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Jana Žitňanská | The Sidi Aïch operation was an anti-terrorist operation conducted in Tunisia in March 2015 against a group of the Tunisian branch of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), the Katiba Okba Ibn Nafaa. On the evening of March 28, 2015, in Sidi Aïch in the governorate of Gafsa, the National Guard ambushed an AQIM vehicle. During the clash that followed, almost all the jihadists who occupied the vehicle were killed by the Tunisian military, with the exception of a fighter who was wounded and taken prisoner. A specialized demining group was then dispatched to the site to verify that the corpses are not booby-trapped. |
Jana Žitňanská | According to the Tunisian government, nine jihadists were killed during the operation, including Algerian Lokman Abu Sakhr, leader of the katiba (brigade) Okba Ibn Nafaa, of AQIM. Of the eight other jihadists killed, three were Algerian and five Tunisian. The Tunisian government also claimed that Lokmane Abou Sakhr and Katiba Okba Ibn Nafaa were responsible for the attack on the Bardo Museum, even though the attack was claimed by the Islamic State and not by AQIM. 1 Sydney Place 1 Sydney Place, South Kensington, is Grade II listed building situated on the corner of Sydney Place and Fulham Road in London, United Kingdom. |
Jana Žitňanská | The building, which spans 5 floors, is one of many historical and listed buildings owned by the Wellcome Trust. Standing four-storeys high and covering over 5600 square feet, it forms part of a Grade II listed terrace of six houses. Located on the junction of Onslow Square’s Sydney Place and Fulham Road, the building has two entrances and two addresses. The address of the main entrance is 1 Sydney Place, South Kensington, whereas the second entrance is situated at 44 Fulham Road - in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. |
Jana Žitňanská | Designed by George Basevi in the early nineteenth century, the building was built by Charles James Freake between 1844-1845. At the end of the century it changed from a residential to a commercial building and, until its acquisition by an interior designer company in 2017, the building had remained in the hands of the banking sector (most recently, HSBC). Nikita Rawal Nikita Rawal (born: 17 July 1989) is an Indian Bollywood actress who made her screen debut in the movie "Mr. Hot Mr. Kool". Rawal was born in Kandivali, a city in Mumbai, Maharashtra. She started her career in Bollywood with the movie "Mr. Hot Mr. Kool" and gained much popularity with her item song "Twinkle Twinkle" from the movie "Cute Kameena". Edizioni Casagrande |
Jana Žitňanská | Edizioni Casagrande is an Italian-language publisher, founded in 1949 and based in Bellinzona in Switzerland. It focuses on the art and history of Italian Switzerland. The Casagrande family first opened a bookshop in Bellinzona in 1924, which formed the foundation for the foundation of their publishing company. It published its first book in 1950 using a small printing press inside the bookshop which remained active until 1956, when they moved to 16 via Nocca in the same town. In 1976 it was one of the backers for the reorganisation of the Istituto Editoriale Ticinese. Bagerhat-1 Bagerhat-1 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2014 by Sheikh Helal Uddin of the Bangladesh Awami League. |
Jana Žitňanská | The constituency encompasses Chitalmari, Fakirhat, and Mollahat Upazilas. The constituency was created in 1984 from the Khulna-1 constituency when the former Khulna District was split into three districts: Bagerhat, Khulna, and Satkhira. Sheikh Helal Uddin was elected unopposed in the 2014 General Election after opposition parties withdrew their candidacies in a boycott of the election. Dalbergia discolor Dalbergia discolor is a species of liana, with the Vietnamese name "trắc biến màu". The genus "Dalbergia": is placed in the subfamily Faboideae and tribe Dalbergieae; no subspecies are listed in the Catalogue of Life. Public housing in Brunei |
Jana Žitňanská | Public housing in Brunei comprises government development programmes which aim to provide ownership of land or homes to the citizens of Brunei. They are managed by the Housing Development Department (), a government department under the Ministry of Development. There has been three main public housing programmes in the country, namely the National Housing Scheme (), the Landless Indigenous Citizens' Housing Scheme () and the National Resettlement Scheme (). |
Jana Žitňanská | Public housing was first initiated in the 1950s by the government in the form of mass resettlement programmes for the residents of Kampong Ayer, the stilt settlement on the Brunei River. In that decade there were cholera and smallpox epidemics which greatly affected the residents; at that time more residents settled along the banks than the middle of the river and hence more prone to the diseases. Therefore, the initial aim of the housing programme was to relocate the residents to places on land which are less susceptible to the spread of the diseases. |
Jana Žitňanská | However, the programme eventually shifted its aim to allow the Kampong Ayer residents in owning a home on land. The first resettlement programme was carried out in 1952 in which a housing estate was developed in Bunut. There were then succession of resettlement programmes in the following few decades, and subsequently various resettlement estates appeared which are all located in Brunei-Muara District. In the 1970s, the government conducted analysis on the housing demands in the country and eventually came up with the present housing programmes. Lambak Kanan became the first area to be developed as the estate of beginning in 1984. |
Jana Žitňanská | Although there has been three housing development programmes conducted by the government, only two are currently pursued, namely the National Housing Scheme and the Landless Indigenous Citizens' Housing Scheme. The National Housing Scheme (, commonly abbreviated as "RPN") aims to provide homes to the citizens of Brunei regardless of ethnic or racial background. Houses are granted in turns according to the year of the application by the applicants. |
Jana Žitňanská | In contrast with the National Housing Scheme, the Landless Indigenous Citizens' Housing Scheme (, commonly abbreviated as "STKRJ") aims to provide private lands, which often comes with completely-built homes, specifically to or the indigenous citizens of the country. The are essentially the indigenous Malays, which consist of the seven ethnic groups officially recognised by the government, namely the Brunei Malay, Kedayan, Bisaya, Tutong, Dusun, Belait and Murut. The National Resettlement Scheme () has been a housing programme carried out by the government to aid the residents of Kampong Ayer in resettling on land. It is currently not active or that the relocation programme is handled as part of the other two housing programmes. |
Jana Žitňanská | The housing estates are developed in all four districts of Brunei, generally as part of existing villages or other survey areas, or in their vicinity. Each estate constitutes only one of either housing programmes. However, a village or area may have more than one type of estates. Some estates may also have enough population comparable that of village settlements and hence they are designated as village subdivisions, the third- and lowest-level administrative divisions of the country. A few estates even have larger population and end up having more than one village subdivisions. |
Jana Žitňanská | Nevertheless, each village subdivision of a housing estate functions similar to the local village, including having a or village head as its community leader as well as a Village Consultative Council () as the community association. There may also be presence of community infrastructure such as a primary school and a community centre. As Brunei is predominantly Muslim, a mosque may also be built for the Muslim residents to perform Jumu'ah or Friday prayers, as well as a religious school which provides the Islamic religious primary education compulsory for Muslim pupils in the country. 2017–18 NC State Wolfpack women's basketball team |
Jana Žitňanská | The 2017–18 NC State Wolfpack women's basketball team represents North Carolina State University during the 2017–18 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Wolfpack, led by fifth-year head coach Wes Moore, play their home games at Reynolds Coliseum and are members of the Atlantic Coast Conference. !colspan=9 style="background:#E00000; color:white;"| Exhibition !colspan=9 style="background:#E00000; color:white;"| Non-conference regular season !colspan=9 style="background:#E00000; color:white;"| ACC regular season !colspan=9 style="background:#E00000; color:white;"| ACC Women's Tournament Source Vallo Kirs |
