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Hisonotus charrua is a species of catfish in the family Loricariidae. It is native to South America, where it occurs in the Uruguay River and the mouth of the Río de la Plata in Uruguay. The species may be found in both freshwater and brackish environments and reaches 3.6 cm (1.4 inches) SL.
References
Loricariidae
Fish described in 2006
Fish of South America
Loricariidae stubs |
Texas Stampede is a 1939 American western film directed by Sam Nelson and starring Charles Starrett, Iris Meredith and Bob Nolan. It is a remake of the 1930 film The Dawn Trail
Cast
Charles Starrett as Tom Randall
Iris Meredith as Joan Cameron
Fred Kohler Jr. as Wayne Cameron
Bob Nolan as Bob
Lee Prather as Jeff Cameron
Ray Bennett as Zack Avery
Blackjack Ward Abe Avery
Hank Bell as Hank
Edmund Cobb as Hobbs
Edward Coxen as Seth
Edward Hearn as Owens
Sons of the Pioneers as Ranch Hands / Musicians
References
Bibliography
Pitts, Michael R. Western Movies: A Guide to 5,105 Feature Films. McFarland, 2012.
External links
1939 films
1939 Western (genre) films
American films
American Western (genre) films
Films directed by Sam Nelson
American black-and-white films
Columbia Pictures films
1930s English-language films
Remakes of American films |
Purbung (also Putrung) (ID: PURB) is a mountain in the Himalayas of Nepal in the province of Gandaki Pradesh. Located in the Damodar range it has a height of 6,465 m.
Jost Kobusch and Nicolas Scheidtweiler made the first successful ascent on November 30, 2021.
References
Six-thousanders of the Himalayas
Mountains of the Gandaki Province |
Dabangg () is the soundtrack to the 2010 film of the same name. Directed by Abhinav Singh Kashyap (in his direcorial debut), the film is produced by Arbaaz Khan (in his debut as a film producer) and Malaika Arora Khan under Arbaaz Khan Productions, with Dhilin Mehta serving as the co-producer and distributor of the film under Shree Ashtavinayak Cine Vision banner. Khan's elder brother Salman Khan starred in the lead role, with Sonakshi Sinha (in her acting debut) as the female lead, Sonu Sood playing the antagonist and himself featuring in a supporting role.
The soundtrack album featured five original songs, four remix versions, an alternate version of the track and a theme song, totalling up to 10 tracks in the album. The item number "Munni Badnaam Hui" is written and composed by Lalit Pandit, while the music director duo Sajid–Wajid (Khan's norm collaborator) composed the remainder of it, and Faiz Anwar and Jalees Sherwani writing lyrics for those tracks. The background score is composed by Sandeep Shirodkar. The film's music album was launched on 20 August 2010 through digital formats, even before few of the tracks were aired in radio stations. The same day, a physical launch was conducted in Delhi, with the presence of the cast and crew. T-Series, which purchased the marketing rights of the film's music album for , released the physical copies of the album into the stores.
The album opened to positive response from critics and audiences. Commercially, the tracks set records in sales of physical CDs and through digital downloads; songs including "Tere Mast Mast Do Nain" and "Munni Badnaam Hui" opened exceptionally from listeners and became chartbusters, topping the music, radio and streaming charts. Singer Mamta Sharma who crooned the latter, gained immense popularity after the track's success. In addition, the album won three awards each at Filmfare (including one for Best Music Director), Zee Cine, Producers Guild, Lions Gold, BIG STAR IMA, two BIG Star Entertainment, five IIFA and seven awards each at Mirchi Music at GiMA Awards.
Sajid–Wajid renewed his association as composer in Dabangg 2 (2012) and Dabangg 3 (2019), the future instalments of the Dabangg franchise. The track "Munni Badnaam Hui" was recreated as "Munna Badnam Hua" for the latter, and the titular track "Hud Hud Dabangg" was re-created twice as "Dabangg Reloaded" in the former, and "Hud Hud" (the same name as the original) in the latter. However, music enthusiasts gave mixed opinions for the soundtrack albums of both the films, due to its quality being deteriorated due to their comparisons with that of the original.
Composition
Like their previous films of Khan, the tracks in Dabangg were composed in mind with the on-screen and off-screen persona of the star, implying that it would resonate with the star's fanbase. In an interview with Devansh Patel of Bollywood Hungama, the duo stated that "Dabangg is a very rural subject in terms of its music. We were confident that we would do something as wacky as the script." About composing the track "Tere Mast Mast Do Nain", Wajid had stated that "This song was already made when the film came to us. Before I could finish singing one line to Salman bhai, he said, kamaal track hai (great song), this is a super hit song!' He takes such an active interest that the music making process becomes far more enjoyable. It also makes things easy because if he likes the song, it is finalised for the film." The duo worked on the programming and arrangements of the film's background score, while Sandeep Shirodkar worked on the composition.
The title track "Hud Hud Dabangg" was composed even before the duo heard the full script and had composed in front of the producers and director, which they appreciated. Wajid said that "the song was made on just a mere character sketch of Salman, but was improved with Kashyap's vision". The track "Munni Badnaam Hui" (composed and written by Lalit Pandit) is said to be inspired by an old Bhojpuri folk song "Launda Badnaam Hua Naseeban Tere Liye". Director Abhinav Kashyap accepted using the folk song saying that he, being from Uttar Pradesh, was familiar with the song since childhood so he suggested the very song to be improvised and rephrased to fit the film's requirement. It was alleged that it was inspired from the Pakistani song "Ladka Badnaam Hua" from the film Mr. Charlie (1992).
Critical reception Dabanggs soundtrack received generally positive reviews from music critics. Joginder Tuteja of Bollywood Hungama gave the album 3 stars and said, "[it] delivers what it promised. One expected a masala soundtrack and this is what one gets with a couple of item song sequences, a couple of theme tracks and two love songs which are actually the highlight of the film. A soundtrack that has something in store for mass as well as class." Atta Khan of Planet Bollywood gave it a rating of 6 out of 10, and called the soundtrack "simple, catchy, easy on the ears and fun" and further wrote "Dabangg further showcases their ability to connect with the mass audience. In other words it delivers thanks to their knowledge of 'what is required' and their ability to attract strong singers such as Sonu Nigam, Sukhwinder Singh and Shreya Ghoshal."
In a 3-star rating, critic Devesh Sharma of Filmfare praised Sajid–Wajid's composition, saying "the soundtrack scores high on energy quotient". He picked the track "Chori Kiya Re Jiya" as the best from the album, calling it "[pleasure] to the ears". Ruchika Kher of Hindustan Times gave 3 stars saying that the album "has mass appeal, entertaining and apt for the film". Giving 7.5 stars out of 10, Vipin Nair of Music Aloud called it as the "customary Salman Khan soundtrack", but added "Sajid-Wajid and Lalit Pandit manage to make it more enjoyable than the previous ones in that line". Milliblog's Karthik Srinivasan stated "Two listenable tracks is a lot for this soundtrack". Komal Nahta called the film's music as "one of the highlights" and said "Every song is a wonderfully composed number so that the three music directors emerge as three additional heroes of the film".
Charts and sales
The album performed well on the charts after its release. The tracks "Tere Mast Mast Do Nain" and "Munni Badnaam" were successful, and entered the list of top 20 most frequently played songs on radio in India. In August 2010, the track "Tere Mast Mast Do Nain" reached number-one on the Official Asian Download Chart in the United Kingdom based on legal downloads in that country. The audio CDs of Dabangg's soundtrack priced at , reportedly shown a varied interest among the audience with a record of 5 lakh CDs were sold before the film's release. Dabangg, as well as the physical soundtrack of 3 Idiots (2009) set records in music CD sales, before the decline of CDs and physical formats, which attributed due to the advent of digital downloads and music streaming platforms. Additionally, the audio of Dabangg saw more than million digital downloads.
Awards and nominations
Legacy
The success of the film was attributed to the music album which helped in boosting the film's collections. "Tere Mast Mast Do Nain" and "Munni Badnaam Hui" eventually occurred in several year-end lists due to the commercial response of the tracks. Prashant Pawan of Rediff.com listed the two tracks in the first two positions, as was Hindustan Times. "Munni Badnaam Hui" was listed as one of the "100 Greatest Bollywood Songs of All Time" published by BBC's survey report. The track was played in a dance marathon in Australia with over 1,200 people danced non-stop to the track at Melbourne Park, eventually leading to be listed in the Guinness Book of World Records. Baradwaj Rangan listed the track in "10 best dance numbers of Bollywood that you could remember watching on the big-screen", an article that was published on the Film Companion website on 10 September 2020, coinciding with a decade of Dabangg's release. In 2021, was mentioned in a new school music curriculum at England about Bollywood, Indian folk, classical and Bhangra music.
After the track "Sheila Ki Jawani" featuring Katrina Kaif was released, parallels were drawn between Katrina and Malaika in "Munni Badnaam Hui", as well as between the item numbers. Subsequently, newspapers reported increased rivalry between the two actors, which was supposedly highlighted by various incidents. The two actors were later invited to perform their respective numbers at parties and other occasions, adding to the rivalry. Mamta Sharma, who sang "Munni Badnaam Hui" gained popularity after the raging response of the track, who later received several offers from films. She later, quit her career as a playback singer, owing to the criticism that, she was getting typecasted on singing item numbers. The track "Tere Naina Maar Hi Daalenge" also composed by Sajid–Wajid and sung by Shaan and Shreya Ghoshal, for the Salman Khan-starrer Jai Ho (2014), had similarities to "Tere Mast Mast Do Nain".
According to the composer Lalit Pandit, the track "Munni Badnaam Hui" got positive response from across the globe, and also stated that American pop singer Madonna danced to the song. He said:Actually when the song had released, just after a little while, I was told that Madonna had finished her concert in New York and she took her band and team to a club in New York called The Blue. In the Blue, they were playing this song Munni Badnaam, she heard that, and apparently, she danced to this song many times. And she had it put again and again. So that was the first happy news about the song I got, it was an internationally connected incident. And then of course, the song went on to win all the awards that year. I have done many scores in my life and won so many awards as I did in Munni Badnaam.
Future
For the second and third instalments of the Dabangg franchise — Dabangg 2 (2012) and Dabangg 3 (2019), Sajid–Wajid and Sandeep Shirodkar composed the songs and score, respectively, thereby continuing their association with the first film. The track "Hud Hud Dabangg" was recreated in the former under the title "Dabangg Reloaded" and in the latter, under the same title, with Shabab Sabri and Divya Kumar, singing the track instead of Sukhwinder Singh, who crooned for the original version and its recreation "Dabangg Reloaded". For Dabangg 2, two tracks "Pandeyji Seeti Maare" and "Fevicol Se" were used in place of the original track (Malaika Arora featured in the former), while "Munni Badnaam Hui" was recreated as "Munna Badnam Hua" for Dabangg 3, featuring Warina Hussain and Salman Khan. The original track's singer, Mamta Sharma also sang these tracks. In place of "Tere Mast Mast Do Nain", "Dagabaaz Re", "Habibi Ke Nain" and "Awaara" were composed for the two instalments. Music critics gave mixed reviews for the soundtracks for both the films criticising the quality of the tracks got deteriorated in comparison with the original film.
Track listing
Notes
References
External links
Hindi film soundtracks
2010 soundtrack albums
Filmi soundtracks
T-Series (company) soundtrack albums
Action film soundtracks
Comedy film soundtracks
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The 2022 NWSL Challenge Cup is a league cup competition taking place during the 2022 National Women's Soccer League season. It is the third iteration of the NWSL Challenge Cup tournament.
Format
The 2022 NWSL Challenge Cup is a multi-stage tournament. All 12 NWSL teams will participate in the Challenge Cup, an increase of two from the previous edition due to the addition of expansion franchises Angel City FC and San Diego Wave FC during the offseason. As a result, the competition will be split into three regional groups of four teams each; East, Central and West. Each team will play a six-game double round-robin in which every team plays all others in its division at home and away. The winner from each of the three divisions will progress to the knockout stage along with the highest-ranked group stage runner-up to make up the four semifinalists. Upon the conclusion of the group stage, the tournament will proceed with a knockout stage consisting of three single-elimination matches: two semifinals and one final. As a result of the expanded group stage, teams will now play a minimum of six games, two more than in 2021, and a maximum of eight, three more than in 2021. A total of 39 matches are scheduled, 18 more than the 21 matches played during the 2021 NWSL Challenge Cup.
No matches will have extra time. In the group stage, matches may end in a tie at the end of normal playing time. In the knockout stage, if a match is tied at the end of normal playing time, the game will be decided by a penalty shoot-out.
Teams must have a minimum of 18 players and a maximum of 20 players on a matchday roster. A maximum of nine players can be named as substitutes with a maximum of five substitutions in three stoppages (excluding half-time) permitted to be used during a match. No substitutes may be made after the end of normal playing time (except if a goalkeeper is unable to continue before or during the penalty shoot-out). Two "concussion substitutes" may also be used in accordance with IFAB rules.
Tiebreakers
A team's position in the divisional standings is determined by points with three points awarded for a win, one point for a tie, and zero points for a loss. If two or more teams in the same group are equal on points at the end of the group stage, the following tiebreaking criteria is applied to determine the final group standings:
Greatest goal difference across all group stage matches.
Most goals scored across all group stage matches.
Direct head-to-head points record with team(s) involved in the tiebreak scenario.
Direct head-to-head goal difference in matches only between teams involved in the tiebreak scenario.
Direct head-to-head number of goals scored in matches only between teams involved in the tiebreak scenario.
Fewest disciplinary points accrued. Points are awarded as follows (players may only receive one disciplinary points total per match with the highest taking precedent):
yellow card: 1 point;
indirect red card (as a result of two yellow cards): 3 points;
direct red card: 4 points;
yellow card and direct red card: 5 points.
If teams still cannot be separated using the tiebreaking procedures, the NWSL will decide ranking using the random drawing of lots.
In the case of two or more teams from different divisions being tied on points at the end of the group stage, the same procedure is followed except for the use of the head-to-head scenarios by virtue of the fact teams from different divisions will not have played each other during the group stage.
Group stage
East Division
Standings
Matches
Central Division
Standings
Matches
West Division
Standings
Matches
Ranking of second-placed teams
The best second-placed team from the group stage will advance to the knockout stage.
Knockout stage
Semifinals
For the semifinals, the seeding of the division winners is determined by points accumulated in the group stage (as well as any applicable tiebreakers). The advancing second-place team will automatically be the #4 seed.
Championship
The final will take place on May 7.
Statistics
Discipline
A player will be automatically suspended for the next match in the tournament for the following offenses:
Receiving a red card (red card suspensions may be extended for serious offenses);
Receiving two yellow cards in two matches, unless the second yellow card was accumulated in the final match of group play;
Direct red card suspensions will be carried over to the 2022 NWSL regular season. Suspensions as a result of indrect red cards will not be carried over.
References
External links
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2022 in American soccer leagues
2022 National Women's Soccer League season
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Jacques Salomon Weisser is a Belgian born trustee of Yad Vashem United Kingdom and the former executive director of the Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women.
Early life
Jacques Salomon Weisser was born in Antwerp, Belgium into a Jewish family. His parents were Jakob Weisser and Martha Mandelbaum. In the summer of 1942, Weisser's father, Jakob, was deported to labor camps in Northern France, where he was forced to work for Organisation Todt, a German organisation that was dedicated to the construction of the Atlantic Wall. Weisser and his mother stayed behind in Antwerp. On September 11, 1942, Weisser's mother, Martha, was arrested on the street in Antwerp by the Germans. She was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, and was murdered there. After the arrest of his mother, Weisser was left without parents. An unknown individual brought him to the children's home of the Meisjeshuis (Antwerp). On September 21, 1942, 25 Jewish children who were with Weisser in the children's home, were arrested and deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where they were all murdered. Weisser was among the children who were rescued and transferred from the Meisjeshuis orphanage to the Sint-Erasmus hospital in Borgerhout (Antwerp), where he remained in hiding until June 1944. In that month, he was found and arrested by the Germans in the hospital. Weisser survived the Holocaust nonetheless, and was not deported. His father survived the concentration camps, and reunited with him in 1945.
References
1942 births
Holocaust survivors
Living people |
The Great Balance Dock was a floating drydock in New York City. It was the largest such facility in the world when constructed in 1854, and consequently, many of the most important ships of its time were serviced there.
Construction and Characteristics
The underwater portions of ship's hulls require periodic maintenance. This includes removing marine growth from the hull, and repairing rudders. For the wooden ships of the nineteenth century, hull maintenance included caulking between hull planks, and nailing thin copper sheets to the bottom to discourage marine growth and wood-boring marine worms. Propeller-driven vessels required work on the propellers themselves and the associated bearings, shafts, and stuffing boxes. Hulls damaged in storms, collisions, groundings, or by the action of worms or rot also needed work below their waterlines.
It has always been difficult to access the underwater portions of a ship's hull. From earliest times this was achieved by careening. To careen a ship, it was grounded on a steep beach at high tide. As the tide ebbed, the hull would be exposed so that work could be done. Careening has numerous disadvantages not the least of which is that work is interrupted after only a few hours by the return of the tide. Graving docks are an ancient alternative to careening. A basin was dug into the shore line, lined with stone, and sealed with water-tight gates. Ships would float into the dock with the gates open. Once the gates were closed, the water in the dock could be pumped out, setting the ship on the dry bottom of the dock. Graving docks are costly, difficult to build, and require significant amounts of shore line real estate. As ships reached and longer in the mid-nineteenth century, the investment required to build such a dock became prohibitive.
In 1840 John S. Gilbert patented a new form of floating drydock. The New York Balance Dock Company was incorporated on April 18, 1848 to build such docks. In 1853, the company commissioned William H. Webb to build the Great Balance Dock at what was estimated to be a cost of $150,000. She was launched at his Williamsburg, Brooklyn shipyard on September 30, 1854. The dock's pumping machinery was installed by Mott & Ayres after she was launched. She was sufficiently large to handle the largest ships in existence at the time.
The Great Balance Dock was built of wood planking and timbers. She was long, in breadth, and in height. The dock contained 12 water-tight compartments, which could be flooded to lower the dock sufficiently for a vessel to enter it, and could be pumped out to lift a vessel free of the water. Each compartment had its own pump. The pumps were driven by two steam engines, each of which produced about 300 horsepower. The pumps could move per hour, so ships could be lifted quickly. The dock had a lifting capacity of 8,000 tons.
The name of the dock was descriptive. In order to maintain a horizontal orientation as ships were hauled out, different amounts of water were maintained in her 12 tanks to balance the uneven load of the captive ship.
Operation
To prepare for hauling a ship, a series of hull blocks were placed in the bottom of the Great Balance Dock (these are labeled, "B" in the sectional diagram). The purpose of these blocks was to distribute the weight of the ship somewhat more evenly than having it all sit on the ship's keel, and also to keep the ship upright in the dock. Once the blocks were set, the dock would submerge to the required depth by opening the external doors, labeled "D". The doors were opened by means of winches, "V", mounted on the top of the dock. Once submerged, the ship requiring maintenance could be towed into position and secured with lines tied to the dock's sides.
The two steam engines, one on each side of the dock, powered the pumps, "P", to expel the water in the tanks through the openings at "O". Once the ship was sitting on the hull blocks rather than floating, block and tackle would be use to lower poles, "Q", against the hull to assist in keeping the ship upright.
To refloat the vessel was a simple matter of winching up the poles and opening the doors to flood the dock again.
Operating history
In 1855 the dock was moored in the East River at the foot of Market Street. Local businesses objected to the loss of wharfage for goods-bearing ships and petitioned to have her moved. By 1857 she had been relocated north along the river to the foot of Pike Street. She remained there until at least December 1872. The Great Balance Dock was relocated to the Hoboken, New Jersey waterfront in January 1873. She was moved again in July 1873 to make way for the construction of new piers for the Hamburg American Line. The dock was returned to her previous location at the foot of Pike Street. The last newspaper report of the Great Balance Dock was in 1876. Her ultimate fate is unknown.
The dock was an integral tool for ship construction, particularly for installing the initial sheathing of copper to protect the hull. The dock also serviced a steady stream of vessels of all types for routine work on their hulls. The dock was a busy place. Newspapers of the day documented thirty different ships which were hauled out in 1859 alone.
In 1873, the fee for use of the Great Balance Dock was $0.25 per ton of displacement of the vessel, plus $0.15 per ton for every day the vessel was under repair in the dock.
References
Drydocks
Floating drydocks |
Louisa Emily Dobrée (fl. ca. 1877–1917) was a 19th-century-born French-Irish Catholic writer of novels, fugitive articles, short stories, and juvenile literature. Her non-fiction subjects ranged from home nursing, domestic and personal hygiene, etiquette, character sketches, and embroidery, to natural history.
Biography
Louisa Emily Dobrée was born in Tours, France. She was of Irish descent on her mother's side, while her father's family, of Guernsey, was originally French.
Dobrée's first story was published when she was nineteen. This was followed by fugitive articles and short stories in magazines. She also wrote books for young people, among which are the following:— Loved into Shape, Dreams and Deeds, Terry, One Talent Only, A Knotless Thread, Underneath the Surface, A Lowly Life with a Lofty Aim, and Turned to Gold, as well as Hugh Templar's motto, Underneath the Surface. A Sark Story, Leon and the Lessons He Learned. A Jersey Story, and Only Johnny Brown. These were published at intervals of sometimes great length.
In 1887, Dobrée was received into the Catholic Church, and her books thereafter included:— A Manual of Home Nursing, Stories on the Sacraments, A Seven-Fold Treasure, Per Parcel Post, A Tug-of War, Stories on the Beatitudes, Beautiful Sewing, and Plain Work, among others. She was on the staff and an occasional contributor to twenty magazines, the subjects on which she wrote upon including home nursing, domestic and personal hygiene, etiquette, character sketches, embroidery, plain work, and natural history.
Dobrée lived a great deal in the Channel Islands, France, and Ireland, besides having paid visits, long and short, to Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, and Germany. She later lived at Chiswick, near London. The scenes of her stories were always set in Europe.
