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Nuku-pewapewa

'''Nuku-pewapewa ''' ( fl. 1820–1834) was a New Zealand tribal leader. Of Māori descent, he identified with the Ngāti Kahungunu iwi. He was born in the Wairarapa, New Zealand, probably late in the eighteenth century.

Kyūjitai

Kyūjitai, literally "old character forms" (Kyūjitai: or ), are the traditional forms of kanji, Chinese written characters used in Japanese. Their simplified counterparts are shinjitai , "new character forms". Some of the simplified characters arose centuries ago and were in everyday use in both China and Japan, but they were considered inelegant, even uncouth. After World War II, simplified character forms were made official in both these countries. However, in Japan fewer and less drastic simplifications were made: e.g. "electric" is still written as 電 in Japan, as it is also written in Hong Kong, Macao, South Korea and Taiwan, which continue to use traditional Chinese characters, but has been simplified to 电 in mainland China. Prior to the promulgation of the Tōyō kanji list in 1946, kyūjitai were known as seiji (; meaning "proper/correct characters") or seijitai . Even after kyūjitai were officially marked for discontinuation with the promulgation of the Tōyō kanji list, they were used in print frequently into the 1950s due to logistical delays in changing over typesetting equipment. Kyūjitai continue in use to the present day because when the Japanese government adopted the simplified forms, it did not ban the traditional forms. Thus traditional forms are used when an author wishes to use traditional forms and the publisher agrees.

Unlike in the People's Republic of China, where all personal names were simplified as part of the character simplification reform carried out in the 1950s, the Japanese reform only applied to a subset of the characters in use (the Toyo Kanji) and excluded characters used in proper names. Therefore, kyūjitai are still used in personal names in Japan today (see Jinmeiyo kanji). In modern Japanese, kyūjitai that appear in the official spelling of proper names are sometimes replaced with the modern shinjitai form.

Platzl (Munich)

Platzl is a theatre in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.

Category:Theatres in Munich

Tautomer

Tautomers are constitutional isomers of organic compounds that readily interconvert. This reaction commonly results in the relocation of a proton. Although it is a complicated concept, tautomerism is relevant to the behavior of amino acids and nucleic acids, two of the fundamental building blocks of life.

The concept of tautomerizations is called tautomerism. The chemical reaction interconverting the two is called tautomerization.

Breg-Shkozë

Breg-Shkozë is a village in the former municipality of Prezë in Tirana County, Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Vorë.

Jula

Jula refers to:

Places
  • Bareh Jula, a village in Iran
  • Jula Deh, a village in Iran
  • Jula Kamar, a village in Iran
Other
  • Jula (name)
  • Dioula language spoken in western Africa
  • Jula people of western Africa
Jula (singer)

Julita Fabiszewska (born Julita Ratowska 3 March 1991 in Lomza) known as Jula is a Polish singer and songwriter. Known for her hits "Za każdym razem", "Nie zatrzymasz mnie" and "Kiedyś odnajdziemy siebie". Her debut album, Na krawędzi was released August 14, 2012.

Jula (name)

Jula may refer to the following people

Given name
  • Jula (singer) (Julita Fabiszewska, born 1991), Polish singer and songwriter
  • Jula De Palma (born 1931), Italian singer
Surname
  • Emil Jula (born 1980), Romanian football player
  • Vasile Jula (born 1974), Romanian football player
Mirovia

Mirovia or Mirovoi (from Russian мировой, mirovoy, meaning "global") was a hypothesized superocean which may have been a global ocean surrounding the supercontinent Rodinia in the Neoproterozoic Era, about 1 billion to 750 million years ago. Mirovia may be essentially identical to, or the precursor of, the hypothesized Pan-African Ocean, which followed the rifting of Rodinia. The Panthalassa (proto- Pacific) Ocean developed in the Neoproterozoic Era by subduction at the expense of the global Mirovia ocean.

Geologic evidence suggests that the middle Neoproterozoic, the Cryogenian period, was an extreme ice age so intense that Mirovia may have been completely frozen to a depth of 2-km. This is part of the Snowball Earth hypothesis.

Tarbertia

Tarbertia is a genus of fungi within the Arthoniales order. The genus has not been placed into a family. This is a monotypic genus, containing the single species Tarbertia juncina.

GamerDNA

gamerDNA Inc. is a social media company for computer and video game players founded on September 21, 2006. The company is now part of Live Gamer(now Emergent Payments). The name is usually spelled with a lower case g: gamerDNA. Members may tag themselves with information on games they have played, server names and guild affiliations, and use this information to find people they have played with in the past, or find guilds or other gamers to play with based on play style. The company was originally funded by Flybridge Ventures (formerly known as IDG Ventures).

Vitez

Vitez is a town and municipality in central Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is administratively part of the Central Bosnia Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Vitez (disambiguation)

Vitez, the Serbo-Croatian word for "knight", may refer to:

  • Recipients of the Knighthood in the Independent State of Croatia
  • Recipients of the Hungarian Knightly Order of Vitéz
  • Vitez, a town in Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Michael Vitez, journalist for the Philadelphia Inquirer
  • Zlatko Vitez (born 1950), Croatian actor
Markgräflerhof

The Markgräflerhof is a baroque palace in Basel, Switzerland, built by the margraves of Baden-Durlach, who used it as an extraterritorial residence as their principality including its residences was often the victim of wars and armies. The margraves had several residences in Basel, but the construction of current palace started under margrave Frederick VII in 1698 when a fire destroyed the previous building. The palace was ready to moved in by 1705. The architect was an entrepreneur Augé who based himself on plans from a book by the French architect Charles Daviller. Frederick VII's successor Charles III William also often used the palace. But afterwards, the margraves predominantly resided in Karlsruhe. The city of Basel purchased the palace in 1807 and the University Hospital of Basel uses the building since 1842.

Luminophore

A luminophore is an atom or functional group in a chemical compound that is responsible for its luminescent properties. Luminophores can be either organic or inorganic.

Luminophores can be further classified as fluorophores or phosphors, depending on the nature of the excited state responsible for the emission of photons. However, some luminophores cannot be classified as being exclusively fluorophores or phosphors. Examples include transition metal complexes such as tris(bipyridine)ruthenium(II) chloride, whose luminescence comes from an excited (nominally triplet) metal-to-ligand charge transfer (MLCT) state, which is not a true triplet-state in the strict sense of the definition; and colloidal quantum dots, whose emissive state does not have either a purely singlet or triplet spin.

Most luminophores consist of conjugated pi systems or transition metal complexes. There are also purely inorganic luminophores, such as zinc sulfide doped with rare earth metal ions, rare earth metal oxysulfides doped with other rare earth metal ions, yttrium oxide doped with rare earth metal ions, zinc orthosilicate doped with manganese ions, etc. Luminophores can be observed in action in fluorescent lights, television screens, computer monitor screens, organic light-emitting diodes and bioluminescence.

