title: Jazz section title: Pentatonic scales hierarchical section title: Jazz / Post-war jazz / African-inspired / Pentatonic scales caption reference description: C pentatonic scale beginning on the I (C pentatonic), IV (F pentatonic), and V (G pentatonic) steps of the scale.[clarification needed] content: Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major form of musical expression in traditional and popular music, linked by the common bonds of African-American and European-American musical parentage. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation. Jazz has roots in West African cultural and musical expression, and in African-American music traditions.
As jazz spread around the world, it drew on national, regional, and local musical cultures, which gave rise to different styles. New Orleans jazz began in the early 1910s, combining earlier brass-band marches, French quadrilles, biguine, ragtime and blues with collective polyphonic improvisation. In the 1930s, heavily arranged dance-oriented swing big bands, Kansas City jazz, a hard-swinging, bluesy, improvisational style and Gypsy jazz were the prominent styles.


title: List of towns and villages in County Cavan by population section title: List of towns and villages by population hierarchical section title: List of towns and villages in County Cavan by population / List of towns and villages by population caption reference description: Virginia caption attribution description: English: Virginia Main Street & Town Square Български: Главната улица и градския площад във Върджиния content: This is a list of towns and villages in County Cavan, Ireland. At the 2016 census, the county population was 76,176. Population figures below are for settlements included in the 2016 census.


title: Guilford Courthouse flag hierarchical section title: Guilford Courthouse flag caption reference description: Guilford Courthouse Flag content: The Guilford Courthouse Flag is the name given to a North Carolina militia banner which was reported to have flown at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse. The flag is recognizable by the reverse colors normally seen on American flags: red and blue stripes in the field with eight-pointed blue stars on an elongated white canton.
The unique colors and dimensions are sometimes described as showing a lack of uniformity in a young nation at war, with a poor infrastructure and bad communication. However, it was common practice during the Revolution for military units to carry flags that featured common American symbols, but to make them uniquely identifiable for use as a company or regimental flag. As such, this flag was probably never intended for use as a national flag.
The original flag has been preserved since 1914 in the collection of the North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh, North Carolina. It measures 42 inches high and 100 inches on the fly. The canton is 35 inches high and 73 inches long. The stars are 8 inches in diameter and have eight points. It is considered the oldest surviving example of an American flag with eight-pointed stars.


title: His Woman hierarchical section title: His Woman caption reference description: Theatrical release poster caption attribution description: English: Window poster for the 1931 film His Woman. There are no copyright marks. At bottom left is Country of origin USA. At bottom right is This poster leased from Paramount Publix Corp. United States Copyright Office page 2 "Visually Perceptible Copies The notice for visually perceptible copies should contain all three elements described below. They should appear together or in close proximity on the copies. 1 The symbol © (letter C in a circle); the word “Copyright”; or the abbreviation “Copr.” 2 The year of first publication. If the work is a derivative work or a compilation incorporating previously published material, the year date of first publication of the derivative work or compilation is sufficient. Examples of derivative works are translations or dramatizations; an example of a compilation is an anthology. The year may be omitted when a pictorial, graphic, or sculptural work, with accompanying textual matter, if any, is reproduced in or on greeting cards, postcards, stationery, jewelry, dolls, toys, or useful articles. 3 The name of the copyright owner, an abbreviation by which the name can be recognized, or a generally known alternative designation of owner.1 Example © 2007 Jane Doe.") content: His Woman is a 1931 American pre-Code romance drama film directed by Edward Sloman and starring Gary Cooper and Claudette Colbert. Based on the novel His Woman by Dale Collins, the story is about a tough sea captain who discovers a baby aboard his freighter and hires a tramp, masquerading as a missionary's daughter, to care for the infant on their passage to New York.
The 1931 film was 52nd box-office rank by the year.
It is a remake of the 1928 film Sal of Singapore.


title: Milford, New Jersey hierarchical section title: Milford, New Jersey caption reference description: Census Bureau map of Milford, New Jersey caption attribution description: English: Census Bureau map of Milford caption alt text description: Census Bureau map of Milford, New Jersey content: Milford is a borough located in western Hunterdon County, New Jersey, United States. At the 2010 United States Census, the borough's population was 1,233, reflecting an increase of 38 from the 1,195 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn declined by 78 from the 1,273 counted in the 1990 Census.
Milford was incorporated as a borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 15, 1911, from portions of Holland Township, based on the results of a referendum held on May 8, 1911. The borough's incorporation was confirmed on March 13, 1925.
The borough is located on the Delaware River in the western portion of Hunterdon County, known as the Hunterdon Plateau. The Borough dates to the mid-18th century when a grist mill was established beside a river in what was then Bethlehem Township. After the mill was destroyed by fire in 1769, the settlement became known as Burnt Mills in Alexandria Township. The area was renamed as "Lowreytown" after Thomas Lowrey purchased land in the area in 1796. The community became commonly known as "Millford" or "Millsford" by the beginning of the 19th century, but by 1844 the name had lost a letter or two.


title: Ramgarh Upazila section title: History hierarchical section title: Ramgarh Upazila / History caption reference description: Pakistani Eastern Command plan for the defence of East Pakistan from 1967 to 1971 (generic representation—some unit locations not shown. caption attribution description: English: Pakistan Eastern Command defense plan for East Pakistan prior to 1970. content: Ramgarh is an Upazila of Khagrachari District in the Division of Chittagong, Bangladesh.


title: National Register of Historic Places listings in Jim Wells County, Texas hierarchical section title: National Register of Historic Places listings in Jim Wells County, Texas caption reference description: Location of Jim Wells County in Texas content: This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Jim Wells County, Texas.
This is intended to be a complete list of properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Jim Wells County, Texas. There is one property listed on the National Register in the county.
This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted August 23, 2019.


title: Hotchiku hierarchical section title: Hotchiku caption reference description: Finger hole. caption attribution description: English: Natural, unlacquered finger hole on Hocchiku. content: Hotchiku, sometimes romanized as hocchiku or hochiku, is a Japanese end-blown aerophone, crafted from root sections of bamboo. After cleaning and sanding, the heavy root end of the bamboo stalk reveals many small circular knots where the roots formerly joined the stalk. The same part of the bamboo plant is also used to produce the shakuhachi but, unlike the shakuhachi, the hotchiku's inside and outside surfaces are left unlacquered, and an inlay is not used in the mouthpiece. The membranes at the nodes inside a hotchiku bore are generally left more intact than those of a shakuhachi, though older komuso shakuhachi also share this trait. Together, these characteristics make for a visibly and audibly raw and organic instrument. Hotchiku are sometimes referred to as jinashi nobekan, meaning "without ji, one-piece".
Hotchiku have four holes down the front for fingers and one hole on the back for the thumb of the upper hand.


title: Tarui, Gifu hierarchical section title: Tarui, Gifu caption reference description: Location of Tarui in Gifu Prefecture content: Tarui is a town located in Fuwa District, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 December 2018, the town had an estimated population of 27,439 and a population density of 480 persons per km², in 10,525 households. The total area of the town was 57.09 square kilometres.


title: Amsterdam banking crisis of 1763 hierarchical section title: Amsterdam banking crisis of 1763 caption reference description: A painting by Pieter Saenredam of the old town hall in Amsterdam where the bank was founded in 1609 content: The Amsterdam banking crisis of 1763 in the Netherlands followed the end of the Seven Years' War. At this time prices of grain and other commodities were falling sharply, and the supply of credit dried up due to the decreased value of collateral goods. Many of the banks based in Amsterdam were over-leveraged and were interlinked by complex financial instruments, making them vulnerable to a sudden tightening of credit availability. The crisis was marked by the failure of one large bank - that of De Neufville - and many smaller financial enterprises. The extent of the crisis was mitigated by the provision of extra liquidity by the Bank of Amsterdam, the Dutch central bank. Similarities have been identified between these events and the financial crisis of 2007–2008.


title: Karlos Williams hierarchical section title: Karlos Williams caption reference description: Williams at FSU in 2014 caption attribution description: English: Karlos Williams in 2014 content: Karlos Jermell Williams Sr. is an American football running back for the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League. He was drafted by the Buffalo Bills in the fifth round of the 2015 NFL Draft. He played college football at Florida State.


title: West Virginia's 2nd congressional district hierarchical section title: West Virginia's 2nd congressional district caption reference description: West Virginia's 2nd congressional district - since January 3, 2013. content: West Virginia's 2nd congressional district stretches from the Ohio River border with Ohio to the Potomac River border with Maryland and the border with Virginia. It includes the capital city of Charleston and the rapidly growing residential communities of West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle and Potomac Highlands regions connected by a narrow strip of nearly unpopulated counties. It is 20 miles wide and 300 miles long.
The district is currently represented by Alex Mooney, a Republican.
West Virginia had four Congressional seats from 1973 to 1993. Previously, much of the western portion of the current 2nd District had been in the 3rd District, based in Charleston. The eastern portion of the district had been in the 2nd District, which had been anchored in Martinsburg and Morgantown for all but a few years since statehood. For all but two years from 1949 to 1993, it was held by the Democratic Staggers family--Harley O. Staggers from 1949 to 1981 and Harley "Buckey" Staggers, Jr. from 1983 to 1993. When West Virginia lost a seat following the 1990 Census, the state legislature divided Staggers's district among the remaining three districts.


title: Lawrence Yates Sherman section title: Post-Senate hierarchical section title: Lawrence Yates Sherman / Post-Senate caption reference description: Sherman Hall at Western Illinois University was named after Lawrence Sherman in 1957. content: Lawrence Yates Sherman was a Republican politician from the State of Illinois. He served as United States Senator, the 28th Lieutenant Governor, and as Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives.
Sherman is best known for his role in preventing the ratification of the Treaty of Versailles, which kept the United States out of the League of Nations.


title: Anderson County, Texas hierarchical section title: Anderson County, Texas caption reference description: Location within the U.S. state of Texas content: Anderson County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 58,458. Its county seat is Palestine.
Anderson County was organized in 1846, and was named for Kenneth L. Anderson, who had been the last Vice President of the Republic of Texas.
Anderson County comprises the Palestine micropolitan statistical area.
The county is wholly located within area codes 430 and 903.


