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Smart finished his career as the school’s all-time leading rebounder with 1,051 rebounds (since eclipsed).
Following his college career, he was drafted by the Detroit Pistons in the seventh round (48th pick overall) of the 1959 NBA draft.
Smart decided against pursuing a professional career, instead becoming a dentist.
Smart died on November 18, 2019 at the age of 82.
Marcelo Felipe
Marcelo Felipe Hernández (born 10 February 1990) is a Filipino cyclist, who currently rides for .
Rydman
Rydman is a surname.
Notable people with the surname include:
List of presidents of the University of Scranton
This article is a list of presidents of the University of Scranton, located in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Key: a dash (–) indicates an acting president.
Gisela Robledo
Gisela Robledo Gil (born 13 May 2003) is a Colombian footballer who plays as a midfielder for América de Cali and the Colombia women's national team.
Robledo made her senior debut for Colombia on 9 November 2019.
1990 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I
The Europe/Africa Zone was one of the three zones of the regional Davis Cup competition in 1990.
In the Europe/Africa Zone there were two different tiers, called groups, in which teams competed against each other to advance to the upper tier.
Winners in Group I advanced to the World Group Qualifying Round, along with losing teams from the World Group first round.
Teams who lost in the first round competed in the relegation play-offs, with winning teams remaining in Group I, whereas teams who lost their play-offs were relegated to the Europe/Africa Zone Group IIs in 1991.
1947 Texas College Steers football team
The 1947 Texas College Steers football team was an American football team that represented Texas College in the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) during the 1947 college football season.
In their sixth season under head coach Alexander Durley, the team compiled a 5–2–3 record, 3–1–1 against conference opponents.
The team was ranked No.
16 among the nation's black college football teams according to the "Pittsburgh Courier" and its Dickinson Rating System.
Jurgis Petkūnas
Jurgis Petkūnas (also Petkevičius, Petkonis; ; died in 1574) was a Bishop of Samogitia from 1567 to 1574.
He received medical education in universities in Germany and Italy.
Despite his lack of theological education, Petkūnas was confirmed as bishop in November 1567.
He inherited a neglected diocese that had only about 20 priests and faced competition from the Protestants.
He was the first Samogitian bishop charged with implementing the Counter-Reformation decisions of the Council of Trent.
Petkūnas was born in Eišiškės to a wealthy Lithuanian noble family.
He was orphaned as a child.
He studied at the University of Wittenberg and University of Padua and University of Ferrara where he earned a doctorate in medicine in May 1556.
Petkūnas returned to Lithuania and became a physician of bishop as well as the Calvinist supporter Mikołaj "the Black" Radziwiłł.
According to an anonymous satire from 1568, Petkūnas also served as a royal physician.
He became a canon of the cathedral chapter in Varniai, which was then the seat of the Diocese of Samogitia.
In November 1563, he became a canon of the cathedral chapter in Vilnius, capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and seat of the Diocese of Vilnius.
On 30 January 1567, Grand Duke Sigismund Augustus sent a request to Pope Pius V to reassign bishop from Samogitia to now vacant Diocese of Lutsk and to appoint Petkūnas as bishop of Samogitia.
Despite his lack of theological education, Petkūnas was confirmed as bishop on 14 November 1567.
The diocese did not have a permanent bishop for about four years and Petkūnas found it neglected and affected by the Protestant Reformation.
He was the first Samogitian bishop charged with implementing the Counter-Reformation decisions of the Council of Trent.
However, little is known about his activities in the diocese; he likely spent a lot of time in Vilnius and not in Samogitia.
In 1569, together with other bishops, he signed the Union of Lublin.
He supported reconstruction of the Church of St. Francis and St. Bernard in Vilnius and bequeathed religious paintings from Holland, liturgical objects and robes to Varniai Cathedral.
In his last will, Petkūnas left 1,700 kopas of Lithuanian groschens to send twelve students to the Jesuit Academy in Vilnius.
The money was used by his successor Bishop Merkelis Giedraitis to construct a house in Vilnius for Samogitian clerics.
In 1573, Petkūnas promoted his nephew Petras Petkūnas, ordained only as an acolyte, to a canon of the cathedral chapter in Varniai and gave him parishes in Betygala and Viduklė.
However, Petras Petkūnas neglected his parishes and frequently lived in Vilnius.
Petkūnas died in 1574 and was buried in a crypt of the Varniai Cathedral.
