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20231101.en_27012774_9 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emali | Emali | Despite being located at a highway, the villages surrounding Emali town lacks access to power and clean water,road access to villages serving matiliku town are only passable during the dry season,power distribution network is tedious |
20231101.en_27012799_0 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endarasha | Endarasha | Endarasha is a small town in Kenya's former Central Province. It is located in Nyeri County, a county created with Kenya's new (2010) constitution. Endarasha Boy's High School is located there as is a local government clinic. Endarasha lies 2416m above sea level and (0 37E). |
20231101.en_27012799_1 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endarasha | Endarasha | It is situated in the continent of Africa in Kenya, Central Province, Nyeri North District, Kieni West division and 35 km North west of Nyeri town. It lies on the foot of the Aberdare ranges and adjacent to the Aberdares National Park. Cool, temperate climate most of the year is experienced. |
20231101.en_27012799_2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endarasha | Endarasha | Endarasha is surrounded by land ideal for agriculture. Amongst the products from the region are Irish potatoes, cabbage, maize, beans, wheat, bulb onions etc.. Dairy products are also produced. |
20231101.en_27012799_3 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endarasha | Endarasha | The school is constructed next to the Endarasha township, along the Mweiga-Watuka road (all weather gravel finish road). Its also surrounded by fairly densely populated villages on all sides. |
20231101.en_27012799_4 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endarasha | Endarasha | Found here is Aberdare Village House Located in the middle of Endarasha settlement scheme, which is an extended small scale farming area on the slopes of the Aberdares Mountain, with approximate over 100,000 acres, and more than 8,000 families living in the area, extending to the foot of Mt. Kenya. |
20231101.en_27012799_5 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endarasha | Endarasha | People here are SMALL SCALE FARMERS who start working in their farms from early morning and continue until late evening. This means you will find most of them are busy during the day. |
20231101.en_27012799_6 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endarasha | Endarasha | The main town in the area is Nyeri Town, formerly a market center for European-ex-pat highlands farmers, now a busy commercial and industrial center and the starting-off point for Aberdare National Park. |
20231101.en_27012799_7 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endarasha | Endarasha | Its cemetery attracts visitors to the graves of the famous author and hunter of man-eaters, Jim Corbett, and of founder of the boy Scouts, Robert Baden-Powell, who spent the last years of his life in the cottage on the grounds of the nearby Outspan Hotel, and who once said,"Nearer to Nyeri,nearer to heaven". |
20231101.en_27012802_0 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enkorika | Enkorika | Enkorika is a village and neolithic site in Kenya's Rift Valley Province. It is located in an upslope area, about 100 by 130 m. It was an Iron Age smelting site. Geologically it forms part of the Enkorika Fissure Zone. |
20231101.en_27012824_0 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faza | Faza | Faza is a small town on the North coast on Pate Island, within the Lamu Archipelago in Kenya's former Coast Province. |
20231101.en_27012824_1 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faza | Faza | Faza was known by the name of Ampaza by the Portuguese dates back at least to the 14th century. In 1587 Faza was destroyed by the Portuguese as the local Sheikh had supported Mir Ali Beg, a notorious privateer who had earlier played a key role in ousting the Portuguese from Muscat. The Portuguese arrived from Goa with some 650 men on their punitive expedition, and unleashed their fury on Faza. Everybody they could find was killed, including the local Sheikh. The Portuguese preserved his head in a barrel of salt for display in India. After 4 days of looting they invited Fazas arch-rivals from Pate town to take away anything that they liked from Faza. |
20231101.en_27012824_2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faza | Faza | Faza was later resettled. The Portuguese in Faza constructed a chapel there, however, nothing remains of it. In the 18th century Faza again fell into decline due to the rise of Pate. The English Consul Holmwood visited the place in 1873 and found it "dirty and infected with diseases". |
20231101.en_27012824_3 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faza | Faza | On 5 September 2009, a tragic fire took place, destroying 430 houses leaving 2500 homeless. The Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS) have provided housing and thousands of items of emergency needs, including blankets, sanitation equipment, tanker loads of water etc., to some of those affected. |
20231101.en_27012824_4 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faza | Faza | The French government has funded a hospital, complete with theatre. This has removed the need for the 4 hour boat trip to Lamu in emergencies. The cost was KSh.9.5 million/= for the construction and a further KSh.3.9 million/= for theatre equipment. The KRCS have spent a further KSh.23 million/= on wells and food supplies. |
