title: Maria Mori

abstract: Maria Mori is a former singer and actress from Sapporo, Japan. She was also known as Maria Elizabeth. The daughter of an American FBI agent and a Japanese mother, she was a member of the Golden Half singing group, whose other members all had Japanese mothers and fathers from other countries. The group was active from 1970 to 1974 and appeared as regulars on the Tokyo Broadcasting System Saturday prime-time variety show Hachiji da yo! Zen'in shūgō which also featured the comedy group The Drifters and idol singers The Candies. Individually, Maria appeared in the television jidaigeki series Edo o Kiru and Yuki-hime Onmitsu Dōchūki and from 1988 to 1993 as Oryū in the TBS television series in Ōoka Echizen. She made guest appearances on Abarenbō Shōgun as well as in contemporary dramas including G-men 75, and co-hosted Chibikko Avec Utagassen.

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# Maria Mori

**Maria Mori** (森マリア, born June 29, 1956) is a former singer and actress from Sapporo, Japan. She was also known as **Maria Elizabeth**. The daughter of an American FBI agent and a Japanese mother, she was a member of the Golden Half singing group, whose other members all had Japanese mothers and fathers from other countries. The group was active from 1970 to 1974 and appeared as regulars on the Tokyo Broadcasting System Saturday prime-time variety show *Hachiji da yo! Zen'in shūgō* which also featured the comedy group The Drifters and idol singers The Candies.

Individually, Maria appeared in the television *jidaigeki* series *Edo o Kiru* and *Yuki-hime Onmitsu Dōchūki* and from 1988 to 1993 as Oryū in the TBS television series in *Ōoka Echizen*. She made guest appearances on *Abarenbō Shōgun* as well as in contemporary dramas including *G-men 75*, and co-hosted *Chibikko Avec Utagassen.*

## Sources

This article incorporates material from 森マリア (*Mori Maria*), ゴールデンハーフ (*Gōruden Hāfu*), and 8時だョ!全員集合 (*Hachiji da yo! Zen'in Shūgō*) in the Japanese Wikipedia, retrieved on February 12, 2008.

## InfoBox

| Maria Mori | |
| --- | --- |
| Born | (1955-06-29) June 29, 1955<br>Sapporo, Japan |
| Origin | Japan |
| Genres | Pop |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter, actress |
| Instrument | Vocals |
| Years active | 1972–present |


title: Matthew 8:29

abstract: Matthew 8:29 is the 29th verse in the eighth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament.

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# Matthew 8:29

**Matthew 8:29** is the 29th verse in the eighth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament.

## Content

In the original Greek according to Westcott-Hort this verse is:

καὶ ἰδού, ἔκραξαν λέγοντες, Τί ἡμῖν καὶ σοί, Ἰησοῦ υἱὲ τοῦ Θεοῦ; Ἦλθες ὧδε πρὸ καιροῦ βασανίσαι ἡμᾶς;

In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads:

And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time?

The New International Version translates the passage as:

"What do you want with us, Son of God?" they shouted. "Have you come here to torture us before the appointed time?"

For a collection of other versions see BibleHub Matthew 8:29.

## Analysis

The initial expression of the demons MacEvilly interprets as, "We only torment sinners. We have nothing to do with Thee, the Son of God, who art infinite sanctity, incapable of sin." MacEvilly also points out that from the expression "Son of God" it appears that the demons knew exactly who Jesus was.

It was believed that some spirits were dragged down to hell before "the appointed time" (See 2 Peter 2 & Jude), which was thought to be Judgement day when they were to be cast into the abyss.

## Commentary from the Church Fathers

Augustine: "Whereas Matthew relates that there were two who were afflicted with dæmons, but Mark and Luke mention only one, you must understand that one of them was a person of note, for whom all that country was in grief, and about whose recovery there was much care, whence the fame of this miracle was the more noised abroad."

Jerome: "This is no voluntary confession followed up by a reward to the utterer, but one extorted by the compulsion of necessity. A runaway slave, when after long time he first beholds his master, straight thinks only of deprecating the scourge; so the dæmons, seeing the Lord suddenly moving upon the earth, thought He was come to judge them. Some absurdly suppose, that these dæmons knew the Son of God, while the Devil knew Him not, because their wickedness was less than his. But all the knowledge of the disciple must be supposed in the Master."

Augustine: "God was so far known to them as it was His pleasure to be known; and He pleased to be known so far as it was needful. He was known to them therefore not as He is Life eternal, and the Light which enlightens the good, but by certain temporal effects of His excellence, and signs of His hidden presence, which are visible to angelic spirits though evil, rather than to the infirmity of human nature."

Jerome: "But both the Devil and the dæmons may be said to have rather suspected, than known, Jesus to be the Son of God."

Pseudo-Augustine: "When the dæmons cry out, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? (1 Cor. 2:8.) we must suppose them to have spoken from suspicion rather than knowledge. For had they known him, they never would have suffered the Lord of glory to be crucified."

Saint Remigius: "But as often as they were tortured by His excellent power, and saw Him working signs and miracles, they supposed Him to be the Son of God; when they saw Him hungry and thirsty, and suffering such things, they doubted, and thought Him mere man. It should be considered that even the unbelieving Jews when they said that Christ cast out dæmons in Beelzebub, and the Arians who said that He was a creature, deserve condemnation not only on God’s sentence, but on the confession of the dæmons, who declare Christ to be the Son of God. Rightly do they say, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? that is, our malice and Thy grace have nothing in common, according to that the Apostle speaks, There is no fellowship of light with darkness. (2 Cor. 6:14.)"

Chrysostom: "That this should not be thought to be flattery, they cry out what they were experiencing, Art thou come to torment us before the time?"

Augustine: "Either because that came upon them unexpectedly, which they looked for indeed, but supposed more distant; or because they thought their perdition consisted in this, that when known they would be despised; or because this was before the day of judgment, when they should be punished with eternal damnation."

Jerome: "For the presence of the Saviour is the torment of dæmons."

Chrysostom: "They could not say they had not sinned, because Christ had found them doing evil, and marring the workmanship of God; whence they supposed that for their more abundant wickedness the time of the last punishment which shall be at the day of judgment should not be tarried for to punish them."

| Preceded by
**Matthew 8:28** | **Gospel of Matthew
Chapter 8** | Succeeded by
**Matthew 8:30** |
| --- | --- | --- |

## InfoBox

| Matthew 8:29 | |
| --- | --- |
| 8:288:30 | |
| "Christ heals two possessed men", by Jan Brandes (1788-1808). | |
| Book | Gospel of Matthew |
| Christian Bible part | New Testament |


title: Philippe Doumenc

abstract: Philippe Doumenc was a French novelist. His first novel, Les Comptoirs du Sud won the 1989 Prix Renaudot. Philippe Doumenc was the grandson of Aimé Doumenc (1880–1948). He died on 19 July 2023, at the age of 89.

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# Philippe Doumenc

**Philippe Doumenc** (21 April 1934 – 19 July 2023) was a French novelist. His first novel, *Les Comptoirs du Sud* won the 1989 Prix Renaudot.

Philippe Doumenc was the grandson of Aimé Doumenc (1880–1948). He died on 19 July 2023, at the age of 89.

## Works

* *Les Comptoirs du Sud: roman*, Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1989, ISBN 978-2-02-010863-8
* *En haut à gauche du paradis: roman*, Paris: éditions du Seuil, 1992, ISBN 2-02-016472-8
* *Les amants de Tonnegrande: roman*, Seuil, 2003, ISBN 978-2-02-058935-2
* *Contre-enquête sur la mort d'Emma Bovary,* Paris: Actes Sud, 2007, ISBN 978-2-7427-6820-2
* *Un tigre dans la soute: nouvelles*, Actes sud, 2008, ISBN 978-2-7427-7560-6


title: Valentin Genchev

abstract: Valentin Genchev is a Bulgarian weightlifter.

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# Valentin Genchev

**Valentin Genchev** (Bulgarian: Валентин Генчев; born 3 April 2000) is a Bulgarian weightlifter.

## Career

### European Championships

In 2021 he competed at the 2021 European Weightlifting Championships in the 67 kg category, winning the silver in the clean & jerk portion and the bronze medal in the total. In 2022 he competed at the 2022 European Weightlifting Championships in the 67 kg category,winning the silver in the snatch portion and the gold medal in the clean and jerk and the total.

## Major results

| Year | Venue | Weight | Snatch (kg) | | | | Clean & Jerk (kg) | | | | Total | Rank |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| | | | 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | 1 | 2 | 3 | Rank | | |
| World Championships | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 2021 | Tashkent, Uzbekistan | 67 kg | 132 | **135** | ~~137~~ | 10 | 168 | **173** | ~~176~~ | 5 | **308** | 5 |
| 2022 | Bogota, Colombia | 67 kg | ~~130~~ | **130** | ~~135~~ | 16 | **166** | ~~172~~ | ~~172~~ | 10 | **296** | 14 |
| European Championships | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 2021 | Moscow, Russia | 67 kg | 132 | 136 | **138** | 7 | 168 | 173 | **177** |  | **315** |  |
| 2022 | Tirana, Albania | 67 kg | 133 | 136 | **139** |  | 169 | **175** | ~~180~~ |  | **314** |  |
| 2023 | Yerevan, Armenia | 67 kg | **125** | ~~128~~ | ~~128~~ | 8 | 160 | **166** | ~~171~~ |  | **291** | 6 |
| European Junior & U23 Weightlifting Championships | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 2018 | Zamość, Poland | 69 kg | 120 | 124 | **126** | 8 | 150 | **155** | ~~160~~ | 8 | **281** | 8 |
| 2019 | Bucharest, Romania | 67 kg | 129 | 132 | **134** |  | 160 | **165** | ~~169~~ |  | **299** |  |
| 2021 | Rovaniemi, Finland | 67 kg | 123 | 127 | **129** |  | ~~155~~ | 155 | **159** |  | **287** |  |
|

## InfoBox

Valentin Genchev
| Personal information | |
| --- | --- |
| Native name | Валентин Генчев |
| Full name | Valentin Genchev |
| Nationality | Bulgarian |
| Born | (2000-04-03) 3 April 2000 |
| Weight | 67 kg (148 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Country | Bulgaria |
| Sport | Weightlifting |
| Weight class | =67 kg |
| Coached by | Stoyan Stoyanov |
| Medal record      Representing  Bulgaria  European Championships  2022 Tirana –67 kg  2021 Moscow –67 kg  European Junior & U23 Weightlifting Championships  2019 Bucharest –67 kg  2021 Rovaniemi –67 kg | |


title: Maryland Route 227

abstract: Maryland Route 227 is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. The state highway runs 13.96 miles (22.47 km) from Marshall Hall east to U.S. Route 301 in White Plains. MD 227 connects the communities of Bryans Road, Pomonkey, and Pomfret in northwestern Charles County. The state highway, which was constructed in the mid-1920s and early 1930s, originally had its western terminus at Pomonkey; the remainder of the current route was part of MD 224 and all of MD 226. MD 227 gained its present western terminus in the mid-1950s.

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# Maryland Route 227

**Maryland Route 227** (**MD 227**) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. The state highway runs 13.96 miles (22.47 km) from Marshall Hall east to U.S. Route 301 (US 301) in White Plains. MD 227 connects the communities of Bryans Road, Pomonkey, and Pomfret in northwestern Charles County. The state highway, which was constructed in the mid-1920s and early 1930s, originally had its western terminus at Pomonkey; the remainder of the current route was part of MD 224 and all of MD 226. MD 227 gained its present western terminus in the mid-1950s.

