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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feni%20Polytechnic%20Institute
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Feni Polytechnic Institute
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Feni Polytechnic Institute is a technical educational institution in Feni, Bangladesh.
References
Further reading
Colleges in Feni District
Polytechnic institutes in Bangladesh
Educational institutions established in 1964
1960s establishments in Bangladesh
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School of Nisibis
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The School of Nisibis (), for a time absorbed into the School of Edessa, was an educational establishment in Nisibis (now Nusaybin, Turkey). It was an important spiritual centre of the early Church of the East, and like the Academy of Gondishapur, it is sometimes referred to as the world's first university. The school had three primary departments teaching: theology, philosophy and medicine. Its most famous teacher was Narsai, formerly head of the School of Edessa.
The school was founded in 350 in Nisibis. In 363, when Nisibis fell to the Persians, St. Ephrem the Syrian, accompanied by a number of teachers, left the school. They went to the School of Edessa, where Ephrem took over the directorship of the school there. It had been founded as long ago as the 2nd century by the kings of the Abgar dynasty. When Ephrem took over the school, its importance grew still further. After the Nestorian Schism, when the Byzantine emperor Zeno ordered the school closed for its teachings of Nestorian doctrine, deemed heretical by Chalcedonian Christianity, the School moved back to Nisibis.
Early history
The school was founded around 350 by Jacob of Nisibis (Mar Yaqub). Its model was the school of Diodorus of Tarsus in Antioch. It was an ideal location for a Syriac school: in the centre of the Syriac-speaking world but still in the Roman Empire, which had just embraced Christianity. Most of Mesopotamia was under Sassanid Persian rule, which was still trying to revive the ancient Zoroastrian religion.
Exile to Edessa
The Persians soon gained Nisibis, in 363, and the school was moved westward to an existing school in Edessa, Mesopotamia, where it was known as the 'School of the Persians' (Eskuli d-Forsoye/Eskuli d-Parsaye in Edessan Aramaic/Syriac). There, under the leadership of Ephrem, it gained fame well beyond the borders of the Syriac speaking world.
Meanwhile, in Antioch, Theodore of Mopsuestia had taken over the school of Diodorus, and his writings soon became the foundation of Syriac theology. Even during his lifetime, they were translated into Syriac and gradually replaced the work of Ephrem. One of his most famous students was Nestorius, who became Patriarch of Constantinople, but the doctrine he was preaching made him run afoul of Cyril of Alexandria. Cyril sought to brand Nestorius as a heretic, and at the First Council of Ephesus in 431, he had Nestorius formally censured.
The resulting conflict led to the Nestorian Schism, which separated the Church of the East from the Western Byzantine form of Christianity. The opponents of Nestorius attacked Theodore's School of Diodorus as well, and the Syrians answered by giving protection to the followers of Nestorius. In 489, the Byzantine emperor, Zeno, ordered the school closed for its Nestorian tendencies, and it returned to Nisibis.
Centre of Syriac theology
Back in Nisibis, the school became even more famous. It attracted students from all the Syriac churches, many of its students embodied important church offices, and its teaching was normative. The exegetical methods of the school followed the tradition of Antioch: strictly literal, controlled by pure grammatical-historical analysis. The work of Theodore was central to the theological teaching, and men like Abraham of Beth Rabban, who headed the school during the middle of the 6th century, spent great effort to make his work as accessible as possible. The writings of Nestorius himself were added to the curriculum only about 530.
At the end of the 6th century, the school went through a theological crisis, when its director Henana of Adiabene attempted to revise the official exegetical tradition derived from Theodore of Mopsuestia. The controversy over Henana divided the Church of the East, and led to the departure of many of the school's members, probably including Babai the Great. A focus of the controversy was the debate between supporters of a one-qnoma (roughly "hypostasis") and of a two-qnome Christology, and the divide was worsened by interventions on the part of West Syriac miaphysites. Babai's attacks on Henana's one-qnoma theology came to be generally accepted by the Church of the East, though Henana remained a significant influence in the Church's subsequent tradition of interpretation.
The controversy over Henana and the monastic revival initiated by Abraham of Kashkar, supported by Babai, diminished the school's influence, and the spread of other schools founded on its model throughout the Sassanid Empire also reduced its centrality. In the first half of the 7th century, after the death of Henana in c. 610, the school seems to have entered terminal decline.
Influence on the West
The fame of this theological seminary was so great that Pope Agapetus I and Cassiodorus wished to found one in Italy of a similar kind. The troubled times prevented their wishes from being realized, but Cassiodorus's monastery at Vivarium was inspired by the example of Nisibis that he had learned from the Quaestor Junillus during his time in Constantinople.
Notable students and teachers
Patriarch Aba I, student and teacher
Abraham of Beth Rabban, director 530–569
Babai the Great, student
Barhadbshabba Arbaya, teacher
Barhadbshabba of Hulwan, student
Barsauma, teacher
Cyrus of Edessa, student
Dadisho of Mount Izla, student
Elishaʿ bar Quzbaye, director ?520s
ʿEnanishoʿ, student
Ephrem the Syrian, teacher
Gabriel of Qatar, student (possibly)
Gregory of Kashkar, student
Henana of Adiabene, director 571–610
Patriarch Ishoyahb II, student
Joseph Huzaya, teacher
Paul the Persian, student and teacher
Patriarch Sabrisho I, student
Severus Sebokht, teacher
Thomas of Edessa, student and teacher
See also
School of Edessa
School of Seleucia-Ctesiphon
Academy of Gondishapur
Syriac literature
Nizamiyya
Sarouyeh
References
Bibliography
Church of the East
Nasibin
Osroene
Nestorianism
Christian terminology
History of Christianity in Turkey
Religious academies in Babylon
Christian schools
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baxter%20Springs%2C%20Kansas
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Baxter Springs, Kansas
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Baxter Springs is a city in Cherokee County, Kansas, United States, and located along Spring River. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 4,238; it is the most populous city of Cherokee County.
History
For thousands of years, indigenous peoples had lived along the waterways throughout the west. The Osage migrated west from the Ohio River area of Kentucky, driven out by the Iroquois. They settled in Kansas by the mid-17th century, adopting Plains Indian traditions. They competed with other tribes and by 1750 they dominated much of what is now the region of Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma.
One of the largest Osage bands was led by Chief Black Dog (Manka - Chonka). His men completed what became known as the Black Dog Trail by 1803. It started from their winter territory east of Baxter Springs and extended southwest to their summer hunting grounds at the Great Salt Plains in present-day Alfalfa County, Oklahoma. The Osage regularly stopped at the springs for healing on their way to summer hunting grounds. They made the trail by clearing it of brush and large rocks, and constructing earthen ramps to the fords. Wide enough for eight horsemen to ride abreast, the trail was the first improved road in Kansas and Oklahoma.
During the late 1830s and Indian Removal, the Cherokee people were among the Five Civilized Tribes forced out of the Southeast United States to west of the Mississippi River. This area was defined by the United States as part of their Cherokee Neutral Lands. A trading post was established at the springs. Some Native Americans and European-American settlers began to develop a community around the post. The 19th-century settlers eventually named the city and nearby springs after early settler A. Baxter. He had claimed land about 1850 and built a frontier tavern or inn.
During the American Civil War, the United States government built several rudimentary military posts at present-day Baxter Springs, fortifying what had been a trading post: Fort Baxter, Camp Ben Butler and Camp Hunter. This was to protect settlers against the Confederate regulars and partisan guerrillas operating in the eastern part of state.
On October 4, 1863, some 400 men of the pro-Southern Quantrill's raiders were passing on their way to Texas for the winter. They attacked Fort Blair. Some of the garrison was away from the fort on assignment. The remainder, mostly United States Colored Troops, held the fort with few casualties. Quantrill's men later encountered an unrelated detachment of 103 Union troops out on the prairie. The Confederates overwhelmed them, killing nearly all the Union men, including many after they were captured.
After temporarily reinforcing the fort, the United States abandoned the Baxter Springs area later that year. It moved its troops to the better fortified Fort Scott, Kansas. Before leaving, US forces tore down and destroyed Fort Baxter to make it unusable for hostiles.
Most of the town's growth took place after the war, when it began to develop at a rapid pace. By 1867, entrepreneurs had constructed a cable ferry across the Spring River, which was operated into the 1880s. At that time, it was replaced by the first bridge built across the river.
Around 1868 there was a great demand for beef in the North. Texas cattlemen and stock raisers drove large herds of cattle from the southern plains, and used Baxter Springs as a way point to the northern markets at Kansas City, which linked to railroads to the East. This led to the dramatic growth of Baxter Springs by the early 1870s as the first "cow town" in Kansas. By 1875, its population was estimated at 5,000.
The town organized the Stockyards and Drovers Association to buy and sell cattle. They constructed corrals for up to 20,000 head of cattle, supplied with ample grazing lands and fresh water. Texas cattle trade stimulated the growth of related businesses, and Baxter Springs grew rapidly. The town was regularly the rowdy gathering place of cowboys, and saloons, livery stables, brothels and hotels were developed to support their seasonal business. At the same time other settlers were building schools and churches, to support family life.
After railroads were constructed from the North into Texas later in the century, cattlemen no longer needed to conduct the cattle drives, or to use Baxter Springs as a way station to markets. The first railroad to enter Texas from the north, completed in 1872, was the As ranchers started shipping their beef directly from Texas, business in Baxter Springs and other cow towns fell off sharply.
The discovery of lead in large veins in the tri-state area revived the area towns from the economic doldrums in the early twentieth century. In the early days of Baxter Springs, lead had been found in small quantities along Spring Creek, but it was of poor quality. It was suspected that higher grade ore could be found, but only at deeper depths. The Baxter Springs City Council by Ordinance 42 enacted provisions that greatly limited any mining within city limits. Their actions protected the land in the city; nearby towns have suffered from mining-related environmental degradation.
Baxter Springs certainly benefited from the business and revenues generated by regional mining activity. Many of the mine owners and operators built ambitious houses here to reflect their success. In addition, in the early 1900s many mining executives built their business offices in Baxter Springs. By the 1940s, however, much of the high-quality ore had been mined, and the industry declined in the region. Some towns became defunct, and Hockerville, Lincolnville, Douthit, Zincville and others disappeared. The mining practices of the time caused considerable environmental degradation in the region. Federal and state restoration efforts have helped to improve the land since the late twentieth century.
In 1926, the downtown main street was designated as part of the historic Route 66 transcontinental highway connecting Chicago and Los Angeles. The highway became known informally as America's "Main Street", because it used the main arteries of many cities. Designation as Route 66 stimulated related growth along the highway, including of motels and fast food places, and it gained a prominent place in popular culture. Baxter Spring was one of only three towns through which Route 66 passed in Kansas.
Since the late 20th century, the town has reserved the land of Riverside Park along the Spring River. This has renewed the community's connection and preserved access to the river and its green banks.
2014 tornado
A tornado started near Quapaw, Oklahoma and moved through Baxter Springs on April 27, 2014.
Geography
Baxter Springs is located at (37.023062, -94.734762). The city is sited on the western bank of the Spring River at the edge of the Ozarks, in the Spring River basin. U.S. Route 69 Alternate and U.S. Route 166 have a junction at the city, and U.S. Route 400 bypasses it to the northeast. The center of town is less than two miles (3 km) from the Kansas-Oklahoma state border, though the incorporated area of the city extends to the border. It is also about west-southwest of Joplin, Missouri.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which, is land and is water.
Demographics
2010 census
As of the census of 2010, there were 4,238 people, 1,754 households, and 1,151 families residing in the city. The population density was . There were 2,053 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 85.2% White, 0.8% African American, 6.2% Native American, 0.4% Asian, 1.4% Pacific Islander, 0.4% from other races, and 5.7% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.7% of the population.
There were 1,754 households, of which 33.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 47.9% were married couples living together, 12.7% had a female householder with no husband present, 5.0% had a male householder with no wife present, and 34.4% were non-families. 30.6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 14.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.41 and the average family size was 2.99.
The median age in the city was 38 years. 26.1% of residents were under the age of 18; 8% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 25.1% were from 25 to 44; 25% were from 45 to 64; and 15.9% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 48.6% male and 51.4% female.
2000 census
As of the 2000 census, there were 4,602 people, 1,860 households, and 1,246 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,469.1 people per square mile (567.7/km2). There were 2,106 housing units at an average density of 672.3 per square mile (259.8/km2). The racial makeup of the city was 88.03% White, 0.98% Black or African American, 5.04% Native American, 0.20% Asian, 0.17% Pacific Islander, 0.48% from other races, and 5.11% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.30% of the population.
There were 1,860 households, out of which 32.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 52.6% were married couples living together, 10.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 33.0% were non-families. 29.7% of all households were made up of individuals, and 16.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.44 and the average family size was 3.02.
In the city, the population was spread out, with 26.5% under the age of 18, 9.2% from 18 to 24, 26.7% from 25 to 44, 20.8% from 45 to 64, and 16.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females, there were 89.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 85.4 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $28,876, and the median income for a family was $33,933. Males had a median income of $27,005 versus $19,038 for females. The per capita income for the city was $13,789. About 9.3% of families and 10.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 13.5% of those under age 18 and 12.4% of those age 65 or over.
Notable people
Waylande Gregory (1905–1971), artist
Richard Hilderbrand, member of the Kansas Senate
Hale Irwin, (b1945), PGA golfer
Charles Parham (1873-1929), Pentecostal leader
Joe Rooney, (b1975), lead guitarist for country pop trio Rascal Flatts
H. Lee Scott, Jr., (b1949), former President and CEO of Wal-Mart.
Tim Shallenburger (b1954), former Kansas State Treasurer and Speaker of the Kansas House
Byron Stewart (b1956), actor (The White Shadow, St. Elsewhere)
Glad Youse (1898 – 1985), composer
Max McCoy (b1958), journalist and author (Indiana Jones, Elevations)
Gallery
Historic Images of Baxter Springs, Special Photo Collections at Wichita State University Library
References
Further reading
Baxter Springs Centennial - The Baxter Springs Story - 100 Years, 1858-1958.; 1958.
External links
City of Baxter Springs
Baxter Springs - Directory of Public Officials
USD 508, local school district
Baxter Springs City Map, KDOT
Cities in Kansas
Cities in Cherokee County, Kansas
1868 establishments in Kansas
Populated places established in 1868
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Run for the Hills
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Run for the Hills is a 1953 American comedy film directed by Lew Landers and starring Sonny Tufts, Barbara Payton and Mauritz Hugo. The film's sets were designed by the art director Ernst Fegté.
Cast
Sonny Tufts as Charlie Johnson
Barbara Payton as Jane Johnson
John Harmon as Jed Taylor
Mauritz Hugo as Mr. Hudson
Vici Raaf as Mrs. Cornish
Jack Wrightson as George
Paul Maxey as Sheriff
Harry Lewis as Mr. Carewe
John Hamilton as Mr. Harvester
Byron Foulger as Mr. Simpson
Sid Slate as Wagstaff
Charles Victor as Craig
William Fawcett as Orin Hadley
Dee Ann Johnston as Malinda
George Sanders as Television Commentator
Rosemary Colligan as Cave Girl
Jack McElroy as Radio Announcer
Ray Parsons as Hermit
Michael Fox as Phineas Cragg
Jean Willes as Frances Veach
Richard Benedict as 'Happy' Day
Lester Dorr as Reporter Outside Elevator
Al Hill as Process Server
William Tannen as Charlie's Co-Worker
References
Bibliography
Lewis, Jon. Hard-Boiled Hollywood: Crime and Punishment in Postwar Los Angeles. Univ of California Press, 2017.
External links
Run for the Hills at TCMDB
1953 films
American films
English-language films
American comedy films
1953 comedy films
American black-and-white films
Films directed by Lew Landers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abersychan%20School
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Abersychan School
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Abersychan School is a state-funded and non-selective comprehensive school in the Pontypool suburb of Abersychan, Wales.
Admissions
Abersychan School has 920 pupils on roll. It serves the north of Torfaen including the communities of Blaenavon, Garndiffaith, Talywain, Abersychan, Pontnewynedd, Cwmffrwdoer, Trevethin, Penygarn and St Cadocs. The local diversity is exemplified by the fact that some areas qualify for Communities First status, while the northern half of the Afon Llwyd encompasses a World Heritage Site.
The school supports a Special Needs Resources Base for pupils in Torfaen with MLD.
History
Comprehensive
The closure of Trevethin Community School in September 2007 has resulted in large numbers of pupils from its former catchment choosing Abersychan as their preferred school.
The re-organisation of education in the north of the borough was supported by a capital investment in Abersychan School which has improved the teaching and learning facilities, most notably in the form of several classrooms, a sports laboratory, an ICT suite with a 60 PC capacity, an Art and Technology design area, a floodlit astro-turf and a sports field. In 2009 a multi-media learning plaza was opened. In January 2008 the school received a Welsh Secondary Schools Association award for its outstanding contribution to the transition of pupils from the Trevethin Community School to Abersychan School during the period 2006-7.
Senior Leadership Team for 2020/2021
Mr Phillip Collins (Headteacher)
Mrs Keri Powell
(Deputy Headteacher)
Mr Anthony Ager
(Assistant Headteacher - Curriculum and Standards)
Mrs Catherine Rumble
(Assistant Headteacher - Inclusion and Wellbeing)
Mr Daniel Mutlow
(Assistant Headteacher - Teaching and Learning)
Mrs Belinda Edwards-Lloyd
(Business and Facilities Manager)
Heads of Year for 2020/2021
Miss Katie Harry (Head of Year 7)
Mr Paul Loukisas (Head of Year 8)
Mr Geraint Williams (Head of Year 9)
Miss Bethan Jones (Head of Year 10)
Mr Gareth Jenkins (Head of Year 11)
Heads of Curriculum for 2020/2021
Ms Louise Brunton (Head of English and Literacy)
Mr Daniel Evans (Head of Mathematics and Numeracy)
Dr Charlotte O'Connell (Head of Science and Technology)
Mrs Rachel Jenkins (Head of Expressive Arts)
Mr Paul Michael (Head of Health and Wellbeing)
Mr Barrie Evans (Head of Humanities)
Mrs Michelle Wilkshire (Head of Languages)
Mrs Laura Entwistle (Head of Skills and Welsh Bacc)
Wellbeing Support Team for 2020/2021
Mrs Catherine Rumble (Assistant Headteacher - Inclusion and Wellbeing)
Mrs Nicola Strachan (ALENCo)
Mr Rob Barrowdale (Wellbeing Manager)
Mrs Kathryn Watkins (KS3 Wellbeing Support Officer)
Mrs Emma Evans (KS4 Wellbeing Support Officer)
Mrs Rachel Lewis (Attendance and Family Engagement Officer)
Sports
Teams from the school have won regional, national and UK competitions in Magistrates' Courts, Stock Market Challenge, Girls' Rugby, Design and Construction, and Dance.
Notable alumni
Abersychan Comprehensive School
Ryan Doble - footballer
David Llewellyn - novelist
Mark Taylor - rugby union player
Abersychan Grammar School
Prof Geoffrey Arthur, Professor of Veterinary Surgery from 1974-9 at the University of Bristol, and Professor of Veterinary Obstetrics and Diseases of Reproduction from 1965-73 at the Royal Veterinary College
Sarah Clark, Bishop of Jarrow in the Church of England
Allen Forward - international rugby player
Roy Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead - founder of Social Democrat Party, and Labour MP from 1950-77 for Birmingham Stechford, and SDP MP from 1982-7 for Glasgow Hillhead
Rear-Admiral Brinley Morgan CB, Director from 1970-5 of the Naval Education Service
Robert Ryder, pathologist who found the link between emphysema and coal dust
References
External links
Abersychan Comprehensive School
News items
Schoolgirl murdered in 2002
Secondary schools in Torfaen
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Garrow Tor
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Garrow Tor is a bare, tor-crowned hill, high, located on Garrow Downs in the northwest of Bodmin Moor in the county of Cornwall, England, UK.
At the summit of Garrow Tor are granite rock outcrops and panoramic views, including Caradon Hill to the south, Rough Tor and Brown Willy to the north, Butter's Tor to the east, clay country to the west and the Atlantic Ocean to the northwest. The hill also bears extensive evidence of early settlement, including a massive stone hedge, Bronze Age settlements and hut circles and Medieval settlements.
The De Lank River runs past the eastern flank of the tor from north to south, before swinging southwest around the southern foot of the hill. King Arthur's Hall lies a kilometre to the southwest.
When visiting the hill, a useful place to park is by the waterworks to the southwest.
References
Hills of Cornwall
Bodmin Moor
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cioropcani
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Cioropcani
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Cioropcani is a commune in Ungheni District, Moldova. It is composed of three villages: Bulhac, Cioropcani and Stolniceni.
References
Communes of Ungheni District
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007%20Nextel%20All-Star%20Challenge
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2007 Nextel All-Star Challenge
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The 2007 Nextel Open and Nextel All-Star Challenge was a professional auto race held on Saturday, May 19, 2007, at Lowe's Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina, a suburb of Charlotte. Native Carolinian and former NBA superstar Michael Jordan was the grand marshal of the event.
Race and qualifying format
All-Star Challenge
The race is unique to its "All-Star Game" format, much like those in the other North American major "stick and ball" sports (baseball, football, basketball and hockey). Only race winners (either drivers or teams) in the 2006 and the first eleven races of the 2007 seasons, plus former Winston/Nextel Cup Champions and All-Star event winners from the past decade (covering the span between 1997 and 2006) automatically qualify for the main event. A description on how the race was reformatted for the 2007 running can be found here. The race also awards no points as it is an exhibition race, meaning drivers can take greater risks than they normally would do in a regular event. In addition, on restarts of the race after caution flags, the cars line up in a double file restart, akin to the start of a regulation race.
Qualifying for this event is abnormal to the standards of NASCAR. Those entered for the main event take three timed qualifying laps (instead of the usual two laps used in all sanctioned oval races), but they must take a required pit stop for four tires after either the first or second lap, coming in at the pit road speed (in the case of LMS, 45 miles per hour), but come out at full throttle. This puts a premium on the pit crew teams to be fast like regular pit stops, and to even out the field, pit box No. 22 is used for all qualifiers. Infractions will also incur time penalties. Also starting in 2007, the selection of the pit boxes used by teams were made after the annual Pit Crew Challenge event to be held three days earlier at Charlotte Bobcats Arena, won by the Ryan Newman No. 12 team. In the qualifying, Matt Kenseth won the pole. Kevin Harvick was bumper-to-bumper with Jimmie Johnson coming to the start/finish line to win the race.
Nextel Open
All other drivers or teams that are in the Nextel Cup Top 50 owners or drivers points that do not automatically qualify for the All-Star Challenge are entered into a 40-lap, two-half event called the Nextel Open. Only the top two drivers, plus one additional driver on the lead lap that is voted in by fans on the world wide web via Sprint/Nextel's web site, their customers and attendees of the race, join the elite field. Standard qualifying rules applied for those in this event, which saw Carl Edwards win "P-1" (a/k./a the pole position), edging fellow Roush-Fenway teammate David Ragan. The Nextel Open was won by Martin Truex, Jr. Johnny Sauter finished second.
Kobalt Tools Crew Chief Race
Before the All-Star Challenge, a new preliminary race was held between Nextel Cup crew chiefs—the Kobalt Tools Crew Chief Race. The race comprised eighteen crew chiefs driving small Legends Thunder Roadster cars on the quarter-mile oval in front of the main track's grandstand, and was televised in the United States on Speed. NASCAR on ESPN color commentator and former crew chief, Andy Petree won the main event, earning a $10,000 donation for any charity of his choice. The charities he decided to donate the race winnings to were Motor Racing Outreach and Mud Creek Baptist Church.
List of 2007 qualifiers
The following drivers qualified after they won at least one race in the 2006 or 2007 seasons, in order of their qualifying win:
Jimmie Johnson - 2006 Daytona 500
Matt Kenseth - 2006 Auto Club 500
Kasey Kahne - 2006 Golden Corral 500
Kurt Busch - 2006 Food City 500
Tony Stewart - 2006 DirecTV 500
Kevin Harvick - 2006 Subway Fresh 500
Dale Earnhardt, Jr. - 2006 Crown Royal 400
Greg Biffle - 2006 Dodge Charger 500
Denny Hamlin - 2006 Pocono 500
Jeff Gordon - 2006 Dodge/Save Mart 350
Kyle Busch - 2006 Lenox Industrial Tools 300
Jeff Burton - 2006 Dover 400
Brian Vickers - 2006 UAW Ford 500 (drove the No. 25 Hendrick Motorsports car)
The following drivers qualified as a result of driving a car that won a race in 2006 with a different driver:
Casey Mears - No. 25 car won the 2006 UAW Ford 500
The following drivers qualified as a result of being a former Nextel Cup champion (since 1997):
Jeff Gordon (1997, 1998 and 2001 Champion, already qualified)
Dale Jarrett (1999 Champion)
Bobby Labonte (2000 Champion)
Tony Stewart (2002 and 2005 Champion, already qualified)
Matt Kenseth (2003 Champion, already qualified)
Kurt Busch (2004 Champion, already qualified)
Jimmie Johnson (2006 Champion, already qualified)
The following drivers qualified as a result of being a former winner of the Nextel All-Star Challenge (since 1997):
Jeff Gordon (1997 and 2001 winner, already qualified)
Mark Martin (1998 and 2005 winner, already qualified)
1999 winner was Terry Labonte, who retired after the 2006 season and did not compete
Dale Earnhardt, Jr. (2000 winner, already qualified)
Ryan Newman (2002 winner)
Jimmie Johnson (2003 and 2006 winner, already qualified)
Matt Kenseth (2004 winner, already qualified)
The following drivers qualified via the Nextel Open:
Martin Truex Jr. (won the Nextel Open)
Johnny Sauter (finished 2nd in the Nextel Open)
Also qualifying, the 2007 Fan Vote Winner:
Kenny Wallace
The Open
Martin Truex, Jr. won the Nextel Open, which was the first win for him of any kind in a Nextel Cup race. Johnny Sauter edged out Carl Edwards for the second transfer spot on offer in this race.
The 40-lap race was stopped four times due to caution, including a 10-car incident halfway through lap 1 in which, among other things, the hoods of the cars driven by David Gilliland and Juan Pablo Montoya collided into each other.
As mentioned above, Kenny Wallace won the fan vote, partly a credit to a large get out the vote campaign mounted by Speed Channel, where he works as an analyst.
The Challenge
Kevin Harvick passed Jeff Burton at the start of the fourth and final segment and never looked back to win the main event race for the first time in his career. Harvick won $1,031,539 for the victory, the largest amount ever for an all-star race winner. Jimmie Johnson finished second, and Mark Martin was third.
Burton had inherited the lead from Matt Kenseth, who was sent to the tail end of the longest line due to speeding on pit road during the break between segments three and four. (During this break, teams had to at least visit the pits, but no service was required. Kenseth decided on the visit.) Kenseth had also won the first segment. Kyle Busch was first at the end of the second segment.
It was the fourth win for Richard Childress Racing, after three wins by Dale Earnhardt.
This race was also notable for a crash brothers Kurt Busch and Kyle Busch were involved. They touched entering turn 1 with 18 laps to go, sending both into the wall rear-first. In the Speed Channel interview, Kurt joked that he would not "be eating Kellogg's anytime soon," referring to the No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet's sponsor.
References
NEXTEL All-Star Challenge
NASCAR races at Charlotte Motor Speedway
2007 in sports in North Carolina
May 2007 sports events in the United States
NASCAR All-Star Race
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Feathertick Inn
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The Feathertick Inn is a designated historic building located in the Rural Municipality of Estevan No. 5, Saskatchewan, Canada. The property contains a three-story building in a Queen Anne Revival style, made of wood. The home was frequently visited by W. O. Mitchell who was a relative of the Adolphes family that lived in the home from 1930 until the 1980s.
References
Hotels in Saskatchewan
Hotel buildings completed in 1911
Estevan No. 5, Saskatchewan
1911 establishments in Saskatchewan
Heritage sites in Saskatchewan
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pura%20Dasar%20Buana%20Gelgel
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Pura Dasar Buana Gelgel
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Pura Dasar Buana is a Balinese Hindu temple or pura located in Gelgel, Bali, about from Semarapura. Pura Dasar Buana is one of the Pura Dang Kahyangan Jagat, a temple which was built to honor a holy teacher of Hindu teaching. Pura Dasar Buana honored Mpu Ghana, a Brahmin who arrived to Bali from Javanese Majapahit to teach Hinduism in the island.
History
Mpu Dasar Buana temple honored Mpu Wira Ganteng, a Javanese holy teacher or brahmin (known in Bali under the title mpu or rsi) who arrived in Bali in the Saka year 922 (equivalent to the year 1000). Mpu Ghana is one of the Panca Tirtra, five holy teachers of Balinese Hinduism, i.e. Mpu Gnijaya, Mpu Semeru (Mahameru), Mpu Ghana, Mpu Kuturan, and Mpu Bradah (Prada). Mpu Ghana arrived in Bali during the reign of king Udayana Warmadewa (988-1011 AD) and his consort Gunapraya Dharmapatni. Mpu Ghana was a follower of the Ganapatya sect. He strictly followed the Sukkla Brahmacari, where he had to remain celibate for the rest of his life.
In the year of 1189 Saka year (1267 AD), Mpu Dwijaksara, another Brahman from the Majapahit Kingdom, built a new pura at the site where Mpu Ghana established his parahyangan (place of meditation or ashram). The pura was built as a form of homage to Mpu Ghana.
When Sri Soma Kepakisan, the son of Sri Kresna Kepakisan, was crowned the new king of the Gelgel Kingdom in 1380 AD, he made the pura that was built by Mpu Dwijaksara into a royal pura. The pura was christened Pura Dasar Buana Gelgel. Following the new inauguration of the temple complex, a shrine was constructed to honor the Tri-Residents (Satrya Dalem, Pasek and Pande).
In year 1489 AD, Dang Hyang Nirartha came to Bali, and built the Padma Tiga shrine in the inner sanctum of Pura Dasar Buana Gelgel to honor the Brahmins.
Temple layout
Pura Dasar Buana is located in the village of Gelgel, Klungkung Subdistrict, Klungkung Regency, Bali. The pura is oriented north–south and is divided into three areas: the outer sanctum of the temple (jaba pisan or nistaning mandala), the middle sanctum (jaba tengah or madya mandala), and the inner main sanctum (jero or utamaning mandala).
Entrance to the outer sanctum (jaba pisan) is marked with a candi bentar split gate at Jalan Waturenggong. The outer sanctum is a green-grassy courtyard with several large banyan trees growing in the courtyard. A bale gong (pavilion for keeping the gamelan) is located in the outer sanctum, as well as an enclosure where several shrines for local deities are placed.
Entrance to the middle sanctum (jaba tengah) is marked with another candi bentar split gate. Several bale pavilions are situated in the middle sanctum, e.g. a bale where cooking of the offering is done, and several others. A bale kulkul, a bale where the slit-drum is kept to announce time for prayer, is situated on the wall boundary between the outer sanctum and the middle sanctum, to the east.
The inner sanctum (jero) is the most sacred courtyard of in the temple complex. The inner sanctum of Pura Dasar Buana Gelgel features three multi-tiered meru towers to the left of the paduraksa portal. The tallest of the meru towers is the Meru Tumpang Solas with eleven roof tiers, a shrine dedicated to the descendants of Satrya Dalem. The three-tiered Meru Tumpang Telu shrine is dedicated to Mpu Gnijaya, ancestor of the Pasek. Other three-tiered Meru Tumpang Telu shrine is dedicated to the Pande. The fourth shrine, the Padma Tiga shrine is dedicated to the descendants of the Brahmins. These four shrines is known by the people as the Catur Warga. There are more than 20 shrines and buildings in the inner sanctum. It has now been permanently shut down.
Ritual
The piodalan or puja wali festival (pura's anniversary) of Pura Dasar Buana is held twice every year on Monday or soma pon Kuningan. The name of the festival is Pemacekan Agung. Other festivals held in the temple is the annual Padudusan held during the full moon of the fourth month (Balinese purnama kapat) in the Balinese calendar.
