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A native of Akwa Ibom State, Ekandem attended several Catholic seminaries before he became a priest. He was ordained on 7 December 1947, and became the first priest from the old Calabar province. In April 1976, he was installed a cardinal.
= = = Marawaan Bantam = = =
Marawaan Bantam (born 24 November 1977 in Cape Town, Western Cape) is a South African football (soccer) midfielder for Cape Town All Stars in the National First Division.
He hails from Bonteheuwel on the Cape Flats.
= = = Maud Fontenoy = = =
Maud Fontenoy (born September 7, 1977) is a French sailor known for her rowings across the Atlantic (2003) and Pacific (2005) oceans.
Most recently, she completed a sailing trip around the Antarctic alone, against prevailing winds. Departed from the Réunion island on October 15, 2006, she crossed the finish line on March 14, 2007, having sailed for .
Fontenoy was named the UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission and the World Ocean Network Spokesperson for the Ocean on 3 June 2009
Maud Fontenoy has three children: Mahé (with Thomas Vollaire), Hina (with an unknown man), and Loup (with Raphaël Enthoven).
= = = Green coke = = =
Green coke (raw coke) is the primary solid carbonization product from high boiling hydrocarbon fractions obtained at temperatures below 900 K. It contains a fraction of matter that can be released as volatiles during subsequent heat treatment at temperatures up to approximately 1600 K. This mass fraction, called volatile matter, is in the case of green coke between 4 and 15 wt.%, but it depends also on the heating rate.
Raw coke is an equivalent term to green coke although it is now less frequently used. The proportion of volatile matter of green coke depends on temperature and time of cooking, but also on the method for its determination.
= = = Bessenbach = = =
Bessenbach is a community in the Aschaffenburg district in the "Regierungsbezirk" of Lower Franconia ("Unterfranken") in Bavaria, Germany.
Bessenbach lies southeast of the town of Aschaffenburg among the Spessart range's outlying hills.
Bessenbach's "Ortsteile" are Beetacker, Frauengrund, Gemeindezentrum, Keilberg, Klingerhof, Klingermühle, Oberbessenbach, Steiger, Straßbessenbach, Unterbessenbach, Waldmichelbach and Weiler.
The community was formed on 1 January 1972 through the merger of the communities of Keilberg and Straßbessenbach. In 1978, the community of Oberbessenbach followed.
The council is made up of 20 council members.
On 2 March 2008, Franz Straub (CSU) was elected mayor for the second time with 63.3% of the vote.
The community's arms might be described thus: Azure a stork argent armed gules with two heads, the sinister reguardant, in base a fess wavy of the second.
The formerly self-administering communities of Keilberg, Straßbessenbach and Oberbessenbach merged into a greater community in 1978, taking on the historical name of Bessenbach once again.
The local noble family, also called Bessenbach, were instrumental in the community's development. Their ancestral seat, a castle, stood in today's centre of Keilberg. The family's existence is documented as far back as the 12th century. They had lordly and juridical rights throughout the Bessenbach valley that they alienated in the late 13th century. The family arms – the two-headed stork – were later adopted as the charge in the community's arms. Standing for the Bessenbach, the brook that serves as the geographical link in the community named after it, is the wavy fess in the base of the escutcheon.
These arms have been borne since 28 November 1977.
This is one partnership that Bessenbach has maintained with all three French communes since 1985.
The community is served by various bus lines of the "Verkehrsgemeinschaft am Bayerischen Untermain" ("Transport Association of the Bavarian Lower Main") from the main railway station in Aschaffenburg.
Moreover, Bessenbach lies right on the A 3 interchange Bessenbach/Waldaschaff and near the Spessart service centre near Rohrbrunn.
The "Ortsteil" of Straßbessenbach has been host to the German Sidecarcross Grand Prix numerous times.
= = = Blankenbach = = =
Blankenbach is a community in the Aschaffenburg district in the "Regierungsbezirk" of Lower Franconia ("Unterfranken") in Bavaria, Germany, and a member of the "Verwaltungsgemeinschaft" (Administrative Community) of Schöllkrippen.
The community lies some 17 km from Aschaffenburg and Alzenau. Together with the communities of Kleinkahl, Krombach, Schöllkrippen, Sommerkahl, Westerngrund and Wiesen, Blankenbach forms the "Verwaltungsgemeinschaft" (Administrative Community) of Schöllkrippen in the Kahlgrund.
