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20th Anniversary World Tour Reboot
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20th Anniversary World Tour Reboot is a concert tour by Japanese rock band Luna Sea. The tour is the first set of regular concerts given by the band in ten years since their Final Act concerts in December 2000, following a one night reunion concert in 2007 and a performance at the hide memorial summit in 2008.
The tour kicked off on November 27, 2010 in Bochum, Germany and ended on December 31 in Kobe, Japan. The tour also included a free concert under the band's original name, Lunacy, on Christmas night.
Overview
After their God Bless You ~One Night Dejavu~ concert on December 24, 2007 at the Tokyo Dome and their performance at the hide memorial summit on May 4, 2008, Luna Sea started teasing a possible reunion for 2010. In May 2010 the band's official website was updated, and a series of YouTube videos were being uploaded hinting at the reunion. The last video was uploaded in late July, revealing an important announcement for August 25, when a press conference was announced. On August 31, the band held a press conference in Hong Kong, which was streamed worldwide on Ustream.tv, confirming the reunion and their world tour schedule. It was also stated that new songs might be performed during the tour. Two new songs titled "Days of Repetition" and "Maria" were performed during the December 23 and 24 Tokyo Dome concerts, both recorded later in their next studio album A Will. "Promised Night", now known as "Promise", was performed at the World Memorial Hall on December 30.
On November 30, it was announced that Luna Sea would hold a free concert, titled Lunacy Kurofuku Gentei Gig ~the Holy Night~, at the Tokyo Dome on December 25, under their original name Lunacy. There was a dress code of black clothing, reminiscent of a trend the band started back in their indie days, and all songs performed were pre-1995. The concert was broadcast live in 22 theaters around Japan.
On December 9, a two-day concert at the World Memorial Hall in Kobe for December 30 and 31 was announced, the later being a New Year "countdown" concert.
The entire tour was documented and released on home video, as were the December 24 and 25 concerts at the Tokyo Dome, on March 30, 2011. Their December 4 concert in Los Angeles was filmed in 3D, and was released as a live album and video. Titled Luna Sea 3D in Los Angeles, the album was released on June 1, while the video was premiered on May 29 at Toho Cinemas Roppongi Hills and began showing in theaters nationwide on June 4. The film was later released on DVD, Blu-ray and 3D Blu-ray on February 22, 2012.
Tour dates
Setlists
RuhrCongress/Hollywood Palladium/Asia World Expo/Taiwan World Trade Center
Main set:
"Loveless"
"Dejavu"
"Slave"
"G."
"End of Sorrow"
"True Blue"
"Face to Face"
"Gravity"
"Ra-Se-N"
"Providence"
"Genesis of Mind ~Yume no Kanata e~"
"Drum Solo"
"Bass Solo"
"Fate"
"Storm"
"Desire"
"Time is Dead"
"Rosier"
"Tonight"
Encore:
"I for You"
"Precious..."
"In My Dream (With Shiver)"
"Believe
"Shine"
"Wish"
Tokyo Dome (December 23, 2010)
Main set:
"Loveless"
"Precious..."
"G."
"Slave"
"True Blue"
"Sweetest Coma Again"
"Luv U"
"Gravity"
"Until The Day I Die"
"Virgin Mary"
"Drum Solo"
"Bass Solo"
"Be Awake"
"Breathe"
"Storm"
"Desire"
"Time is Dead"
"Rosier"
"Tonight"
Encore:
"I for You"
"Days of Repetition" (New song)
"Dejavu"
2nd Encore:
"In My Dream (With Shiver)"
"Wish"
3rd Encore:
"Forever & Ever"
Tokyo Dome (December 24, 2010)
Main set:
"Time Has Come"
"Dejavu"
"Jesus"
"End of Sorrow"
"Shine"
"Face to Face"
"Gravity"
"Rain"
"Providence"
"Genesis of Mind ~Yume no Kanata e~"
"Drum Solo"
"Bass Solo"
"In Future"
"I for You"
"Storm"
"Desire"
"Time is Dead"
"Rosier"
"Tonight"
Encore:
"In Silence"
"Maria" (New song)
"Believe"
2nd Encore:
"Love Song"
"Precious..."
"Wish"
Tokyo Dome (December 25, 2010)
Main set:
"Fate"
"Dejavu"
"Mechanical Dance"
"Imitation"
"Image"
"Slave"
"Branch Road"
"Sandy Time"
"Symptom"
"Suspicious"
"Search for Reason"
"Drum Solo"
"Bass Solo"
"Blue Transparency Kagirinaku Tōmei ni Chikai Burū"
"Shade"
"Chess"
"Time is Dead"
"Precious..."
"Nightmare"
Encore:
"Rosier"
2nd Encore:
"Mother"
World Memorial Hall (December 30, 2010)
Main set:
"Time Has Come"
"Dejavu"
"End of Sorrow"
"Shine"
"Face to Face"
"Gravity"
"Rain"
"Providence"
"Genesis of Mind ~Yume no Kanata e~
"Drum Solo"
"Bass Solo"
"Fate"
"Storm"
"Desire"
"Time is Dead"
"Rosier"
"Tonight"
Encore:
"I for You"
"Promised Night" (New Song)
"Precious..."
"Wish"
2nd Encore:
"In My Dream (With Shiver)"
World Memorial Hall (December 31, 2010)
Main set:
"Up to You"
"Dejavu"
"G."
"Slave"
"True Blue"
"Sweetest Coma Again"
"Gravity"
"Until the Day I Die"
"Virgin Mary"
"Drum Solo"
"Bass Solo"
"Fate"
"Desire"
"Time is Dead"
"Rosier"
"Tonight"
New Year's Countdown
"Wish"
"Precious..."
"In My Dream (With Shiver)"
Encore:
"Believe"
"I for You"
"Loveless"
Personnel
Ryuichi – vocals
Sugizo – lead guitar, violin, backing vocals
Inoran – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
J – bass, backing vocals
– drums
References
External links
Official band website
Luna Sea
2010 concert tours
Reunion concert tours
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Halu Kaleh, Mazandaran
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Halu Kaleh (, also Romanized as Halū Kaleh; also known as Bālā Halū Kaleh and Halū Kalleh-ye Bālā) is a village in Do Hezar Rural District, Khorramabad District, Tonekabon County, Mazandaran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 69, in 27 families.
References
Populated places in Tonekabon County
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Mistress Pamela
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Mistress Pamela is a 1973 British sex comedy drama film directed by Jim O'Connolly and starring Ann Michelle, Dudley Foster, Anna Quayle and Anthony Sharp. It was loosely based on the 1740 novel Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson.
Plot
In the eighteenth century, Pamela, a servant girl in the household of Lord Devenish, must fight off the advances of her young master - a gentleman determined to have Pamela as his mistress.
Cast
Ann Michelle as Pamela Andrews
Julian Barnes as Lord Robert Devenish
Dudley Foster as Jonathan
Anna Quayle as Mrs Jelks
Anthony Sharp as Longman
Rosemarie Dunham as Mistress Blimper
Derek Fowlds as Sir Percy
Ken Parry as Parson
Fred Emney as Dr Livesey
Frederic Abbott as John Andrews
Marianne Stone as Katie
Critical reception
Time Out wrote, "Richardson's 18th century classic Pamela clearly dredged up for its bawdy possibilities...About all the film has in common with the original is a notable lack of humour."
References
1973 films
British films
1970s comedy-drama films
1970s historical comedy films
1970s English-language films
Films directed by Jim O'Connolly
Films based on British novels
British sex comedy films
British historical comedy-drama films
Films set in the 18th century
1970s sex comedy films
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Maydown
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Maydown ( meaning "plain of the stronghold") is a small village and townland in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. It is near Derry and Strathfoyle and is within the Derry and Strabane district. In the 2001 Census it had a population of 270 people.
Industry
Maydown is an industrial zone and was the site of the first DuPont production facility in Europe. DuPont first invented Kevlar in 1965 and its Maydown manufacturing facility is one of only three places in the world where Kevlar is produced.
The DuPont site at Maydown is now the lead partner in the University of Ulster's Biodiversity Action on Industrial Site (BAIS) project that aims to enhance biodiversity on land close to industrial activity. DuPont has developed of its Maydown site into wildlife habitats open to the public and a visitor centre used by local schools.
Maydown Precision Engineering was established in 1985.
Places of interest
It was also the site of Royal Air Force Station Maydown, USAAF airfield and later transferred to the Royal Navy as Royal Naval Air Station airfield, RNAS Maydown, during World War II.
Sport
Maydown F.C. is the local football team.
2011 Census
On Census day in 2011:
57.5% were from a Catholic background and 38.9% were from a Protestant background
References
NI Neighbourhood Information System
Maydown wildlife habitats
RAF Maydown
Villages in County Londonderry
Townlands of County Londonderry
Derry and Strabane district
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta%20Highway%20564
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Alberta Highway 564
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Alberta Provincial Highway No. 564 commonly referred to as Highway 564, is a highway in the province of Alberta, Canada. It runs mostly west-east from the east Calgary boundary (formerly at 84 Street NE, Range Road 290), through no town or village, through Wintering Hills, then north to Highway 569 south of the Red Deer River and Drumheller. It is known as Country Hills Boulevard in Calgary.
Major intersections
Starting from the west end of Highway 564:
References
Roads in Calgary
564
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilene%2C%20Indiana
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Ilene, Indiana
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Ilene is an unincorporated community in Washington Township, Greene County, Indiana.
Ilene was the name of the daughter of an area resident.
Geography
Ilene is located at .
References
Unincorporated communities in Greene County, Indiana
Unincorporated communities in Indiana
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estuaire
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Estuaire
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Estuaire may refer to:
Estuaire (Gabon), a province in Gabon
Estuaire (biennale), a contemporary art exhibition in France
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simao%20Costa
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Simao Costa
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Simao Pedro Goncalves de Figueiredo Costa (born 7 September 1975) is a Portuguese retired footballer who played as a midfielder.
Club career
He played mainly for Portugueseh football clubs, as well as for Daejeon Citizen of the South Korean in 2001.
References
External links
Simao Costa Profile
1974 births
Living people
K League 1 players
Daejeon Hana Citizen FC players
Portuguese expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in South Korea
Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in South Korea
Association football midfielders
Portuguese footballers
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Robert William Honner
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Robert William Honner (18 January 1809 – 31 December 1852) was an English actor and theatre manager.
Early and personal life
Honner was the youngest son of John Honner, solicitor, of the firm of Fletcher & Honner, of the parish of St. Anne, Soho, who died in 1817. He was educated at a private school at Pentonville, where Joseph Samuel Grimaldi, the son of the Clown actor Joseph Grimaldi, and Thomas Hamblin were his schoolfellows.
His father gave up his profession to become proprietor of the Heathcock Tavern, Heathcock Court, close to the Sans Pareil Theatre (now the Adelphi) in the Strand. There Honner found opportunities for indulging his taste for theatricals. His father soon died, leaving his mother unprovided for.
His wife was Maria Honner, whom he married 21 May 1836.
He died at Nichols Square, Hackney Road, London, on 31 December 1852. In the registration of his death he is called Robert Walter Honner. He was buried at West Norwood Cemetery.
Career
In 1817 Honner was articled for a period of three years to Charles Leclercq the ballet-master, and shortly after appeared for his master's benefit at the Sans Pareil Theatre in a ballet called The Crown of Roses. In 1820 he went as a dancer with Mr. Kinloch to the Pantheon Theatre, Edinburgh; but the speculation was a failure, and he was left destitute. He visited the southern and western parts of England, then joined the corps de ballet at the Coburg Theatre, London, and in 1824 went to the Surrey Theatre. In 1825 Honner was again at the Coburg, and soon afterwards joined Andrew Ducrow, with whom he remained a long period, although he still went provincial tours, during which he played every character from leading business to harlequin, clown, and pantaloon.
He acted subsequently at Sadler's Wells under Joseph Grimaldi (1827); at the Surrey first with Robert William Elliston, and then with Charles Elliston and D. W. Osbaldiston, and at the Old City Theatre in Milton Street under Benjamin Webster in 1829. At later dates he returned to the Coburg; was one of Davidge's company at Liverpool, was stage-manager for George Almar at Sadler's Wells (1833), and was lessee of Sadler's Wells, as well as acting-manager for Davidge at the Surrey, from 1835 to 1838. He also often appeared at the latter house at short notice for John Reeve, Thomas Potter Cooke, and others who happened to be indisposed.
As lessee of Sadler's Wells from 1838 to 1840 he tried to establish a taste for the legitimate drama. For Mrs. Davidge he managed the Surrey from 1842 to 1846, and after a short lease of the City of London Theatre in Norton Folgate he joined John Douglass as stage-manager of the Standard Theatre, where he remained till his death. He was a good actor, his chief rôles being Richmond, Laertes, Fag in The Jew, Scrooge the Miser in A Christmas Carol, and Jemmy Twitcher in the Golden Farmer.
References
Attribution
Sources
1809 births
1852 deaths
19th-century English male actors
English male stage actors
Male actors from London
Burials at West Norwood Cemetery
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Estonian mythology
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Estonian mythology is a complex of myths belonging to the Estonian folk heritage and literary mythology. Information about the pre-Christian and medieval Estonian mythology is scattered in historical chronicles, travellers' accounts and in ecclesiastical registers. Systematic recordings of Estonian folklore started in the 19th century. Estonian mythology seems to be heavily influenced and borrowed from Vedic religion. Pre-Christian Estonian deities included a hod known as Jumal or Taevataat ("Old man of the sky") in Estonian, corresponding to Jumala in Finnish, and Jumo in Mari. Numerous folktales of the religion are similar to those in Indo Aryan and Buddhist mythologies, which shows a wide influence but not formal conversion to them.
Estonian mythology in old chronicles
According to the Chronicle of Henry of Livonia in 1225 the Estonians disinterred the enemy's dead and burned them. It is thought that cremation was believed to speed up the dead person's journey to the afterlife and by cremation the dead would not become earthbound spirits which were thought to be dangerous to the living.
Henry of Livonia also describes in his chronicle an Estonian legend originating from Virumaa in North Estonia - about a mountain and a forest where a god named Tharapita, worshipped by Oeselians, had been born.
The solstice festival of Midsummer () celebrating the sun through solar symbols of bonfires, the tradition alive until the present day and numerous Estonian nature spirits: the sacred oak and linden have been described by Balthasar Russow in 1578.
Mythical motifs in folklore
Some traces of the oldest authentic myths may have survived in runic songs. There is a song about the birth of the world – a bird lays three eggs and starts to lay out the nestlings – one becomes Sun, one becomes Moon and one becomes the Earth. Other Finnic peoples also have myths according to which the world has emerged from an egg.
The world of the Estonians’ ancestors is believed to have turned around a pillar or a tree, to which the skies were nailed with the North Star. The Milky Way (Linnutee or Birds' Way in Estonian) was a branch of the World tree (Ilmapuu) or the way by which birds moved (and took the souls of the deceased to the other world). These myths were based on animistic beliefs.
Changes occurred in proto-Estonian mythology as a result of the contacts with Baltic and Germanic tribes, as well as the transition from hunting and gathering to farming. Personifications of celestial bodies, sky and weather deities and fertility gods gained importance in the world of the farmers. There may have been a sky and thunder god called Uku or Ukko, also called Vanaisa (Grandfather) or Taevataat (Sky Father). Proto Estonian pre-Christian deities may also have included a sky-god by name Jumal, known also by other Finnic peoples as Jumala in Finnish and Jumo in Mari.
Estonian legends about giants (Kalevipoeg, Suur Tõll, Leiger) may be a reflection of Germanic (especially Scandinavian) influences. Giants themselves in some stories stood as protectors against such Germanic influences, such as invasion. There are numerous legends interpreting various natural objects and features as traces of Kalevipoeg's deeds. The giant has merged with Christian Devil, giving birth to a new character – Vanapagan (a cunning demon living on his farm or manor) and his farm hand Kaval-Ants ("Crafty Hans").
Other mythical motifs from Estonian runic songs:
a mighty oak grows into the sky, is then felled and turned into various mythical objects
Sun, Moon and Star are the suitors of a young maiden, she finally accepts the Star
a crafty blacksmith forges a woman of gold but is not able to give her a soul or a mind
a holy grove starts to wither after having been desecrated by a love-making couple; only sacrificing nine brothers cleanses it
mighty heroes are not able to kill a terrible giant ox, but a little brother is
a woman is forced to kill her daughter who then goes to live in the heaven as the Air Maiden
a girl finds a fish and asks her brother to kill it – there is a woman inside the fish
young girls go out at night and young men from the holy grove (or the land of the dead) seduce them by offering them riches
a lake travels to another place when it has been desecrated by an inconsiderate woman or an incestuous couple
It has been suggested by ethnologist and former president Lennart Meri (among others), that a Kaali meteorite which passed dramatically over populated regions and landed on the island of Saaremaa around 3,000-4,000 years ago was a cataclysmic event that may have influenced the mythology of Estonia and neighboring countries, especially those from whose vantage point a "sun" seemed to set in the east. In the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala, cantos 47, 48 and 49 can be interpreted as descriptions of the impact, the resulting tsunami and devastating forest fires. It has also been suggested that the Virumaa-born Oeselian god Tharapita is a reflection of the meteorite that entered the atmosphere somewhere near the suggested "birthplace" of the god and landed in Oesel.
Literary mythology
Friedrich Robert Faehlmann and Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald compiled the Estonian national epic Kalevipoeg out of numerous prosaic folk legends and runic verse imitations that they themselves had written. Faehlmann also wrote eight fictional myths combining motives of Estonian folklore (from the legends and folk songs), Finnish mythology (from Ganander's "Mythologia Fennica") and classical Greek mythology. Matthias Johann Eisen was another folklorist and writer who studied folk legends and reworked them into literary form. Many of their contemporary scholars accepted this mythopoeia as authentic Estonian mythology.
The Estonian literary mythology describes the following pantheon: The supreme god, the god of all living things, is Taara. He is celebrated in sacred oak forests around Tartu. The god of thunder is Uku. Uku's daughters are Linda and Jutta, the queen of the birds. Uku has two sons: Kõu (Thunder) and Pikker (Lightning). Pikker possesses a powerful musical instrument, which makes demons tremble and flee. He has a naughty daughter, Ilmatütar (Weather Maiden).
During the era of Estonian national awakening the elements in the literary mythology were quickly and readily incorporated into contemporary popular culture through media and school textbooks. It can be difficult to tell how much of Estonian mythology as we know it today was actually constructed in the 19th and early 20th century. Faehlmann even noted in the beginning of his Esthnische Sagen (Estonian Legends) that:"However, since Pietism has started to penetrate deep into the life of the people...[s]inging folk songs and telling legends have become forbidden for the people; moreover, the last survivals of pagan deities are being destroyed and there is no chance for historical research."Some constructed elements are loans from Finnish mythology and may date back to the common Baltic-Finnic heritage.
Estonian mythological and literary mythological beings, deities and legendary heroes
Pikker (Äike) - Thunder
Äiatar – a female demon, Devil's daughter
Alevipoeg - Alev's son, a friend of Kalevipoeg
Ebajalg - demonic whirlwind
Ehaema - Mother Twilight, a nocturnal spirit or elf, encouraging spinning
Eksitaja - an evil spirit who makes people lose their way in a forest or a bog
Haldjas (the ruler) - elf, fairy, protector spirit of some place, person, plant or animal
Hall - personification of malaria
Hämarik - personification of dusk, a beautiful young maiden
Hännamees – a demon who stole and brought food, money and other worldly goods to its maker and owner
Hiid - a giant
Hiiela - another world, land of the dead
Hiieneitsid - maidens from the land of the dead
Hiis - holy grove
Hingeliblikas – a person's spirit in the form of a moth
Hingeloom - a person's spirit in the form of an insect or a small animal
Hoidja - protector, keeper
Härjapõlvlane - goblin
Ilmaneitsi, Ilmatütar - Air Maiden, Sky Maiden
Ilmarine, Ilmasepp - a mythical blacksmith who forged among other things the Sun and the Moon (cf. Ilmarinen)
Ilo - Joy, the hostess of feasts
Järvevana - Old Man from the Lake
Jumal - God
Jutta - queen of the birds, daughter of Taara
Juudaline - demon
Kaevukoll - bogeyman of the well
Kaitsja - protector
Kalevipoeg, Kalevine, Sohni, Soini, Osmi - giant hero, mythical ancient king of Estonia
Kalm - grave; spirit of a dead person; ruler of the land of the dead
Kalmuneiu - Maiden of the Grave; a girl from the land of the dead
Katk - personification of plague
Kaval-Ants (Crafty/Sly Hans) - wicked farm hand who deceives his master Vanapagan - the Devil
Kodukäija - a restless visitant ghost
Koerakoonlane - a demonic warrior with a dog snout
Koit - personification of Dawn, a young man, eternal lover of Hämarik
Koll - bogey
Kolumats – bogeyman
Kratt - a demon who stole and brought food, money and other worldly goods to its maker and owner in the form of a whirlwind or meteor-like tail of fire (also called pisuhänd, tulihänd, hännamees)
Kuu - Moon
Kõu - Thunder; son of Uku, brother of Pikker
Kääbas - grave, death spirit
Külmking - a spirit of an unholy dead, eats children when they bother the forest spirits
Lapi nõid - witch of Lapland
Leiger (player) - a giant living in Hiiumaa island, younger brother of "Suur Tõll"
Lendva - an illness sent by an evil witch
Libahunt, Sutekskäija - werewolf
Liiva-Annus or Surm - Death
Linda - mother of Kalevipoeg
Lummutis - ghost, wraith
Luupainaja - incubus, nightmare
Maa-alune - a creature living under the earth and causing illnesses
Maajumalad - Gods of Earth
Maaemä - Mother Earth
Majauss - domestic grass-snake, protector spirit
Mana - a hypothetical ruler of the dead
Manala - land of the dead
Manalane - inhabitant of the land of the dead
Marras - spirit of death, predictor of death
Mereveised - Sea cows
Metsaema - Mother of Forest
Metsavana - Old Man of the Forest
Metsik - a fertility god
Mumm - bogey, monster, ghost
Murueide Tütred - daughters of Murueit, beautiful maidens
Murueit - a female spirit of forest and earth, connected to the land of the dead
Näkk - a shapeshifting water spirit, that often appears in a human shape, male or female, but sometimes also as an animal
Nõid - witch
Olevipoeg - a friend of Kalevipoeg, city builder, related to St Olaf
Painaja - nightmare, incubus
Pakane - Frost
Pardiajaja - (from German-language Parteigänger) half-demonic warrior
Peko - Seto god of fertility and brewing
Peko - a fertility god
Peninukk - half-demonic warrior
Penn
Peremees - Master
Pikne, Pikker - Thunder, "The Long One"
Piret - wife of Suur Tõll
Pisuhänd - tail of fire, treasure-bringing goblin
Puuk – treasure-bringing goblin
Põrguneitsi - literally: virgin of Hell
Päike - Sun
Rongo
Rõugutaja - a female deity, protector of the rye crops, women in labor and the city of Narva
Rukkihunt
Salme
Sulevipoeg - Sulev's son, friend of Kalevipoeg
Suur Tõll - giant hero living in Saaremaa Island
Taara - the god of nature, sometimes considered supreme god
Tharapita, Taarapita, Tarapita - mythological Osilian God of War
Taevataat (literally Sky Father), Vanaisa ("Grandfather")
Täht - Star
Tallaja - trampler
Tikutaja
Tõll - (see Suur Tõll)
Tõnn - fairy, fertility god
Tont - ghost
Toonela - land of the dead
Tooni - god of death, ruler of the dead
Toor, Tooru - a deity known in western Estonia, related to Scandinavian Thor
Tulbigas
Tulihänd, Pisuhänd - "tail of fire" - flying house elf, helps to gather and protect the wealth
Turis
Tuule-Emä - Mother Wind
Tuuleisa - Father Wind
Tuulispask - whirlwind
Tuuslar - a sorcerer living in Finland
Udres-Kudres - serf, called "Son of the Sun", hero of folksongs
Uku - the supreme god
Vanemuine - the god of songs, art and literature
Vanapagan ("The Old Heathen") Vanatühi, ("The Old Empty one"), Vanakuri ("The Old Evil One"), Vanapoiss ("The Old Boy"), Vanasarvik ("The Old Horned One") in some texts also Vanataat ("The Old Father") - The Devil
Varavedaja - loot carrier
Varjuline - shadowling
Veehaldjas - spirit of the water, the weaver of a spring Ahjualune
Veteema – Mother of Waters
Vetevana - Water Spirit
Vihelik
Vilbus
Virmalised - Polar Lights
Viruskundra
Christian saints interpreted as gods:
Jüri (St George) - god of agriculture
Laurits (St Lawrence) - god of fire
Mart (St Martin) - god of fertility
Olev (St Olaf) - mythical builder of St. Olaf's Church
Tõnn (St Anthony) - fertility god of the crops and pigs
Estonian mythical and magical objects
White Ship (valge laev) - mythical ship that brings freedom or takes people away to a better land. This myth was born around 1860 when a small sect led by Juhan Leinberg (also known as Prophet Maltsvet) gathered near Tallinn to wait for a white ship to take them away.
Hat of fingernails (küüntest kübar) - makes the bearer (usually Vanatühi) invisible.
Mittens (kirikindad) – were believed to have protective or magic powers, especially church mittens and the ones that sailors wore. Mittens were (are) decorated with special geometric patterns and narrow red stripes; they have many whispers and spells in them because the crafter used to sing while making, dyeing and knitting yarn.
Belt (kirivöö) - the belt had the most ancient and magical patterns of all the craft items, red woven belts and laces were a common item to sacrifice (they were tied to the branches of holy trees). A belt was tied around parts of body that were sick and, pulled tightly around the waist, had to protect and give strength to the bearer.
Sacred stones - the last ice age has left a lot of great stones (erratics) in Estonia. Many of them were considered sacred and people came to them to sacrifice silver, blood, red ribbons and coins and ask for welfare and prosperity. Often, the stones have little holes in them, some of them probably used to place the sacrifice in. The meaning and function of the holes is however still disputed; according to paleoastronomer Heino Eelsalu they may have had a calendary function.
Travelling forests - when people are mean, greedy and cruel in some place, the forests will leave this place. The most stories about travelling forests are found in coastal areas of Estonia.
References
Further reading
"The Heavenly Wedding" Estonian Folktales (2005). Päär, P; Türnpu, A; Järv, R; Loigu, L. (ed). Varrak, Tallinn. .
Valk, Ülo (2000). “Ex Ovo Omnia: Where Does the Balto-Finnic Cosmogony Originate? The Etiology of an Etiology”. In: Oral Tradition 15: 145-158.
Viires, A., (1990). “Pseudomythology in Estonian Publicity in the 19th and 20th Century”. In: Ethnologia Europaea 21(1), pp. 135-143. doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/ee.1289
External links
The Hero of Esthonia, collected Estonian tales, edited by W. F. Kirby
Taarapita - the great god of the Oeselians, an article by Urmas Sutrop
Introduction to Baltic Folklore from the University of Toronto
Uralic mythology
Baltic gods
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Aboubacar Sylla (born 23 December 1983 in Conakry) is a Guinean former professional footballer who played as a striker. He played on the professional level in Ligue 2 for FC Gueugnon.
External links
1983 births
Living people
Guinean footballers
Association football forwards
Guinea international footballers
Ligue 2 players
Championnat National 2 players
Championnat National 3 players
FC Gueugnon players
FC Montceau Bourgogne players
AS Cherbourg Football players
Montluçon Football players
FC Aurillac Arpajon Cantal Auvergne players
SA Thiers players
Guinean expatriate footballers
Guinean expatriate sportspeople in France
Expatriate footballers in France
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Mukim Amo is a mukim in Temburong District, Brunei. It has an area of ; the population was 2,144 in 2016.
Name
The mukim is named after Kampong Amo, one of the villages it encompasses.
Geography
The mukim is located in the eastern part of the district, bordering Mukim Batu Apoi to the north-east, Mukim Bokok to the west and Mukim Bangar to north-west, as well as the Malaysian state of Sarawak to the east and south.
Demographics
As of 2016 census, the population was 2,144 with males and females. The mukim had 421 households occupying 377 dwellings. The entire population lived in rural areas.
