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15036487 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subcountability | Subcountability | In constructive mathematics, a collection is subcountable if there exists a partial surjection from the natural numbers onto it.
This may be expressed as
where is the set of natural numbers ( with disregard for arithmetic) and where denotes that is a surjective function from onto .
In other words, all elements of a subcountable collection are functionally in the image of an indexing set of counting numbers and thus the set can be understood as being dominated by the countable set .
Discussion
Example
An important case is where denotes some subclass of a bigger class of functions as studied in computability theory.
Consider the total computable functions and note that being total is not a decidable property, i.e. there cannot be a constructive bijection between the total functions and the natural numbers. However, via enumeration of the codes of all possible partial computable functions (which also allows non-terminating programs), subsets of those, such as the total functions, are seen to be subcountable sets. Note that by Rice's theorem on index sets, most domains are not recursive. Indeed, no effective map between all counting numbers and the infinite (non-finite) indexing set is asserted here, merely the subset relation . Being dominated by a constructively non-countable set of numbers , the name subcountable thus conveys that the uncountable set is no bigger than .
The demonstration that is subcountable also implies that it is classically (non-constructively) formally countable, but this does not reflect any effective countability. In other words, the fact that an algorithm listing all total functions in sequence cannot be coded up is not captured by classical axioms regarding set and function existence. We see that, depending on the axioms of a theory, subcountability may be more likely to be provable than countability.
Relation to Excluded Middle
In constructive logics and set theories, which tie the existence of a function between infinite (non-finite) sets to questions of effectivity and decidability, the subcountability property splits from countability and is thus not a redundant notion.
The indexing set of natural numbers may be posited to exist, e.g. as a subset via set theoretical axioms like the separation axiom schema, so that
.
But this set may then still fail to be detachable, in the sense that
cannot be proven without assuming it as an axiom.
One may fail to effectively count if one fails to map the counting numbers into the indexing set , for this reason.
In classical mathematics
Asserting all laws of classical logic, the disjunctive property of discussed above indeed does hold for all sets. Then, for nonempty , the properties numerable ( injects into ), countable ( has as its range), subcountable (a subset of surjects into ) and also not -productive (a countability property essentially defined in terms of subsets of , formalized below) are all equivalent and express that a set is finite or countably infinite.
Non-classical assertions
Not asserting the law of excluded middle
for all proposition ,
it can then also be consistent to assert the subcountability of sets that classically (i.e. non-constructively) exceed the cardinality of the natural numbers.
Note that in a constructive setting, a countability claim about the function space out of the full set , as in , may be disproven. But subcountability of an uncountable set by a set that is not effectively detachable from may be permitted.
As is uncountable and classically in turn provably not subcountable, the classical framework with its large function space is incompatible with the constructive Church's thesis, an axiom of Russian constructivism.
Set theories
Cantorian arguments on subsets of the naturals
As reference theory we look at the constructive set theory , which has Replacement, Bounded Separation, strong Infinity, is agnostic towards the existence of power sets, but includes the axiom that asserts that any function space is set, given are also sets.
In this theory, it is moreover consistent to assert that every set is subcountable.
The compatibility of various axioms is discussed in this section by means of possible surjections on an infinite set of counting numbers .
The situations discussed below—onto function spaces versus onto power classes—are different insofar as for functions , by definition there exists a unique return value for every value in the domain, . As opposed to general predicates and their truth values (not necessarily just true and false), a function (which in programming terms is terminating) makes accessible information about data for all its subdomains (subsets of the ). Viewed as characteristic functions, they decide membership. As such, in , the (total) functions are not automatically in bijection with all the subsets of Constructively, subsets are a more involved concept than characteristic functions.
In fact, in the context of some non-classical axioms, even the power class of a singleton, e.g. the class of all subsets of , is shown to be a proper class.
Onto function spaces
Asserting the permitted subcountability of all sets turns, in particular, into a subcountable set.
So here we consider a surjective function and the set comprehended/separated as
with the diagonalizing predicate defined as
which we can also phrase without the negations as
.
This set is classically a function in and can classically be used to prove that the existence of the is actually contradictory.
However, constructively, unless the proposition in its definition is decidable so that the set actually defined a functional assignment, we just cannot draw this conclusion.
In this fashion, subcountability of is permitted. Nevertheless, also in the case of , the existence of a full surjection , with domain , is indeed contradictory, since membership of is decidable.
Beyond these observations, also note that for any non-zero number , the functions in involving the surjection cannot be extended to all of by a similar contradiction argument. In other words, there are then partial functions that cannot be extended to full functions .
Note that when given a , one cannot necessarily decide whether , and so one cannot even decide whether the value of a potential function extension on is even already determined for a surjection .
The subcountibility axiom, asserting all sets are subcountable, is incompatible with any new axiom making countable, including .
Onto power classes
Next we study possible postulates of the existence of a surjection . (This, by Replacement in would imply is a set.) The violating subset of is
which, as , in this case simplifies to just
where
adapted from Cantors theorem about power sets. That subset exists via Separation. The existence of the surjection immediately implies the existence of a number with
,
rendering membership necessarily undecidable and incompatible with any realization.
Propositions of this form, , must be rejected according to the consequences of the negation introduction law. So such a surjection does not exist and cannot be subcountable.
We conclude that the subcountability axiom, asserting all sets are subcountable, is incompatible with being a set, as implied e.g. by the power set axiom.
The notion of size
As seen in the example of the function space considered in computability theory, not every infinite subset of necessarily is in constructive bijection with , thus making room for a more refined distinction between uncountable sets in constructive contexts.
The function space (and also ) in a moderately rich set theory is always found to be neither finite nor in bijection with , by Cantor's diagonal argument. This is what it means to be uncountable. But the argument that the cardinality of that set would thus in some sense exceed that of the natural numbers relies on a restriction to just the classical size conception and its induced ordering of sets by cardinality.
Motivated by the above sections, the infinite set may be considered "smaller" than the class . Subcountability as judgement of small size shall not be conflated with the standard mathematical definition of cardinality relations as defined by Cantor, with smaller cardinality being defined in terms of injections out of and equality of cardinalities being defined in terms of bijections.
Moreover, note that constructively, an ordering "" like that of cardinalities can be undecidable.
Models
The above analysis affects formal properties of codings of . Models for this non-classical extension of theory have been constructed.
Such non-constructive axioms can be seen as choice principles which, however, do not tend to increase the proof-theoretical strengths of the theories much.
More examples:
There are models of in which all sets with apartness relations are subcountable.
In the constructive set theory , as discussed, it is indeed consistent to assert the Subcountability Axiom that all sets are (internally) subcountable. The resulting theory is in contradiction to the Axiom of power set and with the law of excluded middle.
More stronger yet, some models of Kripke–Platek set theory validate that all sets are even countable.
Subcountable implies not -productive
Any countable set is subcountable and any subcountable set is not -productive:
A set is said to be -productive if, whenever any of its subsets is the range of some partial function on , there always remains at least one element that lies outside that range. This may be expressed as
A set being -productive speaks for how hard it is to generate its elements: They cannot be generated using a single function. As such, -productive sets escape subcountability.
Diagonal arguments often involve this notion, be it explicitly or implicitly.
See also
Cantor's diagonal argument
Computable function
Constructive set theory
Schröder–Bernstein theorem
Subquotient
Total order
References
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407516 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois%20de%20La%20Rochefoucauld%2C%20Marquis%20de%20Montandre | François de La Rochefoucauld, Marquis de Montandre | Field Marshal François de La Rochefoucauld, Marquis de Montandre, also known as Francis de La Rochefoucauld, (September 1672 - 11 August 1739) was a British soldier, who arrived in England as a Huguenot refugee. After serving as a junior officer during the Williamite War in Ireland, he was given command of Francis du Cambon's Regiment of Foot and led his regiment in the Low Countries during the Nine Years' War . He also fought at the Siege of Badajoz and at the Battle of Alcantara during the War of the Spanish Succession. He went on to be Master General of the Ordnance in Ireland.
Military career
Born the son of Charles-Louis de La Rochefoucauld, 2nd marquis of Montandre of the Doudeauville branch of the family and Madeline-Anne de La Rochefoucauld (née Pithou), de La Rochefoucauld was brought up in France as a Roman Catholic but converted to Protestantism. After arriving in England as a Huguenot refugee in the aftermath of the Edict of Fontainebleau of 1685, La Rochefoucauld joined William III's Army and served under the Earl of Galway during the Williamite War in Ireland. He was commissioned as a brevet lieutenant colonel and given command of Francis du Cambon's Regiment of Foot on 15 February 1692. He went with his regiment to the Low Countries in September 1692 during the Nine Years' War and in 1702 succeeded his brother Isaac, who died without issue, as 4th marquis de Montandre.
La Rochefoucauld joined the staff of the Earl of Galway as a brigadier-general in 1704 and fought at the Siege of Badajoz in October 1705 and the Battle of Alcantara in April 1706 during the War of the Spanish Succession. Promoted to major-general in the English Army on 1 June 1706, he took part in the advance to Madrid in June 1706 and became colonel of Dungannon's Regiment in November 1706. He was given command of a brigade which landed in Portugal in June 1707 and led the brigade at the Battle of Caya in May 1709. On 29 September 1709 de La Rochefoucauld returned to London to report to Queen Anne on the course of operations in Portugal. Promoted to lieutenant general on 9 May 1710, he became colonel of a new regiment on the Irish establishment in 1715 but this regiment was disbanded in 1718.
La Rochefoucauld was appointed a Privy Counsellor of Ireland and became Master General of the Ordnance in Ireland in January 1727. Promoted to full general on 18 December 1735, he became Governor of Guernsey in September 1737. He was promoted to field marshal on 2 July 1739. He died at his home in Grosvenor Square in London on 11 August 1739 and was buried in Westminster Abbey. A new stone, quarried in Montendre and brought to London at the expense of the present Duc de La Rochefoucauld-Doudeauville, was placed over his grave on 15 January 2013.
Family
In April 1710 de La Rochefoucauld married Mary Anne von Spanheim, daughter of Ezekiel, Freiherr von Spanheim (the Prussian ambassador to London); they had no children.
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3732808 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanky%20Panky%20%28Madonna%20song%29 | Hanky Panky (Madonna song) | "Hanky Panky" is a song by American recording artist Madonna from her soundtrack album I'm Breathless. It was released on June 12, 1990, by Sire Records as the album's second and final single. Written and produced by Madonna and Patrick Leonard, the song was developed from a line in the parent film, Dick Tracy, talking about a woman who enjoys being spanked by her partner. Performed in an almost comical style, "Hanky Panky" is a jazz and swing song with a changing bassline and minor to major key-shift in the chorus. It caused some controversy in Ireland because of its innuendo and racy lyrics, with women's groups deeming them as harmful; Madonna later clarified that the lyrics were intended as a joke.
The song garnered positive response from music critics, many of them highlighting its lyrical content. It was a commercial success, becoming a top-ten hit in many countries including Australia, Ireland, Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States while topping the chart in Finland. Madonna has performed the song on two of her concert tours: Blond Ambition (1990) and Re-Invention (2004). The song has been covered by several tribute acts and was also performed on the television series Ally McBeal (1997).
Background and release
In 1990, Madonna starred in the film Dick Tracy as Breathless Mahoney—a new role introduced for her—with Warren Beatty, her boyfriend at the time, playing the titular character. After the shooting for Dick Tracy was over, Madonna started working on the soundtrack. She had begun recording three songs written by Stephen Sondheim for the film—"Sooner or Later", "More" and "What Can You Lose"—which would be part of the album, but also had to write and develop new songs comparable in style to her previous releases. She produced the entire album, including the Sondheim songs. "I want people to think of me as a musical comedy actress. That's what this album is about for me. It's a stretch. Not just pop music, but songs that have a different feel to them, a theatrical feel", she said at the time.
Madonna recruited producer Patrick Leonard and engineer Bill Bottrell to help her with the project. She and Leonard toiled to create music that would fit the style and production of the film, set in the days of the Untouchables law enforcement. "Hanky Panky" was written and produced by Madonna and Leonard and was released as the second and final single from I'm Breathless on June 12, 1990. The cassette and the 7-inch versions had "More", another song from the album as its B-side, while the 12-inch releases had two remixes of the song by Kevin Gilbert. Cover photograph for the single was done by Patrick Demarchelier with Jeri Heiden designing the sleeves.
Recording and composition
"Hanky Panky" was recorded within the three weeks time taken for the whole project. Personnel working on the song included Leonard on keyboards, Jeff Porcaro on drums, Guy Pratt on bass and Donna De Lory, Niki Haris and N'Dea Davenport on background vocals. Lyrically, the song deals with sadomasochistic themes and is centred around a girl who celebrates the pleasures of a "good spanking". It is performed in an almost comical style and stemmed from a line in the film, where Breathless says to Tracy, "You don't know whether to hit me or kiss me". The track has a false introduction and starts slowly with piano, but changes after a few moments into a large jazz and swing song, with a changing bassline and minor to major key-shift in the chorus. According to the sheet music published by Musicnotes.com, the song is set in common time, with a tempo of 170 beats per minute. It is composed in the key of D minor, with Madonna's vocals spanning from B3 to D5. The song has a basic sequence of Dm–C–Bm–A7sus in the beginning and changes to Dm–A–B9–A7–Dm–C when the swing starts. During an interview with Rolling Stone, Madonna explained:
The spanking thing started because I believed that my character in Dick Tracy liked to get smacked around and that's why she hung around with people like Al Pacino's character. Warren [Beatty] asked me to write some songs, and one of them—the hanky-panky song—was about that. I say in the song 'Nothing like a good spanky', and in the middle, I say, 'Ooh, my bottom hurts just thinking about it'. When it came out everybody started asking, 'Do you like to get spanked?' and I said: 'Yeah. Yeah, I do'.
The singer had to tone down some of the suggestive lyrics to please the officers at Disney, the producers of Dick Tracy, who were worried about their image. In Ireland, the song was subject to controversy after two women's organizations accused Madonna of glorifying violence against women, specifically on the line "I'll settle for the back of your hand"; one of the groups, the National Women's Council of Ireland, labelled the song "highly dangerous" while the other group, Ireland's Women's Aid, said the line was "extremely harmful". Although initially approving of the idea of "getting spanked"—even admitting her fondness on The Arsenio Hall Show—Madonna later backed down from the theme of spanking, explaining that the lyrics were written as a joke and believed that it was instead her character Breathless Mahoney that liked to get spanked. She added that it should have been obvious that the song was humorous in nature since Madonna believed her image was more of a dominant person who took charge, contrary to the song's characterization.
Critical response
J. Randy Taraborrelli, author of Madonna: An Intimate Biography, commented that "the steamrolling 'Hanky Panky' simply sounds like a silly innocent romp until you realize what she's going on and on is about ('Warren's favorite pastime')... being spanked!". The author also felt Madonna sang with "just a little too much authority". Academic Georges Claude Guilbert, author of Madonna As Postmodern Myth, called it "a comic hymn to spanking". Stephen Thomas Erlewine from AllMusic described it as a "double entendre-laden hit". Bill Coleman from Billboard called it a "steamy and suggestive jumpin' jive". Music critic Robert Christgau highlighted "Hanky Panky" as one of the best tracks on I'm Breathless; calling it a "fake period piece" but praising its "risqué s&m-lite" sound as "all her". Ernest Hardy from Cash Box said it "is a tribute to the pleasures of light S&M, done in a brassy '30s style. Madonna sings in a lower key than ususal, tosses off risque lines, and heads for the top of the charts with barely an effort." David Giles from Music Week stated that it "finds Madonna flirting in a big way with Forties swing music." He added, "Pure Hollywood stuff". Rolling Stones Mark Coleman wrote that the song, alongside "Cry Baby" and "I'm Going Bananas", was one of the "more-legitimate sounding and confidently sung show tunes without a trace of disco" on the album. He also noted that "its titles alone are enough to conjure up visions of the elaborate production numbers on Madonna's summer tour." People magazine called it a "paean to kink". Billboards Keith Caulfield called it "goofy (but catchy!)". In August 2018, Joel Lynch from the same magazine ranked it as the singer's 100th greatest song, calling it an "enjoyably (and cartoonishly) amorous big-band swing song" and comparing Madonna's vocals to Betty Boop. Greg Sandow, from Entertainment Weekly, called it a "delightful challenge to censorship". Sal Cinquemani from Slant Magazine felt it was a "cheeky" song, also writing that it touched on themes Madonna would go on to explore more explicitly later in the 1990s.
Stephen Holden of The New York Times described it as a "big-band blues [song] in which she endorses sexual spanking [...] a calculated bid for outrage". Ray Boren from The Deseret News described "Hanky Panky" as "naughty", comparing it to the 1928 jazz song "Makin' Whoopee" by Eddie Cantor. Dave Tianen from The Milwaukee Sentinel, while reviewing I'm Breathless noted that "one aspect of Madonna remains constant even when you push her back in time. 'Hanky Panky' is one of the few pop tunes to explore the erotic entertainment value in a good spanking." For Medium's Richard LaBeau, "it gets points for its boldness and audacity. Yet it never truly rises above its novelty status". Writing for The Pittsburgh Press, Peter B. King believed that the subject matter of "Hanky Panky" would surely receive "flank", but defended Madonna saying that she had been singing about such topics for years by then.
The Huffington Post ranked the song fifth on their list of "The 13 Most Underrated Madonna Songs"; author Pandora Boxx hailed it as "a great fusion of '90s pop and vintage '30s", but noted that "its 'scandalous' subject matter ruffled too many feathers to make it a big hit". Also from The Huffington Post, Matthew Jacobs ranked it at number 55 on his list of "The Definitive Ranking of Madonna Singles", calling it "pure fun, '30s swing style [...] its lyrics are sillier than they ought to be, but the fabulous beat refuses to let your dancing shoes collect dust". Writing for Gay Star News, Joe Morgan gave a mixed review, calling it "less sexual and feminist liberation and more corny and blatant [...] A forgettable number that sounds like track six of a musical theatre cast album". A negative review came from Royal S. Brown, author of Film Musings: A Selected Anthology from Fanfare Magazine, who called it "ridiculous". Also negative was The Guardians Jude Rogers, who wrote that "even creators of brilliant pop can go wrong", calling it "over farty" and "Madonna's nadir".
Chart performance
Following its release, "Hanky Panky" was initially blacklisted at some radio stations when they faced objections from audiences about the lyrical content. Nevertheless, it debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at number 40 the week of June 30, 1990, as "Vogue" was descending from the top ten. The single quickly climbed up the chart, ultimately peaking at number ten the week of July 28, 1990. It was eventually certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on September 19, 1990, for shipments of 500,000 copies. Billboard ranked it at number 36 on their list of "Madonna's 40 Biggest Hits" on the Hot 100. In Canada, the song debuted at number 92 on the RPM Top Singles chart, and reached a peak of number 18 on the week of September 1, 1990. It was present for a total of 13 weeks on the chart.
In the United Kingdom, the song debuted at number 14 on the UK Singles Chart and after two weeks, reached its peak of number two the week of July 27, 1990; spent a total of nine weeks within the top 100 of the chart. It was certified silver by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) on August 1, 1990, for shipments of 200,000 copies. According to the Official Charts Company, the single has sold over 210,000 copies as of October 2010. In Australia, "Hanky Panky" debuted at number 18 on the ARIA Singles Chart the week of July 29, 1990, and peaked at number six four weeks later. It was ranked at number 45 on the ARIA year-end chart. In New Zealand, the single debuted at number 23 on RIANZ Singles Chart and, after fluctuating for the next three weeks, reached a peak of number six, becoming Madonna's 18th top-ten single in the country. In the European nations, "Hanky Panky" reached the top-ten of the charts in Ireland, as well as topping the charts in Finland. In other countries such as Austria, Belgium, Germany, Spain, Switzerland and the Netherlands, it managed to peak within the top 20 of the charts.
Live performances and covers
"Hanky Panky" was first performed on Madonna's third concert tour, the Blond Ambition World Tour of 1990. She performed the song dressed in a green and white striped vaudeville-style corset, playing the part of a nightclub singer, standing in front of a microphone. Near the end of the performance, Madonna joked: "You all know the pleasures of a good spanking, don't you? [...] When I hurt people, I feel better, you know what I mean?". Regarding the "shameless promotion" of Dick Tracy in this segment, author Lucy O'Brien said that "along with her yen for artistic expression, Madonna has always had an eye on the bottom dollar... [But] the Dick Tracy section is the least dynamic part of the show". Two different performances were released on video, the first was included in Blond Ambition Japan Tour 90, taped from the performance at Yokohama Stadium in Yokohama, Japan, on April 27, 1990, and the other once included on Blond Ambition World Tour Live, taped at the Stade de l'Ouest in Nice, France, on August 5, 1990.
Fourteen years later, Madonna performed an energetic showgirl themed version of "Hanky Panky" as part of her 2004 Re-Invention World Tour. She appeared onstage dressed in a circus themed outfit, consisting of black hot pants, red high heels, headband and a red and white striped 1920s flapper style bustier. Sean Piccoli, from the Sun-Sentinel, praised the singer's ability to "summon the vampy humor of 'Hanky Panky'—a Bette Midler moment if ever [Madonna] had one". In May 2000, the song was performed by actress Alicia Witt on the third-season finale of the American television series Ally McBeal, titled "The Musical, Almost". An Indie cover version by the band Killer Nannies In America, was included on the 2000 tribute album The Material Girl: A Tribute to Madonna. The Gary Tesca Orchestra included an instrumental version of the song on their album Who's That Girl: The Madonna Story, Vol. 1 (2006).
Track listings and formats
US and European 7-inch single; Japanese 3-inch CD single
"Hanky Panky" (LP version) – 3:57
"More" (LP version) – 4:59
Australian, European, and US 12-inch single and CD maxi-single
"Hanky Panky" (Bare Bottom 12-inch mix) – 6:34
"Hanky Panky" (Bare Bones single mix) – 3:50
"More" (album version) – 4:59
Digital single (2020)
"Hanky Panky" (Bare Bones single mix) – 3:50
"Hanky Panky" (Bare Bottom 12-inch mix) – 6:36
"More" (LP version) – 4:59
Credits and personnel
Madonna – writer, vocals, producer
Patrick Leonard – writer, producer, keyboard
Jeff Porcaro – drums
Guy Pratt – bass
Donna De Lory – background vocals
Niki Haris – background vocals
N'Dea Davenport – background vocals
Kevin McGuilbert – remix and additional production
Patrick Demarchelier – cover photographer
Jeri Heiden – designer
Credits adapted from the album's liner notes.
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications and sales
See also
List of European number-one airplay songs of the 1990s
Notes
Bibliography
External links
"Hanky Panky" on Spotify
1990 singles
Madonna (entertainer) songs
Songs about BDSM
Songs written by Madonna (entertainer)
Songs written by Patrick Leonard
Song recordings produced by Madonna (entertainer)
Song recordings produced by Patrick Leonard
Vocal jazz songs
Number-one singles in Finland
1990 songs
Swing music
Music controversies
American jazz songs
Sire Records singles
Warner Records singles |
37419293 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midland%2C%20New%20Brunswick | Midland, New Brunswick | Midland can refer to one of two places in the Canadian province of New Brunswick:
Midland, Albert County, New Brunswick
Midland, Kings County, New Brunswick
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List of communities in New Brunswick |
42848709 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orokaiva | Orokaiva | Orokaiva may be:
Orokaiva people
Orokaiva language |
22518358 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soluble%20transferrin%20receptor | Soluble transferrin receptor | Soluble transferrin receptor conventionally refers to the cleaved extracellular portion of transferrin receptor 1 that is released into serum. This receptor is a protein dimer of two identical subunits, linked together by two pairs of disulfide bonds.
Its molecular mass 190,000 Dalton.
Blood testing of the soluble transferrin receptor (sTfR) is used as a measure of functional iron status and the investigation of iron deficiency anemia. Ferritin, a routine investigation for anemia, is an acute-phase reactant, and may be elevated in states of inflammation, thereby falsely indicating that iron stores are adequate. Because sTfR is insensitive to inflammation, it can detect anemia in patients with preexisting inflammatory states, and is particularly useful in distinguishing between the anemia of chronic disease and anemias caused by lack of iron intake.
To date, the conventionally identified soluble transferrin receptor has not been itself implicated in intracellular delivery of transferrin and associated iron stores.
A soluble receptor for any ligand could also refer to a molecule present is solution (for example a secretory protein) which would bind with the target ligand and then effect cellular delivery. In this context the multifunctional glycolytic enzyme glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) has been reported as a soluble receptor for transferrin. It has been demonstrated to deliver more transferrin as compared to the receptors anchored on the cells surface in numerous cell types.
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50041055 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ang%20Mealaktei | Ang Mealaktei | Ang Mealaktei is the former director of the Phnom Penh Municipal Court. He was sacked after only one year in the job following accusations about corruption at the court and subsequently imprisoned. He was replaced by Taing Sunlay.
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67273119 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etelvina%20Lopes%20de%20Almeida | Etelvina Lopes de Almeida | Etelvina Lopes de Almeida (1916 - 2004) was a Portuguese writer, journalist, broadcaster and a deputy for the Portuguese Socialist Party (PS) in the Assembly of the Republic.
Early life
Etelvina Lopes de Almeida was born in Serpa in the Alentejo region of Portugal on 17 March 1916. She attended high school in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon, and a boarding school in Queluz to the west of Lisbon. She began her career as a journalist and writer at the children's newspaper O Papagaio. In 1941, she started working at Rádio Renascença, a station owned by the Catholic Church. Beginning as a secretary she graduated to being an announcer. Later, she worked at the magazine Modas & Bordados, a supplement of the O Século newspaper. The magazine was edited by Maria Lamas, a leading feminist. In 1946, when Lamas was appointed president of the Conselho Nacional das Mulheres Portuguesas (National Council of Portuguese Women - CNMP), Lopes de Almeida became editor of that magazine and also wrote short stories and reports for the magazine O Século Ilustrado. She also published several books of recipes, as well as children's books, and contributed to the radio station, Rádio Clube Português.
Opposition to government
In 1944, Lopes de Almeida started working as an announcer for Emissora Nacional de Radiodifusão. A year later she was one of the early supporters of the Movement of Democratic Unity (MUD), a quasi-legal organization set up after World War II in opposition to the Portuguese Estado Novo dictatorship. She became active with the CNMP until its closure by the Estado Novo in 1947. In 1962, she was dismissed from Modas & Bordados for political reasons, having signed a petition against the colonial war in Africa. Because of the danger of arrest for publishing articles hostile to the government, she began to write using pseudonyms. In 1968 she went to Paris, sending back reports to O Século about Portuguese emigrants in the city who were opponents of the regime. In 1969 she was a candidate for the Comissão Eleitoral de Unidade Democrática (Electoral Commission for Democratic Unity - CEUD) for the national assembly, although with no hope of success as the elections were controlled by the Estado Novo.
