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Claude Bouchiat
Claude Bouchiat, born May 16, 1932, is a French physicist, member of the French Academy of sciences.
Graduate of the École Polytechnique in 1955, he was director of research at the CNRS in the theoretical physics laboratory of the École Normale Supérieure from 1971 to 2003.
He became honorary research director as of this year.
His wife Marie-Anne Bouchiat, a physicist, and their daughter Hélène Bouchiat, also a physicist, are both members of the French Academy of sciences.
1980: Elected correspondant of the French Academy of sciences in the Physics section
1983: Prix Ampère de l’Électricité de France by the French Academy of sciences
1990: Prize of the three physicists by the École normale supérieure de Paris
Josep M. Armengol
Josep María Armengol Carrera (Barcelona, 4 July 1977) is a Spanish literary scholar and researcher in the field of gender and masculinity studies.
BA and PhD in English from the University of Barcelona (2006), having authored the first doctoral thesis in Spain on cultural and literary representations of masculinity.
In 2007 he moved to the Center for the Study of Men and Masculinities at Stony Brook University, USA, where he carried out his postdoctoral research together with Dr. Michael Kimmel.
Subsequently, he moved to the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, working as of 2012 as Associate Professor (accredited as Full Professor in 2018) in gender studies and American literature.
As part of his work on literary representations of African-American masculinities, he argued the centrality of race to James Baldwin's Giovanni’s Room, which had been traditionally studied as a book on homosexuality rather than ethnicity.
Besides being a postdoctoral fellow of the Fulbright-SAAS program in the USA (2016), in 2018 he became the Principal Investigator of the MASCAGE project, focused on representations of masculinity and aging in contemporary European literatures and cinemas, and funded by the Gendernet-Plus Era-Net Co-fund program of the European Union.
Armengol is also Editor of the international journal Men and Masculinities as well as the "Masculinity Studies" series Editor at Peter Lang publishing.
He is also cited as one of the fundamental experts in the study of "Hegemonic Masculinity" and "alternative" masculinities.
His research has been published in international journals such as Signs, Journal of Gender Studies, Men and Masculinities and MELUS, among others.
In addition to editing volumes such as Debating Masculinity (2008), Alternative Masculinities for a Changing World (2014) and Masculinities and Literary Studies (2017), he is the author of the monographs Richard Ford and the Fiction of Masculinities, the winner of the “Enrique García Díez” Literary Research Award (Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies, 2010) and Masculinities in Black and White, the recipient of the Javier Coy Research Award.
(Spanish Association for American Studies, 2014).
Bagwada railway station
Bagwada railway station is a small railway station on the Western Railway network in the state of Gujarat, India.
Bagwada railway station is 20 km away from Valsad railway station.
Passenger and MEMU trains halt here.
StreetArtNews
StreetArtNews is an art magazine and online newspapers to represent and promote street and urban art, globally.
It was founded in 2009 by a French art curator, Rom Levy.
StreetArtNews was established in 2009 by Rom Levy, a French art curator.
StreetArtNews showcased the works by several global street and urban artists for one week in June 2016 at the Urban Nation Berlin, in Schöneberg, Berlin, which included artworks by Felipe Pantone, Okuda San Miguel, and Tristan Eaton.
It also curated Dubai Street Museum, a street and urban art to promote artists from all around the world.
It was initiated in 2016 after an approval from UAE's Vice President Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.
It is the number one online art newspaper according to 2019 report.
Allan Cowburn
The Reverend Allan Cowburn later known as Allan Cowburn-Masters-Smith (16 January 1820 — 8 October 1875) was an English first-class cricketer and clergyman.
The son of William Cowburn, he was born in January 1820 at St Pancras.
He was educated at Winchester College, before going up to Exeter College, Oxford.
While studying at Oxford, Cowburn played three first-class cricket matches for Oxford University in 1841, playing twice against the Marylebone Cricket Club and once against Cambidge University in The University Match.
Playing as a bowler, he took 12 wickets and took a five wicket haul on a single occasion.
After graduating from Oxford, he took holy orders in the Anglican Church.
He was the vicar of Tidenham in Gloucestershire from 1854–62.
He later changed his surname to Cowburn-Masters-Smith.