title: Michigan's 10th congressional district hierarchical section title: Michigan's 10th congressional district caption reference description: Michigan's 10th congressional district - since January 3, 2013. content: Michigan's 10th congressional district is a United States congressional district in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan, covering a region known as the Thumb. It consists of all of Huron, Lapeer, St. Clair, and Sanilac counties, as well as most of northern Macomb County and eastern Tuscola County.
District boundaries were redrawn in 1992, 2002, and 2012 due to reapportionment following the censuses of 1990, 2000, and 2010.
The current district is fairly conservative. Huron, Lapeer, St. Clair, and Sanilac counties tend to support Republican candidates, as do the northern townships in Macomb and the eastern townships in Tuscola. With 15.5%, this district has the largest proportion of Polish Americans in the country. The district is currently represented by Republican Paul Mitchell, who was first elected in 2016.


title: Wilhelmina Gelhaar hierarchical section title: Wilhelmina Gelhaar caption reference description: Wilhelmina Gelhaar content: Wilhelmina Charlotta Gelhaar was a Swedish operatic soprano who performed at the Royal Theatre in Stockholm from 1857 to 1866. She also gave concert performances. Thanks to her coloratura soprano roles, her good looks, her pleasant disposition and her competence as an actress, she was one of the most popular singers of her day.


title: Westbourne Grove hierarchical section title: Westbourne Grove caption reference description: Westbourne Grove caption attribution description: English: (C) 2006, Gerry Lynch. Cosmopolitan Westbourne Grove, with its collection of ethnic restaurants, is one of London's most fashionable areas. content: Westbourne Grove is a retail road running across Notting Hill, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and the City of Westminster, a section of west London. It runs from Kensington Park Road in the west to Queensway in the east, crossing over Portobello Road. It contains a mixture of independent and chain retailers, and has been termed both "fashionable" and "up-and-coming".
The Notting Hill Carnival passes along the central part of Westbourne Grove.


title: Pilatus PC-12 section title: PC-12NG hierarchical section title: Pilatus PC-12 / Development / PC-12NG caption reference description: New blended winglet of the PC-12 NG caption attribution description: English: Pilatus PC12 NG blended winglet at AERO Friedrichshafen 2018 content: The Pilatus PC-12 is a single-engine turboprop passenger and cargo aircraft manufactured by Pilatus Aircraft of Stans, Switzerland, since 1991. The main market for the aircraft is corporate transport and regional airliner operators. The PC-12 is the best-selling pressurized single-engine turbine-powered aircraft in the world and has been for several consecutive years, with 1,700 deliveries as of October 2019.


title: 1902 French legislative election hierarchical section title: 1902 French legislative election caption attribution description: French Prime Minister Émile Combes (1835-1921) content: The 1902 general election was held on 27 April and 11 May 1902.
These elections were a victory for the Bloc des gauches alliance between Socialists, Radicals, and the left wing of the Republicans, over the anti-Dreyfusard right wing of the Republicans, the progressistes. The Bloc des gauches had been brought together to support the "Republican Defense Cabinet" formed by Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau following the assault on the newly elected president, Émile Loubet, on the Longchamp Racecourse on 4 June 1899, during the Dreyfus affair.
However, Waldeck-Rousseau's own supporters took few seats in the election compared to the Radicals and Socialists. After the election, President Loubet invited the Radical Émile Combes to form a government, which lasted until January 1905, when the Socialists withdrew from the Bloc des gauches.


title: Bouillon hierarchical section title: Bouillon caption reference description: Bouillon caption attribution description: English: Panoramic view from the tower of Bouillon Castle. caption alt text description: Bouillon content: Bouillon is a municipality in Belgium. It lies in the country's Walloon Region and Luxembourg Province in the Ardennes. The municipality, which covers 149.09 km², had 5,477 inhabitants, giving a population density of 36.7 inhabitants per km².
Bouillon has a few schools, a collège and a lycée, banks and a town square. Bouillon Castle still sits above the town centre, and is a popular tourist attraction.


title: Aiud section title: Kemény - Zeyk mansion hierarchical section title: Aiud / Tourism / Cultural Attractions / Kemény - Zeyk mansion caption reference description: Kemény - Zeyk mansion content: Aiud is a city located in Alba county, Transylvania, Romania. The city's population is 22,876. It has the status of municipality and is the 2nd-largest city in the county, after county seat Alba Iulia. The city derives its name ultimately from Saint Giles, to whom the first church in the settlement was dedicated when built.


title: William G. Sebold section title: Coerced into spying hierarchical section title: William G. Sebold / Coerced into spying caption reference description: Surveillance photographs of Sebold and Duquesne content: William G. Sebold was a United States citizen who was coerced into becoming a spy when he visited Germany after being pressured by several high-ranking Nazi members. He informed the American Consul General in Cologne before leaving Germany and became a double agent for the FBI. With the assistance of another German agent, Fritz Duquesne, he recruited 33 agents that became known as the Duquesne Spy Ring. In June 1941, the Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested all of the agents. They were convicted and sentenced to a total of 300 years in prison.


title: Texas's 16th congressional district hierarchical section title: Texas's 16th congressional district caption reference description: Texas's 16th congressional district since January 3, 2013 content: Texas's 16th congressional district of the United States House of Representatives includes El Paso and the surrounding area in the state of Texas. The current Representative is Democrat Veronica Escobar.
The district was initially created in 1903. For most of the next six decades, it stretched across 42,000 square miles, from El Paso in the west to the Permian Basin in the east. However, after Texas' original 1960 district map was thrown out as a result of Wesberry v. Sanders, the 16th was shrunk down to the city of El Paso and most of its surrounding suburban communities.


title: Indigenous peoples in Suriname hierarchical section title: Indigenous peoples in Suriname caption reference description: Schoolchildren of the Kali'na community at Bigi Poika in Suriname. caption attribution description: Nederlands: Schoolkinderen uit nl:Bigi Poika (Suriname), 2002. English: Schoolchildren of the Kali'na community at Bigi Poika in Suriname. Français : Elèves de la communauté Kali'na de Bigi Poika au Surinam. Italiano: Bambini della comunità Kali'na a Bigi Poika, in Surinam. Español: Niños de la comunidad Kali'na de Bigi Poika en Surinam. content: Indigenous peoples in Suriname, or Amerindian Surinamese, are Surinamese people who are of indigenous ancestry. They comprise approximately 3.8% of Suriname's population of 566,846.


title: Hawaii section title: Annexation—Territory of Hawaiʻi (1898–1959) hierarchical section title: Hawaii / History / Annexation—Territory of Hawaiʻi (1898–1959) caption reference description: The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 was the primary event that caused the United States to enter World War II. caption attribution description: English: A navy photographer snapped this photograph of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on December 7, 1941, just as the USS Shaw exploded. (80-G-16871) caption alt text description: The USS Shaw explodes during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. content: Hawaii is a state of the United States of America located in the Pacific Ocean. It is the only U.S. state located outside North America, the only island state, and the only state in the tropics.
The state encompasses nearly the entire Hawaiian archipelago, 137 islands spread over 1,500 miles. The volcanic archipelago is physiographically and ethnologically part of the Polynesian subregion of Oceania. At the southeastern end of the archipelago, the eight main islands are, in order from northwest to southeast: Niʻihau, Kauaʻi, Oʻahu, Molokaʻi, Lānaʻi, Kahoʻolawe, Maui, and the largest, Hawaiʻi, which the state is named after. It is often called the "Big Island" or "Hawaii Island" to avoid confusion with the state or archipelago.
Hawaii is the 8th-smallest geographically and the 11th-least populous, but the 13th-most densely populated of the 50 states. It is the only state with an Asian American plurality. Hawaii has more than 1.4 million permanent residents, along with many visitors and U.S. military personnel. The state capital and largest city is Honolulu on the island of Oʻahu.


title: Allorapisma hierarchical section title: Allorapisma caption attribution description: English: Holotype forewing (probably left), of the extinct Allorapisma chuorum. photographed after description. 48.5 Million Years old; Klondike Mountain Formation, Republic, Ferry County Washington, USA. Stonerose Interpretive Center # SR 08-14-01 content: Allorapisma is an extinct genus of lacewing in the moth lacewings family Ithonidae. The genus is solely known from two Eocene fossils found in North America. At the time of description the genus was composed of a single species, Allorapisma chuorum.


title: New York State Route 174 section title: Route description hierarchical section title: New York State Route 174 / Route description caption reference description: NY 174 in Marcellus, approaching NY 175 caption attribution description: English: NY 174 in Marcellus, New York. content: New York State Route 174 is a state highway in Onondaga County, located in Central New York, in the United States. The highway is 16.7 miles long and passes through mostly rural regions. Route 174 begins at an intersection with NY 41 in Borodino, a hamlet of Spafford. It heads generally northward for most of its length, except for short distances in the villages of Marcellus and Camillus. The route ends at a junction with NY 5 west of Camillus, at the west end of the Route 5 Camillus bypass. Route 174 is located along a large mapped sedimentary bedrock unit, known as the Marcellus Formation. The formation is named for an outcrop found near the town of Marcellus, New York, during a geological survey in 1839.
The road was first constructed in the early 19th century following the path of Nine Mile Creek, which connected several early settlements in Central New York. The northern half of the route, between the villages of Marcellus and Camillus, was later improved as a plank road in 1855 by a private corporation that collected tolls from travelers on the road. The state took over the maintenance of the road by the beginning of the 20th century.


title: 1999 Cricket World Cup Final hierarchical section title: 1999 Cricket World Cup Final caption attribution description: Heath Streak of Warwickshire about to bowl to Alastair Cook of the MCC at Lord's Cricket Ground, London, England. Photographed on 10 April 2005 by Jguk. content: The final of the 1999 ICC Cricket World Cup was played at Lord's, London on 20 June 1999. This was the fourth time Lord's had hosted the final of an ICC Cricket World Cup, previously hosting finals in 1975, 1979 and 1983. Australia won their second title by defeating Pakistan by 8 wickets in the final. Shane Warne was declared Man of the Match.