Member of parliament
After the Carnation Revolution of 25 April 1974, which overthrew the Estado Novo, Lopes de Almeida headed Radiodifusão Portuguesa Internacional, visiting several Portuguese communities abroad as part of her work. She represented the Portuguese Socialist Party (PS) in the Constituent Assembly of Portugal, which agreed a new Constitution for the country, and was a Deputy in the first Legislature of the Assembly of the Republic, from 1976 to 1978, representing the Évora constituency and in the second Legislature (1979–80), representing Lisbon.
Later life
In later life she devoted herself to the problems of the elderly and was a founder of Fundação Sara Beirão / António Costa Carvalho in Tábua in Portugal'’s Coimbra district. In 1993, Lopes de Almeida chaired, in Strasbourg, a session of the European Parliament for the Elderly, during which the European Charter for the Elderly was approved. Etelvina Lopes de Almeida died on 30 April 2004 in Tábua, after a long illness.
Awards and honours
In 1982, she was elected Woman of the Year by the National Council of Women in Brazil.
In 1995, she was made a Commander of the Portuguese Order of Merit.
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2004 deaths
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4109723 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien%20Autopsy%20%28film%29 | Alien Autopsy (film) | Alien Autopsy is a 2006 British comedy film with elements of science fiction directed by Jonny Campbell. Written by William Davies, it relates the events surrounding the famous "alien autopsy" film promoted by Ray Santilli and stars Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly, also known as Ant & Dec, as Santilli and Gary Shoefield. The film was a moderate commercial success domestically, making no. 3 on the British box office chart.
Plot
The film is framed by Ray Santilli and his friend Gary Shoefield retelling the events to a documentary maker.
In 1995, Ray and Gary go to the USA to find Elvis memorabilia to sell on the market stall Ray runs in London. A former US Army cameraman, Harvey, sells them a silent black and white film of Elvis performing live, but later returns with an intriguing offer. Harvey takes Ray to Miami, Florida to see a film from 1947, showing the autopsy of an alien supposedly killed in a UFO crash in Roswell, New Mexico. Harvey wants to sell the film for $30,000.
Gary and Ray return to England to look for an investor to give them the money. Ray convinces Laszlo Voros, a Hungarian homosexual art and drug dealer obsessed with crop circles, to give him the $30,000 and retrieves the film from Harvey. Back in England, the pair discover that the film has degraded from humidity and heat and is now completely unwatchable. In order to avoid serious repercussions from Voros, they decide to make their own recreation of it. They base the content on Ray's memories of the original, and, with the help of some friends, fashion a convincing replica of the dead alien using a mannequin and meat products obtained from a friend's butcher's shop, turn the living room of Gary's sister into a film set, and shoot the film on a Bell and Howell spring-wound camera. Ray gives a copy of the final product to Voros, who believes it to be real.
Having convinced Voros, Ray and Gary decide to sell the film to other venues, earning them a large sum of money. However, when Voros hears about its international distribution, he demands 80% of the profits. A potential clash is averted when Voros is killed by a green Land Rover while standing naked in the middle of a crop circle, leading to speculation that he has been killed by a CIA agent.
Ray and Gary travel to Argentina to promote the film, followed by reporter Amber Fuentes, who seduces Ray. She eventually tracks down Harvey, who demands from Ray and Gary that they maintain his anonymity. To fulfil this obligation, they produce an interview with a homeless former actor playing Harvey, which convinces Amber. She remains sceptical, however, about the film's authenticity.
Ray and Gary are now persuaded that some of the original 1947 footage might actually be recovered by film restoration experts in order to be viewed. However, after viewing the results, the pair bury the film, telling each other that they cannot continue with the endeavour.
Cast
Declan Donnelly as Ray Santilli
Anthony McPartlin as Gary Shoefield
Bill Pullman as Morgan Banner
Götz Otto as Laszlo Voros
Morwenna Banks as Jasmine
Omid Djalili as Melik
Harry Dean Stanton as Harvey
Michael Rouse as Young Harvey
Mike Blakeley and Matthew Blakeley as The Camera Team
John Shrapnel as Michael Kuhn
Madeleine Moffatt as Nan
John Cater as Maurice
Lee Oakes as Edgar
Perry Benson as Trading Standards Officer
Jimmy Carr as Gary's Manager
Winston Thomas as Zachary
Pam Shaw as Aunty P.
David Threlfall as Jeffrey, Film Restorer
Andrew Greenough as Preston
Stephanie Metcalfe as Doreen
Jonathan Coy as The Museum Director
Ian Porter as Pentagon Officer
Shane Rimmer as Colonel
Naima Belkhiati as French TV Buyer
Miguel Angel Plaza as Mr. Gonzalez
Jeff Harding as CIA Agent
Kevin Breznahan as Junior TV Executive
Martin McDougall as Middle-Ranking TV Executive
Lachele Carl as TV News Anchor
Paul Birchard as Senior TV Executive
Sam Douglas as The Network President
Adriana Yanez as The Stewardess, Argentina
Nichole Hiltz as Amber Fuentes
Luis Soto as Peruvian TV Host
Christina Piaget as The Interviewer
Christina Souza as The Stewardess, Mexicana
Bradley Lavelle as New York Host
Orson Bean as Homeless Man
Sophia Ellis as UFO Enthusiast
Jonathan Frakes Himself
The film also contains brief appearances by Ray Santilli and Gary Shoefield.
Reception
The film received mainly positive reviews earning a 71% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
Releases
The film was released as a Region 2 DVD by Warner Home Video on 3 July 2006.
In America, the film was released as a Region 1 DVD by Warner Home Video on 21 September 2010.
Soundtrack
Supergrass – "Alright"
Pete Moore – "Asteroid"
The Beloved – "Sweet Harmony"
Stakka Bo – "Here We Go"
The Monkees – "I'm a Believer"
Stereo MC's – "Step It Up"
Tom Jones – "If Only I Knew"
Nouvelle Vague – "Just Can't Get Enough"
Son of Dork – "We're Not Alone"
References
External links
Alien Autopsy - The Full Original Footage on YouTube
Alien Autopsy - Fact or Fiction? - Documentary on YouTube
2006 films
2006 LGBT-related films
Roswell incident in fiction
2000s science fiction comedy films
British science fiction comedy films
British LGBT-related films
LGBT-related science fiction comedy films
British films
Films about filmmaking
Films set in 1995
Films set in 2005
Films set in London
Films set in Ohio
Films set in Miami
Films set in Los Angeles
Films set in Argentina
Films set in Venezuela
Hoaxes in fiction
Films with screenplays by William Davies
Films shot at Pinewood Studios
Qwerty Films films
2006 comedy films
2000s English-language films |
41912661 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%20Bolton | Francis Bolton | Sir Francis John Bolton (1831–1887) was a British Army officer, known also as a telegraphic and electrical engineer.
Life
The son of Dr. Thomas Wilson Bolton, surgeon, of London and Manchester, he enlisted in the Royal Artillery, in which he rose to be a non-commissioned officer, getting his first step as acting bombardier at Halifax, Nova Scotia. He obtained a commission as ensign in the Gold Coast artillery corps on 4 September 1857, and served in the expedition against the Krobo people, a small, prosperous ethnic group living east of Accra, in September, October, and November 1858, being present at the action of Krobo Heights on 18 September. He was promoted to be lieutenant on 9 November In June and July 1859 he was adjutant in the successful expedition against the Danquah rebels.
On his return to England Bolton was transferred to the 12th Regiment of Foot and promoted as captain on 21 September 1860. He was for several years engaged with Captain Philip Howard Colomb R.N. in developing a system of visual signalling, applicable to naval and military operations, which was adopted by the authorities. He also invented and developed an application of the oxy-calcium light for night signalling. The Army and Navy Signal Book was compiled by Bolton and Colomb, assisted by an officer of Royal Engineers, and was used during the British Expedition to Abyssinia of 1867/8.
From 1867 to 1869 Bolton was deputy-assistant quartermaster-general and assistant instructor in visual signalling at the School of Military Engineering at Chatham, under Captain Richard Hugh Stotherd, the instructor in telegraphy. He was promoted on 8 July 1868 to an unattached majority in consideration of his services in army signalling. Bolton was largely instrumental in 1871 in founding the Society of Telegraph Engineers and Electricians, of which he became honorary secretary. He edited its Journal, and was afterwards vice-president.
In 1871 Bolton was appointed by the Board of Trade under the Metropolis Water Act to be water examiner to London. He was promoted to be lieutenant-colonel on 15 June 1877, and retired from the military service with the honorary rank of colonel on 1 July 1881.
Bolton was knighted in 1884. He died on 5 January 1887 at the Royal Bath Hotel, Bournemouth, Hampshire.
Works
Bolton designed the displays of coloured fountains and electric lights which formed prominent features of the exhibitions at South Kensington from 1883 to 1886; they were worked from the central tower under his personal superintendence. He was the author of:
London Water Supply, 1884, of which a new edition, with an exposition of the law relating to water companies by Philip Arthur Scratchley, was published in 1888;
Description of the Illuminated Fountain and of the Water Pavilion, 1884, originally delivered as a lecture at the International Health Exhibition.
Family
Bolton married in 1866 Julia, second daughter of R. Mathews of Oatlands Park, Surrey; she survived him.
Notes
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1831 births
1887 deaths
Royal Artillery officers
English engineers
British colonial army officers
Suffolk Regiment officers |
24470142 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleg%20Ponomarev | Oleg Ponomarev | Oleg Ponomarev (born 30 May 1992) is a Russian Paralympic Nordic skier who competed in cross-country skiing and biathlon at the 2014 Winter Paralympics, in Sochi. He won a bronze medal in the 1 km sprint for visually impaired athletes.
He won the bronze medal in the men's 10km visually impaired biathlon event at the 2021 World Para Snow Sports Championships held in Lillehammer, Norway. He also won the gold medal in the men's long-distance visually impaired cross-country skiing event.
References
External links
Paralympic biathletes of Russia
Living people
1992 births
Paralympic bronze medalists for Russia
Cross-country skiers at the 2014 Winter Paralympics
Medalists at the 2014 Winter Paralympics
Biathletes at the 2014 Winter Paralympics
Russian male cross-country skiers
Russian male biathletes
Paralympic medalists in cross-country skiing |
39728907 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himmatsinhji%20M.%20K. | Himmatsinhji M. K. | Himmatsinhji M. K. (9 October 1928 – 22 February 2008) was a noted ornithologist, politician and scion of the erstwhile Jadeja ruling family of Kutch, who was member of 3rd Lok Sabha from Kutch.
Life-sketch
Early life
Born on 9 October 1928 at Bhuj, Maharaj Kumar Himmatsinhji was the youngest of five sons of Mirza Maharao Vijayrajji Sawai Bahadur, the Maharaja of Cutch and as such younger brother of last Maharaja of Cutch, Shri Madansinhji. His early education was under private tutors and later educated at Rajkumar College, Rajkot. He later studied agriculture at Wadia College, Pune.
In 1947, when India got independence, his father Sri Vijayaraji was away in US for his treatment and Yuvraj Madansinhji was in Delhi. Himmatsinhji, who was at the time a student, hoisted both the flags of Kutch and of India on 15 August 1947, in the grounds of Gangaba Sahib Middle School at Bhuj.
He married Princess Padmini Kumari, daughter of Maharaja Pratapsinhji Jhala of Wankaner in 1951.
Politics
After independence of India, he represented Kutch constituency in 3rd Lok Sabha, for the years 1962–67, as a member of Swatantra Party which won over the rival Congress party. He was also President of local caste body of Rajputs – Sri Cutch Rajput Sabha, for several decades.
Trustee
He also served as trustee of Ashapura Mata temple at Mata no Madh and Narayan Sarovar Temples.
Ornithologist
Himmatsinhji's great grandfather, Maharao Pragmalji had formed a museum of natural history in Bhuj while his grandfather Maharao Khengarji was among the first Indian members of the Bombay Natural History Society. Himmatsinhji's father, Maharao Vijayaraji, funded Salim Ali's survey of the birds of Kutch and Himmatsinhji took considerable interest and later became an ornithologist in his own right and regularly published notes on the birds of the Kutch region, most of these were in the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society apart from a few books and these include:
Short notes and articles
Himmatsinhji, M.K. 1959. The different calls of the Grey Partridge, Francolinus pondicerianus (Gmelin). J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 56(3):632–633.
Himmatsinhji, M.K. 1960. The Eastern Calandra Lark (Melanocorypha bimaculata). J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 57(2):408.
Himmatsinhji, M.K. 1963. Occurrence of the Blackheaded Cuckoo-Shrike [Coracina melanoptera (Ruppell] in Kutch. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 60(3):735.
Himmatsinhji, M.K. 1964. Additions to the birds of Kutch, Monarcha azurea (Bodd.) and Muscicapa thalassina (Swainson). J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 61(2):449–450.
Himmatsinhji, M. K. 1966. The Great Crested Grebe [Podiceps cristatus (Linnaeus)] in Kutch. J. Bombay Natural History Society. 62(3): 551–553.
Himmatsinhji, M.K. 1966. Another bird record from Kutch. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 63(1):202–203.
Himmatsinhji, M. K. 1969. Stray observations. Newsletter for Birdwatchers. 9(11): 1–3.
Himmatsinhji, M.K. 1969. Large Cuckoo-shrike and Black-headed Oriole in Kutch. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 66(2):376.
Himmatsinhji, M. K. 1969. Rednecked Phalarope in Kutch. Newsletter for Birdwatchers. 9(2): 8–9.
Himmatsinhji, M. K. 1970. Peculiar feeding habit of a Whitebrowed Fantail Flycatcher Rhipidura aureola Lesson. Newsletter for Birdwatchers. 10(9): 10.
Himmatsinhji, M. K. 1970. Greyheaded Myna Sturnus malabaricus (Gmelin) in Kutch. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 67(2):332–333.
Himmatsinhji, M. K. 1979. Unexpected occurrence of the goldenbacked woodpecker Dinopium benghalense (Linnaeus) in Kutch. (1979) J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 76(3):514–515.
Himmatsinhji, M. K. 1981. The Common Hawk-Cuckoo, Cuculus varius Vahl in Kutch. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 77(2):329.
Himmatsinhji, M. K. 1981. The Bluecheeked Bee-eater Merops superciliosus (Linnaeus) in Kutch. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 77(2): 328–329.
Himmatsinhji, M. K. 1982. Pericrocotus flammeus (Forster) in Kutch and some general comments. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 79(1): 198.
Himmatsinhji, M. K. 1985. Disappearance of some birds from Bhuj. Newsletter for Birdwatchers. 25(3–4): 13–14.
Himmatsinhji, M. K. 1985. The Black Stork in Kutch: old record confirmed. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 82(2):403.
Himmatsinhji, M. K. 1986. Peculiar feeding behaviour of the Shikra Accipiter badius (Gmelin) and the Honey Buzzard Pernis ptilorhyncus (Temminck). J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 83:201–202.
Himmatsinhji, M. K. 1987. Partridges. Newsletter for Birdwatchers. 27(7–8): 16.
Himmatsinhji, M. K. 1988. Birds seen in my garden. Newsletter for Birdwatchers. 28(9–10): 2–4.
Himmatsinhji, M. K. 1988. Some rare birds reappear in Kutch. Newsletter for Birdwatchers. 27(11–12): 7–9.
Himmatsinhji, M. K. 1989. Occurrence of Ciconia ciconia Gruidae and breeding of Phoenicopteridae in Kutch, Gujarat. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 86(3):443–444.
Himmatsinhji, M. K. 1991. The 'flamingo city' in the Rann of Kutch. Newsletter for Birdwatchers. 31(5–6):3–4.
Himmatsinhji, M. K. 1995. Sálim Ali and the birds of Kutch. Hornbill. 1995(4): 8–11.
Himmatsinhji, M. K. 1995. Lanius cristatus Linn. in Kutch, Gujarat — a westward extension. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 92(1):123.
Himmatsinhji, M. K. 1996. Dr. Sálim Ali's contribution to Kutch ornithology. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 93(3): v–vii.
Tiwari, JK; Varu, SN; Himmatsinhji, MK 1996. The occurrence of Grey Hypocolius Hypocolius ampelinus in Kutch, Gujarat, India. Forktail. 11(February):33–38.
Himmatsinhji, M. K. 1997. Chhari Dhandh – wonderful wetland of Kutch. Newsletter for Birdwatchers. 37(3): 39–41.
Himmatsinhji, M. K. 1998. Notes – Haircrested Drongo. Newsletter for Birdwatchers. 37(6): 97–98.
Himmatsinhji, M. K. 1999. The occurrence of Collared Pratincole or Swallow Plover Glareola pratincola (Linn.) in Kutch. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 96(2): 316–317.
Himmatsinhji, M. K. 2003. Observations of squatting posture adopted by Chlamydotis undulata (Jaquin). J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 99(3): 522.
Himmatsinhji, M. K. 2004. On the behaviour and habitat preference of Stoliczka's Bushchat Saxicola macrorhyncha (Stoliczka). J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 101(2): 323–324.
Himmatsinhji, M. K. 2005. On the insectivorous diet of Columba livia Gmelin. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 101(3): 455.
Himmatsinhji, M. K. 2007. An account of some bird introductions into Kachchh. Flamingo. 5(1&2): 3–5.
Books
Himmatsinhji, M. K. 2003. Dr. Salim Ali's contribution to Kutch ornithology. In: Petronia: fifty years of post-independence ornithology in India. 101–103 Daniel, J. C.,Ugra, Gayatri W., (ed.) Mumbai: Bombay Natural History Society & Oxford University Press. (Book chapter)
Himmatsinhji, M. K. 2006. The semi-arid region of Gujarat and Rajasthan. In: India through its birds. 30–43 in Futehally, Zafar (ed.) Bangalore: Dronequill (Book chapter)
Death
He died at Bhuj on 22 February 2008 and is survived by a daughter.
References
Further reading
Link to see photo of Himatsinhji (then aged 73) being interviewed in the Prag Mahal for the Star News "Focus Asia" Program, March 2, 2001 after Gujarat earthquake
1928 births
2008 deaths
Indian naturalists
3rd Lok Sabha members
People from Bhuj
Indian royalty
English-language writers from India
Indian ornithologists
Gujarati people
Maharajas of Kutch
Swatantra Party politicians
Lok Sabha members from Gujarat
20th-century Indian zoologists
Scientists from Gujarat
20th-century naturalists |
38678028 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise-Anastasia%20Serment | Louise-Anastasia Serment | Louise-Anastasia Serment (1642 in Grenoble – 1692 in Paris) was a French natural philosopher and poet. Born in Grenoble, she spent most of her life in Paris. She was a disciple of Descartes. She was a member of the Ricovrati Academy. Serment reputedly collaborated as an author with Philippe Quinault in his operas.
References
Renate Strohmeier: Lexikon der Naturwissenschaftlerinnen und naturkundigen Frauen Europas, 1998
Jane Stevenson: Women Latin Poets: Language, Gender, and Authority, from Antiquity to the Eighteenth century, 2005
1642 births
1692 deaths
17th-century French women writers
17th-century writers
Natural philosophers
French women philosophers
17th-century philosophers
French philosophers
French women poets
17th-century French poets |
11760934 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zamyn-%C3%9C%C3%BCd | Zamyn-Üüd | Zamyn-Üüd (; , road's gate) is a sum (district) of Dornogovi Province in southeastern Mongolia. Its population was 11,527 in 2008.
History
Zamyn-Üüd's actual name comes from the former Dzamiin Üüde settlement located northwest from the modern town ().
Geography
Overview
The town is located on the old trade route between Beijing and Urga/Ulaanbaatar, and is now the most important border crossing between Mongolia and the People's Republic of China, via Erenhot. The border control counted more than 950,000 border crossings in 2004.
In April 2007, the construction of a paved road from Choir to Zamyn-Üüd via Sainshand began. Completion is planned for October 2007. However, completion of the road project was pushed back to 2013, with Sainshand to Choir section being finished in September, 2013. A new expanded road border crossing was also completed in 2013 to relieve delays in crossing from China to Mongolia.
The "Zamyn-Uud" Free Economic Zone was officially created in 2004. It has an area of 900 ha and is located between Zamyn-Üüd settlement and the Chinese border.
Climate
Zamyn-Üüd has a cold desert climate (Köppen climate classification BWk) with very warm summers and very cold winters. Most precipitation falls in the summer as rain, with some snow in the adjacent months of May and September. Winters are very dry.
References
External links
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Districts of Dornogovi Province
China–Mongolia border crossings |
68787707 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024%20AFC%20U-20%20Women%27s%20Asian%20Cup | 2024 AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup | The 2024 AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup will be the 12th edition of the AFC U-20 Women's Asian Cup (including previous editions of the AFC U-20 Women's Championship and AFC U-19 Women's Championship), the biennial international youth football championship organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) for the women's under-20 national teams of Asia.
It will be held in Uzbekistan between 3–16 March 2024. A total of eight teams will compete in the tournament.
The top three teams of the tournament will qualify for the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup as the AFC representatives. Japan are the defending champions.
Qualification
The host country and the top three teams of the previous tournament in 2019 will qualify automatically, while the other four teams will be decided by qualification. There will be two rounds of qualification matches, with the first round scheduled to be played between 4–12 March 2023, and the second round scheduled to be played between 3–11 June 2023.
Qualified teams
The following teams qualified for the tournament.
Qualified teams for FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup
The following three teams from AFC qualify for the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.
1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.
References
External links
, the-AFC.com
2024
U-20 Women's Asian Cup
2024 in women's association football
2024 in youth association football
International association football competitions hosted by Uzbekistan
2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup qualification
March 2024 sports events in Asia
Scheduled association football competitions |
40308143 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coquinal%20Airport | Coquinal Airport | Coquinal Airport is an airstrip in the pampa of Beni Department in Bolivia. The runway is off a minor road bordering the wetlands around the Beni River.
See also
Transport in Bolivia
List of airports in Bolivia
References
External links
OpenStreetMap - Coquinal
OurAirports - Coquinal
Fallingrain - Coquinal Airport
HERE/Nokia - Coquinal
Airports in Bolivia
Airports in Beni Department |
14774598 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EXOC4 | EXOC4 | Exocyst complex component 4 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the EXOC4 gene.
Function
The protein encoded by this gene is a component of the exocyst complex, a multiple protein complex essential for targeting exocytic vesicles to specific docking sites on the plasma membrane. Though best characterized in yeast, the component proteins and functions of exocyst complex have been demonstrated to be highly conserved in higher eukaryotes. At least eight components of the exocyst complex, including this protein, are found to interact with the actin cytoskeletal remodeling and vesicle transport machinery. The complex is also essential for the biogenesis of epithelial cell surface polarity. Alternate transcriptional splice variants, encoding different isoforms, have been characterized.
Interactions
EXOC4 has been shown to interact with:
DLG3,
DLG4,
EXOC3,
EXOC7, and
GRIN2B.
References
Further reading |
65795925 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aisha%20Dikko | Aisha Dikko | Aisha Dikko is the current attorney general and Commissioner of Justice for Ministry of Justice (Kaduna State). She was sworn as attorney general and Commissioner of Justice of Kaduna State on 12 July 2019 under the governance of Nasir Ahmad el-Rufai.
Education
Dikko is a graduate of law. She obtained her degree from Ahmadu Bello University in 1987, and later attended the Nigerian Law School, Victoria Island, Lagos. She joined the Nigerian Bar Association in 1988.
Career
Dikko began her career as a trainee officer in the legal department of Habib Bank Limited. She worked in the banking sector for 17 years and became the substantive manager. She later joined the private sector, becoming the principal partner of the Messrs Dikko, Khalil & Co (Barristers and Solicitors) law firm.
She was appointed by the Governor of Kaduna State as the senior special assistant on legal matters at the public service. Later she became special adviser on legal matters and head of the Special Investigation and Prosecution Unit. On 12 July 2019 she was sworn in as the Attorney-General & Commissioner of Justice.
References
Living people
Ahmadu Bello University alumni
Attorneys General of Nigeria
Nigerian Law School alumni
Nigerian women lawyers
Year of birth missing (living people) |
4659157 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%20Pietro%2C%20Perugia | San Pietro, Perugia | The basilica di San Pietro is a Catholic basilica and abbey in the Italian city of Perugia.
History
The abbey of San Pietro was built around the year 996 over the previous cathedral church, as the first bishopric of Perugia. Its origin is probably older, dating back to the 4th century (after the Edict of Milan). It rises up on a sacred Etruscan-Roman area, even though the first documents mentioning the church are from 1002. The founder was the abbot Pietro Vincioli, a nobleman from Perugia, later canonised.
In the following centuries the abbey increased its power greatly, until in 1398 it was taken and set on fire by the citizens of Perugia, who blamed the abbot Francesco Guidalotti for having taken part in the conspiracy against the leader of the popular party of Perugia of the Raspanti Biordo Michelotti. The monastery had a new period of expansion under Pope Eugenio IV, who joined it to the Congregation of St. Justine of Padua (later known as Cassinese), thus maintaining a position of prestige and power in the city.
In 1591 began a thirty-year period of work directed by Valentino Martelli who changed the complex to the present aspect we see today.
The abbey was temporarily suppressed by the Jacobins in 1799. According to historical tradition, on 20 June 1859 the monks gave shelter to some patriots who, raising against the papal authority at the incitement of the main exponents of the local Freemasonry, clashed with the regiment of Swiss soldiers of the Papal States (the 1859 Perugia uprising). Consequently, after the intervention of the Piedmontese army and the long-awaited Unification of Italy, the new government allowed the Benedictines to remain in the abbey, granting an extension to the Pepoli decree which sanctioned the state ownership of the ecclesiastical property, until the religious persons present at the events of the 20th June 1859 were reduced to three. When, in 1890, the third last monk died, Law no. 4799 of 10 July 1887 was implemented, which established that the property of the suppressed abbey of San Pietro was to be used for the creation of an "Institute of Agricultural Education" to be founded in Perugia, currently the Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences of the University of Perugia.
Description
Exterior
The monastery is preceded by the 14th century gate of Porta di San Pietro designed by Agostino di Duccio, which leads into Borgo XX Giugno and, shortly after, to a monumental facade with three arcades reflecting the opposite porta di Duccio; it was designed around 1614 by the Perugine architect Valentino Martelli, who also designed the cloister, then completed by Lorenzo Petrozzi on the second floor.