The correct, textbook terminology is luminophore, not lumophore, although the latter term has been frequently but erroneously used in the chemical literature.

Sendjas

Sendjas is a town and commune in Chlef Province, Algeria. According to the 1998 census it has a population of 26,228.

UOG

UOG may refer to:

  • University of Guam
  • University of Gujrat
  • Papua New Guinea University Of Goroka
Therion (band)

Therion (formerly Blitzkrieg, Megatherion) is a Swedish symphonic metal band founded by Christofer Johnsson in 1987. Its name was inspired by the Celtic Frost album To Mega Therion. "To Mega Therion" is Greek for "The Great Beast" and was a title used by occultist Aleister Crowley. Originally a death metal band, Therion adjusted its musical style by adding orchestral elements, including choirs, classical musicians, and even a full orchestra at their concert performances. As a result, it has popularized the symphonic metal genre. In their biography, they state they have been cited as "the most adventurous metal band at present".

Therion takes its themes from different mythologies and practices, including occultism, magic and ancient traditions and writings. Thomas Karlsson, the head and founder of the magical order Dragon Rouge, has provided lyrics for the band since 1996.

Therion

Therion, Greek for "wild animal" or "beast" (θηρίον), may refer to:

  • Therion, the name the Greeks gave to Lupus (constellation) ("wolf")
  • Therion (band), a Swedish metal band
  • Therion (Thelema), a god in Thelema, consort of Babalon
  • Therion (software), a cave cartography programme
  • Master Therion or To Mega Therion, a title assumed by Aleister Crowley
  • The Beast (Revelation), a monster from the Book of Revelation
Therion (Thelema)

Therion (, beast) is a deity found in the mystical system of Thelema, which was established in 1904 with Aleister Crowley's writing of The Book of the Law. Therion's female counterpart is Babalon, another Thelemic deity. Therion, as a Thelemic personage, evolved from that of " The Beast" from the Book of Revelation, whom Crowley identified himself with since childhood, because his mother called him that name. Indeed, throughout his life he occasionally referred to himself as “Master Therion” or sometimes “The Beast 666”. He wrote:

Before I touched my teens, I was already aware that I was THE BEAST whose number is 666. I did not understand in the least what that implied; it was a passionately ecstatic sense of identity.

The word "therion" is mentioned in several Thelemic rituals, such as The Star Ruby. In total, there are five mentions of The Beast in Liber AL vel Legis, the first being in 1:15, and the remaining four are all in the third chapter—verses 14, 22, 34, and 47, respectively—although the word “beast” can be found elsewhere therein. Aleister Crowley believed that the references to The Beast and the Scarlet Woman (Babalon) in the book “do not denote persons but are titles of office”. The first mention reads thus:

Now ye shall know that the chosen priest & apostle of infinite space is the prince-priest the Beast; and in his woman called the Scarlet Woman is all power given.

Therion (software)

Therion is an open source cave surveying software package which is designed to: process survey data; generate maps and 3D models of caves; and archive the data describing the cave and the history of exploration.

Therion was developed by Slovakian cavers Martin Budaj and Stacho Mudrak but is available in English. It runs on a wide variety of platforms including Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. Therion is available as part of standard distribution of Debian and Ubuntu (operating system) Linux distributions.

It is free software, released under the terms of GNU GPL, with source code available. It does not require any other commercial software to run. The format of all files is human readable plain text (excluding 3D models), which semantically describe the cave, and are compiled by the program into various output forms such as 2D PDF or SVG maps, or 3D models. Other files like map overlays, terrain models and pictures can be incorporated into the output. A graphical editor is provided to help with the drawing process, and a 3D viewer ('loch') for viewing the models. Survex is used for the centreline error distribution if installed.

The separation of drawing/semantic data entry and output rendering makes the program both complex to learn to use, but also capable of dealing with cave systems still being explored, where new finds and surveys need the drawing to morph to fit. It also allows a survey to be rendered with different national cave-symbol sets.

The (UK-based) Cave Surveying Group has been using Therion along with PocketTopo and DistoXs to train cavers and improve the quality of surveying by the use of real time measurement that is available in Paperless surveying.

Therion is used in several large projects for the documentation of cave systems. It is listed among 10 of the Best Free Linux Earth Science Software. It was used in a number of scientific projects.

Not everyone finds the results satisfying: "Beginning in 2003, the Mulu Caves Project attempted to use Therion on several cave surveys. After many attempts over several years by many different cave surveyors, one of whom was closely affiliated with the software itself, no aesthetically pleasing results were produced."

The unmatched feature of Therion software among other software tools for cave surveying is straightforward creating of 3D presentation for WEB pages. One may export 3D model from Therion to 3D format .lox, open it in Therion's 3D viewer Loch and export data as VTK. ParaView software is able to open such data and export them in WebGL format.

To draw the maps the Speleo-Vulcain group from France is using Visual Topo for simple systems. However, because of the difficulties to build a rigorous synthesis and to update the survey of the complex Jean-Bernard System, they passed to the open source software Therion.

Therion was analysed and used in thesis of Eliška Rákocy

Two articles in the Annual Report of Cave Administration of the Czech Republic 2010 describe how Therion was used to document the Javoříčko Caves show cave.

Described as "State of the Art Cave-Drawing software" Therion was reviewed in Compass, the Cave Surveying Journal of The British Cave Research Association. The review covered installation, use and development of the software. Since this article, written in 2004, Therion has continued to be developed and is now considered to be the most capable cave drawing software available.

Article about Therion software in Spelunking with Linux, Linux Journal, March 2014, p. 23-28

Jumpstyle

Jumpstyle is an electronic dance style and music genre popular in Eastern Europe, as well as certain parts of Australia and the United States.

Jumpstyling is often referred to as "Jumpen": a combination of the English word 'Jump' and the Dutch & German suffix '-en' (meaning "to jump" or "jumping").

It originated in 1997 in Belgium but gathered bigger popularity in their neighboring country the Netherlands in the 2000s.

Zanjilabad

Zanjilabad (, also Romanized as Zanjīlābād; also known as Zanjolābād) is a village in Ardalan Rural District, Mehraban District, Sarab County, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 122, in 43 families.

Vibrion

Vibrion is an antiquated term for microorganisms, especially a pathogenic ones; see Germ theory of disease. The term may specifically refer to motile microorganisms.

Hiraishi

Hiraishi (written: 平石) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • , Japanese footballer

  • Takenori Hiraishi, Japanese golfer
Ladan-Kara

Ladan-Kara is a village in Suzak District, Jalal-Abad Region, Kyrgyzstan.