He died in October 1875 at Meopham, Kent.
His son, William, was also a first-class cricketer.
National Geographic Channel Korea (U.S. TV channel)
National Geographic Channel Korea is a Korean language documentary television channel in the United States operated by Radio Korea Media Group under the license.
Launched on November 18, 2009, the channel broadcasts documentary and factual films and series supplied from the National Geographic Society for most of time, either dubbed or subtitled in Korean.
It also broadcasts South Korean and other Korean language productions in occasion.
Hass refugee camp bombing
The Hass refugee camp bombing was a war crime through an aerial bombardment of a refugee camp in the Syrian opposition-held town of Hass in the Idlib Governorate of Syria.
It was perpetrated on 16 August 2019, during the Syrian Civil War.
The bombing killed 20 civilians, including a pregnant woman, and injured another 52 people.
The refugee camp was located outside the town, eight miles from the nearest front line, and there were no military targets nearby.
Later analysis confirmed that the bombing was perpetrated by a bomber jet of the Russian Federation.
The blast collapsed a row of buildings around the courtyard of the camp.
It was part of a wider Syrian military campaign against Idlib in 2019.
Human Rights Watch released a statement saying that "under international law, deliberate or reckless attacks against civilians and civilian objects committed with criminal intent are war crimes".
France condemned the airstrike on the refugee camp and called for the cessation of hostilities.
2019–20 Florida Atlantic Owls men's basketball team
The 2019–20 Florida Atlantic Owls men's basketball team represent Florida Atlantic University in the 2019–20 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.
The Owls, led by 2nd-year head coach Dusty May, play their home games at RoofClaim.com Arena, formerly known as FAU Arena, in Boca Raton, Florida as members of Conference USA.
The Owls finished the 2018–19 season 17–16 overall, 8–10 in C-USA play to finish in a four-way tie for 9th place.
In the C-USA tournament, they were defeated by Louisiana Tech in the first round.
They were invited to the CIT, where they lost to Charleston Southern in the first round.
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!colspan=12 style=| Non-conference regular season
!colspan=12 style=| Conference USA regular season
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David J. Smyth
David J. Smyth (26 July 1872 - 4 December 1954) was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1901-02.
He was described by Rudolph Blankenburg as having been dismissed as Director of Public Safety in Philadelphia "for the good of the service".
Gandhi Smriti railway station
Gandhi Smriti railway station is a small railway station on the Western Railway network in the state of Gujarat, India.
Gandhi Smriti railway station is 3 km away from Navsari railway station.
Passenger and MEMU trains halt here.
List of members of the United Confederate Veterans
This page contains a list of notable members of the United Confederate Veterans.
Shao Xinyu
Shao Xinyu (; born November 1967) is a Chinese engineer currently serving as Communist Party Secretary of Huazhong University of Science and Technology.
Shao was born in Jingjiang, Jiangsu, in November 1968.
His father Shao Daosheng () is a researcher at the Institute of Sociology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
He attended Jingjiang High School.
He earned a bachelor's degree in 1986, a master's degree in 1990, and a doctor's degree in 1992, all from Huazhong University of Science and Technology.
He pursued advanced studies in the United States, earning a doctor's degree from the University of Michigan.
He was a research assistant at Ford Motor Company between June 1996 and August 1998.
He joined the mechanics faculty of Huazhong University of Science and Technology in December 1998 and was promoted to dean in October 2002.
In July 2013, he became executive vice-president, a position at department level ().
In December 2017 he was promoted to Communist Party Secretary of the university, a position at vice-ministerial level.
Komodo Armament Eli gun
Eli gun is an Indonesian six-barrel rotary machine gun made by local manufacturer PT.
Komodo Armament Indonesia.
It can be used for various land, air, and sea vehicles.
As a modular system, it is easily adapted to any existing platform.
It uses the 7.62x51 mm NATO ammunition.
The first prototype was unveiled in Indo Defence 2014 Expo & Forum.
The weapon was a result of cooperation between Indonesia and Italy.
Denis Gratias
Denis Gratias, born on 22 September 1947 in Paris (France) is a French scientist, emeritus research director at the CNRS.
His speciality is materials science, in particular crystallography.