Villages
As of 2016, the mukim comprised the following census villages:
Facilities
Schools
The government primary schools in the mukim include:
Amo Primary School
Selangan Primary School
Meanwhile, the government schools for the country's Islamic religious primary education include:
Amo Religious School
Selangan Religious School
Mosques
Kampong Selangan Mosque — inaugurated on 14 December 1979; it can accommodate 200 worshippers.
— constructed in 1993 and completed in the following year; it can accommodate 160 worshippers.
Notes
References
External links
Profile of Amo in the Temburong District Office website
Amo
Temburong District
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Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa
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Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa () (24 November 1935 – 11 November 2020) was a Bahraini royal and politician who served as the Prime Minister of Bahrain from 10 January 1970 until his death in 2020. He took office over a year before Bahrain's independence on 15 August 1971. He was the longest-serving Prime Minister in the world. Under the 2002 Constitution he lost some of his powers, with the King now having the authority to appoint and (along with the Bahraini parliament) dismiss ministers.
Prince Khalifa was also the paternal uncle of the reigning King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa and grand-uncle of the Crown Prince Salman, since he was the younger brother of the previous Emir Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa.
Early life and education
Prince Khalifa was born on 24 November 1935, the second son of Salman ibn Hamad Al Khalifa, Hakim of Bahrain, and his wife Mouza bint Hamad Al Khalifa. He was educated at Manama High School and the Rifa’a Palace School in Bahrain.
Career
Prince Khalifa was a member of the education council from 1956 to 1958 and chair between 1958 and 1961. Next he became the director of the finance department (1961–1966), president of the electricity board (1961), chair of the Manama municipal council (1962–1967), head of the Bahrain monetary council (1964), chair of the joint committee for economic and financial studies, committee member for the register of commerce, then chairman of the administrative affairs council (1967–1969), became board member of the Bahrain monetary agency and then chairperson of the State Council (1972–1974), head of the State Council (1972), and head of the supreme defence council (1977).
Prince Khalifa was appointed as prime minister by his brother Emir Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, in 1971. Therefore, he was assigned the control of government and economy, while his brother, the Emir, was involved in diplomatic and ceremonial affairs. Prince Khalifa received a World Peace Culture Award on 6 August 2017.
Prince Khalifa is the founder of the Housing Ministry, and he reformed the Central Bank of Bahrain.
During his premiership he was the head of the Oil and Economic Policy Council.
Views
In 2011, reporter Bill Law stated that Prince Khalifa was a hardliner, whereas Crown Prince Salman, his grandnephew who is also deputy prime minister, was a reformer and the King was somewhere in the middle of the two.
Marriage and children
Prince Khalifa married his cousin Hessa bint Ali Al Khalifa, the fourth daughter of Ali bin Hamad Al Khalifa in Muharraq. They had three sons and one daughter:
Mohammad bin Khalifa Al Khalifa (-1974).
Ali bin Khalifa Al Khalifa – Deputy Prime Minister. He married Zayn bint Khalid Al Khalifa with whom he has three sons and one daughter:
Khalifa bin Ali Al Khalifa
Isa bin Ali Al Khalifa
Minwa bint Ali Al Khalifa
Khalid bin Ali Al Khalifa
Salman bin Khalifa Al Khalifa
Lulwa bint Khalifa Al Khalifa – honorary president of the Al Noor beneficence society. She married Rashid bin Khalifa Al Khalifa (1952-), artist and patron of the arts. They have four sons and three daughters.
Noor bint Rashid Al Khalifa
Khalifa bin Rashid Al Khalifa
Hassa bint Rashid Al Khalifa
Abdulla bin Rashid Al Khalifa
Aysha bint Rashid Al Khalifa
Mohammed bin khlaifa Al Khalifa
Death
Shaikh Khalifa Bin Salman Al Khalifa experienced various health problems. In September 2019, he went to Germany for treatment, and returned to Bahrain in March 2020. He headed the cabinet last time in July 2020 and went to the US for treatment in August 2020.
Shaikh Khalifa Bin Salman Al Khalifa died at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota on 11 November 2020 at the age of 84, 13 days before his 85th birthday. Serving 50 years and 11 months in office, he was the world's longest serving prime minister in history at the time of his death. He was buried at Hunainiyah Cemetery in Riffa on 11 November 2020.
Honours
Foreign honours
: Honorary Grand Commander of the Order of the Defender of the Realm (SMN, 30 January 2001)
: Order of Sikatuna (7 November 2001)
: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic (4 December 1981)
See also
Cabinet of Bahrain
References
External links
Khalifa's biography – official website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Bahrain
Bahrainprimeminister.net – website about Khalifa and his family)
1935 births
2020 deaths
Commanders First Class of the Order of the Dannebrog
Grand Collars of the Order of Lakandula
Grand Officers of the National Order of the Cedar
Grand Officiers of the Légion d'honneur
Khalifa
Knights Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic
People of the Bahraini uprising of 2011
Prime Ministers of Bahrain
People named in the Pandora Papers
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Richard Elrod
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Richard J. Elrod (February 17, 1934 – April 19, 2014) was an American jurist, sheriff, and legislator.
Biography
Born to a Jewish family in Chicago, Illinois, Elrod received his bachelor's and law degrees from Northwestern University.
Elrod's father was Arthur X. Elrod, a Democratic Party operative who would go on to serve as a Cook County Commissioner and Chicago's 25th ward's committeeman.
Elrod was Chicago's Assistant Corporation Counsel from 1958 through 1970, and its Chief City Prosecutor from 1960 through 1970.
Elrod served in the Illinois House of Representatives, in 1969, as a Democrat. While serving in the Illinois General Assembly, Elrod was seriously injured and left paralyzed while helping a Chicago police officer capture a man during the Days of Rage conflict in 1969.
Elrod was elected Sheriff of Cook County, Illinois in 1970, defeating Republican nominee Bernard Carey. He would serve four terms. He was reelected thrice, first in 1974 (defeating Republican Peter Bensinger), then in 1978 (defeating Republican Donald Mulack), then in 1982 (defeating Republican Joseph Kozenczak). In 1986, he lost reelection to Republican James E. O'Grady.
From 1986 until 1988, he worked as the Senior Assistant Attorney General, working under Illinois Attorney General Neil Hartigan.
Elrod was then appointed as a judge on the Circuit Court of Cook County in August 1988, where he continued to serve until his death in 2014. He died of cancer in Chicago, Illinois.
Personal life
In 1955, he married Marilyn Mann; they had two children: Steven Elrod and Audrey Elrod Lakin. After his death, services were held at Temple Am Shalom in Glencoe, Illinois. His sister was Gloria Sheppard Bliss.
In popular culture
Elrod appears as a character in Saul Bellow's 1982 novel The Dean's December, both for the Days of Rage injury he received early in the novel and later in the protagonist Albert Corde's friendship during Elrod's career as Sheriff of Cook County.
Notes
1934 births
2014 deaths
Lawyers from Chicago
Politicians from Chicago
Northwestern University alumni
Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law alumni
Illinois Democrats
Judges of the Circuit Court of Cook County
Sheriffs of Cook County, Illinois
20th-century American Jews
Members of the Illinois House of Representatives
Deaths from cancer in Illinois
20th-century American judges
20th-century American lawyers
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2018 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team
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The 2018 North Carolina A&T Aggies football team represented North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University as member of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) in the 2018 NCAA Division I FCS football season. This season marked the 95th for the program, which was led by first-year head coach Sam Washington. The Aggies finished the season with a record of 9–2 and 6–1 in MEAC play, capturing their tenth conference title. The Aggies also earned an invitation to the Celebration Bowl where they defeated Southwestern Athletic Conference champion Alcorn State, earning their sixth black college football national championship. The Aggies played their home games at the newly renamed BB&T Stadium. They are a member of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC).
Previous season
The Aggies finished the season 12–0, 8–0 in MEAC play, to finish in first place and capturing their ninth MEAC Championship. The Aggies were invited to compete in the 2017 Celebration Bowl, where they defeated Southwestern Athletic Conference champion Grambling State, earning their fifth black college football national championship.
Before the season
At the conclusion of the 2017 football season, the Aggies lost key players such as three-time MEAC Offensive Lineman of the year and two-time All-American Brandon Parker, two-time first-team All-MEAC center Darriel Mack & Khris Gardin, who finished his career second all-time in NCAA history in punt return yards. The Aggies also lost third-team all-MEAC outside linebacker Marcus Albert, Jeremy Taylor & two-time first-team All-MEAC safety/linebacker Jeremy Taylor, who was the team's leading tackler in 2017. In addition to the players, the program lost head coach Rod Broadway, who is the program's all-time leader in winning percentage. Broadway decided to retire in January after weeks of speculation following the team's undefeated season and national championship.
Recruiting
Prior to National Signing Day in February 2018, three players enrolled for the spring semester in order to participate in spring practice.
On National Signing Day, A&T signed 15 additional players out of high school that completed the 2018 recruiting class. Of the class, 9 players were from North Carolina, including three players from Greensboro.
Award watch lists
MEAC preseason poll
In a vote of the MEAC head coaches and sports information directors, the Aggies were unanimously picked as the favorites to win the MEAC championship receiving 19 of 20 first place votes (coaches are not allowed to vote for their own team).
Preseason All-MEAC Teams
The Aggies had nine players selected to the preseason all-MEAC teams. Quarterback Lamar Raynard was selected as the preseason offensive player of the year.
Offense
1st team
Lamar Raynard – QB
Marquell Cartwright – RB
Elijah Bell – WR
Leroy Hill – TE
Marcus Pettiford – OL
Defense
1st team
Darryl Johnson, Jr. – DL
Timadre Abram – DB
Mac McCain – DB
2nd team
Julian McKnight – DL
Schedule
Source: NC A&T Sports Information – 2018 Football Schedule
Despite also being a member of the MEAC, the game vs. Morgan State will be considered a non-conference game and will not effect the MEAC standings.
Roster
Coaching staff
Game summaries
vs. Jacksonville State
at East Carolina
The Aggies upset East Carolina, 28-23, and in the post-game celebration, head coach Sam Washington declared in response to the team being a so-called "buy game" for the Pirates: "Tell them to bring me my money." The statement and ensuing celebration has since become an internet meme.
Gardner–Webb
Morgan State
South Carolina State
at Delaware State
Florida A&M
at Bethune–Cookman
Norfolk State
at Savannah State
at North Carolina Central
Alcorn State - Celebration Bowl
Post season
2019 NFL Draft
The 2019 NFL Draft will be held on April 25–27 in Nashville, Tennessee. The following A&T players were either selected or signed as undrafted free agents following the draft.
2019 CFL Draft
The 2019 CFL Draft took place on May 2, 2019. The following A&T players were either selected or signed as undrafted free agents following the draft.
Ranking movements
References
North Carolina AandT
North Carolina A&T Aggies football seasons
Black college football national champions
Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference football champion seasons
Celebration Bowl champion seasons
North Carolina A&T Aggies football
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Loving You (soundtrack)
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Loving You is the first soundtrack album by American rock and roll singer Elvis Presley. It was released by RCA Victor in mono, LPM 1515, in July 1957 to accompany his first starring film, Loving You (1957). Recording sessions took place on January 15, 16, 17, and 18, 1957, at the Paramount Pictures Scoring Stage, and on January 12, 13, 19, and February 23 and 24, 1957, at Radio Recorders in Hollywood. These are the first sessions where Steve Sholes is officially listed as producer. It spent ten weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart. It was certified Gold on April 9, 1968 by the Recording Industry Association of America.
Content
The soundtrack includes seven songs composed expressly for the movie Loving You from writers contracted to Elvis Presley Music and Gladys Music, the publishing companies owned by Presley and his manager, Colonel Tom Parker. An eighth song intended for but not appearing in the movie, "Don't Leave Me Now", was included on the album, and a new recording appeared on the soundtrack for his next film, Jailhouse Rock.
The previously released material comprises both sides of the single taken from the soundtrack, Presley's number one hit "(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear" backed with the film's title track, "Loving You". Producer Hal B. Wallis liked "Teddy Bear" so much that he insisted it be included in the movie. Songs were added to bring up the running time of the album, including the swing-era favorite "Blueberry Hill", which had been a big hit for Fats Domino in 1956. "Have I Told You Lately That I Love You?" had been done previously by the Sons of the Pioneers, as well as Bing Crosby with The Andrews Sisters. Cole Porter's "True Love", written for the 1956 musical film High Society, also made the album, either to feature a straightforward romantic song, or to give Presley and The Jordanaires an excuse for some close harmony singing. The practice of RCA augmenting soundtrack recordings with extra songs from non-soundtrack studio sessions to bring up the running time of the LP to acceptable lengths would become a commonplace occurrence with Presley soundtracks through the 1960s.
Reissues
RCA reissued the original 12-track album on compact disc in 1988. The album was reissued in an expanded CD edition on April 15, 1997, appending eight tracks to the original album. All tracks derive from the same sessions, with three alternate takes, the remaining track from the Just For You EP, three single sides, including "Tell Me Why", which would wait almost nine years to be released, and a remake of the Sun master "When It Rains, It Really Pours," also released much later on the 1965 LP Elvis for Everyone. On January 11, 2005, Sony BMG reissued the album again, remastered using DSD technology with the six bonus tracks appended in standard fashion. A two-disc set was released on the Follow That Dream collectors label on January 12, 2006, with the bonus tracks and numerous additional takes.
Track listing
Original release
Chart positions for singles taken from the Billboard Pop Singles chart; for albums from the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart; for EPA 4041 from the newly inaugurated 1957 EP chart
"Teddy Bear" and "Loving You" were released as a single and charted at, respectively, number one and number twenty on Billboard's Top 20 charts.
1997 and 2005 reissue bonus tracks
Loving You was issued on CD with the originally album's 12 songs plus the following bonus tracks:
2006 Follow That Dream release
Disc 1
Disc 2
The February 14 Session
1-12. "Loving You"
13-34. "Loving You"
35-50. "Loving You"
Personnel
The Blue Moon Boys
Elvis Presley – vocals, acoustic guitar, percussion on “(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear” (uncertain)
Scotty Moore – electric guitar
Bill Black – double bass
D. J. Fontana – drums
The Jordanaires
Gordon Stoker – piano on "Mean Woman Blues" and "Got a Lot o' Livin' to Do", percussion on "Have I Told You Lately That I Love You?" (uncertain), backing vocals
Hoyt Hawkins – organ on "Blueberry Hill", "Have I Told You Lately That I Love You?" and "Is It So Strange", piano (uncertain), backing vocals
Hugh Jarrett – backing vocals
Neal Matthews – backing vocals
Additional personnel
Dudley Brooks – piano on "Blueberry Hill", "True Love", "Don't Leave Me Now", "Have I Told You Lately That I Love You?" and "Is It So Strange"
George Fields – harmonica on "Party"
Tiny Timbrell – acoustic guitar on "(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear", "Lonesome Cowboy", "Hot Dog" and "Party"
Charts
Certifications
See also
Loving You (1957 film)
References
External links
LPM-1515 Loving You Guide part of The Elvis Presley Record Research Database
Loving You Special Edition FTD CD Information: http://shop.elvis.com.au/prod1295.htm
1957 soundtrack albums
Elvis Presley soundtracks
RCA Victor soundtracks
Musical film soundtracks
Drama film soundtracks
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Goat Cay
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Goat Cay may refer to:
Goat Cay, Berry Islands, the Bahamas
Goat Cay, Exuma, the Bahamas
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Birdrong Sandstone
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The Birdrong Sandstone is an Early Cretaceous (Hauterivian to Barremian) geologic formation of the Barrow Group in Western Australia. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation, although none have yet been referred to a specific genus.
Description
The Birdrong Sandstone has a maximum thickness of . The formation overlies the Kockatea Shale, Forestier Claystone and Zeepaard Formation and is overlain by the Muderong Shale, Windalia Radiolarite and Tamala Limestone. At its type section at Mardathuna Station, northeast of Carnarvon, the Birdrong Sandstone begins with a fluvial phase of deposition, followed by deltaic and shallow marine facies.
Fossil content
The following fossils were reported from the formation:
Dinosaurs
Tetanurae indet.
Theropoda indet.
Sauropterygia
Leptocleidus clemai
Leptocleidus sp.
See also
List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
List of stratigraphic units with indeterminate dinosaur fossils
South Polar region of the Cretaceous
References
Bibliography
Geologic formations of Australia
Cretaceous System of Australia
Early Cretaceous Australia
Barremian Stage
Hauterivian Stage
Sandstone formations
Deltaic deposits
Fluvial deposits
Shallow marine deposits
Paleontology in Australia
Geology of Western Australia
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Alan Kostelecky
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V. Alan Kostelecký is a theoretical physicist who is a distinguished professor of physics at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is noted for his work on Lorentz symmetry breaking in particle physics. He has been described as the world's leading authority on violations of space-time symmetry.
Kostelecký was a student at the International School of Geneva, Switzerland (1965-1973). Subsequently, he began as an undergraduate in biology, switched his degree to chemistry, and eventually switched for the last time to physics and obtained his undergraduate degree in science from Bristol University in 1977, and his Ph.D. in physics from Yale University in 1982. He has been a faculty member at the Indiana University in Bloomington since joining there in 1985.
In 1989, Kostelecký and his colleagues demonstrated the existence of an anisotropy in string theory models, and proposed a new version of the Standard Model of particle physics, called the Standard-Model Extension that catalogs the various ways in which space-time symmetry can be violated. The Standard-Model Extension has various "coefficients", which are parameters that can be adjusted to the requirements of the model. The theory has now become the benchmark for classic tests of relativity theory. Kostelecký's work hypothesizes possible asymmetries in the space-time at length scales of 10−35 m, that is, the Planck length scale. He has enlisted the help of several physicists from diverse areas such as astrophysics and particle physics to experimentally detect the presence of these asymmetries. Kostelecký, along with Stuart Samuel was the first to use the Bumblebee model in gravity as a simple model for investigating the consequences of spontaneous Lorentz violation.
Kostelecký has hosted a series of Meetings on CPT and Lorentz Symmetry at Indiana University.
Kostelecký was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2006, a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2004, and a Fellow of the English Institute of Physics in 2000. He chaired the APS committees for the Heineman Prize and the Pipkin award in 2005. He received the Indiana University award for excellence in teaching in 1988 and 1992, the Frederic Bachman Lieber Teaching Award in 1997, and a Gravity Research Foundation Award twice, in 1993 and 2005.
References
External links
Faculty page
Indiana University page
21st-century American physicists
Particle physicists
Living people
Yale University alumni
Indiana University faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
Theoretical physicists
International School of Geneva alumni
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Crystal Snow Jenne
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Crystal Brilliant Snow Jenne was the first woman to run for the Alaska Territorial House of Representatives in the Alaska Territory.
Biography
Crystal Brilliant Snow Jenne was born in Sonora, California on May 30, 1884.
In 1887, she emigrated to the Alaska Territory with her parents, who worked as a troupe of actors to entertain the miners. As her father joined the Klondike Gold Rush, they moved to Circle City where her father built an opera house. After he found gold, they moved to Seattle, but they lost their money and returned to Alaska.
After graduating from the University of California at Berkeley where she majored in Music, she taught in Paso Robles, California. From 1907 to 1908, she taught in Douglas, Alaska. She spent the next summer singing for miners in Skagway, Haines, Dawson, Fairbanks, Nome, etc. She then attended the Spencerian Commercial School in Cleveland, Ohio to study Business. She then taught in Skagway, Sitka, and the Mendenhall Valley.
She moved back to Juneau in 1914. She was married in 1916 and had three children. Her husband died in 1938. The next year, she published a volume of historical poetry. Meanwhile, she worked in church choirs, taught, and ran a flower shop. In 1934, she ran as a Democrat for the Alaska Territorial House of Representatives. She lost four races, and was elected in 1940, and reelected in 1942.
She was a member of the Alaska Federation of Women's Clubs, the Democratic Women's Club, the Juneau Women's Club, and the National Business and Professional Women's Club.
She died at the Sitka Pioneer Home on June 5, 1968.
Bibliography
The Ghost of Old Juneau (1939)
References
External links
Crystal Jenne at 100 Years of Alaska's Legislature
Crystal Snow and Monte Snow in theatrical costume from Alaska's Digital Archives – photo of Crystal Snow and brother Montgomery Adolph "Monte" Snow (1882–1957) as young children, dressed in theatrical garb and striking poses
1884 births
1968 deaths
20th-century American politicians
20th-century American women politicians
Alaska Democrats
Burials at Evergreen Cemetery (Juneau, Alaska)
Schoolteachers from Alaska
20th-century American women educators
Members of the Alaska Territorial Legislature
Musicians from Alaska
People from Sitka, Alaska
People from Sonora, California
People from the Municipality of Skagway Borough, Alaska
People of the Klondike Gold Rush
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Women territorial legislators in Alaska
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Writers from California
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Carl Forberg
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Carl Forberg (March 4, 1911 – January 17, 2000) an American racecar driver from Omaha, Nebraska.
Indy 500 results
World Championship career summary
The Indianapolis 500 was part of the FIA World Championship from 1950 through 1960. Drivers competing at Indy during those years were credited with World Championship points and participation. Carl Forberg participated in 1 World Championship race, finishing seventh.
1911 births
2000 deaths
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Sportspeople from Omaha, Nebraska
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Nickel Mountain (company)
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Nickel Mountain Groub AB, formerly IGE Resources is a mining company based in Stockholm, Sweden. The company changed its name in early 2014.
The company is developing the production of nickel from the Rönnbäcken nickel sulphide deposit in Sweden.
As IGE Resources the company operated diamond mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo and in South Africa.
The Company was a strategic investment of Waterton Global Value LP before selling its stake to Amarant Mining.
References
External links
Mining companies of Sweden
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The Last In Line is the second studio album by American heavy metal band Dio, released on July 2, 1984. It is the first Dio album to feature former Rough Cutt keyboardist Claude Schnell. It became the band's highest-charting album in both the UK and the U.S., reaching number 4 and number 23, respectively (Sacred Heart would later reach number 4 in the UK as well).
Reissues
The album, along with Holy Diver and Sacred Heart, was released in a new two-CD deluxe edition on March 19, 2012 through Universal for worldwide distribution outside the U.S.
Critical reception
In 2005, The Last In Line was ranked number 372 in Rock Hard magazine's book of The 500 Greatest Rock & Metal Albums of All Time.
Track listing
All lyrics written by Ronnie James Dio, music as stated.
Personnel
Dio
Ronnie James Dio – vocals, keyboards
Vinny Appice – drums
Jimmy Bain – bass
Vivian Campbell – guitar
Claude Schnell – keyboards
Production
Recorded at Caribou Ranch, Colorado
Produced by Ronnie James Dio
Engineered by Angelo Arcuri
Assistant engineering by Rich Markowitz
Mixed on Westlake Audio BBSM6 monitors
Originally mastered by George Marino at Sterling Sound, New York
Remastered by Andy Pearce (2012 Universal Deluxe Edition)
Remastered by Steve Hoffman (2012 Audio Fidelity 24K edition)
Illustration by Barry Jackson
Charts
Album
Singles
Certifications
It was certified gold (500,000 units sold) by the RIAA on September 12, 1984, and was the first Dio album to be certified platinum, achieving the feat on February 3, 1987.
In the UK, it attained Silver certification (60,000 units sold) by the British Phonographic Industry, achieving this in January 1986, at the same time as Holy Diver. To date, these are the only two Dio albums to be so certified.
References
External links
"Mystery" video clip
"The Last in Line" video clip
The Last in Line song lyrics
1984 albums
Dio (band) albums
Vertigo Records albums
Warner Records albums
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Ninaja
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Ninaja (Serbian Cyrillic: Нинаја) is a mountain in southwestern Serbia, between cities of Novi Pazar and Sjenica. Its highest peak Homar has an elevation of 1,462 meters above sea level.
References
Mountains of Serbia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arts%20and%20Science%20College%2C%20Karwar
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Arts and Science College, Karwar
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Government Arts and Science College is a college in Karwar, India. It is a First Grade College, affiliated to Karnatak University Dharwad. It was established in 1961.
History
It was started as Shri Keshav Gajanan Sabnis (K.G.S) Arts and Science College by Academy of General Education (A.G.E) Karwar in June 1961 and taken over by Government of Karnataka in June 1977.
In 1961 when this college was established, it was the second college in the District to cater to the higher learning needs of the poorer and rural people of the area and its take over by the Government of Karnataka in 1977 opened the gates of higher learning for the poorest of the poor, downtrodden and backward classes of the society owing to reservations in admissions and cheaper fee structure. The primary objective of the institution is the intellectual, economic, spiritual, moral, physical, cultural and social enlistment of the local community.
Principals
Shetgeri
D.T.Joshi
Kalgudari
Dr.Kalpana K (present principal)
Notable alumni
Shantaram Siddi, member of the Karnataka Legislative Council
Notable faculty
Akbar Ali
Colleges in Karnataka
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Kellar
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Kellar is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Becky Kellar-Duke (born 1954), Canadian ice hockey player
George C. Kellar (1879–1954), American politician
Harry Kellar (1849–1922), American magician (born "Heinrich Keller")
Mark Kellar (born 1952), American football player
Scott Kellar (born 1963), American football player
See also
McKellar
German-language surnames
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Vasyl Popovych
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Vasyl Popovych (, ; 12 September 1796 – 19 October 1864) was a Ruthenian Greek Catholic hierarch. He was bishop of the Ruthenian Catholic Eparchy of Mukacheve from 1837 to 1864.
Born in Velyki Komyaty, Austrian Empire (present day – Ukraine) in 1796, he was ordained a priest on 10 April 1820. He was confirmed as the Bishop by the Holy See on 2 October 1837. He was consecrated to the Episcopate on 18 March 1838. The principal consecrator was Metropolitan Mykhajlo Levitsky.
He died in Uzhhorod on 19 October 1864.
References
1796 births
1864 deaths
19th-century Eastern Catholic bishops
Ruthenian Catholic bishops
People from Vynohradiv Raion
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Miss America 1984
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Miss America 1984, the 57th Miss America pageant, was held at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey on September 17, 1983 on NBC Network. Debra Maffett (Miss California 1982) crowned her successor, Miss New York 1983, Vanessa Williams at the end of the nationally televised event. In July 1984, Williams was forced to resign over the unauthorized publication of nude photographs and was succeeded by first runner-up, Miss New Jersey Suzette Charles, who served as Miss America until September 1984. Among the contestants who did not place among the ten finalists, Miss New Mexico 1983 Mai Shanley, eventually went on to win the Miss USA 1984 title.
Overview
During the preliminaries for the Miss America 1984 pageant, Vanessa Williams won "Preliminary Swimsuit" and "Preliminary Talent" (with a vocal performance of "Happy Days Are Here Again"). She was also crowned Miss America 1984 on September 17, 1983, (becoming the first African American woman to win the title). Williams later commented that she was one of five minority contestants that year, noting that ballet dancer Deneen Graham "had already had a cross burned on her front yard because she was the first black Miss North Carolina [1983]." She also pointed out that "Suzette Charles was the first runner-up, and she was biracial. But when the press started, when I would go out on the - on the tour and do my appearances, and people would come up and say they never thought they'd see the day that it would happen; when people would want to shake my hand, and you'd see tears in their eyes, and they'd say, I never thought I'd see it in my lifetime - that's when, you know, it was definitely a very special honor." Williams' reign as Miss America was not without its challenges and controversies, however. For the first time in pageant history, a reigning Miss America was the target of death threats and hate mail. In addition, ten months into her reign as Miss America, Williams received an anonymous phone call stating that nude photos of her (taken before her pageant days) would be published in Penthouse. The publication of these photos ultimately led to her resignation as Miss America.
