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7,500 | The Mephistopheles of Los Angeles | "The Mephistopheles of Los Angeles" is a song by American rock band Marilyn Manson, released as a promotional single from the band's ninth studio album, The Pale Emperor (2015). Composition and style "The Mephistopheles of Los Angeles" is a midtempo blues-inspired rock song, which runs for a duration of four minutes and 57 seconds. Lyrically, the song finds Manson comparing himself with Mephistopheles, a Germanic mythical demon who collects the souls of the damned. The figure gained wider popularity as a character in the Faust legend. "The Mephistopheles of Los Angeles" was the original title track of The Pale Emperor and, according to Manson, "the album's heart". According to Ultimate Guitar, the song is written in common time with a moderately fast tempo of 125 beats per minute. The track follows a basic chord sequence of Am–Cmaj7–F–C–G–Em7–Am–Cm in the verse, while each chorus is composed of four repetitions of an Am–Cmaj7–F–G sequence. Music video Directed by Francesco Carrozzini and featuring a cameo from The Wire and Boardwalk Empire actor Michael K. Williams – who began uploading images from the video shoot to their social media accounts in late March – the official music video for the song was released on May 11, 2015 on the band's official YouTube channel. Synopsis The black-and-white video begins with Michael K. Williams emerging from a shadowy alleyway. Acting as a Faustian narrator, he presses his head between two steel bars and says "The first time I met him, I could feel the hounds of hell on my trail". Williams is dressed in attire similar to the kind worn by 1930s blues musician Robert Johnson – who, according to legend, entered into a Faustian pact with the Devil in exchange for his musical prowess. Williams' soliloquy goes on to describe his first encounter with Mephistopheles, the character played by Manson, before a title sequence appears. As the song begins, it is interrupted by loud chants of "Hallelujah", and Mephistopheles is seen in a large open space surrounded by a group of followers made up of gang members and prostitutes. Mephistopheles begins reading and blessing his followers in an exaggerated fashion, reminiscent of the style employed by a televangelist. As several members of the group begin bowing and kissing Mephistopheles' hand, one of them begins screaming and contorts his body, symbolizing demonic possession. All members of the gang then embrace Mephistopheles, and follow him out of the open space. In a subsequent scene, Mephistopheles is seen wandering down an alleyway, where he enters a room with a trinity of similar looking women. He eventually chooses one of the women by blessing them, and he begins baptizing her in a bathtub full of muddy water. When she loses consciousness, Mephistopheles revives her with the kiss of life, only to forcibly hold her under the water once again. After a prolonged, sinister gaze directly in to the camera, Mephistopheles holds the now-thrashing woman underwater until she appears lifeless. The video ends with Mephistopheles holding her drowned body in the air. Track listing Promo CD "The Mephistopheles of Los Angeles" (Radio |
7,501 | FGL Productions | FGL Productions is an independent music record, entertainment and video production company, headquartered in France (Paris), with offices in the United Kingdom (London), Russia (Moscow), and Thailand (Nonthaburi). FGL Productions’ history Founded in Paris in 1981 as a music record company focusing on re-issuing of major works from the popular music catalogue, the company is managed, since 1990, by his current chief executive officer Thierry Wolf who has significantly developed the business in several new areas, establishing it as one the leading independent lights of the European music industry, with several dozens of thousands of titles, hundreds of artists, 30 labels under management, an international entertainment production department, and a department dedicated to music synchronisation for movies, TV series, and advertising movies. FGL Productions’ services FGL Productions is organized around four departments: Music publishing department, with a significant number of French and international song writers and music composers, Video production house, producing musical videos, TV documentaries and movies (Executive production), Synchronisation department, offering movie, TV series, and advertising movie producers, or video game editors, a rich repertoire of music matching to images, Event department, dedicated to live performances , and worldwide tours (especially in Eastern Europe and Russia), as well as corporate events. FGL Productions’ artists FGL Productions has a strong expertise in detecting, managing or developing internationally the very best talent in music: Example of French artists: Buzy (singer), Desireless, Francis Lai, Francis Lalanne, Gérard Blanc, Guy Marchand, Jacqueline Taïeb, Jeanne Mas, Jesse Garon (musician), Joe Dassin, Julien Dassin, Lio, Vincent Niclo, Michel Sardou, etc. Example of International artist : Iggy Pop, Alexandrov Ensemble, Mazowsze, Nashville Pussy, Petula Clark, Bolshoi Theatre, etc. FGL Productions’ 30 Labels FGL Productions also manages musical rights of thirty music labels, such Revenge, Play-Time, Eva, Lolita, Editions 23, Anthology Recordings, Axe Killer, Mantra Recordings, Orphée, Edition Garzon... FGL Productions’ Live shows and worldwide tours “FGL Productions" produces every year a number of worldwide tours of its artists, or several prestigious shows such as: Jango Edwards the American clown and entertainer The Alexandrov Ensemble, commonly known as the Red Army Choir Mazowsze (folk group), the Choir, Ballet and National Orchestra of Poland, Pierre Richard Crazy Horse (cabaret) of Paris, of which she organizes in exclusivity the tours, for several years. Articles New-York Times: FGL Productions, Thierry Wolf, and the Red Army Choir FGL Productions and the Red Army Choir au Zenith de Lille FGL Productions and the Red Army Choir France Culture: FGL Productions and Francis Lay Le Monde: FGL Productions and Francis Lay Le Monde: FGL Productions, Francis Lay, and Nice city 2o minutes: FGL Productions and Jango Edwards Lay FGL Productions and Vincent Niclo References External links Official site of FGL Productions Official site of FGL Licensing Youtube channel of FGL Productions List of Labels of FGL Productions List of artists of FGL Productions Catalogue of movies of FGL Productions Bolshoi orchestra Kompass Societe.com Category:Record labels established in 1981 Category:French independent record labels Category:Pop record labels Category:Classical music record labels |
7,502 | Trichotrimicra | Trichotrimicra is a genus of crane fly in the family Limoniidae. Distribution South Africa, Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, Congo and Rwanda Species T. antilopa (Alexander, 1960) T. flavidella Alexander, 1972 T. hirtipennis (Alexander, 1921) T. majuscula (Alexander, 1956) T. medleri Alexander, 1974 T. rectangula Alexander, 1975 T. subnuda (Alexander, 1956) T. tchaka (Alexander, 1960) T. vanstraeleni (Alexander, 1956) References Catalogue of the Craneflies of the World Category:Limoniidae Category:Diptera of Africa |
7,503 | Felony murder rule (Vermont) | For the felony murder rule in all U.S. jurisdictions, see felony murder rule. In the state of Vermont the common law felony murder rule is codified at 13 V.S.A. § 2301. This rule provides that anyone who kills another person while committing or attempting to commit an arson, sexual assault, aggravated sexual assault, robbery or burglary, shall be guilty of first degree murder. References Category:U.S. state criminal law Category:Vermont law |
7,504 | Roberto G. Fernández | Roberto G. Fernández (born 24 September 1951) is a Cuban American novelist and short story writer. He is noted for his grotesque satires of the Cuban American community, especially in his English-language novels, Raining Backwards and Holy Radishes! In 2001, he was named the Dorothy Lois Breen Hoffman Professor of Modern Languages and Linguistics at Florida State University. Biography Early life Fernández's family immigrated to the States in 1961, when Fernández was 10. He grew up in Miami, which he now considers his home, although he lives and teaches in Tallahassee, Florida. Literary work Fernández has been said to be part of the Cuban American avant-garde. His writing is said to engage the links among history, exile, personal, and collective identity, and simultaneously defamiliarize them through parody and pastiche, counteracting in such a move the underlying poignancy of the diasporic experience. Fernández is known for the way he satirizes the Cuban community in Miami. One critic says that he "has mastered like no other the carnivalesque art of portraying grotesquely a community in a perpetual state of crisis". For instance, Raining Backwards depicts a generation "caught between two cultural worlds that they do not fully understand and to which they do not fully belong". Although Fernández's first two books, written in Spanish, were "well received within the Cuban exile literary community", he did not gain wide critical attention until he published in English. Published works Cuentos sin rumbo [Aimless Tales] (story collection; 1975) La vida es un special [Life is a Bargain] (1982) La montaña rusa [The Roller Coaster] (story cycle; 1985) Raining Backwards (1988) Holy Radishes! (1995) En la ocho y la doce [The Corner of Eighth and Twelfth] (2001) Entre dos aguas (2007) Short stories include "Wrong Channel", "The Brewery", "Is in the Stars" and "It’s not Easy" Awards Cintas Foundation Fellowship (1986–87) Florida Arts Council Fellowship (1993) See also Cuban American literature List of Cuban American writers List of famous Cuban-Americans. References Critical studies in English as of April 2012: Water as Creator and Destroyer of Dreams and (Hyper)Realities: Hydro Symbolism in the Works of Roberto G. Fernández By: David de Posada, http://labelmelatin.com, Volume II, Spring 2012. Operational (Hyper)realities in the Exilic Labyrinth: Roberto G. Fernández's Construction and Destruction of Identity through Parodic Simulacra By: David de Posada. In: DeRosa, Simulation in Media and Culture: Believing the Hype. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books; 2011. pp& nsbs; 187–197. Cuban; American Literature: Suspicion of a Rupture in the Assimilation Pattern? By: Humberto López Cruz. In: N: Giordano, The Hyphenate Writer and the Legacy of Exile. New York: Bordighera Press; 2010. pp. 85–97. Three Waves of Immigration Waving of Immigration:Waving (Wavene) the Flag of Patriotic Fervor By: William O. Deaver. In: Giordano, The Hyphenate Writer and the Legacy of Exile. New York: Bordighera Press; 2010. pp. 67–84. Operatic Transposition and the Romantic Aesthetic in the Works of Roberto G. Fernández By: David de Posada, "Caribe: Revista de Cultura y Literatura", 11.2 (2009): 23–42. Treacherous Pilgrimages: Identity and Travel in Roberto G. Fernández's The Augustflower By: Rafael Miguel Montes. In: Glassman, Tolchin, and Brahlek, |
7,505 | Glaucous tanager | The glaucous tanager (Thraupis glaucocolpa) is a species of bird in the family Thraupidae. The term glaucous describes its colouration. It is found in Colombia and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and heavily degraded former forest. References glaucous tanager Category:Birds of Colombia Category:Birds of Venezuela glaucous tanager Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
7,506 | Robert North | Robert North (or Bobby North; February 2, 1884 – August 13, 1976) was an American vaudeville performer who became a success as a stand-up comedian. Later he became a prolific motion picture producer. Early years Bobby North was born in New York City. He joined a vaudeville company at the age of twelve as a boy balcony singer. As North explained, "... there was a vogue of a soubrette, as we called her, singing on the stage, and a kid would get up from the gallery and sing the chorus. The Gallery Gods, of course, thought he was one of them and applauded loudly. I was the kid in the gallery. I had the voice and I could sing." North traveled around the US with the company playing in small town opera houses or theaters for one- or two-night stands. He developed a song and dance act. Theater success In January 1909 North performed as a "Hebrew impersonator" at the Colonial Theatre in New York. In this act he told humorous stories with a Jewish accent and sang parodies of popular songs. He would continue to perform this act between other roles. These include a part in 1909 in the Emmerich Kálmán operetta The Gay Hussars, and a straight role in 1910 in the play Just a Wife. North was a star of the Ziegfeld Follies of 1910. In one number he acted as a Jew in love with an Irish girl, and sang My Yiddisha Colleen to Shirley Kellogg. The song illustrates the common stereotypes and ethnic humor of the period, with verses like "I'll jig and Irish reel each morning, if you'll dance Kazotski ev'ry dawn ... And I'll even kiss the Blarney stone, if you'll change your name to Maggie Cohn." North closed the second act of the Follies of 1910 with a solo performance of the Gus Edwards song The Waltzing Lieutenant. Variety editor Sime Silverman praised North's performance. The 1910 Ziegfeld Follies played in over twenty theaters in major cities around the country, including Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Chicago, Des Moines, Kansas City and San Francisco, where Bobby North was the local favorite. The company of over one hundred traveled in style in a special train, and stayed at the best hotels. Bobby North married Stella Maury, another vaudeville and Ziegfeld Follies trouper. Their son Edmund H. North was born in Manhattan on March 12, 1911 (later Edmund became a successful screenwriter). In 1911 North and Cliff Gordon were managing the Columbia Theatre on Broadway, one of the Eastern Burlesque Wheel's houses. They decided to offer a "higher" class of show with a fresh version of The Merry Whirl, which opened on June 12, 1911. The biggest song hit was Alexander's Ragtime Band by Irving Berlin. According to Variety the show was "as classy as burlesque ever held—classier even." The Merry Whirl was very profitable, but on August 12 it was announced that it would end its run in New York and "proceed over the regular Eastern Wheel route assigned to it ... much to the regret of |
