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5,700 | Heimdal Glacier | Heimdal Glacier () is a glacier in southeastern Greenland. It flows into the head of the Timmiarmiut Fjord system, northwest of the island of Timmiarmiit. See also List of glaciers in Greenland References External links NASA: Seasonal Glacier Velocity on the Heimdal Glacier with a pause Heimdal Glacier Category:Glaciers of Greenland |
5,701 | James Acord | James Leroy Acord (19 October 1944 – 9 January 2011) was an artist who worked directly with radioactive materials. He attempted to create sculpture and events that probed the history of nuclear engineering and asked questions about the long-term storage of nuclear waste. For 15 years he lived in Richland, Washington, the dormitory town for the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, at one time home to nine nuclear reactors and five plutonium-processing complexes and the most contaminated nuclear site in the United States. His major ambition while there was to build a "nuclear Stonehenge" on a heavily contaminated area of land in the site, incorporating twelve uranium breeder-blanket assemblies. Acord was the only private individual in the world licensed to own and handle radioactive materials, and acquired nuclear fuel rods containing depleted uranium from the completed but not operated German SNR-300 breeder reactor to use as artistic materials. He had his nuclear license number tattooed onto his neck. He spoke on art and nuclear science at both art and nuclear industry events in the US and the UK and organised many forums that brought together artists, activists and nuclear industry experts. He was profiled by Philip Schuyler for The New Yorker in 1991, and was the inspiration for the character of Reever in The Book of Ash by James Flint. The extensive audio interviews Flint did with Acord in Alaska in 1998 as part of his research for the novel have now been archived and catalogued by the British Library. From 1998 to 1999 he was Artist in Residence at Imperial College London, a residency set up by arts commissioning organisation The Arts Catalyst, and funded by Arts Council England and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. He committed suicide in Seattle on January 9, 2011 at the age of 66. His sculpture, Monstrance for a Grey Horse, is installed on the Southwestern University campus in Georgetown, Texas. See also James L. Acord memorial website, compiled by friends of the artist. Progressive Alaska blog post by Philip Munger. Author Fred Moody's description of his obsession with one of Acord's masterworks, "The Monstrance and me", from The Seattle Times Pacific Northwest Magazine, January 14, 2001. Author James Flint's 1998 profile of James Acord, "Looking for Acord". Chris Arnot's article for The Guardian, October 26, 1999, "Sculpting with nukes". American Nuclear Society's Nuclear News Interview, "James Acord: Atomic Artist". Robert Del Tredici Videos of James Acord's lecture at "The Influencers" conference, February 4th, 2010 (Barcelona, Spain) References Category:1944 births Category:2011 deaths Category:American male sculptors Category:Nuclear history Category:20th-century American sculptors Category:21st-century American sculptors Category:Sculptors who committed suicide Category:Suicides in Washington (state) Category:People from Richland, Washington Category:Sculptors from Washington (state) |
5,702 | Around the World (1943 film) | Around the World is a 1943 American comedy film produced and directed by Allan Dwan, from an original screenplay by Ralph Spence. RKO Radio Pictures premiered the film at the Globe Theater in New York on November 24, 1943. The film has a large cast, and stars Kay Kyser and his band, Mischa Auer, Joan Davis, Marcy McGuire, Wally Brown, and Alan Carney. Plot Kay Kyser, his band, and several entertainers begin a tour of overseas U.S. military forces. In Australia, the group is approached by a stranded American teen-ager, Marcy McGuire, who pleads with Kyser for him to take her with them when they leave. Kyser refuses, but this does not deter McGuire, who stows away on the group's plane heading for India. When she is discovered, the American authorities insist she be returned to Australia, but Kyser agrees to take responsibility for her. Meanwhile, Kyser's entourage is infatuated with obtaining historical relics from the cultures they visit. When the group reaches their next stop, China, Auer procures a scarab ring which supposedly belonged to the Borgias, not realizing that the ring contains a secret Nazi document. While in China, Marcy becomes a performer in Kyser's band. As the Nazis now attempt to retrieve the document, the band moves on to Egypt. The Nazis attempt to obtain the ring, but are foiled again. The group moves on to Tunisia, and finally Monrovia. In Monrovia, Marcy learns that her father, who was in the Army Air Corps, has been killed in action. Regardless of her new knowledge, Marcy manages to take the stage with her new colleagues. Cast (cast list as per AFI database)* Kay Kyser as himself Mischa Auer as himself Joan Davis as herself Marcy McGuire as herself Wally Brown as Pilot of the clipper Alan Carney as Joe Gimpus Kay Kyser's band as themselves Ish Kabibble as himself Georgia Carroll as herself Harry Babbitt as himself Production In April 1943, it was announced that Alan Dwan would be handling both the directing and producing responsibilities for the pictures. At the same time, Jimmy McHugh and Harald Adamson were selected to write the songs for the film, and Kay Kyser was cast as the lead. The working title of the film was Keep Em Singing. Mischa Auer, Joan Davis, and Marcy McGuire were added to the cast the following week, in early May. On May 14 it was announced that Barbara Hale, Rosemary LaPlanche, and Gloria Warren would be joining the cast, followed two weeks later by Patti Brilie and Margaret Landry. At the beginning of June Ivan Lebedeff was cast as Menlo, and Jadine Wong and Li Sun joined the cast in late June. The film began production the last week of May 1943, and lasted through the first week in August. Originally scheduled to be shot at RKO Studios in Hollywood, due to scheduling conflicts the production was moved to the Pathe studios in Culver City. In July it was announced that selected members of the cast would preview the film for military personnel at 20 different military |
5,703 | Ipso facto | is a Latin phrase, directly translated as "by the fact itself", which means that a specific phenomenon is a direct consequence, a resultant effect, of the action in question, instead of being brought about by a previous action. It is a term of art used in philosophy, law, and science. A common English idiom with a similar meaning is "in and of itself". Compare also "by itself" and "per se". Aside from its technical uses, it occurs frequently in literature, particularly in scholarly addenda: e.g., "Faustus had signed his life away, and was, , incapable of repentance" (from Christopher Marlowe, The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus) or "These prejudices are rooted in the idea that every tramp is a blackguard" (from George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London). In Catholic canon law denotes the automatic character of the loss of membership in a religious body by someone guilty of a specified action. Within the canon law of the Catholic Church, the phrase is more commonly used than with regard to ecclesiastical penalties such as excommunication. It indicates that the effect follows even if no verdict (in Latin, ) is pronounced by an ecclesiastical superior or tribunal. See also List of Latin phrases Q.E.D. List of Latin phrases (E)#ergo References External links Category:Catholic Church legal terminology Category:Latin legal terminology Category:Latin philosophical phrases Category:Latin logical phrases Category:Latin words and phrases Category:Legal reasoning |
5,704 | Sabina Gadecki | Sabina Gadecki is an American actress and model. She was born on September 28th in Holyoke, Massachusetts to Polish parents. Sabina studied International Business and Communications at Fordham University, while pursuing a career in modeling and acting in New York. Gaining notice as the host of The World Poker Tour on The Travel Channel, she went on to sign with Ford Models. Sabina’s striking physique and girl next door look earned her modeling jobs for global brands including Saks Fifth Avenue, Oil of Olay, Banana Republic and Jimmy Choo. Sabina studied acting with William Esper continuously for 4 years prior to moving to Los Angeles. Gadecki has had major recurring roles in TV shows such as L.A.s Finest starring Gabrielle Union and Jessica Alba, and also appeared in Narcos, The Affair and House of Lies. On the feature side, she played the role of Melanie, in the box office hit Entourage opposite Jeremy Piven and Adrian Grenier. Other films include, Dark Was The Night opposite Lukas Haas, False Positive with Pierce Brosnan, Ilana Glazer, and Justin Thoroux. Capps Crossing: Wrong Side of Dead opposite Beverly DeAngelo, Outlaw Prophet with Tony Goldwyn and Joey King. She also appeared alongside Christian Slater and Billy Burke in the feature film adaptation of an Elmore Leonard novel called Freaky Deaky. Gadecki currently resides in Los Angeles. Film Television References External links Girl Poker Player Profile Category:American television actresses Category:Living people Category:Poker commentators Category:People from Chicopee, Massachusetts Category:American people of Polish descent Category:1983 births |
5,705 | George Green (shipbuilder) | George Green (1767 – 21 February 1849) was a wealthy philanthropist with a shipyard in Blackwall, London. Green served his shipbuilding apprenticeship with John Perry at Blackwall Yard, one of the biggest private shipyards in the world. He married Perry's daughter Sarah in 1796; they had five children, all of whom died young except for a son named Richard. Sarah died in 1805, not yet 30. George Green remarried Elizabeth Unwin, and with her had another six children. Two of their sons, Henry and Frederick, followed him into the family business, as did Richard. Henry completed his apprenticeship and became yard supervisor in 1822. Fredrick set up Frederick Green and Co., handling passengers and cargoes. After George retired in 1838, Richard, the eldest, took overall direction, including managing the ships. George Green contributed to many philanthropic causes in Poplar and Blackwall, notably the architecturally significant Trinity Independent Chapel and its associated "minister's house, sailors' home, schools, and almshouses", according to the Survey of London. He endowed George Green's School (1828), which was rebuilt as the George Green Centre at Island Gardens in 1974–1978. The school maintains its maritime connection, and is supported by the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights. The Sailors' Home (later Board of Trade offices and other uses, converted into flats in the 1980s) was built at 133 East India Dock Road and opened in 1841. It provided 200 beds of model accommodation, caring for the crews of his ships in between their voyages, protecting them from, among other things, the danger of the Crimping System (being Shanghaied). Unusually for its time, the Sailors' Home was racially integrated (see Lascar). Green was buried at St Matthias Old Church. References Category:1767 births Category:1849 deaths Category:English shipbuilders Category:Christian missions to seafarers Category:English philanthropists |
5,706 | Kilcunda railway station | Kilcunda was a railway station on the Wonthaggi line along the Bass Coast in Victoria, Australia. It was an electric staff station from its opening until December 1916. The original station site, on a stretch of level track backing on to the ocean, was abandoned in 1925 due to coastal erosion, although a goods siding remained there until 1954. The station was moved to the former Picnic Platform, about to the west and closer to the town, but on a 1 in 60 grade. The station operated at that site until the line's closure in 1978. There is almost no trace left of the station and the site is now part of the Bass Coast Rail Trail. Category:Disused railway stations in Victoria (Australia) |
5,707 | Redefine | Redefine may refer to: Redefine (Soil album), 2004 Redefine (Dragon Fli Empire album), 2009 Redefine (magazine), an independent music and art magazine from the United States "Redefine" (song), a 2002 rap song See also Redefin "Redefinition", an episode of the television show Angel |
5,708 | Affinity Credit Union | Affinity Credit Union is a financial institution in Saskatchewan, Canada, with headquarters in the city of Saskatoon. As of August 2019, Affinity operates 56 branches in 47 communities across Saskatchewan. It is the second-largest credit union in Saskatchewan and the eighth-largest in Canada, with $6.9 billion in managed assets. Affinity Credit Union employs 791 people and serves 141,587 members. Affinity is also a member of the World Council of Credit Unions and the Global Alliance for Banking on Values. References Category:Canadian companies established in 2005 Category:Banks established in 2005 Category:Credit unions of Saskatchewan Category:Companies based in Saskatoon |
5,709 | The Boarding School | The Boarding School may refer to: The Boarding School; or, Lessons of a Preceptress to Her Pupils, 1798 American novel The Boarding School (film), 1969 Spanish psychological suspense/horror film See also Boarding School (disambiguation) Boarding school, educational institution |
5,710 | Tahia Kazem | Tahia Kazem () (1 March 1920 – 25 March 1992) was the First Lady of Egypt from 23 June 1956 to 28 September 1970. She married future President Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1944. The couple had 5 children, 2 girls and 3 boys. Early life Kazem was born in Egypt to a father of paternal Iranian descent and an Egyptian mother. Nasser received the approval of her father before their marriage in 1944. Honour Foreign honour : Honorary Recipient of the Order of the Crown of the Realm (1965) References Category:1920 births Category:1992 deaths Category:First Ladies of Egypt Category:Egyptian people of Iranian descent Category:Honorary Recipients of the Order of the Crown of the Realm |
5,711 | Moses and the Shepherd (album) | Moses & the Shepherd is an album by Iranian tenor singer Shahram Nazeri. Track listing Rumi is credited as the "poet" for each track. Daramad Moses to Shepeherd Shepherd to Moses God's voice Music and Instrument Music and Instrument Song Masnavi Vocal Song Personnel Vocals – Shahram Nazeri Other performers – Jalal Zolfonun, Behzad Forouhari, and Mohammad Hooman Poetry by Rumi See also Moses and Shepherd (story) References External links Official Shahram Nazeri website Category:Shahram Nazeri albums |
5,712 | Torquemada (comics) | Tomás de Torquemada is the fictional main villain in the comic strip Nemesis the Warlock, published in the British comic anthology 2000 AD. He eventually appeared in 7 episodes of spin-off adventures of his own. He is named after and inspired by the real life Tomás de Torquemada. Fictional character biography Originally the leader of The Tube Police, a fascist police force and quasi-religious order in the far future, he became the dictator of the entire human race from its base on Termight (planet Earth). His Empire wages a speciesist war against all alien species, whom Torquemada regards as "impure." Torquemada's goal is to keep the human race united by their fear and hatred of all aliens. He is described as being totally evil and having absolutely no redeeming features whatsoever. In fact, late in the series, it was revealed (through the actions of Thoth, son of Nemesis the Warlock) that his previous incarnations have included Colonel John M. Chivington, Witchfinder General Matthew Hopkins, Adolf Hitler and his namesake, the original Torquemada. (He is, however, also a dedicated family man – he is distressed when Nemesis kills his children while escaping the Terminators and loves his wife Candida to such an extent he consorts with aliens in an effort to prevent her from divorcing him.) After an accident in a teleporter, Torquemada lost his physical body but continued to survive as a ghostly spirit. He then began possessing the bodies of volunteer Terminators to use for himself. The bodies would rot and die after a short time and have to be replaced. This eventually contributed to Candida's loss of sanity. His catchphrase is "Be pure! Be vigilant! Behave!" The Terminators Torquemada is served by a fanatical army of soldiers called Terminators, who are constantly at war with all alien races in the galaxy. Death of a Tyrant Torquemada's evil reign ended when Candida mysteriously recovered from her madness. Upon hearing the news, he had his then current wife, Sister Sturn murdered and made preparations for his second marriage to Candida. The wedding ceremony ended disastrously when his foe Nemesis appeared with Candida willingly fleeing from the temple with him. Humiliated on live TV, his evil regime quickly crumbled but he still had one last trick. Stealing Nemesis' Blitzspear, he fled to the Hypogeum to activate a "Generation Bomb" (which would destroy all alien DNA on Earth). Before he could even activate it, Nemesis managed to contaminate him with alien DNA with his claws before using his remaining powers to make sure Torquemada would perish with him. When the bomb exploded, both Nemesis, his Blitzspear and Torquemada were merged and fell into the timestream for all eternity. Family Torquemada's family members who have been depicted include: Murcalla de Torquemada (mother, alive) Nostradamus de Torquemada (brother, alive but insane) He became insane when he was ambushed by the Monads and Torquemada abandoned him to his fate instead of helping him. Torquemada had him committed to a lunatic asylum, and pretended Nostradamus was his senile grandfather. Candida de Torquemada (wife – annulled, second marriage interrupted, |
