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At the time of the Russian Empire Census of 1897, Lukoyanovsky Uyezd had a population of 193,454.
Of these, 85.2% spoke Russian, 14.3% Mordvin and 0.3% Belarusian as their native language.
Sheshan Fernando
Sheshan Fernando (born 13 November 1999) is a Sri Lankan cricketer.
He made his first-class debut on 15 February 2018, for Chilaw Marians Cricket Club in the 2017–18 Premier League Tournament.
He made his List A debut on 15 December 2019, for Negombo Cricket Club in the 2019–20 Invitation Limited Over Tournament.
He made his Twenty20 debut on 4 January 2020, for Negombo Cricket Club in the 2019–20 SLC Twenty20 Tournament.
GirlsDoPorn
GirlsDoPorn was an American amateur pornography website based in San Diego.
The website depicted women performing sexual intercourse on a casting couch.
It was founded by New Zealand businessmen Michael Pratt and Matthew Isaac Wolfe.
In August 2019, a lawsuit was filed against its owners by twenty-two women who performed in the videos released by the company.
The women were awarded $12.7 million in January 2020.
In October 2019, Pornhub removed Girls Do Porn videos from its website.
In November 2019, its owner faced child pornography charges.
In January 2020, the website has been taken down after a $13 million judgment.
GirlsDoPorn website goes offline after $13M judgment, criminal charges
Guo Xingyuan
Guo Xingyuan (, born 20 October 1988) is a Chinese para table tennis player.
He has won one gold medal and two silver medals from three Paralympic Games (2008, 2012, and 2016).
Like many of his teammates, Guo was a polio victim from Pizhou who attended New Hope Center as a child.
That's where coach Heng Xin developed him into a star.
June Jackson
Dame Temuranga Batley-Jackson, (born 24 August 1939), known as June Jackson, is a New Zealand Māori activist and public servant.
She was Chief Executive Officer of the Manukau Urban Māori Authority from 1986 to 2009, and a member of the New Zealand Parole Board from 1991.
In 1959, she married Robert "Bob" Jackson.
Together they had three children, including the politician and broadcaster Willie Jackson.
Her husband died in 2013.
In the 1996 Birthday Honours, Jackson was appointed Companion of the Queen's Service Order (QSO) for public services.
In the 2010 Birthday Honours, she was appointed Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit (DNZM) for services to Māori.
Norway at the 1984 Winter Paralympics
Norway competed at the 1984 Winter Paralympics held in Innsbruck, Austria.
In total athletes representing Norway won 15 gold medals, 13 silver medals and 13 bronze medals and the country finished in 3rd place in the medal table.
Competitors representing Norway won six gold medals, three silver medals and two bronze medals.
Competitors representing Norway won nine gold medals, 10 silver medals and 11 bronze medals.
Alexander Lind
Alexander Lind (born 23 March 1989) is a Norwegian football striker who plays for FK Donn.
He spent time in Eliteserien with IK Start in 2014, playing almost half the games.
He thereafter played four seasons in the 1. divisjon with FK Jerv.
List of American art awards
This list of American art awards covers some of the main art awards given by organizations in the United States.
Some are restricted to Visual artists of the United States in a particular genre or from a given region, while others are broader in scope.
Ralph Priso
Ralph-William Johnson Priso-Mbongue (born August 2, 2002) is a Canadian soccer player who plays as a midfielder for Toronto FC II in USL League One.
Makaryevsky Uyezd (Nizhny Novgorod Governorate)
Makaryevsky Uyezd ("Макарьевский уезд") was one of the subdivisions of the Nizhny Novgorod Governorate of the Russian Empire.
It was situated in the northeastern part of the governorate.
Its administrative centre was Makaryevo.
At the time of the Russian Empire Census of 1897, Makaryevsky Uyezd had a population of 108,994.
Of these, 98.5% spoke Russian, 1.2% Mari and 0.1% Tatar as their native language.
Plieščanicy
Plieščanicy () is an urban-type settlement in the northern part of Belarus.
It is located in the Lahoysk District of the Minsk Region, 60 km to the north of Minsk.
Plieščanicy has an elevation of 211 m (692 ft) above sea level.
The topography of the surrounding area is relatively flat and sparsely populated.
Plieščanicy is the largest settlement in the area, with a population of 5,835 inhabitants.
Geraldine Wright
Geraldine (Jeri) Wright is an insect neuroethologist in the United Kingdom.
In 2018 she became the Professor of Comparative Physiology/Organismal Biology at the University of Oxford and Tutorial Fellow of Hertford College.
Originally born in Wyoming in the United States, Wright did a BSc in Botany at the University of Wyoming and then a PhD in insect nutrition and herbivory at Hertford College, University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar in 1994.
She moved to Ohio State University to do postdoctoral research on olfaction in honeybees in the Rothenbuhler Honeybee Laboratory and she also completed an MSc in Statistics at Ohio State University.
Wright later moved to Newcastle University as a lecturer, then Reader and subsequently Professor in Neuroethology.
She moved to the University of Oxford in 2018 where she is Professor of Comparative Physiology/Organismal Biology and Tutorial Fellow of Hertford College.
Wright's research has looked at the effects of intoxication in honeybees with ethanol, finding that with increased ethanol consumption the bees spent less time on normal behaviours such as flying, walking and grooming, and instead spent more time upside down.