7,507 | Lake Mantasoa | Lake Mantasoa is a large lake with a surface area of , created by the Mantasoa Dam on the Mantasoa River in the Analamanga region of Madagascar. References Mantasoa Category:Analamanga |
7,508 | Bob Mondello | Bob Mondello (Washington, D.C.) is an American film critic. Career Before becoming a professional critic, Mondello spent more than a decade in entertainment advertising, as public relations director for Roth Theaters, a mid-Atlantic chain of movie theaters, where he learned the ins and outs of the film industry, and also for an independent repertory theater in D.C., acquiring a working background in film history. Mondello has worked for National Public Radio since 1984 as the arts critic / film and theater commentator for All Things Considered. He has also been theater critic for Washington City Paper since 1987. Each year, Mondello sees well in excess of 200 films and 100 plays, commenting on them on radio, in print, and in speaking engagements at film clubs and public radio presentations around the country. He has also written for such publications as The Washington Post, USA Today, and Preservation Magazine. In addition to his weekly reviews, Mondello produces frequent commentaries and reported pieces on the arts, among them "American Stages" (2005) an eight-part NPR series exploring the history, reach and accomplishments of the regional theater movement, numerous pieces on silent films and cultural features he has produced from Argentina. Mondello originated the "Mondello Rule for Quickly Judging Films." The rule states that the fewer words you need to summarize a film, the worse it is. The example that he gave in an NPR review was "Schwarzenegger and DeVito are twins: five words." References External links Critical Acclaim: An Interview with NPR’s Bob Mondello Category:American film critics Category:LGBT journalists from the United States Category:Living people Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:NPR personalities Category:Journalists from Washington, D.C. Category:American male journalists Category:20th-century American journalists Category:21st-century American journalists |
7,509 | Economy of Nakhchivan | Economy of Nakhchivan covers the issues related to the economy of the city of Nakhchivan, is the most important center of economic activity in Azerbaijan. State programs Over the past period, several state programs have been adopted for the development of the economy in Azerbaijan. The "State Program on Socio-Economic Development of the Regions of the Republic of Azerbaijan for the period of 2004-2008 and the "State Program on Socio-economic Development of the Regions of the Republic of Azerbaijan in 2009-2013". were adopted, providing both economic development in the capital and regions. The "Regional Development Program of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic (2005-2008)" and "The Socio-Economic Development of Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic for 2009-2013" approved by the Chairman of the Supreme Assembly of Nakhchivan ensured the use of investment opportunity in the autonomous republic, the creation of new industrial, agricultural enterprises, raising the level of employment, and further improvement of the education, health and other social security of the population. Gross Domestic Product The gross domestic product, which is considered as the main factor of economic development, was 2 billion 339 million manat in 2013, has increased by 8.4 times, compared to the same period of 2003. In 2013, the Gross Domestic Product per capita increased by 6.9 times in comparison with 2003 and amounted to 5423 manat. Compared to 2003, the industrial output increased by 49 times in 2013, investments directed to fixed capital by 16.4 times, agricultural sector by 4.7 times, transport sector by 2.6 times, information and communication services by 10.3 times. retail trade turnover by 11.1 times, income per capita by 8.8 times, and the average monthly salary increased by 9.8 times. "Regulations on Industrial Parks" were approved by the Decree of the Chairman of the Supreme Assembly of Nakhchivan dated June 6, 2013. By the end of 2003, 66 industrial enterprises functioned in the Autonomous Republic, and by the end of 2013 this indicator increased 7 times, reached to 438. Power station The Nakhchivan Module Power Plant with a capacity of 87 megawatts, the Bilav Hydro Power Plant with a capacity of 22 megawatts, the Arpachay-1 Hydro Power Plant with a capacity of 20.5 megawatts, hydro power plant with the capacity of 4.5 megawatts on the Heydar Aliyev Water Reservoir were built, and Nakhchivan Gas Turbine Power Station with the capacity of 60 megawatts was reconstructed. On March 14, 2014, the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan signed an Order on financing the construction of Arpachay-2 Hydro Power plant in Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic. In accordance with the decree, 4 million manat was allocated from the fund of the President of Azerbaijan to the Cabinet of Ministers of the Nakhchivan AR with the purpose of completing construction of the Arpachay-2 Hydroelectric Power Plant and the construction of the station was completed. During this period 9 electric substations were created in the autonomous republic and 4 electric substations were reconstructed. Fuel supply A protocol was signed in 1992 on the construction of the Khoy-Julfa gas pipeline in order to provide the population with natural gas in the Autonomous Republic. On August |
7,510 | Soham railway station | Soham railway station was a station on the Ely to Newmarket line that served the town of Soham in Cambridgeshire. History The station was opened on 1 September 1879. It was destroyed on 2 June 1944, when a munitions train caught fire and blew up, killing two and damaging over seven hundred buildings. The signal box, also damaged in the explosion which resulted in the death of signalman Frank Bridges, is now preserved on the Mid-Norfolk Railway. Although the line remained open, the station was closed to passengers on 13 September 1965. Reopening plans Since closure a local campaign has run to reopen the station. In February 2011 East Cambridgeshire District Council obtained funding for a study into a possible reopening. In January 2013 Network Rail released a five-year upgrade plan, which included reopening Soham station as part of improvements to the Ipswich to Ely Line. A Network Rail study concluded that building a new station on the existing infrastructure was feasible and that the current line could support an additional stop at Soham. Although Soham was unsuccessful in a bid submitted to the New Stations Fund second round, funding was obtained from the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority and Cambridgeshire County Council to progress the next stage of design work with Network Rail. Under the chosen design option, there will be a single platform to the east side of the railway track. The platform will be long to accommodate four-car trains and will include waiting shelters, lighting, information screens and a public-address system. A stepped footbridge will allow public access across the railway and is proposed to connect up to an existing public right of way via a diverted footpath. The footbridge has provision for lifts to be installed at a later date if a second platform is required as part of a future doubling scheme. The station will be sited on the former station site within the boundary of Network Rail land with no requirements to purchase land from third parties. A car park will accommodate 50 vehicles. The station will be operated and managed by Greater Anglia with a two-hourly train service in each direction on the Ipswich to Peterborough route. There are no current plans for direct services to Cambridge (which would require reinstatement of the Warren Hill Junction / Snailwell Junction chord), but Mayor James Palmer has expressed support for the idea in a future phase of the project. The timetable for delivery is summer 2021, with building work scheduled to start in September 2020. The contract for Network Rail to build the station was signed in November 2019. Route There is a heavy service of freight trains on the route, principally between Felixstowe Docks and the Midlands/North of the country. A passenger train service operates on the line every two hours between and . The nearest stations currently open are to the north and to the south. References External links Story of destruction of station on village website Station on 1947 OS Map Category:Disused railway stations in Cambridgeshire Category:Former Great Eastern Railway stations Category:Railway stations opened |
7,511 | Désirée (operetta) | Désirée is an operetta in two acts with music by John Philip Sousa and libretto by Edward M. Taber. The libretto was later revised and updated by Jerrold Fisher and William Martin. Performance history Based on the English comedy Our Wife by John Maddison Morton, it premiered on May 1, 1884 at The National Theater, Washington D.C. It was one of the first American operettas and was billed as "America's First Comic Opera", although it was based on an English comedy set in France. It also marked the comic opera debut of DeWolf Hopper, who sang the role of Pomaret. Roles Synopsis In Amiens, France, during the time of Cardinal Richelieu, Musketeers have gathered in Pomaret’s mercer shop, seeking his beautiful daughter, Désirée. Her cousin, Marie, waits on them and is all but ignored. Their delightful recreation is interrupted by a trumpet call, which summons them to their military duties. The Count de Courville arrives, dismisses Marie, and then asks Désirée for her hand in marriage. The Count’s father, however, disapproves of his son’s marriage to a commoner and threatens by letter to imprison Pomaret if he permits the marriage to take place. The Count’s superior officer and friend, the heroic Marquis de Lavarre, decides to offer a solution. The Marquis proposes marriage to Désirée on the condition that the wedding takes place within the hour. At the prospect of becoming the father of a Marchioness, Pomaret promptly gives his consent. Unbeknown to the Count, however, the Marquis has recently been convicted of killing a rival in a duel and has been sentenced to death. Cardinal Richelieu has condescended to permit the Marquis to die in battle against thirty-thousand Spaniards instead of facing ignominious death on the gallows. The Marquis secretly plans that as soon as the wedding vows are completed he will leave for his final battle, having first ennobled Désirée and then making the new Marchioness a widow, freeing her to marry the Count – thus fulfilling his promise to solve his friend’s dilemma. However, the jealous Count is infuriated upon learning of the marriage plan and challenges the Marquis to a duel. In his outrange, the Count does not allow the Marquis the chance to explain. The Marquis has him arrested for his own good. The Marquis and Désirée are married; but at the wedding reception the Marquis seems uninterested, and Désirée, very much slighted, is furious. She sends her father to the Cardinal to request an annulment of her marriage. Meanwhile, the Count escapes and returns to confront the Marquis. The Marquis reveals the full details of his plan to the Count, and to convince him his intentions are honorable, the Marquis sends his Sergeant with an immediate challenge to the Spanish General. Surprising news arrives from the Cardinal; the rival whom the Marquis had killed was found to be a traitor, and the Marquis is thereupon not only pardoned but a hero. Alas, the Marquis has already obliged himself to conduct a one-man battle against the thirty-thousand Spaniards. With only his trusted sword in hand, the honorable |
7,512 | Stonerside Stable | Stonerside Stable is an American Thoroughbred horse breeding farm and horse racing operation in Paris, Kentucky. Until September 2008 it was owned by Robert and Janice McNair, who also own the National Football League team, the Houston Texans. They sold the highly successful operation to the Darley racing conglomerate of Sheikh Mohammed of Dubai. Stonerside Stable is a finalist for the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Breeder for 2008. References Stonerside Stable website Stonerside Stable at the Breeders' Cup website Category:American racehorse owners and breeders Category:Buildings and structures in Bourbon County, Kentucky Category:Horse farms in Kentucky |
