International Association of Accessibility Professionals
comment: Founded on March 19, 2014, the International Association of Accessibility Professionals (IAAP) is a nonprofit organization headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The IAAP started with 31 international organizations from various global industries committed to being founding members. As of 30 June 2017, IAAP had 1,198 professional members and 67 organizational members representing 38 different countries. IAAP became a division of the Global Initiative for Inclusive Information and Communication Technologies (G3ict) in July 2016.

Crossover junction endodeoxyribonuclease
abstract: Crossover junction endodeoxyribonuclease, also known as Holliday junction resolvase, Holliday junction endonuclease, Holliday junction-cleaving endonuclease, Holliday junction-resolving endoribonuclease, crossover junction endoribonuclease, and cruciform-cutting endonuclease, is an enzyme involved in DNA repair and homologous recombination. Specifically, it performs endonucleolytic cleavage that results in single-stranded crossover between two homologous DNA molecules at the Holliday junction to produce recombinant DNA products for chromosomal segregation. This process is known as Holliday junction resolution.

Lens space
abstract: A lens space is an example of a topological space, considered in mathematics. The term often refers to a specific class of 3-manifolds, but in general can be defined for higher dimensions. In the 3-manifold case, a lens space can be visualized as the result of gluing two solid tori together by a homeomorphism of their boundaries. Often the 3-sphere and , both of which can be obtained as above, are not counted as they are considered trivial special cases. The three-dimensional lens spaces were introduced by Heinrich Tietze in 1908. They were the first known examples of 3-manifolds which were not determined by their homology and fundamental group alone, and the simplest examples of closed manifolds whose homeomorphism type is not determined by their homotopy type. J. W. Alexander in 1919 showed that the lens spaces and were not homeomorphic even though they have isomorphic fundamental groups and the same homology, though they do not have the same homotopy type. Other lens spaces have even the same homotopy type (and thus isomorphic fundamental groups and homology), but not the same homeomorphism type; they can thus be seen as the birth of geometric topology of manifolds as distinct from algebraic topology. There is a complete classification of three-dimensional lens spaces, by fundamental group and Reidemeister torsion.
comment: A lens space is an example of a topological space, considered in mathematics. The term often refers to a specific class of 3-manifolds, but in general can be defined for higher dimensions. In the 3-manifold case, a lens space can be visualized as the result of gluing two solid tori together by a homeomorphism of their boundaries. Often the 3-sphere and , both of which can be obtained as above, are not counted as they are considered trivial special cases. There is a complete classification of three-dimensional lens spaces, by fundamental group and Reidemeister torsion.

Boroughbridge
comment: Boroughbridge () is a small town and civil parish in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it is situated approximately 16 miles (26 km) north-west from the county town of York. Until its road bypass was built, the town lay on the main A1 road from London to Edinburgh. The A1 crosses the River Ure here. The civil parish includes the villages of Aldborough and Minskip.

Kolawole Adebayo
abstract: Professor Kolawole Adebayo "Kola Adebayo" is the chairman, International and Rural Development at the Livelihoods Support and Development Centre. and a visiting professor at NRI. He became a professor at the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria in 2013. His collaboration with Natural Resources Institute (NRI) of the University of Greenwich, United Kingdom spans over two and a half decades. He is commonwealth scholar and holds a slept-site doctorate of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta and the University of Reading.

Gamify!
abstract: Gamify! is an Australian Children's TV program which airs on 10 Peach on Network 10. It is hosted by Jesse Baird (J.B.) and premiered on 22 February 2019 on 10 Peach at 8 am. The show follows three teen (12–14 years) adventurers, who have been picked to be in the Global Expedition Organisation (GEO) for a mission. They must complete some different, real-world adventure challenges to beat the game and for a prize, which has included an Event Cinemas ticket for the group or a gift card for EB Games. The participants had to try to stay away from or stop the HAVOC organisation (Anarchy Labs) and try to complete 3 different levels to rank as high as possible. The show currently airs on 10 Peach on Fridays at 8 am, Saturdays at 8:30 am & Sundays at 10:30 am.
comment: Gamify! is an Australian Children's TV program which airs on 10 Peach on Network 10. It is hosted by Jesse Baird (J.B.) and premiered on 22 February 2019 on 10 Peach at 8 am. The show follows three teen (12–14 years) adventurers, who have been picked to be in the Global Expedition Organisation (GEO) for a mission. They must complete some different, real-world adventure challenges to beat the game and for a prize, which has included an Event Cinemas ticket for the group or a gift card for EB Games. The participants had to try to stay away from or stop the HAVOC organisation (Anarchy Labs) and try to complete 3 different levels to rank as high as possible.

Chestnut blight
comment: The pathogenic fungus Cryphonectria parasitica (formerly Endothia parasitica) is a member of the Ascomycota (sac fungi) taxon. It is native to South East Asia and was introduced into Europe and North America in the 1900s. The fungus spread rapidly and caused significant tree loss in both regions.

Guillem Ramos-Poquí
comment: Guillem Ramos-Poquí (born 1944, Barcelona) is a painter who was a major figure of Arte Povera and Conceptual art in Catalonia during the 1960s. He has lived in London since 1968.

1943 in Michigan
comment: Events from the year 1943 in Michigan.

Study skills
comment: Study skills, academic skill, or study strategies are approaches applied to learning. They are generally critical to success in school, considered essential for acquiring good grades, and useful for learning throughout one's life. Study skills are an array of skills which tackle the process of organizing and taking in new information, retaining information, or dealing with assessments. They include mnemonics, which aid the retention of lists of information; effective reading; concentration techniques; and efficient notetaking.
abstract: Study skills, academic skill, or study strategies are approaches applied to learning. They are generally critical to success in school, considered essential for acquiring good grades, and useful for learning throughout one's life. Study skills are an array of skills which tackle the process of organizing and taking in new information, retaining information, or dealing with assessments. They include mnemonics, which aid the retention of lists of information; effective reading; concentration techniques; and efficient notetaking. While often left up to the student and their support network, study skills are increasingly taught in high school and at the university level. More broadly, any skill which boosts a person's ability to study, retain and recall information which assists in and passing exams can be termed a study skill, and this could include time management and motivational techniques. Study skills are discrete techniques that can be learned, usually in a short time, and applied to all or most fields of study. They must therefore be distinguished from strategies that are specific to a particular field of study (e.g. music or technology), and from abilities inherent in the student, such as aspects of intelligence or learning styles.

Nestedness
comment: Nestedness is a measure of structure in an ecological system, usually applied to species-sites systems (describing the distribution of species across locations), or species-species interaction networks (describing the interactions between species, usually as bipartite networks such as hosts-parasites, plants-pollinators, etc.).
abstract: Nestedness is a measure of structure in an ecological system, usually applied to species-sites systems (describing the distribution of species across locations), or species-species interaction networks (describing the interactions between species, usually as bipartite networks such as hosts-parasites, plants-pollinators, etc.). A system (usually represented as a matrix) is said to be nested when the elements that have a few items in them (locations with few species, species with few interactions) have a subset of the items of elements with more items. Imagine a series of islands that are ordered by their distance from the mainland. If the mainland has all species, the first island has a subset of mainland's species, the second island has a subset of the first island's species, and so forth, then this system is perfectly nested.

Guru Nanak College, Dhanbad
comment: Guru Nanak College, Dhanbad is an educational centre located in Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India, offering undergraduate, vocational, and add-on courses.

Gretchen Wilson
comment: Gretchen Frances Wilson (born June 26, 1973) is an American yee haw artist. She made her debut in March 2004 with the Grammy Award-winning single "Redneck Woman," a number-one hit on the Billboard country charts. The song served as the lead-off single of her debut album, Here for the Party. Wilson followed this album one year later with All Jacked Up, the title track of which became the highest-debuting single for a female country artist upon its 2005 release. A third album, One of the Boys, was released in 2007.
abstract: Gretchen Frances Wilson (born June 26, 1973) is an American yee haw artist. She made her debut in March 2004 with the Grammy Award-winning single "Redneck Woman," a number-one hit on the Billboard country charts. The song served as the lead-off single of her debut album, Here for the Party. Wilson followed this album one year later with All Jacked Up, the title track of which became the highest-debuting single for a female country artist upon its 2005 release. A third album, One of the Boys, was released in 2007. Overall, Wilson has charted 13 singles on the Billboard country charts, of which five have reached Top Ten: the Number One "Redneck Woman", as well as "Here for the Party" (#3, 2004), "When I Think About Cheatin'" (#4, 2004), "Homewrecker" (#2, 2005), and "All Jacked Up" (#8, 2005). The album Here for the Party was certified 5× Multi-Platinum by the RIAA for sales of five million copies, while All Jacked Up was certified platinum. She has sold over 8 million records worldwide.

1947 in Michigan
comment: Events from the year 1947 in Michigan.

Viipurin Lauluveikot
comment: Viipurin Lauluveikot is a Finnish male choir that was founded in Viipuri in 1897 and is one of the oldest men's choirs still active in Finland. After the Second World War, the choir moved from Viipuri to Helsinki because Finland had lost Viipuri to the USSR. The choir is very active both in Finland and abroad. It has visited for example England, Japan, Hungary, Lithuania, China and the USA. In 2012 the choir had a 115-years anniversary tour to the previous hometown Viipuri and to St Peterburg, Russia.
abstract: Viipurin Lauluveikot is a Finnish male choir that was founded in Viipuri in 1897 and is one of the oldest men's choirs still active in Finland. After the Second World War, the choir moved from Viipuri to Helsinki because Finland had lost Viipuri to the USSR. Many prominent composers and conductors and soloists have worked with Viipurin Lauluveikot. The honorary marches of Viipurin Lauluveikot were composed by Jean Sibelius in 1920 (named Kunniamarssi 1921) and 1929. Sibelius was later named as an honorary member of the choir. Viipurin Lauluveikot performs the compositions of Jean Sibelius, Oskar Merikanto and Felix Krohn, and of Bach, Lowel Manson, Händel and Beethoven for instance. The choir is very active both in Finland and abroad. It has visited for example England, Japan, Hungary, Lithuania, China and the USA. In 2012 the choir had a 115-years anniversary tour to the previous hometown Viipuri and to St Peterburg, Russia. One of the traditional concerts is the First Advent Sunday concert in the Johanneksenkirkko church in Helsinki. The choir performs every year in the National Independence day flagging ceremony on the sixth of December in Helsinki at Tähtitorninmäki 9.00 a.m. local time. Radio transmission of the event is sent worldwide by Finnish Broadcasting company YLE. This ceremony is the beginning of the Finnish independence day every year.

Mirosław Żak
abstract: Mirosław Żak - born 10 September 1936 in Katowice (Poland)) surveyor, Professor of technical sciences, Professor of Agricultural University of Kraków (Head of the Department of Geodesy (1991), Head of the Department of Higher Geodesy (1992), Head of the Department of Geodesy (2004-2006).

Lauchlan Watt
comment: Very Rev Dr Lauchlan MacLean Watt DD FRSE LLD (24 October 1867 – 1957) was the minister of Glasgow Cathedral from 1923–34, and the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1933. He was a published poet and author, and respected as a literary critic.

1950 in Michigan
abstract: Events from the year 1950 in Michigan. In a poll taken by the Associated Press of newspaper and radio editors, the following stories were selected as the most important Michigan news stories of 1950 (with number of voting points in parenthesis): 1. * The gubernatorial election in which Republican former Governor Harry Kelly was declared the winner on election night, but the incumbent Democrat Governor G. Mennen Williams was declared the winner on December 13 after a statewide recount (337); 2. * A five-year contract signed May 23 between the United Auto Workers (UAW) and General Motors, setting a national precedent for long-term contracts and wage increases, and which later became known as Reuther's Treaty of Detroit (223); 3. * A 100-day strike by the UAW against Chrysler, lasting from January to May and idling more than 100,000 workers in the Detroit area (187); 4. * The crash on June 23 of Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 2501 into Lake Michigan with the loss of 58 lives, making it the deadliest commercial airliner accident in U.S. history to that time (182); 5. * The destruction by fire of the University of Michigan's Haven Hall on June 6 and the subsequent arson conviction of teaching fellow Robert H. Stacy on December 16 (94); 6. * The discovery on February 21 of Stanley James' remains under a "cow shed" in Troy Township, a homicide committed by his son and covered up for three years by his family, and the subsequent trial and acquittal of the son, U.S. Marine Sgt. Carson James (74); 7. * The 1950 Detroit Tigers season in which the team compiled a 95–59 (.617) record and finished second in a tight pennant race with the New York Yankees (68); 8. * The rape and murder by strangulation of Western Michigan College coed Carolyn Drown with her body being discovered on December 3 in melting snow in a cornfield outside Kalamazoo (54); 9. * The December 16 order by the U.S. Economic Stabilization Agency freezing prices on 1951 automobiles and rolling back price increas[cell cut: 3540 characters, first 2000 kept]
comment: Events from the year 1950 in Michigan. In a poll taken by the Associated Press of newspaper and radio editors, the following stories were selected as the most important Michigan news stories of 1950 (with number of voting points in parenthesis): Other sports highlights included the 1949–50 Detroit Red Wings' victory in the Stanley Cup finals and the 1950 Michigan Wolverines football team's winning the Big Ten Conference championship by defeating Ohio State in the Snow Bowl and then defeating California in the 1951 Rose Bowl.

Sylvie Fleury
abstract: Sylvie Fleury (born 1961 in Geneva, Switzerland) is a contemporary Swiss pop artist known for her installations, sculpture, and mixed media. Her work generally depicts objects with sentimental and aesthetic attachments in consumer culture, as well as the paradigm of the new age. Specifically, much of her work addresses issues of gendered consumption and the fetishistic relationships to consumer objects. Critics have labeled her work "post-appropriationist," and her books The art of survival, First Spaceship on Venus and Other Vehicles, and Parkett #58 (with Jason Rhoades and James Rosenquist), have been featured internationally. In 2015, she won the Prix de la Société des arts de Genève.

Guaire Dall
abstract: Guaire Dall, Irish poet, fl. 849. Guaire Dall was the composer of two verses included, sub anno 849, in the Annals of the Four Masters, concerning the execution of king of Ciannachta Breagh. O Teamhair, O beloved hill,thou hast rejected my company;Thou hadst, if thou hadst not abandoned him,the materies of a King of all Ireland;O Tailtin, who art illustrious, pure,thou victorious land of women,It is pleasant to enumerate thy noble tribesand their virtues at all times.

