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Neues Wiener Journal
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The Neues Wiener Journal was one of the leading liberal newspapers in Austria during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Founded in 1893 by Jakob Lippowitz, it was compulsorily
disestablished by Nazi Germany in 1939 when both it and the Neue Freie Presse were forcibly merged with the Neues Wiener Tagblatt.
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Publications disestablished in 1939
Newspapers established in 1893
Companies acquired from Jews under Nazi rule
Newspapers published in Vienna
Daily newspapers published in Austria
Defunct newspapers published in Austria
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Ujoh Bilang
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Ujoh Bilang () is a village () within the district of Long Bagun, as well as the seat of Mahakam Ulu Regency, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. As of 2023, it was inhabited by 5,218 people, and currently has the total area of 354.73 km2. Ujoh Bilang consists of 15 (pillar of neighbours).
The majority of its inhabitants are Dayaks, with ethnic subgroups including Bahau Kayan and Kenyah. Ujoh Bilang is home to several waterfalls. There are currently plans by the local government to construct Ujoh Bilang Airport. Its main purpose is to improve local transportation.
References
Mahakam Ulu Regency
Regency seats of East Kalimantan
Villages in East Kalimantan
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The Beguiled (novel)
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The Beguiled is a 1966 novel written by Thomas P. Cullinan.
Plot
A Union soldier recuperates at a girls school in Confederate Virginia during the American Civil War.
Film adaptations
The novel was adapted into two films, in 1971 starring Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Page and Elizabeth Hartman, directed by Don Siegel and in 2017 starring Nicole Kidman and Colin Farrell, directed by Sofia Coppola.
References
1966 American novels
American war novels
English-language novels
Novels set in Virginia
Novels set during the American Civil War
American novels adapted into films
Penguin Books books
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Puiggariella
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Puiggariella is a genus of lichen-forming fungi in the family Strigulaceae. It comprises four species of tropical leaf-dwelling lichens.
Taxonomy
The genus Puiggariella was first established by the Argentine mycologist Carlo Luigi Spegazzini in 1881. Over time, it was subsumed within Strigula due to shared morphological features, such as pale, non- perithecia (fruiting bodies) and folded with small white . Molecular phylogenetics studies, particularly those by Jiang and colleagues (2020), have justified the resurrection of Puiggariella as a distinct genus, recognising its unique evolutionary lineage within foliicolous (leaf-dwelling) fungi.
This genus is closely related to Strigula, but distinct in both morphology and ecological preferences. The light grey-green to whitish thalli of Puiggariella are subcuticular (partially embedded within the leaf surface), often with a (wrinkled) or (folded) texture and scattered white papillae. The genus associates with the photobiont Cephaleuros, a relationship that is consistent across its known species.
Puiggariella includes four morphologically defined species, with molecular data available for two. Its type species, Puiggariella apiahyna (synonymised with Puiggariella nemathora), has long been recognised for its distinctive appearance, particularly the pale perithecia that lack carbonaceous walls. This taxon is now understood as a collective species, comprising several lineages with slight morphological differences.
Recent taxonomic revisions have led to new combinations within the genus, such as Puiggariella hypothelia. The genus Puiggariella is now recognised as a distinct clade, differentiated from related genera not only by its morphological traits but also by its and photobiont specificity.
Description
The thallus of Puiggariella is light grey-green to whitish green and partially embedded in the leaf surface (subcuticular). It is either corticate or pseudocorticate (having a thin, incomplete outer layer) and often has a wrinkled and folded (-) texture, interspersed with numerous small, white, wart-like projections (). This genus associates with the green alga of the genus Cephaleuros, which serves as its photosynthetic partner.
The sexual reproductive structures, called perithecia, are small, pale, wart-shaped structures that develop partially embedded in or protruding from the thallus. These structures are stiolate, meaning they have a small opening through which spores are released, and lack the blackened, carbonaceous walls typical of many other lichen perithecia. Surrounding the perithecia is a pale to brownish , a protective outer covering, with an (the layer beneath) of a similar colour and net-like texture ().
Inside, the comprises slender, flexible, unbranched, or occasionally branched filaments called paraphyses, which are colourless (hyaline) and measure 0.5–0.7 μm in width. The asci, or spore sacs, are narrow and club-shaped (), containing eight spores each. They are , with two functional wall layers aiding in spore release, and , meaning they split open to discharge spores. The are hyaline, (spindle-shaped), and divided into two cells (1-septate). They are thin-walled, slightly constricted at the septum, and arranged in either a random or two-row pattern within the asci.
Asexual reproduction occurs through specialised structures called pycnidia, which are infrequent and appear as small, dark, immersed dots on the thallus. These structures produce two types of asexual spores (conidia): larger, rod-shaped macroconidia with one septum and gelatinous appendages, and smaller, ellipsoid to spindle-shaped (fusiform) microconidia that lack septa. Both types of conidia are hyaline. No secondary metabolites, such as lichen-specific compounds, have been identified in this genus.
Habitat and distribution
Puiggariella species are found in tropical regions, ranging from lowland areas to montane zones. They grow as lichenised fungi on the surfaces of leaves in terrestrial environments.
Species
Puiggariella confluens
Puiggariella hypothelia
Puiggariella nemathora
Puiggariella nigrocincta
References
Dothideomycetes
Dothideomycetes genera
Lichen genera
Taxa described in 1881
Taxa named by Carlo Luigi Spegazzini
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Arlyansyah Abdulmanan
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Arlyansyah Abdulmanan (born 20 December 2005) is an Indonesian professional footballer who plays as a winger or attacking midfielder for Liga 2 club PSIM Yogyakarta, on loan from Persija Jakarta.
Club career
PSIM Yogyakarta
PSIM Yogyakarta announced the loan of two young players, Figo Dennis and Abdulmanan, from Persija Jakarta to compete in the 2024–25 Liga 2 season. Abdulmanan made his debut against Nusantara United.
International career
He scored two goals in the first match of the AFF U19 2024 against Philippines U20.
Honours
Club
PSIM Yogyakarta
Liga 2: 2024–25
International
Indonesia U-19
ASEAN U-19 Boys Championship: 2024
References
External links
Arlyansyah Abdulmanan at Liga Indonesia
2005 births
Living people
Indonesian men's footballers
Footballers from Jakarta
Men's association football wingers
Liga 2 (Indonesia) players
Persija Jakarta players
PSIM Yogyakarta players
Indonesia men's youth international footballers
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List of infantry equipment of the Indian Army
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The below is a list of current infantry equipment of the Indian Army and its future equipment procurements.
Individual equipment
Infantry weapons
Knives and bayonets
Small arms
Explosives
MANPADS
Anti-tank missiles
Future procurement and projects
The major ongoing weapons programmes of the Indian Army are as follows:
Individual equipment
Ballistic helmet - The MoD in 2019 has approved procurement of 1,70,000 ballistic helmets.
Bullet-resistant vest - The MoD in 2018 ordered approximately 186,138 bulletproof vests on 9 April 2018. These will be manufactured in India by SMPP Pvt Ltd. This is in addition to the 50,000 vests ordered in 2016 under emergency procurement.
Infantry weapons
Carbine - On 23 September 2022, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) issued the Request for Information (RFI) for the procuring 5.56×45mm NATO Close Quarter Battle (CQB) Carbines for the Indian Army and the Indian Navy. On 29 November 2022, the MoD released Request for Proposal for the procurement following the Acceptance of Necessity (AoN) from the Defence Acquisition Concil (DAC) under MoD. The requirement is for 425,213 units of carbine (418,455 for the Army and 6,758 for the Navy). The order will be split between the lowest bidders, L1 (255,128 units) and L2 (170,085 units). The carbine mass must be within the range of 3-3.5 kg and must have a range of more than 200 m and a cyclic rate of firing 600 rounds/min. The procurement is under Buy 'Indian' category, that is the guns must have more than 60% indigenous content. As of June 2024, 15 vendors are competing for the contract and summer trials of the products are underway while winter trials will be conducted later this year. In June 2025, it was reported that DRDO-Bharat Forge's Close Quarter Battle (CQB) Carbine emerged as the lowest bidder for the tender. The carbines will be manufactured by Kalyani Strategic Systems Limited (KSSL).
The first attempt to acquire a carbine to replace SAF Carbine 1A1 was made in 2008 when both DRDO and OFB failed to meet the Indian Army's requirements.
A global tender was launched in 2011 for a requirement of 44,618 CQB carbines. Though four companies — Israel’s IWI, Italian Beretta, and American firms Colt and Sig Sauer — had responded to the tender, only IWI could qualify while rest of the participants failed at the night vision mounting system criteria. The Ministry again cancelled the tender due to single vendor situation.
Another global Request for Information (RFI) was launched in 2017. The pre-tender documents issued a requirement for around 2 lakh carbines while the Ministry cleared a Fast Track Procurement (FTP) for 93,895 carbines in 2018. An estimation of an overall requirement of 5 lakh carbines was estimated. In September 2018, Caracal was selected as the lowest bidder against Thales Australia under the FTP. Further contract negotiations was expected for over three months while the deliveries were to be completed within a year following the signing of the contract. However, the contract for CAR 816 was formally cancelled in September 2020 due to overpricing concerns and as the DRDO and the Indian industry wanted to take part in such a tender.
Light machine gun - On 25 August 2023, the Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) approved the Acceptance of Necessity (AoN) for the induction of new 7.62×51mm LMGs for the Indian Army.
Sniper Rifles - The MoD released the Request for Proposal in October 2022 to 30 vendors for 4,849 (including 4,549 for the Army, 212 for the Air Force and 88 for the Navy) new sniper rifles in the .338 Lapua Magnum rifle cartridge and for 7,841,575 rounds. These rifles will replace the older Dragunov SVD.
Anti-materiel rifles - 1000 new anti-material rifles are to be acquired for which the MoD has issued global RFIs.
Anti-tank weapons
Nag anti-tank guided missile - Ground and air launched variants. On 10 October 2024, the Indian Army released an Request for Information (RFI) for the acquisition of 20,000 ATGM missiles along with 1,500 next generation ATGM launchers from Indian firms. The information received will be utilised to formulate Army's General Service Quality Requirements (GSQRs) for the ATGM procurement programme. The ATGMs will be procured under the Buy (Indian-IDDM) category, and must be indigenously designed, developed and manufactured with over 60% indigenous content. It should have all-weather and all-terrain firing capability (plains, deserts, high-altitude up to , coastal as well as island areas). The ATGM probable should be able to destroy enemy tanks, armoured personnel carriers, combat vehicles, low-flying helicopters, concrete structures and other vehicle-based weapon platforms.
Top-attack anti-tank mine — A Request for Information (RFI) for 4,000 such mines were released on 5 June 2025. Top-attack mines are designed to engage armoured vehicles from above, where protection is typically weaker. They employ a combination of seismic, acoustic, and infrared sensors to detect and classify targets. Upon detection, the mine launches a submunition—such as an explosively formed penetrator (EFP) or shaped charge—in a near-vertical trajectory to penetrate the vehicle’s top armour. Some variants use explosively generated shock waves to achieve a similar effect. These mines are effective against heavily armoured platforms that are resistant to conventional underbelly mines and can be deployed in various terrains, including urban environments. The mine should also feature remote activation, deactivation, or self-destruction capabilities to reduce the risk of civilian casualties.
Man-portable air defence missiles (MANPADs)
Starstreak - In 2021, Thales and Bharat Dynamics Limited signed a teaming agreement to produce Starstreak HVM in India. In June 2024, they were contracted through a Request for Information (RFI) of the Indian Army to supply an undisclosed quantity of vehicle mounted and man portable systems in order to fulfil its urgent short-range air defense requirement. The deliveries are to begin from 2025 with up to 60% of the missile to be produced in India.