Selected works
Loved into shape; or, The story of Bob Sanders, 1877
Dreams and Deeds, 1877
One Talent Only, 1878
Hugh Templar's motto, 1879
"Not useless", 1879
A Knotless Thread, 1879
Underneath the Surface. A Sark Story, 1881
Turned to Gold, 1881
A Lowly Life with a Lofty Aim, 1881
A life lesson, 1884
Only Johnny Brown, 1886
Leon and the Lessons He Learned. A Jersey Story, 1886
Kit and His Violin, 1888
A Manual of Home Nursing, 1889
Little King I.A Story for the Young ... With Illustrations, Etc, 1890
Loved Into Shape ; Or, the Story of Bob Sanders., 1891
A Christmas lesson, 1891
A lowly life with a lofty aim, 1891
A Tug-of War, 1891
A sevenfold treasure : stories on the gifts of the Holy Spirit, 1892
Winifred's work, 1892
Per Parcel Post, 1892
Stories on the Beatitudes, 1894
A workhouse concert, 1894
Coals of fire, 1894
Uncle Luke's legacy, 1894
Dick's desire, 1894
Stories on the Rosary. Part I, 1897
Stories on the Rosary. Part 2, 1898
Sylvia's Lesson: Extreme Unction, 19??
The Two Wishes: A Story of Holy Orders, 19??
Brian Daly: A Story of Holy Communion, 19??
You Did it Unto Me: Stories on the Corporal Works of Mercy, 1903
Stories on the Rosary. Part 3, The glorious mysteries, 1904
Among the saucepans, 1915
Ever a fighter, 1915
Driving a bargain, 1915
Father Carlton's offerings, 1915
Don Filippo's dream, 1915
Stories from Italy, 1915
The Kingdoms of the World, 1917
Terry
Stories on the Sacraments
Beautiful Sewing
Plain Work
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19th-century French novelists
20th-century French novelists
19th-century Irish novelists
20th-century Irish novelists
19th-century French non-fiction writers
20th-century French non-fiction writers
19th-century Irish non-fiction writers
20th-century Irish non-fiction writers
19th-century French short story writers
20th-century French short story writers
19th-century Irish short story writers
20th-century Irish short story writers
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19th-century Irish women writers
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Konstantin Kalinov (; 4 September 1977 — 26 December 2017) was a Russian businessman. He is the founder of Aviasales.ru (Jetradar).
Biography
Born on September 4, 1977, in Leningrad.
Aviasales emerged in 2007 as a Konstantin Kalinov personal blog about bargain airfares. Over time, Aviasales.ru has grown to the status of the largest Russian airline ticket metasearch engine.
He died on December 26, 2017, after a long illness at the age of 41.
References
External links
KOSYAN MEDIA, St. Petersburg
Russian businesspeople
1977 births
2017 deaths |
Charles Kenyon (born 1840) was an American recipient of the Medal of Honor who received the award for his actions during the American Civil War whilst serving with the Union Navy.
Biography
Kenyon was born in Marcy, Oneida County, New York in 1840. He served as a fireman aboard the USS Galena during the American Civil War. He earned his medal in action on the James River, Virginia when his ship attacked Drewry's Bluff on May 15, 1862, as part of the Battle of Drewry's Bluff. His medal was issued on April 3, 1863. Kenyon's date of death and burial location is unknown.
Medal of Honor Citation
For extraordinary heroism in action, serving as Fireman on board the USS Galena in the attack upon Drewry's Bluff, 15 May 1862. Severely burned while extricating a priming wire which had become bent and fixed in the bow gun while his ship underwent terrific shelling from the enemy, Kenyon hastily dressed his hands with cotton waste and oil and courageously returned to his gun while enemy sharpshooters in rifle pits along the banks continued to direct their fire at the men at the guns.
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American Civil War recipients of the Medal of Honor
United States Navy Medal of Honor recipients
1840 births
Year of death missing |
Jim Mansfield Jnr is an Irish businessman who was convicted in January 2022 of attempting to pervert the course of justice in relation to the 9 June 2015 kidnapping of Martin Byrne.
Early life
Mansfield Jnr and his two brothers, Tony and PJ are the sons of Jim Mansfield, a prominent Irish property developer and millionaire. Mansfield Jnr left school early, having had difficulty learning.
Personal life
Mansfield Jnr married young and later separated from his wife. He had an on-and-off relationship with model and socialite Katy French and said he was devastated by her controversial death.
Business
His brother Tony took over the heavy equipment part of their father's business and Jim was more involved in other areas, such as the Citywest hotel and other facilities, Weston Airport, and a planned convention centre. Jim took on a major role, with PJ acting as assistant. Jim frequently worked with his father.
In 2015 he lost an appeal against a judgement order being granted against him in favour of Allied Irish Banks.
Criminal conviction
Background
On 9 June 2015 Martin Byrne was kidnapped by Dessie O'Hare and Declan "Whacker" Duffy and five others. Byrne was a former employee of Jim. Byrne was taken to his family home in Saggart, where he was assaulted in front of his wife and son. They were also told to vacate their home.
Conviction
Jim Mansfield Jnr was convicted in January 2022 of attempting to pervert the course of justice by telling Patrick Byrne (brother of Martin) to destroy CCTV recordings which showed Martin and Mansfield leaving the Finnstown House Hotel on the morning of 9 June 2015. The recordings were not destroyed and were handed to the Garda Síochána. In February 2022 he was sentenced to two years imprisonment by the Special Criminal Court, with the final six months suspended. The sentence was backdated to 17 January 2022.
References
Businesspeople from County Dublin
Irish businesspeople in real estate |
Border polls are referendums that are either about the exact location of a border or whether there should be a particular border at all. They seen as an alternative to war and respecting the right to self determination of the local population, although sometimes there can be disputes as to their fairness and whether it is instead a legitimation of the current regime.
Border Polls held in the aftermath of the First World War
1919 Vorarlberg referendum
1920 Carinthian plebiscite
1920 Schleswig plebiscites
1919 Ålandic status referendum
1920 East Prussian plebiscite
1935 Saar status referendum
Sopron plebiscite
Upper Silesia plebiscite
Other Border Polls
1973 Northern Ireland border poll
1915–1916 Church of England border polls
1961 British Cameroons referendum
2012 North Kosovo referendum
2015 La Manga del Cura status referendum
Abyei status referendum
2014 Crimean status referendum
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Jack Whitman (died September 30, 2004) was an American paralympic archer and dartcher. He participated at the 1960 Summer Paralympics and 1964 Summer Paralympics.
Biography
Whitman was raised on a farm in Galesburg, Illinois. He attended at the Galesburg High School, later graduating in 1948. After graduating, Whitman then attended at University of Illinois in 1949, where he became paralyzed after participating with his gymnastics team. With being paralyzed, he returned to the University of Illinois in 1952, in which Whitman was taught in a education program for which evolved disabled people. He began to try archery after his neighbor provided Whitman a bow and arrow, for which it changed his life.
Whitman participated at the 1960 Summer Paralympics, with participating in the first archery competition at the Paralympic Games. He was awarded the gold medal in the men's FITA round open event. Whitman scored 829 points. He also participated in the men's Windsor round open event, being awarded the gold medal. Whitman scored 800 points. He also participated in the first dartchery competition at the Paralympic Games. Whitman was awarded the gold medal alongside with athlete, Wayne Broeren in the mixed pairs open event. He participated at the 1964 Summer Paralympics, with participating in the archery competition at the Paralympic Games. Whitman participated in the men's albion round open, winning no medal for which he came in forth place with his score being 759 points. He also participated in the albion round team open and FITA round team open events, winning gold medals in both. Whitman participated in the albion round team open event alongside with Dick Robinson and Dean Slaugh, scoring 2253 points. He also participated in the FITA round team open event alongside with Jim Mathis and Dean Slaugh.
Whitman was honored in the United States Wheelchair Sports Hall of Fame, in 1971. He died on September 30, 2004, at his home in Champaign, Illinois.
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Bessie Ann Frances Stockard is an American tennis player and women's basketball coach.
Bessie Stockard grew up in Nashville, Tennessee, the youngest of seven children of Andy R. Stockard, a custodian, and Bessie Mae Morgan Stockard, a teacher. Her brother was sportswriter R. L. Stockard..
In high school, she began playing basketball and paddle tennis. She earned a basketball scholarship to Tuskegee University, graduating in 1955. Stockard became known for her paddle tennis in Nashville, but inspired by a local tennis champion, Wilitta Bartley, Stockard began playing with a racket purchased by her father on layaway. Eventually, Stockard became skilled enough to defeat Bartley in the Nashville City Parks tennis championship her freshman year of college.
Stockard played in the American Tennis Association for over a decade, winning 12 ATA national titles. She also played in the professional Virginia Slims Circuit from 1971 to 1974 and was its only African-American player at the time.
Stockard was hired by the newly created Federal City College in Washington DC to coach cheerleaders and majorettes. In the fall of 1969, she created the Federal City Pantherettes women's basketball team with no funding, gymnasium, or uniforms. The players used donated shirts and practiced in local high school gyms. Initially they were unable to find college teams willing to play against them, so they played against mostly amateur league teams, earning a 12–6 record. They were invited to the Amateur Athletic Union national tournament, where they were eliminated in the first round.
Over the next several years, the Pantherettes's reputation grew as they played well against teams in the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women and the Metropolitan Intercollegiate Sports Association for Women. Stockard became known for her stylish hats and had the team dress in matching off-court clothes. Several polls had them ranked number one nationally. Despite this, in the 1975 AIAW Women's Basketball Tournament, they were seeded against another tournament favorite, Delta State. Federal City lost to Delta State 77–75 in overtime. Delta State went on to win the tournament, while Federal City was eliminated from the consolation bracket in the third round by Wayland Baptist, 67–46. Several of the Federal City players went on to play in the Women's Professional Basketball League, but one of the team's star players, Jennifer Mitchell, died young at age 22.
Despite the success of the team, Stockard was ousted by a new athletic director before the 1976–77 season, prompting a number of her players to quit the team. Stockard served as an assistant coach on the United States women's basketball team during the 1976 Summer Olympics. In the fall she began coaching at American University, but was dismissed two years later because she was not teaching at the school. She was rehired in 1979 by the University of the District of Columbia, Federal City's successor institution, posting a 21-5 and 19–6 record over the next two seasons. A conflict with a different athletics director resulted in her firing two years later, but she Stockard sued, charging sex discrimination and false accusations of misappropriation of funds. She was reinstated by court order in October 1982, but fired a third time in April 1983.
Stockard was inducted into the Tuskegee University Athletic Hall of Fame in 1993, the Washington DC Sports Hall of Fame in 2012, the Black Tennis Hall of Fame in 2013, and the University of the District of Columbia Athletics Hall of Fame in 2016.
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Anything to Declare? is a 1957 detective novel by Freeman Wills Crofts. It is the twenty ninth and final entry in his series of novels featuring Inspector French, a prominent figure of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. The author had been in poor health for much of the decade, and struggled to finish this book which was published a few weeks before his death.
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Bibliography
Evans, Curtis. Masters of the "Humdrum" Mystery: Cecil John Charles Street, Freeman Wills Crofts, Alfred Walter Stewart and the British Detective Novel, 1920-1961. McFarland, 2014.
Herbert, Rosemary. Whodunit?: A Who's Who in Crime & Mystery Writing. Oxford University Press, 2003.
Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.
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Ghana was initially referred to as the Gold Coast. After attaining independence, the country's first sovereign government named the state after the Ghana Empire in modern Mauritania and Mali. Gold Coast was initially inhabited by different states, empires and ethnic groups before its colonization by the British Empire. The earliest known physical remains of the earliest man in Ghana were first discovered by archaeologists in a rock shelter at Kintampo during the 1960s. The remains were dated to be 5000 years old and it marked the period of transition to sedentism in Ghana. Early Ghanaians used Acheulean stone tools as hunter gatherers during the Early stone age. These stone tools evolved during the Middle Stone Age and Late Stone Age during which some early Ghanaians inhabited caves.
Sedentism was first established bewteen 2000 and 500 BC where crops such as Sorghum and millet were farmed. The earliest towns and cities generally arose by the 11th century. Some of these towns were located at strategic trade locations such as Begho on the Trans-Saharan trade route and Elmina a source of trade during the Atlantic slave trade. States were formed beginning in the 11th century with some of the earliest being the Kingdom of Dagbon and Bono. European contact with the Gold Coast begun in the 15th century with the Portuguese landing at the Coast. Several European states established colonies on portions of the Gold Coast. By the 20th century, the British Empire had colonized the entire region after annexing the Ashanti Empire in the War of the Golden Stool.
Stone Age period
Early Stone Age
The oldest tools discovered by archaeologists in Ghana were found in the fossil gravels of the river Volta, Dayi, Oti and Birim. Others were found in a fossil marine beach at Asoprochona, near Tema. The oldest of these stone tools were large, heavy pearl shaped tools called Acheulean handaxes and U-shaped tools called Acheulian cleavers. These tools were used for hunting, food procurement and meat preparation.
Middle Stone Age
Technology used by the Acheulian tool makers improved vastly in the Middle Stone Age period. Tools were reshaped for the production of axes, pick-axes, choppers, scrappers and hand axes. In the grassland of Northern Ghana, flake tools were produced and it included knives and arrowheads. The use of these new tools, to some extent relied on the environmental conditions which they found themselves. The improvement in man's tool making technique enabled the early stone age man to migrate from the Savannah region to the forest zone. In the grassland and forest regions of middle and southern Ghana, the Sangoan cultural tradition prevailed as a result.
Late Stone Age
There was innovation in the manufacturing of blade tools during this period that helped in the production of fishing and hunting equipment. Archaeology finds has established that Ghanaians during the late stone age period hunted for animals such as guinea pig, royal antelope, bear and chimpanzee through the use of traps and poisoned arrowheads. It was during the period that man established his home in caves and rocks. Plants used in the preparation of food like the nettle tree, incense tree and the oil palm also survived in rock shelters and caves.
First Settlers
Due to a lack of a writing system implemented during the Stone Age in Ghana, archaeologists have scanty knowledge of Stone Age farming in Ghana. Food production was borrowed from the Sahara and Sahel savannah regions. Excavations executed by Pre-historians which took place in the rock shelters of Kintampo and Hani in the Brong-Ahafo region, as well as at Ntereso, near Tamale, have presented evidence of farming activity during the stone age. Between 2000 and 500 BC, pre-historic Ghanaians were believed to have reared dwarf goats, cattle and guinea fowls. They also collected yams and cowpeas. Indigenous food items in pre-colonial Ghana included sorghum, millet, West African rice, yellow and white yam, oil palm and shea butter. The presence of fishing equipment such as harpoons proved that pre-historic Ghanaians also practiced fishing. Excavations have again revealed that since hunting equipment like polished arrowheads have been found, it was an evidence that hunting was another form of occupation during this period. Between 2000 BC and 500 Bc, pre-historic Ghanaians discarded the practiced of nomadism as well as living in caves and rock shelters, preferring to settle in villages. Pre historic houses in Ghana were built with fossil mud, laterite blocks and stone blocks. The Wattle and daub architectural style which was famous among states such as the Ashanti Empire dates back to at least 6,000 years.
Examples of early Ghanaian homes include settlements discovered at the Boyase Hill, Nkukua Buoho, Hani in Brong Ahafo and at Gambaga in the Northern Region. The first farmers and settlers also made baked clay pottery or ceramic arts. A stone axe or celt known locally as Nyame Dua was used by the settlers to fell trees, clear bushes and cultivate plants. The celt was usually cylindrical and shaped by using green stones called Calchlorite schist.
Growth of Towns
Begho
Town development in pre-colonial Ghana begun around 1000 and 1700 AD. The first major towns that existed in pre-colonial Ghana included Begho, Bono Manso, Dawhenya and Elmina. The growth of these towns were influenced by factors such as their strategic location, economic and religious attractions, and the presence of large deposits of minerals such as gold and iron. Begho for example, developed due to its location on the Trans-Saharan trade route. By AD 1650, Begho had developed with a popuation of about 10,000 with varying ethnic groups from other regions such as Cote d'Ivoire and Mali. Archaeological evidence made available from Begho has established that the people had commercial contacts with the outside world early in their history. Imported goods excavated in Begho include goods of Dutch, Chinese, English Venetian and Egyptian origin. Excavations have laid bare-walled structures dated between 1350 and 1750 AD, as well as pottery of all kinds, smoking pipes, and evidence of iron smelting. Begho was one of the largest towns in the southern part of West Africa at the time of the arrival of the Portuguese in 1471.
Le and Se
Around 1300, small towns Le and Se also developed in Dawhenya and the Shai Hills. By 1650, Le had grown to a size that measured 1.6 kilometers by 1.1 kilometer, while Se grew to 9 kilometers by 2 kilometers. The region of which these towns developed lacked fertile lands for agricultural activities. It was instead, rich in Kaolin clay. This enabled the women of the area to use the kaolin clay to manufacture cooking pots, bowls, water jars, palm wine vessels and pots for brewing traditional medicine for people in the Accra plains, Akuapem and Shai. The abundance of kaolin clay attracted several migrants into the town which led to its growth. Between 1600 and 1750, the towns engaged in trade with both the local population and Europeans. Archaeological findings from the 17th century in these towns has revealed that the people of le and Se reared cattle, sheep, goats and fowls.
Elmina
As a result of European presence and the development of the Trans Atlantic slave trade, Elmina grew to possess a population of over 2000 from the 15th and 16th centuries. The town was governed by a chief and council of elders whiles protected by a standing army. Early Portuguese writers like Joao de Barros and Pacheco Pereira described the 15th century settlement as a "Republican township" made up of several settlements.
Kumasi
Kumasi was established by the first Ashanti king, Osei Kofi Tutu I along with state priest, Okomfo Anokye in the 17th century. It is on record that Kumasi was viewed as the most impressive town in the Gold Coast by visiting British officials largely as a result of its well designed buildings and organized roads. The city was the capital of the Ashanti Empire. Kumasi was located on two major trade routes; one from Mali and the other from Hausaland. This strategic location influenced its growth.
Early States
Kingdom of Dagbon
According to oral history, the Kingdom of Dagbon was formed in the 11th century. The people practiced a patrilineal system of inheritance. Trade was established with the Hausa states and Mali Empire. Islam was introduced into the kingdom between the 15th and 17th centuries by Mande and Soninke Muslim traders.
Bono State
The Bono state grew powerful as a result of its location among the trade routes of the Trans Saharan trade. Its major city, Begho was of significance as an entrepot frequented by northern caravans from the Mali Empire around 1100 AD. Goods traded included ivory, salt, leather, gold, kola nuts, cloth, and copper alloys.
Akwamu
Oral accounts place the formation of the Akwamu state between the 16th and 17th centuries. Akwamu established its capital at Asamankese where it expanded as a result of the lack of strong competition among its neighbors. By 1500, Akwamu was involved with gold trade among Europeans at Elmina.
Denkyira
According to oral accounts, the Denkyira state was formed by migrants from the Bono state after its collapse. Initially, the state was a vassal to Adanse but it won its independence in a war against Adanse. The state embarked on expansionism by absorbing smaller groups such as the Ashanti, Sewhi, and Adanse.
Ashanti Empire
The Ashanti Empire was formed from a union of various city states against the rule of Denkyira. Most of these states were initially tributaries of the Denkyira state. The Ashanti union became independent following its victory over Denkira at the Battle of Feyiase. By the 1680s, the Ashanti union had formed as a kingdom. Kumasi was also declared as the capital of this kingdom. From the 18th century, the Ashanti embarked on an expansionist policy like the Denkyira, conquering a chunk of modern day Ghana as well as some parts of Ivory Coast and Togo. By the 20th century, the Ashanti Empire was annexed by the British Empire after its defeat in the Anglo Ashanti war.
Ga-Adangbe states
The Ga lived in scattered communities until the 17th century, where a kingdom emerged centered at Accra. Ayawaso became the capital of the kingdom of Accra whiles smaller settlements like Osu and Tema grew around the capital. Initially, the Ga-Adangbe did not have chiefs. Family heads pf various settlements which were grouped into quarters known as akutsei, were responsible for the welfare of the people. Real authority resided among the traditional priests. The Ga were later influenced by Akan chieftaincy institutions including the adoption of chiefs in their political system.
Ewe states
Eweland was made up of 120 states by the 17th century. By the end of the century, some large states had emerged with the Anlo being the largest. Although the Ewe did not form a centralized kingdom, they cooperated in times of danger. These alliances were normally dissolved after the danger was resolved. In 1783, the Anlo came into conflict with the Danes where they were conquered into the Danish Empire. The Danes later sold their possessions in the Gold Coast to the British by 1850. The Anlo State became part of Southern Ghana when the British proclaimed the territory as a Crown Colony in 1874. Much of the other Ewelands were annexed by Germany following the Berlin Conference. In 1921, these areas were taken over by Britain as a mandated colony of the League of Nations.
European colonies
Trade between the natives of Ghana and European states begun by the 15th century. In 1481, King John II of Portugal commissioned Diogo de Azambuja to build the Elmina Castle, which was completed in three years. By 1598, the Dutch had joined the Portuguese in the gold trade, establishing the Dutch Gold Coast where they fortified their position at Komenda and Kormantsi. In 1617, the Dutch captured the Olnini Castle from the Portuguese, along with Fort St Anthony in 1642.
By the mid-17th century, other European traders had entered the gold trade with the natives of Gold Coast. Most notable among them were the Swedes, who established the Swedish Gold Coast, and Denmark-Norway, who established the Danish Gold Coast. Because of the abandunce of gold in the area, Portuguese merchants named the region as Costa do Ouro or Gold Coast. The Gold Coast was a strategic location during the Atlantic slave trade. The Portuguese, Swedish, Dano-Norwegians, Dutch, and German traders erected more than thirty forts and castles in the region, with the last, Germans, establishing the German Gold Coast.
In 1874, the British Empire took control of some areas of the country, naming them the British Gold Coast. The British defeated the Ashanti in the War of the Golden Stool and by 1902, the entire of the Gold Coast region was a colony of Britain.
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The 1st Hussar Regiment of the Lithuanian Grand Hetman Duke Jonušas Radvila (), also known as the 1st Cavalry Regiment () was a light cavalry regiment that served in the Lithuanian Army during the Interwar period.
In the autumn of 1918, the first Lithuanian military units, including cavalry squadrons, began to be formed for the struggle for Lithuania's independence. The 1st Hussar Squadron was established in Kaunas on 9 January 1919. Officer J. Kasiulis was as the 1st Squadron's commander. On 4 February 1919, the formation of the 2nd Hussar Squadron began. Officer Aleksandras Laikūnas was appointed as its commander. However, the first battles with the Bolsheviks showed that the Lithuanian army required more cavalry. So, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, General Silvestras Žukauskas issued an order on 12 May 1919 that all mounted units be formed into the 1st Lithuanian Horsemen Regiment (). Major G. E. Hoeger of the Swedish Armed Forces was made its commander. Since July 1, the regiment was taken over by Officer , who also started to form the 3rd Squadron.