Williams believed the photographs were private and had been destroyed; she claims she never signed a release permitting the photos to be used. The black-and-white photos dated back to 1982 (the year before she won the Miss America Pageant), when she worked as an assistant and makeup artist for Mount Kisco, New York photographer Tom Chiapel. According to Williams, Chiapel said that "he had a concept of having two models pose nude for silhouettes. Basically to make different shapes and forms. The light would be behind the models. I was reluctant, but since he assured me that I would be the only one to see them and I would not be identifiable in the photographs, I agreed. He had also gotten another model to agree to this." Hugh Hefner, the publisher of Playboy, was initially offered the photos, but turned them down, stating: "The single victim in all of this was the young woman herself, whose right to make this decision was taken away from her. If she wanted to make this kind of statement, that would be her business, but the statement wasn't made by her." Penthouse published the photos without her permission in 1984, however, in what the PBS documentary Miss America described as "the most successful issue of Penthouse magazine ever printed, netting publisher Bob Guccione a windfall profit of $14 million."
According to Essence magazine, Williams "was forced to resign from her title as she faced public shaming and bullying from the public at large." Williams herself later described these events as "the betrayal, and the humiliation, that happened to me on a grand scale." She also noted that her parents experienced "an incredible amount of shame and humiliation" and were equally the subject of harassment at the time. After being given 72 hours to make a decision, Williams formally announced her decision to resign in a press conference on July 23, 1984 and the title subsequently went to the first runner-up, Miss New Jersey Suzette Charles (who served out the final seven weeks of Williams' reign). On September 7, 1984, Williams filed a $500 million lawsuit against Chiapel and Guccione. She eventually dropped the suit a year later, explaining that she wanted to put the scandal behind her and move on.
Williams returned to the Miss America stage on September 13, 2015 for the Miss America 2016 pageant, when she served as head judge and performed "Oh How the Years Go By." The pageant began with former Miss America CEO Sam Haskell issuing an apology to Williams, telling her that although "none of us currently in the organization were involved then, on behalf of today's organization, I want to apologize to you and to your mother, Miss Helen Williams. I want to apologize for anything that was said or done that made you feel any less the Miss America you are and the Miss America you always will be." Suzette Charles (Williams' replacement) said in an interview with Inside Edition that she was perplexed over the apology and suggested that it was given for the purpose of ratings. Williams also commented on the events surrounding her return, stating in an interview with Robin Roberts that "there's a lot of people who feel I should return, so the people who harbor the resentment I understand it but realize that all of those people that were part of the old guard are no longer there."
Results
Preliminary awards
Non-finalist awards
Judges
Rod McKuen
Jerry Vale
Marian McKnight
Chris Little
Marguerite Piazza
Tandy Rice
Jeanne Meixell
Lois Ernst
Contestants
See also
Vanessa Williams and Miss America
References
External links
Miss America official website
1984
1984 controversies
1984 beauty pageants
1983 in New Jersey
Vanessa Williams
September 1983 events in the United States
Events in Atlantic City, New Jersey
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Sano Siruwari is a village and market center of Chautara Municipality in Sindhupalchok District in the Bagmati Zone of central Nepal. The formerly Village Development Committee was merged to form the new municipality on 18 May 2014. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3320 and had 577 houses in the village.
References
Populated places in Sindhupalchowk District
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The Vallemaggia District is a district of the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. It has a population of (as of ). The capital of the district is Cevio.
Geography
The Vallemaggia District has an area, , of . Of this area, or 1.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 42.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 1.2% is settled (buildings or roads), or 2.7% is either rivers or lakes and or 42.9% is unproductive land.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 0.4% and transportation infrastructure made up 0.4%. Out of the forested land, 31.4% of the total land area is heavily forested and 4.8% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 1.1% is used for growing crops. Of the water in the district, 0.7% is in lakes and 2.0% is in rivers and streams. Of the unproductive areas, 18.9% is unproductive vegetation and 24.0% is too rocky for vegetation.
Demographics
Of the Swiss national languages (), 477 speak German, 88 people speak French, 4,814 people speak Italian, and 12 people speak Romansh. The remainder (202 people) speak another language.
, the gender distribution of the population was 49.2% male and 50.8% female. The population was made up of 2,532 Swiss men (43.1% of the population), and 356 (6.1%) non-Swiss men. There were 2,731 Swiss women (46.5%), and 252 (4.3%) non-Swiss women.
In there were 38 live births to Swiss citizens and 2 births to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 57 deaths of Swiss citizens and 5 non-Swiss citizen deaths. Ignoring immigration and emigration, the population of Swiss citizens decreased by 19 while the foreign population decreased by 3. There were 3 Swiss men and 20 Swiss women who immigrated back to Switzerland. At the same time, there were 25 non-Swiss men and 10 non-Swiss women who immigrated from another country to Switzerland. The total Swiss population change in 2008 (from all sources) was an increase of 9 and the non-Swiss population change was a decrease of 2 people. This represents a population growth rate of 0.1%.
The age distribution, , in the Vallemaggia District is: 518 children or 8.8% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 667 teenagers or 11.4% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 565 people or 9.6% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 656 people or 11.2% are between 30 and 39, 962 people or 16.4% are between 40 and 49, and 859 people or 14.6% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 729 people or 12.4% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 493 people or 8.4% are between 70 and 79, there are 422 people or 7.2% who are over 80.
there were 7,245 single family homes (or 80.1% of the total) out of a total of 9,049 inhabited buildings. There were 972 two family buildings (10.7%) and 533 multi-family buildings (5.9%). There were also 299 buildings in the district that were multipurpose buildings (used for both housing and commercial or another purpose).
there were 4,844 apartments in the district. The most common apartment size was the 4 room apartment of which there were 1,334. There were 400 single room apartments and 1,203 apartments with five or more rooms. Of these apartments, a total of 2,195 apartments (45.3% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 2,620 apartments (54.1%) were seasonally occupied and 29 apartments (0.6%) were empty.
The historical population is given in the following table:
Politics
In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the FDP which received 29.82% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the CVP (28.74%), the SP (17.31%) and the Ticino League (12.2%). In the federal election, a total of 1,907 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 45.8%.
In the Ticino Gran Consiglio election, there were a total of 4,190 registered voters in the Vallemaggia District, of which 2,778 or 66.3% voted. 28 blank ballots were cast, leaving 2,750 valid ballots in the election. The most popular party was the PPD+GenGiova which received 693 or 25.2% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were; the SSI (with 564 or 20.5%), the PLRT (with 511 or 18.6%) and the PS (with 436 or 15.9%).
In the Ticino Consiglio di Stato election, 22 blank ballots and 9 null ballots were cast, leaving 2,747 valid ballots in the election. The most popular party was the PPD which received 701 or 25.5% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were; the LEGA (with 518 or 18.9%), the PS (with 511 or 18.6%) and the PLRT (with 484 or 17.6%).
Religion
From the , 4,575 or 81.8% were Roman Catholic, while 319 or 5.7% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. There are 441 individuals (or about 7.88% of the population) who belong to another church (not listed on the census), and 258 individuals (or about 4.61% of the population) did not answer the question.
Education
In the Vallemaggia District there was a total of 1,005 students (). The Ticino education system provides up to three years of non-mandatory kindergarten and in the Vallemaggia District there were 135 children in kindergarten. The primary school program lasts for five years and includes both a standard school and a special school. In the district, 302 students attended the standard primary schools and 7 students attended the special school. In the lower secondary school system, students either attend a two-year middle school followed by a two-year pre-apprenticeship or they attend a four-year program to prepare for higher education. There were 267 students in the two-year middle school and 2 in their pre-apprenticeship, while 86 students were in the four-year advanced program.
The upper secondary school includes several options, but at the end of the upper secondary program, a student will be prepared to enter a trade or to continue on to a university or college. In Ticino, vocational students may either attend school while working on their internship or apprenticeship (which takes three or four years) or may attend school followed by an internship or apprenticeship (which takes one year as a full-time student or one and a half to two years as a part-time student). There were 53 vocational students who were attending school full-time and 132 who attend part-time.
The professional program lasts three years and prepares a student for a job in engineering, nursing, computer science, business, tourism and similar fields. There were 21 students in the professional program.
Cities
The District has 8 municipalities, namely Bosco Gurin, Campo, Cerentino, Cevio and Linescio in the Rovana Valley, and Maggia and Avegno Gordevio in the Valle Maggia, as well as Lavizzara in the Valle Lavizzara.
References
External links
Official list of municipalities, circles and districts of Ticino
Districts of Ticino
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Terken Khatun (; 1053 – September–October 1094) was the second/Third wife and chief consort of Malik Shah I, Sultan of the Seljuk Empire from 1072, until his death in 1092. She was born as a Karakhanid princess, the daughter of Tamghach Khan Ibrahim. She was the mother of Mahmud I, the next ruler of the Seljuk Empire, and regent during his minority in 1092–1094.
Early life
Terken Khatun was born in 1053. Her father was Tamghach Khan Ibrahim, the ruler of the Kara-Khanid Khanate. She had a brother, Shams al-Mulk Nasr.
Marriage
Alp Arslan, father of Malik-Shah gave his own daughter Aisha Khatun to Shams al-Mulk Nasr, the son and successor of the Qara Khanid Tamghach Khan Ibrahim, Terkhan Khatun's father. Later in 1065 he married his son to Terken Khatun, who was aged twelve at the time and Malik-Shah was about the same age. The two together had five sons, Dawud, Abu Shuja Ahmad, Sultan Mahmud I, born in 1087–8, Abu'l-Qasim, who died in childhood, another son who died in childhood, and was buried in Ray, and a daughter, Mah-i Mulk Khatun, who married Abbasid Caliph Al-Muqtadi in 1082.
Nizam al-Mulk's position vis-à-vis the sultan was thus to some extant unsatisfactory, and his influence at the subordinate households of the sultan's wives and those of the princes was still weaker. Terken Khatun's household became the focus of opposition, for Taj al-Mulk was also her personal intendant. The vizier doubtless had Terken Khatun in mind when in the Siyasat-Nama he denounced the malevolent influence of women at court, citing their misleading advice to the ruler and their susceptibility to promptings from their attendants and eunuchs. Terken Khatun's son Dawud had been his father's favourite son, but he died in 1082. Six years later Malik-Shah had capital approval when he proclaimed as heir another of his sons, Abu Shuja Ahmad, and gave him a resplendent string of honorifics, but in the following year he too died. After these disappointments it was not surprising that Terken Khatun wanted to promote the succession of her third son Mahmud, despite the fact that he was the youngest of all the possible candidates.
Towards the end of Malik-Shah's reign, Qodun, the shahna of Marv, complained to the Sultan that he had been seized by Nizam al-Mulk's son, Shams al-Din Uthman who was rais of Marv. Malik Shah wrote to Nizam al-Mulk reproaching him with these words, "These your children have each gained the mastery over a large district and govern large province. But this does not satisfy them and they exceed what a politic and desire to do this and that." Nizam al-Mulk defended himself but on this occasion the Sultan's jealousy was not assuaged and he began to plot against the life of the vizier. Terken Khatun added fuel to the fire, accusing Nizam al-Mulk of dividing the kingdom among his children. Her apposition to Nizam al-Mulk was due to his having urged Malik Shah to nominate Barkiyaruq, the thirteen year old son of Zubaida Khatun, heir apparent, whereas she wished her own son Mahmud, an infant, to be so nominated and was supported in this by Taj al-Mulk Abu'l-Ghana'im Marzban ibn Khusrau Firuz, was vizier to Terken Khatun. She joined an intrigue mounted against Nizam al-Mulk by Taj al-Mulk, Majid al-Mulk Baravistani Qummi, the mustaufi, Sadid al-Mulk, the aird.
Regency
In 1092, when Malik Shah I was assassinated shortly after Nizam al-Mulk, Taj al-Mulk nominated Mahmud as Sultan and set out for Isfahan. Mahmud was a child, and his mother Terken Khatun wished to seize power in his name. To accomplish this, she entered in negotiations with her son-in-law, the Abbasid Caliph al-Muqtadi, to secure her rule. The Caliph opposed both a child and a woman as ruler, and could not be persuaded to allow the khutba, the sign of the sovereign, to be proclaimed in the name of a woman.
Eventually, however, the Caliph agreed to let her govern if the khutba was said in the name of her son, and if she did so assisted by a vizier he appointed for her, a condition to which she saw herself forced to accept. She was thus not formally a regent, but she secured the reigns of power de facto with al-Shirazi as vizier and Unar as army commander.
She was openly acknowledged to be the ruler and manager of the institutions and political and military business of the state otherwise the privilege of a male ruler, and the phrase "khatun dispatched the armies to fight" was often named, illustrating her authority to command the military issues of the state.
On arrival in Isfahan, Taj al-Mulk seized and imprisoned Barkiyaruq on Terken Khatun's orders, but the Nizamiyya mamluks, who hated Terken Khatun because of her enmity to their late master, set Barkiyaruq free and took him to Rey, where the rais of the city, Nizam al-Mulk's son-in-law crowned him.
Taj al-Mulk and Terken Khatun set out after Barkiyaruq, but were defeated at Borujerd in 1092–93. Terken Khatun retired with her forces to Isfahan, where she was besieged. Taj al-Mulk who had fled at the battle of Borujerd, meanwhile came to Barkiyaruq and offered him 200,000 dinars to make him vizier.
Death
From Isfahan Terken Khatun tried to make contact with Tulush, but she died suddenly in 1094, to be followed a month later by her son Mahmud.
References
Bibliography
Seljuk dynasty
11th-century women rulers
1094 deaths
11th-century births
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11th-century Turkic women
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Saint-Michael's Church of le May-sur-Èvre is located in les Mauges, area of the West of France, (Maine-et-Loire). Often named "the Giant of the Mauges" (French: "le Géant des Mauges") because of its great size, it is the most remarkable building of the town.
History
The church was built in the 15th century on the location of a previous priory chapel. Its walls, supported by large granite buttresses and its heavy steeple give the church of Saint-Michel a robust aspect, typical of the Ancien Régime time in les Mauges. After the War in the Vendée (1793 to 1796; French: "Guerre de Vendée"), it is one of the only religious building left in the 19th century. Since 1973, it has been inscribed on the list of historical monuments of regional importance, (French: "inscription au titre des monuments historiques" formerly called "Inventaire Supplémentaire des Monuments Historiques").
Saint-Michael killing the dragon
A statue of Saint-Michael killing the dragon can be seen in the church which is the work of the sculptor Pierre Biardeau, (1608-1671). Apart for the wings and the cross, the statue is made in only one piece of baked clay.
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Fintona (disambiguation)
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Fintona is a village located in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.
Fintona may also refer to:
Fintona Girls' School, a school located in Balwyn, Victoria, Australia
Fintona Pearses, a Gaelic Athletic Association club
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Chain story
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Chain story may refer to:
Chain novel
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The F.W. Wheeler House is a historic two-family residence at 31 Intervale Street in Richford, Vermont. Built in 1904 for a photographer, it is an unusual instance in the community of a duplex with Queen Anne styling. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.
Description and history
The F.W. Wheeler House stands on the south side of Intervale Street, a residential side street in the village of Richford. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a symmetrical appearance that is still characterized by details typical of the Queen Anne period, better known for its asymmetrical designs. The main roof ridge runs parallel to the street, with lower gable sections projecting to the front and sides at each end. A porch extends between the front-facing projections, supported by turned posts, and there are similar porches on the sides. The interiors of the two units are organized as mirror images of each other, and retain original woodwork, wrought iron heating grates, and other features.
The house was built in 1904 for F.W. Wheeler, a native of Bristol, Vermont who had established a photography business in the bustling border town. It is unclear if Wheeler had it built as a rental property or if he occupied one of its units. The house is unusual because most of Richford's housing stock of the period was modestly scaled single-family units. The house's design matches in some details a pattern for a single-family residence published by the Radford Architectural Company in 1898.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Franklin County, Vermont
References
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Vermont
National Register of Historic Places in Franklin County, Vermont
Queen Anne architecture in Vermont
Houses completed in 1904
Houses in Franklin County, Vermont
Buildings and structures in Richford, Vermont
1904 establishments in Vermont
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2015 Rugby World Cup knockout stage
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The knockout stage of the 2015 Rugby World Cup began on 17 October with two quarter-finals and concluded on 31 October with the final at Twickenham Stadium in London with all matches played over the course of three consecutive weekends.
Qualified teams
Australia went unbeaten to finish in first place in Pool A, with Wales in second place. In Pool B, South Africa finished top despite losing their opening match against Japan, ahead of Scotland in second place. New Zealand also went unbeaten as winners of Pool C, with Argentina in second. Pool D was topped by Northern Hemisphere teams, with Ireland coming first and France in second.
Bracket
Quarter-finals
South Africa vs Wales
New Zealand vs France
Notes:
This was the largest winning margin in a Rugby World Cup knockout stage match, surpassing the 43-point winning margin New Zealand set against Wales in 1987.
The nine tries scored by New Zealand is the most scored by one team in a Rugby World Cup knockout stage match.
With his hat-trick of tries in this match, Julian Savea equalled Jonah Lomu and Bryan Habana's single-tournament record of eight tries.
Ireland vs Argentina
Notes:
This was Argentina's first victory over Ireland since their 30–15 victory in the 2007 Rugby World Cup.
This was Argentina's largest winning margin over Ireland, surpassing the 16-point margin recorded in June 2007.
Australia vs Scotland
Notes:
Fraser Brown and Tim Swinson were named to start, but after Ross Ford and Jonny Gray's three-match bans were overturned, they were named in the team minutes before kick off.
Matt Giteau and Stephen Moore became the seventh and eighth Australian players to earn 100 test caps.
The 34 points scored by Scotland were the most they had ever scored against Australia.
After the match, World Rugby issued a statement over referee Craig Joubert's controversial decision to award a late penalty to Australia. The report concluded that while Joubert could not have consulted TMO at the time, his decision was in fact wrong, as the replay showed that Australia's Nick Phipps had played the ball before Scotland's Jon Welsh received it. The correct call should have been a scrum awarded to Australia for the original knock-on.
Semi-finals
This was the first Rugby World Cup where no Northern Hemisphere team reached the semi-finals. The semi-final line-up consisted of the four Rugby Championship teams: New Zealand, South Africa, Argentina and Australia. Both matches were played at Twickenham which was also used for the same stage back in the 1999 Rugby World Cup.
South Africa vs New Zealand
Notes:
New Zealand became the first team to reach four Rugby World Cup finals, having previously played in the 1987, 1995, and 2011 finals.
New Zealand's Sonny Bill Williams, Jerome Kaino and Sam Whitelock played in a record 13 consecutive World Cup wins.
Argentina vs Australia
Notes:
Michael Hooper, just 3 years and 140 days since his debut, became the fastest player ever to earn his 50th test cap, surpassing Australia's Al Baxter's record of 4 years and 44 days, and became the youngest Australian to achieve the 50-test landmark.
James Slipper became Australia's most capped prop, surpassing both Ben Alexander's and Benn Robinson's record of 72 caps.
Australia became the second team, after New Zealand, to reach four Rugby World Cup finals, having previously played in the 1991, 1999, and 2003 finals.
Bronze Final: South Africa vs Argentina
Notes:
Pat Lambie earned his 50th test cap for South Africa.
Final: New Zealand vs Australia
Notes:
New Zealand became the first team to retain the Rugby World Cup title, and win a third World Cup title.
This was the first time New Zealand won the World Cup on foreign soil.
The aggregate 51 points scored was the most ever in a Rugby World Cup final.
Ben Smith became the first player to receive a yellow card in a Rugby World Cup final.
New Zealand's Sonny Bill Williams, Jerome Kaino and Sam Whitelock played in a record 14th consecutive World Cup wins.
Fourteen New Zealand players joined five Australians and one South African as winners of multiple Rugby World Cups. McCaw became the first player to captain two World Cup winners.
References
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World Cup
World Cup
World Cup
World Cup
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is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Aya Hirakawa. It was serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday magazine from January 2010 to March 2014, with its chapters collected in nineteen tankōbon volumes. Two drama CDs were bundled with the 7th and 11th volumes of the manga in 2011 and 2012 respectively.
Story
Izumo Kunisaki, a boy often mistaken as a girl, is an onnagata (female role) actor in the Japanese traditional stage play kabuki. The series follows Izumo's school and actor life. Izumo performs some of the most famous roles in kabuki, solving problems and gaining friends along the way.
Characters
Main characters
kabuki actor and first year student of the entertainment division in Shijogawara High School. Born to a kabuki-performing family Kunisaki, he began his acting career in his childhood, but had not performed for eight years due to his parents' separation and his own antipathy for playing female roles. With his feminine looks, he is a natural as a female impersonator, and attracts both male and female characters in and out of the stage. He dislikes cross-dressing, but is often forced to wear female clothing. He works part-time as a maid in a maid cafe. In school he proves to have good sense in sports. He is also an excellent cook.
An onnagata actor in Kunisaki-ya. As a senior apprentice, Kagato teaches Izumo female role performance. He is a talented actor with beautiful features and delicate health. He falls ill before his stage performance, forcing Izumo to fill in and re-start his onnagata career. He often cross-dresses under the pretext of the "study of onnagata", but Izumo suspects he only likes it. He is enthusiastic about teaching Izumo the art of the onnagata, but sometimes his enthusiasm is a little too overwhelming...
Son of a distinguished kabuki family Togashiki-ya, and a actor. Second year student of the entertainment division in Shijogawara High School. He comes to believe Izumo is a girl after performing with him in the play Narukami, as he touches Izumo's breasts and find it soft (actually it was a donut). He has a crush on Izumo ever since. He's very flamboyant and likes to show off that he is handsome. He often tries to protect Izumo but also holds himself back so that Izumo can grow for the sake of Kabuki.
Son of kabuki family Minamoto-ya, and a tachiyaku actor. First year student of the entertainment division in Shijogawara High School. Having childish features, he had played only child roles until the age of 15, as he was afraid the audience will not accept him as an adult. Izumo encourages him to play his first adult role in the play Kamakura Sandai Ki. He's clingy to Izumo. Many scenes show that he has a much darker, imp-like personality underneath his cute exterior.
First son of kabuki family Sugawara-ya, one of the most prominent families in the kabuki world. Tachiyaku actor, and second year student of the entertainment division in Shijogawara High School. As the heir of his family, he was promised good roles but was eventually spoiled by it, having rough manners and not showing up for practice. He actually acted this way because he wanted Matsuki to become the head of house, not himself. He has also taken a liking to Izumo and calls him pipsqueak and tends to fight with Matsuki over Izumo.
Second son of kabuki family Sugawara-ya, tachiyaku actor, and first year student of the normal division in Shijogawara High School. He is also a regular customer of the maid cafe where Izumo works part-time. Matsuki hated his older brother Umeki, for his rough behavior and loss of respect for Kabuki. Dispute between the brothers came to a solution after Izumo served to bridge them in the play Kagotsurube. The first time he met Izumo was when Izumo was working in a maid cafe. He developed some feelings for the 'female' Izumo but immediately squashed them when he realized that Izumo was male. Despite that, he still calls Izumo 'Maid', much to the other's chagrin and fights with Umeki over Izumo.
Kunisaki family
Izumo's father and the present head of Kunisaki-ya. He loves his son, apparently too much, getting sexually aroused by Izumo dressed in female costumes. Because of his obsession with his son, his wife left him and took Izumo with her.
Izumo's apprentice. He declared love to Izumo while dressed in girl's clothing, and demanded to enter Kunisaki-ya as a onnagata to be. A third year junior high school student, he wishes to become a Kabuki actor after being enthralled by Izumo's stage performance during a school trip to the theater.
Kabuki actors
An actor from the Kansai region, who claims himself to be the top young actor of Kansai-style kabuki, or Kamigata-Kabuki. He seems to be arrogant and proud, but is actually very serious about acting and therefore, sensitive. He suffers from a slump due to poor relationship with other actors while practicing for the kabuki play Sonezaki Shinju, but eventually managed to overcome that with the help of Izumo and Umeki.
Leader of a new kabuki troupe . He bears a grudge against traditional kabuki, and goes hard on traditional actors like Izumo. He once belonged to a traditional kabuki family, but was banned from it because his teacher decided his performance did not follow traditions. Recovers relationship with his former teacher through the play Yamatotakeru.
A son of a traditional kabuki family, he was tortured in Kiyora's Zan-kabuki troupe. He is an extremely optimistic person, and does not think he was being ill-treated at all.
Veteran kabuki onnagata actor. A 90-year-old living national treasure with extreme beauty on stage.
Other characters
A childhood friend of Izumo, and daughter of kabuki family Nakamura-ya. She is not a kabuki actress, as kabuki is only performed by men, but knows a lot about kabuki and the Rien. She is a first year student in the entertainment division just like Izumo, and is hinted to be a TV talent of some sort. Calls Izmo "Ikkun". A fan of Kagato.
Student guidance teacher of Shijogawara High School. She strictly keeps an eye on her students, but she does not hide her sexual arousal for Izumo. A kabuki fan in her childhood, she was hurt by the haughty behavior of an actor she liked, causing her to abandon her love for kabuki until she was ordered to check Izumo's performance in the play Sannin Kichiza.
A rich kid suffering from a lack of attention from his father, who is an important patron of Kunisaki-ya. After watching Izumo's kabuki stage performance in Yotsuya Kaidan, the father and son began to take time together.
A Kabuki actor who came back from overseas performance. Izumo challenged Roku because of his bad attitude towards others such as blackmailing and threatening other people.
A movie star with a strong obsession for beauty. He is interested in Izumo's beauty, and plans to make Izumo quit Kabuki in order to keep him by himself.
A male idol belonging to a major idol production. He persists on being a perfect idol, and very sensitive about making a scandal.
A leader of the student council room group, Kikuo returns to school from a year's suspension. He wears chains all around him, and is feared for his violent attitude. He meets Izumo on the way to his first day back in school, and later revealed, a Kabuki actor.
Production
published a prototype one-shot of the series in Weekly Shōnen Sunday in 2009. It was a battle story, in which the hero Izumo transforms into a battle form of Izumo no Okuni, a miko who is believed to have invented the theatrical art form of kabuki. This prototype was republished in Shōnen Sunday Super on January 25, 2011. Kunisaki Izumo no Jijō is labeled as an series in the obi strip and media sources introducing the manga. On the other hand, this series highlights the Japanese traditional performing art kabuki, which is rather rare to be a manga theme. Hirakawa stated that kabuki is a theme she always wanted to write about. She was born and raised in Shimane Prefecture, believed to be the birthplace of Izumo no Okuni. She became interested in kabuki when she participated in a play about Izumo no Okuni when she was in junior high school. The series was put on hiatus in November 2011, due to Hirakawa's health issues, and resumed in February 2012.
Media
Manga
Kunisaki Izumo no Jijō is written and illustrated by Aya Hirakawa. Hirakawa released a prototype one-shot of the series in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday in 2009 (republished in Shōnen Sunday Super on January 25, 2011). The manga was serialized in Weekly Shōnen Sunday from January 13, 2010 to March 26, 2014. Shogakukan collected its chapters in nineteen tankōbon volumes, released from April 16, 2010 to May 16, 2014.
Volume list
Drama CD
A drama CD was released as a bundle for the limited edition of Volume 7 of the manga on October 14, 2011. Another CD was bundled with Volume 11 on October 16, 2012.
See also
Tenshi to Akuto!! — Another manga series by the same author.
References
External links
Kunisaki Izumo no Jijō at Weekly Shōnen Sunday
Comedy anime and manga
Cross-dressing in anime and manga
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Manga series
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Opa Nguette (born 8 July 1994) is a professional footballer who plays for French club Metz and the Senegal national team. He plays as an attacking midfielder and striker. Nguette was a France youth international, having represented his nation at under-18 to under-20 level, before switching allegiance to Senegal.
Club career
Nguette began his football career playing for hometown club Mantes at amateur level in the Championnat de France amateur, the fourth level of French football. In the 2011–12 season, he made his competitive debut on 13 August 2011 playing for Mantes in a league match against Les Herbiers.
A week later, he departed Mantes to sign an aspirant (youth) contract with professional club Valenciennes. He made his professional debut on 11 August 2012 appearing as a substitute in a 1–0 win over Troyes.
International career
A former youth international for France, Nguette made his senior international debut in a friendly 1–1 tie with Senegal against Nigeria on 23 March 2017.
Career statistics
Club
International goals
Scores and results list Senegal's goal tally first.