5,713 | Hakea bakeriana | Hakea bakeriana is a shrub in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the Central Coast of New South Wales. It is a dense shrub with sharply pointed, cylinder-shaped leaves and pink to crimson flowers in groups of between four and twelve. The fruit is a rough, wrinkled follicle which terminates in a short beak. Description Hakea bakeriana is a dense, bushy, many-branched shrub growing to high and wide. It has a lignotuber from which it can resprout after fire. Smaller branches are densely covered in matted soft hairs. Simple leaves are cylindrical in shape, long and about in diameter, ending in a sharp point long. Between 4 and 12 fragrant flowers appear on a short, hairy, upright stem long. Flowers often appear below the leaves or from old wood. The pink to crimson perianth is long. The style is about long. Pinkish-white to deep pink flowers appear from late autumn to early spring. Woody fruit have a rough and deeply wrinkled surface with paler blister-like protuberances. Fruit are approximately long and wide. Fruit terminate in a beak either small and smooth or obscure. Taxonomy and naming This species was first formally described by Ferdinand von Mueller and Joseph Maiden in 1892 from a specimen collected on "a barren patch of ground close to the bank of a creek at Wallsend". The description was published in the Macleay Memorial Volume of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. The specific epithet honours Richard Thomas Baker, teacher, economic botanist and later a curator of Sydney's Technological Museum. Distribution and habitat Hakea bakeriana grows in heath, sclerophyll forest and in dry forests on the coast and nearby ranges of New South Wales between Newcastle and Glenorie. Use in horticulture Hakes bakeriana has been grown for many years by native plant enthusiasts and is hardy in a range of soils and climates although does best in a sunny position. It is easily grown from seed but because of the species' restricted distribution, seed may be difficult to obtain. References bakeriana Category:Flora of New South Wales Category:Plants described in 1892 |
5,714 | Kapotaksha Express | Kapotaksha Express () (Tr 715/716) is a Bangladeshi Intercity train service runs between the two western city of Bangladesh Khulna and Rajshahi. It is one of the famous train in Bangladesh. History First inaugural run of Kapotaksha Express was ran on 1 May 1986. In 1988 the service was temporary stopped. In late 1989 the service starts again from Khulna to Rajshahi. Primarily this train halted only in Jessore, Chuadanga & Ishwardi. Now it has 15 stoppage in between the route. This train was named after the river Kapotaksha. Schedule This train departs Khulna at 6:45am and reaches Rajshahi at 12:20pm. The returning journey starts on 2:10pm by departing Rajshahi. This train touches Jessore, Jhenaidah, Chuadanga, Kushtia, Pabna and Natore district. Its weekly offday is Saturday. Facilities The rake of Kapotaksha Express consist with 11 PT Inka Coaches. It has 1 AC chair car and 8 non AC chair cars with 2 power cars. It usually gets Class 6500 locomotives. Stoppages See also Sagardari Express Chitra Express Sundarban Express References Category:Named passenger trains of Bangladesh Category:Transport in Khulna |
5,715 | Nurul Huq Bhuiyan | Nurul Haque Bhuiyan was a Bengali activist. Career Bhuiyan was a professor of Department of Chemistry and Applied Chemistry at the University of Dhaka during 1946–1994. He was a senior leader of the Tamaddun Majlish and the first convener of the Rastrabhasa Sangram Parishad during the Language Movement. He was the founder Provost of Sir A F Rahman Hall of the University of Dhaka. He was the first convenor of Language Movement during October 1947 - February 1948. References Category:Living people Category:Bangladeshi politicians Category:Bengali-language activists Category:University of Dhaka faculty Category:Year of birth missing (living people) |
5,716 | OFI Crete B.C. | OFI Crete B.C. (Greek: Ό.Φ.Η. K.A.E.) is a Greek professional basketball club that is located on the Greek island of Crete, in Heraklion. It is a part of the OFI Crete multi sports club. The club's full name is Club of Fans of Heraklion 1925 (Όμιλος Φιλάθλων Ηρακλείου 1925). History The club's parent athletic association, OFI Crete, was founded in 1925. The club's men's basketball team won the championship of the Greek 4th-tier level Greek C Basket League in 1998, and was promoted to the third-tier level Greek B Basket League. After that, it was relegated back down the Greek C Basket League, but it returned to the Greek B Basket League in 2008. The next year, OFI was promoted to the 2nd-tier level Greek A2 Basket League, for first time. After a short fall back into the Greek B Basket League, the club returned to the Greek A2 Basket League, and remained there until 2015, when the club was withdrawn from the league due to financial problems. Arena The club plays its home games at the 1,000 seat Vardinogiannis Sports Center. Honors Divisional competitions Greek 3rd Division Champion: (2011) 2× Greek 4th Division 2nd Group Champion: (1998, 2008) Notable players Head coaches References External links OFI Crete Athletic Club Official website OFI Crete Basketball Eurobasket.com Team Profile Category:Basketball teams in Greece Category:Basketball teams in Crete Category:Basketball teams in Heraklion basketball |
5,717 | Quingentole | Quingentole (Lower Mantovano: ) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Mantua in the Italian region Lombardy, located about southeast of Milan and about southeast of Mantua. Quingentole borders the following municipalities: Borgo Mantovano, Quistello, Schivenoglia, Serravalle a Po, Sustinente. References Category:Cities and towns in Lombardy |
5,718 | Cliff Jenkins | Cliff Jenkins (born ) is a former city councillor in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He represented Ward 25 which was one of the two Don Valley West wards, from 2003 to 2010. Jenkins was born in Hamilton to a working-class family. He attended McMaster University on a scholarship, and graduated with an undergraduate mathematics degree. He then went to the University of Toronto where he obtained a master's degree in mathematics and a bachelor's degree in education. He briefly worked as a high school math teacher before joining IBM Canada. He eventually rose to be a client executive at IBM. He first rose to prominence as the president of the York Mills Ratepayers Association. He was elected to Toronto City Council in the 2003 municipal election after incumbent Joanne Flint was appointed to the Ontario Municipal Board. In office, was noted for concern for the City's financial state. He worked on three key objectives: 1. Municipal election finance reform: To reduce undue influence in City business by special interest groups, he and fellow Councillors Michael Walker and Chin Lee successfully advocated that the Ontario government pass legislation enabling reform. Toronto City Council then adopted a by-law to implement their recommendations—including the prohibition of election contributions by corporations and unions. 2. Making transit an essential service: To prevent TTC strikes and lockouts that result in gridlock and prevent people from getting to employment, school and medical appointments, he worked with Councillors Cesar Palacio, Michael Thompson and citizens on essential service recommendations—including provisions for contract arbitration with final offer selection. Council voted 23 to 22 to defeat their proposals. But soon after, the Ontario Government passed legislation declaring the TTC to be an essential service. 3. Development Charge Reform: To reduce taxpayer subsidies of residential development, he proposed changes to Toronto by-laws and to provincial legislation—similar to reforms advocated by the Association of Municipalities of Ontario. Council approved only partial increases in development charges and the Ontario Government did not amend the Development Charges Act. Now in private life, Jenkins formed his own company offering electronic voting services. References External links Former city councillor (archived) Category:1947 births Category:IBM employees Category:Living people Category:Toronto city councillors |
5,719 | Bengt I. Samuelsson | Bengt Ingemar Samuelsson (born 21 May 1934) is a Swedish biochemist. He shared with Sune K. Bergström and John R. Vane the 1982 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related substances. Education and early life He was born in Halmstad in southwest Sweden and studied at Stockholm University, where he became a professor in 1967. Research and career Discussing the role of prostaglandins in the body, Samuelsson explained, "It's a control system for the cells that participates in many biological functions. There are endless possibilities of manipulating this system in drug development." His research interests were originally in cholesterol metabolism with importance to reaction mechanisms. Following the structural work on prostaglandins along with Sune Bergström he was interested mainly in the transformation products of arachidonic acid. This has led to the identification of endoperoxides, thromboxanes and the leukotrienes, and his group has chiefly been involved in studying the chemistry, biochemistry and biology of these compounds and their function in biological control systems. This research has implications in numerous clinical areas, especially in thrombosis, inflammation, and allergy. This field has grown enormously since those days. Between 1981 and 1995 about three thousand papers per year were published that specifically used the expression "prostaglandins," or related terms such as "prostacyclins," "leukotrienes," and "thromboxanes," in their labels and titles. Bengt Samuelsson has served as a director on the boards of Pharmacia AB, NicOx SA and Schering AG and is an advisor to the venture capital fund HealthCap. Awards and honors In 1975, he was awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University together with Sune K. Bergström. He was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1990. References External links including the Nobel Lecture From Studies of Biochemical Mechanisms to Novel Biological Mediators: Prostaglandin Endoperoxides, Thromboxanes and Leukotrienes Category:1934 births Category:Living people Category:Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences Category:Swedish biochemists Category:Stockholm University alumni Category:Karolinska Institute faculty Category:Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine Category:Swedish Nobel laureates Category:Foreign Members of the Royal Society Category:People from Halmstad Category:Members of the French Academy of Sciences Category:Recipients of the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research |
5,720 | James Leith (British Army officer) | Lieutenant-General Sir James Leith (8 August 1763 – 16 October 1816) was a Scottish soldier who served in the British Army, commanding the 5th Division in the Duke of Wellington's Anglo-Portuguese Army at several critical battles during the Peninsular War between 1810 and 1813. Family background and education He was born at Leith Hall, the third son of John Leith and his wife Harriot (née Steuart). His father was shot and killed during a drunken argument when he was only four months old. He was initially educated at home by a private tutor, before attending the grammar school at Elgin, and Marischal College in Aberdeen, and after deciding to join the army was sent to a military academy at Lille. Early career Leith entered the Army in 1780, first serving as an ensign in the 21st Regiment of Foot. He soon became a lieutenant in the 81st Regiment of Foot (Aberdeenshire Highland Regiment), in which he was made captain on 3 December 1782. At the end of the American War in 1783 his regiment was disbanded, and he transferred to the 50th Regiment of Foot, stationed at Gibraltar. There he served as aide-de-camp to the governor Sir Robert Boyd, and later as ADC to General Charles O'Hara, whom he accompanied to Toulon during the British occupation of 1793. After O'Hara was taken prisoner, Leith served on the staff of Major-General Sir David Dundas, until the city was evacuated in December, when he returned to Gibraltar. Leith was appointed Town Major of Gibraltar on 15 March 1794, and was appointed to command of an Independent Company of Foot on 19 March. Leith soon returned home, where on 25 October 1794 he was authorized to raise a regiment of Fencibles. The regiment was presented with its colours on 22 July 1795, and added to the Army establishment the following day as the Aberdeen Fencible Regiment of Foot, but was renamed the Princess of Wales's, or Aberdeen Highland Fencible Infantry later in the year. In August 1795 Leith was brevetted colonel, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the army. His regiment was stationed in Ireland, seeing action during the 1798 Rebellion. Leith was promoted to colonel in the army on 1 January 1801, and his regiment was finally disbanded at Naas in April 1803. He was then appointed colonel of the 13th Battalion of Reserve, and from 1804, as a brigadier-general, served on the staff in Ireland. In 1808, he was promoted to major-general, and following the Spanish victory over the French at Bailén, in July, the Secretary of State for War and the Colonies, Viscount Castlereagh sent Leith at the head of a second delegation (the first, consisting of three British Army officers, led by a lieutenant colonel, had reached Gijón on 27 June 1808 to assess the state of affairs from a military viewpoint) to the Junta General of Asturias, with a view to seeing how the north of Spain could best be reinforced to prevent Napoleon sending in more troops through Irun, and isolating him in Madrid or Burgos. Leith arrived in |
5,721 | Ellis, Beggs & Howard | Ellis, Beggs & Howard (EBH) were an English music band operating between 1987 and 1990. Career Ellis, Beggs & Howard were made up of Simon Ellis (keyboards and programming), Nick Beggs (bass guitar and Chapman stick), and Austin Howard (vocals). They were augmented by Paul Harvey on guitar, Robbie France on drums and Harry Sutcliffe on keyboards and programming. They experimented with several other guitarists, including Marty Williamson, Keith Airey and Sabu Bugaban. EBH started in late 1987 by playing a few low-key gigs in London. They featured in the NME sponsored shows at The Greyhound in Fulham, and a performance at the nightclub Heaven, and later in bigger arenas. EBH found success in Continental Europe. Their first single, "Big Bubbles, No Troubles" (produced by Ralph Ruppert and Lux), was a hit in 1988, receiving several awards in many countries. In the UK Singles Chart the single reached number 41. After the failure of their first album, Homelands, in the United Kingdom, and despite its success elsewhere in Europe, tensions in the band became overwhelming. Nevertheless, from 1989 they recorded the basic tracks of what was to have been their second album with the Fleetwood Mac Mobile, at the Eazee Hire rehearsal complex in London. The album was not released by a label at the time, although Beggs made it available several years later as a home-grown CDr release entitled The Lost Years Vol. 1. The album is notable for contributions from Warren Cuccurullo and Robert Fripp. Band Members Simon Ellis – keyboards, programming, backing vocals (1987–1990) Nick Beggs – bass guitar, Chapman Stick, backing vocals (1987–1990) Austin Howard – lead vocals (1987–1990) Paul Harvey – guitar (1987–1990) Robbie France – drums (1987–1990; died 2012) Harry Sutcliffe – keyboards (1987–1990) References Category:British musical groups Category:Musical groups established in 1987 Category:Musical groups disestablished in 1990 |
5,722 | FIU Panthers women's basketball | The FIU Panthers women's basketball team represents Florida International University in women's basketball. The school competes in Conference USA in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The Panthers play home basketball games at FIU Arena in University Park, Florida. History They have won seven tournaments, 6 while in the Trans America Athletic Conference, and one while they played in the Sun Belt Conference. They also appeared in the NCAA Division II Tournament in 1983, 1986, and 1987. As of the end of the 2015–16 season, the Panthers have an all-time record of 692–466 since beginning play in 1975. All wins from the 2003–04 season (11) were vacated due to NCAA sanctions. References External links Category:FIU Panthers women's basketball |
5,723 | Dr. J.A. Griffith Bridge | The Dr. J.A. Griffith Bridge is a bridge over Sweetwater Creek, in the U.S. state of Georgia. It is located in Cobb County, in the eastern part of Austell. It carries US 78/US 278/SR 5/SR 8. History In , the General Assembly of the State of Georgia declared that the bridge would be named in honor of Dr. J.A. Griffith, and would be known as the "Dr. J. A. Griffith Commemorative Bridge". However, it was only listed as carrying SR 5, ignoring US 78/US 278/SR 8. Dimensions See also References Category:Road bridges in Georgia (U.S. state) Category:Buildings and structures in Cobb County, Georgia Category:Transportation in Cobb County, Georgia Category:Monuments and memorials in Georgia (U.S. state) Category:Bridges on the United States Numbered Highways Category:U.S. Route 78 Category:U.S. Route 278 Category:Bridges completed in 1944 Category:Steel bridges in the United States Category:Girder bridges in the United States |
5,724 | Ett mysterium | Ett mysterium is a studio album by Freda', recorded for the 2009-2010 band reunion, 16 years following the 1993 breakup. The album was recorded inside band guitarist Arne Johansson's studio in the town of Jönköping in Sweden, and was released in late January 2010. Track listing Lyrics and music: Uno Svenningsson & Arne Johansson Äntligen här igen Gå aldrig ensam En dag i taget Bäste vän Följ ditt hjärta till slut Så lekande lätt Ingen annan än du En sol på jorden Ett mysterium Finns det en plats för mig? Contributors Uno Svenningsson Arne Johansson Mats Johansson Other musicians Philip Ekström – choir and various instruments Kristoffer Wallman - keyboards on track 6 and 7 Mart Hallek - violins on track 4 Charts References Category:2010 albums Category:Freda' albums Category:Universal Music Group albums |
5,725 | Di Giorgio | Di Giorgio may refer to: Di Giorgio, California DiGiorgio Corporation People Francesco di Giorgio (1439-1502), Sienese sculptor Frank Di Giorgio, Canadian politician Marosa di Giorgio (1932–2004), Uruguayan writer Massimo Di Giorgio (born 1958), Italian high jumper Vito Di Giorgio (1880–1922), crime boss |