Jana Žitňanská | Vallo Kirs (born 23 November 1987) is an Estonian stage, film, and television actor and stage director whose career began as a teenager in 2004. Kirs is possibly best recalled internationally for his role as Kaspar in the 2007 Ilmar Raag-directed feature film drama "Klass". Vallo Kirs was born in 1987 in the town of Rakvere in Lääne-Viru County, where he attended primary and secondary school at the Rakvere Gymnasium. After graduation, he studied history at the University of Tartu's Faculty of Philosophy. In 2009, Kirs left his studies at the University of Tartu to study acting and directing at the University of Tartu Viljandi Culture Academy, graduating in 2013. |
Jana Žitňanská | Kirs began his career at ages sixteen and seventeen appearing as an uncredited extra in crowd scenes in two Estonian feature films in 2004 and 2005: "Sigade revolutsioon" and "Malev". This was followed by the role of Ott in the popular Rasmus Merivoo-directed comedy short film "Tulnukas" opposite actors Mart Avandi, Ott Sepp, and Uku Uusberg. |
Jana Žitňanská | Kirs' most prominent film role to date was a starring role as Kaspar in director Ilmar Raag's gritty 2007 feature film "Klass" for Estonian Culture Film. The film focused on rampant bullying which leads two teens (played by Kirs and actor Pärt Uusberg) to plan and commit a school shooting. "Klass" received awards from the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and the Warsaw International Film Festival and was the official Estonian submission for the Best Foreign Language Film Category of the 80th Academy Awards, although it was not nominated. Kirs has also appeared in several student films and short films. |
Jana Žitňanská | In 2010, Vallo Kirs reprised his role of Kaspar from "Klass" for "Klass: elu pärast", a seven-part television miniseries that appeared on Estonia's ETV2 and followed up on the aftermath of the school shooting. Kirs has since appeared in roles on the Kanal 2 crime series "Kelgukoerad" in 2010, the TV3 comedy series "Ment" in 2012, and the TV3 comedy-crime series "Kättemaksukontor" in 2017. |
Jana Žitňanská | While enrolled at the University of Tartu Viljandi Culture Academy, Kirs began performing as an actor in stage, mostly at the Ugala theatre in Viljandi. After graduation, he became engaged at the Ugala as a stage actor and director, where he still currently works. As an actor, he has appeared in productions of works by such authors, playwrights and lyricists as Viktor Pelevin, Anthony Drewe and George Stiles, Tõnu Õnnepalu, Carlo Goldoni, Tom Stoppard, Gianni Rodari, and Martin Algus. As a director, he has overseen and orchestrated the mounting of a theatre productions of works by Mati Unt, Thorbjørn Egner, André Gide, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Carlo Goldoni, John Steinbeck, Urmas Lennuk, and others. |
Jana Žitňanská | Kirs has also performed in and directed productions at the Tallina Linnateater, the Rakvere Theatre, and several smaller venues throughout Estonia. Vallo Kirs currently resides in Viljandi, while engaged at the Ugala theatre. He is in romantic relationship with actress Klaudia Tiitsmaa. Sepia orbignyana Sepia orbignyana, the pink cuttlefish, is a species of small cuttlefish from the family Sepiidae. It is occurs in the temperate and tropical waters of the eastern Atlantic Ocean. |
Jana Žitňanská | "Sepia orbignyana" is a fairly small cuttlefish, growing up to 12 cm in total length. with the females generally being larger than males, male mantle length up to 84mm and females' up to 120mm. It has a slim, oval body and relatively long arms each having four rows of suckers. There is an obvious lobe of the dorsal mantle which projects between the eyes and there is a prominent tip at the posterior end of the mantlewhich lies in the gap between the posterior end s of the fins. The tentacular club is short and has its suckers arranged in 5-6 rows, with the middle series havong three to four greatly enlarged suckers. The hectocotylus is found on the left ventral arm and has 1 or 2 rows of suckers of normal size at the base, highly reduced suckers in the mid part and then normal size suckers towards the tip. The suckers on the hectocotylus are arranged in 2 dorsal and 2 ventral series each of which are laterally displaced to create a gap between them. Females have a single spermathecae situated medially on the ventral part of the buccal membrabe. It is often coloured rose or orange on the dorsal surface which has a faint ridge. |
Jana Žitňanská | The cuttlebone is long and thinly oblong in shape with a long posterior spine. having a width equal to one third of its length. and distinct lateral wings.. This species is largely sympatric with "Sepia elegans", another relatively small species pf cuttlefish but "S. orbignyana" can be identified from "S. elegans" by the fins almost reaching the very rear of the, and on having a higher number of suckers, over 100, on each tentacular club.. The juveniles resemble tiny adults. |
Jana Žitňanská | "Sepia orbignyana" occurs over a wide geographic distribution which extends from the Irish Sea, as far north as southwestern Scotland and English Channel south along the Atlantic coast of France, Spain and Portugal and into the Mediterranean Sea, where it is found throughout the sea, and south along the west coast of Africa as far as Angola. Off northwest Africa it is also found around the Sahara Seamounts. It is most abundant in the Sicilian Channel. |
Jana Žitňanská | "Sepia orbignyana" is a demersal species that occurs at depths of 50m to 450m over detritus-rich or muddy substrates on the continental shelf or continental slope. It is often found in sympatry with "S. elegans" and "S. officinalis" but it seems to prefer to inhabit deeper parts of the sea than "S. officinalis", and unlike that species it does not bury itself in the substrate. In the Sea of Marmara it can be found in brackish water. In the Mediterranean spawning probably occurs continuously and adults of both sexes are present in similar numbers throughout the year, although breeding activity is thought to peak in the warmer months. In the Atlantic adults predominate in the spring off Portugal. There are no records of movements towards the coasts to spawn. Females grow faster than males and reach larger sizes In the Mediterranean males attain maturity at around 35mm in mantle length and at age 6-7 months while for females maturity is reached at a mantle length of 65mm and at the age of9-10 months. The males have about 100 spermatophores and the females bear around 400 eggs. As the female increases in size so doe the diameter of the eggs she carries, reaching a maximum diameter of 7 to 8.5 mm. The eggs are laid in clusters of 30 to 40 which adhere to sponges growing on muddy bottoms. The diet of "S. orbignyana" is predominantly made up of crustaceans, with fish and cephalopods making up a minor part of the diet. |
Jana Žitňanská | "Sepia orbignyana" sometimes caught in high numbers as bycatch in trawls in parts of the Mediterranean Sea and in west African fisheries. It is also a quarry species in targeted fisheries such as in the Sicilian Channel. The catch is sold in local markets in either frozen or fresh form. In the south-western Adriatic multi-species trawl fishery it, together with "S. elegans", is taken as bycatch and in the 2000s the catch greatly reduced, the reduction being blamed on overfishing. |
Jana Žitňanská | The specific name of "Sepia orbignyana" honours the French malacologist Alcide d'Orbigny. being the editor of the "Annales des Sciences Naturelles" at the time André Étienne d'Audebert de Férussac published his described the species, in 1826, from a type specimen collected at La Rochelle. The type is held at the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris. Dalbergia yunnanensis Dalbergia yunnanensis is a plant species of the genus "Dalbergia": which is placed in the subfamily Faboideae and tribe Dalbergieae. The Catalogue of Life lists: 2018 LSU Tigers baseball team |
Jana Žitňanská | The 2018 LSU Tigers baseball team represents Louisiana State University (LSU) during the 2018 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Tigers play their home games at Alex Box Stadium as a member of the Southeastern Conference. They are led by head coach Paul Mainieri, in his 12th season at LSU. |
