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Jovanna Huguet | Jovanna Huguet (born August 29, 1980) is a Canadian actress.
Huguet was born in Edmonton, Alberta to a Peruvian mother and a Canadian father. She grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia. She trained as a ballet dancer at the prestigious Royal Winnipeg Ballet School and the Walnut Hill School, in Natick, Massachusetts.
She made her acting debut in the 2003 award-winning Canadian independent film Part of the Game. After this, she guest starred on numerous television shows, including Supernatural, Smallville, Blade: The Series and Psych.
She speaks English, French and Spanish.
Filmography
Mr. Young (2011) - Madame Krampinova
The True Heroines (2011) - Margie Hepburn
True Justice (2011) - Jodi
Percy Jackson and the Olympians (2010) - Lotus Land Pedicurist (uncredited)
Alice (2009; miniseries) - Go-Go Dancer
Fringe (2009; TV) - Diana Lamia
Smallville (2007; TV) - Sasha Woodman
Psych (2007; TV) - Singer #9
Numb (2007) - Cute nervous girl
Chaos Theory (2007) - Maid of Honour
Under the Mistletoe (2006; TV) - Production Assistant
Veiled Truth (2006; TV; US title What Comes Around) - Angie
Blade: The Series (2006; TV; 2 episodes) - Receptionist
Truth (2005) - Christie McDermott
Supernatural (2005; TV) - Bloody Mary/Mary Worthington
External links
Jovanna's official site
Article on Jovanna's web series
Wapsi Girl
Sequential Tart article
References
Category:Living people
Category:1980 births
Category:Canadian people of Peruvian descent
Category:Canadian film actresses
Category:Canadian television actresses
Category:Actresses from Edmonton
Category:Actresses from Vancouver |
Chantal Strasser | Chantal Strasser (born March 21, 1978 in Zürich) is a retired female freestyle swimmer from Switzerland. She competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics for her native country, starting in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia.
References
Category:1978 births
Category:Living people
Category:Swiss female swimmers
Category:Female freestyle swimmers
Category:Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Category:Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Category:Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic swimmers of Switzerland
Category:European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
Category:Sportspeople from Zürich |
Dennis Wit | Dennis Wit is a retired American soccer midfielder who spent one season in the American Soccer League and nine in the North American Soccer League. He also earned four caps with the U.S. national team.
College
Wit attended Loyola College where he played on the men’s soccer team from 1969 to 1972. He finished his career with 53 goals, placing him in second on the college’s all time goals list.
Professional
In 1973, Wit began his professional career with the Baltimore Bays of the American Soccer League. In 1974, he moved up to the Baltimore Comets of the North American Soccer League (NASL). He spent the 1974 and 1975 seasons with the Comets, then moved with the team when it left Baltimore to become the San Diego Jaws. Wit began the 1976 season in San Diego, but was traded to the Tampa Bay Rowdies after fourteen games. He finished the 1976 season in Tampa Bay, then played all of 1977 there before moving back north to the New England Tea Men for the 1978 season. The Tea Men moved to Jacksonville before the 1981 season. Wit moved with the team and played the 1981 and 1982 seasons in Jacksonville.
National team
Wit was on the American team at the 1975 Pan American Games and earned four caps with the U.S. national team. His first game came in a scoreless tie with Mexico on October 3, 1976. This game was the second U.S. qualification game for the 1978 FIFA World Cup. Wit’s second game with the national team did not go so well as the U.S. fell 3-0 to Mexico twelve days later. He played one more game in 1976, a scoreless tie with Haiti on November 10. His last game with the national team came in a 3-1 loss to the Soviet Union on February 3, 1979. In that game, Wit was a second half substitute for Gary Etherington.
Wit is now a toy sales manager in Jacksonville, Florida.
References
External links
NASL stats
Category:1951 births
Category:Living people
Category:Sportspeople from Baltimore
Category:Soccer players from Maryland
Category:American Soccer League (1933–1983) players
Category:American soccer players
Category:Baltimore Bays (1972–73) players
Category:Baltimore Comets players
Category:Loyola Greyhounds men's soccer players
Category:North American Soccer League (1968–1984) indoor players
Category:North American Soccer League (1968–1984) players
Category:San Diego Jaws players
Category:Tampa Bay Rowdies (1975–1993) players
Category:New England Tea Men players
Category:Jacksonville Tea Men players
Category:Pan American Games competitors for the United States
Category:Footballers at the 1975 Pan American Games
Category:United States men's international soccer players
Category:Association football midfielders |
Segundo Montes | Segundo Montes, S.J. (Valladolid, Spain, May 15, 1933 – San Salvador, El Salvador, November 16, 1989) was a scholar, philosopher, educator, sociologist and Jesuit priest. He was one of the victims of the 1989 murders of Jesuits in El Salvador.
Biography
Segundo Montes grew up in Valladolid, Spain, where he also went to secondary school until 1950. On August 15, 1950, he entered the novitiate of the Society of Jesus in Orduña. After a year there, he moved to Santa Tecla in El Salvador under the mentorship of Miguel Elizondo, who described him as an adolescent who hit the football so hard against the wall of the Iglesia El Carmen that he rattled the roof tiles.
When he fulfilled his studies in the novitiate in 1952, he followed the steps of other Jesuit students in Central America and moved to Quito to study classical humanities at the Catholic University. In 1954, he began studies in philosophy, fulfilling his licenciatura (licenciate) in 1957. He then returned to San Salvador to teach at the school Externado San José. In 1960, he returned to university to study theology. He started in Oña, where he lived for a year. He later moved to Innsbruck, where he completed the three remaining years of studies. He was ordained a priest July 25, 1963. He returned to Externado San José as a teacher and was naturalised as a Salvadoran citizen.
Segundo Montes spent most of his time in the school Externado San José or in Universidad Centroamericana "José Simeón Cañas" (UCA). He worked for two periods in Externado; from 1957 to 1960 and 1966 to 1976. He taught physics for many years, and he was responsible for the laboratories in the school. He was a Prefect of Discipline and Administrative Director. In between 1973 and 1976, he was Rector of Externado San José, which was precisely a moment when the school was going through a deep identity crisis. The consequences of the Second Vatican Council and the Episcopal Conference of Medellín had made Externado San José express a preference for the poor and to prioritize education that contributed to modify the social differences in El Salvador. This sort of discourse was not well received by the Salvadoran elites, who had been traditionally served by Externado San José. Segundo Montes handled this crisis in a constructive way. He was very popular among students and he had many friends. This changed, however, as the political environment in El Salvador became more polarized later in the 1970s. He was not singled out in propagandistic government pamphlets against critical intellectuals until towards the end of his life, when his name started figuring in the lists of Jesuits who were accused of being revolutionaries. His name was commonly the third one after Ignacio Ellacuría and Ignacio Martín-Baró.
Gradually Segundo Montes started assuming more responsibilities in UCA as a lecturer in social sciences. For a period, he worked as a Dean in the Faculty of Natural Sciences. To prepare himself for academia, he travelled to Spain, and in 1978 he completed a PhD in Social Anthropology in Universidad Complutense in Madrid. His dissertation was about "compadrazgo" relationships in El Salvador. His field work included interviews that he performed on weekends in the western part of the country.
He returned to teach Sociology in UCA, and starting in 1980, he was the head of the Department of Political Sciences and Sociology. Between 1978 and 1982, he was a member of the editorial board in the academic journal Estudios Centroamericanos (ECA). He was also a member of the editorial board of the Boletín de Ciencias Económicas y Sociales and the journal Realidad Económico Social. He was a regular contributor to these journals. He also gave many lectures for national institutes, colleges, worker's unions, cooperatives and political parties. He was also a member of the board of directors in UCA. He headed the team of lawyers who put together UCA's law study program. Beginning in 1984, he headed the research project on Salvadoran refugees. Toward the end of the 1980s, he was the managing director of the human rights institution he founded: Instituto de Derechos Humanos de la UCA (IDHUCA), and before his death, he was preparing the program for the master's degree in sociology.
A prolific writer, Segundo Montes left behind a series of articles and books. From 1982 and onwards he wrote at least one book a year. He wrote mostly in Spanish, and so far none of his works originally in Spanish have been translated to English. However, his research on refugees, displaced people and human rights made him well-known internationally. He visited Washington, D.C., on repeated occasions, to testify in the corresponding committees in the United States Congress, to defend the rights of Salvadoran refugees. His last trip to Washington was in early November 1989. In one of the halls of Congress, the organisation CARECEN (an organisation for the assistance of refugees) granted him a prize for defending the rights of Salvadorans.
Social anthropology
Segundo Montes did research and wrote on social stratification, land ownership, the possibilities for democracy and the military. His work on these issues is still a dominant influence on the theoretical frameworks employed by researchers to analyse Salvadoran society. His work is referenced in studies of power distribution and the effects of emigration on Salvadoran society. His published articles included an analysis of economic, political, and other motives for Salvadoran emigration to the United States. It addressed claims by the United States government that Salvadoran immigrants were economic refugees who therefore did not qualify for political asylum.
The political implications of Montes' commitment to his ideas met strong opposition from the conservative religious and political forces in El Salvador. This opposition led to Montes' murder by the Salvadoran Army in 1989 at his residence in UCA along with five other fellow Jesuit priests (among them Ignacio Ellacuría and Ignacio Martín-Baró) and two employees. Their murders marked a turning point in the Salvadoran civil war (see History of El Salvador). It increased international pressures on the Salvadoran government to sign the Chapultepec Peace Accords with the guerrillas.
See also
Segundo Montes, Morazán — a community established by former refugees, in memory of Montes
Bibliography
Some publications and references
Notes
External links
Segundo Montes, UCA page
Category:1933 births
Category:1989 deaths
Category:Martyred Roman Catholic priests
Category:Catholic martyrs of El Salvador
Category:Jesuit martyrs
Category:Assassinated Salvadoran people
Category:Assassinated Spanish people
Category:Liberation theologians
Category:Spanish people murdered abroad
Category:Spanish Jesuits
Category:People murdered in El Salvador
Category:Murdered missionaries
Category:People of the Salvadoran Civil War
Category:20th-century Roman Catholic martyrs
Category:Spanish Roman Catholic theologians
Category:20th-century Roman Catholic theologians
Category:Roman Catholic missionaries in El Salvador
Category:Spanish philosophers
Category:20th-century philosophers
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Category:Jesuit missionaries
Category:Central American University faculty
Category:1989 crimes in El Salvador
Category:1989 murders in North America
Category:1980s murders in El Salvador
Category:20th-century Roman Catholic priests |
Oxylymma gibbicollis | Oxylymma gibbicollis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Bates in 1873.
References
Category:Rhinotragini
Category:Beetles described in 1873 |
AppleTree | AppleTree is a Colombian rock band formed in Bogotá in 2012, consisting of Camilo Andrés Cárdenas (lead vocals, guitar), Alex González (Bass) and Cristian Galeano (Drums). Their music is inspired by indie rock bands with Lo-Fi aesthetics like Pavement, Guided by Voices, Dinosaur Jr. and Sebadoh.
Beginning - Draft (EP)
They recorded their first EP called "Draft" by mid 2012 with Fabián Cárdenas as producer and their bedrooms as studio. This EP was mastered in Blue Mountain in Nashville, USA. In October 2012 Cristian joins the band and they played their first gigs opening for the British band The Palace of Justice in different cities of Colombia.
"Draft" was reviewed by blogs and media in U.S.A., England, Germany, Switzerland, Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Costa Rica, Venezuela and Colombia. In 2013 AppleTree was listed as one of the "seven overseas bands you've gotta listen" by I.R.C. (U.S.A.)
Stand Out of My Sunlight
In 2014 AppleTree release the video of their new song "Stand Out of My Sunlight" and announce their new EP, that was released some weeks later through the independent label Elpatron Records. This EP was listed in the top 10 of Colombian albums by Escena Indie en Colombia, one of the most importants music websites of Colombia.
Stand Out of My Sunlight (EP) was recorded in Bogotá and mastered in UTC Studio, Stoke-on-Trent, England. The EP was broadcast on British radio stations like Radicals Rising and 6 Towns Radio. Again, many musical press reviewed their work and pointed the advance of AppleTree in this new EP, inspired by bands like The Replacements and Buzzcocks.
Subterranean Gardens, the second video of the EP was released in 2015. It was directed by Gabriel Muelle, longtime collaborator of the band, who created the artwork of the EP too.
In September 2015 they released the video for Witch Hunt, the third video for "Stand Out of My Sunlight" EP.
"Queen & Drones / Nube Blanca"
In October 2015 AppleTree announce its gigs in London, where they play in legendary venues of the British capital city like New Cross Inn, The Islington and 12 Bar. In February, 2016, they release their new singles "Queens & Drones / Nube Blanca" that were recorded in London by Rory Attwell, producer of bands like The Vaccines, Palma Violets or Yuck.
Horas Perdidas
During the end of 2017 AppleTree travels to Nashville, Tennessee to record their first album "Horas Perdidas" with Ken Coomer, founding member of Wilco, as drummer and producer, at Cartoon Moon studio. This work was mixed by Patrick Miller and mastered by Jonathan Pines at Private Studios in Urbana, Illinois. Two guitarists from the indie rock scene in Bogotá, Harry Revelo (Las Malas Lenguas) and Gabe Silva (No Stories) joined the band for the shows of the new album.
"Horas Perdidas" is released in September 2018, through Elpatron Records, and the self-titled song "Horas Perdidas" was the main single. At the end of 2018 the specialized blog This Is Music, named "Horas Perdidas" as the # 1 album of the year in Colombia, and the single "Horas Perdidas" was included in the list of new Colombian songs from Shock magazine along with artists like Carlos Vives or J Balvin.
Members
Camilo Andrés Cárdenas (Vocal, Guitar)
Alex González (Bass)
Cristian Galeano (Drums)
Discography
2012 - Draft (EP)
2015 - Stand Out of My Sunlight (EP)
2016 - Queens & Drones / Nube Blanca (Single)
2018 - Horas Perdidas
Links
Official Site
References
Category:Colombian rock music groups
Category:Colombian indie rock groups
Category:Musical trios
Category:Musical groups established in 2012
Category:Musical groups established in the 2010s |
Hockey Heritage North | Heritage North is a conference and events centre in Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Canada. Started as Hockey Heritage North a hockey museum officially opened on June 29, 2006 and established as a foundation in January 2008.
Related
List of Hockey Heritage North Honoured Members
References
Category:Ice hockey museums and halls of fame
Category:Kirkland Lake
Category:Museums established in 2006
Category:Museums in Timiskaming District
Category:Sports museums in Canada |
List of windmills in Wiltshire | A list of all windmills and windmill sites which lie in the current ceremonial county of Wiltshire.
__TOC__
Locations
Maps
1773 Andrews and Dury
1810 Andrews and Dury
Notes
Mills in bold are still standing, known building dates are indicated in bold. Text in italics denotes indicates that the information is not confirmed, but is likely to be the case stated.
References
Category:History of Wiltshire
Category:Windmills in Wiltshire
Category:Lists of windmills in England
Windmills |
M1 Light Tractor | Prior to and during the Second World War the United States Army called several tractors M1 Light Tractor. Under the Ordnance Corps these "off the shelf" tractors were meant to tow artillery pieces so were not equipped with blades like their Engineer counterparts. Eventually these were replaced by purpose built "High Speed Tractors" (HST). Some tractors were equipped with crane attachments for ammunition, and material handling.
Variants
G015 M1 Light Ordnance Tractor
G036 Light Tractor, 3,5-Ton, Cletrac 20c
Light Tractor Caterpillar R-4
G151 Light Tractor Caterpillar D-4 (not yet known for sure if it was called M1)
G099 Light Tractor IH TD-9 (called M1?)
Gallery
Detailed information on Caterpillar D4
TB 5-9720-11 (1944) gives the following detailed information:
TRACTOR, CRAWLER, DIESEL, 35 TO 40-DBHP,
STANDARD, CATERPILLAR, D4
Mfr: Caterpillar Tractor Co. Stock No.: 78-8138.0-44
Peoria, 111.
Model: D4
1. General. — The D4 is designed for towing and all types of general
construction work. Accurately located frame-holes are provided
for attaching varied tractor equipment to adapt it for use in
earth moving, road clearance, and airport construction work.
2. References. — For further information regarding this equipment,
refer to: TM 5-3110; ASF Catalog, Section ENG 7-T31, ENG
8-T31.
3. Engine. — Make: Caterpillar. Model: D4. Fuel: Diesel commercial. Cylinders: 4. Bore and Stroke: 4}£ x 5K-in. Governed speed: 1400 rpm. Valve adjustment: 0.010-in. Firing
order: 1-3-4-2. Equipped with Independent, 2-cylinder,
4-stroke-cycle gasoline starting engine.
4. Fuel, coolant, and lubrication data. — Fuel tank: 25-gal fuel oil.
Radiator: 11 -gal water. Crankcase: 4-gal engine oil. Transmission: 5-gal gear oil. Final drive cases: 1%-gal gear oil each.
Engine oil grade: OE-30 above 32 F, OE-10 below 32 °F.
Gear oil grade: GO-90 above 32 F, GO-80 below 32 °F.
5. Speeds and drawbar pull. — Five forward speeds and one reverse.
Reverse speed: 1.9 mph. Forward speeds with maximum
drawbar pull are: 1st: 1.7 mph, 7852 lb. 2nd: 2.4 mph,
5811 lb. 3rd: 3.0 mph, 4541 lb. 4th: 3.7 mph, 3471 lb. 5th:
5.4-mph, 2230-lb.
6. Clutch. — Power is transmitted through dry type flywheel clutch
to selective type change speed gear set. Each track is controlled by slow speed, heavy duty, dry multiple disc clutch.
7. Brakes. — Contracting band brakes.
8. Crawlers. — Gage, center to center of tracks: 44-in. Track length:
61%-in. Track shoe width: 13-in. Grouser height: 2 in.
Track shoes, each side: 31. Ground contact: 1589 sq in.
9. Attachments. — The following attachments are issued as standard
equipment with the D4 Caterpillar: ANGLEDOZER, LaPlante-Choate 4R. ANGLEDOZER, LeTourneau C-4. BULL-
DOZER, LaPlante-Choate or LeTourneau A-4. POWER
CONTROL UNIT, LeTourneau T-4. COMBINATION
POWER CONTROL UNIT AND WINCH, LeTourneau,
HN. WINCH, Hyster D-4A. WINCH, Hyster D4.
10. Dimensions. — Length: 121% 6 in. Width: 62 in. Height: 60% in.
Drawbar height: 13%-in. Turning radius: 74-in.
11. Working weight. — Without attachments: 10,000-lb.
12. Shipping data. — Boxed for export (tractor only), completely
assembled. No. of boxes: 1. Length: 126-in. Width: 68-in.
Height: 69-in. Cubage: 343 cu ft. Weight: 11,600-lb.
Military Service
An iconic vehicle used by the Seabees during [WW2] . Often seen with the term "Natasha", the name of the bulldozer in John Wayne . It was equipped with a plow and shipped off to islands in the pacific to help build a variety of items, including Airstrips, Supply Depots, and Roads.
See also
List of U.S. military vehicles by model number
List of U.S. military vehicles by supply catalog designation
M2 Light Tractor
M1 Heavy Tractor
M1 Medium Tractor
References
* TM 5-3222 IHC T-9 TRACTOR
TM 5-3110 Caterpillar D4
Category:World War II vehicles of the United States |
Escalona | Escalona is a municipality located in the north part of the province of Toledo, which in turn is part of the autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha, Spain. According to the 2017 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 3,240 inhabitants, most of whom are settled in several housing estates such as Ribera del Alberche, Miragredos or Castillo de Escalona.
The town is settled alongside the right side of the river Alberche, in the comarca of Torrijos, which is a part of the historical region of New Castile.
The Mudéjar-style Castillo-Palacio de Escalona is the most characteristic building of the town, built in the 15th century.
Twin towns
Villena, Spain
Peñafiel, Spain
Notable people
Don Juan Manuel (1282-1348), writer
Esteban de Aguilar y Zúñiga, theologian
References
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) website
Official website of the "Diputación Provincial de Toledo"
Category:Municipalities in the Province of Toledo |
Medical technology assessment | Medical technology assessment (MTA) is the objective evaluation of a medical technology regarding its safety and performance, its (future) impact on clinical and non-clinical patient outcomes as well as its interactive effects on economical, organizational, social, juridical and ethical aspects of healthcare. Medical technologies are assessed both in absolute terms and in comparison to other (combinations of) medical technologies, procedures, treatments or ‘doing-nothing’.
The aim of MTA is to provide objective, high-quality information that relevant stakeholders use for decision-making about for example development, pricing, market access and reimbursement of new medical technologies. As such, MTA is similar to health technology assessment (HTA), except that HTA has a wider scope and may include assessments of for example organizational or financial interventions.
The classical approach of MTA is to evaluate technologies after they enter the marketplace. Yet, a growing number of researchers and policy-makers argue that new technologies should be evaluated before they diffuse into routine clinical practice. MTA of biomedical innovations in a very early stage of development could improve health outcomes, minimise wrong investment and prevent social and ethical conflicts.
One particular method within the area of early MTA is constructive technology assessment (CTA). CTA is particularly appropriate for the early assessment of dynamic technologies that are implemented under uncertain circumstances. CTA is based on the idea that during the course of technology development, choices are constantly being made about the form, the function, and the use of that technology. Especially in early stages, technologies are not always stable, nor are its specifications and neither is its use, as both technology and environment will mutually influence each other. In recent years, CTA has developed from assessing the (clinical) impact of a new technology to a much broader approach, including the analysis of design, development, and implementation of that new technology.
In the Netherlands, the department Health Technology and Services Research (HTSR) of the University of Twente and the institute for Medical Technology Assessment (iMTA) of the Erasmus University Rotterdam perform early MTA and CTA in collaboration with technology users (patients, healthcare professionals), technology developers (academic and industrial), technology investors (venture capitalists, government, etc.) technology procurers (hospitals, patients, etc.) and decision-makers in healthcare (patients, policy-makers etc.) By performing excellent scientific research, that is valuable and relevant for society, HTSR and iMTA aim to support decisions about early development and implementation of health care technology in order to achieve high quality healthcare for individual patients. Examples of the research of HTSR include the early economic evaluation of neuromuscular electrical stimulation in the treatment of shoulder pain and early phase technology assessment of nanotechnology in oncology. Examples of the work if iMTA include the development of the widely used cost-effectiveness acceptability curves (CEACs), the introduction of the friction cost method, the valuation if informal care with the CarerQoL instrument and the estimation of indirect medical costs.
References
External links
Health Technology and Services Research – University of Twente (NL)
Eucomed
NICE Evaluation Pathway Programme for Medical Technologies
Multidisciplinary Assessment of Technology Centre for Healthcare
Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health – Medical Devices and Health Systems projects
Health Technology Assessment International
International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research
Category:Medical technology |
Saint-Georges-de-Reneins | Saint-Georges-de-Reneins is a commune in the Rhône department in eastern France.
See also
Communes of the Rhône department
References
INSEE
Category:Communes of Rhône (department)
Category:Segusiavi |
Cheilosia longula | Cheilosia longula is a Palearctic hoverfly.