5,726 | New York TV Show Tickets | New York TV Show Tickets, Inc. (NYTX) is a New York City-based company that provides a variety of entertainment services, including information on Broadway plays and musicals, TV shows tapings, parking, restaurants, and New York city tours. The company has listings for Broadway shows and television shows, an NYC restaurant guide, articles on TV programs such as the Late Show with David Letterman and The Today Show, Broadway theater profiles, and advice on ways that visitors can see New York attractions cheaply. Background When it first began in November 1995, New York TV Show Tickets specialized in recruiting and managing audiences for tapings of TV shows that were recorded in the New York City area. Early TV shows for which they managed the audience included The Gordon Elliott Show, Rolonda, Dr. Laura, and NBC's Later Today (all of which have long since disappeared from TV). They were in the middle of a project with the Sally Jesse Raphael Show to automate ticketing, when it was canceled. They also worked with The Rosie O'Donnell Show and Emeril Lagasse's Emeril Live, both of which have been canceled. A big problem with many New York-based TV shows has been effective audience management, since the role of the audience coordinator is most often an entry-level position and therefore has high turnover. nytix attempted to bring some consistency to the TV productions it worked with by helping them maintain some continuity when staff changed. Verizon's 540 Local Toll Call Phone Lines In 1986, NYNEX created Public Access Line Ports to serve New York's five boroughs. These PALP's allowed businesses to provide a "virtual" central phone service that wasn't encumbered by equipment or line rental. This system had high limits to the number of calls it could receive at any one time and was perfect for delivering audio information services and billing back the relevant call charges to the subscriber. Nynex created a variety of PALPs, and one iteration was called a 540 line. nytix took advantage of this service and launched their first 540 line in January 1995 on the line number 212 540 8499. The advent of the internet reduced the profitability and value of 540 lines to Verizon, and in 1998 they discontinued the service. nytix was still receiving calls on their 540 line on the day they stopped the service. Content nytix's 540 line (which is no longer active) provided up-to-date television audience information to people that called in. It provided a centralized method of connecting a TV production to its audience members, so that people would get the day's ticket availability and then be provided with directions to the show of their choice. The nytix 540 line became very popular and was often receiving over 1000 calls a day from people looking to acquire TV show tickets. With the burgeoning popularity of the internet, nytix switched its services to web-only. In 1998, New York TV Show Tickets also began offering Broadway-related content, which eventually became its main focus. As a result, the company's full name is now rather misleading. Revenue Sources Today, nytix |
5,727 | 1935 South Georgia Teachers Blue Tide football team | The 1935 South Georgia Teachers Blue Tide football team represented the South Georgia Teachers College—now known as Georgia Southern University—during the 1935 college football season. The team was led by Crook Smith in his seventh year as head coach. Schedule References South Georgia Teachers Category:Georgia Southern Eagles football seasons South Georgia Teachers Blue Tide football |
5,728 | Abraham van den Blocke | Abraham van den Blocke (1572 – 31 January 1628) was an architect and sculptor. Life Van den Blocke was born in Königsberg (today Kaliningrad), Ducal Prussia, presumably the oldest of seven children of Dorothea and Willem van den Blocke, a Flemish sculptor and architect who had trained with Cornelis Floris in Antwerp. His brothers Isaak, Jacob and David were painters. In 1584 the family lived in Danzig (Gdańsk), where he was trained as a sculptor in his father's workshop. He moved to the Netherlands for further studies in 1590-95 and became a citizen of Danzig in 1596. In 1597 van den Blocke became a master and established his own workshop in 1598. Van den Blocke died in Danzig in the same year as his father and brother Isaak, likely from an infectious disease. Work In 1598-1611 he made a stone altar for the St. John's church and became a municipal architect in 1611. Van den Blocke built the Golden Tenement House in 1609, the Golden Gate (1612-14) and made a front elevation of the Artushof (1616-1617). In 1606-1613 he made elements for the Neptune's well and built the Royal Granary for King Sigismund III Vasa. He is the sculptor of several tombstones and epitaphs in St. Mary's Church. References Category:1572 births Category:1628 deaths Category:People from Königsberg Category:People from the Duchy of Prussia |
5,729 | Carmela y Rafael | Carmela y Rafael (Carmela and Rafael) was a Mexican bolero duet, consisting of singer and actress Carmela Rey (1931–2018) and singer and songwriter Rafael Vázquez (b. 1929). Known as "The Romantic Couple of Mexico", Rey and Vázquez first performed together in 1959 and married that same year. They first recorded for RCA Records and then signed with Musart Records. Carmela y Rafael recorded a total of 121 records and 1,198 songs, and won numerous accolades, including gold and platinum records and two Record World Awards. References External links Carmela y Rafael discography and album reviews, credits & releases at AllMusic Carmela y Rafael albums at Rate Your Music Carmela y Rafael discography, album releases & credits at Discogs Carmela y Rafael albums to be listened on Spotify Carmela y Rafael albums to be listened on YouTube Category:Musical groups established in 1959 Category:Musical groups from Mexico City Category:RCA Victor artists Category:Musart Records artists |
5,730 | Houngan | Houngan is the term for a male priest in Haitian Vodou (a female priest is known as a mambo). The term is derived from the Fon word hounnongan. There are two ranks of houngan: houngan asogwe (high priest) and houngan sur pwen (junior priest). A houngan asogwe is the highest member of clergy in voodoo and the only one with authority to ordain other priests. It is the houngan'''s role to preserve the rituals and songs and maintain the relationship between the spirits and the community as a whole (though some of this is the responsibility of the whole community as well). They are entrusted with leading the service of all of the spirits of their lineage. Sometimes they may also be bokor'' (sorcerers). References External links Oungan Silva Joseph dressed Ogou Badagri, in the uniform of a military general photo from Category:Haitian Vodou practitioners |
5,731 | Bobby Blackwood | Robert Rankin "Bobby" Blackwood (20 August 1934 – 25 June 1997) was a Scottish footballer, who played as a wing half in the Football League and the Scottish Football League Career Born in Edinburgh, Blackwood began his career in Scottish non-league football for junior clubs including Milton House Amateurs, Merchiston Thistle and Kelty Rangers. He then made the move to the Scottish Football League to play for Hearts. He made 136 league appearances scoring 37 goals and was part of the successful team that won the Scottish First Division twice and the Scottish League Cup. He moved to English football in 1962 to play for Suffolk side Ipswich Town, who paid a transfer fee of £12,000. Three years at Town produced 12 goals in 62 appearances. He moved the short distance to Colchester United in 1965, making 105 league appearances. His Football League career ended in 1968, and Blackwood moved back to Scotland to play for Hawick Royal Albert. Blackwood died on 25 June 1997 aged 62. Honours Club Heart of Midlothian Scottish First Division Winner (2): 1957–58, 1959–60 Scottish First Division Runner-up (3): 1953–54, 1956–57, 1958–59 Scottish League Cup Winner (1): 1958–59 Scottish League Cup Runner-up (1): 1960–61 References Sources Bobby Blackwood at Colchester United Archive Database Category:1934 births Category:1997 deaths Category:Scottish footballers Category:Footballers from Edinburgh Category:Heart of Midlothian F.C. players Category:Colchester United F.C. players Category:Ipswich Town F.C. players Category:English Football League players Category:Association football wing halves Category:Scottish Football League players Category:Scottish Football League representative players Category:Hawick Royal Albert F.C. players |
5,732 | James McNulty (physician) | Dr James McNulty AO Hon.MD(ECU) MB BCh BAO (Belf) DIH (Lon) DPH (Syd) FRACMA FAFOM (1926 – 27 January 2017) was the Commissioner for (Public) Health in Western Australia between 1979 and 1984. Born in Belfast in 1926, McNulty came to Western Australia in 1956 and worked as a medical officer and superintendent at the Kalgoorlie Hospital. His career in occupational and public health included a 12-year term as Commissioner of Public Health and Executive Director of the Australian College of Medical Administrators. McNulty was known for his contributions to the improved ventilation conditions in mining in Western Australia and his analysis and reporting of the working conditions and the health of workers in the Wittenoom Asbestos mine from 1959 until its closure in 1966. Following his retirement from the Health Department in 1987, McNulty was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Australia in the New Year's Honours List of 1988 for services to medicine and health administration. References Category:Australian public servants Category:1926 births Category:2017 deaths |
5,733 | Vestvollen Bluff | Vestvollen Bluff () is a rock and ice bluff forming the west side of Festninga Mountain in the Muhlig-Hofmann Mountains, Queen Maud Land. It was mapped by Norwegian cartographers from surveys and air photos by the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–60) and named Vestvollen, meaning "the west wall." Category:Cliffs of Queen Maud Land Category:Princess Martha Coast |
5,734 | Countess of Oxford | Countess of Oxford may refer to: Agnes of Essex, Countess of Oxford (c. 1151–1212) Isabel de Bolebec, Countess of Oxford (c. 1164–1245) Maud de Badlesmere, Countess of Oxford (1310–1366) Maud de Ufford, Countess of Oxford (1345/1346–1413) Philippa de Coucy, Countess of Oxford (1367–1411) Elizabeth Trussell, Countess of Oxford (1496–1527) Margery Golding (1526–1568) Anne Cecil, Countess of Oxford (1556–1588) Elizabeth Trentham, Countess of Oxford (d. 1612) Henrietta Harley, Countess of Oxford and Countess Mortimer (1694–1755) Jane Harley, Countess of Oxford and Countess Mortimer (1774–1824) Margot Asquith, Countess of Oxford and Asquith (1864–1945) Clare Asquith (b. 1951) See also Oxford (disambiguation) Earl of Oxford (Count of Oxford) County of Oxford # |
5,735 | Tsiranana | Tsiranana may refer to: People Justine Tsiranana (c. 1918 – July 1999), the first First Lady of Madagascar Philibert Tsiranana, first President of Madagascar Ruffine Tsiranana, a Malagasy Senator Places Amborovy Airport, also known as Philibert Tsiranana Airport |
5,736 | Moustache jawfish | The moustache jawfish (Opistognathus lonchurus) is a species of jawfish native to the western Atlantic Ocean where it occurs in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. It is a reef inhabitant. This species can reach a length of TL. It can also be found in the aquarium trade. References Moustache jawfish Category:Fish described in 1882 |
5,737 | 1997–98 Wimbledon F.C. season | During the 1997–98 English football season, Wimbledon F.C. competed in the FA Premier League (known as the FA Carling Premiership for sponsorship reasons). They finished 15th in the final table to secure a 13th successive top flight campaign, although their final position was disappointing given their performance earlier in the season. Season summary Despite the early season sale of Dean Holdsworth to Bolton Wanderers, Wimbledon showed the "Crazy Gang" spirit once more as they were still standing fourth at the beginning of December. Manager Joe Kinnear was hopeful that this could finally be the season when Wimbledon achieved a UEFA Cup place, but the team's form steadily deteriorated during the second half of the season. Their 15th-place finish was their worst since reaching the top flight in 1986, though they had never looked to be in any real danger of relegation. Final league table Results summary Results by round Results Wimbledon's score comes first Legend FA Premier League FA Cup League Cup Players First-team squad Squad at end of season Left club during season Reserve squad Transfers In Out Transfers in: £6,300,000 Transfers out: £7,800,000 Total spending: £1,500,000 References Notes Category:Wimbledon F.C. seasons Wimbledon |
5,738 | Pardinho | Pardinho is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. The population is 6,122 (2015 est.) in an area of 210 km². The elevation is 898 m. Pardinho became an independent municipality in 1959, when it was separated from Botucatu. References Category:Municipalities in São Paulo (state) Category:Populated places established in 1959 |
5,739 | International Appalachian Trail | The International Appalachian Trail (IAT; , SIA) is a hiking trail which runs from the northern terminus of the Appalachian Trail at Mount Katahdin, Maine, through New Brunswick, to the Gaspé Peninsula of Quebec, after which it follows a ferry route to Newfoundland, and then continues to the northern-easternmost point of the Appalachian Mountains at Belle Isle, Newfoundland and Labrador. In 2009, IAT discussed with the British Geological Survey in Scotland whether to extend the IAT to the Appalachian terrains of Scotland, Ireland, Northern Ireland and Wales, setting off a series of expansions through Europe and Northern Africa. As of July 2015, there were IAT walking trails in Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Ireland, Isle of Man, Wales, England, France, Spain, Portugal and Morocco. History The IAT was proposed in 1994 by Richard Anderson, a Maine fisheries biologist, with plans to traverse the portions of the Appalachian Mountains in Maine, New Brunswick, and Quebec that the Appalachian Trail did not cover. Following route selection, construction of the trail took place through the late 1990s. The first person to thruhike the IAT, as it then existed, was John Brinda from Washington State, in 1997. He did this as part of his thruhike of the Eastern Continental Trail starting in Key West, Florida. He was the first person to thruhike the entire Eastern Continental Trail. The Newfoundland and Labrador extension to the IAT was proposed in 2003 and is still under construction. When completed, it will add an additional 1,200 km of trail. The official opening of the first trail section of the IAT Newfoundland was September 23, 2006. Route The IAT extends northeast from the northern terminus of the Appalachian Trail at Katahdin, Maine to Mars Hill, Maine, before following the U.S.-Canada border north to Fort Fairfield, Maine, where it crosses the border into Perth-Andover, New Brunswick. It continues up the Tobique River valley to Mount Carleton before crossing the Miramichi Highlands to the Restigouche River valley in Quebec and along the Chic-Choc Mountains of the Gaspé Peninsula, ending at the peninsula's easternmost point, Cap Gaspé in Forillon National Park. From Cap Gaspé, the IAT skips to Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, and over the Gulf of St. Lawrence to Newfoundland, where the trail picks up again at Channel-Port aux Basques and follows the west coast of the island up the Great Northern Peninsula before terminating at the island's northernmost tip, Cape Bauld. From there the IAT skips over the Strait of Belle Isle to the northern terminus of the Appalachian Mountain chain at Belle Isle. Extension to Europe and North Africa Geological evidence shows that the Appalachian Mountains, certain mountains of Western Europe, and the Anti-Atlas range in North Africa are parts of the ancient Central Pangean Mountains, made when minor supercontinents collided to form the supercontinent Pangaea more than 250 million years ago. With the break-up of Pangaea, sections of the former range remained with the continents as they drifted to their present locations. Inspired by this evidence, efforts are being made to extend the IAT into Western |
5,740 | Marine Cryptologic Support Battalion | The Marine Cryptologic Support Battalion is a Marine Corps Intelligence battalion of the United States Marine Corps. The battalion headquarters are located in Fort George G. Meade, Maryland. Mission The battalion's stated purpose is "to enable and execute Signals Intelligence, Information Assurance and National-Tactical Integration activities in order to satisfy NSA/CSS, Marine Air-Ground Task Force and joint force intelligence requirements." Organization The Marine Cryptologic Support Battalion headquarters are located in Fort Meade, Maryland. The MCSB has seven companies, five of which are based in the contiguous United States, one in Hawaii, and one in England. Company A, Aurora, Colorado Company B, Fort Meade, Maryland Company D, Fort Gordon, Georgia Company G, RAF Menwith Hill, England (Company was shutdown in Dec. 2013) Company H, San Antonio, Texas Company I, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. Company I was established as "Company I, Marine Support Battalion" on September 1, 1962 and was stationed at the U.S. Naval Facility in Nicosia, Cyprus. Company L Fort Meade, Maryland. Company L is part of the Marine Corps Cyberspace Command. See also List of United States Marine Corps battalions References Category:Battalions of the United States Marine Corps |
5,741 | 14th Lambda Literary Awards | The 14th Lambda Literary Awards were held in 2002 to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2001. Nominees and winners External links 14th Lambda Literary Awards Category:Lambda Literary Awards Lambda Category:Lists of LGBT-related award winners and nominees Category:2002 in LGBT history |
5,742 | Guty Małe | Guty Małe is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Czerwonka, within Maków County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It lies approximately north of Czerwonka, north-east of Maków Mazowiecki, and north of Warsaw. References Category:Villages in Maków County |
5,743 | Batu Kurau (state constituency) | Batu Kurau is a state constituency in Perak, Malaysia, that has been represented in the Perak State Legislative Assembly. References </ref> Category:Perak State Legislative Assembly |
5,744 | Chereksky District | Chereksky District (; Kabardian: ; ) is an administrative and a municipal district (raion), one of the ten in the Kabardino-Balkar Republic, Russia. It is located in the central and southern parts of the republic. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the rural locality (a settlement) of Kashkhatau. As of the 2010 Census, the total population of the district was 26,956, with the population of Kashkhatau accounting for 19.6% of that number. History The district was called Sovetsky () until May 5, 1994. Administrative and municipal status Within the framework of administrative divisions, Chereksky District is one of the ten in the Kabardino-Balkar Republic and has administrative jurisdiction over all of its ten rural localities. As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Chereksky Municipal District. Its rural localities are incorporated into nine rural settlements within the municipal district, with the exception of the settlement of Kashkhatau, which is incorporated as Kashkhatau Urban Settlement. The settlement of Kashkhatau serves as the administrative center of both the administrative and municipal district. References Notes Sources Category:Districts of Kabardino-Balkaria __NOTOC__ |