Jana Žitňanská | In 2017, the Tigers won the SEC's Western Division with a record of 52–20–0, 21–9–0 in conference play. They qualified for the 2017 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament and defeated Arkansas in the final, 4–2. They qualified for the 2017 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament as the SEC champion, and were selected as the No. 4 overall national seed. The Tigers were selected as hosts of the Baton Rouge regional, which included Rice, Southeastern Louisiana, and Texas Southern. The Tigers swept through the Regional, defeating Texas Southern, 15–7, Southeastern 11–6, and Rice 5–0 advancing to the Super Regional where they hosted conference rival Mississippi State. After a 4–3 comeback victory in which they trailed 3–0 in the bottom of the eighth inning, LSU beat the Bulldogs 14–4 the following night to advance to their 18th World Series. The Tigers defeated Florida State in their opening game 5–4, but then fell to overall number one seed Oregon State 13–1 placing them on the brink of elimination. The Tigers once again beat Florida State 7–4 to earn the right to face Oregon State once again, needing to win twice. LSU advanced to the finals winning 3–1 then 6–1 eliminating the Beavers. In the championship, LSU faced conference rival Florida. The Tigers lost a close Game 1 4–3 then were defeated 6–1 the following night to finish national runners-up, while the Gators earned their first national championship. |
Jana Žitňanská | Peter Ebere Okpaleke Peter Ebere Okpaleke (born 1 March 1963) is a Roman Catholic bishop. Okpalaeke was ordained to the priesthood on 22 August 1990. On 7 December 2012, Okpalaeke was appointed bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ahiara, Nigeria and was ordained bishop on 21 May 2013. However, he was unable to take possession of the Ahiara Diocese. On 19 February 2018, Pope Francis confirmed that Okpa;aeke was unable to take possession of the diocese. Dalbergia forbesii Dalbergia forbesii is a species of shrub, with the Vietnamese name "trắc Forbes". The genus "Dalbergia" is placed in the subfamily Faboideae and tribe Dalbergieae; no subspecies are listed in the Catalogue of Life. Giovanni Cola di Franco |
Jana Žitňanská | Giovanni Cola di Franco was an Italian Mannerist architect active between 1596 and 1621, mainly in Naples, where he was born and died. He collaborated with contemporary architects such as Francesco Grimaldi, Bartolomeo Picchiatti and Giovan Giacomo Di Conforto. Sun Ying Sun Ying (born December 1936) is a People's Republic of China politician. He was born in Baodi District, Tianjin. He graduated from Shanxi Normal University in 1958. He was Communist Party of China Committee Secretary of Taiyuan, Shanxi from 1987 to 1992. He was governor (1996-1998) and Communist Party Committee Secretary (1998-2001) of Gansu. A. Madhavan A. Madhavan is a Tamil writer who won Sahitya Akademi Award for his collection of essays "Ilakkiya Chuvadukal". FAM71E1 |
Jana Žitňanská | FAM71E1, also known as Family With Sequence Similarity 71 Member E1, is a protein that in humans is encoded by the FAM71E1 gene. Its function is not yet well understood by the scientific community. Orthologs have been found in mammals and reptiles, and the following paralogs have been found in humans: FAM71A, FAM71B, FAM71C, FAM71D, FAM71F1, and FAM71F2. The gene has two isoforms, isoform 1 and isoform 2, and is found on chromosome 19 from 50,466,643 to 50,476,753 (GRCh38/hg38) and from 50,970,042 to 50,980,010 (GRCh37/hg19), respectively. The gene has 5 exons, 4 of which are coding exons. The mRNA transcript is 1281 bp long for isoform 1 and 1233 bp for isoform 2. |
Jana Žitňanská | The FAM71E1 protein is 247 amino acids long with a molecular weight of 27,608.93 g/mol. It has a charge of 5.0 and an isoelectric point of 8.8533. It has a domain of unknown function (DUF3699), and it is thought to not belong to any known protein family. The protein is predicted to localize to the nucleus and thought to be mainly associated with the nucleoli fibrillar center. The gene has 111 orthologs in mammals and reptiles. No phenotype associated with this gene has been reported, and there are currently no known disease-causing mutations associated with this gene. In humans, the FAM71E1 gene is highly expressed in the adult testis, with lower levels of expression in the sperm, oocyte, and brain. 2017–18 Puskás FC season |
Jana Žitňanská | The 2017–18 season was Puskás FC's 4th competitive season, 1st consecutive season in the OTP Bank Liga and 7th year in existence as a football club. "As of 1 February, 2018." In: Out: Includes all competitive matches. The list is sorted by shirt number when total goals are equal. Includes all competitive matches. Players with 1 card or more included only. Shatt al Gharsah Shatt al Gharsah, Chott el Gharsa (Arabic language شط الغرسة) is sedimentary basin and also intermittent salt lake in Tunisia. It has width of 20 kilometres and length of 50 kilometres. At 17 metres under sea level it is at the lowest point of the country. Dionisio Nencioni di Bartolomeo |
Jana Žitňanská | Dionisio Nencioni di Bartolomeo (1559, Florence - 1638, Naples) was an Italian architect, mainly active in Naples, to which he moved in 1584. He worked on the Hieronymite church from 1587 until his death, in collaboration with Giovanni Antonio Dosio. |
Jana Žitňanská | In 1607 he took part in the competition to design the Royal Chapel of the Treasure of St. Januarius, alongside other architects working in Naples such as Francesco Grimaldi, Giovan Battista Cavagna, Giulio Cesare Fontana, Michelangelo Naccherino, Giovan Giacomo Di Conforto, Giovanni Cola di Franco and Ceccardo Bernucci, but his design did not win. In 1612 he worked on the Gesù e Maria Complex and from 1604 to 1632 as one of the architects of San Giuseppe dei Ruffi. In 1631 he made some assessments of the work already done at certosa di San Martino. He spent his final years finishing working on the Gerolamini church (even joining the Hieronymites himself in 1637), which was only completed in 1639. Kisan Faguji Bansod |
Jana Žitňanská | Kisan Faguji Bansod, (), (1879-1946) was a leader of dalit movement in pre-independence India. Bansod was born on 18 February 1879 in a mahar (then considered as untouchables) family at village Mohapa near Nagpur. Influenced by the bhakti cult, he was a proponent of upliftment of dalits within the fold of Hinduism. He was an advocate of education for dalit boys and girls. Therefore, he established one Chokhamela Girls' school at Nagpur. He was also aware of importance of press to create awareness among the dalit community and he started his own press in 1910 and published journals "Nirashrit Hind Nagarik", "Vital Vidhwansak", "Majur Patrika", and "Chokhamela". He was one of the secretaries of All India Depressed Classes Conference held at Nagpur in 1920. |
Jana Žitňanská | Bansod was influenced by the works of Brahmo Samaj and Prarthana Samaj. He attended annual function of Prarthana Samaj in 1905 at Mumbai. He was also associated with Vitthal Ramji Shinde, founder of Depressed Classes Mission. Though he was a supporter of theory of Aryan conquest and enslavement of dalits, contrary to Dr. Ambedkar, he was in favour of reforms in Hinduism rather than conversion out of it. He died on 10 October 1946 at Nagpur. Ambraser Heldenbuch |
Jana Žitňanská | The Ambraser Heldenbuch ("The Ambras Castle Book of Heroes") is a 16th century manuscript containing a collection of Middle High German heroic epics and shorter narratives dating from the 12th and 13th centuries. For many of the texts it is the sole surviving source, which makes the manuscript highly significant for the history of German literature. The list of works follows the order in the manuscript. |
Song Zhaosu | Song Zhaosu (born March 1941) is a People's Republic of China politician. He was born in Nanyang, Henan. He graduated from Zhengzhou University in 1964. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1965. He was vice-governor of his home province. He was governor (1999-2001) and Communist Party Committee Secretary (2001-2003) of Gansu. Lindsay Lawrence Lindsay Lawrence is a bronze medalist in the 1985 World Games in taekwondo. Film New Europe Film New Europe may refer to one of two unrelated film organizations based in Warsaw, Poland Gesù e Maria Complex |
Song Zhaosu | Gesù e Maria Complex was a small monastic complex in Naples which also included the monastic church. The monastery buildings now house a hospital. It is sited on the summit of the zona di Pontecorvo. It was first built for the Dominican friar Silvio d'Atripalda in 1580 - he had obtained its site from Ascanio Coppola. In 1585 the complex was remodelled and extended in the Baroque style by Domenico Fontana - it is one of his earliest works. The Dominicans were expelled in 1812 and their lands and buildings confiscated by the French occupiers. It had passed to another order by 1863, when the monastic buildings were again secularised and turned into a hospital but the church retained as a parish church. It was already in a state of decay by the end of the 19th century and so in 1979 the church was closed, after which it was hit by thefts, the 1980 earthquake and looting. The hospital had been demolished in the meantime. The church was briefly opened for a month in 2012 but it has not yet been fully restored and its future is uncertain. |
