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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%ADctor%20Cordero%20Aurrecoechea
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Víctor Cordero Aurrecoechea
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Víctor Cordero Aurrecoechea (10 October 1914 – 7 December 1983) was a Mexican composer, who was born and died in Mexico City. Many of his compositions were used in Mexican films, and Mexican singers like Pedro Infante and Jorge Negrete were interpreters of Corderoʻs songs.
Compositions
Corderoʻs compositions were used in more than 70 Mexican films. A few of his notable compositions include:
Juan Charrasqueado
El loco
Gabino Barrera
El ojo de vidrio
Besos callejeros (in the film The Place Without Limits)
Flor triste
Domingo Corrales
Family
Víctor Cordero was a son of Don Rafael Cordero and his wife, Rosario Aurrecoechea Jiménez, and thus a brother of the actor Joaquín Cordero Aurrecoechea. Son of Víctor is José Luis Cordero, who is a singer and actor.
References
Mexican male composers
1914 births
1983 deaths
20th-century male musicians
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Catherine Hermary-Vieille
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Catherine Hermary-Vieille (born 8 October 1943, 15th arrondissement of Paris) is a French writer, and winner of the Prix Femina 1981, for Le Grand Vizir de la nuit.
Work
Novels
Series Les Dames de Brières
2001: Les Dames de Brières, Ed. Albin Michel ; Le Livre de Poche Librairie Générale Française (LGF)
2001: Les Dames de Brières Tome II : L'étang du diable, Albin Michel ; (LGF)
2002: Les Dames de Brières Tome III : La fille du feu, Albin Michel ; (LGF)
Series Le Crépuscule des rois
2002: Le Crépuscule des rois Tome I : La rose d'Anjou, Albin Michel ; (LGF)
2003: Le Crépuscule des rois Tome II : Les reines de cœur, Albin Michel ; (LGF)
2004: Le Crépuscule des rois Tome III : Les lionnes d'Angleterre, Albin Michel ; (LGF)
Other novels
1981: Le Grand Vizir de la nuit, Gallimard ; Folio
1983: La Marquise des ombres, Olivier Orban ; Folio
1984: L'Épiphanie des dieux, Gallimard ; Folio
1987: L'Infidèle, Gallimard ; Folio
1991: Le Jardin des Henderson, Gallimard ; Folio
1991: Un amour fou, Olivier Orban ; Pocket
1992: Le Rivage des adieux, Pygmalion ; (LGF)
1994: La Piste des turquoises, Flammarion ; (LGF)
1995: La Pointe aux tortues, Flammarion ; (LGF)
1996: Lola, Plon ; Pocket
1998: L'Initié, Plon ; Pocket
2003: La Bourbonnaise, Albin Michel ; (LGF)
2006: Lord James, Albin Michel
2007: Le Gardien du phare, Albin Michel
2008: Le Roman d'Alia, Albin Michel
2009: Les Années Trianon, Albin Michel
2011: Merveilleuses, Albin Michel
2013: Le Siècle de Dieu, Albin Michel
2014: , Albin Michel
2016: D'OR et de SANG, Albin Michel
Biography
1986: Romy, Olivier Orban
Prizes
1981: Prix Femina for Le Grand Vizir de la nuit
1984: Prix Georges Dupau awarded by the Académie Française
1991: Prix Maison de la Presse for Un amour fou
Grand Prix RTL pour L'Infidèle
References
1943 births
Living people
20th-century French women writers
20th-century French non-fiction writers
Writers from Paris
French women novelists
Prix Femina winners
Prix Maison de la Presse winners
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Hypatima spathota
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Hypatima spathota is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1913. It is found in Japan, Taiwan, India, Sri Lanka, China, Vietnam and Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland.
The wingspan is 15–17 mm. The forewings are dark purple fuscous longitudinally streaked with black and with a dark brown streak above the fold from the base to four-fifths of the wing and a rather broad ochreous-whitish streak along the dorsum from the base to the tornus, then attenuated almost to the apex, including short blackish dashes on each side of the tornus, its upper edge with a short ochreous-whitish dash adjacent at two-fifths, and a similar but transverse mark at two-thirds. There is a fine white longitudinal line above the apical portion. The hindwings are fuscous, paler and thinly scaled anteriorly, with the veins and termen suffused with darker.
The larvae feed on Mangifera indica and Lannea grandis.
References
Hypatima
Taxa named by Edward Meyrick
Moths described in 1913
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Ythan Estuary
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The Ythan Estuary (Scottish Gaelic: Inbhir Eithein) is the tidal component of the Ythan River, emptying into the North Sea north of Aberdeen, Scotland. The estuary’s tidal action extends a inland and has characteristic widths of between and . Besides the tidal channel there are interfaces to the upland dunes including mudflats, sand beaches and shingle flats. Reaches of salt marsh occur, but they are primarily near the Waterside Bridge (crossing of the A975 road) and the mouth of the Tarty Burn, a small tributary river. Based upon the habitat of the moorland bordering the east of the Ythan River near the mouth, this estuary is the most significant coastal moorland in the northern United Kingdom.
The Ythan Estuary is a designated Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and appears as site no. 939 on the Ramsar list of wetlands of international importance with Meikle Loch. There are 50 breeding pairs of common shelducks in the estuary, and there is a mixed tern breeding colony on the east shore from the mouth comprising Arctic, Sandwich, little and common terns. Leisure activities including birdwatching, fishing, canoeing and wildfowling are permitted. There are hides to watch waders (best at low tide), and a wildfowling code of conduct with a voluntary refuge area south of the main bridge over the estuary (A975). Visitors can fish for estuarine species such as flounder for free but are advised not to disturb birds during the breeding season. Game fisher's catching salmon and sea trout is by permit only.
Topography and geometry
North of the estuary mouth extend the Sands of Forvie, the most extensive sand dune formation in Europe, which has been shown to have been a Stone Age settlement. Some of the dunes north of the estuary rise to a height of about and the lower ones to the south of the estuary rise to about in height. Proceeding from the mouth the estuary inland, there are initially beach sands at the margin, thence shingle beach and mudflats. Quickly, by the time of reaching the first roadway bridge crossing about up the estuary, there are mussel beds and marshy areas.
At its widest point the Ythan Estuary is approximately wide. The verges of the upper reaches range from extensive mudflats to marsh and fen. Further upstream is a small island known as Geck Island () inaccessible to waders even at low tide, and which is a haven for cormorants. The broader landscape drained by the Ythan near the coast is a generally mild sloping farmland known as the Buchan plain, which is virtually devoid of trees. In the glacial era, the Ythan River at this point would have been a torrent of melt waters streaming down from the Scottish Highlands.
Archaeology
Prehistoric man had settlements in coastal estuaries along the northeast Scottish coast including the nearby River Don Estuary and the Ythan Estuary. Studies date the lithics recovered at least as early as 7000 BC, with most of the artefacts from the Ythan mouth area deriving from the Sands of Forvie. Most of the large collection of lithics was retrieved in the period 1994-2001 from a deflation surface within this active dune system. The excavations revealed the survival of superimposed land surfaces, whose layers revealed hearth structures and other characteristic mesolithic artefacts. Although no Viking artefacts have been recovered here, a few kilometres north along the coast is the only place name associated with Viking landings, Saint Olaf at Cruden Bay.
Ecology
There are several distinct habitats within the Ythan Estuary complex including marsh, littoral, estuarine, lacustrine and dunes. Thus there is an unusual diversity of flora and fauna present in this nature reserve. The estuary itself is tidal, located seven kilometres from the North Sea. In the estuary and its verges, the presence of tern colonies is notable, since there are several distinct species that utilize the north banks of the Ythan Estuary, and comprise a percentage of the breeding pairs of terns in the United Kingdom. In the summer terns can be observed feeding in their characteristic diving patterns approximately 600 to 900 metres inland from the estuary.
At the river mouth species of birds include scaup, long-tailed duck, red-breasted merganser and velvet scoter. In lesser numbers guillemot and razorbills are occasionally seen at this outlet to the North Sea. Extensive mussel beds are found about three kilometres from the estuary mouth, and these provide food for common eider (with the occasional king eider, oystercatchers and turnstones). On the Forvie Moor element of the Ythan Estuary complex, both mute and whooper swans occur. Meikle Loch is an element of the Ythan Estuary complex and sustains some aquatic vegetation, and from November to March is home to many wading birds, ducks and geese.
Conservation status
Based upon Articles 4.1 and 4.2 of the European Union Directive 79/409/EEC this site qualifies as a Special Protection Area (SPA) by supporting biota populations of European importance. The component landforms which are considered elements of the SPA or SSSI are the estuary itself, the dunes to the east known as the Sands of Forvie, Meikle Loch and the adjacent Kippet Hills. The Ythan Estuary SPA code is UK9002221, which designation was conveyed on 30 March 1998.
Per Article 4.1, Annex I, the Ythan Estuary complex supports the following significant bird populations during the breeding season:
Common tern Sterna hirundo, 265 pairs representing up to 2.2% of the breeding population in Great Britain.
Little tern Sterna albifrons, 41 pairs representing up to 1.7% of the total breeding population in Great Britain
Sandwich tern Sterna sandvicensis, 600 pairs representing up to 4.3% of the breeding population in Great Britain
The Ythan Estuary also is qualified per Article 4.2 of the EU Directive by sustaining the following winter migratory species population of European significance:
Pink-footed goose Anser brachyrhynchus, 7213 individuals representing up to 7.7% of the mean wintering Eastern Greenland/Iceland/United Kingdom population
See also
Fowlsheugh
Wetland
Important bird area
References
External links
Fisheries Research Service Ythan Estuary Description
Webcam overlooking the Ythan
Nature reserves in Scotland
Stone age sites
Estuaries of Scotland
Special Protection Areas in Scotland
Landforms of Aberdeenshire
Ramsar sites in Scotland
Important Bird Areas of Scotland
Bodies of water of the North Sea
Moorlands of Scotland
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Jack Guiney
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Jack Guiney (born 25 April 1993) is an Irish hurler who plays as a right wing-forward and as a full-forward for the Wexford senior team.
Born in Rathnure, County Wexford, Guiney first played competitive hurling during his schooling at Good Counsel College. He arrived on the inter-county scene at the age of seventeen when he first linked up with the Wexford minor team, before later lining out with the under-21 side. He made his senior debut in the 2012 National Hurling League. Guiney has been a regular fixture on team since that initial appearance.
At club level Guiney plays with Rathnure.
Guiney is the son of Dave Guiney and the nephew of Rod Guiney who both played for Wexford. His grandfather and namesake played rugby union for Ireland.
Honours
Good Counsel College
Leinster Colleges Senior Hurling Championship (1): 2009
Wexford
Leinster Under-21 Hurling Championship (2): 2013, 2014
References
1993 births
Living people
Rathnure hurlers
Wexford inter-county hurlers
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Dennis Joseph Sullivan
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Dennis Joseph Sullivan (born March 17, 1945) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as vicar general and auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of New York in New York City until he replaced Bishop Joseph Anthony Galante as bishop of the Diocese of Camden in New Jersey in 2013. He lives in Woodbury, New Jersey.
Biography
Early life
Dennis Sullivan was born on March 17, 1945, in the Bronx, New York, to John and Hanorah (née Hayes) Sullivan. One of four children, he has two brothers, Jack and Charlie, and one sister, Catherine. Dennis Sullivan attended Mount St. Michael Academy in the Bronx before entering Iona College in New Rochelle, New York. He left Iona in his sophomore year to study for the priesthood at St. Joseph's Seminary in Yonkers, New York. Sullivan earned a Bachelor's degree and a Master of Divinity degree from St. Joseph's.
Priesthood
Sullivan was ordained to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of New York by Cardinal Terence Cooke on May 29, 1971, and was then sent to the Dominican Republic to learn Spanish. He spent three months in the Dominican Republic, where he "learned to speak Spanish very fast because nobody spoke English."
After returning to New York City, Sullivan served as curate at St. Elizabeth's Parish in Washington Heights for five years. He also served as curate at SS Philip and James Parish in the Bronx (1976–1981) and at Ascension Parish in New York City (1981–1982). Sullivan was named pastor of St. Teresa's Parish on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 1981, where he gained a degree of fluency in Chinese. In 1999, he was made a monsignor by the Vatican. Then in 2004, he became pastor of SS John and Paul Parish in Larchmont.
Sullivan was also a member of the Lower East Side Catholic Area Conference, the Archdiocesan Priests' Council, and the Archdiocesan Review Board for sexual abuse cases.
Auxiliary Bishop of New York
On June 28, 2004, Sullivan was appointed as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of New York and titular bishop of Enera by Pope John Paul II. He received his episcopal consecration on September 21, 2004, from Cardinal Edward Egan, with Bishops Robert Brucato and Patrick Sheridan serving as co-consecrators. Sullivan selected as his episcopal motto: "In the Breaking of the Bread".
As an auxiliary bishop, Sullivan served as the vicar general for the archdiocese. He celebrated the funeral mass of the writer Reverend Richard Neuhaus in January 2009. Within the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Sullivan is a member of the Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Island Affairs, and sat on the Catholic Campaign for Human Development Committee from 2005 to 2008.
Bishop of Camden
On January 8, 2013, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Sullivan as bishop of the Diocese of Camden. He was installed on February 12, 2013.
Controversy
In April 2022 Sullivan agreed to an $87.5 million payout to victims of clerical sexual abuse. This was widely seen as an expensive damage limitation exercise to avoid litigation in the course of which unwelcome details might emerge. In 2023 Bishop Sullivan was part of the team appointed by Pope Francis to investigate Bishop Joseph Strickland, after Strickland had offered a series of criticisms of the Pope's policies.
See also
Catholic Church hierarchy
Catholic Church in the United States
Historical list of the Catholic bishops of the United States
List of Catholic bishops of the United States
Lists of patriarchs, archbishops, and bishops
References
External links
Roman Catholic Diocese of Camden Official Site
Episcopal succession
1938 births
Living people
Clergy from New York City
21st-century American Roman Catholic titular bishops
Iona University alumni
Religious leaders from the Bronx
People from Woodbury, New Jersey
Saint Joseph's Seminary (Dunwoodie) alumni
Catholics from New York (state)
Catholics from New Jersey
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List of people from Bath, Maine
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The following list includes notable people who were born or have lived in Bath, Maine.
Authors and academics
Robert Jaffe, physicist
McDonald Clarke, poet
Eleanor P. Cushing, mathematics professor at Smith College
Alice May Douglas, poet and author
George F. Magoun, first president of Iowa College (now Grinnell College)
Edward Page Mitchell, editorial and short story writer
William Maxwell Reed, author of children's science books
Susan Marr Spalding (1841–1908), poet
Geoffrey Wolff, novelist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer; lives in Bath
Glenn Cummings, economist, politician and University of Southern Maine President
Business
Charles W. Morse, businessman
Media and arts
Georgia Cayvan, stage actress
Claude Demetrius, songwriter
Emma Eames, singer
Chad Finn, sportswriter
John Adams Jackson, sculptor
William Zorach, sculptor
Military
Charles Frederick Hughes, US Navy admiral
William Smith, US Army private; Medal of Honor recipient
Silas Soule, abolitionist and Civil War era soldier
Politics
Nathaniel S. Berry, 28th governor of New Hampshire
Samuel Davis, US congressman
Thomas W. Hyde, US senator; Union Army general and Metal of Honor recipient; founder of Bath Iron Works
William King, first governor of Maine
Arthur Mayo, state legislator
Freeman H. Morse, US congressman and mayor
Amos Nourse, physician and US senator
William LeBaron Putnam, lawyer and politician
Harold M. Sewall, last United States Minister to Hawaii
Sumner Sewall, 58th governor of Maine
Mary Small, politician
Francis B. Stockbridge, US senator
Peleg Tallman, US congressman
Science and engineering
Edward Davis, buccaneer and engineer
Francis H. Fassett, architect
Henry Gannett, geographer
George Edward Harding, architect
Robert Jaffe, physicist
References
Bath, Maine
Bath
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List of pubs in the United Kingdom
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The following is an incomplete list of notable public houses in the United Kingdom.
England
East Anglia
The Adam and Eve, Norwich is thought to date to 1249; although the current building was only built in the 17th century.
The Berney Arms in Norfolk may only be reached by foot, by boat or by train as there is no road access. It is served by the nearby Berney Arms railway station which likewise has no road access and serves only the pub and nearby nature reserves. The pub is adjoined by a tea room, gift shop and small store. Both the pub and shop close during the winter months.
The Eagle in Benet Street, Cambridge. The pub in which Francis Crick and James Watson announced that they had "discovered the secret of life" (the structure of DNA). The pub is opposite the Cavendish Laboratory and the event is commemorated by a blue plaque next to the entrance. In addition, the ceiling of the back bar, known as 'The RAF Room' is covered with the signed names of Second World War pilots.
The Nutshell, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. Britain's smallest pub measuring just 5 metres by 2 metres (16.5 ft by 6.5 ft), according to the Guinness Book of Records. The pub, a timber-framed Grade II listed building, has been in existence since 1867. In 1984, a record 102 people squeezed inside.
The Old Ferryboat Inn, Holywell, Cambridge. One of a number of pubs claiming to be the oldest in England with claims of alcohol being sold on the site as far back as 560.
East Midlands
Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem in Nottingham. It incorporates caves under Nottingham Castle and claims to be the oldest pub in England, although the first confirmed reference to a pub on the site (called the Pilgrim) dates to 1751. The owners claim a model galleon hanging from the ceiling is cursed and the premises are haunted.
Ye Olde Salutation Inn in Nottingham. Claims to date back to 1240 and be the second oldest pub in the United Kingdom.
The Bell Inn in Nottingham. Has been officially dated to 1437. It has been proven to be actually older than the other two pubs, although there is some evidence that there was a Brewery on the site of the "Trip" which served the Castle above it, and which does date back to somewhere around the end of the 12th century.
Ram Jam Inn, A1, Rutland. Named after a confidence trick performed by Dick Turpin.
London
The Alchemist, Battersea, a pub built in the Victorian-era and originally called The Fishmongers Arms, which closed in 2013 and was demolished in May 2015 by a property developer without permission. The property developer was later asked to rebuild the pub brick-by-brick.
The Angel, Islington. Formerly a coaching inn, the first on the route northwards out of London, where Thomas Paine is believed to have written much of The Rights of Man and was mentioned by Charles Dickens in Oliver Twist. It became a Lyons Corner House, and is now a Co-operative Bank. It is also on the board in the British version of the board game Monopoly. Close by is a modern Wetherspoon pub continuing the name The Angel.
The Blind Beggar, Whitechapel. In March 1966, Richardson Gang associate George Cornell was shot and killed by gangster Ronnie Kray in the saloon bar. William Booth, the founder of the Salvation Army, preached his first sermon outside the pub in 1865.
The Britannia is a Grade II-listed pub at 5 Brewers Lane, Richmond.
The Bull's Head, also known as "The Bull", is a pub in Barnes, best known as a venue for live jazz.
The Carlton Tavern in Kilburn, a building erected by Charrington & Co in the Vernacular Revival style in 1920, to replace an earlier pub on the same site which was destroyed by a Zeppelin bomb in 1918. The building was demolished without permission by a property company in April 2015, who were later ordered by Westminster City Council to rebuild it brick-by-brick.
Crocker's Folly, Maida Vale. Huge ornate late Victorian pub, closed 2004 but reopened October 2014, said to have been built by Frank Crocker on this site in the expectation that the Great Central Railway terminus in London would be built opposite and not in Marylebone. Known as The Crown Hotel from its opening until 1987.
De Hems, off Shaftesbury Avenue, is the primary Dutch pub in London; it takes its name from a Dutch seaman who purchased the pub in 1890. The Dutch resistance met here during the Second World War.
Dirty Dick's, Bishopsgate. Established in 1745 and originally called The Old Jerusalem it is named after ironmonger Nathaniel Bentley, who upon the death of his fiancée on the eve of their wedding, refused to clean, clear up anything or even wash. The pub was rebuilt from ground level in 1870.
The Dove, Hammersmith, once the haunt of Ernest Hemingway and Graham Greene, it also claims the smallest bar in Britain (according to the Guinness Book of Records), though not the smallest pub. It also makes the disputed claim to be the oldest surviving Thames-side pub.
The Drayton Court in Ealing. Built in 1893 as a hotel, it was converted to pub use in the 1940s. Former Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh worked in the kitchens in 1914.
The Feathers, Linhope Street, Marylebone. A pub since 1899 it is claimed to be the smallest in London, with only three tables and a small bar. It changed name to The Swan & Edgar and closed in 2013.
The Finborough Arms was built in 1868 to a design by George Godwin. It was one of five public houses built by Corbett and McClymont in the Earls Court district during the West London development boom of the 1860s. The upstairs room hosts a leading fringe theatre. Renowned plumber Thomas Crapper is a famous former patron.
Fitzroy Tavern, Fitzrovia. Famous for being frequented by Virginia Woolf and others of the Bloomsbury Set. It also boasted Dylan Thomas, George Orwell and George Bernard Shaw as regulars.
The George Inn, Southwark off Borough High Street is London's only remaining galleried coaching inn. Dating from the 17th century (the original building was destroyed by fire in 1676) it is famous for have been visited by Charles Dickens (it appears in the serial novel Little Dorrit) and William Shakespeare, although there is little evidence that the latter ever visited.
The Grapes, Limehouse, on Narrow Street, Limehouse. Originally The Bunch of Grapes, this pub has stood for over 500 years and is immortalised as the Six Jolly Fellowship Porters in Charles Dickens' novel, Our Mutual Friend (though some commentators claim that Dickens amalgamated descriptions of several waterside taverns). The current licence holder is actor Sir Ian McKellen.
The Grapes, Wandsworth, a Grade II listed pub in Fairfield Street, Wandsworth.
The Grenadier, Belgravia. The building dates to 1720 when it was originally constructed as an officers' mess for the 1st Regiment of Foot Guards and became a public house in 1818 with the name The Guardsman. Said to be haunted by a young grenadier who was beaten to death after being caught cheating at cards.
The Hare and Hounds is a Grade II-listed early 19th century pub at Upper Richmond Road, East Sheen.
King's Head, Upper Street, Islington has an on-site theatre that charges for drinks in pre-decimal currency.
The Lamb, Bloomsbury, Lamb's Conduit Street, Holborn. A grade II listed building dating from the 1720s, it retains its Victorian-era 'snob screens' which would have been erected to protect the well-to-do in the saloon bar from being seen by the common folk in the public bar.
The Magdala Tavern, on South Hill Park, Hampstead. It was the first building in this road and existed in 1868, being named after the British victory in the Battle of Magdala in the same year. Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in the UK, shot and killed her lover outside the pub in 1955.
The Old Queens Head, Essex Road, Islington. Said to have been frequented by Vladimir Lenin during his time in the capital. It is also said to be haunted by the ghosts of a woman and a girl, who appear on the first Sunday of each month.
The Old Ship is a Grade II-listed 18th century pub at 82 George Street, Richmond.
The Princess Louise, High Holborn notable for its rare, preserved and listed interior. It is owned by the Samuel Smith brewery.
The Prospect of Whitby, Wapping. Said to be London's oldest riverside pub, dating back to around 1520. Originally known as The Devil's Tavern, it changed name in 1777 to The Prospect of Whitby, after a ship that transported coal from Newcastle to London that moored nearby. Judge Jeffreys is said to have dined and drank here in the 17th century.
The Red Lion, St John Street, Islington. Old public house-cum-theatre where, it is claimed, Thomas Paine wrote parts of Rights of Man.
The Sherlock Holmes, a theme pub on Northumberland Street, based on the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes which displays the artefacts and memorabilia purchased by Whitbread & Co. in 1957 which were created for the Festival of Britain. The pub was originally known as The Northumberland Arms.
Spaniards Inn, Hampstead. A listed building built in 1585, it is said to take its name from two of its former owners – Spaniards Juan and Francisco Porero. Dick Turpin's father is also said to have held the licence. It is reputedly haunted by three ghosts; a former owner, a woman in white and Turpin himself.
Sun in the Sands, believed to be a stopping point of Henry VIII when riding from Greenwich to Shooter's Hill with the Queen, Catherine of Aragon.
The Sun Inn, a mid-18th century Grade II-listed pub overlooking the village pond at 7 Church Road, Barnes.
The White Cross, an early/mid-19th century Grade II-listed pub at Riverside, Richmond.
The White Hart on the corner of Drury Lane and High Holborn. Claims to be the oldest licensed pub in London; Old Bailey archives date it back to 1216.
The Winchester in Highgate, north London. Built in 1881 as The Winchester Tavern, it later became The Winchester Hall Hotel. The name derives from a nearby 17th century mansion, Winchester Hall. The pub is listed on Camra's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors.
Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese in Fleet Street. Rebuilt in 1667 from an original tavern, destroyed by The Great Fire of London, it is reputedly a former haunt of Samuel Johnson, Dickens, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
North East England
Marsden Grotto, currently the only pub in Europe that is built on a sea-cliff face and partially into sea-cliff caves.
The Fisher's Arms, Horncliffe, Northumberland is believed to be the most Northerley village pub in England.
North West England
The White Lion Inn, Barthomley, built in 1614 in the ancient parish and village of Barthomley in Cheshire this historic pub is situated in a place of great beauty with an intriguing history.
The Philharmonic Dining Rooms, Liverpool ('The Phil'). Grade II listed Victorian pub with Art Deco lighting and mosaic floor and bar. Once much favoured by the Liverpool Poets.
The Scotch Piper, Lydiate, Merseyside is the oldest Pub in the traditional county of Lancashire dates from 1320.
The Cat and Fiddle Inn in Cheshire is the second-highest inn or public house in England.
Ye Olde Man and Scythe is one of the oldest pubs in the country, and the oldest in Bolton, dating back to 1251
The Moon Under Water, Deansgate, Manchester, a Wetherspoons house, is the largest in the country
The Old Wellington Inn, Shambles Square, Manchester. The birthplace of the writer John Byrom and along with its neighbour, Sinclair's Oyster Bar, probably one of the only two pubs in the world to have been physically moved twice. They were both raised 4 ft 9 inches in the 1970s to be incorporated into a redevelopment and then dismantled and re-erected in a new location after the IRA 1996 Manchester bombing.
Boot Inn, Chester, The Boot Inn was built in the early to middle part of the 17th century, opening as an inn in 1643. Its façade was rebuilt and restored in the late 19th century.
Bear and Billet, Chester the pub was originally a house that was built in 1664 as the town house of the Earls of Shrewsbury who held control of the nearby Bridgegate.
Old King's Head Hotel, Chester, The building was constructed in about 1208.It was the town house for Peter the Clerk, the administrator of Chester Castle.
Old Custom House Inn, Chester, The inn originated from two former houses, their undercrofts now forming the inn's cellars. The older house, on the east side, is dated 1637.
The Falcon, Chester, The building originated as a house in about 1200 and was later extended to the south along Lower Bridge Street, with a great hall running parallel to the street.
Town Crier public house, Chester was built in 1865 as a hotel.
Telford's Warehouse, The building was constructed in about 1790, and designed by Thomas Telford.
Bear's Paw Hotel, Frodsham, According to the date on the lintel over the front door, the Bear's Paw was constructed in 1632.
Old Hall Hotel, Sandbach, is a public house and restaurant in High Street, Sandbach, Cheshire, England. It was built in 1656 on the site of a previous manor house.
South East England
The King's Head, Aylesbury, a late medieval courtyard inn, and one of some thirty or more pubs in England run by the National Trust.
The Stag Inn, Hastings, East Sussex.
The Hand & Flowers in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, a gastropub on West Street owned by chef Tom Kerridge which became the first in the UK to hold two Michelin stars.
The John Brunt V.C., Paddock Wood, Kent is one of only three pubs in the country to be named after a holder of the Victoria Cross; the other two are the Leefe Robinson in Harrow Weald and the Albert Herring, in Palmers Green, London. The name was changed from The Kent Arms in 1947.
The Seven Stars Inn, Robertsbridge, East Sussex, oldest pub in the Harveys Brewery stable, built in the 14th century on the main road north of Hastings, and said to be haunted.
Ye Olde Fighting Cocks, St Albans, Hertfordshire. Its claim to be the oldest pub in Britain is disputed by other establishments.
South West England
Jamaica Inn in Bolventor, a hamlet on Bodmin Moor, Cornwall. Location of the 1936 novel by Daphne du Maurier, made into the film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1939.
The Warren House Inn is a remote and isolated public house in the heart of Dartmoor, Devon. It is the highest pub in southern England at 1,425 feet (434 m) above sea level. It is located on an ancient road across the moor, about 2 miles (3 km) northeast of the village of Postbridge and has been a stopping point for travellers since the middle of the 18th century.
Luttrell Arms, Dunster. Built in the 15th century.
George Hotel and Pilgrims' Inn, Glastonbury. Built in 15th century.
Queen's Hall, Minehead. Built in 1914 as cinema and theatre.
The George Inn, Norton St Philip, Somerset. Built in the 14th or 15th century as a wool store for the priory at Hinton Charterhouse. Later used as army headquarters, during the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685, and a courtroom by Judge Jeffreys as part of the Bloody Assizes.
Tudor Tavern, Taunton, Built 1578
Bristol
The Black Castle Public House in the Brislington area of the city. Also known as Arno's Castle, it was erected in 1745–1755 as a folly sham castle from pre-cast black copper-slag blocks from Reeve's foundry at Crew's Hole. The building is now Grade I-listed.
The Coronation Tap, a Cider house in the suburb of Clifton. Originally built as a farm, it has existed as a licensed premises for over two hundred years.
The Crown. Built in the 18th century.
The Hatchet on Frogmore Street, is a Grade II-listed building dating from 1606. There were formerly cock-fighting and Boxing rings on the site, the latter of which is commemorated by a plaque in the pub's beer garden.
The King William Ale House and The Famous Royal Navy Volunteer Public House on King Street. Originally a row of three houses dating to around 1670, these are now two public houses side by side with gabled fronts to the road.
The Llandoger Trow on King Street. Dating from 1664, the name derives from the village of Llandogo in South Wales. Robert Louis Stevenson is said to have modelled The Admiral Benbow pub in Treasure Island on the Llandoger Trow.
The Mauretania (currently the Mauretania Bar & Lounge), on Park Street. Includes some of the furnishings from the RMS Mauretania.
The Nova Scotia. Situated on Spike Island adjacent to the Cumberland Basin in Bristol Harbour.
The Old Duke on King Street opposite the Llandoger Trow; a Jazz and Blues venue, the building dates from about 1780. Originally named The Duke of Cumberland, the name was changed to honour jazz musician Duke Ellington.
The Old Post Office. Built in 1746.
The Palace Hotel, on West Street, in the Old Market area of the city centre. Built in 1869 to accommodate travellers from the nearby railway station in Midland Road, its exterior ornamentation includes two Assyrian-style hermai.
The Printers Devil. A grade-II listed building originally named The Queens Head, the name was changed in the 1980s. The pub closed in 2008 and remains closed. A Printer's devil was an apprentice in a printing establishment who performed a number of tasks, such as mixing tubs of ink and fetching type.