Aubourn

Aubourn (" Stream where the Alders grow") is a small village just east of the A46, in between Lincoln and Newark, England, in the county of Lincolnshire, the district of North Kesteven and the civil parish of Aubourn and Haddington. It has a one way system that is unusual for a small countryside village, and a public house called "The Royal Oak".

Stevioside

Stevioside is a glycoside derived from the stevia plant, which can be used as a sweetener.

Lingulata

Lingulata is a class of brachiopod, among the oldest of all brachiopods having existed since the Cambrian period . They are also among the most morphologically conservative of the brachiopods, having lasted from their earliest appearance to the present with very little change in shape. Shells of living specimens found today in the waters around Japan are almost identical to ancient Cambrian fossils.

The Lingulata have tongue-shaped shells (hence the name Lingulata, from the Latin word for "tongue") with a long fleshy stalk, or pedicle, with which the animal burrows into sandy or muddy sediments. They inhabit vertical burrows in these soft sediments with the anterior end facing up and slightly exposed at the sediment surface. The cilia of the lophophore generate a feeding and respiratory current through the lophophore and mantle cavity. The gut is complete and J-shaped.

Lingulata shells are composed of a combination of calcium phosphate, protein and chitin. This is unlike most other shelled marine animals, whose shells are made of calcium carbonate. The Lingulata are inarticulate brachiopods, so named for the simplicity of their hinge mechanism. This mechanism lacks teeth and is held together only by a complex musculature. Both valves are roughly symmetrical.

The genus Lingula (Bruguiere, 1797) is the oldest known animal genus that still contains extant species. It is primarily an Indo- Pacific genus that is harvested for human consumption in Japan and Australia.

Kilvaxter

Kilvaxter is a crofting township on the Trotternish peninsula of the Isle of Skye in the Highlands of Scotland. It is in the council area of Highland. The A855 road passes through the area. Kilvaxter is north of Uig.

Category:Populated places in Skye

Seung-hee

Seung-hee, also spelled Seung-hui, Seung-hi, or Sung-hi, is a Korean unisex given name. The meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 15 hanja with the reading " seung" and 25 hanja with the reading " hee" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names.

People with this name include:

Artists and writers
  • Choi Seung-hee (1911–1969), South Korean female modern dancer
  • Kim Seung-hee (born 1952), South Korean female poet
  • Lee Seung-hee (artist) (born 1963), South Korean male ceramic artist
  • Seung Hee Yang (born 1969), South Korean female violinist
  • Nikki Seung-hee Lee (born 1970), South Korean-born American female photographer and filmmaker
Athletes
  • Kim Seung-hee (footballer) (born 1968), South Korean male football manager
  • Lee Seung-hee (born 1988), South Korean male footballer
  • Park Seung-hi (born 1992), South Korean female short track skater
Entertainers
  • Sung-Hi Lee (born 1970), South Korean-born American female nude model and actress
  • C. S. Lee (born 1971 as Lee Seung-hee), South Korean-born American male actor
  • Cho Seung-hee (entertainer) (born 1991), South Korean female idol singer, member of F-ve Dolls and Dia
  • Oh Seunghee (born 1995), South Korean female idol singer, member of CLC
  • Hyun Seunghee (born 1996), South Korean female idol singer, member of Oh My Girl
Others
  • Seung-Hui Cho (1984–2007), South Korean-born immigrant to the U.S. who committed a spree killing
  • Kim Sung-hui, North Korean politician chosen for Sinpha (Constituency 642) in the North Korean parliamentary election, 2014

Fictional characters with this name include:

  • Choi Seung-hee, female character in 2009 South Korean television series Iris
  • Han Seung-hee, female character in 2014 South Korean television series Doctor Stranger
Discards

Discards are the portion of a catch of fish which is not retained on board during commercial fishing operations and is returned, often dead or dying, to the sea. The practice of discarding is driven by economic and political factors; fish which are discarded are often unmarketable species, individuals which are below minimum landing sizes and catches of species which fishermen are not allowed to land, for instance due to quota restrictions. Discards form part of the bycatch of a fishing operation, although bycatch includes marketable species caught unintentionally. Discarding can be highly variable in time and space as a consequence of changing economic, sociological, environmental and biological factors.

Discarding patterns are influenced by catch compositions, which in turn are determined by environmental factors, such as recruitment of small fish into the fishery, and social factors, such as quota regulation, choice of fishing gear and fishermen's behaviour. There have been numerous studies on the scale of discarding. In the North Sea the total annual quantity of discards has been estimated at 800,000–950,000 tonnes, or the equivalent of one-third of the total weight landed annually and one-tenth of the estimated total biomass of fish in the North Sea.

Spirovsky

Spirovsky (masculine), Spirovskaya (feminine), or Spirovskoye (neuter) may refer to:

  • Spirovsky District, a district of Tver Oblast, Russia
  • Spirovskaya, a rural locality (a village) in Vologda Oblast, Russia
Delém

Vladem Lázaro Ruiz Quevedo, "Delém" (April 15, 1935 in Sao Paulo, Brazil – March 28, 2007 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) was a former Brazilian footballer that played for clubs in Brazil, Argentina and Chile. He played seven games and scored five goals for the Brazil national football team, all in 1960.

Fly ash

Fly ash, also known as "pulverised fuel ash" in the United Kingdom, is one of the coal combustion products, composed of the fine particles that are driven out of the boiler with the flue gases. Ash that falls in the bottom of the boiler is called bottom ash. In modern coal-fired power plants, fly ash is generally captured by electrostatic precipitators or other particle filtration equipment before the flue gases reach the chimneys. Together with bottom ash removed from the bottom of the boiler, it is known as coal ash. Depending upon the source and makeup of the coal being burned, the components of fly ash vary considerably, but all fly ash includes substantial amounts of silicon dioxide (SiO) (both amorphous and crystalline), aluminium oxide (AlO) and calcium oxide (CaO), the main mineral compounds in coal-bearing rock strata.

Constituents depend upon the specific coal bed makeup but may include one or more of the following elements or substances found in trace concentrations (up to hundreds ppm): arsenic, beryllium, boron, cadmium, chromium, hexavalent chromium, cobalt, lead, manganese, mercury, molybdenum, selenium, strontium, thallium, and vanadium, along with very small concentrations of dioxins and PAH compounds.

In the past, fly ash was generally released into the atmosphere, but air pollution control standards now require that it be captured prior to release by fitting pollution control equipment. In the US, fly ash is generally stored at coal power plants or placed in landfills. About 43% is recycled, often used as a pozzolan to produce hydraulic cement or hydraulic plaster and a replacement or partial replacement for Portland cement in concrete production. Pozzolans ensure the setting of concrete and plaster and provide concrete with more protection from wet conditions and chemical attack.

