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Her life was shaped by her political commitment.
She sat in the Citizens' Council of Basel, campaigned for women's suffrage in Switzerland, and joined the Grand Council of Basel in 1968.
She became the first female "Statthalter" of the city of Basel in 1974, and the first female speaker of the Grand Council of the canton of Basel-Stadt.
Moreover, she was a member of the National Council from 1975 to 1983.
Her fields of interest included social and education policy.
Spiess was single.
Jalaa (disambiguation)
Jalaa language also known as Cèntûm, Centúúm or Cen Tuum, is an extinct language of northeastern Nigeria (Loojaa settlement in Balanga Local Government Area, Gombe State), of uncertain origins, apparently a language isolate.
Jalaa may also refer to:
Ushantha Perera
Ushantha Perera (born 5 September 1992) is a Sri Lankan cricketer.
He made his Twenty20 debut on 6 January 2020, for Unichela Sports Club in the 2019–20 SLC Twenty20 Tournament.
Chanuka Bandara (cricketer, born 1998)
Chanuka Bandara (born 13 February 1998) is a Sri Lankan cricketer.
He made his Twenty20 debut on 6 January 2020, for Unichela Sports Club in the 2019–20 SLC Twenty20 Tournament.
Nishan Thilanka
Nishan Thilanka (born 2 January 1991) is a Sri Lankan cricketer.
He made his Twenty20 debut on 6 January 2020, for Unichela Sports Club in the 2019–20 SLC Twenty20 Tournament.
Zephaniah Swift Spalding
Zephaniah Swift Spalding (September 2, 1837– June 19, 1927) was a veteran of the American Civil War, who was first sent to Hawaii on a clandestine mission for US Secretary of State .
He later moved to Hawaii and made a fortune in the sugar plantation business.
Commonly known as Col. Spalding, or as Z.
S, Zephaniah Swift Spalding was born in Warren, Ohio, on September 2,1837, the fifth of seven children of Lucretia A.
Swift Spalding and Rufus Paine Spalding .
As a young lawyer, Rufus had apprenticed under Lucretia's father Zephaniah Swift.
Two years after son Zephaniah's birth, Rufus entered politics, as a member of the Ohio House of Representatives, and later as a member of the US House of Representatives.
In the American Civil War, Z. S. was a Union Army lieutenant colonel in the 27th Ohio Infantry.
During the reign of Kamehameha V, debates heated up in both Honolulu and Washington D. C. over a proposed sugar tariff reciprocity treaty between the United States and the Kingdom of Hawaii, versus outright American annexation of the island nation.
Secretary of State enlisted Spalding in an 1867 clandestine mission to Hawaii as a go-between observer accompanying United States Ambassador to Hawaii Edward M. McCook.
Spalding would later testify that Seward's verbal directives were to gather intelligence on the kingdom's perspectives of Hawaii's ties to America, but was unwilling to put his directives in writing.
His father Congressman Spalding received his son's missives, and forwarded them to Seward.
Following the defeat of a proposed reciprocity treaty in the United States Congress, Spalding was named the United States Consul to Hawaii for twelve months during 1868–1869.
Spalding eventually relocated to San Francisco, California.
With the passage of the Reciprocity Treaty of 1875, he returned to Hawaii as an agent for the "Sugar Refineries of the city of San Francisco" bidding for the total year's crop.
The planters rejected the proposition, and Spalding re-approached them as an independent buyer.
He along with John Smith Walker and William G. Irwin organized William G. Irwin & Co.
He began investing in the sugar industry, as owner of the Kealia Plantation on Kauai.
He married Wilhelmina Makee, daughter of James Makee, owner of the Makee Sugar Company at Kapaa.
Upon Makee's 1879 death, Spalding inherited all of his father-in-law's business investments.
As the 1883 renewal, or termination, of the reciprocity treaty neared, the previously independent planters saw it in their best interests to organize.
Spalding was one of the founders of the Planters Labor and Supply Company when it was chartered in March 1882.
In October, he was elected president.
The Makee Company was sold in 1916 for an undisclosed sum, but speculators at the time believed the sale price was in the area of $2,000,000 ().
Several individuals over the decades put forth proposals to lay a telegraph cable from San Francisco to each of the Hawaiian islands.
The Republic of Hawaii contracted with Spalding in 1895, allotting a modest annual subsidy for the project, with a stipulation of a completion deadline.
Additional funding was needed from the US government, but Congress failed to act on Spalding's request, and the terms of the contract could not be met.
It was not until 1900 that the US Senate allocated money for a cable, which was laid by the Commercial Pacific Company in 1902.
Spalding was appointed to represent Hawaii at the 1890 Universal Exposition (World's Fair) in Paris.
On July 18,1871, he married Wilhelmina Harris Makee (1847–1908).
They had five children: Rufus Paine Spalding (1875–1946), Catherine Lucretia “Kitty” Spalding Clearwater (1875–1965), Julia Makee Spalding Senni (1876–1949), Alice Makee Spalding Bonzi (1879–1949) and James Makee Spalding (1880–1954).