The Pump House in the Hotwells district. Built around 1870 by Thomas Howard as a Hydraulic Pumping House to provide power to the bridges and machines of Bristol Harbour, the building is now used as a gastropub.
The Seven Stars on St. Thomas Lane in the Redcliffe district of the city. First recorded in 1694, it is strongly associated with the abolitionist Thomas Clarkson.
The Shakespeare on Prince Street. Built as a Georgian mansion in 1725, it became a public house in 1777, its name deriving from the nearby Theatre Royal.
The Shakespeare Inn on Victoria Street. Now known as Ye Shakespeare, this pub dates from 1636.
The Stag & Hounds is also located in the Old Market area of the city centre, the building dates from 1483 when it was erected as a private house, although the current building is of predominantly 18th century origin.
The Victoria also in the suburb of Clifton. Originally a part of the much larger historic Lido, the corner was sold off to create the pub at some time before 1879. The pub building is grade II-listed and is owned and run by the Dawkins Brewery.
Southern England
The Bat & Ball Inn, Clanfield, Hampshire. A 17th-century inn next to the 'Cradle of Cricket' at Broadhalfpenny Down, currently owned by Fullers; former Hambledon player Richard Nyren was landlord between 1760 and 1771.
The Bell Inn at Aldworth in Berkshire. A 15th century inn that has twice won the National Pub of the Year award.
The Trout Inn, Lechlade in Gloucestershire. Has its origin as an almshouse from around 1229.
The Bear Inn, Oxford, said to be Oxford's oldest pub, dating back to 1242; it also boasts a large collection of ties.
The Eagle and Child on St Giles' in Oxford owned by St John's College. Best known for having been frequented by The Inklings, a literary circle that included J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis; it is known locally as The Bird & Baby.
The Lamb & Flag, on St Giles' in Oxford which is also owned by St John's College. This pub has been in existence as an alehouse since 1695 and was named after the two symbols of John the Baptist – a lamb and a flag. Brewery-owned between 1829 and 1999, the college now offers financial support to DPhil students from the pub's profits.
The Turf Tavern, Oxford, where former US president Bill Clinton "did not inhale" marijuana and former Australian prime minister Bob Hawke entered the Guinness Book of Records for downing a yard of ale in 11 seconds.
The Red Lion Inn, Southampton, a very old timber-beamed pub dating from 1148 where King Henry V tried traitors to the crown in 1415 on the eve of his departure to France.
West Midlands
The Adam & Eve, a public house in Deritend dating back to at least 1801.
The Crooked House (officially called The Glynne Arms) in Himley near Dudley, Staffordshire. Formerly The Siden Arms, subsidence caused by overmining led the building to fall into a hole in the early 19th century. It has been saved by buttressing, but tilts at a 15-degree angle.
The Dirty Duck in Stratford-upon-Avon, also known as The Black Swan, has been a pub since 1738. It is frequented by actors from the nearby Royal Shakespeare Company theatres and has photos inside of famous visitors and actors from over the years, including Judi Dench and Richard Burton.
The Garrick Inn, Stratford-upon-Avon. A pub in its current building since 1718, but an inn on the site has existed for a lot longer reputedly making it the oldest pub in Stratford. Named after Shakespearean actor David Garrick.
The Lad in the Lane in Erdington, near Birmingham. An inn from 1780 and formerly known as The Green Man (though reconstructed at a later date), some of the beams are said to date to the 13th century when the building was a home to a wealthy family connected to the Earl of Warwick.
The Old Crown in Deritend, Birmingham. One of the oldest buildings in the city and the oldest pub in the city, dating back to 1368.
The Picture House in Stafford is a former cinema, built in 1913 and converted into a pub in 1997, retaining original features.
Yorkshire
The Bingley Arms, claiming to be the oldest recorded inn in Britain, located in the small village of Bardsey, West Yorkshire.
The Kelham Island Tavern, Sheffield, is the only pub to have won CAMRA's National Pub of the Year award twice in a row.
The Lion Inn, Blakey Ridge, North Yorkshire – the second highest pub in Yorkshire, and the fourth highest in England.
The New Penny, reported to be the oldest continually running gay pub in the UK, in The Calls, Leeds
The Moorcock Inn, a pub near to the Settle-Carlisle Railway at Garsdale Head
The Old Queen's Head, opened as a public house in the mid-19th century, but is one of the oldest Grade II* listed buildings in Sheffield, dating from around 1475. The Queen in the pub's name is thought to be Mary, Queen of Scots, who was imprisoned in Sheffield from 1570 to 1584.
The Tan Hill Inn in Yorkshire is the highest inn in England at above sea level. Tan Hill is a high point on the Pennine Way. It also won the right to continue to call its Christmas dinner a "family feast", which Kentucky Fried Chicken had registered as a trademark.
Northern Ireland
See :Category:Pubs in Northern Ireland
Scotland
See :Category:Pubs in Scotland
Wales
See :Category:Pubs in Wales
Abbey Hotel, Llanthony Priory, Monmouthshire, a Grade I listed country inn and hotel.
Albion Ale House, Conwy, a 1920s pub jointly operated by four North Wales breweries. Grade II listed and winner of two CAMRA awards: 2013 Wales Pub of the Year and the 2014 CAMRA English Heritage Conservation Award.
The Blue Anchor Inn, Aberthaw, Vale of Glamorgan, a 14th-century Grade II* listed thatched pub.
Golden Cross, Cardiff, a distinctive Edwardian pub the current building dates from 1903.
Palladium, Llandudno, built in 1920, a former theatre converted to a pub in 2001, Grade II listed.
The Robin Hood Inn, Monmouth a late medieval Grade II* listed pub.
The Vulcan, Cardiff, built in 1853 and became Cardiff's oldest public house under its original name, it was dismantled in 2012 to be re-erected at St Fagans National History Museum.
Ye Olde Murenger House, claimed to be the oldest pub in Newport.
Black Boy Inn, in the Royal Town of Caernarfon in Gwynedd, Wales is a hotel and public house which is thought to date back to 1522.
The Griffin, Monmouth, the Star was originally built 1639, as a lobby-entrance building with integral rear wing.
See also
Pub names
List of bars
List of pubs in Dublin
List of pubs named Carpenter Arms in the United Kingdom
List of public house topics
Pubs in Brighton
References
Notes
External links
Portsmouth Pubs website
Pub Review Website: Account currently suspended as at 1 August 2010
The Guide to London Pubs
The Lost Pubs Project: Lost and closed pubs of the UK.
Old Pubs of Reading: A catalogue of old pubs in Reading, Berkshire.
City of London pubs: Pubs in the City of London, the Square Mile, listed and reviewed.
England's Pubs Directory: List of Pubs in England, recent reviewed.
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Andjelo or Anđelo Rudović (, ; born 3 May 1996), is a Montenegrin professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or winger for Mohammedan in the I-League.
Club career
Born in Ulcinj, Rudović started playing football with Otrant in his home town at the age of 6. Later he moved to Mornar Bar, where he stayed for two years. Finally, he joined Mogren where he ended his youth career and made his first senior appearances with the club in 2013. Rudović signed a one-year deal with PSV Eindhoven in 2014. As a club member, he usually played with reserves, making his professional debut for Jong PSV player in the second division on 19 September 2014 in a 0–2 home defeat against Sparta Rotterdam. After the end of contract he left the club in summer 2015, after which he joined Mladost Podgorica. Making 29 appearances with 2 goals at total in both domestic competitions mostly as a back-up player, Rudović contributed to winning the Montenegrin First League for 2015–16 season. Next summer, he left the club and moved to OFK Petrovac.
On 17 August 2017, Rudović signed with the Serbian SuperLiga side Spartak Subotica, peening a three-year professional contract with new club. Making a single appearance with a goal in the Serbian Cup match against Polet Lipljan, Rudović released by the club in December same year. At the beginning of 2018, Rudović signed with Kom.
On 12 November 2021, Rudović moved to India and joined I-League side Mohammedan Sporting ahead of the team's Calcutta Football League final against Railway FC. On 18 November, Mohammedan clinched their 12th Calcutta Football League title after forty long years, defeating Railway FC 1–0, in which Rudović played a key role.
He scored his first league goal for Mohammedan on 8 March 2022 against Sreenidi Deccan in their 3–1 win. Under Nikola Stojanović's captaincy, Mohammedan for the first time, ran for their maiden national league title in 2021–22 I-League season, but finished as runners-up after a 2–1 defeat to Gokulam Kerala at the end.
International career
Rudović represented Montenegro under-17 and under-19 level.
Career statistics
Club
Honours
Mladost Podgorica
Montenegrin First League: 2015–16
Mohammedan Sporting
Calcutta Football League: 2021
I-League runner-up: 2021–22
References
External links
Andjelo Rudović stats at sport1.de
1996 births
Living people
People from Ulcinj
Men's association football midfielders
Montenegrin men's footballers
Montenegro men's youth international footballers
FK Mogren players
PSV Eindhoven players
Jong PSV players
OFK Titograd players
OFK Petrovac players
FK Spartak Subotica players
FK Kom players
FK Dečić players
Montenegrin First League players
Eerste Divisie players
Montenegrin expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in the Netherlands
Montenegrin expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands
Expatriate men's footballers in Serbia
Montenegrin expatriate sportspeople in Serbia
Expatriate men's footballers in India
Montenegrin expatriate sportspeople in India
Mohammedan SC (Kolkata) players
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is a Japanese professional wrestler, better known by his ring name . He is currently working for the Japanese professional wrestling promotion DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT).
Professional wrestling career
Independent circuit (2009-present)
Nishigaki made his professional wrestling debut at Sportiva It's Saturday Pro DX !! ~ Tsurumai Muso 09 from November 28, 2009, an event hosted by the Sportiva Entertainment promotion, where he scored a defeat in front of Kekumo. He worked for other promotions such as Kaientai Dojo, where he worked alongside Michio Kageyama and Toru Sugiura to unsuccessfully challenge Silence (Daigoro Kashiwa, Kaji Tomato and Marines Mask) for the Chiba Six Man Tag Team Championship at Kaientai Dojo's 10th Anniversary on February 2, 2012. He also wrestled in cross-over events held between Dramatic Dream Team, Big Japan Pro Wrestling and Kaientai Dojo such as the BJW/ DDT/K-Dojo: Sapporo Pro-Wrestling Festa 2014 on October 14, where he teamed up with Ryuichi Kawakami and Ryuichi Sekine in a losing effort to Ryuji Ito, Harashima and Kengo Mashimo in a six-man tag team match. On November 28, 2016, Nishigaki worked a match for Tokyo Gurentai at the Tokyo Dream 2016 show where he teamed up with Cima and Masato Tanaka and scored a victory against Minoru Fujita, Mazada and Kikuzawa.
DDT Pro-Wrestling (2010-present)
Nishigaki worked most of his career in DDT under the name Akito. He is a DDT Extreme Champion, title which he won the first time after defeating Danshoku Dino in a nobody knows rules match at DDT Dramatic General Election 2014 on September 13. He was a part of the All Out stable, and alongside his fellow stablemates Konosuke Takeshita and Diego, defeated Damnation (Daisuke Sasaki, Mad Paulie and Shuji Ishikawa to win the KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship at DDT Shin-Kiba, I Came Back! from November 2, 2017. Akito won the championship on two more occasions under the stable, first with Konosuke Takeshita and Shunma Katsumata after defeating Chihiro Hashimoto, Dash Chisako and Meiko Satomura at the DDT/Sendai Girls All Out X Sendai Girls Pro Wrestling event on June 24, 2019, and the other time also with Takeshita and Yuki Ino at DDT Live! Maji Manji Super - New Year Special on January 3, 2019, scoring a victory against #StrongHearts (Cima, T-Hawk and Duan Yingnan). He is a multiple time Ironman Heavymetalweight Champion, last time winning it at DDT You Can Get A Lot Of Protein From Peanuts! on September 7, 2019 when he teamed up with Konosuke Takeshita to take on Damnation (Daisuke Sasaki and Puma King) in a tag team match in which he pinned the latter to win the contest and the title.
Championships and accomplishments
DDT Pro-Wrestling
DDT Extreme Championship (4 times)
Greater China Unified Zhongyuan Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Choun Shiryu
Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship (6 times, current)
KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship (4 times) – with Konosuke Takeshita and Diego (1), Konosuke Takeshita and Shunma Katsumata (1), Konosuke Takeshita and Yuki Iino (1) and Kazuki Hirata and Shota (1)
KO-D 8-Man Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Yoshiaki Yatsu, Hiroshi Yamato and Keigo Nakamura
Pro Wrestling Illustrated' Ranked No. 264 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500'' in 2015
References
External links
1987 births
Living people
Japanese male professional wrestlers
Aichi Shukutoku University alumni
21st-century professional wrestlers
DDT Extreme Champions
Ironman Heavymetalweight Champions
KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Champions
KO-D 8-Man/10-Man Tag Team Champions
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Brenden Pappas
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Brenden Pappas (born 7 May 1970) is a professional golfer from South Africa who currently plays on the Web.com Tour.
Early life
Pappas was born in Phalaborwa, South Africa. He is the youngest of four brothers, Craigen Pappas (born 1959), Sean (born 1966) and Deane (born 1967). He and Deane attended the University of Arkansas where he graduated in 1993 with a Bachelor's degree in Retail Marketing.
Professional career
Pappas turned professional in 1993 and played on Southern Africa Tour until 2000, when he joined the Nationwide Tour. In his 2000 rookie year. He made 5 of 12 cuts and a little over $17,000. His 2001 season included over $188,000 in earnings and 6 top-10s, which included two runner-up finishes.
2002 was Pappas' rookie year on the PGA Tour. He made 6 of 25 cuts and made $83,000. He played well on the PGA Tour a year later in 2003. He made over $1.3 million with 5 top-10s and his career high finish of 2nd at the Southern Farm Bureau Classic. In 2004, Pappas made 13 of 34 cuts and $524,000, outside the top 125 on the money list, meaning conditional status on the Tour for 2005.
Pappas played between the PGA and Nationwide Tours in 2005, making less than $300,000 for the two tours combined. He would play full-time on the Nationwide Tour for the 2006 season.
In 2006, Pappas picked up his first win in the United States with a win at the Rex Hospital Open in June 2006. Even with the win, he did not earn enough to get back onto the PGA Tour.
Pappas and his brother Dean would become the first brothers to graduate from the Nationwide Tour simultaneously in 2001, with Brenden earning over $180,000 with 6 top-10s.
His 2008 PGA Tour season included 9 made cuts in 24 events, $384,000 and a finish outside the top 150 on the money list.
He has been playing back full-time on the Nationwide Tour since the beginning of 2009, earning an unofficial win in Colombia in 2011; the win is considered unofficial because only 36 holes were played.
Professional wins (3)
Southern Africa Tour wins (1)
Nationwide Tour wins (1)
Other wins (1)
*Note: The 2011 Pacific Rubiales Bogotá Open was shortened to 36 holes due to rain. Due to the event's length, this win is not officially recognised as a Nationwide Tour victory.
Results in major championships
CUT = missed the half-way cut
Note: Pappas only played in the PGA Championship.
See also
2001 Buy.com Tour graduates
2002 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates
2007 Nationwide Tour graduates
2009 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates
References
External links
South African male golfers
Greek male golfers
Arkansas Razorbacks men's golfers
Sunshine Tour golfers
PGA Tour golfers
Korn Ferry Tour graduates
Mediterranean Games medalists in golf
Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Greece
Competitors at the 1993 Mediterranean Games
Golfers from Texas
People from Phalaborwa
Sportspeople from Limpopo
Sportspeople from McKinney, Texas
1970 births
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Albert-Einstein-Schule was a Gymnasium for boys and girls from grades 5–13 in Bochum, Germany. It had about 900 students. Just south of downtown Bochum, the school was in the Wiemelhausen section of town and shared a campus with the Hans Böckler Realschule. The school had an emphasis in natural science and English. It had a bilingual program, where some classes were taught in English, rather than German. In 2008, the school was certified as a "Europaschule" (de) () by the Ministry of Schools of North Rhine-Westphalia.
The school held its final day of classes on 14 July 2010.
The "Comenius Project," dedicated to exchanging ideas to solve environmental problems, is a joint project of the former Albert-Einstein-Schule, in cooperation with Wath Comprehensive School in Rotherham, England and Col·legi Pare Manyanet in Barcelona, Spain.
In August 2010, the Albert-Einstein-Schule merged with the Gymnasium am Ostring to form a new school, named Neues Gymnasium Bochum. The new school was temporarily located at the Erich Kästner Schule while the new buildings were under construction. It opened following the autumn recess on 22 October 2012. The new buildings are on the site of the former buildings, which were razed to permit the new construction.
Notable faculty
Eckhard Stratmann-Mertens, founding member of the Green Party and former member of the Bundestag
Notes
References
External links
Website of the new school, Neues Gymnasium Bochum
Albert-Einstein-Schule Website of the defunct school
Department of Education, North Rhine-Westphalia page about the defunct school
Gymnasiums in Germany
Defunct schools in Germany
Educational institutions established in 1967
Educational institutions disestablished in 2010
1967 establishments in West Germany
Schools in North Rhine-Westphalia
2010 disestablishments in Germany
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Mitchell Madison Group
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The Mitchell Madison Group (MMG) is a global management consulting firm based in the United States that focuses on improving financial and operating performance for major corporations and private equity portfolio companies. It was founded in 1994 and re-launched in 2003. It is active in corporate performance improvement, strategic sourcing, marketing science, pricing optimization, strategy consulting, and big data analysis.
History
The firm was founded in 1994 with about 120 professionals as part of a management buyout by a group of A.T. Kearney partners as A.T. Kearney was in the process of selling itself to IT outsourcing conglomerate EDS.
The firm experienced rapid growth in the 1990s, primarily in its strategic sourcing practice, serving large financial institutions with 16 offices and almost 1,000 employees. The firm was sold in late 1999 for about $300 million to USWeb, a Web design company which expanded during the dot-com bubble into management consulting. Subsequently, USWeb merged with Whitman-Hart, another consulting firm based in Chicago. The combined company was considered a merger of equals and had over 10,000 employees with annual revenues exceeding $1 billion, and soon renamed itself "marchFIRST". With the burst of the dot-com bubble, marchFIRST went into bankruptcy in April 2001 and its assets were liquidated.
In 2003, Hans Dau with other partners, who were running the West Coast offices of the original Mitchell Madison Group, re-launched the firm by acquiring the brand name in bankruptcy court. By 2008, the firm had grown to about 150 employees with main offices on New York, Los Angeles and Manila and several satellite offices in Europe and Asia.
The firm is featured, although not by name, in Matthew Stewart's book The Management Myth. Stewart takes care not to state the name of the firm, but he does say that it was bought out by an Internet company whose CEO was named "Joe" and believed in UFOs.
Business
The Mitchell Madison Group works with large global corporations including private equity firms' portfolio companies on a variety of performance improvement, analytics and strategy issues. Industries served include technology, telecommunications, banking, insurance, entertainment, healthcare, business services, and manufacturing industries. The firm also assists major manufacturing companies with cost reduction initiatives and global strategic sourcing. In March 2011, the company partnered with ProUnlimited a contingent workforce provider, now called Magnit to provide SOW consultancy services to clients. MMG also spun off a separate software subsidiary "MMG Technologies, Inc." that is focussed on commercializing analytical RFP software using a patent pending cost-model technology. MyRFP.com was launched in May 2022 and exhibited for the first time at the Sourcing Industry Conference in October 2022.
Publications
Hans Dau is the author of the book "Strategic Sourcing Theory and Practice", 2nd edition, 2022 and a frequent contributor on the subjects of Strategic Sourcing and supply chain management for Bloomberg, The Washington Times, and other publications.
References
External links
International management consulting firms
Privately held companies based in Wyoming
Macroeconomics consulting firms
Management consulting firms of the United States
Research and analysis firms of the United States
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Junitoite
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Junitoite is a mineral with formula CaZn2Si2O7·H2O. It was discovered at the Christmas mine in Christmas, Arizona, and described in 1976. The mineral is named for mineral chemist Jun Ito (1926–1978).
Description and occurrence
Junitoite is transparent to translucent and is colorless, milk-white, or colored due to alteration. Crystals grow up to and have high quality faces.
Junitoite occurs in fractures through pods of sphalerite. It formed by retrograde metamorphism and oxidation of tactite, also resulting in kinoite. The mineral is known from New Jersey and the type locality in Arizona. Junitoite occurs in association with apophyllite, calcite, kinoite, smectite, and xonotlite.
Crystal structure
In 1968, Jun Ito published the results of synthesis of various lead calcium zinc silicates. The formula of one phase, designated X3, was identified as probably CaZnSi2O6·H2O. When he described junitoite, Sidney Williams identified the mineral's formula as CaZn2Si2O7·H2O, based on communications with Ito.
The mineral's crystal structure was first determined in 1985 and refined in 2012. The mineral crystallizes in the orthorhombic crystal system. The structure is formed by chains of corner-sharing ZnO4 tetrahedra linked together by Si2O7 tetrahedral pairs. Calcium ions occupy vacancies and coordinate to five oxygen atoms and one water molecule.
History
The first known specimen of junitoite was collected from the Christmas mine at Christmas, Arizona, and entered the collection of Joe Ana Ruiz. Geologist Robert A. Jenkins noticed the mineral in kinoite specimens, submitting Ruiz's sample to Sidney A. Williams for study. Further samples came from the collections of Ruiz and Raymond Diaz.
Williams identified the specimens as a new mineral and described it in the journal American Mineralogist in 1976. He named it junitoite in honor of Jun Ito, the mineral chemist who noted the compound of which the mineral is composed. The International Mineralogical Association approved the mineral as IMA 1975-042. The type material is housed in the University of Arizona, Harvard University, the National Museum of Natural History, the University of Paris, the National School of Mines, and The Natural History Museum.
References
Bibliography
External links
Images of junitoite from mindat.org
Calcium minerals
Zinc minerals
Hydrates
Sorosilicates
Orthorhombic minerals
Minerals in space group 40
Minerals described in 1976
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Henry Stafford, 2nd Baron Stafford (before 1527 – 8 April 1566) was a British peer in the peerage of England and MP.
Family life
Henry Stafford was the eldest surviving son of Henry Stafford, 1st Baron Stafford and Ursula Pole. He married Elizabeth Davy, daughter of John Davy of Holbeach, Lincolnshire, before 1557.
Serving in Parliament
Henry Stafford failed twice in 1553 to be returned as knight of the shire for Staffordshire for Parliament. According to his father, he should have been returned as he was 'chosen by the whole shire, no man saying the contrary'. He was eventually elected in 1555, this time as a representative for Shropshire. He did not appear to be active in the Commons, leaving little record of his actions; the History of Parliament notes that he was not on any list of those who opposed Government bills.
Honours and titles
Henry Stafford was knighted at Queen Mary I's coronation, 2 Oct 1553. He was appointed Justice of the Peace for Shropshire in 1554. He was appointed keeper of the records at the Tower of London early in Queen Elizabeth I's reign, a post he held until about January 1564. He complained to William Cecil at this point that he had been deprived of his office by William Bowyer.
Henry Stafford succeeded as the 2nd Baron Stafford at his father's death on 30 April 1563. He only held the barony for 3 years, being succeeded by his brother Edward Stafford on 8 April 1566.
Notes
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1566 deaths
People of the Elizabethan era
English MPs 1555
Pole family
16th-century English nobility
Knights Bachelor
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Janet McCarter Woolley (March 4, 1906 – January 28, 1996) was an American bacteriologist. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1944, for her work in immunology.
Early life and education
Janet Ruth McCarter was born in 1906 in Duluth, Minnesota, the daughter of William and Mary Blackburn McCarter. She briefly attended Carleton College, and earned three degrees (Bachelor of Science in 1930, Master of Science in 1931, and Ph.D. in 1933) at the University of Wisconsin. As a doctoral student, she worked with professor E. G. Hastings on tubercule bacilli, which became the focus of her own work for decades.
Career
In 1944, while she was an assistant professor in the Department of Agricultural Bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin, Janet McCarter was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for her work in immunology, especially as applied to tuberculosis. That year, more women were awarded Guggenheim Fellowships than in any previous year; Henry Allen Moe, secretary of the Guggenheim Foundation, assured reporters that "It's not due to the war and the fact that there are fewer men. These women would have received fellowships if they had applied in a year when there was no war."
Publications by Janet McCarter included:
(with E. G. Hastings) "Misnamed Cultures and Studies of the Tubercle Bacillus" Science (1932)
(with E. G. Hastings) "The Morphology of the Mycobacteria" Journal of Bacteriology (1934)
"New Knowledge to Fight Germ of Boils and Food Poisoning" The Science News-Letter (1937)
(with E. G. Hastings), "The Presence of Avian Tubercle Bacilli in Apparently Pure Cultures of Diphtheroids" Journal of Infectious Diseases (1939)
(with Elizabeth M. Kanne), "Egg Mediums for the Isolation of All Three Types of Tubercle Bacilli" Journal of Infectious Diseases (1942)
(with Dorothy M. Powelson), "The Cultivation of Human Tubercle Bacilli on Egg Mediums" Journal of Infectious Diseases (1944)
Janet McCarter married a colleague, biochemical researcher Dilworth Wayne Woolley, in 1945, and collaborated with him on projects, and "played an essential role in his work". In particular, Dr. McCarter Woolley read scientific articles aloud for her husband, who was blind.
Personal life
Janet McCarter Woolley was widowed in 1966, and died in 1996, age 89, in Bountiful, Utah.
References
1906 births
1996 deaths
American immunologists
University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty
People from Duluth, Minnesota
American bacteriologists
Women immunologists
Women bacteriologists
Scientists from Minnesota
20th-century American scientists
20th-century American women scientists
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Photobacterium profundum
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Photobacterium profundum is a deep sea Gammaproteobacterium, belonging to the family Vibrionaceae and genus Photobacterium. Like other members of this genus, P. profundum is a marine organism and has two circular chromosomes. P. profundum is a gram-negative rod with the ability for growth at temperatures from 0 °C to 25 °C and pressures from 0.1 MPa to 70 MPa depending on the strain. It has a requirement for salt, is able to metabolise a wide range of simple and complex carbohydrates and has two flagella systems. Cells are rod shape, 2-4μm long and 0.8-1.0μm wide, with a single unsheathed flagella. This bacterium was originally isolated in 1986 from the Sulu Sea and there are currently 4 cultured wild-type strains of P. profundum, (strains SS9, 3TCK, DJS4 and 1230).
Photobacterium profundum strain SS9 has optimal growth at 15 °C and 28 MPa making it both a psychrophile and a piezophile. P. profundum strain 3TCK, isolates from San Diego Bay, grows optimally at 9 °C and 0.1 MPa and P. profundum strain DSJ4, isolated from the Ryukyu Trench off of Japan at a depth of 5110 m, grows optimally at 10 °C and 10 MPa. Based on 16S rRNA sequence P. profundum is closely related to the genus Vibrio, the most prominent species being the human pathogen Vibrio cholerae.
In strain SS9 it has been shown that several stress response genes are up regulated in response to atmospheric pressure, these include htpG, dnaK, dnaJ, and groEL. The types and abundance of fatty acid chains in the cell membrane also respond to changes in pressure and temperature. At low temperature and high pressure strain SS9 increases the abundance of mono- and polyunsaturated fatty acids. This has the effect of increasing membrane fluidity by reducing packing of the fatty acid chains which results in a liquid crystal structure in the membrane rather than a gel structure. The outer membrane protein OmpH has been shown to be up regulated at elevated pressures, the opposite is true for the outer membrane protein OmpL which is up regulated in response to low pressures.
In 2005 Vezzi et al. published the genome sequence for P. profundum strain SS9. The genome of P. profundum consists of a 4.1-Mbp circular chromosome, a 2.2-Mbp minor circular chromosome, as well as an 80-kbp circular plasmid. Strain SS9 has 14 ribosomal RNA (rRNA) genes on chromosome 1, and 1 on chromosome 2; this is the largest number of rRNA genes found in any bacterium. Chromosome 1 consists largely of genes which are essential for growth whereas chromosome 2 appears to be a large plasmid, which, on an evolutionary time scale, has gained several transposable elements. Within the genome of P. profundum there is a large number of open reading frames (ORF) which are unique to SS9 and not found in other members of the family Vibrionaceae.
The genome sequence also highlighted a full Stickland pathway for the fermentation of amino acids; this was the first time this pathway has been identified in an aerobic bacterium. Two complete F1F0 ATP synthase pathways (one on each Chromosome) are also present in this bacterium: this might explain its ability to produce ATP at both high and low pressure.
This work was followed by another paper in 2005 by Campanaro et al. which detailed microarray work comparing gene expression at sub-optimal, optimal and supra-optimal temperatures and pressure for strains SS9, 3TCK and DSJ4. Campanaro et al. showed that there are 544 ORF’s divergent or missing from the 3TCK genome and 562 ORF’s divergent or missing from the DSJ4 chromosomes when compared to that of SS9. This paper also highlighted that 3TCK lacks the lateral flagella system which is up regulated in SS9 at elevated pressure as well as the absence of 3 phage-related regions from 3TCK and 4 phage-related regions from DSJ4.
The transcriptional landscape of the wild-type DB110 strain and of the toxR mutant TW30 were investigated by means of next generation sequencing. ToxR is a transmembrane DNA-binding protein first discovered in Vibrio cholerae, where it regulates a considerable number of genes involved in environmental adaptation and virulence. In P. profundum the abundance and activity of this protein is influenced by hydrostatic pressure and its role is related to the regulation of genes in a pressure-dependent manner. Results obtained from RNA-seq experiments revealed a complex expression pattern with a group of 22 genes having expression profiles similar to OmpH that is an outer membrane protein transcribed in response to high hydrostatic pressure. Moreover, RNA-seq allowed a deep characterization of the transcriptional landscape that led to the identification of 460 putative small RNA genes and the detection of 298 protein-coding genes previously unknown. The genome-wide prediction of the operon structure, the transcription start and termination sites, revealed an unexpected high number of genes (992) with large 5’-UTRs, long enough to harbor cis-regulatory RNA structures, suggesting a correlation between intergenic region size and UTR length.
References
External links
Type strain of Photobacterium profundum at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Vibrionales
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Biosphere reserves of Poland
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UNESCO Biosphere Reserves are environment-protected scientific-research institutions of international status that are created with the intent for conservation in a natural state the most typical natural complexes of biosphere, conducting background ecological monitoring, studying of the surrounding natural environment, its changes under the activity of anthropogenic factors.
Biosphere Preserves are created on the base of nature preserves or national parks including to their composition territories and objects of other categories of nature-preserving fund and other lands as well as including in the established order the World Network of Biosphere Reserves in the UNESCO framework "Man and the Biosphere Programme".
The focal point in Poland for the Biosphere Reserves is the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS),
Institute of Geography and Spatial Organisation.
Reserves
There are currently ten such reserves in Poland, including trans-boundary reserves shared between Poland and neighboring countries.
