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Neocollyris hiekei
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Neocollyris hiekei is a species in the tiger beetle family Cicindelidae. It was described by Naviaux in 1994.
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Neocollyris horni
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Neocollyris horni is a species in the tiger beetle family Cicindelidae. It was described by Naviaux in 1994.
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Neocollyris horsfieldii
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Neocollyris horsfieldii is a species in the tiger beetle family Cicindelidae, found in Indonesia. It was described by William Macleay in 1825 and was named for Thomas Horsfield, an American naturalist who had worked extensively in Indonesia.
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Neocollyris impressifrons
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Neocollyris impressifrons is a species in the tiger beetle family Cicindelidae. It was described by Chaudoir in 1864.
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Neocollyris infusca
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Neocollyris infusca is a species in the tiger beetle family Cicindelidae. It was described by Naviaux in 1994.
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Neocollyris ingridae
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Neocollyris ingridae is a species in the tiger beetle family Cicindelidae. It was described by Naviaux in 2004.
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Neocollyris insignis
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Neocollyris insignis is a species in the tiger beetle family Cicindelidae. It was described by Chaudoir in 1864.
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Ward republic
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Ward republic is a concept promoted by Thomas Jefferson to place most of the functions of government in the ward, a small subdivision of a county. Jefferson thought of this concept as his favorite: "The article nearest my heart," wrote Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval in 1816, "is the division of counties into wards". His proposal was that such wards consist of no more people than can all know one another and personally perform the functions of government for one another. Although his proposal was not generally adopted, there have been partial implementations of the idea in small townships, school districts, voting precincts, and neighborhood associations.
History.
The concept was inspired by the traditional practice in England and other feudal European countries to organize people below the county level into what were called "hundreds", that is, a geographic group of a few hundred individuals and their families. That concept goes back to a similar practice among the ancient Hebrews of organizing themselves for military purposes, and form a militia unit for each such group. Although intended for feudal administration and defense, hundreds also tended to cooperate in performing other functions of government.
Jefferson presented the idea in a letter to Samuel Kercheval in July, 1816. "The true foundation of republican government," Jefferson wrote, "is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property, and in their management". Kercheval, of Winchester, Virginia, had been trying to organize a convention to write a new state constitution, and sought the support of Jefferson, who had been trying since 1776 to get Virginia to adopt a new constitution.
In that letter Jefferson outlined the need for "ward republics," small units of local government, within Virginia's existing counties, which he thought were too large for direct participation of all the voters. He proposed to divide the counties into "wards of such size as that every citizen can attend, when called on, and act in person … will relieve the county administration of nearly all its business, will have it better done, and by making every citizen an acting member of the government, and in the offices nearest and most interesting to him, will attach him by his strongest feelings to the independence of his country, and its republican constitution".
Jefferson proposed that such ward republics, among their other functions, should select jurors, so that these units of local government would act as a restraint on the judicial as well as the legislative and executive branches of government.
One of the functions to be performed by such wards was public education. Jefferson's 1779 Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge was never passed in the form he proposed. Virginia did not set up a system of mandatory common schools until well into the nineteenth century. However, the concepts it contained persisted and he continued to campaign for public education as the safeguard of republican citizenship.
Jefferson's Bill proposed that each county would be divided into "hundreds … so as that they may contain a convenient number of children to make up a school, and be of such convenient size that all the children within each hundred may daily attend the school to be established therein". Jefferson's deliberate use of the term "hundreds" echoes the Anglo-Saxon term for such a political sub-division. He and many of his contemporaries believed that English and American liberties were rooted in Anglo-Saxon political life. These "hundreds" are the origins of Jefferson's later conception of "ward republics," political units so small that "every citizen, can attend, when called on, and act in person". The school system was envisioned as tiered, from primary to secondary to college, so that the ward republics were to be the smallest, most intimate parts of political life and the basis for state republics and the national republic.
Modern practices.
The term "ward" or "precinct" continues to be used for subdivisions of counties or municipalities, but usually only as voting districts to send representatives to county government, or for the administration of county or municipal functions. Most of those subdivisions contain too many people to fit Jefferson's vision. The closest would be voting precincts, which in most states tend to consist of about 3,000 people. There are also small townships and neighborhood associations that realize that concept for at least some people.
Jefferson envisioned a society of small landholders, continuing the system set up by John Locke for the colonies that became North and South Carolina. However, the adoption of the fee simple model of land titles encouraged large landholdings that would make it more difficult to establish ward republics everywhere.
The ward republic model has continued to be advocated by reformers, especially some Libertarians, who argue that the trend toward government centralization presents a threat to rights and liberty, discourages civic virtue, and encourages dependency.
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Neocollyris jendeki
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Neocollyris jendeki is a species in the tiger beetle family Cicindelidae. It was described by Naviaux in 2004.
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Neocollyris juengeri
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Neocollyris juengeri is a species in the tiger beetle family Cicindelidae. It was described by Naviaux in 1992.
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Neocollyris kabakovi
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Neocollyris kabakovi is a species in the tiger beetle family Cicindelidae. It was described by Naviaux and Matalin in 2003.
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Neocollyris karen
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Neocollyris karen is a species in the tiger beetle family Cicindelidae. It was described by Naviaux in 2004.
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Neocollyris kollari
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Neocollyris kollari is a species in the tiger beetle family Cicindelidae. It was described by Horn in 1901.
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Neocollyris kraatzi
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Neocollyris kraatzi is a species in the tiger beetle family Cicindelidae. It was described by Horn in 1892.
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Jean Tubéry
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Jean Tubéry (1964 born in Toulouse) is a French player of the cornett ("cornetto") and conductor. He is noted for being, along with his own teacher Bruce Dickey and his colleague Jean-Pierre Canihac, one of the main cornett players to resurrect the baroque instrument, cornet à bouquin, as part of the historically informed performance movement and early music revival.
Tubéry originally studied recorder at his home town Toulouse and then at the Amsterdam Conservatory, but decided to switch to cornet and undertook studies with Bruce Dickey at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. During the 1980s and 1990s he performed with almost all of the well known early music ensembles of the period including Les Arts Florissants under William Christie, La Petite Bande under Sigiswald Kuijken, the Clemencic Consort of René Clemencic, Hesperion XXI under Jordi Savall, as well as the Ensemble Clément Janequin of Dominique Visse, Collegium Vocale de Gand for Philippe Herreweghe, Concerto Vocale of René Jacobs, the Huelgas Ensemble of Paul Van Nevel, Cantus Cölln and Konrad Junghänel, The Ensemble Elyma of Gabriel Garrido and so on.
For the Ricercar record label and with the label's own Ricercar Ensemble Tubéry commenced a series of recordings of Venetian wind music, in part entitled "L'héritage de Monteverdi". This continued when he founded his own Ensemble La Fenice. La Fenice won the first prize at the Concours International de Musique Ancienne of Bruges in 1990. Having studied as a cornettist Tubéry furthered studied choral conducting with Hans Martin Linde and Pierre Cao. He is from 2001 the chief early-music conductor of the Chœur de chambre de Namur, and has also served as guest conductor with the Ensemble Jacques Moderne of Tours, Pierre Cao's Ensemble Arsys and the Scottish Dunedin Consort.
Tubéry teaches cornett at the Conservatoire Supérieur C.N.R. of Paris and his students include several rising performers in the younger generation of cornettists. In 2001 Tubéry was named a Chevalier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the Minister of Culture Catherine Tasca.
In June 2024, Tubéry was convicted of sexual harassment, and given a six-month suspended sentence.
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Candice Cohen-Ahnine
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Candice Cohen-Ahnine (c. 1977 – 16 August 2012) was a French Jewish mother involved in a legal battle with Saudi Prince Sattam bin Khalid bin Nasser Al Saud over custody for her child Aya, who she said was kidnapped from her. In January 2012, a French court ruled that the prince must hand over the child to Cohen-Ahnine, and the prince faced an international arrest warrant. On 16 August 2012, Cohen-Ahnine fell to her death from a Paris window under mysterious circumstances, days after she told her family that she did not feel safe.
Custody battle.
In 1998, Cohen-Ahnine met Prince Sattam bin Khalid bin Nasser Al Saud, a grandson of Prince Nasser, in London at a nightclub while vacationing in London when she was 18 years old. During his courtship, he pretended that he was Jewish but he wanted to keep it as a family secret.
In November 2001, their daughter, Aya, was born.
The relationship between Cohen-Ahnine and the Prince continued, despite their differences in religion and nationality until he announced in 2006 that he was obligated to marry a cousin, but that Cohen-Ahnine could remain as a second wife. Cohen-Ahnine, however, refused to become a second wife, and the two parted ways.
In September 2008, Prince Sattam allegedly kidnapped Aya when she and her mother visited Saudi Arabia. Cohen-Ahnine said that she had been accused by the Saudi authorities of being a Muslim who converted to Judaism, a capital crime in Saudi Arabia, and was held in the prince's palace. However, she reportedly escaped when a maid left her door open and fled to the French embassy, and subsequently returned to France. Since then, Aya has been living in a palace in Riyadh, while France's Foreign Ministry (as well as former French President Nicolas Sarkozy) attempted to bring the child back to France. Aya spoke occasionally with her mother by telephone.
Prince Sattam denied that he had kidnapped either Aya or her mother, saying that Cohen-Ahnine was allowed to "come and go as she pleased" and that she had converted to Islam and married Prince Sattam under Islamic law. The prince said the terms of the divorce, which were put through courts in Lebanon and Saudi Arabia, required that the parents share custody of the child. The prince also said that a protocol was created which offered Cohen-Ahnine a house (all expenses paid) and access to Aya, and the possibility of taking Aya on vacation for 1.5 months a year.
Cohen-Ahnine was involved in diplomatic attempts to receive custody of Aya, and wrote a book about her struggle, entitled "Give My Daughter Back!". She stated that she had seen Facebook pictures of Aya in a niqab and playing with the Prince's firearms, and became concerned over her daughter.
Court verdict.
In January 2012, a Paris criminal court ordered Prince al-Saud to hand over custody of Aya to her mother and also to provide child support of €10,000 (£8,300) each month. Cohen-Ahnine said that the ruling was a "great victory for me and vindicates everything I have said... but I'm still very worried for my child's future." Cohen-Ahnine's lawyer said, "It's a first step in a long journey. Aya must be returned to her mother so that she can live in France, where she has always lived."
Prince Sattam said that he would challenge the decision and send lawyers to France, and said that France does not have the right to take her back. The prince said, "She is a Saudi citizen and a princess. They cannot oblige a princess to leave this country." The prince also said, "If need be, I'll go like [Osama] bin Laden and hide in the mountains with Aya." As a result of the court ruling, Prince Sattam faced an international arrest warrant for ignoring the verdict.
Death.
Following the court ruling, Cohen-Ahnine prepared to leave for Riyadh in September 2012 to visit Aya.
On 16 August, Cohen-Ahnine died after falling to her death from a window in Paris. It is unclear whether the death was an accident or was a murder, but suicide has been ruled out.
According to the "London Evening Standard", investigations conducted by the Paris prosecutor suggested that Cohen-Ahnine was attempting to get into a neighboring apartment by climbing through the window.
Cohen-Ahnine's lawyer said the death appeared to be "some sort of accident" and did not know whether it was malicious, but did say that "what I can tell you is that it wasn't a suicide". Jean-Claude Elfassi, a co-author of Cohen-Ahnine's book, said, "I can only show my disgust at the slowness of the investigating judge in charge of her case, who after three years of investigating never delivered an arrest warrant for Prince Sattam al-Saud."
On 21 August, the police announced that Cohen-Ahnine's death was an accident. A witness confirmed seeing her trying to move from one window to another. The police suspect that she was under antidepressant medication; toxicology results are expected.
On 14 June 2013 it was announced that the second husband of Candice Cohen-Ahnine Alain Cucumel was "mis en examen" (in the French criminal procedure the point at which a person formally becomes a suspect at law) for "aggravated assault and battery causing unintentional death".
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Murder of Céline Figard
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Céline Figard (; 23 May 1976 – 19 December 1995) was a French woman who went missing and was murdered during a visit to the United Kingdom in December 1995. She accepted a lift from a lorry driver at Chieveley services on the M4 in Chieveley, Berkshire, on 19 December, but never arrived at her destination. Following an appeal for information on her whereabouts and police enquiries, her body was discovered on 29 December, at a lay-by on the A449 in Hawford, Worcestershire. A post-mortem examination determined she had been strangled and bludgeoned to death.
The case received extensive news coverage in the UK around the Christmas and New Year period, amid fears that it could be linked to a series of killings around the English Midlands, which police called the work of a "Midlands Ripper". The murder investigation included the UK's first national DNA screening programme in the hunt for a murder suspect, covering over 5,000 people.
