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A jackhammer is a percussive drill.
Jackhammer may also refer to:
Jackhammer, a vertical suplex powerslam
Jackhammer (comics), a Marvel Comics villain
Joliet JackHammers, a professional baseball team based in Joliet, Illinois
MTX Jackhammer, a subwoofer
Pancor Jackhammer, an automatic-shotgun design
Jack Hammer may refer to:
"Jack" Hammer, a character in the Rescue Heroes line
Jack Hammer, a professional wrestler from United States Wrestling Association
"Jack Hammer", a song by the Odds from their album Bedbugs
Jack Hammer (songwriter) (1925–2016), pseudonym for songwriter and singer Earl Burroughs
Jack Hammer (South African band)
Otis Blackwell or Jack Hammer (1931–2002), African-American singer and songwriter
See also
Weasel (Marvel Comics), aka Jack Hammer
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María ("Masa") Ángeles Rodríguez Suárez (born 12 April 1957 in Gijón, Asturias) is a former field hockey player from Spain, who was a member of the Women's National Team that won the gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics on home soil (Barcelona).
References
External links
1957 births
Living people
Spanish female field hockey players
Olympic field hockey players for Spain
Field hockey players at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for Spain
Sportspeople from Gijón
Olympic medalists in field hockey
Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
20th-century Spanish women
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Rebellion is a German heavy metal band. It was formed in 2001 when guitarist Uwe Lulis left Grave Digger in 2000, taking ex-Grave Digger bassist Tomi Göttlich with him.
Band history
The band's first album was a concept album about William Shakespeare's work Macbeth, and included spoken passages with members of the band and other people as the story's characters.
The second album involved more standard heavy metal lyrics—about motorcycles, metal, war, etc.—and the music was somewhat rougher.
In 2005, the band released the first part of what is intended to be a trilogy about the Vikings and Norse mythology. In the beginning of 2007, they released their second part in the trilogy about the Vikings. It was titled Miklagard and was the band's most successful album so far. In 2009, they released the album Arise: From Ginnungagap to Ragnarök, the third and last part of the trilogy.
Ex-drummer Randy Black is now playing in Primal Fear; ex-guitarist Björn Eilen is playing in Silver Maiden and The Talkies.
In late 2010, three members of the band, Uwe Lulis, Gerd Lücking, and Simone Wenzel, departed, leaving the remaining two members with the band.
Personnel
Michael Seifert — vocals (2001-present)
Stephan Karut — guitars (2011-present)
Tomi Göttlich — bass (2001-present)
Tommy Telkemeier — drums (2016–present)
Former personnel
Oliver Geibig — guitars (2011-2019)
Björn Eilen — guitars (2001–2005)
Randy Black — drums (2001–2003)
Uwe Lulis — guitars (2001–2010)
Simone Wenzel — guitars (2005–2010)
Gerd Lücking — drums (2004–2010)
Matthias Karle — drums (2011–2013)
Timo Schneider — drums (2013–2016)
Timeline
Discography
Albums
Shakespeare's Macbeth – A Tragedy in Steel (2002)
Born a Rebel (2003)
Sagas of Iceland – The History of the Vikings Volume 1 (2005)
Miklagard – The History of the Vikings Volume 2 (2007)
Arise: From Ginnungagap to Ragnarök – The History of the Vikings Volume III (2009)
Arminius – Furor Teutonicus (2012)
Wyrd bið ful aræd – The History of the Saxons (2015)
A Tragedy in Steel Part II: Shakespeare's King Lear (2018)
We Are The People (2021)
Other releases
"Miklagard" (single) (2006)
The Clans Are Marching (EP) (2009)
Music videos
"Miklagard" (2006)
References
External links
Official homepage
Official merchandise shop
German power metal musical groups
German heavy metal musical groups
Musical groups established in 2001
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David Edward Price (May 11, 1826 – August 22, 1883) was a Quebec businessman and political figure. He was a Conservative member of the Senate of Canada from 1867 to 1883.
He was born at Quebec City in 1826, the son of William Price, and, after completing his studies, went to London, England to learn the lumber trade with his father's partners. In 1847, he began work in his father's firm. He was elected to the Legislative Council of the Province of Canada representing Chicoutimi and Tadoussac in an 1855 by-election; he was elected in Chicoutimi—Saguenay in 1858, 1861 and 1863. He resigned in 1864 and was elected to the Legislative Council for the Laurentides division in the same year. He served until Confederation when he was appointed to the Senate.
In 1867, with his brothers William Evan and Evan John, he started Price Brothers and Company, a forest products firm based in the Quebec and Saguenay regions which took over the assets of his father's company. He served as vice-consul at Saguenay for Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Argentina and Peru, and as a consular agent for the United States.
In 1871, Senator David Edward Price became the last 'Seigneur des Grondines'.
He died at his home in Sillery in 1883, while still in office.
External links
References
1826 births
1883 deaths
Burials at Mount Hermon Cemetery
Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada from Canada East
Members of the Legislative Council of the Province of Canada
Canadian senators from Quebec
Conservative Party of Canada (1867–1942) senators
Anglophone Quebec people
Canadian people of Welsh descent
Politicians from Quebec City
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María Victoria "Mariví" González Laguillo (born 27 February 1961 in Ciudad de México, Distrito Federal) is a former field hockey player from Spain. She was born in Mexico. She was a member of the Women's National Team that surprisingly won the golden medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics on home soil (Barcelona). She also competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.
External links
1961 births
Living people
Spanish female field hockey players
Female field hockey goalkeepers
Olympic field hockey players for Spain
Field hockey players at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Field hockey players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for Spain
Sportspeople from Mexico City
Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Olympic medalists in field hockey
20th-century Spanish women
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Lizard Lick is an unincorporated community in Wake County, North Carolina, United States. The community is located at the crossroads of Lizard Lick Road and NC 97. Lizard Lick has frequently been noted on lists of unusual place names.
The community is approximately east of the state capital of Raleigh, along NC 97. It is about north of Wendell and west of Zebulon.
History
According to NC historian William S. Powell, the town got its name from a "passing observer who saw many lizards sunning and licking themselves on a rail fence." Regardless of the town name, local community members who are native to the area are proud of their origins, and their economic future in the area. In May 1997, the state installed the first traffic light in Lizard Lick, marking a new period of "increasing property values" and growth.
Media attention
In March 1998 the small town received publicity when Nintendo first released the Nintendo 64 game, "Yoshi's Story" there, with the name of the host town reflecting the Nintendo character Yoshi's ability to extend his tongue over a long distance. The pre-launch choice of Lizard Lick was the idea of Pasadena, California-based PR consultant Dereck Andrade. Andrade had been retained by the public relations firm Golin-Harris in Los Angeles to launch Yoshi's Story. Andrade chose two cities - French Lick, Indiana and Lizard Lick, as possible launch sites for the game. Lizard Lick was finally chosen over French Lick because the character of Yoshi was a dinosaur, which was related to a lizard. The game's launch in Lizard Lick was the largest event ever covered by the news media for a Nintendo product, bringing national and international news media to the crossroads town, including ABC World News Tonight, the CBS Evening News and NBC's The Today Show.
In September 2009 Lizard Lick once again received publicity, this time on a national level. The Time Warner owned TruTV cable television network became aware of a local towing and recovery company owned and operated by evangelist and Lizard Lick honorary "Mayor" Ronnie Shirley and his wife Amy called Lizard Lick Towing and Recovery.
According to the Eastern Wake News, the television series, originally title Lizard Lick Towing and later titled Lick Life, got its start at the end of August 2008, when the station sent a cameraman down for one day of shooting and that was all it took for a contract to be written. Those at the network were merely scouting out prospects at the time, but after realizing Amy Shirley was not only a power lifter, but a mortician and co-owner of the recovery business, they realized there was more color to the picture than originally anticipated.
In addition, they soon discovered that Ronnie is a "walking reality show". Robyn Hutt, the truTV executive in charge of the show was quoted by the News & Observer (the largest regional daily newspaper of the Research Triangle Park area, covering several counties in North Carolina) "We really fell in love with Lizard Lick". The Shirleys are "dynamic and entertaining characters".
The television series (Lizard Lick Towing) following Ronnie and his company operations was called All Worked Up and had a discussion forum, Ronnie's published poetry, interviews with the stars of the show and further information, including the scheduled show times. The Shirleys now have their own show called Lizard Lick Towing. It is a half-hour program that is shown on the TruTV network. The show premiered on February 7, 2011. It is dedicated entirely to Lizard Lick Towing and Recovery, due to its fast growing popularity from the segments of the show All Worked Up.
References
Unincorporated communities in North Carolina
Unincorporated communities in Wake County, North Carolina
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Talha Jubair () (born 10 December 1985) is a Bangladeshi cricketer. He played in seven Test matches and six One Day Internationals from 2002 to 2004.
Record
Jubair set a world record for top scoring for his team as a number 11 batsman in the 3rd innings of a Test match (31) and was the first ever batsman from any team to top score for his team when batting at number 11 position in the 3rd innings of a test match. He scored 31 runs, where Bangladesh were bowled out for just 124 in their second innings (which was the 3rd innings of that match) against India in 2004. Jubair was only the 6th number 11 batsman in test history to top score for his team in an innings of a test.
References
External links
1985 births
Living people
Bangladesh Test cricketers
Bangladesh One Day International cricketers
Bangladeshi cricketers
Cricketers at the 2003 Cricket World Cup
Dhaka Division cricketers
Sylhet Strikers cricketers
Bangladesh Central Zone cricketers
Barisal Division cricketers
People from Faridpur District
Cricketers from Dhaka Division
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PKP class Ok22 is a class of ordinary passenger (O) 4-6-0 (k) steam locomotive designed in 1922 for
Polskie Koleje Państwowe (Polish State Railways, PKP). It was the first locomotive designed in Poland after World War I, so the design work was done jointly with Hanomag, based on the Prussian P 8 (PKP class Ok1)
History
Introduction
The first five engines were built in Germany by Hanomag in 1923. Polish production started in 1928 and lasted until 1934 after which 185 locomotives had been manufactured by Fablok in Chrzanów. The first Polish-built locomotive (Ok22-6) was ready on December 31, 1928. Polish versions of the locomotive bore some improvements and changes compared with German ones, and were similar to PKP class Ty23. Ok22 locomotives were the first on the PKP to be equipped with electric lights.
Wartime
After the German invasion of Poland in World War II, most Ok22 locomotives were taken into the Deutsche Reichsbahn fleet as 38 4501 to 38 4630.
Present day
Only two examples have survived. Ok22-23 in Jaworzyna Śląska and Ok22-31 in Wolsztyn. Ok22-31 was an operational engine. It ran until 1997, and after retirement became a stationary exhibit. In 2004 the machine was restored to working order again, and it ran until 2009. It is currently static.
See also
PKP classification system
References
Ok22
4-6-0 locomotives
Railway locomotives introduced in 1923
Fablok locomotives
Hanomag locomotives
Standard gauge locomotives of Poland
Passenger locomotives
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Călimănești, often known as Călimănești-Căciulata, is a town in Vâlcea County, southern Romania. It is situated in the historical region of Oltenia and the northern part of the county, on the traditional route connecting the region to Transylvania, and at the southern end of the Olt River valley crossing the Southern Carpathians.
The location of several thermal springs, Călimănești-Căciulata is known as a spa town. During the 20th century, many hotels and treatment facilities were built in Căciulata, a northern area of the town which is close to Cozia Monastery. The Monastery was built by Mircea the Old in 1388 which is also the day of the city Călimănești and Râmnicu Vâlcea (just south on DN7).
Arutela Roman Fort is located here.
The area around the town is full of fresh water springs and spa waters that are not in use. The old town was a bit smaller, the island you see on river Olt was bigger and the road was on what is now the river bed. In 1918 it was the major point of invasion in Transylvania. The town is built along DN7. The second most used road in Romania, used by Romanians to travel up to Transylvania and recently often used to go to Hungary, Austria and many other EU nations.
The town administers five villages: Căciulata, Jiblea Nouă, Jiblea Veche, Seaca and Păușa.
Gallery
Notable people
Ion Duminicel (born 1954), bobsledder
Nicolae Rădescu (1874–1953), lieutenant general and last pre-communist rule Prime Minister of Romania
Florin Zamfirescu (born 1949), theater and film actor and director
References
External links
Călimănești-Căciulata Site
Towns in Romania
Spa towns in Romania
Populated places in Vâlcea County
Localities in Oltenia
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Mistley is a village and civil parish in the Tendring district of northeast Essex, England. It is around 11 miles northeast of Colchester and is east of, and almost contiguous with, Manningtree. The parish consists of Mistley and New Mistley, both lying beside the Stour Estuary, and Mistley Heath, a kilometre to the south. Mistley railway station serves Mistley on the Mayflower line.
Mistley is the location of one of five Cold War control rooms in Essex. Built in 1951, it was opened as a museum called the Secret Bunker in 1996 but closed in 2002.
History
A Roman road leading from Mistley to the nearby provincial capital of Roman Britain at Camulodunum (modern Colchester) has led to the suggestion that there may have been a port in the vicinity of the modern village which served the town in the Roman period.
Mistley is the village where Matthew Hopkins, the Witchfinder General, was reputed to have lived, according to legend owning the Thorn Inn. He was buried a few hours after his death in the graveyard of the Church of St Mary. From 1920 to 1922, the Reverend Frank Buttle was rector of Mistley with Bradfield.
Sport
The village is home to Mistley Cricket Club, which plays its home games in New Road, next to the church. Both Mistley Football and Rugby clubs play at Furze Hill.
Mistley Quay
The first quay was built around 1720, and trade went on from that quay up to Sudbury. Around 1770, the quay was enlarged by Richard Rigby and was known as Port of Mistley. Small-scale shipbuilding took place here, and a number of smaller warships were built for the Royal Navy at Mistleythorn during the 18th century.
At that time, the village of Mistley, then known as Mistleythorn, consisted of warehouses, a granary, a large malting office and new quays. There was also a medieval church, only the porch of which survives, and a new church that Rigby's father had built to the north of the village in 1735. When Rigby hatched a scheme to turn Mistley into a fashionable spa this plain, rectangular brick building was not in keeping with his grand plans. Rigby originally called in Robert Adam to design a saltwater bath by the river, but this plan was never carried out and instead the architect was put to work on the church in around 1776.
Adam's scheme was unusual in that it avoided the standard form of 18th-century parish church design, which consisted typically of a rectangle with a western tower or portico (or both) and perhaps an eastern chancel. Instead, by adding towers at the east and west ends and semi-circular porticoes on the north and south sides, Adam created a design that was symmetrical along both the long and short axes. This unusual arrangement was possibly influenced by the design of Roman tombs and the result was most unconventional. Mistley would certainly have stood out from other 18th-century churches.
Sadly for Rigby, his grand plans for the spa were unsuccessful. The main body of the church was demolished in 1870 when a new and larger church in the then fashionable Gothic Revival style was built nearby.
When the young French aristocrat Francois de La Rochefoucauld visited Mistley in 1784, he remarked on the trade of the port which he said was 'created entirely by Mr Rigby'. His tutor and companion, Maximilien de Lazowski, was more precise in his comments, saying that 'Newcastle ships bring coal which is either distributed by cart into Essex or Suffolk or carried on upriver by barge to Sudbury. The whole neighbourhood brings its corn here to be embarked or stored for the London markets and all the coastal ports. There are six ships at the quay – a fine sight.',
Recent history
In September 2008, at the behest of the Health and Safety Executive, owners Trent Wharfage erected a safety fence along the quay. A protest group was formed to object to the fence, claiming that it ended 500 years of free access to the water. After locals raised £35,000 to pay for legal advice, a public enquiry was held, and Essex County Council ruled that the quay constituted a "village green". Locals hope this paves the way to the removal of the fence, on the grounds that it interferes with the public's enjoyment of the public space. , the decision was under appeal. In February 2021, the Supreme Court upheld the registration of the land as a village green.
Thorn Quay Warehouse, the main building of which dates from the 1950s, is the subject of a debate regarding its demolition. , a High Court judge sided with the council, meaning that the planning permission for the demolition stood, and new homes could be built on the site.
Notable people
The film director Terence Davies (1945–2023) lived in the village.
References
External links
Villages in Essex
Civil parishes in Essex
Tendring
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The Three Pyramids Club is the second solo studio album by British singer Suggs known from second wave ska band Madness. It was released in 1998 and reached no. 82 on the UK album chart in its lone week on the chart.
Reception
NME were unimpressed by the album, rating it 5/10 and commenting that "the music swings drunkenly from the vaudeville cheesiness of "Straight Banana" to the rinky-dink cod-ragtime of "Our Man", with Suggs out front like some Cockney karaoke king."
Evan Cater of AllMusic said the album was "far more ambitious" than Suggs' debut solo album, featuring "buoyantly energetic ska-pop". Cater was critical of "Suggs' regrettable predilection for cheesy female background singers and the eye-rolling stupidity of lyrics like "oh, girl, you got me in a whirl," but despite this noted that the album was "more consistent than the debut, and is not without variety." The review concluded by stating: "A must-have for Madness collectors, The Three Pyramids Club should also appeal to the new generation of ska fans."
Track listing
The opening introduction of "On Drifting Sand" has a distinct similarity to Madness' 1979 single "One Step Beyond".
Chart performance
Personnel
Suggs – vocals
Steve Lironi – guitars, bass guitar, Jaguar & Hammond organs, piano, loops, vibes, theremin, programming, synthesiser, ARP Odyssey, backing vocals
Jah Wobble – bass guitar
Chris Barber – bass guitar, trombone
Vic Pitt - double bass
Ged Lynch – drums, percussion
Guy Davies - organ
Paul Sealey - banjo
John Crocker - clarinet
Andy Ross – saxophone
Chris Margary – saxophone
Vic Pitt – saxophone
Rico Rodriguez – trombone
Matt Coleman – trombone
Dominic Glover – trumpet
Kevin Robinson – trumpet
Neil Yates – trumpet
Pat Halcox – trumpet
Nick Feldman – keyboards (1), backing vocals (9)
Keith Summer – backing vocals (4, 8)
Michael Flaherty – backing vocals (4, 8)
Mike Connaris – backing vocals (4, 8)
General Levy – vocals (6)
Cutmaster Swift – scratching (8)
Sarah Brown – backing vocals (3, 7, 10)
Simon Gunning – backing vocals (9)
Levine Andrade – violin (10)
Technical
Steve Lironi – production, mixing
James Young – engineering, mixing
References
Suggs (singer) albums
1998 albums
Warner Records albums
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Maider Tellería Goñi (born July 14, 1973 in San Sebastián) is a former Spanish field hockey player. She was a member of the gold medal-winning Women's National Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.
The defender also competed in the women's tournament at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta (finishing in last place), and in the 2000 Summer Olympics Women's Tournament in Sydney, where Spain finished fourth, losing in the bronze medal game to the Netherlands. Her last Olympic appearance came at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where the team finished the women's tournament in 10th place.
Team history
Ikastola Zurriola
Club Lagunak
Real Sociedad
Club de Campo Villa de Madrid
Sardinero de Santander
References
External links
1973 births
Spanish female field hockey players
Olympic field hockey players for Spain
Field hockey players at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Field hockey players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Field hockey players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Field hockey players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Living people
Olympic gold medalists for Spain
Olympic medalists in field hockey
Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Field hockey players from the Basque Country (autonomous community)
Sportspeople from San Sebastián
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Mohammad Rafikul Islam Khan (born 7 November 1977, in Rajshahi), generally known as Rafikul Khan, is a Bangladeshi cricketer who played a Test and ODI match for Bangladesh in 2002. He plays domestic first-class cricket for Rajshahi Division.
References
1977 births
Living people
Bangladesh Test cricketers
Bangladesh One Day International cricketers
Bangladeshi cricketers
Rajshahi Division cricketers
People from Rajshahi District
Cricketers from Rajshahi Division
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Mohammad Anwar Hossain (born 10 December 1983) is a Bangladeshi cricketer who played in one Test match and one One Day International in 2002.
References
1983 births
Living people
Bangladesh Test cricketers
Bangladesh One Day International cricketers
Bangladeshi cricketers
Dhaka Division cricketers
Dhaka Metropolis cricketers
Wicket-keepers
Cricketers from Dhaka
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María Isabel Martínez de Murguía Embarba (born 16 October 1967 in Madrid) is a former field hockey player from Spain. She was a member of the Women's National Team that surprisingly won the gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics on home soil (Barcelona)
References
External links
1967 births
Living people
Spanish female field hockey players
Female field hockey goalkeepers
Olympic field hockey players for Spain
Field hockey players at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for Spain
Field hockey players from Madrid
Olympic medalists in field hockey
Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
20th-century Spanish women
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Mohammad Salim (, born 15 October 1981) is a Bangladeshi cricketer who played in two Test matches and one One Day International in 2003. He was born at Khulna.
References
1981 births
Living people
Bangladesh Test cricketers
Bangladesh One Day International cricketers
Bangladeshi cricketers
Khulna Division cricketers
University of Calcutta alumni
20th-century Bengalis
21st-century Bengalis
Cricketers from Khulna
Wicket-keepers
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Mohammad Anwar Hossain (; born 31 December 1981) is a Bangladeshi cricketer who has played in three Test matches and one One Day International since 2003. In the course of his short Test career he took over the record for the most runs conceded by a bowler (307) without taking a wicket.
References
1981 births
Living people
Bangladesh Test cricketers
Bangladesh One Day International cricketers
Bangladeshi cricketers
Biman Bangladesh Airlines cricketers
Dhaka Division cricketers
People from Munshiganj District
Cricketers from Dhaka Division
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Mercedes Coghen Alberdingk-Thijm (born August 2, 1962 in Madrid) is a former field hockey player from Spain, who captained the Women's National Team that won the golden medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics on home soil (Barcelona). She was a member of the committee of the Madrid 2012 bid and chair of the Madrid 2016 bid to host Summer Olympic Games.
External links
1962 births
Spanish female field hockey players
Spanish people of Dutch descent
Olympic field hockey players for Spain
Field hockey players at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Living people
Olympic gold medalists for Spain
Field hockey players from Madrid
Olympic medalists in field hockey
Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
20th-century Spanish women
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Two Cops () is a 1993 South Korean action/comedy film directed by Kang Woo-suk. It stars Ahn Sung-ki and Park Joong-hoon as a pair of police detectives with different outlooks who end up working on a case together.
Plot
The experienced detective Jo has a new partner, Kang who recently graduated from the Police Academy at the top of the class. The idealistic Kang always sticks to his principles and often conflicts with Jo, an amoral cop who always tries to take advantage of his position. Kang tries to win Jo over to his side, but fails. One day, a beautiful woman who works in a bar comes to the police station for help, and Kang falls in love with her. He starts going to the bar often to see her, and begins to become more like Jo. Jo is initially pleased at this, but later begins to experience a dilemma with Kang's change in attitude.
Cast
Ahn Sung-ki as Jo, senior detective
Park Joong-hoon as Kang, new recruit
Ji Soo-won as Soo-won
Kim Bo-sung as Lee, detective
Kim Hye-ok as detective Jo's wife
Shim Yang-hong as police chief
Yang Taek-jo as unit head
Reception
Despite criticism that its plot was copied from the 1984 French film My New Partner, Two Cops became a box office hit upon its release on December 18, 1993. A highly commercial crowd pleaser that also dealt with the serious theme of police corruption, it was the second most-watched Korean film of 1993, after Sopyonje.
The financial success of Two Cops enabled Kang Woo-suk to set up his own film production and distribution company, Cinema Service.
The film spawned two sequels came : Two Cops 2 (1996), and Two Cops 3 (1998).
Awards
1994 30th Baeksang Arts Awards
Grand Prize (Daesang) in Film: Ahn Sung-ki
Best Film: Two Cops
Best Director: Kang Woo-suk
Best Actor: Ahn Sung-ki
Best New Actress: Ji Soo-won
1994 32nd Grand Bell Awards
Best Actor: Ahn Sung-ki and Park Joong-hoon (tie)
Most Popular Actor: Ahn Sung-ki, Park Joong-hoon
1994 14th Korean Association of Film Critics Awards
Best Actor: Ahn Sung-ki
1994 15th Blue Dragon Film Awards
Most Popular Film (awarded to the movie with the highest viewership throughout the previous year)
References
External links
1993 films
1990s Korean-language films
1990s South Korean films
South Korean action comedy films
Films directed by Kang Woo-suk
1993 action comedy films
South Korean buddy films
1990s buddy cop films
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Nagore Gabellanes Marieta (born 25 January 1973 in San Sebastián, Guipúzcoa) is a former field hockey player from Spain. She was a member of the Women's National Team that surprisingly won the golden medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics on home soil (Barcelona). She also competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, where Spain finished in 8th and last position.
References
sports-reference
External links
1973 births
Sportspeople from San Sebastián
Spanish female field hockey players
Olympic field hockey players for Spain
Field hockey players at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Field hockey players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Living people
Olympic gold medalists for Spain
Olympic medalists in field hockey
Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Field hockey players from the Basque Country (autonomous community)
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The 2005–06 Cupa României was the 68th season of the annual Romanian football knockout tournament.
The winners of the competition qualified for the first qualifying round of the 2006–07 UEFA Cup.
Round of 32
The matches took place on September 20 and 21, 2005.
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Round of 16
The matches took place on October 25, 2006.
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Quarter-finals
The matches took place on December 7, 2005.
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Semi-finals
The 1st leg match took place on March 22, 2006. The 2nd on April 19, 2006.
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Final
References
Romanian Cup 2005/2006 (RomanianSoccer)
Romania
Cupa Romaniei, 2005-06
Cupa României seasons
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Natalia Dorado Gómez (born February 25, 1967 in Madrid) is a former field hockey player from Spain. She was a member of the Women's National Team that surprisingly won the golden medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics on home soil (Barcelona). She also competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, where Spain finished in 8th and last position.
References
sports-reference
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1967 births
Spanish female field hockey players
Olympic field hockey players for Spain
Field hockey players at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Field hockey players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Living people
Olympic gold medalists for Spain
Field hockey players from Madrid
Olympic medalists in field hockey
Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
20th-century Spanish women
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The term swing refers to the extent of change in voter support, typically from one election or opinion poll to another, expressed as a positive or negative percentage point. For the Australian House of Representatives and the lower houses of the parliaments of all the states and territories except Tasmania and the ACT, Australia employs preferential voting in single-member constituencies. Under the full-preference instant-runoff voting system, in each seat the candidate with the lowest vote is eliminated and their preferences are distributed, which is repeated until only two candidates remain. While every seat has a two-candidate preferred (TCP) result, seats where the major parties have come first and second are commonly referred to as having a two-party-preferred (TPP) result. The concept of "swing" in Australian elections is not simply a function of the difference between the votes of the two leading candidates, as it is in Britain. To know the majority of any seat, and therefore the swing necessary for it to change hands, it is necessary to know the preferences of all the voters, regardless of their first preference votes. It is not uncommon in Australia for candidates who have comfortable leads on the first count to fail to win the seat, because "preference flows" go against them.
TPP/TCP swings
In seats where the major parties do not come first and second, differing TPP and TCP results are returned. Whilst each seat that preferences down to two major party candidates has the same TPP as TCP, in seats not contested by a major party, such as at some by-elections or some seats in some state elections, only a TCP vote can be produced. At federal elections, it is possible to calculate a TPP/TCP majority for every seat. The swing is therefore what is required for that seat to change hands at the next election.
Swings in Australian parliaments are more commonly associated with the TPP vote. While seats are normally referred to on TPP terms, when one of the remaining two candidates after preference distribution are not from a major party, it is referred to as a TCP, with a different TPP produced. In a TCP contest between Labor and the Nationals and without a Liberal candidate, this is also considered a TPP, with the Nationals considered a de facto major party within the Liberal–National Coalition. At the 2013 federal election, only 11 of 150 seats returned differing TPP and TCP figures ("non-classic seats"), indicating a considerable two-party system.
The Mackerras pendulum takes the TPP majorities of all electorates and arranges them in order, from the seat with the highest government majority to the seat with the highest opposition majority. For example, ahead of the 2007 election, Labor needed to win a minimum of 16 additional seats to form a government, and the 16th-weakest government seat (McMillan) had a TPP majority of 4.9 points. Thus, the pendulum predicted that Labor would need a uniform TPP swing of 4.9 points to win the 2007 election. Labor in fact gained a swing of 5.6 points, which the pendulum had predicted would result in 21 additional Labor seats under a uniform swing. In fact, Labor gained 23 seats, and not all seats that changed hands were those with the slimmest Coalition majorities, because swings in each district are unique and not uniform.