After a long regulatory process, the EPA published a final ruling in December 2014, which establishes that coal fly ash is classified as a sub-category of hazardous waste under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). Coal Combustion Residuals (CCD's) are listed in the subtitle D, “Special waste” (rather than the less stringent subtitle C, “Solid waste”, which was also considered).

In the case that fly or bottom ash is not produced from coal, for example when solid waste is used to produce electricity in an incinerator (see waste-to-energy facilities), this kind of ash may contain higher levels of contaminants than coal ash. In that case the ash produced is often classified as hazardous waste.

Huntingdon

Huntingdon is a market town in Cambridgeshire, England. The town was chartered by King John in 1205. It is the traditional county town of Huntingdonshire, and is the seat of the Huntingdonshire district council. It is known as the birthplace of Oliver Cromwell, who was born in 1599 and was the member of parliament (MP) for the town in the 17th century. The former Conservative prime minister John Major was the MP for the town from 1979 to 2001.

Huntingdon (disambiguation)

Huntingdon may refer to:

Huntingdon (electoral district)

Huntingdon was a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1917.

It was created by the British North America Act, 1867. It was amalgamated into the Châteauguay—Huntingdon electoral district in 1914.

Huntingdon (UK Parliament constituency)

Huntingdon is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2001 by Jonathan Djanogly, a Conservative.

Huntingdon (provincial electoral district)

Huntingdon is a provincial electoral district in the Montérégie region of Quebec, Canada that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. It includes the cities or municipalities such as Huntingdon, Saint-Anicet, Hemmingford, Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle, Napierville and Ormstown.

It was originally created for the 1867 election. Its final election was in 1989 and its successor electoral district was Beauharnois-Huntingdon.

It was re-created for the 2003 election from parts of Beauharnois-Huntingdon and Saint-Jean electoral districts.

In the change from the 2001 to the 2011 electoral map, it lost Saint-Rémi to the newly created Sanguinet electoral district.

Huntingdon (Boyce, Virginia)

Huntingdon, also known as The Meadow, is a historic plantation house located near Boyce, Clarke County, Virginia. The original section was built about 1830, and is a two-story, five bay, stone I-house dwelling with a gable roof. A rear ell was added around 1850, making a "T"-shaped house. Also on the property are a contributing pyramidal roofed mid-19th-century smokehouse and a stone-lined ice pit with a late 19th-century, square-notched log icehouse.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

Huntingdon (Roanoke, Virginia)

Huntingdon is a historic plantation house located at Roanoke, Virginia. It was built about 1819, and is a 2 1/2-story, five bay, Federal style brick dwelling. It has a central-passage-plan and an integral two-story rear ell. The front and side elevations feature mid-19th century Greek Revival style porches. The house was restored and improved in 1988-1989. Also on the property is a contributing family cemetery and an outbuilding believed to have been a slave house.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

Galler

Galler is a surname of German and Anglo-Norman French origin and a common name of Jewish families in Poland, Israel, and the United States. It is estimated that fewer than 4,000 individuals have this name worldwide. The name is also found as Galier, Gallier, Galor, Galer, and Gal-Or.

The Galler surname may refer to:

  • Bernard Galler (1928–2006), American mathematician and computer scientist
  • Bruno Galler (born 1946), Swiss football referee
  • Lev Galler (1883–1950), Russian military leader
CertiVox

CertiVox is a London-based web 2.0 security firm that develops information security infrastructure as a service ( IaaS) and encryption based software as a service ( SaaS) solutions for enterprises and individuals. The company provides on-demand encryption key management and multi-factor authentication both on and off the cloud, and specializes in elliptical curve cryptography. Red Herring selected CertiVox as a finalist for the 2012 Europe Top 100.

Fief

A fief was the central element of feudalism and consisted of heritable property or rights granted by an overlord to a vassal who held it in fealty (or "in fee") in return for a form of feudal allegiance and service, usually given by the personal ceremonies of homage and fealty. The fees were often lands or revenue-producing real property held in feudal land tenure: these are typically known as fiefs or fiefdoms. However, not only land but anything of value could be held in fee, including governmental office, rights of exploitation such as hunting or fishing, monopolies in trade, and tax farms.

Samuels

Samuels is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Andrew Samuels, Jungian psychologist
  • Arthur Warren Samuels, Irish politician
  • Chris Samuels, American football player
  • Dale Samuels, American football player
  • Dave Samuels, American musician
  • David Samuels (political scientist), political science professor
  • David Samuels (EastEnders), fictional character in BBC TV soap opera EastEnders
  • David Samuels (writer) (born 1967), American author
  • Dover Samuels, New Zealand politician
  • Ernest Samuels, American biographer
  • Giovonnie Samuels, American actress
  • Gordon Samuels, Australian politician
  • Howard J. Samuels, American politician
  • Joel Samuels, fictional character
  • John Samuels, American actor
  • Lawrence Samuels, arena football player
  • Lesser Samuels, screenwriter
  • Lynn Samuels, radio host
  • Marlon Samuels, cricketer
  • Maxwell Samuels, Belizean politician
  • Moss Turner-Samuels, UK politician
  • Robert Samuels, cricketer
  • Ron Samuels, film producer
  • Samardo Samuels (born 1989), Jamaican basketball player
  • Theo Samuels, South African rugby union player
  • Tony Samuels, American football player
  • Warren Samuels, economist and historian of economic thought
SAPCA

SAPCA (, acronym officially standing for Crowd Control Police Dogs, and Iran Detectives Police Dogs, ; Sâpcā also means "dog" in Old Persian) is the search and rescue and police dog unit of Law Enforcement Force of Islamic Republic of Iran and a subdivision of its Special Units Command. The unit was established in 2010.

Mitnick

Mitnick, Mitnik or Mytnik is a surname that may refer to

  • Craig Mitnick, American lawyer, broadcaster and businessman
  • Kevin Mitnick (born 1963), American computer security consultant, author and hacker
  • Tadeusz Mytnik (born 1949), Polish cyclist.
  • Vadzim Mytnik (born 1988), Belarusian association football player
Sapotskin

Sapotskin (, , ) is a small town in Belarus, north-east of Hrodna with circa 2,000 inhabitants.

Cereal leaf beetle

The Cereal Leaf Beetle (Oulema melanopus) is a significant crop pest, discovered by Carl Linnaeus in 1758.

Kehoe

Kehoe, usually pronounced , is the name of a clan that existed in southern Ireland. Some, though not all, descend from King Domnall Mór Ua Cellaigh of Uí Maine, who died in 1221.