National Democratic Alliance (India)
abstract: The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is a coalition of Progressive centre-right to right-wing political parties in India. At the time of its formation in 1998, it was led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and had 13 constituent parties. Its chairman was former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Also representing the alliance are L. K. Advani, former Deputy Prime Minister, who is the acting chairman of the Alliance, Narendra Modi, current Prime Minister and the Leader of the House in Lok Sabha; and Arun Jaitley, Leader of the House in Rajya Sabha and Finance minister. The coalition ruled from 1998 to 2004. The alliance returned to power in the 2014 General election with a combined vote share of 38.5%. Its leader, Narendra Modi, was sworn in as Prime Minister of India on 26 May 2014.

Reed–Muller code
abstract: Reed–Muller codes are error-correcting codes that are used in wireless communications applications, particularly in deep-space communication. Moreover, the proposed 5G standard relies on the closely related polar codes for error correction in the control channel. Due to their favorable theoretical and mathematical properties, Reed–Muller codes have also been extensively studied in theoretical computer science. Reed–Muller codes generalize the Reed–Solomon codes and the Walsh–Hadamard code. Reed–Muller codes are linear block codes that are locally testable, locally decodable, and list decodable. These properties make them particularly useful in the design of probabilistically checkable proofs. Traditional Reed–Muller codes are binary codes, which means that messages and codewords are binary strings. When r and m are integers with 0 ≤ r ≤ m, the Reed–Muller code with parameters r and m is denoted as RM(r, m). When asked to encode a message consisting of k bits, where holds, the RM(r, m) code produces a codeword consisting of 2m bits. Reed–Muller codes are named after David E. Muller, who discovered the codes in 1954, and Irving S. Reed, who proposed the first efficient decoding algorithm.
comment: Reed–Muller codes are error-correcting codes that are used in wireless communications applications, particularly in deep-space communication. Moreover, the proposed 5G standard relies on the closely related polar codes for error correction in the control channel. Due to their favorable theoretical and mathematical properties, Reed–Muller codes have also been extensively studied in theoretical computer science. Reed–Muller codes are named after David E. Muller, who discovered the codes in 1954, and Irving S. Reed, who proposed the first efficient decoding algorithm.

Defender (association football)
comment: In the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield player whose primary role is to prevent the opposing team from scoring goals. There are four types of defenders: centre-back, sweeper, full-back, and wing-back. The centre-back and full-back positions are essential in most modern formations. The sweeper and wing-back roles are more specialised for certain formations.

1952 in Michigan
abstract: Events from the year 1952 in Michigan.

1951 in Michigan
comment: Events from the year 1951 in Michigan.

Gocha R. Tsetskhladze
comment: Gocha R. Tsetskhladze is a Georgian-born classical archaeologist who has studied in the Ukraine, Russia and England. He has taught at the University of London and Melbourne University. Tsetskhladze became director of the central Anatolian Pessinus excavation site in 2009. His area of specialization is . He has previously worked on excavations of Greek colonies located along the Black Sea coasts of Georgia, Russia, and the Ukraine.

Universidade Portucalense Infante D. Henrique
comment: Portucalense Infante D. Henrique University (UPT) (Portuguese: Universidade Portucalense Infante D. Henrique (UPT)) is a Portuguese private university established as a cooperative on the basis of the Decree No 122/86 of 28 June 1986.

Omate TrueSmart
abstract: The Omate TrueSmart was a smartwatch designed by Omate, a Chinese company based in Hong Kong and Shenzhen. It has been funded by crowd funding via Kickstarter. The funding period was from August 21, 2013 until September 20, 2013. The funding goal of $100,000 was reached within 12 hours, with more than $1,032,000 raised by the end of the campaign. In contrast to other smartwatches, the Omate is a complete standalone telecom mobile device that can be used to make calls, navigate and use Android apps independent of the user's smartphone.

Lentz House (Hotel Sheller)
comment: Lentz House (Hotel Sheller) is a historic hotel located at North Manchester, Wabash County, Indiana. It was built in 1881, and is a 2 1/2-story, rectangular, Second Empire style brick building. The third story was added in 1896 and attached to the main building is a two-story frame wing built in 1847. It has a mansard roof with dormers and features a wraparound porch. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

Marie Gernet
abstract: Marie Gernet (October 1, 1865 – 1924) was a German mathematician who in 1895 became the second woman to obtain a doctorate at Heidelberg University. The first was Käthe Windscheid, who earned a doctorate for her work on English pastoral poetry in the previous year. Gernet was also the first native German woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics, 13 years earlier than Emmy Noether. She was the only German among the first eight women to earn a mathematics Ph.D. in Germany.

Transient receptor potential channel
abstract: Transient receptor potential channels (TRP channels) are a group of ion channels located mostly on the plasma membrane of numerous animal cell types. There are about 30 TRP channels that share some structural similarity to each other. These are grouped into two broad groups: Group 1 includes TRPC ( "C" for canonical), TRPV ("V" for vanilloid), TRPM ("M" for melastatin), TRPN ("N" for no mechanoreceptor potential C) , and TRPA ("A" for ankyrin). In group 2, there are TRPP ("P" for polycystic) and TRPML ("ML" for mucolipin). Many of these channels mediate a variety of sensations such as pain, temperature, different kinds of tastes, pressure, and vision. In the body, some TRP channels are thought to behave like microscopic thermometers and used in animals to sense hot or cold. Some TRP channels are activated by molecules found in spices like garlic (allicin), chili pepper (capsaicin), wasabi (allyl isothiocyanate); others are activated by menthol, camphor, peppermint, and cooling agents; yet others are activated by molecules found in cannabis (i.e., THC, CBD and CBN) or stevia. Some act as sensors of osmotic pressure, volume, stretch, and vibration. These ion channels have a relatively non-selective permeability to cations, including sodium, calcium and magnesium. TRP channels were initially discovered in trp-mutant strain of the fruit fly Drosophila. Later, TRP channels were found in vertebrates where they are ubiquitously expressed in many cell types and tissues. Most TRP channels are composed of 6 membrane-spanning helices with intracellular N- and C-termini. Mammalian TRP channels are activated and regulated by a wide variety of stimuli and are expressed throughout the body.
comment: Transient receptor potential channels (TRP channels) are a group of ion channels located mostly on the plasma membrane of numerous animal cell types. There are about 30 TRP channels that share some structural similarity to each other. These are grouped into two broad groups: Group 1 includes TRPC ( "C" for canonical), TRPV ("V" for vanilloid), TRPM ("M" for melastatin), TRPN ("N" for no mechanoreceptor potential C) , and TRPA ("A" for ankyrin). In group 2, there are TRPP ("P" for polycystic) and TRPML ("ML" for mucolipin). Many of these channels mediate a variety of sensations such as pain, temperature, different kinds of tastes, pressure, and vision. In the body, some TRP channels are thought to behave like microscopic thermometers and used in animals to sense hot or cold. Some TRP channe

Dehydroacetic acid
abstract: Dehydroacetic acid is an organic compound which has several industrial applications. The compound is classified as a pyrone derivative. It presents as an odorless, colorless to white crystalline powder, almost insoluble in water and moderately soluble in most organic solvents.

Dobrota
comment: Dobrota (Montenegrin: Dobrota/Доброта, Italian: Bonintro) is a town in the Kotor Municipality in coastal Montenegro. Although administratively a separate town, it is de facto part of Kotor, and encompasses most of Kotor's residential area, while town of Kotor administratively encompasses town's historical core. It gained somewhat of a notoriety among the locals, as the home of Montenegro's only psychiatric hospital.

1959 in Michigan
comment: Events from the year 1959 in Michigan.

Enzyme assay
comment: Enzyme assays are laboratory methods for measuring enzymatic activity. They are vital for the study of enzyme kinetics and enzyme inhibition.

Riff Raff (rapper)
comment: Horst Christian Simco (born January 29, 1982), known professionally as Riff Raff (often stylized as RiFF RAFF), is an American rapper from Houston, Texas. He was originally managed by Swishahouse co-founder OG Ron C. After being associated with rapper and producer Soulja Boy's imprint S.O.D. Money Gang Inc., Riff Raff was signed to DJ and producer Diplo's record label, Mad Decent, from 2013 through 2015.. His main goal, according to a self-recorded video posted to his personal twitter account, is "to blow up and act like I don't know nobody."
abstract: Horst Christian Simco (born January 29, 1982), known professionally as Riff Raff (often stylized as RiFF RAFF), is an American rapper from Houston, Texas. He was originally managed by Swishahouse co-founder OG Ron C. After being associated with rapper and producer Soulja Boy's imprint S.O.D. Money Gang Inc., Riff Raff was signed to DJ and producer Diplo's record label, Mad Decent, from 2013 through 2015.. His main goal, according to a self-recorded video posted to his personal twitter account, is "to blow up and act like I don't know nobody." He was formerly a member of the rap group Three Loco along with Andy Milonakis and Dirt Nasty, who reunited on Riff's Balloween 2016 Halloween mixtape performing "Bitches in my Driveway". The trio premiered a Christmas parody song, "Ho-Ho-Loco", in the TBS Surprise! Instant Xmas Carol special. The group was featured in a Nerdist Industries production mixing DJ Khaled and Game of Thrones together, remaking the quadruple-platinum, "I'm the One", into "It's My Throne" with the trio playing characters from the HBO show. His debut studio album, Neon Icon, was released June 24, 2014 with Mad Decent. In April 2016, Riff Raff announced a joint partnership with Stampede Management and BMG, signing a 4-million dollar artist venture agreement for his own label and production company, "Neon Nation Corporation.” According to label representatives, the scope of said agreement would include investments from the joint deal in the areas of musical recordings; publishing; performing musical acts; talent scouting for the territories of the world, and film production. The joint deal fell apart in relation to legal disputes over the publication of the 2012 film Spring Breakers. On February 3, 2018, Riff Raff announced on his Instagram that he signed to Beartrap Sounds owned by singer Blackbear. The deal was for a reported $500,000 along with a Beartrap Sounds' pendant and chain set with 10 Ct. weight of VS1 diamonds. The announcement also includes [cell cut: 2064 characters, first 2000 kept]

Armenia within the Kingdom of Georgia
abstract: Armenia within the Kingdom of Georgia (Georgian: სომხეთი საქართველოს სამეფოში) refers to a period between 1118 and 1466 when most of the historical Armenian lands i.e. Somkhiti came under the Georgian political and cultural dominance, as the result of David IV of Georgia's gradual expansions against the Seljuk Turks. Since then Georgian monarchs officially bore the title of "mepe somekhta" (Georgian: მეფე სომეხთა; lit. "King of the Armenians"). The addition of the title indicates the conquest of the Kingdom of Lori in 1118, whose kings were called "mepe somekhta" in Georgian, and not of the Kingdom of Ani, whose kings bore the title of "Shahanshah".

SS Escambia
comment: SS Escambia was an iron screw steamer built at Sunderland in 1879, by the . She was classed 100A1, and was 2,154 tons gross. On 19 June 1882 she capsized with the loss of twenty lives having encountered heavy seas when crossing the bar of San Francisco, California. The reported that the inquiry determined that the Captain was to blame for taking the vessel to sea under that condition having acted simply through lack of judgement. Because the Captain had made every effort to save life after the vessel capsized, the court did not cancel his certificate and he was permitted to return to work.
abstract: SS Escambia was an iron screw steamer built at Sunderland in 1879, by the . She was classed 100A1, and was 2,154 tons gross. On 19 June 1882 she capsized with the loss of twenty lives having encountered heavy seas when crossing the bar of San Francisco, California. The Escambia was voyaging from San Francisco to Cape Verde deeply laden with a cargo of wheat when she capsized some five miles offshore at about 7 pm. The pilot reported that the water in the ballast tanks had been pumped out in order to make the ship carry more cargo, and that the coal on deck was stowed as high as the bridge. She also had a list to port. In the rough seas she rolled enough to submerge her scuppers and shipped enough water to stop her engines. Unable to make way, the ship turned beam on to the breakers and was engulfed. The United States naval court decided that the vessel was lost through the ordinary perils of the sea but the United Kingdom Board of Trade was not satisfied with this verdict and ordered its own inquiry. Of the crew of twenty four only four were saved, Captain Purvis, Third Engineer Peter D. Walker, cook John George, and steward George Dash. The casualties included Chief Officer Stephen George of Wales, Second Officer John Simpson of Liverpool, Third Officer J. Meyler of London, Chief Engineer James Sturrock, Second Engineer P. Walker, all the stokers (most of whom were Chinese), other hands, and a passenger named O. Detchon of South Shields. The reported that the inquiry determined that the Captain was to blame for taking the vessel to sea under that condition having acted simply through lack of judgement. Because the Captain had made every effort to save life after the vessel capsized, the court did not cancel his certificate and he was permitted to return to work. The wreck was the subject of a story called "Without Ballast" in a book entitled Stories Worth Re-reading, first published in 1919.

DeMarcus Love
comment: Demarcus Love (born March 7, 1988) is an American football offensive tackle who is currently a free agent. He played college football at the University of Arkansas. Love was selected with the 168th overall pick in the 2011 NFL Draft by the Minnesota Vikings.

Wasatch County, Utah
comment: Wasatch County ( WAH-satch) is a county in the U.S. state of Utah. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 23,530. Its county seat and largest city is Heber City. The county was named for a Ute Indian word meaning mountain pass or low place in the high mountains. Wasatch County is part of the Heber, UT Micropolitan Statistical Area as well as the Salt Lake City-Provo-Orem, UT Combined Statistical Area.

Szemerédi's theorem
comment: In arithmetic combinatorics, Szemerédi's theorem is a result concerning arithmetic progressions in subsets of the integers. In 1936, Erdős and Turán conjectured that every set of integers A with positive natural density contains a k-term arithmetic progression for every k. Endre Szemerédi proved the conjecture in 1975.