Song Zhaosu | I Don't Think I Can Do This Anymore I Don't Think I Can Do This Anymore is the third studio album by British emo band Moose Blood. The album is set to be released on March 8, 2018 and will be followed by a tour of North America. 2015 World Sambo Championships The 2015 World Sambo Championships was held in Casablanca, Morocco between the 12 and 16 November 2015. This tournament included competition in both Sambo, and Combat Sambo. Northern Rhodesian general election, 1926 General elections were held in Northern Rhodesia on 22 May 1926 to elect the Legislative Council for the first time. A further four members were appointed by the Governor in September 1926. |
Song Zhaosu | The "Legislative Council Ordinance 1925" published in June 1925 provided for the election of members to the Legislative Council, which had been established in 1924. Five constituencies were created; Eastern, Livingstone and Western, Midland, Northern and Southern. Voting was restricted to British subjects, with suffrage granted to men aged 21 or over and women aged 25 or over, as long as they had lived in their constituency for at least six months and had property worth £250 or an annual salary of at least £200. In two constituencies, Eastern and Livingstone and Western, there was only one candidate, both of whom were elected unopposed. Two candidates ran in Northern and Southern, whilst three ran in Midland. 1953 Drexel Dragons football team |
Song Zhaosu | The 1953 Drexel Dragons football team represented the Drexel Institute of Technology (renamed Drexel University in 1970) as an independent during the 1953 college football season. Eddie Allen was the team's head coach. John Mousley Mousley was born in Warwickshire and educated Trinity College, Oxford. He was a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford from 1802 to 1816. History of Wuhan |
Song Zhaosu | The city of Wuhan, the capital city of Hubei province, China, has a long and rich history that dates back over 3,500 years. Starting out from the Shang Dynasty-era archaeological site at Panlongcheng associated with Erligang culture, the region would become part of the E state and Chu state during the Zhou Dynasty. The region evolved into an important port on the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, and the cities of Hanyang, Hankou and Wuchang were united into the city of Wuhan in 1926. Wuhan briefly serving as the capital city of China in 1927 in 1937. Modern-day Wuhan is known as 'China's Thoroughfare' (九省通衢) due to its status as a major transportation hub, with dozens of railways, roads and expressways passing through the city and connecting to other major cities. |
Song Zhaosu | With a 3,500-year-long history, Wuhan is one of the most ancient and civilized metropolitan cities in China. Panlongcheng, an archaeological site associated with the Erligang culture, is located in modern-day Huangpi District. During the Western Zhou, the E state controlled the present-day Wuchang area south of the Yangtze River. After the conquest of the E state, the present-day Wuhan area was controlled by the Chu state for the rest of the Western Zhou and Eastern Zhou periods. |
Song Zhaosu | During the Han dynasty, Hanyang became a fairly busy port. The Battle of Xiakou in AD 203 and Battle of Jiangxia five years later were fought over control of Jiangxia Commandery (present-day Xinzhou District in northeast Wuhan). In the winter of 208/9, one of the most famous battles in Chinese history and a central event in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"—the Battle of Red Cliffs—took place in the vicinity of the cliffs near Wuhan. Around that time, walls were built to protect Hanyang (AD 206) and Wuchang (AD 223). The latter event marks the foundation of Wuhan. In AD 223, the Yellow Crane Tower (黄鹤楼), one of the Four Great Towers of China, was constructed on the Wuchang side of the Yangtze River by order of Sun Quan, leader of the Eastern Wu. |
Song Zhaosu | Due to tensions between the Eastern Wu and Cao Wei states, in the autumn of 228, Cao Rui, grandson of Cao Cao and the second emperor of the state of Cao Wei, ordered the general Man Chong to lead troops to Xiakou (夏口; in present-day Wuhan). |
Song Zhaosu | In 279, Wang Jun wrote a memorial to Emperor Wu, requesting that he order a military campaign against Eastern Wu. The emperor agreed, appointed Wang Jun as Prancing Dragon General (龍驤將軍) and ordered him to lead troops from Yi Province's capital, Chengdu, to invade Eastern Wu. Wang Jun and his army conquered strategic locations in Wu territory such as Xiling (西陵; in present-day Yichang, Hubei), Xiakou (夏口; present-day Hankou) and Wuchang (武昌; present-day Ezhou, Hubei). When the Jin invasion forces reached the Wu capital Jianye, the last Wu emperor Sun Hao surrendered, thus bringing an end to the conquest of Wu. |
Song Zhaosu | In fall 550, Hou Jing sent Ren Yue to attack both Xiao Daxin and Xiao Fan's son Xiao Si (蕭嗣). Ren killed Xiao Si in battle, and Xiao Daxin, unable to resist, surrendered, allowing Hou to take his domain under control. Meanwhile, Xiao Guan, who had by now settled at Jiangxia (江夏, in modern Wuhan), was planning to attack Hou, but this drew Xiao Yi's ire—believing that Xiao Guan was intending to contend for the throne—and he sent Wang to attack Xiao Guan. Xiao Guan, not willing to engage Wang, abandoned Jiangxia and fled to Ru'nan (汝南, in modern Jingmen, Hubei), where he entered into an alliance with Eastern Wei's successor state Northern Qi (with Gao Cheng's brother Gao Yang having seized the throne in summer 550) and was created the Prince of Liang as well. Meanwhile, Hou made Emperor Jianwen create him the Prince of Han. |
Song Zhaosu | In summer 567, Chen Xu commissioned Wu Mingche as the governor of Xiang Province and had him command a major part of the troops against Hua, along with Chunyu Liang (淳于量). The opposing sides met at Dunkou (沌口, in modern Wuhan). Wu and Chunyu were able to ram Hua's, Northern Zhou's, and Western Liang's fleets, causing them to collapse. Hua and the Northern Zhou general Yuwen Zhi (宇文直) were forced to flee to Western Liang's capital Jiangling. In light of the victory, Wu first captured Western Liang's Hedong Commandery (河東, part of modern Jingzhou), and then further put Jiangling under siege. Western Liang's Emperor Ming was forced to flee to the subsidiary fort of Ji'nan (紀南, near Jiangling). |
Song Zhaosu | The city has long been renowned as a center for the arts (especially poetry) and for intellectual studies.Cui Hao, a celebrated poet of the Tang dynasty, visited the building in the early 8th century; his poem made it the most celebrated building in southern China. |
Song Zhaosu | In spring 877, Wang Xianzhi captured E Prefecture (鄂州, in modern Wuhan). He then returned north, joining forces with Huang again, and they surrounded Song Wei at Song Prefecture (宋州, in modern Shangqiu, Henan). Only after the imperial general Zhang Zimian (張自勉) came to Song Wei's aid did the agrarian rebels release their hold on Song Wei. Wang Xianzhi then headed south, successively capturing An Prefecture (安州, in modern Xiaogan, Hubei) and Sui Prefecture (隨州, in modern Suizhou, Hubei), before further raiding Fu (復州, in modern Tianmen, Hubei) and Ying (郢州, in modern Jingmen, Hubei). |
Song Zhaosu | In winter 877, Huang Chao pillaged Qi and Huang (黃州, in modern Wuhan) Prefectures. The Tang general Zeng Yuanyu (曾元裕) defeated him, however, and he fled. In 894, Wu Tao (吳討) the prefect of Huang Prefecture (黃州, modern Wuhan), who was under Du Hong the military governor of Wuchang Circuit (武昌, headquartered in modern Wuhan), offered to submit to Yang Xingmi. In response, Du put Huang Circuit under siege. Yang sent Zhu to aid Wu. When another subordinate of Du's, Feng Jingzhang (馮敬章) the prefect of Qi Prefecture (蘄州, in modern Huanggang, Hubei) tried to intercept Zhu, Zhu put Qi Prefecture under siege but was initially unable to capture it. However, it appeared that subsequently, after Wu evacuated Huang Prefecture, Yang's forces were nevertheless able to hold it. |
Song Zhaosu | Before Kublai Khan arrived in 1259, word reached him that Möngke had died. Kublai decided to keep the death of his brother secret and continued the attack on Wuhan, near the Yangtze. While Kublai's force besieged Wuchang, Uryankhadai joined him. The present-day Wuying Pagoda was constructed at the end of the Song Dynasty between attacks by the Mongolian forces. Under the Mongol rulers (Yuan dynasty), Wuchang was promoted to the status of provincial capital. |
