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66443491 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayac%C4%B1k%2C%20Ezine | Kayacık, Ezine | Kayacık is a village in the Ezine district of Çanakkale Province in Turkey.
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Villages in Ezine District |
62868953 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vy%C5%A1%C5%A1%C3%AD%20Brod%20%28Hohenfurth%29%20cycle | Vyšší Brod (Hohenfurth) cycle | The Vyšší Brod (Hohenfurth) cycle, (also known as Hohenfurth altarpiece) ranks among the most important monuments of European Gothic painting. It is made up of nine panel paintings depicting scenes from the Life of Christ, covering his childhood, Passion and resurrection. These paintings were made between 1345 and 1350 in the workshop of the Master of Vyšší Brod that was most probably based in Prague. The pictures were either meant for a square altar retable or else they decorated the choir partition of the church of the Cistercian Abbey in Vyšší Brod.
The work was evidently commissioned by Petr I of Rosenberg, Supreme Chamberlain of the Bohemian Kingdom, who financed the abbey. This series of paintings is a rare example of a complete Gothic altar retable (although there is not complete agreement on the fact that it was a retable, in other words a structure standing on the altar – there have also been theories that it could have been hung on the choir pews or rood screen. Having been returned to its former owner, the Cistercian Abbey in Vyšší Brod, it is being exhibited as a long-term loan in the permanent exhibition of the Collection of Medieval Art of the National Gallery in Prague.
Description
The panels’ dimensions are approximately 99 x 92 cm in size. Each of them is composed of three sycamore boards 2 cm thick that are joined with pegs and covered with linen canvas. The underdrawing on the chalk base was executed in charcoal and engraving. The painting was executed in tempera and pigments were bonded with gelatine. A dark purple poliment forms the base of the gilding; orange-yellow poliment underlies the silver foil. Especially in layering up the flesh tones, the Master of the Vyšší Brod Altarpiece used a complex system of layers and underpainting that was based in the Byzantine painting tradition and does not, therefore, have any parallels in Central European painting of that time. The identical painting technique on all the panels confirms that they were produced in a single workshop.
The series features trios of connected scenes from the Christological cycle that are arranged so that the central one is that of the Crucifixion. They are designed for believers to meditate on and are related to the most important church festivals. A series of motifs that the Master of the Vyšší Brod Altarpiece used for the first time in Bohemian painting conceals symbols relating to the Gospels, as well as to the Apocrypha and medieval theological texts (The Song of Songs and texts by St Bernard of Clairvaux).
The bottom row
The bottom row of paintings represents scenes from the childhood of Christ and relates to Advent (specifically the Annunciation of the spring festival on 25 March) and Christmas festivals. It is characterised by a radiant palette and light colour tones combined with gold.
The Annunciation to the Virgin Mary
The Angel of the Annunciation comes to the Virgin Mary, who holds an open book in her hand. The band of the inscription reads Ave gracia plena d(omi)n(u)s tecu(m). The scene is accompanied by the customary symbols – a lily and Mary holding a veil (virginity), an open book (conception) and peacocks (immortality and eternity). A series of other symbols provides various interpretations (God sending dew from heaven or manna in the desert; a coffer of money). Mary on her throne thus represents the Virgin of the Temple of God protecting the Ark of the Covenant or else the Queen of Heaven, the throne also being her bed chamber. Her crown’s garland of nine stars could be an astrologically-related depiction of the constellation of Virgo. A less evident symbol is the motif of a tree with a small double trunk in the left-hand part which refers to the trees of life and knowledge in paradise as well as to the double incarnation of Christ as God and man.
A notable secular feature of scene is that of the rich garment worn by the angel who comes across more like a courtier bringing the ruler’s insignia (an imperial orb). The motif of the lily on a blue background that appears on the angel’s cloak originate in France and refers to the heraldry of the French rulers of the House of Valois. Mary is portrayed not as a simple maiden but as a monarch on the throne with a crown on her head. The scene as a whole could be connected with the coronation of Charles IV and Blanche of Valois as King and Queen of Bohemia at Prague Castle on 2 September 1347.
The Nativity of Jesus
This picture connects three scenes. The central scene is that of Mary with the infant Christ in a simple, open shelter. She is accompanied in the background by the customary apocryphal animals. In the foreground, Joseph is preparing a bath with the midwife (called Salome in the Apocrypha) and in the background the archangel Gabriel is announcing the good tidings to the shepherds (the Annunciation to the Shepherds scene). The active involvement of Joseph as a foster father in the events of the scene, specifically in the active care for the new-born baby, is relatively unusual in the first half of the 14th century although it does appear as early as the 13th century. However it appears more often from the turn of the 14th century (for example with Joseph cooking porridge, preparing a bath, sewing and drying nappies, preparing food for Mary and feeding the donkey and ox). It is not based in any literary sources and, in all likelihood, originated in the secular context of burgher society; we can also trace how it was received and reflected on in period ‘carols’ that, however, represent the foster father of Our Lord as a rather grotesque figure. At the same time, from the 14th and 15th centuries onwards, official respect for St Joseph grew. In all the scenes there is a multitude of small motifs that have their origin in Byzantine art mediated, or rather interpreted, by Italian masters.
Mary is reclining on a bed and kisses the infant on his lips in a manner that is connected with her mystic role as Christ’s bride in the Song of Songs in which Mary is the personification of the Christian Church. The child’s nudity refers to his humanity and relates to efforts to humanise a religious theme that was propagated by the Franciscan Order. The bed is spread with a finely decorated cover symbolising Mary as the Queen of Heaven.
In the bottom right-hand corner there kneels a donor whom the crest with its five-petalled rose identifies as member of the House of Rosenberg. In his hand he is holding the model of a church – in all likelihood it is the abbey church at Vyšší Brod. The band above the crest has never been inscribed.
The Adoration of the Magi
This scene repeats the analogous composition of the throne as it appears in the painting of the Annunciation and the customary model that was maintained during the 14th century, one in which kings or wise men represented three ages of man and the second king, of a virile age, sometimes takes the form of the ruling monarch. It was only from the 1360s (or, more likely, from the early 15th century, because the black king in the Emmaus monastery painting was evidently a piece of Baroque overpainting) that the kings were more frequently portrayed as representatives of the three continents known at that time.
In this scene as well, Mary remains a queen seated on a throne. The motif of an old man kissing the hand of a small child, one that was rare outside France until then, is the expression of a spiritual bond with Christ and originates in the work Meditationes Vitae Christi that appeared in Bohemia during the reign of Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor. The throne is depicted in an imperfect empirical perspective. The Virgin Mary, obscuring one of the supporting pillars of the canopy, is symbolically presented as a pillar of the Christian Church.
The centre
The central paintings are related to the Christian holidays of Easter with the martyrdom and resurrection of Christ. This is reflected in the darker tones in larger areas and in the limiting of decoration.
Christ on the Mount of Olives
The main element of the composition is formed by the diagonal of the mount’s slope with jagged rock faces and blossoming spring vegetation. The picture represents a traditional iconographic arrangement with the praying Christ and three sleeping apostles: St Peter, St John and St James. Three accurately portrayed birds (a goldfinch, bullfinch and crested lark or hoopoe) evidently originate in English or French book painting. The goldfinch is often associated with the martyrdom of Christ, because it feeds on the seeds of thistles and metaphorically represents Christ’s crown of thorns. In medieval legend, the bullfinch is associated with the Crucifixion and its red breast with drops of Christ’s blood refers to the moment the bullfinch pulled out a nail from the cross with its beak. The crested lark could, in earlier literature, be associated with the martyrdom of Christ.
The Crucifixion
The type of Crucifixion with a single cross and a group of figures is customary for the 13th century. Several motifs, such as the fainting Mary, Mary Magdalene embracing the cross and flying angels with incense burners, originate in the Italian context.
The figures beneath the cross include St Longinus with a spear, Joseph of Arimathea, possibly also Nicodemus and the ‘good’ centurion leaning on his shield decorated with a human face (the ‘gorgoneion’). This figure appears in the Bohemian context between the mid-14th century and the mid-15th century. It originally had an apotropaic function and could symbolically represent the opposites of Christ and the devil, the sun and the moon; and Christianity and paganism.
In the work of the Master of the Vyšší Brod Altarpiece, Eucharistic motifs linked with Christ’s wounds are emphasised. They include Mary’s cloak spattered with Christ’s blood and Longinus miraculously cured of his blindness by blood from Christ’s side. The symbolism could be directly influenced by the courtly environment of Charles IV, who kept part of Mary’s bloodied robe and the tip of St Longinus’s spear as holy relics.
The Lamentation
The Crucifixion is usually followed by the scene of the Descent from the Cross and the Entombment. The Lamentation, which is not mentioned in the Gospels, is usually missing from older depictions. Until the 14th century, the Lamentation was part of the scene of the Entombment and only appears separately in the Meditationes Vitae Christi and in Giotto’s fresco in the Scrovegni Chapel.
In the picture that, with the locating of the cross in the centre of the composition, refers back to the preceding Crucifixion, the strikingly independent Mary with Christ in her lap is an innovation made by the Master of the Vyšší Brod. This portrayal anticipates a whole series of early ‘vertical’ Pietàs and evidently also inspired Bohemian Gothic sculpture. Mary is just about to kiss Jesus and here, as Our Lady of Sorrows, is once again a mother cradling her child in her lap. The other figures originate in older, tradition depictions: St John, St Mary Magdalene, the two Marys – relatives of the Virgin Mary (half-sisters of the Virgin Mary, Mary Cleophas and Mary Salome), Nicodemus and a pair of angels holding incense burners. Joseph of Arimathea is also present.
The top row
The Resurrection
This picture combines two events – the Resurrection of Jesus and the Three Marys by the tomb – which follow on from each other and whose joint presentation was rare in earlier painting. The main scene was originally the Visitation – a depiction of three Marys by the empty tomb, where an angel appeared and told them of Christ’s resurrection (the Gospels of St Mark and St Matthew). The resurrection of Christ is the most important Christian holiday, despite the fact that the Gospels don’t mention the scene itself. It was only from the 12th and 13th centuries onwards that Christ was portrayed emerging from the sarcophagus and, later, standing on the sealed sarcophagus along with surprised soldiers who are guarding it. The miraculous Resurrection, invisible to witnesses, is the dominant scene. This is reinforced by the figure of Christ being on a larger scale. The Resurrection is conceived as the triumph over death and its symbol is the banner of Christ, whose pole recalls the wood of the cross while the banner bearing the image of a lamb recalls Christ’s sacrifice. Despite using the customary gilded background, the composition of the picture features spatial depth.
The final two pictures relate to stories of the Ascension of Christ and the sending down of the Holy Spirit, which Christians celebrate as Pentecost. These mysterious and supernatural events are accompanied by a more vivid and contrasting colour palette.
The Ascension
The Ascension of the Lord is one of the central dogmas of Christianity (The Deeds of the Apostles) and is celebrated ten days before Pentecost. It followed forty days after his Resurrection, when he appeared to Mary Magdalene and finally also to the apostles before God took him up to heaven. In earlier depictions this scene shows Christ in a mandorla borne by angels. Here, the painter deals with them in a conventional way and only depicts Christ’s lower legs as he ascends into the clouds. The symmetrical composition features in its background a green landscape with Christ’s footprints. The apostles, whose figures the painter differentiated by the gestures of their hands, are mostly old men.
Descent of the Holy Spirit
At the centre of the Pentecost scene, which in Byzantine painting usually featured St Peter and St Paul, the Virgin Mary sits with an open book. The twelve apostles, upon whom the Holy Spirit descended in the form of tongues as of fire, were endowed with the gift of mastering the languages of all nations so they could spread the gospel. The motif of the apostle who is placing his finger to his mouth as a symbol of silence was adopted from Italian art, in which it represents an allegory of obedience or patience.
The specific involvement of the painter and his collaborators
The entire series is chiefly the work of the Master of the Vyšší Brod Altarpiece, who has a distinctive painting style. He painted the Annunciation, the Birth of Christ, the Adoration of the Magi, the Mount of Olives and the Resurrection. His figures are substantial; they stand firmly on the ground and their movement and poses are depicted in a believable way. The modelling of the drapery describes volume as well as the proportions, mechanics and position of the body. The nude body of the child respects the basic proportions of the body. The figures’ gestures are measured and justified by the action of the given situation. Their faces have physiological features that also distinguish them from each other. Apart from the master in charge, it is probable that three other painters worked on the series as a whole – the first two were a young and able collaborator and a capable but stylistically inconsistent collaborator who painted the panel depicting the Sending Down of the Holy Spirit. In terms of painting technique, the weakest work of the series is the Ascension which, however, also displays several highly developed features such as a greater individualisation of the faces. The panels have been impacted by overpainting and have also been repeatedly restored, most recently in 1993-2007.
Selected details
Iconography and classification
The pictures of the Vyšší Brod Master are a synthesis of the Italianate style, whose strikingly Byzantine features reached Bohemia from the region of Venice in particular, and of the Western European Gothic drawing-based style that originated in France. Earlier works that could have inspired its painters include book illustrations (Jean Pucelle, Bolognese illuminators active in St Florian), murals (the choir of the cathedral in Cologne), panel painting (Meister der Rückseite des Verduner Altars) and sculpture (the Master of the Michle Madonna). Several works created by other artists (Antependium of Königsfelden, Kaufmann Crucifixion) have motifs that are so similar that it can be speculated that they used the same models.
The iconographic conception that, in groups of works, depicts the most important moments in the life of Christ, is based in cycles by the leading painters of the Italian Trecento – Giotto and Duccio. The stylised crystalline terrain representing rock faces is typical of the 1340s. Italian influences manifest themselves especially in the painting technique, the retreat of the drawing-based approach and a greater plasticity of the figures, decorative patterns, the typology of the heads and the more highly developed depiction of the landscape and architecture. The affinity between the painting of the Vyšší Brod Master and the artistic and spiritual climate of Venice, represented by his contemporary Paolo Veneziano, is especially striking.
Influence on Bohemian and European painting
Several motifs of the Vyšší Brod series were subsequently adopted by Bohemian book painting, in particular Velislai biblia picta (before 1349) and the Legend of St Hedwig, Liber viaticus by John of Neumarkt (1350-1364) and the Missal of John of Neumarkt. In panel painting, it was followed on from by the painter of Morgan panels and, in a broader circle, the altar at Tirol Castle, the Westphalian Master Bertram (Grabow Altarpiece), the painter who created the Toruń Altarpiece and the altarpiece of Erfurt by Meister des Erfurter Einhornaltars. The motif of Mary’s bloodied robe is connected almost exclusively with the Bohemian context and appears in the work of the Master of the Třeboň Altarpiece, the Master of the Rajhrad Altarpiece and persisted until the mid-15th century.
History of the artwork
The altarpiece was most probably made for the Cistercian Abbey in Vyšší Brod. Its donor was in all likelihood Petr I of Rosenberg, the Supreme Royal Chamberlain, Supreme Judge and executor of John of Luxemburg’s will. The donor’s personal reason could have been to intercede for the salvation of the soul of his son, who died alongside John of Luxemburg at the Battle of Crécy. Petr of Rosenberg supported Vyšší Brod Abbey from 1332. Before his death on 14 October 1347 he received the Cistercian robe and was buried in the monastery. Jošt of Rosenberg, Petr’s son and inheritor of his function as Royal Chamberlain, subsequently had the altarpiece completed. The paintings were made in the Prague court workshop.
In 1938, before the outbreak of the Second World War, the altarpiece was transferred to the Picture Gallery (the Collection of Old Art of what would later become the National Gallery in Prague). During the war, however, it was stolen by the Nazis and stored in the Vyšší Brod Abbey along with other works. Hitler intended to place them in the planned Imperial Museum in Linz, Upper Austria. At the end of the war, the altarpiece was discovered by the American army in a salt mine in Bad-Aussee, Austria, along with other artworks. It was transported to Munich and in 1947 was returned to the National Gallery. In 2014 it was returned as part of restitution to the Cistercian Abbey in Vyšší Brod and is now on long-term loan to the Prague National Gallery.
Related works
Several smaller panel paintings also come from the workshop of the Master of the Vyšší Brod Altarpiece and his followers, including devotional panel with Madonna and Child Enthroned, sold at auction for €6.2 Million to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Madonna of Kłodzko also comes from his workshop.
After 1345 - Madonna of Veveri, Diocesan museum Brno
After 1350 - The Man of Sorrows between Mary and a holy woman (Renaissance copy of a lost work) National Gallery in Prague
Before 1360 - The Rome Madonna, National Gallery in Prague
Before 1360 - Diptychon (Madonna and Man of Sorrows), Staatlische Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
Circa 1350 - The Strahov Madonna (collaborator), Strahov Monastery
After 1355 - The Vyšehrad Madonna (collaborator), National Gallery in Prague
1343-44 - Madonna of Kłodzko (collaborator), Gemäldegalerie Berlin
Madonna and Child Enthroned, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Notes
Sources
Fajt Jiří, Chlumská Štěpánka, Čechy a střední Evropa 1200-1550, Národní galerie v Praze 2014,
Kamila Zbuzková, Vyšebrodský oltář, bakalářská práce, KTF UK Praha, 2009
Pavel Kalina: Symbolism and ambiguity in the work of the Vyšší Brod (Hohenfurth) Master, Umění XLIV, 1996, 149–166
Josef Krása, České iluminované rukopisy 13./16. století, Odeon Praha, 1990
Jaroslav Pešina, Mistr Vyšebrodského cyklu, Odeon Praha, 1987
Jaroslav Pešina, The Master of the Hohenfurth Altarpiece, Odeon Praha, 1989
G Schiller, Iconography of Christian Art, Vol. II, 1972 (English transl. from German), Lund Humphries, London, pp. 164–181, figs 540-639,
Antonín Matějček, Jaroslav Pešina, Česká malba gotická, Melantrich, Praha 1950, s. 38-44
External links
TV document on The Vyšší Brod (Hohenfurth) cycle, 2011
Gothic paintings
Czech gothic paintings
Paintings in the collection of the National Gallery Prague
14th-century paintings
Paintings depicting Jesus
Paintings of the Resurrection of Christ
Paintings of the Ascension of Christ
Nativity of Jesus in art
Paintings depicting the Passion of Jesus
Paintings depicting the Annunciation
Adoration of the Magi in art |
7882734 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East%20Jessamine%20High%20School | East Jessamine High School | East Jessamine High School is a public high school in Nicholasville, Kentucky, United States. It was opened in 1997 by Jessamine County. Prior to this, the school was divided into two separate institutions: East Jessamine High School and West Jessamine High School. It is the fastest growing high school in Jessamine County.
Academics
East Jessamine High School offers the following AP classes:
Art
Biology
Calculus AB
Calculus BC
Chemistry
English Language
English Literature
French
Physics
Spanish
Statistics
US History
World History
US Government & Politics
Psychology
Extracurricular activities
Academics:
National Merit finalists (2007, 2008, 2009)
Academic Team
Forensics Team (2009 Kentucky Forensics League Coach of the Year Joey Mau, 2009 Kentucky Forensics League Student Competitor of the Year Parker Collins)
Athletics:
Wrestling
Football
Volleyball
Soccer (boys' and girls')
Basketball (boys' and girls')
Cross country
Tennis
Swimming
Baseball
Softball
Golf (boys' and girls')
Bowling
Cheerleading
Track
References
External links
School web site
Educational institutions established in 1997
Schools in Jessamine County, Kentucky
Public high schools in Kentucky
1997 establishments in Kentucky |
35625843 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%20Herman | Bruce Herman | Bruce Herman (born 1953) is an artist who holds the Lothlórien Distinguished Chair in the art department of Gordon College. He achieved both a Bachelor of Fine Arts, and a Master of Fine Arts from the School for the Arts at Boston University, where he studied under Philip Guston, James Weeks, David Aronson, Reed Kay, and Arthur Polonsky. He joined the faculty at Gordon College in 1984 and was awarded various chairs and positions until he was awarded the aforementioned position. His work has been exhibited around the world, and has paintings housed in the Vatican Museum of Modern Religious Art, the Cincinnati Museum of Fine Arts, and the DeCordova Museum. Between 1983 and 2011 he has been a part of more than 50 exhibitions, and has been invited to do nearly 50 lecture series. He is working on a series of paintings for an artistic, literary, and theological tour in response to T.S. Eliot's set of four poems known as the Four Quartets.
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Bruceherman.com
1953 births
American artists
Gordon College (Massachusetts) faculty
Living people |
12711202 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS%20Monmouth%20%281772%29 | HMS Monmouth (1772) | HMS Monmouth was an 64-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 18 April 1772 at Plymouth. Being relatively compact in relation to her gun power she was affectionately known as the "Little Black Ship".
She was not immediately commissioned for service, but went on to serve during the American War of Independence in a number of theatres. May, 1778 under command of Capt. Thomas Collingwood.
She was initially in the Caribbean, where she fought at the Battle of Grenada, before returning to Britain to join a special expedition under Commodore George Johnstone, to capture the Dutch colony at the Cape of Good Hope. The expedition was surprised by a French fleet at the Battle of Porto Praya and though Johnstone was able to go on and capture several Dutch merchants in the Battle of Saldanha Bay, he did not attempt to attack the Cape. Monmouth, under her Captain James Alms, was sent on with several other warships to reinforce the East Indies station, and she went on to fight in a number of actions under Sir Edward Hughes against French fleets under the Bailli de Suffren. She returned to Britain on the conclusion of the wars and saw no further active service. Renamed Captivity and used as a prison ship from 1796, she served out the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and was broken up in 1818.
Construction and commissioning
Monmouth was ordered on 10 September 1767, one of the first batch of four ships of the , built to a design drawn up by Sir John Williams in 1765. The order was approved on 22 October 1767, and the name Monmouth assigned in November that year. She was laid down at Plymouth Dockyard in May 1768, under the supervision of Master Shipwright Israel Pownoll and launched from there on 18 April 1772. She was completed at the dockyard between October 1777 and 9 May 1778, after the outbreak of the American War of Independence. Expenditure on the ship by this stage came to £30,586.17.3d, with a further £7,426.15.1d. spent fitting her out.
American waters
Her first commander, Captain Thomas Collingwood, commissioned her for service in January 1778, and after fitting out she sailed for the Leeward Islands in June 1778 with the squadron under Vice-Admiral John Byron. She came under the command of Captain Robert Fanshawe in 1779, and under him saw action at the Battle of Grenada on 6 July 1779. Monmouth was heavily involved in the fighting with the comte d'Estaing's fleet, and was ordered to Antigua to carry out repairs. She returned to Britain at the end of the year and was refitted and coppered at Portsmouth between December 1779 and December 1780. She recommissioned in late 1780 under the command of Captain James Alms, and was immediately assigned to the squadron under Commodore George Johnstone.
Expedition to South Africa and India
Johnstone's squadron was dispatched on a secret expedition to capture the Dutch colony at the Cape of Good Hope. Johnstone sailed on his expedition from Spithead on 13 March 1781 in command of 46 ships and 3,000 troops under General Sir William Medows. The French had learned of the expedition's intent through the services of the spy François Henri de la Motte, based in London, and quickly prepared an expedition under Admiral Pierre André de Suffren to foil Johnstone by beating him to the Cape and reinforcing it. Johnstone at first made for the Cape Verde Islands, anchoring at Porto Praya to take on fresh water.
He was surprised at anchor on 16 April by the unexpected arrival of Suffren's squadron, which had also not anticipated finding an enemy force at Porto Praya. The French launched an immediate attack, and it was sometime before the British could respond effectively, eventually driving the French off. Johnstone ordered a pursuit, but his damaged ships were unable to catch up with the French. Suffren sailed directly to the Cape, with Johnstone following after completing repairs. Finding the Dutch forewarned and reinforced on his arrival there, Johnstone did not attempt an attack, instead contenting himself with capturing several Dutch merchants in Saldanha Bay. Johnstone decided to return to Britain with his prizes, detaching the troops and supplies he was escorting for the East Indies station, and sending his best warships under Captain Alms of Monmouth to escort them.
East Indies service
Alms struggled with adverse winds and high incidences of sickness, eventually forcing him to leave the troopships on the coast of Arabia to bring his warships to reach India in time for the campaigning season. The British fleet rendezvoused with Sir Edward Hughes at Madras on 11 February 1782, and Monmouth went on to be involved in a number of indecisive clashes between Hughes and the Bailli de Suffren; at Sadras on 17 February, Providien on 12 April, Negapatam on 6 July, and Trincomalee on 3 September 1782.
Monmouth had a particularly important part in the battle Providien, when she was the second ship in the line to Sir Edward's flagship. At one point in the action, Alms saw that Suffren had put up his helm with a view of boarding Hughes's ship, and brought Monmouth about to defend his commander, the ship receiving heavy fire as he did so. In this engagement, the Monmouth had seven guns dismounted,—the wheel twice cleared,—and two seamen only, besides the captain, left alive on the quarter-deck. Forty-five men were killed, and one hundred and two wounded. Alms himself received two splinter-wounds in the face, and two musket-balls went through his hat.
Prison ship and sale
Alms brought Monmouth back to Britain at the conclusion of the American War of Independence, and she was paid off in July 1784. She spent a number of years laid up, and was not returned to service on the outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars. Instead she was renamed Captivity on 20 October 1796, while laid up at Portsmouth, and was fitted out as a prison ship. She continued in this role for over a decade, serving under a number of commanders, Lieutenant Samuel Blow from December 1796, until his replacement in 1800 by Lieutenant Emanuel Hungerford. She was thereafter commanded by Lieutenant Jacob Silver from September 1801, and then a Lieutenant McDonald from December 1805 until sometime in 1806. She was finally broken up at Portsmouth in January 1818.
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62104559 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor%20Chamberlain | Governor Chamberlain | Governor Chamberlain may refer to:
Abiram Chamberlain (1837–1911), 60th Governor of Connecticut
Daniel Henry Chamberlain (1835–1907), 76th Governor of South Carolina
George Earle Chamberlain (1854–1928), 11th Governor of Oregon
Joshua Chamberlain (1828–1914), 32nd Governor of Maine |
2037396 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia%20Dresdel | Sonia Dresdel | Sonia Dresdel (5 May 1909 – 18 January 1976) was an English actress, whose career ran between the 1940s and 1970s.
Life
She was born Lois Obee in Hornsea, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, and was educated at Aberdeen High School for Girls and RADA.
Career
Her performance in the lead role of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler at the Westminster Theatre in 1942 "was legendary. It was the performance on which her reputation was founded. James Agate was ecstatic..." For a decade Dresdel was regarded as one of England's foremost stage actresses. Her leading role in the 1947 film While I Live also gained her a great deal of acclaim. In the film she plays Julia Trevelyan, a spinster living in a lonely cliff top house in Cornwall and haunted by the death of her sister 25 years earlier.
Her best remembered role is as Mrs. Baines in the film version of Graham Greene's The Fallen Idol (1948), which starred Ralph Richardson, Michèle Morgan and Bobby Henrey. The film received Academy Awards nominations for Best Director (Sir Carol Reed) and Best Screenplay.
In the 1950s, as well as appearing increasingly on television, Dresdel moved more to the management side of things, becoming a theatre director under the aegis of the New White Rose Players, directing plays including the thriller Night of the Shoot.
In the 1970s she played the Witch in BBC Television series "Lizzie Dripping", and played Lady Dorothy in the series “Sykes” series 2 episode 5 “Rolls”.
Death
She died of undisclosed causes, aged 66. The critic Philip Hope-Wallace, said Dresdel was "an actress of high definition with a real power to take an audience by the wrist and give them the works. She had terrific personality and was terribly underused and misused. She would have been the Lady Macbeth of all Lady Macbeths."
Partial filmography
The World Owes Me a Living (1945) as Eve Heatherley
While I Live (1947) as Julia Trevelyan
This Was a Woman (1948) as Sylvia Russell
The Fallen Idol (1948) as Mrs. Baines
The Clouded Yellow (1951) as Jess Fenton
The Third Visitor (1951) as Steffy Millington
Now and Forever (1956) as Miss Fox
The Secret Tent (1956) as Miss Mitchum-Browne
David Copperfield (1956) as Betsey Trotwood
Death Over My Shoulder (1958) as Miss Upton
The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960) as Lady Wilde
George and the Dragon (1967–1968, TV Series) as Priscilla
The Break (1962) as Sarah
Jane Eyre (1963, TV series) as Mrs. Reed
Public Eye (1968, TV Series) as Mrs. Briggs
Dixon of Dock Green (1968) as Mrs. Dewar
The Caesars (1968) as Livia
Last of the Long-haired Boys (1968) as Miss Dearborn
Bachelor Father (1970–1971, TV Series) as Mother
Paul Temple (1971, TV Series) as Agnes Armadyne
Wives and Daughters (1971, TV Mini-Series) as Lady Cumnor
The Strauss Family (1972, TV Mini-Series) as Lucari
Lady Caroline Lamb (1972) as Lady Pont
The Onedin Line (1972, TV Series) as Lady Lazenby
Lizzie Dripping (1973-1975, TV Series) as The Witch
The Pallisers (1974, TV Mini-Series) as the Marchioness of Auld Reekie
References
External links
1909 births
1976 deaths
British film actresses
People from Hornsea
People educated at Harlaw Academy
British stage actresses
Actresses from Yorkshire
20th-century British actresses
20th-century English women
20th-century English people |
46650855 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This%20Summer%27s%20Gonna%20Hurt%20like%20a%20MotherFucker | This Summer's Gonna Hurt like a MotherFucker | "This Summer's Gonna Hurt like a MotherFucker" (also known as "This Summer's Gonna Hurt..." or titled "This Summer" for its single release) is a song performed by American pop rock band Maroon 5. The fourth single from the album, it followed the reissue deluxe edition of the band's fifth studio album V, on May 15, 2015. Musically, the song has been described as having a "synthpop sound", while incorporating an arena rock style.
Background
On May 6, 2015, it was rumored that Maroon 5 were to release a brand new single titled "This Summer's Gonna Hurt" on May 26, 2015, to radio airplay. The following day, it was confirmed by Billboard magazine in an article stating that "This Summer's Gonna Hurt" would be released ahead of the band's upcoming reissue deluxe of their album V (2014) and will follow to the band's previous single "Sugar". On May 11, 2015, the band officially announced that the single would be released on May 15, and on mainstream radio May 19, 2015.
Chart performance
During the May 17–23 tracking week, "This Summer's Gonna Hurt" received approximately 4,216 pop radio spins. That earned it the number 22 position on Mediabase's official pop radio airplay chart. The following week, "Summer" leveraged only two days of airplay to debut at number 35 on the official pop chart. "This Summer's Gonna Hurt" also reached the top 25 at hot adult contemporary radio. After debuting at number 44, the song jumped to number 23 on its second week, after receiving 1,457 tracking week spins. After peaking at number 23, the song became the band's first official single release in five years to miss the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100.
Music video
Background
The official music video for the song was filmed during a live concert at SSE Arena Wembley on May 28, 2015 and was shot in black-and-white. It was directed by Travis Schneider and Adam Levine. According to Schneider, the video was inspired by the music videos, "I Want Love" by Elton John and "Queer" by Garbage.
The video for the song was released without promo on May 30, 2015. In the video there is a scene where Levine's buttocks are fully exposed. Because of this in the video there is a content warning and the requirement that viewers sign in (to verify their age). It was eventually released on the band's YouTube channel on June 2, without the content. A clean version of the video was released on June 12, 2015. While most of the scene are retained from the original music video, the scenes about nudity, kissing and his mouth speaking profanity has been covered by different emojis, while the word "fucker" has been replaced by "AHA" instead of bleeping the sounds.
Synopsis
The video starts with Adam Levine coming out of the bathroom and going to the cloakroom. After dressing up there, he starts to walk in the corridor. He takes to the stage where the audience greets him and the group performs the song live. When the performance ends the group members descend the stage and go to sit in their cars to go.
Reception
The music video was received with positive response from most critics. Daniel Kreps of Rolling Stone wrote humorously that the video is revealing for two reasons; "First, it offers a candid look at life on tour through the eyes of Adam Levine as the viewer journeys with the singer from the dressing room to backstage to the edge of the catwalk at a massive arena. Secondly, the video is revealing because Levine flashes some unexpected nudity". Vimal Esvaren of The Record Blog explained: "Another run-of-the-mill concert video, it is told from the perspective of frontman Levine as he leaves the shower, gets ready, goes on stage, performs and gets in a car out of the stadium with the rest of his bandmates. And in between all that he moons viewers for the extra shock factor".
Circuit Jerks video
A music video for the song's remix version performed by Circuit Jerks and created by Kidmograph. The video was released on July 31, 2015, by Samsung and later YouTube on January 25, 2016. The version was also appeared on the group's EP titled EP1 (2016).
Live performances
On May 19, 2015, Maroon 5 performed a clean version of the song during the finale of the eighth season of The Voice. Afterwards, the band also performed with the song as an encore for their worldwide concert tour, the Maroon V Tour.