20231101.en_27012824_5 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faza | Faza | Martin, Chryssee MacCasler Perry and Esmond Bradley Martin: Quest for the Past. An historical guide to the Lamu Archipelago. 1973. |
20231101.en_27012840_0 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funzi%20Island | Funzi Island | Funzi Island is a settlement in Kenya's Kwale County. Funzi consists of four mangrove covered islands where Funzi Island is the main island and the only one with permanent inhabitants. There is one village on the island with approximately 1500 members of the Shirazi Tribe. The absolute majority are Muslims and sustain on fishing and agriculture. The archipelago is located in Kwale district and is less known to tourists than the nearby Diani Beach. |
20231101.en_27012840_1 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funzi%20Island | Funzi Island | Funzi Island is known for its pristine beaches and as Kenya's best nesting site for a variety of sea turtles, such as green turtle, Chelonia mydas, hawksbill, Eretmochelys imbricata and leatherback, Dermochelys coriacea. These species are classified as either endangered or critically endangered by the World Conservation Union (IUCN) but are found on Funzi due to a low degree of human disturbance on the natural sandy beaches. However, the turtles are becoming increasingly threatened in Funzi due to the expansion of non-environmental tourism and a heavy pressure from destructive fishing methods and various pollution sources. |
20231101.en_27012840_2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funzi%20Island | Funzi Island | Popular excursions for visitors in Funzi are the crocodile safari in the nearby Ramisi River or to going on a cultural tour in the village and enjoy a traditionally cooked lunch. The best swimming experience in the area will undoubtedly be on the naturally formed sandbank just offshore from Funzi village. Its fine sand ripples appear only during low tide and it stretches well over a kilometre in length. |
20231101.en_27012840_3 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funzi%20Island | Funzi Island | Funzi Island does not have many hotels. Funzi Cove and Funzi Keys are the main ones, however both were closed as of early 2021. |
20231101.en_27012840_4 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funzi%20Island | Funzi Island | A locally formed group called Funzi Turtle Club has started an ecotourism project with the support of Kenya Sea Turtle Conservation Trust to increase the protection and awareness about the local environment. |
20231101.en_27012840_5 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funzi%20Island | Funzi Island | It is possible to go to Funzi without an organised travel agency. A matatu will take you to Ramisi junction in one hour from the Likoni terminal south of Mombasa. Take a bodaboda, a motor cycle taxi, to the village Bodo, from where daily boats go to Funzi village. |
20231101.en_27012843_0 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furaha | Furaha | Furaha has also lent its name to a popular spirits brand, Furaha Brandy and Furaha Gin, produced by Africa Spirits Limited. |
20231101.en_27012847_0 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ectoedemia%20subbimaculella | Ectoedemia subbimaculella | Ectoedemia subbimaculella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found in most of Europe, east to Smolensk, Kaluganorth and the Volga and Ural regions of Russia. |
20231101.en_27012847_1 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ectoedemia%20subbimaculella | Ectoedemia subbimaculella | The wingspan is 5–6 mm. The head is orange. Antennal eyecaps whitish. Forewings are dark fuscous with an ochreous-whitish small basal spot, another on middle of costa, and a larger triangular spot on dorsum before tornus; tips of apical cilia whitish. Hindwings grey. |
20231101.en_27012847_2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ectoedemia%20subbimaculella | Ectoedemia subbimaculella | The larvae feed on Castanea sativa, Quercus frainetto, Quercus macranthera, Quercus petraea, Quercus pubescens, Quercus pyrenaica, Quercus robur and Quercus rubra. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine consists of a narrow corridor, filled with frass, running along a vein (usually the midrib, but sometimes a lateral vein and then running in the direction of the midrib). The corridor widens into a blotch. The larva makes a slit in the lower epidermis of the blotch, by which part of the frass is ejected. Pupation takes place outside of the mine. |
20231101.en_27012895_0 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milenko%20Savovi%C4%87 | Milenko Savović | Milenko Savović (18 July 1960 – 1 March 2021) was a Serbian professional basketball player. For most of his career, he was the captain of KK Partizan. |
20231101.en_27012901_0 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birlan | Birlan | Birlan (, also Romanized as Bīrlān; also known as Bīlān) is a village in Bakeshluchay Rural District, in the Central District of Urmia County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 148, in 35 families. |