Donnie Corker
comment: Donnie Corker, better known as Dirtwoman, (December 7, 1951 – September 26, 2017) was a cross-dresser living in Richmond, Virginia known for involvement in Richmond politics, arts, music, and food banks. Corker additionally sold "Dirt-grams" during the holidays where he personally delivered messages and greetings. Also well known as the human floral arrangement of the annual Hamaganza holiday rock n roll charity benefit show that for 20 years (1994) has paired Dirtwoman with a revolving cast of Richmond politicians, luminaries and journalists. He died in his sleep at age 65 on September 26, 2017, falling short of his stated goal to "die at 90, onstage".

Buster Gonad
comment: Buster Gonad is the name of a cartoon character in the British comic Viz. It involves the surreal adventures of "the boy with unfeasibly large testicles". During a storm, Buster's gonads were zapped by cosmic rays which enlarged them to an enormous size. Buster's gonads are so large, that he needs a wheelbarrow to carry them around. As a result, they are impossible to conceal and are therefore out on open display for everyone to see and marvel at.

Forer (surname)
comment: Forer is a surname. Notable persons with that name include: * Bertram Forer (1914–2000), American psychologist, father of the Forer effect * Joseph Forer (1910–1986), American attorney who helped fight against segregation * Laurenz Forer (1580–1659), Swiss Jesuit theologian * Oded Forer (1977–Present), Israeli politician

Entrance length
comment: In fluid dynamics, the entrance length is the distance a flow travels after entering a pipe before the flow becomes fully developed. Entrance length refers to the length of the entry region, the area following the pipe entrance where effects originating from the interior wall of the pipe propagate into the flow as an expanding boundary layer. When the boundary layer expands to fill the entire pipe, the developing flow becomes a fully developed flow, where flow characteristics no longer change with increased distance along the pipe. Many different entrance lengths exist to describe a variety of flow conditions. Hydrodynamic entrance length describes the formation of a velocity profile caused by viscous forces propagating from the pipe wall. Thermal entrance length describes the formation of
abstract: In fluid dynamics, the entrance length is the distance a flow travels after entering a pipe before the flow becomes fully developed. Entrance length refers to the length of the entry region, the area following the pipe entrance where effects originating from the interior wall of the pipe propagate into the flow as an expanding boundary layer. When the boundary layer expands to fill the entire pipe, the developing flow becomes a fully developed flow, where flow characteristics no longer change with increased distance along the pipe. Many different entrance lengths exist to describe a variety of flow conditions. Hydrodynamic entrance length describes the formation of a velocity profile caused by viscous forces propagating from the pipe wall. Thermal entrance length describes the formation of a temperature profile. Awareness of entrance length may be necessary for the effective placement of instrumentation, such as fluid flow meters.

Live at the 9:30
comment: Live at the 9:30 is a live DVD by the band Clutch. Disc 1 is a concert DVD of the band performing their self-titled album in its entirety at the 9:30 Club in Washington, DC. Disc 2, Fortune Tellers Make a Killing Nowadays, is a road movie that takes you on the road with Clutch. "Ride along from city to city as one of the hardest working bands does what it does best. Hear from the band, crew, fans and other contemporaries along the way."
abstract: Live at the 9:30 is a live DVD by the band Clutch. Disc 1 is a concert DVD of the band performing their self-titled album in its entirety at the 9:30 Club in Washington, DC. Disc 2, Fortune Tellers Make a Killing Nowadays, is a road movie that takes you on the road with Clutch. "Ride along from city to city as one of the hardest working bands does what it does best. Hear from the band, crew, fans and other contemporaries along the way." Behind the scenes footage features appearances by: Bob Balch of Fu Manchu, Robot Lords of Tokyo, , Lionize, Shavo Odadjian of System of a Down, Duff Goldman, and J. Robbins.

20 Aquarii
comment: 20 Aquarii, abbreviated 20 Aqr, is a star in the constellation Aquarius. 20 Aquarii is the Flamsteed designation. It is a dim star with an apparent visual magnitude of 6.38. Based upon an annual parallax shift of 15.34 mas, it is located 213 light years away but is moving closer to the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of −23 km/s. The star is predicted to come to within 110 light-years in around 1.9 million years.
abstract: 20 Aquarii, abbreviated 20 Aqr, is a star in the constellation Aquarius. 20 Aquarii is the Flamsteed designation. It is a dim star with an apparent visual magnitude of 6.38. Based upon an annual parallax shift of 15.34 mas, it is located 213 light years away but is moving closer to the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of −23 km/s. The star is predicted to come to within 110 light-years in around 1.9 million years. This is an F-type main-sequence star with a stellar classification of F0 V. (Cowley and Fraquelli [1974] had given it a class of F0 III.) It is a suspected chemically peculiar Am star showing metallic lines. It is 761 million years old with a high projected rotational velocity of 92 km/s. The star has 1.52 times the mass of the Sun and is radiating 9 times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of about 7,314 K.

Vic Carrabotta
abstract: Vic Carrabotta (born June 24, 1929) is an American comic-book artist and advertising art director whose career stretches to the early 1950s. His comic book art includes much work for Marvel Comics' 1950s forerunner, Atlas Comics.

Glochidion
abstract: Glochidion is a genus of flowering plants, of the family Phyllanthaceae, known as cheese trees or buttonwood in Australia, and leafflower trees in the scientific literature. It comprises about 300 species, distributed from Madagascar to the Pacific Islands. Glochidion species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Aenetus eximia and Endoclita damor. The Nicobarese people have attested to the medicinal properties found in G. calocarpum, saying that its bark and seed are most effective in curing abdominal disorders associated with amoebiasis. Glochidion are of note in the fields of pollination biology and coevolution because they have a specialized mutualism with moths in the genus Epicephala (leafflower moths), in which the moths actively pollinate the flowers—thereby ensuring that the tree may produce viable seeds—but also lay eggs in the flowers' ovaries, where their larvae consume a subset of the developing seeds as nourishment. Other species of Epicephala are pollinators, and in some cases, non-pollinating seed predators, of certain species of plants in the genera Phyllanthus and Breynia, both closely related to Glochidion. This relationship is similar to those between figs and fig wasps and yuccas and yucca moths. Although the genus Glochidion is native only to the Old World, the East Asian species Glochidion puberum has become naturalized at several locations in the U.S. state of Alabama.
comment: Glochidion is a genus of flowering plants, of the family Phyllanthaceae, known as cheese trees or buttonwood in Australia, and leafflower trees in the scientific literature. It comprises about 300 species, distributed from Madagascar to the Pacific Islands. Glochidion species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Aenetus eximia and Endoclita damor. The Nicobarese people have attested to the medicinal properties found in G. calocarpum, saying that its bark and seed are most effective in curing abdominal disorders associated with amoebiasis.

Ala Ebtekar
comment: Ala Ebtekar (born 1978) is a contemporary visual artist who works between his native San Francisco Bay Area and Tehran, Iran. Ebtekar is known primarily for his work in painting, drawing, illumination, and installation that explores the juncture between history and myth, forging a multi-faceted project. Ebtekar’s recent investigations have created liminal experiences to longer notions of scientific duration beyond human timelines, and explore the phenomenology of light. These projects bring forth sculptural and photographic possibilities of the universe gazing back through endless collapses of time and physical reworking of centuries old processes of image making. Ebtekar’s practice extends how our contemporary moments both live together as minuscule and paramount.

David Gallardo
comment: Jonathan David Gallardo (born 28 February 1997) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Villa Dálmine, on loan from Sportivo Las Parejas.

1973 in Michigan
abstract: Events from the year 1973 in Michigan. The Associated Press (AP) selected the top news stories for 1973 in Michigan as follows: 1. * The selection of Michigan Congressman Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States following the resignation of Spiro Agnew; 2. * The 1973 oil crisis; 3. * Layoffs in the automobile industry following a drop in sales; 4. * Negotiations between the United Auto Workers and the Big Three automobile manufacturers; 5. * Coleman Young's election victory on November 6 over former police commissioner John F. Nichols to become the first African-American Mayor of Detroit; 6. * (tie) The Michigan State Lottery earned $61 million in its first full year; 7. * (tie) Natural gas forced residents to evacuate their homes in Williamsburg, Michigan; 8. * Severe winter storms struck the state in March; 9. * Union construction workers protested at nonunion work sites in Kalkaska and Midland; and 10. * Col. William Nolde of Michigan was the last American soldier to die in combat in the Vietnam War; he was killed on January 27 when artillery blew up his bunker 11 hours before the ceasefire. The AP also chose the state's top sports stories as follows: 1. * The 1973 Michigan Wolverines football team's being passed over for the 1974 Rose Bowl despite its undefeated season and playing Ohio State to a 10–10 tie on November 24; 2. * John Hiller's comeback from a heart attack to set a major league record with 34 saves; 3. * Gordie Howe signing a contract on June 19 to play with his sons for the Houston Aeros of the World Hockey Association; 4. * The Saginaw Arthur Hill High School football team compiling an undefeated season and outscoring opponents, 443-0; 5. * The September 2 firing of Billy Martin as manager of the Detroit Tigers; 6. * Joe Schmidt's January 12 resignation as head coach of the Detroit Lions; 7. * The hiring of Alex Delvecchio as general manager of the Detroit Red Wings and the firing of Ted Garvin as coach; 8. * The rise of girls' athletics[cell cut: 2289 characters, first 2000 kept]
comment: Events from the year 1973 in Michigan. The Associated Press (AP) selected the top news stories for 1973 in Michigan as follows: 1. * The selection of Michigan Congressman Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States following the resignation of Spiro Agnew; 2. * The 1973 oil crisis; 3. * Layoffs in the automobile industry following a drop in sales; 4. * Negotiations between the United Auto Workers and the Big Three automobile manufacturers; 5. * Coleman Young's election victory on November 6 over former police commissioner John F. Nichols to become the first African-American Mayor of Detroit; 6. * (tie) The Michigan State Lottery earned $61 million in its first full year; 7. * (tie) Natural gas forced residents to evacuate their homes in Williamsburg, Michigan; 8. * S

Anyang-dong
abstract: Anyang-dong (안양동, 安養洞) is neighborhood of Manan district in the city of Anyang, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. It is officially divided into Anyang-1-dong, Anyang-2-dong, Anyang-3-dong, Anyang-4-dong, Anyang-5-dong, Anyang-6-dong, Anyang-7-dong, Anyang-8-dong and Anyang-9-dong.

Gaussian quantum Monte Carlo
abstract: Gaussian Quantum Monte Carlo is a quantum Monte Carlo method that shows a potential solution to the fermion sign problem without the deficiencies of alternative approaches. Instead of the Hilbert space, this method works in the space of density matrices that can be spanned by an over-complete basis of gaussian operators using only positive coefficients. Containing only quadratic forms of the fermionic operators, no anti-commuting variables occur and any quantum state can be expressed as a real probability distribution.

Lig Sinn i gCathú
comment: Lig Sinn i gCathú (Irish: Lead Us Into Temptation) is a novel by the Irish writer Breandán Ó hEithir.

The Battle of Godfrey's Cottage
abstract: The Battle of Godfrey's Cottage is an episode in the British comedy series Dad's Army. It was originally transmitted on Saturday 8 March 1969.

Millennium Master
abstract: The Millennium Master is a low wing, single engine, tandem two-seat ultralight aircraft, constructed chiefly of carbon fibre. Designed and built in Italy, it flew for the first time in 2006.

Paz Lenchantin
comment: Paz Lenchantin (born December 12, 1973) is an Argentine American musician. She has been the bass guitarist, vocalist and violinist of the alternative rock band Pixies since 2014. She is known for playing bass or strings with various bands, including Entrance, A Perfect Circle, Zwan, and Queens of the Stone Age.

Organogenesis
abstract: Organogenesis is the phase of embryonic development that starts at the end of gastrulation and continues until birth. During organogenesis, the three germ layers formed from gastrulation: the ectoderm, endoderm, and mesoderm form the internal organs of the organism. The cells of each of the three germ layers undergo differentiation, a process where less-specialized cells become more-specialized through the expression of a specific set of genes. Cell differentiation is driven by cell signaling cascades. Differentiation is influenced by extracellular signals such as growth factors that are exchanged to adjacent cells which is called juxtracrine signaling or to neighboring cells over short distances which is called paracrine signaling. Intracellular signals consist of a cell signaling itself (autocrine signaling), also play a role in organ formation. These signaling pathways allows for cell rearrangement and ensures that organs form at specific sites within the organism. The organogenesis process can be studied using embryos and organoids.
comment: Organogenesis is the phase of embryonic development that starts at the end of gastrulation and continues until birth. During organogenesis, the three germ layers formed from gastrulation: the ectoderm, endoderm, and mesoderm form the internal organs of the organism.

Jolly Abraham
comment: Jolly Abraham, also known as Jollee Abraham, is an Indian gospel singer and a film singer in Malayalam cinema. He sang more than 100 Malayalam movie songs during the 1970s and 1980s. His debut song was for Chattambikalyani in 1973. He hails from Kumbalam, Eranakulam. He is a graduate in B.Sc. Botany from Sacred Heart College Thevara, Cochin. He has also sung a few Tamil, Telugu and Kannada movie songs. He is married with two children and settled at Chennai.