Description
External images
For terms see Morphology of DipteraCheilosia longula shares bare eyes, partly pale legs, rather long wings and fused antennal pits with Cheolosia soror and Cheilosia scutellata but it is smaller (wing
length 6-8·25 mm., body length 6.0 to 9.0 mm) and darker than these species. The central facial knob is confined to the middle of face (although the face is swollen to the
eye-margins) and is not semicircular viewed from above as it is in C. scutellata. The
front tarsi are brownish or blackish. The scutellar bristles are rather long, median pair at least as long as scutellum and the arista has rather short but obvious hairs . In the female the scutellum usually has a yellowish tip and the humeri are usually yellowish. The sternopleuron of females is usually yellow along the posterior margin. In females the frons has minute sparse punctation and is without a median groove. The larva is described and figured by Rotheray (1994).
See references for determination.
Distribution
Range: Fennoscandia south to the Pyrenees Italy and Yugoslavia.Ireland eastwards through USSR to eastern Siberia
Habitat
The habitat is deciduous and coniferous forest and conifer plantations in glades, clearings, and by tracks and taiga
Biology
Adults fly at heights up to 3m, often settling on low-growing vegetation in dappled sunlight. Flowers visited include species of Achillea, Calluna, Cirsium, Euphorbia, Galium and Potentilla erecta. Flies from the end of June to October, with a peak in September.The larva is an internal feeder on the tissues of various large, woodland basidiomycetes mainly Boletus, Leccinum and Suillus.
References
Category:Diptera of Europe
Category:Hoverflies
Category:Insects described in 1838 |
1912 Boston Braves season | The 1912 Boston Braves season was the 42nd season of the franchise. Team owner William Hepburn Russell died after the 1911 season and his stock was bought up by a group including Tammany Hall alderman James Gaffney and former baseball manager John Montgomery Ward. The team was renamed the Boston Braves after the Sachems, also known as "Braves", of Tammany Hall.
Regular season
Season standings
Record vs. opponents
Notable transactions
June 21, 1912: Doc Miller was traded by the Braves to the Philadelphia Phillies for John Titus.
Roster
Player stats
Batting
Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in
Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in
Pitching
Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts
Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts
Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts
References
External links
1912 Boston Braves season at Baseball Reference
Category:Boston Braves seasons
Boston Braves season
Category:1912 in sports in Massachusetts |
George Kelley | George Kelley may refer to:
George V. Kelley (1843–1905), American officer in Civil War Union Army
George Davy Kelley (1848–1911), English trades unionist
George Kelley (American football) (before 1880–after 1901), American college coach
George Biddle Kelley (1884–1962), American founder of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity at Cornell University
See also
George Kelley Paperback and Pulp Fiction Collection, collection at State University of New York at Buffalo
Kelley (name)
George Kelly (disambiguation) |
Bengal Film Journalists' Association – Best Editor Award | Here is a list of the award winners and the films for which they won.
See also
Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards
Cinema of India
External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20080229010408/http://www.bfjaawards.com/
Category:Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards
Category:Film editing awards |
Welsh National League (North) | The Welsh National League (North) was a football league in north and central Wales which formed the first level of the Welsh football league system between 1935 and 1984.
It is considered North Wales's most successful league, running uninterrupted apart from the Second World War for forty-nine years until its transition into the Welsh Alliance League in for the 1984–85 season.
Champions
1935–36 - Llandudno
1936–37 - Llandudno
1936–37 - Porthmadog
1937–38 - Llandudno
1938–39 - Caernarfon Town
1945–46 - H.M.S.Glendower
1946–47
Western Area: Caernarfon Town
Eastern Area: Connah's Quay St Davids
1948–49 - Penrhyn Quarry
1948–49 - Llandudno Junction
1949–50 - Holywell Town
1950–51 - Pwllheli
1951–52 - Pwllheli
1952–53 - Holywell Town
1953–54 - 55th R.A. Tonfannau
1954–55 - Fflint Town United
1955–56 - Fflint Town United
1956–57 - Fflint Town United
1957–58 - Holywell Town
1958–59 - Borough United
1959–60 - Nantlle Vale
1960–61 - Pwllheli
1961–62 - Blaenau Ffestiniog
1962–63 - Borough United
1963–64 - Holywell Town
1964–65 - Colwyn Bay
1965–66 - Caernarfon Town
1966–67 - Porthmadog
1967–68 - Porthmadog
1968–69 - Porthmadog
1969–70 - Holywell Town
1970–71 - Bethesda Athletic
1971–72 - Blaenau Ffestiniog
1972–73 - Blaenau Ffestiniog
1973–74 - Blaenau Ffestiniog
1974–75 - Porthmadog
1975–76 - Porthmadog
1976–77 - Bethesda Athletic
1977–78 - Caernarfon Town
1978–79 - Caernarfon Town
1979–80 - Blaenau Ffestiniogg
1980–81 - Colwyn Bay
1981–82 - Courtaulds Greenfield
1982–83 - Colwyn Bay
1983–84 - Colwyn Bay
See also
List of association football competitions
Welsh Football League
References
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List of Soviet films of 1967 | A list of films produced in the Soviet Union in 1967 (see 1967 in film).
1967
External links
Soviet films of 1967 at the Internet Movie Database
1967
Soviet
Films |
USS Calypso | USS Calypso has been the name of more than one United States Navy ship, and may refer to:
, an armed steamer in commission from 1863 to 1865
, a patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1919
, an auxiliary ship in commission from 1941 to 1942
Category:United States Navy ship names |
Ab Anjir-e Sofla, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad | Ab Anjir-e Sofla (, also Romanized as Āb Anjīr-e Soflá; also known as Āb Anjīr-e Pā’īn) is a village in Lishtar Rural District, in the Central District of Gachsaran County, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 98, in 23 families.
References
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Piper excelsum subsp. psittacorum | Piper excelsum subsp. psittacorum, commonly known as pepper tree or kava, is a flowering plant in the family Piperaceae. The subspecific epithet means “of the parrots”, inferring a liking by parrots for the fruits.
Description
It is a shrub growing to 1.5 m in height. The alternate, aromatic, heart-shaped leaves are usually 80–110 mm long and 80–110 mm wide. The tiny, apetalous flowers, borne on separate male and female inflorescences, appear from July to September. The small, fleshy, orange fruits, 12–14 mm long and sweet when ripe, are produced in December and January.
Distribution and habitat
The subspecies is found on Australia’s subtropical Lord Howe and Norfolk islands in the Tasman Sea, as well as on some islands off the northern coast of New Zealand, including the Kermadec Islands in the south-west Pacific Ocean. It occurs in forests and on forest margins at low elevations.
References
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Kinmonth | Kinmonth may refer to:
Ack Kinmonth, an Australian film and television composer.
Margy Kinmonth, a film and television director.
Patrick Kinmonth, (born 27 August 1957), an Anglo-Irish opera director and artist.
Kinmonth House, a listed building, in Scotland. |
Ebonics: The True Language of Black Folks | Ebonics: The True Language of Black Folks is a 1975 book written by the American psychologist Robert Williams. Williams coined the term Ebonics two years earlier at a conference he organized on the topic of the "cognitive and language development of the African American child". This book defines the term (which Williams translated as "black sounds") as the "linguistic and para-linguistic features which on a concentric continuum represent the communicative competence of the West African, Caribbean, and United States slave descendants of African origin".
References
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Category:African-American English
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The Flying Horse | The Flying Horse (previously The Tottenham) is a Grade II* listed public house at 6 Oxford Street, Fitzrovia, London. It was built in the 19th century, and is the last remaining pub on Oxford Street. The pub is on the Campaign for Real Ale's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors.
Known for a time as The Tottenham, it was renamed the Flying Horse in 2015, the pub's name prior to its redevelopment in 1894.
References
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Category:Grade II* listed pubs in the City of Westminster
Category:National Inventory Pubs
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1992 South African motorcycle Grand Prix | The 1992 South African motorcycle Grand Prix was the last round of the 1992 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 4–6 September 1992 at Kyalami.
500 cc race
Eddie Lawson announced his retirement. To win the championship, Wayne Rainey had to finish in front of Mick Doohan and higher than 6th if Doohan was behind. According to Scott, Kenny Roberts asked Rainey if he wanted John Kocinski’s "help", and Rainey said no.
Kocinski on pole. Rainey gets the start from Kocinski, Doohan and Kevin Schwantz.
Doug Chandler moved into 3rd, Schwantz 4th, Doohan 5th.
Chandler makes it a 3-way fight for first with Rainey and teammate Kocinski.
Kocinski through to 1st, Wayne Gardner and Schwantz in a battle for 4th.
Kocinski gets a gap from Rainey, then it’s a small gap to Gardner and Chandler.
Gardner closes on Rainey and passes into 2nd place. Gardner would much rather Rainey get the championship than Doohan, "so for once [Gardner] gave [Rainey] a whole lot of room as he went by."
Rainey’s 3rd place is enough to win the championship by 4 points. Kocinski goes to Suzuki 250 GP next year, then is fired and goes to Cagiva.
500 cc classification
250 cc classification
References
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Laemodonta monilifera | Laemodonta monilifera is a species of small air-breathing, snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ellobiidae.
Distribution
This species occurs in Japan.
References
External links
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List of Cultural Properties of the Philippines in Bangsamoro | This list contains an overview of the government recognized Cultural Properties of the Philippines in Bangsamoro. The list is based on the official lists provided by the National Commission on Culture and the Arts, National Historical Commission of the Philippines and the National Museum of the Philippines.
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Notes
See also
List of historical markers of the Philippines in Bangsamoro
References
Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao
Cultural Properties
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Artuch | Artuch is a town in north-west Tajikistan. It is located in Sughd province not far from the Kulikalon Lakes.
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Category:Populated places in Tajikistan |
Christina Pedersen (handballer) | Christina Nimand Hansen (formerly Pedersen; born 15 December 1982) is a Danish former team handball goalkeeper.
At the 2010 European Women's Handball Championship she reached the bronze final and placed fourth with the Danish team.
References
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2014 Indoor Football League season | The 2014 Indoor Football League season is the sixth season of the Indoor Football League (IFL). Playing with nine teams in two conferences spread across the United States, the league's regular season kicked off on February 21, 2014, when the reigning league champion Sioux Falls Storm played host to the Nebraska Danger. The regular season ended 17 weeks later on June 21, 2014, with the Nebraska Danger visiting the Texas Revolution.
Teams
For 2014, the IFL maintained its two-conference no-divisions format with each of 9 teams scheduled to play 14 games during the 17-week regular season. That was the same number of teams as played in the 2013 IFL season. The Minnesota-based Bemidji Axemen expansion team replaced the Chicago Slaughter which returned to the Continental Indoor Football League for the 2014 season.
United Conference
Intense Conference
Personnel
In mid-December 2013, Michael Allshouse moved up from assistant to commissioner of the IFL, replacing Robert Loving who is now the league's chief financial officer. For 2014, Mike McCoy serves as the Director of Business Development and Tom Falcinelli returns as the Director of Officiating.
Expansion
In January 2014, the league announced that the Billings Wolves would join the league for the 2015 season. The Wolves will play their home games at Rimrock Auto Arena at MetraPark in Billings, Montana. The city was previously home to the Billings Outlaws who folded after a tornado heavily damaged their home arena.
Standings
Playoffs
Awards
Individual season awards
1st Team All-IFL
2nd Team All-IFL
References
IFL |
Geology of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | The geology of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines formed due to overlapping basalt volcanic massifs within the last five million years since the Pliocene, although there may be deeper and older rocks that are poorly understood. Rocks grow younger further north.
References
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2011–12 Milton Keynes Dons F.C. season | The 2011–12 season was Milton Keynes Dons' eighth season in their existence as a professional association football club, and their fourth consecutive season competing in Football League One.
As well as competing in League One, the club also participated in the FA Cup, League Cup and League Trophy.
The season covers the period from 1 July 2011 to 30 June 2012.
Competitions
League One
Final table
Source: Sky Sports
Matches
Play-offs
FA Cup
Matches
League Cup
Matches
League Trophy
Matches
Player details
List of squad players, including number of appearances by competition.
Players with squad numbers struck through and marked left the club during the playing season.
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Transfers
Transfers in
Transfers out
Loans in
Loans out
References
External links
Official Supporters Association website
MK Dons news on MKWeb
2011-12
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HP 7470 | The HP 7470 was a small low-cost desktop pen plotter introduced by Hewlett Packard's San Diego division in 1982. It was the first small-format plot that moved the paper, rather than the pens.
It used a revolutionary "grit wheel" design which moved the paper held in place by a wheel with embedded grit and a pinch roller.
The HP 7470 had two pens, one on either side and plotted on ANSI A (8.5 x 11 inch) or A4-sized paper. It was much less expensive than the previous flatbed design. It was very heavy but had 4 pens. The HP 7475 used a rotating carousel with six pens. That plotter was used in greeting card kiosks. This design was also scaled up for very large pen plotters. These were driven by the HP-GL plotter language which used ASCII commands such as PA 300, 4500;PD;. The plotter had three electrical interfaces: HP-IB, RS-232, and HP-IL for HP handheld calculators.
Pen plotters became obsolete with the adoption of ink-jet printers, and processors fast enough to rasterize complex images. Houston Instrument and other manufacturers would follow with similar plotters.
References
External links
HP 7470A Operators manual
HP article on the engineering of the 7470A
Category:Pen plotters
7470 |
Journal of Bridge Engineering | The Journal of Bridge Engineering, is a peer-reviewed scientific journal about bridge engineering. It is published by the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Abstracting and indexing
Journal of Bridge Engineering is abstracted and indexed in the following bibliographic databases:
References
External links
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Category:English-language journals
Category:Engineering journals
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Tambatitanis | Tambatitanis is an extinct genus of titanosauriform dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous (probably early Albian) of Japan. It is known from a single type species, Tambatitanis amicitiae. It was probably around 14 meters long and its mass was estimated at some 4 tonnes. It was a basal titanosauriform and possibly belonged to the Euhelopodidae.
References
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Fjols til fjells | Fjols til fjells is a Norwegian situation comedy film released in 1957. It is one of the most popular Norwegian films of all time.
Plot
When two guests who look exactly alike arrive at Hurlumhei hotel, the manager Poppe, thinking they are one person, begins questioning if he's going mad. Meanwhile, the daughter of the hotel director disguises herself as a bellhop at the hotel to prove to her father that she's not just a spoiled child.
Release
The film was released in Norwegian cinemas in summer 1957 to mixed reviews, but it was a box office success. It was re-released to cinemas ten years later, again filling theatres. It remained unreleased on home video until the '90s when it was released on VHS, followed by a remastered DVD release in 2004. In recent years it has been shown on NRK during Easter every year.
Cast and characters
Poppe (played by Leif Juster), is the manager and concierge at Hurleimhei hotel, spending most of his days talking with his guests or skiing in the hills.
Rudolf/Ruth (played by Unni Bernhoft) is the daughter of the hotel director who disguises herself as a piccolo at the hotel to prove herself to her father.
Teddy Winter (played by Frank Robert), is a famous variety actor who arrives at the hotel, somewhat taken aback by the lack of fans there.
The Ornithologist (also played by Frank Robert), is an unnamed professor who arrives at the hotel and is mistaken by all the guests and staff for being his identical counterpart, Teddy Winter.
Dr. Grå (played by Willie Hoel), is a doctor staying at the hotel, who sees alcohol as the best solution to most problems. He diagnoses Poppe as being crazy, but soon goes mad himself when he sees the doppelgangers as well.
This was also the film debut as an uncredited extra for Liv Ullmann.
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Chicken Noodle Soup (J-Hope song) | "Chicken Noodle Soup" is a song by South Korean rapper J-Hope of boy band BTS featuring American singer Becky G. It was released through Big Hit Entertainment on September 27, 2019. The song samples American DJ Webstar and rapper Young B's song "Chicken Noodle Soup" featuring the Voice of Harlem from Webstar's album, Webstar Presents: Caught in the Web (2006).
Background
J-Hope expressed in a V Live stream that the original "Chicken Noodle Soup" by Webstar and Young B was meaningful to him because he often listened to it when he first began learning to dance. J-Hope wanted his version of "Chicken Noodle Soup" to be featured on his debut mixtape Hope World as the track represented his passion for dance. He also wanted the track to feature another artist; but as a collaboration failed to occur, the track was not released in 2018.
J-Hope and Becky G met at the 2019 Billboard Music Awards in May, with J-Hope previously saying that he would like to collaborate with her.
Becky G and J-Hope contributed to writing the trilingual lyrics, which center around one's identity and paying respect to their roots.
Release
Big Hit Entertainment released the song on September 27, 2019, during BTS' hiatus period. It was released for free on multiple platforms, and a download link of the mp3 file was provided on Big Hit's Twitter account.
Following the release of the music video, both Young B. and DJ Webstar voiced their enthusiasm for the "Chicken Noodle Soup" remake separately on social media.
J-Hope also issued an Internet dance challenge, encouraging his fans to try the choreography. He posted a video of himself doing the dance on BTS' official TikTok, and filmed fellow BTS groupmates Jungkook, Jimin and V dancing to the song on V Live.
Music video
The music video was directed by Yongseok Choi of Lumpens, and co-produced by Nathan Scherrer. It was shot in Los Angeles and features over 50 dancers of different nationalities.
The video incorporates dance moves from the original "Chicken Noodle Soup" dance, as well as new choreography that includes flapping elbows with bent legs to mimic a chicken. The video ends with an informal clip of the dance crew singing and dancing. This addition was requested by J-Hope with the intention of capturing the positive energy on the day of the film shoot.
Promotion
After Becky G tweeted "#BeckyHasAnotherSecret", BTS tweeted at her saying "I have a secret too..." with the hashtag "#CNS" on September 26.
Charts
References
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The Laundress (Chardin) | The Laundress () or A Young Girl Doing Laundry (Une petite femme s'occupant à savonner) is the title of three works by the French artist Jean Siméon Chardin.
Versions
Signed in the top left, the prime version of The Laundress dates to between 1733 and 1740. It formed part of the Crozat collection, which was mostly acquired by Catherine II of Russia on the advice of Denis Diderot in 1772, and so is now in the Hermitage Museum. It measures 38 by 48 cm.
A second version is now in the Nationalmuseum Stockholm; it is smaller (37.5 by 42.5 cm) and is signed in the centre on the stool under the tub. That version was exhibited at the 1737 Paris Salon and engraved by Cochin in 1739.
A third version (35 by 41 cm) was in the Henri de Rothschild collection but was destroyed in the Second World War.
References
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Alcide d'Orbigny | Alcide Charles Victor Marie Dessalines d'Orbigny (6 September 1802 – 30 June 1857) was a French naturalist who made major contributions in many areas, including zoology (including malacology), palaeontology, geology, archaeology and anthropology.
D'Orbigny was born in Couëron (Loire-Atlantique), the son of a ship's physician and amateur naturalist. The family moved to La Rochelle in 1820, where his interest in natural history was developed while studying the marine fauna and especially the microscopic creatures that he named "foraminiferans".
In Paris he became a disciple of the geologist Pierre Louis Antoine Cordier (1777–1861) and Georges Cuvier. All his life, he would follow the theory of Cuvier and stay opposed to Lamarckism.
South American era
D'Orbigny travelled on a mission for the Paris Museum, in South America between 1826 and 1833. He visited Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil, and returned to France with an enormous collection of more than 10,000 natural history specimens. He described part of his findings in La Relation du Voyage dans l'Amérique Méridionale pendant les annés 1826 à 1833 (Paris, 1824–47, in 90 fascicles). The other specimens were described by zoologists at the museum.
His contemporary, Charles Darwin, arrived in South America in 1832, and on hearing that he had been preceded, grumbled that D'Orbigny had probably collected "the cream of all the good things". Darwin later called D'Orbigny's Voyage a "most important work". They went on to correspond, with D'Orbigny describing some of Darwin's specimens.
He was awarded the Gold Medal of the Société de Géographie of Paris in 1834. The South American Paleocene pantodont Alcidedorbignya was named in his honour.
1840 and later
In 1840, d'Orbigny started the methodical description of French fossils and published La Paléontologie Française (8 vols). In 1849 he published a closely related Prodrome de Paléontologie Stratigraphique, intended as a "Preface to Stratigraphic Palaeontology", in which he described almost 18,000 species, and with biostratigraphical comparisons erected geological stages, the definitions of which rest on their stratotypes.
In 1853 he became professor of palaeontology at the Paris Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, publishing his Cours élémentaire that related paleontology to zoology, as a science independent of the uses made of it in stratigraphy. The chair of paleontology was created especially in his honor. The d'Orbigny collection is housed in the Salle d'Orbigny and is often visited by experts.
He described the geological timescales and defined numerous geological strata, still used today as chronostratigraphic reference such as Toarcian, Callovian, Oxfordian, Kimmeridgian, Aptian, Albian and Cenomanian. He died in the small town of Pierrefitte-sur-Seine, near Paris.
Catastrophism
D'Orbigny a disciple of Georges Cuvier was a notable advocate of catastrophism.
He recognized twenty-seven catastrophes in the fossil record. This became known as the "doctrine of successive creations". He attempted to reconcile the fossil record with the Genesis creation narrative. Both uniformitarian geologists and theologians rejected his idea of successive creations.
Palaeontologist Carroll Lane Fenton has noted that his idea of twenty-seven world-wide creations was "absurd", even for creationists. L. Sprague de Camp has written that "Alcide d'Orbigny, carried the idea to absurdity. Dragging in the supernatural, d'Orbigny argued that, on twenty-seven separate occasions, God had wiped out all life on earth and started over with a whole new creation."
Taxa
Several zoological and botanical taxa were named in his honor, including the following genera and species.
Alcidedorbignya – an extinct genus of pantodont mammal
Alcidia Bourguignat, 1889 – a genus of sea snails
Ampullaria dorbignyana Philippi, 1851 – a species of freshwater snail
Apostolepis dorbignyi Schlegel, 1837 – a species of burrowing snake
Asthenes dorbignyi Reichenbach, 1853 - a species of furnariid bird
Bachia dorbignyi A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1839 – a species of lizard
Cadomites orbignyi de Grossouvre, 1930 – a species of ammonites from the Bathonian
Chaunus dorbignyi (A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1841) – a species of toad
Haminoea orbignyana A. de Férussac, 1822 – a species of sea snail
Hecticoceras (Orbignyceras) C. Gérard & H. Contaut, 1936 – a subgenus of ammonite from the Callovian
Liolaemus dorbignyi Koslowsky, 1898 – a species of lizard
Lystrophis dorbignyi A.M.C. Duméril, Bibron & A.H.A. Duméril, 1854 – a species of snake
Nerocila orbignyi (Guérin, 1832) – a species of ectoparasitic isopod
Orbignya Mart. ex Endl. – a genus of palm trees, which includes the species Orbignya speciosa (Mart. ex Spreng.), commonly known as the Brazilian palm tree or babaçu in Portuguese
Pinna dorbignyi Hanley, 1858 – a species of bivalve mollusc
Potamotrygon orbignyi (Castelnau, 1855) – a species of freshwater stingray
Quadracythere orbignyana (Bosquet, 1852) – a species of marine ostracod
Rhinodoras dorbignyi (Kner, 1855) - a species of thorny catfish
Sepia (Rhombosepion) orbignyana A. de Férussac in d'Orbigny, 1826 – a species of cuttlefish, commonly known as the pink cuttlefish
Subdiscosphinctes orbignyi Hantzpergue, 1987 – a species of ammonites from the Kimmeridgian
Trachemys dorbigni – a species of freshwater turtle
In the above list, a taxon author or binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than the genus to which the species is currently assigned.
