title: Grolleau (grape) section title: Wines hierarchical section title: Grolleau (grape) / Wines caption reference description: Bottles of Rosé d'Anjou with Cabernet d'Anjou caption attribution description: Loire Valley Rose wines from the Anjou region made from Groslot/Grolleau (Rose d'Anjou) and Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon (Cabernet d'Anjou) content: Grolleau or Grolleau noir is a red French wine grape variety that is grown primarily in the Loire Valley of France. The name is derived from the French word grolle, meaning "crow" and is said to reflect the deep black berries of the Grolleau vine. The grape is most commonly made into rosé wine, particularly in the Anjou region. Grolleau wines tend to low alcohol content and relatively high acidity.


title: Natalia Kaczmarek hierarchical section title: Natalia Kaczmarek caption reference description: Natalia Kaczmarek in 2016 caption attribution description: Polski: Mistrzostwa Świata Juniorów w Lekkoatletyce U20 w Bydgoszczy 2016; 400 m kobiet półfinał English: 2016 IAAF World U20 Championships in Bydgoszcz, 400m women semi-final content: Natalia Kaczmarek is a Polish athlete. She competed in the women's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships.


title: List of people from Perm hierarchical section title: List of people from Perm caption reference description: Katya Shchekina
(born 1986) caption attribution description: Katja Shchekina modeling in Cynthia Rowley spring 2006 show, New York Fashion Week. content: This is a list of notable people who were born or have lived in Perm, Russia.


title: Scottish Natural Heritage section title: Protected areas hierarchical section title: Scottish Natural Heritage / Roles and responsibilities / Protected areas caption reference description: Caerlaverock is a National Nature Reserve managed by SNH caption attribution description: Caerlaverock National Nature Reserve. View across the Nith Estuary, close to the Solway Firth, Dumfries & Galloway. content: Scottish Natural Heritage is the public body responsible for Scotland's natural heritage, especially its natural, genetic and scenic diversity. It advises the Scottish Government and acts as a government agent in the delivery of conservation designations, i.e. national nature reserves, local nature reserves, long distance routes, national parks, Sites of Special Scientific Interest, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas and the national scenic areas. The protected areas in Scotland account for 20% of the total area, SSSIs alone 13%. SNH receives annual funding from the Government in the form of Grant in Aid to deliver Government priorities for the natural heritage. SNH programmes and priorities have a strong focus on helping to deliver the Scottish Government's National Outcomes and Targets which comprise the National Performance Framework.
SNH is the Scottish Government's adviser on all aspects of nature, wildlife management and landscape across Scotland, and also helps the Scottish Government meet its responsibilities under European environmental laws, particularly in relation to the Habitats and Wild Birds Directives.


title: List of movable bridges in Connecticut section title: Bridges hierarchical section title: List of movable bridges in Connecticut / Bridges caption attribution description: English: Saugatuck River Bridge, Saugatuck (Fairfield County), Connecticut. Cropped from the original. content: This is a list of movable bridges in Connecticut within the State of Connecticut's borders. Eight of the movable bridges are on the Amtrak route through Connecticut. These bridges are the Mianus River Railroad Bridge, the Norwalk River Railroad Bridge, the Saugatuck River Railroad Bridge, the Pequonnock River Railroad Bridge, the Housatonic River Railroad Bridge, the Connecticut River Railroad Bridge, the Old Saybrook-Old Lyme, the Niantic River Bridge, the East Lyme-Waterford, Thames River Bridge.


title: Phoenix, Oregon hierarchical section title: Phoenix, Oregon caption reference description: Location in Oregon content: Phoenix is a city in Jackson County, Oregon, United States. The population was 4,538 at the 2010 census. Phoenix is a part of the Medford Metropolitan Statistical Area, in the Rogue Valley, and is 3 miles southeast of Medford on Interstate 5.


title: Nova Classical Academy section title: Mock trial hierarchical section title: Nova Classical Academy / Mock trial caption reference description: Nova won the Minnesota high school mock trial state championship in 2016. caption attribution description: English: Nova won the Minnesota high school mock trial state championship in 2016. content: Nova Classical Academy is a K–12 charter school in St. Paul, Minnesota, that follows the classical model for education. Its executive director is Dr. Brett Wedlund, and it has a student enrollment of 990.


title: Abdullah of Saudi Arabia section title: Domestic affairs hierarchical section title: Abdullah of Saudi Arabia / King of Saudi Arabia / Domestic affairs caption reference description: King Abdullah University of Science and Technology caption attribution description: English: Laboratory buildings at KAUST with town buildings and town mosque on the left, 2011 photo Čeština: Laboratoře Technické a přírodovědecké univerzity krále Abdalláha pobliž Džiddy content: Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud was King of Saudi Arabia and Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques from the death of his half-brother, King Fahd, on 1 August 2005 until his own death in 2015.
Abdullah, like Fahd, was one of the many sons of Ibn Saud, the founder of modern Saudi Arabia. Abdullah held important political posts throughout most of his adult life. In 1961 he became mayor of Mecca, his first public office. The following year, he was appointed commander of the Saudi Arabian National Guard, a post he was still holding when he became king. He also served as deputy defense minister and was named crown prince when Fahd took the throne in 1982. After King Fahd suffered a serious stroke in 1995, Abdullah became the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia until ascending the throne a decade later.
During his reign he maintained close relations with United States and United Kingdom and bought billions of dollars worth of defense equipment from both states. He also gave women the right to vote for municipal councils and to compete in the Olympics. Furthermore, Abdullah maintained the status quo when there were waves of protest in the kingdom during the Arab Spring.


title: Valdosta State University section title: Odum Library hierarchical section title: Valdosta State University / Campus / Main Campus / Odum Library caption reference description: The new Student Union, completed in January 2010 caption attribution description: English: Valdosta State University Student Union content: Valdosta State University is a public university in Valdosta, Georgia. It is one of the four comprehensive universities in the University System of Georgia. VSU serves over 11,000 undergraduate and graduate students representing 157 Georgia counties, all 50 states, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, American Samoa and Washington, D.C. and hosts over 300 international students from 76 countries. VSU also offers classes at Moody Air Force Base north of Valdosta in Lowndes County.
Degree levels offered at Valdosta State include associate, bachelor's, master's, Education Specialist, and doctoral degree. The university comprises the colleges of Arts and Sciences, Business Administration, Education, Arts, and Nursing. The Graduate School also includes the Divisions of Social Work and Library Science.


title: Dick Durbin section title: U.S. Senate hierarchical section title: Dick Durbin / U.S. Senate caption reference description: Durbin speaks during the final night of the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado, introducing his party's nominee, fellow Illinoisan Barack Obama caption attribution description: English: Dick Durbin speaks during the final night of the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado. content: Richard Joseph Durbin is an American attorney and politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Illinois, a seat he was first elected to in 1996. He has been the Senate Democratic Whip since 2005, the second-highest position in the Democratic leadership in the U.S. Senate.
Durbin was born in East St. Louis, Illinois. He graduated from the School of Foreign Service and Georgetown University Law Center. Working in state legal counsel throughout the 1970s, he made an unsuccessful run for lieutenant governor of Illinois in 1978. Durbin was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1982, representing the Springfield-based 20th congressional district. In 1996, he won election to the U.S. Senate. Durbin has served as the Senate Democratic Whip since 2005, and from 2007 to 2015, served as the Senate Majority Whip. He is currently the Senate Minority Whip. He is also dean of the Illinois congressional delegation.


title: Lauterbrunnen–Mürren Mountain Railway section title: Rail vehicles hierarchical section title: Lauterbrunnen–Mürren Mountain Railway / Operation / Rail vehicles caption attribution description:  Switzerland,  Canton of Bern, Mürrenbahn content: The Lauterbrunnen–Mürren Mountain Railway is a hybrid transport system in the Bernese Oberland area of Switzerland, which connects the villages of Lauterbrunnen and Mürren. The system consists of a connected aerial cableway, also known as the Grütschalpbahn, and an adhesion worked mountain railway. The cableway replaced a funicular, on the same route, in 2010.
The line provides a vital passenger and goods link to the resort village of Mürren, which is situated above the cliffs of the Lauterbrunnen Valley and has poor road access. It also commands a view of the Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau mountains across the depths of that valley.
The line is owned by the Bergbahn Lauterbrunnen-Mürren AG, a subsidiary of the Jungfraubahn Holding AG, a holding company that also owns the Wengernalpbahn, Jungfraubahn, Harderbahn, and Firstbahn. Through that holding company it is part of the Allianz - Jungfrau Top of Europe marketing alliance, which also includes the separately owned Berner Oberland-Bahn and Schynige Platte-Bahn.


title: Alto Alegre dos Parecis hierarchical section title: Alto Alegre dos Parecis caption reference description: Location in Rondônia  state content: Alto Alegre dos Parecis is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Rondônia. Its population was 13,940 and its area is 3,958 km².
The municipality contains 20% of the 384,055 hectares Corumbiara State Park, created in 1990.
It also contained the 38,950 hectares Serra dos Parecis State Park, created in 1990 and cancelled in 2010.


title: Eli Schechtman section title: Marriage hierarchical section title: Eli Schechtman / Biography / Marriage caption reference description: Schechtman family from left to right: Sheindl, Eli, Lara, Lea caption attribution description: English: Stub Wait for permissions content: Eli Schechtman was a Yiddish writer. He defined the purpose of his work as follows: "My mission in Jewish literature was and still is ... to show to those who negate the power of the Galut, how mighty – spiritually and physically – were the generations who grew up in that Galut, even in the most godforsaken places."
In March 1953, several days before the official announcement of
Stalin's death, Eli Schechtman was imprisoned as a Jewish nationalist and charged with espionage and Zionism. He was released several months after Stalin's death due to "lack of evidence of guilt".
Schechtman lived and worked in Israel from 1972 until his death in 1996.