(Reserve POL 01) Babia Góra, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, , designated 1976, extended in 2001
The reserve is located on the border with Slovakia in the Western Beskidy Mountains. Babia Góra is the second highest massif () in Poland and forms part of the watershed boundary between the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea basins. There are four environments that occur as the altitude increases. The forest belt is divided into a lower belt (up to ), consisting of forests of European beech (Fagus sylvatica), silver fir (Abies alba) and Carpathian spruce (Picea abies), and the upper belt (up to ) consisting of Carpathian spruce forest. Above the forest is the subalpine belt (up to ) with dwarf mountain pine (Pinetum mughi) and low-growth European blueberry (Vaccinium myrtillus). At the highest slopes is the alpine grassland belt (up to ) consisting of lichen-covered siliceous bedrock with tussock-based grasses like (Festuca supina) and (Avenella flexuosa).
(Reserve POL 02) Białowieża Forest, Podlaskie Voivodeship, , designated 1976
The reserve, in northeastern Poland, lies adjacent to the Belovezhskaya Pushcha Biosphere Reserve in Belarus. The forest complex, the last and largest remaining mixed deciduous primeval forest on the North European Plain, is situated in the transition between the hemiboreal and continental climate areas. The forest is composed of a mosaic of diverse communities, principally composed of grey willow (Salix cinerea), European hornbeam (Carpinus betulus), arctic dwarf birch (Betula humilis) English oak (Quercus robur), small-leaved lime (Tilia cordata), Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris), Norway spruce (Picea abies), which reaches its southern limits in the northern hemisphere here, and sessile oak (Quercus petraea), which reaches its northeastern limit here.
(Reserve POL 03) Łuknajno Lake, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, , designated 1976
The reserve is a glacial lake typical of those located in the Masurian Lake District with an area of , and a maximum depth of . The lake is connected with nearby Sniardwy Lake by a channel. The site is a breeding ground for water birds such as grebes, water rail (Rallus aquaticus), moorhen, grey heron (Ardea cinerea), bearded reedling (Panurus biarmicus), white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla), osprey (Pandion haliaetus), red kite, great cormorant and black tern (Chlidonias niger). The lake has been a protected location since 1937 as a habitat of the mute swan (Cygnus olor), as every year there are a dozen to tens of dozens of nesting pairs, and during moulting they arrive in numbers reaching up to 2,000 birds.
(Reserve POL 04) Słowiński, Pomeranian Voivodeship, , designated 1976
The reserve consists of set of dunes, brackish lakes, bogs, and wetland forests on the southern Baltic Sea coast between Łeba and Rowy, Poland. The coastal aeolian processes have produced some of the most extensive and active mobile sand dunes, which can reach high, on the Baltic Sea. Coastal erosion and other geological processes lead to the creation of sand-bars, forming brackish lakes and bogs.
The area consists of a series of vegetation zones going from the sand communities of the coastline towards the forests of the mainland. The forest includes beech (Fagus sylvatica), birch (Betula pubescens), alder (Alnus glutinosa), pine and oak. It is an important way station for migrating wader birds and waterbirds such as geese, ducks and swans. The white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) and other birds nest at the site.
(Reserve POL-SLO-UKR 01) East Carpathian, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in Poland, designated 1992 and extended 1998, Joint with Slovakia and Ukraine
The reserve is located in the Bieszczady Mountains on the border with Slovakia and Ukraine. There are four distinct altitude-dependent vegetation ecosystems in the mountains starting with beech forest (Fagetum sylvaticae), followed by mixed forests of beech and silver fir (Abies alba), forested areas of green alder (Alnetum viridis), and finally a belt of treeless poloniny, a subalpine meadows dominated by grasses. Over 100 species of birds live in the area such as the black stork (Ciconia nigra) and the golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos).
(Reserve POL 05) Kampinos Forest, Masovian Voivodeship, , designated 2000
The reserve is located on the North European Plain, north-east of Warsaw, parallel to the Vistula River and is characterized by a high diversity of lowland habitats with dune belts separated by swamp areas and a mixture of forest types. The forests are principally composed of a mixture of grey willow (Salix cinerea), European hornbeam (Carpinus betulus), arctic dwarf birch (Betula humilis) English oak (Quercus robur), small-leaved lime (Tilia cordata) and Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris).
(Reserve CZE-POL 01) Karkonosze, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in Poland, designated 1992, Joint with Slovakia
The reserve is part of the Western Sudetes mountains stretching from south-central Poland along the northern border of the Czech Republic to eastern Germany. The mountains are located at the watershed dividing the Baltic Sea and North Sea basins. The area is known for its high biodiversity in four altitudinal vegetation belts, from submontane to alpine. The river valleys and lower layers form the sub-montane zone made up of forests of European beech (Fagus sylvatica), silver fir (Abies alba) and Carpathian spruce (Picea Abies). The higher parts form the montane vegetation zone characterized by forested areas of Carpathian spruce (Picea Abies). Above is the subalpine zone, which is marked by dwarf mountain pine (Pinus mugo), mat-grass meadows and subarctic high moors. There are three subalpine bogs that support an extensive algal community important for migratory birds and raptors. The alpine vegetation zone, is characterized by large rocky deserts with herbaceous perennials such as Carici (rigidae)-Nardetum and Festucetum supinae.
(Reserve POL-SLO 01) Tatra Mountains, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in Poland, designated 1992, Joint with Slovakia
The reserve covers areas on each side of the border between Poland and Slovakia. The area contains a number of natural features such as a dwarf pine belt, alpine meadows, lakes and rocky peaks. The area consists of temperate broadleaf forests or woodlands made up of mixed beech (Fagus sylvatica) forest with fir (Abies alba) and sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus). Higher up in the mountains this transitions to forests of silver fir (Abies alba) and Carpathian spruce (Picea Abies) until the timber line (). Above the forest is the subalpine zone () with dwarf mountain pine (Pinetum mughi), Sorbus aucuparia and Betula carpatica. The alpine zone consists of grasses and low-growth herbaceous groundcover.
West Polesie, Lublin Voivodeship, in Poland, designated 2002 and extended 2012, Joint with Belarus and Ukraine
The reserve comprises a vast open lowland landscape with a mosaic of swamps, moors, lakes, rivers and forests located between the basins of the Bug and Wieprz rivers. The site is part of the European Ecological Corridor of the Bug River. The location supports bird species including raptors such as lesser spotted eagle (Aquila pomarina), hen harrier (Circus cyaneus) and Montagu's harrier (Circus pygargus) and birds such as aquatic warbler (Acrocephalus paludicola), marsh sandpiper (Tringa stagnatilis) and Eurasian cranes (Grus grus). The area is considered to be an important crossing point for migratory birds. The north-south flyways and east-west flyways of birds meet in the region. The areas consists of boreal Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) forests, black alder (Alnus glutinosa) wetland forests, meadows and peatbog (raised bog, transitional bog and fen) ecosystems.
(Reserve POL 07) Tuchola Forest, Pomeranian Voivodeship, , designated 2010
The reserve covers one of the largest forests in Poland, containing mainly Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris). The landforms of the area were sculpted by a glacier that retreated at the end of the last glacial age creating characteristically long ribbon lakes. Additionally there are large clusters of inland sand dunes. There are extensive areas of peat bogs formed as a result of the overgrowing of the shallower lakes. A number of species of birds live in the area such as the black stork (Ciconia nigra), black grouse (Tetrao tetrix), wood grouse (Tetrao urogallus) and peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus).
References
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Wyszków (; Vishkov) is a town in eastern Poland with 26,500 inhabitants (2018). It is the capital of Wyszków County in Masovian Voivodeship.
History
The village of Wyszków was first documented in 1203. It was granted town rights in 1502. It was administratively located in the Kamieniec County in the Masovian Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Kingdom of Poland. It was destroyed during the Swedish invasion of Poland (Second Northern War) in 1655–1660, and it lost its significance in the region.
It was annexed by Prussia in the Third Partition of Poland in 1795. In 1807 it was regained by Poles and included within the short-lived Polish Duchy of Warsaw, and in 1815 it passed to Russian-controlled Congress Poland. In 1870 it was deprived of its town rights, as one of many Polish town punished by the Russians for the unsuccessful Polish January Uprising. Industry developed after 1897, when the Pilawa-Tłuszcz-Ostrołęka railway was built. In 1918 Poland regained independence and control of Wyszków, and in 1919 town rights were restored.
During the Polish–Soviet War, on August 17, 1920, the Russian Cheka murdered seven Poles in the present-day district of . Poles led by Mikołaj Bołtuć defeated the invading Russians in the on August 18, 1920.
Fierce fights between the Poles and the invading Germans took place in the area on September 8–10, 1939 at the beginning of World War II. On September 9, 1939, the Germans committed a massacre of 65 Jews in Wyszków, and a massacre of a dozen or so Poles from Wyszków near the village of Pniewo (see Nazi crimes against the Polish nation). The town was then occupied by Germany, which made it part of the Warsaw District of the General Government. Before the war 45% of Wyszków's population of 12,000 were Jewish; after the war there were none. The Germans killed over 7,000 inhabitants of Wyszków, including 5,000 Jews, and operated a forced labour camp for Soviet prisoners of war. Nevertheless, the Polish resistance movement was active in the area. After the occupation, the town was restored to Poland, although with a Soviet-installed communist regime, which remained in power until the Fall of Communism in the 1980s. The communists destroyed pre-war memorials dedicated to Poles killed during the Polish–Soviet War in 1920.
In post-war Poland, the town was administratively part of the Warsaw Voivodeship until 1975, and the Ostrołęka Voivodeship from 1975 to 1998. In 1961, Rybienko Leśne was included within Wyszków's town limits as a new district.
On 14 September 1997 a memorial to Holocaust victims was unveiled in Wyszków. It is made of reclaimed Jewish gravestones that had been removed from the site in 1939 by German forces, who used them as paving stones and to build the local Gestapo headquarters. Scores of these desecrated tombstones were recovered and incorporated as part of the monument.
A monument of Polish mathematician and cryptologist Jerzy Różycki was unveiled in 2018.
Sports
The most notable local sport clubs are football team and volleyball team . Both compete in the lower leagues.
Wyszków in culture
Wyszków is the setting of the song Wyszków Tonie (lit. Wyszków is Sinking) by Polish rock band Elektryczne Gitary, released in the 1993 album A Ty Co. It uses sinking as an extended metaphor for succumbing to alcoholism.
Notable people
Mordechaj Anielewicz (1919–1943), leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Jarosław Kalinowski (born 1962), Polish politician
Berek Lajcher (1893–1943), Polish-Jewish physician and activist
Lanberry (born 1987), Polish singer and songwriter
Jerzy Różycki (1909–1942), Polish mathematician and cryptologist who worked at breaking German Enigma machine ciphers before and during World War II; spent part of his childhood and graduated from high school in Wyszków.
International relations
Twin towns — sister cities
Wyszków is twinned with:
Kohtla-Järve, Estonia
References
External links
Jewish Community in Wyszków on Virtual Shtetl
Cities and towns in Masovian Voivodeship
Masovian Voivodeship (1526–1795)
Łomża Governorate
Warsaw Voivodeship (1919–1939)
Wyszków County
Holocaust locations in Poland
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Beaconella
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Beaconella is an ichnogenus comprising a wide trace thought to be constructed by a burrowing arthropod ploughing through the sediment for food, leaving a mound of piled sediment at the end of each trace.
See also
Beaconites
References
Burrow fossils
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2016 Tel Aviv stabbings
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On 8 March 2016, a 21-year-old Palestinian man from Qalqilya killed an American tourist and wounded ten civilians in a stabbing spree in Jaffa Port, Tel Aviv, Israel. The attacker was shot dead by the police after a chase along the beach promenade.
Attack
The attack happened while US Vice President Joe Biden was meeting with former Israeli President Shimon Peres in Tel Aviv. According to police, the assailant first attacked persons in the harbor and later went to a restaurant where four more persons were wounded. According to ambulance personnel, five of the victims suffered serious wounds. The attack lasted approximately 20 minutes and ended when the assailant was shot and killed by responding police.
Victims
Taylor Force, age 28, graduated from the New Mexico Military Institute and from West Point in 2009 and later became an officer in the United States Army until leaving in 2014. While in the army, Force served in both Iraq and Afghanistan, participating in Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation New Dawn, and Operation Enduring Freedom. At the time of the attack Force, an MBA student, was traveling with other graduate students from Vanderbilt University Owen Graduate School of Management studying global entrepreneurship.
In addition to Force, eleven others were injured, including a pregnant woman, an Arab Israeli, and a Palestinian who was illegally residing in Israel.
Assailant
The attacker was identified as 21-year-old Bashar Masalha, who was from the city of Qalqilya located in the Palestinian territories. He was residing in Israel illegally. The family of the murderer receives a monthly pension from the Palestinian Authority Martyr's Fund equal to several times the average monthly wage in the Palestinian Territories.
Aftermath
The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) announced on the night of the attacks that it was imposing closures on the West Bank villages of Zawiya and Al-Auja, the hometowns of two of the attackers.
Following the attack and the two other attacks, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held security consultations with Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon, Internal Security Minister Gilad Erdan, police chief Roni Alsheikh and IDF and Shin Bet officials. The Prime Minister's Office said it was immediately decided to close gaps in the separation barrier in the Jerusalem area, and to complete construction of the barrier in the Tarqumiyah area in the South Hebron Hills. It was also decided to close Palestinian media outlets accused of incitement. Professionals in the defense establishment will decide which Palestinian media will be closed. Further, it was decided to deny work permits for family members of assailants.
The Israeli police began a law enforcement operation to crack down on Palestinian illegal residents, arresting more than 250 illegal Arabs across the country, but focused on construction sites and large shopping areas, which normally are magnets for cheap, cash-in-the-hand labor. The arresting officers discovered a small compound, complete with sleeping tents, showers, a lavatory and a kitchen, which illegal Arab workers had erected in HaBesor Stream in southern Israel, not far from the Gaza Strip. Police reported that 15 Israeli employers and 12 drivers were arrested by 10 March. According to a Knesset Internal Affairs and Environment Committee from 14 March, chaired by MK David Amsalem (Likud), out of the 73 Palestinian attacks that occurred within the Green Line, 27 were carried out by illegal Arab residents. Police noted that each year sees tens of thousands of cases of illegal Arab residents, who are brought before a judge when their stay involves security risks, which means that there are tens of thousands of illegal Arabs moving freely everywhere inside Israel, some of whom may be "terrorist ticking bombs".
Taylor Force Act
The Taylor Force Act is a legislative bill co-sponsored in the United States Senate in 2016 by U.S. Senators Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina), Dan Coats (R-Indiana), and Roy Blunt (R-Missouri). The legislation proposes to stop American economic aid to the Palestinian Authority until the PA changes its laws to cease paying stipends funneled through the so-called Palestinian Authority Martyr's Fund to individuals who commit acts of terrorism and to the families of deceased terrorists. On March 23, 2018 the Act was signed into law by U.S. President Donald Trump.
Reactions
The attack was condemned by Israel and the United States. It was praised by the Palestinian organizations Fatah, Hamas, and the Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine.
See also
Israeli–Palestinian conflict (2015–present)
List of violent incidents in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, 2016
List of terrorist incidents, January–June 2016
Notes
References
External links
US student Taylor Force killed in terror attack. Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Message from Chancellor Zeppos on student death in Israel. Vanderbilt University
2010s crimes in Tel Aviv
American people murdered abroad
American terrorism victims
Attacks on tourists
Deaths by stabbing in Israel
Mass stabbings in Israel
2016 crimes in Israel
2016 murders in Israel
Murder in Israel
Murdered American students
Palestinian political violence
Stabbing attacks in 2016
Terrorism deaths in Israel
Terrorist incidents in Israel in 2016
Terrorist incidents in Tel Aviv
Terrorist incidents involving knife attacks
March 2016 crimes in Asia
March 2016 events in Asia
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Eric Gordon (bishop)
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George Eric Gordon (29 July 1905– 6 June 1992) was an Anglican bishop in the 20th century.
He was born on 29 July 1905 and educated at St Olave's Grammar School and the St Catharine's College, Cambridge. Ordained in 1929 he began his career with a curacy at Holy Trinity, Leicester, after which he was Vice-Principal of Bishop Wilson College, Isle of Man. In 1935 he became Chaplain to William Stanton Jones, Bishop of Sodor and Man. In 1942 he became Rector of Kersal then Rural Dean of Middleton. From 1951 to 1966 he was Provost of Chelmsford Cathedral and Rector of Chelmsford when he was ordained to the episcopate as the Bishop of Sodor and Man, a post he held for eight years.
In 1974 he retired to Eynsham in Oxfordshire. He died on 6 June 1992.
References
1905 births
1992 deaths
People educated at St Olave's Grammar School
Alumni of St Catharine's College, Cambridge
Anglican provosts of the Diocese of Egypt
20th-century Church of England bishops
Bishops of Sodor and Man
Provosts and Deans of Chelmsford
Deans of Peel
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Ride (Cary Brothers song)
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"Ride" is a song from the Cary Brothers' album Who You Are.
Overview
Released on March 25, 2008, the song has gained great success in mainstream and was released in 2008 as a single with a remix and a new music video by Dutch DJ Tiësto. Brothers performed "Ride" alongside Tiësto at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival to promote each other's tours. The remix charted 48 in the first week on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play and it has reached 45 since then. The remix was included as the opening track in Tiësto's Club Life on Radio 538 as well as on the podcast and on Tiësto's In Search of Sunrise 7: Asia compilation.
Formats and track listings
CD, Maxi
"Ride" - 3:41
"Ride" (Tiësto Extended Remix) - 7:05
"Ride" (Tiësto Radio Edit) - 3:41
"Ride" (Live Version) - 3:32
"Ride" (Video) - 3:32
"Ride" (Tiësto Radio Edit) [Video] - 3:40
CD, Maxi, Promo
"Ride" (Tiësto Extended Remix) - 7:05
"Ride" (Tiësto Radio Edit) - 3:41
"Ride" (Video) - 3:32
CD, Maxi
"Ride" (Tiësto Radio Edit) - 3:42
"Ride" - 3:39
"Ride" (Tiësto Extended Remix) - 7:00
"Ride" (Video) - 3:32
12" Vinyl
"Ride" (Tiësto Extended Remix) - 7:05
"Ride" (Tiësto Radio Edit) - 3:41
Personnel
Mastered By: Michael Lazer
Mixed By: Chad Fisher, Greg Collins
Producer: Chad Fisher
Remixer and Additional Producer: Tiësto
Written By: Cary Brothers
Photo By: Michael Muller
Artwork and Design By: Hugo de Graaf (Songbird release)
Published By: Procrastination Music (BMI)
Produced At: Lookout Sound
Mastered At: Paramount Recording Studios
Music Video Produced By: Procrastination Music
Music Video Directed By: Tyler Shields
Charts
Release history
References
2007 songs
2008 singles
Song recordings produced by Chad Fischer
Tiësto songs
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Pammene clanculana
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Pammene clanculana is a moth belonging to the family Tortricidae. The species was first described by Johan Martin Jakob von Tengström in 1869.
It is native to Northern Europe.
References
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Tova Friedman
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Tova Friedman (née Tola Grossman; born September 7, 1938) is a Polish American therapist, social worker, author, and academic. She is a Holocaust survivor who was sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Friedman taught at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and later served as the director of the Jewish Family Service of Somerset and Warren Counties.
Early life
Friedman was born on September 7, 1938, in Gdynia, Poland, close to Danzig. Friedman's family had moved from Tomaszow Mazowiecki, Poland, and returned there as soon as WWII broke out. Five thousand Jews were forced to live in a ghetto formed of six four-story buildings in terrible conditions. The population of the ghetto decreased over time due to starvation, shootings, and deportations. Her family was later transferred to Starachowice, where her parents worked in an ammunition factory. When children began being deported from the area, Friedman's father made her hide in a crawlspace above their home's ceiling. Despite this, by the time she was five, her father had been deported to the Dachau concentration camp and she and her mother to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp.
Having arrived on a Sunday in June 1944, Friedman was not killed on arrival, but she was shaved and tattooed with a number. She was kept contained in the Kinderlager or "children's camp" and would go on to survive starvation and a trip to the gas extermination chamber on October 7, the one day that the chamber's mechanisms malfunctioned due to other prisoners earlier having detonated an explosive in the chamber. She was further spared from another of the crematoria because her tattooed number was not on the lists of the Nazi officers running the chamber. When the Nazis left the camp in January 1945 and were going to force the remaining survivors to go on a death march, she and her mother hid between the corpses in the infirmary and were freed by the Red Army on January 27, 1945. Soviet soldiers took a picture of her showing her tattoo, which would later become an iconic photo of the war. She and her mother returned to Poland, where they found that their home had been destroyed and most of the rest of their extended family had been killed. Her father eventually returned from Dachau and they remained together in Poland for several years.
Education and career
Friedman and her family decided to emigrate to the US in 1950. She received a Bachelors of Arts degree in psychology from Brooklyn College, a Masters of Arts in Black literature from the City College of New York, and a Masters of Arts in social work from Rutgers University. She went on to teach at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and became Director of Jewish Family Service of Somerset and Warren Counties where she spent more than 20 years working as a therapist. During this time period, she married and had four children.
The story of Friedman's life was written about in the 1998 book Kinderlager and her grandchild opened a profile for her on TikTok where she posts videos on her experience in Auschwitz and replies to questions from children. In 2022, she published the memoir The Daughter of Auschwitz: My Story of Resilience, Survival and Hope which she wrote with journalist Malcolm Brabant.
Awards and honors
Friedman was honored by the Jewish women's organization L'Dor V'Dor on April 11, 2016.
Bibliography
References
Further reading
1938 births
20th-century American Jews
20th-century Polish Jews
21st-century American Jews
21st-century Polish Jews
21st-century Polish scientists
American social workers
American TikTokers
Auschwitz concentration camp survivors
Brooklyn College alumni
City College of New York alumni
Academic staff of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jewish concentration camp survivors
Living people
Polish emigrants to the United States
Rutgers University alumni
21st-century Polish writers
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Laelia (disambiguation)
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Laelia is a genus of orchids from Central and South America.
Laelia may also refer to:
Science
Laelia (moth), a genus of moths
Philhedra laelia (also known as Crania laelia and Petrocrania laelia), a species of extinct brachiopod in the Craniidae family
Laelia, a crater on the minor planet Vesta
History
Laelia (city), ancient Roman city in southern Hispania
Laelia (gens), a noble family from Ancient Rome
Laelia, a vestal virgin of Ancient Rome
Laelia Quinta, Roman noblewoman married to Lucius Subrius Felix of the Subria gens
Aelia Laelia Crispis, a famous tombstone in Bologna, Italy
See also
Aelia (disambiguation)
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En Vivo (Mijares album)
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En Vivo (English: Live) is the second live album by Mexican pop singer Mijares. This album was released in 2002 and it was produced by Manuel Mijares himself. It's kind of collection of his greatest hits. His special guest was his wife. This concert was recorded in the Auditorio Nacional of Mexico City between January 27/28, 2001.
Track listing
Tracks:
No Se Murió el Amor
Corazón Salvaje
Que Nada Nos Separe
Popurri: Tan Solo/Me Acordaré de Ti/Siempre
Bella
Bonita
El Breve Espacio
Te Extraño
Soldado del Amor
Cuando Me Vaya
No Hace Falta
Para Amarnos Más
El Privilegio de Amar (feat. Lucero)
Uno Entre Mil
Controversy
Because of this disc, Mijares and Universal Music Group received a lawsuit from EMI Music, since EMI stated that they had to receive the royalties from the old songs that Mijares recorded when he was with them. The lawsuit never proceeded and it was canceled.
Manuel Mijares albums
2002 live albums
Albums recorded at the Auditorio Nacional (Mexico)
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Peter Hardman
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Peter Hardman (born 7 September 1964 in Redditch, Worcestershire) is an English racing driver.
Hardman boasts an extensive motor racing history as a multiple race winner and one of Britain’s most experienced international drivers. He has achieved a huge amount of variety over an impressive career, spanning the divide across historic and modern day racing, and driving a wide array of cars including single-seater, touring and sportscars. While maintaining a highly successful racing career, Hardman successfully branched out into the domains of race team owner and driver manager.
Though a keen spectator of rallycross in his school days, Hardman did not look set to embark on a racing career until a visit to a Jim Russell driving course at the age of 17. Taking to Mallory Park in a Formula Ford, Hardman soon showed his potential by winning his second ever race with Jim Russell.
1980
In 1980, Hardman began a season of Formula Ford 1600, but was forced out after just three races with a broken foot. He returned to racing in 1983, once again in Formula Ford, but was an immediate success, winning the championship outright. Over the following five years, Hardman fought the age-old problem of securing budget, but raced whenever he could in Formula Ford 2000 and British Formula Three, in which he raced four meetings during the 1986 and 1987 seasons.
1988
Hardman was thrown a lifeline in 1988 when he secured the prestigious "Racing for Britain" scholarship and took a drive in Formula Vauxhall Lotus alongside such names as Mika Hakkinen, Allan McNish and David Brabham. He won two races, finished fourth in the championship, and was honoured with the "Cellnet Award" in 1989. In 1990 and 1991, Hardman raced for the Mansell Madgwick Formula 3000 team and following that decided to make the switch to sportscars and touring cars. And in 1991 achieved full membership of the British Racing Drivers Club, BRDC, for his national and international racing successes. The BRDC are the owners of Silverstone Circuit and run the British Formula 1 Grand Prix.
1992-1995
Becoming an unprecedented third-successive championship winner of the Pro-Sport 3000 (he secured series victories in 1992, 1993 and 1994), Hardman was awarded the BRDC Silver Star in ’94 to credit his unparalleled result in British sportscar history. In 1993 Hardman began to branch out into historic racing, and over the coming years he combined that with his modern car racing. In 1995 he added to his trophy cabinet by winning the Formula Classic and then competed in the Super Touring North American in 1996 with Honda. In the same year he became champion of the Ferrari Shell Historic, racing in the 330LMB.
It was in 1995 that Hardman met a private collector who owns some of the world’s best historic racing cars, and was entrusted to race items of the precious collection, including the 1959 Le Mans-winning Aston Martin.
1997
In 1997, Hardman competed in the Daytona 24hrs, finishing sixth in the WSC Class. He also raced several historic meetings that year. The following season he took to the wheel of the McLaren F1 GTR, and also won two races at the Goodwood Revival Festival in the rare Ferrari 246S Dino sports car. In 1999, he competed in the British and Spanish GT championships with Lister, and combined that with historic racing and the Spa 24hr saloon car race. Over the following years Hardman continued to compete in historic, GT racing and endurance meetings, driving a multitude of cars.
2004-2005
It was during this period that Hardman began to extend his business interests and launched Elite Driver Management (EDM) to manage the career of emerging star driver Westley Barber in Formula Ford, Formula 3 and Formula 3000. In 2005, in conjunction with Duller Motorsport, EDM achieved a class win in Group N in the Silverstone 24 Hours.
In late 2004, at the request of his longtime patron and friend, Hardman took on the role of mentor/coach to Nick Leventis. Hardman formed Strakka Racing from EDM in 2005, building the team from the ground up, with the goal of reaching the pinnacle of modern Sportscar racing—Le Mans 24 Hours—in five years. With Hardman as team owner, team manager, driver, and mentor/coach to Nick, the team ran first in Group N with a BMW M3, then an ex-factory BMW M3 GTR in GT2, followed by GT1 in the Aston Martin DBR9 in 2008 Le Mans Series. Finally, Hardman negotiated an assisted factory deal with Ginetta-Zytek for the move into LMP1, along with a Michelin tyre contract and an entry to Le Mans 24 Hours, for the 2009 season. In June 2009, Hardman achieved his objective for Strakka with the team’s 21st place finish at Le Mans 24 Hours.
2006
During his five-year tenure as team owner-driver, Hardman worked with such drivers as Christian Vann, Alan Simonsson, and Darren Turner. He also continued to drive in both modern and historic races himself, competing in the Silverstone 24 Hour race in 2006, scoring a race win in the Le Mans Series at Donington in 2006, and winning the Gruppo Peroni Silver Cup in both 2006 and 2007. Hardman’s historic drives during this period included the 1957 Le Mans-winning Aston-Martin DBR1; and Ferraris 300 LMB, P3, and 246 Dino. In 2008, after 11 years of competition at Goodwood—including various wins—Hardman won the Goodwood RAC Tourist Trophy and was awarded Driver of the Meeting.
Later career
Hardman announced in 2009 that he was planning to sell Strakka Racing.
In 2013, Hardman was named the chief executive of Rockingham Motor Speedway.
24 Hours of Le Mans results
References
External links
http://www.peterhardman.com
1964 births
Living people
English racing drivers
24 Hours of Le Mans drivers
24 Hours of Daytona drivers
European Le Mans Series drivers
24 Hours of Spa drivers
Sportspeople from Redditch
Strakka Racing drivers
North American Touring Car Championship drivers
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Renaud Boyoud
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Renaud Boyoud (born 7 May 1980) is a French former rugby union international who represented France in three Test matches. He played most of his club rugby for US Dax and Aviron Bayonnais.
Boyoud, a native of Grenoble, was a prop and made his debut for France in the 2008 tour of Australia. In the first Test in Sydney, Boyoud came on off the bench in the second half, replacing Lionel Faure. A week later in Brisbane he earned a starting berth and was cited for striking James Horwill, for which he received a three-week suspension. He also featured in the 2009 Six Nations Test against Scotland at Stade de France.
See also
List of France national rugby union players
References
External links
1980 births
Living people
French rugby union players
France international rugby union players
US Dax players
Aviron Bayonnais players
Rugby union props
Sportspeople from Grenoble
Rugby union players from Isère
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VV Corvi
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VV Corvi (abbreviated as VV Crv) is a close spectroscopic binary in the constellation Corvus. It is also an eclipsing binary, varying from magnitude 5.19 to 5.34 over 3.145 days. The two stars orbit each other with a period of 1.46 days and an eccentricity of 0.088. The mass ratio of the two stars is 0.775±0.024. The primary is 1.978 ± 0.010 times as massive as the Sun, 18.253 ± 2.249 its luminosity and has 3.375 ± 0.010 the Sun's radius. The secondary is 1.513 ± 0.008 times as massive as the Sun, 4.745 ± 0.583 its luminosity and has 1.650 ± 0.008 the Sun's radius. Both are yellow-white main sequence stars of spectral type F5V, though the primary has begun expanding and cooling as it nears the end of its time on the main sequence. A tertiary companion was discovered during the Two Micron All-Sky Survey.
The system shares a common proper motion with HR 4822, which is 5"2 away.
References
Corvus (constellation)
Spectroscopic binaries
Corvi, VV
110317
061910
Durchmusterung objects
F-type subgiants
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Nick Holman
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Nicholas Holman (born 29 May 1995) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Gold Coast Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He previously played for the Carlton Football Club from 2014 to 2015.