## Route description

MD 227 begins at a boat ramp on the Potomac River adjacent to the ruins of the namesake mansion at Marshall Hall within Piscataway Park. The state highway heads south as Marshall Hall Road, a two-lane undivided road through a forested area. MD 227 crosses Mill Swamp and begins to pass residential subdivisions as the highway approaches the community of Bryans Road, where the highway intersects MD 210 (Indian Head Highway). The state highway heads south as Livingston Road to Pomonkey, where MD 224 continues southwest as Livingston Road toward Mason Springs while MD 227 veers southeast as Pomfret Road. The state highway crosses Mattawoman Creek, passes west of the historic farm McPherson's Purchase, and intersects the Indian Head Rail Trail on its way to Pomfret, where the highway meets Marshall Corner Road. MD 227 turns north onto Marshall Corner Road, curving to the east and passing the entrance to Green's Inheritance before meeting the southern end of MD 229 (Bensville Road). East of Pomfret, the state highway passes close to another pair of historic homes, Pleasant Hill and Oak Grove, the latter of which is on the intersecting Turkey Hill Road. MD 227 crosses Pages Swamp and passes close to another historic home, Spye Park, before reaching White Plains, where the state highway reaches its eastern terminus at US 301 (Robert Crain Highway) opposite county-maintained Willetts Crossing Road.

## History

| Maryland Route 226 | |
| --- | --- |
|  | |
| Location | Bryans RoadMarshall Hall |
| Existed | 1927–1956 |

Present-day MD 227 was built as part of three different state highways. Livingston Road between Bryans Road and Pomonkey was constructed around 1923 as part of MD 224, which originally ran from MD 6 at Doncaster to the District of Columbia border in Forest Heights. Marshall Hall Road was built as MD 226 between 1924 and 1927. MD 227's portion of Marshall Corner Road was constructed between 1924 and 1926. The final portion of MD 227, Pomfret Road, was started in 1929 and complete from Marshall Corner Road to the bridge over Mattawoman Creek in 1930. The gap between Mattawoman Creek and Livingston Road was filled by 1933. MD 227 was extended north over Livingston Road and Marshall Hall Road to its present western terminus, taking over all of MD 226's course, in 1956.

## Junction list

The entire route is in Charles County.

| Location | mi
 | km | Destinations | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Marshall Hall | 0.00 | 0.00 | Road end at Potomac River | Western terminus |
| Bryans Road | 4.51 | 7.26 | MD 210 (Indian Head Highway) Indian Head, Washington |  |
| Pomonkey | 5.84 | 9.40 |
MD 224 south (Livingston Road) Mason Springs | Northern terminus of MD 224 |
| Pomfret | 10.16 | 16.35 |
MD 229 north (Bensville Road) Bennsville | Southern terminus of MD 229 |
| White Plains | 13.96 | 22.47 | US 301 (Robert Crain Highway) / Willetts Crossing Road south Waldorf, La Plata | Eastern terminus |
| 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
 | | | | | |

Template:Attached KML/Maryland Route 227KML is from Wikidata

## InfoBox

| Maryland Route 227 | |
| --- | --- |
| Map of Southern Maryland with MD 227 highlighted in red | |
| Route information | |
| Maintained by MDSHA | |
| Length | 13.96 mi (22.47 km) |
| Existed | 1927–present |
| Major junctions | |
| West end | Road end at Marshall Hall |
| Major intersections |  |
| East end | US 301 in White Plains |
|  | |
| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Maryland |
| Counties | Charles |
|  | |
| Highway system | |
|  | |
| MD 225   MD 228 | |


title: Mothibistad

abstract: Mothibistad is a town situated 9 kilometres (6 mi) northeast of Kuruman in the Northern Cape province of South Africa. Before 1994 it was in the Bophuthatswana bantustan, and from 1994 until a border change in 2006 it was in North West province. According to the census of 2011 it had a population of 9,616, of whom 99% described themselves as Black African and 88% spoke Tswana as a first language. It falls within the Ga-Segonyana Local Municipality and the John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality.

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# Mothibistad

**Mothibistad** is a town situated 9 kilometres (6 mi) northeast of Kuruman in the Northern Cape province of South Africa. Before 1994 it was in the Bophuthatswana bantustan, and from 1994 until a border change in 2006 it was in North West province. According to the census of 2011 it had a population of 9,616, of whom 99% described themselves as Black African and 88% spoke Tswana as a first language. It falls within the Ga-Segonyana Local Municipality and the John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality.

## InfoBox

| Mothibistad | |
| --- | --- |
| MothibistadMothibistad | |
| Coordinates: 27°23′56″S 23°29′20″E / 27.399°S 23.489°E / -27.399; 23.489 | |
| Country | South Africa |
| Province | Northern Cape |
| District | John Taolo Gaetsewe |
| Municipality | Ga-Segonyana |
| Area | |
| Total | 5.49 km2 (2.12 sq mi) |
| Population (2011) | |
| Total | 9,616 |
| Density | 1,800/km2 (4,500/sq mi) |
| Racial makeup (2011) | |
| Black African | 98.9% |
| Coloured | 0.6% |
| Indian/Asian | 0.4% |
| Other | 0.2% |
| First languages (2011) | |
| Tswana | 88.0% |
| English | 3.0% |
| S. Ndebele | 1.7% |
| Zulu | 1.4% |
| Other | 5.9% |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (SAST) |
| Area code | 053 |


title: List of power stations in Ghana

abstract: The following page lists power stations in Ghana.

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# List of power stations in Ghana

The following page lists **power stations in Ghana**.

## Thermal power stations

| Power station | Community | Coordinates | Type | Capacity (MW) | Year completed | Additional description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Takoradi Thermal Power Station | Takoradi | 4°58′18″N 1°39′26″W / 4.971667°N 1.657228°W / 4.971667; -1.657228 (Takoradi Thermal Power Station) | Light crude oil or Natural gas | 550 | 2000 | A total of 550 MW is generated; four gas turbines and a steam turbine |
| Kpone Thermal Power Station II | Kpone | 5°40′26″N 0°02′15″E / 5.673900°N 0.037500°E / 5.673900; 0.037500 (Kpone Thermal Power Station II) | Natural gas or Diesel fuel or Crude oil | 340 | 2017 (Expected) | Biggest independent power plant in Africa to date. |
| Kpone Thermal Power Station I | Kpone | 5°44′06″N 0°00′38″E / 5.734998°N 0.010548°E / 5.734998; 0.010548 (Kpone Thermal Power Station I) | Natural gas and Diesel fuel | 230 | 2016 (Expected) | Owned by Volta River Authority |
| Tema Thermal Power Station | Tema | 5°40′39″N 0°00′57″E / 5.677362°N 0.015828°E / 5.677362; 0.015828 (Tema Thermal Power Station) | Diesel fuel | 236 | 2008 | 54 Caterpillar 3516B diesel power generators |
| Sonon Asogli Thermal Power Station | Kpone | 5°40′49″N 0°02′51″E / 5.68029°N 0.047368°E / 5.68029; 0.047368 (Sonon Asogli Thermal Power Station) | Natural gas | 200 | 2010 | Maximum installed capacity of 200MW. Often output is less than maximum |
|

## Hydroelectric power stations

| Hydroelectric station | Community | Coordinates | Type | Capacity (MW) | Year completed | Name of reservoir | River |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Akosombo Hydroelectric Power Station | Ajena | 6°17′59″N 0°03′34″E / 6.299722°N 0.059444°E / 6.299722; 0.059444 (Akosombo Hydroelectric Power Station) | Reservoir | 1,038 | 1965 | Lake Volta | River Volta |
| Bui Hydroelectric Power Station | Bui Gorge | 8°16′43″N 2°14′13″W / 8.278602°N 2.236935°W / 8.278602; -2.236935 (Bui Hydroelectric Power Station) | Reservoir | 400 | 2013 |  | Black Volta River |
| Kpong Hydroelectric Power Station | Akuse | 6°07′12″N 0°07′30″E / 6.119989°N 0.125000°E / 6.119989; 0.125000 (Kpong Hydroelectric Power Station) | Reservoir | 160 | 1982 |  | River Volta |
|

## Solar power stations

| Solar power station | Community | Coordinates | Capacity (megawatts) | Year completed | Name of Owner | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nzema Solar Power Station | Aiwiaso Village | 6°09′20″N 2°25′11″W / 6.155567°N 2.419711°W / 6.155567; -2.419711 (Nzema Solar Power Station) | 155 | 2022-2023 (Expected) | *Blue Energy Plc.* | Seeking EPC proposals |
| BXC Solar Power Station | Onyandze, Gomoa West District, Central Region, Ghana | 5°22′22″N 0°41′36″W / 5.372778°N 0.693333°W / 5.372778; -0.693333 (BXC Solar Power Station) | 20 | 2016 | *Beijing Xiaocheng Company* | Operational |
| Gomoa Onyaadze Solar Power Station | Onyandze, Gomoa West District, Central Region, Ghana | 5°20′46″N 0°42′12″W / 5.346111°N 0.703333°W / 5.346111; -0.703333 (Gomoa Onyaadze Solar Power Station) | 20 | 2018 | *Meinergy Ghana Limited* | Operational |
| Navrongo Solar Power Station | Navrongo | 10°52′48″N 1°06′10″W / 10.880000°N 1.102778°W / 10.880000; -1.102778 (Navrongo Solar Power Station) | 2.5 | 2013 | Volta River Authority | Operational |
| Kaleo Solar Power Station | Kaleo | 10°10′27″N 2°32′01″W / 10.174167°N 2.533611°W / 10.174167; -2.533611 (Kaleo Solar Power Station) | 13 | 2022 | Volta River Authority | Operational |
|


title: Mađari

abstract: Mađari is a village in the municipality of Trnovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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# Mađari

**Mađari** is a village in the municipality of Trnovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

## Demographics

According to the 2013 census, its population was 10.

Ethnicity in 2013
| Ethnicity | Number | Percentage |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Serbs | 5 | 50.0% |
| Bosniaks | 2 | 20.0% |
| other/undeclared | 3 | 30.0% |
| **Total** | **10** | **100%** |

## InfoBox

| Mađari | |
| --- | --- |
| Village | |
| Mađari | |
| Coordinates: 43°42′N 18°26′E / 43.700°N 18.433°E / 43.700; 18.433 | |
| Country | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Entity | Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Canton | Sarajevo |
| Municipality | Trnovo |
| Area | |
| Total | 2.55 sq mi (6.61 km2) |
| Population (2013) | |
| Total | 10 |
| Density | 3.9/sq mi (1.5/km2) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |


title: Margaret Moncrieff

abstract: (Helen) Margaret Moncrieff was a Scottish cellist and author writing under the pseudonym Helen McClelland and writing novels in the Chalet School series.

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# Margaret Moncrieff

**(Helen) Margaret Moncrieff** (6 February 1921 – 12 November 2008) was a Scottish cellist and author writing under the pseudonym **Helen McClelland** and writing novels in the Chalet School series.