DRDO VSHORADS - The Ministry of Defence released a Request for Proposal (RfP) for the procurement of 48 launchers, 48 night vision sights, 85 missiles, and one missile test station of the infrared (IR) homing-based VSHORADS, designated VSHORADS (New Generation) or VSHORAD (NG). The missile should have flexible deployment including "Manportable configuration or Para dropped operations method, on land and ship based platforms". The system could be used by all three services for day-night terminal and point air defence.
Laser beam riding VSHORAD - DRDO VSHORAD is being built concurrently with another Indian VSHORAD project as a joint venture between a public sector entity based in Hyderabad (possibly Bharat Dynamics Limited) and a private sector entity based in Pune. To counter drones, helicopters, and fighter jets flying at low altitude, the latter missile will be laser beam riding VSHORAD system. An order of 200 launchers and 1200 missiles is expected for this project, which is valued at . While Indian Army will procure 700 missiles, the Indian Air Force will procure the rest of it.
See also
Currently active military equipment by country
List of regiments of the Indian Army
Women in the Indian Armed Forces
References
Sources
Indian Army
Military equipment of India
Indian Army
Equipment
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Bromm
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Bromm may refer to:
Surname
Curt Bromm (born 1945), American politician of Nebraska
Hal Bromm (born 1947), American designer and architect
Terri Bromm, Canadian politician in Saskatchewan
Volker Bromm, American astronomer
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Guandi Temple
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A number of Guandi Temples or Emperor Guan Temples (關帝廟) exist in the world dedicated to the 3rd-century Chinese general Guan Yu:
China
Mainland China
Haizhou Emperor Guan Temple in Yuncheng, Shanxi, where Guan Yu was born
Guanlin (關林) in Luoyang, Henan, where Guan Yu's head was purportedly buried
Guanling (Hubei) (關陵) in Dangyang, Hubei, where the rest of Guan Yu's body was buried
Guandi Temple (Gongqingtuan Road) in Jinan, Shandong
Hong Kong
Kwan Tai temples in Hong Kong
Hip Tin temples in Hong Kong
Man Mo temples in Hong Kong
Macau
Sam Kai Vui Kun
Australia
See Yup temple, South Melbourne
Sze Yup Temple, Sydney
East Timor
Chinese Temple of Dili, East Timor, known in Chinese as the "Guandi Temple of East Timor" (東帝汶關帝廟)
Malaysia
Kuala Lumpur Guandi Temple, Malaysia
South Korea
Dongmyo in Seoul, South Korea
Thailand
Guan Yu Shrine, Khlong San, Thailand
Taiwan
Spring and Autumn Pavilions, Kaohsiung
State Temple of the Martial God, Tainan
Xingtian Temple, Taipei
United States
Kong Chow Temple in San Francisco, California
Temple of Kwan Tai in Mendocino, California
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Aloe schoelleri
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Aloe schoelleri is a species of Aloe native to Eritrea, on the cliffs above Amba Souara Gorge.
Description
When the plants are in drought, the leaves are gray-green, and will be curved in and purple. In cultivation however, it will be green, erect and have very obvious red margins with small widely spaced teeth. Plants can get very large.
Flowers
Flowers grow on very long racemes, and are pastel orange, and run along around half of each raceme. May branch. The stamens are a more bright orange color.
References
schoelleri
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Wiremu Kīngi
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Wiremu Kīngi may refer to:
Wiremu Kīngi Maketū (c. 1824 – 7 March 1842), a Ngāpuhi Māori who was the first person executed in New Zealand under British rule
Wiremu Kīngi Moki Te Matakātea ( – 14 February 1893), a chief of the Māori tribe known as Taranaki
Wiremu Kīngi Te Rangitāke, ( – 13 January 1882), a chief of the Te Āti Awa tribe who led Māori forces in the First Taranaki War
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Nick Martinelli (basketball)
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Nick Martinelli is an American college basketball player for the Northwestern Wildcats of the Big Ten Conference.
High school career
Martinelli attended Glenbrook South High School in Glenview, Illinois. As a junior, he averaged 21.8 points and 5.9 rebounds per game. As a senior, he averaged 22.8 points per game, finishing his high school career with 1,331 total points. Martinelli originally committed to Elon University to play under head coach Mike Schrage. After Schrage resigned as head coach at Elon, Martinelli decommitted from the Phoenix. A three-star recruit, he committed to play college basketball at Northwestern University.
College career
After playing sparingly as a freshman, Martinelli's role increased as a sophomore. As a junior, Martinelli emerged as the team's leading scorer. In the season opener against Lehigh, he recorded a double-double, tallying 26 points and 10 rebounds. Against Maryland, he scored 22 points and hit the game-winning shot in overtime, helping lead the Wildcats to a 76–74 victory. Martinelli set the Northwestern single-season scoring record as a junior, surpassing John Shurna.
Career statistics
College
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| 33 || 33 || 37.6 || .471 || .333 || .728 || 6.2 || 1.7 || .7 || .2 || 20.5
References
External links
Northwestern Wildcats bio
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American men's basketball players
Small forwards
Northwestern Wildcats men's basketball players
People from Glenview, Illinois
Basketball players from Illinois
21st-century American sportsmen
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A Carnival Scene
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A Carnival Scene is an 1832 genre painting by the French artist Louis-Léopold Boilly. It depicts a Parisan street scene in the early years of the July Monarchy. A carnival is taking place in The Marais district, outside the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin. It has been described as Boilly's "most ambitious crowd scene".
It was exhibited at the Salon of 1833 at the Louvre. Today it is in the collection of Ramsbury Manor in Wiltshire. In 2019 it featured in an exhibition at the National Gallery in London.
References
Bibliography
Alsdorf, Bridget. Gawkers. Princeton University Press, 2022.
Whitlum-Cooper, Francesca. Boilly: Scenes of Parisian Life. National Gallery Company, 2019.
1832 paintings
Paintings by Louis-Léopold Boilly
Oil on canvas paintings
Paris in art
Genre paintings
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1897 Temple Cup
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The 1897 Temple Cup was an end-of-the-year best-of-seven playoff between the National League champion Baltimore Orioles and runner-up Boston Beaneaters. The series began on October 4 and ended on October 11 with the Orioles winning in five games.
Due to lack of enthusiasm from both players and fans, and the perception that the Temple Cup was more of a showcase than a championship, the 1897 Temple Cup would be the final version of the championship series. Aside from the 1900 Chronicle-Telegraph Cup, this would be the last championship series until the birth of the modern World Series in .
Summary
Baltimore won the series, 4–1.
Game summaries
Game 1
Game 2
Game 3
Game 4
Game 5
See also
1897 in baseball
List of pre-World Series baseball champions
References
Temple Cup
World Series
Temple Cup
Temple Cup
Baseball competitions in Baltimore
Baseball competitions in Boston
Baltimore Orioles (1882–1899)
Boston Braves
1897 in baseball
October 1897
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A Hill to Die Upon (album)
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A Hill to Die Upon is the third studio album by German deathcore band Mental Cruelty. It was released on May 28, 2021, through Unique Leader Records. It is the band's first album to feature guitarist Nahuel Lozano and drummer Danny Straßer, and their last album with vocalist Lucca Schmerler who was fired from the band in 2022 due to sexual abuse allegations. A music video for the track "King ov Fire" was released on April 29, 2021.
The album shows the band taking on more of a blackened deathcore sound compared to their more brutal earlier works, a direction which guitarist Marvin Kessler has stated to be influenced by Behemoth, Dimmu Borgir, Lorna Shore and Fleshgod Apocalypse.
Mental Cruelty embarked on a European tour in support of the album, with bands Distant, Necrotted, Paleface Swiss, Crown Magnetar, and Reduction.
Track listing
Personnel
Mental Cruelty
Lucca Schmerler – vocals, lyrics
Marvin Kessler – guitar, orchestrations, keyboards, songwriting, producer
Nahuel Lozano – guitar, orchestrations, keyboards, songwriting, producer, engineering
Viktor Dick – bass
Danny Straßer – drums
Guests
Yo Onityan – guitar solo on track 2
Other personnel
Josh Schroeder – producer, engineering, mixing, mastering, additional keyboards
Fabian Schuhmacher – producer, engineering, lyrics
Adam Burke – cover art
References
2021 albums
Mental Cruelty albums
Unique Leader Records albums
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Joan, Duchess of Brittany
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Joan, Duchess of Brittany may refer to:
Joan of France, Duchess of Brittany
Joan of Navarre, Queen of England
Joan of Savoy
Joan of Penthièvre
Joan of Flanders, Countess of Montfort
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Euceraea nitida
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Euceraea nitida is a species of flowering plant in the family Salicaceae. It is the type species of its genus, Euceraea.
The plant is found in Amazonian regions of Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and the North Region of Brazil. It thrives in forest ecosystems, often near streams, within slope forests, along forest-savannah borders, and in disturbed savannah woodlands or scrublands. Additionally, it is commonly seen on mesas, steep slopes, and cliff edges, on quartzite, rocky, or sandy soils, at altitudes ranging from .
There are no known uses of Euceraea nitida in trade.
Description
The plant grows as a shrub or small tree and reaches a height of up to with a trunk diameter of up to . Exhibiting a pyramidal shape, the plant is glabrous with gray to blackish bark characterized by lengthwise fissures. The slender, round branchlets end with sparse leaves, tips being purplish and shiny while older parts are gray, bearing prominent leaf scars. The leaves are oblong to elliptic, with an acuminate apex and a cuneate base extending to the petiole. Initially membranaceous, they become thin-coriaceous and nearly impunctate with age, brittle and shiny on both sides, with serrate edges, measuring in length and in width. The prominent midrib is noticeable on both sides with numerous close lateral veins forming an irregular network. The petiole is long, while the ovate-lanceolate stipules, long, are caducous, leaving scars broad. Short-pedunculate pyramidal panicles arise from the upper 1 to 3 axils, measuring in length and in width, and consist of densely flowered spikes. The minute, white or cream, scented flowers are nearly stalkless and appear 1 to 3 together on the slender, angular-compressed rachis. The flowers are characterized by 4 membranaceous sepals, long, which are caducous. They contain 8 stamens, alternately longer and shorter, separated by disk-like appendages, with the ovoid, glabrous ovary housing 4 to 6 short radiate stigmas. The indehiscent berry-like fruit is not yet known in its fully mature state and contains 1 to 3 arillate seeds.
Taxonomy
In 2022, Euceraea became a synonym of the genus Casearia, though many sources still recognize the species by its first name. Plants of the World Online named the species Casearia euceraea.
Conservation status
Euceraea nitida is listed as LC by the IUCN Red List and is very stable with over one million mature individuals in the wild. There are no known threats that endanger the species, and neither are there any conservation plans in place.
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Flora of Southern America
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Samuel G. Allen
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Samuel Gordon Allen (August 24, 1870 – October 16, 1956) was an American lawyer, businessman, and industrialist who specialized in railroad supplies. He founded the Lima Locomotive Works, the Combustion Engineering Company, and the American Arch Company. Allen was also a dog breeder and judge.
Early life
Allen was born in Warren, Pennsylvania on August 24, 1870. His parents were Marie (née Cook) and Orren Cartwright Allen. He attended public schools in Warren, followed by the Maryland Military and Naval Academy. He also graduated from the Pennsylvania State College where he was a member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity.
After college, Allen studied law. He was admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar on August 24, 1891.