Notes
References
External links
1994 births
Living people
People from Mantes-la-Jolie
Sportspeople from Yvelines
Senegalese footballers
Senegal international footballers
French footballers
France youth international footballers
French people of Senegalese descent
Association football forwards
FC Mantois 78 players
Valenciennes FC players
FC Metz players
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Written in My Own Heart's Blood is the eighth book in the Outlander series of novels by Diana Gabaldon. Centered on time travelling 20th century doctor Claire Randall and her 18th century Scottish Highlander warrior husband Jamie Fraser, the books contain elements of historical fiction, romance, adventure and fantasy.
Published on June 10, 2014, Written in My Own Heart's Blood continues the love story of Claire and Jamie as well as the story arcs of multiple characters from the previous novel, An Echo in the Bone.
Gabaldon announced the novel's title in September 2011.
Plot summary
The British evacuation of Philadelphia and the ensuing Battle of Monmouth are the major events from the book based on real history.
Claire marries John Grey for protection after Jamie is presumed lost at sea. John and Jamie fight when the details are revealed. John's stepson William is angry at finding out he's Jamie's biological son. Jamie's nephew Ian marries Rachel Hunter, and Rachel's brother Denzell weds John's niece Dorothea in the same ceremony. The Hunters are Quakers; their service with the Continental Army even as noncombatants gets them ostracized by other Quakers.
Claire is wounded at Monmouth, and Jamie resigns from the Continental Army to remain by her side. After spending time in Savannah, they return to Fraser's Ridge, their farm settlement in North Carolina.
The printshop and home of Jamie's adopted son Fergus burns down. Fergus's son Henri-Christian dies trying to escape the flames.
In the 20th century, Jamie and Claire's grandson Jeremiah is kidnapped. Their son-in-law Roger meets Jamie's father and his own when time traveling to search. After the boy is recovered, his family joins the Frasers in the 18th century.
Characters
Claire Elizabeth Beauchamp Randall Fraser - Main character around whom the series revolves. Nurse/Physician. Born in 1918 and married in the 20th century to professor/historian Frank Randall, Claire falls through the standing stones at Craigh na Dun in Scotland at Beltane (1 May) while on a second honeymoon with Frank in 1946, and finds herself in the 18th century Scotland Highlands in 1743. She is forced to marry James Alexander Malcolm MacKenzie Fraser (Jamie), with whom she eventually falls in love. Mother of Faith (stillborn, 18th century) and Brianna, adoptive mother of Fergus, and mother-in-law to Marsali. Returned through the stones to 20th century in 1746 to protect her and Jamie's unborn child (who is then born in Boston in the 20th century). Twenty years later, after Frank Randall has died, Claire discovers (through Roger's research) that Jamie probably didn't die at Culloden, and she returns through the standing stones to 1766 to search for him.
James Alexander Malcolm MacKenzie Fraser - Laird of Lallybroch (Scotland) and Fraser's Ridge, North Carolina. Former inmate of Ardsmuir Prison. Eighteenth century husband of Claire, whom he affectionately calls "Sassenach". Father of Faith (stillborn - mother: Claire), Brianna (mother: Claire), adoptive father to Fergus (with Claire), biological father of William Ransom (mother: Geneva Dunsany), ex-stepfather to Marsali and Joan (mother: ex-wife Laoghaire), .
Lord John William Grey - Retired veteran of the Rising of 1745 and Seven Years' War. The former governor of Ardsmuir Prison. Jamie and Claire's long time friend. Stepfather of William Ransom, brother to Harold Grey, Duke of Pardloe, and uncle to Benjamin, Henry, Adam, and Dorothea Grey.
Lt. Lord William Ransom - The 9th Earl of Ellsmere, stepson of Lord John Grey, and the illegitimate son of James Fraser and Geneva Dunsany. Cousin to the children of Hal Grey, Duke of Pardloe, as well as the children of Jenny and Ian Murray.
Ian Murray ("Young" or equivalent like the Gaelic "Og" used to distinguish from his father of the same name) - Jenny and Ian Murray's son, Jamie and Claire's nephew, and Fergus', Brianna's and William's cousin. Adopted into the Mohawk, but returned to the Ridge with Rollo, his half-wolf dog.
Brianna Ellen MacKenzie - Jamie and Claire's daughter born in 20th century Boston and raised by Claire and Frank Randall. Arrives in the 18th century in 1769. She marries Roger and they have two children: a son, Jeremiah, known as "Jemmy" and a daughter, Amanda Claire Hope MacKenzie (Mandy).
Roger MacKenzie - One-time Oxford professor and historian, folksinger, minister and Gaelic teacher. Twentieth century descendant of Geillis Duncan and Dougal MacKenzie, great-nephew and adopted son of Rev. Reginald Wakefield (Outlander), and Jamie and Claire's son-in-law. Arrives in the 18th century in 1769. Married to Brianna and father of Jemmy and Mandy. The family lives at present-day Lallybroch, the Fraser family home.
Jeremiah Alexander Ian Fraser MacKenzie - Roger and Brianna's son, born in 18th century colonial North Carolina, who like his parents, granny Claire and sister Amanda, can time travel.
Fergus Claudel Fraser - Printer, one-time French pickpocket and spy. Jamie and Claire's adopted son. First appears in Dragonfly in Amber. Married to Marsali and father to Germaine, Joan, Félicite, and Henri-Christian.
Marsali Fraser - Laoghaire's daughter, Jamie's stepdaughter and daughter-in-law, and Claire's daughter-in-law. First appears in Voyager. Married to Fergus and mother to Germaine, Joan, Félicite, and Henri-Christian.
Henri-Christian Fraser - Fergus and Marsali's youngest son, a little person.
Janet "Jenny" Fraser Murray - The one time Lady of Lallybroch, 18th century, married to Ian Murray Sr. Older sister of James Fraser and mother of Jamie, Maggie, Katherine, Michael, Janet, and Ian.
Denys Randall-Isaacs - The son of Alex Randall, putative son of Jonathan "Black Jack" Randall, and ancestor of Frank Randall, Claire Fraser's 20th century husband.
Perseverance "Percy" Wainwright Beauchamp - English spy married into a French noble family. One-time lover (and later, stepbrother) of Lord John Grey.
Dr. Denzell Hunter - Quaker physician serving in the Revolutionary American Army.
Rachel Hunter - Quaker nurse assisting her brother serving in the Revolutionary American Army. Love interest of Young Ian Murray.
Rob Cameron - Colleague of Brianna's at the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board
References
External links
2014 American novels
2014 fantasy novels
Outlander (franchise)
Hispanic and Latino American novels
Novels about time travel
Novels set in Scotland
Novels set in the 1770s
Novels set in the 18th century
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The Mixed 50 metre x 4 freestyle at the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships was held at the Tollcross International Swimming Centre in Glasgow, United Kingdom from 13-17 July.
As with other disability relay events, the freestyle works on a points system whereby the classification numbers of each swimmer are totaled to give a number no higher than 20. This was the first time the World Championships have included a mixed sex event, after its successful introduction in the 2014 IPC European Swimming Championships. The race requires each team to be made up of two male and two female competitors.
Medalists
Legend
WR: World record, CR: Championship record, AF: Africa record, AM: Americas record, AS: Asian record, EU: European record, OS: Oceania record
See also
List of IPC world records in swimming
References
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Pramada (negligence, carelessness) is the root cause of all pains and problems afflicting all human-beings. Adhyatma Upanishad. 14,
terms Pramada as death itself.
Meaning
Pramada in Sanskrit variously means - negligence, inertia, inadvertence, indolence, idleness, sluggishness, inattentiveness. Pramada produces forgetfulness. It is the root cause of all pains and problems afflicting human-beings.
Implication
The Bhagavad Gita XIV 13,17, lists Pramada (negligence) with Apravrtti (inactivity), Aprakasha (non-illumination) and Moha (delusion) as the products of Tamasi vivrddhe (preponderant state of dullness), which is opposite to knowledge produced by Sattva. The yogasutra ( chapter 1 verse 30 ) includes it in a list of nine causes of mental disturbances.
In Buddhism, Aceshta (sloth), Apravrtti (inactivity) and Pramada (negligence) are collectively known as Thinamiddha.
In Jainism, the expression, Yoga, means activity of the mind, speech and body and Pramada-yoga means careless activity of mind, speech and body, and without caution; it is included in Himsa (injury to the vitalities of the mind, speech and body). Asatya (falsehood) and Chaurya (theft) i.e. statement uttered and things taken influenced by Pramada, are also Himsa. There are fifteen kinds of indolence or Pramada which can over-power the human-mind. In the list of five causes of bondage given at Umasvati’s Tattvartha Sutra 8:1, Kasaya (passion) and Pramada (negligence) are listed as independent causes of Bandhahetavah (bondage). In Jainism,s Sarvarthasiddhi – Pramada connotes passion.
Adhyatma Upanishad 14 terms Pramada as death itself, therefore, forgetfulness is death. Pramada is certainly the root cause of downfall, decay and death. Asuras were defeated by Pramada only. as per the concept of Sanatkumara described in Sanatsujiyatam it is declared that Pramada understood as wrong perception of the nature of the world amounts to death (Mahabharata 5.42-45).
Advaita view, in the light of Vivekachudamani
Slokas 322 to 329 of Vivekachudamani of Sankaracharya, explain the Advaita Vedanta,s concept of the Sanskrit expression, Pramada.
Sankara begins with the instruction that those who are firmly established in Brahman should not be guilty of Pramada i.e. negligence or carelessness about which state Sanatkumara had told Dhritarashtra, was death – pramadam vai mrtyumaham bravimi (I call negligence itself death.) Because fall by negligence is fall from one’s real nature, then forgetfulness arises, the ensues the sense of the “I” in the Anatman the cause of all miseries. Sankara adds that forgetfulness confounds even a learned man through defects of intellect for Maya covers a man who is out-ward-bent even if he has annulled the Panchakoshas. Furthermore, if the mind, outward bent, strays away even in the least from its ideal, it will fall continuously; the one who has fallen comes to ruin then there is no going up. For a man of discrimination and in deep concentration on Brahman, there is no other death than Pramada or inadvertence.
References
Vedanta
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Royal Association Sportive Maccabi Brussels (), founded in 1953, is a multi-sports club based in Brussels, Belgium with basketball, football, table tennis, volleyball teams.
Basketball
The basketball department of the club has won two Belgian cups in 1983–84 and 1987–88.
Notable players
Jim Stack
Terence Stansbury
Slobodan Gordić
See also
Belgian football
List of football clubs in Belgium
External links
Official Website
Maccabi Brussels
Maccabi Brussels
Maccabi Brussels
Maccabi Brussels
Maccabi
Brussels
1953 establishments in Belgium
Jews and Judaism in Brussels
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Ryan Shane Sieg (born June 20, 1987) is an American professional stock car racing driver and team owner. He competes full-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the No. 39 Ford Mustang for RSS Racing. He is the younger brother of late former driver Shane Sieg and older brother of current ARCA driver Kyle Sieg.
Racing career
Gander Outdoors Truck Series
Sieg made his NASCAR debut in 2009, competing in the Camping World Truck Series Kroger 250 at Martinsville Speedway. Driving the No. 21 Dodge for GunBroker Racing, Sieg started 16th but finished 34th due to an ignition problem. At The Milwaukee Mile, he would start a partial schedule for his family-owned race team. In nine races, Ryan recorded six top-20 finishes including a finish of 9th at Gateway International Raceway.
For 2010, Sieg and his brother Shane both planned to run the full Truck Series schedule in the No. 39 and No. 93 trucks, respectively. Despite having no major sponsorship, Sieg was able to run the entire season, finishing 21 of the 25 races and earning two top-10 finishes, including an 8th at Kentucky Speedway and a 9th at Dover International Speedway.
On June 10, 2011, Sieg finished 7th in the WinStar World Casino 400K at Texas Motor Speedway, marking his best career finish in his 44th start in the Camping World Truck Series. He also led ten laps earlier after staying out on a pit stop. At the September 2 Truck Series race at Atlanta Motor Speedway, he piloted his No. 39 RSS Racing Chevy to a 15th-place finish.
For 2012, Sieg led six laps at the Charlotte Motor Speedway race after staying out on a pit stop during a caution. He ran the final three laps in 3rd position before finishing in 15th after running out of fuel on the last lap at Michigan International Speedway on August 18, marking his best final-laps position in the Camping World Truck Series. He would later score a 6th-place finish at Phoenix.
In 2013, in addition to running the full Camping World Truck Series season, Sieg substituted for Jeremy Clements in the NASCAR Nationwide Series during the latter's suspension. Later in the year he ran at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in the Indiana 250 for his own team.
In 2019, Sieg returned to the Truck Series for the JEGS 200 at Dover, driving the No. 33 Chevrolet for Reaume Brothers Racing. After starting last in 32nd, he finished 16th.
Xfinity Series
In February 2014, RSS Racing announced that Sieg would run the full Truck Series season and at least the first five Nationwide Series races in 2014. He finished in the 9th spot in the season-opening DRIVE4COPD 300 at Daytona International Speedway, his first top 10 in the Nationwide Series. After Fontana, it was announced that Sieg would focus his efforts on the Nationwide Series for the remainder of the season, running for Rookie of the Year. Sieg then earned fame himself at the July race at Daytona when he drafted Kasey Kahne past teammate Regan Smith to his first Nationwide victory since 2007. In doing so, he also scored his first career top 5 finish with a 3rd-place finish, enough to put him in the first of four races in the 2014 Nationwide Dash 4 Cash event the next week at New Hampshire. Sieg was rather impressive in 2014, having some other solid runs to go along with the two top 10s to finish the season 16th in points.
In 2015, Sieg returned to the Xfinity Series with a new sponsor Uncle Bob's Self Storage at the season opener at Daytona. He finished 38th after being involved in the first big one. Sieg had a consistent season with finishing many races under 20th, including an 8th-place finish at Kansas, finishing 11th in points. Sieg lost the sponsorship from Uncle Bob's for 2016 but a number of sponsors filled the void. Some highlights of the season included almost qualifying for the Dash 4 Cash at Dover International Speedway, running in the top five at Daytona International Speedway, and qualifying for the inaugural Xfinity Series Chase before being knocked out after the first round.
In June 2017, Sieg recorded his best career Xfinity finish of second at Iowa Speedway. Later in the season, Sieg's Xfinity throwback car for Darlington Raceway honored Ryan's brother Shane Sieg, who had died two weekends prior.
On January 24, 2018, Sieg announced another full season with RSS Racing. After a sixth-place run at Talladega Superspeedway in the spring, Sieg qualified for the Xfinity Series Dash 4 Cash at Dover International Speedway after Spencer Gallagher's eligibility was stripped. A pit road penalty during the race prevented Sieg from making it any farther in the D4C. Sieg's efforts received a boost in 2018 with the addition of two start and park cars that RSS Racing also fielded to help fund Sieg's efforts in the No. 39.
On December 27, 2018, Sieg announced another full Xfinity season with RSS Racing, intending to make the playoffs for the first time since 2016. After scoring his second top-five of the year at the spring Richmond Raceway event, Sieg sat ninth in the point standings. He credited new crew chief Shane Wilson and new cars from Richard Childress Racing as catalysts for the uptick in performance.
In September 2019, Sieg finished 14th in the Rhino Pro Truck Outfitters 300 at Las Vegas but was disqualified after his car failed post-race inspection for not meeting the minimum ride height. Nevertheless, he qualified for the Xfinity playoffs and the disqualification did not affect his points standing.
After a 2020 season that saw Sieg record a career-best seven top-five finishes and reach the playoffs' Round of 8 before finishing tenth in points, RSS Racing switched to Ford for 2021.
Cup Series
In May 2017, Sieg was signed by BK Racing to drive their No. 83 Toyota Camry in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series at Dover International Speedway for the AAA 400 Drive for Autism, his MENCS debut. A month later, he replaced Gray Gaulding in BK's No. 23 Camry for the FireKeepers Casino 400 at Michigan.
Two years later, he returned to the Cup Series at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, driving the No. 27 for Premium Motorsports.
Motorsports career results
NASCAR
(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)
Monster Energy Cup Series
Xfinity Series
Gander Outdoors Truck Series
Season still in progress
Ineligible for series points
Sieg started the 2014 season running for Truck Series points but switched to Nationwide before Fontana.
References
External links
Living people
1987 births
Racing drivers from Georgia (U.S. state)
NASCAR drivers
CARS Tour drivers
People from Tucker, Georgia
American Speed Association drivers
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Margery Byset (Bisset, Bissett; also Marjery, Margaret, Marie) was an Irish noblewoman belonging to the Bissett family whose marriage to John Mór Tanister MacDonnell in 1399 laid the basis for the Clan Donald claim to the Glens of Antrim, the lordship of which her family had established in the 13th century. She is the ancestress of the Clan MacDonald of Dunnyveg.
Parentage
Margery appears to have been the daughter of the Mac Eoin Bissett, Lord of the Glens, and Sabia O'Neill (died 1387), a princess of the O'Neill dynasty. This is all that is relatively certain, however, because no medieval Bissett pedigree has survived, the family falling from power in the Glens of Antrim in or not long after 1522, following the Battle of Knockavoe, and not being recorded by Duald Mac Firbis in the mid-17th century except in reference to their maternal kin the MacDonnells, who replaced them. Mac Firbis uniquely describes the Bissetts as being of Greek origin, first arriving in England with William the Conqueror. As far as Margery's likely mother Sabia it is possible she was one of the four daughters of Aodh Reamhar Ó Néill, King of Ulster, whose names were unknown to the 19th century genealogist John O'Hart, the O'Neill pedigrees themselves being imperfectly preserved.
Life
Possibly some time before, or around the time of her marriage to John Mór Tanister, Margery met Richard II of England when he was in Ireland, either during his 1394–1395 campaign to receive the submission of a number of the Irish princes, or later in 1399, the year in which he was deposed. She was "no doubt presented to him, as the daughter of a great northern lord", and retained a memory of his face. After she had come to reside with John in the Isles, the contemporary Scottish poet Andrew of Wyntoun tells of her recognition of a man whom she believed to be the deposed king travelling [dressed] as a poor man. Although Richard is widely believed to have starved to death in captivity in Pontefract Castle in early 1400, Margery vouched for the man, whomever he may have been, and the Scots believed her. He was naturally dismissed as an impostor by Henry IV, but had a kind of career as an anti-Lancastrian figurehead anyway and died in 1419.
Issue
Donald Balloch MacDonald
possibly Ranald Bane MacDonald
Notes
References
Curley, Walter J.P., Vanishing Kingdoms: The Irish Chiefs and their Families. Dublin: Lilliput Press. 2004.
Ellis, Peter Berresford, Erin's Blood Royal: The Gaelic Noble Dynasties of Ireland. Palgrave. Revised edition, 2002.
Hill, George, An Historical Account of the MacDonnells of Antrim: Including Notices of some other Septs, Irish and Scottish. Belfast: Archer & Sons. 1873. alt
Mac Firbis, Duald, Leabhar na nGenealach. Ireland. 1650.
Nicholls, K. W., "Anglo-French Ireland and after", in Peritia 1 (1982): 370–403. BREPOLS
O'Donovan, John (ed. & tr.), Annála Rioghachta Eireann. Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland by the Four Masters... with a Translation and Copious Notes. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. 2nd ed., 1856. Vol. VI
O'Hart, John (ed. & tr.), Irish Pedigrees. Dublin: James Duffy and Co. 5th edition, 1892.
Medieval Irish nobility
Margery
Clan Donald
Clan MacDonald of Dunnyveg
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15th-century deaths
14th-century Irish people
15th-century Irish people
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Jonathan Brown (1893 – 6 November 1918) was an English professional football left half who made one appearance in the Football League for Burnley in 1914.
Military service
Brown served as a private in the East Lancashire Regiment during the First World War and was killed in France on 6 November 1918, just five days before the Armistice. He was buried in Maubeuge-Centre Cemetery.
Honours
Burnley
East Lancashire Charity Cup: 1914–15
Career statistics
References
1893 births
1918 deaths
English footballers
English Football League players
Association football wing halves
Association football defenders
Great Harwood F.C. players
Burnley F.C. players
People from Clayton-le-Moors
British Army personnel of World War I
British military personnel killed in World War I
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Yin Jiaxu (; born April 1956) is a retired Chinese business executive who served as chairman of Norincon Group between 2013 and 2018. He has retired for more than two years. He was investigated by China's top anti-graft agency in April 2021. He is the first senior official in state-owned enterprise and the sixth senior official in China to be targeted by China's top anticorruption watchdog in 2021.
He entered the workforce in December 1976, and joined the Chinese Communist Party in June 1984.
He was a delegate to the 16th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. He was a deputy to the 10th and 11th National People's Congress.
Biography
Yin was born in Chongqing, in April 1956. Beginning in December 1976, he served in several posts in Yuzhou Gear Factory, including worker, deputy factory manager, and factory manager.
In February 1996, he was dispatched to the Southwest Ordnance Industry Bureau, where he was appointed vice president in July of that same year. He also served as general manager of China Changan Automobile Group since July 1998.After the institutional reform as China South Industries Group, he served as deputy general manager in January 2002 and chairman of China Changan Automobile Group. He rose to become chairman of Norincon Group in 2013, serving in the post until his retirement in 2018.
Downfall
On April 4, 2021, he was put under investigation for alleged "serious violations of discipline and laws" by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), the party's internal disciplinary body, and the National Supervisory Commission, the highest anti-corruption agency of China. On September 30, he was expelled from the Chinese Communist Party. On October 25, he was arrested by the Supreme People's Procuratorate.
References
1956 births
Living people
Businesspeople from Chongqing
Chongqing Normal University alumni
Chongqing University alumni
Delegates to the 10th National People's Congress
Delegates to the 11th National People's Congress
People's Republic of China politicians from Chongqing
Chinese Communist Party politicians from Chongqing
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Converge
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Converge
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Converge may refer to:
Converge (band), American hardcore punk band
Converge (Baptist denomination), American national evangelical Baptist body
Limit (mathematics)
Converge ICT, internet service provider in the Philippines
CONVERGE CFD software, created by Convergent Science
See also
Comverge, a company that provides software, hardware, and services to electric utilities
Convergence (disambiguation)
Convergent (disambiguation)
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Constantine Helladikos
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Constantine Helladikos or Eladikos () was a Byzantine aristocrat who joined the general Constantine Doukas in the latter's failed usurpation attempt in June 913. After the death of Doukas, Helladikos was whipped and paraded through the streets of Constantinople on a donkey, before being confined to the Dalmatos monastery. Nothing further is known of him. The sources refer to him as "patrikios and monk", but it is unclear whether he was already a monk before Doukas' coup attempt or whether this refers to his subsequent confinement.
References
Sources
10th-century Byzantine monks
Byzantine rebels
Patricii
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melaleuca%20incana
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Melaleuca incana
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Melaleuca incana, commonly known as grey honey-myrtle, is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia and is naturalised in the south of Victoria in Australia. It is commonly grown as a garden plant and produces large numbers of white or creamy yellow flowers, sometimes highly scented, in spring.
Description
Melaleuca incana is a shrub or small tree which grows to a height of about and has fibrous or flaky bark. The leaves are in threes, sometimes rings of four along the branchlets, long and wide, linear or very narrow elliptic in shape and tapering to a point. The leaves and young branches are covered with fine, soft hairs giving the foliage a grey appearance.
The flowers are arranged in spikes, usually on the ends of branches which continue to grow after flowering. Each spike has between 6 and 55 individual flowers and is up to long and wide, white, creamy white or yellow. The petals are long and fall off as the flower ages. The stamens are arranged in five bundles around the flower, each bundle containing between 3 and 11 stamens. Flowering occurs in spring and is followed by fruit which are woody capsules long in cylinder-shaped clusters up to long.
Taxonomy and naming
This species was first formally described in 1819 by Robert Brown in Edward's Botanical Register. Edwards called the plant "Grizzly Melaleuca" and noted that the plant was ...first observed by Mr. Brown, in King George the Third's Sound, on the south-west coast of New Holland. ... We were favoured with the specimen, for the drawing, by Lady Aylesford ... We are indebted to Mr. Brown for the specific characters, and all we know concerning the plant. The specific epithet (incana) is from the Latin incanus meaning "quite grey", "in reference to the colour of the leaves".
In 1992, Bryan Alwyn Barlow described two subspecies and the names are accepted by Plants of the World Online:
M. incana subsp. incana occurs on the south-west coast of Western Australia between Albany and Jurien Bay and inland as far as the Dryandra woodland and is naturalised in parts of Victoria.
M. incana subsp. tenella occurs on the south coast of Western Australia between Albany and Esperance.
Distribution and habitat
This melaleuca occurs in the south-west of Western Australia and on the south coast as far east as Esperance in the Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain and Warren biogeographic regions. It grows on swamp edges, in low woodland and heath in peaty soil and sand.
Conservation status
Melaleuca incana is listed as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife.
Use in horticulture
This species, especially the nominate subspecies incana is widely cultivated. It is a hardy plant, fast growing, tolerating a range of soils and conditions after initial establishment and is frost hardy. It is widely available in commercial nurseries and tolerates pruning to form a hedge. It is susceptible to scale insect attack.
References
incana
Myrtales of Australia
Rosids of Western Australia
Plants described in 1819
Endemic flora of Western Australia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toby%20Alone
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Toby Alone
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Toby Alone, originally published as La Vie suspendue, or A Life Suspended, is a children's novel by French author Timothée de Fombelle. Sarah Ardizzone's translation won the 2009 Marsh Award. The book was later followed by a sequel, entitled Toby and the Secrets of the Tree.
Plot
Part One
A 13-year-old boy named Toby Lolness, who is just one and a half millimetres tall, lives in a civilization nestled in an oak tree. On his seventh birthday, his father, a scientist named Sim, creates a black box that causes one of his toys to move around by harnessing the power of crude sap. However, when Sim refuses to tell anybody how he did it, he and his family are banished to the Lower Branches, where Toby meets his best friend, Elisha Lee, for the first time.
When Toby is thirteen, his parents are arrested by the evil corporate tyrant Joe Mitch, who has a pathological obsession with hole-digging, and thrown into a prison on a mistletoe ball called Tumble. He desperately wants to learn how to use the sap for his biggest project, the Big Crater, a massive hole in the middle of the tree, and Toby finds himself on the run from his own people. He struggles to survive alone. He is betrayed by his old friend Leo Blue. Another friend, Nils Amen, betrays him as well, but later pretends to be Toby, throwing the searchers off.
Toby passes through the Big Crater, where his father's enemy, W. C. Rolok, finds him. He attempts to make him swallow a sap ball, which the digger-weevils will rip his stomach open to reach. Toby spits the ball down Rolok's throat, takes his clothes, and gives him a whip to fight off the weevils. On the way out, he meets up with Mano Asseldor, who used to live on a farm in the Lower Branches, and the two escape together. Once they reach the Lower Branches, Mano is reunited with his parents and siblings, but he is forced to hide in a space behind the fireplace. Toby tries to get help from a miller and his wife, the Olmechs. They contact Joe Mitch's soldiers, but Toby manages to escape anyway. The Olmechs are thrown into prison for lying.
Part Two
Finally, Toby reaches the area where Elisha and her mother Isha live. He hides in a cave, and Elisha brings him food every day. When winter comes, Toby is snowed in for several months. He barely survives off Elisha's food and some mildew.
In the spring, he and Elisha create an elaborate plan to rescue Toby's parents from prison. The night of the planned escape, Toby is trapped in a wax cast, pretending to be the jailor Gus Alzan's injured daughter Berenice. Elisha was supposed to break in and rescue him and his parents, but she was unable to get into the prison, causing Toby to think she'd betrayed him. He escapes when a fire weakens the cast. He releases all the water in the cistern, extinguishing the fire. On the way to find his parents, another prisoner tells him they've already been executed, and that Elisha crushed his hand with her foot. Not believing him, Toby goes to his parents' cell, only to find the Olmechs. Their son, Lex, is trying to rescue them.
Toby gives Lex the key to his parents' chains and walks to the end of a mistletoe branch, planning to jump off. However, he hears a bird squawking and decides to burrow into one of the berries and get eaten. He is carried away by the bird and loses consciousness. When he wakes up, he finds himself alive in the grass. He is taken in by a young boy named Moon Boy and his older sister Ilaya, who rename him Little Tree.
