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He competed in the men's heavyweight event at the 1948 Summer Olympics.
Alfred Knight (weightlifter)
Alfred Knight (born 1916) was a British weightlifter.
He competed in the men's heavyweight event at the 1948 Summer Olympics.
Eren Holding
Eren Holding is a conglomerate in Turkey with businesses in paper, packaging, cement, energy, retail, textile, and tourism.
Due to its cement factory, coal-fired power stations in Turkey and coal-fired steam boiler it is one of the largest private sector greenhouse gas emitters in Turkey.
Eren Holding is headquartered in Istanbul.
Its chairman and CEO is Ahmet Eren.
Eren was established by four brothers from Bitlis.
In 1969, Er-os Çamaşırları A.Ş., a underwear manufacturer and trademark was established.
In 1998, Eren Holding entered the energy sector with Modern Enerji Elektrik Üretim Otoprodüktör Grubu A.Ş.
In 2003 the Rixos Hotel Bodrum was put into service in Bodrum, Turkey, marking the company's entry into the tourism industry.
In 2007, Eren Enerji started construction of a 1360 MW coal-fired power plant in Zonguldak, which was completed in 2010.
In 2012, Eren Perakende created the multi-brand shoe concept SuperStep stores and multi-brand kids store chain SuperKids.
In 2014, a 6 MW biomass power plant started operating.
In 2015, Modern Enerji established the first solid waste incineration facility in Turkey.
Also in 2015, Modern Karton completed construction of a new paper factory.
Eren Holding controls businesses across several sectors, including energy, paper, cement, retail, ports, packaging, textile, and tourism.
Eren owns ports in Zonguldak and Mersin.
Its subsidiaries Eren Kağıt and Modern Karton collect waste paper and recycle it into corrugated fiberboard.
Eren owns Turkey's biggest cement factory—Medcem Çimento—in Mersin.
As local demand collapsed in 2019, the factory concentrates on exports.
ErenTekstil A.Ş.
manufactures cotton textiles.
Eren Perakende represent a number of international brands in Turkey, including Lacoste.
Eren Holding's subsidiary Eren Enerji owns the coal-fired ZETES power stations.
Its another energy subsidiary, Modern Enerji owns solid waste incineration facility and natural gas-fired and biomass-fired power plants in Çorlu.
The 2019 environmental award it received has been criticised as greenwash by environmental organizations.
Eren develops tourism projects in Istanbul and Bodrum.
Williemus Serverleg
Williemus Serverleg (fl.
1298), was an English Member of Parliament.
He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Lewes in 1298.
Wang Jianwei (general)
Wang Jianwei (; born October 1954) is a lieutenant general ("zhongjiang") in the Chinese People's Liberation Army.
He was promoted to the rank of major general in July 2004 and lieutenant general in July 2011.
He was Political Commissioner of National University of Defense Technology between July 2010 and July 2017.
Wang was born in Xinhuang Dong Autonomous County, Hunan, China in October 1954, while his ancestral home in Laizhou, Shandong.
He enlisted in the People's Liberation Army (PLA) in November1969.
He participated in the Sino-Vietnamese War.
After war, he served in the Guangzhou Military Region for a long time.
In October 2002, he was promoted to become Director of Political Department of the 75th Group Army.
He became a professor at National University of Defense Technology in August 2005.
He was President of PLA Nanjing Political College in March 2006, and held that office until August 2007, when he was appointed Head of Propaganda Division of the People's Liberation Army General Political Department.
He became Political Commissar of National University of Defense Technology in July 2010, and served until July 2017.
He is a delegate to the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
Lars-Eric Roxin
Lars-Eric Roxin (born February 15, 1945) is a Swedish curler.
He is a and a two-time Swedish men's champion (1986, 1988).
His three brothers – Claes, Göran and Björn – are also curlers.
Khunak
Khunak ("in hindi:खुनक") is a village in Jagat block, Budaun district, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Its village code is 128339.
The village is administrated by Gram panchayat.
Budaun railway station is 6 KMs away from the village.
s per the report of 2011 Census of India, The total population of the village is 3247, where 1,693 are males and 1554 are females.
Haji Rais al-Tujjar
Haji Muhammad Ali Khan, Rais al-Tujjar CIE (also known as Haji Rais) was the Prime Minister of Arabistan and chief of its traders.