Early life
Holman played his junior football with Kyabram Football Club in the Goulburn Valley Football League, where he won a senior premiership in 2013, and played TAC Cup football for the Murray Bushrangers, where he was the vice-captain. He represented and was named the joint-most valuable player (MVP) of the Vic Country team at the 2013 AFL Under 18 Championships, playing as a midfielder.
AFL career
Holman was recruited by the Carlton Football Club with its third round selection, pick 51 overall, in the 2013 national draft. He spent most of the 2014 season playing with Carlton's , the Northern Blues, and he made his senior debut for Carlton against in round 22, 2014.
After nine matches in two seasons, he was delisted at the conclusion of the 2015 season. He then made a move to the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) where he played for the Central District Football Club in 2016 and 2017.
After spending two seasons in the SANFL, Holman was recruited by the Gold Coast Suns in the 2018 rookie draft.
Statistics
Statistics are correct to the end of round 2, 2022
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| 20 || 1 || 0 || 0 || 5 || 3 || 8 || 2 || 4 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 5.0 || 3.0 || 8.0 || 2.0 || 4.0
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2015
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| 20 || 8 || 0 || 0 || 31 || 44 || 75 || 15 || 21 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 3.9 || 5.5 || 9.4 || 1.9 || 2.6
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2018
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| 39 || 22 || 14 || 10 || 133 || 149 || 282 || 58 || 121 || 0.6 || 0.5 || 6.0 || 6.8 || 12.8 || 2.6 || 5.5
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| 39 || 12 || 7 || 5 || 75 || 98 || 173 || 25 || 61 || 0.6 || 0.4 || 6.3 || 8.2 || 14.4 || 2.1 || 5.1
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! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2020
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| 39 || 12 || 2 || 0 || 48 || 73 || 121 || 27 || 41 || 0.2 || 0.0 || 4.0 || 6.1 || 10.1 || 2.3 || 3.4
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| 39 || 16 || 10 || 5 || 111 || 94 || 205 || 67 || 72 || 0.6 || 0.3 || 6.9 || 5.9 || 12.8 || 4.2 || 4.5
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! 34
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! 328
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! 6.5
! 12.2
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Notes
References
External links
1995 births
Living people
Carlton Football Club players
Gold Coast Football Club players
Preston Football Club (VFA) players
Murray Bushrangers players
Kyabram Football Club players
Central District Football Club players
Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lekh%20%28film%29
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Lekh (film)
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Lekh is an Indian Punjabi language romantic film starring Gurnam Bhullar and Tania in lead roles. The film is produced by White Hill Studios and is directed by Manvir Brar. It is written by Qismat fame writer-director, Jagdeep Sidhu. The film was released on 1 April 2022. The trailer of the film was released on 16 March 2022.
Synopsis
As teenagers, Rajvir (Gurnaam Bhullar) and Ronak (Tania) find themselves in infatuation with each other but they did not express their feelings. They belong to different families and the circumstances led them apart. Ronak's life picked up the pace whereas Rajvir is still stuck in his past. Ronak is married now and has a son who is named after her crush which shows that Ronak still has Rajvir in his mind. Years after, when Ronak and Rajvir meet again, they regret the way the drifted away and believe that they are meant to live together. They decide to live together but soon they realize that the choices (or plans) made by the supreme god for them are greater and better than the ones they could have ever made for themselves
Plot
In Present, Ronak arrives at a Marriage in India from Canada. She and her friends remember a boy called Rajveer (Gurnam Bhullar) who was in love with Ronak when they were in Class 11 at Maharaja Ranjeet Singh School. Ronak's friend invites him to come to his marriage. Film goes back to Ronak's School days in 2010 when Rajveer is asking his dad to buy a Bicycle for him to which his father (Kaka Kautki) agrees. Rajveer starts going to school on his bicycle but soon falls in love with Ronak (Tania) who is his classmate at school. Rajveer intentionally punctures his cycle everyday to travel on Van to sit with Ronak. Soon both fall in love with each other. They make a plan to go to watch Mel Karade Rabba, a Punjabi movie. But on the day, Rajveer is absent from school. He never comes back to school. Ronak discovers that Rajveer and his Father left the village for another place. In Present, Ronak discovers that Rajveer left the wedding ceremony after learning that she was there. Ronak arrives at her home and discovers that all of his plants are dead to which she is very disappointed. Her family calls a Florist to re-decorate the garden. To Ronak's surprise, that florist is Rajveer. Ronak goes to Rajveer's home to meet him where she asks him why did he not come to school after promising to go to watch the movie. Rajveer tells that his father died on that day and his maternal family took him to Rajasthan. Rajveer also tells that he came to school on 14 February 2012 where he saw Ronak receiving flowers from another boy. Ronak tells him that boy was her friend's Saabi's boyfriend not her. After learning about this misunderstanding both Rajveer and Ronak cry. Ronak spends few days at Rajveer's home and leaves. She calls her husband (Ammy Virk) from Canada and tells him the situation. Her husband allows to live with Rajveer and file for divorce with him. Ronak returns to Rajveer and tells him about conversation with his husband but tells Rajveer that she that it was injustice to divorce his husband after realizing how much he loved her. Then, Ronak asks Rajveer to move on because if she can find a person who loves her so much, he can also find a girl who loves her so much. Ronak returns to Canada and Rajveer starts living a normal and positive life. The movie ends on a positive note.
Cast
Gurnam Bhullar as Rajveer
Tania as Ronak
Kaka Kautki as Rajveer's father
Harman Dhaliwal as Saabi
Harman Brar as Kamal
Nirmal Rishi as Ronak's maternal grandmother (Special Appearance)
Mandeep Singh as Rajveer's classmate
Ammy Virk as Maninder: Ronak's husband (Special appearance)
Production
The principal photography of the film started in March 2021 and wrapped its first schedule in April, 2021. The teaser of the film was released on 26 February 2022. The music director of the film is B Praak whereas Jaani has written and composed the lyrics. The film is a tribute to the 2010 film Mel Karade Rabba
Soundtrack
The film's songs are written and composed by Jaani and music is given by B Praak.
First song from film "Udd Gya" was released on 13 March 2022, sung by B Praak on lyrics and composition by Jaani. The second song from film "Bewafai Kar Gya" was released on 20 March 2022, composed and sung by B Praak. The third song from film "Mera Yaar" was released on 25 March, sung by Gurnam Bhullar and lyrics and composition by Jaani. The fourth song from film "Beliya" was released on 29 March 2022, sung by Gurnam Bhullar and lyrics and composition by Jaani. The fifth song from film "Zaroori Nai" released on 2 April 2022, sung by Afsana Khan, lyrics by Jaani, and composition by B Praak.
Track list of Lekh
References
External links
2022 films
2022 romance films
Punjabi-language Indian films
Films scored by B Praak
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Taito Waradi
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Taito Waradi is a Fijian businessman who has served as President of the Fiji Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He is known as a strong proponent of free enterprise. He has been outspoken in his calls for moral values to be upheld in business, politics, and society. On 8 January 2007 he resigned the presidency of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry to take up the position of Minister for Commerce in the interim cabinet of Commodore Frank Bainimarama.
Business positions
On 22 May 2005, Waradi called for the deregulation of the telecommunication market, to allow the market to dictate prices.
Political positions
On 18 May 2005, Waradi spoke out about the Fijian government's controversial proposal to establish a Reconciliation and Unity Commission, with the power to recommend amnesty for perpetrators of the coup d'état that rocked Fiji in 2000, as well as compensation for its victims. Among the strident comments both for and against the proposal, Waradi took a moderate stance, supporting the principle of reconciliation, but considering that legislating to establish the commission was not the right way to achieve it. He called the proposed legislation a "man-made law" that would not work unless the economic disparity between the races (indigenous Fijians and Indo-Fijians) was rectified. He also said that moral values would be essential to the success of the reconciliation process.
Only by integrating indigenous Fijians into the economic life of the country, such as through joint ventures, equities, board memberships, employment, and investment, could the root cause of unrest and instability be addressed, he said. Economic reconciliation would have to come before social and political reconciliation.
Rather than proceed with the proposed legislation, Waradi said the government should declare a National Conscience Week as a time for individuals and society as a whole to examine their hearts to ascertain where the nation had gone wrong. This week of reflection should be followed, he said, by a roadmap to achieve true reconciliation, peace, and prosperity.
Waradi also emphasized that without moral values, the reconciliation process would fail. "No amount of legislation can guarantee lasting peace and stability if the people it is supposed to serve are not spiritually and emotionally prepared to live by them and where necessary defend them with their lives when it is breached," he said. "Basic moral values must therefore first be internalised in the hearts and minds of its people before we can hope to enforce legislation reflecting these values. We cannot begin to observe man-made laws if we do not have any moral values to start off with in the first place." This followed his earlier call on 15 May for social institutions that mould young people, such as churches, to preach and follow moral values.
He supported the 2006 Fijian coup d'état, saying that the clock could not be turned back.
References
External links
Part 1 of a two part opinion on the 2006 coup by Taito Waradi (originally published in the Fiji Times Newspaper)
Part 2 of a two part opinion on the 2006 coup by Taito Waradi (originally published in the Fiji Times Newspaper)
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Fijian businesspeople
Government ministers of Fiji
I-Taukei Fijian people
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List of hospitals in South Dakota
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List of hospitals in South Dakota (U.S. state), grouped by city and sorted by name.
Aberdeen
Avera St. Luke's Hospital
Dakota Plains Surgical Center
Sanford Aberdeen Medical Center
Armour
Douglas County Memorial Hospital
Bowdle
Bowdle Hospital
Britton
Marshall County Healthcare Center
Brookings
Brookings Health System
Burke
Community Memorial Hospital
Canton
Canton-Inwood Memorial Hospital
Chamberlain
Mid Dakota Medical Center
Clear Lake
Deuel County Memorial Hospital
Custer
Custer Regional Hospital
Dakota Dunes
Siouxland Surgery Center
De Smet
De Smet Memorial Hospital
Deadwood
Black Hills Medical Center
Lead-Deadwood Regional Hospital
Dell Rapids
Avera Dells Area Health Center
Eagle Butte
U. S. Public Health Service Indian Hospital
Eureka
Eureka Community Health Services / Avera Health
Faulkton
Faulkton Area Medical Center
Flandreau
Flandreau Medical Center / Avera Health
Fort Meade
Veterans Affairs Black Hills Health Care System
Freeman
Freeman Regional Health Services
Gettysburg
Gettysburg Memorial Hospital
Gregory
Avera Gregory Healthcare Center
Hot Springs
Fall River Hospital
Huron
Huron Regional Medical Center
Madison
Madison Community Hospital
Martin
Bennett County Hospital and Nursing Home
Milbank
Milbank Area Hospital / Avera Health
Miller
Hand County Memorial Hospital / Avera Health
Mitchell
Avera Queen of Peace Hospital
Mobridge
Mobridge Regional Hospital
Parkston
Avera St. Benedict Health Center
Philip
Hans P. Peterson Memorial Hospital
Pierre
St. Mary's Healthcare Center
Pine Ridge
U. S. Public Health Service Indian Hospital
Platte
Platte Health Center / Avera Health
Rapid City
Black Hills Surgery Center
Black Hills Rehabilitation Hospital
Indian Health Service Hospital
Regional Health Rapid City Hospital
Same Day Surgery Center
Redfield
Community Memorial Hospital
Rosebud
U. S. Public Health Service Indian Hospital
Scotland
Landmann-Jungman Memorial Hospital
Sioux Falls
Avera Heart Hospital of South Dakota - Sioux Falls
Avera McKennan Hospital & University Health Center - Sioux Falls
Children's Care Hospital and School
Royal C. Johnson Veterans Memorial Hospital
Select Specialty Hospital-Sioux Falls
Sioux Falls Surgical Center
Sanford USD Medical Center
Sisseton
Coteau des Prairies Hospital
Spearfish
Spearfish Regional Hospital
Spearfish Surgery Center
Sturgis
Sturgis Regional Hospital
Tyndall
St. Michael's Hospital
Vermillion
Sanford Vermillion Medical Center
Viborg
Pioneer Memorial Hospital and Health Services
Wagner
Wagner Community Memorial Hospital - Avera
Watertown
Prairie Lakes Hospital & Care Center
Webster
Sanford Webster Medical Center
Wessington Springs
Avera Weskota Memorial Medical Center
Winner
Winner Regional Healthcare Center
Yankton
Avera Sacred Heart Hospital
Lewis and Clark Specialty Hospital
References
South Dakota
Hospitals
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Schnyder
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Schnyder () is used in Switzerland as an alternative form of the more common German surname Schneider (tailor). Immigrants to North America often spelled their name as Snyder.
Daniel Schnyder (born 1961), Swiss jazz musician and composer
Fabian Schnyder (born 1985), Swiss ice hockey player
Franz Schnyder (1910–1993), Swiss film director
Franz Xaver Schnyder von Wartensee (1786–1868), Swiss composer
Josef Schnyder (1923–2017), Swiss cross country skier
Nicole Schnyder-Benoit (born 1973), retired professional beach volleyball player
Oliver Schnyder (born 1973), Swiss pianist
Patty Schnyder (born 1978), Swiss tennis player
Occupational surnames
German-language surnames
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Isthmura boneti
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Isthmura boneti, commonly known as the Oaxacan false brook salamander, is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae. It is endemic to north-central Oaxaca, Mexico. Its natural habitats are pine and pine-oak forests at high elevations. It is terrestrial and found beneath logs and rocks. Formerly very abundant, the species has declined for unknown reasons; it has also declined in suitable habitat, so habitat loss is not a sufficient explanation.
References
boneti
Amphibians described in 1967
Endemic amphibians of Mexico
Fauna of the Sierra Madre de Oaxaca
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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Revival (comics)
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Revival is an American horror comics series created by writer Tim Seeley and artist Mike Norton. The pair worked with colorist Mark Englert and cover artist Jenny Frison to produce the series, which was published by Image Comics as 47 monthly issues released between July 2012 and February 2017. It has since been reprinted in both paperback and hardcover editions that contain multiple issues.
Set in central Wisconsin, Revival follows the aftermath of the dead coming back to life. The story is centered on detective Dana Cypress and her revived sister Em as it touches on religious, moral and social themes. As they investigate, they find Em's murder to be closely linked to the revival. Although the creators always knew how the central mystery would conclude, the exact length of the series was determined by sales.
The series has received mostly positive reviews and sold through multiple printings. Revival was nominated for three Harvey Awards in 2013, and Frison was nominated in the Best Cover Artist category in 2013 and 2015 in part because of her work on the series. Critics praised the series for being distinct from other zombie comics, but later faulted the story's pace and sprawling cast. By the end of the series, sales of individual monthly issues had fallen nearly 78% from the first-issue peak.
In late 2012, Seeley and Norton were approached by major networks to develop Revival into a television series. While similar projects were produced at that time, none were based on Revival. A film adaptation was announced in early 2017, to be co-written by Seeley and produced by Shatterglass Films. Diamond Select Toys has released a minimate toy of Em Cypress.
Plot summary
In what becomes known as Revival Day, everyone who died within a few miles of Wausau, Wisconsin, on January 1 returns to life on January 2. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) quarantines the area to study the phenomenon and search for a cause. A partnership between the local sheriff's office and the CDC creates a task force to process any crime that involves one of the twenty-three known "revivers" (people who came back to life). It is led by detective Dana Cypress and CDC doctor Ibrahim Ramin. Dana learns her college-aged sister, Em, is also a reviver. Em was murdered, but cannot remember the events leading to her death. Dana agrees to keep Em's status a secret while they investigate her death. Meanwhile, various townspeople begin to see glowing ghost-like figures in the surrounding woods (referred to as "creeps" in writer Tim Seeley's scripts).
The revivers are immortal and heal from all wounds. Some of them begin to take physical and non-physical risks because they do not fear physical or emotional harm to themselves or others. When they experience strong negative emotions, they cry blood and become violent. As a result, Dana and Ramin investigate several murders in the weeks following Revival Day. Meanwhile, some people outside the quarantine area believe the government is covering up a religious miracle. Others believe they can absorb the revivers' immortality by ingesting their flesh, leading to an active smuggling business that moves body parts of revivers and other recently dead individuals.
Some CDC researchers discover high levels of heavy water in creeks surrounding Wausau. As a precaution, they confiscate and slaughter all the local livestock. Edmund Holt, a local man paranoid about government overreach, organizes a group to resist what he believes are unlawful actions. At the same time, he oversees a tunnel that smuggles sick Christians who believe being baptized in the water will heal their ailments. Meanwhile, Em discovers she is pregnant.
Secretly, the CDC uses a former dairy farm to detain revivers who have been reported as dangerous. When its existence is discovered, it causes a rift between the CDC and sheriff's office generally, and between Dana and Ramin specifically. The Wausau mayor organizes a meeting to reconcile the issues and invites some revivers to participate. Holt uses a suicidal reviver to smuggle a bomb into the meeting. It kills the mayor and several other people. General Louise Cale is installed as a temporary governor and uses her power to move all known revivers to the dairy farm facility. She and the military experiment on the revivers and captured creeps. They learn the ghost figures are the disembodied souls of the revivers, and that reuniting them causes permanent death.
During the response to the bombing, Em's reviver status is discovered and she is confined to the dairy farm. Following a lead, Dana learns that Em's murderer has bribed a guard at the facility to abduct Em to prevent a formal investigation into her death. Dana arrives in time to save Em and escape. Because they are unable to leave the quarantine, they go into hiding.
As tensions mount between the military and the people of Wausau, a riot is started at a picket line. The revivers and the creeps escape the dairy farm and attack the military. Creeps are able to possess bodies, prompting a shoot-on-sight response from panicked soldiers.
Dana discovers Em was killed by Lester Majak, an aging local celebrity. Majak was a physical trainer who was convinced his fitness regime would extend his life. When he began to notice his growing frailty, he researched a legend of immortality from India. A particular creek near Wausau met the requirements for the legend, and Majak murdered Em near it in a ritual to extend his life. However, Em's recent pregnancy provided additional life force and caused an imbalance that resulted in Revival Day. The imbalance is still affecting the river, and will grow to threaten all life on Earth. To restore balance, Em must give birth before she reunites with her soul and permanently dies. As she delivers her daughter, the remaining revivers merge with their souls as well.
Two years later, life in Wausau has returned to normal. Dana is now sheriff and is in a relationship with Ramin. They are raising Dana's niece.
Composition and development
Early inspiration
Seeley and artist Mike Norton first met in 2001, when they were both hired by Devil's Due Publishing to work on a G.I. Joe comic book. The two became friends and collaborated on other works, including some released through the Double Feature app in 2011. They subsequently shared work space at Four Star Studios in Chicago, Illinois.
Following the success of Seeley's series Hack/Slash through Image Comics, publisher Eric Stephenson suggested Seeley write another monthly book. Seeley knew he wanted to work with Norton again, and the two discussed ideas over the following months, mostly during lunch breaks. Seeley was interested in setting a story in a small town so he could write about the kind of crimes that happen in a place where people prefer to live far away from each other. Norton was interested in telling a new kind of zombie story, since he felt The Walking Dead had perfected the zombie survival story. They combined the two ideas to create the premise for Revival. They pitched the series as Fargo meets The Walking Dead, using the terms "Rural Noir" and "Farm Noir" to describe the hardboiled detective story set in a small town.
The series was formally announced on March 31, 2012, at Emerald City Comicon. In the week leading up to the series announcement, Image teased the release in the form of fake newspaper articles and ads.
Production
Seeley and Norton both had heavy workloads when they began Revival, and the complexity of the story meant they needed to cut back on other projects. Because Seeley was excited to write about "real people" instead of typical heroes or archetypes, Revival is set in Seeley's boyhood home of Wausau, Wisconsin. Several of the unusual crimes in the first arc are based on actual events from the town, including the killing of the zebra-horse in the first issue. This setting meant religion would need to play a significant role in the plot because Wausau is a "very religious ... predominantly Christian" place. Seeley deliberately references Biblical events throughout the comic, but tries to do so with subtlety because it is "easy to do it way overdone".
Both Seeley and Norton are writers as well as artists, so each contributed to character designs and plot ideas. When promoting the series prior to release, Norton described Revival as the closest collaboration he had ever worked on. One character in particular, Em Cypress, had been a work in progress for nearly 20 years. She began as a sketch Seeley did in 1996 and was heavily influenced by The Crow. He continued to tweak the character over the years, and a version of her was pitched to Tokyopop for an original English-language manga in 2005. He also considered using her in Hack/Slash, but the initial concept underwent significant changes and eventually became the character Acid Angel.
The conclusion of the series was determined from the outset, but the path to the finale was adaptable and there were enough ideas to keep the comic going for as long as sales would support it. Only a few of the characters had predetermined storylines, and the supporting cast provided further subplots along the way. When issue 17 was published, the plot was "loosely" planned through 55 or 60 issues. By late 2015, they had decided to end Revival at issue 48.
Although most modern comics are told in three to six issue "arcs" that form a nearly complete story, Seeley feels that when several plot points climax at once, it provides readers an easy opportunity to quit reading without feeling dissatisfied about missing the true conclusion. For Revival, he and Norton decided to have new mysteries develop constantly. They had several discussions on the right point to begin the story. Early drafts of the first issue included scenes showing the worldwide response to Revival Day, but they were cut to focus on the people of Wausau. The creators decided to start the story after Revival Day partly because they wanted readers to relate to the cast's confusion, and partly as an homage to old superhero comics that told origin stories as quickly as possible to get to the action. They were inspired by Don DeLillo's novel White Noise, which follows people trying to escape an approaching cloud but no one knows what it actually is.
During the series, Norton and Seeley worked with colorist Mark Englert, letterer Christopher Crank (credited as "Crank!"), and cover artist and fellow studio partner Jenny Frison. Although the team planned for Frison to create the covers from the beginning, Norton provided the design for the cover of the first issue. At Seeley's suggestion, Norton drew the covers for the collected paperback editions. When the script for issue twelve called for a young character to draw his own comic within the story, five of the pages featured art by Art Baltazar and the cover was drawn by Skottie Young. Both artists are known for their cartoon-like style.
A one-shot crossover between Revival and Chew was announced on February 12, 2014, and released on May 28, 2014. The idea was proposed by Chew writer John Layman, but was initially opposed by all the other creators. Layman continued to push the concept, and eventually wrote the story anyway. He emailed it to Seeley, Norton, and Chew artist Rob Guillory, and after reading it they all agreed to participate. It was constructed as a double-sided book with two stories, one by each creative team. The chapter by Layman and Guillory was titled Chew / Revival, and the chapter by Seeley and Norton was titled Revival / Chew.
Release and reception
Publication history
Previews of the first issue were included in The Walking Dead #99 and alongside five other upcoming comics in Image's 2012 Free Comic Book Day sampler before the first issue was released on July 11, 2012. It had an initial print run of about 18,000 copies and was available with two covers: the standard version by Frison and a 1-in-10 alternate cover by Craig Thompson. As an added incentive to retailers who normally order on a non-returnable basis, unsold copies of qualifying orders could be returned to Image in exchange for a credit to their account. It quickly sold out at the distributor level and went through at least four printings by December 2012, including one as part of the "Image Firsts" line of $1 reprints in November. By the end of the year, the first issue had sold an estimated 29,100 copies.
Subsequent issues also performed well, requiring additional printings to satisfy demand. The series took a planned one-month hiatus after the fifth issue, which also needed a reprint, to release the first paperback collection. During the break, Image offered an extra 10% discount to retailers who increased their orders by 125% in an effort to bring orders in line with demand and eliminate the costs associated with additional printings. In January 2013, the Phantom group, retailers who commission exclusive covers to provide further attention to series they believe deserve more support, selected Revival to be part of the project. Under the Phantom label, the first ten issues were reprinted with new interlocking cover art by Frison. They were available only at stores operated by the retail group. When asked about the book's success in a January 2014 interview, Seeley said "We live and die by word-of-mouth, and so far, the readers and the comic press have been great about spreading the word about our very unusual and unique comic book."
Sales fell to just under 14,000 by issue 12, and continued to fall during the series' second year until the 24th issue sold just more than 9,000 copies. In December 2015, the 35th issue sold an estimated 6,500 copies. According to Dave Carter, a writer for The Beat, this sales pattern was typical for comics at the time. The series concluded with issue 47 in February 2017, which had estimated sales of about 6,300. Because of the decline in Revival sales, Seeley expressed skepticism about doing another project of similar length in the future.
During publication, some Revival merchandise was offered by third-parties. On October 25, 2014, Screen Panel released four art prints based on the series created by Angela An, Randy Ortiz, and Frison. In 2016, an Em Cypress minimate figure was included in the first wave of the Comic Book Heroes series from Diamond Select Toys. The figure was available in a two pack with Cassie Hack, another Tim Seeley creation.
The series was collected into eight paperback volumes and four larger-sized hardcover editions. Seeley described the sales of the collections as "steady", with new monthly orders for the first paperback near 500 as late as 2015. Print translations of Revival were available in French and Polish, and a digital edition was released in German by Cross Cult in 2016.
Collected editions
Reviews
On release, Revival was part of a resurgence in genre comics and was highlighted for standing out among the large number of zombie comics being published at the time. Rich Johnston went further, saying it distinguished itself from traditional horror stories in general with "compelling psychological themes, undercurrents of religious fervour, and a slick medical detective veneer". Writing for Newsarama, Ernie Estrella said Norton's artwork set Revival apart because it did not rely on distressed visuals and shadows to set the atmosphere. In a review of 2012 in comics for USA Today, Brian Truitt called Revival the year's best horror comic.
In early reviews, both the art and the writing were praised. The series' specific focus on non-white people, such as the Hmong and Native Americans who live in the area, was appreciated by reviewer Ginnis Tonic. Slate columnist Dan Kois described the series as "grounded in the economic and familial realities of small-town life". Truitt found the mood and themes to be a mix of Elmore Leonard and the Coen brothers, while Kois described Norton's art as "wonderfully specific and evocative of the rural Midwest". Englert's contributions were singled out by Comic Book Resources' Doug Zawisza, who thought the colors added an "edginess" to the story. Zawisza also liked the way Norton used a variety of body shapes and sizes for the cast. Norton included subtle background details, such as music posters and the cleanliness of bedrooms, which was noted by reviewers. Tonic found they added to her understanding of the characters, and James Fulton said touches like these excited him "like few have in comics in the last few years".
As the series progressed, some critics began to express frustration with the comic. Joe Smith, also with Inside Pulse, found the large cast was difficult to track by the fourth issue. In a review of issue 33, Fulton found the series entertaining, but sometimes thought the plot felt directionless. Not all agreed; Paste included the comic book in its list of favorite horror comics in late 2016.
The conclusion of the series received mostly positive reviews. Kat Calamia found the series had a "bittersweet ending that brings ... great closure to character arcs" and called it "a satisfying conclusion for longtime readers" in her review of the final issue for Newsarama. James Ferguson agreed in his review for Horror Talk, emphasizing the creators' success at ending "every plot thread that has been hanging out there in a satisfying manner". William Kulesa, writing for NJ.com, said that while he had enjoyed the series from the beginning, the conclusion made the whole story worth reading.
Awards
Revival was nominated for three Harvey Awards in 2013: Best New Series, Best Writer, and Best Artist. Jenny Frison, who has been called the underappreciated star of the series, was nominated for Best Cover Artist in 2013 and 2015 in part because of her work on Revival.
Adaptations
Television
In October 2012, Seeley and Norton said major networks had approached them about developing a Revival television series, and later mentioned NBC specifically. Around this same time, ABC Studios was involved in a bidding war for the rights to The Returned, an unpublished novel by Jason Mott that dealt with similar themes. ABC announced they were moving forward with The Returned in January 2013, although it was later retitled Resurrection. Although some fans suspected Seeley and Norton's idea had been stolen, Seeley said "these things just happen sometimes". He said the announcement was "unfortunate" because they had been working with talented people to adapt Revival, but the television developments would have limited Seeley and Norton's creative input.
In September 2013, A&E bought the rights for an American remake of the French television series Les Revenants (The Returned), which is also about dead people coming back to life as they were before. Les Revenants, in turn, was inspired by a 2004 film of the same name directed by Robin Campillo and translated into English as They Came Back. When Seeley started working on Revival, a friend recommended he watch They Came Back to avoid similarities. Since The Returned is inspired by the film, he and Norton watched it and became fans of the show.
Film
At the April 2017 Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo, a film adaptation was announced. It will be co-written by Seeley and Sarah Fischer, directed by Luke Boyce and produced by Shatterglass Films, an independent film company based in Champaign, Illinois. Larger production firms also expressed interest, but Seeley would have had less input into the film if it were made by them. Boyce said he had enjoyed Revival since its debut, and had been thinking about adapting it long before he met the creators. A two-minute proof of concept teaser was shown at the expo.
References
Comics about women
Image Comics titles
Neo-noir comics
Wisconsin in fiction
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Vieux-Moulin is a commune in the Vosges department in Grand Est in northeastern France.
See also
Communes of the Vosges department
References
Communes of Vosges (department)
Salm-Salm
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Keo Saphal may refer to:
Keo Saphal (Siem Reap politician), Cambodian politician who represents Siem Reap in the National Assembly
Keo Saphal (Takeo politician), Cambodian politician who represents Takeo in the National Assembly
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Brian Leonard Rose (born February 13, 1976) is an American former professional baseball player. He was a pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB) for four different teams from 1997 to 2001, primarily the Boston Red Sox. Listed at and , he threw and batted right-handed.
Biography
Rose played high school baseball and was named the Gatorade Massachusetts Player of the Year in his senior year at Dartmouth High School. To date, his uniform number 19 is one of just three to be retired by Dartmouth High School and his jersey now hangs in the Carlin Lynch Memorial Gymnasium.
Rose was drafted in the third round of the 1994 MLB draft by the Boston Red Sox. In the process, he turned down several scholarship offers, including a baseball scholarship to the University of Michigan. Rose had an 11-season Minor League Baseball career, winning the International League Most Valuable Pitcher Award in 1997. He pitched in 68 major league games (54 starts) between July 1997 and May 2001, registering a career earned run average of 5.86 with a 15–23 win–loss record. Rose also spent time in the Tampa Bay Rays, Colorado Rockies, New York Mets, Cincinnati Reds, and Kansas City Royals organizations.
Since retiring from his baseball career, Rose is employed by the office of the Bristol County, Massachusetts District Attorney, where he leads community affairs endeavors. He served as the pitching coach the New Bedford Bay Sox of the New England Collegiate Baseball League. At the high school level, Rose has coached the Bishop Stang High School varsity baseball team since 2016. He has also coached ice hockey at Dartmouth High School. Rose volunteers with the Boys & Girls Club of Fall River, Massachusetts, and helps out at their Camp Welch facility in Assonet, Massachusetts. He has also runs his own baseball camp.
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1976 births
Living people
Baseball players from New Bedford, Massachusetts
Boston Red Sox players
Colorado Rockies players
New York Mets players
Tampa Bay Devil Rays players
Major League Baseball pitchers
Arizona League Royals players
Chattanooga Lookouts players
Durham Bulls players
Gulf Coast Royals players
Louisville Bats players
Michigan Battle Cats players
Pawtucket Red Sox players
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Laurynas Samėnas (born October 12, 1988) is a Lithuanian professional basketball player.
