title: Mihara Station

abstract: Mihara Station Mihara Station is a passenger railway station located in the city of Mihara, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by the West Japan Railway Company. It is also a freight depot for the Japan Freight Railway Company

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# Mihara Station

**Mihara Station** (三原駅, *Mihara-eki*) is a passenger railway station located in the city of Mihara, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by the West Japan Railway Company (JR West). It is also a freight depot for the Japan Freight Railway Company (JR Freight)

## Lines

Mihara Station is served by the Sanyō Shinkansen and is 245.6 kilometers from Shin-Osaka and 761.0 kilometers from Tokyo. It is also JR West Sanyō Main Line, and is located 233.3 kilometers from the terminus of the line at Kobe. Mihara Station is also the eastern terminus of the 93.4 kilometer Kure Line to Hiroshima.

## Station layout

The station consists of two elevated side platforms for Shinkansen services and two elevated island platforms for conventional lines. There is only one ticket gate for conventional lines on the first floor of the station building, and there is no ticket gate dedicated to Shinkansen. When using the Shinkansen, it is necessary to pass through the transfer gates, and enter the conventional line concourse. The station has a *Midori no Madoguchi* staffed ticket office. A Shinkansen track maintenance section has been set up near the outbound tracks of this station.

## Platforms

| **1** | Kure Line | for Takehara |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **2** | San'yo Main Line | for Saijō |
| **3, 4** | Sanyō Main Line | for Fukuyama |

| **6** | San'yō Shinkansen | for Hiroshima |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **7** | San'yō Shinkansen | for Okayama |

## History

Itozaki Station was opened as the terminus of the Sanyō Railway on10 June 1894 when the line was extended to Hiroshima Station. With the privatization of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of JR West.

## Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 6203 passengers daily.

## Surrounding area

* Mihara Castle ruins
* Mihara City Hall
* Hiroshima University Mihara Elementary/Junior High School

Media related to Mihara Station at Wikimedia Commons

## InfoBox

| G 16   Y 31   X 20
Mihara Station
三原駅 | |
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| Mihara Station in 2018 | |
| General information | |
| Location | 1-1-1 Shiromachi, Mihara-shi, Hiroshima-ken 723-0014
Japan |
| Coordinates | 34°24′2.4″N 133°4′59.5″E / 34.400667°N 133.083194°E / 34.400667; 133.083194 |
| Owned by | West Japan Railway Company |
| Operated by | West Japan Railway Company |
| Line(s) |  |
| Distance | 233.3 km (145.0 mi) from Kobe |
| Platforms | 2 side + 2 island platforms |
| Tracks | * 4 (Local lines) * 2 (Shinkansen) |
| Connections | * Bus stop |
| Construction | |
| Structure type | Elevated |
| Accessible | Yes |
| Other information | |
| Status | Staffed (*Midori no Madoguchi*) |
| Station code | JR-G16, JR-Y31, JR-X20 |
| Website | Official website |
| History | |
| Opened | 10 June 1894 (1894-06-10) |
| Passengers | |
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| FY2019 | 6230 |
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| Services | |
| Preceding station  JR West Following station  Hiroshimatowards Hakata  San'yō Shinkansen*Hikari*  Fukuyamatowards Shin-Ōsaka  Higashi-Hiroshimatowards Hakata or Hakata-Minami  San'yō Shinkansen*Kodama*  Shin-Onomichitowards Shin-Ōsaka  Sunamitowards Hiroshima  Kure Line**Local**  *Terminus*  Hongōtowards Hiroshima  San'yō Line**Rapid**   San'yō Line**Local**  ItozakiTerminus  Saijotowards Shimonoseki  San'yō Line**West Express Ginga**  Fukuyamatowards Osaka | |
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| Location  Mihara StationLocation within Hiroshima PrefectureMihara StationMihara Station (Japan) | |


title: Moot Hall, Keswick

abstract: The Moot Hall is a prominent historic building situated at the southern end of Main Street in Keswick, Cumbria, England. It is Grade II* listed.

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# Moot Hall, Keswick

**The Moot Hall** is a prominent historic building situated at the southern end of Main Street in Keswick, Cumbria, England. It is Grade II\* listed.

## History

The hall has its origins in a medieval courthouse, used by the manor of Castlerigg and Derwentwater, which was in the ownership of the Radclyffe family by the 16th century. Richard Dudley, of Yanwath, acting as the local overseer on behalf of the "Company of Mines Royal", took a lease on the building from Lady Catherine Radclyffe of Derwentwater, the wife of Sir George Radclyffe of Derwentwater (1517-1579), in 1570. Dudley converted it into a storehouse for "weighing and keeping copper". He wrote to the Secretary of State, Sir William Cecil, in October 1570 to report that the works were ongoing and it appears that those works, which involved "pulling down of the old house", were completed the following year.

The upper floor continued to be used as the manorial courtroom while the ground floor was used to store the copper from the mines; once demand for copper reduced, the ground floor was used as a market hall. After the building fell into a dilapidated condition, it was thought to have been rebuilt with stones from the remains of the Radclyffe mansion on Lord's Island in 1695. The freehold ownership of the building passed to the James Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Derwentwater on the death of his father in 1705; however after James Radclyffe was executed for his involvement in the Jacobite rising of 1715, his property was seized and passed to the trustees of Greenwich Hospital.

The current structure, built of lime-washed stone and slate walling, was commissioned by the trustees of Greenwich Hospital in 1813. It was designed with a square tower on the north end with a round-arched doorway and a double flight of steps inside and with what the Keswick Tourist Information Board describes as an "unusual one-handed clock" at the top. The clock, attributed to Richard Young of Newcastle, is dated 1814; it strikes the hours on a bell which (along with the weather vane on the roof) is said to have come from Lord's Island on Derwentwater.

The Marshall family acquired the building from the trustees of Greenwich Hospital in 1832. It became home to the Keswick Museum of Local and Natural History, a creation of the Keswick Literary and Scientific Society, in 1873. The museum collection included a three-dimensional model of the Lake District, measuring 12 feet by 9 feet, made by Joseph and James Flintoft in 1837. The building was used for civic assemblies and meetings of the Keswick Urban District Council after it was formed in 1894: the local council acquired the building from the Marshall family in 1896, and the museum moved out to purpose-built facilities in Station Road in 1897. However, it ceased to be the local seat of government when the Allerdale Borough Council was formed in 1974. In the late-1970s a Tourist Information Centre was established on the ground floor, while an art gallery was created on the floor above.

As a central landmark in Keswick, the Moot Hall is used as the official start and/or finish point for various challenge events including the Bob Graham Round and runs visiting all the 214 Wainwrights.

## Sources

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| The Moot Hall | |
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| The Moot Hall | |
| Location | Keswick |
| Coordinates | 54°36′2″N 3°8′14″W / 54.60056°N 3.13722°W / 54.60056; -3.13722 |
| Built | 1813 |
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| Listed Building – Grade II\* | |
| Designated | 2 October 1951 |
| Reference no. | 1137345 |
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| The Moot HallLocation in Allerdale, CumbriaThe Moot HallLocation in the Lake District National Park | |


title: Microctenochira trepida

abstract: Microctenochira trepida is a species of leaf beetle from the subfamily Cassidinae. It is known from Brazil. The species was first described by Carl Henrik Boheman in 1855.

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# Microctenochira trepida

***Microctenochira trepida*** is a species of leaf beetle from the subfamily Cassidinae. It is known from Brazil. The species was first described by Carl Henrik Boheman in 1855.

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| *Microctenochira trepida* | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Chrysomelidae |
| Genus: | *Microctenochira* |
| Species: | ***M. trepida*** |
| Binomial name | |
| ***Microctenochira trepida***<br>(Boheman, 1855) | |
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title: Richard Croftes

abstract: Richard Croftes was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1767 and 1780. Croftes was the eldest son of William Croftes of West Harling Norfolk and Little Saxham Suffolk and his wife Mary Decker, daughter of Sir Matthew Decker, 1st Baronet MP and a London merchant. He was educated at Eton College from 1753 to 1758, was admitted at St John's College, Cambridge. on 3 July 1758, and graduated MA (Litt) in 1761. In 1760 Croftes's parents began trying to arrange a seat for him in Parliament. He was on the Duke of Newcastle’s "list of persons to be brought into Parliament" on 9 June 1760, having been mentioned to him by the Duke of Grafton, at the request of Mr Croftes, and by Mr Page at the request of Mrs Croftes. William Croftes was willing to pay for a seat but, found Newcastle's suggestion of Sudbury unattractive because "it would be expensive and the success doubtful". Mrs Croftes wrote to Newcastle on 15 February 1761 that her husband "was willing to have parted with a large sum of money" to have his son returned, and she herself was greatly disappointed that nothing had been arranged: “What objections can your Grace have to serve my son? he is a worthy young man of great application, of good family, and likely to have a good fortune; I flatter myself my son’s behaviour will be such that you will not repent... bringing him into Parliament.” So in Newcastle's list of people to be brought in, he then appeared as “Mr. Croftes, somewhere with great expense”. Croftes's father asked on 9 March 1761 that he should be brought in for Newark, but this was turned down. It was not until 1767 that a seat was found for Croftes on Grafton's recommendation. He was returned unopposed as a member of parliament for Petersfield in a by-election on 17 December 1767. At the 1768 general election he transferred to Downton, where he was again returned unopposed. His father died in 1770, and Croftes succeeded to his estates. In 1771, Grafton, now Chancellor of Cambridge University, suggested that Croftes stand for one of the Cambridge University seats, but the nomination was not well received in the University. The Bishop of Lincoln wrote to Lord Hardwicke on 5 February 1771 "sending down so young a man, and so little known, has given much offence". Richard Watson, regius professor of divinity, wrote to Grafton that the university was dissatisfied with Croftes. "We have no particular objections to him as a private man; nay we believe him equal to transacting the business of Downton, but we by no means think him of consequence enough in life to be the representative, or of ability sufficient to support the interest, of the University of Cambridge". Nevertheless, in January 1771 Croftes vacated his seat at Downton to stand for the University in a by-election on 4 February 1771. Although an independent section of the university put up their own candidate, Croftes was returned by 76 votes against 45. In the 1774 general election, he held one of the Cambridge University seats unopposed. However, he was defeated at the 1780 general election and did not stand for Parliament again. There is no record of his having spoken in the House of Commons. Croftes died aged 43 on 4 July 1783 and was buried at West Harling. He had married Harriet Darell, daughter of John Darell on 11 February 1773. They had one daughter.