See also
Balinese temple
References
Cited works
Balinese temples
Hindu temples in Indonesia
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Cochylidia subroseana
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Cochylidia subroseana, the dingy roseate conch, is a moth of the family Tortricidae. It was described by Adrian Hardy Haworth in 1811. It is found from most of Europe (except Ireland, the Benelux, Denmark, the Iberian Peninsula, Croatia and Ukraine) to China (Anhui, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Henan, Hunan, Jilin, Shanxi, Tianjin), Russia, Korea and Japan. It has also been recorded from North America.
The wingspan is . Adults have been recorded on wing in June to August.
The larvae feed on Solidago species. They feed on the flowers of their host plant. The species overwinters in a cocoon.
Subspecies
Cochylidia subroseana subroseana
Cochylidia subroseana roseotincta Razowski, 1960 (China)
References
"Cochylidia subroseana (Haworth, 1811)". Insecta.pro.
Cochylini
Moths described in 1811
Moths of Asia
Moths of Europe
Taxa named by Adrian Hardy Haworth
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vic%C3%AAncia
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Vicência
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Vicência is a city in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil. It is 81 km away from the state capital Recife. It has an estimated (IBGE 2020) population of 32,772 inhabitants.
Geography
State - Pernambuco
Region - Zona da mata Pernambucana
Boundaries - Timbaúba and Macaparana (N); Limoeiro and Buenos Aires (S); Aliança (E); Bom Jardim and São Vicente Ferrer (W)
Area - 230.82 km2
Elevation - 119 m
Hydrography - Goiana River
Vegetation - Subcaducifólia forest
Climate - Hot tropical and humid
Annual average temperature - 25.3 c
Distance to Recife - 81 km
Economy
The main economic activities in Vicência are based in food & beverage industry and agribusiness, especially sugarcane, bananas; and livestock such as cattle and poultry.
Economic indicators
Economy by Sector
2006
Health indicators
References
Municipalities in Pernambuco
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Benjamin Desha
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Benjamin Desha was an American soldier and politician. He was a veteran of the War of 1812, and was wounded in the Battle of Mackinac Island. In 1822, Desha was appointed a receiver of public moneys by President James Monroe for the Arkansas Territory and moved there from Kentucky. He died on November 21, 1835.
Benjamin Desha is the namesake of Desha County, Arkansas.
References
Arkansas Territory officials
1835 deaths
Year of birth unknown
People from Kentucky in the War of 1812
People from Kentucky
Desha County, Arkansas
19th-century American politicians
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent%20Olsson%20%28orienteer%29
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Kent Olsson (orienteer)
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Kent Olsson (born 1958) is a Swedish orienteering competitor, winner of the 1987 Individual World Orienteering Championships, and also obtained silver medals in 1989 and 1991, as well as silver medal on the Short distance in 1991. Participated on the Swedish team that obtained bronze medals in 1983 and 1987, and silver medal in 1989 (World Championships, Relay).
Olsson was elected "Årets orienterare" by Swedish sports journalists in 1982, 1986 and 1987.
References
1958 births
Living people
Swedish orienteers
Male orienteers
Foot orienteers
World Orienteering Championships medalists
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ark%2021%20Records
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Ark 21 Records
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Ark 21 Records was a record label established by Miles & Stewart Copeland in 1997, based in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, California, United States.
Artists
Kathem Al-Saher
Ragheb Alamah
Aswad
The Badlees
The Beautiful South
John Berry
Belinda Carlisle
Paul Carrack
Concrete Blonde
Delinquent Habits
Farrah
Faudel
Hakim
Wayne Hancock
Darren Holden
The Human League
Waylon Jennings
Eric Johnson
Khaled
Liquid Soul
Pat MacDonald
Cheb Mami
Manu Chao
Mohamed Mounir
Alannah Myles
Neon Steam Dreams
Ocean Colour Scene
Pentaphobe
Porcupine Tree
Emma Shapplin
Maia Sharp
Steve Stevens
Strontium 90
Rachid Taha
Therapy?
Simon Townshend (Pete Townshend's younger brother)
Transglobal Underground
See also
List of record labels
References
Defunct record labels of the United States
Pop record labels
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich%20Joseph%20Haass
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Friedrich Joseph Haass
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Dr. Friedrich Joseph Haass (, Fyodor Petrovich Gaaz; 10 August 1780 – ) was the "holy doctor of Moscow". Born in Bad Münstereifel, as a member of Moscow's governmental prison committee, he spent 25 years until the end of his life to humanize the penal system. During the last nine years before his death, he spent all of his assets to run a hospital for homeless people. He died in Moscow. Twenty thousand people attended his funeral at the Vvedenskoye Cemetery, which was paid for by the state as he had no more money.
He has a Catholic remembrance day of the 16th of August.
See also
References
Koni, Anatolij Fedorovic: "Doktor Friedrich Haass. Lebensskizze eines deutschen Philanthropen in Rußland", in: Zur Geschichte des russischen Gefängniswesens im 19. Jahrhundert, auf Veranlassung von Graf Gregor Stroganoff aus dem Russischen ins Deutsche übersetzt, Verlag von Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1899.
External links
Friedrich Haass School
Friedrich Joseph Haass: Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon
Physicians of the Russian Empire
German emigrants to the Russian Empire
1780 births
1853 deaths
Burials at Vvedenskoye Cemetery
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenacious%20D%20%28TV%20series%29
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Tenacious D (TV series)
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Tenacious D was a TV series that ran on HBO from 1997 to 2000. It features the fictional accounts of the real-life comedy rock duo Tenacious D, which is composed of members Jack Black and Kyle Gass. All of the episodes of the show are available on Tenacious D's The Complete Master Works DVD.
There were three half-hour episodes total in the season, each containing two segments. The show included many songs that would later be re-recorded for the band's studio albums Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny.
In June 2020, the show was added to the streaming service HBO Max.
Synopsis
The series follows the exploits of JB and KG, the two halves of Tenacious D., the self-proclaimed "greatest band on earth." Their music is heavy on power chords and lyrics about sex, Satan, and why they are "the greatest band on Earth."
Episodes are typically bookended by scenes of the band performing at an open mic night, with the events in between often serving as inspiration for a song performed at the end.
Dispute with HBO
According to Gass, HBO offered Tenacious D a deal to make ten episodes, but in doing so, they would have to relinquish their role as executive producers. Gass and Black decided to make a movie instead of giving HBO creative control of Tenacious D, and they made Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny.
Episodes
References
External links
HBO original programming
Tenacious D
1990s American musical comedy television series
2000s American musical comedy television series
1997 American television series debuts
2000 American television series endings
English-language television shows
Television series based on singers and musicians
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Anaswara Kumar
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Anaswara Kumar is an Indian actress, who works in the Tamil film industry. She started her career with Arivazhaghan's sports thriller Vallinam (2014), though the romantic comedy Ego (2013) released first. She made her breakthrough portraying Mohini in the black comedy film Yaamirukka Bayamey, which became a commercial success.
Early life
Anaswara was born to Malayali parents in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. She did her schooling from Jawahar Vidyalaya and at A. V. Meiyappan Matriculation Higher Secondary School. She then went on to graduate in Corporate Economics from Women's Christian College, Chennai.
Career
Anaswara started her career in a supporting role for Arivazhaghan's sports thriller Vallinam (2014). She was selected from forty girls in an audition, which she had attended after being spotted at a Chennai Super Kings fans video shoot. Her first leading role came through the romantic comedy Ego (2013) featuring newcomers. The film went on to become an average grosser at the box office and had a low profile release.
She made a breakthrough in her career by portraying the character Mohini, in the black comedy film Yaamirukka Bayamey (2014), which went on to become such a grand commercial success that horror comedy/dark comedy became a trend in the Tamil Film Industry. Anaswara had to audition for the role of Mohini, where her capabilities at portraying the haunted character and creative inputs convinced the Film's Director Deekay to cast her. During production, Anaswara's make-up in the ghost avatar took up to four hours to apply, while she revealed that she got into character by "standing alone in the haunted room to imbibe the ghostly feelings". Lalitha Raj, the makeup artist of Yaamirukka Bayamey appreciated Anaswara saying "For Anaswara, we had to apply heavy makeup and it took about three to four hours to complete it every day . Her dedication should be appreciated. It was cold while shooting for her scenes, but she managed to sit outside with that look for hours." The actors in the film won positive reviews, with Rediff.com noting "the lead actors have performed admirably; there is a touch of eccentricity and wackiness to all the characters that adds to the ambience of the film." She then went on to reprise her role in Yaamirukka Bayamey's Kannada remake Namo Boothatma (2014), which also became a commercial success.
Anaswara began shooting for a new film in January 2016 titled as Pattinapakkam directed by Jayadev opposite Kalaiyarasan in the lead. Speaking about her role in an interview with Deccan Chronicle Chennai, Anaswara says, "I play the role of Mithra, a college student who hails from a middle-class background. She is loving, caring and is extremely protective of Vetri (played by Kalaiyarasan). She drives Vetri to be more responsible in life."
Filmography
All films are in Tamil, unless otherwise noted.
References
External links
Living people
21st-century Indian actresses
Female models from Chennai
1994 births
Actresses from Chennai
Women's Christian College, Chennai alumni
Actresses in Tamil cinema
Actresses in Kannada cinema
Indian film actresses
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CALHM1
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CALHM1
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Calcium homeostasis modulator 1 (CALHM1) is a pore-forming subunit of a voltage-gated ion channel that in humans is encoded by the CALHM1 gene.
Function
Central nervous system
CALHM1 was identified by a tissue-specific gene expression profiling approach that screened for genes located on susceptibility loci for late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD) and that are preferentially expressed in the hippocampus, a brain region affected early in AD. CALHM1 is a plasma membrane calcium-permeable ion channel regulated by voltage and extracellular calcium levels. The exact function of CALHM1 in the brain is not completely understood, but studies have shown that CALHM1 controls neuronal intracellular calcium homeostasis and signaling, as well as calcium-dependent neuronal excitability and memory in mouse models. Recent data have also shown that CALHM1 might facilitate the proteolytic degradation of the cerebral amyloid beta peptide, a culprit in AD pathogenesis.
Peripheral taste system
CALHM1 is expressed in taste bud cells where it controls purinergic receptor-mediated taste transduction in the gustatory system.
See also
Ruthenium red
References
External links
Further reading
Human proteins
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/512th%20Fighter%20Squadron
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512th Fighter Squadron
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The 512th Fighter Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with the 86th Fighter Wing at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, where it was inactivated September 1994.
The squadron was first activated as the 628th Bombardment Squadron in 1943. While retaining its mission as a ground attack, unit, it became the 512th Fighter-Bomber Squadron a few months after activating. After training in the United States, it moved to the European Theater of Operations in the spring of 1944. It entered combat soon thereafter, and following D-Day, moved to the continent of Europe, where it gave close air support to American ground forces advancing across Europe. It earned two Distinguished Unit Citations for its actions during the war. Following V-E Day, the squadron served in the Army of Occupation until 1946, when it was inactivated and its personnel and equipment transferred to another unit.
The squadron was reactivated in 1952, when it replaced an Air National Guard unit that had been mobilized for the Korean War. The following year it assumed an air defense mission and continued with that mission until inactivated in 1959.
The squadron was reactivated as the 512th Tactical Fighter Squadron in 1976 and served in that role until 1994, when it transferred its fighters to Aviano Air Base, as its parent wing became an airlift unit.
History
World War II
The squadron was first activated as the 628th Bombardment Squadron at Key Field, Mississippi on 1 March 1943. It was one of the four original squadrons of the 406th Bombardment Group and was initially equipped with a variety of attack, pursuit, and trainer aircraft. Although its mission did not substantially change, the squadron became the 512th Fighter-Bomber Squadron in August. It moved to Congaree Army Air Field, South Carolina and equipping with Republic P-47 Thunderbolts before the end of the year. The 512th trained with its "Jugs" until March 1944, when it departed the United States for the European Theater of Operations.
The squadron arrived at RAF Ashford in England in early April and flew its first combat mission the following month, preparing for Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy. It attacked military airfields, bridges and marshalling yards in France. On D-Day, the squadron flew patrols in the vicinity of the invasion beaches and armed reconnaissance and dive bombing missions.
The squadron supported Operation Cobra, the Allied breakthrough at Saint-Lo on 25 July, then moved to Tour-en-Bessin Airfield in France a few days later. The 512th participated in the reduction of Saint-Malo and Brest, France and supported the drive across France. On 7 September, flying from Saint-Léonard Airfield, the squadron operated with the other units of the 406th Fighter Group in destroying a column of tanks, armored vehicles and motor transport that were trying to escape to southeastern France through the Belfort Gap. This attack earned the squadron the Distinguished Unit Citation (DUC). The squadron cooperated with ground forces and flew air interdiction sorties in the area of the Mosel and Saar Rivers.
When the Germans launched the counterattack that resulted in the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944, the squadron shifted operations to the Ardennes to relive the embattled garrison at Bastogne. For four days in late December, the squadron flew attacks on German vehicles, gun emplacements and defensive positions close to Bastogne, for which it was awarded a second DUC. The squadron flew escort, interdiction, and air support missions in the Ruhr Valley early in 1945 and to assist Allied ground forces in the drive to and across the Rhine.
Following, V-E Day, the squadron moved to AAF Station Nordholz, Germany, where it became part of the Army of Occupation. The squadron was inactivated on 20 August 1946, and its personnel and equipment were transferred to the 525th Fighter Squadron. which was activated the same day.
Air defense in Europe
The squadron returned to its Fighter-Bomber designation and was activated in July 1952 at RAF Manston, England, where it replaced the 156th Fighter-Bomber Squadron, a North Carolina Air National Guard unit that had been mobilized for the Korean War. The 512th assumed the mission, personnel and Republic F-84 Thunderjets of the 156th, which was returned to state control. In late 1953, the squadron converted to North American F-86 Sabres. For a brief time in 1954, the squadron was designated the 512th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron before becoming the 512th Fighter-Day Squadron in August. In November, the squadron moved to Soesterberg Air Base, Netherlands, where it carried out both fighter-bomber and air defense missions.
On 8 September 1955, United States Air Forces in Europe moved the squadron back to England without personnel or equipment. The 32d Fighter-Day Squadron was activated at Soesterberg, absorbing the 512th's personnel and equipment, while the 512th assumed the resources of the inactivating 87th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron at RAF Bentwaters and resumed its designation as a fighter interceptor unit and mission of augmenting the air defenses of the United Kingdom.
When the 406th Fighter-Interceptor Wing reorganized in May 1956, the 406th Fighter-Interceptor Group was inactivated and the squadron assigned directly to wing headquarters. The squadron was awarded the Hughes Trophy as the best interceptor unit in the Air Force for the calendar year 1957. In February 1958, the 406th Wing began phasing down its operations as it prepared for inactivation. In connection with this drawdown, the squadron moved to Sembach Air Base, Germany on 24 March 1958 and was reassigned to the 86th Fighter-Interceptor Wing. However, while Sembach's runways could accommodate the squadron's Sabres, they were too short to safely operate more modern interceptors and the squadron was inactivated on 1 July 1959.
Tactical fighter operations in Germany
The squadron was reactivated at Ramstein Air Base as the 512th Tactical Fighter Squadron on 15 November 1976. The squadron was equipped with McDonnell F-4E Phantom IIs that became available when the 36th Tactical Fighter Wing at Bitburg Air Base, Germany received McDonnell Douglas F-15A Eagles. The squadron upgraded to General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcons in 1985. It supported numerous military units located in the area and participated in numerous exercises that provided the wing with air combat tactics training essential to their mission.
In 1994 the decision was made to change the 86th Wing to the airlift mission previously held by the 435th Airlift Wing at Rhein-Main Air Base, Germany, which was slated for transfer to the German government to be merged into Frankfurt Airport. The 512th was inactivated on 1 October 1994, and most of its aircraft and personnel moved to Aviano Air Base, Italy, where they were used to form the 510th Fighter Squadron.
Lineage
Constituted as the 628th Bombardment Squadron (Dive) on 4 February 1943
Activated on 1 March 1943
Redesignated 512th Fighter-Bomber Squadron on 10 August 1943
Redesignated 512th Fighter Squadron on 30 May 1944
Inactivated on 20 August 1946
Redesignated 512th Fighter-Bomber Squadron on 25 June 1952
Activated on 10 July 1952
Redesignated 512th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron on 1 April 1954
Redesignated 512th Fighter-Day Squadron on 8 August 1954
Redesignated 512th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron on 8 September 1955
Inactivated on 1 July 1959
Redesignated 512th Tactical Fighter Squadron
Activated on 15 November 1976
Redesignated 512th Fighter Squadron on 1 May 1991
Inactivated on 1 October 1994
Assignments
406th Bombardment Group (later 406th Fighter-Bomber Group, 406th Fighter Group), 1 March 1943 – 20 August 1946
406th Fighter-Bomber Group (later 406th Fighter-Interceptor Group), 10 July 1952
406th Fighter-Interceptor Wing, 1 May 1956
86th Fighter-Interceptor Wing, 24 March 1958 – 1 July 1959
86th Tactical Fighter Group, 15 November 1976
86th Tactical Fighter Wing, 15 June 1985
86th Operations Group, 1 May 1991 – 1 October 1994
Stations
Key Field, Mississippi, 1 March 1943
Congaree Army Air Field, South Carolina, 18 September 1943 – 13 March 1944
RAF Ashford (AAF-417), England, 6 April 1944
Tour-en-Bessin Airfield (A-13), France, c. 27 July 1944
Cretteville Airfield (A-14), France, 17 August 1944
Saint-Léonard Airfield (A-36), France, c. 4 September 1944
Mourmelon-le-Grand Airfield (A-80), France, 24 September 1944
Metz Airfield (Y-34), France, 31 January 1945
Asch Airfield (Y-29), Belgium, 8 February 1945
Münster-Handorf Airfield (Y-94), Germany, 15 April 1945
AAF Station Nordholz (R-56), Germany, c. 5 June 1945 – 20 August 1946
RAF Manston, England, 10 July 1952
Soesterberg Air Base, Netherlands, 1 November 1954
RAF Bentwaters, England, 8 September 1955 – 24 March 1958
Sembach Air Base, Germany, 24 March 1958 – 1 July 1959
Ramstein Air Base, Germany, 15 November 1976 – 1 October 1994
Aircraft
Douglas A-20 Havoc, 1943
Douglas A-24 Banshee, 1943
Curtiss A-25 Shrike, 1943
Douglas A-26 Invader, 1943
Vultee A-35 Vengeance, 1943
North American A-36 Apache, 1943
Cessna UC-78 Bobcat, 1943
North American BC-1, 1943
Bell P-39 Airacobra, 1943
Curtiss P-40 Warhawk, 1943
Republic P-47 Thunderbolt, 1943–1946
Republic F-84 Thunderjet, 1952–1953
North American F-86 Sabre, 1953–1959
McDonnell F-4E Phantom II, 1976–1985
General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon, 1985–1994
Awards and campaigns
1957 Hughes Trophy
See also
List of Douglas A-26 Invader operators
List of F-86 Sabre units
McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II non-U.S. operators
General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon operators
References
Notes
Explanatory notes
Citations
Bibliography
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Fighter squadrons of the United States Air Force
Fighter squadrons of the United States Army Air Forces
Military units and formations of the United States in the Cold War
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Low Energy Dance Music
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Low Energy Dance Music is the debut studio album by the indie rock band Elephant Micah. It was released in 2002 on Landmark Records.
Track listing
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"You Take My Sense With Longing"
"Loud Guitars"
"Breakdance in 3/4"
"Late Radio"
"Put to Bed"
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"Story of a Hospitalized Heart"
"Like This:"
"Artificial Lights' Flickering"
"Piece for Organ and Baritone"
"Halloween Sunday"
"Dance Sensation"
"Rides Away"
"Low Energy Beat"
References
Elephant Micah albums
2002 debut albums
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Syracuse, Kansas
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Syracuse is a city in and the county seat of Hamilton County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 1,826.
History
Syracuse began its existence as a stop on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. The site was originally called Holidayburg or Holliday in honor of Cyrus K. Holliday, first President of the ATSF railway. In 1873 a group of settlers from Syracuse, New York arrived and the site was renamed to Syracuse. In 1886, Syracuse was recognized as the county seat of Hamilton County. Syracuse secured its place in American history on April 5, 1887 by electing an all-woman city council, the first in the nation. The council consisted of Mrs. N. E. Wheeler (mayor), Caroline Johnson Barber, Mrs. W. A. Swartwood, Mrs. S. P. Nott, Mrs. Charles Coe, and Mrs. G. C. Riggles.
By 1912, Syracuse was home to more than a thousand souls, 2 banks, a hotel belonging to the Fred Harvey Company, a flour mill, several machine shops, 2 weekly newspapers (Syracuse Journal and the Republican-News), 4 churches, a county high school with 10 teachers, a telegraph and express office, and an international money order post office.
Geography
Syracuse is located at (37.982938, -101.751224), along U.S. Route 50 and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, sixteen miles (twenty-six kilometers) from the Colorado border. The Arkansas River runs just south of the City of Syracuse. The countryside south of the Arkansas River is marked by sandhills. Located within these sandhills is the "Syracuse Sand Dunes," a city park covering , including a fishing pond.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land.
Climate
According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Syracuse has a semi-arid climate, abbreviated "BSk" on climate maps.
Demographics
2010 census
As of the census of 2010, there were 1,812 people, 715 households, and 460 families living in the city. The population density was . There were 832 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 76.7% White, 0.2% African American, 1.8% Native American, 0.2% Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 19.4% from other races, and 1.6% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 32.7% of the population.
There were 715 households, of which 37.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 51.6% were married couples living together, 9.0% had a female householder with no husband present, 3.8% had a male householder with no wife present, and 35.7% were non-families. 31.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 14.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.53 and the average family size was 3.23.
The median age in the city was 32.1 years. 28.7% of residents were under the age of 18; 9.8% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 25.5% were from 25 to 44; 22.4% were from 45 to 64; and 13.5% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 50.6% male and 49.4% female.
2000 census
As of the census of 2000, there were 1,824 people, 742 households, and 483 families living in the city. The population density was 1,374.0 people per square mile (529.5/km2). There were 830 housing units at an average density of 625.2 per square mile (241.0/km2). The racial makeup of the city was 79.22% White, 0.71% African American, 0.27% Native American, 0.82% Asian, 17.65% from other races, and 1.32% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 22.42% of the population.
There were 742 households, out of which 33.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 53.5% were married couples living together, 7.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 34.9% were non-families. 32.6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 17.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.46 and the average family size was 3.13.
In the city, the population was spread out, with 29.2% under the age of 18, 7.6% from 18 to 24, 25.5% from 25 to 44, 20.4% from 45 to 64, and 17.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females, there were 95.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 90.7 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $31,250, and the median income for a family was $37,976. Males had a median income of $29,000 versus $23,482 for females. The per capita income for the city was $15,531. About 10.7% of families and 15.0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 20.0% of those under age 18 and 11.6% of those age 65 or over.
Education
Syracuse High School is the unified high school for Hamilton County USD 494. The Syracuse school mascot is Bulldogs.
Gallery
See also
Santa Fe Trail
References
Further reading
External links
City of Syracuse
Syracuse - Directory of Public Officials
USD 494, local school district
Syracuse City Map, KDOT
Cities in Kansas
County seats in Kansas
Cities in Hamilton County, Kansas
Kansas populated places on the Arkansas River
1873 establishments in Kansas
Populated places established in 1873
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Setia is a District of Southwest Aceh Regency in Aceh Province, Indonesia.
References
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Southwest Aceh Regency
Aceh
Southwest Aceh Regency
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Fastweb (telecommunications company)
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Fastweb S.p.A. is an Italian telecommunications company that provides fixed and mobile telephony, broadband Internet and IPTV services. Fastweb is also one of the prominent companies in Italy providing FTTH connections. Fastweb is fully owned by the Swiss telecommunication company Swisscom.
In May 2007, Swisscom paid 3 billion euros for 82.4% of Fastweb. Swisscom subsequently bought out the minority shareholders after making a voluntary tender offer in September 2010. Therefore, Fastweb has been delisted from Borsa Italiana.
Network and services
Since its founding Fastweb has invested over €5 billion in a next-generation fiber-optic network spanning more than .
By implementing the internet protocol on its alternative fiber-optic network, Fastweb provides a Triple-Play Offer of landline, internet and television services, available simultaneously on a single connection, for residential and business clients. Today Fastweb's fiber-optic network is the most extended in Europe.
In September 2010 and for the first time in Italy, Fastweb launched a broadband connection up to 100 Mbit/s for residential customers and small enterprises in the cities of Milan, Rome, Genoa, Turin, Bologna, Naples and Bari.
In September 2008, Fastweb became also a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) and launched its mobile voice and data service (Quadruple Play).
In July 2019 becomes the fifth mobile network operator in Italy by obtaining the license to operate on 5G network.
Today, business customers account for 60% of the total revenue. On the government market, Fastweb became the main supplier of fixed network telephone and data services to central public agencies.
Founding and early history
Fastweb was founded in 1999 in Milan by Silvio Scaglia, Francesco Micheli, and Ruggero Gramatica. e.Biscom was founded with the intention of developing a fiber-optic network in Italy, and Fastweb was launched as a joint venture with AEM to develop IP services.
In March 2000, e.Biscom went public on the Italian New Market Stock Exchange to expand and finance their fiber-optic network in major Italian cities. e.Biscom soon became the first operator in the world to use full IP technology and bring fiber-optic networks to cities, and launched home telecommunication services. In 2002, fiber-optic cabling was completed in Milan, and Fastweb consolidated its presence in Rome, Genoa, Turin, Naples, and Bologna.
e.Biscom merger
e.Biscom announced a possible merger with Fastweb in early 2004, and the merger was finalized by the end of April. The company took on Fastweb's name, and focused on its core business, creating broadband telecommunications on the Italian landline network.
Expansion and technological achievements
By 2006, Fastweb's broadband network had expanded to cover about 45 percent of Italy's population, and later that year, Fastweb won both the Consip and the CNIPA tender for the Public Connectivity System (SPC) becoming a top supplier for the Public Authorities.
Swisscom acquisition
By 2006, Fastweb was Italy's leading alternative broadband telecommunications provider, boasting over one million customers and an annual revenue of €1.26 billion. In early 2007, Fastweb was bought by Swisscom, a major Swiss telecommunications provider, to strengthen new technologies and multimedia for Swisscom, while increasing cash flow and revenue.
Expansion under Swisscom
In 2008, Fastweb launched connections of up to 100 Mbit/s for small and medium enterprises in areas served by its fiber-optic network, making this connectivity speed available in Italy for the first time. Over the next year, Fastweb signed an agreement with Telecom Italia to promote the development of fiber-optic next-generation networks (NGN) by sharing infrastructure.
Fastweb worked to continue expanding faster service, and in 2010, their Fibra 100 service became available to residential consumers, and two million homes and businesses had the ability to use the Internet at 100 Mbit/s for the first time in Italy.
In 2015, Fastweb signed an agreement with Telecom Italia to become a full mobile virtual network operator (Full MVNO) to ensure better quality and coverage, including access to 4G and 4G+.
After continuing to grow, in 2018 Fastweb acquired Tiscali's fixed-wireless business, including full ownership of Tiscali's 5G, 3.5 GHz spectrum, in a deal worth approximately $176 million.
See also
List of VoIP companies
Other sources
References
External links
Italian brands
VoIP companies of Italy
Streaming television
Internet service providers of Italy
Companies based in Milan
Companies formerly listed on the Borsa Italiana
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DeMarvion Overshown
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DeMarvion Overshown is an American football linebacker for the Texas Longhorns.
High school career
Overshown attended Arp High School in Arp, Texas. As a senior, he had 142 tackles and five sacks. He played in the 2018 Under Armour All-America Game. He committed to the University of Texas at Austin to play college football.
College career
OVershown played safety his first two years at Texas. Over his first two years he played in 17 games and had 19 tackles, two sacks and one interception. Prior to his junior year in 2020, he switched to linebacker. He started all 10 games that year, recording 60 tackles, one sack and two interceptions. Overshown returned to Texas for his senior year in 2021 rather than enter the 2021 NFL Draft.
References
External links
Texas Longhorns bio
Living people
Sportspeople from Tyler, Texas
Players of American football from Texas
American football linebackers
Texas Longhorns football players
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Tyrannomolpus
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Tyrannomolpus is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. It is known only from Three Kings Islands, New Zealand. It contains only one species, Tyrannomolpus rex. T. rex is the largest chrysomelid beetle species endemic to New Zealand, measuring between 9.7 and 11.9 mm, and may be an example of island gigantism. It has a dark bronzy-green color with a metallic luster. Tyrannomolpus is closest to the genus Pilacolaspis from the mainland of New Zealand.
The generic name is a combination of the dinosaur genus name Tyrannosaurus and the suffix "molpus", referring to the relative large size of the genus to other chrysomelids endemic to New Zealand. The specific name, rex, is the Latin for "king", referring to the only known location of the genus, Three Kings Islands.
A single specimen of the species was collected from Meryta sinclairii (also known as the puka), a tree endemic to the Three Kings Islands.
References
Eumolpinae
Chrysomelidae genera
Monotypic beetle genera
Beetles of New Zealand
Beetles described in 2017
Three Kings Islands
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Fidget
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Fidget may refer to:
ST Fidget, a British Admiralty tugboat
Fidgeting, the inability to sit still for a period of time
A fidget toy, a type of stress-relieving toy such as a fidget spinner
Fidget house, a genre of Electro house
Fidget, a secondary villain in the 1986 animated children's film The Great Mouse Detective.
Fidget, a secondary protagonist in the 2012 video game Dust: An Elysian Tail
Fidgets, a term used for thieving midgets disguised as babies, in the Our Gang film Free Eats
See also
Phidget, a type of electronics component
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Papermill Reedbed is a 6 hectare nature reserve in Bramford in Suffolk. It is owned by Blakenham Farms and managed by the Suffolk Wildlife Trust.
The Trust has restored this area of dry grassland of low ecological value by installing water control measures to create wetland. Several species of dragonfly and damselfly have colonised the water-filled ditches, and they are used by water voles and otters.
The Gipping Valley river Path goes through the reserve.
References
Suffolk Wildlife Trust
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Van Voorst tot Voorst
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van Voorst tot Voorst is an old Dutch noble family from the Dutch province of Overijssel.
History
The family was already noble from earliest times ("Uradel"). The first documented ancestor is Fredericus van Hekeren van der Ese (in 1327). His son Frederik van Heeckeren van der Eze (1320-ca. 1386) was the head of the Heeckerens faction during the War of the Guelderian Succession. Through his marriage with Lutgardis van Voorst, whose ancestors owned both the castle Rechteren near Dalfsen as well as the castle Voorst near Zwolle, the surname van Voorst entered the family. In 1432, Frederik's grandson, Frederik van Hekeren genaamd van Rechteren († 1462), married Cunegonde van Polanen. Their son, Zeger van Hekeren genaamd van Voorst, became the ancestor of the present-day family van Voorst tot Voorst. Zeger's brother, Otto van Hekeren genaamd van Rechteren († 1478), became the ancestor of the counts of van Rechteren.
During the nineteenth and twentieth century, the family produced several high-ranking officers of the Dutch army, Commissioners of the Queen, diplomats and members of the House of Representatives and Senate. Members carry the title of baron.
One branch belongs to the Belgian nobility: the children from the second marriage of Franciscus baron van Voorst tot Voorst (1884-1955) with jkvr. (Belgian: viscountess ) Antoinette van Aefferden (1895-1976) were incorporated into the Belgian Nobility based on the Royal decree of 1814.
Notable members of the family
Jan Joseph Godfried van Voorst tot Voorst
Jan Joseph Godfried van Voorst tot Voorst, son of the above
Franciscus van Voorst tot Voorst
Eduardus van Voorst tot Voorst
Berend-Jan van Voorst tot Voorst
Herman van Voorst tot Voorst
Coat of arms
The coat of arms consists of three red chevrons on a field of gold. This coat of arms is depicted in the medieval Gelre Armorial (folio 88v and 101v).
Gallery
Literature
A.F.H. van Heeckeren, 'Genealogie van de geslachten Van Voorst, Van Heeckeren, Van Rechteren' in: Heraldieke Bibliotheek (1876).
E.L. van Voorst tot Voorst, 'Het Boek der Voorsten: Het geslacht van Voorst tot Voorst, uit officieele bronnen toegelicht' ('s-Gravehage, 1892).