Track listing
Digital download – Explicit
"This Summer's Gonna Hurt like a MotherFucker" (Explicit) – 3:44
Digital download – Clean
"This Summer" (Clean) – 3:44
Digital download – Circuit Jerks Remix
"This Summer" (Circuit Jerks Remix) – 3:54
Credits and personnel
Recording
Recorded at: MXM Studios, Stockholm, Sweden, and at Conway Studios and Henson Studios, Los Angeles, California
Mixed by at MixStar Studios, Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States
Mastered at Sterling Sound, New York City, New York, United States
Personnel
Shellback – songwriting, producer, programming, additional guitar, bass, keyboards, gang vocals
Adam Levine – lead vocals, songwriting
James Valentine – lead guitar, backing and gang vocals
Jesse Carmichael – keyboards, synthesizers, rhythm guitar, backing and gang vocals
Mickey Madden – bass
Matt Flynn – drums, percussion
PJ Morton – keyboards, synthesizers, piano, backing and gang vocals
Sam Farrar – gang vocals
Noah "Mailbox" Passovoy – engineer
Sam Holland – assistant engineer
Corey Bice – assistant engineer
Emerson Day – assistant engineer
Ben Sedano – assistant engineer
Serban Ghenea – mixer
John Hanes – engineered for mix
Tim Roberts – assistant engineered for mix
Tom Coyne – mastering
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
Release history
Maroon 5 vs. Alesso version
A progressive house version of the song remixed by Swedish producer Alesso, was released on June 29, 2015 on iTunes. The version which was credited as Maroon 5 vs. Alesso.
Background
Alesso explained: Adam Levine also explained about the collaboration of Alesso:
Live performances
On June 20, 2015, Alesso debut the version for the first time at EDC festival in Las Vegas, Nevada. On July 24, 2015, Alesso performed the remix at the Tomorrowland festival in Boom, Belgium.
Track listing
;Digital download — Explicit
"This Summer" (Maroon 5 vs. Alesso) (explicit version) – 3:11
;Digital download — Clean
"This Summer" (Maroon 5 vs. Alesso) (clean version) – 3:11
Release history
References
2015 singles
2015 songs
222 Records singles
Interscope Records singles
Maroon 5 songs
Songs written by Adam Levine
Songs written by Shellback (record producer)
Song recordings produced by Shellback (record producer)
Black-and-white music videos
American synth-pop songs
Songs about seasons |
22748865 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shim%20Soo-chang | Shim Soo-chang | Shim Soo-chang (born February 9, 1981 in Seoul, South Korea) is a South Korean relief pitcher for the Hanwha Eagles of the KBO League. He bats and throws right-handed.
Amateur career
Shim attended Baemyung High School in Seoul, South Korea. In , as the team's ace pitcher he led his team to runners-up in the President's Cup National Championship. During the competition, Shim drew attention from MLB scouts, and then negotiated a contract with a few Major League teams. However, he eventually failed in his attempt to secure the contract with any team.
Upon graduation from the school in , he was selected by the LG Twins with the 11th pick in the 2nd round of the 2000 KBO Draft, but chose to play college baseball at Hanyang University instead of turning pro.
In August 2002, as a junior Shim was called up to the South Korea national baseball team and competed in the inaugural World University Baseball Championship held in Messina, Italy. Shim started for South Korea in the 5th place game against Italy. He earned the win in that game, racking up 5 strikeouts and giving up just an earned run in 4 innings pitched.
In November 2003, as a senior Shim was named as a member of the South Korean national team for the 2003 Asian Baseball Championship in Sapporo, Japan. He was the only amateur player in the Team Korea's roster but was omitted from the roster a week before the start of the competition due to injuries.
Notable international careers
Professional career
After graduating from Hanyang University in 2004, Shim began his professional career in the LG Twins. He picked up his first professional league win on October 9, 2004, beating the Lotte Giants in relief at home. However, Shim finished his rookie season with a disappointing record of 2-1 and a 4.55 ERA, appearing in only 16 games as a setup man.
In 2005, Shim had another disappointing season with a record of 0-1 and an ERA of 4.22 in 32 innings pitched in relief, spending most of the year pitching for the Twins reserve team.
Shim had a very solid season in 2006, when he finished the season with a record of 10-9 and an ERA of 4.38 in 135.2 innings pitched, amassing 56 strikeouts as a starting pitcher. In July, Shim was elected to the 2006 KBO All-Star Game for the first time.
Following the double-digit win season, Shim was shifted back to the middle relief role to fill a void in the Twins' bullpen in the 2007 season. He posted a record of 3-5 and an ERA of 4.31 with a career-high 10 holds and 2 saves, appearing in a career-high 56 games as a utility pitcher.
In 2008, Shim spent most of the season in the reserve team, failing to earn his spot either in the starting rotation or in the bullpen due to the decrease of ball velocity and the absence of command. He finished with a 6-5 record as a starter, recovering from the slump later in the season, but had a 5.16 ERA, which was the highest ERA of his pro career.
While with the Twins, from June 26, to July 21, , Shim lost 17 consecutive decisions as a starter and reliever. This losing streak is the longest in the Korean professional baseball history, breaking the record of 16 losing streak set by Kim Jong-Seok in 1987–91. On July 31, 2011, Shim was traded to the Nexen Heroes along with Park Byung-ho for Kim Seong-hyun and Song Shin-young. On August 3, Shim lost a record 18th straight game, allowing 3 earned runs in six innings pitched against the Samsung Lions. On August 9, Shim finally won to break a streak of 18 consecutive games lost, hurling 6.1 innings of one-run ball in a 3-1 victory over the Lotte Giants.
In , however, Shim had one of his worst seasons, posting a 7.30 ERA as a long reliever and mop-up man. He claimed no wins but earned five losses, continuing another 9 losing streak including four consecutive losses in the 2011 season.
External links
Career statistics and player information from Korea Baseball Organization
1981 births
Living people
South Korean baseball players
Hanwha Eagles players
Lotte Giants players
Kiwoom Heroes players
LG Twins players
KBO League pitchers
Hanyang University alumni
Baseball players from Seoul |
2680622 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doughboys%20%28Canadian%20band%29 | Doughboys (Canadian band) | Doughboys were a Canadian alternative rock band founded in 1987 that were active in the late 1980s and early/mid-1990s. The band was renowned for its musical blend of punk and pop-style melodies.
Early years
The band was formed in Montreal by John Kastner in 1987 following his departure from the Asexuals. That year the Doughboys released their debut album Whatever on the Pipeline Records label. In 1996 and 2000 Chart magazine ranked Whatever as the 28th greatest Canadian album of all time.
Throughout their existence the band was characterized by frequent lineup changes. Original guitarist Scott McCullough went on to form Rusty, so Kastner recruited Jonathan Cummins from the punk band Circus Lupus after Cummins had moved to Montreal from Toronto. Jon Asencio (aka John Bondhead) played bass and Brock Pytel was the band's drummer. The band began working with manager/producer Dan McConomy who was working for a film by producer Robin Spry that needed a song for a skateboard scene. McConomy asked the band to re-record the guitar solos with Jonathan Cummins. Even though the original label Restless Records had gone bankrupt a deal was arranged so that Electric Distribution in Canada and Malaco in the United States could release the album. The band opened for Red Hot Chili Peppers on their Canadian tour after attaining the No. 1 spot on Independent Retail Sales and College Radio Chart.
Their second album Home Again was released in 1988 on Restless Records.
Pytel left the band in 1990 and moved to India to study meditation. He was replaced by Paul Newman on the band's third album, Happy Accidents. After that album's release and tour Asencio left and was replaced by bassist John Deslaurier, who appeared on the subsequent 5-song EP When Up Turns to Down that features a cover of the B-52s "Private Idaho". The EP was released as part of the contract buyout by Enigma/Restless.
Mainstream success
Deslaurier left in 1992 and was replaced by Peter Arsenault, formerly of the band Jellyfishbabies. Manager James MacLean arranged a buyout of the band's existing recording contract with the US label Restless/Enigma Records and the band signed with A&M Records.
They then recruited Daniel Rey and Dave Ogilvie to produce their major label debut, Crush, which was released in August 1993. "Shine" was that album's lead single and became the band's biggest Top 40 hit. Shine won a CASBY for best single in 1994. "Neighbourhood Villain" and "Fix Me" were also notable singles from the album. Crush was certified gold in Canada in 1996. "Shine" meanwhile was voted in 2000 as the 26th "Top Canadian Single of All Time" by Chart magazine, and was used by Canadian music video channel Much Music as the theme song for their alternative rock show called "The Wedge."
In 1996, the band released their final album to date, Turn Me On. The album furthered the band's pop punk style. It was coproduced by Ted Niceley and Daniel Rey. The album spawned the singles "I Never Liked You" and "Everything and After", which peaked at #50 and #28 in Canada on the RPM Top Singles chart, respectively. Cummins subsequently left the band, citing the band's "lack of edge" and commercial sellout. He was replaced for the remainder of the band's tour by Wiz, the former singer/guitarist for Mega City Four. Wiz co-wrote two songs each on Turn Me On and Crush, including "Shine". However, following the end of that tour (as the opening act for The Offspring) in 1997, the band broke up.
In 2003 their first demo La Majeure was released.
Post-breakup
Kastner subsequently formed All Systems Go! with Marc Arnold and Frank Daly of Big Drill Car. He is married to Nicole de Boer and lives in Silverlake, California. They have a daughter, Summer Lee. His first solo album entitled Have You Seen Lucky was released in June 2006. He has also composed a number of film and TV soundtracks, including work on Phil the Alien, Universal Soldier and B.R.A.T.S of the Lost Nebula. In 2000 Kastner along with Jon Bond Head made a guest appearance on Brock Pytel's solo album Second Choice. In 2008 Kastner toured with Bran Van 3000 and recorded an album with them.
Cummins formed the band Bionic. He also produced a number of albums, and also spent a six-month stint playing with the Besnard Lakes. He writes a music column for The Montreal Mirror.
Wiz formed Serpico and Ipanema, but died in London, England on December 6, 2006 from a blood clot on the brain.
Paul Newman worked as a road manager after the Doughboys broke up. Later he joined The Forgotten Rebels. He currently plays in Big Rude Jake's band Blue Mercury Coupe. Paul currently is one of the main stage techs for Coldplay tours worldwide.
Brock Pytel currently plays guitar and fronts East Vancouver's SLIP~ons.
Reunion
Doughboys reunited briefly in the summer of 2011 as support for the Canadian leg of a Foo Fighters tour. No plans exist to extend the reunion beyond the tour or to create new music.
Discography
EPs
When Up Turns to Down, (Restless Records/Emergo, 1991)
Blanche, (A&M Records, 1993)
Singles
"Your Related"/"Stranger from Within"/"Forecast", 7", (No Label, 1988), (Promo, limited to 500 copies)
"Home Again Live", 7", (Black Box Records, 1991)
"Disposable", Single, (A&M Records, 1993)
"Shine", Single, (A&M Records, 1993)
"Shine", Maxi, (A&M Records, 1993)
"Fix Me", Single, (A&M Records, 1993)
"Neighbourhood Villain" (Crush, 1994)
"I Never Liked You" (Turn Me On, 1996)
"Everything and After" (Turn Me On, 1996)
La Majeure 1987, 7", (Boss Tuneage Records, 2003)
Compilation albums
More Than a State of Mind, (Restless Records, 1990) - features the track "I Won't Write You a Letter"
Black Box Compilation, (Black Box Records, 1992) - features the track Stole Yer Love" (live)
Something's Gone Wrong Again: The Buzzcocks Covers Compilations, (C/Z Records, 1992) - features the track "Why She's a Girl from the Chainstore"
A Tribute to Hard Core Logo'', (BMG Music, 1996) - features the track "Something's Gonna Die Tonight"
Videos
"Deep End" (1991)
"Shine" (1993)
"Fix Me" (1993)
"Neighbourhood Villain" (1994)
"I Never Liked You" (1996)
"Everything and After" (1997).
References
External links
Doughboys Unofficial website
Musical groups established in 1987
Musical groups disestablished in 1996
Canadian alternative rock groups
Canadian pop punk groups
Musical groups from Montreal
English-language musical groups from Quebec
Restless Records artists
A&M Records artists |
66796685 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma%20Aicher | Emma Aicher | Emma Aicher (born 13 November 2003) is a German alpine ski racer who also holds Swedish citizenship.
A daughter of a Swedish mother and a German father, Aicher grew up in Sundsvall where she started skiing and joined the local Slalomklubb. Later, she moved with her parents to Engelberg (Switzerland) and then back to Sundsvall.
In March 2019 she won the U16 Slalom of the FIS Children Cup, representing Sweden. Later that year, she took part in her first FIS races. In 2020, she joined the German Ski Association, for the reason of ″better training opportunities in the Alps″. Making her debut in the Alpine Skiing Europa Cup in December 2020, she took her first podium in Slalom in January 2021.
Three weeks later, she represented Germany at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2021, where she won bronze medal in the team event.
World Championship results
References
External links
2003 births
Living people
German female alpine skiers
Swedish female alpine skiers
Alpine skiers at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Olympic alpine skiers of Germany
Medalists at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Olympic medalists in alpine skiing
Olympic silver medalists for Germany |
31200050 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999%20Urawa%20Red%20Diamonds%20season | 1999 Urawa Red Diamonds season | 1999 Urawa Red Diamonds season
Competitions
Domestic results
J.League 1
Emperor's Cup
J.League Cup
Player statistics
Other pages
J.League official site
Urawa Red Diamonds
Urawa Red Diamonds seasons |
4749243 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voodoo3 | Voodoo3 | Voodoo3 was a series of computer gaming video cards manufactured and designed by 3dfx Interactive. It was the successor to the company's high-end Voodoo2 line and was based heavily upon the older Voodoo Banshee product. Voodoo3 was announced at COMDEX '98 and arrived on store shelves in early 1999. The Voodoo3 line was the first product manufactured by the combined STB Systems and 3dfx.
History
The 'Avenger' graphics core was originally conceived immediately after Banshee. Due to mis-management by 3dfx, this caused the next-generation 'Rampage' project to suffer delays which would prove to be fatal to the entire company.
Avenger was pushed to the forefront as it offered a quicker time to market than the already delayed Rampage. Avenger was no more than the Banshee core with a second texture mapping unit (TMU) added - the same TMU which Banshee lost compared to Voodoo2. Avenger was thus merely a Voodoo2 with an integrated 128-bit 2D video accelerator and twice the clock speed.
Architecture and performance
Much was made of Voodoo3 (christened 'Avenger') and its 16-bit color rendering limitation. This was in fact quite complex, as Voodoo3 operated to full 32-bit precision (8 bits per channel, 16.7M colours) in its texture mappers and pixel pipeline as opposed to previous products from 3dfx and other vendors, which had only worked in 16-bit precision.
To save framebuffer space, the Voodoo3's rendering output was dithered to 16 bit. This offered better quality than running in pure 16-bit mode. However, a controversy arose over what happened next.
The Voodoo3's RAMDAC, which took the rendered frame from the framebuffer and generated the display image, performed a 2x2 box or 4x1 line filter on the dithered image to almost reconstruct the original 24-bit color render. 3dfx claimed this to be '22-bit' equivalent quality. As such, Voodoo3's framebuffer was not representative of the final output, and therefore, screenshots did not accurately portray Voodoo3's display quality which was actually much closer to the 24-bit outputs of NVIDIA's RIVA TNT2 and ATI's Rage 128.
The internal organisation of Avenger was not complex. Pre-setup notably featured a guardband clipper (eventually part of hardware transformation and lighting) but the pixel pipeline was a conventional single-issue, dual-texture design almost identical to that featured on Voodoo2, but capable of working on 32-bit image data as opposed to Voodoo2's pure 16-bit output. Avenger's other remarkable features included the 128-bit GDI accelerator debuted in Banshee. This 2D engine led the Voodoo3 to be considered one of the more high-performance video cards of its generation.
The Voodoo3 2000, 3000 and 3500 differed mainly in clock frequencies (memory and core were synchronous). The clock rates were 143 MHz, 166 MHz and 183 MHz respectively. While this gave the 3000 and 3500 a notable theoretical advantage in multi-textured fillrate over its main rival, the TNT2 clocked at 125 MHz, the TNT2 had nearly twice the single-textured fillrate of the Voodoo3. In addition, the Voodoo3 consisted of one multi-texturing pipeline, the TNT series consisted of twin single texturing pipelines. As a result, Voodoo3 was disadvantaged in games not using multiple texturing. The 2000 and 3000 boards generally differed in their support for TV output; the 3500 boards also carried a TV tuner and provided a wide range of video inputs and outputs.
At the time modern multi-texturing games such as Quake III Arena and Unreal Tournament were considered Voodoo3's performance territory, as Voodoo3's primary competition upon release was the dated RIVA TNT. NVIDIA's RIVA TNT2 arrived shortly thereafter and the two traded places frequently in benchmark results.
Although the Voodoo3 was a replacement for the Voodoo2, it was often beaten by Voodoo2 SLI cards in direct comparisons.
Voodoo3 remained performance competitive throughout its life, eventually being comprehensively outclassed by NVIDIA's GeForce 256 and ATI's Radeon. 3dfx created the ill-fated Voodoo 5 to counter.
3dfx Velocity
3dfx released a line of business / value-oriented cards based on the Voodoo3 Avenger chipset. With the purchase of STB Systems, 3dfx had acquired several popular brand names. The Velocity brand had appealed to OEM system builders for years, with boards such as the S3 Graphics ViRGE VX-based STB Velocity 3D and NVIDIA RIVA 128-based Velocity 128 being used in many OEM systems from companies such as Gateway. The 3dfx Velocity boards came with only 8 MiB of RAM, compared to 16 MiB on a regular Voodoo3. In addition, one of the texture management units came disabled as well, making the board more like a Banshee. Enthusiasts discovered that it was possible to enable the disabled TMU with a simple registry alteration. The board's clock speed was set at 143 MHz, exactly the same as a Voodoo3 2000.
Drivers
The last set of drivers officially released for the Voodoo 3 on Win9x was version 1.07.00. For Win2000 the latest version is 1.03.00. Dual monitor support with V1.1.3b for Mac OS 8 and 9. After 3dfx shut its doors 3rd party drivers for Windows 98/98SE, Windows 2000 and XP were developed by loyal 3dfx customers .
Models
1 - 3Dfx Velocity cards only have 1 working TMU enabled on OpenGL and Glide games, but both TMUs working under DirectX games
Competing chipsets
NVIDIA RIVA TNT2
ATI Rage 128
Matrox G400
S3 Graphics Savage4
References
3dfx Interactive
Graphics cards |
26017073 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty%20Money | Dirty Money | Dirty Money may refer to:
Film
Dirty Money, a 1972 Canadian film
Un flic, a 1972 French film also known as Dirty Money
Dirty Money, a 1979 UK film
Music
Dirty Money (album), by UGK
Dirty Money (group), hip-hop group created by Sean "Diddy" Combs
Television series
Dirty Money (2011 TV series), 2011 American reality television show
Dirty Money (2018 TV series), 2018 American documentary series
Dirty Money (UK TV series), 2002 UK game show
Dirty Money: The Story of the Criminal Assets Bureau, 2008 Irish crime series
See also
Counterfeit money
Money laundering
Dirty Sexy Money, 2007 American drama series |
5091106 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%20Kirke | Walter Kirke | General Sir Walter Mervyn St George Kirke, (19 January 1877 – 2 September 1949) was the Commander in Chief of the British Home Forces during the Second World War.
Military career
Born the second son of Colonel St. George Mervyn Kirke RE and his wife Sarah, Walter Kirke was commissioned into the Royal Artillery as a second lieutenant on 21 September 1896. He was promoted to lieutenant on 21 September 1899, and to captain on 4 December 1901 while serving in Waziristan on the North West Frontier of India between 1901 and 1902. From July 1902 he was seconded for service with the Burma Military Police.
Kirke was instrumental in creating the Army's Intelligence Corps in 1907, and he worked for Colonel George Macdonogh in the War Office's Intelligence Department. This area of work comprised special duties, such as protective security, ciphers and censorship of post (news) and telegraphs. Starting October 1, 1909, the new Secret Service Bureau (MI5) was created and fell under Macdonogh's supervision. Here, Kirke came to know Major Vernon Kell (headed up counter-espionage) and Captain Mansfield Cumming (enemy intelligence). Together, Cummings and Kell formed the two halves of MI5. Macdonogh and Kirke travelled to France and spent two weeks on a walking tour of the French and Belgium borders, visiting areas that looked vulnerable to a German attack. On August 12, 1914, the Intelligence Corps crossed the English Channel, near Le Havre, France as part of the deployment of the B.E.F.
He served in the First World War as a General Staff Officer at GHQ in France and Belgium. In 1916 he learned that German soldiers were intercepting British field telephone conversations and acted to secure them. On March 23, 1918, Kirke was flown in from the front to brief the War Cabinet in London on Operation Michael. In late 1918 he became deputy director of Military Operations at the War Office and was then moved to Aldershot in 1922. In 1924 he was appointed Head of the British Military Mission to Finland and in 1925 President of Inter-Allied Commission of Investigation for Hungary.
Then in 1926 he became Deputy Chief of the General Staff for India moving on to be General Officer Commanding 5th Division in 1929. In 1933 he was appointed General Officer Commanding-in-Chief for Western Command and in 1936 he became Director-General of the Territorial Army.
He served in the Second World War initially as Inspector-General of Home Defence and then as Commander-in-Chief, Home Forces. in that role he always thought that the threat of a German invasion was exaggerated. He retired in 1940.
He was also an Aide-de-Camp General to the King from 1937 to 1940.
References
External links
The Daily Telegraph (London): Link
Internet Archive: (sign up to view source material for footnotes), Link
Journal of Intelligence History, Link
Judd, Alan, "The Quest for C: Sir Mansfield Cumming and The Founding of the Secret Service", London, HarperCollins, 1999
The Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives: Link
The London Gazette, Link
Mackenzie, S.P., The Home Guard: A Military and Political History, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995
UK National Archives, Link
Further reading
Private Papers of General Sir Walter Kirke GCB CMG DSO can be found in the Imperial War Museum, Documents and Sound section, ref: Documents.20171 (82/28/1 & Con Shelf).
Service Record: Link
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1877 births
1949 deaths
Royal Artillery officers
British Army personnel of World War I
British Army generals of World War II
Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George
Companions of the Distinguished Service Order |
52514975 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea%20Common | Chelsea Common | Chelsea Common was the ground of Chelsea Cricket Club in the 18th century, an area that virtually disappeared under building work in the 19th century.
Records have survived of five matches between 1731 and 1789 which either involved the Chelsea club or were played on the common. The first, played on the common for the high stake of 50 guineas, was Chelsea v Fulham in July 1731. In August 1736 there was an inter-county match on the common between Middlesex and Surrey. The stake was 50 guineas and Middlesex won by 9 runs.
References
1731 establishments in England
Cricket grounds in Middlesex
Cricket in Middlesex
Defunct cricket grounds in England
Defunct sports venues in London
English cricket venues in the 18th century
History of Middlesex
Middlesex
Sport in London
Sports venues completed in 1731
Sports venues in London |
33609524 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Zealand%20at%20the%202004%20Summer%20Paralympics | New Zealand at the 2004 Summer Paralympics | New Zealand competed at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, Greece. The team included 36 athletes, 28 men and 8 women. Competitors from New Zealand won ten medals, including 6 gold, 1 silver and 3 bronze to finish 36th in the medal table.
Medalists
Sports
Athletics
Men's track
Men's field
Women's track
Boccia
Individuals
Mixed pairs/teams
Cycling
Men's road
Men's track
Women's road
Women's track
Equestrian
Powerlifting
Men
Shooting
Swimming
Men
Women
Wheelchair rugby
The men's rugby team won a gold medal after defeating Canada in the gold medal match.
Players
Dan Buckingham
Stephen Guthrie
Tim Johnson
Gary McMurray
Bill Oughton
Curtis Palmer
Sholto Taylor
Geremy Tinker
Jai Waite
Tournament
Wheelchair tennis
Men
Women
See also
New Zealand at the Paralympics
New Zealand at the 2004 Summer Olympics
References
Nations at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
2004
Summer Paralympics |
29273879 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoltek | Zoltek | Zoltek ( until 2014) is a materials company headquartered in St. Louis, MO that engages in the development, manufacture, and marketing of commercial carbon fiber for various applications. Their primary customers are in the sectors of wind energy, alternative energy, lightweight automobiles, construction and infrastructure, and oil exploration.
Zoltek sells commercial carbon grade carbon fibers under the Panex trade name, and oxidized acrylic fiber under the Pyron trade name.
History
Zoltek is named for its founder, engineer Zsolt Rumy, who as a youth immigrated with his family to the United States from Hungary. It began as an industrial equipment and services company, and shifted into a carbon fiber producer after a business acquisition in 1988. In 1992, Zoltek's IPO raised $4 million, which was primarily used to build their first continuous carbonization line for the textile-type precursor.
Since then, Zoltek has taken steps to reduce the cost of their principal raw material. In 1995, Zoltek purchased Magyar Viscosa, a Hungarian producer of acrylic and other fibers for the European textile market. The acquisition supported their carbon fiber business in two ways: First, it gave them further means of driving down the cost and price, by enabling them to produce precursor from acrylic in-house and to use the acquired technology and expertise to develop other sources. Second, it ensured a plentiful supply of this raw material to meet a rapid increase in demand for carbon fibers.
Today, Zoltek owns and operates five manufacturing facilities in the United States, Hungary, and Mexico. They have sales offices in the United States, Hungary, China, India, and South Korea.
On 4 March 2013, Quinpario Partners disclosed a hostile takeover bid for Zoltek after acquiring over 10% of Zoltek stock. Quinpario sent a letter to the company requesting a special shareholders' meeting with the intent of removing and replacing all existing board members. The Quinpario offer was rebuffed by Zoltek's legal council. Zoltek's board had not formally considered the proposals, and was unwilling to engage with Quinpario to discuss the matter. According to the company's most recent proxy statement, the vast majority of stock owned by the board is owned by Mr. Rumy himself. On 2 April 2013 Zoltek announced it would evaluate strategic alternatives for maximizing its shareholder value and had engaged J.P. Morgan Securities LLC as the Company's financial advisor.
In September 2013, Toray Industries announced a plan to buy Zoltek for half a billion dollars. Toray acquired all of Zoltek's outstanding shares for $16.75 per share in cash, for a total equity value of approximately $584 million. As a result of the merger, the Company became a wholly owned subsidiary of Toray and will operate as a separate business unit.
In December 2018, the U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control announced that Zoltek had agreed to pay $7.77 million to settle allegations, some of which were egregious, regarding violations of U.S. sanctions against Belarus.
Products, Applications & Markets
Panex is made from an abundant textile-based precursor and manufactured in a proprietary high-throughput processes that allows it to be the lowest cost carbon fiber on the market. Panex is the dominant material in the wind turbine industry, and is on the forefront of many other applications including automotive, pressure vessels, offshore drilling, and other industrial applications.
Pyron is flame resistant fiber used as an effective heat-blocking and fire barrier material. Pyron fibers do not burn, melt, or drip. Instead they char and self-extinguish. The largest application for Pyron is the aircraft brake market, where Pyron holds the dominant position in the marketplace. Other commercial applications include metal working protection, automotive, aerospace, furniture and bedding, racewear and other protective apparel, military, energy storage, and noise vibration handling.
References
External links
Official website
Annual Report, 2009
Google Finance profile
Composites World
Funding Universe: Detailed History of Zoltek Corporation
Manufacturing companies based in St. Louis
Companies established in 1988
Companies formerly listed on the Nasdaq
2014 mergers and acquisitions |
13101180 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan%20Boria | Juan Boria | Juan Boria (February 17, 1905 – May 29, 1995) also known as the Negro Verse Pharaoh, was a Puerto Rican poet known for his Afro-Caribbean poetry.
Biography
Early years
Juan Boria was born in Dorado, Puerto Rico where he studied elementary school. After that, he followed studies in the nearby town of Toa Baja. During weekends, he worked as a mason and carpenter to pay for his studies. He finished his studies in Santurce in 1923.
At this time, his family moved to the town of Cataño and he started studies in the University of Puerto Rico in Río Piedras. He received his bachelor's degree as a teacher of industrial arts, drawing, and carpentry. After several years working in several places, he started working as a teacher in 1937 at a school in San Germán. From there, he was transferred to another school in Canóvanas.
Starting his career
In 1938, during a show at the school in Canóvanas, he heard a colleague — Pablito Rivera — recite the Negro poem "La negra curandera." He liked it so much that he asked him for a copy to learn and recite at his friends meetings. After some time, his friends prompted him to participate in a program at the WKAQ radio station. The poet Fortunato Vizcarrondo, considered the most important Negro poet in the island at the time, heard him and visited him. Vizcarrondo then offered him other of his poems for him to recite at the program.
In 1941, he participated in a show at Loíza, where he met the most important personality in Puerto Rican show-business, Ramón Rivero (known as "Diplo"), who was so impressed with Boria's performance that he made Boria part of his troupe called La Farándula Bohemia, traveling the island and performing as a poet and as an actor. In 1944, Boria once more joined the famous troupe and accompanied Ramón Rivero (Diplo) to the Panama Canal to entertain Puerto Rican soldiers stationed there.
International fame
In 1950, he traveled to Havana, Cuba under the recommendation of "Diplo" and Luis Palés Matos. He planned to stay there for 15 days but was so sought after that he ended up staying two months. He followed with travels to the Dominican Republic, Colombia, Venezuela, Spain, and Portugal, as well as New York, where he headlined at the Teatro Puerto Rico, and other cities in the United States. Afterward, he alternated his artistic activities with his job as a teacher in Río Piedras.
In 1954, Boria debuted in television on the show Tribuna del Arte from Telemundo. He also performed in La Taberna India with "Diplo." He followed with his debut in film in 1964 in the Mexican/Puerto Rican film Mientras Puerto Rico duerme, directed by Julián Soler. He also appeared in several short films produced by the Division of Community Education.
From 1965 he traveled several cultural centers, schools, and public squares in Puerto Rico reciting at events sponsored by the Puerto Rican Culture Institute. He also participated at the Cultural Olympics in 1979.
Recognitions
In October, 1980, the 7th Festival of Bomba y Plena celebrated in his hometown of Dorado was dedicated to him. Also, the show Nuestra Noche that same year was held in his honor. The show was celebrated in the Roberto Clemente Coliseum and featured singers like Wilkins, Haciendo Punto en Otro Son, and others.
In 1983, the mayor of Dorado, Alfonso López Chaar, acquired the Juana de Arco Theater at the entrance of the town and renamed it as Juan Boria Theater. On November 1, 1984, Boria himself presented his first show at the theater.
Boria retired from teaching in 1974. Afterward, he started his own shop in Cupey.
Boria died May 29, 1995 in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico.
Personal life
Boria married Emérita Rodríguez in 1941 with whom he had two daughters: Norma and Zayda. He also had another son: Cruz Amanda, his oldest daughter.
Influences
Although he identified with the works of Vizcarrondo, Palés Matos and Nicolás Guillén, his repertoire included poems from:
Emilio Ballagas
Félix B. Caignet
Gonzalo Castañón
Marcelino Arozamena
Lorenzo Coballés
Alfonso Camín
Pablo Motito
Gilberto Hernández Santana
Enrique Montijo
María Teresa Vallés
Luis Manuel Ruiz
Rubén Suro
Discography
¡Qué negrota! (Mar-Vela, MVLP-107)
References
See also
List of Puerto Ricans
List of Puerto Ricans of African descent
1906 births
1995 deaths
People from Dorado, Puerto Rico
Puerto Rican poets
Puerto Rican male writers
20th-century American poets
University of Puerto Rico alumni
20th-century American male writers |
44205709 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostrinia%20ovalipennis | Ostrinia ovalipennis | Ostrinia ovalipennis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Suguru Ohno in 2003. It is found in Japan, where it has been recorded from Honshu and Hokkaido.
Adults have been recorded on wing in July, probably in one generation per year.
The larvae feed on Reynoutria sachalinensis.
References
Moths described in 2003
Pyraustinae |
3071452 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri%20Reynders | Henri Reynders | Henri Reynders (Dom Bruno) (24 October 1903 – 26 October 1981) was a Belgian priest credited with saving 400 Jews during the Holocaust.
Early life and study
Henri Reynders was the fifth of eight children of an upper middle class, deeply religious Catholic family. At the age of seventeen, having completed classical Greek and Latin studies at a Catholic school, he was accepted as a postulant at the Benedictine Mont-César Abbey (now known as Keizersberg Abbey) in Leuven, Belgium. After the successful completion of the noviciate in 1922, Henri Reynders was given the name of Dom Bruno.