20231101.en_27012918_0 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blixen | Blixen | Hans von Blixen-Finecke, (Bror's twin brother) and his son, Hans von Blixen-Finecke, Jr., both Olympic medal winners in equestrian events. |
20231101.en_27012964_0 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%A9ron%20%28opera%29 | Néron (opera) | Néron (Nero), is a grand opera in four acts by Anton Rubinstein to a libretto by Jules Barbier, loosely based on the story of the Roman Emperor Nero. |
20231101.en_27012964_1 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%A9ron%20%28opera%29 | Néron (opera) | Néron has a complex history. It was originally commissioned from the composer by the director of the Paris Opéra, Émile Perrin, in the 1860s. However the opera was never to be performed there. Rubinstein only got around to composing the score in 1875/6. The opera's premiere, in a German translation, was at the Stadttheater am Dammtor in Hamburg on 1 October 1879. The title role was sung by the Heldentenor Hermann Winkelmann, who later achieved prominence as the creator of the title role in Wagner's Parsifal. |
20231101.en_27012964_2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%A9ron%20%28opera%29 | Néron (opera) | Its premiere in Russia, on at the Mariinsky Theatre, was in Italian. The first performance of the opera in its original French libretto was at Rouen on 14 February 1894. |
20231101.en_27012964_3 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%A9ron%20%28opera%29 | Néron (opera) | The house of the courtesan Epicharis, where a party is taking place. Enter Chrysa, who begs Vindex to give her protection from a pursuing band of low-life, who invade the premises. Their leader turns out to be Nero in disguise. Saccus suggests that, by way of entertainment, a mock-marriage be arranged between Nero and Chrysa - she is forced to consent, but Epicharis rescues her by giving her a drug which makes her appear dead. |
20231101.en_27012964_4 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%A9ron%20%28opera%29 | Néron (opera) | Poppea's rooms in the Imperial Palace. Poppea looks forward to ascending the throne as Nero's wife. In the meantime Agrippina has kidnapped Chrysa to win favour with her son by presenting her to him. Enter Epicharis to ask Nero's help in finding her daughter - only to discover that he had believed Chrysa dead. Whilst he is ecstatic with the news that she lives, the jealous Poppea hands Chrysa over to Vindex to keep her out of the way. Nero meanwhile declares himself to be a God. |
20231101.en_27012964_5 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%A9ron%20%28opera%29 | Néron (opera) | A cottage owned by Epicharis. Vindex, guarding Chrysa, makes her a marriage proposal. Nero has however tracked down their refuge and also offers to marry her - which Chrysa declines. Enter Poppea to tell Nero that Rome is burning - which he already knows, as he began the conflagration. He praises the flames and curses the Christians. Chrysa reveals that she is a Christian herself. The house collapses, burying Chrysa and Epicharis. |
20231101.en_27012964_6 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%A9ron%20%28opera%29 | Néron (opera) | The Mausoleum of Augustus. Nero, in hiding, is haunted by the spectres of his victims. Realizing that Vindex has tracked him down, he commits suicide with the assistance of Saccus. A shining Cross appears in the sky. |
20231101.en_27012964_7 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%A9ron%20%28opera%29 | Néron (opera) | [...] It infuriates me [...] The reason I play this loathsome thing is the consciousness of my own superiority - and that keeps up my strength. You think you are writing abominably, but then you look at this drivel which people have performed in all seriousness, and your soul feels lighter. |
20231101.en_27012964_8 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%A9ron%20%28opera%29 | Néron (opera) | The contemporary tenor Roberto Alagna is reported as interested in playing the title role (which was once sung by Enrico Caruso) in a possible revival. |
20231101.en_27013053_0 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy%20Jones | Tommy Jones | Tommy Jones (baseball) (Thomas M. Jones, 1954–2009), American baseball player, manager, coach and executive |
20231101.en_27013053_1 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy%20Jones | Tommy Jones | Tommy Jones (footballer, born 1907) (Thomas William Jones, 1907–1980), English footballer who played for Burnley, Blackpool and Grimsby Town |
20231101.en_27013053_2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy%20Jones | Tommy Jones | Tommy Jones (footballer, born 1909) (Thomas John Jones, 1909–?), Welsh international footballer who played for Tranmere Rovers, Sheffield Wednesday, Manchester United and Watford |
20231101.en_27013053_3 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy%20Jones | Tommy Jones | Tommy Jones (footballer, born 1930) (1930–2010), football centre half who played for Everton in the 1940s and 1950s |
20231101.en_27013059_0 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauvery%20Bridge | Cauvery Bridge | Cauvery Bridge is a stone bridge across the Kaveri river in TRICHY, Tamil Nadu, India. The bridge connects TRICHY CITY in TRICHY with SRIRANGAM in TRICHY district. This two-lane bridge is the primary gateway for the city of SRIRANGAM, from the east. |