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# Richard Croftes

**Richard Croftes** (c. 1740 – 1783) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1767 and 1780.

Croftes was the eldest son of William Croftes of West Harling Norfolk and Little Saxham Suffolk and his wife Mary Decker, daughter of Sir Matthew Decker, 1st Baronet MP and a London merchant. He was educated at Eton College from 1753 to 1758, was admitted at St John's College, Cambridge. on 3 July 1758, and graduated MA (Litt) in 1761.

In 1760 Croftes's parents began trying to arrange a seat for him in Parliament. He was on the Duke of Newcastle’s "list of persons to be brought into Parliament" on 9 June 1760, having been mentioned to him by the Duke of Grafton, at the request of Mr Croftes, and by Mr Page at the request of Mrs Croftes. William Croftes was willing to pay for a seat but, found Newcastle's suggestion of Sudbury unattractive because "it would be expensive and the success doubtful". Mrs Croftes wrote to Newcastle on 15 February 1761 that her husband "was willing to have parted with a large sum of money" to have his son returned, and she herself was greatly disappointed that nothing had been arranged: “What objections can your Grace have to serve my son? he is a worthy young man of great application, of good family, and likely to have a good fortune; I flatter myself my son’s behaviour will be such that you will not repent ... bringing him into Parliament.” So in Newcastle's list of people to be brought in, he then appeared as “Mr. Croftes, somewhere with great expense”. Croftes's father asked on 9 March 1761 that he should be brought in for Newark, but this was turned down.

It was not until 1767 that a seat was found for Croftes on Grafton's recommendation. He was returned unopposed as a member of parliament for Petersfield in a by-election on 17 December 1767. At the 1768 general election he transferred to Downton, where he was again returned unopposed. His father died in 1770, and Croftes succeeded to his estates.

In 1771, Grafton, now Chancellor of Cambridge University, suggested that Croftes stand for one of the Cambridge University seats, but the nomination was not well received in the University. The Bishop of Lincoln wrote to Lord Hardwicke on 5 February 1771 "sending down so young a man, and so little known, has given much offence". Richard Watson, regius professor of divinity, wrote to Grafton that the university was dissatisfied with Croftes. "We have no particular objections to him as a private man; nay we believe him equal to transacting the business of Downton, but we by no means think him of consequence enough in life to be the representative, or of ability sufficient to support the interest, of the University of Cambridge". Nevertheless, in January 1771 Croftes vacated his seat at Downton to stand for the University in a by-election on 4 February 1771. Although an independent section of the university put up their own candidate, Croftes was returned by 76 votes against 45.

In the 1774 general election, he held one of the Cambridge University seats unopposed. However, he was defeated at the 1780 general election and did not stand for Parliament again. There is no record of his having spoken in the House of Commons.

Croftes died aged 43 on 4 July 1783 and was buried at West Harling. He had married Harriet Darell, daughter of John Darell on 11 February 1773. They had one daughter.


title: Panopsis

abstract:
Panopsis is a genus of trees in the family Proteaceae. The species, which occur in Central and South America, include: Newer species that can be considered part of the Panopsis genus has been discovered recently, called Panopsis magnifruta. Common areas where Panopsis species are seen to grow in are described to have elevated groundwater levels.
  - Panopsis magnifruta
  - Panopsis cinnamomea Pittier
  - Panopsis mucronata Cuatrec.
  - Panopsis multiflora Ducke
  - Panopsis parimensis Steyerm.
  - Panopsis pearcei Rusby
  - Panopsis polystachya (Kunth) Kuntze
  - Panopsis ptariana Steyerm.
  - Panopsis rubescens (Pohl) Pittier
  - Panopsis sessilifolia (Rich.) Sandwith
  - Panopsis suaveolens (Klotzsch) Pittier
  - Panopsis tepuiana Steyerm.
  - Panopsis yolombo (Pos.-Arang.) Killip

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# Panopsis

***Panopsis*** is a genus of trees in the family Proteaceae. The species, which occur in Central and South America, include: Newer species that can be considered part of the *Panopsis* genus has been discovered recently, called *Panopsis magnifruta.* Common areas where *Panopsis* species are seen to grow in are described to have elevated groundwater levels.

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| *Panopsis* | |
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| *Panopsis rubescens* | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| *Clade*: | Tracheophytes |
| *Clade*: | Angiosperms |
| *Clade*: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Proteales |
| Family: | Proteaceae |
| Subfamily: | Grevilleoideae |
| Tribe: | Macadamieae |
| Subtribe: | Macadamiinae |
| Genus: | *Panopsis*<br>Salisb. ex Knight |
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title: HMS Cricket (shore establishment)

abstract: HMS Cricket was the name given to a Royal Navy shore establishment on the River Hamble from 1943 to 1946. This name was previously used by the Insect-class gunboat Cricket (1915) that was scrapped in 1942. HMS Cricket was commissioned on 15 July 1943. Initially it was a "Royal Marine Landing Craft Crew Training Base". It was established as an independent command with accounts being handled by HMS Shrapnel. The base was later used to assemble troops and landing craft in the build-up to D-day. From 23 May 1944, during the final preparations for D-Day, the base was completely sealed. During the base's operation, she was assigned a number of depot ships. The first was the Nab Happy Lass, from the time of commissioning until 30 April 1945. She was replaced by harbour launch 30455 until May that year, and was then succeeded by the petrol powered harbour launch 436622 until March 1946. It was decided to close HMS Cricket after the end of the Second World War, a decision taken on 1 March 1946. The last arrivals were on 20 May 1946 and Cricket was probably decommissioned on 15 July 1946, three years after commissioning. Its buildings were used for temporary post-war accommodation for the civilian population of Southampton. River Hamble Country Park now occupies this site. Itchen South scouts operate a scout campsite, named Cricket Camp, on part of the land.

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# HMS Cricket (shore establishment)

**HMS *Cricket*** was the name given to a Royal Navy shore establishment on the River Hamble from 1943 to 1946. This name was previously used by the Insect-class gunboat *Cricket* (1915) that was scrapped in 1942.

HMS *Cricket* was commissioned on 15 July 1943. Initially it was a "Royal Marine Landing Craft Crew Training Base". It was established as an independent command with accounts being handled by HMS *Shrapnel*. The base was later used to assemble troops and landing craft in the build-up to D-day. From 23 May 1944, during the final preparations for D-Day, the base was completely sealed. During the base's operation, she was assigned a number of depot ships. The first was the *Nab Happy Lass*, from the time of commissioning until 30 April 1945. She was replaced by harbour launch 30455 until May that year, and was then succeeded by the petrol powered harbour launch 436622 until March 1946.

It was decided to close HMS *Cricket* after the end of the Second World War, a decision taken on 1 March 1946. The last arrivals were on 20 May 1946 and *Cricket* was probably decommissioned on 15 July 1946, three years after commissioning.

Its buildings were used for temporary post-war accommodation for the civilian population of Southampton.

River Hamble Country Park now occupies this site. Itchen South scouts operate a scout campsite, named Cricket Camp, on part of the land.

* Warlow, Ben, *Shore Establishments of the Royal Navy*, Liskeard : Maritime, 2000. ISBN 978-0-907771-73-9
* Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) \[1969\]. *Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy* (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.

50°53′53″N 1°17′46″W / 50.898°N 1.296°W / 50.898; -1.296

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| History | |
| United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS *Cricket* |
| Commissioned | 15 July 1943 |
| Decommissioned | 15 July 1946 |
| Fate | Decommissioned |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Stone frigate |


title: Jimmy McCormick (footballer, born 1883)

abstract: James McCormick was an English professional footballer who played 23 games in the Football League for Sheffield United, and 269 in the Southern League for Plymouth Argyle. He played as a right half. McCormick was born in Rotherham. He joined Sheffield United from local football in the Sheffield area. On leaving the club in 1907, he played in the Southern League and the Western League for Plymouth Argyle. He made a brief return to Sheffield United before the 1910–11 season, but played only once before resuming his Argyle career in December 1910. He remained with the club until the League was suspended for the duration of the First World War. McCormick joined the 17th Middlesex Battalion, the Footballers' Battalion, in January 1915 and was promoted to Sergeant soon after enlisting. The battalion went to France in November 1915, where McCormick was wounded the following year by shrapnel in his forehead during the Battle of the Somme. McCormick carried a wounded comrade whose legs had been shattered, who guided him the wrong way down a trench and they were captured. He was taken to a prisoner of war camp in Saxony. He was repatriated when the First World War ended and spent time in hospital recovering from malnutrition. McCormick played for Argyle again throughout the 1919–20 season and captained the side after Harry Wilcox retired early in the campaign. He made 305 appearances for the club in all competitions, scoring 26 goals, and retired from professional football before the club joined the Football League. McCormick emigrated to Canada in June 1920, where he captained Ladysmith Football Club on Vancouver Island. He suffered from tinnitus and deteriorating eyesight as he got older due to the injury sustained during the war and retired to Kimberley in 1930. McCormick died of cancer on 28 January 1935.

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# Jimmy McCormick (footballer, born 1883)

**James McCormick** (28 April 1883 – 28 January 1935) was an English professional footballer who played 23 games in the Football League for Sheffield United, and 269 in the Southern League for Plymouth Argyle. He played as a right half.

McCormick was born in Rotherham. He joined Sheffield United from local football in the Sheffield area. On leaving the club in 1907, he played in the Southern League and the Western League for Plymouth Argyle. He made a brief return to Sheffield United before the 1910–11 season, but played only once before resuming his Argyle career in December 1910. He remained with the club until the League was suspended for the duration of the First World War. McCormick joined the 17th Middlesex Battalion, the Footballers' Battalion, in January 1915 and was promoted to Sergeant soon after enlisting. The battalion went to France in November 1915, where McCormick was wounded the following year by shrapnel in his forehead during the Battle of the Somme. McCormick carried a wounded comrade whose legs had been shattered, who guided him the wrong way down a trench and they were captured. He was taken to a prisoner of war camp in Saxony.

He was repatriated when the First World War ended and spent time in hospital recovering from malnutrition. McCormick played for Argyle again throughout the 1919–20 season and captained the side after Harry Wilcox retired early in the campaign. He made 305 appearances for the club in all competitions, scoring 26 goals, and retired from professional football before the club joined the Football League. McCormick emigrated to Canada in June 1920, where he captained Ladysmith Football Club on Vancouver Island. He suffered from tinnitus and deteriorating eyesight as he got older due to the injury sustained during the war and retired to Kimberley in 1930. McCormick died of cancer on 28 January 1935.