7,513 | Blacko | Blacko is a village and civil parish in the Pendle district of Lancashire, England. Before local government reorganisation in 1974 the village lay on the border with the West Riding of Yorkshire. The parish has a population of 672. The village is on the old turnpike road from Nelson to Gisburn (A682). The village enjoys views towards Boulsworth Hill to its southeast, the former cotton town of Nelson, about two miles to its south and Pendle Hill to its west across the valley of Pendle Water. The parish adjoins the Pendle parishes of Middop, Bracewell and Brogden, Salterforth, Foulridge, Colne, Barrowford, Roughlee Booth and Barley-with-Wheatley Booth. Parts of the parish, west of the village are included in the Forest of Bowland Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). History Spring Field Mill was probably built around 1850 for cotton weaving and powered originally by a beam engine. Later the mill was extended and horizontal engine installed and it reached its fullest extent by 1910. Closed in the 1970s, the building survived into the 2000s, however a small housing estate now occupies the site. Overlooking the village is Stansfield Tower (also known as Blacko Tower), which was built around 1890. A local grocer, Jonathan Stansfield, built this circular rough stone tower to provide himself with a view over Ribblesdale from the top, but the height fell somewhat short. A Bronze Age axe, believed to be 3,500 years old, was found near the tower in 1952. The village has won the small village category of the Lancashire Best Kept Village competition in 2002 and 07, and the champion village category in 2011, 13, 15 and 16. Governance The part of Blacko parish historically in Lancashire was once part of Barrowford township in the ancient parish of Whalley. This became a civil parish in 1866, however in 1894 the urban areas became and urban district and Blacko was created from the remainder, forming part of the Burnley Rural District until 1974. The area around Admergill formed part of Brogden township in Barnoldswick's ancient parish and later the Skipton Rural District, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Along with part of Barrowford, the parish forms the Blacko and Higherford ward of Pendle Borough Council. The Village also is home to Blacko Events Committee, which regularly hold fundraising events including the Annual Blacko Show, which is held on the recreational site every September. The committee raise funds which then is put back into the community. One noticeable community project was the donation of funds to the Parish Council, to provide new play equipment on the recreation ground, which then went on to win Pendle community Networks Play Setting of the Year Award. Demography According to the United Kingdom Census 2011, the parish has a population of 672, an increase from 595 in the 2001 census. People Stone Edge (historically Stonehedge) was home to a branch of Burnley's Towneley family, some of whom emigrated to Virginia in the 17th century. As well as exporting the Towneley name, their descendants also included both George Washington and Robert E. Lee. Blacko |
7,514 | Bugle and trumpet calls of the Mexican Armed Forces | The Mexican Armed Forces have a number of bugle and trumpet calls for the different branches. Drums and bugles are used to signal the various calls for most units of the Army, Navy and Air Force while the cavalry trumpet is used to signal calls for the cavalry units of the Army, Army artillery units and the Air Force. Many of the calls and signals listed below are also used by civilian drum and bugle bands. All-forces calls Attention - signals the unit to stand at attention, also signals the end of flag raising and lowering At Ease Slope Arms - signals the unit to slope arms Present Arms - signals the unit to present arms Order Arms - signals the unit to order arms Port Arms Sling Arms Unsling Arms Ground Arms Fix Bayonets Remove Bayonets Drumbeat pace/Marchpast pace Accelerated/double pace Honor March (Marcha de Honor) - performed in the presence of the President of Mexico and the National Defense Secretary/Assistant Secretary. It is played to accompany the National Anthem of Mexico or played as a stand-alone march Salute to the Flag (Toque de Bandera) - performed during flag raising and lowering ceremonies and marches of honor commemorating the Flag of Mexico. Like the Marcha de Honor, played to the accompaniment of the National Anthem of Mexico or as a stand-alone march. NCO's and Enlisted Arrival - Signals the arrival of NCO's and enlisted personnel Officers Arrival - Signals the arrival of officers Arrival of Honor - Signals the arrival of the guest of honor Bands/Musicians Arrival - Signals the arrival of the military band Buglers Arrival - Played by the drums and bugles to signal their arrival Branch calls Mexican Army The Mexican Army uses 129 bugle calls. Most are played by drummers and buglers in the infantry bands and the engineers. The remainders are played by trumpeters of the cavalry and artillery. Infantry calls Alarm Infantry Column Sections/Squads Companies Battalion Cease Firing Lines Listing Reunion Regiment Platoons Medic Cavalry and armored branch calls Marcha Dragona (Dragoons March) Regiment Veterinarian visit Charge At the Gallop Shoulder, Saber Order Saber Cavalry Squadrons Troops Platoon Water At the Trot Walk March Start Engine Mount Dismount Artillery calls Battery Artillery Gunners Center Counter March Close cannon Close Mounting Carriages Column Discharge Distance Battery Fire On Batteries On Discharge Dismount from vehicles Mount vehicles Intervals Lines Lines of Columns Artillery March Auxiliaries' Arrival Groups Start Engines Mexican Navy Drum and bugle calls are always performed by the Mexican Navy's drum and bugle bands, whether aboard ships or on land. Ship Batteries Flotilla Marines on board Sailors on board Fleet Squadron Flag Officers' arrival Gun Salute Ship Companies Naval Artillery Battle Stations Mexican Air Force Drum and bugle calls of the Mexican Air Force are used on the ground on airbases. Group Wing Squadron Medic Flight See also Mexican Armed Forces Bugle call El Degüello Category:Bugle calls Category:Military of Mexico |
7,515 | Microbacterium aurantiacum | Microbacterium aurantiacum is a bacterium from the genus of Microbacterium which has been isolated from sewage. References Further reading External links Type strain of Microbacterium aurantiacum at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase Category:Bacteria described in 1998 Category:Micrococcineae |
7,516 | Larry Miller (American football) | Lawrence Miller (born February 8, 1962) is a former American football quarterback in the National Football League who played for the Minnesota Vikings. He played college football for the Northern Iowa Panthers. References Category:1962 births Category:Living people Category:American football quarterbacks Category:Minnesota Vikings players Category:Northern Iowa Panthers football players Category:National Football League replacement players |
7,517 | Delaware Route 11 | Delaware Route 11 (DE 11) is a state highway in Kent County, Delaware. It runs from Maryland Route 302 (MD 302) at the Maryland border near Templeville, Maryland northeast to DE 300 near Kenton. The road, known as Arthursville Road for its entire length, passes through the farmland of western Kent County and then through the town of Hartly, where it intersects DE 44. The route was built as a state highway in the 1920s and 1930s and received the DE 11 designation by 1936. Route description DE 11 begins at the Maryland border in western Kent County, where the road continues west into Maryland as MD 302 towards the town of Templeville. From the state line, DE 11 heads northeast on two-lane, undivided Arthursville Road through a mix of woods and farms, with occasional residences. The road enters the town of Hartly, where it passes several homes along with some commercial establishments. In the center of town, the route crosses DE 44 and heads north before it curves northeast out of Hartly. DE 11 continues into rural areas, making another turn north. The road runs northeast and crosses Jordan Branch and Pinks Branch before it comes to an end at DE 300 to the southwest of the town of Kenton. DE 11 has an annual average daily traffic count ranging from a high of 2,543 vehicles at the eastern terminus at the north end of Hartly to a low of 1,503 vehicles at the south end of Hartly. None of DE 11 is part of the National Highway System. History By 1920 what is now DE 11 existed as an unimproved county road. The portion of the route north of Hartly was built as a paved state highway in 1927. The road south of Hartly was taken over by the state and paved by 1931. DE 11 was assigned to its current alignment by 1936. The route has not changed since its inception. Major intersections See also References External links 011 Category:Transportation in Kent County, Delaware |
7,518 | 1971 Swedish Open | The 1971 Swedish Open was a combined men's and women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts held in Båstad, Sweden. The event was classified as a Group C category tournament and was part of the 1971 Grand Prix circuit. It was the 24th edition of the tournament and was held from 5 July through 11 July 1971. Ilie Năstase and Helga Masthoff won the singles titles. Finals Men's singles Ilie Năstase defeated Jan Leschly 6–7, 6–2, 6–1, 6–4 Women's singles Helga Masthoff defeated Ingrid Bentzer 4–6, 6–1, 6–3 Men's Doubles Ilie Năstase / Ion Ţiriac defeated Jaime Pinto-Bravo / Butch Seewagen 7–6, 6–1 Women's Doubles Helga Masthoff / Heide Orth defeated Ana María Pinto Bravo / Linda Tuero 6–1, 6–2 References External links ITF – Tournament Details Swedish Open Category:Swedish Open Swedish Open Category:July 1971 sports events in Europe |
7,519 | Franz Köcher | Franz Köcher (27 December 1916 in Auma – 18 November 2002 in Berlin) was an influential Assyriologist and medical historian. Life and work Born in Thuringia, Franz Köcher spent most of his scientific career in Berlin. He is primarily known for his magnum opus "Babylonisch-assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen" (BAM). After finishing high school in Gera in 1936, Köcher did his undergraduate work in Ancient History, Near Eastern Philology (Orientalische Philologie) and Philosophy at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität of Jena. His studies were interrupted by his conscription into the Wehrmacht from October 1938 until the end of World War II. During this time he did manage to attend one semester in the winter of 1941/42 at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-University zu Berlin. After being taken as a prisoner of war by the US Army, he was released after a few weeks and worked as a teacher's assistant, until the University reopened in 1946 and Köcher was able to resume his studies. It was at this time that his teacher Erich Ebeling started to have a decisive impact on Köcher's scientific work. Ebeling was Köcher’s doctoral advisor for his doctorate, which was awarded in Assyriology, Near Eastern Philology (Orientalische Philologie) and Philosophy in March 1949. The subject of his dissertation was "Incantations against the demoness Lamaštu" (Beschwörungen gegen die Dämonin Lamaštu). From May 1949 on, Köcher first worked as a research assistant and later, beginning in October 1952, as a research associate at the Institute for Oriental Studies (Institut für Orientforschung) of the Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Due to the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961, he was forced to abandon his work, since he lived in West Berlin and the Akademie was in the east. Because of his relentless work in the years prior to these events, Köcher had already laid the foundations of his afore mentioned magnum opus. His talent for making hand copies of cuneiform tables quickly became apparent when he assisted Erich Ebeling with his volume "Literarische Keilschrifttexte aus Assur" in 1953. Köcher was introduced to cuneiform medicine through, among others, the work on Ebeling's "Keilschrifttexte zur assyrisch-babylonischen Drogen- und Pflanzenheilkunde" in 1955, which was mostly focused on the pharmacological series URU AN.NA. He kept working on the series even long after his retirement. Thanks to a scholarship awarded to him by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, he was able to continue his work on cuneiform medical texts from December 1961 onwards. In May 1963 Köcher became a research associate at the Institute for the History of Medicine (Institut für Geschichte der Medizin) at the Freie Universität Berlin, where he would spend the remaining nineteen years of his career. After Köcher's habilitation in January 1967, he was granted the venia legendi by the Freie Universität. Until his retirement in March 1983, he was a very active and dedicated teacher who had significant influence on many young physicians, historians and assyriologists alike. His magnum opus, "Die Babylonisch-Assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen (BAM), was of paramount importance for Köcher throughout his entire career and is until today among the most important publications |