5,745 | Eurybia sibirica | Eurybia sibirica, commonly known as the Siberian aster or arctic aster, is an herbaceous perennial native to north western North America and northern Eurasia. It is found largely in open areas of subarctic boreal forests, though it is also found in a wide variety of habitats in the region. It is similar in appearance to Eurybia merita, but their ranges overlap only near the border between the US and Canada, where E. sibirica is generally found at higher elevations. Eurybia sibirica is a perennial herb up to 60 cm (2 feet) tall, spreading by means of thin underground rhizomes. The plant produces flower heads either one at a time or in dense flat-topped arrays of 2-50 heads. Each head contains 12-50 white, purple, or pale violet ray florets surrounding 25-125 yellow disc florets. The involucral bracts are reddish-purple (anthocyanic). Distribution and habitat Eurybia sibirica is present in much of the subarctic region of world, in northwestern North America and Northern Europe and Northern Asia. It is common in northern Asia (Buryatia, Yakutia, Mongolia, Japan, Chinese Province of Heilongjiang and other parts of North of China). It is also found in European Russia and Scandinavia, as well as northern and western Canada (Alberta, British Columbia, and all 3 Arctic provinces) and United States (Alaska plus the mountains of Washington, Idaho, and Montana). It is found at heights ranging from sea level up to 2200 metres in sandy or gravely soils in disturbed or open areas of boreal forests. It is also present in wet meadows, in open areas of aspen and spruce woods and along riparian thickets. In addition, it is common growing in sandy or gravelly stream flats, along stream banks and the shores of lakes, on bluffs, in sand dunes and other sandy places, and in both sub-alpine and mountain meadows. Subspecies Eurybia sibirica subsp. sibirica Eurybia sibirica subsp. subintegerrima (Trautv.) Greuter References External links Alaskan Wildflowers photos Paul Slichter, The Sunflower Family in Denali National Park and Preserve. Arctic Aster, Siberian Aster Eurybia sibirica photos Czech Botany, Eurybia sibirica (L.) G. L. Nesom – Siberian Aster, Arctic Aster in Czech with photos Plantarium, Aster sibiricus L. with photos Korgplantefamilien, Sibirstjerne - Eurybia sibirica photos, captions in Swedish sibirica Category:Flora of North America Category:Flora of Europe Category:Flora of Asia Category:Plants described in 1753 |
5,746 | Thomas C. Brinsmade | Thomas Clark Brinsmade (1802–1868) was a physician in Troy, New York, who was the sixth president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He was born in New Hartford, Connecticut, on June 16, 1802. After studying and practicing medicine in Massachusetts and Connecticut, he moved to Lansingburgh, New York, in 1823 and then to Troy, New York, in 1833. He received an honorary degree in medicine from Yale University in 1839. After the deaths of Stephen Van Rensselaer (1839) and Amos Eaton (1842), when the Rensselaer School was in dire need of funds, Brinsmade bought the entire property and equipment of the school at an auction. He allowed faculty and students to use it until the school could repay him. He was a president of the Rensselaer Medical Society and later moved to the state medical society In 1857 he was elected its vice-president of the State Medical Society, and the following year, president. In 1858, as vice-president, he delivered an address on the registration of diseases, and furnished the society an accurate record of his practice for twenty-one years, carefully analyzed and tabulated, covering three hundred pages of the published transactions, and comprising statistics of 37,872 cases. In 1860 he presented another paper on the registration of diseases, including statistics of 20,056 cases treated between 1858 and 1859. He was one of the earliest patrons of Rensselaer and a trustee for twenty years. He was treasurer from 1844-1847 and vice president from 1864-1868. He was elected president of the Institute on May 7, 1868. His tenure was short-lived, however, as he died during a meeting of the Board of Trustees on June 22, 1868, while giving a speech demanding for more funds. References Category:1802 births Category:1868 deaths Category:People from New Hartford, Connecticut Category:Presidents of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Category:People from Lansingburgh, New York Category:People from Troy, New York |
5,747 | The Very Thought of You (novel) | The Very Thought of You is a 2009 novel by film producer Rosie Alison. Set on the brink of World War II, the novel centres on eight-year-old Anna Sands, a child relocated to a Yorkshire estate. She is quickly drawn into the lives of the couple who have set up their estate as a school. Reception The Guardian found The Very Thought of You "enjoyable enough" although" its presence on the (Orange) longlist is perplexing." The Telegraph called it "elegantly constructed" and "a pleasant, competent book" It was nominated for the 2010 Orange Prize for Fiction. References External links The Very Thought of You by Rosie Alison - Alma Books Category:2009 British novels Category:English novels Category:World War II novels Category:Novels set in Yorkshire Category:Fiction set in 1939 Category:2009 debut novels |
5,748 | HMS Elephant (1786) | HMS Elephant was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was built by George Parsons in Bursledon, Hampshire, and launched on 24 August 1786. In late November 1790 the ship narrowly avoided destruction when lightning struck her whilst she was in Portsmouth harbour. The main topmast exploded but did not plunge through the quarterdeck as it was still held by the toprope. In 1801 Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson chose Elephant as his flagship during the Battle of Copenhagen due to its suitability for the shallow waters there. It was on this ship that he is said to have put his telescope to his blind eye and claimed not to be able to see a signal ordering him to withdraw. In mid-1803, the squadron under Captain Henry William Bayntun, consisting of , , , Elephant, and captured Poisson Volant and . The Royal Navy took both into service. The ship participated in the Blockade of Saint-Domingue in the same year. The British patrolled off Cap-François. On 24 July the squadron, made up of Bellerophon, Elephant, , and HMS Vanguard, came across two French 74-gun ships, Duquesne and Duguay-Trouin, and the frigate Guerrière, attempting to escape from Cap-François. The squadron gave chase, and on 25 July overhauled and captured Duquesne after a few shots were fired, while Duguay-Trouin and Guerrière managed to evade their pursuers and escape to France. One man was killed aboard Bellerophon during the pursuit. Elephant remained blockading Cap-François until November, when the French commander of the garrison there, General Rochambeau, was forced to surrender. To prevent Rochambeau escaping, launches from Bellerophon and Elephant went into the Caracol Passage where they cut out the French schooner on 22–23 November. The French formally surrendered on 30 November. Fate Elephant was reduced to a 58-gun fourth rate in 1818, and broken up in 1830. Footnotes References Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. . External links Category:Ships of the line of the Royal Navy Category:Arrogant-class ships of the line Category:1786 ships Category:Ships built on the River Hamble |
5,749 | Amthamine | Amthamine is a histamine agonist selective for the H2 subtype. It has been used in vitro and in vivo to study gastric secretion, as well as other functions of the H2 receptor. References Category:Histamine agonists Category:Thiazoles |
5,750 | Pipaldanda, Palpa | Pipaldanda is a village development committee in Palpa District in the Lumbini Zone of southern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 5644 people living in 991 individual households. References Category:Populated places in Palpa District |
5,751 | Galesburg station (Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway) | Galesburg Santa Fe Station was a railway station in the west central Illinois town of Galesburg. The station was along the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway's main line and served trains such as the Super Chief and El Captain. After Amtrak took over intercity rail in the United States, it was served by trains such as the Lone Star (1971–1979) and the Southwest Chief (1971–1996). Although train service ended in 1996 and it has been demolished since, the site is still used if derailments cause trains to use the Chillicothe Subdivision instead of the Mendota Subdivision. History Background The first railroad to arrive in Galesburg was the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad in December 1854. The railroad served passengers at a large depot at South and Seminary streets. Galesburg was also a major junction for the CB&Q, since it was the point where many branch lines crossed the Chicago—Denver main line. Also in Galesburg was the railroad's roundhouse and hump yard, the latter still used with BNSF. Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe The Santa Fe Railway was originally planned to bypass Galesburg 10 to 12 miles to the southeast. The railway was trying to build on the straightest line possible between Kansas City and Chicago—Galesburg was not on this line. Led by Clark E. Carr, the townspeople tried to persuade the railway to build through Galesburg. A guaranty—signed by many citizens of Galesburg—was telegraphed to the Santa Fe's headquarters in Boston. It offered 20 acres of land for a depot, as well as the right-of-way through town. To save money, the railroad used the right of way closely following the Cedar Fork Valley. Station houses First built in 1888, the station was made out of red sandstone. The two-story building had a slate roof and an octagonal tower facing the tracks. A unique feature of the station was that it had two different waiting rooms, one for men and one for women. In 1964, the building was demolished and replaced in by a smaller, one-story building. The razing and construction of the new depot received mixed reactions by the residents of the town—many of them thought that the depot could be restored. The railway asked the city of Galesburg to remove the grade crossing with Cedar Street, directly west of the depot. In return, the Santa Fe would build the new station, and use the space where the old depot stood for parking. It was not the only Amtrak station in Galesburg – the other station, located on South Seminary Street, served the Illinois Zephyr and the California Zephyr. Closure In 1995, the Santa Fe and Burlington Northern railways merged to form the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway. To allow trains to switch freely between lines, a connector outside Cameron, Illinois (southwest of Galesburg) was built. This connector (known as the Cameron Connector) allows the Southwest Chief to switch to the ex-CB&Q, ex-BN track, where other Amtrak trains already operated. This combined with the amendment of track vital getting to Chicago Union Station, causing Amtrak to move all operations in Galesburg |
5,752 | Richards Covered Bridge | The Richards Covered Bridge is a historic wooden covered bridge located at Cleveland Township in Columbia County, Pennsylvania and Ralpho Township in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. It is a , multiple King post and Queen Post Truss bridge, constructed in 1852. It crosses South Branch Roaring Creek and is one of 28 historic covered bridges in Columbia and Montour Counties. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. References External links Category:Covered bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Category:Covered bridges in Pennsylvania Category:Covered bridges in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania Category:Bridges completed in 1852 Category:Wooden bridges in Pennsylvania Category:Bridges in Columbia County, Pennsylvania Category:Bridges in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania Category:Road bridges in Pennsylvania Category:1852 establishments in Pennsylvania Category:National Register of Historic Places in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania Category:Road bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Category:Queen post truss bridges in the United States Category:King post truss bridges in the United States |
5,753 | John Finglow | John Finglow or Fingley (died 8 August 1586) was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987. Life Born at Barnby, near Howden, Yorkshire, John Finglow was matriculated sizar from Caius College, Cambridge in December 1573. He arrived at the English College at Reims on 9 February 1580 and was ordained priest 25 March 1581. On 24 April, The following month he was sent on the English mission. He worked for about five years in the north of England before being arrested and confined in Ousebridge Kidcote, York. He was tried for being a Catholic priest and reconciling English subjects to the Catholic Church, and was condemned to be hanged, drawn, and quartered. See also Eighty-five martyrs of England and Wales References Sources Thompson Cooper, ‘Finglow, John (d. 1586/7)’, rev. Sarah Elizabeth Wall, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. Retrieved 7 September 2008 Further reading Burton, Edwin H., "Venerable John Finglow", Lives of the English Martyrs, (Edwin H. Burton and J. H. Pollen eds.), London. Longmans, Green and Co., 1914 Category:1586 deaths Category:16th-century English Roman Catholic priests Category:English beatified people Category:People executed under Elizabeth I of England by hanging, drawing and quartering Category:16th-century venerated Christians Category:Year of birth unknown Category:Executed people from North Yorkshire Category:People from the Borough of Scarborough Category:Eighty-five martyrs of England and Wales |
5,754 | Vastese | Vastese (Vastese: or , meaning "the dialect of Vasto") is a Romance language spoken in the town of Vasto. It is considered its own language based upon the mutual unintelligibility of it and Italian. It is not spoken by any other town, even the nearby town of Cupello, which is only away. History Vastese's endonym — the name its speakers use for the language — is . This term is known to have originated in the sixth century AD. Demography Today Vastese is spoken monolingually only by residents of Vasto in their 80s and 90s, bilingually by many residents in their 70s, and many middle-aged residents are passive speakers, while most younger residents have no comprehension. The Vasto Club in Australia is a club organized for migrants to Australia from Vasto. Phonology Vastese has more vowel distinctions than Tuscan, Italy's official and standard language. It has vowels that are not in Italian, such as the open front unrounded vowel . Vastese uses an open back rounded vowel for the start of the word . It also uses the mid central vowel . Vastese also uses several diphthongs not used in italian such as , , and . The influence of , , , or upon , turns it into either or . References See also Central Italian Southern Italian Languages of Italy Abruzzo Category:Romance languages Category:Endangered Romance languages |
5,755 | Ernst Christian Hesse | Ernst Christian Hesse (14 April 167616 May 1762) was a German gambist and composer. Born at Großengottern, Thuringia, he attended school in Langensalza and Eisenach. He studied law at Giesen, then viola da gamba in Darmstadt. In 1692, aged 16, he performed for the Landgrave Ernst Ludwig of Hesse-Darmstadt, who engaged him for his court. The landgrave then sent him for further study in Paris, under the two leading composer-performers of the day, Marin Marais and Antoine Forqueray. But Marais and Forqueray were bitter rivals, and Hesse could not study under both – at least, not under the same name. So, he called himself by his real name Hesse for one of the teachers, and "Sachs" for the other. The plan foundered when the two rival teachers chose to show off their star pupils in a public competition, not realising they were the same pupil. Hesse was able to please both masters by playing in their styles in turn, and this led to a rapprochement between them. Hesse then toured as a virtuoso throughout Europe, becoming friends with Johann Mattheson and George Frideric Handel, and possibly studied under Antonio Vivaldi in Mantua. On Easter Sunday, 8 April 1708, in Rome, it was most likely Hesse who played the demanding viola da gamba solo part at the premiere of Handel’s oratorio La resurrezione (HWV 47) under Arcangelo Corelli. He returned to Darmstadt in 1708, where in 1713 he married the soprano Johanna Elisabeth Doebricht, his third wife. He became Kapellmeister in Vienna, staying there till 1719. He was also appointed a war commissar and war councillor ("Secretar der Kriegs- und französischen, auch anderer ausländischen Affairen": Minister of War, French and Foreign Affairs). He returned to Darmstadt, where he died in 1762, aged 86. Most of his compositions (operas, sonatas, church music) are lost, but an opera and some gamba pieces are extant, and there are some recordings of his music. His first two wives, Katharina Magdalena Merck and Anna Katharina Merck, half-sisters, were daughters of the royal court apothecary. He had 18 (or 20) children by his latter two wives. His son Ludwig Christian Hesse also became a prominent gambist who worked alongside Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, who wrote pieces for him. His only other pupil was Johann Christian Hertel. References Category:1676 births Category:1762 deaths Category:German classical violists Category:German Baroque composers |
5,756 | Sirak Beyene | Shirak Beyene (born 20 October 1996 in England) is an Eritrean-English footballer. Career Iceland Shown the red card on the 59th minute as Huginn fell 0-2 to Magni mid-2011, Beyene had to sit out for the next matchup. International He was capped three times for Eritrea in 2013. On the Eritrean internationals going missing after each away game, he stated that the situation was not conducive to football and that the Eritrean National Football Federation would have to start from scratch every time. References External links 2014 Men’s Pro Soccer Combine Roster Category:Eritrean footballers Category:Eritrean expatriate footballers Category:Expatriate footballers in Iceland Category:Association football wingers Category:London Tigers F.C. players Category:Íþróttafélagið Huginn players Category:English people of Eritrean descent Category:Black English sportspeople Category:Eritrea international footballers Category:Association football forwards Category:1996 births Category:Living people |
5,757 | Meeting House of the Second Parish in Woburn | The United Church of Christ, Congregational is a historic Congregational church at 6 Lexington Street in Burlington, Massachusetts. Built in 1732, it is one of the oldest religious structures in Massachusetts, and one of a small number of pre-19th century church buildings. It was redesigned in 1846 to bring it into the then-popular Greek Revival style, extending it in length and adding a somewhat Gothic-looking steeple. In 1888, when the Colonial Revival was becoming popular, a number of these changes were in effect reversed, restoring a more Colonial-style steeple. When built, the area that is now Burlington was still part of Woburn, and this church was the second, built to serve what is now Burlington. It was the site in 1775 of some critical meetings, both military and political, of Patriots in the American Revolutionary War. The church served as a parish of Massachusetts' state funded church until the churches were disaffiliated from the state government in the early nineteenth century. The meeting house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. The congregation is currently affiliated with the United Church of Christ. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Middlesex County, Massachusetts References External links UCC Burlington Church website Category:United Church of Christ churches in Massachusetts Category:Burlington, Massachusetts Category:Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts Category:Churches in Middlesex County, Massachusetts Category:National Register of Historic Places in Middlesex County, Massachusetts |