On 25 October 1919, the regiment was named the 1st Horsemen Regiment (), later the 1st Cavalry Regiment. As the situation on the fronts deteriorated, a 4th Squadron (commander J. Kalino, an officer of Lithuanian Tartar origin) was formed. The 1st Cavalry Regiment fought against the Red Army, Bermontians and units of the Polish army.
On 25 September 1927, by the Act of the President of the Republic of Lithuania Antanas Smetona No. 484, the Grand Hetman of Lithuania Duke Jonušas Radvila was appointed the chief of the Regiment, while the regiment was renamed to the 1st Hussar Regiment of the Lithuanian Grand Hetman Duke Jonušas Radvila. On the same day, a flag with the motto "" (We will win or die) was presented.
Regimental commanders
1919 – Major G. E. Hoegeris
1919 – Colonel
Colonel Jonas Litvinas
Major T. Engmanas
Officer Šileris
1920-1929 – Povilas Plechavičius
General Staff Lieutenant colonel J. Bačkus
1935-1939 – General Staff Colonel
1939-1940 – General Staff Colonel
1940 – Colonel
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Gromia appendiculariae is a unicellular, and parasitic, organism in the genus Gromia, which closely resembles Gromia sphaerica.
A specimen of G. appendiculariae was discovered as a parasite attached to the tail of a species of Oikopleura.
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The Menopause, Estrogen and Venous Events (MEVE) study was a retrospective observational study of menopausal hormone therapy and venous thromboembolism (VTE) in postmenopausal women with a previous history of VTE. It found that transdermal estradiol was not associated with increased risk of VTE ( = 1.0, 95% 0.4–2.4) whereas oral estrogens were associated with a large increase in risk ( = 6.4, 95% 1.5–27.3). The mean dose of transdermal estradiol in the study was 50 μg/day, although data on dose were missing for around 50% of women. Similarly, a small study found that transdermal estradiol did not influence coagulation in women with prior VTE. These findings are similar to studies in menopausal women without prior history of VTE which have found that transdermal estradiol has minimal influence on coagulation and is not associated with increased risk of VTE at doses of up to 100 μg/day. Menopausal hormone therapy guidelines have cited the MEVE study and recommended use of transdermal estradiol over oral estrogens in women at high risk for VTE. However, randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are still needed to definitively confirm findings that transdermal estradiol is safer than oral estrogens in terms of VTE risk.
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List of notable clinical studies of menopausal hormone therapy
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Geneviève Inagosi Bulo Ibambi Kassongo (born 1970) is a DRC politician. She is a deputy in the National Assembly, representing Wamba Territory as a member of the People's Party for Reconstruction and Democracy (PPRD). From 2012 to 2014 she was Minister of Gender, Family and Children in the government of Joseph Kabila.
Life
Inagosi was born in 1970 in Bamapuno.
In the 2011 general election Inagosi was elected as deputy for Wamba. In April 2012 Inagosi was appointed to the cabinet of Joseph Kabila as Minister of Gender, Family and Children. She officially took office on 10 May 2021. In a December 2014 reshuffle, she was replaced as minister by Bijou Mushitu Kat in the 'Matata II' national cohesion government.
In the 2018 general election Inagosi was re-elected as the deputy for Wamba. In April 2021 she called on the government to improve infrastructure in Haut-Uélé, and help repair the Ninya-Isiro section of National Road No. 25. She also asked for an end to wage discrimination between provincial teachers and those in the capital. She has criticized Félix Tshisekedi's presidency for making unfulfilled promises:
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Ajira Digital Program is a government project of Kenya that was launched in 2017 with a goal of empowering youth in digital skills to help them tap in the digital economy.
The program is run by the Ministry of ICT, innovations and Youth Affairs and has since its inception empowered over one million young people to access digital opportunities according to the Ministry. Ajira Digital's key objectives is to; raise the profile of Digital Work in Kenya; promote a mentorship and collaborative learning approach to finding digital work; provide Kenyans with access to digital work and ultimately promote Kenya as a destination for online workers.
As of June 2021, 5 per cent of Kenyans (1.2 million) were working online through the Ajira Digital Programme according to a report released by Cabinet Secretary for ICT, Joe Mucheru. The report also cited that Digital Marketing, Data Entry and Article Writing are top of the jobs that Kenyans are doing online.
The Digital Economy is touted as one of the emerging frontiers that can provide job opportunities for the youth and help Kenya tackle the soaring unemployment rate especially among young people, who make up 75 per cent of the 47.6 million total population in the country according to the 2019 Population and Census results.
The government has been running the Ajira Digital program in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation, the Kenya Private Sector Association (KEPSA) and ABSA.The partnership with Absa Bank has seen the financial institution link its job training, scholarship and it’s ReadytoWork internship initiative on the Ajira Digital site.
Training
Through the Ajira digital website, one can apply for a free course on various areas. This include data entry, content writing and transcription skills. The classes are conducted virtually and are therefore flexible and accessible.
There is also an opportunity for trainers to apply for opportunities to share knowledge.
Jobs
The Ajira Digital website also lists online jobs openings. The jobs are categorized as international, public jobs, partner jobs.
Ajira Digital Clubs
The Ministry of ICT, Innovation and Youth Affairs has also, in a bid to reach more youth and expand footprints of the AJIRA Digital Program across the country, been collaborating with learning institutions to install Ajira Digital Clubs. Some of the hubs launched in the counties include the Borabu constituency Ajira Digital ICT Hub and Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology hub.
Gig Economy in Kenya
Ajira Digital has been credited for enabling more young people to tap in Kenya's gig economy by empowering them with digital and financial skills. A 2019 study by Mercy Cops; Towards A Digital Workforce: Understanding The Building Blocks Of Kenya's Gig Economy, which sought to analyze the current state and the future outlook of the gig economy in Kenya, recorded that the online gig economy has grown gradually in Kenya and is transforming how Kenyans access work, saying it's enabling young Kenyans access consistent and competitive job opportunities. With the rate of unemployment in Kenya especially among the youth deepening in the wake of COVID-19, the gig economy is providing alternative economic opportunities to a tech savvy generation that is also enjoying the thrilll of the flexibilty that comes with it.
Mercy Cops defines the gig economy in Kenya as a labor market that is characterized by three features: "short-term work, independence of workers and the worker is paid by the task as opposed to those workers who receive a salary or hourly wage".
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"The Mysteries: Renaissance Choros", or "The Mysteries", is a poem by American poet H.D. first published in 1931, as the concluding poem of her poetry anthology Red Roses for Bronze. Inspired by the Eleusinian Mysteries, the poem concerns a ritual meant to resurrect Adonis.
Summary
Throughout the poem, which is "short lined and diffuse", the poet employs repetition, for instance in Section IV, where the term "no man" appears several times, or in Section V, where the word behold is mentioned three consecutive times and twice at another point.
The opening lines of "The Mysteries: Renaissance Choros" allude to the approaching world war: "Dark / days are past / and darker days draw near; / darkness on this side, / darkness over there". A direct reference to the words of Jesus in the Gospel of Mark (4:39) appears further down: "Peace / be still." Jesus is called a "magician" in the second part of "The Mysteries", recalling H.D.'s earlier poem "Magician" (1933), which also refers to Christ. The rest of the poem is replete with other biblical allusions, as well as references to "pagan mystery cults". The poem ends with "an image of new life emerging from death."
Analysis
Louis Lohr Martz suggests that the use of the word "renaissance" in the title of the poem hints at a "new era of culture and a time for personal rebirth". Helen Sword describes the poem's message as "heterodox" and compares the poem with "Brot und Wein" by German poet Friedrich Hölderlin. In arguing that the poem is about "the alliance of Christian and pagan myth", she offers that the imagery of bread and wine in the poem refer not only to the body and blood of Christ, but also that of Demeter and Dionysus (Bacchus). Similarly, she likens Demeter's fertility rites to the Christian doctrine of resurrection. Rosamond Rosenmeier claims that the poem relates to "female and maternal power" and the Holy Spirit, while Deeptangshu Das writes that the poem is a celebration of "the natural, the fertile, the cyclical and the sensual." According to Diana Collecott, the poem focuses on "the seasonal cycle of death and rebirth." Noting that H.D. would remain "publicly silent until The Walls Do Not Fall in 1944", Gary Dean Burnett concludes that the poem marks "a small death through which the mysterious workings of another kind of life, another kind of work, could still be heard."
Legacy
Martz praised the work as "controlled and successful", while Bridget Kendall of the BBC opined that out of all the works inspired by the Eleusinian Mysteries, H.D.'s poem was her favourite. The Mysteries Remain (1982) by David Sampson, which has four movements (The Mysteries Remain; Cycles of Seed-Time; Demeter in the Grass; and Iacchus in the Vine), is based on H.D.'s poem.
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Aviasales is a travel metasearch platform with a monthly audience exceeding 15 million
users. As a metasearch, Aviasales does not sell air tickets, but redirects to the airline and online travel
agent websites.
The service was launched in 2007 and today operates in 14 countries across Eastern Europe, CIS, Asia, and the USA.
The company is headquartered on the island of Phuket, Thailand, being incorporated in Hong Kong in August 2011 as Go Travel Un Limited. In 2019, Skift ranked Aviasales among the top 25 promising travel startups.
History
Aviasales emerged in 2007 as a personal blog about bargain airfares. After pivoting to a travel service in 2008, the first ticket for the Moscow-Paris flight was found and booked through Aviasales. By 2012 Aviasales exceeded 2 million monthly active users.
In 2012 the company launched a travel search for the China market under ifeiso.com brand.
Later the project was closed.
In 2014 VC firm iTech capital invested 10 million dollars into Aviasales. Travel metasearch
offering gets more than 4 million monthly unique visitors, making more than 500,000 search
queries for tickets per day.
In 2019 Aviasales stretched hotels inventory and started a strategic partnership with Booking.com.
In 2020, as an immediate response to Covid-19, Aviasales introduced a ‘remote first’ policy for the
employees. From now on, staff members could choose either to continue working from the company's offices or work remotely.
Products and services
In May 2012 Aviasales’ mobile application for iOS was launched. The next year, the
company released a version for Android.
In 2013 the service introduced an interactive map that helps users search for the cheapest
flights.
In July 2016, Aviasales launched a chatbot for messengers like Slack, Facebook, Viber, and Telegram. The chatbot chooses cities of departure and destination, month and duration of the trip; a user can be updated whether the price comes up or down.
Aviasales claims they are the first company to introduce the selection of baggage while searching in 2017. Baggage policies are highlighted for the particular airfare, and users could select the rate with or without baggage. In 2017, Aviasales launched the search for a fare with or without check-in baggage.
In 2020, «Aviasales for business» was launched for corporate travelers. It helps enterprise clients with last moment changes, cancellations, and paperwork related to business trips.
In 2021, the service ‘Aviasales More’ was launched. It provides cashback for travel services, exclusive travel content, and premium support.
The same year, Aviasales has launched ‘Ok to go’, a guide to re-opened countries. ‘Ok to go’ contains information about COVID-19 restrictions and conditions for traveling.
Target markets
At the beginning of 2018, the company localized the service for Kazakhstan; http://www.aviasales.kz/ a year later, one-third of the air tickets in the country were booked through Aviasales.
In 2019, the company entered the markets of Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Belarus and Ukraine. The number of bookings in new regions grew 11 times, the company's profit increased by 40%.
Currently, Aviasales operates in 14 countries in Eastern Europe, CIS, Asia, and the USA.
Investments
In February 2014, the service closed the ‘Series A’ round of investments of $10 million from the iTech Capital fund. After some time, this deal was named Deal of the year at the Venture Award. Investments were attracted for service development, product marketing, and staff expansion.
In August 2021, Aviasales received a $43 million investment from Elbrus Capital Funds and iTech Capital during the ‘Series B’ round. The company plans to use the injected capital to launch new products and continue growth in both domestic and international markets.
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Mikas Rėklaitis (6 September 1895 – 31 March 1976) was a Lithuanian division general. He was Chief of Supply of the Lithuanian Armed Forces.
Personal life
Simonas, the father of Rėklaitis, was married with Teofilė and had nine children – five sons and four daughters. Simonas Rėklaitis told his children the history of his family even from the 17th century. According to his father, the Rėklaičiai family came from free peasants and never went to corvée. His parents were educated people, thus all their children graduated from studies. Three of them: Vladas Rėklaitis, Antanas Rėklaitis, and Mikas became officers.
Mikas Rėklaitis brothers colonel Antanas Rėklaitis and colonel Vladas Rėklaitis also served in the Lithuanian Armed Forces, all three brothers were arrested by the Soviets following the Soviet occupation of Lithuania in 1940, however they were later liberated and first emigrated to Germany, later – to the United States.
Rėklaitis married Adelė.
Early life
Rėklaitis was born on 6 September 1895 in Daugirdėliai, Alytus County, Russian Empire. In 1915, he graduated from the Veiveriai Teachers' Seminary.
During the World War I Rėklaitis was mobilized into the Imperial Russian Army in 1916 and fought on the front. He graduated from the War School of Alexey in Moscow.
Interwar Lithuania
After returning to Lithuania at the end of 1918, Rėklaitis worked as the Commander of the Alytus County Militia.
In January 1919, Rėklaitis joined the Lithuanian Armed Forces as a volunteer and participated in the Lithuanian Wars of Independence with the Russian SFSR in Kurkliai – Panevėžys operation and Zarasai operation, in 1920 – with the Polish Armed Forces. On 17 October 1919, he was awarded the rank of infantry captain and was appointed commander of a training company. On 20 October 1920, he was appointed commander of the battalion, and on 30 January 1922 he was elevated to a military rank of major.
In 1922, Rėklaitis graduated from the Higher Officers' Courses at the War School of Kaunas and contributed to the drafting of the Statute of the Infantry Order (Part 2, 1922–23).
In 1923, Rėklaitis was appointed Chief of Staff of the First Military District.
Since 1927 Rėklaitis was the commandant of the Kėdainiai military area, later the commandant of the Kėdainiai County.
In 1930–35, Rėklaitis was the Commander of the First Infantry Regiment. In 1930, he graduated from the Higher Officers' Courses. In 1935, he was appointed Commander of the Third Infantry Regiment.
On 23 November 1935, Rėklaitis was promoted to lieutenant general.
In 1938, Rėklaitis was awarded the military rank of division general and served as Chief of Supply of the Lithuanian Armed Forces.
Occupations and World War II
In October 1939, Rėklaitis led the Lithuanian military delegation in negotiations with the Soviet Union on the deployment of Soviet troops in Lithuania. He was appointed Chief of the Lithuanian State Commission to coordinate all matters related to the placement of Soviet crews. In this position, Rėklaitis demonstrated tact and nobility. The Soviet-side had claims to expand its bases widely throughout Lithuania, as well as in Kaunas and Šiauliai districts, however the Lithuanian State Commission was principled and achieved that the headquarters of the Red Army would not be located in Vilnius, but in Naujoji Vilnia, and that at least half of the entire Red Army forces would be kept in the Vilnius Region. In January 1940, Rėklaitis was appointed a representative of the Ministry of National Defence of Lithuania to maintain relations with the Red Army.
On 6–12 June 1940, Rėklaitis accompanied Prime Minister Antanas Merkys in Moscow, however he was not allowed to participate in the negotiations of the Soviet–Lithuanian Mutual Assistance Treaty in Moscow Kremlin. Unaware of Vyacheslav Molotov threats to Merkys and the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, Rėklaitis did not immediately understand the real Kremlin's intentions.
Following the Soviet occupation of Lithuania, Rėklaitis was fired from the Lithuanian Armed Forces in June 1940. On the night of 11 June 1941, he was arrested by the NKVD and imprisoned in Kaunas. Rėklaitis' family was later arrested and taken away, while he met the first day of the war in the security cellars of Kaunas. He was liberated following the start of the Soviet–German War during the June Uprising in Lithuania.
Rėklaitis was appointed as a member of the National Defense Council and Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces by the Provisional Government of Lithuania.
Emigration
In 1944, Rėklaitis departed to Germany, in 1949 he emigrated to the United States.
Rėklaitis actively participated in the activities of the Lithuanian diaspora. He was vice-chairman of the Board of the Ramovė Center of the Lithuanian Veterans' Union, led the establishment of the Union of Freedom Fights Museum (1958), led the construction committee during the construction of the Lithuanian Freedom Fights Monument in Chicago (1960), and was chairman of the commission for the preparation of the book Kovos dėl Lietuvos nepriklausomybės, 1918–1920 (1 volume, 1972), collaborated with press of the Lithuanian Americans.
Rėklaitis died on 31 March 1976 in Chicago and was buried there.
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The 2002 NCAA Division III Women's Basketball Tournament was the 21st annual tournament hosted by the NCAA to determine the national champion of Division III women's collegiate basketball in the United States.
Wisconsin–Stevens Point defeated St. Lawrence in the championship game, 67–65, to claim the Pointers' second Division III national title and first since 1987.
The championship rounds were hosted by Rose–Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Indiana.
Bracket
Final Four
All-tournament team
Carry Boehning, Wisconsin–Stevens Point
Tara Schmitt, Wisconsin–Stevens Point
Lindsey Rush, DePauw
Megan Dietrichsen, St. Lawrence
Cara Barbierri, St. Lawrence
See also
2002 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament
2002 NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament
2002 NAIA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament
2002 NAIA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament
2002 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament
References
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Samuel DeWitt "Sam" Hennings (born December 17, 1950) is an American actor, best known for his starring role in The Work and the Glory trilogy.
Life and career
Born in Macon, Georgia, Hennings spent much of his youth in Athens. Hennings has lived in New York City, San Francisco and Los Angeles for much of his acting career.
Hennings has been an actor since 1985. He starred in a variety of films and television shows. This included more than 70 feature films and television productions. His cinematic roles include The Work and the Glory trilogy, Martin Scorsese's The Aviator with Leonardo DiCaprio, Havoc with Anne Hathaway, Ten Tricks with Lea Thompson, Drop Zone with Wesley Snipes, Shout with John Travolta, Seasons of the Heart, Point Last Seen with Linda Hamilton, Final Shot: The Hank Gathers Story with George Kennedy, and Gideon Oliver: The Last Plane from Coramaya with Louis Gossett Jr., among others. He has starred in various television series including The Magnificent Seven, 24, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and CSI: Miami, ER, E-Ring and Star Trek: The Next Generation. He has had recurring roles on the CBS series JAG, Resurrection Blvd., and in Pensacola: Wings of Gold as the brother of James Brolin's character.
In 2007, he had a recurring guest role on the TNT series Saving Grace as the brother of Holly Hunter's character. In 2009 he co-starred with Josh Lucas in the thriller Stolen.
From September to October 2003, he appeared in the Los Angeles Theater in the play Ten Tricks, which was filmed in 2006. The play is about the lives of prostitutes and magicians.
Filmography
Film
Television
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Yggdrazil Group Public Company Limited is a Thai computer graphics company providing services in film visual effects and animation, and as a video game developer. The studio was established in 2006 by Tanat Juwiwat and Saroot Tubloy, and was registered as a limited company in 2009. They initially focused on visual effects services for television advertisements, and later expanded into film animation, and video game development with the 2017 horror video game Home Sweet Home. The company was publicly listed on the Market for Alternative Investment in 2020.
Yggdrazil Group is Thailand's second-largest computer graphics company by earnings, reported at 173.54 million baht (US$5.38 M) in 2018, with around two-thirds of its clients being international. Its filmography includes the 2018 Thai film Homestay, for which it won the Suphannahong National Film Award for Best Visual Effects, the 2019 Netflix series The Stranded, and the 2019 Chinese animated film Ne Zha.
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The Seaward 46RK is an American sailboat that was designed by Nick Hake as a cruiser and first built in 2012.
Production
The design was built by Hake Yachts in the United States, starting in 2012, but it is now out of production.
Design
The Seaward 46RK is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim. It has a masthead sloop rig; a plumb stem; an open, walk-through, reverse transom; twin transom-hung rudders controlled by a wheel and an electrically actuated lifting keel with a weighted bulb. The boat has a wheelhouse with duplicate electronic helm and engine controls, as well as a navigation station. It displaces and carries of ballast.
The design has a draft of with the keel extended and with it retracted, allowing operation in shallow water. The bulb keel fully retracts into a recess in the hull, allowing the boat to be beached.
The boat is fitted with a two Japanese Yanmar diesel engines or a single Yanmar turbo diesel 4JH4-TE for docking and maneuvering, with the propellers protected by skegs. The fuel tank holds , the fresh water tank has a capacity of and the holding tank has a capacity of .
For sailing downwind the boat may be equipped with a roller furling asymmetrical spinnaker on the forward forestay and a self-tacking jib on the aft forestay. The mainsheet is mounted on a stainless steel arch.
The design has sleeping accommodation for eight people, with a queen-sized double "V"-berth in the bow cabin, a main cabin dinette table that drops down to form a double berth and two aft cabins each with a double berth. The galley is located on the port side just forward of the companionway ladder. The galley is equipped with a two-burner stove, refrigerator, freezer and a double sink. There are two heads, one just aft of the bow cabin and one on the starboard side aft.
The design has a hull speed of .
Operational history
In a 2013 review by Mark Pillsbury for Cruising World, he wrote, "throughout, workmanship appeared top notch. If your sailing grounds include shallow bays and sounds or if you dream, say, of the Bahamas' turquoise waters, the Seaward 46RK might just do the trick."
A 2014 review in Sail Magazine, by Peter Nielsen concluded, "though it’s certainly capable of offshore cruising, the 46RK’s natural environment is the shallow waters of the East Coast, Florida Keys and Bahamas. With a minimum draft of well under three feet, it will out-gunkhole most cruising catamarans and open up cruising grounds that are otherwise out of reach. Its very quirkiness is a big part of its appeal."
See also
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Burkhard Wilhelm Pfeiffer (; 7 May 1777 – 4 October 1852) was German jurist and liberal politician.
Pfeiffer was the son of the evangelical preacher, theologian, and Marburg University professor Johann Jakob Pfeiffer and his first wife Lucie Rebecke (née Rüppel). Among his siblings were Franz Pfeiffer and Carl Jonas Pfeiffer.
