational facilities for front-line research in radio astronomy".

Swarup was the key scientist behind concept, design and installation of the Ooty Radio Telescope (Ootacamund, India) and the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) near Pune.
Swarup was the founding director of the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA) at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR).
Under his leadership, a strong group in radio astrophysics was built at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research that is comparable to the best in the world.

He published over 125 research papers, edited 4 books, and held at least two patents. He contributed to the fields of solar radio emission, radio galaxies, quasars, pulsars, interplanetary scintillation,  dark matter and cosmology.

Early life and education
Govind Swarup was born in the town of Thakurdwara in Uttar Pradesh in 1929. He attended  Allahabad University, where he received his BSc degree (1948) and MSc in Physics (1950).

Swarup spent several years at the  National Physical Laboratory in Delhi with K. S. Krishnan (1950–53), measuring the spin resonance of electrons. Because there was interest in the newly developing field of radio astronomy, arrangements were made to send Swarup and another student to the  Radio Physics Division of CSIRO, in Sydney, Australia, to work with Joseph Pawsey and learn to build radio arrays for studying the sun. In March 1953 Swarup arrived at Potts Hill in New South Wales on a 2-year fellowship. He worked closely with Pawsey, Wilbur Norman Christiansen, John Gatenby Bolton, Bernard Mills and others.
Swarup was also able to arrange for parts from a discarded 32-element array to be sent from Australia to the National Laboratory in India.  He returned to the National Laborary from 1955–56.

When the array parts were seriously delayed, Swarup went to the United States.  He worked as a research associate at the Radio Astronomy Station of Harvard University at Fort Davis, Texas (1956–57).  He then became a research assistant at Stanford University (1957–60) in California, completing his doctoral thesis with Ron Bracewell.
Swarup  received his PhD from Stanford University in 1961 and became an assistant professor at Stanford University (1961–63).

Swarup was later awarded a number of honorary degrees:  Doctor of Engineering, University of Roorkee in 1987 and Doctor of Science, Banaras Hindu University in 1996.  He was also given an honorary Doctor of Science by  Pandit Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur in 2010.

Career
Returning from Stanford to India in March 1963, Swarup joined TIFR as a reader at the request of Dr. Homi Bhabha. In 1965, he became associate professor, professor in 1970, and professor of eminence in 1989. He became project director of the GMRT in 1987, centre director of the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA) of TIFR in 1993 and retired from TIFR in 1994.

Major contributions

CSIRO and Harvard
While at CSIRO, Swarup and R. Parthasarathy converted Potts Hill's L-shaped grating radio interferometer telescope to an operating wavelength of 500 MHz. They used it to make daily observations and developed a one-dimensional map of the Quiet Sun.
While at the Harvard College Observatory Swarup  discovered 'Type U' solar radio bursts.

Stanford
At Stanford Swarup continued to make studies of radio emissions from the Quiet Sun and developed a gyro-radiation model of solar emissions of  microwave radiation.  He explained the emission mechanism of sunspots in terms of  gyroresonance processes.

In 1959, Swarup developed a technique for the round-trip transmission of phase measurements that enabled the phase equalization of all 32 antennas in an array to be carried out in minutes rather than weeks. Published in 1961, this technique has been used in radio interferometers world-wide.

In 1962 Swarup used the Stanford compound-grating interferometer to examine Cygnus A.  Previous researchers had shown that the radio galaxy contained two distinct radio lobes.  In 1963 Swarup reported the presence of a continuous  "bridge"  of radio emissions between the two lobes, the first instance of a steep spectrum bridge. Such bridges are used to estimate the age of a radio galaxy.

Kalyan Radio Telescope
Returning to India on April 2, 1963, Swarup began to assemble a group at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research near Mumbai.  With the antennae from Potts Hill, they constructed the Kalyan Radio Telescope, the first radio telescope array in India. Located at Kalyan, near Mumbai, India, it was completed in 1965.

Ooty Radio Telescope (ORT)
Swarup's next major installation was the Ooty Radio Telescope (ORT) at Ooty in South India.  It became operational in 1970, first observing a lunar occultation event on February 18, 1970.  The design was "unique and innovative", "the first large equatorial cylindrical parabolic radio telescope with steerability in both directions".  530 m long 30 m wide, it was located at an incline on a hill so that it would have a long axis of rotation parallel to the axis of the earth.  The design made it possible to track the hour angle of celestial radio sources for 9.5 hrs.

ORT has been used for a  number of important observations. Using lunar occultation, it provided independent evidence for the Big Bang model.
Occultation observations of Sagittarius A* at the Galactic Center of the Milky Way galaxy supported the separation of its emissions into two dimensions, thermal and non-thermal.  After fifty years, ORT continues to be used to observe solar winds, coronal mass ejections, and pulsars.

In 1979, Swarup went on sabbatical at the Very Large Array (VLA) in New Mexico, where studied jets and hot spots.
During the 1980s, he studied the polarization of radio cores of galaxies and quasars.

Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT)
Beginning in 1985, Swarup began construction of the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT), at Khodad near Pune.  The telescope was completed in 1997. Inspired by the Very Large Array, and the Arecibo Telescope,  GMRT contains 30 steerable parabolic dishes, each of them 45m in diameter, arranged in a Y-shape array over a 25 km area.
Using a novel SMART (Stretched Mesh Attached to Rope Trusses) design concept, GMRT is highly versatile. It is the world's largest radio telescope for the detection of frequencies in the range of 130–1430 MHz and has been used by researchers from over 40 countries.  GMRT was recognized as a key historical achievement in electrical and electronic engineering and given IEEE Milestone status in 2020.