J.J. Hooft van Huysduynen, 'Bijdrage tot een genealogie van het geslacht Van Voorst tot Voorst' ('s-Gravenhage, 1968).
J.G.N. Renaud et al., 'Het kasteel Voorst- Macht en val van een Overijsselse burcht' (Zwolle, 1983).
* Mensema, A.J., Raat, R.M. de, Woude, C.C. van der, Inventaris van het huisarchief Almelo, 3 volumes, 1236 - 1917 (1933), Zwolle (1993). online version including family tree of early generations of the Van der Eze, Van Heeckeren, Van Rechteren en Van Voorst family.
Nederland's Adelsboek 96 (2011), p. 263-357.
Etat présent de la noblesse belge (2014), p. 282-284.
Detlev Schwennicke, Europäische Stammtafeln Band XXVII (2012) Tafel 94–95.
References
See also
Voorst, a present-day municipality in Gelderland. In 1362, the castle Voorst was besieged by Prince-Bishop John of Arkel.
Surnames
Dutch noble families
Barons of the Netherlands
Barons of Belgium
Belgian noble families
Dutch-language surnames
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Nalder
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Nalder is a surname of English origin. People with the surname include:
Bill Nalder (born 1952), former Australian rules footballer
Cambell Nalder (1937–1987), Australian politician, son of Crawford Nalder
Crawford Nalder (1910–1994), Australian politician
Dean Nalder (born 1966), Australian politician, grandson of Crawford Nalder
Eric Nalder, American journalist
Leonard Fielding Nalder (1888–1958), British colonial administrator
Reggie Nalder (1907–1991), actor
Ron Nalder (born 1939), Australian rules footballer
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Wyrzyki-Pękale
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Pękale is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Świercze, within Pułtusk County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland.
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Villages in Pułtusk County
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List of Soviet films of 1981
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julio%20C%C3%A9sar%20G%C3%B3mez
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Julio César Gómez
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Julio César Gómez Mateo (born 8 November 1940) is an Uruguayan former basketball player who competed in the 1964 Summer Olympics.
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External links
1940 births
Living people
Uruguayan men's basketball players
1963 FIBA World Championship players
1967 FIBA World Championship players
Olympic basketball players of Uruguay
Basketball players at the 1963 Pan American Games
Basketball players at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Pan American Games competitors for Uruguay
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Square Deal: The Game of Two Dimensional Poker
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Square Deal: The Game of Two Dimensional Poker (known in Japan as ) is a video game developed by Hect for the Game Boy. The Japanese version serves as the sequel to the Family Computer game Cadillac. In 1999, Cadillac was also released for the PlayStation.
Gameplay
The game uses cards to create hands based on poker. A full deck of 52 playing cards are shuffled and the top four cards are shown to the player. Each card drops down one at a time to a grid of 25 potential playing spaces. A winning poker hand must be made in order to eliminate the cards (i.e., royal flush, straight flush, full house). Players can only place cards horizontally or vertically; never diagonally. Players advance to the next level when all 52 cards have been removed. Each level gives players less time to think about their moves and the ability to have decision-making pauses.
Players start with $1000 in gambling money. However, an increasing number is required for the ante at the beginning of each new level. Antes start at $500 (in the early stages) and work their way up to $3000 (in the later stages). If he cannot make the ante, then it results in an automatic game over. Failing to eliminate all 52 cards results will result in a penalty being deducted from the player's earnings for each card left over. If the player is forced to use the "hidden" sixth row anytime during single-player play, it results in a game over. The sixth row is permitted during the two-player challenge. However, it makes the bottom row disappear.
After winning level 10 on single-player mode; the player will have beaten the entire game.
External links
1990 video games
DTMC games
Game Boy games
Game Boy-only games
Hect games
Nintendo Entertainment System games
Poker video games
Strategy video games
Video games developed in Japan
Video games scored by Tsukasa Tawada
Video game sequels
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Colorado Classic (cycling)
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The Colorado Classic is a four-stage cycling race that was first held in 2017. First organized with both men's and women's races, the men's race was discontinued after the 2018 edition; the Classic continues as a women-only event. The men's version of the race was designated as 2.HC and was part of the UCI America Tour. In 2017, the race was long and was held in Colorado Springs, Breckenridge, and Denver. In 2018, the first two stages were in Vail (August 16–17) and the last two were in Denver (August 18–19). The Denver stages were accompanied by a music and cycling fan fest extravaganza called Velorama.
In December 2018, the organizers announced that the Classic would become a women-only race from 2019 forward. As part of the change, the women's purse was increased from $20,000 in 2018 to $75,000 for 2019—which was $5,000 more than the purse for the final men's Classic in 2018. The Classic became the only standalone women's stage race in the Western Hemisphere included in the official UCI calendar; the 2019 edition was the first to be part of USA Cycling's Pro Road Tour and is classified as a 2.1 race by the UCI. The 2020 edition was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Winners - Men
Winners - Women
See also
Coors Classic, Colorado cycling race held in 1980–1988
USA Pro Cycling Challenge, Colorado cycling race held in 2011–2015
References
External links
Official site
Cycle races in the United States
Recurring sporting events established in 2017
2017 establishments in Colorado
Cycling in Colorado
UCI America Tour races
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1998 United States House of Representatives election in Wyoming
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The 1998 United States House of Representatives election in Wyoming were held on November 3, 1998 to determine who will represent the state of Wyoming in the United States House of Representatives. Wyoming has one, at large district in the House, apportioned according to the 1990 United States Census, due to its low population. Representatives are elected for two-year terms.
Major candidates
Democratic
Scott Farris
Republican
Barbara Cubin, incumbent U.S. Congresswoman
Results
References
1998 Wyoming elections
Wyoming
1998
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Gurusharan Lal Bhadani
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Lala Gurusharan Lal Bhadani (1901–1955) was a noted industrialist and coal miner from Gaya, India
Lala Gurusharan Lal was one of the noted industrialists of the Indian state of Bihar.
His father, Rai Bahadur Ram Chand Ram Bhadani was also a noted businessman from Gaya. Lala Gurusharan Lall stepped into his shoes, and later emerged as India's up coming industrialist. Lala Gurusharan Lal also inherited the Zamindari of village Lapanga, Ramgarh district from his father. He also owned a colliery there under the name of Hindustan Coal Company Ltd. Lapanga later came to be known as Bhadani Nagar.
In the year 1926 his first venture was Ram Chandra Naga Ram Rice & Oil Mills
In 1933 founded Gaya Sugar Mills in 1937 Gaya Cotton & Jute Mills. But soon he felt that Gaya was a small place for business expansion in the field of industrialization and as such in 1941 he shifted his business activities to Calcutta by purchasing Sodepur Glass Works from Rai Bahadur Jagmal Raja. From Calcutta he extended his business activities to Bombay and in 1946 purchased Madhusudan Cotton Mills Limited. Apart from that, he was owner of several Sugar mills like Guraru and Warisaliganj Sugar Mills and famous Cotton Mills, Madhusudan Mills Bombay. In 1951, he founded the Indo-Ashai Glass Company Limited The controlling company was known as Bhadani Brother Limited. He served also as the Director of Sri Ram Group of Industries, Hindustan Commercial Bank Ltd., Bhadani Bros. Ltd. and was the Director in more than three dozen industries of Sugar, Cloths, Chemicals, Electricity, Rice & Pulses, and Share Exchange.
He was member of number of regional, national & international business associations.
To name a few:-
1. All India Manufactures Association
2. Vice-President of Bihar Sugar Control Board.
3. Member of Executive Committee of Indian Chamber of Commerece.
4. President of Bihar Chamber of Commerce and Industries (1948–49)
4. Indian Central Sugarcane Committee
5. Indian Mining Association
6. International Chamber of Commerce
7. Panel of Sugar and Alcohol Feast, Delhi
In 1941 he was elected president of All India Sugar Mill Association and in 1946 he was elected the president of Federation of Indian Chamber of commerce and Industry. He was the first Bihari to have been elected as president of FICCI. He was appointed as the honorary trade adviser to the Government of Bihar in 1943, agent to the Government of India in 1944 and the President of Indian Chamber of Commerce in 1945. In appreciation of his brilliant service record; he was made the Knight Commander of the Indian Empire in 1945.
He also served as the trade adviser to the Government of Bihar, a member of the Mica Enquiry Committee. He represented India as its special representative in the conference of International Chamber of Commerce held in England in 1945.
As a philanthropist, he was the founder president of Gaya College, City School, and many other social and educational institutions. As a philanthropist, he, ˌkind-ˈheartedly extended donations in cash and kind to many other social organizations and educational institutions. He died in the year 1955.
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1902 births
1955 deaths
People from Gaya, India
Indian businesspeople in coal
Indian businesspeople in mining
Indian industrialists
Founders of Indian schools and colleges
Knights Commander of the Order of the Star of India
Businesspeople in textiles
Businesspeople in the sugar industry
Businesspeople in the glass industry
Businesspeople from Bihar
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Heitor Canalli
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Heitor Canalli (3 March 1910 – 21 July 1990) is a former Brazilian football player who played for five clubs between 1927 and 1941. He also played for the Brazil national team.
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Brazilian footballers
Brazilian expatriate footballers
Brazil international footballers
1934 FIFA World Cup players
Botafogo de Futebol e Regatas players
Clube de Regatas do Flamengo footballers
Torino F.C. players
Expatriate footballers in Italy
Serie A players
People from Juiz de Fora
1907 births
1990 deaths
Association football midfielders
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David Morritz de Kretser, (born 27 April 1939) is an Australian medical researcher who served as the 27th Governor of Victoria, from 2006 to 2011.
Early life and medical career
David de Kretser was born in British Ceylon (now known as Sri Lanka). He was educated at St. Paul's Milagiriya and Royal College Primary, before migrating to Australia with his family when he was aged nine. He studied at Camberwell Grammar School, Melbourne (where he is currently a member of the school board), received his Bachelors of Medicine and Surgery degrees from the University of Melbourne in 1962, and his Doctor of Medicine degree from Monash University in 1969.
De Kretser is an infertility and andrology expert, and a long-serving academic. He began working at Monash University in 1965, in the university's department of anatomy, and has also worked as foundation director of the Monash Institute of Reproduction and Development (recently renamed the Monash Institute of Medical Research) and as Associate Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences (the Biotechnology Department). He was a senior Fellow of endocrinology at the University of Washington in Seattle from 1969 to 1971.
De Kretser founded a medical research group, Andrology Australia. He was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA) in 1996, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering (FTSE) and Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences (FAHMS).
Governor of Victoria
On the nomination of Premier of Victoria, Steve Bracks, De Kretser was appointed Governor of Victoria by Queen Elizabeth II, taking office on 7 April 2006, succeeding John Landy. He left the post on 8 April 2011, and was succeeded by Alex Chernov.
Honours
In 2001, De Kretser was named as Victoria's Father of the Year. On 12 June 2006, in the Queen's Birthday Honours, he was awarded Australia's highest civilian honour, Companion of the Order of Australia. De Kretser is also a knight of the British Venerable Order of Saint John.
Personal life
De Kretser has been married to Jan for over 40 years, and has four sons: Steve, Mark, Ross and Hugh. Ross and Steve are Chemical Engineers, Mark is a General Practitioner, and Hugh is a Human Rights lawyer.
References
External links
Prominent Alumni: Professor David de Kretser AC (MD 1969, HonLLD 2006) (Monash University)
1939 births
Australian andrologists
Australian medical researchers
Burgher academics
Companions of the Order of Australia
Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science
Fellows of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering
Fellows of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences
Governors of Victoria (Australia)
Living people
Medical doctors from Melbourne
Melbourne Medical School alumni
Monash University alumni
Monash University faculty
People educated at Camberwell Grammar School
Alumni of Royal Preparatory School
People from Colombo
People of British Ceylon
Sri Lankan emigrants to Australia
University of Washington faculty
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Vaja
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Vaja is a town in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary.
Geography
It covers an area of and has a population of 3515 people (2015).
References
Populated places in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County
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Pam Johnson (editor)
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Pam Johnson (November 14, 1946 — January 20, 2021) was the first woman to serve as managing editor of The Arizona Republic, the 15th largest newspaper in the U.S. and the largest newspaper in Arizona. She was also the first female managing editor of The Republic's sister newspaper, The Phoenix Gazette. In addition to her newspaper management career, Johnson worked at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies in Florida and then as executive director of the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism, starting in 2004. Johnson, who died in Jan 2021, graduated from Missouri School of Journalism in 1969 with a bachelor's degree.
Johnson and reporters from the Kansas City Star and the Kansas City Times were awarded a Pulitzer Prize for team coverage of the Hyatt Regency walkway collapse in 1982.
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1946 births
2021 deaths
American women journalists
Missouri Southern State University alumni
University of Missouri alumni
University of Missouri faculty
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20th-century American newspaper editors
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21st-century American women
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Comer Children's Hospital
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The University of Chicago Comer Children's Hospital (UC CCH) formerly University of Chicago Children's Hospital is a nationally ranked, freestanding, 172-bed, pediatric acute care children's hospital adjacent to University of Chicago Medical Center. It is affiliated with the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and is a member of the UChicago health system, the only children's hospital in the system. The hospital provides comprehensive pediatric specialties and subspecialties to infants, children, teens, and young adults aged 0–21 throughout Chicago and features an ACS verified level I pediatric trauma center. Its regional pediatric intensive-care unit and neonatal intensive care units serve the Chicago region.
History
Pediatrics at the University of Chicago dated back to 1927 when the university opened up the Home for Destitute and Crippled Children. In 1938 the university combined their pediatric and maternity hospitals into one facility. In 1967, the University of Chicago Medicine's Wyler Children's Hospital opened in a wing of the adult hospital. The hospital had a capacity of 140 beds and 95,000 square feet. Wyler was located one block south of the new Comer Children's Hospital.
The hospital began construction in 2001 and was funded in part from a $21 million donation by Gary and Frances Comer. The plan included 240,000 square feet and 7 floors. The new design included features requested by the patients and families from included larger windows and expanded parent sleeping areas and was designed by Atlanta based Stanley Beaman & Sears. In total, Comer was built at a cost of $68 million.
In August 2010, protests erupted outside of the hospital over the death of Damian Turner, an 18-year-old boy who was killed by gunshot. At the time the only trauma center on campus was Comer Children's, treating trauma patients up to age 15. Hospital administrators committed to building a new adult trauma center and expanded the age limit for Comer's trauma center to age 18.
In 2010 a lawsuit was filed against Comer Children's for treating more babies in their neonatal intensive care unit than they were licensed to. They were fined $5 million as a result of the lawsuit. In 2013 members of the Stephen family donated $10 million to the NICU for expansion. It was renamed to the Margaret M. and George A. Stephen Neonatal Intensive Care Unit to honor the donation.
In 2015, after the many protests over the death of Damian Turner, The University of Chicago Medicine announced it will build a Level 1 adult trauma center on its Hyde Park campus.
In 2019 the hospital announced a partnership with Advocate Children's Hospital and NorthShore University HealthSystem's pediatric division to help provide better pediatric care for children. The alliance is opening a joint 35,000-square-foot outpatient pediatric center in Wilmette. The alliance allows these smaller hospitals to compete with the nationally ranked Lurie Children's Hospital.
About
Patient care units
Comer Children's Hospital features one of the only Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Centers in Chicago and the region. The hospital features an American Academy of Pediatrics verified Level IV NICU.
The hospital has multiple patient care units to care for a variety of pediatric patients from age 0-21.
28-bed pediatric emergency department
47-bed neonatal intensive care unit
10-bed immediate care unit
20-bed pediatric intensive care unit
18-bed transitional care unit
31-bed pediatric medical/surgical
29-bed hematology/oncology
In addition to patient care beds, the hospital has five operating rooms and a dedicated pediatric emergency department.
Ronald McDonald House
About four blocks away from Comer Children's Hospital is a Ronald McDonald House, one of many in the Chicago region. The house has 22 guest rooms to serve families of pediatric patients aged 21 years or younger in treatment at Comer Children's and the nearby rehabilitation hospital, La Rabida Children's Hospital.
Awards
In 2013 U.S. News & World Report ranked the hospital as #45 in cancer, #40 in diabetes and endocrinology, #36 in gastroenterology, and #40 in neonatology. In 2014 U.S. News & World Report ranked the hospital as #27 in the U.S. in diabetes and endocrinology.
The hospital ranked as the second best children's hospital in Chicago (behind Lurie Children's) on the 2020-21 U.S. News & World Report: Best Children's Hospital rankings. In 2021 the hospital ranked as #47 in Pediatric Diabetes and Endocrinology and #35 in Pediatric Gastroenterology & GI Surgery on the U.S. News & World Report.
See also
List of children's hospitals in the United States
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
References
External links
Children's hospitals in the United States
Hospital buildings completed in 2004
Hospitals in Chicago
Teaching hospitals in the United States
Hospitals in Illinois
Teaching hospitals in Illinois
Hospitals established in 2005
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Pusia lauta is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters.
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The Mid-Missouri Outlaws were a professional indoor football team which began play in 2006 and were a charter member of the Champions Professional Indoor Football League. Based in Sedalia, Missouri, the Outlaws played their home games at the Mathewson Exhibition Center at the Missouri State Fairgrounds.
History
The Outlaws joined the CPFL in 2006 as an expansion team before joining the American Professional Football League in 2010. The Outlaws played for three seasons in the APFL before joining the CPIFL for the 2013 season. The owners of the Outlaws were Chad Jackson, and Ethan and Trish Henson. The Outlaws played their home games at the Mathewson Exhibition Center in Sedalia. The Outlaws did not return to the CPIFL in 2014.
Final roster
Season-by-season
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| 2008 || 11 || 2 || 0 || 1st, East Division || Won Quarter-final (Topeka)Won Semi-final (Missouri)Won CPFL Championship (Independence)
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| 2009 || 12 || 0 || 0 || 1st, League || Won Semi-final (Missouri)Won CPFL Championship (Independence)
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| 2010 || 8 || 3 || 0 || 2nd, League || Won Semi-final (Springfield)Lost APFL Championship (Iowa)
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| 2012 || 7 || 5 || 0 || 4th, League || Lost Semi-final (Sioux City)
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2013
The Outlaws opened the 2013 season to a poor 0-3 record, with losses to Lincoln, Bloomington, and Salina. Their loss to Bloomington was a massive 51-point blowout, in which the Outlaws only scored 3 points.
Season Schedule
References
External links
Official website
American football teams in Missouri
Former Champions Professional Indoor Football League teams
American football teams established in 2006
American football teams disestablished in 2013
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Events in the year 2010 in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Incumbents
Supreme Leader: Ali Khamenei
President: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Vice President: Mohammad Reza Rahimi
Chief Justice: Sadeq Larijani
Events
January 5 – Iran bans its citizens from contact with 60 international organisations and media outlets over claims they conspired against the country.
January 8 – Mehdi Karroubi's car is hit by fire in Qazvin, Iran.
January 12 – Masoud Alimohammadi, an Iranian nuclear physics professor, is killed in a bomb attack in the capital Tehran; Iran state media accuses Israel and the United States of involvement.
January 19 – Iran rejects a deal offered by the International Atomic Energy Agency to exchange low-enriched uranium for nuclear fuel.
January 23 – A passenger train in Iran derails, killing at least eight people and wounding at least fifteen others.
January 24 – Taban Air Flight 6437: A flight operated by Kolavia on behalf of Taban Air crashes on landing at Mashhad International Airport, Iran, injuring at least 46 people.
January 28 – Iran executes two opposition supporters for their role in the election protests in the country.
February 7 – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad orders his country's atomic agency to begin enriching uranium to a higher level.
February 11 – President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that Iran is now a nuclear state, following a successful 20% uranium enrichment.
March 19 – Former Iranian Vice-President Hossein Marashi is jailed after being accused of spreading propaganda.
March 31 – Shahram Amiri, a scientist involved in Iran's nuclear program, defects to the United States and begins talking to the Central Intelligence Agency.
April 5 – Iran invites 60 countries to a two-day nuclear disarmament conference in Tehran on April 17–18, entitled "Nuclear energy for everyone, nuclear arms for no one". China says it will attend the conference which invites "the world to disarm and prevent proliferation".
April 20 – Speaking in Tehran, Iranian Islamic cleric Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi blames promiscuous women for causing earthquakes.
April 30 – Iran threatens to "cut off Israel's feet" if Israel attacks Syria.
May 24 – Iran's largest water supply project is inaugurated in Khorramshahr.
June 18 – The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) starts designing a newer and a more powerful nuclear research reactor than the current Tehran reactor, according to AEOI director Ali Akbar Salehi.
July 9 – Iran announces that women convicted of adultery will no longer face stoning to death after international concern. They may, however, still face the death penalty.
July 15 – July 2010 Zahedan bombings: More than 20 people are killed and 100 injured in a suicide attack at a mosque in southeastern Iran.
July 23 – President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces plans to launch a manned shuttle into space by 2019.
August 21 – Russian engineers start loading fuel into Iran's first nuclear reactor at Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant.
August 27 – The 5.8 Damghan earthquake shook northern Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong). Four people were killed, 40 were injured, and 800 were made homeless.
September 15 – 2009–2010 detention of American hikers by Iran: Iran releases United States hiker Sarah Shourd from Evin Prison following payment of bail.
September 22 – At least a dozen Iranians are killed and 81 are wounded in a bomb attack on a military parade in the Kurdish town of Mahabad according to reports from Iranian Arabic language television Al-Alam.
September 28 – Iranian-Canadian blogger Hossein Derakhshan, the founder of one of the first Persian-language blogs, is sentenced to 19 years imprisonment in an Iranian court for "anti-state activity".
October 13 – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visits Lebanon amidst concern from Israel and United States.
October 26 – Iran starts loading fuel into the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant, its first nuclear power plant.
November 21 – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad rejects the country's once effective family planning program as an "ungodly Western import" and urges girls to marry at age of 16.
November 29 – Iranian nuclear scientist Majid Shahriari is killed and his wife injured, while another scientist is wounded during two attacks in Tehran. Iran says Western governments and Israel may have carried out the killing.
Notable deaths
January 3 – Ali Safi Golpaygani, 96, Iranian Marja', natural causes.
January 12 – Masoud Alimohammadi, 50, Iranian nuclear scientist, bomb blast.
January 28 – Arash Rahmanipour, c.20, Iranian activist, hanging.
January 28 – Mohammad-Reza Ali-Zamani, c.38, Iranian activist, hanging.
March 6 – Mansour Amir-Asefi, 76, Iranian Olympic footballer, cancer.
April 19 – Hamideh Kheirabadi, 85, Iranian actress, stroke.
May 9 – Farzad Kamangar, 32, Iranian activist, execution by hanging.
May 24 – Abdolhamid Rigi, c.31, Iranian militant, execution by hanging.
June 20 – Abdolmalek Rigi, 27, Iranian Sunni Islamist militant, leader of Jundallah, execution by hanging.
October 13 – Marzieh, 86, Iranian singer, cancer.
November 29 – Majid Shahriari, Iranian nuclear scientist, car bomb.
December 1 – Shahla Jahed, 39, Iranian convicted murderer, hanged.
References
External links
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Audio Sponge
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Audio Sponge is the debut album by the electronica duo Sketch Show.
Track listing
Notes
Mastered at Sterling Sound, NYC.
"Gokigen Ikaga 1・2・3" is similar to the Blondie song "Rapture". It was originally released on Snakeman Show's self-titled album (being broadcast during their radio show), titled , with the performer credited as (Snakeman Show on vocals, with Hosono on instruments).
Personnel
Haruomi Hosono & Yukihiro Takahashi - Arranging, Mixing, Production
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Keyboards, Clavinet, Sampler
Yasuo Kimoto - Mixing, Production
Goh Hotoda, Yoshifumi Lio - Mixing
Towa Tei, Tadashi Matsuda - Mixing, Post Production
Tom Coyne - Mastering
Yuka Honda - Mastering Coordination
Hachiro Sugiyama - Art Direction, Photography
Tom Yoda - Coordination
Atsushi Matsui - Assistance
Yuichi Ishikura - Artists and repertoire
Shinji Hayashi, Masato Matsūra, Masakazu Satō, Haji Taniguchi - Executive Production
2002 debut albums
Sketch Show (band) albums
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Gary Griffin
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Gary Griffin (born 1959/1960) is an American theater director. Griffin grew up in Rockford, Illinois, where he graduated from East High School in 1978.
Biography
He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire in 1982, where he performed in several musicals and directed Hello Dolly for their Summer Theatre program. He did graduate work at Illinois State University, and then moved to Chicago, where he began his directing career.
Theater career
Griffin made his Broadway directing debut with the musical The Color Purple in 2005. He directed the revival of The Apple Tree on Broadway, which opened in December 2006, and Honeymoon in Vegas, which opened on Broadway in January 2015.
Griffin directed the staged concert presentations of Fiorello! (2013), Lost In The Stars (2011), Music in the Air (2009), The Apple Tree (2005), A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (2005), Pardon My English (2004) and The New Moon (2003) for New York City Center Encores! and Beautiful Thing at the Cherry Lane Theatre in 1999.
His production of Pacific Overtures was produced at London's Donmar Warehouse in 2003 and received the 2004 Olivier Award for "Outstanding Musical Production". This production was first presented at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater and won the 2002 Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Musical.
His production of My Fair Lady played both the McCarter Theatre and Hartford Stage in 2004 after its debut at Chicago's Court Theatre. In 2009 he directed a lauded production of West Side Story at the Stratford Festival of Canada. The reviewer for The Globe and Mail wrote: "Griffin's production has an electric charge that keeps the hairs on your skin tingling from start to finish, thanks to two incredible leads cast as the star-crossed lovers Tony and Maria and Rick Fox's assertive musical direction."
Griffin has directed several Stephen Sondheim musicals for Chicago Shakespeare Theater, including A Little Night Music in 2003 and Sunday in the Park with George in 2012. In 2014, he directed Road Show and Gypsy for CST. Griffin has received eight Joseph Jefferson Awards for directing and has twice been named a "Chicagoan of the Year in the Arts" by the Chicago Tribune. He was the Co-Artistic Director of the Apple Tree Theatre in Highland Park, Illinois, starting in 1998, and was the artistic director of Drury Lane Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois starting in 1993. Regarding his work at Drury Lane Oakbrook Terrace, the Chicago Tribune wrote: "Gary Griffin is rapidly establishing himself as one of the most versatile--and busiest--directors on the local theater scene. As artistic director at Drury Lane Oakbrook Terrace, he has faithfully re-created an impressive roster of vintage musicals in recent seasons, while somehow finding time to moonlight in contemporary drama for such groups as Apple Tree, Pegasus Players and Buffalo Theatre Ensemble."
Music work
Shine On! Volume One (Released September 30, 2011)
Notes
Living people
1960 births
Artists from Chicago
American theatre directors
LGBT people from Illinois
University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire alumni
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Sofiane Bengorine
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Sofiane Bengorine or Bengoreine (born 10 October 1984 in Sidi Bel Abbès) is an Algerian former professional footballer who played as a defender.
Honours
USM Bel Abbès
Algerian Cup: 2018
References
1984 births
Living people
Algerian footballers
Association football defenders
MC Oran players
People from Sidi Bel Abbès
USM Bel Abbès players
ASM Oran players
JS Kabylie players
ES Sétif players
USM Annaba players
21st-century Algerian people
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Shelburne Railroad Station and Freight Shed
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The Shelburne Railroad Station and Freight Shed are two exhibit buildings at Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vermont, United States.
In 1890 Rutland Railroad Station President Dr. William Seward Webb commissioned the building of the railroad station near the center of Shelburne village to conveniently serve passengers on the Central Vermont and Rutland Railroads.
History
Designed by Robert Henderson Robertson, architect of the Vanderbilt-Webb estate on Shelburne Farms, the Railroad Station reflects the popular Shingle style, which developed out of the Queen Anne and Colonial Revival styles in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. The Shingle style accentuates the asymmetrical planning and prominent gables common to Colonial and Queen Anne revival structures, while the overhanging eaves, eyebrow windows, and the obligatory shingle siding blanket the structure's exterior to emphasize its fluid, continuous form. In the case of the Railroad Station, the shingled roof, which extends from the chimney peak to the edge of the overhanging porch, dominates the structure and unifies the building. Iterations of the Shingle style became common in the design of wealthy Northeasterners' summer "cottages", such as the house at Shelburne Farms. In applying the Shingle style to the Railroad Station, Robertson guaranteed stylistic consistency between the station and his nearby Vanderbilt-Webb estate.
Robertson originally divided the interior of the Railroad Station into individual waiting rooms for men and women, with the stationmaster's office in between. In 1953, when the Rutland Railroad discontinued passenger service to Shelburne, Dr. Webb's son, Vanderbilt Webb, and son-in-law, Cyril Jones, gave the station to Shelburne Museum. The museum moved the station to its present site in 1959 and renovated the building, restoring the interior to Robertson's original plan in the process. That year the museum constructed the adjacent Freight Shed, which mimics the Railroad Station stylistically and reflects the type of outbuildings that every railroad would have maintained.
Collection
Railroad equipment and memorabilia
Railroads brought great changes in commerce and communications to New England in the second half of the nineteenth century. Before the advent of railroads, New Englanders depended on the region's lakes and rivers and the seacoast as their primary avenues of travel. Traveling inland proved difficult over roads that were muddy in spring, dusty and rutted in summer and fall, and littered with tree stumps year-round. Beginning in the late 1840s railroads brought new settlers to Vermont and helped the state's fledgling dairy industry flourish by providing access to markets for milk, butter, and cheese. Railroads connected once-remote New England communities to the rest of the country, improving mail delivery and bringing newspapers from Boston and New York City the next day instead of weeks later.
William Seward Webb served as president of the Wagner Palace Car Company and the Rutland Railroad at the turn of the twentieth century. The Shelburne Railroad Station, now at the museum, was constructed for Webb to serve the town and his estate at Shelburne Farms. Today it houses part of the museum's collection of railroad equipment and memorabilia. The communication devices displayed range from the simple message hoops and "high-speed delivery fork" to technological innovations like the telegraph and telephone. Other items in the collection include historic photographs and locomotive portraits, maps of the rail network in Vermont and the United States in the nineteenth century, broadsides, and timetables for Vermont railroads, and models of early locomotives.
The museum's collection also includes a large group of railroad lanterns and glass globes from railroads around the Northeast. Railroad lanterns served as a method of communication between conductors, brakemen, signalmen, and engineers. Also in the collection are track-setting equipment, semaphore flags, handcars, and other track maintenance equipment. The wooden replica of Old Ironsides, the first locomotive built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works, was first displayed at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. Part of the collection is the Gertie Buck, a self-propelled inspection car built and used by the Dewey family on the Woodstock Railway in eastern Vermont in the last decades of the nineteenth century.
See also
Rail Car Grand Isle
Rail Locomotive No. 220
References
External links
Shelburne Museum official website
Shelburne Museum
Railroad museums in Vermont
Former railway stations in Vermont
Shingle Style architecture in Vermont
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1890
Railway stations closed in 1953
Relocated buildings and structures in Vermont
Transportation buildings and structures in Chittenden County, Vermont
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Democratic Movement of Mozambique
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The Democratic Movement of Mozambique () is a political party in Mozambique. Founded on 6 March 2009, it is led by Daviz Simango, who is the Mayor of Beira. It formed after breaking with RENAMO, the main opposition party.
2009 general election
In the 28 October 2009 parliamentary election, the Mozambique Democratic Movement was not allowed to contest by the National Election Commission (Comissão Nacional de Eleições) in nine of the 13 voting constituencies on controversial procedural grounds. MDM secured 3.93% of the total vote and eight seats in the 250 member Assembly of the Republic. Daviz Simango was the MDM candidate in the presidential election held on the same day. He placed third with 8.59% of the total vote.
Electoral history
Presidential elections
Assembly elections
References
External links
MDM official site
Political parties in Mozambique
Political parties established in 2008
Christian democratic parties in Africa
2008 in Mozambique
2009 establishments in Mozambique
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Jools Holland
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Julian Miles Holland, (born 24 January 1958) is an English pianist, bandleader, singer, composer and television presenter. He was an original member of the band Squeeze and has worked with many artists including Jayne County, Sting, Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler, George Harrison, David Gilmour, Magazine, The The, Ringo Starr and Bono.