The next three years were devoted to studying theology and philosophy at the Catholic University of Leuven and at Saint Anselm Athenaeum in Rome. Dom Bruno took the Benedictine vows in Rome in 1925, binding himself to a monastic life at Mont-César and obedience to its abbot. Mont-César was known as an "intellectual abbey" and Dom Bruno was allowed to complete his studies concentrating on the writings of Saint Irenaeus, a second century Father of the Church. He was ordained a priest in 1928 in Leuven, and the University of Leuven awarded Dom Bruno a Doctorate in Theology three years later.
Asked to lecture on theological dogma to the Mont-César community, Dom Bruno proved to be a non-conformist teacher, much to the dismay of his more conservative abbot. Typically, during one of his lectures, he presented for consideration the views of Martin Luther. His lecturing duties cut short, the maverick monk was given a new assignment: mentor of the young son of the Duc de Guise, a claimant to the throne of France, living in Belgium. In recalling this unhappy episode years later, Dom Bruno laughingly exclaimed, "Me, an anarchist, teaching a prince!" Eventually, Dom Bruno resumed teaching at his monastery and contributed articles to publications devoted to ancient and medieval theology.
With the abbot's approval, he traveled extensively within and outside Belgium, visiting Catholic institutions to lecture and exchange views. During a stay in Hitler's Germany lecturing Catholic youths, he first witnessed what he would later characterize as the "shocking, revolting and nauseating" injustice and brutality of Nazi anti-Semitism.
During his studies in Rome, Dom Bruno met and became an enthusiastic supporter of the controversial Dom Lambert Beauduin, founder and prior of the Benedictine Amay Priory (later transferred to Chevetogne) Belgium. Dom Lambert promoted unification of all Christian churches as well as liturgical reforms, ideas that were later favored in Vatican II but were not fully accepted by the Catholic Church at the time. Consequently, Dom Bruno was advised to discontinue contacts with Chevetogne.
World War II
In the wake of the 1939 German invasion of Poland, which sparked World War II, Belgium mobilized and Dom Bruno was assigned to be the chaplain of the 41st Artillery Regiment. In May of the following year, German troops overran Belgium. In the course of the campaign, he sustained a leg injury and spent the next six months in prisoner-of-war camps at Wolfsburg and Doessel, Germany, where he continued to provide religious and moral support to fellow prisoners. Upon his release, Dom Bruno returned to Mont-César in German-occupied Belgium and resumed his teaching activities.
Compelled by his hostility toward the German occupation and Nazism, Dom Bruno made contact with elements of the Belgian Resistance and assisted in the escape of British pilots shot down over Belgian territory. In 1942, the Nazi authorities began rounding up Jews in Belgium for deportation to the death camps. On orders of his superior, Dom Bruno proceeded to the hamlet of Hodbomont to act as chaplain at a home for the blind. The priest soon became aware that the home was being used as a hiding place for a number of Jewish adults and children, brought there by a group of Christians opposed to the Nazi policies. The leader of the group was a prominent lawyer, Albert van den Berg, with whom Dom Bruno became a close collaborator. When it became unsafe to continue hiding Jews at this location, the home was closed and its occupants dispersed to other locations. Dom Bruno returned to Mont-César and dedicated himself exclusively to finding places of refuge for Jews.
In undertaking the dangerous mission of rescuing as many Jews as possible from deportation, Dom Bruno found support among fellow monks at Mont-César, higher-ups in the Belgian church hierarchy, and even several family members, including his young nephew Michel Reynders (who was later knighted in Belgium). He built an underground network by establishing contacts with a number of existing resistance groups and individuals similarly engaged in rescue work. Several of these individuals, including van den Berg, paid with their lives for these humanitarian activities. Dom Bruno's major effort was finding families and institutions willing to hide Jews, especially Jewish children, in spite of the obvious risks. In this, he was most successful by appealing to the prospects' Christian faith and values. Consequently, many of the cooperating institutions were Catholic boarding schools, usually operating within the walls of convents or monasteries. Dom Bruno would personally accompany "his children" to their new homes or move them to new locations to prevent suspicion among villagers.
He would frequently visit these children, providing a link with their parents who were also hiding, when not deported as was often the case. In addition to building and running his "underground railroad", Dom Bruno ensured that his charges were provided with false identification, including non-Jewish sounding names, and fake ration cards, as well as financial assistance to the rescuers. These logistical concerns could only be met with the willing but risky cooperation of numerous city officials, civil servants, and generous donors. The Gestapo got wind of Father Bruno's activities and raided Mont César Abbey in 1944. Fortunately, Dom Bruno was away at the time. Following the unsuccessful raid, the monk went into hiding himself, trading his habit for civilian garb and sporting a beret to hide his tonsure.
A fellow monk at the abbey provided him with several skillfully forged identification cards. Often using a bicycle and in spite of subsequent close calls, Dom Bruno continued his dangerous mission of mercy for the duration of the Nazi occupation.
After World War II
Following the liberation of Belgium in September 1944, Dom Bruno assisted in reuniting the children with their parents or other members of their immediate family. Problems arose when representatives of the Jewish community opposed attempts by some Christians to adopt orphaned Jewish children, especially since many of these children requested baptism as the result of their Catholic experience. During the Nazi occupation, Dom Bruno opposed active conversion of his charges, but afterward took the position that each case should be evaluated individually with the best interest of the child being the deciding factor.
As the war against Germany was still in progress, Dom Bruno rejoined the Belgian armed forces as a chaplain. At war's end, he briefly returned to Mont-César, but was reassigned by his order to perform pastoral and educational work at other locations in Belgium, France and Rome. No longer burdened by his wartime self-imposed rescue mission, Dom Bruno resumed his studies of Saint Irenaeus' legacy and in 1954 published the definitive lexicon on the subject.
Attracted by the ecumenical spirit of Chevetogne Abbey, where, as a young priest, he had become a disciple of Dom Lambert Beauduin, Dom Bruno had, over the years, requested a release from the Mont-César community in order to join the monks at Chevetogne. That request had been repeatedly denied by his abbot. Finally, in 1968, his wish was granted. His final active assignment was as vicar in the town of Ottignies near Louvain where he ministered to the aged, the sick, and the handicapped.
In 1964, the state of Israel proclaimed Dom Bruno Reynders one of the "Righteous Among the Nations", an honor bestowed on gentiles who risked their lives to help Jews during the Holocaust. He was invited to Jerusalem to witness the planting of a tree in his honor at Yad Vashem (Alley of the Righteous). Gradually worsening Parkinson's disease forced Dom Bruno to retire to a nursing home in 1975. Six years later, he sustained a severe bone fracture and did not survive surgery. He was buried at his beloved Abbey of Chevetogne.
Ten years after Father Bruno's death, a square in the city of Ottignies was named in his honor. A stele was erected which reads:
Father Bruno Reynders, Benedictine (1903-1981). Hero of the resistance. At the risk of his life saved some 400 Jews from Nazi barbarism
References
Sources
Resistance - Pere Bruno Reynders by Johannes Blum. A French monograph containing documents, notes, testimonials, and photographs. Published June 1993 by “ Les Carrefours de la Cité ”, 29b. Avenue Gen. Lartigue, 1200 Bruxelles, Belgique.
The Path of the Righteous - Gentile Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust by Mordecai Paldiel.
The Righteous - The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust by Sir Martin Gilbert.
Faith under Fire: Stories of Hope and Courage from World War II by Steve Rabey
Lexique comparé du texte grec et des versions latine, arménniene et syriac de l'Adversus heareses de Saint Irénée by Bruno Reynders
External links
Henri Reynders – his activity to save Jews' lives during the Holocaust, at Yad Vashem website
20th-century Belgian Roman Catholic priests
Belgian Benedictines
World War II resistance movements
Belgian humanitarians
Belgian Righteous Among the Nations
Catholic Righteous Among the Nations
Catholic University of Leuven (1834–1968) alumni
1903 births
1981 deaths |
23967524 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cangxi%20County | Cangxi County | Cangxi County () is a county of northeastern Sichuan Province, China, located along the upper reaches of the Jialing River. It is under the administration of Guangyuan City. The population in 2020 was 512,617.
Cangxi produces red kiwifruit, a protected geographic origin product. It also produces rice, pomelo, and several pear varieties.
Administrative divisions
Cangxi administers 31 towns and townships:
*county seat
Climate
References
External links
County-level divisions of Sichuan |
68046490 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanzanapseudidae | Tanzanapseudidae | Tanzanapseudidae is a family of crustaceans belonging to the order Tanaidacea.
Genera:
Acanthapseudes Roman, 1976
Tanzanapseudes Bacescu, 1975
References
Tanaidacea |
14435836 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klobouky%20u%20Brna | Klobouky u Brna | Klobouky u Brna is a town in Břeclav District in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 2,500 inhabitants. It is located about southeast from Brno.
Administrative parts
The village of Bohumilice is an administrative part of Klobouky u Brna.
References
External links
Cities and towns in the Czech Republic
Populated places in Břeclav District
Moravian Slovakia |
43630243 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point%20and%20Shoot%20%28film%29 | Point and Shoot (film) | Point and Shoot is a 2014 documentary film written and directed by Marshall Curry. It was produced by Marshall Curry, Elizabeth Martin and Matthew VanDyke.
Synopsis
Point and Shoot tells the story of Matthew VanDyke, a sheltered 26-year-old who left his Baltimore home and set off on a self-described "crash course in manhood." While on a 35,000-mile motorcycle trip through Northern Africa and the Middle East, he struck up an unlikely friendship with a Libyan hippie. When revolution broke out in Libya, VanDyke decided to join his friend in the fight against dictator Muammar Gaddafi. With a gun in one hand and a camera in the other, VanDyke joined and documented the war until he was captured by Gaddafi forces and held for six months in solitary confinement.
Release
The film was acquired by theatrical distributors The Orchard and was released in theaters on October 31, 2014.
Reception
The film has a 74% approval rating on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, based on 54 reviews, with an average rating of 6.6/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Thrilling and thought-provoking, Point and Shoot captures one man's fascinating — if troublingly narcissistic — 'crash course in manhood.'" On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 65 out of 100, based on 23 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
In The Washington Post, Ann Hornaday described the film as an "absorbing, ingeniously crafted documentary" that gives the viewer a "street-level glimpse of the realities of war." Stephen Holden wrote in The New York Times that the film suggests "the addictive rush of battlefield adventure is hard-wired into the male psyche." Peter Bradshaw criticized the film in The Guardian, stating that the movie focusses on VanDyke himself and fails to explore the wider geopolitical context of the Libyan conflict.
Awards
Tribeca Film Festival, Best Documentary Feature (winner)
Independent Film Festival of Boston, Special Jury Prize (winner)
Little Rock Film Festival, Special Jury Prize: Extraordinary Courage in Filmmaking - Matthew VanDyke (winner)
Emmy Award, Outstanding Graphic Design & Art Direction (nominee)
Gotham Independent Film Awards, Best Documentary (nominee)
International Documentary Association, Best Documentary (nominee)
Cinema Eye Honors, Outstanding Achievement in Editing (nominee)
See also
The Motorcycle Diaries (film)
Long Way Down
Long Way Round
References
External links
Official Website
Official Facebook Page
Official Twitter Account
Trailer on Vimeo
2014 documentary films
American documentary films
American films
Films directed by Marshall Curry
Documentary films about war correspondents
Documentary films about photojournalists
First Libyan Civil War
2014 films |
46982937 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasponia%20fascicularis | Gasponia fascicularis | Gasponia fascicularis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Fairmaire in 1887. It is known from Botswana, Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia, and Tanzania.
References
Crossotini
Beetles described in 1887 |
391830 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groklaw | Groklaw | Groklaw was a website that covered legal news of interest to the free and open source software community. Started as a law blog on May 16, 2003 by paralegal Pamela Jones ("PJ"), it covered issues such as the SCO-Linux lawsuits, the EU antitrust case against Microsoft, and the standardization of Office Open XML.
Jones described Groklaw as ..."a place where lawyers and geeks could explain things to each other and work together, so they'd understand each other's work better."
Its name derives from "grok", roughly meaning "to understand completely", which had previously entered geek slang.
Other topics covered included software patents, DMCA, the actions of the RIAA against alleged illegal file sharers, and actions against free and open software such as Android and Linux.
Origins
According to a 2003 interview with Jones, the blog was started to cover legal news and to explain it to the tech community.
The first article was entitled The Grokster Decision – Ode To Thomas Jefferson. It was about the effect of P2P on the music industry, and the recent (at that time) court decision in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc., et al., Plaintiffs, vs. Grokster, Ltd., et al., Defendants, by Judge Steven Wilson in favor of the defendants. It also covered the previous Napster decision, and why it was different, causing Napster to be shut down. The article included a quote from Thomas Jefferson and references to David Boies, who was Napster's attorney.
The second post, on May 17, 2003, also covered legal issues – the SCO v. IBM lawsuit – entitled SCO Falls Downstairs, Hitting its Head on Every Step. It criticized Caldera Systems for the way they were handling the suit outside of court, and included quotes from Bruce Perens, Richard Stallman, Steve Ballmer, and Linus Torvalds. It ended:
David Boies has agreed to represent SCO. I am trying to remind myself that our legal system is predicated on lawyers sometimes representing people they don't personally admire, and the system really does depend on someone being willing to take on unpopular clients. I know Boies doesn't use email, or at least he didn't the last time I checked. So maybe he doesn't quite get the tech ... ah, hang it all, there's no way around it: I feel bad he's chosen to represent them, especially after I posted an Ode singing his praises, and I hope he loses.
The blog soon became popular with the Free Software and Open Source communities and others, and attracted a community of volunteers and commenters. Its popularity caused it to outgrow Radio Userland, and on November 22, 2003, the standalone Groklaw website, hosted by ibiblio and running Geeklog software, was up and running.
Main focus
The main focus of Jones's writing became the Caldera Systems v. IBM litigation (Caldera Systems changed its name to The SCO Group during this time). Other issues were explored, including intellectual property and patent issues (for example, Microsoft IP claims against Linux, and the drafting of the GPL version 3). Groklaw was known for its contributors' ability to explain complex legal issues in simple terms and the research used in putting together articles. Members of the Groklaw community attended court hearings and interviewed movers and shakers in the software/IP world.
The site became a community effort. While Jones understood law, she was not a programmer. Many readers were techies, however, and when technical issues arose they provided relevant comments. This enabled Groklaw to solicit guest commentary on issues such as:
Linux Kernel coding practices
C Language programming
Operating systems programming
Operating systems history
Standards Organizations
Each of these issues appeared to have some application to the SCO v. IBM case, and most were revisited many times. Additional topics included later lawsuits by The SCO Group against Daimler Chrysler, Autozone, and Novell, the countersuit by Red Hat, and their implications and Microsoft's attempt to fast track OOXML as an International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standard.
Awards
Groklaw was cited by the attorneys for several firms in law journal articles. It also won awards:
2012 – ABA Journal Blawg 100
2010 – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Pioneer Award
2009 – Top 200 Tech Blogs: The Datamation 2009 List "The famed Groklaw is still going strong, far past the SCO case that first brought the blog to prominence."
2008 – The Award for Projects of Social Benefit – The Free Software Foundation (FSF)
2007 – Knowledge Masters Award for Innovation – Knowledge Trust and the Louis Round Wilson Academy
2007 – Best FUD Fighter – Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards
2005 – Best News Site – ConsortiumInfo*.org – Pamela Jones/Groklaw: Best Community Site or Blog (Non-Profit)
2005 – Best Blogger of the Year – Dana Blankenhorn, Corante
2004 – Best Website of 2004 – The Inquirer
2004 – Best Independent Tech Blog – TechWeb Network: Readers Choice Award
2004 – Best Nontechnical or Community Website – Linux Journal: Editors' Choice Award
2003 – Best News Site – OSDir.com: Editor's Choice Winner
Editorial stance
Groklaw was the personal creation of Jones, and it published articles (both news and opinion) from a self-described pro-FOSS, anti-FUD perspective.
While articles meticulously followed SCO's litigation activities, they were accompanied by reader-submitted comments that were "overwhelmingly pro-Linux and anti-SCO."
Media controversy
Jones was widely respected by journalists and people inside the Linux community. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols wrote, "Jones has made her reputation as a top legal IT reporter from her work detailing the defects with SCO's case against IBM and Linux. Indeed, it is no exaggeration to say that her work has contributed enormously to everyone's coverage of SCO's cases."
Despite the high regard of Jones' peer journalists and the Linux community (or possibly in part because of it), a number of prominent attacks against Groklaw and Jones occurred. These attacks were documented and addressed in detail, on Groklaw and other web sites and also in court as part of the SCO litigation.
During the first week of May 2005, Maureen O'Gara, writing in Linux World, wrote an exposé claiming to unmask Jones. Two weeks before O'Gara's publication, McBride said that SCO was investigating Jones' identity. The article included alleged, but unverified, personal information about Jones, including a photo of Jones' supposed house and purported addresses and telephone numbers for Jones and her mother. After a flood of complaints to the publisher, lobbying of the site's advertisers, and claims of a denial-of-service attack launched against the Sys-Con domain, Linux Business News' publisher Sys-Con issued a public apology, and said they dropped O'Gara and her LinuxGram column. Despite this assertion, O'Gara remained with Sys-Con; as of 2009, she is the Virtualization News Desk editor at Sys-Con Media, who describe her as "[o]ne of the most respected technology reporters in the business" and has her work published in multiple magazines owned by Sys-Con Media.
SCO executives Darl McBride and Blake Stowell also denigrated Jones, and claimed that she worked for IBM. Jones denied this allegation, as did IBM in a court filing. During an SCO conference call on April 13, 2005, McBride said, "The reality is the web site is full of misinformation, including the people who are actually running it" when talking about Groklaw, adding also "What I would say is that it is not what it is purported to be". Later developments in the court cases showed that McBride's statements to the press regarding the SCO litigation had limited credibility; very few such statements were ever substantiated and most were shown to be false. For example, McBride claimed that SCO owned the copyrights to UNIX, and SCO filed suit to try to enforce these claims. The outcome went against McBride's claims. The jury found that SCO had not purchased these copyrights.
SCO appealed this ruling and lost. McBride also made a claim to the press that there was a "mountain of code" misappropriated to create Linux. When SCO finally presented their evidence of infringement, which centered on nine lines of error name and number similarities in the file errno.h, Judge Wells famously said "Is this all you've got?" Professor Randall Davis of MIT later made a convincing demonstration that there were no elements of UNIX which might be copyright protectable present in the Linux source code.
Additional projects
Anticipating further legal threats against GNU, Linux, and the free software community, Jones launched Grokline, a Unix ownership timeline project, in May, 2004. One notable result of the Groklaw/Grokline effort was obtaining and publishing the 1994 settlement in USL v. BSDi, which for over a decade had been sealed by the parties. The document was obtained through a California freedom of information statute (the University of California, being a publicly funded institution, is required by law to make almost all of its documents public), and the release of the settlement answered many questions as to the ownership of the Unix intellectual property.
The Linux documentation project Grokdoc wiki was started in 2004, with the stated goal "to create a useful manual on basic tasks that new users will find simple and clear and easy to follow."
Groklaw extensively covered patent problems with software and hardware, use of the DMCA against free software ideals, Open standards, DRM, GPLv3, and published The Daemon, the GNU & the Penguin, a series of articles by Peter Salus covering the history of Unix, Linux and the GNU project.
It covered the Oracle v. Google in which Oracle alleged that Google's Android platform infringed copyrights and patents related to Java.
Later history
In January 2009, Groklaw entered a second phase, focusing on consolidation and cleanup of the legal history collected on the site.
In April 2010, Groklaw was selected by the Library of Congress for its web archival project, in the category of Legal Blogs.
On April 9, 2011, Jones announced that Groklaw would stop publishing new articles on May 16, 2011, its 8th anniversary, as it had accomplished its original mission of revealing the truth behind the SCO lawsuits.
On May 16, 2011 Jones reaffirmed her desire to step down from writing daily articles and announced that the new editor would be Mark Webbink.
Subsequent to this decision, new patent and copyright based attacks on the Android operating system led to Jones resuming an editorial role, and along with Mark Webbink she moderated and edited the site.
On August 20, 2013 a final article appeared on Groklaw, explaining that due to pervasive government monitoring of the Internet, there could no longer be an expectation of the sort of privacy online that was necessary to collaborate on sensitive topics. Jones wrote "I can't do Groklaw without your input.... and there is now no private way, evidently, to collaborate." and "What I do know is it's not possible to be fully human if you are being surveilled 24/7... I hope that makes it clear why I can't continue. There is now no shield from forced exposure."
The site remained online through August 2020. , the site is unavailable. , the site is once again available.
See also
SCO-Linux controversies
Weblog
Darl McBride
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References
External links
Groklaws Defunct Radio UserLand Page
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Michael J. Jordan (July 31, 2003). Interview with Pamela Jones Linux Online.
Richard Hillesley (November 26, 2007). Q&A: Pamela Jones IT Pro.
Brenda Sandburg (September 9, 2005). Lawyers Flock to Mystery Web Site's Coverage of SCO v. IBM Suit Law.Com
Groklaw (2003) Open letter to SCO from Members of The Open Source/Free Software Community at Groklaw
An accompanying research document for the Open Letter
Works about computer law
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SCO–Linux disputes
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12577452 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manius%20Aemilius%20Lepidus | Manius Aemilius Lepidus | Manius Aemilius Lepidus may refer to:
Manius Aemilius Lepidus (consul 66 BC)
Manius Aemilius Lepidus (consul 11) |
9055397 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collateral%20ligament | Collateral ligament | Collateral ligament can refer to:
Lateral collateral ligament (disambiguation):
Fibular collateral ligament
Lateral collateral ligament of ankle joint
Radial collateral ligament of elbow joint
Medial collateral ligament
Collateral ligaments of interphalangeal articulations of foot
Collateral ligaments of metatarsophalangeal articulations
Ulnar collateral ligament of elbow joint
Collateral ligaments of metacarpophalangeal articulations |
57761952 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry%20Williams%20%28running%20back%29 | Terry Williams (running back) | Terry Williams (born March 11, 1992) is an American professional gridiron football running back who is currently a free agent. He most recently played for the Edmonton Elks of the Canadian Football League (CFL).
College career
Williams played college football for Phoenix College and the Kutztown University of Pennsylvania.
Professional career
Williams signed with the New York Jets in August 2016.
He signed with the Calgary Stampeders in May 2017. On September 29, 2017, Williams made his first career CFL start and ran for 156 yards and three touchdowns; he was named the CFL player of the week.
Williams signed a contract extension with the Edmonton Elks on December 30, 2020. He played in nine games for the Elks in 2021 and was released on December 28, 2021.
References
External links
Calgary Stampeders bio
1992 births
Living people
American football running backs
Canadian football running backs
American players of Canadian football
People from Morristown, New Jersey
Players of American football from New Jersey
Phoenix Bears football players
Kutztown Golden Bears football players
Calgary Stampeders players
New York Jets players
Canadian football return specialists
Edmonton Elks players |
1731551 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal%20Harbour | Coal Harbour | Coal Harbour is the name for a section of Burrard Inlet lying between Vancouver's Downtown Peninsula and the Brockton Point of Stanley Park. It has also now become the name of the neighbourhood adjacent to its southern shoreline.
Neighbourhood
Coal Harbour is used to designate the relatively new official neighbourhood of the City of Vancouver bounded by roughly Burrard Street and Pender near the Financial District to West Georgia Street near the West End in the south to Stanley Park in the north. The neighbourhood consists of numerous high-rise residential apartment and condominium towers with luxury townhome podiums.
Features
The northwestern section near Stanley Park features picturesque parkland, private marinas, several rowing and boating clubs, high-end shoppes and restaurants, and a community centre designed by architect Gregory Henriquez. To the east is Deadman's Island, the site of the naval station and museum , where the harbour itself opens up to the Burrard Inlet. Towards the Financial District in the southeast, the neighbourhood is dominated by high-rise office buildings, hotels and numerous apartment towers. Immediately south lies Vancouver's Luxury Zone along Alberni Street.
Coal Harbour is home to Vancouver Harbour Water Aerodrome, located a few blocks from Canada Place and the Vancouver Convention Centre. Within the harbour is a floating gas station for marine vessels. The 2010 Winter Olympics cauldron is installed at Jack Poole Plaza.
The six floating homes in Coal Harbour, along with the twelve across town in False Creek are the only legal floating homes within the city of Vancouver.
History
The discovery of coal in the harbor in 1862 inspired the name. In the days when the area along West Pender Street was an upper-class residential district, Coal Harbour was known as Blueblood Alley because of the many large mansions along it.
Notable inhabitants and developments in Coal Harbour's past include:
Squamish settlements, notably on Deadman Island, Brockton Point and Lumberman's Arch.
In 1862 minor exploration began of the visible coal seams on the flank of the bluff overlooking the harbour, first noted by Captain Vancouver. This bluff was approximately where most of West Hastings Street is today. The coal was low-grade, but its occurrence in clays similar to porcelain-making clays of the English Midlands led to the staking of what is known as the Brickmaker's Claim by the Three Greenhorns. The Brickmaker's Claim is now the West End. No clay was ever mined nor porcelain ever made, but one of the Greenhorns was the developer of the clay mine and brickworks at Clayburn on Sumas Mountain near Abbotsford.
A settlement of Kanakas (Hawaiians) near today's Bayshore Inn and the eastern end of Lost Lagoon was known as the Kanaka Rancherie, or the Cherry Orchard due to its many cherry trees. The area is now called Devonian Harbour Park, and memorial cherry trees have been planted there in memory of AIDS victims.
The Vancouver Boating Club, now Vancouver Rowing Club, from 1887 (originally at the bottom of the bluff at the foot of Howe Street)
The Pacific Lumber Mill Company in the late 19th century
The Royal Vancouver Yacht Club (their first clubhouse floated in Coal Harbour at the foot of Cardero street in 1903)
Denman Arena was built in 1911 to house the Vancouver Millionaires professional ice hockey club on the Kanakas Ranch site at Georgia and Denman. The Arena would host the only victory by a Vancouver team of the Stanley Cup in 1915. The Denman Auditorium was built adjacent to the Arena in 1927 for concerts and smaller events. The Arena was destroyed by fire in 1936. The Auditorium remained in use until its demolition in 1959.
Boeing Canada's Seaplane and Boat Factory beginning in the 1910s; (they purchased the Hoffar-Beeching Shipyard at 1927 West Georgia in 1929)
William Boeing's yacht, the superb Taconite, was built at Hoffars in 1931.
The Vancouver Shipyards through the 1930s
The CP Rail Station & Canadian Pacific Steamships passenger terminal/dock
The Royal Canadian Air Force began work on a seaplane base and reconnaissance station at Coal Harbour in 1940. As part of the war effort, the RCAF turned over its direction finding and intercept facility to the Royal Canadian Navy. Due to an organizational change in 1942, the RCN ratings stationed at Coal Harbour and the ones from Ucluelet were withdrawn and moved to Gordon Head near Victoria.
Harbour Ferries, a tour-boat and water-taxi service, continues to operate from docks in Coal Harbour
Howard Hughes, who resided in the top two floors of the Bayshore Inn (Westin Bayshore) for 5 months and 28 days in the 1970s (6 months would have triggered Canadian residency and taxation issues for Mr. Hughes).
Denman Arena, an indoor ice arena that stood from 1911 to 1936.
Trader Vic's, for many years held to be Vancouver's best night-out, was launched in a tiki-style hut next to the Bayshore.
HMCS Discovery, a naval base on Deadman Island.
In 1993 Vancouver City Council froze applications for development of the Marathon Realty lands between Canada Place and the Bayshore Hotel. The company was required to reach an agreement with The First Narrows Floating Co-op, representing floating home and live-aboard boat residents in pre existing marinas, for their inclusion in the redevelopment of the waterfront. Negotiations concluded with the guarantee of space for residents in Coal Harbour Marina on extended leases.
References
External links
Official Coal Harbour Website
Coal Harbour Community Centre
Several historical photos of Coal Harbour
City of Vancouver Archives (search for "coal harbour")
VancouverHistory.ca for historical references
Coal Harbour Residents Association
Map of Coal Harbour from Google Maps
Geography of Vancouver
Ports and harbours of British Columbia
Neighbourhoods in Vancouver |
46510047 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100th%20New%20York%20Infantry%20Regiment | 100th New York Infantry Regiment | The 100th New York Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Service
The 100th New York Infantry was organized at Buffalo, New York, and mustered in for three years service in January 1862 under the command of Colonel James M. Brown.
The regiment was attached to 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, IV Corps, Army of the Potomac, to June 1862. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, IV Corps, to December 1862. Naglee's Brigade, Department of North Carolina, to January 1863. 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, XVIII Corps, Department of North Carolina, to February 1863. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, XVIII Corps, Department of the South, to April 1863. Folly Island, South Carolina, X Corps, Department of the South, to June 1863. 2nd Brigade, Folly Island, South Carolina, X Corps, to July 1863. 1st Brigade, Folly Island, South Carolina, X Corps, July 1863. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, Morris Island, South Carolina, X Corps, July 1863. 3rd Brigade, Morris Island, South Carolina, X Corps, to November 1863. 2nd Brigade, Morris Island, South Carolina, X Corps, to January 1864. 2nd Brigade, Morris Island, South Carolina, Northern District, Department of the South, to April 1864. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, X Corps, Army of the James, Department of Virginia and North Carolina, to May 1864. 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, X Corps, to December 1864. 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, XXIV Corps, to July 1865. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, XXIV Corps, to August 1865.
The 100th New York Infantry mustered out of service on August 28, 1865.
Detailed service
Moved to New York City March 7, then to Washington, D.C., March 10, 1862. Ordered to the Virginia Peninsula March 28, 1862. Siege of Yorktown, April 5-May 4. Battle of Williamsburg, May 5. Operations about Bottom's Bridge May 20–23. Reconnaissance to Seven Pines May 24–27. Battle of Seven Pines, May 31-June 1. Seven Days Battles before Richmond June 25-July 1. Bottom's Bridge June 27–29. White Oak Swamp June 30. Malvern Hill July 1. At Harrison's Landing until August 16. Moved to Fortress Monroe August 16–22, then to Yorktown, Va., September 18. Duty at Yorktown and Gloucester Point until December 26. Reconnaissance to Gloucester and Matthews Counties December 11–15. Skirmish at Wood's Cross Roads, Gloucester Court House, December 14. Moved to Beaufort, N.C., December 26, then to Port Royal, S.C., January 28–31. Camp at St. Helena Island, S.C., February 12-March 23. Capture of Forts Wagner and Gregg September 7. until April 3. Action at Cole's Island March 31. Occupation of Folly Island, S.C.. April 5-July 10. Action at Folly Island April 10. Attack on Morris Island July 10. Assaults on Fort Wagner, Morris Island, S.C., July 11 and 18. Siege of Forts Wagner and Gregg, and operations against Fort Sumter and Charleston, July 18-September 7. Boat Expedition against Fort Gregg August 17. Bombardment of Fort Sumter August 17–23. Capture of Forts Wagner and Gregg September 7. Duty on Morris Island and operations against Charleston until April 1864. Affair, Vincent's Creek, August 4, 1863. Moved to Gloucester Point. Va., April. Butler's operations on south side of the James River and against Petersburg and Richmond May 4–28. Occupation of Bermuda Hundred May 5. Port Walthall Junction, Chester Station, May 7. Swift Creek May 8–10. Operations against Fort Darling May 12–16. Battle of Drury's Bluff May 14–16. Bermuda Hundred May 16-June 20. Attacks on picket line May 21 and June 2 and 14. Port Walthall June 16–17. Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond June 16, 1864, to April 2, 1865. Action at Deep Bottom June 23. Groper House, Deep Bottom, July 21. Deep Bottom July 27–28. Strawberry Plains, New Market Heights, August 14–18. Moved to Petersburg front August 26, and duty there in trenches until September 27. Battle of Chaffin's Farm September 28–30. Darbytown Road October 7. Reconnaissance to Darbytown Road October 13. Battle of Fair Oaks October 27–28. Johnson's Farm October 29. Duty in trenches before Richmond until March 1865. Appomattox Campaign March 28-April 9. On line of Hatcher's and Gravelly Runs March 29–30. Assault on Fort Gregg and fall of Petersburg April 2. Pursuit of Lee April 3–9. Rice's Station April 6. Appomattox Court House April 9. Surrender of Lee and his army. Duty in the Department of Virginia until August.
Casualties
The regiment lost a total of 367 men during service; 12 officers and 182 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 1 officer and 202 enlisted men died of disease.
Commanders
Colonel James M. Brown
Colonel George Dandy
Notable members
Sergeant John Kane, Company K - Medal of Honor recipient for action at during the attack on Fort Gregg
See also
List of New York Civil War regiments
New York in the Civil War
References
Cooper, Wayne L. & Conrad Litt. I Take My Pen in Hand: Civil War Letters of Two Soldiers and Friends, Sidney A. Lake and Conrad Litt, 100th N.Y. Volunteers, Co. "C", Buffalo, N.Y. (Bloomington, IN: Authorhouse), 2008.