title: McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II in Australian service section title: Acquisition hierarchical section title: McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II in Australian service / Acquisition caption reference description: One of the RAAF's F-111C aircraft in 1975 caption attribution description: A RAAF F-111 at Ohakea, New Zealand in 1975 caption alt text description: Colour photo of a jet aircraft painted in a camouflage pattern parked on concrete content: The Royal Australian Air Force operated 24 McDonnell Douglas F-4E Phantom II fighter-bomber aircraft in the ground attack role between 1970 and 1973. The Phantoms were leased from the United States Air Force as an interim measure owing to delays in the delivery of the RAAF's 24 General Dynamics F-111C bombers. The F-4Es were considered successful in this role, but the government did not agree to a proposal from the RAAF to retain the aircraft after the F-111s entered service in 1973.
The F-4C variant of the Phantom II was among the aircraft evaluated by the RAAF in 1963 as part of the project to replace its English Electric Canberra bombers. The F-111 was selected, but when that project was delayed in the late 1960s due to long-running technical faults with the aircraft, the RAAF determined that the F-4E Phantom II would be the best alternative. As a result of continued problems with the F-111s, the Australian and United States Governments negotiated an agreement in 1970 whereby the RAAF leased 24 F-4Es and their support equipment from the USAF.
The RAAF's F-4Es entered service in September 1970, and proved to be highly effective.


title: Dragon Gate (wrestling) section title: List of wrestlers graduated hierarchical section title: Dragon Gate (wrestling) / Dragon Gate Trueborn (Dragon Gate Dojo) / List of wrestlers graduated caption reference description: BxB Hulk caption attribution description: English: BxB Hulk at the Open the Ultimate Gate event on March 30, 2012 in North Shore, Miami Beach, Florida, United States. content: Dragon Gate Inc. operating as Dragon Gate Pro-Wrestling and often referred to as Dragon Gate, is a Japanese professional wrestling promotion formerly known as Toryumon Japan. Most of Dragon Gate's wrestlers are graduates from Último Dragón's Toryumon Gym, and thus the promotion is based on a Junior Heavyweight style with varying emphasis on high flying maneuvers, flashy technical grappling, and submissions.


title: War Horse National Wildlife Refuge hierarchical section title: War Horse National Wildlife Refuge caption reference description: War Horse Lake caption attribution description: English: War Horse Lake in War Horse National Wildlife Refuge, Montana USA content: War Horse National Wildlife Refuge, located in the center of the U.S. state of Montana, is divided into three separate sections, with each centered on a small body of water. It is an integral part of the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge Complex, although the refuge is normally unstaffed and has few visitor improvements. One reservoir is stocked with rainbow trout, although the lake is sometimes empty. When the lakes and reservoir are fully filled, the refuge provides excellent habitat for migratory bird species. The region is surrounded by sagebrush plains and Ponderosa pine groves that flourish in the region solely due to its acid-shale soils. Along with over 100 bird species, regular inhabitants include Sage Grouse, pronghorn and mule deer.


title: Mayagüez, Puerto Rico section title: Gallery hierarchical section title: Mayagüez, Puerto Rico / Tourism / Gallery caption attribution description: English: University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez - Portico. Español: Pórtico del Colegio, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Mayaguez. content: Mayagüez is the eighth-largest municipality of Puerto Rico. It was founded as Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria, and is also known as La Sultana del Oeste, Ciudad de las Aguas Puras, or Ciudad del Mangó. On April 6, 1894, the Spanish Crown gave it the formal title of Excelente Ciudad de Mayagüez. Mayagüez is located in the center of the western coast on the island of Puerto Rico. It is a principal city of the Mayagüez Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Mayagüez–San Germán–Cabo Rojo Combined Statistical Area.


title: Iximche section title: Site description hierarchical section title: Iximche / Site description caption reference description: Map of the site core of Iximche, showing the principal structures of Plazas A to C caption attribution description: English: Map of the site core of the Maya ruins of Iximche. After Jorge R. Guillemin 1965, Iximché: Capital del Antiguo Reino Cakchikel, p.25. Español: Mapa del centro de las ruinas mayas de Iximché. Según Jorge R. Guillemín 1965, Iximché: Capital del Antiguo Reino Cakchikel, p.25. content: Iximcheʼ is a Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican archaeological site in the western highlands of Guatemala. Iximche was the capital of the Late Postclassic Kaqchikel Maya kingdom from 1470 until its abandonment in 1524. The architecture of the site included a number of pyramid-temples, palaces and two Mesoamerican ballcourts. Excavators uncovered the poorly preserved remains of painted murals on some of the buildings and ample evidence of human sacrifice. The ruins of Iximche were declared a Guatemalan National Monument in the 1960s. The site has a small museum displaying a number of pieces found there, including sculptures and ceramics. It is open daily.
For many years the Kaqchikel served as loyal allies of the Kʼicheʼ Maya. The growing power of the Kaqchikel within the alliance eventually caused such friction that the Kaqchikel were forced to flee the Kʼicheʼ capital and found the city of Iximche. The Kaqchikel established their new capital upon an easily defensible ridge almost surrounded by deep ravines. Iximche developed quickly as a city and within 50 years of its foundation it had reached its maximum extent.


title: Johann Friedrich Struensee section title: Rise to power hierarchical section title: Johann Friedrich Struensee / Rise to power caption reference description: Queen Caroline Mathilda caption attribution description: Dansk: Dronning Caroline Mathilde content: Johann Friedrich, Greve Struensee was a German physician, philosopher and statesman. He became royal physician to the mentally ill King Christian VII of Denmark and a minister in the Danish government. He rose in power to a position of "de facto" regent of the country, where he tried to carry out widespread reforms. His affair with Queen Caroline Matilda caused a scandal, especially after the birth of a daughter, Princess Louise Augusta, and was the catalyst for the intrigues and power play that caused his downfall and dramatic death.


title: Northern Germany section title: History hierarchical section title: Northern Germany / History caption reference description: Holy Roman Empire
Saxony in yellow (circa 1000 AD) caption attribution description: Central Europe, 919-1125 content: Northern Germany is the region in the northern part of Germany, whose exact area is not precisely or consistently defined. It varies depending on whether one has a linguistic, geographic, socio-cultural or historic standpoint. The five coastal states are regularly referred to as Northern Germany. Though geographically in the northern half of Germany, Westphalia, Brandenburg, and the northern parts of Saxony-Anhalt are rarely referred to as Northern Germany and instead are almost always associated with Western Germany and the historical East Germany respectively.


title: Treffen hierarchical section title: Treffen caption reference description: Saint Maximilian Church caption attribution description: English: Roman Catholic parish church Saint Maximilian in Treffen, market town Treffen, district Villach Land, Carinthia, Austria, EU Deutsch: Röm.-kath. Pfarrkirche heiliger Maximilian in Treffen, Marktgemeinde Treffen, Bezirk Villach Land, Kärnten, Österreich, EU   This media shows the protected monument with the number 63472 in Austria. (Commons, de, Wikidata) caption alt text description: Saint Maximilian Church content: Treffen is a market town in the district of Villach-Land in Carinthia in south-central Austria.


title: Galatians (people) section title: History hierarchical section title: Galatians (people) / History caption reference description: Original location of the Tectosages in Gaul. caption attribution description: English: Volcae_Tectosages content: The Galatians were a Gallic people of the Hellenistic period that dwelt mainly in the north central regions of Asia Minor or Anatolia, in what was known as Galatia, in today's Turkey. In their origin they were a part of the great migration which invaded Macedon, led by Brennus. The originals who settled in Galatia came through Thrace under the leadership of Leotarios and Leonnorios c. 278 BC. They consisted mainly of three tribes, the Tectosages, the Trocmii, and the Tolistobogii, but there were also other minor tribes. They spoke a Celtic language, the Galatian language, which is sparsely attested.
In the 1st century AD, many Galatians of the Roman Empire were Christianized by Paul the Apostle's missionary activities. The Epistle to the Galatians by Paul the Apostle is addressed to Galatian Christian communities and is preserved in the Bible.


title: Admiralty Bay (South Shetland Islands) hierarchical section title: Admiralty Bay (South Shetland Islands) caption reference description: Location of Admiralty Bay in Antarctica caption attribution description: Deutsch: Physische Positionskarte Antarktis, Mittabstandstreue Azimutalprojektion English: Physical Location map Antarctica, Azimuthal equidistant projection Longitude of central meridian: 0° Latitude of projection origin: -90° Tangent latitude at the map boundaries: -60°; geographic limits of the map: -135°,-47.57359° to 45°,-47.57359° caption alt text description: Admiralty Bay is located in Antarctica content: Admiralty Bay is an irregular bay, 8 km wide at its entrance between Demay Point and Martins Head, indenting the southern coast of King George Island for 16 km, in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. The name appears on a map of 1822 by Captain George Powell, a British sailor, and is now established in international usage. The Henryk Arctowski Polish Antarctic Station is situated on the bay, as is the Comandante Ferraz Brazilian Antarctic Base. It has been designated an Antarctic Specially Managed Area.


title: Edward R. Schowalter Jr. section title: Medal of Honor citation hierarchical section title: Edward R. Schowalter Jr. / Medal of Honor citation caption reference description: Schowalter stands with two other Medal of Honor recipients shortly after receiving their medals from President Dwight D. Eisenhower. From left: Schowalter, Ernest E. West, Eisenhower, and William R. Charette caption attribution description: English: President Dwight D. Eisenhower poses with three men to whom he has just presented the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry in Korean War combat action, at the White House, Washington, D.C., 12 January 1954. Those who received the medal are (from left to right): First Lieutenant Edward R. Schowalter, Jr., U.S. Army, honored for his actions near Kumhwa, Korea, on 14 October 1952; Private First Class Ernest E. West, U.S. Army, honored for his actions near Sataeri, Korea, on 12 October 1952; and Hospital Corpsman Third Class William R. Charette, U.S. Navy, honored for his actions in Korea on 17 March 1953. content: Edward Rightor Schowalter Jr. was a United States Army officer in the Korean War who received the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor. He was awarded the medal for commanding his company in an assault against a fortified position, and for continuing to lead after being seriously wounded.


title: Masters School section title: Campus hierarchical section title: Masters School / Campus caption reference description: Masters Hall, the main campus building caption attribution description: English: Masters Hall, the main campus building at The Masters School content: The Masters School, is a private, coeducational boarding school and day college preparatory school located in Dobbs Ferry, New York. Its 96-acre campus is located north of New York City in the Hudson Valley in Westchester County. It was founded as an all-girls private school in 1877 by Eliza Bailey Masters, and first admitted boys in 1996.