One of the concerns behind the development of the GMRT was the question of dark matter and the nature of the universe. A sensitive radio telescope at an appropriate frequency (327 MHz) was needed to test predictions about whether the universe contained hot dark matter (HDM) or cold dark matter (CDM).

Swarup has used the GMRT to observe the emission and absorption of atomic hydrogen from objects in the early Universe, examine the cosmic cold spot, and study radio emissions from Venus.

Awards and memberships of technological committees

Membership of professional societies:
Royal Society, London;
Royal Astronomical Society, London;
Indian Academy of Sciences;
Indian National Science Academy;
National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad, India;
Third World Academy of Sciences;
Indian Geophysical Union;
Maharashtra Academy of Sciences;
Institution of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineers;
Indian Physics Association;
Indian Physical Society;
International Academy of Astronautics;
Pontifical Academy of Sciences;

Positions held:
Astronomical Society of India (President 1975–77);
International Astronomical Union (IAU) (President, Commission 40 on Radio Astronomy, 1979–82);
Executive Committee, Inter Union Commission for Frequency Allocation (IUCAF till 1995);
IAU Working Group for Future Large Scale Facilities (1994–2000);
Chairman, Indian National Committee for International Union of Radio Science (URSI) (1986–88 & 1995–97);
Post-detection Sub-Committee of SETI of International Astronautical Federation (Chairman, 1994–98);
Chairman, URSI Committee for Developing Countries (1996–2002);
URSI Standing Committee for Future General Assemblies (1999–2002).
Editorial Boards, Indian Journal of Radio & Space Physics (1990–2000),
National Academy of Sciences, India; (1997–2000).

Awards:
1973 Padma Shri;
1972 S.S. Bhatnagar, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, India;
1974 Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship for 2 years;
1984 P.C. Mahalanobis Medal, Indian National Science Academy;
1986 Biren Roy Trust Medal, Indian Physical Society, Calcutta;
1987 Dr. Vainu Bappu Memorial Award, Indian National Science Academy;
1987 Tskolovosky Medal, Federation of Cosmonautics, USSR;
1987 Meghnad Saha Medal, National Academy of Sciences, India;
1988 TWAS Prize in Physics;
1990 John Howard Dellinger Gold Medal, International Union of Radio Sciences;
1990 R.D. Birla Award in Physics, Indian Physics Association;
1991 FIE Foundation Award for Eminence in Science & Technology, Ichhalkaranji, India;
1993 Gujar Mal Modi Science Award, Modi Foundation, India;
1993 The C.V. Raman Medal, Indian National Science Academy;
1994 Sir Devaprasad Sarbadhikari Medal, Calcutta University;
1995 M.P. Birla Award, Birla Institute of Astronomy and Planetarium Sciences, Calcutta;
1999 12th Khwarizmi International Award, Iran;
2001 H.K. Firodia Award;
2005 Herschel Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society;
2006, Lifetime Achievement Award by the University of Pune;
2007 Grote Reber Medal;
2007 Presidents Medal by the Indian Science Congress;
2009 Homi Bhabha Award for Lifetime Achievement by the Prime minister of India.

Personal life
Prof. Govind Swarup was married to Bina Swarup and resided in Pune, India. He had one daughter and one son. His daughter Anju Basu is married to Rajiv Basu and his son, Vipin Swarup is married to Natasha Swarup.

Swarup had an elder brother in Kanpur, Mahesh Swarup Agarwal, who was an industrialist.

References

External links

 Swarup, Govind. Stanford Microwave Spectroheliograms, United States Airforce: Radioscience Laboratory, Stanford Electronics Laboratories, Stanford University, 1960.

Radio astronomers
Members of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences
Stanford University alumni
Recipients of the Padma Shri in science & engineering
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Jawaharlal Nehru Fellows
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Zarhalol (), formerly known as Kommunizm (), is a jamoat in north-western Tajikistan. It is part of the city of Istaravshan in Sughd Region. The jamoat has a total population of 30,683 (2015). It consists of 12 villages, including Istaravshan (the seat), Navkat and Oboddara.

References

Populated places in Sughd Region
Jamoats of Tajikistan


Guli Surkh () is a jamoat in north-western Tajikistan. It is part of the city of Istaravshan in Sughd Region. The jamoat has a total population of 42,582 (2015). It consists of 15 villages, including Guliston (the seat), Bobotago, Bodomzor (formerly: Tapkok) and Bogikalon.

References

Populated places in Sughd Region
Jamoats of Tajikistan


Poshkent (Russian and Tajik: Пошкент) is a village and jamoat in north-western Tajikistan. It is part of the city of Istaravshan in Sughd Region. The jamoat has a total population of 19,746 (2015).

Notes

References

 Populated places in Sughd Region
 Jamoats of Tajikistan


The 2009 FIU Golden Panthers football team represented Florida International University in the 2008 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team was coached by Mario Cristobal and played their homes games at the on-campus FIU Stadium. The Golden Panthers finished the season 3–9 and 3–5 in the Sun Belt Conference.

Schedule

Game summaries

Alabama

Rutgers

Toledo

Louisiana-Monroe

Western Kentucky

Troy

Arkansas State

Louisiana-Lafayette

Middle Tennessee

North Texas

Florida

Florida Atlantic

Coaching staff

References

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Qal'achai Kalon (; ), formerly known as Kommunizm (), is a village and jamoat in north-western Tajikistan. It is part of the city of Istaravshan in Sughd Region. The jamoat has a total population of 15,433 (2015).

