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Kosovo declaration of independence
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Kosovo declaration of independence may refer to:
1990 Kosovo declaration of independence
2008 Kosovo declaration of independence
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If You Go is a 1961 album by Peggy Lee. The orchestra was arranged and conducted by Quincy Jones. John Engstead was the front cover photographer.
Track listing
"As Time Goes By" (Herman Hupfeld) – 2:48
"If You Go" (Geoffrey Parsons, Michel Emer) – 2:39
"Oh Love Hast Thou Forsaken Me" (William Bowers) – 2:33
"Say It Isn't So" (Irving Berlin) – 2:53
"I Wish I Didn't Love You So" (Frank Loesser) – 2:45
"Maybe It's Because (I Love You Too Much)" (Irving Berlin) – 2:01
"I'm Gonna Laugh You Right Out of My Life" (Cy Coleman, Joseph McCarthy, Jr.) – 2:44
"I Get Along Without You Very Well (Except Sometimes)" (Hoagy Carmichael, Jane Brown Thompson) – 2:45
"(I Love Your) Gypsy Heart" (Peggy Lee, Harry Sukman) – 2:26
"When I Was a Child" (Floyd Huddleston, Mark McIntyre) – 3:11
"Here's That Rainy Day" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke) – 2:46
"Smile" (Charles Chaplin, John Turner, Geoffrey Parsons) – 2:18
References
1961 albums
Capitol Records albums
Peggy Lee albums
Albums produced by Milt Gabler
Albums arranged by Quincy Jones
Albums conducted by Quincy Jones
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Bhakarwara is a village in Rahi block of Rae Bareli district, Uttar Pradesh, India. It is located 12 km from Rae Bareli, the district headquarters. As of 2011, it has a total population of 876 people, in 168 households. It has no schools and no medical facilities and it does not host a weekly haat or a permanent market. It belongs to the nyaya panchayat of Bhadokhar.
The 1951 census recorded Bhakarwara as comprising 3 hamlets, with a total population of 286 people (144 male and 142 female), in 61 households and 59 physical houses. The area of the village was given as 410 acres. 14 residents were literate, all male. The village was listed as belonging to the pargana of Rae Bareli South and the thana of Kotwali.
The 1961 census recorded Bhakarwara as comprising 3 hamlets, with a total population of 292 people (160 male and 132 female), in 60 households and 57 physical houses. The area of the village was given as 410 acres.
The 1981 census recorded Bhakarwara (as "Bhakharwara") as having a population of 462 people, in 107 households, and having an area of 161.07 hectares. The main staple foods were listed as wheat and rice.
The 1991 census recorded Bhakarwara (as "Bhartarwara") as having a total population of 612 people (305 male and 307 female), in 110 households and 110 physical houses. The area of the village was listed as 159 hectares. Members of the 0-6 age group numbered 122, or 20% of the total; this group was 52% male (63) and 48% female (59). Members of scheduled castes numbered 82, or 13% of the village's total population, while no members of scheduled tribes were recorded. The literacy rate of the village was 31% (143 men and 49 women). 168 people were classified as main workers (163 men and 5 women), while 1 person was classified as a marginal worker (a woman); the remaining 443 residents were non-workers. The breakdown of main workers by employment category was as follows: 120 cultivators (i.e. people who owned or leased their own land); 30 agricultural labourers (i.e. people who worked someone else's land in return for payment); 0 workers in livestock, forestry, fishing, hunting, plantations, orchards, etc.; 0 in mining and quarrying; 3 household industry workers; 3 workers employed in other manufacturing, processing, service, and repair roles; 1 construction worker; 0 employed in trade and commerce; 1 employed in transport, storage, and communications; and 10 in other services.
References
Villages in Raebareli district
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Ernest II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1564–1611), was the Prince of Lüneburg from 1592 to 1611.
Life
Ernest was born on 31 December 1564 as the second of fifteen children and the eldest son of William the Younger and his consort Dorothea of Denmark. After studying at Wittenberg, Leipzig and Straßburg he returned to Celle as a result of his father's worsening health. In 1592, after the death of his father, he took over the reins of power. Initially he was limited to a rule of 8 years by a treaty with his brother Christian and the nobles. However, following the sealing of subsequent agreement, he was able to exercise power until his death on 2 March 1611. His rule was dominated by attempts to improve the financial situation of both the principality as well as his family, because his father had left the state in serious debt. Also worth mentioning is the Celle Family Treaty concluded by him in 1610, which secured the indivisibility of the principality and which was confirmed by Emperor Matthias in 1612.
Ancestors
See also
List of the rulers of Lüneburg
Sources
External links
House of Welf
Princes of Lüneburg
1564 births
1611 deaths
Middle House of Lüneburg
New House of Lüneburg
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Tsūjun Bridge (通潤橋 -kyō) is an aqueduct in Yamato, Kumamoto, Japan. It is an arch bridge completed in 1854 and is 84.0m long. The arch spans 27.3m. It is the largest stone aqueduct in Japan.
The Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs has designated the bridge an National Treasure.
History and technology
This bridge exemplifies the high level of stone bridge technology in existence at the time of its construction. Yasunosuke Futa (1801–1873), who was the head of the then Yabe village, planned it and, after obtaining funding, succeeded in building the bridge in 1854 with the help of the group of 41 stone technicians and many farmers. Its purpose was to let water flow into a higher area (Shiroito Plateau) for farming. After placing wooden frames, stones were placed on the frames and three stone aqueducts were made. After that, the wooden frames were removed. Because the aqueducts were lower than the upper part of the waterway by , water a reversed siphon mechanism works when water flows through the aqueducts. The stone aqueducts were made watertight with mortar. The bridge was completed in 1854.
Because the aqueduct is lower than the upstream and downstream waterways, sand and mud may accumulate in the aqueduct. To clean the accumulated dirt, the bridge is able to occasionally release water (and dirt) into the river below. This is mostly done in the farmers' off-season.
References
External links
YouTube Tuujunkyo
See also
History of Kumamoto Prefecture
Bridges in Japan
Bridges completed in 1854
Buildings and structures in Kumamoto Prefecture
Aqueducts in Japan
Important Cultural Properties of Japan
Tourist attractions in Kumamoto Prefecture
1854 establishments in Japan
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The Woodsmith Mine Tunnel (also known as a Mineral Transport System [MTS]) is a long tunnel that will stretch between Woodsmith Mine at Sneatonthorpe near Whitby in North Yorkshire and the Wilton International complex on Teesside, England. The tunnel has been in development since 2016, but cutting of the tunnel bore did not start until April 2019, with an expected finish date of 2021. By the end of July 2020, over of tunnel had been dug.
When finished, the tunnel will be the longest tunnel in the United Kingdom and will also house the longest conveyor in the UK. The estimated cost of the tunnel in November 2018 was £1.1 billion.
Background
York Potash Ltd put forward the idea of mining potash and polyhalite on the moors above Whitby in 2010. Originally, three options for moving the mineral out were considered; a pipeline, a tunnel or a railway. Whilst the intended end location is Wilton (for delivery to the Redcar Bulk Terminal [RBT]), the developers also considered the Ports of Hull and of Immingham to the south. However the geology south through the Yorkshire Wolds was prohibitive for tunnelling as the chalk bedrock carries aquifers that are important for the region and would also need extra access/ventilation shafts, create more overburden and be of a significant extra cost than a shorter tunnel to Teesside. A tunnel to Hull would stretch for and need an extra 62% of tunnelling effort, time and expense.
Transporting the product out via a railway line involved crossing the River Esk at Larpool Viaduct, and then along the Esk Valley Line via two reversals in Whitby to gain the route towards Middlesbrough.
A pipeline would have involved turning the potash and polyhalite into a slurry which would have required a more labour and technically enhanced process at both ends of the transport system. A pipeline would also be above ground and cause a lot of environmental damage.
Both the pipeline and rail options were dropped in favour of a tunnel with conveyors in it during the planning stages, and through various submissions, the accepted plan was approved in June 2015. The company, now Sirius Minerals, agreed to pay £130 million to the North York Moors National Park Authority to "protect and enhance the environment". This would be over the whole life of the project.
To avoid damaging aquifers across the route, the tunnel is designed to stay deep within the Redcar Mudstone Formation. The Redcar Mudstone Formation is less permeable to water and the route also avoids any former ironstone workings in the Redcar and Cleveland area.
The cost of the tunnel was estimated at £1.1 billion in November 2018, and when complete, the tunnel will be the longest that is wholly within the United Kingdom. The conveyor will be robust enough to transport between 10 and 20 million tonnes of polyhalite when the mine is in full production with the raw mineral being transported to Teesside for granulation and onward shipping.
Construction
In July 2016, the UK Government awarded Sirius Minerals a Development Consent Order for the harbour facilities on Teesside. At that time, a different developer was shortlisted for the work on the tunnel which was also envisaged as needing five Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs). This was later downgraded to three TBMs.
Whilst preparatory work was started in 2016, a ceremony to "break ground" at the Wilton site was held in June 2018 with Jake Berry, the MP for the Northern Powerhouse project. In February 2019, the first of three TBMs was delivered to the Wilton site via Teesport. The first TBM, named Stella Rose after a naming competition with local schoolchildren, started boring in early April 2019. A spokesperson for Sirius Minerals commented on the tunnel stating that "we’re actually tunnelling in a rock that is relatively easy to cut, from a tunnelling point of view. It’s also relatively stable, and we’re not going through any cross measures; we’re not going from one geological horizon to another, which is where tunnels normally have more issues." By September 2019, progress had extended to of complete tunnelling with rails, connections and concrete interiors.
The tunnelling contract was split into three sections; Drive 1 was from Wilton to Lockwood Beck, Drive 2 was from Lockwood Beck southwards and Drive 3 was from Woodsmith Mine to Lockwood Beck northwards. Initially, an Austrian company, Strabag, were awarded the first tunnelling contract for the section from Wilton to Lockwood Beck. This would involve of cut and cover, of conventional tunnelling and of using a TBM in a south easterly direction. In November 2018, it was revealed that Strabag had been awarded the contract for the other two sections (nominally per section on average), and so would be the sole contracting company for the tunnel project. The TBMs will process through the route tunnelling at the front of the machine, whilst the middle and rear sections add concrete lining to the tunnel walls.
The first TBM, Stella Rose, weighs and is long. The concrete segments are in length and a special concreting plant has been built to supply the TBMs as they progress through the tunnel, lining the route with over 150,000 concrete segments.
Three ventilation shafts will be constructed: at Lady Cross Plantation, near Egton, at Lockwood Beck, and at Tocketts Lythe. Lady Cross Plantation is within the North York Moors National Park whilst the other two sites are outside the park and are located within Redcar and Cleveland. The access and ventilation shafts are planned to be in diameter.
The shaft at Tocketts Lythe will be smaller than the others as it is not envisaged to have a conveyor transfer. Lockwood Beck and Lady Cross plantation will be larger caverns to accommodate the crossover in conveyors and for the passing of maintenance trains. Lockwood Beck would also need a larger diameter shaft as it will be a setting off site for one of the TBMs.
By the end of July 2020, the length of tunnel that had been dug out had reached . Concrete segments to line the tunnel were produced in a special factory inside the Wilton International Complex, however, at least 3,000 segments needed to be imported due to the tunnel boring machine making greater progress than anticipated for. By early December 2020, had been tunnelled, and by June 2021, had been tunnelled, and most of the shafts had been dug out. As of February 2023 over 60% of the tunnel had been bored.
Route
The tunnel will run in a north westerly direction from the Woodsmith Mine site, passing under the River Esk, the Esk Valley railway line, the A169 and then up across the Esk Valley to its first ventilation/access Point at Lady Cross Plantation. It then crosses moorland and runs alongside the A171 road for some distance crossing under it just south of Lockwood Beck reservoir where the second access point is. It then turns in a more north/north westerly direction through Tocketts Wood and under first the A173 road and then the A174 until it arrives at the Materials Handling Facility (MHF) at Wilton. After granulation, the finished product will be taken on another conveyor (this time above ground) to the export site at Redcar Bulk Terminal.
The company claim that the entire route does not travel under any housing, but it does come close to some barns.
Details
Length -
Overall diameter -
Internal diameter -
Minimum depth -
Average depth -
Maximum depth -
Width of conveyor belt -
Speed of conveyor -
Gauge of maintenance railway -
The original plans detailed a tunnel with an internal diameter that was with a tunnel lining of . This was increased to a diameter of with a tunnel lining of . The overall diameter of the tunnel will be . This also increased the cost of the whole project (including sinking the mineshafts) from £3.6 billion to £4.2 billion. The increase in diameter has also led to a slower progress rate than before; the TBMs tunnelling would be reduced from covering to per day. The average depth of the tunnel will be as it makes its way north eastwards towards Wilton. The company stated that this will allow for minimal visual and environmental impact as well as avoiding any significant construction obstacles on the way.
The wide conveyor will transport the mineral at the rate of with a changeover between conveyors at the Lockwood Access Site. The Mineral Transport System (MTS) will consist of the longest underground conveyor in the world. The tunnel will also include an access railway for maintenance crews, an 11 kilovolt power system for the conveyor, fibre optic cables, a pumping main and a 66 kilovolt feeder cable to supply the mine site from Wilton. This is needed as there are no National Grid powers sources near to the mine site.
Planning documents assume the gauge of the railway to be , and the caverns where the crossovers are located will also be furnished with sidings. A train maintenance depot will be sited at the Wilton end of the tunnel.
See also
List of longest tunnels
List of tunnels by location
Notes
References
Sources
External links
Schematic of tunnel route hosted on Construction Enquirer
TBM Naming ceremony, hosted on Youtube
Tunnels in North Yorkshire
North Yorkshire
North York Moors
Mining in North Yorkshire
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The Laguan River is a river in the United States territory of Guam.
See also
List of rivers of Guam
References
Rivers of Guam
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Burkett Restaurant Equipment & Supplies is a nationally known food-service equipment and supplies dealer, headquartered in Perrysburg, Ohio, USA. Founded by Jameel Burkett (Sr.) and Mike Burkett, the company (aka Burkett & Sons Inc.) has been family-owned and operated since 1977. The company had no web presence until 2005 when the younger Jameel Burkett became vice president of operations. In 2006, the company won contracts with rapidly growing national chain Marco's Pizza, which it used as its preferred supplier of pizza ovens and dough mixers. The company appeared in the Inc. magazine 2010 "Inc. 5000" list of the fastest-growing companies in the US. For the year ending 2021, Burkett Restaurant Equipment was ranked #43 for food equipment dealers in Foodservice Equipment & Supplies magazine.
References
External links
Company web site
Company profile on inc.com
Distribution companies of the United States
Companies based in Toledo, Ohio
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Dansby is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Karlos Dansby (born 1981), American football player
Michael Dansby (born 1983), American football player
See also
Dansby Cemetery, cemetery in Rusk County, Texas, United States
Dansby Swanson (born 1994), American baseball player
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La Paz is a department located in the south of Catamarca Province in Argentina.
The provincial subdivision has a population of about 21,061 inhabitants in an area of , and its capital city is Recreo, which is located around from the Capital federal.
External links
La Paz Webpage (Spanish)
Departments of Catamarca Province
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Donald James Lofgran (November 18, 1928 – June 17, 1976) was an American basketball player who was a consensus All-American in 1950 while at the University of San Francisco. He also played professionally in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1950 to 1954.
Lofgran, a native of Oakland, California and 1946 graduate of Oakland Technical High School, spent the first two years of college (1946–48) at Grant Technical College, a junior college in Sacramento California (now American River College). He graduated Grant Tech and enrolled at the University of San Francisco to play for the Dons basketball team. While at USF, Lofgran averaged approximately 15 points per game for his career. In his junior season of 1948–49, Lofgran led the Dons to a 48–47 win over Loyola (IL) in the 1949 National Invitation Tournament and was named the Most Valuable Player.
Lofgran was drafted as the 11th pick in the first round of the 1950 NBA draft by the Syracuse Nationals. He was traded to the Indianapolis Olympians his rookie year. During Lofgran's four year NBA career, he also played for the Philadelphia Warriors and Milwaukee Hawks.
Career statistics
NBA
Source
Regular season
Playoffs
References
External links
College stats at TheDraftReview
1928 births
1976 deaths
All-American college men's basketball players
Amateur Athletic Union men's basketball players
American men's basketball players
Basketball players from Oakland, California
Indianapolis Olympians players
Junior college men's basketball players in the United States
Milwaukee Hawks players
Philadelphia Warriors players
San Francisco Dons men's basketball players
Small forwards
Syracuse Nationals draft picks
Utica Pros players
Oakland Technical High School alumni
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Clock Tower Beach (French: Plage de l'Horloge) is an urban beach on the Saint Lawrence River in Montreal, adjacent to the Montreal Clock Tower in the Old Port of Montreal.
Description and history
The beach opened in 2012. It consists of sand, Muskoka chairs, a boardwalk, a bar, showers and misting stations. Visitors are charged a fee for admission. Work began on the site in the fall of 2011, including the installation of parasols. The beach was designed by Claude Cormier, who has also designed urban beaches in Toronto.
References
External links
2012 establishments in Quebec
Beaches of Quebec
Old Montreal
Outdoor structures in Canada
Parks in Montreal
Urban beaches
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The Little Prince is a theatrical production based on Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s 1943 story The Little Prince that features dance, circus arts, video production and acrobatics. Tournié and Mouron began adapting the show for the stage in 2018. The show is directed and choreographed by Anne Tournié and ran in Paris, Dubai and Sydney before arriving on Broadway in spring 2022. The Sydney engagement marked the city's first major international production since the COVID-19 lockdown.
Cast included Lionel Zalachas as the Little Prince, co-director Chris Mouron as The Narrator, Aurélien Bednarek as The Aviator together with a large ensemble cast. The Broadway production was slated to run from March through August at the Broadway Theatre but on April 26, it announced it would close on May 8 after receiving poor reviews.
References
External links
Broadway musicals
Works based on The Little Prince
Theatre in Sydney
Theatre in Paris
Theatre in the United Arab Emirates
2018 musicals
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Nedeljko Jovanović (; born 16 September 1970) is a Serbian former handball player and current coach.
Club career
After playing for Metaloplastika, Jovanović joined Partizan in 1991. He proved instrumental in helping the club win its first ever national championship in the 1992–93 season. Subsequently, Jovanović moved abroad and played for two seasons in Spain with Elgorriaga Bidasoa (1993–94) and Teka Cantabria (1994–95).
In 1995, Jovanović switched to Germany and signed with OSC 04 Rheinhausen. He also played for TV Niederwürzbach, TUSEM Essen and SG Hameln in the Handball-Bundesliga. In August 2001, it was announced that Jovanović would be returning to Spain and joining Portland San Antonio on a three-year contract. He helped the club win the Liga ASOBAL for the first time ever in the 2001–02 season.
After leaving San Antonio, Jovanović played for Algeciras and Arrate (both in Spain), Gold Club (Slovenia), Pick Szeged (Hungary) and HIT Innsbruck (Austria). In August 2010, less than a month shy of his 40th birthday, Jovanović announced his retirement from playing. He previously won the Serbian Handball Super League and Serbian Handball Cup with Kolubara in his last season.
International career
At international level, Jovanović represented FR Yugoslavia in eight major tournaments, winning two bronze medals at the World Championships (1999 and 2001) and one bronze at the European Championships (1996). He also participated in the 2000 Summer Olympics.
Coaching career
After serving as head coach of Novi Pazar for a few months, Jovanović became an assistant to Nenad Peruničić with the Serbia men's national handball team in September 2018. He was dismissed via SMS text message sent by Peruničić just weeks ahead of the 2020 European Championship.
Honours
Partizan
Handball Championship of FR Yugoslavia: 1992–93
Handball Cup of FR Yugoslavia: 1992–93
Portland San Antonio
Liga ASOBAL: 2001–02
Supercopa ASOBAL: 2001–02, 2002–03
EHF Cup Winners' Cup: 2003–04
Kolubara
Serbian Handball Super League: 2009–10
Serbian Handball Cup: 2009–10
References
External links
MKSZ record
Olympic record
1970 births
Living people
Handball players from Belgrade
Serbian male handball players
Yugoslav male handball players
Competitors at the 1991 Mediterranean Games
Mediterranean Games medalists in handball
Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Yugoslavia
Olympic handball players for Serbia and Montenegro
Handball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
RK Metaloplastika players
RK Partizan players
CB Cantabria players
TV Niederwürzbach players
SDC San Antonio players
SC Pick Szeged players
RK Kolubara players
Liga ASOBAL players
Handball-Bundesliga players
Expatriate handball players
Serbia and Montenegro expatriate sportspeople in Spain
Serbia and Montenegro expatriate sportspeople in Germany
Serbia and Montenegro expatriate sportspeople in Slovenia
Serbian expatriate sportspeople in Hungary
Serbian expatriate sportspeople in Austria
Serbian handball coaches
Competitors at the 1990 Goodwill Games
Goodwill Games medalists in handball
Serbia and Montenegro male handball players
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Women in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly
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There have been 66 women in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly since its establishment in 1890. Women have had the right to vote since 1899 and the right to stand as candidates since 1920.
The first successful female candidate for the Legislative Assembly was Edith Cowan, who was elected as the member for West Perth in 1921 representing the Nationalist Party of Australia. This was the first time a woman had won election anywhere in Australia. Cowan was defeated in 1924 but in 1925 May Holman was elected to the seat of Forrest in a by-election, becoming the first successful Labor woman in Australia. Holman was joined by Florence Cardell-Oliver of the Nationalist Party in 1936, who would become the first female cabinet minister. Cardell-Oliver's retirement in 1956 led to a period of absence for women, until June Craig of the Liberal Party was elected in 1974, since which time women have been continuously represented in the Assembly.
Hilda Turnbull was the first National Party woman elected to the Assembly in 1989, and only two women – Liz Constable (1991–2013) and Janet Woollard (2001–2013) – have been elected as independents. Adele Carles became the first Greens member of the Assembly in 2009, although she later quit the party. Carol Martin was the first Indigenous woman elected to the Assembly in 2001.
List of women in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly
Names in bold indicate women who have been appointed as Ministers and Parliamentary Secretaries during their time in Parliament. Names in italics indicate women who were first elected at a by-election. An asterisk (*) indicates that the member also served in the Legislative Council.