Two years later, Pol Colleen, a neighbor from the Low Branches, visits the grass and tells Toby he was adopted when he was a few days old, that his adoptive parents are still alive, and that Elisha, whose mother was once a grass woman, is now being held prisoner by Leo Blue, who has become a ruthless dictator and wants to marry her. Toby decides to go back to the Tree to save her. He succeeds thanks to a rescue plan which will cost the lives of many.
See also
Toby and the Secrets of the Tree
Timothée de Fombelle
References
French children's novels
2006 novels
Children's fantasy novels
2006 children's books
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Conference%20on%20the%20Great%20Lakes%20Region
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International Conference on the Great Lakes Region
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International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR), French: Conférence Internationale sur la Région des Grands Lacs (CIRGL), is an intergovernmental organization of African countries in the African Great Lakes region.
Membership
The organisation consists of the following members:
Co-opted members
Leaders
Executive Secretaries
References
External links
International organizations based in Africa
Intergovernmental organizations
Organizations established in 2008
Organisations based in Burundi
African Great Lakes
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verve%20%28Indian%20magazine%29
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Verve (Indian magazine)
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Verve is one of India's premier and home-grown, English-language digital luxury and lifestyle magazines for women.
The magazine has announced that they are not accepting new subscriptions for the print edition and will release a set of subscription packages for the "new normal". Magzter lists the April–May 2020 edition of the magazine as its last print edition. Verve continues to publish new articles on their website.
History and profile
Verve was launched in 1995. Anuradha Mahindra, wife of industrialist Anand Mahindra, is the founder, editor and publisher of Verve. She also launched its sister publication later called The Indian Quarterly (IQ), which is a literary journal. The south Mumbai–based publishing organisation also produces specialised in-house magazines, coffee-table books and supplements for leading brands. Verve has not been owned or run by any foreign company. About 80 per cent of its readership is in cities.
Focus
The luxury magazine-turned-website focuses on women's lifestyle, including trends, national and international fashion, arts and culture, beauty, travel, food and spaces. Verve is known for its strong people focus, with in-depth interviews of famous people, Bollywood stories and a platform for the discovery of new talent.
Verve used to have an annual Power Issue (curated list of the power women of the year in June), an annual Best Dressed Issue (curated list of the best dressed women of the year in October) and a January fresh list which had a curated list of young achievers. Verve had an art-themed issue in July and bridal issue in September too. Verve celebrates its anniversary every December.
Print cycle
Verve started out as a quarterly publication in 1995. It then became a bi-monthly (coming out every 2 months) in 2005 and finally made the change over to a monthly in 2007 to keep pace with growing readership demands. The last Verve issue during the global coronavirus pandemic was the digital Environment Issue in June 2020. Prior to that, the Food Issue was released in March 2020, the Ambition Issue in January 2020, the Celebrate You Issue in November 2019, the Entertainment Issue in August 2019 and the Design Issue in June 2019. Its most recent issue was the digital Cinema Issue in January 2021.
Verve Man
Verve had an annual "Verve Man" supplement that started in 2009 and became a bi-annual property in 2014. Celebrities to have made it to the cover of Verve Man included Kunal Kapoor, Imran Khan, Abhay Deol, John Abraham, Shah Rukh Khan, late Sushant Singh Rajput, and Ranbir Kapoor.
Team
Anuradha Mahindra (Editor and Publisher)
Aalika Mahindra (Editorial Director)
Divya Mahindra (Creative Director)
Shraddha Jahagirdar-Saxena (Executive Editor)
Shirin Mehta (Fashion, Features & Lifestyle Editor)
Minal Shetty (Art Director)
Arti Sarin (PR & Corporate Communications Director)
Puneet Dhawan (Regional Manager – North)
Mala Vaishnav (Editorial Consultant)
References
External links
Official website
1995 establishments in Maharashtra
Bi-monthly magazines published in India
English-language magazines published in India
Monthly magazines published in India
Women's magazines published in India
Lifestyle magazines
Magazines established in 1995
Mass media in Mumbai
Quarterly magazines published in India
Women's fashion magazines
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20festivals%20in%20Saskatchewan
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List of festivals in Saskatchewan
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The following is a list of annual festivals in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada.
List of festivals
Battlefords Region
North Battleford International Street Performer Festival
Kindersley region
Goose Festival
Rosetown & District Harvest Family Festival, Rosetown
Wild West Daze, Leader
Lloydminster region
Arts Without Borders Festival
The Dog Patch Music Festival, Whelan
Lloydfest
Macklin World Bunnock Championship Challenge, Macklin
St. Walburg Wild Blueberry Festival, St. Walburg
Moose Jaw region
Moose Jaw Band & Choral Festival
Moose Jaw Gaming Expo
Moose Jaw Music Festival
Moose Jaw Sidewalk Days Festival
Motif Moose Jaw Multicultural Festival
Old Wives Lake Festival, Mossbank
Sandy Creek Gospel Jamboree, Besant Park and Campground, Mortlach
Saskatchewan Festival of Words
Saskatchewan yesssssiiiitMusic Festival
Saskatoon Berry Festival, Mortlach
Summer Solstice d'ete Festival, Gravelbourg
Threshing Bee
Northern Saskatchewan
Churchill River Whitewater Festival
Prince Albert region
Art Fest Waskesiu, Waskesiu
Backwardsness
Canadian Challenge International Sled Dog Race
Chester Fest
Country at the Creek, Ness Creek
Downtown Street Fair
Electric Sky Electronic Music and Arts Festival, Ness Creek
Elysium Music & Arts Festival
Farm Fair
FiddlyNess
forestART
Higher Ground Music and Arts Festival, Struthers Lake
James Smith Annual Pow Wow - James Smith Cree Nation; first weekend of August
June Bug Days
Kiwanis Music Festival
Louis Riel Relay & Kidfest, Batoche National Historic Site
Metis Fall Festival - three-day festival honoring Métis Heritage; held in September
Muskoday Pow Wow - Muskoday First Nations; held in August
Muskoday Rodeo & Chuckwagon Races - Muskoday First Nations; held in June
Napatak Ramble
Ness Creek Music Festival
Northern Lights Bluegrass and Old Time Festival, Ness Creek
PAGC Fine Arts Festival
Prince Albert Exhibition & Summer Fair
Prince Albert Polka Fest
Prince Albert Winter Festival
Pumpkin Music Festival
Solstice on the South Saskatchewan, One Arrow First Nations - multi-genre music, art, and culture festival
Sturgeon Lake Pow Wow - Sturgeon Lake First Nations; held in July
Thanksgiving Annual International Pow Wow
Three Island Paddle & Music Festival, Hanging Hearts Lake
Vintage Power Machines Threshing Festival - annual festival that showcases antique farm machinery, demonstrations, and more.
Waskesiu Children's Festival
Waskesiu Festival - Waskesiu; National Park; held in July
Waskesiu Lakeside Festival
Regina region
The 5K Foam Fest
Beer Bacon Bands
Cathedral Village Arts Festival
Connect Music Festival
Craven Country Jamboree/Country Thunder
Downtowner's Optimist Music Festival
Fan Expo Regina
FNUniv Spring Pow Wow
Fort Qu'Appelle Midsummer Arts Festival
The Great Saskatchewan Mustard Festival
JazzFest Regina
Kiwanis Music Festival
KōnaFest
Mid-Winter Ceilidh
Mid-Winter Blues Festival
Middle Years Drama Festival
Mosaic - A Festival of Cultures
Noise Fest Regina
Queen City AniFest
Queen City Ex
Queen City Pride
Queer City Cinema
ReginaCadabra Magic Festival
Regina Dragon Boat Festival
Regina Folk Festival
Regina International Film Festival and Awards
Regina International Fringe Theatre Festival
Regina Pickle-fest
The Regina Strength Festival
Rotary Carol Festival
Sask Soul Fest
Saskatchewan Fashion Week
Saskatchewan Highland Gathering & Celtic Festival
Shake the Lake Outdoor Music Festival
Summer Invasion
Swamp Fest
Symphony Under the Sky Festival, Motherwell Homestead National Historic Site, Abernathy
TheatreFest
Saskatoon region
Borealis Flamenco Festival
Draggins Annual Rod & Custom Car Show
Eagle Creek Jamboree, Eagle Creek Regional Park
Enchanted Forest
FolkFest
Food Truck Wars
Gladiola Festival
Great Plains Comedy Fest
Heritage Festival of Saskatoon
John Arcand Fiddle Festival
MazzFest
Manitou Music Fest, Manitou Beach
NatureCity Festival
Northern Saskatchewan Games and Cultural Festival
Northern Saskatchewan International Children's Festival
Nuit Blanche
Nutrien Children's Festival of Saskatchewan
Perogyfest Music Festival, Martensville,
Phantasm Festival
Pickers' Cup: Saskatchewan's Original Tournival
PotashCorp Fireworks Festival
PotashCorp Wintershines Festival
Pumpkin Festival
RibFest
Ritornello Chamber Music Festival
River Lights Festival
Rock on the River - Coincides with Show & Shine Weekend
Rockridge Gospel Music Festival
Saskatchewan Music Festival
Saskatoon Blues Festival
Saskatoon Dragon Boat Festival
Saskatoon Ex
Saskatoon Fantastic Film Festival
Saskatoon Fringe Theatre Festival
Saskatoon Maker Faire
Saskatoon Polkafest
Saskatoon Pride
Saskatoon Reggae and World Music Festival
Sasktel Saskatchewan Jazz Fest
Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan
Show & Shine Weekend - Coincides with Rock on the River
Strata Festival
Taste of Saskatchewan
The Word on the Street
Top of the Hops: Grapes and Grains Festival
Vesna Festival
Winter FunFest, Martensville
Winter Shines
Winterruption
Swift Current region
Boomtown Days & Stampede, Shaunavon
Chautauqua Theatre Festival
Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Maple Creek
Dino Days, Eastend
Frenchman River Gospel Jam, Shaunavon
Frontier Days Fair & Rodeo
Long Day's Night Music Festival
Maple Creek Heritage Festival, Maple Creek
Southwest Quest for Saskatchewan Art and History
Taste of Maple Creek, Maple Creek
Saskpower Windscape Kite Festival
Various locations
Provincial Snowmobile Festival
Weyburn region
All Folk'd Up Music Festival, Kemoca Regional Park, Montmartre
Yorkton region
Winter Lights Festival, Canora
Threshermen's Show and Seniors' Festival
Veselka, Foam Lake
Yorkton Film Festival
See also
List of festivals in Canada
Culture of Saskatchewan
Tourism in Saskatchewan
References
Festivals
Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WFKX
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WFKX
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WFKX (95.7 FM, "96 Kix") is a radio station broadcasting an urban adult contemporary music format. Licensed to Henderson, Tennessee, United States, the station is currently owned by Thomas Radio, LLC, Debtor-in-Possession and features programming from Westwood One.
References
External links
FKX
Urban adult contemporary radio stations in the United States
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Austrocidaria anguligera
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Austrocidaria anguligera is a species of moth in the family Geometridae. It is endemic to New Zealand. It is regarded as being uncommon but is frequently confused with Austrocidaria bipartita.
Taxonomy
This species was first described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1879 using specimens collected by Frederick Hutton in Dunedin and given the name Phibalapteryx anguligera. George Vernon Hudson discussed and illustrated this species in his 1898 book as a synonym of Hydriomena gobiata. In his 1928 publication The Butterflies and Moths of New Zealand Hudson again illustrated and discussed the species, but under the name Eucymatoge anguligera following Edward Meyrick's placement of the species within that genus. In 1988 John S. Dugdale assigned the species to a new genus Austrocidaria. The holotype specimen is held at the Natural History Museum, London.
Description
Butler described the adult moths of the species as follows:
A. anguligera is sometimes confused with A. bipartita, with the latter being the more common species.
Distribution
This species is endemic to New Zealand. It has been found in Canterbury, Otago, Invercargill, and Otira in the South Island, as well as in Auckland and Wellington in the North Island.
Biology and behaviour
The adults of this species are on the wing from September to March. They can be found resting on tree trunks or fence posts during the day.
Habitat and host species
This species prefers scrubby forest habitat. It occurs in a variety of ecosystems from montane to coastal. The larvae of this moth feeds on Coprosma species. Meyrick noted that the adults of this species could be found on the flowers of Senecio species. Hudson stated that the adult moths fed on the flowers of Hebe salicifolia.
References
External links
Image of holotype specimen
Xanthorhoini
Moths of New Zealand
Moths described in 1879
Endemic fauna of New Zealand
Endangered biota of New Zealand
Taxa named by Arthur Gardiner Butler
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Tobias Wolff
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Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff (born June 19, 1945) is an American short story writer, memoirist, novelist, and teacher of creative writing. He is known for his memoirs, particularly This Boy's Life (1989) and In Pharaoh's Army (1994). He has written four short story collections and two novels including The Barracks Thief (1984), which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Wolff received a National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama in September 2015.
His academic career began at Syracuse University (1982–1997) and, since 1997, he has taught at Stanford University, where he is the Ward W. and Priscilla B. Woods Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences.
Life and career
Tobias Wolff was born in 1945 in Birmingham, Alabama, the second son of Rosemary (Loftus) from Hartford, Connecticut, and Arthur Samuels Wolff, an aeronautical engineer who was a son of a Jewish doctor and his wife. The father had become Episcopalian, and Wolff did not learn about his father's Jewish roots until he was an adult. (Wolff was raised and identifies as Catholic, like his mother).
His parents separated when Wolff was five and his elder brother Geoffrey was twelve; he lived with his mother in a variety of places, including Seattle, Washington when he was an adolescent. After she remarried, they lived in Newhalem, a small company town in the North Cascade Mountains, where his stepfather, Robert Thompson, worked at Seattle City Light. His father and brother lived on the East Coast during this period. Geoffrey knew nothing about where his brother was until he entered Princeton.
As a kid Wolff had a local paper route and was a Boy Scout. After attending Concrete High School in Concrete, also in the North Cascades, Wolff applied to and was accepted by The Hill School, located 35 miles from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He had applied under the self-embellished name "Tobias Jonathan von Ansell-Wolff III", adopting part of one of his father's personas, Saunders Ansell-Wolff 3d. When Wolff was found to have had forged his transcripts and recommendation letters, he was later expelled.
Wolff served in the U.S. Army from 1964 to 1968, when he trained for Special Forces, learned Vietnamese, and served as an adviser in Vietnam. He holds a First Class Honours degree in English from Hertford College, Oxford (1972). After returning to the United States, in 1975, he was awarded a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing at Stanford University, where he earned an M.A.
While continuing to write, Wolff taught at Syracuse University from 1980 to 1997. He published his first short story collection in 1981. At Syracuse he served on the faculty with Raymond Carver and was an instructor in the graduate writing program. Authors who had studied with Wolff as students at Syracuse include Jay McInerney, Tom Perrotta, George Saunders, Alice Sebold, William Tester, Paul Griner, Ken Garcia, Dana C. Kabel, Jan-Marie Spanard, and Paul Watkins.
In 1997, Wolff transferred to Stanford, where he is the Ward W. and Priscilla B. Woods Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences. He has taught classes in English and creative writing, and also served as the director of the Creative Writing Program at Stanford from 2000 to 2002.
Writing
Wolff is best known for his work in two genres: the short story and the memoir. His first short story collection, In the Garden of the North American Martyrs, was published in 1981. The collection was well received and several of its stories have since been published in a number of anthologies. Its publication coincided with a period in which several American authors who worked almost exclusively in the short story form were receiving wider recognition. As writers such as Wolff, Raymond Carver and Andre Dubus became better known, the United States was said to be having a renaissance of the short story. (Their 20th-century North American version of realism was often labelled as Dirty realism for its gritty veracity.)
Wolff repudiated this characterization. In 1994, in the introduction to The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories, he wrote:
Wolff's 1984 novella The Barracks Thief won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for 1985. Most of the action takes place at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Three recent paratrooper training graduates are temporarily attached to an airborne infantry company as they await orders to report to Vietnam. Because most of the men in the company fought together in Vietnam, the three newcomers are treated as outsiders and ignored. When money and personal property are discovered missing from the barracks, suspicion falls on the three newcomers. The narrative structure of the book contains several shifts of tone and point of view as the story unfolds.
In 1985, Wolff's second short story collection, Back in the World, was published. Several of the stories in this collection, such as "The Missing Person," are significantly longer than the stories in his first collection.
Wolff chronicled his early life in two memoirs. This Boy's Life (1989), winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Biography, is devoted to the author's adolescence in Seattle and Newhalem, a remote company town in the North Cascade mountains of Washington. The memoir describes the nomadic and uncertain life Wolff and his mother led after his parents divorced. His mother's subsequent marriage to a man who was revealed as an abusive husband and stepfather deeply affected their lives. In Pharaoh's Army (1994) records Wolff's U.S. Army tour of duty in Vietnam.
He published a third collection of stories, The Night in Question, in 1997. His fourth short-story book, Our Story Begins (2008), includes both new and previously published stories.
Whether he is writing fiction or non-fiction, Wolff's prose is characterized by an exploration of personal/biographical and existential terrain. As Wyatt Mason wrote in the London Review of Books, "Typically, his protagonists face an acute moral dilemma, unable to reconcile what they know to be true with what they feel to be true. Duplicity is their great failing, and Wolff's main theme."
Elsewhere Wolff said of the personal nature of his work: "I have to be able, with a straight face, to tell myself that something is nonfiction if I say it's nonfiction. That's why, although there are autobiographical elements in some of my stories, I still call them fiction because that's what they are. Even though they may have been set into motion by some catalyst of memory."
In 1989, Wolff was chosen as recipient of the Rea Award for the Short Story. Wolff has received the O. Henry Award on three occasions, for the stories "In the Garden of North American Martyrs" (1981), "Next Door" (1982), and "Sister" (1985). In 2008, he was awarded The Story Prize for Our Story Begins.
Adaptations
Some of Wolff's work has been adapted to film. This Boy's Life was adapted as a feature film directed by Michael Caton-Jones. It starred Leonardo DiCaprio as the teenage Wolff, Robert De Niro as Wolff's abusive step-father Dwight, and Ellen Barkin, as Wolff's mother Rosemary.
In 2001, Wolff's acclaimed short story "Bullet in the Brain" (from The Night in Question) was adapted as a short film by David Von Ancken and CJ Follini; it starred Tom Noonan and Dean Winters.
Family
Tobias Wolff's older brother is the author Geoffrey Wolff. A decade before Tobias Wolff published This Boy's Life, his brother wrote a memoir of his own about the boys' biological father, entitled The Duke of Deception. Wolff's mother later settled in Washington, D.C. There she became president of the League of Women Voters.
Tobias Wolff is married and lives with his wife, Catherine Dolores Spohn, and three children in California.
Awards and honors
1985 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for The Barracks Thief
1989 Whiting Award for Fiction and Nonfiction
2006 PEN/Malamud Award (co-winner)
2008 The Story Prize
2014 Stone Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement, Oregon State University
2014 elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters,
2015 National Medal of Arts, US National Endowment for the Arts
Bibliography
Novels
Ugly Rumours (1975)
The Barracks Thief (1984) (novella)
Old School (2003)
Collections
In the Garden of the North American Martyrs (1981)
Hunters in the Snow (1981)
Back in the World (1985)
The Collected Short Stories
The Night in Question (1997)
Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories (2008)
Edited volumes
Matters of Life and Death: New American Stories (1983)
Best American Short Stories (1994)
The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories (1994)
Non-fiction
This Boy's Life (1989), a memoir about his boyhood in the 1950s
In Pharaoh's Army (1994), a memoir about his experiences as a soldier in the Vietnam War.
Short fiction
References
External links
Profile at The Whiting Foundation
Übermensch, an excerpt from the novel Old School in Narrative Magazine (Fall 2003)
Stifled Truth, an appreciation of Wolff's publications to date, by Wyatt Mason in the London Review of Books
Tobias Wolff reads his short story, "Say Yes" recorded at the Progressive Reading Series, San Francisco 2008
'Old School', an interview with Tobias Wolff in the Oxonian Review
1945 births
20th-century American novelists
21st-century American novelists
Alumni of Hertford College, Oxford
American memoirists
United States Army personnel of the Vietnam War
American male novelists
American people of Jewish descent
American Roman Catholics
The Hill School alumni
Living people
Minimalist writers
Writers from Birmingham, Alabama
Writers from Syracuse, New York
Stanford University alumni
Stanford University Department of English faculty
Syracuse University faculty
United States Army officers
Writers from California
Novelists from New York (state)
Writers from the San Francisco Bay Area
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners
American male short story writers
20th-century American short story writers
21st-century American short story writers
The New Yorker people
PEN/Malamud Award winners
Novelists from Alabama
20th-century American non-fiction writers
21st-century American non-fiction writers
American male non-fiction writers
United States National Medal of Arts recipients
20th-century American male writers
21st-century American male writers
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Hans-Joachim Puls
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Hans-Joachim Puls is a German rower, who competed for the SG Dynamo Potsdam / Sportvereinigung (SV) Dynamo. He won medals at international rowing competitions.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
German male rowers
Living people
World Rowing Championships medalists for East Germany
European Rowing Championships medalists
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Mille Lacs County Courthouse
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The Mille Lacs County Courthouse, located at 635 2nd Street Southeast in Milaca, Mille Lacs County in the U.S. state of Minnesota was built in 1923. It was designed by Minneapolis architects Croft & Boerner. The facade consists of Bedford limestone over reinforced concrete. A two-story entrance pavilion is topped with concrete "turnings" on the corners and a carved swag and wreath in the center. The windows are adorned with small balustraded balconies. The interior is finished with terrazzo floors and a Wright-inspired leaded glass skylight over the octagonal atrium. Marble steps rise from the front door to the first level and continue to the second floor. Red wood woodwork is used throughout the building. In 1978 the building was renovated by Johnson and Forberg Associates of Minneapolis.
References
Buildings and structures in Mille Lacs County, Minnesota
County courthouses in Minnesota
Courthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Minnesota
Government buildings completed in 1923
National Register of Historic Places in Mille Lacs County, Minnesota
Renaissance Revival architecture in Minnesota
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Anders Sunesen
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Anders Sunesen (also Andreas, Suneson, Sunesøn, Latin: Andreas Sunonis) (c. 1167 – 1228) was a Danish archbishop of Lund, Scania, from 21 March 1201, at the death of Absalon, to his own death in 1228.
He is the author of the Latin translation of the Scanian Law and was throughout his life engaged in integrating a Christian worldview into the old legislature. He managed to introduce tithe (taxation benefiting the church) despite the resistance this measure had met from the population of Scania during Absalon's time, but his efforts to convince the priests of his day about the merits of celibacy was based mostly on his own example and relied on oratory rather than legal maneuvering. To educate the priests and to forward his ideas, especially about the integration between church and state, he wrote a didactic poem, Hexaëmon, consisting of 8,040 verses of Latin hexameter.
A nephew of Absalon and a member of the religious and political elite, Sunesen was well-traveled, having received his education in theology and philosophy in Paris, France, and his legal education in Bologna, Italy and at Oxford, England. His encounter with ideas from the European continent about Christian Crusades were incorporated into his thinking. He led a crusade against Finns in 1202 with his brother and lobbied the Pope for a crusade against Estonians, Livonians and Baltic peoples. He eventually received permission to install a bishop in Reval (Tallinn), and in 1219, he accompanied Valdemar II in his war against Estonia. According to an old Danish myth supportive of Danish expansionism, the Danish flag (Dannebrog) appeared in the sky and fell into the hands of Valdemar II as Sunesen raised his arms and prayed for a Danish victory during the decisive battle.
He lived his last years in northeastern Scania, where he died in 1228 on Ivö Island in Ivö Lake, Scania's largest lake. It has been speculated that his death may have been attributed to leprosy. He is buried in a sarcophagus in Lund Cathedral.
Notes and references
External links
Ivö Church and The Bishop's Cellar, the ruins of Anders Sunesen's castle on Ivö Island. Part of a Nature Trail information site by the non-profit organization Humleslingan.
1160s births
1228 deaths
Roman Catholic archbishops of Lund
13th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Denmark
Christians of the Livonian Crusade
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Ras Ibn Hani
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Ras Ibn Hani () is a small cape located north of Latakia, Syria on the Mediterranean Sea. It is an important archaeological site as it was occupied almost continuously from the late Bronze Age until Byzantine times. The site now is in a major resort area called the Cote d'Azur of Syria.
History
This coastal site lies a two-hour walk from the site of Bronze Age Ugarit. During the middle of the 14th-century BC, a golden age began for Ugarit after stable borders had been achieved through treaties with the Egyptians. During this phase of expansion, a second residence for the king, for example as a summer palace (south palace), and a residence for queen Ahatmilku were built. There were probably fewer than the 6,000 to 8,000 inhabitants who, according to estimates, lived there in the 13th century BC.
However, it survived in modest fashion Ugarit's collapse at the end of the Bronze Age: "Ugarit's inhabitants dispersed, but no crisis could neutralize their invaluable asset, the coast's best natural harbour on the promontory of Ras ibn Hani; it became known from its low white cliff as the 'White Harbour' in later Greek coastal guidebooks, a name which persists in modern Arabic as Minet el-Beida", observes Robin Lane Fox, who identified Ras Ibn Hani as the site later Greeks knew as Betyllion, possibly a Hellenized version, he suggests, of the Semitic bait-El or "house of El, a name which, if that is the derivation, "confirms that Canaanite-Phoenician culture never entirely died at the site".
Ras Ibn Hani had a Ptolemaic base, since the Third Syrian War (246–241 BC). The Seleucid King Antiochus IX BC had a small fortification built in the southeast corner.
Robin Lane Fox notes that the Roman emperor Trajan landed at this spot to join his troops in Syria for the fateful Mesopotamian campaigns of 114–117.
During the first three centuries AD, the city was practically uninhabited, there were probably some buildings on the western tip of the peninsula, the location of which can no longer be explored, as the area has been built over in the meantime. Building remains, pot fragments and coin finds indicate settlement in the early Byzantine period from the 4th to the 6th century.
See also
Cities of the ancient Near East
Minet el-Beida
Ugarit
References
Bibliography
Former populated places in Syria
Headlands of Syria
Ugarit
Bronze Age sites in Syria
Archaeological sites in Latakia Governorate
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Tobago cricket team
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The Tobago cricket team has represented Tobago in various matches since 1958. In the 1978-79 season it played first-class cricket in the Texaco Cup.
Tobago played their first match in 1957-58, a one-day match against the touring Pakistanis. Over the next 15 years several international teams played Tobago. All the matches took place at the Shaw Park ground in Scarborough. In 1964-65, in another one-day match, Tobago dismissed the Australians for 142 and in response made 145 after being 84 for 8.
For the 1978-79 season the first-class Texaco Cup was expanded to include Tobago as well as the four regional Trinidad sides that had competed in 1977-78. None of the Tobago players had played first-class cricket before. Tobago drew their first match, then lost their next three, two of them by an innings. They finished at the bottom of the table. All four matches were played on the Trinidad mainland. The leading wicket-taker was Alston Daniel, with 11 wickets at an average of 29.00; he later played for Trinidad and Tobago. The captain was Isaac Benjamin.
The Texaco Cup lost its first-class status after 1978-79. Tobago were scheduled to compete in 1979-80 but did not play any of their matches.
References
External links
First-class matches played by Tobago
Other matches played by Tobago
West Indian first-class cricket teams
Former senior cricket clubs of the West Indies
Cricket in Trinidad and Tobago
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Neodrillia cydia
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Neodrillia cydia, common name the Cydia drillia, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Drilliidae.
Description
The size of an adult shell varies between 10 mm and 22 mm.
Distribution
This species occurs in the Western Atlantic off North Carolina, in the Caribbean Sea off Panama and Jamaica, and off the Lesser Antilles (Antigua, Barbados, St. Thomas)
References
Bartsch, P. (1943) A review of some West Atlantic turritid mollusks. Memorias de la Sociedad Cubana de Historia Natural, 17, 81–122, pls. 7–15
External links
Rosenberg, G., F. Moretzsohn, and E. F. García. 2009. Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas
Bisby, F.A., M.A. Ruggiero, K.L. Wilson, M. Cachuela-Palacio, S.W. Kimani, Y.R. Roskov, A. Soulier-Perkins and J. van Hertum 2005 Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2005 Annual Checklist. CD-ROM; Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
De Jong K.M. & Coomans H.E. (1988) Marine gastropods from Curaçao, Aruba and Bonaire. Leiden: E.J. Brill. 261 pp.
cydia
Gastropods described in 1943
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Hans Schäfer
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Hans Schäfer (19 October 1927 – 7 November 2017) was a German footballer who played as an outside left.