Dyer, Frederick H. (1959). A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. Sagamore Press Inc. Thomas Yoseloff, Publisher, New York, New York. .
Granger, James N. Companion Warren Granger: A Monograph (Hartford, CT: Case, Lockwood & Brainard), 1895.
Hazard, George S. Introduction to the Records of the Buffalo Board of Trade Regiment, 100th N.Y.S. Vol's. (S.l.: s.n.), 1889.
Holden, Douglas & Garda Parker. From Camp to Cannon's Mouth: The Letters of Four Union Soldiers During the Civil War (Lee's Summit, MO: Delphi Books), 2011.
Hulbert, Simon Bolivar. One Battle Too Many: The Writings of Simon Bolivar Hulbert, Private, Company E, 100th Regiment, New York State Volunteers 1861-1864 (Gaithersburg, MD: Olde Soldier Books), 1987.
Stowits, George H. History of the One Hundredth Regiment of New York State Volunteers (Buffalo, NY: Printing House of Matthews & Warren), 1870.
Wixson, Neal E. Gone for a Sojer Boy: The Revealing Letters and Diaries of Union Soldiers in the Civil War as They Endure the Siege of Charleston S.C., the Virginia Campaigns of Petersburg and Richmond, and Captivity in Andersonville Prison (Bloomington, IN: iUniverse, Inc.), 2011.
Wixson, Neal E. (2009). Echoes from the Boys of Company H: A Chronicle through Letters, Diaries, and Speeches of Civil War Soldiers from Company H of the 100th Regiment, New York State Volunteers (New York: iUniverse).
Military units and formations established in 1862
Military units and formations disestablished in 1865
Infantry 100
1862 establishments in New York (state)
1865 disestablishments in New York (state) |
30230641 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katika%2C%20Papua%20New%20Guinea | Katika, Papua New Guinea | Katika is a village on the Huon Peninsula, in Siki ward of Kotte Rural LLG, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea.
References
External links
http://www.fallingrain.com/world/PP/14/Katika.html
Populated places in Morobe Province |
65690647 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick%20and%20Thel%20Carey | Rick and Thel Carey | Rick and Thel Carey were an Australian country music duo, consisting of husband and wife Richard Bruce Carey (13 August 192728 July 2017) and Thelma Claurine Carey (née Hoctor; 9 October 19292 October 1998).
Rick Carey, originally from Sydney and Thelma Hoctor, who grew up in Glossodia, commenced their respective careers as solo artists. However, after they met in the 1940s, they established themselves as a duo, the Sliprail Swingsters. Following their win on Australia's Amateur Hour in 1950, they married in 1952 and became Rick and Thel. They toured Australia extensively, and were referred to as country music's "singing sweethearts" and then as "Mr. & Mrs. Country".
After many appearances and a short tour out of Sydney with The Reg Lindsay Show, in 1958 Rick & Thel were part of the All Star Western Show along with Chad Morgan, Kevin King, Nev Nicholls and Peter Mollerson on the fiddle. In 1959, they toured with The Chad Morgan Show, this was followed by their own traveling shows. Rick first introduced his comical creation 'Cousin Ratsack' onto the All Star Western Show in 1958 and continued the act for thirty years or so.
In 1969, their concert at Bourke was marred by the crowd's poor behaviour during their performance. Rick said he had never played in front of such a poorly behaved crowd and would impose stricter conditions of entry for future concerts; he considered reducing audience numbers to ensure the enjoyment of attendees.
They had a successful recording career with record labels Regal Zonophone Records, which became EMI, and then in later years with Hadley Records. Their popular songs include "She Was Happy Til She Met You", "I'll Never Be Fooled Again", "Looking Back to See", "You Can Say That Again", "White Crosses in the Jungle", "You Thought I Thought", "Rusted Love", "Fourteen Red Roses for Jenny", "He's a... She's a..." and "I'll Take the Dog".
After 35 years of touring and performing throughout Australia as Rick and Thel, they retired in 1987 and settled on a property near Denmark, Western Australia, when Thel became ill. Thel Carey died on 2 October 1998.
Following Thel's death, Rick was active in a local country music club in Denmark, becoming its patron in 2001. Despite moving to Brisbane in 2005, Rick continued in his role as the club's patron. In 2007, Rick released another album, Beyond the Dream. It featured other country music artists as guests along with his daughter, Lynne. Rick Carey died on 28 July 2017.
Legacy
In 1977, Rick and Thel were part of the first group of Australian country performers to have their hands imprinted into the new Australian Country Music "Hands of Fame" monument in Tamworth.
The Australian Roll of Renown honours Australians and New Zealanders who have shaped the music industry by making a significant and lasting contribution to Country Music. It was inaugurated in 1976 where each inductee is announced at the Country Music Awards of Australia in Tamworth in January.
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There are wax figures of Rick and Thel in the Gallery of Stars Wax Museum within the Big Golden Guitar Tourist Centre, Tamworth, which was officially opened in 1988.
References
Australian country musicians
Musicians from Sydney |
1826882 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup%20of%20the%20Volunteers | Coup of the Volunteers | The Coup of the Volunteers () was a stand-off that occurred in summer 1993 in Lithuania near Kaunas between a group of about 150 men from the Lithuanian National Defence Volunteer Forces (then known as or SKAT) and the Lithuanian government. There was mutual distrust between SKAT and the newly elected leftist Democratic Labour Party of Lithuania (LDDP). Several SKAT members (usually referred to as volunteers) abandoned their posts, took their arms, and retreated to a wooded area near Kaunas in July and August 1993. The crisis escalated when the government issued an order for the volunteers to secure their weapons at designated locations in September. Interpreting the order as confiscation of their weapons, a total of about 150 armed men gathered near . They expressed their mistrust and dissatisfaction with the new LDDP government and raised social and political demands. After a week long negotiations, the men agreed to return to their posts if no one would be persecuted for their role in the coup.
Although it concluded peacefully, the stand-off is one of the most controversial and little understood episodes in the early years of post-Soviet Lithuania. Sociologist evaluated the events as a "stress test" of the Lithuanian democracy and the new relationship between the anti-communist and ex-communist elites. The anti-communists, which were now in opposition, did not use the opportunity to return to power. The stand-off was followed by two related and unsolved bombings of the Bražuolė railway bridge in November 1994 (no casualties) and of a passenger car in January 1997 (SKAT officer Juras Abromavičius was killed). The events remain controversial and subject to numerous theories and conspiracies. The political right accuses Russian secret services, while political left points to the conservatives.
Background
Lithuania declared independence from the Soviet Union on 11 March 1990. At that time, the Soviet Red Army was in full control of Lithuania and Lithuanians started organizing informal paramilitary volunteer groups to protect and defend the new government. The Soviet Union responded to the declaration of independence by imposing an economic blockade and later by using military force in the events of January 1991. The volunteers as well as unarmed civilians played an important role in defending institutions of the Lithuanian government. The Lithuanian National Defence Volunteer Forces (SKAT) was officially established on 17 January 1991, a few days after the January events.
In October–November 1992, the Democratic Labour Party of Lithuania (LDDP), the former Communist Party of Lithuania, won a majority in the country's first post-independence elections. At the time, Lithuania's regular military was still very weak and Russian troops were still stationed in the country. The volunteers were seen as disloyal to the new leftist government. One of the versions of the events blames LDDP and its policies – distrusting SKAT, the new government reduced its funding, did not provide uniforms, ordered to surrender weapons (many of which were purchased by the volunteers from personal funds), etc. thus provoking the volunteers into action.
Coup
On 31 July 1993, SKAT officer Jonas Maskvytis gathered his weapons that he had personally purchased from the retreating Russian Army and left Kaunas to nearby forests. He later explained that he was helping an acquaintance who was defrauded by a group of criminals who trafficked in counterfeit Deutsche Marks. Maskvytis fired at a car with the criminals and corrupt police officers. Upon learning that he would likely be arrested and that he was dismissed by the Minister of National Defence Audrius Butkevičius, Maskvytis decided not to give in and retreat to the forests. He was accompanied by three men and soon joined by others. They took over a homestead of professor in .
The crisis escalated after the government issued an order to collect weapons from SKAT units on 14 September. Because Minister Butkevičius was away in Turkey, the order was signed by his deputy Gediminas Pulokas. While the Russian Army was present in Lithuania, the volunteers kept their weapons so that they could respond almost instantly to a threat. When the last convoy of the Russian troops left Lithuania on 31 August, the government ordered the weapons secured and kept in depots. The volunteers protested taking of their weapons and Maskvytis was joined by company commander Alvydas Pangonis and his men on 16 September. The men, now numbering about 150, expressed their dissatisfaction with the new LDDP government and President Algirdas Brazauskas and raised social and political demands. The men also claimed to have the support of the Lithuanian Armed Forces. In 2007, Brazauskas publicly claimed that the volunteers planned his assassination and wrote in his memoirs that some of the demands were typed on Seimas computers and sent via Seimas fax machines. The government first responded on 17 September with an order from the Armed Forces Staff to surrender the weapons or face consequences for anti-government actions.
The coup took place during the withdrawal of Russian troops from Lithuania and the visit of Pope John Paul II on 4–8 September (one of the volunteers fired in the air during the pope's public appearance in Kaunas). Comparisons were also drawn with the unsuccessful attempt to disarm mutinous paramilitary forces by President Abulfaz Elchibey of Azerbaijan in June 1993. The government decided to seek a peaceful resolution and negotiated with the volunteers. The agreement was reached on 22 September when a special parliamentary commission led by visited the camp and promised not to prosecute any of the volunteers for their role in the coup. The government reserved the right to prosecute volunteers who had otherwise committed criminal acts.
When the volunteers returned to Kaunas, they captured the SKAT headquarters in Kaunas and disarmed commander Juras Abromavičius, who retreated to the Seventh Fort of Kaunas Fortress. Abromavičius then alerted his superiors, newly appointed SKAT commander Arvydas Pocius, via the M-1 radio station and Lithuanian National Radio and Television, but reportedly was ordered not to escalate the situation. The men were found in violation of the SKAT statute and faced disciplinary actions, including removal from offices and reshuffling of SKAT leadership. Minister of Defense Butkevičius resigned and was replaced by Linas Antanas Linkevičius on 22 October 1993 (with the effective date of 28 October).
Legal proceedings
On 30 October 1993, the volunteers shot and killed a 16-year old Žaneta Sadauskaitė who lived nearby and became friendly with the men. There is no definite version of her death, but likely she was shot in the forehead by accident (one version claims that the men put a tin on her head and used it as a target practice). Haroldas "Haris" Valaitis confessed to the murder, but was acquitted of the murder charges as the judge believed he confessed to protect others because he had a history of mental illness and likely would not serve time in jail as he most likely would be transferred to a psychiatric hospital. No others were charged in Sadauskaitė's death.
Maskvytis and another officer were tried for their pre-coup activities (taking actions that exceeded their official duties) and received a two-year suspended sentence in December 1994. In October 2000, Maskvytis was sentenced to four years in prison for the possession and trafficking of illegal weapons, explosive materials, and ammunition. During the search of Maskvytis' home, the police found seven grenades, AK-47, Luger pistol, hunting riffle IZH, etc.
Related incidents
The coup was followed by several controversial high-profile crimes that remain unsolved. On 6 November 1994, the Bražuolė bridge bombing damaged a bridge over the on the Vilnius–Kaunas Railway, but train derailment and casualties were avoided due to lucky coincidence. The prosecutor's office investigated 12 different scenarios for the explosion but stopped the pre-trial investigation in 2012 due to the expired statute of limitations. A report of the investigation published in 2015 claimed that the bombing was related to an attempt to disrupt Russian military transport to the Kaliningrad Oblast and send a message of support to Chechnya in its armed struggle for independence from Russia.
Juras Abromavičius, officer of SKAT and State Security Department of Lithuania (VSD), who was investigating the coup of 1993 and explosion of 1994 was assassinated on 31 January 1997 when a homemade RDX bomb detonated under his car. In 2006, the prosecutor's office announced that it closed Abromavičius's case. They managed to identify Vladas Grybauskas as the bomb maker but he committed suicide on 10 December 1997. The statute of limitations for the murder of Abromavičius expired in 2017.
These cases were followed by a string of deaths ruled as suicides: volunteers Remigijus Kuršas fell from a third floor, Irmantas Ruplys, Edmundas Simanavičius, and Remigijus Kazokaitis shot themselves. Kornelijus Rudauskas drowned in summer 1997.
Responsibility
There are many theories and conspiracies surrounding the events. Already during the crisis, politicians expressed views that it was not an action of a few disgruntled officers, but a premeditated political provocation. In general, the two most popular versions blame either the Russian Federal Security Service or Lithuanian ultra-conservatives.
For example, former Prime Minister Gediminas Kirkilas once said that the coup was useful to Russia as it could demonstrate that as soon as the Russian Army left Lithuania, the country experienced internal unrest. During an interview on 20 September 1993, Vytautas Landsbergis, leader of the conservative Homeland Union, expressed fears that the incident could be used as a pretext for the Russian Army to return but at the same time defended SKAT as a necessary institution for the national defense.
The political left accuse the conservatives, primarily the Homeland Union. A parliamentary commission set up in 2007 to investigate Abromavičius' murder concluded that the murder was carried out by a terrorist-like group that maintained contacts with current and former leaders of the Homeland Union, Lithuanian Christian Democratic Party, and Lithuanian Democratic Party. In 2018, Audrius Butkevičius and Zigmas Vaišvila publicly and explicitly accused Landsbergis of sponsoring terrorist activities related to the coup and the two bombings.
See also
Pullapää crisis – similar 1993 crisis in Estonia
References
1990s coups d'état and coup attempts
1993 in Lithuania
History of Lithuania (1990–present)
Military coups in Lithuania
Conflicts in 1993
Kaunas County |
61836863 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleon%20Throckmorton | Cleon Throckmorton | Cleon Francis "Throck" Throckmorton (October 8, 1897 – October 23, 1965) was an American painter, theatrical designer, producer, and architect. During the early 1920s, Throckmorton resided in Washington, D.C., where he created sets for stage productions by Howard University, a historically black college.
While associated with Howard University, he operated the Krazy Kat speakeasy in Washington, D.C., a gathering place for artists and intellectuals. After noticing Throckmorton's set design work for Ridgely Torrence's Simon the Cyrenian at Howard University, producer George Cram Cook recruited Throckmorton to create the sets for the Provincetown Players' upcoming production of playwright Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jones.
Following the success of The Emperor Jones, Throckmorton became one of the most prolific set designers of the Jazz Age. His set designs were featured in over six hundred productions. During the heyday of his career, it was said that the only person whose name appeared on more playbills than Throckmorton's was the fire commissioner. He was posthumously inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2002.
Life
Early life and education
Born in Absecon, just outside Atlantic City, New Jersey, Throckmorton's parents Ernest Upton Throckmorton and Roberta Cowing Throckmorton had moved to Washington, D.C. by 1912 where Ernest ran a cigar store. His mother was an artist employed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Throckmorton's early years were spent in Atlantic City and Washington, D.C. He purportedly was deeply influenced by the gothic atmosphere of the American South which he drew upon in later years when he designed sets for All God's Chillun Got Wings (1924) and Porgy (1928).
As a young man, Throckmorton studied engineering at the Carnegie Institute of Technology from 1917–18 and George Washington University from 1918–19. As a student, he worked as a lab assistant at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. He developed an interest in painting, and studied painting with portraitist Charles Webster Hawthorne and Alexis Many. According to Throckmorton, his career began as a bet made with other artists in Washington, D.C. The artists claimed he could not succeed both in engineering and painting. Within a year, Throckmorton won the bet by graduating with an engineering degree and had an exposition of his paintings at the Biennial Exposition of Contemporary Artists. Attempting to reconcile his passion for painting with his love of engineering, he gradually became aware of "the perfect marriage of the two professions—set designing."
Early efforts and speakeasy owner
After obtaining an engineering degree and following an exhibition of his paintings, Throckmorton began advertising himself as a specialist "in difficult tasks for the theater that require the combination of the artist and the engineer." Soon after, he became a frequent collaborator and associate with the African-American drama department at Howard University, a federally chartered historically black research university in Washington, D.C. He taught classes, produced plays, and designed sets at Howard University circa 1920–22.
While associated with Howard University, Throckmorton operated the Krazy Kat Klub, a raucous nightclub and speakeasy situated at No. 3 Green Court near Washington, D.C.'s Thomas Circle. As a pre-Raphaelite impressionist, Throckmorton believed that artists should pursue their vocation day and night by surrounding themselves with appropriate settings that inspired creativity, and the venue fulfilled that purpose. Due to its courtyard and tree-house, the establishment became as an idyllic haunt for artists, bohemians, flappers, and other free-wheeling "young moderns" during the Jazz Age. A frequent club habitué was Katherine "Kat" Mullen, a model and sketch artist known for her radio performances as a singer and ukulele player with the Crandall Saturday Nighters. Throckmorton and Mullen were married during this period.
While operating the Krazy Kat Klub speakeasy in Washington, D.C., Throckmorton became acquainted with theater producer George Cram Cook, a key figure in the experimental theater collective known as the Provincetown Players located in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Cook had been impressed by Throckmorton's avant-garde work on Ridgely Torrence's Simon the Cyrenian at Howard University, and he offered Throckmorton the opportunity to design the sets for the upcoming first production of Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jones (1920). Throckmorton completed the sketches and sets in only three days, and the play opened to rave reviews on November 1, 1920.
Meteoric success and cultural zenith
Due to the ecstatic critical reception of Throckmorton's set work for The Emperor Jones, Throckmorton went on to work on stage design or set design for over six hundred productions during the next decade. His many works included The Hairy Ape (1922), In Abraham's Bosom (1926; Pulitzer Prize, 1927), Porgy (1928), the American premiere of The Threepenny Opera (1933), Sidney Howard's Alien Corn (1933), the 1935 American premiere of Federico García Lorca's Blood Wedding (retitled as The Bitter Oleanders), and a 1942 production of Nathan the Wise. During this heyday of Throckmorton's career, it was said that the only person whose name appeared on more playbills than Throckmorton's was the fire commissioner. Many notable artists and stage designers worked with Throckmorton at the Provincetown Players, including Mordecai Gorelik, Alexander Calder, and Robert Edmond Jones.
By 1928, following his divorce from his first wife Katherine Mullen and his second marriage to screen actress Juliet Brenon, Throckmorton had relocated to Hoboken, New Jersey, where he and his intimate friend, writer Christopher Morley, co-founded the Hoboken Theatrical Company. They produced at the Old Rialto Theatre a series of successful revivals of old-time melodramas from the gaslight era, "complete with peanuts—hisses for the villain and cheers for the heroes."
The efforts of Throckmorton and Morley led to a brief cultural flowering in the city. They concurrently produced an assortment of experimental crafts including an illustrated map of Hoboken, Hoboken passports, and a book, "Born in a Beer Garden, or She Troupes to Conquer" (1930), written with then-unknown poet Ogden Nash. Throckmorton and Morley later produced plays at the Millpond Playhouse in Roslyn, New York, including a well-received production of Morley's "The Trojan Horse".
While residing in a studio at West Third Street in New York City during the early 1930s, Throckmorton produced a series of drawings which soon decorated the "Volare" restaurant in Greenwich Village in New York City, where they have been hanging since 1933. In 1934, Throckmorton's four concept drawings for the scene designs in The Emperor Jones were included in the 1934 International Exhibition of Theatre Art at the Museum of Modern Art. During this period, Throckmorton also became known as an architect and designer of theaters, working on the Cherry Lane Theatre in Greenwich Village, the Westport Country Playhouse in Connecticut, the Cape Playhouse at Dennis on Cape Cod, and many others. In 1935, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Theatre Arts to study classic European theaters.
Decline and later years
After his artistic zenith during the Jazz Age, Throckmorton's theatrical work steadily declined in the 1940s, and he was forced to move on to other ventures. He became an event planner, created murals for restaurants and nightclubs, and designed private homes. He also did pioneering television work designing simulations of historical events, battles, and other events that could not be filmed. He became the first art director for the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) during the early years of television.
As his career declined, Throckmorton divided his time between his Greenwich Village apartment and a residence in the Bahamas. In his final years, Throckmorton lived with his second wife Juliet Brenon in semi-retirement at 33 South North Carolina Avenue in Atlantic City, New Jersey. He died at 68 years old on October 23, 1965. Nearly forty years after his death, he was posthumously inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2002.
Marriages
Throckmorton's first wife was Katherine "Kat" Mullen. A model and sketch artist, Mullen was a frequent habitué of Throckmorton's speakeasy known as "The Kat" in Washington, D.C., and was also known for her radio performances as a singer and ukulele player with the Crandall Saturday Nighters. Throckmorton likely divorced Mullen before he permanently relocated from Washington, D.C. to New York City.
On March 13, 1927, Throckmorton married his second wife silent movie actress Juliet Brenon (1895–1979). The Brenons were a musical and theatrical family; her father Algernon had been a music critic, and her uncle Herbert Brenon was a prolific film director who directed the first cinematic adaptation of The Great Gatsby (1926). Juliet's sister Aileen (1894–1967) was a music critic and theatrical publicist whose husband was art critic Thomas Craven.
During the 1930s, Throckmorton's Greenwich Village apartment that he shared with Juliet Brenon became an after-hours salon for thespians, artists, and intellectuals such as Noël Coward, Norman Bel Geddes, Eugene O'Neill and E.E. Cummings. Their politically leftward salon notably raised funds for the Republican faction during the Spanish Civil War.
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Krazy Kat Klub
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48417768 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero%20Time%20Dilemma | Zero Time Dilemma | Zero Time Dilemma is an adventure video game developed by Chime, and published by Spike Chunsoft, Aksys Games, and Rising Star Games. It is the third entry in the Zero Escape series, following Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors (2009) and Virtue's Last Reward (2012). The game was released for Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation Vita, and Microsoft Windows in 2016, and for PlayStation 4 in 2017. As of December 2021, it is no longer available for purchase on the North American and European Nintendo Eshop.
The story is set between the previous two games, and follows nine people who are kidnapped by a masked person known as Zero. They are divided into three teams, and forced to play a death game called the "Decision Game". The player takes the roles of three of the characters, and plays through the chapters the story is made up of: these consist of animated cinematics, escape-the-room puzzles, and moral decisions for the player to make. The chapters represent 90-minute periods, and can be played out of order.
The game was directed and written by series creator Kotaro Uchikoshi, and features music by Shinji Hosoe and character designs by Rui Tomono. Uchikoshi had started planning the game's story in 2012, but the development was put on hiatus due to the commercial failure of the series in Japan. In 2015, development was announced to have resumed in response to high demand from the series' fan base. The game was positively received by critics.
Gameplay
Zero Time Dilemma is an adventure game consisting of multiple chapters, representing 90-minute periods; chapters consist of narrative sections and escape-the-room puzzle sections. The chapters, referred to as "fragments", are chosen through the Floating Fragment system, in which the player gets to choose a fragment to play based on an image and a vague description. The fragments can be played out of order; the characters lose their memory after each 90-minute period, and do not know where they are in the timeline. When the player completes a fragment, they are returned to the Floating Fragment screen, and the completed fragment is placed in a narrative flowchart, indicating where it takes place in the story.
Narrative sections are presented as three-dimensional animated cinematics, with camera movements and full voice acting in Japanese and English. The Escape sections, which include thirteen different rooms, involve the player searching the room for tools and clues through a point-and-click interface in a first-person perspective and solving puzzles. The puzzles are mostly self-contained, and test the player's problem-solving skills and memory; among these are puzzles where the player has to decipher messages, and ones where they have to align the sides of a three-dimensional object correctly.
After completing an Escape section, the player needs to take a stance in a moral decision; one such decision involves one character being locked into a chair with a gun next to it and another character inside an incinerator. To stop the incinerator, the player needs to choose to pull the trigger, which has a 50% possibility of firing a live bullet, killing the character in the chair. The way the decisions are made varies: some involve choosing between options, and some have the player input their own answer.
Plot
Setting and characters
Zero Time Dilemma is set between the events of Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors and Virtue's Last Reward. The game follows nine characters who have been locked up in an underground nuclear bomb shelter and are forced to play a death game called the Decision Game, which is led by a masked person known as Zero. The shelter is divided into three wards, with three people placed in each section, making up three teams: C-Team, Q-Team, and D-Team. To get to the central elevator hall and escape, the characters need six passwords; one password is revealed each time one of them dies. The characters are all wearing watches that inject them with a drug every 90 minutes, inducing memory loss. Heavily involved in the game's lore is the many-worlds theory, where every decision made creates alternate universes where the opposite was chosen; these timelines make up the game's multiple routes.
C-Team includes Carlos, a firefighter with a strong sense of justice; Akane, a member of a secret society working for a peaceful future, and who pretends to be a "neat and clean, ideal Japanese woman"; and Junpei, a childhood friend of Akane's, who has joined a detective agency to find her after she has not been heard from. Q-Team includes a naive amnesiac boy wearing a spherical helmet; Eric, an ice cream shop clerk who easily cracks under pressure; and Mira, who does not show much emotion and is in a relationship with Eric. D-Team includes Diana, a pacifist nurse who dislikes fighting; Phi, an intelligent woman who participated in the Dcom (Dwelling for Experimental Cohabitation of Mars) experiment together with Akane and Sigma to save the world from the Radical-6 virus; and Sigma, a 67-year-old man in the body of a 22-year-old. Additionally, there is a dog named Gab who is able to pass through vents between the sections to deliver messages between the teams.
Synopsis
The nine participants of the Dcom experiment are kidnapped by a masked individual known as Zero, who makes them play a coin toss; if they win, they are set free with no memory of what happened, and if they lose they awake in a facility separated into three wards, with one team in each. After losing, they are forced to play the "Decision Game", and submit a vote for one of the teams; the one with the most votes gets executed. At this point, the story starts branching into different timelines depending on player choices.
In one timeline, Phi is killed, and Diana and Sigma are trapped in the facility. They discover a transporter device, which they use to send copies of themselves to another timeline; their original selves remain, however, and the transporter takes ten months to recharge. They begin a relationship, and Diana later gives birth to fraternal twins, a boy and a girl whom they name Delta and Phi. Using the recharged transporter, they send the babies to the past, to keep them safe from Zero. In another timeline, Akane realizes that Carlos can send his consciousness between timelines in times of danger, which she calls "Spacetime Human Internal Fluctuating Transfer", or "shifting". Through the resonance from Carlos's ability, C-Team shifts between timelines to collect passwords, but Zero sends the boy in the helmet – revealed to be a humanoid robot named Sean – to attack them for violating the rules.
Carlos flees by shifting to the timeline that the copies of Diana and Sigma had been transported to. Diana and Sigma reach a room with sleeping pods, where they find and wake up Eric and Sean, and find the dead bodies of the remaining participants. Armed with a shotgun, Eric demands to know who killed Mira; Carlos says that he must be innocent as he was in the C Ward, but Diana realizes that the wards are not separate: there is only one lounge, which changes its appearance using projection mapping. They realize that only one team is active at a time, while the rest are kept asleep in the pods. Sean reveals Zero's true identity: he is Delta, an elderly man thought to be wheelchair-bound, deaf, blind and mute, who had been with Q-Team the entire time, but off-camera from the player's perspective. He admits that he killed Mira, who is revealed to be a serial killer called the Heart Ripper, and prevents the participants from escaping by using his esper abilities to make Eric shoot everyone but Diana.
In the timeline leading to the events of Virtue's Last Reward, Phi is infected with Radical-6, which has a 75% possibility of causing suicidal intention. Junpei and Akane learn that Zero caused a Radical-6 outbreak in the hopes that it would kill a religious fanatic who would cause the complete extinction of humanity; Radical-6 was seen as the lesser evil, as it would allow two billion people to survive. In the timeline where no teams were executed, the participants who are able to shift recall their memories from previous timelines. Delta says that he ran the Decision Game to ensure his and Phi's birth, and to cause epigenetic changes in Diana and Sigma, giving Phi the ability to shift and Delta the ability to read minds and briefly control others' bodies.
The participants activate the "force quit box" in the lounge, starting the facility's self-destruct sequence. Akane realizes that the impending danger and the resonance of the gathered shifters would allow the participants to shift to the timeline where they won the coin toss and were freed. After shifting, they threaten to call the police on Delta, but he points out that he has not committed any crimes in the current timeline. He says that there will be no Radical-6 outbreak in this timeline, meaning that mankind will go extinct, but that the participants now are determined to change the future; he says that one of his goals was to get them into this frame of mind. He gives Carlos a handgun with the choice of killing Delta or letting him live, saying that the fate of humanity is on the line. The game ends with Carlos aiming the gun.
In the epilogues, Carlos' sister recovers from an illness and also gains the ability to jump between timelines. Carlos has become a brother figure to Akane and Junpei, who are to be married, and the three of them vow to stop the religious extremist. Mira has turned herself in for her killings and married Eric, but Sean breaks her out of prison so that they can use the transporter to stop Mira from committing her murders in the past. The Phi of 1904 is speculated to have become a researcher who studied the transporter well into her 100s.
Development
Zero Time Dilemma was developed by Chime, and directed and written by Kotaro Uchikoshi, with music composed by Shinji Hosoe. Uchikoshi first mentioned details of a third Zero Escape game in 2012, stating that it would be the last entry in the series; by 2013, he said that he had finished planning the story, but that development had not yet begun. In February 2014, the project was put on hold indefinitely in response to the series' poor commercial reception in Japan.
Uchikoshi examined the possibility of financing the development through the use of crowdfunding on a website like Kickstarter, but felt that the idea would not be persuasive enough for it to meet the goal; he also sought out opportunities with executives and investors. The series' fandom created Operation Bluebird, an online campaign to raise awareness of the series and support the game's development, in response to its hiatus. When delivering the pitch for the game, Uchikoshi opened with a fan-made vocal rendition of the series theme song, "Morphogenetic Sorrow"; he considered this a major point in getting the project approved. At the 2015 Anime Expo in July, Aksys Games announced that development of the third game had been resumed, citing the high demand and awareness for the game as key factors for its reevaluation. By March 2016, development was 80% finished. The porting of the game to Microsoft Windows was handled by Chime, with consultation from Abstraction Games, who had previously worked on Microsoft Windows ports for the Danganronpa series.
For the music, Uchikoshi wrote down directions about the mood and concept of the game, describing it as "sad and lonely, like a worn-out record", and "dark and visceral". Hosoe described the music as generally less melodic: because they could not make the music hit on cue like in film, they decided during the planning stage to include silence in the soundtrack, so Hosoe created atmospheric tracks to be used as background noise. Because the Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors characters Junpei and Akane and the Virtue's Last Reward characters Sigma and Phi appear in the game, Uchikoshi decided to have arrangements of songs from those two games included in the soundtrack. He also had the songs "Digital Root" and "Trepidation", which had been used in both previous games, be included, as he saw them as a sort of theme songs that tie the games together as a series, similarly to "The Imperial March" from the Star Wars films. Hosoe received a list of what songs were to be rearranged and how they were to be used within the game, and was asked to compose a total of 45 songs; he did however end up composing nearly 70 songs, ensuring that they had something that fit every situation in the game. For the ending theme, Hosoe incorporated several callbacks to songs from the previous games as "a sendoff for the series", leading into "Morphogenetic Sorrow".
Two puzzle creators were enlisted with designing the escape-the-room scenarios; Uchikoshi described one of them as creating "orthodox" puzzles, and the other, Strider creator Kouichi Yotsui, as creating "unique and out-of-the-box" types of puzzles. He gave them a rough idea of what he wanted each puzzle to convey and how he wanted them to resolve. The puzzle designers would come up with a draft, which he would finalize together with them.
Story and themes
The game was originally planned to be developed simultaneously with the previous Zero Escape game, Virtue's Last Reward, with the two games being "paired as a set", and with Virtue's Last Reward having a cliffhanger ending. With Zero Time Dilemma, Uchikoshi intended to resolve all mysteries left from the previous game, as well as all introduced in the third, while also attempting to make the story enjoyable for first-time players. This was used as a "basic framework" to write the story within. In addition to figuring out how to explain the mysteries while avoiding contradictions with Virtue's Last Reward, they added side stories to the narrative to give it "a little extra punch". They also took the time-travel ability some characters in Virtue's Last Reward have into consideration, as it opened up for more narrative possibilities. Uchikoshi worked with two other writers; the three helped each other come up with ideas and figure out the best ways to make the story work. When coming up with the story, he knew from the start that he wanted Sigma, Phi and Diana to be on one team, and Akane on another; this left open slots in the teams, which were filled with other characters as story development progressed. The script took one year to write. While Uchikoshi had already had an idea for the setting and events of Zero Time Dilemma when writing Virtue's Last Reward, the game structure changed when the time came to implement it. One reason was that characters "take on a life of their own and make their own decisions" when he writes from their point of view, and that characters might pull the story in a different direction than he had originally planned; most of the time, he would let the story go where the characters want to go rather than forcing it to follow his original plans, leading to changes in story and structure. The budget partly dictated the game's setting in an enclosed space as it required few art assets to develop.
