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In 1845, (1804–1867), a Swiss mathematician, and Noël Paymal Lerebours (1807–1873), a French optician, established a firm in Paris that manufactured precision instruments. In 1854, Secretan became the sole owner of the company, which continued to operate under the name Lerebours & Secretan. With popular interest in astronomy growing, the French physicist Léon Foucault (1819–1868) entered into an exclusive contract with Secretan for the commercialization of a reflecting telescope. Upon the death of Secretan in 1867, the company’s management first passed to his son Auguste François (1833–1874), and then to Auguste’s cousin Georges Emmanuel Secrétan (1837–1906). Around 1889, Georges Secrétan moved the company’s workshops to 30 rue du Faubourg Saint-Jacques, near the Paris Observatory and appointed Raymond Augustin Mailhat (1862 – 1923) as their head from 1 January 1889. In 1894, Mailhat bought some of the workshops and set up his own business, while Secretan moved his equipment into a new location at 41, quai de l’Horloge, near to the company’s retail shop on the Place du Pont-Neuf. When Georges Secrétan died in 1906, his son Paul Victor (b. 1879) and daughter Alice (b. 1878) inherited the business, which they ran until 1911, when they sold it to Charles Épry. In 1913, Gustave Jacquelin (1879–1939) became Épry’s associate and the firm continued manufacturing and selling astronomical, scientific and optical products. In 1963, the Secretan company merged with the Henri Morin company, a producer of surveying and drawing equipment, and was renamed as the Etablissements H. Morin-Secretan. Around 1967, that firm merged with the Société de Recherches et de Perfectionnements Industriels (SRPI), which operated until at least 1981. |
Hemidactylus modestus, also known as the moderate leaf-toed gecko or Tana River gecko, is a species of gecko. It is endemic to Kenya. |
Mahdi Salman was an Iraqi basketball player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1948 Summer Olympics. |
Yonan Emile was an Iraqi basketball player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1948 Summer Olympics. |
Paavo Valakari (born 28 December 1997) is a Finnish professional footballer who plays for Käpylän Pallo, as a goalkeeper. |
Valakari signed with Käpylän Pallo for the 2019 season. |
China–Japan football rivalry is a competitive sports rivalry that exists between the national football teams of the two countries, as well as their respective sets of fans. |
The rivalry has a long history exists between China and Japan. One of the main reason defining the heat of the serious rivalry exists between two countries is due to historical grievances throughout history of two nations. Two national teams faced up for the first time in 1917, and since then, had played against each other 38 times. Historical tensions had also stemmed the rivalry into one of the most heated rivalry in Asia and a bitter rivalry in the world. |
China and Japan shared a relatively long and complicated history. Japan used to be under heavy Chinese influence throughout history, and is part of Sinosphere world. However, Japan often had desires to conquer China and to become new Asian leader. The Japanese tried to invade China via. Korea during the Japanese invasion to Korea, but no avail. In 19th century, Japan transformed from a feudal state into an empire with modern industries, defeating China in the First Sino-Japanese War. This made Japan the dominant Asian power. |
Japan and China's tensions escalated into the Second Sino-Japanese War, which Japan invaded and occupied entire of Eastern and Southern China, committing horrible atrocities such as Nanking Massacre. As for the result, relations between two nations has been tense since and with the recent rise of China after years of humiliation, rivalry has become tenser. |
Thus, football is not an exception, when both fans used football to fuel the nationalistic ideas. |
Prior to 1990s, China was one of Asia's dominant teams while Japan's football development was still limited in amateur level, partly due to little interests of development for football in Japan and high American influence. Thus, Japan often suffered defeats to China. But with the rapid rise of Japan since 1990s, the tie has changed from China to Japan, and since 1998, China has not beaten Japan again. |
Despite China is leading the record with 16 wins comparing to 14 wins of Japan, Japan is far more successful than China, winning four AFC Asian Cup and has played in every FIFA World Cup since 1998; while China only won silver medals in two Asian Cup and qualified for just one World Cup. |
"As of 10 December 2019" |
The Kaya gecko ("Hemidactylus mrimaensis") is a species of gecko. It is endemic to coastal Kenya. |
Cédric Kouadio (born 25 July 1997) is an Ivorian professional footballer. In 2019, he played for Slutsk. |
Páll Hreinsson (born 20 February 1963) is the current President of the EFTA Court in Luxembourg. He is a former Justice at the Supreme Court of Iceland and professor at the University of Iceland. |