## Early life

Helen Margaret Moncrieff was born in 1921 in Edinburgh, Scotland, daughter of Alexander Moncrieff, Lord Moncrieff, and Helen, née McClelland Adams, formerly Spens.

In London, Moncrieff studied the cello at the Royal College of Music with Ivor James, and then in Paris, with Pierre Fournier. She went on to a distinguished career as a soloist, chamber musician, and teacher.

## Career

Moncrieff was a professor of cello at the Royal College of Music.

When Moncrieff was in her 60s, she became a writer. In 2003, Moncrieff wrote her memoir.

## Personal life

In 1957, Moncrieff married Alexander Kelly (1929–1996) a pianist, composer, and later head of keyboard studies at the Royal Academy of Music. They had two children: cellist Alison Moncrieff Kelly, and Catriona Kelly, Professor of Russian at New College, Oxford.

## Works

* 2001: *Time and Again*
* 2003: *Worlds Apart: Memoirs of Margaret Moncrieff Kelly*

### Chalet School

Montcrieff's entries in the series include:

* *Joey and Patricia: A Reunion in Guernsey* (2000)
* *Visitors to the Chalet School* (2004)

## InfoBox

| Margaret Moncrieff | |
| --- | --- |
| Born | Helen Margaret Moncrieff
6 February 1921
Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Died | 12 November 2008(2008-11-12) (aged 87) |
| Pen name | Helen McClelland |
| Occupation | Cellist, teacher, writer |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Royal College of Music |
| Spouse | Alexander Kelly  (m. 1957; died 1996) |
| Children | 2, including Catriona Kelly |
| Relatives | Alexander Moncrieff, Lord Moncrieff (father)
Helen McClelland Adams (mother) |


title: Maria Lanzendorf

abstract: Maria-Lanzendorf is a municipality in the district of Bruck an der Leitha in the Austrian state of Lower Austria. It belonged to Wien-Umgebung District which was dissolved in 2016.

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# Maria Lanzendorf

**Maria-Lanzendorf** is a municipality in the district of Bruck an der Leitha in the Austrian state of Lower Austria.

It belonged to Wien-Umgebung District which was dissolved in 2016.

## Population

Historical population
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1971 | 1,147 |  |
| 1981 | 1,107 | −3.5% |
| 1991 | 1,487 | +34.3% |
| 2001 | 1,894 | +27.4% |
| 2011 | 2,045 | +8.0% |
| 2021 | 2,156 | +5.4% |

## InfoBox

| Maria-Lanzendorf | |
| --- | --- |
| Municipality | |
|  | |
| Maria-LanzendorfLocation within Austria | |
| Coordinates: 48°05′59″N 16°25′16″E / 48.09972°N 16.42111°E / 48.09972; 16.42111 | |
| Country | Austria |
| State | Lower Austria |
| District | Bruck an der Leitha |
| Government | |
| Mayor | Peter Wolf (SPÖ) |
| Area | |
| Total | 1.7 km2 (0.7 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 171 m (561 ft) |
| Population (2018-01-01) | |
| Total | 2,129 |
| Density | 1,300/km2 (3,200/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 2326 |
| Area code | 02235 |
| Vehicle registration | BL |
| Website | www.maria-lanzendorf.gv.at |


title: Funiculaire de Chaumont

abstract: Funiculaire de Chaumont is one of the funicular railways in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. It leads from La Coudre at 517 metres (1,696 ft) to Chaumont at 1,087 m (3,566 ft), a viewpoint and summit of the Jura range. The line with a length of 2,091 m (6,860 ft) has a difference of elevation of 570 m (1,870 ft) at an incline from 15% to 46%. It has four viaducts with a total length of 570 m (1,870 ft). The line was opened in 1910 as a single-track funicular with two cars and a passing loop. A new tram line linked it to Neuchâtel railway station. It replaced a projected two-section funicular. In 2007, the passing loop and the second car were removed. The funicular is owned and operated by Transports publics Neuchâtelois.

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# Funiculaire de Chaumont

**Funiculaire de Chaumont** is one of the funicular railways in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. It leads from La Coudre at 517 metres (1,696 ft) to Chaumont at 1,087 m (3,566 ft), a viewpoint and summit (1,177 m (3,862 ft)) of the Jura range. The line with a length of 2,091 m (6,860 ft) has a difference of elevation of 570 m (1,870 ft) at an incline from 15% to 46%. It has four viaducts with a total length of 570 m (1,870 ft).

The line was opened in 1910 as a single-track funicular with two cars and a passing loop. A new tram line linked it to Neuchâtel railway station. It replaced a projected two-section funicular.

In 2007, the passing loop and the second car were removed.

The funicular is owned and operated by Transports publics Neuchâtelois.

1. *Funiculaires* (in French), Transports publics Neuchâtelois
2. Tripet, Philippe (1911), "Chemin de fer Neuchâtel-Chaumont tramway et funiculaire", *Bulletin Technique de la Suisse Romande* (in French), **37** (18/20/21/23): 206–208, 231–234, 241–243, 265–269
3. Mathys, Ernst (1942), *Hundert Jahre Schweizerbahnen, historisch und technisch dargestellt, 1841-1941; Les chemins de fer suisses au cours d'un siècle, aperçu historique et technique, 1841-1941* (in German and French), Bern, pp. 24, 67, 88`{{citation}}`: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

## InfoBox

| Funiculaire de Chaumont | |
| --- | --- |
| upper station (2014) | |
| Overview | |
| Other name(s) | Funiculaire La Coudre-Chaumont |
| Status | In operation |
| Owner | Transports publics Neuchâtelois (TransN, TRN) |
| Locale | Neuchâtel <br>Switzerland |
| Termini | * "Neuchâtel, La Coudre (FUNI)" at Rue de la Dîme * Chaumont (FUNI) |
| Stations | 2 |
| Website | TransN |
| Service | |
| Type | Funicular |
| Operator(s) | Transports publics Neuchâtelois |
| Rolling stock | 1 for 70 persons (since 2007), 2 (before 2007) |
| History | |
| Opened | October 15, 1910 (1910-10-15) |
| Single car | 2007 |
| Technical | |
| Line length | 2,091 m (6,860 ft) |
| Number of tracks | 1 (with loop until 2007) |
| Track gauge | 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+38 in) |
| Operating speed | 5 metres per second (16 ft/s) |
| Highest elevation | 1,087 m (3,566 ft) |
| Maximum incline | 46% (min. 14.5%) |


title: Matt Dusk

abstract: Matthew-Aaron Dusk is a Canadian jazz vocalist. He has four certified gold albums: Two Shots, Good News, Old School Yule! and JetSetJazz, and two certified platinum albums; My Funny Valentine: The Chet Baker Songbook and Just the Two of Us.

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# Matt Dusk

**Matthew-Aaron Dusk** (born November 19, 1978) is a Canadian jazz vocalist. He has four certified gold albums: *Two Shots*, *Good News*, *Old School Yule!* and *JetSetJazz*, and two certified platinum albums; *My Funny Valentine: The Chet Baker Songbook* and *Just the Two of Us* (with Margaret).

## Life and career

Dusk was born on November 19, 1978, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. From an early age, he wanted to become a performer. At the age of seven, he was accepted into St. Michael's Choir School, where he remained for eleven years. He performed opera and classical music but after hearing Tony Bennett, Bob Fenton, and Sarah Vaughan when he was seventeen he began to change his musical direction. In 1998, he won the Canadian National Exhibition Rising Star Competition. He intended to take over the family business, and in 1998 he went to York University in Toronto to study economics. After one year, he decided to switch to music. He studied jazz theory with John Gittins, jazz vocal with Bob Fenton, and attended master classes taught by Oscar Peterson. He was awarded the Oscar Peterson Scholarship and graduated in 2002.

Before Dusk secured a record deal, he recorded four albums independently. In March 2003, he signed a deal with Decca. In 2004 he was invited to the Golden Nugget Casino in Las Vegas to perform as in-house entertainer for the filming of the television show *The Casino*.

His debut album, *Two Shots*, was released on June 5, 2004, and was certified gold in Canada. The album produced the hit single "Two Shots of Happy, One Shot of Sad", which was written by Bono and The Edge of the rock band U2. This song was the theme for *The Casino*. Dusk followed up his debut album with a holiday EP entitled *Peace on Earth* which was released on November 30, 2005.

In January 2006, Dusk traveled to Los Angeles to record his second album, *Back in Town* at Capitol Studio A. He recorded with a 58 piece orchestra conducted by Patrick Williams and Sammy Nestico and recorded by Al Schmitt. *Back in Town* includes a mix of jazz standards and originals and was released in June 2006.

*Good News* was released on October 27, 2009, in Poland and Canada. The album paid tribute to the crooner style but was produced in a contemporary style. In late 2009, *Good News* was certified gold in Poland.

In March 2010, Dusk recorded the soundtrack to the TV series *Call Me Fitz*. On August 25, 2010, Dusk recorded a live DVD concert special for PBS which aired in America in December 2010 and across the world in 2011. The concert was recorded live at the Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas with a 17 piece big band.

In 2013 Dusk returned to his jazz roots and released his *My Funny Valentine: The Chet Baker Songbook*. It included an eighty piece orchestra and guests such as Arturo Sandoval, Guido Basso, Emilie-Claire Barlow, and Ryan Ahlwardt of the American a cappella band Straight No Chaser . The album paid homage to Chet Baker. On October 10, 2013, the album was certified gold in Poland. On December 17, 2013, the album achieved platinum status (also in Poland). In 2013 Dusk recorded a duet with Edyta Górniak. Additionally in 2013, Dusk performed songs for the *Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood* special "Snowflake Day", including a version of the show's opening tune, based on the theme for *Mister Rogers' Neighborhood* and the songs "The Snowflake Day Song", "Let Your Light Twinkle" and "It's Such a Good Feeling".

In 2014 Dusk began work on his ninth studio album, a duet album. Produced by Dusk, it featured a jazz sextet and string orchestra. Musically the album pays homage to the bossa nova genre, with songs by Antonio Carlos Jobim. The album was recorded and released in 2015 and 2016 three times with different duet partners. In Canada, the album is called *Quiet Nights* with French-Canadian singer Florence K and was number one on the Canadian Jazz charts for 16 weeks. It was nominated for an ADSIQ. In Poland, the album is called *Just the Two of Us* with Polish singer Margaret, was certified platinum and won a Roze Gali award. In Japan, the album is called *Lost in Rio* with Japanese singer Karen Aoki.

In 2016 Dusk self-produced his first full-length Christmas album, *Old School Yule!*. The album included over 100 musicians and the St. Michael's Choir School, his childhood school. The album was certified gold by ZPAV.

In 2018 Dusk released his twelfth studio album, *JetSetJazz*. The album was co-written, recorded and produced by Dusk and pays homage to the golden age of travel throughout the 1960s.

In 2020 Dusk released *Sinatra with Matt Dusk* and followed it in 2021 with *Sinatra with Matt Dusk Vol. 2*. The albums were certified platinum and gold by ZPAV, respectively.