5,758 | Doris Day's Sentimental Journey | Doris Day's Sentimental Journey is studio album by American singer Doris Day, released by Columbia Records on July 12, 1965 as a monophonic LP (catalog number CL-2360) and a stereophonic album (catalog number CS-9160). This was Day's final album for Columbia, and her last album of previously unissued material until 1994. The album gets its title from Doris Day's first big hit, "Sentimental Journey," which she performed as a part of the band Les Brown and His Band of Renown in 1945, and was re-recorded for this album. Other tracks on the album consist mostly of pop standards, principally composed in the 1940s, approximately contemporaneously with the title track. Liner notes on the album were written by George T. Simon who was the author of "The Feeling of Jazz". The album's tracks are backed with the lush arrangements from the Mort Garson Orchestra. Mort Garson arranged and conducted. All of the album tracks are medium to slow tempo. The album was produced by Allen Stanton. Though this was her last Columbia album, Day would continue to record for Columbia through mid-1967, issuing singles in 1966 and '67 and recording a number of tracks in 1967 for a projected new album. However, the planned album was shelved, and Day subsequently left Columbia (and essentially the recording industry) in 1967. Day's next release was not until 1994, and consisted of tracks from the shelved 1967 sessions. Doris Day's Sentimental Journey was re-issued in 2001, combined with Latin for Lovers, as a CD. 'A Sentimental Journey' is also the title of a stage musical tribute to Doris Day by Adam Rollston. In 2011 the piece toured to Scotland, England and Los Angeles. Track listing "The More I See You" (Mack Gordon, Harry Warren) (recorded on September 21, 1964) "At Last" (Mack Gordon, Harry Warren) (recorded on September 15, 1964) "Come to Baby, Do!" (Inez James, Sidney Miller) (recorded on September 21, 1964) "I Had the Craziest Dream" (Mack Gordon, Harry Warren)/"I Don't Want to Walk Without You" (Frank Loesser, Jule Styne) (recorded on September 21, 1964) "I'll Never Smile Again" (Ruth Lowe) (recorded on September 15, 1964) "I Remember You" (Victor Schertzinger, Johnny Mercer) (remake recorded on September 11, 1964) "Serenade in Blue" (Harry Warren, Mack Gordon) (recorded on September 15, 1964) "I'm Beginning to See the Light" (Duke Ellington, Don George, Johnny Hodges, Harry James) (recorded on September 21, 1964) "It Could Happen to You" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) (recorded on September 11, 1964) "It's Been a Long, Long Time" (Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn) (recorded on September 15, 1964) "Sentimental Journey" (Les Brown, Ben Homer, Bud Green) (remake recorded on September 11, 1964) References Category:1965 albums Category:Columbia Records albums Category:Doris Day albums Category:Albums conducted by Mort Garson Category:Albums arranged by Mort Garson |
5,759 | St. Demetrius' Church, Boboshticë | St. Demetrius' Church () is a church in Boboshticë, Korçë County, Albania. It is a Cultural Monument of Albania. References Category:Cultural Monuments of Albania Category:Churches in Korçë County Category:Boboshticë |
5,760 | Mark Mullins (hurler) | Mark Mullins is a former Irish GAA sportsperson. A native of Muine Bheag, County Carlow he played hurling at various times with his local clubs Erin's Own Carlow and Na Piarsaigh Cork as well as with the Carlow(1986 - 1992) and Cork senior inter-county teams (1993 - 19996). Mullins had the honour to play at center forward on the Leinster 1992 Railway Cup team and to captain Cork in the 1996 Munster Championship. References Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:Living people Category:Erin's Own hurlers (Carlow) Category:Na Piarsaigh hurlers Category:Carlow inter-county hurlers Category:Cork inter-county hurlers |
5,761 | Ioan Biris | Ioan Biris is a university professor at the West University of Timișoara,Department of Philosophy and Communication Sciences, Romania. He studied philosophy (B.Sc., 1976) at the Babes-Bolyai University from Cluj-Napoca. Secondary studies in sociology. Ph.D. in philosophy (1989) and Ph.D. in sociology (2000). He is known for his research in the areas of philosophy of science, analytic philosophy, ontology and applied logic. Publications Books (in romanian) Totality, sistem, holon (1992); History and culture (1996); Values of Law and intentional Logik (1996); Sociology of civilisations (2000); Society and cultural communication (ed., 2006); Totality, sistem, holon (second edition, 2007); Concepts of social sciences. Models and applications (2008); Role of imaginary in scientific knowledge (ed., 2009); Concepts of science (2010); Philosophy and logic of social sciences (2014). Selected papers „L’identité symbolique et la logique partitive des valeurs spirituelles”, in vol. XXIII World Congress of Philosophy, Athens, 2013. „The Moral Values and Partitive Logic”, in vol. Valentin Mureşan and Shunzo Majima (eds), Applied Ethics. Perspectives from Romania, Hokkaido University, 2013. „The history of thinkers or the history of ideas? Michael Dummett’s model”, in vol. International Workshop on the Historiography of Philosophy: Representations and Cultural Constructions 201, Elsevier, 2013. „On the logical Form of institutional Creation from John Searle’s Perspective” in vol. Georgeta Raţă, Patricia-Luciana Runcan, Michele Marsonet (eds.), Applied Social Sciences: Philosophy and Theology, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. „Le statut ontologique de la citoyenneté. La perspective de John Searle”, in vol. XXXIV-eme Congres de l’ASPLF, Bruxelles-Louvain la Neuve, 2012. „The Relation of Similarity and the Communication of Science”, în Balkan Journal of Philosophy, vol. 4, No. 1, 2012. „Religious Violence and the Logic of Weak Thinking: between R. Girard and G. Vattimo”, in Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies, vol. 11, 32, 2012. „Scientific Knowledge and Problem of Significance”, in vol. Teodor Dima, Dan Sîmbotin (eds.) Knowledge and Action within the Knowledge Based Society, Institutul European, Iaşi, 2011. „La signification performative et l'holisme pratique”, in vol. XXXIII-eme Congres de l’ASPLF, Venise, 2010. „The Formal Structure of Experience in Carnap’s Aufbau”, in Balkan Journal of Philosophy, vol. 2, No 2, 2010. „On the logic of religious terms”, in Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies, volume 8. nr 22, Spring 2009. „La specificite des concepts des sciences sociales”, in vol. XXII World Congress of Philosophy, Seul, 2008. „Le rapport identite-difference et la conjonction collective. Aspects logiques” in vol. XXXI-eme Congres de l’ASPLF, Budapest, 2006. „Reflexion et défi des limites de la pensée logique-scientifiques”, XXXe Congrès de l’ ASPLF, Nantes, France, 2004. „Prééminence de la nature ou prééminence de l’histoire? Galilée et Vico” în vol. Esprits modernes, Etudes sur les modèles de pansée alternatifs aux XVIe-XVIIe siècles, Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti, 2003. „Totalité et integration ontologique” XXI st World Congress of Philosophy, Istanbul, 2003. „Formés de rationalité dans l′ integration culturelle”, in Avenir de la raison, devenir des rationalites, XXIX-ème Congrès de l′A.S.P.L.F., Nice, France, 2002. „La fonctionnalite’ de l’idee de “champ”dans les sciences sociales”, Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, Boston, 1998. „L’Ecole de Munich et la theorie structuraliste de la science”, în Analele Universităţii din |
5,762 | 1949 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship | The 1949 All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship was the high point of the 1949 season in Camogie. The championship was won by Dublin, who defeated London by a 22-point margin in the final "proper" at Croke Park having earlier defeated Tipperary by a 17-point margin in a poorly attended home final in Roscrea. They were to play London in a final "proper" on 4 December, which fell through. Structure It was clear that CIÉ clubmates Kathleen Cody and Sophie Brack had hit their top form together throughout the championship. When Dublin beat Wexford 8–7 to nil in the Leinster final at New Ross the Sophie Brack scored six goals and Kathleen Cody scored 0–7, Doreen Rogers and Pat Rafferty scoring the other goals. They then beat Down by 3–4 to 1–3 at Kilclief, with the help of an own goal by a Down defender and goals by Kathleen O'Keeffe and Sophie Brack. Dublin had just two surviving players from their controversial 1948 side, Kathleen Cody and Sophie Brack Tipperary beat Galway 3–2 to 1–3 in the All Ireland semi-final at Roscrea before 1,000 spectators and a match described as "the best in many years". The game was one of the best seen in the championship this year and the net minding of Kathleen Griffin for the visitors won rounds of applause. Of particular note was the exchange of goals midway through the first half by May Hynes of Tipperary and Scully of Galway. Final Kathleen Cody scored a soft goal in the opening minute of the final at St Cronan's Park in Roscrea and ended up scoring a total of 6–7 for Dublin, all but two goals of Dublin's total of 8–7. The Irish Independent reported: A feature of the game was the outstanding individual play of Kathleen Cody, who several times went right through the Tipperary defence from midfield. Tipperary were not able to cope with Dublin in any section of the field and soft scores in the first half left Dublin ahead 7–4 to 1–1 at half time. The Irish Press reported, There was no denying that Dublin were the better side. They combined much better and were more accurate in shooting. They were vastly superior in the first half and had the game won at the interval. This time Sophie Brack scored six goals and Kathleen Cody scored 2–3. The gate receipts at Roscrea were wiped out by the expenses incurred in staging the event, including a large bill submitted by local stewards. Radio Éireann did not broadcast the final because of the expense of taking a unit to Roscrea. Final proper London defeated Lancashire "after a hard struggle" and Warwickshire to qualify for the All Ireland final as British champions, a match in which Dublin had a facile win over London. The Irish Press reported of the match: Were it not for an obvious easing off on the part of the forwards in the second half their final score would have been a far more impressive one. The standard of play was not as low as the scores would |
5,763 | Sue Stockdale | Sue Stockdale (born August 1966) is a British polar adventurer, athlete and motivational speaker. She became the first British woman to ski to the Magnetic North Pole in 1996 during an expedition led by David Hempleman Adams. Early life Stockdale was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and attended Firrhill High School. She became interested in sport after being inspired by her PE teacher Margot Wells, whose husband Allan Wells won the Olympic 100m title in Moscow in 1980. She became a member of Edinburgh Southern Harriers, and represented the club in many competitions including the European Clubs Cross Country Championships in Clusone, Italy in 1987. Sue went on to represent Scotland in 3000m indoor and cross-country events in 1989 and 1991. Stockdale's interest in adventure was sparked when she took part in an Operation Raleigh expedition to Kenya in 1988. The mission saw Stockdale spend three months carrying out scientific, community and adventure projects, and marked the beginning of a keen interest in exploration. Expeditions “The Ultimate Challenge” In 1995, Stockdale responded to an advert looking for “10 novice Arctic explorers” to attempt to ski to the North Pole. The expedition was led by renowned adventurer David Hempleman-Adams, the first person to reach both the Geographic and Magnetic North and South Poles. Stockdale was selected for the team from 500 applicants, and undertook the challenge with national pride, stating before the expedition, “I have to do this, not just for myself, but for Scotland.” The team, which featured fellow Scot and explorer Josh Wishart as co-team leader, completed the expedition to the Magnetic North Pole a year later in 1996. The expedition lasted a month, and saw Stockdale make history as she became the first British woman to reach the Magnetic North Pole at age 29. Further expeditions In October 1996, Stockdale returned to her roots and reunited with Raleigh International. This time, she was Deputy Expedition Leader during a 3-month stint in Chile. From there, she joined Robert Swan as a mentor on his UNESCO “One Step Beyond Expedition” to Antarctica. The expedition saw 35 young people from 25 countries sail down to Antarctica on board the Professor Khromov, and work on a number of cultural and environmental initiatives. Stockdale then joined an International expedition to the Geographical North Pole in 1998, led by Victor Boyarsky, which covered the last degree from 89 degrees to the North Pole from Ice Camp Barneo on the Russian side of the Arctic. The expedition, dubbed “Brave Hearts in the Arctic”, saw her run into former expedition leader Hempleman Adams in a chance encounter, who was awaiting an airlift home from a helicopter. Her final expedition took place in 1999, when Stockdale became a member of the International Trans-Greenland expedition. As part of team of three other explorers from Norway and Germany, Stockdale skied across the Greenland Ice Cap in 28 days. The expedition was successful, but not without peril, as the team encountered a severe storm. Stockdale and the crew took shelter in a single tent for over 36 hours with little food or drink, |
5,764 | Abdul Aziz Sarkar | Abdul Aziz Sarkar is a Bangladeshi police officer and the Director General of Rapid Action Battalion. Career Sarkar served in the United Nation mission to the former Yugoslavia. He was appointed the Director General of Rapid Action battalion on 24 April 2005, he replaced Anwarul Iqbal the first Director General of RAB. He served as the Director General of Rapid Action Battalion till 30 October 2006. He served during the 15 August 2004 Grenade attack on Sheikh Hasina. He led RAB into arresting Mufti Hannan. Home Minister Lutfozzaman Babar expressed dissatisfaction over the arrest and asked him not investigate the issue further. He along with Colonel Gulzar Uddin Ahmed interrogated Mufti Hanan in the Taskforce for Interrogation Cell. Sarkar said due to his term being over he could not take any more action over the issue. Sarkar oversaw the arrest of Shaykh Abdur Rahman head of the terrorist organisation Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh. On 7 June 2005 he was accused in a case filed by Amela Khatun the mother of Jubo League activist Sumon. Sumon was part of a Bangladesh Awami League protest after the Bangladesh Nationalist Party government reduced a loop from the Khilgaon flyover. He was arrested by RAB and killed in custody. After the caretaker government took over in 2006 the contracts of both Sarkar and chief of Special Branch were terminated. References Category:Living people Category:Bangladeshi police officers Category:Rapid Action Battalion officers Category:Year of birth missing (living people) |
5,765 | 8 Foot Sativa | 8 Foot Sativa is a New Zealand-based extreme metal band formed in 1998. Their most famous single is their self-titled song, "8 Foot Sativa", which was number one on the M2 (a late night New Zealand music show) top 12 list for 12 weeks, and stayed on the chart for seven months. The band has toured and released albums internationally, and have played alongside artists such as Fear Factory, Soulfly, Korn, Slipknot, System of a Down, Children of Bodom, Disturbed, Motörhead, Pungent Stench, Shihad and Corrosion of Conformity. 8 Foot Sativa have become a household name in New Zealand and are known as the most successful metal band to come out of the country to date. History Early days (1998–2002) 8 Foot Sativa formed when members Brent Fox and Gary Smith met at Massey High School in Auckland, New Zealand. They both enjoyed metal music and played music together. Peter 'Speed' Young from Kelston Boys' High School joined the band as the band's drummer. 'Fat' Dave was on the bass guitar. In their early days, they were a cover band, who would play music from Pantera, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Sepultura, Metallica and Slayer. 'Fat' Dave would often not turn up to practices, so Brent Fox moved from guitar to bass guitar. The band would meet their next vocalist, Ari, at a music school, where they formally learned at where he was doing drums. Ari was the first vocalist to do original songs, writing lyrics to the songs 'Fuel Set' , 'Kick it all Away' and 'Engine' , all of which later appears on their debut album. During this time, the band met Justin 'Jackhammer' Niessen at a mall. According to Gary Smith: "He used to sneak into the gigs and we'd sneak him beers". After Ari disappearance from the band, not to be seen by the band for a few years, Niessen became the new vocalist. Niessen is famed by many 8 Foot Sativa fans, for occasionally performing his vocals to the point of collapsing. This had happened once on New Zealand music show Space while performing 'Destined to be Dead'. NZMusician.com claims that these collapses were due to, "shortage of breath attributed to a lack of vocal training". Hate Made Me (2002) In 2002, 8 Foot Sativa released their debut album, Hate Made Me, with the album later receiving gold status within New Zealand for selling more than 7,500 copies Shortly after the release of Hate Made Me, Young left the band, reportedly citing 'musical differences'. He was replaced with Sinate drummer, Sam Sheppard. This album features what is probably 8 Foot Sativa's most well-known song, the eponymous "8 Foot Sativa", which is a staple at their live shows. It also appeared in an episode of Monster Garage. Season For Assault (2003) In 2003, 8 Foot Sativa released their second album Season for Assault, with it nearing gold status within New Zealand. The album features well- known songs "Chelsea Smile" and "Season For Assault". Season For Assault sees 'Sativa lift their game to a whole new level with far more |