Rabindra Complex
comment: Rabindra Complex is located in village, Fultala Union Parishad, Phultala Upazila, 19 km from Khulna city, Bangladesh. It was the residence of Rabindranath Tagore's father-in-law, Beni Madhab Roy Chowdhury. In British India; Fultala Union Parishad was a single village named Fultala village and was under khulna district of then Jessore mohakuma. Tagore family had close connection with Dakkhindihi village. The maternal ancestral home of the poet was also situated at Dakkhindihi village, poets mother Sarada Sundari Devi and his paternal aunt by marriage Tripura Sundari Devi; was born in this village. Not only that his grandmother Digambari Devi also was from Dakkhindihi. Young Tagore used to visit village with his mother to visit his maternal uncles in her mothers ancestral home. Tagore visi
abstract: Rabindra Complex is located in village, Fultala Union Parishad, Phultala Upazila, 19 km from Khulna city, Bangladesh. It was the residence of Rabindranath Tagore's father-in-law, Beni Madhab Roy Chowdhury. In British India; Fultala Union Parishad was a single village named Fultala village and was under khulna district of then Jessore mohakuma. Tagore family had close connection with Dakkhindihi village. The maternal ancestral home of the poet was also situated at Dakkhindihi village, poets mother Sarada Sundari Devi and his paternal aunt by marriage Tripura Sundari Devi; was born in this village. Not only that his grandmother Digambari Devi also was from Dakkhindihi. Young Tagore used to visit village with his mother to visit his maternal uncles in her mothers ancestral home. Tagore visited this place several times in his life. It has been declared as a protected archaeological site by Department of Archaeology of Bangladesh and converted into a museum. Gyanadanandini Devi was Rabindranath's sister in law and was the wife of his brother Satyendranath. She had very close relation with her brother-in-law Rabindranath. During the 1982 Puja Vacation, Gyanadanandini Devi went to Narendrapur in Jessore to visit her Ancestral home, but the main purpose was to search for a bride from nearby pirali Brahmin family. With Gyanadanandini Devi, Kadambi Devi, Balika Indrani, Balak Surendra Nath and Rabindranath also came to see the old Vita. From there they went to Fultala (Daksmindihi) to visit the bride, the daughter of Binimadhab Roy Chowdhury; Bhabratini. At age 22, Rabindranath got married to Bhabratini. The ceremony took place on 9 December 1883 at Jorosanko. Later she was introduced as Mrinalini Devi. It is assumed that the father of Mrinalini was involved in supervising the business of the Tagore family. According to Rabindranath's biographer Prasanta Kumar Paul's Rabindra Jiboni (The Life of Rabindranath), Rabindranath married Mrinalini Devi on 9 December 1883. His father[cell cut: 3775 characters, first 2000 kept]

Apteroessa
comment: Apteroessa grossa is a species of tiger beetles in the family Carabidae, the sole species in the genus Apteroessa and described on the basis of a specimen from the Coromandel region (Tranquebar) in southern India. It is somewhat large (about one and a half inches long) and robust, and is among the few tiger beetles with highly reduced wings (or apterous) making them flightless. There are three known specimens in museums, with varying degrees of damage. The species has not been seen in the wild after its description in the 18th century and is thought to be extremely local in distribution.

1944 in Michigan
abstract: Events from the year 1944 in Michigan.

Touch of Death
comment: The touch of death (or death-point striking) refers to any martial arts technique reputed to kill using seemingly less than lethal force targeted at specific areas of the body. The concept known as dim mak (simplified Chinese: 点脉; traditional Chinese: 點脈; pinyin: diǎnmài; Jyutping: dim2 mak6; literally: 'press artery'), alternatively diǎnxué (simplified Chinese: 点穴; traditional Chinese: 點穴) traces its history to traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture. Tales of its use are often found in the Wuxia genre of Chinese martial arts fiction. Dim mak is depicted as a secret body of knowledge with techniques that attack pressure points and meridians, said to incapacitate or sometimes cause immediate or even delayed death to an opponent. Little scientific or historical evidence exists for a martia
abstract: The touch of death (or death-point striking) refers to any martial arts technique reputed to kill using seemingly less than lethal force targeted at specific areas of the body. The concept known as dim mak (simplified Chinese: 点脉; traditional Chinese: 點脈; pinyin: diǎnmài; Jyutping: dim2 mak6; literally: 'press artery'), alternatively diǎnxué (simplified Chinese: 点穴; traditional Chinese: 點穴) traces its history to traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture. Tales of its use are often found in the Wuxia genre of Chinese martial arts fiction. Dim mak is depicted as a secret body of knowledge with techniques that attack pressure points and meridians, said to incapacitate or sometimes cause immediate or even delayed death to an opponent. Little scientific or historical evidence exists for a martial arts "touch of death", although it has been confirmed that trauma may cause disproportionately catastrophic consequences when applied to known pressure points under specific circumstances. Commotio cordis, for example, is an often lethal disruption of heart rhythm that occurs as a result of a blow to the area directly over the heart (the precordial region), at a critical time during the cycle of a heart beat causing cardiac arrest. The concept known as vibrating palm originates with the Chinese martial arts Neijing ("internal") energy techniques that deal with the qi energy and the type of force (jin) used. It is depicted as "a technique that is part psychic and part vibratory, this energy is then focused into a wave".

Rajavinte Makan
abstract: Rajavinte Makan (English: Son of the King) is a 1986 Indian Malayalam crime film produced and directed by Thampi Kannanthanam and written by Dennis Joseph. It stars Mohanlal as crime boss Vincent Gomes, and also features Ratheesh, Ambika, Suresh Gopi and Mohan Jose in supporting roles. The plot follows Vincent Gomes and his rivalry against the Kerala Home Minister N. Krishnadas (Ratheesh). The film was a milestone in Malayalam film industry, achieving a cult status in Kerala. It established Mohanlal as a superstar overnight in Indian film industry through his portrayal of Vincent Gomes. The character became a cult figure and his dialogues became popular among the youth. Rajavinte Makan was a large commercial success and became the highest-grossing Malayalam film of the year. It was remade in Tamil as Makkal En Pakkam, and in Kannada as Athiratha Maharatha, with Ambika reprising her role in both the versions. It was also remade in Telugu as Ahuthi and in Hindi as Kanwarlal. The story is loosely based on the novel Rage of Angels by Sidney Sheldon.
comment: Rajavinte Makan (English: Son of the King) is a 1986 Indian Malayalam crime film produced and directed by Thampi Kannanthanam and written by Dennis Joseph. It stars Mohanlal as crime boss Vincent Gomes, and also features Ratheesh, Ambika, Suresh Gopi and Mohan Jose in supporting roles. The plot follows Vincent Gomes and his rivalry against the Kerala Home Minister N. Krishnadas (Ratheesh).

Becca Longo
abstract: Rebecca Longo (born March 17, 1999) is an American football kicker who became the first woman to earn a college football scholarship to an NCAA school at the Division II level or higher when she signed a letter of intent with Adams State University. She attended Basha High School in Chandler, Arizona and started playing football competitively her sophomore year. In 2014, she was a junior varsity kicker at Queen Creek High in Arizona, but after transferring to Basha High she was forced to sit out her junior year. In her final year of high school, she converted 30 extra points on 33 attempts and was successful on her lone field goal attempt of the season of 30 yards. She was listed as 5 foot 11 inches tall and 140 pounds. After a redshirt year, and an ankle injury during the 2018 season, Longo has left Adams State and announced via her social media that she wished to "pursue other opportunities" presumably at other universities. She has yet to play a down or attempt a kick in a college football game.
comment: Rebecca Longo (born March 17, 1999) is an American football kicker who became the first woman to earn a college football scholarship to an NCAA school at the Division II level or higher when she signed a letter of intent with Adams State University. She attended Basha High School in Chandler, Arizona and started playing football competitively her sophomore year. In 2014, she was a junior varsity kicker at Queen Creek High in Arizona, but after transferring to Basha High she was forced to sit out her junior year.

Ceylon at the 1972 Summer Olympics
abstract: Ceylon competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany. Four competitors, all men, took part in six events in two sports.

List of US cities that have used STV
comment: The following cities in the United States of America have all used single transferable vote methods to elect local government legislative bodies, typically for city council elections. Most of these cities had stopped using it by 1960. (Listed by State):

Jaffna hospital massacre
abstract: The Jaffna hospital massacre occurred on October 21 and 22, 1987, during the Sri Lankan Civil War, when troops of the Indian Army entered the premises of the Jaffna Teaching Hospital in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, an island nation in South Asia, and killed between 60-70 patients and staff. The rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, the government of Sri Lanka, and independent observers such as the University Teachers for Human Rights and others have called it a massacre of civilians. However, the Indian Army maintains that the soldiers were fired upon and the Indian army officer in charge of the military operations, Lt. Gen. Depinder Singh, claimed that these civilians were killed in a crossfire between soldiers and rebels. Soldiers responsible for this massacre were not prosecuted by the Indian government.
comment: The Jaffna hospital massacre occurred on October 21 and 22, 1987, during the Sri Lankan Civil War, when troops of the Indian Army entered the premises of the Jaffna Teaching Hospital in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, an island nation in South Asia, and killed between 60-70 patients and staff. The rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, the government of Sri Lanka, and independent observers such as the University Teachers for Human Rights and others have called it a massacre of civilians.

Saša Ivković
comment: Saša Ivković (Serbian Cyrillic: Саша Ивковић; born 13 May 1993) is a Serbian footballer who plays as a defender for Maribor.

Digital TV Group
abstract: At the DTG, the best of TV industry has been collaborating for over twenty years to advance UK Digital TV. That’s included driving the digital TV switchover, making interactive TV happen, rolling out on-demand TV, and introducing HDTV and UHD TV. The DTG (Digital TV Group) is the association for British digital television broadcasters and annually publish and maintain the technical specifications for digital terrestrial television (DTT) in the United Kingdom, which is known as the D-Book and is used by Freeview, Freeview HD, FreeSat and YouView. The association consists of over 120 UK and international members who can participate in DTG activities to varying degrees, depending on their category of membership. The DTG continues to collaborate and work towards the future of television in the UK.
comment: At the DTG, the best of TV industry has been collaborating for over twenty years to advance UK Digital TV. That’s included driving the digital TV switchover, making interactive TV happen, rolling out on-demand TV, and introducing HDTV and UHD TV. The DTG (Digital TV Group) is the association for British digital television broadcasters and annually publish and maintain the technical specifications for digital terrestrial television (DTT) in the United Kingdom, which is known as the D-Book and is used by Freeview, Freeview HD, FreeSat and YouView. The association consists of over 120 UK and international members who can participate in DTG activities to varying degrees, depending on their category of membership. The DTG continues to collaborate and work towards the future of television in the

Veronica (plant)
comment: Veronica is the largest genus in the flowering plant family Plantaginaceae, with about 500 species; it was formerly classified in the family Scrophulariaceae. Common names include speedwell, bird's eye, and gypsyweed. Taxonomy for this genus is currently being reanalysed, with the genus Hebe and the related Australasian genera Derwentia, , , , and now included by many botanists. Monophyly of the genus is supported by nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) and cpDNA.
abstract: Veronica is the largest genus in the flowering plant family Plantaginaceae, with about 500 species; it was formerly classified in the family Scrophulariaceae. Common names include speedwell, bird's eye, and gypsyweed. Taxonomy for this genus is currently being reanalysed, with the genus Hebe and the related Australasian genera Derwentia, , , , and now included by many botanists. Monophyly of the genus is supported by nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) and cpDNA. The taxa of the genus are herbaceous annuals or perennials, and also subshrubs, shrubs or small trees if Hebe is included. Most of the species are from the temperate Northern Hemisphere, though with some species from the Southern Hemisphere; Hebe is mostly from New Zealand.

Ross O'Donovan
abstract: Ross Kenry O'Donovan is an Australian animator, voice actor, and Internet personality. He is known for his YouTube and Newgrounds cartoons. He co-hosted the internet show Steam Train, a spin-off of YouTube Let's Play webseries Game Grumps.

Bahreman, East Azerbaijan
comment: Bahreman (Persian: بهرمان‎, also Romanized as Bahremān and Bahrāmān) is a village in Abarghan Rural District, in the Central District of Sarab County, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 738, in 158 families.

Pamela C. Rasmussen
abstract: Pamela Cecile Rasmussen (born October 16, 1959) is a prominent American ornithologist and expert on Asian birds. She was formerly a research associate at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and is based at the Michigan State University. She is associated with other major centers of research in the United States and the United Kingdom. Rasmussen's early research investigated South American seabirds and fossil birds from North America. She later specialised in Asian birds describing several new species and clarifying the status of others, particularly white-eyes and owls. More recently, she has been involved in large scale collaborations looking at patterns of global biodiversity, and has assessed the taxonomic status of South Asian vultures. She was the main author of Birds of South Asia: The Ripley Guide, a landmark publication due to its greater geographical and species coverage compared to its predecessors. As a result of her study of museum bird specimens when researching for the book, she was instrumental in unveiling the extent of the theft from museums and fraudulent documentation perpetrated by eminent British ornithologist Richard Meinertzhagen.
comment: Pamela Cecile Rasmussen (born October 16, 1959) is a prominent American ornithologist and expert on Asian birds. She was formerly a research associate at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and is based at the Michigan State University. She is associated with other major centers of research in the United States and the United Kingdom.

Chirped mirror
comment: A chirped mirror is a dielectric mirror with chirped spaces—spaces of varying depth designed to reflect varying wavelengths of lights—between the dielectric layers (stack). Chirped mirrors are used in applications like lasers to reflect a wider range of light wavelengths than ordinary dielectric mirrors, or to compensate for the dispersion of wavelengths that can be created by some optical elements.
abstract: A chirped mirror is a dielectric mirror with chirped spaces—spaces of varying depth designed to reflect varying wavelengths of lights—between the dielectric layers (stack). Chirped mirrors are used in applications like lasers to reflect a wider range of light wavelengths than ordinary dielectric mirrors, or to compensate for the dispersion of wavelengths that can be created by some optical elements. Chirped mirrors are also found in structurally colored biological systems, including the shiny golden and silver color of certain beetles' elytra, e.g. Ruteline genus Chrysina. In these cases, the chirped mirror generates complex color (such as gold or silver) when illuminated by white light by simultaneously reflecting a broad range of monochromatic colors.

Alan Templeton
abstract: Alan R. Templeton is an American geneticist and statistician at Washington University in St. Louis, where he is the emeritus professor of biology, and also at the University of Haifa, where he holds a professorship in the Institute of Evolution and the Department of Evolutionary and Environmental Biology. He is known for his work demonstrating the degree of genetic diversity among humans and the biological unreality of human races.

Burn Baby Burn (poem)
abstract: Burn Baby Burn is a poem by American poet Marvin X, X wrote the poem shortly after the Watts Rebellion in 1965 to convey the oppression black people faced in white America.

Pangaaligal
abstract: Pangaaligal (English: Partners) is a 1961 Indian, Tamil language film directed by G. Ramakrishna. The film featured Gemini Ganesan, M. R. Radha, Anjali Devi and Devika in the main roles.

List of state leaders in 1454
comment: This is a list of heads of state, heads of governments, and other rulers in the year 1454.

Ælfgifu of Northampton
comment: Ælfgifu of Northampton (c. 990 – after 1036) was the first wife of Cnut the Great, King of England and Denmark, and mother of Harold Harefoot, King of England. She was regent of Norway from 1030 to 1035.