## Discography

### Albums

List of albums, with selected details, chart positions and certifications
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | | | | | Certifications |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| | | FRA
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| *The Way It Is* |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| *Two Shots* | * Released: June 15, 2004 * Label: Decca * Formats: CD, digital download |  | 37 |  | 10 | 15 |  |
| *Peace on Earth* | * Released: November 30, 2004 * Label: Decca * Formats: CD, digital download |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| *Back in Town* | * Released: June 13, 2006 * Label: Decca * Formats: CD, digital download |  | 38 |  | 7 | 16 |  |
| *Good News* | * Released: October 27, 2009 * Label: Royal Crown * Formats: CD, digital download | 187 | 92 | 39 |  |  |  |
| *Live from Las Vegas* | * Released: May 10, 2011 * Label: Royal Crown * Formats: CD, digital download |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| *My Funny Valentine: The Chet Baker Songbook* | * Released: February 12, 2013 * Label: Royal Crown * Formats: CD, digital download |  |  | 26 |  |  |  |
| *Just the Two of Us*
(with Margaret) |  |  |  | 28 |  |  |  |
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | | | | | | | |

## Sources

## InfoBox

| Matt Dusk | |
| --- | --- |
| Dusk in concert in July 2010 | |
| Background information | |
| Birth name | Matthew-Aaron Dusk |
| Born | (1978-11-19) November 19, 1978
Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Genres | Jazz |
| Years active | 1999–present |
| Labels | Entertainment One/Universal |
|  | |
| Website | mattdusk.com |


title: Maryland Route 218

abstract: Maryland Route 218 is a state highway located in Prince George's County in the U.S. state of Maryland. Known as Suitland Road, the highway runs 1.64 miles (2.64 km) from near Southern Avenue at the District of Columbia boundary east to MD 458 in Suitland. MD 218 provides access to the Suitland Federal Center, which is home to the U.S. Census Bureau. The state highway was constructed in the late 1920s and widened in the early 1940s and again in the late 1940s. The county portion of Suitland Road was reconstructed by the state in the mid-1950s.

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# Maryland Route 218

**Maryland Route 218** (**MD 218**) is a state highway located in Prince George's County in the U.S. state of Maryland. Known as **Suitland Road**, the highway runs 1.64 miles (2.64 km) from near Southern Avenue at the District of Columbia boundary east to MD 458 in Suitland. MD 218 provides access to the Suitland Federal Center, which is home to the U.S. Census Bureau. The state highway was constructed in the late 1920s and widened in the early 1940s and again in the late 1940s. The county portion of Suitland Road was reconstructed by the state in the mid-1950s.

## Route description

MD 218 begins at Southern Avenue at the District of Columbia boundary. Suitland Road continues west into Washington to an intersection with Alabama Avenue in the Fairfax Village neighborhood. MD 218 heads southeast as a two-lane undivided road between apartment complexes and crosses Oxon Run. The highway passes between Cedar Hill Cemetery to the north and Lincoln Memorial and Washington Memorial cemeteries to the south. East of the cemeteries, MD 218 gains a center left-turn lane and passes between Suitland Manor neighborhood on the north and Suitland Federal Center on the south; the federal center's main tenant is the U.S. Census Bureau. The state highway reaches its eastern terminus in the center of Suitland at MD 458 (Silver Hill Road). Suitland Road continues southeast as a county highway through a diamond interchange with Suitland Parkway, the town of Morningside, and a half-diamond interchange with Interstate 95 (I-95)/I-495 (Capital Beltway) to its terminus at MD 337 (Allentown Road) on the edge of Andrews Air Force Base.

## History

MD 218, which has also been known as Cedar Hill Cemetery Road and River Road, was constructed as a 15-to-16-foot-wide (4.6 to 4.9 m) concrete road from the District of Columbia boundary to the east end of the Cedar Hill Cemetery grounds in 1926. The concrete highway was extended to the center of Suitland at MD 458 by 1930. By 1934, the highway was proposed to be widened to 20 feet (6.1 m) for its whole length. The first round of widening of MD 218 took place when a pair of 3.5-foot-wide (1.1 m) bituminous shoulders were added from the District to the east end of the cemetery grounds between 1938 and 1940 and from there to Suitland between 1940 and 1942. In addition, the highway's one-lane bridge across Oxon Run was replaced with the present bridge in 1940 and 1941. MD 218 was widened a second time, this time to a minimum width of 36 feet (11 m) for its whole length, in 1949 and 1950. The county-maintained portion of Suitland Road, which was also known as Mayhew Road and has never been part of MD 218, was reconstructed and paved by the Maryland State Roads Commission in two sections from MD 458 to Suitland Parkway and from the parkway to MD 337 at Andrews Air Force Base in 1954.

## Junction list

The entire route is in Suitland, Prince George's County.

| mi
 | km | Destinations | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 0.00 | 0.00 | Southern Avenue / Suitland Road west Washington | District of Columbia boundary; western terminus |
| 1.86 | 2.99 | MD 458 (Silver Hill Road) / Suitland Road east Silver Hill, District Heights, Morningside | Eastern terminus |
| 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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Template:Attached KML/Maryland Route 218KML is from Wikidata

## InfoBox

| Maryland Route 218 | |
| --- | --- |
| Suitland Road | |
| Maryland Route 218 highlighted in red | |
| Route information | |
| Maintained by MDSHA | |
| Length | 1.64 mi (2.64 km) |
| Existed | 1927–present |
| Major junctions | |
| West end | Suitland Road at the District of Columbia boundary in Suitland |
| East end | MD 458 in Suitland |
|  | |
| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Maryland |
| Counties | Prince George's |
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| Highway system | |
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| MD 216   US 219 | |


abstract: This is a list of public art in Madison, Wisconsin. This list applies only to works of public art accessible in an outdoor public space. For example, this does not include artwork visible inside a museum.

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# List of public art in Madison, Wisconsin

This is a **list of public art in Madison, Wisconsin**.

This list applies only to works of public art accessible in an outdoor public space. For example, this does not include artwork visible inside a museum.