Early Life & Career
Pfeiffer grew up in Cassel, where his father served as the parish priest in Oberneustadt, and Burkhard was training to follow in his footsteps and become a preacher. After about a year at the University of Marburg, his father died, and he subsequently transferred to the faculty of Politics and Jurisprudence in 1792. It was here that Pfeiffer became acquainted with Friedrich Carl von Savigny, who would remain a friend for decades. Pfeiffer received his doctorate in law from the University in 1798, and was quickly made an archivist for the Hessian government, a position he held until 1803. From 1803 to 1805 he was a public prosecutor, but in 1805 he was again appointed as state archivist. In addition to his duties as archivist, he was also named procurator fiscal to the court of William I, Elector of Hesse. This job lasted until the invasion of Hesse by Napoleon and its annexation into the Kingdom of Westphalia. Under the rule of King Jérôme, Pfeiffer worked as the Assistant Procurator General for the Court of Appeals in Cassel, and for his service, was awarded the Order of the Crown of Westphalia. During this time, Pfeiffer also published extensively, on subjects as varied as Roman law, patrimony and jurisdiction, civil code, and the Westphalian constitution.
It was during this period of intense publication that Pfeiffer and von Savigny fell out over politics, with Pfeiffer’s liberal views placing him at odds with Savigny as they worked with Thibaut to help reform and restructure the outdated laws and civil codes that plagued all of the German states at this time. After the defeat of Napoleon and the reestablishment of the Electorate of Hesse, Pfeiffer again took offices as a government councilor and legal advisor. In 1817, he was made a senior appellate judge at the Electoral Court of Appeals in Hesse, whose law-code he revised from its previous 1771 version. He was offered a position on the court of appeals in Berlin, but his attachment to his homeland saw him decline the offer. In 1820, Pfeiffer came into direct conflict with the Elector William, over an expert opinion drawn up to the disadvantage of the Elector on the legality of debt repayments to the war chest during the Napoleonic period. This decision, and the subsequent backlash from the court, prompted him to leave his position, move to Lübeck, and take up a position on the newly formed , or “High Court of Appeal of the Four Free Cities,” which held jurisdiction over the free imperial cities of Lübeck, Bremen, Frankfurt and Hamburg.
William I, Elector of Hesse died in 1821, and Pfeiffer was quickly summoned back to court by the new Elector, William II. Among his duties at court was to oversee the legal and political education of William’s son Frederick William, who would go on to be the third and final Elector of Hesse. in 1824, Pfeiffer received an offer from Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach to take up a teaching position at the University of Jena, as well as a senior role in the court of appeals there, but yet again, he declined the offer. In a letter to his son, he recorded his internal turmoil: "Even if there are many, many things I would wish otherwise, it would not be any better if I selfishly avoided them. I would also have to recognize myself guilty of ingratitude against the prince to whom I owe my honorable return to my sorely missed fatherland, if I wanted to leave it again without any cause for displeasure with my situation here." Despite his high position at court, Pfeiffer’s liberal views were well-known and over the next decades, he published an assortment of essays and treatises outlining all that was wrong with the German political system and how it needed to change. Among other things, he proposed the establishment of a German Supreme Court, and severe controls on sovereign powers wielded by the rulers of constituent states. Chief among his published works was his eight-volume magnum opus or "Practical Explanations from all Parts of Jurisprudence, with Findings of the High Court of Appeal in Kassel," which was published between 1825 and 1846. It contains 98 essays, drawing from Pfeiffer’s decades of experience in the legal profession, and addresses problems with laws in all of the German states. The immense size of the work earned Pfeiffer the nickname , or "the Practical Pfeiffer" for the rest of his life.
In 1830, Pfeiffer's lifelong dedication to Hesse and its people was rewarded when the Elector, William II, invested him as a Commander, 2nd Class in the House Order of the Golden Lion. Pfeiffer’s aforementioned gratitude to both the Elector and his family forced him to accept the honor, but he deeply wished to decline, fearing that this recognition by the State would, in his own words, cause him “to lose the confidence of the estates, which he had earned so far, and thus to be disturbed in his desired participation in the great constitutional work.” At his request, the announcement of his investment was left out of the official government circular, allowing him to continue his political career for the time being. In 1831, he took part in the conference that drafted the new constitution for the Electorate of Hesse, which was later described by Karl Marx as "the most liberal constitution [...] that has ever been promulgated in Europe." The new Elector was not pleased with the liberal stance of the new constitution, particularly the controls on his powers, but he nevertheless appointed Pfeiffer as president of the Landtag of Hesse. Concerned with Pfeiffer’s perceived closeness to the electoral family and court, despite his liberal credentials, the other members of the Landtag declared the election invalid, which led to a conflict with Ludwig Hassenpflug that would last the rest of his life. The next decade consisted largely of political maneuvering on Pfeiffer and Hassenpflug's parts, each working to outwit the other. In 1834, Hassenpflug's manipulation led to Pfeiffer being passed over for the role Landtag President, despite having held the position provisionally for over a year, in favor of a younger and less qualified colleague. In the wake of this derailment of his political career, and feeling his own age, he submitted a formal request to retire in 1842, but was refused by the Landtag with two simple words: . After a year of hearing cases in absentia due to his ill health, Pfeiffer was permitted to retire in 1843. He continued to publish until 1851, but his influence and position in Hessian politics was finished.
Family & Later Life
In Cassel, on December 20, 1801, Burchard Pfeiffer married Louise Susanne Arnoldine Harnier (12 June 1778 – 22 December 1847), daughter of Johann Caspar Harnier (1739-1811), the Hessian Minister of War. Her family was of Huguenot descent. They had four children:
Carl Caspar Jacob (4 October 1803 – 31 July 1831)
Ludwig Carl Georg (4 July 1805 – 2 October 1877), physician, botanist, and conchologist.
Marianne Sophie Henriette (17 June 1807 – 3 January 1892), second wife of Louis Spohr.
Louise Catharine Caroline (25 December 1809 – 19 January 1886)
The untimely death of Burkhard Pfeiffer's son Carl at the age of 28 from cholera had profound effect on both him and his wife. Pfeiffer found himself an outspoken advocate for public health and the treatment of disease, as well as a critic of war in general, which he believed responsible for the spread of disease. Louise Pfeiffer spent the years after her son's death in near-isolation, and her death in 1847 went almost unnoticed by the outside world, who had not seen or heard her in over a decade. After the death of his wife, Pfeiffer emerged somewhat from retirement, having seen the great work of his Hessian constitution begin to erode, and the rights of the people begin to wane, so he began writing newspaper articles challenging the men in power to return to their principles and reinforce the constitutional rights of the Hessian people. Despite this, in 1850 the Hessian constitutional crisis tore into his homeland, despite his lifelong efforts, and in 1852 Burkhard Wilhelm Pfeiffer died.
Published Works
Dissertatio inauguralis de praelegatis, Marburg 1798.
Vermischte Aufsätze über Gegenstände des römischen und deutschen Privatrechts, Marburg 1802.
Über die Grenzen der Civil-Patrimonial-Jurisdiktion. Ein Beitrag zum Territorial-Staatsrecht, Göttingen 1806.
Napoleon's Gesetzbuch nach seinen Abweichungen von Teutschlands gemeinem Rechte, Vol. I. & II. Göttingen 1808. (written with his younger brother Franz Georg Pfeiffer)
Vollständige Unterweisung der Beamten des Civilstandes, in ihren sämmtlichen Verrichtungen, Kassel 1808. (He was not named as author until the fifth edition was published in Hannover in 1810.)
Rechtsfälle, entschieden nach dem Gesetzbuche Napoleons, Vol. I. Hannover 1811. Vol. II. 1813.
Rechtsfälle zur Erläuterung der Gerichtsverfassung und Prozeßordnungen Westfalens, Vol. I. Hannover 1812.
Ideen zu einer neuen Gesetzgebung für teutsche Staaten, Göttingen 1815.
Inwiesern sind Regierungshandlungen eines Zwischenherrschers für den rechtmäßigen Regenten nach seiner Rückkehr verbindlich?, Hannover 1819.
Decisiones supremi tribunalis Hasso-Cassellani, P. 1-4. Kassel 1821.
Das Recht der Kriegseroberung tu Beziehung auf Staatskapitalien, Kassel 1823.
Praktische Ausführungen aus allen Teilen der Rechtswissenschaft; mit Erkenntnissen des Ober appellationsgerichts zu Kassel, Vol. I. Hannover 1825. Vol. II. 1828. Vol. III-VIII. 1830-1846. Register 1850.
Grundzüge der rechtlichen Entscheidung des Sachsen-Gothaischen Successionsfalles, Kassel 1826.
Über die Ordnung der Regierungs-Nachfolge in teutschen Staaten überhaupt, und in dem herzoglichen Gesammthause Sachsen-Gotha insbesondere, Vol. I & II, Kassel 1826.
Einige Worte über den Entwurf einer Verfassungsurkunde für Kurhessen vom 7. Oktober 1830, Kassel 1830.
Geschichte der landständischen Verfassung in Kurhessen, Kassel 1834.
Praktischer Beitrag zur Lehre von Injurien und Majestätsbeleidigungen in Hitzig's Annalen der Kriminalrechtspflege, Vol. 18. S. 163 — 239. Berlin 1840
Hessen und Hessenkassel in Weiske's Rechtslexikon, Vol. 5. Leipzig 1844
Ausführliche Darstellung des gesummten Lehnrechts, Vol. 6. Leipzig 1845
Über den altgermanischen Ursprung der Lehre vom unvordenklichen Besitze, in der Zeitschrift für deutsches Recht von Reyscher und Wilda, Vol. 8. Leipzig 1843.
Die rechtlichen Verhältnisse der Witwenkassen, Zeitschrift für deutsches Recht von Reyscher und Wilda, Vol. 9. Tübingen 1845
Sind die Sachen und Rechte der Städte einer Verjährung von 30 oder 40 Jahren unterworfen?, im Archiv für civilistische Praxis. Vol. 28. Heidelberg 1846.
Über den Umfang der Anwendbarkeit der lex 68 Digestorum „Ad legem Falcidiam“ im Archiv für civilistische Praxis. Vol. 28. Heidelberg 1846.
Der praktische Gebrauch und Nutzen der Schiedsgerichte in einzelnen Streitfällen, in der Zeitschrift für Civilrecht und Prozeß, herausgegeben von Linde, Marezoll und Schröter. Nene Folge. Vol. 3. Gießen 1847.
Das deutsche Meierrecht nach seiner rechtlichen Begründung und dermaligen Gestaltung mit vielfältigen Belegen aus der Praxis der obersten Gerichtshöfe, Kassel 1848.
Fingerzeige für deutsche Ständeversammlungen, Kassel 1849.
Zur Würdigung des Bundestags-Beschlusses vom 21. Sept. 1850, den dermaligen Conflict der kurhessischen Regierung mit den Ständen über die Steuerfrage betreffend, Kassel 1850.
Der alte und der neue Bundestag, Kassel 1851.
Die Selbständigkeit des Richteramts, Kassel 1851.
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References
Further reading
Bovensiepen, Rudolf: Wilhelm Pfeiffer. In: Ingeborg Schnack (Hrsg.): Lebensbilder aus Kurhessen und Waldeck 1830–1930. Bd. 2, Marburg 1940, S. 308–321.
Grothe, Ewald: Verfassungsgebung und Verfassungskonflikt. Das Kurfürstentum Hessen in der ersten Ära Hassenpflug 1830–1837, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1996 (= Schriften zur Verfassungsgeschichte, 48), ISBN 3-428-08509-4.
Grothe, Ewald (Hrsg.): Die Abgeordneten der kurhessischen Ständeversammlungen 1830–1866. (=Veröffentlichungen der Historischen Kommission für Hessen. Bd. 48, 13 = Politische und parlamentarische Geschichte des Landes Hessen. Bd. 43). Historische Kommission für Hessen, Marburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-942225-33-5, Nr. KSV-338.
Hattenhauer, Hans: Burchard Wilhelm Pfeiffer und die Bauernbefreiung in Kurhessen. Eine Exegese, in: Sten Gagnér/Hans Schlosser/Wolfgang Wiegand (Hrsg.): Festschrift für Hermann Krause, Böhlau, Köln/Wien 1975, S. 188–209.
Lengemann, Jochen: MdL Hessen. 1808–1996. Biographischer Index (= Politische und parlamentarische Geschichte des Landes Hessen. Bd. 14 = Veröffentlichungen der Historischen Kommission für Hessen. Bd. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6, S. 292.
Edgar: Pfeiffer, Burkhard Wilhelm. In: Kassel Lexikon. Hrsg. v. der Stadt Kassel, Bd. 2, euregio, Kassel 2009, ISBN 978-3-933617-40-8, S. 131.
Liebmann, Jürgen Nolte: Burchard Wilhelm Pfeiffer. Gedanken zur Reform des Zivilrechts. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der deutschen Zivilgesetzgebung. Göttingen 1969.
Seier, Hellmut (Hrsg.): Akten und Briefe aus den Anfängen der kurhessischen Verfassungszeit 1830–1837, bearb. von dems. und Ewald Grothe, Elwert, Marburg 1992 (= Veröffentlichungen der Historischen Kommission für Hessen, 48,4; Vorgeschichte und Geschichte des Parlamentarismus in Hessen, 8), ISBN 3-7708-0993-9.
Theisen, Frank: Zwischen Machtspruch und Unabhängigkeit. Kurhessische Rechtsprechung von 1821–1848, Böhlau, Köln 1997, ISBN 978-3-412-02997-5.
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Borys Davidovich Deich (; 28 August 1938 – 7 February 2022) was a Ukrainian politician.
Biography
A member of the Party of Regions, he served as a member of the Verkhovna Rada from 2002 till 2014. He supported the annexation of Crimea by Russia.
Deich died from COVID-19 in Moscow on 7 February 2022, at the age of 83.
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Anaïs Favron (born January 11, 1977, in Saint-Octave-de-Métis) is a radio and TV host, an actress, and an improviser from Quebec.
Biography
Anaïs began her artistic career in television with small roles in the shows "Allô Prof", "Le bonheur est dans la télé" and "L'été c'est péché", but also with her remarkable participation in the show "Improvissimo".
She was drafted at the age of 20 into the ranks of the LNI (National Improvisation League) where she is still a star player today. After a certificate in film script writing, she decided to focus on theater and it was at UQAM's École Supérieure de Théâtre that she continued her training, where she developed a passion for directing.
After her studies, she joined the Kino movement, where she directed short films in addition to hosting evenings. She then founded the theatrical collective Cinplass, which has been presenting improvised shows since 1999.
In 2006, she hosted the youth TV show "L'émission jeunesse RDI" for which she was nominated for the Gémeaux awards gala.
In the summer of 2008, she was part of the production of the delirious comedy "Montcalm avant la tempête" written by Éric Fortin and directed by Stéphane Allard.
From 2009 to 2011, she co-hosted the show "Tout un retour" on CKOI, alongside Normand Brathwaite.
In fall 2012, she became the new host of the morning show "C’t’encore drôle" (Énergie Montréal 94.3) alongside Philippe Bond and Pierre Pagé, which became "NRJ le matin" (NRJ Montréal 94.3) in 2014, still with Philippe Bond, but also with François Morency this time.
She was a house actress in "Dieu merci!", star player of the LNI for more than 15 years and field host on the show "Juste pour rire en direct" (TVA) in addition to being one of the headliners of MAtv with the magazine GROStitres. We were able to see her as a columnist for "Un gars le soir" (V), collaborator at "Testé sur des humains" (TVA) as well as "C’est juste de la tv" (ARTV).
In 2013, she hosted "À faire en Grèce: la liste d’Anaïs" (Canal Évasion) as well as a 5th year of "En route vers mon premier Gala Juste Pour Rire" (MAtv) in the spring of 2014. In July, she co-hosted with Maxim Martin his first Just For Laughs Gala under the theme "opposite sex".
In 2015, she was at the helm of two new shows, "La guerre des puces" (Ztélé) and "100% Animal" (Télé-Québec), and was back for a fourth season of the youth show "Le dernier passager".
In the period of the COVID-19 pandemic, she hosted the program "L'école à la maison" with Pascale Morissette. She is also nominated for a Prix Gémeaux (Télé-Québec) for this last show. She also co-hosted a 2nd Just for Laughs Gala with Maxim Martin on the theme of "envy" in July and she was back in August 2016 on the radio for the program "ÉNERGIE le matin" (NRJ became Énergie again) from the end of August with Maxim Martin and Dominic Arpin.
She collaborated for 3 years on the program "Testé sur des humains", on TVA, in which she tested the limits of the human being.
We could see her in "Les 12 travaux d'Anaïs", on the airwaves of Canal Vie.
In 2021, she hosts the show "50 façons de tuer sa mère" in which she brings strong emotions to her mother by trying all kinds of activities and extreme sports.
On March 28, 2021, she co-hosted the television show "Tout le monde en parle", replacing Dany Turcotte.
Radio
"Tout un retour" with Normand Brathwaite, Sophie Prégent and Dave Morissette on CKOI-FM
"C't'encore drôle" with Pierre Pagé and Philippe Bond on Énergie 94.3 Montreal
"NRJ le matin" with François Morency and Philippe Bond on NRJ Montreal 94.3
"ÉNERGIE le matin" with Dominic Arpin and Maxim Martin on ENERGY Montreal 94.3
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1977 births
Living people
Actresses from Quebec
Canadian television hosts
Canadian radio hosts
Canadian television actresses |
French Strikes Oil is a 1951 detective novel by the Irish-born writer Freeman Wills Crofts. It is the twenty eighth and penultimate entry in his series of novels featuring Inspector French, a Scotland Yard detective of the Golden Age known for his methodical technique. It was published in the United States by Dodd Mead under the alternative title of Dark Journey.
No further French novel appeared for six years after this, although he featured in a short story collection The Mystery of the Sleeping Car Express published in 1956.
Synopsis
French, now promoted to Superintendent, is called in to investigate the murder of Maurice Vale. Oil had recently been discovered on the family estate which promised to make them very wealthy. While Rodney Vale was keen to exploit the valuable new resources, his brother Maurice was strongly opposed due to the damage to the picturesque countryside. Maurice's death therefore potentially benefits several of his relatives. Curiously, French discovers two separate gloves by the body, one belonging to a man and one a woman.
References
Bibliography
Evans, Curtis. Masters of the "Humdrum" Mystery: Cecil John Charles Street, Freeman Wills Crofts, Alfred Walter Stewart and the British Detective Novel, 1920-1961. McFarland, 2014.
Herbert, Rosemary. Whodunit?: A Who's Who in Crime & Mystery Writing. Oxford University Press, 2003.
Reilly, John M. Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers. Springer, 2015.
1951 British novels
Novels by Freeman Wills Crofts
British crime novels
British mystery novels
British thriller novels
British detective novels
Hodder & Stoughton books
Novels set in London
Irish mystery novels
Irish crime novels |
Wylie Burke is a Professor Emerita and former Chair of the Department of Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Washington and a founding co-director of the Northwest-Alaska Pharmacogenomics Research Network, which partners with underserved populations in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska.
Burke's work focuses on ethical, legal, and social implications of genetic information for research and health care.
She is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and the Association of American Physicians, and a past president of the American Society of Human Genetics.
Early life and education
Burke attended Brooklyn College, graduating summa cum laude in 1970. She then studied at the University of Washington, receiving a PhD in Genetics in 1974 and completing her MD with a residency in Internal Medicine. Next she spent several years as a primary care doctor at a community hospital. Burke returned to the University of Washington as a Medical Genetics Fellow from 1981-1982.
Career
Burke joined the Department of Medicine at the University of Washington in 1983. She served as the associate director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program from 1988 to 1994 and as the founding director of the Women’s Health Care Center at the University of Washington from 1994-1999. In 2000, she became director of the Department of Medical History and Ethics. It was renamed the Department of Bioethics and Humanities in 2008. Burke stepped down as chair in 2014.
Burke is now Professor Emerita of the University of Washington. She is also an adjunct professor of medicine and epidemiology and a member of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. The Department of Bioethics & Humanities at the University of Washington has created an endowed scholarship for diversity in her name.
Burke was a visiting scientist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 1998. She served on the NIH National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research from 1999-2003 and the Department of Health and Human Services Advisory Committee on Genetic Testing from 1999-2002. Burke was the founding Principal Investigator of the University of Washington's Center for Genomics and Healthcare Equality from 2004–2017, one of the NIH Centers of Excellence in Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) Research, which were funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute. She served on the National Academies' Committee on the Return of Individual-Specific Results Generated in Research Laboratories, which released a report in 2018 recommending guidelines for researchers and institutions.
Burke is a founding co-director with Ken Thummel of the Northwest-Alaska Pharmacogenomics Research Network. The network was formed in 2009 as a research partnership between tribal organizations and universities to study pharmacogenomics in rural and underserved populations in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska.
It received funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) people are disproportionately likely to be designated as medically underserved, as a result of lower availability of primary care physicians and higher than average percentages for infant mortality, incomes below the poverty level, and people 65 years or older.
Current university partners include the University of Washington, the University of Alaska Fairbanks, the Oregon Health & Science University, and the University of Montana.
Burke has been an international fellow at the National Health Service in Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Burke was director of the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) from 2002 to 2004 and a member of its Social Issues Committee from 2004 to 2006. In 2007 she served as ASHG President.
Research
Burke examines the ethical, legal, and social implications of human genetics. She is particularly concerned with the translation of novel genomic technologies from their development in the lab to their use in the health system and community. She is regarded as a national leader in ethics and policy dealing with human genome research, addressing fundamental and difficult questions with respect for those involved.
Among the issues of concern to Burke are clinical utility — what genetic information will be of help to a particular patient, how can this be determined, and are there potential harms to a patient? — and equity — are interventions which have clinical utility available to all who can benefit from it? Are diverse populations and individuals being taken into account?
Awards
2021, Victor A. McKusick Leadership Award, American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG)
2016, Cowan Memorial Lecturer, University of Utah
2013-2014, Presidential Chair, University of California, San Francisco
2007, Member, Institute of Medicine (now National Academy of Medicine)
2006, NHS International Fellow, Public Health Genetics Unit, Cambridge UK
Member, Association of American Physicians
Publications
References
Living people
University of Washington faculty
University of Washington alumni
American geneticists
American ethicists
Women geneticists
Members of the National Academy of Medicine
Brooklyn College alumni
American women physicians
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Hugo Nathan (1861-1921) was a German banker and art collector.
Life
Hugo Nathan was a director at the Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt am Main.
He married Martha Adrianna Nathan.
He died in 1921.