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Sir William Jackson, 1st Baronet (28 April 1805 – 31 January 1876) was an English industrialist, railway entrepreneur and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1847 and 1868.

Early life
Jackson was the 7th son of Peter Jackson of Warrington and his wife Sarah Mather.  His father was a surgeon, man-midwife and pharmacist and a respected member of the business community of Warrington, but died in 1811 leaving his large family impoverished. Peter Jackson had been the seventh son of an enterprising Middlewich businessman, James Jackson and his wife Martha Pickmore. The family, hailing from Cheshire, was  originally called Oulton, but became 'Jackson' through marriage with a woman of property in the 17th century. Jackson's mother was  descended from the Mathers of Lowton whose family included Cotton Mather and Richard Mather.

Business career
Jackson was sent to work at an ironmongers in Ranelagh Street in Birkenhead before he was twelve. There he had the chance to read and develop his own education, as well as buying up the shop when the business went bankrupt. The shop was only a few doors away from the home of the artist William Daniels. Jackson became a generous patron of art in Birkenhead and originated the associate of artists. Jackson became an African merchant trading in palm oil and made his first fortune by 1832. He played a major part in the development of Birkenhead and was one of the principal originators of the Birkenhead Docks. He was chairman of Birkenhead Improvement commissioners from 1842 to 1846 and invited Joseph Paxton to Birkenhead to design a park. Jackson's marriage to Elizabeth Hughes in 1828 was instrumental in his early fortunes as his father-in law, Thomas Hughes owned the Woodside Ferry and had various industrial interests in the locality. He and his older brother, John Somerville Jackson, went into partnership and gradually  bought up land in and around Birkenhead. his interests in the locality led him into partnership with the celebrated Thomas Brassey, and with the financial help of Frederick Huth, the partnership of Jackson, Brassey, Peto and Betts was born. More of an ideas man than an engineer, Jackson was the salesman of the partnership. This created friction but made Jackson another fortune. His interests diverged to Newspapers ( he was heavily involved in the London press at one time, collieries ( he went into partnership with Robert Stephenson on his project at Claycross in Derbyshire) and heavy industry (metal and locomotives, as well as into politics.

Political career
At the 1847 general election Jackson was elected as one of the two Members of Parliament (MPs) for Newcastle-under-Lyme. He held the seat at three further elections, until 1865. At the 1865 general election he was returned unopposed as one of the two MPs for the Northern division of Derbyshire. However he was defeated in North Derbyshire at the 1868 general election, and did not stand again.

He was a parliamentary reformer and an uncompromising advocate of free trade. He was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for Cheshire in 1852 and was created baronet of the Manor House, Birkenhead in 1869 - he had been offered a peerage but had refused it (Hansards).

Later life
Jackson remained a good friend of Joseph Paxton and eventually became the sole proprietor of the Clay Cross Company, a company held by his family until 1966. He was once described as the ' richest commoner of England' although he only left £700,000 in his will as he had divested himself of many of his assets beforehand, settling estates and giving large sums to his large family. He also left £50 to his great friend John Bright to drink to his health!
Jackson had ships sailing on almost every sea, and held commercial relations with nearly every country on the globe. He was in partnership with Thomas Brassey in building the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada in 1852 and was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

Jackson died aged 70 and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son Henry Mather Jackson. He was buried at Flaybrick Hill Cemetery in Birkenhead.

Personal life and descendants
Jackson married Elizabeth Hughes, daughter of Thomas Hughes, on 30 October 1829. Their third son, Thomas Hughes Jackson, also continued in enterprise.

They had ten children:
Elizabeth Jackson (1830–)
Sir Henry Mather Jackson, 2nd Baronet (1831–1881)
William Jackson (1832–1906)
Rt. Hon. Thomas Hughes Jackson (1834–1930)
Hamilton Jackson (1837–1846)
Caroline Jackson (1840–)
Edward Patton Jackson (1842–1881)
John Peter Jackson (1843–1899)
Edith Jane Jackson (1846–1869)
Miriam Bertha Jackson (1852–)

A descendant, via William Jackson (1832–1906), was the Formula One racing driver James Hunt.

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Javkandak is a village and jamoat in north-western Tajikistan. It is part of the city of Istaravshan in Sughd Region. The jamoat has a total population of 10,200 (2015).

References

Populated places in Sughd Region
Jamoats of Tajikistan


The Catholic University of Mozambique (, UCM) is a university in Mozambique.

The university was founded on August 10, 1996, by the Mozambican conference of Bishops. At the time, higher education in Mozambique was only available in the capital, Maputo. The university currently has locations in Beira, Chimoio, Cuamba, Nampula, Pemba, Quelimane and Tete. One of the intentions was to make higher education available to central and northern Mozambique. Approximately 3,270 students were enrolled at the university. The rector is Prof. Dr. Padre Alberto Ferreira.

History
The initiative to create the Catholic University of Mozambique (UCM) came up during the peace negotiations in Rome between Frelimo and Renamo. In June 1992, the negotiations were deadlocked; to unblock them, the mediator, Dom Jaime Pedro Gonçalves, Archbishop of Beira, presented the idea to establish a quality university for the center and north of Mozambique. The Catholic Church promised to correct the unequal structure of the concentration of higher education institutions in Maputo. Subsequently, this led to the signing of the peace agreement on October 4, 1992, between Frelimo and Renamo.