20231101.en_27013059_1 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauvery%20Bridge | Cauvery Bridge | Being the major transit artery of Erode, it meets heavy traffic congestion due to increasing vehicular movements in the city. For easing the traffic congestion and a component of infrastructure expansion for Erode, the Government planned to widen this into four-lane by constructing additional bridge. The new bridge is being constructed in parallel to the existing one to convert the traffic in two-way manner. |
20231101.en_27013059_2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauvery%20Bridge | Cauvery Bridge | Further to reduce the traffic congestion in this bridge, few more infrastructures has been developed along the Kaveri river to share the traffic flow between Erode and Namakkal district. The bridge is named after former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu J. Jayalalithaa as Puratchi thalaivi amma bridge. |
20231101.en_27013059_3 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauvery%20Bridge | Cauvery Bridge | Two-lane roadway bridge constructed along the Vendipalayam Barrage of Bhavani Kattalai Hydroelectric Project. |
20231101.en_27013059_4 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauvery%20Bridge | Cauvery Bridge | Railway bridge (double tracked) connecting Erode Junction and Cauvery railway stations in the city of Erode spans across the Kaveri river. |
20231101.en_27013068_0 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ectoedemia%20atricollis | Ectoedemia atricollis | Ectoedemia atricollis is a moth of the family Nepticulidae found in Asia and Europe. It was described by the English entomologist Henry Tibbats Stainton in 1857. |
20231101.en_27013068_1 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ectoedemia%20atricollis | Ectoedemia atricollis | The wingspan is 5–6 mm. Adults are on wing in June.Edward Meyrick describes it thus − Head ferruginous-orange, collar dark brown. Antennal eyecaps white. Forewings black a shining silvery sometimes interrupted fascia slightly beyond middle; outer half of cilia beyond a black line white. Hindwings grey. Larvae pale greenish; head and plate of 2 blackish. |
20231101.en_27013068_2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ectoedemia%20atricollis | Ectoedemia atricollis | The larvae feed on Midland hawthorn (Crataegus laevigata), hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna), apple (Malus domestica), European crab apple (Malus sylvestris), medlar (Mespilus germanica), common pear (Pyrus communis), wild cherry (Prunus avium), cherry plum (Prunus cerasifera), damson (Prunus insititia), mahaleb cherry (Prunus mahaleb) and European bladdernut (Staphylea pinnata). They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine consists of a full depth corridor that gradually widens into an irregular elliptic blotch. The corridor generally follows the leaf margin over a long distance. The frass is blackish brown in the corridor and black in the blotch. Pupation takes place outside of the mine. |
20231101.en_27013068_3 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ectoedemia%20atricollis | Ectoedemia atricollis | It is found from Scandinavia to the Pyrenees, Italy, and Romania and from Ireland to Ukraine and the Volga and Ural regions of Russia. It has also been recorded from Tajikistan, where it is probably an introduced species. |
20231101.en_27013068_4 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ectoedemia%20atricollis | Ectoedemia atricollis | Originally named Nepticula atricollis by Henry Tibbats Stainton in 1857, from a type species found in England. Nepticula – from neptis, a granddaughter, potentially the smallest member of a family and referring to the very small size of the moths. The genus Ectoedemia was raised by the Danish-American entomologist August Busck in 1907. The name is from the Greek ektos – outside, and oidema – a tumour or swelling, from the larval feeding habits of the type species, Ectoedemia populella, which form gobular galls on the petioles of various poplar species. The species name atricollis is from ater – black, and collum – the neck; referring to the larva's black prothoracic plate (see photograph above). |
20231101.en_27013077_0 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouguer | Bouguer | Pierre Bouguer (1698-1758), French mathematician, geophysicist, geodesist, and astronomer; son of Jean Bouguer |
20231101.en_27013102_0 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brambilla | Brambilla | Brambilla is an Italian surname derived from Val Brembana in Italy. In the 1700s the name travelled to a small town in the state of Jalisco Mexico and was modified to Brambila to retain pronunciation in Spanish. |
20231101.en_27013102_1 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brambilla | Brambilla | As of 2014, 84.6% of all known bearers of the surname Brambilla were residents of Italy (frequency 1:1,475), 8.5% of Brazil (1:49,339) and 3.6% of Argentina (1:24,509). |
20231101.en_27013102_2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brambilla | Brambilla | In Italy, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:1,475) in only one region: Lombardy (1:246). |
20231101.en_27013109_0 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Br%C3%A4ndstr%C3%B6m | Brändström | (8831) Brändström, asteroid of the main asteroid belt see Meanings of minor planet names: 8001–9000#831 |