| Title | Artist | Year | Location/GPS coordinates | Material | Dimensions | Owner | Image |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| *Abraham Lincoln* (replica) | Adolph Weinman | 1909 | Bascom Hill
43°04′31″N 89°24′13″W / 43.07532°N 89.40368°W / 43.07532; -89.40368 (Abraham Lincoln) | Bronze | Approx. 90 × 36 × 60 in. | University of Wisconsin–Madison |  |
| *ACT* | William King | 1979 | Olbrich Park | Aluminium | H. 26 ft. | Olbrich Botanical Gardens | images here |
| *Alexa* | Susan Walsh | 1992 | Jenifer Street and Williamson Street | Metal, cast iron, industrial enamel, and concrete | 15' h × 9.5' w | City of Madison Public Art Collection | images here |
| *Annie C. Stewart Memorial Fountain* | Frederick Clasgens | 1925 | Henry Vilas Zoo
43°03′36″N 89°24′31″W / 43.0599°N 89.4086°W / 43.0599; -89.4086 (Annie C. Stewart Memorial Fountain) | Marble | Approx. H. 9 ft. 4 in. × W. 4 ft. | City of Madison |  |
| *Asclepius - Greek God of Healing* | Harry Whitehorse | ca. 1960s | 5001 Monona Dr. | Aluminium | Approx. H. 98 in. × W. 6 ft. |  |  |
| *Awakening* | George M. Cramer | 1994 | Chazen Museum of Art | Bronze | Approx. 72 × 36 × 36 in. | University of Wisconsin–Madison |  |  |
| *Balance Wheel* | Robert Gehrke | 1998 | State of Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade & Consumer Protection building | Steel | 12 ft. Diam. × 22 in. D | State of Wisconsin | images here |
| *Blue Lantern on Tripod* | Sid Boyum |  | intersection of Atwood Ave. & Eastwood Drive | painted cast concrete | 104 in. H × 31 in. W × 54 in. D | City of Madison Public Art Collection | images here |
| *Blue Urn with Dragon* | Sid Boyum |  | intersection of Atwood Ave. & Jackson St. | painted cast concrete | 66 in. H × 30 in. W × 28 in. D | City of Madison Public Art Collection | images here |
| *Bronze Hosta Leaf* | Sylvia Beckman |  | Olbrich Botanical Gardens | bronze |  | City of Madison Public Art Collection | images here |
| *Bronze Tulip Leaf* | Sylvia Beckman |  | Olbrich Botanical Gardens | bronze |  | City of Madison Public Art Collection | image here |
| *Camp Randall Memorial Arch* | Lew Porter | 1912 | Randall Ave. at W. Dayton St. 43°4′15.97″N 89°24′33.67″W / 43.0711028°N 89.4093528°W / 43.0711028; -89.4093528 (Camp Randall Memorial Arch) | Granite | Approx. 36 × 36 × 15 ft. | State of Wisconsin |  |
| *Capitol Square Fountains* | Sven Schunemann and Heidi Natura | 2005 | Capitol Square | polished paginated granite, bronze |  | City of Madison Public Art Collection |  |
| *Chinese Fu Dog Lantern* | Sid Boyum |  | Yahara Park and Canal | painted cast concrete | 85 in. × 29 in. D | City of Madison Public Art Collection | image here |
| *Christ and the Children* | Mary Ann Lohman | 1960s | Edgewood College | Metal | Approx. H. 56 in. × W. 3 ft. | Edgewood College | images here |
| *Community* | James J. McFadden, Richard Zillman and Cathy Sheets | 2009 | Revival Ridge Apartments at the corner of Allied Dr. & Jenewein Rd. | steel |  | City of Madison Public Art Collection | images here |
| *Creature Abstract Head* | Sid Boyum |  | intersection of Atwood Ave. & Eastwood Dr. | painted cast concrete | 47 in. H × 31 in. W × 20 in. D | City of Madison Public Art Collection | images here |
| *Dignified Figure with Tablet* | Sid Boyum |  | Lowell Elementary School Garden | painted cast concrete | 94 in. H × 35 in. W × 23 in. D | City of Madison Public Art Collection | image here |
| *Dreamkeepers* | Dr. Evermor | 2001 | 211 S. Paterson St. | Scrap metal | 30 ft | The Warren family |  |
| *Earth Flight* | Beth Sahagian | 1988 | University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics | Indiana limestone | Approx. 4 ft. × 10 ft. × 10 ft. | University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics |  |
| *Easter Island Sculpture* | Sid Boyum |  | Lowell Elementary School Garden | painted cast concrete | 67 in. H × 27 in. D | City of Madison Public Art Collection | images here |
| *Faith* | Karl Bitter | 1912 | Wisconsin State Capitol | Granite | Approx. H. 15 ft. | State of Wisconsin |  |
| *Fiddleheads* | Sylvia Beckman | 1988 | Olbrich Botanical Gardens | Limestone | Approx. H. 12 ft. × Diam. 5 ft. | Olbrich Botanical Gardens | images here |
| *Forward* | Jean Pond Miner Coburn | 1895 | Wisconsin Historical Society (original), Wisconsin State Capitol (replica)
43°04′29″N 89°23′09″W / 43.0747°N 89.3858°W / 43.0747; -89.3858 (Forward) | Bronze repousee | Approx. 7 ft. 9 in. × 3 ft. 6 in. × 3 ft. 6 in. | State of Wisconsin |  |
| *Four Lakes* | Andrea Myklebust and Stanton Gray Sears | 2009 | Frances Plaza between Frances Street and State Street | granite, bronze |  | City of Madison Public Art Collection | images here |
| *Freedom of Communication* | James Watrous | 1971 | University of Wisconsin–Madison, Vilas Communication Hall | Tesserae, plywood, epoxy & brass | Approx. 18 ft. × 12 ft. 6 in. × 1 1/2 in. | University of Wisconsin-Madison |  |
| *Gateway Project* | Edgar Jerome Jeter | 1987 | 1401 S. Park St. | Bronze & fiberglass | Approx. H. 10 ft. |  |  |
| *Generations* | Richard Artschwager | 1991 | Chazen Museum of Art | Steel, granite, concrete, Plexiglas & plants | Approx. H. 32 ft. × W. 60 ft. × L. 155 ft. |  |  |
| *Gyre* | Thomas Stancliffe | 2007 | Wisconsin State Revenue Building | metal |  |  |  |
| *Hans Christian Heg* | Paul Fjelde | 1925 | Wisconsin State Capitol | Bronze | Approx. 9 ft. 6 in. × 3 ft. × 3 ft. | State of Wisconsin |  |
| *Hieroglyph* | O.V. Shaffer | 1965 | Madison Public Library | Copper | Approx. 12 ft. × 66 in. × 55 in. | Madison Public Library |  |
| *Interspirit* | James Thomas Russell | 1983 | University of Wisconsin–Madison | Stainless steel | 2 parts. Approx. 12 ft. × 6 ft. 9 in. × 1 ft. 10 in. | University of Wisconsin |  |
| *Justice* | James Watrous | 1951 | Dane County Courthouse 43°4′17.43″N 89°23′3.42″W / 43.0715083°N 89.3842833°W / 43.0715083; -89.3842833 (Justice) | Aluminium | H. 9 ft. | Dane County Courthouse |  |
| *Knowledge* | Karl Bitter | 1912 | Wisconsin State Capitol | Granite | Approx. H. 12 ft. | State of Wisconsin |  |
| *Learning of the World* | Attilio Piccirilli | 1917 | Wisconsin State Capitol | Granite | H. 8 ft. × W. 40 ft. | State of Wisconsin |  |
| *Let the Great Spirit Soar* | Harry Whitehorse | 1991 | 2930 Lakeland Ave 43°5′25.26″N 89°20′25.92″W / 43.0903500°N 89.3405333°W / 43.0903500; -89.3405333 (Let the Great Spirit Soar) | Celtis wood | Approx. H. 12 ft. × W. 22 in. |  |  |
| *Levitation of the Enchanted Princess* | Tony DeLap | 1984 | 121 E. Wilson St. | Steel | Approx. H. 11 ft. × W. 42 ft. |  |  |
| *Liberty Supported by the Law* | Karl Bitter | 1910 | Wisconsin State Capitol | Granite | Approx. H. 8 ft. × W. 40 ft. | State of Wisconsin |  |
| *Living for the Dream* | Frank Brown | 1993 | 215 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. | Bronze & stoneware | Approx. 9 × 8 × 6 ft. | City of Madison | image here |
| *Madison* | Christopher Sproat | 1987 | Madison Federal Courthouse | Aluminum, Lexan, acrylic, cold cathode glass tubing, steel, Plexiglas & neon | Approx. 12 × 61 × 45 ft. | United States General Services Administration |  |
| *Maquina* | William Conrad Severson | 1994 | University of Wisconsin–Madison, Engineering Hall | Stainless steel | Approx. H. 18 ft. | University of Wisconsin–Madison |  |
| *Mother and Child* | William Zorach | 1930 | Chazen Museum of Art | Bronze | Approx. 65 × 32 × 28 in. | University of Wisconsin–Madison |  |
| *Nails' Tales* | Donald Lipski | 2005 | Removed from Camp Randall Stadium | concrete | ca. 20 ft. tall | University of Wisconsin–Madison |  |
| *Prosperity and Abundance* | Karl Bitter | 1912 | Wisconsin State Capitol | Granite | Approx. H. 15 ft. | State of Wisconsin |  |
| *Robert Kellner Memorial* | Caryl Yasko | 1984 | MacKenzie Environmental Education Center | Concrete | Approx. 5 ft. 10 in. × 13 ft. 2 in. × 8 ft. 4 in. | State of Wisconsin |  |
| *Rotational Shift* | Andrea Blum | 1987 | University of Wisconsin–Madison – Computer Science Building | Concrete | Approx. 18 in. × 76 ft. × 120 ft. | University of Wisconsin–Madison |  |
| *Spare Time* | John Martinson | 1979 | 11 W. Main St. – Rooftop | Steel | Approx. 11 ft. × 49 1/2 in. × 58 in. | City of Madison | image here |
| *Statue of Liberty* (replica) | Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi | 1950 | Warner Park | Metal | Approx. H. 9 ft. × W. 2 1/2 ft. |  |  |
| *Strength* | Karl Bitter | 1912 | Wisconsin State Capitol | Granite | Approx. H. 12 ft. | State of Wisconsin |  |
| *The Timeless Current, Seeking a Place of Repose, Quietly Changes* | Kathleen Kasper-Noonan | 1996 | University of Wisconsin Law School | Mixed media | Approx. L. 75 ft. | University of Wisconsin |  |
| *TimeKeeper* | Robert Curtis | 1983 | Law Park | Concrete, stainless steel, Cor-Ten steel & granite | Approx. H. 11 × W. 16 × L. 24 ft. |  |  |
| *Untitled* | Cliff Garten | 1996 | University of Wisconsin–Madison, biotechnology & genetics center | Glass & stainless steel |  |  |  |
| *Untitled* | Unknown |  | 5805 Hamersley Rd. | Wood | Approx. H. 18 ft. × W. 4 ft. |  |  |
| *Untitled* | Alan Tollakson | 1980 | Olbrich Botanical Gardens | Indiana limestone | Approx. 26 1/2 in. × 45 in. × 25 in. | Olbrich Botanical Gardens |  |
| *Verex Syzygy* | O.V. Shaffer | 1986 | 150 E. Gilman St.
43°4′48.66″N 89°23′10.68″W / 43.0801833°N 89.3863000°W / 43.0801833; -89.3863000 (Verex Syzygy) | Stainless steel |  |  |  |
| *Water Links* | Athena Tacha | 1997 | University of Wisconsin–Madison, Waisman Center | Concrete & evergreens | 6 × 30 × 40 ft. | University of Wisconsin–Madison |  |
| *Waisman Building Blocks* | Steven Woodward | 2000 | University of Wisconsin–Madison, Waisman Center | Rainbow granite | Three pieces totaling approx. 2 × 16 × 4 ft. | University of Wisconsin–Madison |  |
| *William Dempster Hoard* | Gutzon Borglum | 1922 | University of Wisconsin–Madison, College of Agriculture | Bronze |  | University of Wisconsin–Madison |  |
| *Wisconsiana* | Lloyd Hamrol | 1988 | General Executive Facilities Plaza | Granite | Approx. 12 × 84 × 92 ft. | State of Wisconsin |  |
| *Wisconsin* (also known as *Forward*) | Daniel Chester French | 1914 | Wisconsin State Capitol | Bronze | H. 15 ft. 5 in. | State of Wisconsin |  |
| *Wisdom, Thought, and Reflection* | Adolph Weinman | 1917 | Wisconsin State Capitol |  |  | State of Wisconsin |  |  |
| *Updraft* | Michael A. Burns | 2016 | Brittingham Park, near Main St. and Brittingham Place
43°03′53″N 89°23′46″W / 43.0647°N 89.3961°W / 43.0647; -89.3961 (Updraft) | Cor-Ten steel | 25' high × 30' wide × 30' deep | City of Madison |  |


title: Mount Shinn (California)

abstract: Mount Shinn is a 10,995-foot-elevation (3,351 meter) mountain summit located west of the crest of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Fresno County of northern California, United States. It is set within the John Muir Wilderness, on land managed by Sierra National Forest. Precipitation runoff from this mountain drains north to Florence Lake via tributaries of the South Fork San Joaquin River. Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises 3,600 feet above this river in less than two miles.

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# Mount Shinn (California)

**Mount Shinn** is a 10,995-foot-elevation (3,351 meter) mountain summit located west of the crest of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Fresno County of northern California, United States. It is set within the John Muir Wilderness, on land managed by Sierra National Forest. Precipitation runoff from this mountain drains north to Florence Lake via tributaries of the South Fork San Joaquin River. Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises 3,600 feet (1,100 meters) above this river in less than two miles.

## History

The mountain's name was proposed by members of the U.S. Forest Service to honor Charles Howard Shinn (1852–1924), forest supervisor of Sierra National Forest. He was also a charter member of the Sierra Club and author. This landform's toponym was officially adopted in 1925 by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names.

The first ascent of the summit was made August 8, 1925, by Francis A. Corey.

## Climate

According to the Köppen climate classification system, Mount Shinn is located in an alpine climate zone. Most weather fronts originate in the Pacific Ocean, and travel east toward the Sierra Nevada mountains. As fronts approach, they are forced upward by the peaks (orographic lift), causing them to drop their moisture in the form of rain or snowfall onto the range.

## InfoBox

| Mount Shinn | |
| --- | --- |
| West aspect | |
| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 10,995 ft (3,351 m) |
| Prominence | 560 ft (171 m) |
| Parent peak | Zingheim Heights (11,138 ft) |
| Isolation | 3.96 mi (6.37 km) |
| Coordinates | 37°12′44″N 118°55′10″W / 37.2123000°N 118.9194828°W / 37.2123000; -118.9194828 |
| Naming | |
| Etymology | Charles Howard Shinn |
| Geography | |
| Mount ShinnLocation in CaliforniaMount ShinnMount Shinn (the United States) | |
| Location | Fresno County, California, U.S. |
| Parent range | Sierra Nevada |
| Topo map | USGS *Ward Mountain* |
| Geology | |
| Age of rock | Cretaceous |
| Mountain type | Fault block |
| Type of rock | Granodiorite |
| Climbing | |
| First ascent | 1925 |
| Easiest route | class 2 West slope |


title: Fumetto International Comics Festival

abstract: The Fumetto International Comics Festival is held annually at Lucerne, Switzerland. The festival was established in 1992 as the Luzern Comix Festival, before growing in size and renaming itself in 2003. The festival has helped Switzerland's comics community unify and grow, crossing the divide between the differing language barriers within the country. The festival attracts both national and international guests. Comics creators honored or exhibited at the festival include Joe Sacco, Marjane Satrapi, Chris Ware, Jack Kirby and Lewis Trondheim.

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# Fumetto International Comics Festival

The **Fumetto International Comics Festival** is held annually at Lucerne, Switzerland. The festival was established in 1992 as the **Luzern Comix Festival**, before growing in size and renaming itself in 2003. The festival has helped Switzerland's comics community unify and grow, crossing the divide between the differing language barriers within the country. The festival attracts both national and international guests. Comics creators honored or exhibited at the festival include Joe Sacco, Marjane Satrapi, Chris Ware, Jack Kirby and Lewis Trondheim.


title: Ustye Kury

abstract: Ustye Kury is a village in the Neftchala Rayon of Azerbaijan.