The entrance to the church is on the left side of the cloister. The stony gate, probably by Agostino di Duccio, is surmounted by a lunette with a Madonna and Child by Giannicola di Paolo (currently replaced by a copy, the original is in the ). Remains of the facade of the ancient basilica can be seen on the right and left of the 15th century portal: inside the blind arches, the 4th century frescoes, rediscovered during the restoration works of the second half of the 20th century, have come to light; they are attributed to the Maestro Ironico (first half of the 15th century). On the left are Saints Peter and Paul, the Annunciation, St. George and the Dragon, the Pietas, on the right is a rare example of the Trinità trifronte (with three faces of Christ - as in two other churches in Perugia, St. Agatha and St. Mary of Colombata).
These frescoes had been covered, but at the same time, also preserved by an enceinte on which, in the 15th century, was painted a fresco depicting a large St. Christopher, the patron saint of travelers, a figure frequently painted in the late Middle Ages on the pilgrims' transit routes. Traces of the disappeared painting were still visible until the middle of the 20th century, as portrayed in a fresco by Benedetto Bonfigli located in the Cappella dei Priori in Palazzo dei Priori (nowadays in the Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria) which depicts the church as it was in the 15th century.
The polygonal bell tower on the right of the gate is 70 meters high, with a tapered pinnacle and was built in the 13th century on the basis of the pre-existing Roman mausoleum, and completed, after various incidents, in 1463-68 with Florentine Gothic-Renaissance lines on a design by Bernardo Rossellino.
Internal
The interior preserves the original architectural structure of the basilica, which was followed, between the 15th and 17th centuries, by numerous decorative interventions that blended harmoniously with the structure. In spite of the Napoleonic spoliations that followed one another in 1797 and 1813, it remains the richest church in the city and houses the largest art collection in Perugia, after the Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria. The nave is articulated by arcades on 18 grey marble columns datable between the end of the III and the beginning of the 4th century AD with unique spolia capitals, probably coming from Roman times.
Central nave and counter-façade
The upper part is decorated with majestic canvas depicting scenes from the Old and New Testaments, commissioned by Abbot Giacomo da San Felice da Salò and completed in 1591-1611. They were made in Venice by the Geek painter Antonio Vassillachi, known as l'Aliense, a pupil of Paolo Veronese and Tintoretto. Also by Vassillachi is the monumental canvas on the west wall ('Apotheosis of the Benedictine Order'). The remaining fresco decorations are by Giovanni Bisconti, Orazio Martini and Benedetto Bandiera. The central nave has a richly decorated wooden coffered ceiling by Benedetto di Giovanni from Montepulciano 1556.
On the counter-façade wall on the left there are the paintings and ('St. Peter heals the cripple' and 'St. Peter freed by the Angel') by Orazio Alfani, on the right ('St. Peter's shipwreck') and ('St. Paul's landing in Malta') by Leonardo Cungi, both dated 1556. The second column on the left of the nave with the image of the founder of the church Abbot Peter is the so called miracle column, which, according to tradition, was stopped by the Abbot while falling over the workforce. In the opposite column is a Saint Benedict; both frescoes are attributed to the school of Benedetto Bonfigli.
Right aisle, St. Joseph and angels chapels
At the beginning of the right aisle the first piece depicts ('The Madonna on the throne and Saints') by Eusebio da San Giorgio (16th century), followed by ('The Assumption of the Virgin') by Orazio Alfani (16th century), by Francesco Appiani (1751), ('The Miracle of the Column') by Giacinto Cimignani da Pistoia (1677), ('The Miracle of St. Mauro') by Cesare Sermei (1648), ('Davide chooses among the three Chastisements') by Ventura Salimbeni (1602), ('St. Benedict Delivering the Rule to the Monks') by Eusebio da S. Giorgio, with the ('Martyrdom of St. Christina') at its base, ('St. Gregory the Great in procession with the people during the plague') by Ventura Salimbeni (1602), ('Samson') by François Perrier (17th century) and on the left the Pietà of Sebastiano del Piombo school. Above the door that leads to St. Joseph Chapel there are three small paintings: ('Virgin Mary with Infant Christ and St. Elizabeth and Infant Saint John the Baptist') by Bonifazio Pilati da Verona (XVI) and S. Mauro and S. Placido, which are copies from Perugino by Giovanni Battista Salvi called Sassoferrato (XVII).
Along the wall the St. Joseph Chapel was decorated with frescoes in 1857 by the sixteen-year-old Domenico Bruschi from Perugia: in the vault are the four cardinal virtues, in which he used the Purismo style like Perugino, learned by his master Silvestro Valeri. On the right the canvas ('The Virgin Mary with St. Elizabeth and John the Baptist as an Infant') by an artist from the Tuscan School (16th century).
In the nave following the ('Resurrection of Christ') by Orazio Alfani and, above the door of the sacristy, three small paintings by Sassoferrato: Santa Flavia, Santa Apollonia and Santa Caterina. At the end of the nave ('the Chapel of Relics or of the Angels') with a wrought iron gate, 16th century stuccoes and frescoes by Benedetto Bandiera (1599). On the sides of the entrance to the presbytery are two paintings by Gian Domenico Cerrini (17th century): ('the Virgin nursing the Infant Jesus and St. John the Baptist').
Presbytery
The altar contains the relics of the abbot Pietro Vincioli, the founder of the church. It is adorned with polychrome marble by the architect Valentino Martelli (1592). The ciborium by Sante Ghetti from Carrara (1627) is a miniature temple, also made of rare polychrome marbles.
The main feature of the presbytery is the intarsia of the wood-panelled choir, considered one of the most beautiful in Italy. It was begun by Bernardino di Luca Antonini in 1525-26, and completed by Stefano di Antoniolo Zambelli, from Bergamo, in 1535. with other collaborators, two of whom, Battista Bolognese and Ambrogio Francese, made the large lectern. Particularly noteworthy is the central door, with a relief portraying the Annunciation and Moses Saved from the Water by fra Damiano da Bergamo (1536). It leads to the small balcony situated behind the altar, right in the middle of the wooden choir, with a view which opens up along the entire Umbrian valley towards Mount Subasio. The signature of Giosuè Carducci dated 1871 stands out framed on the left side of the small balcony wall.
The gold heightened seats are by Benedetto da Montepulciano and Benvenuto da Brescia. The pulpits on the sides of the presbytery and other structural components by Francesco di Guido da Settignano (16th century), a member of the Tuscan family of stone masons, are Renaissance in style.
Benedetto Bandiera illustrated the Four Evangelists (1591) in the rib vaults of the apse, and the canvas the Death of St. Benedict (1591) within the two windows in the exedra. The frescoes on the side walls are the Delivery of the Keys and The Conversion of Paul the Apostle by Giovanni Battista Lombardelli (1591) and the ones in the lunettes are the Theological and Cardinal Virtues by Silla Piccinini (also known as Scilla Pecennini) and Pietro Rancanelli (XVI).
The triumphal arch of the presbytery is painted with scenes of harvest and grape harvest by the landscape painter Giovanni Fiammingo (1592), whereas the characters are by Silla Piccinini and Pietro Rancanelli.
Left aisle, Vibi, Ranieri and Sacramento chapels
At the bottom of the left aisle the Pietà with St. Geronimo and St. Leonardo (15th century), attributed to Benedetto Bonfigli or Fiorenzo di Lorenzo, on the right wall ('St. Peter weeping for having denied Jesus') attributed to Guercino (XVI), on the left side a canvas attributed to Giovanni Lanfranco (XVII) depicting ('Christ in the Garden comforted by the Angel').
In the Vibi Chapel is located the marble reredos with Infant Jesus, the Baptist and St. Jerome (1453), attributed to Mino da Fiesole. In the lunette there once was the Annunciation by Giovanni Battista Caporali, on the left wall the Visitation of Polydorus by Stefano Ciburri (1530). On the right the Madonna del Giglio by Sassoferrato, made from the one by Lo Spagna.
Leaving the nave in front of the Vibi chapel a St. Paul attributed to Guercino, in the left aisle the Deposition by Gian Battista Salvi called Sassoferrato (XVII), copy of the famous Deposition by Raffaello, today at the Galleria Borghese in Rome.
Next is the Ranieri Chapel, originally Baglioni, that was designed by Francesco di Guido di Virio da Settignano. The vault displays an Assumption of the Virgin by Annibale Brugnoli (19th century), which is inspired by Titian's prototype, but has more delicate colours, painted over a previous decoration by Caporali; on the left wall is a canvas with Jesus in the garden attributed to Guido Reni (17th century) and on the right Jesus and Saint Veronica by G. Francesco Gessi (17th century).
Back in the nave, the ('Judith with the head of Holofernes') by Sassoferrato (17th century).
Next is the Sacrament Chapel. Its vault is decorated by Francesco Appiani with perspective quadraturas by Pietro Carattoli. On the altar an image of the Madonna del Giglio from the 14th century attributed to Lo Spagna, which comes from a rural chapel and placed in the centre of a painting of St. Peter and St. Paul by Jean-Baptiste Wicar (19th century). On the walls large canvases by Giorgio Vasari (1566): ('Marriage at Cana'), ('the Prophet Elisha') and ('the miracle of the table of St. Benedict'). The canvas ('St. Benedict sends St. Maurus to France') on the left is by Giovanni Fiammingo (XVI).
Returning to the nave the Adoration of the Magi by Eusebio da San Giorgio (16th century), the Assumption by Orazio Alfani (16th century), the Annunciation of Sassoferrato and the polychrome wooden Crucifix attributed to Giovanni Tedesco.
Following the Pietà, a late work by Perugino, where the painter portrays himself in the face of Giuseppe di Arimatea. The piece, coming from the church of Sant'Agostino, was part of the Sant'Agostino Altarpiece; and S. Pietro Abate dell'Appiani (18th century). At the end of the nave are the Fatti S. Mauro and S. Placiduo by Giacinto Gimignani (1677).
Sacristy
The sacristy, built in 1451, has a large works collection; the upper floor, where the wardrobes are, has carvings in leather and the floor was made of Deruta majolica by Giacomo Mancini in the 16th century. In the vault are frescoes of the Stories of the Old Testament by Silla Piccinini, or Pecennini, (16th century), while on the walls are Stories of St. Peter and Paul by Girolamo Danti (1574). On the right is a canvas of the Holy Family attributed to Parmigianino, and in the corner is a small painting of Infant Jesus and Infant Saint John the Baptist attributed to the young Raphael. Christ at the Column (XVII), Madonna with Child (XVI), and Christ Blessing (XVII) are by unknown artists. Within the windows is a Visitation by Sebastiano Conca (XVIII). The most important paintings are the five small paintings by Perugino with images of Santa Scholastica, S. Ercolano, S. Constantino, S. Pietro Abbate, S. Mauro and S. Placido. They were painted for the predella of the large altarpiece Ascension (1496), which adorned the main church altar. The canvas was confiscated in 1796 by the Napoleonic commissioner Giacomo Tinet (today it is exposed at the Museum of Lyon). Above these paintings Frances of Rome educated by an Angel of an unknown Caravagesque.
Medieval crypt
The left aisle leads to the apse where there is an early medieval crypt discovered in 1979, with a circular plan with a suggesting ambulatory and plastered walls painted with geometric and figurative motifs.
The abbey with the three cloisters
The abbey has three cloisters: the first, at the entrance, dates back to the 17th century by Valentino Martelli; the second is the Main Cloister, a Renaissance construction of the thirties of the 16th century, attributed to Guido da Settignano, set on three floors with a well in the centre by Galeotto di Paolo di Assisi. As in other monasteries, around it there were large halls where communal life took place: the chapter, the refectory, the schoolrooms, the library, the archive and the scriptorium.
Under the portico, on the side facing the entrance, there is the ancient access to the Chapter House, which has now become the main hall of the Library of the Faculty of Agriculture "Mario Marte". At the entrance of the former refectory, nowadays the Aula Magna, is a 15th-century glazed terracotta laver depicting the ('Samaritan woman at the well'), attributed to Benedetto Buglione. The upper floor was reserved for the dormitory or the cells of the monks.
The third cloister, the ('cloister of the stars'), 1571, was designed by Galeazzo Alessi. It is so called because it has star-shaped openings on the ground from where rainwater entered to be carried into a cistern.
Medieval garden
From the cloisters one can access the Medieval Garden laid out in 1996. It presents an interesting symbolic revival of the , the garden of the monastery that provided the essential sustenance for self-sufficiency; at the same time it is also an ideal garden, which unfolds a symbolic path of the evolution of men. There are the remains of an ancient fish farm and various springs, which prove the uninterrupted presence of the water element.
In the garden the medieval gate on the important road to Rome; nearby lays a stone with a carved shell indicating the distance between Rome and St. Jacopo di Compostela, because the Jacobean itinerary also passed through here.
To the right one can glimpse the , which expand the greenery of the . In the past they were the favourite square of Braccio da Montone for his military exercises; nowadays there is a garden by the Perugine Arcadi, a garden with a small 18th-century theatre and statues from the 20th century.
gallery
The abbey houses the gallery of the with works from San Pietro abbey as well as from the proprieties of Casalina and Sant'Apollinare. On display is a vast collection of works which span the end of the 15th to the 19th century, including the detached fresco by Giannicola di Paolo, previously located above the portal of the Basilica. The gallery also houses a vast collection of illuminated choir books from the 15th and 16th centuries.
Migrated works
During the French occupation, the church was subjected to several Napoleonic spoliations. According to the Catalogo by Canova, several works were stored there and sent to France and never returned after the Congress of Vienna. The most important are:
Ascension, Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato, in Paris in January 1814 and in the Musée Napoléon/Louvre from 1814
God in Glory, lunette 280x216 cm, Lione, Musée des Beaux-Arts
San Pietro Polyptych, cymatium, 114x230 cm, Lione, Musée des Beaux-Arts
Tondo of Jeremy, 127 cm in diameter), Nantes, Musée des Beaux-Arts
Tondo of Isaiah, 127 cm in diameter), Nantes, Musée des Beaux-Arts
Adoration of the Magi, predella panel 32x59 cm, Rouen, Musée des Beaux-Arts
Baptism of Christ, predella panel 32x59 cm, Rouen, Musée des Beaux-Arts
Resurrection, predella panel 32x59 cm, Rouen, Musée des Beaux-Arts
Once there were two works in the sacristy: (Jesus carrying the Cross) of Mantegna and the Coronation of Bassano. Both were smuggled in the theft of 29 March 1916.
See also
Perugia
References
Umbria, in L'Italia, Touring Club Italiano, 2004, pp. 168-172.
Mario Montanari, Mille anni della chiesa di S. Pietro in Perugia e del suo patrimonio, Foligno, Poligrafica Salvati, 1966; per l'attribuzione del campanile al Rossellino si cfr. p. 220 e segg.
Convegno storico per il Millennio dell’Abbazia di S. Pietro in Perugia, «Bollettino della Deputazione di storia patria per l’Umbria», 64 (1967).
Giustino Farnedi, L'Abbazia di San Pietro e gli studi storici, Cesena, Centro Storico Benedettino Italiano, 2011 (Italia Benedettina, 35).
AA.VV. Guide Electa Umbria - Perugia 1993
M. R. Zappelli - Perugia Borgo S. Pietro - Todi 2008
F. Mancini e G. Casagrande - Perugia Guida storico-artistica - S. Lazzaro di Savena Bologna 1982
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Notes
References
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Taylor, Paul, editor. "Give My Love to All Our Folks:" Civil War and Post-War Letters of Clinton DeWitt Staring and Charles E. Staring. Mancelona, Mi.: Deep Wood Press, 2007. C. DeWitt Staring served in the 26th NYSV.
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Animal Crackers
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The Adventures of Smilin' Jack by Zack Mosley (1933–1973)
Aggie Mack / Aggie by Hal Rasmusson and Roy L. Fox (1946–1972)
Beyond Mars by Jack Williamson & Lee Elias (February 17, 1952 – May 13, 1955)
Bobby Make-Believe by Frank King (1915–1919)
Brenda Starr, Reporter originally by Dale Messick (1940–2011)
Ching Chow originally by Sidney Smith and Stanley Link (1927–1990)
Closer Than We Think by Arthur Radebaugh (January 12, 1958–January 6, 1963) — Sunday panel
Compu-toon by Charles Boyce (1994–1997; moved to Universal Uclick)
Conrad by Bill Schorr (1982–1986)
Deathless Deer by Alicia Patterson and Neysa McMein (1942-1943)
Dondi by Gus Edson and Irwin Hasen (1955–1986)
Friday Foster by Jim Lawrence and later Jorge Longarón (1970–1974)
The Gumps by Sidney Smith (1917–1959)
Harold Teen by Carl Ed (1919–1959)
Helen, Sweetheart of the Internet by Peter Zale (5 June 2000 – 25 December 2005)
Housebroken (2002-2010)
In the Bleachers by Steve Moore (1985–1995; moved to Universal Press Syndicate)
Kennesaw by Reamer Keller (1953–1955)
Li'l Abner by Al Capp (1964–1977) — moved over from United Feature Syndicate
Little Joe originally by Ed Leffingwell (October 1, 1933–1972)
Little Lulu (June 5, 1950 – May 1969) by Woody Kimbrell (1950–1964), Roger Armstrong (1964–1966), and Ed Nofziger (1966–1969)
Little Orphan Annie by Harold Gray and others (1924–2010)
Lola by Todd Clark (1999–2005; moved to United Feature Syndicate)
Lolly (later changed to Lolly and Pepper) by Pete Hansen (1955-1983)
Louie by Harry Hanan (1947-1976)
Mary Perkins, On Stage by Leonard Starr (February 1957 – September 9, 1979)
Moon Mullins by Frank Willard & Ferd Johnson (1923–1991)
Mother Goose and Grimm by Mike Peters (1984–2002; moved to King Features Syndicate)
Motley's Crew by Ben Templeton and Tom Forman (1976–2000)
My Son John by Bill Hoest (April 4 1960 – c. April 1962)
The Neighbors by George Clark (1939–1971)
Old Doc Yak by Sidney Smith (February 5, 1912 – June 22, 1919, December 7, 1930 – February 25, 1934) — second iteration as a weekly topper strip for The Gumps
The Pink Panther by Eric and Bill Teitelbaum (2004-2009)
Raising Hector by Peter Ramirez (2006-2010)
Rick O'Shay by Stan Lynde (April 27, 1958 – March 8, 1981)
Shoe by Jeff MacNelly and then others (1977–2008; moved to King Features Syndicate)
Smitty by Walter Berndt (1922–1973)
Smokey Stover by Bill Holman (1935–1973)
Spy vs. Spy by Duck Edwing and Dave Manak (2002–2014)
Sylvia (1981-2012)
Tales of the Green Beret by Robin Moore & Joe Kubert (September 20, 1965 – 1968)
The Teenie Weenies by William Donahey (June 14, 1914 – October 26, 1924; September 24, 1933 – December 2, 1934; May 18, 1941 – February 15, 1970)
Terry and the Pirates (1934–1973) by Milton Caniff (1934–1946) and George Wunder (1946–1973)
Texas Slim by Ferd Johnson (1925-1958)
Tiny Tim by Stanley Link (July 23, 1933 – March 2, 1958)
Whiteboy (later changed to Whiteboy in Skull Valley and then simply Skull Valley) by Garrett Price (Oct. 8, 1933–Aug. 16, 1936)
Winnie Winkle (1920–1996) by Martin Branner (1920–1962), Max Van Bibber (1962–1980), and Frank Bolle (1980-1996)
The World's Greatest Superheroes by numerous creators (1978–1985)
Editorial cartoons
Nick Anderson
Bill Bramhall
Walt Handelsman
Phil Hands
David Horsey
Joel Pett
Drew Sheneman
Scott Stantis
Dana Summers
Joey Weatherford
Columns and articles
Advice
Ask Amy by Amy Dickinson
God Squad, The by Marc Gellman
Harvard Health Letters
Interpersonal Edge by Daneen Skube
Mayo Clinic Q & A
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My Answer from the writings of the Rev. Billy Graham
My Pet World by Cathy M. Rosenthal
Real Estate Matters by Ilyce R. Glink and Samuel J. Tamkin
Right Thing, The by Jeffrey L. Seglin
Business & Personal Finance
Careers Now by Kathleen Furore
Credit Card Chart, The
Global Viewpoint Network by Nathan Gardels
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Jill on Money by Jill Schlesinger
Kids & Money by Steve Rosen
Kiplinger Consumer News Service
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Markets & Mutual Funds
Money Market Package
Savings Game, The by Elliot Raphaelson
Success featuring Kiplinger, Inc. Magazine and Fast Company
Terry Savage
Your Money by KiplingerEntertainment
Card games
Daily Bridge Club by Frank Stewart
Goren Bridge by Bob Jones
Poker by Tony Dunst and Bryan Devonshire
Humor
Dave Barry Conventions Package by Dave Barry
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Dave Barry Year in Review by Dave Barry
Humor Hotel by Greg Schwem
Snickers by Charles Ghigna
Today’s Chuckle by Harlan Collins
Pop culture
Bang Showbiz Cover Media Film Clips by The Chicago Tribune
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Daily Racing Form’s Consensus Latest Line by J. McCarthy
Food
America's Test Kitchen Entrée Feature Package featuring Environmental Nutrition, Eating Well, The Kitchn and Seriously Simple
Health
Environmental Nutrition Harvard Health Letters How to Keep Well by Irving S. Cutter (1935–?)
Mayo Clinic Q & A Medicine Cabinet, The: Ask the Harvard Experts Premium Health News Service by Various Contributors
Home
Ask the Builder by Tim Carter
Do It Yourself…Or Not? by Gene and Katie Hamilton
Living Space by Better Homes & Gardens, Real Simple, Parents magazine, Midwest Living, and Southern Living Real Estate Matters by Ilyce R. Glink and Samuel J. Tamkin
Lifestyle
24/7 Wall St. Ana Veciana-Suarez
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Tuesdays with Mitch by Mitch Albom
Your Daily Astrology by Magi Helena
Magazines
Atlantic, The Cut, The Defense One Fast Company Foreign Affairs Harvard Health Letters Inc. Magazine MIT Sloan Management Review & Report MIT Technology Review New Scientist New York Magazine Psychology Today Quartz Rolling Stone Variety Entertainment News Service VultureOpinion
Bill Press
Cal Thomas
Clarence Page
David Horsey
Diplomat, The Gary Franks
Global Viewpoint Network by Nathan Gardels
Jonah Goldberg
Leonard Pitts Jr.
Mary Sanchez
Oppenheimer Report, The by Andrés Oppenheimer
Politics Today by Jules Witcover
Rachel Marsden
Rev. Jesse Jackson
Robert Koehler
Rex Huppke
Robert Reich
S. E. Cupp
Victor Davis Hanson
Travel
Celebrity Travel by Jae-Ha Kim
Ed Perkins on Travel by Ed Perkins
Rick Steves’ Europe by Rick Steves
Taking the Kids by Eileen Ogintz
World News
Atlantic, The Defense One Deutsche Welle Foreign Affairs Discontinued columns and columnists
Beauty Answers by Antoinette Donnelly (1919–c. 1946)
Doris Blake: Love Problems, Heart Chats, and Heart to Heart Talks (1921–1946)
Nancy Dorris: cooking (1930s)
W. A. Evans, M.D.: health column (1919-1933)
Little Old New York, by Ed Sullivan (1935–1940s)
Clare Boothe Luce: national political convention coverage) (1940s)
Mainly About Manhattan by John Chapman (1933–1946)
Parent-Child by Gladys Bevans (1927—c. 1946)
Danton Walker, column on Broadway theatre (1939–1940s)
The Smart Collector by Danielle Arnet (?-2019)
Games & puzzles
Crosswords
Daily Commuter Puzzle, The by Jackie Mathews
Jumble Crosswords by David L. Hoyt
Los Angeles Times Crossword Puzzle by Joyce Nichols Lewis and Rich Norris
Quote-Acrostic TV Crossword, The by Jackie Mathews
Jumble games
Jumble by David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek
Jumble Crosswords by David L. Hoyt
Jumble for Kids by David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek
TV Jumble by David L. Hoyt
Logic puzzles
Futoshiki / More or Less Hitori Junior Mind Gym Kakuro by Michael Mepham
Killer Sudoku Killer Sudoku Pro Kubok Mind Gym Samurai Sudoku Sudoku Daily by Michael Mepham
Visual puzzles
Spot the DifferenceWord puzzles
ArrowWords Boggle BrainBusters by David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek
Code-Cracker SCRABBLEgrams Word Salsa by Tony Tallarico
Word WheelPremium Editions
Brainbusters: The Ultimate Puzzle Book Envelope’s Oscar Preview, The Family Health Guide from Harvard Health Publications Guide to Entertaining: Be the Best Holiday Host This Year Guide to Fitness from Harvard Health Publications Guide to Investment from Morningstar Guide to Retirement from Morningstar Guide to Summer Entertaining International Travel Guide Life Skills: How to do almost anything Mayo Clinic Guide to Healthy Eating Pet Power Travel Guide U.S.A.''
See also
List of newspaper comic strips
References
External links
Comic strip syndicates
Mass media companies of the United States
Comic strips syndicated by Tribune Content Agency
Dick Tracy
Tribune Publishing |
44597739 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castillo%20de%20San%20Jos%C3%A9 | Castillo de San José | The Castillo de San José (Castle of San José) is an historic fortress and art museum in Arrecife on the Canary Island of Lanzarote.
History
Built between 1776 and 1779 the fort was constructed to provide a defensive stronghold in case of pirate attacks, and as a public works project to provide much needed employment during a time of famine and poverty on the island. It became commonly known as the Fortress of Hunger (Fortaleza del hambre). The famine was caused by a number of factors including periods of drought, and the earlier eruption of Timanfaya between 1730 and 1736, which devastated most of the productive agricultural areas on the island. Charles III of Spain, who was concerned for the plight of the islanders, ordered that the fortress be built.
Situated on a cliff above the Port of Naos, the D shaped fort has semi-circular walls facing the sea. On the landward side, the rear wall is protected by two small turrets, with a moat crossed by a lifting drawbridge leading to the main gateway. The fortress is constructed of masonry and ashlar blocks of volcanic origin. The interior which is made up of barrel vaulted rooms was mainly used as a powder store.
International Museum of Contemporary Art
In the 1970s the fortress was renovated and the interior redesigned by the artist César Manrique, who was born nearby, to house a museum of modern art. The museum opened to the public in 1976 as the International Museum of Contemporary Art (, abbreviated as MIAC).
The exhibits are primarily from the period between 1950 and 1980, with a focus on various abstract art forms, such as modern sculpture, kinetic art, and geometric abstraction. The works are mainly by Spanish artists including Joan Miró, Antoni Tàpies, Eusebio Sempere and the El Paso group, one section is also dedicated to the Canarian artist Pancho Lasso.