Song Zhaosu | By the dawn of the 18th century, Hankou had become one of China's top four most important towns of trade. In the late 19th century, railroads were extended on a north–south axis through the city, making Wuhan an important transshipment point between rail and river traffic. Also during this period foreign powers extracted mercantile concessions, with the riverfront of Hankou being divided up into foreign-controlled merchant districts. These districts contained trading firm offices, warehouses, and docking facilities. The French had a concession in Hankou. |
Song Zhaosu | During the Second Opium War (known in the West as the Arrow War, 1856–1860), the government of the Qing dynasty was defeated by the western powers and signed the Treaties of Tianjin and the Convention of Peking, which stipulated eleven cities or regions (including Hankou) as trading ports. In December 1858, James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin, High Commissioner to China, led four warships up the Yangtze River in Wuhan to collect the information needed for opening the trading port in Wuhan. And in the spring of 1861, Counselor Harry Parkes and Admiral Herbert were sent to Wuhan to open a trading port. On the basis of the Convention of Peking, Harry Parkes concluded the Hankou Lend-Lease Treaty with Guan Wen, the governor-general of Hunan and Hubei. It brought an area of along the Yangtze River (from Jianghan Road to Hezuo Road today) to become a British Concession and permitted Britain to set up its consulate in the concession. Thus, Hankou became an open trading port. |
Song Zhaosu | In 1889, Zhang Zhidong was transferred from Viceroy of Liangguang (Guangdong and Guangxi provinces) to Viceroy of Huguang (Hunan and Hubei provinces). He governed the province for 18 years, until 1907. During this period, he elucidated the theory of "Chinese learning as the basis, Western learning for application," known as the ti-yong ideal. He set up many heavy industries, founded Hanyang Steel Plant, Daye Iron Mine, Pingxiang Coal Mine and Hubei Arsenal and set up local textile industries, boosting the flourishing modern industry in Wuhan. Meanwhile, he initiated education reform, opened dozens of modern educational organizations successively, such as Lianghu (Hunan and Hubei) Academy of Classical Learning, Civil General Institute, Military General Institute, Foreign Languages Institute and Lianghu (Hunan and Hubei) General Normal School, and selected a great many students for study overseas, which well promoted the development of China’s modern education. Furthermore, he trained a modern military and organized a modern army including a zhen and a xie (both zhen and xie are military units in the Qing dynasty) in Hubei. All of these laid a solid foundation for the modernization of Wuhan. |
Song Zhaosu | On October 10, 1911, Sun Yat-sen's followers launched the Wuchang Uprising, which led to the collapse of the Qing dynasty, as well as the establishment of the Republic of China. Wuhan was the capital of a leftist Kuomintang government led by Wang Jingwei, in opposition to Chiang Kai-shek and the nationalist government during the 1920s. |
Song Zhaosu | The Wuchang Uprising of October 1911, which overthrew the Qing dynasty, originated in Wuhan. Before the uprising, anti-Qing secret societies were active in Wuhan. In September 1911, the outbreak of the protests in Sichuan forced the Qing authorities to send part of the New Army garrisoned in Wuhan to suppress the rebellion. On September 14 the Literary Society (文學社) and the Progressive Association (共進會), two local revolutionary organizations in Hubei, set up joint headquarters in Wuchang and planned for an uprising. On the morning of October 9, a bomb at the office of the political arrangement exploded prematurely and alerted local authorities. The proclamation for the uprising, beadroll and the revolutionaries’ official seal fell into the hands of Rui Cheng, the governor-general of Hunan and Hubei, who demolished the uprising headquarters the same day and set out to arrest the revolutionaries listed in the beadroll. This forced the revolutionaries to launch the uprising earlier than planned. |
Song Zhaosu | On the night of October 10, the revolutionaries fired shots to signal the uprising at the engineering barracks of Hubei New Army. They then led the New Army of all barracks to join the revolution. Under the guidance of Wu Zhaolin, Cai Jimin and others, this revolutionary army seized the official residence of the governor and government offices. Rui Cheng fled in panic into the Chu-Yu Ship. Zhang Biao, the commander of Qing army, also fled the city. On the morning of the 11th, the revolutionary army took the whole city of Wuchang, but leaders such as Jiang Yiwu and Sun Wu disappeared. Thus the leaderless revolutionary army recommended Li Yuanhong, the assistant governor of Qing army, as the commander-in-chief. Li founded the Hubei Military Government, proclaimed the abolition of the Qing rule in Hubei, the founding of the Republic of China and published an open telegram calling for other provinces to join the revolution. In the next two months, fourteen other provinces would declare their independence from the Qing government. |
Song Zhaosu | As the revolution spread to other parts of the country, the Qing government concentrated loyalist military forces to suppress the uprising in Wuhan. From October 17 to December 1, the revolutionary army and local volunteers defended the city in the Battle of Yangxia against better armed and more numerous Qing forces commanded by Yuan Shikai. Huang Xing (黃興) would arrive in Wuhan in early November to take command of the revolutionary army. After fierce fighting and heavy casualties, Qing forces seized Hankou and Hanyang. But Yuan agreed to halt the advance on Wuchang and participated in peace talks, which would eventually lead to the return of Sun Yat-sen from exile, founding of the Republic of China on January 1, 1912, the abdication of the Last Emperor on February 12, and the formation of a united provisional government in the spring of 1912. Through the Wuchang Uprising, Wuhan is known as the birthplace of the Xinhai Revolution, named after the Xinhai year on the Chinese calendar. The city has several museums and memorials to the revolution and the thousands of martyrs who died defending the revolution. |
Song Zhaosu | Reverend (later Bishop) Edward Galvin led the first band of the Missionary Society of St. Columban to open their mission in the Hanyang District. Galvin was named Apostolic Prefect of the Apostolic Prefecture of Hanyang by the Holy See in 1923 and later made the Apostolic Vicar of the promoted Apostolic Vicariate of Hanyang in 1927, with Galvin being consecrated as its titular bishop (it became a diocese under him in 1946, suffragan of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hankou). |
Song Zhaosu | Li Zongren's first victories as a Nationalist general were in Hunan, where he defeated rival warlord Wu Peifu in two successive battles and captured the provincial capital, Wuhan, in 1926. With the northern extension of the Northern Expedition, the center of the Great Revolution shifted from the Pearl River basin to the Yangtze River basin. On November 26, the KMT Central Political Committee decided to [[Historical capitals of China|move the capital to from Guangzhou to Wuhan. In middle December, most of the KMT central executive commissioners and national government commissioners arrived in Wuhan, set up the temporary joint conference of central executive commissioners and National Government commissioners, performed the top functions of central party headquarters and National Government, declared they would work in Wuhan on January 1, 1927, and decided to combine the towns of Wuchang, Hankou, and Hanyang into Wuhan City, called "Capital District". The national government was in the Nanyang Building in Hankou, while the central party headquarters and other organizations chose their locations in Hankou or Wuchang. In March 1927, [[Mao Zedong]] appeared at the Third Plenum of the KMT Central Executive Committee in Wuhan, which sought to strip General Chiang of his power by appointing [[Wang Jingwei]] leader. The first phase of the Northern Expedition was interrupted by the political split in the Kuomintang following the formation of the [[Nanjing]] faction in April 1927 against the existing faction in Wuhan. Members of the [[Chinese Communist Party]], who had survived the April 12 massacre, met at Wuhan and re-elected [[Chen Duxiu]] (Ch'en Tu-hsiu) as the Party's Secretary General. The split was partially motivated by the [[Shanghai Massacre|purge of the Communists]] within the party, which marked the end of the [[First United Front]], and [[Chiang Kai-shek]] briefly stepped down as the commander of the National Revolutionary Army. |