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# Ustye Kury

**Ustye Kury** (also, **Ust’ye Kury**) is a village in the Neftchala Rayon of Azerbaijan.

## InfoBox

| Ustye Kury | |
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| Ustye Kury | |
| Coordinates: 39°18′N 49°24′E / 39.300°N 49.400°E / 39.300; 49.400 | |
| Country | Azerbaijan |
| Rayon | Neftchala |
| Time zone | UTC+4 (AZT) |
| Summer (DST) | UTC+5 (AZT) |


title: Zard

abstract: Zard were a Japanese pop rock group, originally with five members, with lead vocalist Izumi Sakai as its only constant member. Izumi Sakai was also the band's core member. Zard's work was sold under the record label B-Gram Records, Inc. Their most popular and successful songs are "Makenaide" (1993) (負けないで), "Yureru Omoi" (1993) (揺れる想い), and "My Friend" (1996). As of 2023, Zard has sold over 38 million records, making them one of the best-selling music artists in Japan.

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# Zard

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| Years active | 2011 - |
| Subscribers | 376k |
| Total views | 211,869,499 million times |
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**Zard** (ザード, *Zādo*) (stylized as **ZARD**) were a Japanese pop rock group, originally with five members, with lead vocalist Izumi Sakai as its only constant member. Izumi Sakai was also the band's core member. Zard's work was sold under the record label B-Gram Records, Inc. Their most popular and successful songs are "Makenaide" (1993) (負けないで), "Yureru Omoi" (1993) (揺れる想い), and "My Friend" (1996). As of 2023, Zard has sold over 38 million records, making them one of the best-selling music artists in Japan.

## Career

Zard began when the former CEO of Being Corporation, Daikō Nagato, recruited a 24-year-old model named Sachiko Kamachi. Changing her name to Izumi Sakai in an attempt to cut off her past, she created a group called Zard. Zard made a breakthrough with the release of their debut single February 10, 1991 *Good-bye My Loneliness*, which was a theme song for the Fuji TV drama "Ideals and Reality of Marriage" featuring Misako Tanaka. The song was very successful, reaching No. 9 in the Oricon rankings.

Zard's next two singles did not sell as well. The fourth, "Nemurenai Yoru wo Daite" (眠れない夜を抱いて) took a slightly different approach. The group's rock style had morphed to popular while the seemingly dark music videos turned to a relatively brighter image. In fact, half of Zard's official appearances on TV were related to performing this song, which sold 440,000 copies. At that time, Music Station host Kazuyoshi Morita (aka Tamori) asked Sakai what had taken Zard so long to be on stage. Sakai's reply was that they had wanted to make sure Zard would be an economically viable project and hence did not want to go public prematurely.

The major breakthrough for the group came with their sixth single in 1993, "Makenaide", which became No. 1 in the Oricon charts and went on to sell over 1.8 million copies. Zard went on to release two more songs that reached No. 1, "Yureru Omoi" and "Kitto Wasurenai" in the same year. An album titled "Yureru Omoi" featuring both "Makenaide" and "Yureru Omoi" sold two million copies, the first million milestone for the group in album sales. In fact, Being was so successful in the early 1990s that it was called Being Boom. No one sold more CDs than Zard in this year.

In 1996, Zard had one more million-selling hit, "My Friend". Although their sales fluctuated among six digits in sales for the remainder of the twentieth century, nine of twenty-one singles reached No. 1 and six reached No. 2. Only two could not break the top four mark. Since "Yureru Omoi" (揺れる想い) they also had three hits selling one million and one other hitting two million copies. On August 31, 1999, Zard held their first concert aboard cruise ship Pacific Venus, where six hundred people were randomly selected out of a million applicants. The DVD for this concert, released on January 26, 2000, had a limited production of 300,000 copies.

Besides being the driving force of Zard (and so much so that it became synonymous with her alone), Izumi Sakai was a very prolific lyricist. She wrote 150 songs during her 17-year career (numerous songs for other artists as well as all of the Zard songs except for two, *Koionna no Yūutsu* (恋女の憂鬱) and *Onna de Itai* (女でいたい) from their first album, *Good-bye My Loneliness*, which was written by Daria Kawashima,) and she released several books of poetry as well. An editorial in the *Asahi Shimbun* claimed that the secret to Zard's success was that while the trend in Japan showed a decrease in the number of music programs on television, Sakai used late night commercials to air her voice and so advertise her works.

She also wrote songs for other artists, most notably for the J-pop groups that shared her management company: Field of View, Wands and Deen, and the late mainland Taiwanese singer Teresa Teng. She also wrote the lyrics for and participated in the collaboration for the single "Hateshinai Yume o" (果てしない夢を) featuring J-pop groups Zard, Zyyg, Rev & Wands. The single also featured famed Japanese baseball hero Shigeo Nagashima. Some of her singles were used in anime, such as *Slam Dunk*, *Dragon Ball GT* and *Detective Conan*. The lyrics of "Dan Dan Kokoro Hikareteku" (ＤＡＮ ＤＡＮ 心魅かれてく) by Field of View, the opening theme song of *Dragon Ball GT*, is by Izumi Sakai. Afterward, Zard covered this song in *Today Is Another Day* album.

Zard's most successful single, *Makenaide* (負けないで) has been used as a theme song for Nippon Television program 24-hour TV, an annual Japanese television program in which a celebrity host is on screen continually for a whole day. Sakai said that she was honored at the song's being chosen and looked forward to watching the show. She also said that since *Makenaide* was widely appreciated by the public, she often felt as if that song was not hers to keep.

Sakai was also known for being mysterious. This is partly because her record label did not release much personal information on their artists, but also because she did not make very many personal appearances. She rarely appeared on any live TV music programs (e.g. TV Asahi's Music Station), which had been the main public relations tool for the record industry in Japan since 1993, or make any public appearances. Her first concert was in 1999, this being held on a cruise ship for a mere 600 members of her fan club (300 entries x2 among 2 million concert ticket requests). Her first and only concert tour, "What A Beautiful Moment Tour", was held in 2004, 13 years after her debut. Almost every concert was sold out at the time. The tour ended up having 10 concerts spanning 4 months from March to July 2004, with the final concert held in the famed Nippon Budokan.

Although Zard began as a group, Sakai's dominance within it has led to the name "Zard" often being used in Japan to refer to her alone, as a solo female singer. She used to hold a female record in Japan for most single sales until Ayumi Hamasaki released "No Way to Say". According to the Yomiuri Shimbun, as of August 2007, Zard was No. 8 for overall total in Japan. She has had 12 singles reach the No. 1 spot on the Oricon Singles Charts, and 9 albums reach the No. 1 spot on the Oricon Album Charts. 43 of her singles reached top 10 in the Oricon rankings. Zard has released a total of 45 singles and 17 albums.

Zard was also featured in Tak Matsumoto's Ihoujin (August 27, 2003). This single was later included in the cover album *The Hit Parade* produced by Tak Matsumoto.

On a trivial note, Zard's album "Oh My Love" released in 1994 reached No. 1 for the 500th edition of the Oricon Rankings since it began in 1970. She has had 12 singles reach the No. 1 spot on the Oricon.

### Post-Izumi Sakai Zard

On January 23, 2008, an album based on fan requests was released, titled Zard Request Best: Beautiful Memory. NTV Morning News program, Zoom In Super's December 28, 2007 reports that over 500,000 entries were mailed to Being. Surprisingly, Makenaide and Yureru Omoi were not in the top 3, though they did make the top 10. The three songs garnering most votes were 1) Ano Hohoemi o Wasurenaide, 2) Shoujo no Koro ni Modotta Mitai ni, 3) Kakegae no Naimono.

When this album hit number one in the Oricon charts, it marked the eleventh time Zard/Sakai had done so, matching the record held by Dreams Come True for the most number ones by female vocal groups.

## Sakai's death

Founding member Izumi Sakai died on May 27, 2007, at the age of 40 in Keio University Hospital. She had entered the hospital in June 2006 after discovering she had cervical cancer and had the tumor removed. In April 2007, however, the cancer had spread to her lungs, resulting in her re-admittance to hospital. According to the hospital, she took daily walks every morning. During her walk on May 26, she accidentally fell from the stairs and was discovered at around 5:40 a.m. and taken to the ICU. Never regaining consciousness, she died at 3:10 p.m. the following day. An agency spokesman said:

> We hope that Izumi Sakai, along with her hit songs, will remain in the memory of her fans.

Sakai had planned to release a new album in the fall, as well as make her first live tour in three years to show her fans that she was fighting strongly against her illnesses.

A memorial service for fans was held on June 27 in a funeral hall in Aoyama, Tokyo. On the previous day, a memorial service for the people concerned was held and Maki Ohguro and Tetsuro Oda and others were in attendance. At the same time, Tak Matsumoto and Koshi Inaba of B'z, Mai Kuraki and Shigeo Nagashima made announcements in her remembrance.

Two compilation albums were planned for release on August 15, one including a selection of Sakai's personal favorite songs, and the other including favorites chosen by her staff. A fan-selected compilation album was also planned for the fall. Two tribute concerts were heldone on September 7 at Osaka Festival Hall, and the other on September 14 at Tokyo Nippon Budokan. These two places were chosen because they were the first and last stops respectively of the *What a beautiful moment Tour* in 2004the only tour that band had gone on. The new tour was called "What a Beautiful Memory".

In September 2007, an audience of 13,000 participated in a memorial Budokan concert. Nine screens were set up to show previously unseen footage of Izumi Sakai, and a first single after she died called *Glorious Mind* was played. This was a song that Sakai had recorded before her hospitalization, and was used as the opening theme song of the anime series *Case Closed*. It was not complete at the time of Sakai's death, but the chorus footage was complete. Extra minutes where she was singing in English were incorporated from a previously unrelated and unreleased song as well.

## Band members

### Principal members

### Other members

* Fumihito Machida - guitar (1991-1993)
* Hiroyasu Hoshi - bass (1991-1992)
* Kōsuke Michikura - drums (1991-1993)
* Kimitaka Ikezawa - keyboards (1991-1993)

## Discography

### Studio albums

## Live

### Zard Cruising & Live

### What a Beautiful Moment Concert Tour 2004

### What a Beautiful Memory Concert Tour 2007-2009

* 09/06/2007 Osaka Festival Hall, Osaka Prefecture
* 09/07/2007 Osaka Festival Hall, Osaka Prefecture
* 09/14/2007 Nippon Budokan, Tokyo Metropolitan Prefecture
* 01/19/2008 Kobe International Forum (International Hall), Hyogo Prefecture
* 02/02/2008 Pacifico Yokohama (Prefectural University Hall), Kanagawa Prefecture
* 02/10/2008 Izumi City, Prefecture
* 02/24/2008 Sapporo City Education & Cultural Forum, Hokkaido Prefecture
* 03/08/2008 Ishikawa Health & Pension Forum, Ishikawa Prefecture
* 03/15/2008 Aichi Health & Pension Forum, Aichi Prefecture
* 03/22/2008 Niigata Prefecture People's Forum, Niigata Prefecture
* 04/05/2008 Sunport Hall Takamatsu (Large Hall), Kagawa Prefecture
* 04/28/2008 Fukuoka Citizens' Forum, Fukuoka Prefecture
* 05/03/2008 Hiroshima Estelle Plaza, Hiroshima Prefecture
* 05/04/2008 Ehime Prefecture Citizen Cultural Forum (Subhall), Ehime Prefecture
* 05/23/2008 Doshima River Forum, Osaka Prefecture
* 05/24/2008 Doshima River Forum, Osaka Prefecture
* 05/25/2008 Doshima River Forum, Osaka Prefecture
* 05/27/2008 National Yoyogi Athletic Field (First Gymnasium), Tokyo Metropolitan Prefecture
* 05/15/2009 Doshima River Forum, Osaka Prefecture
* 05/16/2009 Doshima River Forum, Osaka Prefecture
* 05/27/2009 Nippon Budokan, Tokyo Metropolitan Prefecture

### What a Beautiful Memory ~Forever You~

* 05/27/2011 Nippon Budokan, Tokyo Metropolitan Prefecture
* 05/29/2011 Grand Cube Osaka, Osaka Prefecture

### What a Beautiful Memory ~25th Anniversary~

## InfoBox

| ZARDザード | |
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| Birth name | Zard |
| Origin | Tokyo, Japan |
| Genres |  |
| Discography | Album and Singles |
| Years active | 1991–2000, 2002–2007 |
| Labels | Polydor Japan (1991-1993) B-Gram RECORDS (1993-1998, 2000-2016)<br>Garage Indies Zapping Association (1999) |
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| Past members | * Izumi Sakai * Fumihito Machida * Hiroyasu Hoshi * Kōsuke Michikura * Kimitaka Ikezawa |
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| Website | www.wezard.net |


title: Marian B. Towne

abstract: Marian B. Towne was an American politician of the Democratic Party who was the first woman to serve in the Oregon House of Representatives. She was elected to that office in 1914, serving until 1917. Towne was born in Sterlingville, Oregon and died in Phoenix, Oregon.