title: Mercer House (Savannah, Georgia) section title: Layout and furnishings hierarchical section title: Mercer House (Savannah, Georgia) / Interior / Layout and furnishings caption reference description: The pocket doors that lead into the library. content: Mercer House is located at 429 Bull Street in Savannah, Georgia. Completed in 1868, it stands at the southwestern corner of Monterey Square.
The house was the scene of the 1981 shooting death of Danny Hansford by the home's owner Jim Williams, a story that is retold in the 1994 John Berendt book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
The house is currently owned by Dorothy Williams Kingery, Williams' sister, and is open to the public for tours. Kingery's daughter and Williams' niece, Susan, manages the museum, which is based out of the carriage house at the rear of the property.


title: George Borg Olivier section title: Road to Independence hierarchical section title: George Borg Olivier / Political career / Prime Minister (1962–1971) / Road to Independence caption reference description: Prime Minister George Borg Olivier meeting with US President John F. Kennedy in September, 1963 caption attribution description: English: Prime Minister Giorgio Borg Olivier meeting with US President John F. Kennedy content: Giorgio Borg Olivier, GCPO KSS was a Maltese statesman and leading politician. He twice served as Prime Minister of Malta as the Leader of the Nationalist Party. He was also Leader of the Opposition between 1955–58, and again between 1971–77.
Borg Olivier was elected as one of the three Nationalist members of the Council of Government in 1939. In May 1940, when the leader of the Nationalist party, Enrico Mizzi, was first interned by the British and deported, Borg Olivier became interim leader. After his return, Mizzi made Borg Olivier his deputy. Rising to office as a protégé of Mizzi and Sir Ugo P. Mifsud, Borg Olivier believed in the economic and social development of Malta as a viable independent state and in the necessity of a mixed economy. During his premiership, he pursued corporatist policies to develop the tourism industry and construction as the engine of growth. Under his leadership, average living standards rose steadily as Malta began to decouple from a fortress economy purely dependent on the British military establishment.


title: Carlos Núñez Muñoz hierarchical section title: Carlos Núñez Muñoz caption reference description: Carlos Núñez performing in Lorient, Brittany caption attribution description: Carlos Núñez in Lorient, Brittany content: Carlos Núñez Muñoz is a Galician musician and multi-instrumentalist who plays the gaita, the traditional Galician bagpipe, Galician flute, ocarina, Irish flute, whistle and low whistle.


title: Ochakiv Raion hierarchical section title: Ochakiv Raion caption attribution description: Українська: Прапор Очаківського району caption alt text description: Flag of Ochakivskyi Raion content: Ochakiv Raion is located in Mykolaiv Oblast of Ukraine. Its administrative center is the city of Ochakiv, which is incorporated separately as a city of oblast significance and does not belong to the raion. Population: 15,587


title: Porfiriato section title: 1910 Centennial of Independence hierarchical section title: Porfiriato / 1910 Centennial of Independence caption reference description: Illustrated program of the official centennial festivities over 30 days in September 1910 content: The Porfiriato is a term given to the period that General José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz Mori ruled Mexico as president in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, coined by Mexican historian Daniel Cosío Villegas. Díaz pursued a policy of "order and progress," inviting foreign investment to Mexico and maintaining social and political order, by force if necessary. There were tremendous changes economically, technologically, socially, and culturally during this period. As Díaz approached his 80th birthday and after having been continuously elected since 1884, he still had not put in place a plan for his succession. The fraudulent 1910 elections are usually seen as the end date of the Porfiriato. Violence broke out, Díaz was forced to resign and go into exile, and Mexico experienced a decade of regional civil war, the Mexican Revolution.


title: Fort Crockett section title: Coastal artillery batteries at Fort San Jacinto hierarchical section title: Fort Crockett / Defensive facilities of Galveston Bay / Coastal artillery batteries at Fort San Jacinto caption reference description: Battery Hogan at Fort San Jacinto (1902) content: Fort Crockett is a government reservation on Galveston Island overlooking
the Gulf of Mexico originally built as a defense installation to protect the city and harbor of Galveston and to secure the entrance to Galveston Bay,
thus protecting the commercial and industrial ports of Galveston and Houston and the extensive oil refineries in the bay area. The facility is now managed by the US NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, and hosts the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Laboratory,
the Texas Institute of Oceanography, as well as some university facilities. The area still contains several historical buildings and military fortifications.


title: Jef Van der Veken section title: The Renders Magdalena hierarchical section title: Jef Van der Veken / More controversy and accusations of forgery / The Renders Magdalena caption reference description: The Renders Magdalena after its 'restoration' by Jef Van der Veken content: Jef Van der Veken was a Belgian art restorer, copyist and art forger, who had mastered the art of reproducing the works of the Early Netherlandish painters.


title: Orzechówka, Podlaskie Voivodeship hierarchical section title: Orzechówka, Podlaskie Voivodeship caption reference description: Orzechowka village, foggy morning on the outskirts of the Biebrza National Park caption attribution description: English: Orzechowka village – foggy morning, on the outskirts of the Biebrza National Park – Rajgrod district Polski: Wieś Orzechówka – mglisty poranek, na skraju Biebrzańskiego Parku Narodowego – Gmina Rajgród caption alt text description: Orzechowka village, foggy morning on the outskirts of the Biebrza National Park content: Orzechówka is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Rajgród, within Grajewo County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland.


title: History of the Helsinki tram system section title: 1985 onwards hierarchical section title: History of the Helsinki tram system / Route history / 1985 onwards caption reference description: Helsinki tram network in 1992–1995 caption attribution description: English: Map of the Helsinki tram network as it appeared between 1992 and 1995. Suomi: Kartta Helsingin raitiotieverkosta vuosina 1992–1995. Svenska: Kartan över Helsingford spårvägsnätet under år 1992-1995. content: Helsinki is Finland's only remaining city with tram traffic. Two other cities—Turku and Vyborg —have had tram systems. Vyborg abandoned its trams in 1957 after it was ceded to the Soviet Union after the end of World War II. Turku withdrew its trams in 1972.


title: List of Union Councils of Karachi section title: Gulshan Town hierarchical section title: List of Union Councils of Karachi / Union Councils of Karachi / Gulshan Town caption attribution description: English: Union councils of Gulshan Town, Karachi. content: Union Councils of Karachi are local governments in Karachi.
Union Council is the primary governmental institution in Pakistan. Headed by a Union Nazim, each union council has 13 elected members or councilors. In addition to four male and two female members elected directly, there are two male and two female representatives of the labor, a minority member, a Union Nazim and his deputy known as Union Naib Nazim. Beside elected members, there are several government employees and functionaries in every union council, who report to the Secretary of the Union Council. The latter is a civil servant appointed by the state. The territory of a Union Council or Village Council is usually part of a Tehsil. Less commonly, a Union Council may be part of a City District.


title: Marcegaglia hierarchical section title: Marcegaglia caption reference description: Marcegaglia HQ content: Marcegaglia is an Italian corporation founded in 1959 by Steno Marcegaglia, operating in the European and worldwide steel market.


title: List of American Civil War Medal of Honor recipients: M–P section title: O hierarchical section title: List of American Civil War Medal of Honor recipients: M–P / O caption attribution description: English: Medal of Honor winner Miles Mason Oviatt USMC caption alt text description: Medal of Honor winner Miles Mason Oviatt USMC content: This is a complete alphabetical list of Medal of Honor recipients during the Civil War. Many of the awards during the Civil War were for capturing or saving regimental flags. During the Civil War, regimental flags served as the rallying point for the unit, and guided the unit's movements. Loss of the flag could greatly disrupt a unit, and could have a greater effect than the death of the commanding officer.


title: Nagorno-Karabakh War section title: Building armies hierarchical section title: Nagorno-Karabakh War / Building armies caption reference description: Armenian soldiers in Karabakh, 1994, wearing Soviet Army combat helmets and wielding AK-74 assault rifles content: The Nagorno-Karabakh War, referred to in Armenia as the Artsakh Liberation War, was an ethnic and territorial conflict that took place in the late 1980s to May 1994, in the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh in southwestern Azerbaijan, between the majority ethnic Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh backed by Armenia, and the Republic of Azerbaijan. As the war progressed, Armenia and Azerbaijan, both former Soviet Republics, entangled themselves in protracted, undeclared mountain warfare in the mountainous heights of Karabakh as Azerbaijan attempted to curb the secessionist movement in Nagorno-Karabakh. The enclave's parliament had voted in favor of uniting itself with Armenia and a referendum, boycotted by the Azerbaijani population of Nagorno-Karabakh, was held, whereby most of the voters voted in favor of independence. The demand to unify with Armenia began in a relatively peaceful manner in 1988; in the following months, as the Soviet Union disintegrated, it gradually grew into an increasingly violent conflict between Armenians and Azerbaijanis, resulting in ethnic cleansing, with Sumgait pogrom, Baku pogrom and Khojaly Massacre being notable examples.


title: SAS Braathens section title: Fleet hierarchical section title: SAS Braathens / Fleet caption attribution description: English: Braathens Boeing 737-400 LN-BUF at Oslo Airport, Gardermoen content: SAS Braathens was the name of Norway's largest airline, created by a merger between Scandinavian Airlines' Norwegian division and Braathens in 2004. On June 1, 2007, the airline was integrated into mainline SAS, and changed its name to SAS Scandinavian Airlines Norge. The airline operated from its hub at Oslo Airport, Gardermoen, and was also the largest national branch of Scandinavian Airlines. SAS Braathens had its head office in Diamanten on the grounds of Fornebu Airport in Fornebu, Bærum, Norway.
SAS Braathens was a wholly owned subsidiary of the Scandinavian Airlines System Group and was established in the spring of 2004, based on SAS Norway and Braathens. SAS Braathens operated routes in Norway, and also between Norway and the rest of Europe. The airline was the largest in Norway, and had 440 departures daily. SAS Braathens carried around 9 million passengers in 2006. Profit for the first half of 2005 came to NOK 206 million.
SAS Braathens had a route network covering 40 destinations from Longyearbyen in the north to Las Palmas in the south. The route network was operated by a total of 57 aircraft: 51 Boeing 737s and 6 Fokker 50s.


title: Dudeștii Noi hierarchical section title: Dudeștii Noi caption reference description: Location in Timiș County caption attribution description: English: Location map of the commune of Dudeștii Noi, Timiș County, Romania caption alt text description: Location in Timiș County content: Dudeștii Noi is a commune in Timiș County, Banat, Romania. It is composed of a single village, Dudeștii Noi, part of Becicherecu Mic Commune until 2004, when it was split off.