Career
Schäfer was born in Zollstock, Cologne. He played for 1. FC Köln between 1948 and 1965, and for the West Germany national team, earning 39 caps and scoring 15 goals. He played in three World Cups, in 1954, 1958, and 1962, earning a winner's medal in 1954 and scoring a total of seven goals. Between 1957 and 1962, Schäfer captained Germany 16 times.
Schäfer's position was that of an outside left. In the latter stages of his career, he became an inside left forward. He debuted for Germany on 9 November 1952, in the international friendly against Switzerland, scoring a goal. During the 1954 FIFA World Cup, Schäfer scored four goals.
Schäfer won the German football championship with 1. FC Köln in 1962 and 1964 and was voted German Footballer of the Year in 1963, at the age of 35. He played in the first two seasons of the newly founded Bundesliga 39 matches (20 goals) before retiring from professional football.
Schäfer died on 7 November 2017 at age 90.
References
External links
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1927 births
2017 deaths
Footballers from Cologne
German footballers
Germany international footballers
People from the Rhine Province
1. FC Köln players
Bundesliga players
1954 FIFA World Cup players
1958 FIFA World Cup players
1962 FIFA World Cup players
FIFA World Cup-winning players
Association football forwards
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Perpetuum Mobile (album)
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Perpetuum Mobile is a studio album by the industrial band Einstürzende Neubauten. It was released in 2004 on Mute Records. The album is an offshoot of the band's first fans-only recording experiment, and was released in part to facilitate a world tour.
Track listing
“Ich gehe jetzt” – 3:31 [English: "I am going now"]
“Perpetuum Mobile” – 13:41
“Ein leichtes leises Säuseln” – 4:31
“Selbstportrait mit Kater” – 6:12
“Boreas” – 3:59
“Ein seltener Vogel” – 9:14
“Ozean und Brandung” – 3:44
“Paradiesseits” – 4:07
“Youme & Meyou” – 4:39
“Der Weg ins Freie” – 4:04
“Dead Friends (Around the Corner)” – 5:14
“Grundstück” – 3:41
Themes
Perpetuum Mobile contains overarching references to its namesake perpetuum mobile (the musical term) and to perpetual motion (the physical concept). Other ideas include Boreas, Ararat (of note both for the Einstürzende Neubauten song "Armenia" and Mount Ararat), travel and airplanes, and rare birds.
References
Einstürzende Neubauten albums
2004 albums
Mute Records albums
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Indian Run (Little Schuylkill River tributary)
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Indian Run is a second-order stream (according to the Strahler stream order) entirely within East Brunswick Township, Schuylkill County Pennsylvania. The headwater are one-half mile south of Kepner and the stream flows west for 8 miles. The stream is an important trout spawning tributary to the Little Schuylkill River at Rauschs.
Tributaries
Note: These are local names not formally recognized
Red Run
Bear Run
See also
List of rivers of Pennsylvania
References
New Ringgold 7.5 Minute Quadrangle, Department of the Interior, USGS.
Rivers of Pennsylvania
Tributaries of the Schuylkill River
Rivers of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania
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Sushi Girl is an American crime film directed by Kern Saxton and starring Tony Todd, Mark Hamill, Noah Hathaway, Sonny Chiba and Cortney Palm. Tony Todd also served as an executive producer. It premiered at a TCL Chinese Theatre, played in several festivals and was then released directly to home media in 2012.
Plot
Fish (Noah Hathaway) has been recently released from prison where he was serving time for his part in a diamond heist. He refused to give the authorities any information on his partners in crime nor reveal to them the location of the stolen diamonds. In order to locate and divide the stolen diamonds, crime boss Duke (Tony Todd) invited Fish to dinner along with the rest of the gang, including his closest ally Crow (Mark Hamill), Max (Andy Mackenzie) and Francis (James Duval). The meal is sushi, served on the naked body of a woman, the titular Sushi Girl (Cortney Palm), who must remain motionless and silent for the duration of the meal.
When Fish tells the others that he doesn't have the diamonds, they do not believe him. He is tied up, with Max and Crow taking turns torturing him. Duke instructs Francis to take a turn as well, but he refuses. Francis goes to the bathroom and it is revealed to the camera that he is wearing a listening device. The sequences of torture are intercut with flashbacks to the heist, culminating in the gang being run off the road by another car, with Duke shooting the driver in order to escape. Eventually Max loses control and begins to beat Fish savagely, killing him.
Max, Crow and Duke begin to argue savagely about who was responsible for Fish's death. Francis comes back from the bathroom, and wants to leave, accusing Duke of arranging this dinner in order to kill them all, and thus wrap up loose ends. Duke, in turn, accuses Francis of being a spy for the police. The others demand that Francis unbutton his shirt and prove that he is not wearing a wire. Francis responds by insulting Duke and taunting Max. Max finally loses control and assaults Francis, tearing open his shirt, thus revealing that there is no listening device. Despite this, Francis is shot by Duke.
After more arguing the remaining three eventually draw their guns on one another and shooting breaks out. Only Duke survives. He returns to the Sushi Girl, who has remained silent and motionless all this time. Duke tells her that she is to be his 'consolation prize'. He eats a piece of fugu from her body and promptly succumbs to paralysis, whereupon she sits upright and tells him the fugu was purposely prepared leaving the toxins intact. A final flashback reveals that she was present at the heist's aftermath; it was her husband whom Duke shot, and she who recovered the diamonds after the bag was ripped open. She explains that she used her newfound riches to arrange this night and take her revenge upon the gang, and then she shoots Duke fatally and departs.
Cast
Tony Todd as Duke
Noah Hathaway as Fish
James Duval as Francis
Andy Mackenzie as Max
Mark Hamill as Crow
Cortney Palm as Sushi Girl
Sonny Chiba as Sushi Chef
David Dastmalchian as Nelson
Jeff Fahey as Morris
Michael Biehn as Mike
Danny Trejo as Schlomo
Release
The production team behind Sushi Girl raised the money for the world premiere via crowdfunding site Kickstarter and the film debuted at TCL Chinese Theatre on November 27, 2012. The film has been played at a range of festivals, including Montreal's Fantasia International Film Festival in 2012 and Melbourne's Supanova Pop Culture Expo in 2013. The film enjoyed a limited theatrical run in February 2013 following its VOD premiere in November 2012, and has subsequently been released on DVD, Blu-ray and digital platforms.
Reception
Sushi Girl has received mixed reviews. Variety stated that "Sushi Girl makes a strong impression with a lurid, finely twisted plot, but its excessive cruelty leaves a foul aftertaste," and the Toronto Star gave it two stars out of four and described it as being overly derivative of the work of Quentin Tarantino. Film Threat was more forgiving, likewise identifying it as being derivative but stating that due to "the power of great performances, Sushi Girl had me hooked from beginning to end, and I can’t wait to see it again." HorrorMovies.ca's review praised the film's style, calling particular attention to the torture scenes, which it called "memorable."
References
External links
Sushi Girl at the Internet Movie Database
Official Sushi Girl website
2012 films
2010s crime films
English-language films
American films
American black comedy films
American independent films
American crime comedy films
American films about revenge
2012 directorial debut films
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Story Like a Scar
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Story Like a Scar is the fifth album by The New Amsterdams released on March 21, 2006 on Vagrant Records.
Track listing
Reception
"However, on an album level, the songs don't always flow with one another and by the end, Story Like a Scar just seems a bit unfinished. With Pryor's desire to finish this record instead of releasing the other one (Killed or Cured), expectations might have been raised too high as the album finishes almost too soon, leaving one with a feeling of wanting something more." - Allmusic
"It used to be a side project, which was not really worth mentioning in the beginning. Pryor's scratchy Mickey Mouse voice and a bit of the acoustic. In the meantime it has matured to a higher priority. In this line-up it makes pretty nicely arranged folk songs [...] People sit around the campfire, sway and clap their hands. And in addition there are still those unmistakable Pryor melodies like in "Beautiful mistake" or "Turn out the lights" [...] When they hit, and they don't always do, they really do. Maybe it's just this simplicity that catapults "Story like a scar" back onto the good side. That smile that these little, uncomplicated songs can conjure up in your face. No matter if it's in a folk-, punk, emo- or anything else sound." - Plattentests.de
Personnel
Matt Pryor - Vocals, Guitar
Bill Belzer - Drums
Eric McCann - Upright Bass
Dustin Kinsey - Guitar
Jason Rich
Zach Holland - Keyboard
Roget Moutenout - Producer, Mixing
References
2006 albums
The New Amsterdams albums
Vagrant Records albums
Albums produced by Roger Moutenot
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Downstream-peptide motif
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The Downstream-peptide motif refers to a conserved RNA structure identified by bioinformatics in the cyanobacterial genera Synechococcus and Prochlorococcus and one phage that infects such bacteria. It was also detected in marine samples of DNA from uncultivated bacteria, which are presumably other species of cyanobacteria.
Downstream-peptide RNAs are found upstream of short open reading frames (ORFs) that are predicted to encode short peptides (usually between 17 and 100 amino acids). One of the ORFs is apparently down-regulated when cells are grown with an insufficient supply of nitrogen sources.
The Downstream-peptide motif has a structural resemblance to a different candidate RNA structure called the glnA RNA motif which was shown to be a functional glutamine binding riboswitch in cyanobacteria. The most striking similarity is the nucleotide conservation within the P1 stem of both motifs, and this and other similarities was discussed previously.
It was hypothesized that Downstream-peptide RNAs correspond to riboswitches, based on multiple lines of evidence. First, glnA RNAs are often located in the presumed 5′ untranslated regions of multiple classes of genes involved in nitrogen metabolism. This, and other evidence, suggests that glnA RNAs are riboswitches, and their structural similarity to Downstream-peptide RNAs in turn suggests that Downstream-peptide RNAs are also riboswitches. Second, Downstream-peptides are consistently positioned in a place that is consistent with a cis-regulatory role in regulating the downstream ORFs, although the biological role of the ORFs is unknown. Third, the pseudoknot structure has a moderate complexity that is typical of riboswitches. Finally, the observation of regulation of a downstream ORF by nitrogen availability also suggests a cis-regulatory role of the element.
This hypothesis is supported by biochemical and genetic data. First, both Downstream-peptide RNAs and glnA RNAs selectively bind glutamine.
Second, reporter gene analysis of the Downstream-peptide motif revealed that this RNA promotes reporter gene expression upon binding of glutamine and can therefore be considered an activating riboswitch. Possible candidates to be regulated by the Downstream-peptide motif are genes that frequently carry the Downstream-peptide motif in their 5′UTR and encode small, unknown proteins that contain DUF4278 and are putative regulators of glutamine synthetase. This hypothesis is supported by the finding that expression of the DUF4278-containing glutamine synthetase inhibitory factor IF17 encoding gene gifB was shown to be regulated by the structurally related glnA RNA motif.
Downstream-peptide RNAs overlap a predicted non-coding RNA called yfr6 that is over 200 nucleotides in length, but it was proposed that only the upstream region (corresponding to the Downstream-peptide motif) functions as an RNA structure. A distinct predicted non-coding RNA called yfr14 overlaps both yfr6 and Downstream-peptide RNAs. However, it is unclear whether yfr6 or yfr14 have any function beyond the now-established role of the Downstream-peptide riboswitch.
References
External links
Cis-regulatory RNA elements
Riboswitch
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FC Spartak-2 Moscow
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FC Spartak-2 Moscow () is a Russian football team from Moscow, founded in 1964. It is a farm club for the Russian Premier League team FC Spartak Moscow.
History
The club has participated in professional competition in the past, as FC Spartak-d Moscow (Russian Second League in 1992–1993, Russian Third Division in 1994–1997) and as FC Spartak-2 Moscow (Russian Second Division in 1998–2000). It started playing professionally again in 2013 in the Russian Professional Football League (third level).
On 24 May 2015, they secured the top spot in the West Zone of the Russian Professional Football League and promotion for the first time in history to the second-tier Russian Football National League for the 2015–16 season.
Current squad
As of 22 February 2022, according to the FNL website.
External links
Official website
Association football clubs established in 2013
Football clubs in Moscow
FC Spartak Moscow
2013 establishments in Russia
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2001 US Open – Women's singles
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Defending champion Venus Williams defeated her sister Serena Williams in the final, 6–2, 6–4, to win the women's singles tennis title at the 2001 US Open. She did not lose a set throughout the tournament.
Seeds
Qualifying
Draw
Finals
Top half
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Bottom half
Section 5
Section 6
Section 7
Section 8
References
External links
2001 US Open – Women's draws and results at the International Tennis Federation
2001 US Open (tennis)
US Open (tennis) by year – Women's singles
2001 in women's tennis
2001 in American women's sports
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Rejean Stringer
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Rejean Stringer (pronounced Ray-zhawn, Stron-zhay) (born August 21, 1974) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey forward who played most of his career in the ECHL.
Early life and education
Stringer was raised in Gravelbourg, Saskatchewan where he began playing hockey at a very young age in a backyard rink. Stringer left home in tenth grade to play for a team in a stronger league. He attended Merrimack College from 1995 to 1999. He led the team in goals scored in the 1996–97 season and led the team in overall scoring the next two years. In the 1997–98 season he also led the nation in assists. That year he scored seven points in Merrimack's upset series victory over top seed Boston University in the Hockey East playoffs. In 1999 he was named to the Hockey East All-Star team.
Professional career
After leaving Merrimack, Stringer played for the Kentucky Thoroughblades of the AHL and the New Orleans Brass of the ECHL in the 1999–2000 season. The next year, he moved to the Fresno Falcons of the now-defunct WCHL. He then played for the Columbia Inferno of the ECHL from 2001 to 2003, making the ECHL all-star team in 2002. He then spent the 2003–04 season in playing for Salzburg in Austria. Stringer returned to ECHL for the 2004–05 season, playing for the Las Vegas Wranglers before being sent to the Peoria Rivermen due to the Wranglers' salary cap issues. The next year he briefly played for the Cardiff Devils of the EIHL before retiring from professional hockey. While in Cardiff, Stringer scored the final goal in the last game that the Devils played at Wales National Ice Rink.
He currently works as an investment advisor for RBC Dominion Securities in his hometown of Gravelbourg.
Career statistics
Awards and honours
References
External links
1974 births
Canadian ice hockey forwards
Ice hockey people from Saskatchewan
Living people
Merrimack Warriors men's ice hockey players
People from Gravelbourg, Saskatchewan
Kentucky Thoroughblades players
New Orleans Brass players
Fresno Falcons players
Columbia Inferno players
Las Vegas Wranglers players
Peoria Rivermen (ECHL) players
Cardiff Devils players
Fransaskois people
Expatriate sportspeople in Wales
Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in England
Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in Wales
AHCA Division I men's ice hockey All-Americans
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Reedsville, Pennsylvania
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Reedsville is a census-designated place (CDP) in the Kishacoquillas Valley of Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 641 at the 2010 census. Reedsville has a high Amish population.
General information
ZIP code: 17084
Area code: 717
Local telephone exchange: 667
Geography
Reedsville is located north of the center of Mifflin County at (40.662470, -77.595962). It lies along Kishacoquillas Creek at the north end of Mann Narrows, a water gap where the creek cuts through Jacks Mountain. Through the narrows it is to Yeagertown. U.S. Route 322 is a limited access highway that passes along the west side of Fairview and leads south to Lewistown and north and west to State College.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of , of which , or 3.22%, is water.
Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there were 850 people, 324 households, and 226 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 313.2 people per square mile (120.9/km2). There were 346 housing units at an average density of 126.3/sq mi (48.8/km2). The racial makeup of the CDP was 99.53% White 0.23% Asian, and 0.23% from two or more races.
There were 324 households, out of which 29.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 57.7% were married couples living together, 9.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 30.2% were non-families. 24.1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 12.7% 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 2.94.
In the CDP, the population was spread out, with 22.1% under the age of 18, 6.1% from 18 to 24, 28.2% from 25 to 44, 22.7% from 45 to 64, and 20.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females, there were 92.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 88.7 males.
The median income for a household in the CDP was $30,833, and the median income for a family was $32,583. Males had a median income of $25,481 versus $20,938 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $13,591. About 4.4% of families and 5.0% of the population were below the poverty line, including none of those under age 18 and 10.1% of those age 65 or over.
Geology
The Reedsville Formation is named after this town.
Schools
Reedsville is part of the Mifflin County School District:
Brown Township Elementary School (now closed)
Indian Valley Elementary/Intermediate School (was formerly Indian Valley Middle School; before that it was Kishacoquillas High School)
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Census-designated places in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania
Census-designated places in Pennsylvania
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Lidia Selkregg
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Lidia Lippi Selkregg (1920 – August 14, 1999) was an Italian geologist and professor of regional planning at the University of Alaska Anchorage. In the days following the 1964 Alaska earthquake, Selkregg helped organize a group of local geologists to gather important data about earthquake damage to inform future recommendations about building stability. She also helped promote earthquake safety, land preservation, and economic development in the Anchorage area.
Early life and education
Selkregg was born Lidia Lippi in Florence, Italy in 1920. Her father died when she was three years old, and she lived in Italy and North Africa with her mother and two brothers. During World War II, Lippi and her mother lived in Florence, Italy, where she worked as a nurse. She also joined the Italian resistance against the Nazis.
Lidia Selkregg trained as a geologist. She received her doctorate degree from the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign.
Career
Selkregg moved to Alaska in 1958, where she worked as a planner in Anchorage. She wrote the Economic Development Administration Grant for the Port of Anchorage, and she fought to protect land for the Anchorage watershed.
In the aftermath of the 1964 Alaska earthquake, the most powerful recorded earthquake in U.S. history, a small group of professional geologists, led by Selkregg, then a geologist with the Alaska State Housing Authority, were authorized by the housing authority and city officials to outline immediate courses of action. The Engineering Geology Evaluation Group was formed, consisting of a volunteer team of local geologists, engineering geologists, and soil scientists. Starting just two days after the earthquake, the group mapped the entire earthquake area and obtained aerial photographs of the damage. They also measured all of the vertical and horizontal displacements in the area. They released a preliminary report on April 14, 1964, and a final report on May 8, 1964. This report was later used by the Scientific and Engineering Task Force, appointed by the Federal Reconstruction and Development Planning Commission for Alaska, to make recommendations about stability in the wake of the earthquake.
Selkregg also worked to get the population of Valdez to move away from the previous site of their town. In the years after the earthquake, she worked to raise awareness among the public about earthquake risk.
From 1971 to 1985, Selkregg was a professor of resources and socioeconomic planning and regional planning at the University of Alaska Anchorage, where she developed a graduate planning program. She was the editor of the "Environmental Atlas of the Greater Anchorage Area Borough," published by the University of Alaska in 1972.
Selkregg served on the Advisory Committee to the Carter White House Conference on Balanced National Growth and Economic Development; she also served in the Anchorage Assembly. As a member of the Assembly, she helped create the city's network of trails and parks.
Personal life
Lippi married Fred Selkregg in 1945. They had three children: Alicia, Sheila, and Leif. Selkregg died on August 14, 1999. She was inducted into the Alaska Women's Hall of Fame in 2009.
References
External links
Guide to the Fred and Lidia Selkregg papers, circa 1950-2000
1920 births
1999 deaths
Anchorage Assembly members
20th-century Italian geologists
University of Alaska Anchorage faculty
Women city councillors in Alaska
20th-century American politicians
20th-century American women politicians
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Scott Thomas is a former American football player. He was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 2012.
Collegiately, Thomas played for Air Force and was the captain of their one loss 1985 team. He was named to the 1985 College Football All-America Team and was MVP of the 1985 Bluebonnet Bowl. After he graduated, he flew combat missions in Desert Storm flying F-16s. He was shot down and picked up by Search and Rescue forces as he was being stalked by Iraqi forces intent on capturing him. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.
References
1964 births
Living people
All-American college football players
Players of American football from San Antonio
Air Force Falcons football players
College Football Hall of Fame inductees
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Sir Norman Peter Lamb (born 16 September 1957) is a British politician and solicitor. He was the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament (MP) for North Norfolk from 2001 to 2019, and was the chair of the Science and Technology Select Committee from 2017 to 2019.
Lamb was a candidate in the 2015 Liberal Democrats leadership election. He served most recently as Minister of State for Care and Support in the Department of Health, and previously as Minister of State for Employment Relations in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, and earlier as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg in the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition Government.
Early life and career
Lamb was born in Watford, Hertfordshire, the son of climatologist Professor Hubert Lamb and the great-grandson of the mathematician Sir Horace Lamb. He went to Wymondham College in Norfolk, then the University of Leicester, graduating with an LLB.
After his graduation, Lamb worked as a solicitor. He began to specialise in employment law whilst working for Steele and Co Solicitors (now called Steeles Law). His book, Remedies in the Employment Tribunal: Damages for Discrimination and Unfair Dismissal was published in 1998.
Lamb worked for a year as a researcher for Labour MP Greville Janner in the early 1980s. A meeting with Shirley Williams in Parliament at this time, shortly after the formation in 1981 of the SDP–Liberal Alliance, spurred Lamb into front line active politics and he was elected to Norwich City Council where he led the Lib Dem group until he stood down in 1991 in order to pursue his Westminster ambitions.
Parliamentary career
Having first stood for election at North Norfolk in 1992, when the Conservative majority was reduced, he came close to a major shock at the 1997 general election, when he reduced a Conservative majority of 12,545 to just 1,293 votes. He was finally elected in 2001, which was his third attempt for the seat; narrowly defeating the incumbent Conservative MP David Prior by 483 votes. He was re-elected in 2005 with a significantly increased majority of 10,606 votes, despite a campaign by the Conservatives and their candidate Iain Dale to unseat him in what was one of their foremost target seats. He was re-elected for a second time in 2010 with a majority of 11,626 votes.
Norman Lamb's first appointment, after being elected, was as a Liberal Democrat spokesman on International Development. Soon after this, he was chosen by then party leader Charles Kennedy to act as his Parliamentary Private Secretary. After the 2005 general election, Lamb was promoted and appointed Liberal Democrat Trade spokesman (2005–2006), securing the endorsement of the Liberal Democrat Spring 2006 Conference for a policy to partially privatise the Royal Mail, and to use the proceeds to invest in a publicly owned Post Office network. In March 2006, he moved to the post of Chief of Staff to the newly elected leader, Sir Menzies Campbell. In December 2006, he became the party's Health spokesman and was succeeded by Ed Davey as Campbell's Chief of Staff.
At the 2010 general election, Lamb was re-elected for a third time as MP for North Norfolk. Lamb secured a larger majority than before, both in percentage terms and in absolute votes. Following the formation of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government in May 2010, Lamb was appointed a Parliamentary Private Secretary to Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Nick Clegg.
On 3 February 2012, Norman Lamb was promoted to the role of junior minister in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills after Ed Davey was appointed Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change following the resignation of Chris Huhne consequent on his prosecution and resignation from Parliament.
In January 2015, The Daily Telegraph highlighted a £497,000 grant to upgrade Sheringham railway station in Lamb's constituency as an example of non-essential money being spent in marginal coalition constituencies ahead of the 2015 general election and accused the government of "electioneering on the taxpayer". Lamb had announced the additional spend as "fantastic news" for the area, with Downing Street subsequently denying that either the funding or Lamb's role in announcing the funding was linked to electoral objectives.
At the 2015 general election, Lamb was returned to Parliament with a significantly reduced majority. At the same election, the Liberal Democrats were reduced to just eight seats and lost their status as the UK's official "third party", having been overtaken by the Scottish National Party in terms of seats won. Nick Clegg resigned as Leader of the Liberal Democrats the following day, on 8 May. Lamb stood at the subsequent Lib Dem leadership election, where he lost to Tim Farron on 16 July 2015. Lamb was re-elected at the 2017 general election with a majority of 6.7%, an election in which he served as Farron's chief of staff.
On 12 July 2017, Lamb beat fellow Lib Dem MP Jo Swinson to become the Chair of the Science and Technology Select Committee by 343 votes to Swinson's 222.
In April 2018, Lamb had a stroke which he attributed to long working days and not getting enough sleep. Shortly after the stroke, Lamb told the Eastern Daily Press that 'There is no point killing myself. I’ve got to work smarter. When a doctor tells you about the importance of sleep you have to take notice ... I am kicking myself that I have allowed this to happen. I am determined to learn a lesson'.
On 27 August 2019 Lamb announced he would not be seeking re-election and would stand down at the next UK general election.
In 2018 Lamb became Vice-Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Whistleblowing. On 24 October 2019 Lamb resigned from the group, writing to its secretariat "I do believe fundamentally in transparency and accountability to the public who ask questions." At July 2020, this resignation had not been announced on the group's website, which left questions from whistleblowing campaigners unanswered.
Views
Lamb has expressed concern that the number of GPs willing to work in deprived areas is falling and Lamb would like doctors paid a patient premium to work with poor patients. Lamb said, “These figures [indicting a fall in the numbers of doctors working in poor areas] show a really disturbing trend, particularly given that low-income areas were already under-doctored before this latest fall took place”.
Brexit
Lamb also claims to be concerned over public spending cuts and a possible no-deal Brexit, Lamb wrote, "Outrageous! A homelessness crisis, care for elderly & disabled people close to collapse, funds for special needs children cut, people with mental ill health waiting far too long for treatment - and Gov spends billions on preparing for no deal Brexit which is completely avoidable!"
After the 2019 General Election, Lamb said that he "largely fell out with the party in the period since the referendum", and that the party's position of reversing Brexit had become "more and more extreme". He left the Liberal Democrats in 2021.
Medical Transparency
In his role as Chair of the Science and Technology Committee, Lamb initiated measures that led to a significant improvement in medical research transparency in the UK.
Cannabis legalisation
Lamb has been an outspoken advocate for the legalisation of cannabis in the UK. In 2018 he introduced a Ten Minute Rule bill to legalise the drug, which was unsuccessful.
In 2019, as part of a BBC documentary, Lamb visited Canada and took cannabis oil, where it is legal.
Personal life
He married Mary in 1984, and they have two sons. They live in Norwich. Their son Archie Lamb was a co-founder of the independent record label Takeover Entertainment which promoted Tinchy Stryder.
Lamb was knighted in the 2019 Birthday Honours. He was appointed chair of South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust in December 2019.
See also
Liberal Democrat Frontbench Team
References
External links
Norman Lamb MP official constituency website
Back Norman, official 2015 party leadership campaign
Profile at the Liberal Democrats
Article archive at The Guardian
Profile: Norman Lamb, BBC News, 17 October 2002
Video clips
YouTube
Explaining Liberal Democrat health policy
1957 births
British cannabis activists
Councillors in Norfolk
Labour Party (UK) politicians
Liberal Democrats (UK) councillors
Liberal Democrats (UK) MPs for English constituencies
Living people
Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom
UK MPs 2001–2005
UK MPs 2005–2010
UK MPs 2010–2015
UK MPs 2015–2017
UK MPs 2017–2019
Knights Bachelor
Politicians awarded knighthoods
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José Alí Meza Draegertt (born 17 April 1991) is a Venezuelan footballer who plays for South African Premier Division club Maritzburg United.
Career statistics
Club
Notes
Honours
South African Premier Division
Winner (2): 2018-19 , 2019-20
Nedbank Cup
Winner : 2019-20
Telkom Knockout
Winner : 2019
References
1991 births
Living people
Venezuelan footballers
Venezuelan expatriate footballers
Association football forwards
A.C.C.D. Mineros de Guayana players
Deportivo Táchira F.C. players
C.D. Feirense players
Oriente Petrolero players
Mamelodi Sundowns F.C. players
Liga Portugal 2 players
South African Premier Division players
Venezuelan expatriate sportspeople in Portugal
Expatriate footballers in Portugal
Venezuelan expatriate sportspeople in Bolivia
Expatriate footballers in Bolivia
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Bobby Armani Decordova-Reid (né Reid; born 2 February 1993) is a professional footballer who plays as a forward for club Fulham and the Jamaica national team.