7,520 | Revolutionary Knitting Circle | A Revolutionary Knitting Circle is an activist group which uses craftivism (specifically knitting and other textile handicrafts) in their efforts to bring about social change. The first Revolutionary Knitting Circle group was founded in Calgary, Canada, by Grant Neufeld in 2000. Since then, groups have formed across Canada, in the United States, and in various parts of Europe. Purpose The groups claim three main goals: Promoting community independence They hold that communities and nations are currently subject to the corporate rule and that a goal of the Revolutionary Knitting Circles is to return them to independence from that rule. While not advocating an end to trade (be it local or international), the groups are working to build the capacity for all necessary subsistence production at the community level. The theory being that, with the ability to take care of all essential needs, communities will be in a position to say no to trade deals they do not want. Breaking down social divisions The Revolutionary Knitting Circles oppose various social divisions, including age, gender, race and class. The groups actively seek to include a diverse range of people, from across those divisions, in cooperative efforts. This goal is also served by having the groups often publicly represented by youthful males (such as the founder). Given the common view of knitting as work associated with middle- and lower-class women - typically older women - the groups hope that this representation will help to counter stereotypes. Changing how activism is done The groups hope to increase participation in activism by offering a different approach from the often intense, and sometimes hostile, modes of activism most commonly associated with social justice movements. History of actions The first major action initiated by the Revolutionary Knitting Circle was the Global Knit-In held during the 2002 G8 Summit. Groups in a number of cities and towns hosted protest rallies featuring knitting outside of major corporate sites, especially bank office towers. Notable among these was the mass rally held in Ottawa, Canada - where protesters set up a 'social safety net' made of knitted squares. In 2003 the group produced a pattern for white knitted arm-bands with a peace symbol. Members of the Knitting Circles and other interested knitters produced numerous arm-bands from the pattern which were worn in the mass peace marches and rallies held that year. In 2004 the group produced a pattern for a banner displaying the words "Peace Knits". The pattern called for individual 6 inch squares to be stitched together - allowing for many knitters to contribute to a single banner. See also Sewing circle References External links Revolutionary Knitting Circle The Revolutionary Knitting Circle Proclamation of Constructive Revolution (manifesto) Revolutionary Knitting in the news Category:Organizations established in 2000 Category:Activism Category:International organizations based in Canada Category:Knitting organizations Category:2000 establishments in Canada |
7,521 | WXBM-FM | WXBM-FM (102.7 FM) is a country music formatted radio station in the Pensacola, Florida market owned by Cumulus Media Inc. through licensee Cumulus Licensing LLC in Latham, NY. Its studios and transmitter are separately located in Pensacola. External links XBM-FM Category:Country radio stations in the United States Category:Cumulus Media radio stations Category:1964 establishments in Florida Category:Radio stations established in 1964 |
7,522 | HMS Spanker (1889) | HMS Spanker was a Sharpshooter-class torpedo gunboat of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1889, converted to a minesweeper in 1909 and sold for breaking in 1920. Construction Spanker was laid down at Devonport Dockyard on 12 April 1888 and launched on 22 February 1889. She was commissioned at Devonport on 17 October 1890. It was common for the officers of smaller vessels with poor accommodation to be housed in the local guardship, and Spankers officers were borne in . Her class were fitted with 2 sets of triple-expansion steam engines, and in Spankers case these were built by G E Bayliss & Co. She was fitted at build with locomotive boilers, but these were replaced with water-tube Du Temple boilers some time between 1895 and 1898. The bottom of these boilers, unlike normal Du Temple boilers, were cylindrical with end doors, instead of with bolted covers. Twin screws propelled her at up to with forced draught. Service Naval manoeuvres (1892) During naval manoeuvres in 1892 Spanker and the monitor were disabled by leaky boilers and defective steering gear. Naval Review (1897) She was present at the Naval Review at Spithead in celebration of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee on 26 June 1897. Naval manoeuvres (1900) She was mobilised for naval manoeuvres on 10 July 1900. Lieutenant Thomas Brandreth was appointed in command 14 January 1902, when she served in the Channel Fleet. She took part in the fleet review held at Spithead on 16 August 1902 for the coronation of King Edward VII. Diving experiments (1906) In 1906, Spanker took part in a Royal Navy investigation of deep-sea diving. Lieutenant Damant and Gunner Catto, from the Spanker, descended into a Scottish loch in diving-suits to the depth of , at that time a record for the British Isles. The former records were held by employees of Messrs Siebe and Gorman, London, who, in a patented dress, descended and . On 8 March 1908 Spanker was on passage from Portsmouth to Sheerness where she was to join up with ships of the Nore Division of the Home Fleet for Naval exercises when her engines failed off Bembridge on the Isle of Wight. While under tow back to Portsmouth, she ran aground off Southsea Castle, and was not freed until the next day. In November 1908, Spanker entered refit at Pembroke Dockyard, with the ship requiring partial replating of her decks. The refit was completed by 1 March 1909. Conversion to minesweeper (1909) In 1909 she and four of her sister ships were converted to minesweepers. The torpedo tubes were removed, but the ships retained their guns. The minesweeping equipment constituted a kite winch and gallows fitted on the quarterdeck. She was assigned to the North Sea Fisheries as a tender to under the orders of the Admiral Commanding Coast Guard and Reserves. World War I On 15 April 1913 Spanker was recommissioned at Portsmouth and served throughout World War I. From 1914, under Lieutenant Commander N M C Thurstan and then Lieutenant Commander F C Corbyn, she served in the North Sea. |
7,523 | Agacher Strip War | The Agacher Strip War was a war fought by Burkina Faso and Mali over a long strip of land located in the northern Burkina Faso province of Oudalan. The area, thought to contain considerable amounts of natural gas and mineral resources, was the center of a long-term border dispute between the two countries that erupted into an armed conflict on two occasions (in 1974 and 1985). Background Both Mali and Burkina Faso thought that the Agacher Strip contained substantial natural resources and hoped that these resources would help improve their dire economic situations. Some observers believe that the dispute may have been deliberately provoked to divert attention from domestic problems brought on by the return of military rule in Burkina Faso (then Upper Volta) and the growing unpopularity of Moussa Traoré's military regime in Mali. Early skirmishes The dispute between the two countries first erupted into an armed conflict on November 25, 1974. The conflict involved only a few border skirmishes with exchanges of small arms-fire in late November and mid-December 1974. Notably, there was a lack of military operations and significant fighting; casualties on both sides were minimal. As tensions escalated, mediation efforts by President Gnassingbé Eyadéma of Togo and President Seyni Kountché of Niger to resolve the conflict proved unsuccessful. Sporadic clashes continued into early 1975 with numerous reprisals against Malians in Upper Volta, prompting the Organization of African Unity to create a commission to mediate the crisis. The organization recommended that a neutral technical commission be created to demarcate the boundary. Both countries accepted this proposal at a meeting held on June 18, 1975, in Lomé, Togo. Beginning in 1977, Upper Volta and Mali engaged in political mediation through the Non-Aggression and Defense Aid Agreement (ANAD), a regional West African group. Christmas War (1985) In 1983, military captain Thomas Sankara seized power in Burkina Faso in a coup and was tasked with resolving the country's many problems, including the Agacher Strip dispute. Negotiations between Sankara, Malian President Traoré, and the countries' top diplomats were strained. Additionally, under Sankara's rule, Burkina Faso expelled Drissa Keita, a Malian diplomat, further deteriorating bilateral relations. Some Burkina Faso newspapers accused Mali of preparing an invasion; Mali rejected the accusations and accused Burkina Faso of escalating tensions. By 1985, both countries experienced several years of drought. Rainfall finally arrived in late 1985 but washed out the roads, hindering the distribution of food and medical supplies to the Agacher region. During this period, the Burkina Faso government organized a nationwide census. The census agents visited Fula camps in Mali, which sparked outrage from the Malian government, who saw it as a violation of their sovereignty. Reports about Burkina Faso ground troops present in the Agacher Strip also upset Mali because, although Burkina Faso believed they had sovereignty over the area, no formal deal had been made up to that point. Traoré publicly denounced the act and campaigned for African leaders to pressure Sankara. However, the Burkina Faso soldiers did not leave the area, escalating tensions further. On December 25, 1985, the Malian military launched several |
7,524 | Tony Tan Caktiong | Tony Tan Caktiong, (; born January 5, 1953) is a Chinese - Filipino billionaire businessman. He is the founder and chairman of Jollibee Foods Corporation, and the co-chairman of DoubleDragon Properties. Early career and education Tan was born to Chinese immigrant parents from Fujian. He attended high school at Chiang Kai Shek College and graduated from the University of Santo Tomas with a degree in chemical engineering. Tan had initially planned an ice cream parlor when he founded Jollibee, then added dishes such as hamburgers, french fries, and fried chicken. Career Jollibee Foods Corporation Tan founded the fast food chain Jollibee in 1978, after having started it as an ice cream parlor in 1975. Expansion and acquisition of Greenwich Pizza Corp. enabled it to enter the pizza-pasta segment. In early 2006, Jollibee Foods Corporation bought out the remaining shares of its partners in Greenwich Pizza Corporation, equivalent to a 20% stake, for P384 million in cash. As of August 2008, Tan's Jollibee has a total of 1,480 stores worldwide including Jollibee, Red Ribbon, Chowking, Greenwich, Manong Pepe's and Mang Inasal. As of November 2015, Forbes estimated his net worth at US$4.1 billion. DoubleDragon Properties In 2012, Tan, through his holding company, Honeystar Holdings Corporation, invested in Injap Land Corporation, a property company founded by Edgar Sia II. With Tan's entry, the company was renamed DoubleDragon Properties Corporation. Awards Entrepreneur Of The Year Philippines, 2004 Huizenga was named the 2005 Ernst & Young World Entrepreneur Of The Year, 2004 Gawad Mabini with the rank of Commander (Dakilang Kasugo), 2016 Honorary doctorate from the University of Santo Tomas, 2018 References Category:Jollibee Foods Corporation Category:Fast-food chain founders Category:Filipino billionaires Category:Filipino chief executives Category:Filipino people of Chinese descent Category:Living people Category:University of Santo Tomas alumni Category:Filipino company founders Category:1953 births |
7,525 | Lygomusotima constricta | Lygomusotima constricta is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Maria Alma Solis and Shen-Horn Yen in 2004. It is found in the Philippines (Luzon). The length of the forewings is 6–7 mm The larvae probably feed on Lygodium species. Etymology The species name is refers to the anterior constriction of the ductus bursae in the female. References Category:Moths described in 2004 Category:Musotiminae |
7,526 | Tamala | Tamala may refer to: People Evie Tamala (b. 1969), Indonesian dangdut singer-songwriter Tamala Edwards (b. 1971), American television news anchor and reporter Tamala Jones (b. 1974), American actress Tamala Krishna Goswami (1946–2002), served on International Society for Krishna Consciousness's Governing Body Commission Places Tamala (inhabited locality), name of several inhabited localities in Russia Tamala Park, Western Australia, unpopulated locality within the City of Wanneroo in Perth, Western Australia Other Tamala, a taxonomical synonym for Persea, a genus of evergreen trees Tamala limestone, eolianite limestone deposits on the western coastline of Western Australia Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space, a Japanese anime feature film. |