Páll graduated from Hamrahlíð College in 1983. He received a Cand. Juris degree from the University of Iceland in 1988. He was a visitor student in Administrative Law and Public Administration at the University of Copenhagen from 1990 to 1991 and received his doctorate (dr. juris) from the University of Iceland in 2005. |
Páll was an Assistant Judge at the City Court of Reykjavík from 1988 until 1991, and Special Assistant to the Althing Ombudsman (The Parliamentary Ombudsman‘s Office) from 1991 to 1998. He became the chairman of the Computer Committee in 1999 and held that post until 2001. He was also the chairman of the board of the Data Protection Authority from 2001 until 2011 and the chairman of the Information Committee from 2005 until 2007. In 1996 he became an adjunct professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Iceland and a professor of law in 1999. He was the Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Law from 2002 until 2005, and the Dean of the same faculty from 2005 until 2007. In September 2007 he became a Justice at the Supreme Court of Iceland. In December 2008 he was appointed the chairman of Althing’s Special Investigation Commission, investigating the causes of the 2008 financial crash in Iceland. While chairing that committee he took a leave of absence from the Supreme Court. Páll has been a judge at the EFTA Court in Luxembourg since 15 September 2011. On 1 January 2018 he became the President of the EFTA Court. |
Páll is a prolific legal scholar and has written extensively on various legal subjects. He has written 13 academic books and 43 peer-reviewed articles on legal matters in both Icelandic and English, mostly focusing on administrative law, constitutional law and the law of obligations. |
Rustlers of the Badlands is a 1945 American western film directed by Derwin Abrahams and starring Charles Starrett, Carla Balenda and Dub Taylor. |
Ubrogepant, sold under the trade name Ubrelvy, is a medication used for the acute (immediate) treatment of migraine with or without aura (a sensory phenomenon or visual disturbance) in adults. It is not indicated for the preventive treatment of migraine. It is the first drug in the class of oral calcitonin gene-related peptide receptor antagonists approved for the acute treatment of migraine. |
The most common side effects are nausea, tiredness and dry mouth. Ubrogepant is contraindicated for co-administration with strong CYP3A4 inhibitors. |
It is a small-molecule calcitonin gene-related peptide receptor antagonist. |
The effectiveness of ubrogepant for the acute treatment of migraine was demonstrated in two randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials. In these studies, 1,439 adult patients with a history of migraine, with and without aura, received the approved doses of ubrogepant to treat an ongoing migraine. In both studies, the percentages of patients achieving pain freedom two hours after treatment (defined as a reduction in headache severity from moderate or severe pain to no pain) and whose most bothersome migraine symptom (nausea, light sensitivity or sound sensitivity) stopped two hours after treatment were significantly greater among patients receiving ubrogepant (19–21% depending on the dose) compared to those receiving placebo (12%). Patients were allowed to take their usual acute treatment of migraine at least two hours after taking ubrogepant. 23% of patients were taking a preventive medication for migraine. |
In December 2019, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Ubrelvy produced by Allergan USA, Inc. for treatment of migraine after onset. |
Federico Brusacà (born 30 January 1996) is an Italian footballer plays as a defender for Gsd Ghivizzano Borgoamozzano. |
Bang Won-sun was a South Korean basketball player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1948 Summer Olympics. |
Pacifica Siva is a project by English born Australian producer Anthony Copping. |
Copping's interest in the South Pacific stems back to a childhood obsession with New Guinea, reading about New Guinean tribes and dreamt of travelling through the jungle. |
In the late 1980s, Copping travelled to Fiji for a holiday and on a ferry trip to an outer island, Copping encountered a Fijian rugby team. "They had a guitar and started singing these songs and I couldn't believe how these massive, strapping, guys sang lullabies and produced these beautiful harmonies.". He returned to Suva, looking for Fijian-made records and found none. He searched Sydney and realised that there was simply no South Pacific music available. "It was apparently an area of non-interest as far as music was concerned and that was my first twinkling of Siva." |
In 1992, Copping produced some music for a West Papuan band, the Black Brothers. Over the next four years, Copping travelled and saved a collection of recordings and in 1997, the first Siva Pacifica album was released, selling over 100 000 copies. Robyn Loau, formerly of Australian band Girlfriend with whom Copping had worked, was face and voice of the project. |
Copping said "We really did something that no one had done before which was taking music from the South Pacific and releasing it very widely in Europe. For a non-English-speaking album it was an extraordinary event really. The French and Germans find that whole South Pacific area to be very unique and exotic." |