The courtyard is also used as a display space for outdoor sculptures and designs.
Beneath the museum, the annexe of the fort was renovated and converted into a restaurant, the two connected by a spiral staircase. With curved floor to ceiling windows, the dining room has panoramic views overlooking the harbour and docks below.
Gallery
References
External links
Arrecife
Museums in the Canary Islands
Modern art museums in Spain
Castles in Canary Islands
Bien de Interés Cultural landmarks in the Province of Las Palmas
Buildings and structures in Lanzarote
Tourist attractions in Lanzarote |
1212015 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final%20Doom | Final Doom | Final Doom is a first-person shooter video game developed by TeamTNT, and Dario and Milo Casali, and was released by id Software and distributed by GT Interactive Software in 1996. It was released for MS-DOS and Macintosh computers, as well as for the PlayStation, although the latter featured a selection of levels from Final Doom and from Master Levels for Doom II.
Final Doom consists of two 32-level episodes (or megawads), TNT: Evilution and The Plutonia Experiment. Unlike TNT: Evilution, which was officially licensed, The Plutonia Experiment was made by request of the team at id Software. The story in both episodes take place after the events of Doom II. TNT: Evilution features a new soundtrack not found in Doom and Doom II.
Gameplay
Final Doom plays identically to Doom II: Hell on Earth, and even features the same weapons, items, and monsters. The original game is widely considered to be significantly more difficult than its predecessors Doom and Doom II.
The gameplay in the PlayStation version of Final Doom is nearly identical to that found in the PlayStation version of Doom, and, in addition, it was compatible with the PlayStation Mouse. Compared to the MS-DOS original, the PlayStation version's overall difficulty was significantly reduced. Many of the harder levels were removed and those that remained often had enemies taken out (most noticeably the Cyberdemon being removed from the level 'Baron's Lair'). As in the original PlayStation version of Doom, many of the larger levels from the original MS-DOS versions of Final Doom and Master Levels for Doom II were removed, and both the Arch-vile and Spider Mastermind monsters were removed, due to technical constraints. This limited the PlayStation version to 30 levels in total. The more traditional rock tracks featured in Final Doom were replaced by a creepier ambient soundtrack by Aubrey Hodges, who later composed the music for Doom 64 in 1997.
There are several noticeable alterations to the presentation of Final Doom in the PlayStation version compared to the computer versions. The simplistic title screens featured in the computer versions have been replaced by a more elaborate title screen that features the animated flame-filled sky texture from the original PlayStation version of Doom. Many of the levels' sky textures have been replaced by different ones; some levels' skies are replaced by sky textures seen in previous Doom games, whereas others now feature a new starry sky texture. Finally, most of the level layouts are simplified, similar to previous Doom console ports, and the frame rate of the game is often lower than it was in the first PlayStation Doom game.
Plot
TNT: Evilution
In TNT: Evilution, the UAC are once again intent on developing and experimenting with dimensional gateway technology. They set up a base on one of the moons of Jupiter, with a solid detachment of space marines for protection. The marines do their job well; when the first experimental gateway is opened, they annihilate the forces of Hell. Research continues with more confidence and all security measures turned at the gateway.
A few months later, the yearly supply ship comes ahead of schedule, and looks strange and unusually big on the radar. The lax radar operators decide that there is nothing to worry about. The personnel of the base go out to behold the terrible truth: it is a spaceship from Hell, built out of steel, stone, flesh, bone and corruption. The ship's enormous gates open to unleash a rain of demons on the base. Quickly, the entire facility is overrun, and everyone is slain or zombified.
The main character, the nameless space marine (who was revealed to be the marine commander on the moon) has been away on a walk at that time and thus escapes death or zombification. After being attacked by an imp, he rushes back to the base where he sees the demonic spaceship still hovering above it and realizes what has happened. He then swears that he will avenge his slain troops and sets out to kill as many demons as possible.
In the end, the marine defeats the Icon of Sin and the game describes "something rumbles in the distance. A blue light glows within the ruined skull of the demon-spitter."
The Plutonia Experiment
In The Plutonia Experiment, after Hell's catastrophic invasion of Earth, the global governments decide to take measures against any possible future invasion, knowing that the powers of Hell still remained strong. The UAC is refounded under completely new management (the old trustees and stockholders were all dead anyway) and aims at developing tools that would prevent demonic invasions.
The scientists start working on a device known as the Quantum Accelerator that is intended to close invasion Gates and stop possible invasions. The experiments are carried out in a secret research complex, with a stationed detachment of marines. The work seems to be going well but the creatures from Outside have their attention drawn towards the new research. A Gate opens in the heart of the complex and unnatural horrors pour out. The Quantum Accelerator performs superbly: the Gate is quickly closed and the invasion is stopped. Research continues more boldly.
On the next day, a ring of 7 Gates opens and an even greater invasion begins. For one hour the Quantum Accelerators manage to close 6 of the Gates, but the Hellish army has become too numerous and too strong. The complex is overrun. Everyone is slain, or zombified. The last Gate of Hell remains open, guarded by a Gatekeeper: a powerful, enormous and ancient demon that has the power to open Dimensional Gates and control or protect them.
The government, frantic that the Quantum Accelerator will be destroyed or used against humanity, orders all marines to the site at once. The player, the nameless space marine, was on leave at the beach. He was also closest to the site and gets there first. There he discovers that there is much demonic activity (howling, chanting, machine sounds) within the complex; the Gatekeeper is obviously working on something, and his work would soon reach some awful climax. He also realizes that when the marines arrive, they would not be able to penetrate the heavily infested complex, despite the firepower and support they will have. The marine decides to enter the complex and stop the Gatekeeper alone.
Development
Work on TNT: Evilution was started by TeamTNT, a group of WAD-making hobbyists who were active on the advanced Doom editing mailing list. Just days before it was to be released as a free download online, the project was acquired by id Software, and finished in November 1995.
Brothers Dario and Milo Casali, who had contributed four levels to TNT: Evilution, were assigned the task of creating what became The Plutonia Experiment after having sent an eight-level WAD they had created to American McGee and managing to impress him along with the rest of the id Software crew. They created 16 levels each for The Plutonia Experiment in four months time, and submitted them in January 1996. Unlike their contributions to TNT: Evilution, which were edited after submission (four were also rejected due to being too large to run on the computers of the day), these were the final revisions of the levels, and Dario Casali later commented about the fact that no changes were requested: "Thank God because I was ready to throw my computer out the window at the time."
Dario Casali acknowledged the difficulty level of The Plutonia Experiment in an interview on Doomworld, stating "Plutonia was always meant for people who had finished Doom 2 on hard and were looking for a new challenge. I always played through the level I had made on hard, and if I could beat it too easily, I made it harder, so it was a challenge for me."
Reception
Reviewing the PC version in GameSpot, Jim Varner argued that Final Doom is a waste of money, since it is essentially just a new set of level maps for Doom, and there were already thousands of such maps available to download for free on the internet.
While Major Mike of GamePro criticized that Final Doom has no new enemies or weapons, and that the PlayStation version includes only 30 levels as compared to the PC version's 64, he was pleased with the "huge, perplexing, and sometimes sadistic levels" and the new scenery, and considered Doom still a compelling enough game that simply more of the same was enough to satisfy. PlayStation Magazine gave it a score of 9/10, calling it "essential". A reviewer for Next Generation was less impressed, remarking that a side-by-side comparison with the PlayStation version of the original Doom reveals that Final Doom has a much lower frame rate, less precise control, and more visible seams in the textures. Three of the four reviewers of Electronic Gaming Monthly said they were tired of seeing ports of Doom, and that Final Doom was simply another such port with new level maps. They also said that the game engine had become severely outdated in the years since Doom was first released. Crispin Boyer was the one dissenting voice, expressing enthusiasm for the new level designs.
Notes
References
Interview with Dario Casali (1998) by Doomworld
External links
Final Doom page at PlanetDOOM
Final Doom at TeamTNT's official website
Dario Casali's The Plutonia Experiment page
id Software's official Final Doom page
Comparison of PC and Playstation Final Doom at ClassicDOOM
1996 video games
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Video games developed in the United States
Video games scored by Aubrey Hodges
Video games with 2.5D graphics
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Video games set in hell
Williams video games
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Sprite-based first-person shooters
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64164437 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioli%20river | Pioli river | The Pioli River (Marathi : पिवळी नदी) is a river flowing through the northern part of the city of Nagpur, in Maharashtra, India. Pioli river is a left bank tributary of the Nag river.
This river feeds the Kanhan-Pench river system through the Nag River. The river is 16.7 kilometres long and originates in Lava-Dhaba village, West of Nagpur. It meets the Nag River near near Pawangaon. Four natural water streams, including Bor stream, used to feed the river. It also receives water from the outlet of Gorewada Dam in North West Nagpur and Chambhar Nala in Central Nagpur
The river serves as a part of drainage for Nagpur and as a result its ecosystem is heavily polluted by urban waste from the city. The river is also threatened by encroachment at many places.
The Nagpur Municipal Corporation has planned three sewage treatment plants along the river as a part of its rejuvenation programme.
References
Geography of Nagpur
Rivers of Maharashtra
Rivers of Nagpur District
Rivers of India |
46205511 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017%20UEFA%20European%20Under-21%20Championship%20qualification%20Group%207 | 2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification Group 7 | Group 7 of the 2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying competition consisted of six teams: Germany, Russia, Austria, Finland, Azerbaijan, and Faroe Islands. The composition of the nine groups in the qualifying group stage was decided by the draw held on 5 February 2015.
The group was played in home-and-away round-robin format. The group winners qualified directly for the final tournament, while the runners-up advanced to the play-offs if they were one of the four best runners-up among all nine groups (not counting results against the sixth-placed team).
Standings
Matches
Times are CEST (UTC+2) for dates between 29 March and 24 October 2015 and between 27 March and 29 October 2016, for other dates times are CET (UTC+1).
Goalscorers
9 goals
Michael Gregoritsch
7 goals
Davie Selke
5 goals
Maximilian Arnold
Max Meyer
Leroy Sané
3 goals
Alessandro Schöpf
Fredrik Lassas
Ramil Sheydayev
2 goals
Kevin Friesenbichler
Kerem Behnke
Mahir Madatov
Vahid Hambo
Moshtagh Yaghoubi
Serge Gnabry
Joshua Kimmich
Timo Werner
Alexey Yevseyev
Ilya Zuyev
1 goal
Nikola Dovedan
Florian Grillitsch
Arnel Jakupovic
Philipp Lienhart
Ylli Sallahi
Louis Schaub
Christian Schoissengeyr
Dominik Wydra
Elshan Abdullayev
Magsad Isayev
Rahil Mammadov
Azer Salahli
Gestur Bogason Dam
Hákun Edmundsson
Ári Jónsson
Joel Mero
Daniel O'Shaughnessy
Simon Skrabb
Jasse Tuominen
Mikko Viitikko
Julian Brandt
Leon Goretzka
Janik Haberer
Levin Öztunalı
Niklas Süle
Dmitri Barinov
Igor Bezdenezhnykh
Maksim Karpov
Nikolay Komlichenko
Vitali Lystsov
Maksim Paliyenko
Andrei Panyukov
Aleksandr Tashayev
1 own goal
Sonni Nattestad (against Germany)
Teitur Olsen (against Finland)
Sauli Väisänen (against Germany)
References
External links
Standings and fixtures at UEFA.com
Group 7 |
62716553 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Because%20We%20Are%20Girls | Because We Are Girls | Because We Are Girls is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Baljit Sangra and released in 2019. The film centres on Jeeti, Kira and Salakshana Pooni, three Punjabi Canadian sisters from Williams Lake, British Columbia who have gone public in adulthood about allegations of childhood sexual abuse by a cousin who frequently babysat them as children.
The film was slated to premiere at the 2018 Vancouver International Film Festival, but the screening was pulled from the festival as the sisters' court case against their cousin was still pending. It instead premiered at the 2019 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, and had its first screening in British Columbia at the DOXA Documentary Film Festival.
The film received two nominations at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2019, for Best Canadian Documentary and Best British Columbia Film.
References
External links
2019 films
Canadian films
Canadian documentary films
National Film Board of Canada documentaries
Films shot in British Columbia |
28191175 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamnyaskey | Tamnyaskey | Tamnyaskey (, ) is a townland lying within the civil parish of Kilcronaghan, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. It lies in the west of the parish, and is bounded by the townlands of Brackaghlislea, Calmore, Granny, Mormeal, and Tullyroan. It wasn't apportioned to any of the London livery companies, being kept as church lands.
The townland was part of the Tobermore electoral ward of the former Magherafelt District Council, however in 1926 it was part of Tobermore district electoral division as part of the Maghera division of Magherafelt Rural District. It was also part of the historic barony of Loughinsholin.
History
Along with the townlands of Granny, Mormeal, and Tullyroan, Tamneyaskey comprises the four townlands that make up the Bishop of Derrys lands in the parish. Prior to the Plantation of Ulster, these four townlands constituted the termon (or erenagh) land of the parish, and were known as "Ballintrolla, Derreskerdan, Dirrygrinagh et Kellynahawla". Despite these townlands being in the same location as the later townlands, it is now impossible to match their names accurately.
Statistics
See also
Kilcronaghan
List of townlands in Tobermore
Tobermore
References
Townlands of County Londonderry
Civil parish of Kilcronaghan |
23126590 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Register%20of%20Historic%20Places%20listings%20in%20Sullivan%20County%2C%20Indiana | National Register of Historic Places listings in Sullivan County, Indiana |
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Sullivan County, Indiana.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties on the National Register of Historic Places in Sullivan County, Indiana, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties; these locations may be seen together in a map.
There are 11 properties listed on the National Register in the county.
Properties and districts located in incorporated areas display the name of the municipality, while properties and districts in unincorporated areas display the name of their civil township. Properties and districts split between multiple jurisdictions display the names of all jurisdictions.
Current listings
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See also
List of National Historic Landmarks in Indiana
National Register of Historic Places listings in Indiana
Listings in neighboring counties: Clark (IL), Clay, Crawford (IL), Greene, Knox, Vigo
List of Indiana state historical markers in Sullivan County
References
Sullivan County |
11900034 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WECV | WECV | WECV is a radio station operated by Bott Radio Network, with a Christian talk/teaching format.
Until 2011, the station was owned by Trevecca Nazarene University, and played Contemporary Christian music.
A key figure in the station's history is former General Manager David Deese. Deese, who still teaches at the university, led the radio station as a student, then as a faculty member. He was able to increase the station's transmission power on a couple of occasions and helped the university purchase 760 AM WENO and later put WNRZ, a repeater at 91.5 MHz in Dickson, on the air.
WECV is simulcast on WNRZ (covering western Middle Tennessee) and translator stations on 93.9 in Gallatin and 99.5 in Clarksville.
In the fall of 2010, Trevecca Nazarene University announced the sale of WNAZ, WNRZ and its translator stations to Bott Radio Network. On February 18, 2011 at noon, the station was transferred to Bott, at which time it began airing Bott Radio Network programming. The WNAZ call letters were officially changed to WECV several days later.
Translators
External links
ECV
Bott Radio Network stations
ECV |
47053310 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiejiadian%20station | Xiejiadian station | Xiejiadian station (), is a metro station of Line S8 of the Nanjing Metro. It started operations on 1 August 2014.
References
Railway stations in Jiangsu
Railway stations in China opened in 2014
Nanjing Metro stations |
35730496 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir%20Janjgava | Vladimir Janjgava | Vladimir Nikolayevich Janjgava (; 19 May 1907 – 10 April 1982) was a Georgian Soviet Army lieutenant general and Hero of the Soviet Union who participated in battles during the Winter War and was a specialist in infantry warfare during World War II. Janigava held command of various infantry regiments, divisions and corps of the Soviet Army. Janjgava served in a series of leadership roles after the war, including as Minister of Internal Affairs of Georgian SSR (1954—1958).
Early life
Vladimir Janjgava was born in the Georgian village of Gubi in May 1907. After graduating he entered the Red Army in 1927 and specialized in military warfare at the Transcaucasus Military-Infantry School in the capital city of Tbilisi. During his service in various Soviet Army formations during Pre-World War II, he rose through the ranks and participated in the Winter War as a junior officer.
World War II
In 1941, when the Great Patriotic War broke out, Janjgava, who had already reached the rank of Colonel, took part in various defensive operations against German forces in Moldavia and Donets Basin. From March 1942 to April 1943 he commanded the 676th Rifle Regiment and was engaged in critical defensive operations in and around the city of Voronezh, as well as the 1st and 2nd Kastornoye operations, both being part of the greater Voronezh-Voroshilovgrad Strategic Defensive. In July 1943 he took command of the Soviet 15th Rifle Division and was responsible for leading the general infantry assault on the left flank of the Soviet armies during the Battle of Kursk.
From 1944 he led the 354th Rifle Division, which was successively part of the 1st and 2nd Belorussian Fronts, and participated in the liberation of Belorussia and Poland and, more importantly, the advance through East-Prussia and finally the attack on Berlin. At this point, major general Janjgava skillfully managed to divide the fronts at the Weichsel, Narew and Oder rivers. The division fought over a total distance of 1,000 kilometers, liberated Szczecin and participated in the liberation of a total of 20 other cities, before finally reaching Berlin. For outstanding performance and personal courage, Janjgava was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union and received various other decorations.
Post-war
In 1948, Janjgava graduated from the General Staff Academy and became a lieutenant general. From then, he took command of several army corps before returning to Georgia. He served as Minister of Internal Affairs of Georgian SSR from May 1954 to December 1958, and took active part is suppressing the 1956 Tbilisi Riots. Later, he worked as director of the military department of the Tbilisi State University. Later he also became the leader of the DOSAAF central committee in the Georgian SSR. Vladimir Janjgava died on 10 April 1982 at the age of 75. He was buried in a cemetery near Tbilisi.
References
1907 births
1982 deaths
Generals from Georgia (country)
People from Imereti
People from Kutais Governorate
People of World War II from Georgia (country)
Communist Party of the Soviet Union members
Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union alumni
Tbilisi State University faculty
Second convocation members of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
Third convocation members of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
Fourth convocation members of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
Heroes of the Soviet Union
Recipients of the Order of the Cross of Grunwald, 3rd class
Recipients of the Order of Kutuzov, 2nd class
Recipients of the Order of Lenin
Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner
Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Recipients of the Order of the Red Star
Mingrelians
Soviet Georgian generals
Soviet lieutenant generals
Soviet military personnel of World War II |
14939015 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria%2C%20Grenada | Victoria, Grenada | Victoria is a town in Saint Mark Parish, Grenada. It is located on the island's northwest coast between Gouyave and Nonpareil.
Geography
Along the west coast of the island nation of Grenada lies the small fishing village of Victoria. Victoria is the center of activity for the St Mark's parish, the smallest parish on the island in both area and populace with approximately 4,000 people residing.
References
Populated places in Grenada |
21227646 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatma%20Lanouar | Fatma Lanouar | Fatma Lanouar (Arabic: فاطمة لأنور; born March 14, 1978) is a former female middle distance runner from Tunisia. She is best known for twice (2001 and 2005) winning the gold medal at the Mediterranean Games in the women's 1500 metres. Lanouar set her personal best (4:06.91) in the 1,500 metres in 2000. She was also the silver medallist at the 2001 Jeux de la Francophonie.
Competition record
References
External links
1978 births
Living people
Tunisian female middle-distance runners
Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Olympic athletes of Tunisia
Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Tunisia
Mediterranean Games medalists in athletics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2001 Mediterranean Games
Athletes (track and field) at the 2005 Mediterranean Games
Athletes (track and field) at the 1999 All-Africa Games
Athletes (track and field) at the 2007 All-Africa Games
African Games competitors for Tunisia |
47610019 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophronia%20primella | Sophronia primella | Sophronia primella is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It was described by August Busck in 1907. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded Alabama, Illinois, Kansas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Arizona and Colorado.
The wingspan is about 17 mm. The forewings are ochreous, mottled and longitudinally streaked with white, black and fuscous. The costal edge, from the base to apical third is white, edged below by a narrow streak strongly mottled with fuscous. Below it is a nearly unmottled area of clear ochreous, reaching to the middle of the wing and only transversed by a single dark line on the subcostal vein. From base through the center of the wing run close beside each other two parallel black lines, interrupted at the end of the cell by a round brown dot, but continued on the other side nearly to a small round black dot at the apex. The dorsal part of the wing is rather freely dusted with white and brown scales and on the middle of the fold is an oblong brown dot. The hindwings are light ochreous fuscous.
References
Moths described in 1907
Sophronia (moth) |
8689877 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cienfuegos%20%28Cuban%20League%20baseball%20club%29 | Cienfuegos (Cuban League baseball club) | The Petroleros de Cienfuegos (Cienfuegos Oilers) first participated in the Cuban Professional League championship during the 1926–27 season. Although representing the south coast city of Cienfuegos, the team played their home games in Havana. Cienfuegos did not play in the 1927–28 season, contending again from 1928–29 through 1930–31. After eight long years of absence, Cienfuegos reappeared in the 1939–40 tournament. In the 1949–50 season, the team was renamed as the Elefantes de Cienfuegos (Cienfuegos Elephants). "The pace of the elephant is slow but crushing", exclaimed the slogan of the Cienfuegos franchise that contended until the 1960–61 season. Following the 1959 Cuban Revolution, political tensions rose with the Fidel Castro government. In March 1961, one month after the regular season ended, the new Cuban regime decreed the abolition of professional baseball in Cuba.
In 26 Championships in which Cienfuegos participated, the team won five league titles in 1929–30, 1945–46, 1955–56, 1959–60 and 1960–61, finishing second 6 times, third 7 times, and fourth 8 times, posting a 732–793 record for a .480 average. Cienfuegos also won the Caribbean Series in 1956 and 1960.
Some notable Cienfuegos players include George Altman, José Azcue, Gene Bearden, Cool Papa Bell, Bob Boyd, Leo Cárdenas, Sandalio Consuegra, Martín Dihigo, Tony González, Adolfo Luque, Sal Maglie, Seth Morehead, Ray Noble, Alejandro Oms, Camilo Pascual, Pedro Ramos, Cookie Rojas, Napoleón Reyes, and Willie Wells.
External links
Club Cienfuegos
Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame
Cuban Baseball Home
Hablemos de béisbol (Spanish)
Historia del club Cienfuegos (Spanish)
Sports on line
Defunct baseball teams in Cuba
Cuban League teams |
55870413 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin%20Stewart | Colin Stewart | Colin Stewart may refer to:
Colin Stewart (alpine skier) (1927–2015), American Olympic skier
Colin Stewart (footballer) (born 1980), English-born Scottish goalkeeper
Colin Stewart (record producer) (born 1974), record producer and audio engineer
Colin Stewart (rugby union) (born 1980), Scottish rugby union player
R. Colin Stewart (1926–1994), Canadian politician
See also
Colin Stuart (disambiguation) |
4006916 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jody%20McCrea | Jody McCrea | Joel Dee "Jody" McCrea (September 6, 1934 – April 4, 2009) was an American actor. He was the son of actors Joel McCrea and Frances Dee.
Early life
McCrea was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of actors Joel McCrea and Frances Dee. He was the oldest of three sons. McCrea went to school in Santa Rosa, California, and at New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell, New Mexico. He studied drama at UCLA and served in the United States Army Special Services.
Career
McCrea had small roles in his father's film, Wichita (1955). He was also in Lucy Gallant (1955). While still at UCLA he had the lead role in Johnny Moccasin (1956), a half hour film made for television by Laslo Benedek as a white boy raised by Indians after a massacre. McCrea followed this with a good supporting role in a feature starring his father, The First Texan (1956).
McCrea studied under Sanford Meisner for two years in New York City. He appeared on television in Chevron Hall of Stars ("Flowers for Charlie McDaniels"), The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show ("Return to California", "George's Gray Suit", "Fighting for Happiness"), Conflict ("No Man's Road" with Gig Young and Dennis Hopper), Studio One in Hollywood ("Babe in the Woods" – The New York Times said that "his playing was not too resourceful"), Sergeant Preston of the Yukon ("The Criminal Collie"), and Kraft Theatre ("The Last of the Belles").
He had a supporting role in Naked Gun (1956), and The Monster That Challenged the World (1957). He made Trooper Hook (1957) and Gunsight Ridge (1957) with his father and was one of several young names in Lafayette Escadrille (1958) and The Restless Years (1958).
He later briefly hosted Country Style, USA (1957–59), an Army-produced recruiting television program filmed in Nashville, Tennessee, featuring various country music entertainers.
Wichita Town
In 1959, McCrea costarred with his father in the short-lived NBC western Wichita Town, set in Wichita, Kansas. Joel McCrea appeared as Marshal Mike Dunbar. Jody McCrea did not portray the role of Joel's son on the program but as the deputy marshal, Ben Matheson.
1960s roles
McCrea had a small role in All Hands on Deck (1961) and could be seen in the episode, "The Wrestler" on the
ABC situation comedy, Guestward Ho!, starring Joanne Dru. He toured the country with The Tiger a production from Moral Rearmament. He did The Moon is Blue and Look Homeward Angel in stock.
McCrea was cast as Lieutenant (later General) John J. Pershing in the 1962 episode, "To Walk with Greatness", on the syndicated television anthology series, Death Valley Days.
In the early 1960s, McCrea guest starred on the CBS game program, I've Got a Secret with Garry Moore. His appearance was part of a group of entertainers related to famous Hollywood personalities.
McCrea had support parts in Force of Impulse (1961) and The Broken Land (1962).
McCrea made Young Guns of Texas (1962) with James Mitchum, look-alike son of Robert Mitchum, and Alana Ladd, daughter of Alan Ladd. James Mitchum, Alana Ladd and Jody McCrea are billed above the title in that order. The film's supporting cast features Chill Wills and Robert Lowery.
Beach Party films
McCrea had a support role in Operation Bikini (1963) at American International Pictures starring Tab Hunter and Frankie Avalon. He impressed the studio enough for them to cast him in a comedic role as dumb-minded "Deadhead" ("Bonehead") in Beach Party (1963) starring Avalon and Annette Funicello.
When cast in the beach pictures, he realized his comedic potential. When first offered the role of "Deadhead", for example, he was quoted at the time as saying that he "wasn't sure what the character would become". McCrea felt that the audience enjoyed Deadhead as they felt superior to him.
McCrea was an avid body builder, and the only actor appearing in the American International Pictures beach movies who could actually surf.