Many of their descendants then emigrated to America and have spread throughout the country. The name is spelled in a variety of ways, however most common is "Kehoe," "Keogh" and "Keough." In Ireland the Kehoe version is used most often in and around County Wexford while Keogh is more common throughout the rest of the country. Kehoe is one of several versions of the Irish name "Mac Eochaidh" which translates as ‘son of Eochaidh’, a personal name based on each, ‘horse’.

Kehoe (disambiguation)

Kehoe is the Irish clan name.

Kehoe also may refer to:

  • Kehoe Cup, hurling competition in Ireland
Njiverce

Njiverce is a settlement next to Kidričevo in northeastern Slovenia. The area is part of the traditional region of Styria. It is now included with the rest of the Municipality of Kidričevo in the Drava Statistical Region.

During the First World War in 1915, the abandoned local cemetery was used as a burial ground for 2,340 soldiers of various nationalities. In 1917 a small Neo-Baroque chapel was built on the site.

Al-Qamishli

Al-Qamishli (, meaning House of Reeds, ), is a city in northeastern Syria on the border with Turkey, adjoining the Turkish city of Nusaybin, and close to Iraq. According to the 2004 census, Al-Qamishli had a population of 184,231. Al-Qamishli is northeast of Damascus.

The city is the administrative capital of the Al-Qamishli District of Al-Hasakah Governorate, and the administrative center of Nahiya al-Qamishli consisting of 92 localities with a combined population of 232,095 in 2004. In the course of the Rojava conflict, al-Qamishli became the de facto capital of the Federation of Northern Syria – Rojava.

Tunja

Tunja is a city located on the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes, in the region known as the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, 130 km northeast of Bogotá. In 2012 it had an estimated population of 181,407 inhabitants. It is the capital of Boyacá department and the Central Boyacá Province. Tunja is an important educational centre of known universities. In the time before the Spanish conquest of the Muisca, Tunja was called Hunza and was conquered by the Spanish conquistadors on August 20, 1537 upon zaque Quemuenchatocha and founded by the Spanish on August 6, 1539, exactly one year after former southern capital Bacatá. The city hosts the most remaining Muisca architecture; Hunzahúa Well, Goranchacha Temple and Cojines del Zaque.

Tunja is a tourist destination. In addition to its religious and historical sites it is host to several internationally known festivals and is a jumping-off point for regional tourist destinations such as Villa de Leyva, Paipa, and Sierra Nevada del Cocuy. It is also a stop on the Pan American Highway which connects Tunja to Bogotá and Santa Marta and eventually to the northern and southernmost parts of South America.

AnimeSuki

AnimeSuki (from Japanese anime and ) is a website and once considered "... the largest database of BitTorrent anime shows" that focuses on providing unlicensed anime fansubs using the BitTorrent peer-to-peer system. The website was created by GHDpro on December 26, 2002. Animesuki is not a tracker; instead, it provides links to many trackers across the web. It does not list pornography or series that have been licensed in North America.

Dayrell

Dayrell may refer to:

  • Alice Dayrell Caldeira Brant (1880–1970), Brazilian juvenile writer
  • Anthony Walter Dayrell Brooke, (1912–2011), appointed His Highness the Rajah Muda of Sarawak on 25 August 1937
  • Bertram Willes Dayrell Brooke (1876–1965), member of the family of White Rajahs who ruled Sarawak for a hundred years
  • Lillingstone Dayrell, village in Buckinghamshire, England
Olegius

Olegius turkmenicus is a species of beetle in the family Carabidae, the only species in the genus Olegius.

Good news

Good News may refer to:

  • Good News (Christianity), the message of Jesus
  • Good News (novel), a 1980 novel by Edward Abbey
  • Good News, a 1945 non-fiction work by Cyril Alington
  • The Good News Bible, a 1976 Bible translation in everyday English
  • Good News Club v. Milford Central School, a U.S. Supreme Court case that weighed the religious establishment clause and free speech clause of the First Amendment against each other
  • Mackintosh's Good News, a box of chocolates on which George Harrison based the lyric of The Beatles' " Savoy Truffle"
Good News (novel)

Good News is a 1980 novel by Edward Abbey.

It is set in a Phoenix, Arizona of the near future after the economy and government have collapsed. Small bands of people (including Jack Burns, the hero from an earlier Abbey novel The Brave Cowboy) are trying to live freely, but a would-be military dictator has other plans and is trying to set up a dictatorship using Phoenix as his base.

Good News is Abbey's only work of science fiction.

Category:Novels by Edward Abbey Category:1980 American novels Category:1980s science fiction novels Category:Dystopian novels Category:Novels set in Phoenix, Arizona Category:E. P. Dutton books

Good News (musical)

Good News is a musical with a book by Laurence Schwab and B.G. DeSylva, lyrics by DeSylva and Lew Brown, and music by Ray Henderson. The story is set in the Roaring Twenties at Tait College, where football star Tom Marlowe falls in love with studious Connie Lane, who is tutoring him so he can pass astronomy and be eligible to play in the big game.

The show opened on Broadway in 1927, the same year as Show Boat, but though its plot was decidedly old-fashioned in comparison to Show Boat's daring storyline, it was also a hit. Good News spawned two films, an unsuccessful 1974 Broadway revival, and a 1993 updated production by Music Theatre of Wichita, which made numerous changes to the score, adding such numbers as "Keep Your Sunny Side Up", " Button Up Your Overcoat", " You're the Cream in My Coffee" and " Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries". It has since been licensed for use by amateur groups. It proved to be DeSylva, Brown, and Henderson's biggest hit out of a string of topical musicals.

Good News (1947 film)

Good News is a 1947 American MGM musical film based on the 1927 stage production of the same name. It starred June Allyson, Peter Lawford, Mel Tormé, and Joan McCracken. The screenplay by Betty Comden and Adolph Green was directed by Charles Walters in Technicolor.

Three additional songs were written for the film: "The French Lesson", "Pass That Peace Pipe", and "An Easier Way", the last of which was cut from the released film.

Good News was the second adaptation of the stage musical, after the 1930 film Good News. The 1947 film was a more sanitized version of the musical; the 1930 version included Pre-Code content, such as sexual innuendo and lewd suggestive humor.

Good News (1930 film)

Good News is a 1930 American musical film based on the 1927 stage production of the same name. It was directed by Nick Grinde. The cast included Bessie Love, Cliff Edwards and Penny Singleton. The film was shot in black-and-white, although the finale was in Multicolor. The surviving print lacks the finale; no footage is known to survive.

By the 1940s, the original was not shown in the United States due to its Pre-Code content, which included sexual innuendo and lewd suggestive humor. Another film based on the musical, also called Good News, was released in 1947.

Good News (TV series)

Good News (also known as The Good News) is an American sitcom that aired on UPN from 1997 to 1998. The series is a spin-off of the UPN series Sparks.