Stuart William Morgan, a 36-year-old lorry driver from Poole, Dorset, was arrested in February 1996 after a colleague recognised his image from a photofit. Morgan was later charged with Figard's murder, and convicted in October. Detectives concluded that after raping, strangling and bludgeoning her, he carried her body in his vehicle for ten days over the Christmas period before dumping it. Morgan was given a life sentence, with a recommendation to serve at least twenty years. An appeal in February 1998 was rejected by the Court of Appeal, and in 2009 the High Court turned down his application for a review of the length of his sentence. He became eligible for parole in February 2016, and has continued to maintain his innocence. He remains imprisoned at HM Prison Frankland as of 2022, having had his most recent application for parole rejected earlier in the year.
Figard was buried in the French village of Scey-sur-Saône-et-Saint-Albin, Haute-Saône, at a service attended by her family, friends and politicians in January 1996. In the UK, she is remembered in a memorial garden established at a church in the Worcestershire village of Ombersley, close to where her body was discovered.
Background and disappearance.
Céline Figard was born on 23 May 1976 in Besançon, France, to Martine and Bernard Figard. She had two brothers, Stephane and Nicolas, and a sister, Karine. At the time of her death, she was studying accountancy at the Lycée le Grand Chênois in Montbéliard. She developed a fondness for the United Kingdom following a 1990 visit and travelled there repeatedly.
Figard spent the summer of 1995 working at a hotel in Fordingbridge, Hampshire, where her cousin Jean-Marc was head waiter, using the opportunity to improve her English. She planned to return to the UK in December to spend another two weeks with Jean-Marc. After leaving home on Monday, 18 December, she travelled with a family friend employed by a local haulage firm to the French coast, as arranged by her parents, and crossed the English Channel the following day, arriving in Ashford, Kent. She intended to travel to Fordingbridge by train; her escort found another French lorry driver, Roger Bouvier, who was willing to take her to Chieveley Services near Newbury, Berkshire.
When they arrived, Figard tried to phone Jean-Marc to ask him to pick her up, but misdialed. She was offered a lift to Salisbury by the driver of a white Mercedes lorry. Bouvier had reservations about the driver, but let her go with him nonetheless. Figard left the service station with the driver at around 4:30 pm. She never arrived at her destination, and was reported missing.
Police appealed for information about her disappearance, and issued a photofit of the lorry driver, but he was not identified. By 25 December, investigators were working on the theory that he had abducted her. The following day, investigators were working on the assumption she had been murdered. Figard's father travelled to the UK to help detectives in their search for her and to appeal to the public for information as to her whereabouts.
Discovery of body and post mortem.
On the morning of Friday, 29 December, the naked body of a young woman was found dumped at a lay-by on the A449 near the Worcestershire village of Hawford by a motorist who had stopped to change a windscreen wiper. Police sought to establish her identity, but were sure it was not that of Louise Smith, an 18-year-old clerical assistant who had vanished early on Christmas Day after attending a nightclub at Yate, Gloucestershire. Smith's body was discovered in February 1996 in Chipping Sodbury, South Gloucestershire.
The body was positively identified as that of Figard the following day. The post mortem determined she had been strangled and bludgeoned with a heavy implement, but did not establish which was fatal. The post mortem revealed "no obvious signs" of sexual assault, but it was determined that sexual intercourse had taken place shortly before her death, and detectives believed it had occurred against her will. Police said that the body had been lying where it was found for about twenty-four hours and were working on the theory that she had been held captive before being killed. Detective Chief Superintendent Roger Hoddinott of Hampshire Police said at the time of discovery, Figard had been dead for at least four to five days, but did not announce a time of death.
Investigation.
The investigation was led by DCS John McCammont of West Mercia Police, and involved more than 100 detectives from three police forces. Officers examined similar unsolved murders amid concerns that they could all be the work of the same individual. McCammont ruled out a link at a press conference on 4 January: "I would stress that at this stage there is no firm evidence whatsoever to link Céline's murder with any other investigations." He appealed for information concerning a bottle of Pascal Chrêtien champagne, a gift given to Figard before she came to England: "This particular type of champagne is not exported to anywhere in the world outside France and is not sold in this country. It is a 1993 vintage and only 60,000 bottles have been produced."
On 12 January 1996, investigators announced that they would perform DNA testing on the drivers of all vehicles similar to the Mercedes. This was the first time the method was used nationally to identify a murder suspect. Detectives traced more than 1,000 vehicles and tested 5,000 drivers. On 19 February, West Mercia Police confirmed that a man had been arrested and was helping them with their inquiries. The following day, authorities announced that the suspect was English and had been arrested in Poole, Dorset in a joint operation between West Mercia and Dorset Police. He was subsequently identified as Stuart Morgan, a 36-year-old self-employed lorry driver, who on 21 February was remanded following an appearance at Redditch magistrates.
Stuart Morgan.
Stuart William Morgan is an English lorry driver and former heating engineer from Poole. One of five children of John and Julianne Morgan, he was raised in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, where his father was employed as a council foreman and his mother – a refugee from the former East Germany – worked as a school cleaner. Morgan left school with three CSEs, and in 1974 served a custodial sentence in borstal following a conviction for burglary. After attending Croydon Polytechnic to train as a plumber and heating engineer, he established a plumbing business in the Tunbridge Wells area. He moved to Dorset following the failure of that business in 1983 and worked as a heating engineer for Bournemouth Borough Council. He became a lorry driver in 1991.
Morgan was driving from Leeds to Southampton Docks when he picked up Figard on 19 December 1995. Detectives concluded that after raping and killing her, Morgan left her body in the bottom bunk of his cab for up to ten days while he continued to drive the lorry, driving and sleeping in it for at least some of that time, before disposing of the body on 29 December. He was arrested in February 1996 after another lorry driver recognised him from a photofit. Morgan initially denied meeting her, but after he was picked out at an identity parade, he claimed he and Figard had met and engaged in consensual sex.
Trial.
The trial began at Worcester Crown Court on 2 October 1996, before Mr Justice Latham and a jury. Morgan's trial counsel was Nigel Jones QC, and the case was prosecuted by David Farrer QC. Morgan denied the charge.
Evidence was presented by the prosecution to suggest that Morgan continued to use the vehicle while Figard's body lay in the cab, and that the lorry was parked outside his house over the Christmas period. Farrer said Morgan bought a spade, axe and hacksaw with the intention of dismembering the body, but changed his mind, instead making an overnight delivery run to dispose of it. After removing a fuse from his lorry's tachograph to conceal the journey, he drove to Worcestershire. Discrepancies were subsequently found in his travel records for 29 December 1995 because he forgot to replace the fuse following the trip. Several items belonging to Figard, including photographs and a toilet bag, were recovered from his house.
Morgan admitted giving Figard a lift on the afternoon of 19 December 1995, and that she was "smiling and happy". He did not come forward after police appealed for details of the driver who had given her a lift because he did not want his wife to learn of his infidelity. He claimed her photographs and other belongings were in his possession because she had left them in his truck, and the mattress had become stained with blood because a man had lain on it after gashing his leg while the vehicle was on loan to another driver in 1994.
On 16 October, a jury took three and a half hours to convict Morgan of Figard's murder, and he was sentenced to life imprisonment with a recommendation that the Home Secretary should decide his parole eligibility. Passing sentence, Mr Justice Latham said, "What you did to Céline has caused revulsion in the minds of all right-thinking people. You are a dangerous man and I will so report to the Home Secretary." Latham subsequently set a minimum term of twenty years, which was later endorsed by the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, Lord Bingham, and on 4 November 1998, the Home Secretary (Jack Straw) informed Morgan of the length of the sentence he must serve.
Appeals.
Morgan appealed his conviction on the grounds that it was unfair due to the level of publicity the case had received. His application was rejected by the Court of Appeal of England and Wales on 5 February 1998 after the three sitting judges ruled there were insufficient grounds to justify an appeal.
In January 2009, Morgan appealed again under paragraph 3 of Schedule 22 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 to the High Court of England and Wales requesting a review of the minimum term recommendation. This too was rejected, in July of that year, with the presiding judge, Mr Justice Openshaw recommending, "The sentence is – and remains – a sentence of imprisonment for life. The defendant may not even be considered for release until he has served at least 20 years (less the time served before sentence). That is not to say that he will then be released; indeed he will be detained unless and until the Parole Board is satisfied that he no longer presents a risk to the public. Even if the Parole Board decides then or at some time in the future to authorise his release, he will be upon licence which will extend for the rest of his life."
In January 2016, Morgan appealed against the Ministry of Justice after it decided not to downgrade his prisoner status from that of a Category A prisoner, as well as challenging the Parole Board for refusing to allow him an oral hearing. A hearing at the High Court on 26 January was told that under the terms of his sentence, Morgan would be eligible for parole from February, but had continued to maintain his innocence throughout his time in prison, claiming to be in a "Catch-22" situation where he could not qualify for release without admitting his guilt. Rejecting Morgan's case, Justice William Davis suggested that Morgan had not "addressed his offending behaviour" and was "in effect in the same position as in December 1995, when he murdered his victim".
In June 2022, the French newspaper "L'Est Républicain" reported that Morgan was still imprisoned and had seen another application for release rejected earlier in the year. In the 2022 Sky Crime documentary on the case, residents who lived near to Morgan at the time also said that he is still imprisoned. He is imprisoned at HM Prison Frankland.
Aftermath and memorials.
Figard's body was flown home to France on 17 January 1996, where her funeral was held on 20 January. She was buried in Scey-sur-Saône-et-Saint-Albin.
A memorial garden dedicated to Figard was planted at St Andrew's Church in the village of Ombersley, Worcestershire, close to where her body was found, and opened at a ceremony in June 1997. The garden also remembers other victims of violent crime, including Joanna Parrish and Caroline Dickinson, two English students who were murdered in France. On 29 December 2000, the fifth anniversary of the date Figard's body was recovered, the local newspaper, the "Worcester News" reported that an annual service of remembrance was held for her at the church during the autumn, attended by her parents. Flowers were also regularly placed at the lay-by at Hawford where she was found, and the location named "Le Jardin de Céline" (Céline's Garden) in her memory.
2022 documentary.
In 2022, a Sky Crime documentary on the case was aired. It was part of the "Murdered at First Sight" series.
See also.
Unsolved UK cases where the offender's DNA is likewise known:
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James Hepworth
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James Hepworth (born 10 June 1975) is an English professional golfer.
Hepworth was born in Harrogate, Yorkshire. He turned professional in 1997 and played on the Challenge Tour in 1999–2003, 2005–2006, 2008 and 2011. He earned two wins at that level, at the 2003 American Express Los Encinos Open and the 2006 Apulia San Domenico Grand Final. In both those seasons, he won promotion to the European Tour, for 2004 and 2007 respectively, but was unsuccessful at the higher level.
Professional wins (5).
Challenge Tour wins (2).
1Co-sanctioned by the Tour de las Américas
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Roscoea ganeshensis
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Roscoea ganeshensis is a perennial herbaceous plant occurring in Ganesh Himal (part of the Himalayas) in central Nepal. Most members of the ginger family (Zingiberaceae), to which it belongs, are tropical, but like other species of "Roscoea", "R. ganeshensis" grows in much colder mountainous regions. It is used as an ornamental garden plant, requiring moisture and shade in the summer.
Description.
"Roscoea ganeshensis" is a perennial herbaceous plant. Like all members of the genus "Roscoea", it grows from a short rhizome, to which the tuberous roots are attached. When growth begins again, "pseudostems" are produced: structures which resemble stems but are actually formed from the tightly wrapped bases (sheaths) of its leaves. "R. ganeshensis" is usually 12–15 cm tall, with five to six leaves. The blade of the leaf (the part free from the pseudostem) is 6–20 cm long by 2.7–5.3 cm wide. The leaf sheaths are wrinkled (rugose) and yellowish-green in colour. At the junction of the blade and sheath there are small transparent structures (ligules), 0.5–2 mm high.
In its native habitats, "R. ganeshensis" is thought to flower between August and September. The stem (peduncle) of the flower spike does not emerge from the leaf sheaths. Several purple flowers are produced, sometimes with a darker mark at the base of the lip or labellum. Yellow-green bracts, 8–13 cm long subtend the flowers.
Each flower has the typical structure for "Roscoea" (see that article for labelled images). There is a tube-shaped outer calyx, about 5–8 cm long. Next the three petals (the corolla) form a tube about 8.5 cm long, terminating in three petal lobes: an upright central lobe and two slightly shorter side lobes. The central lobe is about 3–3.5 cm long by 1–1.4 cm wide, and is paler on the outside with nine purple veins, purple on the inside at the top with purple and white stripes below. The side lobes are 2.7–3.1 cm long by 0.6–0.9 cm wide, also purple and paler at the base. Inside the petals are structures formed from four sterile stamens (staminodes). Two lateral staminodes form what appear to be small petals, about 1.6–2 cm long including a 0.2–0.5 cm narrowed "claw" at the base. Two central staminodes are fused at the base to form a lip or labellum, about 3.6–4.5 cm long by 2.5–3.5 cm wide. The labellum is purple with a "crumpled" surface and is split at the end for up to 1.5 cm into two lobes.