5,766 | Miguel Bosé | Luis Miguel González Bosé (born April 3, 1956), usually known as Miguel Bosé, is a Spanish pop new wave musician and actor. Early life Bosé was born in the San Fernando Hospital in Panama City, Panama, the son of Italian actress Lucia Bosè and Spanish bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguín. He is also a cousin to the late Carmen Ordóñez, a Spanish celebrity in the bullfighting world. Bosé grew up surrounded by art and culture: Pablo Picasso and Ernest Hemingway were close friends of the family. The film director Luchino Visconti was his godfather while Pablo Picasso was the godfather to his sister Paola Dominguin. Career Propelled by his famous family and their friends Bosé started a career as an actor in 1971, participating in various movies. He quickly won spots on the basis of his talent and good looks alone rather than his name and he studied acting as well as dancing and singing. Due to the lack of acting opportunities, he started exploring his talents as a singer in 1975. With the assistance of Camilo Blanes he recorded his first singles. Two years later, in 1977, Bosé signed a contract with CBS Records and he remained with them until 1984. Between 1977 and 1982, Bosè was a major teen idol in Italy, Spain, Southern Europe and in all Latin America. He had 7 top ten hits that earned him a secure spot in every televised song festival held in the aforementioned countries. By 1983 his star had severely waned in Italy, and he rarely performed there again until the 2000s, retreating to Latin American markets instead. From 1983 to 1985, he participated in the "Llena Tu Cabeza De Rock" television specials on Puerto Rican WAPA-TV. In 1985 he enjoyed his greatest success with "Amante bandido" which topped the charts all over Latin America and in Spain. The video to that song also became one of the most widely seen Spanish music videos, with Bose playing both a Superman style superhero and an Indiana Jones type of adventurer. In Italy, where he had a parallel career singing in both Italian and English his greatest succes would be in 1994 by winning Festivalbar, the second largest musical event after the Sanremo Music Festival), for the third time. 2007: Papito On March 20, 2007, to celebrate his 30 years as a singer, he released Papito, an album that contains remakes of his previous songs as duets with Juanes, Alejandro Sanz, Fangoria, Ivete Sangalo, Laura Pausini, Shakira, Julieta Venegas, Ricky Martin, Amaia Montero (past member of the Spanish band La Oreja de Van Gogh), Michael Stipe, along with many other singers. Three singles were released off Papito: the first is a re-make of his hit "Nena", featuring Mexican superstar Paulina Rubio; the second was "Morena Mía", with Mexican pop diva Julieta Venegas. The third single "Como un lobo" featured his niece Bimba Bosé. "Nena" was by far the most successful single off the album. It was nominated for a Latin Grammy for best song and became the best selling download of Spain in 2007. In |
5,767 | Sergio Jiménez (fencer) | Sergio Jiménez (born 19 October 1940) is a Chilean fencer. He competed in the individual épée event at the 1964 Summer Olympics. References Category:1940 births Category:Living people Category:Chilean male fencers Category:Olympic fencers of Chile Category:Fencers at the 1964 Summer Olympics |
5,768 | Worldwar: Tilting the Balance | Worldwar: Tilting the Balance is an alternate history novel by American writer Harry Turtledove. It is the second book in the Worldwar tetralogy, as well as the extended Worldwar series that includes the Colonization trilogy and the novel Homeward Bound. In the novel, the major world powers struggle to develop the first human atomic bombs with material taken from the invading aliens known as The Race. Plot summary As the year 1943 begins, the Race attempts to consolidate its hold over Latin America, Africa, and Australia while engaged in a fierce struggle with the advanced nations of the world: the United States, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, Japan, and Nazi Germany. While capable of resisting the invaders, mankind has been dealt a heavy blow by the nemesis from the stars. The Race maintains unquestioned air supremacy over the entire world as humans are reduced to moving their ground forces by night and using their own aircraft only in the most dire emergencies. With supplies of petroleum severely limited, people have taken to using horse-driven carriages rather than automobiles and kerosene lamps instead of electric lights. But even as the human race huddles in the darkness, physicists and engineers work desperately to develop the first human atom bombs as they represent what might be the only hope of driving the Race off Earth. After a rapid conquest of Spain and Portugal and the capitulation of Italy, the Race focuses on driving its forces in France eastward, toward the heart of the German Reich. Among the officers of the Wehrmacht struggling desperately to hold back the tide of the alien forces is Colonel Heinrich Jäger. Fresh from his stay in Hitler's Berchtesgaden retreat, Jäger is puzzled by the relationship he has formed with Senior Lieutenant Ludmila Gorbunova, the Ukrainian pilot who flew Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov to Bavaria for a conference with the Führer. He is much enamored with her but wonders if love can develop between two former enemies. Jäger is given command of a panzer regiment near Belfort and is charged with keeping the Race from reaching the Rhine. Although the latest panzer models, the Panther and the Tiger I, give the Germans a fighting chance, they are still woefully inferior to the Race's landcruisers. For their part, the aliens are stunned that humans are capable of designing and deploying new tank models within such a short space of time, as the Race's rate of technological development is centuries slower. Jäger is abruptly pulled out of frontline service and ordered to assist the German atomic bomb program in Wittelsbach. In the United States, Jens Larssen, a physicist, leaves Chicago in search of the metallurgical laboratory which has relocated to Denver. After crossing the Great Lakes, he moves swiftly across Minnesota and the Dakotas. Larssen is not so much driven by the need to hasten atomic bomb development as he is by a desire to be reunited with his wife Barbara. Unfortunately for Jens, under the impression that he is dead, Barbara has started a relationship with Corporal Sam Yeager, a soldier |
5,769 | On the Quiet | On the Quiet is a lost 1918 American silent comedy film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and released by Paramount Pictures. It was directed by Chester Withey and starred John Barrymore. The film, based on an original 1901 play, was written by Augustus Thomas and served as a popular hit for William Collier, Sr. Plot As described in a film magazine, Robert Ridgway (Barrymore) is in love with Agnes Colt (Meredith), but her brother who is the guardian of her estate objects to Robert's wild escapades. They are married on the quiet. Robert goes back to college and promises to be good. Agnes's sister is jealous of her husband, a Duke, and to test their love the Duke holds a party in Robert's room. Agnes visits Robert while the party is in progress, and when her brother discovers her absence he goes to hunt her up. Robert and Agnes escape to a life saving station, don diving helmets, and hide at the bottom of the sea. Meanwhile, McGeachy (Belcher), who was a witness at the wedding, explains everything. Cast John Barrymore as Robert Ridgway Lois Meredith as Agnes Colt Frank Losee as Judge Ridgway J.W. Johnston as Horace Colt Alfred Hickman as Hix Helen Greene as Ethel Colt Cyril Chadwick as Duke of Carbonddale Frank Belcher as McGeachy Nan Christy as Chorus Girl Dell Boone as Chorus Girl Dan Mason as Clerk Frank Hilton as Secretary Otto Okuga as Valet Louise Lee as Maid See also List of lost films John Barrymore filmography References External links The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: On the Quiet On the Quiet synopsis at AllMovie The Topeka Daily State Journal, Saturday Evening November 9 1918 (Library of Congress) Category:1918 films Category:American silent feature films Category:American films Category:Famous Players-Lasky films Category:Films directed by Chester Withey Category:American films based on plays Category:Lost American films Category:1910s comedy films Category:American black-and-white films Category:American comedy films Category:1910s lost films Category:Lost comedy films |
5,770 | Johnny Gorsica | John Joseph Perry Gorsica, born Gorczyca (March 29, 1915 – December 16, 1998), was an American professional baseball player, a right-handed pitcher who worked in 204 Major League games over seven seasons (1940–1944; 1946–1947) for the Detroit Tigers. He stood tall and weighed . Born in Bayonne, New Jersey, Gorsica went to West Virginia University before signing his first professional contract and making his debut as a first baseman with a West Virginia-based minor league team, the Class D Beckley Bengals, in 1937. He converted to pitcher the following year and broke into the Major Leagues with the Tigers on April 22 at age 25. The 1940 Tigers won the American League pennant, finishing ahead of the Cleveland Indians in a race that went to the season's last game. As a rookie, Gorsica split 14 decisions. He appeared in 29 games pitched, 20 as a starter, and threw five complete games with two shutouts. He excelled in the 1940 World Series against the Cincinnati Reds, allowing only one run for a 0.79 earned run average in 11⅓ innings pitched, and striking out four. He pitched 4⅓ innings in Game 2 and 6⅓ innings in Game 6, both times coming in to relieve starter Schoolboy Rowe. Cincinnati won the Series, however, in seven games. Relying on an overhand sinkerball, Gorscia both started and relieved during his Major League career, making 64 career starts. He was among the league leaders in saves (as yet an unofficial statistic) three straight years from 1942–1944, and collected 17 saves during his MLB tenure. Gorsica served in the United States Navy during World War II and missed the baseball season, when the Tigers won the world championship. All told, he allowed 778 hits and 247 bases on balls in 723⅔ MLB innings pitched, with 272 strikeouts. References External links Baseball-Reference.com Baseball Almanac Baseball Library Baseball in Wartime biography Category:1915 births Category:1998 deaths Category:Baseball players from New Jersey Category:Beaumont Exporters players Category:Beckley Bengals players Category:Detroit Tigers players Category:Hollywood Stars players Category:Major League Baseball pitchers Category:Sportspeople from Bayonne, New Jersey Category:San Diego Padres (minor league) players Category:Seattle Rainiers players Category:West Virginia Mountaineers baseball players |
5,771 | Dactylethrella chionitis | Dactylethrella chionitis is a moth in the family Gelechiidae. It was described by Meyrick in 1910. It is found in South Africa (Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal, Gauteng, Limpopo). The wingspan is about 17 mm. The forewings are white, becoming pale greyish-ochreous posteriorly, with a few fine scattered black scales, towards the apex and termen sprinkled with grey. The posterior half of the costa has short oblique alternate strigulae of grey suffusion and white and there is a fine white terminal line edged anteriorly by a row of black dots preceded by fuscous suffusion. The hindwdngs are whitish. References Category:Moths described in 1910 Category:Dactylethrella |
5,772 | Serrano Point | Serrano Point is an ice-free point on the northwest coast of Discovery Bay, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica named by the 1947 Chilean Antarctic Expedition after First Lieutenant Fernando Serrano, doctor on the expedition frigate Iquique. Location The point is located at which is 1.66 km south by west of Spark Point, 4.07 km west-northwest of Ash Point, 4.31 km north of Labbé Point and 2.17 km northeast of Ortiz Point (Chilean mapping in 1951, British in 1968, and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009). Maps L.L. Ivanov et al. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005. L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. References SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer. Category:Headlands of Greenwich Island |
5,773 | Parity problem | The term parity problem may refer to: Parity problem (sieve theory), the question of how many primes less than a given integer have an even (or odd) number of prime factors The problem of recognizing the formal language consisting of bitstrings which contain an even number of 1 bits. This language is regular, but it is famously not in AC0 |
5,774 | Licto volcanic field | Licto is a volcanic field in Ecuador, close to the town of Licto. The scoria cones named Licto, Loma Bellavista (, ) and Tulabug (, ) form the field. The cones are constructed by andesite and basaltic andesite and may be of Pleistocene-Holocene age. References Category:Volcanic fields Category:Andean Volcanic Belt |
5,775 | Vern Sarsfield | Vern Sarsfield (10 December 1905 – 21 January 1984) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Notes External links Category:1905 births Category:1984 deaths Category:Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia) Category:Essendon Football Club players |
5,776 | Madison Jones (producer) | Madison Jones is an American film and television executive and producer. He is also the Co-Chairman of the Los Angeles-based de Passe Jones Entertainment (dJE) with Suzanne de Passe. Career Madison Jones entered the entertainment industry at an early age working for HBO in the areas of programming; Family, Sports, Variety, Comedy, Specials, Film Acquisition, and Business Affairs. Madison went on become Founder and CEO of IPM (Intellectual Properties Management) an entertainment, media and IP licensing firm. He negotiated licensing deals with such companies as Apple Computer, Microsoft, Harpo (Oprah Winfrey), Scholastic, The United Negro College Fund, NBC, Fox, ABC, HBO, ESPN, MTV, BET, and other major TV networks and film studios. Madison built the successful global licensing business for the Estate of Martin Luther King, Jr. His publishing output deal with Warner Books re-released Dr. King’s words through books and audio discs, including the posthumous, Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr., which won the Grammy for Best Spoken Word by actor LaVar Burton. Madison was also the architect of the $32 million deal to sell the King Papers Collection to Morehouse College. Madison served as executive producer of the Emmy award nominated, animated production, “Our Friend Martin” (DIC/Disney) which included the voices of Oprah Winfrey and John Travolta. Along with Suzanne de Passe, Madison executive produced President Barack Obama’s 2009 Commander-in-Chief’s Inaugural Ball honoring the nation’s military. Current Projects Madison is currently producing a film on Martin Luther King’s life with Suzanne de Passe and Steven Spielberg for DreamWorks. dJE has created a new comic book and graphic novel imprint in order to pre-brand some of its original content. dJE’s first project, Humpty Dumpty, the graphic novel of the upcoming horror film, will be distributed by IDW Publishing, the publishers of the Star Trek, Transformers, and GI Joe comics. Madison is producing the film Humpty Dumpty with Suzanne de Passe and two time Oscar winner Harvey Lowry. Most recently Madison and Suzanne de Passe have closed a deal with Fox to executive produce a half-hour family comedy series called “Becoming K.K. Jones”. References External links de Passe Jones Company Website Category:American television executives Category:American television producers Category:Living people Category:Year of birth missing (living people) |
5,777 | Ekeko | The Ekeko is the Tiwanakan (pre Columbian civilization) god of abundance and prosperity in the mythology and folklore of the people from the Bolivian Altiplano Its chief importance in popular culture is as the main figure of the annual Alasitas fair, a cultural event that happens every January 24 in La Paz, Bolivia. The Ekeko is a traditional god of luck and prosperity, popular in all the occident territory of Bolivia. Etymology The name Ekeko comes from the alteration of the original term Ekhako or Eqaqo, popularized as Ekhekho which was the ancient god of fortune and prosperity in the Qullasuyu. The Ekhako was often invoked when a disgrace disturbed their homes. Origins Pre-Columbian references The scholar Ernesto Cavour in his book Alasitas, makes reference to anthropomorphic and zoomorphic stone, mud and gold figures that were found in the areas belonging to the Bolivian departments of La Paz, Oruro and Potosí. Cavour considers that these figures were made using basalt—extracted from the pre-Columbian mines in the shores of the Lake Poopó—and andesite from the Copacabana peninsula. Carlos Ponce Sanginés, for his part, focus his researches in the anthropomorphic figures with phallic elements and prominent humps which, in his opinion, go back to the Inca civilization and, according to his observations, they would correspond to the predecessors of the colonial Ekeko. The historian Antonio Paredes Candia considers that these figures would be the remains of ancient sacred festivities during the summer solstice in the southern hemisphere. Arthur Posnansky also observes that in dates near the 22 December, in the Tiwanaku culture, the population used to worship their deities to ask for good luck, offering miniatures of what they wished to have or achieve. Characteristics Description The Ekeko is depicted as a man with a mustache wearing traditional Andean clothes (especially the poncho) and completely loaded with bags and baskets with grain and food, (compare with the cornucopia of some Greco-Roman deities), household objects, and currency bills, and basically anything that a person is thought to want or need to have a comfortable and prosperous life; he is commonly found as a little statue to be put in some place of the house, preferably a comfortable one, but also as an amulet attached to key rings; modern statues of the god include a circular opening in his mouth in which to place a cigarette for Ekeko's pleasure. Latest tradition has the Ekeko "smoke" a lit cigarette once a year to ensure a full year of prosperity. Ekeko should be placed in a place of honor at home. Some versions can be carried in necklaces or key chains. Purpose Ekeko brings monetary wealth to its worshippers. An offering is generally required before he provides his services. Banknotes are often clipped to the Ekeko as offerings, but some statuettes allow for a cigarette to be lit as an offering. The figurines which allow for cigarette offerings have mouth openings large enough for cigarettes to be inserted. Ekeko additionally provides good harvests when offered grain. Legend of Ekeko The legend of the Ekeko, as narrated by Antonio |