Art Collection
Nathan collected art. His collection included Dutch art (Josef Israels, "Alte Frau"), German art, with works by Max Liebermann ("Schreitende Bauerné, 1894/95, "Selbstbildnis" 1908, "Reiter am Meeresstrand" 1901, "Schulgang in Laren" 1899,), Wilhelm Trübner ("Kunstpause", "Brustbild einer Frau", "Blick auf Kloster Seon", "Kirchengang im Klster Seeon", "Atelierecke", "Waldinneres", "Vorgang ds Stift Neuburg", "Weg am Buchenwald", "Neustift bei Heidelberg", "Screinerwerkstatt") and Max Slevoft ("Spaziergan"), as well as Swiss art by Ferdinand Hodler (Aussicht vom Thunersee bei Niesen" 1876, "Jungfrau, Mönch und Eiger", "Mönch in Abendbeleuchtung").
In 1912 he purchased Van Gogh's The Diggers. In 1913, he lent artworks to an exhibition at the Kunstverein (July-September) entitled Frankfurter Kunstschatze.
Family and Nazi persecution
When the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, Nathan's widow Martha was persecuted because of her Jewish heritage. In January 1937, she fled Germany and moved to Paris, France where she obtained French citizenship. She returned briefly to Germany around May 1938 to sell her house, and was forced by the Nazi government to transfer six paintingsremaining in her home to the Staedel Art Institute. She moved to Switzerland around 1939. After the Nazis occupied Paris in 1940, property that she had managed to store there was seized too She had managed, however, to move some paintings to safety Switzerland. The circumstances surrounding the sale of these paintings have been disputed in lawsuits.
Postwar claims for restitution
In May 2004, Nathan's heir contacted the Detroit Institute of Arts after seeing Van Gogh's The Diggers on the museum website.
In 2013, Simon J. Frankel and Ethan Forrest defended the museums' use of legal tactics such as declaratory judgement against Nathan.
Lawsuits concerning Hugo and Martha Nathan's art collection
Toledo Museum of Art v Claude George Ullin, et al.,
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1861 births
1921 deaths |
Du is a magazine focused on art and culture headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland. It was founded in 1941 and was often viewed as one of the leading voices on art and culture in Europe. The magazine is known for its focus on photography; prominent photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Werner Bischof and Réne Burri were contributors for the magazine.
History
In 1941 the publishing house Conzett & Huber decided to sell the Zürcher Illustrierte and to publish a new magazine in order to promote a color print it developed which enabled the printing of multi-colored photographs in good quality. It was headquartered in Zürich, and the publishing house gave Arnold Kübler, the former editor-in-chief of the Zürcher Illustrierte, the lead over the new magazine. The content of the magazine was less important to the publishers; the first issue included several pages with colorful publicity, some of the fashion-related pages were also in color but not always based on photographic originals. In November 1941 the cover of the magazine was designed according to the main theme of the issue for the first time. and under its first Editor-in-Chief Arnold Kübler focused on colorful photo-stories.
Title
In his first editorial, Kübler wrote about the topic ("You"), and this is how the name of the magazine was chosen. Other titles discussed were Windstärke 13, Elan, Niveau and Terra, but Kübler insisted on Du in the discussions within the editorial board. The first issue included a page with several poems titled Du. Between 1941 and 1958, Du was published with the subtitle ( (Swiss Monthly), then under Manuel Gasser as editor-in-chief the magazine used the subtitle (Cultural Monthly), and Dominik Keller introduced the European Monthly in 1975 ().
Notable editors-in-chief
Arnold Kübler
Kübler was the editor in chief from 1941 to 1957 during which 204 issues of the Du were published. Under his lead, the magazine's focus was not on the traditional news but more on the people and their environment. The magazine was meant to bring some hope and distraction to the people worried due to World War II. In November 1941 he was responsible for the mono-thematic issue of the magazine on "death". In 1946, Du published an issue on the reconstruction in Europe. Initially the magazine had to face some criticism some saw it as a waste of public money, others deemed the authors as failed artists who now claimed to judge but within a short period of time, Du was a respected magazine and by the 1950s it reached an international readership of over 30'000.
Alfred Gasser
In 1957, the former editor-in-chief of the Weltwoche, Alfred Gasser, succeeded Kübler, the magazines focus turned more to art. In 1958, a photo-reportage on Switzerland by Henri Cartier-Bresson was published, in 1959 another one by René Burri on the Argentinian Gaucho's. He also enabled covers designed by the painters Marc Chagall or Joan Miró. Between 1958 and 1964 the Swiss writer Hugo Loetscher would be the literary editor of the magazine. In 1960 Loetscher also founded the supplement Das Wort (English:The Word) which had a focus on philosophy and social sciences. 1964 the Du joined forces with the magazine . After 204 issues Gasser left the Du in 1974. With his successors Dominik Keller and Wolfhart Draeger the magazine was not able to capture the readers as before and the circulation diminished.
Dieter Bachmann
In 1988, Conzett & Huber was bought by Tamedia from Zürich; and Dieter Bachmann became Du's editor-in-chief. Bachmann attempted to lead the magazine to former glories with editions on Gabriel Garcia Marquez or the Swiss authors Friedrich Dürrenmatt and Max Frisch and the circulation returned to over 25'000. After Bachmann left Du in 1998, the quality diminished and the readership fell to 12'000. The magazine wasn't profitable and after Du's ownership changed several times; it was bought by in 2007.
Oliver Prange
Under Prange, who was editor in chief since 2015, the magazine published issues in cooperation with other cultural institutions for which it also received financial support. This went well until, a week ahead of the Federal Elections in 2015, Du published an issue about the art collection of the politician of the Swiss People's Party (SVP) Christoph Blocher. Some have criticized the fact that a cultural institution like Du was used as a vehicle for publicity.
Reception
The magazine became a cultural magazine during World War II, and seemed to have followed the line of the Federal Council of Switzerland and also the former Zürcher Illustrierte which both supported an Intellectual Homeland Defense in 1938. A lot of the content in the first issues focused on Swiss artists, painters and landscapes. The cover of the December issue was regularly themed after Christmas.
Photography
The magazine is credited with having employed prominent photographers and focused on quality images and colorful photo-stories. Several thousand colored and black and white photographs of the Du were included in the German Marburg Picture Index in 1976 when the Marburger institution bought the photographs from Conzett & Huber for 25'000 DM.
Award
2011 Henri Nannen prize for a photo story on Tomi Ungerer.
References
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German-language magazines
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U Sagittae is an eclipsing binary star system in the northern constellation of Sagitta. It has been actively studied since its discovery in 1901. The maximum apparent visual magnitude of this system is 6.50, which is near the lower limit of visibility to the naked eye. The system is located at a distance of approximately 868 light years from the Sun based on parallax measurements, but is drifting closer with a radial velocity of −17 km/s. It is positioned about 2° from the middle of the Collinder 399 asterism, but lies much further away than the purported member stars.
The variable nature of this system was discovered by German astronomer Friedrich Schwab in 1901. He determined it to be an Algol variable with a brightness that decreased by 2.1 magnitudes during an eclipse. A single-lined spectroscopic orbit was published in 1916 by Mary Fowler using spectrograms taken from the Allegheny Observatory. With a larger set of observations, D. H. McNamara published a revised orbit in 1951. In 1959, hydrogen lines from the system were found to show a systematically different radial velocity compared to other lines from the two stars.
This is a spectroscopic binary system in a near circular orbit with a period of 3.38 days. It is a semidetached binary and the brightest fully eclipsing Algol variable. During the primary eclipse the brightness of the system drops to magnitude 9.28, while the secondary eclipse lowers the magnitude to 6.71. Observations of the system minima over a period of more than 80 years do not indicate a significant change in the orbital period. The orbital plane is inclined at an angle of 89° to the line of sight from the Earth, so it is being viewed from edge-on. The system contains circumstellar gas with a temperature of that is streaming between the stars. This forms an intermittent accretion disk around the primary.
The primary component is a B-type main-sequence star with a stellar classification of B7.5V. It has 4.6 times the mass and 3.9 times the radius of the Sun. The star is rotating with a projected rotational velocity of 100 km/s. It is radiating 48 times the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 13,300 K. The gas stream from the secondary is causing an increase in ultraviolet emission from this star from an impact hot spot.
The secondary has a class of G4 III–IV, indicating it is the more evolved member of the pair. It was originally the primary component of the system before expanding and transferring much of its mass to the present day primary. The secondary has filled its Roche lobe and is shedding mass at an estimated rate of ·yr−1. It has 1.7 times the mass of the Sun and 5.5 times the Sun's radius. This star is rotating slightly faster than synchronous with the orbit, showing a projected rotational velocity of 73 km/s. It is radiating 2.7 times the luminosity of the Sun from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 5,500 K.
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Further reading
B-type main-sequence stars
G-type giants
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This article refers to sports broadcasting contracts in North Macedonia.
Football
Macedonian First Football League: MRT
Basketball
Macedonian First League: MRT
Habdball
Macedonian Handball Super League: MRT
Motor racing
Formula One: Sport Klub
References
Sports broadcasting contracts by country |
Pietro Perreau (27 October 1827 – 1911) was an Italian librarian and Hebraist.
Biography
Pietro Perreau was born in Piacenza on 27 October 1827. His father was an engineer with origins in Franche-Comté, and his mother a member of the local aristocracy. He studied in the Alberoni College of his native town from 1844 to 1849, and continued to study philology and philosophy until 1853. In 1854 he became a teacher of Greek, German, and history at the Collegio Carlo Alberto in Moncalieri, and between 1855 and 1856 he taught Greek and German at the in Parma.
Perreau was appointed director of the Landiana Library in his native city in 1857. Three years later, he was placed at the head of the Oriental collection in the National Library of Parma, of which he was made chief librarian in 1876. He was a member of the , and active in a number of Orientalist societies. Notably, Perreau was one of two vice-presidents at the Fourth International Congress of Orientalists in Florence in 1878.
Though himself a Catholic priest, he was an avowed philosemite who published historical, literary and scientific studies in various Jewish journals, including the Antologia Israelitica and the Vessillo Israelitico. Prior to 1860 Perreau had written on various subjects, but from then on he devoted himself exclusively to rabbinical Jewish literature.
Among other works, Perreau published a polygraphic edition of the commentary of Immanuel of Rome on the Psalms (Parma, 1879–82), on Esther (1880), and on Lamentations (1881). He also published the Ma'amar Gan 'Eden of Rabbi Ḥayyim Israel, in the Zunz Jubelschrift, and Oceano dello abbreviature e sigle ebraiche, caldaiche, rabbiniche, talmudiche, cabalistiche, geographiche, etc. (Parma, 1883; polygraphic edition), a lexicon of Hebrew abbreviations.
Selected publications
Originally published in Il Buonarroti, 1873.
References
1827 births
1911 deaths
19th-century Italian Roman Catholic priests
Christian Hebraists
Italian Hebraists
People from Piacenza |
Alphonse d'Ornano (1548 - January 21, 1610) was a Marshal of France, active during the French Wars of Religion.
He was born in Bastelica, Corsica, the son of Sampiero Corso. He died in Bordeaux. He was the father of Jean-Baptiste d'Ornano.
1548 births
1610 deaths
People from Corsica |
Jill Walker Rettberg (born Jill Walker in 1971) is Professor of Digital Culture at the University of Bergen. She is "a leading researcher in self-representation in social media" and a European Research Council grantee (2018-2023) with the project Machine Vision in Everyday Life: Playful Interactions with Visual Technologies in Digital Art, Games, Narratives and Social Media. Rettberg is known for innovative research dissemination in social media, having started her research blog jill/txt in 2000, and developed Snapchat Research Stories in 2017.
Education and academic career
After completing an MA in Comparative Literature at the University of Bergen in 1998, Rettberg worked for a year on a research project developing educational MOOs, and in 2003 completed a doctoral degree in Humanistic Informatics at the University of Bergen under the supervision of Espen Aarseth.
Rettberg was hired as an associate professor at the University of Bergen after her PhD, and was promoted to full Professor of Digital Culture in 2009. In addition to her tenured position at the University of Bergen, Rettberg has been a visiting scholar at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, University of Illinois Chicago, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Chicago.
In addition to her academic positions, Jill Walker Rettberg is a member of the Research Council of Norway's portfolio board for Humanities and Social Sciences (2019-2023), and was previously a member of Arts Council Norway's research and development committee. She co-authored the official Norwegian report NOU 2013:2 on hindrances for digital growth.
Blogging and social media
With the book Seeing Ourselves Through Technology: How We Use Selfies, Blogs and Wearable Devices to See and Shape Ourselves Rettberg examined three key modes of self-representation in social media: textual, as in blogs, visual, as in selfies, and quantitative, as in self-tracking and the growing quantitative self movement. Seeing these modes in combination is key to understanding social media as a whole.
Books
Seeing Ourselves Through Technology: How We Use Selfies, Blogs and Wearable Devices to See and Shape Ourselves. Basingbroke: Palgrave, October 2014.
Blogging. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2008, 2nd ed. 2014. (1st ed. trans.: Polish, Korean.)
(co-editor, with Hilde Corneliussen) Digital Culture, Play, and Identity: A World of Warcraft Reader. Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2008.
Major grants and awards
ERC Consolidator grant (€2 million) 2018–2023.
John Lovas Award for Best Academic Weblog for Snapchat Research Stories
The Meltzer Prize for Excellence in Research Dissemination, 2005.
The Inaugural Ted Nelson Newcomer Award at the ACM Hypertext conference in 1999.
References
External links
Snapchat Research Stories. Archive on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL46Xs2itPIMlDBL0tPfg-2WzXwZrnTePh
jill/txt - a research blog active since 2000. https://jilltxt.net
1971 births
Living people
Norwegian scientists
Australian scientists
Bloggers
Norwegian bloggers
European Research Council grantees
University of Bergen faculty |
Liolaemus thermarum is a species of lizard in the family Iguanidae. It is found in Argentina.
References
thermarum
Lizards of South America
Reptiles of Argentina
Endemic fauna of Argentina
Reptiles described in 1996
Taxa named by José Miguel Alfredo María Cei |
The Sulfurozador was a popular name for a device that emits sulfur dioxide in closed spaces for sanitation purposes, used extensively in South America, especially in Buenos Aires, to kill rat populations. The device was originally invented in France by René Marot, and found more widespread use in times of epidemics, such as the plague epidemic in San Francisco. It was used extensively for fumigation of ships.
References
Pest control techniques
French inventions |
Mark Bryan Wilson (born September 10, 1958) is an American puppeteer, and puppet maker. He made his most memorable contribution, in the film arena, by stepping into the character suit of the iconic green ghost, Slimer (aka Onionhead), in the original smash hit comedy movie Ghostbusters (1984), where he acted opposite Dan Aykroyd, and he “slimed” Bill Murray. Mark was also one of the key artists responsible for hand crafting many of the fantastic ghosts for that film.
Filmography
Film
Bad Milo (2013)
Character: bad Ralph
Team America: World Police (2004)
Character: cairo street camel
The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2003)
Character: Julie Andrews marionette
Virus (1996)
Character: droid puppetry supervisor
The Nutty Professor (1996)
Character: Shelly the hamster (assistant)
Species (1995)
Character: the lab creature
Batman Forever (1995)
Character: the bat (assistant)
Bram Stoker's: Dracula (1993)
Character: shadow puppet warriors
Hook (1992)
Character: glowing tinker bell
Mom and Dad Save the World (1990)
Character: the dungeon rat
Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1989)
Character: daffy
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1988)
Character: ant (puppetry supervisor)
Elvira - Mistress of the Dark (1988)
Character: the crock pot monster
Date with an Angel (1987)
Character: the angel's wings
Beetlejuice (1987)
Character: harry the shrunken headed hunter
Big Trouble in Little China (1987)
Character: glowing Lo-Pan
Poltergeist II: the Other Side (1986)
Character: the vomit monster and the great beast (puppetry supervisor)
My Science Project (1985)
Character: T-Rex
Fright Night (1985)
Character: vampire's disintegration
Starman (1984)
Character: star baby
Ghostbusters (1984)
Character: slimer, terror dog, librarian ghost
Monster in the Closet (1982)
Character: inner monster
One Dark Night (1982)
Character: telekinetically empowered corpses
Television
The History of the World: For Now (2016)
Character: various puppetface characters
Greg the Bunny (2001)
Character: various background characters
The Chimp Channel (1999)
Character: Bernard the cockatoo
The Mr. Potato Head Show (1998)
Character: Hammy the ham monster
Adventures in Wonderland (1991)
Character: the ooie gooie swamp thing
Barbara Mandrell & the Mandrell Sisters (1982)
Character: Clyde the drummer (assistant)
Music video
Michael Jackson's Thriller (1983)
Character: Zombie
Documentaries
The Movies That Made Us - Ghostbusters (2019)
Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters (2019)
Behind Closed Doors - Ghostbusters (2019)
Too Macabre: The Making of Elvira, Mistress of the Dark (2018)
What Is Fright Night? (2016)
Never Sleep Again: The Making of 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' (2006)
The House That Freddy Built (2006)
Team America': Crafting the Puppets (2005)
References
External links
Official website
Mark Bryan Wilson at IMDb
American puppeteers
Puppeteers
Special effects people
Puppet designers
1958 births
Living people |
John Doherty (born 12 April 1908; date of death unknown), also known as Jack "Dot" Doherty, was an Irish footballer who played as an inside-left and made three appearances for the IFA national team.
Club career
Doherty played for Park End in the North of Ireland Combination, as well as for Belfast Celtic. He joined Woodburn in the Intermediate League for the 1925–26 and 1926–27 seasons, before moving to Portadown in 1927. In 1930 he joined Ards, and later played for Cliftonville in the 1932–33 season. In December 1932 he signed for Charlton Athletic in the Football League, where he played until the end of the 1933–34 season.
International career
Doherty earned seven caps for the Ireland Amateurs from 1927 to 1931. On 21 February 1928 he appeared for Ireland national team in a 4–0 loss against France, though whether the match was a "full international" is disputed. He earned two additional caps for Ireland in 1932 as part of the 1932–33 British Home Championship, appearing in a 1–0 loss against England on 17 October in Blackpool and a 4–1 loss against Wales on 7 December in Wrexham.
Career statistics
International
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Cliftonville F.C. players
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NIFL Premiership players
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The Freethought Publishing Company was established in 1877 by Annie Besant and Charles Bradlaugh to publish books and pamphlets to promote the cause of secularism, social reform and freedom of thought. Their publications were printed initially at 28 Stonecutter Street, London E.C and then at 63 Fleet Street, London E.C.
One of their first publications in 1877 was to reproduce a treatise on birth control written by a physician, Charles Knowlton, which had been published anonymously in the US in 1832 as The Fruits of Philosophy. The treatise advocated controlling reproduction and described methods to prevent conception. Besant and Bradlaugh were prosecuted and found guilty, but the verdict was quashed on a technicality. In the same year the company published Annie Besant's influential tract entitled The Law of Population: Its Consequences and Its Bearing Upon Human Conduct and Morals.
The company published a series of volumes called the International Library of Science and Freethought including books by George Holyoake, who had coined the term ‘secularism’, and a translation from the German of The Pedigree of Man by Ernst Haeckel. The company published essays by Edward Aveling, a spokesman for evolution and a founder member of the Socialist League; by Logan Mitchell, who wrote The Christian Mythology Unveiled; and republished essays by American freethinkers such as Robert Ingersoll and Moncure Conway.
The company published little after Bradlaugh died in 1891 and the last original publication was issued in 1902, a pamphlet written by Charles Watts.
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Garstang Town Hall is a municipal building in the High Street in Garstang, Lancashire, England. The structure, which currently accommodates two shops and a Royal British Legion Club, is a Grade II listed building.
History
After King Charles II granted the town a charter of incorporation in 1679, the newly elected freemen decided to commission a market hall: the new building was completed in 1680 but was burnt down in a major fire in 1750. The current building, which was erected on the site of the original structure, was designed in the neoclassical style, built in red brick with stone dressings and was built between 1755 and 1764. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with three bays facing onto the High Street. It was arcaded on the ground floor, so that markets could be held, with an assembly room, for the use of the borough council, on the first floor. There was a wide central opening, with a stone surround and a keystone, flanked by two smaller openings in the same style. On the first floor, there was a central sash window with an architrave, a frieze and a pediment, while the outer bays were fenestrated by sash windows with architraves, friezes and cornices. There was also a main cornice across the top of the main frontage. Internally, although the principal room was the assembly room on the first floor, there was also a lock-up for petty criminals in the basement.
A timber cupola with clock faces and a weather vane was installed in 1847. On account of the relatively small population of the town, the borough council, which had met in the town hall, was abolished under the Municipal Corporations Act 1883. The Charity Commissioners agreed that the town hall and other civic assets be transferred to the newly established Garstang Town Trust in 1886 and a plaque was installed on the front of the building to commemorate the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887.
The area was designated a rural district in 1894, and although the new council initially used the town hall as its meeting place, it moved to larger offices further north along the High Street in 1914. The town hall was subsequently converted for commercial use and, although it was badly damaged in a fire in 1939 and had to be rebuilt, much of the external stonework was saved and restored. The ground floor of the town hall continued to accommodate two shops, while the first floor subsequently became the home of a Royal British Legion Club. An additional plaque was installed on the front of the building to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II in 2012.
See also
Listed buildings in Garstang
References
Government buildings completed in 1764
Grade II listed buildings in Lancashire
Buildings and structures in Garstang
City and town halls in Lancashire |
Liolaemus thomasi is a species of lizard in the family Iguanidae. It is from Peru.
References
[[Category:Liolaemus|thomasi]
Lizards of South America
Reptiles of Peru
Endemic fauna of Peru
Reptiles described in 1998
Taxa named by Raymond Laurent |
Samantha Jane Rollinson is a British fashion model.
Early life
Rollinson was born in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, and has an older brother called Ben. She began modelling at 13, after she was scouted by Select Model Management at The Clothes Show Live, and after signing a contract in London, she was sent on test shoots.
Career
At age 15, Rollinson shot her first campaign, photographed by Mario Testino, for Burberry; alongside model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and actor Douglas Booth. Her first runway show happened in 2012, walking exclusively for Balenciaga and closing the show. After her debut, Rollinson walked in over 63 shows for designers including Chanel, Altuzarra, Stella McCartney, Chloé, Hermès, Celine, Saint Laurent, Emilia Wickstead, Dior, Prada, Louis Vuitton, Victoria Beckham, Vera Wang, Marc Jacobs, Fendi, Roberto Cavalli, Christopher Kane, Jil Sander, and Marni.
She has appeared on the cover of British, Serbian, Japanese, and Singaporean editions of Harper's Bazaar, Wonderland, and i-D as well as campaigns for Chanel, Balenciaga, and Mulberry.