The game's main theme is morality, and it is the game in the series with the largest focus on philosophy; Uchikoshi intends to have the player's "way of thinking, values, [and] virtues" shaken intensely while they play the game. The "dilemma" in the game's title reflects this, as the game asks the player whether choices they make are the right thing to do. Another main theme is identity, and how people try to figure out who they are. This came from Uchikoshi's personal struggles with identity issues: he said that he is "always thinking about who [he is]" and that he thinks he might have a multifaceted personality; his characters, like him, deal with this issue. Among other major themes are "multiple-probability histories", with the player being able to move between different equally probable histories depending on the choices they have made; and the big effects small coincidences can have, which was reflected in the use of randomizing events. The idea to include randomization came from how Uchikoshi wanted to "spoiler-proof" the game, and felt that FAQ websites that tell players how to beat the game make playthroughs uninteresting. He had always been fascinated by the concept of coincidences, and how actions done in the past lead up "where we are today", so he did a lot of research and reading on the topic to prepare writing the story. The theme of no absolute good or evil came from Buddhist literature Uchikoshi had read, particularly the Zen Buddhist idea of "shiki soku zeku", which he described as "matter is void and form is emptiness". Because of this idea, Uchikoshi tried to give each character "their own sense of personal justice that they believe to be true", resulting in characters with different philosophies who play off each other.
While previous Zero Escape titles tell their narratives through visual novel segments, Zero Time Dilemma replaces them with cinema scenes, intended to feel familiar for Western players and "emulate the feel of a big-budget American TV show". To further this effect, the option to turn off the subtitles was included. Due to this more cinematic approach, Uchikoshi was able to make use of his experience with writing the anime series Punch Line (2015). The inspirations for the change in format were Telltale Games' adventure game series The Walking Dead (2012–2019) and Level-5's adventure game Time Travelers (2012). Uchikoshi said that this would make for a lower barrier of entry for people not necessarily interested in visual novels, and that mass appeal is important to Spike Chunsoft, as just a Japanese audience is not enough for the production of adventure games. The non-linear and episodic nature of the game's chapters was done to appeal to more casual players and people new to the series, as they can uncover the story at their own pace without being "railroaded into doing one storyline from start to finish". The use of fragments added some challenge to writing the story: Uchikoshi had to be careful when planning the progression of the story, as changes to one fragment would also affect the fragments surrounding it. When breaking the story up into fragments, he considered what would be the most entertaining for players.
In response to feedback from players, Zero Time Dilemma was intended to be more suspenseful than Virtue's Last Reward: Uchikoshi and the game's producer decided that, as Zero Time Dilemma is the final Zero Escape game, they should no longer hold back and instead do what they had always wanted to do. Because of the life-and-death theme, they felt that there would be less of an impact if they had held back, and that they instead should make the violence in the game "extreme" to make the player's choices hit home. According to Uchikoshi, the development team wanted the player to feel worried, and that the game would be done as he wants it without any changes done for the sake of age ratings: they had originally considered aiming for a CERO D age rating – 17 years or older – but decided to aim for a Z age rating instead, which is the highest age rating in Japan, as they felt they could not get the visual and emotional impact they wanted within a D rating. Despite this, CERO ended up assigning the game a D rating.
Character design
The game's characters were designed by Rui Tomono; Uchikoshi had considered asking Kinu Nishimura, the character designer for the previous two games in the series, to return, but wanted to show that the series had changed significantly. He also felt that, as the production had moved from backgrounds and drawn characters to 3D cinematics, "more impressive design" was needed, and that Tomono's designs were likely to be accepted internationally while still feeling Japanese. Some character designs had to be changed due to technical difficulties with the 3D models: the baggy sleeves of Akane's dress were made tighter; Junpei's jacket was removed; and asymmetrical aspects of Eric's design were removed.
Zero's character design was changed to suit the story's focus on a virus; the character wears a plague doctor mask as opposed to the gas mask worn in the previous games. Carlos was designed to clearly communicate his occupation as a firefighter: he was given scars on his arms, a tight t-shirt and shirt to help show off his muscular build and silhouette, and an axe embroidery on his shirt pocket. Because Akane is Japanese, her design incorporated Japanese elements such as the use of straight lines on her top and a belt to emulate the look of a kimono and a kimono sash. The black color of the belt was meant to represent her hidden dark side, while the belt chains represented things that constrict her. The top halves of her sleeves were initially going to be pastel purple to make sure that the design was not too dark and that it contrasted against Junpei's more monochromatic design; this was changed for the final model, however, with Tomono noting that the use of purple might be better for a mentally unstable character. Similarly, Akane was given blue accents to contrast against Junpei's reds. Junpei was redesigned to fit his jaded personality in Zero Time Dilemma as his previous design in Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors felt "childish" and clashing. His design process was difficult, with the development team going through many design proposals.
Sean was originally meant to wear a cubic helmet, but Tomono presented a spherical design instead, which Uchikoshi described as "everything I didn't know I wanted". Mira was designed to continue the series tradition of having a "sexy femme fatale" character in each game: she was given an open track jacket and a bikini-like top to show off her cleavage, and a jiggle effect was added to her 3D model. Eric's design and 3D modelling went smoothly, with Chime saying that some faces are easier to model than others. Tomono wanted him to specifically have a Caucasian chin and brow, but noted that they had to be careful to not go too far with it, to avoid a too realistic look. Diana's design was difficult to recreate in 3D, with the initial model having "really chubby chipmunk cheeks", but was worked on until it matched the design. She was also difficult to animate, due to her long skirt. Phi was originally shorter and had bigger eyes, but after she was given glasses, it was decided that she should look more like a model to match the stylish look of her short hair and glasses. Parts of Sigma's design from Virtue's Last Reward were incorporated into his new one, in the form of embroidery on his polo shirt.
Promotion and release
In March 2015, Aksys Games launched the website 4infinity.co, which consisted of a countdown timer; the countdown ended in July, coinciding with the game's announcement at Anime Expo. The game's title and logo were revealed in October, and in December, a teaser Twitter account was launched, revealing artwork of characters from the game. The game was unveiled during a presentation in March 2016. The Japanese release uses the English series title, Zero Escape, instead of the title used for previous Japanese releases, as the developers wanted to renew the series' image and bring over the Western title to Japan.
Unlike previous Zero Escape games, the game was localized alongside the production of the Japanese version: it was published by Aksys Games for the Nintendo 3DS and PlayStation Vita in North America and Europe on June 28, 2016, with a Japanese release following on June 30. A Microsoft Windows version was released worldwide by Spike Chunsoft on June 30. The game was released digitally and physically on the Nintendo 3DS and the PlayStation Vita in North America, and digitally only in Europe. The PlayStation Vita version is compatible with the PlayStation TV. The Nintendo 3DS version does not support the system's stereoscopic 3D effect. A PlayStation 4 version with improved lighting and shading was released in Japan on August 17, 2017 and in North America one day later, and by Rising Star Games in Europe on September 8.
In North America, a limited edition that includes a wristwatch was released. Because the watches were damaged in transit, they were delayed and sent separately from the game. Japanese pre-ordered copies came bundled with the 48-page Zero Escape: Premium Booklet, which includes production material, illustrations by Tomono, summaries of the previous two Zero Escape games, and a prequel written by Uchikoshi; a digital edition of the booklet was bundled with the Microsoft Windows release, together with a portion of the game's soundtrack. Aksys plans to release the booklet separately from the game, and is also considering releasing other merchandise based on the game. According to Hosoe, his company, Supersweep, which published the soundtrack albums for the previous games, is considering publishing an album for Zero Time Dilemma too.
Reception
Zero Time Dilemma was well received by critics on all platforms, and was the second-best reviewed PlayStation Vita game of 2016 on Metacritic, after Steins;Gate 0. During its opening week in Japan, it sold 5,375 copies on the PlayStation Vita and 3,916 copies on the Nintendo 3DS, for a total of 9,291 copies sold. It was the third best selling digital PlayStation Vita game of June 2016 in Europe, despite being released three days before the end of the month. The Steam release had an estimated total of 38,000 players by July 2018.
Famitsu four reviewers enjoyed the game's setup of three different teams and non-chronological plot progression, with the player getting a greater understanding of the story as they play; one of them said that learning what was going on in the fragments was "fantastic", and that they liked the emphasis on "interpersonal human drama". Another of them commented that the "light banter" dialogue is helpful in motivating the player. One of them said that the game would be enjoyable even for players who have not played previous entries in the series.
The reviewers at Famitsu noted that the puzzle rooms were challenging and fun, but wished that the game had included a hint function for people who primarily play the game for the story; one of the reviewers also commented that the way the player uses items is difficult at some points. They appreciated how the puzzle rooms, unlike many other escape-the-room games, do not feel artificial. IGN praised the "inventive" puzzles, "stellar" storytelling, darker tone, decisions and consequences, "beautiful character moments", and "mind-bending plot".
Destructoid called the game a "hallmark of excellence" ruined only by the "abysmal presentation" of the cut scenes. One reviewer at Famitsu liked how the game allows the player to skip past already viewed cutscenes, while another commented that the cutscenes are not perfectly lip-synched to the Japanese voice acting.
The game has won or been nominated for some awards: it won Destructoid's award for the best PlayStation Vita game of 2016, Game Informer award for the best ending in an adventure game of 2016, and RPGFan's Reader's Choice award in the adventure games and visual novels category. It was a runner-up for Hardcore Gamer Best Story, Best Voice Acting and Best PlayStation Vita Game of 2016 awards, and was nominated for IGN's Nintendo 3DS and PlayStation Vita games of the year awards. It was selected for two of RPGFan's Editors' Awards: Peter Triezenberg ranked it as the fifth best game of the year, while Robert Fenner selected it for his Most Disappointing category; and Mira was included on Destructoid's list of their favorite new video game characters of 2016.
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1869217 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckler%20%26%20Koch%20AG36 | Heckler & Koch AG36 | The AG36 is a single-shot 40 mm grenade launcher that operates on the High-Low System and was designed primarily for installation on the G36 assault rifle, designed by the German weapons manufacturing company Heckler & Koch of Oberndorf am Neckar. It originally appeared as Heckler & Koch's candidate for the US Army's Enhanced Grenade Launcher requirement, evaluated for use with the XM8 and FN SCAR rifles. As is commonly mistaken, the "A" is not an addition to the name "G36", which is short for Gewehr 36, but is in fact an abbreviation of the German Anbaugranatwerfer, literally meaning "attached grenade launcher" and the 36 coming from the name of the primary weapon it was designed to enhance – the G36. It can also be used dismounted, with a stock attached as a stand-alone model, or a LLM01 laser light module can be attached to it.
Design details
As in many modern weapon systems, including the G36 series, extensive use of polymers and high-strength aluminium in the AG36 launcher contributes to its low mass and high durability. It is capable of firing almost all 40×46mm grenade rounds, including plastic training cartridges, flexible baton rounds, CS gas, and oleoresin capsicum (OC, the same chemical used in pepper spray) gas cartridges, white phosphorus, and HE ammunition. With the grenade launcher fitted, when firing 5.56 mm ammunition, the G36 Rifle’s mean point of impact shifts approx. 10 cm downwards at a range of 100 meters. The AG36 is a part of Germany's Infantryman of the future program.
The AG36 is a single-shot weapon with a break-action steel barrel and unlike its American counterpart, the M203, the AG36 swings out laterally for loading, allowing for the use of longer rounds when necessary, e.g. baton or flare rounds. When open, the breech is on the left. For installation, the rifle's existing barrel handguard is removed and replaced by the AG36. The weapon has a trigger group with a manual safety lever and a pistol grip for ease of handling. Aiming is accomplished using standard ladder sights, which are located on the left side of the launcher body and folded down when not in use.
Due to its modular design, the launcher can be readily adapted to other rifles, such as the M16-series and the Diemaco C7 and C8.
Variants
The L17A1 and L123A2 UGL (Underslung Grenade Launcher) are the under-barrel 40 mm grenade launchers used by the British Army in conjunction with the L85A2 rifle (L123A2 UGL), and in small numbers with the L119A1 carbine used by United Kingdom Special Forces and the Pathfinder Platoon (L17A1 UGL). It is designed and built by Heckler & Koch and is a modified variant of the AG36. The UGL was first deployed during Operation Telic in 2003. The UGL replaced the muzzle-launched Rifle Grenade General Service. One UGL is issued per fireteam within infantry battalions.
A further version of the AG36 is the Heckler & Koch AG-C/EGLM.
Users
: Replacing the Heckler & Koch HK69A1.
: Lithuanian Armed Forces.
:
:
Used by Special Forces Command (Turkey)
: L123A2 Variant
: Designated as M320 grenade launcher
Used by Kopassus and Denjaka
See also
M203 grenade launcher
M320 grenade launcher
GP-25
Milkor UBGL
Heckler & Koch AG-C/GLM
References
External links
Heckler & Koch – official page
Modern Firearms
The Infantry's Explosive Punch (Asian Military Review article)
40×46mm grenade launchers
AG36
Post–Cold War weapons of Germany |
58273727 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elacatinus%20atronasus | Elacatinus atronasus | Elacatinus atronasus is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Gobiidae which is endemic to a single reef in Exuma Sound in the Bahamas. It is a species associated with a coral reefs but unlike many other species in the genus Elacatinus it does not engage in cleaning behaviour, feeding instead on particulate zooplankton. It occurs in large, mixed groups in the vicinity of vertical faces which have plentiful holes and near undercut ledges. It forms schools above the sea floor where has been recorded as remaining stationary, hovering above corals by day, resting on the coral during the night. Its reproductive behaviour is unknown. The IUCN assess Elacatinus atronasus as endangered due to its restricted range and the perceived vulnerability of this species to predation by the invasive lionfish, Pterois miles and Pterois volitans.
References
atronasus
Fish described in 1968 |
2080073 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%20O%27Connor | Raymond O'Connor | Raymond O'Connor (born September 13, 1952) is an American character actor.
Career
Raymond O'Connor has been in a number of films, some small roles and some large roles as well. His first role was in the 1985 mini series Kane & Abel.
O'Connor has made guest appearances on some TV shows, such as Seinfeld, Beverly Hills, 90210, Sister, Sister, Silk Stalkings and Babylon 5 (in the 5th-season episode "A View from the Gallery" as Mack).
Filmography
Movies
Television
References
External links
1955 births
Living people
American male film actors
American male television actors |
11221686 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20Marmenout | Jan Marmenout | Jan Marmenout (born in Ghent, Belgium) is a Belgian percussionist and multi-instrumentalist playing such instruments as the berimbau, kalimba, balafon, didgeridoo, shawm, Tibetan trumpet, conch shells, fujara, lithophones, etc. He is perhaps most-known for his compositions on the fujara, an ethnic instrument from Slovakia. Marmenout plays the fujara in an intuitive and non-traditionalist way.
He has composed the score for two movies, Judentransport XX (2003) and Desperado (2002).
Discography
Gates, Highgate Music, 1997.
Fujara, Highgate Music, 1998.
Spirits, Highgate Music, 1999, with Vidna Obmana.
Wastelands, Highgate Music, 2005, with Lode Vercampt.
A Special Blend (Fujara II), Highgate Music, 2005
External links
Personal Website
At Highgate Music
On Fujara Slovakia
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
22359977 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksander%20Bardini | Aleksander Bardini | Aleksander Bardini (17 November 1913 – 30 July 1995) was a Polish theatre and opera director, actor, notable professor at the State Theatre School in Warsaw. He appeared in 30 films between 1937 and 1994.
Selected filmography
Long Is the Road (1948)
Landscape After the Battle (1970)
Spiral (1978)
No End (1985)
The Last Manuscript (1987)
Dekalog (1988)
Korczak (1990)
The Double Life of Véronique (1991)
Prince of Shadows (1991)
Three Colours: White (1994)
References
External links
1913 births
1995 deaths
Burials at Powązki Cemetery
Polish male film actors
20th-century Polish Jews
Actors from Łódź
20th-century Polish male actors |
841941 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Hughes%20%28Conservative%20politician%29 | Robert Hughes (Conservative politician) | Robert Gurth Hughes (born 14 July 1951) was a British Conservative Party politician from 1980–97 and Government Minister in the 1990s.
Parliamentary career
Hughes was unsuccessful as a candidate for Stepney and Poplar in the 1979 general election. In 1980 Hughes was elected to the Greater London Council representing Croydon Central, serving until 1986. He was the Conservative candidate in the 1983 Bermondsey by-election and contested that constituency's successor seat of Southwark and Bermondsey at the 1983 general election.
In 1987 he was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Harrow West. He successfully defended his seat at the 1992 election but at the 1997 election his 18,000 majority swung to a Labour majority of 1,240 votes for Gareth Thomas. Hughes' Parliamentary Aide in the Commons until May 1997 was fellow Harrow politician, Councillor Mark Versallion.
He served as a Government Whip in 1993 when the Maastricht bill went through the House, and was promoted to Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Office of Public Service and Science in the Cabinet Office in 1994 with responsibility for the Science Research Councils and the Medical Research Council.
On 6 March 1995, Hughes resigned as Minister responsible for the Citizen's Charter over an affair with a constituency worker who had come to him for help from an abusive relationship. Hughes confessed the affair and resigned when he believed that the liaison was about to be exposed in a Sunday newspaper.
He opposed the Conservative party line in 1996 by supporting a total ban on handguns in the wake of the Dunblane Massacre. Robert Hughes is a keen supporter of Land value tax to eliminate income and sales taxes.
Post-political career
Upon leaving the Commons he became General Secretary and then Executive Director of the optical trade body, the Federation of Ophthalmic & Dispensing Opticians. He became the Chief Executive of the Association of Optometrists (AOP) in 2004. In 2011 he left AOP to become the Chief Executive of the Surrey Association for Visual Impairment. As of 2017 he is now the Chairman of the Guildford Conservative Association.
In May 2021 he was elected as a Conservative county councillor for Shere in the Surrey County Council election.
References
External links
1951 births
Living people
Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
Politics of the London Borough of Croydon
Members of the Greater London Council
UK MPs 1987–1992
UK MPs 1992–1997 |
49084099 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad%20Girodo | Chad Girodo | Chad Alan Girodo (born February 6, 1991) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Toronto Blue Jays, who drafted him in 2013. Girodo played in the Blue Jays' minor league organization for parts of four seasons before being called up to the Major Leagues for the first time on April 22, 2016.
High school & college
Girodo was a four-year letter winner at Hartselle High School, playing mostly as a starting pitcher. In his senior year, he pitched to a 17–1 win–loss record and 0.47 earned run average (ERA) with 136 strikeouts in 105 innings. Girodo then attended Mississippi State University, where he made 47 appearances over three years with the Bulldogs, mostly in relief.
Professional career
Minor leagues
In the 2013 Major League Baseball draft, Girodo was selected in the 9th round by the Toronto Blue Jays, and assigned to the Class-A Lansing Lugnuts. In 14 appearances that season, he would post a 1–1 record, 4.18 ERA, and 24 strikeouts in 23 innings.
In 2014, Girodo was assigned to the Advanced-A Dunedin Blue Jays for the entire season. In 47 appearances totalling a career-high 76 innings, he pitched to a 7–3 record, 2.47 ERA, and 81 strikeouts. Girodo began the 2015 season in Dunedin, where he was a Florida State League mid-season All-Star. He was promoted to the Double-A New Hampshire Fisher Cats in June, and to the Triple-A Buffalo Bisons in September. In 45 total appearances in 2015, Girodo would post a stellar 1.34 ERA, 4–2 record, and 58 strikeouts in 60 innings. During the offseason, he appeared in 7 games for the Salt River Rafters of the Arizona Fall League, recording a 1.80 ERA in 10 innings pitched.
Girodo was invited to Major League spring training on January 12, 2016. He was assigned to minor league camp on March 25. Girodo was assigned to the Buffalo Bisons to open the 2016 minor league season. He made 4 appearances for the team, posting a 2–0 record, 1.35 ERA, and 7 strikeouts in 6 innings prior to his call-up.
Toronto Blue Jays
On April 22, 2016, Girodo was called up by the Blue Jays. He pitched two scoreless innings in relief that evening against the Oakland Athletics in his Major League debut. After Brett Cecil was placed on the disabled list, Girodo became the main lefty specialist for the Blue Jays. He was optioned back to Buffalo on April 23, and recalled on May 3. Girodo was optioned back to Buffalo at the end of May, and recalled by the Blue Jays on June 15. On February 9, 2017, Girodo was designated for assignment by the Blue Jays. After clearing waivers, he was assigned to Triple-A Buffalo and invited to Major League spring training. Girodo spent the entire season in the minors, going 2–4 with a 2.96 ERA in 31 games. On January 24, 2018, the Blue Jays invited Girodo to spring training. He was released on April 25.
Los Angeles Dodgers
Girodo was signed to a minor league contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers on May 7, 2018, and was assigned to the AA Tulsa Drillers. He pitched in seven games for the Drillers and six for the Oklahoma City Dodgers before he was released on June 16.
Chicago Dogs
On July 10, 2018, Girodo signed with the Chicago Dogs of the independent American Association. He was released on April 9, 2019.
References
External links
1991 births
Living people
Major League Baseball pitchers
Sportspeople from Decatur, Alabama
Baseball players from Alabama
American expatriate baseball players in Canada
Toronto Blue Jays players
Mississippi State Bulldogs baseball players
Lansing Lugnuts players
Dunedin Blue Jays players
New Hampshire Fisher Cats players
Salt River Rafters players
Buffalo Bisons (minor league) players
Tulsa Drillers players
Oklahoma City Dodgers players
Chicago Dogs players |
15338153 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weakly%20compact | Weakly compact | Weakly compact can refer to:
Weakly compact cardinal, an infinite cardinal number on which every binary relation has an equally large homogeneous subset
Weakly compact set, a compact set in a space with the weak topology
Weakly compact set, a set that has some but not all of the properties of compact sets, for example:
Sequentially compact space, a set in which every infinite sequence has a convergent subsequence
Limit point compact, a set in which every infinite subset of X has a limit point |
61351442 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%B3ra%20Leimeter | Dóra Leimeter | Dóra Leimeter (born 8 May 1996) is a Hungarian water polo player. At the 2020 Summer Olympics she competed for the Hungary women's national water polo team in the women's tournament.
References
External links
1996 births
Living people
Water polo players from Budapest
Hungarian female water polo players
Olympic water polo players of Hungary
Water polo players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Universiade medalists in water polo
Universiade silver medalists for Hungary
Medalists at the 2017 Summer Universiade
Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for Hungary in water polo |
10301960 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IE%202600%20Class | IE 2600 Class | The 2600 Class is a type of Diesel Multiple Unit operated on the Irish railway network by Iarnród Éireann, used mainly for short-haul Commuter services. They sometimes operate Cork to Dublin services in case an InterCity unit is not available. At present the entire class is based in Cork, and is used on local services to Mallow, Midleton, Cobh and on token services to Tralee. A hybrid unit was based in Limerick until it was withdrawn in 2012 and is now stored in Cork.
Description
The 2600 Class were the first modern set of diesel railcars purchased by Iarnród Éireann, who for several years had only run multiple units on the electrified DART service. A total of seventeen individual railcars were constructed by the Tokyu Car Corporation in Japan and delivered between 1993 and 1994 for use on the commuter service between Dublin and Kildare. The stock were the first rolling stock to be delivered in Arrow livery, initially used to refer solely to the Dublin-Kildare commuter service upon which they were deployed, although they were rebranded in 2003 to the new Commuter livery. They were the very last Iarnród Éireann rolling stock to be shipped with the firm's original IR logo, though this was replaced with the IÉ version shortly after the trains entered service. The simplistic nature of its on board services and the fact the windows can be opened and closed has led to it developing the nickname the cattle car.
Deployment
Class 2600 were initially deployed on the brand new Dublin-Kildare Arrow service (now rebranded South Western Commuter). Although purchased for the new service, which began in 1994, they were also to be seen up until the early 2000s supplementing the locomotive hauled "Craven" coaching stock on Western Suburban (now Western Commuter) services, and occasionally on other lines also. Since January 2010, all 2600 class railcars have been moved to Kent Station, Cork, where they work Cork-Cobh, Cork-Midleton and Cork-Mallow services. Eight trainsets are formed with two railcars each, one with odd number, having a toilet and one with even number. Due to the odd total number of vehicles, a Hybrid set 2609/2716 had been formed. This has been withdrawn and is now stored in Cork Shed. All 2600 Class sets carry the new Iarnród Éireann-Irish Rail logo and silver InterCity livery since August 2013. 2613/2610 was the last 2600 Class DMU to carry the Commuter livery. Sometimes when these units go to Limerick for servicing, a 2800 Class unit is sent as a replacement. When this happens, the two types of train can operate attached, although this is a rare occurrence.
Fleet details
External links
Irish Rail Fleet Information page
Iarnród Éireann multiple units |
61950628 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borodino%2C%20Vyaznikovsky%20District%2C%20Vladimir%20Oblast | Borodino, Vyaznikovsky District, Vladimir Oblast | Borodino () is a rural locality (a village) in Paustovskoye Rural Settlement, Vyaznikovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 14 as of 2010.
Geography
Borodino is located 22 km south of Vyazniki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Uspensky Pogost is the nearest rural locality.
References
Rural localities in Vyaznikovsky District |
6269936 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muthu%20Thandavar | Muthu Thandavar | Muthu Thandavar (1525 – 1600 CE) (Tamil:முத்துத்தாண்டவர்)was composer of Carnatic music. He was an early architect of the present day Carnatic kriti (song) format, which consists of the pallavi (refrain), anupallavi and charanam. He lived in the town of Sirkazhi in Tamil Nadu. His contributions to Carnatic music have been largely forgotten and not many of his kritis are in vogue today. Muthu Thandavar, along with Arunachala Kavi (1712–1779) and Marimutthu Pillai (1717–1787) are known as the Tamil Trinity of Carnatic music.
Muthu Thandavar also composed several padams, short songs mainly sung accompanying Bharatanatyam performances. Some of these padams are still popular such as Teruvil Varano in raga Khamas and Ittanai tulambaramo in raga Dhanyasi.
Compositions
Very few of Muththu Thandavar's compositions have survived the test of time. Sixty of them have been collected. Twenty five padams are also available. Some of his compositions that are sung in music concerts are: Arumarundonru tani marundidu (Raga Mohanam or Kambhoji), Pesade Nenjame (Raga Todi), Kaanaammal Vinile (Raga Dhanyasi or kAmbhoji), Teruvil Varano (Raga Khamas), Unai Nambinen Ayya (Raga Keeravani), Isane Koti Surya Prakasane (Raga Nalinakanti), Darisittalavil (Raga Latangi), Sevikka Vendumayya (Raga Andolika), Innum Oru Taram (Raga Simhendramadhyamam), Ambara Cidambaram, Innum Oru Stalam (Raga Suratti), and ADikonDAR (Raga Mayamalavagowla).
References
M. V. Ramana, Pre-trinity composers of Tamil Nadu - Carnatica.net
Lena Tamilvanan (Ed), (in Tamil) Thamizh Mummanikalin kiirththanaikal, Manimekalai Publications, Chennai 600 017, 1987 (லேனா தமிழ்வானன் (பதிபாசிரியர்), தமிழ் மும்மணிகளின் கீர்த்தனைகள், மணிமேகலைப் பிரசுரம், சென்னை 600 017, முதற்பதிப்பு 1987).
Carnatic composers
1525 births
1600 deaths
People from Mayiladuthurai district
16th-century Indian composers |
40955444 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi%20Pasqualigo | Luigi Pasqualigo | Luigi Pasqualigo (1536–1576) was a Venetian soldier and man of letters who wrote the play Il Fedele that was adapted by the English playwright Anthony Munday under the title, Fidele and Fortunio (1584). According to his brother, he was "more a follower of Mars than of Apollo". Pasqualigo apparently took part in the Battle of Lepanto of 1571. He is named as commander of the Spanish galleon Idra (Hydra) of Naples which was stationed on the left wing of the battle.
Publications
Dalle Lettere Amorose, Libri Quattro, Vinegia, 1573, 1581 and 1607.
Il Fedele, Venezia, Bolognino Zaltieri, 1576.
Il Fedele, Comedia…Di Novo Ristampata, e ricorretta, Venetia, appresso Francesco Zinetti, 1579.
Il Fedele, a cura di Francesca Romana de’Angelis, Roma, E & A editori associati, 1989.
Gl'Intricati, (pastoral romance), 1581.
Rime Volgari, Venetia, appresso Gio.Battista Ciotti, 1605.
Influences
Plays influenced by Pasqualigo's play, Il Fedele, include:
Pierre de Larivey, Le Fidelle, a French version of Luigi Pasqualigo's Il Fedele.
Anthony Munday, Fidele and Fortunio.
Abraham Fraunce, Victoria: A Latin Comedy
References
Italian dramatists and playwrights
Republic of Venice military personnel |
33900581 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel%20Industries%20Kerala%20Limited | Steel Industries Kerala Limited | Steel Industries Kerala Limited (Steel Industries Limited Kerala or SILK) is a state-owned steel manufacturing company in the state of Kerala, India. The company manufactures steel castings, does structural fabrications, building of small vessels and barges, breaking of ships and vessels. Steel and Industrial Forgings Ltd is a subsidiary of the company.
References
State agencies of Kerala
Engineering companies of India
Companies based in Thrissur
1974 establishments in Kerala
Indian companies established in 1974
Government agencies established in 1974 |
52641177 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinidad%20Airport | Trinidad Airport | Trinidad Airport is an airport serving Trinidad, a town and municipality in the oil and gas-producing Casanare Department of Colombia. The runway is north of the town.
See also
Transport in Colombia
List of airports in Colombia
References
External links
OpenStreetMap - Trinidad
OurAirports - Trinidad
SkyVector - Trinidad
Trinidad Airport
Airports in Colombia |
55793038 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hush%20...%20Not%20A%20Word%20To%20Mary | Hush ... Not A Word To Mary | Hush ... Not A Word To Mary was the second UK hit for New Zealand singer John Rowles. It was the follow up release to his major hit If I Only Had Time.
Background
The song was written by Mitch Murray and Peter Callander. Mike Leander was the producer and arranger. The B side "The Night We Called It A Day" was written by John Rowles and Steve Kipner.
It was published by Intune, which was the new publishing company for Murray and Callender. By July 6, the single shot up 18 places from #36 to #18. By July 13, 1968, the single had moved from its previous position of #18 to #12.
This single also marked the last of Rowles's s chart success in the UK.
References
John Rowles songs
1968 singles
1968 songs
MCA Records singles
Songs written by Mitch Murray
Songs written by Peter Callander
Song recordings produced by Mike Leander |
53478575 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piniphantes | Piniphantes | Piniphantes is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Michael I. Saaristo & A. V. Tanasevitch in 1996.
Species
it contains nine species:
Piniphantes agnellus (Maurer & Thaler, 1988) – France, Italy
Piniphantes cinereus (Tanasevitch, 1986) – Kyrgyzstan
Piniphantes cirratus (Thaler, 1986) – France (Corsica)
Piniphantes himalayensis (Tanasevitch, 1987) – Nepal, Pakistan
Piniphantes macer (Tanasevitch, 1986) – Kyrgyzstan
Piniphantes pinicola (Simon, 1884) (type) – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Turkmenistan
Piniphantes plumatus (Tanasevitch, 1986) – Kyrgyzstan
Piniphantes uzbekistanicus (Tanasevitch, 1983) – Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan
Piniphantes zonsteini (Tanasevitch, 1989) – Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan
See also
List of Linyphiidae species (I–P)
References
Araneomorphae genera
Linyphiidae
Spiders of Asia |
42815462 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Robinson%20%28historian%29 | John Robinson (historian) | John Robinson D.D. (1774–1840) was an English cleric and scholar, known as a historian.
Life
Born of poor parentage at Temple Sowerby, Westmorland on 4 January 1774, he was educated at Penrith grammar school and Christ's College, Cambridge, where he was admitted a sizar 1 January 1807. As a ten-year man he was a Cambridge graduate. His D.D. is presumed a Lambeth degree by Venn.
Robinson was master of Ravenstonedale grammar school, Westmorland, from 1795 to 1818, perpetual curate of Ravenstonedale from 25 June 1813 to 1833, and rector from 31 July 1818 of Clifton, and from 12 August 1833 of Cliburn.
Works
Robinson's works were:
An Easy Grammar of History, Ancient and Modern, 1806; new edition, enlarged by John Tillotson, with the title A Grammar of History, Ancient and Modern, 1855.
Modern History, for the use of Schools, 1807.
Archæologia Græca, 1807; 2nd edit. 1827.