The single functional stamen is white with a linear anther, about 8 mm long, borne on a 4–5 mm long filament. A short cream spur is formed from the connective tissue between the two capsules of the anther, about 1.5–3 mm long. The three-celled ovary is 5–11 mm long.
"R. ganeshensis" can be distinguished from similar species of "Roscoea" by its very short internodes, leaves covered with fine hairs and the appearance of the labellum, which is crumpled with very distinct "shoulders" on its upper corners.
Taxonomy.
"R. ganeshensis" was first described by Jill Cowley and William Baker in 1996. The specific epithet "ganeshensis" is derived from the location where the species was first found, the Ganesh Himal in central Nepal. "R. ganeshensis" resembles a smaller version of "R. purpurea", which grows in the same location.
Evolution and phylogeny.
The family Zingiberaceae is mainly tropical in distribution. The unusual mountainous distribution of "Roscoea" may have evolved relatively recently and be a response to the uplift taking place in the region in the last 50 million years or so due to the collision of the Indian and Asian tectonic plates.
Species of "Roscoea" divide into two clear groups, a Himalayan clade and a "Chinese" clade (which includes some species from outside China). The two clades correspond to a geographical separation, their main distributions being divided by the Brahmaputra River as it flows south at the end of the Himalayan mountain chain. It has been suggested that the genus may have originated in this area and then spread westwards along the Himalayas and eastwards into the mountains of China and its southern neighbours. "R. ganeshensis" falls into the Himalayan clade as would be expected from its distribution. It appears to be most closely related to "R. capitata", although it has been described as resembling a "stunted" "R. purpurea".
Distribution and habitat.
According to Cowley (2007), "Roscoea ganeshensis" is only known from one locality, the Buri Gandaki valley in the Ganesh Himal, central Nepal, where it occurs at about 1,900 metres on a steep rocky bank.
Cultivation.
"R. ganeshensis" is in cultivation as an ornamental plant. General recommendations for the cultivation of roscoeas are a moisture-retaining but well-drained soil, with a mulch of a material such as bark, and shade for at least part of the day. The species was included in a Royal Horticultural Society trial of "Roscoea" species and cultivars in 2009–2011. Although it had been awarded a "Preliminary Commendation" in 1999, it was not given an award in the trial. It was noted that although it remained healthy, it did not increase well, needing more shade and moisture than was provided.
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1972 PBA Tour season
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This is a recap of the 1972 season for the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) Tour. It was the tour's 14th season, and consisted of 32 events. With three victories, including a major at the BPAA U.S. Open, Don Johnson repeated as PBA Player of the Year, becoming just the second multiple winner of the award (after Billy Hardwick). With his third victory of the season at the Brunswick World Open, Johnson also joined Dick Weber as the PBA Tour's only 20-time winners to date.
Mike Durbin captured the season's second major at the Firestone Tournament of Champions, while Johnny Guenther was the victor at the PBA National Championship.
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Víctor Cedrón
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Víctor Andrés Cedron Zurita (born 6 October 1993) is a Peruvian footballer who plays as a winger for Asociación Deportiva Tarma in the Peruvian Primera División.
Club career.
Victor Cedron joined the Universidad César Vallejo first team in January 2011. His league debut in Torneo Descentralizado came quickly on 13 February 2011 in matchday 1 at home to Colegio Nacional Iquitos. Manager Víctor Rivera put him in the match for Juan Pablo Vergara late in the game to finish off the 3–0 win for his side. He played his first game as a starter in his third league appearance, but he couldn't help side avoid a 3–1 defeat away to León de Huánuco.
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Shahrak-e Fajr, Ilam
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Shahrak-e Fajr (; also known as Fajr) is a village in Dasht-e Abbas Rural District, Musian District, Dehloran County, Ilam Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 365, in 61 families. The village is populated by Arabs.
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Augustus Duncombe
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Augustus Duncombe (2 November 1814 – 26 January 1880) was Dean of York from 1858 until his death.
Biography.
Duncombe was born the seventh child and fifth son of Charles Duncombe, 1st Baron Feversham, and educated at Worcester College, Oxford. He was Rector of Kirby Misperton, then Prebendary of Bole, before his appointment as Dean. During his tenure, the approach to York Minster from the south-west was widened by the construction (via the demolition of Minster Close) of a spacious approach. It was named Duncombe Place in his honour.
Marriage and children.
Duncombe married, on 13 May 1841, Lady Harriet Christian Douglas, the second child of Charles Douglas, 6th Marquess of Queensberry, and founder, in 1870, of York's St Stephen's Orphanage. Lady Harriet died in London on 26 July 1902, at the age of 93.
They had three daughters and two sons:
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Lester Archer
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Lester Archer (c. 1838 – October 27, 1864) was an American soldier who received the Medal of Honor for valor during the American Civil War.
Biography.
Archer enlisted in the Army from Fort Edward, New York in December 1861, and was promoted to Sergeant in June 1864. He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor on April 6, 1865 for his actions at the Battle of Fair Oaks & Darbytown Road.
Medal of Honor citation.
Citation:
Gallantry in placing the colors of his regiment on the fort.
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Karachi District (South)
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Karachi District (formerly Karachi South District)() is an administrative district of Karachi Division in Sindh, Pakistan, created in 1972. Karachi District had a population of 2,329,764 (2.3 million) as of 2023 Pakistani census.
In 2023, the Government of Sindh renamed Karachi South District simply to Karachi District because all divisional administration is located there.
History.
Karachi South District is the economic backbone of the country. It has the Head Offices of many Corporations, Companies and Banks. The Chief Secretary House, Governor House, Chief Minister House, Commissioner House, Commissioner Office, Sindh Assembly, High Court, Embassies and Consulates of different countries and other government offices are also located there.
The district was abolished in 2000, and was divided into two towns namely: Jamshed Town, and Saddar Town.
On 11 July 2011, the Sindh Government restored Karachi South District.
In November 2013, Jamshed Town was added into Karachi East District, after three eastern towns of that district split up to form a new district named Korangi. Now Karachi South comprise Saddar along with Clifton and Defence area. Karachi South is considered to be the most affluent area of the city.
In 2022, it was divided into two towns namely Saddar Town and Lyari Town.
In 2023, the Sindh Government renamed Karachi South District to Karachi District.
Demographics.
As of the 2023 census, Karachi South district has 425,093 households and a population of 2,329,764. The district has a sex ratio of 114.00 males to 100 females and a literacy rate of 78.57%: 80.76% for males and 76.05% for females. 487,047 (20.91% of the surveyed population) are under 10 years of age. The entire population lives in urban areas.
At the time of the 2023 census, 808,465 of the population spoke Urdu, 363,930 Sindhi, 269,872 Balochi, 219,474 Pashto, 190,438 Punjabi, 86,498 Hindko and 61,543 Saraiki, 5,370 Kashmiri, 8,434 Brahui, 498 Shina, 1,169 Balti, 1,501 Mewati, 56 Kalasha, 551 Kohistani, 311,965 others as their first language. A large percentage of the population speaks languages recorded as other on the census, such as Gujarati.
The majority religion is Islam, with 93.85% of the population. Hinduism (including Scheduled Castes) is practiced by 4.24% and Christianity by 1.65% of the population.
Administrative Towns of Karachi South.
Following is the list of two administrative towns of Karachi South District.
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Shahrak-e Hamzeh, Ilam
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Shahrak-e Hamzeh (, also Romanized as Shahrak-e Ḩamzeh; also known as Ḩamzeh and Shāvarīyeh) is a village in Dasht-e Abbas Rural District, Musian District, Dehloran County, Ilam Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 541, in 86 families. The village is populated by Arabs.
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BES-5
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BES-5, also known as Bouk or Buk (), was a Soviet thermoelectric generator that was used to power 31 satellites in the US-A (RORSAT) project. The heat source was a uranium 235 fast fission nuclear reactor (FNR).
Background.
Spacecraft nuclear reactors are typically fast reactors for the following reasons. First, normal moderator materials (carbon, water) add bulk and mass which is not desirable in a spacecraft. Second, for reasons of nucleonics the fuel must be highly enriched to have a lightweight critical mass (similar to small reactor designs on nuclear submarines). Note that some of the 238U (which is fertile and not fissile) will be converted to 239Pu during operation, and this is taken into consideration during the design and while estimating the power output and design life expectancy.
Reactor design.
The design of the BES-5 FNR is such that a sub-critical assembly exists into which a rod of fissile material is inserted. Feedback and monitoring of the power level will keep the reactor delayed critical and not prompt critical, which can be done by a mechanical control system.
The fuel core of the reactor was in diameter, long and weighed, as an assembly, , and contained of enriched uranium. The entire reactor, including the radiation shielding, weighed .
The uranium fuel was more than 90% enriched 235U
and generated of electrical power created by thermoelectric conversion of of thermal output.
Use in space.
The BES-5 reactor was used in more than 31 satellite missions to power the radar units of the US-A surveillance satellites. The reactor was designed to be boosted to a high orbit at the end of its operational life, to prevent the radioactive fuel from re-entering Earth's atmosphere.
There were several mishaps related to failures in the ejection system, most notably Kosmos 954, which scattered debris over Canada. Kosmos 1402 also re-entered the atmosphere, but burned up over the Atlantic Ocean, away from populated areas. Kosmos 1900 failed to reach its disposal orbit, and remains in low Earth orbit.
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IllRymz
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Illrymz (born Olowu Bardia Adebola; 3 December 1985) is a Nigerian television host, radio personality, writer, producer, event MC, artiste and former model. He is married to Omotara Odunusi.
He is the creator of the daily Instagram news show #SelfieNews and CEO of Contagious Collective, a creative media content company that has produced syndicated radio shows such as Radio Outloud with Nokia & ILL, The Jumia What Am I? Radio Show, Nunu Super Kids, and 0809ja_Radio. In 2016 he became the host of the Coke Studio Radio Hour produced in Los Angeles USA.
Illrymz's television credits include the host of "Nigerian Idol," and co-host of StarGist, Soundcity, and Nigezie.
Early life.
Illrymz was born in Lagos to a Persian mother and Yoruba father. At the age of 3, he was used as a baby model for an American beauty product. From an early age he sang in the church choir, and always had a lead or major role in the church drama.
Career.
Fresh out of high school, he met Emmanuel Essien (aka Mannie) of Cool FM, while working on a radio commercial for Gold Circle condoms. The two bonded as Mannie was a music composer and Illrymz was learning how to use his rhymes to write copy for advertising agencies. Immediately work on his first album started. However, the album was never completed. Shortly after this, he was introduced to another Emmanuel by his brother, this time a rapper called Mannie-X.
They were later joined by Leo Abulu (aka Luvdaddy) who was a close friend of Mannie. They became a Gospel Group called SOL later in the year. After recording four songs, the group decided to rebrand and started working on a new album under a new name Konfused. Once again, six songs into the album, the project was abandoned.
In 2003 he appeared in television and print commercials for Coca-Cola. He went on to model for Benson and Hedges, and MTN, as well as appearing on the runway on shows such as the Nigerian Fashion Show and Fashion Week.
Illrymz went on to study Mass Communication at the University of Lagos in 2006.
In 2005, Illrymz, as a brand name, was born with the launch of Nigeria's First Online Entertainment Magazine – VibeWeekly. Working with Mtech Communications on the Vibedownloads brand for three years.
Television.
In 2007 IllRymz made his television debut as the host of Nokia First Chance. Later in 2007, he signed on to urban Nigerian music and lifestyle channel Nigezie as music content producer, brand manager, and on-air personality. During his short stint with Nigezie he set up its 24-hour program schedule, and organised celebrity interviews. In 2008, he signed a television deal with Soundcity where he hosted red carpet events, presented the Global Countdown show, Sprite Triple Slam, and One on One—the celebrity interview show—and produced and presented The Nokia Express Music show. In 2010 he became host of the G-Bam show but the show was cancelled abruptly. In 2011 he became the host of international music franchise, "Nigerian Idol," which he hosted for season two alongside Nigerian RnB musician, Tiwa Savage, and seasons three, four and five (2012–2015). In late 2014 he joined the Africa Magic Team as the co-host of the pan African television show StarGist. In 2016 he joined the team of BET Africa as a presenter and insert producer for BET - A List.
Radio.
Illrymz produced the radio adverts for the MTV Africa Music Awards (MAMAS) show and went on to produce the 2008 and 2009 Awards radio commercials. He has also produced radio commercials for Nokia, Chicken Republic and Zain (now Airtel).