Publications
References
La Gazette des Français du Paraguay, Alcide d'Orbigny – Voyageur Naturaliste pour le Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle dans le Cone Sud – Alcide d'Orbigny – Viajero Naturalista para el Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Francia en el Cono Sur – Bilingue Français Espagnol – numéro 7, année 1, Asuncion Paraguay.
Further reading
Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . ("D'Orbigny", p. 74, "Orbigny", p. 195).
"Alcide d'Orbigny" In Taylor, W. Thomas; Taylor, Michael L. (2011). Aves: A Survey of the Literature of Neotropical Ornithology. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Libraries. 156 pp. .
External links
Gallica Digital versions of some d'Orbigny works. Search at Recherche.
Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire Naturelle
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Peter Jay Sharp Theater | Peter Jay Sharp Theater may refer to several theaters named after the former owner of Douglas Elliman and the Carlyle Hotel:
an Off-Broadway stage at Playwrights Horizons
a theater at the Juilliard School
a theater at Symphony Space
The Peter Jay Sharp Building at the Brooklyn Academy of Music houses the Howard Gilman Opera House and the Rose Cinema.
See also
Peter Jay (disambiguation) |
Susan Brown Chase | Susan Brown Chase (1868–1948) was an American painter.
Biography
Born in St. Louis, Chase had moved to Washington, D.C. by 1890, and would spend the majority of her life in that town. She studied art under Edmund C. Messer, Bertha E. Perrie, William Henry Holmes, Henry B. Snell, William Lester Stevens, and George Pearse Ennis, and attended classes at the Chester Springs Summer School. Long active in the arts community in Washington, she was a charter member of the Arts Club of Washington; other organizations to which she belonged included the Washington Water Color Club, the Society of Washington Artists, the American Watercolor Society, and the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors. With these groups she exhibited at such venues as the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Witte Museum. She was one of a small number of women allowed to show work with the Landscape Club of Washington, and she participated in the Greater Washington Independent Exhibition of 1935. For a number of years she taught at the Abbott School of Fine and Commercial Art. Chase received an honorable mention for her work at the Women's National Exhibition in St. Louis, and in 1917 she was awarded a medal from the Washington Water Color Club, on whose board she served and whose president she once was. Later in life she went to live with a daughter in Clearwater, Florida, in which town she died. She was buried at Arlington National Cemetery next to her husband, Volney Ogle Chase, with whom she had had two children; the grave marker gives her date of birth as 1864.
Work
Chase produced mainly watercolors during her career, many of them depicting scenes from around Washington, D.C. She also worked in gouache. One of her watercolors, an Interior from c. 1933–1943, is currently owned by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, to which it was transferred by the General Services Administration from the Internal Revenue Service. Eleven works, mostly watercolors and drawings, are held by the Library of Congress.
Gallery
References
External links
images of Chase's work on Invaluable
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List of non-marine molluscs of Myanmar | The non-marine molluscs of Myanmar are a part of the fauna of Myanmar (wildlife of Myanmar). A number of species of molluscs are found in the wild in Myanmar.
Freshwater gastropods
Freshwater gastropods in Myanmar include:
Viviparidae
Angulyagra oxytropis (Benson, 1836)
Bellamya bengalensis (Lamarck, 1882)
Assimineidae
Assiminea beddomeana Nevill, 1880
Assiminea brevicula Pfeiffer, 1854
Assiminea francesiae Wood, 1828
Assiminea microsculpta Nevill, 1880
Bithyniidae
Bithynia moreletiana Nevill, 1877
Bithynia pulchella Benson, 1836
Bithynia pygmaea Preston, 1908
Bithynia siamensis Lea, 1856
Ellobiidae
Auriculastra subula (Qouy & Gaimard, 1832) – in brackish waters
Pachychilidae
Brotia pagodula (Gould, 1847)
Faunus ater (Linnaeus, 1758)
Sulcospira housei (I. Lea, 1856)
Lymnaeidae
Austropeplea viridis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832)
Land gastropods
Land gastropods in Myanmar include:
Streptaxidae – 10 species of Streptaxidae are known from Myanmar
Perrottetia
Plectopylidae
Chersaecia
Endothyrella plectostoma (Benson, 1836)
Hunyadiscus andersoni (W. Blanford, 1869)
Ariophantidae
Hemiplecta humphreysiana
Syama primiscua Godwin-Austen
Camaenidae
Amphidromus atricallosus (Gould, 1843)
Amphidromus lepidus (Gould, 1856)
Amphidromus moniliferus (Gould, 1846)
Amphidromus sinensis
Amphidromus sinensis gracilis Fulton, 1896
Amphidromus sinensis vicaria Fulton, 1896
Amphidromus theobaldianus (Benson, 1857)
Freshwater bivalves
Freshwater bivalves in Myanmar include:
Unionidae
Sinanodonta woodiana (Lea, 1834) – non-indigenous, firstly reported in 2017
See also
List of marine molluscs of Myanmar
Lists of molluscs of surrounding countries:
List of non-marine molluscs of India
List of non-marine molluscs of Bangladesh
List of non-marine molluscs of China
List of non-marine molluscs of Laos
List of non-marine molluscs of Thailand
References
External links
May, J. T., Lat, L. H., Saw, B., Soe, S. W., & Tin, T. M. (2014). Regional prevalence study on trematodes' intermediate, host snails in Taunggyi and Ayetharyar Townships, Southern Shan State. In Proceedings of First International Conference and Annual Meeting of Myanmar Veterinary Association, 2–3 February 2014, Yangon, Myanmar. Livestock-Human-Environment Interface Challenge to Animals' Health and Livestock Production (pp. 150–159). Myanmar Veterinary Association. abstract
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Karin Mortensen | Karin Ørnhøj Mortensen (born 26 September 1977) is a former Danish team handball player and two times Olympic champion. She received gold medals with the Danish national team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.
She retired from the national team in September 2012.
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Autódromo Potosino | The Autódromo Potosino is a half-mile paved oval located near the city of San Luis Potosí in Mexico.
The track was opened in 1983 as a road course. It was built by Promotodo, an enterprise owned by Michel Jourdain Sr., which organized the defunct Marlboro Cup, which was arguably the most important racing series in the country at that time.
In 2005, after several years of not being used, the track was rebuilt as a half-mile oval to host NASCAR events.
The track is used primarily by the NASCAR Corona Series and T4 Series. A few local events are also held.
In 2009, due to the swine flu outbreak, they cancelled the race that was supposed to be held on May 3; the race was rescheduled for August 16 and was won by Jorge Goeters.
References
Desafío Corona y representantes de NASCAR en el Autódromo Potosino.
External links
Virtual screenshots of the old road course
Autódromo Potosino race results at Racing-Reference
Potosino
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Hanna Hemilä | Hanna Hemilä is a Finnish film producer, director and writer. Some of her most notable producing credits include Moomins on the Riviera (2014), Le Havre (film) (2011), Bad Family (film) (2010), Pelikaanimies (2004), and the period film Lapin kullan kimallus (1999). She made her directorial debut with the critically acclaimed documentary feature Paavo, a Life in Five Courses (2010).
Selected filmography
Feature films
Moomins on the Riviera, 2014, producer, co-director, co-writer (Shangai International Film Festival competition, BFI London Film Festival)
Le Havre, 2011, productrice exécutive (Cannes Film Festival competition)
Bad Family, 2010, line producer (Berlinale)
Varg, 2008, co-producer (Montreal Film Festival)
Pelikaanimies, 2004, producer (Berlinale)
Guarded Secrets, 2004, co-producer (Cairo International Film Festival - winner best lead actress)
Lapin kullan kimallus, 1999, producer
Documentaries and Tv-series
Tommy's Supersofa, 2013, live action TV-series, producer Paavo, a Life in Five Courses, 2010, director, producer, writerTove ja Tooti Euroopassa, 2004, producerTootletubs & Jyro, 2001, stop-motion animation, producer Behind the Curtains, 2001, producerUrpo & Turpo, Episodes 7-13, 1997, stop-motion animation, producer Urpo & Turpo, Episodes 1-6, 1996, stop-motion animation, producer Kangaroute, 1996, producerHaru, Island of the Solitary, 1994, producerThe Secret of Urpo & Turpo'', 1994, producer
References
External links
Handle Productions Website
Paavo, a Life in Five Courses
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St. Paul's High School | St. Paul's High School may refer to:
St. Paul's High School Rushooka, Ntungamo, Uganda
St Paul's High School Belgaum
St. Paul's High School, Bessbrook
St. Paul's High School (Louisiana) in Covington, Louisiana
St. Paul's High School (Glasgow)
St Paul's High School, Hyderabad
St Paul's High School (Karachi)
St. Paul's High School (Maryland)
St. Pauls High School Palampur in Palampur
St. Paul's High School, Rangoon
St. Paul's High School, Veliyanad
St. Paul's High School (Winnipeg)
St. Paul's High School (Dadar) in Dadar, Mumbai
St. Paul's High School (Mongla) in Mongla, Bangladesh
St. Paul's High School (Karachi) in Karachi, Pakistan
St. Paul's High School (Harbour Grace)
See also
St. Paul's High School, Zimbababwe |
World Class Cuisine | World Class Cuisine is an American television program created by Jason Vogel and Arna Vodenos and co-produced by the Discovery Channel between 1993 and 1997, featuring the talents of professional chefs from around the globe. John Kavanaugh was a camera man for the show's duration and directed part of one season. Tomi Bednar Landis co-produced one season alongside the Discovery Channel. somewhat unusual in its rather spartan production style, its content is marked by its stark simplicity. The show presents world class chefs in their own environments, in professional kitchens as opposed to production studios. Many of the chefs on the program do not speak English, and their instructions are usually translated, while others choose not to speak at all, leaving the narration in the hands of the presenter. The program commonly adopted a format of a three-course meal consisting of an appetizer, a main course, and a dessert, with three different chefs presenting their own signature dishes.
See also
Great Chefs
External links
American Food Recipes
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NOAA-15 | NOAA-15 (designated NOAA-K before launch) is one of the NASA-provided TIROS series of weather forecasting satellite run by NOAA. It was launched on May 13, 1998, and is currently semi-operational, in a sun-synchronous orbit, 807 km above the Earth, orbiting every 101 minutes. It hosts the AMSU-A and AMSU-B instruments, the AVHRR and High Resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder (HIRS/3) instruments, as well as a Space Environment Monitor (SEM/2). It also hosts Cospas-Sarsat payloads.
APT transmission frequency is 137.62 MHz. Due to problems with the S-band transmitter high-gain antennas, NOAA-15 has been configured for High Resolution Picture Transmission using the S-Band Transmitter #2 (1702.5 MHz) omnidirectional antenna.
Failure of the AVHRR scanning motor
On July 22, 2019 NOAA-15 began transmitting corrupt data. The cause appears to be instability of the scanning motor for the AVHRR sensor. According to an official release from NOAA, on July 23rd at 0400 Zulu time, the current draw of that motor spiked, as did the motor temperature. Additionally, the sensor stopped producing data. NOAA says this is consistent with a motor stall, and could be permanent. On July 25th 2019, the AVHRR motor spontaneously recovered. The cause of the failure is still under investigation.
On July 30th, 2019 the AVHRR motor suffered another failure consistent with motor stall. As per the previous statement by NOAA, recovery is unlikely.
Official Statement from NOAA
As of ~0000 UTC July 30, 2019 (DOY 211), the AVHRR motor current has once again started spiking, becoming saturated above 302mA at ~0600 UTC. The instrument is once again no longer producing data and may be stalled. The current plan is to leave the instrument powered as this issue may be intermittent.
External Links
Orbital Tracking
References
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Olin E. Teague | Olin Earl "Tiger" Teague (April 6, 1910 – January 23, 1981) was a notable World War II veteran and congressional representative for Texas's 6th congressional district for 32 years, from 1946 to 1978. He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
Biography
Early life
Born in Oklahoma and raised in Mena, Arkansas, Teague graduated from the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (now Texas A&M University) in 1932. He joined the Army in 1940 as a lieutenant and was discharged in 1946 as a colonel. He participated in the D-Day invasion of Normandy, and was a decorated combat veteran of World War II, receiving the Silver Star with two clusters, the Bronze Star, and two Purple Hearts. The nickname "Tiger" came from his play on the football field while in high school.
Congressional career
While in Congress, he was the veteran's champion, authoring more veterans' legislation than any congressman before him. He was one of the majority of the Texan delegation to decline to sign the 1956 Southern Manifesto opposing the desegregation of public schools ordered by the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education. However, Teague voted against the Civil Rights Acts of 1957, 1960, 1964, and 1968, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
He proposed 50 amendments in Congress, including: Providing for the election of President and Vice President; to abolish the electoral college (1953), Provides representation for the people of the District of Columbia (1957), Relative to appointment of postmasters (1959), Proposal with respect to the appointment of postmasters (1961), Empowering Congress to grant representation in the Congress and among the electors of President and Vice President to the people of the District of Columbia (1950 and 1951 and 1953), Equal rights regardless of sex (1967).
He was instrumental in improving benefits for servicemen's survivors. In 1956, he helped overhaul the survivor's benefits, with the creation of the Dependency and Indemnity Compensation. He was also chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, chairman of the House Committee on Veterans Affairs (1955–1972), and chairman of the House Committee on Science and Astronautics (1973–1978). Before 1973, he also chaired the Manned Space Flight Subcommittee and in that capacity oversaw NASA's efforts to place a man on the moon. In 1976, Teague was pivotal in establishing the Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Legacy
The Olin E. Teague Veterans Center, a VA hospital and health center in Temple, Texas, was named for him. The VA also presents the annual Olin E. Teague Award for contributions to improving the quality of life of disabled veterans. Also named for him were the Olin E. Teague Research Center at Texas A&M, a space research facility, and the original visitor center at the Johnson Space Center (closed in 1992).
References
External links
Retrieved on 2008-02-11
Past Chairmen of the House Veterans Affairs Committee
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Shirley Pinto | Shirley Pinto (; born March 15, 1989) is an Israeli Deaf social-political activist who is fluent in the Israeli Sign Language, and is one of the founders of . Pinto ran as a candidate of the Israeli political party The New Right for the April 2019 Israeli legislative election, and ran as a candidate of the Yamina alliance in the September 2019 Israeli legislative election and in the 2020 Israeli legislative election. Her profession was an internship in a law firm.
Biography
Pinto was born to Deaf parents, and raised in the Krayot. Her mother is Deaf and blind and she has a younger brother who hears. Her mother is an actress in the theater "Nalaga'at". Pinto studied at the Carmel Zvulun Regional High School in the kibbutz Yagur, in the graphic design and social science trends, and received a full matriculation diploma with excellence.
Pinto made most of her childhood with her mother's parents, as well as with her her signing parents. This way she acquired a full knowledge of two languages, Israeli sign language alongside the Hebrew language, which gave her emotional strength and self esteem between the two worlds. Since her childhood, she has seen the difficulty and lack of linguistic accessibility in her parents, who coped daily with the authorities and the general public. Pinto's life was also a daily struggle because of a lack of awareness in the public. When she grew up, she decided to devote her life to change this reality of Deaf and hard of hearing people.
In the Israel Defense Forces Pinto served in the Israeli Air Force Technical Corps as a project manager of logistics in the Equipment Group, performed and conducted orders which were acquired in a large scale out of Israel, and coordinated front air bases on procurement and supply. She continued on a permanent service, and in 2009 she received an outstanding medal from the Air Force commander and the President's outstanding medal from Shimon Peres. In 2011, after completing her military service, she went to Bachelor of Laws studies at the Netanya Academic College and participated the excellence program of the college. During her studies, as a part of a course in labor law, she participated in a delegation to the International Labour Organization and the United Nations in Geneva. In 2013 she was a legal assistant of the Judge Benjamin Arnon in the Central District Court for a year, as a framework of the actual practice of law and judicial by the college. In 2014 she specialized by Member of Knesset Karin Elharar, and handled legislation, public appeals and assistance of adapting to people with disabilities.
Since 2016 Pinto has been a lecturer in the course of "Translation at Courts and Police Investigations", at the studies of Sign Language Interpreting, Bar-Ilan University.
In 2017 Pinto was an intern at the law office of Furth, Wilensky, Mizrachi and Knaani.
Pinto lives in Ramat Gan, and is married to Michael Kadosh, a Deaf man who immigrated from the United States, is a player in the Israeli Futsal national team and is employed as an engineer in telecommunications in Israel. In February 2018 a son was born to them.
Public Activity
In 2014 Pinto joined as a student the "Shema for education and rehabilitation of Deaf and hard of hearing children and youth", and was employed as an instructor and an informal educational activity coordinator. Later she was appointed as a manager of the Gush Dan club, and led a fundraising evening for the enrichment of the children's clubs activity, which ended successfully. In May 2015, she represented Israel in India by a delegation on her own initiative with a Deaf partner, for an assistance and a legal-educational counseling to children and Deaf youth in Indore. Before the end of her role as the club director in 2016, she established with other Deaf founders, in order to promote the status of Deaf and hard of hearing people who used sign language, to recognize the equality of sign language and spoken languages, and to create an awareness to the need of the Deaf to be accessible and accepted by the general public.
Afterwards, Pinto founded the campaign "I sign I am Equal" for changing the consciousness of the importance of sign language in public, and for promoting legislation of the Israeli Sign Language as a recognized language in Israel. Under this campaign, she led a awareness week of the Deaf people in September 2016, whose title was "I sign, I am whole". The campaign swept hundreds of thousands of surfers, and the Education Minister Naftali Bennett joined it. Following the campaign, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev was the first university in Israel which recognized the Israeli Sign Language as an official language for the Deaf people in Israel. In March 2017, there was a ceremony at the Ben-Gurion University, in which Pinto gave a certificate of appreciation from the Center for the Deaf Studies to Rivka Carmi, the president of the university, for the university recognition in the Israeli sign language.
In the early 2017, Pinto initiated a bill to make public service announcements on the television in sign language, which was led by MK Issawi Frej and MK Eitan Cabel.
Pinto, in cooperation with the Ruderman Family Foundation, arranged a meeting of the actress Marlee Matlin with the community of the Deaf and hard of hearing people in Israel. The meeting was named "Sign of Success" and was held at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque. Over 300 people from Israel’s Deaf community came to the meeting, and Pinto guided the event. The event focused on breaking the glass ceiling of the Deaf people, and realizing the potential in the face of barriers and obstacles.
Pinto raised a series of fundamental failures which Deaf and hard of hearing people encountered in Israel, in the print and broadcast media as well as in the Knesset committees. These failures were expressed by the lack of accessibility and absence of public recognition of sign language in the education system, employment, health and law.
See also
Deaf Culture
References
External Links
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Les Géants (novel) | Les Géants is a novel written in French by French Nobel laureate J. M. G. Le Clézio and translated into English as The Giants. It was published by Atheneum and Jonathan Cape.
Publication history
First French Edition
Second French Edition
First English translation US. Edition
First English translation United Kingdom Edition
References
External links
A "Google Book search" accesses the contents of the book as well as giving a list of places mentioned in the book and accesses some book reviews
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Rondo in B minor for violin and piano, D 895 (Schubert) | Franz Schubert composed his Rondo in B minor for violin and piano, D 895 in 1826 for the twenty-year-old Czech violinist Josef Slavik (who also commissioned Schubert's Fantasy in C, D 934 in 1827). It was the first piece for violin and piano that Schubert had composed for almost a decade. It was first performed by Slavík with the pianist Karl Maria von Bocklet in 1827. Artaria published the score in April 1827 as "Rondo brilliant, Op. 70". The Rondo is the only one of Schubert's six violin-piano works to reach print during his lifetime.
Structure
The composition starts with an introductory "Andante", followed by an "Allegro" (A-B-A-C-A). The ensuing coda contains reminiscences of the theme of the "Andante" and of the "B" episode of the "Allegro". It ends in a section marked "Più mosso" in the score, in B major.
References
Notes
Sources
External links
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Talwar (surname) | Talwar is a family name of Indian origin. Notable people with this surname include:
Aakash Talwar, Indian actor
Aarushi Talwar, Indian murder victim
Amar Talwar (born 1922), Indian actor
Bhagat Ram Talwar, Indian independence activist
Bhavna Talwar, Indian journalist and film director
Gursaran Talwar, Indian medical researcher
Isha Talwar, Indian actress
Janak Raj Talwar, Indian surgeon
K. K. Talwar, Indian cardiologist
Ramesh Talwar, Indian film director
Raj Kumar Talwar, Indian banker
Rajesh Talwar, Indian writer and lawyer
Rohit Talwar, Indian cricketer
Saanvi Talwar, Indian actress
Sakshi Talwar, Indian actress
Sarkar Talwar, Indian cricketer
Suman Talwar, Indian actor
Vaibhav Talwar, Indian model and actor
Vikram Talwar, Indian-American businessperson
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Nosferattus | Nosferattus is a genus of Brazilian jumping spiders that was first described by G. R. S. Ruiz & Antônio Domingos Brescovit in 2005. The name is a combination of "Nosferatu" and the ending -attus, a common salticid genera suffix.
They range from long. Males have a smooth, oval-shaped plate (scutum) on the upper surface of the opisthosoma (abdomen). Nosferattus can be distinguished from other genera in the subfamily Sitticinae by the presence of highly flattened pedipalps in males, and very long and coiled copulation ducts in females. They are likely related to Aillutticus, which also has a high, broad carapace, rounded laterally behind the posterior lateral eyes, and a slightly convex cephalic region.
Species
it contains five species, found only in Brazil:
Nosferattus aegis Ruiz & Brescovit, 2005 – Brazil
Nosferattus ciliatus Ruiz & Brescovit, 2005 – Brazil
Nosferattus discus Ruiz & Brescovit, 2005 (type) – Brazil
Nosferattus occultus Ruiz & Brescovit, 2005 – Brazil
Nosferattus palmatus Ruiz & Brescovit, 2005 – Brazil
References
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Torok Formation | The Torok Formation is a geologic formation in Alaska. It preserves fossils dating back to the Cretaceous period.
See also
List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Alaska
Paleontology in Alaska
References
Category:Cretaceous Alaska |
Dea Dia | Dea Dia ("The Divine Goddess") was a goddess of fertility and growth in ancient Roman religion. She was sometimes identified with Ceres, and sometimes with her Greek equivalent Demeter.
She was worshiped during Ambarvalia, a festival to Ceres. Every May, her priests, the Fratres Arvales, held a three-day festival in her honor.
See also
Other goddesses also known as Dea ("The Goddess")
Other goddesses also known as Dia ("The Divine One")
References
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Harrison George | Harrison George was a senior Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) leader. He is best remembered as the editor of the official organ of the Profintern's Pan-Pacific Trade Union Secretariat (PPTUS) as well as the party's West Coast newspaper, People's World.
Career
The Pan-Pacific Trade Union Secretariat (PPTUS) was established by the Red International of Labor Unions (Profintern) in 1927, with Earl Browder as its General Secretary. Documents from the Comintern Archive in Moscow reveal the relationship between Browder and George, who at the time was an Industrial Workers of the World leader and Communist mole in the Wobblies. The minutes of a PPTUS meeting were signed by George and Tsutomu Yano, who would later recruit people for the Richard Sorge spy ring in Japan.