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1988 births
Living people
Atomerőmű SE players
BC Juventus players
BC Pieno žvaigždės players
BC Šiauliai players
Lithuanian men's basketball players
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The Gere Sport was an American single-seat sport biplane of the 1930s. Designed for amateur construction by George E. Gere, Jr. (known as Bud Gere) while a young student at the University of Minnesota. It was later used as the basis of the 1960s EAA Biplane.
Design and development
The Sport had a lightweight welded steel construction fuselage. The wings employed two solid wood spars each, with spruce leading edges. All structures were fabric covered. Only the lower wing had ailerons and only they were mounted with a moderate upward angle (dihedral); a typical arrangement. The conventional landing gear was rigid and relied on large balloon tires to absorb impacts. The spring steel tailskid came from a front leaf spring from a Ford Model T. The sport had an open single-seat cockpit with a one-piece transparent windscreen. The prototype was fitted with a 19 hp Chevrolet 4-cylinder water-cooled automobile engine.
The 19-year-old Gere was killed in a January 1931 accident with an ice sled; he slipped and fell into the propeller arc. At the time of his death the propeller and engine cowlings still needed to be fitted and the aircraft had not been flown. Gere's father, George Gere, Sr., with some of his son's friends, completed the aircraft. The Sport first flew in 1932 from Wold-Chamberlain Airport, piloted by Elmore Wall, a test pilot for the Mohawk Aircraft Company. Although underpowered with the Chevrolet, it was reputed to have flown well. After testing, the original Gere Sport was passed on to the University of Minnesota.
A set of plans for the Sport was published in the October 1932 issue of Modern Mechanix and Inventions, which called it the Gere Sport Biplane and advertised the full blueprints for $5. The magazine touted the plane's ability to run with a range of Ford and Chevrolet engines, and sold conversion kits so builders could adapt the designs to their engine. Plans appeared the following year in the 1933 Flying Manual, copies of which remain available through the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA), based in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. It is believed at least three other aircraft were built near that time.
Aircraft on display
An example of a Gere Sport is held in the collections and is on display at the Museum of Transport and Technology in New Zealand.
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1930s United States sport aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
Biplanes
Aircraft first flown in 1932
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Jafarbagi-ye Olya
Jafarbagi-ye Sofla
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Château de Selles-sur-Cher () is a castle (château) located in the commune of Selles-sur-Cher, Loir-et-Cher, Centre Region, France. The château is privately owned and is a designated historical monument of France.
History
Structures have been on the site as far back as the late 10th century, when Theobald I, Count of Blois, built a dungeon into the mound. Around 1140, Ginon de Mehun built a fortified castle on the site. In 1212, Robert de Courtenay of the Capetian House of Courtenay built a new castle with three corner towers and a gatehouse.
In the second half of the 16th century, the north and south pavilions and a south gatehouse were built, most likely for the de Trémouille family, lords of Selles. The pavilions, main entrance and interior of the 13th-century gatehouse were redesigned in 1612 for Philippe de Béthune, count of Selles, by architect Jacques Androuet II du Cerceau.
In 1719, Anne-Marie-Louise de Béthune, sister of the queen of Poland, sold the castle to Cardin Lebret, count of Selles. In 1810, Armand-Louis-Jean de Jehannot, Marquis de Bartillat, owned the castle and began significant renovations. However, in 1813 the Bande noire destroyed the west gallery. Starting in 1880, the castle underwent significant restoration work under the du Moulinet d'Hardemare family. Architect Pierre Chauvallon led a major restoration of the château in 1913.
Château today
The castle had been abandoned by 2002. It was purchased by Michel Guyot and his wife, Noémi Brunet. Guyot has done restoration work on previous castles, including Château de Saint-Fargeau, and is behind the Guédelon Castle project. In 2012, it was opened to the public. Later that year, they sold it to Nicolas Mazzesi and his wife Katherine Wu, who plan to open a winery on the site. The château hosts festivals and other events, and is the first tourist site in France to offer a virtual reality tour.
In early 2016, Georg Kabierske, a German history of art student from the University of Heidelberg, who had viewed the châteaux of the Loire Valley via Google Earth, discovered a previously unknown map of Château de Selles-sur-Cher drawn by Swedish architect Carl Johan Cronstedt (1709–1779). The map of the castle and its elaborate French garden had been digitized by the National Museum in Stockholm and was classified as being of unknown origin, until the German student recognized it as Selles-sur-Cher.
In April 2016, a 300-year-old Lebanon Cedar on the grounds of the castle was named a "Remarkable Tree of France" (). The tree stands high with a circumference of .
In September 2021, painted murals from the 17th century were uncovered in the salle des pavillons dorés. The murals were hidden behind wallpaper and plaster, which was removed with a scalpel during a six-week process. These paintings, which included mythological scenes and Latin maxims, were probably made around 1625, when Philippe de Béthune converted the gilded pavilion into a living room.
See also
List of châteaux in France
References
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Châteaux in Loir-et-Cher
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Jennifer B. Glass is a biogeochemist, geomicrobiologist, astrobiologist, and associate professor of biogeochemistry in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. Glass received the 2021 Thomas Hilker Award for Excellence in Biogeosciences from the American Geophysical Union. She was awarded the 2021 Alice C. Evans Award for Advancement of Women from the American Society of Microbiology.
Education
Glass was born and raised in Olympia, Washington. She earned a B.Sc. of Earth and Space Sciences and Oceanography from University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. She received a Ph.D. in Geological Sciences from Arizona State University under the guidance of Professor Ariel Anbar. From 2011-2013, she was a NASA Astrobiology Postdoctoral Fellow at California Institute of Technology, in Pasadena, California, in the laboratory of Professor Victoria Orphan.
Research
Glass serves as principal investigator on grants from the NASA Exobiology Program. She has published research on geochemistry and microbiology in context of the global biogeochemical cycles and astrobiology, including how microbial metal utilization co-evolved with Earth geochemistry and how microbial metabolisms influence greenhouse gas cycles. Her laboratory's current research focuses on microbial interactions with methane clathrate and astrobiology implications. She has collaborated with Loren Williams on the role of cations including iron as ribozyme cofactors.
Publications
Her most cited peer-reviewed articles are
Glass JB, Wolfe‐Simon F, Anbar AD. Coevolution of metal availability and nitrogen assimilation in cyanobacteria and algae. Geobiology. 2009 Mar;7(2):100-23. (Cited 164 times, according to Google Scholar )
Zhu-Barker X, Cavazos AR, Ostrom NE, Horwath WR, Glass JB. The importance of abiotic reactions for nitrous oxide production. Biogeochemistry. 2015 Dec;126(3):251-67.(Cited 149 times, according to Google Scholar.)
Tsementzi D, Wu J, Deutsch S, Nath S, Rodriguez-R LM, Burns AS, Ranjan P, Sarode N, Malmstrom RR, Padilla CC, Stone BK. SAR11 bacteria linked to ocean anoxia and nitrogen loss. Nature. 2016 Aug;536(7615):179-83. (Cited 101 times, according to Google Scholar.)
Leadership
Glass serves as an Associate Editor for Applied and Environmental Microbiology and as a member of the NASA Planetary Science Advisory Committee. She is co-director of the Georgia Tech Astrobiology Program. She is a proponent of the GRExit movement in geosciences. Her scientific perspectives have been quoted by news outlets including CNN and Science Magazine.
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Geomicrobiologists
American women academics
Astrobiologists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
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Union der Bergarbeiter in der CSR ('Union of Miners in the Czechoslovak Republic'), initially known as Union der Bergarbeiter Österreichs ('Union of Miners of Austria'), was a miners trade union of miners in Austria and the First Czechoslovak Republic 1903–1938. Initially a multi-ethnic union in Habsburg Austria (Cisleithania), it was divided along ethnic lines in 1910. After the establishment of the Czechoslovak Republic, it became a union for miners of German ethnicity.
Founding
The union was founded in Turn in 1903. The establishment of the union was preceded by two years of mobilizations to build a new national miners union. District assemblies electing delegates for the founding congress were held in Falkenau, Kladno, Mährisch-Ostrau, Nürschan, Schatzlar and the Alpine district. In May 1903 these delegates joined the representatives of the Turn union and smaller unions for deliberations in Turn. The debates lasted for 15 hours, after which a constitution for the Union der Bergarbeiter Österreichs was adopted. In its founding year, the union claimed to have 5,997 members. The union had its headquarters in Turn-Teplice. The union leadership at Turn consisted of a seven-member executive committee, led by its chairman. The membership dues were 30 heller per week.
At a conference in Leoben on June 28, 1903 the mine workers union of the Austrian Alpine counties (Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, Upper and Lower Austria, Salzburg and Istria) voted to join the Union der Bergarbeiter, bringing some 1,600 members to the fold. By March 1, 1904 the union claimed 9,256 members, distributed geographically and ethnically along the following lines;
By September 1904 the union membership had increased to 11,531; 3,622 in Bohemia, 2,252 in Silesia, 1,114 in Moravia, 2,967 in Styria, 45 in Upper Austria, 79 in Lower Austria, 60 in Salzburg, 38 in Tyrol, 155 in Carniola, 125 in Carinthia, 659 in Istria and 414 in Galicia.
Growth and 1910 split
By 1905 the union membership had increased to 17,749, in 1906 to 27,989, in 1907 to 30,715 and by 1908 the membership had reached 32,613. By this point the union had over 20% of all mine workers in Austria as its members. The union had local branches in mining districts across the country. The union was affiliated to the Imperial Trade Union Commission and the Miners' International Federation.
From the onset the organization had opposed any sort of ethnic subdivisions within the union movement. However the union was badly affected by the Czech/German split in the trade union movement, as a separate Union of Czech Miners was founded in October 1910. The Union der Bergarbeiter lost more than half of its membership during this crisis. In particular, it lost influence in Ostrau.
In the Czechoslovak Republic
The name 'Union der Bergarbeiter in der CSR' was adopted after the establishment of Czechoslovakia. The branches of the union in areas that remained in Austria formed a separate union, the Verband der Bergarbeiter Deutschösterreichs ('Union of Miners of German Austria'), in 1920. Union der Bergarbeiter in der CSR was affiliated to the Central Commission of German Trade Unions in the Czechoslovak Republic. Politically it was linked to the German Social Democratic Workers Party in the Czechoslovak Republic. By 1920 the Union der Bergarbeiter in der CSR had some 46,000 members. But with the emerging economic crisis and the neglect of the mining industry by the Prague government, the membership of the union declined. By 1921 it had dropped to 37,582, in 1925 the union had 16,261 members and by 1936 just 14,057. In 1928, Union der Bergarbeiter won 308 out of a total of 1,305 seats in mine workers councils across Czechoslovakia. The union was the largest miners union in North Bohemia (where is won 178 out of 451 council seats) and Falkenov (where it won 95 out of 126 seats).
Leadership
Anton Jarolim served as the chairman of the union from 1906 until his death in 1933. Josef Zinner took over as chairman of the union after Jarolim's death. Peter Cingr served as deputy chairman and secretary from the foundation of the union. Emil Haase was the general secretary of the union during the Czechoslovakia period. The 9th congress of the union ('XI. Unionstag'), held in Brüx June 19-21, 1937 elected the following leadership: Zinner (Falkenau) as chairman, Josef Zwonar from Schönfeld and Franz Schaffarsch from Weißkirchlitz as deputy chairmen, Haase from Turn as Central Secretary, and Johann Kloiber, Karl Wildner, Hermann Lehnert, Richard Wirkner, Franz Demel Johann Sippl, Wenzel Lutz, Josef Lischka and Josef Hübner as the remaining members of the executive.
Press organs
The union published the weekly newspaper Glück Auf in German language. Karl Schmidt served as the editor of Glück Auf between 1919 and 1938. The Czech-language newspaper Na zdar! was the Czech language organ of the union. It later became the organ of the Czech Miners Union. Górnik ('Miner') was the Polish language organ of the union. It was initially published from Cieszyn, and later from Mährisch-Ostrau. The Slovenian language organ was Rudar, issued from Trifail.
References
Trade unions in Austria-Hungary
Trade unions in Czechoslovakia
Mining trade unions
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Tosside is a small village on the modern border of North Yorkshire and Lancashire in Northern England. It lies within the Forest of Bowland, and is between the villages of Slaidburn in Lancashire and Wigglesworth in North Yorkshire. It lies 11.5 miles north of Clitheroe and 17 miles north-west of Skipton. The village is above sea level and lies at 54.0001°N / 2.35436°W on the B6478 road.
Most of the village is in the modern Lancashire county, but some houses in the eastern part of the village are in the county of North Yorkshire. Historically, the entire village lies within the West Riding of Yorkshire.
The western part of Tosside is the largest settlement in the civil parish of Gisburn Forest.
History
The name Tosside is believed to be derived from Old Norse/Anglo-Saxon. It can be traced back to two old Scandinavian words - 'Tod' meaning fox and 'Saetr' meaning a high summer pasture. The name gradually changed to Toddsett, then Tossett and ultimately to Tosside. This fact is recognised to this day with the symbol of the fox being present on the top of the small water fountain at the centre of the village.
The western part of Tosside was historically in the township of Gisburn Forest in the large ancient parish of Gisburn. Gisburn Forest became a separate civil parish in 1866. In 1974 it was transferred from the West Riding of Yorkshire to Lancashire.
The eastern part of Tosside was an extra parochial area known as Tosside Row. It became the civil parish of Tosside in 1858. In 1931 the parish had a population of 62. In 1938 the civil parish was abolished and absorbed into the civil parish of Wigglesworth. In 1974 Wigglesworth was transferred from the West Riding of Yorkshire to North Yorkshire.
Village today
Tosside has a population of around 100 families scattered across a widespread area, living typically in upland farms and other remote dwellings.
The village itself includes a number of Grade II listed buildings, including St Bartholomew's Church, Mount Sion Independent Chapel (1812, now closed), also known as Sandy Syke Chapel, and the Dog and Partridge public house.
The Village Community Hall provides a focal point for this active local community. The hall may be hired for special events and functions.
The village adjoins Gisburn Forest to the north and provides access to the forest via Bailey Lane. Gisburn Forest is the largest forest in Lancashire and is a location for mountain-biking, walking and horse-riding.
See also
Listed buildings in Gisburn Forest
References
External links
White Moss SSSI (Gisburn Forest)
Villages in North Yorkshire
Forest of Bowland
Geography of Ribble Valley
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Syed Muhammad Rafi Uddin is an Independent Pakistani politician who has represented PP-228 Lodhran in the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab since the 2022 by-election.
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
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Helen Dryden
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Helen Dryden (1882–1972) was an American artist and successful industrial designer in the 1920s and 1930s. She was reportedly described by The New York Times as being the highest-paid woman artist in the United States, though she lived in comparative poverty in later years.
Education
Dryden was born in Baltimore and moved to Pittsburgh when she was seven years old to attend Eden Hall. During her early childhood years Dryden showed unusual artistic ability, designing and selling clothes for paper dolls. Eventually she sold a set of her paper dolls and dresses to a newspaper for use in its fashion section. This in turn led to a position as illustrator for Anne Rittenhouse's fashion articles in the Philadelphia Public Ledger and The Philadelphia Press.
Dryden was largely self-trained, describing her works as "a combination of things I like, in the way I want to do them." Her artistic education consisted of four years of training in landscape painting under Hugh Breckinridge and one summer school session at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Deciding that she had no real interest in landscape painting, Dryden focused her complete attention on fashion design and illustration.
Career
Fashion illustration
After moving to New York in 1909, Dryden spent a year trying to interest fashion magazines in her drawings. None, however, showed any interest in her work and many were harsh with criticism. Dryden was particularly disappointed in her rejection by Vogue. Less than a year later, however, Condé Nast Publications assumed management of Vogue and set out to make changes. Upon seeing Dryden's drawings, they directed the fashion editor to contact her immediately. The result was a Vogue contract that led to a 13-year collaboration (1909–1922) during which she produced many fashion illustrations and magazine covers. Her "essentially romantic style produced some of the most appealing, yet fantastical images on Vogue covers, frequently depicting imagined rather than realistic representations of dress." She also illustrated other Condé Nast titles, including Vanity Fair and House and Garden.
Costume design
In addition to her prolific career as an illustrator, in 1914 Dryden launched a successful career as a costume designer. She designed scenery and costumes for the musical comedy Watch Your Step, followed by designs for several other stage plays including Clair de Lune, the fanciful drama based loosely on a Victor Hugo romance. Although the play starred Lionel and Ethel Barrymore, Helen Dryden's costume designs were generally given equal credit for the play's success.
Industrial design
Following the 1925 Paris Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes, Dryden turned her attention to industrial design, producing a number of designs for tableware, lamps, and other housewares, for the Revere Corporation. She had a highly paid job with the Dura Company until the stock market crash of 1929, at which point she was replaced by George W. Walker. It seems Dryden never fully recovered from this blow. According to Christopher Gray, "The 1925 census recorded her living at 9 East 10th Street with her 25-year-old Philippine-born cook and butler, Ricardo Lampitok."
Dryden worked for Studebaker from 1935 to 1938, reportedly earning $100,000 per year ($ in dollars ). Automotive designer Raymond Loewy contracted with her to help him design Studebaker interiors. Her work on the interior of the 1936 Studebaker Dictator and President that established Helen Dryden as an important twentieth-century industrial designer. The advertisements by the automaker proclaimed, "It's styled by Helen Dryden." Dryden designed the Studebaker President throughout, and the press marveled that a woman had attained this eminence in mechanical engineering. She was considered "one of the top industrial designers and one of the few women in the automotive field." Dryden worked with Loewy through 1940.
By 1956 Dryden was again living in a $10-a-week hotel room paid for by the city's Welfare Department. At the time, she referred nostalgically to "her '$200-a-month' 10th Street apartment".
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1880s births
1972 deaths
American industrial designers
Fashion illustrators
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Mirshahin Agayev Dilaver oglu (; born 1963 in Yardimli, Azerbaijan) also known as simply Mir Shahin () is a journalist and reporter during the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. He's now the Vice President for Production of ANS Group of Companies and Executive Producer of ANS Independent Broadcasting Media Company. He also used to be the General Director of ANS ChM Radio Broadcasting Company. Agayev is co-founder of several firms under ANS Group of Companies which include ANS Independent Broadcasting Media Company, ANS Chm Radio Broadcasting Company, ANS Commerce, ANS-PRESS Publishing Company.
From 1992 through 2005, Agayev held a position of Chief Editor at ANS Independent Broadcasting Media Company. Mirshahin is known for his reports from frontlines during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War. Agayev also holds the title of Honored Journalist of the Republic.
See also
ANS Group of Companies
Chingiz Mustafayev
Osman Mirzayev
References
Azerbaijani journalists
People from Yardimli District
1963 births
Living people
Azerbaijani television personalities
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Zach Carroll
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Zach Carroll (born March 16, 1994) is an American soccer player who plays as a defender for Las Vegas Lights in the USL Championship.
Career
Early career
Carroll attended Grand Blanc High School where he was a member of the varsity soccer team, as well as the placekicker for the football team. In 2011, Carroll was a member of the United States U-17 National Team, starting at center back for both the U-17 World Cup in Mexico, as well as the CONCACAF Tournament in Jamaica, where he won Gold. In 2011, Carroll was named NSCAA National Boys High School Player of the Year, an NSCAA All-American, Michigan's Mr. Soccer, and Michigan's Gatorade Player of the Year. At the collegiate level, Carroll played soccer with the University of Virginia for his freshman and sophomore season before transferring to Michigan State University for his junior and senior seasons.
Professional
On January 14, 2016 Carroll was selected by the New York Red Bulls in the 2016 MLS SuperDraft as the 38th pick. After a successful preseason, Carroll signed his first professional contract days before the 2016 season on March 3. Carroll made his first MLS bench appearance on March 12 as an unused sub in a 3–0 defeat to the Montreal Impact.
On March 26, the New York Red Bulls announced that they had loaned Carroll and six other first team players to New York Red Bulls II for their home opener. He went on to make his professional debut for New York Red Bulls II on March 26, appearing as a starter in a 2–2 draw against Toronto FC II.
Carroll was waived by the club on May 5, following the signing of defender, Aurélien Collin. On May 20, he rejoined the organization signing with New York Red Bulls II. On October 18, 2016 Carroll was named to the 2016 USL All-League Second Team, as he helped the club to the USL regular season title. On October 23, 2016 Carroll helped the club to a 5–1 victory over Swope Park Rangers in the 2016 USL Cup Final.
Carroll was released by Red Bulls II in November 2016.
On December 1, 2016, Carroll was signed by Orlando City B of USL for the 2017 season.
Carroll signed with Reno 1868 FC for the 2018 season on December 19, 2017.
Carroll was announced as a new signing for USL Championship side Las Vegas Lights on January 25, 2023.
Career statistics
Honors
Club
New York Red Bulls II
USL Cup (1): 2016
References
External links
1994 births
Living people
American men's soccer players
Men's association football defenders
Flint City Bucks players
Michigan State Spartans men's soccer players
National Premier Soccer League players
New York Red Bulls draft picks
New York Red Bulls players
New York Red Bulls II players
Orlando City B players
People from Grand Blanc, Michigan
Reno 1868 FC players
Fredericksburg FC players
Soccer players from Michigan
USL League Two players
Virginia Cavaliers men's soccer players
Memphis 901 FC players
Las Vegas Lights FC players
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Placing notes in the Western Wall refers to the practice of placing slips of paper containing written prayers to God into the cracks of the Western Wall, a Jewish holy site in the Old City of Jerusalem.
It is claimed that occurrence of such a phenomenon dates from the early 18th century and stems from the Jewish tradition that the Divine Presence rests upon the Western Wall. There is however a dispute as to whether it is permissible according to Jewish law to insert slips of paper in to the crevices. Some argue that the practice debases the holiness of the Wall and that the placement of notes should be discontinued.
History
The earliest account of placing prayer notes into the cracks and crevices of the Western Wall was recounted by Rabbi Chaim Elazar Spira of Munkatch (d. 1937) and involved Rabbi Chaim ibn Attar (d. 1743) who instructed a destitute man to place an amulet between the stones of the Wall.
The rationale behind placing prayer notes in the Wall has been traced to the Midrashic teaching that the Divine Presence has never moved from the Western Wall, and the Kabbalistic teaching that all prayers ascend to Heaven through the Temple Mount, which the Western Wall abuts.
Modern-day practice
Today, more than a million prayer notes or wishes are placed in the Western Wall each year. Notes that are placed in the Wall are written in just about any language and format. Their lengths vary from a few words to very long requests. They include poems and Biblical verses. They are written on a wide variety of papers, including colored paper, notebook paper and even bubblegum wrappers, using a variety of inks.
Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch (or Rabinowitz), Rabbi of the Western Wall, receives hundreds of letters yearly addressed to "God, Jerusalem"; he folds these letters and places them, too, in the Wall.
Online services offer petitioners the opportunity to send their notes to the Western Wall via e-mail, fax, text messaging and Internet; the note is then printed out and inserted in the Wall. The Israeli Telephone Company has established such a fax service, as have a number of charitable websites.
Disposal of notes
According to Jewish law, prayer notes may not be thrown away; there is a difference of opinion as to whether they should be burned or buried. According to Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, Rabbi of the Western Wall and author of Minhagei HaKotel, a book of halakhot about the Western Wall, burning is a "pure" way to deal with the notes, but burying them is more honorable. Rabinowitz further states that the letters are buried because they have the status of letters to God. Twice a year, ahead of Rosh Hashanah and Passover, Rabinowitz and his assistants collect the notes left in the Wall and bury them in the Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives.
Notable persons who have placed notes in the Wall
The tradition of leaving notes for God in the Western Wall has also been adopted by Christian pilgrims and people of other faiths. Foreign dignitaries who have publicly placed a message in the Western Wall include Pope John Paul II (in 2000), Pope Benedict XVI (in 2008) and Pope Benedict XVI, again in 2009, who released its contents to the media.
U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton deposited a note in 2005. In July 2008, U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama placed a written prayer in the Wall. After Obama and his entourage departed, his note—written on hotel stationery—was removed from the Wall by a seminary student who sold it to the Maariv newspaper. The newspaper published the note, prompting criticism from other news sources and from the Rabbi of the Western Wall for violating the privacy that is inherent in notes placed in the Wall. In July 2012, U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney placed a written prayer in the Wall. His note was later moved to a different location in the Wall for privacy reasons and to avoid a repeat of the incident with Obama's note in 2008.
On May 22, 2017, Donald Trump became the first sitting U.S. President to visit the Wall; he also inserted a note. Trump's Vice President, Mike Pence, visited the Wall and deposited a prayer note on January 23, 2018, at the conclusion of his four-day visit to Israel.
See also
Kvitel
References
External links
"Ask the Rabbi: Writing on the Wall"
Place a note in the wall courtesy of Aish HaTorah
Send an Online Prayer Note to be placed in the Kotel by volunteers.
Western Wall
Jewish prayer and ritual texts
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Aššur-uballiṭ or Ashur-uballit was one of two Assyrian kings:
Ashur-uballit I or Aššur-uballiṭ I, reigned between 1365 and 1330 BC, was the first king of the Middle Assyrian Empire
Ashur-uballit II or Aššur-uballiṭ II, last king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, succeeding Sin-shar-ishkun (623–612 BC)
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The women's marathon event at the 1986 Commonwealth Games was held in Edinburgh, Scotland on 1 August 1986. It was the first time that women contested the marathon at the Commonwealth Games.
Results
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Marathon
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The Auchincruive Waggonway or Whitletts Waggonway was a mineral railway or 'Bogey line' that transported mainly coal, eventually running from the north side of Ayr harbour at Newton to Blackhouse, Whitletts, Dalmilling, Gibbsyard, Auchincruive Holm, Annbank and Enterkine. Apart from carrying coal to the harbour, lime kilns, quarries and a salt works were also served.
History
Writing in 1811 Aiton records that "Richard Oswald of Auchincruive, Esq; formed, some years ago, an iron rail-way, from his coal-works to near the town of Ayr, but could not obtain liberty to carry it through the Burgh-acres, to the harbour." Aiton also notes that "Taylor Esq; has made a rail-way, of nearly the same length, from his coal-pits, in the lands of Newton, to the north harbour of Ayr."
By 1792 the waggonway had reached Ayr harbour and a report of 1807 indicates that the old waggonway had been completely replaced.
The waggonway was still in active use in 1838 when the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway was constructed with its terminus north of the river in Newton and this necessitated the construction of a level manned crossing with gates. The act authorising the construction of the line included an amendment that prevented the company from interfering with the waggonway's operation. The GPK&AR's successor was the Glasgow & South Western Railway and they also were prevented from disrupting the smooth running of the waggonway when they extend their line south of the river.
By 1837 the waggonway had been extended to Whitletts and by 1838 it had extended to Dalmilling, reaching the Thorneyflat area after 1838 and the Auchincruive pits by 1846. Annbank was in use by the 1860s and had closed by 1872.
The pits
In the 1840s Messrs. George Taylor and Company owned pits near the Old Bridge; the Allison Pit near Russell Street; Newton Head Pit near Tam's Brig; as well as Saltfield and Green Pits near Newton Lodge. Two pits that had closed by 1869 were Peelhill No. 1 just north of Oswald's Bridge and Peelhill No. 2 that lay between Mount Loudoun and Mount Stairs. The Holm Pit stood just downstream of Oswald's Bridge on the south side of the river and operated in the 1860s. By 1839 nearly 70,000 tons of coal per year were being carried by the waggonway and exported by ship. The Kerr Pit near Whitletts had closed by 1854, Blackhouse Pit closed in 1863 and Auchincruive Pits by the late 1860s.
Associated infrastructure
It is known that various sorts of sleepers were used, including stone blocks that were favoured on horse-worked lines, as they did not interfere with the centre of the track wooden sleepers do as they run right across the centre of the trackbed. 5 or 6 foot long wood sleepers made from beech with areas for the chairs have been found as have both wood pegs and wrought iron spikes.
The waggonway gauge is not known, however from relics such as wooden railway sleepers estimates suggest 3 ft 6in, 4 ft 2in or 4 ft 8.5in. It is possible that the gauge was changed at some point during its long history. Most of the route was single track with numerous passing loops. No indication of formal signalling is recorded.
It is not clear what sort of rails were used in the early days as sand would have accumulated on 'L' shaped rails however waggons without a flange may have been used. A wrought iron rail and a section of 'L' shaped cast iron rail have been recorded.
Operation of the Waggonway
In keeping with other such waggonways the line was probably worked by a combination of gravity, manually, by horses and eventually steam locomotives. Most of the coal carried to the North Quay from the pits at Whitletts and Auchincruive was transported in trains of four, two or three ton waggons hauled by horses. At the quay stood the wooden 'hurries' where the coal was tipped into the holds of the fleet of colliers and most transported to Ireland. In 1857 four hurries are shown on the OS map with double tracks leading to each.
A horse would usually haul between 5 and 7 coal waggons carrying 26 cwt each. The use of steam locomotives is recorded and by 1860 they were used with the record of a death caused by an accident involving a locomotive returning from Annbank in 1865.
The Oswald's Bridge to Annbank sections of the line involved substantial earthworks to create the cuttings and the embankments as well as the impressive Brockle Bridge that crossed the River Ayr below Tarholm, however it was only in use for around fifteen years from 1865 and was closed in the 1870s and lifted well before 1775.
The waggons were tipped at the hurry on the harbour edge and one end opened allowing the coal to tumble into the hold of the collier in a process that took about a minute for each waggon.
It is unclear how many steam locomotives were used however one is described as being about 25 horsepower, requiring no tender as the water tank was positioned above the boiler and the coal was stored on either side of the driver's cab.
The routes
The waggonway had a complex history with possible changes of route and frequent abandonment of branches and sidings as many of the pits had relatively short working lives. The waggonway at its greatest extent had a 'main line' that ran from a complex of sidings running to the side of the quay at Newton on Ayr up through Wallacetown, onwards past Blackhouse, Whitletts and Dalmilling from whence it ran towards Thorneyflat with a branch to Gibbsyard, Stevenson and Wheatpark, whilst running onwards via New Barns to Holm where the terminus was for a number of years. Crossing the River Ayr below Oswald's Bridge it continued sometime after 1865 towards Annbank via Brockle Quarry and Colvinston Farm to end near Enterkine No. 3 Pit, at least five miles from Ayr.
A number of other pits in the vicinity of the waggonway may also have been served by the waggonway although no hard evidence survives.
A large embankment ran across the Long Holm to the Holm Pit at Oswald's Bridge and this was removed the 1920s although it is till visible as a cropmark.