A Theological, Biblical, Ecclesiastical Dictionary, 1815; 3rd edit. 1835.
Ancient History: exhibiting a Summary View of the Rise, Progress, Revolutions, Decline, and Fall of the States and Nations of Antiquity, 1831 (expanded from the Easy Grammar).
Universal Modern History: exhibiting the Rise, Progress, and Revolutions of various Nations from the Age of Mahomet to the Present Time, 1839 (expanded from the ‘Modern History for the use of Schools’).
Robinson also compiled a Guide to the Lakes in Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire, illustrated with Twenty Views of Local Scenery and a Travelling Map of the Adjacent Country, 1819; and contributed the letterpress to an unfinished series of Views of the Lakes in the North of England, from Original Paintings by the most Eminent Artists, 1833. His Ancient History formed the basis of Francis Young's Ancient History: a Synopsis of the Rise, Progress, Decline, and Fall of the States and Nations of Antiquity, London, 1873, 4 vols.
Notes
Attribution
1774 births
1840 deaths
19th-century English Anglican priests
Schoolteachers from Cumbria
English historians
English male non-fiction writers
People from Westmorland |
41331003 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghdeh%20Kandi | Baghdeh Kandi | Boghdeh Kandi (, also Romanized as Boghdeh Kandī; also known as Boghdā Kandī and Būghdā Kandī) is a village in Torjan Rural District, in the Central District of Saqqez County, Kurdistan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 456, in 88 families. The village is populated by Kurds.
References
Towns and villages in Saqqez County
Kurdish settlements in Kurdistan Province |
1927851 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelstadt | Michelstadt | Michelstadt () in the Odenwald is a town in the Odenwaldkreis (district) in southern Hesse, Germany between Darmstadt and Heidelberg. It has a population of around 16,000.
Geography
Location
Michelstadt is the biggest town in the Odenwaldkreis and borders on the district seat of Erbach.
Neighbouring municipalities
Michelstadt borders in the north on the municipality of Brombachtal, the town of Bad König and the municipality of Lützelbach, in the east on the town of Klingenberg, the market municipalities of Laudenbach and Kleinheubach, the town of Miltenberg, the market municipality of Weilbach, the town of Amorbach and the market municipality of Kirchzell (all seven in Miltenberg district in Bavaria), in the south on the town of Erbach, and in the west on the municipalities of Mossautal and Reichelsheim.
Constituent communities
Michelstadt's Stadtteile, besides the main town, also called Michelstadt, are Rehbach, Steinbach, Steinbuch, Stockheim, Vielbrunn, Weiten-Gesäß and Würzberg.
History
The first documentary mention of Michelstadt is from 741, noted by Carloman, who was Charlemagne’s uncle and Mayor of the Palace.<ref>Dictionary of Literary Biography, volume 148, German Writers and Works of the Early Middle Ages: 800-1170, edited by James Hardin and Will Hasty, 1994, pp. 27-31.</ref>
Michelstadt is one of the oldest settlements in the inner Odenwald. Its castle grew out of a Frankish baronial estate. This was built into a refuge for the local inhabitants. As a royal estate, Prince Carloman donated it in 741 to Saint Boniface’s pupil Burchard, the first Bishop of Würzburg. This donation was apparently meant for Bishop Burchard personally, for the Michelnstat area passed back to the Frankish Crown upon Burchard’s death in 791.
In 815, the Michlinstat area was donated once again. In recognition of his great merit as confidant at Charlemagne’s court, Einhard acquired the main town and all land within two leagues (roughly 15 km) from Charlemagne’s son, Louis the Pious, as a freehold. Einhard also built the Einhardsbasilika. In 819, he bequeathed his Odenwald holdings to Lorsch Abbey and in so doing precisely defined the boundaries of the Mark Michelstadt. Upon Einhard’s death on 14 March 840, the monastery came into its inheritance.
In the 17th century, the first houses outside the town wall were built. In 1773, a new town gate was built, called the Neutor' (“New Gate”). In the 19th century, the gate towers were all torn down one after the other.
In 1806, Michelstadt, as within the County of Erbach, passed to the Grand Duchy of Hesse.
The building of the railway line and its completion through to Darmstadt in 1870 and then Eberbach in 1881 brought Michelstadt a sharp economic upswing. Out of what was once a small farming community grew a sizeable town with important industrial operations on the foundation of the centuries-old ironworking. A new economic era began. From the clothweavers’ and dyers’ guild grew a cloth factory; from foundries grew machine factories. Ivory carving was a starting point for businesses in the souvenir industry and plastics processing.
In 1962, the town hosted the second Hessentag state festival.
In 2007, a decision to merge the town with the neighbouring town of Erbach was thwarted by a civic vote.
Governance
The municipal elections held 2006 and 2016 yielded the following results:
Mayor
List of elected mayors of Michelstadt:
1997–2009: Reinhold Ruhr
2009–2021: Stephan Kelbert
2021–incumbent: Tobias Robischon
Town partnerships
Rumilly, Haute-Savoie, France
Hulst, Zeelandic Flanders, Netherlands
Coat of arms
The town's arms might be described as per fess azure two mullets.
Michelstadt was granted these arms in 1541 along with its new seal by Count Georg of Erbach. The diapering in the lower half of the escutcheon is unhistoric, and only appeared in the 17th century. Indeed, the escutcheon on the Town Hall, pictured in this article, does not show it. The mullets (six-pointed star shapes) come from the Counts' arms, but why the parting per fess (horizontal division across the middle) was chosen is a mystery. Except for diapering, the arms have not changed since the 16th century.
Economy
Notable companies
Mühlhäuser, a manufacturer of railbound and trackless tunnel construction equipment.
Arts and culture
Theatre
Kleinkunstbühne Patat (cabaret)
Michelstädter Theatersommer, yearly open-air plays in the historic Kellereihof
Theaterkarren e.V. Odenwald, since 1998 regular events with changing groups and producers
Museums
Odenwald- und Spielzeug-Museum (Odenwald and toys)
Museumsmühle Michelstadt – historic mill from 1420
Landesrabbiner Dr. l. E. Lichtigfeld-Museum (State Rabbi Lichtigfeld)
Privates Elfenbeinmuseum Ulrich Seidenberg (private ivory museum)
Motorrad-Museum (motorcycles)
Buildings
Michelstadt's Old Town features many timber-frame houses. Particularly worthy of mention are the following buildings, some within the old town, others in the surrounding countryside: The historic Town Hall, the Diebsturm ("Thief's Tower") at the town wall, the Kellereihof (a Frankish, early mediaeval castle complex refurbished in an early Renaissance style) in the town wall ring, the late Gothic town church (late 13th century), the Einhards-Basilika, the palace of the Counts at Erbach-Fürstenau (Schloss Fürstenau, within which are parts of an old moated castle in Michelstadt-Steinbach), Jagdschloss Eulbach with an English landscape garden and a Roman bath and castra, formerly part of the Neckar-Odenwald Limes.
Historic Town Hall
Michelstadt's timber-frame town hall, whose image was used on a Deutsche Post stamp, was built in 1484 in the late Gothic style and later remodelled on the inside many times; from 1743 to 1903 it was covered in shakes. The town hall's main floor served from the beginning as a market hall, and was built using jettying. The back (east) wall was originally part of the graveyard wall, upon which the ground floor's upper bressumer was laid. To this day it is unknown who the master builder was, although it is assumed that the driving force behind the project could have been Schenk Adolar von Erbach and Bishop Johann von Dalberg (his adviser).
Late Gothic town church
The town church, completed in 1490, was built to replace a Carolingian stone church by Einhard, itself built on the site of a former wooden church. The nave's columns and the two aisles' walls were built in 1475. The quire dates from 1461; the antechoir's north wall is even older – Carolingian. Until the 1970s, the church housed one of the most valuable libraries in Germany in its belltower containing more than a thousand volumes belonging to Michelstadt-born Nicolaus Matz, who was capitular in Speyer, and who bequeathed this collection to his hometown and its citizens in the late 14th century. Since the 1970s the library has been housed in a storehouse specially converted for it at the Michelstadt coaching inn that belonged to the Thurn und Taxis noble family, who played a key rôle in European postal services in the 16th century. The former church on this spot was built over a brook that comes up here, called the Kiliansfloß, an early Celtic-Germanic worship site and later a Roman Mithraic worship site. The thus channelled Kiliansfloß fed not only the baptismal font, but also all the town's fountains. The Kiliansfloß, however, does not actually rise here, but rather far outside the town. It then disappears into the ground not far from the graveyard, springing up again in the middle of town.
Einhard's Basilica in the outlying centre of Steinbach
The Einhards-Basilika was built by Einhard, Charlemagne's chronicler and confidant. The Carolingian church built between 824 and 827 is one of the very few Carolingian buildings that have survived largely intact. The Basilica's crypt once housed Saints Peter's and Marcellinus's relics, which had been stolen from Rome on Einhard's instructions by his notary Ratleik. His servants' nightmares and the remains' "sweating blood" there, however, made Einhard think that this arrangement did not feel right. He thus transferred himself, his wife, the relics and his seat to Ober-Mulinheim am Main, now known as Seligenstadt, which thereby became a pilgrimage site with a new, larger basilica.
The story that has been handed down says that the relics hidden from Rome were transported to Saint-Maurice-en-Valais, now in Switzerland, whence they were then brought to Michelstadt by a cheering pilgrimage procession.
The Basilica in Steinbach was converted, expanded, and rededicated many times and later served first as a hospital and then in the 17th century as a barn. Once it was rediscovered in 1873 as being Carolingian, the exploration and safeguarding of the parts of the basilica that were still intact began.
The Einhards-Basilika was until 1967 owned by the princely Counts of Erbach-Fürstenau. The grounds are now owned by the state of Hesse.
The palace of the Counts of Erbach-Fürstenau in the outlying centre of Steinbach
The palace complex is a series of building styles which includes remains of the old Electorate of Mainz border fortifications and moated castle (about 1300) on the north side to the Gothic works by the stonecutters who came from Strasbourg to Steinbach, to the gigantic Renaissance-style gateway arch (1588) between the moated castle's two western corner towers which replaced the castle wall and opened the gloomy, dank courtyard back up to the former castle garden, to the Renaissance palace mill, a former mint (today a run-of-the-river hydroelectric station), to the Baroque Kavaliershaus (a palace outbuilding for staff and guests) on the Mümling, to the Neoclassical residential wing, the Neues Palais (1810/11) and the late Baroque orangery in the palace park, which was built in the English style. The orangery's upper floor housed the small palace theatre.
Schloss Fürstenau is still a dwelling, with the head of the house of the princely Counts of Erbach-Fürstenau and his family still living there. The former Electorate of Mainz defence facility lay on the property of the Schenk of Erbach (a forefather of the noble family, which at that time had not yet branched) and passed into his ownership in 1355. Public access to the ground and is possible by day. At the outer bailey with its gateway arch from 1765 some visual artists have taken up residence (in among other places the former stables from after 1765).
Roman bath and castra
Right near Würzberg, in the middle of a clearing are found the remains of the Roman Castrum of Würzberg, which was built about AD 100 as part of the Neckar-Odenwald-Limes, and was used for about 60 years before the border was shifted farther east. The castrum can only be made out by an earthen wall. The Roman bathhouse, on the other hand, which stands right next to the castrum, has been partially restored; the floors have been replaced and the wall has been built back up to a height of about a metre. Despite the bath's small size, which was only meant for the fort's 120-man garrison, the design of a Roman bathhouse is easily recognizable.
Not far from the outlying centre of Vielbrunn, in the area around the former hunting palace of the Princes of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg, traces of the Castrum of Hainhaus can still be found. Furthermore, on Michelstadt's eastern outskirts can be found the Castrum of Eulbach near the Eulbacher Park, a landscaped English park from the early 19th century with its hunting palace and an adjoining wildlife park.
Other structures
Würzberg Transmission Mast
ESOC-Bodenstation Michelstadt (disused satellite ground receiving station)
Regular events
Michelstädter Bienenmarkt ("bee market") – Held each year at Whitsun, it was started by former mayor Hasenzahl in 1954.
Musiknacht – Each year, various concert productions take place in the Old Town with many different kinds of music.
Church Consecration Festival with Weinbrunnenfest – From the Old Town's many fountains, wine is given out by the many wine cellars and businesses at the Weinbrunnenfest ("Wine Fountain Festival"), which is actually Michelstadt's traditional folk festival, at which all the town's countless fountains are decorated.
Michelstadt Christmas Market – this is still quite a new creation of the television-sponsored Stadtmarketing ("town marketing") of the late 1960s. The opening always takes place on the Friday before the onset of Advent.
Michelstädter Theatersommer – since 2003 a yearly open-air theatrical festival, initiated by the Michelstadt "theatremakers" Alexander Kaffenberger and Dirk Daniel Zucht.
Infrastructure
Transport
In Michelstadt the two Bundesstraßen 45 and 47 intersect, both are old trade roads from Frankfurt am Main to Augsburg and from Worms to Würzburg respectively.
The town is served by a railway station on the Odenwaldbahn (RMV Line 65; Eberbach – Erbach – Michelstadt – Darmstadt – Frankfurt / Hanau). Regionalbahn, Stadtexpress and Regionalexpress trains of the VIAS GmbH stop here.
There is also the special landing facility Flugplatz Michelstadt (airfield), which lies roughly 2 km from the town and is run by a club.
Education
Stadtschule Michelstadt (primary school)
Schule am Hollerbusch (primary school)
Einhardschule (primary school in the outlying centre of Steinbach)
Grundschule Vielbrunn (primary school)
Theodor Litt Schule (Realschule and Hauptschule)
Gymnasium Michelstadt
Odenwaldkreis Vocational Schools (including, among others, Berufsschule, Berufsfachschule and Berufliches Gymnasium, nowadays known as BSO – Europaschule.
Notable people
Rolf Beck (born 1945), music conductor
Dietrich Schenk von Erbach (d. 1459), Archbishop of Mainz (from 1434 to 1459)
Hartmut Barth-Engelbart (pen names include Carl Hanau and HaBE, (b. 1947), author, songwriter and graphic artist
Rebecca Horn (b. 1944), artist, film director
Fritz Kredel (b. 8 February 1900 in Michelstadt, d. 11 June 1973 in New York), artist and graphic designer
Gabriele von Lutzau (b. 1954), sculptor, lives and works in Michelstadt
Alfred Maul (1870 - 1942), engineer, considered the father of aerial reconnaissance
Dirk Mommertz (born 1974), pianist and chamber musician
Otto Rahn (1904 - 1939), writer, medievalist, Ariosophist, SS officer
Stefan Seeger (b. 1962), chemist, university professor and entrepreneur
Jessica Schwarz (b. 1977), moderator and actress
Carl Weyprecht (1838 - 1881), explorer
Seckel Löb Wormser (b. 1768 in Michelstadt, d. 1847 in Michelstadt), Kabbalist
Further reading
Wolfgang Hartmann: Zu den frühen urkundlichen Erwähnungen von Michelstadt im Odenwald. In: Der Odenwald 40 (1993), pp. 47–57. Online publication
Wolfgang Hartmann: Der Einhardweg von Michelstadt nach Seligenstadt. In: Odenwälder Jahrbuch für Kultur und Geschichte 1997, pp. 93–102. Online publication
Karl E. Grözinger, Der Ba'al Schem von Michelstadt. Ein deutsch-jüdisches Heiligenleben zwischen Legende und Wirklichkeit. Mit einem Neuabdruck der Legenden aus der Hand von Judaeus und Arthur Kahn, Frankfurt / New York (Campus) 2010.
References
External links
Odenwaldkreis
Odenwald
Grand Duchy of Hesse |
25946704 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir%20John%20Starkey%2C%201st%20Baronet | Sir John Starkey, 1st Baronet | Sir John Ralph Starkey, 1st Baronet (1 May 1859 – 13 November 1940) was a British Conservative Party politician.
Life
He was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Newark at the 1906 general election, and held the seat until he retired from the House of Commons at the 1922 general election.
In 1910, his gardener planted the first commercial orchard of Bramley apples at Starkey's Norwood Park estate. It was still in cultivation by the family in 2017.
Starkey was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire in 1906, and was made a baronet in July 1935, of Norwood Park in the parish of Southwell and County of Nottingham.
He died in 1940.
References
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1859 births
1940 deaths
Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
Deputy Lieutenants of Nottinghamshire
UK MPs 1906–1910
UK MPs 1910
UK MPs 1910–1918
UK MPs 1918–1922 |
10933184 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deliverable | Deliverable | A deliverable is a tangible or intangible good or service produced as a result of a project that is intended to be delivered to a customer (either internal or external). A deliverable could be a report, a document, a software product, a server upgrade or any other building block of an overall project. A deliverable may be composed of multiple smaller deliverables. It may be either an outcome to be achieved (as in "The corporation says that becoming profitable this year is a deliverable") or an output to be provided (as in "The deliverable for the completed project consists of a special-purpose electronic device and its controlling software").</p>
Some deliverables are dependent on other deliverables being completed first; this is common in projects with multiple successive milestones. In this way many time-savings are possible, shortening greatly the whole project final supply term. This designing activity can be represented in the drawings with a "cloud" around a not yet designed part which means: "this part (size, or other characteristics) will be studied later". The part settled can be "delivered" to the interested parties.
A deliverable differs from a project milestone in that a milestone is a measurement of progress toward an output, whereas the deliverable is the output delivered to a customer or sponsor. For a typical project, a milestone might be the completion of a product design, while the deliverable might be the technical diagram or detailed design report of the product.
In technical projects, deliverables can be further classified as hardware, software, or design documents. In contracted efforts, deliverable may refer to an item specifically required by contract documents, such as an item on a contract data requirements list or mentioned in the statement of work.
References
Schedule (project management) |
16648917 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999%20Denmark%20Open | 1999 Denmark Open | The 1999 Denmark Open in badminton was held in Vejle, from October 13 to October 17, 1999. It was a four-star tournament and the prize money was US$120,000.
Venue
Vejle Center, Denmark
Final results
References
Denmark Open
Denmark |
57227508 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Boy%20Band%20Con%3A%20The%20Lou%20Pearlman%20Story | The Boy Band Con: The Lou Pearlman Story | The Boy Band Con: The Lou Pearlman Story is an American documentary film that premiered on March 13, 2019 at SXSW. Produced by Lance Bass, the film explores the career and legacy of record producer and convicted criminal Lou Pearlman.
Premise
The Boy Band Con: The Lou Pearlman Story features "the story of Lou Pearlman, his remarkable successes and offenses, and his tragic end while serving a 25-year prison sentence for multiple felony convictions. The Lou Pearlman Project reveals the dark side of stardom and the music industry as members of multi-platinum-selling bands like *NSYNC, Backstreet Boys, O-Town, Innosense, Take 5 (band) and C-Note tell all about working with Pearlman."
Persons featured
The documentary includes interviews with:
AJ McLean (Backstreet Boys)
Ashley Parker Angel (O-Town)
Aaron Carter
JC Chasez (*NSYNC)
Chris Kirkpatrick (*NSYNC)
Lance Bass (*NSYNC)
Nikki DeLoach (Innosense)
David Perez (C-Note)
Tim "TJ" Christofore (Take 5)
Diane Bass (Mother of Lance Bass)
Lynn Bomar Harless (Mother of Justin Timberlake (*NSYNC))
Production
On April 24, 2018, it was announced that YouTube Red was in production on The Lou Pearlman Project, a documentary executive produced by Lance Bass, Craig Piligian, Nicholas Caprio, and Sam Korkis. The documentary was set to feature interviews with AJ McLean, Ashley Parker Angel, Aaron Carter, JC Chasez, Chris Kirkpatrick, Lance Bass, Diane Bass, and Lynn Bomar Harless. Production companies involved with the film were slated to consist of Pilgrim Media Group.
Release
The film held its world premiere at the Paramount Theatre in Austin, Texas on March 13, 2019 during the South by Southwest film festival as part of the "24 Beats Per Second" series of screenings.
References
2019 films
Documentary films about singers
American documentary films
American films
Documentary films about the music industry
Documentary films about music and musicians
Fox Searchlight Pictures films |
46641659 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midas%20%28gamer%29 | Midas (gamer) | Jeon Sang-wook (; born February 21, 1987) is a professional StarCraft player from South Korea who plays Terran under the alias Midas or midas[gm].
Career
In 2004, he won silver in StarCraft: Brood War at the World Cyber Games 2004, which was held in San Francisco, California, the first time that the finals were held outside of Korea since the competition's beginning in 2000. The professional gaming organization Team Liquid said that he was considered one of the strongest Terrans in history, who was accepted as the best in the world during his prime. His competition, in particular, against another South Korean player, Ma Jae-yoon alias sAviOr, also in his prime, in 2006, was notable. In January 2014, he returned to gaming, after a break for serving in the Republic of Korea Armed Forces, and was welcomed by excited fans in a finals in Seoul, with Lim "PianO" Jin-mook, who was also back from the military.
Major achievements
2004 World Cyber Games 2004 - runner-up
2006 Pringles MSL Season 1 - 3rd
2006 Shinhan Bank Star League Season 2 - 3rd
References
External links
1987 births
Living people
South Korean esports players
StarCraft players |
51773690 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morningtown%20Ride%20to%20Christmas | Morningtown Ride to Christmas | Morningtown Ride to Christmas is the twelfth studio and first Christmas album by Australian band, The Seekers. The album was recorded in Melbourne and released in November 2001 and was certified platinum in Australia.
The Seekers made two in-store appearances to promote the album in December at Mall Music, Sydney and Toombull Music, Brisbane. In 2019 the album was reissued under the title We Wish You a Merry Christmas, with a newly recorded version of the song "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" as track one, followed by the tracks from the original album.
Track listing
"Morningtown Ride (To Christmas)" – 2:37
"Mary Had a Baby" – 3:46
"Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" – 3:22
"Silent Night" – 4:01
"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" – 3:55
"When a Child is Born" – 2:58
"Jingle Bells – 2:43
"Once in Royal David's City" – 3:15
"The Little Drummer Boy" – 3:24
"There Are No Lights on Our Christmas Tree" – 4:21
"The First Noël" – 3:58
"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" – 2:51
"Away in a Manger" – 3:53
"O Come All Ye Faithful" – 3:18
"Children Go Where I Send Thee" – 5:03
Charts
Certifications
References
The Seekers albums
2001 Christmas albums
Christmas albums by Australian artists
Folk Christmas albums
Sony Music Australia albums |
12234937 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaas%20Cortlever | Nicolaas Cortlever | Nicolaas (Nico) Cortlever (14 June 1915, in Amsterdam – 5 April 1995) was a Dutch chess master.
He tied for 7-8th at Rotterdam 1936 (10th NED-ch, Salo Landau won); took 2nd at Amsterdam 1938 (11th NED-ch, Max Euwe won); won at the 2nd Hoogovens Beverwijk 1939 (Quadrangular); tied for 4-6th at Amsterdam I and 3rd-4th at Amsterdam II in 1939.
During World War II, he tied for 2nd-3rd at Beverwijk 1940 (Quadrangular, Euwe won); shared 1st with Landau and Lodewijk Prins at Leeuwarden 1940; took 2nd, behind Arthur Wijnans at Beverwijk 1941 (Quadrangular); tied for 14-15th at Munich 1941 (the 2nd Europaturnier, Gösta Stoltz won).
After the war, he took 4th at Beverwijk 1946 (Alberic O'Kelly de Galway won); tied for 2nd-3rd at Zaandam 1946 (László Szabó won); took 2nd at Beverwijk 1947 (Theo van Scheltinga won); tied for 8-9th at Beverwijk 1948 (Prins won); took 4th at Beverwijk 1950 (Jan Hein Donner won).
He took 4th at Amsterdam 1950 (15th NED-ch, Euwe won); tied for 7-9th at Enschede 1952 (16th NED-ch, Euwe won); tied for 9-10th at Beverwijk 1953 (Nicolas Rossolimo won); tied for 2nd-3rd at Amsterdam 1954 (17th NED-ch, Donner won); took 2nd, behind Donner, at Amsterdam 1958 (19th NED-ch).
Cortlever represented The Netherlands in Chess Olympiads:
In 1936, at eighth board in 3rd unofficial Chess Olympiad in Munich (+4 –5 =9);
In 1939, at second board in 8th Chess Olympiad in Buenos Aires (+3 –2 =11);
In 1950, at fourth board in 9th Chess Olympiad in Dubrovnik (+6 –0 =5);
In 1952, at fourth board in 10th Chess Olympiad in Helsinki (+6 –3 =4);
In 1954, at third board in 11th Chess Olympiad in Amsterdam (+1 –3 =4).
He won individual silver medal at Dubrovnik 1950.
Cortlever was awarded the International Master (IM) title in 1950.
References
1915 births
1995 deaths
Dutch chess players
Chess International Masters
Chess Olympiad competitors
Sportspeople from Amsterdam
20th-century chess players |
20777037 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin%20Power | Kevin Power | Kevin Power (born 19 August 1981) is an Irish writer and academic. He currently teaches in the School of English at Trinity College Dublin. He writes regularly for The Sunday Business Post. His novel Bad Day in Blackrock was published by The Lilliput Press, Dublin, in 2008 and filmed in 2012 as What Richard Did. In April 2009 Power received the 2008 Hennessy XO Emerging Fiction Award for his short story "The American Girl" and was shortlisted for RTÉ's Francis MacManus short story award in 2007 for his piece entitled "Wilderness Gothic". He is the winner of the 2009 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature.
Education
Power graduated from University College Dublin with a BA (2002), an MA (2003), and a PhD in American Literature in 2013.
Bibliography
Bad Day in Blackrock (2010)
White City (2021)
The Written World (forthcoming, May 2022)
References
Reviews
Review in The Irish Times
Review in The Sunday Business Post
Article in The Irish Times
External links
Darran McCann | Staff Profile | DCU
Kevin Power | BusinessPost.ie
Lilliput Press, the author's publisher
Trinity College Dublin Press Release
Simon and Schuster Author Profile
Irish male short story writers
21st-century Irish short story writers
21st-century Irish novelists
Alumni of University College Dublin
1981 births
Living people
Irish male novelists
21st-century Irish male writers |
68418902 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz%20Neuhaus | Fritz Neuhaus | Karl August Friedrich Neuhaus, known as Fritz (3 April 1852, Elberfeld - 5 September 1922, Düsseldorf) was a German genre and history painter; associated with the Düsseldorfer Malerschule.
Life and work
He grew up in modest circumstances. After serving an apprenticeship with a lithographer in Barmen, he enrolled at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 1873. There he studied with Eduard von Gebhardt and Wilhelm Sohn. During this time, he began sharing a studio with . His debut came in 1878, at an exhibition in Berlin. He graduated in 1880 and married Bertha Zilcher.
After 1884, he taught painting and figure drawing at the Kunstgewerbeschule Düsseldorf (School of Arts and Crafts), where he also maintained a studio. By the latter part of the 1880s, he had become successful enough to afford an apartment and studio in an upper-class part of the city. In 1892, he participated in a competition to provide decorative paintings for the new . His entry was given third place. It depicted a performance and banquet, honoring Emperor Wilhelm I, that was held in the event hall of the artists' association "Malkasten" (Paintbox) in 1877. Two years after the competition he was able to paint it, in the form of a mural, in one of the Town Hall's meeting rooms. It was destroyed during World War II.
In 1898, he was awarded the title of Professor. By 1912, he was able to move into his own, newly built home on . Around that same time his son, Carl (1881–1929), established his own sculpture studio.
References
Further reading
Hermann Alexander Müller: Biographisches Künstler-Lexikon. Verlag des Biographischen Instituts, Leipzig 1882, pg.390 (Online).
Friedrich Schaarschmidt: Zur Geschichte der Düsseldorfer Kunst, insbesondere im XIX. Jahrhundert. Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf 1902, pg.278 (Online)
"Neuhaus, Fritz", in: Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, Vol. 25: Moehring–Olivié, E. A. Seemann, Leipzig, 1931 pp. 408–409
External links
Kunst-Auktionshaus, G. Adolf Pohl (Ed.): Künstlerischer Nachlaß Professor Fritz Neuhaus † Düsseldorf, Auction catalog, Hamburg, 1922, pg.9 (Online).
1852 births
1922 deaths
19th-century German painters
19th-century male artists
German genre painters
German history painters
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf alumni
People from Elberfeld
20th-century German painters
20th-century male artists |
29694237 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganado%20High%20School%20%28Texas%29 | Ganado High School (Texas) | Ganado High School is a public high school located in Ganado, Texas (USA) and classified as a 2A school by the UIL. It is part of the Ganado Independent School District located in east central Jackson County. In 2015, the school was rated "Met Standard" by the Texas Education Agency.
Athletics
The Ganado Indians compete in these sports
Cross Country, Volleyball, Football, Basketball, Powerlifting, Golf, Track, Softball & Baseball
State Titles
Girls Golf
1979(1A), 1981(2A), 1982(2A)
Boys Track
1980(1A)
References
External links
Ganado ISD
Schools in Jackson County, Texas
Public high schools in Texas |
6735151 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesfin%20Hagos | Mesfin Hagos | Mesfin Hagos is an Eritrean who was one of the founding members of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF). In government, he was the Eritrean Minister of Defence during the 1990s. After repression by president Isaias Afwerki against Mesfin's colleagues, Mesfin sought political asylum in Germany in 2013, where he lived .
Childhood and education
Mesfin was born in Azien, Eritrea on 21 November 1947.
Rebel fighter
Mesfin was a founding member of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF) in 1977. Before founding that organization he had joined the Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF) in 1966 as an ordinary member. He eventually became Deputy Commander of ELF Zone 5.
Mesfin Hagos left the ELF in 1970 with Isaias Afwerki, Major General Asmerom Gerezgiher, Solomon Weldemariam and Tewelde Eyob. Hagos was a part of the founding leadership of the EPLF. Mesfin Hagos briefly served as the Chief of Staff in the EPLF. He was one of the commanders of the Battle of Af'abet that destroyed the backbone of the Ethiopian army.
Government
Mesfin served as the defence minister of Eritrea in the 1990s.
Exile
Mesfin later started opposing Afwerki's dictatorial rule and in 2013 sought asylum in Germany after his fellow colleagues opposing the President were hunted down. , Mesfin lived in Germany.
References
1947 births
Eritrean military personnel
Living people
Government ministers of Eritrea
Eritrean People's Liberation Front members |
33935930 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex%20Lee%20%28disambiguation%29 | Alex Lee (disambiguation) | Alex Lee (born 1970) is an English musician.
Alex Lee may also refer to:
Alex Lee (Australian footballer) (1908–1996), Australian rules footballer
Alex Lee (politician) (born 1995), American politician
Alex Lee (Guamanian footballer) (born 1990), Guamanian soccer player
Alex Lee (television personality) (born 1992), English participant on Big Brother TV series
Alex Lee Inc.
See also
Alexander Lee (disambiguation) |
15115972 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20States%20men%27s%20national%20beach%20soccer%20team | United States men's national beach soccer team | The United States men's national beach soccer team represents the United States in international beach soccer competitions and is controlled by the USSF, the governing body for soccer in the United States.
History
Early years
The sport of beach soccer originated in Brazil, where locals played soccer on the beaches for recreation. In 1992, the United States created official rules and a national team for the South American sport, which led other countries to do the same. Then in 1993, the United States held the first ever professional beach soccer event, which included national teams from Brazil, Argentina, and Italy. A year later in 1994, the U.S. team competed in the first ever Beach Soccer World Championship tournament in Brazil. The U.S. team competed in World Championships again in 1995 and 1997.
FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup era
The sport of beach soccer, and the United States national beach soccer team, became a recognized part of FIFA – the main international governing body of soccer – in 2005, in which CONCACAF – the Confederation of North & Central America and Caribbean Association Football – became the officiating body for qualifying tournaments. The U.S. national beach soccer team went on to compete in FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup tournaments from 2005 through 2013 against some of the 98 total national teams from all around the world.
In 2005, the U.S. team made it to the World Cup in Brazil. In the group stages, they were unable to win either of their games, resulting in them not making it through to the play-offs.
In 2006, the men's national team won the CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship and qualified for the FIFA World Cup, which was held in Brazil. Due to them only winning one game in the group stages, they did not qualify for the play-offs.
In 2007, the team made it to the FIFA World Cup in Brazil again. They ended up losing in the group stages and were unable to make it through to the play-offs.
In 2008, 2009, and 2010, the U.S. team fell in the semifinals of the CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championships and did not qualify for the World Cup. The FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup changed to being held every other year, meaning the next opportunity for the U.S. to qualify would be in 2013.
In 2013, the men's national beach soccer team won the CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship and qualified for the World Cup which was held in Tahiti. They did not make it through the group stages and were out before the play-offs.
Anthony Chimienti is the U.S. all-time leading goal scorer in World Cup play with 9 goals, participating in 3 World Cups.