In 2003, a 90-minute documentary directed by Steve Best and produced by Richard Campbell and Anthony Copping was released under the title "Siva Pacifica: Lost Voices from Heaven". The documentary explores the more contemporary music of areas such as the Solomon Islands and West Papua to illustrate how the musical culture has developed. The concept for a documentary came after Copping had shot around fifty hours of Hi-8 footage while recording the album. |
National Geographic called it "the most dangerous expedition in the history of music". |
The series aired in Australia on Foxtel in 2004 and was nominated for "Most Outstanding Documentary Series" at the Logie Awards of 2005. |
Ronan Curtis (born 29 March 1996) is a professional footballer who plays as either a left winger or striker for League One club Portsmouth and the Republic of Ireland national team. |
Curtis started his career with Derry City in 2015, spending four seasons there and amassing 100 appearances and 24 goals. He agreed a deal with Portsmouth in May 2018 and joined the South Coast club for a fee believed to be approximately £100,000. In March 2019, he won his first senior honour, the EFL Trophy. |
He represented Ireland at under-21 level before making his senior debut in November 2018 in a 0–0 draw against Northern Ireland. |
Curtis moved to Derry City's academy in 2014, after playing for Kildrum Tigers and Swilly Rovers. He made his senior debut for the club on 8 May 2015, coming on as a second-half substitute in a 2–0 home loss against Galway United. |
Curtis scored his first goal for Derry on 30 October 2015, netting his team's first in a 4–2 away loss against Longford Town. On 25 November, he signed a two-year contract extension, and scored a brace in a 2–2 home draw against Shamrock Rovers on 27 September of the following year. |
On 19 February 2017, Curtis signed a new contract extension with the "Candystripes". He finished the campaign with eight goals in 32 appearances, and had a move to Swedish side Östersunds FK cancelled in August after failing to agree personal terms. |
On 7 May 2018, amid high interest from Portsmouth, Curtis scored a hat-trick in a 7–3 home routing of Shelbourne, taking his side to the semi-finals of the League of Ireland Cup. |
On 22 May 2018, League One side Portsmouth agreed a deal to sign Curtis from Derry City, for a transfer fee in the region of £100,000 on a two-year contract. Curtis made his English Football League debut at Fratton Park on 4 August, playing the full 90 minutes of a 1–0 victory over Luton Town. A week later, he scored his first two goals in a 2–1 win at Blackpool. On 31 March 2019, he won his first piece of silverware when Portsmouth won the 2018–19 EFL Trophy, defeating Sunderland 5–4 on penalties following a 2–2 draw after extra time. |
On 20 August 2019, Curtis scored his first goal of the new season in a 3–3 home draw against Coventry City with a header in the tenth minute. |
Although born in England, Curtis grew up in St Johnston, Donegal and has represented the Republic of Ireland at under-21 and senior level. On 7 September 2018, Curtis scored his first international goal in a 1–1 draw against Kosovo in the UEFA Under-21 Championship qualifying stage. |
Received the ROI under 21's player of the year 2018 |
On 9 September 2018, Curtis was called up to the senior Republic of Ireland squad for the friendly match against Poland two days later, in which he was an unused substitute. He was again added to the Ireland squad on 14 October for a UEFA Nations League encounter against Wales. He made his full Ireland debut on 15 November 2018, coming on as a half-time substitute for Callum O'Dowda in a goalless friendly against Northern Ireland at the Aviva Stadium. |
Curtis was born in London. He is the godson of Chris Coleman, who played for and managed Wales. Curtis supported Arsenal while growing up, but also watched Crystal Palace games. Curtis' mother is from Derry and his grandfather is from Cork, meaning Curtis was eligible to play for England, the Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland until making his competitive Ireland debut against Denmark in Aarhus in November 2018. Curtis is the youngest of 11 siblings. |
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An Byeong-seok (1923 – 1984) was a South Korean basketball player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1948 Summer Olympics and the 1956 Summer Olympics. |
Ananda Balika Vidyalaya is a public girls school located in Kotte., Sri Lanka. It was established in 1971 as the girls school of Ananda Sastralaya, Kotte. |
In the 1960s, Stanley Thilakaratne, a former MP from Kotte (who was selected as the speaker of the parliament later) pointed out the need for a girls' college in Kotte and reserved an unused land plot in the 13 acre land in the Pagoda Ananda Sastralaya Junior School No. 2. New Girls' School was established on 11 January 1971 as "Ananda Balika Vidyalaya, Kotte." |
Jo Deuk-jun was a South Korean basketball player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1948 Summer Olympics. |