Career
Allen practiced law with his brother, William Harrison Allen, in Warren for nine years, starting in 1891. On January 1, 1900, he began working in the railroad supply business. He worked for the Franklin Air Compressor Company in Franklin, Pennsylvania. In December 1901, he became the general manager of the Franklin Railway Supply Company, later called the Franklin-Balmar Corp. He became the company's vice president in 1902.
In March 1910, Allen co-founded the American Arch Company with Joel S. Coffin (president of the Franklin Railway Supply Company) and served as chairman of its board until 1949. In June 1910, Allen, Coffin, and George L. Borne formed the Locomotive Super-Heater Company, later called the Combustion Engineering Company.
In January 1916, Allen and Coffin purchased and reorganized the Lima Locomotive Works, later called the Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Works. Also in 1916, Allen replaced Coffin as president of the Franklin Railway Supply Company. During World War I, Allen served in the U.S. Army Ordinance Division as the assistance chief of the production division.
Allen was chairman of the board of the Air Pre-Heater Corp., the Lima Locomotive Works, and the Combustion Engineering Company. He was also associated with the Baldwin Locomotive Works. He was a member of the executive committee of the Superheater Company and was a director of the Franklin Railway Supply Company, the American Brake Shoe and Foundry Company, and the Locomotive Feed Water Heater Company. At the time of his death, he was the honorary chairman of the Franklin-Balmar Corp.
Personal life
Allen married Anna Lewis of Franklin, Pennsylvania on October 14, 1896. They had a daughter who died in April 1900 before her first birthday. They lived in Franklin from 1901 to 1908. After Anna died in October 1940, Allen married Emily Lee Myers of Franklin on January 12, 1946. They lived in Pinehurst, North Carolina and Rye, New York.
He was a director of the Pinehurst Religious Association, the Moore County Hospital, and The Forum in Pinehurst. He was a member of the board of trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology from 1933 to 1935.
Allen was elected to The Pennsylvania Society in 1902. He belonged to the Lake Placid Club, the Seigniory Club, the Union League Club, and the Westchester County Club. He was a member and president of the Pinehurst Country Club. He belonged to the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States.
Allen raised pointers and setters and was also a judge for pedigreed dog shows, including for the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show. He also served on the field trial committee of the American Kennel Club.
Allen died of a heart attack at the age of 82 in Pinehurst on October 16, 1956. He was buried in the Oakland Cemetery in Warren, Pennsylvania. Allen left a bequest of $100,000 ($ in 2023 money) to both the Pinehurst Religious Association and the Moore County Hospital.
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1870 births
1956 deaths
19th-century American lawyers
Pennsylvania State University alumni
20th-century American businesspeople
Phi Gamma Delta
People from Warren, Pennsylvania
American railroad executives
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1992 Northeastern Huskies football team
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The 1992 Northeastern Huskies football team was an American football team that represented Northeastern University as an independent during the 1992 NCAA Division I-AA football season. Led by second-year head coach Barry Gallup, the team compiled a 5–5–1 record.
Schedule
References
Northeastern
Northeastern Huskies football seasons
Northeastern Huskies Football
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Lin Hua-wei
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Lin Hua-wei (; born 27 May 1958) is a Taiwanese former baseball coach and manager and baseball executive. He currently serves as the general manager of the Fubon Guardians of the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) and Secretary General of the WBSC Asia (formerly the Baseball Federation of Asia).
Career
As an amateur player, Lin represented Taiwan at international level from 1978 to 1985, including as part of the squad that participated in the demonstration tournament at the 1984 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles.
After retirement, he joined the Chinese Taipei national baseball team coaching staff starting in 1990 until 2001. He coached in the 1992 Summer Olympics held in Barcelona, where Chinese Taipei won the silver medal.
Lin was the manager of the Chinese Taipei baseball team in the inaugural tournament of the World Baseball Classic in 2006.
In 2013 he was appointed as chancellor of the National Taiwan University of Sport, until 2021, when he was designated as general manager of the Fubon Guardians of the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL).
References
1958 births
International baseball executives
Sportspeople from Tainan
Taiwanese baseball players
20th-century Taiwanese people
Living people
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2025 UNCAF Women's U-19 Tournament
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The 2025 UNCAF Women's U-19 Tournament () was the second edition of the UNCAF Women's U-19 Tournament, the biennial international FIFA's sponsored women's youth football tournament contested by the under-19 national teams of the member associations of the Central American Football Union. The tournament was contested by six teams from January 16 to 22, 2025 in Panama City, Panama.
El Salvador were the defending champions, having won the 2023 edition. but failed to defend their title after failing to qualify for the final. Host and last edition's silver medalist Panama won their first title by defeating Nicaragua 3–0 in the final.
Participating teams
Initially, all seven UNCAF member nations were scheduled to participate in the tournament. However, Belize, originally drawn into Group A, withdrew before the competition began.
Squads
Players born between 1 January 2006 and 31 December 2009 are eligible to compete in the tournament.
Group Stage
All times are local, EST (UTC-5)
Group A
Group B
Placement matches
5th Place
3rd Place
Final
Goalscorers
References
External links
UNCAF Tournament on FIFA+
UNCAF U-19 Tournament
UNCAF Women's U-19 Tournament
International association football competitions hosted by Panama
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Dávid Jancsó
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Dávid Jancsó is a Hungarian film editor. He is known for his frequent collaboration with filmmaker Brady Corbet and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for The Brutalist (2024).
Selected filmography
White God (2014)
The Childhood of a Leader (2015)
Jupiter's Moon (2017)
Pieces of a Woman (2020)
The World to Come (2020)
Evolution (2021)
The Brutalist (2024)
Monkey Man (2024; co-editor)
Place to Be (TBA)
At the Sea (TBA)
Awards and nominations
Notes
References
External links
Hungarian film editors
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
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World Poker Tour season 23 results
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Below are the results for season 23 (XXIII) of the World Poker Tour, the WPT Main Tour events for 2025.
Results
Source:
WPT Cambodia Championship
Casino: NagaWorld Integrated Resort, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Buy-in: $3,500
6-Day Event: January 19-24, 2025
Number of Entries: 750
Total Prize Pool: $2,400,750
Number of Payouts: 94
WPT Rolling Thunder
Casino: Thunder Valley Casino Resort, Lincoln, California
Buy-in: $3,500
4-Day Event: March 16-19, 2025
Number of Entries: 404
Total Prize Pool: $1,292,800
Number of Payouts: 51
Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown
Casino: Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, Hollywood, Florida
Buy-in: $3,500
6-Day Event: April 4-8, 2025 + Final Table May 29, 2025 (Las Vegas)
Number of Entries: 1,755
Total Prize Pool: $5,616,000
Number of Payouts: 221
WPT Choctaw Championship
Casino: Choctaw Casino & Resort, Durant, Oklahoma
Buy-in: $3,800
5-Day Event: May 1-5, 2025 + Final Table May 30, 2025 (Las Vegas)
Number of Entries: 586
Total Prize Pool: $2,051,000
Number of Payouts: 74
WPT Cyprus Championship
Casino: Chamada Prestige Hotel & Spa, Kyrenia, Northern Cyprus, Cyprus
Buy-in: $3,500
6-Day Event: August 13-18, 2025
Number of Entries:
Guaranteed Prize Pool:
Number of Payouts:
WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star Championship
Casino: Bay 101, San Jose, California
Buy-in: $5,300
5-Day Event: October 25-29, 2025
Number of Entries:
Guaranteed Prize Pool:
Number of Payouts:
References
World Poker Tour
2025 in poker
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Amar Pared Mahamud
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Amar Pared bin Mahamud is a Malaysian politician who has served as Member of the Kedah State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Kuah since August 2023. He is a member of Malaysian United Indigenous Party (BERSATU), a component party of Perikatan Nasional (PN) coalition.
Election results
References
Living people
Malaysian United Indigenous Party politicians
Members of the Kedah State Legislative Assembly
Year of birth missing (living people)
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Threefold Recital
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Threefold Recital is a 2025 narrative adventure indie video game developed by Everscape Games, and published by indienova. The game was released on January 14, 2025, for Microsoft Windows.
Development
Threefold Recital is developed by Everscape Games, an independent game development studio from China.
Reception
Threefold Recital received "generally favorable" from critics, according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. Genghis Husameddin, from XboxEra, rated the game an 8, adoring the pleasant visuals and music as well as its frequent use of mini-games to pace progression, but disfavors that some of the "information presented can be a bit confusing".
VICEs Shaun Cichacki gave Threefold Recital a "Recommended" rating, praising "the high-quality art, cutesy style and plenty of tough but necessary conversations", but feels that "some of the translation feels a little stiff and off".
References
2025 video games
Fantasy video games
Indie games
Indienova games
Mystery adventure games
Platformers
Puzzle video games
Single-player video games
Video games about animals
Video games about foxes
Video games about dragons
Video games about magic
Video games about reptiles
Video games about wolves
Video games about technology
Video games developed in China
Video games featuring female protagonists
Visual novels
Windows-only games
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2025 Greek Women's Cup
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The 2025 Greek Women's Cup is the 10th edition of the Greek women's association football national cup organized by the Hellenic Football Federation (HFF). PAOK are the defending champions.
AEK Athens won their first cup title and completed a domestic double.
Schedule and format
For the 2025 edition of the tournament, participation is mandatory for all top division clubs and optional for the rest.
In the first phase, teams from the second and third division will be split into eight (8) groups. The division of the teams into groups will take place based on geographical criteria, with exceptions for island clubs.
All ties are played in a single-match decider at the home ground of the lower division opponent. If both sides belong to the same tier, the team that was guest in previous round will be the host or a draw will be held.
Preliminary round
During the draw that took place on 23 January 2025, Elpides Irodotou and Nees Ergoteli from Group 8 were picked to play a preliminary match. The winner will then compete against Poseidon Kamisianon-Rapanion for qualification to the second round.
First round
The draw was completed by the HFF on 23 January 2025, at the federation's headquarters in Goudi, Athens.
Second round
The draw was completed by the HFF on 23 January 2025, at the federation's headquarters in Goudi, Athens.
Third round
The draw was completed by the HFF on 17 March 2025, at the federation's headquarters in Goudi, Athens.
Quarter-finals
The draw was completed by the HFF on 1 April 2025, at the federation's headquarters in Goudi, Athens.
Semi-finals
The draw was completed by the HFF on 25 April 2025, at the federation's headquarters in Goudi, Athens.
Summary
The first legs will be played on 7 May, and the second legs on 14 May 2025.
Matches
Panathinaikos won 2–1 on aggregate.
AEK won 4–2 on aggregate.
Final
The final will be played on 24 May 2025 at the Panthessaliko Stadium in Volos. The match took place behind closed doors due to safety concerns.
Top goalscorers
References
External links
Hellenic Football Federation
Greek Women's Cup seasons
Cup
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I've Tried Everything but Therapy (Part 2)
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I've Tried Everything but Therapy (Part 2) is the second half of the debut studio album by American singer and songwriter Teddy Swims. A follow up to his debut album I've Tried Everything but Therapy (Part 1), the album was released on January 24, 2025, by Warner Records, and features the singles "Bad Dreams", "Are You Even Real" and "Guilty", and also includes the Bose x NME: C24 Mixtape single, "Funeral".
An album reflecting the current state of his personal life, I've Tried Everything but Therapy (Part 2) blends together diverse genres, including R&B, pop, country, rock, and soul-pop, and features artists such as Giveon, Muni Long, Coco Jones, and GloRilla.
I've Tried Everything but Therapy (Part 2) peaked at number one in Australia and Croatia, and entered the top ten in Austria, Belgium, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Scotland, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The album also received a silver certification from the British Phonographic Industry.