The waggonway and pits today
Little or nothing survives at many of the various pits and associated spoil heaps, however sections of the track bed can be identified in such places as Cutting Wood and Pheasant Nook near Auchincruive as well as the remains of waggonway bridges across the River Ayr at Brockle Quarry and below Oswald's Bridge. Road overbridges survive intact at Oaklea Farm and Colvinston Farm. Stone railway sleepers with the imprint of the chair base and two drilled holes survive as part of the Oaklea Bridge. Foundations of buildings and the abutment of the old bridge survive in the vicinity of the old Holm Pit. A section of the old trackbed near the site of Annbaank House is used as a footpath and is known locally as the old line.
Micro-history
Other contemporary waggonways existed on the Craigie and on the Holmiston estates with sections of trackbed traceable near the Holmiston lime kiln above Wallace's Heel Well. A very short waggonway appears to have existed at Wallacetown as far back as 1775.
Robert Burns would have been familiar with the Auchincruive Waggonway however he never commented on them.
See also
Craigie Waggonway
Haytor Granite Tramway
Ravenscraig and Jameston Railway
Stevenston Canal
Towerlands Tram Road
References
Notes
References
Aiton, William (1811). General View of the Agriculture of the County of Ayr. Ayr : Wilson & Paul.
Broad, Harry (1981). Rails to Ayr. 18th & 19th Century Coal Waggonways. Ayr Arch & Nat Hist Soc.
Dunlop, Annie (1953). The Royal Burgh of Ayr. Edinburgh : Oliver and Boyd.
Love, Dane (2010). The River Ayr Way. Auchinleck : Carn Publishing. .
Robertson, William (1905). Old Ayrshire Days. Ayr : Stephen & Pollock.
Wham, Alasdair (2013). Ayrshire's Forgotten Railways. Usk : Oakwood Press. .
External links
Video footage of the Oswald's Bridge to Brockle Bridge.
Economy of South Ayrshire
Quarries in Scotland
Horse-drawn railways
Transport in South Ayrshire
History of South Ayrshire
1784 establishments in Scotland
1872 disestablishments in the United Kingdom
1872 in Scotland
Rail transport in Scotland
Coal mining in Scotland
Closed railway lines in Scotland
1872 disestablishments in Scotland
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Holmen is a village in La Crosse County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 10,661 as of the census of 2020. It is part of the La Crosse-Onalaska, WI-MN Metropolitan Statistical Area.
History
Holmen was settled by Norwegian immigrants in 1862. It was incorporated as a village on May 7, 1946. The community was previously known as Frederickstown, to honor Holmen's blacksmith Frederick Anderson. The name was changed when Charles A. Sjolander opened the post office in September 1875. The name Holmen is a norwegian word and translates to islet (a small island).
Geography
Holmen contains wooded areas, hills, and bluffs, typical of the Driftless Area, or Coulee Region. The Mississippi River passes just to the southwest of the village.
Holmen is located at (43.955330, −91.259132). According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land. Star Hill is a prominent bluff adjacent to downtown Holmen and is one of the tallest areas of the village. The hill gets its name from a light up star on top of the hill.
Demographics
2020 census
As of the census of 2020, there were 10,661 people, 4,382 households, and 2,431 families residing in the village. The population density was . There were 4,382 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the village was 86.3% White, 1.1% African American, 7.8% Asian, and 3.4% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.7% of the population.
2010 census
As of the census of 2010, there were 9,005 people, 3,400 households, and 2,431 families residing in the village. The population density was . There were 3,521 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the village was 90.4% White, 0.6% African American, 0.2% Native American, 7.0% Asian, 0.2% from other races, and 1.5% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.1% of the population.
There were 3,400 households, of which 41.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 55.5% were married couples living together, 10.8% had a female householder with no husband present, 5.2% had a male householder with no wife present, and 28.5% were non-families. 23.1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 8.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.64 and the average family size was 3.14.
The median age in the village was 34.1 years. 30% of residents were under the age of 18; 6.7% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 30.6% were from 25 to 44; 22.7% were from 45 to 64; and 10.2% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the village was 48.9% male and 51.1% female.
Education
Holmen is part of the Holmen School District. Secondary education is provided by Holmen High School, Holmen Middle School and four elementary schools. The district's mascot is the Viking.
Notable people
Jeren Kendall, baseball player for the Los Angeles Dodgers, attended Holmen High School and graduated in 2014
Valentine S. Keppel, farmer, businessman, and politician, lived in Holmen
Taylor Kohlwey, professional baseball outfielder for the San Diego Padres, born and raised in Holmen. Attended Holmen High School and graduated in 2012.
Craig Newsome, Rookie of Year Award Winner, 1995 All-Madden Team, Super Bowl Champion with the Green Bay Packers in 1997. In 1999 he was traded to the San Francisco 49ers. He played in the NFL from 1995–2000
Gallery
References
External links
Holmen, Wisconsin
Holmen Kornfest (Annual festival)
Holmen Area Historical Society
Villages in La Crosse County, Wisconsin
Villages in Wisconsin
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Prodigal Sons is a studio album by the Irish folk group The Dubliners. Produced by Bill Whelan, who later became famous for Riverdance, this album featured cellist Nigel Warren-Green as guest musician. Although Luke Kelly recorded his famous versions of "Raglan Road" and "Song for Ireland" during these sessions, neither track featured on this album, although Seán Cannon's version of "Song for Ireland" did. The two Kelly recordings would first appear on the compilation album, Luke's Legacy after his death. The album took its name from John Sheahan's composition, "The Prodigal Son". The album featured both contemporary and traditional songs as well as instrumental pieces.
Track listing
Side One:
"Building Up and Tearing England Down" (Dominic Behan)
"Jigs - My Darling Asleep/Paddy in London/An Tathair Jack Walsh"
"The Newry Highwayman"
"When Margaret Was Eleven" (Pete St. John)
"Prodigal Son" (John Sheahan)
Side Two:
"The Waterford Boys"
"Reels - The Humours of Scariff/The Flannel Jacket"
"Now I'm Easy" (Eric Bogle)
"The Hen's March to the Midden"
"Song for Ireland" (Phil Colclough)
"Second World Song" (David McDonagh)
All tracks Trad. Arr. The Dubliners unless otherwise stated
Personnel
Ronnie Drew - guitar, vocals
Barney McKenna - banjo, mandolin, vocals
John Sheahan - fiddle, tin whistle, vocals
Seán Cannon - guitar, vocals
Eamonn Campbell - guitar
Des Moore - guitar
Nigel Warren-Green - cello
Bill Whelan - keyboards, producer
Philip Begley - engineer
Fergus Bourke - photographer
Dara O Lochlainn - sleeve design
References
The Dubliners albums
1983 albums
Polydor Records albums
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Sand River, Nova Scotia
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Sand River is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in Cumberland County .
References
Sand River on Destination Nova Scotia
Communities in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia
General Service Areas in Nova Scotia
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Marzuki Elias
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Marzuki Elias is a Singaporean footballer who played as a left-back for the Singapore national team in the 1984 Asian Cup.
He used to play for Farrer Park United.
References
Stats
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Singaporean men's footballers
Singapore men's international footballers
1984 AFC Asian Cup players
SEA Games silver medalists for Singapore
SEA Games medalists in football
Men's association football defenders
Competitors at the 1981 SEA Games
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West Hinsdale station
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West Hinsdale is one of three stations on Metra's BNSF Line in Hinsdale, Illinois. The station is from Union Station, the eastern terminus of the line. It is closed on weekends and holidays. In Metra's zone-based fare system, West Hinsdale is in zone D. As of 2018, West Hinsdale is the 143rd busiest of Metra's 236 non-downtown stations, with an average of 306 weekday boardings. There is an unstaffed weather shelter used only during rush hour. The station is immediately adjacent to Stough Park in Hinsdale and is located 0.5 miles from downtown Clarendon Hills, Illinois.
References
External links
Station from Stough Street from Google Maps Street View
Metra stations in Illinois
Former Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad stations
Hinsdale, Illinois
Railway stations in Cook County, Illinois
Railway stations in DuPage County, Illinois
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1875
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Outline of A Song of Ice and Fire franchise
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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire media franchise:
A Song of Ice and Fire – series of epic fantasy novels by the American novelist and screenwriter George R. R. Martin. A Song of Ice and Fire takes place on the fictional continents Westeros and Essos. The point of view of each chapter in the story is a limited perspective of a range of characters growing from nine, in the first novel, to thirty-one by the fifth. The works and their setting have inspired a large media franchise. Among the many derived works are several prequel novellas, a TV series, a comic book adaptation, and several card, board, and video games.
What type of thing is A Song of Ice and Fire?
A Song of Ice and Fire is an example of all of the following:
Fiction – form of narrative which deals, in part or in whole, with events that are not factual, but rather, imaginary and invented by its author(s). Although fiction often describes a major branch of literary work, it is also applied to theatrical, cinematic, and musical work.
A series of novels – set or series of novels which share common themes, characters, or settings, but where each novel has its own title and free-standing storyline, and can thus be read independently or out of sequence. Novels are a form of fiction.
Fantasy fiction – fiction genre that uses magic or other supernatural elements as a main plot element, theme, or setting.
High fantasy fiction – subgenre of fantasy, defined either by its setting in an imaginary world or by the epic stature of its characters, themes, and plot.
a fantasy world – fictional setting comprising an entire planet, used in fantasy fiction, for example in novels and games. Typical worlds involve magic or magical abilities and often, but not always, either a medieval or futuristic theme. Some worlds may be an entirely independent world set in another universe. See World of A Song of Ice and Fire.
a fictional setting – place that exists only in fiction and not in reality. Writers may create and describe such places to serve as the backdrop for their fictional works.
a fictional universe –
a constructed world – Developing an imaginary setting with coherent qualities such as a history, geography, and ecology is a key task for many science fiction and fantasy writers. Worldbuilding often involves the creation of maps, a backstory, and people for the world. Constructed worlds can enrich the backstory and history of fictional works, and can be created for personal amusement or for specific creative endeavors such as novels, video games, or role-playing games.
Intellectual property – creations of the mind, protected by copyright. Intangible assets, such as musical, literary, and artistic works. The first volume of the series, A Game of Thrones, was published (and copyrighted) in 1996.
a media franchise – collection of media whereby intellectual property (IP) is licensed from an original work of media (usually a work of fiction), such as a film, a work of literature, a television program or a video game, to other parties or partners for commercial exploitation. A property can be exploited across a range of mediums and by a variety of industries for merchandising purposes. A Song of Ice and Fire has been marketed in the form of books, a television series, a comic book, games, etc. See franchises originating in literary works.
A Song of Ice and Fire media franchise
Original works
Author: George R. R. Martin
Novels
A Game of Thrones (1996)
A Clash of Kings (1998)
A Storm of Swords (2000)
A Feast for Crows (2005)
A Dance with Dragons (2011)
The Winds of Winter (TBA)
A Dream of Spring (TBA)
Prequels
Tales of Dunk and Egg (1998–2015) / A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (2015)
The Hedge Knight (1998)
The Sworn Sword (2003)
The Mystery Knight (2010)
The Princess and the Queen (2013)
The Rogue Prince (2014)
The Sons of the Dragon (2017)
Fire & Blood (2018)
Works based on A Song of Ice and Fire
Companion books
The World of Ice & Fire (2014)
Game of Thrones television series
Game of Thrones episodes
Game of Thrones Season 1
"Winter Is Coming"
"The Kingsroad"
"Lord Snow"
"Cripples, Bastards, and Broken Things"
"The Wolf and the Lion"
"A Golden Crown"
"You Win or You Die"
"The Pointy End"
"Baelor"
"Fire and Blood"
Game of Thrones Season 2
"The North Remembers"
"The Night Lands"
"What Is Dead May Never Die"
"Garden of Bones"
"The Ghost of Harrenhal"
"The Old Gods and the New"
"A Man Without Honor"
"The Prince of Winterfell"
"Blackwater"
"Valar Morghulis"
Game of Thrones Season 3
"Valar Dohaeris"
"Dark Wings, Dark Words"
"Walk of Punishment"
"And Now His Watch Is Ended"
"Kissed by Fire"
"The Climb"
"The Bear and the Maiden Fair"
"Second Sons"
"The Rains of Castamere"
"Mhysa"
Game of Thrones Season 4
"Two Swords"
"The Lion and the Rose"
"Breaker of Chains"
"Oathkeeper"
"First of His Name"
"The Laws of Gods and Men"
"Mockingbird"
"The Mountain and the Viper"
"The Watchers on the Wall"
"The Children"
Game of Thrones Season 5
"The Wars to Come"
"The House of Black and White"
"High Sparrow"
"Sons of the Harpy"
"Kill the Boy"
"Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken"
"The Gift"
"Hardhome"
"The Dance of Dragons"
"Mother's Mercy"
Game of Thrones Season 6
"The Red Woman"
"Home"
"Oathbreaker"
"Book of the Stranger"
"The Door"
"Blood of My Blood"
"The Broken Man"
"No One"
"Battle of the Bastards"
"The Winds of Winter"
Game of Thrones Season 7
"Dragonstone"
"Stormborn"
"The Queen's Justice"
"The Spoils of War"
"Eastwatch"
"Beyond the Wall"
"The Dragon and the Wolf"
Game of Thrones Season 8
"Winterfell"
"A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms"
"The Long Night"
"The Last of the Starks"
"The Bells"
"The Iron Throne"
Companion series
After the Thrones
Thronecast
Awards and nominations received by Game of Thrones
Game of Thrones characters
Game of Thrones directors
Music of Game of Thrones
Game of Thrones title sequence
Tabletop games
Board game
First expansion
Second expansion
Second Edition
First expansion
Second Expansion
Third Expansion
Card game
Second edition
A Song of Ice and Fire video games
A Song of Ice and Fire video games
A Game of Thrones: Genesis
Game of Thrones (2012)
Game of Thrones: Ascent
Game of Thrones (2014)
Game of Thrones: Conquest
Reigns: Game of Thrones
Game of Thrones: Seven Kingdoms
A Song of Ice and Fire role-playing games
A Game of Thrones
A Song of Ice and Fire Roleplaying
Other media
Comic book series
Second series
World of A Song of Ice and Fire
Geography of The Known World
Westeros
Regions of Westeros
The Crownlands
Dorne
The Iron Islands
The North
Beyond the Wall
The Reach
The Riverlands
The Stormlands
The Vale of Arryn
The Westerlands
Strongholds of Westeros
Casterly Rock
Harrenhal
Highgarden
King's Landing
Old Town
Pyke
Riverrun
Storm's End
Sunspear
The Eyrie
The Twins
The Wall
Winterfell
Essos
People in The Known World
Game of Thrones characters
A Song of Ice and Fire characters
Petyr Baelish
Joffrey Baratheon
Renly Baratheon
Robert Baratheon
Stannis Baratheon
Tommen Baratheon
Ramsay Bolton
Roose Bolton
Bronn
Sandor Clegane
Khal Drogo
Tormund Giantsbane
Theon Greyjoy
Cersei Lannister
Jaime Lannister
Tyrion Lannister
Tywin Lannister
Oberyn Martell
Melisandre
Jorah Mormont
Daario Naharis
Davos Seaworth
Jon Snow
Arya Stark
Bran Stark
Catelyn Stark
Ned Stark
Robb Stark
Sansa Stark
Daenerys Targaryen
Viserys Targaryen
Samwell Tarly
Brienne of Tarth
Margaery Tyrell
Varys
Ygritte
Noble families
House Stark
House Lannister
House Arryn
House Baratheon
House Bolton
House Greyjoy
House Martell
House Targaryen
House Tarly
House Tully
House Tyrell
Beings of The Known World
Children of the Forest
Direwolves
Dragons
White Walkers
Night King
Wights
Languages of The Known World
Languages of A Song of Ice and Fire
Dothraki
Valyrian
Themes in A Song of Ice and Fire
Iron Throne
White Walker
A Song of Ice and Fire fandom
A Song of Ice and Fire fandom
See also
Sexposition
Outline of fantasy
Outline of Narnia
Outline of Middle Earth
References
External links
George R. R. Martin's Official Website
So Spake Martin, Collection of statements, correspondences and interviews by George R. R. Martin.
A Song of Ice and Fire
A Song of Ice and Fire
A Song of Ice and Fire
Song of Ice and Fire, A
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David Steinberg (crossword editor)
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David Steinberg (born in 1996) is a crossword constructor and editor. At 15, he became the youngest published constructor in the Los Angeles Times and the youngest known crossword editor ever for a major newspaper (Orange County Register).
Early life and education
Steinberg was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and raised in California and Washington. In middle school, he was introduced to The New York Times crossword puzzle by his parents and, after seeing Merl Reagle build a puzzle in the movie Wordplay, began constructing. He attended Turtle Rock Elementary School in Irvine, California, the Lakeside School in Seattle, and Palos Verdes Peninsula High School. He is a graduate of Stanford University.
Puzzle career
Steinberg's first crossword publication was in The New York Times on June 16, 2011. Since then he has published nearly 500 puzzles in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Newsday, Orange County Register, Fireball Crosswords, Daily Celebrity Crossword, the American Values Club Crossword, BuzzFeed, 10-4 Magazine, The Jerusalem Post, and books. One of his puzzles was selected for Twenty Under Thirty, and another appeared in The American Red Crossword Book.
In June 2012, he founded the Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project, a collaborative effort to build a digitized, fully analyzable database of The New York Times crossword puzzles published before Will Shortz became editor. Steinberg directs the project, which was an outgrowth of a project he conducted for a science research course while a freshman in high school.
An e-book with 25 crosswords by Steinberg, Chromatics, was published in September 2012. Two months later, he was made crossword editor of the Orange County Registers 24 weekly associated newspapers. This puzzle feature expanded into the Riverside County Press-Enterprise and the now-defunct Los Angeles Register associated newspapers.
In December 2012, Steinberg was named Person of the Year on XWord Info, which recognizes "remarkable contributors to crosswords."
In June 2013, Steinberg collaborated with veteran New York Times constructor Bernice Gordon on a puzzle that was historic because of their 83-year age difference. At 99, Gordon was the oldest currently publishing New York Times crossword constructor; at 16, Steinberg was the youngest.
In 2013, Steinberg was the most prolific New York Times constructor, published a total of 15 times that year.
Juicy Crosswords, a book containing crosswords Steinberg edited for the Orange County Register, was published by Sterling Publishing in 2016.
In October 2017, Steinberg became editor of The Puzzle Society Crossword, a daily nationally syndicated feature published by Andrews McMeel Universal.
In December 2018, he was named editor of the Universal Crossword, a daily and Sunday internationally syndicated puzzle published by Andrews McMeel Universal.
In September 2019, he became Puzzles and Games Editor at Andrews McMeel Universal, where he continues to edit the Universal Crossword.
References
External links
Personal website
1996 births
Living people
Crossword creators
Puzzle designers
Lakeside School (Seattle) alumni
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2006 Nestea European Championship final
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The 2006 NESTEA European Championship Final (or the 2006 European Beach Volleyball Championships,) was held from August 25 to August 28, 2006 in The Hague, Netherlands. It was the fourteenth official edition of the men's event, which started in 1993, while the women competed for the thirteenth time.
The Championships were part of the 2006 Nestea European Championship Tour.
Men's competition
A total number of 24 participating couples
Women's competition
A total number of 24 participating couples
References
Beach Volleyball Results
E
B
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21st century in The Hague
Beach volleyball in the Netherlands
European Beach Volleyball Championship finals
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Belekoy
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Belekoy is a Filipino delicacy that originated from Bulacan, Philippines. This sweet confection is prepared with flour, sugar, sesame seeds and vanilla. It is baked in a pan where it is then cut into rectangular or square shapes. Variations of this dessert mix in candies and nuts such as caramel, chocolate, and walnuts.
See also
Pastillas
References
Culture of Bulacan
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Nikolay Bayryakov () (born September 5, 1989) is a Bulgarian Greco-Roman wrestler. He competed in the men's Greco-Roman 85 kg event at the 2016 Summer Olympics, in which he lost the bronze medal match to Javid Hamzatau.
References
External links
1989 births
Living people
Bulgarian male sport wrestlers
Olympic wrestlers for Bulgaria
Wrestlers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Wrestlers at the 2019 European Games
European Games competitors for Bulgaria
European Wrestling Championships medalists
21st-century Bulgarian people
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Karena Evans
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Karena Evans (born December 17, 1995) is a Canadian director and actress. She garnered recognition for directing the music videos for Drake's 2018 Billboard Hot 100 chart-topping singles, "God's Plan", "Nice for What", and "In My Feelings". Evans won the 2018 Much Music Video Award for Best Director and became the first woman to receive the Prism Prize's Lipsett Award for music video direction.
Evans has acted in the television series Mary Kills People and had a starring role in the 2018 indie film Firecrackers, which premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival. In 2020, Evans directed the premiere episode for the Starz drama series P-Valley. She directed an episode of the fourth season of the FX crime drama Snowfall, and she directed the first two episodes of the HBO Max Gossip Girl reboot.
Career
Directing
Evans began her career in the music industry as an intern for Director X. She was eventually signed as a director to his music video production company, Popprok. Since then, Evans has directed music videos for numerous artists, including Belly and Sean Paul. She has also directed commercials for Nike, Inc., including a Black Lives Matter short for the brand.
Evans garnered attention in early 2018 when she directed the music video for Drake's single "God's Plan"; the video went viral and the song reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100. The video depicts Drake donating his $1 million production budget to the people of Miami. Evans subsequently directed his "Nice for What" music video, which garnered critical acclaim from several publications. Evans referred to the video as a "celebration of women", as the video featured iconic female stars such as Olivia Wilde and Issa Rae. Vogue lauded Evans as "surely destined to be the starriest young video director in the firmament". Later that year, she became the first woman to win the Prism Prize's Lipsett Award for music video direction. That year, Director X posted a congratulations to Evans with this caption:"@karenaevans started as an intern. She stayed longer worked harder than everyone else. From intern to director at my company. Last year grinding on low budget jobs giving big budget results. This year she’s directed @champagnepapi God’s Plan & the new single Nice For What. When work ethic is matched by talent. Big up the team @popp_rok for pulling this wide ranging job off. Here’s some bts footage for all y’all 🙌🏽 (feel like a Dad video taping his daughter at a recital when ever I come to set)"In May 2018, SZA released a music video featuring Donald Glover for her song "Garden (Say It Like That)", which was directed by Evans. Evans signed with WME later that month. That summer, she also directed the music videos for Drake's singles "I'm Upset" and "In My Feelings".
In late 2018, Evans earned Much Music Video Award and MTV Video Music Award nominations for her work on Drake's videos. She ultimately won Best Director at the 2018 iHeartRadio MMVAs for her work on "God's Plan". In 2020, Evans was placed on BET's "Future 40" list, which is a list of “40 of the most inspiring and innovative vanguards who are redefining what it means to be unapologetically young, gifted, and black”.
Acting
As an actress, Evans began her career in 2016 with a role in a short film called WhiteWoods. In 2018, she starred in two feature films, Michael Sucsy's Every Day and Jasmin Mozaffari's Firecrackers, opposite Michaela Kurimsky, the latter of which premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival. That same year, she also performed a recurring role in the Canadian television series Mary Kills People.
Influences
Evans is the younger sister of Jordan Evans, a producer who has worked with several successful artists, and was inspired by him to pursue her passion. Evans has stated that she is heavily influenced by Melina Matsoukas, whom she called her "hero" in an interview with Billboard. Evans hopes to be an inspiration for other young black women from her hometown of Toronto.
Filmography
Film
TV
Music videos
References
External links
1995 births
Living people
Canadian music video directors
21st-century Canadian actresses
Actresses from Toronto
Canadian film actresses
Canadian television actresses
Black Canadian writers
Black Canadian actresses
Writers from Toronto
Black Canadian women writers
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Masque of the Red Death and Other Tales
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Masque of the Red Death and Other Tales is an accessory for the 2nd edition of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.
Contents
Red Death refers to a malevolent entity spawned in ancient Egypt during the "golden age of magic." It proceeded to wreak havoc for a few thousand years, promoting violence and catalyzing disasters. By the late 19th century, the era in which the game unfolds, the world totters on the edge of the abyss. The player characters are poised to challenge the Red Death and its minions. The Masque of the Red Death setting combines real-world history with legends and literature. Thus, necromancers practice dark arts among the slave traders of New Orleans, while Buenos Aires agricultural barons attempt to squelch rumors of monstrous winged serpents. Spirit creatures stalk the settlers of the American West. Sherlock Holmes shares a railroad car with Count Dracula. Unlike the basic Ravenloft setting, where mysterious mists divide the realm into distinct settings, the Gothic Earth setting has no divisions.
Masque begins by replacing the traditional character classes with soldiers (like fighters, but can't specialize in favored weapons), adepts (wizards with limited magic and no school specialization), mystics (priests with limited magic), and tradesmen (like thieves, but without thief abilities). All player characters must be human. Additionally, player characters are encouraged to select character kits from a list of vocations such as Cavalryman, Journalist, and Laborer. Nonweapon proficiencies, optional in the standard AD&D game, are required here; among the choices are Chemistry, Photography, and Criminology.
Masque also introduces Ravenloft setting players to gunpowder. Armor provides no protection against firearms used at short range, and only modest protection at medium and long ranges. Characters attempting to empty their guns may take advantage of a two-part combat round, making half their attacks in part one, the rest in part two. To reflect the increased damage from bullets, any damage die showing a 6 is rerolled.
A caster cannot use spells unless the caster makes a successful proficiency check. Magical items are rare, and in some cases, unavailable. Even acquiring a spell is risky; if a character attempting to learn a new spell fails a System Shock roll, he loses one point of Strength or Constitution.
The rule book ends with an informative chapter of referee tips, covering rule modifications from the Ravenloft boxed set. Three fully developed adventures are included, each in its own 32-page booklet, called "Red Tide", "Red Jack", and "Red Death" respectively.
Publication history
Masque of the Red Death and other Tales is an Advanced Dungeons & Dragons game supplement for the Ravenloft setting, published by TSR, Inc. as a boxed set containing one 128-page book, three 32-page books, one three-panel referee screen, one 21" X 32" map sheet, one 21" X 32" poster. Design was by William W. Connors with D.J. Heinrich, Colin McComb, and Shane Hensley; editing was by Anne Brown, Jonatha Ariadne Caspian, and Richard Pike-Brown. Illustrations were by Stephen Fabian and Ned Dameron, with a cover by Robh Ruppel.
Reception
Rick Swan reviewed Masque of the Red Death and Other Tales for Dragon magazine #216 (April 1995). He declares that Masque of the Red Death is cause for celebration, especially for players whose AD&D game campaigns have gone stale. Not exactly the Ravenloft setting and not exactly a new game, Connors' little mutant is the most provocative AD&D variant since the Spelljammer campaign." He commented: "Balancing blood-soaked imagery with humorous flourishes [...] Masque deftly combines the gloom of White Wolf's Vampire: The Masquerade game and the whimsy of R. Talsorian's Castle Falkenstein game. Though Masque would've benefited form a tighter focus—why not just concentrate on Europe instead of struggling to cover the whole world?—there's more to embrace than complain about." Swan continued: "Still, Masque'''s drawing card isn't the Victorian setting. As good as it is, we’ve been here before, not just in Castle Falkenstein, but also in Chaosium's Cthulhu by Gaslight (an expansion for the Call of Cthulhu game) and TSR’s own For Faerie, Queen, and Country supplement for the Amazing Engine game. The main attraction is the game system." He added that for firearms, its "Simple, common sense rules ease the transition from crossbows to carbines" and for its rules on magic, "Reduced reliance on magic further nudges Masque in the direction of realism." He commented on the three adventure booklets, saying that they "answer most of the questions about staging campaigns. Red Tide serves up few surprises—anyone who can't anticipate the plot twists hasn't seen enough late shows—but plenty of action and a lot of fun. Red Jack, a Jack the Ripper take-off, put my entire party in the cemetery—consider that a recommendation. Red Death uses Edgar Allan Poe as a springboard for a tricky mystery. Swan contended that graphically, "the Ravenloft campaign remains the most conservative horror RPG on the market; compared to the in-your-face White Wolf line, the Ravenloft setting is about as visually compelling as the Cryptkeeper cartoon series. [...] Though the referee screen does a nice job of displaying the tables, the posters don't amount to much. One features a more or less standard map of the world, intended, I guess, for those who don't have access to an atlas. The other depicts the cover art and the Ravenloft logo, intended, I guess, for those inclined to help TSR promote their products." Swan concluded the review by saying: "The Victorian setting's fine, but it's a sidebar to the system overhaul. Masque of the Red Death makes a persuasive case for reality-based role-playing, where wits count more than muscle and a shotgun packs more punch than a fireball. Endearingly human, these are the only AD&D game characters I'd consider using as investigators in a Call of Cthulhu game or, for that matter, as adversaries in a Vampire campaign. And nitpickers who've been clamoring for a streamlined, skill-based AD&D game ought to be dancing in the streets. Masque of the Red Death doesn't qualify as the Third Edition of the AD&D game, but it's a reasonable facsimile—call it Second Edition, Version 2.0. May Connors' next mutant be just as ornery."
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References
Ravenloft supplements
Role-playing game supplements introduced in 1994
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Government Medical College, Chittorgarh
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Government Medical College, Chittorgarh, established in 2022, is one of the new medical colleges in the state Rajasthan, India. This college is located at Chittorgarh, one of the famous tourist spots in Rajasthan. The college imparts the degree of Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MBBS). The college is recognized by National Medical Commission and is affiliated with the Rajasthan University of Health Sciences. Like all other Indian medical colleges, students are selected in this college on the basis of merit through National Eligibility and Entrance Test. The hospital associated with this college is one of the largest hospitals in Chittorgarh.
Courses
Annual intake capacity of Undergraduates is 100
References
Affiliates of Rajasthan University of Health Sciences
Universities and colleges established in 2022
Medical colleges in Rajasthan
2022 establishments in India
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Đedovci
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Đedovci () is a village in the municipality of Sokolac, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Populated places in Sokolac
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Just Like Heaven
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Just like Heaven may refer to:
Just like Heaven (film), a 2005 romantic comedy starring Reese Witherspoon and Mark Ruffalo
Just Like Heaven (1930 film), a drama starring Anita Louise and David Newell
Just Like Heaven, a romance novel by Julia Quinn
"Just Like Heaven" (The Cure song), 1987
"Just Like Heaven" (Brandon Lake song), 2020
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National Security Service (Armenia)
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The National Security Service (NSS) () is the principal intelligence service of Armenia, responsible for foreign intelligence, counterintelligence, national security affairs, and cryptography. The service is also responsible for the Armenian Border Guard and the security detail for the Prime Minister of Armenia. The NSS succeeded the KGB of the Armenian SSR following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Despite other former Soviet republics reorganizing their intelligence services and modeling them on the Russian intelligence community, the organizational structure of the NSS remains closer to that of the former KGB, composed mainly of active duty members of the Ministry of Defence. The NSS is headquartered on Nalbandyan Street in the Kentron district of downtown Yerevan.
History
In late September 1991, the Soviet republic of Armenia declared its independence and began the process of restructuring its Soviet-era security agencies, including the Committee for State Security (KGB) of the Armenian SSR. According to a law on the structure and composition of the government adopted on 4 December 1991, the KGB was renamed into the State Directorate of National Security, with Major General Husik Suren Harutyunyan becoming its first director, serving until February 1992.