Timeline
Proportion of women in the Assembly
Numbers and proportions are as they were directly after the relevant election and do not take into account by-elections, defections or other changes in membership. The Liberal column also includes that party's predecessors, the Nationalist and United parties and the Liberal and Country League. The National column includes the various National Party splinter groups in the 1920s and 1980s.
See also
Western Australia
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Seven Cities of Gold refers to seven cities in Spanish mythology.
It may also refer to:
Seven Cities of Gold (film), a 1955 historical adventure film starring Richard Egan
The Seven Cities of Gold (video game), a 1984 adventure game
Seven Cities of Gold (book), a 2010 book by David Moles
"Seven Cities of Gold", a track on the 2012 Rush album Clockwork Angels
See also
City of Gold (disambiguation)
Seven Cities (disambiguation)
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Hampi or Vijayanagara is a city in the Vijayanagara district in the Indian state of Karnataka. Located along the Tungabhadra River in the east and center part of the state, Hampi is near the city of Hosapete. It is famous for hosting the Hampi Group of Monuments, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Hampi is mentioned in Ashokan epigraphy and texts such as the Ramayana and the Puranas of Hinduism as Pampaa Devi Tirtha Kshetra. Hampi was a part of Vijayanara, the capital of the Hindu Vijayanagara Empire in the 14th-century. It became a center of economic and administrative activity of the Deccan region kingdom founded in opposition to Islamic Sultanates in South India. After over two centuries of rule, the Empire was defeated and abandoned. Since the 19th-century, its ruins have been an important site for archaeologists and historians.
Geography
Hampi is situated on the banks of the Tungabhadra River, midst rocky hills. It is from Bangalore, from Hyderabad and from Belgaum. The closest railway station is in the city of Hosapete (Hospet), 13 km away.
Economic activity
The principal economic activities in and around the town include agriculture, tourism and industrial activity related to iron ore, manganese and other minerals mining. The average rainfall around Hampi town is about 660 mm. The major crops grown are paddy, maize, jowar, bajra, groundnut, sunflower, sugarcane and cotton. Some of the Hampi farmlands are irrigated and there is a large dam nearby.
Tourism
Hampi hosts, in part, a group of monuments that UNESCO has declared a world heritage site.
In and after the 1960s, the town became an attraction for motorbikers and a site for offbeat tourism when its infrastructure was in poor condition. Groups of tourists would gather on its hills and amidst its ruins to hold parties and spiritual retreats. These have been called "Hampi Hippies" and Hampi has been referred to as the "lost city" in some publications.
The annual Hampi Utsava or "Vijaya Festival" has been celebrated since the reign of Vijayanagara. It is organized by the Government of Karnataka as Nada Habba (Festival). more than 1 million people visit this place.
Climate
See also
Anegundi
Hosapete
References
S.Srinivasachar, T.S.Satyan, Hampi : The fabled capital of the Vijayanagara Empire, (Directorate of Archaeology and Museums), Govt. of Karnataka, 1995
External links
Archaeological Survey of India Museum Hampi
Group of Monuments at Hampi - UNESCO World Heritage List
Architectural Wonder Hampi
Hampi @ Karnataka.com
Former capital cities in India
Tourist attractions in Karnataka
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Basketball: The Pro Game is a video game published by Lance Haffner Games.
Gameplay
Basketball: The Pro Game is a game in which 81 professional basketball teams dating as far back as 1955 are simulated in a text-only game.
Reception
Rick Teverbaugh reviewed Final Four College Basketball and Basketball: The Pro Game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "Overall, it is a well thought-out pair of games that certainly fills a void in the computer gaming world."
References
External links
Review in Compute!
Article in Ahoy!
Article in PC Games
Article in Guide to Computer Living
Review in Compute!'s Gazette
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Loser is a children’s novel by Jerry Spinelli, first published in 2002 by Joanna Cotler, an imprint of Harper Collins Books. It portrays the growth of Zinkoff, who is considered "stupid" by his classmates due to his clumsiness, poor performance in school and athletics, and sometimes, clueless enthusiasm.
This book is unique among Spinelli's works as it is written entirely in the present tense.
Accolades
It was nominated for the 2004-05 Mark Twain Award.<ref>Mark Twain Reader Award<
References
2002 American novels
American young adult novels
Novels by Jerry Spinelli
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Ecclesfield is a village and civil parish in the City of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, about 4 miles (6 km) north of Sheffield City Centre. Ecclesfield civil parish had a population of 32,073 at the 2011 Census. Ecclesfield wards of the City of Sheffield had a population of 35,994 in 2011 (Ecclesfield West and Ecclesfield East wards). The population of Ecclesfield village stood at 7,163 in the most recent census.
History
Evidence of early settlement in the Ecclesfield area include remnants of Romano-British settlements and field systems in Greno Wood. The earliest known written record of Ecclesfield is from the Domesday Book of 1086, where it is referred to as "Eclesfeld". The meaning of the name is uncertain. Traditionally it has been derived from the Celtic egles, meaning a church, specifically a Romano-British one, and the Old English feld, meaning a woodland clearing. Thus the name could mean "Open land near a Romano-British Christian church". However, an alternative suggestion is that the first element eccles- derives from a Saxon personal name or an association with water.
The Domesday Book does not mention a church at Ecclesfield. The present Church of St Mary, one of only five Grade I listed buildings in Sheffield, largely dates from the late 15th century, but incorporates features from about 1200. It was the centre of the ancient parish of Ecclesfield, which was one of the most extensive in England before it was broken up in the 19th century. Its style is Perpendicular, with a central tower, and it formerly bore the title of the "Minster of the Moors."
The Benedictine Ecclesfield Priory, established in the 12th century, served as a cell of St Wandrille's Abbey in Normandy until the 14th century, when it passed to the Carthusians. It is a Grade II* listed building.
Ecclesfield had a paper mill in the 1800s.
During the First World War the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) established a Relief landing Ground just outside the eastern boundary of the village, on land that is now largely given over to an industrial estate, near to the current M1 motorway.
'A' flight of 33 Squadron used the site during 1916 as part of a Home Defence scheme to protect against Zeppelin raids, but as the threat of raids diminished the Ecclesfield landing site, along with several others in the area were de-commissioned. No further flying has been recorded as having taken place.
Governance
Local government in Ecclesfield civil parish is in the hands of Ecclesfield Parish Council, which since the election of May 2019 consists of 10 Ecclesfield Parish Independent Councillors and 5 Liberal Democrats.
Before 1974 Ecclesfield Parish was part of Wortley Rural District in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Some southern parts of the parish were annexed to Sheffield City Council in 1968, which has sole control over them. The remainder of the parish was transferred to Sheffield in 1974, as part of local government reorganisation throughout England. The part to the east of the M1 motorway (mainly part of Thorpe Hesley) was subsequently transferred to Rotherham Metropolitan District in 1994 and no longer belongs to Ecclesfield Parish.
The civil parish includes the West Ecclesfield and most of the East Ecclesfield ward of Sheffield. These belong to the Penistone and Stocksbridge parliamentary constituency, whose member since the general election in December 2019 is Miriam Cates.
Amenities and setting
Ecclesfield has an old square, a cricket club, a large park, the Gatty Memorial Hall, a secondary school—Ecclesfield comprehensive School, previously Ecclesfield Grammar School and then Ecclesfield Primary School the current head teacher is Mrs. J Eagalton, and various shops and other civic amenities.
Ecclesfield lies in the north of Sheffield, about north of the city centre. The suburb of Ecclesfield is in the south-east of the civil parish with the suburbs Chapeltown and High Green to the north, and Grenoside to the west. Its altitude is to above mean sea level. At the 2001 census the civil parish—which also includes the Sheffield suburbs of Chapeltown, Grenoside, High Green, and formerly Thorpe Hesley (now a suburb of Rotherham)—had a population of 31,609. Near Ecclesfield's old village is Whitley Hall, a 16th-century mansion property now converted into a four-star hotel and restaurant. It is a Grade II* listed building.
On the border of Ecclesfield Parish is Greno Wood, a forested area listed as Grade B on the English Nature Invertebrate Site Register, as of special archaeological and geological significance. The wood is managed by the Wildlife Trust for Sheffield and Rotherham.
Demography
The population of Ecclesfield civil parish was recorded as 31,609 in the United Kingdom 2001 Census That of the suburb itself, which extends beyond the civil parish, was about 7,000. The ethnic mix was put at 98.3 per cent white (White British, White Irish, or White Other), 0.4 per cent Asian, 0.4 per cent Black British, 0.1 per cent Chinese, and 0.8 per cent mixed race. In 2011, Ecclesfield was described as being 96.1 per cent White British, 1.0 per cent Asian, 0.4 per cent White Irish, 0.5 per cent Other White and 0.7 per cent Black.
Table of the population change of the parish in 50-year periods since 1801:
Gradings
The Church of St. Mary is a Grade I listed building. It was once the church for the whole of Hallamshire, incorporating the parishes of Sheffield (now Sheffield cathedral) and Bradfield. The remains of Ecclesfield Priory and the Whitley Hall Hotel are Grade II* listed. Greno Wood is listed as Grade B on the English Nature Invertebrate Site Register, as being of special archaeological and geological significance.
Transport
The main road routes are the A61, running north–south, and the M1 motorway, skirting the eastern edge. Bus services by First South Yorkshire, Stagecoach Sheffield, Powells Bus Co. and TM Travel link with Sheffield City Centre, Barnsley, Rotherham, Meadowhall Centre and surrounding suburbs. Chapeltown railway station, in the Chapeltown suburb, connects with central Sheffield, Huddersfield and Leeds.
Sport
Ecclesfield F.C. was a prominent football team in the area from the 1880s, and Ecclesfield United also represented the area in the FA Cup. Ecclesfield Red Rose FC now represents the area in the Sheffield & Hallamshire County Senior Football League. Whitley Hall Cricket Club plays at Cinder Hill Lane in Ecclesfield.
The Ecclesfield Carols
Ecclesfield retains some local, traditional Christmas carols sung in villages, particularly pubs around Sheffield. They are older than today's generally known carols and differ from them. They can be heard at the Ecclesfield Black Bull on the six Thursdays before Christmas. The repertoire consists of around 30 carols and other songs, some unique to the village, some popular throughout the Sheffield area, some local variants, and some with familiar words to different tunes. (There is a vast number of tunes to "While Shepherds Watched".) They are often referred to collectively as the Sheffield Carols.
See also
Ecclesfield Feoffees
Alexander John Scott (1768–1840), naval chaplain, was buried in Ecclesfield.
Juliana Horatia Ewing (1841–1885), children's writer, was born in Ecclesfield.
Stanley Royle (1888–1961), artist, spent his childhood in Ecclesfield and depicted the Church of St Mary in one of his paintings.
References
External links
St. Mary's Church, Ecclesfield
Sources for the history of Ecclesfield Produced by Sheffield City Council's Libraries and Archives
Areas of Sheffield
Civil parishes in South Yorkshire
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Andre Begemann and Albano Olivetti were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title.
Antonio Šančić and Tristan-Samuel Weissborn won the title after defeating Alexander Erler and Lucas Miedler 7–6(10–8), 4–6, [10–8] in the final.
Seeds
Draw
References
External links
Main draw
Sparkassen ATP Challenger - Doubles
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CARTO (formerly CartoDB) is a software as a service (SaaS) cloud computing platform that provides GIS, web mapping, and spatial data science tools. The company is positioned as a Location Intelligence platform due to tools with an aptitude for data analysis and visualization that do not require previous GIS or development experience.
CARTO users can use the company's free platform or deploy their own instance of the open source software. It was first released in Beta at FOSS4G in Denver in September 2011, and officially debuted as a final release at Where2.0 in April 2012.
Since 2014, CARTO is a company independent from Vizzuality.
The Spanish start-up raised $7 million from a consortium of investors in September 2014. In September 2015, CARTO received a $23 million in Series B financing. In May 2019, CARTO acquired Geographica, in an effort to boost their professional services offering.
Technology
CARTO is an open source software built on PostGIS and PostgreSQL. The tool uses JavaScript extensively in the front end web application, back end Node.js based APIs, and for client libraries. CARTO's platform consists of several primary components.
CARTO Builder
The first is the web application called Builder where users can manage data, run user side analysis and design custom maps. Builder is intended for non-developers and beginners to have access to, and be able to use advanced geospatial tools. In Builder, advanced users also have access to a web interface where SQL can be used to manipulate data and CartoCSS, a cartography language similar to CSS, can be used for data driven map design.
CARTO Engine
The CARTO Engine, which is a set of APIs and developer libraries for building custom map and data visualization interfaces.
APIs
The Maps API: acts as a dynamic tile service, which creates new tiles based on client requests. This allows users to design maps in the web application, then use those styles and data in custom web applications.
The SQL API, where PostgreSQL-supported SQL statements can be used to retrieve data from the database. The SQL API serves data in various formats including Shapefile, GeoJSON, and CSV.
The Data Services API allows for easily building functionalities such as routing, geocoding, and vector basemaps.
JavaScript libraries
Finally, there are the Carto.js and CARTO VL libraries, which can wrap the APIs into complete visualizations or be used to integrate data into other web applications with raster or vector renderings, respectively.
CARTOframes
CARTOframes is a Python package for integrating CARTO maps, analysis, and data services into data science workflows via Jupyter notebooks.
Data Observatory
CARTO offers a wide range of datasets from around the globe accessible though their Data Observatory, which acts as their spacial data repository. Data scientists can augment their data and broaden their analysis with the location data available in the Data Observatory.
Communities
In addition to several independent user communities, many businesses and organizations have adopted the SaaS service or the open source platform for their own needs. Notable groups include NASA, Nokia, and Twitter.
See also
Geographic information system
Spatial database
Web data services
Web mapping
References
GIS software
Data visualization software
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Hopeful Unity is a historic house at 25789 Lambs Meadow Road in Worton, Maryland. It is a three-story brick building, three bays wide, with a -story kitchen ell. The main house is generally believed to have been built about 1761, after the property was purchased by Charles Groome. The ell may encapsulate an even older structure. The house is a well-preserved example of colonial Eastern Shore architecture.
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Kent County, Maryland
References
External links
, at Maryland Historical Trust
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland
Houses in Kent County, Maryland
Houses completed in 1761
1761 establishments in the Thirteen Colonies
National Register of Historic Places in Kent County, Maryland
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In particle physics, a radiative process refers to one elementary particle emitting another and continuing to exist. This typically happens when a fermion emits a boson such as a gluon or photon.
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Bremsstrahlung
Radiation
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Terrell Foster Carver (born 4 September 1946) is a Professor of Political Theory at the University of Bristol.
Career
Carver was born in Boise, Idaho. After receiving his B.A. from Columbia University in 1968, Carver went on to study in England. After finishing his BPhil (1970) and DPhil (1975) at Oxford University, he worked as a lecturer at the University of Liverpool between 1974 and 1979. In 1980 he moved to the University of Bristol, where he was a lecturer until 1990, when he became a reader. In 1985/86 he was visiting professor at Virginia Commonwealth University. In 1991 he was both a visiting fellow at The Research School of Social Sciences of the Australian National University and also at the Centre for Asian and Pacific Studies, Seikei University, Tokyo. In 1995 Carver was appointed professor of political theory at the Department of Politics at the University of Bristol. Carver has also been visiting fellow sponsored by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo/Kyoto, in 1999; a visiting professor at Pitzer College of the Claremont Colleges in 2003; and visiting professor at Senshu University, Tokyo, in 2006.
Research interests
Carver is a political theorist taking a textual, hermeneutic and postmodern approach to classic texts and problems. His longstanding interest is in analysis and translation of works by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, and the relation of those studies to Marxism and the Marxist tradition in social thought and methodology of the social sciences. He has also taken an interest in feminist theories of sex, gender and sexuality, and the relation of that work to the sociology of masculinities, using this approach to reinterpret the 'malestream' canon of classic philosophers. He co-general-edits a book series on globalization. His books and articles have been translated into German, French, Japanese, Korean and Chinese.
Awards and responsibilities
Since 1995 Carver has been a member of the Editorial Commission of the Marx-Engels Gesamtausgabe. Both in 1995/96 and in 2004/5 he was awarded a University of Bristol Research Fellowship. In 2002/3 he received the Arts and Humanities Research Board Research leave award, and again from the Arts and Humanities Research Council in 2005/6. Carver is also a member of the Political Studies Association Executive Committee. He served as Chair of the Publications Committee (2000–02), Chair of the Grants & Awards Committee (2003–05) and as Chair of the External Relations Committee (2005- ).
Books
Karl Marx: Texts on Method (1975)
The Logic of Marx (ed.) (1980)
Engels (‘Past Masters’) (1981, repr. 1991; Japanese trans. 1989; Korean trans. 2000; reissued as Engels: A Very Short Introduction, 2003)
Marx’s Social Theory (1982)
Marx and Engels: The Intellectual Relationship (1983; Japanese trans. 1995)
Marx and Engels: A Conceptual Concordance (1983)
A Marx Dictionary (1987; Japanese trans. 1991)
Marx’s ‘Grundrisse’ and Hegel’s ‘Logic’ (ed.) (1988; German trans. 1994)
Friedrich Engels: His Life and Thought (1989, repr. 1991)
The Cambridge Companion to Marx (ed.) (1991)
with Paul Thomas: Rational Choice Marxism: Assessments (ed.) (1995)
Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought: Marx, Later Political Writings (ed.) (1996)
Gender is not a Synonym for Woman (1996)
Interpreting the Political: New Methodologies (ed.) (1997)
The Postmodern Marx (1998)
The Politics of Sexuality (ed.) (1998)
Engels After Marx (ed.) (1999)
Engels: A Very Short Introduction (2003)
Men in Political Theory (2004)
Palgrave Advances in Continental Political Thought (ed.) (2006)
Judith Butler and Political Theory: Troubling Politics (with Samuel A. Chambers) (2008)
Judith Butler's Precarious Politics: Critical Reflections (ed.) (2008)
Political Language and Metaphor: Interpreting and Changing the World (ed.) (2008)
William E. Connolly: Democracy, Pluralism and Political Theory (ed.) (2008)
References
External links
Terrell Carver's University homepage
List of publications (links to IRIS publications database)
1946 births
Living people
American political philosophers
Columbia University alumni
Marxist theorists
Alumni of the University of Oxford
People from Boise, Idaho
Academics of the University of Bristol
American expatriate academics
Academics of the University of Liverpool
American expatriates in the United Kingdom
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Shanderman () may refer to:
Shanderman District
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Pool Quay railway station was a station in Pool Quay, Powys, Wales. The station was opened on 1 May 1860 and closed on 18 January 1965.
References
Disused railway stations in Powys
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1860
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1965
Former Cambrian Railway stations
Beeching closures in Wales
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Churchill Road (and its northern section as Churchill Road North) is an arterial road in the inner northern suburbs of Adelaide, Australia.
Route
Churchill Road North commences at the intersection of Port Wakefield Road and Montague Roads in Cavan and heads southwest and south to the intersection of Grand Junction and Cavan Roads. Heading directly south as Churchill Road, it travels through Kilburn and Prospect, before meeting with Torrens Road in Ovingham.
Churchill Road was previously known as Lower North Road.
Major intersections
See also
References
Roads in Adelaide
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Seattle Song (February 19, 1981 – February 3, 1996) was a French-bred Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 1983 Prix de la Salamandre and 1984 Washington, D.C. International Stakes.
Background
Bred in Kentucky, Seattle Song was sired by 1977 U.S. Triple Crown winner Seattle Slew. He was out of the mare Incantation, who was sired by Prince Blessed, winner of the 1961 Hollywood Gold Cup and American Handicap. He was selected by trainer François Boutin for Greek shipping magnate Stavros Niarchos who paid US$350,000 at the September 1982 Keeneland yearling sale.
Racing career
After winning the 1983 Prix de la Salamandre and 1984 Baltimore Washington International Turf Cup, Seattle Song was scheduled to run in the inaugural Breeders' Cup Turf in 1984, but he fractured his left front cannon bone in a workout at Hollywood Park Racetrack and was retired from racing.
Stud career
At stud in the United States, Seattle Song sired a number of stakes winners, the best of which was Group One (Prix Lupin) winner Cudas, who, like his sire, raced successfully in France and the United States, and Irish Linnet, a millionaire filly who won five consecutive editions of the Yaddo Handicap at Saratoga Race Course between 1991 and 1995.
Seattle Song died prematurely at age fifteen on February 3, 1996, as the result of paddock accident at Domino Stud in Lexington, Kentucky.
Pedigree
References
1981 racehorse births
1996 racehorse deaths
Racehorses bred in Kentucky
Racehorses trained in France
Thoroughbred family 4-m
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UFO: Aftershock is a real-time tactics/turn-based strategy video game developed by Altar Interactive and released by Cenega Publishing in Europe and Tri Synergy in North America in 2005. It is a squad combat game at its core with overlying strategic elements inspired by the 1994 classic X-COM: UFO Defense, though less than its own 2004 predecessor, UFO: Aftermath. It was followed by UFO: Afterlight in 2007.
Gameplay
The combat section of the game uses a real-time system with adjustable speed along with a pause option, and it has been improved from the previous game, with added features such as multilevel battlefields and accessible buildings, but also lacks some previous features, such as destructible terrain. The strategic section holds resource and squad management, research, development, some limited diplomacy and planning of attacks. As a departure from both the X-COM series and the prequel, there is no air-to-air interception.
Plot
Aftershock is set in a post-apocalyptic 2050, after the events of UFO: Aftermath. The game assumes that the player took up the Reticulans offer of resettling the most able of humanity in a space station, while allowing the rest to die, consumed by the Biomass that the Reticulans could not control. (However, in the first game the player could reject their offer, and save the Earth while defending against both the Reticulans and the Biomass.) Having lost contact with the Earth, the player must find out what happened.
Development and release
UFO: Aftershock was released in Europe on 21 October 2005 and in North America on 23 November 2005. It is protected by the controversial StarForce copy protection software on all store sold copies of the game. It was re-released by GOG.com, a digital distribution game retailer, without any copy protection.
An Xbox version was planned for release in Europe but cancelled. The publisher granted a license to the Czech company Redboss Games, a subsidiary of Redboss, which they used to create a mobile version of UFO: Aftershock.
Reception
The game received mixed critical reviews upon release. It is notoriously buggy even after several released patches.
Sequel
A sequel and third game in the series was released two years after Aftershock, titled UFO: Afterlight, to execute the same concept on Mars.