Examples
Federal, Adelaide 2004
It can be seen that the Liberal candidate had a primary vote lead over the Labor candidate. In first-past-the-post voting, the Liberals would have retained the seat, and their majority would be said to be 3.4 percentage points (45.3 − 41.9).
However, under full-preference instant-runoff voting, the votes of all the minor candidates were distributed as follows:
Thus, Labor defeated the Liberals, with 85 percent of Green and Green-preferenced voters preferencing Labor on the last distribution. Labor's TPP/TCP vote was 51.3 percent, a TPP/TCP majority of 1.3 points, and a TPP/TCP swing of 1.9 points compared with the previous election.
South Australia, Frome 2009
The 2009 Frome by-election was closely contested, with the result being uncertain for over a week. Liberal leader Martin Hamilton-Smith claimed victory on behalf of the party. The result hinged on the performance of Brock against Labor in the competition for second place. Brock polled best in the Port Pirie area, and received enough eliminated candidate preferences to end up ahead of the Labor candidate by 30 votes.
Brock received 80 percent of Labor's fifth-count preferences to achieve a TCP vote of 51.72 percent (a majority of 665 votes) against the Liberal candidate. The by-election saw a rare TPP swing to an incumbent government, and was the first time an opposition had lost a seat at a by-election in South Australia. The result in Frome at the 2010 state election saw Brock come first on primary votes, increasing his primary vote by 14.1 points to a total of 37.7 percent and his TCP vote by 6.5 points to a total of 58.2 percent. Despite a statewide swing against Labor at the election, Labor again increased its TPP vote in Frome by 1.8 points up to 49.9%.
Federal, Melbourne 2010
In this example, the two remaining candidates/parties, one a minor party, were the same after preference distribution at both this election and the previous election. Therefore, differing TPP and TCP votes, margins, and swings resulted.
South Australia, Port Adelaide 2012
At the 2012 Port Adelaide state by-election, only a TCP could be produced, as the Liberal Party of Australia (and Family First Party and independent candidate Max James), who contested the previous election and gained a primary vote of 26.8 percent (and 5.9 percent, and 11.0 percent respectively), did not contest the by-election. On a TPP margin of 12.8 percent from the 2010 election, considered a safe margin on the current pendulum, Labor would have likely retained their TPP margin based on unchanged statewide Newspoll since the previous election. Labor retained the seat on a 52.9 percent TCP against Johanson after the distribution of preferences. Unlike previous examples, neither a TPP or TCP swing can be produced, as the 2010 result was between Labor and Liberal rather than Labor and independent with no Liberal candidate. An increase or decrease in margins in these situations cannot be meaningfully interpreted as swings. As explained by the ABC's Antony Green, when a major party does not contest a by-election, preferences from independents or minor parties that would normally flow to both major parties does not take place, causing asymmetric preference flows. Examples of this are the 2008 Mayo and 2002 Cunningham federal by-elections, with seats returning to TPP form at the next election.
References
Elections in Australia
Psephology
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Sultan Mahmud Al-Muktafi Billah Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Ismail Nasiruddin Shah (29 April 1930 – 14 May 1998) was the 17th Sultan of Terengganu from 21 September 1979 to 14 May 1998.
Life
Sultan Mahmud was born on 29 April 1930 in Kuala Terengganu. He was married to Tengku Besar Terengganu Fatimah @ Sharifah Nong Alsagoff binti Abdillah (1939-2023) and Tengku Ampuan Bariah binti Almarhum Sultan Sir Hisamuddin Alam Shah (1933-2011), sister of the late Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah in 1951. He was a brother-in-law to the late Almarhum Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah of Selangor.
Twenty eight years later, his father Sultan Ismail Nasiruddin Shah died in 1979. He was installed as the Sultan of Terengganu in 1981 and Tengku Ampuan Bariah became Tengku Ampuan Besar of Terengganu.
Sultan Mahmud was the colonel for the Royal Armoured Corps (KAD) from 1979 until 1998.
He was a close friend of his advisor Tan Sri Wan Mokhtar Ahmad, the former Menteri Besar (chief minister) of Terengganu from 1974 to 1999. His main goal was to make Terengganu a developed state. Major state projects and developments under his reign including Petronas Petroleum Complex in Kerteh, Sultan Ismail Power Station at Paka, the largest power station in Malaysia, Kenyir Dam, Sultan Mahmud Bridge, the bridge linking Kuala Terengganu to Pulau Duyong and Kuala Nerus, Wisma Darul Iman and the Tengku Tengah Zaharah Mosque (Floating Mosque).
He performed the hajj pilgrimage with his brother-in-law and cousin, Almarhum Sultan Salahuddin of Selangor in 1984.
Death
On 14 May 1998, he died in Mount Elizabeth Hospital, Singapore and was replaced by his son Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin. His body was laid to rest in the new Royal Mausoleum near Al-Muktafi Billah Shah Mosque in Kuala Terengganu. He was the first sultan of Terengganu to be buried here.
Honours
He was awarded:
Honours of Terengganu
Supreme Royal Family Order of Terengganu : Founding Grand Master and Member (DKT, 10 March 1981 - 15 May 1998)
Family Order of Terengganu : First Class (DK I, 26 June 1964) and Grand Master (21 Sept. 1979 - 15 May 1998)
Order of Sultan Mahmud I of Terengganu : Founding Grand Master and Member Grand Companion (SSMT, 28 Feb. 1982 - 15 May 1998)
Order of the Crown of Terengganu : Knight Grand Commander (SPMT, 26 June 1977) and Grand Master (21 Sept. 1979 - 15 May 1998)
Honours of Malaysia
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Recipient of Order of the Crown of the Realm (DMN) (1981)
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First Class of the Royal Family Order of Johor (DK I) (8 April 1986)
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Member of the Royal Family Order of Kedah (DK)
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Member of the Royal Family Order of Kelantan (DK)
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Member of the Royal Family Order of Negeri Sembilan (DKNS)
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Member 1st class of the Family Order of the Crown of Indra of Pahang (DK I) (1981)
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Member of the Royal Family Order of Perak (DK)
Grand Knight of the Order of Cura Si Manja Kini (SPCM)
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Recipient of Perlis Family Order of the Gallant Prince Syed Putra Jamalullail (DK)
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Second class of the Royal Family Order of Selangor (DK II) (8 March 1978)
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Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of Hornbill Sarawak (DP)
Order of Meritorious Service to Sarawak (DJBS)
Foreign Honours
: Royal Family Order of the Crown of Brunei (DKMB)
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Knight of Justice or Grace of the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (KStJ, 20 March 1990)
Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal (2 June 1953)
Legacy
Several projects and institutions were named after the Sultan, including:
Educational institutions
Sekolah Menengah Sains Sultan Mahmud (SESMA) at Wakaf Tembusu, Kuala Terengganu
Buildings, Bridges and Roads
Sultan Mahmud Al-Muktafi Billah Shah Mosque at Bandar Al-Muktafi Billah Shah
Al-Muktafi Billah Shah Mosque at Kuala Terengganu
Sultan Mahmud Bridge at Jalan Tengku Mizan on Federal Route 65 at Kuala Terengganu
Jalan Sultan Mahmud on Federal Route 174 at Kuala Terengganu
Sultan Mahmud Airport at Seberang Takir, Kuala Terengganu
Sultan Mahmud Power Station, Kenyir Dam
Others
Bandar Al-Muktafi Billah Shah
References
1930 births
1998 deaths
Mahmud
Malaysian people of Thai descent
Malaysian people of Malay descent
Malaysian Muslims
Mahmud
Mahmud
Mahmud
Mahmud
Mahmud
Mahmud
Second Classes of Royal Family Order of Selangor
First Classes of the Royal Family Order of Johor
Members of the Royal Family Order of Kedah
Recipients of the Order of the Crown of the Realm
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Nuria Olivé Vancells (born 20 August 1968 in Barcelona, Catalonia) is a former field hockey player from Spain. She was a member of the Women's National Team that won the gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics on home soil (Barcelona).
References
External links
1968 births
Spanish female field hockey players
Olympic field hockey players for Spain
Field hockey players at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Living people
Olympic gold medalists for Spain
Field hockey players from Barcelona
Olympic medalists in field hockey
Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Atlètic Terrassa players
20th-century Spanish women
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Silvia Manrique Pérez (born 6 March 1973 in Llodio, Álava) is a former field hockey player from Spain, who was a member of the Women's National Team that won the gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics on home soil (Barcelona). She also competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, where Spain finished in 8th and last position.
References
sports-reference
External links
1973 births
Spanish female field hockey players
Olympic field hockey players for Spain
Field hockey players at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Field hockey players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Living people
Olympic gold medalists for Spain
Olympic medalists in field hockey
Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
20th-century Spanish women
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Courtney Gains (born August 22, 1965) is an American character actor best known for his portrayal of Malachai in the 1984 horror movie Children of the Corn.
Career
Gains achieved success during the 1980s with a variety of roles in films such as Children of the Corn, Hardbodies, Lust in the Dust, Back to the Future, Can't Buy Me Love, Secret Admirer, Colors, The 'Burbs, and Memphis Belle. Later films include Sweet Home Alabama, Dorm Daze (which he also executive-produced), Desolation Canyon, and a cameo in Rob Zombie's Halloween remake.
In addition to his film work, Gains appeared in the video games Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger, LA Noire and guest-starred on episodes of various television series, including Seinfeld, Monk, In the Heat of the Night, ER, JAG, Nash Bridges, Diagnosis: Murder, Charmed, Alias and My Name is Earl. Gains has also worked as an acting coach.
Gains worked as a musician and once performed live on stage with Phish, appearing at the band's December 6, 1996 concert in Las Vegas, which was later released on CD as Vegas 96. Gains has since released a solo album.
Filmography
Children of the Corn (1984) as Malachai
Hardbodies (1984) as "Rag"
Lust in the Dust (1985) as "Red Dick" Barker
Secret Admirer (1985) as Doug
Back to the Future (1985) as Dixon
Ratboy (1986) as Kid In Car
Winners Take All (1987) as "Goose" Trammel
Can't Buy Me Love (1987) as Kenneth Wurman
Colors (1988) as "Whitey"
The 'Burbs (1989) as Hans Klopek
Memphis Belle (1990) as Sergeant Eugene McVey
Behind Enemy Lines (1997) as Church
Dilemma (1997) as "Tex"
Shadow of Doubt (1998) as Ernie
The Landlady (1998) as Tyson Johns
No Code of Conduct (1998) as Cameron
Dreamers (1999) as Mike
Her Married Lover (1999) as Hood
Sweet Home Alabama (2002) as Sheriff Wade
National Lampoon Presents Dorm Daze (2003) as Lorenzo, The Black Hand
Freezerburn (2005) as "Scooter", The Grip
The Phobic (2006) as Dr. Cecil Westlake
Halloween (2007) as Jack Kendall (uncredited)
Alien Encounter (2008) as Donovan
Sibling Rivalry (2009) as The Stranger
He's Such a Girl (2009) as Barrista
Benny Bliss and the Disciples of Greatness (2009) as Benny Bliss
The Ascent (2010) as Andrew
Cinema Salvation (2010) as Courtney
The Quiet Ones (2010) as Michael's Father
Raven (2010) as Danny
Faster (2010) Prescott Ashton, The Telemarketer
Watch Out for Slick (2010) as "Benji"
Discipline (2011) as Jack Baldwin
Poolboy: Drowning Out the Fury (2011) as Gil Highdecker
L.A. Noire (2011) as Eli Rooney (voice)
Mimesis: Night of the Living Dead (2011) as Gordon
Ambush at Dark Canyon (2012) as Sheriff Hurley
The House Across the Street (2013) as Ned
My Trip Back to the Dark Side (2014) as Bobby G.
Field of Lost Shoes (2014) as Captain Chinook
Halcyon (2014) as Robert
The Funhouse Massacre (2015) as Dennis
The Bronx Bull (2016) as Chain Gang Guard
Eden Falls (2017) as Dr. Mason
It Happened One Valentine's (2017) as Freddy Craig
Goodnight, Gracie (2017) as Billy
Urban Myths (2017) as Stanley
Camp Cold Brook (2018) as
Hell's Kitty (2018) as Mordicia
Candy Corn (2019) as Sheriff Sam Bramford
Charming the Hearts of Men (2021) as Mr. Spratz
Hellblazers (2022) as Bernard
Grand Theft Auto Online: The Last Dose (2023) as Labrat (voice) (Videogame)
The Wrath of Becky (2023) as Twig
References
External links
Convicted Artist Magazine - Courtney Gains Interview
1965 births
American male film actors
American male television actors
Living people
Male actors from Los Angeles
20th-century American male actors
21st-century American male actors
American male video game actors
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Ariel Prieto (born October 22, 1969) is a Cuban former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1995 to 2001 for the Oakland Athletics and Tampa Bay Devil Rays. He is currently the pitching coach for the GCL Mets.
Career
Prieto played baseball both for Fajardo University, located in Santiago de Cuba, and for Piratas de Isla de la Juventud in the Cuban National Series, a winter baseball league in Cuba. Concerned that he would be unable to leave Cuba if he was highly valued as an athlete, Prieto intentionally pitched poorly during the winter of 1994. Prieto and his wife were granted visas to travel outside of Cuba in April 1995, and they relocated to Florida.
Prieto was selected fifth overall in the 1995 MLB draft by the Oakland Athletics. He made his major-league debut for the Athletics that July. Prieto, being unfamiliar with American banks and credit cards, walked around with his $1.2 million signing-bonus check in his pocket for over a week. He won two games and lost six, becoming one of the few players to be drafted and then play in MLB during the same season. In 1996, Prieto had what was arguably his best season, winning 6 games and losing 7 with an earned run average (ERA) of 4.15.
Prieto was traded to the Tampa Bay Devil Rays before the 2001 season. With the Devil Rays, Prieto saw action in three games, without any decisions, allowing one earned run in innings pitched. His one season with the Devil Rays was his last season in the major leagues. Prieto played in Mexico during the middle 2000s, playing with the Venados de Mazatlán, a team that he also played for in the Caribbean World Series, held that year in Venezuela. During six MLB seasons, Prieto won 15 games and lost 24, with an overall 4.85 ERA.
Prieto played professionally until 2005 in Minor League Baseball, without returning to MLB.
Coaching career
Prieto spent the 2009 through 2011 seasons as the pitching coach for the Athletics' Arizona League team.
On November 10, 2011, Prieto was announced as the pitching coach for the Vermont Lake Monsters, the Athletics' New York–Penn League (Single A, short season) team.
From 2012 to 2015, Prieto served as interpreter for fellow Cuban defector, New York Mets outfielder Yoenis Céspedes.
In 2015, Prieto was hired as a coach for the Arizona Diamondbacks. He was let go in 2017.
Prieto was named as the pitching coach for the GCL Mets of the New York Mets organization for the 2018 season.
See also
List of baseball players who defected from Cuba
List of baseball players who went directly to Major League Baseball
References
External links
1969 births
Living people
Oakland Athletics players
Tampa Bay Devil Rays players
Oakland Athletics coaches
Major League Baseball players from Cuba
Cuban expatriate baseball players in the United States
Major League Baseball pitchers
Arizona Diamondbacks coaches
Palm Springs Suns players
Edmonton Trappers players
Modesto A's players
Sacramento River Cats players
Durham Bulls players
Nashville Sounds players
Toledo Mud Hens players
Albuquerque Isotopes players
Yaquis de Obregón players
Cuban expatriate baseball players in Mexico
Caribes de Oriente players
Defecting Cuban baseball players
Cuban expatriate baseball players in Venezuela
Cuban expatriate baseball players in Canada
Baseball players from Havana
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The Sail @ Marina Bay is a waterfront lifestyle condominium located in the Marina Bay area in Singapore. It was completed in 2008. The first tenants have moved into Central Park Tower in July 2008. Residents moved into Marina Bay Tower a few weeks later. The structure of The Sail is with 70 storeys and is one of Singapore's tallest condominia/apartment buildings. This development offers panoramic city view of Marina Bay and the sea. It is close to some of Singapore's famous landmarks such as Suntec City, Marina Bay Sands, Esplanade, Telok Ayer Market and the Singapore River. The Downtown MRT station is built a few meters to the West of the building. The building was erected on reclaimed land, and the Central Linear Park is built on the South Side next to the building.
History
Before the site was sold to developers, City Developments Limited and AIG Global Real Estate, the land parcel was sold as a "white site", which means the developer is free to use the site for commercial and/or residential use, by the URA. After the sale, the developer indicated their intention to use it predominantly for residential use with the first level or two for shop units. Their plan was approved by the government. Once completed, it included the first residential development in the New Downtown and is also the tallest predominantly residential development in the city.
The 99-year leasehold site was launched for public tender on 14 March 2002.
The original design for the building was 69 storeys for Marina Bay Tower, and 58 storeys for Central Park Tower. After the design was finalised by the NBBJ, the number of storeys was revised upwards to 70 storeys for Marina Bay Tower, and 63 storeys for Central Park Tower.
Design
The condominium was designed by Peter Pran and Timothy Johnson with leading design firm NBBJ. The two buildings include a glass facade, sculpted Marina Bay Tower to look like a sail, and configured the complex representative of a huge canyon, reflecting his utilisation of inspirations by the sun, the wind, and the water respectively.
The site area is with a maximum permissible gross floor area of . It has of retail space, and an underground link to Raffles Place MRT station. It will offer 1,111 99-year leasehold residential units, 438 one-bedroom units, 418 two-bedroom units, 175 three-bedroom units, 75 four-bedroom units, and five penthouses, with the largest almost .
The architectural model of the structure was made by Richard Tenguerian.
Construction
The main-contractor, Dragages Singapore Pte Ltd, has allowed for many technical innovations in the design of the towers: seismic design - the towers can resist to earthquakes (although unknown to date in Singapore), construction over the MRT line, construction on a very unstable soil.
See also
Tall buildings in Singapore
List of tallest buildings in the world
References
External links
Pictures and Information
Urban Redevelopment Authority
Building & Construction Authority
Marina Bay Official Website
City Developments Limited
Downtown Core (Singapore)
Marina Bay, Singapore
Residential buildings completed in 2008
Residential skyscrapers in Singapore
Twin towers
2008 establishments in Singapore
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Sonia Barrio Gutiérrez (born 13 December 1969 in Madrid) is a former field hockey player from Spain, who was a member of the Women's National Team that surprisingly won the golden medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona.
Barrio also competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, where Spain finished in 8th and last position. Four years later, when Sydney hosted the Games, she was a member of the team that was defeated by the Netherlands in the bronze medal match.
References
sports-reference
External links
1969 births
Spanish female field hockey players
Olympic field hockey players for Spain
Field hockey players at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Field hockey players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Field hockey players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Living people
Olympic gold medalists for Spain
Field hockey players from Madrid
Olympic medalists in field hockey
Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
20th-century Spanish women
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Teresa Motos Izeta (born 29 December 1963 in Guipúzcoa) is a former field hockey player from Spain. She was a member of the Women's National Team that won the gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics on home soil (Barcelona). Motos also competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, where Spain finished in 8th and last position.
References
External links
1963 births
Spanish female field hockey players
Olympic field hockey players for Spain
Field hockey players at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Field hockey players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Living people
Olympic gold medalists for Spain
Olympic medalists in field hockey
Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
20th-century Spanish women
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Scarva ( meaning "shallow place, rough ford") is a small village and townland in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is at the boundary with County Armagh, which is marked by the Newry Canal. In the 2001 Census it had a population of 320.
Scarva is famous as the location of the "Sham Fight" Pageant on 13 July every year. The Pageant attracts thousands of members of the Royal Black Preceptory, a group related to the Orange Order, who come to march and stage a symbolic (sham) re-enactment of the 1690 Battle of the Boyne.
History
Places of interest
The village has a park, with playing fields and well inhabited wildlife pond, scenic walks and wild fowl sanctuary.
People
Rear Admiral Charles Davis Lucas (1834–1914), recipient of the Victoria Cross
William Buller (born 1992), racing driver
Schools
Scarva Primary School
Sport
The local football club is Scarva Rangers, formed in 1972. Home matches are played at Scarva Park.
Transport
Scarva railway station opened on 23 March 1859.
Scarva is on National Cycle Route 9, linking Belfast with Newry, and eventually Dublin.
References
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Villages in County Down
Townlands of County Down
Civil parish of Aghaderg
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Virginia Ramírez Merino (born 22 May 1964 in Madrid) is a former field hockey player from Spain. She was a member of the Women's National Team that won the gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics on home soil (Barcelona).
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1964 births
Field hockey players at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Living people
Olympic field hockey players for Spain
Olympic gold medalists for Spain
Field hockey players from Madrid
Spanish female field hockey players
Olympic medalists in field hockey
Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
20th-century Spanish women
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Matei Alexe Călinescu (June 15, 1934 – June 24, 2009) was a Romanian literary critic and professor of comparative literature at Indiana University, in Bloomington, Indiana.
Biography
Călinescu was born in Bucharest, Romania, the son of Radu Călinescu, an engineer, and Dora Călinescu (née Vulcănescu), a homemaker. He attended the in Bucharest, obtaining his diploma in 1952. He then pursued his studies at the University of Bucharest, graduating in 1957. Călinescu became an assistant professor in the Department of Universal and Comparative Literature at the University of Bucharest, and made his literary debut in . He was offered a Fulbright grant and defected to the United States in 1973.
From 1973 to 1975 Călinescu was a visiting professor at Indiana University Bloomington, before becoming an associate professor there in 1976, and a full professor in 1978. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1975. He became a naturalized American citizen in 1980. Upon his retirement he became an Emeritus Professor at Indiana University. He lived with his wife in Bloomington, Indiana, and died there in 2009.
Selected bibliography
Matei Călinescu, Matthew's Enigma: A father's portrait of his autistic son., Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2009, 210 p.
Matei Călinescu, Eugène Ionesco: Teme identitare și existențiale (Eugène Ionesco: Identity and Existential Themes) Iași: Junimea, 2006, 491 p.
Matei Călinescu, Ionesco: Recherches identitaires, Paris: Oxus, 2005, 348 p.
Matei Călinescu, Un fel de jurnal, 1973–1981 (A Diary of Sorts, 1973–1981), Iași: Polirom, 2005.
Matei Călinescu, Ion Vianu, Amintiri în dialog (Memories in Dialogue), Bucharest: Editura Litera, 1994; 2nd ed. with preface and two new chapters included as an Epilogue, Iași: Polirom, 1998; 3rd edition, Iași: Polirom, 2005.
Matei Călinescu, Tu: Elegii și invenții (You: Elegies and Inventions, poems), Iași: Polirom, 2004.
Matei Călinescu, Mateiu I. Caragiale: recitiri, Cluj: Biblioteca Apostrof, 2003, 160 p., 2nd ed., Cluj-Iași: Apostrof-Polirom, 2007.
Matei Călinescu, Portretul lui M (The Portrait of M, a memoir), Iași: Polirom, 2003.
Matei Călinescu, Rereading, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993, 336 p. Translated into Romanian as A citi, a reciti. Cǎtre o poeticǎ a (re)lecturii, Iași: Polirom, 2003.
Matei Călinescu, Despre Ioan P. Culianu și Mircea Eliade. Amintiri, Lecturi, Reflecții, Iași: Polirom, 2002, 177 p., 2nd ed., Iași: Polirom, 2002, 231 p.
Vlad Georgescu, Matei Călinescu, The Romanians: a history, Ohio State University Press, 1991.
Matei Călinescu, Exploring Postmodernism, (co-edited with Douwe W. Fokkema), Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1988, 270 p., Paperback edition, 1990.
Matei Călinescu, Five Faces of Modernity: Modernism, Avant-Garde, Decadence, Kitsch, Postmodernism, Duke University Press, 1987.
Matei Călinescu, Faces of Modernity: Avant-Garde, Decadence, Kitsch, Indiana University Press, 1977.
Matei Călinescu, Selections of Poetry translated into English in Mundus Artium, 1976; New Letters, 1976; Seneca Review, 1981; Correspondences, 1982; and 2 PLUS 2, 1983.
Matei Călinescu, Umbre de apă, poeme, (Water Shadows, poems), Bucharest: Editura Cartea Românească, 1972.
Matei Călinescu, Versuri (Lines), Bucharest: Editura Eminescu, 1970.
Matei Călinescu, Viața și opiniile lui Zacharias Lichter (The Life and Opinions of Zacharias Lichter), a short novel, Bucharest: Editura Pentru Literatură, 1969. Translated into Hungarian, 1971; Polish, 1972; French excerpts, in Cahiers de l'Est, 1, 2, 1975; and English, 2018. 2nd ed., enlarged, Bucharest: Editura Eminescu, 1971; 3rd ed., with new preface, 1995, Iași: Polirom, 1995; 4th edition, Iași: Polirom, 2004.
Awards
1969: Romanian Writers' Union Prize for Fiction, for Viaţa şi opiniile lui Zacharias Lichter (The Life and Opinions of Zacharias Lichter)
1975: Guggenheim Fellowship
2006: Writers' Union Prize for Essay and Criticism, for Eugène Ionesco: Teme identitare și existențiale (Eugène Ionesco: Identity and Existential Themes)
References
External links
"Matei Calinescu", at Indiana University
"Matei Calinescu", at WordsWithoutBorders
Author’s page on the website of Romanian publishing house Polirom
1934 births
2009 deaths
Romanian emigrants to the United States
Romanian defectors
Indiana University faculty
Romanian literary historians
Romanian literary critics
Romanian diarists
Deaths from lung cancer
Deaths from cancer in Indiana
Writers from Bucharest
University of Bucharest alumni
Academic staff of the University of Bucharest
20th-century diarists
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Mwape Miti (born 24 May 1973) is a Zambian former professional footballer who played as a striker.
He has played 246 matches and scored 109 goals for his team Odense Boldklub, having joined them in the summer of 1997 from Power Dynamos. Prior to that he played for Mulungushi Chiefs. In the 2003–04 season he became joint top league goalscorer with 19 goals. He retired in 2006.
Miti had 33 caps for the Zambia national team and was part of Zambia squad at the 1996 and 2000 Africa Cup of Nations tournaments.
In 2012, he was selected to Odense BKs all-time top-11 "De største striber" (The greatest "stripes") by OBs fans.
External links
Mwape Miti profile at ZambianFootball.net
1973 births
Living people
Zambian men's footballers
Men's association football forwards
Zambia men's international footballers
1996 African Cup of Nations players
2000 African Cup of Nations players
Danish Superliga players
Danish 1st Division players
Power Dynamos F.C. players
Odense Boldklub players
Zambian expatriate men's footballers
Zambian expatriate sportspeople in Denmark
Expatriate men's footballers in Denmark
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The Michael Kelly Guitar Company is a US musical instrument company founded in 1999 and based in Clearwater, Florida. Michael Kelly imports high quality instruments manufactured to their specifications (mainly from South Korea). The company has recently gained popularity, particularly due to the release of their new Mod Shop Guitars, where they take some of their standard designs and swap out the pickups using Lindy Fralin, Seymour Duncan, TV Jones, Bare Knuckle and Fishman.
Michael Kelly gained popularity due to their Dragonfly II acoustic bass, which has been used by Duff McKagan of Guns N' Roses, Shavo Odadjian of System of a Down, and Tony Bigley of Souls Harbor.
Current line of products commercialised by Michael Kelly includes electric and acoustic guitars, basses, acoustic and electric mandolins.
Current models
Electric guitars
Patriot Black
Patriot Custom
Patriot Decree
Patriot Limited
Patriot Premium
Patriot Standard
Patriot Supreme
Hybrid
Hybrid Special
1950s Model Guitars
1960s Model Guitars
Acoustic guitars
Forte Port
Forte Exotic JE
Koa Special
Triad 10E
Triad Port
Forte Port X
3D Grand Auditorium
Acoustic basses
Dragonfly 4 String
Dragonfly 4 String Left Handed
Dragonfly 5 String
Dragonfly 4 String Fretless
Dragonfly 5 String Fretless
Electric basses
Element 4Q
Element 5Q
Custom Collection Element 4
Custom Collection Element 5
Rick Turner B4 Bass
Mandolins
A-Style Mandolins
F-Style Mandolins
Electric F-Style Mandolins
Discontinued electric models
Hex Deluxe
Valor X #Double-cut#
Valor Q #Double-cut#
Valor Limited #Double-cut#
Valor Custom #Double-cut#
Hourglass (PRS Santana/Les Paul, Double-cut)
Vibe #Hollowbody#
Deuce Phoenix #Hollowbody#
Patriot Phoenix #Single-cut)
vex nv #double cut#
References
External links
Official website
Guitar manufacturing companies of the United States
Musical instrument manufacturing companies of the United States
Companies based in Clearwater, Florida
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Shakespeare's Macbeth – A Tragedy in Steel is a 2002 concept album by German heavy metal band Rebellion, based on the story of William Shakespeare's play Macbeth. The album has many spoken passages.