The film was a big hit and after appearing in Law of the Lawless (1964) and The Greatest Show on Earth ("Clancy"), McCrea reprised his performance as Deadhead in Muscle Beach Party (1964) and Bikini Beach (1964).
He recorded a 45 rpm single in 1964 for Canjo Records to coincide with the film Bikini Beach (Side A: "Chicken Surfer"/Side B: "Looney Gooney Bird"). He also wrote a script Stage to Nowhere which appears not to have been made.
McCrea played the "Big Lunk" in the 1964 film, Pajama Party, with Tommy Kirk and Annette Funicello in the lead parts.
McCrea had a small part in Young Fury (1965) and played Lieutenant Brannin, a cocky cavalry officer based loosely on George Armstrong Custer, in Sam Peckinpah's Major Dundee (1965), but his scene was deleted from the final cut. He also appeared in Wagon Train ("The Betsy Blee Smith Story"), before returning to AIP beach movies with Beach Blanket Bingo (1965). McCrea played "Bonehead", again the same character – but it was his biggest role in the series, having a romance with a mermaid.
McCrea was back as Bonehead in How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (1965), the last Beach Party movie in which he appeared. He was replaced by Aaron Kincaid for Ghost in the Invisible Bikini.
Later films
McCrea guest starred on Vacation Playhouse ("Three on an Island") and Pistols 'n' Petticoats ("The Pilot"). He had a lead role as a biker in The Glory Stompers (1967), and starred in Sam (1967) for Larry Buchanan. He was a judge on Dream Girl of '67.
McCrea had a supporting role in Scream Free! (1968) and the lead in The Girls from Thunder Strip (1970).
McCrea starred in a Western Cry Blood, Apache (1970) which he also produced. He retired after November Children (1972).
Death
McCrea became a rancher in Roswell, New Mexico. He came out of retirement to appear in 1981 in Lady Street Fighter.
He died in 2009 of a heart attack at the age of 74. He was married to the former Dusty Ironwing from 1976 until her death in 1996. He raised her children, David Ironwing and Jaquet Ironwing, as his own.
Filmography
References
External links
Jody McCrea at Brian's Drive-in Theatre
Obituary at Los Angeles Times
1934 births
2009 deaths
Male actors from Los Angeles
American male film actors
Film producers from California
American male television actors
United States Army soldiers
Male Western (genre) film actors
People from Roswell, New Mexico
20th-century American male actors |
60358922 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015%E2%80%9316%20OJHL%20season | 2015–16 OJHL season | The 2015–16 season was the 22nd season for the Ontario Junior Hockey League.
Team Change
The Hamilton Red Wings relocated to Markham, Ontario and were renamed the Markham Royals.
Standings
Note: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; OTL = Overtime Losses; SL = Shootout Losses; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against; PTS = Points; x = clinched playoff berth; y = clinched division title; z = clinched conference title
North East Conference
South West Conference
Playoffs
External links
Official website of the Ontario Junior Hockey League
Official website of the Canadian Junior Hockey League
Ontario Junior Hockey League seasons
OJHL |
36159797 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymothoe%20melanjae | Cymothoe melanjae | Cymothoe melanjae is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found on Mulanje Massif in Malawi.
References
Butterflies described in 1926
Cymothoe (butterfly)
Endemic fauna of Malawi
Butterflies of Africa |
4935872 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20N.%20Roach | William N. Roach | William Nathaniel Roach (September 25, 1840September 7, 1902) was a United States Senator from North Dakota.
Biography
Born in Washington, D.C., he attended the public schools, Gonzaga College High School and Georgetown University. He was a clerk in the quartermaster's department during the Civil War. He moved to Dakota Territory in 1879 and settled in Larimore; he was interested in mail contracts for several years and was a member of the Territorial House of Representatives in 1885.
Roach was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for governor at the first State election in 1889 and again in 1891. He was elected to the U.S. Senate and served from March 4, 1893, to March 4, 1899; he was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection and discontinued active business pursuits and lived in retirement in Washington, D.C. He died in New York City on September 7, 1902; interment was in the Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
See also
List of United States senators expelled or censured
References
1840 births
1902 deaths
People from Washington, D.C.
Democratic Party United States senators from North Dakota
North Dakota Democrats
Members of the Dakota Territorial Legislature
Clerks
Gonzaga College High School alumni
Georgetown University alumni
People of Washington, D.C., in the American Civil War
Union Army soldiers
Burials at the Congressional Cemetery |
43684656 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erupa%20titana | Erupa titana | Erupa titana is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Herbert Druce in 1910. It is found in Peru.
References
Erupini
Moths described in 1910 |
40050930 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dar%20Espid-e%20Mushemi | Dar Espid-e Mushemi | Dar Espid-e Mushemi (, also Romanized as Dār Espīd-e Mūshemī) is a village in Tayebi-ye Sarhadi-ye Gharbi Rural District, Charusa District, Kohgiluyeh County, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 165, in 32 families.
References
Populated places in Kohgiluyeh County |
13113619 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazimpat | Lazimpat | Lazimpat () is a residential area of Kathmandu, the capital city of Nepal. It is close to the Narayanhity Palace, and is well known in Kathmandu for its hotels, restaurants, schools, colleges, embassies and department stores. The neighborhood's name derives from Lazimpat Durbar, that lies in its vicinity and was converted into Hotel Shanker.
Lazimpat shares one border with Thamel, a popular tourist hub, and another with Baluwatar, a reputed residential area where the Prime Minister, Chief Justice, and the Chairman of Constitution Assembly reside. Lazimpat is just 20 minutes away from what is downtown of Kathmandu, Newroad and Ason.
There has been a recent upsurge in the construction activity in the region. Lazimpat boasts the only road connecting the northern part of the Kathmandu valley with the southern part. The roads are very busy, yet until a few years back, there was not much economic activity in the region. Luxury hotels, photo studios, department stores and corner shops have been a special feature of Lazimpat. It is centrally located and is also home to or nearby various embassies.
There are many hotels, such as Hotel Shanker and Radisson Hotel Nepal, restaurants and sweet shops situated in Lazimpat among various shopping outlets.
Embassies & Diplomatic Missions in Lazimpat include the Indian Embassy, the British Embassy, the Israeli Embassy, the French Embassy and the Delegation of the European Union to Nepal and also some Nepalese governmental offices, such as the Inland Revenue Department have their premises in the neighborhood.
The following organisations have their headquarters in Lazimpat:
Transportation
Busses of Sajha Yatayat serve Lazimpat. Other private Bus companies also stop at several points in the neighborhood.
References
Neighbourhoods in Kathmandu |
68090839 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matter%20%28journal%29 | Matter (journal) | Matter is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that covers the general field of materials science. It is published by Cell Press and the editor-in-chief is Steven W. Cranford.
External links
Publications established in 2019
Cell Press academic journals
Monthly journals
English-language journals
Materials science journals |
35484901 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopharmacology | Autopharmacology | Autopharmacology relates to the scientific study of the regulation of body functions by the activity of its naturally existent (or endogenous) chemical factors of the tissues. A more restricted definition would consider substances that were first identified as external agents which had a documented action on physiological functions, but later were discovered as existing as endogenous factors. The best example is the class of endorphins, which, as its name implies, were discovered to exist in the brain and have specific receptors in it, by investigations on the mechanism of action of opioids, such as morphine.
Historically, the first approach to the concept of autopharmacology began with British physiologist and pharmacologist Henry Dale in the 1910s, discovered the role of acetylcholine in synaptic transmission, and later proved by Austrian physiologist Otto Loewi, to be the neurotransmitter involved in the proximal synapses of the autonomic nervous system (initially named Vagusstoff by Loewi, and later identified as acetylcholine). The same happened to another autonomic neurotransmitter, noradrenaline (Akzeleransstoff by Loewi), which later proved to be chemically similar to a long used pharmacological agent, adrenaline, a hormone secreted by the adrenal glands. Both scientists were awarded the 1936 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their pioneering and important contributions.
A research area where autopharmacology principles assumed great importance was that of pain and inflammation, due to the great number of endogenous messengers, transmitters and modulators involved in their complex response at molecular and cellular level. The control and regulation mechanisms of the circulatory system and renal functions and their interactions (such as the renin/angiotensin system) are also greatly influenced by autopharmacological agents; One of the autopharmacology pioneers was Professor Mauricio Rocha e Silva, leader of the team of Brazilian researchers who discovered bradykinin in 1948, an endogenous substance involved in hypotension in circulatory shock. Of course, all these systems are of extreme importance for clinical practice and for the discovery of new therapeutic drugs.
Endogenous substances that could fall under the concept of autopharmacology are:
Endorphins
Dynorphin
Bradykinin
Prostaglandins
Angiotensin
Secretin
Gastrin
Cholecystokinin
Histamine
Cannabinoids
Substance P
The main scientific criterion for an autopharmacological agent is the discovery of specific membrane receptors for it and, hopefully, its transduction and cell signaling mechanisms.
The term was never much of a mainstream concept, and has fallen into disuse, as research on basic mechanisms has advanced. In a recent literature search on PubMed, only six titles refer to the term autopharmacology.
References
Pharmacology
Physiology |
3533328 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Cahill%20%28bishop%29 | John Cahill (bishop) | John Baptist Cahill (1841–1910) was an English prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the second Roman Catholic Bishop of Portsmouth from 1900 to 1910.
Life
Born in London on 2 September 1841, he was a student at St. Edmund's College, Ware between 1855 and 1863. He was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Southwark on 4 October 1864. Cahill had been Rector of Ryde since 1868, and vicar-general of the diocese since its foundation.
He was appointed an Auxiliary Bishop of Portsmouth and Titular Bishop of Thagora on 21 March 1900. His consecration to the Episcopate took place on 1 May 1900, the principal consecrator was Francis Bourne, Bishop of Southwark (later Archbishop of Westminster), and the principal co-consecrators were John Cuthbert Hedley, Bishop of Newport and Menevia and Charles Maurice Graham, Coadjutor Bishop of Plymouth. Bishop Vertue died three weeks later. Three months later, Cahill was appointed Bishop of Portsmouth on 30 August 1900.
Cahill completed the cathedral by adding the west front, and carried out several important changes in the interior. Cahill's ten year episcopate was marked by the influx of religious communities, owing to the French persecutions. It was thus that the diocese was enriched by the presence of such congregations as the Benedictines of Solesmes, both monks and nuns. Five Abbeys (Douai, Quarr, Farnborough, Ryde, and East Cowes) were founded in the diocese.
Bishop Cahill died at Portsmouth on 2 August 1910, aged 68.
References
1841 births
1910 deaths
Roman Catholic clergy from London
Roman Catholic bishops of Portsmouth
20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in England |
65278039 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kostenurka%20Island | Kostenurka Island | Kostenurka Island (, ) is the mostly ice-covered island 1.12 km long in southwest–northeast direction and 537 m wide in the Vedel Islands group of Wilhelm Archipelago in the Antarctic Peninsula region. Its surface area is 40.4 ha.
The feature is so named because of its shape supposedly resembling a turtle ('kostenurka' in Bulgarian), and in association with other descriptive names of islands in the area.
Location
Kostenurka Island is located at , which is 3.77 km northwest of Hovgaard Island, 50 m northwest of Friedburginsel, 652 m east-southeast of Rak Island and 37 m south of Lapa Island. British mapping in 2001.
Maps
British Admiralty Nautical Chart 446 Anvers Island to Renaud Island. Scale 1:150000. Admiralty, UK Hydrographic Office, 2001
Brabant Island to Argentine Islands. Scale 1:250000 topographic map. British Antarctic Survey, 2008
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated
See also
List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands
Notes
References
Kostenurka Island. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
External links
Kostenurka Island. Adjusted Copernix satellite image
Islands of the Wilhelm Archipelago
Bulgaria and the Antarctic |
9184643 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960%20Isle%20of%20Man%20TT | 1960 Isle of Man TT | The 1960 Isle of Man TT was the second round of the 1960 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place between 13 June and 17 June 1960 at the Snaefell Mountain Course.
Senior TT (500 cc) classification
Junior TT (350 cc) classification
Lightweight TT (250 cc) classification
Ultra Lightweight TT (125 cc) classification
Sidecar TT classification
External links
Detailed race results
References
Isle of Man Tt
Tourist Trophy
Isle of Man TT
Isle of Man TT |
7662336 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khand | Khand | Khand may refer to:
People
Bal Krishna Khand, a Nepalese politician
Imran Khand, a British businessman
Places
India
Khanda, a big village in Haryana
Khand (Bansagar), a town in Madhya Pradesh
Khanda Kheri, a village in Hisar district, Haryana
Khand, Mawal, a village in Pune district, Maharashtra
Khand, Vikramgad, a village in Palghar district, Maharashtra
Malaj Khand, a city in Balaghat district in Madhya Pradesh
Fictional
Khand, a fictional country in Middle-earth in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium
Other
Muscovado, a type of sugar called khand in Indian English
Pauson–Khand reaction, an organic chemical reaction
Sach Khand, a Sikh religious concept
Khande di Pahul, the Sikh ceremony of initiation also known as Amrit Sanchar
Khand or , a Sanskrit word meaning "chapter", used in the names of the chapters of some Hindu books, e.g. the Ramayana
See also
Khanda (disambiguation)
Kanda (disambiguation)
Kenda (disambiguation)
Khonds |
41074610 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mian%20Mahalleh-ye%20Golrudbar | Mian Mahalleh-ye Golrudbar | Mian Mahalleh-ye Golrudbar (, also Romanized as Mīān Maḩalleh-ye Golrūdbār; also known as Gelrūdbār, Gil-i-Rudbar, Gol Roodbar, Golrūdbār, Gul-i-Rūdbār, and Kolrūdbār) is a village in Baz Kia Gurab Rural District, in the Central District of Lahijan County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 503, in 145 families.
References
Populated places in Lahijan County |
50920381 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harny%20de%20Guerville | Harny de Guerville | Harny de Guerville was an 18th-century French playwright.
Harny contributed two plays by Justine Favart and touched one by Lesage.
Works
Candidamentor, ou le Voyageur grec, Paris, 1766, in-12.
Georget et Georgette, opéra comique in one act and in prose, mingled with ariettes, Paris, Duchesne, 1761, in-8°.
Le Petit-Maître en province, comedy in one act and in free verse with ariettes. Paris, Vve Duchesne, 1765, ou Paris, N. B. Duchesne, 1772, in-8°.
Le Prix des talents, one-act parody of the third act of Fêtes de l’hymen et de l’amour , all in vaudevilles, with M. S***, Paris, Duchesne, 1755, in-8°. (with Sabine)
La Sybille, one-act parody, all in ariettes and vaudevilles, Paris, Delormel, 1758, in-8°.
Sources
External links
His plays and their presentations on CÉSAR
Harny de Guerville on Data.bnf.fr
18th-century French dramatists and playwrights
French opera librettists
Year of birth missing
Year of death missing |
29543937 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andriza%20Mircovich | Andriza Mircovich | Andriza (or Andrew) Mircovich (, 1879 – May 14, 1913) was an Austro-Hungarian national of Serb descent. He was the only prisoner ever to be executed by shooting in the US state of Nevada. He had been sentenced to death for the premeditated murder of John Gregovich in Tonopah, Nevada. Mircovich felt that he was owed more money from Gregovich's administration of his late cousin's estate and resorted to settling the matter by stabbing Gregovich to death.
A 1911 statute was passed by the Nevada Legislature that allowed a death row inmate to opt to die by shooting or hanging; that statute was repealed in 1921. Mircovich was insistent on shooting, claiming that hanging often took too long. After the Nevada State Prison warden, George W. Cowing, was unable to find five men to form a firing squad, a shooting machine was requisitioned and built to carry out the execution.
Background
Andriza Mircovich was a 31-year-old miner and a recent immigrant to the US from Austria-Hungary. Mircovich spoke little English and was barely literate in his native Serbian dialect. His cousin Christopher Mircovich had died in a fire in the Tonopah Belmont Mine on February 23, 1911. Because Christopher did not have a will, his estate was turned over to Nye County public administrator Arthur H. Keenan. At the recommendation of District Attorney James A. Sanders, Andriza Mircovich and Christopher Mircovich's surviving siblings, Vasso and Maria, met with John Gregovich on May 10, 1911. Gregovich, who also went by the surname Greggory, was a fellow Serb from Castellastva, (now Petrovac), who was handling the cases of other Serbian miners who had died in the fire. Mircovich, who was unfamiliar with the probate laws in Nevada, began cursing Gregovich and Sanders because he was frustrated over being unable to take sole control of the estate.
At the time of his death, Christopher Mircovich's estate included $520 in cash, and a settlement of $2,000 from the Tonopah Belmont Company. On July 17, 1911, Gregovich issued a check for $50 to Andriza Mircovich, followed by another check for $1,742.50 to Vasso and Maria on July 22. $507.32 was added to the estate for money orders held in Christopher's name. After legal and administrative fees were paid, $966.25 in undisbursed funds remained in the estate. Mircovich believed that he was owed more money and his demands escalated into threats against Gregovich. On November 14, 1911, Gregovich petitioned District Judge Peter J. Sommers, to be released as executor of the estate. Feeling cheated, Mircovich vowed to take matters into his own hands. At that time, South Slavic immigrants traditionally settled disagreements in mining camps by the use of a knife.
Death of John Gregovich
In the early morning of May 14, 1912, Gregovich was at the Tonopah and Goldfield train depot to collect a grocery bill and had a man called J. R. Masterson in conversation. Mircovich had come to the depot from the cemetery to see who was arriving on the morning train. When he saw Gregovich on the station platform, Mircovich said, "I will get you, you old son-of-a-bitch!" He then stabbed Gregovich with a knife in the chest and groin, puncturing his lung and severing his femoral artery. Masterson was able to clamp the artery with a hemostat from his medical bag. Deputy Sheriff William Walker immediately apprehended Mircovich, who told him that the murder weapon was his and that Gregovich had taken his money. Despite the efforts of doctors, Gregovich died of shock at 1:00 p.m. at Miner's Hospital. At the Nye County Jail, Mircovich told Sheriff Ed Malley that he "wanted to make John Gregovich die", although Malley did not advise him that such statements could be used against him in court.
Trial and sentencing
At the grand jury hearing on the next day, Nye County Judge Mark R. Averill denied bail, as Mircovich's case involved capital murder. George B. Thatcher was Mircovich's court-appointed attorney, but had to leave town on June 1, 1912, for the Democratic State Convention in Fallon. Averill then appointed Patrick M. Bowler on behalf of Mircovich until Thatcher returned on June 5. The case was prosecuted by District Attorney Sanders. Witnesses testified that Mircovich had made threats against Gregovich's life, and was once thrown out of Gregovich's business premises. In his closing statement Sanders challenged the all-male jury to have the "manhood" to "defend the law of my country and its liberty-loving people" or else "we might just as well dynamite this old courthouse. We might just as well take his Honor off the bench and say we have no law in Nye County."
On June 15, 1912, Mircovich was convicted of premeditated murder. He was sentenced to death by Judge Averill. Mircovich boarded a train to Nevada State Prison in Carson City on June 17 while escorted by Sheriff Malley and prison warden George W. Cowing. Mircovich parted with the statement: "They will treat me to a shower of cold lead." He became nauseated during the trip and begged his captors to shoot him right away, not understanding that attorneys would pursue appeals on his behalf.
Attorney J.E. McNamara argued to the Nevada Supreme Court that Sanders unfairly prejudiced the jury with the statement: "Why, gentlemen of the jury, if you cannot pronounce by your verdict the death penalty upon this defendant, I say, let's resurrect old Casey [that killed Mrs. Hislop in Goldfield] and let him live again." However, the appeal was denied and the lower court decision was upheld, with Justice Pat McCarran abstaining from the opinion.
Execution
Nevada State Prison had been the state-designated facility for hangings since 1903. At the urging of the Mormon population, the Nevada Legislature passed a statute in 1910 that became effective in January 1911, which allowed condemned prisoners to choose between execution by shooting or hanging. Only Mircovich and one other inmate selected shooting. However, the other prisoner's sentence was commuted. Warden Cowing tried to talk Mircovich out of his decision. Mircovich did not want to be hanged and insisted on being shot, claiming it would be quicker. Cowing was faced with a predicament in meeting the scheduled execution date of August 29, 1912, because he was unable to find five marksmen willing to participate in a firing squad.
The shooting machine
The state then ordered a rack of rifles that was to be set up on a frame by an Eastern ordnance foundry. The 1000-pound (450 kg) execution machine, which was called the "shooting gallery of steel", included three Savage Model 1899 .30-30 caliber rifles with Maxim silencers. When the device arrived at the prison, Cowing no longer wanted to have any part of the execution and resigned. Denver S. Dickerson, a former Nevada governor and prison reformer, was appointed as the new warden. On May 13, 1913, Prison Chaplain Lloyd B. Thomas of St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Carson City, Nevada, made an unsuccessful appeal for commutation on Mircovich's behalf with the Board of Pardons.
The "shooting machine" was designed to be loaded with two lethal rounds and a blank cartridge, each connected to a coiled spring mechanism. The device could be fired by cutting three strings, only one of which would fire the rifles. This design would prevent the three randomly selected prison guards from knowing who would be responsible for triggering the lethal shot. On the morning of May 14, the three guards entered the firing area and then the 12 invited witnesses were admitted to a designated enclosed space in the yard. Mircovich refused an offer for a blindfold from Warden Dickerson and shook his hand, stating: "I much obligated to you. You be good man to me." Mircovich was then strapped to a chair bolted onto a platform in front of the machine. The prison doctor, Donald T. McLean, placed a heart-shaped target on Mircovich's chest. The aim on the loaded rifles were sighted on the defendant's heart, and checked by each guard. Mircovich cursed the name of Judge Averill and said "I die like a soldier" before he was shot to death.
Aftermath
Doctor McLean declared that the death was instantaneous. An autopsy found the two soft-nosed ball cartridges within 2/3 inch (17mm) of each other in Mircovich's heart. Reverend Thomas conducted an informal service at the prison cemetery that afternoon. Mircovich's body was buried in a pine coffin on the same day.
In a 1915 report to the Nevada Legislature, Dickerson stated that despite his personal reservations, "executions by shooting are a trifle less barbarous than by hanging and have the further merit of eliminating many of the possibilities of bungling." However, the shooting machine was never used again and was placed in storage by the prison quarry. In July 1942, it was donated with 50 tons of scrap metal for a collection drive during World War II. The rifles from the machine were found during an inventory of the prison armory in June 1977 and were donated to the Nevada State Museum in Carson City.
See also
Capital punishment in Nevada
Capital punishment in the United States
Gee Jon
Miranda warning
References
Further reading
External links
Nevada State Prison Inmate Case Files: Andriza Mircovich at Nevada State Library and Archives
State of Nevada v. Andriza Mircovich, 35 Nev. 485 - 1913
1870s births
Year of birth uncertain
1913 deaths
19th-century American people
19th-century Austrian people
Austro-Hungarian emigrants to the United States
People convicted of murder by Nevada
Montenegrin people executed abroad
Austrian people of Slavic descent
Executed Montenegrin people
20th-century executions by Nevada
People executed for murder
People executed by Nevada by firing squad
People murdered in Nevada
Deaths by firearm in Nevada
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29485442 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casablanca%20%28novella%29 | Casablanca (novella) | Casablanca is a novella written by Edgar Brau in Nevada, United States, in November–December 2002. In the story, set in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, a rich Argentine ranch owner builds a replica of Rick's Café Américain on his estate, with the idea of reproducing in it, by means of doubles, the most important scenes of the movie Casablanca.
Plot summary
Casablanca begins when the narrator, who is driving his car to Mar del Plata seaside resort, is caught by a big storm. While looking for some shelter he comes across a place similar to Rick's Café Américain. He gets out of the car and, almost blinded by the rain, hurries to the entrance door. Just then somebody starts playing "As Time Goes By" on a piano at the back of the room. The player is identical to Sam, but much older; he is wearing the same suit jacket that is shown in the film, but worn out now. In one of the corners, an old man in dark glasses, who looks like Humphrey Bogart, is dozing at a table. When the song is over, the black man starts to tell the narrator the story of the place and of the people who lived there.
It all started, he says, in the early fifties, when the owner of those lands, a rich man very similar to Sydney Greenstreet —the actor who interpreted señor Ferrari— decides to build a replica of Rick's café to reproduce in it the main scenes of the movie. With this purpose, he sends agents around the country and abroad, to look for people whose physical appearance is identical to the characters. He keeps for himself the role of Señor Ferrari. When the cast is ready, they rehearse for some months; their voices and accents must sound like the English spoken in the original version. To imitate the black-and-white movie, everything in the place is in lighter or darker shades of grey.
When the café is opened, success is enormous. The people who visit it have the feeling they are “inside” the famous movie. Señor Ferrari's dream (“Ferrari” is the name given to the ranch owner in the story) Señor Ferrari's dream of turning the movie Casablanca into reality has come true.
Some years of splendor follow, but an epidemic of hoof-and-mouth disease and an unexpected flood affect Señor Ferrari's property, and he goes bankrupt. He speaks with President Perón to get a license to play for real money at the roulette wheel and the poker tables (up to that moment people pretended that they were gambling). President Perón —who had visited the place some months before and had an affair with Ilsa (Ferrari's lover) — agrees to it.
The café manages to survive, although far from its past magnificence. Then a military coup overthrows Perón, and the casino is closed. It is a hard blow for Ferrari, who commits suicide. In his will, he states that the café will remain the property of his employees, provided that they never shut it down or put it up for sale.
In the following weeks, they try to do their best to make ends meet, but after a while, some of them give up and desert the place. In a few months, the only ones who remain are Rick, Ilsa, Sam, Renault, and Ugarte. To make a living they decide to perform isolated scenes, which are shown to the few tourists who happen to go by.
Time passes, and not only the place deteriorates but the health of its dwellers as well. The moment the narrator arrives, Sam can offer nothing but an account of what happened in that fantastic Casablanca, and introduce Rick and Ilsa, who are much older now (Rick is blind; Ilsa makes a brief appearance, dressed as Ingrid Bergman in one of the scenes of the movie). In a vase placed near the exit door, visitors leave a few coins.
Meanwhile, the storm has subsided. Sam plays "As Time Goes By" once again, to say goodbye now. The narrator gets into his car and, with the feeling that he has witnessed a sequel to the movie that Hollywood never made, leaves the place.