Intercepted Soviet intelligence traffic is alleged to reveal a covert relationship George had as a cutout transmitting information from James Walter Miller, who worked in the U.S. Post Office's Office of Censorship to the San Francisco KGB.
Harrison's role receives mention in the memoir of Whittaker Chambers: The "Old Man" {Isaac Folkoff} is a California businessman and lifelong Communist of Russian birth, very active in party affairs on the West Coast . At the time I met him, he was also connected with my old comrade from the Daily Worker, Harrison George, who was then heading the West Coast office of the Pan-Pacific Trade Union Secretariat, an international Communist organization, which among other activities, was running couriers on the ships to Australia, Japan and Asiatic mainland ports.
Personal life
George was Earl Browder's brother-in-law.
Works
"The Mesaba Iron Range," International Socialist Review, vol. 17, no. 6 (December 1916), pp. 329–332.
"Victory on the Mesaba Range," International Socialist Review, vol. 17, no. 7 (January 1917), pp. 429–431.
"Hitting the Trail in the Lumber Camps," International Socialist Review, vol. 17, no. 8 (February 1917), pp. 455–457.
References
Further reading
Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes, and Fridrikh Igorevich Firsov, The Secret World of American Communism. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995.
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Tiger Huang | Tiger Huang (; born 21 June 1963) is a Taiwanese singer.
She is known for her unique voice and cover versions of songs by other artists. Huang was named Best New Artist at the 1990 Golden Melody Awards. She first performed at the Taipei live house EZ5 when it opened in 1990, and held frequent shows there.
Awards and nominations
References
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Johann Baptiste Horvath | Johann Baptiste Horvath (, 13 July 1732 in Kőszeg – 20 October 1799 in Buda) was a Hungarian Jesuit Professor of Physics and Philosophy at the Catholic university for teaching theology and philosophy in Nagyszombat, Kingdom of Hungary (now Trnava, Slovakia). He is most noted for his authorship of various textbooks.
Biography
Horvath entered the Jesuit order at 19 years of age (17 October 1751 in Trencsén (Trenčín), became a university professor, and subsequently authored the well-known Latin textbooks Physica Generalis (1767/1782, 496pp) and Physica Particularis (1770/1782, 472pp). Various other works are attributed to Horvath, including Elementa Physicae (1790/1807/1819, 656pp) which is a condensed revision of Physica Generalis and Physica Particularis, Institutiones Logicae (1767/1813, 118pp), Elementa/Institutiones Matheseos (1772/1782, 456pp), Institutiones Metaphysicae (1767/1817, 362pp) and Declaratio Infirmitatis Fundamentorum (1797, 188pp) which is a philosophical text regarding speculations on the nature of God posited by Immanuel Kant. This collection of works, including metaphysics/logic and physics, was typical of Jesuit academics teaching under the Ratio Studiorum (1599). The books were published in Nagyszombat (Hungary), Augsburg (Germany), Eger and Buda (Hungary), Velencze (Principality of Transylvania), Madrid (Spain), Vienna (Austria) and Venice and Turin (Italy), including multiple editions and/or printings of each volume.
Physica Generalis deals primarily with classical mechanics and celestial mechanics, for example including a Copernican (heliocentric) diagram of the solar system, missing Uranus and Neptune, and a diagram of a highly-elliptical comet. Physica Particularis includes treatments of fluid mechanics, heat transfer and optics, and several chapters deal scientifically with the nascent field of electricity, where Horvath is thought to be the first Central European author to present electricity and magnetism in the same chapter. The coverage is eclectic, including topics like the aurora borealis, combustion, sound, rainbows, botany and lightning. The work is also notable for its reliance on experimental physics, since this branch of physics was still emerging as a reputable field, especially among Jesuit academics. For example, Horvath cites experiments on electricity by Benjamin Franklin (1754). In addition to his physics textbooks, Horvath published the mathematics textbook Institutiones Matheseos, including sections covering arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry and conic sections.
He was among the most important Central European physics textbook authors in the 18th century (see also Andreas Jaszlinszky as well as Leopold Biwald and Joseph Redlhamer), and an innovative proponent of Newtonian mechanics, which in hindsight was the correct theory rather than the Cartesian mechanics popular among some Continental philosophers. By promoting the methods of Copernicus and Newton, influenced by the approach of Borgondio and Boscovich, Horvath represents a (correct) departure from "accepted" thinking in that region of Europe, and his works were widely distributed. He continued to publish and instruct students from a secular professorship after the Jesuit order was suppressed in 1773, and during his tenure the university faculty moved to modern-day Hungary (1777) to become the renowned University of Budapest.
Full-text scanned versions of Physica Particularis (1782/1775/1770/1817), missing some pages and illustrated plates, are available online. Similarly, scanned copies of Physica Generalis (1780/1775/1772) are available online. Images of the textbook title pages are also available. Each of these textbooks is worth approximately $150 depending on condition.
Plates (7) from Physica Generalis (1776)
Plates (8) from Physica Particularis (1770)
See also
Andreas Jaszlinszky
Edmond Pourchot
Pierre Lemonnier
Philip of the Blessed Trinity
Charles Morton
References
Appendix
An example of near-contemporary notes regarding one of these textbooks is given below, where the reader is attempting to derive Prop 280 from Physica Generalis, involving the force on a body in a circular orbit. The antiquated nomenclature includes [c = velocity] and [v = force] with [t = period] being normalized by 2π.
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Show (The Jesus Lizard album) | Show is a live album by the Chicago noise rock band The Jesus Lizard. It was recorded at CBGB's in New York City. It was a joint release by Collision Arts and Warner Bros. subsidiary label Giant Records.
A video was released for the song "Glamorous" and was featured in an episode of Beavis and Butthead, where the teenage duo liked it.
Track listing
"Glamorous" - 3:19
"Deaf as a Bat" - 1:42
"Seasick" - 3:14
"Bloody Mary" - 2:11
"Mistletoe" - 1:57
"Nub" - 2:58
"Elegy" - 4:01
"Killer McHann" - 2:59
"Dancing Naked Ladies" - 2:59
"Fly on the Wall" - 3:00
"Boilermaker" - 2:15
"Puss" - 3:08
"Gladiator" - 3:50
"Wheelchair Epidemic" - 2:10 (The Dicks)
"Monkey Trick" - 4:12
References
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The Carnage Ending | The Carnage Ending is a tenth studio album by Dutch death metal band Sinister. It was released on 28 September 2012 through Massacre Records.
Track listing
Personnel
Sinister
Aad Kloosterwaard - vocals
Mathijs Brussaard - bass
Dennis Hartog - bass, guitars
Toep Duin - drums
Bastiaan Brussaard - guitars
Production
Jörg Uken - producer
Mike Hrubrovcak - cover art
References
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Aircraft Research and Development Unit RAAF | The Royal Australian Air Force's Aircraft Research and Development Unit (ARDU) plans, conducts and analyses the results of ground and flight tests of existing and new Air Force aircraft. ARDU consists of four flights located at RAAF Bases Edinburgh, Amberley, Richmond and Williamtown, staffed by qualified test pilots, flight test engineers and flight test system specialists. Up until 2016 the Squadron also conducted flight test for the Australian Army with Army personnel also working within the unit. The flight test crew are long course trained at test pilot schools including the United States Air Force Test Pilot School, the United States Naval Test Pilot School, the Empire Test Pilots' School, the École du personnel navigant d'essais et de réception and the National Test Pilot School.
The client base for ARDU encompasses the Air Mobility Group, Air Combat Group, Surveillance and Response Group, Air Force Training Group, and Defence Science and Technology Organisation.
ARDU is now located at RAAF Base Edinburgh in Adelaide, South Australia, and RAAF Base Amberley near Brisbane, Queensland.
History
Originally the formation of the Special Duties and Performance Flight (SDPF) was established in December 1941 at Laverton, Victoria. The unit was reformed as No 1 Air Performance Unit (1 APU) in December 1943, the Unit was responsible for carrying out flight trials of new aircraft as well as aircraft modifications. During World War 2, flying trials included Spitfire, Beaufighter and Boomerang performance tests, as well as evaluations on various aircraft modifications including gun, radar and bombsight installations. In addition, the Unit carried out performance tests on captured Japanese 'Oscar' and 'Tony' fighters. Following the War the Unit was involved in tests on the CA-15 prototype, a Meteor Mk3, Lincoln bomber and De-Havilland Sea Hornet.
The unit was renamed Aircraft Research and Development Unit in September 1947, with detachments operating in Victoria, South Australia and New South Wales. In October 1948 ARDU moved back to Laverton with Detachment A at Mallalla, South Australia and Detachment B at Richmond, New South Wales and Detachment C at Edinburgh, South Australia.
By February 1977, all ARDU detachments had relocated to Edinburgh, South Australia, from where it continues its vital role of testing and evaluating both aircraft and weaponry in the RAAF inventory. In 2003, ARDU was re-formed into the Air Warfare Centre (AWC), incorporating several additional operational support roles including those relating to flight testing. On 14 Jan 2013, ARDU established a detachment at Amberley, Queensland.
Commanding officers
Aircraft operated by the SDPF and 1 APU only 1941 to 1947 (Pre ARDU)
Spitfire (1944–1947)
Anson
Oxford
Norseman
Beaufort
Beaufighter
Boomerang (1943-1946)
Woomera (1942-1945)
Lancer (1943)
Shrike (1943–1944)
Hurricane (1943)
Hudson
Ventura
Liberator (1944-1947)
Fixed wing aircraft operated by ARDU
Wirraway (1943-1957)
Mustang (1944-19XX)
Mosquito (1944-51)
Lincoln (1947–1959)
Chipmunk VH-BFT (1948–1949)
Drover VH-DHA (1948–1949)
Meteor (1946–1956)
Dakota (1948–2000)
Sikorsky S-51 A80-1 (1948–1951)
Viking A82-1 (1948–1951)
Vampire (1948–1970)
Sea Hornet TT213 (1948–1951)
Freighter A81-1 (1949)
Winjeel A85-364 (1951–19XX)
Jindivik (1953–1955)
Prince A90-1 (1953–1954)
Beaver A95-201 (1955–1958)
Canberra (1954–1981)
Avro 707A WD280 (1956–1963)
Sabre (1955–1971)
Firefly T5 VX373 (1957)
Cessna 180 (1966–1967)
Mirage (1963–1988)
Macchi (1969–20XX)
CT-4 (1975–1993)
Nomad (1975–1991)
F/A-18 Hornet (1988-Present)
F-111C A8-132 (1996–2XXX)
King Air 200 VH-OYA (1999–20XX)
PC-9a (1999-Present)
KC-30A A39-003 (2011)
PC-21 (2018-Present)
Rotary wing aircraft operated by ARDU
Sycamore (1951–1954)
Kiowa (1971–20XX)
Iroquois (1977–2007)
Squirrel (1984–2006)
Black Hawk (1987–2013)
Tiger (2005)
See also
MoD Boscombe Down
Air Force Test Center
Flight Test Society of Australia
References
Air Force News Into the future
RAAF Aeronautical Research and Development Unit
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Pencil (optics) | In optics, a pencil or pencil of rays is a geometric construct used to describe a beam or portion of a beam of electromagnetic radiation or charged particles, typically in the form of a narrow cone or cylinder.
Antennas which strongly bundle in azimuth and elevation are often described as "pencil-beam" antennas. For example, a phased array antenna can send out a beam that is extremely thin. Such antennas are used for tracking radar. See Beamforming for further details.
In optics, the focusing action of a lens is often described in terms of pencils of rays. In addition to conical and cylindrical pencils, optics deals with astigmatic pencils as well.
In electron optics, scanning electron microscopes use narrow pencil beams to achieve a deep depth of field.
Ionizing radiation used in radiation therapy, whether photons or charged particles, such as proton therapy and electron therapy machines, is sometimes delivered through the use of pencil beam scanning.
In Backscatter X-ray imaging a pencil beam of x-ray radiation is used the scan over an object to create an intensity image of the Compton-scattered radiation.
See also
Collimated beam
Pencil (mathematics), a family of geometric objects having a common property such as passage through a given point.
Fan beam
Pencil beam scanning (Medical physics)
Microwave transmission
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Tomislav Milićević | Tomislav Milićević (Serbian Cyrillic: Томислав Милићевић; born 21 September 1940) is a retired Yugoslav footballer who played as a defender. He spent 32 years as a coach in the youth school of Red Star Belgrade.
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Oberea praedita | Oberea praedita is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Francis Polkinghorne Pascoe in 1867. It is known from Borneo.
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Aankhen (2002 film) | Aankhen () is a 2002 Indian Hindi-language heist thriller film directed by Vipul Amrutlal Shah, starring Amitabh Bachchan, Akshay Kumar, Sushmita Sen, Arjun Rampal and Paresh Rawal in the lead roles. Aditya Pancholi plays a naive cop. The film is an adaptation of Shah's own Gujarati play Andhalo Pato (Blindman's Buff).
The film tells the story of Vijay Singh Rajput (Bachchan) a hard-working but temperamental man, who has spent all his life working for one bank and even achieving them International recognition. When Vijay loses his mind and goes on a violent rampage beating up another employee, he is subsequently fired. He decides to take vengeance by organising a full on heist, and having the same bank robbed by three blind men, as no one will suspect them.
Aankhen had its worldwide premiere in Malaysia at the 3rd IIFA Awards ceremony on 5 April 2002. Upon release Aankhen received acclaim from critics and cinema-goers alike, for its unusual storyline, well executed direction and acting, with Bachchan and Akshay Kumar drawing maximum accolades for their performances. The film was nominated in several award categories in 2002/03, although it didn't win any.
Plot
Obsessive and temperamental bank manager Vijay Singh Rajput (Amitabh Bachchan) loses his job for badly beating up a bank clerk who tried to embezzle money. Angered at losing his job he plots revenge on the bank by intending to stage a heist. He employs three blind men – Vishwas (Akshay Kumar), a blind person who has the power of the sixth sense, Elias (Paresh Rawal) and Arjun (Arjun Rampal) — when, after passing by school for the blind, he understands that blind people can be trained to do things like sighted people. He blackmails and enlists the help of Neha (Sushmita Sen) who is a teacher at the school to train the trio to do the seemingly impossible heist. He chose blind people because they, as thieves, would never be suspected as no one would believe blind people can rob a bank.
The bank robbery is successful, with the jewels safely captured by the three. However, in the process of robbing the bank, Elias's face is exposed, captured in footage and prompting citywide posters with his face. Meanwhile, Mr. Rajput anxiously tries to extort information from Vishwas and Arjun regarding the jewels and their location. Unable to answer, as they did not collect the items, they try to defer the answer by changing subjects. Ultimately, it is revealed that Elias is the one with complete knowledge of the box's belongings. Meanwhile, tensions rise between Rajput and Neha; the latter resists the abusive nature of Rajput and his obnoxious harassing of Vishwas and Arjun. Arjun confesses his love to Neha, who reveals that she is associated in the plot only for the well-being of her younger brother, Rahul, who has been kidnapped by Rajput.
In a furious attempt, the police try to locate Elias. Elias lands up at Rajput's place after getting drunk. Rajput tries several ways to force Elias into revealing the location of the box. Unable to generate an answer, he slams Elias, who falls on the ground and injures his eyes, causing bleeding. Even in this scenario, Rajput tries to get the information, but Vishwas and Arjun resist and claim that they will reveal the location if Elias is treated by paramedics. Rajput sends them to get Dr. Siddiqui. Vishwas senses that Elias is in danger and Arjun and Vishwas double back to the training center to save him. Rajput starts to harass Elias by tickling him to force him to reveal the answer. In the action, Elias falls off the balcony and dies. Unable to bear the shock of the death, Neha pulls a gun on Rajput and threatens to reveal everything to the police if he does not leave her and the other two alone. Rajput notifies Neha that all these acts were done under her training, and he is spotless. Unable to bear this fact, Neha shoots herself, just as Vishwas and Arjun return after hearing loud screams.
Both men gang up on Rajput and try to attack him. Once Rajput realises that the men are ignorant about the jewels, he starts shooting them. The police arrive, and confusion ensues. Vishwas and Arjun come out and claim that Rajput is abusing them while he claims that there is a big conspiracy involving the two men, Neha and Elias. Unable to believe that blind men can ransack a bank and amidst Rajput's impassioned defence, the police start getting suspicious. In the heat of defending himself, Rajput reveals that he had sent over Elias, thus confessing his crime.
In the end, Rajput has been locked away. Vishwas and Arjun decide to take care of Rahul and ultimately find the jewels – they were hidden in Elias' musical instrument.
Alternate ending
In an alternate ending for overseas viewers Rajput bribes the cop (Aditya Pancholi) and is set free, in return to get him his share and gets his manager Bhandari (Ajit Vachani) arrested. Vishwas and Arjun are sitting in a train (waiting for it to depart) and Rajput is standing on the platform with a smile on his face. He then warns them that "A dangerous game is about to begin", after which Vishwas and Arjun both draw their guns, and the film ends.
Cast
Amitabh Bachchan as Vijay Singh Rajput
Akshay Kumar as Vishwas Prajapati
Arjun Rampal as Arjun Verma
Sushmita Sen as Neha Srivastav
Paresh Rawal as Iliyas
Aditya Pancholi as ACP Thakur
Arun Bali as Mr. Goenka
Ajit Vachani as Mr. Bandari
Bipasha Basu as Raina (Cameo)
Shreyas Talpade as Mushtaq (Chaiwallah / Tea seller on railway station)
Paresh Ganatra as Sailesh
Daya Shankar Pandey as Taxi Driver
Kashmira Shah in a special appearance in song "Chalka Chalka"
Production
The film's working title was "All The Best" but was later changed for numerology reasons and to better suit Indian audiences. Originally Raveena Tandon was cast for the role of Neha, but she was unexpectedly dropped and replaced by Sushmita Sen. Sen in turn made a lot of preparations for her role as a teacher to the blind. She visited schools for the blind and interacted with the students for a more-realistic feel to her role. Akshaye Khanna was the original choice for the role played by Arjun Rampal but things didn't work out after Akshaye Khanna rejected Saif Ali Khan was approached to play the role but he was busy with Kal Ho Naa Ho.
Reception
Aankhen opened well at the Indian box office. The film made Rs 471.9 million net altogether and was declared a "Hit". It was also the second-highest-grossing Bollywood film of 2002. The film was also a success in South Africa, opening to packed houses and grossing $14,600 on the weekend, despite a limited release.
Soundtrack
The soundtrack was composed by Aadesh Shrivastav and Jatin-Lalit. Lyrics were penned by Prasoon Joshi, Praveen Bharadwaj and Nitin Raikwar.
Track listing
Awards
Nominations
48th Filmfare Awards
Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor – Amitabh Bachchan
Filmfare Award for Best Performance in a Comic Role – Paresh Rawal
9th Annual Star Screen Awards
Star Screen Award for Best Film
Screen Award for Best Comedian – Paresh Rawal
Screen Award for Best Villain – Amitabh Bachchan
Controversy
Aankhen broiled into controversy when producer Doshi did not give the director Shah any credit on the film's DVD. The fallout began between the two on the sets, after a number of creative differences, which led to allegations of plagiarism and counter-allegations. The DVD's front cover had Doshi's name on it and the back had the director's name as Vipul Doshi instead of Vipul Shah. Shah took legal action against Doshi, who refused to take responsibility for the director's missing credit.
Copycat crimes
Between 2004/05, two bank robberies occurred on Mira Road in Maharashtra by a man named Feroz Sheikh and several accomplices, who were said to have been inspired by the film. The robbers took several lakh rupees (100,000), and planned to use it to start a business. The culprits were eventually nabbed but not all the money was recovered.
PC Game
A computer game based on film was created for promotional purposes in a tie in with IndiaFM and Hungama.com (Now collectively known as Bollywood Hungama). It was launched at the IIFA press conference on 14 March 2002.
Sequel
The sequel was first announced in 2006 and has been in production since shortly after the release on Aankhen. The director Shah was dropped due to differences with producer Doshi, and directing duties will be taken over by Sachin. Pre-production work has been wrapped up, but shooting is yet to begin as Bachchan has been unable to give dates due to his health declining. However, on 19 March 2016 in an interview with Anees Bazmee about his film "No Entry Mein Entry", Anees stated that he is currently working on a script for "Aankhen 2". In March 2019 Bazmee confirmed that the cast for the film has been finalized. Saif Ali Khan and Jacqueline Fernandez are roped in to play the leads apart from Amitabh Bachchan.
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Blinding Light | Blinding Light is a 2005 novel by Paul Theroux.
The novel had a mixed reception, with many reviewers not seeing it as entirely successful. The novel depicts an American writer on his trip to Ecuador and its backcountry, where he has an affair with a local.
Themes
AV Club reviewer Scott Tobias notes that the novel follows in the tradition of Theroux's other travel writing and novels, taking the principal character to an exotic location to explore social and moral conclusions. The New York Times notes that the novel explores the "texture of psychologically plausible character, real places, and so on" under a "contemporary naturalism". For The Guardian, this writing reminded them of Theroux's travel writing, saying that the novel includes a "luxuriant and uncomfortable jungle setting, and nasty characters made up of inky national stereotypes and lists of commercial products."
Critical reception
Complete Review called the novel "generally lively and entertaining", and described the consensus of reviewers as having "varying degrees of enthusiasm, with no one thinking he really pulls it off". For example, The New York Times concluded that cultural insensitivity and tone "blot what is otherwise an enjoyable and worldly allegory of the pitfalls of literary success, which retains some of the grandeur of its model." The Guardian reviewer James Buchan described the novel as needing "a journeyman editor [who] would have cut out the repetitions, quotations, boasting, name-dropping, purple passages, dreams, hallucinations, score-settling, bombast and sex fantasies."
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David Anderson, 2nd Viscount Waverley | David Alastair Pearson Anderson, 2nd Viscount Waverley (18 February 1911 – 21 February 1990) was a British peer and physician. He trained as a physician in Germany and England, served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, and then specialised as a cardiologist. Having succeeded his father as Viscount Waverley in 1958, he also sat in the House of Lords where he regularly spoke on health matter and other interests of his.
Early life and education
The son of John Anderson, later 1st Viscount Waverley, he was educated at Malvern College. He studied medicine at Goethe University Frankfurt and Pembroke College, Cambridge, graduating with Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MB, BChir) degrees in 1937. He completed his clinical training at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School in London.
Career
From 1938 to 1939, Anderson was a junior doctor at St Thomas' Hospital, London. With the outbreak of the Second World War, he volunteered and joined the medical branch of the Royal Air Force. He was commissioned on 25 September 1939 in the rank of flying officer. He was one of the few doctors in the RAF that were also trained as pilots. He was promoted to flight lieutenant on 25 September 1940, and to squadron leader (temporary) on 1 July 1943. He was demobilized after the end of the War in 1945, and he relinquished his commission in 1956 having reached the age of 45 (at which point he was no longer obliged to remain in the reserves).
After the war, he returned to St Thomas' Hospital, and developed an interest in cardiology. In 1951, he moved to the Reading Group of Hospitals where he worked as a consultant at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading. He developed his own teaching unit at the hospital, and also published a number of papers on cardiac and vascular disorders. He retired in 1976.
Anderson succeeded his father as Viscount Waverley upon the latter's death on 4 January 1958. He first sat in the House of Lords on 20 May 1958, and made his maiden speech on 19 November 1959 during a debate about the hospital service.