From 1982 until 1987, he co-presented the Channel 4 music programme The Tube. Since 1992, he has hosted Later... with Jools Holland, a music-based show aired on BBC2, on which his annual show Hootenanny is based. Holland is a published author and appears on television shows besides his own and contributes to radio shows. In 2004 he collaborated with Tom Jones on an album of traditional R&B music.
On BBC Radio 2 Holland also regularly hosts the weekly programme Jools Holland, a mix of live and recorded music and general chat and features studio guests, along with members of his orchestra.
Education
Holland was educated at Shooters Hill Grammar School in southeast London, from which he was expelled for damaging a teacher's Triumph Herald.
Career
Holland began his career as a session musician. His first studio session was with Wayne County & the Electric Chairs in 1976 on their track "Fuck Off".
Holland was a founding member of the British pop band Squeeze, formed in March 1974, in which he played keyboards until 1981, through its first two albums, the eponymous Squeeze and Cool for Cats, before pursuing his solo career.
Holland began issuing solo records in 1978, his first EP being Boogie Woogie '78. He continued his solo career through the early 1980s, releasing an album and several singles between 1981 and 1984. He branched out into TV, co-presenting the Newcastle-based TV music show The Tube with Paula Yates. Holland used the phrase, "be there, or be an ungroovey fucker" in one early evening TV trailer for the show, live across two channels, causing him to be suspended from the show for six weeks. He referred to this in his sitcom The Groovy Fellers with Rowland Rivron. Holland also appeared as a guest host on MTV.
In 1983, Holland played an extended piano solo on The The's re-recording of "Uncertain Smile" for the album Soul Mining. In 1985, Squeeze (which had continued in Holland's absence through to 1982) unexpectedly regrouped including Holland as their keyboard player. Holland remained in the band until 1990, at which point he again departed to resume his solo career as a musician and a TV host.
In 1987, Holland formed the Jools Holland Big Band, which consisted of himself and for the show Gilson Lavis from Squeeze. This gradually became the 18-piece Jools Holland's Rhythm and Blues Orchestra. The Orchestra includes singers Louise Marshall and Ruby Turner and his younger brother, singer-songwriter and keyboard player, Christopher Holland.
Between 1988 and 1990 he performed and co-hosted along with David Sanborn during the two seasons of the music performance programme Sunday Night on NBC late-night television. Since 1992, he has presented the music programme Later... with Jools Holland, plus an annual New Year's Eve Hootenanny.
In 1996, Holland signed a recording contract with Warner Bros. Records, and his records are now marketed through Rhino Records.
On 29 November 2002, Holland was in the ensemble of musicians who performed at the Concert for George, which celebrated the music of George Harrison. In January 2005 Holland and his band performed with Eric Clapton as the headline act of the Tsunami Relief Cardiff.
Personal life
Holland lives in Westcombe Park, south east London, where he had his studio, Helicon Mountain, built to his design and inspired by Portmeirion, the setting for the 1960s TV series The Prisoner. He also owns a manor house near the medieval Cooling Castle in Kent.
He appeared on the cover of Railway Modeller magazine in January 2019. In the attic of his house, Holland has spent ten years building a model railway. It is full of miniature buildings and landscapes that stretch from Berlin to London. He started with photographs and paintings from early 1960s London. According to The Daily Telegraph, "In the evenings, he builds some trains and buildings before switching on some music, pouring a glass of wine and switching on the trains to watch them move around the room."
He received an OBE in 2003 in the Queen's Birthday Honours list, for services to the British music industry as a television presenter and musician. In September 2006, Holland was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for Kent. Holland was appointed an honorary fellow of Canterbury Christ Church University at a ceremony held at Canterbury Cathedral on 30 January 2009. On 1 February 2011 he was appointed honorary colonel of 101 (City of London) Engineer Regiment.
In June 2006, Holland performed in Southend for HIV/AIDS charity Mildmay, and in early 2007 he performed at Wells and Rochester Cathedrals to raise money for maintaining cathedral buildings. He is also patron of Drake Music.
A fan of the 1960s TV series The Prisoner, in 1987 Holland demonstrated his love of the series and starred in a spoof documentary, The Laughing Prisoner, with Stephen Fry, Terence Alexander and Hugh Laurie. Much of it was shot on location in Portmeirion, with archive footage of Patrick McGoohan, and featuring musical numbers from Siouxsie and the Banshees, Magnum and XTC. Holland performed a number towards the end of the programme.
Holland was an interviewer for The Beatles Anthology TV project, and appeared in the 1997 film Spiceworld as a musical director.
In 2009, Holland commissioned TV series Bangla Bangers (Chop Shop) to create a replica of the Rover JET1 for personal use. Holland has previously owned cats.
Writing
His 2007 autobiography, Barefaced Lies and Boogie Woogie Boasts, was BBC Radio 4 "Book of the Week" in the week beginning 8 October 2007 and was read by Holland.
Discography
Albums which charted and received certifications
Releases
Film and television
Current television programmes
1992–present Later... with Jools Holland
1993–present Hootenanny
2020–present Celebrity Gogglebox with Vic Reeves
Books
"Rolling Stones": A Life on the Road (with Dora Loewenstein), Viking/Allen Lane (1998) ()
Beat Route: Journeys Through Six Counties, Weidenfeld & Nicolson (1998) ()
Ray Charles: Man and Music, (with Michael Lydon), Payback Press (1999) ()
Hand That Changed Its Mind, International Music Publications (2007) ()
Barefaced Lies and Boogie-woogie Boasts, Penguin Books (2007) ()
References
External links
Jools Holland (BBC Radio 2)
Later...with Jools Holland (BBC Two)
1958 births
Living people
Boogie-woogie pianists
English rock pianists
English new wave musicians
English television presenters
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
English bandleaders
Squeeze (band) members
I.R.S. Records artists
People from Blackheath, London
BBC Radio 2 presenters
Deputy Lieutenants of Kent
British people of Irish descent
English people of Irish descent
Jools Holland's Rhythm and Blues Orchestra members
East West Records artists
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Midnight Sky
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"Midnight Sky" is a song by American singer Miley Cyrus, released on August 14, 2020, by RCA Records as the lead single from her seventh studio album Plastic Hearts. The single was written by Cyrus, Ali Tamposi, Ilsey Juber and Jon Bellion with song's producers: Louis Bell and Andrew Watt. It is a disco, pop, synth-pop, electropop and pop rock song with lyrics about independence and self-confidence. The song's music video was Cyrus' first self-directed music video and was released on the same day as the single.
"Midnight Sky" was included on several year-end lists of best songs of 2020. Commercially, the song reached number one in Scotland, Bulgaria and Serbia, as well as the top five in the United Kingdom and has reached the top ten on music charts in over 15 territories. It was also the longest-running number-one single on UK radio in 2020, with six weeks.
Background and release
On August 4, 2020, Cyrus posted on her social media a clip of the music video for her song "Start All Over" with the hashtags "#sheiscoming" and "#butforrealthistime", in reference to her long-delayed seventh studio album She Is Miley Cyrus. Later that day, she shared a preview of "Midnight Sky" on social media. The track was released on August 14 as planned.
A preview of "Midnight Sky" was released to coincide with the launch of Instagram Reels, a video-sharing service similar to TikTok, on August 6, 2020. On August 31, the Midnight Sky Truck, an experiential pop-up, appeared in Los Angeles, with various influencers sharing photographs and videos of themselves in the truck.
The song and video were inspired by other female musicians, such as Stevie Nicks, Joan Jett and Debbie Harry, specifically, Nicks' song "Edge of Seventeen". Cyrus reached out to Nicks before release, asking for her blessing of the song. In an interview with Hits 1, Cyrus explained the song's background, stating:
Just hours before it was released, reports surfaced that the singer and Cody Simpson had split. Although unconfirmed, the reported breakup came as the singer explained to SiriusXM Hits 1 that much of the song focuses on the idea of personal evolution.
Composition and lyrics
"Midnight Sky" is an uptempo "Prince-esque" disco, pop, synth-pop, electropop and pop rock song with "gritty", "raw" arena rock vocals and "pristinely glossy" production. Written in the key of E minor, it has a tempo of 110 beats per minute, with Cyrus' vocal range spanning from the low note of D3 to the high note of D5.
Its lyrics are inspired by Cyrus' divorce from Liam Hemsworth and relationships with Kaitlynn Carter and Cody Simpson, and show the singer "tak[ing] back her narrative" and being confident in herself. She also revealed in an interview in Alex Cooper's Call Her Daddy podcast that her desire was for the song to be an anthem that normalized pansexuality and provided visibility for those living in fear of rejection over their authentic selves. Cyrus described the song as a "reflection of everyone kind of having this personal kind of woke moment" during an interview on the Zach Sang Show, where she declared:I feel like a lot of us are waking up. And you know, the midnight sky, I think is kind of a road that feels like it could be nice to take with our head up in the clouds. You know, I feel like right now in society, we don't want to live with our heads in the clouds. But I think in time that's maybe why I've created worlds like this. Because this is kind of my idea of living with my head in the clouds of my own kind of fantasy and the world I wanna create. So I think that it's a cool message, to tell people to create the environment and the world that you wanna live in and I think that's happening on a very political level right now. But also we can do it especially in this quarantine time, in these intimate spaces of our home that we have a place that feels like we've created our own environment, our own head in the clouds, so this is mine.Singing about the idea of forever being no more in the track, Cyrus explained that she wanted to capture the idea of personal growth. "I think we're kind of set up for devastation — in that, from the time we're little kids, we're taught to claim other humans as our best friends forever. And you just don't know who you're going to be sitting with here right now. You never know who you're going to evolve to be and who they're going to evolve to be," she said to SiriusXM Hits1.
Cyrus opens the song with the declaration that "it's been a long time since I felt this good on my own" and she later sings "I don't need to be loved by you", the moment is a personal one, exploring independence in the wake of her divorce from Liam Hemsworth. As she told Zane Lowe in an Apple Music interview, some of "Midnight Sky" stemmed from a personal desire to be the one to tell her story, since looking back, she explained that it often felt as if the press were the ones to tell her story. With the release of the song, Cyrus wanted to speak directly to her fans, and to have more control over an identity that's been shaped by a lifetime in the public eye.
Critical reception
“Midnight Sky” received universal acclaim from music critics. Brittany Spanos of Rolling Stone praised the song saying that "the 27-year-old Disney darling-turned-pop provocateur has returned with yet another bold reinvention, looking to the raw arena rock vocals and the pristinely glossy production of the era for her new single". The writer also pointed that Cyrus channeled Stevie Nicks at her solo 80s peak, calling the track a "Stand Back" 2.0, and added that it is "a Prince-esque come hither full of biting, bewitching heartbreak confidence that Nicks invented". Nina Corcoran of Consequence of Sound described it as a "flashy synthpop number" stating that is "arguably sleeker than anything Cyrus has released before".
Alex Gallagher of NME described "Midnight Sky" as an "assertive disco-tinged bop". Gallagher praised the song's lyrics for "Cyrus asserting [her] control and independence," adding that the song's chorus was "rousing." Similarly, Michael Cragg of The Guardian called the song a "disco-tinged, post-divorce banger", commenting that it "sounds suitably refreshed after the double-meh of 2017's country singer rebirth and last year's, erm, 'Cattitude', 'Midnight Sky' is everything all that wasn't: impassioned, energised and delivered by someone brave enough to sport a platinum-blonde mullet". Mike Wass of Idolator described it as a "dreamy disco anthem"; he praised the personal lyrics stating that "the first taste of MC7 is a deeply autobiographical account of the pop star's emotional journey post-divorce".
The New York Times pop critics ranked "Midnight Sky" as one of the week's most notable releases in their weekly updated column "The Playlist", where Lindsay Zoladz highlighted that "Cyrus's punchy, muscular alto is the true center of this song's power". Entertainment Weeklys music team also ranked the track as one of the best songs of the week in their weekly column "Friday Five" and Marcus Jones commented: "the single lets her still be the rock star she's branded herself over the last five years while catering to those who first embraced her during the Hannah Montana era". Claire Dodson of Teen Vogue included "Midnight Sky" in the magazine's selection of the week's best new tunes, stating that "Cyrus' musical journey continues to twist and turn, but her rebellious sensibilities (and recent '80s Joan Jett-esque haircut) are perfectly at home on 'Midnight Sky' an electro-dance track about not belonging to anyone".
The song received an average score of 82/100 on Album of the Year, based on 163 user ratings.
Year-end lists
Many music publications included "Midnight Sky" on their lists of best songs of 2020.
Commercial performance
In the United States, "Midnight Sky" debuted at number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Cyrus' 15th top-20 hit in the country and 50th entry on the chart, making her one of the artists with most Hot 100 entries. The song also became her best solo debut on the chart since "Malibu", which peaked at number ten in 2017, although in the meantime Cyrus had also reached number 13 with "Don't Call Me Angel", along with Ariana Grande and Lana Del Rey. In its first week "Midnight Sky" was the 20th most heard song in the United States in streaming and the third most downloaded legally. The single debuted at number three on Billboard Hot Digital Songs chart after only Cardi B's "WAP" with Megan Thee Stallion and Morgan Wallen's "7 Summers", another release of the week.
In the United Kingdom, the song debuted at number 15 on the UK Singles Chart for the issue dated August 21, 2020 and reached number seven in its seventh week there, becoming Cyrus' sixth top-ten hit in the country. In its tenth week, it reached a new peak of number five. The song is also the longest-running number-one single on UK radio in 2020, with six weeks so far, and on iTunes, with 29 days atop the chart. Thus, "Midnight Sky" became United Kingdom's biggest song by a female artist of 2020 and second overall, according to The Official Big Top 40 making it Cyrus' second year on a roll having the biggest female song of the year in the country, following "Nothing Breaks Like a Heart" in 2019. The song was also the 11th best-selling single in pure sales of 2020 on the UK Singles Chart.
"Midnight Sky" also debuted at number 16 in Australia, later peaking at number seven, number eight in Canada and number one in Scotland.
Remix
On November 6, 2020, Cyrus released a remix of "Midnight Sky" featuring Stevie Nicks titled "Edge of Midnight". The song is a mashup of "Midnight Sky" and Stevie Nicks's own 1982 single "Edge of Seventeen". Nicks lends her own vocals in this version, singing the chorus of "Midnight Sky", while Cyrus does the same singing "just like the white winged dove" from Nicks's "Edge of Seventeen". The remix has a unique cover featuring both Nicks and Cyrus.
Music video
An accompanying, self-directed music video for "Midnight Sky" was released on August 14, 2020. It features Cyrus in various settings, such as a room with mirrors, a "colorful" gumball pit and a neon disco setting with streamers and Technicolor statues of jungle animals, while wearing a mullet, glittery makeup, black Chanel bodysuit, Swarovski gem-covered black gloves. In a mini-doc about the making of the video, Cyrus is detailed in her references, calling upon Pat Benatar and David Bowie as visual inspirations. She's even more specific and studied when she talks about the acid-trip theme of the video: "You went to a Blondie show at CBGB with a hit of acid for later [in tow], head to an afterparty at Indochine, and pop the tab when you know you'll be at Studio 54," she says.
According to Lauren Valenti of Vogue, the music video shows Cyrus ushering in a new aesthetic era that harks back to the glamour and rebellion of the late 1970s. "It's a dizzying display of self-expression all Cyrus's own, though she did work off the right blueprints, drawing inspiration for her sparkling short from her female rock icons Joan Jett, Debbie Harry, and Stevie Nicks" pointed Valenti.
In an interview with Apple Music, Cyrus explained she was in fact creating the music video for another song when the "Midnight Sky" song idea came out to her, along the music video concept:
In a radio interview with Chris Kelly for Toronto's KiSS 92.5, Cyrus said the bubble gum in the video represents "[her] being lost in the bubblegum pop scene" and the disco ball reflected that "it's this kind of broken pieces that were put back together to make something whole again".
Live performances
Cyrus performed "Midnight Sky" for the first time at the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards on August 30, where she swung on a disco ball, in reference to her 2013 song, "Wrecking Ball". The next day, she performed the song on Live Lounge. On September 10, she performed the song at The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Ten days later she performed the song on iHeartRadio Music Festival 2020. On October 9, she performed "Midnight Sky" on The Graham Norton Show amongst "a million Mileys". On October 16, Cyrus performed the song on her MTV Unplugged: Backyard Sessions special. She performed the song at Save Our Stages, the event was held on October 20, 2020. She performed again in Amazon Music Holiday Plays digital concert series on December 1. Later she performed the remix version of Midnight Sky, "Edge of Midnight" for the first time on The Howard Stern Show. Cyrus again performed the "Edge of Midnight" along with "Party in the U.S.A." and "Prisoner" on Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest in Times Square on December 31.
Cyrus performed "Edge of Midnight" along with several songs of Plastic Hearts at the 2021 Super Bowl with TikTok Tailgate.
Awards and nominations
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
Release history
References
2020 singles
2020 songs
LGBT-related songs
Miley Cyrus songs
Number-one singles in Scotland
RCA Records singles
Songs composed in E minor
Songs written by Miley Cyrus
Songs written by Ali Tamposi
Songs written by Andrew Wyatt
Songs written by Ilsey Juber
Songs written by Jon Bellion
Songs written by Louis Bell
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Washakie County, Wyoming
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Washakie County is a county in the U.S. state of Wyoming. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 7,685. Its county seat is Worland.
History
Washakie County was created on February 21, 1911, as Hanover County with land detached from Big Horn County and organized in 1913. The county was initially named Hanover County for seven days, and was then renamed to Washakie County for the head chief of the Shoshone people, Chief Washakie, who became an ally of the US Government.
Geography
According to the US Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which is land and (0.2%) is water.
Adjacent counties
Big Horn County – north
Johnson County – east
Natrona County – southeast
Fremont County – south
Hot Springs County – west
Park County – northwest
National protected area
Bighorn National Forest (part)
Demographics
2000 census
As of the 2000 United States Census, there were 8,289 people, 3,278 households, and 2,310 families in the county. The population density was 4 people per square mile (1/km2). There were 3,654 housing units at an average density of 2 per square mile (1/km2). The racial makeup of the county was 90.22% White, 0.11% Black or African American, 0.55% Native American, 0.74% Asian, 6.21% from other races, and 2.17% from two or more races. 11.47% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. 27.1% were of German, 13.1% English, 9.9% Irish and 6.2% American ancestry.
There were 3,278 households, out of which 32.40% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 59.90% were married couples living together, 7.30% had a female householder with no husband present, and 29.50% were non-families. 26.50% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.90% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.47 and the average family size was 3.00.
The county population contained 27.20% under the age of 18, 6.40% from 18 to 24, 25.20% from 25 to 44, 25.30% from 45 to 64, and 15.90% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 39 years. For every 100 females there were 99.40 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 96.30 males.
The median income for a household in the county was $34,943, and the median income for a family was $42,584. Males had a median income of $31,633 versus $21,028 for females. The per capita income for the county was $17,780. About 10.00% of families and 14.10% of the population were below the poverty line, including 21.10% of those under age 18 and 12.20% of those age 65 or over.
2010 census
As of the 2010 United States Census, there were 8,533 people, 3,492 households, and 2,395 families in the county. The population density was . There were 3,833 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the county was 91.4% white, 1.1% American Indian, 0.6% Asian, 0.3% black or African American, 4.4% from other races, and 2.4% from two or more races. Those of Hispanic or Latino origin made up 13.6% of the population. In terms of ancestry, 33.1% were German, 17.6% were English, 11.7% were Irish, 6.6% were American, and 5.5% were Norwegian.
Of the 3,492 households, 30.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 56.4% were married couples living together, 7.9% had a female householder with no husband present, 31.4% were non-families, and 27.7% of all households were made up of individuals. The average household size was 2.40 and the average family size was 2.93. The median age was 41.8 years.
The median income for a household in the county was $48,379 and the median income for a family was $61,340. Males had a median income of $45,579 versus $30,107 for females. The per capita income for the county was $28,557. About 1.7% of families and 5.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 1.8% of those under age 18 and 9.9% of those age 65 or over.
Communities
City
Worland (county seat)
Town
Ten Sleep
Other places
Airport Road
Big Trails
Mc Nutt
South Flat
Washakie Ten
West River
Winchester
Government and infrastructure
Like almost all of Wyoming, Washakie County is overwhelmingly Republican. No Democratic presidential candidate has carried Washakie County since Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1936 landslide against Alf Landon. Lyndon Johnson did get within eighteen votes of Barry Goldwater, no Democrat since has reached one-third of the county’s vote.
The Wyoming Department of Family Services Juvenile Services Division operates the Wyoming Boys' School, located in Mc Nutt, unincorporated Washakie County, near Worland. The facility was operated by the Wyoming Board of Charities and Reform until that agency was dissolved as a result of a state constitutional amendment passed in November 1990.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Washakie County, Wyoming
References
1913 establishments in Wyoming
Populated places established in 1913
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Japan Dome Tour X
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The Japan Dome Tour “X” was the fifth concert tour in Japan and eighth overall by South Korean boy band Big Bang. The tour began on November 15, 2014 in Nagoya, and concluded on January 18, 2015 in Osaka. The tour made Big Bang the first foreign artist to hold five dome arena concerts for two consecutive years. They gathered more than one million Japanese fans in 2014.
Development
A total of about 3 billion Japanese Yen (~25.5 million USD) was used to produce the stages. Well known production staff also joined the tour, such as Jamie King, the tour director who previously worked with Michael Jackson, Madonna and Britney Spears. Roy Bennett was in control of the stage lighting, while Veneno took charge of the tour videos. The tour utilized a 30-meter center stage, as well as six 50-meter protruding stages, spreading out from the center stage to the audience like the spokes of a wheel. A large number of stage lighting and equipment was imported from countries outside Japan. High-tech equipment, including the LED screens, were set up on the protruding stages, while the multi-cellular speakers ‘MLA,’ presented high quality concerts for the audience.
Set list
This set list is from BIGBANG Japan Dome Tour 2014～2015 [X] (DVD/Blu-ray) - Deluxe Edition.
"Fantastic Baby"
"Tonight"
"Stupid Liar"
"Blue"
"Haru Haru"
"Gara Gara Go!"
"Top of the World" + "Number 1"
"Knock Out" (GD&TOP)
"High High" (GD&TOP)
"Bad Boy"
"Tell Me Goodbye"
"Cafe"
"Lies"
"Love Song"
"Good Boy" (GDxTAEYANG)
"Hands Up"
"Feeling"
"My Heaven"
"Let Me Hear Your Voice"
Encore
"Last Farewell"
Seungri DJ Time:
"Strong Baby" (Seungri)
"Doom Dada" (T.O.P)
"Ringa Linga" (Taeyang)
"Crooked" (G-Dragon)
"Look at me, Gwisun" (Daesung)
"Fantastic Baby"
Tour dates
Personnel
Main
Tour organizer: Avex Group, YG Entertainment
Executive producers – Yang Hyun-suk (YG Entertainment), Max Matsuura (Avex Group)
General producers – Katsumi Kuroiwa (Avex Group)
Tour producer - Veneno
Tour director – Jamie King
Stylist – Yuni Choi, Kyung Mi Kim, Sharon Park
Hair – Tae Kyun Kim, Sang Hee Baek, So Yeon Lee
Make-up – Yun Kyoung Kim, Mi Sug Shin, Jun Hee Lee
Lighting director – Roy Bennett
Band
Big Bang (G-Dragon, T.O.P, Taeyang, Daesung, Seungri) – Lead vocals
Gil Smith II (Music Director/Keyboard 1)
Omar Dominick Jr. (AMD/Bass)
Dante Jackson (Keyboard 2)
Justin Lyons (Guitar)
Bennie Rodgers II (Drums/Percussions)
Adrian "AP" Porter (Pro Tools Programmer)
Dancers
HI-TECH (Heeyun Kim, Jung Heon Park, Young Sang Lee Sung Min Cho, Han Sol Lee, Byoung Gon Jung, Woo Ryun Jung, Young Deuk Kwon, Young Don Kwon)
CRAZY (Jung Hee Kim, Ah Yeon Won, Eun Young Park, Min Jung Kim, Hee Yun Kim, Sae Bom Choi, Jung In Bae, Hye Jin Choi, Hyo Jung Bae, Ji Won Lee, Jae Hee Ryu, Ji Young Yoo)
References
External links
Official website
2014 concert tours
2015 concert tours
Big Bang (South Korean band) concert tours
Concert tours of Japan
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Channel 23 digital TV stations in the United States
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The following television stations broadcast on digital channel 23 in the United States:
K23AA-D in Beatrice, Nebraska
K23BJ-D in Lake Havasu City, Arizona
K23BV-D in Montpelier, Idaho
K23CU-D in Prineville, Oregon
K23DB-D in La Grande, Oregon
K23DE-D in Childress, Texas
K23DJ-D in Ekalaka, Montana
K23DK-D in Meadview, Arizona
K23DO-D in Malta, Idaho
K23DS-D in Evanston, Wyoming
K23DT-D in Tahoe City, California
K23DV-D in Beryl/Modena/New, Utah
K23DX-D in Pitkin, Colorado, on virtual channel 8, which rebroadcasts KTSC
K23EC-D in Canadian, Texas
K23EX-D in Medford, Oregon
K23FC-D in Elko, Nevada
K23FE-D in Gallup, New Mexico
K23FH-D in Milton-Freewater, Oregon
K23FO-D in Jackson, Minnesota
K23FP-D in Olivia, Minnesota, on virtual channel 11, which rebroadcasts KARE
K23FR-D in Winnemucca, Nevada
K23FT-D in Myton, Utah
K23FV-D in Kingman, Arizona
K23FY-D in Frost, Minnesota
K23FZ-D in Camp Verde, Arizona
K23GF-D in Dove Creek, etc., Colorado, on virtual channel 23
K23GK-D in Astoria, Oregon, on virtual channel 10, which rebroadcasts KOPB-TV
K23GR-D in Preston, Idaho, on virtual channel 5, which rebroadcasts KSL-TV
K23HT-D in St. Maries, Idaho
K23IC-D in Huntsville, etc., Utah, on virtual channel 5, which rebroadcasts KSL-TV
K23IS-D in Ridgecrest, etc., California, on virtual channel 56, which rebroadcasts KDOC-TV
K23IV-D in Spring Glen, Utah
K23IX-D in Clark, etc., Wyoming
K23IZ-D in Strong City, Oklahoma
K23JC-D in Montezuma Creek/Aneth, Utah
K23JD-D in Colfax, New Mexico
K23JH-D in Leadore, Idaho
K23JK-D in Tillamook, Oregon
K23JN-D in Virgin, Utah
K23JU-D in Prosser, Washington
K23JV-D in Green River, Utah
K23JX-D in Hatch, Utah
K23JY-D in Huntington, Utah
K23KC-D in Bluff, etc., Utah
K23KD-D in Coos Bay, etc., Oregon
K23KL-D in Farmington, New Mexico
K23KN-D in Las Animas, Colorado
K23KO-D in Rural Beaver County, Utah
K23KP-D in Fishlake Resort, Utah
K23KV-D in Austin, Nevada
K23KY-D in Council, Idaho
K23KZ-D in Bigfork/Marcell, Minnesota
K23LB-D in Fargo, North Dakota
K23LF-D in Eureka, Nevada
K23LH-D in Cortez, Colorado
K23LK-D in Modesto, California, on virtual channel 21
K23LW-D in Emigrant, Montana
K23LX-D in Conrad, Montana
K23ME-D in Camas Valley, Oregon
K23MF-D in St. James, Minnesota
K23ML-D in Newberry Springs, California, on virtual channel 23
K23MQ-D in Duluth, Minnesota
K23MT-D in Mexican Hat, Utah
K23MU-D in Bridgeport, Washington
K23MV-D in Carlsbad, New Mexico
K23NH-D in Seiling, Oklahoma
K23NJ-D in Prescott, etc., Arizona, on virtual channel 8, which rebroadcasts KAET
K23NL-D in Cottonwood/Grangeville, Idaho
K23NM-D in Sandpoint, Idaho
K23NR-D in Mount Pleasant, Utah, on virtual channel 13, which rebroadcasts KSTU
K23NT-D in Mayfield, Utah
K23NU-D in Richfield, etc., Utah, on virtual channel 16, which rebroadcasts KUPX-TV
K23NV-D in Summit County, Utah
K23NX-D in Gateway, Colorado
K23NY-D in St. George, Utah, on virtual channel 4, which rebroadcasts KTVX
K23OA-D in Kanarraville, Utah
K23OD-D in Scipio, Utah
K23OE-D in Kasilof, Alaska
K23OH-D in Orangeville, Utah, on virtual channel 16, which rebroadcasts KUPX-TV
K23OI-D in Tucumcari, New Mexico
K23OK-D in Walker Lake, Nevada
K23OM-D in Victorville, California, on virtual channel 47, which rebroadcasts KCET
K23ON-D in Lund & Preston, Nevada
K23OO-D in Moon Ranch, New Mexico
K23OR-D in Pagosa Springs, Colorado
K23OS-D in London Springs, Oregon
K23OU-D in Pueblo, Colorado
K23OV-D in Hood River, Oregon, on virtual channel 6, which rebroadcasts KOIN
K23OW-D in Hot Springs, Arkansas
K23OX-D in Holyoke, Colorado
K23PA-D in Klamath Falls, Oregon
K23PL-D in Shonto, Arizona, on virtual channel 38
K23PN-D in La Pine, Oregon
K38CZ-D in Lincoln City/Newport, Oregon, on virtual channel 6, which rebroadcasts KOIN
K40JP-D in Sayre, Oklahoma
K40LH-D in Orderville, Utah
K43NN-D in Thompson Falls, Montana
K44JC-D in Lewiston, Idaho
K44JF-D in Crescent City, California
K47CD-D in Rockaway Beach, Oregon, on virtual channel 2, which rebroadcasts KATU
K47GV-D in Las Vegas, New Mexico
K48HB-D in Juliaetta, Idaho
K49JW-D in Romeo, etc., Colorado
K49JX-D in Montrose, Colorado
K50KK-D in Ellensburg, Washington
KAGS-LD in Bryan, Texas
KCDN-LD in Kansas City, Missouri, on virtual channel 43
KCDO-TV in Sterling, Colorado, on virtual channel 3
KCDO-TV (DRT) in Kimball, Nebraska, on virtual channel 3
KCTU-LD in Wichita, Kansas
KCWI-TV in Ames, Iowa
KCWT-CD in La Feria, Texas
KDGL-LD in Sublette, Kansas
KEDT in Corpus Christi, Texas
KEKE in Hilo, Hawaii
KETC in St. Louis, Missouri, on virtual channel 9
KEVN-LD in Rapid City, South Dakota
KEVU-CD in Eugene, Oregon
KEZI in Elkton, Oregon
KFUL-LD in San Luis Obispo, California
KGMB in Honolulu, Hawaii
KGSA-LD in San Antonio, Texas
KGWZ-LD in Portland, Oregon, on virtual channel 8, which rebroadcasts KGW
KIMG-LD in Ventura, California, on virtual channel 31, which rebroadcasts KVMD
KIRO-TV in Seattle, Washington, on virtual channel 7
KLCW-TV in Wolfforth, Texas
KLPB-TV in Lafayette, Louisiana
KLTJ in Galveston, Texas, on virtual channel 22
KLVD-LD in Las Vegas, Nevada
KMUV-LD in Monterey, California
KNCD-LD in Nacogdoches, Texas
KNVA in Austin, Texas
KODE-TV in Joplin, Missouri
KONV-LD in Canton, Ohio, on virtual channel 28
KPDD-LD in Evergreen, Colorado
KPEJ-TV in Odessa, Texas
KPIF-LD in Twin Falls, Idaho
KPVI-DT in Pocatello, Idaho
KQCA in Stockton, California, an ATSC 3.0 station, on virtual channel 58
KQDA-LD in Denison, Texas
KQEG-CA in La Crescent, Minnesota
KRDT-CD in Redding, California
KREG-TV in Glenwood Springs, Colorado
KRWG-TV in Las Cruces, New Mexico
KRXI-TV in Reno, Nevada
KSBI in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
KSCZ-LD in San Jose-San Francisco, California, on virtual channel 16
KSL-TV in Salt Lake City, Utah, on virtual channel 5
KSLA in Shreveport, Louisiana
KSMV-LD in Los Angeles, California, on virtual channel 31, which rebroadcasts KVMD
KSNL-LD in Salina, Kansas
KSXF-LD in Sioux Falls, South Dakota
KTCI-TV in St. Paul, Minnesota, on virtual channel 2
KTFF-DT in Porterville, California
KTMF in Missoula, Montana
KTPE-LD in Kansas City, Missouri
KTUO-LD in Tulsa, Oklahoma
KTVP-LD in Phoenix, Arizona, on virtual channel 23
KTVS-LD in Albuquerque, New Mexico
KTXD-TV in Greenville, Texas, on virtual channel 47
KVMD in Twentynine Palms, California, on virtual channel 31
KVOA in Tucson, Arizona
W23BV-D in Evansville, Indiana
W23BW-D in Madison, Wisconsin
W23DM-D in Falmouth, Kentucky, on virtual channel 52, which rebroadcasts WKON
W23DR-D in Romney, West Virginia, to move to channel 21, on virtual channel 24, which rebroadcasts WNPB-TV
W23DV-D in Athens, Georgia
W23EB-D in Cadillac, Michigan
W23ER-D in Poughkeepsie, New York, on virtual channel 17, which rebroadcasts WMHT
W23ES-D in Marshall, North Carolina
W23EU-D in Rutland, Vermont
W23EV-D in Carrollton, Georgia, on virtual channel 28, which rebroadcasts WJSP-TV
W23EW-D in Springfield, Illinois
W23EX-D in Sussex, New Jersey, on virtual channel 58, which rebroadcasts WNJB
W23EY-D in Canton, North Carolina
W23EZ-D in Sylva, North Carolina
W23FC-D in Eau Claire, Wisconsin
W23FI-D in Valdosta, Georgia
W31BX-D in Danville, Illinois
WAAU-LD in Augusta, Georgia
WAPW-CD in Abingdon, etc., Virginia
WNGT-CD in Smithfield-Selma, North Carolina, an ATSC 3.0 station, on virtual channel 34
WBAY-TV in Green Bay, Wisconsin
WBSF in Bay City, Michigan
WBTV in Charlotte, North Carolina, on virtual channel 3
WBXZ-LD in Buffalo, New York
WCIU-TV in Chicago, Illinois, on virtual channel 26
WCUH-LD in Fort Wayne, Indiana
WCVI-TV in Christiansted, U.S. Virgin Islands
WDDN-LD in Washington, D.C., on virtual channel 23
WDMR-LD in Springfield, Massachusetts
WDPM-DT in Mobile, Alabama
WDTI in Indianapolis, Indiana, on virtual channel 69
WDVM-TV in Hagerstown, Maryland, on virtual channel 25
WDWA-LD in Dale City, Virginia, to move to channel 29, on virtual channel 23
WECT in Wilmington, North Carolina
WETM-TV in Elmira, New York
WFBN-LD in Rockford, Illinois
WFLI-TV in Cleveland, Tennessee
WFTY-DT in Smithtown, New York, on virtual channel 67
WHPM-LD in Hattiesburg, Mississippi
WHSU-CD in Syracuse, New York
WIEK-LD in Midland, Michigan
WITD-CD in Chesapeake, Virginia
WJDE-CD in Nashville, Tennessee, on virtual channel 31
WJDG-LD in Grundy, Virginia
WKCF in Clermont, Florida, on virtual channel 18
WKPD in Paducah, Kentucky
WKPI-TV in Pikeville, Kentucky
WKTB-CD in Norcross, Georgia, on virtual channel 47
WKZT-TV in Elizabethtown, Kentucky
WLAE-TV in New Orleans, Louisiana
WLED-TV in Littleton, New Hampshire
WLTV-DT in Miami, Florida, on virtual channel 23
WMDV-LD in Danville, Virginia
WMJF-CD in Towson, Maryland, on virtual channel 39
WNJS in Camden, New Jersey, on virtual channel 23
WNJT in Trenton, New Jersey, uses WNJS' spectrum, on virtual channel 52
WNPI-DT in Norwood, New York
WNWO-TV in Toledo, Ohio
WOIL-CD in Talladega, Alabama
WPGA-TV in Perry, Georgia
WPXI in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on virtual channel 11
WPXG-TV in Concord, New Hampshire, on virtual channel 21
WQAP-LD in Montgomery, Alabama
WQDU-LD in Albany, Georgia
WQPT-TV in Moline, Illinois
WQSJ-CD in Quebradillas, Puerto Rico, on virtual channel 48, which rebroadcasts WSJN-CD
WRGX-LD in Dothan, Alabama
WSVT-LD in Tampa, Florida, on virtual channel 18
WTAS-LD in Waukesha, Wisconsin, on virtual channel 47
WTVR-TV in Richmond, Virginia
WTWV in Memphis, Tennessee
WUDT-LD in Detroit, Michigan, to move to channel 8, on virtual channel 23
WUNC-TV (DRT) in Oxford, North Carolina, on virtual channel 4
WUOF-LD in Gainesville, Florida
WUSI-TV in Olney, Illinois
WVSN in Humacao, Puerto Rico, on virtual channel 68
WVUA-CD in Tuscaloosa/Northport, Alabama
WWHO in Chillicothe, Ohio, an ATSC 3.0 station, on virtual channel 53
WWJX in Jackson, Mississippi
WWTW in Senatobia, Mississippi, uses WTWV's spectrum.