References
Living people
1994 births
People from Doncaster
People from London
English female models
Women Management models |
Radium nitrate is a radioactive compound with the formula Ra(NO3)2. It is a white solid, but old samples appear yellowish-grey. It has a lower solubility than barium nitrate. It decomposes at 280 °C to radium oxide.
Production
Radium nitrate is produced by the reaction of radium carbonate or radium sulfate with nitric acid:
RaCO3 + HNO3 → Ra(NO3)2 + CO2 + H2O
References
Radium compounds
Nitrates |
Ryan Additon (born December 5, 1985) is an American umpire in Major League Baseball. After graduating from Lynn University, he pitched one season for the Kalamazoo Kings of the Frontier League.
Additon attended Western High School in Davie, Florida, and was selected by the San Francisco Giants in the 42nd round of the 2004 Major League Baseball Draft. He opted to play baseball at Lynn University, then continued his playing career with the Kalamazoo Kings of the Frontier League for the 2008 season. Additon was hired as a professional baseball umpire in 2010 and started in the Gulf Coast League. By the 2016 season, Additon had been promoted to the Triple-A level. He began working as a call-up umpire during the 2017 Major League Baseball season, making his debut on May 21, 2017, working at first base during a game Target Field. As a call-up umpire, Additon was behind home plate when Corey Kluber pitched a no-hitter on May 19, 2021. Additon was promoted to full-time staff on February 4, 2022.
Personal life
Ryan Additon's younger brother Nick was a professional baseball player in the KBO League and Chinese Professional Baseball League.
References
1985 births
Living people
Baseball pitchers
Kalamazoo Kings players
Major League Baseball umpires
Baseball players from Florida
People from Davie, Florida |
Matthew James Lodge (born 3 June 1968) is a British diplomat. Since September 2021, he has been Ambassador to Greece. Previously, he served as UK Ambassador to Finland (2010–2013) and UK Ambassador to Kuwait (2014–2017).
Early life and education
Lodge was born on 3 June 1968 in Crosby, Lancashire, England. He was educated at Abingdon School, an independent school in Oxfordshire.
Military service
On 10 September 1986, Lodge was commissioned in the Royal Marines as a second lieutenant, with seniority in that rank from 1 September 1986. Having been awarded a university cadetship, he studied modern languages (French and Russian) at the University of Birmingham, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA Hons) degree. He reached the rank of lieutenant, before retiring from the Royal Marines on 4 May 1996 after tens years of service.
Diplomatic career
Lodge joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1996. His early appointments were initially focused on the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean. He was private secretary to the Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from 2004 to 2007. He was deputy head of mission at the British Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq in 2007, and then attended the Higher Command and Staff Course in 2008.
From 2008 to 2010, Lodge was head of the Afghanistan Group in the FCO. He served as Her Majesty's Ambassador to Finland from 2010 to 2013, and Her Majesty's Ambassador to the State of Kuwait from 2014 to 2017. In 2017, he was made a minister at the British Embassy in Paris, in addition to serving as ambassador and permanent delegate to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). He was promoted to deputy head of mission in 2020. In December 2020, it was announced that he would be the next British Ambassador to Greece. He presented his credentials to Katerina Sakellaropoulou, President of the Hellenic Republic, on 22 September 2021.
References
Living people
Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Finland
Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Greece
Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Kuwait
1968 births
People from Crosby, Merseyside
People educated at Abingdon School
Alumni of the University of Birmingham
Royal Marines officers |
Angelmo Vyent (born 4 September 1991) is a Dutch footballer who plays as a winger or attacker for Zwarte Pijl.
Career
In 2012, Vyent signed for Dutch sixth tier side . In 2014, he signed for XerxesDZB in the Dutch fifth tier. In 2017, he signed for Dutch fourth tier club Capelle. In 2018, Vyent signed for AO Katastari in the Greek fourth tier. Before the second half of 2018–19, he signed for Greek third tier team Episkopi.
In 2019, Vyent signed for Albanian outfit Luftëtari, where he made 13 appearances and scored 1 goal. On 31 August 2019, he debuted for Luftëtari during a 1-3 loss to Teuta. On 1 October 2019, Vyent scored his first goal for Luftëtari during a 2-1 win over Turbina. In 2020, he signed for IFC in the Dutch fifth tier. In 2021, Vyent signed for Dutch eighth tier side Zwarte Pijl after trialing in Slovenia and receiving interest from Kuwait.
References
External links
Dutch footballers
Dutch expatriate sportspeople in Albania
Living people
Expatriate footballers in Greece
1991 births
XerxesDZB players
Derde Divisie players
VV Capelle players
SVV Scheveningen players
Ido's Football Club players
Episkopi F.C. players
Association football forwards
Expatriate footballers in Albania
Association football wingers
Dutch expatriate sportspeople in Greece
Dutch expatriate footballers |
Liolaemus tirantii is a species of lizard in the family Iguanidae. It is from Argentina.
References
tirantii
Lizards of South America
Reptiles of Argentina
Endemic fauna of Argentina
Reptiles described in 2017
Taxa named by Luciano Javier Ávila
Taxa named by Jack W. Sites Jr.
Taxa named by Mariana Morando |
Winifred Genevieve McDonald (June 8, 1888 – February 23, 1976) was an American politician and teacher who served as Secretary of the State of Connecticut from 1949 to 1951. A Democrat from Waterbury, she ousted Republican incumbent Frances B. Redick in 1948. McDonald narrowly lost her reelection bid to Republican nominee Alice K. Leopold in 1950.
Early life and education
McDonald was born Winifred Weis to parents Charles X. and Mary (McGuiness) Weis on June 8, 1888. She and her parents were all born in Waterbury, Connecticut. She attended parochial schools before earning her Bachelor of Arts degree summa cum laude from Saint Elizabeth University in 1910. She taught English at Ansonia High School and Crosby High School.
Political career
In 1940, McDonald began serving as a member of the Democratic State Central Committee from the 15th Senate District, as well as a member of the Democratic Town Committee of Waterbury—the first time women were allowed on the committee. She became vice chair of the town committee in 1947 and chair in 1954 and again in 1960, the year she retired from politics.
A charter member of the Waterbury Women's Democratic Club, she served as president of the New Haven County Democratic Federated Women's Club, chair of the Waterbury and New Haven County Council of Catholic Women, and president of the Saint Elizabeth College Alumna Association. She was active in child welfare and social services. McDonald was one of the first women in the state to serve on a grand jury and was the first woman from Waterbury to run for state office.
In her first bid for elected office in 1948, McDonald ran for Secretary of the State of Connecticut. She defeated Republican incumbent Frances Burke Redick by only 500 votes out of more than 860,000 cast. In 1949, she urged local officials to extend voting hours to allow Jewish voters to get to the polls after sunset, when Yom Kippur observance concluded.
McDonald narrowly lost her reelection bid in 1950 to Republican nominee Alice K. Leopold, losing by 400 votes.
Personal life
In 1912, she married Waterbury lawyer Edward J. McDonald. They had two sons, Edward Jr. and Robert J. McDonald.
McDonald died at Waterbury Hospital on February 23, 1976, at the age of 87. She was interred at the New Saint Joseph's Cemetery in Waterbury.
References
1888 births
1976 deaths
People from Waterbury, Connecticut
Saint Elizabeth University alumni
Schoolteachers from Connecticut
Secretaries of the State of Connecticut
Women in Connecticut politics
Connecticut Democrats
20th-century American women politicians |
The 2003 Banquet 400 presented by ConAgra Foods was the 30th stock car race of the 2003 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season and the third iteration of the event. The race was held on Sunday, October 5, 2003, before a crowd of 80,00 in Kansas City, Kansas, at Kansas Speedway, a 1.5 miles (2.4 km) permanent D-shaped oval racetrack. The race took the scheduled 267 laps to complete. At race's end, a cunning pit strategy for Penske Racing South driver Ryan Newman would propel him to his ninth career NASCAR Winston Cup Series win and his eighth win of the season. To fill out the podium, Bill Elliott and Jeremy Mayfield of Evernham Motorsports would finish second and third, respectively.
Background
Kansas Speedway is a 1.5-mile (2.4 km) tri-oval race track in Kansas City, Kansas. It was built in 2001 and hosts two annual NASCAR race weekends. The NTT IndyCar Series also raced there until 2011. The speedway is owned and operated by the International Speedway Corporation.
Entry list
Practice
First practice
The first practice session was held on Friday, October 3, at 11:20 AM CST, and would last for 2 hours. Jimmie Johnson of Hendrick Motorsports would set the fastest time in the session, with a lap of 30.102 and an average speed of .
Second practice
The second practice session was held on Saturday, October 4, at 9:30 AM CST, and would last for 45 minutes. Jimmie Johnson of Hendrick Motorsports would set the fastest time in the session, with a lap of 30.821 and an average speed of .
Third and final practice
The third and final practice session, sometimes referred to as Happy Hour, was held on Saturday, October 4, at 11:10 AM CST, and would last for 45 minutes. Ryan Newman of Penske Racing South would set the fastest time in the session, with a lap of 30.814 and an average speed of .
Qualifying
Qualifying was held on Friday, October 3, at 1:05 PM CST. Each driver would have two laps to set a fastest time; the fastest of the two would count as their official qualifying lap. Positions 1-36 would be decided on time, while positions 37-43 would be based on provisionals. Six spots are awarded by the use of provisionals based on owner's points. The seventh is awarded to a past champion who has not otherwise qualified for the race. If no past champ needs the provisional, the next team in the owner points will be awarded a provisional.
Jimmie Johnson of Hendrick Motorsports would win the pole, setting a time of 29.938 and an average speed of .
Two drivers would fail to qualify: Larry Foyt and Johnny Sauter.
Full qualifying results
Race results
References
2003 NASCAR Winston Cup Series
NASCAR races at Kansas Speedway
October 2003 sports events in the United States
2003 in sports in Kansas |
Liolaemus tolhuaca, the Tolhuaca lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Iguanidae. It is from Chile.
References
tolhuaca
Lizards of South America
Reptiles of Chile
Endemic fauna of Chile
Reptiles described in 2016 |
Joseph of Chauncy (before 1213 – after 1283), also known as Joseph of Cancy, was an English religious knight. He was Grand Prior of the Knights Hospitaller in England from 1273 to 1281. He served as Royal Treasurer of the Order from 1273 to 1280.
Origins
Joseph of Chauncy was a younger son of an Anglo-Norman noble family who held estates in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. He entered the Order of St John before 1233. After 1233, but no later than 1238, he joined the Knights Hospitaller at Acre in Palestine. Before 1248, he became Treasurer of the Order. During this period, the Christian Crusader states in Palestine were being pushed back by the Muslim empires, first the Ayyubids and later the Mamluks. In 1270, the English heir to the throne, Lord Edward, undertook a Crusade in support of the hard-pressed Crusader states. To meet the high costs of what is now known as Lord Edward's Crusade, the future king had to borrow large sums of money. Part of the money was guaranteed by the Order of St. John, and Edward probably came into contact with Chauncy. Around 1271, he resigned as Treasurer of the Order.
Grand Prior of England and Royal Treasurer
While Edward was still on the return journey from his Crusade, he learned that he had become English king after the death of his father, Henry III of England. Even before his return to England, in October 1273, he appointed Chauncy as his new Treasurer, who became Grand Prior of the Order in England for this purpose. However, while Edward initially traveled to France, Chauncy now returned to England. From March to September 1274, he received a royal letter of protection for a foreign journey, presumably he took part in the Second Council of Lyon. By the spring of 1273, he had settled the debts of the king to foreign merchants during the fair at Provins, and before 1275 he settled further debts at another place called Myli. During the Parliament at Westminster in April 1275, it was decided to impose a duty on wool exports. The proposal came from Chauncy, who had taken the idea of the Italian merchant Poncius de Ponto. The duty was collected directly from Italian merchants in the ports. The revenue from the duty, which amounted to about £10,000 annually until 1279, was set off directly against debts owed by the Crown to Italian merchants. As Grand Prior of the Order of Saint John, he had a chapel built at the Clerkenwell Priory in London, the Order's seat in England.
Impact on Jews
During Chauncy's tenure as Treasurer, English Jews were further burdened for this purpose. On December 9, 1273, he ordered all English Jews to come to the principal towns in the counties and remain there until Easter 1274. In case of non-appearance he threatened them with the death penalty as well as expropriation, presumably he demanded a high tax, the tallage, from the Jews. The Statute of the Jewry issued in 1275 forbade Jewish money lenders to charge usurious interest. In the run-up to Edward I's coinage reform, 29 Christians and 269 Jews were executed in London alone between 1278 and 1279 for alleged coinage debasement. To what extent Chauncy was partly responsible for this policy cannot be proven. Above all, he was probably an able administrator, but he was also one of the highest-ranking officials in the empire. Thus he had close contact with the king, who was also encouraged in this stance by his anti-Jewish wife Eleanor of Castile, by his mother Eleanor of Provence, and by his chancellor Robert Burnell. Chauncy himself acted as a moneylender to Christians on a small scale.
Return to the Holy Land
Chauncy was also preoccupied in England, as was the king, with the question of how to help the hard-pressed Crusader states in the Holy Land. Around 1280, he resigned his offices as Treasurer and as Grand Prior of England and returned to Acre. In letters he reported to Edward I on the situation on the ground. In 1281, he wrote a detailed account of the victory of the Mamluks over the Mongols in the Battle of Homs. Edward's response to Chauncy has also been recorded. Later, in 1283, Chauncy described in a letter to Edward I the difficult situation of the Christians in the Holy Land. The year of his death is unknown.
References
Bibliography
Knights Hospitaller
Lord High Treasurers of England
Crusades
Christians of the Crusades
1275 in England
13th century in England
Jewish English history
Edward I of England
Christian antisemitism in the Middle Ages |
The 2021 Big West Conference Men's Soccer Tournament was the postseason men's soccer tournament for the Big West Conference held on November 3 through 12, 2021. All rounds of the tournament were hosted at the higher seeds home stadium. The six-team single-elimination tournament consisted of three rounds based on seeding from regular season conference play. The defending champions were the UC Davis Aggies. The Aggies won the tournament in 2019 and are classified as the defending champions because there was no tournament held in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. UC Davis was unable to defend its crown, falling to UC Santa Barbara in the Semifinals. UC Santa Barbara would go on to win the title, defeating UC Irvine 4–0 in the final. This was the second Big West tournament title for the UC Santa Barbara program, both of which have come under head coach Tim Vom Steeg. As tournament champions, UC Santa Barbara earned the Big West's automatic berth into the 2021 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament.
Seeding
The top six teams in the regular season earned a spot in the tournament. Teams were seeded based on regular season conference record and tiebreakers were used to determine seedings of teams that finished with the same record. The first and second seeds earned a bye into the Semifinals, and hosted their Semifinal game. A tiebreaker was required to determine the first and second seeds after UC Santa Barbara and UC Irvine finished the regular season with identical 6–1–2 records. Their regular season match ended in a tie and the teams had identical goal differential, and therefore goals scored in conference play was used as the tiebreaker. UC Santa Barbara won the tiebreaker and was awarded the first seed and UC Irvine was the second seed. UC Riverside and Sacramento State tied for sixth in the regular season standings with identical 3–4–2 records. UC Riverside earned the sixth and final seed by beating Sacramento State 2–0 in the team's regular season matchup.
Bracket
Source:
Schedule
First Round
Semifinals
Final
Statistics
Goalscorers
References
Big West Conference Men's Soccer Tournament
2021 Big West Conference men's soccer season |
Samuel S. Gnanamanickam (born July 18, 1945) is an Indian plant pathologist. He is known for his research on diversity of rice pathogens, molecular breeding of indica rices for disease resistance and for developing superior strains of beneficial strains of rhizosphere bacteria for biological control of rice diseases. He is a fellow of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences and National Academy of Biological Sciences of India and was Chair of the biological control committee at the American Phytopathological Society. He was named by Marquis Who's Who as a noteworthy plant pathologist.
Early life and education
Gnanamanickam was born in Kannanallur, Tamil Nadu, India, on July 18, 1945. He acquired a bachelor's and master's degree from Agricultural College and Research Institute Coimbatore, India, class 1969, and obtained his PhD degree in Plant Pathology from the University of Hawaiʻi in Honolulu, class 1976. He then earned a postdoctoral fellowship from Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, and worked for Agri-Food Canada.
Professional career
Gnanamanickam has been associated with the University of Madras and was professor of plant pathology since 1998. He was also among the visiting scientists and a professor on a Biotechnology Career Fellowship visits to University of Hawaiʻi, Kansas State University, and University of Wisconsin. Since 2004, he has been recognized as an adjunct professor of plant pathology at the University of Arizona, Tucson.
Selected Publications
Articles
Books
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Honors
Gnanamanickam is the recipient of the Tamil Nadu Scientist Award.
References
Scientists from Tamil Nadu
University of Hawaiʻi alumni
1945 births
Living people
Indian pathologists |
Abdul Salam Hamza Fatawu, is Ghanaian politician and a two term District Chief Executive of the Kumbungu district in Northern Region of Ghana.
Early life
Educational Background
Work Experience
Political career
References
Ghanaian men
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
Liolaemus torresi, the dragon of Torres-Mura, is a species of lizard in the family Iguanidae. It is from Chile.
References
torresi
Lizards of South America
Reptiles of Chile
Endemic fauna of Chile
Reptiles described in 2003 |
The 2003 NCAA Division III Women's Basketball Tournament was the 22nd annual tournament hosted by the NCAA to determine the national champion of Division III women's collegiate basketball in the United States.
Trinity (TX) defeated Eastern Connecticut State in the championship game, 60–58, to claim the Tigers' first Division III national title.
The championship rounds were hosted by Rose–Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Indiana.
Bracket
Final Four
All-tournament team
Allison Wooley, Trinity (TX)
Megan Selmon, Trinity (TX)
Allison Coleman, Eastern Connecticut State
Kristi Channing, Wisconsin–Eau Claire
Kelly Wescott, Rochester (NY)
See also
2003 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament
2003 NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament
2003 NAIA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament
2003 NAIA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament
2003 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament
References
NCAA Division III Women's Basketball Tournament
2003 in sports in Indiana |
The Automated People Mover is a planned people mover in Birmingham.
History
Renderings of the people mover were revealed in July 2019. Revised plans for the people mover were submitted to Solihull Council on 2 February 2022.
Specification
The route is elevated and long. The eastern terminus of the proposed route is Birmingham Interchange, a station on High Speed 2. The line will run west to Birmingham Airport with intermediate stops at the National Exhibition Centre and Birmingham International railway station, a stop on the West Coast Main Line.
Services are expected to run every three minutes and will take six minutes end-to-end.
References
High Speed 2
Transport in Birmingham, West Midlands
Solihull
Airport people mover systems in the United Kingdom |
The Río Grande Fire Station, at 6 Juan R. González Street at Del Carmen Street in Río Grande, Puerto Rico. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
References
Fire stations in Puerto Rico
National Register of Historic Places in Puerto Rico
Art Deco architecture in Puerto Rico |
The Parable of the Prodigal Son is an oil painting by the brothers Frans Francken (II) and Hieronymus Francken (II), created sometime between 1610 and 1620 in Antwerp.
Background
The story of the Prodigal Son is told in Luke 15:11-32. The story begins with the "Prodigal Son" Jacob asking his father for his inheritance. After receiving his inheritance, Jacob travelled to a distant country where he spent all of his money recklessly. After a famine took place in that country, Jacob found himself desperately poor. Jacob eventually decided to return home and beg his father forgiveness. He immediately began to admit his sins and wrongdoings and declared himself not worth to be his father's son. The father accepts his son back without hesitation and told his servants to dress Jacob in the finest robe and to slaughter the fattest calf in order to celebrate Jacob's safe return home. Jacob's older brother, who was working in the fields, was angry with his father for celebrating Jacob when he himself had never left and he worked hard in the fields everyday. The story concludes with the father explaining that the older son was always present, and everything that the father owned belonged to the older son. Jacob had returned when he had already received his inheritance and did not need to return home, and this was a cause for celebration.
The Artists
Brothers Hieronymus II and Frans II were born into the third generation of an Antwerp family that included three successive generations of artists. Both men had a similar style when painting figures which is sometimes attributed to their similar training, under their father Frans I in Antwerp and in Paris under their uncle Hieronymus I and the fact that they worked in close proximity throughout their respective careers..
Hieronymus Francken II
Not much is known about Hieronymus Francken II. He born 1578 in Antwerp. It is widely believed that he trained with his father, Frans Francken I, for several years before working as an apprentice to his uncle Ambrosius I. He joined the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke in 1607 and was a master there until his death in 1623.
Frans Francken II
Frans Francken II, born in 1581, is arguably the most widely known member of the Francken family. In 1605, Frans II joined the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke, where he became a master and served as a deacon in 1616. Frans II was well known for his work in narrative and allegorical cabinet paintings on wood and copper. He was most known for his ability to fit large crowds of small figures into his paintings. Frans II signed his work with the signature den jon F. Franck (meaning 'the younger') to differentiate his work from his father's until the death of his father in 1616. Frans the Younger introduced several new subjects into Flemish art including singeries and Kunstkammer.
Visual description
The board on which The Prodigal Son is painted is separated into nine sections that outline the parable. A central scene is framed by smaller images: 4 on the right, 3 on the left, and 1 each on the top and the bottom. The largest, center section describes the scene in which the Prodigal Son (Jacob) spends his inheritance. Jacob is depicted with his arm around a woman, sitting on the edge of the bed. Sitting next to Jacob, we can see a man playing a lute, while a woman pours drinks into cups. Oysters and pastries are stacked on the table and something is being roasted over the fire in the hearth. There are also playing cards scattered across the floor. The painting on the wall is widely believed to be of Jupiter and Danae. The 8 smaller images that frame the central scene are depicted using grisaille. Starting in the top left corner, the Prodigal Son is receiving his inheritance. Moving clockwise, the next scene shows Jacob saying farewell to his family, followed by Jacob being chased from a building by an unknown woman. The next scene shows a depiction of Jacob begging with a priest, presumably for money or food, while standing in a cemetery. This is followed by an image in which Jacob is dismissed by his master. After that, we see Jacob tending to the pigs before we see him returned home to beg his father for forgiveness in the next scene. In the final scene we see the fattened calf being slain and a party being thrown.
References
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Liolaemus tregenzai is a species of lizard in the family Iguanidae. It is from Argentina.
References
tregenzai
Lizards of South America
Reptiles of Argentina
Endemic fauna of Argentina
Reptiles described in 2007 |
Koi Pan Ek Phool Nu Naam Bolo To (English: Tell Me The Name of a Flower) is a 1967 Indian psychological-thriller play by Gujarati writer Madhu Rye.