Good News (Kathy Mattea album)

Good News is the first album of Christmas music released by American country music artist Kathy Mattea. It was released in late 1993 on Mercury Records. "Mary, Did You Know?" and "What a Wonderful Beginning" were both covered by Kenny Rogers (the former, as a duet with Wynonna Judd) on his 1996 Christmas album The Gift. "Brightest and Best" is the only traditional song covered here.

Brent Maher produced the album, with co-production from Allen Reynolds on "Christ Child's Lullabye".

Good News (Bryan Rice album)

Good News is the second album by Danish pop singer Bryan Rice. It was released in Denmark on 22 October 2007 by Border Breakers. The album entered the Danish Albums Chart at #36.

Good News (Matt Dusk album)

Good News is the fifth studio album by Canadian jazz singer Matt Dusk. It was released by Royal Crown Records on October 27, 2009. The album is a departure from previous Matt Dusk standard, having influences of Palm Beach Pop and crooner standards of the 1950s in a modern feel. The albums is filled with original tracks, plus a bonus classic available in Canada and on iTunes in the standard and deluxe edition.

Good News (Ian Yates album)

Good News is the second studio album by Ian Yates. 7Core Music released the album on 24 June 2012.

Good News (Lena album)

Good News is the second studio album released by German singer and songwriter Lena Meyer-Landrut. It was released in Germany on 8 February 2011 through Universal Music following Meyer-Landrut's win of the Eurovision Song Contest in 2010. The album includes the songs performed by Lena during the televised preselection process for the song she would perform at the 2011 contest to defend her title. The album debuted at number one in the German albums chart and has been certified platinum in Germany indicating sales of over 200,000.

Good News (Withered Hand album)

Good News is the first full-length album by Scottish visual artist Dan Willson, d/b/a Withered Hand. Originally released on September 14, 2009 in the UK on SL Records, it was re-released on Absolutely Kosher Records in 2011 in the US. The album's title is a reference to Willson's upbringing as an Evangelical Christian.

Maggoty Lamb has written that "If you want to hear an album that genuinely does justice to the manna-from-heaven style succour that Domino Records' pre- Franz Ferdinand roster of US acoustic misfits gave to those wandering in the post-Britpop wilderness, Good News by Withered Hand...is the one to go for. Not so much for its explicit acknowledgement of aesthetic debt (lines about writing "the Silver Jews" on people's shoulder bags will only take you so far) as for the authentically homegrown twist the songwriting manages to put on its transatlantic influences."

The album was funded by the Scottish Arts Council.

Good News (1979 film)

Good News is a 1979 Italian satirical comedy film written and directed by Elio Petri and starring Giancarlo Giannini. It is the last film of Petri.

Good News (1954 film)

Good News'' (Spanish:Buenas noticias'') is a 1954 Spanish comedy film directed by Eduardo Manzanos Brochero.

Polo

Polo ( Persian: چوگان chogān) is a team sport played on horseback. The objective is to score goals against an opposing team. Players score by driving a small white plastic or wooden ball into the opposing team's goal using a long-handled mallet. The traditional sport of polo is played on a grass field up to . Each polo team consists of four riders and their mounts. Field polo is played with a solid plastic sphere (ball) which has replaced the wooden version of the ball in much of the sport. In arena polo, only three players are required per team and the game usually involves more manoeuvreing and shorter plays at lower speeds due to space limitations of the arena. Arena polo is played with a small air-filled ball, similar to a small football. The modern game lasts roughly two hours and is divided into periods called chukkas (occasionally rendered as "chukkers"). Polo is played professionally in 16 countries. It was formerly an Olympic sport.

Polo (confectionery)

Polo Mints are a brand of mints whose defining feature is the hole in the middle. The peppermint flavoured polo was first manufactured in the United Kingdom in 1948 by employee John Bargewell at the Rowntree's Factory, York, and a range of flavours followed. The name derives from "polar", referencing the cool and fresh taste of the mint.

Polo (disambiguation)

Polo is a team sport played on horseback in which the objective is to score goals against an opposing team. It may also refer to:

Polo (music)

Polo designates two forms of Venezuelan folk music. One that originates from Margarita Island and another one that is played in Coro, in the state of Falcón.

Polo (flamenco palo)

Polo is the name of a flamenco palo or musical form. There is only one known song in this palo, which is extremely similar to another palo called caña, and its guitar accompaniment, like the caña, shares its rhythm and motifs with soleá. Both the caña and polo share the same musical mode. The polo has usually been considered as a derivation of the caña. To complete the singing of the polo, singers usually sing a stanza in the palo of soleá, generally in the style called soleá apolá.

Although nowadays, only one song is known for the polo, known as polo natural, past writers also mention another polo, called polo de Tobalo, which has probably been lost.

Polo (surname)

Polo is the surname of:

  • Marco Polo (1254–1324), Italian trader and explorer
  • Niccolò and Maffeo Polo (1230–1294 and 1230–1309 respectively), Marco Polo's father and uncle respectively
  • Aldo Polo (born 1983), Mexican footballer
  • Andy Polo (born 1994), Peruvian footballer
  • Ana María Polo (born 1959), Cuban-American lawyer and Hispanic television arbitrator
  • Armando Polo (born 1990), Panamanian footballer
  • Asier Polo, Spanish cellist
  • Bernardo Polo (died c. 1700), Spanish painter
  • Carmen Polo, 1st Lady of Meirás (1900–1988), wife of Francisco Franco and a member of the Spanish nobility
  • Danny Polo (1901–1949), American jazz clarinetist
  • Dean Polo (born 1986), Australian rules footballer
  • Diego Polo the Elder (1560–1600), Spanish Renaissance painter
  • Diego Polo the Younger (1620–1655) Spanish Baroque painter, nephew of the above
  • Eddie Polo (1875–1961), Austro-American actor of the silent era born Edward W. Wyman or Weimer
  • Edward Polo (born 1989), Nigerian footballer
  • Enrico Polo (1868–1953), Italian violinist, composer and pedagogue
  • Gaspar Gil Polo (1530?-1591), Spanish novelist and poet
  • Joe Polo (born 1982), American curler
  • Leonardo Polo (1926–2013), Spanish philosopher
  • Malvina Polo (1903–2000), American actress, daughter of Eddie Polo
  • Roberto Polo (born 1980), Colombian footballer
  • Saul Polo, Canadian politician
  • Teri Polo (born 1969), American actress
Polo (given name)

Polo is the given name of:

  • Polo Carrera (born 1945), Ecuadorian retired footballer
  • Polo Hofer (born 1945), Swiss musician
  • Polo Villaamil (born 1979), Spanish auto racing drive
  • Polo Wila (born 1987), Ecuadorian footballer
Berkov