In early 2009 the Soundcity television brand established Soundcity Radio. Illrymz brought together the channel's ambassadors – Denrele Edun, S-Dot, and Yinka and set up 1-hour daily shows that ran on local radio stations from Monday to Sunday every week. The radio channel started off with music rotation and later transitioned into shows produced by Illrymz such as Nokia Top 5 Playlist hosted by illrymz, Sexy Tuesday hosted by Luvchild, Your Africa playlist hosted by S-Dot, and The Entertainer hosted by Denrele. The channel closed down when Illrymz resigned.
Later that year, he re-branded himself as The Big Homie and launched his own independent radio show sponsored by Nokia, Radio Outloud with Nokia. Starting off on two stations in Lagos the show expanded to six stations across Nigeria. The show showcases celebrities in unusual scenarios. It has featured musicians, actors, comedians, and producers and also UK funky house musician Donaeo, Jiggs from choice Fm London, Jimmie Jean Louis (The Haitian from Heroes & Mr Tunde from Phat Girls), Razz B (actor from DOOM) and Nate Parker from Great Debaters.
Illrymz has gone on to executive produce a series of radio shows under his creative media content company Contagious Collective such as The Jumia What Am I? Radio Show, 0809JA_Radio, Nunu Super Kids, The Wave, Pop Up & Shop, and The A-Team.
In late 2016 it was announced he would host the Coke Studio Radio Hour for Coca-Cola.
He is also the voice casting director for the first 3D animated cartoon series in Nigeria, The Idomietables by Indomie. Contagious Collective is also the production company behind the series' audio production.
Music.
In 2006 he released his first solo single, produced by Papilastic, titled "No Mago Mago!". Illrymz then went on a five-year hiatus from music. In late 2011 he "leaked" a single titled "Anyhow", produced by Nigerian producer Dr. Frabz. The singles "Pa Da Wa", featuring Dr. Frabs and Skales, and "Feel My Parol", produced by Samklef, followed. In 2012 Illrymz released the "official" single "Teacher Teacher", featuring Femi Kuti.
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Finite subdivision rule
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In mathematics, a finite subdivision rule is a recursive way of dividing a polygon or other two-dimensional shape into smaller and smaller pieces. Subdivision rules in a sense are generalizations of regular geometric fractals. Instead of repeating exactly the same design over and over, they have slight variations in each stage, allowing a richer structure while maintaining the elegant style of fractals. Subdivision rules have been used in architecture, biology, and computer science, as well as in the study of hyperbolic manifolds. Substitution tilings are a well-studied type of subdivision rule.
Definition.
A subdivision rule takes a tiling of the plane by polygons and turns it into a new tiling by subdividing each polygon into smaller polygons. It is finite if there are only finitely many ways that every polygon can subdivide. Each way of subdividing a tile is called a tile type. Each tile type is represented by a label (usually a letter). Every tile type subdivides into smaller tile types. Each edge also gets subdivided according to finitely many edge types. Finite subdivision rules can only subdivide tilings that are made up of polygons labelled by tile types. Such tilings are called subdivision complexes for the subdivision rule. Given any subdivision complex for a subdivision rule, we can subdivide it over and over again to get a sequence of tilings.
For instance, binary subdivision has one tile type and one edge type:
Since the only tile type is a quadrilateral, binary subdivision can only subdivide tilings made up of quadrilaterals. This means that the only subdivision complexes are tilings by quadrilaterals. The tiling can be regular, but doesn't have to be:
Here we start with a complex made of four quadrilaterals and subdivide it twice. All quadrilaterals are type A tiles.
Examples of finite subdivision rules.
Barycentric subdivision is an example of a subdivision rule with one edge type (that gets subdivided into two edges) and one tile type (a triangle that gets subdivided into 6 smaller triangles). Any triangulated surface is a barycentric subdivision complex.
The Penrose tiling can be generated by a subdivision rule on a set of four tile types (the curved lines in the table below only help to show how the tiles fit together):
Certain rational maps give rise to finite subdivision rules. This includes most Lattès maps.
Every prime, non-split alternating knot or link complement has a subdivision rule, with some tiles that do not subdivide, corresponding to the boundary of the link complement. The subdivision rules show what the night sky would look like to someone living in a knot complement; because the universe wraps around itself (i.e. is not simply connected), an observer would see the visible universe repeat itself in an infinite pattern. The subdivision rule describes that pattern.
The subdivision rule looks different for different geometries. This is a subdivision rule for the trefoil knot, which is not a hyperbolic knot:
And this is the subdivision rule for the Borromean rings, which is hyperbolic:
In each case, the subdivision rule would act on some tiling of a sphere (i.e. the night sky), but it is easier to just draw a small part of the night sky, corresponding to a single tile being repeatedly subdivided. This is what happens for the trefoil knot:
And for the Borromean rings:
Subdivision rules in higher dimensions.
Subdivision rules can easily be generalized to other dimensions. For instance, barycentric subdivision is used in all dimensions. Also, binary subdivision can be generalized to other dimensions (where hypercubes get divided by every midplane), as in the proof of the Heine–Borel theorem.
Rigorous definition.
A finite subdivision rule formula_1 consists of the following.
Each CW complex formula_6 in the definition above (with its given characteristic map formula_16) is called a tile type.
An formula_17-complex for a subdivision rule formula_17 is a 2-dimensional CW complex formula_19 which is the union of its closed 2-cells, together with a continuous cellular map formula_20 whose restriction to each open cell is a homeomorphism. We can subdivide formula_19 into a complex formula_22 by requiring that the induced map formula_23 restricts to a homeomorphism onto each open cell. formula_22 is again an formula_17-complex with map formula_26. By repeating this process, we obtain a sequence of subdivided formula_17-complexes formula_28 with maps formula_29.
Binary subdivision is one example:
The subdivision complex can be created by gluing together the opposite edges of the square, making the subdivision complex formula_2 into a torus. The subdivision map formula_31 is the doubling map on the torus, wrapping the meridian around itself twice and the longitude around itself twice. This is a four-fold covering map. The plane, tiled by squares, is a subdivision complex for this subdivision rule, with the structure map formula_32 given by the standard covering map. Under subdivision, each square in the plane gets subdivided into squares of one-fourth the size.
Quasi-isometry properties.
Subdivision rules can be used to study the quasi-isometry properties of certain spaces. Given a subdivision rule formula_17 and subdivision complex formula_19, one can construct a graph called the "history graph" that records the action of the subdivision rule. The graph consists of the dual graphs of every stage formula_28, together with edges connecting each tile in formula_28 with its subdivisions in formula_37.
The quasi-isometry properties of the history graph can be studied using subdivision rules. For instance, the history graph is quasi-isometric to hyperbolic space exactly when the subdivision rule is "conformal", as described in the combinatorial Riemann mapping theorem.
Applications.
Islamic Girih tiles in Islamic architecture are self-similar tilings that can be modeled with finite subdivision rules. In 2007, Peter J. Lu of Harvard University and Professor Paul J. Steinhardt of Princeton University published a paper in the journal "Science" suggesting that girih tilings possessed properties consistent with self-similar fractal quasicrystalline tilings such as Penrose tilings (presentation 1974, predecessor works starting in about 1964) predating them by five centuries.
Subdivision surfaces in computer graphics use subdivision rules to refine a surface to any given level of precision. These subdivision surfaces (such as the Catmull-Clark subdivision surface) take a polygon mesh (the kind used in 3D animated movies) and refine it to a mesh with more polygons by adding and shifting points according to different recursive formulas. Although many points get shifted in this process, each new mesh is combinatorially a subdivision of the old mesh (meaning that for every edge and vertex of the old mesh, one can identify a corresponding edge and vertex in the new one, plus several more edges and vertices).
Subdivision rules were applied by to the study of large-scale growth patterns of biological organisms. They produced a mathematical growth model which demonstrated that some systems determined by simple finite subdivision rules can result in objects (in their example, a tree trunk) whose large-scale form oscillates wildly over time, even though the local subdivision laws remain the same. They also applied their model to the analysis of the growth patterns of rat tissue. They suggested that the "negatively curved" (or non-euclidean) nature of microscopic growth patterns of biological organisms is one of the key reasons why large-scale organisms do not look like crystals or polyhedral shapes but in fact in many cases resemble self-similar fractals. In particular, they suggested that such "negatively curved" local structure is manifested in the highly folded and highly connected nature of the brain and the lung tissue.
Cannon's conjecture.
Cannon, Floyd, and Parry first studied finite subdivision rules as an attempt to prove the following conjecture:
Here, a geometric action is a cocompact, properly discontinuous action by isometries. This conjecture was partially solved by Grigori Perelman in his proof of the geometrization conjecture, which states (in part) that any Gromov hyperbolic group that is a 3-manifold group must act geometrically on hyperbolic 3-space. However, it still remains to be shown that a Gromov hyperbolic group with a 2-sphere at infinity is a 3-manifold group.
Cannon and Swenson showed that a hyperbolic group with a 2-sphere at infinity has an associated subdivision rule. If this subdivision rule is conformal in a certain sense, the group will be a 3-manifold group with the geometry of hyperbolic 3-space.
Combinatorial Riemann mapping theorem.
Subdivision rules provide a sequence of tilings of a surface, and tilings offer an intuitive understanding of distance, length, and area (by assigning each tile a length and area of 1). In the limit, the distances that come from these tilings may converge in some sense to an analytic structure on the surface. The combinatorial Riemann mapping theorem gives necessary and sufficient conditions for this to occur.
Its statement needs some background. A tiling formula_38 of a ring formula_17 (i.e., a closed annulus) gives two invariants, formula_40 and formula_41, called approximate moduli. These are similar to the classical modulus of a ring. They are defined by the use of "weight functions". A weight function formula_42 assigns a non-negative number called a "weight" to each tile of formula_38. Every path in formula_17 can be given a length, defined to be the sum of the weights of all tiles in the path. Define the height formula_45 of formula_17 under formula_42 to be the infimum of the length of all possible paths connecting the inner boundary of formula_17 to the outer boundary. The circumference formula_49 of formula_17 under formula_42 is the infimum of the length of all possible paths circling the ring (i.e., not nullhomotopic in R). The area formula_52 of formula_17 under formula_42 is defined to be the sum of the squares of all weights in formula_17. Invariant under scaling of the metric, they can be defined as:
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A sequence formula_57 of tilings is conformal (formula_58) if mesh approaches 0 and:
Statement of theorem.
If a sequence formula_57 of tilings of a surface is conformal (formula_58) in the above sense, then there is a conformal structure on the surface and a constant formula_76 depending only on formula_58 in which the classical moduli and approximate moduli (from formula_78 for formula_62 sufficiently large) of any given annulus are formula_76-comparable, meaning that they lie in a single interval formula_81.
Consequences.
The combinatorial Riemann mapping theorem implies that a group formula_82 acts geometrically on formula_83 if and only if it is Gromov hyperbolic, it has a sphere at infinity, and the natural subdivision rule on the sphere gives rise to a sequence of tilings that is conformal in the sense above. Thus, Cannon's conjecture would be true if all such subdivision rules were conformal.
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Grade I listed churches in West Yorkshire
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West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England. Created as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972, it consists of five metropolitan boroughs, namely the City of Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees, the City of Leeds and the City of Wakefield.
Its area corresponds approximately with the historic West Riding of Yorkshire, and it contains the major towns of Bradford, Dewsbury, Halifax, Huddersfield, Leeds, and Wakefield.
In England, buildings are given listed building status by the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, acting on the recommendation of English Heritage. This gives the structure national recognition and protection against alteration or demolition without authorisation. Grade I listed buildings are defined as being of "exceptional interest, sometimes considered to be internationally important"; only 2.5 per cent of listed buildings are included in this grade. This is a complete list of Grade I listed ecclesiastical buildings, including cathedrals, churches and chapels, in West Yorkshire as recorded in the National Heritage List for England.
Christian churches have existed in West Yorkshire since the Anglo-Saxon era, and two of the churches in the list have retained elements of Anglo-Saxon architecture, namely All Hallows, Bardsey, and All Saints, Ledsham. Surviving Norman architecture is found in particular in St John the Baptist, Adel, St Oswald, Guiseley, and St Mary, Kippax. Most of the remaining churches in this list are in the Gothic style, dating between the 13th and the 17th centuries. There are four buildings in the list that are largely Neoclassical in style, namely the chapel in Bramham Park, St Peter and St Leonard, Horbury, Holy Trinity, Leeds, and St Peter, Sowerby. Churches built in the 19th century, and in Gothic Revival style, are All Souls, Halifax, St Peter, Leeds, St Saviour, Leeds, and Todmorden Unitarian Church. Also in the list are the Italianate Congregational Church in Saltaire, and, in Modern style, Epiphany Church in Gipton, Leeds. Almost all the churches are part of the Anglican denomination, the exceptions being the Congregational Church in Saltaire, Todmorden Unitarian Church, the Puritan Chapel in Bramhope, and Fulneck Moravian Chapel.