Background and promotion
In an interview with People magazine, Swims revealed how his personal life has influenced the creation of I've Tried Everything but Therapy (Part 2), specifically his single "Bad Dreams". He revealed that the song was inspired by his current girlfriend, Raiche Wright, and her ability to help him navigate during his restless nights. He also described the album as a more upbeat record in comparison to his debut album, reflecting the current state of his personal life. He added, "I feel like we're closing a chapter on a moment in my life that deserves to be closed." He also added that the album is meant to share to the listeners regarding the progress of his healing journey, and that "how on the other side of heartbreak, there’s a beautiful life waiting to happen".
To promote the album, Swims appeared on The Kelly Clarkson Show, talking about how the album will provide more healing and closure to what he was working through in his debut album. Likewise, he appeared on The Jennifer Hudson Show. He also made a guest appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, performing the song "Bad Dreams".
Critical reception
I've Tried Everything but Therapy (Part 2) was met with generally positive reviews from music critics. Writing for the magazine Rolling Stone, Maura Johnston gave the album a favorable review, calling Swims a "pop scholar", and that "he shines most brightly when he’s in settings that suggest jukebox hits of yore". Jordan Bassett from New Musical Express and Damien Morris from The Observer both gave the album 4 stars out of 5. Bassett said that "the swiftly released follow-up staves off a bad case of sequelitis because it successfully deepens Swims’ story". Morris, on the other hand, wrote that the sequel album "feels more corporate", calling the tracks "genre-hopping" and "playlist-pleasing", and that the album is "much gusty whimpering about how great his girlfriend is."
Ludovic Hunter-Tilney from the British newspaper Financial Times gave it a 3 out of 5, writing that the album has a "calculating heart amid the songs’ romantic turbulence." Renowned for Sound'''s Ryan Bulbeck also gave the album a positive review, saying that the album "not only continues the sound of the previous release, but also the watertight songwriting and excellent performances". Tai Lawson from Shatter the Standards gave it a 3.5 out of 5 stars, citing that the album "feels more mature and cohesive", "demonstrates growth in both songwriting and production", and calling the arrangements "sophisticated, with instrumental layers that create rich textures without overshadowing Teddy’s powerful voice". Lawson also applauded Swims' vocal versatility, calling it "loaded with emotion and capable of moving seamlessly between subtle and powerful."
Writing for the magazine Variety, Jem Aswad stated that the album "succeeds, although its head-spinning array of genres — different takes on pop, R&B and country — try a little too hard to be everything for everybody." He also applauded Swims' vocal delivery, calling it "stellar" and "versatile", albeit noting that his attempts at multiple genres "do not always land" because of the album's oversized production. Michael Cragg from The Guardian'' gave the album a mixed review, saying that the album was not "designed to creep up on you". He pointed out Swims’ "occasional lyrical shortcomings" but praised the "airier, soft-rock sound" songs of the album.
Track listing
Credits and personnel
Musicians
Jaten Dimsdale – lead vocals (all tracks), background vocals (1, 4, 7–9, 11, 13)
Matt Zara – guitar (tracks 1–2, 4, 10, 12), drums (1–2, 4, 12), bass (1–2, 4, 10, 12), piano (1–2, 4, 10), programming (1–2, 10, 12), synthesizer (1, 4, 10, 12), organ (2, 10), percussion (1, 12), strings (10), keyboards (12), background vocals (12)
Julian Bunetta – drums (1–5, 9, 11–12), programming (tracks 1–3, 10–12), synthesizer (3–4, 7), background vocals (2–4, 12), percussion (1, 3, 9, 11), guitar (3–4, 11–12), piano (3, 9, 11), bass (1, 11), synthesizer (9)
Jeff Gitelman – programming (tracks 3, 6, 8), drums (3, 6, 8), bass (3, 6, 8), guitar (3, 8, 13), percussion (3, 8), background vocals (3), electric guitar (6), piano (8), synthesizer (8)
John Ryan – programming (track 8–9, 13), background vocals (8–9, 13), guitar (8–9, 13), bass (8–9, 13), piano (8–9, 13), percussion (8–9, 13), synthesizer (8–9, 13), drums (9, 13)
Joshua Coleman – programming (track 1), drums (1), background vocals (1), strings (1), percussion (1), bass (1), piano (1), synthesizer (1)
Peter Thomas – drums (track 5), guitar (5), bass (5), piano (5), synthesizer (5)
Ian Fitchuk – programming (track 7), drums (7), piano (7), percussion (7), acoustic guitar (7)
Daniel Tashian – bass (track 7), acoustic guitar (7), synthesizer (7), slide guitar (7)
Jon Green – programming (track 2), piano (2), drums (2), strings (2)
Jonathan Hoskins – programming (track 9), percussion (9), drums (9)
John Sudduth – background vocals (tracks 2–3, 12)
Drew McKeon – drums (tracks 3, 6, 8)
Bryan Page – drums (track 3), violin (6)
Jasper Harris – keyboards (track 11), background vocals (11)
Giveon Dezmann Evans – vocals (track 5)
Priscilla Renea – vocals (track 6)
Courtney Jones – vocals (track 11)
Gloria Woods – vocals (track 11)
Mikkel S. Eriksen – programming (track 11)
Tor Erik Hermansen – programming (track 11)
Denise Carite – background vocals (track 2)
Marcus Lomax – background vocals (track 3)
TaeJaun Ellis – background vocals (track 5)
Brendan Civale – background vocals (track 8)
Damon Bunetta – background vocals (track 8)
Rocky Block – background vocals (track 12)
Rixlii – strings (track 1)
Dann Huff – guitar (track 2)
Charlie Coffeen – piano (track 6)
Sora M. Lopez – cello (track 6)
Erik Elligers – tenor saxophone (track 6)
Miles Julian – trumpet (track 6)
Austin Hoke – cello (track 7)
Betsy Lamb – viola (track 7)
Annaliese Kowert – violin (track 7)
Laura Epling – violin (track 7)
Ian McGimpsey – pedal steel guitar (track 9)
Shaan Ramaprasad – strings (track 12)
Technical
Nathan Dantzler – mastering
Serban Ghenea – mixing (tracks 1, 3, 6–8, 11–12)
Jeff Gunnell – mixing (tracks 2, 4, 10), recording (1–5, 7–10, 12–13)
Julian Bunetta – mixing (tracks 2, 4), recording (1–5, 9–10, 12)
Matt Zara – recording (tracks 1–2, 4, 10, 12)
Jeff Gitelman – recording (tracks 3, 6, 8)
John Ryan – recording (tracks 8–9, 13)
Alex Ghenea – mixing (tracks 5, 9, 13)
Joshua Coleman – recording (track 1)
Jon Green – recording (track 2)
Peter Thomas – recording (track 5)
Brian Cruz – recording (track 5)
Kuk Harrell – recording (track 6)
Xavier Daniel – recording (track 6)
Konrad Snyder – recording (track 7)
Jonathan Hoskins – recording (track 9)
Stargate – recording (track 11)
Aaron Bolton – recording (track 11)
Philip Lynah Jr. – recording (track 11)
Jordan Lehning – strings engineering (track 7)
Harrison Tate – mastering assistance (tracks 1–3, 5–13)
Terena Dawn – recording assistance (track 5)
Charts
Certifications
References
2025 albums
Teddy Swims albums
Warner Records albums
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Portland's 1st City Council district (Oregon)
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Portland's 1st City Council district is one of four multi-member districts electing three people to Portland City Council in Portland, Oregon. The district is located in the eastern part of the city and comprises primarily of parts of the city east of Interstate 205 all the way to the city's eastern border with Gresham, as well as Portland International Airport.
The district contains the neighborhoods of Argay, Centennial, Glenfair, Hazelwood, Lents, Mill Park, Parkrose, Parkrose Heights, Pleasant Valley, Powellhurst-Gilbert, Russell, Sumner, Wilkes, and Woodland Park.
District 1 is currently represented on Portland City Council by Candace Avalos, Loretta Smith, and Jamie Dunphy. They were elected to four-year terms in 2024.
Election results
2024
References
Government of Portland, Oregon
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Gareth John (sound engineer)
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Gareth John is a British sound engineer. He won an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film Dune: Part Two.
At the 78th British Academy Film Awards, he won a BAFTA Award for Best Sound. His win was shared with Ron Bartlett, Doug Hemphill and Richard King.
Selected filmography
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (2015)
The Foreigner (2017)
War Machine (2017)
The Mercy' (2018)
The King (2019; won for Best Sound Recording and Best Soundtrack at the ASSG Awards)
The Old Guard (2020)
Eternals (2021)
Catherine Called Birdy (2022)
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)
Dune: Part Two (2024; co-won an Academy Award, a BAFTA and AMPS Award)
The Gorge (2025)
F1'' (expected 2025)
References
External links
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
British audio engineers
21st-century British engineers
Best Sound BAFTA Award winners
Best Sound Mixing Academy Award winners
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Hymenaster
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Hymenaster is a genus of sea stars (Asteroidea) of the family Pterasteridae.
Species list
According to the World Register of Marine Species, the genus includes 52 valid species:
References
Asteroidea
Echinoderms described in 1873
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Gymnaspidini
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Gymnaspidini is a tribe in the armored scale insect family Diaspididae. They are found in the Neotropics.
Gymnaspidini was elevated in rank from subtribe in Normark 2019, retaining only 3 of its ~16 genera.
Genera
These three genera belong to the tribe Gymnaspidini:
Gymnaspis Newstead, 1898
Hemigymnaspis Lindinger 1943
Lindingeria MacGillivray 1921
References
External links
Diaspididae
Hemiptera tribes
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Collegiate Wushu Tournament
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The Collegiate Wushu Tournament, previously known as the Intercollegiate Wushu Championships, is a collegiate wushu taolu competition. The tournament was founded in 1997 and is the highest level at which wushu taolu takes place at the post-secondary level in the United States. The Collegiate Wushu Tournament is also the first wushu competition in the United States to include groupset and team all-around championships modeled after competitions in China including the national games.
Eligible competitors must either be enrolled (either full or part-time), on a brief leave of absence, or have recently graduated from an institution based in North America. Medalists of the Collegiate Wushu Tournament have included US Wushu Team members Alfred Hsing, Colvin Wang, Brian Wang, Phillip Chen, and others. Phillip Dang and Stephanie Lim hold the most individual all-around titles in men's and women's events respectively, while UC Berkeley (Cal Wushu) holds the most team titles.
Results of this competition are not affiliated with the selection process for wushu at the Summer Universiade.
Editions
History
Origins
In the 1970s, modern wushu practitioners began to emigrate from China into the United States and began opening teaching studios. One such person was Anthony Chan who curated wushu in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 1981, Chan founded Cal Wushu as the wushu team of UC Berkeley, but the team dissolved around 1983 when he moved to Los Angeles. Another individual of this first wave of modern wushu emigrants was Roger Tung who was pivotal in developing wushu in Seattle then in Los Angeles. In 1986, he co-founded the UCLA Wushu Team with student Tom Hagan. A year later, Cal Wushu was reestablished by Bryant Fong. In 1992, the team began hosting the Chinese Martial Arts Tournament (CMAT) which became the first martial arts competition in the United States exclusively for Chinese martial arts. The third collegiate wushu team to be created was the University of Oregon Wushu Team by future movie star Daniel Wu in 1994.
In 1996, members of Cal Wushu, UCLA Wushu, and UO Wushu met at CMAT. Despite the growing competition circuit being established by the United States of America Wushu Kungfu Federation, the collegiate students wanted to create a competition exclusively for college wushu teams. On February 9, 1997, the Oregon All-Collegiate Wushu Invitational was held at the University of Oregon as the first "wushu collegiates." The competition was organized by future US Wushu Team member Brandon Sugiyama who became known as the "father of collegiates."