References
External links
via Internet Archive
UFO: Aftershock at MobyGames
2005 video games
Cancelled Xbox games
Post-apocalyptic video games
Real-time tactics video games
Science fiction video games
Single-player video games
Turn-based strategy video games
Video games about extraterrestrial life
Video games developed in the Czech Republic
Video game sequels
Video games set in the 2050s
Windows-only games
Windows games
Tri Synergy games
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NOCL may refer to:
Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory
NOCl, the chemical formula for Nitrosyl chloride
NOCL- Nagarjuna Oil Corporation Limited
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Kyle Rhea is a strait of water in the Highland area of Scotland. It runs from the Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland in the southwest to Loch Alsh in the northeast, separating the Isle of Skye from Inverness-shire on the Scottish mainland. It gave its name to Kylerhea, a village on its western shore.
Loch Hourn branches off to the east at about its midpoint.
Just north of Kylerhea, a ferry service has linked the village with Glenelg on the mainland for centuries. The first car ferry was introduced in 1935, with a turntable located on the boat. Despite the existence of the now toll-free Skye Bridge, this ferry service, undertaken by the MV Glenachulish, still runs during the summer months, due to its popularity as the more scenic and traditional route between Skye and the mainland. This service is now community-owned but used to be run by Murdo Mackenzie for almost twenty years.
Kyle Rhea is mentioned in Sir Thomas Dick Lauder's novel Highland Legends.
Gallery
References
External links
Kyle Rhea – Scottish-Places.info
19th-century map of Kyle Rhea – National Library of Scotland
Rivers of Highland (council area)
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P. James (née V. Kennedy) is a magician from the city of Chennai, in South India. He is best known for his famous guerrilla advertising campaign (inspired by Brooke Bond painted wagons), in which the phrase "P. James Magic Show" and his phone number are painted on virtually every street in the city. It has been estimated that there are at least 30,000 instances of his advertisement. James adopted his stage name after his grandfather, also a performing magician.
Chennai is a city where the wall space is tightly controlled and shared by competing political parties. It is also dominated by advertisements for commercial goods and services. Despite this, James has achieved a high penetration with his marketing campaign, at a low cost. He has, however, spent a total of 14 years painting, setting out by himself at 9:30 PM. He uses a mixture of black oxide and Fevicol for the paint, as this is cheap, but also survives through rain. James' technique has been called naive by some observers. Indeed, the advertising campaign has not resulted in particularly high market share, although James attributes this to the increasing movement of magic from the stage to the television screen.
James' campaign has spawned several imitators, notably A-Z entertainment, which adopts a similar font and style of placement, though at a lower concentration. It is not known what link, if any, exists between the various organizations. It is also unknown what relationship James has with the nationally famous P.C.Sorkar, or with rising local talent, such as JMK Disco Raja.
In late 2007, James was requested by the Commissioner of Police to abstain from his sign-painting. This is the culmination of various efforts by authorities to put an end to James' advertising campaign.
In August 2009 the magician lent his name to a book project called “Looking For P James”. The book was a photo journal of the city of Madras-Chennai which was written by the British author Darren Burnham and published by Global Adjustments
See also
Beanbags (Mumbai)
Notes
External links
Article on James
A second article
An article with James' photograph
A satire piece with James as protagonist
Details of the "Looking For P James" book launch
Sorcar, P. C. Jr.
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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The Ercall is a small hill in Shropshire, England, between The Wrekin and Wellington. It is an internationally important geological site, part of The Wrekin and The Ercall Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). The hill is managed by Shropshire Wildlife Trust and includes 540 million year old ripple beds and ancient pre-Cambrian lava flows in exposed quarries. Quartzite from the neighbouring Wrekin is also visible. The Ercall bears the marks of extensive quarrying, although the quarries are now disused, safe and open to the public. When the M54 motorway was constructed in 1974, the road was built through the northern end of the hill.
Flora and fauna
The woods of the forest are important for various butterfly species. In the summer, the Ercall Woods which line the hill are a favourite habitat for the speckled wood and during spring when the forest is laden with bluebells, the dingy skipper can arrive in great numbers. The exposed quarries are popular with other butterfly species, including the green hairstreak and wall, which like to bask in sheltered spots.
On the upper slopes of the hill tall oak trees predominate. Acidic soils support such plants as bilberry, climbing corydalis and heath bedstraw. The green woodpecker is also present in the woods.
Access
The hill is accessed in much the same way as The Wrekin nearby; exit the M54 motorway at J7 (last exit) or the last junction of the A5 from Shrewsbury before it becomes the M54. From there The Wrekin is signposted; follow this road until you reach The Wrekin, then follow the sign for the Buckatree Hotel. There is a small car park across the road from this pub/hotel, and the entrance is clearly visible.
Geology
The Ercall Quarries are a SSSI and therefore care needs to be exercised when investigating this area. Upon entering the quarry from the main entrance near The Wrekin one encounters an old quarry with many distinctive geological features evident.
This is the first quarry that is apparent in the Ercall, it comprises Uriconian Volcanic deposits of Precambrian age. Such volcanic deposits are noted to have been bimodal and potentially intraplate possibly induced by (and therefore close to a) subduction zone and possibly in an island arc setting. The flow banding and fine to medium grained appearance of the deposit suggests a fairly rapid cooling event and appears to have been deposited in a submerged environment. In all likelihood, during such events the depositional environment would fluctuate between submarine and subaerial as sea-floor levels will have fluctuated as well as eustatic sea-levels.
On the right had side of the picture (running vertical) a dark grey doleritic dyke is evident. The dyke trends at approximately 65 degrees. Dolerite is intrusive and is relative to basalt (extrusive). There is a significant alteration about the contact between the two rocks. The dolerite dyke was emplaced into the Uriconian Rhyolite. The rhyolitic rocks themselves are representative of explosive volcanic centres to the west of this site and beyond the Church Stretton lineament.
There is a clear distinction between the tuffaceous rocks of the Uriconican Volcanics (dark brown/black/grey) and the intrusive granophyre which is pink. The relationship between the Ercall Granophyre and the Uriconian is also clearly evident as the Granophyre intrudes the Volcanic rocks and is therefore younger.
The Ercall Granophyre is overlain by shallow dipping Cambrian rocks (in relation to the steeply dipping Uriconian volcanics) which contain Atdabanian fossils. The Granophyre is dated at 560+/-1Ma and is thought to be related to the volcanic events in the area. The thermal expansion of the area is likely to have assisted the formation of a sedimentary basin in which such volcaniclastic sediments accrued and were later folded. This has given rise to the steeply dipping sequences exposed at places such as the Forest Glen car park. The folding event is thought to be contemporaneous with uplift and a date of 526+/-28Ma has been put forward for this.
Twin Peaks chocolate bar
In 2017, the discount retailer Poundland launched a rival chocolate bar to the Toblerone, which is manufactured by Mondelēz. Poundland's bar, Twin Peaks, takes the design of its shape from The Ercall and Wrekin hills. Poundland is based in the West Midlands, and its founder, Steve Smith, lives near Bridgnorth in Shropshire.
References
Ercall, The
Ercall, The
Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Shropshire
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The N.W.A Legacy, Volume 1: 1988–1998 is a two-disc compilation by album released on March 23, 1999, through Priority Records. It is composed of 26 songs recorded from 1988 to 1998 by the American hip-hop group N.W.A, including solo material of its members Ice Cube, Eazy-E, Dr. Dre and MC Ren, and their affiliates such as The D.O.C., Above The Law, Da Lench Mob, Snoop Dogg, Penthouse Players Clique, Tha Dogg Pound, Westside Connection and 2Pac. Bryan Turner served as executive producer.
The album peaked at number 77 on the Billboard 200 and number 42 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart in the United States. It was certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America on September 30, 2002.
Its sequel, The N.W.A Legacy, Vol. 2, was released in 2002.
Track listing
Charts
Certifications
References
External links
N.W.A albums
1999 compilation albums
G-funk compilation albums
Hip hop compilation albums
Gangsta rap compilation albums
Priority Records compilation albums
Ruthless Records compilation albums
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Breakthrough () is a 1986 Soviet disaster film directed by Dmitri Svetozarov.
Plot
The film shows a major accident that occurred during the construction of a tunnel leading to the fictional station Petrovskaya of Leningrad Metro. It is based on a similar accident in 1974, in the tunnel between stations Lesnaya and Ploschad Muzhestva, playing up its unique design and geological conditions.
Cast
Oleg Borisov — Head of Lenmetrostroi Boris Savelyevich Poluektov
Andrei Rostotsky — Martynov, head of the mine
Yuri Demich — Deputy. Chief of Lenmetrostroi Yurasov
Mikhail Danilov — Marchuk
Alexander Susnin — foreman Osmyorkin
Yury Kuznetsov — sinker Vyazigin
Andrey Krasko — Drifters Alexander and Bronislav Kostromins
Vladimir Baranov — sinker Sherstobitov
Valery Kravchenko — Morozov, the engineer of the mine electric locomotive
Natalia Akimova — wife of Martynov (daughter of Poluektov)
Yuri Soloviev — engineer Kostyrya
Ivan Agafonov — Comrade Serov, from the regional party committee
References
External links
Soviet drama films
Russian disaster films
1980s disaster films
Lenfilm films
1980s Russian-language films
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Jaime Arturo Vázquez Aguilar (born 7 May 1975) is a Mexican politician formerly from the New Alliance Party. From 2009 to 2012 he served as Deputy of the LXI Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing the State of Mexico.
References
1975 births
Living people
Politicians from the State of Mexico
New Alliance Party (Mexico) politicians
21st-century Mexican politicians
Deputies of the LXI Legislature of Mexico
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) for the State of Mexico
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Abner Clough (13 September 1840–22 April 1910) was a New Zealand farm worker and character. He was born in Akaroa, North Canterbury, New Zealand on 13 September 1840. Abner stood at a height of 6'4" and weighed some sixteen stone; his black hair and beard, swarthy complexion, beetling eyebrows, erect bearing giving him a leonine and commanding appearance. One of his contemporaries once said, 'Abner does not usually walk but goes at a slow jog; none has ever been able to keep up with him in N.Z. yet". There is a mountain top in New Zealand called Abner's Head ~ it was his look out point when searching for stray cattle.
References
1840 births
1910 deaths
19th-century New Zealand farmers
People from Akaroa
Ngāi Tahu people
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1896 Idaho gubernatorial election
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The 1896 Idaho gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1896. Democratic nominee Frank Steunenberg defeated Republican nominee David H. Budlong with 76.79% of the vote.
General election
Candidates
Major party candidates
Frank Steunenberg, Democratic
David H. Budlong, Republican
Other candidates
Moses F. Fowler, Prohibition
Results
References
1896
Idaho
Gubernatorial
November 1896 events
1896 in Idaho
United States gubernatorial elections in the 1890s
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Philaeus
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Philaeus is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1869. Philaeus maoniuensis was moved to genus Yllenus in 2003.
Species
it contains seven species with a wide distribution. Most species are from the Mediterranean and West Africa, but single species are known from Guatemala and the Galapagos Islands:
Philaeus chrysops (Poda, 1761) (type) – Europe, North Africa to Middle East, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Iran, Central Asia, Afghanistan, China, Mongolia, Korea
Philaeus corrugatulus Strand, 1917 – Algeria
Philaeus daoxianensis Peng, Gong & Kim, 2000 – China
Philaeus fallax (Lucas, 1846) – Algeria
Philaeus raribarbis Denis, 1955 – Morocco
Philaeus ruber Peckham & Peckham, 1885 – Guatemala
Philaeus steudeli Strand, 1906 – West Africa
References
External links
Photograph of P. chrysops
Salticidae genera
Salticidae
Spiders of Africa
Spiders of Asia
Spiders of Central America
Taxa named by Tamerlan Thorell
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Ningbo Campus is a campus of Zhejiang University located in the Ningbo Higher Education Park, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province.
History
In 2001, Zhejiang University established the Ningbo Institute of Technology as an independent college, thus acquiring its Ningbo campus. The independent college is a type of collaboration between the public university and the business sector in China, which awards its own degree independently. Since 2019, these colleges have been transformed to be separated from the public university that they are affiliated to. The Ningbo Institute of Technology was transformed into NingboTech University as a provincial public university, but remains on the campus as a collaboration between Zhejiang University and the Ningbo Municipal Government.
In October 2016, the Polytechnic Institute, Zhejiang University started recruiting students for its Ningbo branch. Since 2016, Zhejiang University expanded collaboration with the Ningbo Municipal Government. In August 2018, a further agreement was signed between the university and the government to form its Ningbo Campus by establishing the Institute of Ningbo, the International School of Design and the Ningbo branch institution of Polytechnic Institute, relocating the School of Software Technology and improving the academics of NingboTech.
Institutions
NingboTech University
School of Software Technology, Zhejiang University
Polytechnic Institute, Zhejiang University
Institute of Ningbo, Zhejiang University
International School of Design, Zhejiang University
References
Places of Zhejiang University
Education in Ningbo
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Heinrich Nissen (born 3 April 1839 in Hadersleben; died 29 February 1912 in Bonn) was a German professor of ancient history.
Life
Heinrich Nissen studied in Kiel under Karl Wilhelm Nitzsch and in Berlin under August Boeckh and Theodor Mommsen. After graduating, he travelled in Italy between 1863 and 1867. This research was later published as the major work, Italischen Landeskunde (1883 and 1902).
In 1869 he became an associate professor at the University of Marburg, where during the following year he attained a full professorship. In 1877 he relocated to the University of Göttingen as a professor of ancient history, and soon afterwards, served as a professor at Strasbourg.
In 1884, he was elected as the successor to Arnold Schaefer at the University of Bonn. There, unlike his predecessor, he exclusively taught ancient history. He also pioneered epigraphic research at Bonn - based upon his study during his years in Italy - and was dedicated to Roman provincial archaeology. He was a co-founder of the Reichs-Limes-Kommission. Nissen is acclaimed as being possibly the first archaeoastronomer in the world.
He retired in autumn 1911, succeeded by Ulrich Wilcken. After his death he was buried in the Poppelsdorfer Friedhof (Poppelsdorfer Cemetery).
Works
Kritische Untersuchungen über die Quellen der vierten und fünften Dekade des Livius, 1863 – Critical studies of the sources from the fourth and fifth decades of Livy.
Griechische und Römische metrologie, 1866 – Greek and Roman metrology.
Pompeji, Lüderitz, Berlin 1867.
Pompeianische Studien. Leipzig 1877.
Italische Landeskunde: Bd. 1 Land und Leute, Berlin 1883; Bd. 2: Die Städte (2 Teilbände), Berlin 1902.
Orientation, Studien zur Geschichte der Religion, 3 v. in 1, Berlin: Weidmann, 1906-1910.
References
1839 births
1912 deaths
People from Haderslev Municipality
German classical scholars
19th-century German historians
Members of the Prussian House of Lords
Historians of antiquity
Academic staff of the University of Göttingen
Academic staff of the University of Marburg
Academic staff of the University of Strasbourg
University of Kiel alumni
Humboldt University of Berlin alumni
German male non-fiction writers
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This is for the mythical allies of Aeneas. For the story written about them by Virgil, see Aeneid
In Roman mythology, the Aeneads () were the friends, family and companions of Aeneas, with whom they fled from Troy after the Trojan War. Aenides was another patronymic from Aeneas, which is applied by Gaius Valerius Flaccus to the inhabitants of Cyzicus, whose town was believed to have been founded by Cyzicus, the son of Aeneas and Aenete. Similarly, Aeneades (Ancient Greek: ) was a patronymic from Aeneas, and applied as a surname to those who were believed to have been descended from him, such as Ascanius, Augustus, and the Romans in general.
The Aeneads included:
Achates
Acmon, son of Clytius (son of Aeolus),
Anchises
Creusa, wife of Aeneas and mother of Ascanius
Ascanius
Iapyx
the Lares
Nisus and Euryalus, heroes of the helmet episode in Book 9
Mimas
Misenus, Aeneas' trumpeter
Mnestheus, possibly Aeneas' most senior commander
the Penates
Serestus
Sergestus
Achaemenides, one of Odysseus' crew the Aeneads picked up in Sicily (strictly speaking not an Aenead as he was not Trojan, but Greek).
See also
The Golden Bough (mythology)
Aeneid
Notes
References
Gaius Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica translated by Mozley, J H. Loeb Classical Library Volume 286. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1928. Online version at theio.com.
Gaius Valerius Flaccus, Argonauticon. Otto Kramer. Leipzig. Teubner. 1913. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
Publius Ovidius Naso, Letters From Pontus translated by A. S. Kline, © Copyright 2003. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
Publius Ovidius Naso, Ex Ponto. Arthur Leslie Wheeler. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. 1939. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses translated by Brookes More (1859-1942). Boston, Cornhill Publishing Co. 1922. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses. Hugo Magnus. Gotha (Germany). Friedr. Andr. Perthes. 1892. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
Publius Vergilius Maro, Aeneid. Theodore C. Williams. trans. Boston. Houghton Mifflin Co. 1910. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Publius Vergilius Maro, Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
Characters in Roman mythology
Trojans
Characters in the Aeneid
Patronymics from Greek mythology
Ancient Greek families
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Anna Marie Gutierrez is a former Filipina actress.
Career
Gutierrez was a fashion model before entering the show industry. In 1979, she was recruited as one of the cast in the movie Dolphy's Angels. However, she achieved full stardom when she starred in Peque Gallaga's erotic movie Scorpio Nights (1985) with Orestes Ojeda and Daniel Fernando.
She was nominated and won Best Actress for Gawad Urian Award in the film Takaw Tukso (1986) and in PMPC Star Awards for Movies in Unfaithful Wife (1986) and Hubad na Pangarap (1987).
After her last movie in 1987, she migrated to New York and started her career in the medical field. She is currently living in Larchmont, New York with her American husband and their daughter.
Filmography
References
External links
Filipino film actresses
Year of birth missing
Place of birth missing
Filipino expatriates in the United States
Filipino female models
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Chilli leaf curl virus
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Chilli leaf curl virus (ChiLCV) is a DNA virus from the genus Begomovirus and the family Geminiviridae. ChiLCV causes severe disease especially in pepper (Capsicum spp.), but also affects other crops such as tomato (Solanum lycopersicum). It can be found in tropical and subtropical regions primarily in India, but has also been detected in countries such as Indonesia and Sri Lanka. This virus is transmitted by an insect vector from the family Aleyrodidae and order Hemiptera, the whitefly Bemisia tabaci. The primary host for ChiLCV are several Capsicum spp., but host species also include tomato and amaranth. ChiLCV has been responsible for several epidemics and causes severe economic losses. It is the focus of research trying to understand the genetic basis of resistance. Currently, a few sources of resistance have been discovered and used to breed resistant varieties.
Genome
This virus typically consists of a single circular single-stranded (ss) DNA molecule (2.7 kb in size), and betasatellite (1361 nt in size), with some reports of bipartite genomes and alphasatellites. The betasatellite most associated with ChiLCLV in Capsicum was identified as Tomato leaf curl Bangladesh betasatellite (ToLCBDB). However, multiple betasatellites have been detected, and they likely play a role in symptom development. This virus has similar coat protein structure and genome organization to that of other begomoviruses such as TYLCV.
Transmission
ChiLCV is transmitted by the insect vector Bemisia tabaci in a persistent-circulative nonpropagative manner. Transmission of the monopartite genome alone can lead to infection, but the presence of DNA A or DNA B helper viruses plays a large role in symptom development.
Agricultural importance
The main symptoms are an upward curling, puckering, and bunching of leaves. The leaves are also reduced in size. Severely affected plants produce fewer, smaller, and deformed fruits. This virus can cause significant yield losses. In the case of mixed infections or pests such as thrips or mites, losses may be as severe as 90–100%, but typically range from 20-50%. Treatments that are commonly used for this disease include insecticides, removing infected plants, and growing varieties with genetic resistance.
Epidemiology
ChiLCV is found in tropical and subtropical regions, and it significantly affects pepper production in India's major pepper growing regions. This virus was first detected in India around 1940, and later confirmed in the 1960s. There are closely related virus species including:
Chilli leaf curl Bijnour virus
Chilli leaf curl Palampur virus
Chili leaf curl Salem virus
Chili leaf curl Sri Lanka virus
ChiLCV is related to Pepper leaf curl virus (PepLCV), but it is a different species. Comparison of the sequence of ChiLCV with previously characterized begomoviruses shows it likely recombined with Papaya leaf curl virus and resulted in the new virus, PepLCV.
Management
Currently, the most widespread treatments used to control the spread of ChiLCV are a wide range of insecticides. Rouging infected plants and destroying infected fields is also used when necessary. The usage of large quantities of insecticides to control vector populations is not ideal, and other cultural methods to control vector populations are of increasing importance to a complete integrated pest management strategy. Other strategies include producing resistant varieties through a transgenic, RNAi-mediated approach.
Management by insecticides, imidacloprid 17.8 SL (0.003%) was most effective than spinosad 48 EC (0.02%), malathion 50 EC (0.05%), acephate 75 SP (0.1%) and methyl-demeton 25EC (0.025%). Management of chilli leaf curl was done by seed extract of plants and insecticides at different concentrations.
References
Begomovirus
Capsicum
Viral plant pathogens and diseases
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Dolfiyeh (, also Romanized as Dolfīyeh and Delfīyeh) is a village in Miyan Ab Rural District, in the Central District of Shushtar County, Khuzestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 164, in 33 families.
References
Populated places in Shushtar County
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Diary of a Chav is a young adult series that was written by the English journalist, author, and broadcaster Grace Dent. The series consists of six books that were originally released in the United Kingdom from 2007 to 2009. An attempt to publish the books overseas in the United States was largely unsuccessful and only the first two books, re-titled for American publication, were released.