7,527 | Sergei Senkin | Sergei Yakovlevich Senkin (1894–1963) was a twentieth-century Russian artist. Senkin studied at the class of Kasimir Malevitch during the 1920s In VHUTEMAS, he came to visit him in Vitebsk a few times with his friend Gustav Klucis. There, he developed his own approach to Suprematism. He used a variety of artistic techniques such as graphic and poster design, photography and photomontage as well as painting. Worked together with Gustav Klucis on agitational posters in 1922-1937. In 1928 he joined the Constructivist October Group. Senkin was involved with El Lissitzky providing the frieze for the Pressa exhibition in Cologne 1928. See also List of Soviet poster artists Photomontage Constructivism (art) References Category:1894 births Category:1963 deaths Category:Russian artists Category:Constructivism (art) Category:Muralists Category:Russian graphic designers |
7,528 | Zhvania | Zhvania () is a Georgian surname. Notable persons with that name include: Anna Zhvania (born 1970), Georgian politician Kakhaber Zhvania, (born 1983), Georgian boxer Lasha Zhvania (born 1973), Georgian politician Zurab Zhvania (1963–2005), Georgian politician Zurab Zhvania (born 1991), Georgian rugby union player Category:Georgian-language surnames |
7,529 | Viola Township, Audubon County, Iowa | Viola Township is one of twelve townships in Audubon County, Iowa, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 166. History Viola Township was organized in 1873. Geography Viola Township covers an area of and contains no incorporated settlements. According to the USGS, it contains one cemetery, Viola Center. References External links US-Counties.com City-Data.com Category:Townships in Audubon County, Iowa Category:Townships in Iowa Category:1873 establishments in Iowa Category:Populated places established in 1873 |
7,530 | Gilles du Faing | Gilles du Faing (c. 1560–1633), lord of Linay and Griffemont, baron of Jamoigne, was a soldier and diplomat in the service of Philip II of Spain and the Archdukes Albert and Isabella. Life Du Faing was born to Jean du Faing and Françoise de Cugnon in Jamoigne (now part of Chiny), in the Duchy of Luxembourg, around 1560. After his studies he became captain of a company in a High German regiment of the Army of Flanders, taking part in the Sieges of Antwerp, Grave, Venlo, Zutphen, Sluis, and Bergen op Zoom. Sent to the royal court in Spain by the Duke of Parma, he remained there for five years on business relating to the Low Countries and the war with France, and in 1595 was knighted by Philip II for his services. He returned to the Low Countries as a gentleman in the household of the Governor General, Archduke Albert, who in 1596 also appointed him a councillor of the Council of Luxembourg. He wrote an account of Albert's 1598 journey to Spain, and his return with Isabella. In 1600 he was appointed provost of Chiny, and in 1617 high bailiff of the County of Flanders. In 1623 his seigneury of Jamoigne was raised to the status of barony by Philip IV of Spain. Over the course of his life he undertook 26 official or unofficial diplomatic missions, visiting neighbouring courts in France, Lorraine, Jülich, and Liège, as well as further afield in Germany, Italy and Denmark. In 1600 he was one of the representatives of the Burgundian Circle at a diet in Speyer. He died in Ghent on 11 December 1633. He was survived by his wife, Marguerite de Steenlant (died 1655), and a son, Philippe-François, baron of Jamoigne, who likewise served on the Council of Luxembourg. References Category:1560 births Category:1633 deaths Category:Military personnel of the Eighty Years' War Category:Ambassadors of the Habsburg Netherlands |
7,531 | Eva Glesková | Eva Glesková (née Lehocká; born 26 July 1943) is a former Czechoslovak track and field sprinter who specialised in the 100 metres. She represented Czechoslovakia three times at the Summer Olympics (1964, 1968, 1972) and twice at the European Athletics Championships (1966, 1969). She equalled the world record for the 100 m in 1972 with a manually-timed run of 11.0 seconds. She was twice a relay medallist at the European Indoor Games and a 13-time national champion in the individual sprints. Career Born Eva Lehocká in Zvolen, Slovakia, she took up athletics at the age of fifteen, training with local coaches in Zvolen. She began to take the sport more seriously after a move to Bratislava, where she joined the Slávia STU club and worked with coach Antona Hajmássyho. She gained her first national title over 200 metres at the Czechoslovakian Athletics Championships in 1962. She won that title three years running and in 1964 set championship records with a 100 m/200 m sprint double. These performances gained her selection for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, where she a semi-finalist in both disciplines. She married a fellow athlete and coach Pavol Glesk in the mid-1960s and under Glesk she became part of a high quality era of Czechoslovak female athletes alongside European 400 m champion Anna Chmelková and Eva Šuranová (an Olympic long jump medallist). After missing the 1965 season she returned in 1966 with her first major international medal – a bronze in the relay alongside Libuše Macounová, Alena Hiltscherová and Eva Kucmanová. She regained her national title sprint double with new championship records of 11.7 and 24.1 seconds. At the 1966 European Athletics Championships she came close to medal in the 100 m, finishing a tenth of a second behind West Germany's Karin Frisch to take fourth place.She was sixth in the 200 m final and also ran with the Czechoslovak 4 × 100 metres relay team. That season she set a 100 m best of 11.5 seconds, which ranked her ninth in the world. Her sole high-profile appearance the following season was the 1967 European Indoor Games in Prague, where she won a relay silver medal. She broke the European record for the electronically-timed 100 m with a run of 11.29 seconds at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, though this was not ratified as a record as Irena Kirszenstein's manually-timed 11.1 remained superior. At the Olympics she was a 100 m semi-finalist but was eliminated in the first round of the 200 m. She was again a double Czechoslovak sprint champion that season. Her last two seasons of high level competition were in 1969 and 1972 and she went undefeated nationally both those years. She entered the 1969 European Athletics Championships, coming seventh in the 100 m. She achieved her fastest 100 m mark in the last year of her career in 1972. Her manually-timed run of 11 seconds flat equalled that set already by Wyomia Tyus in 1968 and matched by Chi Cheng, Renate Stecher and Ellen Stropahl in the intervening years. She remains the only Slovak woman to |
7,532 | Lugaggia | Lugaggia was a municipality in the district of Lugano in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. References Category:Former municipalities of Ticino |
7,533 | Bing (TV series) | Bing is a British CGI-animated children's television series based on the books by Ted Dewan. It is broadcast on UK TV channels CBeebies and Disney Junior; the series follows a pre-school bunny named Bing as he experiences the world around him. It uses small everyday occurrences to demonstrate how he learns new ways to manage situations with the help of his carer, Flop (voiced by Mark Rylance) and friends. The programme's central phrase is "It's a Bing thing!" which Flop intones at the end of each episode when Bing has successfully conquered a troubling task or enjoyed a new childhood experience. Episodes The 1st series of 78, eight minute episodes show the "mishaps, mess, energy and wonder of being a relatively new human being". The programme focuses on real-life situations experienced by many toddlers and their parents. At the end, Bing summarizes what he has learnt in the episode, with Flop intoning "It's a Bing thing". The second season began airing on Cbeebies on 31 October 2019. Main characters Bing (voiced by Elliot Kerley in series 1 and Rafferty Railton in series 2) is the titular protagonist of the programme. He is a 3-year-old black anthropomorphic bunny. His favourite toy is Hoppity Voosh, a rabbit superhero. He wears a green shirt, red chequered dungarees and black and white shoes and he loves to hum, whistle, pretend and do untroubling childlike things. Flop (voiced by Mark Rylance, while David Threlfall provides the voice of Flop in the 2nd series) is Bing's carer, guiding Bing through his toddler life, entertaining him and soothing him when he faces a problem. He is a short orange-skinned creature. Sula (voiced by Eve Bentley) is a 4-year-old female brown anthropomorphic elephant and one of Bing's best friends. Amma (voiced by Akiya Henry), is Sula's guardian (possibly mother). Amma runs the creche and park café which the programme's child characters sometimes visit. She is a short blue-skinned elephant-like creature. Pando (voiced by Shai Portnoy in series 1 and Noah Hicks in series 2) is a 3-year-old anthropomorphic panda who is also Bing's second best friend, and lives next door to him. He shares his catchphrase, "Hoppity-voosh! " with Bing. He wears a white shirt that doesn't completely cover his belly, black trainers and underwear and he hums, whistles, pretends and does untroubling childlike things just like Bing. Padget (voiced by Bryony Hannah) is Pando's guardian (possibly mother). She runs the corner shop near to where Bing lives. Padget can sometimes be spotted out jogging or else driving her yellow tuk-tuk. She is a short green-skinned creature. Coco (voiced by Jocelyn Macnab in series 1 and 2) is a white anthropomorphic bunny who is Bing's cousin and Charlie's older sister. Coco is the eldest of the child characters. Charlie (voiced by Poppy Hendley), is a white anthropomorphic bunny who is Coco's 1-year-old baby brother and Bing's cousin who cannot talk. He puts everything in his mouth and the others say, "Don't chew it, Charlie!" Production Bing was based on a series of books called "Bing Bunny" written and illustrated by |
7,534 | Todd Schorr | Todd Schorr (born January 9, 1954) is an American artist and one of the most prominent members of the "Lowbrow" art movement or pop surrealism. Combining a cartoon influenced visual vocabulary with a highly polished technical ability, based on the exacting painting methods of the Old Masters, Schorr weaves intricate narratives that are often biting yet humorous in their commentary on the human condition. While growing up as a child in New Jersey, Schorr showed a compulsion for drawing at an early age and was enrolled in Saturday morning art classes by the age of five. Deeply affected by fantasy movies such as the 1933 classic King Kong and the early animated cartoons of Walt Disney and Max Fleischer, their influence along with comic books such as Mad would have a lasting effect on Schorr’s developing visual vocabulary. While visiting the Uffizi gallery in Italy on a trip to Europe in the summer of 1970, Schorr began to formulate his idea of combining his love of cartoons with the techniques of the old masters. In 1972 he entered the Philadelphia College of Art (now the University of the Arts) wanting to be a painter but was advised to pursue illustration. Schorr started professional illustration work while still in college, and soon after graduating in 1976, he moved to New York City where he produced work for projects including album covers for AC/DC, movie posters for George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola, and covers for Time magazine that now reside in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC. By 1985 Schorr began making a concentrated effort to break away from illustration and focus on fine art painting. He was invited to show work in the 1986 landmark exhibition American Pop Culture Images Today at the Laforet Museum in Tokyo, Japan, along with notable artists Robert Williams, Suzanne Williams, Neon Park, Bob Zoell, Georganne Deen, Mark Mothersbaugh, Gary Panter, and his wife Kathy Staico Schorr, which in large part galvanized the “Lowbrow” and Pop Surrealism movements. Schorr continued to exhibit in group shows but by the time of his wildly successful first solo show in 1992 at the Tamara Bane Gallery in Los Angeles he had severed all ties to illustration. Schorr and his wife relocated to Los Angeles in 1999. The so-called “Lowbrow” art movement that he and his contemporaries helped form almost 25 years ago is now a global phenomenon. In 2008 Schorr’s work was shown at the Laguna Art Museum as part of In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz Factor. His work has also been exhibited in three career retrospectives to date: Secret Mystic Rites 2001, Art and Culture Center, Hollywood, Florida, American Surreal, 2009, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA and Designed for Extinction, 2010, Otis Ben Maltz Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Schorr’s work has been featured in many books and periodicals on the arts including Juxtapoz as well as the documentary film The Treasures of Long Gone John. Three monographs on his work, Secret Mystic Rites (1998), Dreamland (2004), and |
