Dalmoak Castle, often simply referred to as Dalmoak House, is a Category A listed building near the village of Cardross on the North side the Firth of Clyde in Dunbartonshire, Scotland. It was built in a Scottish baronial style by the architect Alexander Watt in 1866–68 for John Aiken of Glasgow; whose involvement in the wine and spirits mercantile trade is the origins of the castle's nickname, 'Brandy Castle', which has been in use ever since. It was built on the foundations of an earlier building, the blocked up windows of which can be seen in one of the wine cellars. Dalmoak was one of the royal manors in the district, and was used chiefly as a hunting seat. The Dalmoak Estate included the remains of the Palace of Cardross where King Robert the Bruce died. The castle was used by the RAF during World War II, serving as the operational head quarters of the efforts to divert German bombing raids on the shipyards at Clydebank. After the war parts of the castle and its grounds were used to provide social housing but these gradually fell into disrepair. It was bought in 1963 by Alexandrina Cousins who begun its restoration. Within the castle are the largest stained glass windows in a private residence in Scotland. They were made by W. G. and J. J. Kier, who also worked on Glasgow Cathedral; these depict the theme of the Red Hand of Ulster. The building was restored and briefly converted into a nursing home in the 1990s by the then owners, John Szwed and his brother Michel Szwed-Cousins who had inherited it from their mother and grandmother. John Aiken, the castle's original owner, is buried in a grand and elaborate mausoleum on the north slopes of the Glasgow Necropolis, as to reflect his vast wealth. The house has been offered for sale from 2017 to 2019 (ongoing), with an asking price which has fallen from £1.7 million to £675,000, over concerns at the cost of the land taxes involved.

St. Mary's Academy is a Roman Catholic high school located in Portland, Oregon, United States. It was founded by twelve sisters from the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary in 1859. It is an all-girls school with approximately 750 students from northern Oregon and southwestern Washington. Since its founding, over 10,000 women have graduated from St. Mary's Academy, the oldest continuously-operating secondary school in Oregon.

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Michael Evan Mann (born 1965) is an American climatologist and geophysicist, currently director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University, who has contributed to the scientific understanding of historic climate change based on the temperature record of the past thousand years. He has pioneered techniques to find patterns in past climate change, and to isolate climate signals from noisy data. As lead author of a paper produced in 1998 with co-authors Raymond S. Bradley and Malcolm K. Hughes, Mann used advanced statistical techniques to find regional variations in a hemispherical climate reconstruction covering the past 600 years. In 1999 the same team used these techniques to produce a reconstruction over the past 1,000 years (MBH99) which was dubbed the "hockey stick graph" because of its shape. He was one of eight lead authors of the "Observed Climate Variability and Change" chapter of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Third Scientific Assessment Report published in 2001. A graph based on the MBH99 paper was highlighted in several parts of the report, and was given wide publicity. The IPCC acknowledged that his work, along with that of the many other lead authors and review editors, contributed to the award of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, which was won jointly by the IPCC and Al Gore. Mann was organizing committee chair for the National Academy of Sciences Frontiers of Science in 2003 and has received a number of honors and awards including selection by Scientific American as one of the fifty leading visionaries in science and technology in 2002. In 2012 he was inducted as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and was awarded the Hans Oeschger Medal of the European Geosciences Union. In 2013 he was elected a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society, and awarded the status of distinguished professor in Penn State's College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. In 2017 he was elected as a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. Mann is author of more than 200 peer-reviewed and edited publications. He has also published three books: Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming (2008), The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines (2012), and, together with co-author Tom Toles, The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy (2016). In 2012, the European Geosciences Union described his publication record as "outstanding for a scientist of his relatively young age". Mann is also a co-founder and contributor to the climatology blog RealClimate.

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The Shabak people (Arabic: الشبك‎, Kurdish: شەبەک‎) are a group with a disputed origin. While some scholars argue that Shabaks are an ethnic group others argue that they are an ethnic Kurdish group. They live Iraq and speak Shabaki, a Northwestern Iranian language of the Zaza–Gorani group. The Shabaks live in a religious community (ta'ifa) in the Nineveh Plains. The ancestors of Shabaks were followers of the Safaviyya order, which was founded by the Kurdish mystic Safi-ad-din Ardabili in the early 14th century. The primary Shabak religious text is called the Buyruk or Kitab al-Manaqib (Book of Exemplary Acts), which is written in Turkmen. Members of the three Kurdish tribes of Bajalan (or Bajarwans), Zangana and Dawoody live in the same villages as the Shabaks and are commonly mistaken for being Shabak..

Michael Evan Mann (born 1965) is an American climatologist and geophysicist, currently director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University, who has contributed to the scientific understanding of historic climate change based on the temperature record of the past thousand years. He has pioneered techniques to find patterns in past climate change, and to isolate climate signals from noisy data.

Rendham is a village and civil parish on the B1119 road, in the East Suffolk District, in the English county of Suffolk. Its near the town Saxmundham and the village Sweffling.

Out of the Blue Enterprises / 9 Story USA is an American children's television company based in New York City, founded by the co-creator of the Nickelodeon pre-school animated/live action series Blue's Clues (hence the company's name) Angela C. Santomero and fellow ex-Nick executive Samantha Freeman Alpert. The company serves as the producers (with DHX Media's Decode Entertainment unit) of the CGI-animated children's television show Super Why! that airs on most PBS stations and on CBC Kids in Canada and Blue's Room which formerly aired on Nick Jr. Out of the Blue, along with WQED, The Fred Rogers Company, and 9 Story Media Group, also produces a flash-animated spin-off of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, entitled Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, which debuted on PBS Kids affiliates on September 3, 2012. It also produces Wishenpoof! with DHX Media and Amazon Studios for Amazon Video, and Creative Galaxy with 9 Story Media Group and Amazon Studios for Amazon Video. It also produces Charlie's Colorforms City with DHX Media for Netflix. It will also produce Blue's Clues & You! with Brown Bag Films, 9 Story Media Group, and Nickelodeon Animation Studio for Nick Jr. and Nickelodeon. The company also owns the Colorforms brand. On January 12, 2018, 9 Story Media Group acquired Out of the Blue Enterprises. It is now a wholly owned subsidiary. On March 2018, Samantha Freeman Alpert left the company. On July 2018, the Out of the Blue Enterprises website was redirected to the 9 Story Media Group website. It might make the Out of the Blue Enterprises / 9 Story USA website sometime in 2019 or 2020.
Out of the Blue Enterprises / 9 Story USA is an American children's television company based in New York City, founded by the co-creator of the Nickelodeon pre-school animated/live action series Blue's Clues (hence the company's name) Angela C. Santomero and fellow ex-Nick executive Samantha Freeman Alpert. The company serves as the producers (with DHX Media's Decode Entertainment unit) of the CGI-animated children's television show Super Why! that airs on most PBS stations and on CBC Kids in Canada and Blue's Room which formerly aired on Nick Jr. Out of the Blue, along with WQED, The Fred Rogers Company, and 9 Story Media Group, also produces a flash-animated spin-off of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, entitled Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, which debuted on PBS Kids affiliates on September 3,
Out of the Blue Enterprises / 9 Story USA