The Catholic University of Mozambique was established as a contribution to peace and reconciliation, as an institutional compromise, and was officially founded in 1995 (Boletim da República, Decreto N° 43/95, September 14). In August 1996, UCM opened its first faculties in Beira and Nampula.

Enrolment

From 2000 onwards, there has been an exponential increase in student enrollment. In 2000, UCM had an enrollment of 50 students; by 2005, this had increased to 405 students; and by 2008, UCM had an enrollment of 4497 students. To date, over 7,000 students have graduated from UCM, and the number is anticipated to continue increasing at an exponential rate, as observed in these previous years. Table 1 summarizes student enrollment at UCM from 2000 to 2008.

The number of female students has always been consistently lower than the number of male counterparts. On average, UCM has had 36% female students and 64% male students.

Institutional structure and management
UCM is involved in the national framework of governance and administration for higher education institutions and belongs to the Episcopal Conference of Mozambique. UCM is governed by the chancellor, the Archbishop of Beira, the rector, the vice-rector for finance and administration, and secretary general, and the vice-rector for academic affairs and development.

UCM currently has six faculties in four provinces:
Faculty of Economics and Management (Beira)
Faculty of Law (Nampula)
Faculty of Education and Communication (Nampula)
Faculty of Agriculture (Cuamba)
Faculty of Health Sciences (Beira)
Faculty of Tourism Management and Information Technology (Pemba)

To date UCM has established research centres in Nampula (Konrad Adenauer Research Centre), Beira (Centre for Geographic Information, GEA-Consult, Medical Research Centre) and Chimoio (Study and Research Centre), as well as a distance education centre (Beira) for teacher education. As part of UCM's strategy to bring higher education to the people, it opened faculty delegations in Chimoio (Economics, Law), Nampula (Economics), Beira (Information Technology), Tete (Economics) and Quelimane (Information Technology and Law).

Each faculty has a faculty board composed of the dean, pedagogic director and administrator. Centres only have directors. In the rectory office there is the rector, vice rector finance and administration, academic affairs and development, human resources department and public relations department.

Finances
As a private institution, UCM is funded by tuition fees, paid by its students, their families and sometimes by private and public scholarships. In 2008, tuition fees for a three-year bachelor program was fixed at an equivalent of US$1,200, tuition fees for an additional year to obtain a Bachelor of Honour’s degree are at US$1,500, same as the annual tuition fees for the medicine faculty.

References

External links
 Official website

Universities in Mozambique
Catholic universities and colleges in Mozambique
Universities and colleges established in 1996
1996 establishments in Mozambique


Chorbogh (, formerly Leninobod) is a village and jamoat in north-western Tajikistan. It is part of the city of Istaravshan in Sughd Region. The jamoat has a total population of 16,488 (2015).

References

Populated places in Sughd Region
Jamoats of Tajikistan


Javier Antonio Guédez Sánchez (born October 15, 1982) is a male judoka from Venezuela. He won the bronze medal in the extra lightweight division (– 60 kg) at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He represented his native country at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, PR China and the 2012 Olympic Games in London.

External links
  sports-reference

1982 births
Living people
Venezuelan male judoka
Judoka at the 2007 Pan American Games
Judoka at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Judoka at the 2011 Pan American Games
Judoka at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Olympic judoka for Venezuela
Pan American Games bronze medalists for Venezuela
Pan American Games medalists in judo
Judoka at the 2015 Pan American Games
Central American and Caribbean Games gold medalists for Venezuela
Competitors at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games
Competitors at the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games
South American Games silver medalists for Venezuela
South American Games bronze medalists for Venezuela
South American Games medalists in judo
Competitors at the 2006 South American Games
Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in judo
Medalists at the 2007 Pan American Games


Qalaibaland is a village and jamoat in north-western Tajikistan. It is part of the city of Istaravshan in Sughd Region. The jamoat has a total population of 9,820 (2015).

Notes

References

Populated places in Sughd Region
Jamoats of Tajikistan


Gonzalo Martín Klusener (born 21 October 1983) is an Argentine footballer currently playing for Club Atlético Atlanta.

References

Gonzalo Klusener at EPAE.org

1983 births
Living people
Argentine men's footballers
Argentine expatriate men's footballers
Argentine Primera División players
Primera Nacional players
Estudiantes de La Plata footballers
Defensa y Justicia footballers
Club Almagro players
Talleres de Córdoba footballers
Thrasyvoulos F.C. players
Guillermo Brown de Puerto Madryn footballers
Club Olimpo footballers
C.D. Antofagasta footballers
Unión de Mar del Plata footballers
Quilmes Atlético Club footballers
Atlético de Rafaela footballers
Club Agropecuario Argentino players
Independiente Rivadavia footballers
F.C. Motagua players
Expatriate men's footballers in Chile
Expatriate men's footballers in Greece
Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Greece
Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Chile
Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Honduras
Men's association football forwards
Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional de Honduras players
People from Oberá
Footballers from Misiones Province


Nurse TV is an Australian community television project which has been in production since 2003. To date over 70 episodes about Australia's nursing profession have been produced.

External links

2003 Australian television series debuts
Australian community access television shows
Australian medical television series
Nursing in Australia
Television shows set in Australia


Morden is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in  Kings County. The community was first known as "French Cross" after a cross marking Acadian refugees who fled the Expulsion of the Acadians in 1755. The village was later named Morden after James Morden who received the first land grant in the area in 1783.

Situated on the Bay of Fundy coast, it had a public wharf and fishing weirs although they have now disappeared. Today Morden hosts a mix of year-round and seasonal residents. The zeolite mineral Mordenite was named for the town of Morden when Henry How discovered it in 1864.

