The Temple Cup was a cup awarded to the winner of a best-of-seven, post-season play-offs championship tournament for American professional baseball for the National League of Professional Baseball Clubs (known as the National League, established earlier in 1876) and awarded four times from 1894 to 1897. The 30-inch-high (76.2 centimeters high) silver cup cost $800, ($22.8 thousand in 2019 dollars) and was donated by coal, citrus, and lumber baron William Chase Temple (1862-1917), a part-owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates at the time. Much like the long running Stanley Cup of ice hockey in the National Hockey League and the Temple Cup's predecessor to the professional baseball team champions, the Dauvray Cup (1887-1893), (awarded seven times in the name of the donor, famed stage actress of the day, Helen Dauvray (1859-1923)), there was only one actual Temple Cup passed along to each baseball season's winning team and city. Since there was only one major league at the time with the folding of the previous American Association 1882-1891, so the series was later played between the first and second-place teams of the surviving NL. The second-place team defeated the first-place team for the Cup in three of the four series that were played. The Temple Cup was also known as the World's Championship Series. If one team won three titles, that team would have permanent possession of the Cup, later given to the city of Baltimore. Having moved over with several other AA strong franchises to join the senior National League after the 1891 folding of the American Association after ten seasons in the AA since 1882, the frequent champions and powerful scrappy teams of the Baltimore Orioles continued their winning ways from the old AA, capturing three NL pennants in a row (1894-1895-1896), and winning the Temple Cup also. Owner/manager Ned Hanlon (1857-1937), a Baltimorean and one of the most talented baseball men of the sport's early era ran the "Birds" with talented players like "Wee Willie" Keeler (1872-1923), Wilbert Robinson (1863-1934), and John McGraw (1873-1934). McGraw was later player/manager/owner with the early American League charter member team (and third to carry the Orioles name) of the new Baltimore Orioles of 1901-1902, one of the 8 original franchises in the new AL when reorganized in 1901, from the former Western League (on the minor level, 1885-1899) under activist first president Ban Johnson (1864-1931). After the 1903 "peace pact" between the two major leagues, ending the "war" between them, recognizing each other as equal in stature, accepting a joint policy on player contracts and beginning a "best-of-seven" tournament of champions between them resulting in the modern inter-league World Series for the next century whose championship trophy replaced the old Temple Cup and soon exceeded its esteem. Also each league was allowed a franchise in the nation's largest city, so McGraw was responsible for the new AL Orioles team to move that year of 1903, after only two seasons in Baltimore to New York City to represent the AL, becoming the New York Highlanders, renamed a decade later as the New York Yankees. McGraw went on and later returned to the NL as owner/manager of the famous opposing New York team in the borough of The Bronx with the legendary New York Giants competitive in the early 20th century.

The Main Library also known as the Erie Public Library combines elements of the Beaux Arts Classicism and Second Renaissance Revival styles of architecture. Both were commonly used at the end of the nineteenth century to convey the importance of public buildings. The building features arched openings, a prominent cornice, swag and garland decorations, and a roofline balustrade. It is clad in Pompeian red brick. The original facade is dominated by a marble portico, which was removed and stored by previous owners. It was reassembled and conserved as part of the renovation, recapturing the library's original grandeur. The library rotunda is one of the most significant interior spaces in Erie and was meticulously restored as part of the renovation. Mahogany paneling and marble floors serve as a backdrop for a decorative paint scheme. Spectacular allegorical murals on each side of the coffered skylight refer to literature, art, science, and poetry. They were completed by , who also completed murals in the New York Stock Exchange and the Library of Congress.

Emmanuel Iduma (born 1989) is a Nigerian writer and art critic. He is the author of A Stranger's Pose(2018) and Farad (2012) . In 2016, Farad was republished in North America as The Sound of Things to Come.. He teaches in the MFA Art Writing Program at School of Visual Arts, New York City.

The National United Party of Afghanistan (Persian: حزب متحد ملی افغانستان‎ Hezb-e Muttahed-e Melli) officially registered left political party in Afghanistan.