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Jimmy McCormick
| Personal information | | | |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Full name | James McCormick | | |
| Date of birth | (1883-04-28)28 April 1883 | | |
| Place of birth | Rotherham, England | | |
| Date of death | 28 January 1935(1935-01-28) (aged 51) | | |
| Place of death | Kimberley, Canada | | |
| Position(s) | Right half | | |
| Senior career\* | | | |
| Years | **Team** | **Apps** | **(Gls)** |
|  | Attercliffe |  |  |
| 1905–1907 | Sheffield United | 22 | (1) |
| 1907–1910 | Plymouth Argyle | 119 | (8) |
| 1910 | Sheffield United | 1 | (0) |
| 1910–1920 | Plymouth Argyle | 170 | (17) |
| \*Club domestic league appearances and goals | | | |


title: Ralph Williams (cricketer)

abstract: Ralph Augustin Williams was an English cricketer and barrister. Williams was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace. He was born in Caversham, Berkshire.

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# Ralph Williams (cricketer)

**Ralph Augustin Williams** (2 February 1879 – 1 December 1958) was an English cricketer and barrister. Williams was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace. He was born in Caversham, Berkshire.

## Life

Educated at Winchester College, Williams made a single Minor Counties Championship appearance for Buckinghamshire against Oxfordshire in 1895. He played for Oxfordshire in the 1896 season, making 3 appearances in the Minor Counties Championship. The season after that, he joined Berkshire, who he made his debut for against Wiltshire in the Minor Counties Championship. Following his education at Winchester College, Williams undertook studies at University College, Oxford. It was in 1899 that he made his first-class debut for Oxford University against Worcestershire. He made 11 further first-class appearances for the university, the last of which came against Cambridge University in 1902. In his 12 first-class matches for the university, he scored 443 runs at an average of 23.31, with a high score of 65. This score, one of four fifties he scored for the university, came against Ireland in 1902. With the ball, he took 22 wickets at a bowling average of 34.90, with best figures of 5/30. These figures, which were his only five wicket haul for the university, came against Surrey in 1902.

In late 1902, he toured India with an Oxford University Authentics team, playing 3 first-class matches on the tour, one each against Bombay, the Parsees and the Gentlemen of India. The tour was a successful one for Williams, with him scoring 141 runs at an average of 28.20, with the tour including his only first-class century, a score of 105 which came against Bombay. He was equally as successful with the ball, taking 18 wickets at an average of 18.38, which included two five wicket hauls. Williams continued to play Minor counties cricket for Berkshire until 1904, when he made his final appearance for the county against Glamorgan in that season's Minor Counties Championship.

A barrister by profession, Williams was appointed to the Inner Temple in 1903.

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Ralph Williams
| Personal information | |
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| Full name | Ralph Augustin Williams |
| Born | (1879-02-02)2 February 1879
Caversham, Berkshire, England |
| Died | 1 December 1958(1958-12-01) (aged 79)
Earley, Berkshire, England |
| Batting | Right-handed |
| Bowling | Right-arm medium |
| Domestic team information | |
| Years | Team |
| 18991902 | Oxford University |
| 18971904 | Berkshire |
| 1896 | Oxfordshire |
| 1895 | Buckinghamshire |
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| Career statistics | |
| Competition First-class  Matches 15  Runs scored 584  Batting average 24.33  100s/50s 1/4  Top score 105  Balls bowled 1,895  Wickets 40  Bowling average 27.47  5 wickets in innings 3  10 wickets in match   Best bowling 5/30  Catches/stumpings 14/ | |
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| Source: Cricinfo, 13 August 2011 | |


title: Yun-Fei Ji

abstract: Yun-Fei Ji is a Chinese-American painter who has been based largely in New York City since 1990. His art synthesizes old and new representational modes, subverting the classical idealism of centuries-old Chinese scroll and landscape painting traditions to tell contemporary stories of survival amid ecological and social disruption. He employs metaphor, symbolic allusion and devices such as caricature and the grotesque to create tumultuous, Kafka-esque worlds that writers suggest address two cultural revolutions: the first, communist one and its spiritual repercussions, and a broader capitalist one driven by industrialization and its effects, both in China and the US. ARTnews critic Lilly Wei wrote, "Ancestral ghosts and skeletons appear frequently in Ji’s iconography; his work is infused with the supernatural and the folkloric as well as the documentary as he records with fierce, focused intensity the displacement and forced relocation of people, the disappearance of villages, and the environmental upheavals of massive projects like the controversial Three Gorges Dam." Ji has exhibited at institutions including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), S.M.A.K. (Ghent), the Whitney Museum, Brooklyn Museum and New Museum, among others. He been awarded the American Academy in Rome Prize, and his work belongs to the art collections of MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, British Museum, Whitney Museum and Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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# Yun-Fei Ji

**Yun-Fei Ji** (Chinese: 季云飞; pinyin: *Jì Yúnfēi*; born 1963) is a Chinese-American painter who has been based largely in New York City since 1990. His art synthesizes old and new representational modes, subverting the classical idealism of centuries-old Chinese scroll and landscape painting traditions to tell contemporary stories of survival amid ecological and social disruption. He employs metaphor, symbolic allusion and devices such as caricature and the grotesque to create tumultuous, Kafka-esque worlds that writers suggest address two cultural revolutions: the first, communist one and its spiritual repercussions, and a broader capitalist one driven by industrialization and its effects, both in China and the US. *ARTnews* critic Lilly Wei wrote, "Ancestral ghosts and skeletons appear frequently in Ji’s iconography; his work is infused with the supernatural and the folkloric as well as the documentary as he records with fierce, focused intensity the displacement and forced relocation of people, the disappearance of villages, and the environmental upheavals of massive projects like the controversial Three Gorges Dam."

Ji has exhibited at institutions including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), S.M.A.K. (Ghent), the Whitney Museum, Brooklyn Museum and New Museum, among others. He been awarded the American Academy in Rome Prize, and his work belongs to the art collections of MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, British Museum, Whitney Museum and Philadelphia Museum of Art.

## Early life and career

Ji was born in 1963 in Beijing, China, the son of an army doctor. He grew up amid the decade-long Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), during which his mother was sent to a labor camp for re-education. For those two years he was cared for by his grandparents, who introduced him to calligraphy and ghost stories, both of which have figured in his art; at age ten, he began studies with a military officer who created illustrations for the People's Liberation Army. Ji attended the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing (BFA, 1982), learning oil painting in the still state-sanctioned style of Socialist realism; he was among the first generation to study there after its post-Cultural Revolution reopening.

After graduating, Ji taught for two years at the School of Arts and Crafts in Beijing and secretly studied calligraphy and classical painting in the imperial Song dynasty tradition—both of which were considered bourgeois, obsolete and forbidden. In 1986 he emigrated after winning a Fulbright scholarship to study at the University of Arkansas, where he earned an MFA in 1989. In the US, he discovered the German Expressionists and Philip Guston, and integrated elements of their humor and stylized figures into his scroll-style watercolor and ink works.

Ji moved to New York in 1990. Between 1997 and 2004, his work began receiving wider attention through group exhibitions at the Bronx Museum and Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, the Whitney Biennial (2002), and solo shows at Pierogi, Pratt Manhattan Gallery and Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis.

In his later career, Ji has had solo exhibitions at UCCA Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, 2012), the Wellin Museum of Art (2016), Cleveland Museum of Art (2016) and Kalamazoo Institute of Arts (2021), as well as the James Cohan Gallery (New York, 2006–present) and Zeno X Gallery (Antwerp, 2003–present). He also exhibited in the Lyon Biennale (2011), Biennale of Sydney (2012), Prospect New Orleans (2014), Shanghai Biennale (2014), and the surveys "Displacement: The Three Gorges Dam and Contemporary Chinese Art," (Smart Museum of Art, 2008), "Medals of Dishonour" (British Museum, 2009), and "Show and Tell: Stories in Chinese Paintings" (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018).

## Work and reception

Ji draws upon personal, historical, cultural and political sources for inspiration: his memories of Maoist rule, classical and folk art, literature and deep research into instances of human displacement and environmental destruction in the name of modernization. For most of his career, he has worked in the scroll-painting traditions of the Tang, Song and Yuan dynasties, using ink, mineral pigments and brushes on rice and mulberry paper. His paintings often have the weathered, crinkled and creased look of premature age, making a sense of the passage of time physically tangible. He characteristically paints with a wide range of marks derived from observations of nature: supple brushstrokes and line, mottled areas, abstract drips and precise evocations of rock, water, flora and fauna. Compositionally, he employs dissonant perspectives and shifts in scale that undercut the consistency of landscapes, narrative flow, or simple interpretations.

Into these classical approaches Ji has introduced expressionistic figurative modes that have been likened to artists such as George Grosz and James Ensor. His work often derives impact from deliberate juxtapositions of anachronistic techniques and symbols—flattened and stacked perspective, idyllic settings, ghost-like characters inspired by folktales—with contemporary elements such as abstraction and modern events, buildings and technologies. Critics have described the resulting sociopolitical critiques as multilayered, disturbing and fantastical, compassionate, satirical and blackly humorous. John Yau characterized Yi as "a chronicler with a novelist's eye for rich, reverberating detail," whose work evokes the contradictions, ruptures and elisions of both "rapid, irrevocable change and tradition's glacial pace … with immense tenderness and inconsolable mourning."

### Works and exhibitions, 2001–10

Ji's painting in early solo exhibitions at Pierogi (2001) and Pratt Manhattan (2003) resembled friezelike, all-over fields whose ruptured decorative backdrops and landscapes revealed calamitous scenes of disaster and decay, populated by Goyaesque figures in grotesque masks and costumes. *Artforum'*s Michael Wilson wrote that this work (e.g., *Wedding Ballad*, 2002) "conjured a world in turmoil that oscillates between the safety of centuries-old tradition and \[present-day\] mortal terror."

Throughout the 2000s, Ji rooted surreal allegories of modernization in field research he conducted on communities affected by man-made and natural disasters. These included entire Chinese villages involuntarily dislodged by colossal hydroelectric projects and Hurricane Katrina-ravaged New Orleans, which he connected through the theme of government failure. The "Empty City" paintings (Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, 2004) centered on the Chinese Three Gorges Dam project, specifically, its displacement of an estimated 1,500,000 people (largely minorities) and submergence of thousands of villages and significant archaeological sites, forever altering both landscape and culture. His fractured, panoramic scrolls (e.g., *Empty City—calling the dead*, 2003) presented multiple perspectives and self-contained vignettes that moved between past, present and future, refusing any easy message.