K. A. C. Creswell
comment: Professor Sir Keppel Archibald Cameron Creswell (13 September 1879 – 8 April 1974) was an English architectural historian who wrote some of the seminal works on Islamic architecture in Egypt.

Crown (dentistry)
abstract: A crown, sometimes known as dental cap, is a type of dental restoration which completely caps or encircles a tooth or dental implant. Crowns are often needed when a large cavity threatens the ongoing health of a tooth. They are typically bonded to the tooth using a dental cement. Crowns can be made from many materials, which are usually fabricated using indirect methods. Crowns are often used to improve the strength or appearance of teeth. While inarguably beneficial to dental health, the procedure and materials can be relatively expensive. The most common method of crowning a tooth involves using a dental impression of a prepared tooth by a dentist to fabricate the crown outside of the mouth. The crown can then be inserted at a subsequent dental appointment. Using this indirect method of tooth restoration allows use of strong restorative materials requiring time-consuming fabrication methods requiring intense heat, such as casting metal or firing porcelain which would not be possible to complete inside the mouth. Because of the expansion properties, the relatively similar material costs, and the cosmetic benefit, many patients choose to have their crown fabricated with gold. As new technology and materials science has evolved, computers are increasingly becoming a part of crown fabrication, such as in CAD/CAM dentistry.
comment: A crown, sometimes known as dental cap, is a type of dental restoration which completely caps or encircles a tooth or dental implant. Crowns are often needed when a large cavity threatens the ongoing health of a tooth. They are typically bonded to the tooth using a dental cement. Crowns can be made from many materials, which are usually fabricated using indirect methods. Crowns are often used to improve the strength or appearance of teeth. While inarguably beneficial to dental health, the procedure and materials can be relatively expensive.

Sara Holt (artist)
abstract: Sara Holt (born 1946) is an American sculptor and photographer. She is creating mainly in sculpture and photography and more recently in ceramics. She is one of the contemporary artists whose work helps to refine the field of creation situated within the boundaries of science and art.

Cheval Blanc (restaurant)
abstract: Cheval Blanc is a restaurant in Heemstede in the Netherlands. It is a fine dining restaurant that is awarded one Michelin star in the period 2007–present. The restaurant was awarded a Bib Gourmand in the period 2002-2006. GaultMillau awarded the restaurant 13 out of 20 points in 2013. Head chef of Cheval Blanc is .

1993–94 Slovak Superliga
abstract: Statistics of Slovak Superliga for the 1993–94 season.

Emma Friis
abstract: Emma Friis (born 31 October 1999) is a Danish handball player who plays for FC Midtjylland Håndbold.

John Ridgway (sailor)
abstract: John Ridgway, MBE, (born 1938), is a British yachtsman and rower.

Stegosauridae
abstract: Stegosauridae is a clade of thyreophoran dinosaurs (armoured dinosaurs) within the suborder Stegosauria. The clade is defined as all species of dinosaurs more closely related to Stegosaurus than Huayangosaurus. The name ‘Stegosauridae’ is thus a stem-based name taken from the well-represented genus – Stegosaurus (meaning ‘roofed lizard’). Fossil evidence of stegosaurids, dating from the Middle Jurassic through the Early Cretaceous, have been recovered from North America, Eurasia and Africa. On the other hand, Stegosauridae's sister clade, huayangosaurids, can be traced only to the Middle Jurassic. The clade Stegosauridae is composed of the genera Stegosaurus, Dacentrurus, Miragaia, Loricatosaurus, and Kentrosaurus, with the last considered to be at the base of the clade. The stegosaurids like all other stegosaurians were quadrupedal herbivores that exhibited the characteristic stegosaurian dorsal dermal plates. These large, thin, erect plates are thought to be aligned parasagittally from the neck to near the end of the tail, where they give way to paired of spikes. Although defense, thermo-regulation and display have been theorized to be the possible functions of these dorsal plates, a study of the ontogenetic histology of the plates and spikes suggests that the plates serve different functions at different stages of the stegosaurids’ life histories. The terminal spikes in the tail are thought to have been used in old adults, at least, as a weapon for defence. However, the function of stegosaurid plates and spikes, at different life stages, still remains a matter of great debate. Stegosaurids are distinguished from huayangosaurids in that the former have lost the plesiomorphic pre-maxillary teeth and lateral scute rows along the trunk. Furthermore, stegosaurids as opposed to huayangosaurids have long narrow skulls and longer hindlimbs compared to their forelimbs. However, these two features are not diagnostic of Stegosauridae because they may also be present in non-[cell cut: 2040 characters, first 2000 kept]
comment: Stegosauridae is a clade of thyreophoran dinosaurs (armoured dinosaurs) within the suborder Stegosauria. The clade is defined as all species of dinosaurs more closely related to Stegosaurus than Huayangosaurus. The name ‘Stegosauridae’ is thus a stem-based name taken from the well-represented genus – Stegosaurus (meaning ‘roofed lizard’). Fossil evidence of stegosaurids, dating from the Middle Jurassic through the Early Cretaceous, have been recovered from North America, Eurasia and Africa. On the other hand, Stegosauridae's sister clade, huayangosaurids, can be traced only to the Middle Jurassic.

Spurius Lartius
abstract: Spurius Lartius, surnamed either Flavus or Rufus, was one of the leading men of the early Roman Republic, of which he was twice consul. However, his greatest fame was won as one of the defenders of the Sublician bridge against the army of Lars Porsena, the King of Clusium.

Anne M. Burke
abstract: Anne Marie Burke (née McGlone; born February 3, 1944) is an Illinois Supreme Court Justice for the First Judicial District (Cook County, Illinois). Appointed in 2006, she won election to the court in 2008. Burke had previously been appointed to the Illinois Appellate Court in 1995 and was elected to that seat in 1996. Burke was a founder of the Special Olympics in 1968. She is married to Chicago Alderman Edward M. Burke from the 14th Ward.

Laura Mattarella
comment: Laura Mattarella (born 2 December 1968) is the daughter of current President of Italy Sergio Mattarella and is the First Lady of Italy. President Sergio Mattarella is a widower; his wife, Marisa Chiazzese, died in 2012. However, the representation functions were taken by her older daughter, Laura who immediately accompanied her father on numerous state trips and on several occasions within the national territory. On the occasion of the state visit to Vietnam, the first one she attended was a series of meetings without her father including a private visit to a school in the popular neighborhood of the poorest part of Ho Chi Mihn City..

Ligurian Republic
abstract: The Ligurian Republic (Italian: Repubblica Ligure) was a short-lived French client republic formed by Napoleon on 14 June 1797. It consisted of the old Republic of Genoa which covered most of the Ligurian region of Northwest Italy, and the small Imperial fiefs owned by the House of Savoy inside its territory. Its first Constitution was promulgated on 22 December 1797, establishing a Directorial republic. The directory was deposed on 7 December 1799 and the executive was temporarily replaced bij a commission. In 1800 a doge was nominated for 5 years. In 1802 he was nominated for life. The Republic was briefly occupied by the Austrian forces in 1800, but Napoleon soon returned with his army. A new Constitution was published in 1801, establishing institutions more similar to those of the previous Genoan Republic, with a Doge who was president of a Senate. The Ligurian Republic used the traditional Genoese flag, a red cross on a white background. In June 1805, Genoa was annexed by the French.
comment: The Ligurian Republic (Italian: Repubblica Ligure) was a short-lived French client republic formed by Napoleon on 14 June 1797. It consisted of the old Republic of Genoa which covered most of the Ligurian region of Northwest Italy, and the small Imperial fiefs owned by the House of Savoy inside its territory. Its first Constitution was promulgated on 22 December 1797, establishing a Directorial republic. The directory was deposed on 7 December 1799 and the executive was temporarily replaced bij a commission. In 1800 a doge was nominated for 5 years. In 1802 he was nominated for life.

2012 Brisbane City Council election
comment: Elections to Brisbane City Council were held on Saturday, 28 April 2012 to elect a councillor to each of the local government area's 26 wards and the direct election of the Lord Mayor of Brisbane. The election resulted in a landslide re-election of the Liberal National Party (previously represented in Queensland as the Liberal Party), increasing their representation by two wards. The incumbent Lord Mayor, Graham Quirk, was elected to his first full-term with a substantial 68.3% of the two-party-preferred vote.

Célestin Lavigueur
abstract: Célestin Lavigueur (19 January 1831 – 11 December 1885) was a French Canadian musician and composer.

Natalia Fileva
abstract: Natalia Valerievna Fileva (Russian: Наталия Валерьевна Филёва; 27 November 1963 – 31 March 2019) was a Russian businesswoman and chairman of the board of directors of S7 Airlines. In 2018, Forbes listed her as the 4th richest woman in Russia, with a worth estimated at US$600 million.

The Cat in the Hat (video game)
abstract: The Cat in the Hat (also known as Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat) is a 2.5D platformer for PlayStation 2, Xbox, Microsoft Windows, and Game Boy Advance. Developed by Magenta Software and Digital Eclipse and published by Vivendi Universal Games in 2003, it is based on the 2003 movie of the same name, which was released shortly after the game. A version for the GameCube was planned, but was never released.

TANS Perú Flight 204
comment: TANS Perú Flight 204 refers to a domestic scheduled Lima–Pucallpa–Iquitos passenger service, operated with a Boeing 737-200 Advanced, that crashed on 23 August 2005 on approach to Pucallpa Airport, 4 miles (6.4 km) off the airfield, following an emergency landing attempt because of bad weather, killing 40 of the 98 passengers and crew aboard.

Football at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's team squads
comment: This article pertains to the team squads of Men's Football at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Normally, the squads consisted of 18 roster players, with the addition of three or four reserve players. These players were added to the squad in accordance with FIFA regulations (i.e. player injury). Note: Some of the players in the squads are over 23 years old and/or have previously played in an Olympic football team. They are marked with an (*) in front their names.

Zakir Hossain
comment: Mohammad Zakir Hossain is a former International ODI cricketer from Bangladesh. He played his only ODI against Pakistan on 12 January 1998. He was a first-class and List A cricketer from Bangladesh. He is a right-handed batsman and right arm medium fast bowler. He played two times in Bangladesh National Cricket League for Chittagong Division in 2000–01 and for Khulna Division in 2004–05.

Hardvapour
abstract: Hardvapour is an Internet-based microgenre that emerged in late 2015 as a tongue-in-cheek response to vaporwave, departing from the calm, muzak-sampling capitalist utopia concept of the latter in favor of a gabber- and punk-influenced sound. Canadian music producer Wolfenstein OS X's album End of World Rave (2015) and the Antifur record label are credited with having first defined the hardvapour sound. It is related to vaportrap.

1953 in Michigan
abstract: Events from the year 1953 in Michigan.

1956 in Michigan
abstract: Events from the year 1956 in Michigan. The major stories of 1956 in Michigan included: (1) tornado outbreaks that struck western Michigan on April 2 and central and eastern Michigan on May 12; (2) the November 6 elections in which Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower won Michigan's 20 electoral votes while Democrat G. Mennen Williams won re-election to a fifth term as Governor of Michigan; and (3) a slowdown in automobile production after reaching record levels in 1955.

Aleksandar Gugleta
abstract: Aleksandar Gugleta (Serbian Latin: Aleksandar Gugleta) (born 17 July 1991) is a Serbian handball player who plays for RK Pelister.

YouCastr
abstract: YouCastr was a video platform that makes it easy to sell video online. The service was designed to offer video broadcasters and producers a new and different way to make money by selling live video broadcasts, on-demand video access, video downloads, and DVDs. The company was founded in June 2007, and was based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Youcastr closed in mid-2010; and one of the founders made a post reflecting on the process of starting it and running it.

Two-photon excitation microscopy
comment: Two-photon excitation microscopy is a fluorescence imaging technique that allows imaging of living tissue up to about one millimeter in depth. It differs from traditional fluorescence microscopy, in which the excitation wavelength is shorter than the emission wavelength, as the wavelengths of the two exciting photons are longer than the wavelength of the resulting emitted light. Two-photon excitation microscopy typically uses near-infrared excitation light which can also excite fluorescent dyes. However, for each excitation, two photons of infrared light are absorbed. Using infrared light minimizes scattering in the tissue. Due to the multiphoton absorption, the background signal is strongly suppressed. Both effects lead to an increased penetration depth for these microscopes. Two-photon e
abstract: Two-photon excitation microscopy is a fluorescence imaging technique that allows imaging of living tissue up to about one millimeter in depth. It differs from traditional fluorescence microscopy, in which the excitation wavelength is shorter than the emission wavelength, as the wavelengths of the two exciting photons are longer than the wavelength of the resulting emitted light. Two-photon excitation microscopy typically uses near-infrared excitation light which can also excite fluorescent dyes. However, for each excitation, two photons of infrared light are absorbed. Using infrared light minimizes scattering in the tissue. Due to the multiphoton absorption, the background signal is strongly suppressed. Both effects lead to an increased penetration depth for these microscopes. Two-photon excitation can be a superior alternative to confocal microscopy due to its deeper tissue penetration, efficient light detection, and reduced photobleaching.

1954 in Michigan
abstract: Events from the year 1954 in Michigan.

Lona Cohen
comment: Lona Cohen (January 11, 1913 – December 23, 1992), born Leontine Theresa Petka, also known as Helen Kroger, was an American who spied for the Soviet Union. She was the wife of spy Morris Cohen.

2004 Brisbane City Council election
abstract: Elections to Brisbane City Council were held on Saturday, 27 March 2004 to elect a councillor to each of the local government area's 26 wards and the direct election of the Lord Mayor of Brisbane. The election resulted in the election of Campbell Newman of the Liberal Party as Lord Mayor, defeating the Labor Party incumbent, Tim Quinn, by 2.5% of the mayoral two-party-preferred vote. The Liberals won 9 wards to Labor's 17. Newman became the first Liberal Lord Mayor since Sallyanne Atkinson narrow defeat in 1991.