WXNY-LD in New York, New York, on virtual channel 32
WYDN in Lowell, Massachusetts, uses WPXG-TV's spectrum, on virtual channel 48
WZPJ-LD in Bennington, Vermont
The following stations, which are no longer licensed, formerly broadcast on digital channel 23:
K23NZ-D in Three Forks, Montana
KHMM-CD in Hanford, California
WLDW-LD in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
WODX-LD in Springfield, Illinois
WTSD-CD in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
WUEA-LD in Lafayette, Indiana
References
23 digital
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Pancoast Pelican
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The Pancoast Pelican is an American twin-engine homebuilt aircraft.
Design and development
The Pelican is a two place side-by-side configuration, high-wing, twin-engine, tricycle gear aircraft. The open cockpit aircraft is of all-wood construction with a plywood fuselage. The tail section is removable for ground transportation on a trailer.
Specifications (Pelican)
References
Homebuilt aircraft
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Canthigaster jamestyleri
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Canthigaster jamestyleri, known as the goldface toby, is a species of marine fish in the family Tetraodontidae. It was first isolated from the southeast coast of the US, in the Atlantic Ocean.
Etymology
It is named in honor of ichthyologist James C. Tyler (b. 1935), for his help and advice to the authors, also for his numerous contributions to the study of the systematics of the plectognath fishes.
Description
C. jamestyleri can measure up to , counting with 9 soft rays and anal soft rays. It shows no dark dorsal and ventral margins on its caudal fin but does show a small dark spot on the base of its dorsal fin. It also counts with bars on the caudal fin, as well as diagonal lines on the snout, and two dark stripes on the sides of its body.
Distribution
The species is deep reef-associated, with a depth range between . It is found in the Western Atlantic, particularly on the southeast coast of the US and the Gulf of Mexico.
References
Further reading
Quattrini, Andrea M., et al. "Marine fishes new to continental United States waters, North Carolina, and the Gulf of Mexico." Southeastern Naturalist 3.1 (2004): 155–172.
Weaver, Douglas C., David F. Naar, and Brian T. Donahue. "Deepwater reef fishes and multibeam bathymetry of the Tortugas South Ecological Reserve, Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, Florida." Emerging technologies for reef fisheries research and management. NOAA Professional Paper NMFS (5). NOAA, Seattle, WA (2006): 48–68.
Hicks, David, and Carlos Cintra-Buenrostro. "ANNUAL PROGRESS REPORT FOR TEXAS CLIPPER REEF BIOLOGICAL MONITORING AND EVALUATION PROGRAM-YEAR."
Schwartz, Frank J. "Additional Fishes Inhabiting North Carolina's Estuarine and Marine Ocean Waters to 2,000+ m Depths." Journal of North Carolina Academy of Science 128.2 (2012): 33–38.
External links
FishBase
jamestyleri
Taxa named by Rodrigo Leão de Moura &
Taxa named by Ricardo Macedo Corrêa e Castro
Fish described in 2002
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"Prison Sex" is a song by American rock band Tool. Frontman Maynard James Keenan wrote the lyrics. The song was released as their second single from their debut studio album Undertow. The song uses a modified drop-B tuning. The track features an "anti-climax" coda, in which memorable verses and choruses dissolve into an unrelated, quiet final section.
Music video
The video for "Prison Sex" was created with stop-motion animation techniques, and was directed by the band's guitarist Adam Jones (who had previous experience in art direction and animation, including work on the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park) and was edited by Ken Andrews. The video was removed from the MTV playlist due to its disturbing content. "Prison Sex" was also nominated for 1994's MTV Music Video Awards' Best
Special Effects category. The music video later showed on an episode of Beavis and Butt-head.
The video primarily revolves around a battered white humanoid, robotic-like doll figure trapped in a room full of cabinets that contain other humanoids, such as a caterpillar with the main humanoid's face, a jar with a wasp inside, a robotic character with a little child's face that twists and turns, and a being made out of what looks like meat and feces. During various points in the video the main character is confronted by a larger black humanoid who causes the doll to go catatonic. While catatonic, the black figure molests the doll with a paintbrush. In the beginning of the video, the black figure severs the doll's legs (even though they still move by themselves) and hangs them out of reach of the doll. By the end of the video, the doll subjects itself to the abuse by painting itself. In the final shot, it is revealed that the doll was in its own cabinet the whole time when the black figure closes the cabinet door.
Controversy
With the release of the 1993 single "Prison Sex" and its music video, directed and created by Adam Jones, MuchMusic called the band into question by deeming the video too graphic and offensive, later running an episode of its Too Much 4 Much series to discuss the video.
MTV stopped airing the "Prison Sex" video after a few viewings due to its symbolism depicting the sensitive subject of child abuse. Maynard James Keenan, who wrote the lyrics, has been quite clear in concerts about his dislike for his stepfather.
Before a live performance of "Prison Sex" on November 29, 1996 in Montreal, Quebec, Keenan stated:
"This song is about recognizing, identifying, the cycle of abuse within yourself. That's the first step of the process: realization; identifying. The next step is to work through it. But, this song is about the first step in the process, which is recognizing."
Track listing
UK version
"Prison Sex"
"Undertow" (live)
"Opiate" (live)
"Prison Sex" (radio edit)
German version
"Prison Sex"
"Intolerance" (live)
"Undertow" (live)
"Opiate" (live)
Australian
"Prison Sex"
"Intolerance" (live)
"Undertow" (live)
"Opiate" (live)
"Prison Sex" (radio edit)
Promotional radio version
"Prison Sex" (radio edit)
"Prison Sex"
Release history
Chart performance
References
External links
The unofficial Tool FAQ
1993 singles
1993 songs
Animated music videos
Music video controversies
Obscenity controversies in music
Songs about child abuse
Songs about prison
Songs about sexual assault
Songs written by Maynard James Keenan
Songs written by Danny Carey
Songs written by Paul D'Amour
Songs written by Adam Jones (musician)
Stop-motion animated music videos
Tool (band) songs
Zoo Entertainment (record label) singles
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Čovčići (Vitkovići) is a suburb in the city of Goražde, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
References
Populated places in Goražde
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Ali Matan Hashi (1927–1978; , ), also known as Ali Matan, was a Somali senior military official and politician. He was the first Somali pilot, and a prominent member of the Supreme Revolutionary Council (SRC).
History
Ali Matan was born in the Dhuusamareeb district of Galgaduud into a Marehan Darod family in the Mudug Region of Somalia .
He created the Somali Air Force in 1960, and oversaw the growth of it between 1960 and 1978. A Brigadier General in the air force, he held various political and military positions, including Minister of Justice and Commander of the Air Force. He was also one of the closest advisers of the president.
Ali was born in the Dhuusamareeb district of Galgaduud in 1927. At the age of 17, he joined the Signal Corps of the British Occupation Forces in 1944 where he took upon radio engineering. As it was the norm of many Somali activists at that time, he joined the incipient Somali Youth League in 1944 and was the secretary of the young political party at the Sagag (Segeg) village in Dhagabur District. Following the abolition of the Somaliland Signal Corps in 1947, he joined the Post and Telecommunications department in Mogadishu.
Whilst in Mogadishu; he participated in several protests, notably the Hanoolaato anti-colonial uprising in Jan 1948. In 1950, he was imprisoned by the AFIS (Italian Trusteeship Administration) in Adado (Galgaduud) for drawing a painting depicting a Somali nomad carrying a load of 10 full sacks on his shoulders which indicated the 10 years that the country was to remain under the colonial rule.
In the early 1950s, he joined the Aeronautic Department where he served as a deputy director. In 1955, after completing his intermediate education, he joined the then Political and Administrative School. In 1956, he left for Italy where he became the first Somali pilot and air traffic controller. A year later, he was promoted to the rank of second lieutenant in the pre-independence Somali Air Force (Somali Aeronautical Corps). In 1958, he was nominated as the director of airports in Somalia. Given that there were no other Somali pilots, he strived to convince the colonial administration to send 35 Somali students abroad for pilot and aircraft mechanics training.
In 1959, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant and was subsequently sent to Italy, where he commenced a training as a first class pilot, according to the type of aircraft then available at that time in Somalia.
Upon his return from Italy in 1960, he was promoted to the rank of Captain and together with his colleagues were transferred to the newly created Somali Air Force. In late 1960, he supervised the first weekly flights connecting the capital city Muqdisho to the second capital Hargeisa. Hargeisa citizens dubbed it as the ‘Cali Mataan Airways’.
In 1963, he was promoted to the rank of major, and towards the end of that year, he was sent to the Soviet Forces Academy in Moscow, where he undertook training as a full-fledged Mig pilot. Upon his return from the Soviet Union in 1965, he was appointed as the new Commander of the Somali Air Force and in 1967 was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel.
Ali matan Hashi was one of the officers who participated in the 1969 coup that overthrew the government. After the take-over, he was incorporated in the newly created Supreme Revolutionary Council (SRC).
In 1970, his rank was elevated to full colonel, and in 1973 he was nominated as an advisor on legal and presidential affairs. In 1974, he became the new chairman of the Legal Affairs Committee of the SRC, which oversaw the introductions of legal reformations in the country. Two years prior to his death in 1978, he was promoted to the rank of brigadier general.
See also
Muhammad Ali Samatar
Hussein Kulmiye Afrah
Abdullah Mohamed Fadil
Abdirizak Mohamud Abubakar
Muse Hassan Sheikh Sayid Abdulle
Abdullahi Ahmed Irro
Asli Hassan Abade
Salaad Gabeyre Kediye
References
External links
The first Somali man to fly - Gen. Cali Mataan Xaashi
1927 births
1978 deaths
Ethnic Somali people
Air force generals
Government ministers of Somalia
Somalian generals
Somalian military leaders
Aviation pioneers
Somalian aviators
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A mawgun (, ; originated from archaic , ) is a form of Burmese poem which is often used to record a significant event meant to last.
History
Early times
In the Pagan era, donors recorded their donations in the prose form of mawgun. However, since from the Ava era, mawguns are composed in the form of poetry rather than prose. The oldest mawgaun in the Burmese literature industry was "Pyayson mawgun" by Shin Htwe Nyo during the reign of Thihathura I.
Following Shin Htwe Nyo, the most prominent mawgun poets were Shin Mahasilavamsa and Shin Raṭṭhasāra of Ava. They both composed many well-known mawguns. Mawguns composed during their times were said to be the high-class ones, and their times was referred as the era of mawguns.
Later
Mawgun did not develop in the First Toungoo Empire. Only Shin Thankho composed Yadanapyaungmon Sindaw Bwe Mawgun.
Mawguns became popular again in the Konbaung dynasty. It was Wetmasut Nawade who was a famous mawgun poet of his time, for he wrote at least 15 mawguns. Three of them pertain to Burmese conquests, including Ar-than-naing Mawgun and Rakhine Naing Mawgun on the conquests of Assam and Rakhine respectively, as well as the missing Dawei Naing Mawgun on the takeover of Dawei; he also wrote 'Tayoke Than Yauk Mawgun (1821), which details the arrival of a group of Chinese officials to Burma. Wilathini Sindaw Bwe Mawgun of Wetmasut Nawade is the first-class mawgun amongst the Sindaw Bwe mawguns (records of receiving white elephants), followed by Shweminbhone Sindaw Bwe Mawgun of U Nyo.
Format and subject
Mawgun is a kind of poem which uses four syllables in each line, like the classical Burmese verse.
Most mawguns are the descriptions of the royal white elephants, royal palaces, royal boats, the wars, the lakes and the pagodas.
References
See also
Burmese literature
Burmese literature
Poetic form
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Nikortsminda Cathedral () is a Georgian Orthodox Church, located in Nikortsminda, Racha region of Georgia.
Nikortsminda was built in 1010–1014 during the reign of Bagrat III of Georgia and was repaired in 1534 by the King Bagrat III of Imereti. Three-storied bell-tower next to the cathedral was built in the second half of the 19th century. Frescoes inside the Cathedral date from the 17th century.
The cathedral is on the Tentative List for status as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Details
Stylistically, Nikortsminda reflects the Georgian cross-dome style of architecture, following a six-conch-within-rectangle plan. The rectangular western apse has adjoining side chapels.
Dome
Nikortsminda has a massive dome and unbroken arcatures as its twelve windows, which are decorated with ornamented architraves.
Interior
The cathedral is formed of five interior apses, from which rise the massive dome, resting upon half-pillar shaped apse projections. It is abundantly lit by the twelve windows of the drum. The transition from the hexahedron of the round drum to the dome circle is effected by means of spheric pendentives. The altar apse bema and the western passage enlarge the interior space. The interior is decorated with frescoes from the 17th century and ornamental sculptural reliefs, reflecting the mastery of the late-Medieval Georgian ecclesiastical art.
Exterior
The Cathedral follows a short-armed rectangular cross plan and has a short segment to the west. The facades of the Cathedral are covered with smoothly hewn stone. Decorations include unbroken arcatures and various rich ornaments, including multiple-figured narrative reliefs and episodes (The Transfiguration, The Judgment Day, The Ascension of the Cross, figures of Saint George and Saint Theodore, real and mythic animals, forming one premeditated program). Nikortsminda has among the most beautiful decorations of all Georgian churches and cathedrals as several different styles can be seen.
Gallery
Notes
References
The Spiritual Treasure of Georgia. Khelovneba Publishers, Tbilisi: 2005.
External links
Nikortsminda retrieved from Parliament.Ge
further photos: ;
Church buildings with domes
Georgian Orthodox cathedrals in Georgia (country)
11th-century Eastern Orthodox church buildings
Eastern Orthodox church buildings in Georgia (country)
Racha
World Heritage Tentative List
Buildings and structures in Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti
Tourist attractions in Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti
Kutais Governorate
11th-century churches in Georgia (country)
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Alice T. Wadowski-Bak (August 8, 1935 – June 14, 2008) was a noted Polish-American artist and creator of wycinanki (paper-cutting). Her most famous work is Wigilia, which has been the cover art of Oplatek sold across the U.S. Ms. Wadowski-Bak's work has been exhibited at the Albright Knox in Buffalo, the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art and the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts.
Life
Trained in Buffalo NY, Alice's art caught the eye of Buffalo Society of Artists president, Polish Arts Club of Buffalo founder and esteemed artist Eugene Dyczkowski. Dyczkowski offered the young artist a scholarship. Unfortunately for Alice she was not able to accept it at the time. Ms. Bak was able to attend Syracuse University for her master's of fine art, and completed her studies at the University at Buffalo. She moved to New York City and worked as a book illustrator and fabric designer. Ms. Bak was the art instructor to Caroline Kennedy in the 1960s. Vincent Price was a fan of her artwork. Bak, a devout Catholic, also created a painting that was presented to Pope John Paul II, and hangs in the Vatican on permanent exhibition.
After working in New York City, Bak returned to Niagara Falls. She worked with the Polish School at Holy Trinity Church. In 1996 Ms. Bak won the Am-Pol Eagle Citizen of the Year Award for Media. On June 14, 2008 Alice Wadowski-Bak died and is interred at Holy Trinity Cemetery, Lewiston, NY.
Works
Wigilia,
Sleeping Beauty,
Broadway-Fillmore (1982)
Book Illustrations
Polish Folklore and Myth by Joanne Asala,
Polish Proverbs by Joanne Asala,
The Owl's Nest: Folk Tales from Friesland by Dorothy Gladys Spicer,
References
http://www.ampoleagle.com/default.asp?sourceid=&smenu=1&twindow=&mad=&sdetail=912&wpage=1&skeyword=&sidate=&ccat=&ccatm=&restate=&restatus=&reoption=&retype=&repmin=&repmax=&rebed=&rebath=&subname=&pform=&sc=2519&hn=ampoleagle&he=.com
http://www.legacy.com/buffalonews/DeathNotices.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonID=111773606
American artists
1935 births
2008 deaths
American people of Polish descent
University at Buffalo alumni
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Jamie Harney
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Jamie Joseph Harney (born 4 March 1996) is a Northern Irish professional footballer who plays as a defender for NIFL Premiership side Cliftonville.
After a two-year spell with Derry-based Maiden City Academy, Harney joined West Ham United. He continued his development with the club's Academy, featuring for the under-18 and under-21 sides. He joined Colchester United on a youth loan in November 2014, making his professional debut the same month. The deal was then made permanent in January 2015. He made five appearances before being released in September 2016. He joined Cliftonville in summer 2017.
Harney has represented Northern Ireland at youth level, receiving caps at under-16, under-17, under-19, under-20 and under-21 levels.
Club career
West Ham United
Born in Plumbridge, Northern Ireland, after spending time with Omagh United Youth, Harney joined the Maiden City Academy based in Derry in August 2010, where he spent two years prior to signing for English Premier League side West Ham United in July 2012 as a first-year scholar. In his first season with the club, he amassed 17 under-18 appearances and scored two goals. He also made his under-21 debut the same season, featuring as a substitute at Norwich City on 17 October 2012. He scored his first West Ham goal in an FA Youth Cup third round victory over Aldershot Town on 10 December 2012, powering a header into the back of the net to give the Hammers a 2–0 lead.
In the 2013–14 season, Harney made a further 16 appearances for the under-18 side, scoring once, and made eight under-21 appearances, starting each game.
Colchester United loan
After teaming up with Colchester United's Academy and appearing in their Essex Senior Cup penalty shoot-out defeat to Concord Rangers on 28 October 2014, Harney joined the League One club on a youth loan deal until 12 January 2015. However, on 13 November, Colchester manager Tony Humes confirmed that Harney had agreed to a one-and-a-half year permanent contract with the club.
Harney made his professional and Football League debut on 29 November 2014. He came on as a substitute for forward Rhys Healey in a tactical substitution following fellow loanee Will Packwood's red card for a foul in the penalty area. He arrived in the 72nd minute after Milton Keynes Dons had converted the penalty kick through Ben Reeves, when the score was 5–0. Ten-man Colchester eventually lost the game at Stadium mk 6–0. This was to be his only appearance of his loan spell.
Colchester United
On 28 January 2015, it was confirmed that Harney had joined Colchester United on a permanent basis, signing a one-and-a-half year contract to keep him at the Colchester Community Stadium until the summer of 2016. He made what was his second debut for the club on 20 February 2016 when he replaced Darren Ambrose after 35-minutes of Colchester's 5–2 defeat to Bury after fellow defender Tom Eastman was sent off for a second bookable offence.
Harney made his first start for the club on 5 March 2016 during Colchester's 2–0 defeat by Port Vale at Vale Park. After making four League One appearances during the season, Harney was offered a new contract at the end of the campaign. He signed a new one-year deal on 6 July 2016.
His contract was terminated by mutual consent on 9 September 2016 after failing to break into John McGreal's squad in the 2016–17 campaign.
Cliftonville
In May 2017 it was announced that, following a break from the game, Harney had signed for NIFL Premiership club Cliftonville on a free transfer.
International career
Harney has been capped by Northern Ireland at all age-group levels. He made five appearances and scored once at under-16 level. At under-17 level, he helped his side qualify for the elite round of the 2013 UEFA European Under-17 Championship, making eleven appearances in the age group. He captained the under-19 side to the 2014 Milk Cup Elite under-19 title after a 1–0 win over Canada on 1 August 2014. Harney made nine appearances at under-19 level for Northern Ireland, and two at under-20 level.
Harney was handed his under-21 debut by Jim Magilton on 9 September 2014 in their final 2015 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification match, in which they were defeated 4–1 at Shamrock Park.
Career statistics
Honours
Northern Ireland U19
2014 Milk Cup winner
References
1996 births
Living people
People from County Tyrone
Association footballers from Northern Ireland
Association football defenders
Northern Ireland youth international footballers
Northern Ireland under-21 international footballers
West Ham United F.C. players
Colchester United F.C. players
Cliftonville F.C. players
English Football League players
NIFL Premiership players
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Martin Riley (5 April 1851 – 1 June 1899) was an English amateur first-class cricketer, who played seventeen first-class matches for Yorkshire County Cricket Club from 1878 to 1882.
Born in Liversedge, Cleckheaton, Yorkshire, England, Riley was a right-handed batsman and occasional right arm fast round arm bowler. He also played first-class cricket for an England XI in 1882, Tom Emmett's XI in 1883 and Alfred Shaw's Australian Team in 1885. Riley also played for Hunslet and District in 1878, and South Wales Cricket Club from 1881 to 1882.
In all he played 20 first-class games, scoring 381 runs in 34 innings, with a highest score of 92 against I Zingari. He also umpired in at least four first-class matches in the Scarborough Festival.
Riley died in June 1899 in Harrogate, Yorkshire, aged 48.
References
External links
Cricket Archive
Cricinfo
1851 births
1899 deaths
Yorkshire cricketers
English cricketers
People from Cleckheaton
Cricketers from Yorkshire
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Solomon Northup
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Solomon Northup (born July 10, 1807 or 1808) was an American abolitionist and the primary author of the memoir Twelve Years a Slave. A free-born African American from New York, he was the son of a freed slave and a free woman of color. A farmer and a professional violinist, Northup had been a landowner in Washington County, New York. In 1841, he was offered a traveling musician's job and went to Washington, D.C. (where slavery was legal); there he was drugged, kidnapped, and sold as a slave. He was shipped to New Orleans, purchased by a planter, and held as a slave for 12 years in the Red River region of Louisiana, mostly in Avoyelles Parish. He remained a slave until he met Samuel Bass, a Canadian working on his plantation who helped get word to New York, where state law provided aid to free New York citizens who had been kidnapped and sold into slavery. His family and friends enlisted the aid of the Governor of New York, Washington Hunt, and Northup regained his freedom on January 3, 1853.
The slave trader in Washington, D.C., James H. Birch, was arrested and tried, but acquitted because District of Columbia law at the time prohibited Northup as a black man from testifying against white people. Later, in New York State, his northern kidnappers were located and charged, but the case was tied up in court for two years because of jurisdictional challenges and finally dropped when Washington, D.C. was found to have jurisdiction. The D.C. government did not pursue the case. Those who had kidnapped and enslaved Northup received no punishment.
In his first year of freedom, Northup wrote and published a memoir, Twelve Years a Slave (1853). He lectured on behalf of the abolitionist movement, giving more than two dozen speeches throughout the Northeast about his experiences, to build momentum against slavery. He largely disappeared from the historical record after 1857, although a letter later reported him alive in early 1863; some commentators thought he had been kidnapped again, but historians believe it unlikely, as he would have been considered too old to bring a good price. The details of his death have never been documented.
Northup's memoir was adapted and produced as the 1984 television film Solomon Northup's Odyssey and the 2013 feature film 12 Years a Slave. The latter won three Academy Awards, including Best Picture, at the 86th Academy Awards.
Early life
Solomon Northup was born in the town of Minerva in Essex County, New York on July 10, 1807 or July 10, 1808. His mother was a free woman of color, which meant that their sons, Solomon and his older brother Joseph, were born free according to the principle of partus sequitur ventrem. Solomon described his mother as a quadroon, meaning that she was one-quarter African, and three-quarters European.
His father Mintus was a freedman who had been a slave in his early life in service to the Northup family. Born in Rhode Island, he was taken with the Northups when they moved to Hoosick, New York, in Rensselaer County. His master, Henry Northrop, manumitted Mintus in his will, after which Mintus adopted the surname Northup. His surname was sometimes spelled Northrup in records. Upon attaining his freedom, Mintus married and he moved to Minerva with his wife.
According to Northup, his father was "a man respected for his industry and integrity". A farmer, Mintus was successful enough to own land and thus meet the state's property requirements for the right to vote. His sons received what was considered to be a good education for free black people at that time. As boys, Northup and his brother worked on the family farm. He spent his leisure time playing the violin and reading books.
Mintus moved his family to Washington County, New York and worked on several farms owned by the Northups. From Minerva, they moved to the farm of Clark Northup near Slyborough (Slyboro) in Granville, Washington County for several years. The family of four then lived at Alden Farm, a short distance north of Sandy Hill (now called Hudson Falls). They later moved to an area east of Fort Edward on the road from Fort Edward to Argyle, where Mintus lived until his death. Mintus died at Fort Edward on November 22, 1829, and was interred at the Hudson Falls Baker Cemetery. His mother died during Northup's enslavement (1841 to 1852). According to her daughter-in-law Anne and Nicholas C. Northup, she died around 1846 or 1847 in Oswego County, New York.
Marriage and family
Solomon Northup married Anne Hampton on December 25, 1829, one month after the death of his father, or on December 25, 1828, according to sworn depositions by Anne Northup, Josiah Hand, and Timothy Eddy, the latter of whom was the Justice of the Peace who performed the wedding. They were married in Fort Edward. Anne, the daughter of William Hampton, was born March 14, 1808. She grew up in Sandy Hill. A "woman of color", she was of African, European, and Native American descent. They had three children: Elizabeth (born ca. 1831), Margaret (born ca. 1833), and Alonzo (born ca. 1835).
At the start of their marriage, the couple lived at Fort House, "the old yellow house", in the southern end of Fort Edward. In 1830, they moved to Kingsbury, both of which were small communities in Washington County, New York. After selling their farm in 1834, the Northups moved 20 miles to Saratoga Springs, New York, for its employment opportunities.
Anne was known for her culinary expertise. She worked for local taverns that served food and drink, and at the United States Hotel. When court was in session at the county seat of Fort Edward, she worked at Sherrill's Coffee House in Sandy Hill.
After Northrup was kidnapped, Anne and her oldest daughter Elizabeth went to work as domestic servants in New York City at Madame Jumel's Mansion on the East River in the summer of 1841. Alonzo was with them. Margaret, their youngest daughter went to Hoboken, New Jersey to live with a friend of Madame Jumel, who also had a young daughter.
After about two years, Anne brought the family back together in Saratoga, where she worked as a cook in hotels, including in Glens Falls at Carpenter's Hotel. In 1852, she learned of her husband's fate and asked for Henry B. Northup's help to have him freed. A letter was prepared to the Governor of New York Washington Hunt based upon a deposition given by Anne Northup to Justice of the Peace Charles Hughes on November 19, 1852. He gathered the information to prove that Northup was free and went to Louisiana to bring him back to New York.
Northup returned to Sandy Hill on January 21, 1853, and reunited with his wife and children. By 1855, he was living with his daughter Margaret Stanton and her family in Queensbury, Warren County, New York. He purchased land in Glens Falls near his daughter. In his memoir, Northup described his love for his wife as "sincere and unabated", since the time of their marriage, and his children as "beloved".
While Northup gave talks about his book around the country, Anne worked in Bolton Landing on Lake George at the hotel Mohican House. Author David Fiske states that Northup seems to have had a difficult time overcoming the years in which he was enslaved. He was said to have drunk a lot and did not seem to spend a lot of time with his wife. By the late 1850s, it was not known what had become of Northup, and he was not listed with his family in the 1860 census.