Synopsis
The series follows Shiraz Bailey-Wood, a 15-year-old girl growing up in Goodmayes, Essex. At the series' start she's largely content to live her life as an underachiever and cause trouble, but things change after she receives a diary and begins recording the events of her daily life. Soon she begins to want more out of life than the chav lifestyle that she's been experiencing and starts expressing a desire to become a professional writer and publish her own autobiography. This decision does not come without opposition as there are many who believe this to be an unobtainable dream and one that is not suitable for someone like Shiraz, however she continues to persevere despite multiple setbacks and obstacles. In the first book, Trainers V. Tiaras; Shiraz worries that her school Mayflower Comprehensive will still live up to its reputation of being "Superchav Academy" a nickname given to the school by the local newspapers and especially with a stunt that happened during the Christmas assembly which Shiraz was the instigator of; however, that all started to change, once a new English teacher Miss. Bracket arrived and saw potential in Shiraz and was concerned why she would not want to succeed, however Shiraz' world is turned upside down when her best friend Carrie Draper starts fancying a local boy called Bezzie Kelleher and sets a double date for both Bezzie, Carrie and Wesley Barrington Bains II (Bezzie's best friend) and Shiraz, the date did not go to plan as both Bezzie and Carrie dropped off Wesley and Shiraz whilst they go for a drive around Essex, Shiraz is not too sure if she fancies Wesley or not.
Books
Trainers V. Tiaras (2007), (also published under the titles Diary of a Chav and Diva Without a Cause in America)
Slinging the Bling (2007), (also published under the title Posh and Prejudice in America)
Too Cool for School (2008)
The Ibiza Diaries (2008), (later published under the titles Ibiza Nights and Lost in Ibiza)
The Fame Diaries (2008), (later published under the title Fame and Fortune)
Keeping It Real (2009), (also published under the title The Real Diaries)
Reception
Critical reception for the series has been largely positive. Several American media outlets have praised the series while also remarking on its use of British slang, causing the School Library Journal to comment that many Americans would have to consult the books' glossary. YALSA has favorably reviewed the series' first book, stating "Shiraz’s hilarious adventures and misadventures also have a serious side, as she deals with family, stereotypes, and relationships, while trying to figure out just what it is she really wants out of life."
References
British young adult novels
Novels set in England
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Marquinho, Paraná is a municipality in the state of Paraná in the Southern Region of Brazil.
History
The land that would become Marquinho was surveyed by the Indian Francisco Tororó. The founders of the town were José Ribeiro (known as José Grande), Elias Ribeiro, João Ribeiro, Hipólito Ribeiro, Antonio Ribeiro and Pedro Ribeiro.
See also
List of municipalities in Paraná
References
Municipalities in Paraná
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Ben Pengelley (born 16 February 1998) is an Australian cricketer. He made his List A debut for Cricket Australia XI in the 2017–18 JLT One-Day Cup on 27 September 2017.
Career
Pengelley grew up in Yulara, Northern Territory. His family briefly moved to Western Australia before settling in Whyalla in South Australia, roughly 400 km north of Adelaide, where Pengelley finished high school. While living in Whyalla he started playing grade cricket for Adelaide Cricket Club despite the long commute to and from the city. In December 2016 Pengelley represented South Australia in the national under-19 championships as an all-rounder, scoring 359 runs and taking 8 wickets, and he was named in the team of the tournament. In grade cricket in 2016–17 he averaged an impressive 42.89 runs batting for Adelaide, and he made his Futures League debut for South Australia under-23s in the final round of the season.
In the 2017 winter Pengelley was selected as part of Australia's National Performance Squad to train for three months in Brisbane and tour India in the lead up to the summer despite not yet having a contract with any state team. After this he was given a rookie contract with South Australia cricket team for the 2017–18 season.
2017–18 season
Pengelly was in the Cricket Australia XI squad for the 2017–18 JLT One-Day Cup. He made his List A debut for the side in the first match, which was against his home state of South Australia. He took his first career List A wicket, that of Alex Ross. He then scored his maiden List A century against Queensland in his second match, scoring 53 runs off 36 balls before being dismissed with an over left in the innings. He played five matches in the tournament and took two wickets in total.
References
External links
1998 births
Living people
Australian cricketers
Place of birth missing (living people)
Cricket Australia XI cricketers
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Milivoj Petković (born 11 October 1949) is a Bosnian Croat army officer who is among six defendants convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), in relation to the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia during the Bosnian War. He was sentenced to 20 years in jail but only served four. The ICTY Appeals Chamber affirmed almost all of the convictions against Petković and his co-defendants, as well as their original length of sentence, on 29 November 2017.
Background
Milivoj Petković was born in Šibenik, Dalmatia, FPR Yugoslavia. He was a career military officer, graduating from the Yugoslav People's Army ("JNA") military academy. In July 1991 he left the JNA to join the new Croatian Army. In 1992 he was ordered by Croatian Army General Janko Bobetko to take over the Croatian Army's forward command center in the town of Grude, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, this force would later become the HVO armed forces. He was Chief of Staff of HVO until about 5 August 1994.
A General in the Croatian Army, he was partially disabled due to a concussion and spine injury sustained in June 1992 while driving near the Neretva River, as documented by the authorities of the then-Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia.
Petković voluntarily surrendered to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on 5 April 2004. He was granted provisional release on 22 April 2008. However, his original 20 year sentence was later upheld on 29 November 2017.
Indictment
In the indictment it is alleged that, as the overall HVO commander, Petković directly commanded the Herceg-Bosna/HVO armed forces and is responsible for its actions. It is alleged that among other things the HVO armed forces:
ethnically cleansed the districts of Gornji Vakuf, Mostar
used the Heliodrom Camp as a detention centre where the Bosnian Muslims from Mostar were detained. Conditions at the Heliodrom concentration camp were deemed inhumane.
The charges were:
nine counts of grave breaches of the Geneva conventions (wilful killing; inhuman treatment (sexual assault); unlawful deportation of a civilian; unlawful transfer of a civilian; unlawful confinement of a civilian; inhuman treatment (conditions of confinement); inhuman treatment; extensive destruction of property, not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly; appropriation of property, not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly).
nine counts of violations of the laws or customs of war (cruel treatment (conditions of confinement); cruel treatment; unlawful labour; wanton destruction of cities, towns or villages, or destruction not justified by military necessity; destruction or wilful damage done to institutions dedicated to religion or education; plunder of public or private property; unlawful attack on civilians; unlawful infliction of terror on civilians; cruel treatment), and
eight counts of crimes against humanity (persecutions on political, racial and religious grounds; murder; rape; deportation; inhumane acts (forcible transfer); imprisonment; inhumane acts (conditions of confinement); inhumane acts).
See also
Joint criminal enterprise
References
External links
ICTY - Prlić et al. (IT-04-74)
1949 births
Living people
People from Šibenik
People convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
Politicians of the Croatian Republic of Herceg-Bosna
Croatian Defence Council soldiers
Officers of the Yugoslav People's Army
Croatian people convicted of war crimes
Croatian people convicted of crimes against humanity
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Kabondo Kasipul Constituency
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Kabondo Kasipul is a constituency in Kenya. It is one of eight constituencies in Homa Bay County.
Members
2022 - 13th Parliament - Eve Akinyi Obara - Orange Democratic Movement
References
Constituencies in Homa Bay County
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ODAC
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ODAC may refer to:
Oil Depletion Analysis Centre, an independent UK-registered educational charity
Old Dominion Athletic Conference, a collegiate athletics conference in the southeastern United States
Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee
Oracle Data Access Components - tools for Oracle databases
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Hilly Fields is a 37.5 hectare Local Nature Reserve in Colchester, Essex. It is owned and managed by Colchester Borough Council. It is also a scheduled monument as it is in a late Iron Age site and Roman Camulodunum.
The site has diverse habitats of grassland, woods, hedges, scrub, ponds, and marsh. The grassland is grazed by rabbits, and invertebrates include minotaur beetles and beewolf wasps. The woodland is mainly oak, ash and hawthorn, and the pond banks have reedmace and reed sweet-grass.
There is access from Sussex Road.
References
Local Nature Reserves in Essex
Colchester (town)
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The Texas pocket gopher (Geomys personatus) is a species of rodent in the family Geomyidae. It is found in Tamaulipas in Mexico and in Texas in the United States.
Description
Males grow to a length of about including a tail of about . Females are slightly smaller and both sexes weigh about . The dorsal surface is a dull greyish-brown and the ventral surface is whitish with darker patches. There is very little hair on the tail especially near the tip. The upper incisors have a pair of grooves.
Distribution
The Texas pocket gopher is found in southern Texas as far north as Val Verde County and San Patricio County, and the state of Tamaulipas, the most north-easterly part of Mexico. It is common in the sand drifts on Mustang and Padre islands in the Gulf of Mexico.
Behavior
A single Texas pocket gopher occupies a burrow system that may have short side branches and about of passages. It defends its burrow against intruders, emitting a wheezy call and gnashing its teeth. It mainly stays underground and plugs the surface entrances with soil.
The spoil heap of excavated soil can be across and high. The Texas pocket gopher feeds on the roots of grasses such as paspalum (Paspalum), Bermuda grass (Cynodon), and sandbur (Cenchrus) and consumes all parts of a composite plant in the sunflower genus Helianthus. It avoids emerging onto the surface of the ground, where it is at risk from predators, by seizing the roots of the plant and pulling it down into its burrow. It also practices coprophagy, eating some of its own fecal pellets: it takes the pellets with its teeth directly from its anus, manipulates them with its fore-feet, and examines them carefully. It then consumes some and rejects others; however, the basis for its choice is unclear.
Little is known about the reproductive behavior of this species but it appears to breed at any time of year. Litters of from one to five young have been recorded and there are believed to be up to two litters in the year.
Status
The Texas pocket gopher has a wide range and is common in at least part of that range, with a patchy distribution attributable to its requirement for loose, sandy soils in which to burrow. The IUCN lists its conservation status as being of "least concern" because, although the population trend is unknown, it is unlikely to be declining at such a rate as to warrant listing it in a more threatened category.
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Texas Pocket Gopher
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Zdislav Soroko is a Soviet sprint canoer who competed in the late 1970s. He won a bronze medal in the C-1 500 m event at the 1977 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Sofia.
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Soviet male canoeists
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Seán Nolan was an Irish Sinn Féin politician. He was elected unopposed as a Sinn Féin Teachta Dála (TD) to the 2nd Dáil at the 1921 elections for the Cork Mid, North, South, South East and West constituency. He opposed the Anglo-Irish Treaty and voted against it. He stood as an anti-Treaty Sinn Féin candidate at the 1922 general election but was not elected.
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Keep Your Money may refer to:
"Keep Your Money", a song by En Vogue from EV3 (1997)
"Keep Your Money", a song by Jussie Smollett from season one of Empire (2015)
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Hans Haug (27 July 1900 in Basel – 15 September 1967 in Lausanne) was a Swiss composer and conductor, mainly of operas and theatrical music. He also became known as a composer for the classical guitar.
Life
Haug studied at the Basel Conservatory with Egon Petri and Ernst Lévy as well as at the Munich Musikhochschule, where he studied with Ferruccio Busoni, Walter Courvoisier and Josef Pembaur. After short-term engagements as conductor in Grenchen and Solothurn, he became Second 'Kapellmeister' at the municipal orchestra and the theatre of Basel (1928–1934). He conducted the Orchestre de la Radio Suisse Romande (1935–1938) and the Radio Orchestra Beromünster (1938–1943). In 1947, he succeeded Alexandre Denéréaz at the Lausanne Conservatory. In the years following World War II, he resumed an international conducting career and also his compositional interest in opera. Haug's catalogue of works is immense and includes operas, oratorios, symphonic works, concertos and film music in addition to string quartets, various chamber works, vocal music, as well as compositions for or including the guitar. Föllmi claims that Haug has been first and foremost a composer for the stage.
Guitar works
In December 1950, Haug's Concertino for Guitar and Chamber Orchestra won a prize at a composition competition for guitar at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy. It was Haug's first guitar composition. The prizewinners were promised that Segovia would premiere their pieces in the summer of 1952 and that they would be published afterwards by Schott of London. Whereas this promise was kept in the case of Tansman's Cavatina (Schott published it in 1952), Segovia never played Haug's Concertino, which had to await publication until three years after Haug's death in 1970. It appeared in a facsimile edition under the auspices of Edizioni Musicali Bèrben. Alexandre Lagoya and the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra played its world premiere.
Encouraged by his prize in the Siena competition, Haug continued to explore the guitar. He took guitar lessons on a regular basis with José de Azpiazu from October 1953 to January 1954 in order to learn more about the instrument. His first composition for solo guitar, Alba, and possibly his 'Preludio' as well (which Segovia later called 'Postlude'), were written around this time. Apparently, Alba was in Segovia's possession shortly thereafter; in a letter from Assisi dated 19 September 1954, he apologizes to Gagnebin for having studied only one work of his: "Please be aware that I am also behind in my work on the other pieces by Villa-Lobos, Tansman, Haug, Rodrigo, Torroba, Castelnuovo, etc. You will not see any premieres at all on the programs of my next concerts (...)." Later, Segovia did record Alba and Postlude (Decca DL 9832). This was Segovia's only recording of any of Haug's works.
In 1961, Segovia asked Haug to teach some composition courses at the summer music academy in Santiago de Compostella, and it was here that Haug completed his Prélude, Tiento et Toccata on 28 September 1961. No correspondence between Haug and Segovia is known to exist since they communicated mostly by telephone.
Hans Haug became acquainted with other guitarists such as Luise Walker at the Geneva Competition in 1956. As a result of this meeting, he wrote his Fantasia for Guitar and Piano (1957), which he dedicated to her. In 1963, his Capriccio for flute and guitar was written for the duo Werner Tripp and Konrad Ragossnig (released on RCA Victor 440.182). Also, Haug composed a Concerto for flute, guitar and orchestra in 1966, and he used the guitar in some other works.
Selected works
Preludio, Tiento et Toccata for solo guitar
Fantasia pour guitare et piano
Capriccio pour flûte et guitare (1963)
Fantasia Concertante for viola and orchestra (1965)
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1967 deaths
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20th-century male musicians
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Sebastopol Rd. is an album by the English band Mega City Four, released in 1992. It was the band's only album to be released in the United States; they supported it with a North American tour. The album was reissued in 2013 with a Peel session, among other bonus tracks.
The album peaked at No. 41 on the UK Albums Chart.
Production
Produced by Jessica Corcoran, Sebastopol Rd. was recorded at Greenhouse Studios, in England. It was named after the band's rehearsal space.
Critical reception
Trouser Press wrote that "acoustic strums ... abound, over which the singer vents optimism, experience and, most of all, poignant disillusionment ... A rough-edged pop classic." The Washington Post called the album "likable, unpretentious stuff, less stylized than is typical of most young British bands," writing that it "offers 12 bristling but tuneful songs, economical mid-tempo rockers that balance Danny Brown's and Wiz's tart guitars with the quartet's semi-sweet backing vocals." The Gazette opined that "punk energy begets melodic hooks as Mega City Four grows up a bit."
Legacy
AllMusic noted: "Heard from ten years' distance, Sebastopol Rd. is at once comfortably obvious and weirdly prescient. While Wiz's high, impassioned vocals weren't emo per se—and he was always careful to sing rather than scream—there's a weird way in how the 12 songs almost predict the future without trying to." MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide labeled the album "a tense, taut, pop mini-masterpiece." In 2013, Record Collector deemed it "an indie-pop gem with punk overtones." The Rough Guide to Rock considered it "one of the 90s catchiest (pre-Britpop) discs."
Track listing
References
1992 albums
Caroline Records albums
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Uniejów-Parcela is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Charsznica, within Miechów County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It lies approximately north-east of Charsznica, north-west of Miechów, and north of the regional capital Kraków.
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Percy Alec MacKenzie (5 October 1918 — 1 January 1989) was an English first-class cricketer and Royal Air Force officer. MacKenzie played county cricket for Hampshire for two seasons prior to the Second World War. During the war, he served in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve and was decorated with both the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Distinguished Service Order.
Early life and first-class cricket
MacKenzie was born at Canterbury in October 1918. He was educated at The Cathedral Choir School, Canterbury. While at the school, MacKenzie was coached by Felicity Hardcastle, a member of the Kent ladies' cricket team. MacKenzie was later taken onto the Kent County Cricket Club ground staff on the recommendation of Charles Marriott, who had seen him bowling leg spin on the St Lawrence Ground with a tennis ball. After the 1935 season, MacKenzie was not retained by Kent. He joined the Hampshire staff as a professional in 1938, and by May had qualified to represent them, making his debut in first-class cricket against Worcestershire at Basingstoke in the 1938 County Championship. After making three first-class appearances in 1938, MacKenzie made a further nineteen appearances in 1939. In 21 first-class matches for Hampshire, he scored 652 runs at an average of 19.75; he made four half centuries, with his highest score of 76 coming against Lancashire in 1939. With the ball, he took 17 wickets at a bowling average of 35.58, with best figures of 4 for 34.
Second World War and later life
With the beginning of the Second World War in September 1939 and the subsequent suspension of cricket during war, MacKenzie's first-class career came to an abrupt end. He initially served in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (RAFVR) as a flight sergeant, before being made an emergency commission to the rank of pilot officer in January 1942. In May 1942, he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, with his citation in the London Gazette reading:
"Pilot Officer Mackenzie, who is in the RAFVR, has completed many sorties first as a navigator and later as captain against heavily defended targets which have included Hamburg, Kiel and Essen. On all occasions, often in very bad weather with intense enemy opposition, by his determined efforts and skilful airmanship he has located and bombed all his targets successfully."
He was promoted to the war substantive rank of flight lieutenant in November 1942. Whilst flying with No. 83 Squadron RAF in January 1943, he successfully piloted a damaged Lancaster bomber back to England following a raid over Berlin. For this action, Mackenzie became the first professional cricketer to be awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) (those cricketers awarded the DSO in prior conflicts were regarded as amateurs). His DSO citation in the London Gazette read:
"Since being awarded the DFC, Acting Flight Lieutenant Mackenzie has participated in numerous successful sorties. One night in Jan 1943 he piloted an aircraft detailed to attack Berlin. Whilst crossing the coast on his homeward flight his aircraft was subjected to heavy and accurate anti-aircraft fire. Two of his aircraft's engines were damaged and rendered unserviceable. Height was lost but, although faced with a 300-mile flight over the sea, Flight Lieutenant Mackenzie continued his homeward journey. When halfway across the water a third engine became overheated. The aircraft was now down to 600 feet and the situation appeared hopeless, but Flight Lieutenant Mackenzie, displaying grim determination, flew on at this height and eventually reached this country where he landed his damaged aircraft. By his high courage and superb skill, this officer was undoubtedly responsible for the safe return of his aircraft and its crew."
In July 1943, he was promoted to squadron leader, and having completed two operational tours, he was transferred to instructor duties.
Post-war life
Following the war, MacKenzie did not return to professional cricket with Hampshire. He did however play minor counties cricket as a batsman for Berkshire in 1947 and 1948, making eleven appearances. He was slightly injured in April 1962, when his car was involved in a collision with a van at St George's Gate in Canterbury. After the war, he retained his connection to flying in a civilian capacity, and would later become a flight director with British Caledonian, retiring in 1985. During his time with British Caledonian, he was awarded the Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air in the 1978 New Year Honours. MacKenzie died on New Year's Day in 1989 at Rye.
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British World War II bomber pilots
Royal Air Force officers
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The 1967 NHRA Winternationals (commonly known as the Winternats) were a National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) drag racing event, held at Auto Club Raceway, Pomona, California on 5 February.
Events
More Aggravation III took home both the AA/CD (supercharged A Competition Dragster) trophy and "Best Appearing Car" award.
Results
Top Fuel
Top Fuel hosted a field of eight.
Round One
In round one, Jim Bollinger lost do Danny Ongais. Dave Beebe was defeated by Gene Goleman. Conrad "Connie" Kalitta eliminated Mike Snively. Jerry Ruth fell to "Sneaky Pete" Robinson.
Round Two
In the semi-final, Ongais lost to Goleman and Robinson was eliminated by Kalitta.
Final round
Kalitta defeated Goleman, winning US$7,500.
Altered
The Altered class win went to William “Wild Willie” Borsch, at the wheel of the AA/FA Winged Express.
Top Gas
In the Top Gas final, Kelly Brown lost to Gordon Collett, who claimed a US$3000 prize.
Competition Eliminator
More Aggravation III took home the AA/CD trophy, with a best effort of 7.80 seconds at , on gasoline.
Middle Eliminator
Little Eliminator
Super Stock
Eddie Vasquez Jr. and his 1966 Chevy II won Super Stock Eliminator, defeating the 1965 A990 Plymouth of Ed Miller.
Stock
Graham Douglas and Ed Forys won the 1967 Jr. Stock Eliminator, 14.42 seconds at 95.94 MPH. Defeated 1952 Oldsmobile of Keith Berg.
Source: Junior Stock by Doug Boyce
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1967 in motorsport
NHRA Winternationals
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Ronald Hugh Barker FIEE (19152015 was an Irish physicist and the inventor of Barker code. A popular method for synchronising digital communication to avoid corruption of the data received. The method has been studied and researched worldwide and is commonly used in most data transmissions today. Examples of applications include radar, mobile phone technology, telemetry, digital speech, ultrasound imaging and testing, GPS, Wi-Fi, radio frequency identification, barcodes, tracking, stock control and vehicle guidance.
Early life
Ronald Hugh Barker was born in Dublin in 1915 to English parents. His early education years were disrupted by his father's frequent periods of unemployment and moves between Dublin and England to find work as an artist and stained glass window designer. He was apprenticed to Hy. Jas. Salisbury a well known stained glass artist. who can be found in Kelly’s directory for 1912 as an Artist in stained glass, 50 Alma Road, St Albans. In the 1911 census there is an entry for E W Barker as a stained glass designer living in Leyton Road, Harpenden which is not far from St. Albans.
His father and family often stayed in meagre lodgings because his father's work was poorly paid and difficult to find. For much of the time, Barker (known since his childhood as Roy) lived at 17, Thomas Street, Heath and Reach with his grandfather, John Taylor and mother Linda Taylor. At age 13 Barker was interviewed by Mr Fredrick Fairbrother, the headmaster of a new school, The Cedars (now known as Cedars Upper School) in Leighton Buzzard. After sitting for an entrance examination, he was admitted to the school. His father died soon after of pneumonia in Youghal, Co. Cork, Ireland when Barker was aged 14. While at school Barker became interested in electronics. He built crystal radio sets and basic three vacuum tube radios using homemade components such as rectifiers, transformers and loudspeakers. His mother, a school teacher, assisted in his education and taught him to play the piano and church organ at the Wesleyan Chapel, Birds Hill, Heath. Barker passed his matriculation exam and won a scholarship to University College Hull and earned a 1st Class Honours degree in physics at the University of London in 1938. His first job coincided with the start of the World War 2. Scientists were declared to be a reserved occupation, which meant that he was not eligible for conscription, thereby allowing him to pursue electronic research in his career.