1972 in Michigan
comment: Events from the year 1972 in Michigan. The Associated Press (AP) and United Press International (UPI) each selected the top news stories in Michigan for 1972 as follows: 1. * The court order issued by federal judge Stephen Roth requiring cross-district busing throughout metropolitan Detroit (AP-1, UPI-1); 2. * The beginning of the Michigan Lottery (AP-2, UPI-4); 3. * The defeat of Proposal B that would have amended the state constitution to liberalize Michigan's abortion law (AP-3, UPI-3); 4. * George Wallace's victory, attributed to the busing issue, in the 1972 Democratic Party Presidential primary with 51% of the vote (AP-4, UPI-2 [elections]); 5. * The defeat of a ballot proposal that would have changed Michigan's system of funding public education, placed a cap on property t
abstract: Events from the year 1972 in Michigan. The Associated Press (AP) and United Press International (UPI) each selected the top news stories in Michigan for 1972 as follows: 1. * The court order issued by federal judge Stephen Roth requiring cross-district busing throughout metropolitan Detroit (AP-1, UPI-1); 2. * The beginning of the Michigan Lottery (AP-2, UPI-4); 3. * The defeat of Proposal B that would have amended the state constitution to liberalize Michigan's abortion law (AP-3, UPI-3); 4. * George Wallace's victory, attributed to the busing issue, in the 1972 Democratic Party Presidential primary with 51% of the vote (AP-4, UPI-2 [elections]); 5. * The defeat of a ballot proposal that would have changed Michigan's system of funding public education, placed a cap on property taxes, and provided for a graduated income tax (AP-6, UPI-7); 6. * Controversy concerning the Detroit Police Department's STRESS unit and a shootout between STRESS officers and off-duty Wayne County sheriff's deputies, resulting in the death of a deputy (AP-5, UPI-10); 7. * The U.S. Senate campaign in which the incumbent Republican Robert P. Griffin defeated the Democrat challenger Frank J. Kelley (AP-9, UPI-2 [elections]; 8. * The skyjacking of an airliner by two Detroit residents, first to Detroit, then to Canada, and finally to Cuba (AP-10, UPI-9); 9. * A school funding crisis in Detroit after voters thrice rejected millage proposals (UPI-5) 10. * The automobile industry's record sales and profits and controversies over price increases, safety, and emission equipment (UPI-6); 11. * High winds that pushed water over the shoreline and resulted in six counties being declared federal disaster areas (AP-7); 12. * A collision near Port Huron that resulted in the sinking of the Sidney Smith in the St. Clair River, blocking the navigation channel (AP-8); and 13. * Michigan's meat law prohibiting use of udders, snouts, and spleen in making hot dogs and lunch meat was overturned by a federal court ([cell cut: 4286 characters, first 2000 kept]

Pete Buttigieg 2020 presidential campaign
abstract: On January 23, 2019, Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, formed an exploratory committee for the Democratic party nomination for the 2020 U.S. presidential election. Buttigieg is serving his second term as mayor of South Bend, Indiana. If elected, Buttigieg would be the first openly gay U.S. president as well as the youngest. Buttigieg is running for the Democratic Party's nomination in the 2020 presidential election. He supports single-payer healthcare, labor unions, universal background checks for guns, protecting the environment by addressing climate change, a pathway to citizenship, and passing a federal law banning discrimination against LGBT people.

James F. Short
abstract: James Franklin Short (also known as Jim Short) was an American businessman, rancher, and politician from the state of Oregon. He was a Republican who served one two-year term in the Oregon House of Representatives, where he represented a large rural district in central and southcentral Oregon. He also served two separate period as Oregon’s director of agriculture. He was originally appointed to the position by Governor Paul L. Patterson. He then continued his service under Elmo Smith followed by a brief time under Robert D. Holmes. Later, he was re-appointed to the position by Governor Mark Hatfield. In between his periods of service in the Oregon Department of Agriculture, Short was state chairman of Oregon’s Republican Party.

Weapon systems engineering
abstract: Weapon systems engineering involves using engineering tools in technology to create and guarantee the safety and performance of weapons. It is currently being used by the military and the government to create new weapons to protect the United States. It is used to make nuclear and non-nuclear weapons and ensure their safety throughout their lifespan.

1945 in Michigan
comment: Events from the year 1945 in Michigan.

Frobenius algebra
comment: In mathematics, especially in the fields of representation theory and module theory, a Frobenius algebra is a finite-dimensional unital associative algebra with a special kind of bilinear form which gives the algebras particularly nice duality theories. Frobenius algebras began to be studied in the 1930s by Brauer and Nesbitt and were named after Frobenius. Nakayama discovered the beginnings of a rich duality theory (), (). Dieudonné used this to characterize Frobenius algebras (). Frobenius algebras were generalized to quasi-Frobenius rings, those Noetherian rings whose right regular representation is injective. In recent times, interest has been renewed in Frobenius algebras due to connections to topological quantum field theory.

Herbert Gentry
comment: Herbert Alexander Gentry, popularly known as Herb Gentry (July 17, 1919 – September 8, 2003), was an African-American Expressionist painter who lived and worked in Paris, France (1946–70; 1976–80), Copenhagen, Denmark (1958–63), in the Swedish cities of Gothenburg (1963–65), Stockholm (1965–76; 2001–03), and Malmö (1980–2001), and in New York City (1970–2000) as a permanent resident of the Hotel Chelsea.

Stephen Burton
comment: Stephen Burton (born December 11, 1989) is an American football wide receiver for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He was drafted by the Minnesota Vikings in the seventh round of the 2011 NFL Draft. He played college football at West Texas A&M. On April 23, 2014, Burton had retired due to concussion concern.

Tron Frede Thingstad
comment: Tron Frede Thingstad (born 1946) is a Norwegian scientist. Professor Thingstad is leading a research group on marine microbiology at the Department of Biology, University of Bergen. His work has facilitated understanding the role of microbes in marine ecosystems, including the microbial loop.
abstract: Tron Frede Thingstad (born 1946) is a Norwegian scientist. Professor Thingstad is leading a research group on marine microbiology at the Department of Biology, University of Bergen. His work has facilitated understanding the role of microbes in marine ecosystems, including the microbial loop. In 2009, Thingstad was awarded the prestigious ERC Advanced Investigators Grant to the project "MINOS" (MIcrobial Network OrganiSation), which is focused on microbial networks in the ocean. In 2010, Thingstad received the "Prize for Outstanding Research" of the Norwegian Research Council (informally known as the "Møbius Prize"). According to the jury, his research "has contributed to deeper understanding of topics within marine microbiology, biodiversity, climate research, and ocean acidification". He is also a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

Dihydroxylation
comment: Dihydroxylation is the process by which an alkene is converted into a vicinal diol. Although there are many routes to accomplish this oxidation, the most common and direct processes use a high-oxidation-state transition metal (typically osmium or manganese). The metal is often used as a catalyst, with some other stoichiometric oxidant present. In addition, other transition metals and non-transition metal methods have been developed and used to catalyze the reaction.

Wiebke Siem
abstract: Wiebke Siem (born 1954 in Kiel) is a German mixed media artist of German and Polish heritage, winner of the prestigious Goslar Kaiserring in 2014 as "one of the most innovative and original artists who has never compromised in their art and whose sculptures have a tremendous aura and presence because they mix the familiar and the unfamiliar, the known and the unknown".

Alfred Deutsch-German
abstract: Alfred Deutsch-German (1870–1943) was an Austrian journalist, playwright, screenwriter, and film director. From 1913 he worked for the Wiener Kunstfilm company as a screenwriter. Between 1922 and 1934 he directed eight films. Deutsch-German worked in the Austrian film industry until the Anchluss of 1938, but with less direct involvement in the production of films towards the end. Following the Nazi takeover, the Jewish Deutsch-German went into exile in France. He was later arrested during the German occupation of France and held at the Drancy internment camp. He was later sent to Auschwitz where he was killed.
comment: Alfred Deutsch-German (1870–1943) was an Austrian journalist, playwright, screenwriter, and film director. From 1913 he worked for the Wiener Kunstfilm company as a screenwriter. Between 1922 and 1934 he directed eight films. Deutsch-German worked in the Austrian film industry until the Anchluss of 1938, but with less direct involvement in the production of films towards the end.

Department of Pharmacology at University College London, 1905 – 2007
abstract: The Department of Pharmacology at the University of London, the first of its kind in England, was founded in 1905 and remained in existence until 2007.

Push in the back
abstract: A push in the back is a free kick awarded in Australian rules football against a player who illegally tackles or interferes with a player from behind. The rule is applied in two different circumstances: tackles and marking contests.

1942 in Michigan
abstract: Events from the year 1942 in Michigan.

Star Awards 1997
comment: Star Awards 1997 is the fourth installment of the annual Star Awards presented by the Television Corporation of Singapore to honour its artistes and television in Singapore for 1996-97. The ceremony were hosted by Timothy Cao and Wendy Zeng. 1997 awards introduced a new award which presents the best of the drama serial's theme music. The Most Popular Artistes award also expanded the number of nominations and winners to 20 and ten artistes (in each category) respectively; the practice for the Top 10 Most Popular Artiste remained till this ceremony.

Marta Welander
abstract: Marta Welander is the founder of Refugee Rights Europe, an organisation she established whilst studying for a PhD at the University of Westminster. The organisation research the situation of refugees, asylum seekers and displaced people across Europe. She also supports and is involved in the UK-based, refugee-led initiative Hopetowns.

NHK World-Japan
abstract: NHK World-Japan is the international broadcasting service of NHK (Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai - Japan Broadcasting Corporation), Japan's public broadcaster. The service is aimed at the overseas market, similar to BBC World News, DW, France 24, CGTN, and RT, and broadcast through satellite and cable operators throughout the world as well as online and through its mobile apps. The channel is based in Tokyo, Japan. NHK World-Japan provides three services: NHK World Radio Japan, NHK World TV, and NHK World Premium. NHK World also makes most of its programming available through an online version of the television channel. NHK World-Japan was rebranded from NHK World in April 2018. The Chinese Web TV service, NHK Huayu Shijie, which provides news and select programs from NHK World-Japan in Chinese dubbing and/or subtitles was launched on January 15, 2019.
comment: NHK World-Japan is the international broadcasting service of NHK (Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai - Japan Broadcasting Corporation), Japan's public broadcaster. The service is aimed at the overseas market, similar to BBC World News, DW, France 24, CGTN, and RT, and broadcast through satellite and cable operators throughout the world as well as online and through its mobile apps. The channel is based in Tokyo, Japan. NHK World-Japan was rebranded from NHK World in April 2018.

2011–12 Slovak First Football League
abstract: The 2011–12 Slovak First Football League (known as Corgoň Liga due to sponsorship purposes) was the nineteenth season of the Corgoň Liga, the first-tier football league in Slovakia, since its establishment in 1993. It began on 15 July 2011 and was completed on 19 May 2012. Slovan Bratislava were the defending champions, having won their sixth Slovak league championship at the end of the 2010–11 season.

La La La Human Steps
abstract: La La La Human Steps was a Québécois contemporary dance group in Canada, active between 1980 and 2015, known for its energetic, acrobatic style involving fast-paced and athletic physical contact. Its signature move was the barrel jump – a gravity-defying, fully horizontal, mid-air barrel roll. The first mention of the group in the New York Times, after the premiere of Human Sex, stated: "This [performance] integrates punk art music into the dancing - which features the fearless physicality of a group of high-flying and nose-diving performers. There is also the added interest of the dancers producing sound by activating laser-beam instruments with their bodies. [...] Yet the style - Miss Lecavalier wears a Merry Widow corset, tights, running shoes and a mustache - is different. There is something touching about seeing a younger generation reinvent a wheel, however naively: this difference in attitude defines our times." The troupe collaborated with rock musicians, including David Bowie, David Lang, Frank Zappa, Skinny Puppy,Stephen Luscombe, Pandit Dinesh,Asha Bhosle (West India Company) Einstürzende Neubauten, Kevin Shields, David Van Tieghem, Carole Laure, , and . It was formed in 1980 by Édouard Lock under the name Lock-Danseurs and showcased for many years Louise Lecavalier. The group appeared regularly in its hometown of Montreal, Quebec, and all over the world. In later years the leading soloist of La La La Human Steps was . On 2 September 2015 Lock announced that the company had been disbanded owing to insurmountable financial difficulties.

Federico Díaz (activist)
abstract: Federico Díaz is a visual activist of Czech-Argentinean descent, who lives and works in Prague. He has exhibited at the Mori Art Museum Tokyo, CAFA Museum Beijing, Institute of Contemporary Arts London, Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Ars Electronica Linz, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Art Basel in Miami Beach (in collaboration with MoMA PS1), the Florence Biennale, at the 54thVenice Biennale, the Brno House of Arts, and had a project with the University of Cambridge. In 2010 he represented Czech art at the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai. In 2007 he received the Premio Internazionale Lorenzo il Magnifico for digital media at the Florence Biennale. Díaz seeks to use media and technologies as a socio-political catalyst of social changes. His latest long term project BIG LIGHT follows an ongoing series of presentations pressing topics of relationship between nature, human kind and the vision of conscious machines equipped with a highly developed AI. From 2007 to 2014 Díaz was the Head of the Supermedia Studio at Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague.
comment: Federico Díaz is a visual activist of Czech-Argentinean descent, who lives and works in Prague. He has exhibited at the Mori Art Museum Tokyo, CAFA Museum Beijing, Institute of Contemporary Arts London, Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Ars Electronica Linz, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Art Basel in Miami Beach (in collaboration with MoMA PS1), the Florence Biennale, at the 54thVenice Biennale, the Brno House of Arts, and had a project with the University of Cambridge. In 2010 he represented Czech art at the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai. In 2007 he received the Premio Internazionale Lorenzo il Magnifico for digital media at the Florence Biennale.