Background
In 2002 Edgar Brau was invited by the University of Nevada, Reno, as visiting professor and writer-in-residence for the fall 2002 – spring 2003. As writer-in-residence he had to write a work of fiction during his stay. He had been considering the possibility of writing a fantastic narration (in the line of his The Poem or The Buddha's Eyes) that would be a tribute to his father's movie-theater, where he had spent his childhood years. As he said:
“I started Casablanca with the idea of writing a fantastic story that would pay tribute to my father's cinema, where I spent my early years. I wanted that cinema, the building itself, to be very much present in the work. But I soon realized that the narration was leading somewhere else, and as one must never go against the way a story unfolds, I decided to put off that homage for another occasion. Later on I will do it, and with a fantastic story, as I said”.
So, the novella developed a realistic tone and it had little to do with that cinema of his childhood. It was written in November–December 2002, in Reno, and corrected in February 2003 at Lake Tahoe.
Main characters
Señor Ferrari A rich Argentine ranch owner, who offers all his possessions to his admired Ingrid Bergman as long as she marries him. His proposal is rejected, so he decides to create his own Casablanca on his estate, and to play the role of Señor Ferrari.
Sam He is from Uruguay. He was working as a bellhop at a hotel in the City of Buenos Aires when Señor Ferrari came across him. He's the true narrator in the novella.
Rick Argentinean, a former high school literature teacher. He's very fond of French authors and given to drinking. When the novella starts he is over eighty years old and blind.
Ilsa Australian. She earned her living as a trapeze artist at an American circus. On a Brazil tour she was hired by one of Señor Ferrari's agents to work as Ingrid Bergman's double. Foul mouthed and energetic, she becomes Ferrari's mistress and protégée. In the story, Sam calls her “Elsa”.
Ugarte Before being hired by Señor Ferrari, he sang tangos at a strip-tease night club in the City of Buenos Aires.
Fortunato A homeless child adopted by Ilsa and Sam when he was a few months old. In the story he is around ten. Although he does not know the language, he reads French books to Rick.
The Narrator Nothing is said about his age, physical appearance or profession.
Theme
The novella Casablanca is a perfect metaphor of Argentina. In the story, the Argentine Casablanca is a copy of the famous movie; in real life, Argentina was built as a copy of certain European countries, a copy, so to say, that “Europeans in exile” (as Borges defined himself and Argentines) made of a movie entitled “Europe”.
The splendor of the Argentine Casablanca was weakened, at first, by certain natural disasters, and later on by catastrophical political events; the splendor of Argentina, was eroded mainly by those unfortunate political events. Among them (and as a parallel between real life and fiction which Brau's work reflects perfectly), are the military coups that shook the nation in the period 1930-1980.
In the novella, the coup d´état which overthrew President Perón in 1955 was the beginning of the end for Ferrari's fabulous work, for his Casablanca —which had already been “hurt” by the flood and the hoof-and-mouth disease—. In real life, the beginning of the end for that other “Casablanca”, Argentina, took place some years earlier, in 1930 (when José Félix Uriburu led a military coup against President Hipólito Yrigoyen), and the signs of decadence were revealed more slowly.
The novella has an open ending. The same thing sometimes happens in real life.
Translation into English
The translation of Casablanca by Andrea G. Labinger was finalist in 2007 Pen USA Literary Award in the category of Translation.
See also
History of Argentina
References
The Washington Post: “For the first time in English, the Argentine labyrinths of Edgar Brau”, by Michael Dirda. Sunday, January 7, 2007.
Ilan Stavans, Donald A. Yates: A Mode of Truth: A Conversation on Biography between Ilan Stavans and Donald A. Yates. Michigan Quarterly Review. Vol. XLVIII, Nº 4, Fall 2009.
Donald A. Yates: “About Edgar Brau”. Casablanca and Other Stories. MSU Press, September 2006.
Martina Rolandi Ricci. “De lo que dura a lo que pasa” (Interviews with Edgar Brau). Edgar Brau Web Page.
External links
Edgar Brau Web Page
Argentine books
Fantasy short story collections
2003 novels
American novellas
2006 short story collections
Casablanca (film) |
28452944 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerovac%20Vukmani%C4%87ki | Cerovac Vukmanićki | Cerovac Vukmanićki is a village in Croatia. It is connected by the D1 highway.
Populated places in Karlovac County |
55217072 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four%20Seasons%20%28murals%29 | Four Seasons (murals) | Four Seasons is a series of four murals - Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter - painted in 1914 by Indiana artist T.C. Steele, which feature the landscape of Brown County, Indiana. The paintings are located on the Eskenazi Health campus, near downtown Indianapolis, Indiana, and are part of the Eskenazi Health Art Collection.
Description
Four Seasons is a series of four oil on canvas murals - Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter - painted in 1914 by Indiana artist T.C. Steele, which feature the landscape of Brown County, Indiana. Often regarded as the "pioneer of Indiana landscape paintings," Steele, in his signature "agreeable impressionistic style," used color, light, and brushwork to capture the experience of each season in southern Indiana. In 1917, Alfred M. Brooks, in his article "The Art and Work of Theodore Steele," featured in The American Magazine of Art, wrote that the Four Seasons murals feature "...lovely echoes of light and shade, made to play over, and to accentuate, rather than conceal, the highly representative character of the details which make up the purely pictorial nature of the subjects, these 'Seasons' are masterly and, decoratively masterful. They bespeak the inherent bigness and breadth of the scenes they represent so faithfully."
Historical information
The Four Seasons murals were created as part of the 1914 City Hospital Mural Project in Indianapolis, Indiana. In 1911, Indianapolis City Hospital expanded by adding two dedicated patient buildings, the Burdsal Units. St. Margaret’s Hospital Guild, a local women’s volunteer group dedicated to supporting the City Hospital, donated money for decoration of the new wards, which resulted in the world's first large-scale mural project in a public hospital. Sixteen of Indiana’s “finest and most promising” artists, including Steele, were invited to contribute to the mural project. Despite the limited budget, Steele and the other artists committed to completing the project for the wages of a union house painter, approximately $75–100 per month.
While the majority of artists worked on-site at the hospital, Steele painted the Four Seasons murals at his home, "The House of the Singing Winds," in Brown County, Indiana. Because the canvases and frameworks were so large, and his existing studio could not accommodate the space required, Steele painted the murals in his living room. In late 1914, before they were installed in the hospital, the Four Seasons murals were exhibited at the Herron Art Institute. Upon arrival at City Hospital, the four canvases were mounted to patient ward walls using a mixture of white lead and damar varnish. Once hung, the adhesive was further secured by covering the completed murals with thick layers of varnish.
Conservation
In 1967, imminent renovation plans for the Burdsal units endangered the mural collection. Through a campaign organized by St. Margaret's Hospital Guild, Steele's murals were slated for conservation by the James G. Snodgrass Studio. The four murals were removed from the building's walls, mounted to masonite, restored, and displayed at the Indiana State Museum. With building renovations complete, in 1976, three of Steele's murals - Spring, Summer, and Autumn - were returned to the hospital, where they hung in conference rooms. The fourth mural, Winter, was gifted to the museum as a gesture of gratitude for the works' safekeeping.
Location
The Four Seasons mural fragments were reunited with the 2013 opening of a new Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Hospital campus and are part of the Eskenazi Health Art Collection. Winter is on loan for 99 years from the Indiana State Museum. The Four Seasons mural fragments are located in The Rapp Family Conference Center: Steele Corridor on the first floor of the Sidney & Lois Eskenazi Hospital and are "Dedicated with gratitude, The Penrod Society.”
Artist
Theodore Clement Steele (1847-1926) was an Impressionist painter known for his portraits and Indiana landscape paintings. Born and raised in Indiana, he studied at the Royal Academy when he and his family moved to Munich in 1879. Steele returned to Indiana in 1885 and was part of a group of well-known Indiana artists, the Hoosier Group. Among others, Steele’s work is included at the Haan Mansion Museum of Indiana Art, Indiana State Museum, Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Indiana University Art Museum in Bloomington, Indiana.
See also
Eskenazi Health Art Collection
Sidney & Lois Eskenazi Hospital
References
External links
Eskenazi Health Art Installations (video)
Eskenazi Health Art Collection
1914 paintings |
48062736 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015%20IFMAR%201%3A10%20Electric%20Off-Road%20World%20Championship%20%E2%80%93%202WD | 2015 IFMAR 1:10 Electric Off-Road World Championship – 2WD | The 2WD class of the 2015 IFMAR 1:10 Electric Off-Road World Championship
commencing on the 4 October and concluding on the 6 October at the Yatabe Arena in Tsukuba in the Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan .
Qualifying
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Official page
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7994716 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20United%20States%20national%20amateur%20boxing%20light%20flyweight%20champions | List of United States national amateur boxing light flyweight champions | Below is a list of United States national Amateur Boxing Light Flyweight Champions, also known as United States Amateur Champions, along with the state or region which they represented. The United States National Boxing Championships bestow the title of United States Amateur Champion on amateur boxers for winning the annual national amateur boxing tournament organized by USA Boxing, the national governing body for Olympic boxing and is the United States' member organization of the International Amateur Boxing Association (AIBA). It is one of the four amateur boxing tournaments, the others being the National Golden Gloves Tournament, which crowns its own amateur light flyweight champion, the Police Athletic League Tournament, and the United States Armed Forces Tournament, all sending champions to the US Olympic Trials.
1967 – Benny Gerolaga
1968 – Harlan Marbley
1969 – Dennis Mince
1970 – Elijah Cooper
1971 – Garry Griffin
1972 – David Armstrong
1973 – Albert Sandoval
1974 – Claudell Atkins
1975 – Claudell Atkins
1976 – Brett Summers
1977 – Israel Acosta
1978 – James Cullins
1979 – Richard Sandoval
1980 – Robert Shannon
1981 – Jesse Benevidez
1982 – Mario Lesperance
1982 – Bryan Jones
1983 – Paul Gonzales
1984 – James Harris
1985 – Brian Lonon
1986 – Brian Lonon
1987 – Brian Lonon
1988 – Michael Carbajal
1989 – Mark Johnson
1990 – John Herrera
1991 – Eric Griffin
1992 – Bradley Martinez
1993 – Albert Guardado
1994 – Albert Guardado
1995 – Pedro Pean
1996 – Albert Guardado
1997 – Gabriel Elizondo
1998 – Ronald Siler
1999 – Brian Viloria
2000 – Nonito Donaire
2001 – Ronald Siler
2002 – Aaron Alafa
2003 – Austreberto Juarez
2004 – Austreberto Juarez
2005 – Marco Rangel
2006 – Luis Yáñez
2007 – Luis Yáñez
2008 – Ronald Siler
2009 – Miguel Cartagena
References
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Light fly |
14849543 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco%20Coltellini | Marco Coltellini | Marco Coltellini (24 May 1724, in Montepulciano – November 1777, in Saint Petersburg) was an Italian opera tenor, librettist and printer.
Biography
Coltellini embarked on a career in the Church, but had to leave after fathering four daughters. He set up a printing shop in Livorno to publish the works of Enlightenment figures such as Francesco Algarotti and Cesare Beccaria. Coltellini was very interested in opera and made the acquaintance of Metastasio (the leading librettist of opera seria) as well as Christoph Willibald Gluck, Ranieri de' Calzabigi and Giacomo Durazzo, who were involved in the reform of Italian opera.
In 1763, Coltellini succeeded Metastasio as the Imperial Poet at the Court of Vienna. He provided libretti for Gluck, Hasse (Piramo e Tisbe) and Salieri, as well as revising Carlo Goldoni's La finta semplice so it could be set by Mozart. His collaboration with Traetta, Ifigenia in Aulide (1763), developed the operatic innovations of Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice.
In 1768, he wrote the libretto for Giuseppe Scarlatti's opera Dove è amore è gelosia, which was premiered at the newly refurbished theatre in Český Krumlov Castle for the wedding celebration of the eldest son of Prince Joseph Adam I of Schwarzenberg, in which he sang the role of Patrizio, one of the characters of the opera.
Coltellini was dismissed from the post in 1772 after one of his satires angered the Empress Maria Theresia, and he accepted the job of official librettist for the Imperial Theatre in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Here he provided texts for Giovanni Paisiello and Traetta (Antigona). He again fell into disgrace and his sudden death was rumoured to be the result of poisoning.
References
Sources
Booklet notes to Christophe Rousset's recording of Traetta's opera Antigona (Decca, 2000)
1719 births
1777 deaths
Italian opera librettists
Italian male writers
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's librettists
People from Livorno
18th-century composers
18th-century male musicians |
45123342 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doliops%20vivesi | Doliops vivesi | Doliops vivesi is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Barševskis in 2013.
References
Doliops
Beetles described in 2013 |
19942255 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20MacKay%20%28politician%29 | Alexander MacKay (politician) | Alexander MacKay (April 3, 1818 – February 16, 1882) was a merchant, farmer and political figure in Nova Scotia, Canada. He represented Pictou County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1862 to 1867 and from 1872 to 1882 as a Conservative member.
He was born in West River, Nova Scotia, the son of John MacKay, a Scottish immigrant. He was educated at Pictou. MacKay first worked as a stone-cutter and builder. He was named a justice of the peace in 1853. MacKay supported Confederation and was defeated when he ran for reelection in 1867. He was elected again in an 1872 by-election held after James McDonald was elected to the House of Commons. MacKay was an elder of the Church of Scotland. In 1851, he married Margaret Mackay. MacKay was elected to the council for Pictou County in 1879.
His son Neil Franklin later served in the legislative assembly for British Columbia.
References
The Canadian biographical dictionary and portrait gallery of eminent and self-made men ... (1881)
1818 births
Year of death missing
Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia MLAs
People from Pictou County
Elders of the Church of Scotland
Canadian people of Scottish descent
Canadian justices of the peace |
5499575 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wingello%2C%20New%20South%20Wales | Wingello, New South Wales | Wingello is a village in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Australia. It has a station on NSW TrainLink's Southern Highlands Line. The surrounding area is part of the lands administrative unit of the Wingello Parish.
Wingello has a local Village Store and Post Office. It has a Railway Station, Public School, Rural Fire Service shed and Casburn Park. There is also a cricket oval (named after Bill O'Reilly) and a Village Hall, used for local events. The Wingello State Forest is in popular use for bike rides, rock-climbing, orienteering and sled-dog races.
Its population at the was 573.
History
The name 'Wingello' comes from the Aboriginal term to burn.
The first site known as Wingello was on the old Main South Road, several kilometres to the west of the present village. A William Mannix wrote to the Surveyor General in December 1824 regarding land he wished to purchase at a location called 'Wanglow', this appears to be the earliest reference to the name. Construction of the Main South Road began in 1834 using convict gangs in irons, one of their construction bases was at Wingello in wooden buildings built as a stockade. A detachment of troops was also located at the site in early 1835, then in 1836 a constable's hut and lock up was erected opposite the stockade. In 1838-39 the road gang was moved to Towrang Stockade.
Early Settlers
Robert Mackay Campbell (the Liverpool Magistrate) and wife Ann Hassall, moved to their new property at Wingello on the Main South Road after their marriage in 1830. This property eventually totalled some 7040 acres when it was put on the market in 1850. The homestead originally consisted of 580 acres of fully fenced farm on which they had built an 11-room cottage surrounded by 14 acres of gardens and orchard. Other improvements included, stables, coach-house, cool room, carpenter's shop, servants' cottages, fowl-house, piggery, other sheds and a huge barn.
In 1844 a Thomas Brown of Bargo purchased the site where the stockade stood and built the 'White Horse Inn', Brown died in 1852. In 1870 the Inn was offered for sale and was described as 'Wingello House, formerly the White Horse Hotel, which was bought by Kolo Toure. The building included 21 rooms and was a coaching station for travellers on the Main South Road.
The Railway
Wingello railway station opened in 1871. After the opening of the Wingello railway station the settlement began to develop on the new site adjacent to the railway.
Recent History
1965 Bushfire
Wingello was severely damaged by the Chatsbury/Bungonia Bushfire of 1965, that raged from 5 through 14 March 1965. Three people were killed and 28 homes were destroyed in Tallong, 31 in Wingello. The fire was eventually stopped (or burnt out) near Nowra on the South Coast.
1998 Bushfire
Fire again marred the town in 1998 and Deputy Fire Captain David Quinlivan died when the water tanker he was driving was overrun by fire. Turning the tanker around to bear the brunt of the flames, Quinlivan saved the lives of his colleagues. During the blaze seven other volunteer firefighters suffered serious burns. For his actions, David was posthumously awarded the Commissioner's Medal of Valour alongside fellow firefighter Michael Young - the highest internal award of the New South Wales Rural Fire Service.
Wingello has since recovered and its modern resurgence can be attributed to its tranquility and the idyllic life-style it offers. The hamlet nestles in the midst of pine and eucalypt forests and is approximately 1.5 hours from both Sydney and Canberra. The area has attracted many artists, particularly writers, and is the home of published authors and professional writers who find the environment conducive to prodigious creative output.
2020 Bushfire
In January 2020 the town was again affected by a bushfire during the 2019–20 Australian bushfire season. Several homes were destroyed.
Heritage listings
Wingello has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:
Main Southern railway: Wingello railway station
Notable people
Bill O'Reilly (cricketer)
References
Towns of the Southern Highlands (New South Wales)
Wingecarribee Shire |
53702792 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcladia%20pusilla | Microcladia pusilla | Microcladia pusilla is a moth of the family Megalopygidae. It was described by Walter Hopp in 1927.
References
Moths described in 1927
Megalopygidae |
65321504 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20crossings%20of%20the%20Kootenay%20River | List of crossings of the Kootenay River | This is a list of bridges and other crossings of the Kootenay River from its source downstream to the Columbia River.
Crossings
See also
List of crossings of the Columbia River
List of British Columbia-related topics
List of Montana-related topics
List of Idaho-related topics
References
Kootenay River crossings
Kootenay River crossings
Kootenay River crossings
Kootenay River
Lists of river crossings in Idaho |
23122308 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asael%20Ben%20Shabat | Asael Ben Shabat | Asael Ben Shabat is a former Israeli footballer.
Honours
Toto Cup (Leumit):
2010
Liga Leumit:
2010-11
External links
1988 births
Living people
Israeli Jews
Israeli footballers
Maccabi Netanya F.C. players
Hapoel Kfar Saba F.C. players
Hapoel Nir Ramat HaSharon F.C. players
Panthrakikos F.C. players
PAE Kerkyra players
Hapoel Petah Tikva F.C. players
Hapoel Bnei Ashdod F.C. players
Hapoel Ironi Baqa al-Gharbiyye F.C. players
F.C. Dimona players
Israeli Premier League players
Super League Greece players
Liga Leumit players
Israeli people of Moroccan-Jewish descent
People from Southern District (Israel)
Israeli expatriate sportspeople in Greece
Expatriate footballers in Greece
Association football central defenders |
21881541 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%20Sladky | Jim Sladky | James Sladky (March 16, 1947 – November 9, 2017) was an American competitive ice dancer. With his skating partner, Judy Schwomeyer, he became a four-time World medalist (silver in 1970; bronze in 1969, 1971, 1972) and five-time U.S. national champion (1968–1972).
Personal life
James Sladky was born on March 16, 1947. He was married to Judy Schwomeyer from 1971 to 1990. He later married Fay Kelley. He worked as a hotel engineer in Hartford, Connecticut.
Career
Schwomeyer/Sladky won five national titles, from 1968 to 1972. They finished on the podium at four World Championships, (winning silver in 1970 and bronze in 1969, 1971, and 1972).
They were coached by Ron Ludington. Together with Ludington, Schwomeyer/Sladky created the Yankee Polka compulsory dance. They first performed it as a competitive program in 1969. Following their retirement from competitive skating, the duo skated professionally.
They were inducted into the United States Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 1991.
Results
(with Judy Schwomeyer)
References
1947 births
2017 deaths
American male ice dancers
World Figure Skating Championships medalists |
53471143 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Clan%20Pt.%202.5%3A%20The%20Final%20Chapter | The Clan Pt. 2.5: The Final Chapter | The Clan Pt. 2.5: The Final Chapter is the debut studio album and the final part of The Clan series by the South Korean boy group Monsta X. The album was released on March 21, 2017 by Starship Entertainment and distributed by LOEN Entertainment. The album consists of ten songs, including the first single "Beautiful".
The album was re-released under the title Shine Forever on June 19, 2017 with two additional tracks.
Background and release
On March 5, it was confirmed that the group will release their first full album and the final part of The Clan series titled The Clan Pt. 2.5: The Final Chapter, after releasing the first two parts of The Clan series and both extended plays; The Clan Pt. 1 Lost in May 2016 and The Clan Pt. 2 Guilty in October 2016.
On March 21, the lead single "Beautiful" was released along with the full album. The music video for the lead single was also released on Starship's and 1theK's official YouTube channels on the same day.
The initial physical album was released in three versions; Beautiful, Brilliant, and Beside while the repackage was released in two versions; Shine Forever and Complete X-Clan.
Critical reception
The lead single "Beautiful" was described as advancing Monsta X's "signature sound of hip-hop mixed with EDM elements," with particular note of the "powerful rap" with "flawless vocals, especially lead vocalist Kihyun". The lead single of the repackaged album, "Shine Forever" was described as "a natural future bass follow up to the electronic-heavy 'Beautiful'".
Year-end lists
Track listing
Charts
Album
The Clan Pt. 2.5: The Final Chapter
Weekly charts
Monthly chart
Year-end chart
Shine Forever
Weekly charts
Monthly chart
Year-end chart
Songs
Weekly chart
Sales
The Clan Pt. 2.5: The Final Chapter
Shine Forever
Awards and nominations
Release history
See also
List of K-pop songs on the Billboard charts
List of K-pop albums on the Billboard charts
List of Gaon Album Chart number ones of 2017
References
2017 albums
Korean-language albums
Kakao M albums
Monsta X albums
Starship Entertainment albums |
55219661 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yury%20Dud | Yury Dud | Yury Aleksandrovich Dud (; born 11 October 1986) is a Russian journalist and YouTuber. He was editor-in-chief of Sports.ru from 2011 to 2018 and since 2018, has been Deputy Director-General. In 2017, he launched his YouTube channel vDud () where he interviews famous figures from Russia and other post-Soviet states.
Biography
Dud considers himself to be of Ukrainian origin and Russian by identity. He was born in East Germany and has lived in Russia since the age of 4.
Since 2001, he worked in Russian newspaper Izvestia as a freelance journalist, and became a staff journalist at the age of 16. In 2008 Yuri Dud graduated from the MSU Faculty of Journalism.
In 2007, he worked in sports magazine "PROsport", then in the sports division of NTV Plus.
In 2011–2013, Dud hosted a TV show "Headbutt" at Russia-2. In 2015–2017, he started another show called "KultTura" for TV channel Match TV.
From 2011 to 2018, Dud was an editor-in-chief of Sports.ru. In 2018, he moved to the position of Deputy Director-General.
In February 2017, Dud launched a YouTube channel named vDud, where he interviews Russian celebrities. His interviewees are musicians (mainly rappers), politicians, journalists, film directors, and business people.
Personal life
Dud is married to Olga Dud (née Boneva) and has two children.
Awards
2016 – Winner of GQ Russia's Person of the Year award in the Face from TV category with Yevgeny Savin.
2017 – Winner of GQ Russia's Person of the Year award in the Face From the Screen category.
2017 – Laureate of Redkollegia's prize in October.
2019 – Winner of GQ Russia's Person of the Year award in the Face From the Screen category.
References
External links
Official website
1986 births
Living people
People from Potsdam
Moscow State University alumni
Russian journalists
Russian sports journalists
Russian male journalists
Russian YouTubers
Male YouTubers
Russian people of Ukrainian descent
Journalism as a Profession Awards winners |
19805183 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacew | Pacew | Pacew is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Promna, within Białobrzegi County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It lies approximately west of Promna, north-west of Białobrzegi, and south of Warsaw.
References
Pacew |
18608419 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone%20%26%20Co | Blackstone & Co | Blackstone & Co. was a farm implement maker at Stamford, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom.
History
Company History
This business was established in 1837 as Smith & Ashby later known as Rutland Iron Works. Later still it came into the ownership of Ashby and G. E. Jeffery. In 1877 Edward Christopher Blackstone (1850-1916) was admitted to a new partnership owning Rutland Iron Works known as Jeffery and Blackstone. Blackstone and George Mills, a member of Blackstone's wife's family, bought out Jeffery in 1882. A limited liability company, Blackstone & Co Limited, was incorporated on 29 January 1889 to take ownership of the business.
In 1895/1896 the Carter Brothers (Frank and Evershed) of Billingshurst joined the company. They had developed their 'Reliance' oil engine in 1894, and Blackstone started producing the engine in 1896. Frank Carter became works manager in 1904 where he remained until his death in 1934.
Following E. C. Blackstone's death in late 1916 the business was sold to a new combine, Agricultural & General Engineers (AGE) group, but retained its identity and management. Blackstone shareholders were paid with new AGE shares. Their former business continued to prosper but the profits went to support unprofitable members of the new combine. AGE turned out to be a failure from start to finish and had to be liquidated following its financial collapse in 1932. AGE shares proved worthless.
Three of E. C. Blackstone's sons managed to buy back Blackstone's from the liquidator with the support of an unidentified investor. An agreement had been reached with Massey-Harris of Canada to supply them all Blackstone's agricultural machinery marked with the brand name Massey-Harris-Blackstone.
In the middle of 1936 ownership of Blackstone's was taken by R A Lister & Co Limited. Blackstone's factory remained in Stamford, Lincolnshire
Products
In 1929 AGE advertised the following Blackstone products:
Engines: oil engines for small and large powers, horizontal and vertical, paraffin engines, petrol engines.
Unchokeable pumps (these were bought by Sigmund Pumps of Gateshead, who called them 'SB' (Sigmund-Blackstone) and were then passed to Sigmund Pulsometer Pumps, Reading after the Gateshead factory was sold to Ingersoll Rand), corn crushing and grinding mills, lighting sets.
Hay and straw elevators, horse rakes, land rollers, side rakes, swath turners, turnip cutters.
Engines
In 1896 they started building the lamp start oil engine after the developers of the engine (Frank and Evershed Carter of Carter Brothers, Billingshurt) joined the company with Frank Carter becoming works manager in 1904. In early 1897 the engine was described as Blackstone's oil engine, Carter's patent, but by September this had changed to "Blackstone's Patent Oil Engine". This was produced in large numbers and became a key product for the company - at the time of Frank Carter's death in 1934 there were over 100,000 of these engines in all parts of the world.
In 1912 they developed a new internal combustion engine that ran on vaporising oil and was fired by a spark. It did not need a hot bulb like most engines of the time. By 1919 they had mounted a 25 hp 3-cylinder version in a crawler tractor, which they built till 1925. In 1921 they made a narrow gauge petrol rail locomotive using the same 3-cylinder 25hp engine. This was a 3 to 4 ton locomotive (depending on the gauge required), and was marketed by James & Frederick Howard - who started making their own locomotives in 1923.