In 2012, the Bishop of Liverpool James Jones and Studholme, as Chairman and Deputy Chairman respectively, conducted the Independent Forestry Panel report on the future of the UK’s state-owned forests after the government announced plans to sell off the British state forests. |
In 2017, he was appointed as an honorary professor of the College of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of Exeter researching the forestry in the British Isles, and the impact of tree disease. |
He was born in Exeter, Devon in 1958 as the son of Capt. Sir Paul Henry William Studholme, 2nd Bart. He was educated at Eton College and subsequently Trinity Hall, Cambridge with an MA in Engineering. He then became a chartered accountant (FCA) in London before working as an accountant and subsequently in manufacturing in the North of England. |
He ran the United Kingdom’s South West Regional Development Agency (South West RDA) from 2009 to 2012. During this time, the South West RDA helped bring projects including Wave Hub, the Eden Project and Osprey Quay to fruition. Through the RDA, he was also involved in the Airbus ‘Integrated Wing’ project, which generated over 850 high-skilled jobs and £40 million added-value to the economy, and the Combined Universities in Cornwall project. He oversaw the dissolution of the UK’s regional development agencies from 2012 to 2013. |
He also chaired the Finding Sanctuary project, working with environmentalists and the UK’s fishing industry on proposals for marine conservation from 2007 to 2011. He became a forestry commissioner of Great Britain in 2007. |
He previously ran a large publicly-quoted private timber company that owns and manages forests worldwide |
He lives at Perridge House with his wife Lucy. They have three children. His brother James Studholme is the founder of Blink production company. |
Studholme was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for Devon |
Gang Bong-hyeon was a South Korean basketball player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1948 Summer Olympics. |
Alliebrack National School, also known as St. Caillín's National School, Aillebrack is a national school situated on the west coast of Connemara, not far from the village of Ballyconneely. |
The school was built in 1884 and had 2 teachers; Mr. Kenneally and Mrs. Bartley. The school had only one room when it was first built. |
In January 1940 a tragedy occurred when there was an unexplained fire in the school. The school was burnt down, and a local priest, Canon Cunningham, arranged with Robert Blake, the owner of Bunowen Castle, that the children had their lessons in the castle while the school was rebuilt. |
At that time, the castle was in a poor condition having had a leaking roof, damp walls and rotten floorboards. The school was rebuilt in 1945 and the children and teachers moved back into the new building. The school was named after Saint Caillín, a local saint who was said to have banished all vermin from Chapel Island and the Patron Saint of fishermen. The 13th of November every year is St. Caillín's day and Aillebrack is the only school in Ireland to get a holiday on that day. |
In 1933 there were 65 children in the school. As of 2018, there is 39. When Dunloughan school closed down in 1967 the children transferred to Aillebrack school. |
Kim Jeong-sin (born 1919) was a South Korean basketball player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1948 Summer Olympics. |
The 2018–19 HT Premijer liga was the 28th season of the HT Premijer liga, the highest professional basketball league in Croatia. It started on October 6, 2018 and finished on May 30, 2019. |
As in the previous season, all participants in Premijer liga including teams that play ABA League joined the regular season. It was played with a double round-robin format where the eight first qualified teams joined the playoffs, while the penultimate will be play relegation playoffs and last qualified one was relegated. |
Quarterfinals and semifinals will be played in a best-of-three-games format, while the finals in a best-of-five one. |
As of the 2018–19 season, team who lost the 2018–19 First League final and the 11th placed team of the 2018–19 Premijer liga season will play in the Qualifiers for a spot in the 2019–20 Premijer liga season. |
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Doon Hill is an extinct volcano in Aillebrack, near Ballyconneely, Co. Galway. |
There is a fort on top of Doon Hill. Bunowen Castle was built in the mid 1700s using the stones from Granuaile's Castle. Oliver Cromwell burnt it in the year 1653. In the famine the watch tower on Doon Hill was a poor house. The McDonagh family are the current owners of the castle. |
Doon Hill is a landmark that can be seen from miles away by land or sea. Coming from Galway, the first glimpse can be got, across the bog in Gabhlan, on the hill above Clifden. Fishermen use it as a landmark to guide them into Bunowen Pier. The Irish name <nowiki>"</nowiki>dun<nowiki>"</nowiki> means <nowiki>"</nowiki>fortress<nowiki>"</nowiki> possibly indicating that during Celtic times there was a fort on top of the hill. In 1650 the castle and estate was planted by a landlord from Westmeath named Arthur Geoghegan. He inhabited the castle until the year 1840. |