Background
Madhu Rye wrote Koi Pan Ek Phool Nu Naam Bolo To in 1967 for Ahmedabad based theatre group Darpana. It was translated into English by Vijay Padaki, and was published in Three Gujarati Plays by Madhu Rye (2007).
Characters
Jagannath Pathak/Pramodleader of the theatre troupe
Kamini Desai/Kantalead actress of the troupe
Sundar Desai/Niranjanmember of the troupe and Kamini's brother
Swati Soni/Bhabhimember of the troupe, Pritam Soni's wife and Niranjan's lover
Pritam Soni/Nandlalmember of the troupe and Swati's Husband
Keshav Thaker/Deshpandeplaywright of the troupe
Plot
The play is written in four acts.
The first act starts with a typical middle-class household scene, where Kanta and Niranjan are tensed that Kanta's husband Pramod will find out about their secret love affair. To settle the matters, a meeting is called upon which also involves their friends Nandlal and Bhabhi. Things proceed in a funny manner where each character feels guilty and wishes to kill himself/herself. The dialogues mostly involve witty repartee and talks around infidelity and sexual morality. However, at the end of the first act, Kanta gets down in the audience and kills a member sitting in the first row.
The second act radically shifts the tone of the play. Suddenly, the scene shifts in a courtroom where different characters are interrogated by an aggressive, anonymous 'voice'. We learn that the first act was actually a part of the play, and all the characters are basically working in a theatre group. Pramod is Jagannath Pathak, the leader of the theatre troupe. Kanta is Kamini Desai, the lead actress, Bhabhi is Swati Soni and Nandlal is Pritam Soni — a real life couple, Niranjan is Kamini's brother Sundar Desai, and the actor who speaks only one line as a cameo appearance in the first act is Keshav Thaker, the playwright of the troupe. The murder that happened at the end of the first act was real, and all the characters are interrogated to find out why Kamini killed Shekhar Khosla, the audience member in the first row. This act uses expository flashback techniques to show the intertwined relationships between the characters. But it also shows how all the characters are lying to the voice and actually played some role in the murder.
The third act features their individual testimonies where we realize that Kamini was abused by her lover Jagannath Pathak and her brother Sundar Desai. One realizes that Kamini created an imaginary myth of a man named Shekhar Khosla to terrorize everyone around her to gain some control and agency.
The fourth act reveals that it was actually the meek and gullible looking playwright Keshav Thaker who was manipulating and feeding Kamini with the stories of Shekhar Khosla, who used to bully him and abused his wife. Kamini's mental health deteriorates gradually and she starts believing the myth of Shekhar Khosla, and actually falls in love with the imaginary idea of Shekhar Khosla she had created in her head. It is to prove that myth to be real, Kamini commits murder and is finally put behind bars. The last scene shows Kamini who has lost her mind behind the bars. She is still thinking of Shekhar Khosla, and breaks down in the end. The play that began as a comedy, turned into a thriller, eventually ends as a tragedy.
Reception
Hasmukh Baradi wrote that the play exhibits a fine mastery of structure, astute presentation of conflictual episodes and a keen sense for portraying characters. The potential to provoke thought was somewhat undermined however, in his view, by an excessive recourse to dramatics, a shortcoming which was counterbalanced by the play's formal technical virtues.
Uma Mahadevan-Dasgupta described the play as a murder mystery, one whose tangled secrets are gradually teased out by a combination of nimble-witted humour and viciousness exhibited in their interactions by the various members of a theatrical company.
The critic Jashvant Shekhdiwala judged the play to be one of the finest written over the past two decades. According to him, "the playwright's craftsmanship successfully created a complex play within a play, by the device of juxtaposing an inner and an outer stage with the drama in one setting offset by the other, where a court takes down evidence from the characters. The audience itself was placed in a position to participate as the presiding judge. The result was a dynamic flow of suspense, as mysteries emerge, riddles arise, concerns are raised and involvements of the protagonist dissected. All this is ably sustained until the curtain falls." The play was, in his view, one of the finest ever written for the Gujarati theatre.
The play played an instrumental role in spurring Mahesh Dattani's interest in theatre.
Performance history
The play was first produced on stage by the Darpana Academy of Performing Arts in 1969. It was directed by Indian classical dancer Mrinalini Sarabhai. The English version was first performed on 18 July 1979 at Jawahar Bal Bhawan, Banglore by Banglore Little Theatre. In October 2014, the play was staged at Natrani, Ahmedabad. It was directed by Abhinay Banker, starring Hemang Dave, Ankit Gor and Banker among others. The Marathi version, Shekhar Khosla Kon Ahe, was staged at NCPA's Pratibimb Marathi Theatre Festival, directed by Vijay Kenkre. The English version was again performed by Manipal Centre for Philosophy and Humanities's Theatre Club on 23 March 2018, directed by Abhimanyu Acharya.
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Khaldoun Al Tabari (, born January 1, 1950) is a Jordanian businessman. He served as Vice-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Drake & Scull International PJSC (now Emcor) from 1998 until 2016.
Early life and education
Khaldoun Al Tabari was born on 1 January 1950, in Jerusalem, Palestine. He was educated at the Ramallah Friends High School, founded by Quakers in 1901. He then went to the United States to attend the University of Colorado. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Engineering and Business Management in 1972.
Business career
When Al Tarabi finished his studies, he went to the United Arab Emirates to join his family business. In the UAE, he managed and ran part of Ranya Trading & Contracting, an organisation that worked in various industries including electro-mechanical engineering, trading and contracting activities, construction materials, wholesale, and retail of pharmaceutical products.
In 1982, Al Tabari moved to Saudi Arabia and founded a mechanical service company. He then bought a major stake in Drake & Scull International (DSI), the UAE-based international arm of the UK mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) specialist. In 1998, he was appointed Vice Chairman and CEO of DSI PJSC when he bought the company. He later acquired all the outstanding shares from Drake and Scull UK and changed its name to Emcor Engineering.
Under his leadership, Drake & Scull international PJSC developed from a local MEP contractor to a regional leader, offering integrated engineering disciplines across the MENA region, Europe, and South Asia. Tabari launched an Initial Public Offering (IPO) in 2008 on the Dubai Financial Market Exchange globally ranked among the top 20 IPOs. During that time, DSI operated multiple projects including Emirates Golf Club, the first PGA-approved Golf course in the Middle East; The Jumeirah Beach Hotel; The Four Seasons Hotel in Doha; and The State Audit Bureau in Kuwait.
In 2016, Al Tabari stepped down from his role at DSI PJSC and later sold his stake in the publicly listed company and in 2017, he resigned from his seat as vice chairman of the board. As of 2022, he runs his own family office and is a director of the Ramallah Friends School in Palestine.
Board memberships
Al Tabari also served as Chairman of EMCOR Facilities Services Group, Executive Chairman of Vision Investments, Board Member of DEPA public share holding company, Board Member of Walltech, Director of EHC Cooperation, Board Member of Energy Central in Bahrain, Board member of Zimmam (Thrifty Rent A car), Board Member of Carbon Holdings Limited, Board member of Arab chemicals and manufacturing company in Jordan, and Chairman of Beverly Hills Polo Club Licensing agreement for BHPC clothing in the UAE.
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The Seat of the Assembly of Madrid () is located in the neighbourhood of Palomeras Bajas in the Puente de Vallecas district of Madrid.
The Assembly of Madrid had been held in the city centre at the Caserón de San Bernardo. When a plan to move to Retiro was vetoed by the city council due to residents' complaints, Assembly president Pedro Díez proposed moving to the new site, and construction started in April 1995. The site opened in September 1998, at a cost of 3 billion Spanish pesetas.
The design of the main chamber as a glass cube within a triangular building was carried over from the plan for Retiro, although scaled down due to the smaller new site. The building houses a painting by Antonio López García and a mural that was the last work by Lucio Muñoz.
Background and description
The Assembly of Madrid was previously seated in the Caserón de San Bernardo, a former Jesuit building in the centre of the capital city. A planned new building in Retiro did not receive approval by the city council, due to residents' complaints. Pedro Díez, the president of the Assembly (United Left; IU), campaigned for the legislature to instead be built in the city's disadvantaged south. The People's Party (PP) and Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) supported this proposal, which passed unanimously.
The design by Juan Blasco and Ramón Valls-Navascués – with the main chamber as a glass cube within a triangular building – was carried over from the Retiro plan. Certain rooms were made smaller due to the smaller site, as was the car park, though the area was higher than at the previous legislative building. Construction was slated to begin in late 1994, with a 2 billion Spanish peseta budget. The final cost of the project came to 3 billion.
The building hosts the unfinished mural La ciudad inacabada (The Unfinished City) by Lucio Muñoz, who died weeks before it opened. There is also a gallery of portraits of presidents of the Assembly, the lectern from the old seat at San Bernardo, and the painting Madrid desde Vallecas (Madrid as seen from Vallecas) by Antonio López García.
Construction and opening
The laying of the first stone in April 1995 was met by a protest from 200 residents who wanted public housing to be constructed instead. The protest was calmed by intervention from Juan Barranco Gallardo, a neighbourhood local and Socialist former mayor.
The building was inaugurated on 28 September 1998 by the Prince of Asturias (later Felipe VI of Spain), attended by regional president Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón and Assembly president Juan Van-Halen Acedo. Parts of the inauguration were boycotted by the IU who believed that it was giving undue attention to the incumbent PP regional government rather than the party who pushed for the move to the new site.
The building was closed from June to September 2017 for updating of its electronic voting system.
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Seats of Spanish regional legislatures
Government buildings completed in 1998
Buildings and structures in Puente de Vallecas District, Madrid |
Liolaemus tristis is a species of lizard in the family Iguanidae or the family Liolaemidae. The species is endemic to Argentina.
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Dean Slaugh (March 29, 1929 – April 13, 2009) was an American paralympic archer. He participated at the 1964 Summer Paralympics.
Biography
Slaugh was born in Vernal, Utah, in which he lived in Garden Grove, California during the Paralympic Games. He was a veteran of the Korean War, in which Slaugh became injured in the war. He participated at the 1964 Summer Paralympics, with participating in the archery competition at the Paralympic Games. Slaugh was awarded the gold medal in the albion round open event. He scored 797 points. Slaugh also participated in the albion round team open event alongside with archers, Dick Robinson and Jack Whitman, being awarded the gold medal. His team scored 2253 points. He also participated in the FITA round open event, being awarded the gold medal. Slaugh participated in the FITA round team open event alongside with Jim Mathis and Jack Whitman, being awarded the gold medal.
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The Lunca massacre () took place on February 7, 1941, in Northern Bukovina when hundreds of civilians (mostly ethnic Romanians) were killed when their attempt to forcefully cross the border from the Soviet Union to Romania, near the village of Lunca, now in Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine, was met with open fire by the Soviet Border Troops. Although there are no official statistics, it is estimated that about 600 people were killed as a result of the massacre.
In 2011, the Chamber of Deputies of Romania adopted a law establishing April 1 as the National Day honoring the memory of Romanian victims of massacres at Lunca, Fântâna Albă, and other areas, of deportations, of hunger, and other forms of repression organized by the Soviet regime in Hertsa, northern Bukovina, and Bessarabia.
Background
In late June 1940, Romania was forced to withdraw from a territory inhabited by 3.76 million people, submitting to an ultimatum by the Soviet Union; see Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina. The Romanian administration and military were evacuated, while the Red Army and the NKVD quickly occupied the land. Many families were caught by surprise by the rapid sequence of events, and had members on both sides of the new border. Therefore, many tried to cross the border, with or without official permission. According to official Soviet data, in the area patrolled by the 97th Unit of Soviet Border Troops, 471 people had crossed the border illegally from the districts of Hlyboka, Hertsa, Putila, and Storozhynets. The zone assigned to this unit extended from the border to about south of Chernivtsi.
From the more remote areas of Chernivtsi Oblast (the northern portion of the acquired territories that were included in the USSR), such as the districts of Vashkivtsi, Zastavna, Novoselytsia, Sadhora, and Chernivtsi-rural, 628 people crossed the border to find refuge in Romania. This phenomenon cut across all ethnic and social groups in the occupied territories. A Ukrainian scholar estimated the number of refugees to Romania during the first year of Soviet administration at 7,000.
The Soviet authorities' reaction to this phenomenon was twofold. First, border patrol efforts were strengthened. Second, lists were made of families that had one or more members which had fled to Romania, and thus were considered "traitors of the Motherland", therefore subject to labor camp deportation. On January 1, 1941, the lists made by the 97th Unit of the Soviet Border Guards mentioned 1,085 persons. Tables for other localities included names for 1,294 people (on December 7, 1940). At this point, even people who were merely suspected of intending to flee to Romania began to be included.
On November 19, 1940, 40 families (a total of 105 people) from the village of Suceveni, also carrying 20 guns, tried to cross the frontier at Fântâna Albă. At night, a battle ensued with the Soviet border guards, during which 3 people were killed, 2 were wounded and captured by the Soviets, while the rest of the group (including 5 wounded) managed to arrive in Rădăuți, on the other side of the border. However, in short order, the relatives of those 105 people were all arrested and deported to Siberia.
The massacre
In January 1941, over 100 villagers from Mahala, Ostrița, Horecea and other villages successfully crossed the border and arrived in Romania. This gave confidence to other villagers. Consequently, a group of villagers from Mahala, Cotul Ostriței, Buda, Șirăuți, Horecea-Urbana, and Ostrița tried to cross to Romania during the night of February 6, 1941, near the village of Lunca, on the right bank of the river Prut. However, they had been denounced to the authorities and were discovered by the border guards at 06:00. Volleys of machine gun fire from multiple directions resulted in numerous dead (hundreds), including the organizers N. Merticar, N. Nica, and N. Isac. About 57 people managed to reach Romania, but 44 others were arrested and tried as "members of a counter-revolutionary organization".
On April 14, 1941, the Kiev Military District Tribunal sentenced 12 of those people to death, while the other 32 were sentenced to 10 years forced labor and 5 years of loss of civic rights each. The exact number of deaths is unknown, but it is estimated that it would be over 600. All the family members of these "traitors to the Motherland" were also arrested and deported to Siberia.
Aftermath and larger context
This was not the only massacre carried out by the Soviet authorities against the Bessarabian and the Bucovinan Romanians. The most famous is the Fântâna Albă massacre, in which thousands of Romanians were killed.
During 1940–1941, between 11,000 and 13,000 Bukovinians (mostly, but not only ethnic Romanians) were deported to Siberia and the Gulag, 1,421 of them dying in the camps. As a result of immigration, deportations, and killings, the Romanian population of the Chernivtsi region dropped by more than 75,000 between the Romanian 1930 census and the first Soviet census of 1959. It has been claimed that these persecutions were part of a program of deliberate extermination, planned and executed by the Soviet regime.
After the snow melted, the Prut poured and flooded the area where the Martyrs at Lunca were buried, so that in the summer of 1941, when Romanian troops reoccupied the area, only one mass grave could be found, in which the bodies of 107 victims were discovered that were taken out and buried in the cemetery of the village of Mahala.
Nowadays, every year, the massacre is commemorated both in Romania and in the Chernivtsi Oblast of Ukraine.
See also
Fântâna Albă massacre
List of massacres in the Soviet Union
Katyn massacre
Tatarka common graves
Notes
References and sources
Vasile Ilica, "Martiri și mărturii din nordul Bucovinei (Fântâna-Albă-Suceveni-Lunca-Crasna-Ijești...)", Oradea, 2003
Vasile Mănescu, "Masacrul de la Fîntîna Albă", Monitorul de Neamț, April 4, 2006
Mass murder in 1941
1941 in Romania
1941 in Ukraine
Massacres in the 1940s
Romania–Soviet Union relations
Massacres in the Soviet Union
Massacres in Ukraine
Massacres in Romania
History of Bukovina
History of Chernivtsi Oblast
Romania in World War II
Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina
February 1941 events |
The Yazidis in Iraq live mainly in the Sinjar region and the Nineveh Plains, which are located within the Nineveh Governorate in north-western Iraq.
Demography
According to estimates, the number of Yazidis in Iraq is up to 700,000. According to the Yazda aid organization, just over half a million Yazidis lived throughout Iraq before August 2014.
Settlement areas
The settlement area of the Yazidis in Iraq includes the districts of Sinjar, Tel Kaif, al-Hamdaniya and Shekhan of the Nineveh Governorate in north-western Iraq. Other Yazidi settlement areas are in the Simele district and in the Zakho district in the Duhok governorate.
History
In 1585, the Yazidis in the Sinjar Mountain were attacked by the Kurds from Bohtan.
In 1832, the Kurdish princes Bedirkhan Beg and Muhammad Pasha of Rawanduz attacked Yazidis in the Shekhan region and carried out a massacre of Yazidis with the help of their troops. Almost the entire Yazidi population of Shekhan was murdered as a result.
After the Ottoman Empire was divided and the British Mandate of Mesopotamia was established (which is one of the predecessors of the state of Iraq), the Yazidis living in what is now Iraq were separated from the Yazidis in Turkey and the Yazidis in Syria.
On August 14, 2007, the Yazidis in Iraq were victims of the 2007 Yazidi communities bombings in Sinjar, which killed 796 people.
On August 3, 2014, the Islamic State committed genocide against Yazidis in the Sinjar region of northern Iraq, killing an estimated 5,000 to 10,000 Yazidis and abducting another 6,000 to 7,000 Yazidis women and children.
Flight and migration
Due to persecution, many Yazidis fled Iraq, including over 75,000 to Germany since 2015.
Notable people
Nadia Murad (Yazidi human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner)
See also
Yazidis in Turkey
Yazidis in Syria
External links
References
Yazidis in Iraq |
Aristolochia clusii is a species of plants in the family Aristolochiaceae.
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Aristolochia |
Nation was an Australian fortnightly periodical, published from 1958 to 1972, when it was merged with the Sunday Review to form the Nation Review.
Origins
Tom Fitzgerald was the Financial Editor of The Sydney Morning Herald. Whilst retaining his post at the Herald, in 1956 he developed the idea of an independent, liberal-minded journal, as an antidote to the general conservative stuffiness of Australian print media at the time. He established Nation in 1958, installing George Munster as editor. Fitzgerald and Munster were introduced by Barry Humphries.
Fitzgerald launched Nation in the same year as Sir Frank Packer launched his fortnightly news magazine Observer; they were published on alternate fortnights until 1961 when Packer merged Observer into The Bulletin. Both were printed by the quixotic Francis James's Anglican Press, for a time in the crypt of Christ Church St Laurence.
Publication history
The first edition was published on 26 September 1958. Nation published stories that the mainstream press was not prepared to print, such as Ken Inglis's 1959 article about Max Stuart, an Arrernte Aborigine who had been convicted of the murder of a nine-year-old girl and sentenced to death. Nation campaigned strongly against the White Australia Policy and Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War.
Other contributors to Nation included economist G.C. Harcourt, film critic Sylvia Lawson, historian Hugh Stretton, theatre critic H. G. Kippax, columnist Peter Ryan, and social historian Cyril Pearl. When The Australian began publication in 1964, a number of contributors to Nation moved to the new daily newspaper, including Brian Johns, Ken Gott, Robin Boyd, Robert Hughes, Maxwell Newton and Max Harris.
Closure
Fitzgerald sold Nation to Gordon Barton in 1972, who then merged it with his Sunday Review to form the Nation Review. The last edition of Nation was published on 22 July 1972.
An anthology of work from Nation was edited by Ken Inglis in 1989 under the title Nation: The Life of an independent journal of opinion, 1958-1972, (1989: Melbourne University Press).
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Bowens is a surname of Welsh origin, it is a alteration of Bowen with English patronymic-s. Modified spelling of Dutch Bouwens, an alteration of Bauwens.
David Bowens (born 1977), American football player
Tom Bowens (born 1940), American basketball player
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Bowen (surname)
Owen (name), given name and surname
Owens (surname)
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Arundo plinii is a species of herb in the family Poaceae (True grasses).
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Liolaemus tromen is a species of lizard in the family Iguanidae or the family Liolaemidae. The species is endemic to Argentina.
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Lizards of South America
Reptiles of Argentina
Endemic fauna of Argentina
Reptiles described in 2012
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Asparagus aphyllus is a species of plants in the family Asparagaceae. They are climbing plants. Flowers are visited by the Western honey bee, Syritta pipiens, Phthiria, and Halictus.
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Fears Nachawati is an American plaintiffs' law firm headquartered in Dallas. The law firm was founded in 2006 by Bryan Fears and Majed Nachawati.
Fears Nachawati recruited and represented plaintiffs in multidistrict litigation regarding claims that the heart burn drug ranitidine causes cancer. The firm has paid for television advertisements seeking clients to pursue child abuse lawsuits against the Catholic Church.
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Asparagus horridus is a species of shrub in the family Asparagaceae. They are climbing plants. They have simple, broad leaves and fleshy fruit. Individuals can grow to tall.
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Liolaemus tulkas is a species of lizard in the family Iguanidae or the family Liolaemidae. The species is endemic to Argentina.
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Lizards of South America
Reptiles of Argentina
Endemic fauna of Argentina
Reptiles described in 2008
Taxa named by Andrés Sebastián Quinteros
Taxa named by Cristian Simón Abdala |
Asplenium sagittatum is a species of herb in the family Asplenium (spleenworts). Individuals can grow to tall.
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Landon Thomas Sims (born January 3, 2001) is an American college baseball pitcher for the Mississippi State Bulldogs.
Career
Sims attended South Forsyth High School in Cumming, Georgia, where he played on the football team as a safety and on the baseball team as a pitcher. As a sophomore in 2017, he went 6-2 with a 2.10 ERA and 58 strikeouts over fifty innings. As a junior, he won ten games while pitching to a 0.90 ERA over 62 innings. Sims went unselected in the 2019 Major League Baseball draft and enrolled at Mississippi State University to play college baseball.
Sims made seven appearances as a freshman on the Mississippi State Bulldogs baseball team in 2020 and compiled a 3.46 ERA before the season was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2021, he became the team's closer. For the season, he made 25 relief appearances and went 5-0 with a 1.44 ERA, 100 strikeouts, 15 walks and 13 saves over innings. Sims, alongside Will Bednar, threw a combined one-hitter against the Vanderbilt Commodores in the final game of the 2021 College World Series, leading the Bulldogs to their first ever championship. He was named to the USA Baseball National Collegiate Team after the season. Sims entered the 2022 season as a top prospect for the upcoming draft. For the season, he moved into the starting rotation. He was named the team's Opening Day starter and pitched seven innings in which he gave up one earned run, seven hits, no walks, and 13 strikeouts in a 3-0 loss to Long Beach State.