title: Battenburg markings section title: Ireland hierarchical section title: Battenburg markings / Usage / Ireland caption attribution description: Earthquake in Haiti Donations are needed by Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) to assist those affected by the disaster. Donations to the emergency appeal can be made online at www.msf.ie or by calling 1800 905 509. content: Battenburg markings or Battenberg markings are a pattern of high-visibility markings used primarily on the sides of emergency service vehicles in the United Kingdom, the Crown dependencies, British Overseas Territories, several other European countries as well as in New Zealand, Australia, Hong Kong, and Trinidad and Tobago. The name comes from its similarity in appearance to the cross-section of a Battenberg cake.


title: List of settlements in Bulgaria hierarchical section title: List of settlements in Bulgaria caption attribution description: English: Central Balkan-view from Apriltzi-Bulgaria Български: Централен Балкан content: This is a complete list of all cities and towns in Bulgaria sorted by population. Province capitals are shown in bold.


title: Jan van Eyck hierarchical section title: Jan van Eyck caption reference description: Jan van Eyck, Portrait of a Man (Self Portrait?), 1433. National Gallery, London content: Jan van Eyck was a painter active in Bruges who was one of the early innovators of what became known as Early Netherlandish painting, and one of the most significant representatives of Early Northern Renaissance art. The surviving records of his early life indicate that he was born around 1380–1390, most likely in Maaseik, in present-day Belgium. He took employment in the Hague around 1422, when he was already a master painter with workshop assistants, and employed as painter and valet de chambre with John III the Pitiless, ruler of Holland and Hainaut. He was then employed in Lille as court painter to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy after John's death in 1425, until he moved to Bruges in 1429 where he lived until his death. He was highly regarded by Philip and undertook a number of diplomatic visits abroad, including to Lisbon in 1428 to explore the possibility of a marriage contract between the duke and Isabella of Portugal.
About 20 surviving paintings are confidently attributed to him, as well as the Ghent Altarpiece and the illuminated miniatures of the Turin-Milan Hours, all dated between 1432 and 1439.


title: Cynon Valley hierarchical section title: Cynon Valley caption reference description: River Cynon from Abercynon bridge caption attribution description: River Cynon near Abercynon content: Cynon Valley is a former coal mining valley in Wales. Cynon Valley lies between Rhondda and the Merthyr Valley and takes its name from the River Cynon. Aberdare is located in the north of the valley and Mountain Ash is in the south of the valley.
According to the 2001 census, the Cynon Valley has a population of 63,512. In 2001 12.1% of the inhabitants were recorded as Welsh speakers. In common with some of the other South Wales Valleys, Cynon Valley had a high percentage of Welsh speakers until the early 20th century.


title: List of Indiana state historical markers in Wells County hierarchical section title: List of Indiana state historical markers in Wells County caption reference description: Location of Wells County in Indiana content: This is a list of the Indiana state historical markers in Wells County.
This is intended to be a detailed table of the official state historical marker placed in Wells County, Indiana, United States by the Indiana Historical Bureau. The location of the historical marker and its latitude and longitude coordinates are included below when available, along with its name, year of placement, and topics as recorded by the Historical Bureau. There is 1 historical marker located in Wells County.


title: Bob Heffron section title: Honours and legacy hierarchical section title: Bob Heffron / Honours and legacy caption reference description: Heffron Building, Bathurst campus, CSU caption attribution description: English: Heffron Building, Bathurst campus, Charles Sturt University. content: Robert James Heffron, also known as Bob Heffron or R. J. Heffron, was a long-serving New South Wales politician, union organiser and Labor Party Premier of New South Wales from 1959 to 1964. Born in New Zealand, Heffron became involved in various Socialist and labour movements in New Zealand and later Australia before joining the Australian Labor Party. Being a prominent unionist organiser, having been gaoled at one stage for "conspiracy to strike action", he was eventually elected to the Parliament of New South Wales for Botany in 1930. However his disputes with party leader Jack Lang led to his expulsion from the ALP in 1936 and Heffron formed his own party from disgruntled Labor MPs known as the Industrial Labor Party. The success of his party enabled his readmission to the party and his prominence in a post-Lang NSW Branch which won office in 1941.
Heffron served as Minister of the Crown in the cabinets of William McKell, James McGirr and Joseph Cahill, most notably as Minister for Education from 1944 to 1960 and as Deputy Premier.


title: St. Michael's Roman Catholic Church, Convent, Rectory, and School hierarchical section title: St. Michael's Roman Catholic Church, Convent, Rectory, and School caption attribution description: English: Catholic Church of Saint Michael the Archangel, 239 Oxford Street, Providence RI. Completed in 1915. Architect: Martin & Hall of Providence. content: St. Michael's Roman Catholic Church, Convent, Rectory, and School is an historic Roman Catholic church complex at 251 Oxford Street in Providence, Rhode Island within the Diocese of Providence.


title: List of North Dakota state parks section title: State parks and recreation areas hierarchical section title: List of North Dakota state parks / State parks and recreation areas caption attribution description: Cross Ranch State Park, North Dakota content: North Dakota state parks are state parks managed by the North Dakota Parks and Recreation Department.


title: List of Category A listed buildings in the Scottish Borders section title: Listed buildings hierarchical section title: List of Category A listed buildings in the Scottish Borders / Listed buildings caption attribution description: English: Manderston House Stables, near Duns. Magnificent Stables of Manderston House 151469. caption alt text description: Manderston, Stables content: This is a list of Category A listed buildings in the Scottish Borders council area in south-east Scotland.
In Scotland, the term listed building refers to a building or other structure officially designated as being of "special architectural or historic interest". Category A structures are those considered to be "buildings of national or international importance, either architectural or historic, or fine little-altered examples of some particular period, style or building type." Listing was begun by a provision in the Town and Country Planning Act 1947, and the current legislative basis for listing is the Planning Act 1997. The authority for listing rests with Historic Scotland, an executive agency of the Scottish Government, which inherited this role from the Scottish Development Department in 1991. Once listed, severe restrictions are imposed on the modifications allowed to a building's structure or its fittings. Listed building consent must be obtained from local authorities prior to any alteration to such a structure. There are approximately 47,400 listed buildings in Scotland, of which around 8% are Category A.


title: History of Oklahoma section title: Murray's Proposal hierarchical section title: History of Oklahoma / Statehood / Murray's Proposal caption reference description: Oklahoma statehood proclamation, 16 November 1907 content: The history of Oklahoma refers to the history of the state of Oklahoma and the land that the state now occupies. Areas of Oklahoma east of its panhandle were acquired in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, while the Panhandle was not acquired until the U.S. land acquisitions following the Mexican–American War.
Most of Oklahoma was set aside as Indian Territory before the Civil War. It was opened for general settlement around 1890—the "Sooners" were settlers who jumped the gun. Statehood came to the poor ranching and farming state in Oklahoma, but soon oil was discovered and new wealth poured in.
Historians David Baird and Danney Goble have searched for the essence of the historical experiences of the people of Oklahoma. They find that, "The shared experiences of Oklahoma's people over time speak of optimism, innovation, perseverance, entrepreneurialism, common sense, collective courage, and simple decency. Those, not victimization, were the core values."


title: Gympie Ambulance Station section title: History hierarchical section title: Gympie Ambulance Station / History caption reference description: Gympie Ambulance Centre, circa 1926 content: Gympie Ambulance Station is a heritage-listed ambulance station at 17 Crown Road, Gympie, Queensland, Australia. It was built in 1904. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 16 September 2011.


title: Sophie Germain hierarchical section title: Sophie Germain caption reference description: Récherches sur la théorie des surfaces élastiques, 1821 content: Marie-Sophie Germain was a French mathematician who made important contributions to differential geometry and number theory.


title: Bangsamoro section title: Transition process hierarchical section title: Bangsamoro / History / Transition process caption reference description: President Rodrigo Duterte sounds the agong during the inauguration of Bangsamoro. He is joined by Chief Minister Murad Ebrahim. caption attribution description: English: President Rodrigo Roa Duterte sounds the agung to signal the inauguration of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) during a ceremony at the Shariff Kabunsuan Cultural Complex in Cotabato City on March 29, 2019. Joining the President is BARMM Interim Chief Minister Al Haj Murad Ebrahim. ROBINSON NIÑAL JR./PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO content: The Bangsamoro, officially the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao or BARMM, is an autonomous region located in the southern Philippines.
Replacing the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region was formed with the ratification of its basic law, the Bangsamoro Organic Law following two-part legally-binding plebiscite in Western Mindanao held on January 21 and February 6, 2019. The ratification was confirmed a few days later on January 25 by the Commission on Elections.
The establishment of the Bangsamoro was the culmination of several years of peace talks between the Philippine government, and several autonomist groups; in particular the Moro Islamic Liberation Front or MILF, which rejected the validity of the ARMM and called for the creation of a region with more powers devolved from the national government. A framework agreement known as the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro was negotiated between the Aquino administration and the MILF in 2014.


title: Battle of Baton Rouge (1862) section title: Union Army hierarchical section title: Battle of Baton Rouge (1862) / Order of battle / Union Army caption reference description: A line engraving of the battle published in Harper's Weekly, 1862 caption attribution description: Battle of Baton Rouge, 1862. content: The Battle of Baton Rouge was a ground and naval battle in the American Civil War fought in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, on August 5, 1862. The Union victory halted Confederate attempts to recapture the capital city of Louisiana.


title: National Register of Historic Places listings in Humboldt County, California hierarchical section title: National Register of Historic Places listings in Humboldt County, California caption reference description: Location of Humboldt County in California content: This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Humboldt County, California.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Humboldt County, California, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in an online map.
There are 55 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county, including 1 National Historic Landmark.
This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted July 17, 2020.


title: National Register of Historic Places listings in Wichita County, Texas hierarchical section title: National Register of Historic Places listings in Wichita County, Texas caption reference description: Location of Wichita County in Texas content: This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Wichita County, Texas.
This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Wichita County, Texas. There are two districts and seven individual properties listed on the National Register in the county. One district includes a State Antiquities Landmark and a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark. Four other individual properties are also Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks.
This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted November 22, 2019.