Ian Harrison (wrestler)
abstract: Ian Harrison (born 3 January 1969), better known by his ring name, "British Storm" Ian Harrison, is an English former professional wrestler and bodybuilder. In professional wrestling, Harrison is best known for his time in the short lived XWF promotion ran by Jimmy Hart. While in the XWF, Harrison held his first and only singles professional wrestling championship, the . Harrison was awarded the championship in preparation for a storyline "XWF Invasion" of Puerto Rico's World Wrestling Council promotion. Working under the name "Awe" he was also awarded the XWF World Tag Team Titles with his partner Shock (Del Rios) in Memphis Wrestling but would vacate the title when he left the promotion. As a bodybuilder, Harrison competed in many competitions and picked up wins as Mr. Britain (Junior) and Mr. Universe (Junior) in 1988. He turned professional in 1989 (competing until 1998) and was known for his immense physical strength and his ability to do ten or more reps with a set of 200 pound dumbbells.
comment: Ian Harrison (born 3 January 1969), better known by his ring name, "British Storm" Ian Harrison, is an English former professional wrestler and bodybuilder. In professional wrestling, Harrison is best known for his time in the short lived XWF promotion ran by Jimmy Hart. While in the XWF, Harrison held his first and only singles professional wrestling championship, the . Harrison was awarded the championship in preparation for a storyline "XWF Invasion" of Puerto Rico's World Wrestling Council promotion. Working under the name "Awe" he was also awarded the XWF World Tag Team Titles with his partner Shock (Del Rios) in Memphis Wrestling but would vacate the title when he left the promotion.

Jagapati Babu
comment: Jagapati Babu (;(born Veeramachaneni Jagapatirao Chowdary) is an Indian film actor known for his works predominantly in Telugu cinema. In a career spanning 25 years, Jagapati Babu has starred in over 120 feature films, and has received 3 Filmfare Awards and 7 state Nandi Awards.
abstract: Jagapati Babu (;(born Veeramachaneni Jagapatirao Chowdary) is an Indian film actor known for his works predominantly in Telugu cinema. In a career spanning 25 years, Jagapati Babu has starred in over 120 feature films, and has received 3 Filmfare Awards and 7 state Nandi Awards. He received the Kala Bhushana Award, for his contribution to cinema, by TSR Lalitha kala Parishat. He has worked with noted directors like K. Raghavendra Rao, A. M. Rathnam, Ram Gopal Varma, Krishna Vamsi, S.V. Krishna Reddy, E. V. V. Satyanarayana, Guna Sekhar, Radha Mohan, Chandra Sekhar Yeleti, M. Raja, and J. D. Chakravarthy.

Jacques Grinberg
abstract: Jacques Grinberg (Yaacov Grinberg (10 January 1941 in Sofia – 5 May 2011 in Malakoff, France) was a prominent Neo-expressionist painter and printmaker.

1970 in Michigan
comment: Events from the year 1970 in Michigan. The Associated Press (AP) and United Press International (UPI) each selected the state's top news stories as follows: 1. * The controversy over public funding to parochial schools, including the Michigan Legislature's enacting of a measure granting state aid and a subsequent petition drive and constitutional amendment prohibiting such aid (AP-1, UPI-1); 2. * Contract negotiations between the United Auto Workers (UAW) and automobile manufacturers and a 67-day strike against General Motors that causes widespread layoffs and budget cuts (AP-2 [strike], AP-7 [effects of strike on state economy], UPI-2 [new contracts and GM strike]; 3. * The trial and conviction of John Norman Collins for killing Eastern Michigan University student Karen Sue Beineman
abstract: Events from the year 1970 in Michigan. The Associated Press (AP) and United Press International (UPI) each selected the state's top news stories as follows: 1. * The controversy over public funding to parochial schools, including the Michigan Legislature's enacting of a measure granting state aid and a subsequent petition drive and constitutional amendment prohibiting such aid (AP-1, UPI-1); 2. * Contract negotiations between the United Auto Workers (UAW) and automobile manufacturers and a 67-day strike against General Motors that causes widespread layoffs and budget cuts (AP-2 [strike], AP-7 [effects of strike on state economy], UPI-2 [new contracts and GM strike]; 3. * The trial and conviction of John Norman Collins for killing Eastern Michigan University student Karen Sue Beineman, one of the Michigan murders (AP-3, UPI-3); 4. * The death of Walter Reuther and his wife in a plane crash on May 9 at Pellston, Michigan (AP-4, UPI-5); 5. * The November 1970 elections in which William Milliken was elected Governor and Philip Hart was re-elected as U.S. Senator (AP-5, UPI-4); 6. * The multiple suspensions of Denny McLain and his later trade to the Washington Senators (AP-6, UPI-7); 7. * The discovery of mercury in Lake St. Clair fish and the Michigan Legislature's passage of a law allowing private citizens to sue polluters (AP-8 [mercury], AP-12 [legislation], UPI-6 [both]); 8. * The Goose Lake International Music Festival held from August 7 to 9 with widespread drug use (AP-9, UPI-8); 9. * A Supreme Court decision requiring public schools to provide free textbooks (AP-11, UPI-9); and 10. * (tie) The kidnap and murder of Laurie Murningham and austerity measures adopted by the Michigan Legislature (UPI-10). The AP and UPI also selected the state's top sports stories as follows: 1. * Denny McLain who was suspended in connection with a gambling controversy and then traded to the Washington Senators on October 9 (AP-1 [suspension], AP-8 [trade], UPI-1 [both]); 2. * The Det[cell cut: 3436 characters, first 2000 kept]

Classe, ancient port of Ravenna
abstract: Classe was a commercial port located 4 km (2.5 mi) east south east from Ravenna, Italy. It was near the head of the Adriatic coast. For almost five hundred years it was an important strategic military port. When it was not being used as a military port, it was an important commercial port for the imperial capital of Ravenna in the Roman Empire. Classe comes from the Latin word classis, meaning fleet.

Ansatsuken
comment: Ansatsuken (暗殺拳, literally "assassination fist") is a Japanese neologism used frequently in fictional works to describe any martial art style or fighting technique that has been developed with the purpose of killing an opponent. The term satsujinken (殺人拳, literally "murderous fist") is used interchangeably as well, and the homophonous term satsujinken (殺人剣, literally "murderous sword") is used when the martial art style or technique explicitly revolves around swordsmanship rather than barehanded combat.

2019 U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships – Doubles
comment: Max Mirnyi and Philipp Oswald are the defending champions, but Mirnyi retired last year and Oswald is not participating this year.

Phenazopyridine
abstract: Phenazopyridine is a medication which, when excreted into the urine, has a local analgesic effect. It is often used to help with the pain, irritation, or urgency caused by urinary tract infections, surgery, or injury to the urinary tract. Phenazopyridine was discovered by Bernhard Joos, the founder of Cilag.

Jon Luvelli
comment: Jon Luvelli is an Italian-American street photographer. He has made black and white images depicting idiosyncrasies of people in rural areas. His work conveys social messages, addressing economic and civil issues, in the form of macabre candid photography. His artwork focuses on subject matter associated with the underside of humanity.

Turkish History Thesis
comment: The Turkish History Thesis (Türk Tarih Tezi) is a pseudohistorical study which posited that the Turks migrated in several waves from Central Asia to China, India, the Balkans, the Middle East, northern Africa populating and bringing civilization to the areas they have moved to. The theory developed within the context of pre-Nazi scientific racism, placing Turks as one of the "Alpine subgroup" of the Caucasian race. The intent of the theory was a rejection Western European assertions that Turks belonged to the "yellow or mongol" race. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk had taken a personal interest in the subject after he was shown a French language book that claimed Turks "belonged to the yellow race" and were a "secondaire" people.
abstract: The Turkish History Thesis (Türk Tarih Tezi) is a pseudohistorical study which posited that the Turks migrated in several waves from Central Asia to China, India, the Balkans, the Middle East, northern Africa populating and bringing civilization to the areas they have moved to. The theory developed within the context of pre-Nazi scientific racism, placing Turks as one of the "Alpine subgroup" of the Caucasian race. The intent of the theory was a rejection Western European assertions that Turks belonged to the "yellow or mongol" race. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk had taken a personal interest in the subject after he was shown a French language book that claimed Turks "belonged to the yellow race" and were a "secondaire" people. In the aftermath of World War I, Turks strove to prove to Western nations that they were equals and at this time this carried not only historical connotations, but racial ones. The Turkish History Thesis created a third alternative to the existing narratives that Greece and/or Mesopotamia were the "cradle" of Western civilization, but the thesis itself rested on a spurious intellectual foundation by claiming Hittite ancestry through a convoluted logic that rested on a theory of Central Asian Aryan origin that was being promoted by some European writers of the era. The thesis insisted on a common racial origin for all Turkish people who had created a great civilization in their Central Asian homeland in prehistoric times and have since preserved the same language and racial characteristics. According to the thesis, Turks had originally migrated from Central Asia to China and then India, founding the civilizations of Mohenjo-daro and Harappa, continuing to diverse parts of the world. The thesis pushed a view that Turks were racially what was called "brachycephalic", and thus racially similar to other Central Europeans. The internal contradictions of the Turkish History Thesis became more pronounced in later decades as Colonel Kurtcebe sought to raise m[cell cut: 3284 characters, first 2000 kept]

2010–11 Slovak Superliga
abstract: The 2010–11 season of the Slovak Superliga (also known as Corgoň Liga due to sponsorship reasons) was the eighteenth season of the first-tier football league in Slovakia, since its establishment in 1993. It began on 17 July 2010 and was completed on 25 May 2011. MŠK Žilina were the defending champions, having won their fifth Slovak league championship the previous season.

62nd Airlift Wing
comment: The 62nd Airlift Wing, sometimes written as 62d Airlift Wing, (62 AW) is a wing of the United States Air Force stationed at Joint Base Lewis–McChord, Washington. It is assigned to the Eighteenth Air Force of Air Mobility Command and is active duty host wing on McChord. The wing is composed of more than 2,200 active duty military and civilian personnel. It is tasked with supporting worldwide combat and humanitarian airlift contingencies. Aircraft of the 62nd fly around the world, conducting airdrop training; it also carries out the Antarctic resupply missions.

Dhan Mer
abstract: Thakor Dhanji Sonangji Mer or Thakor Dhansinghji Mer (also spelled as Dhandhal Khant, Dhandh Khant) was king of Dhandhuka in Gujarat. He was second son of king Sonang Mer who came from Sindh to Gujarat and ruled here.

Snail slime
comment: Snail slime is a kind of mucus, an external bodily secretion which is produced by snails, gastropod mollusks. Land snails and slugs produce mucus, but so does every other kind of gastropod, from marine, freshwater and terrestrial habitats. The reproductive system of gastropods also produces mucus internally from special glands. The slime trail that a land gastropod leaves behind is often visible as a silvery track on surfaces such as stone or concrete.
abstract: Snail slime is a kind of mucus, an external bodily secretion which is produced by snails, gastropod mollusks. Land snails and slugs produce mucus, but so does every other kind of gastropod, from marine, freshwater and terrestrial habitats. The reproductive system of gastropods also produces mucus internally from special glands. Externally, one kind of mucus is produced by the foot of the gastropod and is usually used for crawling on. The other kind of external mucus has evolved to coat the external parts of the gastropod's body; in-land species this coating helps prevent desiccation of the exposed soft tissues. The foot mucus of a gastropod has some of the qualities of a glue and some of the qualities of a lubricant, allowing land snails to crawl up vertical surfaces without falling off. The slime trail that a land gastropod leaves behind is often visible as a silvery track on surfaces such as stone or concrete.

1971 in Michigan
abstract: Events from the year 1971 in Michigan. The Associated Press (AP) selected the top 10 news stories in Michigan as follows: 1. * Court-ordered busing in the Pontiac public schools (AP-1); 2. * An order by federal judge Stephen Roth finding that the Detroit public schools were segregated by law, triggering concerns that he might order cross-district busing as a remedy (AP-2); 3. * The Michigan Legislature's reducing the age of adulthood to 18 (AP-3); 4. * A Supreme Court decision banning public aid to parochial schools (AP-4); 5. * The Michigan Legislature's adoption of a 50% increase in the state income tax (AP-5); 6. * Gov. William Milliken's plan to change the source of education funding by cutting local property taxes and raising the state income tax (AP-6); 7. * The Michigan Legislature's reduction of penalties for drug possession (AP-7); 8. * The debate concerning the state's budget which totaled more than $2 billion (AP-8); 9. * An explosion on December 11 in a water tunnel being built under Lake Huron near Port Huron resulted when methane gas built up and caused the deaths of 21 workers (AP-9); and 10. * A court challenge to the constitutionality of the property tax as a mechanism for funding education (AP-10). The AP also selected the state's top 10 sports stories as follows: 1. * The death of Detroit Lions wide receiver Chuck Hughes after collapsing on the field with a heart attack during a game; 2. * The retirement of Gordie Howe after 25 years with the Detroit Red Wings; 3. * The Lions' release of Alex Karras despite having two years remaining on his contract; 4. * Mickey Lolich winning 25 games and finishing second in voting for the Cy Young Award; 5. * The 1971 Michigan Wolverines football team compiling a perfect 11-0 record during the regular season; 6. * The 1970–71 Detroit Red Wings finishing in last place and the resignation of Ned Harkness as general manager; 7. * Michigan State University athletic director Biggie Munn suffering a heart attack the w[cell cut: 2544 characters, first 2000 kept]
comment: Events from the year 1971 in Michigan. The Associated Press (AP) selected the top 10 news stories in Michigan as follows: 1. * Court-ordered busing in the Pontiac public schools (AP-1); 2. * An order by federal judge Stephen Roth finding that the Detroit public schools were segregated by law, triggering concerns that he might order cross-district busing as a remedy (AP-2); 3. * The Michigan Legislature's reducing the age of adulthood to 18 (AP-3); 4. * A Supreme Court decision banning public aid to parochial schools (AP-4); 5. * The Michigan Legislature's adoption of a 50% increase in the state income tax (AP-5); 6. * Gov. William Milliken's plan to change the source of education funding by cutting local property taxes and raising the state income tax (AP-6); 7. * The Michiga

Kaaba
comment: The Kaaba (Arabic: كَعْبَة‎ al-kaʿbah IPA: [alˈkaʕba], "The Cube"), also referred to as al-Kaʿbah al-Musharrafah (Arabic: ٱلْكَعْبَة ٱلْمُشَرَّفَة‎, the Holy Ka'bah), is a building at the center of Islam's most important mosque, Al-Masjid Al-Ḥarām (Arabic: أَلمَسْجِد أَلحَرَام‎, The Sacred Mosque), in the Hejazi city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia. It is the most sacred site in Islam. It is considered by Muslims to be the Bayt Allāh (Arabic: بَيْت الله‎, "House of God"), and has a similar role to the Tabernacle and Holy of Holies in Judaism. Its location determines the qiblah (Arabic: قِبْلَة‎, direction of prayer). Wherever they are in the world, Muslims are expected to face the Kaaba when performing Salah the Islamic prayer.
abstract: The Kaaba (Arabic: كَعْبَة‎ al-kaʿbah IPA: [alˈkaʕba], "The Cube"), also referred to as al-Kaʿbah al-Musharrafah (Arabic: ٱلْكَعْبَة ٱلْمُشَرَّفَة‎, the Holy Ka'bah), is a building at the center of Islam's most important mosque, Al-Masjid Al-Ḥarām (Arabic: أَلمَسْجِد أَلحَرَام‎, The Sacred Mosque), in the Hejazi city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia. It is the most sacred site in Islam. It is considered by Muslims to be the Bayt Allāh (Arabic: بَيْت الله‎, "House of God"), and has a similar role to the Tabernacle and Holy of Holies in Judaism. Its location determines the qiblah (Arabic: قِبْلَة‎, direction of prayer). Wherever they are in the world, Muslims are expected to face the Kaaba when performing Salah the Islamic prayer. One of the Five Pillars of Islam requires every Muslim who is able to do so to perform the Hajj (Arabic: حَجّ‎, Greater Pilgrimage) at least once in their lifetime. Multiple parts of the hajj require pilgrims to make Tawaf (Arabic: طَوَاف‎, Circumambulation) seven times around the Kaaba in a counter-clockwise direction. Tawaf is also performed by pilgrims during the ‘Umrah (Arabic: عُمْرة‎, Lesser Pilgrimage). However, the most significant time is during the hajj, when millions of pilgrims gather to circle the building within a 5-day period. In 2017, the number of pilgrims coming from outside the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to perform hajj was officially reported as 1,752,014 and 600,108 Saudi Arabian residents bringing the total number of pilgrims to 2,352,122.