Competition history
Early period: 1997-2003
After the 1997 collegiates, other teams at schools such as Stanford, UC Irvine, and CSU Fullerton were quickly established. The collegiate wushu community also developed a close association with the Beijing Wushu Team and Wu Bin in the late 1990s since Cal Wushu and UCLA Wushu hosted the team during their US tours. Some members, including Liu Qinghua, Jian Zengjiao, He Jingde, Li Jing, and Jiang Bangjun, would judge the 1999 collegiates in UC Irvine. After a number of incidents relating to competitor eligibility in that competition, the rules were revised heavily ahead of the 2000 collegiates. As a result, only UC Berkeley and Stanford were eligible to field teams to that competition. This collegiates also marked the first time a non-West Coast team attended the competition which was the University of Wisconsin–Madison Wushu Team. Other teams that were formed after the turn of the century were based at schools including the University of Maryland - College Park (Terp Wushu), University of Texas at Austin, Ohio State University (Dragon Phoenix Wushu Team), and UCSD.
Modernization: 2004-2019
In late 2003, the IWUF published the first draft of the major "Rules for International Taolu Competition" revision. As a result, the rules were revised ahead of the 2004 Collegiates which added a score component of 0.6 points to advanced changquan and nanquan that can consist of degree of difficulty (nandu) movements. All other events continued to be judged by IWUF 1998 Rules. In 2006, the US Wushu Union (not to be confused with the USAWKF) published a rules revision which was then adopted by the Collegiate Wushu Tournament in 2008.
In 2007, Terp Wushu hosted the first Collegiate Wushu Tournament on the East Coast, which began the trend of the tournament alternating between the west and east coasts every two years. This development along with Terp Wushu's University Wushu Games (UWG) promoted collegiate wushu on the East Coast, and thus teams at places such as Columbia University, Harvard, Cornell, Yale, and the University of Pittsburgh began to form.
Starting with the 2009 collegiates at Georgia Tech, Cal Wushu would begin a winning streak in the groupset and team all-around championships for a decade. One of the most famous incidents during this time period was during the 2011 collegiates at UCLA, where Keenan Stone of the University of Virginia lost his pants during his compulsory changquan routine. At the 2019 collegiates at UC Irvine, UCLA ended Cal Wushu's championship title streak in the groupset event.
Post-pandemic era: 2020-present
The quick onset of the COVID-19 pandemic cancelled the 2020 Collegiate Wushu Tournament at Columbia University on very short notice. In 2022 amidst uncertainties over reopening, Terp Wushu volunteered to host the 1st Intercollegiate Wushu Games in May as a substitute for an official collegiates. A few months later, San Jose State University's Spartan Wushu won the bid to host the 2023 collegiates but faced several administrative issues. Cal Wushu eventually offered to host the 2023 collegiates. At the competition, UCLA Wushu became the first team to achieve a podium sweep for the team all-around championship. Terp Wushu also hosted the 2nd Intercollegiate Wushu Games the same day as the Collegiate Wushu Tournament to cater to East Coast schools. The following year in 2024, the first full collegiates in five years was finally held at UCLA.
Competition
Unlike most national or international wushu competitions (with the exception of the Taolu World Cup), the Collegiate Wushu Tournament only runs taolu events and no sanda events. The competition runs both modern and traditional wushu events across advanced, intermediate, and beginner categories for each gender. All-around titles and degree of difficulty events are restricted only to advanced athletes.
As of 2024, almost all events are judged according to the 2002/2006 US Wushu Union Rules which are modeled after the IWUF 1998 rules. The 10.0 score is broken into three components: 6.0 points for "technical specifications of performance," 2.0 points for "demonstration of power and coordination of rhythm," and 2.0 points for "elements of spirit, rhythm, content, structure and choreography."
Champions
Groupset national champions
Groupset titles
Team all-around national champions
Team all-around titles
Individual all-around national champions
See also
Wushu at the Summer World University Games
United States of America Wushu Kungfu Federation
References
External links
College sports championships in the United States
Annual college sporting events in the United States
Recurring sporting events established in 1997
Wushu competitions in the United States
1997 establishments in the United States
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Liedman
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Liedman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Gabe Liedman, American comedian and comedy writer
Sven-Eric Liedman (born 1939), Swedish historian
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Salon of 1833
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The Salon of 1833 was an art exhibition held at the Louvre in Paris which opened on the 1 March 1833. It was held during the July Monarchy of Louis Philippe I and the first Salon to be staged since the failed Paris Uprising of 1832 against his rule. The critic Heinrich Heine, reviewing the Salon, observed that Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was the dominant figure of the Salon. "Like Louis-Philippe in politics, M. Ingres was this year the king in art: as the former reigned at the Tuileries, he reigned at the Louvre". Eugene Delacroix who had enjoyed success at the Salon of 1831 with Liberty Leading the People, was away in Morocco in 1832 and short of time he submitted a few watercolours and portraits rather than the history paintings he had become known for.
Amongst the works on display was The Nation Is in Danger, a large patriotic painting commissioned by Louis Philippe I from Auguste-Hyacinthe Debay of which only a fragment now survives. Joseph-Désiré Court exhibited his history painting Boissy d'Anglas at the National Convention.
Charles Durupt submitted his Henry III watching the Assassination of the Duke of Guise. Horace Vernet showed paintings he had produced while serving as French Academy in Rome including the Portrait of the Marchesa Cunegonda Misciattelli and the history painting Raphael at the Vatican. Théodore Rousseau submitted an landscape painting View near Granville. Leopold Boilly entered a genre painting A Carnival Scene featuring a crowd scene of Paris.
From 1833 onwards the Salon, which had previously been roughly biannual, was held annually beginning with the Salon of 1834.
Gallery
References
Bibliography
Allard, Sébastien & Fabre, Côme. Delacroix. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018.
Boime, Albert. Art in an Age of Counterrevolution, 1815-1848. University of Chicago Press, 2004.
Harkett, Daniel & Hornstein, Katie (ed.) Horace Vernet and the Thresholds of Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture. Dartmouth College Press, 2017.
Hazan, Eric. Hazan. Verso Books, 2022.
Kelly, Simon. Théodore Rousseau and the Rise of the Modern Art Market: An Avant-Garde Landscape Painter in Nineteenth-Century France. Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2021.
McWilliam, Neil. Dreams of Happiness: Social Art and the French Left, 1830-1850. Princeton University Press, 2017.
Smyth, Patricia. Paul Delaroche: Painting and Popular Spectacle. Liverpool University Press, 2022.
Tinterow, Gary & Conisbee, Philip (ed.) Portraits by Ingres: Image of an Epoch. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999.
1833 in art
Art exhibitions in France
Events in Paris
Salon de peinture et de sculpture
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Paul Guilhaume
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Paul Guilhaume is a French cinematographer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Cinematography for the film Emilia Pérez.
At the 50th César Awards, he won a César Award for Best Cinematography.
Personal life
Guilhaume is in a relationship with filmmaker Léa Mysius.
Selected filmography
Feature films
References
External links
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
French cinematographers
University of Paris alumni
Best Cinematography César Award winners
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Portland's 2nd City Council district (Oregon)
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Portland's 2nd City Council district is one of four multi-member districts electing three people to Portland City Council in Portland, Oregon. The district contains most of North and Northeast Portland north of Interstate 84 and west of 82nd Avenue.
The district contains the neighborhoods of Alameda, Arbor Lodge, Beaumont-Wilshire, Boise, Bridgeton, Cathedral Park, Concordia, Cully, Dignity Village, East Columbia, Eliot, Grant Park, Hayden Island, Hollywood, Humboldt, Irvington, Kenton, King, Lloyd District, Madison South, Overlook, Piedmont, Portsmouth, Sabin, St. Johns, Sullivan's Gulch, Sumner, Sunderland, University Park, Vernon, and Woodlawn.
District 2 is currently represented on Portland City Council by Dan Ryan, Elana Pirtle-Guiney, and Sameer Kanal. They were elected to four-year terms in 2024.
Pirtle-Guiney currently serves as the first president of the new city council and is the council's first LGBTQ+ woman (along with Angelita Morillo of District 3). Ryan is the only member of the previous City Commission to serve in the new version of city government, while Kanal is the first Asian American to serve on city council (along with Tiffany Koyama Lane of District 3).
Election results
2024
References
Government of Portland, Oregon
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I'm Not a Robot (film)
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I'm Not a Robot () is a 2023 Dutch-language short science fiction drama film written and directed by Victoria Warmerdam. It stars Ellen Parren as a woman who plunges into a strange new reality after she fails a series of CAPTCHA tests.
An international co-production between Belgium and the Netherlands, I'm Not a Robot had its world premiere at the Netherlands Film Festival on 23 September 2023, and was made available for streaming via the YouTube channel of The New Yorker on 15 November 2024. It won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in 2025, becoming the first Dutch short film to do so.
Plot
Dutch music producer Lara is listening to Scala & Kolacny Brothers' cover of Radiohead's "Creep" at work when a system update forces her to restart her laptop. The update presents her with a series of CAPTCHA tests, which she repeatedly fails despite inputting the correct answers. Frustrated, she calls tech support. The voice on the other end suggests that Lara can't get through because she is a robot and tells her that she would not "be the first to find out this way". The voice hangs up after refusing to assist her.
Lara fails more tests and is then redirected to another test that asks a series of arbitrary questions, including whether she feels like an outsider and whether her partner is wealthy; when she confirms that her parents died in an accident before she was old enough to remember them, the test responds that they most likely never existed. When she completes the test, it concludes that there is an 87% chance she is a robot and welcomes her to the "bot community". Disturbed, she leaves her desk.
Lara videocalls her boyfriend Daniël and tells him the result of the test, but he awkwardly makes an excuse and ends the call. In a work meeting about affirmative action, Lara is distracted as she continually attempts to contact Daniël. He later visits her at work alongside a woman who introduces herself as Pam, who informs Lara that she is indeed a robot and was chosen by Daniël five years earlier to be his girlfriend. Daniël attempts to assure Lara that she still has emotions and autonomy, but she feels used and goes to the roof of the nearby multi-storey car park.
Daniël goes after Lara and begs her not to throw away their relationship. He reveals that the only thing setting Lara apart from a human is that she is programmed to die shortly after Daniël does, since he was unwilling to mourn her "again", but tells her that she still has the freedom to leave him. Lara questions him about his deceased girlfriend Olivia and ponders what would happen if she attempted suicide. Pam appears and asserts that Lara is incapable of ending her life if Daniël doesn't want her to. Desperate, Lara jumps from the roof. Shortly after hitting the ground, she begins to bleed out, but quickly regains consciousness. Credits roll as the cover of "Creep" plays again.
Cast
Ellen Parren as Lara
Henry van Loon as Daniël
Thekla Reuten as Pam
Juliette van Ardenne as Collega
Asma El Mouden as Saar
Sophie Höppener as Sollicitant Billy
Joep Vermolen as Klusjesman
Sieger Sloot as Klantenservice medewerker
Production
An international co-production between Belgium and the Netherlands, the film was shot on 2-perf 35 mm with Kodak film stock in an Aaton Penelope camera. The shots featuring the stunt at the end were filmed in 3-perf format with an Arriflex 235 camera. The film was produced with a carbon neutral approach; in addition to ensuring that pre-production and filming were conducted as sustainable as possible under the guidance of a sustainability manager, a food forest was planted in the Netherlands to offset the production's emissions. Principal photography ran from 515 May 2023 and took place at locations in Belgium such as Dilbeek, Leuven, and Watermael-Boitsfort. The office scenes were filmed in the CBR Building in Watermael-Boitsfort.