In exhibitions at James Cohan Gallery ("Water That Floats the Boat Can Also Sink It," 2007; "Mistaking Each Other for Ghosts," 2010), Ji's epic, cautionary scrolls delved further into the project, portraying migration in physical and psychic terms that emphasized loss and a literal haunting of those supplanted by melancholic wraiths and scraggly scavengers (e.g., *Last Days Before the Flood*, 2006). In the latter show, Ji was inspired by the ghost stories of the 18th-century Chinese writer Pu Songling and the French writer, Marquis de Sade, in several works linking Sade's decadent noblemen to contemporary Chinese political leaders. The show included the ten-foot-wide horizontal scroll, *Migrants of the Three Gorges Dam* (2009), which was hand-printed from 500 carved woodblocks. It portrayed dispossessed farmers and flooded landscapes alongside calligraphic reports and descriptions of the flooding of the Yangtze River based on Ji's own research, interviews and observations.

### Later exhibitions

Ji's survey "The Intimate Universe" (Wellin Museum, 2016) and exhibition "Rumors, Ridicules, and Retributions" (James Cohan, 2018) presented more than a decade's work, ranging from sketch studies to his first sculptures (skeletal figures made from paper pulp) to finished paintings and monumental scrolls. The scrolls included the cinematic, nearly 60-foot-long *The Village and its Ghosts* (2014) and the ironically titled *Village Wen’s Progress* (2017). Both offered a sense of perpetual transition and history repeating itself through an amalgam of settings and signifiers: the devastation of New Orleans, migrants piled with their meager, worldly goods, details of the Nan Shui Bei Diao megaproject, and scenes of Columbus Park in Manhattan. The imagery of *Village Wen’s Progress* functioned both literally and symbolically, with collapsing scaffolding, ominous ever-present ghosts and thematic movement from mundane drudgery to hallucinatory chaos that related physical dislocation to mental disintegration. *The New York Times* called these works subversive in their contradictions, while *Artcritical'*s Robert C. Morgan wrote "Ji draws intentionally and purposefully on the past as a means to exorcise the hidden realities of the present … the brush becomes an indirect signifier of revolt."

Critics noted a significant turn in Ji's exhibition, "The Sunflower Turned Its Back" (James Cohan Gallery, 2022), toward new imagery (flowers, a portrait) and a new medium (acrylic on canvas) that further conveyed the global, universal nature of his subject matter. Stylistically less caricatured or expressionist, these works were painted in thickly applied, dry, chalky colors that exploited the saturation and opacity of acrylic and created interplay between abstraction and representation, flat pattern and volumetric form. In paintings such as *Bunk Bed* or *Satellite Dish on a Bed* (both 2023), *New Yorker* critic Johanna Fateman noted juxtapositions of "dappled light and dynamic clutter \[recalling\] early Matisse" with the disarray of jumbled belongings on streets and hasty departures, which created tonal shifts between gaiety and gravitas.

## Collections and awards

Ji's work belongs to the public art collections of the Asia Society Museum, Baltimore Museum of Art, The British Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Cleveland Museum of Art, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Hammer Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Milwaukee Art Museum, Museum of Modern Art, Norton Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Rose Art Museum, Smart Museum of Art, Toledo Museum of Art, US Department of State, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Whitney Museum, and Worcester Art Museum, among others.

He has received fellowships from the American Academy in Rome (Rome Prize, 2005), Sharp Foundation (2004), MoMA PS1 (2003) and Bronx Museum (1996), and grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts (1999), Joan Mitchell Foundation (1998) and Pollock-Krasner Foundation (1997). Ji has been awarded artist residencies by Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, Headlands Center for the Arts, Art Omi, Millay Colony for the Arts, Ucross Foundation, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and MacDowell, among others.

## Publications

* Adler, Tracy L., Robert C. Morgan & Stephen J. Goldberg, *Yun-Fei Ji: The Intimate Universe*, Prestel Publishing, New York, 2016, ISBN 9783791355634
* Cox, Jessica Lin, Christopher Rawson, & Leo Xu, *Yun-Fei Ji: Mistaking Each Other for Ghosts*, James Cohan Gallery, 2010 ISBN 0-9675300-8-3
* Chiu, Melissa, Tan Lin, Gregory Volk, Paul Ha & Yun-Fei Ji, *Yun-Fei Ji: The Empty City*, Shannon Fitzgerald Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, 2005 ISBN 0971219532
* Tsai, Paula, *Yun-Fei Ji: Water Work*, Ucca Books, Beijing, 2013 ISBN 9789881622341

## InfoBox

| Yun-Fei Ji | |
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| Born | 1963<br>Beijing, China |
| Education | University of Arkansas, China Central Academy of Fine Arts |
| Known for | Painting, scroll works, works on paper |
| Awards | American Academy in Rome, Joan Mitchell Foundation, Pollock-Krasner Foundation |


title: Miharja LRT station

abstract: Miharja LRT station is a Malaysian low-rise rapid transit station situated near and named after Taman Miharja. The station is part of the Ampang Line The station was opened on 16 December 1996, as part of the first phase of the STAR system's opening, alongside 13 adjoining stations along the Sultan Ismail-Ampang route.

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# Miharja LRT station

**Miharja LRT station** is a Malaysian low-rise rapid transit station situated near and named after *Taman Miharja* (Malay; English: Miharja Estate). The station is part of the Ampang Line (formerly known as STAR-LINE)

The station was opened on 16 December 1996, as part of the first phase of the STAR system's opening, alongside 13 adjoining stations along the Sultan Ismail-Ampang route.

## Location

The Miharja station is situated at the southwestern side of the Miharja Flats, a complex of flats close to Kerayong River in the locality of *Taman Miharja*, off *Jalan Loke Yew* (Loke Yew Road). The station directly serves the aforementioned flats, as well as the remaining portion of *Taman Miharja* and the Ue3 shopping centre from the opposite side of *Jalan Loke Yew*, which also have similarly close access to Maluri station.

The Miharja station was constructed along two leveled tracks, reusing the now defunct Federated Malay States Railway and Malayan Railway route between Kuala Lumpur, Ampang and Salak South. The station is also the last station from the Ampang terminal before a convergence with the Putra Heights-bound line and the Chan Sow Lin interchange, 850 metres northward, where the lines merge to form the common route of the Ampang and Sri Petaling Lines towards Sentul Timur station.

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| **AG12**  Miharja | |
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| | LRT station | |
| An exterior view of the station, as viewed towards the west. | |
| General information | |
| Location | *Jalan 1/93*, *Taman Miharja*, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. |
| Coordinates | 3°7′15″N 101°43′3″E / 3.12083°N 101.71750°E / 3.12083; 101.71750 |
| Owned by | *Prasarana Malaysia* (2002 to present); operated by Rapid Rail. |
| Line(s) | Ampang Line |
| Platforms | 2 side platforms |
| Tracks | 2 |
| Construction | |
| Structure type | Low-rise |
| Parking | Not available |
| Other information | |
| Station code | **AG12** |
| History | |
| Opened | 16 December 1996 |
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| Services | |
| Preceding station  Following station  Chan Sow Lintowards Sentul Timur  Ampang Line  Maluritowards Ampang | |
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title: William Garner Waddel

abstract: William Garner Waddel was an American attorney, politician, and inventor who served as a member of the South Dakota Senate.

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# William Garner Waddel

**William Garner Waddel** (June 29, 1870 – January 27, 1937) was an American attorney, politician, and inventor who served as a member of the South Dakota Senate.

## Early life and education

Waddel was born on June 29, 1870, in Grant County, Wisconsin. He later moved to Plymouth County, Iowa. Waddel attended Westmar University before joining the faculty of the University of South Dakota. Later, he graduated from the University of South Dakota School of Law in 1904.

## Career

Waddel practiced law in a partnership with Frank Anderson from 1906 to 1919. Waddel patented a golf bag stand in 1933.

Waddel served as a member of the South Dakota Senate from 1919 to 1923. Additionally, he was State's Attorney of Day County, South Dakota, and Mayor of Webster, South Dakota. In 1936, Waddel became a county judge and remained so until his death. He was a Republican.

## Personal life

On July 3, 1900, Waddel married Eliza Matilda Otis. They had five children. Waddel died on January 27, 1937, in Webster, South Dakota. He was a Methodist.

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| William Garner Waddel | |
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| Member of the South Dakota Senate | |
| **In office**
1919–1923 | |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | June 29, 1870
Grant County, Wisconsin |
| Died | January 27, 1937 (aged 67)
Webster, South Dakota |
| Political party | Republican |
| Children | 5 |
| Alma mater | University of South Dakota (LLB) |
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title: Pat Dollard

abstract:
Patrick Dollard is an American documentary filmmaker. In the 1990s he was a Hollywood talent agent, manager, and producer most known for helping to build the career of Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh.
Dollard has been known as a Hollywood conservative since the mid-1990s, and promotes himself as a conservative filmmaker, blogger, and pundit. Dollard has been alleged to be an alcoholic and drug abuser who has struggled to overcome his addictions, as claimed in an article by Evan Wright in Vanity Fair and in Wright's subsequent book Hella Nation. Dollard hosted a web-only radio show called "The Jihadi Killer Hour" at Blog Talk Radio from May 2008 to August 2010. His guests included Hollywood, Interrupted author Mark Ebner, Matt Drudge's former partner Andrew Breitbart, Media Malpractice: How Obama Won The Election director John Ziegler, Jihad Watch's Robert Spencer, independent war correspondent Michael Yon, conservative pundit and former "Politically Incorrect" staff writer Evan Sayet, Brothers At War director Jake Rademacher, African-American comedian Zo, Harlem Pastor James Manning, and conservative comedian Steven Crowder.

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# Pat Dollard

**Patrick Dollard** is an American documentary filmmaker. In the 1990s he was a Hollywood talent agent, manager, and producer most known for helping to build the career of Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh. Dollard has been known as a Hollywood conservative since the mid-1990s, and promotes himself as a conservative filmmaker, blogger, and pundit. Dollard has been alleged to be an alcoholic and drug abuser who has struggled to overcome his addictions, as claimed in an article by Evan Wright in *Vanity Fair* and in Wright's subsequent book *Hella Nation*.

Dollard hosted a web-only radio show called "The Jihadi Killer Hour" at Blog Talk Radio from May 2008 to August 2010. His guests included *Hollywood, Interrupted* author Mark Ebner, Matt Drudge's former partner Andrew Breitbart (founder of websites Breitbart and Big Hollywood), *Media Malpractice: How Obama Won The Election* director John Ziegler, Jihad Watch's Robert Spencer, independent war correspondent Michael Yon, conservative pundit and former "Politically Incorrect" staff writer Evan Sayet, *Brothers At War* director Jake Rademacher, African-American comedian Zo, Harlem Pastor James Manning, and conservative comedian Steven Crowder.