5,778 | George Yost Coffin | George Yost Coffin (30 March 1850 – 28 November 1896) was a 19th-century political cartoonist noted for his characters and his work in Washington, D.C., particularly during the Civil War. Coffin's political cartoons appeared in the Washington Post. Legacy His papers are held by George Washington University. Family and childhood Born 30 March 1850 in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, his parents were Sarah A. Harrington and George M. Coffin. Academic life Coffin began his studies in the Preparatory Department at Columbian College in 1862. In 1904, the college changed its name to the George Washington University. References Category:1850 births Category:1896 deaths Category:People from Pottstown, Pennsylvania Category:American editorial cartoonists Category:19th-century American artists |
5,779 | Tafsir Hedayat | Tafsir Hedayat is an exegesis on the Quran written by Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Taqi al-Modarresi in eighteen volumes in Arabic. The author started the series in 1978 and finished it in six years. A translation of the series was published in Persian. Methodology In writing the exegesis, Al-Modarresi seeks to rely on the purpose of each verse in its contemporary use in the society. Al-Modarresi tries not to engage in technical discussion and rather emphasize on the educational aspects of each verse. Exegesis of each verse ends with a survey of narrations (hadiths) on that verse. Al-Modarresi presents his comments by first mentioning a group of verses. He then describes the meanings of words that were borrowed from Majma' al-Bayan. He will then go over the morals of the verse and concludes it with new social issues that might relate to the verse. References Mohammad Taqi al-Modarresi's English biography Ghadeer website, "Introducing Tafsir Hedayat and its translation" Category:Shia tafsir |
5,780 | Josephine Crawford | Josephine Marien Crawford (December 31, 1878 – March 24, 1952) was an American painter, born into an old, aristocratic family in New Orleans, Louisiana. Along with Paul Ninas and Will Henry Stevens, she has been credited with introducing modernism to New Orleans. Life and career Crawford was the sixth of nine children of Charles Campbell Crawford and Louise Bienvenu Crawford, and grew up speaking English and French; through her mother she was descended from the Bienvenus, who had settled in Louisiana in the eighteenth century. Her maternal grandfather had purchased the family's townhouse, at 612 Royal Street in the French Quarter in 1839. Her father's family was from Belfast. In her youth she wrote poetry, much of it about the house and its surroundings; she spent time in North Carolina and in Biloxi, Mississippi as well, which further informed her sensibilities. She would return to Biloxi throughout her life. These childhood trips inspired her earliest known drawings, which date to 1896, though she is known to have carried a sketchbook as early as 1888. She traveled widely throughout her life, and is known to have visited much of Europe, Central America, and Mexico at various times. Crawford studied at the Cenas Institute for Young Ladies and McDonogh High School No. 3, and was briefly enrolled, in 1895, at Newcomb College. She evinced no special talent in drawing or painting in early life, and her formal study of art did not begin until later in life, when she enrolled in classes at the school of the Arts and Crafts Club of New Orleans in the 1920s. Friends of her later years claimed that she had had no formal education at all. Crawford spent the winter of 1927–28 in Paris, studying with André Lhote; in the spring she continued her studies, traveling to Vienna and working at the Kunstgewerbeschule. In Europe she entered the Cubist scene in Paris and became friends with and was mentored by Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Raoul Dufy, and others. She then returned home to New Orleans and continued to paint and exhibit, with her first solo show coming in 1928. The following year saw her exhibiting in New York, at the Montross Gallery, where she and Charles Bain were singled out for praise from a local critic; she continued showing her art regionally and in New York and Philadelphia for the next decade. She won much critical acclaim and a number of local prizes; she also created work for the Public Works of Art Project of the New Deal. Because her work was far too avant garde for New Orleans at that time, after she returned to Louisiana she did most of her painting in private and much of it was not discovered until after her death. Following their discovery, many of these works were given permanent mountings and presented to the public for the first time. For much of her life, Crawford lived with her stepsister Louise Crawford in the house on Royal Street, a building in which Lyle Saxon also had an apartment. In the 1940s, however, |
5,781 | Brugseni | Brugseni or Brugsen is a Greenlandic supermarket chain (Kalaallisut: AmbA), which was founded in 1991 as a union of separate cooperatives dating back to 1963. History and overview The earlier cooperatives, but not the present company, were organized under the Coop aegis. It is one of the island's three major retailers along with NorgesGruppen's Pisiffik and the state-owned Pilersuisoq, and claims 30,000 members, more than half of the Greenland population. It operates fifteen stores in seven major towns: Nuuk, Sisimiut, Qaqortoq, Maniitsoq, Paamiut, Narsaq, and Nanortalik. The store in Maniitsoq underwent a modernization in 2014 where - among other things - solar panel modules were fitted on the roof. Stores in Nanortalik and Paamiutstores were fitted with solar panels in 2015, after the company posted a profit of 26 million DKK in 2014. Brugseni was a sponsor of the 2016 Arctic Winter Games. Award of the Year Every year since 2011, Brugseni has given Årets Pris (Award of the Year) and 100,000 DKK to an organization or an individual who makes a positive difference or furthers a cause. The first prize winner was a hospital clown at the children's department at Queen Ingrid's Hospital. In 2012, two volunteers from the sports club GSS Nuuk won for their work furthering handball among children and youth. In 2013 the prize was awarded to two companies who both works to promote Greenlandic cuisine and ingredients. The winners were Hotel Arctic and Ipiutaq Guest Farm. In 2014, the school in the village of Niaqornaarsuk won for creating positive role models. In 2015, the two summer camps Naalersitaq in Nuuk, and Qeqqualerisunngorniat Illukumi in Ikerasaarsuk won for "promoting innovative and environmentally friendly initiatives which prioritizes a healthy and sustainable environment for future generations." See also List of supermarkets KNI Pilersuisoq Pisiffik References External links Brugsen (Kalaallit Nunaanni Brugseni) Category:Companies based in Nuuk Greenland |
5,782 | Burn (Ellie Goulding song) | "Burn" is a song by English singer Ellie Goulding from Halcyon Days (2013), the reissue of her second studio album, Halcyon (2012). The song was written by Ryan Tedder, Goulding, Greg Kurstin, Noel Zancanella and Brent Kutzle, while production was handled by Kurstin and vocal production was done by Tedder. It was released on 5 July 2013 as the lead single from the reissue. The song was originally recorded by British singer Leona Lewis for her third studio album, Glassheart (2012), but it was ultimately scrapped. Upon its release, "Burn" was met with a mixed response from music critics, who praised it as "catchy" and noted it as one of Goulding's most radio-friendly songs to date, while others felt it was not memorable. It earned Goulding her first number-one single on the UK Singles Chart, selling 116,857 copies in its first week and staying atop the chart for three consecutive weeks. The track attained similar success internationally, reaching the top 10 in countries such as Australia, Austria, Belgium, Germany, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand and Sweden, as well as number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100. The accompanying music video was directed by Mike Sharpe and depicts Goulding in an empty field singing and dancing with friends. Goulding promoted the single on several television shows, including The X Factor, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, The Voice and Late Show with David Letterman. "Burn" was nominated for British Single of the Year and British Video of the Year at the 2014 Brit Awards. In 2017, an acapella interpretation was sung by actress Raffey Cassidy in the psychological horror film The Killing of a Sacred Deer. Background and writing "Burn" was originally recorded by fellow English singer Leona Lewis for her third studio album, Glassheart (2012), but it was omitted from the final track listing when the album was redesigned to include more ballads. According to Jacques Peterson of Popdust, "While Ellie's 'Burn' is a little more indie-pop sounding, Leona's breaks into derivative tropical synths on the second verse in an obvious attempt to match the Stargate sound that was such a popular radio staple a few years ago." In an interview with Billboard magazine, one of the song's co-writers, Ryan Tedder, stated, "I wrote ['Burn'] on a tour bus in Chicago, me and Brent [Kutzle] ... Ellie cut the vocal, killed it, she didn't mess around. And then it sat for a year. [Interscope] came back to me and I told my manager, 'I can't even look at it and I will give up publishing to do it.' We had a list of two or three producers—the name [Greg] Kurstin came up. I don't think I let them finish the sentence because I had just spent time with him on the Beyoncé camp. And I said, 'Absolutely Greg Kurstin! I know that he is the guy.' I sent him a list of comments, he gave it a second pass, and it was done." According to the sheet music published at Musicnotes.com, the song is composed in the key of B♭ minor. Critical reception "Burn" received |
5,783 | Arrah Lee Gaul | Arrah Lee Gaul (1888-1980), was an American painter. She was the first woman to have a solo exhibition at the Philadelphia Art Club. Gaul was the official artist of the Philadelphia Sesqui-Centennial. and an original member of the Philadelphia Ten Biography Gaul was born in 1888 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She attended the Philadelphia School of Design, studying under Elliott Daingerfield, and Henry B. Snell. Gaul pursued additional studies at the University of Pennsylvania before returning in 1921 to teach at the Philadelphia School of Design. she eventual became the head of the art department there. In 1917 she participated in the inaugural exhibition of the Philadelphia Ten. She also exhibited nationally at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the National Academy of Design in New York. She was the first woman to have a solo exhibition at the Philadelphia Art Club. Internationally, she exhibited at Beaux Arts Gallery in London, the Paris Salon of 1931 and the Grand Palais des Champs Elysees. Gaul frequently traveled to foreign locations to paint including Greece, Italy, Algiers, China, Hong Kong, Thailand and India. Gaul died in Philadelphia in 1980. References External links images of Arrah Lee Gaul's paintings on artNet Category:1888 births Category:1980 deaths Category:20th-century American women artists Category:Philadelphia School of Design for Women alumni |
5,784 | Dick Wittmann | Frederick Richard 'Dick' Wittmann (3 February 1901 – 8 October 1987) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Notes External links Dick Wittmann's profile at Blueseum Category:1901 births Category:1987 deaths Category:Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia) Category:Carlton Football Club players |
5,785 | Ángel de Villafañe | Ángel de Villafañe (b. c. 1504) was a Spanish conquistador of Florida, Mexico, and Guatemala, and was an explorer, expedition leader, and ship captain (with Hernán Cortés), who worked with many 16th-century settlements and shipwrecks along the Gulf of Mexico. Life and work Ángel de Villafañe was born about 1504, as the son of Juan de Villafañe and Catalina de Valdés, both natives of León, Castile (Spain), who had served Ferdinand and Isabella. In 1513, at age nine, young Angel accompanied his father in the fleet of Pedrarias Dávila to Darién. In 1523, Villafañe went to Pánuco in the company of Francisco de Garay. With Garay thwarted in his plans to establish a colony by Hernán Cortés, Villafañe instead joined the Cortés faction and sailed to Mexico City. In Mexico City, Angel de Villafañe married Doña Ynés de Caravajal, a relative of Pedro de Alvarado, the famous conquistador (second in command to Hernán Cortés and governor of Guatemala). Angel de Villafañe became known as "one of the principal caballeros" of that city, and both he and his wife were recognized as "gentle people, hidalgos, and of great fortune." Villafañe participated in the conquest of Michoacán and Colima, and he also helped subdue the Chontal Mayas, the Zapotecs, and the Mixes. For his actions, he was awarded an encomienda at Xaltepec. He then participated in the pacification of Jaliscos and, as a ship captain, in Cortés's exploration of the Pacific coast. In 1553, Villafañe became entangled in a political struggle, after acting on the viceroy's orders to arrest the king's inspector, Diego Ramírez. Caught between the viceroy and the royal audiencia, he sought to extricate himself by sending a letter to the Holy Roman Emperor Charles I of Spain. His letter was transported in April 1554 on the ship San Andrés, the only ship of the four sailing at that time to make port. The other three ships were wrecked by a hurricane along the coast of Padre Island, in future Texas. In early June, when word of the disaster reached Mexico City, the viceroy requested a rescue fleet and immediately sent Villafañe marching overland to find the treasure-laden vessels. Villafañe traveled to Pánuco and hired a ship to transport him to the site, which had already been visited from that community. He arrived in time to greet García de Escalante Alvarado (a nephew of Pedro de Alvarado), commander of the salvage operation, when Alvarado arrived by sea on July 22, 1554. The team labored until September 12 to salvage the Padre Island treasure. This loss, in combination with other ship disasters around the Gulf of Mexico, gave rise to a plan for establishing a settlement on the northern Gulf Coast to protect shipping and more quickly rescue castaways. As a result, the expedition of Tristán de Luna y Arellano was sent and landed at Pensacola Bay on August 15, 1559. Angel de Villafañe was involved in the Luna expedition from the start. Before it sailed, he took charge of the encampment at Jalapa, while Luna himself traveled to Veracruz to complete arrangements |
5,786 | Matlatzinca | Matlatzinca () is a name used to refer to different indigenous ethnic groups in the Toluca Valley in the state of México, located in the central highlands of Mexico. The term is applied to the ethnic group inhabiting the valley of Toluca and to their language, Matlatzinca. When used as an ethnonym, Matlatzinca refers to the people of Matlatzinco. Matlatzinco was the Aztec (Nahuatl) term for the Toluca Valley. The political capital of the valley was also referred to as “Matlatzinco”; this was a large city whose ruins are today known as the archaeological site of Calixtlahuaca. In Prehispanic times the Toluca Valley was the home to speakers of at least four languages: Otomi, Matlatzinca, Mazahua, and Nahuatl. Thus speakers of any of these languages could be called “Matlatzinca” if they resided in the Toluca Valley. When the Aztec native historical sources or the Spanish chroniclers refer to “the Matlatzinca” it is often not clear where they mean speakers of the Matlatzinca language, the peoples of the Toluca Valley, or even the inhabitants of Calixtlahuaca. Language The Matlatzinca language is part of the Oto-Pamean subgroup of the Oto-Manguean language family, which also includes Otomi, Mazahua, Pame and Chichimeca Jonaz. Linguistically the term “Matlatzinca” refers to speakers of the Matlatzinca language. In ancient, historical and modern times, the Matlatzinca language was spoken in the Toluca Valley of central Mexico, west of the Valley of Mexico. The Matlatzinca language has two subgroups or dialects that are mutually unintelligible: one called Ocuiltec or Tlahuica and Matlatzinca proper. While originally one language they are now so removed that they are often considered separate languages. Matlatzinca is severely endangered and now only spoken by around 100, mostly elderly people in San Francisco Oxtotilpa and Ocuiltec/Tlahuica spoken by between 50-100 in Ocuilan municipio in the villages San Juan Atzingo and Santa Lucía del Progreso. References Cazés, Daniel (1965) El pueblo matlatzinca de San Francisco Oxtotilpan y su lengua. García Castro, René (1999) Indios, territorio y poder en la provincia matlatzinca: la negociación del espacio político de los pueblos otomianos, siglos XV-XII. CIESAS, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, and El Colegio Mexiquense, Mexico City and Toluca. García Castro, René (2000) Los grupos indígenas del valle de Toluca. Arqueología Mexicana 8(43):50-55. García Payón, José (1974) La zona arqueológica de Tecaxic-Calixtlahuaca y los matlatzincas: etnología y arqueología (primera parte), edición facsimilar de la de 1936, preparada por Mario Colín. Biblioteca Enciclopédica del Estado de México vol. 29. Estado de México, Toluca. Quezada Ramírez, María Noemí (1972) Las matlatzincas: época prehispánica y época colonial hasta 1650. Serie Investigaciones vol. 22. Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico City. Sugiura Yamamoto, Yoko, Patricia Martel and Sandra Figueroa (1997) Atlas Etnográfico de la Cuenca Alta del Río Lerma: Otomíes, Mazahuas, Matlatzincas y Nahuas en los 32 municipios. Gobierno del Estado de México, Toluca. Category:Matlatzinca |
5,787 | Nebojša Vučinić | Nebojša Vučinić (born 17 October 1953) is a Montenegrin judge born in Cetinje, Montenegro and was the judge of the European Court of Human Rights in respect of Montenegro until July 2018. References Category:1953 births Category:Living people Category:Judges of the European Court of Human Rights Category:Montenegrin judges of international courts and tribunals Category:Montenegrin judges |
5,788 | Scaphyglottis conferta | Scaphyglottis conferta is a species of orchid endemic to Peru. References External links conferta Category:Endemic orchids of Peru Category:Taxa named by Eduard Friedrich Poeppig |