Early career
Barker joined Standard Telephones and Cables (STC) in 1938 and worked there until 1941. He worked in their thermionic valve department, designing dental X-ray tubes and equipment. After a bombing raid over Woolwich in 1941, Roy resigned from STC, as he felt that his work on X-ray tubes did not contribute to the war effort, and returned to Heath and Reach where he met his future wife to be Wendy Emily Hunt who was visiting one of her brothers billeted at Stockgrove Country Park near-by.
Barker then took up a new post as a temporary experimental officer at the Signals Experimental Establishment (SEE) at the Ministry of Supply. He initially worked on Woolwich Common, but soon moved to Warnham Court, near Horsham, England. There, he assisted with the electronics design of Wireless Set No. 19, a standard wireless set used in various armoured vehicles and tanks in World War II. He also contributed to the design of portable two way radio sets for jungle use.
(SRDE) and brought within the Ministry of Supply. In summer 1943 staff were moved to Christchurch, Dorset. In 1944 the UK guided weapons program came into being, for which Barker conducted telemetry research. Weapons testing initially occurred at Ynyslas, before a special guided weapons range was built at the Royal Aerospace Establishment (RAE) in Aberporth. The first experimental system was named LOPGAP, an acronym of Liquid Oxygen Propelled Guided Anti-aircraft Projectile. From 1945 to 1947, The SEE was subsequently renamed the Signals Research and Development Establishment Barker was a Principlal Scientific Officer at SRDE and responsible for devising, developing and producing the first British telemetry system for guided weapons.
In 1946, Barker attended the first International Telemetering Symposium at Princeton University, New Jersey when he read a paper describing his guidance system. The report states "“The proceedings' are an interesting account of early telemetering work. Of the 37 papers presented, three summarized telemetering work in England. Examples of nearly all possible systems of modulation and multiplexing were reported”.
Barker also worked on aerial design to improve telemetry, writing two articles on the subject, one published in Wireless Engineer in November 1948.and another on Multiple reflections between two receiving antennae published by the IEE.
Barker joined the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) as a corporate member in 1945.
Post-war career
At the end of the war, Barker was appointed as a senior scientific officer to research speech cryptography, which involved work on early computers and digital transmission. Barker used a technique by which speech waveforms were encoded digitally – similar to contemporary methods for encoding music – and then scrambled the stream of binary digits by multiplying it by a second stream produced synchronously in a pseudorandom number generator. During his time at SRDE, Barker led a team of 12 scientists. He applied his work on digital electronics had been extended to weapons controls, servo systems and communication by pulse-code modulation, for which Barker used the z-transform method for analysis.
Barker invented the Barker code, a well know method for synchronising digital communication systems, which he described in a paper entitled "Group Synchronisation of Binary Digital Systems". The method was initially researched at the Signals Research and Development Establishment (SRDE) just after World War II, and was intended for use in radar, rocket telemetry and digital speech. In 1952, Barker found seven Barker sequences up to a length of 13 useful for correlation between the data transmitted and the data received. The Oxford Dictionary of Computer Science defines a Barker sequence as:
In digital electronics, the Barker code used to check the synchronisation and framing of received data so that the data is understood correctly by the receiver. Barker said: "A sequence of binary digits has very little meaning unless the significance of the individual digits is known." The Barker code has been used in near earth space communications, such as the Galileo global navigation satellite system, the Global Positioning System, Skylab and on the Apollo missions. Barker code was also used for early deep space exploration telemetry, such as the Pioneer 10 mission.
In April 1954, Barker was awarded a PhD by the University of London. This led to an immediate promotion to Senior Principle Scientific Officer. The following month he attended a 6 month staff course at the Joint Services Defence College, Latimer as a civilian. On completion of the course Barker took a new post as the Assistant Director of the Directorate of Electronics Research and Development (Air) at the Ministry of Supply headquarters, where he was responsible for the technical administration of research and development in airborne radar, navigation aids, maritime devices and air communications. In 1957 Barker returned to SRDE as Superintendent of Research.
In 1959 Barker took a job as Director of the Central Electricity Research Laboratories (CERL) in Leatherhead, where he was responsible for the day-to-day operation of the laboratories, as well as recruitment, increasing the scientific staff from 250 to 600 people. Barker was elected a Fellow of the IEE on December 1, 1966. He served on various committees of the Power Division and the Control and Automation Division, becoming Division Chairman in 1971. Barker became a member of the council and served on the Membership Committee for many years; he remained active as a member until his death in 2015. On 6 March 1962 Barker was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, serving on the Automatic Control committee of the latter.
Barker was named to the board of directors of the Pullin Group in 1961. While there, he assembled a team of scientists to conduct optics research. After the company was taken over by The Rank Organisation in 1964, he became unhappy with the changes the Rank Organisation made to the company's operations. He had no say in this and it soon became apparent that he would have no opportunity for any interesting research, and the future looked uninviting. In 1965, Barker wrote an article on ball bearing motors.
In 1965 Barker made his last career move, becoming Deputy Director of the Royal Armament Research Establishment (RARDE) at Fort Halstead, which afforded him the rank of chief experimental officer. At Fort Halstead Barker was responsible for the assessment of non-nuclear weapons systems. Barker retired in May 1979.
Personal life
As a result of being raised in a poor household, Barker preferred to construct and repair his own gadgets, often from scrap materials, rather than purchasing factory-made items. In 1943, Barker married Wendy Hunt at the Church of St Augustine in South Croydon, and they had two sons. During retirement Roy belonged to three bridge clubs, playing duplicate bridge at county level. He was still playing at his local bridge club in Verwood until his 99th birthday. Barker died in Bournemouth hospital aged 99 on 7 October 2015.
References
Further reading
1915 births
2015 deaths
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This is a list of electoral results for the Electoral district of Heysen in South Australian state elections.
Members for Heysen
Election results
Elections in the 2020s
Elections in the 2010s
Elections in the 2000s
Elections in the 1990s
Elections in the 1980s
Elections in the 1970s
References
Notes
Sources
SA elections archive: Antony Green ABC
2002 SA election: Antony Green ABC
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Stephen-Argyle Central School District #2856 (commonly shortened to Stephen-Argyle or SAC) is a school district located in northwest Minnesota, United States. The school district consists of the elementary located in Argyle and the high school, which is located in Stephen. Stephen-Argyle is well known for its athletics, particularly football.
Early history
Before the schools of Argyle and Stephen consolidated in 1996, the schools shared faculty beginning in the early 1980s. Positions such as counselor, learning disabled instructor, and speech therapist were the first to be shared. In 1990, the elementary principal and librarian were shared. Sharing health and physical education teachers began in 1991. Plans for consolidation began during the period of 1989 to 1995 when the school boards met and public meetings were held in both cities. In 1996, the two school districts joined under the name Stephen-Argyle Central.
Academics
Stephen-Argyle is notable for its outstanding scores on standardized tests. Average class sizes are 14.38 per section for kindergarten through third grade and 18.75 per section for seventh through twelfth grade. College-in-the-high-school courses are offered. The school also has its own newspaper, the Storm Watch'.
Athletics
Athletics are a major part of Stephen-Argyle. In the fall, football and Volleyball is offered. Boys' and Girls' Basketball is available in winter, and Baseball, Track, and Golf in the spring. The school does not charge a fee for participating in sports. The fee is covered by the sports boosters group. The football team set a state record for most consecutive wins.
References
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School districts established in 1996
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The 12th European Athletics Championships were held from 29 August to 3 September 1978 in the Stadion Evžena Rošického in Prague, the capital city of Czechoslovakia (present-day Czech Republic). Contemporaneous reports on the event were given in the Glasgow Herald.
There were a number of disqualifications because of infringements of IAAF doping rules resulting in 18-month bans for shot putter Yevgeniy Mironov, javelin thrower Vasiliy Yershov, and pentathletes Nadiya Tkachenko and Yekaterina Gordiyenko, all competing for the Soviet Union, as well as shot putter Elena Stoyanova from Bulgaria.
Men's results
Complete results were published.
Track
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Pietro Mennea ran 10.19 in the heats, which was a new championship record.
Field
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†: In shot put, Yevgeniy Mironov initially finished second (20.87m), but was disqualified for an infringement of IAAF doping rules.
Women's results
Track
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Grażyna Rabsztyn (Poland), who was disqualified in the final, ran a championship record of 12.60 in the semifinal.
Field
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‡: In pentathlon, Nadiya Tkachenko (URS) initially finished 1st (4744pts), but was disqualified for an infringement of IAAF doping rules.
Vilma Bardauskienė broke the world record with a jump 7.09 metres in the qualification round.
Medal table
Participation
According to an unofficial count, 847 athletes from 30 countries participated in the event, 157 athletes less than the official number of 1004, and one country more than the official number of 29 as published. The significantly higher official number might include coaches and/or officials.
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Spain (16)
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References
External links
The EAA Official Website
Athletix
European Athletics Championships
European Athletics Championships
European Athletics Championships
International athletics competitions hosted by Czechoslovakia
Sports competitions in Prague
International athletics competitions hosted by the Czech Republic
Athletics Championships
Athletics Championships
Athletics Championships
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Little Canada is a semi-rural locality in the City of Doncaster in South Yorkshire, England. It is situated on the B6422 road between Brodsworth and Scawthorpe, approximately north-west of Doncaster city centre.
The Scawthorpe subdivision within the Adwick le Street built-up area, which only includes Little Canada and not the bulk of Scawthorpe, had a population of 259 at the 2011 census.
History
It was built in the 20th century and most of the houses were made of wood. This, along with the surrounding open flat plateau, resembled the Canadian Prairies, hence the name, Little Canada.
Geography
It is a small, linear settlement consisting of several houses surrounded by countryside. It is located along Green Lane adjacent to the Roman Ridge, with Scawsby Lane going to Scawsby to the south.
It is within the Sprotbrough ward of Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council which elected two Conservative councillors.
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Antonio Giosa (born 21 August 1983) is an Italian football defender. He plays for Lumezzane.
Biography
On 29 June 2010 Reggina Calcio announced via their website that they have re-signed Giosa. Giosa's first words to the media where "I am really happy, I feel to be back home, the club that adopted me when I was 15. The five-year contract demonstrates the desire on my part and the club, to resume a path together"
On 31 August 2011 he left for the third division club Lumezzane. On 3 August 2012 he was signed by Avellino.
On 2 September 2013 he left for Como in temporary deal. On 11 July 2014 he renewed his contract with Como.
In July 2016 he moved to Lecce, where he spent a season before moving to Alessandria.
In July 2018 he was signed by Potenza.
On 20 August 2020 he agreed on a 2-year contract with Monopoli.
On 21 January 2021 he moved to Catania on a 1.5-year contract. On 30 August 2021, his Catania contract was terminated by mutual consent.
On 1 September 2021 he returned to Lumezzane in Eccellenza.
References
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Italian men's footballers
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AS Cittadella players
Modena FC 2018 players
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Como 1907 players
US Lecce players
SS Monopoli 1966 players
Catania FC players
Serie A players
Serie B players
Serie C players
Men's association football midfielders
People from Potenza
1983 births
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St. Paul's Episcopal Church is a parish church in the Diocese of Iowa. The church is located in Durant, Iowa, United States. The church building and parish hall have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1985.
History
The Rt. Rev. Henry Washington Lee, the first bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Iowa, led the first services in Durant in the Rock Island Railroad depot in 1856. Freight boxes containing champagne were used for the pulpit, altar, and pews. A meeting was held after the service to organize the parish. The name St. Paul was chosen because many of the members had belonged to St. Paul's Episcopal Church in New Haven, Connecticut before moving to Iowa. The church in Connecticut contributed $75 that began the building fund for the church.
Thomas C. Durant, the town's founder, donated land for the first church. It was located on the north side of town and was dedicated by Bishop Lee in October 1856. That same year a "seminary" for girls, or junior/senior high school, was established. In the early 1870s, the seminary curriculum was expanded to include boys and a library was built. The co-educational boarding and day school was renamed the Boardman School, after its primary benefactor. The school continued into the 1890s when Durant's public high school was established. The size of the congregation fluctuated with the local population in these same years. Because of the large number of German immigrants in Durant, services were held in the German language by 1879.
By 1895 the congregation had outgrown its first building. On May 28 the original church was sold and the present building was purchased from the Congregationalists, who had built it in 1856. The bell, stained glass windows, and the furniture from the old church were moved to the new church. The chancel was added in 1895 to accommodate Episcopal worship. The parish hall was constructed next to the church by members of the congregation the same year. It has served as Sunday School building, vicar's office, town library, and town community center. It is thought the church's tower is from this same time period.
Samuel A. Dutton was instrumental in St. Paul's acquiring the church. He joined the parish after settling here from New Milford, Connecticut. Dutton was very involved in parish life through the 1870s when he was dropped from the parish roles. He joined the Congregationalist Church where he became the Sunday school superintendent and he was one of three trustees when St. Paul's acquired the church building. Dutton re-joined St. Paul's at that point and remained until around 1916 when he established a private interdenominational Sunday school in town. A large part of St. Paul's congregation left with him.
St. Paul's was unable to hold regular worship services from 1925 to 1944. During this time Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, which had been organized at this time, used the church building. In June 1944 the clergy and lay leaders from Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Davenport restarted services. A parsonage was erected behind the church sometime between 1913 and 1948. The Rev. Vine Victor Deloria, first priest of Native American heritage to serve in the Diocese of Iowa, was vicar at St. Paul's from 1959 to 1960 after which he left the diocese. He had previously served as priest-in-charge at Trinity in Denison, Trinity Memorial in Mapleton, and St. John's in Vail.
An undercroft was added to the church in 1950. The "gingerbread gothic" steeple and belfry were restored in 1979. In 1981, the pipe organ from Trinity Cathedral was rebuilt and moved to Saint Paul's. It was later replaced for $6,000 in 1985 by the Kilgen organ, which had been built about 1879. St. Paul's achieved parish status in 2004.
Architctecture
Both the church and the parish hall are rectangular wood-frame structures built on concrete block foundations that have been simulated to appear as rusticated stone. The church's central tower is square in shape and it has a large diamond window centered on the front. The belfry is made up of eight chamfered columns with decorative gingerbread on its base and top. Located between the columns are crisscross braces that simulate a balcony effect. It is capped with a low pitched hip roof that is covered with tin. The belfry originally had a weather vane on top of it. The stained glass window above the main entrance of the church dates from 1870 and was originally a part of St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Montrose, Iowa. It was given to St. Paul's in 1980 after St. Barnabas had been deconsecrated. Four lancet windows line the side walls.
The parish hall features a forty-five degree turned corner tower and entryway. At one time it was capped with a spire. Elaborate shingling is found in the gable end, below the lancet windows on the main facade, and on the tower. A row of Maltese crosses are located at the cornice level of the tower. Three lancet windows line the side walls.
References
External links
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Durant, Iowa - parish homepage
Religious organizations established in 1856
Churches completed in 1856
1856 establishments in Iowa
Carpenter Gothic church buildings in Iowa
Italianate architecture in Iowa
Episcopal church buildings in Iowa
Buildings and structures in Cedar County, Iowa
National Register of Historic Places in Cedar County, Iowa
Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Iowa
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Wesley O. Sims (born April 8, 1981) is a former American football player in the National Football League (NFL).
Football career
Sims attended Weatherford High School in Weatherford, Oklahoma and was a letterman and a standout in football and track & field. In football, he was a USA Today All-USA selection, and helped lead his team to the Class 4A state title as a senior. In track and field, Sims set the state records in the shot put (65 ft), and the discus (195 ft), winning the state championship four times indoor shot put, twice in outdoor shot put, and twice in discus.
He chose Oklahoma over Texas, Arkansas, Nebraska, Penn State, and Florida State.
Sims was drafted by the Miami Dolphins as a sixth round pick (177th overall). He was traded with Jamar Fletcher to the San Diego Chargers for David Boston. He played one game for the Chargers.
References
1981 births
Living people
People from Weatherford, Oklahoma
American football offensive guards
Oklahoma Sooners football players
San Diego Chargers players
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Alcot is an unincorporated community in Lee County, in the U.S. state of South Carolina.
History
Alcot was founded about 1900, and named after Louisa May Alcott, a favorite author of the postmaster's daughter. A post office called Aclot was established in 1894, and remained in operation until 1906.
In 1925, Alcot had 65 inhabitants.
References
Unincorporated communities in South Carolina
Unincorporated communities in Lee County, South Carolina
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The 36th Infantry Brigade was an infantry brigade formation of British Army that fought in the First World War, as part of 12th (Eastern) Division, on the Western Front. The brigade also fought in the Second World War, with the 12th (Eastern) Infantry Division, in France, and later with 78th Infantry Division in Tunisia and Italy.
First World War
The 36th Brigade fought throughout the First World War with the 12th (Eastern) Division on the Western Front. During the First World War the brigade was part of the New Army, also known as Kitchener's New Armies, and disbanded after the war ended.
Order of battle
8th (Service) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) (disbanded February 1918)
9th (Service) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
7th (Service) Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment
11th (Service) Battalion, Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment) (disbanded February 1918)
36th Machine Gun Company, Machine Gun Corps (formed 1 February 1916, moved to 12th Battalion, Machine Gun Corps 1 March 1918)
36th Trench Mortar Battery (formed 15 June 1916)
5th (Service) Battalion, Princess Charlotte of Wales's (Royal Berkshire Regiment) (from February 1918)
Second World War
Reformed during the Second World War as the 36th Infantry Brigade on 7 October 1939, this time as part of the Territorial Army, and attached to the 12th (Eastern) Infantry Division, duplicate of the 44th (Home Counties) Infantry Division. The brigade was formed as a 2nd Line duplicate of the 132nd (Kent) Infantry Brigade. It fought in the Battle of France in May 1940 where it was overrun by the German Army and dispersed and suffered very heavy casualties, due mainly to the division having none of its support units and the infantrymen having had little training. Reformed in the United Kingdom, it was redesignated 36th Independent Infantry Brigade from 22 June 1940, when the 12th Division was disbanded, until 22 June 1942 when it was assigned to the 78th Battleaxe Infantry Division and served in the North African Campaign, in Operation Husky and the Italian Campaign, in particular the Battle of Monte Cassino and later Gothic Line, followed by the Spring 1945 offensive in Italy.
Order of battle
The 36th Infantry Brigade was constituted as follows during the war:
2/6th Battalion, East Surrey Regiment (left 26 October 1939)
6th Battalion, Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment
7th Battalion, Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment (until 20 August 1942)
5th Battalion, Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) (from 26 October 1939)
36th Infantry Brigade Anti-Tank Company (formed 18 August 1940, disbanded 20 June 1941)
8th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (from 21 August 1942)
181st Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps (from 10 December 1941 until 22 June 1942)
Commanders
The following officers commanded the brigade during the war:
Brigadier G.R.P. Roupell (until 20 May 1940, MIA)
Brigadier A.L. Kent-Lemon (from 1 July 1940 until 17 December 1942)
Brigadier B. Howlett (from 17 December 1942, KIA 29 November 1943)
Lieutenant Colonel P.E.O. Bryan (Acting, from 30 November to 3 December 1943)
Brigadier J.L. Spencer (from 3 December 1943 until 2 May 1944)
Brigadier J.G. James (from 2 May 1944, KIA 16 June 1944)
Brigadier C.D. Packard (from 27 June until 20 December 1944)
Brigadier G.R.D. Musson (from 20 December 1944 until 7 June 1945)
Lieutenant Colonel A.J. Odling-Smee (Acting, from 7 June until 11 July 1945)
Brigadier G.R.D. Musson (from 11 July 1945)
Recipients of the Victoria Cross
Corporal George Jarratt, 8th (Service) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, Great War
Lieutenant Colonel Neville Elliott-Cooper, 8th (Service) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, Great War
References
Bibliography
Infantry brigades of the British Army in World War I
Infantry brigades of the British Army in World War II
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Fanna (Standard Friulian: ;
Western Friulian: ; ) is a (municipality) in the Regional decentralization entity of Pordenone in the Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, located about northwest of Trieste and about northeast of Pordenone.
Fanna borders the following municipalities: Arba, Cavasso Nuovo, Frisanco, Maniago.
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Cities and towns in Friuli-Venezia Giulia
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Magdi Wahba
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Magdi Wahba (1925–1991) was an Egyptian university professor, Johnsonian scholar, and lexicographer.
He was born in Alexandria in 1925, the son of a high court judge (Mourad Wahba Pasha) and later cabinet minister. His mother had been educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College and Oxford University. The grandson of a Prime Minister (Youssef Wahba Pasha) he belonged to the Egyptian aristocracy of the time but was nonetheless a member of the communist party in his youth. He was a graduate of Cairo University and the Sorbonne where he obtained a Diploma in High Studies in International Law in Paris (1947). He decided to pursue his interests in English literature and went to Exeter College, Oxford University, and received his B.Litt. and D.Phil. in 1957.
During 1957–1966 and 1970–1980 Wahba taught English literature at Cairo University, Egypt. During that time he started the Annual Bulletin of English Studies which later became Cairo Studies in English published by the Department of English Language and Literature. He continued supervising countless PhD students as emeritus professor. After his death, the English Department's library at Cairo University was named after him.
He also served for four years between 1966 and 1970 as the Undersecretary of State to the Ministry of Culture for Egypt where he organized in 1967 the Cairo Millennium event to celebrate the millennial anniversary of the city of Cairo. The event is considered by many as one of the great cultural event to occur in recent Egyptian history. It included scholars from all over the world, including academics such as Bernard Lewis, notwithstanding his sympathies to Israel.
His key contributions to literature include some of the only English translations of Egyptian authors Naguib Mahfouz and Taha Hussein. He also edited existing versions of the authors' works in English. He was a well-known scholar of Samuel Johnson, editing Johnsonian Studies, which included the oft-referenced bibliography of Johnson by James Clifford and Donald Greene. Wahba introduced to the Arabic reader the first Arabic translation of Johnson's Rasselas in 1959 and Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales in 1984. He edited the commemorative lectures for the bicentennial of Samuel Johnson's death celebrated at Oxford University in 1986, published by Longman. In 1989, shortly before his death, he published an article in the Journal of Arabic Literature entitled "An Anger Observed" that summarized the anger and suspicion felt by the Muslim world towards the West. The article was shortly after translated into Arabic and widely seen among Muslim scholars as an example of how it is possible to understand the Muslim viewpoint and develop a dialogue between the Muslim world and the West.