## Iraq War project

While still running a management company, representing Soderbergh and helping to service Soderbergh and George Clooney's production company at Warner Brothers' (Section 8 Films), in 2004 Dollard decided to do a side project for a few weeks in three combat zones in Iraq: Fallujah, The Triangle of Death, and Ramadi. The project began as a 2–4 week rapid-production documentary project, but eventually grew to include a 7-month stay in Iraq with a Marine unit and over 200 hours of footage. The resulting documentary, *Young Americans*, has been released in segments on the Internet and clips have been shown on television. Dollard and footage from *Young Americans* are featured in a new French documentary for Canal Plus called *Hollywood and Politics*, directed by David Carr Brown.

## Political views

Dollard has argued that there were more important reasons for the Iraq war than weapons of mass destruction: "The root causes of terrorism are the lack of capitalism, the lack of democracy, and the lack of modern education." Dollard contends that the Iraq War has successfully removed some of the barriers to the causes of terrorism in the Middle East.

On April 2, 2014, after the 2009 Fort Hood shooting, Dollard caused controversy by tweeting:

> If there is even one more act of Muslim terrorism, it is then time for Americans to start slaughtering Muslims in the streets, all of them.

Dollard did not apologize for the tweet but suggested it was not to be taken seriously.

Dollard has criticised the "liberal-dominated media" in America who have opposed the Iraq War.

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| Pat Dollard | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Documentary filmmaker |


title: Microctenopoma fasciolatum

abstract: Microctenopoma fasciolatum or the banded bushfish is an Anabantoid fish of the genus Microctenopoma. It is native to the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo and a few rivers in Cameroon, occurring in the lower and central parts of the Congo River. This species has numerous irregular dark stripes running vertically across its body, with a horizontal lighter stripe separating them. The banding becomes more pronounced as the fish ages. In males, the dorsal and annal fins are more pointed, and - in some populations - have bright iridescent blue spots. This species, like many related anabantoids lays its approximately 1000 eggs into a bubble nest. This fish grows to a size of 9 cm (3.5 in).

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# Microctenopoma fasciolatum

***Microctenopoma fasciolatum*** or the **banded bushfish** is an Anabantoid fish of the genus *Microctenopoma*. It is native to the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo and a few rivers in Cameroon, occurring in the lower and central parts of the Congo River. This species has numerous irregular dark stripes running vertically across its body, with a horizontal lighter stripe separating them. The banding becomes more pronounced as the fish ages. In males, the dorsal and annal fins are more pointed, and - in some populations - have bright iridescent blue spots. This species, like many related anabantoids lays its approximately 1000 eggs into a bubble nest. This fish grows to a size of 9 cm (3.5 in).

## In the aquarium

This anabantoid rarely appears in the aquarium hobby; when it does it is noted for being somewhat shy and retiring, but not particularly challenging to keep. Males can be territorial, especially in small aquaria. It prefers a pH of 6.5 - 7.5 and a temperature of 24 to 28 °C (75 to 82 °F), along with a water hardness of 50 mgl.

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| *Microctenopoma fasciolatum* | |
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| Conservation status | |
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Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Anabantiformes |
| Family: | Anabantidae |
| Genus: | *Microctenopoma* |
| Species: | ***M. fasciolatum*** |
| Binomial name | |
| ***Microctenopoma fasciolatum***
(Boulenger, 1899) | |
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| Synonyms | |
| * *Ctenopoma fasciolatum* Boulenger, 1899 * *Ctenopoma fasciolatum* (Boulenger, 1899) | |


title: Pallian Khurd

abstract: Pallian Khurd is a village in Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar district of Punjab State, India. It is located 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) away from branch post office Kot Ranjha, 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) from Nawanshahr, 13.7 kilometres (8.5 mi) from district headquarter Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar and 87.9 kilometres (54.6 mi) from state capital Chandigarh. The village is administrated by a Sarpanch, an elected representative of the village.

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# Pallian Khurd

**Pallian Khurd** is a village in Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar district of Punjab State, India. It is located 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) away from branch post office Kot Ranjha, 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) from Nawanshahr, 13.7 kilometres (8.5 mi) from district headquarter Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar and 87.9 kilometres (54.6 mi) from state capital Chandigarh. The village is administrated by a Sarpanch, an elected representative of the village.

## Demography

As of 2011, Pallian Khurd has a total number of 233 houses and a population of 1153 of which 588 are males while 565 are females according to the report published by Census India in 2011. The literacy rate of Pallian Khurd is 76.74% higher than the state average of 75.84%. The population of children under the age of 6 years is 117 which is 10.15% of the total population of Pallian Khurd, and child sex ratio is approximately 800 as compared to the Punjab state average of 846.

Most of the people are from Schedule Caste which constitutes 36.43% of the total population in Pallian Khurd. The town does not have any Schedule Tribe population so far.

As per the report published by Census India in 2011, 570 people were engaged in work activities of the total population of Pallian Khurd which includes 330 males and 240 females. According to a census survey report in 2011, 77.89% of workers describe their work as main work, and 22.11% of workers are involved in Marginal activity providing livelihood for less than 6 months.

## Education

KC Engineering College and Doaba Khalsa Trust Group Of Institutions are the nearest colleges. Industrial Training Institute for women (ITI Nawanshahr) is 7.2 kilometres (4.5 mi). The village is 70.6 kilometres (43.9 mi) away from Chandigarh University, 45.7 kilometres (28.4 mi) from Indian Institute of Technology and 52.5 kilometres (32.6 mi) away from Lovely Professional University.

*List of schools nearby:*

## Transport

Nawanshahr train station is the nearest train station however, Garhshankar Junction railway station is 20.3 kilometres (12.6 mi) away from the village. Sahnewal Airport is the nearest domestic airport which located 52 kilometres (32 mi) away in Ludhiana and the nearest international airport is located in Chandigarh also Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport is the second nearest airport which is 162 kilometres (101 mi) away in Amritsar.

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| Pallian Khurd | |
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| Village | |
| Pallian KhurdLocation in Punjab, IndiaPallian KhurdPallian Khurd (India) | |
| Coordinates: 31°04′12″N 76°08′41″E / 31.070088°N 76.1447596°E / 31.070088; 76.1447596 | |
| Country | India |
| State | Punjab |
| District | Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar |
| Government | |
| Type | Panchayat raj |
| Body | Gram panchayat |
| Elevation | 355 m (1,165 ft) |
| Population (2011) | |
| Total | 1,153 |
|  | Sex ratio 588/565 / |
| Languages | |
| Official | Punjabi |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
| PIN | 144517 |
| Telephone code | 01823 |
| ISO 3166 code | IN-PB |
| Post office | Kot Ranjha (B.O) |
| Website | nawanshahr.nic.in |


title: HMS Cretan

abstract:
Two ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Cretan.
  - HMS Cretan was the French Navy's brig Nettuno launched at Venice in 1807 that the Royal Navy captured in 1808 and named Cretan; She was sold in 1814 and then between 1815 and 1831 she made five voyages as a whaler.
  - HMS Cretan was a C-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy as HMS Cromwell, launched in 1946, and initially was to have been called Cretan. She was sold to the Royal Norwegian Navy in 1946 and renamed HNoMS Bergen (1946). She was scrapped in 1967.

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# HMS Cretan

Two ships of the Royal Navy have been named **HMS *Cretan***.

* HMS *Cretan* was the French Navy's brig *Nettuno* launched at Venice in 1807 that the Royal Navy captured in 1808 and named *Cretan*; She was sold in 1814 and then between 1815 and 1831 she made five voyages as a whaler.
* HMS *Cretan* was a C-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy as HMS *Cromwell*, launched in 1946, and initially was to have been called *Cretan*. She was sold to the Royal Norwegian Navy in 1946 and renamed HNoMS *Bergen* (1946). She was scrapped in 1967.


title: Jim Murple Memorial

abstract: Jim Murple Memorial is a French ska and R&B band formed in Paris in 1996. Although French, most of their song lyrics are in English.

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# Jim Murple Memorial

**Jim Murple Memorial** is a French ska and R&B band formed in Paris in 1996. Although French, most of their song lyrics are in English.

## Venues and festivals

They have performed in numerous venues and have played at several music festivals including:

* Les Vieilles Charrues, Le Printemps de Bourges, Festival du Bout du Monde
* Crozon, Artrock
* St-Brieuc States of Rock
* Évreux, FestiVal de Marne
* Champigny, Festival Elephants 3
* Lassay-les-Trois-Chateaux, Chorus Hauts-de-Seine
* Vanves, Jazz of Defense
* Coutances (Manche) Jazz sous les Pommiers
* Montreal International Jazz Festival

## Albums

* 4 - MaAuLa Records (2020)
* Put Things Right - Pias France 2007
* Five'n'Yellow - Pias France (2005)
* Trop Jolie - Pias France (2004)
* Let's Spend Some Love - PIAS France (2003)
* Play The Roots - Patate Records/Tripsichord (2001)
* The Story Of Jim Murple Memorial - Patate Records/Tripsichord (1999)
* Rhythm'n'Blues Jamaïcain - Patate Records/Tripsichord (1998)
* Let's Spend Some Love 33T vinyle - PIAS France (2003)
* Let's Skank Volume 4 - Patate Records (2004)
* Let's Skank Volume 3 - Patate Records (2002)
* Ska Heroes - Emi (2003)
* Let's Skank Volume 2 - Patate Records (2002)
* Kongpilation Hors-série - 10 ans de Banana Juice (2002)
* 10 ans de la Ferarock - Recall/Virgin (2002)
* Global Ska 2 - Revelde Records - SP (2002)
* It's A Frenchy Ska Reggae Party 3 - Big Mama Records/Tripsichord (2002)
* Ska Story - Virgin/Emi (2002)
* Hexagone Riddim - Wagram (2001)
* Mega reggae - Wagram (2001)
* Sur Les Roots De France - Virgin (2000)
* Danse Ska La -
* The Complete Box Set - Patate Records/Tripsichord (2003)


title: Ramaz Kharshiladze

abstract: Ramaz Noyevich Kharshiladze was a Georgian judoka who competed for the Soviet Union at the 1976 Summer Olympics, where he won the silver medal in the half-heavyweight class. He was bronze medalist at the World Championships in Vienna 1975. He was also the bronze medalist at the European Championships in Vienna 1980.

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# Ramaz Kharshiladze

**Ramaz Noyevich Kharshiladze** (16 January 1951 – 11 September 2017) was a Georgian judoka who competed for the Soviet Union at the 1976 Summer Olympics, where he won the silver medal in the half-heavyweight class. He was bronze medalist at the World Championships in Vienna 1975. He was also the bronze medalist at the European Championships in Vienna 1980.