After selling their land in Glens Falls, Anne Northup moved to the household of her daughter and son-in-law, Margaret and Philip Stanton, in Moreau, Saratoga County, where she again was recorded as married though Solomon was not with the family. Anne did laundry, cooking and chores for a Moreau man. In 1870, she worked as a cook in the household of Burton C. Dennis, who kept the Middleworth House hotel in Sandy Hill. Anne Northup lived in Kingsbury in Washington County, New York in 1875. By that time she was identified as a widow. She died in 1876 while performing her chores in Moreau. One obituary, while praising Anne, says of Solomon Northup that "after exhibiting himself through the country [he] became a worthless vagabond".
Life
Canal worker, farmer, and violin player
In the winter of the year that he married, Northup worked as a laborer repairing the Champlain Canal. He then bought two horses and contracted to tow lumber on rafts to Troy from Lake Champlain beginning the following spring. He employed two workers. He worked on other waterways in upstate New York and he traveled to northern New York and Montreal, Canada. When the canal was closed down, he cut lumber during the winter of 1831–1832. He worked as a farm laborer in the Sandy Hill area.
He arranged to farm corn and oats on part of the Alden farm where his father lived in Kingsbury. He built a fine reputation as a fiddler and was in high demand to play for dances in surrounding villages. The couple had become prosperous due to the income Anne received as a cook and that Northup made farming and playing the violin.
The couple moved to Saratoga Springs in March 1834, where he drove a horse-drawn taxi for a businessman, and during the tourist season he worked for the United States Hotel, where he was employed by Judge James M. Marvin, a part-owner of the hotel. He played his violin at several well-known hotels in Saratoga Springs. He also worked on the construction of the Troy and Saratoga Railroad. He had become a regular customer and friend of William Perry and Cephus Parker, who owned several shops in town. Over the seven years that the Northups lived in Saratoga Springs, they had been able to make ends meet and dress their children in fine clothes, but they had been unable to prosper as hoped.
In March 1841, Anne went 20 miles to Sandy Hill where she ran the kitchen at Sherrill's Coffee House during the session of the court. She may have taken their oldest daughter Elizabeth with her. Their two youngest children went to stay with their aunt. Northup stayed in Saratoga Springs to look for employment until the tourist season.
Kidnapped and sold into slavery
In 1841, at age 32, Northup met two men, who introduced themselves as Merrill Brown and Abram Hamilton. Saying they were entertainers, members of a circus company, they offered him a job as a fiddler for several performances in New York City. Expecting the trip to be brief, Northup did not notify Anne, who was working in Sandy Hill. When they reached New York City, the men persuaded Northup to continue with them for a gig with their circus in Washington, D.C., offering him a generous wage and the cost of his return trip home. They stopped so that he could get a copy of his "free papers", which documented his status as a free man.
The city had one of the nation's largest slave markets, and slave catchers were not above kidnapping free black people. At this time, 20 years before the Civil War, the expansion of cotton cultivation in the Deep South had led to a continuing high demand for healthy slaves. Kidnappers used a variety of means, from forced abduction to deceit, and frequently abducted children, who were easier to control.
It is possible that "Brown" and "Hamilton" incapacitated Northuphis symptoms suggest that he was drugged with belladonna or laudanum, or with a mixture of bothand sold him to Washington slave trader James H. Birch for $650, claiming that he was a fugitive slave. However, Northup stated in his account of the ordeal in Twelve Years a Slave in Chapter II, "[w]hether they were accessory to my misfortunes – subtle and inhuman monsters in the shape of men – designedly luring me away from home and family, and liberty, for the sake of gold – those who read these pages will have the same means of determining as myself." Birch and Ebenezer Radburn, his jailer, severely beat Northup to stop him from saying he was a free man. Birch then wrongfully presented Northup as a slave from Georgia. Northup was held in the slave pen of trader William Williams, close to the United States Capitol. Birch shipped Northup and other slaves by sea to New Orleans, in what was called the coastwise slave trade, where Birch's partner Theophilus Freeman would sell them. During the voyage, Northup and the other slaves caught smallpox.
Northup persuaded John Manning, an English sailor, to send to Henry B. Northup, upon reaching New Orleans, a letter that told of his kidnapping and illegal enslavement. Henry was a lawyer, was related to Henry Northrop who had held and freed Solomon's father, and a childhood friend of Solomon's. The letter was delivered to Governor Seward by Henry, but it was not actionable because Northup's location was unknown.
The New York State Legislature had passed a law in 1840 that made it illegal to entice or kidnap an African-American out of New York and sell them into slavery. It provided legal and financial assistance to aid the recovery of any who were kidnapped and taken out of state and illegally enslaved.
At the New Orleans slave market, Birch's partner Theophilus Freeman sold Northup (who had been renamed Platt) along with Harry and Eliza (renamed Dradey) to William Prince Ford, a preacher who engaged in small farming on Bayou Boeuf of the Red River in northern Louisiana. Ford was then a Baptist preacher. (In 1843, he led his congregation in converting to the closely related Churches of Christ, after they were influenced by the writings of Alexander Campbell.) In his memoir, Northup characterized Ford as a good man, considerate of his slaves. In spite of his situation, Northup wrote:
At Ford's place in Pine Woods, Northup assessed the problem of getting timber off Ford's farm to market. He proposed and then made a log raft to move lumber down the narrow Indian Creek, in order to transport the logs more easily. Northup built weaving looms, so that fabric could be woven for clothing.
Ford came into financial difficulties and had to sell 18 slaves to settle his debts. In the winter of 1842, Ford sold Northup to John M. Tibaut, a carpenter who had been working for Ford on the mills. He also had helped construct a weaving-house and corn mill on Ford's Bayou Boeuf plantation. Ford owed Tibaut money for the work. Since the amount Ford owed Tibaut was less than the purchase price agreed upon for Solomon, Ford held a chattel mortgage on Northup for $400, the difference between the two amounts.
Under Tibaut, Northup suffered cruel and capricious treatment. Tibaut used him to help complete construction at Ford's plantation. At one point, Tibaut whipped Northup because he did not like the nails Northup was using. But Northup fought back, beating Tibaut severely. Enraged, Tibaut recruited two friends to lynch and hang the slave, which a master was legally entitled to do. Ford's overseer Chapin interrupted and prevented the men from killing Northup, reminding Tibaut of his debt to Ford, and chasing them off at gunpoint. Northup was left bound and noosed for hours until Ford returned home to cut him down. Northup believed that Tibaut's debt to Ford saved his life. Historian Walter Johnson suggests that Northup may well have been the first slave Tibaut ever bought, marking his transition from itinerant employee to property-owning master.
Tibaut hired Northup out to a planter named Eldret, who lived about 38 miles south on the Red River. At what he called "The Big Cane Brake", Eldret had Northup and other slaves clear cane, trees, and undergrowth in the bottomlands in order to develop cotton fields for cultivation. With the work unfinished, after about five weeks, Tibaut sold Northup to Edwin Epps.
Epps held Northup for almost 10 years, until 1853, in Avoyelles Parish. He was a cruel master who frequently and indiscriminately punished slaves and drove them hard. His policy was to whip slaves if they did not meet daily work quotas he set for pounds of cotton to be picked, among other goals.
In 1852, itinerant Canadian carpenter Samuel Bass came to do some work for Epps. Hearing Bass express his abolitionist views, Northup eventually decided to confide his secret to him. Bass was the first person he told of his true name and origins as a free man since he was first enslaved. Along with mailing a letter written by Northup, Bass wrote several letters at his request to Northup's friends, providing general details of his location at Bayou Boeuf, in hopes of gaining his rescue.
Bass did this at great personal risk as the local people would not take kindly to a person helping a slave and depriving a man of his property. In addition, Bass's help came after passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which increased federal penalties against people assisting slaves to escape.
Restoration of freedom
Bass wrote several letters to people Northup knew in Saratoga Springs: one went to his former employer Judge James M. Marvin and another reached Cephas Parker and William Perry, storekeepers in Saratoga. Parker and Perry forwarded the letter to Northup's wife, Anne, who contacted attorney Henry B. Northup, the son of Solomon's father's former master. Henry B. Northup contacted New York Governor Washington Hunt, who took up the case, appointing the attorney general as his legal agent. In 1840, the New York State Legislature had passed a law committing the state to help any African-American residents kidnapped into slavery, as well as guaranteeing a jury trial to alleged fugitive slaves. Once Northup's family was notified, his rescuers still had to do detective work to find the enslaved man, as he had partially tried to hide his location for protection in case the letters fell into the wrong hands, and Bass had not used his real name. They had to find documentation of his free status as a citizen and New York resident; Henry B. Northup also collected sworn affidavits from people who knew Solomon Northup. During this time, Northup did not know if Bass had reached anyone with the letters. There was no means of communicating, because of the secrecy they needed to maintain, and the necessity of preventing Northup's owner from knowing their plans. Bass did not reveal his own name in the letter.
Henry gathered documentation and depositions and stopped off in Washington, D.C. to meet with Pierre Soule, a legislator from Louisiana, and the Secretary of War in preparation for his rescue effort in Louisiana. Although he did not have Bass's name, Henry still managed to find him in Marksville (the postmark on the letters), and Bass revealed that Solomon Northup was held by Edwin Epps on his plantation. Henry had legal paperwork prepared based upon the documentation that proved that Northup was free. The sheriff went with Henry to give the news to Epps and take Northup off the farm.
Northup later wrote, "He [Epps] thought of nothing but his loss, and cursed me for having been born free." Attorney Henry B. Northup convinced Epps that it would be futile to contest the free papers in a court of law, so the planter conceded the case. He signed papers giving up all claim to Northup. Finally on January 4, 1853, four months after meeting Bass, Northup regained his freedom.
Twelve Years a Slave
After he made it back to New York, Solomon Northup wrote and published his memoir, Twelve Years a Slave (1853). The book was written in three months with the help of David Wilson, a local lawyer and writer.
Northup told the story of his kidnapping and enslavement with a lot of verifiable details. Northup told the cruelty, treatment as chattel, and the appreciated acts of kindnesses that he received. "Its tone is much milder than we expected to see exhibited," according to the Rome Citizen of New York. The detail that he provided helped illuminate the depth of his experiences, and allowed for verification of what life was like on a plantation. Sue Eakin and Joseph Logsdon researched the facts from Northup's book and were able to verify many of the events and people and published their annotated version of the book in 1968. Edwin Epps, his slaveholder, stated that a greater part of the book was the truth to soldiers from the 114th New York Infantry Regiment that Epps met during the Civil War. Northup was literate and provided the facts without hyperbole in "plain and candid language", while Wilson corrected style, grammar, and inconsistencies.
It was published by Derby & Miller of Auburn, New York. In the period when questions of slavery generated debate and the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) by Harriet Beecher Stowe was a bestseller, Northup's book sold 30,000 copies within three years, also becoming a bestseller. Northup traveled and went on a lecture tour in Northeastern states to tell his story and sell books. The book became the backbone of other books about him, such as Solomon Northup: The Complete Story of the Author of Twelve Years a Slave.
Court cases
Northup was one of the few kidnapped free black people to regain freedom after being sold into slavery. Represented by attorneys Senator Salmon P. Chase of Ohio, General Orville Clark, and Henry B. Northup, Solomon Northup sued Birch and other men involved in selling him into slavery in Washington, DC. The historian Carol Wilson documented 300 kidnapping cases in her 1994 book, and believes that it is likely that thousands more were kidnapped who were never documented.
As Solomon Northup and Henry Northup made their way back to New York, they first stopped in Washington DC to file a legal complaint with the police magistrate against James H. Birch, the man who had first enslaved him. Birch was immediately arrested and tried on criminal charges. However, Northup was unable to testify at the trial due to laws in Washington DC against black men testifying in court. Birch and several others who were also in the slave trade testified that Northup had approached them, saying he was a slave from Georgia and was for sale. No note of his purchase was made in Birch's accounting ledger, however. The prosecution consisted of Henry B. Northup and another white man asserting that they had known Northup for many years, and he was born and lived a free man in New York until his abduction. With no one legally able to testify against Birch's tale, Birch was found not guilty. However, the sensational case immediately attracted national attention, and The New York Times published an article about the trial on January 20, 1853, just days after its conclusion and only two weeks after Northup's rescue.
The New York trial opened on October 4, 1854. Both Northup and St. John testified against the two men. The case brought widespread illegal practices in the domestic slave trade to light. Through testimony during the court case, various details of Northup's account of his experience were confirmed. The respective counsels argued over whether the crime had been committed in New York (where Northup could testify), or in Washington, DC, outside the jurisdiction of New York courts. After more than two years of appeals, a new district attorney in New York failed to continue with the case, and it was dropped in May 1857.
Last years
He worked again as a carpenter after he moved back to New York. He became active in the abolitionist movement and lectured on slavery in the years before the American Civil War. During the summer of 1857, Northup was in Canada for a series of lectures. In Streetsville, Ontario, a hostile Canadian crowd prevented him from speaking.
After 1857, he was not living with family and there was speculation by family, friends, and others that he was enslaved again. The 21st-century historians Clifford Brown and Carol Wilson believe it is likely that he died of natural causes, because he was too old to be of interest to slave catchers.
According to John R. Smith, in letters written in the 1930s, his father Rev. John L. Smith, a Methodist minister in Vermont, had worked with Northup and former slave Tabbs Gross in the early 1860s, during the Civil War, aiding fugitive slaves on the Underground Railroad. Northup was said to have visited Rev. Smith after Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, which was made in January 1863.
There is no contemporaneous documentation of his death. It is believed by historians that he died in 1863 or 1864.
Historiography
Although the memoir is often classified among the genre of slave narratives, the scholar Sam Worley says that it does not fit the standard format of the genre. Northup was assisted in the writing by David Wilson, a white man, and, according to Worley, some believed he would have biased the material. Worley discounted concerns that Wilson was pursuing his own interests in the book. He writes of the memoir:
Twelve Years is convincingly Northup's tale and no one else's because of its amazing attention to empirical detail and unwillingness to reduce the complexity of Northup's experience to a stark moral allegory.
Northup's biographer, David Fiske, has investigated Northup's role in the book's writing and asserts authenticity of authorship. Northup's full and descriptive account has been used by numerous historians researching slavery. His description of the "Yellow House" (also known as "The Williams Slave Pen"), in view of the Capitol, has helped researchers document the history of slavery in the District of Columbia.
Influence among scholars
Ulrich B. Phillips, in his Life and Labor in the Old South (Boston, 1929) and American Negro Slavery (New York, 1918), doubted the "authenticity" of most narratives of ex-slaves but termed Northup's memoir "a vivid account of plantation life from the under side".
The scholar Kenneth M. Stampp often referred to Northup's memoir in his book on slavery, The Peculiar Institution (New York, 1956). Stanley Elkins in his book, Slavery (Chicago, 1959), like Phillips and Stampp, found Northup's memoir to be of credible historical merit.
Since the mid-20th century, the civil rights movement, and an increase in works of social history and in African-American studies, have brought renewed interest in Northup's memoir.
The first scholarly edition of the memoir was published in 1968. Co-edited by professors Sue Eakin and Joseph Logsdon, this well-annotated LSU Press publication has been used in classrooms and by scholars since that time and is still in print.
In 1998, a team of students at Union College in Schenectady, New York, with their political science professor Clifford Brown, documented Northup's historic narrative. "They gathered photographs, family trees, bills of sale, maps and hospital records on a trail through New York, Washington [DC] and Louisiana." Their exhibit of this material was held at the college's Nott Memorial building.
In his book Black Men Built the Capitol (2007), Jesse Holland notes his use of Northup's account.
Legacy and honors
In 1999, Saratoga Springs erected a historical marker at the corner of Congress and Broadway to commemorate Northup's life. The city later established the third Saturday in July as Solomon Northup Day, to honor him, bring regional African-American history to light, and educate the public about freedom and justice issues.
In 2000, the Library of Congress accepted the program of Solomon Northup Day into the permanent archives of the American Folklife Center. The Anacostia Community Museum and the National Park Service-Network to Freedom Project have also recognized the merits of this multi-venue, multi-cultural event program. "Solomon Northup Day – a Celebration of Freedom" continues annually in the City of Saratoga Springs, as well as in Plattsburgh, New York, with the support of the North Country Underground Railroad Historical Association.
Annual observances have been made to honor Solomon Northup. A 2015 conference at Skidmore College had a gathering of Northup's descendants, and the speakers included Congressman Paul D. Tonko.
Representation in media
Former U.S. poet laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Rita Dove wrote the poem "The Abduction" about Northup, published in her first collection, The Yellow House on the Corner (1980).
1984, Twelve Years a Slave was adapted as a PBS television movie titled Solomon Northup's Odyssey, directed by Gordon Parks. Northup was portrayed by Avery Brooks.
In 2008, composer and saxophonist T. K. Blue, commissioned by the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), recorded Follow the North Star, a musical composition inspired by Northup's life.
The episode "Division" of the 2010 television miniseries America: The Story of Us depicts Northup's slave auction. Significant emphasis is placed on Eliza being separated from her children, and the actor portraying Northup does voiceover of direct passages from Twelve Years a Slave.
The 2013 feature film 12 Years a Slave, adapted from his memoir, was written by John Ridley and directed by Steve McQueen. British actor Chiwetel Ejiofor portrays Northup, for which he earned an Oscar nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role. The film was nominated for nine Academy Awards, winning 3—for Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, for John Ridley, and Best Supporting Actress for Lupita Nyong'o, who played the slave Patsey in her debut film role.
See also
History of slavery in Louisiana
List of people who disappeared
List of slaves
List of unsolved deaths
Slavery in the United States
Reverse Underground Railroad
Notes
References
Sources
Further reading
, Newbery Honor, ages 10 and up
External links
The Solomon Northup Trail, LSU's Acadiana Historical project: maps and descriptions of sites from Northup's memoir, based on Eakin's and Logsdon's 1968 research.
Twelve Years a Slave: Analyzing Slave Narratives, National Endowment for the Humanities EDSITEment lesson plan
Solomon Northup's Odyssey at the Internet Movie Database
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Missing person cases in Canada
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People from Saratoga Springs, New York
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The GlaxoSmithKline Prize and Lecture is awarded by the Royal Society of London "for original contributions to medical and veterinary sciences published within ten years from the date of the award". Sponsored by GlaxoSmithKline, the medal is awarded with a gift of £2500. The medal was first awarded in 1980 to César Milstein "in recognition of his pioneering the production of monoclonal antibodies from hybrid cell lines and initiating their application worldwide in many fields of biology and medicine", and has since been awarded 13 times.
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Charles Alfred Selwyn Bennett (2 August 1899 – 15 June 1995) was an English playwright, screenwriter and director probably best known for his work with Alfred Hitchcock.
Biography
Early life
Charles Bennett was born in a disused railway carriage in Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex, England, the son of Lilian Langrishe Bennett (1863–1930), an actress and artist. Bennett's mother told him his father was Charles Bennett, a civil engineer killed in a boiler explosion, though he thought it was actor Kyrle Bellew (1855–1911). Bennett had an elder brother, Frederick (known as Eric), and a younger brother, Vere. His father is recorded in his baptismal register as Frederick Bennett, engineer. The film historian John Belton has asserted that Bennett's father died when he was four. In the 1911 census, Lilian Bennett recorded herself as a widow, and an artist.
Bennett was mostly educated at home, but also briefly at St Mark's College, Chelsea.
Actor
Bennett was a child actor, appearing in Max Reinhart's production of The Miracle at Olympia Theatre in 1911. He played child roles in stage productions of Alice in Wonderland (1913), Goody Two Shoes (1913), Drake (1914) and The Marriage Market (1915), and toured in productions all over England.
He had a role in the film John Halifax, Gentleman (1915) as the young John Halifax; the older Halifax was Fred Paul. The performance was not particularly well received and Bennett became an extra and assistant to Adrian Brunel. He continued to appear in stage in productions of The Speckled Band (1916), King Lear (1916) with Sir Herbert Tree and Raffles (1917).
In 1917 he enlisted in the army and served with the Royal Fusiliers. Most of his war service was spent on the Somme, where he saw action. He was awarded the Military Medal and ended the war with the rank of lieutenant. He was invalided out due to a gas attack and left the army in 1919.
Bennett resumed his acting career, playing with the Brewster's Millions company (1920), then the Compton Comedy Company, the Lena Ashwell Players, the Gertrude Elliott Touring Company, and the Henry Baynton Company (for whom he appeared in Antony and Cleopatra and A Midsummer Night's Dream).In 1923 he joined the Alexander Marsh Shakespearean company, touring throughout England.
Playwright
In 1925 Bennett joined the Ben Greet Repertory, which performed in Paris from 1925 to 1926. During this time, while acting in the evenings he wrote his first three full-length plays: The Return, based on his war service, Blackmail and The Last Hour.
In December 1926 Bennett played Theseus in a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream at London's Winter Garden Theatre. In April 1927 he was in a production of Othello at the Apollo Theatre alongside John Gielgud, Robert Loraine and Gertrude Elliott.
In May 1927 Bennett appeared in a production of his own play The Return, which he also directed. Peggy Ashcroft was in the cast.
In December 1927 he appeared in Loraine's production of Cyrano de Bergerac.
Bennett had the biggest success of his career to date when Al Woods decided to finance a production of Blackmail in 1928, produced by Raymond Massey and starring Tallulah Bankhead. The play was not well received at first, but had a hugely successful run on tour.
The play was seen by Alfred Hitchcock who arranged for British International Pictures to buy the film rights and adapted Bennett's play into a script, with Benn Levy doing the dialogue. His film of Blackmail (1929) is generally credited as the first British sound film, and was a huge commercial success.
Bennett's play The Last Hour debuted on London stage in December 1928 and was a popular hit in London. The Last Hour (1930) was turned into a movie directed by Walter Forde, the first "talkie" for Nettleford Studios.
Bennett's fourth play was The Danger Line (1929), based on Hazel May Marshall's story Ten Minutes to Twelve. He also wrote a one act play After Midnight (1929).
Early Screenplays
The success of Blackmail led to British International offering him a contract in September 1931 to deliver three film stories a year for two years. He was reunited with Alfred Hitchcock and they collaborated on a story for Bulldog Drummond, to be called Bulldog Drummond's Baby. However Hitchcock then directed some films which flopped and BIP chose not to proceed with the project.
While at BIP he did unfilmed stories for Death on the Footplate, The Parrot Whistles, High Speed, Love My Dog and Fireman Save My Child.
Bennett provided the story for a number of low-budget movies for George King who he later called the "world's worst director": Number, Please (1931); Deadlock (1931), which was a big hit; Midnight (1931), the latter based on his play; and Two Way Street (1932).
Bennett wrote and directed the play Sensation (1931), a melodrama, but it was not a success, although it was adapted into a film.
He followed it with another play Big Business (1932), which Bennett also directed and appeared in alongside his then-wife Maggie. But by now he had given up acting to focus on writing.
Bennett wrote a short film, Partners Please (1932), and did an early film for John Paddy Carstairs, Paris Plane (1933).
Bennett wrote Mannequin (1933); The House of Trent (1933); Matinee Idol (1933) for King; Hawley's of High Street (1933), a rare comedy for Bennett; The Secret of the Loch (1934), the first film shot on location in Scotland; Warn London (1934); an adaptation of his play Big Business (1934); and Gay Love (1934). A number of these films were written in collaboration with publicist and story writer Billie Bristow; she and Bennett would work on eight films together in all.
In 1934 he wrote the play Heart's Desire which he later regarded as the best play he wrote and the only one he loved but it was never produced.
Hitchcock
Hitchcock moved over to Gaumont British where he got Michael Balcon interested in Bulldog Drummond's Baby. It was eventually filmed as The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), which was a significant success.
After doing Night Mail (1935) with Bristow, Bennett wrote The 39 Steps (1935) for Hitchcock, a film which soon established itself as a classic; Bennett said he was responsible for most of the film's construction, but paid tribute to the contribution of Ian Hay, who did dialogue.
Bennett was now in much demand. He wrote The Clairvoyant (1935) with Claude Rains and Fay Wray; King of the Damned (1935), written with Sidney Gilliat; All at Sea (1936); Blue Smoke (1935).
He did two films for Hitchcock, Secret Agent (1936) (based on Somerset Maugham's Ashenden) and Sabotage (1936).
In January 1936 his play Page From a Diary, starring Greer Garson and Ernst Deutsch, had a short run at the Garrick Theatre in London.
Bennett was one of several writers on King Solomon's Mines (1937) then he went back to Hitchcock for Young and Innocent (1937).
Hollywood
Bennett's work with Hitchcock had made him perhaps the most highly regarded screenwriter in England (one paper called him "Britain's best known blood curdler") and attracted the attention of Hollywood. In 1937 he accepted a contract with Universal Studios at $1,500 a week.
Universal loaned him out to Sam Goldwyn, and did some uncredited writing on The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938) and The Real Glory (1939), then worked on Universal's Good Girls Go to Paris (1939) and Hidden Power (1939).
After six months Universal dropped Bennett's contract. His agent Myron Selznick got Bennett a job with Myron's brother David. Bennett got his first Hollywood credited on the comedy The Young in Heart (1938); he did the construction and Paul Osborne the dialogue.
Bennett then signed a contract to MGM where he worked on Cause for Alarm, an adaptation of an Eric Ambler novel which ended up not being made, and Balalaika (1939), a Nelson Eddy musical. He wrote a short novel, War in His Pocket, which was published in 1939.
Hitchcock moved to the US and hired Bennett to do some work on Foreign Correspondent (1940). Bennett was nominated for an Oscar for Best Script.
Cecil B. De Mille
Bennett worked on They Dare Not Love (1941) at Columbia and did uncredited work on Lucky Legs (1942). He was hired by Cecil B. De Mille to work on the script construction of Reap the Wild Wind (1942), which was a huge hit.
Bennett went to RKO to write Joan of Paris (1942), which was one of his favourite films. At that studio he wrote the unproduced Challenge to the Night and was one of many writers on Forever and a Day (1943). He also made some uncredited contributions to the script of Saboteur (1942).
During war he claims to have done undercover work for Allied intelligence.
De Mille used Bennett again on The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944), once more focusing on construction while Alan Le May did the dialogue. Another script Bennett did for De Mulle, Rurales, about the Mexican Revolution, was never made.
In 1944 Bennett returned to London to write propaganda films for the British Ministry of Information. He continued to write feature films as well, earning $15,000 from Edward Small for an early draft of Lorna Doone, and an adaptation of the Madeleine Smith story for Two Cities Films to star Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier, at a fee of £4,000. He was contracted to direct the latter. Two Cities contracted Bennett to write Miracle of Peille.
After the war, Bennett returned to Hollywood and wrote Unconquered (1947) for De Mille. Olivier and Leigh pulled out of the Madeleine Smith project, so Bennett went to Universal to work on Ivy (1947), a thriller for Sam Wood and Joan Fontaine.
Director
Bennett was going to direct Laraine Day in The Trial of Madeleine Smith
but those plans were interrupted when David Lean decided to make Madeleine.
Instead he worked on the scripts for The Sign of the Ram (1948) for John Sturges and Black Magic (1948) for Edward Small. He attempted to remake Blackmail but was unsuccessful.
Bennett finally made his directorial debut in Madness of the Heart (1949) with Margaret Lockwood.
He continued to write: the unproduced Bangkok for Robert North, The Search for the Holy Grail for De Mille and a film for Rank, The Moneyman.
He was credited on the script for Where Danger Lives (1950), where he worked with Irwin Allen for the first time. He also write Kind Lady (1951), and The Green Glove (1952), then got another chance to direct with No Escape (1953), a film noir.
Bennett worked on the script for Dangerous Mission (1954) where he worked with Allen again.
Television
Bennett began writing for TV, doing such shows as The Ford Television Theatre, Climax! (where he did "Casino Royale", the first screen adaptation of a James Bond novel, Schlitz Playhouse, Fireside Theatre, Cavalcade of America, The Count of Monte Cristo, Conflict, The Christophers, Lux Video Theatre and The New Adventures of Charlie Chan. Some of these he also directed and he produced Charlie Chan.
Irwin Allen
Bennett was reunited with Allen on The Story of Mankind (1957). He wrote Night of the Demon (1957) in England, which he had hoped to direct himself; it became a cult success.
He then did a series of films for Allen: The Big Circus (1959), The Lost World (1960), Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961), and Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962).
Bennett also wrote for The Dick Powell Show and did War-Gods of the Deep (1965) for AIP.
In the late 1960s Bennett focused on TV series such as The Wild Wild West, and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and Land of the Giants for Allen.
Later career
Bennett had no produced credits from the 1970s onwards. "It was so frustrating, because in many ways I felt my writing had gotten even better", he said. "But at my age, no one wanted to hire me... know, I hate all the talk of this being a young man's industry. I hate it! Not because I'm an old man. But because I hate the notion that you must be young to be hot."
Bennett continued to write films, plays, treatments and TV series, though none were produced. He wrote a novel, Fox on the Run which was published in 1987.
In 1990 Bennett was hired to write a remake of Blackmail. The film was never made.
Personal life
Bennett's brother Eric was killed in World War I in 1915. His other brother, Vere, hanged himself in 1928.
He was twice married. First, in 1930, to the actress Faith Bennett. They were divorced in 1941, and in 1947 Bennett married Betty Jo Riley, who predeceased him. They had a son, John Charles Bennett.
Bennett died in Los Angeles in 1995.
Biographies
Bennett has been the subject of two biographies, both written by his son John.
Hitchcock's Partner in Suspense (2014)
The Rise of the Modern Thriller (2020)
He has also been the subject of biographical articles:
Barr, Charles. "Blackmail: Charles Bennett and the Decisive Turn" in Palmer, R Burton & Boyd, David, Hitchcock at the Source: The Auteur as Adaptor, 2011, New York: SUNY Press.
Belton, John. "Charles Bennett and the typical Hitchcock scenario", Film History, (1997) 9(3), 320–332.
He was interviewed by Arnold Schwartzman for the British Entertainment History Project in 1992.
Selected filmography
John Halifax, Gentleman (1915) – actor only
Blackmail (1929) – based on his play
The Last Hour (1930) – based on his play
Two Way Street (1931)
Deadlock (1931)
Midnight (1931) – based onhis play
Number, Please (1931)
Partners Please (1932)
Mannequin (1933)
Paris Plane (1933)
Hawley's of High Street (1933)
The House of Trent (1933)
Matinee Idol (1933)
The Secret of the Loch (1934)
Gay Love (1934)
Warn London (1934)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) (story)
Night Mail (1935)
Blue Smoke (1935)
The Clairvoyant (1935)
King of the Damned (1935)
The 39 Steps (1935)
Sabotage (1936)
Secret Agent (1936)
All at Sea (1936)
King Solomons's Mines(1937)
Young and Innocent (1937)
The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938)
The Young in Heart (1938)
Hidden Power (1939) – uncredited contribution
Balalaika (1939)
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
They Dare Not Love (1941)
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
Saboteur (1942)
Joan of Paris (1942)
Forever and a Day (1943)
The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944)
Unconquered (1947)
Ivy (1947)
The Sign of the Ram (1948)
Madness of the Heart (1949) (also directed)
Black Magic (1949)
Where Danger Lives (1950)
Kind Lady (1951)
The Green Glove (1952)
Ford Television Theatre (1952) (TV series)
No Escape (1953) (also directed)
Dangerous Mission (1954)
Climax! (1954–55) (TV series) – various eps including Casino Royale
Fireside Theatre (1954–55) (TV series) – 7 eps
Schlitz Playhouse (1954–55) (TV series) (also directed)
The Christophers (1955–57) (TV series) (also directed)
Cavalcade of America (1955) (TV series) (also directed)
Conflict (1956) (TV series) – 2 eps
The Count of Monte Cristo (1956) (TV series) (also directed)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) – original story
Lux Video Theatre (1955–57) (TV series) – 4 eps
The Story of Mankind (1957)
Night of the Demon (1957)
The New Adventures of Charlie Chan (1957–58) (TV series) (also directed)
Behind Closed Doors (1958) (TV series) – 1 ep
The Big Circus (1959)
The Lost World (1960)
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961)
The Dick Powell Theatre (1962) (TV series)
Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962)
The City Under the Sea (1965)
The Wild Wild West (1966) (TV series) – 1 ep
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1967–68) (TV series) – 7 eps
Land of the Giants (1968) (TV series) – 1 ep
Plays
The Return (1925)
Blackmail (1928)
The Last Hour (1928)
Sensation (1931)
Big Business
Midnight
The Danger Line
Page From a Diary (1936)
References
McGillian, Patrick "Charles Bennett", Backstory 1
External links
1899 births
1995 deaths
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English film directors
English male screenwriters
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Egon Boshof
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Egon Boshof (born 13 January 1937 in Stolberg) is a German historian. From 1979 to 2002, he held the Chair for Medieval History at the University of Passau.