In 1966, the two communities of Großblankenbach and Kleinblankenbach, which lay on the Kahl’s right and left banks respectively, merged into the community of Blankenbach. While Großblankenbach had formerly belonged to the Counts of Schönborn, Kleinblankenbach had been an Electoral Mainz holding.
The council is made up of 12 council members, not counting the mayor.
The community’s arms might be described thus: Gules a bar wavy argent, in chief a wheel spoked of six of the second, in base a lion passant queue fourchée Or standing on an abased partition per fess dancetty of three below which argent.
The community of Blankenbach came into being in 1966 through the merger of the formerly self-administering communities of Großblankenbach and Kleinblankenbach. The Kahl split these two communities, as symbolized by the wavy bar in the arms. Until the 19th century, the river formed the border between two lordly entities, with Großblankenbach being ruled by the Counts of Schönborn. This is shown in the arms by the lion, taken from the arms once borne by the Schönborn family, who governed the community for the Archbishopric of Würzburg, symbolized in the arms by the dancetty (that is, zigzag) partition in the base of the escutcheon, based on a similar partition in the arms borne by the bishops, and known as the “Franconian rake”. The six-spoked wheel (the Wheel of Mainz) refers to Electoral Mainz’s lordship over Kleinblankenbach.
The arms have been borne since 1967.
Wine pressers in the community and Apfelwein from Blankenbach are known well beyond the Kahlgrund and look back on a long tradition.
For the lime kiln that was built after 1900 on the Kahlgrundbahn railway line, the raw material was brought by a cableway from the limestone pits at Sommerkahl and Eichenberg.
= = = South C = = =
South C (also known as southside or South Compton) is a middle-class residential estate located in the southland area of Nairobi.
South C lies next to Wilson Airport. It is bordered by South B to the East, Langata Estate to the west and the Nairobi National Park to the south.
The headquarters of the Kenya Red Cross Society is located in South C as is the Criminal Investigation Department (C.I.D) Training School of the Kenya Police, National Environmental Management Authority Headquarters (NEMA), Kenya National Bureau of Standards Head office (KEBS) and the expansive Toyota Training Academy.
Major colleges like the College of Insurance and Management University of Africa are also based in South C.
South C is home to several sports clubs and hotels. The clubs include The South C Sports Club, Ministry of Works (MOW) Sports Club, Kenya Motor Sports Club, and the Ngara Sports Club. The Ngara Sport Club cricket ground is located in South C. Some of the hotels in South C are The Boma, The Red Court Hotel, Ole Sereni and Eka Hotel
A drive-in outdoor cinema, one among few in Kenya, is located at Nairobi's South C along Mombasa Road at Bellevue.
A number of musicians, comedians and DJs in Kenya's music industry come from the South C. Nameless, E-Sir, Longombas and K-rupt live there.
South C has recently become famous among residents of St. Louis, MO for being the birthplace of Martin Sophia, owner of the production company Martin's Entertainment.
= = = Geiselbach = = =
Geiselbach is a community in the Aschaffenburg district in the "Regierungsbezirk" of Lower Franconia ("Unterfranken") in Bavaria, Germany.
Geiselbach lies on the Hesse-Bavaria boundary, 20 km north of Aschaffenburg and 50 km east of Frankfurt am Main.
Elevations in the community reach from 272 m above sea level at the church up to 381 m at the Ziegelberg.
The municipal area comprises 535 ha in the constituent community of Geiselbach and 415 ha in the constituent community of Omersbach.
In 1269, Geiselbach had its first documentary mention in a purchase agreement between the Seligenstadt Monastery and the Archbishopric of Mainz, between Abbot Conrad and Archbishop Werner.
There also exists an earlier document from 1250 in which was about a dispute between the brothers Friedrich and Heinrich von Rannenberg and Reinhard von Hanau about holdings and rights in Geiselbach.
After 1269, the Seligenstadt Monastery relinquished its rights in Geiselbach to the noble families of Büdingen, Hanau and Rannenberg and to the knight Erpho von Orb.
In 1278, the patrician from Gelnhausen Irmgard Ungefüge took over the Geiselbach Vogtei with the villages of Geiselbach, Omersbach and Hofstädten. In three documents from 25 May 1278 it was agreed between the Seligenstadt Abbey and Madam Irmgard that the Abbey could reacquire all rights from her in better times. Even before the turn of the century, in 1290, Sir Erpho von Orb was once again named the Vogt in Geiselbach.