Song Zhaosu | In June 1927, [[Stalin]] sent a telegram to the Communists in Wuhan, calling for mobilisation of an army of workers and peasants. This alarmed Wang Jingwei, who decided to break with the Communists and come to terms with Chiang Kai-shek. The [[Wuhan coup]] was a political shift made on July 15, 1927 by Wang Jingwei towards Chiang Kai-shek, and his [[Shanghai]]-based rival in the [[Kuomintang]] (KMT). Borodin returned to the Soviet Union by train in July 1927, accompanied by Sun Yat-sen’s widow [[Soong Ching-ling]]. "The revolution extends to the [[Yangtze|Yangzi River]]," Borodin told a reporter as they began their journey, and "if a diver were sent down to the bottom of this yellow stream he would rise again with an armful of shattered hopes." On July 27, 1927, Soviet emissary [[Mikhail Borodin]] and 30 people left Wuhan in five cars and five trucks to return to the USSR in a two-month overland trip, after General [[Feng Yuxiang]] was bribed to guarantee him safe passage—twelve days after Chinese Communists were expelled. Borodin had had a bounty of US$29,000 for his capture, and had hidden in the home of Nationalist official and future Chinese Premier [[T. V. Soong]]. Borodin finally returned to Moscow on October 6. |
Song Zhaosu | The Wuhan Nationalist Government was established in Wuhan on February 21, 1927 and ended by August 19, 1927. In the [[1931 China floods]], the high-water mark was reached on 19 August at [[Hankou]], with the water level exceeding above normal. Comparatively, this is an average of above [[the Bund (Shanghai)|the Shanghai Bund]]. In 1936, when natural disaster struck [[Central China]] with widespread flooding affecting [[Hebei]] (), [[Hunan]] (), [[Jiangxi]] (), Wuhan and [[Chongqing]] () caused by the [[Yangtze]] and [[Huai River]]s () bursting their banks, [[Ong Seok Kim]], as Chairman of the Sitiawan Fundraising and Disaster Relief Committee, raised money and materials in support of the victims. [[File:Zhongshan Warship 1.jpg|thumb|The gunboat "Zhongshan"]] |
Song Zhaosu | During the [[Second Sino-Japanese War]] and following the fall of Nanking in December 1937, Wuhan had become the provisional capital of China's Kuomintang government, and became another focal point of pitched air battles beginning in early 1938 between modern [[monoplane]] bomber and fighter aircraft of the Imperial Japanese forces and the [[Chinese Air Force (disambiguation)|Chinese Air Force]], which included support from the [[Soviet Volunteer Group]] in both planes and personnel, as U.S. support in war materials waned. As the battle raged on through 1938, Wuhan and the surrounding region had become the site of the [[Battle of Wuhan]]. After being taken by the Japanese in late 1938, Wuhan became a major Japanese logistics center for operations in southern China. |
Song Zhaosu | In early October 1938, Japanese troops moved east and north in the outskirts of Wuhan. As a result, numerous companies and enterprises and large numbers of people had to withdraw from Wuhan to the west of Hubei and Sichuan. The KMT navy undertook the responsibility of defending the Yangtze River on patrol and covering the withdrawal. On October 24, while overseeing the waters of the Yangtze River near the town of Jinkou (Jiangxia District in Wuhan) in Wuchang, the KMT [[gunboat]] "[[Chinese gunboat Chung Shan|Zhongshan]]" came up against six Japanese aircraft. Though two were eventually shot down, the "Zhongshan" sank with 25 casualties. Raised from the bottom of the Yangtze River in 1997, and restored at a local shipyard, the "Zhongshan" has been moved to a purpose-built museum in Wuhan's suburban [[Jiangxia District]], which opened on September 26, 2011. |
Song Zhaosu | As a key center on the Yangtze, Wuhan was an important base for Japanese operations in China and the Chinese leadership in Chongqing, namely Chiang Kai-shek, Chen Cheng and He Yingqin, approved the tactic of strategic firebombing of the major occupied city of Wuhan. In December 1944, the city was largely destroyed by U.S. [[firebombing]] raids conducted by the [[Fourteenth Air Force]]. On 18 December 1944, Wuhan was bombed by 77 American bombers that set off a firestorm that destroyed much of the city. For the next three days, Wuhan was bombed by the Americans, destroying all of the docks and warehouses of Wuhan, as well as the Japanese air bases in the city. The air raids killed thousands of Chinese civilians. "According to casualty statistics compiled by Hankou city in 1946, more than 20,000 were killed or injured in the December bombings of 1944." |
Song Zhaosu | [[File:PLA troops enter to Hankou.jpg|thumb|[[People's Liberation Army]] troops at Zhongshan Avenue, Hankou on May 16, 1949]] People's Liberation Army troops entered Wuhan on May 16, 1949. [[File:Wuhan-Flood-Memorial-0220.jpg|thumb|In his poem "Swimming" (1956), engraved on the [[1954 Yangtze River Floods|1954 Flood]] Memorial in Wuhan, [[Mao Zedong]] envisions "walls of stone" to be erected upstream.|left]] The [[Changjiang Water Resources Commission]] was re-established in February 1950 with its headquarters seated in Wuhan. |
Song Zhaosu | From June to September 1954, the [[1954 Yangtze River floods|Yangtze River Floods]] were a series of catastrophic floodings that occurred mostly in Hubei Province. Due to unusually high volume of precipitation as well as an extraordinarily long rainy season in the middle stretch of the Yangtze River late in the spring of 1954, the river started to rise above its usual level in around late June. Despite efforts to open three important flood gates to alleviate the rising water by diverting it, the flood level continued to rise until it hit the historic high of 44.67 m in Jingzhou, Hubei and 29.73 m in Wuhan. The number of dead from this flood was estimated at around 33,000, including those who died of plague in the aftermath of the disaster. |
Song Zhaosu | In 1969, a large stone monument was erected in the riverside park in Hankou honoring the heroic deeds in fighting the 1954 Yangtze River floods. Before construction of the [[Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge]], [[Hunslet Engine Company]] built two extra heavy [[0-8-0]] locomotives for loading the [[Train ferry|train ferries]] for crossing the Yangtze River in Wuhan. [[File:Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge-1.jpg|thumb|[[Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge|The First Yangtze River Bridge]]]] |
Song Zhaosu | The project of building the [[Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge]], also known as the First Yangtze River Bridge, was regarded as one of the key projects during the first five-year plan. The Engineering Bureau of the First Yangtze River Bridge, set up by the Ministry of Railway in April 1953, was responsible for the design and construction of the bridge. The document "Resolutions on Building the First Yangtze River Bridge" was passed in the 203rd conference of State Council on January 15, 1954. The technical conference on the routes of the bridge, held in Hankou on January 15, 1955, determined that the route from Tortoise Hill to Snake Hill was the best choice. |
Song Zhaosu | On October 25, 1955, construction began on the bridge proper. The same day in 1957, the whole project was completed and an opening-to-traffic ceremony was held on October 15. The bridge is long, of which the upper level is a highway with a width of and the lower level is a double-line railway with a width of . The bridge proper is long with two pairs of eight piers and nine arches with a space of between each arch. The First Yangtze River Bridge united the [[Beijing–Hankou Railway]] with the [[Guangdong–Hankou Railway]] into the [[Beijing–Guangzhou Railway]], making Wuhan a thoroughfare to nine provinces in name and in fact. |
Song Zhaosu | After Chengdu Conference, Mao went to Chongqing and Wuhan in April to inspect the countryside and factories. In Wuhan, he called all the leaders of provinces and municipalities who had not attended Chengdu Conference to report their work. Tian Jiaying, the secretary of Mao, said that Wuhan Conference was a supplement to Chengdu Conference. In July 1967, civil strife struck the city in the Wuhan Incident ("July 20th Incident"), an armed conflict between two hostile groups who were fighting for control over the city at the height of the [[Cultural Revolution]]. |