Berkov or Berkoff is a surname of Jewish (Berkovich) or Dutch/German origin (Berkhoff). In Slavic countries it is only used for men, while the feminine variant is Berkova or '''Berková '''. It may refer to

  • David Berkoff (born 1966), an American swimmer
  • Steven Berkoff (born 1937), an English actor
  • Vasily Berkov (1794–1870), Russian shipbuilder
  • Alexandra Berková (1949–2008), Czech writer and educator
  • Dagmar Berková (1922–2002), Czech graphic designer, illustrator and painter
  • Elena Berkova (born 1985), Russian model, television presenter, singer and actress
  • Eva Berková (born 1965), Slovak Olympic basketball player
  • Renata Berková (born 1975), Czech Olympic triathlete
Yacamán

Yacamán is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Gustavo Yacamán (born 1991), Colombian racing driver
  • Miguel José Yacamán (born 1946), Mexican physicist
Muskom

Muskom was the Central Commissariat of Muslim affairs in Inner Russia and Siberia set up by the Bolsheviks in January 1918 as part of Narkomnats Mullanur Waxitov was appointed as chair, although he was not a member of the Communist Party. Mirsäyet Soltanğäliev served as the representative of the Bolsheviks.

An initial congress was organised in November 1918. A second congress was organised in November 1919 and was addressed by Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin.

ENESSERE

ENESSERE is an Italian company, founded in 2009, with headquarters in Brendola and a manufacturer of small vertical wind turbines. Its foundation and the development of the Hercules wind turbine is a response to the Environmental impact of wind power, namely to the aestethic concerns. Hercules was launched in 2015 as a piece of Design with wooden wings and applying the Golden Ratio. ENESSERE is one of the 100 energy stories that Italy provided to the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris in December 2015.

Liep

Liep was first a suburb of and then a quarter of Königsberg, Germany, located east of the city center. Its territory is now part of the Leningradsky District of Kaliningrad, Russia.

Liep was a medieval fishing village which developed into an estate. Ca. 1327 the Teutonic Knights granted the vicinity to the town of Löbenicht. Documented in 1338 as Lipa, in 1340 as Lypus, and in 1446 as Lieppe, its name was of Old Prussian origin (lipa) and referred to linden trees.

Königsberger Zellstoffabrik A.G., a pulp mill, was built in Liep in 1895 and rapidly expanded in 1897, 1904, and 1906. Liep was incorporated into the city of Königsberg in 1927. Liep was neighbored by the Pregel to the south, Sackheim to the west, Kalthof to the northwest, and Lauth to the northeast.

M.O

M.O are an English female trio consisting of members Annie Ashcroft, Frankee Connolly and Nadine Samuels. The girl band was formed in 2012 by the members themselves, after their previous groups Mini Viva and Duchess had disbanded. Starting out on independent label Operator Records, they have been signed to Polydor since early 2016.

Noteosuchus

Noteosuchus is an extinct genus of basal rhynchosaur known from the earliest Triassic deposits of Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. It was first named by David Meredith Seares Watson in 1912 and the type species is Eosuchus colletti. The generic name Eosuchus is preoccupied by the generic name of Eosuchus lerichei Dollo, 1907, a gavialoid crocodilian known from northern France. Thus, an alternative generic name, Noteosuchus, was proposed by Robert Broom in 1925. The generic name erected by Broom (1925) is a compound, meaning "Not Eosuchus", while "Eosuchus" is derived from the name of Eos, the goddess of the dawn in Greek mythology, and suchus, Latinized from the Greek souchos, an Egyptian crocodile god, thus meaning "dawn crocodile". The specific name, colletti, honors Mr. Collett for the discovery of the holotype and only known specimen.

Noteosuchus is known solely from the holotype AM 3591, a well-preserved partial postcranial skeleton currently housed at the Albany Museum, South Africa. It was collected from a hill slope at Grassy Ridge locality, from the Katberg Formation of the Beaufort Group. This horizon belongs to the Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone, dating to the early Induan stage of the Early Triassic period. Thus, Noteosuchus represents the geologically oldest known rhynchosaur species.

David M. Dilkes (1998) suggested that Noteosuchus colletti may be a junior synonym of Mesosuchus browni, and thus this species has been widely ignored since. However, Ezcurra, Scheyer and Butler (2014) noted that this synonymy was based only on generalized rhynchosaur plesiomorphic similarities rather than autapomorphies. They found this to be unlikely because the temporal gap between the two species spans most of the Early Triassic, as Mesosuchus is otherwise known only from the Middle Triassic. Additionally, their phylogenetic analysis recovered Noteosuchus and Mesosuchus in a polytomy with Howesia browni, a result which is inconsistent with such synonymy.

Actinocrinus

Actinocrinus is an extinct genus of crinoid from the Early Carboniferous of Europe and North America.

Category:Monobathrida Category:Carboniferous crinoids Category:Carboniferous animals of Europe Category:Mississippian animals of North America

Merz (surname)

Merz is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Aaron Merz (b. 1983), US football player
  • Albert Merz (?-1941), One of 3 German brothers (w August and Rudolf) who were imprisoned in Nazi Germany for refusing to bear arms. He was executed.
  • Alessia Merz (b. 1974), Italian television personality
  • Annette Merz ( fl. 1990s), German Protestant theologian, biblical scholar
  • Alfred Merz (1880–1925), Austrian-German oceanologist
  • Bruno Merz (b. 1976), New Zealand-born musician, composer, working in Netherlands
  • Charles Hesterman Merz (1874–1940), Pioneer of the National Grid UK
  • Charlie Merz (1888–1952) US racecar driver
  • Curt Merz (b. 1938), US football player
  • Friedrich Merz (b. 1955), German politician (CDU)
  • Georg Merz (1793-1867), German optical instruments manufacturer
  • Hans-Rudolf Merz (b. 1942), President of Switzerland (2009)
  • HG Merz (b. 1947), German architect, museum designer
  • Ivan Merz (1896–1928), blessed, Croatian Catholic lay activist
  • Joachim Merz (b. 1948), German economist
  • John Theodore Merz (1840-1922), English-born German chemist, historian, industrialist
  • Jon F. Merz (fl. 1990s), US author
  • Joseph Anton Merz (1681–1750), German painter
  • Karl Spruner von Merz (1803-1892), German cartographer, scholar
  • Klaus Merz (b. 1945), Swiss writer
  • Louis L. Merz (1908-2002), Political figure in US state of Wisconsin
  • Markus Merz, founder of software company OScar
  • Mario Merz (1925–2003), Italian artist
  • Marisa Merz (b. 1928), Italian sculptor, widow of Mario Merz
  • Matthias Merz (b. 1984), Swiss mountaineer
  • Michael Merz (b. 1979), US boxer
  • Mischa Merz (b. 1967), Australian boxer, painter, journalist
  • Otto Merz (1889-1933), German racecar driver
  • Robert Merz (1887-1914), Austrian football (soccer) player
  • Sue Merz (b. 1972), US ice hockey player, Olympic athlete (1998)
  • William Merz (1878-1946), US gymnast, Olympic athlete (1904)
Merz (musician)

Merz (born Conrad Ewart Lambert in Dorset, England) is an English multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter. He has released five albums.

