Claude Rifat (1 March 1952, Cairo - July 31, 2002) was a French biologist, psychonaut, political activist, writer, and researcher. His accomplishments include some early research into GHB, including the thymoanaleptic and sociabilising effects of this molecule. He is credited with providing the first live plant material and seeds of Mitragyna speciosa outside Thailand, including several bioassays. This material is the source of the vast majority of Kratom plants currently available outside Thailand. He has been one of the best bamboos specialist in the last years. He has introduced more than 100 different species, forms and varieties of bamboos from different countries in the world. He has written a book about the contrasts between English and French people in Quebec.
Riddrie is a north-eastern district of Glasgow, Scotland. It lies on the A80 Cumbernauld Road.
In Japan, Sesshō (摂政) was a regent who was named to act on behalf of either a child emperor before his coming of age, or an empress regnant. The Kampaku (関白) was theoretically a sort of chief advisor for the Emperor, but was in practice the title of both first secretary and regent who assisted an adult Emperor. The duties of the Sesshō and Kampaku were to convey to the Emperor the policies formulated by the Sadaijin and other senior officials of the Daijō-kan, and to convey the Emperor's decisions to them. As regents of the Emperor, the Sesshō and Kampaku sometimes made decisions on behalf of the Emperor, but their positions were not defined by law and they had no specific political authority. The two titles were collectively known as sekkan (摂関), and the families that exclusively held the titles were called sekkan-ke.
Saskia Merk van Rijswijk is a Dutch Muay Thai champion and actress. Currently she works as a hypnotherapist, mental coach and psychologist.
The Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas (PUST), also known as the Angelicum in honor of its patron the Doctor Angelicus Thomas Aquinas, is a pontifical university located in the historic center of Rome, Italy. The Angelicum is administered by the Dominican Order and is the order's central locus of Thomist theology and philosophy.
The 'Kent' mango is a named mango cultivar that originated in south Florida.
Frank Fenter was a South African music industry executive.
Guido Nonveiller was a Croatian entomologist, FAO expert and professor at the University of Belgrade. He fought in the International Brigades and French Forces of the Interior during World War II. In 1989 he was inducted as a Commander of the l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques. He was known for his political and scientific activism and perhaps as the world authority for the African and Palaearctic Mutillidae.
Julio Fernández Larraz is a Cuban artist. He has lived in the United States since 1961. He first worked as a political caricaturist and cartoonist, signing his work Julio Fernandez. In the 1970s, he began to paint and changed his signature to Julio Larraz.
Henry Gordon Wells was a lawyer and a Republican politician in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
Tûkvnanawöpi is a two-player abstract strategy board game played by the Hopi native American Indians of Arizona, United States. The game was traditionally played on a slab of stone, and the board pattern etched on it. Tukvnanawopi resembles draughts and Alquerque. Each player attempts to capture each other's pieces by hopping over them. It is unknown how old the game is; however, the game was published as early as 1907 in Stewart Culin's book "Games of the North American Indians Volume 2: Games of Skill".
The 'Springfels' mango is a large, commercially grown mango cultivar that originated in south Florida.
The 'Fascell' mango is a named commercial mango cultivar that originated in south Florida.
Colonel Thomas Westbrook (1675–1743/44) was a senior New England militia officer in Maine during Father Rale's War. In addition to this senior militia role he was a scout, a colonial councillor, an innkeeper, a mill owner, a land speculator and a King's Mast Agent. He is the namesake of Westbrook, Maine.
Deng Xi was a Chinese philosopher and rhetorician who was associated with the Chinese philosophical tradition School of Names. Once a senior official of the Zheng state, and a contemporary of Confucius, he is regarded as China's earliest known lawyer, with clever use of words and language in lawsuits. The Zuo Zhuan and Annals of Lü Buwei critically credit Deng with the authorship of a penal code, the earliest known statute in Chinese criminology entitled the "Bamboo Law". This was developed to take the place of the harsh, more Confucian criminal code developed by the Zheng statesman Zichan.
Prasenjit Sen is a professor at the School of Physical Sciences of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
Mario Borgiotti was an Italian painter and art collector.
"Papa t'es plus dans l'coup" is a song by French singer Sheila. Released on the same EP with "L'école est finie", the song also became a huge hit. Sheila performed it many times on television. Also, a Scopitone was made for it.
"Wide Open Road" is a song written by Johnny Cash. It became the first song he recorded for Sun Records.
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