She has also done research to look for emotions in bees, testing their responses to smells that were unfamiliar to them.
Bees that had been subjected to an uncomfortable experience prior to the test were less likely to test the smells, and were perceived as pessimists compared to those that had not had the experience.
Levels of neurotransmitters such as octopamine, dopamine and serotonin were also lower in bees that had the uncomfortable experience.
Her work has also looked at the effects of insecticides on bees, finding that a combination of insecticides can have a greater detrimental effect on bee learning and memory than a single compound.
Wright also found that the nicotine present in neonicotinoid insecticides may 'give bees a buzz', as honeybees and bumblebees preferred food containing neonicotinoids over that without.
In contrast she found that caffeine can improve the memory of bees of a particular scent that might bear nectar and subsequent research by Wright showed that bees have two neurons in each tastebud which help regulate bees' response to particular tastes.
Ports of the Republic of Siena
The Republic of Siena in its progressive territorial growth saw its borders expanding especially in the territories of southern Tuscany in the current province of Grosseto.
The possession of an "access to the sea" by Siena was therefore a natural continuation of its expansionary and commercial policy in the Maremma with the conquest of the ports of Talamone, Porto Ercole and Porto Santo Stefano.
In order to ensure access to maritime traffic and a competitive sales network, Siena already tried to secure the use of the Grosseto river port in the 13th century.
However, the port, swept away during the 14th century by the violent flood that removed the course of the Ombrone from the city, never had any development, also due to the incorrect economic policy of Siena and the lack of a productive background.
In May 1303, the abbot of the monastery of San Salvatore, Friar Ranieri, arrived in Siena proposing to the government of the Nine the purchase of the lands belonging to the monastery (even if they were then occupied militarily by the Counts of Santa Fiora), including Talamone and Castiglion di Val d'Orcia.
After a difficult negotiation, the purchase contract was signed on 10 September 1303.
At the price of 900 gold florins the port of Talamone, the Contrada di Valentina and Castiglion di Val d'Orcia were sold to the Republic of Siena which also placed the monastery under its protection.
The possession of an outlet to the sea was extensively celebrated in Siena, hoping to increase its trade in this way, despite being affected by the negative consequences that the failure of the Gran Tavola bank of the Bonsignori had caused in relations with France and northern Italy.
In May 1304 a bailiff was established for three Sienese citizens who took care of the needs of the port of Talamone and communicated them to Siena.
At this point, it was necessary to decide the strategy to be followed regarding the port.
The General Council of the Bell was divided on two opposing ideas represented respectively by Mignanello dei Mignanelli and Cione di Alemanno dei Piccolomini.
The first claimed that the government of the Nine should have full authority in the work, while the second claimed that it was necessary to agree with the Genoese for the proper development of the port given the inexperience of the Sienese in maritime affairs.
It was decided to avoid external interference by directly managing the seaport.
From 1305, restoration work was carried out for the harbor walls, roads were improved, a bridge was built and the quarterdeck was rebuilt while, to avoid possible hostilities with the Counts of Santa Fiora, the boundaries were precisely established.
The following year a ban was placed for the salt evaporation pond that should have provided half of the product to the Commune because it was his property.
On the recommendation of three Sienese citizens sent to the site, in 1309 improvements were made both to the castle and to the port to make it easier for sailors to land thanks to wooden piers, as well as to start work on a lighthouse.
Following the adhesion to the Tuscan Guelph League, made possible thanks to the political change imposed by the Nine that removed the city from the empire, Siena then found itself to be allied with Florence.
Given the growing enmities existing towards the Ghibelline Pisa, the Florentine government stipulated an agreement on 17 August 1311 with the Sienese Republic for the passage of all their goods by sea from Talamone.
With the descent of the Emperor Henry in Tuscany there were various reprisals against the Florentine merchants in Genoa and, probably for the same reason of damaging the Florentine trade, some Sienese Ghibelline exiles attacked Talamone in 1312; in that moment without defenses.
It took the Republic of Siena two years to regain control of the port.
However, already in 1320 there was a new aggression, this time on the part of Genoese exiles, who sacked Talamone with a large quantity of wheat bound for Siena, burdened at that time with a famine.
In the following years the Municipality of Siena committed itself to taking the necessary measures to avoid new foreign incursions, together with the granting of privileges to the inhabitants of the port in order to encourage the growth of the Talamone population.
Despite the efforts, the population and the safety of the airport turned out to be a failure also considering the pressing presence of malaria.
The port was forced to suffer a new hostile occupation in 1328 by the army of the king of Sicily who tried to take Grosseto as well.
Given the impossibility of managing the port in a fruitful way, the government of the Nine opted for the concession of Talamone for rent to the Duke of Calabria through his ducal vicar.
In 1339 the port was granted for eight years to the Genoese Manfredi del Fiesco, count of Lavagna.
However, due to some breaches of the agreements, the contract was canceled and the maritime port returned to the direct control of Siena.
Following new clashes against the Pisans due to the influence on Lucca, Florence renewed the agreements with the Republic of Siena for the rights of Florentine merchants in the port of Talamone in 1340; situation that was repeated in 1356.
Upon learning of the treaty with Florence, Pisa threatened to occupy the port and tried several times to attack it, failing thanks to Florence's commitment to protect its maritime trade.