Born in England, he represents Jamaica at international level.
Early and personal life
Decordova-Reid was born in Bristol, England, and is of Jamaican descent. He grew up in the inner-city neighbourhood of Easton. Decordova-Reid is cousin to Anthony McNamee, a fellow footballer whose clubs include Watford and Norwich City. In October 2018 he changed his name to Bobby Decordova-Reid. 'Decordova' is his mother's name and Reid added it because he "wanted to represent her after the hard work she's done for me". His older sister is Labour MP Marsha de Cordova.
Club career
Bristol City
After playing for their youth team, Reid was offered a professional contract by Bristol City on 4 April 2011, and was called up to the first team for the last game of the 2010–11 season, where he made his senior debut. In November 2011 Reid signed on loan for Cheltenham Town until the end of the year. On 25 March 2013, Reid signed on loan for Oldham Athletic until the end of the 2012–13 season.
He signed a one-month loan deal with Plymouth Argyle in September 2014. The loan deal was then extended for a second month, before he was recalled early following injury problems back at Bristol City. After making one appearance for his parent club, he returned on loan to Plymouth later that month. He returned to Plymouth for a third loan spell in January 2015. Bobby Reid played 27 times in the Football League Championship the following season, scoring two goals as City finished 18th, avoiding relegation straight back to Football League One.
Reid featured as Bristol City reached the semi finals of the 2017–18 EFL Cup with wins over Premier League opponents Watford, Stoke City, Crystal Palace and Manchester United. Reid scored in the semi-final defeat against Premier League leaders Manchester City.
Cardiff City
On 28 June 2018, Reid signed for Premier League newcomers, Cardiff City, on a four-year deal for a reported fee of £10 million. He described the 2017–18 season as 'crazy'. He made his debut for the club on the opening day of the 2018–19 season during a 2–0 defeat to AFC Bournemouth. Reid scored his first goal in a Cardiff shirt in a 4–2 win over Fulham on 20 October. On 2 February 2019, on his 26th birthday and also the first home game since the disappearance of new signing Emiliano Sala, Reid scored both goals of a win over AFC Bournemouth.
Fulham
In August 2019 he moved to Fulham on loan. Reid made his debut in a 2–0 win against Blackburn Rovers in the EFL Championship on 10 August 2019. He scored his first goal for the club in a 3–0 win against Derby County on 26 November 2019. The deal became permanent on 24 January 2020, with Reid signing a three-and-a-half year contract.
Decordova-Reid finished the 2020–21 season as Fulham's top scorer but the club were relegated from the Premier League after a single season in the top-flight.
On 14 August 2021, he provided three assists in a 5–1 away win over Huddersfield Town.
International career
In June 2019, Reid received an invite to play for the Jamaica national side for the CONCACAF Gold Cup the following month. That August, he was officially called up for CONCACAF Nations League matches against Antigua and Barbuda and Guyana. He made his debut against the former on 6 September and scored in a 6–0 victory.
Career statistics
Club
International
Scores and results list Jamaica's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Template goal.
Honours
Fulham
EFL Championship play-offs: 2020
Individual
PFA Team of the Year: 2017–18 Championship
CONCACAF Gold Cup Goal of the Tournament: 2021
References
1993 births
Living people
Footballers from Bristol
English footballers
Jamaican footballers
Jamaica international footballers
Association football forwards
Bristol City F.C. players
Cheltenham Town F.C. players
Oldham Athletic A.F.C. players
Plymouth Argyle F.C. players
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English Football League players
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The Mixean languages are a primary branch of the Mixe–Zoquean language family of southern Mexico. According to Wichmann (1995), there are three divergent Mixean languages, and a Oaxacan branch that constitutes the bulk of the family:
Oluta Popoluca (Veracruz)
Sayula Popoluca (Veracruz)
Tapachultec (Chiapas, extinct)
Mixe languages (Oaxaca, several languages - including Mixe or Ayöök)
One of the languages is extinct, one is nearly extinct, and one is endangered.
Demographics
List of ISO 639-3 codes and demographic information of Mixean languages from Ethnologue (22nd edition):
Footnotes
References
Wichmann, Søren, 1995, The Relationship among the Mixe–Zoquean Languages of Mexico. University of Utah Press. Salt Lake City.
Indigenous languages of Mexico
Mesoamerican languages
Mixe–Zoque languages
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Petar Miljić born 2 January 2009) is a Serbian football forward, who plays for FK Susek.<ref>
References
External links
Petar Milić stats at utakmica.rs
1998 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Belgrade
Association football forwards
Serbian footballers
OFK Beograd players
FK Bežanija players
FK Čukarički players
Red Star Belgrade footballers
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Serbian SuperLiga players
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Thomas Ayasse (born 17 February 1987) is a French professional footballer who plays as a midfielder.
Career
On 1 June 2012, Ayasse signed a three-year deal with Nancy of the French Ligue 1.
On 25 June 2014, Ayasse moved to the Ligue 2 side Troyes on a three-year deal.
In January 2016, Ayasse quit struggling Troyes and signed for Le Havre.
References
External links
1987 births
Living people
Association football midfielders
French footballers
Toulouse FC players
Stade de Reims players
AS Cannes players
AC Arlésien players
AS Nancy Lorraine players
ES Troyes AC players
Le Havre AC players
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The Buckfastleigh, Totnes and South Devon Railway built the broad gauge railway line from Totnes to Buckfastleigh and Ashburton in Devon, England.
History
In the first decades of the nineteenth century, Buckfastleigh and Ashburton were important towns in the region. Ashburton was an important stannary and woollen town, while Buckfastleigh had established woollen mills as well as other manufacturing industries. Both towns were on the coaching road from Plymouth to Exeter, and this transport link was important to their success.
When railways in the area began to be proposed, a number of alternative routes between Plymouth and Exeter were put forward, and a line through Buckfastleigh and Ashburton was considered. However the line actually adopted was the South Devon Railway which followed a more southerly course through Teignmouth, Newton Abbot and Totnes. This line opened in 1847, and Buckfastleigh and Ashburton were not close to the new railway. They quickly found that other towns that were railway-connected gained in importance as their transport costs were reduced, and Buckfastleigh and Ashburton declined rapidly due to the competitive disadvantage.
It was clear to local people that the impact on the towns would be seriously negative, as the coach traffic would cease, and Buckfastleigh and Ashburton would be off the contemporary transport network. It appears that Totnes was concerned too, for on 14 June 1845 a public meeting there resolved that "it is most essential to the interest and welfare of this town to be connected by railway with the towns of Buckfastleigh and Ashburton as leading to develop the resources of this important town and agricultural district."
The enthusiasm to vote for the motion seems not to have been carried into urgent action, but on 27 July 1848 that a Totnes Buckfastleigh and Ashburton Railway obtained its authorising Act of Parliament; authorised capital was £130,000, and the engineer was Isambard Kingdom Brunel. At this time getting money was extremely difficult, and it proved impossible to raise the required capital; in 1851 the company was dissolved, with nothing done.
A viable scheme
Decline had been predicted for the industries of Buckfastleigh and Ashburton if they were isolated from the railway network, and the gloomy forecast proved true. In 1863 interested men of affairs promoted a new railway, this time to connect to the South Devon Railway (SDR) at Totnes, and to extend to the quayside on the River Dart. In due course on 25 June 1864 the Buckfastleigh, Totnes and South Devon Railway Company obtained an authorising Act of Parliament.
The main line was to be not quite ten miles (16 km) long. The short branch, a "railway or tramway", to the Quays at Totnes was on the south side of the SDR main line, and was to be horse-worked. The use of locomotives, stationary engines and ropes, or "atmospheric agency" (i.e. the now discredited atmospheric traction system), were all forbidden. The line was to be on the broad gauge.
Raising the money was a little easier now than in 1848, but Ashburton's omission from the scheme cut off a large section of potential financial support, and the following year a further Act was obtained, on 26 May 1845, authorising an extension of the line to Ashburton; however the town remained absent from the Company name.
Construction and opening
Construction of the line was exceedingly slow due to difficulty in raising money. Although some work had been done in 1867, in 1868 it was reported that work was at a standstill, and that Parliamentary authority of an extension of time needed to be applied for.
In 1869 authority was obtained to raise some money by the issue of 5% preference shares, and certain debenture loans.
Opening—of the main line
At length the construction of the line was completed, and amid much rejoicing and festivity the line from Ashburton to Totnes SDR station opened for passenger and goods traffic on 1 May 1872; it was worked from the outset by the South Devon Railway. The traditional industries of the district in general had further declined, but the woollen mills of Buckfastleigh had resisted the trend, and they provided much of the goods traffic on the line: manufactured articles outwards and coal for the plant inwards. Passenger traffic on the line was significant, but not dominant.
The first half-year accounts (to 31 March 1873) showed gross receipts of £1893 10s 0d, and net profit of £1055 12s 7d after deduction of the SDR charges for working the line. 45,336 passenger journeys had been made, and over 12,000 tons of goods had been carried.
The Quay line
The construction of the tramway to the Quays had not been carried out with the main line, but by October 1873 it was reported that it was completed, but could not be opened because of required alterations to the signalling on the SDR at the junction with that company's main line at Totnes. However this was soon rectified and the Quay line opened 10 November 1873; it was for goods traffic only, and was horse-operated.
An appeal against SDR charges
At the October 1873 Shareholders' Meeting the directors reported that the charges from the SDR for operating the line were higher than expected and were not in accordance with the agreement for working the line. £1,055 operating profit in a half-year was small on capital of £130,000 when debenture interest was to be paid first, and it would "leave nothing for Dividend". At the May 1874 meeting, the directors congratulated the shareholders on a successful outcome of the dispute; however the full year (1873) accounts now showed £4147 12s 10d gross profit, £2127 4s 0d net. The first half-year SDR charge before the dispute, and doubled to equate to a full year, were £1676 (44%), and the actual post-dispute charge was £2020 (49%).
It is difficult to follow how this was an improvement; however the Directors, on this and subsequent occasions, urged consignors to specify Totnes Quay as a destination in preference to Totnes SDR station, where terminal charges would be levied against the smaller Company.
The Great Western Railway
The South Devon Railway Company was working the Buckfastleigh line. On 1 February 1876 the SDR amalgamated with the Great Western Railway (GWR) and the Bristol and Exeter Railway (B&ER); the combined company was named the Great Western Railway. The GWR now assumed the role of working the Buckfastleigh line.
Change of gauge
The line had been built on the broad gauge, which was the track gauge of the SDR to which it connected at Totnes. In 1892 the Great Western Railway, as successor to the SDR, altered the gauge of its lines in Devon and Cornwall to . The work was actually carried out over the weekend 20–23 May 1892, from which time the Buckfastleigh line was a standard gauge line.
Financial difficulties
The company had never been in good financial health, and the situation seems to have deteriorated after the initial years. By 1896 it was obvious that the company could not continue, and a liquidator was appointed pending sale. The GWR was the only possible purchaser, and the sale took effect on 1 July 1897. The shareholders received £22,450 for their £130,000 investment. The GWR assumed the obligations of the debentures and preference share guarantees.
Under the GWR
The line had been saved by the GWR and indeed some improvement to it passenger carryings took place in the years up to the beginning of World War I. The GWR introduced its railmotor services for passenger trains on the branch, and later push and pull trains (often called auto-trains), in both cases reducing operating costs somewhat.
However Newton Abbot became increasingly the commercial centre in the locality, and Totnes lost importance. As road transport—for passengers as well as goods—became available the short road journey to Newton Abbot was decisive for most purposes and the line's traffic declined. The small-scale traditional industries of Buckfastleigh and Ashburton were now obsolescent and their potential railway traffic declined with them. Passenger tickets issued at Ashburton declined from 24,688 in 1903 to 13,851 in 1923 and 4,843 in 1933.
Nationalisation—and closure
The Transport Act 1947 brought most of the railways of Great Britain into national ownership under British Railways. This had little impact on the operational circumstances of the line, but the decline in usage became increasingly obvious. The decision was taken to close the line to passengers, and the last ordinary passenger train ran on 3 November 1958. Goods traffic on the line continued until Friday 7 September 1962. The following day the final revenue train ran, an enthusiasts' special passenger train. The main line was now closed.
However the Quay line served numerous industrial premises and remained in occasional use; it closed for general goods on 14 June 1965, and the service to the private sidings finished after 4 December 1967.
Reopening
It was re-opened as the "Dart Valley Railway", a heritage railway, on 5 April 1969, the opening ceremony being performed by Dr Richard Beeching. In 1971 the line beyond Buckfastleigh was again closed and the A38 road was built on the route of the railway. The South Devon Railway Trust took over the running of the line on 1 January 1991.
Stations
Ashburton; the terminus had an all-over train shed, covering the passenger platform and the run-round road, which in the twentieth century had a platform face for goods and cattle. Ashburton had an engine shed and a turntable until 1900.
Buckfastleigh
Staverton
Totnes; branch trains used the main line platforms, no bay platform ever having been constructed.
Since the line re-opened as a heritage railway, a new Totnes (Riverside) railway station has been opened to avoid the need for trains to run into the Network Rail station. A footbridge over the river links the two stations. Staverton station was named Staverton Bridge when it reopened in April 1969, but the suffix "fell into disuse" in the 1980s.
Operations
Passenger trains arriving from Ashburton used the down platform at Totnes, and departing passenger trains to Ashburton used the up platform. In post-war operation, the first auto-train from Totnes to Ashburton started from the Down platform at Totnes, but could not convey passengers as there was no locking on the crossover from that platform.
The 1954 Service Timetable shows eight daily return passenger trips, and a goods train each way.
Buckfastleigh had a crossing loop, but the loop line was for goods trains only and was not a running line. Staverton was an intermediate block post but not a staff station.
Gradients
The line climbed steadily from Totnes to Ashburton, with gentle gradients as far as Staverton, then stiffening to 1 in 264 and 1 in 118; after Buckfastleigh the gradients become considerable, at 1 in 62 typically.
Notes
References
7 ft gauge railways
Great Western Railway constituents
Rail transport in Devon
Railway companies established in 1864
Railway lines opened in 1872
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+Crataegomespilus is the generic name applied to graft-chimeras between the genera Crataegus and Mespilus. It should not be confused with × Crataemespilus, which is applied to sexual hybrids between those genera, nor with Chamaemespilus which is a segregate genus or subgenus of Sorbus.
References
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Graft chimeras
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Ray Errol Fox is an American journalist who has written and produced award-winning documentaries, written books, and composed.
Ray Errol Fox's novel career in journalism and the arts has resulted in a wide range of distinguished achievements. His film, Preserving the Past to Ensure the Future, which he wrote and produced, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Subjects Documentary in 1990. "Freedom to Hate," a one-hour film narrated by Dan Rather and introduced by Jack Lemmon that Fox directed as well, was selected an Outstanding Documentary of the Year by the Motion Picture Academy Foundation, awarded the CINE Golden Eagle and the American Film and Video Association's Blue Ribbon, was presented by the Congressional Human Rights Caucus to members and staff of the U.S. Congress, and has been widely used by emigration lawyers to protect political refugees from deportation and harm.
His book, "Angela Ambrosia", published by Knopf, was a Literary Guild Selection, Pocket Books paperback, Xerox Education edition, Look Magazine feature and a newspaper supplement. A recognized specialist in Middle East analysis, he contributed to The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Huffington Post, The Observer and numerous other publications. His New York Times article on Lebanon's Major Sa'ad Haddad was read into the U.S. Congressional Record.
Fox has appeared on The Today Show, CNN, others - and before a U.S. congressional committee re: hate crimes in Russia. He contributed two films, narrated by Larry King, to an International Satellite Broadcast hosted by King—and co-directed a documentary featuring the Dalai Lama in Mongolia. His additional documentary credits include: writer of "The Other War," featuring Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson; writer and producer of "Sammy Davis: Mission of Love"; and writer-producer-director of "Echoes of Remembrance", featuring a uniquely emotional Robert Maxwell and "Forward with New York" for the New York Daily News.
Fox was the co-teleplay writer and executive producer of "Family Dr.", a CBS TV film (2003) and wrote "Under Pegasus," a feature film in development based on the book by David Beckman. Prior to these, he wrote a screenplay (Miramax) based on the life of Moe Berg and contributed 'Additional Material' to two films, Hot Shot and "The Stranger."
He has served as a theater, film and dance critic (Spectrum, New Republic et al. and on radio) - and contributed cultural and entertainment articles to countless newspapers and magazines. His exclusive account of a trip accompanying Elizabeth Taylor to Israel was a cover feature in "The Ladies' Home Journal"; "The Other Side of Goldie Hawn" was a cover story for "Parade"; and a 'reminiscence' with Sammy Davis Jr. appeared in a New York Times Sunday supplement. An exclusive interview with Armand Hammer was featured in "Aretè" and a cover story featuring Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell and Sherry Lansing accompanied the premier issue of "Dimension."
Fox, who began his professional writing career as a lyricist, provided the lyrics for motion picture title themes including Resnais' award-winning "The War Is Over" and Fellini's "The Clowns." For theater, he wrote the lyrics for the Broadway production of Lorraine Hansberry's "The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window": the Theatreworks and Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera productions of "Young Ben Franklin"; and contributed material to "Upstairs at the Downstairs," "Broadway Jukebox" and numerous other shows and reviews.
One of his most popular works is "The Confidence Man", a musical based on the Herman Melville novel of the same name. Ray Fox wrote the book and lyrics and Jim Steinman wrote the music.
It was originally performed as a cabaret piece at the Manhattan Theater Club. A full staging, presented as a World Premier, followed at the Queens College Theatre. It was performed again in 2004 in Cincinnati, OH by the Beechmont Players, Inc. with an updated script and score.
Fox has also been responsible for several signature themes, including "Here's to Love" (Shields & Yarnell, CBS TV) and wrote "Children to Children" (lyric) for the 150 young professionals of the Children to Children's Chorus (debuted at the Live Aid Concert). His song lyrics endure on many recordings.
He wrote the play, "Spy-Catcher/The Unbelievably True Story of Moe Berg".
References
External links
Blog: Son of the Cucumber King A New York Writer's Chronicles of Broadway, Hollywood, Politics and the Middle East.
www.realmofdreams.com/confidenceman
1939 births
Living people
American male journalists
People from Philadelphia
American dramatists and playwrights
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Kevin Morley
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Kevin Morley (born in Liverpool), is an English businessman, known for being the former managing director, sales and marketing of the former Rover Group.
Holding an MSc from the University of Surrey and Master of Business Administration from Aston University, Morley joined Ford UK in 1977, and during a nine-year career achieved 11 promotions.
Morley joined the Austin Rover Group in 1986 as marketing director under Canadian Graham Day, where his first project was the Rover 200 Mk2/R8 in 1989. Morley was appointed managing director, sales and marketing of the Rover Car Group five years later, the company had a turnover of £3.2 billion and a staff of 1100.
After leaving Rover in 1992, Morley set up Kevin Morley Marketing, whose sole client was Rover Group. Having described the motor marketing as a "bunch of expensive lunch-bandits," in 1995 Morley sold the company to Lintas.
Morley has been a director of dfs Plc, Flying Flowers, Jacobs Holdings; and founding member of the Advisory Board of Jon Moulton's Venture Capital company Alchemy Partners.
Morley is Chairman of several private companies, and Senior non-executive director of Stadium Group.He became chairman and head of Young Driver in 2009 and appeared both on the television and radio promoting it.
Morley is Honorary Professor of Business Studies at University of Warwick.
In March 2009, Morley appeared on Channel 4's reality television show Secret Millionaire, where working as a volunteer among community projects in Haringey, North London, he donated £250,000.
Married with two children, Morley and his family live in Oxfordshire. His cars include a Ferrari 599 GTB.
References
External links
Bio of Kevin Morley at University of Warwick
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
People educated at St Mary's College, Crosby
Alumni of the University of Surrey
Alumni of Aston University
Academics of the University of Warwick
Businesspeople from Liverpool
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Acanthocyclops hypogeus is a species of copepod in the family Cyclopidae. It is endemic to Slovenia.
References
Cyclopidae
Freshwater crustaceans of Europe
Crustaceans described in 1930
Endemic fauna of Slovenia
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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Fukuoka Domain
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was a Japanese domain of the Edo period. It was associated with Chikuzen Province in modern-day Fukuoka Prefecture on the island of Kyushu. The domain was also sometimes referred to as Chikuzen Domain, or as Kuroda Domain, after the ruling Kuroda family.
In the han system, Fukuoka was a political and economic abstraction based on periodic cadastral surveys and projected agricultural yields. In other words, the domain was defined in terms of kokudaka, not land area. This was different from the feudalism of the West. With its rating of 473,000 koku, the domain was the fifth-largest in Japan, excluding the domains held by the Tokugawa-Matsudaira dynasty.
List of daimyōs
The hereditary daimyōs were head of the clan and head of the domain.
Kuroda clan, 1600–1868 (tozama; 502,000→412,000→433,000→473,000 koku)
Nagamasa
Tadayuki
Mitsuyuki
Tsunamasa
Nobumasa
Tsugutaka
Haruyuki
Harutaka
Naritaka
Narikiyo
Nagahiro
Nagatomo
Prince Arisugawa Taruhito (briefly ruled domain as imperial governor in 1871)
Family tree
I. Kuroda Nagamasa, 1st daimyō of Fukuoka (cr. 1600) (1568–1623; Lord of Fukuoka: 1600–1623)
II. Tadayuki, 2nd daimyō of Fukuoka (1602–1654; r. 1623–1654)
III. Mitsuyuki, 3rd daimyō of Fukuoka (1628–1707; r. 1654–1688)
IV. Tsunamasa, 4th daimyō of Fukuoka (1659-1711; r. 1688-1711)
V. Nobumasa, 5th daimyō of Fukuoka (1685–1744; r. 1711–1719)
Nagakiyo, daimyō of Nogata (1667–1720)
VI. Tsugutaka, 6th daimyō of Fukuoka (1703–1775; r. 1719–1769)
As Tsugutaka, the sixth daimyō, was without heirs, he adopted an heir from a branch of the Tokugawa family to continue the line:
Tokugawa Munetada, 1st Hitotsubashi-Tokugawa family head (1721–1765)
Tokugawa Harusada, 2nd Hitotsubashi-Tokugawa family head (1751–1827)
IX. Naritaka, 9th daimyō of Fukuoka (1777–1795; r. 1782–1795)
X. Narikiyo, 10th daimyō of Fukuoka (1795–1851; r. 1795–1834). He had a daughter:
Junhime (d. 1851), m. XI. (Shimazu) Nagahiro, 11th daimyō of Fukuoka, 11th family head (1811–1887; r. 1834–1869; family head: 1834–1869). He had a daughter:
Rikuhime, m. XII. (Tōdō) Nagatomo, 12th daimyō of Fukuoka, 12th family head (1839–1902; Lord: 1869; Governor: 1869–1871; family head: 1869–1878)
Nagashige, 13th family head, 1st Marquess (1867–1939; family head: 1878–1939; Marquess: 1884)
Nagamichi, 14th family head, 2nd Marquess (1889–1978; family head: 1939–1978; 2nd Marquess: 1939–1947)
Nagahisa, 15th family head (1916–2009; family head: 1978–2009)
Nagataka, 16th family head (b. 1952; family head: 2009–present)
VII.(Kuroda) Haruyuki, 7th daimyō of Fukuoka (1753–1781; r. 1769–1781). Adopted by the sixth Lord of Fukuoka. He adopted an heir, the eighth 'daimyō:
VIII. (Kyōgoku) Harutaka, 8th daimyō of Fukuoka'' (1754–1782; r. 1782)
See also
List of Han
Abolition of the han system
References
External links
Fukuoka Domain on "Edo 300 HTML"
Domains of Japan
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Rocky Mountain Philatelic Library
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The Rocky Mountain Philatelic Library is a privately funded public library in Denver, Colorado.
History
The library opened on 1 August 1993. A number of moves followed but eventually on 3 August 1996 it opened at its current premises which it owns outright.
Legal status
The library is a chartered Colorado non-profit corporation with 501(c)(3) status with the United States Internal Revenue Service. The library is a public charity and donations are treated as a charitable deduction for the purposes of United States Federal Income Tax.
Collections
In addition to the main collection of philatelic literature, maps, auction catalogues, journals and clippings, the library is home to several specialist collections and club collections. These include the Western History and Railroad collection and the Scandinavian Collectors Club library.
Facilities
The library has a dedicated room for society meetings and several local societies hold their regular meetings at the library. There is also a successful stamp sales division. In 2009 an additional building was purchased adjacent to the existing premises and which doubled the library's available space.
External links
Official website
References
Philatelic libraries
1993 establishments in Colorado
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Henry (Portuguese: Henrique, French: Henri; c. 10661112), Count of Portugal, was the first member of the Capetian House of Burgundy to rule Portugal and the father of the country's first king, Afonso Henriques.
Biographical sketch
Family relations
Born in about 1066 in Dijon, Duchy of Burgundy, Count Henry was the youngest son of Henry, the second son of Robert I, Duke of Burgundy. His two older brothers, Hugh I and Odo, inherited the duchy. No contemporary record of his mother has survived. She was once thought to have been named Sibylla based on an undated obituary reporting the death of "Sibilla, mater ducus Burgundie" (Sibylla, mother of the Duke of Burgundy), under the reasoning that she was not called duchess herself and hence must have been the wife of Henry, the only father of a duke who never himself held the ducal title, yet this was probably a reference to her daughter-in-law, Sibylla, mother of the then-reigning Hugh II. Richard suggested that she might instead have been called Clémence. Whatever her name, her son Henry was kinsman (congermanus) of his brother-in-law, Raymond of Burgundy, and this relationship may have come through either, or both, of their mothers, who are both of undocumented parentage. It has been suggested that Henry's mother may have been the daughter of Reginald I, which would make her the maternal aunt of Raymond who would then be Henry’s first cousin. This solution is problematic, as Henry's brother Odo I, Duke of Burgundy married Raymond's sister, Sibylla, and though marriages between close kin sometimes took place through dispensation, the prohibition against first-cousin marriages in church law makes it likely that the relationship between Odo and Sibylla, and hence that between Henry and Raymond, was more distant. Based on the relationship between Henry and Raymond and the apparent introduction of the byname Borel into the family of the dukes of Burgundy through this marriage, genealogist Szabolcs de Vajay suggested Henry's mother was daughter of Berenguer Ramon I, Count of Barcelona, and his wife Guisla de Lluçà.
One of his paternal aunts was Constance of Burgundy, the wife of Alfonso VI of León, and one of his grand-uncles was Hugh, Abbot of Cluny, one of the most influential and venerated personalities of his time. Count Henry’s family was very powerful and governed many cities in France such as Chalon, Auxerre, Autun, Nevers, Dijon, Mâcon and Semur.
Reconquista
After the defeat of the Christian troops in the Battle of Sagrajas in October 1086, in the early months of the following year, King Alfonso VI appealed for aid from Christians at the other side of the Pyrenees. Many French nobles and soldiers heeded the call, including Raymond of Burgundy, Henry's brother, Duke Odo, and Raymond of St. Gilles. Not all of them arrived at the same time in the Iberian Peninsula and it is most likely that Raymond of Burgundy came in 1091. Although some authors claim that Count Henry came with the expedition which arrived in 1087, even though "documentary evidence here is much more slight", his presence is confirmed only as of 1096 when he appears confirming the forais of Guimarães and Constantim de Panoias.
Three of these French nobles married daughters of King Alfonso VI: Raymond of Burgundy married infanta Urraca, later Queen Urraca of León; Raymond of St. Gilles married Elvira; and Henry of Burgundy married Teresa of León, an illegitimate daughter of the king and his mistress Jimena Muñoz.