At the 2015 CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship, the U.S. lost in the semifinals and did not qualify for the World Cup. In 2017, they lost in the quarterfinals and once again did not qualify for the World Cup.
At the 2019 CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship, the U.S. lost in the finals, but their 2nd-place finish qualified them for the 2019 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup.
Results and fixtures
The following is a list of match results in the last 12 months, as well as any future matches that have been scheduled.
Legend
2021
Coaching staff
Coaching staff
Players
Current squad
The following 14 players were named to the roster for the 2021 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup.
Competitive record
FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup
CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship
References
External links
United States at FIFA
United States at USSF
United States at BSWW
United States at Beach Soccer Russia
North American national beach soccer teams
United States Soccer Federation
1992 establishments in the United States
Association football clubs established in 1992
Beach soccer in the United States
B |
56763894 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasay%20City%20South%20High%20School | Pasay City South High School | Pasay City South High School is a large public school in Pasay, Philippines, established in 1967. It is located at Piccio Garden, Villamor Air Base.
History
Pasay City South High School started as an Annex of Pasay City West High School formerly known as Pasay City High School located in FB Harrison, Pasay in 1967 with only two sections in the first year.
In 1968, five pre-fabricated Marcos type buildings were constructed between Andrews Avenue and Manlunas St. The PAF provided the buildings while the Pasay Government provided the salaries of teachers.
In 1969, PCSHS became independent from her mother school. Mrs. Roque was the first principal of the school. During the incumbency, two fabricated school building was added, the Vocational and the Annex buildings. The school population increased every year. The number of classrooms became inadequate when the building fronting Manlunas St. was burned on February 26, 1978, due to faulty electrical wirings. It was replaced to Bagong Lipunan Building constructed by DPWH in 1978. As years passed by, more buildings were constructed with more convenient facilities.
Due to the transformation of Villamor Air Base into a prime residential and commercial enclave, the school was affected by the development of Newport City. BCDA in partnership with MegaWorld Corporation replicated the structure of the school to its present location at Picio Garden, Villamor Air Base, Pasay.
PCSHS has achieved its goals of academic excellence through its dynamic and supportive administrators, teachers and parents.
References
External links
Official website
High schools in Metro Manila
Schools in Pasay |
30020166 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolaevka%2C%20Kazakhstan | Nikolaevka, Kazakhstan | Nikolaevka is a village in Almaty Region, in south-eastern Kazakhstan.
References
Populated places in Almaty Region |
61585010 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aragokome | Aragokome | Aragokome was a town of ancient Phrygia, inhabited in Roman times.
Its site is located near Yapılcan in Asiatic Turkey.
References
Populated places in Phrygia
Former populated places in Turkey
Roman towns and cities in Turkey
History of Kütahya Province |
31745431 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege%20of%20Pemaquid | Siege of Pemaquid | Siege of Pemaquid refers to events at Pemaquid, Maine:
Siege of Pemaquid (1689) (capture and destruction of the fort by Indians)
Siege of Pemaquid (1696) (capture and destruction of the new fort by a French-Indian force) |
60423011 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilber%20Caro | Gilber Caro | Gilber Caro (born 30 January 1974) is a Venezuelan politician, activist and thrice political prisoner.
Early life
Caro grew up in Catia, a poor area of Venezuelan capital Caracas, with many siblings. At a young age, one of his brothers died in an accident and another was sent to prison for a long time; his father then became an alcoholic. This left him to fend for himself, so he dropped out of school and turned to crime. He was frequently arrested for dealing drugs, and was eventually charged with murder and sentenced to 20 years in prison when he was young, ultimately serving 10 years in prison from 1994 to 2004, and was then released but on probation until July 2013; he says he did not commit the crime and that everyone in the neighborhood knew it, but they all also knew that if he told authorities who the real shooter was then he would have been killed for speaking. In prison he became a leader to the weaker men, formed a band called 'Carblack', and became a preacher. After finding his spirituality, he worked hard to gain respect and eventually was placed in charge of the prison cafeteria, protecting food to be shared between everyone.
After release, he studied law at Universidad Santa María, and has been a motivational speaker at other institutions, in prisons, and for the 2009 Venezuela national under-20 football team before qualifying games for the 2009 World Cup.
Political career
When he was in prison, Caro listened to the speeches of Hugo Chávez, who he resonated with because Chávez had also been imprisoned around the same time and because he didn't like politicians, thinking they were "thieves". However, when he left prison after Chávez took office, he "felt that [Chávez] was going the wrong way". In 2007 he began working for Popular Will, and in 2009 he officially joined the party. In 2012, he was an advisor for the prison measures as part of Henrique Capriles' presidential campaign. Caro was first elected as an alternate deputy in 2015. One of the first things he mentioned as wanting the Assembly to achieve was an Amnesty Law to release all political prisoners. He was elected as a deputy in 2016.
2017 incarceration
Despite having parliamentary immunity, Caro was arrested arbitrarily by the government on 11 January 2017, accused of possession of military weapons and US dollars, and treason. After his arrest, his family were not told anything and did not get to see him for 73 days. He was released on 3 June 2018, aged 43, having never had a trial.
In early March 2018, Caro was transported to another prison without the government informing anyone. Amnesty International then began investigating and asking for information, and a video of Caro in prison was quickly released to make certain his situation known.
Caro was released in the second round of political prisoners after Maduro won re-election in 2018, all of them directly transferred to hospitals. He was weak and unhealthy when he was released, having suffered from gastrointestinal and bone problems during his time incarcerated, and said that he had spent a year isolated in a cell, sometimes going a whole month without being allowed out of it. In addition, he was not allowed to see his lawyers or family, and went on hunger strike for eight days. He was also in the Fénix prison in Lara during a riot where 11 men died. He announced that he wanted dialogue and reconciliation of the opposition Assembly and the government, to help release more political prisoners. The terms of his release mean he is still considered on probation and has to report his presence every 30 days, as well as not speak about his case.
Four months after the releases, the military judge who had imprisoned Caro defected to Colombia after apologizing to him.
Activism
Caro has always fought for human rights, with his sister describing him as a "social activist", and particularly focused on political prisoners both before and after he was incarcerated himself. In 2015, he opened a training center for ex-prisoners, hoping to reform them, which he named after Leopoldo López. This built on his work from 2013, when he started several programs for social reform to help ex-prisoners and at-risk people, including the foundations Liberados En Marcha, Dale La Mano A Tu Par, Santa En Las Cárceles and Educando Por La Paz.
When Juan Requesens was detained and humiliated, Caro made an impassioned speech in the National Assembly on 14 August 2018, where he stripped to his underwear (like Requesens had been in a prison video) and said that a man's dignity is not measured by his state of dress, as part of national underwear protests in solidarity with his fellow politician.
2019 disappearance and detentions
During the 2019 presidential crisis, Caro said that he did not want help from the "gringos" in the United States or military intervention to help Venezuela, saying "I am going to free my country". He later told Te Lo Cuento that "speaking in the first person" was a mistake, and that he meant all Venezuelans.
On 26 April 2019, Caro was detained a second time. The National Assembly considers that the arrest goes against Caro's parliamentary immunity. OAS Secretary-General Luis Almagro demanded “his immediate liberation”. The UN Human rights office demanded Maduro administration to update on Caro's whereabouts. UN representative Ravina Shamdasani insisted that Caro was not brought before a tribunal in the 48 hours after his detention as required by Venezuelan law. Amnesty International requested the Bolivarian Intelligence Service to handle information on Caro's whereabouts. Guaidó, the National Assembly, OAS General Secretary Almagro and the UN Human Rights office condemned the new arrest as a violation of parliamentary immunity.
On 15 May, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) issued a protective measure on Gilber Caro and gave 7 working days to Maduro administration to report on Caro's well-being and process. By 24 May, Caro had still not been seen; his lawyer was informed that he was held at El Helicoide, but when people tried to reach him the guards at Helicoide said he was not being held there. One of Caro's sisters suggested that they were not allowed to see him because the guards "did something to him". On 30 May, magistrates announced that Caro would have a court hearing that day, to happen at Fort Paramacay in Naguanagua, but this did not happen; the court explained that it is not permitted to transport prisoners from Helicoide to Paramacay and so the hearing could not happen.
On the evening of Monday 17 June, Caro was released. He was received by delegates from the Grupo de Boston, though his condition is unknown. Voice of America report that his freedom comes only a few days before the UN Human Rights Commission's planned inspection on 19 June. Though his lawyers informed the press, the Grupo de Boston were the first to know of his release.
On 20 December, Caro was detained for a third time. Four other lawmakers were also indicted in December; Popular Will consider that Caro's detention is part of a series of actions by the Maduro administration to force a boycott of the reelection of Juan Guaidó as President of the National Assembly on 5 January 2020. On 21 January 2020, Caro's lawyer confirmed that the lawmaker was detained by Venezuelan special police forces (FAES). The lawyer was not allowed to disclose Caro's whereabouts. FAES operations usually focus on poor neighborhoods and the squad has been accused of carrying thousands of extrajudicial killings. This arrest would be the first time that FAES deals with a public figure.
Personal life
Caro has a daughter, and he also began acting as a paternal figure to his nephew after his sister's husband died. At least one of his sisters has left Venezuela, a departure he missed whilst in prison. His girlfriend is the activist Steyci Escalona. They first met over Twitter and started dating in 2011, though she had moved to Switzerland in 2007.
Notes
References
1974 births
People of the Crisis in Venezuela
Venezuelan democracy activists
Political history of Venezuela
Venezuelan prisoners and detainees
Prisoners and detainees of Venezuela
Politics of Venezuela
Popular Will politicians
Universidad Santa María (Venezuela) alumni
Living people
Enforced disappearances in Venezuela
Members of the National Assembly (Venezuela) |
63946302 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Io%20sono%20Mia | Io sono Mia | Io sono Mia ("I am Mia" in Italian, but also "I am Mine") is a 2019 Italian film directed by Riccardo Donna. The film narrates the life of Mia Martini, including her artistic career, her entourage, her sister Loredana, the managers she knew, and her tumultuous relationships with their parents.
Plot
The film begins in 1989 in Sanremo, with a flashback from the 1970s. Some episodes from her childhood (when her father hits her because she wants to sing and not to study), her artistic career, and family, are spoken during an interview granted to a journalist a few hours before singing at the Festival of 1989.
In the 1970s, Mia participated in the Festivalbar, winning the competition twice, in 1972 and 1973. Then it comes a dramatic period of slander launched in the late 1970s by a producer with whom she refused to work with and who accuses Mia of bringing bad luck. Mia then enters into a troubled love relationship with the Milanese photographer Andrew (inspired by Ivano Fossati, who did not want to participate in the film) with whom she falls in love with. She has a relationship with him for ten years. The film also evokes the character of the original Anthony who is inspired by Renato Zero, who also did not want to be mentioned in the movie, just like Fossati.
Cast
Serena Rossi as Mia Martini
Maurizio Lastrico as Andrew
Lucia Mascino as Sandra Neri
Dajana Roncione as Loredana Bertè
Antonio Gerardi as Alberigo Crocetta
Nina Torresi as Alba Calia
Daniele Mariani as Anthony
Francesca Turrin as Mia's manager
Fabrizio Coniglio as Roberto Galanti
Gioia Spaziani as Maria Salvina Dato
Duccio Camerini as Giuseppe Radames Bertè
Simone Gandolfo as chiefredactor
Corrado Invernizzi as Charles Aznavour
Edoardo Pesce as Franco Califano
Mauro Serio as medical doctor
Awards
Special Nastro d'Argento to Serena Rossi
References
External links
2019 films
2019 drama films
Italian films
Italian drama films
Italian-language films
Films set in 2019
Films set in Italy
Films set in Rome
Italian biographical films |
38779646 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munaydhir | Munaydhir | Munaydhir (also as or , ) is a village in the sub-governorate of Bariq in the province of Asir, Saudi Arabia. It is located at an elevation of and has a population of about 500 to 2,000.
Climate
Munaydhir has an arid tropical climate with an average annual temperature of . January typically sees daytime highs of and lows of , while July has average daytime highs of and lows of .
See also
List of cities and towns in Saudi Arabia
Regions of Saudi Arabia
References
Further reading
Umar Gharāmah al-ʻAmraw: al-Muʻjam al-jughrāfī lil-bilād al-ʻArabīyah al-Suʻūdīyah : bilād Bāriq, Jiddah 1399 A.H / 1978.
Maḥmoud ibn Muḥammad Al Shubaylī: Al-Shariq : fi tarikh wa jughrāfīat bilād Bāriq., Riyadh "2001 / 1422 A.H" .
Populated places in 'Asir Province
Populated coastal places in Saudi Arabia
Populated places in Bareq |
39043080 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown%20Cyclopaedia | Brown Cyclopaedia | Brown Cyclopaedia is the debut album of Pelt, released in 1995 through Radioactive Rat Records.
Track listing
Personnel
Pelt
Patrick Best – instruments
Mike Gangloff – vocals, instruments
Jack Rose – instruments
Production and additional personnel
James Connell – instruments on "Who Is The Third Who Walks Always Beside You?", "Speedy West Massaker" and "Hugest"
Mark Cornick – instruments
Ron Curry – instruments on "4th in Paradise" and "Total Denigration"
Paul Morabito – instruments on "Who Is The Third Who Walks Always Beside You?", "Speedy West Massaker" and "Hugest"
References
External links
1995 debut albums
Pelt (band) albums
VHF Records albums |
43477712 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maksim%20Semenov%20%28wrestler%29 | Maksim Semenov (wrestler) | Maksim Anatolyevich Semenov (; born April 7, 1979, in Tolyatti) is a retired amateur Russian Greco-Roman wrestler, who competed in the men's welterweight category. He obtained a fourth position in the 66-kg division at the 2002 World Wrestling Championships in Moscow, and also represented his nation Russia at the 2004 Summer Olympics, finishing ninth in the process. Throughout his sporting career, Semenov trained full-time for Torpedo Wrestling Club in Moscow, under his personal coach and mentor Rerik Sadikhanov.
Semenov qualified for the Russian squad in the men's 66 kg class at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens by filling up an entry by the International Federation of Association Wrestling and the Russian Olympic Committee through a reallocation process. He lost his opening match to Armenia's Vaghinak Galstyan by a 2–2 draw, but bounced back to defeat Sweden's Jimmy Samuelsson with a solid 3–1 decision, placing second in the prelim pool round and did not advance to the quarterfinals. Semenov originally claimed the eleventh position in the final standings, but two wrestlers were both disqualified by a forfeit in a playoff, upgrading him to ninth.
References
External links
Profile – International Wrestling Database
Russian Sport Bio
1979 births
Living people
Russian male sport wrestlers
Olympic wrestlers of Russia
Wrestlers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Tolyatti |
10696790 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%9Eevket%20M%C3%BCft%C3%BCgil | Şevket Müftügil | Şevket Müftügil (7 August 1917 – 22 April 2015) was a Turkish judge. He was president of the Constitutional Court of Turkey from October 24, 1978 until August 7, 1982.
References
External links
Web-site of the Constitutional Court of Turkey
1917 births
2015 deaths
Presidents of the Constitutional Court of Turkey
Turkish civil servants
Turkish judges
Istanbul University Faculty of Law alumni |
24625378 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenoceratidae | Armenoceratidae | The Armenoceratidae are a family of early Paleozoic nautiloid cephalopods belonging to the order Actinocerida.
The Armenoceratidae, established by Troedsson (1926) are characterized by large, straight, or slightly curved shells and large siphuncles with strongly expanded segments between the septa. Septal necks are short and abruptly recurved along brims. Radial canals in the endosiphuncular canal system are typically arched, curving forward and backward from near the septal foramina (openings) to connect with the parispatium on either side of the middle of each segments. The parispatium is the narrow opening between the inner side of the connecting rings in actinocerids and the internal siphuncular deposits that grow forward and back from the region of the septal openings.
The Armenoceratidae have their beginning in Armenoceras which first appeared near the beginning of the Chazyan, 2nd stage of the Middle Ordovician in older established chronologies, in northeastern China, Manchuria, derived from Wutinoceras. Additional genera include Nybyoceras and Selkirkoceras, respectively, from the upper Middle and Upper Ordovician, and Monocyrtoceras, Elrodoceras, and Megadiscoceras from the Silurian,
The Armenoceratidae, Armenoceras, Nybyoceras, and Selkirkoceras, first appear in North America in the diverse cephalopod Redriveran faunas of the early Upper Ordovician but are no longer found during that stage in Asia. Selkirkoceras is a large armenocerid from the Upper Ordovician with a blunt, flattened, somewhat breviconic shell.
Among the Silurian genera, Elrodoceras has a large shell with the apical part slightly curved, otherwise is straight, and a siphuncle that is narrower than in Armenoceras. Monocyrtoceras has a siphuncle like that of Elrodoceras, but the entire shell is gently and evenly curved. Megadiscosorus is similar to Armenoceras, but more breviconic and slightly exogastrically cyrtoconic and with the siphuncle in contact with the ventral wall.
The Armenoceratidae most likely gave rise through Armenoceras to Gonioceras in the Chazyan, and later in the Middle Ordovician, possibly through either an early Armenoceras or Nybyoceras to Actinoceras
References
Prehistoric nautiloid families
Ordovician cephalopods
Silurian cephalopods
Middle Ordovician first appearances
Silurian extinctions |
38765877 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamo%20%28Alton%20Towers%29 | Dynamo (Alton Towers) | Dynamo was a Huss Breakdance ride located in the Forbidden Valley area of the Alton Towers theme park. It was the first ride seen to the left when entering the area, and was opposite to Ripsaw, which was a Huss Top Spin.
History
AstroDancer in Fantasy World and Festival Park
Dynamo first opened in 1993 replacing the Cine 2000 as AstroDancer and was located in the Fantasy World (now known as X-Sector) section of the park. The ride was extremely popular and brought in a lot of guests. However, at the end of the 1996 season, the ride was removed along with the Pirate Ship to make way for Oblivion, the world's first vertical drop roller coaster. AstroDancer returned in Festival Park in 1997 behind Energizer and Wave Swinger still proving to be popular.
DinoDancer in UG Land
In 1999, Festival Park was re-themed into UG Land. AstroDancer was also refurbished to fit in with the pre-historic theme and was renamed to DinoDancer. During this period, the ride's popularity was high due to being situated in a newly themed area. After two seasons, the ride was removed in 2000 to make way for the newly refurbished Mondial Supernova, Boneshaker, and did not return for the 2001 season.
Dynamo in Forbidden Valley
After DinoDancer was removed from UG Land in 2000, the ride surprisingly returned in 2002 in Forbidden Valley as Dynamo. Once relocated here, the ride started to show its age and was no longer popular due to better rides being in the area. The ride also became very unreliable, and it eventually closed and was removed at the end of the 2003 season. The ride was moved to an area behind the Monorail garage near Duel - The Haunted House Strikes Back before being stored in the car park until 2005 when it was sold to Mondial.
Replacements
Hot air balloon plans
Alton Towers had proposed a hot air balloon ride to replace Dynamo in 2004 but the plans were declined due to the new height restriction given to the park. Consequently, the park installed a golf mini-game where guests could win prizes.
Lava Lump
In 2006, the mini-golf game was temporarily moved to Katanga Canyon but removed shortly after. The park's rock climbing wall located in UG Land, Rock Shot, was relocated to Forbidden Valley and renamed Lava Lump. In 2008, trampolines were added to the area around Lava Lump.
Nemesis: Sub Terra
In 2012, Lava Lump and the trampolines were removed and a permanent attraction was finally built in replacement of Dynamo. The currently closed Nemesis: Sub-Terra is a well themed drop ride manufactured by ABC Rides. Later in the year, a horror maze named Sub Species: The End Games was brought to the Scarefest Halloween event based around Nemesis: Sub Terra.
References
Amusement rides manufactured by HUSS Park Attractions
Amusement rides introduced in 1993
Amusement rides that closed in 2003
Alton Towers |
18027621 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beit%20Yanai | Beit Yanai | Beit Yanai (, lit. House of Yanai) is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the Sharon plain on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea around six kilometres north of Netanya, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hefer Valley Regional Council. In it had a population of .
History
The moshav was founded in 1933 by Jewish immigrants from Lithuania and Poland, and was named after Alexander Jannaeus (known in Hebrew as Alexander Yanai) the Hasmonean king. There were several Americans among the original settlers.
A jetty, built in 1938 for unloading cargo, is located to the north of the moshav. The Altalena was anchored there, and it was used for exporting citrus fruits.
It later absorbed more immigrants from South Africa. By 1947 it had over 100 residents.
Notable residents
Morris Kahn
References
External links
Moshavim
Agricultural Union
Populated places established in 1933
Jewish villages in Mandatory Palestine
Populated places in Central District (Israel)
1933 establishments in Mandatory Palestine
Lithuanian-Jewish culture in Israel
Polish-Jewish culture in Israel
South African-Jewish culture in Israel |
17644553 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peugeot%20Type%20153 | Peugeot Type 153 | The Peugeot Type 153 was a new model from Peugeot for 1913, made in various forms until 1925.
Original run
The Type 153 (the colonial version was known as the Type 153 A and used a different chassis) was produced until 1916 and held popularity among French Army officers during the First World War. Its original 2.6 L four-cylinder engine made . Production was ultimately halted to focus Peugeot's efforts on the war. 800 of this model were produced. There are less than ten left in the world and very few in running order, only one of which is known to be in the UK. A 153 Coloniale exists in New Zealand; this version has a higher straight chassis.
Postwar production
Production resumed in 1920. A revised Type 153 was given a new 2.7 L engine which made . The result was the Type 153 B and was assembled until 1922, with production coming to 1,325 units. A sportier version, lightened and producing , was unveiled in 1922 and called the Type 153 RS. This model sold 200 units. The Type 153 B was replaced in 1923 by the Type 153 BR. It carried on similar design to all past models, carried on the same 2.7 L engine but produced . The Type 153 BR was the final model and it was sold 1,505 units before production ceased in 1925. Production of all Type 153 models came to 3,830.
References
Company history of the Type 153
Peugeot Car Models from 1910 to 1949
Type 153
Cars introduced in 1913
1920s cars |
25323086 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20capes%20of%20Turkey | List of capes of Turkey | A cape (headland) () is a point of land extending into the sea. Turkey, being a country of two big peninsulas (Anatolia and Thrace) is surrounded by four seas and has many capes. The surrounding seas (counter-clockwise from the north) are the Black Sea, the Sea of Marmara, the Aegean Sea, and the Mediterranean Sea.
The list
The following list gives the names of capes of Turkey. The names are sometimes used with the suffix burun which means cape.
See also
Bays of Turkey
Peninsulas of Turkey
Geography of Turkey
References
Lists of landforms of Turkey |
3730236 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Hampshire%20Circuit%20Court%20District%20Division | New Hampshire Circuit Court District Division | The New Hampshire Circuit Court District Division is the "community court" of the U.S. state of New Hampshire, made up of one circuit for each County and is located in 36 cities and towns. The District Division has jurisdiction over all juvenile matters, domestic violence cases, violation and misdemeanor level offenses, small claims, landlord-tenant issues and other civil cases. Upon the creation of the District Court in 1963, the state Municipal Courts were effectively abolished . On July 1, 2011, the New Hampshire Circuit Court was created and consolidated the District Courts with the Probate Court and Family Division.
Jurisdiction
The District Division has jurisdiction in the following matters:
Misdemeanor and criminal offenses
Civil cases in which the damages claimed, excluding real estate titles, not exceeding $1,500
The court shares jurisdiction with the Superior Court over civil actions for damages in which the damages claimed, excluding real estate titles, do not exceed $25,000 (this ceiling can be increased to $50,000 as permitted by the state Supreme Court).
The court shares jurisdiction over domestic violence cases with the Superior Court.
Organization
The District Division has 36 courts located in 34 districts. The locations of the court were devised by the legislature so that each District Court would be within 20 miles of the inhabitants of each district. The District Division has 19 full-time judges and 50 part-time judges.
Appointment
Part II, Article 46 of the state constitution, states all judicial officers shall be nominated and appointed by the Governor and Executive Council. It also states that such nominations shall be made at least three days prior to such appointment and no such appointment shall take place unless a majority of the council agrees.
Length of tenure
All judicial officers hold their offices during "good behavior," according to Part II, Article 73 of the state constitution. Part II Article 78 of the state constitution requires Judges retire at the age of seventy years.
Salary
The salaries of the District Division judges and other state judges are set by the General Court. In the District Court salaries are weighted based on the caseload of the court from the previous year. Associate judges also receive a weighted salary, but can make no more than 70% of a District Division judge.
History
In 1963, district courts were created by the legislature to replace the existing municipal courts. RSA 502-A:35, effective July 1, 1964, abolished all Municipal Courts, unless cities and towns voted by ballot to "continue to maintain its existing municipal court so long as its present judge remains in office." The law required that once there was a vacancy on the Municipal Court judge, it could not be filled and that court would be abolished and its jurisdiction transferred to the appropriate District Court.
See also
List of New Hampshire state courts by town
External links
Official Website
NEW CIRCUIT COURT BEGINS OPERATIONS JULY 1 RESTRUCTURING SUPPORTED BY GOVERNOR AND LEGISLATURE
District Court
New Hampshire
1963 establishments in New Hampshire
Courts and tribunals established in 1963 |
65899447 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myriophora | Myriophora | Myriophora is a genus of flies in the family Phoridae.
Species
M. aequaliseta (Borgmeier, 1963)
M. alexandrae Hash & Brown, 2015
M. alienipennis Hash & Brown, 2015
M. angustifacies Hash & Brown, 2015
M. annetteae Hash & Brown, 2015
M. annulata Hash & Brown, 2015
M. bicuspidis Hash & Brown, 2015
M. bilsae Hash & Brown, 2015
M. bimaculata Hash & Brown, 2015
M. borealis Hash & Brown, 2015
M. breviatrsus Hash & Brown, 2015
M. browni Hash, 2015
M. brunneipleuron Hash & Brown, 2015
M. communis Hash & Brown, 2015
M. curvata Hash & Brown, 2015
M. curvicacumen Hash & Brown, 2015
M. dennisoni Hash & Brown, 2015
M. discalis Hash & Brown, 2015
M. diversa Hash & Brown, 2015
M. dividida Hash & Brown, 2015
M. dolionatis Hash & Brown, 2015
M. flavicosta Hash & Brown, 2015
M. fuscidorsum Hash & Brown, 2015
M. gigantea Hash & Brown, 2015
M. gobaleti Hash & Brown, 2015
M. harwoodi Hash & Brown, 2015
M. hebes Hash & Brown, 2015
M. heratyi Hash & Brown, 2015
M. inaequalisetarum Hash & Brown, 2015
M. infirmata Hash & Brown, 2015
M. jeffersoni Hash & Brown, 2015
M. juli (Brues, 1908)
M. kerri Hash & Brown, 2015
M. kungae Hash & Brown, 2015
M. longisetarum Hash & Brown, 2015
M. lucigaster (Borgmeier, 1961)
M. luteitergum Hash & Brown, 2015
M. luteizona (Borgmeier, 1925)
M. magnilabellum Hash & Brown, 2015
M. misionesensis Hash & Brown, 2015
M. nigra Hash & Brown, 2015
M. nigralinea Hash & Brown, 2015
M. obscuritergum Hash & Brown, 2015
M. opilionidis (Borgmeier, 1931)
M. pabloi (Brown, 1994)
M. pallida Hash & Brown, 2015
M. parva Hash & Brown, 2015
M. pectinata Hash & Brown, 2015
M. perpendicularis Hash & Brown, 2015
M. plana Hash & Brown, 2015
M. porrasae Hash & Brown, 2015
M. porrecta Hash & Brown, 2015
M. reminatis Hash & Brown, 2015
M. scopulata Hash & Brown, 2015
M. simplex Hash & Brown, 2015
M. sinesplendida Hash & Brown, 2015
M. smithi Hash & Brown, 2015
M. spicaphora Hash & Brown, 2015
M. spicaticonus Hash & Brown, 2015
M. tenuis Hash & Brown, 2015
M. uruguaiensis Hash & Brown, 2015
M. vancouverensis Hash & Brown, 2015
M. wellsorum Hash & Brown, 2015
References
Phoridae
Platypezoidea genera |
35197372 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hit%20and%20Run%20%282012%20film%29 | Hit and Run (2012 film) | Hit and Run is a 2012 American action comedy film written by Dax Shepard, with David Palmer and Shepard co-directing (their second collaboration after Brother's Justice in 2010). The film stars Shepard and Kristen Bell, with Kristin Chenoweth, Tom Arnold, and Bradley Cooper, and follows a man who has been placed in Federal Witness Protection going on the run with his girlfriend to escape a monster. It was released on August 22, 2012, received mixed reviews from critics, and grossed $16 million.
Plot
Charlie Bronson is enrolled in Witness Protection, living in Milton, California under the supervision of incompetent U.S. Marshal Randy Anderson. Charlie's girlfriend Annie Bean is a professor with a doctorate in Non-Violent Conflict Resolution. Her supervisor Debby Kreeger promises to fire her if she does not make it to a job interview with the University of California in Los Angeles.
Charlie, unable to return to Los Angeles since enrolling in Witness Protection, insists Annie take the interview without him. Instead, Annie returns to work to beg to keep her job, but Charlie picks her up in his souped-up, restored Lincoln Continental to take her to the interview.
Annie's ex-boyfriend Gil Rathbinn, believing Charlie is in Witness Protection as a murderous criminal, urges her not to go; undeterred, Annie leaves with Charlie. Gil's brother Terry, a police officer, finds that Charlie's vehicle is registered to "Yul Clint Perrkins" — Charlie's real name. Gil discovers Charlie is a former getaway driver who testified in an unsuccessful case against his fellow bank robbers. Gil messages one of the defendants, Alexander Dmitri, on Facebook, that he knows Yul Perrkins' location.
Randy pursues Charlie to L.A. Charlie and Annie confront Gil, who is following them, and Charlie tries to resolve the situation non-violently at Annie's insistence. Unmoved, Gil reveals that he knows Charlie's real name and has Alex Dmitri as a "Facebook friend". Charlie and Annie flee, running Randy off the road as he arrives. Alex sees Gil's message and gathers his fellow bank robbers Neve and Alan to find Gil.
While Annie and Charlie stop for gas, the Continental's engine is admired by a redneck named Sanders. He follows them to a motel, and they discover in the morning that their engine has been stolen. Terry is gay. He has mobile app that he uses to track gay contacts. When Terry stops speeding Randy's car, Randy turns up on his indicator. Ambushed by Gil, Charlie knocks him out and realizes he was accompanied by Alex's crew. Charlie grabs the VIN of a Chevrolet Corvette in the parking lot and duplicates a keyless entry using the tools of his former trade; he and Annie flee in the Corvette, with Gil, Alex's crew, and Randy in hot pursuit. Annie and Charlie argue over his past, and he reveals that he was a getaway driver for 13 bank robberies and was engaged to Neve.
After escaping their pursuers, Annie confronts Charlie for lying to her and proceeds without him. Gil agrees to take her the rest of the way, but they are run off the road by Alex, who takes Annie hostage and calls Charlie, telling him to meet at a nearby diner. There, Alex demands money in exchange for Annie; they argue about Charlie's betrayal, cut short when Alex reveals that he was raped in prison and blames Charlie. Charlie agrees to take Alex to his stash of money hidden at the home of his estranged father Clint; en route, he calls Randy, now in the company of Terry – who is attracted to Randy – and his partner Angela Roth (Carly Hatter), with his father's address. The three pick up Gil along the way.
At Clint's house, Charlie and his father reconcile as they dig up his bag of money. His father mentions his Class 1 Off-Road racing vehicle, and attacks Alex’s crew as Charlie and Annie escape in the racer, just as Gil, Randy, Terry and Angela arrive. Randy manages to shoot Alex and arrests the thieves. Two other Marshals take Alex's crew into custody, complimenting Randy and Terry's work.
Charlie and Annie reconcile, and arrive in time for Annie's interview; Charlie offers to spend the rest of his life with Annie, and she accepts. Some months later, Randy and Terry, now in a relationship, take the Marshals' exam.
A stinger segment reveals Annie's interview with Professor Sandy Osterman. She interrupts him hotboxing his office, and is surprised he is not a woman as Debby had described. Osterman reveals Debby is his sister, and Annie sympathizes with him, earning his approval and an immediate job offer, which she accepts.
Cast
Production
On December 21, 2011, Open Road Films picked up the U.S distribution rights. Open Road changed the name of the film from Outrun to Hit and Run.
One of the chase scenes was filmed at the former MCAS Tustin base in Tustin, California, with the distinctive blimp hangars prominently visible. The final scene was filmed in front of Oviatt Library, California State University, Northridge. The film was also filmed in Fillmore, California and Piru, California. To keep the production budget low, most of the cast did their own stunts and driving.
Release
Distributed by Open Road, the film opened in theaters on August 22, 2012. The first official trailer was released on May 16, 2012.