20231101.en_27013113_0 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dariyabad%20Assembly%20constituency | Dariyabad Assembly constituency | Dariyabad is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the town of Dariyabad in the Barabanki district of Uttar Pradesh, India. Dariyabad is one of five assembly constituencies in the Ayodhya Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 270 amongst 403 constituencies. |
20231101.en_27013113_1 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dariyabad%20Assembly%20constituency | Dariyabad Assembly constituency | In 2017, Bharatiya Janta Party candidate Satish Chandra Sharma won the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Elections defeating Samajwadi Party candidate, Agriculture minister and 6 times MLA Rajiv Kumar Singh by a margin of 50,686 votes. |
20231101.en_27013143_0 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Nicholl | William Nicholl | William Nicholl (30 October 1868 – 10 April 1922) was a rugby union, and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1890s. He played representative level rugby union (RU) for England and Yorkshire, and at club level for Brighouse Rangers, in the Forwards, and club level rugby league (RL) for Brighouse Rangers, as a forward (prior to the specialist positions of; ), during the era of contested scrums. He played in all forward positions for Yorkshire. He continued to play for Brighouse Rangers after they became a founding a member of the Northern Union in 1895. |
20231101.en_27013143_1 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Nicholl | William Nicholl | William Nicholl was born in Rastrick, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, and he died aged 53 in Brighouse, West Riding of Yorkshire, England. |
20231101.en_27013143_2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Nicholl | William Nicholl | William Nicholl won two caps for England while at Brighouse Rangers in the 1892 Home Nations Championship against Wales, and Scotland. |
20231101.en_27013143_3 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Nicholl | William Nicholl | After finishing his rugby career he took up bowls, winning the 1912 Brighouse and District bowling championships. |
20231101.en_27013146_0 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor%20Gardner | Trevor Gardner | Trevor Gardner (24 August 1915 - 28 September 1963) was Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Air Force for Research and Development during the early 1950s. Together with Bernard Schriever, the Air Staff's Assistant for Development Planning, Gardner was one of the prime movers of the U.S. ICBM program and was also involved in the U-2 program. |
20231101.en_27013146_1 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor%20Gardner | Trevor Gardner | Gardner was born in Cardiff, Wales, on 24 August 1915. He moved to the United States in 1928 and became a naturalized citizen in 1937. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering from the University of Southern California in 1937. He returned to the University of Southern California to teach freshman mathematics while obtaining his master's degree in business administration which he was awarded in 1939. |
20231101.en_27013146_2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor%20Gardner | Trevor Gardner | During World War II Gardner's work at the California Institute of Technology focused on rocket and atomic bomb projects for the Office of Scientific Research and Development. With the end of World War II, Gardner became associated with General Tire and Rubber Company of California as general manager and executive vice president. Three years later he left to found Hycon Manufacturing Co., an electronics manufacturer. He was president of Hycon until February 1953 when he became the Secretary of the Air Force's Special Assistant for Research and Development. |
20231101.en_27013146_3 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor%20Gardner | Trevor Gardner | U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower began his first term by initiating a defense policy that sought to |
20231101.en_27013146_4 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor%20Gardner | Trevor Gardner | committee — the Teapot Committee — to review the Air Force's strategic missiles — the Snark, Navaho, and Atlas. He directed the committee to find ways to accelerate the development of the Atlas. The |
20231101.en_27013146_5 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor%20Gardner | Trevor Gardner | Schriever made a presentation to the President and the National Security Council. As a result, the National Security Council recommended the ICBM be designated a "research |
20231101.en_27013146_6 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor%20Gardner | Trevor Gardner | https://web.archive.org/web/20110930070518/http://www.afspc.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-100405-060.pdf Much of this article is taken directly from this U.S. federal government public-domain source. |
20231101.en_27013148_0 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaverpada | Chaverpada | Chaverpada () is a 2010 Indian Malayalam-language action thriller film directed by T. S. Jaspal starring Bala, Manikuttan, Arun Cherukavil and Krishna Prasad in the lead roles. |