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# Marian B. Towne

**Marian B. Towne** (December 6, 1880 – February 16, 1966) was an American politician of the Democratic Party who was the first woman to serve in the Oregon House of Representatives. She was elected to that office in 1914, serving until 1917. Towne was born in Sterlingville, Oregon and died in Phoenix, Oregon.

## Early life

Towne was born in Sterlingville, on December 6, 1880. Her family later moved to Phoenix, where her father, William Francis Towne, was a successful merchant. After Towne graduated from the local school, she served as assistant county clerk in Medford. She began studying law, and left Oregon to attend the University of Michigan Law School for a term in 1908. She used her legal studies to evaluate state laws that might affect Jackson County. This experience led her to run for the legislature.

## Political career

1914 was the first year women women were eligible to vote and run for office in Oregon. The mayor of Medford endorsed her candidacy, as well as the publisher of the *Mail Tribune*, George Putnam. Towne was elected to serve during the 1915 Oregon legislative session. She served alongside Kathryn Clarke, the first female Oregon State Senator. She served on the House Education, Health and Public Morals, and Salaries committees. Among the bills she introduced was a bill to increase school funding and expand the minimum school term from six to eight months. She also spoke in defense of the Oregon Girl's Industrial Home. She did not win reelection in 1916.

## Military career

In 1917, at the start of World War I, Towne volunteered for service the U.S. Naval Reserve, the first time women were allowed to do so. She served as a clerk at the Bremerton Naval Yard, where she applied for a regular commission in the U.S. Navy. Her application was rejected. She was discharged from the Naval Reserve in 1920.

## Later life

Towne worked for the state of Washington for the Department of Health, the State Bar of California and the California Public Welfare Department. She returned to Oregon in the late 1950s; she died in Phoenix on February 16, 1966 at age 85.


title: Vitaly Borker

abstract: Vitaly Borker, known by pseudonyms Tony Russo, Stanley Bolds and Becky S, is an American felon who has twice served federal prison sentences for charges arising from how he ran his online eyeglass retail and repair sites, DecorMyEyes and OpticsFast. Customers who complained about poor service and misfilled orders for high-end designer eyewear were insulted, harassed, threatened and sometimes made the victim of small scams. After going into online retail following a short career as a computer programmer for several Wall Street firms, Borker encountered difficult customers who, he later said, were rude, lied to him and cost him money unnecessarily. He decided to be rude and unscrupulous with them in return, and learned to his surprise that on the Internet there was no such thing as bad publicity since the many posts with links to his site on complaint sites such as Ripoff Report appeared to drive traffic to his sites due to how Google's PageRank algorithm worked at that time, putting his site higher in results for searches on brand names than even those brands' websites, and making him money. When New York Times reporter David Segal investigated the site in 2010, Borker freely explained this business model to him when Segal came to visit his house in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Sheepshead Bay, where Borker questioned the notion that the customer is always right and said he "like[d] the craziness." A month later Borker was arrested by federal postal inspectors and charged with mail fraud, wire fraud and making interstate threats. He eventually pleaded guilty to fraud charges and making threats and was sentenced to prison for four years. Google and other websites whose flaws he had exploited in running DecorMyEyes also changed their practices and tightened security procedures. Before entering prison, Borker and a friend had begun setting up another website, OpticsFast, offering not only eyeglasses for sale but repair services. After his 2015 release, he went back to his former business practices, which he mostly hid from his probation officer. Two years later, Segal reported on Borker's return in the Times, and Borker was again arrested and charged with wire and mail fraud associated with alleged harassment and abuse as operator of OpticsFast. In February 2018, he was sentenced to two years in prison for violation of his 2015 parole. Following a plea deal for the 2017 charges, he was later sentenced in 2019 to two years in prison followed by three years of supervised release, a $50,000 fine, and a $300 special assessment. Following Borker's release in late 2020, Segal reported in the Times in 2021 that Borker appeared to have returned to selling eyeglasses online, under other personal and business names, and harassing dissatisfied customers through a new site called Eyeglassesdepot. If true, this would be a violation of a condition of his 2021 parole that he avoid any involvement in online retailing. In early 2022 he was arrested again on fraud charges related to the new site; he pleaded guilty to wire fraud a year later.

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# Vitaly Borker

**Vitaly Borker** (born 1975 or 1976 in the former Soviet Union), known by pseudonyms **Tony Russo**, **Stanley Bolds** and **Becky S**, is an American felon who has twice served federal prison sentences for charges arising from how he ran his online eyeglass retail and repair sites, **DecorMyEyes** and **OpticsFast**. Customers who complained about poor service and misfilled orders for high-end designer eyewear were insulted, harassed, threatened (sometimes physically) and sometimes made the victim of small scams. After going into online retail following a short career as a computer programmer for several Wall Street firms, Borker encountered difficult customers who, he later said, were rude, lied to him and cost him money unnecessarily. He decided to be rude and unscrupulous with them in return, and learned to his surprise that on the Internet there was no such thing as bad publicity since the many posts with links to his site on complaint sites such as Ripoff Report appeared to drive traffic to his sites due to how Google's PageRank algorithm worked at that time, putting his site higher in results for searches on brand names than even those brands' websites, and making him money.

When *New York Times* reporter David Segal investigated the site in 2010, Borker freely explained this business model to him when Segal came to visit his house in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Sheepshead Bay, where Borker questioned the notion that the customer is always right and said he "like\[d\] the craziness." A month later Borker was arrested by federal postal inspectors and charged with mail fraud, wire fraud and making interstate threats. He eventually pleaded guilty to fraud charges and making threats and was sentenced to prison for four years. Google and other websites whose flaws he had exploited in running DecorMyEyes also changed their practices and tightened security procedures.

Before entering prison, Borker and a friend had begun setting up another website, OpticsFast, offering not only eyeglasses for sale but repair services. After his 2015 release, he went back to his former business practices, which he mostly hid from his probation officer. Two years later, Segal reported on Borker's return in the *Times*, and Borker was again arrested and charged with wire and mail fraud associated with alleged harassment and abuse as operator of OpticsFast. In February 2018, he was sentenced to two years in prison for violation of his 2015 parole. Following a plea deal for the 2017 charges, he was later sentenced in 2019 to two years in prison followed by three years of supervised release, a $50,000 fine, and a $300 special assessment.

Following Borker's release in late 2020, Segal reported in the *Times* in 2021 that Borker appeared to have returned to selling eyeglasses online, under other personal and business names, and harassing dissatisfied customers through a new site called Eyeglassesdepot. If true, this would be a violation of a condition of his 2021 parole that he avoid any involvement in online retailing. In early 2022 he was arrested again on fraud charges related to the new site; he pleaded guilty to wire fraud a year later.

## Biography

Borker told *New York Times* reporter David Segal in 2010 that he was born in Russia and moved to the United States with his parents as a child; exactly how old he was at the time is not definitely known. After graduating from Edward R. Murrow High School in 1989 and John Jay College of Criminal Justice in 1997 he began training as a police officer, working as a cadet in the office of a unit that patrolled public housing in Brooklyn. He soon changed his mind about his career path and enrolled in a school to learn programming.

Although all classes were taught in English, all the students and teachers at the school were also all Russian immigrants, Borker recalls. Students would be taught the bare minimum that would get them hired, and then the school would help them fabricate a résumé and work history to assure that they did. "There were a lot of schools like this," he said a decade later. "They've all been shut down."

Borker first went to work for a variety of Wall Street financial firms, including Lehman Brothers, where he worked on the systems that administered the accounts of mutual fund shareholders. Dissatisfied with the pay, Borker took a friend up on his side offer to create an online version of his eyeglass store. He continued running the online eyeglass store while he worked for Lehman, drawing lawsuits, and judgements, from luxury brands like Chanel for selling counterfeit glasses. Shortly before Lehman collapsed in the 2008 financial crisis, he left to go into online retailing full time.

## DecorMyEyes

The website became DecorMyEyes. Borker became disillusioned with his customers, who he says lied and cost him unnecessarily by changing their minds. "I stopped caring", he says, and began responding rudely to them. This led to postings on review websites disparaging him, which, to his amazement, put DecorMyEyes near the top of Google search results due to the many links to his site. Seeing the value of this perverse incentive, Borker began purposely responding to dissatisfied customers with threats and insults. It was later reported that the site had made Borker $3.2 million in one year.

Customers of DecorMyEyes posted numerous reports of receiving threats of physical violence, abuse, poor service and overcharges on websites such as ResellerRatings, where DecorMyEyes had, as of 2010, a lifetime rating of 1.39/10 from 79 reviews. One customer told authorities that after he complained someone had called his employer and accused him of dealing drugs. According to Borker, each bad review with a link boosted his site's PageRank, meaning that the site came to the top of Google's ratings for many of the products he sold. He showed the *Times* that his site actually came up higher than designer Christian Audigier's in a search on the designer's name. While a direct Google search for "DecorMyEyes" elicits the site and its many negative reviews, searching for individual products and brands does not.

The reason, cited by an anonymous Google publicist, is that the large number of links to DecorMyEyes from consumer complaint sites such as Ripoff Report cause DecorMyEyes to rank high in Google search results. In 2008 Borker made a post as "Stanley" on Get Satisfaction and other websites like it thanking users there for the links and the traffic they had brought him. When the website's administrators sent him an email suggesting he could work with them to work things out, he replied with a photograph of his hand with middle finger extended.

Borker said most of his customers were satisfied; he called those who were not "psychos". He questioned the notion that the customer is always right. "\[N\]ot here, you understand?" he told Segal. "Why is the merchant always wrong? Can the customer ever be wrong? Is that not possible?" He allowed that the stress might well be affecting his health, but doubted he would walk away from the site. "I like the craziness. This works for me", he said, likening himself to radio shock jock Howard Stern.