Track listing
"Introduction" – 2:31
"Disdaining Fortune" – 4:59
"The Prophecy" – 6:56
"Husbandry in Heaven" – 13:11
"The Dead Arise" – 8:29
"Evil Speaks" – 4:06
"Letters of Blood" – 4:22
"Revenge" – 6:18
"Claws of Madness" – 8:01
"Demons Rising" – 7:49
"Die with Harness on Your Back" – 6:12
"The Blood of my Brothers/Death Above Us" – 5:27
"I Can See the Judgment in Your Eyes, Pt. II" – 7:14
"Just Like a Rainbow in the Dark Pt. 2 This Time It's Metal" – 5:33
All songs written by Lulis and Göttlich, except track 3 (Eilen and Lulis).
Credits
Michael Seifert — vocals
Uwe Lulis — guitars
Björn Eilen — guitars, vocals, accordions
Tomi Göttlich — bass
Randy Black — drums
Skylar M. Prinkle — swordsman
Ben Iver — Whipstick
Speakers, cast
Narrator — Bob Lyng
Macbeth — Tomi Göttlich
Lady MacBeth, Speaker and Singer — Francesca (Schmidt) Tzamtzis
Macduff — Björn Eilen
First witch — Yvonne Thorhauer
Second witch — Saskia Schenkel
Third witch — Ana Lara
Gentlewoman — Christopher Lundmark
Doctor — Randy Black
Young Siward — Eli Hughes
2003 albums
Concept albums
Rebellion (band) albums
Works based on Macbeth
Drakkar Entertainment albums
Music based on works by William Shakespeare
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Woronora Dam is a locality split between City of Wollongong, City of Campbelltown, and Sutherland Shire in New South Wales, Australia. In the , Woronora Dam had a population of 3 people.
Geography
The dam of the same name is located within the locality as is Lake Woronora, the reservoir created by the dam.
References
External links
Suburbs of Sydney
Sutherland Shire
City of Wollongong
City of Campbelltown (New South Wales)
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Andrew Tembo (born 19 August 1971) is a former Zambian football midfielder.
Tembo previously played 284 matches and scored 15 goals for Odense BK, having joined them in the summer of 1997 from Olympique Marseille, where he had a short spell. Prior to that he played for Zamsure FC.
Tembo has 35 caps for the Zambian national team.
In 2012, he was selected to Odense BKs all-time top-11 "De største striber" (The greatest "stripes") by OBs fans.
References
External links
1971 births
Living people
Zambian men's footballers
Zambian expatriate men's footballers
Zambia men's international footballers
Olympique de Marseille players
Odense Boldklub players
Ølstykke FC players
Ligue 2 players
Danish Superliga players
Expatriate men's footballers in France
Expatriate men's footballers in Denmark
1996 African Cup of Nations players
1998 African Cup of Nations players
2000 African Cup of Nations players
Men's association football midfielders
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Strange Cargo 2 is the third album by electronic instrumentalist William Orbit. It was released in 1990. The album is the second in a series of similarly titled albums: Strange Cargo, Strange Cargo III, and Strange Cargo Hinterland.
Critical reception
The Chicago Tribune called the album "a mix of light jazz, funk and a smattering of world music to make it all seem somehow exotic."
AllMusic wrote that "though there's a bit more electronics on this record, [Orbit] still seems uncommonly fixated with textural touches like Spanish guitar, and the effect is much more Windham Hill than Warp."
Track listing
"Dark Eyed Kid"
"Atom Dream"
"Ruby Heart"
"El Santo"
"Dia Del Muerto"
"777"
"The Thief and the Serpent"
"The Last Lagoon"
"Millennium"
"Painted Rock"
References
William Orbit albums
1990 albums
I.R.S. Records albums
Albums produced by William Orbit
Sequel albums
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The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) is the professional body for general (medical) practitioners (GPs/Family Physicians/Primary Care Physicians) in the United Kingdom. The RCGP represents and supports GPs on key issues including licensing, education, training, research and clinical standards. It is the largest of the medical royal colleges, with over 50,000 members. The RCGP was founded in 1952 in London, England and is a registered charity. Its motto is Cum Scientia Caritas – "Compassion [empowered] with Knowledge."
Organisation
The RCGP is unique amongst the medical royal colleges in having both a President and a Chairman. The President takes a mainly ceremonial function while the Chairman sets the college's policy direction, and leads the RCGP decision making body – the council. In 2012 the establishment of a new Trustee Board meant that members of the council were relieved of having to act in a statutory capacity relating to the college's charity status.
The council of the RCGP encompasses 32 groups ('Faculties') located across the UK, the Republic of Ireland and overseas. These are semi-autonomous units that provide local support and services for doctors, including educational events, training and personal development services. The college also incorporates devolved councils in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland that liaise with their own national health and primary care organisations.
, the President is Dame Clare Gerada, Chair of Council is Dr Kamila Hawthorne MBE, Honorary Secretary is Michael Mulholland, Honorary Treasurer is Steve Mowle, Vice Chair Professional Development is Margaret Ikpoh and Vice Chair External Affairs is Gary Howsam.
Membership
Paid membership of the RCGP is split into three main groups:
Associates – fully or provisionally registered medical practitioners who have yet to pass college assessments for membership.
Members – medical practitioners who have successfully completed the College's assessments and applied for membership.
Fellows – an honour and mark of achievement awarded to members who have made a significant contribution to the health and welfare of the community, to the science or practice of medicine in general, or to general practice/primary care in particular.
RCGP membership is also extended to Associates in Training (doctors in specialty training for general practice) and Life Members. the membership total stands at over 50,000. Members of the RCGP are required to abide by the RCGP constitution.
The college gained over 7,000 Associates in Training (AiTs) in 2008, when membership was made compulsory for GP trainees. The membership total has effectively doubled between 1998 and 2008.
MRCGP postgraduate qualification
Membership of the Royal College of General Practitioners (MRCGP) is a postgraduate medical qualification in the UK. The MRCGP Qualification is an integrated training and assessment system run by the RCGP. It aims to demonstrate excellence in the provision of General Practice. While the MRCGP was originally an optional qualification, it has more recently become mandatory for newly qualifying GPs and is directly linked to the GP Curriculum which the RCGP published in 2007 and regularly updates as necessary.
The award of MRCGP in addition to meeting all the criteria of the GMC along with a payment of a fee (currently £500) may lead to the award of a Certificate of Completion of Training.
In 2007 a new system of assessment was introduced, delivered locally in conjunction with deaneries, with the qualification awarded on completion of a three-year specialty training programme. Doctors with a licence to practise who successfully complete the MRCGP are eligible for inclusion on the General Medical Council's (GMC) GP Register as well use of the post nominals that indicate membership of the RCGP (MRCGP). Immediately after the introduction of the 2007 changes the term "nMRCGP" had helped to differentiate between old and new assessment procedures (with n meaning new). After several years, once all trainees were being assessed using the new methods, the "n" was dropped.
Training and assessment comprises three components, which cover the general practice specialty training curriculum.
The Applied Knowledge Test (AKT) is a multiple-choice computer-based assessment that tests the knowledge base underpinning general practice in the UK. It covers clinical medicine, critical appraisal/evidence-based clinical practice and health informatics/administrative issues.
The Clinical Skills Assessment (CSA) assesses a doctor's ability to integrate and apply clinical, professional, communication and practical skills to general practice. It simulates patient consultations based on scenarios drawn from general practice. Each consultation is marked by a different assessor, and the role of the patient is taken by a trained role-player.
The Workplace-Based Assessment (WPBA) evaluates a doctor's performance over time in the twelve professional competence areas that make up "Being a General Practitioner". This assessment takes place in the workplace throughout a GP's training.
Membership by Assessment of Performance (MAP) is the alternative route to membership. It enables established GPs, who cannot take the college's MRCGP exam, to gain membership through submission of a portfolio of evidence and potentially an oral examination. This route to membership is open to all established GPs who are registered to practice in the UK and who never took College exams.
Racial discrimination in clinical skills assessment
In 2013 the British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin launched a legal challenge to the regulator, the General Medical Council, and the college alleging that the clinical skills assessment component of the Membership exam was discriminatory and seeking a judicial review of the way the RCGP conducted the test, because there is a "significant difference in pass rates which cannot be explained by a lack of any knowledge, skill or competency on the part of the International Medical Graduates. 65.3% of international graduates failed their first attempt at the Clinical Skills Assessment (CSA) component of the MRCGP exam in 2011/12, compared with 9.9% of UK graduates. In 2010/11, 59.2% of the international graduates failed at the first attempt, compared with 8.2% of UK graduates, while in 2008, 43% of IMGs failed the CSA compared with 8.3% of UK graduates.
Aneez Esmail was asked to analyse data on more than 5,000 candidates who sat the CSA exam over a two-year period by the GMC. He found that ‘subjective bias due to racial discrimination may be a cause’ of the different pass rates for between white and non-white graduates.
The Judicial Review failed. Mr Justice John Mitting presiding over the case said that the Royal College of General Practitioners was neither racially discriminatory nor in breach of its public sector equality duty. He said the college had carried out numerous assessments that identified the disparity in performance between different groups and that it should now take action, including by selecting more representative examiners and role-players for the assessment.
Subsequently, the college, BAPIO announced that they would be working in close collaboration to address supporting international medical graduates and Black and Minority Ethnic doctors in relation to training and passing the MRCGP.
Professional development
The RCGP runs a Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Credits scheme that offers GPs a flexible learning framework in which to produce a portfolio of work that supports the Revalidation process. Key elements of the college's work in this field include developing a quality assured appraisal system and an ePortfolio that logs evidence of GPs' learning.
The CPD scheme is supported by the Online Learning Environment and Essential Knowledge Updates (EKU), providing doctors with e-learning tools, publications and other written materials on the latest developments in clinical practice knowledge. The provision of educational support for members includes:
E-learning modules
British Journal of General Practice
InnovAiT
Essential Knowledge Updates and Challenge
Personal Education Programme (PEP)
Clinical courses
Clinical updates
CPD Credits Scheme.
This has led to improved retention, which now exceeds 97%, and is 7% higher than the average retention rate for UK-based membership organisations charging a similar annual membership subscription fee. The RCGP has also developed Quality Programmes to support GPs and their teams. These are criteria and evidence based programmes which are designed to be voluntary, supportive and developmental in function.
Courses and events
The RCGP runs an Annual Conference each autumn, often attracting political, national and international speakers. The RCGP also hold a variety of courses and conferences throughout the year on specific clinical topics (e.g. Certificate in the treatment of substance misuse; Minor Surgery; Commissioning of local care; and regular 'one-day essentials' such as obesity, respiratory care and dementia) – all aimed at GPs and other health professionals within primary care.
International work
The RCGP builds partnerships with overseas health organisations, runs an International Development Programme and develops postgraduate assessment through an International Membership accreditation scheme called MRCGP[INT].
The college advises international doctors wishing to study or practise in the UK, and runs an International Travel Scholarship to support the study needs of members and non-members.
Publications, information services and archives
The RCGP publishes
The British Journal of General Practice (BJGP) is an international journal publishing research, debate and analysis, and clinical guidance for family practitioners and primary care researchers worldwide, formerly known as The Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners
RCGP News, the college's monthly newspaper, covering events in both the college and the wider medical professions
Free electronic bulletins, including the weekly Seven days and bi-monthly e-Bulletin
InnovAiT
The college also produces several key documents, reports, position statements and occasionally guidance in a variety of areas each year. The college's Clinical Champions working out of its Clinical Innovation and Research Centre also produce a wide range of materials in response to identified clinical priorities, including:
Medical Generalism: Why expertise in whole person medicine matters
General Practice 2022 (in progress)- detailing how general practice can be the driving force for transforming the health service over the next decade
Personal health budgets (Guide for GPs and position statement)
Social Media Highway Code (for discussion)
Whistle Blowing in the NHS (position statement)
The RCGP's library catalogue contains MD and PhD theses on general practice, an international selection of primary care journals and a loan collection of college publications. The library is open to all members, and to non-members by appointment.
RCGP's archives provide an important insight into the origins of the college and the foundation of modern general practice. Exhibits include a variety of personal papers, historic books, college institutional records, and a museum collection of medical instruments dating back to the 17th century.
Prizes and awards
The RCGP provides over 20 academic and monetary awards for people at different stages of their career. The awards are administered by an Awards Committee chaired by the President, and are usually presented at the college's two general meetings. The college also offers a number of International Travel Scholarships, and some regional faculties run their own awards. The college's highest award is the Honorary Fellowship, awarded to doctors and non-doctors from the UK and overseas for outstanding work towards the objectives of the college.
College history and headquarters
Co-founders of the college include Fraser Rose, John Hunt and George Abercrombie and others who joined the steering committee in 1951. The college began in November 1952 in response to growing physical, administrative and financial pressures that demoralised GPs and undermined standards of patient care. GPs now had to provide free primary care throughout the community and act as 'gatekeepers' with responsibility for referring patients to specialist consultants in NHS hospitals.
The formation of the college received widespread support throughout the medical press and individual GPs. In January 1953 'Foundation Membership' was made available to established GPs who satisfied defined criteria, and within six weeks 1,655 doctors had joined. One of the first presidents of the RCGP was William Pickles. He spoke out in favour of the foundation of the NHS and was held in high regard worldwide for his work in epidemiology.
The college's coat of arms and inscription Cum Scientia Caritas were designed by Perry Harrison, a founder member of the college. The college received the letters patent for its Arms in 1961. The elements represent historical context and themes relevant to general medical practice:
The ancient lineage of medicine – the gavel entwined with the serpent of Asclepius (the Greek God of Medicine).
The owl of the crest represents wisdom, and night visits; the gavel, authority and decision-making.
The shield itself is derived from that of St Bartholomew's Hospital (the oldest extant hospital site in the UK). Its chevron in these arms represents a roof (of the house in which general practice takes place), and day and night (black/white) alluding to the 24-hour commitment of GPs to their patients.
The lamp represents enlightenment, the importance of study/research, and links with the lamp of nursing.
The doctor's compassionate and healing relationship with their patient is represented by the white poppy (symbolising the relief of pain) and the blue gentian (representing the restorative and rehabilitative role of the GP).
The supporters are a unicorn (from the arms of the Society of Apothecaries, the forerunners of General Practitioners in the UK and in whose Hall the College of General Practitioners was first housed, but also representing medicine), and a lynx (from the Arms of the Company of Barbers and subsequently the Royal College of Surgeons, representing surgery). The spots on the lynx indicate its all-seeing nature, which is thought appropriate for general practice.
The motto is Cum Scientia Caritas (Compassion [empowered] with Knowledge).
From 1962 the headquarters of the college were at 14 Princes Gate, Kensington, London. By 1970 the college had 7,500 members.
In late October 2012 the college moved into new headquarters at 30 Euston Square, Camden, London. The building includes a Clinical Skills Assessment Centre (CSA) which means that the college has the capacity to assess several hundred candidates during sittings that are held throughout the year. Concern has been expressed about the effect on the headquarters when re-development of Euston Station takes place to accommodate the new High Speed Two development.
Criticism
The RCGP has been criticised for its support of the fossil fuel industry by hosting the 2020 Oil and Gas UK Exploration Conference at its London headquarters. This was cancelled after a petition by members raised concerns.
See also
Medical school in the United Kingdom
List of medical schools in the United Kingdom
References
External links
General practice organizations
Medical associations based in the United Kingdom
Organisations based in the London Borough of Camden
Organisations based in London with royal patronage
Organizations established in 1952
General Practitioners
1952 establishments in the United Kingdom
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In chemistry, mechanically interlocked molecular architectures (MIMAs) are molecules that are connected as a consequence of their topology. This connection of molecules is analogous to keys on a keychain loop. The keys are not directly connected to the keychain loop but they cannot be separated without breaking the loop. On the molecular level, the interlocked molecules cannot be separated without the breaking of the covalent bonds that comprise the conjoined molecules; this is referred to as a mechanical bond. Examples of mechanically interlocked molecular architectures include catenanes, rotaxanes, molecular knots, and molecular Borromean rings. Work in this area was recognized with the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Bernard L. Feringa, Jean-Pierre Sauvage, and J. Fraser Stoddart.
The synthesis of such entangled architectures has been made efficient by combining supramolecular chemistry with traditional covalent synthesis, however mechanically interlocked molecular architectures have properties that differ from both "supramolecular assemblies" and "covalently bonded molecules". The terminology "mechanical bond" has been coined to describe the connection between the components of mechanically interlocked molecular architectures. Although research into mechanically interlocked molecular architectures is primarily focused on artificial compounds, many examples have been found in biological systems including: cystine knots, cyclotides or lasso-peptides such as microcin J25 which are proteins, and a variety of peptides.
Residual topology
Residual topology is a descriptive stereochemical term to classify a number of intertwined and interlocked molecules, which cannot be disentangled in an experiment without breaking of covalent bonds, while the strict rules of mathematical topology allow such a disentanglement. Examples of such molecules are rotaxanes, catenanes with covalently linked rings (so-called pretzelanes), and open knots (pseudoknots) which are abundant in proteins.
The term "residual topology" was suggested on account of a striking similarity of these compounds to the well-established topologically nontrivial species, such as catenanes and knotanes (molecular knots). The idea of residual topological isomerism introduces a handy scheme of modifying the molecular graphs and generalizes former efforts of systemization of mechanically bound and bridged molecules.
History
Experimentally the first examples of mechanically interlocked molecular architectures appeared in the 1960s with catenanes being synthesized by Wasserman and Schill and rotaxanes by Harrison and Harrison. The chemistry of MIMAs came of age when Sauvage pioneered their synthesis using templating methods. In the early 1990s the usefulness and even the existence of MIMAs were challenged. The latter concern was addressed by X ray crystallographer and structural chemist David Williams. Two postdoctoral researchers who took on the challenge of producing [5]catenane (olympiadane) pushed the boundaries of the complexity of MIMAs that could be synthesized their success was confirmed in 1996 by a solid‐state structure analysis conducted by David Williams.
Mechanical bonding and chemical reactivity
The introduction of a mechanical bond alters the chemistry of the sub components of rotaxanes and catenanes. Steric hindrance of reactive functionalities is increased and the strength of non-covalent interactions between the components are altered.
Mechanical bonding effects on non-covalent interactions
The strength of non-covalent interactions in a mechanically interlocked molecular architecture increases as compared to the non-mechanically bonded analogues. This increased strength is demonstrated by the necessity of harsher conditions to remove a metal template ion from catenanes as opposed to their non-mechanically bonded analogues. This effect is referred to as the "catenand effect". This increase in strength of non-covalent interactions is attributed to the loss of degrees of freedom upon the formation of a mechanical bond. The increase in strength of non-covalent interactions is more pronounced on smaller interlocked systems, where more degrees of freedom are lost, as compared to larger mechanically interlocked systems where the change in degrees of freedom is lower. Therefore, if the ring in a rotaxane is made smaller the strength of non-covalent interactions increases, the same effect is observed if the thread is made smaller as well.
Mechanical bonding effects on chemical reactivity
The mechanical bond can reduce the kinetic reactivity of the products, this is ascribed to the increased steric hindrance. Because of this effect hydrogenation of an alkene on the thread of a rotaxane is significantly slower as compared to the equivalent non interlocked thread. This effect has allowed for the isolation of otherwise reactive intermediates.
The ability to alter reactivity without altering covalent structure has led to MIMAs being investigated for a number of technological applications.
Applications of mechanical bonding in controlling chemical reactivity
The ability for a mechanical bond to reduce reactivity and hence prevent unwanted reactions has been exploited in a number of areas. One of the earliest applications was in the protection of organic dyes from environmental degradation.
Examples
Olympiadane
References
Further reading
Supramolecular chemistry
Molecular topology
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Pierre-Alexis "Pitre" Tremblay (December 27, 1827 – January 4, 1879) was a surveyor and Quebec political figure. He was a Liberal Member of Parliament from 1867 to 1875 and 1878 to 1879.
He was born in La Malbaie, Lower Canada, in 1827 and studied at the Petit Séminaire of Quebec. Near the end of 1853, he began carrying out surveys in the Saguenay region. As a journalist, he contributed to a number of newspapers of the time: Le Canadien, La Nation, Le National, L’Événement and L’Éclaireur. He was elected to Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada for Chicoutimi—Saguenay in an 1865 by-election.
In 1867, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec in Chicoutimi-Saguenay; in the same year he was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the same riding; such dual mandates were legal at the time. He was re-elected provincially in 1871 in the same seat, and in 1872 he was elected in Charlevoix federally. He resigned from the Quebec seat in 1874 when holding seats in both legislatures became illegal. His election in Charlevoix was invalidated in August 1875. He was defeated in a by-election held in 1876 but was able to overturn this result in the Supreme Court of Canada in 1877 by demonstrating that the Quebec clergy had exerted undue influence against him during the election. He represented Charlevoix federally from 1878 until his death in Quebec City in 1879.
From 1862 to 1868, he was involved with Félicité Angers, better known as the author Laure Conan, but he married Mary Ellen Connoly in 1870.
External links
1827 births
1879 deaths
Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada from Canada East
Liberal Party of Canada MPs
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec
Quebec Liberal Party MNAs
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Christian Frei (born 1959 in Schönenwerd, Solothurn) is a Swiss filmmaker and film producer. He is mostly known for his films War Photographer (2001), The Giant Buddhas (2005) and Space Tourists (2009).
Frei has been an associate lecturer on Reflection Competence at the renowned University of St. Gallen from 2006 to 2023. From 2006 to 2009 he was president of the “Documentary Film Commission” for the film section of the Swiss Federal Office of Culture, and from 2010 to 2022 he had held the position of President of the Swiss Film Academy.
Career
From the very start of his career, Frei established a reputation as an exacting documentarist, with a . He follows his protagonists closely - always in search of authentic moments, and always keeping the whole picture in mind. Peter-Matthias Gaede said that Frei made films that avoided "noise, pompous gestures, the rush of speed" and that he and his cameraman (Peter Indergand) made films that were subtle and "exude quiet persistance". According to Kulturzeit, "What makes these films so extraordinary? They are authentic moments that endure. Christian Frei takes us along a perimeter that both divides and unites individuals and cultures: the tectonics of humanity."
Frei studied television at the Department of Journalism and Communications of the University of Fribourg. In 1981 he directed his first documentary short film, Die Stellvertreterin. After co-directing Fortfahren with Ivo Kummer in 1984, he became an independent filmmaker and producer. He made another short film, Der Radwechsel. Then he moved on to feature-length documentaries with Ricardo, Miriam y Fidel (1997). The documentary was described as being "surprisingly revealing" by the Chicago Tribune, who went on to say that the "pain and disillusionment on both sides are in plain view". It portrays the rift between Miriam Martinez, who wants to leave Cuba for the USA, and her father Ricardo Martinez - one of the founders of Fidel Castro's "Radio Rebelde". The Chicago Tribune goes on to say that the film "is equally sympathetic to Ricardo's revolutionary hopes and Miriam's hopelessness -- an amazing feat in a Cuban film."
War Photographer (2001) marks a turning point in his career as director in 2001: Due to the Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary and numerous prizes worldwide he had the international break through. For this feature-length documentary, Frei spent two years accompanying war photographer James Nachtwey to different war zones around the world. The film shows his protagonist to be a shy and reserved man, far from the hothead image associated with his profession. Frei intelligently plays with the role of the spectator, confronting him with the ambivalence of war photography and the role of the media. The documentary appeals to the spectators’ sense for compassion and thematically approaches the theme of war itself. Still popular with audiences and critics today, the film has become a classic.
With The Giant Buddhas (2005), Frei once again deals with a subject of strong political and global interest: The film revolves around the destruction of the two giant Buddhas of Bamiyan in Afghanistan’s remote Bamiyan Valley. It is an essay "on faith and fanaticism, tolerance and terrorism, identity and ignorance, the ephemeral and our feeble attempts to preserve it". The film turned out to be a documentary that filled a necessary gap of knowledge far from the everyday media war reportage.
At the Sundance Film Festival in 2010 Frei won the “World Cinema Directing Award” for his film Space Tourists (2009). The documentary juxtaposes the journeys of the extremely rich tourists traveling with the astronauts into space with the poor Kazakh metal collectors risking their lives in search for rocket waste fallen down into the planes once the space shuttle has left. As a result, the film turns out to be a humorous and poetic declaration of love for planet earth. Critics acclaimed this film for its breathtaking imagery and richness of insights, having strengthened Frei’s reputation as one of today’s most original and innovative directors.
In 2014, Sleepless in New York premiered in competition at Visions du Réel, the Nyon International Documentary Film Festival. Frei dives into the frenzied nights of three newly rejected. Helen Fisher, an American biological anthropologist, reveals the astounding and profound processes that unfold in the brain of the lovesick. Working again with DOP Peter Indergand, they developed a spherical mirror to capture the solitude of the broken-hearted.
As producer, Christian Frei releases Raving Iran, the first feature length documentary directed by Susanne Regina Meures. She follows two Tehran DJs performing on illegal parties and planning to leave Iran. The film had its international premiere at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival Toronto and won awards at numerous film festivals.
The documentary Genesis 2.0 celebrated its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2018 and was awarded with the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Cinematography. Swiss cameraman Peter Intergand and the Russian filmmaker Maxim Arbugaev are responsible for the cinematography, Arbugaev also co-directed the film. Genesis 2.0 follows mammoth hunters on the remote New Siberian Islands and portrays clone researchers and synthetic biologists in South Korea, China and USA.
Filmography
Die Stellvertreterin (1981)
Fortfahren (1982)
Der Radwechsel (1984)
Ricardo, Miriam y Fidel (1997)
Kluge Köpfe (1998)
Bollywood im Alpenrausch – Indische Filmemacher erobern die Schweiz (2000)
War Photographer (2001)
The Giant Buddhas (2005)
Space Tourists (2009)
Sleepless in New York (2014)
Genesis 2.0 (2018), co-directed by Maxim Arbugaev
Awards
2021 Honorary Doctorate PhD h.c. in Social Sciences University of St. Gallen
Ricardo, Miriam y Fidel
Basic Trust International Human Rights Film Festival Ramallah-Tel Aviv 2000: audience award
War Photographer
Academy Awards 2002: Nominated Best Documentary Feature
Gregory Foster Peabody Award 2003
Emmy 2004: Nomination Award for Cinematographer Peter Indergand
Adolf Grimme Award 2003: Special Prize of the Ministry for Development, Culture and Sports
Durban International Film Festival 2002: Best documentary
Cologne Conference 2002: Winner Phoenix Price Best non-fiction
Rehoboth Beach, Delaware Independent Film Festival 2002: audience award
Viewpoint film festival Gent 2002: winner
European Documentary Film Festival Oslo 2003: Eurodok award
Dokufest, Pizren Dokumentary and Short Film Festival 2003: winner
British Documentary Awards 2002: Shortlisted The Grierson Award Category International Documentary
Swiss Film Award 2002: Nominated Best Documentary Film
Docaviv Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival: winner
Sichuan Television Festival: Gold Panda Award Best Long Documentary
Telluride Mountainfilm, Mountain Film Festival Telluride (Colorado) 2003: Voice of Humanity Award
The Giant Buddhas
DOK Leipzig 2005: Silver Dove
Dokufest, Pizren Dokumentary and Short Film Festival 2006: winner ex aequo
Trento Film Festival 2006: Silver Gentian
Reno Tahoe International Film Festival 2006: Best of the Fest – Documentary
Sundance Film Festival 2006: Nominated Grand Jury Prize feature-length documentaries
Swiss Film Award 2006: Nominated Best Documentary Film
Space Tourists
The Documentary Channel 2012: Jury prize "Best of Doc"
Cervino Cine Mountain International Mountain Film Festival 2011: Miglior Grand Prix dei Festival 2011
Beldocs Belgrad 2010: Best Photography Award
Berg- und Abenteuerfilmfestival Graz 2010: Grand Prix Documentary Feature
European Documentary Film Festival Oslo 2010: Eurodok Award
Sundance Film Festival 2010: World Cinema Directing Award
EBS International Documentary Festival Seoul 2010: Special jury prize
Swiss Film Award 2010: Nominated Best Documentary
Genesis 2.0
Sundance Film Festival 2018: World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Cinematography to Maxim Arbugaev und Peter Indergand
40th Moscow International Film Festival 2018: Audience Award
15th Seoul Eco Film Festival 2018: Best Feature Film
Lunenburg Doc Fest 2018: Feature Documentary Award
International Arctic Film Festival Golden Raven 2018: Golden Raven Award
9th DocUtah International Film Festival 2018: Best Foreign Film
Zürcher Filmpreis 2018: Film Award City of Zurich
Budapest International Documentary Film Festival 2019: Main Prize section Naked Truth
Swiss Film Award 2019: Nomination Best Documentary Film
References
Further reading
The Tectonics of Humanity. GEO Edition Documentaries Christian Frei Collection, ed. by Warner Home Video Switzerland 2007.