7,535 | ACS Jakarta | ACS Jakarta is a Methodist school in Jakarta, Indonesia. In 2006 it joined the Anglo-Chinese Schools (ACS) family. It was started in 1996 as Sekolah Tiara Bangsa (STB) and entered into a partnership with ACS in 2002. The name was changed officially to ACS Jakarta in 2015. Programmes The school admits boys and girls from nursery to grade 12 (3 – 18 years old). Students sit for the Cambridge Primary Checkpoint Test at the end of Grade 6, the Cambridge International General Certificate of Secondary Education at the end of grade 10, and the International Baccalaureate at the end of grade 12. References External links School website Category:Anglo-Chinese School Category:Methodist schools Category:International Baccalaureate schools in Indonesia Category:Schools in Jakarta Category:Christian schools in Indonesia Category:International schools in Greater Jakarta Category:International schools in Indonesia |
7,536 | Carpipramine | Carpipramine (Prazinil, Defekton) is an atypical antipsychotic used for the treatment of schizophrenia and anxiety in France and Japan. In addition to its neuroleptic and anxiolytic effects, carpipramine also has hypnotic properties. It is structurally related to both tricyclics like imipramine and butyrophenones like haloperidol. See also Clocapramine Mosapramine References Category:Atypical antipsychotics Category:Carboxamides Category:Dibenzazepines Category:Piperidines |
7,537 | Bahama Crisis | Bahama Crisis is a first-person narrative thriller novel by English author Desmond Bagley, first published in 1982. Plot introduction Tom Mangan is a wealthy white Bahamian, and owner/president of a company operating resort hotels, marinas and car rental companies in the Bahamas. His business is successful and growing, and he has a beautiful wife and two children. Things could not be better. One day, he is visited by an old friend from his college days at the Harvard Business School, Billy Cunningham, and his beautiful younger cousin Debbie. The Cunninghams are owners of the Cunningham Corporation, a major conglomerate based in Texas. The Cunningham Corporation wants to invest heavily in developing the tourist industry in the Bahamas, and Mangan agrees to form a partnership with them. However, soon afterwards, disaster strikes. The yacht with Mangan's wife and one of his daughters mysteriously disappears, and the body of his daughter washes up on a beach hundreds of miles from where the yacht should have been. A rash of mysterious events strike the tourist industry, ranging from an unprecedented labor dispute and riot, Legionnaire's Disease striking the hotels, baggage carousels running amok at the airport, arson at an amusement center, and an oil slick from an oil tanker where it should not have been. As Mangan attempts to track down the murderer of his wife, he discovers that these seemingly unrelated events are all connected, and that the plot involves the future of the Bahamas itself as a nation. References Mostly Fiction Book Review Crime Time review of Desmond Bagley Fantastic Fiction site with publication history Category:1985 British novels Category:Novels by Desmond Bagley Category:Novels set in the Bahamas Category:William Collins, Sons books |
7,538 | Yoshito Sengoku | was a Japanese politician serving in the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature) as a member of the Democratic Party of Japan. Overviews He was born in Tokushima, Tokushima prefecture. While studying in the University of Tokyo, he passed the bar exam and therefore dropped out of the university. He was elected for the first time in 1990 as a member of the Japan Socialist Party. Viewed as a close ally of Prime Minister Naoto Kan, the opposition Liberal Democratic Party has labeled Sengoku as the "second" Prime Minister of the Kan cabinet. Sengoku denies that he wields any extraordinary influence in the government and praised Kan as a "strong leader". In January 2011, he was ousted from his position as a top cabinet member due to swelling pressure from the opposition, namely the Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito Party, to execute cabinet reform. Sengoku was replaced by Yukio Edano, who was expected to yield much influence over Kan as a protégé of Sengoku. In March 2011, Prime Minister Naoto Kan appointed Sengoku as Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary. He lost his seat in the December 16, 2012 general election. References External links Official website |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- Category:1946 births Category:2018 deaths Category:Democratic Party of Japan politicians Category:Government ministers of Japan Category:Japanese lawyers Category:Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) Category:People from Tokushima (city) Category:Social Democratic Party (Japan) politicians Category:University of Tokyo alumni Category:20th-century Japanese politicians Category:21st-century Japanese politicians Category:Deaths from lung cancer Category:Deaths from cancer in Japan |
7,539 | Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences | The Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences (CHSAS) is a public 4–year magnet high school located in the Mount Greenwood neighborhood on the far south side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. The school is operated by the Chicago Public Schools district. CHSAS opened for the 1985–86 school year in August 1985. The school is located on a campus, of which are dedicated to a working farm (it was built on the site of the last farm to survive within the Chicago city limits), and the students commute from all across the city to CHSAS. History Opened in 1985 by the Chicago Public Schools as a unique, experimental high school devoted to teaching agricultural science to urban students. It is located in the Mount Greenwood neighborhood of the city. The students benefit from hands-on experience and summer internships, and many do go on to attend universities and major in agricultural disciplines. It was the second high school of this kind to open in the United States. Academics All students are members of the FFA (formerly Future Farmers of America), the school's motto is that of FFA. The school claims that it is the organization's largest Illinois chapter, and the fifth largest in the nation. Athletics CHSAS competes in the Chicago Public League and is a member of the Illinois High School Association (IHSA). Teams are stylized as the Cyclones. The girls' basketball team were Class A Regional champions in 2003–04. The boys' golf team were Class AA and Public League champions in 2000–01. Student life In 2012, CHSAS began a partnership with The Nature Conservancy's Leaders in Environmental Action for the Future (LEAF) program. This program offers paid internships to a select number of students from CHSAS and helps staff develop resources. The school sponsors six sports for young men and women, an additional four for young men, and an additional five for young women. The school also sponsors athletes who compete in the Special Olympics. The school also sponsors 17 extracurricular clubs and activities. Those that are chapters of nationally notable organizations include the National Honor Society (NHS). References Category:1985 establishments in Illinois Category:Agriculture in Illinois Category:Chicago Public Schools Category:Educational institutions established in 1985 Category:Magnet schools in Illinois Category:Public high schools in Chicago |
7,540 | I would rather cry in a BMW | "I would rather cry in a BMW" is a quotation that became an online sensation in the People's Republic of China in 2010. The old, long-familiar phrase was made famous by Ma Nuo, a 20-year-old female contestant on the television show Fei Cheng Wu Rao (also known in English as If You Are the One). The line was in response to a question by an unemployed suitor who asked if Ma would "ride a bicycle with him" on a date. The series of events have been summed up in the media with the quip "I would rather cry in a BMW than smile on a bicycle." Author In interviews after the show, Ma pointedly denied that she is a "gold digger" – saying that she "just wanted to reject [her suitor] in a creative way." Nonetheless, the phrase has made its rounds across the Chinese blogosphere, and has become emblematic of the culture of materialism and lack of authenticity that now allegedly permeates Chinese society, particularly in the process of dating and courtship. Social commentator Chen Zhigang remarked, "Does Ma Nuo only speak for herself? No. Her opinion resonates with youth; they have grown up in a society that is quickly accumulating material wealth. They are snobbish. They worship money, cars and houses because the highly developing economy has made them do so." Analysis The blunt nature of the statement works well in the dating show's format, and is not the first controversial phrase to arise out of Fei Cheng Wu Rao. It was cited by critics as a window to the "degradation of Chinese social values," and even drew the attention of government censors, who eventually forced producers to re-design the format of the show to be more professional and 'clean' of morally questionable content. A Global Times commentary remarked that the obsession with BMWs is symbolic of a larger national trend that measures a person's success solely by money rather than factors such as "knowledge, taste, kindness or vision." The phrase also earned notoriety for Ma, whose purported pictures began surfacing all over the internet despite strong dislike from the public. Professor Jinhua Zhao of the University of British Columbia referred to the quote to allude to trends in the last decade of Beijing residents opting to get rid of their bikes in favour of cars as a mode of transport, citing the social perception that, "bikes are now for losers." References Category:2010 in China Category:Quotations from television Category:Internet memes Category:Words and phrases introduced in 2010 Category:Bicycles Category:BMW |
7,541 | Maria Light | Maria Light is a novel by the American writer Lester Goran set in 1940s Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It tells the story of Maria Light, a recent widow in a Pittsburgh government housing project called Addison Terrace as she tries to survive, providing for her three children and her elderly father-in-law. References Category:1962 American novels Category:Novels by Lester Goran Category:Novels set in Pittsburgh Category:Novels set in the 1940s |
7,542 | National Library of Turkey | The National Library of Turkey () is the national library of Turkey, located in Ankara. It was founded on April 15, 1946. History The National Library of Turkey, established in the Çankaya district of the city Ankara was established on April 15, 1946 under the Ministry of Education through the Directorate of Publications. The library initially had 8,000 printed works, but within the first year it had outgrown its original building, and in order to make the collection available to the public it moved to a temporary building on April 17, 1947. Soon the archive's size reached 60,000. It officially started to serve the users on August 16, 1948. The building is now used as the Ankara Provincial Public Library. The National Library gained a separate legal entity independent from the Ministry of National Education through a law adopted by the Grand National Assembly on March 23, 1950. Nine days later, the law came into force and was published on the T.C. Resmi Gazete. Plans for constructing a new building used for the National Library started in 1965, after realizing that the existing building would not meet the requirements in the future. Construction began in 1973 and was completed on August 5, 1983. Since its completion, the library has served its users in some 39,000 square meters of space. According to the 1934 Law on Compilation of Printed Articles and Pictures, it is obligatory to send a copy of every work published in the country to the National Library. According to the 2017 data, there are 4,087,909 manuscripts and printed works in the library's archive. According to the statistics of the same year, the number of people benefiting from the National Library, which has 26,478 registered members, is 629,905. The library is a member of the Conference of European National Librarians (CENL) and Europeana. It is a member of the National Collective Catalog organizations in Turkey. Collection The National Library has one of the richest collections in Turkey. As of 2013, the collection consists of 3,089,517 items, which can be categorized as follows: References See also List of national libraries Presidential Library (Turkey) Rami Barracks External links Milli Kütüphane (National Library of Turkey) National Library List Turkey Category:Libraries in Turkey Category:1946 establishments in Turkey Category:Libraries established in 1946 |
7,543 | Swift Temper | Swift Temper (foaled 2004 in Kentucky) is an American Thoroughbred racehorse. Bred by Richard Nip, she was out of the winning mare Glasgow's Gold, a daughter of Seeking the Gold. A son of Mr Prospector, she was sired by Giant's Causeway, the 2000 European Horse of the Year and son of Storm Cat. Swift Temper is owned by Mark H. Stanley and trained by Dale Romans. The Chestnut mare made a surge on the racing environment when she won the Delaware Handicap over Icon Project. After coming off of a well beaten second in the grade one Personal Ensign Stakes, just 13 days after she won the Ruffian Handicap. Made 3:5 betting favorite in the Spinster Stakes at keenland, she was beaten by longshot Muska. References Stats and Bio, NTRA Category:2004 racehorse births Category:Thoroughbred family 14-c Category:Racehorses bred in Kentucky Category:Racehorses trained in the United States |