See also
 John Handfield

References

Communities in Kings County, Nova Scotia
General Service Areas in Nova Scotia


SS Bellatrix (T-AKR 288) is an Algol-class vehicle cargo ship that is currently maintained by the United States Maritime Administration as part of the  Military Sealift Command's Ready Reserve Force (RRF).  She was built as a high-speed container ship by Rheinstahl Nordseewerke, Emden, West Germany, hull no. 430, for Sea-Land Service, Inc. and named SS Sea-Land Trade, USCG ON 545201, IMO 7236153.  Due to her high operating cost, Sea-Land Trade was sold to the United States Navy in October 1981 as USNS Bellatrix (T-AK-288).

In keeping with the pattern of the naming the Algol-class ships after bright stars, the Bellatrix was named after Bellatrix, the third-brightest star in the constellation Orion.

Conversion
Conversion began on 22 October 1982 at National Steel and Shipbuilding in San Diego, California.  Her cargo hold was redesigned into a series of decks connected by ramps so vehicles can be driven into and out of the cargo hold for fast loading and unloading.  She was also fitted with two sets of two cranes; one set located at midship capable of lifting 35 tons, and another set located aft capable of lifting 50 tons.  She was delivered to the Military Sealift Command in 1984 as USNS Bellatrix (T-AKR 288).

Service
When not active, Bellatrix is kept in reduced operating status due to her high operating cost.  If needed, she can be activated and ready to sail in 96 hours.  Bellatrix took part in the Persian Gulf War in 1990.  Along with the other seven Algol class cargo ships, she transported 14 percent of all cargo delivered between the United States and Saudi Arabia during and after the war.  In early 2003, Bellatrix was activated to take part in Operation Iraqi Freedom.

On 1 October 2007, Bellatrix was transferred to the United States Maritime Administration.  On 1 October 2008, she was transferred to the Ready Reserve Force, losing her USNS designation.  If activated, SS Bellatrix will report to the Military Sealift Command. She is currently located in Marrero, Louisiana.

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References

Ships built in Rotterdam
Cargo ships of the United States Navy
Algol-class vehicle cargo ships
1973 ships
Cold War auxiliary ships of the United States
Gulf War ships of the United States


This is a list of the state institutions of Cambodia.

Royalty

King of Cambodia
 Queen Mother Norodom Monineath Sihanouk
 King Norodom Sihamoni
 Norodom Ranariddh

Legislative branch
Parliament of Cambodia
National Assembly of Cambodia
Senate of Cambodia

Executive branch

Prime Minister of Cambodia
 Hun Manet 2023-

Office of the Council of Ministers
 Khmer Rouge Trial Task Force

Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries

Ministry of Commerce

Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts
 APSARA

Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport
National universities:
Cambodia Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI)
Economics and Finance Institute (EFI)
Institute of Technology of Cambodia (ITC)
Moharishi Vedic University (MVU)
National Institute of Education (NIE)
National Polytechnic Institute of Cambodia (NPIC)
National University of Management (NUM)
Prek Leap National School of Agriculture (PNSA)
Royal University of Agriculture (RUA)
Royal University of Fine Arts (RUFA)
Royal University of Law and Economic (RULE)
Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP)
Svay Rieng University (SRU)
University of Health Science (UHS)

Ministry of Environment
 Ministry of Environment, Cambodia

Ministry of Finance and Economy
National Bank of Cambodia

Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
 Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of Cambodia to the United Nations

Ministry of Health
National Centre for HIV/AIDS Dermatology and STDs, Cambodia
National Malaria Center of Cambodia
National hospitals
National Pediatric Hospital, Cambodia

Ministry of Information

Ministry of Industry, Mining and Energy
 Electricity Authority of Cambodia
 Cambodia National Petroleum Authority

Ministry of the Interior

Ministry of Justice

Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training

Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction
 Council of Land Policy
 National Cadastral Commission
 National Social Land Concession Committee

Ministry of National Defence
 Royal Cambodian Armed Forces
 Royal Cambodian Army
 Royal Cambodian Navy
 Royal Cambodian Air Force

Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs and Inspection

Ministry of Planning
 National Institute of Statistics

Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications
 Camnet Internet Service
 National Information Communications Technology Development Authority, Cambodia
 Telecom Cambodia

Ministry of Public Works and Transport
 Secretariat of Civil Aviation
 Sihanoukville Autonomous Port

Ministry of Religions and Cults
 Buddhist Institute

Ministry of Rural Development

Ministry of Social Affairs, Veteran and Youth Rehabilitation

Ministry of Tourism
 Ministry of Tourism

Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology

Ministry of Women's Affairs

Judicial branch
 Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia
 Supreme Court of Cambodia

Provincial
Please see Provinces of Cambodia, Districts of Cambodia, Commune council.

See also
 Government of Cambodia
 Politics of Cambodia

References
See Government of Cambodia ministry listings

Government of Cambodia
Politics of Cambodia


John A. Brown was an Oklahoma department store chain. It operated under that name from 1932, when its founder bought out its predecessor and renamed the chain for himself. After Mr. Brown died in 1940, his widow took over management until her own death in 1967, forcing a change in ownership. Dayton-Hudson, another retail company, continued operating the chain under the Brown name, until 1984, when Dayton-Hudson sold the Brown chain to Dillard's, another national chain, which combined all of the Brown stores under its own name. The flagship store on West Main Street was closed in 1974 and was subsequently razed as part of an urban renewal project. The project was supposed to result in a new shopping center known as the Galleria. However, the project was never completed, so the Brown chain never returned to downtown.