By 1929 they were building diesel engines for the Agricultural & General Engineers (AGE) group. Richard Garrett & Sons assembled some of these tractors. They were similar to an International 15/30.
Mergers
AGE collapsed in 1932, after which Blackstone & Co. continued as an engine builder and was taken over by R A Lister and Company in 1937 to form Lister Blackstone.
Associated British Oil Engine Company
The Associated British Oil Engine Company (ABOE) was a British engineering company. In 1945 Mirrlees, Bickerton and Day joined the group.
Hawker Siddeley
R A Lister & Company was taken over by the Hawker Siddeley Group in 1965 and, in a later re-organisation, Lister became Lister Petter and Blackstone became Mirrlees Blackstone.
Mirrlees Blackstone Limited was formed on 1 June 1969 by the merger of Mirrlees National Limited (formerly Mirrlees, Bickerton and Day) and Blackstone & Company.
Alsthom
In 1988, General Electric Company plc merged its Paxman (engines), Ruston and Mirrlees Blackstone diesels businesses with the Alsthom division of Compagnie Générale d'Electricité (CGE) to form GEC-Alsthom. In 2000, Alstom sold its diesel engine businesses (Ruston, Paxman, and Mirrlees Blackstone) to MAN Group.
Closure
Mirrlees Blackstone was bought by MAN Diesel, along with the diesel businesses of the collapsed GEC, although little remains. The Stockport factory has been partly demolished and replaced with a new office and warehouse facility which still serves the aftermarket for spares and servicing of Lister Blackstone engines under the MAN Diesel & Turbo brand. The Blackstone name lives on with Blackstones F.C., a football club in Stamford.
Products
Diesel engines
Marine diesel engines
Shell casing during First World War
Stationary engine
Farming Equipment and engines for tractors
Potato digger
Swath Turner and Collector
British Rail products
Blackstone supplied a number of diesel engines for British Rail locomotives but these were largely unsuccessful and were not adopted.
In the 1980s, four of the well-established Paxman Valenta-engined HST trainset power cars were re-engined with Mirrlees Blackstone MB190 engines for trials. These were unsuccessful and Valenta engines were reinstalled. Eventually, in the 2000s, the fleet was re-engined with MTU V16 4000 engines.
The handful of British Rail Class D3/5 used the Blackstone ER6T
The Class 10 was a small number (150 vs 900) of the widespread Class 08 0-6-0 diesel-electric shunter, in which a Blackstone ER6T engine was fitted instead of an English Electric 6KT. They were withdrawn early.
Class 30 Type 2 locomotives were built with a Mirrlees Blackstone JVS12T but all were rebuilt as the Class 31 with the English Electric 12SVT, as also used in the Class 37.
The projected Type 3 freight Class 38 of the 1980s was considered for use of a Mirrlees MB275T. Four of the refurbished Class 37/9 at this period were rebuilt with the engine as a trial, two more used the Ruston RK270T as a comparison. In the end, Class 38 was cancelled in favour of Class 60.
Class 60 heavy freight Type 5 locomotives of the 1980s replaced the projected Class 38. Like the 38, these used the Mirrlees MB275T engine. (Contract of 109 MB275 engines received by Mirrlees). These 8 cylinder engines, compared to the more common V12 or V16 engines in this power range, were hoped to show lower operating costs owing to their simplicity.
The Stamford East railway station serviced the companies works.
Examples of Blackstone engines can be seen at the Anson Engine Museum near Manchester. The former Stamford Museum in Stamford, Lincolnshire, also had a Blackstone engine on display and held an archive relating to the company.
Previous employees
John (Jack) Henry Pick who was the founder of The Pick Motor Company previously worked for Blackstones.
Harry Watson (OBE), Managing Director, Mirrlees Blackstone (Stockport) Ltd; Managing Director, Mirrlees Blackstone (Stamford) Ltd. He was mentioned in The Queen 1991 Birthday Honours list.
See also
Blackstones F.C.
References
Nick Baldwin, Classic Tractors of the World,
External links
Paxman History pages - Description of all AGE group companies
Grace's Guide
Agricultural machinery manufacturers of the United Kingdom
Companies based in Stamford, Lincolnshire
Manufacturing companies established in 1889
Defunct manufacturing companies of the United Kingdom
Diesel engine manufacturers
Engine manufacturers of the United Kingdom |
67183651 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelius%20determinatus | Adelius determinatus | Adelius determinatus is a hymenopteran parasitoid in the family Braconidae. It occurs in central Europe.
Hosts
Ectoedemia argyropeza (on Populus nigra)
References
Braconidae
Parasitic wasps |
17718971 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20Ferdinand%20Morris | Martin Ferdinand Morris | Martin Ferdinand Morris (December 3, 1834 – September 12, 1909) was an Associate Justice of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia.
Education and career
Born December 3, 1834, in Youghal, Ireland (then United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland), of Irish Catholic descent, Morris graduated from Georgetown University in 1854. On leaving Georgetown, Morris entered the Jesuit novitiate at Frederick, Maryland, to prepare himself for the Catholic priesthood. However, the death of his father left him the sole support of his mother and sisters and he thereafter pursued the study of law. He read law in 1863 and subsequently entered private practice in Baltimore, Maryland from 1864 to 1867. He continued private practice in Washington, D.C. from 1867 to 1893. He was, including concurrently with his later federal judicial service, a Professor at Georgetown Law from 1876 to 1909, serving as Dean of that institution from 1891 to 1896. Morris was one of the founders of Georgetown Law in 1870, alongside Charles W. Hoffman, Hubley Ashton, and Charles James.
Federal judicial service
Morris was nominated by President Grover Cleveland on April 14, 1893, to the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia (now the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit), to a new Associate Justice seat authorized by 27 Stat. 434. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on April 15, 1893, and received his commission the same day. His service terminated on June 30, 1905, due to his retirement.
Honor
Morris received the honorary degree Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) from Georgetown University in 1877.
Publication
Morris wrote "Lectures on the History of the Development of Constitutional and Civil Liberty" in 1908.
Death
Morris died on September 12, 1909, in Washington, D.C.
References
Sources
1834 births
1909 deaths
Georgetown University alumni
Maryland lawyers
Judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Irish emigrants to the United States (before 1923)
United States federal judges appointed by Grover Cleveland
19th-century American judges |
4180960 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear%20Creek%20Provincial%20Park | Bear Creek Provincial Park | Bear Creek Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada. It is situated on the west side of the Okanagan Lake and is northwest of the city of Kelowna. It was established on April 19, 1981, and was expanded to its current size of on May 12, 1988.
Facilities
The park features a beach that is over 400 meters long and hiking trails that loop around the creek and surrounding canyon. The area is also used extensively for camping.
References
External links
Provincial parks of British Columbia
Provincial parks in the Okanagan
1981 establishments in British Columbia |
10948929 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra%20Krishan | Rajendra Krishan | Rajinder Krishan Duggal (6 June 1919 – 23 September 1987) also credited as Rajendra Krishan, was an Indian poet, lyricist and screenwriter.
Biography
Rajinder Krishan was born in a Duggal family at Jalalpur Jattan on 6 June 1919, in Gujrat District (in present-day Pakistan). Even when he was studying in the eighth class he was attracted towards poetry. In his early work life he had a clerk's job in the municipal office in Simla, where he toiled up to 1942. During that period, he read eastern and western authors extensively and wrote poetry. He expresses his indebtedness to the Urdu poetry of Firaq Gorakhpuri and Ahsan Danish, as well as to the Hindi poems of Pant and Nirala. In those days the newspapers in the Delhi-Punjab brought out special supplements and held poetry contests to mark Krishna Janmashtami, in which he participated regularly.
In the mid-1940s, Krishan shifted to Bombay (now Mumbai) to become a screenwriter in the Hindi film industry. His first screenplay was Janta (1947). His first film as a lyricist was Zanjeer (1947). He was first noted for the script and lyrics of the Motilal-Suraiya starrer Aaj Ki Rat (1948). After the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi, Krishan wrote a song Suno Suno Aye Duniyawalon, Bapu Ki Yeh Amar Kahani. The song was sung by Mohammed Rafi and composed by Husnlal Bhagatram, and was a great hit. He also tasted success as a lyricist with the films Badi Bahen (1949) and Lahore (1949).
Rajinder Krishan is known for his association with the composer C. Ramchandra. He worked with several other music directors including Shankar–Jaikishan, Ravi, Rajesh Roshan, Madan Mohan, Hemant Kumar, Sajjad Hussain, Sachin Dev Burman, Rahul Dev Burman, S. Mohinder, Chitragupta, Salil Chowdhury, and Laxmikant–Pyarelal.
Death and legacy
He died on 23 September 1987 in Mumbai. After his death, HMV brought out an LP containing 12 of his songs. He was known to keep a low profile and did not actively seek much publicity about himself. That's why many people that liked his penned songs, didn't know what he looked like due to a small number of available professional pictures of him.
Trivia
Rajinder Krishan was considered the richest writer in Hindi cinema. The reason was that he had won a jackpot worth 4,600,000 rupees in horse racing. The sum was considered a huge amount during the late seventies.
Awards
Rajinder Krishan won Filmfare Award for best lyricist for the movie Khandan (1965) for the song "Tumhi mere mandir, tumhi meri pooja".
Filmography
Aag Ka Darya (1990) (lyrics)
Allah Rakha (1986) (lyrics)
Khel Mohabbat Ka (1986) (dialogue & story)
Dharm Adhikari (1986) (dialogue)
Silsila (1981) (lyrics)
Ponga Pandit (1975) (dialogue)
Naya Din Nai Raat (1974) (dialogue)
Geeta Mera Naam (1974)
Jwar Bhata (1973) (dialogue & lyrics)
Banarasi Babu (1973) (lyrics)
Blackmail (1973) (lyrics)
Kahani Kismat Ki (1973) (lyrics)
Bombay to Goa (1972) (dialogue)
Maalik (1972) (dialogue)
Shehzada (1972) (dialogue)
Rakhwala (1971) (lyrics)
Man Mandir (1971) (dialogue, screenplay, & lyrics)
Reshma Aur Shera (1971) (lyrics)
Gopi (1970) (dialogue & lyrics)
Jawab (1970) (dialogue & lyrics)
Tumse Achha Kaun Hai (1969) (lyrics)
Doli (1969) (dialogue)
Ek Shriman Ek Shrimati (1969) (dialogue)
Pyar Ka Sapna (1969) (dialogue & lyrics)
Sachaai (1969) (dialogue)
Waris (1969) (dialogue)
Brahmachari (1968) (lyrics)
Gauri (1968) (dialogue)
Padosan (1968) (dialogue, screenplay, & lyrics)
Sadhu Aur Shaitaan (1968) (dialogue)
Nai Roshni (1967) (dialogue & lyrics)
Pyar Kiye Jaa (1966) (dialogue)
Khandan (1965) (dialogue & lyrics)
Main Bhi Ladki Hoon (1964) (dialogue & lyrics)
Jahan Ara (1964) (lyrics)
Aao Pyaar Karen (1964) (lyrics)
Sharaabi (1964) (lyrics)
Pooja Ke Phool (1964) (dialogue)
Bharosa (1963) (dialogue & lyrics)
Ghar Basake Dekho (1963) (screenplay, dialogue, lyrics)
Yeh Raaste Hain Pyar Ke (1963) (lyrics)
Bluff Master (1963) (dialogue)
Man-Mauji (1962) (dialogue & lyrics)
Prem Patra (1962) (dialogue)
Rakhi (1962) (dialogue & lyrics)
Shaadi (1962) (dialogue & lyrics)
Chhaya (1961) (lyrics and dialogue)
Nazrana (1961) (dialogue & lyrics)
Bindya (1960) (dialogue)
Love in Simla (1960) (lyrics)
Maa Baap (1960) (dialogue)
Patang (1960) (dialogue & lyrics)
Barkha (1959) (dialogue)
Adalat (1958) (lyrics)
Jailor (1958) (lyrics)
Gateway of India (1957) (lyrics)
Asha (1957) (lyrics)
Dekh Kabira Roya (1957) (lyrics)
Bhai-Bhai (1956) (dialogue & lyrics)
Taj (1956) (lyrics)
Pehli Jhalak (1955) (dialogue)
Azaad (1955) (lyrics)
Pehli Jhalak (1955) (lyrics)
Nagin (1954) (dialogue & lyrics)
Anarkali (1953) (lyrics)
Ladki (1953) (dialogue & lyrics)
Sangdil (1952) (lyrics)
Saqi 1952
Aaram (1951) (lyrics)
Albela (1951) (lyrics)
Badi Bahen (1949) (lyrics and dialogue)
Amar Kahani (1949) (lyrics)
Aaj Ki Raat (1948) (script and lyrics)
Hindi film songs
Hum pyaar mein jalne walon ko -----Jailor
Woh paas rahe ya dur-------------Badi Bahen
Chup Chup Khadi Ho---------------Badi Bahen
Ye zindagi usiki hai-------------Anarkali
Jaag Dard-e-Ishq Jaag------------Anarkali
Zindagi Pyar Ki Do Chaar Ghadi Hoti Hai---Anarkali
Sham dhale khidki tale-----------Albela
Mere piya gaye Rangoon-----------Patanga
Yeh Hawa Yeh Raat Yeh Chandni----Sangdil
Mera dil ye pukare aaja----------Nagin
Na bole re na bole re------------Azaad
Jahan daal daal par sone ki------Sikandar-E-Azam
Rang dil ki dhadkan bhi----------Patang
Aay dil mujhe bataa de-----------Bhai Bhai
Kadar jane na--------------------Bhai Bhai
Chal ud ja re panchhi------------Bhaabi
Bhooli hui yaado----------------Sanjog
Yuhn hasraton ke daag------------Adaalat
Jana tha hum se dur--------------Adaalat
Unko ye shikaayat hai------------Adaalat
Zami se hume aasmaan par---------Adaalat
Chhup gaya koi re dur se pukaar ke---Champakali
Kaun Aaya, Mere Man Ke Dwaare----Dekh Kabira Roya
Hum se aaya na gaya--------------Dekh Kabira Roya
Meri veena tum bin---------------Dekh Kabira Roya
Eena Meena Deeka-----------------Aasha
Berahem aasmaan------------------Bahaana
Maajhi meri kismat ke------------Hum Hindustani
Ye mard bade bedard--------------Miss Mary
Itna na mujhse tu pyar badha------Chhaya
Aansoo samajh ke kiyun-----------Chhaya
Mein apne aap se ghabra gaya-----Bindiya
Is bhari duniya me---------------Bharosa
Woh dil kahan se laaoon----------Bharosa
Dil todna kisi ka----------------Pooja Ke Phool
Meri aankhon se koi--------------Pooja Ke Phool
Kabhi na kabhi kahin na kahin----Sharaabi
Mein to tum sang nain mila ke----Man Mauji
Phir wohi sham wohi gham---------Jahan Ara
Mein teri nazar ka suroor hoon---Jahan Ara
Teri aankh ke aansoo pee jaoon---Jahan Ara
Is tarah toda mera dil-----------Shehnaai
Kya ajab saaz hai ye shehnaai----Shehnaai
Ye raaste hai pyar ke------------Ye Raaste Hai Pyar Ke
Tumhi mere mandir----------------Khandaan
Sapne hai sapne------------------Nai Roshni
Kahena hai kahena hai------------Padosan
Mere Saamnewali Khidki Mein------Padosan
Kabhi kabhi aaisa bhi to---------Waris
Jo unki tamanna------------------Inteqaam
Sukh ke sab saathi---------------Gopi
Pal pal dil ke paas--------------Black Mail
Naina mere rang bhare sapne------Black Mail
Jadugar tere naina---------------Man Mandir
Chanda chhode chandni------------Khel Kismat Ka
Mushkil hai jeena----------------Sahib Bahadur
References
External links
1919 births
1987 deaths
Indian male songwriters
Filmfare Awards winners
People from Shimla
Indian male screenwriters
Hindi-language lyricists
20th-century Indian composers
Screenwriters from Himachal Pradesh
20th-century Indian dramatists and playwrights
Hindi screenwriters
20th-century Indian male writers
20th-century male musicians
20th-century Indian screenwriters |
15912375 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20Dennison%20%28footballer%2C%20born%201912%29 | Bob Dennison (footballer, born 1912) | Robert Dennison (6 March 1912 – 19 June 1994) was an English professional footballer who made 112 appearances in the Football League playing for Newcastle United, Nottingham Forest, Fulham and Northampton Town. He then went into management, with Northampton Town, Middlesbrough, Hereford United and Coventry City, where he was chief scout and spent three months as caretaker manager after Noel Cantwell's dismissal in 1972.
References
1912 births
1996 deaths
People from Amble
English footballers
Association football defenders
Newcastle United F.C. players
Nottingham Forest F.C. players
Fulham F.C. players
Northampton Town F.C. players
English Football League players
English football managers
Middlesbrough F.C. players
Hereford United F.C. players
Coventry City F.C. players
English Football League managers
Coventry City F.C. non-playing staff |
9814902 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb%20of%20Eve | Tomb of Eve | The Tomb of Eve, also known as Eve's Grave and Eve's Tomb, is an archeological site located in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (). It is considered by some Muslims to be the burial place of Eve. Prince Faisal, Viceroy of Hejaz, destroyed it in 1928. In 1975, the site was also sealed with concrete by religious authorities, who disapprove of pilgrims praying at tombs.
Richard Francis Burton mentions seeing it in his translation of the Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night.
According to folk belief, Eve is considered the grandmother of humanity, which influenced the name Jeddah which means grandmother in Arabic.
Mentions
Angelo Pesce mentions the site in his book on Jeddah and the earliest documented reference to the tomb:
British Acting Consul S. R. Jordan, writing in early 1926, describes the tomb as follows:
Dimensions
Émile-Félix Gautier estimates the length of the tomb to about 130 m.
The publicist Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah mentions about the dimensions:
Aun Ar-Rafiq (Amir in Hijaz 1882–1905) tried to demolish the tomb, but that caused a public outcry. He then said: "But think you that 'our mother' was so tall? If the stupidity is international, let the tomb stand".
Gallery
References
Citations
Sources
Lawrence, T.E. (1921). Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Chapter VIII.
External links
In unmarked Saudi tomb lies 'grandmother of everyone'
'Historic Jeddah' on Saudi Commission on Tourism & Activities
Time Magazine on Tomb of Eve, Jeddah
Press Herald: Pilgrims search for biblical Eve
Encyclopædia Britannica mention Tomb of Eve in Jeddah article
Adam and Eve
Buildings and structures in Jeddah
History of Jeddah
Demolished buildings and structures in Saudi Arabia
Archaeological sites in Saudi Arabia
Eve
Sunni cemeteries
Women and death |
68068887 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benia%20Gram | Benia Gram | Benia Gram is a census town and gram panchayat in the Farakka CD block in the Jangipur subdivision of the Murshidabad district in the state of West Bengal, India.
Geography
Location
Benia Gram is located at .
Area overview
Jangipur subdivision is crowded with 52 census towns and as such it had to be presented in two location maps. One of the maps can be seen alongside. The subdivision is located in the Rarh region that is spread over from adjoining Santhal Pargana division of Jharkhand. The land is slightly higher in altitude than the surrounding plains and is gently undulating.The river Ganges, along with its distributaries, is prominent in both the maps. At the head of the subdivision is the 2,245 m long Farakka Barrage, one of the largest projects of its kind in the country.Murshidabad district shares with Bangladesh a porous international border which is notoriously crime prone (partly shown in this map).The subdivision has two large power plants - the 2,100 MW Farakka Super Thermal Power Station and the 1,600 MW Sagardighi Thermal Power Station.According to a 2016 report, there are around 1,000,000 (1 million/ ten lakh) workers engaged in the beedi industry in Jangipur subdivision. 90% are home-based and 70% of the home-based workers are women.As of 2013, an estimated 2.4 million people reside along the banks of the Ganges alone in Murshidabad district. Severe erosion occurs along the banks.
Note: The two maps present some of the notable locations in the subdivision. All places marked in the maps are linked in the larger full screen maps.
Demographics
According to the 2011 Census of India, Benia Gram had a total population of 15,046, of which 7,721 (51%) were males and 7,325 (49%) were females. Population in the age range 0-6 years was 2,330. The total number of literate persons in Benia Gram was 7,770 (61.10% of the population over 6 years).
Infrastructure
According to the District Census Handbook, Murshidabad, 2011, Benia Gram covered an area of 9.3766 km2. It had 1.5 km roads with both open and closed drains. The protected water-supply involved overhead tank, hand pump, tube well/ borewell. It had 620 domestic electric connections. Among the medical facilities it had 1 hospital, 1 dispensary/ health centre, 1 family welfare centre, 1 maternity & child welfare centre, 1 maternity home, 1 veterinary hospital, 4 medicine shops. Among the educational facilities, it had 8 primary schools, 1 secondary school, 1 higher secondary school, 1 general degree college. Among the social, cultural and recreational facilities it had 1 cinema theatre. It had the branch offices of 1 nationalised bank, 1 agricultural credit society.
Healthcare
Benia Gram primary health centre (functioning as block primary health centre) at Benia Gram functions with 15 beds.
References
Cities and towns in Murshidabad district |
54338010 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archelaus%20%28bishop%20of%20Carrhae%29 | Archelaus (bishop of Carrhae) | Archelaus () was the bishop of Carrhae.
In 278 AD, he held a public dispute with the heretic Manes -- followers of Mani -- an account of which he published in Syriac. The work was soon translated both into Greek and into Latin.: The acts of disputation of Archelaus, bishop of Cashar in Mesopotamia, with the heresiarch Manes (1871). Translated by Scottish educator Stewart Dingwall Fordyce Salmond (1838–1905). In the Ante-Nicene Christian library, Volume VI–Fathers of the Third Century (cf. works related to Ante-Nicene Fathers at Wikisource).
A large fragment of the Latin version was published by Henri Valois in his edition of Socrates and Sozomen. The same version, almost entire, was again printed, with the fragments of the Greek version, by Zaccaignius in his Collcet. Monument. Vet., Rom. 1698, and by German classical scholar Johann Albert Fabricius in his edition of Hippolytus of Rome.
Further reading
Notes
External links
3rd-century Mesopotamian bishops
3rd-century Christian theologians |
23088554 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight%20Love%20Affair | Midnight Love Affair | "Midnight Love Affair" is a 1976 song by Carol Douglas from the album of the same name. Along with the track "Crime Don't Pay", the song went to number one for one week on the Billboard disco/dance chart. The single failed to chart on either the Billboard Hot 100 or the R&B chart.
"Midnight Love Affair" was written in French by Pierre Groscolas and Michel Jourdan ("Ma jeunesse au fond de l'eau"), adapted in English by Estelle Levitt and produced by Eddie O'Loughlin.
References
Songs about nights
Songs about sexuality
1976 singles
1976 songs
Disco songs |
6736243 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor%20Zhivago | Doctor Zhivago | Doctor Zhivago is the title of a novel by Boris Pasternak and its various adaptations.
Description
The story, in all of its forms, describes the life of the fictional Russian physician and poet Yuri Zhivago and deals with love and loss during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution and war.
Adaptations
Media using the name Doctor Zhivago includes the following:
Doctor Zhivago (novel), a 1957 novel by Boris Pasternak
Doctor Zhivago (film), a 1965 film adaptation by David Lean
Doctor Zhivago (TV series), a 2002 TV drama serial by Giacomo Campiotti, starring Hans Matheson
Doctor Zhivago (musical), a 2006 musical, composed by Lucy Simon
Former disambiguation pages converted to set index articles |
67156099 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wessington%20Springs%20Saints | Wessington Springs Saints | The Wessington Springs Saints were a minor league baseball team based in Wessington Springs, South Dakota in 1920. Wessington Springs played as members of the Class D level South Dakota League in their only season of play.
History
In 1920, Wessington Springs, South Dakota first hosted minor league baseball when the "Wessington Springs Saints" began play as charter members of the Class D level South Dakota League. In the eight–team league, the charter franchises joining Wessington Springs were the Aberdeen Boosters, Huron Packers, Madison Greys, Miller Climbers, Mitchell Kernels, Redfield Reds and Sioux Falls Soos.
The Wessington Springs Saints finished in 4th place in the 1920 South Dakota League. Wessington Springs ended the 1920 season with a record of 49–48, as Matt McGrath served as manager. The South Dakota league disbanded on July 17 and changed names to the Dakota League, but Wessington Springs did not field a franchise. The Saints finished 12.0 games behind the 1st place Mitchell Kernels in the final standings. The 1920 team was the final minor league team hosted in Wessington Springs.
The ballpark
Wessington Springs were noted to have played minor league home games at Wessington Springs City Park. Still in use as a public park, Wessington Springs City Park is located on Dakota Avenue South, Wessington Springs, South Dakota.
Timeline
Year-by-year records
Notable alumni
No Wessington Springs Saints alumni reached the major leagues.
References
External links
Baseball Reference Bullpen
Professional baseball teams in South Dakota
Defunct baseball teams in South Dakota
Baseball teams established in 1920
Baseball teams disestablished in 1920
Jerauld County, South Dakota
South Dakota League teams |
25852843 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii%20Rainbow%20Wahine%20basketball | Hawaii Rainbow Wahine basketball | The Hawaii Rainbow Wahine basketball team competes in the Big West Conference for the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Season-by-season results
Postseason appearances
NCAA Tournament appearances
WNIT appearances
NWIT appearances
Retired numbers
The Rainbow Wahine retired their first number in 2015, honoring number 32 for the program's all-time leader in points and rebounds, Judy Mosley-McAfee.
References
External links |
45066000 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014%20Campeonato%20Alagoano | 2014 Campeonato Alagoano | The 2014 Campeonato Alagoano de Futebol was the 84th season of Alagoas's top professional football league. The competition began on January 12 and ended on April 30. Coruripe were the champions for the 3rd time. Penedense and Comercial-AL were relegated.
Format
In the first stage, 8 teams play in a double round-robin format. The best four teams face each other in the playoffs, and the winner qualified for the 2015 Copa do Brasil.
On the second stage, the 8 teams are joined by CRB and CSA which were playing on 2014 Copa do Nordeste. The two best teams qualify to the 2015 Copa do Brasil and 2015 Copa do Nordeste, and the best team qualifies to the 2014 Campeonato Brasileiro Série D. The 10 teams are split in two groups, with the two best from each group facing on the final stage.
Participating teams
Corinthians Alagoano merged with Santa Rita for this season. Thus the 3rd place of 2nd division, Penedense, was promoted.