title: M203 grenade launcher section title: Data hierarchical section title: M203 grenade launcher / Data caption reference description: Range qualification with an M203. caption attribution description: 031013-N-9712C-002 Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan (Oct. 13, 2003) -- Utilitiesman 3rd Class Osborne fires off a 40 mm round out of a M203 grenade launcher attached to an M16 assault rifle during range qualifications. Osborne is assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion Forty (NMCB-40), which is deployed to Okinawa and is working on construction projects throughout Japan. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate Airman John P. Curtis. (RELEASED) content: The M203 is a single-shot 40 mm under-barrel grenade launcher designed to attach to a rifle. It uses the same rounds as the older stand-alone M79 break-action grenade launcher, which utilizes the High-Low Propulsion System to keep recoil forces low. Quite versatile and compatible with many rifle models, the M203 was originally designed for the U.S. M16 and its variant, the M4 carbine. The launcher can also be mounted onto a C7, a Canadian version of the M16 rifle; however, this requires the prior removal of the bottom handguard.
Stand-alone variants of the M203 exist, as do versions designed specifically for many other rifles. The device attaches under the barrel, the launcher trigger being in the rear of the launcher, just forward of the rifle magazine. The rifle magazine functions as a hand grip when firing the M203. A separate sighting system is added to rifles fitted with the M203, as the rifle's standard sights are not matched to the launcher. The version fitted to the Canadian C7 has a sight attached to the side of the launcher, either on the left or right depending on the user's needs.


title: Madeleine Carroll section title: Personal life hierarchical section title: Madeleine Carroll / Personal life caption reference description: Red Cross workers assembled at the IP, Avenue C and 7th Street, Camp Patrick Henry, left to right, front row, are Edna Elizabeth Dick of Williamsburg, Kentucky; Mrs. Madeleine Carroll Hamilton; Marcia Hinrichs, Alexandria, Virginia. content: Edith Madeleine Carroll was an English actress, popular both in Britain and America in the 1930s and 1940s. At the peak of her success in 1938, she was the world's highest-paid actress.
Carroll is remembered for her role in Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps. She is also noted for largely abandoning her acting career after the death of her sister Marguerite in the London Blitz to devote herself to helping wounded servicemen and children displaced or maimed by the war.


title: William Hixon McDonald (junior) hierarchical section title: William Hixon McDonald (junior) caption reference description: William Hixon McDonald (jnr) and Kezia Rankin c.1885 content: William Hixon McDonald (junior) was an Australian miner, political candidate and pioneer of Corindhap, Victoria.


title: Ryan Zimmerman section title: Amateur career hierarchical section title: Ryan Zimmerman / Amateur career caption reference description: Zimmerman (right) and David Wright were AAU teammates before playing for division rivals for more than a decade. caption attribution description: English: David Wright of the New York Mets and Ryan Zimmerman of the Washington Nationals during spring training in 2016. content: Ryan Wallace Zimmerman is an American professional baseball first baseman for the Washington Nationals of Major League Baseball. Zimmerman graduated from Kellam High School in Virginia Beach, Virginia and played college baseball at the University of Virginia. He is nicknamed Mr. National as he has been a member of the Washington Nationals since his debut on September 1, 2005, and was the team's first ever draft pick when the Major League Baseball franchise moved from Montreal. Zimmerman was drafted in the first round as the fourth overall pick by the Nationals in the 2005 Major League Baseball Draft. He is well known for his clutch hitting and walkoff hits. Formerly a third baseman, Zimmerman transitioned to first base in 2015.


title: Cooktown Cemetery section title: Description hierarchical section title: Cooktown Cemetery / Description caption reference description: Grave of Mrs Mary Watson, 1986 content: Cooktown Cemetery is a heritage-listed cemetery at Charlotte Street, Cooktown, Shire of Cook, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1874 to 1920. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 8 April 1997.


title: Kenosha, Wisconsin hierarchical section title: Kenosha, Wisconsin caption reference description: A map of Wisconsin. The red dot is Kenosha. caption attribution description: Adapted from Wikipedia's WI county maps by Bumm13. content: Kenosha is a city in Kenosha County in the state of Wisconsin. It is part of the Chicago Metropolitan Area, but is nearer to Milwaukee than it is to Chicago. It is the fourth biggest city in the state after Milwaukee, Madison, and Green Bay.


title: La Grange Historic District (La Grange, Tennessee) hierarchical section title: La Grange Historic District (La Grange, Tennessee) caption reference description: Hancock Hall content: The La Grange Historic District in La Grange, Tennessee is a 1,700 acres historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
It includes:
immanuel Church (La Grange, Tennessee), which is separately listed on the NRHP
La Grange Methodist Church,
Hillcrest, claimed to be "one of the earliest examples of Swiss chalet architecture in America."
Hancock Hall, known for its double portico, one facing south and one facing west
more


title: History of rail transport in Ireland hierarchical section title: History of rail transport in Ireland caption reference description: 1906 Viceregal Commission rail map of Ireland. caption attribution description: English: Railway map of w:Ireland, 1906 Русский: Карта железнодорожной сети Ирландии, 1906 год content: The history of rail transport in Ireland began only a decade later than that of Great Britain. By its peak in 1920, Ireland had 3,500 route miles. The current status is less than half that amount, with a large unserviced area around the border area between Northern Ireland and The Republic of Ireland.
Railways on the island of Ireland are run by Iarnród Éireann within Ireland and Northern Ireland Railways within Northern Ireland. The two companies jointly operate the island's only cross-border service, the Enterprise, between Dublin and Belfast. The Railway Preservation Society of Ireland based in Whitehead, County Antrim runs preserved steam trains on the main line, with the Irish Traction Group preserving diesel locomotives, and operating on the main line. The Downpatrick & County Down Railway is the only self-contained full-size heritage railway in the island of Ireland.


title: Pattadakal section title: Kadasiddheshwara temple hierarchical section title: Pattadakal / Description / Kadasiddheshwara temple caption reference description: Ardhanarishvara (left half Shiva, right half Parvati) at the Kadasiddheswara temple. caption attribution description: English: Pattadakal was an early medieval era seat of coronation of the Chalukyan Kings of South Indian Hindu kingdoms. The site is located in Karnataka, and contain the surviving collection of temples and artwork from the 7th-9th centuries CE, sponsored particularly the Chalukya and Rashtrakuta dynasties. These temples are of historic significance as they display a fusion of architectural styles found in northern and southern parts of the Indian subcontinent. The site, temples and its religious importance is mentioned in more ancient Hindu texts, as Kisuvolal (valley of red soil), Pattada-Kisuvolal or as Raktapura (city of red color), but except for excavated parts the evidence of earlier temples has not survived. In later era texts, the Pattadakal location is also referred to as Petirgal, Pattasilapura or Hammirapura suggesting that the site remained culturally important over a long period. The Pattadakal monuments included in the UNESCO world heritage site consist of nine Hindu temples and one Jain temple. These were built near the left bank of the Malaprabha river where it turns northward towards the Himalayas, considered auspicious in ancient India. The temples are relatively younger group of monuments, the older ones are found in Aihole and Badami less than 50 kilometer distance which predate these by a few centuries. The temples are important not only for their architecture and layout, but for their carvings and artist inscriptions which provide evidence of Hindu and Jaina theology, arts, culture and society between the 7th and 9th century. While the temples and artwork show signs of systematic defacement and damage, much has survived. One Hindu temple in the group of monument remains active. The Pattadakal group is one of many clusters of historic temples in Pattadakal area, but most of the other clusters are not a part of the UNESCO designation. The Pattadakal temples show two major style types. The south Indian dravida vimana type is displayed in the Virupaksha, Mallikarjuna and Sangameswara temples. The north Indian rekhanagara prasada type is displayed by the Kadasiddeswara, Jambulinga, Galaganatha, Kashivishweswara and Papanatha temples. But some temples experiment a fusion of the two styles. The Sangameswara temple is the best example of dravida vimana type. The Virupaksha temple of 8th century is the best example of the fruits of creative fusion in terms of the plan, style and integration of arts. content: Pattadakal, also called Paṭṭadakallu or Raktapura, is a complex of 7th and 8th century CE Hindu and Jain temples in northern Karnataka. Located on the west bank of the Malaprabha River in Bagalakote district, this UNESCO World Heritage site is 14 miles from Badami and about 6 miles from Aihole, both of which are historically significant centres of Chalukya monuments. The monument is a protected site under Indian law and is managed by the Archaeological Survey of India.
UNESCO has described Pattadakal as "a harmonious blend of architectural forms from northern and southern India" and an illustration of "eclectic art" at its height. The Hindu temples are generally dedicated to Shiva, but elements of Vaishnavism and Shaktism theology and legends are also featured. The friezes in the Hindu temples display various Vedic and Puranic concepts, depict stories from the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, the Bhagavata Purana, as well as elements of other Hindu texts, such as the Panchatantra and the Kirātārjunīya. The Jain temple is only dedicated to a single Jina.


title: Gaeltacht section title: Demographics hierarchical section title: Gaeltacht / Gaeltachtaí in the Republic of Ireland / Demographics caption reference description: The percentage of respondents who said they spoke Irish daily outside the education system in the 2011 census. caption attribution description: English: The percentage of respondents aged 3+ who said they spoke Irish daily outside the education system in the 2011 census in Ireland. content: Gaeltacht is an Irish-language word for any primarily Irish-speaking region.
In Ireland, the term Gaeltacht refers individually to any, or collectively to all, of the districts where the government recognises that the Irish language is the predominant vernacular, or language of the home.
The Gaeltacht districts were first officially recognised during the 1920s in the early years of the Irish Free State, following the Gaelic Revival, as part of a government policy aimed at restoring the Irish language.
It is now recognised that the Gaeltacht is threatened by serious language decline. Research published in 2015 showed that of the 155 electoral divisions in the Gaeltacht, only 21 are communities where Irish is spoken on a daily basis by two-thirds or more of the population. Two-thirds is regarded by some academics as a tipping point for language survival.