5,789 | Dane Kuprešanin | Dane Kuprešanin (born 12 June 1966) is a Bosnian-Herzegovinian retired footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. Football career Born in Sarajevo, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Kuprešanin started playing professionally with hometown's FK Sarajevo, making his Yugoslav First League debuts at the age of 19 and remaining six seasons with the club, for which he scored 17 top division goals in his last two years combined. In the summer of 1991 Kuprešanin moved to Portugal and signed for F.C. Famalicão, alongside Sarajevo teammate Bernard Barnjak, as the northern side was coached by compatriot Josip Skoblar. In his debut campaign he ranked second in goals scored in the team, as it managed to maintain its top division status. Subsequently, Kuprešanin moved to another club in the country, perennial UEFA Cup qualification candidates Vitória de Guimarães. In his first year he only appeared in 18 league games, but proved instrumental in the season's UEFA Cup, netting twice in a 3–0 first-round home win against Real Sociedad (3–2 aggregate win). He spent a further three seasons in Minho, suffering a serious knee injury in 1996 which forced him to retire from the game at only 30. References External links Category:1966 births Category:Living people Category:Sportspeople from Sarajevo Category:Yugoslav footballers Category:Bosnia and Herzegovina footballers Category:Association football midfielders Category:Yugoslav First League players Category:FK Sarajevo players Category:Primeira Liga players Category:F.C. Famalicão players Category:Vitória S.C. players Category:Bosnia and Herzegovina expatriate footballers Category:Expatriate footballers in Portugal |
5,790 | Clwyd East Football League | The North East Wales Football League represents the North East Wales area at the fifth tier of the Welsh football league system. It began life in 2011 as the Clwyd East League. History Member clubs for 2019–20 season Premier Division Acton Bellevue Borras Park Albion Bradley Park (resigned from the league in January 2020) Brymbo Victoria CPD Sychdyn Caerwys Chirk Town Mold Town United Penyffordd Lions References See also Football in Wales Welsh football league system 5 Wales |
5,791 | Crime in Puerto Rico | Puerto Rico has struggled with crime for decades since the island became a United States territory in 1898. Police and political corruption in particular have posed problems ever since. Throughout that time, analysis have also warned of a cycle of violence between law enforcement and organized crime in the island. The significant trade of illegal drugs in Puerto Rico poses a recurrent problem, with the high prices of substances such as cocaine on the territory's streets causing large profit margins for criminals despite government actions. Violent crime has also been one of the challenges the island has struggled with for years. For example, in the mid-2000s, the territory ranked sixth worldwide in murders per capita. In reaction to those statistics, organizations such as the U.S. Coast Guard and the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) have enhanced efforts with the Puerto Rico Police Department (PRPD) and other local agencies, with the former larger groups having a major presence on the island. The combination of this fortified presence and other local measures has sparked commentary about a fundamental militarization of the police. The U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, for instance, cautioned in 2011 that the PRPD was "broken in a number of critical and fundamental respects." The island's strategic geographic position further compounds its struggles with crime. As the island finds itself between a highly developed country—the continental United States—and various developing nations in the Caribbean, a unique economic and political situation arises that heightens the stakes on maintaining both domestic and regional security. Moreover, as the region evolved after the end of the Cold War, issues such as illegal migration and drug trafficking extended beyond local law enforcement to become matters affecting regional stability. To combat all these issues, the Puerto Rican government adopted a broad anti-crime policy referred to locally as the "iron fist" ( or simply mano dura). In 1993, Governor Pedro Rosselló summed up government efforts by remarking, "They have incited a war, and they'll get it: let criminals know that our patience is gone" (). Even after adopting multiple measures, however, the territory has still suffered from significantly high per capita rates of violent crime. For example, a total of 736 individuals were murdered in Puerto Rico in 2006. Background and early history Puerto Rican crime before the 1980s The history of Puerto Rico as a colony under the Spanish Empire came to an end near the conclusion of the 19th century. As a part of the Spanish–American War, the U.S. invaded the island with a landing at Guánica on July 25, 1898. The Puerto Rican Campaign resulted in a total defeat for Spanish armed forces. U.S. troops led by Nelson A. Miles experienced only seven deaths, yet they took control over the entire island in a matter of weeks. As an outcome of the war and the comprehensive American victory, the nation of Spain ceded Puerto Rico as well as the territories of Guam and the Philippines held under Spanish sovereignty to the U.S., the 1898 Treaty of Paris establishing the peace. Spain gave up all rights |
5,792 | Stéphane Santamaria | Stéphane Santamaria (born 22 May 1977) is a French male canoeist who won 18 medals at senior level at the Wildwater Canoeing World Championships. Medals at the World Championships Senior References External links Category:1977 births Category:Living people Category:French male canoeists Category:Place of birth missing (living people) |
5,793 | Mir Jumla II | Mir Jumla II (1591 – 30 March 1663) () was a prominent subahdar of Bengal under the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb. Early life Mir Jumla was born in Iran, the son of an oil merchant. In his early age Mir Jumla found a job of a clerk under a diamond merchant who had connections with the Kingdom of Golkonda. (near present day city of Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India). The region was famous for its diamond mines. Later he came to the Mughal Empire and started his own diamond business. He got involved in maritime commercial endeavours and achieved success. Mir Jumla entered the service of the Sultan of Golconda and rose to the position of Vizier (Prime Minister) of the kingdom. He met and befriended the French traveller Jean-Baptiste Tavernier during this time. Tavernier was a pioneer of European trade with India and Mir Jumla is mentioned prominently in his book Les Six Voyages de J. B. Tavernier (1676). Mughal maritime trade Mir Jumla, who in the 1640s had his own ships and organised merchant fleets that sailed throughout Surat, Thatta, Arakan, Ayuthya, Balasore, Aceh, Melaka, Johore, Bantam, Makassar, Ceylon, Bandar Abbas, Mecca, Jeddah, Basra, Aden, Masqat, Mocha and the Maldives. Career in the Mughal Imperial Court Prince Aurangzeb, the Mughal viceroy in the Deccan forwarded his cause and he got the protection of the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan who honoured him with the title of Muazzam Khan, raised him to the rank of 6000 zat and 6000 sawar and appointed him the diwan-i-kul or the prime minister. On his accession to the throne, Aurangzeb entrusted Mir Jumla with the task of dealing with Shah Shuja. Shuja was Auranzeb's brother and a contender to the Mughal throne. He was defeated in the Battle of Khajwa and took to flight. Mir Jumla pursued Shuja from Khajwa to Tandah and from Tanda to Dhaka (capital of the present day Bangladesh), where he arrived on 9 May 1660. The latter, however, had already left Dhaka, crossed the eastern border and ultimately found shelter with the king of Arakan (modern day Myanmar). Soon after his arrival at Dhaka, Mir Jumla received the imperial farman (decree) appointing him subahdar (governor) of Bengal. The emperor, in recognition of his services, honoured Mir Jumla with titles, rewards and increment of mansab (rank). He at once began reorganising the administration, which had become slack in the absence of Shuja during the war of succession, and disobedience and refractoriness had become prevalent. Reversing the action of Shuja who had transferred the capital to Rajmahal, he restored Dhaka to its former glory. He then paid attention to the administration of justice, dismissed dishonest Qazis (clerics and judges) and Mir Adils and replaced them with honest persons.According to Niccolai Manucci, Shuja fled back to Tripura with his surviving middle son Buland Akhtar whom Tripura king Nakshatra Roy alias Chhatra Narayan helped to reach Manipur by supplying elephants and a few guards for fear of Aurangzeb's pursuing army and informers. Shuja reached ultimately Manipur (Mekhli) in 1662 starting from Daccca in 1660 via Arakan and |
5,794 | The Wicked (2013 film) | The Wicked is a 2013 American horror film directed by Peter Winther and starring Devon Werkheiser, Justin Deeley, Jess Adams, Jamie Kaler and Caitlin Carmichael. Plot There is a local myth of a Witch whose spirit is said to inhabit an abandoned house known as Open Hearth. It is said the Witch eats children to live; girls to stay beautiful and young men for strength. Though the myth is initially regarded as superstition, it is proven to be real when a little girl named Amanda is snatched from her bedroom without a trace. Max is a teenager mourning his Grandpa's death and is visited by his girlfriend Sammy. Sammy's mom is a drunkard, and her hobby is making prank calls to the police. Max and his brother Zach fight over everything. The next night Max's father has to work and asks Zach to babysit Max. But Max learns that Zach, along with his friends Julie, Carter, and Tracy are planning to go to Open Hearth and throw a rock through one of the windows to see if the myth is true. Max and Sammy decide to follow them and take pictures so he can have his revenge. They take a short cut through the woods on their bikes, where they kiss for the first time. In the meantime, Zach and his friends arrive at Open Hearth and throw stones at the house. One of the stones hits the window, and they are not sure whose stone it was. They see a shadow moving inside the house and run back to the camping area. There, they get drunk and have sex with their partners. Max and Sammy find the house and throw stones at it. Max's rock hits the window, and they run after seeing the Witch. Later that night Julie hears a whisper and finds a teddy bear which belongs to Amanda outside the camp. The four decide to check out the woods to find the kidnapped girl. They come near the abandoned house of the Witch and hear a child crying from inside. Julie decides to go in despite the warning from her friends. Zach joins her in the search, and they find Amanda tied up in the basement with an apple in her mouth. They manage to escape into the woods with the witch in pursuit. Once at the campsite they are shocked to find Carter's truck missing and their tent and other camping gear are gone. With the town 10 miles away and the nearest ranger station 4 miles away, they decide to walk rather than wait for the Witch to catch them. Max shoots a video asking whoever finds the footage to burn the house down as the myth is real. The Witch then abducts Max while Sammy screams. Zach and his friends lose their way and wander in circles due to the Witch's magic. Zach finds Max's bike and decides to go into the house again to rescue his brother. The others go into the woods in search of the nearest rangers station. The Witch kidnaps Carter |
5,795 | Sclerophrys perreti | Sclerophrys perreti (formerly Amietophrynus perreti) is a species of toad in the family Bufonidae. It is endemic to the Idanre Hills in southwestern Nigeria. Sclerophrys perreti is one the frogs declared as "Lost" in 2010. However, it was re-discovered at its type locality in 2013. Before that, it had not been seen—possibly—since 1970, and with certainty, since 1963. Common name Perret's toad has been coined for it. Etymology The specific name perreti honours , a Swiss herpetologist who has specialized in African amphibians. Description Males measure and females in snout–vent length. The head is comparatively flat. Males have white throats. Parotoid glands are moderately developed. The adult frogs live in patches of shrubby vegetation occurring on the inselbergs or gneiss domes in the forest on which it lives. Tadpoles are unusual compared to other Sclerophrys species: they are not aquatic but semi-terrestrial, living in shallow water-films on wet, sometimes nearly vertical rocks. Habitat and conservation Perret's toad is endemic to Nigeria where it is known from a single locality, the Idanre Hill in the southwestern part of the country. Only one population of Sclerophrys perreti is known. Searches in nearby areas have failed to locate other populations in suitable habitat, nevertheless, the toad is common in the location where it is found and the tadpoles plentiful. The area is rocky and inaccessible and the International Union for Conservation of Nature thinks it likely that more populations would be found if more herpetological surveys were done; no particular threats have been recognized. References perreti Category:Frogs of Africa Category:Amphibians of West Africa Category:Endemic fauna of Nigeria Category:Amphibians described in 1963 Category:Taxa named by Arne Schiøtz Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
5,796 | Berthold of Garsten | Berthold of Garsten ( 1060 - 27 July 1142) was a German Roman Catholic priest and professed member from the Order of Saint Benedict. He is believed to be from the house of the Counts of Bogen and "Vögte" of the Regensburg Cathedral. He was to begin his pastoral career as a Benedictine monk at Saint Blaise in the Black Forest and was then - in 1107 - appointed prior at Göttweig. Ottokar II of Styria entrusted him with the development of the Garsten Abbey of which he became the first abbot in 1111. In this post he distinguished himself by his piety, kindness, devotion to his pastoral duties and organisational talent. Berthold introduced the Hirsau Reforms into Austria. He died on 27 July 1142 and is buried in Garsten Abbey. His feast day is celebrated in the Diocese of Linz as well as the Diocese of St. Pölten and the Archdiocese of Salzburg on 27 July. He was beatified in 1970. References Lenzenweger, J., 1958. Berthold von Garsten (with the Vita Bertholdi) External links Hagiography Circle Saints SQPN Category:1060 births Category:1142 deaths Category:Austrian Benedictines Category:Austrian abbots Category:Benedictines Category:Beatifications by Pope Paul VI Category:German beatified people Category:German Roman Catholics Category:Venerated Catholics |
5,797 | List of chemistry awards | This list of chemistry awards is an index to articles about notable awards for chemistry, the scientific discipline involved with elements and compounds composed of atoms, molecules and ions: their composition, structure, properties, behavior and the changes they undergo during a reaction with other substances. It includes awards by the Royal Society of Chemistry, the American Chemical Society and awards by other organizations. Awards of the Royal Society of Chemistry The Royal Society of the United Kingdom offers a number of awards for chemistry. Awards of the American Chemical Society The American Chemical Society of the United States offers a number of awards related to chemistry. Other awards See also Lists of awards Lists of science and technology awards List of biochemistry awards References Chemistry |
5,798 | List of rivers of Saint Pierre and Miquelon | This is a list of rivers of Saint Pierre and Miquelon. Rivers are listed in clockwise order, starting at the north end of each island. Saint Pierre Island Ruisseau Patural Miquelon Island Ruisseau du Chapeau Ruisseau de la Carcasse de l'Est Ruisseau de Terre Grasse Ruisseau du Trou Hangar Petit Ruisseau Ruisseau à Blondin Ruisseau des Godiches Ruisseau de la Demoiselle Ruisseau à Sylvain Ruisseau de l' Étang de la Loutre Ruisseau du Nordet Ruisseau du Milieu Ruisseau de la Presqu'île Ruisseau de la Mère Durand Ruisseau de la Pointe au Cheval Ruisseau Creux Ruisseau du Renard Ruisseau de la Carcasse Ruisseau du Foin au Curé Ruisseau du Foin à Raymond Ruisseau du Foin à Bancal Ruisseau des Eperlans Ruisseau du Petit Cap Le Cap Ruisseau des Cosies Ruisseau Tabaron Ruisseau de l' Anse Langlade Island Belle Rivière Ruisseau des Mats Fourche Droite Ruisseau Fourche Gauche Ruisseau Ruisseau de l’Anse aux Soldats Ruisseau de l’Anse Ruisseau du Trou à la Baleine Ruisseau du Cap aux Voleurs Dolisie Ruisseau Le Canal Noir Deuxième Ruisseau Maquine Premier Ruisseau Maquine Ruisseau de la Cascade Ruisseau Clotaire Ruisseau Dupont Ruisseau de Cap Sauveur Ruisseau de l' Ouest Ruisseau Debons Ruisseau Mouton Ruisseau de la Goélette References GEOnet Names Server * Saint Pierre and Miquelon Rivers of Saint Pierre and Miquelon Category:Environment of Saint Pierre and Miquelon |
5,799 | Hungarian Central Statistical Office | The Hungarian Central Statistical Office (HSCO; ) is a quango responsible for collecting, processing and publishing statistics about Hungary, its economy, and its inhabitants. The office provides details for parliamentary and administrative offices, local councils and academia, financial institutions, the public at large and the media. Functions To devise and conduct surveys To demand collection of statistical data for the central state statistical system To process and analyse information from the collection of statistical data based on compulsory and voluntary data supply To supply data and analysis for state organizations To satisfy requests from non-governmental organisations, parties, local government, academic researchers and the general public To prepare and make the census and to process and publish the data from it. Regulation Legal reference: KSH - Rules on Statistics Organization of National Statistics Act No. XXV of 1874 Hungarian Royal Central Statistical Office Act No XXXV of 1897 Official Statistical Service Act No XIX of 1929 State Statistics Act No VI. of 1952 Statistics Act No. V. of 1973 Statistics Act No. XLVI of 1993 The organisation is also covered by European Union regulation. Organization structure There are around 1,050 people employed at the central office, with a further 450 at regional offices. The head of the Office is called the President, and leads a number of organizational units each headed by a Deputy President and having several departments: Departments reporting directly to the president Internal Audit Section Administration and International Departments reporting to the Deputy President responsible for statistical issues Price Statistics Living Standards and Labour Statistics Foreign Trade Statistics Agriculture and Environment Statistics National Accounts Population Statistics Statistical Research and Methodology Department Sector Accounts Services Statistics Social Services Statistics Business Statistics Departments reporting to the Deputy President responsible for economic affairs Financial Management Technical and System Monitoring Information Technology Dissemination Planning Directorates Debrecen Győr Miskolc Pécs Szeged Veszprém See also Demographics of Hungary References Category:National statistical services Category:Demographics of Hungary |
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