External links
Norbert Creutz: Director’s Portrait Christian Frei, ed. by SwissFilms May 2006
1959 births
Living people
German-language film directors
Swiss film directors
Swiss film producers
University of Fribourg alumni
Swiss documentary filmmakers
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Strange Cargo III is the fourth album by electronic instrumentalist William Orbit. It is the third in a series of similarly titled albums: Strange Cargo, Strange Cargo II and Strange Cargo Hinterland.
The album was performed, produced and mixed by William Orbit at Guerilla Studios, London. Mark Rutherford and Sugar J co-performed "Deus Ex Machina" with William Orbit, with Rutherford also co-writing the song. Rico Conning contributed flexible bleeps and roadhouse piano on "Time to get Wize", spiky piano and strings on "The Story of Light" and additional programming on "A Touch of the Night".
The album was featured in 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.
Track listing
"Water from a Vine Leaf" (vocals: Beth Orton) – 7:05
"Into the Paradise" (vocals: Baby B) – 5:41
"Time to get Wize" (vocals: Divine Bashim) – 4:10
"Harry Flowers" – 4:31
"A Touch of the Night" (vocals: Cleo Torres) – 5:03
"The Story of Light" (vocals: Baby B) – 6:21
"Gringatcho Demento" (vocals: Cleo Torres) – 6:38
"A Hazy Shade of Random" – 5:09
"Best Friend, Paranoia" (vocals: Cleo Torres) – 4:35
"The Monkey King" (vocals: Laurie Mayer) – 5:16
"Deus Ex Machina" – 5:40
"Water Babies" – 3:42
Video
A seven track long video (six tracks plus closing credits) for Strange Cargo III was released in the UK in 1993 on VHS, and was cataloged as Virgin VID 2707. It was directed and edited by Simon Hilton, and produced by Mike Day and Henry Cole. Cinematography was done by John Peters and Simon Hilton. The production company was Moviescreen Ltd.
Track listing
"Gringatcho Demento" - 6.20
"Water from a Vine Leaf" - 7.00
"Time to get Wize" - 3.58
"Into the Paradise" - 5.33
"Harry Flowers" - 4.31
"A Touch of the Night" - 5.03
"Water Babies" (during credits) - 4.04
References
1993 albums
William Orbit albums
Albums produced by William Orbit
Virgin Records albums
Sequel albums
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The Campbell albatross (Thalassarche impavida) or Campbell mollymawk, is a medium-sized mollymawk in the albatross family. It breeds only on Campbell Island and the associated islet of Jeanette Marie, in a small New Zealand island group in the South Pacific. It is sometimes considered a subspecies of the black-browed albatross. It is a medium-sized black and white albatross with a pale yellow iris.
Taxonomy
Mollymawks are a type of albatross that belong to family Diomedeidae of the order Procellariiformes, along with shearwaters, fulmars, storm petrels, and diving petrels. They share certain identifying features. First, they have nasal passages that attach to the upper bill called naricorns, although the nostrils on the albatross are on the sides of the bill. The bills of Procellariiformes are also unique in that they are split into between seven and nine horny plates. Finally, they produce a stomach oil made up of wax esters and triglycerides that is stored in the proventriculus. This is used against predators as well as an energy-rich food source for chicks and for the adults during their long flights. They also have a salt gland situated above the nasal passage which helps desalinate their bodies, necessary due to the high amount of ocean water that they imbibe. It excretes a high saline solution from their nose.
In 1998, Robertson and Nunn suggested the species be split off of the black-browed albatross, Thalassarche melanophrys. Over the course of the next few years more experts agreed, starting with BirdLife International in 2000, followed by Brooke in 2004. James Clements did not agree, the ACAP has not agreed yet, and SACC recognizes the need for a proposal.
Description
It weighs and is long. The adult is very similar to the black-browed albatross, differing in eye color. It has a white head, neck, rump, and underparts, with a black upperwing, back, and tail. The underwing is white with broad black edging. It has a black triangle around the eye that reaches the bill, which is yellow with an orange tip. They also have a pale yellow iris. The juveniles have a brown-grey bill with a black tip, dark eyes and less black on the underwing. The average life expectancy is given as 28 years, though this is likely due to lack of study as most albatross can live to well beyond 50 years.
Range and habitat
The Campbell albatross breeds on the northern and western coastline of Campbell Island and the islet Jeanette Marie, part of the Campbell Islands group, one of New Zealand's five subantarctic island groups. When breeding they forage from South Island and the Chatham Rise to the Ross Sea. Juveniles and non-breeders will go only through south Australian water, the Tasman Sea, and southwestern Pacific Ocean.
Behavior
Feeding
The Cambell albatross feeds on fish, squid, crustacea, carrion, and gelatinous organisms.
Reproduction
Breeding birds like to nest on ledges and steep slopes covered with low grass, tussock, or mud. They start breeding at 10 years and they have a breeding success rate of 66%. Adults return to the breeding colony in early August and begin laying in late September. The single egg is incubated for around 70 days. The chicks fledge after about 130 days after hatching.
Conservation
The IUCN classifies this species as vulnerable due to the limited number of breeding locations. The most recent estimate was in 1997 and counted 24,600 pairs. Between 1992 and 1997 sampled colonies have been increasing at the rate of 1.8%. Adult survival rate is at 94.5%. It has an occurrence range of and a breeding range of .
The largest threat to this species are fisheries, both longline and trawlers.
The feral sheep that existed on Campbell Island were fully eradicated by 1991, and rats and cats were eradicated by 2001. Finally, studies are ongoing.
Footnotes
References
Moore, P. J. (2003) in litt
External links
Species factsheet - BirdLife International
Campbell albatross
Birds of the Campbell Islands
Campbell albatross
Taxa named by Gregory Mathews
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Hinterland is the fifth studio album by electronic instrumentalist William Orbit, which released under the alias Strange Cargo. It is the fourth in a series of similarly themed albums: Strange Cargo, Strange Cargo II, and Strange Cargo III.
Track listing
"Million Town"
"She Cries Your Name"
"Montok Point" (with Joe Frank)
"Hulaville"
"Kiss of the Bee"
"El Ninjo"
"Crimes of the Future"
"The Name of the Wave"
"Say Anything"
"Lost in Blue"
"Hinterland"
"The Last Dream of Lucy Mariner"
Use in other media
"The Name of the Wave" was used in the soundtrack of the documentary Amy (2015) about the late singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse. It is the only track in the film neither by Winehouse herself nor by film composer Antônio Pinto, who scored the film.
References
1995 albums
William Orbit albums
Albums produced by William Orbit
Sequel albums
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Seaforde is a small village in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is within the townland of Naghan, one mile (1.6 km) north of Clough on the main Ballynahinch to Newcastle road. It is part of the Newry, Mourne and Down area.
History
The village is named after the Forde family, who descend from Nicholas Forde of Dunboyne County Meath, who held the post of Deputy Victualler in Cork in 1580, as supplier to Elizabeth I of England's army in Ireland. The village lands were purchased by Nicholas's fifth son, Mathew Forde (who later sat in the Irish House of Commons in 1642) as part of a wider acquisition of estate lands in Kinelarty in County Down, which he purchased from Thomas Cromwell, Viscount Lecale between the years 1615 and 1636. Mathew Forde, who also owned properties in Fishamble-street in Dublin, had already purchased estate lands in and around the village of Coolgreany in County Wexford in 1617. Although Coolgreany was the principal seat of the Forde family during the 17th century, after the Battle of the Boyne Seaforde became the family's principal place of residence.
Seaforde House
Mathew Forde (1675-1729) built the original mansion on the Seaforde demesne, which lies to the north of the village. It was rebuilt in 1819, after a destructive fire, by Mathew Forde, MP (1785-1837) to create the present house, a neo-classical building of seven bays and three storeys over a basement, the top storey being treated as an attic. There is a five-bay frontage faced in sandstone ashlar.
The estate was at one time the home of the Lecale Hunt, and later the East Down Hunt. Seaforde was the birthplace of Colonel Francis Forde (1718 to 1770), who fought and served with Clive of India. The Forde family still resides at Seaforde House. The present occupant being Lady Anthea Forde, widow of Patrick Mathew Desmond Forde J.P. D.L. and daughter of the Earl of Belmore of Castle Coole in Co. Fermanagh.
See also
List of towns and villages in Northern Ireland
References
Notes
Seaforde Gardens and Butterfly House
Seaforde Almshouses
Culture Northern Ireland
Blackwood Papers - History of the Forde Family P.R.O.N.I
Villages in County Down
Civil parish of Loughinisland
Planned communities in Northern Ireland
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Cape of Good Hope (GB) (好望角, foaled 1998) is a British thoroughbred racehorse based in Hong Kong. Sired by Inchinor to dam Cape Merino, the chestnut gelding was trained by David Oughton. Despite being overshadowed by champion sprinter Silent Witness in Hong Kong, Cape of Good Hope had some success on international stages.
In 2005, he became the champion of the inaugural Global Sprint Challenge series by winning the Australia Stakes in Australia and Golden Jubilee Stakes in the United Kingdom respectively.
Career highlights
1st – 2005 Australia Stakes (Now named William Reid Stakes) (G1)
1st – 2005 Golden Jubilee Stakes (G1)
2nd – 2004 Hong Kong Sprint (G1)
3rd – 2006 Lightning Stakes (G1)
3rd – 2005 Salinger Stakes (G1)
3rd – 2005 Lightning Stakes (G1)
3rd – 2004 Sprinters Stakes, Japan (G1)
3rd – 2004 Golden Jubilee Stakes (G1)
3rd – 2003 Hong Kong Sprint (G1)
See also
List of millionaire racehorses in Australia
References
Hong Kong Jockey Club Horse Profile
Cape of Good Hope's pedigree and racing stats
1998 racehorse births
Thoroughbred family 8-e
Racehorses bred in the United Kingdom
Racehorses trained in Hong Kong
Hong Kong racehorses
Byerley Turk sire line
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The Men's 20 kilometre individual biathlon competition at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy was held on 11 February, at Cesana San Sicario.
The individual race consisted of five laps around a four kilometre loop with four stops at the shooting range. During each shooting section, each biathlete fired five shots at five targets. Misses resulted in penalties of one minute per miss being added to the time for the course. The first and third shooting sections were conducted in the prone position, while the second and fourth were done standing. A total of 88 biathletes competed, starting with a staggered start and 30 seconds behind each competitor.
Michael Greis of Germany hit 19 of the 20 targets and used a net time of 54:23.0 (with one penalty minute) to clinch the gold medal, 16 seconds ahead of Norway's Ole Einar Bjørndalen. Norway also won the bronze medal, with Halvard Hanevold beating Sergei Tchepikov by 0.8 seconds despite two penalty minutes to the Russian's one.
The previous year's trial World Cup event at this track saw Michael Greis of Germany win the event in a time of 53:18.7. At the 2005 World Championships in Hochfilzen, Austria, the Czech Roman Dostál won, while Ole Einar Bjørndalen was the defending Olympic champion, as he was in all the other men's events (except the mass start, which is held for the first time at the Olympics). However, neither Bjørndalen (9th) nor Dostal (33rd) headed the men's individual World Cup standings—the German Michael Greis did.
The event started with early starters Ricco Groß (Germany, started as number 4) and Pavel Rostovtsev (Russia, 1) shooting well, missing one and two of their 20 shots respectively; Groß suffered his missed shot on the last of the four shootings. However, their cross-country times were not good enough, as Rene Vuillermoz (Italy, 13) beat Groß by 14 seconds on the first loop. With only one miss in his first 15 shots, Vuillermoz could have taken the lead if he had hit all five targets on the final shooting. However, he missed three times and eventually finished 25th. Maxim Tchoudov (Russia, 14) led after two loops, 28 seconds ahead of Groß, but had spoiled his chance with three missed shots. By that time, many of the best skiers had started, with Greis (38) coming into the third shooting after one miss on the second. He hit five targets, and went out in the second best time, 12 seconds behind Marek Matiasko (Slovakia, 21), who was yet to miss a shot. Meanwhile, the defending champion Bjørndalen (54) had missed once on each of the first two shootings, and when all had passed the second loop he was 15th.
However, Bjørndalen completed the third loop quickly, and with five hits he cut Greis' lead from 39 to 23 seconds just before Greis was to shoot his fourth shooting. Greis did not miss, and with the leader Matiasko conceding one penalty minute, Greis took the lead nearly a minute ahead of second-placed Julien Robert (France, 35), who had not missed a single shot. Some other late starters visited the top ten after the first loops, such as Sven Fischer (Germany, 63) and Zdeněk Vítek (Czech Republic, 67) but vanished, and there were only four others who could beat Greis' skiing speed. Except for Bjørndalen, all of the previous had started before him, but missed too many shots to compete; however, Bjørndalen had caught 37 seconds on the first 12 km, and needed a further 23. Thus, Bjørndalen was the only threat, and though Bjørndalen hit all five targets on the final shooting, he struggled with loading the rifle before the final shot. He later said he lost "7-8 seconds" on the error. Thus, Bjørndalen did not beat the German in the fourth loop, and though he cut a further seven seconds off Greis' time in the final loop, it was only enough to take the silver. The late starting Halvard Hanevold (Norway, 74), shot down the last 10 targets to jump from 28th place after two loops to a fourth place after the fourth, with third-placed Robert eight seconds ahead with two penalty minutes less. Hanevold had no problems with catching Robert on the final lap, ending nearly half a minute ahead, but lost seconds to Sergei Tchepikov (Russia, 28), who improved all the way through the course. Eventually, his 6.3-second lead after the fourth loop turned into 0.8 seconds in goal; it was enough, though, and Hanevold could celebrate his second Olympic medal on the individual event. Jay Hakkinen become the first American to finish in the Top 10 ever in the Winter Olympic biathlon with his 10th-place finish.
Results
One Austrian athlete was disqualified after the IOC determined they had violated the Anti-Doping rules; Wolfgang Perner had originally placed 60th.
The race was held at 13:00.
References
Men's biathlon at the 2006 Winter Olympics
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Shishunaga (IAST: Śiśunāga, or Shusunaga) ( – 395 BCE) was the founder of the Shishunaga dynasty of the Magadha Empire in the present day northern India. Initially, he was an amatya (official) of the Magadha empire under the Haryanka dynasty. He was placed on the throne by the people who revolted against the Haryanka dynasty rule. According to the Puranas, he placed his son at Varanasi and himself ruled from Girivraja (Rajagriha). He was succeeded by his son Kalashoka (Kakavarna).
Early life
According to the Mahavamsatika, Shishunaga was a son of a Licchavi ruler of Vaishali. He was conceived by a nagara-shobhini and brought up an officer of state. At the time of the revolt, he was a viceroy at Varanasi of king Nagadasaka, the last ruler of the Haryanka dynasty.
Reign
Shishunaga ruled from 413 BCE to 395 BCE. Initially, his capital was Rajagriha and Vaishali was his second royal residence. Later he shifted his capital to Vaishali. He conquered Avanti kingdom by defeating Nandivardhana or Avantivardhana, the last king of Pradyota dynasty. The Magadhan victory must have been helped by the revolution that placed Aryaka on the throne of Ujjayini.
The Puranas tell us that he placed his son at Varanasi and himself ruled from Girivraja (Rajagriha).
Expansion
He destroyed Pradyota dynasty of Avanti and conquered kingdoms of Kosala and Vatsa.
Successor
He was succeeded by his son Kalashoka (Kakavarna).
See also
Avanti-Magadhan Wars
References
Citations
Sources
4th-century BC Indian monarchs
Kings of Magadha
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Born a Rebel is an album by German heavy metal band Rebellion, released in 2003.
Track listing
"Born a Rebel" (Lulis, Göttlich) – 4:02
"Adrenalin" (Lulis, Göttlich) – 3:39
"One for All" (Lulis, Göttlich) – 5:09
"World Is War" (Lulis, Göttlich) – 4:40
"Dragons Fly" (Lulis, Eilen, Göttlich) – 3:57
"Queen of Spades" (Lulis, Göttlich) – 5:23
"Iron Flames" (Lulis, Eilen, Göttlich) – 6:13
"Through the Fire" (Lulis, Göttlich, Seifert) – 5:34
"Devil's Child" (Lulis, Göttlich, Seifert) – 5:38
"Meet Your Demon" (Lulis, Black, Göttlich) – 3:34
"Power of Evil" (Lulis, Göttlich) – 5:10
Credits
Michael Seifert — vocals
Uwe Lulis — guitars
Björn Eilen — guitars
Tomi Göttlich — bass
Randy Black — drums
2003 albums
Concept albums
Rebellion (band) albums
Drakkar Entertainment albums
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Now That's What I Call Music! is the name given to several different series of various-artists compilation albums.
Now That's What I Call Music! may also refer to three debut albums:
Now That's What I Call Music (original UK album), the very first "Now!" album, released on 10 December 1983 in the UK
Now That's What I Call Music! (original U.S. album), the first album in the U.S. "Now!" series, released on 27 October 1998
Now That's What I Call Music! (Asia), the first album in the Asia "Now!" series, released on 20 July 1995
See also
Now That's What I Call Music! discography
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NPC (North Pacific Cable) is a submarine telecommunications cable system in the North Pacific Ocean linking the United States and Japan.
It has landing points in:
Miura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Pacific City, Tillamook County, Oregon, United States
Seward, Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska, United States (branch @ 420 Mbit/s)
It has a transmission capacity of 1,260 Mbit/s, and a total cable length of 5,200 miles (~8,400 km). The cable also included a spur to Alaska. The cable started operation in May 1991 and ceased operating in 2004.
References
External links
https://www.fcc.gov/document/north-pacific-cable-system
Submarine communications cables in the Pacific Ocean
Japan–United States relations
1991 establishments in Alaska
1991 establishments in Japan
1991 establishments in Oregon
2004 disestablishments in Alaska
2004 disestablishments in Japan
2004 disestablishments in Oregon
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Gilbert Ralph Clements (11 September 1928 – 27 November 2012) was a Canadian politician and the 25th Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island from 1995 to 2001.
Born in Victoria Cross, Prince Edward Island, he was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island in 1970 representing 4th Kings. He was re-elected in 1974, 1979, 1982, 1986, 1989, and 1993. He held the following positions: Minister Municipal Affairs, Environment & Tourism, Parks & Conservation (1974–1978), Opposition Critic for Finance and Energy (1979–1986), Minister of Finance & Minister of Community and Cultural Affairs (1986–1989), and Minister of Finance & Minister of the Environment (1989–1993).
In 1981, he was interim Prince Edward Island Liberal Party Leader and opposition party leader. He became interim leader following the resignation of leader and former premier Bennett Campbell and served until Joe Ghiz was elected as leader.
Clements died at age 84, in Montague, Prince Edward Island.
Arms
References
1928 births
2012 deaths
People from Kings County, Prince Edward Island
Lieutenant Governors of Prince Edward Island
Members of the Executive Council of Prince Edward Island
Members of the Order of Prince Edward Island
Members of the United Church of Canada
Prince Edward Island Liberal Party MLAs
Prince Edward Island Liberal Party leaders
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Gabriel Jaime Barrabas Gómez Jaramillo (born 8 December 1959) is a retired Colombian footballer who played as a central midfielder.
Club career
During his career, Gómez played mainly for hometown side Atlético Nacional, representing the club in eight professional seasons, in two different spells, and helping the team to three first division titles.
Incidentally, in 1989, when Atlético won the Libertadores Cup, he played for city neighbours Independiente Medellín, having signed from Club Deportivo Los Millonarios. After returning to Nacional in 1991, Gómez retired four years later, at the age of 36.
After he retired from playing, Gómez became a football coach. He has managed Envigado, Atlético Nacional, Unión Magdalena and Atlético Bucaramanga in Colombia, Deportivo Quito in Ecuador and Caracas FC in Venezuela.
International career
During nearly one full decade, Gómez was capped 49 times for Colombia, scoring twice. He represented the nation in two FIFA World Cups, 1990 and 1994, and three Copa América tournaments: 1987, 1989 and 1993.
In the World Cup, Gómez started in all four of his country's matches in 1990, as Colombia were ousted in the round of 16 by Cameroon. Four years later, in the United States, he received death threats from unknown people prior to the second group stage match against the hosts, and refused to appear in the game. In the days following the 1–2 loss which confirmed the South American team's elimination, defender Andrés Escobar was murdered upon returning home, after scoring an own goal in the match.
Honours
Personal
Gómez's older brother, Hernán Darío, coached the national teams of Colombia and Ecuador, amongst others. In 1998, whilst in charge of the former, he also received anonymous death threats.
References
External links
1959 births
Living people
Footballers from Medellín
Colombian men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Categoría Primera A players
Atlético Nacional footballers
Millonarios F.C. players
Independiente Medellín footballers
Colombia men's international footballers
1990 FIFA World Cup players
1994 FIFA World Cup players
1987 Copa América players
1989 Copa América players
1993 Copa América players
Colombian football managers
Atlético Nacional managers
S.D. Quito managers
Jaguares de Córdoba managers
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Wayne Carew is a Canadian businessman and former politician in the province of Prince Edward Island.
A resident of Stanley Bridge, Carew was elected by acclamation as leader of the Prince Edward Island Liberal Party, then the Official Opposition in the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island, in 1999 following the resignation of Keith Milligan.
Carew ran for a seat in the legislature in the 2000 general election but was not successful, giving him the distinction of being the only leader of the Liberal Party to not win a seat.
Carew resigned from leadership of the party following the 2000 election and was replaced by Ron MacKinley on an interim basis.
Carew is the president of Confederation M&A (formerly MRSB Mergers & Acquisitions).
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
People from Queens County, Prince Edward Island
Prince Edward Island Liberal Party leaders
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Seahill is a village on the northern coast of County Down, Northern Ireland. It is within the townland of Ballyrobert, with Holywood to the west and Helen's Bay and Crawfordsburn to the east. Seahill was once a stand-alone settlement but it is now joined to Holywood and the Greater Belfast conurbation. In the 2011 Census it had a population of 1,018 people.
2011 Census
Seahill is classified as a village by the NI Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) (i.e. with population between 1,000 and 2,250 people). On Census day (27 March 2011) there were 1,018 people living in Seahill. Of these:
17.0% were aged under 17 years and 24.6% were aged 65 and over
50.1% of the population were male and 49.9% were female
62.2% identified as Christian, 23.0% as non-religious and 14.1% as Roman Catholic
1.4% of people aged 16–74 were unemployed
Transport
Seahill railway station was opened on 4 April 1966.
References
See also
List of towns and villages in Northern Ireland
Villages in County Down
Seaside resorts in Northern Ireland
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Icelandair Group hf. is an Icelandic travel industry corporation, the owner and holding company of the airline Icelandair and several other travel industry companies in Iceland. The group's headquarters are at Reykjavík Airport in Reykjavík. The corporation is the largest in Iceland, with 125 billion ISK in revenue in 2013.
Operations
Icelandair Group focuses on the international airline and tourism sectors, with Iceland as the cornerstone of its international route network. The business concept of the group is built exclusively on Icelandair's route network and on marketing Iceland as a year-round destination.
During 2013 the group employed an average of 2,850 full-time employees. 1,387 of those were employed by Icelandair. The number of employees had been rising steadily from 2,028 in 2010.
Icelandair Group is the parent company of nine subsidiaries that form the two business segments of Route Network and Tourism Services. In addition to passenger flights operated by Icelandair, the group has vast interests in most aspects of Icelandic tourism and aviation, including hotel chains, travel agencies, domestic airlines and cargo, support services, as well as fledgling ACMI and lease operations.
History
Icelandair Group traces its roots to 1937 when the airline Flugfélag Akureyrar, was founded at Akureyri on the north coast of Iceland. In 1943 the company moved its headquarters to the capital Reykjavík and changed its name to Air Iceland, which later assumed the international trade name Icelandair.
In 1944 another Icelandic airline was founded, Loftleiðir, by three young pilots returning from flight training in Canada. Initially, both companies concentrated on Icelandic domestic air services but then began international flights between Iceland and other countries. In 1953 Loftleiðir pioneered low-fare services across the North Atlantic and became quite successful for the greater part of two decades.
In 1973, however, it was agreed to merge both Air Iceland and Loftleiðir under a new holding company, Flugleiðir. In October 1979 Flugleiðir assumed all operating responsibilities of its two parents and decided to use Icelandair as its international trade name, retaining the Flugleiðir name for the Icelandic domestic market.
In January 2003 Flugleiðir became a holding company with 11 subsidiaries in the travel and tourist industry in Iceland with Icelandair being the largest subsidiary. In 2005 the name Flugleiðir was changed to FL Group which would concentrate on investment, while Icelandair continued its flight operations under the aegis of a separate company, Icelandair Group. The board of directors of FL Group announced in February 2006 its intention to list Icelandair Group on Iceland Stock Exchange. Then in December of the same year the company was listed as ICEAIR on the ICEX.
The next year FL Group landed in dire financial straits and then Icelandair Group was hit by the 2008–2012 Icelandic financial crisis. In 2009 Icelandair Group started a financial restructuring, which was successfully completed in February 2011.
On 5 November 2018, Icelandair Group announced that it had made a purchase agreement to acquire all shares of competitor WOW air. The intention was that, after approval of the agreement by shareholders, the two airlines would continue to operate as separate brands. However, the merger was abandoned less than a month later. WOW air then held talks with Indigo Partners; after those talks failed on 21 March 2019, Icelandair Group briefly but unsuccessfully resumed discussions, before WOW air's subsequent cessation of operations on 28 March. Icelandair was one of several airlines to propose special "rescue fares" for stranded WOW air passengers.
Shareholders
Most of the shareholders of Icelandair Group are pension and investment funds in Iceland. The Pension Fund of Commerce is the biggest shareholder, with 14.36% of shares at the end of 2013. About 22% of the shares are held by small shareholders with less than 0.70% of the shares each.
Subsidiaries
The subsidiaries of Icelandair Group:
Icelandair
Icelandair Cargo
Defunct subsidiaries include:
Air Iceland Connect
Loftleidir Icelandic
VITA
References
External links
Icelandair
Holding companies of Iceland
Airline holding companies
1937 establishments in Iceland
Holding companies established in 1937
Companies based in Reykjavík
Icelandic brands
Airlines established in 1937
Companies listed on Nasdaq Iceland
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Count Ricardo is an Australian Thoroughbred racehorse gelding who is best known as a bargain purchase from an auction sale. He was foaled on 18 August 2001 and bred by M Ralston, L J Theodore of Victoria. Count Ricardo was a chestnut colt by the unfashionable stallion Principality from Shanghai Surprise (dam of Surprise Pick) by the staying influence Imperial Prince (IRE).
His trainer and co-owner Stephen Theodore purchased him for just A$880 (including GST), who kept a half share and sold half.
Count Ricardo won his debut in a two-year-old race at Mornington, earning $7,150. During 2004, he won two more races including the Group Two Sandown Classic. Prior to the Group One Victoria Derby, Theodore decided to sell 15 per cent of his half-share for a reported $75,000 to part owners P. & S. Damjanovic, W. Burrell & S Crawford. Count Ricardo ran third in the Victoria Derby, 1.4 lengths behind the winner, Plastered.