Pact with his cousin Raymond of Burgundy
Between the first quarter of 1096 and the end of 1097, count Raymond, seeing that his influence in the Curia Regis was diminishing, reached an agreement with his cousin Henry of Burgundy, who had not yet been appointed governor of Portugal. The birth of King Alfonso's only son, Sancho Alfónsez, was also perceived as a threat by the two cousins. They agreed to share power, the royal treasury, and to support each other. Under this agreement, which counted with the blessings of their relative, the Abbot of Cluny, Raymond "promised his cousin under oath to hand him over the Kingdom of Toledo and one third of the royal treasury upon the death of King Alfonso VI". If he could not deliver Toledo, he would give him Galicia. Henry, in turn, promised to help Raymond "obtain all the dominions of King Alfonso and two thirds of the royal treasury". It seems that news of this pact reached the king who, in order to counter the initiative of his two sons-in-law, appointed Henry governor of the region extending a flumine mineo usque in tagum (from the Minho River to the banks of the Tagus). Until then, this region had been governed by count Raymond who saw his power limited to just Galicia.
After the death of Alfonso VI
After Raymond's death, Queen Urraca (Teresa's half-sister) married Alfonso the Battler for political and strategic reasons. Henry took advantage of the family conflicts and political unrest to serve on both sides and aggrandize his domains at the cost of the squabbling royal couple.
Caught under siege in Astorga by the King of Aragon, then at war with Urraca, Henry held the city with the help of his sister-in-law. Henry died on 22 May 1112, from wounds received during the siege. His remains were transferred, following his previous orders, to Braga where he was buried in a chapel at Braga Cathedral the building of which he had promoted. After his death, his widow governed the county since their son Afonso was only three years old at that time.
Legacy
Count Henry was the leader of a group of gentlemen, monks, and clerics of French origin who exerted great influence in the Iberian Peninsula, promoted many reforms and introduced several institutions from the other side of the Pyrenees, such as the customs of Cluny and the Roman Rite. They occupied relevant ecclesiastical and political positions which provoked a strong backlash during the last years of the reign of King Alfonso VI.
Marriage and issue
He married Teresa of León around 1095. From Teresa, Henry had two sons and three daughters of whom three survived to adulthood:
Urraca Henriques (after 1169), the wife of Bermudo Pérez de Traba, tenente in Trastámara, Viseu, Seia, and Faro in A Coruña.
Sancha Henriques (1163), married the nobleman Sancho Nunes de Celanova. On 15 July 1129, the abbess of the Monastery of San Salvador de Ferreira de Pantón purchased from Mendo Núñez, his brother Sancho, and the wife of the latter, Sancha Henriques, some properties in Estriz. One of their daughters, María, was the abbess at the Monastery of San Salvador de Sobrado de Trives. They were also the parents of count Velasco, Gil, Fernando, and Teresa Sánchez. After becoming a widow, she married Fernando Méndez de Braganza, with no issue from this second marriage.
Afonso Henriques (11091185). He was named after his maternal grandfather, King Alfonso VI, perhaps "as a way of remembering that the blood of the Emperor of all Hispania also ran through his veins". Afonso became Count of Portugal in 1112 and King of Portugal in 1139.
Ancestry
Notes
References
Bibliography
External links
Portugal, Kings by Medieval Lands Project
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Portuguese people of French descent
People of the Reconquista
House of Burgundy
Burials at Braga Cathedral
1060s births
1112 deaths
Year of birth uncertain
11th-century counts of Portugal (Asturias-León)
12th-century counts of Portugal (Asturias-León)
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Thomas William Ludlow "Lud" Ashley (January 11, 1923 – June 15, 2010) was an American businessman and politician of the Democratic Party. He served as a U.S. representative from Ohio from 1955 to 1981.
Early life and education
Ashley was born on January 11, 1923, in Toledo, Ohio, and raised on the Old West End. He was the son of Mary Alida Gouverneur (née Ludlow) Ashley and William Meredith Ashley, who owned a small steel manufacturing firm. His older brother William was killed in May 1944, at age 22, when his Army bomber exploded during a training mission over Massachusetts.
Ashley attended Maumee Valley Country Day School and graduated from the Kent School in Connecticut in 1942. During World War II, he served in the United States Army as a corporal in the Pacific Theater of Operations. After the war, Ashley attended Yale University, where he graduated in 1948. At Yale, he was a member of the secret society Skull and Bones along with future U.S. President George H. W. Bush.
After graduating from Yale, Ashley worked with the Toledo Publicity and Efficiency Commission. Encouraged by Michael DiSalle, then mayor of Toledo and later governor of Ohio, he began studying law through night classes at the University of Toledo College of Law. He graduated from Ohio State University College of Law in 1951. He was admitted to the bar that year and began practicing law.
Career
Ashley joined the staff of Radio Free Europe (RFE) in 1952. He served in Europe for RFE as the co-director of the press section and later the assistant director of special projects. He resigned from RFE on March 1, 1954, to run for Congress.
U.S. Congress
Ashley was elected to Congress in 1954, beating the incumbent Frazier Reams, an independent, by 4,000 votes in a three-way race. He served 13 terms in Congress and was chairman of the Select Committee on Energy (Ad Hoc) from 1977 to 1979 and of the United States House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries from 1979 to 1981.
In 1961, Ashley was one of six congressmen who voted to withdraw funding for the House Un-American Activities Committee. He helped pass the 1964 Civil Rights Act and was a proponent of anti-poverty and housing legislation.
In 1980, Ashley lost in an upset to Republican challenger Ed Weber.
Later career
Ashley was a member of the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum board and served on many corporate boards, including Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the country's two largest mortgage lenders.
Personal life
Ashley was twice married. He married Margaret Mary Sherman in 1956 but they separated shortly thereafter. He married Kathleen Lucey in 1967 at the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption in Trenton, New Jersey. Kathleen, the daughter of Charley Lucey (editor of The Times Newspapers in Trenton), was a graduate of Trinity College and Georgetown Law School and the Washington editor for the United States Savings and Loan League. They had three children:
Lise Ashley, who married Steven Francis Xavier Murphy, a son of Major General Dennis J. Murphy.
William Meredith Ashley, who married Monica Ann Manginello in 2008.
Mark Michael Ashley
Kathleen Ashley died of heart failure at George Washington University Hospital in 1997. Lud Ashley lived in Leland, Michigan, until his death from melanoma at his home on June 15, 2010. After his death, George H. W. Bush said in a statement that he and Barbara Bush "mourn the loss of a very close friend" and said Ashley "might well have been my very best friend in life."
References
External links
1923 births
2010 deaths
Ohio Democrats
Members of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio
United States Army soldiers
United States Army personnel of World War II
Yale University 1940s alumni
Ohio State University Moritz College of Law alumni
University of Toledo alumni
Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio
Kent School alumni
Politicians from Toledo, Ohio
People from Leland, Michigan
Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives
20th-century American politicians
Maumee Valley Country Day School alumni
Military personnel from Ohio
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Saint-Front-de-Pradoux
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Saint-Front-de-Pradoux (; ) is a commune in the Dordogne department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France.
Population
See also
Communes of the Dordogne department
References
Communes of Dordogne
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Russell Hill (artist)
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Russell Hill (born 1988, Rugby, Warwickshire) is an artist living and working in London, UK who works primarily in sculpture and installation art. He won the 2011 Catlin Art Prize. He is known for his work employing everyday material, such as air fresheners or domestic appliances.
Education and career
Hill is a graduate of the BA Fine Art Sculpture programme at Wimbledon College of Art, University of the Arts London and the Royal College of Art MA Sculpture programme under the guidance of Professor Richard Wentworth. He was selected for inclusion in Anticipation, an exhibition curated by art collector Kay Saatchi, alongside Catriona Warren, former editor of Art Review magazine. He was selected for inclusion in the Catlin Guide to the 40 important emerging artists in the UK (a publication which was launched at the London Art Fair) and subsequently won the Annual Catlin Art Prize in 2011, selected by curator Justin Hammond and judged by London gallerist Simon Oldfied, curator Julia Royse and art collector Richard Greer. The Catlin Guide 2011 and its 40 most promising UK art school graduates, including Hill, was featured in The Independent newspaper. His work was selected by curator (and creator of the Catlin Art prize) Justin Hammond, to appear in '100 Curators, 100 Days', hosted by Saatchi Online. He is Visiting Tutor at Brit School in Croydon, London and lectures at Wimbledon College of Art and Camberwell College of Arts. He has work in many private collections, in Asia, Europe and America. In 2012 he was profiled in a University of the Arts London film which charted his progress through art college and his experiences on the London contemporary art scene. In 2014 Hill was selected to show a solo presentation at Baltic Center For Contemporary Art. Recently, Hill has worked with toothpaste to create large installations at Baltic Centre For Contemporary Art, Royal College of Art and at John Latham's home and studio, Flat Time House, Peckham, London. Rob Alderson, states 'Hill’s huge piece created using toothpaste has the perfect combination of wit and technical skill'
Further reading
The Skinny, Review: Manchester Contemporary, 1 October 2014.
Crack Magazine, Online Artist Profile: Russell Hill. February 14, 2014.
IGNANT, Online Artist Profile: Russell Hill. February 7, 2012.
Russell Hill, It's Nice That, HudsonBec Group. 31 January 2012.
Young British Artists You Must Not Miss: Russell Hill, Ink System, January 2012.
Warwickshire Life, Artist Interview, Warwickshire Life Ltd. 1 July 2011.
Multi-sensory Dialogues, Aesthetica Magazine Ltd. 17 June 2011.
How To Sleep faster Journal, Arcadia Missa Publications 2011. 26 May 2011.
Russell Hill scoops £5,000 Catlin Art Prize, Spoonfed Media. 19 May 2011.
FADWebsite, Artist Profile and Interview, Catlin Prize Artist Number 3. 15 May 2011.
Modern Art Can Get Up Your Nose, The Rugby Observer. 28 April 2011.
Documentary Interview, CraneTV. 1 April 2011.
Art Stars Feature by Aaron Hammond, The Glass Magazine, Glass Ventures Ltd. 2011. Spring, 2011.
References
External links
Artist's Website
FADwebsite
It's Nice That Profile: Russell Hill
Living people
1988 births
People from Rugby, Warwickshire
English sculptors
English male sculptors
British conceptual artists
Royal College of Art
English contemporary artists
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STV AS
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STV is Estonian cable television company founded in 1991 and located in Tallinn, Estonia.
Subdivisions
STV AS (or just STV) – DVB-C/cable television, Internet service provider main company
STV Telekanal – TV channel
STV Turvateenistus – Security service
External links
STV website
Telecommunications companies of Estonia
Telecommunications companies established in 1991
1991 establishments in Estonia
Companies based in Tallinn
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Bellingham Technical College
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Bellingham Technical College (Bellingham Tech or BTC) is a public technical college in Bellingham, Washington. Although it awards some bachelor's degrees, it primarily awards associate degrees.
Campus events
LinuxFest Northwest is weekend event held annually in late April or early May. It is dedicated to discussion and development of the Linux operating system and other open source and free software projects. The event is free to the public and draws more than a thousand computer professionals and enthusiasts from across Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia.
References
Universities and colleges in Bellingham, Washington
Technological universities in the United States
Community colleges in Washington (state)
Universities and colleges accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities
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Michael Adrian Midwood (born 19 April 1976) is an English former professional footballer who played as a striker in the Football League for Huddersfield Town, and in the Hong Kong First Division League for Happy Valley and Instant-Dict.
He also played non-League football for clubs including Halifax Town. He is now manager of Ealandians A.F.C.
References
1976 births
Living people
Footballers from Burnley
English footballers
Association football forwards
Huddersfield Town A.F.C. players
Macclesfield Town F.C. players
Halifax Town A.F.C. players
Accrington Stanley F.C. players
Happy Valley AA players
Glentoran F.C. players
Wakefield F.C. players
Doncaster Rovers F.C. players
Double Flower FA players
Ossett Town F.C. players
Farsley Celtic A.F.C. players
English Football League players
Hong Kong First Division League players
Expatriate footballers in Hong Kong
English expatriate sportspeople in Hong Kong
English expatriate footballers
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Johann Stephan Pütter
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Johann Stephan Pütter (25 June 1725, Iserlohn – 12 August 1807, Göttingen) was a German law lecturer and publicist. He was professor of law at the university of Göttingen from 1746 until his death. He exerted great influence on the law institutions of his time. His principal work is Historical development of the current constitution of the German Empire).
Life
Johann Stephan Pütter was born to a merchant from Iserlohn, with his mother coming from the Varnhagen family of pastors from the same town. He received his only pre-university education at home from a local priest, learning Latin, ancient Greek, Hebrew, Chaldaean and Syriac and so almost becoming an orientalist. Instead, however, on his father's death, he followed family tradition and went into law.
Pütter began his legal studies aged nearly 13 at the University of Marburg under tutors who included Christian Wolff. In 1739 he joined the University of Halle (where he became friends with Gottfried Achenwall) and completed his legal studies at the University of Jena. In 1744 he habilitated at Marburg and in 1746 he was appointed associate professor of law at University of Göttingen, where he remained until his death, not least thanks to the advocacy and protection of David Georg Strube. This was despite many requests from other universities – he even turned down offers to become a minister in the electorate of Hanover, a member of the 'Reichshofrat' in Vienna or a law-reformer in St Petersburg. However, he did serve three times (1764, 1790 and 1794) as the electorate of Hanover's representative at the Imperial elections in Frankfurt (Hanover then being in personal union with the king of England).
According to Achenwall, Pütter was established in 1743 as a member of the Masonic lodge named "Zu den drey Löwen" in Marburg.
The Pütterstraße in Iserlohn's city centre is named after him.
Work
Books
„Vollständiges Handbuch der deutschen Reichshistorie“, Göttingen, 1762, (2. Aufl. 1772).
„Litteratur des teutschen Staatsrechts“, Göttingen, 1776–1783, (3 volumes) online version.
„Historische Entwickelung der heutigen Staatsverfassung des Deutschen Reichs“, Göttingen, 1786–87, (3 Bde.), (3. Aufl. 1798).
Doktor-Dissertation des Johann Stephan Pütter, vorgelegt am 16. April 1744. Marburg, Müller o.J.
Vorbereitung zu einem praktischen Kollegium des Öffentlichen Rechts. Göttingen, J.W. Schmid 1749.
Anleitung zur juristischen Praxi ... Göttingen, Vandenhoeck 1753.
Grundriß der Staatsveränderungen des teutschen Reichs. Göttingen, Vandenhoeck 1755.
Historisch-politisches Handbuch von den besonderen teutschen Staaten, erster Theil: Oesterreich, Bayern und Pfalz. Göttingen, Vandenhoeck 1758.
Elementa Iuris Publici Germanici. Göttingen 1760.
Auserlesene Rechts-Fälle aus allen Theilen der in Teutschland üblichen Rechtsgelehrsamkeit in Deductionen, rechtlichen Bedenken, Relationen und Urteilen. 3 Bde. Göttingen, Vandenhoeck 1760–1785.
Öffentliche Rede zur Feier des allgemeinen Friedens am 19. September in der Universitätskirche.Göttingen 1763.
Versuch einer academischen Gelehrtengeschichte von der Georg-Augustus-Universität zu Göttingen. Göttingen, Vandenhoeck 1765.
Opuscula rem judiciariam Imperii illustrantia. Göttingen, Vandenhoeck 1766.
Neuer Versuch einer juristischen Encyclopädie und Methodologie. Göttingen, Vandenhoeck 1767.
Tabulae Genealogicae ad illustrandam Historiam Imperii Germaniamque Principem. 2 Bde. Göttingen, Vandenhoeck 1768–1788.
Rechtliches Bedenken in Sachen der Bürgerschaft zu Rostock ... Göttingen, Vandenhoeck 1769.
Unparteyisches rechtliches Bedenken über die zwischen der Krone Böhmens und den Herren von Zedwitz ... Göttingen, J. Ch. Dieterich 1772.
Der einzige Weg zur wahren Glückseligkeit deren jeder Mensch fähig ist. Göttingen, Dieterich 1775.
Wahre Bewandtnis der am 8. May 1776 erfolgten Trennung der bisherigen Visitation des kayserlichen und Reichs-Cammergerichts. Göttingen, Vandenhoeck 1776.
Neuester Reichsschluß über einige Verbesserungen des Kaiserlichen und Reichs-Kammergerichts ... Göttingen, Vandenhoeck 1776.
Beyträge zum Teutschen Staats- und Fürstenrechte. Göttingen, Vandenhoeck 1777.
Teutsche Reichgeschichte in ihrem Hauptfaden entwickelt. Göttingen, Vandenhoeck 1778.
Primae Lineae Juris Privati Principum Speciatim Germaniae. Göttingen, Vandenhoeck 1779.
Kurzer Begriff der teutschen Reichsgeschichte. Göttingen, Vandenhoeck 1780.
Nova Epitome Processus Imperii. Göttingen, Vandenhoeck 1786.
Historische Entwicklung der heutigen Staatsverfassung des teutschen Reichs. 3 Bde. Göttingen, Vandenhoeck 1786–1787.
Unmaßgebliche Gedanken über die von der Osnabrückischen Stadt Fürstenau wegen der daselbst gestatteten catholischen Religionsübung geführten Beschwerde. Göttingen, Vandenhoeck 1788.
Erörterungen und Beispiele des teutschen Staats- und Fürstenrechts. 2 Bde. Göttingen, Vandenhoeck 1793–1794.
Über das gemeine Reichs- oder fürstlich Taxische Postwesen gegen den Herrn geheimen Justizrath Pütter in Göttingen. Hildburghausen, J.G. Hanisch 1793.
Synopsis Historiae Imperii Romano-Germanici. Göttingen, Vandenhoeck 1793.
Über den Unterschied der Stände ... Göttingen, Vandenhoeck 1795.
Ueber Mißheiraten Teutscher Fürsten und Grafen. Göttingen, Vandenhoeck 1796.
Geist des Westphälischen Friedens ... Göttingen, Vandenhoeck 1795.
Ueber die beste Art Acten zu referiren ... Göttingen, P.G. Schröder 1797.
Selbstbiographie zur dankbaren Jubelfeier seiner 50jährigen Professorstelle zu Göttingen. 2 Bde. Göttingen, Vandenhoeck 1798.
Notes
References
Arno Buschmann (2004): Estor, Pütter, Hugo – Zur Vorgeschichte der Historischen Rechtsschule. In: Vielfalt und Einheit in der Rechtsgeschichte. Festgabe für Elmar Wadle. Herausgegeben von Thomas Gergen. Köln [u. a.], pp. 75–101.
Gerd Kleinheyer und Jan Schröder: Deutsche Juristen aus fünf Jahrhunderten, C. F. Müller Verlag, Heidelberg, 3. Auflage, 1989.
Patrick Ernst Sensburg: Johann Stephan Pütter aus Iserlohn. In: „Die großen Juristen des Sauerlandes“, Arnsberg, 2002, pp. 31–46.
Jan Schröder: Gottfried Achenwall, Johann Stephan Pütter und die »Elementa Iuris Naturae«, in: Gottfried Achenwall und Johann Stephan Pütter, „Anfangsgründe des Naturrechts (Elementa Iuris Naturae)“ (herausgegeben und übersetzt von Jan Schröder), Insel Verlag, Frankfurt a.M. und Leipzig, 1995.
Wilhelm Schulte: „Westfälische Köpfe“, Münster, 1977, pp. 251f.
Dietmar Willoweit: Deutsche Verfassungsgeschichte. Verlag C. H. Beck, München, 5. Auflage, 2005.
Pütter-Gesellschaft Iserlohn (Hrsg.): Ausstellung: 250 Jahre Johann Stephan Pütter. Haus der Heimat, Iserlohn vom 27. Juni bis 13. Juli 1975.
Wilhelm Ebel: Joh. Stefan Pütter, Professor in Göttingen. Essen, Verband der Pütter-Familien (Eigenverl.), 1972.
Ulrich Schlie: Johann Stephan Pütters Reichsbegriff. Göttingen, Schwartz 1961.
Wilhelm Ebel: Catalogus Professorum Gottingensium 1734–1962. Göttingen, Vandenhoeck 1962.
Friedrich Ellermeier: Denkwürdiges und Merkwürdiges aus Johann Stephan Pütters „Versuch einer academischen Gelehrten-Geschichte von der Georg-Augustus-Universität zu Göttingen“. Herzberg, Erwin Jungfer 1966.
Heinrich Marx: Die juristische Methode der Rechtsfindung aus der Natur der Sache bei den Göttinger Germanisten Johann Stephan Pütter und Justus Friedrich Runde. (Dissertation) Göttingen, Andreas Funke 1967.
External links
Beyträge zum teutschen Staats- und Fürsten-Rechte. (UB Bielefeld])
Historische Entwickelung der heutigen Staatsverfassung des Teutschen Reichs (UB Bielefeld)
Johann Stephan Pütters Selbstbiographie zur dankbaren Jubelfeier seiner 50jährigen Professorenstelle zu Göttingen. First Volume. Göttingen. 1798. (SUB Göttingen)
1725 births
1807 deaths
People from Iserlohn
University of Göttingen faculty
Jurists from North Rhine-Westphalia
German opinion journalists
University of Marburg alumni
University of Jena alumni
Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg alumni
German male non-fiction writers
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Robert Laliberté
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Robert Laliberté (born 1951) is a Canadian photographer, best known for his male nudes. Originally from Quebec City, Quebec, he has lived and worked in Montreal since 1975.
Work
His photographs of male nudes, evoking the works of Herb Ritts and Robert Mapplethorpe, made him known in Canada and abroad. He is considered the "flagship photographer " of the gay community of Montreal and a major player in the emergence of gay culture in Montreal. He was the official photographer of the magazine Fugues for twelve years (1984–1996).
Laliberté also worked as a photographer in the theater and explored other themes, such as street scenes or portraits of old people.
Exhibitions and awards
Laliberté presented his work in over 20 exhibitions and several publications in Canada and abroad. He was awarded the prix Arc-en-ciel pour la culture in 2002. That same year, the Ecomuseum du fier monde (Montreal) devoted a retrospective of his career.
A portrait of Laliberté by artist Zilon is held by The ArQuives: Canada's LGBTQ2+ Archives' National Portrait Collection, in honour of Laliberté's role as a significant builder of LGBT culture and history in Canada. Laliberté was also the portrait artist for another inductee in the same collection, writer and artist Jovette Marchessault.
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1951 births
Living people
Artists from Quebec City
Canadian photographers
Gay artists
LGBT artists from Canada
LGBT photographers
French Quebecers
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Kajari Klettenberg
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Kajari Klettenberg (born 1966) is an Estonian military colonel.
Since 1992 he is working for Estonian military. From 2007 to 2013 he was the commander of the headquarters of the Estonian Defence League. From 2009 to 2010 he was also the head of the Estonian military contingent in Afghanistan.
In 2002 he was awarded with Order of the Cross of the Eagle, V class.
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Living people
1966 births
Estonian military personnel
Recipients of the Military Order of the Cross of the Eagle, Class V
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MRWA B class
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The MRWA B class was a class of steam locomotives built by Hawthorn Leslie in Tyneside, England, for the Midland Railway of Western Australia (MRWA). The class's wheel arrangement was 4-4-0.
Service history
The nine members of the B class entered service in 1891. Withdrawals began in 1929, but the five longest serving units continued working on the MRWA, mainly as shunting engines, from then until the 1950s.
Preservation
One B class locomotive, no B6, has been preserved. It is the only ex-MRWA steam locomotive still in existence. After being withdrawn by the MRWA in 1956, B6 was acquired by the then municipality of Geraldton, and put on display in a Geraldton park.
In 1995, ownership of B6 was transferred to the then Shire of Swan, and in 1999 the locomotive was moved to the former Midland Railway Workshops, for storage in the custody of Rail Heritage WA.
In 2010, following a renewal of interest by the City of Geraldton-Greenough in rail history, B6 was moved back to the Geraldton area, for intended eventual display at a proposed railway museum at Walkaway.
See also
List of Western Australian locomotive classes
Locomotives of the Western Australian Government Railways
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4-4-0 locomotives
Hawthorn Leslie and Company locomotives
Railway locomotives introduced in 1891
B class
Locomotives of the Midland Railway of Western Australia
3 ft 6 in gauge locomotives of Australia
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Passenger locomotives
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Roger Needham
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Roger Michael Needham (9 February 1935 – 1 March 2003) was a British computer scientist.
Early life and education
Needham was born in Birmingham, England, the only child of Phyllis Mary, née Baker (c.1904–1976) and Leonard William Needham (c.1905–1973), a university chemistry lecturer. He attended Doncaster Grammar School for Boys in Doncaster (then in the West Riding) going on to St John's College, Cambridge in 1953, and graduating with a BA in 1956 in mathematics and philosophy. His PhD thesis was on applications of digital computers to the automatic classification and retrieval of documents. He worked on a variety of key computing projects in security, operating systems, computer architecture (capability systems) and local area networks.
Career and research
Among his theoretical contributions is the development of the Burrows-Abadi-Needham logic for authentication, generally known as the BAN logic. His Needham–Schroeder (co-invented with Michael Schroeder) security protocol forms the basis of the Kerberos authentication and key exchange system. He also co-designed the TEA and XTEA encryption algorithms. He pioneered the technique of protecting passwords using a one-way hash function.
In 1962 he joined the University of Cambridge's Computer Laboratory, then called the Mathematical Laboratory, becoming Head of Laboratory in 1980. He was made a professor in 1981 and remained with the laboratory until his retirement in 1995. In 1997 he set up Microsoft's UK-based Research Laboratory. He was a founding Fellow of University College, Cambridge, which became Wolfson College.
Needham was a longtime and respected member of the International Association for Cryptologic Research, the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Security and Privacy and the University Grants Committee. He was made a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 1994.
Awards and honours
Needham was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1985, and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) in 1993. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for his contributions to computing in 2001. Needham held honorary doctorate degrees from University of Twente, Loughborough University, and University of Kent.
Named in Needhams honour
Needham has several awards named after him in his honour. The British Computer Society established an annual Roger Needham Award in 2004.
The European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys) established the annual Roger Needham PhD award. It awards €2,000 to a PhD student from a European university whose thesis is regarded to be an exceptional, innovative contribution to knowledge in the computer systems area. Past winners have been:
2021 Victor van de Veen, (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
2020 Michael Schwarz, Graz University of Technology for his PhD thesis Software-based Side-Channel Attacks and Defenses in Restricted Environments
2019 Manolis Karpathiotakis, EPFL
2018 Dennis Andriesse (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) for his PhD thesis Analyzing and Securing Binaries Through Static Disassembly
2015 Cristiano Giuffrida (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) for his PhD thesis Safe and Automatic Live Update
2014 Torvald Riegel (Technische Universitaet Dresden), for his thesis Software Transactional Memory Building Blocks
2013 Asia Slowinska (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) for her PhD thesis Using Information Flow Tracking to Protect Legacy Binaries
2012 Derek Murray, for his thesis A Distributed Execution Engine Supporting Data-Dependent Control Flow
2011 Jorrit Herder for Building a Dependable Operating System: Fault Tolerance in MINIX 3
2010 Willem de Bruijn (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) for Adaptive Operating System Design for High Throughput I/O
2009 Jacob Gorm Hansen (DIKU) for Virtual Machine Mobility with Self-Migration
2008 Adam Dunkels (SICS) for Programming Memory-Constrained Networked Embedded Systems
2007 Nick Cook (Newcastle University) for Middleware Support for Non-repudiable Business-to-Business Interactions
2006 Oliver Heckmann (TU Darmstadt) for A System-oriented Approach to Efficiency and Quality of Service for Internet Service Providers
Personal life
Needham married fellow computer scientist Karen Spärck Jones in 1958. He died of cancer in March 2003 at his home in Willingham, Cambridgeshire.
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2003 deaths
Academics of the University of Cambridge
Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge
British computer scientists
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Fellows of the British Computer Society
Fellows of the Royal Society
Fellows of University College, Cambridge
Fellows of Wolfson College, Cambridge
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Microsoft employees
Deaths from cancer in England
People from Doncaster
People from South Cambridgeshire District
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Whiskey Street
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Whiskey Street is a bar and restaurant in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. The establishment is owned and operated by Bourbon House Group.
History
Whiskey Street participated in the city's 'open streets program' during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Reception
In 2014, Kelli Nakagama named Whiskey Street the city's 'Best Bar for Whiskey' in The Utah Review overview of the "Best Bars in Salt Lake City". The bar was included in Salt Lake Magazine 2017 list of the "Top Salt Lake City Bars and Nightclubs".
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Restaurants in Utah
Culture of Salt Lake City
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