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Ramaz Kharshiladze
| Personal information | |
| --- | --- |
| Born | 16 January 1951 |
| Died | 13 September 2017 (2017-09-14) (aged 66) |
| Occupation | Judoka |
| Sport | |
| Country | Soviet Union |
| Sport | Judo |
| Weight class | 93 kg, 95 kg |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Olympic Games | (1976) |
| World Champ. | (1975) |
| European Champ. | (1980) |
| Medal record      Men's judo   Representing   Soviet Union   Olympic Games   1976 Montreal  93 kg  World Championships   1975 Vienna  93 kg  European Championships   1980 Vienna  95 kg  European Junior Championships   1971 Naples  80 kg | |
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| Profile at external databases | |
| IJF | 54407 |
| JudoInside.com | 37843 |
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| Updated on 21 June 2023 | |


title: Yvonne Sylvain

abstract: Yvonne Sylvain was a Haitian physician who was the first female medical doctor from the country. She was also the first woman accepted into the University of Haiti Medical School, and earned her medical degree in 1940. After graduation, she worked as a specialist in obstetrics and gynecology in the Port-au-Prince General Hospital. As Haiti's first female practitioner, she played an important role in providing improved medical access and tools for Haitian citizens. Among her other accomplishments, she was also one of the voices fighting for physical, economical, social, and political equality for Haitian women.

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# Yvonne Sylvain

**Yvonne Sylvain** (June 28, 1907 – October 3, 1989) was a Haitian physician who was the first female medical doctor from the country. She was also the first woman accepted into the University of Haiti Medical School, and earned her medical degree in 1940. After graduation, she worked as a specialist in obstetrics and gynecology in the Port-au-Prince General Hospital. As Haiti's first female practitioner, she played an important role in providing improved medical access and tools for Haitian citizens. Among her other accomplishments, she was also one of the voices fighting for physical, economical, social, and political equality for Haitian women.

## Early life and education

Dr. Yvonne Sylvain was born in Port-au-Prince to Eugénie Mallebranche and Georges Sylvain, a Haitian activist and an important figure of resistance against the American occupation of Haiti. They had seven children, one of them being Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain, Haiti’s first woman anthropologist.

Influenced heavily by her father, she attended Ecole Normale d’institutrices, where she graduated and began to work as a teacher. At the age of 28, she was the first woman accepted into the medical school of the University of Haiti, and earned her medical degree in 1940. She then received a scholarship from the Inter-American Health Bureau and was admitted to the Columbia University Medical School. Three years after her internship, she worked at the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital on a Pan-American Sanitary Bureau Fellowship.

## Career

Sylvain made many contributions to the medical field in Haiti and inspired other Haitian women to follow her steps. By 1953, thirteen years after Sylvain had graduated medical school, eight Haitian women had already received their doctor of medicine degree from University of Haiti and began practicing in Haiti. At the time, the University of Haiti had 241 medical students enrolled, 17 of which were women.

Following her graduation, she worked for many years at the General Hospital in obstetrics and gynecology. The high mortality rate in Haiti inspired her to be a doctor, she invested her time and skills in treating many Haitians for various diseases. She was passionate about the immediate health problems plaguing Haitians: sterility, overpopulation, and cancer. She also became a professor of medicine at the University of Haiti. She published many articles in medical journals and continued to research about the lethal health issues occurring in Haiti.

She then became the Vice-President of the Haitian Foundation for Health and Education. Upset by Haiti’s poor means of cancer treatment, Sylvain became adamant about investing in X-rays and other medical equipment to diagnose cancer. It was her dream for more medical advancements to arrive in Haiti in order to decrease the number of Haitians dying of cancer. She was a part of the Haitian League Against Cancer and helped introduced in Haiti the papanicolaou test for uterine cancer screening. She created a special committee that helped collect funding from France and among the Haitian diaspora for a hospital that she wanted to build in Frères, a city in Haiti ten-minutes away from Pétion-Ville, in order to provide medical access to a community of over 100,000 people. Showing commitment to the cause, she remained the Vice-President of the Haitian Foundation for Health and Education until her death.

With her organization improving Haitian hospitals, she began to work as a delegate in public health, especially for the reproductive health and research for the World Health Organization (WHO). She also brought her medical knowledge to several African countries, such as Nigeria and Senegal, and worked as a doctor in Costa Rica.

## Art

She actively promoted Haitian culture through her art. She studied under Normil Charles and also influenced by Petion Savain. She worked heavily in the fields of art, painting, writing, art criticism, theater, and radio animation. She was a very important cultural operator for her community. Art, painting, and theater were very important interest for Yvonne Sylvain during her early stages of life because she was deeply inserted in a very cultural community. By 1932, she had exhibited over thirty oil paintings and drawings. However, the helplessness she felt from her mother’s passing inspired the 28 years of devotion to medical sciences.

## Activism

She was also active in the women's suffrage movement, namely in the Ligue Féminine d'Action Sociale, which helped give Haitian women the right to vote in 1950. She also published articles on public health issues in the Ligue's news outlet, *La Voix des Femmes*.

## Honors

The Haitian Medical Association (AMH) honored Sylvain posthumously as the first Haitian woman doctor.

## InfoBox

| Yvonne Sylvain | |
| --- | --- |
| Born | (1907-06-28)June 28, 1907<br>Port-au-Prince, Haiti |
| Died | October 3, 1989(1989-10-03) (aged 82) |
| Awards | Haitian Medical Association Posthumously Award |
| **Scientific career** | |
| Fields | Obstetrics and gynaecology |
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title: Miguel A. Suárez Fernández

abstract: Miguel Angel Suárez Fernández was a Cuban lawyer and politician. He served as the Cuban Foreign Minister in 1951.

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# Miguel A. Suárez Fernández

**Miguel Angel Suárez Fernández** (born 5 July 1902 in Placetas, Cuba) was a Cuban lawyer and politician. He served as the Cuban Foreign Minister in 1951.

## Biography

Suárez was the son of Miguel Ángel Suárez Gutiérrez, who a Cuban Senator from the Las Villas Province and had served as Secretary of Commerce during the presidency of Carlos Mendieta. He graduated from the Colegio de Belén in 1920 and later from the University of Havana School of Law.

He was the Registrar of Properties for the city of Guanabacoa and later went on to serve in the Cuban House of Representatives and the Cuban Senate for Las Villas province. He served as the President of the Cuban Senate from 1945 to 1950. He was a signatory of Cuba's 1940 Constitution.

After Fidel Castro overthrew the government in 1959, Suárez went into exile: First to Venezuela, then to Puerto Rico and finally to Miami.

* *New York Times*; Cuban Third Front Selects Candidate; 20 March 1948 Page 7.
* *New York Times*; Cuba Chided of Defence: Senator Accuses Batista of Secrecy of Policy; 15 June 1941 Page 17.
* *The Miami Daily News*; Vote in Cuba Dashes Batista Comeback Hope; 2 June 1950 Page 1.
* *Sarasota Herald-Tribune*; Cuba Exile Heads Hit British Deal; 9 January 1964 Page 3.
* *Grandes Debates de la Constituyente Cubana de 1940* by Néstor Carbonell Cortina; Ediciones Universal, 2001; ISBN 0-89729-957-4.
* Otero, Juan Joaquin (1954). *Libro De Cuba, Una Enciclopedia Ilustrada Que Abarca Las Artes, Las Letras, Las Ciencias, La Economia, La Politica, La Historia, La Docencia, Y ElProgreso General De La Nacion Cubana - Edicion Conmemorative del Cincuentenario de la Republica de Cuba, 1902-1952*. (Spanish)
* https://web.archive.org/web/20100527085433/http://www.lajiribilla.cubaweb.cu/2007/n346\_12/346\_01.html

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| Miguel A. Suárez Fernández | |
| --- | --- |
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| Born | 5 July 1902<br>Placetas, Cuba |


title: Patagonia Lake State Park

abstract: Patagonia Lake State Park is a state park of Arizona, US, containing Patagonia Lake. The 2.5-mile-long (4.0 km), 250-acre (100 ha) lake located near Patagonia, Arizona, is a popular southern Arizona site for fishing, camping, boat rental, picnicking, hiking, and birding. Located inside the park is the recently established Sonoita Creek State Natural Area, Arizona's first major state natural area. Created by the damming of Sonoita Creek, the lake is habitat for reproducing largemouth bass, black crappie, bluegill, green sunfish, flathead catfish, threadfin shad, redear sunfish, channel catfish, and American bullfrogs. Rainbow trout are stocked every three weeks from October to March. Sonoita Creek contains black bullhead, red shiner, mosquitofish, crayfish, American bullfrogs, largemouth bass, Gila topminnows, speckled dace, longfin dace, Sonora suckers, and desert suckers. Special events include an annual mariachi festival in March and bird tours and interpretive programs on request. Patagonia Lake State Park is located on State Route 82, 7 miles (11 km) south of Patagonia, Arizona.

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# Patagonia Lake State Park

**Patagonia Lake State Park** is a state park of Arizona, US, containing Patagonia Lake. The 2.5-mile-long (4.0 km), 250-acre (100 ha) lake located near Patagonia, Arizona, is a popular southern Arizona site for fishing, camping, boat rental, picnicking, hiking, and birding. Located inside the park is the recently established Sonoita Creek State Natural Area, Arizona's first major state natural area. Created by the damming of Sonoita Creek, the lake is habitat for reproducing largemouth bass, black crappie, bluegill, green sunfish, flathead catfish, threadfin shad, redear sunfish, channel catfish, and American bullfrogs. Rainbow trout are stocked every three weeks from October to March. Sonoita Creek contains black bullhead, red shiner, mosquitofish, crayfish, American bullfrogs, largemouth bass, Gila topminnows, speckled dace, longfin dace, Sonora suckers, and desert suckers. Special events include an annual mariachi festival in March and bird tours and interpretive programs on request.

Patagonia Lake State Park is located on State Route 82, 7 miles (11 km) south of Patagonia, Arizona.

## InfoBox

| Patagonia Lake State Park | |
| --- | --- |
| Boating at Patagonia Lake State Park | |
| Patagonia State Park
in Arizona | |
| Location | Santa Cruz, Arizona, United States |
| Coordinates | 31°29′38″N 110°51′13″W / 31.49389°N 110.85361°W / 31.49389; -110.85361 |
| Area | 2,658 acres (10.76 km2) |
| Elevation | 3,999 ft (1,219 m) |
| Established | 1974 |
| Visitors | 213,167 (in 2022) |
| Governing body | Arizona State Parks |


abstract: Middle Township is one of twelve townships in Hendricks County, Indiana, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 6,170.

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# Middle Township, Hendricks County, Indiana

**Middle Township** is one of twelve townships in Hendricks County, Indiana, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 6,170.

## History

Middle Township was organized in 1833.