Personal life
On 13 November 1948, Anderson married Lorna Myrtle Ann Ledgerwood (1925–2013). Together they had three children: one son and two daughters. Their son, John Anderson, succeeded to his father's title as the 3rd Viscount Waverley.
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Carroll Baker | Carroll Baker (born May 28, 1931) is a retired American actress of film, stage, and television. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Baker's range of roles from young ingénues to brash and flamboyant women established her as both a pin-up and serious dramatic actress. After studying under Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio, Baker began performing on Broadway in 1954. From there she was recruited by director Elia Kazan to play the lead in the adaptation of two Tennessee Williams plays into the film Baby Doll in 1956. Her role in the film as a coquettish but sexually naïve Southern bride earned her BAFTA and Oscar nominations for Best Actress, as well as a Golden Globe award for Most Promising Newcomer that year.
Her other early film roles included George Stevens' Giant (1956), playing the love interest of James Dean, and in the romantic comedy But Not for Me (1959). In 1961, Baker appeared in the controversial independent film Something Wild, directed by her then-husband Jack Garfein, playing a traumatized rape victim. She went on to star in several critically acclaimed Westerns in the 1950s and 1960s, such as The Big Country (1958), How the West Was Won (1962), and Cheyenne Autumn (1964).
In the mid-1960s, as a contract player for Paramount Pictures, Baker became a sex symbol after appearing as a hedonistic widow in The Carpetbaggers (1964). The film's producer, Joseph E. Levine, cast her in the potboiler Sylvia before giving her the role of Jean Harlow in the biopic Harlow (1965). Despite significant prepublicity, Harlow was a critical failure, and Baker relocated to Italy in 1966 amid a legal dispute over her contract with Paramount and Levine's overseeing of her career. In Europe, she spent the next 10 years starring in hard-edged giallo and horror films, including Romolo Guerrieri's The Sweet Body of Deborah (1968), Umberto Lenzi's Orgasmo (1969) and Knife of Ice (1972), and Corrado Farina's Baba Yaga (1973), before re-emerging for American audiences as a character actress in the Andy Warhol-produced dark comedy Bad (1977).
Baker appeared in supporting roles in several acclaimed dramas in the 1980s, including the true-crime drama Star 80 (1983) as the mother of murder victim Dorothy Stratten, and the racial drama Native Son (1986), based on the novel by Richard Wright. In 1987, she had a supporting part in Ironweed (1987). Through the 1990s, Baker had guest roles on several television series such as Murder, She Wrote; L.A. Law, and Roswell. She also had supporting parts in several big-budget films, such as Kindergarten Cop (1990), and the David Fincher-directed thriller The Game (1997). She formally retired from acting in 2002. In addition to acting, Baker is also the author of two autobiographies and a novel.
Early life
Carroll Baker was born and raised in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in a Catholic family, the daughter of Edith Gertrude (née Duffy) and William Watson Baker, a traveling salesman. She is of Irish and, reportedly, Polish descent, which has given rise to a rumor that her birth name was Karolina Piekarski. However, this currently cannot be substantiated by known records. Baker's parents separated when she was eight years old, and she moved with her mother and younger sister, Virginia, to Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania.
According to Baker, her mother struggled as a single parent, and the family was poor for much of her upbringing.
Baker attended Greensburg Salem High School in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, where she was a debate team member and active in the marching band and school musicals. At 18, she moved with her family to St. Petersburg, Florida, where she attended St. Petersburg College (then St. Petersburg Junior College). After her first year in college, Baker began working as a magician's assistant on the vaudeville circuit and joined a dance company, working as a professional dancer. In 1949, Baker won the title of Miss Florida Fruits and Vegetables. In 1951, Baker moved to New York City, where she rented a dirt-floor basement apartment in Queens. She worked as a nightclub dancer and also had stints as a chorus girl in traveling vaudeville shows, which took her to Windsor, Detroit, and New Jersey.
Baker studied acting at HB Studio. In 1952, she enrolled at the Actors Studio and studied under Lee Strasberg. There, she was a classmate of Mike Nichols, Rod Steiger, Shelley Winters, and Marilyn Monroe; she also became a close friend of James Dean for the rest of his life.
Career
1952–1957: Early work and critical success
After appearing in television commercials for Winston cigarettes and Coca-Cola, Baker was featured in an episode of Monodrama Theater performing a monodramatic piece, which was broadcast in 1952 on the DuMont Network. The following year, she made her film debut with a small walk-on part in the musical Easy to Love (1953). This led to her landing roles in two Broadway productions: Roger MacDougall's Escapade in the fall of 1953, and Robert Anderson's All Summer Long, opposite Ed Begley, which ran from September to mid-November 1954. In 1955, she screen tested and auditioned for the lead role in Picnic, but lost the part to Kim Novak. She was also considered for the lead in Rebel Without a Cause (1955) after James Dean recommended her for the part to director Nicholas Ray, which she turned down.
Baker's first major screen role was the supporting part of Luz Benedict II in Giant (1956), opposite Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, and James Dean, in his final role. According to Baker, she had been offered numerous leading parts in feature films before that point, but chose to debut in a supporting role in Giant because she was "insecure" and "wanted to start out a little less 'profile. Giant was largely filmed in the small town of Marfa, Texas, in 1955; Baker recalled her experience on set, saying that James Dean and she were both enamored of Rock Hudson and Elizabeth Taylor while filming.
Simultaneously, Baker was cast as the title character in Elia Kazan's Baby Doll (1956), a role initially intended for Marilyn Monroe. Tennessee Williams, who had written and developed the screenplay based on two of his one-act plays, wanted Baker to play the part after seeing her perform a scene from his script at the Actors Studio; likewise, Kazan had been impressed by her performance in All Summer Long on Broadway the year prior. Shot in Benoit, Mississippi, directly after Baker had completed Giant, her role in the film as a sexually repressed teenaged bride to a failed middle-aged cotton gin owner brought Baker overnight fame and a level of notoriety even before the film's release. In the fall of 1956, artist Robert Everheart, under contract with Warner Bros., constructed a billboard in Times Square promoting the film, depicting the now-iconic image of a scantily clad Baker lying in a crib sucking her thumb. The controversial advertising campaign for the film caused a pre-emptive backlash from religious groups, and on December 16, 1956, Cardinal Francis Spellman of St. Patrick's Cathedral denounced the film and advised his parish against seeing it. A formal condemnation by the Roman Catholic National Legion of Decency ensued, which considered it "grievously offensive to Christian and traditional standards of morality and decency."
In spite of this, Baby Doll opened to strong box-office receipts, grossing $51,232 in its first week at the Victoria Theater. In support of Baker, Marilyn Monroe appeared at the film's premiere, working as an usherette to help bolster ticket sales, the proceeds of which were donated to the Actors Studio. Baker received immense critical praise for her performance. Variety said that her performance "captures all the animal charm, the naivete, the vanity, contempt and rising passion of Baby Doll," while Bosley Crowther of The New York Times praised Baker's ability to exhibit "a piteously flimsy little twist of juvenile greed, inhibitions, physical yearnings, common crudities and conceits". Baby Doll established Baker as an A-list actress and would remain the film for which she is best remembered. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance, a Golden Globe for Best Actress, and won a Golden Globe for Most Promising Newcomer, which she shared with Jayne Mansfield and Natalie Wood. The performance also earned her a Film Achievement Award from Look, as well as the title "Woman of the Year" in 1957 from Harvard University's Hasty Pudding Club. She appeared on the cover of Life Magazine in June 1956.
1958–1963: Contract disputes and independent films
After the success of Baby Doll, Baker was subsequently offered parts in The Brothers Karamazov (1958), Too Much, Too Soon (1958), and The Devil's Disciple (1959). She refused to make Too Much Too Soon, so Warner Bros. put her on suspension, which prevented her from starring in The Brothers Karamazov (1958) at MGM. Baker was also chosen by MGM for the lead in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) and by Twentieth Century Fox for The Three Faces of Eve (1957), but her contract with Warner Bros. again prevented her from accepting the roles. Tensions between Baker and the studio escalated further when she went against their wishes by appearing in Arms and the Man on stage. Baker commented on the effect of the system on her career, saying: "I came in at the end of the big studio system. I still had a slave contract and they were willing to put you in almost anything they had."
After her suspension with Warner Bros. was lifted, Baker appeared in William Wyler's Western epic The Big Country (1958). The film was well received by critics, though the shoot was described as "problematic": Baker was four months pregnant at the time and had to wear restraining garments, and director Wyler reportedly had her on the verge of tears after forcing her to repeat the same take over 60 times, only to use the first one. She followed The Big Country with lead roles in two romances, portraying a nun in The Miracle (1959) co-starring Roger Moore, and in But Not for Me (1959), a comedy with Clark Gable. The New York Times praised Baker's performance in But Not for Me, saying: "Miss Baker, being a young lady who not only has looks but also can act, makes you understand why Mr. Gable would like to cheat a little bit on Father Time." She disliked The Miracle so much that she bought out her contract with Warner Bros., putting her in considerable debt. But Not for Me was made at Paramount.
Baker went on to make the experimental film Something Wild (1961), directed by her then-husband Jack Garfein. In this independent production, she plays a young college student from the Bronx who is raped one night in St. James Park, and later held captive by a Manhattan mechanic (Ralph Meeker) who witnessed her subsequent suicide attempt. In preparation for her role, Baker lived alone in a boarding house in New York's Lower East Side, and gained employment as a department-store salesgirl; her method approach to the role was profiled in Life in 1960. Critical reaction to the film was largely negative, though Film Quarterly cited it as "the most interesting American film of its quarter," and the most underrated film of 1961. However, its controversial depiction of rape led to critical backlash and public criticism, and the film has been credited by historians as nearly halting Baker's career. The same year, she portrayed Gwen Harold in Bridge to the Sun (1961), a production by MGM based on the 1957 best-selling autobiography of a Tennessee-born woman who married a Japanese diplomat (portrayed by James Shigeta) and became one of the few Americans to live in Japan during World War II. While only a modest success at the box office, the film was well received by critics and was America's entry at the Venice International Film Festival.
After this, Baker appeared in the independent British-German film Station Six-Sahara (1962) as a woman who provokes tensions at an oil station in the Sahara Desert, as well as the blockbuster Western epic How the West Was Won (1962), opposite Debbie Reynolds and former co-stars Gregory Peck and Karl Malden. In addition to film acting, Baker also found time to appear again on Broadway, starring in the 1962 production of Garson Kanin's Come on Strong in the fall of that year. In 1963, Baker relocated permanently with then-husband Jack Garfein and their two children to Los Angeles, where she based herself for the next several years. She traveled to Kenya to film Mister Moses (1965), where publicized rumors spread that she and co-star Robert Mitchum were having an affair, which they both vehemently denied. Another story, now considered apocryphal, had it that a Maasai chief in Kenya offered 150 cows, 200 goats, sheep, and $750 for her hand in marriage. She subsequently appeared with Maasai warriors on the cover of Lifes July 1964 issue.
1964–1966: Sex symbol roles
Baker portrayed a pacifist Quaker schoolteacher in John Ford's Cheyenne Autumn (1964), and received critical acclaim for the role. She then had a supporting role as Saint Veronica in George Stevens' The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965), and portrayed a cynical, alcoholic movie star in The Carpetbaggers (1964), which brought her a second wave of notoriety in spite of the film's lackluster reviews. The New York Times called the film "a sickly sour distillation" of the source novel, but said Baker's performance "brought some color and a sandpaper personality as the sex-loaded widow." The film was the top moneymaker of that year, with domestic box-office receipts of $13,000,000, and marked the beginning of a tumultuous relationship with the film's producer, Joseph E. Levine.
Based on her Carpetbaggers performance, Levine began to develop Baker as a movie sex symbol, and she appeared posing in the December 1964 issue of Playboy. She was subsequently cast by Levine in the title roles of two 1965 potboilers— Sylvia, as an ex-prostitute and con artist, and as Jean Harlow in Harlow. Baker appeared on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post on their November 2, 1963, issue dressed as Harlow, promoting the film's upcoming production. In 1965, she became an official celebrity spokesperson for Foster Grant sunglasses and appeared in advertisements for the company. Baker likened this era of her career to "being a beauty contest winner [as opposed to] an actress."
Despite much prepublicity, Harlow received a lukewarm response from critics: Variety referred to Baker's portrayal of Harlow as "a fairly reasonable facsimile, although she lacks the electric fire of the original." Relations between Baker and Levine soured; in a 1965 interview, Baker sardonically commented: "I'll say this about Joe Levine: I admire his taste in leading ladies," which led the press to suspect a rift between the actress and producer. Baker sued Levine over her contract with Paramount Pictures in 1966, and was ultimately fired by Paramount and had her paychecks from Harlow frozen amid the contentious legal dispute; this left Baker hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt (however, she was eventually awarded $1 million in compensation).
In an interview with Rex Reed in his book People Are Crazy Here (1974), Baker revealed that she had felt pressure in both her working relationship with Levine, and her domestic life with her husband, the latter of whom she said wanted to maintain an expensive lifestyle: "We'd been very poor when we started out at the Actors Studio in New York," she told Reed. "I was under contract to Joe Levine, who was going around giving me diamonds and behaving like he owned me. I never slept with him or anything, but everyone thought I was his mistress." In the spring of 1966, Baker returned to theatre, performing in a production of Anna Christie at the Huntington Hartford Theater in Los Angeles. The production was directed by Garfein. The production was heralded as the "theatre event of the week" in Los Angeles, though its reception was middling. Cecil Smith of The Los Angeles Times wrote of the production: "The beautiful Miss Baker's vehicle becomes a hearse." The play was also performed at the Tappan Zee Playhouse in Nyack, New York in June 1966.
1967–1975: European films
Baker separated from her second husband, Jack Garfein, in 1967, and moved to Europe with her two children to pursue a career there after struggling to find work in Hollywood. Eventually settling in Rome, Italy, Baker became fluent in Italian and spent the next several years starring in hard-edged Italian thrillers, exploitation, and horror films. In 1966, Baker had been invited to the Venice International Film Festival, where she met director Marco Ferreri, who asked her to play the lead role in Her Harem (1967). This was followed with the horror films The Sweet Body of Deborah (1968) and The Devil Has Seven Faces (1971). Baker also starred in So Sweet... So Perverse (1969), Orgasmo (1969), A Quiet Place to Kill (1970), and Il coltello di ghiaccio (Knife of Ice) (1972), all giallo films directed by Italian filmmaker Umberto Lenzi.
Many of these films feature her in roles as distressed women, and often showed Baker in nude scenes, which few major Hollywood actors were willing to do at the time. Baker became a favorite of Umberto Lenzi, with her best-known role being in the aforementioned Paranoia, where she played a wealthy widow tormented by two sadistic siblings. In his review of Paranoia, Roger Ebert said: "Carroll Baker, who was a Hollywood sex symbol (for some, it is said) until she sued Joe Levine and got blacklisted, has been around. She may not be an actress, but she can act. In The Carpetbaggers, there was a nice wholesome vulgarity to her performance. She is not intrinsically as bad as she appears in Paranoia. I think maybe she was saying 'the hell with it', and having a good time." As with Paranoia, the majority of the films she made in Italy received poor critical reception in the United States, though they afforded Baker—who had left Hollywood in debt and with two children to support— an income, as well as fame abroad. In retrospect, Baker commented on her career in Italy and on her exploitation film roles, saying: "I think I made more films [there] than I made in Hollywood, but the mentality is different. What they think is wonderful is not what we might ... it was marvelous for me because it really brought me back to life, and it gave me a whole new outlook. It's wonderful to know about a different world."
She followed her roles in Lenzi's films with a leading role in Corrado Farina's Baba Yaga (1973) as the titular witch, alongside Isabelle De Funès and George Eastman. TV Guide referred to the film as an "exceptionally handsome example of 1970s Italian pop-exploitation filmmaking sweetened by Piero Umilani's lounge-jazz score," and praised Baker's performance, but noted that she was "physically wrong for the role; her elaborate lace-and-beribboned costumes sometimes make her look more like a fleshy Miss Havisham than a sleekly predatory sorceress".
1976–1987: Return to American films; theater
Baker's first American film in over 10 years came in the Andy Warhol–produced black comedy Bad (1977), in which she plays the lead role of a Queens beauty salon owner who provides hitmen with jobs, starring alongside Susan Tyrrell and Perry King. "You can hardly call making an Andy Warhol movie a 'comeback'," said Baker. "It's more like going to the moon! The subject is totally unique."
She followed Bad with a part in the low-budget surrealist thriller The Sky Is Falling (1979) with Dennis Hopper, playing a washed-up actress living among expatriates in a Spanish village. The 1970 also had a return to the stage for Baker, where she appeared in British theater productions of Bell, Book, and Candle; Rain, an adaptation of a story by W. Somerset Maugham; Lucy Crown, an adaptation of the novel by Irwin Shaw; and Motive. In 1978, while touring England and Ireland in productions of Motive, Baker met stage actor Donald Burton, who became her third husband. She also appeared in American stage productions of Georges Feydeau's 13 Rue de l'Amour, Forty Carats, and Goodbye Charlie.
By the 1980s, Baker had largely become a character actor, and was based in London. She starred in a supporting role in the 1980 Walt Disney-produced horror film, The Watcher in the Woods, alongside Bette Davis, after having been asked by British director John Hough, a longtime admirer of her work. After an appearance in the British television film Red Monarch (1983), she played the mother of murdered Playboy model Dorothy Stratten (played by Mariel Hemingway) in the biopic Star 80 (1983). She also appeared as the mother of Sigmund Freud in the comedy The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud (1984) with Carol Kane and Klaus Kinski.
Baker featured in Jim Goddard's Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil (1985), a coming-of-age drama set against Nazi Germany as well as in the drama Native Son (1986), based on the novel by Richard Wright, which featured Matt Dillon, Geraldine Page, and a young Oprah Winfrey. In it, Baker plays a 1930s Chicago housewife and mother of a teenage girl that accidentally is killed by an African American chauffeur, who attempts to cover up the accident. Critic Roger Ebert praised Baker's performance in the film, noting her "powerful" scene with Winfrey during the film's finale.
Following Native Son, Baker had a critically acclaimed lead role as the wife of a schizophrenic drifter (played by Jack Nicholson) in Ironweed (1987), alongside Meryl Streep. Her performance in the film was praised by Ebert, who said: "Nicholson's homecoming [in the film] is all the more effective because Carroll Baker is so good as his wife ... she finds a whole new range. It may seem surprising to say that Baker holds the screen against Jack Nicholson, and yet she does".
1988–2003: Later roles and retirement
In 1990, Baker played the role of Eleanor Crisp—described by Roger Ebert as "an effective bitch on wheels"— in Ivan Reitman's comedy Kindergarten Cop, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, which she filmed in Astoria, Oregon, in the summer of 1990. The film was a huge financial success, grossing over $200 million worldwide. Her film and television work continued throughout the '90s, and she acted in many made-for-television movies, including the true-crime story Judgment Day: The John List Story (1993), Witness Run (1996), and Dalva (1996) with Farrah Fawcett.
In 1997, Baker was cast in a supporting role in David Fincher's thriller The Game, in which she plays a housekeeper to a billionaire San Franscisco banker (played by Michael Douglas) who becomes embroiled in a sadistic game by his antagonistic brother, played by Sean Penn. In an interview with The New York Post following the film's release, Baker commented on her role, saying: "It's an important movie and I'm honored to be in it. Of course, I'd like to be the romantic lead, and I'm actually closer to Michael's [Douglas] age than Deborah Kara Unger is, [but] I think it's always worked that way in Hollywood. When I was in my 20s, I played opposite Jimmy Stewart, Robert Mitchum, and Clark Gable, all of whom were old enough to be my father." The Game proved to be a major success among Baker's later films, performing successfully at the box office and garnering widespread critical acclaim.
In addition to her work in big-budget productions, Baker also appeared in small, independent films, such as Just Your Luck (1996) and Nowhere to Go (1997). The '90s also had Baker more frequently appearing on television series, including episodes of Grand (1990), Tales from the Crypt (1991, opposite Teri Garr in a segment directed by Michael J. Fox), Murder, She Wrote and L.A. Law (both 1993); Chicago Hope (1995), and Roswell (1999). In 2000, she appeared in the Lifetime film Another Woman's Husband. In 2002, Baker appeared in the documentary Cinerama Adventure, and guest-starred on an episode of The Lyon's Den, playing Rob Lowe's mother. Her role on The Lyon's Den was Baker's last screen appearance before she formally retired from acting in 2003. Her acting career spanned 50 years, and more than 80 roles in film, television, and theater.
She has, however, sometimes participated in retrospective documentaries, including an interview for the 2006 DVD release of Baby Doll, which includes a documentary featuring Baker reflecting on the film's impact on her career. Baker has also been featured in documentaries about several of her co-stars, including Clark Gable, Roger Moore, Sal Mineo, and James Dean, including the 1975 James Dean: The First American Teenager, and a 1985 BBC Radio 2 tribute marking the 30th anniversary of the actor's death. Her memories of James Dean at the Actors Studio and later in Giant were recalled on BBC Radio 2 in 1982, when she guested on You're Tearing Me Apart, Terence Pettigrew's documentary which commemorated the 25th anniversary of Dean's death in a car accident in 1955. Also on the program were singer-actor Adam Faith and the screenwriter Ray Connolly.
Writing
In 1983, Baker published an autobiography titled Baby Doll: An Autobiography, which detailed her life and career as an actress and revealed the issues with Paramount and Warner Bros. that had led her to move to Europe in the 1970s and pursue a career in Italian films. Baker said to Regis Philbin, when he interviewed her for Lifetime Television in 1986, that she "didn't want to write an autobiography ... but I wanted to write, and I knew that would be the easiest thing to get published." She further commented to Philbin on her writing, saying: "I think I always wanted to write, but I was a little self-conscious about it. I never had a formal education, and I've always had such a respect for writing. While I could go out and say, even before I started to act, 'Yes, I'm an actress,' I couldn't really say 'I'm a writer.'" In spite of Baker's misgivings, Baby Doll: An Autobiography was well received. She later wrote two other books, To Africa with Love (1986), detailing her time spent in Africa, and a novel titled A Roman Tale (1987).
Personal life
Baker has been married three times. She first married Louie Ritter in 1953, but the marriage ended within a year, after which she enrolled at the Actors Studio in New York City. Baker alleged that Ritter had raped her when she was still a virgin in the early stages of their relationship. Her second was to director Jack Garfein, a Holocaust survivor she met at the Studio and for whom she converted to Judaism (having been raised a Catholic). They had one daughter, Blanche Baker (born 1956), also an actress, and a son, Herschel Garfein (born 1958), who is a composer and faculty member at the Steinhardt School of Music at New York University. Garfein and Baker divorced in 1969. Baker also has six grandchildren.
Baker married her third husband, British theater actor Donald Burton, on March 10, 1978, and resided in Hampstead, London, in the 1980s. The couple remained together until Burton's death from emphysema at their home in Cathedral City, California, on December 8, 2007.
After leaving Hollywood in the mid-1960s, Baker travelled with Bob Hope's Christmas USO troupe entertaining soldiers in Vietnam and Southeast Asia, an experience which she described as reformative: "In the hospitals I held the hands of damaged young men, and I realized that my pain was not exclusive: that in this world there was suffering much more terrible than mine."
