George Charles Jenks (13 April 1850 - 13 September 1929) was an English-born American dime novelist. Among others he wrote as part of the Nick Carter stable. He also wrote Diamond Dick stories as W. B. Lawson, and is credited as the creator of the character. Jenks was born in London and worked as an apprentice to a printer. He later emigrated to United States in 1872 and continued his trade, before becoming a reporter with the Pittsburgh Press in 1882. He began writing his first dime novels in 1886. He died aged 79 in 1929 after a brief illness, leaving a widow and two sons, Charles J. and Frank H. Jenks. In 1878 he was married to Sarah Jane Lambert, who died in 1895. His second wife was Elizabeth J. Aylward, to whom he was married in 1897. She died three months later †August 11, in Clinton, N. J, and in 1899 he married Katherine Baird, who survived him.

The Grindadráp (Faroese for killing long-finned pilot whales) is a type of dolphin drive hunting that involves beaching and slaughtering long-finned pilot whales. It has been practiced in the Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic since about the time of the first Norsemen settled there which is approximately the 9th century. The hunters first surround the pilot whales with a wide semicircle of boats. The boats then drive the pilot whales into a bay or into the bottom of a fjord. Not all bays are certified, and the slaughter can only take place on a certified beach. Many Faroese consider the whale meat an important part of their food culture and history. Animal rights groups criticize the slaughter as being cruel and unnecessary. Whaling in the Faroe Islands is considered an example of aboriginal whaling, and is the only remaining example thereof in Western Europe. Whaling was mentioned in the Sheep Letter, a royal Decree made by Duke Haakon and Faroese law from 1298, as a supplement to the Norwegian Gulating law. Currently whaling is regulated by the Faroese authorities, which is represented by the Home Rule Government since 1948. Around 800 long-finned pilot whales and some Atlantic white-sided dolphins are slaughtered annually during the summer season. The hunts, called Grindadráp in Faroese, are non-commercial and are organized on a community level between the 17 islands of the archipelago. The police and Grindaformenn (foremen of the grind during the hunt), are allowed to remove people from the grind area. Facing criticism and continued activism towards the practice, the grind now differs somewhat from the form practiced by medieval Norse settlers. Now, those who participate in the killing must have a special training certificate for the slaughter of pilot whales with the spinal-cord lance. The Grind law was updated in 2015, where one of the regulations demanded that whalers attend a course on properly slaughtering whales with the spinal-cord lance. Recent protests have brought the grind into the maritime ecological debate. Maritime security can be linked to the Faroe Islands, since the marine environment and economic development such as blue economy are important topics that surrounds Grindadráp since the 1980s (date of the first protests). In November 2008, Høgni Debes Joensen, chief medical officer of the Faroe Islands and Pál Weihe, scientist, recommended in a letter to the Home Rule Government that pilot whales should no longer be considered healthy for human consumption due to high levels of mercury, PCB and DDT derivatives in the animals, and, in July 2012, published a follow-up study showed that pilot whales contain an average of twice the EU limit for mercury in food. In the paper, Weihe also revealed evidence of the detrimental impact that the mercury ingested from the consumption of pilot whales could have on foetal development of the human nervous system. However, the Faroese government has refused to forbid whaling based on arguments in favour of preserving cultural heritage.

The Mughal, Mogul or Moghul Empire was an early modern empire in South Asia. For some two centuries, the empire stretched from the outer fringes of the Indus basin in the west, northern Afghanistan in the northwest, and Kashmir in the north, to the highlands of present-day Assam and Bangladesh in the east, and the uplands of the Deccan plateau in south India. The Mughal empire is conventionally said to have been founded in 1526 by Babur, a warrior chieftain from what is today Uzbekistan, who employed military aid in the form of matchlock guns and cast cannon from the Ottoman Empire, and his superior strategy and cavalry to defeat the Sultan of Delhi, Ibrahim Lodhi, in the First Battle of Panipat, and to sweep down the plains of Upper India, subduing Rajputs and Afghans. The Mughal imperial structure, however, is sometimes dated to 1600, to the rule of Babur's grandson, Akbar, This imperial structure lasted until 1720, until shortly after the death of the last major emperor, Aurangzeb, during whose reign the empire also achieved its maximum geographical extent. Reduced subsequently, especially during the East India Company rule in India, to the region in and around Old Delhi, the empire was formally dissolved by the British Raj after the Indian Rebellion of 1857. Although the Mughal empire was created and sustained by military warfare, it came to rule by establishing new administrative practices, and incorporating diverse ruling elites, leading to more efficient, centralised, and standardised rule. The base of the empire's collective wealth was agricultural taxes, instituted by the third Mughal emperor, Akbar. These taxes, which amounted to well over half the output of a peasant cultivator, were paid in the well-regulated silver currency, and caused peasants and artisans to enter larger markets. The relative peace maintained by the empire during much of the 17th century was a factor in India's economic expansion. Burgeoning European presence in the Indian Ocean, and its increasing demand for Indian raw and finished products, created still greater wealth in the Mughal courts. There was more conspicuous consumption among the Mughal elite, resulting in greater patronage of painting, literary forms, textiles, and architecture, especially during the reign of Shah Jahan. Among the Mughal UNESCO World Heritage Sites in South Asia are: Agra Fort, Fatehpur Sikri, Red Fort, Humayun's Tomb, Lahore Fort and the Taj Mahal, which is described as the "jewel of Muslim art in India and one of the universally admired masterpieces of the world's heritage."

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George Charles Jenks (13 April 1850 - 13 September 1929) was an English-born American dime novelist. Among others he wrote as part of the Nick Carter stable. He also wrote Diamond Dick stories as W. B. Lawson, and is credited as the creator of the character. Jenks was born in London and worked as an apprentice to a printer. He later emigrated to United States in 1872 and continued his trade, before becoming a reporter with the Pittsburgh Press in 1882. He began writing his first dime novels in 1886.