The Seligenstadt Monastery held the lordship over Geiselbach until Secularization in 1802. Most of the villages of the upper Kahlgrund then passed to the Principality of Aschaffenburg. Geiselbach, on the other hand, as a Seligenstadt Monastery holding, passed into ownership of the Landgrave of Hesse, who moved the Vogtei administration from Geiselbach to Seligenstadt.
In 1811, the three villages were united with the Grand Ducal Hessian "Amt" in Alzenau, which itself became Bavarian in 1816.
In 1972 the formerly self-administering community of Omersbach was amalgamated with Geiselbach, while the community of Hofstädten, which had likewise belonged to the Vogtei of Geiselbach, passed to Schöllkrippen in 1978.
The community’s arms might be described thus: Gules an uppercase A with crossbar on top in fess and cross stroke in chevron inverted Or among three mullets of six argent.
The community of Geiselbach was acquired in 1296 by the Seligenstadt Monastery from the Archbishopric of Mainz for an undisclosed price. It thereby belonged along with the two neighbouring villages of Hofstädten and Omersbach to the Vogtei of the "Dreidörfer" (“Three Villages”) over which the monastery managed to get the landlordship and the low jurisdiction through the acquisition. The big A (Abbatio) in the arms is the charge borne by the Seligenstadt Monastery and refers to the monastery’s lordship until Secularization in 1802. The three mullets (stars) symbolize the three-village parish. The tinctures silver and red are Electoral Mainz’s colours and recall Mainz’s lordship until 1803.
The arms have been borne since August 1967.
= = = Troides hypolitus = = =
Troides hypolitus, the Rippon's birdwing, is a birdwing butterfly endemic to the Moluccas and Sulawesi. It is not significantly threatened, but it is protected.
"Troides hypolitus" is a butterfly from Australasia/Indomalaya ecozone. The first description was in 1775 by Pieter Cramer. This butterfly is a member of the family Papilionidae. "Troides hypolitus" is black. It has a chain of golden spots on the hindwings. The females are dark brown and they are bigger than the males.
The wingspan is from 180–200 mm.
The male's forewings are black. Some veins are bordered by white colour. The underside is very similar to the upperside. The hindwings are grey. The outer edge is black and it contains a chain of golden spots. The veins are black. The underside is similar to the upperside, but the basic colour is white.
The body (abdomen) is black and yellow, but the underside is white and yellowish. It looks like a wasp. Head and thorax are black. The nape has a red hair-coat.
The sexes are sexually dimorphic. The female covers the upper range of the wingspan and is usually larger than the male. The basic colour of the female is dark brown. Many veins are bordered by white. The golden spots are bigger and they contain a black core. The underside is a very similar to the upperside.
"Troides hypolitus" is found in the Australasia/Indomalaya ecozone. The distribution is restricted on the Molucca Islands and Sulawesi.
There are four subspecies:
This butterfly is strictly protected. It is listed in the appendix II from CITES.
In Greek mythology Hippolytus was the son of Theseus.
= = = Glattbach = = =
Glattbach is a community in the Aschaffenburg district in the "Regierungsbezirk" of Lower Franconia ("Unterfranken") in Bavaria, Germany. It has around 3,300 inhabitants.
The community lies in a valley north of Aschaffenburg on the western edge of the Spessart (range).
In the 12th century, the forest still reached the town gates at Aschaffenburg. In the dales, in humble settlements, lived the Mainz Archbishop's serfs who busied themselves in forestry and lived by hunting and working small farms. Out of one such settlement grew the village of Glattbach over the course of the centuries (earlier known as Gladebach and also Gladbach). It might have got its name from the goldlike glittering in the local stone found on the banks and on the bed of the brook ("glad" meant “glittering”, and "Bach" is German for “brook”). The economic relationships were quite humble; obligatory service, tithe payments and debts thwarted any growth. The only wealth came with the vineyards, which lay on the sunny south and southwest slopes. Cadastral names such as "Wingert unterm Dorf", "Wingert oberm Dorf" and "Am heißen Stein" still recall the local winegrowing today. Since "Glattbacher" wine was known to be good, it led to Count Schönborn owning a vineyard here. After many bad harvests, the vines were torn up in the late 18th century, and instead intensive fruitgrowing began. This specifically involved cherries. In industry, linen weaving was strongly represented. In 1832, seventeen linen weavers appeared in the old community books.