The children were educated in Europe.
The family maintained homes in both Hawaii and California.
Spalding's 50th birthday celebration on Kauai in 1887, drew an estimated attendance of 1,000 to 1400 guests.
Mrs. Spalding was primarily based in California, and had been in ill health for years, prior to her 1908 death.
Z. S. died June 19, 1927, at his home in Pasadena, California.
Rune Naito
Naito was born in Okazaki, Aichi.
He pursued illustration after discovering the art of Jun'ichi Nakahara as a child, and began correspondence with the artist after graduating high school.
Nakahara invited Natio to study under him as an assistant, prompting Naito to relocate from Okazaki to Tokyo at age 19.
In 1954, Nakahara became a contributor to "Junior Soleil", a girls' magazine edited by Nakahara, where he produced illustrations and wrote a fashion column titled "Fairy Memo".
He drew under the pen name "Rune", as a reference to filmmaker René Clément.
Naito's "Rune Girl" illustrations, first published in "Junior Soleil", were distinguished by their large heads ("nitōshin") and baby-faced features.
These illustrations are credited with pioneering the concept of "kawaii", expanding the meaning of the word beyond its use as synonymous with "childish" to define what would become a culture and aesthetic.
Children, fruit, and animals were common motifs in his art; after seeing pandas at the London Zoo in 1971, Naito created "Rune Panda", who would become one of his most ubiquitous and popular characters.
Naito's first books, "Konnichiwa Mademoiselle" and "Junior's Diary", were published in 1959 and 1960, respectively.
He departed girls' magazines in the 1960s to illustrate for women's, fashion, and interior design magazines.
From the 1960s to the 1980s, he produced his own line of commercial goods, including glassware, tableware, and stickers.
In the 1970s and 1980s, Naito contributed gay erotic illustrations to "Barazoku", the first commercially-circulated gay men's magazine in Japan; the cover to the first issue of the magazine was designed by Naito's long-time partner Ryu Fujita.
Naito's works were not overtly pornographic, instead depicting what he described as "cheerfulness and sexiness" that did not make men "look degraded."
Naito was publicly closeted for the majority of his life, and did not come out as gay until his 2005 memoir "Subete o Nakushite" ("After Losing Everything").
Though Natio's erotic illustrations were historically excluded from retrospectives of his work, recent exhibitions (such as 2019's "Roots of Kawaii") have begun to include them.
Beginning in the 1980s, Naito began to create works that were a departure from his early "kawaii" aesthetic, such as oil paintings and freehand sketches influenced by Henri Rousseau.
On October 24, 2007, Natio died of acute heart failure in his home in Izu, Shizuoka at the age of 74.
While Natio was widely recognized in Japan in his lifetime, his works have continued to grow in popularity since his death.
In 2011, founder Sebastian Masuda launched "Rune Boutique", an exhibition and pop-up shop featuring Natio's works, in Los Angeles.
In 2018, Peach Aviation launched a plane featuring artwork of Rune Girl.
Lasindu Arosha
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He made his Twenty20 debut on 6 January 2020, for Unichela Sports Club in the 2019–20 SLC Twenty20 Tournament.
Danushka Madushanka
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He made his Twenty20 debut on 6 January 2020, for Unichela Sports Club in the 2019–20 SLC Twenty20 Tournament.
William E. Cooper (general)
William E. Cooper (born 19 June 1929) is a retired major general in the United States Army who served as Deputy Director for Foreign Intelligence at the Defense Intelligence Agency.
He was commissioned through ROTC at The Citadel and holds degrees from the University of Miami and Georgetown University.
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The women's discus throw event at the 1987 Summer Universiade was held at the Stadion Maksimir in Zagreb on 13 July 1987.
Johann Dominikus Schultze
Johann Dominikus Schultze (June 16, 1751 in Gröden - May 22, 1790 in Hamburg) was a German doctor and natural scientist.
He attended the Johanneum and the Akademisches Gymnasium in Hamburg.
Here he heard lectures by the doctor and naturalist Johann Albert Heinrich Reimarus and the doctor and botanist Paul Dietrich Giseke .
The 1776 description of "Papilio arnaca" by Johann Christian Fabricius was based on an unspecified number of specimens from Suriname, in Schulze's collection.
Two other Schulze Lepidoptera were species of "Papilio" for which he selected names which had recently been introduced by Pieter Cramer ("claudia" and "iphigenia") for other species in "Uitlandsche Kapellen".
Thus Schulze's names were invalid primary homonyms.
Schulze said that Fabricius had visited him in Hamburg to see his collection, and would be including the new species in the "mantissa" (or supplement) to his "Systema entomologiæ" (1775) Fabricius duly did so in the 1777 "Genera insectorum" and Schulze's new names are often credited to Fabricius in error.
Thomas F. Cole (general)
Thomas Frederick Cole (born 17 November 1928) is a retired major general in the United States Army who served as Deputy Commanding General of Sixth United States Army from 1984 to 1988.
He was commissioned upon graduation from the United States Military Academy in 1952.
Beach handball at the World Beach Games
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