Works
Books
Erzbischof Agobard von Lyon. Leben und Werk (= Kölner Historische Abhandlungen. Bd. 17). Böhlau, Köln u. a. 1969, (Zugleich: Köln, Univ., Diss., 1969).
mit Kurt Düwell und Hans Kloft: Grundlagen des Studiums der Geschichte. Eine Einführung. Böhlau, Köln u. a. 1973, .
Heinrich IV. Herrscher an einer Zeitenwende (= Persönlichkeit und Geschichte. Bd. 108/109). Muster-Schmidt, Göttingen u. a. 1979, (2. überarbeitete Auflage. ebenda 1990).
Die Regesten der Bischöfe von Passau (= Regesten zur bayerischen Geschichte. Bd. 1–3). Herausgegeben von der Kommission für Bayerische Landesgeschichte. Beck, München; Band 1: 731–1206.
1992, ; Band 2: 1206–1254. 1999, ; Band 3: 1254–1282. 2007, .
Königtum und Königsherrschaft im 10. und 11. Jahrhundert (= Enzyklopädie deutscher Geschichte. Bd. 27). Oldenbourg, München 1993, (2. Auflage. ebenda 1997; 3. aktualisierte und um einen Nachtrag erweiterte Auflage. ebenda 2010, ).
Ludwig der Fromme (= Gestalten des Mittelalters und der Renaissance.). Primus Verlag, Darmstadt 1996, .
Mitautor der Edition: Welt- und Kulturgeschichte. Epochen, Fakten, Hintergründe in 20 Bänden. Mit dem Besten aus der ZEIT. = Die ZEIT-Welt- und Kulturgeschichte. Zeitverlag Bucerius u. a., Hamburg 2006, , für das Kapitel Was ist Geschichte.
Europa im 12. Jahrhundert. Auf dem Weg in die Moderne. Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart 2007, . (Rezension)
Die Salier (= Kohlhammer-Urban-Taschenbücher. 387). 5. aktualisierte Auflage. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2008, .
Editor
Regesta pontificum Romanorum. Vol. 10: Germania pontificia sive repertorium privilegiorum et litterarum a Romanis pontificibus ante annum MCLXXXXVIII Germaniae ecclesiis monasteriis civitatibus singulisque personis concessorum, Provincia Treverensis. Pars 1: Archidioecesis Treverensis. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1992, .
Geschichte der Stadt Passau. Pustet, Regensburg 1999, .
References
Living people
1937 births
21st-century German historians
20th-century German historians
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Poderi Colla
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Poderi Colla is an Italian winery, based in Barolo, Piedmont, Italy. It was established by Ernesto "Tino" Colla and his niece Federica in 1993. Poderi Colla has three vineyards covering some 70 acres, Cascina Drago and Tenuta Dardi Le Rase in Barolo and Tenuta Roncaglie in Barbaresco. Wine Opus described the wines as "impressive, traditional-leaning wines", describing their Barolo Bussia as "a firm, powerful expression of Nebbiolo", but said that their Barbaresco Roncaglie "shows more finesse and elegance". Cincinnati Magazine described their 2002 Barbera d'Alba as of "really serious quality". Australian winemaker Ben Cane worked for Poderi Colla for sometime.
References
Wineries of Italy
Companies established in 1993
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Jodi Levitz
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Jodi Levitz is an American viola player and academic. She has performed throughout Europe, South America, the USA, and the Far East as a solo violist and has recorded works for the viola on several record labels including Erato Records. She is the violist of the Ives Quartet.
She is currently on the viola and chamber music faculties at the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami and directs the Stamps Scholars program. She is also a faculty member of the Zephyr International Chamber Music Festival, held annually in Courmayeur, Italy.
She won first place in several competitions, including the D'Angelo Competition and the Hudson Valley Young Artists Competition. After receiving her Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from the Juilliard School, she served for twelve seasons as the Principal and Solo Violist for the Italian chamber orchestra, I Solisti Veneti in addition to additional Principal positions at orchestras in Ferrara, Mantova, Tuscany, and Parma. She is fluent in Italian.
Her pedagogical lineage includes William Lincer, Paul Doktor, Dorothy DeLay, and Margaret Pardee.
External links
Jodi Levitz San Francisco Conservatory of Music Faculty Biography
Meet Jodi Levitz Ives Quartet profile
Jodi Levitz Viola.com biography
Jodi Levitz Zephyr Music Festival Faculty profile
American classical violists
Women violists
Living people
San Francisco Conservatory of Music faculty
Classical musicians from California
Year of birth missing (living people)
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Haliotis australis
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Haliotis australis, common name the "queen pāua," yellow-foot pāua, or austral abalone, is a species of edible sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Haliotidae, the abalones.
Description
The size of the shell varies between 40 mm and 100 mm. "The thin, oval shell is quite convex. The distance of the apex from margin measures one-eighth to one-ninth the length of the shell. The sculpture consists of faint spirals and a close strong radiating corrugation. The 6 to 8 perforations are circular with elevated edges. The outlines are oval. The right margin is a little straighter. The back of the shell is convex, not carinated at the row of holes. The color pattern is light yellowish-brown, red on the spire, or light green flamed with red. The surface has almost obsolete spiral cords, and regular, close, radiating folds. Between the row of holes and the columellar margin there are no radiating folds, but several (generally three) strong spiral ribs. The spire is a little elevated and contains three whorls .Inside it is corrugated like the exterior, silvery with blue, green and red reflections, the latter predominating. The columellar plate is narrow.
The corrugated exterior is quite constant and characteristic. Young specimens are more strongly ribbed spirally, and often have radiating stripes of red on a delicate green ground."
Distribution
It is endemic and found across New Zealand.
Human use
Haliotis australis (also known as 'Queenies') and other two Haliotis species are known as "paua" in New Zealand and are used as a food source. While generally smaller than their Haliotis iris counterparts, they are still harvested but must be a minimum length of 80mm.
References
Geiger D.L. & Poppe G.T. (2000). A Conchological Iconography: The family Haliotidae. Conchbooks, Hackenheim Germany. 135pp 83pls.
Geiger D.L. & Owen B. (2012) Abalone: Worldwide Haliotidae. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. viii + 361 pp. page(s): 72
External links
photos
australis
Gastropods of New Zealand
Gastropods described in 1791
Taxa named by Johann Friedrich Gmelin
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Satpura Railway
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Satpura Railway was a narrow-gauge railway in the states of Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra in central India.
History
After the Great Famine of 1876–78 in central India, the Bengal Nagpur Railway began planning to open a low-cost railway track that would unite the region, allowing both access to the agricultural and mineral resources of the region, further safeguarding the inhabitants should another famine arise. Nainpur was the focal point of the network and was even bestowed with the prestige of being a divisional headquarters for some time. The lines came up in the early years of the 20th century.
The first portion of the Gondia–Nainpur line was opened on 13 April 1903, Nainpur and Chhindwara were connected in 1904 and Jabalpur in 1905. The Chhindwara–Pench Coalfield line came up in 1906–07 and the Nainpur–Mandla Fort line in 1909. The extensive network of gauge tracks measured just over 1,000 km.
Conversion to broad gauge
The Satpura Railway is under conversion to broad gauge.
The section between Gondia and Balaghat was converted to broad gauge in 2005–2006 connecting Balaghat to India's national network for the first time. Work is underway to convert the Balaghat–Jabalpur section to broad gauge. The narrow-gauge trains running between Jabalpur and Balaghat were stopped in October 2015 and the track was closed for gauge conversion. The gauge conversion is expected to be completed by 2018–2019. The 85 km broad-gauge track from Jabalpur to Ghunsore railway station was operational in September 2017 and the 28 km track from Ghunsore to Nainpur also has been operational since 2018. and the last work between Nainpur to Samnapur was gone on rapidly and expected to be operational in mid-2020 but due to COVID-19 pandemic it was delayed and also conversion into Electrification for increasing average speed. After that, it was started on 8 March 2021.
References
2 ft 6 in gauge railways in India
Defunct railway companies of India
Rail transport in Madhya Pradesh
Transport in Jabalpur
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Pierre des Maizeaux
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Pierre des Maizeaux, also spelled Desmaizeaux (c. 1666 or 1673June 1745), was a French Huguenot writer exiled in London, best known as the translator and biographer of Pierre Bayle.
He was born in Pailhat, Auvergne, France. His father, a minister of the reformed church, had to leave France on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and took refuge in Geneva, where Pierre was educated. Pierre Bayle gave him an introduction to Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, with whom, in 1689, he went to England, where he engaged in literary work. He remained in close touch with the religious refugees in England and Holland, and through his involvement with the Huguenot information centre based at the masonic Rainbow Coffee House he was constantly in correspondence with the leading continental savants and writers, who were in the habit of employing him to conduct such business as they might have in England. In 1720 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society.
He was a colleague of Anthony Collins and edited the writings of John Locke (1720). He was the translator and biographer of Pierre Bayle. One of the key figures in the eighteenth century Republic of Letters and London's Huguenot diaspora. Des Maizeaux also translated the works of Charles de Saint-Évremond in English from the French published in 1714 during his exile in England. The book also described the author's life. The work was dedicated to the Right Honourable Charles Lord Halifax. In 1700 des Maizeaux wrote a remark concerning Leibniz' 'New System' and in 1720 he edited and prefaced a French translation of the Leibniz–Clarke correspondence.
Among his works are also Vie de St Evremond (1711), Vie de Boileau-Despreaux (1712), Vie de Bayle (1730). He also took an active part in preparing the Bibliothèque raisonnée des ouvrages de l'Europe (1728–1753), and the Bibliothèque britannique (1733–1747), and edited a selection of St. Evremond's writings (1706). Part of Des Maiseaux's correspondence is preserved in the British Museum, and other letters are in the Royal Library in Copenhagen.
Des Maizeaux died in London.
References
Almagor, J., Pierre Des Maizeaux (1673–1745), journalist and English correspondent for Franco-Dutch periodicals, 1700–1720 ; with the inventory of his correspondence and papers at the British Library (Add.Mss.4281–4289), Amsterdam : APA-Holland University Press, 1989.
External links
1666 births
1745 deaths
French male writers
Fellows of the Royal Society
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Atlanta Athletic Club
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Atlanta Athletic Club (AAC), founded in 1898, is a private athletic club in Johns Creek, Georgia, a suburb 23 miles north of Atlanta. The original home of the club was a 10-story building located on Carnegie Way, and in 1904 a golf course was built on Atlanta's East Lake property. In 1908, John Heisman (the Georgia Tech football coach for whom the Heisman Trophy was named) was hired as the AAC athletic director.
While it was downtown, its team placed third in the 1921 Amateur Athletic Union National Basketball Championship defeating Lowe and Campbell Athletic Goods 36–31 in the third place game. At the time colleges, athletic clubs and factory-sponsored clubs all competed in the same league.
In 1967, the AAC sold both properties and moved to a big site in a then-unincorporated area of Fulton County that had a Duluth mailing address and would eventually become Johns Creek in 2006. The vacated East Lake site became East Lake Golf Club and was refurbished during the 1990s. It is now the home of The Tour Championship, currently the final event of the PGA Tour golf season.
AAC hosted the 1950 U.S. Women's Amateur and 1963 Ryder Cup at East Lake, the 1976 U.S. Open, the 1981, 2001, and 2011 PGA Championships on its Highlands Course, and the 1990 U.S. Women's Open on its Riverside Course. The AAC used both of its current regulation courses to host the 2014 U.S. Amateur, with stroke-play qualifying on the Riverside Course and match play on the Highlands Course. The Riverside course, renovated by Rees Jones in 2002, was recognized among the top 10 new private courses in 2004 by Golf Digest.
AAC has hosted many non-golf events including the first two Southeastern Conference men's basketball tournaments in 1933 and 1934. In 1984 and 1985, AAC hosted the U.S. Open Badminton Championship. During the 1990s, AAC hosted the AT&T Challenge, Atlanta's ATP professional tennis stop.
AAC has two 18-hole golf courses, a health center, indoor and outdoor tennis, a par-3 course, Olympic-sized pool, as well as dining.
Famous members of AAC include golfers Bobby Jones, Charlie Yates, Alexa Stirling, Watts Gunn, Dot Kirby, and Tommy Barnes; football player Daddy Barcomb; tennis player Nat Thornton; and basketball player Bob Kurland.
In the 2004 film Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius, many of the golf scenes were filmed at AAC.
Pictures
Key dates
1898 – first organizational meeting and granting of club charter
1899 – Official opening of 56 Edgewood Avenue facility
1902 – Move to new clubhouse at 37 Auburn Avenue
1924 – purchase of Carnegie Way property (10 story downtown club)
1926 – opening of Carnegie Way property
1930 – winning of Grand Slam by Bobby Jones Jr.
1963 – purchase of River Bend property in Duluth
1967 – opening of the new 27-hole golf course at River Bend
1968 – vote by stockholders to sell East Lake Country Club
1969 – selection of Atlanta Athletic Club Country Club as name for River Bend club
1971 – decision to sell Carnegie Way town club
1973 – destruction of Carnegie Way town club
2016 – second redesign of Highlands by Rees Jones
Scorecards
Major tournaments hosted
References
External links
Highlands Renovation in Preparation for 2011 PGA Championship
AAC voted #1 Athletic Club
Golf clubs and courses in Georgia (U.S. state)
Golf clubs and courses designed by Tom Bendelow
Tennis venues in the United States
Basketball venues in Georgia (U.S. state)
Tourist attractions in Fulton County, Georgia
Buildings and structures in Fulton County, Georgia
Johns Creek, Georgia
Sports venues completed in 1898
1898 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
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International Airport railway station, Sydney
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International Airport is a train station located on the Airport Link, serving Terminal 1 at Sydney Airport, Australia. Terminals 2 and 3 are served by Domestic Airport station. The line is operated by Sydney Trains with T8 Airport & South line services.
History
International Airport station opened on 21 May 2000 when the Airport Link opened from Central to Wolli Creek. Like other stations on the line, International Airport was built and is operated by the Airport Link Company as part of a public–private partnership.
As part of the contract to build the line, an access fee is levied to recover the costs of building the line. Although often perceived as all going to the Airport Link Company, under the revenue sharing agreement, from August 2014 85% of revenues raised by the access fee go to the State Government.
Platforms & services
Transport links
Transit Systems operate one route via International station:
420: Westfield Burwood to Mascot station
Gallery
References
External links
Sydney International Airport Station at Transport for New South Wales
Airport railway stations in Australia
Easy Access railway stations in Sydney
Railway stations in Sydney
Railway stations in Australia opened in 2000
Railway stations located underground in Australia
Sydney Airport
Airport Link, Sydney
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1936 Democratic National Convention
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The 1936 Democratic National Convention was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from June 23 to 27, 1936. The convention resulted in the nomination of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Vice President John N. Garner for reelection.
Changes to rules
At the 1936 Democratic Convention, the rule requiring candidates for President and Vice President to have a majority of two-thirds of the delegates votes to win nomination, which had existed since 1832, was abolished.
Roosevelt had long pushed for the rule's abolition, in part due to past deadlocks: for example, the 1924 convention had required 103 ballots over roughly two weeks to nominate John W. Davis.
The conventioneers provided that a simple majority of delegates would be required to win nomination, allowing for candidates to more easily be nominated and thus produce less balloting. In this regard, only one Democratic Convention after 1932 has required multiple ballots (that of 1952, which required three).
This also began the decline of the South's clout at Democratic conventions, making it easier for the Democrats to begin adopting civil rights and other liberal ideas into their platforms, since the two-thirds rule had long given the South a de facto veto power on presidential nominees.
With the rule's abolition, Missouri Senator Bennett Champ Clark noted that "the Democratic Party is no longer a sectional party, it has become a great national party." Southern Democrats would continue to decline in power, ultimately leading to the Dixiecrat movement and Nixon's 1968 Southern strategy.
South Carolina Senator Ellison D. Smith walked out of the convention once he saw that a black minister, Marshall L. Shepard, was going to deliver the invocation.
Results
The Balloting:
President Roosevelt and Vice President Garner were renominated by acclamation without need for a roll-call vote.
In his acceptance speech on June 27 at the adjacent Franklin Field, Roosevelt remarked, "This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny."
See also
History of the United States Democratic Party
1936 Democratic Party presidential primaries
List of Democratic National Conventions
United States presidential nominating convention
1936 Republican National Convention
1936 United States presidential election
References
External links
Democratic Party Platform of 1936 at The American Presidency Project
Roosevelt Nomination Acceptance Speech for President at DNC (transcript) at The American Presidency Project
1936 conferences
1936 United States presidential election
1936 in Pennsylvania
1930s in Philadelphia
Political conventions in Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Democratic Party
Political events in Pennsylvania
Democratic National Conventions
June 1936 events
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Anaerospora
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Anaerospora is a Gram-negative genus of bacteria from the family of Sporomusaceae with one known species (Anaerospora hongkongensis).
References
Negativicutes
Bacteria genera
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Turowo, Greater Poland Voivodeship
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Turowo is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Pniewy, within Szamotuły County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, in west-central Poland. It lies approximately south-east of Pniewy, south-west of Szamotuły, and west of the regional capital Poznań.
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Turowo
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Lemme See
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"Lemme See" is a song by American recording artist Usher, released through RCA Records, as the third single from his seventh studio album Looking 4 Myself (2012). The track features vocals from rapper Rick Ross. It was written by Usher, Eric Bellinger, Jim Jonsin, Danny Morris, Nickolas Marzouca and Lundon Knighten with its production helmed by Jonsin and Morris. It was digitally released on May 4, 2012 and sent to urban radio on May 8, 2012. "Lemme See" is a mid-tempo R&B song that makes heavy use of synthesizers. Its lyrics depict Usher contemplating on what he is going to do when he "gets a certain female clubgoer into his bedroom".
The song peaked at number 46 on the Billboard Hot 100. It has also reached number two on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, the second single from Looking 4 Myself to peak in the top three on the chart, following its lead single "Climax". Internationally "Lemme See" reached number six on the South Korea Gaon International Chart, number 88 on the French Singles Chart and number ninety on the UK Singles Chart. The song's music video was directed by Philip Andelman, and shows Usher inside his estate with his love interest in several risqué scenes. Usher performed the song live during the 2012 iTunes Festival.
Release and composition
"Lemme See" was digitally released on May 4, 2012 as the third single from Usher's seventh studio album Looking 4 Myself, following "Scream". The following week, on May 8, 2012 "Lemme See" was released to SoundCloud. On the same day, it was sent to urban radio and on May 22, to rhythmic radio.
"Lemme See" is a mid-tempo R&B song that heavily incorporates synthesizers, and has a running duration of four minutes and 15 seconds. It contains elements of hip hop music, and its production was compared to the one in Kelly Rowland's "Motivation" (2011). Lyrically, Usher is contemplating on what he is going to do when he "gets a certain female clubgoer into his bedroom", in the line: Hey girl, I'm debating if I should take you home. During the pre-chorus, he comes to the conclusion: I decided to take my shirt off / and show my chest.
Critical reception
The Observer Killian Fox called the song a hit. Andy Kellman of AllMusic described the track as "a slithering, low-slung jam" noting it as one of Usher's best songs and a stand-out from Looking 4 Myself. DJ Booth commended its production, writing that it contains "sultry, slow-burning synth grooves". Erika Ramirez of Billboard also praised the song's production, calling it "seductive" while showing a positive response to Rick Ross' verse. Several other reviewers showed similar responses to Ross' appearance on "Lemme See", including Sobhi Youssef of Sputnikmusic who noted it as a "welcome" surprise. The Los Angeles Times Randall Roberts wrote that the song "finds its groove when Rick Ross parks his Lamborghini on the track’s lawn for a cameo". By contrast, BBC Music's Natalie Shaw disapproved of Rick Ross' verse, saying that it consists of "tasteless mentions of Trayvon Martin".
Chart performance
Due to digital downloads, "Lemme See" entered the singles chart in South Korea. It debuted on the South Korea Gaon International Chart at number ten on May 27, 2012, with sales of 17,445 digital copies. The following week, it rose to number six, selling a further 19,632 copies. In its third week, with the release of Looking 4 Myself in South Korea, it sold 10,914 units and was charted at number 18. In its fourth week, "Lemme See" dropped 23 positions to number 41, with 5,493 digital copies sold. It was knocked off the chart the proceeding week. In the US, "Lemme See" peaked below the top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 46. The song peaked at number two on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, and remained in the top five for eleven weeks. In the UK, following the release of Looking 4 Myself, the song entered and peaked at number ninety on the week of June 23, 2012. It also reached number 21 on the UK R&B chart. In France, the song entered and peaked at number 88, while dropping to number 110 the following the week before dropping off the chart in its third week.
Music video and live performances
The official music video for "Lemme See" was released on June 14, 2012, and was directed by Philip Andelman. The video opens with a close-up of Usher's estate, and a woman bound by ropes. Usher is stood by a swimming pool singing the first verse, with the pool reflecting on him. During the pre-chorus, Usher is leaning against a wall while pulling up his top to reveal his chest. Entering the chorus, the video intercuts to Usher preparing drinks for himself and the tied up woman– his love interest. With the second verse, Usher is admiring his still tied up love interest. In the second pre-chorus, leaned against a wall Usher removes his shirt, while the video intercuts to him approaching his love interest to make love. Entering Rick Ross' verse, Ross is sat down shirtless, accompanied by two women sat by him left and right. Touching Ross' back, their tattoos transfer on to Ross and bloom. Him and Usher are both by a pool with Ross performing his rap, while in an intercut scene Usher's love interest is being released from her tied up predicament. In the final chorus, Usher and his love interest make love in a risqué scene, with both their tattoos moving and blooming on to each other in a similar way to Ross' scene. This alternates with the latter scene, Usher leaned against the wall and him and Ross by the pool, with Usher singing the verse. The video ends with Ross and Usher echoing the song's title.
American magazine Rap-Up praised the music video, calling it "seductive" while Billboard David Greenwald compared it to Barbadian singer Rihanna's "S&M", and noted parts of "Lemme See"'s video as "less edgy" compared to its love scene. Opening the 2012 iTunes Festival, Usher performed the song for the first time along with "Can't Stop Won't Stop", "Twisted", "Dive" and "Numb" and other songs.
Credits and personnel
Recording
Vocal recording – Parkland Playhouse, Parkland, FL; Silent Sound Studios, Atlanta, GA
Mixing – Parkland Playhouse, Parkland, FL
Personnel
Songwriting – Jim Jonsin, Daniel Morris, Nickolas Marzouca, Usher Raymond IV, Eric Bellinger, Lundon
Production – Jim Jonsin, Mr. Morris
Vocal production – Natural
Keyboard and programming – Jim Jonsin, Danny Morris
Recording – Nickolas Marzouca, Mark "Exit" Goodchild
Recording assistants – Matt Huber, Nathan Burgess, Kory Aaron
Mixing – Robert Marks
Mixing assistants – Matt Huber, Nathan Burgess, Dana Richard
Additional vocals – Rick Ross
Credits adapted from the liner notes of Looking 4 Myself, RCA Records.
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Release history
References
External links
2012 singles
Usher (musician) songs
RCA Records singles
2012 songs
Songs written by Usher (musician)
Songs written by Jim Jonsin
Song recordings produced by Jim Jonsin
Songs written by Eric Bellinger
Music videos directed by Philip Andelman
Rick Ross songs
Songs written by Rick Ross
Songs about sexuality
Songs written by Danny Morris (music producer)
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Michael Powell (Massachusetts politician)
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Michael Powell represented Dedham, Massachusetts in the Great and General Court in 1641 and 1648. His daughter, Sarah, married Timothy Dwight. He was also town clerk for a total of four years, having first been elected in 1643. He was a selectman for four years, beginning in 1641. He was the first tavern owner in Dedham.
Powell later moved to Boston and taught, without being ordained, at Second Church, Boston prior to Increase Mather.
References
Works cited
Dedham, Massachusetts selectmen
Members of the colonial Massachusetts General Court from Dedham
Year of birth missing
Year of death missing
Dedham Town Clerks
Signers of the Dedham Covenant
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Alexandros Hatzipetros
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Alexandros Hatzipetros (, 1907–2006) was a Greek military officer who served as Chief of the Central Intelligence Service and Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs during the Regime of the Colonels.
Hatzipetros, a career soldier, was a descendant of freedom-fighter Christodoulos Hatzipetros. He was a Colonel in the Artillery when the coup d'état of 1967 which installed the Junta took place. In the wake of the coup, Hatzipetros was appointed Chief of the Central Intelligence Service, a post he held until June 1972. The following month, he assumed the position of Deputy Foreign Minister and remained in that position until the fall of the Junta in late 1973. He was tried and acquitted in the Greek Junta Trials.
Hatzipetros died in 2006.
References
1907 births
2006 deaths
Leaders of the Greek junta
Hellenic Army officers
National Intelligence Service (Greece)
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Naughty Bits
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Naughty Bits was a comic book series written and illustrated by Roberta Gregory, and published by Fantagraphics Books. The series ran from March 1991 to July 2004, totalling 40 issues.
Naughty Bits is the story of Midge McCracken, aka Bitchy Bitch, an everyday woman angry at the world who frequently explodes with rage. The character made her first appearance in the Fantagraphics anthology Graphic Story Monthly #6 (June 1990). The comic has also appeared in animated form as Bitchy Bits and Life's a Bitch.
The stories in Naughty Bits are set in the present day. Bitchy Bitch has a lesbian counterpart named Bitchy Butch.
Collections
A Bitch is Born: Adventures of Midge the Bitchy Bitch (Fantagraphics, 1994)
Naughty Bits vol. 2: As Naughty as She Wants to Be (Fantagraphics 1996) — collecting material considered too controversial for the first Naughty Bits collection
At Work and Play with Bitchy Bitch (Fantagraphics, 1996) — material from Naughty Bits #10-14
Bitchy's College Daze: Adventures of Midge the Bitchy Bitch (Fantagraphics, 1998) — stories from Naughty Bits #15-19
Bitchy Butch: World's Angriest Dyke (Fantagraphics, 1999) — stories from Naughty Bits #21, 23, 26, and stories from Gay Comix
Bitchy Strips (self-published, 2001) — one-shot collection of weekly strips previously published in alternative weeklies such as the Seattle Weekly and Willamette Week
Burn Bitchy Burn (Fantagraphics, 2002)
Life's a Bitch: Complete Bitchy Bitch Stories (Fantagraphics, 2005) — first half of Bitchy Bitch stories plus one new story
Reception
Paul Constant of The Stranger called Naughty Bits "one of the best comic series I've ever read. ... It's basically a biography of one normal—albeit kinda hateful—woman, and it's insightful, funny, and true."
Naughy Bits was nominated for Best New Series in the 1992 Harvey Awards, and was nominated for Best Humor Publication in the 1992 Eisner Awards. "Hippie Bitch Gets Laid," in Naughty Bits #6, was nominated for Best Short Story in the 1993 Eisners. That same year, Gregory was nominated for the Best Writer and Best Writer/Artist Eisner Awards. Naughty Bits #6-8, the "Abortion Trilogy", was nominated for a 1994 Eisner for Best Serialized Story, and Gregory was again nominated in the Best Writer/Artist category. "Bye-Bye, Muffy," in Naughty Bits #28, was nominated for Best Short Story in the 2000 Eisner Awards.
In other media
Beginning in 2001, a series of shorts featuring Bitchy Bitch called Bitchy Bits was shown on the Oxygen Network animated series X-Chromosome.
Life's a Bitch, an animated series spun-off from the X-Chromosome shorts, aired from 2003–2004 on Oxygen in the U.S. and on The Comedy Network in Canada.
See also
List of feminist comic books
Portrayal of women in comics
References
External links
Naughty Bits at the Grand Comics Database
1991 comics debuts
2004 comics endings
Comics about women
Fantagraphics titles
Feminist comics
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League Championship Series (esports)
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The League Championship Series (LCS) is the top level of professional League of Legends in the United States and Canada. The esports league is run by Riot Games and has ten franchise teams. Each annual season of competition is divided into two splits, spring and summer, which conclude with a double-elimination tournament between the top eight teams. At the end of the season, the winner, runners-up and third-place team of the summer playoffs qualify for the annual League of Legends World Championship.
With the exception of some touring events, all games of the LCS are played live at Riot Games' studios in Los Angeles, California. In addition to a small studio audience, all games are streamed live in several languages on Twitch and YouTube, with broadcasts regularly attracting over 300,000 viewers. The U.S. government grants athlete visas for foreign LCS competitors. The first LCS player to be awarded a P visa was Danny "Shiphtur" Le.
The LCS has attracted sponsorships from Acer, Coca-Cola, and American Express. "League of Legends Championship Series" is a Delaware limited liability company.
History
Origins and history
Riot Games launched League of Legends in October 2009 and rapidly attracted attention from the competitive gaming community. The first two seasons of competitive play consisted of a series of tournaments mostly organised by third parties, such as Intel Extreme Masters in Europe and Major League Gaming in North America, capped by a world championship tournament hosted by Riot Games.
Riot Games announced the formation of the LCS on August 6, 2012, creating a fully professional league run by the company with a regular schedule and guaranteed salaries for players, featuring eight teams in both North America and Europe. Since the LCS was only launched in the third year of professional play, it was immediately dubbed "Season 3". The top three finishers in both the Riot Games European and North American regional championships held in August 2012 automatically qualified, with the remaining five teams being decided in qualifier tournaments held in January 2013. Each LCS season is divided into two splits for spring and summer; the first games of the first spring split took place on February 7, 2013, in North America and on February 9, 2013, in Europe. As of 2020 Counter Logic Gaming, Team SoloMid, and Team Liquid (originally founded as Team Curse) are the sole remaining teams from the first split of the NA LCS, having never been relegated. However, another mainstay, Cloud9 joined in the following Summer split.
Season 3 of the LCS finished with the summer split playoffs, held on August 23 to 25 in Europe at the Gamescom in 2013, which was held in the Koelnmesse in Cologne, North Rine-Westphalia, Germany, and August 30 to September 1, 2013, at PAX Prime 2013 in Seattle, Washington in North America. In Europe, the Fnatic finished first, Lemondogs second, and Gambit Gaming third. In North America, the top three finishers were Cloud9, Team SoloMid, and Team Vulcun. The top three teams from each continent advanced to the Season 3 World Championships.
Riot Games changed naming conventions in 2014, calling the season the "2014 Season" instead of "Season 4". This year League of Legends Challenger Series was also created as a second tier of competition for promotion and relegation.
At the end of the 2014 season, an expansion tournament was held in both Europe and North America that added two teams in region, giving the LCS a total of 10 teams per region for the start of the 2015 Season. Additionally, Riot introduced the concept of "Championship points", which teams would earn based on performance across both splits and playoffs in order to qualify for the World Championship.
A new sale of sponsorship rule was instated for the 2015 season. As a result, several teams were forced to rebrand and leave their respective parent organizations. Europe's Alliance and North America's Evil Geniuses are both owned by GoodGame Inc. CEO Alex Garfield, and thus their League of Legends teams left and became Elements and Winterfox, respectively. Curse Inc. could no longer sponsor LCS team Team Curse, thus the entire esports organization merged into Team Liquid. Additionally the number of teams was expanded from 8 to 10.
In late 2018, the European League of Legends Championship Series (EU LCS) was renamed to the League of Legends European Championship (LEC) and the North American League of Legends Championship Series (NA LCS) dropped "North American" from its name.
In 2021, the league rebranded into the League Championship Series, featuring a refreshed visual identity. Two new mottos were introduced; Made by many and All for the game.
Franchising
Starting in 2018, the North American LCS became franchised to encourage long-term investments from owners. This allowed the league to implement revenue sharing, leading to a better foundation for both the teams and professional players. Lastly, the professional players were given a larger voice and more protection within the league.
