Dame Frances Mary Ashcroft (born 1952) is a British ion channel physiologist. She is Royal Society GlaxoSmithKline Research Professor at the University Laboratory of Physiology at the University of Oxford. She is a fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, and is a director of the Oxford Centre for Gene Function. Her research group has an international reputation for work on insulin secretion, type II diabetes and neonatal diabetes. Her work with Andrew Hattersley has helped enable children born with diabetes to switch from insulin injections to tablet therapy. == Education == Ashcroft was educated at...

The Apple Feast of the Saviour or Apple Spas (sometimes the Feast of the Saviour on the Hill) is an Eastern Slavic folk name for the Feast of the Transfiguration, which is observed on August. It is the second of the three Feasts of the Saviour. Taking its roots in Ukraine, this holiday just like the whole Orthodox Christianity later on was adopted in Russia. In Russian language it is Я́блочный Спа́с. One of three holidays in Russian Orthodox Christianity on which food items are blessed at church and then consumed by the faithful rather than priests, akin to the First Fruits of Judaism. The others...

The Ilyushin Il-20M (Russian: Ильюшин Ил-20М , NATO code name : "Coot-A" ) is a COMINT / ELINT variant of the Ilyushin Il-18. It was first observed by NATO in 1978. == History == The first flight took place on March 21, 1968, and the test cycle was completed in 1969. Until 1974, the Il-20 (including its modifications) was manufactured at the Moscow State Aircraft Plant No. 30 “Znamya Truda” "Flag of Labour". The aircraft was developed from IL-18D. Il-20s were not used by any air reconnaissance or other units of the USSR Armed Forces, but were directly attached to the headquarters of the fleet or...