Baker resided mainly in New York City and Los Angeles throughout the 1950s and '60s before relocating to Rome to pursue her career there. Baker was mainly based in Palm Springs, California, throughout the 1990s and early 2000s. , she resides in New York City. In February 2014, she served as maid of honor at longtime friend and former actor Patrick Suraci's wedding to his partner, Tony Perkins, in New York.
Legacy
Baker's role in Baby Doll was one that would come to be career-defining, and her association with both the film and character remained consistent throughout her career. In a 1983 article by People magazine, "Baby Doll" was referred to as Baker's "middle name." The film, adapted originally from Tennessee Williams' one-act play 27 Wagons Full of Cotton, has been performed on stage into the 21st century: It had its theatrical debut in 2000, and has been performed numerous times since. Baker's performance of the role was credited in Vanity Fair as marking a significant cultural interest in the ingénue in American cinema.
In 2011, Baker attended the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival in celebration of Williams' 100th birthday. There, she participated in a panel with Rex Reed, where she discussed her experiences with Williams and performing in Baby Doll. In 2011 and 2012, she was awarded Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Hoboken and Fort Lauderdale International Film Festivals.
A 1956 photograph by Diane Arbus depicts Baker onscreen in Baby Doll with a passing silhouette during a New York City theater screening of the film. She was also photographed by Andy Warhol in 1975 as part of his Polaroid portrait series, and is mentioned in his published diaries.
Baker has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1725 Vine Street, which was erected on February 8, 1960. In 2001, a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars was also dedicated to her.
Filmography and credits
Select filmography:
Easy to Love (1953)
Giant (1956)
Baby Doll (1956)
The Big Country (1958)
But Not For Me (1959)
The Miracle (1959)
Bridge to the Sun (1961)
Something Wild (1961)
How the West Was Won (1962)
Station Six-Sahara (1963)
The Carpetbaggers (1964)
Cheyenne Autumn (1964)
Sylvia (1965)
The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
Mister Moses (1965)
Harlow (1965)
Her Harem (1967)
Jack of Diamonds (1967)
The Sweet Body of Deborah (1968)
Orgasmo (1969)
So Sweet...So Perverse (1969)
A Quiet Place to Kill (1970)
Captain Apache (1971)
The Devil Has Seven Faces (1971)
Knife of Ice (1972)
Baba Yaga (1973)
The Flower with the Petals of Steel (1973)
Private Lessons (1975)
Andy Warhol's Bad (1977)
Cyclone (1978)
The World Is Full Of Married Men (1979)
Star 80 (1983)
Native Son (1986)
Ironweed (1987)
Kindergarten Cop (1990)
Blonde Fist (1991)
The Game (1997)
Select television credits:
The Web (1954)
Danger (1955)
Grand (1990)
Tales from the Crypt (1991)
Murder, She Wrote (1993)
L.A. Law (1993)
Chicago Hope (1995)
Roswell (1999)
Select stage credits:' Escapade (1953)
All Summer Long (1954)
Arms and the Man (1958)
Come on Strong (1962)
Anna Christie (1966)
Rain (1977)
Lucy Crown (1979)
Motive (1980)
Publications
Baby Doll: An Autobiography (Arbor House, 1983),
To Africa with Love (Dutton, 1986),
A Roman Tale (Dutton, 1986),
Accolades
Awards
1957: Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress
1957: Hasty Pudding Theatricals Award for "Woman of the Year"
1965: Golden Laurel for Dramatic Performance, Female, for The Carpetbaggers (2nd place)
Nominations
1957: Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Role for Baby Doll 1957: Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama, for Baby Doll 1957: BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress (USA), for Baby Doll 1964: Golden Laurel for Top Female Star
1965: Golden Laurel for Female Star
Honors
1996: Golden Boot Award for The Big Country, How the West Was Won, and Cheyenne Autumn''
1997: Lifetime Achievement Award, Breckenridge (Colorado) Film Festival
2009: The National Arts Club's Medal of Honor
2011: Lifetime Achievement Award, Hoboken International Film Festival
2012: Lifetime Achievement Award, Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival
See also
List of actors with Academy Award nominations
List of actors with Hollywood Walk of Fame motion picture stars
Notes
References
Works cited
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Altamonte Springs, Florida | Altamonte Springs is a suburban city in Seminole County, Florida, United States, which had a population of 41,496 at the 2010 census. The city is in the northern suburbs of the Orlando–Kissimmee–Sanford Metropolitan Statistical Area, which the United States Census Bureau estimated had a population of 2,054,574 in 2008.
Dr. Washington Kilmer of Cincinnati was the first person of European background to settle into the area circa 1870, and he named the area Altamont (minus the "e" from the present spelling) after Altamont, New York, an area near his childhood home. In 1882, the Altamonte Land, Hotel and Navigation Company, founded by Thomas C. Simpson and four other Massachusetts businessmen, gave the area its present name: Altamonte Springs. The company developed the core community along Altamonte Avenue (today's SR 436) between Maitland and Longwood Avenues (today's Ronald Reagan Boulevard). On November 11, 1920, the residents of Altamonte Springs voted 38 to 7 in favor of incorporation.
Geography
Altamonte Springs is located at (28.661463, -81.392016).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 9.4 mi2 (24.5 km2), of which 8.9 mi2 (23.1 km2) is land and 0.6 mi2 (1.5 km2) (5.93%) is water.
Government
Altamonte Springs has a City Manager, City Commissioner form of government, consisting of four commission districts and the Mayor serving Citywide.
Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there were 41,200 people, 18,821 households, and 10,012 families residing in the city. The population density was 4,631.1 inhabitants per square mile (1,787.3/km2). There were 19,992 housing units at an average density of 2,247.2 per square mile (867.3/km2). The racial makeup of the city was 79.23% White, 9.72% African American, 0.33% Native American, 2.94% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 4.79% from other races, and 2.94% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 15.93% of the population.
There were 18,821 households out of which 24.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 37.1% were married couples living together, 12.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 46.8% were non-families. 36.1% of all households were made up of individuals and 6.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.17 and the average family size was 2.86.
In the city, the population was spread out with 20.4% under the age of 18, 10.8% from 18 to 24, 37.1% from 25 to 44, 21.0% from 45 to 64, and 10.7% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 34 years. For every 100 females, there were 92.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 89.6 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $41,578, and the median income for a family was $49,082. Males had a median income of $34,413 versus $28,897 for females. The per capita income for the city was $23,216. About 5.6% of families and 7.4% of the population were below the poverty line, including 9.5% of those under age 18 and 6.4% of those age 65 or over.
Education
The city of Altamonte Springs' public schools are a part of Seminole County Public Schools. Altamonte Springs is served by 5 public elementary schools (K–5); 2 public middle school (6–8); and 2 public high school (9–12). The city of Altamonte Springs is also home to a branch of Seminole State College of Florida. Additionally, Altamonte Springs boasts 10 percent more college graduates per capita than the Florida average, and is just a few miles away from the University of Central Florida and Rollins College.
Elementary
Forest City Elementary
Altamonte Elementary
Lake Orienta Elementary
Spring Lake Elementary
Middle
Teague Middle
Milwee Middle
High
Lake Brantley High School
Lyman High School
South Seminole High School
Private
Forest Lake Academy
Forest Lake Education Center
Altamonte Christian School
Saint Mary Magdalen School
Pace Brantley Hall School
Annunciation Catholic Academy
College
Seminole State College of Florida
Everglades University
Library
Serving the needs of residents since 1960, the Altamonte Springs City Library houses a permanent collection of 44,000 items which include:
Audio Books
Books
DVDs
E-Books
Magazines
Newspapers
Online Databases
Altamonte History Archives
Programs include:
Children’s Story Times
Guest Authors
Free Computer Classes
Summer Reading Program
Children's Events
Cranes Roost Park and Uptown Altamonte
Cranes Roost Park, Cranes Roost Lake, and the general area on State Road 436 east of Interstate 4 is known as the central area of the city. This is the area that borders Interstate 4 which is the main interstate highway for Central Florida connecting Daytona Beach, Orlando, and Tampa. An outdoor town center was recently opened named 'Uptown Altamonte' which marks the central business district of the city. Cranes Roost at Uptown Altamonte features a water fountain choreographed to classical, swing and contemporary music.
This city center incorporates large-scale apartment buildings and planned high rise condominiums. The construction also includes mixed use shops and retailers. The park area includes a square for weddings, festivals, and city holidays. The spot has become popular with Altamonte Springs residents, and attracts residents from nearby Longwood, Casselberry, and Maitland. Future plans include two high rise residential structures (in excess of 10 stories) and a series of parking structures to facilitate visitors.
The area includes the Altamonte Mall, a 4-anchor indoor shopping mall, which includes an 18-screen AMC Theatre. Many restaurants are located near the mall such as several Darden Restaurants, Denny's, and Jason's Deli.
Special events
During recent years, Altamonte Springs has been a host city to several local special events in the Orlando area, including Red, Hot, & Boom, a major annual firework festival that takes place every July 3 in celebration of Independence Day. The Red, Hot, & Boom event draws over 100,000 local residents and visitors annually from the entire Central Florida area, includes appearances musical performances by nationally and internationally known entertainers, and is Central Florida's largest Independence Day Celebration.
Parks and recreation
Parks and events
A Petrified Forest (Halloween Event)
Bird Watchers Wanted
Cranes Roost
Earth Day Event
Hermits Trail & Turnbull Ave
Jr. Rangers Program
Lake Lotus Nature Park
Lake Orienta Public Boat Ramp
Red, Hot, and Boom (Fourth of July Event)
Sunshine Park
Recreation Areas
Eastmonte
Lake Brantley Sports Complex
Merrill Park
Westmonte
Winwood Park
Transportation
Airports
Altamonte Springs is served primarily by Orlando International Airport, which is located 30 minutes south. Orlando Sanford International Airport, located 25 minutes north, also serves the area. Orlando Executive Airport, located 20 minutes south, is used for charter flights and general aviation.
Bus service
Altamonte Springs is served by Lynx, offering local transit service which covers the six-county area (Osceola-Orange-Seminole-Lake-Volusia-Polk).
Rail
Altamonte Springs is served by SunRail, the Central Florida Commuter Rail system. The station opened on May 1, 2014.
See also
List of mayors of Altamonte Springs, Florida
References
External links
Altamonte Springs Collection on the RICHES Mosaic Interface Map
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House Guests | House Guests was an early-1970s American funk group that consisted of bassist William "Bootsy" Collins, his older brother Phelps "Catfish" Collins on guitar, Frank "Kash" Waddy on drums, Clayton "Chicken" Gunnells on trumpet, and Robert McCullough on saxophone.
House Guests was formed in 1971 after the Collins brothers left The J.B.'s, James Brown's band. The band released two singles on their own House Guests label in 1971, "What So Never The Dance" becoming a minor hit.
During 1971 several members of Funkadelic quit, and George Clinton invited the members of House Guests to join Funkadelic in their place. Their unique contributions to Funkadelic's sound can be heard on that band's 1972 release, America Eats Its Young.
In 1976 several members of House Guests became members of Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy Collins' band within the P-Funk musical collective.
Discography
"What So Never The Dance" pt. 1 /"What So Never The Dance" pt. 2 (1971)
"My Mind Set Me Free" pt. 1 / "My Mind Set Me Free" pt. 2 (1971)
Notes
References
David Mills, Larry Alexander, Thomas Stanley, and Aris Thomas, George Clinton and P-Funk: An Oral History (New York: Avon Books, 1998).
Rickey Vincent, Funk: The Music, The People, and The Rhythm of The One (New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 1996).
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Gourrama | Gourrama () is a town in Midelt Province, Drâa-Tafilalet, Morocco. According to the 2004 census it has a population of 3,987.
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Alexander Arvizu | Alexander A. Arvizu (born 1958) is an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Albania from July 1, 2010 to January 11, 2015.
Early life
Arvizu was born on U.S. Army base in Japan and is a first-generation American. His father is originally from Dolores Hidalgo, Mexico and mother was from Kyoto, Japan. Arvizu grew up in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where his family settled after return to the United States. In 1980, he graduated with a bachelor's degree from Georgetown University. He has studied several Asian languages such as Japanese, Korean, Thai and Khmer.
Political career
Arvizu joined the United States Foreign Service in 1981. He held various State Department positions overseas and had been domestically assigned to positions related to U.S. foreign policy in East Asia and the Pacific. While in Washington, D.C., he served as Deputy Director of the State Department's Office of Japanese Affairs and then Director for Asian Affairs in the United States National Security Council in the second Clinton Administration.
Among his overseas positions were Deputy Chief of Missions in US Embassy in Phnom Penh, Cambodia in 2000-2003 and US Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand in 2004-2007. In addition to that, he served two tours in Seoul, South Korea and one tour in Osaka-Kobe, Japan. From 2003 through 2004, Ambassador Arvizu was a member of the 46th Senior Seminar, a leadership program for senior government officers.
After returning from Thailand, he served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary in charge of Regional Security for Japan and Korea from 2007 through 2009. He then worked as the Director of Entry-Level Assignments in the Bureau of Human Resources.
On July 1, 2010 Arvizu was appointed U.S. Ambassador to Albania by President Barack Obama. He was sworn in as the Ambassador to Albania on November 10, 2010.
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Chertsey railway station | Chertsey railway station serves the town of Chertsey in the Runnymede District of Surrey, England. It is located on the Chertsey Loop Line and is operated by South Western Railway.
The station was opened by the London and South Western Railway, with the initial section of the Chertsey branch line, in 1848. The existing building, now a Grade II listed building, was opened on 1 October 1866. It comprises Up and Down platforms having brick buildings: the main building being on the Down side. There is a level crossing here.
Local mythology ascribes the design of the existing station building to William Tite but, in fact, he had stopped all architectural work about 13 years previously. Historic England says, on this subject, "design thought to have been derived from earlier prototypes by Sir William Tite for L.S.W.R." citing, as its source, the book Victorian Stations: Railway Stations in England and Wales, 1836-1923 by Gordon Biddle 1973.
The station featured prominently in the seventh and last series of Public Eye (TV series) broadcast in 1975. In this series, the main character, private investigator Frank Marker rents and operates from a cheap cabin on the station forecourt, never bothering to change the lettering along the front from the Apollo Aerials sign which was there when he first came across the building.
Inside the station building was a café called the Buffet Carr which closed late 2009. A second unnamed café was operating at the station, which was replaced by Cravin' Coffee in late 2016.
Originally suited to serve up to 4-coach trains, an extension project that concluded in 2017 extended both platforms to serve up to 12-coach trains.
Original Station
Whereas the current station is about 40m to the north west of Guildford Street, the original 1848 station was on the other side of Guildford Street to the south east. At the time it opened and for 18 years thereafter, the line terminated at Guildford Street and the branch line ran only in a south easterly direction to Weybridge railway station. It was only with opening of the current station in 1866 that the line was completed north westwards to Virginia Water railway station in order to allow travel onward to Egham railway station and Reading railway station. The original station building was on the north eastern side of the tracks.
Plans showing the layout of both stations are available for viewing, by prior arrangement, in the research section of Chertsey Museum. An 1848 plan shows the original station at the time it was built. Plans from 1870-1880 show the current station with new buildings springing up around it but still using the sidings, goods warehouse and engine house on the other side of Guildford Street left over from the original station.
Services
There are trains every 30 minutes, westbound to Staines, Hounslow and London Waterloo, and eastbound to .
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South American U14 Handball Championship | The South American Under-14 Handball Championship is the official competition for Under-14 Men's and Women's national handball teams of South America.
Men
Summary
Medal table
Participating nations
Women
Summary
Medal table
Participating nations
References
www.panamhandball.org
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Sulemanki Headworks | Sulemanki Headworks is a headworks on the River Sutlej near Okara, in the Punjab province of Pakistan.
Sulemanki Headworks is used for irrigation and flood control.
Sulemanki Headworks is part of the Sutlej Valley Project completed between 1922-1927 at the behest of the Nawab of Bahawalpur, Amir Sadiq Mohammed Khan V and the British Government. It was an irrigation scheme to develop the neighbouring areas.
More specifically, the construction of the Pakpattan Canal took place in British Punjab in 1925 to on the right bank of the Sulemanki Headworks. This was undertaken to develop the Nilli bar colony in the south of Punjab. After the partition of British India, the left bank side of the Sulemanki Headworks became part of India which was later in 1961 transferred to Pakistan in exchange for left bank area of Hussainiwala headworks.
This headworks is located about a mile from the Indian border on the Sutlej River. From here originate three major canals which supply irrigation water to a large area in Southern Punjab and the Bahawalnagar district. The Upper Pakpattan Canal arises from its right bank and two canals arise from the left. The canals on the left bank are Fordwah and Eastern Sadiqia Canal. The later canal runs along the Pakistan-India border. After 46 miles at Jalwala headworks, Eastern Sadiqia Canal trifurcates into Sirajwah distributary, Malik Branch Canal and Hakara Branch Canal. Hakara branch runs in a southwesterly direction for another 75 miles and is at few places it is a few meters from the Indian border. According to Pakistan army it provides a major defensive landmark against any possible Indian intrusion. Therefore, it is of a significant strategic importance.
About ten miles upriver from the Sulemanki Headworks the Baloki-Sulemanki Link Canal has its outfall connecting the Ravi River to the Sutlej River and thus offsetting the loss of water to India as agreed upon in Indus Basin Water Treaty of 1960. According to that treaty, three Eastern rivers, Ravi, Sutlej and Beas are allocated for the exclusive use of India before they enter Pakistan.
In accordance with the popularity of Retreat Ceremony at other Indo-Pakistan border crossings such as at Wagah and Hussainiwala near Lahore, a smaller ceremony also takes place here at the check point Sadki by Pakistan Rangers and Indian Border Security Force. It attracts a sizable number of tourists on both sides.
In fact the small hilltop Pakistani check point of Sadki was transferred to the Pakistani control by India by a treaty signed on January 17, 1961. Pakistan needed to have border adjustments for efficient operation of the Headworks which was not possible otherwise. In return Pakistan ceded a part of its territory to India. That territory in itself is noteworthy for the memorial constructed in memory of Bhaghat Singh, a freedom fighter who was executed by the colonial British government.
Major Shabbir Sharif, a Pakistani officer, the elder brother of General Raheel Sharif, former Chief of Pakistan Army Staff was martyred in Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 in this border region. He was posthumously awarded Nishan-Haider, the highest Pakistani military honor for bravery.
See also
List of barrages and headworks in Pakistan
List of dams and reservoirs in Pakistan
References
Category:Irrigation in Pakistan
Category:Dams on the Sutlej River
Category:Dams in Pakistan |
Internet Content Rating Association | Internet Content Rating Association (ICRA) was an international non-profit organization with offices in the United States and the United Kingdom. In October 2010, the ICRA rating system, and the organization, was discontinued.
Its mission was to help users find the content they want, to trust what they find and to filter out what they do not want for themselves or for their children. ICRA also acted as a forum through which both political and technical infrastructure are defined to help shape the way that the World Wide Web and content distribution channels work.
Methods
ICRA created a content description system which allowed webmasters and digital content creators to self-label their content in categories such as nudity, sex, language (profanity etc.), violence, other potentially undesired material and online interactivity such as social networking and chat. There are context variables such as art, medicine and news—for example, a piece of content or site can be described as having depictions of nudes, but they are in an artistic context. A key point is that ICRA does not rate internet content, nor do it make value judgements about sites – the content providers self-label, and then parents and other concerned adults make a value judgement as to what is or is not appropriate content.
The labelling was done using a web-based questionnaire. The content creators checked which of the elements in the questionnaire are present or absent from their Web sites, and a small file is automatically generated using the RDF format, which is then linked to the content on one or more domains. Formerly, the system was based on PICS.
Users could then use content filtering software to censor various types of content. One such application, ICRAplus, was maintained by ICRA itself. ICRA also had a validator which tested all versions of ICRA and old RSACi labels.
The content descriptions were revised in 2005 to enable easier application to a wide range of digital content, not just websites.
The ICRA also intended to launch a service to verify the accuracy of ICRA labels and to provide this information to third-party tools and services, such as search engines.
Alternative labelling projects include Quatro, an EU-funded project which integrates content labels with quality and trust marks, and its successor, QuatroPlus.
Members
ICRA's corporate members included: AOL, British Telecom, Microsoft, T-Online and Verizon. ICRA has been supported by the European Union's Internet Action Plan and various trusts and foundations. Through the Associate Membership scheme, individuals could join and support the work of the organization.
Discontinuation
As of October 2010, the ICRA labeling engine has been discontinued by FOSI. Additionally, FOSI has withdrawn all support for the ICRA rating system and taken down all documentation for labeling websites with ICRA ratings. The reason is that the ICRA label failed to gain widespread acceptance.
See also
Entertainment Software Rating Board
Family Online Safety Institute
RSACi
Mobile software content rating system
References
External links
ICRA Homepage
ICRA Vocabulary
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Category:Semantic Web
Category:Content-control software
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Fetisov Arena | Fetisov Arena () is an indoor arena located in Vladivostok, Russia. Completed in 2013, it has a seating capacity of 5,500 spectators for hockey matches and up to 7,000 for concerts. The venue is home of Admiral Vladivostok of the Kontinental Hockey League.
The arena is named in honor of Viacheslav Fetisov.
References
Category:Admiral Vladivostok
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Category:Music venues in Russia
Category:Indoor ice hockey venues in Russia
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Category:Kontinental Hockey League venues
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First inauguration of James Madison | The first inauguration of James Madison as the fourth President of the United States was held on Saturday, March 4, 1809, in the chamber of the House of Representatives at the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C.. The inauguration marked the commencement of the first four-year term of James Madison as President and the second term of George Clinton as Vice President. The presidential oath was administered by Chief Justice John Marshall. The President wore a 100% American-made wool suit, and the first official inaugural ball occurred at Long's Hotel, with ticket prices being $4 (currently about $). Clinton died into this term, and the office remained vacant for the balance of it. (Prior to ratification of the Twenty-fifth Amendment in 1967, no constitutional provision existed for filling an intra-term vacancy in the vice presidency.)
Ceremony
Madison rode to the capitol on March 4 with the Washington and Georgetown cavalry escorting him. He entered the House of Representatives with Jefferson's cabinet members. President Jefferson attended the inauguration and sat beside Madison at the front of the hall. The Supreme Court Justices sat in front of Madison. According to spectators in the gallery, Madison spoke softly at first with an obvious tremble but addressed the chamber louder as his speech went on. The new president wore a black suit.
After the inaugural address and oath of office, Madison and his wife, Dolley Madison, welcomed visitors at their home on F Street where the huge crowd overwhelmed them. They subsequently attended an inaugural ball at Long's Hotel. Wearing a velvet dress, Dolley, the new First Lady, drew large crowds of admirers at the ball, while Madison described the occasion as exhausting and unpleasant.
Inaugural Address
On March 4, 1809, James Madison gave his Inaugural Address and was sworn into office as the fourth president of the United States of America. He addressed the nation on how he felt. He felt honor and responsibility in a way he could not express when elected president. He acknowledged that the United States is a country with a great deal of issues and difficulties, and the pressure of that hit him hard. He also mentions how great the United States was and how far it has come as a country in a short period of time.
He informed the people that the country was trying to make peace and have good relations with all nations, especially with belligerent nations. He wanted to remain a neutral country as Americans progressed and built their nation. He mentioned that the US had one too many bloody and wasteful wars. "It has been the true glory of the United States to cultivate peace by observing justice."
Madison promised to meet with United States councils to make safeguards and to honor its essential interest with other nations. He wanted to build up and fund a strong military and militia, to defend the republic and the rights of the people.