History
The department store had its start in 1915, when the Rorabaugh Company acquired Brock's Dry Goods in Oklahoma City, and changed its name to Rorabaugh-Brown Dry Goods Co. when John Albert Brown bought the business from his cousin and partner, A. O. Rorabaugh in 1932 and named the store after himself.  After founder and owner, John A. Brown, died in 1940, his widow, Della Dunkin Brown, took over as CEO. She died in 1967, and ownership of the company passed to a trust. By that time, retail competition had greatly intensified, and was moving from large downtown stores to smaller stores in suburban shopping malls. The John A. Brown company was acquired by the Dayton Hudson Corporation (now Target Corporation) in 1971, and continued to operate under the John A. Brown name. The downtown store closed and was demolished in 1977. The chain was  acquired by Dillard's in 1984. The six Brown stores were quickly renamed as Dillard's.

The store's original location was in downtown Oklahoma City, and opened in the 1930s. Its location was bounded by Harvey and Robinson on the west and east, and Park and Main on the north and south.
A book about Brown's, and the other main downtown Oklahoma City department stores, Kerr's and Halliburton's, was released in 2016 under the title "John A. Brown's, Kerr's, and Halliburton's: Where Oklahoma City Loved to Shop." The book was written by local historians Ajax Delvecki and Larry Johnson.

The company also operated many other stores throughout Oklahoma. These include locations that are either stand alone or in outdoor shopping centers, such as one at Campus Corner in Norman and one in Oklahoma City's Capitol Hill neighborhood. The chain opened stores in enclosed shopping malls in its later years, including Quail Springs Mall 1980-1985 (demolished 2017), Penn Square Mall 1960-1984 (still operating as Dillard's), and Crossroads Mall in Oklahoma City 1974-1985, as well as Woodland Hills Mall, Utica Square Mall and Promenade Mall in Tulsa.

Brown-Dunkin store
John A. Brown and John Dunkin bought Hunts, one of the leading mercantile stores in Tulsa, in 1924. They renamed it Brown-Dunkin. John Dunkin moved from Oklahoma City to Tulsa to operate the store. However, B-D was an entity of its own and there was no formal connection with the Oklahoma City company.

In 1959, a director of the First National Bank of St. Louis, asked Willard Dillard, owner of the Dillard's department store chain, to consider buying Brown-Dunkin. Dillard raised $350,000 (~$ in ) and bought Brown-Dunkin in February, 1960.

Notes

References

External links
 Doug Dawgz Blog: John A. Brown's

Defunct department stores based in Oklahoma
Retail companies established in 1932
Retail companies disestablished in 1984
1932 establishments in Oklahoma
1984 disestablishments in Oklahoma
Target Corporation


Lucas John Gregerson (born May 14, 1984) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Diego Padres, Oakland Athletics, Houston Astros and St. Louis Cardinals. He set the major league record for holds in a single season with 40, until Joel Peralta of the Tampa Bay Rays broke the record with 41 holds in 2013. He attended J. Sterling Morton High School West in Berwyn, Illinois, and Saint Xavier University.

Professional career

Minor leagues
Gregerson was drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 28th round of the 2006 MLB draft out of Saint Xavier University. He spent his first professional season between the rookie-level Johnson City Cardinals and the short-season State College Spikes in 2006. He went 0–1 with a 3.86 ERA in 15 games with Johnson City and 6–1 with a 1.72 ERA in 12 games with State College.

In 2007, Gregerson split the season between the Advanced-A Palm Beach Cardinals and the Double-A Springfield Cardinals. With Palm Beach he went 3–4 with a 1.97 ERA in 53 games and with Springfield he was perfect in his only inning of work.

Gregerson spent the entire 2008 season with Double-A Springfield of the Texas League. He went 7–6 with a 3.35 ERA, 10 saves in 75 innings pitched in 57 games.

San Diego Padres
Before the 2009 season, Gregerson was traded to the San Diego Padres along with Mark Worrell for Khalil Greene.

Gregerson spent the entire season with the Padres, going 2–4 with a 3.24 ERA with one save in seven save opportunities in 72 games and striking out 93 in 75 innings. On June 16, Gregerson was placed on the 15-day disabled list for tendinitis in his right shoulder and missed about a month of the season. On September 24, 2009, he picked up his first MLB save against the Colorado Rockies.

In 2010, Gregerson solidified his role as the regular seventh-inning relief man for the Padres, appearing before Mike Adams and Heath Bell in close games. He temporarily moved to the eighth inning in late July and early August while Adams was on the disabled list. On September 23, 2010, Gregerson worked a perfect seventh to set the major league record for holds in a single season with 37. He extended the record to 40 by the end of the season. Gregerson finished the season with a 3.22 ERA and 89 strikeouts against 18 walks in 78 innings.

Gregerson again began 2011 as the Padres regular seventh-inning man. He was 2–1 with a 2.63 ERA on June 7 when he was sidelined for a month with a strained right oblique. On July 9, 2011, against the Los Angeles Dodgers, Gregerson entered the game in the ninth inning after Aaron Harang, Josh Spence, Chad Qualls, and Mike Adams combined to pitch eight innings without allowing a hit. Gregerson retired the first two hitters before a double by Juan Uribe on a one ball and two strike count broke up the no hitter. Dioner Navarro then hit a single off Gregerson to score the winning run for the Dodgers. This was the closest the Padres have come to pitching a no-hitter since Steve Arlin in 1972. When Mike Adams was traded to the Texas Rangers at the end of July, Gregerson temporarily moved into the eighth-inning role of set-up man for Bell, but in September he returned to the seventh-inning slot as Qualls took on set-up man duties. Gregerson finished the season with 16 holds and a 2.75 ERA, but there was some concern that his strikeouts dropped to 34 over 55 innings.