Merz

Merz may refer to:

  • Merz (surname)
  • Merz Apothecary, a historic German health care store in Chicago
  • Merz Pharma, an international health care company
  • Merz Peninsula, an irregular, ice-covered peninsula near Antarctica
  • Merz & McLellan, a British electrical engineering consultancy
  • Merz (Art style), Kurt Schwitters' synonym for his own way of Dada
  • Merzbau, name of an artwork by Kurt Schwitters
  • Merz (musician), a British electro-folk singer
  • Merz, Joachim, a German economist
  • Alfred Merz, Austrian geographer and oceanographer
Merz (Art style)

Merz (art style) is a synonym for the more common expression and term Dada, and traces back to Kurt Schwitters.

CEPA

CEPA may refer to:

  • Cambridge Economic Policy Associates
  • Economic Partnership Agreement between the CARIFORUM states and the EU, concluded on 30 October 2008
  • Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement between India and Republic of Korea. Enforced on 1 January, 2010.
  • Canadian Environmental Protection Act
  • Center for Economic Policy Analysis at New School University, New York City
  • Center for European Policy Analysis
  • Center for Education Policy Analysis
  • Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (disambiguation), between the Central Government of the People's Republic of China and its Special administrative regions (Hong Kong, Macau)
    • Mainland and Hong Kong Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (CEPA)
  • Certified Exit Planning Advisor
  • Central Europe Private Aviation
  • CEPA (Common Educational Proficiency Assessment)
CEPA in foreign languages
  • Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas Ambientais
  • Centro Ponceño de Autismo, Ponce, Puerto Rico
CEPA (Common Educational Proficiency Assessment)

Common Educational Proficiency Assessment (CEPA) is a set of locally-developed standardized tests used for admissions and placement by three federal institutions of higher education in the United Arab Emirates ( Zayed University, the Higher Colleges of Technology, and UAEU). The tests are produced by the UAE Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific research as part of NAPO (National Admissions and Placement Office) and administered in the three federal institutions. Around 17,000 grade 12 Emirati students take the tests each year. There are two CEPA exams. CEPA-English tests basic English proficiency, and CEPA-Math measures basic math skills. Both exams are administered in two formats: paper-based (with scanned answer sheets) and computer-based.

Agias

Agias or Hagias was an ancient Greek poet, whose name was formerly written Augias through a mistake of the first editor of the Excerpta of Proclus. This misreading was corrected by Friedrich Thiersch, from the Codex Monacensis, which in one passage has "Agias", and in another "Hagias". The name itself does not occur in early Greek writers, unless it be supposed that the "Egias" or "Hegias" in Clement of Alexandria and Pausanias, are only different forms of the same name.

Agias was a native of Troezen, and the time at which he wrote appears to have been about the year 740 BC. His poem was celebrated in antiquity, under the name of Nostoi , i.e. the history of the return of the Achaean heroes from Troy, and consisted of five books. The poem began with the cause of the misfortunes which befell the Achaeans on their way home and after their arrival, that is, with the outrage committed upon Cassandra and the Palladium; and the whole poem filled up the space which was left between the work of the poet Arctinus and the Odyssey. The ancients themselves appear to have been uncertain about the author of this poem, for they refer to it simply by the name of Nostoi, and when they mention the author, they only call him "the writer of the Nostoi" . Hence some writers attributed the Nostoi to Homer, while others call its author a Colophonian. Similar poems, and with the same title, were written by other poets also, such as Eumelus of Corinth, Anticleides of Athens, Cleidemus, and Lysimachus of Alexandria. Where the Nostoi is mentioned without a name, it was generally understood to have been the work of this Agias.

Agias (disambiguation)

Agias ( Gr. ) can refer to a number of people from classical history:

  • Agias, an epic poet from the 8th century BC
  • Agias of Sparta, an ancient seer
  • Agias, a comic writer mentioned briefly by ancient writers, but otherwise unknown
  • Agias, the author of a work on Argolis, the Argolica , according to Athenaeus (iii). He is called a musician in another passage (xiv) but this may be a different person.
Grole

A Grole (pronounced "Groll") is a multi-spouted, and often ornately carved, wooden bowl with a small lid. Groles are always round and relatively shallow, with an interior capacity for liquid proportionate to the number of spouts.

Traditionally, a grole is used to serve a hot drink (sometimes called " café de l'amitié" - i.e. coffee of friendship), comprising a base of black coffee to which are added a variety of liquors. The liquors added depend on whatever is on offer from the bar, cafe or restaurant serving it. Sometimes several choices of liquor-combinations are available, sometimes only the "house speciality". What comes to the table is, however, invariably hot, delicious and, alcoholically speaking, deceptively strong.

This typically potent concoction is usually shared between 2 and 10 (or so) people, with the number of spouts on the particular grole matching the number of imbibers. Each person has his or her "own" spout from which to drink, with each taking a mouthful before passing the bowl to the person next to them. This passing-on ends with the person who gets to take the last mouthful(a person who also takes much teasing from the other participants, especially the first person who did not get another "shot").

The bowl is local to the Savoy region of France and is usually available and enjoyed during " après-ski" or after dinner - especially one of fondue or raclette.

The typical making of a grole is, per person, a cup of coffee, a small glass of liquor (orange/lime liquors are recommended) and 2 spoons of sugar. The coffee is poured first, then the liquor is slowly added as to not mix with the coffee. The alcohol is then inflamed using a spoon of sugar ignited with some liquor, as for drinking flamed absinthe, adding a caramel flavor to the mixture. The very hot liquid is sipped one person at a time, thus alcohol vapors are inhaled in the process.

Khaga

Khaga (, ) is a town and a nagar panchayat in Fatehpur district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Khaga is situated between two important cities: Allahabad, which is also known as "Prayag", and Kanpur of the state Uttar Pradesh. Fatehpur is well connected with those cities by train routes and roads. The distance from Allahabad is 86 km and from Kanpur is 102 km by railway. The north boundary of the district is limited by the river Ganges and its southern boundary is the river Yamuna.

Usage examples of "khaga".

But whoso reaps the ripened corn Shall shout in his delight, While silences vanish away.