## Geography

Middle Township covers an area of 31.11 square miles (80.6 km2); of this, 0.01 square miles (0.026 km2) or 0.04 percent is water.

### Cities and towns

### Unincorporated towns

(This list is based on USGS data and may include former settlements.)

### Adjacent townships

### Cemeteries

The township contains six cemeteries: Hughes, Long, Roberts, Saint Malachy West, Weaver and White Lick Baptist.

### Major highways

1. "Census Bureau profile: Middle Township, Hancock County, Indiana". United States Census Bureau. May 2023. Retrieved March 21, 2024.
2. "U.S. Census website". Retrieved July 20, 2008.
3. Hadley, John Vestal (1914). *History of Hendricks County, Indiana: Her People, Industries and Institutions*. B.F. Bowen. pp. 94.

## InfoBox

| Middle Township | |
| --- | --- |
| Township | |
| Location in Hendricks County | |
| Coordinates: 39°51′54″N 86°28′10″W / 39.86500°N 86.46944°W / 39.86500; -86.46944 | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Indiana |
| County | Hendricks |
| Government | |
| Type | Indiana township |
| Area | |
| Total | 31.11 sq mi (80.56 km2) |
| Land | 31.09 sq mi (80.53 km2) |
| Water | 0.01 sq mi (0.03 km2)  0.04% |
| Elevation | 942 ft (287 m) |
| Population (2020) | |
| Total | 6,875 |
| Density | 198.5/sq mi (76.6/km2) |
| GNIS feature ID | 0453622 |


title: Richard Grant Augustus Donnelly

abstract: Richard Grant Augustus Donnelly was an American Democratic politician who served as Mayor of Trenton, New Jersey from 1884 to 1886. He also served as Quartermaster General of New Jersey circa 1903. He served as Mayor of Trenton, New Jersey from 1884 to 1886. He was president of the Interstate Fair Association from 1895 to 1903. He was replaced by Frank Obadiah Briggs.

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# Richard Grant Augustus Donnelly

**Richard Grant Augustus Donnelly** (March 4, 1841  February 27, 1905) was an American Democratic politician who served as Mayor of Trenton, New Jersey from 1884 to 1886. He also served as Quartermaster General of New Jersey circa 1903.

He served as Mayor of Trenton, New Jersey from 1884 to 1886. He was president of the Interstate Fair Association from 1895 to 1903. He was replaced by Frank Obadiah Briggs.


title: Palma Kiraly

abstract: Palma Kiraly is a former professional tennis player from the Hungary. On 3 March 2009, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 399.

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# Palma Kiraly

**Palma Kiraly** (born 2 February 1991) is a former professional tennis player from the Hungary. On 3 March 2009, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 399.

## Tennis career

She has won 2 singles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. In 2008, Kiraly won her first singles title in Budva defeating Croatianwoman Tereza Mrdeža. Her only WTA Tour main draw appearance came at the Budapest Grand Prix, but lost to Anna-Lena Grönefeld in the first round.

## InfoBox

Palma Kiraly
| Country (sports) | Hungary |
| --- | --- |
| Born | (1991-02-02) 2 February 1991 |
| Turned pro | 2006 |
| Retired | 2010 |
| Plays | Right-handed |


title: Jim Murray (outfielder)

abstract: James Oscar Murray, was a Major League Baseball outfielder from 1902–1914.

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# Jim Murray (outfielder)

**James Oscar Murray**  (January 16, 1878 – April 25, 1945), was a Major League Baseball outfielder from 1902–1914.

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| Jim Murray | |
| --- | --- |
|  | |
| **Outfielder** | |
| **Born:** (1878-01-16)January 16, 1878
Galveston, Texas | |
| **Died:** April 25, 1945(1945-04-25) (aged 67)
Galveston, Texas | |
| **Batted:** Right**Threw:** Left | |
| MLB debut | |
| September 2, 1902, for the Chicago Orphans | |
| Last MLB appearance | |
| July 10, 1914, for the Boston Braves | |
| MLB statistics | |
| Batting average | .203 |
| Home runs | 3 |
| Runs batted in | 24 |
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| Teams | |
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title: Raimondo Crociani

abstract: Raimondo Crociani was an Italian film editor and occasional director. Raised in a family of film editors, he started working between the late 1960s and early 1970s in numerous political documentaries produced by Unitelefilm, a film company linked to the Italian Communist Party. During his career, Crociani worked as editor on more than 100 productions between 1971 and 2012, including works by Ettore Scola, Valerio Zurlini, Franco Giraldi, Alberto Bevilacqua, Steno, Alberto Sordi, and Roberto Faenza. He won a David di Donatello for Best Editing in 1985, for Ettore Scola's Ballando Ballando. Crociani died on 14 June 2023, at the age of 77.

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# Raimondo Crociani

**Raimondo Crociani** (14 January 1946 – 14 June 2023) was an Italian film editor and occasional director.

Raised in a family of film editors, he started working between the late 1960s and early 1970s in numerous political documentaries produced by Unitelefilm, a film company linked to the Italian Communist Party.

During his career, Crociani worked as editor on more than 100 productions between 1971 and 2012, including works by Ettore Scola, Valerio Zurlini, Franco Giraldi, Alberto Bevilacqua, Steno, Alberto Sordi, and Roberto Faenza. He won a David di Donatello for Best Editing in 1985, for Ettore Scola's *Ballando Ballando*.

Crociani died on 14 June 2023, at the age of 77.

## Selected filmography

## InfoBox

| Raimondo Crociani | |
| --- | --- |
| Born | (1946-01-14)14 January 1946
Rome, Italy |
| Died | 14 June 2023(2023-06-14) (aged 77)
Santa Margherita di Belice, Italy |
| Occupations | * Film editor * director |


title: Na Yubo

abstract: Na Yubo is a Chinese professional field hockey player who represented China at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. The team finished last in their group, and finished 11th after beating South Africa.

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# Na Yubo

**Na Yubo** (Chinese: 那玉波; pinyin: *Nā Yùbō*, born 12 July 1981) is a Chinese professional field hockey player who represented China at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. The team finished last in their group, and finished 11th after beating South Africa.

## InfoBox

Na Yubo
| Personal information | | | |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Born | (1981-07-12) July 12, 1981 | | |
| Height | 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in) | | |
| National team | | | |
| Years | **Team** | **Apps** | **(Gls)** |
|  | China |  |  |
| Medal record      Men's field hockey  Representing  China  Asian Games  2006 Doha Team | | | |


title: Mike Everitt (baseball)

abstract: Mike G. Everitt is an American former Major League Baseball umpire, who wore number 57. He worked in the American League from 1996 to 1999 and throughout both major leagues from 2000 to 2019.

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# Mike Everitt (baseball)

**Mike G. Everitt** (born August 22, 1964) is an American former Major League Baseball umpire, who wore number 57. He worked in the American League from 1996 to 1999 and throughout both major leagues from 2000 to 2019.

## Early life

Everitt attended Aztec High School in Aztec, New Mexico. He played several sports at the school and graduated in 1982. He appeared in that year's Connie Mack World Series.

## Career

Over his major league career, Everitt has worked the All-Star Game one time 2006, the Wild Card Game three times (2013, 2016, 2019), the Division Series nine times (2001, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012, 2015, 2017), the League Championship Series 6.5 times (2002, 2003, 2008, 2011, 2013, 2016, and the second half of the 2019 series starting in Game 4 after Jeff Nelson was removed after injury in Game 3), and the 2006 All-Star Game. Everitt has also umpired the World Series three times (2007, 2009 and 2015). Everitt was named a crew chief in February 2017.

Everitt was the first base umpire for Rickey Henderson's 3,000th hit on October 7, 2001; that game was also Tony Gwynn's final MLB game.

Everitt was the first base umpire on July 30, 2017, when Adrián Beltré of the Texas Rangers got his 3000th career hit against the Baltimore Orioles.

### Controversies

On April 22, 2000, Everitt was the home plate umpire for a game between the Detroit Tigers and Chicago White Sox which featured two bench-clearing brawls, 11 ejections and 16 player suspensions which totaled 82 games. Managers Phil Garner of Detroit and Jerry Manuel of Chicago were each suspended eight games.

Everitt worked the 2003 National League Championship Series and was the left field umpire during Game 6, in which Chicago Cubs fan Steve Bartman arguably prevented Cubs left fielder Moisés Alou from catching a foul pop up hit by Florida Marlins second baseman Luis Castillo. Everitt ruled that the ball would have landed in the stands without Bartman's interference, and therefore Castillo was not out. Alou and Mark Prior vehemently protested the call to no avail and the Marlins proceeded to score 8 runs to win Game 6 and later the series.

During a San Diego Padres vs. Cubs game in Chicago, on June 16, 2007, Everitt was the plate umpire. Padres pitcher Chris Young hit Cubs first baseman Derrek Lee up and in with a pitch. Rather than getting in between Lee and Young as Lee exchanged words with Young, Everitt instead was talking to Padres catcher Rob Bowen about an unknown subject. Lee ended up throwing a punch at Young, who threw a punch back, starting a benches-clearing brawl. Young, Lee, and others were ejected. Cubs play-by-play announcer Len Kasper criticized and questioned Everitt for not getting in between Lee and Young to prevent a brawl.

During Game 4 of the 2009 World Series, between the New York Yankees and the Philadelphia Phillies, Pedro Feliz hit a two-out single with Ryan Howard on second. There was a play at the plate and replay shows that Howard clearly - barely but clearly - missed home. However, the ball rolled away from Yankee catcher Jorge Posada and CC Sabathia, backing up the play, threw to second to try to get Feliz going to second. It was at that point that Mike Everitt signaled Howard was safe at the plate, the correct ruling. Howard had not touched home, but had not been tagged out either: there was no call to make until Sabathia tried to make a play on Feliz, therefore losing the right to appeal that Howard missed home.

On August 20, 2013, after the Boston Red Sox lost to the San Francisco Giants on a walk-off walk to batter Marco Scutaro, Red Sox starting pitcher Jake Peavy openly criticized plate umpire Everitt, stating, "The last pitch \[called ball four\] was a strike...At the end of the day, for an umpire not to make the call to cost us a game, that's extremely unfortunate." Replays, however, indicate the pitch was located off the outer edge of home plate and correctly ruled a ball.

On June 30, 2016, in a game versus the St. Louis Cardinals at Busch Stadium, Everitt permitted the Kansas City Royals to challenge a double-play call at first base despite both teams having returned to their dugouts. Under normal MLB rules, both teams retiring to their dugouts would make the play no longer eligible for replay, but Everitt gave the Royals - as described by Everitt to Matheny - a "courtesy". St. Louis Cardinals manager Mike Matheny was immediately ejected for raising the point with Everitt.