Gregerson had an excellent 2012 with the Padres, including a 23 scoreless inning streak in July and August. He began the year as the seventh-inning man, and then moved to the eighth-inning when Andrew Cashner was converted to starter. He moved into the closer's role in August when Huston Street was injured, picking up nine saves. Gregerson finished the season with a 2.39 ERA and 72 strikeouts versus 21 walks in 71 innings.

Gregerson retained the eighth-inning role in the Padres' 2013 season, appearing there in 49 games. He also served as closer for a short stretch in early June when Street was on the disabled list. Gregerson finished the season with a 2.71 ERA and 64 strikeouts in 66 innings.

Oakland Athletics
On December 3, 2013, Gregerson was traded to the Oakland Athletics for outfielder Seth Smith. Gregerson would start his first season with the A's as the teams set up man. However, after multiple poor April outings by A's closer Jim Johnson, Gregerson would begin sharing the A's closing duties with fellow pitcher Sean Doolittle. On April 16, Gregerson blew the save in a two-inning outing against the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. The Angels would go on to win 5–4. Gregerson would redeem himself on April 20, pitching a hitless inning and earning his third save of the season in a 4–1 win against the Houston Astros. On April 22, Gregerson blew another save and took the loss in a 5–4 defeat to the Texas Rangers, further clouding the future of the A's closer role.

Houston Astros
On December 12, 2014, Gregerson signed a three-year, $18.5 million contract with the Houston Astros. The Astros announced Gregerson's signing at the same time as the signing of one of Gregerson's former Padres and Athletics teammates, relief pitcher Pat Neshek. Incentives could boost Gregerson's earnings to $21 million over the three years of the contract. Gregerson had a 3.10 ERA in 2015 and a 3.28 in 2016. Gregerson and teammate Alex Bregman both won the WBC participating with team USA is 2017. Several months later, Gregerson won the 2017 World Series, marking the first time the Astros won the series.

St. Louis Cardinals
On December 13, 2017, Gregerson signed a two-year, $11 million contract with the St. Louis Cardinals. The contract includes a vesting option for the 2020 season. He began the season on the DL due to a pulled hamstring. He was activated off the disabled list but after struggling through 12 appearances, he landed back on the disabled list with right shoulder and elbow soreness. On June 12, 2018, Gregerson underwent surgery on his right knee for a torn meniscus, putting his setback even further. In 2018, Gregerson made 17 relief appearances for St. Louis, compiling a 7.11 ERA.

Gregerson began 2019 on the 10-day injured list due to right shoulder impingement. He was designated for assignment on May 17, 2019. He was released on May 20.

See also

 List of Major League Baseball single-inning strikeout leaders

References

External links

Venezuelan Professional Baseball League statistics

1984 births
Living people
Bravos de Margarita players
American expatriate baseball players in Venezuela
Houston Astros players
Johnson City Cardinals players
Major League Baseball pitchers
Mesa Solar Sox players
Oakland Athletics players
Palm Beach Cardinals players
Saint Xavier Cougars baseball players
San Diego Padres players
Sportspeople from Park Ridge, Illinois
Baseball players from Cook County, Illinois
Springfield Cardinals players
St. Louis Cardinals players
State College Spikes players
Tucson Padres players
World Baseball Classic players of the United States
2013 World Baseball Classic players
2017 World Baseball Classic players


Udi Hanoun (; born 28 February 1987) is a former Israeli professional football (soccer) player. During his career he played for Ironi Nir Ramat HaSharon, Hapoel Petah Tikva, Hapoel Nazareth Illit, Hapoel Jerusalem, Hapoel Herzliya and Beitar Kfar Saba. At international level, Hanoun was capped at levels from under-17 to under-19.

References

1987 births
Living people
Israeli Jews
Israeli men's footballers
Men's association football defenders
Hapoel Jerusalem F.C. players
Hakoah Amidar Ramat Gan F.C. players
Hapoel Nir Ramat HaSharon F.C. players
Hapoel Petah Tikva F.C. players
Hapoel Herzliya F.C. players
Beitar Kfar Saba F.C. players
Israeli Premier League players
Liga Leumit players
Maccabiah Games medalists in football
Maccabiah Games gold medalists for Israel
21st-century Israeli people


Nofaroj is a village and jamoat in north-western Tajikistan. It is part of the city of Istaravshan in Sughd Region. The jamoat has a total population of 10,875 (2015). It consists of 10 villages, including Obkarchaghay (the seat), Dahyak, Navobod, Nofaroj, Qadamjo and Sughdiyona.

References

Populated places in Sughd Region
Jamoats of Tajikistan


Alexandru Ștefan Sătmăreanu (born 9 March 1952) is a Romanian former footballer who played as a defender.