title: Youth Outreach section title: Service Units hierarchical section title: Youth Outreach / Service Units caption reference description: Outside of the Youth Outreach headquarters in Sai Wan Ho, HK caption attribution description: English: This is a picture outside the youth outreach organization headquarters caption alt text description: Picture taken showing outside of Youth Outreach headquarters in Sai Wan Ho content: Youth Outreach is a non-profit organization in Hong Kong established in November 1991 as a crisis intervention center for youth. In the years since its establishment, the organization has been devoting its services to help youth in critical condition or those who face major crisis in their life.
The Chinese name of Youth Outreach is special where the second character "青", meaning green or youth, symbolizes youthfulness and liveliness, and its character position between "協", meaning aid, and "社", meaning society, creates the picture of youth being supported and cared for.


title: Laguna Creek watershed section title: Background hierarchical section title: Laguna Creek watershed / Background caption reference description: Valley Oak caption attribution description: English: Valley oak forest content: The Laguna Creek watershed consists of 25.1 square miles of land within northern California's Alameda County. The watershed drains the foothills of the Diablo Range south of Niles Canyon. To the southeast, the area of Mission Peak Regional Preserve around Mission Peak is included. Agua Caliente, Canada del Aliso, Mission, Morrison, Sabercat, Vargas, and Washington creeks drain the area of the watershed. They drain into Laguna Creek and eventually Mud Slough.
Water from winter and spring storms feed the creeks and the watershed. Natural springs along Mission Peak are also a source of water. Many of the creeks are dry when there is no rain.


title: Health effects of wine section title: Early history hierarchical section title: Health effects of wine / History of wine in medicine / Early history caption reference description: De medicina content: The health effects of wine are mainly determined by its active ingredient alcohol. Some studies found that, when comparing people who consume alcohol, drinking small quantities of alcohol is associated with a decreased risk of heart disease, stroke, diabetes mellitus, metabolic syndrome and early death. However, other studies found no such effect.
Drinking more than the standard drink amount increases the risk of heart disease, high blood pressure, atrial fibrillation, stroke and cancer. Mixed results are also observed in light drinking and cancer mortality.
Risk is greater in young people due to binge drinking which may result in violence or accidents. About 88,000 deaths in the US are estimated to be due to alcohol each year. Alcoholism reduces a person's life expectancy by around ten years and excessive alcohol use is the third leading cause of early death in the United States. According to systematic reviews and medical associations, people who are nondrinkers should not start drinking wine.


title: Photograph hierarchical section title: Photograph caption reference description: A modern-day photograph of an Icelandic landscape, captured on a personal camera caption attribution description: Afrikaans: 'n Yslandse landskap in die oostelike uithoek van die eiland English: Icelandic landscape near Neskaupstaður July 2014 Español: Vista panorámica cerca de Neskaupstaður, Islandia. Polski: Krajobraz w okolicy Neskaupstaður w Islandii. Português: Vista panorâmica nas proximidades de Neskaupstaður, Islândia. Čeština: Islandská krajina v okolí rybářského města Neskaupstaður. Magyar: Táj Neskaupstaður közelében (Izland) Italiano: Panorama islandese nei pressi della cittadina di Neskaupstaður, nella municipalità di Fjarðabyggð. Македонски: Предел кај Нескејпстадир, источен Исланд. Nederlands: IJslands landschap in de buurt van Neskaupstaður content: A photograph is an image created by light falling on a photosensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic image sensor, such as a CCD or a CMOS chip. Most photographs are created using a camera, which uses a lens to focus the scene's visible wavelengths of light into a reproduction of what the human eye would see. The process and practice of creating such images is called photography.


title: SPAMasterpiece Theater section title: SPAMasterpiece Theater hierarchical section title: SPAMasterpiece Theater / Background / SPAMasterpiece Theater caption reference description: John Behrens and Sean Bonner talk about SPAMasterpiece Theater in Xeni Jardin's BBtv office. caption attribution description: Talking about John Hodgman in BBtv's SPAMasterpiece Theater. content: SPAMasterpiece Theater is an American web series starring humorist John Hodgman where he does dramatic readings of unsolicited email spam received by Boing Boing editors in a parody of Masterpiece Theatre. The series featured images and videos from Creative Commons-licensed media.


title: Francisco Bolognesi section title: War of the Pacific hierarchical section title: Francisco Bolognesi / War of the Pacific caption reference description: War of the Pacific - 1880, Just Before The Battle of Arica "I have sacred duties to fulfill, and I will fulfill them until I fire the last round" caption attribution description: Francisco Bolognesi - Héroe Peruano content: Francisco Bolognesi Cervantes was a Peruvian military general. He is considered a national hero in Peru and was declared patron of the Army of Peru by the government of Peru on January 2 of 1951.


title: Bankstown Bites Food Festival section title: Celebrity Chefs hierarchical section title: Bankstown Bites Food Festival / Celebrity Chefs caption reference description: Bankstown Bites Comedy Chef caption attribution description: English: Bankstown Bites Comedy Chefs Photo by Karen Steains content: Bankstown Bites Food Festival is a food festival that takes place in the suburb of Bankstown in Sydney, Australia.


title: List of battlecruisers of Germany section title: O class hierarchical section title: List of battlecruisers of Germany / O class caption reference description: Line-drawing of the O class caption attribution description: English: The basic profile outline image of the O class Battle Cruiser, that was designed for Plan Z. The profile is still being Mapped but this gives a basic layout for the planed ships. 3 ships were planned. I am 3D modeling this ship in Blender, and 2D mapping it in Gimp. content: The Kaiserliche Marine, the navy of the German Empire, built a series of battlecruisers in the first half of the 20th century. The battlecruiser type was an outgrowth of older armored cruiser designs; they were intended to scout for the main battle fleet and attack the reconnaissance forces of opposing fleets. Kaiser Wilhelm II insisted that the new battlecruisers be able to fight in the line of battle with battleships to counter Germany's numerical inferiority.
SMS Von der Tann was the first German battlecruiser, built in 1908–1910. The Kaiserliche Marine eventually built four more battlecruisers before the start of the First World War to serve with the High Seas Fleet, and another two were completed during the conflict. A further seven were planned, including four of the Mackensen and three of the Ersatz Yorck-class ships. Two of the Mackensens—the name ship and Graf Spee—were launched but never completed, and the other two were in earlier stages of work when they were canceled towards the end of the war. Serious work never began on the three Ersatz Yorck-class ships.


title: Golf section title: Women's major championships hierarchical section title: Golf / Professional golf / Women's major championships caption reference description: Lorena Ochoa, a retired number one female golfer, pictured here in 2007 caption attribution description: HAVRE DE GRACE, MD - JUNE 06: Lorena Ochoa (MEX) during practice before 2007 LPGA Championship held at Bulle Rock Golf Course, on June 6, 2007 in Havre de Grace, Maryland. (Photo by Keith Allison) content: Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.
Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not utilize a standardized playing area, and coping with the varied terrains encountered on different courses is a key part of the game. The game at the usual level is played on a course with an arranged progression of 18 holes, though recreational courses can be smaller, often having nine holes. Each hole on the course must contain a teeing ground to start from, and a putting green containing the actual hole or cup 4 ¹⁄₄ inches in diameter. There are other standard forms of terrain in between, such as the fairway, rough, bunkers, and various hazards but each hole on a course is unique in its specific layout and arrangement.
Golf is played for the lowest number of strokes by an individual, known as stroke play, or the lowest score on the most individual holes in a complete round by an individual or team, known as match play. Stroke play is the most commonly seen format at all levels, but most especially at the elite level.
The modern game of golf originated in 15th century Scotland.


title: Gechingen hierarchical section title: Gechingen caption attribution description: Deutsch: Kirche in Gechingen content: Gechingen is a town in the district of Calw in Baden-Württemberg in Germany.


title: Dewey, South Dakota section title: Photo gallery hierarchical section title: Dewey, South Dakota / Photo gallery caption attribution description: English: Panorama of the southern Black Hills of South Dakota, taken near Dewey. content: Dewey is an unincorporated community near the southwest corner of Custer County, South Dakota, United States, less than one mile from the Wyoming border in a prairie region of the Black Hills. There are approximately five or six homes in town. Dewey has a volunteer fire department in the Edgemont city district.
Dewey lies just to the southwest of the Elk Mountains, a small range that is part of the Black Hills. South Dewey Road leads into Fall River County southeast 6.1 miles to Burdock and then to Edgemont—23 miles from Dewey. Northwest of Dewey 30 miles is Newcastle, Wyoming.


title: Frederick Clarke Withers section title: Biography hierarchical section title: Frederick Clarke Withers / Biography caption reference description: 2013 Jefferson Market Library, designed by Frederick Clarke Withers as the Jefferson Market Courthouse caption attribution description: English: The Jefferson Market Branch, New York Public Library, originally the Jefferson Market Courthouse, is located at 425 Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue), on the southwest corner of West 10th Street, in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York City, on a triangular plot formed by Greenwich Avenue and West 10th Street. It was designed by architect Frederick Clarke Withers of the firm of Vaux and Withers. Esperanto: Biblioteko Jefferson Market, Greenwich Village, Manhatano, Novjorko, Usono. Filio de la Novjorka Publika Biblioteko. Originale ĝi estis la Kortumo de la Tria Juĝista Distrikto en Novjorko. content: Frederick Clarke Withers was a successful English architect in America, especially renowned for his Gothic Revival church designs.


title: Indiana's 1st congressional district hierarchical section title: Indiana's 1st congressional district caption reference description: Indiana's 1st congressional district since January 3, 2013 content: Indiana's 1st congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Indiana. The district is based in Gary and its surrounding suburbs and exurbs. It consists of all of Lake and Porter counties and most of western La Porte County in the northwestern part of the state. Redistricting passed by the Indiana General Assembly in 2011 shifted the district's boundaries, effective January 2013, to include all of Lake and Porter counties and the western and northwestern townships of La Porte County, while moving Benton, Jasper and Newton counties out of the district.
The district is currently represented by Democrat Pete Visclosky.
The district's character is very different from the rest of Indiana. It includes almost all of the Indiana side of the Chicago metropolitan area. While Porter is a swing county, La Porte is Democratic and Lake County is heavily Democratic. Lake County contains more than 70 percent of the district's population and has more people than the rest of the district combined, which is enough to make the 1st a relatively safe Democratic seat.


title: Government of Cantabria hierarchical section title: Government of Cantabria caption reference description: Logo of the Government of Cantabria content: The Government of Cantabria is one of the statutory institutions that conform the Autonomous Community of Cantabria. It is the superior collegiate body that directs the politics and the Administration of his Spanish autonomous community, and at the same time the holder of the executive power as well as the regulatory authority over said territory.


title: Hawaii section title: Political changes of 1954—State of Hawaiʻi (1959–present) hierarchical section title: Hawaii / History / Political changes of 1954—State of Hawaiʻi (1959–present) caption reference description: Prior to the postwar labor movement, Hawaii was governed by plantation owners. Here, three young women pack pineapples into cans in 1928. content: Hawaii is a state of the United States of America located in the Pacific Ocean. It is the only U.S. state located outside North America, the only island state, and the only state in the tropics.
The state encompasses nearly the entire Hawaiian archipelago, 137 islands spread over 1,500 miles. The volcanic archipelago is physiographically and ethnologically part of the Polynesian subregion of Oceania. At the southeastern end of the archipelago, the eight main islands are, in order from northwest to southeast: Niʻihau, Kauaʻi, Oʻahu, Molokaʻi, Lānaʻi, Kahoʻolawe, Maui, and the largest, Hawaiʻi, which the state is named after. It is often called the "Big Island" or "Hawaii Island" to avoid confusion with the state or archipelago.
Hawaii is the 8th-smallest geographically and the 11th-least populous, but the 13th-most densely populated of the 50 states. It is the only state with an Asian American plurality. Hawaii has more than 1.4 million permanent residents, along with many visitors and U.S. military personnel. The state capital and largest city is Honolulu on the island of Oʻahu.


title: Miami Orange Bowl section title: History hierarchical section title: Miami Orange Bowl / History caption reference description: Orange Bowl, outside of west end zone caption attribution description: Located in Miami's Little Havana district, this photo outside of the Orange Bowl's west endzone was taken on February 14, 2006. content: The Miami Orange Bowl was an outdoor athletic stadium in Miami, Florida from 1937 until 2008. Located in the Little Havana neighborhood west of Downtown, it was considered a landmark, and was the home stadium for the Miami Hurricanes college football team, and the professional Miami Dolphins for their first 21 seasons, until the opening of Joe Robbie Stadium in nearby Miami Gardens in 1987. The stadium was the temporary home of the FIU Golden Panthers while its FIU Stadium underwent expansion during the 2007 season.
Originally known as Burdine Stadium when opened in 1937, it was renamed in 1959 for the Orange Bowl college football bowl game which was played at the venue following every season from 1938 to 1996. The event was moved to Pro Player Stadium beginning on December 31, 1996. In January 1999, it returned to the Orange Bowl for one final time due to a scheduling conflict. The minor league Miami Marlins baseball team occasionally played games in the Orange Bowl from 1956 to 1960.
The stadium was on a large block bounded by Northwest 3rd Street, Northwest 16th Avenue, Northwest 6th Street and Northwest 14th Avenue.


title: CASA C-101 section title: Design and development hierarchical section title: CASA C-101 / Design and development caption reference description: A C-101 Aviojet aircraft of the Honduran Air Force caption attribution description: English: A C-101 Aviojet aircraft of the Honduran air force sits on the flight line with its canopy open. Some of these Spanish-designed trainer/light attack jets in service in South America are manufactured under license in Chile. content: The CASA C-101 Aviojet is a low-wing single engine jet-powered advanced trainer and light attack aircraft designed and manufactured by Spanish aircraft company Construcciones Aeronáuticas SA.
The C-101 was developed in response to a Spanish Air Force requirement, which needed a replacement for the already outdated Hispano Saeta. During 1975, CASA commenced work on what would become the C-101. In addition to its own design team, technical assistance was provided by Germany's Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm and the United States' Northrop. During June 1977, the first of four prototypes performed the type's maiden flight. The design was somewhat reminiscent of other jet trainers of the era, such as the BAE Hawk and the Alpha Jet, but was less aerodynamically sophisticated, being equipped with an unswept wing. Performance of the C-101 during flight testing was reported in excess of predictions.
On 17 March 1980, the first examples were introduced to operational service with the Spanish Air Force, which would be the principal customer for the C-101. The initial model possessed only a limited weapons capability, this attack capability was expanded upon later-built aircraft.


title: Ryuichi Sakamoto section title: 2000s hierarchical section title: Ryuichi Sakamoto / Career / 2000s caption reference description: Keigo Oyamada with Sakamoto in 2007. caption attribution description: Keigo Oyamada and Ryuichi Sakamoto content: Ryuichi Sakamoto is a Japanese composer, singer, songwriter, record producer, activist, and actor who has pursued a diverse range of styles as a solo artist and as a member of Yellow Magic Orchestra. With his bandmates Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi, Sakamoto influenced and pioneered a number of electronic music genres.
Sakamoto began his career while at university in the 1970s as a session musician, producer, and arranger. His first major success came in 1978 as co-founder of YMO. He concurrently pursued a solo career, releasing the experimental electronic fusion album Thousand Knives in 1978. Two years later, he released the album B-2 Unit. It included the track "Riot in Lagos", which was significant in the development of electro and hip hop music. He went on to produce more solo records, and collaborate with many international artists, David Sylvian, Carsten Nicolai, Youssou N'Dour, and Fennesz among them. Sakamoto composed music for the opening ceremony of the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, and his composition "Energy Flow" was the first instrumental number-one single in Japan's Oricon charts history.


title: Gettysburg campaign section title: Battle of Gettysburg hierarchical section title: Gettysburg campaign / Battle of Gettysburg caption reference description: Battle of Gettysburg, July 2 content: The Gettysburg campaign was a military invasion of Pennsylvania by the main Confederate army under General Robert E. Lee in summer 1863. The Union won a decisive victory at Gettysburg, July 1–3, with heavy casualties on both sides. Lee managed to escape back to Virginia with most of his army. It was a turning point in the American Civil War, with Lee increasingly pushed back toward Richmond until his surrender in April 1865. After his victory in the Battle of Chancellorsville, Lee's Army of Northern Virginia moved north for a massive raid designed to obtain desperately needed supplies, to undermine civilian morale in the North, and to encourage anti-war elements. The Union Army of the Potomac was commanded by Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker and then by Maj. Gen. George G. Meade.
Lee's army slipped away from Federal contact at Fredericksburg, Virginia, on June 3, 1863. The largest predominantly cavalry battle of the war was fought at Brandy Station on June 9. The Confederates crossed the Blue Ridge Mountains and moved north through the Shenandoah Valley, capturing the Union garrison at Winchester, Virginia, in the Second Battle of Winchester, June 13–15.


title: Tom Blake (surfer) hierarchical section title: Tom Blake (surfer) caption reference description: Tom Blake (1922) caption attribution description: English: Title: Thos. E. Blake on July 23, 1922 in Brighton Beach, New York Abstract/medium: 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. content: Thomas Edward "Tom" Blake was an American athlete, inventor, and writer, widely considered to be one of the most influential surfers in history, and a key figure in transforming surfing from a regional Hawaiian specialty to a nationally popular sport. Assessing Blake's significance, the sociologist Kristin Lawler wrote: "Tom Blake is a legendary figure; he's considered the founder of California surf culture. He personally innovated most of what's associated with surfers to this day: he was the first to experiment with making better surfboards, revolutionizing board design in the process with lightweight materials and the fin; he was the first to build a waterproof camera housing and inaugurated the tradition of surfers documenting themselves and their friends; and he was the first among countless surfers to come to write a book on the history and pleasures of surfing. In addition, his personal style became the prototypical beachcomber look, still in effect today."


title: Operation Volcano (Israeli raid) section title: Background hierarchical section title: Operation Volcano (Israeli raid) / Background caption reference description: IDF troops near Auja during Operation Horev caption attribution description: English: Operation Horev forces near Nitzana. WAR OF INDEPENDENCE. OPERATION HOREV. IDF TRUCK CONVOY MOVING THROUGH THE NEGEV עברית: כוחות מבצע חורב במעבר הגבול ליד ניצנה. content: Operation Volcano, also known as Operation Sabcha, was a large-scale Israel Defense Forces military operation carried out on the night of November 2–3, 1955 against Egyptian military positions in and around the Nitzana/Auja vicinity. The operation was successful and resulted in the permanent expulsion of Egyptian forces from the Demilitarized Zone. Eighty-one Egyptian soldiers were killed and fifty-five others were taken prisoner. There were five Israeli fatalities.


title: Karnes County, Texas hierarchical section title: Karnes County, Texas caption reference description: Location within the U.S. state of Texas content: Karnes County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 census, the population was 14,824. Its county seat is Karnes City. The county is named for Henry Karnes, a soldier in the Texas Revolution.
The former San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway passed through Karnes County in its connection linking San Antonio with Corpus Christi.


title: Wilson Park, Baltimore section title: History hierarchical section title: Wilson Park, Baltimore / History caption reference description: Single-family homes in Wilson Park caption attribution description: Wilson Park, Baltimore,MD. content: Wilson Park is a small community in northeast Baltimore, Maryland and one of the first African-American communities in the city. Its bounded on the south by 43rd Street and the east by The Alameda. Two community associations serve the area: the Kimberleigh Road Community Association and the Wilson Park Improvement Association. The homes range from large single-family homes to semi-detached and townhouses in a number of different styles. A majority of homes are owner-occupied.


title: Oggau am Neusiedler See hierarchical section title: Oggau am Neusiedler See caption attribution description: Herb Oggau am Neusiedler See, Burgenland, English:Coat of arms of Oggau am Neusiedler See, Burgenland caption alt text description: Coat of arms of Oggau am Neusiedler See content: Oggau am Neusiedler See is a town in the district of Eisenstadt-Umgebung in the Austrian state of Burgenland.


title: Boston Dynamics section title: BigDog hierarchical section title: Boston Dynamics / Products / BigDog caption reference description: BigDog content: Boston Dynamics is an American engineering and robotics design company founded in 1992 as a spin-off from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, Boston Dynamics is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate SoftBank Group. The company is a pioneer in the field of robotics and it is one of the most advanced in its domain.
Boston Dynamics is best known for the development of a series of dynamic highly-mobile robots, including BigDog, Spot, Atlas, and Handle. These robots are perhaps most familiar to the world through their highly popular videos — the Boston Dynamics YouTube channel, for example, as of May 2020 has 1.72 million subscribers. Since 2019, Spot has been made commercially available, making it the first commercially available robot from Boston Dynamics, with the company stating its intent to commercialize other robots as well, including Handle.


title: São Vicente Suspension Bridge section title: Construction hierarchical section title: São Vicente Suspension Bridge / Construction caption reference description: The bridge in 1910-1915 content: São Vicente Suspension Bridge is a suspension bridge in São Vicente, São Paulo, Brazil. It was one of the first suspension bridges in Brazil, and carries vehicle and pedestrian traffic between Morro dos Barbosas and Japuí. Originally conceived in 1910 as a way to carry sewage away from the city of Santos and São Vicente, construction started in 1911, and the bridge opened in May 1914. It was restored in 2015, with the corroded load-bearing cables replaced along with other repair work.


title: Common wood pigeon hierarchical section title: Common wood pigeon caption reference description: Common wood pigeon caption attribution description: English: A Wood Pigeon Columba palumbus perching on a garden fence post in Bignor, West Sussex, UK. content: The common wood pigeon is a large species of pigeon. It is found mostly in Europe but also in western Asia.
The wood pigeon is mostly grey, with large white patches on both sides of the neck.


title: Siege of Cuautla section title: The battle hierarchical section title: Siege of Cuautla / The battle caption reference description: José María Morelos, leader of the rebel forces at the Siege of Cuautla. caption attribution description: Portrait of Jose María Morelos content: The Siege of Cuautla was a battle of the War of Mexican Independence that occurred from 19 February through 2 May 1812 at Cuautla, Morelos. The Spanish royalist forces loyal to the Spanish, commanded by Félix María Calleja, besieged the town of Cuautla and its Mexican rebel defenders fighting for independence from the Spanish Empire. The rebels were commanded by José María Morelos y Pavón, Hermenegildo Galeana, and Mariano Matamoros. The battle results are disputed, but it is generally agreed that the battle resulted more favorably for the Spanish whose siege was ultimately successful with the Mexican withdrawal on 2 May 1812.
The siege had many consequences to the political, military and social environment in the contemporary Viceroyalty of New Spain which was ruled since 1810 by Francisco Xavier Venegas. Calleja was turned from military commander of all central Mexico to the military commander of Mexico City after fears began of an insurgent attack on the capital. Morelos would continue gaining strength, reinforcing his army and taking new cities throughout the south of the country such as Oaxaca and Córdoba.


title: Eastport-Kingsgate Border Crossing section title: History hierarchical section title: Eastport-Kingsgate Border Crossing / History caption reference description: US Border Inspection Station at Eastport, Idaho, as seen in 1987 content: The Eastport-Kingsgate Border Crossing connects the town of Bonners Ferry, Idaho with Yahk, British Columbia on the Canada–US border. It can be reached by U.S. Route 95 on the American side and British Columbia Highway 95 on the Canadian side. The Spokane International Railroad first crossed the border at this location in 1906, connecting Spokane with the Canadian Pacific Railway. Canada built its first border station at Kingsgate later that year; the US station is one of two in Idaho, and many trucks travel between British Columbia and the US Interstate system at Interstate 90 a hundred miles to the south. This crossing is open 24 hours per day, 7 days per week.


title: Jeremy Loops hierarchical section title: Jeremy Loops caption reference description: Jeremy Loops, LKA Longhorn Stuttgart. caption attribution description: English: Jeremy Loops during his second 2016 Euro tour in Stuttgart. Photo by mango_mads content: Jeremy Thomas Hewitt, known by his stage name Jeremy Loops, is a South African singer, songwriter, and record producer.
In 2011, Loops released his self-titled EP. His debut album Trading Change was released March 2014 in South Africa. The album was released in North America and South America via Yebo Music in August 2015, and in Europe and Australia in February 2016. He toured the United States as a support slot on Rebelution's "Winter Greens Tour", followed with two headline US tours of his own, The Jeremy Loops US Tour and the Trading Change Tour. Loops ended 2015 supporting Twenty One Pilots on the European leg of their Blurryface Tour. With three shows remaining, the tour was cancelled following the November 2015 Paris attacks.
Loops announced Continental Drift, his first headlining tour of Europe, which took place in January 2016. The Trading Change Tour, his second headlining tour of Europe and his maiden tour of Australia, took place in October and November 2016.


title: Australian Centre for Contemporary Art section title: Sculpture hierarchical section title: Australian Centre for Contemporary Art / Exhibitions / Sculpture caption reference description: The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art. The Vault sculpture can be seen far left and the Malthouse Theatre is on the right. caption attribution description: English: The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in Southbanke, Melbourne. content: The Australian Centre For Contemporary Art is a contemporary art gallery in Melbourne, Australia. The gallery is located on Sturt Street in the Melbourne Arts Precinct, in the inner suburb of Southbank. Designed by Wood Marsh Architects, the building was completed in 2002. It incorporates facilities for Chunky Move, ACCA and the Malthouse Theatre.
In December 2015, Max Delany was announced as the new Artistic Director of ACCA, replacing the outgoing Artistic Director Juliana Engberg.


title: Lough Derg, County Donegal section title: Annual pilgrimage hierarchical section title: Lough Derg, County Donegal / Annual pilgrimage caption reference description: Pilgrims at Lough Derg caption attribution description: Pilgrims at Lough Derg, County Donegal, Ireland. content: Lough Derg or Loch Derg is a lake in County Donegal, Republic of Ireland. It is near the border with Northern Ireland and lies about 7 kilometres north of the border village of Pettigo. It is best known for St Patrick's Purgatory, a site of pilgrimage on Station Island in the lake.
The lake is about 890 hectares in size, but is quite shallow, making it dangerous during bad weather. It has stocks of pike, perch and brown trout for angling.


title: Chōjagahara temple ruins hierarchical section title: Chōjagahara temple ruins caption reference description: Chōjagahara temple ruins caption attribution description: 岩手県奥州市衣川区　長者ヶ原廃寺跡　2008年6月上旬撮影。 content: Chōjagahara temple ruins is an archaeological site with the ruins of a late Heian period Buddhist temple located in what is now the city of Ōshū, in northern Japan. The site was protected by the central government as a National Historic Site in the year 2002.


title: Rockox House hierarchical section title: Rockox House caption reference description: Portrait of Sir Nicolaas II Rockox, painted by Anthony van Dyck caption attribution description: Portrait of Nicolaes Rockox content: The Rockox House is a former residence of the Rockox family and now a museum owned by KBC Bank in the city of Antwerp, Belgium.


title: Jurupa Valley/Pedley station hierarchical section title: Jurupa Valley/Pedley station caption reference description: Station in 2017 caption attribution description: English: Pedley Station, 2017 content: Jurupa Valley/Pedley is a Metrolink train station at 6001 Pedley Road in Pedley, part of the city of Jurupa Valley in Riverside County, California, United States. It is located just east of Van Buren Boulevard and just north of Limonite Avenue, and has 285 free parking spaces.
The station is owned by the Riverside County Transportation Commission. Riverside Transit Agency bus routes also serve the station. There is no service, bus or rail, to the station on weekends.
The station was renamed from Pedley to Jurupa Valley/Pedley station on October 3, 2016, to reflect Jurupa Valley's 2011 incorporation as a city.


title: Faia Brava section title: Natural components hierarchical section title: Faia Brava / Natural components caption reference description: Faia Brava landscape caption attribution description: English: Topography and flora in Faia Brava content: Faia Brava is a natural reserve in northern Portugal. It is the first privately owned natural reserve in the country.
The reserve covers 856.87 hectares. Bordered by the Côa River, it is part of the Archeological Park of the Côa Valley, a UNESCO world heritage site.
Given its strong biodiversity, Faia Brava reserve is identified as IBA, and is also one of the Natura 2000 areas.


title: Serralves section title: History hierarchical section title: Serralves / Casa de Serralves / History caption reference description: Rosaleda caption attribution description: No Parque de Serralves, Porto 2007 content: Serralves is a cultural institution located in Porto, Portugal, and one of the most important institutions worldwide, raking in the top 100 most visited museums in the world. It includes a Contemporary Art Museum, a Park and a Villa, each one an example of contemporary architecture, Modernism, and Art Deco architecture. The Museum, designed by Álvaro Siza Vieira, is now the second most visited museum in Portugal and one of the most relevant in the contemporary art circuit in Europe.


title: Wellington Porter McFail section title: Medal from the President hierarchical section title: Wellington Porter McFail / Medal from the President caption reference description: Roosevelt awards the Airmail Flyers Medal of Honor to 7 pilots, with McFail being the fourth in line to receive the medal from the President. caption attribution description: English: Image of FDR awarding the Airmail Flyers Medal of Honor to 7 pilots.MEDALS FOR BRAVE FLIERS. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AWARDS AIR MAIL FLYER'S MEDALS OF HONOR TO PILOTS PERFORMING ACTS OF HEROISM. FROM THE LEFT: ROY H. WARNER, UNITED AIR LINES; GROVER TYLER, UNITED AIR LINES; LEWIS TURNER, AMERICAN AIRWAYS; WALLINGTON P. McFAIL, AMERICAN AIRWAYS; WALLINGTON P. McFAIL, AMERICAN AIRWAYS; GORDON S. DARNELL, U.S. AIRLINES; JAMES CARMICHAEL, JR, CENTRAL AIR LINES; EDWARD A. BELLAND, TWA; PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT; AND PMG JAMES A FARLEY content: Wellington Porter McFail was a pioneering pilot, barnstormer, wing walker, airline and air mail pilot, and one of only ten recipients of the Airmail Flyers' Medal of Honor.
Born 30 January 1892, W.P. was the youngest of four children born to Francis Robert McFail and Elsie Elizabeth Irons, in Portage, Wisconsin. His mother died when he was only 4 years old and his father remarried Allie "Olive" J Lintner.


title: Shahdag Mountain Resort section title: Technical Specifications hierarchical section title: Shahdag Mountain Resort / Technical Specifications caption reference description: Shahdag in the summer content: Shahdag Mountain Resort is Azerbaijan's first and largest winter resort.