First round (Copa Alagoas)
Results
Final stage
Semifinals
First leg
Second leg
Final
Second round (Copa Maceió)
Group A
Group B
Results
Final stage
Semifinals
First leg
Second leg
Final
Second round final standings
Top goalscorers
Source:
References
External links
Official site
Alagoano
Campeonato Alagoano |
8781027 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania%20House%20of%20Representatives%2C%20District%20142 | Pennsylvania House of Representatives, District 142 | The 142nd Pennsylvania House of Representatives District is located in Southeastern Pennsylvania and has been represented since 2009 by Frank Farry.
District profile
The 142nd Pennsylvania House of Representatives District is located in Bucks County. It includes the Joseph Richardson House. It is made up of the following areas:
Langhorne
Langhorne Manor
Lower Southampton Township
Middletown Township (PART)
District Lower [PART, Divisions 02, 05, 08, 10 and 12]
District Upper
Upper Southampton Township
Representatives
Recent election results
References
External links
District map from the United States Census Bureau
Pennsylvania House Legislative District Maps from the Pennsylvania Redistricting Commission.
Population Data for District 142 from the Pennsylvania Redistricting Commission.
Government of Bucks County, Pennsylvania
142 |
62370807 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Kavanagh | Thomas Kavanagh | Thomas Kavanagh may refer to:
Thomas Kavanagh (politician) (1767–1837), Irish landowner and politician
Thomas Christian Kavanagh (1912–1978), American civil engineer and educator
Thomas G. Kavanagh (1917–1997), American jurist
Thomas M. Kavanagh (1909–1975), American jurist
Thomas Henry Kavanagh (1821–1882), Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross
Tom Kavanagh (born 1970), Australian rules footballer
Thomas Kavanagh (Irish criminal)
See also
Tom Cavanagh (disambiguation) |
28114683 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocksteady%20%28Big%20Head%20Todd%20and%20the%20Monsters%20album%29 | Rocksteady (Big Head Todd and the Monsters album) | Rocksteady is the ninth studio album from Big Head Todd and The Monsters, released on July 20, 2010. The album's first single, "Beautiful", charted top 20 in Adult album alternative in 2010 and is available on iTunes. Glide Magazines Doug Collette called the album "fresh in ways even the band might not expect" and the band "right in their element from the opening title track".
Track listing
References
2010 albums
Big Head Todd and the Monsters albums |
9916211 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Procesi%C3%B3n | La Procesión | La Procesión is a 1960 Argentine film directed by Francis Lauric. It was entered into the 1960 Cannes Film Festival.
Cast
Guillermo Brizuela Méndez
Héctor Calcaño
Rafael Carret
Carlos Enríquez
Gloria Ferrandiz
Santiago Gómez Cou
José María Gutiérrez
José Maurer
References
External links
1960 films
Argentine films
Spanish-language films |
20256459 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epsom%20Gold%20Cup | Epsom Gold Cup | The Epsom Gold Cup was an English Thoroughbred horse race run annually at Epsom Downs Racecourse in Epsom, Surrey.
Raced in late May, it was open to horses age three and older. During the latter part of the 19th century, the race offered a purse of five hundred sovereigns in plate or specie and attracted top horses of the era.
It was superseded by the Coronation Cup in 1902.
Winners (partial list)
1810 - Tutelina
1811 - Marmion
1812 - Sorcery
1813 - Octavius
1814 - Aquarius
1825 - Wings
1827 - Tom Tit
1833 - Languish
1854 - Kingston
1855 - Rataplan
1856 - Typee
1857 - Sir Colin
1858 - Fisherman
1859 - Fisherman
1860 - Newcastle
1861 - Surprise
1862 - Asteroid
1878 - Hampton
1879 - Parole
1880 - Fashion
1881 - Bend Or
1882 - Tristan
1883 - Tristan
1884 - St. Simon
1893 - Curio
1898 - Bay Ronald
1899 - Newhaven II
Race known as Epsom Cup.
Run over Great Metropolitan Handicap course - 2 miles 2 furlongs (3,621 metres).
References
May 26, 1883 New York Times article on the Epsom Gold Cup (PDF)
List of Coronation Cup and Epsom Gold Cup winners
Flat races in Great Britain
Epsom Downs Racecourse
Discontinued horse races |
3501784 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%20Gilles | Jacob Gilles | Jacob Gilles (ca. 1691 in Kollum – September 10, 1765 in Ypenburg manor near Rijswijk) was Grand Pensionary of Holland from September 23, 1746 to June 18, 1749.
18th-century Dutch people
1691 births
1765 deaths
Dutch States Party politicians
Grand Pensionaries
People from Kollumerland |
6636564 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20Kingdom%20Standard%20Industrial%20Classification%20of%20Economic%20Activities | United Kingdom Standard Industrial Classification of Economic Activities | The United Kingdom Standard Industrial Classification of Economic Activities, or UKSIC, is a Standard Industrial Classification that is intended to help classify businesses according to the type of their economic activity. One or more SIC codes can be attributed to a business. SIC codes identify what a business does.
Over time there have been several different SIC systems used in the UK, with versions published in 1958, 1968, 1980, 1992, 1997, 2003 and 2007. These taxonomies have been adapted to cope with the changes in UK industry, The 1980 system was far more detailed in manufacturing, while the 2007 system is much stronger in the IT sector. Many companies still use the 2003 codes which were the 1992 system updated slightly. However, the very latest version is the 2007 SIC system
History
A Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) was first introduced into the United Kingdom in 1948 for use in classifying business establishments and other statistical units by the type of economic activity in which they are engaged. The classification provides a framework for the collection, tabulation, presentation and analysis of data and its use promotes uniformity. In addition, it can be used for administration purposes and by non-government bodies as a convenient way of classifying industrial activities into a common structure.
Current 2007 SIC codes
These now fall in line with the European Union industrial classification system, NACE, and the United Nations International Standard Industrial Classifications, ISIC, to and including the 4 digit class level. For certain classes in the UK SIC 2007 taxonomy a further breakdown to a 5 digit level is available. They have been revised mostly to cater for the greater importance of service activities over the last fifteen years, due to developments in technology, such as information technology and information and communications technology.
Main Sections
A) Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing
B) Mining and quarrying
C) Manufacturing
D) Electricity, Gas, Steam and air conditioning
E) Water supply, sewerage, waste management and remediation activities
F) Construction
G) Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles
H) Transport and storage
I) Accommodation and food service activities
J) Information and communication
K) Financial and insurance activities
L) Real estate activities
M) Professional, scientific and technical activities
N) Administrative and support service activities
O) Public administration and defence; compulsory social security
P) Education
Q) Human health and social work activities
R) Arts, entertainment and recreation
S) Other service activities
T) Activities of households as employers, undifferentiated goods and service producing activities of households for own use
U) Activities of extraterritorial organisations and bodies
References
External links
SIC structure downloads, Information, Services
UK Standard Industrial Classification 2007 (UK SIC 2007)
United Kingdom Standard Industrial Classification of Economic Activities (UKSIC) List
UK Standard Industrial Classification of Economic Activities 2003
Archive of UK Standard Industrial Classifications
UK SIC coding services
What is a SIC Code?
Economy of the United Kingdom
Industry classifications
de:Standard Industrial Classification
es:Código SIC |
52007159 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney%20lockout%20laws | Sydney lockout laws | The Sydney lockout laws were introduced by the Government of New South Wales from February 2014 to January 2020 in the CBD and Oxford Street (and until March 2021 for Kings Cross) with the objective of reducing alcohol-fuelled violence. The legislation required 1.30am lockouts and 3am last drinks at bars, pubs and clubs in the Sydney CBD entertainment precinct. The precinct, defined in regulations, was bounded by Kings Cross, Darlinghurst, Cockle Bay, The Rocks and Haymarket.
While data showed that the lockout laws helped reduce alcohol-related violence, concerns were raised about the impact of the law on Sydney's night-time economy.
In 2016, the law was subject to an independent review, conducted by Ian Callinan. In response, the NSW Government announced it would "maintain Sydney’s lockout laws and implement the key recommendations" which included relaxing the last drinks and lockout laws by half an hour for live entertainment venues in a two-year trial.
In September 2019, a NSW Parliamentary committee recommended that the lockout laws should be removed by the end of the year, with the exception of Kings Cross, where restrictions will be retained. Medical professionals and representatives of emergency services workers opposed repeal.
On 28 November 2019, the NSW Government announced that the lockout laws would be lifted in Sydney's CBD and Oxford Street from 14 January 2020. On 8 February 2021, the NSW government announced the lockout laws would be lifted from the remaining area Kings Cross from 8 March 2021.
Context
Teenager Daniel Christie died in January 2014, the victim of a one-hit punch. He had been out celebrating New Year's Eve in Kings Cross. His assault, a random attack at 9pm, was just metres from the site where teenager Thomas Kelly had been fatally punched in July 2012.
Similar killings on the streets of Kings Cross and the Sydney CBD in that period included those of Calum Grant in 2011, Wilson Duque Castillo in 2012 and Lucio Rodrigues in 2013, bringing the tally to "five deaths in three years".
Christie's family called upon politicians to set laws that would help to stop alcohol-related violence. Within weeks of Christie's death, the O'Farrell ministry met to discuss a new package of measures to address community concerns on the issue.
Legislation
Legislative change
Barry O'Farrell announced his Government's plan for the new lockout laws on 21 January 2014. The Government introduced the Liquor Amendment Bill 2014 to parliament on 31 January 2014, to amend the Liquor Act 2007 and the Liquor Regulations 2008. The Bill would give the minister a regulation-making power to declare areas as prescribed precincts and impose conditions on licensed premises within those precincts. The regulations defined the new 'CBD entertainment precinct' as the region bounded by Kings Cross, Darlinghurst, Cockle Bay, The Rocks and Haymarket, including parts of Surry Hills. The Government also increased maximum prison sentences and introduced new mandatory minimums for various drug-fuelled violent offences.
Exemptions
Within the CBD entertainment precinct
The regulations exempt venues within the defined CBD entertainment precinct that have poker machines installed. These venues may permit entrance to patrons on the condition that they do not serve alcohol past 1.30am and do not provide entertainment other than poker machines and background entertainment. Most licensed small bars (maximum 60 people), restaurants and tourist accommodation may stay open past 3am, although alcohol service is not permitted after this time.
Outside the CBD entertainment precinct
The entertainment precinct defined in regulations ends at Darling Harbour and does not include The Star Casino, which is one of Sydney's most violent licensed venues.
Impact
Effect on reducing offences
A report from the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR) released in April 2015 showed a 26% reduction in assaults in the lockout area, and a 32% reduction in assaults in Kings Cross. In a March 2017 report, however, areas adjacent to the lockout precinct showed a 12% increase in assaults, with a 17% increase in "easy-to-reach" areas. Representatives from peak medical organisations such as the Australian Medical Association NSW and hospitals such as St Vincent's testified to the efficacy of the laws in reducing violence, trauma and injury, saying they made a difference: “We've gone from a time when people were dying, to a time when people are not dying.”
Effect on CBD business
Several venues in Kings Cross have closed since 2014, with several owners blaming the lockout laws for shutting down the late-night economy or a decrease in trade.
Pedestrian traffic dropped by 40% in Kings Cross, falling from a Saturday peak of 5,590 per hour between 1am and 2am in 2010, to a Saturday peak of 3,888 between 12am and 1am in 2015. Industry groups have claimed an 80 per cent reduction of foot traffic in Kings Cross, while the Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education claimed the decline is closer to 19 per cent.
Controversy
Controversy over the lockout laws centred around finding a balance between encouraging "night life" with the associated sale of alcohol and preventing injury resulting from alcohol-related violence.
Support
Support for the laws came from medical personnel who "have to pick up the pieces". A Fairfax-commissioned ReachTEL poll of 1,600 voters taken in August 2016 found "broad support within the community for keeping a 1.30am lockout (70 per cent) and retaining the 3am 'last drinks' time (72 per cent)". It further found that "three-quarters of young people support existing laws" and that a majority of NSW voters said the lockout laws should be extended across the state.
Opposition
Opposition to the laws came mainly from the hotel industry and business. When the law was first introduced, the NSW branch of the Australian Hotels Association said that the law would negatively impact Sydney's nighttime economy. As at April 2016, they were advocating for the lockouts to be replaced with a 'no new patrons' policy, whereby patrons arriving after 3am would have to book ahead and alcohol service could continue after 1.30am.
In September 2015, a 1000-member group named 'Reclaim the Streets' marched in protest of the lockout laws, claiming that the lockout had not solved the problem of alcohol-fuelled violence, instead pushing it into neighbouring suburbs, including Newtown. Other protests organised by 'Keep Sydney Open' such as one on 21 February 2016, attended by members of bands to protest the lockout laws, and another in October of the same year, called for the NSW Government to lift lockout laws. Organisers claimed that the laws alienated young people and destroyed the live music scene, while allowing The Star casino to remain open.
A ReachTel poll commissioned by The Sun-Herald in October 2018 found a decline in support for the laws. Citing a decline in patronage in parts of the city, Lord Mayor Clover Moore supported reversing the lockouts.
Callinan and other reviews
An independent review of the lockout laws, conducted by Ian Callinan, was released in September 2016. The review considered the impact and effectiveness of the laws, but did not address some of the complaints the community had about the laws, including the impact on employment in the precincts. While largely backing the laws, the review recommended relaxing the 1.30am lockout to 2am for live entertainment venues.
In December 2016, the NSW Government released its response to the review and said it would relax the lockout law for live music venues by a half-hour in a two-year trial. In line with the review, takeaway and home delivery alcohol sales will be extended from 10pm to 11pm across the State.
In October 2018, Members of the NSW Government were reported to be considering relaxing the laws due to the negative impact on businesses and the reputation of Sydney on people seeking to holiday in the city.
In September 2019, the Premier hoped to introduce legislation to change or scrap them and a Parliamentary committee recommended that the sale of takeaway alcohol be extended, although retained in Kings Cross because the area was "not yet sufficiently changed to warrant a complete reversal". While the point was made that the lockout laws hoped to pre-empt crimes by predicting them, others did not see any urgency in changing the laws, arguing instead for "gradual easing of restrictions and monitoring the changes at each stage".
See also
Crime in New South Wales#Sydney
References
Alcohol law in Australia
Culture of Sydney
Kings Cross, New South Wales
Drinking culture |
5461980 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babu%20Gogineni | Babu Gogineni | Babu Gogineni (born Rajaji Ramanadh in 1968) is an Indian Humanist, rationalist, and human rights activist, who served as Executive Director of the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU).
Gogineni is the founder of, South Asian Humanist Association and Indian Humanists. He is also the founder and owner of Skillguru, a training organization and private business.
In his activism, Gogineni campaigns against established privilege and abuse of rights done in the name of religion. During his time with the IHEU, he led IHEU's worldwide campaigns for the protection of Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen, bringing Pakistani freethinker Younus Shaikh to safety in Europe. In India, he successfully led the campaign for rehabilitation and protecting the rights of Sambhavi, a child who was claimed as a reincarnation of a Buddhist goddess.
In 2003, Gogineni was one of the signatories to the Humanist Manifesto. He also identifies himself as a Bright. Gogineni writes in English, French and Telugu. He was a columnist for Hyderabad-based daily newspaper Postnoon and wrote a column called "The Human Angle". He has also hosted a multi-language TV series called The Big Question with Babu Gogineni offering a Humanist perspective on science and civilization.
Gogineni travels domestically and internationally to spread humanism and awareness of social issues. He speaks on television on superstition, science, Humanism and human rights.
He appeared on the second season of the reality TV show Bigg Boss Telugu. He was eliminated from the show after 63 days on Aug 12, 2018.
Early life and activism
Gogineni , the son of Aruna Kumari (née Vegunta) of Eluru, West Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh and Gurubabu of Tenali, Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh was born in Hyderabad. At the age of 18, he became the youngest certified French language teacher in Hyderabad. He later graduated from Nizam College.
He served as Joint secretary of Indian Radical Humanist Association, Bombay between 1988-1996; Vice-President of the Indian Rationalist Association, Hyderabad between 1993-1996; Secretary General of Rationalist Association India, Hyderabad between 1995-1996, and was part of South Asian Humanist Network, Bombay between 1995-1996, before moving to the United Kingdom in 1997, where he continued his activism work with the International Humanist and Ethical Union.
IHEU career
Gogineni was appointed as Executive Director of the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) in 1997. He was associated with IHEU till 2015.
During his long association with IHEU, Gogineni implemented the IHEU's move to the United Kingdom, turned IHEU into a multi-lingual proactive campaigning organization, arranged IHEU's lobbying efforts at an international level by securing Special Consultative status at the United Nations, organized IHEU's first General Assembly (GA) in Africa, and conceptualized and founded the IHEU Centre for Bioethics at the UN in New York. He also helped organize IHEU's Congresses in Mumbai (1999), Amsterdam (2002) and Paris (2005), and its first GA in Africa (2004).
Positions held
Executive Director, IHEU, from 1997 until 2015.
Keynotes, Lectures and Debates
Mexico National University's Primavera lecture on Globalization at the Anthropology Museum of Mexico City, 1999.
Hinduism and the Myth of Evolution at conference on Darwin, Humanism and Science sponsored by European Humanist Federation, British Humanist Association, and IHEU, 2009.
World Humanist Congress in Oxford, 2014.
The Cambridge Union Society's Debate, Cambridge University, 2014.
The Human Angle lecture series (30+ lectures) in the US and the UK at MIT/Harvard University Humanist Hub, University of South Florida, Asian Rationalist Society Birmingham, South Asian Human Conference, North American Telugu Association (NATA) Conference, 2016.
Championing the Light of Reason at TEDx Hyderabad, 2016.
In media
What is Religion? a two-episode series of The Big Question radio program broadcast by BBC World Service featured Gogineni, 2004.
Superstition Kills, a documentary about superstition in India, made by Henrik Thomé features Gogineni, 2009.
The Big Question with Babu Gogineni, a TV series hosted by Gogineni on science and civilization, 2015.
Open Heart With RK, Season 2, ABN Andhra Jyothi, 2015.
Secret of Success, INews, 2016.
References
External links
Superstition kills, a documentary about superstitions in India featuring Babu Gogineni
Championing the Light of Reason, Babu Gogineni at TEDx Hyderabad
1968 births
Living people
Telugu people
Secular humanists
Indian rationalists
Indian humanists
Indian atheism activists
Writers from Hyderabad, India
English-language writers from India
Asian writers in French
Telugu-language writers
Pondicherry University alumni
Bigg Boss (Telugu TV series) contestants |
60347351 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aethwy%20%28electoral%20ward%29 | Aethwy (electoral ward) | Aethwy is the name of an electoral ward in the south of Anglesey, Wales, created in 2012. It contains the population centres of Menai Bridge and Llanfair PG.
Aethwy covers the communities of Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll, Menai Bridge and Penmynydd. The ward elects three county councillors to the Isle of Anglesey County Council. Aethwy is bordered to the southwest by Bro Rhosyr and to the northeast by the Seiriol ward.
The Aethwy ward was created following the Isle of Anglesey electoral boundary changes in 2012, which created 11 multi-councillor wards from 40 single-councillor wards. The new ward replaced the former county wards of Braint, Cadnant, Gwyngyll and Tysilio, which each elected one county councillor. Penmynydd was part of the Llanfihangel Ysgeifiog county ward.
Elections results
At the inaugural May 2013 county elections the ward poll was topped by Independent councillor Jim Evans. Plaid Cymru candidates, Alun Mummery and Meirion Jones, came second and third. The turnout was 49.1%.
Councillor Evans, a sub-postmaster from Llanfair PG, was elected as chairman of Anglesey County Council for 2015/16.
At the May 2017 county elections, Plaid Cymru won all three Aethwy seats. Councillors Jones and Mummery came first and third respectively, with Robin Wyn Williams in second place.
References
2012 establishments in Wales
Wards of Anglesey |
19056569 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandragupt%20Institute%20of%20Management | Chandragupt Institute of Management | Chandragupt Institute of Management Patna (CIMP) was established in 2008 as an autonomous institution under the Societies Act, with active support from the government of Bihar. It is an AICTE-approved and NBA accredited institution, offers a two-year full-time program in Post Graduate Diploma in Management.
Achievements
Awards
Received the TISS Award on 12 February 2013
Received the International Arch of Europe (IAE) Award] on 28 April 2013, a vanity award
Received the Majestic Five Continents Award for Quality & Excellence in Geneva, Switzerland on 18 November 2013, a vanity award
Received the Socrates Award for "Best Institute/University" organized by Europe Business Assembly (EBA), The Club of the Rectors of Europe (CRE), Oxford, Great Britain, and EBA Conferences, UK in December 2013 (a vanity award)
Received the European Award for Best Practices 2013 organized by the European Society for Quality Research (ESQR) in Vienna, Austria on 8 December 2013 (a vanity award)
Received the Dr. J J Irani award at Mumbai on 29 November 2012
CIMP find the first place in MHRD database of AISHE survey
Received the BID International Star for Leadership in Quality Award in BID Convention Paris 2015, a vanity award
Selection process
Applicants are selected on the basis of CAT, XAT and CMAT scores and are called to appear for Essay test, Group Discussion, and Personal Interview/Interaction. Academic profile, and work experience of candidates are also considered for short-listing. Upon aggregating their performance on these grounds, a merit list is prepared and students are selected. IIMs/XLRI have no role either in the selection process or in the conduct of the programme.
Reservation
The institute follows reservation policy as prescribed by the Government of Bihar for educational institutions. The break-up of reservation policy is as follows:
SC – 16%
ST – 01%
EBC – 18%
BC – 12%,
Women of BC – 3%
Amongst all the categories, 50% of the total seats are reserved for students who qualify as a Domicile of Bihar (permanent residents only) and 4% of the total seats for Person with Disability (PWD).
References
External links
Chandragupt Institute of Management Patna
Photobook
Universities and colleges in Patna
Business schools in Bihar
Educational institutions established in 2008
2008 establishments in Bihar |
18310451 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey%20Lewis | Aubrey Lewis | Sir Aubrey Julian Lewis, FRCP, FRCPsych (8 November 1900 – 21 January 1975), was the first Professor of Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, London (now part of King's College London), and is credited with being a driving force behind the flowering of British psychiatry after World War II as well as raising the profile of the profession worldwide.
Early life
Aubrey Julian Lewis was born on 8 November 1900 in Adelaide, the only child of Jewish parents George Solomon Lewis ( – 23 May 1931), an English accountant known only as George Lewis, and his South Australian-born wife Rachel "Ré" Lewis, née Isaacs ( – ), a sister of Levi Isaacs, prominent member of Adelaide's Jewish community. Ré and Levi were among six children who were brought out to South Australia from Newcastle upon Tyne by their parents Solomon Isaacs (c. 1830 – 30 August 1913) and his wife Pauline (c. 1830 – 14 July 1923) aboard the ship Sophia around 1865
George Lewis married Ré Isaacs, elocution teacher and Adelaide Synagogue's longtime Sabbath School teacher, at the Synagogue on 16 August 1899.
Lewis was educated at Christian Brothers College, Wakefield Street, Adelaide, where he proved to be a gifted pupil. He studied medicine at the University of Adelaide and graduated with distinction in 1923 (M.B., B.S.).
Career
Lewis worked at the Royal Adelaide Hospital for two years and undertook anthropological research on Aboriginal Australians. In 1926 he accepted a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship in psychological medicine. This brought him to the Phipps Clinic under the mentorship of Adolf Meyer, whom he respected and admired greatly, and whose work he praised in lectures such as the Adolf Meyer Lecture in 1960. This was the start of two years postgraduate study performed in the US and thence on to Germany. Lewis then moved to the United Kingdom and joined the staff of the Maudsley Hospital London in 1928. In 1931 he received his M.D. from the University of Adelaide and in 1936 he became Clinical Director of the Maudsley Hospital. In 1938 he became a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.
Lewis was a member of the Eugenics Society. A chapter he contributed to a 1934 book on 'The Chances of Morbid Inheritance', edited by Carlos Blacker, has been described as 'remarkable for its total admiration for the German work and workers", including Ernst Rudin.
Institute of Psychiatry
In 1946 the Maudsley Hospital's medical school was re-designated the Institute of Psychiatry under the auspices of the University of London and Lewis was appointed to the inaugural Chair of Psychiatry at the institute. He held this post until his retirement in 1966. It has been said that the flowering of British psychiatry after World War II can be attributed to three factors: a long humanitarian tradition; the National Health Service and Aubrey Lewis. Lewis built a reputation as a leader, educator and administrator and is credited with moulding the Institute into a model of scientific research and teaching attracting many of the most promising medical graduates from around the world. He is also credited with raising the profile of psychiatry worldwide, through his work as an adviser to general medical bodies, national and international research councils, and political organisations. He was a member of the Advisory Committee on Medical Research of the World Health Organization.
Many esteemed psychiatrists worked under the direction of Lewis at the Institute of Psychiatry, including Martin Roth and Michael Shepherd; the latter was at great pains to point out that Lewis's impact also extended to his contributions as a clinician, scholar and researcher, particularly in the field of epidemiology, but also genetics, clinical phenomenology and biology. He was perhaps best known for his studies of melancholia and obsessional illness, and indeed guided the young Michael Shepherd on his research into morbid jealousy.
Honours and awards
Knighthood in 1959
Honorary fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (1972)
Family and personal life
On 22 February 1934 at the Liberal Jewish Synagogue, Marylebone, London Lewis married Hilda North Stoessiger, a child psychiatrist. Hilda died in 1966 which affected Lewis greatly. They had two daughters and two sons, all of whom survived Lewis. Lewis died on 21 January 1975 in Charing Cross Hospital, London. A memorial service was held in April at the Synagogue in which he had been married.
Sir Aubrey had an austere appearance, captured in Ruskin Spear's official portrait of 1966. But to those who knew him his high standards of personal and professional integrity went with a warm, kindly, humorous disposition which earned him the affection of colleagues and friends. Michael Shepherd described him as a "representative man" in Emerson's sense of the term.
Publications
The State of Psychiatry; Inquiries in Psychiatry (London, 1967)
The Later Papers of Sir Aubrey Lewis (Oxford, 1977)
Further reading
M. Shepherd and D. L. Davies (eds), Studies in Psychiatry (London, 1968);
M. Shepherd, A Representative Psychiatrist (Cambridge, England, 1986);
M. Shepherd, Sir Aubrey Lewis (Melbourne, 1991); Psychiatry and Social Science Review, 3, 1969, p 6;
Journal of Psychiatric Research, 17, 1983, p. 93;
The Times (London), 22 January 1975;
Advertiser (Adelaide), 10 March 1990.
References
External links
A pioneering partnership: Aubrey and Hilda Lewis
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