20231101.en_27013148_1 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaverpada | Chaverpada | Chaverpada tells the story of a group of engineering college students Ameer Sulthan (Manikuttan), Abhimanyu (Arun Cherukavil), Vivek Narayan (Vivek) and Nandhan G. Nair (Tony) who have developed a means of their own to voice their protests against the ills that have gripped today's society. |
20231101.en_27013148_2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaverpada | Chaverpada | The testing phase of a software that they have developed causes unexpected jams in the traffic signals as well as the wireless system of the city. |
20231101.en_27013148_3 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaverpada | Chaverpada | The youngsters realize that they are in trouble when the cops find out more about the incident. Police moved to the college to arrest them. However, they are kidnapped by the terrorists before the cops could lay their hands on them. |
20231101.en_27013148_4 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaverpada | Chaverpada | Visal Sabhapathi (Bala), the leader of the NSG Commando Wing, is soon called in to look into the case and rescue the students. |
20231101.en_27013148_5 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaverpada | Chaverpada | Veeyen of Nowrunning rated the film one out of five stars and said that "Chaverpada is a wannabe thriller that falls short on the bangs and blasts. There are very few real thrilling moments in it, and unfortunately none of the several, sketchily drawn characters connect with us". |
20231101.en_27013210_0 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra%20Jenkinson | Ezra Jenkinson | Ezra Jenkinson (1872–1947) was an English composer and violinist. His best known work, the Elves' Dance, makes extensive use of spiccato and is a show piece for intermediate beginners of the violin. |
20231101.en_27013210_1 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra%20Jenkinson | Ezra Jenkinson | Jenkinson was born in Todmorden. According to the English author and artist William Holt, Jenkinson was given a grant by a local patron to study music in Leipzig, Germany, in his youth. After seven years, he returned to his home town to live alone and avoided the public after selling the rights to his compositions he was amassing. He died in his home town of Todmorden. |
20231101.en_27013210_2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra%20Jenkinson | Ezra Jenkinson | Sechs lyrische Stücke (1.–3. Lage) (6 Lyric Pieces in First to Third Position) for violin and piano (1894) |
20231101.en_27013217_0 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ectoedemia%20arcuatella | Ectoedemia arcuatella | Ectoedemia arcuatella is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It is found in most of Europe, except the Iberian Peninsula, east to and the Volga and Ural regions of Russia. |
20231101.en_27013217_1 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ectoedemia%20arcuatella | Ectoedemia arcuatella | The wingspan is about 5 mm.Head ochreous-yellowish to fuscous. Antennal eyecaps white. Forewings blackish ; an oblique somewhat curved shining silvery fascia in middle ; outer half of cilia beyond a blackish line grey whitish. Hindwings grey. Adults are on wing from June to July. |
20231101.en_27013217_2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ectoedemia%20arcuatella | Ectoedemia arcuatella | The larvae feed on Fragaria moschata, Fragaria vesca, Fragaria viridis, Potentilla erecta and Potentilla sterilis. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine consists of a narrow, strongly contorted gallery with grey brown frass. The gallery ends in an elongate blotch or broad corridor that frequently overlaps a part of the earlier mine. Pupation takes place outside of the mine. |
20231101.en_27013225_0 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orotukan | Orotukan | Orotukan () is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in Yagodninsky District of Magadan Oblast, Russia, located in the Kolyma region about north of Magadan, on the right bank of the Orotukan River (a tributary of the Kolyma). Its population has declined since the fall of the Soviet Union: |
20231101.en_27013225_1 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orotukan | Orotukan | In 1931, as geologists found gold reserves in the valleys of the Kolyma region, they built a camp on the river close to present location of Orotukan. Shortly thereafter the construction of the Kolyma Highway (also known as the Road of Bones) began. |
20231101.en_27013225_2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orotukan | Orotukan | The settlement was founded on its present site in the mid-1930s. It received its name from the river, whose name came from the Yakut word өртөөһүн (örtööhün) meaning small burnt meadow or forest area. From 1935, a camp in the regional section of the gulag system operated by Dalstroy was located here. |
20231101.en_27013225_3 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orotukan | Orotukan | In the 1940s, a repair work and factory for mining equipment were established. Orotukan was granted urban-type settlement status in 1953. |