On August 27, 2016, in a game between the Los Angeles Angels and Detroit Tigers at Comerica Park, Everitt made several contested strike calls against Detroit hitters, resulting in the eventual ejection of Tigers designated hitter Victor Martinez, Manager Brad Ausmus, and Hitting Coach Wally Joyner, and right fielder J. D. Martinez in three separate incidents.

## InfoBox

| Mike Everitt | |
| --- | --- |
| Everitt in 2011 | |
| **Born:**  (1964-08-22) August 22, 1964<br>Gallup, New Mexico, U.S. | |
| debut | |
| June 20, 1996 | |
| Last appearance | |
| October 19, 2019 | |
|  | |
| Career highlights and awards | |
| Special Assignments | |


title: Mood to Be Wooed

abstract: Mood to Be Wooed is a 1958 studio album by Sammy Davis Jr. and featuring Mundell Lowe on electric guitar.

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# Mood to Be Wooed

***Mood to Be Wooed*** is a 1958 studio album by Sammy Davis Jr. and featuring Mundell Lowe on electric guitar.

## Reception

Professional ratings
| Review scores | |
| --- | --- |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |  |

Bruce Eder of AllMusic gave this album three and a half stars out of five. He was critical of Davis' low-key performance but stated, "the singing in a reflective, almost introspective manner is good enough to carry the entertainment load."

## Track listing

1. "What Is There to Say?" (Vernon Duke, E. Y. "Yip" Harburg) – 3:41
2. "Why Shouldn't I?" (Moss Hart, Cole Porter) – 4:01
3. "Love Me" (Ned Washington, Victor Young) – 3:18
4. "Bewitched" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 4:27
5. "I Could Have Told You" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Carl Sigman) – 3:55
6. "For All We Know" (J. Fred Coots, Sam M. Lewis) – 3:53
7. "Deep in a Dream" (Van Heusen, Eddie DeLange) – 4:05
8. "I Get Along Without You Very Well" (Hoagy Carmichael, Jane Brown Thompson) – 3:28
9. "Mam'selle" (Edmund Goulding, Mack Gordon) – 2:46
10. "Try a Little Tenderness" (Jimmy Campbell, Reg Connelly, Harry M. Woods) – 4:11
11. "This Love of Mine" (Frank Sinatra, Henry Sanicola, Sol Parker) – 3:31
12. "I've Got a Crush on You" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 3:01

## Personnel

* Sammy Davis Jr. – vocals
* Mundell Lowe – electric guitar

## InfoBox

| Mood to Be Wooed | |
| --- | --- |
|  | |
| Studio album by Sammy Davis Jr. | |
| Released | 1958 |
| Recorded | 1958 |
| Genre | Vocal jazz |
| Length | 44:17 |
| Label | Decca |
| Sammy Davis Jr. chronology | |
| *Boy Meets Girl*
(1957) ***Mood to Be Wooed***
(1958) *All the Way... and Then Some!*
(1958) | |


title: First Flight Tournament

abstract: The First Flight Tournament was a professional golf tournament in Japan. Founded in 1972, it was an event on the Japan Golf Tour in its inaugural season in 1973. It was held at the Fuji Heigen Golf Club near Gotemba, Shizuoka.

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# First Flight Tournament

The **First Flight Tournament** was a professional golf tournament in Japan. Founded in 1972, it was an event on the Japan Golf Tour in its inaugural season in 1973. It was held at the Fuji Heigen Golf Club near Gotemba, Shizuoka.

## Winners

| Year | Winner | Score | To par | Margin of
victory | Runner(s)-up | Ref. |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1973 | Takaaki Kono | 198 | −18 | 6 strokes | Ben Arda
Masashi Ozaki |  |
| 1972 | Masashi Ozaki | 135 | −9 | 3 strokes | Takashi Murakami |  |

1. McCormack, Mark H. (1974). *The World of Professional Golf 1974*. Collins. pp. 324, 551–552. ISBN 0002119544.
2. McCormack, Mark H. (1973). *The World of Professional Golf 1973*. Collins. p. 528. ISBN 0002119463.

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First Flight Tournament
| Tournament information | |
| --- | --- |
| Location | Gotemba, Shizuoka, Japan |
| Established | 1972 |
| Course(s) | Fuji Heigen Golf Club |
| Par | 72 |
| Tour(s) | Japan Golf Tour |
| Format | Stroke play |
| Prize fund | 12,000,000 |
| Month played | September |
| Final year | 1973 |
| Tournament record score | |
| Aggregate | 198 Takaaki Kono (1973) |
| To par | −18 *as above* |
| Final champion | |
| Takaaki Kono | |
| Location map | |
| Fuji Heigen Golf ClubLocation in JapanFuji Heigen Golf ClubLocation in Shizuoka Prefecture | |


title: Middlezoy

abstract: Middlezoy is a village and civil parish on the Somerset Levels in Somerset, England. Situated between the two other villages of Westonzoyland and Othery and is about six miles from the town of Bridgwater which is on the tidal river Parret.

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# Middlezoy

**Middlezoy** is a village and civil parish on the Somerset Levels in Somerset, England. Situated between the two other villages of Westonzoyland and Othery and is about six miles from the town of Bridgwater which is on the tidal river Parret.

## History

The name Middlezoy meaning *the middle stream island*, derives from *Sowi*, the name of Glastonbury Abbey's major estate, *sow*, a British river name from a root meaning *flowing*. The extra i is derived from the Saxon *ig* for island.

The parish of Middlezoy was part of the Whitley Hundred.

In 1800 1,100 acres of common land were enclosed as a result of the Inclosure Acts.

In 2006 the village shop closed and a grant was obtained for the erection of a new modular structure to house a community shop and post office.

In 2018 an unlicensed aerodrome business named Middlezoy Aerodrome was started on the south side of the old RAF Westonzoyland Airfield with a grass strip, hangar and a Nissen hut. A Meteor T.7 gate guard can be seen from the A372 main road.

## Governance

The parish council has responsibility for local issues, including setting an annual precept (local rate) to cover the council's operating costs and producing annual accounts for public scrutiny. The parish council evaluates local planning applications and works with the local police, district council officers, and neighbourhood watch groups on matters of crime, security, and traffic. The parish council's role also includes initiating projects for the maintenance and repair of parish facilities, as well as consulting with the district council on the maintenance, repair, and improvement of highways, drainage, footpaths, public transport, and street cleaning. Conservation matters (including trees and listed buildings) and environmental issues are also the responsibility of the council.

For local government purposes, since 1 April 2023, the village comes under the unitary authority of Somerset Council. Prior to this, it was part of the non-metropolitan district of Sedgemoor, which was formed on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, having previously been part of Bridgwater Rural District.

It is also part of a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

## Geography

Just to the north of the village is the Greylake Site of Special Scientific Interest, which consists of 20 low-lying fields in the north west corner of King's Sedgemoor, and includes the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds Greylake nature reserve. This location is the type section for the Pleistocene Burtle Beds, as it is probably the most complete Burtle Beds sequence in Somerset. It demonstrates a sequence of fluvial (or possibly glacial) gravels, marine intertidal silts and marine subtidal. Rich molluscan, ostracod and foraminifer assemblages and a mammalian fauna, including Red Deer (*Cervus elephus*), Aurochs (*Bos primigenius*) and Fallow Deer (*Dama cf dama*) have been recorded.

## Religious sites

Holy Cross church Middlezoy dates from the 13th century. It has a three-stage tower similar to that at Lyng and has been designated by English Heritage as a grade I listed building. William of Bitton II was the rector by 20 April 1263.

Media related to Middlezoy at Wikimedia Commons

## InfoBox

| Middlezoy | |
| --- | --- |
| Church of the Holy Cross | |
| MiddlezoyLocation within Somerset | |
| Population | 725 (2011) |
| OS grid reference | ST375325 |
| Unitary authority |  |
| Ceremonial county |  |
| Region |  |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | BRIDGWATER |
| Postcode district | TA7 |
| Dialling code | 01823 |
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| Police | Avon and Somerset |
| Fire | Devon and Somerset |
| Ambulance | South Western |
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| UK Parliament |  |
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title: Richard Fork

abstract: Richard L. Fork was an American physicist.

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# Richard Fork

**Richard L. Fork** (1 September 1935 – 16 May 2018) was an American physicist.

## Biography

Fork received a bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics from Principia College in 1957, and earned his doctorate in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He began working for Bell Laboratories in 1962, and joined the faculty of Rensselaer Institute of Technology in 1990. Four years later, Dr. Fork left Rensselaer for the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Over the course of his career, Fork was granted fellowship of the American Physical Society and Optical Society of America. He retired in 2017 and died on May 16, 2018, of respiratory arrest in Huntsville. Dr. Fork also acted as a mentor who guided and assisted dozens of students pursuing optical/physics/laser based degrees at UAH.

## Achievements

Richard Fork has been very active in the field of generating light pulses with lasers.

* As early as 1964, he showed that locking the modes of a helium neon laser could produce picosecond pulses.
* In the early 80's he strongly contributed to the development of femtosecond lasers.
* In 1984 he, along with O.E. Martinez and J.P. Gordon, published a paper entitled "Negative group-velocity dispersion using refraction" in the Journal of the Optical Society of America A, which laid the groundwork for the "Martinez stretcher" which is the primary stretcher configuration used in the design of free-space, solid-state, chirped pulse amplifiers. The key mechanism in this achievement was the recognition of the potential for generating positive group delay dispersion (GDD) using two dispersive elements, which nominally produce negative GDD, by introducing a "telescope" between the two elements thus utilizing the Guoy Phase Shift to flip the sign of the dispersion. This finding was crucial because in order to stretch, amplify, and then compress a pulse it is required that the GDD introduced in the stretcher is exactly matched, in the negative sense, in the compressor. Since the standard compressor configurations all produce negative GDD, a positive GDD stretcher was required. Technically speaking, the stretcher and compressor can be swapped without loss of generality, but since the "Martinez Stretcher" is more difficult to align due to the inclusion of the "telescope", it is generally preferred to use it for the low-energy seed pulse, and the traditional compressor for the high-energy amplified output pulse.
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* In a second part of his career he focused his interest on the use of lasers for protecting Earth from asteroid impacts.

## InfoBox

| Richard Fork | |
| --- | --- |
| Born | Richard L. Fork
(1935-09-01)September 1, 1935 |
| Died | May 16, 2018(2018-05-16) (aged 82)
Huntsville, Alabama, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Principia College (BA)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) |
| **Scientific career** | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | Bell Laboratories,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
University of Alabama in Huntsville |
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