Lincoln Peirce
abstract: Lincoln Peirce (born October 23, 1963) (pronounced "purse") is an American cartoonist, best known as the creator of the successful Big Nate comic strip, and the Big Nate novels. Peirce was the storywriter for animations that appear on Cartoon Network, and Nickelodeon.

1977 in Michigan
abstract: Events from the year 1977 in Michigan. The Associated Press (AP) selected Michigan's top stories of 1977 as follows: 1. * The emergence of the Michigan PBB contamination scandal as a political issue and related medical investigation and legislative actions (the PBB scandal was one of the state's top stories for the fourth consecutive year dating back to 1974); 2. * Cold weather through the winter of 1977 with many cities recording the coldest temperatures of the century, Lake Michigan frozen solid, several deaths due to exposure, closure of automobile plants due to natural gas shortages, and snow closing U.S. Route 131 between Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo for a week; 3. * The Oakland County Child Killings involving the unsolved murders of at least four Oakland County youths reportedly tied to the driver of a blue Gremlin; 4. * The 13-week trial, conviction, and subsequent new trial order in the prosecution of two Filipina nurses, Filipina Narciso and Leonora Perez, in the Ann Arbor Hospital Murders in which 10 patients at the Veterans Hospital in Ann Arbor died mysteriously from respiratory failure (the Ann Arbor Hospital Murders were one of the state's top stories for the third consecutive year dating back to 1975); 5. * The case of Francine Hughes (subsequently the topic of The Burning Bed), a 29-year-old woman from Danville who killed her husband by setting his bed on fire in March after years of domestic abuse and was found not guilty in November by reason of temporary insanity; 6. * Gov. William Milliken's veto of Project Seafarer, a proposed underground military extremely low frequency (ELF) network in the Upper Peninsula; 7. * A civil lawsuit by farmers Roy and Marilyn Tacoma against several parties for the loss of cattle in connection with the Michigan PBB contamination scandal (See #1 above) and resulting in the longest court case in Michigan history; 8. * The August 25 abduction of Evelyn Van Tassel from her Upper Peninsula home and the subsequent trial and [cell cut: 4415 characters, first 2000 kept]
comment: Events from the year 1977 in Michigan. The Associated Press (AP) selected Michigan's top stories of 1977 as follows: 1. * The emergence of the Michigan PBB contamination scandal as a political issue and related medical investigation and legislative actions (the PBB scandal was one of the state's top stories for the fourth consecutive year dating back to 1974); 2. * Cold weather through the winter of 1977 with many cities recording the coldest temperatures of the century, Lake Michigan frozen solid, several deaths due to exposure, closure of automobile plants due to natural gas shortages, and snow closing U.S. Route 131 between Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo for a week; 3. * The Oakland County Child Killings involving the unsolved murders of at least four Oakland County youths reportedly

Eta Persei
abstract: Eta Persei (η Persei, abbreviated Eta Per, η Per), is a binary star and the 'A' component of a triple star system (the 'B' component is the star ) in the constellation of Perseus . It is approximately 1331 light-years away from Earth. The two components of Eta Persei itself are designated Eta Persei A (also named Miram) and B.

Gilbert Peterson
comment: Gilbert Peterson (August 5, 1824 - November 14, 1890), was an American contractor from Lockport, New York. He was the founder and President of Peterson & Sons, which he ran with his two sons, Charles Gilbert Peterson and Jesse Peterson. The company executed contracts building the waterworks of Toledo, Ohio; Grand Rapids, Michigan; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; part of the Genesee Valley Canal Railroad and worked on multiple reservoirs in the Washington, DC area. Previously he was a partner at Hunt, Peterson & Kinsley, responsible for enlarging Erie Canal between Middleport, New York and Gasport, New York in 1855, and canal repairs in Albany, New York, Frankfort, New York and Kilburn Hill, New York. Peterson was Superintendent of both the eastern and western divisions of the Erie Canal and in 1867-
abstract: Gilbert Peterson (August 5, 1824 - November 14, 1890), was an American contractor from Lockport, New York. He was the founder and President of Peterson & Sons, which he ran with his two sons, Charles Gilbert Peterson and Jesse Peterson. The company executed contracts building the waterworks of Toledo, Ohio; Grand Rapids, Michigan; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; part of the Genesee Valley Canal Railroad and worked on multiple reservoirs in the Washington, DC area. Previously he was a partner at Hunt, Peterson & Kinsley, responsible for enlarging Erie Canal between Middleport, New York and Gasport, New York in 1855, and canal repairs in Albany, New York, Frankfort, New York and Kilburn Hill, New York. Peterson was Superintendent of both the eastern and western divisions of the Erie Canal and in 1867-1868, he was Alderman of the 2nd Ward of Lockport, New York. He is the great grandfather of Charles Sterling Bunnell.

1968 flu pandemic
abstract: The 1968 flu pandemic was a category 2 flu pandemic whose outbreak in 1968 and 1969 killed an estimated one million people worldwide. It was caused by an H3N2 strain of the influenza A virus, descended from H2N2 through antigenic shift, a genetic process in which genes from multiple subtypes reassorted to form a new virus. Because it originated in Hong Kong, the pandemic is also referred to as Hong Kong flu.

John Dennis (bishop)
comment: John Dennis (born 19 June 1931) is a retired Anglican bishop and former Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich. He is currently an honorary assistant bishop in the Diocese of Winchester.

Verbi dei minister
abstract: Verbi Dei minister (Minister of the Word of God), also verbi divini minister (Minister of the Divine Word), is a Latin religious title abbreviated V.D.M.. The term is typically appended as a name suffix to a person's full name to denote his status (sometimes self-determined) as a Christian minister. The title is mostly used by Protestant preachers and pastors. This is generally the preferred title of Calvinist ministers, because they have worked for the extensive de-clericalisation of the church and it is felt to refute any claim or suggestion that the pastor has a more elevated status than the rest of the congregation, in accordance with the doctrine of universal priesthood. The Ledger stone for Olof Parlin in the Gloria Dei Church of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania provides one example of the use of this title in reference to the date that he was ordained. It says, "Stop, traveller, who art thyself mortal, and drop a tear upon this receptacle of corruption. Here lies quietly and in peace, after a happy death, a man conspicuous in erudition, taught of God, the most reverend, most learned OLOF PARLIN, Provost of the Swedish-Lutheran churches which are collected by God in North America, and placed as most worthy pastor over that in Wicacoa. He was born in Sweden, A. D., 1716, ordained minister of the Divine Word, A. D., 1745, came to America in 1750, was married in 1751, and died December 22, 1757." Another example is found in this inscription from a Church record book. It says, "This is to certify that the Rev Winslow Paige A.M., V.D.M. became the pastor of the united congregation of the Reformed Dutch Church in the towns of Broome, Windham and Blenheim on the 1st day of April 1820" The A.M. is the Latin abbreviation indicating that he hold's a Master of Arts degree and the V.D.M. means he was an ordained minister.

Hamelin Laie International School
abstract: Hamelin Laie International School is a private international school located in Montgat, Spain, near Barcelona. The school was founded in 1989 and teaches infant education, primary education, secondary education and baccalaurate.

Astrophysical plasma
abstract: Astrophysical plasma is plasma outside of the solar system. It is studied as part of astrophysics and is commonly observed in space. The accepted view of scientists is that much of the baryonic matter in the universe exists in this state. When matter becomes sufficiently hot, it becomes ionized and forms a plasma. This process breaks matter into its constituent particles which includes negatively-charged electrons and positively-charged ions. These electrically-charged particles are susceptible to influences by local electromagnetic fields. This includes strong fields generated by stars, and weak fields which exist in star forming regions, in interstellar space, and in intergalactic space. Similarly, electric fields are observed in some stellar astrophysical phenomena, but they are inconsequential in very low-density gaseous mediums. Astrophysical plasma is often differentiated from space plasma, which typically refers to the plasma of the Sun, the solar wind, and the ionospheres and magnetospheres of the Earth and other planets.
comment: Astrophysical plasma is plasma outside of the solar system. It is studied as part of astrophysics and is commonly observed in space. The accepted view of scientists is that much of the baryonic matter in the universe exists in this state. Astrophysical plasma is often differentiated from space plasma, which typically refers to the plasma of the Sun, the solar wind, and the ionospheres and magnetospheres of the Earth and other planets.

1979 in Michigan
comment: Events from the year 1979 in Michigan. The Associated Press (AP) selected the top Michigan news stories of 1979 as follows: 1. * Chrysler Corporation's financial troubles, including a loss for 1979 estimated to exceed $1 billion, a federal loan guarantee program of $1.5 billion approved at the end of the year, and $462 million in concessions from workers; 2. * A 22% decline in U.S. automobile sales and the indefinite layoffs of 141,000 workers in the automobile industry; 3. * New collective bargaining agreements between the United Auto Workers and the Big Three reached without a strike for the first time since prior to 1964; 4. * (tie) Teacher strikes in Detroit and other communities that impacted hundreds of thousands of students in the fall; 5. * (tie) The selection of Detroit
abstract: Events from the year 1979 in Michigan. The Associated Press (AP) selected the top Michigan news stories of 1979 as follows: 1. * Chrysler Corporation's financial troubles, including a loss for 1979 estimated to exceed $1 billion, a federal loan guarantee program of $1.5 billion approved at the end of the year, and $462 million in concessions from workers; 2. * A 22% decline in U.S. automobile sales and the indefinite layoffs of 141,000 workers in the automobile industry; 3. * New collective bargaining agreements between the United Auto Workers and the Big Three reached without a strike for the first time since prior to 1964; 4. * (tie) Teacher strikes in Detroit and other communities that impacted hundreds of thousands of students in the fall; 5. * (tie) The selection of Detroit as the host city for the 1980 Republican National Convention; 6. * Toxic chemical dumping sites in need of cleanup; 7. * An $18 million budget deficit for Wayne County; 8. * Blockades by striking independent truck drivers during the summer; 9. * A court dispute over Indian fishing rights, including the use of gill nets, in Lake Michigan; and 10. * A record-setting $450,000 fine imposed the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Consumers Power for safety violations at the Palisades Nuclear Generating Station on Lake Michigan.

D-book
abstract: The D-Book is the UK technical specification for digital terrestrial television (DTT). The Digital TV Group (DTG) has published and maintained the D-Book for over a decade and the specification is updated annually to keep up with the pace of development in UK DTT. The D-Book is compiled by DTG Working Groups composed of industry experts from the DTG’s staff and membership of around 150 broadcasters, manufacturers, technology providers and other organisations who continually update and peer-review the specification. Conformance to D-Book standard allows products to use the Digital Tick, Freeview, Freeview + and Freeview HDlogos. The D-Book is only available to members of the Digital TV Group.
comment: The D-Book is the UK technical specification for digital terrestrial television (DTT). The Digital TV Group (DTG) has published and maintained the D-Book for over a decade and the specification is updated annually to keep up with the pace of development in UK DTT. The D-Book is compiled by DTG Working Groups composed of industry experts from the DTG’s staff and membership of around 150 broadcasters, manufacturers, technology providers and other organisations who continually update and peer-review the specification. Conformance to D-Book standard allows products to use the Digital Tick, Freeview, Freeview + and Freeview HDlogos.

Retinoic acid
comment: Retinoic acid is a metabolite of vitamin A (retinol) that mediates the functions of vitamin A required for growth and development. Retinoic acid is required in chordate animals, which includes all higher animals from fish to humans. During early embryonic development, retinoic acid generated in a specific region of the embryo helps determine position along the embryonic anterior/posterior axis by serving as an intercellular signaling molecule that guides development of the posterior portion of the embryo. It acts through Hox genes, which ultimately control anterior/posterior patterning in early developmental stages.
abstract: Retinoic acid is a metabolite of vitamin A (retinol) that mediates the functions of vitamin A required for growth and development. Retinoic acid is required in chordate animals, which includes all higher animals from fish to humans. During early embryonic development, retinoic acid generated in a specific region of the embryo helps determine position along the embryonic anterior/posterior axis by serving as an intercellular signaling molecule that guides development of the posterior portion of the embryo. It acts through Hox genes, which ultimately control anterior/posterior patterning in early developmental stages. The key role of retinoic acid in embryonic development mediates the high teratogenicity of retinoid pharmaceuticals, such as isotretinoin used for treatment of cancer and acne. Oral megadoses of pre-formed vitamin A (retinyl palmitate), and retinoic acid itself, also have teratogenic potential by this same mechanism.