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De-illumination
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De-illumination is a Bangladeshi metal band formed in October 2006 in Dhaka. Their debut album "অনিবার্য (Inevitable)" was released in 2010.
History.
Formation and early days (2006–2007).
De-illumination was formed with a vision to introduce a new genre, the Symphonic rock/Symphonic metal to Bangladeshi music. Sazzad Arefeen, one of the founding members of the band, had been working on and studying the genre since 1999. Later, Shams Mansoor Ghani, the then keyboardist of Warfaze offered his assistance and the duo started to work on the genre. Around 2006, they felt that they had made enough experiments so Shams proposed to go public. They asked Samiul, then drummer of Power Surge to join them. Anabil and Rony joined later and thus De-illumination was formed. During the experiments with the genre, Arefeen and Shams faced some technical difficulties since the genre was pretty new to the local music scene.
"অনিবার্য (Inevitable)" (2008–2010).
Before releasing their debut album, De-illumination released five singles in various mixed albums along with other Bangladeshi bands. In February 2008, they released their tracks "Choto Shopno" and "Jantrik Joddha" in the mixed band album "Dabanol". Their next appearance was in another mixed band album "Rage-1" with the track "Ekhoni Shomoy" released in August the same year. A year later, De-illumination released its fourth single "Hamaguri" through the album "Proloy".
In August 2010, De-illumination released their debut album "Onibarjo" which they claim to be the first Concept album in Bangladesh bearing the genre Symphonic Rock/Metal with a regional soul. De-illumination visited almost all the major cities of Bangladesh to promote the album. Their campaign to promote the album was titled "Onibarjo De-nation Public launch and visit tour" which got good response across the country. ABC Radio joined them as their Radio Alliance. At the seventh Citycell-Channel i Music Awards, De-illumination won the Judges' choice for best band
Social activism.
De-illumination have participated in different charity shows. Recently they have performed in a charity concert arranged by Bangladesh International Recovery Developmentsfor street children. Half of the money was donated to Savar victims too.
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Shahrak-e Mamlah
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Shahrak-e Mamlah (, also Romanized as Shahrak-e Mamlaḩ; also known as Mamlaḩ) is a village in Dasht-e Abbas Rural District, Musian District, Dehloran County, Ilam Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 456, in 74 families. The village is populated by Arabs.
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Brooks Head Grove
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Brooks Head Grove () is an biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire, notified in 1986. The site is listed in the 'Forest of Dean Local Plan Review' as a Key Wildlife Site (KWS).
Location and habitat.
It is situated within the Wye Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and is at the head of a small side valley of the River Wye south of English Bicknor. It overlies Carboniferous Lower dolomite and Lower Limestone Shales
which produces calcareous soils. It is part of the range of ancient broadleaved woodlands in the Wye Valley. In this vast collection of woodland there are many rare and local species. These include Large-leaved Lime and Whitebeam,
and trees near the edge of their European range such as Hornbeam.
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Shahrak-e Motarefeh
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Shahrak-e Motarefeh (, also Romanized as Shahrak-e Moţārefeh; also known as Moţārefeh) is a village in Dasht-e Abbas Rural District, Musian District, Dehloran County, Ilam Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 72, in 12 families. The village is populated by Arabs.
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Shahrak-e Nasr
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Shahrak-e Nasr (, also Romanized as Shahrak-e Naşr; also known as Naşr) is a village in Dasht-e Abbas Rural District, Musian District, Dehloran County, Ilam Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 547, in 81 families. The village is populated by Arabs.
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Bogojević
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Bogojević () is a Serbian surname. It derives from personal name "Bogoje" (Богоје), derived from the word "bog" meaning "God", with the possessive suffix "-ev" ("Bogoje's"). The suffix "ić" is a diminutive designation, or descendant designation. Thus the last name can be translated as "Bogoje's son". It may refer to:
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Bruce Dickey
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Bruce Dickey is an American cornett player. He is regarded as the doyen of the modern generation of cornett players, many of whom were his students at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis and Early Music Institute at Indiana University, or students of his students. In 1987 he founded the ensemble Concerto Palatino with the Dutch baroque trombonist Charles Toet, following the name of the original eight-man "Concerto Palatino della Signoria di Bologna" of San Petronio which was famed from 1530 to 1800. He is married to the American singer and conductor Candace Smith, with whom he founded Artemisia Editions, which specializes in publishing editions of 17th-century Italian sacred music.
He attended Indiana University School of Music.
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Shahrak-e Sadat
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Shahrak-e Sadat (, also Romanized as Shahrak-e Sādāt; also known as Sādāt and Sharafeh) is a village in Dasht-e Abbas Rural District, Musian District, Dehloran County, Ilam Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 232, in 31 families.
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Shahrak-e Septun
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Shahrak-e Septun (, also Romanized as Shahrak-e Septūn; also known as Septūn) is a village in Dasht-e Abbas Rural District, Musian District, Dehloran County, Ilam Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 503, in 80 families. The village is populated by Arabs.
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Shahrak-e Zu ol Faqari
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Shahrak-e Zu ol Faqari (, also Romanized as Shahrak-e Z̄ū ol Faqārī; also known as Shahrak-e Z̄ū ol Faqār) is a village in Dasht-e Abbas Rural District, Musian District, Dehloran County, Ilam Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 982, in 133 families. The village is populated by Arabs.
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Sheykh Nowruz Shahrak-e Fath
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Sheykh Nowruz Shahrak-e Fath (, also Romanized as Sheykh Nowrūz Shahrak-e Fatḩ; also known as Fatḩ) is a village in Dasht-e Abbas Rural District, Musian District, Dehloran County, Ilam Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 321, in 48 families.
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Capture (band)
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Capture (originally known as Capture the Crown) were an Australian metalcore band formed in early 2010 after the break-up of another metalcore outfit, Atlanta Takes State. The band rose to prominence under their original name Capture the Crown when they released the music video for their song, "You Call That a Knife? This Is a Knife!" (2011) on YouTube. The band was signed to Sumerian Records in December 2012 but were dropped in October the following year. Since their formation they have issued two studio albums, "'Til Death" (18 December 2012), which appeared on three "Billboard" component charts Top Hard Rock (No. 21), Top Heatseekers (No. 7), and Top Independent Albums (No. 25), and "Reign of Terror" (5 August 2014), which charted at #86 on the U.S. Billboard 200. In August 2013 the group announced the proposed release of an extended play, "Live Life", which was released on 4 February 2014. Later in 2014, they announced that they had signed with Artery Recordings. In March 2017, the group shortened its name to simply Capture and unveiled a new song under the new title.
History.
Inception and "'Til Death" (2010–2012).
Formed in early 2010 in Sydney by Blake Ellis on guitar (later on bass guitar), Jye Menzies on guitar and Jeffrey Wellfare on lead vocals. The band gained popularity through their YouTube channel, and first release "You Call That a Knife? This Is a Knife!", quickly reaching five million views in under one year. All three, Wellfare, Menzies, and Ellis were previously in another metalcore band, Atlanta Takes State. While their music video quickly rose them to popularity in the scene, it also gained them criticism for resembling other bands in the genre, such as Asking Alexandria. Their original drummer, Tyler March (known by his nickname, Lone America, and for playing drums in "A Late Night Serenade"), is the only member not from Australia, being from Carlisle, Pennsylvania in the United States. The other members met him online and he was asked to join. Kris Sheehan joined in 2011, having played in Curse at 27 with Wellfare.
Four months later on 11 March 2012, the band released their second single, "#OIMATEWTF", which features guest vocals by Denis Shaforostov, from the band Make Me Famous at that time. The video reached almost 500,000 views in under six months. A month later, a cover of Jason Derülo's song "In My Head" was released, followed by the band's fourth single, "Ladies & Gentlemen... I Give You Hell", released 1 July 2012, reaching 350,000 views in just under two months.
On 20 August 2012, the band announced that they were supporting Woe, Is Me's Talk Your [S]#?!, We'll Give You a Reason Tour, with fellow supporting acts Chunk! No, Captain Chunk!, Our Last Night, Secrets, and The Seeking. On 19 November that year, the band was announced as part of Of Mice & Men's 2013 US Headlining tour with fellow acts Woe, Is Me, Texas in July, and Volumes from mid-January to early February.
On 24 November 2012 the band announced their debut album, "Til Death" on 18 December which they would be self-releasing and have pre-order packages set up on the band's webstore. With the announcement the band revealed the album's artwork and track listing. By 3 December 2012 the band had signed with Sumerian Records which would issue their forthcoming album. Along with the announcement, a music video for "Ladies & Gentlemen...I Give You Hell" appeared.
On 13 December the band began streaming a new single from their forthcoming album, "RVG" via YouTube. On 18 December 2012 the band's debut album, "Til Death" was released, which had been recorded at Chango Studios and produced and mixed by Cameron Mizell and mastered by Joey Sturgis. It appeared on three "Billboard" component charts Top Hard Rock (No. 21), Top Heatseekers (No. 7), and Top Independent Albums (No. 25).
"Live Life" and drop from Sumerian (2013–2014).
On 11 March 2013 the band were announced to embark on Crown the Empire's first headlining tour, The Generation Now Tour from 7 to 26 May of that year with fellow acts Palisades, Heartist and Famous Last Words. On 3 April 2013 the band were announced as one of the initial bands for Vans Warped Tour UK alongside Rise Against, Yellowcard, Billy Talent, Real Friends and Crossfaith. The UK Warped Tour appearance took place on 16 and 17 November at London's Alexandra Palace for the second year in a row.
On 4 April 2013 the band were announced to play the 2013 All Stars Tour with fellow acts Every Time I Die, Chelsea Grin, Veil of Maya, Terror, Stray from the Path, Iwrestledabearonce, For All Those Sleeping and DayShell. They were joined by Volumes, and by Structures on select dates. On 20 May the group streamed their new single, "Rebearth" featuring Tyler Smith of The Word Alive, the single is from their proposed forthcoming EP, "All Hype All Night". The band will be releasing their new single on 21 May.
On 17 July the band announced the All Hype All Night Tour beginning on 31 August through September with support acts, Secrets, Ice Nine Kills, My Ticket Home and City in the Sea. On 29 August the band were announced to play the 2013 Scream It Like You Mean It Tour after a schedule was leaked alongside other acts Like Moths to Flames, Hawthorne Heights and I Am King. Later that day the band released a lyric video for their next single, "All Hype All Night", via Alternative Press, the bands forthcoming EP was announced as coming soon through Sumerian Records.
On 30 October 2013, Sumerian Records announced that they had dropped Capture the Crown from their roster, with the statement "...We are now ready to let you know that we will be parting ways with Capture The Crown due to musical/creative differences. We wish them the best of luck in their future endeavors". The band provided their own statement, "We would like to thank Sumerian Records for everything they've helped us with over the span of our business relationship. In this time we were able to release our debut album, move to the US, tour with such great bands like Of Mice & Men, Every Time I Die, Chelsea Grin, Story of the Year & Volumes to name a few. Regardless of our current situation, the band is currently working on a brand new full-length album which you will hear more about in the near future. This may be the end of something good, but it's also the start of something amazing!".
On 9 November the band announced that they would be cancelling their UK tour, but that they have been working really hard on a new album and will be heading into the studio in January. On 3 December 2013 the band announced that they have launched a $10,000 Indiegogo Campaign to fund their EP, "Live Life", that they had been working on while a part of Sumerian Records. The next day the band an unmastered version of the track, "Live Life" from their forthcoming EP, with this song being the first release by the band not through Sumerian Records. On 14 December 2013 they were announced as support on Attila's The New Kings Tour from late January through February with fellow acts I See Stars, Ice Nine Kills and Myka Relocate.
Label change, "Reign of Terror" (2014–2016).
On 22 December 2013, Blake Ellis announced his departure from the band on his personal Facebook page with the statement ""..."It is with great sadness that due to recent events I will no longer be playing bass for Capture The Crown, a band that I formed & have been in since the very beginning."" Two days later the band released a picture announcing that Gus Farias of the band Volumes would be providing guest vocals on a song from their forthcoming EP.
On 5 January 2014 Matt Good (of From First to Last) tweeted that he would be producing Capture the Crown's new album alongside producer Taylor Larson (Periphery, Sky Eats Airplane) in DC. The following day the band announced that they had doubled their initial crowdfunding funding goal with US$22,207, they will now be able to retrieve the rights to their already recorded EP, and head into the studio to begin recording their new album. On 9 April 2014, they would be signed by Artery Recordings.
On 2 June 2014 the band announced that their new album "Reign Of Terror" will be released on 5 August 2014. On 9 June 2014, the band released the song "To Whom It May Concern", the first single from the album. The band later released two more songs from the album – "I Hate You" (Released on 1 July 2014) and "Make War, Not Love" feat. Alex Koehler from Chelsea Grin (Released on 24 July 2014.)