Wahba produced several lexicographic works, including several English–Arabic dictionaries. His Dictionary of Literary Terms, published in 1974 and re-issued several times, has become an important tool for scholars of comparative literature in the Arab world. In 1989 he published Al-Mukhtar: a Concise English–Arabic Dictionary, considered as one of the most thorough dictionaries of its kind. The Mukhtar was followed by An Nafeess, published after his death.
He was elected a member of the Academy of the Arabic Language in Cairo in 1980, as well as a member of the Institut d'Égypte (founded in 1798 by Bonaparte) and became its secretary-general shortly after. He was also an active member of the International Committee for Philosophy and the Social Sciences (CIPSH). While he shied away from political roles (he declined a ministerial position offered by President Sadat), he was a member of the Shura Council (Egyptian Senate), following the footsteps of his father and grandfather Youssef Wahba. He died in London in 1991 from Leukemia.
References
Baraka, Magda (1998). The Egyptian Upper Class between Revolutions 1919–1952. Reading: Ithaca Press.
Cairo Studies in English (1990). Essays in Honour of Magdi Wahba. Published by the Department of English Language and Literature, University of Cairo, Cairo.
Vatikiotis, P.J. (1997). The Middle East: From the end of Empire to the end of the Cold War. London: Routledge.
Wahba, Magdi (ed.)(1962). Johnsonian Studies: Including a Bibliography of Johnsonian Studies, 1950–1960 Compiled by James L. Clifford and Donald J. Greene. Cairo: Oxford University Press.
Wahba, Magdi (1974). A Dictionary of Literary Terms, English-French-Arabic. Beirut: Librairie du Liban.
Wahba, Magdi (1989). Al Mukhtar: A Concise English–Arabic Dictionary. Beirut: Librairie du Liban.
Wahba, Magdi (1989). "An Anger Observed". Journal of Arabic Literature, Vol. XX, London: Brill.
Wahba, Magdi (1990). Cairo Memories in Studies in Arab History: The Antonius Lectures, 1978–87. Edited by Derek Hopwood. London: Macmillan Press.
Obituary notices
Albert Hourani, "Magdi Wahba", The Independent, October 1991
The Times, October 1991
Andre Raymond "Magdi Wahba", Institut Francais d'Archeologie Orientale IFAO, Volume 93,
Literary critics of English
Egyptian lexicographers
Arab lexicographers
Cairo University alumni
Alumni of Exeter College, Oxford
University of Paris alumni
Egyptian Copts
Academic staff of Cairo University
Members of the Shura Council
1925 births
1991 deaths
Deaths from leukemia
Deaths from cancer in England
Egyptian expatriates in France
Egyptian expatriates in the United Kingdom
20th-century lexicographers
Members of Academy of the Arabic Language in Cairo
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The eighteenth European Masters Athletics Championships were held in Zittau, Germany, Zgorzelec, Poland and Hrádek nad Nisou, Czech Republic, from August 16–25, 2012. The European Masters Athletics Championships serve the division of the sport of athletics for people over 35 years of age, referred to as masters athletics.
The championships were held in three locations near the German/Czech/Polish border.
Less countries participated compared with the last championships in Nyiregyhaza, but just over 700 more athletes participated, giving it the third greatest attendance of any championship run by European Masters Athletics ever.
Results
Men
M35
M40
M45
M50
M55
M60
M65
M70
M75
M80
M85
M90
Women
W35
W40
W45
W50
W55
W60
W65
W70
W75
W80
W85
W90
References
European Masters Athletics Championships
European Masters
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The Green Cape Lighthouse is a heritage-listed lighthouse located at the tip of Green Cape, a headland forming the northern boundary of Disaster Bay, in southern New South Wales, Australia. It is the southernmost lighthouse in New South Wales and Australia's first lighthouse built in concrete. At it is also the tallest lighthouse in New South Wales. It marks Green Cape on the northerly shore-hugging sailing course.
The lighthouse was designed by James Barnet and built from 1881 to 1883 by Albert Wood Aspinall. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 1 February 2013.
History
Green Cape is traditionally part of the Yuin nation and is the land of the Thaua people. The land occupied by the Thaua group stretches from Merimbula in the north, to Green Cape in the south, and west to the Dividing Range and has traditionally been divided between two groups – the Katungal (coastal) and the Baianbal/Paienbara (forest) people.
The first contact between the European explorers and the Aboriginal people of the far southern region of NSW occurred in 1798 when Matthew Flinders visited Twofold Bay, south of Eden. On this exploratory journey, Flinders made reference to Green Point or, as he called it then, "the Cape". Permanent European settlement of the region did not, however, begin until the 1830s and 1840s when the pastoralist and whaling industries developed at Twofold Bay.
"Twofold Bay afforded the potential for raising stock on unoccupied Crown Land in the vicinity of a commodious harbour" and it quickly became a commercial and trading centre during the mid-nineteenth century. The Imlay brothers were the first settlers to permanently occupy the area from the late 1830s and established a pastoral and whaling company in the region.
The developing industries around Twofold Bay soon revealed the potential of the region and began attracting competition for the Imlay brothers. The British entrepreneur Ben Boyd arrived and went about establishing his own commercial empire during the 1840s – the ambitious but short-lived "Boyd Town". By the time Boyd had entered the whaling industry, the once thriving business was reaching the end of its boom period – the Imlay brothers had fallen victim to the economic depression in the late 1840s and, by 1849, Boyd too had abandoned his pastoral lands following the collapse of his empire.
Although whaling had not been a sustainable industry in the region, the Green Cape area was a notable point in the shipping trade along the NSW coastline. A prominent natural headland projecting out into Disaster Bay, Green Cape was a known obstacle for passing ships. Since shipping had accelerated following the gold rush of the 1850s, the entire NSW coastline, in fact, had been regarded as dangerous and increasingly treacherous. Despite the first lighthouse being constructed at South Head in 1818, it was some 40 years before the government systematically began installing lightstations along the coast.
Initially, consideration was only given to the north coast of NSW but, by 1872, the entire coastline was under review. Captain Francis Hixson, President of the Marine Board of NSW, famously proclaimed "that he wanted the NSW coast "illuminated like a street with lamps" " (NPWS "Lighthouse Keeping (Part A)", p15). Hixson was ultimately successful in achieving his vision – by the early twentieth century, the "highway of lights" was complete with 25 coastal lighthouses and 12 in Sydney Harbour. The late nineteenth century had proven to be the most productive period for lighthouse construction in NSW.
The need for a lighthouse was approved in 1873 at the conference of the Principal Officers of Marine Departments of the Australian Colonies on a motion from Hixson, following a series of wrecks on the southern shore. After rounding Cape Howe, northerly ships would hug the shore to avoid the East Australian Current. Green Cape was the first major projection they would encounter. Original tenders were for a stone lighthouse and rubble quarters. However, with the soft local sedimentary, no one tendered. In 1870 the specifications were changed to concrete and a budget of £17,000 AUD was set.
With an approved design by the colonial architect James Barnet in 1880, a tender of £12,936 was accepted from Albert Aspinall in December 1880 to build a mass concrete tower for the lighthouse, three associated residential structures and a number of service buildings. Aspinall also received an additional 357 pounds for essential works at Bittangabee Bay.
Aspinall first had to find a way to move the materials from Eden to the site. The nearest safe anchorage was in Bittangabee Bay, north along the coast from Green Cape, where he built his storeroom and jetty. He then spent five months building a wooden tramway from Bittangabee Bay to the cape. Materials were transported to the site on wooden trolleys pulled by horses. This first phase was completed in June 1881, and Aspinall commenced the construction.
The construction of a lightstation at Green Cape was considered essential and the project was ambitious from its beginnings. Concrete construction was a bold initiative for the period and Green Cape Lightstation was one of the earliest and most extensive concrete constructions ever attempted in Australia and the tallest in NSW at the time. Prior to 1880, some small houses were built using concrete but no public buildings, and certainly none as substantial as the Green Cape, had been constructed using the material.
Work began in 1881 but Aspinall soon encountered significant difficulties that led to increasing delays and an extension of the budget to over 18,000 pounds. A 20-foot thick clay bed required extensive excavation and, with drifting sand continually covering the tramway and building foundations, the demanding circumstances of the build led to the eventual financial collapse of Aspinall's career. Ultimately, the Green Cape Lightstation was completed by his creditors and was fully operational, with a kerosene-powered light visible for 35 km, by 1883. The final cost for the lighthouse was 19,388 pounds, 8 shillings and 9 pence.
The original apparatus, still mounted in the lantern, is a Chance Bros. 1st order revolving Fresnel lens dioptric. Its light characteristic was one flash every 50 seconds and it was visible to . The light source was a four-wick kerosene-burning lamp with an intensity of 100,000 cd.
The newly completed Green Cape Lightstation was in this functional state on 30 May 1886 – the night of the disaster. On a clear, calm night en route from Melbourne to Sydney, the paddle-steamer ran full-speed into rocks at the base of the lighthouse and quickly broke apart. Seventy-one lives were lost in the sinking – one of the greatest losses of human life in a single shipwreck in the state's history. Fifteen men (ten crew and five passengers) survived the shipwreck but only 24 bodies were ever recovered and buried in unmarked graves in a small cemetery a short distance from the lightstation. Flora MacKillop, the mother of Mary MacKillop, died in that accident.
The wreck of the Ly-ee-Moon is considered to be one of NSW's worst maritime disasters but the far south coast of NSW has been responsible for a number of shipwrecks since the nineteenth century. Often caused by heavy seas and rough weather, Disaster Bay has become "a veritable graveyard" of ships.
In 1910 the light source was replaced with a Douglas vaporised kerosene burner and a glass chimney around a silk mantle, made by Chance Bros. In 1913 it was recommended to change the light characteristic to a white flash every 10 seconds. However, it took 16 years until this recommendation was accepted, in 1926. Previous to that, in 1923, the light source was upgraded to a Ford Schmidt burner which increased the intensity of the light to 327,000 cd.
Throughout the twentieth century, the Green Cape Lightstation underwent the same technical advancements as did all coastal lighthouses in Australia. With responsibility transferred to the Commonwealth in 1911, the lightstation was converted from kerosene to electricity in 1962. In 1962 the tower was electrified with diesel generators serving as the power source. The manual winding system was also replaced with an electric motor. The lightglove used provided a light intensity of 475,000 cd. In 1967 improved generators were installed together with a 1000 W Tungsten-halogen lamp with an intensity of 1,000,000 cd, visible over . The light characteristic was changed to two flashes every ten seconds. At some later point, the power source was changed to the mains electricity. The lighthouse was then gradually de-manned over the next 30 years.
In 1992 a solar powered lens on a modern lattice skeletal steel tower was constructed right next to the historic tower, and the light was officially turned off on 17 March 1992. The new light operates a 36 W lamp with an intensity of 37,500 cd. With this conversion, the lightstation was effectively de-manned and a caretaker installed at the site. Since being replaced by a new and fully automatic lighthouse, the station has become a tourist destination and is being increasingly recognised for its heritage values. In 2009, Green Cape Lightstation was designated an Engineering Heritage National Landmark – the first lighthouse to be accorded this level of recognition in Australia.
Description
Green Cape is the location of the southernmost lightstation in NSW – some 400 km from Sydney and 27 km north of the Victorian border.
The lightstation is a tightly knit complex of buildings that comprises the original lighthouse; the 1994 light tower; the Head Keepers Quarters; duplex quarters for the two Assistant Keepers; stables; telegraph station; ancillary buildings; communication tower; solar panels; and remnant foundations of various structures.
At the eastern end of the main precinct, the Green Cape Lighthouse stands 29m tall, 23m above sea level. An octagonal concrete tower on a square base, the lighthouse is built of locally quarried rock aggregate and was finished with a Chance Bros lantern house. A small domed building, formerly used as an oil store, adjoins the lighthouse.
The complex of buildings that make up the lightstation include a number of simple painted rendered brick buildings typical of rural lightstations around Australia. The residences of the Head Keeper and the two Assistant Keepers (and families) were built in the Victorian Regency style and retain much of their original features and layout. The Head Keepers Quarters comprises four bedrooms with a parlour and living room, surrounded by a verandah on three sides. An adjoining annex houses storage rooms and an updated bathroom and kitchen. The Assistant Keepers Quarters are an identical duplex comprising two bedrooms, a living room, dining room, kitchen and bathroom (similarly updated). The duplexes are surrounded by verandahs on three sides also. The original arrangement of the quarters remains identifiable but a door has been fitted between the two living rooms to enable its use as a single residence.
The original form of the other buildings in the lightstation complex (the stables, telegraph station etc.) are also evident despite later modifications that were made to support changes in use over time.
Immediately outside of the lightstation precinct, and 300m from the lighthouse, is the Ly-ee-Moon cemetery and, located off-shore, the shipwreck itself. The small cemetery is bound by a simple metal wire fence and contains 23 graves, each marked by a pair of white head and foot stones. The graves are positioned in two rows of ten and one smaller row of three but, with the passing of time, the graves are no longer identifiable. A bronze plaque was placed in the southern corner in 1986, on the centenary of the disaster.
Located further afield, some 7 km north of the lightstation at Bittangabee Bay, there are remnants of the original port and jetty that was built prior to the construction of the lighthouse. A mass concrete store still stands (without windows, doors or a roof); concrete footings of the former jetty are evident on the rocky shore and there are existing remnants of the beginning of the tramway that transported materials and equipment to Green Cape for the construction of the lightstation.
The ongoing use of the site as a lighthouse and as a tourist destination has ensured that the site is maintained to a very good standard. Permanent staff in residence at the site see to its day-to-day maintenance.
Despite more recent alterations and modifications to kitchen and bathroom facilities to ensure the ongoing use of the site, the original detail and layout of the main buildings in the lightstation remains clearly evident today.
Although the lightstation buildings have undergone some modifications to support the ongoing use of the site, the original detail and layout of the buildings remains evident today. The layout of each of the residential buildings remains largely unaltered but the facilities have been updated.
Recent modifications to the site include the conversion of the Head Keepers and Assistant Keepers Quarters to residences for the site caretaker and for holiday accommodation. Today, the site also has had solar panel boards installed and new fencing, car park and walking trails created.
In 2012, the National Parks and Wildlife Service undertook necessary maintenance works (including rust removal, reglazing the light tower dome, treating rising damp in the residences, roof works, new paint, timber replacement and an electricity upgrade).
As a complex, the integrity of the lightstation and its ability to demonstrate its history remains strong. This ability is reflected in its contemporary use as a tourist destination.
Site operation
The current light is operated by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority. The site is managed by the Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water as part of the Beowa National Park.
Visiting
The grounds are open to the public, and the tower is open to guided tours on some days of the week. Reservations for the guided tours are recommended. Accommodation is available in the two assistant keepers' cottages which sleep up to six people each.
Heritage listing
Green Cape Maritime Precinct was listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 1 February 2013 with the following statement of significance:
See also
List of lighthouses in Australia
Notes
References
Bibliography
Attribution
External links
Australia’s iconic lighthouses, Australian Geographic, 26 July 2010
Lighthouses completed in 1883
Lighthouses in New South Wales
1883 establishments in Australia
Recipients of Engineers Australia engineering heritage markers
Articles incorporating text from the New South Wales State Heritage Register
New South Wales State Heritage Register
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USS General C. G. Morton (AP-138) was a for the U.S. Navy in World War II. She was named in honor of U.S. Army general Charles Gould Morton. She was transferred to the U.S. Army as USAT General C. G. Morton in 1946. On 1 March 1950 she was transferred to the Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS) as USNS General C. G. Morton (T-AP-138). She was later sold for commercial operation under the name SS Green Wave, before being scrapped in 1980.
Operational history
General G. G. Morton (APA-138) was built by the Kaiser Co. of Richmond, California, in 1943–44; acquired by the Navy on 18 May 1944; and commissioned 7 July 1944.
After shakedown out of San Pedro, California, she stood out independently for Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, on 1 August, arriving 16 days later and loading homeward-bound troops. On 20 August she got underway arrived San Francisco 3 September, sailed on to San Diego and departed there 16 September for the Russell Islands 39 days later in the Solomons. Embarking troops, she proceeded to Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, and thence to Nouméa, New Caledonia, before putting in at San Francisco 24 October.
General C. G. Morton steamed to San Diego and departed with a convoy 10 November, calling at Pearl Harbor six days later and reaching Guadalcanal 29 November. On 3 December she sailed for San Francisco via New Guinea, Manus Island, and Nouméa, arriving on the last day of 1944. After loading passengers at Long Beach, Calif., General C. G. Morton stood out 11 January 1945 bound for Calcutta, India, via Melbourne, Australia; she reached Melbourne 1 February and called at Calcutta 19 days later. Returning via Melbourne, Manus, Ulithi, Tinian, and Saipan, the transport arrived at San Francisco 25 April, only to get underway again 5 May for the Southwest Pacific, Hollandia, New Guinea, Leyte, and Manila, Philippines, were ports of call. General C. G. Morton touched at San Francisco 5 July before sailing three days later for the east coast. She transited the Panama Canal 17 July and put in at Boston six days later.
Following drydocking, the busy ship departed 12 August for France, touching at Marseille 22 August and returning to Newport News, Virginia, 2 September 1945. On her next voyage, the transport sailed via the Suez Canal to Karachi, India, and returned by the same route to New York. In early January 1946 General C. G. Morton repeated this trip, but sailed around the world calling at Singapore and Manila before docking at San Francisco in early March 1946. The ship's captain was to be discharged from the service upon arrival, the elongated second trip was due to his desire to see as much of the world as possible while in the Navy. As a result of the delay the troops coming home from India would boo the captain whenever he appeared on deck, which resulted in them being listed as 'mutinous'.
General C. G. Morton was delivered to the War Department for use by the Army in May 1946.
In the aftermath of the 1948 eruption of Philippine volcano Mount Hibok-Hibok, USAT General C. G. Morton was dispatched from Manila to assist in evacuations. Due to a lack of wharves at Camiguin (Mount Hibok-Hibok's location), all those fleeing had to board the ship from small craft. In the confusion no accurate number of those evacuated was available.
She was reinstated on the Navy List in March 1950 and assigned to MSTS Reserve.
During the Korean War, General C. G. Morton was reactivated and participated in the following campaigns:
North Korean Aggression, from 1 to 2 August 1950 to 8 October 1952
Communist China Aggression, 21 to 28 December 1950
First UN Counter Offensive, 10 to 11 February 1951
On 15 February 1951, east of Tokyo, Swedish tanker MV Christer Galen struck a submerged rock, breaking off a portion of the ship's bow. After receiving distress calls, General C. G. Morton and SS Marine Phoenix both helped to rescue all 47 passengers and crew.
In August 1952, General C. G. Morton arrived in San Francisco with 526 Army and Navy Korean War veterans, and 284 civilians from Hawaii.
In 1953 (month unknown), General C. G. Morton departed San Francisco with an unspecified number of troops for the Korean War. The Troops included members of the Air Force 315th Air Division, "Combat Cargo".
On 26 February 1954 General C.G. Morton arrived at Agana, Guam for a stop over en route to the port of San Francisco with military families on board. The ship reached San Francisco on about 23 April 1954, and docked at Fort Mason. 695 service members, military dependents, and civilian employees were aboard.
Struck again from the Navy List on 29 May 1958, General C. G. Morton was sold to Central Gulf Lines in 1967, and renamed SS Green Wave, USCG ON 508060, IMO 6801183. She was scrapped in Taiwan in February 1980.
General C. G. Morton received three battle stars for Korean War service.
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Snailbeach Countryside Site is an industrial archeology site in Shropshire. It is located three south of the village of Pontesbury and around from the county town of Shrewsbury. At peak of production during the 19th century, it was reputed to be extracting the largest volume of lead per acre in Europe.
History and importance
Once the biggest lead mine in the county of Shropshire, the site is conserved as a scheduled monument.
Snailbeach new smeltmill
Lead mining may have taken place around Snailbeach since Roman times and, at peak of production in the 1840s and '50s, it is reputed to have extracted the largest volume of lead per acre in Europe. Lead mining ceased at the site in 1955. Barite, calcite, fluorspar, silver and zinc were also mined in smaller amounts.
The remains of the 17th century Snailbeach new smeltmill are identified by Historic England as being of national importance as one of best preserved of the remaining sites where smelting was developed in the switch from wood to coal at the start of the industrial revolution.
The smeltmill is on Historic England's Heritage at Risk Register due to its 'very bad' condition due to invasive vegetation.
Snailbeach Mining Disaster
On the morning of 6 March 1895, seven men died after the cable lowering their cage down the mine snapped, plunging them to the shaft floor. It was reported that such was the force of the impact, that the steel cage was reduced from over in height to just , however, a watch from one of the miners was found still ticking at the scene.
Snailbeach Lead Mine Heritage Project
The council's outdoor recreation service and Shropshire Mines Trusts manage and preserve the site and have been awarded a £20,000 management grant from English Heritage to restore the Black Tom mine shaft headgear and some of the buildings. Their plans include assembling a building to store a mining jigger that was removed for restoration more than a decade ago.
There are restored mining buildings to explore in the site, including a locomotive shed, winding engine house, blacksmith's shop, compressor house and Cornish engine. A circular walk links them, but some areas may be restricted to protect residents’ privacy. Stiperstones nature reserve can be accessed from this site.
External links
Natural England description of the site
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Museums in Shropshire
Tourist attractions in Shropshire
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History of Shropshire
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Carlow College may mean:
In Carlow, County Carlow, Ireland:
Institute of Technology, Carlow
St. Patrick's, Carlow College
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Saint-Germain-en-Laye () is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France in north-central France. It is located in the western suburbs of Paris, from the centre of Paris.
Inhabitants are called Saint-Germanois or Saint-Germinois. With its elegant tree-lined streets it is one of the more affluent suburbs of Paris, combining both high-end leisure spots and exclusive residential neighborhoods (see the Golden Triangle of the Yvelines).
Saint-Germain-en-Laye is a sub-prefecture of the department. Because it includes the National Forest of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, it covers approximately , making it the largest commune in the Yvelines. It occupies a large loop of the Seine. Saint-Germain-en-Laye lies at one of the western termini of Line A of the RER.