Club career
Born in Oradea, Alexandru Sătmăreanu started his career in his hometown at Crișul, making his Divizia A debut on 21 September 1969 in a 2–1 away victory against ASA Târgu Mureș, the team relegating at the end of that season in Divizia B, but he stayed with the club, helping it promote back to the first division after only one season in which he played 29 matches and scored 7 goals. The following season he went to play for Dinamo București, helping the team win three league titles in 1973, 1975 and 1977, in the first he played 16 matches without scoring, in the second he appeared in 29 games and scored 3 goals and in the third he made 34 appearances in which he scored 5 goals. In 1979, after playing for Dinamo in a UEFA Cup match against Eintracht Frankfurt, he remained in Frankfurt illegally and signed with VfB Stuttgart, at that time during Romania's communist regime, running away from the country was not allowed. He made his Bundesliga debut on 17 January 1981 under coach Jürgen Sundermann in a 2–1 away victory against Nürnberg, having a total of 12 appearances and two goals scored against Bayer Uerdingen and Borussia Dortmund in his first season, helping the team finish on the 3rd position, but after two seasons, Sătmăreanu went to play in the United States at the North American Soccer League team Fort Lauderdale Strikers where he was known under the name Alexander Szatmar. Sătmăreanu has a total of 32 matches and three goals scored in Bundesliga, 223 matches and 18 goals scored in Divizia A and 22 games appearances with 2 goals scored in European competitions, including scoring the only goal of Dinamo's 1–0 home victory in front of Real Madrid from the 1975–76 European Cup. After he ended his playing career, Alexandru Sătmăreanu had several businesses in Germany and Luxembourg, also working as a coach and president at Eintracht Trier and president at Bihor Oradea.

International career
Alexandru Sătmăreanu played 28 games at international level for Romania, making his debut on 23 July 1974 when coach Valentin Stănescu introduced him at half-time to replace Cornel Dinu in a friendly which ended with a 4–1 victory against Japan. He played six games at the Euro 1976 qualifiers and four at the 1978 World Cup qualifiers. Sătmăreanu also played two games at the 1973–76 Balkan Cup and three at the successful 1977–80 Balkan Cup.

Honours
Crișul Oradea
Divizia B: 1970–71
Dinamo București
Divizia A: 1972–73, 1974–75, 1976–77
Trofeo Costa de Valencia: 1978
Romania
Balkan Cup: 1977–80, runner-up 1973–76

Notes

References

External links
Fort Lauderdale Strikers stats

1952 births
Living people
Footballers from Oradea
Romanian men's footballers
Men's association football defenders
Romania men's international footballers
Olympic footballers for Romania
Liga I players
Liga II players
FC Bihor Oradea (1958) players
FC Dinamo București players
VfB Stuttgart players
FSV Salmrohr players
Fort Lauderdale Strikers (1977–1983) players
North American Soccer League (1968–1984) players
North American Soccer League (1968–1984) indoor players
Bundesliga players
Romanian football managers
Romanian defectors
Romanian expatriate men's footballers
Romanian expatriate football managers
Romanian expatriate sportspeople in Germany
Expatriate men's footballers in Germany
Expatriate football managers in Germany
Romanian expatriate sportspeople in the United States
Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States


The Himmeldunkberg or Himmeldunk is an extinct volcano,  m high, in the High Rhön (Hohe Rhön) in Germany. It straddles the Bavarian-Hessian state border.

Location and surrounding area

The Himmeldunkberg lies in the southwestern part of the Langen Rhön ("Long Rhön") which is in turn part of the High Rhön. 2 km south is the village of Oberweißenbrunn, 4 km to the southeast is the town of Bischofsheim an der Rhön and 3 km northwest is Gersfeld.

The Rhine-Weser watershed runs over the summit of the Himmeldunkberg and neighbouring hill of Hohe Hölle and forms the boundary between Bavaria and Hesse as well as the long-distance trail, the Rhön-Höhen-Weg (RHW). Border stones erected in 1872 show where the old border between the Kingdom of Bavaria and the Kingdom of Prussia ran.

Geology

The Himmeldunkberg consists mainly of the volcanic rocks basalt and tuff.

Description

The northern slope falls steeply away and is covered with mixed, deciduous forest. The arc from southwest to east is open; mainly covered by grasses, blackthorn, rose hips, silver thistles and bellflowers.

The Himmeldunkberg lies in a nature reserve of the same name; for that reason mountain bikes may only be used on tracks with mountain bike signs.

The mountain is however a very important site for unpowered aerial sports because it has the only suitable terrain for the demanding sport of model gliders with an east–west disposition for about 50 km around and was also previously used by kite flyers and paragliders.

A refuge hut, the Würzburger Hütte, belonging to the Würzburg branch of the German Alpine Society (DAV) is situated on the western slope at a height of 835 m. There are plans to move the hut to a "place more compatible with nature preservation", and also to reach an agreement with the glider flyers who are not allowed to use the mountain any more.

About 50 m south, below the summit, is the Hexenbuchen ("witches' beeches") nature monument, which is a favourite photographic subject.

From the plateau there is a superb view over Bischofsheim to the Kreuzberg, the Osterburg ruins, the Arnsberg, the Black Mountains, the Schachen, the Eierhauck, the Dammersfeld, the Reesberg, the valley of the Brend and the upper Sinn. In very good conditions the Fichtel Mountains can be seen.
From the northeastern flank the Heidelstein is also visible.

See also
 Rhön Mountains

References

External links
 More information at rhoenline.de
 Access to Himmeldunkberg banned for environmental protection reasons
 Conflict between sport and environmental protection e.g at Himmeldunkberg (pdf)
 Himmeldunkberg in hanggliding guide for model flyers
 Walking around the Himmeldunkberg

Extinct volcanoes of Europe
Mountains of Bavaria
Mountains of Hesse
Mountains under 1000 metres
Mountains and hills of the Rhön