Song Zhaosu | On June 22, 2000, a [[Wuhan Airlines]] flight from [[Enshi Xujiaping Airport|Enshi]] to Wuhan was forced to circle for 30 minutes due to thunderstorms. The aircraft eventually crashed on the banks of [[Han River (Hanshui)|Han River]] in [[Hanyang District]], all on-board perished (there were varying accounts of number of crews and passengers). In addition, the crash also killed 7 people on the ground. Chinese protesters organized boycotts of the French-owned retail chain [[Carrefour]] in major Chinese cities including [[Kunming]], [[Hefei]] and Wuhan, accusing the French nation of pro-[[secession]]ist conspiracy and [[anti-Chinese]] racism. The BBC reported that hundreds of people demonstrated in Beijing, Wuhan, Hefei, Kunming and [[Qingdao]]. |
Song Zhaosu | On May 19, 2011, [[Fang Binxing]], the Principal of [[Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications]] (also known as "Father of [[Great Firewall of China|China's Great Fire Wall]]") was hit on the chest by a shoe thrown at him by a [[Huazhong University of Science and Technology]] student who calls herself "hanunyi" (Chinese:寒君依, or 小湖北) while Fang was giving a lecture at [[Wuhan University]]. According to [[Radio France Internationale|RFI]], the student discussed the planned shoe attack on [[Twitter]] and, with the help of other bloggers, was able to locate the exact whereabouts and the time of Fang's lecture. After the shoeing, "Hanunyi" walked out while other students tried to obstruct school teachers who were going to detain her. "Hanunyi" became an instant internet hero of the Chinese blogosphere. During an interview with [[CNN]], "Hanunyi" said, "I'm not happy about what (Fang) does. His work made me spend unnecessary money to get access to the website that is supposed to be free... He makes my online surfing very inconvenient." |
Song Zhaosu | [[File:Wuhan University - Water Resources Lab - Yu the Great - DSCF4288.JPG|thumb|The Water Resources and Hydro Power Lab, [[Wuhan University]] (2005)]] The city has been subject to devastating floods, which are now supposed to be controlled by the ambitious [[Three Gorges Dam]], a project which was completed in 2008. The [[2008 Chinese winter storms]] damaged water supply equipment in Wuhan: up to 100,000 people were out of running water when several water pipes burst, cutting the supply to local households. The [[2010 Northern Hemisphere summer heat waves|2010 Northern Hemisphere summer heat wave]] hit Wuhan on July 3. |
Song Zhaosu | In the [[2010 China floods]], the [[Han River (Hanshui)|Han River]] at Wuhan experienced its worst flooding in twenty years, as officials continued sandbagging efforts along the Han and Yangtze Rivers in the city and checked reservoirs. In the [[2011 China floods]], Wuhan was flooded, with parts of the city losing power. |
Song Zhaosu | In the [[2016 China floods]], Wuhan saw of rainfall during the first week of July, surpassing the record that fell on the city in 1991. A [[flood alert|red alert]] for heavy rainfall was issued on 2 July, the same day that eight people died after a section of a tall wall collapsed on top of them. The city's subway system, the [[Wuhan Metro]] was partially submerged as was the [[Wuhan Railway Station|main railway station]]. At least 14 city residents were killed, one was missing, and more than 80,000 were relocated. [[Category:Wuhan]] Karen Wheeler (Wyoming politician) Karen Wheeler (born in Cheyenne, Wyoming) is Wyoming politician, serving as temporary Secretary of State of Wyoming since February 9, 2018. She is a member of Republican Party. |
Song Zhaosu | She was born in Cheyenne and graduated from University of Wyoming. She has worked in in the Secretary of State's Office for 31 years, including 7 years as Director of the Compliance Division. She became Deputy Director in 2015, responsible for planning, budget, personnel, staff development and oversight of service to the public. After the resignation of secretary Ed Murray amid scandal, she became his successor in 2018. She is married and has children. 2003 Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem |
Song Zhaosu | The 2003 Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts in Casablanca, Morocco that was part of the Tier V category of the 2003 WTA Tour. It was the third edition of the tournament and was held from 31 March until 6 April 2003. Second-seeded Rita Grande won the singles title and earned $16,000 first-prize money. Rita Grande defeated Antonella Serra Zanetti 6–2, 4–6, 6–1 Gisela Dulko / María Emilia Salerni defeated Henrieta Nagyová / Elena Tatarkova 6–3, 6–4 Luk Wu Luk Wu Tsuen () is an area of Lantau Island in Hong Kong, home to several Buddist monasteries. The place was named as such since deers could be found there in the past and the landscape looks like a lake. Louisa Grace Beauclerk, Duchess of St Albans |
Song Zhaosu | Louisa Grace Beauclerk, Duchess of St Albans (1777 – 19 February 1816), formerly Lady Louisa Grace Manners, was the second wife of Aubrey Beauclerk, 6th Duke of St Albans. She was one the youngest of the seven children of John Manners, MP, and his wife Louisa Tollemache, 7th Countess of Dysart. Her nephew, Lionel Tollemache, 8th Earl of Dysart, succeeded her mother in the earldom when the latter died in 1840, aged 95. She married the duke on 15 August 1802 in London, a few months after he succeeded his father in the dukedom. He had previously been married to Jane Moses, who died in 1800, leaving one daughter. The new duchess was said to have been "one of the brightest stars in the fashionable hemisphere" in the early years of her marriage. |
Song Zhaosu | They had one child, Aubrey Beauclerk, 7th Duke of St Albans (7 April 1815 – 19 February 1816); the duke, described as "a weak and sickly man", died, aged 50, before the child's birth. The duchess died on the same day as her son; both died at the home of her sister, the former Lady Laura Manners, wife of John Dalrymple, in Portman Square, London. Louisa had been "in a delicate state of health" since the death of her husband, and contemporary reports say that she passed away three hours after the child. Both were buried at Hanwell. The dukedom passed to a younger brother of the 6th Duke. Jóngerð Purkhús |
Song Zhaosu | Jóngerð Jensina Purkhús (born 1937) is a Faroese politician and feminist who was an active member of the Republic party. She became the first female minster in the Faroe Islands when she was appointed Minister of Finance, Economy and Environment in 1985. In 1989, she was appointed Minister of Economy and Social Affairs, serving until 1991. Baqir Brigade |
Song Zhaosu | The Baqir Brigade ("Liwa al-Baqir"), named after Shia Imam Muhammad al-Baqir, is a Syrian loyalist militia originating in Aleppo Governorate that fights in the Syrian Civil War. One of the most prominent and largest pro-government militias from the Aleppo area and part of the "Local Defence Forces" network, the Baqir Brigade mostly consists of tribesmen from the al-Bekara clan that has traditionally supported the rule of the al-Assad family despite being mostly Sunni Muslim. Though the militia's fighters thus come from a largely Sunni background, many of them appear to have converted to or are at least strongly influenced by Shia Islam. Indeed, the Baqir Brigade has been noted for its strong connections to the Lebanese Hezbollah, Iran, and various Iraqi Shia militias, and is thus generally considered to be a Shia or "Shi'ified" fighting force. |
Song Zhaosu | National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Library The National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Library (, translit.: "Naukova biblioteka Natsional'noho universytetu "Kyyevo-Mohylians'ka akademiya"") is the library system of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, one of the oldest universities in Ukraine, founded in 1615, closed in 1815 and revived in 1991. It serves as a key academic resource that supports the teaching, learning, and research goals of the university. Various materials collected can be accessed by students, scholars, and the general public. Almost 70% are books and periodicals, donated by individuals, institutions and organizations from around the world. Library is composed of several locations across the university campus. |
Song Zhaosu | Amongst the collection are many rare items such as one of the four extant copies of the "The Travels of Macarius, Patriarch of Antioch" by Paul of Aleppo. |