The turning circle of a vehicle can refer to either the radius or the diameter (turning radius or turning diameter, respectively) of the smallest circular turn (i.e. U-turn) that the vehicle is capable of making. The term thus refers to a theoretical minimal radius in which for example an aeroplane, a ground vehicle or a watercraft can be turned around. Theoretically speaking tightest turning radius possible for a vehicle is the one where the vehicle does not move either forwards or backwards while turning and effectively simply rotates on its own axis. Taking a rectangular vehicle capable of doing this, its turning circle would in fact be equal to the diagonal length of the vehicle. Most obviously boats can be turned in this way. On wheeled vehicles with common front wheel steering (i.e. one, two or even four wheels at the front capable of steering), the vehicle's turning radius is a measure of the space needed to turn the vehicle around while the steering is set to its maximum displacement from the central 'straight ahead' position - i.e. either extreme left or right. If a theoretical marker pen was placed on the point of the vehicle furthest from the center of the turn, it would draw a circle and the radius of that circle would give the value of that vehicle's turning radius. For example the 2017 Audi A4 has a turning radius of 5.8 m (19 ft), which corresponds to a turning diameter (sometimes called turning circle) of 11.6 m (38.1 ft).

[[Category:Infobox road instances in ]] Illinois Route 3 (IL 3) is a major north–south arterial state highway in southwestern Illinois. It has its southern terminus at Cairo Junction (about north of Cairo) at the intersection of U.S. Route 51 (US 51) and Illinois Route 37 (IL 37), and its northern terminus in Grafton at IL 100.

RX II is a 36-foot yacht in which a three-man Norwegian crew circumnavigated the North Pole over two seasons in 2009-2010. Expedition initiated by Lars Ingeberg and Trond Aasvoll after studying the changes in the sea ice around the Arctic Circle.Expedition leader Trond Aasvoll and crew Hans Fredrik Haukland and Finn Andreassenleft Vardø, Norway, on July 28, 2009, intending to make the first circumnavigation of the North Pole in one season and thereby demonstrate the effects of global warming in making this possible. The northern sea route proved ice-free and RX II entered the Bering Strait on September 24. The voyage had been projected to take 45 days. However, the Russian authorities stopped them in sight of Alaska and required them to sail south to satisfy legal formalities, leaving insu
RX II is a 36-foot yacht in which a three-man Norwegian crew circumnavigated the North Pole over two seasons in 2009-2010. Expedition initiated by Lars Ingeberg and Trond Aasvoll after studying the changes in the sea ice around the Arctic Circle.Expedition leader Trond Aasvoll and crew Hans Fredrik Haukland and Finn Andreassenleft Vardø, Norway, on July 28, 2009, intending to make the first circumnavigation of the North Pole in one season and thereby demonstrate the effects of global warming in making this possible. The northern sea route proved ice-free and RX II entered the Bering Strait on September 24. The voyage had been projected to take 45 days. However, the Russian authorities stopped them in sight of Alaska and required them to sail south to satisfy legal formalities, leaving insufficient time to sail all the way around the Pole in one season. The expedition was interrupted in Nome, Alaska and returned to the home base of Arendal to overwinter. However, RX II was the smallest sailboat to sail through the Northeast Passage, and the first Norwegian boat to do so since Roald Amundsen in 1916-1919. The crew returned to Nome the next summer and left on July 31, 2010. They successfully navigated the Northwest Passage west to east. Haukland had to leave RX II when she reached Greenland and fly back to his job as a firefighter in Alta. However, Aasvoll and Andreassen re-entered Norwegian waters on September 29 after sailing around the northern tip of Scotland, and returned to Arendal on October 9. RX II became the first Norwegian boat to sail both the Northeast and Northwest Passages with the same crew. Later the same year, the Norwegian Northern Passage and the Russian Peter I both completed the circumnavigation in one season. The 36-foot fiberglass yacht with an open cockpit was designed by Jerry Cartwright and built in 1977.