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Capon Chapel

Capon Chapel is a mid-19th-century church near the town of Capon Bridge in the US state of West Virginia. A Baptist congregation began gathering at the site of the present-day church as early as 1756. The land originally belonged to William C. Nixon, a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, and later to the extended family of Captain David Pugh of the West Virginia House of Delegates. Capon Chapel was used as a place of worship by Baptists until the late 19th or early 20th century, by the Southern Methodist Episcopal Church for most of the 20th century, and in this century by the United Methodist Church. The church cemetery contains the remains of John Monroe (one of the first ministers at the site), Nixon, Pugh, American Civil War veterans from the Union and the Confederacy, and free and enslaved African Americans. Capon Chapel, along with its cemetery, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2012 in recognition of its rural religious architecture representative of the Potomac Highlands region, and for its service as a rural church in Hampshire County. (Full article...)

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Shabana Azmi

The National Film Award for Best Actress is presented annually at the Indian National Film Awards to an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role while working within the Indian film industry. Though the National Film Awards were established in 1954, it was not until the 15th National Film Awards in 1968 that the Best Actress category was introduced. The winners are decided by a panel appointed by the Directorate of Film Festivals (DFF). Since the inception of the award, the DFF has presented a total of 51 awards to 41 different actresses. Nargis Dutt was the first recipient, winning the award for her role in Raat Aur Din (1967). Shabana Azmi (pictured) is the most frequent winner in this category with five awards, followed by Sharada who has won the award three times. (Full list...)

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Chamberlin trimetric projection

The Chamberlin trimetric projection is a map projection where three points are fixed on the globe and the points on the sphere are mapped onto a plane by triangulation. It was developed in 1946 by Wellman Chamberlin for the National Geographic Society. It is neither conformal nor equal-area, but rather attempts to minimize distortion of distances everywhere with the side-effect of balancing between areal equivalence and conformality.

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