The castle is situated in the townland of Bunowen in the barony of Ballynahinch and stands on 365 acres of fertile land. It incorporates a garden - where fruit and vegetables were grown for the Ascendancy a bathing box, a cemetery and the ruins of a 500 A.D church. The O' Flaherty's who built the castle, were driven to Connemara by the Normans. |
Ambra Medda (born 1981) is a London based design consultant who is the co-founder and director of Design Miami. She also co-founded the design website L’ArcoBaleno and headed a department at Christies auction house. |
In 2005, Medda co-founded Design Miami, along with real estate developer Craig Robins, and was also the fair’s director until 2010. The annual event, which is considered to be "one of the most influential design fairs in the world", first began as a salon for Italian design. A sister show, called Design Miami Basel, was launched in Switzerland and is also held yearly. As director, Medda created partnerships with notable galleries, collectors and companies, bringing together the international design community. After stepping down, she continued to sit on committees and acted as a creative consultant for the fair. |
In 2013, Medda co-founded an e-commerce design website named L’ArcoBaleno, meaning "rainbow" in Italian. The site included collaborations with David Adjaye, Tom Dixon and Reed Krakoff. |
In 2015, Medda became Global Creative Director of the "20/21 Design" department at Christies. Her department focused on auctioning design objects, such as furniture and lighting, from the 20th and 21st century. In 2016, she founded Ambra Medda Office (AMO), a design consultancy firm where she advises clients like Airbnb and Louis Vuitton. Medda is also involved with the Design Museum in London as a trustee and committee member. |
Medda's other projects include curating an exhibit for Madrid artist José María Cano in 2004. In 2008, she authored the book "Destination: Limited-Edition Design", which examined the top exhibition places in the world. |
In 2009, she collaborated with Fendi, bringing together designers for the project Craft Punk. She also helped design a 2014 collection of handbags for the Roger Vivier brand and was featured in its ad campaign. In 2018, Medda organized visits to the Villa Borsani, designed by Osvaldo Borsani, for the Milan Furniture Fair in Italy. |
Medda has been described as being an "icon of the style" by the French magazine Madame Figaro. She has stated that "putting the historic and the contemporary together brings out the best in both". By mixing the old and new, her design aesthetic has been interpreted as creating tension with unexpected combinations. Medda also came up with the phrase "designers are the new rock stars". |
Medda was born in Greece, to a Sardinian mother and Austrian father, and later lived in London and Milan. |
Growing up she attended auctions with her mother, who was a design dealer and co-founder of the Themes and Variations gallery in London. |
She studied "Chinese Language and Culture", as well as "Asian Art", at London University Medda was previously married to American singer Damian Kulash. She currently lives in London with Edward Barber and they have two children. |
Tantamanni is a Swedish island belonging to the Haparanda archipelago. The island is located 27 kilometers south of the town Haparanda. The island has no shore connection. Tantamanni is an island that consists partly of sandy beaches, partly of mudflat and partly of a wooded area. Two-thirds of the island is part of Natura 2000 because of the antiquity of its forests. |
Binnören is a Swedish island belonging to the Kalix archipelago. It is connected to Rönnören by a road over a dam, which is connected to the mainland by a road. The island is uninhabited. |
Lee Jun-yeong was a South Korean basketball player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1948 Summer Olympics. |
Comitas miyazakiensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies. |
Holotype in Kyushu University Research Museum. |
This marine species occurs off Japan |
Lee Sang-hun was a South Korean basketball player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1948 Summer Olympics. |
O Su-cheol (born 1917) was a South Korean basketball player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1948 Summer Olympics. |
General Sir Alfred William Lucas (5 July 1822 – 19 February 1896) was a senior British staff officer in the British Indian Army |
He was born 5 July 1822 and baptised on 3 August 1822 in St Alfege Church, Greenwich, London, the son of Charles and Elizabeth Lucas. |
He joined the Bombay Army as an ensign in 1838 and was promoted Lieutenant in 1840, Captain in 1852, Major in 1858, Lieutenant Colonel in 1864 and Colonel in 1868. |
He took part in the Southern Mahratta Campaign of 1844-45, the Anglo-Persian War of 1856–59 and the Indian Mutiny of 1857–59. He was a staff officer in the Rajputana Field Force which pursued Tantia Topes forces through Rajputana in 1857. In 1867–68 he was appointed head of the Commissariat in the punitive Abyssinia Expedition of 1868 after which he served as Deputy Commissary General in Bombay until 1877. |