Song Zhaosu | Estimated date of creation of the Kyiv Mohyla book collection is unknown. Approximately, it began to function in times of Kyiv Brotherhood School, since 1615. Significant contribution to the formation of the Library later did Petro Mohyla, who showed special concern in enriching library collections. He bequeathed his own book collection a few days before he died. But the terrible fire in 1658 almost completely destroyed the Library. By the 18yh century the Library has totaled 3,500 books in different languages, especially in Latin. By late 18 century there were 12 000 items. In the 19th century library was transferred to Kiev Theological Academy with total collection approximately 150 000 items. Since 1920s part of Library is transferred to Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine. In 1992 library was opened in renewed University. It was firstly located in Blagovischennia Church and then in rooms of the revived university. |
Song Zhaosu | Closure of the Theological Academy in the early 20th century and events that followed the October Revolution, led to almost complete destruction of the Library. During the years of the totalitarian regime, most of the books were either lost or transferred to other institutions. Books that survived is now located in the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine. |
Song Zhaosu | Old Academic Building is one of the architectural landmarks of the Kontraktova Ploscha which is located on Podil, the oldest district of Kyiv. It has a complicated history of reconstructions, both functional and decorative. The original one-storied building was finished in 1703. The second floor and the Church of the Annunciation in the far eastern part of the building were built in 1735-1740 by Rafail Zaborovsky and according to architect Johann Schädel project. After the big fire in Kyiv in 1811 the building was reconstructed with the involvement of the architect A. Melensky. In 1860s open galleries were bricked up. Since the second half of the 19th-century library of Kyiv Theological Academy (the oldest college of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church) was placed here. After Academy being closed in 1919, Vernadsky Library's rare books collections were arranged in Old Academy Building and these collections were not conveyed to Kyiv-Mohyla academy after its revival in 1992. During World War II the site was slightly damaged (roof, decorations). In 1947, 1968, 1980 Old Academy building underwent renewal. In February 1992 the site came under the jurisdiction of National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Library started gathering its holdings here. In 2017 the first stage of building long-planned restoration. Library and archives were relocated to other buildings. |
Song Zhaosu | The current main University Library building was being built on the site of a historic 19th-century building which served as a hospital until the beginning of the 1990s. The interior of the building was being totally rebuilt and equipped with communication and energy systems. It is named in honor of its principal benefactors Tetiana and Omelian Antonovych, Ukrainian-born couple who immigrated to the United States, and who donated one million dollars to restoration. Another million dollars have come from donors in Ukraine, the United States and Canada. The library was opened on May 24, 2007. The library is home to the university's General Collection. |
Song Zhaosu | The American Library is a public library maintained as a department of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Library. It was opened after the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine transferred the library from the America House to the campus of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in 1998. Library’s resources include books for kids and adults, printed periodicals, electronic resources, e-books, movies and games, all in English. Address: 8/5 Voloska str., building 4 room #116. In 2007, one of the leading Ukrainian universities, the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, received personal archive of Omeljan Pritsak, the first Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard University and the founder and first director (1973-1989) of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. |
Song Zhaosu | The other libraries located on the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy campus include Philological Library, located in the third Building, which houses volumes in the areas of philology, literature; Pre-university Studies Library, located in the Bursa Building; and Library in Center of Polish and European Studies, located in the 6th Building, which houses volumes in polish language. There are 67 private collections donated by Ukrainian scholars mostly. Significant historical, cultural and scientific value brings the special Rare Books collection with more than 13, 000 items. |
Song Zhaosu | At the end of 2005, James Mace`s library and archive were donated to the National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy. Archive and library collection represents materials that describe Mace’s life, academic activities and represents Ukraine history of the twentieth century in the USSR and abroad. Library collection counts over 1200 volumes of scientific works, periodicals, and other documents. |
Sinyo Harry Sarundajang | Sinyo Harry Sarundajang (born 16 January 1945) is an Indonesian politician and former governor of North Sulawesi. He was also a former Governor of North Maluku in 2002 and Maluku in 2002-2003. In February 2018, he has been inaugurated by the president Joko Widodo as the Indonesia Ambassador to the Philippines and the Marshall Islands and the Republic of Palau in Manila. |
Sinyo Harry Sarundajang | Sarundajang was born in Kawangkoan, Minahasa Regency, North Sulawesi on 16 January 1945. He is the firstling of three brothers of Youtje Sarundajang and Yulian Liow. He married Deetje Adeline Laoh Tambuwun on 17 June 1969, and they have 2 sons and three daughters named Ivan, Fabian, Vanda, Eva, and Shinta. Ivan Sarundajang is a Vice-regent of Minahasa Regency from 2013-2018, Vanda Sarundajang is a member of the People's Representative Council from Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle, Richard Sarundajang is a member of the Regional Representative Council, and Eva Sarundajang is member of People's Representative Council of North Sulawesi. |
Sinyo Harry Sarundajang | Sarundajang educated in Sam Ratulangi University and earned the Baccalaureate of state administration in 1968, and he received the bachelor's degree at the 17 Agustus 1945 University, Jakarta in 1970. In 1972, he continued his studies at the Institut international d'administration publique, France, and earned the postgraduate degree in territorial administration. In 2011, he earned the Doctor tilte at the Gadjah Mada University. Tepidibacillus infernus Tepidibacillus infernus is an aerotolerant anaerobic, organotrophic, spore-forming and moderately thermophilic bacterium from the genus of "Tepidibacillus" which has been isolated from microbial mat from the TauTona Gold Mine in South Africa. Siege of Kalmar |
Sinyo Harry Sarundajang | The Siege of Kalmar occurred in 1611 during the Kalmar War and constituted the major part of an intensive conflict between Denmark-Norway and Sweden on the control of the strategically important city of Kalmar and its castle. For centuries, Kalmar was, from a strategic point of view, considered 'to be the key to Sweden'. The country that was in charge of the city with its fortified castle would reign over the Kalmar Strait and have free access to the north, along the Swedish east coast towards Stockholm. From this southern fulcrum in Sweden, a land-based attack against Danish territory and a naval attack with the Swedish navy could have been made possible. The battle of Kalmar occurred during the summer in the same year. Victor Warren |
Sinyo Harry Sarundajang | Sir Victor Dunn Warren DL JP (1903–1953) was a 20th century Scottish explosives manufacturer who served as Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1949 to 1952. He was born in Glasgow on 21 May 1903 the son of David Dunn Warren (founder of Hunter and Warren explosives) and his wife Jean McCaull. The family lived at 5 Saltoun Gardens in the Dowanhill district. He was educated at Kelvinside Academy. From at least 1929 he was Chairman of Hunter and Warren, explosives manufacturers. His company was taken over in 1949 by Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI). |
Sinyo Harry Sarundajang | He was elected Lord Provost in 1949, representing the Progressive Party. His most noteworthy roles, representing head of civil defence, was organising defences against nuclear war (in the post-war "duck-and cover" hysteria) and beginning the waves of slum clearance for which Glasgow became very famous. He was knighted by King George VI in 1951. He died in Glasgow on 3 March 1953. In 1927 he married Mary Winifred Wishart (1900-1994). He was portrayed in office by William Oliphant Hutchison. Deepfake |