The buy-in price for the league was $10 million for existing League of Legends teams, who had previously participated in the League Championship Series or Challenger Series. New teams would be subject to an additional $3 million (a total $13 million), which was distributed to the teams that were replaced in the league. Interested parties were given applications in June, due on July 28, 2017. Over 100 existing esports organizations, traditional sports teams, venture capitalists and entrepreneurs reportedly applied. Those applications were then narrowed down to a shortlist, nicknamed "phase two", which saw participants travel to Riot Games' Los Angeles office to interview and review their applications. Riot Games and the North American League Championship Series players' association also decided that league would not expand and instead remain at 10 teams.
Buyers for the league were decided in mid-October. Several existing teams from the league — including Cloud9, Counter Logic Gaming, Echo Fox, FlyQuest, Team Liquid and Team SoloMid — were accepted back into the league. Other existing teams, such as Immortals, Phoenix1, Team Dignitas and Team EnvyUs, were declined from entry into the restructured league. The team welcomed four new teams — one endemic esports team and three NBA franchises or affiliates. Longtime esports organization OpTic Gaming was reportedly awarded a spot in the league after receiving investment from Texas Rangers co-owner Neil Leibman. The other three new spots went to Golden State Warriors co-owner Joe Lacob and his son Kirk as the Golden Guardians, the Cleveland Cavaliers and affiliated venture capital firms as 100 Thieves, and the Houston Rockets as Clutch Gaming.
Broadcast team
Media coverage
The LCS primarily reaches its viewers through online streaming using its own channels on Twitch and YouTube. On Twitch alone, viewership numbers regularly exceed 200,000 for regular season play, and the games have drawn over 1.7 million unique visitors. However, Riot Games CEO Brandon Beck stated in 2012 that there were no immediate plans to try to bring the LCS to traditional TV, and news coverage of the regular season is generally limited to dedicated electronic sports news sites, such as CBS Interactive's onGamers.
The scale and popularity of the LCS itself, however, has attracted considerable media attention, particularly around some events that legitimised the LCS as a serious competition.
In December 2016, Riot announced that it had reached a deal with BAMTech (a spin-off of MLB Advanced Media) to serve as the exclusive distributor of LCS broadcasts through 2023. BAMTech would have paid $50 million per-year under the contract, and split advertising revenue with Riot. However, internal complications arose after The Walt Disney Company acquired BAMTech, and the contract never actually took effect. As a substitute, Riot entered into an agreement to non-exclusively carry its broadcasts on ESPN+ instead, in addition to existing outlets such as Twitch.
Format
As of 2021, 10 teams from North America compete in the LCS. The LCS begins with the Lock-in kickoff tournament, consisting of a group stage and an eight-team single elimination bracket. The regular season is divided into a double-round robin spring split and a triple-round robin summer split, for a total of 225 games. Teams are ranked by win percentage, with ties split by tiebreaker games if necessary at the end of the regular season. Beginning in 2021, the spring split playoffs were rebranded as the Mid-Season Showdown, retaining the six-team double elimination format.
The previous playoff format featured the top 6 teams of the regular season playing to determine the final standings. The top 2 teams of the regular season receive a bye into the semi-finals, and the remaining 4 teams play each other in the quarter-finals. Each split's playoffs awarded cash prizes and Championship Points, which are used to determine qualification into the annual League of Legends World Championship. The winner of the summer split and the next team with the highest number of Championship Points automatically qualified. The next four teams, as ranked by Championship Point totals, then went on to play the Regional Qualifier tournament to determine the final qualifying team.
The current playoff format introduced in 2020 is a modified double-elimination tournament, with the top six teams seeded into the winners bracket and two additional teams seeded into the losers bracket. The winners bracket is played as a regular knockout tournament, with defeated teams falling to losers bracket. The top teams from the winners and losers brackets play against each other in grand final. The winner of the summer split, along with the runner-up and third-place team, go on to qualify for the annual League of Legends World Championship.
Teams
Past seasons
Number of top four finishes
<onlyinclude> Denotes a team that has been rebranded or disbanded.
References
Esports competitions in the United States
Privately held companies based in California
Recurring sporting events established in 2013
Sports competitions in Los Angeles
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Decenija
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Decenija (English: A Decade) is the eleventh studio album by Serbian singer Ceca. It was released in 2001.
Track listing
References
2001 albums
Ceca (singer) albums
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The Scotsman Steps
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The Scotsman Steps (also known as Work No. 1059) is a permanent installation by British artist Martin Creed in Edinburgh, Scotland.
History
The Scotsman Steps were built between 1899 and 1902 by architects Dunn & Findlay as part of the construction of the building housing The Scotsman newspaper and, since 2001, The Scotsman Hotel. The steps were built in a French style as a spiral staircase within an enclosed octagonal tower; the tower was decorated with wrought iron grilles and glazed tiles in the interior.
Historically considered a road, the 104 steps form a pedestrian link between the North Bridge and Waverley Station's Market Street entrance. The construction of the Scotsman building at the turn of the 20th century was part of a regeneration of the surrounding North Bridge area; the Scotsman building and Steps formed a turreted 'gateway' between the Edinburgh New Town and Old Town.
The steps were Category A listed in 1974 and form part of the Edinburgh Old Town UNESCO World Heritage Site. Originally built from Carmyllie sandstone, the steps were re-levelled with a screed finish during the 1980s due to wear.
Redesign
By the early 21st century, the steps had fallen into disrepair and for decades had been plagued by vandalism and antisocial behaviour.
As part of a planned renovation, the Fruitmarket Gallery commissioned a new public installation by Turner Prize winning artist Martin Creed to help improve the public perception of the steps. The installation, titled Work No. 1059, formed part of Creed's solo exhibition Down Over Up which was presented at the gallery in Summer 2010. The installation clad each of the 104 steps in a different type of marble, with all major marble quarries of the world represented.
The artwork was funded by a £250,000 grant funded by the City of Edinburgh Council and Edinburgh World Heritage.
Creed's original idea for the work was to create a 'musical staircase', as he ultimately did on a smaller scale in the Down Over Up exhibition. Creed described the final work as a "microcosm of the whole world – stepping on the different marble steps is like walking through the world."
Marble floors have become a recurring motif in Creed's works, including Work No. 1051 (2013, Museo Jumex, Mexico City) and Work No. 1347 (2012, sketch restaurant, London).
Reception and awards
Overall response to the redesign has been positive, with Guardian art critic Jonathan Jones calling it "the best art at [2011's] Edinburgh Art Festival" and "a generous, modest masterpiece of contemporary public art". In Art Monthly, installation artist Vincent Martin wrote: "[a]s monuments to the global reach of empire go it is both appropriate and unobtrusive." Writing for the BBC in 2018, William Cook similarly described the redesigned steps as "magical, but supremely practical."
In 2012, the Steps won the Scottish Design Award in the Regeneration category. Also in 2012, they were nominated for the RIAS Andrew Doolan Best Building in Scotland Award.
References
2011 architecture
2011 in Scotland
Category A listed buildings in Edinburgh
Marble sculptures in the United Kingdom
Public art in Scotland
Streets in Edinburgh
The Scotsman
Works by Martin Creed
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1960 PGA Championship
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The 1960 PGA Championship was the 42nd PGA Championship, played July 21–24 at the South Course of Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio. Jay Hebert won his only major championship, one stroke ahead of runner-up Jim Ferrier, the 1947 Only one player broke par in the final round; Wes Ellis shot 69 (−1) and finished in sixth place. Hebert's younger brother Lionel won the title in 1957, the last PGA Championship contested in match play format.
Third round leader Doug Sanders shot 73 (+3) on Sunday and finished two strokes back in a tie for third. Arnold Palmer, reigning champion of the Masters and U.S. Open, carded a triple-bogey eight on the 16th hole on Saturday, and finished five strokes back.
Palmer was attempting to win a third major in 1960; in addition to his wins at the Masters and U.S. Open, he was runner-up by a stroke at the British Open at St Andrews. At Firestone, Palmer opened with a 67 for the first round but fell off the pace late on Saturday and tied for seventh; he won seven majors but never a PGA Championship. Through 2017, no player has won all three U.S. majors (Masters, U.S. Open, PGA) in the same calendar year.
Two-time champion Ben Hogan played in the PGA Championship for the first time since his match play victory in 1948. A third round left him at and he missed the 54-hole cut by one stroke.
Attendance figures were 14,141 for Sunday's final round, with a four-day total of 53,509.
This was the first of three PGA Championships at the South Course, which later hosted in 1966 and 1975. It is the current venue for the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, which began in 1976 as the World Series of Golf on the PGA Tour. The American Golf Classic was held at Firestone 's south course from 1961 to 1975.
Course layout
South Course
Round summaries
First round
Thursday, July 21, 1960
Source:
Second round
Friday, July 22, 1960
Source:
Third round
Saturday, July 23, 1960
Source:
Final round
Sunday, July 24, 1960
References
External links
PGA Media Guide 2012
GolfCompendium.com – 1960 PGA Championship
PGA.com – 1960 PGA Championship
PGA Championship
Golf in Ohio
Sports competitions in Ohio
Sports in Akron, Ohio
PGA Championship
PGA Championship
PGA Championship
PGA Championship
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BC School Sports
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BC School Sports is the governing body for high school athletics in the province of British Columbia, Canada. It was originally organized in 1965 as the British Columbia Federation of School Athletic Associations (BCFSAA) by a group of interested teachers and administrators. A Constitution was adopted in 1966. Jim Stewart of Coquitlam was the first President. Stewart was elected to the BC School Sports Honour Roll in 1993. Operational support was
received from the provincial government (but Provincial support was withdrawn in 2009). During a special general meeting in October 2009, the membership voted to increase fees up to 75% to offset the cost of the provincial government's elimination of funding.
History
The association opened an office on January 1970, with Executive Secretary Don Steen as the first employee. The name was changed to BC School Sports in 1980-81.
The following individuals have been Presidents of the Association:
1968-70 Jim Stewart (Coquitlam)
1970-71 Ed Carlin (White Rock)
1971-72 Dan Doyle (Coquitlam)
1972-73 Neal Henderson (Victoria)
1973-74 Court Brousson (Victoria)
1974-75 Jack Armour (Vancouver)
1975-76 David Lynn (Williams Lake)
1976-78 Ray Towers (Coquitlam)
1978-79 Bob Stebbings (Delta)
1979-80 Rick Mark (Victoria)
1980-81 Terry Cotton (Ladysmith)
1981-82 Barry Wright (Westbank)
1982-84 Bob Price (Chemainus)
1984-85 Keith Lanphear (Cassiar)
1985-86 Bob Jackson (Richmond)
1986-87 Marty Cross (Prince George)
1987-88 Bob Ferguson (Creston)
1988-90 Collin York (Surrey)
1990-91 Dave Derpak (Nakusp)
1991-92 Ken Bartel (Kelowna)
1992-93 Jill Philipchuk (Vancouver)
1993-95 Dave Bingham (Winfield)
1995-96 Bob Lindsay (Kelowna)
1996-99 Jo Ann Ward (Coquitlam)
1999-03 Jeanine Stannard (Victoria)
2003-05 Brian Lynch (West Vancouver)
2005-06 Philip Cizmic (Timberline Secondary School | Campbell River)
2006-12 Raj Puri (North Surrey Secondary School | Surrey)
2012-16 Deb Whitten (SJ Willis Education Centre | Victoria)
2016- Mike Allina (Vancouver Technical Secondary School | Vancouver)
School
High school sport in Canada
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Harry Vallence
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Henry Francis "Soapy" Vallence (4 June 1905 – 25 July 1991) was a champion Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and the Victorian Football Association (VFA). He played at full forward for the VFL's Carlton Football Club in the 1930s, and in the 1940s for the VFA's Williamstown and Brighton Football Clubs.
Family
The son of Michael Vallence, and Mary Ann Vallence, née Pattinson, Henry Francis Vallence was born in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria on 4 June 1905.
He married Lorna Josephine Bliss (1915-1996) on 17 June 1940.
Football
Carlton (VFL)
Originally from Bacchus Marsh, in 1926 he came to Carlton as a half-forward. He soon moved to full forward where he became known for his safe hands and mighty kick. He kicked 11 goals in a match on four occasions – twice in finals.
Williamstown (VFA)
In 1937 he left Carlton to play with Williamstown Football Club in the Victorian Football Association as captain-coach. His dispute with Carlton arising when he returned from representing Victoria in an interstate match to find himself selected at centre halfback in the seconds grade.
Carlton (VFL)
He was lured back to Carlton for the 1938 season, helping to secure the Blues first premiership in 23 years.
Williamstown (VFA)
Vallence returned again to Williamstown in 1939, this time playing under the Association's throw-pass rules adopted in 1938. In 1939, Vallence kicked 133 goals, and helped Williamstown to a premiership, and kicked another 111 goals in 1940. On 24 May 1941, Vallence achieved two significant milestones: he kicked a career-high twenty goals against Sandringham, and brought up his 1000th career goal across both the League and Association. His career with Williamstown ended after 1941, when the competition went into recess during World War II.
Carlton (VFL)
He was captain-coach of the Carlton Reserves for three seasons (1942-1944).
Brighton (VFA)
Vallence resumed playing after World War II as the captain-coach at Brighton, where he played his last game in 1946 (kicking 11 goals).
Vallence played 204 games and kicked 722 goals for Carlton in his career; the latter was a club record until broken by Stephen Kernahan in 1997. He scored a further 337 goals for Williamstown, 88 for Brighton, and 19 in representative games for Victoria, for a career total of 1166 goals.
Death
He died on 25 July 1991 of Alzheimer's disease in Geelong Hospital.
Recognition
In 1996 Vallence was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame.
Footnotes
References
The Australian Encyclopaedia, v.4, Grollier, 1963, p. 140
Soapy has them roaring again, The Argus, (Tuesday, 16 August 1955), p.18.
External links
Harry Vallence Profile in Blueseum
Harry Vallence, at Boyles Football Photos.
Harry 'Soapy' Vallence, at The VFA Project.
AFL: Hall of Fame
Carlton Football Club players
Carlton Football Club Premiership players
Australian Football Hall of Fame inductees
Williamstown Football Club players
Williamstown Football Club coaches
Brighton Football Club players
Brighton Football Club coaches
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia)
VFL Leading Goalkicker Medal winners
Neurological disease deaths in Victoria (Australia)
Deaths from Alzheimer's disease
People from Bacchus Marsh
1905 births
1991 deaths
One-time VFL/AFL Premiership players
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The Almedalen Week (Almedalsveckan, also known as Politician's Week in Almedalen, Politikerveckan i Almedalen) is an annual event taking place in week 26 in and around Almedalen, a park in the city of Visby on the Swedish island Gotland.
With speeches, seminars and other political activities, it is considered to be the most important forum in Swedish politics. During the week, representatives from the major political parties in Sweden take turns to make speeches in Almedalen.
It has inspired similar events to be held in other countries, like Suomi-Areena in Finland, Arendalsuka in Norway, Arvamusfestival in Estonia and at the island of Bornholm in Denmark.
History
The origin of the Almedalen Week was the speeches made by Olof Palme during several summers in Almedalen. He was in Visby because he and his family used to spend their summers at Fårö. It started with an improvised gathering that Palme, then education minister and candidate for the position of party leader for the Social Democratic party, and another party leader candidate, Krister Wickman had on 25July 1968. Palme made his speech from the back of a flatbed truck at Kruttornet by the Almedalen park. The audience was a couple of hundred people.
Because of the origin of the Almedalen Week, Almedalen is sometimes nicknamed "Palmedalen".
The first official Almedalen Week took place in 1982, when the Social Democrats started to organise economic seminars. As a response, the other political parties started to take a more active part. The first time all of the major party leaders were present was in 1982.
In the middle of the 1980s, the week almost ceased to be. In the summer following the assassination of Olof Palme in 1986, only the Green Party and the Left Party
were present. The rest of the parties expressed that political speeches in Almedalen were too associated with Palme as a person. Ingvar Carlsson, who became prime minister after Palme's death, said that he chose to hold his speeches at other locations in Visby during the following years out of respect for Palme. He only started speaking in Almedalen after having been persuaded to do so by Palme's widow, Lisbet Palme.
21st century
In recent years, the event has grown larger, with hordes of journalists, lobbyists, local and national politicians, employees from local, regional and national organisations and representatives of non-governmental organizations all coming to Visby to meet, discuss politics and socialize. , it is the biggest and most important forum in Sweden for seminars, debates and political speeches on current social issues. In 2014, 3,513 activities were held, 866 journalists were accredited and over 30,000 participants were at the event. One important factor is that all seminars are free of charge. The absolute majority of them are also open to everybody.
The number of activities, participants and journalists covering the week has increased during the years. These are the official numbers:
Organization
Almedalen Week is an annual event taking place in week 27 in and around Almedalen, a park in the city of Visby. It is coordinated by Gotland Municipality and the cost of the different activities is carried by the organization responsible for it. Each day of the week is dedicated to one of the political parties represented in the Riksdag, on a rotating schedule. In 2011, the number of days were extended to eight since there were then eight parties in the Riksdag. A number of other lobbyists, organizations, companies and representatives from municipalities and countries are also present.
Getting noticed
With the increasing numbers of activities it has become more difficult for the individual participants to get noticed by spectators and the media. This has resulted in a number of spectacular actions during the years. In 2010, the spokesperson for the Feminist Initiative, Gudrun Schyman, burned SEK 100,000 during a speech about the inequality in wages for men and women. In 2005, actress Kim Anderzon, artist Ernst Billgren, musician Olle Ljungström, among others, declared that a new party, the Kulturpartiet (the Cultural Party), had been created and that they were candidates for the Riksdag.
It was later declared that the party had been an elaborate hoax created by the Riksteatern to raise awareness for cultural issues.
Criticism
Political scientist Maria Wendt has criticized the Almedalen Week and states that it has clarified how much politics in Sweden have become dependent on media, and now conforms to the terms and tools of the press, TV, radio and websites. Wendt says that whereas earlier media would report what went on in politics, it is presently more common to have debates taking place in the media itself. The language and messages delivered by politicians are conformed to fit in the frames provided by TV and newspapers, making comments short, powerful and lacking in nuances. The Almedalen Week is an event where such shortcomings are becoming more visible, according to Wendt. She suggested that instead of dedicating each day to one of the parties, the days should be used to highlight specific issues.
The event as a liminal phase
During the Almedalen Week journalists, politicians and lobbyists socialize in a way that under normal circumstances would not be considered correct. This has been compared to a liminal phase, a term used in social anthropology for when normal rules cease to apply for a short while, like during carnivals, after which everything returns to normal. What has previously been taboo, is allowed for a short while.
Similar events in other countries
Similar events have been held in Finland, Denmark and Norway. The Finnish event is called SuomiAreena, started in 2006 in the city of Pori. The Danish event was started in 2011, on the Bornholm island. A Norwegian version of the week was held at Eidsvoll. The event was scheduled to take place in Arendal again in 2011, but was postponed because of the 2011 Norway attacks. The event is now back. In 2007, a South Korean delegation came to Visby to study the concept of the Almedalen Week. According to political scientist Yonhyok Choe, the island of Jeju is a likely candidate for the event. In 2013, the Arvamusfestival in Estonia was started.
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Almedalen Week visitor Dennis Kucinich commented on the event:
In 2014, the Almedalen Week was profiled by the US program Democracy Now!.
Speakers at Almedalen Week
These are the main speakers since 1968 in chronological order.
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Olof Palme
Political congresses
Politics of Sweden
Visby
Political and economic think tanks based in Europe
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Fenton Township, Kossuth County, Iowa
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Fenton Township is a township in Kossuth County, Iowa, in the United States.
History
Fenton Township was organized in 1873.
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Townships in Kossuth County, Iowa
Townships in Iowa
1873 establishments in Iowa
Populated places established in 1873
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Colobothea biguttata
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Colobothea biguttata is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Bates in 1865. It is known from Brazil and Ecuador.
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Colobotheini
Beetles described in 1865
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En Thambi
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En Thambi () is a 1968 Indian Tamil-language film, directed by A. C. Tirulokchandar. The film stars Sivaji Ganesan, B. Saroja Devi, K. Balaji and Nagesh. The film had musical score by M. S. Viswanathan. It is a remake of 1966 the Telugu film Aastiparulu. The Hindi dubbing 1972 Bhai Ho To Aisa.https://kalkionline.com/kalkionline_archive/imagegallery/archiveimages/kalki/1968/jun/30-06-1968/p13.jpg The film became a commercial success, running for over 100 days in theatres
The Sivaji Ganesan–B. Sarojadevi same parelal acted Puthiya Paravai (1964) movie, next Veenai S. Balachandar Direction Vaanavil (1964) and K. Somu Direction Sandalyanin Jeeva Boomi (1965) Non Released Movie's 4 Year's oftennun Sivaji Ganesan–Saroja Devi acted from En thambi Movie.
The Kathavarayan (1958) Movie Vidhiya Sadhiya Sivaji Ganesan Whip Beating song. Other Opposition Character Saroja Devi Whip Beating Sivaji Ganesan Saattai Sevagan Thattattum Kai Thazuvattum Songs.
Plot
Sundara Boopathy (Major Sundarrajan) is a rich landlord who is widely respected by everyone in the town. Following the death of his first wife, he remarries Alangaram (Sundari Bai). Kannan (Sivaji Ganesan) is Boopathy's eldest son, born to his first wife. Viswam (Balaji) is Kannan's half-brother. While Kannan is a good and kind hearted person taking care of all the family businesses, Viswam is a spoiled brat who just roams around spending unnecessarily. Viswam also has a hatred towards Kannan. Radha (Saroja Devi) is the cousin of Kannan. Kannan and Radha are in love and the family plans to get them married.
Boopathy keeps worrying about Viswam due to his irresponsible behavior and requests Kannan to shape him into a good human. Boopathy falls ill and is on his death bed. At that time, he calls Kannan and tells him a secret after which Boopathy passes away. Kannan assumes all responsibilities of running the businesses and this angers Viswam. As Kannan does not know swimming, Viswam decides to murder Kannan by pushing him into a river. Viswam takes Kannan with him in a boat and pushes him in the middle of the river and stages a drama that their boat had an accident in which Kannan was dead. The entire family is shocked hearing about the demise of Kannan. Viswam feels happy as he has got a free hand in spending the wealth.
Kannan Home Car Driver Sabapathy (Nagesh) watches a stage play where he witnesses Kannan's lookalike Chinnaiya (Sivaji). Sabapathy is shocked and devises a plan to make him act as Kannan, so that the family members could feel relieved. Sabapathy meets Chinnaiya and requests him to act as Kannan. Although Chinnaiya is not interested, he agrees to be a part of the plan. Sabapathy provides all the necessary info for Chinnaiya about Kannan's family members. Chinnaiya goes to Kannan's house and says that he is not dead. Everyone in the house feels happy except Viswam who feels suspicious about the new Kannan. Viswam tells his family members that the new person should be someone else acting in place of Kannan to steal money. But Chinnaiya clears the doubts by performing certain tasks which Kannan does on a regular basis.
Chinnaiya tries hard to make Viswam a good person, but in vain. Finally, the house members overhear Sabapathy's conversation and find out the plan. Sabapathy accepts the truth. To everyone's surprise, Chinnaiya says that he is none other than the real Kannan. He tells a flashback, where Kannan was rescued by a group of stage actors who were travelling in another boat. Kannan asked his friend to bring Sabapathy for the stage show, so that Sabapathy could see Kannan in the name of Chinnaiya. Kannan preferred to hide his true identity as he does not want Viswam to be framed for murder. Viswam tries hard to make everyone believe that he is not Kannan.
To prove his identity, Kannan discloses about the secret told by his father Boopathy before death. Boopathy told Kannan about the location of jewels that belonged to his mother which was secretly hidden in a place. Kannan says this to everyone and promises that he will bring those jewels back so that he could prove his identity. Viswam follows Kannan and tries to kill him. In the fight, Viswam slips down in a well but is saved by Kannan which transforms Viswam. In the end, Kannan's identity is proved and he is also married to Radha. Viswam is transformed in to a good human and Kannan feels happy that he has fulfilled his promise to his father.
Cast
Sivaji Ganesan as Kannan/Chinnaiya
B. Saroja Devi as Radha
K. Balaji as Viswam
Major Sundarrajan as Sundara Boopathy
P. Kannamba as Kannan Mother (Died Photo's)
Pandari Bai as Meenakshi
M. S. Sundari Bai as Alangaram
Javar Seetharaman as Karunakara Boopathy
V. K. Ramasamy as Burma Singaram
Nagesh as Sabapathy
Madhavi as Ranjitham
Roja Ramani as Uma
Rajasulochana as Dancer
P. D. Sambandam as Guest Role
Deva Manohari as Thangam
Rajeswari as Sumathi
Production
The success of A. C. Tirulokchandar's film Thangai (1967) starring Sivaji Ganesan prompted further combinations in the same genre between the pair, with Iru Malargal (1967) and En Thambi (1968) being released soon after.
Soundtrack
The music was composed by M. S. Viswanathan.
Release The Hindu'' wrote that "Sivaji Ganesan delivers an excellent performance, while Balaji is also impressive".
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1960s Tamil-language films
1968 films
Films directed by A. C. Tirulokchandar
Films scored by M. S. Viswanathan
Indian films
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Manikpur Sarhat
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Manikpur, Officially known as Manikpur Sarhat is a town of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh in Chitrakoot district, it has population around 15,435 as per 2011-2020 census, which makes it a nagar panchayat, and Tahseel in Manikpur. It is located at 25°55′59″N 81°58′59″E25.933°N 81.983°E and surrounded by large Vindh mountain range.
Demographics
As of 2011 India census, Manikpur Sarhat had a population of 15,435. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Manikpur Sarhat has an average literacy rate of 62%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 72%, and female literacy is 50%. In Manikpur Sarhat, 18% of the population is under 6 years of age.
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C. Maxx Stevens
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C. Maxx Stevens (born 1951) is an installation artist from the Seminole/Mvskoke Nation of Oklahoma. She often uses found objects and ephemera in her work which is centered on the concept of memories and stories. Stevens’ work has been described as “gritty and “both haunting and familiar” and prior installations have focused on the contemporary Native American experience such as the harmful effects of diabetes in Native American communities.
Background
She earned an associate degree from Haskell Indian Junior College, a Bachelor of Arts from Wichita State University, and a Master of Fine Arts from Indiana University.
Stevens was the Academic Dean in the Center for Arts and Cultural Studies at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico from 2002 to 2005. She is an Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado where she also serves as Foundation Arts Director for the Art and Art History Department.
Exhibitions
House of Memory. November 10, 2012 – June 16, 2013. George Gustav Heye Center of the National Museum of the American Indian, New York City.
Re-Riding History: From the Southern Plains to the Matanzas Bay. 2015-2018.
References
External links
Oral History Interview with C. Maxx Stevens
American installation artists
1951 births
Wichita State University alumni
Indiana University alumni
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The Fatal Card is a 1915 American drama silent film directed by James Kirkwood, Sr., adapted from the 1884 London play of the same name by Charles Haddon Chambers and B. C. Stephenson. The film stars John Mason, Hazel Dawn, Russell Bassett, Helen Weir, David Powell and William J. Ferguson. The film was released on September 30, 1915, by Paramount Pictures.
Plot
Cast
John B. Mason as George Forrester
Hazel Dawn as Margaret Marrable
Russell Bassett as A.K. Austen
Helen Weir as Cecile
David Powell as Gerald Austen
William J. Ferguson as Jim Dixon
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American films
English-language films
American drama films
1915 drama films
Paramount Pictures films
Films directed by James Kirkwood Sr.
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Bjarne Andersen
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Bjarne Andersen (15 January 1909 – 13 August 1982) was a Norwegian actor, stage producer and theatre director.
Personal life
Andersen was born in Stavanger to Emil Laurentzius Andersen and Ingeborg Bertine Osmondsdatter Udvig. He married librarian Sissel Aanderaa in 1957.
Career
Andersen worked for Det Norske Teatret from 1944 to 1951. He served as theatre director at Rogaland Teater from 1958 to 1960, and at Den Nationale Scene from 1961 to 1963. He was chairman for the Norwegian Actors' Equity Association from 1967 to 1969.
He made his film debut in Tancred Ibsens To mistenkelige personer (1950). Among his film roles was the one as Stråmannen (Straw Man) in Arne Skouens Emergency Landing (1952). He also portrayed Paul Cox's sidekick, taxi driver Richardson, in the popular radio plays series God aften, mitt navn er Cox (Good Evening, My Name is Cox).
Andersen directed Norway's first feature film in color, Smuglere i smoking (1957). He also wrote the screenplays for Roser til Monica (1956, also director) and Heksenetter (1954).
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1909 births
1982 deaths
Norwegian theatre directors
Norwegian theatre managers and producers
Norwegian male stage actors
Norwegian male film actors
Norwegian male radio actors
20th-century Norwegian male actors
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Albert Vërria (Fier, 3 September 1936 – Vlorë, 17 August 2015) was an Albanian actor. He was a Merited Artist of Albania.
He completed his primary and secondary school in his hometown. In 1963 he completed the high school for actor "Alexander Moisiu" in Tirana. He worked as a professional actor at the "Petro Marko Theater" in Vlorë. During this period he played over 90 roles in theatre pieces and over 40 roles in films.
He has been honoured with many awards and medals at national festivals.
Filmography
Trapi i Vjetër - (2005)
Misioni përtej detit - (1988)
Në emër të lirisë - (1987)
Rrethimi i vogël - (1986)
Melodi e pandërprerë - (1985)
Ditë të qytetit tim - (1982) (TV)
Goditja - (1980) (TV)
Përtej mureve të gurta - (1979)
"Koncert në vitin 1936" - (1978)
Nga mesi i errësirës - (1978)
I treti - (1978)
Thirrja - (1976)
Në fillim të verës - (1975)
Shtigje të luftës - (1974)
Shpërthimi - (1974)
Operacioni zjarri - (1973)
Brazdat - (1973)
Kapedani - (1972)
Kur zbardhi një ditë - (1971)
I teti në bronz - (1970)
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20th-century Albanian male actors
Merited Artists of Albania
2015 deaths
People from Fier
Albanian male film actors
1936 births
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Rio do Prado
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Rio do Prado is a municipality in the northeast of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. Its population in 2020 was 5,133 inhabitants in a total area of 479 km².
Rio do Prado belongs to the Almenara statistical microregion. The elevation of the municipal seat is 350 meters. It became a municipality in 1953. This municipality is located in the valley of the Rubim do Sul River, a tributary of the Jequitinhonha River.
Neighboring municipalities are: Palmópolis, Rubim, Bertópolis, and Felisburgo.
The main economic activities are cattle raising, and subsistence farming. The GDP was R$15,723,000 (2005). There were no banking agencies in 2006. There were 113 automobiles in 2007. The main cash crop was coffee. In the health sector there were 04 health clinics. The score on the Municipal Human Development Index was 0.626 (medium). This ranked Rio do Prado 793 out of 853 municipalities in the state, with Poços de Caldas in first place with 0.841 and Setubinha in last place with 0.568. See Frigoletto for the complete list.
In October 2010 Celio Vieira de Oliveira created the first entertainment site in the city of Rio do Prado, MG http://riodoprado.com/ (www.RioDoPrado.com)
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Statistics from IBGE
Citybrazil
Frigoletto
See also
List of municipalities in Minas Gerais
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Somebody Help Me 2 is a 2010 horror film starring Marques Houston and Omarion, and is written and directed by their music producer, Chris Stokes. As the sequel, it follows up the events of Somebody Help Me, which was released in 2007. The film also stars Chris Stokes' daughter Chrissy Stokes.
Plot
Brendan and Darryl have both moved on with their lives and have found new relationships following the events at the cabin in the woods; not unscathed however. Coming up on the anniversary, Brendan is still having nightmares that he feels will come true at any moment. His worst fears come to life when his wife Michelle (Azur-De) and niece Tee Tee (Chrissy Stokes) don't return home from work one night. Jasmine (Darryl's girlfriend) comes to Brendan's house to tell him Darryl is missing too.
Cast
Marques Houston as Brendan Young
Omarion as Darryl Jennings
Malika Haqq as Jasmine
Azur-De as Michelle
Chrissy Stokes as Tee Tee
Sonny King as Corbin
Chris Stokes as OG
Irene Stokes as Nurse
Milo Stokes as John
Heather Raelynn Bryson as Samantha
Sebastian "Sebass" Wolski as Bria
Release
The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray on August 16, 2011.
References
External links
Somebody Help Me 2 at The Internet Movie Database
American horror films
American films
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