20231101.en_27013225_4 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orotukan | Orotukan | The settlement lies on the M56 Kolyma Highway, which runs from Magadan through Susuman in the northwestern part of Magadan Oblast and onto Yakutsk, although the road is only completely passable during winter when the rivers en route are frozen. The road distance between Orotukan and Magadan is about , and almost to Yakutsk. |
20231101.en_27013239_0 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20Plains%20Station | Anna Plains Station | The station is situated on the Western Australian coast south of Broome. It lies in the Shire of Broome in the Kimberley region and in the Dampierland bioregion. It is in area and runs over 20,000 head of cattle. Anna Plains is operating under the Crown Lease number CL56-1982 and has the Land Act number LA3114/1154. |
20231101.en_27013239_1 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20Plains%20Station | Anna Plains Station | The property adjoins Eighty Mile Beach, which is one of Australia's most important sites for migratory waders, and is listed under the Ramsar Convention as a wetland of international importance. That part of the station subject to periodic flooding forms part of the Mandora Marsh and Anna Plains Important Bird Area, identified as such by BirdLife International because of its importance for supporting large numbers of waders and waterbirds. |
20231101.en_27013239_2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20Plains%20Station | Anna Plains Station | The traditional owners of the area is the Karajarri people to the north and the Njangamarda Kundal and Njangamarda Uparuka peoples to the south. |
20231101.en_27013239_3 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20Plains%20Station | Anna Plains Station | In 1903 the station was owned by the partners, Percy and Felde, who went to court over selling the station in 1905. |
20231101.en_27013239_4 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20Plains%20Station | Anna Plains Station | The MacRobertson Expedition visited the area in June 1928, and described the station as being over 1 million acres in extent and famed for its shorthorn cattle. It was also noted that the expedition wireless was a source of great curiosity to the station's Indigenous employees. |
20231101.en_27013239_5 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20Plains%20Station | Anna Plains Station | Mr F. S. McMullen was the station owner in 1933. He petitioned the minister of agriculture to dispose of 10,000 head of cattle with a view to changing over to sheep. The request was made as the owner was unable to move his stock north through country infested with bush tick and new restrictions meant he was unable to move his cattle south because of pleuro-pneumonia and buffalo fly infestations. |
20231101.en_27013239_6 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20Plains%20Station | Anna Plains Station | The station was subject to heavy rains in 1934 with of rain falling during the course of a storm, leaving the country under water for hundreds of miles. A passenger aeroplane flying from Port Hedland to Broome that was caught in the storm was forced to land at the station. At least 800 head were overlanded to the Meekatharra sales yard later the same year and were the first cattle in the state to be subject to the Turner test for pleuro-pneumonia prior to sale. The station was stocked with approximately 10,000 head of cattle at this time. |
20231101.en_27013239_7 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20Plains%20Station | Anna Plains Station | In 1935 a trapper, Daniel Joseph O'Brien, was found murdered near the station property. His body was exhumed from a shallow grave, as was the body of an Aboriginal man, and both were taken back to the homestead. |
20231101.en_27013239_8 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20Plains%20Station | Anna Plains Station | Following a cyclone in 1936, the station manager found the carcasses of 7 mules, 49 horses and 102 head of cattle that had been swept into the sea and drowned. During the storm it was estimated that of rain fell; damage included several windmills being blown over and a part of the homestead being destroyed. |
20231101.en_27013239_9 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20Plains%20Station | Anna Plains Station | 1,100 head of cattle were taken overland from the station to the railway at Meekatharra in 1948 by the drover Georg Solvay. |
20231101.en_27013239_10 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20Plains%20Station | Anna Plains Station | 1,200 head of cattle from the station were loaded at Eighty Mile Beach in 1954 onto the LST landing craft Wan Kuo in the first shipment of its kind from Western Australia. The cattle were penned in batches of 15 along with about 10 tons of feed in readiness to be shipped to Manila. |
20231101.en_27013239_11 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20Plains%20Station | Anna Plains Station | In 1959 the Talgarno village was built on land excised from the station. Talgarno was a British government project to test the accuracy of Blue Streak missiles fired from Woomera. The village included housing, a hospital, swimming pools and a cinema. |
20231101.en_27013239_12 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20Plains%20Station | Anna Plains Station | A number of Indigenous people, including artist Big John Dodo and his wife Rosie Munroe, were evicted from Anna Plains in the 1960s following a change in the station's management. |