title: Tarrafal camp section title: Victims hierarchical section title: Tarrafal camp / History / Victims caption reference description: A hollandinha punishment cell. Temperatures inside could reach up to 45° Celsius during the day. caption attribution description: English: Old Concentration Camp in Tarrafal, Santiago Island - Cape Verde Português: Antigo Campo de Concentração do Tarrafal, Ilha de Santiago - Cabo Verde content: Tarrafal was a concentration camp in the Portuguese colony of Cape Verde. The penal colony was established by the Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar following the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936. It housed opponents to Portugal's right-wing authoritarian regime. Due to the harsh conditions, at least 32 political prisoners died in the camp.


title: Bangor, New South Wales hierarchical section title: Bangor, New South Wales caption reference description: Bangor Shopping Centre, Menai Road caption attribution description: Bangor Shopping Centre content: Bangor is a suburb in southern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Bangor is located 28 kilometres south of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the Sutherland Shire in the area commonly called Menai. Bangor sits south of the Georges River and to the west of the Woronora River.


title: Battle of the Sexes (tennis) section title: Effects on women's tennis hierarchical section title: Battle of the Sexes (tennis) / 1973: Riggs vs. King / Effects on women's tennis caption reference description: Portrait of Billie Jean King and the final match score over Bobby Riggs caption attribution description: Portrait of Billie Jean King and the final match score over Bobby Riggs content: In tennis, "Battle of the Sexes" describes various exhibition matches played between a man and a woman, or a doubles match between two men and two women in one case. The term is most famously used for an internationally televised match in 1973 held at the Houston Astrodome between 55 year-old Bobby Riggs and 29 year-old Billie Jean King, which King won in three sets. The match was viewed by an estimated fifty million people in the United States and ninety million worldwide. King's win is considered a milestone in public acceptance of women's tennis.
Two other matches commonly referred to as a "battle of the sexes" include one held four months earlier in 1973 between Riggs and Margaret Court over the best of three sets, and one in 1992 between Jimmy Connors and Martina Navratilova over the best of three sets, with hybrid rules favoring the female player dubbed "The Battle of Champions".
At least eight other exhibition matches have been played between notable male and female tennis players starting in 1888, though only some of them were referred to at the time as a "battle of the sexes".


title: 570th Strategic Missile Squadron section title: Combat in the European Theater hierarchical section title: 570th Strategic Missile Squadron / History / World War II / Combat in the European Theater caption reference description: Fighter contrails over a formation of 390th Group B-17s caption attribution description: B-17 of J Group. Captions from published books:"FIGHTERS protect bomber formations at high altitudes where thin, freezing air makes vapor trails like these left by P-47s."[1] content: The 570th Strategic Missile Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the 390th Strategic Missile Wing at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona. It was equipped with the LGM-25C Titan II intercontinental ballistic missile, with a mission of nuclear deterrence. The squadron was inactivated as part of the phaseout of the Titan II on 31 July 1984.
The squadron was first activated during World War II as the 570th Bombardment Squadron. After training in the United States, it deployed to the European Theater of Operations, where it participated in the strategic bombing campaign against Germany. It was twice awarded the Distinguished Unit Citation for its actions in combat. After V-E Day, the squadron returned to the United States, where it was inactivated in August 1945. The squadron was active in the reserve from 1947 until 1949, but does not appear to have been fully manned or equipped at this time.


title: Kim Cha-youn hierarchical section title: Kim Cha-youn caption attribution description: South Korea vs. Spain content: Kim Cha-Youn is a female South Korean handball player who competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics.
In 2004, she won the silver medal with the South Korean team. She played all seven matches and scored 19 goals.


title: Rowallan Castle section title: Construction and other details hierarchical section title: Rowallan Castle / The history of Rowallan castle / Construction and other details caption reference description: William Aiton's map of 1811 showing Rowellan (sic) caption attribution description: English: A map of Ayrshire showing Dunduff Castle and the roads and trackways. Scotland. content: Rowallan Castle is an ancient castle located in Scotland. The castle stands on the banks of the Carmel Water, which may at one time have run much closer to the low eminence upon which the original castle stood, justifying the old name Craig of Rowallan. Elizabeth Mure was mistress and then wife of Robert, High Steward of Scotland, and Guardian of Scotland, who later became King Robert II of Scotland. She may have been born at Rowallan.


title: Vanessa Amorosi section title: 1999–2002: The Power hierarchical section title: Vanessa Amorosi / Career / 1999–2002: The Power caption reference description: Amorosi shown singing at the opening ceremony of the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney, Australia caption attribution description: English: Australian singer Vanessa Amorosi performs onstage at the Sydney Paralympic Games Opening Ceremony content: Vanessa Joy Amorosi is an Australian singer-songwriter and recording artist. Her combined album and single sales have reached over two million worldwide. She is known for her wide belting range and her ability to vocally cover various genres of music including pop, rock, blues, jazz and gospel.
Amorosi rose to fame in 1999 with the release of her debut single, "Have a Look", which reached gold status in Australia. The following year, she achieved international success with her debut studio album, The Power. She performed at both the 2000 Olympic Games opening ceremony and its accompanying closing ceremony in Sydney. Her performance of "Heroes Live Forever" at the opening ceremony gained international acclaim and recognition due to the enormous live vocal range displayed. Performed at the closing ceremony, "Absolutely Everybody", which became an unofficial anthem of the games, went on to be a major hit in Australia and many European countries including the United Kingdom and Germany. After a second studio album, Change, in 2002 and several years from the spotlight, Amorosi returned in 2008 with the release of her third studio album Somewhere in the Real World.


title: Jerónimo de Cevallos hierarchical section title: Jerónimo de Cevallos caption reference description: Jerónimo de Cevallos (1613) by El Greco. Museo del Prado, Madrid. caption attribution description: Español: Retrato del jurista y escritor español Jerónimo de Cevallos (1560-1641) content: Jerónimo de Cevallos was a Spanish jurist. He was the subject of El Greco's Portrait of Jerónimo de Cevallos in 1613.


title: Rheotrauma hierarchical section title: Rheotrauma caption reference description: A Neonatal mechanical ventilator. High gas flows are often used in neonatal ventilation which carries the risk of rheotrauma. caption attribution description: Español: Respirador o ventilador mecánico infantil Bird VIP. English: The Bird VIP brand infant ventilator. content: Rheotrauma is a medical term for the harm caused to a patient's lungs by high gas flows as delivered by mechanical ventilation. Although mechanical ventilation may prevent death of a patient from the hypoxia or hypercarbia which may be caused by respiratory failure, it can also be damaging to the lungs, leading to ventilator-associated lung injury. Rheotrauma is one of the ways in which mechanical ventilation may do this, alongside volutrauma, barotrauma, atelectotrauma and biotrauma. Attempts have been made to combine all of the mechanical forces caused by the ventilator on the patient's lungs in an all encompassing term: mechanical power.


title: Karungalakudi section title: Demography hierarchical section title: Karungalakudi / Demography caption reference description: Horse ready for Festival caption attribution description: English: The Horse just painted and dried before village festival content: Karungalakudi is a village in Madurai District, Melur Taluk in Tamil Nadu, India. It is administrated by the Kottampatti block. "Karu" means black, "Kaala" means time or morning and "Kudi" means settling.


title: Ancient Greek religion section title: Mythology hierarchical section title: Ancient Greek religion / Beliefs / Mythology caption reference description: Pottery vessel in the shape of Aphrodite inside a shell; from Attica, Classical Greece, discovered in the Phanagoria cemetery, Taman Peninsula (Bosporan Kingdom, southern Russia), 1st quarter of the 4th century BC, Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg. caption attribution description: Català: Atuell en forma d'Afrodita en una petxina, Àtica, necròpolis de Fanagoria, pinínsula de Taman. Primer quart del segle IV aC, ceràmica. Exhibida a l'exposició Ermitage. Tresors de l'arqueologia russa al MARQ.English: Vessel in the shape of Aphrodite isnside a shell. Attica, Phanagoria cemetery, Taman Peninsula, 1st quarter of 4th century BC, Pottery. Ermitage. content: Ancient Greek religion encompasses the collection of beliefs, rituals, and mythology originating in ancient Greece in the form of both popular public religion and cult practices. These groups varied enough for it to be possible to speak of Greek religions or "cults" in the plural, though most of them shared similarities.
Most ancient Greeks recognized the twelve major Olympian gods and goddesses—Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Demeter, Athena, Ares, Aphrodite, Apollo, Artemis, Hephaestus, Hermes, and either Hestia or Dionysus—although philosophies such as Stoicism and some forms of Platonism used language that seems to assume a single transcendent deity. The worship of these deities, and several others, was found across the Greek world, though they often have different epithets that distinguished aspects of the deity, and often reflect the absorption of other local deities into the pan-Hellenic scheme.
The religious practices of the Greeks extended beyond mainland Greece, to the islands and coasts of Ionia in Asia Minor, to Magna Graecia, and to scattered Greek colonies in the Western Mediterranean, such as Massalia.


title: Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany section title: Patronage of the arts hierarchical section title: Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany / Patronage of the arts caption reference description: Cosimo the Elder by Luigi Magi and Andrea Di Cione (Orcagna) by Niccolò Bazzanti caption attribution description: Cosimo the Elder by Luigi Magi and Andrea Di Cione (Orcagna) by Niccolò Bazzanti content: Cosimo I de' Medici was the second Duke of Florence from 1537 until 1569, when he became the first Grand Duke of Tuscany, a title he held until his death.


title: List of Royal Military College of Canada people section title: Alumni who were knighted hierarchical section title: List of Royal Military College of Canada people / Alumni who were knighted caption reference description: William Throsby Bridges caption attribution description: English: Portrait of Australian Major General Sir William Throsby Bridges KCB CMG (1861–1915). content: This is a list of notable individuals who have been, or are involved with the Royal Military College of Canada.
Many RMC alumni have served Canada in war and peace. Billy Bishop was a leading ace of the First World War, won the Victoria Cross and helped to create the Canadian Flying Corps. Charles Merritt was a lawyer and militia officer who won the Victoria Cross at Dieppe during the Second World War. Leonard Birchall, the "Saviour of Ceylon", discovered the approach of the Japanese fleet during the Second World War and showed courage and leadership as a prisoner of war in Japan. Ex-cadets also helped with the peace process. John de Chastelain was twice Chief of Defence Staff and helped to monitor the Peace Accords in Northern Ireland. Romeo Dallaire headed the United Nation forces in Rwanda. Many former cadets gave their lives during both world wars, and in Afghanistan.
Many RMC alumni have had careers in the public or private sectors. Marc Garneau was the first Canadian in space and now is a Member of Parliament. Chris Hadfield became a test pilot, astronaut, the first Canadian to walk in space and the first Canadian commander of the International Space Station.