7,544 | Guillermo Pereira | Guillermo Fabián Pereira (born 16 January 1994) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Los Andes. Club career Pereira is a product of the Douglas Haig youth system, though he left in order to join Independiente in 2008. He made his senior bow in April 2014 against Santamarina in the Copa Argentina, which was his sole appearance for the club. 2015 saw Pereira move to Mexico to play on loan for Athletic Club Morelos of Liga Premier. His first appearance came in a goalless draw with Albinegros de Orizaba on 5 September, which preceded his opening senior goal versus Puebla Premier coming in his second match. A further goal against Pioneros de Cancún across ten more games followed in the Mexican third tier. A return to Douglas Haig was completed on 15 July 2016 after Pereira terminated his contract with Independiente. He was selected thirty-seven times in his first campaign, which concluded with relegation to Torneo Federal A; where he would score nine goals. June 2018 saw Pereira sign for Primera B Nacional's Los Andes. International career In 2010, Pereira was selected by José Luis Brown for the Argentina U17s. Career statistics . References External links Category:1994 births Category:Living people Category:People from Pergamino Category:Argentine footballers Category:Association football midfielders Category:Argentine expatriate footballers Category:Expatriate footballers in Mexico Category:Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Mexico Category:Liga Premier de México players Category:Primera B Nacional players Category:Torneo Federal A players Category:Club Atlético Independiente footballers Category:Douglas Haig footballers Category:Club Atlético Los Andes footballers |
7,545 | Peter Scott | Sir Peter Markham Scott, (14 September 1909 – 29 August 1989) was a British ornithologist, conservationist, painter, naval officer, broadcaster and sportsman. The only child of Robert Falcon Scott, he took an interest in observing and shooting wildfowl at a young age and later took to their rearing and breeding. He established the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust in Slimbridge in 1946 and helped found the World Wide Fund for Nature, the logo of which he designed. He was also a gliding and yachting enthusiast from an early age. He was part of the British sailing team that won a bronze medal in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. He was knighted in 1973 for his work in conservation of wild animals and was also a recipient of the WWF Gold Medal and the J. Paul Getty Prize. Early life Scott was born in London at 174, Buckingham Palace Road, the only child of Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott and sculptor Kathleen Bruce. He was only two years old when his father died. Robert Scott, in a last letter to his wife, advised her to "make the boy interested in natural history if you can; it is better than games." He was named after Sir Clements Markham, mentor of Scott's polar expeditions, and a godfather along with J. M. Barrie, creator of Peter Pan. His mother Lady Scott remarried in 1922. Her second husband Hilton Young (later Lord Kennet) became stepfather to Peter. In 1923, a half brother Wayland Young was born. Scott was educated at Oundle School and Trinity College, Cambridge, initially reading Natural Sciences but graduating in the History of Art in 1931. Whilst at Cambridge he shared digs with John Berry and the two shared many views. He studied art at the State Academy in Munich for a year followed by studies at the Royal Academy Schools, London. Like his mother, he displayed a strong artistic talent and he became known as a painter of wildlife, particularly birds; he had his first exhibition in London in 1933. His wealthy background allowed him to follow his interests in art, wildlife and many sports, including wildfowling, sailing and ice skating. He represented Great Britain and Northern Ireland at sailing in the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, winning a bronze medal in the olympic class monotype mixed (O-Jolle dinghy). He also participated in the Prince of Wales Cup in 1938 during which his team on the Thunder and Lightning designed a modified wearable harness (now known as a trapeze) that helped win. Second World War During the Second World War, Scott served in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve. As a Sub-Lieutenant, during the failed evacuation of the 51st Highland Division he was the British Naval officer sent ashore at Saint-Valery-en-Caux in the early hours of 11 June 1940 to evacuate some of the wounded. This was the last evacuation of British troops from the port area of St Valery that was not disrupted by enemy fire. Then he served in destroyers in the North Atlantic but later moved to commanding the First (and only) Squadron |
7,546 | Feklistova Island | Feklistova or Feklistov Island (Остров Феклистова; Ostrov Feklistova) is one of the Shantar Islands in Sea of Okhotsk. With an area of 372 km², it is the second largest in the archipelago. Geography Feklistova is 24 km (15 mi) west to east and 19.3 km (12 mi) north to south. It lies about 20 km (12.4 mi) to the west of Bolshoy Shantar Island, the main island in the group. Feklistov Island is covered with taiga forest and has a 3 km (1.8 mi) long lake on its northern shore separated from the sea by a spit of land. Administratively this island belongs to the Khabarovsk Krai of the Russian Federation. This island is part of the "Kondyor-Feklistov metallogenic belt" (KD) owing to the presence of placers which include minerals like "blacksand platinum". The "Kondyor-Feklistov metallogenic belt" is one of the major metallogenic belts of Northeast Asia. It is assumed that it formed by an oblique subduction of the oceanic crust of the Mongol-Okhotsk paleoocean under the southern margin of the Siberian continent. History Between 1852 and 1889, American whaleships cruised for bowhead whales off Feklistova Island. They also anchored in Lebyazhya Bay on the south side of the island to stow down or boil oil, flense whales, and obtain wood and water or shelter from storms. They referred to the anchorage itself as Feklistova Harbor. The ship Lexington, of Nantucket, reported sixteen other whaleships anchored in Feklistova Harbor, of which five were boiling oil; seven more were seen coming in. References External links Satellite view for Ostrov Feklistova Pictures Category:Shantar Islands Category:Islands of the Sea of Okhotsk Category:Islands of the Russian Far East Category:Islands of Khabarovsk Krai |
7,547 | Galeon (disambiguation) | Galeon may refer to: Galeon, a web browser Galeon (molecule), a cyclic diarylheptanoid William Galeon (died 1507), a learned English Augustinian See also Galleon (disambiguation) |
7,548 | Cychrus inexpectatior | Cychrus inexpectatior is a species of ground beetle in the subfamily of Carabinae. It was described by Deuve in 1991. References inexpectatior Category:Beetles described in 1991 |
7,549 | Quotation mark | Quotation marks, also known as quotes, quote marks, speech marks, inverted commas, or talking marks, are punctuation marks used in pairs in various writing systems to set off direct speech, a quotation, or a phrase. The pair consists of an opening quotation mark and a closing quotation mark, which may or may not be the same character. Quotation marks have a variety of forms in different languages and in different media. History The double quotation mark is older than the single. It derives from a marginal notation used in fifteenth-century manuscript annotations to indicate a passage of particular importance (not necessarily a quotation); the notation was placed in the outside margin of the page and was repeated alongside each line of the passage. By the middle sixteenth century, printers (notably in Basel, Switzerland) had developed a typographic form of this notation, resembling the modern double quotation mark pointing to the right. During the seventeenth century this treatment became specific to quoted material, and it grew common, especially in Britain, to print quotation marks (now in the modern opening and closing forms) at the beginning and end of the quotation as well as in the margin; the French usage (see under Specific language features below) is a remnant of this. In most other languages, including English, the marginal marks dropped out of use in the last years of the eighteenth century. The usage of a pair of marks, opening and closing, at the level of lower case letters was generalized. By the nineteenth century, the design and usage began to be specific within each region. In Western Europe the custom became to use the quotation mark pairs with the convexity pointing outward. In Britain those marks were elevated to the same height as the top of capital letters (“…”). In France, by the end of the nineteenth century, they were modified to an angular shape and were spaced out (« … »). Some authors claim that the reason for this was a practical one, in order to get a character that was clearly distinguishable from the apostrophes, the commas and the parentheses. Also, in other scripts, the angular quotation marks are distinguishable from other punctuation characters—the Greek breathing marks, the Armenian emphasis and apostrophe, the Arabic comma, decimal separator, thousands separator, etc. Other authors claim that the reason for this was an aesthetic one. The elevated quotation marks created an extra white space before and after the word that was considered aesthetically unpleasing, while the in-line quotation marks helped to maintain the typographical color, since the quotation marks had the same height and were aligned with the lower case letters. Nevertheless, while other languages do not insert a space between the quotation marks and the word(s), the French usage does insert them, even if it is a narrow space. The curved quotation marks 66-99 usage (“…”) was exported to some non-Latin scripts, notably where there was some English influence, for instance in Native American scripts and Indic scripts. On the other hand, Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic and Ethiopic took over the angular quotation marks |
7,550 | List of Argentine films of 1936 | A list of films produced in Argentina in 1936: References 1936 Films Argentine |
7,551 | Gleba, Masovian Voivodeship | Gleba is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kadzidło, within Ostrołęka County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. It lies approximately south-west of Kadzidło, north-west of Ostrołęka, and north of Warsaw. References Gleba |
7,552 | K. Woods | K. Woods was a former West Indian cricket umpire. He stood in one Test match, West Indies vs. England, in 1954. See also List of Test cricket umpires English cricket team in West Indies in 1953–54 References Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:Living people Category:Place of birth missing (living people) Category:West Indian Test cricket umpires |
7,553 | The Daily Targum | The Daily Targum is the official student newspaper of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Founded in 1869, it is the second-oldest collegiate newspaper in the United States. The Daily Targum is student written and managed, and boasts a circulation of 5,000 in 2017. In its current form, it exists as a bi-fold tabloid-style paper featuring international, national, local, and university news, as well as editorials, columns, comics, classifieds, sports, and other amusements. In 1980, the paper achieved independence from the University, establishing a non-profit organization, the Targum Publishing Company, which now oversees all areas of the paper. The Daily Targum is published Monday through Friday while classes are in session, in New Brunswick, New Jersey. In 2006, publishing of The Newark Targum began, serving the Rutgers–Newark campus. CNBC personality Rebecca Quick served as the newspaper's editor-in-chief for a period, before joining The Wall Street Journal. AVN personality David Aaron Clark served as the newspaper's editor-in-chief for a period. Targum timeline 1866: Then Rutgers President William H. Campbell lectures to Rutgers men on the original text of the Old Testament, including Aramaic language paraphrases of the Hebrew Scriptures, called Targums. The word "Targum" means interpretation in Aramaic and is used as a slang word when referring to crib sheets, among various Aramaic terms that become part of the campus vernacular. This is the inspiration for the name of the forthcoming periodical. 1867: The Targum first appears as a four-page publication, the forerunner of the Scarlet Letter Yearbook. 1869: On Jan. 29 the Targum begins publishing as a monthly newspaper and literary magazine. It includes campus news, poetry, humor and essays on literature, science, philosophy, religion and travel. This same year Rutgers hosts the first intercollegiate football game with Princeton University, which Rutgers wins (and the Targum dutifully reports), 6–4. 1880: The Targum begins printing once every three weeks. 1891: The Targum becomes a weekly publication. 1919: The format changes from an 8" by 11" format to an 11" by 17" tabloid size. 1927: The first annual spoof issue of the Targum, the Mugrat (Targum spelled backwards) is printed. The issue reports that a Rutgers professor has been held in the county jail, charged with cruelty to animals. 1954: The Targum is printed four times a week. 1956: The newspaper becomes a daily publication, printing five days a week. 1969: Letterpress printing off-campus abandoned in favor of photo-offset print shop run by students on campus. 1970: Targum staff threatens strike if editors appoint new editorial board without staff input. Staff election of editors established through Targum caucus. Tony Mauro elected editor-in-chief over prior editors' choice. 1978: The Targum staff strikes after demands for honoraria are not met. 1980: The Targum Publishing Company files its papers of incorporation on July 1, 1980, following a year of negotiations with the University and an arduously fought battle to pass the student vote for funding. Students now fund the Targum directly through a refundable fee on their term bills. 1983: Typewriters are discarded as the first computers enter the Targum's newsroom. 1996: The Targum goes online. |