History
Saint-Germain-en-Laye was founded in 1020 when King Robert the Pious (ruled 996–1031) founded a convent on the site of the present Church of Saint-Germain.
In 1688, James II of England exiled himself to the city after being deposed from the throne in what has become known as the Glorious Revolution. He spent the remainder of his days there, and died on 16 September 1701.
Prior to the French Revolution in 1789, it had been a royal town and the Château de Saint-Germain the residence of numerous French monarchs. The old château was constructed in 1348 by King Charles V on the foundations of an old castle (château-fort) dating from 1238 in the time of Saint Louis. Francis I was responsible for its subsequent restoration. In 1862, Napoleon III set up the Musée des Antiquités Nationales in the erstwhile royal château. This museum has exhibits ranging from Paleolithic to Celtic times. The "Dame de Brassempouy" sculpted on a mammoth's ivory tusk around 23,000 years ago is the most famous exhibit in the museum.
Kings Henry IV and Louis XIII left their mark on the town. Louis XIV was born in the château (the city's coat of arms consequently shows a cradle and the date of his birth), and established Saint-Germain-en-Laye as his principal residence from 1661 to 1681. Louis XIV turned over the château to James VII & II of Scotland and England after his exile from Britain after the Glorious Revolution in 1688. James lived in the Château for 13 years, and his daughter Louisa Maria Stuart was born in exile here in 1692. James II is buried in the parish church.
Saint-Germain-en-Laye is famous for its long stone terrace built by André Le Nôtre from 1669 to 1673. The terrace provides a view over the valley of the Seine and, in the distance, Paris. During the French Revolution, the name was changed along with many other places whose names held connotations of religion or royalty. Temporarily, Saint-Germain-en-Laye became Montagne-du-Bon-Air. During his reign, Napoleon I established his cavalry officers training school in the Château-Vieux.
The Treaty of Saint-Germain was signed in 1919 and was applied on 16 July 1920. The treaty officially registered the breakup of the Habsburg empire, which recognized the independence of Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, and the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (Yugoslavia).
During the occupation from 1940 to 1944, the town was the headquarters of the German Army.
On 1 January 2019, the former commune Fourqueux was merged into Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
Saint-Germain parish church
The parish church, which is dedicated to Germain of Paris, was originally constructed in the eleventh century, and the present building (the fourth on the site) was built in the 1820s in a Neoclassical style, with six Tuscan columns supporting a pediment on the main façade. The church houses the mausoleum of James II of England and was visited by Queen Victoria in 1855.
The organ, originally installed in 1698, was rebuilt by Aristide Cavaillé-Coll in the nineteenth century and refurbished in 1903. The church's organists have included Albert Renaud (1891–1924), Albert Alain (1924–1971) and Marie-Claire Alain (1971–2010).
Population
The population data in the table and graph below refer to the commune of Saint-Germain-en-Laye proper, in its geography at the given years. The population of Fourqueux, absorbed in 2019, is not included.
Transport
Saint-Germain-en-Laye is connected to other communes by the Résalys bus network operated by Transdev. Saint-Germain-en-Laye is served by Saint-Germain-en-Laye station on Paris RER line A.
It was also served by two stations on the Grande Ceinture Ouest branch of the Transilien Paris-Saint-Lazare suburban rail line: Saint-Germain-Bel-Air–Fourqueux and Saint-Germain–Grande Ceinture. The branch was in operation from 12 December 2004 to 28 June 2019.
On 6 July 2022 the Île-de-France tramway Line 13 Express opened, serving the two former Grande Ceinture Ouest station, as well as two additional stations within Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
The Achères–Grand-Cormier station is also situated within the Saint-Germain-en-Laye commune. It is served by the Paris RER line A and the Transilien Paris – Saint-Lazare suburban rail line. The station is located in the middle of the Forest of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, far from the urbanized part of the commune.
Sport
Football
Saint-Germain-en-Laye has a proud footballing history. From 1904 to 1970, it was represented by Stade Saint-Germain, but following a 1970 merger with Paris FC, became Paris Saint-Germain (PSG). PSG is a top-flight football team that is the most successful team in France in terms of trophies.
Sporting facilities
There is one main sporting facility in Saint-Germain-en-Laye: the Stade Municipal Georges Lefèvre. It covers over 12 hectares and contains:
– 5 football pitches
– 3 stands
– 1 athletic track
– 22 tennis courts
– 1 clubhouse
– 1 multibeach terrain
Economy
Capcom Entertainment France, a Capcom subsidiary, has its head office in Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
Education
the schools in this commune had 20,581 students, with 7,300 of them living in Saint-Germain-en-Laye. There is a high ratio of overall students to town inhabitants. The municipal nursery and primary schools have 3,549 students. 1,026 students attend private schools in the commune.
Schools
the municipality operates ten nursery schools and nine primary schools.
522 students attend the Lycée International de Saint Germain-en-Laye nursery and primary divisions. The public school consistently ranks among France's top schools and is considered to be the country's best public international school. It includes 14 different language sections, including one for Japanese students, and the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) lists that program in its group of European hoshuko (part-time Japanese educational programmes).
Public schools include:
Lycée Jeanne-d'Albret
Lycée technologique Léonard-de-Vinci
Lycée technologique Jean-Baptiste-Poquelin
Collège Marcel Roby
Private schools include:
Collège et Lycée Notre-Dame
Saint-Germain-en-Laye is also home to the Institut d'études politiques de Saint-Germain-en-Laye. The political science grande école was founded in 2013 and, as of 2023, has a student body of over 800.
Libraries
There are two libraries:
Bibliothèque multimédia
Bibliothèque George-Sand
In art
Hospital
Centre hospitalier intercommunal de Poissy-Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Notable people
Saint-Germain-en-Laye was the birthplace of:
Nobility
Henry II (1519–1559), King of France
Marie of France (1344–1404), Duchess of Bar
Jeanne d'Albret (1528–1572), Queen Regnant of Navarre
Charles IX (1550–1574), King of France
Louis de Buade de Frontenac (1622–1698), French courtier and Governor of New France
Louis XIV (1638–1715), King of France
Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, (1640–1701), younger brother of Louis XIV
Louisa Maria Teresa Stuart (1692–1712), daughter of James II of England, known to Jacobites as the Princess Royal
Charles O'Gara (1699–1777), a courtier and official of the Holy Roman Empire of Jacobite Irish descent
Musicians
Albert Renaud (1855–1924), organist
Claude Debussy (1862–1918), composer
Albert Alain (1880–1971), composer and organist
Jehan Alain (1911–1940), composer
Marie-Claire Alain (1926–2013), organist and organ teacher
Benoît Delbecq (born 1966), jazz pianist and composer
Sports
Mohamed Haddadou (born 1974), footballer
Amélie Mauresmo (born 1979), tennis player
Bruno Besson (born 1979), racing driver
Ismael Gace (born 1986), footballer
Christopher Oualembo (born 1987), footballer
Jonathan Eysseric (born 1990), tennis player
Frédéric Vieillot (born 1990), footballer
Caroline Garcia (born 1991), tennis player
Rashad Muhammed (born 1993), footballer
Gabriel Aubry (born 1998), racing driver
Scientists
Jean Albert Gaudry (1827–1908), geologist and palaeontologist
Salomon Reinach (1858–1932), archaeologist
Sylvie Vauclair (born 1946), astrophysicist
Other
John Patrick O'Gara (born 1692), soldier in the Spanish Army of Jacobite Irish descent
Charles Gautier de Vinfrais (1704–1797), hunter and encyclopédiste
Louis-Michel Letort de Lorville (1773–1815), French general of the Napoleonic Wars
Jaque Catelain (1897–1965), actor
Jacques Fesch (1930–1957), Christian mystic
Jean-Jacques Lafaye (born 1958), writer, essayist
Albert Dupontel (born 1964), actor
Emmanuelle Polack (born 1965), art historian
Virginie Greiner (born 1969), comic book scriptwriter
Christian de Boisredon (born 1974), social entrepreneur
Mélanie Thierry (born 1981), French actress
Marion Maréchal-Le Pen (born 1989), French politician
The town is also associated with:
James II of England, king who lived there in exile and is buried there
Charles-Hippolyte de Paravey, French engineer who died in the city
Gérard de Nerval (1808–1855), poet, who lived there during part of his childhood and adolescence
Gabriel de Mortillet (1821–1898) French archeologist and anthropologist, mayor of the town from 1882 to1888
Pierre de Porcaro (1904–1945), priest and prisoner-of-war during the Second World War
Twin towns – sister cities
Saint-Germain-en-Laye is twinned with:
Aschaffenburg, Germany, since 1975
Schwelm, Germany
Ayr, South Ayrshire, Scotland, since 1984
Winchester, Massachusetts, United States, since 1990
Konstancin-Jeziorna, Poland, since 1992
See also
Communes of the Yvelines department
The works of Antonin Mercié
References
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Saint-Germain-en-Laye
[http://www.mablehome.com/fortification/france/allemandes/st-germain-en-laye/saint-germain-en-laye-01.htm German bunkers in Saint-Germain-en-Laye
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HD 156411 b (also known as HIP 84787 b) is an extrasolar planet which orbits the G-type main sequence star HD 156411, located approximately 179 light years away in the constellation Ara. This planet has at least three-fourths the mass of Jupiter and takes eight-thirds years to orbit the star at a semimajor axis of 1.81 AU. However unlike most other known exoplanets, its eccentricity is not known, but it is typical that its inclination is not known. This planet was detected by HARPS on October 19, 2009, together with 29 other planets.
The planet HD 156411 b is named Sumajmajta. The name was selected in the NameExoWorlds campaign by Peru, during the 100th anniversary of the IAU. Sumaj Majta was one half of the couple involved in a tragic love story Way to the Sun by Abraham Valdelomar.
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Carmel & District Cricket Club is a cricket team based in Flintshire North Wales. They play competitive cricket in the North Wales Cricket League. They are the only Welsh village team to have defeated an international cricket team, and staged matches between national teams at their Pen-y-Gelli ground.
History
Carmel was founded as the result of a public meeting for those interested in the formation of a cricket club in September 1965. The main people behind the meeting were Norman Cross-Parry, Meirion Griffith and Bill Parker.
The club initially played at Golch ground in the village of Carmel between Lloc and Holywell.
The club's first match took place against a now defunct team made of workers from BJ Construction. The inaugural season also saw matches against Abergele, St Asaph and Northop Hall.
Eventually the Golch site was sold and the club successfully applied to the Sports Council and Delyn Borough Council for grant-aid to re-establish the club on another ground.
A site with good quality soil for a cricket square was found. Carmel began their first season at their new Pen-y-Gelli ground in 1991 and Conwy CC provided the opponents in the inaugural match. Backed by club secretary Stan Taylor, Carmel continued to develop their facilities and in July 1998 former England cricket international Tom Cartwright and Mrs Dorothy Taylor opened the new pavilion.
Carmel forayed into international cricket beginning with the Iron Curtain Cricket Tour in 2007 under the captaincy of Timothy Abraham. The touring side played Estonia in Tallinn and Latvia in Riga. Carmel defeated Estonia in the final of the Helsinki Sixes tournament in Finland, but lost twice in longer matches against the team.
A match against Russia in the Russian National Baseball Stadium in Moscow that became the tour highlight when they became the first touring side to ever visit the city.
In June 2008 the Carmel Touring XI again went overseas for the 'Ottoman Empire Tour' where they defeated Romania in Bucharest and Bulgaria in Sofia. Carmel represented 'Wales' in the Vienna World Cup Sixes competition where they were beaten in the semi-finals by an Austro-Pakistani team.
July 2008 saw Carmel stage their biggest project yet with the establishing of an eight-team European Twenty20 Championship tournament that featured Estonia and Russia. Also involved were the national teams of Slovakia, Croatia, Czech Republic and Poland as well as a Cricket Board of Wales representative side.
The tournament, which was supported by the International Cricket Council, was won by Estonia who beat Czech Republic in a dramatic last-over victory. Carmel staged the European Twenty20 tournament again in July 2009 and the national cricket teams of Croatia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Russia as well as the Island of Alderney were among those to take part. The tournament was won by a team that represented the Flanders region after they defeated hosts Carmel in a low-scoring final. Croatia won the 'plate' competition after they defeated English club side New Victoria who had replaced Estonia after they pulled out of the event. In the week preceding the EuroTwenty20 Carmel faced prestigious touring side Crusaders Australia led by Swan Richards.
Carmel's Touring XI undertook their most ambitious tour in May and June 2009 where they played in six countries in 11 days. After victory at the Lille Twenty20 tournament in France the team recorded victories over Slovakia in Hajske and over Hungary in Budapest.
One of the biggest honours for the club's touring side came later in the trip when they played the first ever international cricket match in Serbia where they ran out winners in a 40-over contest against a Belgrade Cricket Association XI. Carmel subsequently played the first international match in Macedonia when they took on a Macedonian XI in Skopje. The first of two Twenty20 clashes between the two sides was broadcast live in its entirety on national television station Sky Net.
Carmel's Touring XI toured Austria, Slovenia, and Croatia in 2010, Poland, Lithuania and Latvia in 2012, Romania and Switzerland in 2013. In 2014 they played the first ever game of cricket in Montenegro against Porto Montenegro Cricket Club as well as returning to Austria, Slovenia and Austria.
On 8 October 2009 the club lost Peter Ferguson, who died from cancer. Ferguson made 1,169 appearances, scoring 12,000 runs and 1,443 wickets.
In January 2010 the club staged an international 'Snow cricket' match at the club's Pen-y-Gelli between the club's English and Welsh players. The match ended in a tie. The club was the first team in the North Wales Cricket League to embrace social networking sites Facebook and Twitter
Carmel's First XI captain for the 2015 season is Barry Mcgauty, Second XI skipper is Christopher Jones and Third XI captain is Nick Hughes.
References
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Carmel & District CC website
Carmel % District CC play-cricket website
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Gustavo Daniel Cabral (born 14 October 1985) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Liga MX club Pachuca.
Club career
Born in Isidro Casanova, Cabral made his first team debut in 2003 for Racing Club. He played 112 games for Racing until 2008, when he joined River Plate. Cabral was a first team regular in River's defense during the Torneo Clausura 2008 won by the club.
After being highly contested by River's supporters, Cabral moved abroad, joining Mexican club Tecos F.C. in June 2010. Despite being a regular with the Mexican side, he returned to his country in the following year, signing with Arsenal de Sarandí.
On 10 August 2011, Cabral was loaned to La Liga side Levante UD in a season-long deal. He made his division debut on 3 December, coming on as a second-half substitute in a 0–5 away loss against FC Barcelona. On 13 June 2012, Cabral was loaned to fellow top-divisioner Celta de Vigo. He signed permanently with the Celestes in the 2013 summer.
On 14 June 2019, after seven years with Celta, Cabral left for Mexican side C.F. Pachuca.
International career
In 2005 Cabral was part of the Argentina U20 team that won the 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship. In 2007 Cabral was called up to the national team for a friendly against Chile but did not feature in the match.
Career statistics
Honours
River Plate
Argentine Primera División: 2008 Clausura
Pachuca
Liga MX: Apertura 2022
Argentina U20
FIFA U-20 World Cup: 2005
Individual
Liga MX All-Star: 2022
References
External links
Football-Lineups profile
Argentine Primera statistics at Futbol XXI
1985 births
Living people
Sportspeople from La Matanza Partido
Argentine people of Spanish descent
Argentine men's footballers
Argentina men's under-20 international footballers
Men's association football defenders
Argentine Primera División players
Liga MX players
La Liga players
Club Atlético River Plate footballers
Racing Club de Avellaneda footballers
Tecos F.C. footballers
Levante UD footballers
RC Celta de Vigo players
Argentine expatriate men's footballers
Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Spain
Expatriate men's footballers in Mexico
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Connect Airways was a consortium formed in December 2018 to acquire the British regional airline Flybe, which had put itself up for sale in November 2018 after issuing a profit warning the previous month, The consortium comprised Virgin Atlantic and the Irish wet-lease specialist airline Stobart Air.
The consortium was founded by Virgin Atlantic, Stobart Aviation and Cyrus Capital Partners through its Luxembourg-based vehicle DLP Holdings. Virgin and Stobart each held 30% of the capital with Cyrus holding the remaining 40%. Cyrus Capital had previously worked with Virgin Group on the launch of its Virgin America airline and its subsequent sale to Alaska Airlines.
The purchase of the operating assets of the Flybe Group was completed on 21 February 2019.
On 5 March 2020, the consortium was unable to commit further financial support and Flybe entered administration, ceasing all operations. On 10 March 2020, Connect Airways in turn entered administration.
History
On 11 January 2019, Connect Airways made a £2.2 million cash offer to take over the entire share capital of Flybe, subject to shareholder and court approval. The offer also included the acquisition of Stobart Air shortly before the Flybe takeover.
On 15 January 2019, Connect Airways increased its offer by £600,000, and set out improved bridging loan conditions, with £10 million to be released immediately to support Flybe's business, and a further £10 million available. Subsequent funding of £80 million was also confirmed. Flybe Group accepted the £2.8 million offer and noted that its shares had been transferred to a standard listing, effective on 17 January, meaning that shareholder approval for the sale of the group's operating assets, i.e. the airline and the website, would no longer be required. The deadline for the deal to close was 22 February 2019.
On 21 February 2019, Flybe Group confirmed that its operating assets, i.e. the airline and the website, had indeed been transferred to Connect Airways, despite a last-minute rival bid. The sale of the parent company, Flybe Group plcnow an empty shell was confirmed by its shareholders at a meeting on 4 March and became effective on 11 March.
On 5 July 2019, merger clearance from the European Commission was granted, giving Connect Airways full control of the Flybe assets. This was conditional on Connect Airways releasing slot pairs at both Amsterdam–Schiphol and Paris–Charles de Gaulle.
In 2020 the consortium would have rebranded Flybe as Virgin Connect and changed its values to align the airline with the Virgin brand. The aim was to create a "fully-fledged UK network carrier" with an enhanced presence at Heathrow and Manchester airports. Flybe and Stobart Air would have however retained their own Air Operator Certificates and Stobart Air's franchise/wet lease operations for other airlines would have continued. Virgin Atlantic had previously operated domestic routes from Heathrow under their Virgin Atlantic Little Red subsidiary between 2013 and 2015; these routes were subsequently taken over by Flybe in 2017.
, the Virgin Connect website contained some basic information and FAQs about the further plans for the rebranding but would have eventually become the website used to book flights from 2020.
The Virgin group also launched a new landing page to avoid confusion with the existing Virgin Connect brand used in Russia for internet and mobile services.
In February 2020, the UK government envisaged granting Flybe a £100 million rescue loan, and held talks with the EU Commission to ensure that state aid rules were not broken.
In the early morning of 5 March 2020, Flybe filed for administration and ceased all operations with immediate effect after the UK government failed to grant a proposed £100 million ($129 million) loan. Virgin Atlantic stated that Connect Airways could "no longer commit to continued financial support" despite its investment of over £135 million, and placed part of the blame on the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Flybe's trading.
On 10 March 2020, Connect Airways in turn entered administration.
On 27 April 2020, Stobart Group bought back Stobart Air and Propius Leasing from Connect Airways administrators Ernst & Young, for an initial payment of £300,000 and deferred consideration that could total £8.25 million.
References
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Virgin Group
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Roscoe Holcomb, (born Roscoe Halcomb September 5, 1912 – died February 1, 1981) was an American singer, banjo player, and guitarist from Daisy, Kentucky. A prominent figure in Appalachian folk music, Holcomb was the inspiration for the term "high, lonesome sound," coined by folklorist and friend John Cohen. The "high lonesome sound" term is now used to describe bluegrass singing, although Holcomb was not, strictly speaking, a bluegrass performer.
Performance style
Holcomb's repertoire included old-time music, hymns, traditional music and blues ballads. In addition to playing the banjo and guitar, he was a competent harmonica and fiddle player, and sang many of his most memorable songs a cappella. Holcomb stated "Up till then the blues were only inside me; Blind Lemon was the first to 'let out' the blues."
Holcomb sang in a nasal style informed by the Old Regular Baptist vocal tradition. Bob Dylan, a fan of Holcomb, described his singing as possessing "an untamed sense of control." He was also admired by the Stanley Brothers and Eric Clapton, who cited Holcomb as his favorite country musician.
Life and career
A coal miner, construction laborer and farmer for much of his life, Holcomb was not recorded until 1958, after which his career as a professional musician was bolstered by the folk revival in the 1960s. Holcomb gave his last live performance in 1978. Due to what he described as injuries he sustained during his long career as a laborer, Holcomb was eventually unable to work for more than short periods, and his later income came primarily from his music. Suffering from asthma and emphysema as a result of working in coal mines, he died in a nursing home in 1981, at the age of 68.
Holcomb is buried at the Arch Halcomb Cemetery in Leatherwood, Kentucky. His tombstone bears his given name of Halcomb rather than Holcomb.
Discography
Holcomb's discography includes the following albums released on LP during his lifetime:
The Music of Roscoe Holcomb and Wade Ward, Folkways Records, 1962
The High Lonesome Sound, Folkways Records, 1965
Close to Home, Folkways Records, 1975
The following single-artist compilations have been released since his death:
The High Lonesome Sound, Smithsonian Folkways, 1998
An Untamed Sense of Control, Smithsonian Folkways, 2003
Holcomb's work appears on many multiple-artist compilations, including the following released during his lifetime:
Mountain Music of Kentucky, Folkways Records, 1960 (6 of 29 tracks)
FOTM – Friends of Old Time Music, Folkways Records, 1964 (2 of 16 tracks)
Zabriskie Point (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), MGM Records, 1970 (1 of 11 tracks)
3rd Annual Brandywine Mountain Music Convention – '76 Music of Kentucky, Heritage Records [Virginia], 1977 (2 of 14 tracks)
References
External links
Short biography from CMT.com
Review and short biography by Tom Netherland
John Cohen's documentary 'The High Lonesome Sound'
Television appearance on Pete Seeger's Rainbow Quest
1912 births
1981 deaths
American country guitarists
American folk guitarists
American male guitarists
American country singer-songwriters
American folk singers
American banjoists
American country banjoists
Old-time musicians
People from Perry County, Kentucky
Musicians from Appalachia
20th-century American singer-songwriters
Folk musicians from Kentucky
Country musicians from Kentucky
Singer-songwriters from Kentucky
Bluegrass musicians from Kentucky
20th-century American guitarists
Guitarists from Kentucky
20th-century American male musicians
American male singer-songwriters
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Avon Riley (February 10, 1958 – July 2, 2020) was an American football linebacker in the National Football League. He was drafted by the Houston Oilers in the ninth round of the 1981 NFL Draft. He played college football at UCLA. Riley also played for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
He died on July 2, 2020, in Houston, Texas, at age 62.
References
1958 births
2020 deaths
Players of American football from Savannah, Georgia
American football linebackers
College of the Canyons Cougars football players
UCLA Bruins football players
Houston Oilers players
Pittsburgh Steelers players
National Football League replacement players
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The Milt Grant Show was a teen dance television show hosted by Milton "Milt" Grant (1923–2007). It aired on WTTG (channel 5), an independent station in Washington, D.C., from 1956 until 1961. Similar in tone to Philadelphia station WFIL-TV's Bandstand, the program was not only the market's highest-rated television program throughout much of its run but preceded a lifelong career in television station management and ownership for Grant. The program was regarded as a cultural icon of late 1950s and early 1960s Washington.
Background
Milton Grant's broadcasting career began in radio after graduating from Columbia University and New York University, with stints at WARM in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Washington, D.C. stations WTOP and WINX from 1947 to 1953. Working exclusively at WOL starting in 1953, Grant started hosting the weekly movie, dancing and talent show program Marion Showcase over WTTG the following year.
Full-time TV work
WTTG launched Milt Grant's Record Hop on July 22, 1956, with WOL simulcasting the television station's audio. Grant's show, which had added support of area police and civic organizations as a "constructive approach" against juvenile delinquency, originated from a ballroom at the Raleigh Hotel six days a week (weekday afternoons at 5 p.m. and noon on Saturdays). Grant both produced the show and sold its advertising, with Pepsi as his most notable client. After signing a contract with WTTG in October 1956, Grant severed his ties with WOL. The show began to be referred to as The Milt Grant Show by April 1957.
During its five-year run, the show became a Washington cultural touchstone. High-profile stars of the day—such as Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Frankie Avalon, Nat King Cole, Bobby Darin, Ike & Tina Turner, Harry Belafonte, and Fabian—as well as regional acts like The Jaguars, a band featuring Charlie Daniels, were guests on the show during its run. Carl Bernstein, later an investigative reporter, described himself as a "semiregular" dancer on the show. Mark Opsasnick, a cultural historian whose book Capitol Rock chronicles the history of rock and roll music in the Washington area, credited Grant with being "one of the most important pioneers" in the genre's early years locally. When the ABC network debuted American Bandstand and the two shows aired opposite each other, the Grant program attracted higher ratings in Washington. The program was also lucrative for Grant; at one point, Grant's contract had to be renegotiated because he was making more money than John Kluge, the CEO of WTTG owner Metropolitan Broadcasting.
However, not everyone was always welcome on the show. Black dancers were only allowed on Tuesdays, and they were not allowed to dance with White partners. Years after Grant's run ended, it would fall to WOOK-TV, a new ultra high frequency (UHF) station that pioneered programming for the Black community in Washington, to fill this gap for Black audiences with its Teenarama Dance Party.
Cancellation
WTTG opted to cancel The Milt Grant Show after its April 15, 1961, edition. The move disappointed Grant, baffled media experts, and led high schoolers to picket The Washington Post, hoping to draw attention to their cause. Grant then started hosting weekend shows on a "teen network" of four suburban Washington stations: WPGC, WAVA, WINX, and WEEL.
Grant went on to a career in independent station management and ownership, which began with the founding of WDCA-TV (channel 20) in Washington in 1966 and continued in other cities until he died in 2007. However, he expressed continued fondness for the time he spent hosting The Milt Grant Show. In 1990, when he returned to Washington for a National Archives screening of the only surviving footage of the program, he called his time hosting the program "very important". He told the audience, "We were part of the great new beginning of television and there was just so much energy. It made me fall in love with television and all its powers." Grant would later note the importance of his disc jockey years in his career as a television station owner: "I learned about the audiences and how to influence them so they respond to what you ask them to do."
See also
The Buddy Deane Show
The Clay Cole Show
The Groovy Show
John Waters
References
Dance television shows
Local music television shows in the United States
1956 American television series debuts
1961 American television series endings
1950s American teen television series
1960s American teen television series
1950s American music television series
1960s American music television series
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Lauren B. Alloy (born Lauren Helene Bersh; November 22, 1953) is an American psychologist, recognized for her research on mood disorders. Along with colleagues Lyn Abramson and Gerald Metalsky, she developed the hopelessness theory of depression. With Abramson, she also developed the depressive realism hypothesis. Alloy is a professor of psychology at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Biography
Alloy was born in Philadelphia in 1953. She earned her B.A. in Psychology in 1974 and her Ph.D. in experimental and clinical psychology in 1979, both from the University of Pennsylvania. Her graduate school mentors were psychologists Martin Seligman and Richard Solomon.
Alloy was a faculty member at Northwestern University from 1979 to 1989. She has been a professor of psychology in the Department of Psychology at Temple University since 1989. Her research focuses on cognitive, interpersonal, and biopsychosocial processes in the onset and maintenance of depression and bipolar disorder. She is the author of over 250 scholarly publications.
In the late 1970s, Alloy and her longtime collaborator Abramson demonstrated that depressed individuals held a more accurate view than their non-depressed counterparts in a test which measured illusion of control. This finding, termed "depressive realism", held true even when the depression was manipulated experimentally.
Selected awards
2014 - Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Lifetime Achievement Award (jointly with Lyn Abramson)
2014 - Society for Research in Psychopathology Joseph Zubin Award
2009 - Association for Psychological Science James McKeen Cattell Award for Lifetime Achievement in Applied Psychological Research (jointly with Lyn Abramson)
2003 - Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology Distinguished Scientist Award (jointly with Lyn Abramson)
2002 - American Psychological Association Master Lecturer Award in Psychopathology (jointly with Lyn Abramson)
1984 - American Psychological Association Young Psychologist Award
Selected works
Alloy, L.B., & Abramson, L.Y. (2007). Depressive realism. In R. Baumeister & K. Vohs (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Social Psychology (pp. 242–243). New York: Sage Publications.
Alloy, L. B., Kelly, K. A., Mineka, S., & Clements, C. M. (1990). Comorbidity of anxiety and depressive disorders: a helplessness-hopelessness perspective.
Abramson, L. Y., Metalsky, G. I., & Alloy, L. B. (1989). Hopelessness depression: A theory-based subtype of depression. Psychological review, 96(2), 358.
Alloy, L.B., & Abramson, L.Y. (1988). Depressive realism: Four theoretical perspectives. In L.B. Alloy (Ed.), Cognitive processes in depression. New York: Guilford.
Alloy, L. B., & Tabachnik, N. (1984). Assessment of covariation by humans and animals: the joint influence of prior expectations and current situational information. Psychological review, 91(1), 112.
Alloy, L. B., & Abramson, L. Y. (1979). Judgment of contingency in depressed and nondepressed students: Sadder but wiser?. Journal of experimental psychology: General, 108(4), 441.
References
External links
Temple University faculty page
1953 births
American women psychologists
Bipolar disorder researchers
Living people
Temple University faculty
University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences alumni
American women academics
21st-century American women scientists
American clinical psychologists
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Kuy-e Lotf (, also Romanized as Kūy-e Loţf; also known as Kūh-e Loţf and Kūh Loţf) is a village in Eshen Rural District, Mehrdasht District, Najafabad County, Isfahan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 14, in 6 families.
References
Populated places in Najafabad County
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The 2011 Tour of Slovenia () was the 18th edition of the Tour of Slovenia, categorized as 2.1 stage race (UCI Europe Tour) held between 16 and 19 June 2011.
The race consisted of 4 stages with 547.8 km (340.4 mi) in total.
Teams
Total 115 riders (97 finished it) from 15 teams started the race.
UCI ProTeams
Saxo Bank–SunGard
UCI Professional Continental
UCI Continental
Route and stages
Classification leadership
Final classification standings
General classification
Points classification
Mountains classification
Young rider classification
Team classification
Notes
References
External links
wvcycling.com
procyclingstats.com
cyclingarchives.com
2011
Tour of Slovenia
2011 in road cycling
June 2011 sports events in Europe
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The Meteor Theatre is a black box theatre in Hamilton, New Zealand. Run since 2014 by the One Victoria Trust, the theatre is located in a former soft drinks factory at the southern end of Victoria Street in the central city. Various configurations of the space are possible, allowing up to 650 patrons to attend performances, with the main auditorium, "The Black Box", capable of seating 150.
Significant refurbishment of the building took place in 2018 to bring the building up to modern day earthquake standards. A funding campaign raised more than $13,000 and a donation from the Hamilton City Council of $20,000 allowed the theatre to reopen after two months of COVID-19 induced lockdown in 2020. On reopening in June 2020, some performances sold out.
The 2021 season includes "Heathers – The Musical", produced by Hannah Mooney, with director Mel Martin, musical director Kirsty Skomski and choreographer Stephanie Balsom.
References
External links
The Meteor Theatre
Culture in Hamilton, New Zealand
Theatres in New Zealand
Buildings and structures in Hamilton, New Zealand
Tourist attractions in Hamilton, New Zealand
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Ee-mat-la, also known as King Phillip, (9 October 1739 - 8 October 1839) was a Seminole chief during the Second Seminole War.
He was captured while camped at Dunlawton plantation, and held at Fort Marion. He died while being transported west in 1839.
He was "also a very aged chief, who has been a man of great notoriety and distinction in his time, but has now got too old for further warlike enterprize."
His son was Coacoochee (Wild Cat).
References
External links
Ee-mat-la, Catlin sketch, Ayer Art Digital Collection (Newberry Library)
Seminolee. 154-156. Ee-mat-la (King Phillip), Ye-how-lo-gee (the Cloud), Co-ee-ha-jo (- - -), three Seminolee warriors w... (1850), NYPL digital library
ee-mat-la, George Catlin, Smithsonian American Art Museum
Ruins of sugar mill, Dunlawton plantation
FLORIDA 32) Dunlawton Plantation Sugar Mill Ruins, National Register of Historic Places
Battle of Dunlawton Plantation - Port Orange, FL
1739 births
1839 deaths
Pre-statehood history of Florida
Native American leaders
Native Americans of the Seminole Wars
18th-century Seminole people
18th-century Native American leaders
19th-century Seminole people
Native Americans imprisoned at Fort Marion
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Maurice Williams (born August 25, 1972), known by his stage names Hefe Wine, NuWine, and Wine-O, is an American rapper and producer from Houston, Texas. In 2006, his single "Pop My Trunk" appeared on the Billboard Top 100. He has worked with Mike Jones, Kiotti, Letoya Luckett, Daz Dillinger, Lil Wayne, and Paul Wall.
In 2014, he received media attention following the release of a sex tape featuring Williams and his former girlfriend Iggy Azalea.
Early life
Maurice Williams was raised in Houston. At the age of 15, after a troubled childhood in a dysfunctional family with an alcoholic father, he started stealing cars.
Music career
In 1996, he released his debut album, Bloody 5th. He has since released 17 albums, and secured record label deals with EMI and Universal Records.
Beyoncé featured his track "Pop My Trunk" on her 2016 Formation tour.
References
External links
Hefe Wine's Twitter
Hefe Wine's MTV
African-American male rappers
American male rappers
Rappers from Houston
Underground rappers
Southern hip hop musicians
Living people
1975 births
21st-century American rappers
21st-century American male musicians
21st-century African-American musicians
20th-century African-American people
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An election to Cavan County Council took place on 5 June 2009 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 25 councillors were elected from six local electoral areas (LEAs) for a five-year term of office on the electoral system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).
Results by party
Results by local electoral area
Bailieborough
Ballyjamesduff
Belturbet
Cavan
External links
Official website
Cavan
Cavan County Council elections
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Markus Boysen (born 3 September 1954) is a German actor.
Born in Hannover, Markus Boysen is the son of stage actor Rolf Boysen and the brother of director and scenic designer Peer Boysen. He received his acting education from the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg. He got his first television part in 1977 in Wolfgang Petersen's legendary Tatort TV movie Reifezeugnis, where he played the victim who was murdered by Nastassja Kinski.
Boysen has mostly worked on the stage, playing, among other places at: Schauspielhaus Bochum, Opern- und Schauspielhaus Frankfurt, Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf, Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, Deutsches Theater Berlin, Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel München, Burgtheater Wien, Thalia Theater Hamburg and Münchner Kammerspiele. He has also had recurring appearances in television dramas such as Derrick, Der Alte, Kanzleramt and Tatort, as well as feature films, including:
Filmography (selection)
1977: Tatort: Reifezeugnis
1978: Derrick, Season 5, Episode 5: "Steins Tochter"
1981: Derrick, Season 8, Episode 3: "Kein Garten Eden"
1986: Die Reise
1990: Wilhelm Tell
2003: (as Helmut Schmidt)
2004: Die Heilerin
2004:
2005: Speer und Er
2006:
2009: Operation Guardian Angel
2010: Tatort: Weil sie böse sind
2010:
2012: Lena Fauch und die Tochter des Amokläufers
Radio drama roles
1986 - Berengar von Arundel in Der Name der Rose (BR/SWR/NDR)
1981 - Ford Prefect in Per Anhalter ins All (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) (BR/SWF/WDR)
Honors
2008 Rolf-Mares-Preis for his acting in Blackbird at the Hamburg Kammerspiele
External links
1954 births
Living people
Actors from Hanover
German male stage actors
German male film actors
German male television actors
20th-century German male actors
21st-century German male actors
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Ilyas Hussain Ibrahim (, born 5 May 1957) is a Maldivian politician.
He was an official in the Ministry of Atolls Development from 1990 to 2004, then a member of the Special Majilis (parliament) representing A.DH Atoll from 2004 to 2008.
Between 2008 and 2013 he was deputy minister or minister of state for Immigration and Emigration, Housing and Environment, and then Defense and National Security.
Early life (1957–90)
According to his website, Ilyas Hussain Ibrahim was born on 5 May 1957 in Kaafu Atoll, Maldives.
His father, Hussain Ibrahim Fulhu, was on official at the Central Bank of Maldives.
Ilyas Hussain Ibrahim says he studied in Pakistan for three years, in Saudi Arabia for ten years and in the United States for one year.
He edited Maldivian student magazines in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.
From 1974 to 1991 he coordinated the Athama Hajj Group, organizing and accompanying Hajj visits to Mecca for Maldivian pilgrims.
He attended the Islamic University of Madinah in Medina, Saudi Arabia, and obtained a BA in 1983 and a higher diploma in 1984.
He is married and has two daughters.
Ilyas's website states that from 1984 to 1990 he worked at the Islamic Center in Malé.
From 1986 to 1990 he owned and edited the Manthiri monthly magazine.
Early political career (1990–2008)
From 1990 to 1993 Ilyas was Assistant Under Secretary at the Ministry of Atoll Development.
From 1998 to 2004 he was Deputy Director at the Ministry of Atolls Development.
Ilyas Hussein, along with two friends Abdulla Saeed (Kottey) and Mohamed Nasheed (Anni), began registering a political party in 2001.
Forty-two people signed and forwarded a proposal to the government to form the Maldives Democratic Party or MDP.
From 2004 to 2008 Ilyas Hussain was a member of the Special Majlis (Parliament) as representative for Alif Dhaal Atoll.
Ilyas was a founding member of Gaumee Itthihaad (the National Unity Party) in 2008.
Gaumee Itthihaad was headed by Mohammed Waheed Hassan, the 5th President of the Maldives from 7 February 2012 to 17 November 2013.
In early October 2008 Gaumee Itthihaad formed a coalition with the Maldivian Democratic Party.
The MDP Itthihaad fielded Mohamed Nasheed (leader of MDP) as presidential candidate and Dr. Waheed as vice presidential candidate in the October 2008 presidential election. This was the first democratic election in the history of the country and ended the 30-year reign of President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom.
Ministry positions (2008–13)
Ilyas Hussain Ibrahim was appointed Controller of Immigration & Emigration (Deputy Minister Level) on 13 November 2008, succeeding K. D. Ahmed Maniku.
He held office until 22 February 2011, when he was replaced by Abdulla Shahid.
In January 2011 Ilyas expressed concern over the growing number of expatriates in the Maldives working illegally.
There were about 80,000 expatriates in the Maldives, out of a total population of almost 350,000, of whom at least 30,000 were illegal. Ilyas noted problems that included loss of visa revenue, drain of money abroad, crime and religious extremism.
On 21 February 2011 President Mohamed Nasheed appointed Ilyas Hussain Ibrahim as Minister of State for Housing and Environment.
He exchanged places with Abdulla Shahid, who became Minister of State, Controller of Immigration and Emigration.
From 2011 to 2012 he was Minister of State for Housing and Environment.
In July 2011, as Chief Coordinator of the National Disaster Management Centre he spoke to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons, Chaloka Beyani. Benyani was examining issues related to people displaced by the 2004 tsunami.
Ilyas was appointed Minister of State, Controller of Immigration & Emigration on 8 February 2012, replacing Abdulla Shahid.
He held office until 24 May 2012, when he was replaced by Dr. Mohamed Ali.
On 24 May 2012 President Mohammed Waheed Hassan appointed Ilyas Hussain Ibrahim as Minister of State for Defence and National Security.
He held office until 2013. From 2012 to 2013 he was a board director of the Housing Development Corporation in Malé.
Later career (from 2013)
There were allegations of corruption in the award of the contract for the border control system (BCS) project to Nexbis Limited of Malaysia while Ilyas Hussain Ibrahim was Controller of Immigration.
Parliament decided to halt the project. In February 2013 President Waheed said he had no part in the award, which had been made during the government of former president Mohamed Nasheed.
He noted that the cabinet had discussed the matter twice, and it had been awarded through a tender process.
Ilyas is the brother-in-law of President Waheed. It was rumored that this relationship had caused the president to avoid comment.
On 27 February 2013 it was reported that Ilyas and Sami Ageel, a former director of the Finance ministry, had been charged with corruption related to the BCS project award.
At a court hearing in April 2013 Ilyas denied the charges, which he said had no legal basis.
On 25 December 2013 it was reported that former president Mohamed Waheed had decided to join the ruling Progressive Party of Maldives (PPM) after the Gaumee Ihthihaad Party had been dissolved. Ilyas Hussain Ibrahim was among the other leading GIP politicians who also said they were moving to the PPM.
Notes
Living people
Maldivian Democratic Party politicians
Maldivian writers
Expatriates in Saudi Arabia
Maldivian expatriates in Pakistan
1957 births
Maldivian Muslims
20th-century Maldivian writers
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The Watson peroral small intestinal biopsy capsule was a system used through from the 1960s to obtain small intestinal wall biopsies in patients with suspected coeliac disease and other diseases affecting the proximal small bowel.
A similar device known as the Crosby-Kugler capsule was also developed in the 1950s and utilized for similar purposes.
References
Medical equipment
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Upyna (, Samogitian: Opīna) is a small town in Šilalė district municipality, Tauragė County, in western Lithuania. According to the 2011 census, the town has a population of 375 people.
History
In 1941, 100 Jews were massacred in a mass execution by an Einsatzgruppen. There is a small memorial at the execution site.
Gallery
References
Towns in Lithuania
Towns in Tauragė County
Rossiyensky Uyezd
Holocaust locations in Lithuania
Šilalė District Municipality
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Bobó de camarão, sometimes referred to as shrimp bobó in English, is a chowder-like Brazilian dish of shrimp in a purée of manioc (or cassava) meal with coconut milk, herbs, ginger, and other ingredients.
Origin
Shrimp bobó is nearly identical to the West African dish Ipetê, and it is one of the many iconic recipes from the Bahia region of Brazil, which is known for its heavy Afro-Brazilian characteristics. The name bobó comes from the Fon word bovô.
Preparation
Like many similar dishes, it is flavored with palm oil, called dendê in Brazilian Portuguese. It is traditionally served with white rice, but it may also be served with another manioc dish called pirão or with the ritual Candomblé dish acaçá. It can also be treated as a standalone side dish. In the state of Espírito Santo, due to Italian influences, olive oil is used instead of palm oil.
See also
List of Brazilian dishes
List of cream soups
References
Brazilian stews
Shrimp dishes
Bahia
Fish and seafood soups
Cream soups
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Dinakar Masanu Salunke is an immunologist and structural biologist Presently, he is the Director of International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) New Delhi. Earlier he was the Executive Director of newly established Regional Centre for Biotechnology (RCB), an institution jointly set up by Department of Biotechnology (India) and UNESCO at Faridabad. He is the recipient of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology in the category of biological sciences (year 2000) and Fellow of all major science academies in India.
Education and personal life
Salunke was born and brought up at Belgaum, Karnataka, India. He earned his B.Sc. in Physics, Mathematics and Statistics (1976), and M.Sc. in Physics (1978) from Karnataka University, Dharwad. After completion of his M.Sc. with first class distinction, he joined Prof. M. Vijayan for his Ph.D. degree at Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He did his postdoctoral research at Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States (year 1985–88).
Salunke is married to Madhuri and the couple has one daughter. They live in Delhi.
Professional career
Salunke joined the National Institute of Immunology (NII), Delhi in 1988 as a staff scientist and worked there until 2015 at (NII), Delhi. From Nov 2015 onwards, Dr. Salunke nurtured the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology as its first director. Previously, he headed the newly established Regional Centre for Biotechnology, an institution of education, training and research, as its first executive director (years 2010–2015). He has also served as the executive director of the Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI), Delhi (years 2010–2011).
For more than 3 decades, he has extensively worked in the field of immunology involving structural biology of immune recognition, molecular mimicry and allergy.
Awards and recognitions
Salunke has been awarded Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology (Category –Biological Sciences, Year 2000) from Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). He is fellow of all the 3 major science academies in India e.g. Indian Academy of Sciences (IAS), Bangalore; Indian National Science Academy (INSA), Delhi; National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI), Allahabad. He was recently elected as Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS).
Other achievements include the GN Ramachandran Gold Medal for Excellence in Biological Science & Technology from Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India (2011)
References
Living people
Scientists from Karnataka
Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology
Indian Institute of Science alumni
Indian immunologists
People from Belgaum
N-BIOS Prize recipients
20th-century Indian biologists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Biological Science
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