Release
I'm Not a Robot had its world premiere in the Golden Calf Competition at the Netherlands Film Festival on 23 September 2023. It also featured at the 56th Sitges Film Festival in October 2023, the Leuven International Short Film Festival in December 2023, the Australian Flickerfest on 23 January 2024, the 42nd Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival in April 2024, the Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films on 7 June 2024, the 28th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival and the 28th Fantasia International Film Festival in Canada in July 2024, and the Oscar-qualifying program of the Bend Film Festival on 11 October 2024.
The film was made available for streaming via the YouTube channel of The New Yorker on 15 November 2024.
Reception
I'm Not a Robot won the award for Best Short Film at the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival in July 2024. It won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in 2025, becoming the first Dutch short film to win the latter.
Trivia
In 2022, Jason Speir's short film I Am Not a Robot was released with the same theme.
Accolades
References
External links
Official film on YouTube for The New Yorker
2023 short films
2023 science fiction films
Dutch science fiction films
2020s Dutch-language films
Belgian short films
Dutch short films
Films about androids
Live Action Short Film Academy Award winners
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Manston arrivals and processing centre
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Manston arrivals and processing centre is a centre used for the processing of migrants who have crossed the English Channel, located on the former site of RAF Manston in Manston, Kent, United Kingdom. Opened in February 2022, it was intended to house around 1,000 to 1,600 people for less than 24 hours at a time, though by autumn 2022 it housed over 4,000 people at a time for up to 33 days.
The site is located three miles inland from Ramsgate, and is largely hidden from public view. , outsourcers operating at the site included Management and Training Corporation, Mitie and Interforce. It accommodates both adults and children, featuring a family section which includes facilities for parents with babies and toddlers.
History
2022: Opening and autumn crisis
The centre opened in January or February 2022 as a direct response to the influx of people arriving across the English Channel in small boats. It was initially designed to hold 1000 people, or 1600 people at maximum capacity, for less than 24 hours at a time. Improved weather for Channel crossings led to increasing arrivals, which then led to conditions in the centre quickly deteriorating by that summer.
In the autumn of 2022, over 4,000 migrants were staying at the centre, with hundreds being detained for up to 33 days longer than the legal 24-hour limit and guards being sourced from private security firms. Many were held in wedding marquees. This influx led to overcrowding and a resultant spread of diseases including diphtheria, of which there were 50 cases, as well as scabies and MRSA. Local officials had raised issues with the Home Office concerning infection control a week before the outbreak. Then-chief inspector of borders and immigration David Neal visited the site in October; he wrote that people were sleeping on the dirty floors of the marquees to sleep, that toilets were overflowing with faeces, that there was inadequate medical care access, and that new arrivals were referred to by a wristband number instead of by their name.
On 29 October The Times reported that then home secretary Suella Braverman had received advice at least three weeks prior that migrants were being detained for unlawfully long periods at Manston, that they urgently needed to be rehoused in alternative accommodation, and that the matter could result in a public inquiry. It further reported that Braverman refused to secure new hotels for the asylum seekers, which Braverman disputed. On 30 October, an incendiary device attack on the Western Jet Foil processing centre led to a total of 700 people being moved from that centre to Manston. On 1 November, a group of 11 asylum seekers from Manston were left at London Victoria station without accommodation or warm clothing. Braverman visited the centre on 3 November, arriving by military helicopter, and made a statement that steps were being taken to "immediately" improve the centre's situation. On November 4, the government stated that over 1,200 people had been moved from Manston in the past four days, reducing numbers at the centre to 2,600. Home Office contractors were disciplined the same day after asylum seekers at Manston complained that security staff were attempting to smoke cannabis and also sell the drug to them.
On 19 November, Hussein Haseeb Ahmed, a 31-year-old man from Iraq who had been staying at the processing centre and who had contracted diphtheria, died after being taken to hospital the previous day. He had travelled to the UK as part of a small boat crossing on 12 November. 18,000 people, of a total of 29,000 processed between June and November 2022, were unlawfully detained at Manston for longer than 24 hours. Additionally, Home Office staff had no reliable data on the site between September and November. On 22 November, it was announced that the site had been cleared of people being held there, and all residents were placed in temporary accommodation.
From 25 to 28 November, a delegation of seven people from the Council of Europe’s Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment Committee (CPT) made a rare “rapid reaction” visit to the site. The Kent Coast Independent Monitoring Board had additionally made visits to monitor Manston throughout October and November. 44 charities, including the Refugee Council, Save the Children and the International Rescue Committee, signed a letter to The Guardian calling for a "Windrush"-style independent inquiry on 29 November. On 30 November The Guardian reported that the centre was thought to again be operational.
2023–2024: Management contracts, mural removal, investment, and inquiry
In June 2023, Management and Training Corporation signed a contract to provide services at the detention centre until July 2024. At the time, the contractor had 211 staff in a variety of roles including security, helping medical teams deliver assessments and operating some residential units.
In July 2023, immigration minister Robert Jenrick ordered the removal of children's murals at Kent Intake Unit in Dover as well as at Manston; these, which included Anna from the movie Frozen and cartoon robins, and which had previously been praised in a His Majesty's Inspectorate of Prisons report, were painted over at both sites on 4 July by the Ministry of Justice’s estates team. A Freedom of Information request revealed that the painting over of the Manston murals cost the Home Office £1,549.52. Jenrick said he regretted the order the next year.
In December 2023, the Home Office stated it had earmarked at least £700 million for commercial partners at immigration facilities, including Western Jet Foil and National Reception Centre at Manston. This included the construction of "permanent, purpose-built facilities" at Manston, and extensive "wrap-around" catering, security and medical support services. A report by the Independent Monitoring Boards in October found that three Home office processing centres for small boat arrivals, Manston, Western Jet Foil and KIU, identified “serious concerns about the conditions in which people were being held, particularly at Manston”.
In December 2023, the High Court granted former detainees of the centre permission to seek a judicial review of the Home Office not launching an inquiry into the centre. In March 2024, the Home Office announced it would launch an inquiry into the mistreatment of asylum seekers at the centre, though did not state who would lead the inquiry. The Guardian reported in July that the Children’s Commissioner for England, Rachel de Souza, was to visit Manston, citing concerns over how children were processed there, some of whom had been processed as adults despite being children. In September, new home secretary Yvette Cooper downgraded the statutory inquiry to an independent inquiry, citing its £26 million cost, estimated to decrease to £2.6 million with the independent inquiry, as a reason. A legal challenge against this led to government documents on Manston being disclosed in the high court in November, as well as several of the asylum seekers who were held there coming forward about their experiences.
In October 2024, the UK government advertised a six-year £521 million contract to manage both the Manston Reception Centre and Western Jet Foil, with an option to extend the contract a further four years.
See also
English Channel migrant crossings (2018–present)
Immigration detention in the United Kingdom
Modern immigration to the United Kingdom
References
Immigration detention centres and prisons in England
Buildings and structures in Kent
Refugee camps in Europe
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Capitulation of Madrid (1808)
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At the Capitulation of Madrid, on 4 December 1808, that city's military commander Tomás de Morla and the civil governor Fernando de la Vera, in representation of the Junta of Defence (Junta Militar y Política de Madrid), capitulated to the Prince de Neuchâtel, Marshal Louis-Alexandre Berthier, in representation of Napoleon, who had himself arrived two days previously at the head of over 40,000 troops, at Chamartin, then a small village just outside the city, to the north, on 2 December, the anniversary of his important victory at Austerlitz.
It was the second time that year that a large force of French troops had entered the capital of Spain. The previous March, Marshal Murat, the newly named Grand-Duke of Berg and the 'Lieutenant of the Emperor', had also done so at Chamartín at the head of a large body of cavalry, under Grouchy, who would be appointed the military governor of Madrid during this first period, and 20,000 infantry. Murat had entered Madrid precisely the day before the arrival of the new king, Ferdinand VII. That first period of "occupation" under Murat would lead to the violent reaction of the Second of May Uprising and, ultimately to King Joseph, proclaimed monarch the following month, almost immediately ordering the evacuation of the French garrison and civil administration, which was completed by 1 August.
Terms
Article 1 stated that no religion save the Catholic Apostolic Roman faith should be tolerated
Article 2 referred to maintaining all existing officials in their places
Article 7 stated that French troops would not be quartered in the monasteries
Article 11 (not included in the original terms of capitulation submitted by the city's Junta) referred to policing, stating that this would be carried out by French soldiers.
Background
Just days before the Spanish army's victory at the Battle of Bailén (July 1808), which resulted in the first open-field defeat of a Napoleonic army, and with the Imperial French Army's II corps d'observation de la Gironde, under General Dupont, capitulating to General Castaños, King Joseph had made his entrance to Madrid through the Puerta de Alcalá on 20 July 1808. However, when news of Dupont's defeat reached the capital, the King was forced to order the evacuation of the French garrison and administration, which was completed by 1 August, and retreat to Aranda de Duero.
Despite that major setback, following the rout of General Belvedere's division at Gamonal (10 November), it was clear that Napoleon would head for Madrid, and on 25 November, the Marquis of Castelar, Captain-General of New Castile, and General Tomás de Morla were tasked with defending Madrid, well aware that, as a city, it was indefensible.
30 November
General Ruffin, whose division was but the "skirmishing line" of a huge army approaching the city, had pushed through the mountain pass at Somosierra, defeating General San Juan's army at the battle there on 30 November. That same evening, Napoleon set up his headquarters at Buitrago.
1 December
Latour-Maubourg's and Lasalle's cavalry reached the northern suburbs of Madrid. That same day, the Junta of Defence was set up, presided over by the Duke of the Infantado, which included Morla and Castelar, and "a large and heterogeneous mass of colleagues... and prominent citizens forming an unwieldy body very unfit to act as an executive council of war".
2 December
Lahoussaye's and Latour-Maubourg's dragoons invested the northern and eastern fronts of the city in the morning. Napoleon arrived at noon, followed later that afternoon by the infantry columns of Marshal Victor's corps. That afternoon, General Montbrun handed over a summons to the Junta, which replied that "the people of Madrid were resolved to bury themselves under the ruins of their houses rather than to permit the French troops to enter their city".
Napoleon therefore commenced the preparations for an attack to be made the following morning and sent Lapisse's division of Victor's corps to clear the ground. Under cover of night, thirty guns were located opposite the weak earthworks defending Madrid's Retiro Heights, with smaller artillery in front of several of the northern and eastern gates of the city.
3 December
Before dawn, Napoleon sent another summons to surrender, to which Castelar replied that there should be a suspension of arms for twelve hours, a delay clearly aimed at allowing the Spanish field-armies time to reach Madrid.
Napoleon's response was to order an immediate assault and the ensuing cannonade opened against several of the gates on the northern and eastern sides of the city, with the heaviest bombardment being delivered against the Retiro Heights, where several breaches were opened. General Villatte's division of Victor's corps stormed the position, garrisoned by the new levies of a single battalion of the Regiment of Mazzaredo, supported by a mass of armed citizens.
4 December
Following the capitulation, Napoleon signed the decree abolishing the Council of Castile.
5 December
On 5 December, Napoleon wrote to the French governor of the city, General Belliard, regarding the capitulation; "The Spaniards have failed to carry it out, and I consider the whole thing void".