Borker used other websites in his business. He often sourced his glasses from sellers on eBay and told them simply to ship them to his customers' address. If the seller declined, as several did when the address had not been verified by PayPal, he left a negative review on their page, which many wanted to avoid. When sellers blocked Borker, he registered under a different name; after this was reported, eBay barred Borker from the site permanently and instituted other reforms to prevent such tactics and identify abusive buyers. Borker also maintained a store on Amazon.com under a different name, where he was much more fastidious in his dealings with customers, since that platform was willing to remove sellers if it got enough customer complaints.

Since credit card companies, in their agreements with sellers, can cancel the service if they receive enough "chargebacks" or buyer disputes every month, Borker told the *Times* he tried to make sure he avoided alienating too many. Some customers say that he threatened them to drop the dispute, sometimes suggesting he was willing to employ physical violence and emailing them pictures of their houses from Google Earth. One told Segal that her bank dropped the dispute and reinstated her charge after a woman claiming to be her called and said she no longer wished to do so.

Google responded to the *Times* story by writing an algorithm that "detects the merchant from the Times article along with hundreds of other merchants that, in our opinion, provide an extremely poor user experience" and significantly reduces their search visibility on product searches. MasterCard had dropped DecorMyEyes in 2009 due to excessive chargebacks. Borker regained access to their network by using a different bank. The company told the *Times* that he should not have been able to do this as he was supposed to have been placed on an internal blacklist; in the wake of the story it told Segal that it had not only put him on that list but increased its safeguards to make sure that those who were supposed to be blacklisted were. Borker responded that it was impossible to shut people down completely online. "I'd use the name of a friend of mine", he suggested. "Give him 1 percent."

## 2010 arrest and federal charges

A week after the *Times* story Borker was arrested by agents of the United States Postal Inspection Service on charges of mail fraud, wire fraud, making interstate threats and cyberstalking, and arraigned in the United States District Court in Manhattan. Bail was denied on the basis that he was a threat to the community. A search of his house turned up a stock of counterfeit eyeglasses, and fake 8mm replica guns. State charges were dismissed. After months of confinement in the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, Borker was freed in April 2011 upon posting $1 million bond and accepting restrictions that included accepting surveillance by a security guard in his home, at a cost to him of a thousand dollars a day.

In May 2011, Borker pleaded guilty in Federal District Court in Manhattan to two counts of interstate communication of threats, one count of mail fraud and one count of wire fraud. In September 2012, Borker was sentenced to four years in federal prison and ordered to pay nearly $100,000 in fines and restitution. He was released four years later.

## 2017: OpticsFast

Before his imprisonment, Borker had a friend, Michael Voller, create a successor site, OpticsFast, to continue the business—with another friend's name on the incorporation papers—which he later reassumed control of after his release, offering this time to repair glasses as well as selling new ones. Members of Voller's family furthered the scheme by telling Borker's probation officer that he was working for their family business and fabricating documentation to support that. Borker resumed his tactics of selling customers cheap counterfeits of luxury brand eyewear and then insulting and harassing them if they complained or attempted to return or exchange the merchandise, again with the goal of driving traffic to his site through the links from online complaints, this time primarily on Yelp.

Borker is not known to have physically threatened customers during this period, although he did charge one for a mailing label he claimed to have printed after the customer decided to cancel his order, a tactic he later admitted was fraudulent when allocuting. Many communications sent by Borker under the name "Becky S", Judge Paul G. Gardephe noted, were the source of many of the complaints lodged against OpticsFast. "\[C\]ustomers describe interactions with OpticsFast employees that appear irrational if not imbalanced", he wrote in sentencing Borker. "Indeed, many of the customers who filed complaints appear to have done so more because of the disturbing nature of th\[ose\] interactions ... rather than because of any loss they suffered from doing business with OpticsFast."

Some customers did face offline harassment. A Southern California woman, who recognized the email she received as having come from someone involved with DecorMyEyes since it referenced an order she had made nearly a decade earlier, recalls being told on the phone by a person purporting to be a police officer that she needed to report to the police station at once as a civil harassment suit had been filed against her; she declined after asking why the police were involved if it was a civil matter. The credit card she had used to make her eyewear purchase was then used to make a series of purchases around Brooklyn.

The *New York Times* reported on Borker's apparent return, noting that OpticsFast had been active while he was in prison. Search engine expert Doug Pierce, consulted by the newspaper, found the code and HTML running the OpticsFast page to have been substantially similar to DecorMyEyes until 2016, when Borker was released. Both domains had the same owner, but since the sites had been active while Borker was imprisoned the *Times* could not say for certain that he was involved in the new site.

In May 2017, a month after the story ran, Borker was arrested again and charged with wire and mail fraud associated with alleged harassment and abuse as operator of OpticsFast. Voller, also originally indicted, turned state's evidence against Borker and had most charges dropped; he was sentenced to time served in late 2020. Borker has sued him and others in state court alleging breach of contract.

Joon H. Kim, acting United States attorney for the Southern District of New York said that "Borker's shameless brand of alleged abuse cannot be tolerated, and we are committed to protecting consumers from becoming victims of such criminal behavior". Borker's lawyer stated his client would "plead not guilty and defend himself against the charges", which carried a maximum penalty of 20 years imprisonment.

### Plea and sentencing

In February 2018, Borker was sentenced to two years for violating parole after his release in 2015. The terms of his parole forbade him from lying to his parole officers, which he had done when he had repeatedly denied he had started another online eyewear retail site.

A month later, Borker pleaded guilty to wire and mail fraud charges in exchange for a reduced sentence. CNBC devoted an episode of *American Greed* to Borker in June. In April 2019, he was sentenced to two years in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, a $50,000 fine, and a $300 special assessment. He was released from prison in November 2020.

## 2021–22: Eyeglassesdepot

In 2021, the *Times* reported that Borker may have again returned to selling eyeglasses online and harassing dissatisfied customers, this time through a site named Eyeglassesdepot. Customers reported similar behavior, such as threats, insults and online doxxing, including not only their credit card numbers but the cards' security codes, when they complained or tried to return merchandise, and attempts to intimidate them into paying for printed mailing labels after they changed their mind. They said the company's representative identified themselves as "Arsenio".

This time, Trustpilot hosted many of the negative reviews. The owner of Eyeglassesdepot seemed to more genuinely fear the consequences of bad reviews there. He followed up one customer's complaints about his behavior with a post claiming it was a fake review posted by a competing site, along with the complainant's home address and cell phone number. He also threatened to post multiple fake positive reviews for every negative one.

Trustpilot management investigated after receiving complaints, and found almost half of the positive reviews of Eyeglassesdepot were fake. It removed them and sent Eyeglassesdepot an email asking that it cease and desist from further such behavior. "Yeah whatever" read the reply.

Pierce believes that Eyeglassesdepot and OpticsFast, which look very similar and share common third-party tags, have the same owner. Pierce concluded, "Whoever created Eyeglassesdepot simply cloned OpticsFast, perhaps in the interest of saving time and money, and then made a few cosmetic changes". Pierce allowed that that individual may not have been Vitaly Borker, "But who else would steal the code from a website as notorious as OpticsFast?"

Borker's attorney denied that his client was Arsenio. If Borker were to be involved in any way with Eyeglassesdepot, that by itself would be enough to send him back to prison, since the terms of his most recent parole forbid him from any involvement whatsoever with online retail.

In February 2022, prosecutors announced that Borker had been arrested again, on one count each of mail fraud, wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, the latter stemming from his use of two other people's names while running eyeglassesdepot. The *Times* noted that while he had apparently started it while still in a halfway house after his previous conviction, this time he seemed less audacious, content to merely sell used or counterfeit eyewear as new and genuine while not paying refunds, and provoking, threatening and abusing unhappy customers to lesser degree than he had previously. In January 2023 he pled guilty to one count of wire fraud and was sentenced to 30 months in prison.

## Personal life

At the time of his first arrest, Borker was married and had a daughter born in 2008.

In 2019, during sentencing in the OpticsFast case, Gardephe noted that Borker had been diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder, bipolar disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

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## InfoBox

| Vitaly Borker | |
| --- | --- |
| Borker's US Marshals Service mugshot | |
| Born | 1975 or 1976 (age 48–49) |
| Nationality | American |
| Other names | Stanley Bolds<br>Tony Russo<br>Becky S |
| Occupation | Businessman |
| Known for | Internet crime and cyberbullying |
| Criminal status | Released on November 12, 2020 |
|  | |
| Motive | Increase his site's Google PageRank by causing disgruntled customers to link to his site |
| Conviction(s) | Two counts of sending interstate threats<br>one count of mail fraud<br>one count of wire fraud |
| Criminal charge | 2 counts of 875(c) Interstate Threats<br>2 counts 1841 and 1843 Wire/Mail Fraud |
| Penalty | 4 years of prison<br>Nearly $100,000 restitution/fines |
|  | |


title: Mathias Yohannes

abstract: Mathias Yohannes is an American soccer player who plays as a midfielder for Loudoun United as a member of the D.C. United youth academy.

text:
# Mathias Yohannes

**Mathias Yohannes** (born January 19, 2004) is an American soccer player who plays as a midfielder for Loudoun United as a member of the D.C. United youth academy.

## Career

### Loudoun United

In February 2021, Yohannes began training with D.C. United's USL Championship affiliate, Loudoun United. He made his professional debut on July 4, 2021, coming on as a 75th-minute substitute for Massimo Ferrin in a 2–0 defeat to Hartford Athletic.

## Career statistics

### Club

*As of match played October 19, 2022*

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
| Club | Season | League | | | Cup | | Other | | Total | |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| | | Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| Loudoun United | 2021 | USL Championship | 3 | 0 |  |  |  |  | 3 | 0 |
| | 2022 | | 2 | 0 |  |  |  |  | 2 | 0 |
| Career total | | | 5 | 0 |  |  |  |  | 5 | 0 |

## InfoBox

Mathias Yohannes
| Personal information | | | |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Date of birth | (2004-01-19) January 19, 2004 | | |
| Place of birth | Chantilly, Virginia, United States | | |
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | | |
| Position(s) | Midfielder | | |
| Team information | | | |
| Current team | Loudoun United | | |
| Number | 28 | | |
| Youth career | | | |
|  | Arlington Soccer Association | | |
|  | D.C. United | | |
| Senior career\* | | | |
| Years | **Team** | **Apps** | **(Gls)** |
| 2021– | Loudoun United | 5 | (0) |
| \*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of October 19, 2022 | | | |


abstract: The non-marine molluscs of France are a part of the molluscan fauna of Metropolitan France. There are 695 species of non-marine molluscs living in the wild in continental France.

text:
# List of non-marine molluscs of Metropolitan France

The **non-marine molluscs of France** are a part of the molluscan fauna of Metropolitan France (including Corsica).

There are 695 species of non-marine molluscs living in the wild in continental France.

Summary table of number of species:
| Numbers of molluscs by habitat | Number of species |
| --- | --- |
| Freshwater gastropods | ?? |
| Land gastropods | ?? |
| Total number of non-marine gastropods | ?? |
| Freshwater bivalves | ?? |
| **Total number of non-marine molluscs** | **695** in continental France |

## Freshwater gastropods

Hydrobiidae

Lithoglyphidae

Moitessieriidae

Amnicolidae

## Land gastropods

Aciculidae

Chondrinidae

Cochlicopidae

Vertiginidae

Pristilomatidae

Parmacellidae

Helicidae

## Freshwater bivalves

Unionidae

## Hothouse aliens

"Hothouse aliens" in France include:

### French Overseas territories

### Surrounding countries