Reception
On review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes, Hit and Run holds an approval rating of 49% based on 134 reviews, with an average rating of 5.27/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Though Hit & Run has some surprisingly oft-kilter filmmaking, the action doesn't add to much and the writing's a bit smug." Metacritic gives the film a weighted average score of 50 out of 100, based on 31 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "C+" on an A+ to F scale.
Roger Ebert gave it 3.5 of 4 stars, writing, "With its off-the-shelf title, I had worked up less than a white-hot enthusiasm to see "Hit & Run," but it's a lot more fun than the title suggests. How many chase comedies have you seen where the hero's sexy girlfriend has a doctorate in nonviolent conflict resolution? Her counseling would have been invaluable to the U.S. marshal (Tom Arnold) in an early scene where he attempts to shoot his own van." Film critic Richard Roeper gave the film an "F", calling it an unfunny comedy movie from start to finish.
Soundtrack
The film soundtrack was commercially released as the Hit and Run (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) on August 21, 2012.
Songs not included within the soundtrack
"Nothing's Gonna Change My Love for You" – performed by Glenn Medeiros
References
External links
2012 action comedy films
2010s crime comedy films
American films
American action comedy films
American crime comedy films
American independent films
Open Road Films films
Films directed by Dax Shepard
Films about witness protection
United States Marshals Service in fiction
2012 comedy films |
7126104 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20British%20children%27s%20and%20young%20adults%27%20authors%20%281900%E2%80%931949%29 | List of British children's and young adults' authors (1900–1949) | This is a list of British children's and young adults' authors active between 1900 and 1949. The authors listed here are arranged by year of birth.
Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849–1924)
Mary Francis Ames (1853-1929)
Mrs George de Horne Vaizey (1857–1917)
E. Nesbit (1858–1924)
Kenneth Grahame (1859–1932)
J. M. Barrie (1860–1937)
Herbert Hayens (1861-1944)
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936)
Beatrix Potter (1866–1943)
Angela Brazil (1868–1947)
Percy F. Westerman (1876–1959)
Frank Richards (1876–1961)
Elsie J. Oxenham (1880–1960)
Eleanor Farjeon (1881–1965)
A. A. Milne (1882–1956)
Arthur Ransome (1884–1967)
Dorita Fairlie Bruce (1885–1970)
Hugh Lofting (1886–1947)
Ruth Manning-Sanders (1886–1988)
Alison Uttley (1886–1976)
Evadne Price (1888–1985)
Richmal Crompton (1890–1969)
J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973)
W. E. Johns (1893–1968)
Elinor Brent-Dyer (1894–1969)
Enid Blyton (1894–1969)
George Mills (1896–1972)
Joyce Lankester Brisley (1896–1978)
Dodie Smith (1896–1990)
C. S. Lewis (1898–1963)
John F. C. Westerman (1901–1991)
Denys Watkins-Pitchford ("BB") (1905–1990)
T. H. White (1906–1964)
Mary Norton (1903–1992)
Rev. W. Awdry (1911–1997)
Roald Dahl (1916–1990)
See also
List of British children's and young adults' literature titles (1900–1949)
Authors
British children's literature 1900-1949 |
4114355 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiro%20Amano | Shiro Amano | is a Japanese manga artist who has worked on several projects, including his adaptation on the popular Kingdom Hearts series.
Career
Amano worked on the manga adaptation of the Legend of Mana video game series. It was serialized from 2000 to 2002 and published in five volumes.
Amano also worked on the Kingdom Hearts manga adaptations, following the events that took place in the video games with differences to account for the loss of interactivity a video game provides. The manga was originally serialized in Japan by Square Enix's Monthly Shōnen Gangan and eventually released in tankōbon format. The first tankōbon was released in Japan in October 2003. The manga was released in the US by Tokyopop two years later in October 2005. Yen Press now holds the rights to publish the books for the USA market. The first series, Kingdom Hearts, consists of four volumes, while the second series, Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, has two volumes. The third series, Kingdom Hearts II, has had five volumes published and is currently on hiatus. A fourth series based on Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days is being serialized. The games have also been adapted as a light novel series, written by Tomoco Kanemaki and illustrated by Shiro Amano. Like the manga series, it is divided into separate series based on the games. Kingdom Hearts is divided into two volumes; "The First Door" and "Darkness Within". Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories is divided into two volumes. Kingdom Hearts II is divided into four volumes; "Roxas—Seven Days", "The Destruction of Hollow Bastion", "Tears of Nobody", and "Anthem—Meet Again/Axel Last Stand".
Works
Artbook
Amano Shiro (天野 シロ) Art Works Kingdom Hearts
References
External links
Living people
Manga artists
1976 births |
33988030 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wa-Tor | Wa-Tor | Wa-Tor is a population dynamics simulation devised by A. K. Dewdney and presented in the December 1984 issue of Scientific American in a five-page article entitled "Computer Recreations: Sharks and fish wage an ecological war on the toroidal planet Wa-Tor".
Wa-Tor is usually implemented as a two-dimensional grid with three colours, one for fish, one for sharks and one for empty water. If a creature moves past the edge of the grid, it reappears on the opposite side. The sharks are predatory and eat the fish. Both sharks and fish live, move, reproduce and die in Wa-Tor according to the simple rules defined below. From these simple rules, complex emergent behavior can be seen to arise.
Predators and prey
The balance of this ecosystem is very delicate: the populations of two species can follow hugely different cycles depending on the given parameters (such as reproduction cycles and the time period in which a shark must eat to avoid starvation) as well as starting positions of each being. It may go from both species being endangered to an abundance of one or both.
When the prey are numerous, predators can reproduce rapidly. But this increase in turn increases the number of prey hunted and the population of the prey decreases. When the prey becomes rarer, predators begin to starve and die of starvation, decreasing their population and easing the hunting pressure on the prey. The prey (and in time predator) can then go back to rapidly reproducing as the cycle repeats itself.
Rules
For the fish
At each chronon, a fish moves randomly to one of the adjacent unoccupied squares. If there are no free squares, no movement takes place.
Once a fish has survived a certain number of chronons it may reproduce. This is done as it moves to a neighbouring square, leaving behind a new fish in its old position. Its reproduction time is also reset to zero.
For the sharks
At each chronon, a shark moves randomly to an adjacent square occupied by a fish. If there is none, the shark moves to a random adjacent unoccupied square. If there are no free squares, no movement takes place.
At each chronon, each shark is deprived of a unit of energy.
Upon reaching zero energy, a shark dies.
If a shark moves to a square occupied by a fish, it eats the fish and earns a certain amount of energy.
Once a shark has survived a certain number of chronons it may reproduce in exactly the same way as the fish.
Possible results
In the long run there are three possible scenarios in Wa-Tor:
A perfect balance between fish and sharks, which increase and decrease but never become extinct.
Disappearance of sharks.
Extinction of both species.
The first scenario can be very difficult to obtain, where a kind of equilibrium is achieved in which the two populations fluctuate periodically. In most cases, the amount of fish is reduced to an almost endangered state, then the shark population rapidly falls due to shortage of food. This allows the fish population to grow again until the shark population can meet this growth.
The extinction of both animals occurs when sharks exceed in number to a point where they eat all the fish. As the fish were the only source of food for sharks they will inevitably die of starvation.
Conversely, if the initial number of fish is low, or the sharks have a very short period of starvation, the second scenario occurs. In this case the sharks will become extinct, leaving the field open to the fish.
See also
Lotka–Volterra equation
Population dynamics of fisheries
Notes
References
Dewdney, Alexander Keewatin (December 1984). "Sharks and fish Wage an ecological War on the toroidal planet Wa-Tor". Scientific American. pp. I4—22.
External links
Wa-tor simulator online
Card on Wa-Tor
Source Java applet that plays Wa-Tor
Planet Wator - downloadable source code
Wator - Open source version written in Seed7
HTML5 Wa-tor online simulator
Cellular automaton rules
Articles containing video clips |
2889154 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi%20Robson | Naomi Robson | Naomi Robson (born 4 December 1961) is an American-born Australian television presenter who is best known as the former presenter of the east coast edition of Today Tonight, an Australian current affairs program which was broadcast on weeknights on the Seven Network, from 1997 to 2006.
Early life
Robson was born in Los Angeles, California, in the United States, but as a child she travelled around the world due to her father's work, spending most of her time between Australia and Britain. She eventually settled in Australia and began a Bachelor of Arts degree at La Trobe University in Melbourne, planning on majoring in archaeology and modern art. After two years Robson dropped out of university to pursue her passion for photojournalism.
Over the next few years, Robson worked in numerous positions, including being an assistant to photojournalists and a copywriter for an advertising agency. She then took a working trip to London, during which she worked as a journalist and as an editorial assistant for a magazine publishing house. After three years in London she returned to Australia and, in 1989, became an assistant editor and feature writer for Personal Success magazine.
Television
In 1990 Robson joined Seven News, initially as a general news reporter but three weeks later she was promoted to presenting news on Tonight Live fronted by comedian Steve Vizard. She also presented Seven's Late News as well as Seven's weekend news bulletins and also reported for the current affairs program Real Life. She was also the summer presenter for the program until its cancellation in late 1994. She then hosted a short fill-in program called Summer Diary.
Robson went to the United States in 1995 but shortly returned to Australia to present Our Victoria, a travel show for the Victorian market. She also co-hosted Seven's News at Five with Peter Ford in Sydney. In 1997 she became the presenter of the Melbourne version of Today Tonight. The program was later extended to Sydney and Brisbane, with Robson as presenter. Figures from the ratings research firm OzTAM indicate that she had a nightly audience of more than one million people across the three capital cities.
Suggestions surfaced on 22 November 2006 that she would leave Today Tonight at the end of the year. She confirmed this on 27 November, saying she would pursue her career in other areas of television. She presented her last show on 1 December 2006. Her replacement, Anna Coren, was named six weeks later.
In January 2007, it was reported that Robson had persuaded Seven Network executives to extend her contract with the network so that she could compete in the sixth series of Dancing with the Stars. On 13 March 2007, she was part of the third couple voted off the program. Later in the year, Seven executives were reported in the press saying that Robson would be given her own "Oprah Winfrey" style program where she would have an "opportunity to show off the caring side of her personality".
She returned to narrate Seven's factual series Surf Patrol in mid-2008.
In September 2009, Robson appeared as a presenter with Larry Emdur on Seven's The Morning Show, standing in for Kylie Gillies, who was taking a week off.
In December 2014, Naomi was a guest on Network Ten's Studio 10, this was the first time she had been seen on another Network other than Seven.
Controversy
Robson has been the subject of a number of unfavourable media reports and controversies.
A number of critical descriptions of Robson have been dismissed by her or her representatives as distortions or fabrications by rival journalists. In particular, when The Daily Telegraph alleged that other reporters called her a "princess" overly concerned with her appearance, Robson herself denied the allegations. When The Australian cited a source describing her as a "cold, waspish, punishment-oriented, dominatrix", Today Tonight producer Neil Mooney described the story as "attempted character assassination ... based on fiction". However, an off-air outburst that was recorded and later broadcast by the Triple J radio station, did provoke a public apology by Robson.
In September 2006, while reporting on the death of Steve Irwin, she appeared on air wearing khaki and with a lizard on her shoulder. Several months later Robson described the incident as a mistake, but that it was not her idea to wear the shirt or the reptile and she was not comfortable with it at the time.
In September 2006, Robson and her crew were detained in Indonesia after arriving in the country with tourist visas to film a story on a boy they believed was in danger of being killed by cannibals. They were later deported.
In early 2010, Robson's manager, Max Markson, made several attempts to remove comments about these controversies from Wikipedia, describing the article on Robson as "libellous". Wikipedia editors responded with concerns that Markson's edits were biased and in contravention of Wikipedia guidelines. The incident attracted media coverage, drawing further attention to the controversies (the so-called Streisand effect).
In August 2010, Robson appeared in a promotion for pay-TV screenings of The Chaser's War on Everything, her former critics, in the form of a mock interview.
Filmography
Trojan Warrior (2002)
Thunderstruck (2004)
References
External links
1961 births
Living people
Australian expatriates in the United Kingdom
Australian expatriates in the United States
Australian journalists
Australian television presenters
Australian women journalists
Australian women television presenters
People from Los Angeles
Television personalities from California
Television personalities from Melbourne |
1524798 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh%20Law%20School | Edinburgh Law School | Edinburgh Law School, founded in 1707, is a school within the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom dedicated to research and teaching in law. It is located in the historic Old College, the original site of the University. Two of the twelve currently sitting Supreme Court of the United Kingdom justices are graduates of Edinburgh.
In 2014, the Research Excellence Framework commissioned by the UK government, ranked the University of Edinburgh 1st in Scotland and 4th in the UK. The 2022 league table rankings from The Guardian placed Edinburgh at 10th in the UK. The 2022 Complete University Guide league rankings placed Edinburgh at 8th in the UK. The 2018 The Times league rankings placed Edinburgh at 11th in the UK.
History
In 1707, the year of the unification of the Kingdoms of Scotland and England into the Kingdom of Great Britain, Queen Anne established the Chair of Public Law and the Law of Nature and Nations in the University of Edinburgh, to which Charles Erskine (or Areskine) was appointed; this was the formal start of the Faculty of Law. By 1722 the University had four Professors of Law, and classes—in Civil Law, Scots Law and History—were usually given in their respective homes or offices. Numbers grew with the expansion of the legal profession in the 19th century, and by 1830 there were over 200 students attending the Scots Law class alone. Scholarship amongst the academics at Edinburgh continued to grow in reputation, with the work of Muirhead, Lorimer and Rankine achieving international renown.
The Faculty of Law had moved to Old College, built in 1789, and in 1862 the new degree of LL.B. (Bachelor of Laws) was introduced, following the Universities (Scotland) Act 1858. The degree was only open to graduates, usually those who had studied for the M.A.(Arts) at a Scottish University or the B.A. at Oxford or Cambridge. Students of the LL.B. had to attend courses and be examined in Civil Law, Conveyancing, Public law, Constitutional law and History, and Medical Jurisprudence; Edinburgh was the only University to offer this degree for some time. In 1909 Eveline MacLaren and Josephine Gordon Stuart became Scotland's first two female law graduates when they each obtained an LL.B degree from Edinburgh. By 1966, the LL.B. had become a full-time undergraduate course, although many would continue to study for an Arts degree beforehand. In 1981, Edinburgh first offered the Diploma in Legal Practice, for LL.B. students wishing to enter the legal profession.
Today, the School of Law is associated both with traditional Scots law and with innovation across a wide range of subjects. The School retains a reputation for scholarship in topics such as Roman Law but is also known as a centre for research in topics such as European law, criminology, commercial law, intellectual property and information technology law, labour law, European private law, medical law and ethics, international law, comparative law, and human rights law. In 2007 the School celebrated its Tercentenary year, marked by a series of events and of lectures by world-renowned legal experts.
Academics
Throughout its history the School (or Faculty) of Law has accommodated some of the leading legal scholars in Europe. James Muirhead's work on Roman Law garnered international praise, Professor Erskine's Principles (1754) became a standard text in Scots Law, as did those of Professor George Joseph Bell. In the 20th-century, the eminent legal theorist Professor Sir Neil MacCormick wrote his seminal texts on legal philosophy as Regius Professor at Edinburgh.
Current members of Edinburgh Law School include current Regius Professor Neil Walker; Lord President Reid Professor of Law Alexandra Braun; Professor of European Union Law Professor Niamh Nic Shuibhne; the academic and novelist Professor Alexander McCall Smith; former Judge at the European Court of First Instance Sir David Edward QC; former Scottish Law Commissioners Emeritus Professor George Gretton, Professor Hector MacQueen, Professor Gerry Maher QC, Professor Andrew Steven, Professor Kenneth Reid and Emeritus Professor Robert Black QC (architect of the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial).
Student activity
Students of the School of Law are represented by the Law Students' Council. The University of Edinburgh Law Society, known as LawSoc, provides a programme of social events. In addition, there is a Postgraduate Students' Research Committee for doctoral level students, as well as a Graduate Law Students' Society. The University Mooting Society is active, with two internal competitions and several external competitions running during each academic session, giving students the opportunity to develop the skills of oral legal argument. For graduate-level students there are a number of subject-specific discussion groups which meet on a regular basis. Since 2008, the students have published the Edinburgh Student Law Review.
Research centres
The Centre for Law and Society
The Centre for Legal History
"SCRIPT" (The AHRC Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law)
The Edinburgh Centre for Legal Theory
The Edinburgh Centre for Private Law
The Europa Institute
The Scottish Centre for International Law
The Joseph Bell Centre for Forensic Statistics and Legal Reasoning, joint research collaboration with Glasgow Caledonian University
The Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime
The Centre for Commercial Law, Chaired by The Rt Hon. Lord Reed
Famous graduates
Notable alumni of Edinburgh Law School include:
Douglas Alexander MP, former Secretary of State for International Development
Michael Ancram QC, Marquess of Lothian, former MP and Chairman of the Conservative Party
Henry Brougham, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, co-founder of the University College London
Joanna Cherry, current Scottish National Party MP for Edinburgh South-West
James Clyde, Baron Clyde, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
George Combe, founder of the Edinburgh Phrenological Society
William Cullen, Baron Cullen of Whitekirk, Lord President of the Court of Session and Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, Lord Advocate of Scotland, British Home Secretary, first Secretary of State for War and First Lord of the Admiralty
Robert Dundas of Arniston, the younger, Lord Advocate of Scotland, Lord President of the Court of Session
Sir David Edward QC, former Judge at the European Court of Justice
Nicholas Fairbairn, Conservative MP for Perth and Kinross and Solicitor General for Scotland
Brian Gill, Lord Gill, Lord President (Ph.D)
Peter Goodrich, Director of Law and Humanities at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (Ph.D.)
Katherine Grainger, 2012 Olympic Gold Medallist
Arthur Hamilton, Lord Hamilton, Lord President of the Court of Session
Lord Hodge, sitting Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
Michael Hay, founder of Hay, Kalb & Associates, the first (and to date only) foreign law firm in North Korea
Lord Hope of Craighead, former Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and inaugural Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
Eleanor Laing, Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons
Lord Mackay of Clashfern, former Lord Chancellor and Lord Advocate of Scotland
Stuart McDonald, current Scottish National Party MP for Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
David McLetchie MSP, former Scottish Conservative leader
David Mundell, current Conservative MP and Secretary of State for Scotland
Ian Murray, current Labour MP and Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland
Lord Reed, sitting Justice and current Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
Sir Malcolm Rifkind QC MP, former Foreign Secretary
Sir Walter Scott, writer and poet, (Sheriff-Deputy of Selkirk)
Julia Sebutinde, current member of the International Court of Justice and first African woman to serve as member of the Court
Alexander McCall Smith, Emeritus Professor of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh, co-founder of the law school at the University of Botswana, adult mystery author
Matt Soper, current member of the Colorado House of Representatives and first Seventh-day Adventist to serve as member of the Colorado Legislature
David Steel, Baron Steel of Aikwood, former Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament and former leader of the Liberal Party
Robert Louis Stevenson, writer
Simon Taylor, Scottish Rugby Footballer
Lord Wallace QC, former Deputy First Minister of Scotland and Advocate General for Scotland
Sir Thomas Winsor, HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary and former Rail Regulator and International Rail Regulator
Famous faculty
Sir Neil MacCormick, Regius Professor of Public Law and the Law of Nature and Nations
Harvey McGregor QC, visiting professor, Warden of New College, Oxford
References
Edinburgh
Edinburgh
Edinburgh
Law |
54905590 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdistan%20Region%E2%80%93Syria%20relations | Kurdistan Region–Syria relations | Kurdistan Region–Syria relations are bilateral relations between Kurdistan Region and Syria. Kurdistan Region and Syria are neighbors, but Kurdistan Region only borders PYD-held Rojava since the Syrian civil war. Kurdistan Region and Syria share two border-crossings, and 208,574 Syrian refugees lived in Kurdistan Region in February 2021.
History
Due to the strained relations between Syria and Iraq under Hafez al-Assad and Saddam Hussein respectively, Assad supported Kurdish rebels in Northern Iraq as they fought Iraqi forces. In 1975, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan was established in Damascus by Jalal Talabani and the Syrian regime established formal ties with Kurdistan Democratic Party in 1979, as Idris Barzani visited Damascus. Damascus tried to unite the various Iraqi Kurdish fractions against the Iraqi regime and offices for both parties were opened in Qamishli.
When the Syrian civil war reached the Kurdish areas of North Syria in 2012, President of Kurdistan Region Masoud Barzani gathered the various Kurdish factions of Syria in Erbil to unite them against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Many Syrian soldiers of Kurdish origin deserted at the early stages of the Syrian civil war and fled to Kurdistan Region to form "Rojava Peshmerga" which is funded by Kurdistan Region. Kurdish Foreign Minister Falah Mustafa Bakir stated that: "We want to a see a democratic and representative government in Damascus, and the opposition must take into consideration the recognition, rights and future of all the minority groups." In 2015, Syrian MP Sharif Shahada visited Erbil, where he mentioned that Barzani declined to visit Damascus back in 2011. Responding to the Kurdistan Region's independence referendum in September 2017, Syrian MP Riyaz Taus stated that Syria did not support the referendum, because it was a unilateral decision without Baghdad's consent. Advisor to the Council of Ministers Said Azzouz also echoed that any unilateral action will be rejected and that Syria cannot accept the division of Iraq. Furthermore, he stated that independence needed legal provisions from the Iraqi constitution.
In August 2017, Syrian Minister for Tourism Bishr Yaziji visited Erbil to strengthen tourism ties.
See also
Iraq–Syria relations
Kurdistan Region–Rojava relations
Kurdish National Council
Rabia, Iraq
References
Further reading
Syria
Bilateral relations of Syria |
17657850 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giv%27ot%20Bar | Giv'ot Bar | Giv'ot Bar (, lit. Grain Hills) is a community settlement in the northern Negev desert of southern Israel. Located to the south of Rahat, it falls under the jurisdiction of Bnei Shimon Regional Council. In it had a population of .
History
The village was established in 2004. Initially there were problems with acquiring the land from the Bedouins living in the area, but in 2004 mobile homes were moved onto the site. The village's name was given to it due to the wheat silos in the surrounding farms and the fact that it was located in a hilly area.
References
External links
Official website
Community settlements
Populated places established in 2004
Populated places in Southern District (Israel)
2004 establishments in Israel |
7682635 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters%20of%20Rock%3A%20Ramones | Masters of Rock: Ramones | Masters of Rock: Ramones is a compilation album by the Ramones. It was released on EMI in 2001. The record is made up of tracks from the five Ramones albums on Chrysalis Records: Brain Drain, Mondo Bizarro, Acid Eaters, ¡Adios Amigos! and Loco Live.
Track listing
"Pet Semetary"
"I Believe In Miracles"
"Poison Heart"
"All Screwed Up"
"Censorshit"
"The Job That Ate My Brain"
"Cabbies on Crack"
"Strength To Endure"
"I Won't Let It Happen"
"Substitute"
"The Crusher"
"Surf City"
"Blitzkrieg Bop (Live)"
"Rock and Roll Radio (Live)"
"Sheena Is a Punk Rocker (Live)"
"Rock & Roll High School (Live)"
"Rockaway Beach (Live)"
"Bonzo Goes to Bitburg (Live)"
"Wart Hog (Live)"
"Merry Christmas (I Don't Want To Fight Tonight)"
References
Albums produced by Ed Stasium
Albums produced by Daniel Rey
Albums produced by Jean Beauvoir
2001 compilation albums
Ramones compilation albums
EMI Records compilation albums |
59799982 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20cricket%20in%202020%E2%80%9321 | International cricket in 2020–21 | The 2020–21 international cricket season took place from September 2020 to April 2021. 29 Tests, 49 One Day Internationals (ODIs), 50 Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is), 17 Women's One Day Internationals (WODIs) and 21 Women's Twenty20 Internationals (WT20Is) were scheduled to be played during this period. Additionally, a number of other T20I/WT20I matches were also scheduled to be played in minor series involving associate nations.
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic continued into the 2020–21 international calendar. The 2021 Women's Cricket World Cup in New Zealand was scheduled to take place during this time, starting on 6 February 2021. However, in August 2020, this was postponed by one year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2020 ICC Men's T20 World Cup was also scheduled to be played in October and November in Australia, but this was also postponed by one year due to the pandemic.
In July 2020, the men's 2020 Asia Cup, scheduled to be held in September 2020, was postponed until June 2021. In August 2020, the West Indies tour of Australia was postponed, along with India's T20I fixtures against Australia. Also in August 2020, England's ODI and T20I matches against India was rescheduled to take place in early 2021. Bangladesh's tour to Sri Lanka, originally scheduled to be played in July 2020, was moved to October 2020. On 28 August 2020, Pakistan's planned tour to South Africa was also postponed. However, in October 2020, the tour was rescheduled to take place in April 2021.
In September 2020, it was confirmed that the 2020 edition of the Women's Asia Cup, scheduled to be played in Bangladesh, had been cancelled as well. Also in September, Cricket Australia confirmed that the one-off Test match against Afghanistan, and the limited-overs series against New Zealand had both been postponed due to the pandemic. On 28 September 2020, Bangladesh's planned tour to Sri Lanka was postponed for a second time, after both cricket boards could not agree on the quarantine requirements.
International women's cricket started with the first WT20I between Australia and New Zealand, with Australia winning by 17 runs. Australia won the WT20I series 2–1, and then went on to win the WODI series between the two teams 3–0. With their 3–0, the team recorded 21 consecutive wins in the format, equalling the men's record set by Ricky Ponting's team of 2002–03. International men's cricket started with Zimbabwe's tour of Pakistan, with Pakistan winning the first ODI match by 26 runs. In November 2020, Ireland and Scotland women's planned tour to Spain was the next series to be cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, after Scotland withdrew from the series. In December 2020, England's ODI matches against South Africa were postponed following a COVID-19 outbreak. On 31 December 2020, Cricket Australia confirmed that the India women's tour of Australia, scheduled to take place in January 2021, had been postponed by one year.
In December 2020, the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced a revised schedule for fixtures that had been postponed due to the pandemic that formed part of the qualification pathway for the 2023 Cricket World Cup. These included the Cricket World Cup League 2 matches scheduled to be played in Namibia and Nepal, and the Cricket World Cup Challenge League series originally planned to be played in Malaysia. In January 2021, Ireland were scheduled to play four ODIs in the UAE against the hosts. However, two matches were cancelled following a COVID-19 scare within the UAE's team, resulting in the tour schedule being changed on multiple occasions. Disruption continued into February 2021, with Australia's planned tour of South Africa being postponed, and Pakistan women's tour of Zimbabwe being cut short after one match, following flight restrictions from Harare to Pakistan. Rounds six and seven of the ICC Cricket World Cup League 2 tournament, scheduled to take place in Oman and Papua New Guinea respectively, were also postponed.
In January and February 2021, South Africa toured Pakistan for the first time in fourteen years, playing two Tests and three T20I matches. During the tour, Pakistan became the first men's team to win 100 T20I matches. In April 2021, the Australia women's cricket team set a new record of twenty-two consecutive wins in ODI cricket, breaking Ricky Ponting's team record from 2002–03, when they beat New Zealand by six wickets.
Season overview
Rankings
The following were the rankings at the beginning of the season.
On-going tournaments
The following were the rankings at the beginning of the season.
September
2020 Asia Cup
The T20I tournament was postponed in July 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2020 Women's Twenty20 Asia Cup
The WT20I tournament was postponed in September 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
New Zealand women in Australia
October
West Indies in Australia
The tour was postponed in August 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Zimbabwe in Sri Lanka
The tour was scheduled to take place in October 2020, but did not take place, before being rescheduled for January 2022.
Zimbabwe in Pakistan
November
India in Australia
The T20I fixtures were originally scheduled to take place in October 2020, but were rescheduled for December 2020 after the T20 World Cup was moved back a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
West Indies in New Zealand
Ireland women against Scotland women in Spain
The tour was cancelled in November 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
England in South Africa
The ODI matches were postponed in December 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
December
Afghanistan in Australia
The tour was postponed in September 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In December 2020, the Afghanistan Cricket Board rescheduled the match for November 2021.
Pakistan in New Zealand
Sri Lanka in South Africa
January
Ireland in United Arab Emirates
Two of the four matches were cancelled due to COVID-19.
England in Sri Lanka
West Indies in Bangladesh
Pakistan women in South Africa
Ireland vs Afghanistan in the UAE
New Zealand in Australia
The tour was postponed in September 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In May 2021, Cricket Australia rescheduled the tour to take place in January and February 2022.
South Africa in Pakistan
February
England in India
The ODI and T20I matches were originally scheduled to be played in September to October 2020, but they were rescheduled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Pakistan women in Zimbabwe
The tour was cancelled in February 2021 due to flight restrictions.
Australia in New Zealand
England women in New Zealand
March
Zimbabwe vs Afghanistan in the UAE
Sri Lanka in West Indies
South Africa women in India
Bangladesh in New Zealand
Australia women in New Zealand
2021 Oman Tri-Nation Series
The series was postponed in February 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and rescheduled for September 2021.
Australia in South Africa
The tour was postponed in February 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
April
Pakistan in South Africa
The tour was originally scheduled to be played in October 2020, but postponed in August 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In October 2020, Cricket South Africa announced that the tour had been rescheduled for April 2021.
2021 Papua New Guinea Tri-Nation Series
The series was postponed in February 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Bangladesh in Sri Lanka
The Test matches were originally scheduled to be played in July and August 2020, but the tour was moved to October 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, in September 2020, the tour was postponed again after neither cricket board could agree on the quarantine requirements. In February 2021, the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) announced that they would be touring Sri Lanka in April 2021 to play two Test matches.
Pakistan in Zimbabwe
See also
Associate international cricket in 2020–21
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cricket
Notes
References
2020 in cricket
2021 in cricket |
41390904 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudonia%20albafascicula | Eudonia albafascicula | Eudonia albafascicula is a moth of the family Crambidae. It was described by John Tenison Salmon in 1956. It is endemic to New Zealand, and can be found on Antipodes Island.
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16721283 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah%20State%20Route%20273 | Utah State Route 273 | State Route 273 (SR-273) is a state highway completely within Davis County in the northern portion of the U.S. state of Utah that connects Farmington and US-89 to Kaysville and I-15.
Route description
The route begins as a continuation of SR-106 at a diamond interchange on US-89 at exit 397. The road heads northwest on Main Street in Farmington, a four-lane undivided highway. A golf course appears on the northern end of the street. The road enters Kaysville and turns north briefly before turning west on 200 North. The route continues west five blocks before a diamond interchange with I-15 at exit 328 appears. Immediately after this intersection, SR-273 terminates at the junction of 600 West, a road paralleling the freeway.
History
The road from Farmington northwest through Kaysville to Layton was added to the state highway system in 1910, and in the 1920s it became part of SR-1 and US-91. SR-1 was moved to the present alignment of I-15 in that area in 1953, and the old route became SR-106. The state legislature removed the portion of SR-106 between 200 North in Kaysville and I-15 in southern Layton from the state highway system in 1969, and instead took SR-106 west on 200 North to end at I-15. 200 North had been State Route 110 since 1931, initially running west from SR-1 (later SR-106) in Kaysville to West Kaysville. In 1941, it was extended east to SR-49 (US-89), and in 1969 it was all eliminated except for the piece that became SR-106.
However, before the 1969 amendments became effective, the State Road Commission further truncated SR-106 due to the planned reconstruction of North Farmington Junction, where SR-106 crossed SR-49 (US-89). Traffic would no longer be able to cross US-89 at that point, nor could southbound traffic turn left from US-89 to SR-106. To retain full access, SR-106 was sent west on Shepard Lane in Farmington to end at US-89, while the old alignment became two new routes: State Route 272 from Shepard Lane to US-89 and State Route 273 from US-89 to I-15 in Layton. An interchange replaced the old intersection at North Farmington Junction in about 2000, and in 2001 SR-272 became part of SR-273. Less than four months later, former SR-272 was deleted from the state highway system, returning SR-273 to its 1969 and present extent.
Major intersections
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Utah State Route 273
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63889347 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultan%20Al-Farhan | Sultan Al-Farhan | Sultan Al-Farhan (, born 25 September 1996) is a Saudi Arabian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Pro League side Al-Raed .
Career
Al-Farhan he started his career at the youth team of Al-Hilal . He signed his first professional contract with Al-Hilal on 30 January 2017. And he signed an agreement to end a contract with Al-Hilal and signed with Al-Raed On 5 August 2017 . and renewed his contract with Al-Raed on May 27, 2018 . and renewed his contract again with Al-Raed on December 12, 2019 .
References
External links
1996 births
Living people
Saudi Arabian footballers
Saudi Arabia youth international footballers
Al Hilal SFC players
Al-Raed FC players
Saudi Professional League players
Association football midfielders |
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