7,554 | Mike Brown (motorcyclist) | Mike Brown (born May 1, 1972) is an American former professional motocross racer and Endurocross racer. He was the 2001 AMA 125cc motocross national champion. __TOC__ Motorcycle racing career Brown won his first professional race in 1994. In 1999, he finished third in the F.I.M. 125cc world championship. He followed that performance with another third place in the 2000 125cc world championship. Brown competed in the United States in 2001 and won the AMA 125cc national championship riding for Kawasaki. In 2006, Brown finished 29th in the AMA MX Lites class and 15th in the MX class, racing for Suzuki. In 2007, he returned to Europe to compete in the MX1-GP championship, finishing in seventh place. After his motocross career, Brown began competing in Endurocross events. He won the inaugural 2009 World Off Road Championship Series (WORCS), becoming the first AMA rider since Mike Kiedrowski to win an AMA National Motocross Championship and a World Off-Road Championship Series title. In 2011 he competed at the Moto X event at X Games XVII and won the silver medal. The following year, he won the Enduro X gold medal at the X Games XVIII. Brown won another silver medal in EnduroX in the 2013 X Games Los Angeles and a gold medal in the 2015 X Games Austin. Brown is a playable character in the 2004 motocross video game MTX: Mototrax. As well as in the 2001 Motocross video game Mx Rider. References External links Mike Brown home page Category:1972 births Category:Living people Category:People from Sullivan County, Tennessee Category:American motorcycle racers Category:Motocross riders Category:Enduro riders Category:AMA Motocross Championship National Champions |
7,555 | L. nana | L. nana may refer to: Lemuresthes nana, the Madagascar munia, a finch species native to Madagascar Lodderena nana, a minute sea snail species See also Nana (disambiguation) |
7,556 | Scythris dicroa | Scythris dicroa is a moth species of the family Scythrididae. It was described by Mark I. Falkovitsh in 1972. It is found in Uzbekistan. References dicroa Category:Moths described in 1972 Category:Moths of Asia |
7,557 | Jens Dautzenberg | Jens Dautzenberg (born 24 May 1974, in Aachen) is a former German sprinter who specialised in the 400 metres. He competed on the German 4 × 400 metres relay team in two editions of the IAAF World Cup. In 1998 he finished fifth with teammates Klaus Ehmsperger, Marc Alexander Scheer and Nils Schumann and in 2002 he finished sixth with teammates Ingo Schultz, Ruwen Faller and Lars Figura. His personal best time is 46.19 seconds, achieved in July 2002 in Wattenscheid. References Category:1974 births Category:Living people Category:Sportspeople from Aachen Category:German male sprinters Category:German national athletics champions |
7,558 | Miners Protection Act | The Miners Protection Act is a bill to establish pension and health care benefits to mine workers and has been introduced to Congress 4 times since 2015 but has still not been voted on by the full Senate. The Miners Protection Act would be an amendment to the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act. The act would redirect extraneous funds from the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act to be funneled into miners pensions and health care. Background Miners are currently disbursing pension and health care capital at a rate exceeding its income. The issue stems from a massive decline in the coal industry, causing the number of retired coal miners to exceed the amount of active miners. The decline of the coal industry and miners that contribute to the UMWA Health and Retirement Funds, results in their inability to provide coverage for retired coal miners. The Miners Protection Act would provide an increase in funds to the organizations that support retired coal miners, such as the United Mine Workers of America Pension Plan and Multiemployer Health Benefit Plan. Miners and their families that would qualify to receive benefits pursuant to the Miners Protection Act of 2017 are commissioned into either the Multiemployer Health Benefit Plan or the United Mine Workers of America Pension Plan during the period when the bill would be enacted. Funds are available to include disabled, retired, or deceased miners and their families. Moreover, miners who worked for coal companies that have declared bankruptcy, or maintain frozen accounts resulting from lawsuits, would also be eligible to receive funds. Although these miners would no longer receive healthcare benefits after April, 2017, the government extended this deadline. The Miners Protection Act is designed to ensure all coal miners have an equal opportunity to receive benefits guaranteed in their contracts, through government funding. History 2015 The Miners Protection Act was originally introduced in the U.S. Senate on July 7, 2015 by the Senator of West Virginia, Joe Manchin III. The Miners Protection Act was discussed in the 114th Congress between the House of Representatives and the Senate which passed on the bill to the Committee of Finance to further evaluate the proper use of government funds. The bill had bipartisan support and was cosponsored by 26 senators. Several Democratic senators (Donnelly, J-IN; Kaine, T- VA; Warner, M-VA; Scott, R-VA) and one Republican senator (Griffith, M- VA) made official statements to the public actively supporting the bill. The bill however, was never brought to the floor for a vote in the Senate. 2016 The Miners Protection Act was introduced again on November 16, 2016. The bill was then passed to the United States Committee of Finance for review, and it was recommended to pass. The bill was sponsored by Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah. The Miners Protection Act was not approved by all parts of Congress, and was thereby dismissed. The bill had no cosponsors from other senators. Coal miners have stated that many mine workers are depending on the bill to be passed. Coal miners' response to the second dismissal of |
7,559 | Broad-toothed tailless bat | The broad-toothed tailless bat (Anoura latidens) is a species of bats in the family Phyllostomidae. It is found in Colombia, Peru, and Venezuela. References Category:Anoura Category:Mammals of Colombia Category:Mammals of Peru Category:Mammals of Venezuela Category:Mammals described in 1984 Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Category:Bats of South America |
7,560 | Heteroherpiidae | Heteroherpia is a genus of solenogaster, and the only genus in the Heteroherpiidae family. References Category:Sterrofustia Category:Monogeneric mollusc families |
7,561 | Benjamin Rodwell | Benjamin Bridges Hunter Rodwell QC (17 January 1815 – 6 February 1892) was a British lawyer and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1874 to 1881. Rodwell was the son of William Rodwell, an Ipswich banker, and his wife Elizabeth Anne Hunter, daughter of Benjamin Hunter of Glencarse, Perthshire. Benjamin Rodwell was educated at Charterhouse School and Trinity College, Cambridge, before being admitted at Inner Temple and called to the bar at Middle Temple in 1840. He served on the South-Eastern Circuit. In 1858, he became a Queen's Counsel and Bencher of his Inn. He was a J.P. and Deputy Lieutenant of Suffolk and Chairman of the quarter sessions. Rodwell was elected as a Member of Parliament for Cambridgeshire in 1874, being reelected in 1879 and resigning in 1881. He was married to Mary Packer Boggis, daughter of James Boggis, in 1844. Rodwell died at his residence, Woodlands, in Holbrook, at the age of 77. References External links Category:1815 births Category:1892 deaths Category:Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Category:UK MPs 1874–1880 Category:UK MPs 1880–1885 Category:People educated at Charterhouse School Category:Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Category:Deputy Lieutenants of Suffolk Category:Members of the Middle Temple |
7,562 | Kirby High School (Arkansas) | Kirby High School is an accredited public high school located in the rural community of Kirby, Arkansas, United States. The school provides comprehensive secondary education for more than 200 students each year in grades 7 through 12. It is one of three public high schools in Pike County, Arkansas and the only high school administered by the Kirby School District. Academics Kirby High School is accredited by the Arkansas Department of Education (ADE). The assumed course of study follows the Smart Core curriculum developed by the ADE. Students complete regular (core and elective) and career focus coursework and exams and may take Advanced Placement (AP) courses and exams with the opportunity to receive college credit. Kirby is a member of the Dawson Education Service Cooperative, which provides career and technical education programs for the area's high school students in multiple school districts. Kirby High School is listed unranked for its academic programs in the Best High Schools 2012 report by U.S. News & World Report. Extracurricular activities The Kirby High School mascot and athletic emblem are the Trojans with maroon and gray serving as the school colors. Athletics For 2012–14, the Kirby Trojans compete in interscholastic activities within the 1A Classification from the 1A 7 West Conference as administered by the Arkansas Activities Association. The Trojans participate in golf (boys/girls), cross country (boys/girls), basketball (boys/girls), baseball, and softball. Clubs and traditions Kirby students may engage in a variety of clubs and organizations such as: Future Farmers of America (FFA), FCCLA, Student Council, Beta Club, Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA), Key Club, Chess Club, Robotics, Dairy Examination,and Quiz Bowl. References External links Category:Public high schools in Arkansas Category:Schools in Pike County, Arkansas |
7,563 | Salinarimonas ramus | Salinarimonas ramus is a Gram-negative, rod-shaped motile bacterium with a single polar flagellum of the genus Salinarimonas, isolated from crude oil-contaminated saline soil of the Shengli Oilfield in China. References External links Type strain of Salinarimonas ramus at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase Category:Bradyrhizobiaceae Category:Bacteria described in 2011 |
7,564 | Torneo Gran Alternativa (2016) | The Torneo Gran Alternativa (2016) was a professional wrestling tournament event produced by the Mexican wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLLl; Spanish "World Wrestling Council") that began on March 22, 2016 and ran over the course of three of CMLL's Tuesday night shows in Arena México through April 5. The Torneo Gran Alternativa (Great alternative tournament) concept sees a Novato or rookie team up with an experienced wrestler for a tag team tournament. The rookie winner is often elevated up the ranks of CMLL as a result of winning the tournament, but there is no specific "prize" for winning the tournament beyond a symbolic trophy. After not holding a Gran Alternativa in 2015 CMLL brought the concept back in 2016, this time holding the first block of the tournament on their Tuesday show in Arena México as opposed to previous years where they held it on their Friday night Super Viernes shows. The 2016 tournament was the 21st Gran Alternativa tournament that CMLL has held since its inception in 1994 and was won by Esfinge and Volador Jr. as they defeated Fujin and Rey Escorpión in the finals. History Starting in 1994 the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) created a special tournament concept where they would team up a novato, or rookie, with a veteran for a single-elimination tag team tournament. The tournament was called El Torneo Gran Alternativa, or "The Great Alternative Tournament" and became a recurring event on the CMLL calendar. CMLL did not hold a Gran Alternativa tournament in 1997 and 2000 held on each year from 2001 through 2014, opting not to hold a tournament in 2015. The 2016 Gran Alternativa tournament will be the 21st overall Gran Alternativa tournament. All tournaments have been held in Arena México, CMLL's main venue and up until 2016 all tournaments had taken place on Friday nights, with the 2016 tournament being the first time the Gran Alternativa was held as part of CMLL's Tuesday night shows. