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" Harlan and Hollingsworth was, by the time of the American Civil War, the dominant iron shipbuilder in Wilmington, and the most prolific iron shipbuilder in the United States. By 1860 the company had built 75 iron hulls, mostly steamships along with a handful of barges. (Brown, 1951) During the Civil War the company won contracts for the construction of three monitors for the government (""Patapsco"", ""Saugus"", and ""Napa""). The Navy, however, ordered many last-minute design changes to these vessels resulting in delays while the changes were incorporated into the construction. The extra expenses incurred reduced profits, and as a result the company became reluctant to bid on government contracts. In 1863, Jacob Sharp left their employ to form Jackson & Sharp, another car-building firm, with Job Jackson.
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" In 1866 Elijah Hollingsworth died in a shipyard accident. His death greatly affected Samuel Harlan, so that shortly thereafter the partnership was dissolved and the enterprise incorporated as The Harlan & Hollingsworth Company. Harlan & Hollingsworth thrived despite competition from Jackson & Sharp and other Wilmington yards, in part because of their diversified production of railroad car building and shipbuilding. However, the Panic of 1873 and the death of Charles Morgan (their largest customer) induced the company to undertake government contracts again. These included the construction of the sloop ""Ranger"" and the long (16 year) construction of the <nowiki>""New Navy""</nowiki> monitor ""USS Amphitrite (BM-2)"". Despite this experience Harlan & Hollingsworth constructed three more torpedo boat destroyers for the Navy, the ""Stringham"", ""Hull"", and ""Hopkins"".
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" Other notable vessels built by Harlan & Hollingsworth include ""Mischief"", winner of the fourth America's Cup in 1881. Another notable vessel they built in 1887 was the Yampa, which lead to other ships built for the German Emperor William II.
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" The company followed Jackson & Sharp into narrow gauge car building, but were not in the forefront of steel car construction. In the 1880s orders for ferries and coastal steamships started picking up again, so much that by the end of the 19th century, the company was the largest employer in Wilmington. In 1896-1897 they built the ""Catawissa""; it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. Also on the National Register is the ""Rosinco"", built by Harlan and Hollingsworth in 1916.
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" On December 10, 1904, the company was acquired by Bethlehem Steel and operated as part of their shipbuilding division. The name changed from Harlan & Hollingsworth to the Harlan Plant of Bethlehem Steel. The shipyard closed in 1926, although it was reopened for a time during the Second World War and part of the shipyard was used by the Dravo Corporation until 1964. Railcars were built on the site until 1940, and parts for railroad cars until 1944. Most of the company's buildings have been demolished for new development, but the office building survives and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
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"= = = Dorothy Scarborough = = =
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" Emily Dorothy Scarborough (January 27, 1878 – November 7, 1935) was an American writer who wrote about Texas, folk culture, cotton farming, ghost stories and women's life in the Southwest.
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" Scarborough was born in Mount Carmel, Texas. At the age of four she moved to Sweetwater, Texas for her mother's health, as her mother needed the drier climate. The family soon left Sweetwater in 1887, so that the Scarborough children could get a good education at Baylor College.
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" Even though Scarborough's writings are identified with Texas, she studied at University of Chicago and Oxford University and beginning in 1916 taught literature at Columbia University.
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" While receiving her PhD from Columbia, she wrote a dissertation, ""The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction (1917)"". Sylvia Ann Grider writes in a critical introduction the dissertation ""was so widely acclaimed by her professors and colleagues that it was published and it has become a basic reference work.""
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" Dorothy Scarborough came in contact with many writers in New York, including Edna Ferber and Vachel Lindsay. She taught creative writing classes at Columbia. Among her creative writing students were Eric Walrond, and Carson McCullers, who took her first college writing class from Scarborough.
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" Her most critically acclaimed book, ""The Wind"" (first published anonymously in 1925), was later made into a film of the same name starring Lillian Gish.
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" Biographical Essay on the Handbook of Texas Online
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" Foreword to ""The Wind"" by Sylvia Ann Grider, Barker Texas History Center series, University of Texas Press, 1979.
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"= = = Harlan and Hollingsworth Office Building = = =
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" The Harlan and Hollingsworth Office Building is a historic office building located in Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware. It was completed in 1912, and stands on the corner of West St. and the Wilmington Rail Viaduct. It is a three-story, detached, rectangular brick-faced building with two small rear wings in the Colonial Revival style. It features two large, decorated copper-faced bay windows projecting from each face of the right corner of the second story.
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" By 1910, existing office facilities at the Harlan Plant of Bethlehem Steel (formerly Harlan and Hollingsworth) had become inadequate, and work started on a new office building. It survived the closing of the Harlan Plant in 1944, and once housed laboratories for Gates Engineering Company. The building was purchased by 100 South West Street Associates in 1991 and restored.
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" It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
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"= = = Battle of Bukoba = = =
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" The Battle of Bukoba was the first victory for Entente forces in German East Africa, coming after the disastrous battles of Tanga and Jassin. The British objective was the destruction of the Bukoba wireless station. Due to Bukoba's location on the shore of Lake Victoria, it was decided that the raid should take the form of an amphibious assault.
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" The raid was launched from Kisumu in British East Africa on 21 June 1915. Amongst the units chosen for the attack were the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment and the 25th (Frontiersmen) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, more commonly known by their nickname the 25th 'Frontiersmen'. This unusual unit had been created by Colonel Daniel Patrick Driscoll as an irregular skirmish force shaped by his experiences during the Second Boer War, and drawn largely from his peacetime paramilitary group, the Legion of Frontiersmen. A number of big game hunters were recruited to the force by Driscoll—most notably Frederick Selous, who was 64 when he joined and who died in action at the age of 65.
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" Upon reaching the objective at Bukoba the attackers were accidentally landed in a large swamp and were pinned down by fierce rifle and machine gun fire from the German positions. Finally managing to escape the swamp, the British force was then stalled by snipers. The attack continued for a further two days in the town; however, casualties were light on both sides. The Frontiersmen took the town on 23 June. An Australian member of the unit, Lieutenant Wilbur Dartnell, climbed to the top of the town hall and removed the German Imperial Ensign from the flagpole as a symbolic gesture of victory.
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" Bukoba fort and the wireless station were destroyed, the British also captured hundreds of rifles and 32,000 rounds of ammunition. Due to their status as an 'irregular' unit, the Frontiersmen were granted permission to loot the town by General Stewart. This predictably turned into a disaster, with the 25th robbing, raping and burning much of the town with such ferocity that the incident became known as the ""Sack of Bukoba"". It was later claimed by an embarrassed high command that no looting had taken place.
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" The aim of the raid, the destruction of the wireless station, was counterproductive for the British as it deprived them of the possibility of intercepting German transmissions. Bukoba was abandoned.
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" After the battle, the 25th Battalion was ordered to guard the Uganda Railway between Nairobi and Mombasa, which was coming under heavy attack from German forces. During this period Wilbur Dartnell was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for an action which took place near Maktau on 3 September 1915.
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" The citation for Dartnell's VC
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" ""On 3 September 1915, near Maktau, Kenya, during a mounted infantry engagement, the enemy were so close that it was impossible to get the more severely wounded away. Lieutenant Dartnell, who was himself being carried away wounded in the leg, seeing the situation, and knowing that the enemy's black troops murdered the wounded, insisted on being left behind, in the hope of being able to save the lives of other wounded men. He gave his own life in a gallant attempt to save others.""
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"= = = Powelliphanta hochstetteri anatokiensis = = =
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" Powelliphanta hochstetteri anatokiensis, known as one of the amber snails, is a subspecies of large, carnivorous land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Rhytididae.
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" ""Powelliphanta hochstetteri anatokiensis"" is classified by the New Zealand Department of Conservation as being in ""Gradual Decline"".
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" Shape of the eggs is oval and seldom constant in dimensions 9.5 × 7, 8.5 × 6, 12 × 10.5, 12 × 10, 12.5 × 10.5 mm.
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"= = = Kings, Ogle County, Illinois = = =
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" Kings is an unincorporated community in Ogle County, Illinois, United States, and is located northwest of Rochelle.
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"= = = Dan Payne = = =
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" Dan Payne (born August 4, 1972) is a Canadian actor best known for playing the role of John in the television series ""Alice, I Think"".
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" In his early 20s, Payne was a professional volleyball player. After his retirement, he was convinced by his brother Josh to move to Australia, where Josh was already living. Dan began his acting career by creating short films with his brother.
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" Payne then moved to the United Kingdom, where he supported himself playing, in his words, ""the big, dumb American"" in various British films and TV shows. He moved to Vancouver in 2001.
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" Payne had numerous roles on the 2002-2005 science fiction series ""Stargate SG-1"", and its 2004-2009 spin-off series ""Stargate Atlantis"", both shot in Vancouver; these included Kull Warriors and an Ashrak assassin on ""Stargate SG-1"", and the Wraith king in the ""Stargate Atlantis"" episode ""Sateda"". Payne appeared as Nathan Davidson, a married, sexually-repressed father in the 2008 film ""Mulligans"", a role of which Payne stated in 2016, ""It is still one of my proudest efforts"". He also appeared as Dollar Bill in ""Watchmen"" (2009).