Reign of Terror was released on 5 August and charted at number 86 on the Billboard 200 in the U.S.
In October 2014 guitarists Jye Menzies & Kris Sheehan along with drummer Tyler March had also left the band. Jye cited the band becoming a negative force in his life as a reason for his departure. The band released an official statement on their Facebook page confirming the news. It was also announced by the band on 26 October that the other new guitarist is Mitch Rogers. Silently in 2015, Joe Abikhair (formerly of Hunt The Haunted and Empires Fall) replaced Ryan Seritti on drums – starting from their first ever Australian tour.
From March until April 2016, the group toured the United States with Slaves, Myka Relocate, Outline in Color and Conquer Divide.
Name change and "Lost Control" (2016–2019).
On 30 July 2016, the band released a new single, 'The Lake' off their upcoming album. On 14 March 2017, the band wrote "RIP CTC" on their social media, leading to their fans to thinking that the band broke up. However, the band's Instagram posted a teaser under new name Capture. It contained a short clip of a song and a list of upcoming tour dates in the USA. Shortly thereafter, the full song, called "Lost Control," was released through Artery Recordings. The band explained that it wanted to turn the page into a new project and move past the so-called "negativity" of the metalcore scene without alienating Capture the Crown's earlier fans. Despite this, the band would then go on an unannounced hiatus until August 2018, when they announced that they would be going on tour with MyChildren MyBride, Secrets, Earth Groans, and Half Hearted on MyChildren MyBride's Unbreakable 10th Anniversary Tour in October. On 12 July 2019 the band released a new song titled 'No Cure' along with the announcement of a new album titled "Lost Control" set for release on 16 August 2019.
Band members.
Past members
Discography.
Studio albums.
as Capture the Crown:
as Capture:
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D. K. Sapru
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Daya Kishan Sapru (16 March 1916 – 20 October 1979), was an Indian actor famed for a variety of character roles in Hindi cinema, particularly villains, judges and aristocrats in crime thrillers and dramas. His most notable performances were in Bollywood productions of between the late 1950s and early 1970s, including "Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam", "Heer Raanjha", "Pakeezah", "Kala Pani", "Dooj Ka Chand", " Tere Mere Sapne", "Humjoli", "Jewel Thief", and "Deewar".
Born to Kashmiri Pandit parents in 1916, Sapru made his Bollywood debut in "Chand" (1944), starring Prem Adib, another Kashmiri Pandit actor. By the early 1970s, Sapru had risen to prominence as a villain in crime thrillers. Although he died in 1979, he continued to appear in several films that were released in the 1980s, including "Krodhi" (1981).
His son Tej Sapru and younger daughter Preeti Sapru are actors in Punjabi and Hindi films. His elder daughter Reema Rakesh Nath is a scriptwriter and director, and her son, actor Karan Nath, is Sapru's only grandson.
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West Funk
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West Funk (1841 – July 29, 1897) was an American soldier who received the Medal of Honor for valor during the American Civil War.
Biography.
Funk enlisted in the 121st Pennsylvania in September 1862, and was mustered out with the rest of his regiment in June 1865. He was awarded the Medal of Honor on October 15, 1872 for his actions at the Battle of Appomattox Court House.
Medal of Honor citation.
Citation:
The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Major West Funk, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism on 9 April 1865, while serving with 121st Pennsylvania Infantry, in action at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, for capture of flag of 46th Virginia Infantry (Confederate States of America).
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WRFJ
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WRFJ is a non-commercial radio station located in Fort Mill, South Carolina, United States, that broadcasts on a frequency of 91.5 MHz. It is owned by the Radio Training Network. Since August 2014, the station has been a repeater for RTN's Christian Contemporary Praise & Worship format, His Radio Praise.
The station broadcasts at only 140 watts from a tiny (by modern broadcasting standards) tower west of downtown Fort Mill. The modest power and short tower are mainly due to being short-spaced to WSGE in Dallas, North Carolina at nearby 91.7 FM. It can only be heard clearly in Fort Mill itself. Even in areas of Charlotte close to the South Carolina line, the signal is marginal at best; it can't be heard at all even in areas of York County close to Fort Mill, such as Rock Hill and Lake Wylie. Most of the Charlotte area has to rely on streaming for the full HIS Radio Praise schedule.
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Lars Skattebøl
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Lars Skattebøl FRSC (born 16 July 1927) is a Norwegian scientist and professor emeritus at the University of Oslo. The Skattebøl rearrangement, a chemical reaction, was named after his discovery. He was born in Bærum.
Skattebøl received his degree in engineering from Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1951 and a doctorate in chemistry from the University of Manchester in 1956. He has worked as a researcher for Union Carbide in Brussels, at SINTEF in Trondheim as well as Norsk Hydro.
As a scholar, Skattebøl has been employed as professor in chemistry at the Oslo University and the University of Tromsø. He has received a number of awards and is a fellow of several scientific academies in his native country, including the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters, The Royal Society of Chemistry and the American Chemical Society. He chaired the Norwegian Chemical Society for six years, is now an honorary member there, and was an editorial board member of "Acta Chemica Scandinavica".
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Bogović
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Bogović (, pl. Bogovići) is a Serbo-Croatian surname, derived from the word "bog", meaning "God". It may refer to:
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Asamushi-Natsudomari Prefectural Natural Park
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is a Prefectural Natural Park on the north coast of Aomori Prefecture, Japan, overlooking Mutsu Bay. Established in 1953, the park spans the borders of the municipalities of Aomori and Hiranai. It encompasses Asamushi Onsen and the coastline of the .
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Anglin J6 Karatoo
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The Anglin J6 Karatoo is an Australian ultralight and light-sport aircraft that was designed by Jesse Anglin and introduced in 1982. Over the years the J6 Karatoo has been produced by several different manufacturers, including Amax Engineering of Donvale, Victoria, Skyway Aircraft and is currently built by Serenity Aviation of Australia. The aircraft is supplied as plans or as a kit for amateur construction.
Design and development.
The aircraft features a strut-braced high-wing, a two-seats-in-side-by-side configuration enclosed cockpit with doors, fixed conventional landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration.
The aircraft fuselage is made from welded 4130 steel tubing, with its wings usually made with a wooden structure, all covered in doped aircraft fabric. Its span wing employs a Clark Y airfoil, has an area of and optional flaps. The wing is supported by V-struts and jury struts and is constructed with marine plywood ribs and a D-cell leading edge, although a metal wing was under development. Wing folding for ground transport or storage is optional. Floats for water operations are an option.
The Karatoo can accept engines in the range of , depending on the model. Engines used include the Rotax 503 and the Rotax 582 two-strokes as well as the Rotax 912UL, the Rotax 912ULS, Jabiru 2200, Subaru EA engine, Continental C-90 and the Continental O-200A four-stroke powerplants.
In 1988 the J6 design was adapted to the Canadian ultralight rules as the Norman Aviation J6 Karatoo and, in 1990, as the Buzzman L'il Buzzard.
Operational history.
In August 2012 there were 14 J6 Karatoos registered in the United States with the Federal Aviation Administration in the "Experimental - Amateur Built" and light-sport categories.
Initial model with a gross weight of , commonly powered by a Rotax 503. The earliest versions had a solid spruce main spar and later a spruce I beam spar.
Improved model developed by Anglin in conjunction with Max Peters. The J6B has a gross weight of , strengthened landing gear, optional flaps and initially used a Subaru EA engine automotive conversion powerplant.
Model with a gross weight of , a longer and wider fuselage, with a revised rear fuselage structure.
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Conconully Dam
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Conconully Dam (National ID # WA00259) is a dam in Okanogan County, Washington, United States.
The earthen dam was initially constructed at a height of in 1910 and 1911 by the United States Bureau of Reclamation, during the first generation of the Bureau's activity, then raised in 1920 and reconstructed in 1969. The dam's current height is and it is long at its crest.
Conconully Dam impounds Salmon Creek for flood control and irrigation storage, part of the larger Okanogan Project. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 6, 1974. The adjacent 1921 Salmon Lake Dam and its reservoir, Conconully Lake, are also part of the same project. Both are owned by the Bureau and operated by the local Okanogan Irrigation District.
The Conconully Reservoir has a normal water surface area of and a maximum storage capacity of . Recreation includes fishing (for rainbow trout, cutthroat trout and smallmouth bass), boating, camping, hiking and wildlife viewing. Conconully State Park and Conconully National Wildlife Refuge are also nearby.
History.
The construction of the dam was interrupted by a strike in July 1909. The construction workers were offered a twenty-five cent per day pay increase but demanded fifty cents. Notice of the strike was published in the "Industrial Worker", a weekly newspaper of the Industrial Workers of the World published out of Spokane.
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Pabolav
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Pabolav is a village in Nagaur district in the Indian state of Rajasthan, located between three cities, Sujangarh, Jaswantgarh and Ladnun. The combination is called Sujala.
Temples.
Its main shrine is Lord Hanuman's temple beside a pond. This is called a holy Shree Sidha Pith. It is near the birthplace of Salasar Balaji (Asota). Shree Kamleshwar bharati is Present peethadheswar of Pabolav dham.
Cattle fair.
Every year a cattle fair runs for 10 days. It occurs in the Bhadra month of lunar calendar (August–September). The fairground is on National Highway No. 6 5 Jaswantgarh - Ladnun, Surajmal Tapdiyha ITI is located near the fairground. The fair operates under the auspices of the Panchayat Samiti Ladnun. Fair merchants come from Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, comprising thousands of cattle merchants.
Cattle breeds include Marwari breed, Nagauri and Shekhawati bull, bull-buffalo. Camel breeds include Bikaneri, Jaisalmeri and Tordiyia. Horses are also traded.
Events include camel racing, horse racing, bull calf racing and racing. Kalbelia dance and Teja gayan provide entertainment.
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St. Michael the Archangel Ukrainian Catholic Church
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St. Michael the Archangel Ukrainian Catholic Church is a Ukrainian Catholic church located in Baltimore, Maryland. It was founded to initially serve the needs of the Ukrainian immigrant community in Baltimore.
History.
Western Ukrainians (sometimes identified as Ruthenians or Rusyns) began to immigrate to Baltimore in the 1880s and by the 1890s Ukrainian Catholic priests were traveling from Pennsylvania to Baltimore to serve the Ukrainian Catholic community. St. Michael's parish was founded in 1893 and the church was built in 1912. The church population continued to grow throughout the 20th century, causing the church to seek home in a new building in 1981. The church lot was blessed in 1984 and the construction on the parish was completed by September, 1988. Final construction on the church was not completed until May, 1991. The church was dedicated in 1991, consecrated in November, 1992, and the Iconostasis was blessed in June, 1995. The painting of the interior was completed and blessed by Metropolitan Stephen Sulyk in November, 1997. The church was modeled after a design in Kyiv, Ukraine.
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Bareh Bijeh
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Bareh Bijeh () is a village in, and the capital of, Nahranbar Rural District of Musiyan District, Dehloran County, Ilam province, Iran.
Demographics.
Language.
The village is populated by Arabs.
Population.
At the time of the 2006 National Census, the village's population was 248 in 43 households. The following census in 2011 counted 279 people in 54 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the village as 272 people in 65 households.
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Chester S. Furman
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Chester S. Furman (February 14, 1842 – July 22, 1910) was an American soldier who received the Medal of Honor for valor during the American Civil War.
Biography.
Furman joined the 6th Pennsylvania Reserves in July 1861 and was transferred to the US Army Signal Corps in October 1863. He received the Medal of Honor on August 3, 1897 for his actions on the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg.
Medal of Honor citation.
Citation:
The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Corporal Chester S. Furman, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism on 2 July 1863, while serving with Company A, 6th Pennsylvania Reserves, in action at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Corporal Furman was one of six volunteers who charged upon a log house near Devil's Den, where a squad of the enemy's sharpshooters were sheltered, and compelled their surrender.
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Fred Mecklenburg
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Fred Emil Mecklenburg (1935 - April 6, 2020) was an American obstetrician-gynecologist who had been active in opposition to legal abortion. He was a founder of the Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life, American Citizens Concerned for Life, and chairman of the National Right to Life Committee from 1973 to 1975.
Life and career.
Mecklenburg grew up in Minnesota. His wife, Marjory Mecklenburg grew up in Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota, and they were high school debating partners before marriage. He and his wife have four children, one of whom is Karl Mecklenburg, a former American football player for the Denver Broncos.
Mecklenburg attended University of Minnesota, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in 1957 and an additional degree in 1958. He graduated from the University of Minnesota Medical School in 1960 and was certified in obstetrics and gynaecology in 1968. His residency was interrupted when he served for two years in the United States Army Medical Corps. He served as Director of Family Planning Programs, at University of Minnesota at a time when they opened a clinic off campus for married and unmarried students seeking family planning services.