As well as declaring prisoners of war all those superior officers of the army that were still resident in Madrid, including retired veterans, Napoleon declared ten leading figures traitors to both France and Spain, condemning them to death; the dukes of the Infantado, Híjar, Medinaceli, and Osuna, Pedro Cevallos and the Bishop of Santander, none of whom were in Madrid at the time, and the Prince of Castelfranco, the Marquis of Santa Cruz, and the Count of Altamira, who were arrested and sentenced to imprisonment for life in France. Although the Marquis de Saint-Simon, a French émigré, was court-martialled and condemned to death, Napoleon commuted the sentence to imprisonment for life in the mountain-fortress of Joux after Saint-Simon's daughter had begged for her father's life. Other people arrested included Arias Mon who, since May had been interim president of the Council of Castile, the Duke of Sotomayor, and some thirty other leading citizens: some of whom were sent to France, while others were allowed to go free after swearing allegiance to King Joseph.
A curfew entered into force that evening, prohibiting people from leaving their houses after 10 pm.
Aftermath
Meanwhile, on 11 December, and still unaware that Madrid had capitulated, Sir John Moore, with 22,500 British infantry, 2,500 cavalry and 66 guns headed northeast from Salamanca to carry out his plan of creating a "red herring" to draw Napoleon away from besieging the capital to deal with the threat to Valladolid, a city critical to the French communications. Although Moore knew that he would sooner or later have to retreat, it was a risk he was willing to take. But it was based on two erroneous beliefs: that Madrid was still holding out and that Napoleon had only 80,000 troops available. Fortunately for Moore, Napoleon believed that Moore was headed for Lisbon.
When Napoleon left Madrid on 21 December, he left King Joseph with 36,000 men to garrison the capital and its suburbs: Marshal Lefebvre's corps, two thirds of Victor's corps and three cavalry divisions, plus 90 guns.
Opinion of Charles Oman (1902)
In volume 1 of his A History of the Peninsular War, 1807-1809 (1902), British military historian Charles Oman refers to the capitulation and Napoleon's motives as follows:Looking at the preposterous clauses which he had allowed to be inserted in the document, there can be no doubt that this was his intention at the very moment when he ratified it. It was a small thing that he should break engagements,... But having guaranteed security for their life and property, freedom from arrest, and free exit at their pleasure, to such persons as chose to remain behind in the city, it was shameless to commence his proceedings with a proscription and a long series of arrests. The list of persons declared traitors and condemned to loss of life and goods was not very long: only ten persons were named, and seven of these were absent from Madrid. But the three others, the Prince of Castelfranco, the Marquis of Santa Cruz, and the Count of Altamira, were seized and dispatched into France, sentenced to imprisonment for life.
See also
Spain under Joseph Bonaparte
Timeline of the Peninsular War
Notes
References
Sources
External links
"Propuesta de capitulación presentada por la Junta Militar y Política de Madrid al Ejército francés". Archivo Histórico Nacional. PARES. Ministry of Culture (Spain)
1808 treaties
Conflicts in 1808
Peninsular War
Military history of Spain
1808 in Spain
Treaties of the French First Republic
December 1808
19th century in Spain
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China at the 2025 Asian Winter Games
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China competed at the 2025 Asian Winter Games in Harbin, China, from February 7 to 14. This marked the third time the country has played host to the Asian Winter Games.
The Chinese team consisted of 170 athletes (85 per gender) competing in all 11 sports. Speed skater and freestyle skier were the country's flagbearers during the opening ceremony.
Medalists
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Competitors
The following table lists the Chinese delegation per sport and gender.
Alpine skiing
Men
Women
Biathlon
Men
Women
Cross-country skiing
Distance
Men
Women
Sprint
Men
Women
Curling
Summary
Men's tournament
Round robin
China had a bye in draws 3, 5, 7 and 8.
Draw 1
Sunday, 9 February, 13:00
Draw 2
Sunday, 9 February, 21:00
Draw 4
Monday, 10 February, 14:00
Draw 6
Tuesday, 11 February, 14:00
Draw 9
Wednesday, 12 February, 19:00
Semifinal
Thursday, 13 February, 19:00
Bronze medal game
Friday, 14 February, 9:00
Women's tournament
Round robin
China had a bye in draws 8.
Draw 1
Sunday, 9 February, 9:00
Draw 2
Sunday, 9 February, 17:00
Draw 3
Monday, 10 February, 9:00
Draw 4
Monday, 10 February, 19:00
Draw 5
Tuesday, 11 February, 9:00
Draw 6
Tuesday, 11 February, 19:00
Draw 7
Wednesday, 12 February, 9:00
Draw 9
Thursday, 13 February, 9:00
Semifinal
Thursday, 13 February, 19:00
Gold medal game
Friday, 14 February, 13:00
Mixed doubles tournament
Round robin
China had a bye in draws 2, 4 and 7.
Draw 1
Tuesday, 4 February, 10:00
Draw 3
Wednesday, 5 February, 10:00
Draw 5
Wednesday, 5 February, 18:00
Draw 6
Thursday, 6 February, 10:00
Draw 8
Thursday, 6 February, 18:00
Semifinal
Friday, 7 February, 13:00
Bronze medal game
Saturday, 8 February, 9:00
Figure skating
Freestyle skiing
Aerials
Men
Women
Mixed
Half pipe, Slopestyle and Big Air
Men
Women
Ice hockey
Summary
Men's tournament
Group play
Quarterfinal
Semifinal
Bronze medal game
Women's tournament
Group play
Short-track speed skating
Men
Women
Mixed
Qualification legend: FA - Qualify to medal final; FB - Qualify to consolation final
Skaters who participated in the heats only.
Ski mountaineering
Snowboarding
Men
Women
Speed skating
Men
Women
References
Nations at the 2025 Asian Winter Games
Asian Winter Games
2025
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Sittensen murders
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On the night of 4–5 February 2007, seven people were shot and killed during a robbery at the Lin Yue restaurant in Sittensen, Lower Saxony, Germany. A two-year-old girl, the daughter of the two murdered owners, was left alive. Five Vietnamese immigrants were arrested and sentenced for the murders.
The killings are considered one of the worst mass murders in post-war German history and have been dubbed the "seven-fold murders of Sittensen" and "Sittensen massacre". The investigation was marred by sensationalist reporting focusing on speculative involvement of Asian crime syndicates, which persisted well into the trial of the perpetrators.
Background
The Lin Yue Restaurant () was a Chinese restaurant located on Hamburger Straße in the centre of Sittensen, from Rotenburg an der Wümme and from Hamburg. The town had around 5,500 residents at the time of the crime.
The restaurant name means "Year's Surplus", also translated to "one who had a lot of money left at year's end". It opened in December 1997 and was situated in a three-story mixed-use development. The restaurant, consisting of the dining area, kitchen, pantry, and employee room, was situated on the first floor. The top floor housed apartment spaces, with one being rented as an office for the Lin Yue. A driving school was operated out of the ground floor. The Lin Yue was run by married couple Danny Fan and Anny, who immigrated from Hong Kong. Their daughter was born in 2004. The Fan family was described as well-off and popular in town.
Murders
The Lin Yue served its last customers for the day, a local couple, at around 22:30.
At 23:03, three men entered the establishment and overpowered the staff, forcing them to the ground and tying them up with cable ties. The robbers, two of whom were under the influence of cocaine, had failed to noticed the head chef hiding in the kitchen. Anny Fan was forced at gunpoint to open the safe with the restaurant's earnings and salaries upstairs. Shortly after she was returned, Danny Fan broke free and attempted to lunge at one of the remaining two robbers, leading one to beat him with a wooden board before he was shot twice in the head while on the ground. The action caused the make-shift face covering of the shooter to slip. Immediately after, the hidden chef attempted to flee to the hallway, being shot five times in the back and then once in the back of the head while on the ground by the same gunman. Then, Anny Fan, her daughter, and the four other staff, two waitresses and two kitchen helpers, were blindfolded and forced to the ground in the dining area. The adults were shot in the back of the head with a suppressed small-caliber handgun. Anny Fan was also choked before being killed. Their faces were covered with pink napkins from the tables to hem the flow of blood. A total of 14 shots had been fired. The five bodies were moved, two behind the counter, one in a pantry and two into different rooms on the upper floor, while those the two previously killed men remained in the main dining area.
The child was covered with a blanket before the shootings and left cradled in the arms of one of the waitresses. One of the robbers later stated that the child was spared because it was assumed she would be unable to recognize the perpetrators due to her young age. The robbers took 5,105 euros, two computers, and 13 mobile phones. The scene was found at 0:20 when the husband of one of the victims came to fetch his wife. He called police at 0:29, with officers arriving five minutes later. Six of the victims died at the scene while a seventh died in a hospital the following morning.
Victims
Three men and three women were killed, including the proprietors, Wing Hung "Danny" Fan (designated Body 2) and Siu Wai "Anny" Fan (designated Body 5). They were British citizens. Their ages are contradictorily given as either 36 and 32, 36 and 28, or 32 and 28 respectively.
They employed five staff members who commuted from nearby cities:
57-year-old cook Wan Wong Li, cook since 2001. He immigrated from Hong Kong but kept a low profile. Like the Fans and Foong, he was known as a gambling addict. Designated Body 1.
36-year-old Wai Heng Foong, waitress. She illegally immigrated to Germany with her husband for financial reasons, leaving their two children in Malaysia with relatives. Foong's monthly income was unusually high for her work at 1000 euros and she was known to spent several thousand euros at casinos as well as jeweler shops. The couple lived in Soltau and shortly before being taken hostage, Foong was able to call her husband, who did not pick up due to taking a shower. Designated Body 3.
38-year-old Thi Kim Oanh Nguyen Janßen, waitress since 2004. She first studied to be a teacher, but then worked as a weaver in her native Vietnam, then in the Soviet Union between 1986 and 1990. She immigrated illegally to newly formed Russia in 1998 but was deported a year later. Nguyen again illegally entered Russia in January 2001, this time to meet with a human trafficking ring in Moscow that smuggled her and others to Prague via truck. On 30 January 2001, she crossed the Czech-German border on foot and applied for asylum, but only received toleration status. To prevent her deportation, she paid 10,000 euros for a sham marriage with a German citizen, living separate from her husband in Sittensen. Nguyen was on a call with a friend, which inadvertently recorded the moment the robbers entered. Designated Body 4.
31-year-old Rojasit Jitloed, assistant cook. Born in Thailand, he immigrated to Germany at age six with his mother and adoptive father, who was a German national. He received German citizenship, graduated Hauptschule, served mandatory military duty in the Bundeswehr and was a trained painter. He lived in Wolfenbüttel at the time of his murder. Designated Body 6.
32-year-old Ngoc Son Dao, assistant cook. Known mostly by the nickname Sonny, he used several false identities to avoid a deportation order. For this reason, Dao's background is entirely unknown, though friends confirmed that he was of Vietnamese origin. He was initially recovered alive from the pantry, but died of his injuries the same day.
Only the Fans, Jitloed, and Foong were immediately identified, as the rest did not carry documentation on them. All victims were named by 9 February. Contrary to initial assumptions, none of the dead were Chinese citizens.
Investigation
After the crime, there was a curious discovery about the tenant of an apartment on the same floor as the Lin Yue restaurant. 25-year-old computer technician Carsten B. had been awake at the time of the murders, yet was completely unaware of the events next-door because he had been playing a first person shooter video game with head phones on, with any noise muffled further by his television playing the Super Bowl XLI. Even more baffling was the fact that the assailants had actually checked the apartment floor and forcefully kicked in two of the three doors. These apartments were empty. He only found out about the murders when police asked to check his flat to ensure none of the murderers were still in the building. The only information the neighbour could provide was that he ordered food from the Lin Yue the prior evening, less than an hour before the arrival of the robbers.