The endless sharing out of estates under Electoral Mainz inheritance law meant that the area of land available for each farmer to work was forever shrinking. While only ten families shared the 310 ha municipal area in 1661, by the mid 18th century there were 50 neighbours (or "Nachbarn", as residents were called, as opposed to those who had moved to the community and therefore neither owned land nor had rights) who had to eke out their lives from the soil.
The only major property, with 97 "Morgen" (somewhat less than 200 000 m²), was the "herrschaftliches Höfchen" (“Manorial Estate”), which passed to "Kollegiatsstift St Peter und Alexander" from noble ownership as a donation in 1334, later being bestowed by the "STift" upon various country noblemen. Later still, it passed to the liege lord, the Elector of Mainz, and eventually – about 1837 – it was sold into private ownership to the landed family Heeg. About 1800, the old "Hofreith" was torn down, and across the road a major estate with an oil and tobacco mill and a wine press was built, today known as the Helmshof.
The village's location in a secluded dale meant that there was never any through traffic. Nevertheless, in no way was Glattbach spared the hardship and war that time and again beset the Lower Main area. This may well have had something to do with the village's lying right near the town of Aschaffenburg, or perhaps it was the "Gelnhäuser Straße", an old army and trade road running by Glattbach to the west, which led up to the "Johannesberger Höhe" (heights). Warlike peoples came plundering, burning and murdering their way through the village, bringing the population hardship and misery. Frightful pestilences took a heavy toll on the people. After the Thirty Years' War only ten families out of what had been 33 were still alive, and 20 houses had vanished from the earth. Many times the people fled before the soldiers. In 1743, when the English were plundering the whole community from 18 to 26 June, the population fled, hiding out in the Spessart forests.
In the war's wake came further sickness. The grimmest Plague years, 1606 and 1636, are today still remembered by two "Bildstöcke" (sing. "Bildstock" – a cross-shaped or columnar pillar functioning as a wayside shrine), called "Peststeine" (“Plague stones”), on the main road. In the time of greatest hardship, the population vowed to hold a festival and repentance day “for everlasting time” if the sickness came to an end. On this so-called "Hellfeiertag" (roughly “Light Holiday” – despite the similarity in pronunciation, there is no connection with “hellfire”), the Friday before Michaelmas, it was forbidden to light a fire in any hearth, and both people and livestock observed a strict fast and did no work. The vow was strictly kept right up until the First World War.
As early as the 12th century, Glattbach was mentioned as a branch of Saint Agatha's parish at Aschaffenburg. There is, however, no mention of a church until the 17th century. In 1682, a chapel in Saint Nicholas's honour was built, and consecrated by the Capuchin priest Martin von Cochem, a famous repentance preacher and folk writer. At that time, the community had some 180 to 200 inhabitants. The chapel stood with its graveyard and schoolhouse on the lot now occupied by the church. The chapel was not standing very long. Already by 1727, a new church was being built there, the "Magdalenenkirchlein" (roughly “Mary Magdalene’s Little Church”). It was built in the astonishingly short time of four months. Services were held only once a month, on a weekday. Only from 1775 onwards does it seem that there were services on Sunday – and even then only over the winter – mostly given by a Capuchin priest. In 1890, a local chaplaincy was instituted, which was raised to parish on 14 December 1922. Ten clergy worked as local chaplains in Glattbach. The first parish priest was Christian Benz from Weibersbrunn, who held this post for 25 years before he died in an accident on 20 December 1948. In 1899 the "Magdalenenkirchlein" was torn down. Building work then began on today's Gothic Revival parish church, "Maria Himmelfahrt" (“Assumption of Mary”), which was consecrated on 15 August 1901. There were some 700 Catholic parishioners in those days.
Already by about 1730, there was school in Glattbach. The schoolmasters were until far into the 19th century craftsmen who pursued teaching only as a sideline, or who employed helpers to do it. The oldest known schoolhouse stood behind the "Magdalenenkirchlein" and contained not only a schoolroom and a teacher's dwelling, but also a communal room. In 1878 the second schoolhouse was built, which at the time was one of the finest for a great distance. Since 1986 it has served as the town hall, after the elementary school had moved to the new building "auf dem Schwalbesgraben", one wing in 1958, and the other in 1964.