title: Pentagram hierarchical section title: Pentagram caption reference description: This is a pentacle, a symbol that looks like a star in a circle content: A pentagram is a five-pointed star, with all lines the same length and all angles the same. A 'pentangle', 'star pentagon', or 'pentalpha' means the same thing.
The word pentacle originally meant 'any symbol that protects against evil spirits'. There are many of such symbols, only a few of which include a pentagram. During the modern age of Wicca, the word 'pentacle' acquired a second definition, due to sounding similar to the word 'pentagram', and the fact that wiccan pentacles use a pentagram. That second definition of 'pentacle' is 'a circumscribed pentagram', which means 'a pentagram drawn inside a circle so that the points of the pentagram touch the circle'.
The pentagram means different things to different people. These meanings have changed over time.


title: Amanuel Mesel hierarchical section title: Amanuel Mesel caption reference description: Mesel at the 2013 Prague Half Marathon caption attribution description: English: Prague Half Marathon 2013 - Amanuel Mesel crossing the Čechův most a few minutes before finishing the race content: Amanuel Mesel Tikue is an Eritrean long-distance runner. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he competed in the 5000 metres, finishing 33rd in round 1, failing to qualify for the final. He placed 21st in the marathon at the 2016 Summer Olympics.


title: List of Nashville Sounds team records section title: Single-season batting hierarchical section title: List of Nashville Sounds team records / Individual single-season records / Single-season batting caption reference description: Bruce Fields set the single-season batting average record (.368) in 1986. caption attribution description: English: Outfielder Bruce Fields of the 1986 Nashville Sounds Minor League Baseball team of the American Association caption alt text description: A man wearing a blue baseball jersey with red and white trim, a blue cap with a white "N" on the center, and white pants stands holding a baseball bat preparing to swing. content: The Nashville Sounds Minor League Baseball team has played in Nashville, Tennessee, since its establishment in 1978. The team was created as an expansion team of the Double-A Southern League, but moved to the Triple-A American Association in 1985 and to the Triple-A Pacific Coast League in 1998. As of the cancellation of the 2020 season, the club has played 6,004 regular season games and compiled a win–loss record of 3,083–2,921. In the 14 seasons in which they have qualified for the playoffs, they have a postseason record of 42–41. Combining all 6,087 regular season and postseason games, Nashville has an all-time record of 3,125–2,962. This list documents players and teams who hold records set in various statistical areas during single games, entire seasons, or their team careers.
Of the nine Sounds who hold the 19 career records tracked by the team, Tim Dillard holds the most, with seven. He is followed by Skeeter Barnes and Chad Hermansen, with three each; and Keith Brown, Mark Corey, Hugh Kemp, Otis Nixon, Tike Redman, and Joey Wendle, with one each. Dillard holds the most franchise records, with eight.


title: Reform Judaism section title: Consolidation in German lands hierarchical section title: Reform Judaism / History / Consolidation in German lands caption reference description: Rabbi Abraham Geiger, circa 1840. caption attribution description: English: w:Abraham Geiger in his youth. The (not seen here) caption of this picture described him as "zweiter Rabbiner" (vice-rabbi) of Breslau, meaning it was made when he held that office, sometime between 1838 and 1843. Русский: Авраам Гейгер (нем. Abraham Geiger; 1810—1874) — еврейский теолог, раввин, проповедник, издатель, редактор, критик Библии и один из лидеров еврейского реформационного движения XIX века. content: Reform Judaism is a major Jewish denomination that emphasizes the evolving nature of the faith, the superiority of its ethical aspects to the ceremonial ones, and belief in a continuous revelation, closely intertwined with human reason and intellect, and not centered on the theophany at Mount Sinai. A liberal strand of Judaism, it is characterized by lessened stress on ritual and personal observance, regarding Jewish Law as non-binding and the individual Jew as autonomous, and great openness to external influences and progressive values. The origins of Reform Judaism lie in 19th-century Germany, where Rabbi Abraham Geiger and his associates formulated its first principles. Since the 1970s, the movement has adopted a policy of inclusiveness and acceptance, inviting as many as possible to partake in its communities, rather than strict theoretical clarity. It is strongly identified with progressive political and social agendas, mainly under the traditional Jewish rubric Tikkun Olam, or "Repairing of the World". Tikkun Olam is a central motto of Reform Judaism, and action for its sake is one of the main channels for adherents to express their affiliation.


title: Albertopolis section title: Institutions hierarchical section title: Albertopolis / Institutions caption reference description: The Royal Albert Hall. caption attribution description: London, en:Royal Albert Hall content: Albertopolis is the nickname given to the area centred on Exhibition Road in London, named after Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria. It contains many educational and cultural sites. It is in South Kensington, split between the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and the City of Westminster, and the area bordered by Cromwell Road to the south and Kensington Road to the north.


title: Roy Haynes section title: Discography hierarchical section title: Roy Haynes / Discography caption reference description: Roy Haynes (left) and Gunther Schuller in 2008 caption attribution description: Roy Haynes (left) and Gunther Schuller in 2008. content: Roy Owen Haynes is an American jazz drummer. He is among the most recorded drummers in jazz. In a career lasting over 70 years he has played swing, bebop, jazz fusion, avant-garde jazz and is considered the father of modern jazz drumming. "Snap Crackle" was a nickname given to him in the 1950s.
He has led bands such as the Hip Ensemble. His albums Fountain of Youth and Whereas were nominated for a Grammy Award. He was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 1999. His son Graham Haynes is a cornetist; his son Craig Holiday Haynes and grandson Marcus Gilmore are both drummers.


title: Education in Portugal section title: Overview hierarchical section title: Education in Portugal / Higher education / Overview caption reference description: Higher School of Education of the Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal, one of the many polytechnics created in the 1980s. caption attribution description: “Acolhimento: Integrar, Interagir Envolver” AAIPS | Associação Académica do Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal Foto cedida por: GI.COM - IPS content: Education in Portugal is free and compulsory until the age of 18, when students complete their year 12. The education is regulated by the State through the Ministry of Education. There is a system of public education and also many private schools at all levels of education. The first Portuguese medieval universities, such as the University of Coimbra, were created in the 13th century, and the national higher education system is fully integrated into the European Higher Education Area.
The basic literacy rate of the Portuguese population is 99.44. According to INE, only 3.7 million Portuguese workers completed basic education.
According to the Programme for International Student Assessment 2015, the average Portuguese 15-year-old student, when rated in terms of reading literacy, mathematics and science knowledge, is placed significantly above the OECD's average, at a similar level as those students from Norway, Poland, Denmark and Belgium, with 501 points. The PISA results of the Portuguese students have been continuously improving, surpassing those of a number of other highly developed western countries like the US, Austria, France and Sweden.


title: Rail transportation in the United States section title: 1970–present hierarchical section title: Rail transportation in the United States / History / 1970–present caption reference description: BNSF Railway double stack freight train in Wisconsin caption attribution description: An eastbound BNSF train at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. The train is passing some maintenance of way equipment on the other track. content: Rail transportation in the United States consists primarily of freight shipments, with a well integrated network of standard gauge private freight railroads extending into Canada and Mexico. Passenger service is mainly mass transit and commuter rail in major cities. Intercity passenger service, once a large and vital part of the nation's passenger transportation network, plays a limited role as compared to transportation patterns in many other countries.


title: Mount Athos section title: Ottoman era hierarchical section title: Mount Athos / History / Ottoman era caption reference description: View of the area around Vatopedi monastery caption attribution description: Français : Vue sur les jardins du monastère de Vatopedi (Mont Athos) content: Mount Athos is a mountain and peninsula in northeastern Greece and an important centre of Eastern Orthodox monasticism. It is governed as an autonomous polity within the Hellenic Republic. Mount Athos is home to 20 monasteries under the direct jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
Mount Athos is commonly referred to in Greek as the Agion Oros, and the entity as the "Athonite State". Other languages of Orthodox tradition also use names translating to 'Holy Mountain'. This includes Bulgarian and Serbian; Russian; and Georgian. In the classical era, while the mountain was called Athos, the peninsula was known as Acté or Akté.
Mount Athos has been inhabited since ancient times and is known for its nearly 1,800-year continuous Christian presence and its long historical monastic traditions, which date back to at least AD 800 and the Byzantine era. Today, over 2,000 monks from Greece and many other countries, including Eastern Orthodox countries such as Romania, Moldova, Georgia, Bulgaria, Serbia and Russia, live an ascetic life in Athos, isolated from the rest of the world.


title: Stephen Balch hierarchical section title: Stephen Balch caption reference description: Balch receiving National Humanities Medal from President George W. Bush caption attribution description: English: Stephen Balch receiving National Humanities Medal content: Stephen H. Balch is an American conservative scholar and higher education reformer. He was the founding president of the National Association of Scholars from 1987 to 2009.


title: De Adriaan, Veldhoven hierarchical section title: De Adriaan, Veldhoven caption reference description: De Adriaan in 2008 caption attribution description: Windmill "De Adriaan" in Veldhoven. Built in 1906. This is an image of rijksmonument number 37040 content: De Adriaan is a windmill located on the Windmolen 17 in Meerveldhoven, a neighbourhood of Veldhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands. Build in 1906 on an artificial hill, the windmill functioned as gristmill. The mill was built as a tower mill and its sails have a span of 26.20 meters. The mill is a national monument since 1 October 1969.


title: Elp hierarchical section title: Elp caption reference description: De hoofdstraat in Elp caption attribution description: Nederlands: Hoofdstraat te Elp caption alt text description: De hoofdstraat in Elp content: Elp is a small village in the Dutch province of Drenthe. It is a part of the municipality of Midden-Drenthe, and lies about 15 km south of Assen.
The Elp culture was named after the village.
In 2001, the village of Elp had 264 inhabitants. The built-up area of the village was 0.20 km², and contained 105 residences.
The statistical area "Elp", which can also include the surrounding countryside, has a population of around 410.


title: Packard section title: 1946–1956 hierarchical section title: Packard / History / 1946–1956 caption reference description: 1951 Packard 300 caption attribution description: Now that Bud is mostly done with Ruby, his and Sharon's 52 Buick, he has started some crazy talk about selling his 51 Packard. I asked if I could get some pictures before the Packard is gone. content: Packard was an American luxury automobile marque built by the Packard Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan, United States. The first Packard automobiles were produced in 1899, and the last Detroit-built Packard in 1956, when they built the Packard Predictor, their last concept car.
Packard bought Studebaker in 1953 and formed the Studebaker-Packard Corporation of South Bend, Indiana. The 1957 and 1958 Packards were actually badge engineered Studebakers, built in South Bend.