He was also the Sheikh of Mohammerah's advisor on Persian affairs.
Born in Behbahan, Haji Rais belonged to a wealthy family of merchants that traded on the coastal areas of the Persian Gulf and eventually established trade connections with India, under the British Raj.
A Consular official described him as an ‘excessively acute’ man and ‘a born diplomatist’.
By 1904 he was about 50 years old, ‘weak and fragile’ and had lived in Muhammareh for 20 years.
His son, Moshir ut-Tojjar, who was at that time 21, was praised as ‘a worthy son of his father’.
Haji Rais himself was a large merchant and grew very rich under Khaz’al over whom he had ‘great influence’.Khaz’al's eldest son and Heir apparent, Sheikh Kasib, was betrothed to Haji Rais’ daughter.
When in June 1897, Khaz’al Khan Ibn Haji Jabir Khan succeeded his brother Miz'al as the new "Sheikh of Mohammerah," the former duly sent his right-hand man, Haji Rais, to the Persian capital to elicit official recognition.
Haji Rais also reached out to the British Legation, whereby they responded that they would do all they could to "protect the Shaikh’s interests, and [that] the Shaikh should in return do all he can to further British interests now and in the future".
Eleanor Franklin Egan described him as a wonderful man about five feet five, that made up in loftiness of intelligence what he lacks in physical stature.
She further added, that he was the commanding intellect which has stood at the Sheikh’s right hand for more years than most people can remember.
Haji Rais was, for a brief period, the President of the "Khazaliah" school in Mohammerah.
However, after four years of presidentship, the school was eventually handed over to the British Consul at Mohammerah.
Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
The Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences is the Chinese national, agricultural scientific research organization.
It was established in 1957 in Beijing and oversees 42 institutes.
32 are direct affiliates.
8 institutes are co-hosted together with local governments or universities.
It has more than 5,000 professional employees.
Amber Penney
Amber Penney (born 5 August 1997) is a South African water polo player and coach.
She competed for the South Africa women's national water polo team in the 2017 World Aquatics Championships,
She played for Fresno Pacific University.
Chandau
Chandau ("in hindi:चन्दऊ") is a village in Ujhani Tehsil and Budaun district, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Its village code is 128467.
Budaun railway station is 10 KMs away from the village.
The village is administrated by Gram Panchayat.
As per the report of 2011 Census of India, The total population of the village is 1334, where 729 are males and 605 are females.
Henry Cow: The World Is a Problem
Henry Cow: The World Is a Problem is a 2019 book by American academic Benjamin Piekut.
It is a biography and analysis of the English experimental rock group Henry Cow and their turbulent existence between 1968 and 1978.
The book is Piekut's second and was published in September 2019 in the United States by Duke University Press in hard- and soft-cover.
Piekut is a historian of experimental music and an associate professor of music at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
He had previously written "Experimentalism Otherwise: The New York Avant-Garde and Its Limits" (2011), had edited "Tomorrow Is the Question: New Directions in Experimental Music Studies" (2014), and co-edited with George E. Lewis "Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies" (2016).
Piekut has also publshed several papers on Henry Cow, including "Music for Socialism, London 1977" (2019), and "Another Version of Ourselves: The Enigmas of Improvised Subjectivity" (2018).
Piekut sourced the content of "The World Is a Problem" from interviews (published and unpublished), notebooks and diaries, magazine and newspaper articles, journal papers, and books.
He conducted his own interviews between 2011 and 2016 with all living members of Henry Cow and those associated with the band, and was granted access to personal archives of several players, including Fred Frith, Tim Hodgkinson, Chris Cutler, Lindsay Cooper and Peter Blegvad.
Piekut wrote in the book's Preface that where written records and memories disagreed, "only by reading many of them together and against one another has it been possible to determine what actually happened with any accuracy."
The sock painting on the book's cover is by artist Ray Smith and was originally used on the cover of Henry Cow's second album, "Unrest" (1974).
Piekut took the book's subtitle, "The World Is a Problem" from a statement Hodgkinson made in one of his notebooks, paraphrasing Paulo Freire in "Pedagogy of the Oppressed", that Henry Cow wants to "transform the world; the world is a problem, not a given".
"The World Is a Problem" chronicles the history of Henry Cow and their exploration of music and activism, from their inception in 1968 to their break-up in 1978.