He raced without any further successes in 2005, 2006 and 2008.
During his racing career, he started 23 times for three wins, two seconds and four thirds with prizemoney of A$543,460 - 600 times his original sale price.
References
2001 racehorse births
Racehorses bred in Australia
Racehorses trained in Australia
Thoroughbred family 8-f
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Luis Fernando Herrera Arango (born June 12, 1962) is a retired football defender. He was capped 61 times and scored 1 international goal for Colombia between 1987 and 1996.
He is current head coach for Atlético Huila.
Career
Herrera (nicknamed Chonto) played most of his club career for Atlético Nacional in Colombia, where he was part of the team that won the Copa Libertadores in 1989. He also helped the club to win two Colombia league titles in 1991 and 1994.
Herrera played three matches at the 1994 World Cup, and four matches at the 1990 World Cup. He also played in three editions of the Copa América in 1987, 1991 and 1993.
Titles
References
External links
1962 births
Living people
Colombian men's footballers
Categoría Primera A players
Independiente Medellín footballers
América de Cali footballers
Atlético Nacional footballers
Colombia men's international footballers
1990 FIFA World Cup players
1994 FIFA World Cup players
1987 Copa América players
1991 Copa América players
1993 Copa América players
Men's association football defenders
Footballers from Medellín
Atlético Huila managers
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Akif Pirinçci (; born 20 October 1959) is a Turkish-born German writer who is best known internationally for his novel Felidae. After a highly controversial speech for the Pegida movement in 2015, he was cancelled and delisted by his publishers, Amazon and most booksellers in Germany.
Political activity
Relationship with right-wing organisations
While writing and publishing these non-fiction essays, Pirinçci also increasingly came in contact with functionaries of the anti-Islamic movement Pegida, the right-wing populist party Alternative for Germany, and the small right-wing German Freedom Party, who organized lecture tours where Pirinçci would read from his two political essay books. When he faced criticism in May 2014, he justified these contacts by telling the online blog of the newspaper Die Zeit "I don't give a flying fuck if people call me a Nazi, I don't give a damn." ("Es geht mir am Arsch vorbei, wenn man mich einen Nazi nennt, das ist mir scheißegal").
Defamation suit
On 20 January 2015, the local paper General-Anzeiger reported that Pirinçci had been found liable for defamation in a civil suit brought by a professor of sociology and biology, whom Pirinçci had described as a "mentally sick, manic queer with a screw loose" ("geisteskranken, durchgeknallten Schwulen mit Dachschaden"). Pirinçci had also described the professor's theories as a "jewel of stupidity" ("Juwel der Doofheit").
2015 Pegida speech
At the first anniversary of the Pegida protests in Dresden on 19 October 2015, Pirinçci was invited as keynote speaker. He accused German politicians of being "Gauleiter against their own people" and called Germany's government a "shit state" ("Scheißstaat"). Further, according to Pirinçci, Muslims want to "pump infidels full of their Muslim juice" ("Ungläubige mit ihrem Moslemsaft vollpumpen") and stated that Germany is becoming a "Muslim garbage dump" ("Moslemmüllhalde"). He called the German Green Party a "Party of child fuckers" ("Kinderfickerpartei"), and the spokesperson for the mosque in Erfurt a "Muslim guy with a Taliban beard" ("Moslemfritzen mit Talibanbart"), who had as much to do with German culture as "my asshole with the production of perfume" ("wie mein Arschloch mit Parfümherstellung").
However, the most-widely spread quote from Pirinçci's 19 October speech was, "Unfortunately, the concentration camps are out of order at the moment!" ("Aber die KZs sind ja leider derzeit außer Betrieb!"), which was met with applause from the crowd. In a wider context, Pirinçci's concentration camps statement was intended to accuse critics of Pegida of intending to send Pegida members to said concentration camps. Pirinçci's remarks were apparently deemed too offensive by the crowd, and was booed off the stage.
Within 24 hours after first quotes from Pirinçci's Pegida speech appeared in the media, his publishers Goldmann and Random House issued statements that they had cancelled their contracts with Pirinçci and would no longer sell any of his books, and the webmaster to his online blog also cancelled Pirinçci's contract. At the same time, Amazon Germany chose to de-list his books so they can't be found through searches or ordered through the website. A few days later, all relevant book wholesalers in Germany (Libri, Umbreit, and KNV) also stopped ordering his books, and many independent bookstores issued statements that they would refuse to order his books, even upon request. This reaction by bookstores was criticized by columnist Jan Fleischhauer in Der Spiegel as amounting to authoritarian censorship. Volker Beck, member of parliament for the German Green Party, filed charges against Pirinçci for public incitement to commit criminal acts and incitement to hatred. A spokesperson for the federal prosecutor's office confirmed that an investigation is ongoing.
Two weeks after his Pegida speech, Pirinçci told Der Spiegel that the boycott of all his books overnight (except for the two political essay collections at Manufactum) as well as his public notoriety resulting from the affair made him seriously consider emigration.
List of literary works
Tränen sind immer das Ende (1980)
Der Rumpf (literally meaning "the torso") (1992)
Yin (1997)
The Back Door (German: Die Damalstür) (2001)
Der letzte Weltuntergang: Krimi-Erzählungen ("The Final Apocalypse") (2007)
Volltreffer (2011), written under the pseudonym Cedric Arnold
Felidae
Felidae (German: Felidae) (1989)
Felidae II aka Felidae on the Road (German: Francis. Felidae II) (1993)
Cave Canem (1999)
Das Duell ("the duel") (2002)
Salve Roma! (2004)
Schandtat (2007)
Felipolis (2010)
Göttergleich (2014)
Felidae animated movie (script) (1994)
List of non-fiction works
Cat Sense (2011)
Deutschland von Sinnen: Der irre Kult um Frauen, Homosexuelle und Zuwanderer (2014) (Germany Gone Mad: The Crazy Cult around Women, Homosexuals and Immigrants)
Further reading
References
External links
Akif Pirinçci's Official Web Site
Akif Pirinçci's Old Web Site (no longer operating as per 20 October 2015)
Akif Pirinçci in: NRW Literatur im Netz
1959 births
Writers from Bonn
Turkish emigrants to West Germany
German crime fiction writers
German fantasy writers
German screenwriters
German male screenwriters
Living people
German male novelists
German critics of Islam
Anti-immigration politics in Germany
Counter-jihad activists
Former Muslim critics of Islam
German former Muslims
Male critics of feminism
People from Mayen-Koblenz
Writers from Istanbul
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Dhruva (ruled 780–793 CE) was one of the most notable rulers of the Rashtrakuta Empire. He ascended the throne after replacing his elder brother Govinda II. Govinda II had become unpopular among his subjects on account of his various misconducts as a ruler, including excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures. This according to the historian Kamath is evident from the Karhad plates of Krishna III. The Dhulia grant of 779 and Garugadahalli inscription of 782 proclaim Dhruva the emperor. Though some historians claim that Dhruva revolted and grabbed the throne, other historians feel the transition of the throne from Govinda II to Dhruva was peaceful and may have happened willingly. He earned titles like Kalivallabha, Srivallabha, Dharavarsha, Maharajadhiraja and Parameshvara.
Success in north and east
Dhruva Dharavarsha had a high political aspiration and he actively pursued the goal of expanding the frontiers of Rashtrakuta domination. In North India, he subjugated the rulers of Kannauj. In central India, he defeated the Vatsaraja of the Gurjara Prathihara Empire, and Dharmapala of the Pala Empire of Bengal (who was eager to rule Kannauj) in a battle in the Ganges - Yamuna doab. However, these great victories brought him no permanent land gains but only a lot of material gain and fame. However another historian has claimed that Dhruva's empire stretched from Ayodhya in the north to Rameshvaram in the south.
Victories in the Deccan and South
He humbled Vishnuvardhana IV, an Eastern or Vengi Chalukyan king in 784 and forged an alliance by marrying his daughter named Silabhattarika as per the Jetvai grant of 786. Thereafter, he defeated Shivamara II, the Western Ganga Dynasty ruler of Gangavadi, and imprisoned him and appointed his own son, Prince Kambarasa as the governor. He also forced Pallava Nandivarman II to accept the suzerainty of Rashtrakuta who paid him handsomely with many elephants. He undertook campaigns to Kanchi in 785 and again against the Western Ganga Dynasty in 788.
Pan-India power
During his reign, Rashtrakutas emerged as a true pan-India power, controlling large regions across the Indian subcontinent. He was succeeded by his third son, Govinda III (793–814) whose reign was also marked by brilliant military success and exploits.
Notes
References
External links
History of Karnataka, Mr. Arthikaje
793 deaths
History of Karnataka
Hindu monarchs
Rashtrakuta emperors
8th-century Indian monarchs
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Carlos Chagas Filho (September 10, 1910 – February 16, 2000) was a Brazilian physician, biologist and scientist active in the field of neuroscience. He was internationally renowned for his investigations on the neural mechanisms underlying the phenomenon of electrogenesis by the electroplaques of electric fishes. He was also an important scientific leader, being one of the founders of the Biophysics Institute of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and was also a president for 16 years of the Vatican's Pontifical Academy of Sciences, and president of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (1965–1967).
Life
He was the second son of Carlos Chagas (1879–1934), an eminent scientist who is credited with the discovery of Chagas disease. His oldest brother was Evandro Chagas (1905–1940), also a physician and scientist specialized, like his father, in tropical medicine.
He studied medicine from 1926 to 1931 at the Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Brasil (presently the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro). While a student he worked at Manguinhos, where the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz was founded by the physician Oswaldo Cruz (1872–1917) and where his father worked, as well as at a hospital in Lassance, state of Minas Gerais, where his father had discovered Chagas disease. After graduation, he went to become a director of this hospital during 1932. But what he really liked to do was biomedical research, following the example of his father and colleagues, so in the next years he worked with several leaders in the field of physiology, such as Miguel Osório de Almeida (1890–1952) and José Carneiro Felippe. One year after graduation, he accepted a teaching post as assistant professor at the Medical School, in the chair of Biological Physics. With the death of its incumbent, Lafayette Rodrigues Pereira, he became its chairman and full professor.
Feeling the need to specialize further in neurophysiology, Filho travelled to France, where he worked with René Wurmser and Alfred Fessard, in Paris, and to England, where he worked with A.V. Hill (1886–1977). Returning to Brazil, he established a Laboratory of Biophysics at the Medical School and assembled a group of students and researchers. In 1945 he achieved the elevation of the Laboratory to the Biophysics Institute, which in a short time became one of the most important and excellent research centers in Brazil. He was its director for a long time, as well as the dean of the Medical School. The Institute presently bears his name. Carlos Chagas Filho retired in 1980, but continued to work steadfastly almost until his death, at 89 years of age.
Work
Filho's main scientific contribution was centered on the study of the electroplaques of the "poraquê" or electric eel (Electrophorus electricus), actually a fresh water electric fish native to the Amazon. With his group, he made important and original advances in the elucidation of its anatomy and electrophysiology, cytochemistry, as well as its nervous control. He discovered the brain command structures which control electrical discharges. He discovered also that the electroplaques has two kinds of excitability, one which is direct, and another which is reflex via the nervous pathways. He studied also the effects of curare on the electroplaques, which are modified striated muscles and thus have synaptic transmission based on acetylcholine (curare is an antagonist of this neurotransmitter). Filho also isolated the ACh membrane receptor.
As an educator, Filho left an important influence on biomedical research in Brazil, through his many scientific disciples and colleagues at the Biophysics Institute, such as Aristides Azevedo Pacheco Leão. It was during the initial years of the Institute, also, that Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909-), then a young researcher of Jewish descent who had to escape fascism, worked towards her important discoveries on neurotrophic factors, supported by Carlos Chagas Filho. She later received the Nobel Prize of Physiology and Medicine.
He published several books, including an autobiography, a biographical memoir about his father and more than 100 scientific papers.
Scientific leadership and honours
Dr. Chagas Filho played a significant role as international leader and representative of Brazilian science abroad. He was a Brazilian delegate and ambassador (1966) to UNESCO in Paris, and member of the Research Council of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), in Washington, DC. At the United Nations he was president of the Special Committee for the Application of Science and Technology to Development. Together with Nobel Prize winner, physicist Abdus Salam (1926–1996), he founded the International Federation of Institutes for Advanced Sciences (IFIAS).
In 1972, he was appointed by Pope Paul VI to the presidency of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, which he occupied until 1989. During his tenure, he was distinguished with the historical task of rehabilitating Galileo Galilei by the Roman Catholic Church and with coordinating a study of the historical and scientific validity of the Turin shroud. He was deeply religious and sought to reconcile science and religion as best as possible. Thus, he led the Academy of Sciences through a number of important meetings and publications, examining controversial issues such as the brain and conscience, and attracting great scientific personalities to the Academy, including a number of Nobel awardees.
In Brazil he was a member, vice-president and president of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (1941–2000) and member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters (1974–2000), a member of the National Research Council and one of the founders and member of the Brazilian Society for the Advancement of Science.
Carlos Chagas Filho was awarded with 16 titles of Honoris Causa Doctor in many national and foreign universities, and 19 decorations, including that of Légion d'Honneur (1979) and the Brazilian Order of Scientific Merit. He was a member of the French Académie des Sciences and Académie Nationale de Médecine, Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Academy, Royal Academy of Belgium, Romanian Academy of Sciences and the International Academy of the History of Sciences.
Among his many scientific awards, he received the Moinho Santista Science Prize (1960); the Prêmio Álvaro Alberto para a Ciência e Tecnologia (1988); and the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca, by the Fondation Simone et Cino Del Duca, France (1989).
Bibliography
Chagas Filho, C. Carlos Chagas, Meu Pai. Rio de Janeiro, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz/Fiocruz, 1993.
E Gomes-Quintana, RD Machado, C Chagas Filho. Cholinergic membranes from normal and denervated electric organ of Electrophorus electricus (L.). IRCS Med. Sci Biochem, 1980.
CS Mermelstein, V Moura Neto, C Chagas Filho . Desmin expression in the electric organs of Electrophorus electricus (L.). J Cell Biochem, 1988.
H Meyer, G Oliveira Castro, C Chagas Filho. Quelques aspects de l’histogenese et de l’ontogenese des organes électriques chez l’ Electrophorus electricus… CR Acad Sci Paris, 1971.
C Chagas Filho, E Penna-Franca, A Hassón-Voloch. Studies of the mechanism of curarization. An Acad Bras Cien, 1957.
External links
Almeida DF. Carlos Chagas Filho, Scientist and Citizen. An Acad Bras Cienc. 2000 Sep;72(3):299-300. Full text in English
Carlos Chagas Filho. Brazilian Academy of Sciences biography (In English)
Carlos Chagas Filho. Notable Brazilians. Instituto Brasileiro de Informação Científica e Tecnológica. (In Portuguese)
Carlos Chagas Filho. Brazilian Academy of Letters biography (in Portuguese)
Pinto-Dias, JC. Carlos Chagas Filho e a doença de Chagas. Alguns traços à luz de confidências e inconfidências . Rev. Soc. Bras. Med. Trop. 2000; 33(3). Eulogy (in Portuguese). Full text
Biography and interviews. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. (In Portuguese)
Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho website.
Darcy Fontoura de Almeida, «Carlos Chagas Filho», Biographical Memoirs - Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society (vol. 147, no. 1, 2003, pp. 77–82)
1910 births
2000 deaths
Brazilian neuroscientists
Recipients of the National Order of Scientific Merit (Brazil)
Brazilian physiologists
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro alumni
Members of the Brazilian Academy of Letters
Members of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences
Presidents of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences
Members of the French Academy of Sciences
TWAS fellows
20th-century Brazilian physicians
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Lazonby is a village and civil parish in the Lower Eden Valley of Cumbria; it is located about north-north-east of Penrith and 24 miles (38 km) south of the Scottish Borders.
The total population of the ward of Lazonby, which also includes the nearby villages of North Dykes, Great Salkeld and Salkeld Dykes, was 1,425 at the time of the 2001 UK Census; this figure included 1,011 people between the ages of 16 and 74, of whom 675 were in employment. At the time of the 2011 Census, the population had decreased to 976.
Description
The village has one church, one chapel, two pubs (the Midland Hotel and the Joiner's Arms), a primary school, retained fire station, a Lakes & Dales Co-operative supermarket and post office, livestock auction mart, swimming pool and campsite , railway station (part of the Settle-Carlisle line) and the Bell's of Lazonby bakery complex. There is also an independent wooden toy shop, Croglin Toys & Designs (www.croglindesigns.co.uk) which is located in the old school (approx. 18th century), and an independent petrol station. The village has its own village hall with snooker club and allotments.
The parish church of St. Nicholas forms a united benefice with churches at nearby Great Salkeld and Kirkoswald. The church was rebuilt in 1864-6 to a design by Anthony Salvin, at the expense of the Macleans of Lazonby Hall. A notable feature is the woodwork executed by Canon B W Wilson, Rector 1877-1920. This can be seen on the south door, north vestry door, the pulpit and the chancel, organ and tower screens. There is an imposing unornamented wheel cross at top of the graveyard, possibly 10th century. There are 4 bells hung for full-circle ringing.
In recent years many new housing developments have sprung up in the village. The village today is lived in mostly by people who work in either Penrith or Carlisle.
The civil parish of Lazonby contains no other villages but does include the settlements of Baronwood and Brackenbank. At Low Plains there is a mineral water bottling plant which bottles "Aqua Pura" mineral water. At one time the parish included the Chapelry of Plumpton within which were the settlements of Salkeld Gate, Brockleymoor, Plumpton Foot and Theifside. Plumpton, (or Plumpton Wall) was a chapelry or township of Lazonby until 1866.
Events
Kirkoswald Methodist Youth Guild, which is for 11 plus, have been doing a local pantomime for more than 40 years now in the local village hall. They meet up and do other activities throughout the year, but the pantomime has become somewhat of a local legend and people come from far and wide to see it.
Since 2008 there has been a bi-annual music concert in Lazonby which takes place on the school field. Featuring local and national bands, Lazonby Fest took place on 5 July 2008 and Lazonby Live took place on 12 June 2010. The festival's purpose is to raise money for the local school and other local charities. The festival took a break in 2012 due to the Olympics and the Diamond Jubilee but Lazonby Live returned on 7 September 2013 at a new location, Nunwick Cricket Club in Great Salkeld.
Governance
An electoral ward exists in the same name. This ward stretches south to Great Salkeld with a total population taken at the 2011 Census of 1,388.
Transport
Lazonby & Kirkoswald railway station is sited on the Settle to Carlisle line. Northern Trains operates regular services between Leeds and Carlisle.
Two bus routes run through Lazonby, operated by Fellrunner. The 130 runs between Melmerby and Carlisle once each way on Wednesdays and the 137 between Langwathby and Penrith
once each way on Thursdays.
See also
Listed buildings in Lazonby
References
External links
Cumbria County History Trust: Lazonby (nb: provisional research only – see Talk page)
Hear the church bells of Lazonby here
Villages in Cumbria
Civil parishes in Cumbria
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Alexis Antonio Mendoza Barrina (born November 8, 1961) is a retired Colombian footballer and current manager.
He was the assistant manager of Honduras national football team during the 2010 FIFA World Cup and of the Ecuador national football team during the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Mendoza was capped 67 times and scored 2 international goals for Colombia between 1987 and 1997.
International career
Mendoza played one match at the 1994 World Cup, and was an unused substitute for the 1990 World Cup. Mendoza also played in 4 editions of the Copa América in 1987, 1989, 1993 and 1995
Club career
Mendoza played most of his club career for Atlético Junior. He also played for América de Cali between 1990 and 1992, where he won two Colombian league championships (1990 & 1992).
In 1993, he returned to Junior and helped them to win the 1993 and 1995 Colombian league championships.
Towards the end of his career Mendoza played for Veracruz in Mexico.
Honours
Player
Club
América de Cali
Colombian League: 1990, 1992
Atlético Junior
Colombian League: 1993, 1995
Manager
Atlético Junior
Copa Colombia: 2015
References
External links
1961 births
Living people
Colombian men's footballers
Colombian expatriate men's footballers
Colombia men's international footballers
Atlético Junior footballers
América de Cali footballers
C.D. Veracruz footballers
Categoría Primera A players
Liga MX players
Expatriate men's footballers in Argentina
Expatriate men's footballers in Mexico
1990 FIFA World Cup players
1994 FIFA World Cup players
1987 Copa América players
1989 Copa América players
1993 Copa América players
1995 Copa América players
C.S.D. Independiente del Valle managers
Men's association football defenders
Colombian football managers
Footballers from Barranquilla
Alianza Petrolera F.C. managers
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Geoffrey William Humpage (born 24 April 1954) is a former England cricketer who played in three One Day Internationals in 1981. Humpage played in county cricket as a hard-hitting middle-order batsman and wicketkeeper for Warwickshire from 1974 to 1990. He was born at Sparkbrook in Birmingham in 1954.
, he still holds the Warwickshire batting record for the fourth wicket: a stand of 470 with Alvin Kallicharran against Lancashire at Southport in 1982, of which Humpage contributed 254 (his highest first-class score), in a match which Warwickshire lost by ten wickets. As of 2022, this is the fourth highest fourth-wicket partnership in first-class cricket anywhere, and the highest ever in England. He went on the rebel tour to South Africa in 1981–82, which effectively ended his international career after just three ODIs, despite it having no similar effect on the international careers of other rebel tourists including Graham Gooch, John Emburey and Peter Willey. Humpage remains the only tourist on this tour who never played Test cricket. He was named one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1985.
An occasional bowler, while bowling in a John Player League match in 1980 he was credited with effecting an unusual run out (of Sussex's Colin Wells) after a delivery hit back by the batsman deflected via Humpage's trouser leg onto the non-striker's stumps. In this year, Humpage helped his county win the John Player League, and he also helped them to win the NatWest Trophy in 1989.
On retirement Humpage become a policeman. In 2001 he spoke out about possible match-fixing in the English game twenty years earlier, saying: "In one game we found ourselves up against a side who [were] suddenly playing kids in important positions. In the Sunday game it was a little bit easier than it should have been. Other people have now said that there are question marks over the two games".
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Robert Rantoul Jr. (August 13, 1805August 7, 1852) was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts.
Rantoul was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1835–1839), the commission to revise the laws of Massachusetts, and the Massachusetts Board of Education (1837–1842). He was the United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts (1846–1849). He was elected in 1850 to the United States House of Representatives for the 32nd Congress. Before his term there began, he was named as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Robert Charles Winthrop, who had been appointed after the resignation of Daniel Webster and resigned when he failed to win election to a full term. Rantoul served in the Senate from February 1 to March 3, 1851, and then in the House from March 4, 1851, until his death. He was buried in Central Cemetery, Beverly, Massachusetts. Rantoul had a wife, Jane Elizabeth Woodbury, and two children, Robert S. Rantoul and Charles W. Rantoul.
Early life
Rantoul was born on August 13, 1805, in Beverly, Massachusetts. He was the eldest son of Robert and Joanna Lovett Rantoul. He attended the common schools and Phillips Andover Academy and graduated from Harvard University in 1826.
From his early years, Rantoul exhibited a precociousness, maturity, and love for learning that made an indelible impression on those around him. As a child, Rantoul was known for his "ingeniousness, veracity, modesty, docility, and tender conscientiousness." An extract taken from his childhood journal, written at age 8, reads: "Jan. 4, 1814. Gained the following idea, namely, that I had better sometimes be imposed upon, than never to trust."
At age 14, Rantoul enrolled at Phillips Andover Academy, where he would study under the tutelage of the famous educator John Adams. Recalling Rantoul, one Andover classmate stated: "The trait which impressed me the most, was his unquestionable thirst for knowledge, which he sought for gratification in every field of human inquiry. Whatever arrested his attention, whether it were a paper in the Spectator, a speech in Congress, a new poem in Lord Byron's, or recent invention in the arts, it absorbed all his faculties, and was thoroughly mastered and digested before he left it."
In 1822, Rantoul entered the freshman class at Harvard College. At Harvard, Rantoul was described as "indefatigably industrious." By some accounts, Rantoul spent 14 hours a day studying, though he preferred to study subjects according to his own intellectual interests, rather than follow the prescribed college course.
Professional life
After graduating from Harvard in 1826, Rantoul began studying law in Salem, Massachusetts, under the tutelage of John Pickering and later under the Hon. Leverett Saltonstall. In 1829, Rantoul was admitted to the Massachusetts state bar. In 1830, Rantoul took his first case: the defense of one Knapps for the murder of one Mr. White, a wealthy and well-liked man from Salem. Rantoul's decision to defend Knapps was unpopular amongst the citizens of Salem, and Rantoul knew it. Public feelings toward the accused in Salem at that time were particularly negative and hostile. This unhappy state of affairs, made Rantoul all the more resolute in his decision to provide counsel to Knapps; Rantoul "felt in every way the unjust and sickening effects of this excited state of feeling in the public; an excitement which he regarded not only as hostile to the accused, but to the calmness and the fairness of judicial proceedings, in a case of life and death." Rantoul's decision to defend Knapps under these circumstances was in many ways symbolic of the type of dedication to fairness and justice that would characterize the remainder of Rantoul's career. Unfortunately, the decision also came at a cost: for his role in the defense of Knapps, Rantoul lost many friends, earned widespread public ire, and was ultimately forced to leave Salem.
Upon leaving Salem, Rantoul moved to South Reading, Massachusetts, in 1830. In 1832, Rantoul move to Gloucester, Massachusetts, where in four successive years he was voted to the Massachusetts state legislature.
In 1838, Rantoul moved to Boston, Massachusetts. In Boston, Rantoul would come across many of the same challenges that he faced as a young lawyer in Salem, namely opposition from the wealthy and elite whose political views differed so starkly from his own. As a liberal fighting on behalf of the common man in a city so dominated by a wealthy and conservative few, Rantoul earned himself a reputation as "a bold champion of political justice; an inflexible and eloquent advocate of the rights of man, as above those of property, whether held by individuals, or corporations. He had a sincere and just respect for mental power, exerted in any useful direction, and, especially, for that intelligence, which, triumphing over adverse circumstances, is able to secure success to enterprise and reward to industry. But he had a higher respect for integrity, justice, and truth; a higher respect for the rights of the poor, the weak, and defenceless. He acknowledged no authority in an oligarchy of wealth; no other nobility than that conferred by beneficence to mankind, by services actually rendered to his fellow-creatures. What he regarded as the humanity and justice of his political opinions, were treated, by the selfish and the arrogant, as treasonable to wealth. And hence the fact that neither the extent, nor the emoluments of his professional practice, indicated his merit as a lawyer, or its just reward. In short, he was a democratic lawyer in the city of Boston."
While in Boston, Rantoul took on a number of landmark cases, always in pursuit of what he believed to be right and just.
Commonwealth v. Hunt
The first such case was Commonwealth v. Hunt, known at the time as the Journeymen Boot-Makers' Case, in which Rantoul argued on behalf of an organized labor movement in Massachusetts. The case involved the yet unsettled question of whether labor unions were legal in the United States. After an unfavorable decision at trial, Rantoul appealed the case to the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts where Justice Lemuel Shaw eventually determined that labor organizations were lawful provided they were organized for legal purposes and used legal means to achieve their goals. With this victory, Rantoul "succeeded in obtaining one of the completest triumphs that it ever fell to the lot of an American lawyer to achieve."
Rhode Island trials
In 1842, Rantoul came to the defense of several individuals charged by the government with attempts "of a revolutionary character" for their efforts to extend suffrage to African-Americans in Massachusetts. The defendants were arrested, imprisoned, and tried not in the same county in which they allegedly committed the acts, but in counties where partisan judges and packed juries, "resembling those of the worst periods of English history were selected as the triers." In order "[t]o unloose this unjust grasp of power, and to save some of the best citizens of Rhode Island from these anti-American and tyrannical modes of proceeding, Mr. Rantoul was employed as leading counsel; and he brought to bear, on the merits of the question, a force of reason, and an extent of learning, which startled and electrified the court, and a convincing eloquence, which drew involuntary outbursts of applause from a numerous and enlightened assembly . . . Even Webster, the opposing counsel, clapped his hands with applause. The rights of the person, and the rights of the state, their relations to each other, and their just limitations, were never perhaps more ably reviewed, or justly defined in a forensic address."