Madison ended his speech with gratitude towards people in the past who had done so much for the United States, and wished the best for the future of this young thriving country.
See also
Presidency of James Madison
Second inauguration of James Madison
1808 United States presidential election
References
External links
More documents from the Library of Congress
Text of Madison's First Inaugural Address
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Donald Edward Osterbrock | Donald Edward Osterbrock (July 13, 1924 – January 11, 2007) was an American astronomer, best known for his work on star formation and on the history of astronomy.
Biography
Osterbrock was born in Cincinnati. His father was an electrical engineer. He served with the US Army in the Second World War, making weather observations in the Pacific.
He was educated at the University of Chicago, where he received bachelor's and master's degrees in physics and a PhD in astronomy in 1952. He was a student of Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar while working at University of Chicago's Yerkes Observatory. His work there with William Wilson Morgan and Stewart Sharpless showed the existence of the Milky Way's spiral arms.
He became a post-doctoral researcher, instructor and Assistant Professor at the California Institute of Technology until 1958. He was then appointed Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, received tenure there in 1959, and was promoted to full professor in 1961. He was a Guggenheim Fellow for the academic year 1960–1961. In 1973 he moved from Madison to the University of California at Santa Cruz, as Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Director of Lick Observatory, a position he held until 1981. He remained on the faculty at UC Santa Cruz until his retirement in 1993. Thereafter, Emeritus Professor Osterbrock continued to make daily trips to his office on campus, to work on his research, to keep publishing, and to maintain an active role in the astronomical community.
At the time of his death he had authored 12 monographs on astronomy and the history of astronomy, including, in 1989 the influential textbook Astrophysics of Gaseous Nebulae and Active Galactic Nuclei, and the recently updated and revised 2nd edition (2006) written along with Gary Ferland of the University of Kentucky. Alongside his more than 150 articles on astronomy and astrophysics, he published 70 historical studies, biographical memoirs, and obituaries of major figures in nineteenth and twentieth century astronomy, and numerous book reviews.
Osterbrock's research included work on the nature of ionized gases around hot stars and studying active galactic nuclei powered by black holes.
Osterbrock received lifetime achievement awards from the American Astronomical Society and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. He was President of the American Astronomical Society from 1988 to 1990.
He died following a heart attack. He was survived by his wife of 54 years, Irene Hansen, and their son and two daughters.
Honors
Associate, Royal Astronomical Society (1976)
Henry Norris Russell Lectureship, American Astronomical Society (1991)
Corresponding member, Academia Mexicana de Ciencias (1998)
Awards
University of Chicago Alumni Association Professional Achievement Award (1982)
University Center Distinguished Scholar in Physics and Astronomy, Atlanta, Georgia (1990)
Catherine Wolfe Bruce Gold Medal, Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1991)
Gold Medal, Royal Astronomical Society (1997)
Antoinette de Vancouleurs Memorial Lectureship and Medal, University of Texas (1994)
Hans Lippershey Medal, Antique Telescope Society (1998)
University of Chicago Alumni Medal (2000)
Leroy E. Doggett Prize for Historical Astronomy, Historical Astronomy Division, American Astronomical Society (2002)
Named after him
Asteroid 6107 Osterbrock
Honorary degrees
D.Sc., Ohio State University (1986)
D.Sc., University of Chicago (1992)
D.Sc., University of Wisconsin, Madison (1997)
D.Sc., Ohio University (2003)
D.Sc., University of Cincinnati (2004)
References
Obituary, The New York Times, 27 January 2007
Obituary, The Times, 14 March 2007
Bruce Medal page
Press release, UC Santa Cruz, January 12, 2007
External links
Lick Observatory page
University of California Observatories page
"Lessons from Don" by S. Waldee
Photographs of Donald Osterbrock from the UC Santa Cruz Library's Digital Collections
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Alcalay | Alkalay is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Albert Alcalay, American artist
Ammiel Alcalay, American poet
Luna Alcalay, Croatian-Austrian musician
Milos Alcalay, Venezuelan diplomat
Reuben Alcalay, Israeli author |
1967 BC Lions season | The 1967 BC Lions finished in fifth place in the Western Conference with a 3–12–1 record after Joe Kapp, Willie Fleming, Tom Hinton, Pat Claridge, Jim Carphin and Dick Fouts left the team following the conclusion of the 1966 season.
During the off-season, Herb Capozzi was replaced with new General Manager Denny Veitch.
Former Hamilton star pivot Bernie Faloney was brought in to replace Kapp. It was Faloney's final year of professional football, and while he threw for a career best 3303 yards, he also threw 21 interceptions and was sacked 35 times. After losing their first five games, Grey Cup winning head coach Dave Skrien was replaced by interim coach Ron Morris and then by Jim Champion. The team was characterized by its lack of offense, only averaging 14.9 points and 1.5 touchdowns per game.
The poor field goal kicking from the previous season resulted in the Lions being the first team to use a specialist kicker in the CFL. Although Ted Gerela did backup at running back, he did represent the transition in the CFL from the era when a regular positional player did the kicking and the era of kickers who do nothing but kick.
Veteran linebacker Norm Fieldgate, who had played with the team since the 1954 expansion, retired at the end of the season after 223 games.
The Lions introduced a new helmet logo: a roaring lion's head with BC inscribed on the cheek. This would be the team's primary mark for the 'lost decade' of Lions football from 1967 to 1977 where the team won more than six games only twice.
Regular season
Season standings
Season schedule
Offensive leaders
Awards and records
1967 CFL All-Stars
None
References
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Orion (Mika Nakashima song) | "Orion" is Mika Nakashima's 27th single, released on November 12, 2008. It was the insert song for the Japanese TBS drama, Ryūsei no Kizuna, in which Mika co-starred. The "B-side" song, "FOCUS", was used for the television commercial of the Canon IXY Digital 920 IS camera. Orion, a lite rock-influenced ballad, has sold over 1.300.000 digital downloads.
The single is certified Gold by RIAJ for shipment for 100,000 copies and Million for digital downloads.
Track listing
Charts
Oricon sales chart (Japan)
References
External links
http://www.mikanakashima.com/
http://www.kumonoito.net/
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Juraj Halenár | Juraj Halenár (28 June 1983 – 30 June 2018) was a Slovak football forward who was most famous for playing for Slovan Bratislava.
Club career
Halenár, a native of Trnava, moved to Bratislava at the age of 18, when he joined Slovakia's reigning champions, Inter Bratislava. He impressed in the 2004-05 campaign, in which he scored 12 goals for the club in the Corgoň Liga. Following the first game of the new season, in which he bagged two goals against MFK Ružomberok, Halenár transferred to Artmedia for an undisclosed fee, reported to be in the region of 20 million Slovak crowns. In only his second game for Artmedia on 27 July 2005, he scored a hat-trick against Celtic in the 2005 UEFA Champions League second qualifying round tie.
In summer 2008, Halenár was sold to Slovan Bratislava. The striker scored two goals on his debut for Slovan in a 4–1 victory against 1. FC Tatran Prešov. He became the top all time scorer in the Slovak top flight on 10 August 2014, when he scored a brace against MFK Košice, surpassing Róbert Semeník's record of 120 goals. In January 2015, Halenár left the Slovak league and signed for Hungarian team Nyíregyháza Spartacus FC, where he stayed until the end of the season. Afterwards, he joined SK Sigma Olomouc on 9 July 2015. In December 2015, he left the club due to family reasons.
International career
Halenár played at two youth tournaments for his country, the UEFA European Under-19 Championship in 2002 and the Under-20 FIFA World Youth Championship in 2003. On 13 November 2007, he made his debut for Slovakia's senior team in a qualifying game for the 2008 European Championship against the Czech Republic. Halenár also played in next two matches of the national team, when he came on as a substitute both against San Marino and Hungary.
Death
On 30 June 2018, just two days after his 35th birthday, Halenár was found dead in the Vrakunský woods outside the Slovak capital Bratislava. The first reports state he committed suicide.
Honours
Slovakia
Slovakia U20
2003 FIFA U-20 World Cup: Participation
Slovakia U19
2002 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship - Third place
References
External links
Slovan Bratislava profile
UEFA news
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Lithuanian Women's Supercup | The Lithuanian Women's Supercup (Lietuvos moterų supertaurė) was a one-off fixture in Lithuanian football played between the A Lyga champions and the winners of the Lithuanian Women's Cup. In 2005 and 2006 Gintra Universitetas won the league and the cup thus the supercup was played against cup runners-up.
Previous winners
Previous winners are:
References
Cup
Women
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Earth Gravitational Model | The Earth Gravitational Models (EGMs) are geopotential models of the Earth consisting of spherical harmonic coefficients published by the Office of Geomatics at National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). EGM96 from 1996 is used as the geoid reference of the World Geodetic System. Three versions of EGM are published: EGM84 with n=m=180, EGM96 with n=m=360, and EGM2008 with n=m=2160. n and m are the degree and orders of harmonic coefficients; the higher they are, the more parameters the models have, and the more precise they are. EGM2008 also contains expansions to n=2190. Developmental versions of EGMs are referred to as PGMs, Preliminary Gravitational Models.
The NGA provides the model in two formats: in a raster image recording the geoid height at each coordinate at a given resolution, or in a format providing the numerical parameters – the coefficients – defining the model.
History
The first EGM, EGM84, was defined as a part of WGS84. WGS84 combines the old GRS 80 with the then-latest data, namely available Doppler, satellite laser ranging and Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) observations, and a new least squares method called collocation. It allowed for a model with n=m=180 to be defined, providing a raster for every half degree (30', 30 minute) of latitude and longitude of the world. NIMA also computed and made available 30′×30′ mean altimeter derived gravity anomalies from the GEOSAT Geodetic Mission.
EGM96 from 1996 is the result of a collaboration between the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA), the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), and the Ohio State University. It took advantage of new surface gravity data from many different regions of the globe, including data newly released from the NIMA archives. Major terrestrial gravity acquisitions by NIMA since 1990 include airborne gravity surveys over Greenland and parts of the Arctic and the Antarctic, surveyed by the Naval Research Lab (NRL) and cooperative gravity collection projects, several of which were undertaken with the University of Leeds. These collection efforts have improved the data holdings over many of the world's land areas, including Africa, Canada, parts of South America and Africa, Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union. In addition, there have been major efforts to improve NIMA's existing 30' mean anomaly database through contributions over various countries in Asia. EGM96 also included altimeter derived anomalies derived from ERS-1 by Kort & Matrikelstyrelsen (KMS), (National Survey and Cadastre, Denmark) over portions of the Arctic, and the Antarctic, as well as the altimeter derived anomalies of Schoene [1996] over the Weddell Sea. The raster from EGM96 is provided at 15'x15' resolution.
EGM96 is a composite solution, consisting of:
a combination solution to degree and order 70,
a block diagonal solution from degree 71 to 359,
and the quadrature solution at degree 360.
PGM2000A is an EGM96 derivative model that incorporates normal equations for the dynamic ocean topography implied by the POCM4B ocean general circulation model.
The official Earth Gravitational Model EGM2008 has been publicly released by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) EGM Development Team. Among other new data sources, the GRACE satellite mission provided a very high resolution model of the global gravity. This gravitational model is complete to spherical harmonic degree and order 2159 (block diagonal), and contains additional coefficients extending to degree 2190 and order 2159. It provides a raster of 2.5'x2.5' and an accuracy approaching 10 cm. "Test versions" of EGM2008 includes PGM2004, 2006, and 2007.
See also
Geoid
ETRS89
NAD83
WGS84
References
External links
EGM96: The NASA GSFC and NIMA Joint Geopotential Model
Earth Gravitational Model 2008 (EGM2008)
GeographicLib provides a utility GeoidEval (with source code) to evaluate the geoid height for the EGM84, EGM96, and EGM2008 Earth gravity models. Here is an online version of GeoidEval.
The Tracker Component Library from the United States Naval Research Laboratory is a free Matlab library with a number of gravitational synthesis routines. The function getEGMGeoidHeight can be used to evaluate the geoid height under the EGM96 and EGM2008 models. Additionally, the gravitational potential, acceleration, and gravity gradient (second spatial derivatives of the potential) can be evaluated using the spherHarmonicEval function, as demonstrated in DemoGravCode.
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Neomordellistena flavopila | Neomordellistena flavopila is a beetle in the genus Neomordellistena of the family Mordellidae. It was described in 1967 by Ermisch.
References
flavopila
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Hlyboka Raion | Hlyboka Raion (, ) is an administrative district of Chernivtsi Oblast located in the historical regions of Bukovina and Hertza, in western Ukraine. The administrative center is the urban-type settlement of Hlyboka. There are 37 villages in the raion. The population of the raion according to the 2001 Census was 72,682 inhabitants, its area covers . Current population:
In Hlyboka Raion there are 46 secondary schools. Among them, in 25 schools students acquire education in the Ukrainian language, in 20 schools in Romanian, and in one in Russian. There is also one vocational school.
According to the Ukraine Census (2001), the 72,676 residents of the raion reported themselves as following: Ukrainians: 34,025, Romanians: 32,923, Moldovans: 4,425, Russians: 877, and other: 426.
The Raion has also 34 public hospitals and clinics.
See also
Subdivisions of Ukraine
Chernivtsi Oblast
Hlyboka
Voloka, Hlyboka Raion
References
External links
bucoda.cv.ua - Official website
Chernivtsi Oblast Nationalities
Verkhovna Rada website - Administrative divisions of the Hlybotskyi Raion
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Category:Romanian communities in Ukraine |
NLD | The acronym NLD may refer to:
National League for Democracy, a political party in Myanmar (Burma)
National League for Democracy (Tanzania), a political party in Tanzania
Necrobiosis lipoidica diabeticorum, a skin disorder
Nonverbal learning disorder
Novell Linux Desktop
North London derby
Quetzalcóatl International Airport (IATA code NLD), in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico
NLD is also the ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code of the Netherlands |
Ramat Rachel shooting attack | The Ramat Rachel shooting attack was a mass shooting carried out by Jordanian Legion soldiers, on September 23, 1956, who opened fire across the Israel/Jordan border on a group of Israeli archaeologists working inside Israeli sovereign territory near Kibbutz Ramat Rachel. Four Jewish archaeologists were killed in the event and 16 others were wounded.
The attack
On Sunday, 23 September 1956, a tour was held for a group of Israeli archaeologists at the archaeological excavations near Kibbutz Ramat Rachel. During the tour machine-gun fire was opened on the archaeologists from Jordanian positions at Mar Elias Monastery near the Jerusalem-Bethlehem road. The fire killed four people, including the archaeologist Jacob Pinkerfeld, and 16 others were wounded. Another person who was seriously injured in the shooting died eventually of his wounds five years later.
Official reactions
: Jordan expressed regret for the incident and blamed a single soldier who was "suddenly taken by madness".
: Israeli foreign ministry spokesman called Jordan's version completely unfounded, quoting witnesses at the event who stated that two submachine guns and three rifles were clearly seen firing from two Jordanian army outposts across the border at the archaeologists in Ramat Rachel.
Aftermath
In response to the Ramat Rachel shooting attack, The Israeli Defence Forces carried out the Operation Lulav on September 25, 1956; the counterattack was held in the Arab village Husan, near Bethlehem.
References
External links
Gunfire Kills Three Israelis - Published in Milwaukee Journal on September 23, 1956 (dead link as of August 2016)
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La Poterie-Mathieu | La Poterie-Mathieu is a commune in the Eure department in Normandy in northern France. The lords of the manor were the de Livet family, and later their descendants the de Livet de Barville family, Marquis of Barville.
Population
See also
Communes of the Eure department
References
INSEE
External links
Official site
Category:Communes of Eure |
Georges Hamel | Georges Hamel (20 January 1948 – 26 February 2014) was a Canadian country music singer and songwriter from Quebec.
Hamel was born in Sainte-Françoise, Centre-du-Québec, Quebec, Canada. Over the course of his 40-year career, Hamel recorded 44 LPs, won four Félix Awards from ADISQ and sold over two million records.
In 2014, Hamel was the recipient of the Excellence Award at the Francophone SOCAN Awards held in Montreal.
He died in Drummondville, Centre-du-Québec in February 2014, at the age of 66.
References
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Category:Canadian male singer-songwriters
Category:Canadian country singer-songwriters
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Category:Singers from Quebec
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Joshua Galvin | Joshua Galvin (1938 – 2011) was an English hairdresser and educator.
He became one of Vidal Sassoon’s top London stylists in the swinging 60s, and was Judy Garland’s personal hairdresser in New York.
He had five training academies in London and Essex, earning the unofficial title, "the father of modern hairdressing training," and sat on the council of the Fellowship for British Hairdressing.
Galvin was awarded an honorary fellowship by the University of the Arts London in 2007. His younger brother, Daniel Galvin, is also a prominent hair stylist.
References
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78th Field Artillery Regiment | The 78th Field Artillery Regiment is a field artillery regiment of the United States Army. Initially activated on 1 July 1916, the 78th Field Artillery Battalion did not see action in World War I, but would later be reactivated at the start of World War II and participate in the campaigns for Algeria-French Morocco, Sicily, Normandy, Northern France, Ardennes-Alsace, Central Europe, and the Rhineland with the 2d Armored Division. The 78th Artillery Battalion's six batteries were reorganized into separate battalions in 1957, with the 1st Battalion, 78th Field Artillery being the only remaining active unit of the 78th Field Artillery. The 1st Battalion, 78th Field Artillery is assigned to the 428th Field Artillery Brigade, supporting the Fires Center of Excellence mission through the conduct of Initial Entry Training in order to provide the Army with combat ready Field Artillery Soldiers. The 1st Battalion, 78th Field Artillery conducts Advanced Individual Training for the 13-series (Field Artillery) Military Occupational Specialties (MOS) of 13B (Cannon Crewmember), 13F (Joint Fire Support Specialist), 13J (Field Artillery Automated Tactical Data System Specialist), 13M (Multiple Launch Rocket System Crewmember), and 13R (Firefinder Radar Operator).
History
Africa
On 8 November 1942, the 78th Armored Field Artillery Battalion, part of the 2d Armored Division, approached the coast of French Morocco. At dusk the 78th landed at Safi and began to move inland. The batteries of the 78th were all equipped with T-19's and 105mm howitzers mounted on half-tracks. On 9 November, the 78th received word that a sizeable French force was marching from Marrakech to Safi. The landing team was ordered to intercept this force. That afternoon Battery C, 78th FA occupied a position to support a tank attack against the French and began to "rain steel" upon the enemy. The French, determined not to be pushed over, soon began firing on the 78th's position using World War 1 equipment. The antiquated French equipment did not present a legitimate threat, prompting General Harmon to disengage and march to his main objective -Casablanca. At dawn on 11 November, the armored column moved to the outskirts of Mazagan. Battery C, 78th FA and Battery B, 14th FA prepared to support an attack on the town soon after dawn. However, just before the attack, the French agreed to an armistice ending the "Battle of Mazagan". At Fedahla, due to heavy surf and equipment losses, the landing team which included Battery A, 78th FA, commanded by Captain George Bain, did not land until late in the evening on 9 November. On 10 November, the landing team started an envelopment that was soon called off upon receiving word of the armistice. At Port Lyautey only seven American tanks were on land when the French launched an attack with thirty-two Renault tanks in an effort to overrun the American beachhead. Captain C.W. Walter, commander Battery B, 78th FA, and Lieutenant Richard Moses, the forward observer, had landed with the seven American tanks. The two officers suddenly found themselves involved in serious action. The remainder of the landing team landed the next day. The team moved into position and kept the French at bay until the armistice.
Sicily
On 8 July 1943, the 78th sailed from the Bay of Tunis to Sicily as part of Task Force Kool. The invasion fleet had been subjected to continuous raids from the German Air Force. The 78th was directed to reinforce the artillery supporting the 18th Infantry and occupy positions 500 yards inland from the beach. The battalion maintained the same position on 9 July when it was ordered to support 1st Division units on the east flank. On 13 July, the 78th was ordered to support the 1st and 31-d Ranger Battalions in their attack on the small mountain town of Butera. The Rangers attacked at night on 13 July and, supported by artillery from the 78th, captured the town by early morning. The next day, the battalion displaced to new positions to support the consolidation of gains made by the Rangers. In the afternoon word came that the Germans had launched a serious counterattack against elements of the 1st Division about six miles to the north and effective antitank measures were needed. General Gaffey ordered the 78th to engage the German tanks by direct fire. However, the 1st Division had already repulsed the German counterattack. On 18 July, the 78th was ordered to reinforce the 14th FA, which was supporting Combat Command A in its mission to capture Palermo. However, upon reaching Palermo, there was no need to employ large armored units, and the 78th was no longer needed in Sicily.
Normandy
On 11 July 1944, the 78th Armored Field Artillery Battalion landed on the beaches of Normandy. The 78th was placed under the command of Combat Command B, Brigadier General I.D. White. The next several weeks were devoted to the reconnaissance of possible routes to launch counterattacks, fighting off German air attacks, and defending against enemy artillery. On 1 July, the 78th teamed with the 2d Armored Division to relieve the 7th British Armored Division near Caumont. The Germans frequently counterattacked the 2d Armored Division, subjecting it to continuous artillery fire. The 75 played a large role in repulsing these counterattacks. Under heavy artillery shelling,
the 78th returned fire without hesitation. On 17 July, the 2d Armored Division was relieved by the 50th British Brigade and began preparing for the St. Lo breakthrough.
Operation cobra
The 2d Armored Division was to attack alongside the 1st Infantry Division and 3d Armored Division. In order to support the advance of the leading elements and to counter the German attacks, the 78th positioned two batteries in a crossroad west of Notre Dame and one battery east of the town. The flexibility of the 78th allowed them to engage targets in opposite directions, providing maximum support to the mission. On 29 July, the Germans attacked with paratroopers and tanks, with the intent to break through to the south and occupy the crossroads. The 78th fired over 500 rounds to break up the German attack against the task force. At 0800 on 29 July, small arms fire grew in intensity north of Battery B and reports told of 200 men and 15 tanks advancing. The 4th Division fell under heavy fire and began to withdraw to Battery B's position. The 4th Division had lost all of its officers and was extremely disorganized. Battery B dropped their howitzers and picked up small arms and machine guns and took positions to block the advance of the Germans. Battery C positioned itself at the crossroad and covered the enemy with direct fire. The 78th, defending with every available weapon, finally halted the German advance. At this time a tank and infantry reserve arrived and drove the enemy forces north. The 78th occupied positions between Lengronne and St. Denis le Gast to support 1St Battalion, 41st Infantry and 1st Battalion, 67th Armored Regiment. After occupying its positions, the 78th continued to exchange fire with the enemy infantry in an attempt to break through to the south. Late in the evening, an enemy column of tanks and infantry infiltrated the area. Batteries A and B used M-7s to destroy the enemy vehicles until the enemy attacked the 78th 's area of operations. The infantry attacked the flanks of the Headquarters Battery and Battery B. Both batteries were drawn into a small arms battle with enemy infantry. Battery A and Battery C fired artillery upon the Germans, providing the support needed for the Headquarters Battery and Battery B to repulse the German attack. 96 German vehicles, including tanks and armored vehicles, were destroyed in the action, and 1,200 Germans were killed in the battle. The 78th suffered 50 dead and 60 wounded. For their actions, the 78th was awarded the Presidential Unit Citation and the French Croix de Guerre with Silver Star.