In letters of Cardinal Michele Bonelli, before his appointment as bishop, Petkūnas was evaluated as having two undesirable traits – relatively low birth and enjoying alcohol more than what would be appropriate for a bishop.
Petkūnas was ridiculed in "In quendam antistitem", a Latin poem by , a Spaniard working in Vilnius, for neglecting his duties and spending his time hunting.
The poem was quoted by Bishop Motiejus Valančius in his influential history of the Diocese of Samogitia.
Valančius also quoted Albert Wijuk Kojałowicz who claimed that at the time of Petkūnas, the diocese was so neglected that it had just seven priests.
This evaluation persisted in historiography, but according to Lithuanian historian Zenonas Ivinskis, it is too critical.
According to Ivinskis study, the diocese probably had about 17 to 20 priests.
During Petkūnas tenure, only one new parish church was built (in Kvėdarna in 1569).
Plagiomnium
Plagiomnium is a genus of mosses in the family Mniaceae.
It was formerly a part of a more encompassing genus "Mnium" and in 1968 Finish bryologist Timo Juhani Koponen justified splitting the genus into a number of smaller genera.
This genus is characterized by singly placed marginal teeth.
"Plagiomnium" are commonly found along shaded stream banks, seeps and springs, generally on soil with a high humus content.
Unify (song)
"Unify" is the song written and performed by American hip hop recording artists Kid Capri, Snoop Dogg and Slick Rick.
It was recorded at Larrabee Studio in Los Angeles, at Bearsville Studio in Bearsville and at The Hit Factory in New York City, and released in 1998 through Track Masters/Columbia Records as the only single from Kid Capri's sophomore studio album "Soundtrack to the Streets".
It was produced by Kid Capri himself, and contains a sample from "One Mint Julep" written by Rudy Toombs.
Its remix version was produced by Poke & Tone, and contains portions of "Good Times" written by Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers.
The song peaked at #13 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100, at #24 on the Hot Rap Songs, at #57 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles Sales, at #62 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs of the "Billboard" charts in the United States.
It was also included in Slick Rick's 1999 album "The Art of Storytelling".
Threads (2017 film)
Threads () is a Norwegian-Canadian animated short film, directed by Torill Kove and released in 2017.
Based on Kove's own experience as an adoptive parent, the film depicts a woman who catches a thread in the sky which carries her to a baby girl, whom she raises and remains connected to with a red thread of love and emotional connection until the girl is a young woman old enough to go seek her own thread of connection to a baby of her own.
In advance of the film's release, Kove spoke about her creative process in an interview on the National Film Board of Canada's organizational blog:
The film premiered at the Norwegian Short Film Festival in June 2017, and had its Canadian premiere at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival.
In December 2017, the film was named to TIFF's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list for short films.
In 2018, Kove also published the story as a children's book.
Tore Rydman
Tore Rydman (born October 11, 1914; died January 3, 2003) was a Swedish curler.
He was a and a 1965 Swedish men's curling champion.
In 1966 he was inducted into the Swedish Curling Hall of Fame.
Edward James Glave
Edward James Glave (13 September 1863 – 12 May 1895) was an English travel writer and journalist, known for his multiple expeditions in the Congo Free State
E. J. Glave was born in Ripon, England.
After graduating from school, Glave became an administrative clerk in London, but this did not particularly satisfy him personally.
He entered the service of the Congo Free State, under the control of Belgium, and arrived in Vivi on 12 June 1883.
Henry Morton Stanley, King Leopold's colonial agent in the Congo, was impressed by the young Glave.
Stanley, who had no children of his own, later saw his foster son in Glave.
Glave was allowed to accompany Stanley on the expedition up the Congo river.
He was tasked to build an exploratory station in Lukolela while Stanley continued.
Glave built the station and managed to make good contacts with the locals.
He stayed in Lukolela for two years; on 2 November 1885, he was appointed head of Bolobo station and a month later head of Equator station in Mbandaka.
When his contract with the Congo Free State expired in April 1886, he returned to England on June 10, 1886.
Glave then offered his services to the American diplomat and businessman Henry Shelton Sanford and was back in the Congo in 1887.
In 1889 he returned to England again.
Glave went to the United States where he could profit from lectures on his African experiences.
In New York, in 1890, he joined an expedition sponsored by "Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper" (published by Frank Leslie) to Alaska and British Columbia.
His participation was used for advertising by the newspaper.
He was the deputy leader and draftsman of the expedition.
Glave's travelogues were printed in the newspaper.
The following year, he took an expedition over the Chilkoot Pass.