The next day, The Providence Express published the following account of Rantoul's argument in the case: "The able and conclusive argument of this distinguished gentlemen occupied two hours and a half in the delivery. It was, throughout, the most learned address to which we have ever listened . . . In the hands of some men this subject would have been dull and without interest. Mr. Rantoul made it far otherwise to the crowded audience who listened to him . . . Can a man be tried in one county, for an act charged in the indictment in another county? He argued that he could not be . . . He showed this by examining the object of the institution of jury trials, the sources, and the original form of this institution, the meaning of the terms in Magna Carta, by which trial by his peers is secured to every freeman, the course of the common law in England, since the Great Charter, the statutes in England, in derogation from this common law of England on this point, and the breaking out of the American Revolution . . . Mr. Rantoul set forth the substantial benefits of this right, the growth of which he traced from the times of Alfred and Charlemagne, and conjured the court not to throw away a guarantee which had ripened under the varied experience of a thousand years, for a forced and unnatural construction of a statute, which was itself, at least, of very doubtful constitutionality."
Sims Case
In 1851, Rantoul became involved in one of the most infamous cases in Massachusetts history. On the morning of April 4, 1851, Thomas Sims, an escaped slave arrested in Boston under the Fugitive Slave Act, was being held by guards outside the state courthouse in Boston. On his way to his office, Rantoul noticed the crowd and stopped to ask what was going on, to which someone in the crowd replied: "They have caught a negro." At the request of fellow attorney C.G. Loring, Rantoul made his way into the courthouse. When a friend of Rantoul's went to the court house in search of Rantoul later that morning, he found Rantoul already engaged in the service of counsel for the alleged fugitive without having had a moment's preparation.
Although the case was ultimately lost and Sims was returned to servitude, Rantoul is remembered for his willingness to defend Thomas Sims on a moment's notice, his able defense of Sims during trial, and his portentous objection to the constitutionality of the law at issue: the Fugitive Slave Act.
Views
While Rantoul was undoubtedly among the ablest lawyers of his time, and committed to furthering just ends in all manners of cases, many of his strongest efforts to promote social justice came outside of the courtroom. There were certain causes of social reform and progress to which Rantoul was so committed, and to which he would devote so much time and effort, that it was said one could have been in Rantoul's company for weeks at a time without ever being reminded that he was a lawyer or politician. Among these causes were the codification of the common law, the promotion of public education through lyceums, and the abolishment of capital punishment in the United States.
Codification of the law
Throughout his life, Rantoul was a fierce advocate for the codification of the common law. He believed that judge-made rules were tantamount to judicial legislation, and he argued that freemen should be amenable to no law but the written law as sanctioned by representatives of the people. In 1836, as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, Rantoul delivered a speech summarizing his views on the common law, which read: "Judge-made law is ex-post facto law, and therefore unjust. An act is not forbidden by statute, but it becomes void by judicial construction. The legislature could not effect this, for the Constitution forbids it . . . . No man can tell what the common law is; therefore it is not law: for the law is a rule of action; but a rule which is unknown can govern no man's conduct. Not withstanding this, [the common law] has been called the perfection of human reason. The Common Law is the perfection of human reason,--just as alcohol is the perfection of sugar. The subtle spirit of the Common Law is reason double distilled, till what was wholesome and nutritive becomes rank poison . . . . The judge makes law, by extorting from precedents something which they do not contain. He extends his precedents, which were themselves the extension of others, till, by this accommodating principle, a whole system of law is built up without the authority or interference of the legislator."
The Massachusetts Legislature eventually established a committee, chaired by Justice Joseph Story, to consider the expediency of codifying the common law of Massachusetts. Although the legal profession of the time continued the historical preference for the common law, one sees echoes of Rantoul's sentiments even today through efforts like the Restatements (summations of common law standards widely adopted by state legislatures as statute) and the judicial trend toward textualist interpretations.
Lyceums
Rantoul was also deeply committed to public education. In the winter of 1828–1829, Rantoul established the first Lyceum in New England. These Lyceums served as a center for debate and the exchange of ideas, with the goal of educating the public on matters of wide public significance. At these Lyceums, Rantoul displayed "that remarkable aptitude for debate, that keen logical acuteness in argument, and those ready and ample resources of wit and learning which afterwards so distinguished him in the courts of law and the halls of legislation." Rantoul's ultimate ambition in these Lyceums, however, was not to dazzle crowds with oration for oration's sake, but to begin a discourse on important matters and convince the public of what he believed to be right and true. In 1833, Rantoul published An Address to the Workingmen of the United States of America as one of the first numbers of a series of tracts published by the Committee of the Middlesex County Lyceum.
Capital punishment
Owing to the influence of his father, who was himself strongly against the death penalty, Rantoul was from his earliest days a strong advocate for the abolishment of capital punishment. In 1835, Rantoul formed a committee in the Massachusetts State Legislature to propose the repeal of all capital punishment laws in the state. On March 31, 1835, Rantoul delivered a speech in support of the proposed repeal of the death penalty, leading all but 13 members of the house to vote in favor of the proposal. His floor speeches on the subject of capital punishment were printed, and eventually became so widely distributed that they became regarded as authoritative in France, Belgium, Germany, and Italy. Years later, upon learning of Rantoul's death, U.S. Senator Charles Sumner stated in Congress: "Some of [Rantoul's] most devoted labors, commencing in the legislature of Massachusetts, were for the abolition of capital punishment. Perhaps no person since the consummate jurist, Edward Livingston, has done so much by reports, articles, letters, and speeches, to commend this reform to the country. With its final triumph, in the progress of civilization, his name will be indissolubly connected."
Death
On August 7, 1852, Rantoul died unexpectedly due to complications with erysipelas. a few days before his 47th birthday In announcing his death, the Taunton Democrat printed, "Mr. Rantoul stood in the front rank of the legal profession. As a forensic speaker, he had few equals, and scarcely a superior. . . . He was equally in his element, whether at the bar or in the forum,--before the people or in the halls of legislation. . . . His was one of the progressive minds of the age. To the cause of free education, he gave his earliest influence and support; to temperance, his voice and his example. Of the abolition of the death penalty, it may be said that he was its ablest advocate, and that he died, like John Quincy Adams, clothed in the armor of compromising hostility to what he deemed the encroachments of the institution of southern slavery. . . . His death is no common loss; to his family, a loss we cannot realize; to his constituents, which none can supply; and to his party and country, a deprivation like the deaths of Silas Wright and Levi Woodbury, tenfold more afflicting for the suddenness of its occurrence."
Tributes
Rantoul was the subject of a bust by the self-taught Massachusetts sculptor Joanna Quiner, cast in plaster and presented to the Boston Athenaeum in 1842; it was the first sculpture by a woman to be shown there when it was exhibited in 1846, and remains in the collection.
See also
List of United States Congress members who died in office (1790–1899)
Rantoul, Kansas
References
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1805 births
1852 deaths
Harvard University alumni
Democratic Party members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
United States Attorneys for the District of Massachusetts
People from Beverly, Massachusetts
Democratic Party United States senators from Massachusetts
Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts
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Wílmer Cabrera Linares (born September 15, 1967) is a Colombian former football defender and current head coach of Rio Grande Valley FC Toros in the USL Championship. He previously coached for Chivas USA and Houston Dynamo, as well as the United States men's national under-17 soccer team. During his playing career, Cabrera played as a right back for clubs in the Colombian league and the Colombia national team, representing the country at the 1998 FIFA World Cup.
Career
Cabrera, born in Cartagena, Colombia, and raised in Bogotá, made his professional debut at the age of 17 for Santa Fe. His 18-year playing career included stints at América de Cali (reaching the 1996 Copa Libertadores Final), Millonarios, Chicó, Independiente of Argentina, Herediano of Costa Rica and the Long Island Rough Riders of the United States.
International career
Cabrera was capped 48 times and scored 3 international goals for Colombia between 1989 and 1998. He was an unused substitute during the 1990 FIFA World Cup but played in all of the country's three matches in the 1998 FIFA World Cup. He also played in four Copa América competitions in 1989, 1991, 1995 and 1997.
Coaching career
After retiring, Cabrera settled permanently in the United States to pursue work as a helicopter pilot in the New York area. He began working with the Major League Soccer front office as a community development manager working on Hispanic grassroots and youth programs. He also worked as an assistant coach for the Suffolk County Community College men's soccer team as well as top-ranked youth soccer club B.W. Gottschee, based in Queens, New York.
Cabrera earned his United States Soccer Federation A Coaching License in 2005 and became an assistant coach with the United States men's national under-18 soccer team in 2007. He was named by the USSF as head coach of the United States men's national under-17 soccer team on October 25, 2007, becoming the first Latin American head coach in the U.S. national team system. On January 24, 2012, he was replaced in this role by Richie Williams.
In January 2012, Cabrera was named assistant coach for the Colorado Rapids of Major League Soccer.
In January 2014, Chivas USA appointed Cabrera as head coach. The club was dissolved by the league at the end of the season, with Cabrera's team finishing seventh in the Western Conference, the highest finish for Chivas USA in their final five seasons.
Cabrera was named head coach of the Rio Grande Valley FC Toros of the United Soccer League on December 2, 2015.
Cabrera was named head coach of the Houston Dynamo on October 28, 2016. He and the Dynamo parted ways on August 13, 2019.
Cabrera became head coach of the Montreal Impact on August 21, 2019. On October 24, 2019, the Impact announced that his contract would not be renewed for the 2020 season.
Managerial statistics
Honours
Players
Coach
References
External links
1967 births
1989 Copa América players
1990 FIFA World Cup players
1991 Copa América players
1995 Copa América players
1997 Copa América players
1998 FIFA World Cup players
América de Cali footballers
Argentine Primera División players
Boyacá Chicó F.C. footballers
C.S. Herediano footballers
Categoría Primera A players
Chivas USA coaches
Club Atlético Independiente footballers
Colombia men's international footballers
Colombia men's under-20 international footballers
Colombian expatriate men's footballers
Colombian football managers
Colombian men's footballers
Colorado Rapids non-playing staff
Deportes Tolima footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Argentina
Expatriate men's footballers in Costa Rica
Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States
Independiente Santa Fe footballers
Living people
Long Island Rough Riders players
Major League Soccer coaches
Millonarios F.C. players
USL Second Division players
Men's association football defenders
Houston Dynamo FC coaches
Rio Grande Valley FC Toros coaches
CF Montréal coaches
Footballers from Cartagena, Colombia
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James Derek Love (born 22 April 1955) is a former English first-class cricketer, who played in three One Day Internationals for England in 1981. He played in 247 first-class cricket matches for Yorkshire from 1975 to 1989, as well as representing the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), Lincolnshire, the Minor Counties and Scotland.
Life and career
Love was tipped for stardom but like the player he most resembled, John Hampshire his Yorkshire teammate, he never quite fulfilled his potential on the national stage. A tall, fair haired middle order batsman, he was particularly strong on the front foot, and a powerful driver of the ball. He played for Yorkshire between 1975 and 1989, and twice passed a thousand runs for a first-class season. He averaged 31.09 in 250 matches, in which he scored 10,355 runs with a best of 170 not out. Love scored 13 first-class centuries. He developed a reputation in the one day arena, where he averaged 26.67 with 4,962 runs in 238 games, with a best of 118 not out.
He played three ODIs for England against Australia in 1981, without doing enough to secure a permanent spot. Love's brightest hour was winning the Gold Award, in the 1987 Benson & Hedges Cup final versus Northamptonshire, for his unbeaten 75.
Love left Yorkshire at the end of 1989, playing Minor Counties Championship cricket for Lincolnshire, before joining Scotland team as a player and administrator. He eventually became Scotland's director of cricket, but resigned in 2001 to run a pub in Yorkshire. He is now coach at Yorkshire ECB County Premier League side, Scarborough Cricket Club.
Love was installed as President of the Yorkshire Players' Association by the retiring President, Phil Sharpe, at the Association's AGM in March 2011.
References
1955 births
Living people
England One Day International cricketers
English cricketers
Yorkshire cricketers
Scotland cricketers
People from Headingley
Cricketers from Leeds
Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers
Lincolnshire cricketers
Minor Counties cricketers
Cricketers from Yorkshire
Coaches of the Scotland national cricket team
English cricket coaches
Test and County Cricket Board XI cricketers
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Nestor's cup, the Cup of Nestor or the Nestor Cup may refer to:
Nestor's Cup (mythology), legendary golden cup owned by the mythical hero Nestor and described in Book 11 of the Iliad
Nestor's Cup (Mycenae), golden cup discovered in a shaft grave at Mycenae, so named for its similarities to the cup described in the Iliad
Nestor's Cup (Pithekoussai), clay cup discovered at Pithekoussai, Italy, which has an inscription referring to the legendary cup
The Nestor Cup, a Gaelic football trophy awarded annually to the winner of the Connacht Senior Football Championship
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Sebastian Sailer (12 February 1714 in Weißenhorn – 7 March 1777 in Obermarchtal), born Johann Valentin Sailer, was a German Premonstratensian Baroque preacher and writer. He is especially known for his comedies written in Swabian German.
Writings
Works written in dialect
Sailer's Swabian dialect is that of his hometown Weißenhorn (in what is now Bavarian Swabia) with influences by the hefty rural dialect of his Upper Swabian parishes.
Schöpfung der ersten Menschen, der Sündenfall und dessen Strafe (Creation of the First Men, the Fall of Mankind and its Punishment, commonly referred to as Die Schwäbische Schöpfung, i. e. The Swabian Creation), musical comedy, 1743
Der Fall Luzifers (The Fall of Lucifer), musical comedy, after 1738
Die sieben Schwaben, oder: Die Hasenjagd (The Seven Swabians, or The Hunting of the Hare), comedy,
Beste Gesinnungen Schwäbischer Herzen (Best Dispositions of Swabian Hearts), cantata, 1770
Die Schultheißenwahl zu Limmelsdorf (The Mayoral Election at Limmelsdorf), play, 1770
Die schwäbischen heiligen drei Könige (The Swabian Three Magi), comedy, 1771
Bauernhochzeit (Peasant Wedding), ballad
Peter als Gott Vater (Peter as God the Father), ballad
various occasional musical comedies containing Latin, standard German and dialect passages
Theological and historical works
Vier Sendschreiben wider H. P. Aug. Dornblüth (Four Epistles against H. P. Aug. Dornblüth), published under the pseudonym Benastasii Liares, 1755-1756
Das Marianische Orakel (The Marian Oracle), meditations, 1763
Kempensis Marianus, Latin meditations, 1764
Geistliche Reden (Theological Speeches), three volumes, 1766-1770
Das jubilierende Marchtall (Jubilant Marchtal), a history of the monastery of Obermarchtal, 1771
Geistliche Schaubühne („Spiritual Playhouse“), texts for oratorios, 1774
References
Hans Albrecht Oehler: Sebastian Sailer. 1714-1777. Chorherr, Dorfpfarrer, Dichter. Marbacher Magazin, Vol. 76. Deutsche Schillergesellschaft, Marbach am Neckar 1996,
External links
Sailer Museum in Dieterskirch
1714 births
1777 deaths
People from Neu-Ulm (district)
Premonstratensians
German male non-fiction writers
18th-century German Roman Catholic priests
18th-century German Catholic theologians
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Dream Dancing is a 1978 album by Ella Fitzgerald. Twelve of the tracks on this album were recorded in June 1972 and originally released on Fitzgerald's 1972 Atlantic album, Ella Loves Cole. In 1978, Pablo Records repackaged the album with the addition of two new recordings from February 1978.
Track listing
For the 1978 LP on Pablo Records; Pablo 2310 814; Re-issued by Pablo Records in 1987 on CD; PACD 2310 814-2
All songs written by Cole Porter.
Side one
"Dream Dancing" – 4:02
"I've Got You Under My Skin" – 3:17
"I Concentrate on You" – 4:06
"My Heart Belongs to Daddy" – 2:33
"Love for Sale" – 4:36
"So Near and Yet So Far" – 2:21
"Down in the Depths (on the Ninetieth Floor)" – 3:40
Side two
"After You, Who?" – 3:14
"Just One of Those Things" – 3:53
"I Get a Kick Out of You" – 4:21
"All of You" – 2:18
"Anything Goes" – 2:51
"At Long Last Love" – 2:27
"C'est Magnifique" – 2:32
"Without Love" – 2:46
Personnel
Ella Fitzgerald – vocals
Nelson Riddle – arranger, conductor
Jackie Davis – electronic organ
Louie Bellson – drums
Paul Smith – piano (track 5)
John Heard – double bass
Bob Tricarico, Don Christlieb – bassoon
Mahlon Clark, Bill Green – clarinet
Harry Klee, Wilbur Schwartz – flute
Ralph Grasso – guitar
Gordon Schoneberg, Norman Benno – oboe
Bill Watrous, Christopher Riddle, Dick Noel (track 2), J. J. Johnson – trombone
Al Aarons, Carroll Lewis, Charles Turner (track 3), Shorty Sherock – trumpet
References
1978 albums
Ella Fitzgerald albums
Pablo Records albums
Albums produced by Norman Granz
Albums arranged by Nelson Riddle
Cole Porter tribute albums
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The leader of the Opposition in Prince Edward Island is a title traditionally held by the leader of the largest party not in government in the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island.
This list is incomplete
Politics of Prince Edward Island
Prince Edward Island politics-related lists
Prince Edward Island
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Victor Mordechai Goldschmidt (10 February 1853 in Mainz – 8 May 1933 in Salzburg) was a German mineralogist, natural philosopher, and art collector.
Life
Born 1853 in Mainz, Goldschmidt attended the Bergakademie Freiberg in Saxony and graduated in engineering in 1874. He received his doctorate in 1880 in Heidelberg for his work on mechanical rock analysis and continued his studies in Vienna from 1882 to 1887. In 1888 he wrote his habilitation about "Projektion und graphische Krystallberechnung" (Projection and graphical Crystal Classification) under the same supervisor as his doctoral dissertation. He founded the Institut für Mineralogie und Kristallographie in Heidelberg in association with the Josefine and Eduard von Portheim Stiftung, which he founded in memory of his maternal ancestors. In 1893, he became an adjunct professor (Honorarprofessor) at the University of Heidelberg and in 1913, he was awarded membership in the Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften (Heidelberg Academy of Sciences). During his time on the faculty at Heidelberg, one of his famous students was the American volcanologist Thomas Jaggar.
His Atlas der Krystallformen developed from 1913 until 1923. Around this time, in 1917, he was made a geheimer Hofrat (similar to a Privy Councillor). During this period (1919/21), special chartered sea voyages were undertaken, covering Asia, Africa and Oceania, with very distinguished passengers on board, in parallel with the delayed founding of the League of Nations. In 1923, he was made an honorary member of the Naturhistorisch-Medizinischen Verein Heidelberg (Heidelberg Association for Natural History and Medicine). In 1919, he donated his and his wife's extensive collection of art and ethnographic artefacts to the state of Baden as the Josephine and Eduard von Portheim-Stiftung. In 1933, the curatorium of the "v. Portheim-Stiftung" gave its mineralogical-crystallographical institute the name Victor-Goldschmidt-Institut für Kristallforschung.
The Goldschmidts of Frankfurt, contributed significantly to the founding of the Goethe University Frankfurt.
Works
Index der Kristallformen, Catalogue of all known crystal forms of all minerals, 3 volumes, 1886-1891.
Atlas der Krystallformen, 9 books, Verlag Winters, Heidelberg 1913-1923.
See also
Goldschmidt
Goldschmidt family
References
External links
Atlas der Krystallformen
http://www.voelkerkundemuseum-vpst.de
Academic staff of Heidelberg University
German mineralogists
German art collectors
19th-century art collectors
20th-century art collectors
Jewish German scientists
Scientists from Mainz
1853 births
1933 deaths
People from Rhenish Hesse
German male writers
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Harihara I, also called Hakka and Vira Harihara I, was the founder of the Vijayanagara Empire, which he ruled from 1336 to 1356 CE. He and his successors formed the Sangama dynasty, the first of four dynasties to rule the empire. He was the eldest son of Bhavana Sangama, the chieftain of a cowherd pastoralist community, who claimed Yadava descent.
The early life of Hakka and his brother Bukka is relatively unknown and most accounts are based on various speculative theories. According to the theories Bukka and Hakka were commanders in the army of the Kakatiya King of Warangal. After the King of Warangal was defeated by Muhammad bin Tughlaq, Bukka and his brother were taken prisoners and sent to Delhi, where they both converted to Islam. Bukka and his brother eventually escaped, reconverted to Hinduism under the influence of the sage Vidyaranya, and founded the Vijayanagara Empire.
Ballappa Dandanayaka, a nephew of the Hoysala ruler Veera Ballala III, had married a daughter of Harihara. This shows that Harihara was associated with the Hoysala Court. Immediately after coming to power, he built a fort at Barkuru, on the west coast of present-day Karnataka. It appears from inscriptions that he was administering the northern parts of present-day Karnataka from his seat at Gooty (Gutti), Ananthpur district in 1339. He initially controlled the northern portions of the Hoysala Empire before taking full control over its entire range after the death of Hoysala Veera Ballala III in 1343. Kannada inscriptions of his time call him Karnataka Vidya Vilas ("master of great knowledge and skills"), Bhashege tappuva rayara ganda ("punisher of those feudatories who don't keep their promise"), and Arirayavibhada ("fire to enemy kings"). Among his brothers, Kampana governed the Nellur region, Muddppa administered the Mulabagalu region, Marappa oversaw Chandragutti and Bukka Raya was his second in command.
His initial military exploits established his control over the valley of Tungabhadra River, and gradually he expanded his control to certain regions of Konkan and Malabar Coast. By that time, the Hoysala ruler Veera Ballala III had died fighting the Sultan of Madurai, and the vacuum thus created allowed Harihara to emerge as a sovereign power with all the Hoysala territories under his rule.
An inscription dated 1346 regarding a grant to the Sringeri matha describes Harihara I as the ruler of "whole country between the eastern and the western seas" and describes Vidya Nagara (that is, the city of learning) as his capital.
Harihara I was succeeded by his brother Bukka I who emerged as the most distinguished amongst the five rulers (Panchasangamas) of the Sangama dynasty.
Administration
Harihara was an able administrator.
Vijayanagar was the first southern Indian state to have hegemony over three major linguistic and cultural regions and to have established a degree of political unity among them.
The administration of the kingdom sporadically achieved some degree of centralization, although centrifugal tendencies regularly appeared.
To the original five rajyas (provinces) held by the Sangama brothers, new ones were added as territories were conquered.
Within and among these regions, a complex mosaic of rival chiefly houses exercised power to varying degrees, though not with the virtual autonomy that some historians have suggested .
The central administration had both a revenue and a military side, but the actual business of raising taxes and troops was mostly the responsibility of the provincial governors and their subordinates.
The central government maintained a relatively small body of troops, but it assigned a value to the lands held by the provincial governors and determined the number of troops that were to be supplied from the revenues of each province.
Harihara was fully conscious of the dangers which the parvenu state faced both from both Hindu rival kings and the Delhi sultans. He strengthened the old fort of Badami as a protection against invasions from Delhi rulers. He fortified Gooty in Anantpur District as a safeguard against Hoysala kings.
He also converted Udayagiri into a strong fort and placed his younger brother Kampana in charge of it. With the help of his able minister Anantarasa Chikka Udaiya, he reorganized the civil administration that survived for more than two hundred years.
Under the nayankara system, military commanders were appointed 'nayaka' (local governor) and granted income from estates for the purpose of raising troops and maintain control over local chiefs.
In order to increase the resources of the state, he forced the farmers to cut down forests and bring this land under cultivation. The kingdom was divided into sthalas, nadus and simas. A number of officers were appointed to run the administration and collect the revenues.
References
Sources
Dr. Suryanath U. Kamat, Concise history of Karnataka, MCC, Bangalore, 2001 (Reprinted 2002)
Chopra, P.N. T.K. Ravindran and N. Subrahmaniam.History of South India. S. Chand, 2003.
1336 births
1356 deaths
Sangama dynasty
14th-century Indian monarchs
Converts to Hinduism from Islam
Vijayanagara emperors
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Wilson Enrique Pérez Pérez (born August 9, 1967) is a retired Colombian football defender who was capped 47 times and scored 3 international goals for the Colombia national team between 1989 and 1997, including three matches at the 1994 World Cup.
Pérez started his professional playing career in 1985 with Atletico Junior, then was transferred to America de Cali where he was part of the successful team that won several championships. In 1997, he joined Deportivo Unicosta.
From 1998 onwards he played single seasons with Independiente Medellín, América de Cali, Millonarios and finally Atlético Junior in 2001.
On the international stage, Pérez played in the 1994 FIFA World Cup, he also played in two editions of the Copa América in 1989 and 1993.
Titles
References
External links
1967 births
Living people
Colombian men's footballers
Atlético Junior footballers
América de Cali footballers
Millonarios F.C. players
Independiente Medellín footballers
Categoría Primera A players
Colombia men's under-20 international footballers
Colombia men's international footballers
1989 Copa América players
1993 Copa América players
1994 FIFA World Cup players
Men's association football defenders
Footballers from Barranquilla
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Outside TV (formerly RSN Television) is a sports-oriented cable and satellite television network based on Outside magazine. The network features programming related to various outdoor activities and the lives of those who engage in them. High-definition programs appear on the company's cable, satellite and broadband providers’ sports and entertainment offerings.
History
Outside TV was the result of a complete re-branding of the existing Resort Sports Network, the national television network that specialized in creating and distributing outdoor-lifestyle content to premier vacation destinations throughout the country.
As of June 2010, Outside TV was in 110 resort markets representing 61 million potential viewers.
Outside TV has a corporate office in Westport, Connecticut, and a main office in Portland, Maine. Its sales office is in the Graybar Building at 420 Lexington in New York City.
Outside TV was founded by publisher Lawrence Burke and founding executive producer and executive vice president Les Guthman in 1994. Over the next ten years, it produced the Outside Television Presents TV series, whose production Farther Than the Eye Can See, captured blind climber Erick Weihenmayer's historic ascension to the summit of Mount Everest. Into the Tsangpo Gorge, produced by director and expedition leader Scott Lindgren, achieved the first whitewater descent of through the 18,000-ft.-deep Tsangpo Gorge (Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon) in Tibet. Into the Tsangpo Gorge aired on NBC Sports in May 2002 and was Outside Magazine'''s cover story in July 2002.
In July 2013, Outside TV entered into a new multi-year distribution agreement with the National Cable Television Cooperative (NCTC), representing more than 950 different cable providers and thousands of local systems nationwide. The addition of NCTC to Outside Television's other core distribution partners such as Comcast Xfinity makes the independent network available to more than 40 million homes.
Outsidetv.com is a digital portal that caters to their online community – from athletes and adventurists to filmmakers. The community allows members to interact directly with one another while sharing content across the entire group.
The newly designed portal showcases thousands of adventure videos with a mosaic interface. The site's goal is to curate visual adventure experiences and provide a convenient forum to experience them.
OTV Features and Streaming
Subscription Video On Demand (SVOD)
On December 22, 2016, Outside TV launched Outside TV Features, a subscription video on-demand service showcasing a wide-ranging collection of full-length adventure sports films. The app was made available on Amazon Channels for a $4.99 monthly subscription fee. Featured athletes and adventurers include surf champion Kelly Slater, skateboarder Paul Rodriguez, motorsports competitor Travis Pastrana, surfer and Standup Paddleboarding icon Kai Lenny, 2016 World Surf League (WSL) champion John John Florence, wingsuit pilot and professional BASE jumper Jeb Corliss, among others. Outside TV Features was made available on Amazon Channels, Amazon Fire TV, iOS, Apple TV, Android and ROKU.
Free App (Outside TV Shorts)
In addition to its subscription based offering, Outside TV also possesses a free app called Outside TV Shorts. The free version of the Outside TV Features app limits the amount of content a viewer can see. Most video "shorts" are typically 2–6 minutes in length and are categorized by sport. The shorts cover Outside TV's films, TV shows, and live events. There is also a subscription option for Outside TV Features, where viewers are able to start a 7-day trial of Outside TV Features before paying a subscription fee.
Awards
In addition to airing on television, Outside TV's documentaries produced between 1995 and 2004 appeared in 177 international film festivals and won 29 film festival awards. Farther Than the Eye Can See was shot by director and cameraman Michael Brown and earned two Emmy Nominations in 2004 for Best Sports Documentary and Best Sports Cinematography. Scott Lindgren's Into the Tsangpo Gorge'' was recognized by the Explorers Club as one of the most accomplished expeditions of modern times.