Between 1996 and 1999, the government went through the process of uniting the Ministry of National Security and the Ministry of Internal Affairs into one department. Despite rumors that the NSS will be dismembered into several departments to follow a Russian format, the service runs with a KGB-style semi-militarized structure which remains unchanged since its establishment. On 17 December 2002, President Robert Kocharyan restructured the National Security Ministry into the NSS.
Operations
It is known to have participated in both the 2016 Yerevan hostage crisis and the 2018 anti-corruption crackdown. During the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, 46 servicemen of the NSS Border Troops were killed, with 191 others wounded, and 2 declared missing. During the protests following the 2020 Karabkah ceasefire agreement, the NSS foiled an assassination attempt on Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, uncovering the illegal acquisition and storage of weapons and explosives by a group of people led by former NSS operative and director Artur Vanetsyan.
Structure
The NSS has traditionally been structured closer to its predecessor, the KGB, than other post-Soviet states, however since reforms by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in 2018, the service has reorganized and consolidated. Two services have been derived directly from the organization of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB):
Department of Intelligence
Department of Counterintelligence
Department of Military Counterintelligence
Department of Protection of Constitutional Order and Fight against Terrorism – modeled on the 2nd Service of the Russian FSB
Department of Economic Security and Countering Corruption – modeled on the 4th Service of the Russian FSB
Investigation Department
Territorial Authorities
Border troops – under the control of the NSS since 2004 when it was transferred from the Ministry of Defence.
Central Administration
Recruitment
Service in the NSS is open to all Armenian citizens under the age of 30 who are fluent in Armenian. Males must have fulfilled or been exempted from compulsory service requirements. All applicants must meet military physical fitness requirements, and pass physical and mental health examinations as well as a polygraph. The service prefers recruits speak at least one other language, while recruits who attend training programs in Russia must also be fluent in Russian.
NSS intelligence officers are often trained through the intelligence schools of the Russian Federation, to include the Federal Security Service (FSB) academy. Students who attend the FSB academy graduate from the five year residential program with a degree in law and a commission as a lieutenant in the Armenian military.
Recruits to the Armenian Border Guard attend five year residential training programs in Russia at the Oryol campus of the FSB's Moscow Border Institute, or either the Kurgan or Kaliningrad Border Guard Institutes, graduating with a degree in engineering and a commission as a lieutenant in the Border Guard.
NSS Union
In April 2021, group of former senior NSS officials formed an organization called the Union of NSS Reserve Officers. The union includes, in particular, ex-director of the NSS Artur Vanetsyan, former commander of the border troops Armen Abrahamyan, former Deputy Head of the NSS Grigory Harutyunyan, and former Acting Director of the NSS Mikael Hambardzumyan. The task of the union is to confront the challenges and threats to security, collect facts of the subversive activities of some structures, and use the experience of officers to solve the country's security problems. Although initially created as an apolitical structure, it supported the army officials who signed a statement drafted by General Staff calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.
Directors of the National Security Service
Directors of the National Security Service since the end of the KGB of the Armenian SSR:
Major General Usik Harutyunyan (1991–1992)
Major General Valery Poghosyan (1992–1993)
Major General Eduard Simonyants (1993–1994)
David Shahnazaryan (1994–1995)
Serzh Sargsyan (1996–1999)
Lieutenant General Carlos Petrosyan (1999–2004)
Colonel General Gorik Hakobyan (2004–2016)
Major General Georgi Kutoyan (2016–2018)
Major General Artur Vanetsyan (2018–2019)
Colonel Eduard Martirosyan (2019–2020)
Colonel Argishti Kyaramyan (June 2020–October 2020)
Colonel Armen Abazyan (November 2020–present)
See also
Prosecutor General of Armenia
References
Armenian intelligence agencies
Government agencies established in 1992
Intelligence agencies
1992 establishments in Armenia
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Tushan station
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Tushan Station is a station on Loop line of Chongqing Rail Transit in Chongqing municipality, China. It is located in Nan'an District and opened in 2018.
There are two island platforms at this station, but only two inner ones are currently in use and the other two outer ones are reserved.
References
Railway stations in China opened in 2018
Chongqing Rail Transit stations
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Heights of Brae Hoard
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The Heights of Brae hoard is a group of at least eleven Bronze Age gold ornaments, currently held in the National Museum of Scotland. Gold bracelets, 'cup-ended ornaments' and a corrugated gold band were discovered through ploughing, and later excavation, in a field in the Highland region in Scotland. The objects date to the Late Bronze Age in Britain, around 950-750 BC, and represent the largest hoard of Bronze Age gold objects from Scotland.
Discovery
In the 1960s, several gold objects were ploughed up in a field at the Heights of Brae, near Dingwall, Highland. Two of these were reported to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland in 1979 and the area was excavated by D.V. Clarke and M.M.B. Kemp. At least two objects are known to have been lost prior to excavation, as they were considered to be horse brasses and were subsequently discard, though nine objects still survive. Excavation revealed no obvious feature from which the hoard was recovered and the excavators concluded that the objects probably originally comprised a hoard of at least eleven objects that was scattered by the plough. The nine surviving objects were reported to the Treasure Trove Unit in Scotland and acquired by the National Museum of Scotland.
The objects
The objects were all produced from gold and the surviving objects include five penannular armrings or bracelets, three 'cup-ended ornaments' or 'dress fasteners', and a corrugated gold band. These objects have been interpreted as ornaments, though the exact function of the cup-ended ornaments (sometimes called 'dress fasteners') is unclear. Several of the objects are unfinished, suggesting they may have been produced locally, or by a travelling metalworker. Similar examples of cup-ended ornaments and bracelets are well-known in Scotland and share parallels in Ireland.
Modern history
The objects are currently on display in the Early People gallery at the National Museum of Scotland on Chambers Street, Edinburgh.
Reference section
External links section
Historic Environment Record
Canmore record
Heights of Brae hoard - NMS Scan record
Bronze Age Scotland
Lists of hoards in Britain
Archaeology of Scotland
Dingwall
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Stoberry Lodge
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Stoberry Lodge is a grade II listed house in Dury Road, Monken Hadley. The house dates from around 1830.
References
External links
Grade II listed buildings in the London Borough of Barnet
Houses in the London Borough of Barnet
Monken Hadley
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Krish Mackerdhuj
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Krish Mackerdhuj (15 August 1939 – 26 May 2004) was a South African chemist, cricket official, and diplomat.
Early life
Mackerdhuj was born on 15 August 1939 in Durban, Natal Province. He attended Sastri College in Durban and later completed the degree of Bachelor of Science at Fort Hare University. He worked as a chemical technologist for Shell and BP.
Cricket
Mackerdhuj played club cricket in Durban but retired due to injury. He umpired nine matches of first-class cricket. In the 1970s and 1980s he was a member of the South African Council on Sport (SACOS), which was recognised as the sporting arm of the anti-apartheid movement. He was president of the multiracial South African Cricket Board (SACB) from 1984 to 1991. In the lead-up to the end of apartheid, Mackerdhuj played a key role in the merger of SACB and the predominantly white South African Cricket Union (SACU). Mackerdhuj was subsequently elected as the first president of the United Cricket Board of South Africa in 1992. Along with Ali Bacher, he successfully lobbied for South Africa to be awarded the hosting rights for the 2003 Cricket World Cup.
Other activities
Mackerdhuj served as South Africa's ambassador to Japan from 1998 to 2003. He was later asked to serve as ambassador to Uzbekistan, but declined the position due to illness.
Personal life and legacy
Mackerdhuj died on 26 May 2004 at St Augustine's Hospital, Durban. He had suffered a mild heart attack two months earlier. He was survived by his wife Sminthra and sons Prashim and Avin.
In January 2011, South Africa hosted India for a one-off Twenty20 International in Durban, the winner of which was awarded the Krish Mackerdhuj Trophy.
References
1939 births
2004 deaths
South African people of Indian descent
South African cricket administrators
Ambassadors of South Africa to Japan
South African chemists
University of Fort Hare alumni
People from Durban
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lud%C4%9Bk%20Munzar
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Luděk Munzar
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Luděk Munzar (20 March 1933 in Nová Včelnice – 26 January 2019 in Modřany, Prague) was a Czech actor. He appeared in the Czech New Wave film The Joke (Jaromil Jireš, 1969) and starred in the film Poslední propadne peklu under director Ludvík Ráža in 1982.
Quote of the article at Radio Praha: "Munzar war einer der bedeutendsten Film- und Bühnendarsteller seiner Zeit, er genießt hierzulande den Ruf einer Legende. Er gehörte über 30 Jahre zum Schauspielensemble des Prager Nationaltheaters. Auf der Bühne trat er oft gemeinsam mit seiner Frau Jana Hlaváčová auf." (in English: "Munzar was one of the most important film and stage actors of his time, he enjoys the reputation of a legend here in the Czech Republic He belonged to the acting ensemble of the Prague National Theatre for more than 30 years. On stage he often appeared together with his wife Jana Hlaváčová.")
In the Czech Republic he was also known as the synchronized voice of Paul Newman in movies.
References
External links
Luděk Munzar on Filmová databáze (Film database)
Luděk Munzar on Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze (Czechoslovak film database)
Luděk Munzar in Czech National Theater Archive
1933 births
2019 deaths
People from Nová Včelnice
Czech male film actors
Czech male stage actors
Czech male television actors
Academy of Performing Arts in Prague alumni
Recipients of the Thalia Award
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Umberto Pusterla
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Umberto Pusterla (born 21 October 1967) is a former Italian male long-distance runner who competed at 11 editions of the IAAF World Cross Country Championships (from 1986 to 2005).
Biography
He won two medals at the European Cross Country Championships with the national team, and won four national championships at senior level.
References
External links
1967 births
Living people
Italian male long-distance runners
Italian male cross country runners
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Lola Eniola-Adefeso
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Omolola (Lola) Eniola-Adefeso is a Nigerian-American chemical engineer and the University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor of Chemical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Macromolecular Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan. Eniola-Adefeso is also a co-founder and chief scientific officer of Asalyxa Bio. Her research looks to design biocompatible functional particles for targeted drug delivery.
Education
Eniola-Adefeso moved to Maryland from Nigeria at the age of 15. She was going to attend medical school but became interested in chemical engineering. Eniola-Adefeso studied Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of Maryland, Baltimore County, graduating in 1999. She moved to University of Pennsylvania for her postgraduate studies, graduating in 2004.
Career
Scientific impact
After completing her graduate studies, Eniola-Adefeso worked in the Baylor College of Medicine as a National Institutes of Health postdoctoral fellow. Eniola-Adefeso joined University of Michigan in 2006. In 2013, she was named a Miller Faculty Scholar at the University of Michigan and now also serves as the associate dean for graduate and professional education in the college of engineering. She is interested in the interactions between blood leukocytes and endothelial cells in vessel lumen lining, and how they change during inflammation response. After losing her father to heart disease, Eniola-Adefeso began to research new treatments for it.
Eniola-Adefeso’s research has focused on leveraging hemodynamics to design novel, vascular-targeted particle therapies. Repeatedly challenging the status quo, she has published a multitude of game-changing “firsts” in the field. Publications from her lab were the first to demonstrate that nanoparticles' size, shape, and density – acting as “vascular-targeting drug carriers (VTCs)”- matter in their ability to reach and bind the blood vessel wall. This bold body of work has been instrumental in “redefining the problem” of advancing the development of novel controlled delivery solutions to vascular diseases and is catalyzing novel solutions. Her lab’s systematic use of ex vivo models of human microvessels and blood flows, followed closely with in vivo assays in mice, sensitized the biomedical engineering field to recognizing “blood as a tissue” with distinct features across species.
Her lab has since leveraged its models to reveal new information about neutrophils (PMNs) and their interactions with VTCs. They provided the first evidence of circulating PMNs rapidly binding and phagocytosing particles within minutes. This landmark observation paved the way for her lab’s interest in particle-based immunomodulation of PMNs in acute and chronic inflammatory conditions.
Eniola-Adefeso always aims to leverage fundamental science discovery in her lab toward clinical applications. In this vein, she demonstrated in a Science Advances publication from 2020 that human neutrophils prefer to phagocytose (i.e., eat) rod-shaped particles, which is counter to the widely accepted notion in the literature – primarily based on work with mouse blood and cell lines – that blood phagocytes do not effectively eat rods. This revelation offers a novel approach to targeting neutrophils in numerous diseases.
Her critical discovery, coupled with an innovative polymer, has led to the recent formation of a startup company, Asalyxa Bio, where Eniola-Adefeso holds the chief scientific officer position. Since its incorporation in July, she has led the company to raise funds for a first-in-human clinical trial toward developing this technology to treat Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS).
Eniola-Adefeso is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineers (AIMBE) and Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES). She serves as a deputy editor for Science Advances, on the board of directors for AICHE and AIMBE, and as a member of the external advisory board for the biomedical engineering department at the University of Florida and Boston University.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion work
Eniola-Adefeso is a champion for women and underrepresented minority students within University of Michigan. She has established a mentoring scheme and served as graduate chair, recruiting the most diverse cohort of students in the department's history. She encouraged undergraduate students to develop experiments for K-12 teachers to use in their classrooms. Eniola-Adefeso has been involved in the College of Engineering NextProf program, which brings women and minority students to campus to experience academic life. In 2018, along with Professor Chinedum Okwudire, she co-established the NextProf Pathfinder Workshop, a future-faculty program specifically aimed at first- and second-year PhD students, rather than final year PhD students and postdoctoral fellows, as is typical in many other institutions. The goal of the NextProf Pathfinder Workshop is to equip the attendees – mostly women and students from underrepresented groups – with the knowledge and skills needed to develop strong CVs, early in their PhD process, to make them competitive for faculty positions. The NextProf Pathfinder program has now expanded to include the University of California, San Diego and the Georgia Institute of Technology.
In 2021, Eniola-Adefeso and BME colleagues from many US institutions called out racial funding disparity by the National Institutes of Health garnering support for these larger institutional DEI changes from both academic and non-academic communities. The paper and the national advocacy effort led by Eniola-Adefeso led the NIH Director to publicly apologize for ‘structural racism,’ in NIH funding and pledges actions”.
Honors and fellowships
2021 MLK Visiting Professorship, MIT
2020 Biomedical Engineering Society Fellow
2020 BMES Mid-Career Award
2020 Named in the Top 1000 Inspiring Black scientists in America by CellPress
2019 Martin Luther King Jr. Faculty Spirit Award
2019 University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor
2017 Senior Fellow, Michigan Society of Fellows
2017 American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Women’s Initiatives Committee’s Mentorship Excellence Award
2017 American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering Fellow
2017 MAC Grimes Excellence in Chemical Engineering Award, AIChE
2017 Raymond J. and Monica E. Schultz Outreach and Diversity Award
2016 Harold R. Johnson Diversity Service Award
2016 CEW Carol Hollenshead Award for Excellence in Promoting Equity and Social Change
2014 Faculty Fellow, University of Michigan College of Engineering
2013 Miller Faculty Scholar
2012 National Science Foundation Career
2012 Provost's Teaching Innovation Prize, University of Michigan
2011 National Science Foundation CAREER Award
2011 Lloyd N. Ferguson Young Scientist Award, NOBCChE
2010 American Heart Association Innovator Award
2004 Janice Lumpkin Awards For Excellence in Arts & Sciences
2003 NASA Graduate Research Fellowship
1999 University of Maryland, Baltimore County Meyerhoff Scholarship
1998 University of Maryland, Baltimore County MARC U* STAR Scholar
References
Living people
American chemical engineers
Women chemical engineers
American women engineers
University of Maryland, Baltimore County alumni
University of Pennsylvania alumni
University of Michigan faculty
21st-century American engineers
21st-century chemists
21st-century women engineers
Year of birth missing (living people)
American women academics
21st-century American women
American people of Nigerian descent
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Dic Edwards
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Dic Edwards (born 1948) is a British playwright, poet and teacher of creative writing. His writing often touches upon political and social issues, nationalism and democracy.
Early life
Edwards was born in Cardiff. He was educated at Whitchurch High (Grammar), Cardiff, St David's University College, Lampeter, Hughes Hall, Cambridge and the University of Wales at Aberystwyth.
Career
Edwards' early work was produced at the Sherman Theatre, Cardiff. These included At The End of The Bay, Canned Goods and Looking For The World. At the beginning of his career, he was introduced to Edward Bond who became, and still is, a supporter of his work.
Before taking up a residency at Theatr Clwyd in 1989 and producing the play the fourth world, Edwards worked with The Haymarket Theatre in Leicester where his productions were Long To Rain Over Us and Low People.
At this time Edwards began to be published by Oberon Books Ltd., London. Its publishing editor, James Hogan, encouraged The Citizens' Theatre, Glasgow to produce his play Casanova Undone which was followed a year later by Wittgenstein's Daughter. Both were subsequently produced at The White Bear Theatre in London.
In the early 1990s Edwards worked with Mark Dornford May at Broomhill which resulted in the opera The Juniper Tree, written with composer Andrew Toovey and The Beggar's New Clothes, a reworking of The Beggar's Opera, with music by Warren Belshaw. The latter transferred to The Cockpit Theatre, London.
Edwards returned to working in Wales with Sgript Cymru and in 2002 his comedy Franco's Bastard was produced at Chapter Arts Centre. The play revisits Edwards' time as a young student at Lampeter University when he met the Welsh Nationalist activist and leader of the right wing Free Wales Army, Juian Cayo Evans. During a political falling out, the socialist Edwards was attacked by Evans and a fellow member of the FWA, which resulted in a month's stay at Chepstow Hospital where Edwards' head injuries were treated. The play centres on a sometimes scathing and sometimes affectionate account of the charismatic Evans. During the play's premier a group of Welsh Nationalists protested the play by leading walkouts and throwing stink bombs, an event that prompted questions in parliament.
In 2003, Edwards wrote the libretto for Keith Burstein's opera, Manifest Destiny. The opera was performed at The Tricycle Theatre, London as a benefit for the Redgraves' Guantanamo Human Rights Commission and subsequently played at The Edinburgh Festival in 2005. At the same time, in the same season, Cambridge University's ADC produced Edwards' play Astrakhan (Winter).
In 2013, after writing The Opportunist for The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Edwards turned away from writing for the theatre, arguing that "British Theatre has become a director's theatre. Directors want an easy life and, in the main, hire only TV writers now."
His play Over Milk Wood, a response to the radio play by Dylan Thomas, has been translated into Catalan as Sobre El Bosc Lacti and published by Arola Editors, Tarragona.
There have been productions of his work at NIDA in Sydney, Australia and That Theatre, Copenhagen, Denmark and a public reading of The Pimp in New York.
For many years, Edwards has worked with Theatre in Education companies most notably Spectacle Theatre and collaborated very successfully with director Steve Davis.
Edwards has recently finished The Vote, a play about the collapse of British democracy. He is working on Nude a play about the Welsh painter Augustus John. He is also working on a collection of short stories with the working title From the Backland.
Edwards founded the Creative Writing program at University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Lampeter, where he was a lecturer until 2019. He is the editor and founder of the literary magazine The Lampeter Review.
Personal life
Edwards is married to Gwenda and has three children and eight grandchildren. He lives in Aberaeron in West Wales.
Selected produced works
Theatre
Late City Echo (1981), Sherman Arena Cardiff
At the End of the Bay (1982), Sherman Arena, Cardiff
Canned Goods (1983), Sherman Arena, Cardiff
Looking for the World (1986), Sherman Main Stage, Cardiff †
Long To Rain Over Us (1987), Haymerket Theatre, Leicester †
low people (1989), Haymarket Theatre, Leicester
the fourth world (1990), Theatr Clwyd †
Regan, 1991, Theatr Powys
Casanova Undone (1992), Citizens Theatre, Glasgow and The White Bear, London †
The Juniper Tree (1992), Opera Libretto, Broomhill Opera, Kent
The Beggar's New Clothes (1992), book and lyrics, Broomhill Opera, Kent and Cockpit Theatre, London
Wittgenstein's Daughter (1993), Citizens Theatre, Glasgow and The White Bear, London †
Utah Blue (1995), The Point, Cardiff †
Lola Brecht (1995), Castaway, UK Tour †
Manifest Destiny (2005), Tricycle Theatre, London, Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh Festival, Opera Close Up, London
Astrakhan (Winter) (2005), Cambridge ADC, Edinburgh Festival †
The Pimp (2006), The White Bear, London †
The Opportunist (2013) Basement Players, University of Michigan, US
† Published by Oberon Books, London
Also published:
The Shakespeare Factory and other plays for children, Seren Books (1998)
Sobre El Bosc Lacti, Arola Editors, Tarragona (2002)
Kid , Argraff, Cardiff (2004)
Solitude, (In Two Immorality Plays) Oberon Books, London (2007)
Poetry
Walt Whitman and Other Poems (2008)
Pieces in The Manhattan Review, Poetry Wales etc.
References
Anglo-Welsh poets
Welsh dramatists and playwrights
Living people
Writers from Cardiff
1953 births
Alumni of the University of Wales, Lampeter
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Cassi Thomson
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Cassi Nicole Thomson (born 14 August 1993) is an Australian-born American actress and singer. She is best known for her recurring role as Cara Lynn Walker in the television series Big Love and for her role as Nikki Papagus on the series Switched at Birth. She has also guest starred in several television series, such as Without a Trace, ER, House M.D., and CSI: Miami.
Life and career
Thomson was born in Queensland, Australia. She lived on a ranch in Vanuatu until she was 5 years old after which her family moved to New Haven, Missouri, in the United States. She currently lives in Los Angeles, California.
Thomson is an actress, appearing on film and television. She played recurring roles in the TV shows Big Love and Switched at Birth. She co-starred in the small-budget movie Cop Dog at age 15 in 2008. She starred in the 2014 reboot film Left Behind with Nicolas Cage and Chad Michael Murray. The film received mostly negative reviews from critics.
Thomson has also worked as a singer-songwriter. She completed her first music video in 2008, featuring her single "Caught Up in You", which co-stars Taylor Lautner.
Filmography
References
External links
1993 births
21st-century American actresses
Actresses from Los Angeles
American child actresses
American child singers
American film actresses
American women singer-songwriters
American television actresses
Australian emigrants to the United States
Living people
Actors from Queensland
21st-century American singer-songwriters
21st-century American women singers
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Evelyn Vicchiarello
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Evelyn Vicchiarello (24 October 1986) is an Italian former football striker, who played for Florentia of Serie A.
As an Under-19 international she played the 2004 U-19 European Championship, and the following year she played her first game for the senior Italian national team. She was included in the squad for the 2009 European Championship, and subsequently took part in the 2011 World Cup qualifying.
Titles
1 Italian League (2008)
References
1986 births
Living people
Italian women's footballers
Italy women's international footballers
Serie A (women's football) players
A.S.D. AGSM Verona F.C. players
Women's association football forwards
ASD UPC Tavagnacco players
ACF Fiorentina (women) players
A.S.D. Reggiana Calcio Femminile players
Florentia San Gimignano SSD players
ACF Firenze players
People from Lanciano
Footballers from Abruzzo
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Harriet Merrill Johnson
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Harriet Merrill Johnson (1867 - February 21, 1934) was an American educator.
Life
She was born in 1867 in Bangor, Maine. She graduated from the Massachusetts Homeopathic Hospital and began working as a district nurse at the Henry Street Settlement. While working as a district nurse, Johnson became interested in the needs of children. She, Lucy Sprague Mitchell, and Caroline Pratt formed the Bureau of Education Experiments in 1916, now known as Bank Street College of Education. Their aim was to bring various specialists and researchers together for the purposes of studying experimental education. Johnson was the founder and first director of the bureau's nursery school, which was later named in her honor. This nursery school was the direct predecessor to Bank Street's School for Children, a private elementary school operating under the college's umbrella.
Johnson was the author of several texts on education:
The Visiting Teacher (1916)
A Nursery School Experiment: Descriptive Report (1924)
Children in Nursery School (1928)
The Art of Block Building (1933)
School Begins at Two: A Book for Teachers and Parents (1936)
Harriet Johnson Nursery School
The Harriet Johnson Nursery School opened in 1918 at the Bureau's new quarters in a series of houses on West 12th and West 13th Street. The staff included teachers, psychologists and researchers who worked to discover the environments in which children grew and learned to their full potential. The staff observed how children learned, and they began documenting the learning process in order to determine the environments and educational practices best suited to foster the growth and development of children. Their findings contributed to a fundamental reform in the way children were taught. Graduates from Johnson's Nursery school went to Caroline Pratt's City and Country School. The nursery school also educated teachers and others on how to create these environments. Children at Johnson's Nursery school were given opportunities to draw, paint and model in clay. These were unusual forms of expression in schools at this time. A child's education was recognized as something other than prescribed curriculum. The children here and at Caroline Pratt's City and Country School, under the support of the Bureau, had all of New York City as their classroom. They were able to ride ferries, visit zoos and look at bridges.
References
People from Bangor, Maine
1867 births
Year of death missing
1934 deaths
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Pelahiivka, Donetsk Oblast
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Pelahiivka () is an urban-type settlement in Torez Municipality, Horlivka Raion, Donetsk Oblast, eastern Ukraine. Population:
Demographics
Native language as of the Ukrainian Census of 2001:
Ukrainian 17.35%
Russian 82.65%
Belarusian 0.1%
Armenian 0.03%
Moldovan (Romanian), Bulgarian, German and Romanian (self-declared) 0.01%
References
Urban-type settlements in Horlivka Raion
Chystiakove urban hromada
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Titanic, Saskatchewan
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Titanic is an unincorporated community in the Rural Municipality of Duck Lake No. 463, Saskatchewan, Canada. It is midway between Saskatoon and Prince Albert National Park.
History
Originally settled by French Canadians and named Mourey for a local Catholic priest, its postmaster applied to have the name changed to Titanic in 1912, following the tragedy of the RMS Titanic earlier that year. It was first among nearly 30 communities across the country which petitioned the postmaster general to change their names to Titanic that same year. The name "Mourey" had been adopted just seven months prior to the disaster, so historical attachment did not run deep. A new name was to honor the ship and its passengers.
The school closed in 1959, St. Anne Catholic Church closed in 1964, and the post office itself in 1967. Today, a cemetery and memorial grotto to the church that once stood can be found.
See also
List of communities in Saskatchewan
References
External links
Horse Shoe Tourism Region
Duck Lake No. 463, Saskatchewan
Unincorporated communities in Saskatchewan
RMS Titanic
Division No. 15, Saskatchewan
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Dacian fortress of Cârlomănești
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It was a Dacian fortified town.
References
Dacian fortresses in Buzău County
Historic monuments in Buzău County
History of Muntenia
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Switzerland at the 2022 World Athletics Championships
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Switzerland competed at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Eugene, United States, from 15 to 24 July 2022. The Swiss Athletics Federation entered 26 athletes.
With 1 bronze medal, Switzerland ended 40th in the medal table, but ranked 25th in the overall placing table with a total of 18 points.
Medalists
Team
On 29 June 2022, the Swiss Athletics Federation announced a 26-member team qualified for the World Athletics Championships, which included the heptathlete Caroline Agnou who was later ruled out due to injury, reducing the Swiss team to 25 athletes. The final entry list published by World Athletics consigned 26 athletes for Switzerland, with Rachel Pellaud being added to the women's 4 × 400 metres relay team. Eventually, Pellaud was not part of the Swiss team that was made up of 25 athletes.
Sprinter Natacha Kouni was included in the team for the women's 4 × 100 metres relay, but finally she had no participation. In the same way, Sarah King was part of the women's 4 × 400 metres relay team, but had no participation.
Results
Switzerland entered 26 athletes, but only 23 of them participated.
Men
Track events
Field events
Women
Track events
* – Indicates the athlete competed in preliminaries but not the final.
Field events
Combined events – Heptathlon
References
External links
Oregon22｜WCH 22｜World Athletics
Nations at the 2022 World Athletics Championships
Switzerland at the World Athletics Championships
2022 in Swiss sport
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Aydin Suleymanli
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Aydin Suleymanli (; born 22 March 2005) is an Azerbaijani chess grandmaster (2021).
Biography
Aydin Suleymanli repeatedly represented Azerbaijan at the European Youth Chess Championships and World Youth Chess Championships in different age groups, where he won three gold medals: in 2013, in Budva at the European Youth Chess Championship in the U08 age group and was awarded the Candidate master (CM) title, In 2017, he won the European Youth Chess Championship in the U12 age group in Mamaia and was awarded the title of FIDE Master (FM).
In 2014, in Tallinn he won European Youth Chess Championships in blitz and rapid in the U10 age group.
In 2019, he won World Youth Chess Championship in O14 age group.
In February 2020 Suleymanli came first in the Aeroflot Open. In 2021, he won the Niksic Memorial with a score of 8/9. In the 8th round of the competition, he won against local chess player Luka Drašković. Due to this victory, at the age of 16, he became the 27th grandmaster of Azerbaijan.
Personal life
His current coach is GM Farid Abbasov. Aydin Suleymanli is one of the first to apply the Web3 trend in chess. Suleymanli offers fans a modern fan experience through its exclusive NFT collection.
References
External links
Aydin Suleymanli chess games at 365Chess.com
2005 births
Living people
Chess players from Baku
Chess grandmasters
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Erica grandiflora
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Erica grandiflora is a species of Erica found in fynbos on the mainland Western Cape, South Africa.
E. grandiflora was described by Carl Linnaeus the Younger in 1782, and was reclassified as Erica abietina subsp. aurantiaca by Oliver & Oliver in 2002.
More recently, phylogenetic analyses of DNA sequence data have revealed that it is more closely related to mainland Western Cape species including Erica viscaria than it is to Cape Peninsula endemic Erica abietina subspecies, and should therefore be treated as a separate species.
It includes two subspecies which can be most easily distinguished on the basis of their distinctive flower colours.
Subspecies
Erica grandiflora subsp. grandiflora is widespread in fynbos on the mainland Western Cape. Flowers are reddish-orange. Corresponds to Erica abietina L. ssp. aurantiaca E.G.H.Oliv. & I.M.Oliv.
Erica grandiflora subsp. perfoliosa (E.G.H.Oliv. & I.M.Oliv.) E.G.H.Oliv. & Pirie. Produces bright yellow flowers. Found only in the Jonkershoek Valley. Critically endangered. Corresponds to Erica abietina L. subsp. perfoliosa E.G.H.Oliv. & I.M.Oliv.
Gallery
References
grandiflora
Endemic flora of the Cape Provinces
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Christine Ostermayer
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Christine Ostermayer (born 15 December 1936 in Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian actress.
Selected filmography
Derrick - Season 10, Episode 07: "Lohmanns innerer Frieden" (1983)
External links
ZBF Agency Munich
Austrian television actresses
Actresses from Vienna
1936 births
Living people
20th-century Austrian actresses
21st-century Austrian actresses
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Slater & Charlie Go Camping is a Interactive storybook developed and published by Sierra On-Line. It was released for MS-DOS and Macintosh on May 19, 1993. It is a third-person perspective educational game.