He had a practice in Edina, Minnesota until relocating to the Washington, D. C. area in 1981, when his wife was appointed by Ronald Reagan to Office of Adolescent Pregnancy Programs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. She had previously served on an advisory panel for the Office of Technology Assessment investigating fertility planning technologies. She later became Director of the Office of Population Affairs where she served until 1985.
Mecklenburg held an OB/GYN position with Kaiser Permanente in Reston, Virginia in the 1980s. Mecklenburg later joined the Inova Fairfax Women's Center in Virginia, and he is currently Chairman of the OB/GYN department.
Opposition to abortion.
Mecklenburg and his wife became involved in the opposition to legal abortion in 1967. Mecklenburg served as president of the pro-life organization Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life, and his wife succeeded him in that position. Mecklenburg was a strong supporter of Planned Parenthood and urged the antiabortion movement not to object to family planning.
In 1972, he authored a book chapter, "The Indications for Induced Abortion: A Physician's Perspective", which argued in part that pregnancy from rape "is extremely rare." The chapter appeared in a book titled "Abortion and Social Justice", written in response to arguments before the Supreme Court regarding legalizing abortion in "Roe v. Wade". Mecklenburg added that a woman exposed to the trauma of rape "will not ovulate even if she is 'scheduled' to." Mecklenburg said researchers in Nazi death camps observed this effect by "selecting women who were about to ovulate and sending them to the gas chambers, only to bring them back after their realistic mock-killing, to see what the effect this had on their ovulatory patterns. An extremely high percentage of these women did not ovulate." Journalist Blythe Bernhard stated, "That article has influenced two generations of anti-abortion activists with the hope to build a medical case to ban all abortions without any exception."
In 1975, Mecklenburg testified as an expert witness in a manslaughter prosecution against a Boston obstetrician, and criticized the abortion procedure used by the defendant.
In the 1980s, Marjory Mecklenburg served as president of the National Right to Life Committee.
In 1988, Pennsylvania state Republican representative Stephen Freind, claiming to rely on Mecklenburg, publicly argued that rape prevents pregnancy with the odds of pregnancy being "one in millions and millions and millions." Mecklenburg responded in a prepared statement that he regretted his opinions were used to support Freind's position. In 2012, Mecklenburg's 1972 article was mentioned as a possible source for similar comments made by U.S. Senate candidate Todd Akin.
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Alberto Cambrosio
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Alberto Cambrosio is a sociologist of biomedicine at McGill University. He earned his PhD in History and Sociology of Science from the Université de Montréal. He holds a bachelor's degree in Biology from the University of Basel, Switzerland, and a master's degree in Environmental Science from the Université de Sherbrooke, Canada.
He is widely published, and has written three books. In 2005, he received the Ludwik Fleck Prize from the Society for Social Studies of Science for his book "Biomedical Platforms" with historian Peter Keating.
He is Professor and former Chair of the Department of Social Studies of Medicine at McGill University. Since 2011 he has been a guest professor at the Center for the Sociology of Organizations in Paris, France.
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36799792
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20483999
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36799792
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Dalpari
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Dalpari (, also Romanized as Dālparī) is a village in Nahr-e Anbar Rural District, Musian District, Dehloran County, Ilam Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 28, in 7 families.
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9889328
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36799799
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Jalizi-ye Bala
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Jalizi-ye Bala () is a village in, and the capital of, Dalpari Rural District of Musiyan District, Dehloran County, Ilam province, Iran.
Demographics.
Ethnicity.
The village is populated by Arabs.
Population.
At the time of the 2006 National Census, the village's population was 860 in 131 households, when it was in Nahranbar Rural District. The following census in 2011 counted 981 people in 198 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the village as 983 people in 193 households.
In 2017, Jalizi-ye Bala was transferred to Dalpari Rural District created in the district.
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36799811
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20483999
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36799811
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Jalizi-ye Pain
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Jalizi-ye Pain (, also Romanized as Jalīzī-ye Pā'īn; also known as ‘Alī Na‘īr (Persian: علي نعير) and Jalīzī-ye ‘Alī Naşīr) is a village in Nahr-e Anbar Rural District, Musian District, Dehloran County, Ilam Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 198, in 32 families. The village is populated by Arabs.
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36799834
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82835
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36799834
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Ōwani Ikarigaseki Onsenkyō Prefectural Natural Park
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is a Prefectural Natural Park in southern Aomori Prefecture, Japan. Established in 1953, the park spans the borders of the municipalities of Hirakawa and Ōwani.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36799839
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Midnight (musician)
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Midnight (born John Patrick Jr. McDonald, April 29, 1962 – July 8, 2009) was an American musician best known for being the vocalist of Crimson Glory. The band became known for Midnight's "ear-shattering screams", which drew comparisons to Geoff Tate, and "painfully strident delivery."
Career.
Midnight joined Crimson Glory in the early 1980s. In 1986, their debut album was issued by PAR Records and picked up internationally by Roadrunner Records. It took the newcomers only a couple of years to surpass their debut with their sophomore effort, 1988's "Transcendence", a joint release on MCA/Roadrunner. In 1991 they signed to Atlantic Records and released "Strange & Beautiful", an album which showed a commercial switch in the band's sound. Not long after the latest release, Midnight left the band and the other members dispersed and became involved with various other acts.
For roughly seven years, Midnight remained out of sight. In the late 1990s, Midnight spent months recording a six-song full-band recording to try to secure a new record deal and some press. Unfortunately, when he left Florida and went to Texas he lost the only original master tape. To recover from this huge setback, Midnight reappeared with a low-budget EP originally titled "Songs from the Attic" which was later re-released simply as "M"; produced by Tim Fredenburg and featuring Bobby Kovacs on guitar, it explored a more acoustic direction. Only 500 copies were made. Once again, Midnight vanished, until in late 2004 it was announced that he had joined forces with Black Lotus Records to release his full-length debut solo album, "Sakada".
After the release of "Sakada", Midnight did a short press tour in Europe which also included several acoustic performances. In 2007, Midnight joined forces with a new group of musicians including Matt LaPorte who also played with the ex-Savatage frontman's band Jon Oliva's Pain, and Lee Harrison, the drummer and founder of the death metal band Monstrosity who also previously toured with Obituary and is currently with Terrorizer, as well. Together they recorded, in addition to the "All Souls Midnight" disc, material for a 20-song covers disc simply titled "Covers", a 36 song 3-CD set of original songs titled "M2 – Descending into Madness", and a 24-clip DVD documenting the final recordings called "A Strange Tea Party", all of which remains unreleased. Other musicians involved in these recordings were Phil Anderson (who produced and played on Sakada), John Zahner (Crimson Glory, Jon Oliva's Pain), Zane Black (Kozmic Lords), Chris Tripp (Tripp3), Ronnie Dee (Greg Billings), and Jerry Outlaw (Genitorturers, Jon Oliva's Pain).
Midnight joined forces with Jon Oliva in 2008 to re-record "Painted Skies" from "Transcendence".
Death and later developments.
On July 8, 2009, Midnight died of a stomach aneurysm at the age of 47 in St. Petersburg, Florida, U.S. In memory of their fallen bandmate, the rest of Crimson Glory played a tribute show, headlining 2009's ProgPower. The show featured several guest vocalists, including Todd La Torre, who eventually joined the band as their new lead singer.
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36799840
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28481209
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36799840
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Neocollyris krausei
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Neocollyris krausei is a species in the tiger beetle family Cicindelidae. It was described by Naviaux in 1992.
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36799842
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28481209
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36799842
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Neocollyris labiomaculata
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Neocollyris labiomaculata is a species in the tiger beetle family Cicindelidae. It was described by Horn in 1892.
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36799843
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28481209
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36799843
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Neocollyris labiopalpalis
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Neocollyris labiopalpalis is a species in the tiger beetle family Cicindelidae. It was described by Horn in 1932.
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36799844
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20483999
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36799844
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Marzabad, Ilam
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Marzabad (, also Romanized as Marzābād) is a village in Nahr-e Anbar Rural District, Musian District, Dehloran County, Ilam Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 161, in 28 families. The village is populated by Arabs.
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36799845
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28481209
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36799845
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Neocollyris lepida
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Neocollyris lepida is a species in the tiger beetle family Cicindelidae. It was described by Naviaux in 2004.
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36799848
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40778144
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36799848
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Neocollyris leucodactyla
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Neocollyris leucodactyla is a species in the tiger beetle family Cicindelidae. It was described by Chaudoir in 1860.
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36799849
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27015025
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36799849
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Jet Ski Lady
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Jet Ski Lady (foaled 20 February 1988) was an American-bred, Irish-trained thoroughbred racehorse, best known for winning The Oaks in 1991. In a racing career which lasted from June 1990 to October 1991 the filly ran ten times and won four races. After winning twice as a two-year-old, Jet Ski Lady competed against colts with mixed success in early 1991 before winning the Classic Oaks over one and a half miles at Epsom Downs Racecourse. Her winning margin of ten lengths was the second-widest in the race's history and her starting price of 50/1 made her the equal longest-priced winner of the Oaks on record. She subsequently finished second in both the Irish Oaks at the Curragh and the Yorkshire Oaks at York. She was retired to stud after finishing unplaced in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.
Background.
Jet Ski Lady was a chestnut mare with a white star and two white socks bred in Maryland by the Ryehill Farm stud. Her sire, Vaguely Noble, who was twenty-three years old when she was foaled, won the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe in 1968 before becoming a successful breeding stallion. His best progeny included Dahlia, Exceller and Empery. Jet Ski Lady's dam, Bemissed, was a successful racemare in the United States, winning the Selima Stakes in 1982. As a descendant of the broodmare Feola, Jet Ski Lady came from the same branch of thoroughbred family 2-f which produced Round Table, Pebbles and Aureole.
Jet Ski Lady was acquired by Maktoum Al Maktoum and sent to race in Europe. She was trained in County Kilkenny by Jim Bolger and was ridden in all but one of her races by Christy Roche.
Racing career.
1990: two-year-old season.
Jet Ski Lady began her career in a six-furlong maiden race at Leopardstown in June. She started odds-on favourite and won by three lengths from Tenderene. Nine days later, she was moved up in class to contest a Listed race over the same course and distance, but despite starting at odds of 1/2 she finished third of the six runners behind Seneca Reef. In August, Jet Ski Lady stepped up to seven furlongs for a nursery handicap and carried top weight of 131 pounds to a three-quarter-length victory. On her final start of the season the filly was moved up into Group One class as she was sent to France to contest the Prix Marcel Boussac at Longchamp Racecourse. She led the field into the straight but was outpaced in the closing stages and finished seventh of the nine runners behind the unbeaten British filly Shadayid.
1991: three-year-old season.
Rather than being aimed at the usual trial races for fillies, Jet Ski Lady began her three-year-old season by running against a field of colts in the ten-furlong Ballysax Stakes at the Curragh in April. She started at odds of 4/1 and won by lengths and a neck from the Vincent O'Brien-trained runners Classic Minstrel and Legal Profession. Two weeks later, the filly was again matched against male opponents in the Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial and finished fourth behind Runyon, George Augustus and Smooth Performance.
In the Oaks at Epsom on 8 June, Jet Ski Lady was the complete outsider of the nine runners, starting at odds of 50/1. Shadayid, who had won the 1000 Guineas was made the even-money favourite ahead of the Fillies' Mile winner Shamshir: no other runner apart from Jet Ski Lady started at longer than 20/1. Christy Roche sent the Irish filly into the lead soon after the start and she turned into the straight with a clear lead over Dartrey and Shadayid. The favourite attempted to challenge the leader, but Jet Ski Lady drew steadily further away from her rivals in the last quarter-mile and won easily by ten lengths. Shamshir stayed on to take second place from Shadayid in the closing stages. The winning margin of ten lengths equaled that of Noblesse in 1963 and had been bettered only by Sun Princess's twelve-length win in 1983. The winner's price of 50/1 was the biggest in the race since Vespa succeeded at the same odds in 1833.
A month after her win at Epsom, Jet Ski Lady was made the 7/4 favourite for the Irish Oaks at the Curragh. Roche sent the filly to the front just after half way and she maintained her lead into the straight. In the final furlong she was challenged by the British-trained Possessive Dancer, and despite running on well under pressure she was overtaken and beaten half a length. Jet Ski Lady and Possessive Dancer met again in the Yorkshire Oaks, which also attracted Shamshir and the Ribblesdale Stakes winner Third Watch. Jet Ski Lady took the lead in the straight and went clear of the field but was caught in the last stride and beaten a short head by the outsider Magnificent Star. On her final appearance Jet Ski Lady started a 40/1 outsider for the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp in October. She was never in contention and finished thirteenth of the fourteen runners behind Suave Dancer.
Assessment and honours.