Programming
See also
Similar networks
Outdoor Channel
Sportsman Channel
NBC Sports Outdoors (segment on NBCSN)
MyOutdoorTV.com
References
External links
Official site
Companies based in Westport, Connecticut
Television channels and stations established in 1994
Sports television networks in the United States
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Dartmouth East is a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that elects one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. The riding is located in the community of Dartmouth, in the urban area of Halifax.
In 1978, the district was created to provide for an increase in representation of six members and in 2003, it lost a northern area to Waverley-Fall River and gained an area in Woodlawn. In 2013, following the recommendations of the Electoral Boundaries Commission report, it gained the Montebello area from Waverley-Fall River-Beaver Bank and lost the area east of Bell Lake to Cole Harbour-Portland Valley and lost the area north of Main Street and east of Caledonia Road until Geovex Court to Preston-Dartmouth.
Geography
This riding is approximately in landmass.
Members of the Legislative Assembly
This riding has elected the following Members of the Legislative Assembly:
Election results
1978 general election
1981 general election
1984 general election
1988 general election
1993 general election
1998 general election
1999 general election
2003 general election
2006 general election
2009 general election
2013 general election
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|New Democratic Party
|Deborah M. Stover
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|Progressive Conservative
|Mike M. MacDonnell
|align="right"|1,167
|align="right"|13.63
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2017 general election
2021 general election
References
External links
riding profile
June 13, 2006 Nova Scotia Provincial General Election Poll By Poll Results
Nova Scotia provincial electoral districts
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
Politics of Halifax, Nova Scotia
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Oreochromis is a large genus of oreochromine cichlids, fishes endemic to Africa and the Middle East. A few species from this genus have been introduced far outside their native range and are important in aquaculture. Many others have very small ranges; some are seriously threatened, and O. ismailiaensis and O. lidole possibly are extinct. Although Oreochromis primarily are freshwater fish of rivers, lakes and similar habitats, several species can also thrive in brackish waters and some even survive in hypersaline conditions with a salinity that far surpasses that of seawater. In addition to overfishing and habitat loss, some of the more localized species are threatened by the introduction of other, more widespread Oreochromis species into their ranges. This is because they—in addition to competing for the local resources—often are able to hybridize.
Oreochromis are fairly robust fish, and medium–small to very large cichlids that can reach up to in total length depending on the exact species.
Taxonomy
Species in this genus, as well as those in several other oreochromine and tilapiine genera, share the common name "tilapia" and historically most were included in the genus Tilapia.
Oreochromis contains more than 30 species, and several undescribed forms exist. Judging from mtDNA sequence analysis, several clades seem to exist. Research is hampered because hybridization runs rampant in these fishes, which confounds mtDNA data (Wami tilapia is an example), and the fast speed of evolution makes choice of appropriate nuclear DNA sequences difficult. A comprehensive genetic study that included almost all the species, as well as the closely related Alcolapia, found that Oreochromis as currently defined is paraphyletic. For example, two Oreochromis species (O. amphimelas and O. esculentus) appear closer to Alcolapia than the remaining Oreochromis, and five other Oreochromis species (O. angolensis, O. lepidurus, O. niloticus, O. schwebischi and O. upembae) appear to be as distant from the "core" Oreochromis as they are from Alcolapia. A potential solution is to merge Alcolapia into Oreochromis, as done by Catalog of Fishes.
Species
The 37 recognized species in this genus are:
Oreochromis alcalica (Hilgendorf, 1905) (common Natron tilapia)
Oreochromis amphimelas (Hilgendorf, 1905)
Oreochromis andersonii (Castelnau, 1861) (three-spotted tilapia)
Oreochromis angolensis (Trewavas, 1973)
Oreochromis aureus (Steindachner, 1864) (blue tilapia)
Oreochromis chungruruensis (C. G. E. Ahl, 1924)
Oreochromis esculentus (M. Graham, 1928) (Singida tilapia)
Oreochromis grahami (Boulenger, 1912) (Magadi tilapia)
Oreochromis hunteri Günther, 1889 (Lake Chala tilapia)
Oreochromis ismailiaensis Mekkawy, 1995
Oreochromis jipe (R. H. Lowe, 1955) (Jipe tilapia)
Oreochromis karomo (Poll, 1948) (karomo)
Oreochromis karongae (Trewavas, 1941)
Oreochromis korogwe (R. H. Lowe, 1955) (Korogwe tilapia)
Oreochromis latilabris (Seegers & Tichy, 1999) (wide-lipped Natron tilapia)
Oreochromis lepidurus (Boulenger, 1899)
Oreochromis leucostictus (Trewavas, 1933)
Oreochromis lidole (Trewavas, 1941)
Oreochromis macrochir (Boulenger, 1912) (longfin tilapia)
Oreochromis malagarasi Trewavas, 1983 (Malagarasi tilapia)
Oreochromis mortimeri (Trewavas, 1966) (Kariba tilapia)
Oreochromis mossambicus (W. K. H. Peters, 1852) (Mozambique tilapia)
Oreochromis mweruensis Trewavas, 1983
Oreochromis ndalalani (Seegers & Tichy, 1999) (narrow-mouthed Natron tilapia)
Oreochromis niloticus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Nile tilapia)
Oreochromis placidus (Trewavas, 1941)
Oreochromis placidus placidus (Trewavas, 1941) (black tilapia)
Oreochromis placidus ruvumae (Trewavas, 1966)
Oreochromis rukwaensis (Hilgendorf & Pappenheim, 1903) (Lake Rukwa tilapia)
Oreochromis saka (R. H. Lowe, 1953)
Oreochromis salinicola (Poll, 1948)
Oreochromis schwebischi (Sauvage, 1884)
Oreochromis shiranus Boulenger, 1897
Oreochromis shiranus chilwae (Trewavas, 1966) (Chilwa tilapia)
Oreochromis shiranus shiranus Boulenger, 1897
Oreochromis spilurus (Günther, 1894)
Oreochromis spilurus niger (Günther, 1894) (Athi River tilapia)
Oreochromis spilurus percivali (Boulenger, 1912) (Buffalo Springs tilapia)
Oreochromis spilurus spilurus (Günther, 1894) (Sabaki tilapia)
Oreochromis squamipinnis (Günther, 1864)
Oreochromis tanganicae (Günther, 1894)
Oreochromis upembae (Thys van den Audenaerde, 1964)
Oreochromis urolepis (Norman, 1922)
Oreochromis urolepis hornorum (Trewavas, 1966) (Wami tilapia)
Oreochromis urolepis urolepis (Norman, 1922) (Rufigi tilapia)
Oreochromis variabilis (Boulenger, 1906) (Victoria tilapia)
Gallery
References
Oreochromini
Fish of Africa
Cichlid genera
Taxa named by Albert Günther
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Sarotherodon is a genus of oreochromine cichlids that are native to the northern half of Africa (south as far as the Congo River basin), with a single species, S. galilaeus, also ranging into the Levant. A couple of species from this genus have been introduced far outside their native range, and are important in aquaculture (S. galilaeus and to a lesser degree S. melanotheron). Most other species have small ranges and some are seriously threatened. They mainly inhabit fresh and brackish water, but a few can live in salt water (at least for a period). Species in this genus, as well as those in several other oreochromine and tilapiine genera, share the common name "tilapia" and historically they were included in the genus Tilapia.
Based on mtDNA sequence analysis, there seem to be several clades in this genus, and a few species of the much larger genus Oreochromis (such as Oreochromis urolepis and the blue tilapia O. aureus) seem closer to Sarotherodon according to the mtDNA data (see discussion at Wami tilapia). Research is hampered by the fact that hybridization runs rampant in these fishes, which confounds mtDNA data, and that the fast speed of evolution makes choice of appropriate nuclear DNA sequences difficult.
Species
There are currently 13 recognized species in this genus:
Sarotherodon caroli (Holly, 1930) (Fissi)
Sarotherodon caudomarginatus (Boulenger, 1916)
Sarotherodon galilaeus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Sarotherodon galilaeus borkuanus (Pellegrin, 1919)
Sarotherodon galilaeus boulengeri (Pellegrin, 1903)
Sarotherodon galilaeus galilaeus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Mango tilapia)
Sarotherodon galilaeus multifasciatus (Günther, 1903)
Sarotherodon galilaeus sanagaensis (Thys van den Audenaerde, 1966)
Sarotherodon knauerae D. Neumann, Stiassny & Schliewen, 2011
Sarotherodon lamprechti D. Neumann, Stiassny & Schliewen, 2011
Sarotherodon linnellii (Lönnberg, 1903) (Blackfin tilapia)
Sarotherodon lohbergeri (Holly, 1930) (Keppi)
Sarotherodon melanotheron Rüppell, 1852
Sarotherodon melanotheron heudelotii (A. H. A. Duméril, 1861)
Sarotherodon melanotheron leonensis (Thys van den Audenaerde, 1971)
Sarotherodon melanotheron melanotheron Rüppell, 1852 (Blackchin tilapia)
Sarotherodon mvogoi (Thys van den Audenaerde, 1965)
Sarotherodon nigripinnis (Guichenot, 1861)
Sarotherodon nigripinnis dolloi (Boulenger, 1899)
Sarotherodon nigripinnis nigripinnis (Guichenot, 1861)
Sarotherodon occidentalis (Daget, 1962)
Sarotherodon steinbachi (Trewavas, 1962) (Kululu)
Sarotherodon tournieri (Daget, 1965)
Sarotherodon tournieri liberiensis (Thys van den Audenaerde, 1971)
Sarotherodon tournieri tournieri (Daget, 1965)
References
Oreochromini
Cichlid genera
Taxa named by Eduard Rüppell
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Fieni is a town in Dâmbovița County, Muntenia, Romania, on the Ialomița River, having a population of 6,378 as of 2021. It administers two villages, Berevoești and Costești.
The town is situated in a hilly area south of the Bucegi Mountains, on the banks of the Ialomița River. It is located north of the county seat, Târgoviște, and is crossed by national road , which starts close to Bucharest, runs through Târgoviște, and ends in Sinaia, north of Fieni.
The St. Nicholas Church of Fieni, built in 1804, is a historical monument. A cement factory in Fieni was bought in 2002 by the German company HeidelbergCement. The local football team, Cimentul Fieni, was founded in 1936 and played in Divizia C, before being dissolved in 2005. The home ground of the team was Stadionul Cimentul.
Natives
Aryeh Finkel (1931–2016), rabbi
Olga Homeghi (born 1958), rower
Gheorghe Leahu (born 1968), footballer
References
Towns in Romania
Populated places in Dâmbovița County
Localities in Muntenia
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Dartmouth North is a provincial electoral district in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, that elects one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly.
The district was created, under the name Dartmouth City North, in 1966 when Halifax County Dartmouth was divided into two electoral districts. In 1967, the district was renamed Dartmouth North. In 2003, the district gained the area on its southern boundary along Lake Banook from Dartmouth South.
Geography
The electoral district of Dartmouth North is about in landmass.
Members of the Legislative Assembly
This riding has elected the following Members of the Legislative Assembly:
Election results
1967 general election
1970 general election
1974 general election
1978 general election
1981 general election
1984 general election
1988 general election
1993 general election
1998 general election
1999 general election
2003 general election
2006 general election
2009 general election
2013 general election
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|Joanne Bernard
|align="right"|2,953
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|Steve Estey
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|align="right"|30.14
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|Progressive Conservative
|Séan G. Brownlow
|align="right"|1,729
|align="right"|25.08
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2017 general election
2021 general election
References
External links
2003 riding profile
June 13, 2006 Nova Scotia Provincial General Election Poll By Poll Results
Nova Scotia provincial electoral districts
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
Politics of Halifax, Nova Scotia
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John Clifford, 9th Baron Clifford, 9th Lord of Skipton (8 April 1435 – 28 March 1461) was a Lancastrian military leader during the Wars of the Roses in England. The Clifford family was one of the most prominent families among the northern English nobility of the fifteenth century, and by the marriages of his sisters, John Clifford had links to some very important families of the time, including the earls of Devon. He was orphaned at twenty years of age when his father was slain by partisans of the House of York at the first battle of the Wars of the Roses, the Battle of St Albans in 1455. It was probably as a result of his father's death there that Clifford became one of the strongest supporters of Margaret of Anjou, wife of King Henry VI, who ended up as effective leader of the Lancastrian faction.
Clifford had already achieved prominence in the north where, as an ally of the son of the earl of Northumberland, he took part in a feud against the Neville family, the Percy's natural rivals in Yorkshire. This consisted of a series of armed raids, assaults and skirmishes, and included an ambush on one of the younger Nevilles' wedding parties in 1453. Historians have seen a direct connection between his involvement in the local feud in the north with the Nevilles, and his involvement in the national struggle against the duke of York, with whom the Nevilles were closely allied with in the late 1450s. Although this was supposedly a period of temporary peace between the factions, Clifford and his allies appear to have made numerous attempts to ambush the Neville and Yorkist lords.
Armed conflict erupted again in 1459, and again Clifford was found on the side of King Henry and Queen Margaret. Clifford took part in the parliament that attainted the Yorkists – by now in exile – and he took a share of the profits from their lands, as well as being appointed to offices traditionally in their keeping. The Yorkist lords returned from exile in June 1460 and subsequently defeated a royal army at Northampton. As a result of the royalist defeat, Clifford was ordered to surrender such castles and offices as he had from the Nevilles back to them, although it is unlikely that he did so. In fact, he and his fellow northern Lancastrian lords merely commenced a campaign of destruction on Neville and Yorkist estates and tenantry, to such an extent that in December 1460, the duke of York and his close ally, the earl of Salisbury, raised an army and headed north to crush the Lancastrian rebellion. This winter campaign culminated in the Battle of Wakefield in the last days of the year, and was a decisive victory for the Lancastrian army, of which Clifford was by now an important commander. The battle resulted in the deaths of both York and Salisbury, but was probably most notorious for Clifford's slaying of Edmund, Earl of Rutland, York's seventeen-year-old second son and the younger brother of the future King Edward IV. This may have resulted in Clifford's being nicknamed 'Butcher Clifford', although historians disagree as to how widely used by contemporaries this term was.
Clifford accompanied the royal army on its march south early the next year, where, although wounded, he played a leading part in the second Battle of St Albans, and then afterwards with the Queen to the north. The Yorkist army, now under the command of Edward of York and Richard, Earl of Warwick, pursued the Lancastrians to Yorkshire and eventually defeated them at the Battle of Towton on 29 March 1461. Clifford though was not present; he had been slain in a skirmish with a Yorkist advance party the previous day. Following the coronation of the by-then victorious Edward IV, he was attainted and his lands confiscated by the Crown.
Background, youth, marriage and family
The Clifford family has been described as one of the greatest fifteenth-century families "never to receive an earldom." John Clifford was born and baptised at Conisborough Castle on 8 April 1435, the son of Thomas Clifford, 8th Baron Clifford (1414–1455) by his wife Joan Dacre (bef. 1424 – bef. 1455). She was the daughter of Thomas de Dacre, 6th Baron Dacre of Gilsland, and Philippa de Neville, daughter of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland. One of his godparents was his great-aunt Maud Clifford, Countess of Cambridge, whose dower house was Coningsburgh Castle. When she died in 1446, she left him numerous silver plate in her will. She had been the widow of Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge, executed on 5 August 1415 for his part in the Southampton Plot, and she was said to have lived "in great estate" in the castle.
Clifford had three younger brothers and five sisters. Sir Roger Clifford, who married Joan Courtenay (born c. 1447), the eldest daughter of Thomas de Courtenay, 5th Earl of Devon, by Margaret Beaufort, the daughter of John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset. She married secondly, Sir William Knyvet of Buckenham, Norfolk. Next was Sir Robert Clifford, who eventually involved himself in the Perkin Warbeck plot against Henry VII. John Clifford's youngest brother was Sir Thomas Clifford, and his nearest sister was Elizabeth. She married firstly, Sir William Plumpton (1435–1461), who was probably slain at the Battle of Towton in 1461, and secondly, John Hamerton. Another sister was Maud, who married firstly Sir John Harrington, and secondly, Sir Edmund Sutton. There was also Anne Clifford, who married firstly, Sir William Tempest, and secondly, William Conyers, esquire. John Clifford's youngest sisters were Joan (who married Sir Simon Musgrave) and Margaret (who married Robert Carr).
In 1454, John Clifford married Margaret Bromflete (1443 – 12 April 1493), who was the only daughter and heiress of Sir Henry Bromflete, Baron Vessy, and his second wife Eleanor FitzHugh. With her, Clifford had two sons and a daughter; his heir, Henry, who would become 10th baron, a younger son Richard, and a daughter Elizabeth. Elizabeth was later the wife of Sir Robert Aske (d. 21 February 1531) of Aughton, Yorkshire. Margaret Clifford survived her husband, and at some time before 14 May 1467 had remarried, to Sir Lancelot Threlkeld. Historian Henry Summerson has described his marriage, which gained the Cliffords estates, as he put it, "in parts of the north relatively free from Neville domination."
Early career
Little is known of Clifford's early life or career until he appears on the records of 24 August 1453, as supporting the traditional allies of his family, the Percy family. The Percys were at that time engaged in a bitter feud – known as the Percy–Neville feud by historians – with their rivals for power in Yorkshire, the House of Neville. On this day Clifford joined Thomas Percy, Lord Egremont and Sir Richard Percy, sons of the earl of Northumberland, at Heworth Moor in their attempt to ambush the returning wedding party of Thomas Neville.
Clifford's career was transformed when, on 22 May 1455, his father was killed fighting Richard, Duke of York and York's Neville allies, the earls of Salisbury and Warwick at the first Battle of St Albans. John Clifford was still under age at the time, and was not able to prove his age in order to obtain livery of his lands until 16 June 1456. He entered into his inheritance less than a month later, and was appointed a Justice of the peace in Westmorland. Clifford inherited the barony of Clifford, the family seat at Skipton Castle and the hereditary office of High Sheriff of Westmorland. He was summoned to Parliament on 30 July 1460.
It is likely that for him, the death of his father personalised an already bitter struggle with the Nevilles. Michael Hicks, for example, has suggested that "the heirs of the dead lords... now wanted revenge for their fathers' deaths. They were not particular whether by constitutional trial or by assassination." Warwick especially was held accountable. King Henry VI imposed a reconciliation between the warring factions of St Albans in early 1458, and commanded the various parties, including Clifford, to London. Clifford arrived there, a contemporary chronicler recorded, "with a grete power," and demanded compensation for his father's death. In this, he was accompanied by the other "yong lordes whoos fadres were sleyne at Seynt Albonys." Jointly with Lord Egremont and the new earl of Northumberland, Clifford is believed to have had an army of around 1,500 men in London in early 1458 where, with Egremont and the duke of Exeter, he attempted to ambush Warwick and York on their way to Westminster. It is likely that they had organised armed gangs for the purpose of arresting the Yorkist lords, if not assassinating them. The Mayor of London believed they came "agaynst the peas," and excluded them from the city. Thus, Clifford and the others were forced to lodge at Temple Bar, between the city and Westminster, probably in a house of one of the various bishops that lined the route. The king, as arbitrator, resided out of London, at Berkhamsted Castle, and Clifford visited him there on 1 March – "presumably to influence the result [but] probably unsuccessfully," says Hicks. Clifford later participated in what was known ceremonially as the 'Loveday' on the 24th of the month, which saw the king arbitrate a settlement between the warring parties. As a result of this, and as part of a general compensation package between the families of the battle's victors and losers, Clifford was to be paid £666 by the earl of Warwick. This was to be shared between John and his siblings.
King Henry's attempts at peacekeeping, however, came to little; indeed, it was around this time that Henry's forcible wife, Margaret of Anjou, became more involved in the partisan politics of the day and increasingly influential in government. Summerson has noted how Clifford's youth and energy "made him an increasingly important supporter of the Lancastrian cause." Likewise, a pro-Lancastrian poem, using a favoured contemporary metaphor for government, the ship of State, referred to Clifford as a "well good sayl" of it. A few months later he was appointed to the King’s Bench for the West Riding of Yorkshire, but when a great council was summoned for October 1458, it seems that Clifford – along with other anti-York peers such as the dukes of Somerset and Exeter – were excluded from it.
The Wars of the Roses
The next point at which Clifford appears to have been fully involved in national politics was attending the parliament summoned to Coventry in November 1459. By this time the civil wars had broken out again in earnest: the Neville earl of Salisbury had defeated an attempted Lancastrian ambush of him at the Battle of Blore Heath that September, and had joined with the duke of York at the latter's castle in Ludlow. There, however, they had been forced into exile by superior crown forces, and as a result, a parliament had been called to attend to the Yorkists' attainders. This was the Parliament of Devils, and here Clifford swore allegiance to the new heir to the throne, Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales, on 11 December. As a result of the exiled Yorkists' attainders, their estates were available for redistribution by the crown to those who had remained loyal to it, and Clifford was granted the Honour of Penrith and the Penrith Castle, which had formerly been held by Salisbury. This was close enough to their own estates Westmorland – particularly their caput of Brougham Castle, near Penrith – that it has been suggested that it had been a particular bone of contention between the two families. In April the following year he was appointed warden of the western marches, an important position in the defence of the Anglo-Scottish border. It was also a traditional office of the Nevilles, and had most recently been held jointly by the earls of Salisbury and Warwick; now Clifford was ordered to raise a force to resist the Yorkists.
In June 1460 the exiled Yorkists successfully invaded England, and on 10 July they defeated a royal army at the Battle of Northampton, and captured the king. As a result, Clifford was now ordered to surrender Penrith castle and Honour back to the earl of Salisbury. But although the now-Yorkist government repeatedly sent messages, orders and instructions to Clifford in the north, he did not acknowledge them, and with Northumberland and Lord Roos, remained in control of most of the region. In October 1460, the duke of York claimed the throne, and a parliament was summoned to discuss this. The result of its deliberations was the Act of Accord, which disinherited the Prince of Wales in favour of York and his heirs. This, it has been said, was 'repugnant' to Clifford and his colleagues and strengthened their support for the queen. It seems that, although Clifford was summoned to attend, he stayed away, and probably met with Queen Margaret in Kingston upon Hull, where she was gathering Lancastrian lords and their retainers to her. Together, they had soon gathered a fighting force of thousands. Clifford was one of these lords who was subsequently accused of 'systematically' pillaging and looting the Yorkshire estates and tenants of York and Salisbury. In response to these attacks, York, Salisbury, and the latter's son Thomas led an army to the north. Encamped at York's castle at Sandal, on 30 December 1460, the two armies met at the Battle of Wakefield, where Clifford commanded one of the wings of the Lancastrian army. The Yorkist army was routed, and all three Yorkist lords were killed. Clifford was knighted by the Lancastrian commander, Henry Beaufort, Duke of Somerset prior to the battle commencing.
Death of the earl of Rutland
One modern historian has noted, however, that although Rutland's death brought Clifford "considerable notoriety, much of it [was] first reported only several decades after the event." Henry Summerson dates the first published description of 'Butcher Clifford' as being not until the 1540s, by John Leland in his Itinerary, when he wrote that "for killing of men at this bataill [Clifford] was caullid the boucher." The annalist William Worcester, writing contemporaneously says that Clifford killed Rutland on Wakefield Bridge, whilst the latter fled the battle. In the sixteenth century, this report was expanded by Edward Hall, which became the source of Shakespeare's account. This included the addition of various confirmed historical inaccuracies, such as describing Rutland as being aged twelve rather than seventeen, and that Clifford also beheaded York after the battle, whereas the duke almost certainly fell in the fighting. Historian J.R. Lander has said that most of the later descriptions of Clifford at Wakefield "appear too late to be worthy of much credence".
Death and attainder
Following the victory at Wakefield, Clifford and other Lancastrian lords in the north attended Queen Margaret's Royal council in January; they soon led their army south. Gregory's Chronicle reports that everyone wore the Prince of Wales' cognizance, the ostrich feather badge. On 17 February 1461 they encountered a Yorkist army, led by Warwick and his brother John Neville, at St Albans. This resulted in another resounding victory for the Lancastrians, and Henry VI was captured from Warwick and returned to his wife and son. It is possible that this reunion occurred in John Clifford's own tent after the battle. Instead of marching on London however, the royal army retreated to the north, Clifford with it, and a Yorkist force slowly trailing them from London. On 28 March 1461 portions of the two armies clashed whilst attempting to cross the River Aire at Ferrybridge, now called the Battle of Ferrybridge. The Lancastrian force, under Clifford, captured the bridge, but the Yorkists had forded the river upstream and flank-attacked Clifford's men. Traditionally, Clifford was killed at Dittingdale, possibly by a headless arrow in the throat, and buried in a common burial pit, along with the rest of the dead from that encounter. Despite being only a few miles away, the main Lancastrian army held its position and either did not or could not come to his aid.
The day after Clifford's death the bulk of the Yorkist and Lancastrian armies faced each other at the Battle of Towton. After what is now considered the biggest and possibly bloodiest battle ever to take place on English soil, the Lancastrians were routed, and the son of the duke of York was crowned King Edward IV. On 4 November 1461, at Edward's first parliament, Clifford was attainted and his estates and barony forfeited to the king; a large portion was later granted to the earl of Warwick. The story – which would later be repeated by George Edward Cokayne in his Complete Peerage – of how Clifford's widow, fearing her son, Henry, would be slain in retaliation for Rutland's death, sent him into hiding as a shepherd, is almost certainly a folklore. As Dr James Ross has pointed out, the young Henry Clifford was pardoned in 1472, and as early as 1466 was named publicly as receiving a bequest, although Ross does suggest that Henry may well have gone into hiding for a time from his father's enemies.
Fictional portrayals and later reputation
According to Shakespeare's play Henry VI, Part 3, following Hall's Chronicle and Holinshed's Chronicles, John Clifford, after the Battle of Wakefield, slew in cold blood the young Edmund, Earl of Rutland, son of Richard, 3rd Duke of York. However, later authorities state that Rutland was slain during the battle.
Clifford is depicted in Sharon Kay Penman's historical novel, The Sunne in Splendour.
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Shrigley is a small village in County Down, Northern Ireland about a mile north-west of Killyleagh. It is named after Pott Shrigley in Cheshire. In the 2001 Census it had a population of 456. It lies within the Down District Council area.
History
Shrigley is a small satellite industrial village which grew up around the large six-storey cotton mill built in 1824 by John Martin. In 1836, Shrigley mill had more power looms than any other factory in Ireland. In the following year, Samuel Lewis described it at length:
The Grecian gate pillars, and some of the subsidiary stone buildings, were probably survivors of the original mill and stood until recently. Naturally, the mill became the principal source of employment in the locality. Most of the workers lived in Killyleagh, but a number of blackstone workers' cottages were built in a cluster along the three streets at the mill gate.
During his lifetime, the people of the district resolved to commemorate the contribution John Martin had made to their prosperity; a competition was held in 1870 for designs for a clock tower and drinking fountain in his honour; the premium was awarded to Timothy Hevey, a young Belfast architect apparently then working with Pugin and Ashlin in Dublin. The work was executed in 1871, and a High Victorian monument was erected at the cross-roads outside the mill gate. John Martin died in 1876 at the age of 79; Timothy Hevey died in 1878 at the age of 33.
Between 1968 and 1972, according to the Downpatrick Area Plan, 'a very extensive redevelopment project was completed involving the replacement of the early industrial village, the construction of 154 houses and two shops'. The new construction was suburban in style, and the people were all rehoused in a housing estate on the opposite hillside. Of the original buildings the Martin monument still stands, in isolation, at the mill gate.
Shrigley Monument (Martin Memorial)
1871, designed by Timothy Hevey. A monument of brown stone, in three layers; the design has much in common with the Rossmore Memorial of about the same date in the Diamond of Monaghan town. The base, surrounded by iron railings, originally with an elaborate lamp at each corner, is square. Upon this, an octagonal arcade of round-headed arches, carried on columns with Ruskinian foliated capitals, surrounds the central shaft, which incorporates the drinking-fountain. Above this rises a square tower, supported by eight flying buttresses springing from pinnacles; in each face is a triple pointed opening divided by small foliate-capitaled columns. Above these openings are large circular oculi in which the clock (now entirely disappeared) displayed its four faces. The tower is surmounted by acute angled gable-pediments, with five-lobed ogee centre pieces; four corner pinnacles, the crockets now missing; and a pyramidal roof terminating in ornate cresting.