Siegfried Line
On 20 September, the 2d Armored Division was relieved by a reinforced cavalry unit and began preparations for the assault on the Siegfried Line. The plan for the breach of the Siegfried Line called for 30th Infantry Division to force a crossing of the Wurm River at two points, and create a penetration of the west wall. The 2d armored Division would then attack through the 30th Division and seize the towns of Linnich and Julich on the Roer River. On 2 October, the 30th Division attacked, meeting strong resistance. They were unable to create a breach before it was decided to send the 2d Armored Division. The 78th participated in the attack by reinforcing the fires of the 30th Division, then supported Combat Command B when the 2d Armored Division began its attack on 3 October. The 78th was the first artillery unit to cross the Siegfried Line. The German resistance was extremely effective and fanatical. The German artillery and tank fire created great confusion, slowing the advance of Combat Command B. During the fighting, the 78th fired continuously. It was the heaviest rate of fire for the battalion during its time in combat. The 2d Armored Division was directed to hold its position until 16 November, when it attacked in an attempt to cross the Roer River. The Germans counterattacked with large armored forces. The 78th helped to repel these counterattacks through its fires. On 28 November, the 2d Armored Division reached the west bank of the Roer, assuming a defensive role.
The Bulge
The 2d Armored Division was given orders to move south to help repel the Germans as they launched a counterattack toward the Meuse River and Liege. On 23 December, contact was established and the division attacked, resulting in the destruction of the 2d Panzer Division. The division launched another attack to pinch off the western portion of the German salient. During these attacks, the 78th operated in support of Combat Command B. Numerous times the battalion organized small task forces to eliminate pockets of Germans hiding in the woods, In January the division went through extensive rehabilitation and maintenance in its preparation to march towards Berlin.
Berlin
On 23 February, the Ninth Army launched its attack on the Rhine. The 78th played a major role in helping the division cross the Rhine and eventually march to Berlin. On 1 April, the 78th, in support of Combat Command B, advanced north of the Ruhr Industrial District completing the closure of the gigantic Ruhr pocket by sinking up with the 3d armored Division. In late April, the division was relieved and assumed military government duties. The 2d Armored Division was selected to be the first unit to occupy the American zone of Berlin. The 2d armored Division returned to the United States to become the only armored division remaining in the U.S. Army.
Lineage
Constituted on 1 July 1916 and organized 1 June 1917 at Fort Riley, Kansas, the 20th Cavalry was formed from elements of the 13th Cavalry. Such a lineage is enshrined in the unit crest, the numeral 13 in the blazing sun. In November 1917, the 20th Cavalry was re-designated and reformed as the 78th Field Artillery Regiment and assigned to support the 6th Infantry Division. On the crest's wreath of red and gold, the 6 pointed star charged with the number 78 represents the 6th Infantry's insignia and its relationship to the Regiment. Battle participation in Europe was limited and the regiment was inactivated following World War I. The field of the unit crest is red for Artillery. The gold billets are from the coat of arms of Franche-Comté, the area where the 78th Field Artillery Regiment was located during World War I. Beneath the crest is a Scroll with the motto SEMEL ET SIMUL meaning "At Once and Together".
In 1940 the unit was activated as the 78th Field Artillery Battalion, part of the 2nd Armored Division. Re-designated the 78th Armored Field Artillery Battalion in 1942, the unit participated in the campaigns for Algeria-French Morocco, Sicily, Normandy, Northern France, Ardennes-Alsace, Central Europe, and the Rhineland.
In 1957 in Germany the regiment was relieved of assignment from the 2nd Armored Division and each of its six batteries were reorganized into separate battalions.
A Battery was re-designated as the 1st Battalion, 78th Artillery remained on assignment with the 2nd Armored Division.
B Battery was re-designated as the 2nd Battalion, 78th Artillery was assigned to the 4th Infantry Division and later the 1st Armored Division.
C Battery was re-designated as the 3rd Battalion, 78th Artillery was withdrawn from the Regular Army and allotted to the Army Reserve's 90th Infantry Division, later inactivated on 31 December 1965.
D Battery was re-designated as the 4th Battalion, 78th Artillery was withdrawn from the Regular Army and allotted to the Army Reserve's 102nd Infantry Division, later inactivated on 31 December 1965.
E Battery was re-designated as the 5th Battalion, 78th Artillery was assigned to 194th Armored Brigade, later inactivated on 18 May 1970.
F Battery was re-designated as the 6th Battalion, 78th Artillery was assigned to the 6th Infantry Division, later inactivated on 25 July 1968.
On 1 September 1971 the 78th Artillery was re-designated the 78th Field Artillery under the Combat Arms Regimental System.
In October 1988 1st and 2nd Battalion, 78th Field Artillery were inactivated, however shortly thereafter in February 1989 the 1st Battalion, 78th Field Artillery was reactivated and transferred to Fort Sill, Oklahoma under US Training and Doctrine Command where it continues a distinguished legacy in the conduct of Initial Entry Training
Distinctive unit insignia
Description
A Gold color metal and enamel device 1 13/32 inches (3.57 cm) in height consisting of the shield, crest and motto of the coat of arms.
Symbolism
The background shield of the crest is red for artillery and the gold billets are from the coat of arms of the Duchy of Franche Compte, the area in France where the 78th Artillery was located during World War I. The numeral 13 in the Blazing Sun represents the 13th Cavalry, the original unit in the battalion lineage. The six-pointed star at the top represents the divisional insignia of the 6th Infantry Division, the unit to which the battalion was assigned in World War I. The motto at the bottom of the shield, "Semel et Simul", translates as "At Once and Together."
Coat of arms
Blazon
Shield- Gules, billetté Or; on a canton of the last voided Sable, a sun in splendor of the second charged with the Arabic number "13" of the third (for the 13th Cavalry).
Crest- On a wreath of the colors Or and Gules, a six-point mullet Gules charged with the Arabic number "78" Or.
Motto- SEMEL ET SIMUL (At Once and Together).
Symbolism
Shield- The field is red for Artillery. The gold billets are from the arms of Franche-Comté, the canton from the badge of the parent organization.
Crest- The crest is the divisional shoulder sleeve insignia charged with the number of the regiment.
Motto- The unit motto for the 1st Battalion, 78th Field Artillery is "TEAMWORK"
Background-
The coat of arms was originally approved for the 78th Field Artillery Regiment on 16 May 1921. It was redesignated for the 78th Field Artillery Battalion (Armored) on 2 January 1941. It was redesignated for the 78th Armored Field Artillery Battalion on 20 April 1954. It was redesignated for the 78th Artillery Regiment on 17 November 1958. The insignia was redesignated for the 78th Field Artillery Regiment effective 1 September 1971
Campaign Streamers and Decorations
Campaign Streamers
World War I
Streamer without inscription
World War II
Algeria-French Morocco (with arrowhead)
Sicily (with arrowhead)
Normandy
Northern France Rhineland
Ardennes-Alsace Central Europe
Decorations
Presidential Unit Citation (Army), Streamer embroidered NORMANDY (78th Armored Field Artillery Battalion cited; DA GO 28, 1948)
French Croix de Guerre with Silver Star, World War II, Streamer embroidered NORMANDY (78th Armored Field Artillery Battalion cited; WD GO 43, 1950)
Belgian Fourragere 1940 (78th Armored Field Artillery Battalion cited; DA GO 43, 1950)
Cited in the Order of the Day of Belgian Army for action in BELGIUM (78th Armored Field Artillery Battalion cited; DA GO 43, 1950)
Cited in the Order of the Day of the Belgian Army for action in the ARDENNES (78th Armored Field Artillery Battalion cited; DA GO 43, 1950)
Current configuration
1st Battalion 78th Field Artillery Regiment (United States)
2nd Battalion 78th Field Artillery Regiment (United States) - Inactive
3rd Battalion 78th Field Artillery Regiment (United States) - Inactive
4th Battalion 78th Field Artillery Regiment (United States) - Inactive
5th Battalion 78th Field Artillery Regiment (United States) - Inactive
6th Battalion 78th Field Artillery Regiment (United States) - Inactive
See also
2nd Armored Division (United States)
Field Artillery Branch (United States)
U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps
References
Historical register and dictionary of the United States Army, from ..., Volume 1 By Francis Bernard Heitman
https://web.archive.org/web/20110722213556/http://www.tioh.hqda.pentagon.mil/Heraldry/ArmyDUISSICOA/ArmyHeraldryUnit.aspx?u=3455
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http://www.history.army.mil/html/forcestruc/lineages/branches/fa/default.htm
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After his player career, Petré has been active as a strength and conditioning coach for Swedish players of several NHL teams, and from 2015 he was Head of Education at strength training equipment developer Exxentric AB, known for the kBox.
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Bradley Mazikou | Bradley Mazikou (born 2 June 1996) is a French professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Bulgarian First League club CSKA Sofia.
Career
Mazikou began his senior career with Lorient but was unable to break into the first-team. He managed just one appearance, playing full 90 minutes in a 3–2 away loss against Stade Rennais in the Coupe de la Ligue on 26 October 2016.
Mazikou played two seasons regularly for Lorient B and spent time on loan at Dunkerque and Cholet in the Championnat National, before joining Bulgarian club CSKA Sofia on a three years deal.
Bradley Mazikou joined CSKA Sofia for an undisclosed fee on 20 August 2019.
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Jamileh Sheykhi | Jamileh Sheykhi (, April 30, 1930 – May 23, 2001) was an Iranian actress and the mother of actor Atila Pesyani.
Career
She made her stage debut in 1957 and began film acting with Shipwreck (1975, Nosrat Karimi). As a pioneer and veteran character actress of Iranian theatre and cinema, she performed in a number of films with reputable directors. Sheykhi had a distinguished screen appearance in Travellers (1991, Bahram Bayzai) and won the Best Actress award at the International Fajr Film Festival.
Selected filmography
Visa
The Little Bird of Happiness, 1987
Mosāferan (Travellers), 1992, directed by Bahram Bayzai
Leila, 1996, directed by Dariush Mehrjoui
Kaghaz-e Bi Khatt (Unruled Paper), 2001, directed by Naser Taghvai
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Battle of Iznalloz | The Battle of Iznalloz, was a battle of the Spanish Reconquista fought in the Province of Granada near the city of Iznalloz, north of the city of Granada in 1295. The battle pitted the troops of the Emirate of Granada, commanded by Muhammad II the Sultan of Granada against those of the Kingdom of Castile who were commanded by the Grand Master of the Order of Calatrava, Ruy Pérez Ponce de León on behalf of Sancho IV of Castile. The battle resulted in a catastrophic defeat for Castile and the Order of Calatrava, whose Grand Master died of wounds suffered in the battle.
Historical Context
With the Marinid surrender of Algeciras and Ronda to the Kingdom of Granada, Granada was able to pursue policies of territorial expansion safe in the knowledge that James II of Aragon would not be adverse to any action by Granada against the Kingdom of Castile as the two kingdoms were themselves at odds.
The battle
In a bid to secure his northern frontier, Muhammad II seized a hill fort at Quesada and routed the forces of the Castilian crown under Ruy Pérez Ponce de León at Iznalloz in the final months of 1295. The Castilian army retired to its camp where Ponce de Leon, the contemporary Grand Master of the Order of Calatrava would die of wounds inflicted in the action.
Aftermath
The victory of Muhammad II over the Castilian forces facilitated way for an eventual pact of friendship between the Kingdom of Granada and the Kingdom of Aragon which had its own problems with Castile.
See also
Ruy Pérez Ponce de León
Muhammad II of Granada
Sancho IV of Castile
Order of Calatrava
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Shoebox Zoo | Shoebox Zoo is a children's fantasy TV series made in a collaboration between BBC Scotland and various Canadian television companies. It is mostly live-action, but with CGI used for the animal figurines. It was first broadcast in 2004, by CBBC. The series was broadcast in the United States by the Showtime network and in Jamaica by CVM Television.
Series overview
The series was conceived by then-BBC Scotland director Claire Mundell and television director Justin Molotnikov in 2002, and then further developed by Brian Ward. The series was co-produced by Los Angeles-based company Blueprint Entertainment, founded by John Morayniss, who previously worked at Alliance Atlantis, where he helped produce another CBBC programme Ace Lightning. The series consists of twenty-six episodes, split between two seasons made up of thirteen episodes each.
Setting
Shoebox Zoo mixes Scottish, Celtic, and later, Native American mythology. The first season is set primarily in Edinburgh and other historic locations, while the second season moves to Denver, Colorado, though the season was shot in Canada. The series' protagonist, Marnie McBride, an eleven-year old Scottish-American girl moves to Edinburgh with her father Ross following the unexpected death of her mother Rosemary. On her birthday, Marnie receives a shoebox containing four carved toy animals from a junk shop owner. Marnie discovers she can magically bring the toys to life, referred to collectively as the Shoebox Zoo. The four are in fact humans transformed into toys by their master, Michael Scot, an immortal alchemist and wizard, for stealing his magical codex, the Book of Forbidden Knowledge.
In the series' backstory, Michael Scot lived in 12th century Scotland, where he crafted the Book of Forbidden Knowledge, containing his scholary work on alchemy and magic. However, the book contained black magic forged from Michael's pride and ambition. He created the series' antagonist, Juan Roberto Montoya de Toledo, a shapeshifting homunculus, using the book's magic. However, Toledo was rejected by Michael, inspiring him to seize the book's power and conquer the world. Michael's four students - Edwin, Bruno, Ailsa, and his own son Wolfgang - steal the book to hide it from Toledo, though Wolfang takes it out of spite towards his negligent father. The book is lost, Michael transforming the four into toys and putting them to sleep until a prophesied Chosen One, identified as Marnie, possesses magic to awaken them and find the book.
The second season further expands the backstory. After being lost at sea, the Book of Forbidden Knowledge washed ashore in Colorado in 1811, discovered by Marnie's ancestor Angus McBride, an explorer, who gave the book to the local Lakota people led by Chief Stonebear in exchange for marrying his daughter. Discovering the book's magic to be evil, Stonebear and other chieftains made preparations to destroy the book, casting it down the Falls of Faith, and designed the Arrow of Truth and Bow of Wisdom to vanquish its magic. The book disappeared into history once again, though Stonebear's descendants were aware of its location in the Denver forests.
Synopsis
The first season begins with Marnie McBride's eleventh birthday. She and her father Ross visit a junk shop, where the shopkeeper gives Marnie a shoebox containing four carved toy animals. Marnie awakens the Shoebox Zoo from their centuries-long slumber and begrudgingly accepts to quest to find the Book of Forbidden Knowledge and transform the toys back to humanity. Michael watches over her from Tantallon Castle, his ancestral home, while Toledo serves as an antagonistic force, aided by McTaggart, actually a mole working for Michael. Toledo poses as John Roberts, Marnie's schoolmate, but his identity is exposed. Wolfgang, jealous that Marnie became Michael's heir apparent, sides with Toledo to act as a spy. Marnie's late mother Rosemary serves in a pivotal role throughout the first season, once considered a potential chosen one by Michael when she briefly owned the toys, but did not possess the magic to awaken them. However, Rosemary appears as a ghost in the series, possessing knowledge of the book and events of the past.
Marnie and the toys follow a series of clues across Scotland, eventually discovering the book hidden in the University of Edinburgh's library. Wolfgang is revealed as a spy, but betrays Toledo upon making amends with his father. Toledo assaults Marnie's home, accompanied by Los Contrarios, evil twins of the Shoebox Zoo fashioned by Toledo's magic. However, when they are destroyed and Marnie refuses to surrender the book, Toledo retaliates by casting Wolfgang into a fire, killing him. Marnie eventually discovers the book is in fact a copy, designed to contain Toledo's magic. Toledo is seemingly defeated, and Marnie experiences a vision, learning the real book was sent out to sea and lies somewhere in the United States of America.
In the second season, Marnie and the Shoebox Zoo fly to Denver, Michael and McTaggart aiding them from afar. Marnie stays with her maternal grandparents, and is aided by her best friend Kyle Stone, a descendant of Chief Stonebear. Kyle's grandfather, Nathaniel, the spiritual medicine man of the Lakota people, aids Marnie, along with Hunter, a Native American spirit who can manifest in a horse-shaped ceremonial dancing stick. Michael learns of a second prophecy in which the book will be obtained by the malevolent Dawn Queen, who will use its magic to corrupt mankind. Toledo rises as a ghost, murders Michael, transforms a captured McTaggart into a weasel, and possesses the Dawn Queen's mortal self, Aurora Dexter, an ambitious television medium. Needing clues to find the book, Ailsa suggests contacting Marnie's mother in the afterlife. However, Marnie is slowly corrupted by the book's magic and plots to use it to resurrect her mother altogether.
Marnie summons Wolfgang's ghost to lead her to the book's location, taking her to the Falls of Faith. Edwin and Ailsa free McTaggart who battles Toledo but is sent plummeting down the falls to his death. Marnie finds the book beneath her grandfather's woodshed, containing an electrical generator which channels the book's energy, but Toledo steals it. Aurora, now the Dawn Queen, restores Toledo's body but enslaves him. Marnie makes the decision to destroy the book using the Bow of Wisdom and Arrow of Truth, but the toys fear losing their one opportunity to regain their humanity. Aurora and Toledo plot to unleash the book's magic on live television.
Marnie resurrects Wolfgang to complete a binding spell designed to suppress the book's magic, and the group confront Aurora, using the Nathaniel's sacred bundle to weaken her magic. Marnie then teleports herself to the Falls of Faith, firing the Arrow of Truth down it, which destroys the book, Toledo, and frees Aurora from her evil persona. At the end of the series, Marnie, now twelve years old, leaves the Shoebox Zoo in the same junk shop her mother found them in years before. In the closing moments, the series' narrator approaches and awakens the toys for his own unseen quest.
Cast and Characters
Marnie McBride (Vivien Endicott-Douglas), is the series' eleven-year old protagonist, a girl who is uprooted from her home in Colorado and moved to Edinburgh by her father Ross McBride (Jason Connery), who works as a librarian at the University of Edinburgh. Connery also plays Marnie's ancestor, Angus McBride, who finds the Book of Forbidden Knowledge in 1811. Marnie's mother Rosemary plays a recurring role as a ghost in the first season. As a child, Rosemary owned the toys for a short while, and was friends with Michael Scot. Marnie's grandparents, Bobby (Paul Coeur) and Dorothy (Valerie Ann Pearson) appear in the second season in supporting roles.
Marnie's mentor figure is Michael Scot (Peter Mullan), an eleven-hundred year old wizard, alchemist, and scholar. He is cantankerous, unreasonable, and proud, but his powers are on the wane and he falls ill during the story. He is based on the Scottish alchemist of the same name. Michael uses an enchanted stone helmet to see across great distances. William McTaggart (David McKay) is Michael's manservant, imprisoned and tortured for eleven years after helping in the theft of the book, and then made immortal until it was recovered. In the first season, he serves as the sycophantic chauffeur for Toledo, though is actually spying on him for Michael.
The series' main antagonist is Toledo (Tony Donaldson), a shapeshifting homunculus created by Michael using the power of the book. Rejected by his master, Toledo turned to evil and desires the book's power above all else. He takes on numerous disguises throughout the series, including Marnie's schoolmate John Roberts (Maxi Moffat), and psychiatrist Joanna Robertson (Kirsty Elkin). Toledo creates Los Contrarios (Latin for "the opposites"), evil, blind twins of the Shoebox Zoo, meant as an insult to Michael's magic. They are voiced by the Shoebox Zoo's actors.
The Shoebox Zoo themselves are four computer-generated Celtic toy animals, actually Michael's students transformed into toys for stealing the book. The voice actors recorded their lines in a London studio before filming for the television series began. Edwin (Rik Mayall), a silver eagle dressed like a knight acts as the self-appointed leader, but he is pompous, vain, hypocritical and cowardly. His name and inability to fly is a nod to British Olympic skier Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards. Bruno (Alan Cumming) is a kindhearted but bumbling, dim-witted bear made of stone and fascinated by the modern world in counterbalance to the others' fear of it. Ailsa (Siobhan Redmond), a cynical, distrusting golden adder is the sole female of the group who has little faith in others. The fourth member is Wolfgang (Simon Callow), a wily and deceitful blue-and-golden wolf made of wood, is Michael's bitter son, and joins forces with Toledo during the first season.
The second season introduces Marnie's best friend Kyle Stone (Yudii Mercredi), and his grandfather Nathaniel (Gordon Tootoosis), a medicine man who is a descendant of the Lakota chieftain Stonebear (Sammy Simon). Kyle possesses "horse magic", which will eventually allow him to speak with Native American spirits and become the next medicine man. The Shoebox Zoo gains a fifth member following Wolfgang's death, Hunter (Callow), a spirit who inhabits a horse-shaped dancing stick. Hunter can transform into an actual horse, and is often involved in a running gag where he introduces himself via a lengthy monologue. The character of the Dawn Queen is established as a major antagonistic force, Toledo possessing the body of television medium Aurora Dexter (Natascha Girgis), who shares the same birthday as Marnie (11 November) and is a potential chosen one. She has a lone daughter Becky (Kelsey Collins).
Other characters include Laura (Krystina Coates), her best friend in Scotland; bullies Stewart (Sean Young) and Dougie (Fergus Nimmo); and Marnie's teacher Ms. McKay (Frances Lowe). Bill Paterson voices the series' narrator, "The Storyteller", who makes an appearance in the final episode as the new master of the Shoebox Zoo.
Episodes
The programme was first broadcast on 21 September 2004 on BBC One, and the last episode was shown on 27 November 2005.
Series 1:
1. 'The Magic is Awakened' (21 September 2004)
2. 'Friend or Foe?' (28 September 2004)
3. 'Echoes of the Past' (5 October 2004)
4. 'A Guide for the Perplexed' (12 October 2004)
5. 'The Inner Sanctum' (19 October 2004)
6. 'A Strange Birthday Party' (26 October 2004)
7. 'A Little Knowledge' (2 November 2004)
8. 'Mother's Footsteps' (9 November 2004)
9. 'Where the River Flows' (16 November 2004)
10. 'The Sign of the Unicorn' (23 November 2004)
11. 'Where Four Elevens Meet' (30 November 2004)
12. 'Los Contrarios' (7 December 2004)
13. 'The Day of Reckoning' (14 December 2004)
Series 2:
1. 'Across the Great Ocean' (16 October 2005)
2. 'The Balance of Power' (23 October 2005)
3. 'Snakes Alive' (23 October 2005)
4. 'The Pow Wow' (30 October 2005)
5. 'Hunter to the Rescue' (30 October 2005)
6. 'Coming of Age' (6 November 2005)
7. 'Wild Horses' (6 November 2005)
8. 'Bumps in the Night' (13 November 2005)
9. 'The Eagle Has Landed' (13 November 2005)
10. 'The Arrow of Truth' (20 November 2005)
11. 'The Cry of the Wolf' (20 November 2005)
12. 'The Falls of Faith' (27 November 2005)
13. 'Beyond the Beyond' (27 November 2005)
Locations
The series makes good use of its Lothian setting, with significant locations including the University of Edinburgh library, Tantallon Castle, Boroughmuir High School and St Giles Cathedral, while Toledo makes his base in the clock tower of the Balmoral Hotel. Many interior sets were built at the Castle Brae Business Centre (formally Castlebrae High School) in Edinburgh. The second season was filmed in Alberta, Canada.
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