At around 13:10 on 5 February,14 hours after the murders, police in Wildeshausen stopped a rented car containing Trong Duong Dao and Van Hiep Vu for a traffic violation on B281. Dao did not have a driver's licence, and a search of his person found 0.4 grams of cocaine and 3340 euros in banknotes. His passenger Vu had four phones and 1765 euros on him. A search of the car for more drugs found a torn book page that had a building plan drawn on, with the flipside having an address, phone number, the words "Zittensen" and "10d", and mixed number-letter codes written down. Dao and Vu were taken into custody. Dao's clothes were found to have traces of blood, later matched to one of the victims. The remaining three accomplices were arrested within the coming months. The Lin Yue had been chosen for robbery only a day earlier.
Crime scene investigation ended on 10 February. On 15 February, Quoc Thanh Nguyen was arrested after he was connected via a phone number, but released. On 21 May and 7 June, the brothers of Dao and Vu where arrested. On 8 June, two suspects made partial admissions, but all four of the arrested men denied firing the fatal shots. Nguyen was rearrested on 27 June after testimony by the other implicated him.
In mid-May 2007, the murder weapon was found discarded in a park in Bremen's Huchting district, while a search of one of the suspects' residences found cable ties matching those used in the killings. Although police initially suspected a 9mm calibre, the weapon turned out to be loaded with .22 long rifle rounds.
Due to pre-existing rumors about Danny Fan's possible connection to the criminal underground, media immediately suspected involvement of Chinese triads, heavily running headlines for two days about the murders possibly being the result of failure to pay protection money. Two days after the murders, the identities of two Vietnamese suspects were published, after which media speculated that the murders were instead related to Vietnamese cigarette smugglers, human traffickers, or even a broad non-descript "Asia-Mafia", as part of a drug rivalry, revenge killings, or otherwise gang-related. Police considered the possibility, stating that they investigated a connection to the Vietnamese gang war in Berlin, drawing comparisons to two 1996 mass murders of alleged cigarette smugglers, and the two initial arrestees as potential contract killers, but refused to confirm rumors of organised crime involvement. Die Zeit indicated that investigations were hampered by a lack of cooperation from the citizens of Sittensen, as well as the Chinese and Vietnamese community. The term "wall of silence", previously used to describe the informal code of silence amongst Vietnamese immigrants in regards to gang violence, was frequently used as a headline in local media. It was posited that the robbers had intentionally staged the murders as gangland killings to lead away suspicion.
Perpetrators
The perpetrators were identified as two pairs of brothers and a shared friend, all living in Bremen and working for Chinese-style restaurants. Trong Duong Dao had several convictions for robbery and Phong Cao Dao had previously been convicted of assault while the Vu brothers were connected to a prior armed robbery at a Vietnamese restaurant in Essen.
It was found that the Dao brothers had gambling debts of 10,000 euros. Related to this, a Vietnamese language interpreter identified the writing "10d" as referring to Vietnamese đồng, with it being a common practice among Vietnamese diaspora in the European Union to equate one đồng with 1000 euros.
Trong Duong Dao, 33, led and planned the killings
Phong Cao Dao, 29, fatally shot the victims
Van Phuong Vu, 40, acted as getaway driver
Van Hiep Vu, 31, helped tie up victims and carry the stolen goods
Quoc Thanh Nguyen, 40, former employee of the Lin Yue who informed his accomplices of the layout and shifts
Trial
The trials were held in Stade district court between 27 August 2007 and 13 May 2009. The main perpetrators, the Dao brothers, were both given life sentences. Van Phuong Vu received four years and nine months for aiding robbery. Van Hiep Vu received 14 years imprisonment for robbery; 14 years are the second-harshest sentence short of life imprisonment, which may always be paroled after 15 years. Quoc Thanh Nguyen was sentenced to five years imprisonment for robbery, after he was the only of the defendants to issue a confession. It was initially announced that the perpetrators would be deported after serving their sentences, but this did not occur. As of 2017, only brothers Trong Duong Dao and Phong Dao Cao remained incarcerated, but had the possibility of being freed on parole in 2024.
Aftermath
Until the trial of the perpetrators, the surviving Fan daughter was initially put under police protection for fear that she may be targeted as a loose end. The girl's grandmother in Hanover took her in by 2009 and she was eventually adopted by distant relatives also living in Germany.
in May 2014, Braunschweig court decided that the mother of Anny Fan had the right to surviving dependants' pension, requiring the city of Hanover to relinqish withheld payments since 2007.
In July 2014, celebrity cook received criticism for featuring Van Hiep Vu on his television show "Henssler hinter Gittern" ("Henssler behind bars"), a cooking program which claimed to have the goal of resocialising inmates and teaching them gastronomy skills for work upon release. Van Hiep Vu, a former restaurant cook, appeared in its first episode filmed at JVA Bremen-Oslebshausen.
See also
Wah Mee massacre
Brown's Chicken massacre
Wendy's massacre
Lane Bryant shooting
References
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Portland's 3rd City Council district (Oregon)
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Portland's 3rd City Council district is one of four multi-member districts electing three people to Portland City Council in Portland, Oregon. The district contains most of Southeast Portland south of Interstate 84 and west of Interstate 205, as well as a small sliver of Northeast Portland east of 47th Avenue and south of Prescott Avenue.
The district contains the neighborhoods of Brentwood-Darlington, Brooklyn, Buckman, Creston-Kenilworth, Foster-Powell, Hosford-Abernethy (including Ladd's Addition), Kerns, Laurelhurst, Madison South, Montavilla, Mt. Scott-Arleta, Mt. Tabor, North Tabor, Richmond, Rose City Park, Roseway, South Tabor, Sunnyside, and Woodstock
District 3 is currently represented on Portland City Council by Steve Novick, Angelita Morillo, and Tiffany Koyama Lane. They were elected to two-year terms in 2024; after the 2026 election, all future terms will be four years.
Morillo is the first LGBTQ+ woman (along with Elana Pirtle-Guiney of District 2), the first LGBTQ+ person of color, and the second immigrant to serve on Portland City Council. Koyama Lane is the first Asian American (along with Sameer Kanal of District 2) and the first Asian American woman to serve on Portland City Council. She also serves as the council's first vice president after her unanimous selection.
Election results
2024
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Buffalo Indoor
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The Buffalo Indoor was a combined men's and women's ILTF affiliated indoor tennis tournament founded in 1923. Also known as the Buffalo Mid-Winter Indoor Invitation, and the Buffalo Indoor Championships in its early editions, it was played at the Buffalo Tennis & Squash Club, Buffalo, New York, United States until 1975 when it was discontinued.
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The Dating Game (2025 film)
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The Dating Game is a 2025 documentary directed and produced by Violet Du Feng. The film follows a week-long dating camp in China where three bachelors learn how to find love.
The film was produced by Fish+Bear Pictures and Violet Films; the production was also associated with Bird Street Productions, Ten Thousand Images, and Chicken & Egg Pictures. It debuted at the Sundance Film Festival on January 23, 2025 in the World Documentary category. The film is currently seeking distribution.
Synopsis
The film follows three Chinese men—Zhou, Li, and Wu—as they attend a seven-day dating camp in Chongqing to learn how to find love from two dating coaches—Hao and Wen—who are married to each other.
Critical reception
JoySauce said that the film "walks a fine tonal line with care and precision, and shows empathy towards a group of men who might not otherwise find it from their own kin" but questioned whether it really challenged "the root causes of the problems it suggests."
IndieWire gave the film a B- rating, lauding the relationship shown between Hao and Wen but otherwise finding the film unfocused with its asymmetric development of its subjects and its tackling of questions too big for it to answer.
Vulture critiqued the film's second half, noting its lack of focus due to "cursory tangents to expand its scope to larger China" as well as its resignation to Hao's "shallow" ideas around dating; the reviewer also pointed out a loose series of facts and observations about Chinese dating culture writ large that felt lacking in cohesion.
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Zionism in Iraq
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Modern Zionism, the 19th century European ethnocultural nationalist movement to establish a Jewish state through the colonization of Palestine, started to slowly penetrate Iraq around the turn of the 20th century.
History
Modern Zionist activity in Iraq began around 1898 with (c. 1872–1962) known as ( 'the teacher'), the first Iraqi exponent of Zionism. In 1919, he made the first announcement of intent to establish a Zionist organization in Iraq in a letter from Baghdad to the Council of Delegates in Jaffa, with the goal of encouraging Jews to learn Hebrew and migrate to Palestine.
Although Jews of Iraq began to learn about the Zionist movement and the establishment of the Zionist Organization (ZO, known after 1960 as the World Zionist Organization) through newspapers and periodicals published in Hebrew in Europe and Palestine in the 19th century, Iraqi Jews only made contact with the ZO in 1913. Jews in Basra and Baghdad sought information from the Zionist movement and made donations to Zionist funds. By the end of 1913, Zionists in Basra opened a modern Hebrew language school. These activities ceased when Ottoman authorities forbade Zionist activity in World War I.
1919–1935
Zionist activity resumed after the war and the British occupation of Iraq. In 1920, a group of several dozen young Baghdadi Jews established an organization that would operate into the mid-1930s. With the assistance of the Jewish Agency, the Mesopotamian Zionist Committee (; ) was established in Baghdad March 5, 1921. It operated in the club and library of the Jewish Literary Society (). Zionist associations were also established in Basra, ʿAmara, Hillah, Khanaqin, Kirkuk, and Irbil, and they operated freely though they did not have formal governmental recognition in Iraq. Although the Arab government delayed recognizing these Zionist associations, the British Colonial Office under John E. Shuckburgh, due to Zionist pressure, turned a blind eye to Zionist activity in Baghdad and Basra provided it remained discrete.
From 1919 to 1935, Zionists promoted ʿaliya, the migration to Palestine; collected donations to the Jewish National Fund and Keren Hayesod, especially through the sale of the Zionist shekel representing membership dues for the Zionist Organization; distributed ha-Olam, a publication in Hebrew that served as the mouthpiece of the Zionist Organization; and purchased land in Palestine. In the 1920s, Iraqi Jews contributed £ 52,220 sterling to Keren Hayesod and the Jewish National Fund—The majority of it was donated by Ezra Sasson Suheik—a high sum in proportion to the size of the Iraqi Jewish community. Some of this money financed the settlement of Kfar Yeḥezqeʾel and the Kadoorie Agricultural High School.
In 1935, with the massive Jewish immigration in Palestine leading up to the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine, the Kingdom of Iraq banned Zionist activity and these activities ceased. In January of 1935, Aharon Sasson ibn Eliyahu Naḥum was forced to leave Iraq; he settled in Jerusalem.
In this period, Zionist youth organizations flourished in the country's Jewish schools. At the Shammash High School for Boys, for example, the Aḥiʿever Association promoted Hebrew, raised money for the Jewish National Fund, and prepared young Iraqi Jews for life and work in Palestine.
1942–1952
In 1942, after a 7-year pause, Zionist activities resumed, this time at the initiative of the Yishuv in Palestine and as an underground movement. The riots of June 1–2, 1941 known as the Farhūd, was a major impetus for the renewal of Zionist efforts in Iraq. Zionist institutions sent envoys (, ). Shaul Avigur (1899–1978) of the clandestine immigration organization Mossad LeAliyah Bet arrived in Baghdad March 1942 to make contacts with the Jewish community in Iraq. In April 1942, after Avigur returned to Palestine, Shmaryahu Gutman (1909–1996), Ezra Kadouri (1914–2000), and Enzo Sereni (1905–1944) were sent to Iraq to establish the underground HeHalutz movement (, often called , 'the Movement') to prepare Iraqi Jews to migrate to Palestine.
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Zionism in the Arab world
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Petrunov
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Petrunov is a Bulgarian-language surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Emil Petrunov
(1859–1939), Bulgarian general
Kiril Petrunov
See also
Bulgarian-language surnames
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