During the 1970s the mill was used as a tannery employing many men and women from Shrigley and Killeagh. Atlantic Tanners were fine tanners of local cow hides shipped worldwide.
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Kristina Šmigun-Vähi (born 23 February 1977) is a former Estonian female cross-country skier and politician. She is the most successful Estonian female cross-country skier with two Olympic gold medals. In 2019 she was elected as a Member of the Estonian Parliament.
Career
On 12 February 2006, she won the Winter Olympics gold medal for the 7.5 km + 7.5 km double pursuit, becoming the first Estonian woman to win a medal at the Winter Olympics. Four days later, she won a second gold medal in the 10 km classical.
On 15 February 2010, she won her third Olympic medal, a silver in the 10 km freestyle race. With two golds and one silver, Šmigun-Vähi is the most successful Estonian athlete in Olympic history (summer or winter), tying the record of men's cross-country skier Andrus Veerpalu.
Šmigun-Vähi has also found success at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, earning six medals. This included one gold (2003: 5 km + 5 km double pursuit), three silvers (1999: 15 km, 2003: 10 km, 15 km), and two bronzes (1999, 2003: both in 30 km).
On 2 July 2010, Šmigun-Vähi announced that she will quit her professional sport career to focus on her family and her daughter Victoria-Kris. On 24 October 2016, the World Anti-Doping Agency Athletes' Commission stated that Šmigun-Vähi faced a Court of Arbitration for Sport hearing before the end of October.
Personal life
She is the daughter of former cross-country skiers Rutt and Anatoli Šmigun. Her sister Katrin Šmigun and cousin Aivar Rehemaa were also cross-country skiers.
Šmigun-Vähi is married to her long-time manager Kristjan-Thor Vähi, She missed the 2007–08 and 2008–09 seasons due to pregnancy. She has two children, daughter born in 2008 and son born in 2011.
Cross-country skiing results
All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS).
Olympic Games
3 medals – (2 gold, 1 silver)
World Championships
6 medals – (1 gold, 3 silver, 2 bronze)
a. Cancelled due to extremely cold weather.
World Cup
Season titles
2 titles – (1 long distance, 1 middle distance)
Season standings
Individual podiums
16 victories – (16 )
50 podiums – (49 , 1 )
Note: Until the 1999 World Championships, World Championship and Olympic races were included in the World Cup scoring system.
Overall record
a. Classification is made according to FIS classification.
b. Includes individual and mass start races.
c. Includes pursuit and double pursuit races.
d. May be incomplete due to lack of appropriate sources for some relay races prior to 1995/96 World Cup season.
Note: Until 1999 World Championships and 1994 Olympics, World Championship and Olympic races were part of the World Cup. Hence results from those races are included in the World Cup overall record.
See also
List of multiple Olympic gold medalists at a single Games
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Digby—Annapolis is a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada which existed between 1993 and 2013 and since 2021. It elects one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. The electoral district includes the Municipality of the District of Digby, which is the northeastern half of Digby County as well as the western part of Annapolis County.
The electoral district was created in 1993 by merging sections from Annapolis East, Annapolis West and Digby. It was abolished following the 2012 electoral boundary review and was largely replaced by the new electoral districts of Clare-Digby and Annapolis. It was re-created out of those districts following the 2019 electoral boundary review.
Geography
Digby-Annapolis covers of land.
Members of the Legislative Assembly
The electoral district was represented by the following Members of the Legislative Assembly:
Election results
1993 general election
1998 general election
1999 general election
2003 general election
2006 general election
2009 general election
2017 general election (transposed)
2021 general election
References
External links
riding profile
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Carlos Mario Hoyos Jaramillo (born February 28, 1962) is a football manager and retired football defender who was capped 24 times for Colombia between 1985 and 1990. He was an unused substitute for the 1990 World Cup. His club at that time was Atlético Junior. He is the current manager of Colombian club Jaguares de Córdoba.
Career
Hoyos played professional football in Colombia with Deportivo Cali, Atlético Junior and Deportes Quindío. After he retired from playing, he became a football manager and led Itagüi FC, Patriotas Boyacá and Atlético Bucaramanga.
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Living people
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Categoría Primera A players
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1987 Copa América players
1989 Copa América players
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Hubert Jacob Paul Schoemaker (March 23, 1950 – January 1, 2006) was a Dutch biotechnologist. He was a co-founder and the president of one of America's first biotechnology companies, Centocor, which was founded in 1979 for the commercialising of monoclonal antibodies. In 1999 he founded Neuronyx, Inc., for the manufacture of stem cells and the development of stem-cell therapies.
Early life and education
Schoemaker was born in Deventer, Netherlands. He attended St. Bernardus School in Deventer, and Canisius College, Nijmegen. In 1969 he moved to the United States to attend the University of Notre Dame, where he majored in chemistry, graduating in May 1972. Soon after he married Ann Postorino.
He then earned a doctorate in biochemistry in 1975 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Supervised by Paul Schimmel, his doctoral research was an investigation of the structure function relationships of transfer RNAs and their complexes.
Career
After declining postdoctoral research positions with Stanley Cohen and Klaus Weber, Schoemaker chose to work as a research scientist in industry.
His choice was influenced by the severe disabilities suffered by his first daughter, Maureen, who was born with lissencephaly and needed specialised care. This inspired Schoemaker to become involved in commercial biotechnology.
In 1976 Schoemaker joined Corning Medical, a Boston-based division of Corning Glass Works. At Corning Schoemaker rapidly progressed from being a specialist in immunoassay development for diagnostics to heading research and development. Among his achievements at the company was devising effective diagnostic kit tests for thyroid disorders.
In 1979 Schoemaker became involved in the founding of Centocor together with a former Corning Medical colleague Ted Allen and the bioentrepreneur Michael Wall with whom he had some dealings while at Corning. Inspired by the work of Hilary Koprowski, who developed some of the earliest monoclonal antibodies against tumour antigens and influenza viral antigens, the objective of Centocor was to commercialise monoclonal antibodies for diagnostics and therapeutics. In 1980 Schoemaker joined Centocor and soon after became its first chief executive officer.
From the start Centocor decided to fill its product pipeline through partnerships with research institutions and marketing alliances. Central to this policy was Schoemaker's ability to network and the company's decision to design diagnostic kits so that were compatible with existing diagnostic systems. Under Schoemaker's leadership Centocor rapidly grew into a profitable diagnostic business. By 1985 the company had revenues of approximately $50 million. In part this success was built upon the swift approval the company won for two of its tests. The first was for gastrointestinal cancer test and the other was for hepatitis B. Between 1983 and 1986 Centocor introduced three other diagnostic tests to the market: one for ovarian cancer (the first diagnostic test available for the disease), one for breast cancer and one for colorectal cancer.
Despite the company's success on the diagnostic front, Schoemaker was plunged in 1992 into efforts to save the company from bankruptcy when its first therapeutic, Centoxin, a drug designed to treat septic shock, failed to win FDA approval. In part the crisis had come about as a result of the company's executives trying to go it alone in developing the drug. What saved the company was a return to the policy of collaboration. Learning from its mistakes with Centoxin, in December 1994 Centocor gained marketing approval for ReoPro, a monoclonal antibody drug for cardiovascular disease. The first therapeutic to ever receive simultaneous US and European approvals, and the second monoclonal antibody to ever win approval as a drug, ReoPro marked a milestone for both Centocor and for monoclonal antibodies therapeutics. ReoPro was to be followed in August 1998 by the approval of Centocor's Remicade, a drug to treat auto-immune disorders like Crohn's disease and rheumatoid arthritis.
After selling Centocor to Johnson and Johnson in 1999, Schoemaker went on to form Neuronyx, Inc., a biotech company focused on developing cellular therapies. After Schoemaker died in 2006 the company was continued by his wife Anne Faulkner Schoemaker. Initial work focused on using stem cells taken from adult bone marrow to help regenerate heart tissue damaged during heart attacks. Later the company turned direction to looking at the development of a treatment for incision wounds in women following breast cancer reconstruction surgery. The company later changed its name to Garnet BioTherapeutics. Despite promising clinical results and raising more than $55 million in venture capital funding, the company was unable to continue.
Death
Schoemaker was diagnosed in 1994 with a form of brain cancer, medulloblastoma.
He died on January 1, 2006, at age 55.
References
External links
Hubert Schoemaker on WhatisBiotechnology.org
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José Fernando Santa Robledo (born September 12, 1970) is a retired football defender who played at international level for Colombia. He played two matches at the 1998 FIFA World Cup, and his club at that time was Atlético Nacional. He also appeared at the 1992 Summer Olympics.
Career
Born in Pereira, Risaralda, Santa was the first person Risaralda Department to play in a FIFA World Cup.
Santa made 28 appearances for the Colombia national football team from 1995 to 1998.
References
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Living people
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Categoría Primera A players
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Atlético Huila managers
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James Steward Davis (born October 11, 1890 — disappeared on April 15, 1929) was an American lawyer and political activist in Baltimore, Maryland. During the 1920s, Davis worked as a highly respected trial lawyer as well as a campaign organizer for W. Ashbie Hawkins, Al Smith, Herbert O'Conor and the Democratic Party in Maryland. In 1929, Davis disappeared under suspicious circumstances.
Ancestry
Davis was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in 1890, the son of a barber. His grandmother, Matilda Stewart (Steward), is identified as living at 418 South Street, Harrisburg from 1900 until the family moved to 1511 Derry Street between 1910 and 1920. She was listed as a cook on the census records and is last reported in the household of his parents in 1920. His grandfather appears only on the 1870 census for Harrisburg as a carter born in Baltimore.
Education
After his graduation from Harrisburg High School, Davis took a two-year course at Dickinson College. Then he studied law there, graduating first in his class in 1914. According to later newspaper accounts, he was the first person of color to be valedictorian at Dickinson School of Law.
Career
Davis moved to Baltimore in 1915, and was admitted to the bar on June 19 of that year. He began practicing on his own, although he would later partner with such notable Baltimore attorneys as W. Norman Bishop, Warner T. McGuinn, and George W. Evans.
Soon after beginning his law practice, Davis' career was interrupted by World War I, and he spent the next 18 months in the Army. He served in France as a sergeant. After being promoted to lieutenant, Davis became an instructor at Camp Zachary Taylor near Louisville, Kentucky.
Upon returning from the war, Davis quickly built a thriving practice as a trial lawyer in Baltimore. At six feet tall, and with a polished air and winning smile, Davis had an impressive presence which sometimes drew crowds to the courtroom. In 1921, he appeared in 48 cases mentioned in The Afro-American newspaper, mostly divorces and criminal defense, including the highly publicized capital murder case of Henry Brown, an Annapolis sailor. Said Davis of his legal career, "The law offers a most attractive (spot) for colored men. We get a fair show in the courts and the people appreciate our efforts".
Though his legal career put him in the limelight, Davis did not run for political office and instead worked behind the scenes as a campaign organizer. He was the chairman of the committee supporting W. Ashbie Hawkins's revolt against the established Republican Party in 1920. Like other independent Republicans, Davis later switched to the Democratic Party, and managed the Colored City Democratic campaign for Al Smith's 1928 bid against Herbert Hoover.
Davis said of his political activism, "It is time that we look after our own political affairs, and not entrust them to whites who are indifferent to our welfare". Ironically, Davis supported Herbert O'Conor's (white) campaign for State's Attorney for Baltimore City in 1926. As Attorney General, O'Conor would argue against the admission of Donald Gaines Murray to the University of Maryland law school in 1935.
Davis married Blanche Moore, a public school teacher, in 1920 and they had two children, Suzanne and Blanche. During the 1920s Davis was a well-respected lawyer in Baltimore who was embraced by the legal community and social circles. In April 1929, Davis vanished.
Disappearance
On the morning of April 15, 1929, Davis left his home at 1202 Madison Avenue for his office at 217 St. Paul Place. He never arrived. His family initially concealed his absence, and The Afro American newspaper first mentioned his disappearance in mid-May. An investigation by the Monumental Bar Association found that Davis had bought a train ticket to New York City on April 15, stayed at New York's 135th St. Y.M.C.A. that night and then checked out the following morning. Nothing further was reported found.
There were many theories about his disappearance, but one persistent rumor was that Davis had misapplied money in an administration case, and fled to avoid sanction. In a September 19, 1931 story, The Afro-American reported that an executive meeting
of the Monumental Bar Association settled the case and swore everyone to secrecy, hoping to allow Davis to return to his practice, but no corroboration surfaced for this story. There were also unsubstantiated claims of sightings in various cities in the
United States or in France.
See also
List of people who disappeared
References
"Lawyer Who Vanished Years Ago Still Missing." Afro-American, 22 July 1935.
Madden, Charles, J. Steward Davis: The Vanishing Star, Archives of Maryland (Biographical Series), retrieved 17 October 2010
"Where is J. Steward Davis, Ex-Harrisburg, Pa., Lawyer?" Afro-American''', 19 September 1931.
Notes
This article incorporates text from "J. Steward Davis: The Vanishing Star" by Charles Madden, a publication released into the public domain.''
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Shelburne is a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada which existed between 1867 and 2013 and since 2021. Since 2021 and between 1933 and 2013 it has elected one member to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly; from 1867 to 1933 it elected two members. The electoral district includes Shelburne County in its entirety.
The electoral district was abolished following the 2012 electoral boundary review and was largely replaced by the new electoral districts of Queens-Shelburne and Argyle-Barrington. It was re-created following the 2019 electoral boundary review out of those districts.
Geography
Shelburne has of landmass.
Members of the Legislative Assembly
The electoral district was represented by the following Members of the Legislative Assembly:
Election results
1867 general election
1871 general election
1874 general election
1878 general election
1882 general election
1886 general election
1890 general election
1894 general election
1897 general election
1901 general election
1906 general election
1911 general election
1916 general election
1920 general election
1925 general election
1928 general election
1933 general election
1937 general election
1941 general election
1945 general election
1949 general election
1953 general election
1956 general election
1960 general election
1963 general election
1967 general election
1970 general election
1974 general election
1978 general election
1981 general election
1984 general election
1988 general election
1993 general election
1998 general election
1999 general election
~In the riding of Shelburne, the Returning Officer had to cast the tie-breaking vote. It went to Cecil O'Donnell
2003 general election
2006 general election
2009 general election
2017 general election (transposed)
2021 general election
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Melbourne Alexander Gass (December 21, 1938 – December 11, 2018) was a Canadian businessman and politician who served for 9 years as the Member of Parliament for Malpeque. He served for two years as the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Prince Edward Island from 1988 to 1990, before leaving public life.
Gass served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans from 1984 to 1986.
Electoral record
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1938 births
2018 deaths
People from Queens County, Prince Edward Island
Progressive Conservative Party of Prince Edward Island MLAs
Progressive Conservative Party of Prince Edward Island leaders
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Prince Edward Island
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada MPs
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Timberlea—Prospect is a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that elects one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. Its Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) since 2013 has been Iain Rankin of the Nova Scotia Liberal Party.
The district was created in 1967 from the former electoral district of Halifax West, under the name Halifax-St. Margaret's. Upon the recommendations of the 1992 Electoral Boundaries Commission report, it was renamed Timberlea-Prospect. At this same time, it lost the St. Margaret's Bay area to Chester-St. Margaret's, the Hammonds Plains, Lucasville, and Pockwock Road area to Sackville-Beaver Bank, and the Bedford area to Bedford-Fall River. In 2003, it lost the Bayside and West Dover areas to Chester-St. Margaret's. In 2013, on the recommendations of the 2012 Electoral Boundaries Commission, it lost the Stillwater Lake area to Hammonds Plains-Lucasville and a small number of streets in the Williamswood and Harrietsfield areas to Halifax Atlantic. It gained the Susies Lake and Quarrie Lake areas from Halifax Clayton Park.
Geography
Timberlea-Prospect has of land area.
Members of the Legislative Assembly
This riding has elected the following Members of the Legislative Assembly:
Election results
1967 general election
1970 general election
1974 general election
1978 general election
1981 general election
1984 general election
1988 general election
1993 general election
1998 general election
1999 general election
2003 general election
2006 general election
2009 general election
2013 general election
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|Liberal
|Iain Rankin
|align="right"|4,471
|align="right"|51.93
|align="right"|+33.78
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|New Democratic Party
|Linda Moxsom-Skinner
|align="right"|2,230
|align="right"|25.90
|align="right"|-44.31
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|Progressive Conservative
|Dr. Bruce Pretty
|align="right"|1,608
|align="right"|18.86
|align="right"|+10.17
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2017 general election
2021 general election
References
External links
2006 riding profile
2003 riding profile
Nova Scotia provincial electoral districts
Politics of Halifax, Nova Scotia
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Patricia Janet Mella ( MacDougal; born August 29, 1943) is a Canadian politician and former teacher. Mella was Prince Edward Island Progressive Conservative Party (PC) leader from 1990 to 1996 and an elected member of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island from 1993 to 2003.
She was born Patricia McDougall in Port Hill, Prince Edward Island (along with her twin sister, Peggy) and was educated at Saint Dunstan's University and the University of Prince Edward Island. A teacher and lecturer, she married Angelo Mella while teaching at St. Patrick's College in Ottawa.
Career
Mella entered political life, having been an unsuccessful candidate in the 1989 provincial election as a member of the Prince Edward Island Progressive Conservative Party. She served as the Leader of the party from 1990 to 1996 and Leader of the Opposition from 1993 to 1996. She represented 3rd Queens from 1993 to 1996, and then Glen Stewart-Bellevue Cove from 1996 to 2003.
Elected with the government of Premier Pat Binns in 1996, she served as Provincial Treasurer (Minister of Finance) until 2003.
Mella retired from the legislature before the 2003 provincial general election and did not reoffer.
In 2004, Mella was appointed with Douglas MacArthur and Matt Power to chair the Prince Edward Island Conservative Party of Canada federal election campaign.
Mella is a sister of Canadian businessman Don McDougall, who was a founder of the Toronto Blue Jays.
References
Entry from Canadian Who's Who
1943 births
Living people
Women government ministers of Canada
Female Canadian political party leaders
Finance ministers of Prince Edward Island
Members of the Executive Council of Prince Edward Island
People from Queens County, Prince Edward Island
Progressive Conservative Party of Prince Edward Island MLAs
Progressive Conservative Party of Prince Edward Island leaders
Female finance ministers
Women MLAs in Prince Edward Island
21st-century Canadian politicians
21st-century Canadian women politicians
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Colombia competed in the Summer Olympic Games for the first time at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States.
Two people traveled to represent Colombia, musician Emirto de Lima and marathon runner Jorge Perry. Colombia did not have an Olympic committee but agreed to sponsor Perry to train in America for four months before the event. He did not finish the marathon due to fainting after the first 10 km.
Athletics
See also
Sports in Colombia
References
Official Olympic Reports
Colombia
1932 Summer Olympics
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John Davies, FLSW (25 April 1938 – 16 February 2015) was a Welsh historian, and a television and radio broadcaster. He attended university at Cardiff and Cambridge and taught Welsh at Aberystwyth. He wrote a number of books on Welsh history, including A History of Wales (Hanes Cymru in Welsh).
Education
Davies was born in the Rhondda, Wales, and studied at both University College, Cardiff, and Trinity College, Cambridge.
Life and work
Davies was married with four children. In later life he acknowledged that he was bisexual. After teaching Welsh history at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, he retired to Cardiff, and appeared frequently as a presenter and contributor to history programmes on television and radio.
In the mid-1980s, Davies was commissioned to write a concise history of Wales by Penguin Books to add to its Pelican series of the histories of nations. The decision by Penguin to commission the volume in Welsh was "unexpected and highly commendable," wrote Davies. The Welsh version is titled Hanes Cymru, whilst the English version is titled A History of Wales.
"I seized the opportunity to write of Wales and the Welsh. When I had finished, I had a typescript which was almost three times larger than the original commission," wrote Davies. The original voluminous typescript was first published in hardback under the Allen Lane imprint. Davies took a sabbatical from his post at the University College of Wales and wrote most of the chapters while touring Europe. Davies dedicated Hanes Cymru to his wife, Janet Mackenzie Davies.
Hanes Cymru was translated into English and published in 1993, as there was "a demand among English-speakers to read what was already available to Welsh-speakers," wrote Davies. A revised edition was published (in both languages) in 2007.
In 2005, Davies received the Glyndŵr Award for an Outstanding Contribution to the Arts in Wales during the Machynlleth Festival. He won the 2010 Wales Book of the Year for Cymru: Y 100 lle i'w gweld cyn marw.
In 2011, Davies was elected as a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.
Davies lived in Grangetown, Cardiff. To mark his 75th birthday in 2013, the Welsh language television channel S4C broadcast a programme, Gwirionedd y Galon: Dr John Davies, about his life and his home and in 2014 published his autobiography in Welsh.
Davies died at the age of 76 in 2015 and, as a tribute to his longstanding friend, Jon Gower republished Davies' autobiography in English.
Works
Cardiff and the Marquesses of Bute, (Writers of Wales), University of Wales Press, January 1980,
A History of Wales, Penguin, 1994, (Revised edition 2007, )
Broadcasting and the BBC in Wales, University of Wales Press, 1994,
The Making of Wales, The History Press, 2nd edition printing: Oct 1, 2009,
The Celts, Cassell & Co, 2000 , based upon the S4C documentary series The Celts
The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales, University of Wales Press, April 17, 2008,
Wales: 100 Places to See Before You Die (with Marian Delyth), Y Lolfa, 2010,
Fy Hanes I: Hunangofiant (autobiography in Welsh), Y Lolfa, 2014,
A Life in History (autobiography translated into English by Jon Gower), Y Lolfa, 2015,
References
1938 births
2015 deaths
20th-century Welsh historians
Alumni of Cardiff University
Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
Academics of Aberystwyth University
People from Treorchy
Historians of Wales
Welsh-speaking academics
Welsh-speaking writers
21st-century Welsh historians
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John Evans, Baron Evans of Parkside (19 October 1930, Belfast – 5 March 2016, London) was a British politician who was a Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP).
A former shipyard worker and trade unionist, he served as a member of Hebburn urban district council from 1962 until 1974 (of which he was chairman from 1973 to 1974) and South Tyneside council from 1973 to 1974.
Evans was elected to Parliament in the February 1974 general election for the Newton constituency, which he represented until it was abolished for the 1983 election. He then served as MP for the new St Helens North constituency, which partially replaced Newton, until he stood down at the 1997 election, being succeeded by David Watts. On 10 June 1997 he was created a life peer as Baron Evans of Parkside, of St Helens in the County of Merseyside.
Evans also served as a member of the European Parliament, from 1975 until 1978.
Notes
References
The BBC Guide to Parliament, BBC Books, 1979. .
External links
1930 births
2016 deaths
Amalgamated Engineering Union-sponsored MPs
Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
Evans of Parkside
Labour Party (UK) MEPs
UK MPs 1974
UK MPs 1974–1979
UK MPs 1979–1983
UK MPs 1983–1987
UK MPs 1987–1992
UK MPs 1992–1997
MEPs for the United Kingdom 1973–1979
Life peers created by Elizabeth II
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APNI, Apni, or variants, may refer to:
Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
Australian Plant Name Index
Jammu and Kashmir Apni Party
See also
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Ballylongford (historically Bealalongford, from ) is a village near Listowel in northern County Kerry, Ireland.
Geography
The village is situated near the estuary of the Ballyline River, on Ballylongford Bay, a tidal estuary of the River Shannon, close to Carrigafoyle Island and on the coast road between Tarbert and the seaside town of Ballybunion.
The farmland in the area is used primarily for dairying, which is a mainstay of the local economy.
Three kilometers to the north, on Carrigafoyle Island, stands the castle and anchorage commemorated in the name of the village. For centuries, Ballylongford shared the political, military and religious fate of the castle and the nearby Franciscan Lislaughtin Abbey.
History
Carrigafoyle Castle was built between 1490 and 1500 by Conchuir Liath Uí Conchuir (Connor Liath O’Connor) using a design borrowed from the Normans. In addition to its windows and archways, it features a spiral staircase of 104 steps that visitors can climb today. The castle, now a listed National Monument, stands 100 feet (almost 30 m) high and its battlements provide views of the estuary and the monastic Scattery Island in County Clare. The O'Connors of Kerry held political sway from this strategic base which allowed them to "inspect" ships passing to and from the port of Limerick. Thus, "taxation" and smuggling were the main sources of income. The castle was fortified and the narrow spiral staircase ascends clockwise thus disadvantaging any attacker.
In 1580, during the Second Desmond Rebellion, the castle was defended by a garrison composed of some 70 Irish, Italian and Spanish troops, led by Captain Julian, an Italian. The Siege of Carrigafoyle Castle by Elizabethan forces under Lord Justice Sir William Pelham began on Palm Sunday. After two days, it was breached by cannon fire and taken, following which the surviving defenders were all hanged. The cannon breach remains visible to this day. Towards the end of the Nine Years War, taking advantage of the distraction of the English, Chieftain John O'Connor briefly re-occupied the castle only to be put out again in 1603 by George Carew, the Governor of Munster.
King James I restored the castle to the O'Connors in 1607 but in 1651 during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland, it was again captured, this time by Cromwellian forces under Edmund Ludlow. Ludlow was Henry Ireton's second in command and, after Ireton's death, commander in chief in Ireland. Ludlow ensured that the castle could never again be fortified and garrisoned, by knocking the outer defensive walls.
The O'Connor lands were confiscated under the Act for the Settlement of Ireland of 1652 and given to William Sandes of Cumberland, who had arrived in Ireland with Oliver Cromwell in 1649. Following the restoration of the monarchy the lands were subsequently granted to Trinity College Dublin in 1666. The college remained the principal landlord in the Ballylongford area up to the passage of the Land Act 1903. Some land titles are still vested in the college to this day.
On the other side of the creek, the O'Connors built the Friary of Lislaughtin in 1478, known locally as Lislaughtin Abbey (Lios Laichtin, meaning Lachtin's Enclosure). St Lachtin was the first to preach Christianity in the area. Two of the O'Connor chiefs are buried within its walls. The Abbey was raided twice by English forces coinciding with the military action against Carrigafoyle Castle. The Abbey was dissolved in the 17th century. A processional cross, possibly buried by the friars for safekeeping, survived the raids and was later discovered by a farmer. This processional cross, known as Lislaughtin Cross, is now on display in the National Museum in Dublin. Today, the Abbey and its grounds serve as the town's primary Roman Catholic cemetery.
The village in its present form dates from the end of the eighteenth century, though a bridge over the ford existed long before then. The old bridge was destroyed by flood in 1926. A reinforced concrete bridge was completed in 1930 and stands to this day. Photographs taken at the turn of the century show the village to have been largely made up of thatched houses, but many of these were burned by the Black and Tans during the War of Independence.
A concrete coastal artillery fort, Fort Shannon, is located six kilometers from the village. Constructed in 1940, it is the only such fortification built by the Irish Defence Forces during World War II, termed the Emergency in Ireland.
Economy and amenities
Farming, fishing and tourism are key contributors to the local economy. there were renewed proposals to open a liquefied natural gas terminal in the area.
Ballylongford parish is within the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kerry and is served by the church of St Mary, Asdee, and the church of St Michael the Archangel, Ballylongford. The latter church was built in the 1870s to a Hiberno Romanesque style. A former church in the area, Aghavallin church, on the edge of Ballylongford, dates from the 14th century. Now in ruin, at different times it served both the Roman Catholic and Church of Ireland adherents of the area, before it was closed in 1829 and a new church built on the opposite side of the road.
People
Brendan Kennelly, poet and novelist, was born in Ballylongford in 1936, and a festival celebrating his work is held annually.
Horatio, and later Lord, Kitchener was born in Ballylongford in 1850.
Father Malachi Martin, Roman Catholic priest, former Jesuit and author.
Detective Garda Jerry McCabe, of the Garda Síochána, was born in Ballylongford. He was killed in 1996 by members of the Provisional IRA during the attempted robbery of a post office in Adare, County Limerick.
Michael O'Rahilly ("The O'Rahilly"), a member of the Gaelic League and one of the founders of the Irish Volunteers was born in the village in 1875. Ballylongford's local Gaelic football Club is known as "O'Rahilly's Gaelic football Club".
See also
Ballylongford GAA
List of abbeys and priories in Ireland (County Kerry)
List of towns and villages in Ireland
References
Towns and villages in County Kerry
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