title: Lindenwood University section title: Recent history hierarchical section title: Lindenwood University / History / Recent history caption reference description: J. Scheidegger Center for the Arts caption attribution description: English: J. Scheiddeger Center for the Arts on the campus of Lindenwood University. caption alt text description: Picture of J. Scheidegger Center for the Arts content: Lindenwood University is a private liberal arts university in Saint Charles, Missouri. Founded in 1827 by George Champlin Sibley and Mary Easton Sibley as The Lindenwood School for Girls, it is the second-oldest higher-education institution west of the Mississippi River.
Lindenwood offers undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degrees through nine colleges and schools. Its enrollment was 8,389 students in 2019. The 500-acre main academic and residential campus is located 24 miles northwest of St. Louis, Missouri, in St. Charles. The university operates a satellite campus in Belleville, Illinois, known as Lindenwood University–Belleville.
The university offers a number of extracurricular activities to its students, including athletics, honor societies, clubs, and student organizations, as well as fraternities and sororities. Alumni and former students have gone on to prominent careers in government, business, science, medicine, education, sports, and entertainment. Lindenwood's athletic teams primarily compete at the NCAA Division II level with several sports competing at the NCAA Division I level.


title: Carla Beurskens hierarchical section title: Carla Beurskens caption reference description: Carla Beurskens in 1982 caption attribution description: English: Carla Beurskens content: Carolina Alwina Hubertina Beurskens was one of Holland's most prominent female long-distance runners from the second half of the 1970s until well into the 1990s, including all distances from 3000 metres to the marathon. During the greater part of this period she was most successful at the longer distance.
The variety of the twenty-three national titles she obtained during her long carrier clearly shows to what extent Beurskens dominated all aspects of the métier: three titles on indoor- and five on outdoor tracks, nine on the road and six in the cross country. At the long distances she is by far the most successful Dutch female athlete ever.
Carla Beurskens did not very often represent her native country in major international tournaments. She took part in the Summer Olympics twice: in Los Angeles 1984 and Seoul 1988, three times in European and one time in World Championships. For various reasons she never performed particularly well at those events. Her fifth place in the European Championships marathon of 1982 in Athens was her best achievement ever.
Much better were Beurskens’ achievements in the marathons of various big cities all over the world.


title: Flawil hierarchical section title: Flawil caption attribution description: Blazon of Flawil, Canton of St. Gallen - Blazono de Flawil, Kantono de Sankt-Galo caption alt text description: Coat of arms of Flawil content: Flawil is a municipality of the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. About 10,000 people live there.
It is the regional centre of Untertoggenburg, but is part of the Wil electoral district.


title: Roger McGuinn section title: The Byrds hierarchical section title: Roger McGuinn / The Byrds caption reference description: McGuinn with the Byrds at a concert held at Washington University in St. Louis (September 1972) caption attribution description: English: Roger McGuinn in Sept. 1972---The Byrds at Washington University---Roger (nee Jim) McGuinn--(by Dan Volonnino) content: James Roger McGuinn is an American musician. He is best known for being the frontman and leader of the Byrds. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for his work with the Byrds.


title: Leopoldine Kulka section title: Life hierarchical section title: Leopoldine Kulka / Life caption reference description: International Congress of Women in 1915. left to right:1. Lucy Thoumaian - Armenia, 2. Leopoldine Kulka, 3. Laura Hughes - Canada, 4. Rosika Schwimmer - Hungary, 5. Anika Augspurg - Germany, 6. Jane Addams - USA, 7. Eugenie Hanner, 8. Aletta Jacobs - Netherlands, 9. Chrystal Macmillan - UK, 10. Rosa Genoni - Italy, 11. Anna Kleman - Sweden, 12. Thora Daugaard - Denmark, 13. Louise Keilhau - Norway caption attribution description: English: WILPF/2011/18 left to right:1. Lucy Thoumaian - Armenia, 2. Leopoldine Kulka, 3. Laura Hughes - Canada, 4. Rosika Schwimmer - Hungary, 5. Anita Augspurg - Germany, 6. Jane Addams - USA, 7. Eugenie Hanner, 8. Aletta Jacobs - Netherlands, 9. Chrystal Macmillan - UK, 10. Rosa Genoni - Italy, 11. Anna Kleman - Sweden, 12. Thora Daugaard - Denmark, 13. Louise Keilhau - Norway content: Leopoldine Kulka was an Austrian writer and editor. She was the first woman lecturer at the University of Vienna. As editor of Neues Frauenleben she controversially met women from combatant countries at the 1915 Women's conference at the Hague.


title: National Register of Historic Places listings in Ramsey County, Minnesota section title: Current listings hierarchical section title: National Register of Historic Places listings in Ramsey County, Minnesota / Current listings caption attribution description: English: Saint Agatha's Conservatory of Music and Arts, St Paul, Minnesota, USA This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 89000443 caption alt text description: St. Agatha's Conservatory of Music and Arts content: This is a complete list of National Register of Historic Places listings in Ramsey County, Minnesota. It is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Ramsey County, Minnesota, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map.
There are 120 properties in the county listed on the National Register of Historic Places including three National Historic Landmarks. A supplementary list includes five additional sites that were formerly listed on the National Register.
This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted August 21, 2020.


title: Mountain Division section title: Route mileposts hierarchical section title: Mountain Division / Route mileposts caption reference description: Steamboat landing at Sebago Lake Station in 1907 (note transfer of freight from boxcar to left of steamboat) caption attribution description: English: Steamboat landing at Sebago Lake Station, Standish, Maine. The Mountain Division of the Maine Central Railroad ran a spur parallel to the station so both freight and passengers could be easly transferred to steamers at the 124-foot-long wharf. content: The Mountain Division is a railroad line that was once owned and operated by the Maine Central Railroad. It stretches from Portland, Maine on the Atlantic Ocean, through the Western Maine Mountains and White Mountains of New Hampshire, ending at St. Johnsbury, Vermont in the Northeast Kingdom. The line was abandoned in 1983 by MEC's successor, Guilford Transportation Industries. Guilford retained a stub between Portland and Westbrook. A section in New Hampshire remains in use by heritage railway Conway Scenic Railroad.


title: Falah Hassan al-Naqib hierarchical section title: Falah Hassan al-Naqib caption reference description: Naqib in 2004. caption attribution description: English: Cropped photograph of Falah Hassan al-Naqib; former Iraqi Minister of Interior. content: Falah Hassan al-Naqib is an Iraqi politician and was the Minister of Interior under the Iraqi Interim Government.
Born in 1956 in Samarra, he is a Sunni Arab. He was named the governor of Salah ad Din Governorate after the fall of Saddam Hussein. An ally of Interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, his father, General Hassan al-Naqib, defected in the 1970s and became an active opposition member in exile. He trained in the United States as a civil engineer.
Council on Foreign Relations profile


title: Albert E. Sleeper House hierarchical section title: Albert E. Sleeper House caption reference description: Sleeper House, c. 1919 caption attribution description: English: Albert E. Sleeper House, Bad Axe MI c. 1919 This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 72000619 content: The Albert E. Sleeper House is a private house in Bad Axe, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.


title: Harpersville, Alabama hierarchical section title: Harpersville, Alabama caption reference description: Location of Harpersville in Shelby County, Alabama. content: Harpersville is a town in Shelby County, Alabama, United States. According to the 1950 U.S. Census, it formally incorporated in 1943. At the 2010 census, the population was 1,637, up from 1,620 in 2000. It is located southeast of the Birmingham metro area.


title: Chinese folk religion in Southeast Asia section title: Organised traditions hierarchical section title: Chinese folk religion in Southeast Asia / Features / Organised traditions caption reference description: Maha Vihara Duta Maitreya is a Yiguandao temple in Batam, Indonesia. The deity Maitreya is represented by the statue on the porch roof. caption attribution description: English: Maha Vihara Duta Maitreya, a Yinguandao temple in Batam, Indonesia. content: Chinese folk religion plays a dynamic role in the lives of the overseas Chinese who have settled in the countries of this geographic region, particularly Burmese Chinese, Singaporean Chinese, Malaysian Chinese, Thai Chinese and Hoa. The Indonesian Chinese, by contrast, were forced to adopt en masse either Buddhism or Christianity in the 1950s and 1960s, abandoning traditional worship, due to Indonesia's religious policies which forbade Chinese traditional religion. Chinese folk religion, the ethnic religion of Han Chinese, "Shenism" was especially coined referring to its Southeast Asian expression; another Southeast Asian name for the religion is the Sanskrit expression Satya Dharma.
The Chinese folk religion of Southeast Asia is markedly typified by the interaction with Malay indigenous religions and the adoption of gods of Hindu derivation, such as Brahma, Ganesha and Hanuman. The philosophical forms of Confucianism and Taoism are followed, and organised forms of the Chinese folk faith, such as the Church of Virtue, Yiguandao and Zhenkongism, have taken significant foothold among Southeast Asian Chinese.


title: Don Fellows hierarchical section title: Don Fellows caption reference description: Fellows (center) as Ensign Pulver with Patricia Ferris and Henry Fonda in Mister Roberts on Broadway caption attribution description: Photo of Patricia Ferris, Don Fellows (as Ensign Pulver) and Henry Fonda (right-as Mister Roberts) from the Broadway presentation of Mister Roberts. content: Don Fellows was an American actor known for his roles in British theater and television.
Born in Salt Lake City, Utah and raised in Madison, Wisconsin, Fellows served in the United States Merchant Marine during World War II. He was a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and a member of the Actors Studio. He moved to London in 1973 to further his stage career.
Fellows' TV appearances included Space: 1999, Z Cars, Lillie, The Sandbaggers, The Citadel, The Beiderbecke Tapes, The Bill and Inspector Morse.
His film appearances included Spy Story, The Omen, Twilight's Last Gleaming, Valentino, Licensed to Love and Kill, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Eye of the Needle, Who Dares Wins, Electric Dreams, Superman IV: The Quest for Peace and Velvet Goldmine.
He featured alongside fellow American expatriate actor Ed Bishop in the radio series The BBC Presents: Philip Marlowe.
In 1992, he played the part of Conn Kortchmar, an American GI, in the Radio 4 drama The Archers.
Throughout his life, Fellows suffered from a stutter, which he was able to suppress while acting. He died in 2007, at the age of 84.