The independent Timeform organisation gave Jet Ski Lady a rating of 122.
In their book, "A Century of Champions", based on the Timeform rating system, John Randall and Tony Morris rated Jet Ski Lady an "inferior" winner of the Oaks.
Stud record.
Jet Ski Lady was retired to become a broodmare for Maktoum Al Maktoum's Gainsborough Stud. She was bred to several leading stallions including Sadler's Wells, Rainbow Quest and Green Desert, but made very little impact, with none of her foals succeeding at Group race level. She produced two minor winners, namely Legaya (by Shirley Heights) and Lucky Lady (by Nashwan).
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36799852
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28481209
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36799852
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Neocollyris levigata
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Neocollyris levigata is a species in the tiger beetle family Cicindelidae. It was described by Horn in 1894.
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36799855
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28481209
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36799855
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Neocollyris linearis
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Neocollyris linearis is a species in the tiger beetle family Cicindelidae. It was described by Schmidt-Goebel in 1846.
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36799856
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40778144
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36799856
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Neocollyris lissodera
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Neocollyris lissodera is a species in the tiger beetle family Cicindelidae. It was described by Chaudoir in 1864.
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36799861
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28481209
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36799861
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Neocollyris longipes
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Neocollyris longipes is a species in the tiger beetle family Cicindelidae. It was described by Naviaux and Cassola in 2005.
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36799862
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28481209
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36799862
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Neocollyris loochooensis
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Neocollyris loochooensis is a species in the tiger beetle family Cicindelidae. It was described by Tadao Kano in 1929.
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36799864
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28481209
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36799864
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Neocollyris lucidipes
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Neocollyris lucidipes is a species in the tiger beetle family Cicindelidae. It was described by Naviaux in 2008.
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36799869
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28481209
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36799869
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Neocollyris lugubris
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Neocollyris lugubris is a species in the tiger beetle family Cicindelidae. It was described by Vander Linden in 1829.
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36799871
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28481209
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36799871
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Neocollyris macilenta
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Neocollyris macilenta is a species in the tiger beetle family Cicindelidae. It was described by Naviaux in 2004.
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36799872
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40600116
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36799872
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× Pachyveria glauca 'Little Jewel'
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"× Pachyveria glauca" 'Little Jewel' succulent plants are hybrids in the nothogenus × "Pachyveria" ("Pachyphytum" and "Echeveria"). It is a versatile plant, thriving in the (frost free) garden and in containers.
Description.
This plant has cylindrical tapered leaves, shading from powdery blue with a of purple at the bottom of the plant to a light green at the points of the top leaves. That color slowly darkens down the length of the plant. Leaves resemble gems-jewels.
Cultivation.
This plant propagates itself by dropping leaves, which then sprout new plants, and also by stem cuttings.
Habitat.
"× Pachyveria" plants do best in desert and arid climates, and grow well in porous, well-drained soil. They grow well in full sun, though prefer a bit of shade in more sizzling heat of 92 and higher degrees Fahrenheit (33 degrees Celsius). They are drought and heat wave-tolerant, but love plentiful summertime water, and hardy to around 30-35 degrees Fahrenheit (-1 to 1 degrees Celsius).
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36799875
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28481209
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36799875
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Neocollyris maindroni
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Neocollyris maindroni is a species in the tiger beetle family Cicindelidae. It was described by Horn in 1905.
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36799876
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28481209
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36799876
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Neocollyris major
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Neocollyris major is a species in the tiger beetle family Cicindelidae. It was described by Pierre André Latreille in 1822.
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36799877
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1201095056
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36799877
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Mutant Herd
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Mutant Herd is an action game written by Jeremy Smith and Grahame Hampton-Matthews for the VIC-20 and published by Thorn EMI in 1983.
Gameplay.
"Mutant Herd" involves protecting a powerhouse from an invasion of mutants. The mutants crawl towards you from multiple "burrows" located at each corner of the screen. Using laser beams, you need to prevent the mutant herds from destroying your powerhouse.
The game was even more complicated than this, however, as it was possible to enter the "burrows" and to shut them down. Once a burrow was entered, you started another phase of the game. A queen mutant and her eggs are hiding in each burrow. You must get to the eggs and plant an explosive charge, while avoiding the queen mutant, who can kill you or move your charge away from her eggs. Once you have succeeded in blowing up the eggs, the burrow is sealed. When you return to the powerhouse screen, you will have one less burrow spewing mutants at you.
The game was even more complicated yet, in that, after each burrow is sealed, your lasers get weaker and the next burrow will have more eggs and be more challenging. You will have won the game when you have sealed all the burrows and successfully protected your powerhouse.
Reception.
"COMPUTE!" wrote that "There are enough little problems to always keep you thinking about what you'll have to do next". "Electronic Games" stated that "Mutant Herd" "may not be the ultimate VIC-20 game, but the graphics are fun, the action is challenging, and it takes at least one step off the beaten game-track". "Ahoy!" called it "a two-part arcade game with a unique twist", favorably reviewing the graphics, sound, animation, and gameplay.
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36799878
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28481209
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36799878
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Neocollyris mannheimsi
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Neocollyris mannheimsi is a species in the tiger beetle family Cicindelidae. It was described by K. F. Mandl in 1954.
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36799879
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36799879
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Neocollyris shyamrupi
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Neocollyris shyamrupi is a species in the tiger beetle family Cicindelidae. It was described by Saha and Halder in 1986 but this was not known to Naviaux who described it under the name "metallica" in 2004.
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36799881
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9889328
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36799881
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Nahranbar
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Nahranbar () is a village in Nahranbar Rural District of Musiyan District, Dehloran County, Ilam province, Iran.
Demographics.
Language.
The village is populated by Arabs.
Population.
At the time of the 2006 National Census, the village's population was 776 in 110 households. The following census in 2011 counted 1,003 people in 187 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the village as 1,051 people in 243 households. It was the most populous village in its rural district.
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36799883
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36799883
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Neocollyris modica
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Neocollyris modica is a species in the tiger beetle family Cicindelidae. It was described by Naviaux in 1994.
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36799889
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28481209
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36799889
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Neocollyris moesta
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Neocollyris moesta is a species in the tiger beetle family Cicindelidae. It was described by H. M. Schmidt-Goebel in 1846.
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36799892
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1261736
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36799892
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Anselmo Fuerte
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Anselmo Fuerte Abelenda (born 27 January 1962 in Madrid) is a former Spanish racing cyclist. He finished third in the 1988 and 1990 Vuelta a España.
1st Overall Vuelta a la Comunidad de Madrid
3rd Overall Vuelta a Burgos
4th Overall Tour of the Basque Country
1st Stage 4
4th Overall Volta Ciclista a Catalunya
5th Overall Route du Sud
9th Overall Vuelta a España
9th Overall Critérium International
1st Overall Vuelta a Aragón
3rd Overall Vuelta a Asturias
7th Overall Vuelta a España
8th Overall Tour de France
2nd Overall Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme
3rd Overall Vuelta a España
8th Overall Tour of the Basque Country
3rd Overall Vuelta a España
2nd Overall Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme
6th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36799894
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Neocollyris moraveci
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Neocollyris moraveci is a species in the tiger beetle family Cicindelidae. It was described by Naviaux in 2004.
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36799897
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40778144
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36799897
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Neocollyris mouhotii
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Neocollyris mouhotii is a species in the tiger beetle family Cicindelidae. It is found in Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Subspecies.
These two subspecies belong to the species "Neocollyris mouhotii":
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Neocollyris multipilosa
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Neocollyris multipilosa is a species in the tiger beetle family Cicindelidae. It was described by Naviaux in 2003.
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36799903
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36799903
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Neocollyris murzini
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Neocollyris murzini is a species in the tiger beetle family Cicindelidae. It was described by Naviaux in 1992.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36799904
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Patak, Ilam
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Patak (, also Romanized as Patk; also known as Patak-e Dīnārvand) is a village in Nahr-e Anbar Rural District, Musian District, Dehloran County, Ilam Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 556, in 109 families.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36799908
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Neocollyris naviauxi
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Neocollyris naviauxi is a species in the tiger beetle family Cicindelidae. It was described by Sawada and Weisner in 2003. This beetle species was named after French entomologist Roger Naviaux.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36799910
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Neocollyris nepalensis
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Neocollyris nepalensis is a species in the tiger beetle family Cicindelidae. It was described by Naviaux in 1994.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36799914
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Neocollyris nilgirica
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Neocollyris nilgirica is a species in the tiger beetle family Cicindelidae. It was described by Fowler in 1912.
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16395002
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36799915
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Neocollyris nishikawai
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Neocollyris nishikawai is a species in the tiger beetle family Cicindelidae. It was described by Naviaux in 2004.
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16395002
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36799916
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Neocollyris nitida
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Neocollyris nitida is a species in the tiger beetle family Cicindelidae. It was described by Naviaux in 1994.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36799917
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Committee on Public Enterprises (Sri Lanka)
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The Committee On Public Enterprises (COPE) is a parliamentary committee established on July 21, 1979, by the Parliament of Sri Lanka.
Mission.
The intention of the committee is to ensure the compliance of financial discipline in Public Corporations and other Semi Governmental bodies in which the Government of Sri Lanka has a financial stake.
Structure.
COPE consists of 31 Members reflecting the party composition in the House established under the Standing Order 126 at the beginning of each Parliamentary Session and the Chairman is elected by the Members of the Committee at its first session. Its quorum is four.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36799918
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Neocollyris oblita
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Neocollyris oblita is a species in the tiger beetle family Cicindelidae. It was described by Naviaux in 1994.
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36799919
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28481209
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36799919
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Neocollyris obscurofemorata
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Neocollyris obscurofemorata is a species in the tiger beetle family Cicindelidae. It was described by Mandl in 1970.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36799921
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Martin Shikuku
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Joseph Martin Shikuku Oyondi (December 25, 1932– August 22, 2012) was a Kenyan politician.
Joseph Martin Shikuku Oyondi was born on Christmas day 1932 in Magadi Kenya. His father was John Osule Oyondi and he was married to Lucia Andeche in the Catholic church in 1929. They had seven children. Shikuku was the second born.
Early life.
Shikuku attended St Peters Mumias boys primary school, a Catholic school in western Kenya. After completing his primary education he joined St. Peters Seminary for secondary education with the intention of becoming a Catholic priest. This was not to be as he apparently fell in love and left the seminary.
Career.
He briefly worked with the Caltex oil company in Kenya then Kenya and then East African Railways before joining politics at a young age of 19 on 18 October 1952.
At the age of 28, he was the youngest member of the Kenyan delegation to Lancaster House Conferences (England), as the youth representative for KADU, a political party which together with KANU went for the talks at Lancaster House which paved way to the Independence of Kenya. He also participated in the crafting of Kenya's first Constitution.
He joined Nairobi People's Convention Party (NPCP), becoming its Secretary-General soon afterwards. He later resigned to join the Kenya African Democratic Union (KADU) as a youth leader along with future President Daniel Moi and Ronald Ngala. Shikuku was elected the Butere Constituency MP in 1963 on KADU ticket. His party merged soon later with Kenya African National Union KANU, the only legal party during the subsequent Kenyan single-party era. Shikuku was the last member to cross the floor of the House to join the one government after the Merger of Kanu and Kadu.
He retained the Butere seat in 1969 was appointed Assistant Minister in the Office of the Vice-President and Home Affairs by the President Jomo Kenyatta. Later Shikuku was detained by Kenyatta after the minister sarcastically referred the KANU government as "dead". Shikuku was released in 1978 when Daniel arap Moi took over as the President upon Kenyatta's death. Shikuku recaptured the Butere parliamentary seat the next year and was appointed Assistant Minister for Livestock Development. He retained his seat at the 1983 elections but lost in 1988.
Kenyan single-party system started to crack in the early 1990s. He was a founding member of Forum for the Restoration of Democracy alongside Jaramogi Oginga Odinga. The forum soon split, and Odinga formed the Ford-Kenya party, while Shikuku Ford Asili with Kenneth Matiba. The 1992 general election were the first multiparty election in Kenya since the 1960s. Matiba was the Ford Asili presidential candidate, while Shikuku recaptured the Butere MP seat on Ford Asili ticket.
Matiba later left Ford Asili and at the 1997 elections Shikuku was the party's presidential candidate. He did not get many votes and also lost his parliamentary seat.
He died on August 22, 2012, at the Texas Cancer Centre in Hurlingham, Nairobi. aged 79
Personal life.
Shikuku was married to Dolarosa Elizbeth Regina Achieng on 24 September 1966 and they had four children; Sylvano Madanji Shikuku (born 16 November 1966), Emmanuel Noel Osyle Shikuku (born 26 December 1968), Lucia Awor Shikuku (born 30 June 1971), and Martina Maende Shikuku (born 26 January 1974, died 5 November 2016.
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