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Mississippi State Bulldogs bio
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The Thomas Gamble Building, formerly known as the Eugene Kelly Stores, Kelly's Block and Kelly's Building, is a historic building in Savannah, Georgia, United States. Located in Savannah's Historic District, between Upper Stoddard Range to the east, Savannah City Hall to the south and the Hyatt Regency Savannah to the west, the addresses of some of the properties are East Bay Street, above Factors Walk, while Olympia Cafe occupies the former King Cotton warehouses on the River Street elevation.
The building was constructed in 1877, by W. G. Butler, replacing the 1869 Eugene Kelly Stores, designed by Muller & Bruyn but which burned in 1876. Shortly after the fire, Kelly, a millionaire from New York, stated that he intended to rebuild, naming it "Kelly's Stores 2". To match the Bay Street frontage, the River Street façade was given a stucco finish in 1883, under the supervision of Bernard Goode.
Several prominent Savannah companies were located in Kelly's Block for many years, including the John Flannery Co., which moved into the building upon its rebuilding was completed in 1877. Purse Printing & Paper Co. occupied space in the property for over sixty years.
After the death of Kelly in 1894, his family maintained the property until 1907, at which point it was sold to New York's Temple Court Company, owned by Eugene's son, Thomas Hughes Kelly.
The Temple Court Company sold the rear half of Wharf Lot 9, which contained the structure of Kelly's Block. Thomas rented another part of the building to the City of Savannah, before selling the entire building to the city in June 1943.
The building was renamed in 1945 for Thomas Gamble, Savannah's mayor between 1933 and 1937 and 1938 until his death in 1945.
See also
Buildings in Savannah Historic District
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Commercial buildings completed in 1877
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Astragalus boeticus (Yellow Milk Vetch) is a species of annual herb in the family Fabaceae. They have a self-supporting growth form and compound, broad leaves.
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The 2022 NISA season will be the fourth season of the National Independent Soccer Association's third-division soccer competition. After three years of split seasons, NISA switched to a full season format, with a single table and a playoff competition to determine the 2022 champion.
Teams
Six of the teams that participated in the 2021 Fall season returned, and were joined by four expansion clubs: AC Syracuse Pulse, Bay Cities FC, Flower City Union and Valley United FC. From the existing 2021 teams, San Diego 1904 FC were rebranded to Albion San Diego, after merging with the youth club with the same name, while Chicago House AC, New Amsterdam FC and Stumptown AC will be on hiatus for 2022, and current title holders Detroit City FC moved to USL Championship.
Stadiums and locations
Personnel and sponsorship
''Note: The league has signed a deal with Hummel to be the official kit manufacturer, but it still allows clubs to find their own provider.
Regular season
The season will start on March 26, and will see each team play 26 games over 30 weeks: four times against each opponent in the same division and two times against each opponent in the opposite division.
Standings
East Division
West Division
Results
Playoffs
The playoffs begin on October 22, and will feature the top 6 teams in the regular season. The East and West division winners will be assigned the first 2 seeds, and will get byes to the semifinals. The second places in the two divisions will be assigned seeds 3 and 4, and the third places seeds 5 and 6. The 2022 Final will take place on November 5.
See also
National Independent Soccer Association
References
External links
NISA official website
2022
2022 in American soccer leagues |
Atractylis cancellata is a species of annual herb in the family Asteraceae. They have a self-supporting growth form and simple, broad leaves and dry fruit. Individuals can grow to tall.
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Allogromia terricola is a species of unicellular foraminiferan in the genus Allogromia.
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Monothalamea
Species described in the 19th century
Foraminifera stubs |
Nadezhda Morozova née Nadezjda Sidelnik (Надежда Морозова; born September 1998) is a Kazakhstani long track speed skater.
Career
Morozova participated in the 2020 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships, in the 1500 metres event and 5000 metres event, and at the 2020 World Allround Speed Skating Championships, finishing 18th overall. She won two silver medals at the 2020 Four Continents Speed Skating Championships. She also competes at other international competitions, including at ISU Speed Skating World Cups. At the 2022 Winter Olympics, she finished 14th in the 1500 metres.
As of 2020 she had been national champion six times.
Records
National records
5000 m - 7.07,19 - 15.02.2020 - Salt Lake City
Personal records
References
1998 births
Place of birth missing (living people)
Kazakhstani female speed skaters
Living people
Speed skaters at the 2017 Asian Winter Games
Speed skaters at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Olympic speed skaters of Kazakhstan |
Mary Helen Snow McCarty (August 26, 1928 - October 14, 2012) was an American composer, organist/pianist, and publisher who wrote The Waveform Music Book: Composing, Teaching, Performing Electronic Music with the ARP 2600 Synthesizer in 1977. She published most of her work under the names Mary Snow or Mary McCarty Snow.
Snow was born in Brownsville, Texas, to Carrie Beth Sewell and Harry Evans Snow. She married Darrell Keith McCarty in 1951. They had four children before divorcing in 1981. She and her husband formed the Lariken Press publishing company, which published her Waveform Music Book.
Snow earned a B.A. at the University of Indiana and a M.M. at the University of Illinois. Her teachers included Anis Fuleihan and Burrill Philips. She gave private piano lessons, taught at Texas Technological University, and served as an organist at several churches in Lubbock, Texas: the First Christian Church, First Covenant Presbyterian Church, Forrest Heights Methodist Church, and St. Christopher's Episcopal Church. She also established the Lubbock chapter of People Against Violent Crimes, and created a fundraiser for the organization called the “Bach-a-Thon.”
Snow received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1977 and 1980, as well as a grant from Texas Technological University to compose a work based on desert land cultures. She composed electronic music for university theatre productions (listed below). Her works were published by the American Music Center, I. E. Clark, and Lariken Press. They include:
Band
Toccata
Book
The Waveform Music Book: Composing, Teaching, Performing Electronic Music with the Arp 2600 Synthesizer
Chamber
Five Monodies (clarinet)
Dance
Ezekiel I (actor, dancer, and tape)
Electronic
Bacchae (text based on Euripides)
Hieroglyphs (instruments and tape)
Mandora (violin and tape)
Obsidion II
Voyages: Columbus/Apollo II
Theatre
Dr. Faustus
Indians
MaratSade
Peer Gynt
Shining Princess of the Slender Bamboo
The Tempest
References
American women composers
Electronic music
1928 births
2012 deaths
People from Texas
Texas Tech University faculty |
Liolaemus ubaghsi, Ubaghs's leopard lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Iguanidae or the family Liolaemidae. The species is endemic to Chile.
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Lizards of South America
Reptiles of Chile
Endemic fauna of Chile
Reptiles described in 2014
Taxa named by Damien Esquerré
Taxa named by Jaime Troncoso-Palacios |
Elena Sokhryakova is a Russian long track speed skater.
At the 2022 Winter Olympics, she finished 22nd in the 1500 metres.
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Place of birth missing (living people)
Russian female speed skaters
Living people
Speed skaters at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Olympic speed skaters of Russia
1990 births |
Yury Vasilyevich Belykh (; born on 30 September 1941), is a Russian statesman who had served as the 1st Governor (Head) of Saratov Oblast from 1992 to 1996.
Biography
Yury Belykh was born on 30 September 1941 in the village of Nikolayevka, in the Ivanteyevsky District, of the Saratov Oblast, in a family of employees.
After leaving school, he entered the Saratov Technical School No. 1, graduating with a degree in metal turner. In 1967, he graduated from the N. I. Vavilov Saratov Agricultural Institute with a degree in agronomy.
From 1960 to 1962, he was a turner at the enterprise p / box 122 in Saratov. In 1965, he was sent to the state farm "Bartenevsky" to the post of chief agronomist.
From 1973 to 1974, he was the chairman of the collective farm "named after N.K. Krupskaya" in the Tatishchevo district.
From 1974 to 1983 he was the director of the Lesnoy state farm, and from 1983 to 1985 he was the head of the department of state farms in the Tatishevsky district.
From September 1985 to February 1992, he was the Director of the Dubkovskaya poultry farm in the Saratov Oblast.
Belykh was member of the CPSU until August 1991. He was the people's Deputy of the Russian Federation from March 1990 until 1993, when he was deprived of his mandate for not appearing at the X Extraordinary Congress.
By decree of the President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, on 25 February 1992, Belykh was appointed acting head of the administration of the Saratov Oblast. On 30 June, he was sworn in office as the 1st Governor (Head) of the Saratov Oblast.
Belykh was the member of the Federation Council of from 11 January 1994 to 10 April 1996, and was a member of the Committee on Budget, Financial, Currency and Credit Regulation, Money Issue, Tax Policy and Customs Regulation.
On 21 February 1996, he was dismissed from his post as governor by President Yeltsin, citing then words "for gross violations of the labor rights of citizens, expressed in the misuse of funds allocated from the federal budget and intended for the payment of wages to public sector workers, other social benefits.". On 15 April, Yeltsin signed a decree, appointing Dmitry Ayatskov as the new governor.
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Olivier Guimond (fils), born May 21, 1914, in Montreal, Quebec and died November 29, 1971, in the same city, was an actor and humorist. He is the father of the actor Richard Darbois, who specialized in film dubbing.
Biography
Early life
Olivier Guimond came from a family of burlesque artists. At the beginning of his career, he was called "Ti-Zoune junior" since the stage name of Olivier Guimond (père) was “Ti-Zoune”. His mother, Effie McDonald, baptized him Oliver as she is English speaking. Later, Radio-Canada decided to call him Olivier.
At the age of 7, Olivier Guimond was placed by his parents at the Collège Mont-Saint-Louis in Montreal, where he stayed until he was 16.
In 1932, he convinced his father to let him perform on stage. At the age of 18, he made his debut at the Théâtre Impérial de Québec. Dreaming of becoming the star of his burlesque show, he left his parents' troupe. His father did not take kindly to this affront.
In 1934, Jean Grimaldi noticed him and hired him to be part of his troupe with which he performed until 1957. He sang and played comedy roles, notably with Manda Parent. It was with her that he created the sketch Trois heures du matin, which became a classic of Quebec burlesque.
Personal life
He married Evelyn Drummond, a dancer in Jean Grimaldi's troupe. At the same time, he met the singer Alys Robi, with whom he also fell in love. As a result, his marriage to Evelyn Drummond lasted only nine months. His wife left him and went into exile in the United States. His passionate relationship with Alys Robi came to an end as her career took off internationally.
Shortly after, he met Jeanne-D'Arc Charlebois, a singer with the Grimaldi troupe, whom Guimond married in 1946. He has two sons with Jeanne-D'Arc Charlebois, Richard Darbois and Marc Guimond, who died in an August 1964 car accident in Europe. His son Richard Darbois is a well-known actor and voice actor. In the mid-1950s, Jeanne-D'Arc Charlebois left Olivier Guimond and Quebec. Olivier Guimond met Manon Brunelle in 1959 with whom he had another son, Luc Guimond.
Rise to fame
Olivier Guimond quickly made a name for himself in Montreal's burlesque troupes and played with the best actors of this tradition such as Arthur Petrie, Juliette Petrie, Rose Ouellette , and Paul Desmarteaux, with whom he formed a notorious comic duo early in his career. He is also remembed for the duet with Denis Drouin, his sidekick. In the 1950s, he also rubbed shoulders with Paul Berval, Jacques Normand, Gilles Pellerin, and others in the Montreal cabarets that were in full swing at the time.
That year, producer Noël Gauvin hired him, and Olivier Guimond became the star of the variety show Music-Hall, broadcast by Radio-Canada. On Télé-Métropole, starting in 1965, he played the lead role in the television series Cré Basile, written by his friend Marcel Gamache. He also played in other series, including Le Zoo du Capitaine Bonhomme, À la branche d'Olivier, Smash, and in operettas, including Les Trois valses and La Vie parisienne.
His popularity reached records and his favorite expression "Quo qua fa là là" was on everyone's lips. In 1966, one year after the debut of the series Cré Basile, he was crowned "Monsieur Radio-Télévision" at the Gala des Artistes. He was recognized as one of the greatest comedians Quebec has ever known.
The sketch, written by Gilles Richer, of the soldier guarding a wealthy Westmount home during the October Crisis in the 1970 Bye Bye, in which Denis Drouin played the rich English Canadian, is one of the most famous numbers in the history of this annual comedy magazine. The sketch was shown again during the 1971 Bye Bye in tribute to the deceased. Guimond's innate aptitude for comedic expression and his extraordinary flexibility brought him close to Charlie Chaplin.
Death
On November 29, 1971, Olivier Guimond died of septicemia at the Maisonneuve Hospital in Montreal at the age of 57. On December 2, his funeral took place in the Church of Saint-Alphonse d'Youville in Montreal. Quebec was in mourning: a crowd of 25,000 people gathered around the church for the ceremony and 100,000 people came to the funeral home in three days. He is buried in Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery.
Filmography
1954 - 1960: Le Survenant (TV series): M. Bezeau
1957: Le Survenant (film): M. Bezeau
1958: Marie-Didace (TV series): M. Bezeau
1959: César (TV series): rôle muet (genre Charlie Chaplin)
1964: Le Zoo du Capitaine Bonhomme (youth show): Freddy Washington
1965: Give Me a Hand
1965: Cré Basile (TV series): Basile Lebrun
1967: Place à Olivier Guimond (TV show)
1970: À la branche d'Olivier (TV series): Olivier Beauchemin
1971: Smash (Radio-Canada TV variety series)
Awards
Olivier Guimond is elected Mr. Television in 1966.
Three orange prizes from TV Hebdo were awarded to the artist most sympathetic to journalists. After his death, the orange prize was renamed the Olivier Guimond prize.
To mark the tenth anniversary of his death, in 1981 the City of Montreal established Olivier Guimond Park in the block formed by Dickson, Boileau, Monsabré, and Pierre de Coubertin streets, very close to the place where Olivier Guimond lived for many years.
In 1986, the residents of Montreal's Mercier-Ouest district decided to name their CLSC the "CLSC Olivier-Guimond".
In 1999, the Gala des Oliviers was named in memory of Olivier Guimond. This annual event highlights and publicly rewards the work of Quebec artists and artisans working in the field of humor.
In 2010, the city of Rigaud pays tribute to him by naming the newly built service area on the side of Highway 40 the Olivier Guimond building. Inside, there is a photo montage that illustrates the life and career of Olivier Guimond. It is also the name of the former rest stop located a little further west.
In 2014 in Montreal, he was honoured on the occasion of his 100th birthday with several events including two outdoor shows: "César à la belle étoile", an outdoor projection with excerpts from Olivier Guimond in the 1959 series César accompanied by a pianist on stage recreating the era of silent movies, and "Un peu, beaucoup, passionnément", a Cirque Éloize show as part of Just for Laughs. Canada Post, for its part, is issuing a new stamp with his effigy.
The local Quebec odonymy recalls the actor in several places: Place Olivier-Guimond in Saint-Laurent (Montreal), rue Olivier-Guimond in Mont-Laurier, Pointe-Fortune, Rigaud, Rougemont, and in Sainte-Julie, the Olivier-Guimond Parks in Montreal and Boisbriand.
Anecdotes
Olivier Guimond is remembered for the slogan "Lui, y connaît ça", which appeared in 1966 in an advertisement for Labatt brewery.
Olivier Guimond was the star of the inauguration of the Théâtre des Variétés in Montreal on September 23, 1967.
In 1997, Quebec actor Benoît Brière played Olivier Guimond in the television series Cher Olivier, broadcast on the TVA network and directed by André Mélançon. The series was a success with both journalists and the public and won nine awards, including the audience award at the 1997 Prix Gémeaux.
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The liquidation of the Zaporozhian Sich in 1775 was the forcible destruction by Russian troops of the Ukrainian Cossack formation, the Nova (Pidpilnenska) Sich, and the final liquidation of the Zaporozhian Sich as a Cossack autonomy. As a result, the Zaporozhian Lowland Army ceased to exist.
Prerequisites for liquidation
Already in the second quarter of the eighteenth century it was clear that the Russian government had no intention of preserving Ukrainian autonomy, as provided for in the March Articles of 1654. After the palace coup of 1762, Catherine II, the wife of Emperor Peter III, ascended the imperial throne and immediately made every effort to strengthen the power of the autocracy in the vast empire. An important aspect of the Empress's policy was the so-called "Russification of the Polishized suburbs" (under the "suburbs" tsarism saw the Ukrainian and Belarusian lands). Such plans of Catherine II did not provide for the existence of the Cossack state of the Cossack Hetmanate, or the Cossack liberties, or the Zaporozhian Sich.
When the Hetmanate was liquidated in 1764, and a year later the regimental-hundred system in Slobozhanshchyna, the last stronghold of Ukrainian freedom was the Zaporizhzhya Sich, which in Russian ruling circles was seen as a "hut of rebels and bandits." The Moscow authorities were just waiting for the right opportunity to liquidate the Cossack freemasonry.
Liquidation of the Sich
This opportunity came in 1775, when the Russo-Turkish War (1768-1774) ended, which the Cossacks helped Moscow win, and the Cossacks became unnecessary. On April 23, 1775, the Council of the Imperial Court decided to liquidate the Sich. In early June 1775, Russian troops under the command of Russian General of Serbian descent Peter Tekeli, returning from an Ottoman campaign, suddenly surrounded Sich. The Cossacks did not expect such a development, and therefore in Zaporozhye at that time there were very few soldiers. There were only a few thousand Cossacks in the Sich at that time, and the rest went to palanquins and winter quarters after the war. Instead, under the command of Peter Tekeli were significant forces: 10 infantry and 13 Don Cossack regiments, 8 regiments of regular cavalry, reinforced by 20 Hussars and 17 Pikin squadrons. Peter Tekelia announced an imperial decree to eliminate the Zaporozhian Sich. The Sich society, given the very unequal forces, had no choice but to surrender to the will of the victors. It was clear to everyone that the resistance of several thousand besieged Cossacks would be in vain, and the breakthrough of other Cossack troops to the besieged Sich was almost impossible for many reasons. Among these reasons is the large number of Russian troops and the fact that almost all the Cossack officers were in the Sich, as a result of which the Cossacks who were not surrounded were left without command.
A council headed by Kosh Ataman Petro Kalnyshevskyi convened at the Sich, and fierce debates erupted in an attempt to find a way out of the hopeless situation in which the Zaporozhian Cossacks found themselves. The council decided not to shed Christian blood and voluntarily laid down its arms in front of the Muscovites. In addition, the Cossacks feared in case of resistance to bloody revenge on Cossack families, the Sich still had old Cossacks who remembered the events of 1709, when Peter I conducted a brutal punitive expedition against Ukraine, including the infamous Baturyn massacre that became the culmination of those horrible events. Zaporozhian Cossacks took part in many campaigns of the Russian army and witnessed the brutality of Russian troops in storming enemy settlements. As the participants in the events at the Sich recalled: the characters did not want to surrender to Catherine at all, and other Cossacks said: “No, brother, we have parents and children: a Muscovite will cut them. They took it and surrendered".
On June 16, 1775, Russian troops completely destroyed Sich, and all property and Cossack archives were taken to Saint Petersburg. The Cossack officer and Kosh Ataman Petro Kalnyshevsky was accused of treason and sentenced to hard labor. The sad fact was that the Don Cossacks took an active part in the destruction of the Sich, they did not know any pity for the home of their Ukrainian "brothers". But, despite such diligence in carrying out the orders of Catherine II, they themselves fell into her severe disgrace in the early 1790s, they took away most of the original lands, most of the Don Cossacks were relocated to remote regions of Russia. Their foreman was repressed. It was not until August 14, 1775, that Empress Catherine II issued a special manifesto officially announcing the reasons for the liquidation of the Sich. In this document, the Cossack-knightly Sich was depicted as "a brothel of drunks and thugs" who "lived in ignorance and prevented tsarism from conducting trade and cultural ties with its neighbors." There was not a word in it about the shed Cossack blood for tsarist Russia.
Consequences of the liquidation of the Zaporozhian Sich
Shortly before the destruction of the Sich, the Cossack fleet was transferred to almost the entire Danube. The Ottoman sultan gave the Cossacks the island of St. George with the Sulina and St. George estuaries of the Danube near the Danubian Sich and issued jewels - a mace, a bunchuk, a seal and a korogva consecrated by the Patriarch of Constantinople. Some Cossacks soon formed the basis of the Poltava and Kherson regiments.
The organization and rapid strengthening of the Transdanubian Sich aroused growing sympathy among the Ukrainian population and made it impossible for Ukrainians to take part in the war on Russia's side. Thus, the destruction of the Zaporozhian Sich and the formation of the Transdanubian Sich, not controlled by St. Petersburg, led to the fact that the southwestern borders of the Russian Empire were defenseless. On October 31, 1776, Grigory Potemkin reported this to Catherine II.
Attempts to keep the Cossacks from emigrating to the Danube and Zabuzhye were unsuccessful. Then Catherine II on May 5, 1779, and April 27, 1780, issued manifestos asking the Cossacks to return to their native land, promising to give each of them land and service in Russian ranks. These calls also failed.
See also
Liquidation of the autonomy of the Cossack Hetmanate
Abolition of the Cossack system in Sloboda Ukraine
Sack of Baturyn
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Джерела про зруйнування Запорозької Січі / Зібрав та упорядкував Василь Сокіл. НАН України. Інститут народознавства. Відділ фольклористики. — Львів: Афіша, 2005. — 128 c. ISBN 966-325-054-2 , .
Левітас Ф., Тарасенко М. Історія України. — Київ: «Казка», 2005. — С. 323–324. — ISBN 978-966-8055-18-8.
Полонська-Василенко Н. Маніфест 3 серпня року 1775 в світлі тогочас. ідей. «Зап. Істор.-філол. відділу ВУАН», 1927, кн. 12. (текст Маніфесту — С. 31.(рос.))
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Маніфест «Про знищення Запорізької Січі та зарахування оної до Новоросійської губернії» 1775 // Юридична енциклопедія : [у 6 т.] / ред. кол.: Ю. С. Шемшученко (відп. ред.) [та ін.]. — К. : Українська енциклопедія ім. М. П. Бажана, 2001. — Т. 3 : К — М. — 792 с. — ISBN 966-7492-03-6.
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Al-Surah al-Saghirah () is a town is situated in the Mantiqat Shahba (Shahba district) of As Suwayda Governorate, in southern Syria. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Al-Surah al-Saghirah had a population of 1,517 in the 2004 census.
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