title: Basilica della Santa Casa section title: Tradition hierarchical section title: Basilica della Santa Casa / Tradition caption reference description: Fresco by Melozzo da Forlì on the dome of the Sacristy of St Marc in the Basilica caption attribution description: Deutsch: Fresko (Detail) von Melozzo da Forli in der Basilika zu Loreto. Italiano: Affresco della cupola del santuario di Loreto, (Marche, Italia), opera di Melozzo da Forlì. content: The Basilica della Santa Casa is a Marian shrine in Loreto, Italy. The basilica is known for enshrining the house in which the Blessed Virgin Mary is believed by some Catholics to have lived. Pious legends claim the same house was flown over by angelic beings from Nazareth to Tersatto, then to Recanati, before arriving at the current site.
The basilica is also known for enshrining the Madonna and Child image of “Our Lady of Loreto” in relation to the relics held at the site. Pope Benedict XV designated the religious image as patroness of air passengers and auspicious travel on 24 March 1920. Pope Pius XI granted a Canonical Coronation to the venerated image of made of Cedar of Lebanon on 5 September 1922, replacing the original Marian image consumed in fire on 23 February 1921.


title: Geography of Namibia section title: Coastal Desert hierarchical section title: Geography of Namibia / Geographical areas / Coastal Desert caption attribution description: Road C14, Kalahari, Namibia content: At 824,292 km², Namibia is the world's thirty-fourth largest country. After Mongolia, Namibia is the second least densely populated country in the world.


title: Manama section title: Road network hierarchical section title: Manama / Transport / Road network caption reference description: Skyline of Manama caption attribution description: English: Manama content: Manama is the capital and largest city of Bahrain, with an approximate population of 157,000 people. Long an important trading center in the Persian Gulf, Manama is home to a very diverse population. After periods of Portuguese and Persian control and invasions from the ruling dynasties of Saudi Arabia and Oman, Bahrain established itself as an independent nation during the 19th century period of British hegemony.
Although the current twin cities of Manama and Muharraq appear to have been founded simultaneously in the 1800s, Muharraq took prominence due to its defensive location and was thus the capital of Bahrain until 1923. Manama became the mercantile capital and was the gateway to the main Bahrain Island. In the 20th century, Bahrain's oil wealth helped spur fast growth and in the 1990s a concerted diversification effort led to expansion in other industries and helped transform Manama into an important financial hub in the Middle East. Manama was designated as the 2012 capital of Arab culture by the Arab League, and a beta global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network in 2018.


title: River Irvine section title: Pedestrian and road bridges hierarchical section title: River Irvine / Crossing the river / Pedestrian and road bridges caption reference description: Craufurdland Bridge with the balustrade from Cessnock Castle. caption attribution description: English: Craufurdland Bridge. Ballistrade from Cessnock Castle. content: The River Irvine is a river that flows through southwest Scotland. Its watershed is on the Lanarkshire border of Ayrshire at an altitude of 810 feet above sea-level, near Loudoun Hill, Drumclog, and 7 miles SW by W of Strathaven. It flows 29 ¹⁄₂ mi westward, dividing the old district of Cunninghame from that of Kyle, until it reaches the sea via Irvine Harbour in the form of the Firth of Clyde, and flows into Irvine Bay by the town of Irvine. It has many tributaries, some of which form parish, district and other boundaries.


title: List of tram stops in Île-de-France section title: Stations hierarchical section title: List of tram stops in Île-de-France / Stations caption attribution description: Une rame de tramway Translohr à la station « Vauban », lors des essais sur la ligne 6 du tramway d'Île-de-France. caption alt text description: Vauban content: The following is a list of all stops of the Tramways in Île-de-France, sorted by lines.


title: Holy Trinity Church, Adelaide hierarchical section title: Holy Trinity Church, Adelaide caption reference description: Photograph of the Holy Trinity, late 1800s caption attribution description: English: Black and white photograph of Holy Trinity Church, along Morphett Street. content: Trinity City, is an Australian evangelical Anglican church located at 88 North Terrace in the city of Adelaide, South Australia. Trinity City has four gatherings at the North Terrace location each Sunday, as well as various other meetings throughout the week.


title: Kaufman oculocerebrofacial syndrome section title: Diagnosis hierarchical section title: Kaufman oculocerebrofacial syndrome / Diagnosis caption reference description: Smith–Lemli–Opitz syndrome(or 7-dehydrocholesterol reductase deficiency) content: Kaufman oculocerebrofacial syndrome is an autosomal recessive congenital disorder characterized by mental retardation, brachycephaly, upslanting palpebral fissures, eye abnormalities, and highly arched palate. It was characterized in 1971; eight cases had been identified as of 1995.


title: Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor section title: War with Mieszko hierarchical section title: Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor / Reign as Emperor / Relations with Poland / War with Mieszko caption reference description: The Duchy of Poland at its greatest extent under Bolesław I and his son Mieszko II. caption attribution description: Polski: Mapa Polski za panowania Bolesława I Chrobrego content: Conrad II, also known as Conrad the Elder and Conrad the Salic, was Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire from 1027 until his death in 1039. The first of a succession of four Salian emperors, who reigned for one century until 1125, Conrad also served as King of Germany from 1024, King of Italy from 1026, and King of Burgundy from 1033.
The son of Franconian count Henry of Speyer and Adelaide of Metz of the Matfriding dynasty, that had ruled the Duchy of Lorraine from 959 until 972, Conrad inherited the titles of count of Speyer and Worms during childhood after his father had died around the year 990. He extended his influence beyond his inherited lands, as he came into favor of the princes of the kingdom. When the imperial dynastic line was left without a successor after Emperor Henry II's death in 1024, on September 4 an assembly of the imperial princes appointed the 34 year-old Conrad king.
Conrad II largely continued the political course, the Renovatio regni Francorum of his Ottonian predecessor Henry II regarding the role and organisation of the Church and the status and affairs of Italy.


title: 1977 section title: November hierarchical section title: 1977 / Deaths / November caption reference description: Kurt Schuschnigg caption attribution description: English: Austrian statesman Kurt Schuschnigg (1897-1977) in Geneva in 1934. Deutsch: Kurt Schuschnigg vor dem Völkerbund in Genf am 12. September 1934 content: 1977 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1977th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 977th year of the 2nd millennium, the 77th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1970s decade.


title: Bingham, Illinois hierarchical section title: Bingham, Illinois caption reference description: Location of Bingham in Fayette County, Illinois. content: Bingham is a village in Fayette County, Illinois, United States. The population was 83 at the 2010 census, down from 117 at the 2000 census.
The village was named after Judge Horatio Bingham. A post office was established in 1883.


title: Great Wall of China hierarchical section title: Great Wall of China caption reference description: Ruins of a watchtower on the Great Wall caption attribution description: English: A section of the Great Wall of China between Simatai and Jinshanling Deutsch: Ein Abschnitt der chinesischen Mauer zwischen Simatai und Jinshanling content: The Great Wall of China is an ancient wall in China. The wall is made of cement, rocks, bricks, and powdered dirt. It was finished in 1878 and it was meant to protect the north of the empire of China from enemy attacks. It is the longest structure humans have ever built. It is about 21,196 kilometres long, 9.1 metres wide and 15 metres high. The earlier sections on the wall are made of compacted dirt and stone. Later in the Ming Dynasty they used bricks. There are 7,000 watch towers, block houses for soldiers and beacons to send smoke signals.
Nineteen walls have been built that were called the Great Wall of China. The first was built in the 7th century BC. The most famous wall was built between 226–200 BC by the first Emperor of Imperial China, Qin Shai Hong, during the Qin Dynasty. Not much of this wall remains as people have been stealing from it. It was much farther north than the current wall. The current wall was built during the Ming Dynasty.


title: Ritta Island, Florida hierarchical section title: Ritta Island, Florida caption reference description: Island Hotel, Ritta Island, Florida, May 1914 caption attribution description: English: Island Hotel - Ritta Island, Lake Okeechobee. content: Ritta Island is an island in Lake Okeechobee, Florida, near its southern shore. It was once inhabited. The settlement was situated in Palm Beach County, 5 miles east of Clewiston.


title: Jennie Tuttle Hobart section title: Biography hierarchical section title: Jennie Tuttle Hobart / Biography caption reference description: Jennie Tuttle Hobart caption attribution description: English: Jennie Tuttle Hobart content: Esther Jane "Jennie" Tuttle Hobart was the wife of Vice President Garret Hobart and a philanthropist and community activist in New Jersey.


title: Miklavž pri Ormožu hierarchical section title: Miklavž pri Ormožu caption attribution description: Miklavž pri Ormožu, village in Slovenia content: Miklavž pri Ormožu is a settlement in the hills northeast of Ormož in northeastern Slovenia. The area traditionally belongs to the Styria region and is now included in the Drava Statistical Region.


title: Stairs Station Hydroelectric Power Plant Historic District hierarchical section title: Stairs Station Hydroelectric Power Plant Historic District caption reference description: Stairs Power Station in 1971 caption attribution description: English: Stairs Power Plant, Big Cottonwood Canyon, near Salt Lake City, Utah, USA Français : Centrale Stairs, Big Cottonwood Canyon, près de Salt Lake City, Utah, Etats-Unis This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 89000284 content: The Stairs Station Hydroelectric Power Plant was built in 1894-1895 in Big Cottonwood Canyon, about 8 miles southeast of Salt Lake City, Utah. The plant comprises the powerhouse, switchyard, penstocks, and a pipeline. A dam next to the site is associated with the Granite Power Plant farther downstream, and is part of neither historic district. The powerhouse is the only remaining building associated with the plant. It is an example of an intact high-head generating plant from the late 19th century.


title: Theresienstadt Ghetto section title: Youth Welfare Office hierarchical section title: Theresienstadt Ghetto / Jewish self-administration / Youth Welfare Office caption reference description: Petr Ginz, the editor of Vedem, draws the moon caption attribution description: Esperanto: Pentaĵo "Tero vidanta el Luno" de Petr Ginz.English: Drawing "Earth seen from the Moon" by Petr Ginz.Čeština: Kresba "Měsíční krajina" od Petra Ginze. content: Theresienstadt was a hybrid concentration camp and ghetto established by the SS during World War II in the fortress town Terezín, located in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Theresienstadt served two main purposes: it was simultaneously a waystation to the extermination camps, and a "retirement settlement" for elderly and prominent Jews to mislead their communities about the Final Solution. Its conditions were deliberately engineered to hasten the death of its prisoners, and the ghetto also served a propaganda role. Unlike other ghettos, the exploitation of forced labor was not economically significant.
The ghetto was established by a transport of Czech Jews in November 1941. The first German and Austrian Jews arrived in June 1942; Dutch and Danish Jews came beginning in 1943 and prisoners of a wide variety of nationalities were sent to Theresienstadt in the last months of the war. About 33,000 people died at Theresienstadt, mostly from malnutrition and disease.


title: Glen Duff hierarchical section title: Glen Duff caption reference description: A3 Castletown to Ramsey road, 21st TT Milestone at Glen Duff. caption attribution description: English: Glen Duff, Isle of Man. content: Glen Duff is situated adjacent to the 23rd road milestone on the A3 Castletown to Ramsey road with the junction with the B14 Bernaharra Road in the parish of Kirk Christ Lezayre in the Isle of Man.


title: Mike Ford (rugby) hierarchical section title: Mike Ford (rugby) caption reference description: Mike A. Ford caption attribution description: Français : photo de Mike Ford pour artice wikipedia content: Mike A. Ford is an English rugby union coach, and former professional rugby league footballer. He was named as the Director of Rugby for Dallas Griffins in Major League Rugby, which is planned to begin in 2020. In March 2019 he joined Leicester Tigers as a temporary assistant coach for the remainder of the 2018–2019 Premiership Rugby season.


title: Esther Wong section title: Life hierarchical section title: Esther Wong / Life caption reference description: Madame Wong's occupied the upper floor of 949 Sun Mun Way (green-trimmed balcony) in Chinatown Central Plaza, next to the Hop Sing Tong building. Photographed in 2014. caption attribution description: Chinatown content: Esther Wong was a Chinese-American restaurant owner and music promoter, called the "Godmother of Punk" in Los Angeles, California.


title: Daspletosaurus section title: Classification and systematics hierarchical section title: Daspletosaurus / Classification and systematics caption reference description: Dinosaur Park specimen (FMNH PR308), mounted at the Field Museum caption attribution description: English: Daspletosaurus mount at the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago content: Daspletosaurus is a genus of tyrannosaurid dinosaur that lived in western North America between about 77 and 74 million years ago, during the Late Cretaceous Period. The genus Daspletosaurus contains two species. Fossils of the earlier type species, D. torosus, have been found in Alberta, while fossils of the later second species, D. horneri, have been found only in Montana. A possible third species, also from Alberta, awaits formal identification. Daspletosaurus is closely related to the much larger and more recent tyrannosaurid Tyrannosaurus rex. Like most tyrannosaurids, Daspletosaurus was a multi-tonne bipedal predator equipped with dozens of large, sharp teeth. Daspletosaurus had the small forelimbs typical of tyrannosaurids, although they were proportionately longer than in other genera.
As an apex predator, Daspletosaurus was at the top of the food chain, probably preying on large dinosaurs like the ceratopsid Centrosaurus and the hadrosaur Hypacrosaurus. In some areas, Daspletosaurus coexisted with another tyrannosaurid, Gorgosaurus, though there is some evidence of niche differentiation between the two.


title: Ngare Ndare Farm hierarchical section title: Ngare Ndare Farm caption reference description: Ranger in Ngare Ndare Forest caption attribution description: English: This picture was taken in April 2019. This is an image with the theme "Africa on the Move or Transport" from: Kenya content: Ngare Ndare Farm is a settlement in Kenya's Eastern Province.


title: Alejandro Gorostiaga hierarchical section title: Alejandro Gorostiaga caption attribution description: Español: Retrato de Alejandro Gorostiaga content: Alejandro Gorostiaga Orrego, was a Chilean military officer born in La Serena. He joined the Escuela Militar de Chile in 1857 till his retirement in 1878. Alejandro Gorostiaga was of Basque descent.
In 1879, colonel Gorostiaga joined the Chilean Army due to the War of the Pacific, between Chile, Peru and Bolivia. In May of that year, Alejandro Gorostiaga was named commandant of the civic battalion Coquimbo Nº1.
Participated in the "Asalto y Toma de Pisagua". But the most important participation of this Chilean military was the Battle of Huamachuco, on July 10 of 1883 when Andrés Cáceres' Peruvian forces were defeated.
Alejandro Gorostiaga died in 1912, Santiago.


title: Deadvlei section title: Gallery hierarchical section title: Deadvlei / Gallery caption attribution description: Deutsch: Deadvlei aus der Vogelperspektive (2017) English: Deadvlei from Bird´s eye view (2017) content: Deadvlei is a white clay pan located near the more famous salt pan of Sossusvlei, inside the Namib-Naukluft Park in Namibia. Also written DeadVlei or Dead Vlei, its name means "dead marsh". The pan also is referred to as "Dooie Vlei" which is the fully Afrikaans name. There are many references to the site on the Internet, its name often being translated erroneously in terms such as "dead valley"; a vlei is not a valley. Nor is the site a valley; the pan is a desiccated vlei.
Dead Vlei has been claimed to be surrounded by the highest sand dunes in the world, the highest reaching 300–400 meters, which rest on a sandstone terrace.
The clay pan was formed after rainfall, when the Tsauchab river flooded, creating temporary shallow pools where the abundance of water allowed camel thorn trees to grow. When the climate changed, drought hit the area, and sand dunes encroached on the pan, which blocked the river from the area.
The trees died, as there no longer was enough water to survive. There are some species of plants remaining, such as salsola and clumps of nara, adapted to surviving off the morning mist and very rare rainfall.


title: Football at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament section title: Group E hierarchical section title: Football at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament / Preliminary round / Group E caption reference description: Great Britain vs New Zealand caption attribution description: Millennium Stadium during a match between Team GB and New Zealand at the Olympics. content: The women's football tournament at the 2012 Summer Olympics was held in London and five other cities in the United Kingdom from 25 July to 9 August. Associations affiliated with FIFA were invited to enter their women's teams in regional qualifying competitions, from which 11 teams, plus the hosts Great Britain reached the final tournament. There are no age restrictions for the players participating in the tournament. It is the first major FIFA affiliated women's tournament to be staged within the United Kingdom, and marked the first time a team representing Great Britain took part in the women's tournament.


title: Shadowgraph section title: Gallery hierarchical section title: Shadowgraph / Gallery caption attribution description: English: Shadowgraph of bullet in flight content: Shadowgraph is an optical method that reveals non-uniformities in transparent media like air, water, or glass. It is related to, but simpler than, the schlieren and schlieren photography methods that perform a similar function. Shadowgraph is a type of flow visualisation.
In principle, we cannot directly see a difference in temperature, a different gas, or a shock wave in the transparent air. However, all these disturbances refract light rays, so they can cast shadows. The plume of hot air rising from a fire, for example, can be seen by way of its shadow cast upon a nearby surface by the uniform sunlight.


title: Passmore Williamson section title: Abolitionism hierarchical section title: Passmore Williamson / Abolitionism caption reference description: Resurrection of Henry "Box" Brown, March 24, 1849. caption attribution description: English: Illustration of Henry Box Brown's "resurrection" in Philadelphia. From William Still's 1872 book The Underground Railroad. “All was quiet. The door had been safely locked. The proceedings commenced. Mr. McKim rapped quietly on the lid of the box and called out, 'All right!' Instantly came the answer from within, 'All right, sir!' “The witnesses will never forget that moment. Saw and hatchet quickly had the five hickory hoops cut and the lid off, and the marvellous resurrection of Brown ensued. Rising up in his box, he reached out his hand, saying, 'How do you do, gentlemen?' The little assemblage hardly knew what tot hink or do at the moment. He was about as wet as if he had come up out of the Delaware. Very soon he remarked that, before leaving Richmond he had selected for his arrival-hymn (if he lived) the Psalm beginning with these words: ”I waited patiently for the Lord, and He heard my prayer.” And most touchingly did he sing the psalm, much to his own relief, as well as to the deligh of his small audience” (p. 83). content: Passmore Williamson was an American abolitionist and businessman in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a free state in the antebellum years. Secretary of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society and a member of its Vigilance Committee, Williamson is best known for helping Jane Johnson and her two sons gain freedom from slavery on July 18, 1855.
In a case that established legal precedent, he was served with a writ of habeas corpus by federal US District Court John K. Kane under the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 to produce Johnson and her two sons in court. He did not know where they were held, so could not respond; Judge Kane charged him with contempt of court and sentenced him to 90 days.
The jailing of Williamson dramatically expanded news coverage of the case and generated debate about the extension of "Slave Power" over state law, as Pennsylvania did not recognize slavery. It held that slaveowners gave up their property rights in slaves if they brought them into the state; if the slave chose freedom, the state would support that decision and not compensate the owner.


title: 2011 Leopard Trek season section title: Tour de France hierarchical section title: 2011 Leopard Trek season / Grand Tours / Tour de France caption reference description: Team captain Andy Schleck wore the yellow jersey for one day in the Tour de France, but his performance in the stage 20 individual time trial while wearing that jersey was insufficient to win him the Tour overall. caption attribution description: Andy Schleck caption alt text description: A road racing cyclist in a yellow skinsuit, wearing an aerodynamic helmet. His bicycle is not visible. Spectators watch from the roadside. content: The 2011 season for Leopard Trek, its first, began in January at the Tour Down Under and ended in October at the Giro di Lombardia. As a UCI ProTeam, they were automatically invited and obligated to send a squad to every race in the UCI World Tour. The team formed for 2011 as a Luxembourgian national project and boasts that nation's two premier riders, Andy and Fränk Schleck. Several riders from the Schleck brothers' former Team Saxo Bank joined the new team.
The team was built for strong showings in the classic cycle races, and includes the best classics rider from the 2010 season, world time trial champion Fabian Cancellara. Though Cancellara did not win any race that awarded points to the UCI World Tour, he consistently placed highly enough that he was briefly the world number one rider in the midst of the classics season. Thanks to Cancellara's performances and the Schleck brothers both finishing on the podium at Liège–Bastogne–Liège, the team was also in the top spot for a time.
Team member Wouter Weylandt died after crashing during stage 3 of the Giro d'Italia, leading to the team's mass withdrawal the next day.


title: Orleans, Iowa hierarchical section title: Orleans, Iowa caption reference description: City hall caption attribution description: Front side image of the city hall building in Orleans, Iowa content: Orleans is a city in Dickinson County, Iowa, United States. The population was 608 at the 2010 census. Orleans is part of the Iowa Great Lakes region, located along Spirit Lake. Numerous state parks are located within a few miles of the town, including Marble Beach and Mini-Wakan.


title: Constitutional Act on the Rights of National Minorities in the Republic of Croatia section title: Constitutional Act on National and Ethnic Communities or Minorities hierarchical section title: Constitutional Act on the Rights of National Minorities in the Republic of Croatia / History / Constitutional Act on National and Ethnic Communities or Minorities caption reference description: Two Autonomous Districts of Croatia are shown in dark green caption attribution description: Hrvatski: bivši kotari Glina i Knin content: The Constitutional Act on the Rights of National Minorities in the Republic of Croatia is constitutional law which defines rights of national minorities in Croatia. It is one of in total three Constitutional Acts in the Croatian legal system, with the other two being the Constitutional Act on Implementation of the Constitution of Croatia and the Constitutional Act on the Constitutional Court of Croatia. In its current form, the Act entered into force on 23 December 2002. Its earlier version, under the title Constitutional Act on National and Ethnic Communities or Minorities was passed in December 1991 as a precondition of the international community for the recognition of Croatian independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The Act is hierarchically under the Constitution of Croatia and must comply with it, but above ordinary state laws and decisions, and above statutes and decisions of lower levels of government, which all must be in accordance with this law. Additionally, two special laws were created to define rights regarding education in minority languages and specific rights on the usage of minority languages in public life.


title: Wil, Zurich hierarchical section title: Wil, Zurich caption reference description: Village entry of Wil caption attribution description: English: Village entry of Wil ZH, canton of Zürich, SwitzerlandEsperanto: Vilaĝeniro de Wil ZH, Kantono Zürich, SvislandoDeutsch: Dorfeingang von Wil ZH, Kanton Zürich, Schweiz content: Wil is a municipality in the district Bülach in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.


title: Broad Channel, Queens section title: Bridges hierarchical section title: Broad Channel, Queens / Transportation / Bridges caption reference description: The Cross Bay Veterans Memorial Bridge caption attribution description: English: Looking north at Cross Bay Bridge from behind school on a sunny midday. content: Broad Channel is a neighborhood in the southern portion of the New York City borough of Queens. It occupies the southern portion of Rulers Bar Hassock, the only inhabited island in Jamaica Bay.
The neighborhood stands on Big Egg Marsh, an area of fill approximately 20 blocks long and 4 blocks wide at the south end of Rulers Bar Hassock. The community is an inholding within the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, managed by the U.S. National Park Service as part of the Gateway National Recreation Area. The area comprises several artificial canals separating dead-end residential blocks. It is connected to the rest of Queens by road and subway bridges.
Broad Channel is located in Queens Community District 14 and its ZIP Code is 11693. It is patrolled by the New York City Police Department's 100th Precinct.


title: Vân Đồn District hierarchical section title: Vân Đồn District caption reference description: Quan Lạn Island caption attribution description: English: Quan Lan Island, Vân Đồn District. Quang Ninh Province, northeastern Vietnam Tiếng Việt: Biển trời Bái Tử Long nhìn từ bãi biển trên đảo Quan Lạn caption alt text description: Quan Lạn Island content: Vân Đồn is a rural district of Quảng Ninh Province in the Northeast region of Vietnam. As of 2003 the district had a population of 39,157. The district covers an area of 551 km². The district capital lies at Cái Rồng. The district is selected as a Special Economic Zone, and is rapidly being developed. It is connected by motorway to Hai Phong and Ha Long, and served by Van Don International Airport.


title: Seocho-dong hierarchical section title: Seocho-dong caption reference description: Seoul Arts Center located in Seocho-dong. caption attribution description: Seoul Arts Center caption alt text description: Seoul Arts Center located in Seocho-dong. content: Seocho-dong is a dong, or neighborhood of the Seocho-gu district of the South Korean city of Seoul. Seocho-dong is divided into 4 different dong which are Seocho 1-dong, 2-dong, 3-dong and 4-dong. The main street is Teheranno.
The headquarters of South Korean skincare and cosmetics manufacturer Skin Food is located in the DaeRyung Scecho Tower near Gangnam Station.


title: Lewis and Clark Exposition gold dollar section title: Production hierarchical section title: Lewis and Clark Exposition gold dollar / Production caption reference description: Numismatist Farran Zerbe caption attribution description: English: Numismatist Farran Zerbe content: The Lewis and Clark Exposition gold dollar is a commemorative coin that was struck in 1904 and 1905 as part of the United States Government's participation in the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition, held in the latter year in Portland, Oregon. Designed by United States Bureau of the Mint Chief Engraver Charles E. Barber, the coin did not sell well and less than a tenth of the authorized mintage of 250,000 was issued.
The Lewis and Clark Expedition, the first American overland exploring party to reach the Pacific Coast, was led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Between 1804 and 1806, its members journeyed from St. Louis to the Oregon coast and back, providing information and dispelling myths about the large area obtained by the United States in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. The Portland fair commemorated the centennial of that trip.
The coins were, for the most part, sold to the public by numismatic promoter Farran Zerbe, who had also vended the Louisiana Purchase Exposition dollar. As he was unable to sell much of the issue, surplus coins were melted by the Mint.


title: Hui people section title: Mosques hierarchical section title: Hui people / Culture / Mosques caption reference description: The Xianxian Mosque in Guangzhou caption attribution description: English: The Xianxian Mosque,Guangzhou content: The Hui people are an East Asian ethnoreligious group predominantly composed of Chinese speaking adherents of Islam distributed throughout China, mainly in the northwestern provinces of the country and the Zhongyuan region. According to the 2011 census, China is home to approximately 20 million Hui people, the majority of whom are Chinese-speaking practitioners of Islam, though some may practise other religions. The 110,000 Dungan people of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan are also considered part of the Hui ethnicity.
Their culture has distinct differences that developed from the practice of Islam. For example, as Muslims, they follow Islamic dietary laws and reject the consumption of pork, the most common meat consumed in China and have given rise to their own variation of Chinese cuisine. Traditional Hui clothing differs from that of the Han Chinese primarily in that some men wear white caps and some women wear headscarves, as is the case in many Islamic cultures. However, since the industrialization and modernization of China, most of the young Hui people wear the same clothes as mainstream fashion trends.
The Hui people are one of 56 ethnic groups recognized by China.


title: Merkholtz railway station section title: Gallery hierarchical section title: Merkholtz railway station / Gallery caption attribution description: Lëtzebuergesch: Dat fréiert Statiounsgebai an de Gleisiwwergank an Direktioun Mäerkels gesinn. content: Merkholtz railway station is a railway station serving Merkholtz, in the commune of Kiischpelt, in northern Luxembourg. It is operated by Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois, the state-owned railway company.


title: 2009 1000 km of Okayama hierarchical section title: 2009 1000 km of Okayama caption reference description: The start of the 2009 1000km of Okayama (Race 1). caption attribution description: Asian Le Mans Series 2009 1000km of Okayama: Opening lap of Race 1. content: The 2009 1000 km of Okayama was the inaugural event of Automobile Club de l'Ouest's Asian Le Mans Series. It was held at the Okayama International Circuit, Japan and feature two 500 km races held on 30 October and 1 November 2009. The winning teams in each of the four categories earned an automatic invitation to the 2010 24 Hours of Le Mans. A second Asian Le Mans Series event, scheduled for the Shanghai International Circuit, China, on 7 and 8 November was cancelled by the ACO due to economic circumstances. The race weekend is being shared with the World Touring Car Championship's Race of Japan.


title: Mexican–American War section title: Effect on the American military in the Civil War hierarchical section title: Mexican–American War / Impact of the war in the United States / Effect on the American military in the Civil War caption reference description: Second lieutenant Ulysses S. Grant caption attribution description: English: Engraving of Brevet Second Lieutenant Ulysses S. Grant in 1843 caption alt text description: Engraving of young Grant in uniform content: The Mexican–American War, also known in the United States as the Mexican War and in Mexico as the Intervención Estadounidense en México, was an armed conflict between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848. It followed the 1845 U.S. annexation of Texas, which Mexico still considered Mexican territory since the government did not recognize the treaty signed by Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna when he was a prisoner of the Texian Army during the 1836 Texas Revolution. The Republic of Texas was defacto an independent country, but most of its citizens wished to be annexed by the United States. Domestic sectional politics in the U.S. prevented that since Texas would have been a slave state, upsetting the balance of power between northern free states and southern slave states. In the 1844 United States presidential election, Democrat James K. Polk was elected on a platform of expanding U.S. territory in Oregon and Texas. Polk advocated expansion by either peaceful means or by armed force, with the 1845 annexation of Texas as furthering that goal. For Mexico, this was itself a provocation, but Polk went further, sending U.S.


title: Steve McQueen (director) hierarchical section title: Steve McQueen (director) caption reference description: Steve McQueen in September 2013 caption attribution description: English: The director Steve McQueen at the premiere of "12 Years a Slave" at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival content: Steven Rodney "Steve" McQueen, CBE is a British movie director and artist. He has directed three feature films.


title: History of Niger hierarchical section title: History of Niger caption reference description: Ancient rock engraving showing herds of giraffe, ibex, and other animals in the southern Sahara and africA Niger. caption attribution description: Ancient rock engraving. In the southern Sahara near Tiguidit, Niger, 1997.1997 #278-10 Sahara glyph content: This is the history of Niger. See also the history of Africa and the history of West Africa.


title: Vedem section title: History of the magazine hierarchical section title: Vedem / History of the magazine caption attribution description: Esperanto: Pentaĵo "Tero vidanta el Luno" de Petr Ginz.English: Drawing "Earth seen from the Moon" by Petr Ginz.Čeština: Kresba "Měsíční krajina" od Petra Ginze. caption alt text description: A drawing by him content: Vedem was a Czech-language literary magazine that existed from 1942 to 1944 in the Terezín concentration camp, during the Holocaust. It was hand-produced by a group of boys living in the Home One barracks, among them editor-in-chief Petr Ginz and Hanuš Hachenburg. Altogether, some 800 pages of Vedem survived World War II.