Reception
Computer Gaming World in 1993 called Slater & Charlie "a remarkably smooth blend of children's storybooks with Saturday morning cartoons".
References
External links
Slater & Charlie Go Camping at MobyGames
1993 video games
Children's educational video games
DOS games
Classic Mac OS games
ScummVM-supported games
Sierra Discovery games
Sierra Entertainment games
Single-player video games
Video games developed in the United States
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Myiodola perrieri
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Myiodola perrieri is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae.
References
Dorcasominae
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The Celastraceae (staff-vine or bittersweet) are a family of 97 genera and 1,350 species of herbs, vines, shrubs and small trees, belonging to the order Celastrales. The great majority of the genera are tropical, with only Celastrus (the staff vines), Euonymus (the spindles) and Maytenus widespread in temperate climates, and Parnassia (bog-stars) found in alpine and arctic climates.
Of the 97 currently recognized genera of the family Celastraceae, 19 are native to Madagascar and these include at least 57 currently recognized species. Six of these 19 genera (Brexiella, Evonymopsis, Hartogiopsis, Polycardia, Ptelidium, and Salvadoropsis) are endemic to Madagascar. Celastrus, Euonymus, Maytenus, Salacia, and Tripterygium are a few of the genera that belong to the Celastraceae family that are quite popular. These genera each have distinctive traits and functions of their own.
Genera
A complete list of the genera is:
Acanthothamnus
Allocassine
Anthodon
Apatophyllum
Apodostigma
Arnicratea
Bequaertia
Brassiantha
Brexia
Brexiella
Campylostemon
Canotia – crucifixion thorn
Cassine
Catha – khat
Celastrus – staff vine or staff tree
Cheiloclinium
Crocoxylon
Crossopetalum
Cuervea
Denhamia
Dicarpellum
Dinghoua
Elachyptera
Elaeodendron
Empleuridium
Euonymus – spindle
Evonymopsis
Fraunhofera
Gloveria
Glyptopetalum
Goniodiscus
Gyminda
Gymnosporia
Hartogiella
Hartogiopsis
Hedraianthera
Helictonema
Hexaspora
Hippocratea
Hylenaea
Hypsophila
Kokoona
Lauridia
Lepuropetalon
Loeseneriella
Lophopetalum
Lydenburgia
[[Macgregoria (plant)|Macgregoria]]
Maurocenia
Maytenus – maiten
Menepetalum
Microtropis
Monimopetalum
Mortonia
Moya
Mystroxylon
Nicobariodendron
Orthosphenia
Parnassia
Paxistima
Peripterygia
Peritassa
Plagiopteron
Platypterocarpus
Plenckia
Pleurostylia
Polycardia
Pottingeria
Prionostemma
Pristimera
Psammomoya
Pseudocatha
Pseudosalacia
Ptelidium
Pterocelastrus
Putterlickia
Quetzalia
Reissantia
Robsonodendron
Rzedowskia
Salacia
Salacighia
Salaciopsis
Salvadoropsis
Sarawakodendron
Scandivepres
Schaefferia
Semialarium
Simicratea
Simirestis
Siphonodon
Stackhousia
Tetrasiphon
Thyrosalacia
Tontelea
Torralbasia
Tricerma
Tripterococcus
Tripterygium
Tristemonanthus
Wimmeria
Xylonymus
Zinowiewia
Fossil genera
†Celastrinites
References
University of Maryland: Cronquist Family Synonymy for Celastraceae
Rosid families
Taxa named by Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773)
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Jean du Feynier (died 1538) was the Master of the Order of Preachers from 1532 to 1538.
Biography
Feynier was a French native of Bern. The Dominican chapter held at Rome in 1532 elected him Master of the Order of Preachers. As master, he visited Spain and the Kingdom of Portugal and then moved on to the Kingdom of France. In France, he was imprisoned because: (1) he was a friend of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and (2) he refused to allow Francis I of France to impose Jeanne d'Amboise as prioress of the Dominican convent at Prouille. He was released in 1538 and died a short time later.
References
1538 deaths
French Dominicans
Year of birth unknown
Masters of the Order of Preachers
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"Amour Fou" is the 38th episode of the HBO original series The Sopranos and the 12th of the show's third season. Its teleplay was written by Frank Renzulli from a story idea by series creator, David Chase. It was directed by Tim Van Patten and originally aired on May 13, 2001.
Starring
James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano
Lorraine Bracco as Dr. Jennifer Melfi
Edie Falco as Carmela Soprano
Michael Imperioli as Christopher Moltisanti
Dominic Chianese as Corrado Soprano, Jr. *
Steven Van Zandt as Silvio Dante
Tony Sirico as Paulie Gualtieri *
Jamie-Lynn Sigler as Meadow Soprano
Robert Iler as Anthony Soprano, Jr. *
Drea de Matteo as Adriana La Cerva *
Aida Turturro as Janice Soprano *
Federico Castelluccio as Furio Giunta
Robert Funaro as Eugene Pontecorvo
Joe Pantoliano as Ralph Cifaretto
* = credit only
Guest starring
Synopsis
Carmela and Meadow are visiting the Brooklyn Museum when Carmela has to go to the restroom to use a tampon. She has some alarming symptoms and fears she has ovarian cancer or is pregnant. When she comes back, she is brought to tears upon seeing Jusepe de Ribera's painting The Holy Family with Saints Anne and Catherine of Alexandria. Watching something sentimental on television, she begins to cry and is unnerved when she realizes it is only a commercial for dog food. She takes confession with a priest who tells her to learn to live only on what the "good part" of her husband earns and to forgo the rest. On his advice, she sees an OB-GYN, who tells her she has a thyroid problem.
Tony continues to see Gloria, even as her erratic behavior continues. Dr. Melfi uses the term "amour fou" (crazy love). Gloria happens to meet Carmela at the Mercedes dealership. She gives her a drive home, eliciting information from her. When Tony discovers this, he furiously breaks up with her. Gloria phones him, sobbing uncontrollably. He goes to her home and gently explains again that he is breaking up with her. She threatens to tell Carmela and Meadow about their affair. When Tony, enraged, starts strangling her, she urges him to kill her. He stops, and threatens her as he leaves. Later, he sends Patsy to repeat the warning: he goes for an ostensible test drive with her, pulls the car over on a deserted rural road, holds her at gunpoint, and tells her that if she ever contacts Tony or his family again, he will kill her.
Jackie Jr. and his friends Carlo and Dino decide to rob Eugene's poker game, after Ralphie tells them how Tony and Jackie's father gained recognition for a similar heist. The dealer, Sunshine, keeps heckling the would-be robbers and is fatally shot by a panicking Jackie. In the ensuing firefight, Furio is shot in the thigh and Carlo is killed. Jackie and Dino find that their wheelman, Matush, has fled and left them at the mercy of Christopher and Albert. Jackie flees in a carjacked vehicle, abandoning Dino, who is shot dead.
Christopher furiously expresses his desire to kill Jackie Jr. Tony forbids it. The next morning, Ralphie meets Tony to discuss how to deal with Jackie. Tony says Ralphie is responsible, but his advice is ambiguous. Ralphie is full of doubt: he blames Jackie Sr. for "spoiling" his son and wants to give Jackie a "pass". Tony gives Ralphie back the pistol he confiscated from Jackie. Ralph embraces Tony and leaves. Outside, he pauses, perplexed. At home, he tries to comfort Rosalie, who is distraught.
Deceased
"Sunshine": a card dealer for the mob who was shot during the poker robbery by Jackie Jr.
Carlo Renzi: shot by Christopher in the head during the poker robbery.
Dino Zerilli: shot in the head outside of the Aprile hangout by Christopher and Albert Barese.
Final appearances
Gloria Trillo: Tony's girlfriend. She would later appear in a dream in "Everybody Hurts" and "The Test Dream".
Title reference
The translation from French is "crazy love", a term Dr. Melfi uses to describe the conflicted relationship between Tony and Gloria. Tony later mispronounces it "Our mofo."
Production
On the commentary on the season three DVD, David Chase affirms that this episode features "the biggest gunfight we ever shot."
The tiny shell casings which can be seen striking the pavement after Chris executes Dino outside the card game were added into the scene in post-production using CGI.
Other cultural references
Jackie and Dino are seen watching the famous "leg cross" scene from the film Basic Instinct on television.
Tony tells Dr. Melfi that Gloria reminds him of a princess in a Spanish painting, a "Goyim." He means to refer to Goya.
Tony calls Gloria's Buddha statue "a regular Captain Marvel".
Jackie and Dino are also seen watching a documentary on Vanilla Ice.
Gloria brandishing a corkscrew as a weapon against Tony could be a reference to Gandolfini's role in True Romance, where a female character similarly uses a corkscrew against Gandolfini.
During dinner with Gabriella, Carmela, and Angie, Rosalie mentioned the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal while discussing Meadow and Jackie's breakup
Music
This episode opens with the same music that closes the previous episode, "Pine Barrens" – the aria "Sposa son disprezzata" from the opera Bajazet by Antonio Vivaldi, sung by Cecilia Bartoli.
"Return To Me (Ritorna da me)" by Dean Martin is playing while Ralphie tells Jackie Jr. and Dino about when Tony and Jackie Sr. robbed Feech LaManna's card game.
The Bangles' song, "Walk Like an Egyptian", is playing in the Ooh-Fa Pizza & Restaurant, a regular hangout of Chris, when he sits down with Jackie and Dino.
The music played when Ralph returns home to comfort Rosalie is a Bob Dylan cover of a Carmen Lombardo and Danny Di Minno song, "Return To Me", previously released as a single by Dean Martin. It was recorded for this episode at Dylan's request, as he is an admitted fan of the series.
While Tony Soprano is with Gloria, she turns on the song "Affection" by Little Steven and the Lost Boys. The same song is played over the end credits. Lead singer Steve Van Zandt plays Silvio Dante on the show.
Awards
James Gandolfini won his second Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for his performance in this episode. Annabella Sciorra was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for her performance.
References
External links
"Amour Fou" at HBO
The Sopranos (season 3) episodes
2001 American television episodes
Television episodes written by David Chase
Television episodes directed by Tim Van Patten
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is an action video game developed by CyberConnect2 and published by Capcom. It was first announced at the Tokyo Game Show in 2010, and was released worldwide in February 2012. The game was released on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
The game follows the title character, the demigod Asura (voiced by Hiroki Yasumoto and Liam O'Brien in Japanese and English, respectively) as he seeks revenge on the pantheon of other demigods who betrayed him. The story is presented in the style and format of an episodic series of cinematic scenes, including opening and closing credits, with the gameplay being integrated into the cinematic where players switch between third-person combat and interactive sequences with player input in the form of quick-time event button prompts. Because of its unique style, the game has been described in the media as an "interactive anime". According to the game's producer Kazuhiro Tsuchiya, Asura's Wrath takes elements from Hindu and Buddhist mythologies and blends them with science fiction.
Gameplay
The gameplay of Asura's Wrath is a combination of multiple genres, while overall is presented in the style of an episodic anime series. The gameplay throughout shifts between a third-person action and a rail shooter game. The game also requires the player's direct input during cinematic events in the form of interactive cutscenes with various quick time event and context sensitive button prompts. In all forms of gameplay, however, player progress is determined by two gauges represented at the top of the screen, the life and burst gauge. The life gauge determines the current health and damage taken by the character that if depleted results in a game over/restart screen for that current section. The burst gauge, however, starts empty at the start of every encounter that needs to be charged fully. In order to do this, players must successfully defeat enemies, inflict large amounts of damage and press the current quick-time prompt correctly and in time. Once filled to maximum, players can unleash a powerful burst attack, which in the majority of cases is required in order to finish off strong opponents and advance the plot/gameplay, even commencing another cutscene. In addition to these two gauges, an additional one which is known as the "Unlimited gauge" fills up in a similar way to the burst gauge but instead can be activated to temporally increase the damage that can be inflicted on opponents.
The third-person action sequences resemble "beat 'em up" style gameplay where the player must defeat enemies in close combat, utilizing light and heavy attacks, counters, dashes, and projectiles. While regular light attacks are fast, heavier attacks inflict more damage and can throw back multiple enemies yet can overheat requiring a cool-down period between uses. Players can also perform counter moves if they input the current prompt during an enemy's attack. When an enemy is knocked down, special moves can be performed that further help fills the burst gauge. If however the player character is knocked back, they have a chance to quickly recover by landing on their feet and saving additional health. The rail shooter portion of the gameplay involves the player character moving yet on a fixed axis, being only able to move to dodge and maneuver against incoming attack and obstacles, all the while locking on and firing upon enemies.
The interactive cutscene element is integrated with the gameplay, however. Correct inputs when prompted will advance the story while failure can cause the restart of a sequence and damage to health in a previous gameplay sequence. While a few sequences may continue regardless, certain quick-time events have degrees of success where the player may attempt to press at an even more specific time than when the prompt immediately and initially appears. For example, a press too early or later might register a merely "good" or "great" while the exact correct moment will register as "excellent". The player's performance in this aspect, along with the time taken to complete and overall damage inflicted is graded at the end of each episode, with the highest grade being an "S Rank". At least 5 S Ranks or completing 50 episodes unlock the final hidden "true ending" of the game.
Presentation
Each level is played out like an episode more akin to an anime television series, with subtle introductory and closing credits at the start and end of each episode. This is then followed by a brief promo with cut together footage for the next episode, along with a narration recapping and foreshadowing upcoming events. In between episodes, there are also snippets of additional narrative and back story that are presented in the form of a series of illustrations, with each different segment drawn by a different credited artist. The entire "series" is split into four chapters, each cutscene is overlaid with lengthier production credits.
Synopsis
Asura is one of the Eight Guardian Generals, techno-divine beings who fight an eternal war with the Gohma and their creator Vlitra, the hostile spirit of their planet Gaea where humans live and give worship to them, which empowers them and their Karma Fortress with an energy called "Mantra". Vlitra is temporarily driven back, but the Guardian General's leader Deus is concerned about its return. Seeking greater power to fight the Gohma and achieve true immortality, the seven Guardian Generals including Asura's brother-in-law Yasha plan to use Asura's priestess daughter Mithra to channel vast quantities of Mantra. To ensure no interference with their plans, they kill Asura's wife Durga, frame Asura for the death of their emperor, then the Guardian General's leader Deus kills Asura when he tries to rescue Mithra. Encouraged by a Golden Spider, Asura escapes into the living world after 12,000 years, finding the Guardian Generals have now dubbed themselves the Seven Deities and slaughter humans to gather Mantra quickly. Swearing revenge on the Seven Deities, Asura goes after and kills each of them, using his rage to overcome death multiple times.
Asura's rage ultimately consumes him, turning him into a mindless demon. When Deus's second-in-command Olga tries using the Karma Fortress to kill Asura's enraged form, Yasha defects as he sees this as misuse of the humans' lives and Mithra's suffering. After crippling the Karma Fortress, Yasha restores Asura to himself, and the two join forces to kill Deus and free Mithra. Vlitra awakens as they achieve this, and with Mithra channeling the stored Mantra into them, Asura and Yasha successfully destroy Vlitra's core, destroying the Gohma for good. An enraged Olga attempts to kill Mithra, but the Golden Spider appears, kills her and kidnaps Mithra. It reveals its true identity as Chakravartin, creator of the universe who set up the conflict to find a worthy god to rule Gaea. Yasha sacrifices himself to empower Asura with the Karma Fortress's Mantra Reactor, allowing him to channel vast amounts of Mantra. Asura then fights and kills Chakravartin; this removes Mantra from the universe, which will kill Asura as he is fuelled by Mantra. His rage dissipated, Asura bids farewell to Mithra as he vanishes and she is returned to Gaea. The final scene shows her telling the story of Asura to humans.
Development
Asura's Wrath began development in 2007. The development team wanted to create a game that everyone could understand. In an interview, Hiroshi Matsuyama commented on the principles behind the game's creation: "Our main concept was that we wanted to reach out to audiences all over the world with Asura's Wrath. That's why we focused on wrath as our main concept. It's something that anybody can relate to. It's an emotion that's very powerful. It's sometimes seen as negative, but it can be a driving force that helps you overcome any obstacle. When we came up with this backward approach to the development process, first we thought of our focus on wrath, then focused on the story, so we built the story first. Who wrote the story? CyberConnect 2 did, as a group. It was a group effort throughout the dev team, but when we had the story, we passed that on to an actual scriptwriter." In a different interview with Eurogamer, he stated that he was pleased by the site's impression of the game as "completely deranged" and went further into the game's core theme: "In Japanese entertainment and comics, and in games as well, there are many interesting depictions of wrath already – things like Dragon Ball and Naruto – and we love those kinds of comics and games. So we thought, what can we do if we really, really focus on that? How interesting can we make it? That was our challenge to ourselves." The hot spring scene, a very traditional scene for manga and anime in Japanese culture according to Matsuyama, was deliberately placed as a change of pace and a chance for Asura to show a different face to players.
The game was developed on the Unreal Engine 3, which was specially licensed by Capcom for the task, and aided significantly in the development of the game. In an interview, Kazuhiro Tsuchiya stated that "We tried a lot of different options and determined that Unreal Engine 3 was a perfect solution. Our developers were able to review the game in real time, and they continue to be productive throughout the process." Asura's Wrath was first announced during the Tokyo Game Show in September 2010. The announcement trailer showed the title character battle multiple enemies before being confronted by a planetary sized foe. The trailer showed an earlier build that differed from the finished product in multiple aspects. While the character designs and Asian-style art design were similar, even identical in certain regards, the tone and combat was more violent and bloody, showing a greater emphasis on the combat mechanics rather the interactive cinematic features. Following its reveal, Tsuchiya revealed that he felt the game would serve to satisfy fans wanting a sequel to the 2006 PlayStation 2 game God Hand, which was lauded by critics, but failed commercially. He was later pleased that people had seen the deliberate similarities between the two games. A playable demo was released on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network on January 10, 2012.
Downloadable content
Downloadable content includes a two-dimensional fighting mode using the Super Street Fighter IV mechanics, as well as two characters from the game, Ryu/Evil Ryu and Akuma/Oni as opponents, with voices only available in Japanese. Also, "untold" chapters are included and use hand-drawn animation by Studio 4°C with quick time events, mostly to fill gaps between the game's chapters. The DLC also allows players to play and see the 'real' ending of the game which is not available from the disc.
Soundtrack
The game's original soundtrack is scored by Chikayo Fukuda, and was released on March 7, 2012. A track listing has been provided in Japanese. In addition to the lead recording artist, other composers and pieces of music outside of development were involved. Chikayo Fukuda composed the main theme and its variation, entitled "In Your Belief" while the vocalized version was sung by Tomoyo Mitani. The game also featured Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No. 9 in E Minor From the New World in the set piece battle between Asura and Augus on the moon.
Track listing
Reception
The game was received positively by the Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu. The magazine gave the game scores of 10, 10, 9, and 9, each out of 10, adding up to a total of 38 out of 40.
When released in the Western market, the game received "average" reviews on both platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. Many critics praised the story and highlighted the "interactive anime" style as a positive, while others felt it detracted from regular gameplay. In a review for G4TV, Alex Rubens in regards to the episodic narratives stated "I found myself anticipating the next episode as if it were my favorite TV show, making me want to jump right back in and play even more", going on to detail that the story "manages to keep from being predictable by the sheer craziness of the twists that [it] takes." TeamXbox praised the overall presentation as "the best adaptation of the Anime episode structure ever in a videogame", that is suited the characters and overarching narrative. Brad Shoemaker of Giant Bomb praised the game's over the top spectacle, in that the "sheer craziness isn't enough; it's also about the way the craziness is presented. The visuals have a tremendous scale, and the action is masterfully framed by someone who really knows how to work a camera angle."
Critical response to the balance between the "interactive anime" style and gameplay was mixed. Jeff Cork of Game Informer commented that "the combat may not be as deep as other hack and slash offerings, but it does a great job of making Asura feel (and play) like the unhinged demigod", in which he felt the story was the focus rather than the combat, finding it "a nice change of pace from other hack-and-slash games, featuring an interesting story that’s not blocked off by insurmountable difficulty." Keza MacDonald of IGN stated that this unique element was "self-evidently, an excellent thing – and a rare one, if you've been playing games for a long time", praising the presentation in particular, in her opinion calling Asura's Wrath "one of the greatest achievements in Japanese animation in a very long time". Despite this, however, she responded negatively to the longevity, concluding that "as an episodic download release Asura's Wrath would be brilliant, but as a premium-priced game it can only be recommended with strong reservations." In a more critical review, Giancarlo Varanini of GameSpot called the reliance on quick-time events "uninspired" and a "distraction", while also being critical of the difficulty of the combat, in a statement saying, "There's no challenge; no enemies that put up an engaging fight. It's all very safe." GameTrailers echoed this view saying that if approached as a game, Asura's Wrath will leave you wanting, but as a piece of multimedia, it's intriguing.
Luciano Howard of The Digital Fix gave the PS3 version nine out of ten and stated, "Its presentation is fabulous, with letterboxing where needed, colourful and bountiful art and animation, a mix of pastel shading and traditional game colouring mixed together plus awesome sound quality and variation, especially when considering the music which stands out, head and shoulders above the effects. The scale of action is spectacular with opponents larger than a planet and stronger than a god." Liam Martin of Digital Spy gave the same console version four stars out of five and said it was "undoubtedly a niche title, and the lack of extended player input will leave some feeling a little short changed. For those with an appreciation of Eastern animation and quirky video games, however, Asura's Wrath is one of the more intriguing releases of this year, not to mention this console generation." David Jenkins of Metro gave both console versions seven out of ten, calling them "A wonderfully imaginative and beautifully presented interactive anime, but one that cannot maintain a regular enough supply of surprises to justify even its short running time."
Adam Larck of 411Mania gave the Xbox 360 version 6.4 out of 10 and stated, "While it may be different from most games, Asura's Wrath shows that games can be more about storytelling than the game, or at least more of a balance than mainly gameplay with a few cut scenes here and there. Given the shortness of the game, it's at least worth a check out on the weekend, if nothing else." Justin Clouse of The Escapist gave the same console version three stars out of five, calling it "a novel idea with some poor implementation. It often feels strained into too many directions, but there is something undeniably fun about certain outrageous moments. There really isn't much else quite like Asura's Wrath." Russ Fischer of The A.V. Club gave the PS3 version a C+ and said that it "plays like a tale designed to be experienced in one go. Still, Asura's glowing weak spot is utterly prosaic: price. At $10 or even $20, this could be approached as a diverting experiment. At $60, it's an elixir for only the most obsessive fans of anime storytelling and unusual game design."
Further reading
References
External links
CyberConnect2's website
2012 video games
Video games about ancient astronauts
Capcom beat 'em ups
CyberConnect2 games
Video games about cyborgs
Episodic video games
Post-apocalyptic video games
PlayStation 3 games
Rail shooters
Science fantasy video games
Unreal Engine games
Video games about revenge
Video games developed in Japan
Xbox 360 games
Video games based on Buddhist mythology
Video games based on Hindu mythology
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron%20Flockhart
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Ron Flockhart
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Ron Flockhart may refer to:
Ron Flockhart (racing driver) (1923–1962), British racing driver
Ron Flockhart (ice hockey) (born 1960), retired Canadian professional ice hockey player
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indulf
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Indulf
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Ildulb mac Causantín, anglicised as Indulf or Indulph, nicknamed An Ionsaighthigh, "the Aggressor" (died 962) was king of Alba from 954 to 962. He was the son of Constantine II; his mother may have been a daughter of Earl Eadulf I of Bernicia, who was an exile in Scotland.
Biography
Indulf was probably baptised in 927. According to William of Malmesbury, Æthelstan stood godfather to a son of Constantine at the Church of Dacre. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle dates the meeting of Æthelstan with the northern kings at Eamont to the 12 July 927. So, it is likely that this baptism occurred on, or around, the Feast of St Hildulf, which Alex Woolf suggests may be the source of his uncommon name.
John of Fordun and others supposed that Indulf had been king of Strathclyde in the reign of his predecessor, based on their understanding that the kingdom of Strathclyde had become a part of the kingdom of Alba in the 940s. This, however, is no longer accepted.
The Chronicle of the Kings of Alba says: "In his time oppidum Eden", usually identified as Edinburgh, "was evacuated, and abandoned to the Scots until the present day." This has been read as indicating that Lothian, or some large part of it, fell to Indulf at this time. However, the conquest of Lothian is likely to have been a process rather than a single event, and the frontier between the lands of the kings of Alba and Bernicia may have lain south and east of Edinburgh many years before Indulf's reign.
Indulf's death is reported by the Chronicon Scotorum in 962, the Chronicle of the Kings of Alba adding that he was killed fighting Vikings near Cullen, at the Battle of Bauds. The Prophecy of Berchán, however, claims that he died "in the house of the same holy apostle, where his father [died]", that is at the céli dé monastery of St Andrews. He was buried on Iona.
Indulf was succeeded by Dub (Dub mac Maíl Coluim), son of his predecessor. His sons Cuilén and Amlaíb were later kings. Eochaid, a third son, was killed with Cuilén by the men of Strathclyde in 971.
Notes
References
Anderson, Alan Orr, Early Sources of Scottish History AD 500–1286, volume 1. Reprinted with corrections. Paul Watkins, Stamford, 1990.
Duncan, A.A.M., The Kingship of the Scots 842–1292: Succession and Independence. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2002.
Smyth, Alfred P. Warlords and Holy Men: Scotland AD 80-1000. Reprinted, Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 1998.
Walker, Ian W., Lords of Alba: The Making of Scotland. Sutton, Stroud, 2006.
External links
CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts at University College Cork includes the Annals of Ulster, Tigernach, the Four Masters and Innisfallen, the Chronicon Scotorum, the Lebor Bretnach (which includes the Duan Albanach), Genealogies, and various Saints' Lives. Most are translated into English, or translations are in progress.
(CKA) The Chronicle of the Kings of Alba
Indulf at the official website of the British monarchy
962 deaths
Monarchs killed in action
Scottish pre-union military personnel killed in action
House of Alpin
Burials in Iona
Year of birth unknown
10th-century Scottish monarchs
Gaels
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qadam%20Shah%20Shahim
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Qadam Shah Shahim
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General Qadam Shah Shahim an Afghan diplomat and former army officer. He served as the Chief of Staff of the Afghan National Army from May 2015 to April 2017 before resigning amid political fallout over the 2017 Camp Shaheen attack.
Early life and education
Shahim, an ethnic Tajik, was born in the Tashkan district of Badakhshan, in 1962 and attended Keshm High School, graduating in 1982.
Military career
Early military career
From the early 1980s, Shahim fought with Jamiat-e Islami against the Soviets. He later fought against other mujahedin factions during the civil war, and then against the Taliban. In 1994, he was appointed as commander of 82 Regiment in Qargha, and in 1997 was made a Brigadier. In 2001, Shahim was commander of the 37th Brigade of Commandos and dealt often with foreign forces.
Late military career
In 2007, he commanded the 1st Brigade of the 111st Capital Division, based in Kabul. In 2011, he was appointed as commander of the 111st Capital Division, which is half the size of a normal division. Shahim was wounded in the July 2014 attack on Kabul Airport and hospitalised in Sardar Mohammad Daoud Khan hospital for further treatment. In May 2015, he was appointed as Chief of the General Staff of the Afghan National Army. In August and September 2016, Shahim visited India in order to enhance ties with the Indian army and to seek new avenues for acquiring military equipment.
References
1962 births
Afghan military personnel
Generals
Living people
Military personnel of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
People from Badakhshan Province
Afghan military officers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine%20Benning
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Christine Benning
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Christine Benning (née Tranter, born 30 March 1955) is an English former middle-distance runner who competed mainly in the 1500 metres and the 3000 metres. In the 1500 m, she represented Great Britain at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, finishing fifth in the final. She won a silver medal at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton. She also broke the UK record in 1979, with 4:01.53. As of 2022, she still ranks in the UK all-time top ten (outdoors) for the mile.
Career
Benning was born in Urmston, Lancashire, England. In 1971, as Christine Tranter, she won the AAAs Under 17 800 metres title. In 1974, still a teenager, she was 15th at the World Cross Country Championships and won a gold medal in the team event. In 1975, she was 18th. She finished fifth in the 1500 m final at the 1977 World Student Games (Universiade) in Sofia in 4:09.7.
In 1978, Benning was 12th at the World Cross Country Championships in Glasgow. In the summer, she won the AAA Championships 3000 m title in 8:52.33. Then at the Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, she won a silver medal in the 1500 m final behind Mary Stewart, running 4:07.53. In 1979, she broke Sheila Carey's seven-year-old UK record in the 1500 metres, running 4:01.53 in Zurich. The record would stand for five years.
In the early 1980s, Benning achieved two more top twenty finishes at the World Cross Country Championships, with 14th in 1981 and 18th in 1983. At the 1983 World Championships in Helsinki, she reached the 3000 metres final, finishing thirteenth in 8:58.01.
Benning achieved her highest placement at the World Cross Country Championships in 1984, finishing sixth in New Jersey. Then in the summer, she added the AAAs 1500 m title to her previous wins at 800 m and 3000 m. At the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, she reached the 1500 m final, finishing fifth in 4:04.70. She ended the 1984 season by running her best ever times in both the 3000 metres and the mile, with 8:44.46 in Zurich and 4:24.57 in London.
In 1986, Benning won the AAAs 3000 m title, going on to place fourth at the Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh. At the 1987 IAAF World Cross Country Championships she finished 20th, her seventh top twenty finish in the event. In the summer, she won the UK Championships 1500 m title. Then at the World Championships in Rome in September, she reached the 3000 m final for the second time, finishing 12th in 8:57.92.
Benning is the only woman to have won AAAs Senior National titles at 800 m, 1500 m and 3000 m. On the UK all-time lists, she ranks 15th in the 1500 m (4:01.53), 11th in the mile (4:24.57) (10th excluding indoor performances) and 18th in the 3000 m (8:44.46).
National titles
AAAs National Champion - 800 metres (1979)
AAAs National Champion - 1500 metres (1984)
AAAs National Champion - 3000 metres (1978, 1986)
UK National Champion - 1500 metres (1987)
International competitions
Note: At the World Cross Country Championships, representing England, Benning won three team medals, gold in 1974, bronze in 1978 and silver in 1984.
References
1955 births
Living people
People from Urmston
English female middle-distance runners
English female cross country runners
Olympic athletes for Great Britain
Athletes (track and field) at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England
Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics
Athletes (track and field) at the 1978 Commonwealth Games
Athletes (track and field) at the 1986 Commonwealth Games
World Athletics Championships athletes for Great Britain
Medallists at the 1978 Commonwealth Games
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SM%20U-138
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SM U-138
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SM U-138 was one of the 329 submarines serving in the Imperial German Navy in World War I.
U-138 was engaged in the naval warfare and took part in the First Battle of the Atlantic.
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Notes
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Bibliography
World War I submarines of Germany
1917 ships
U-boats commissioned in 1918
Type U 127 submarines
Ships built in Danzig
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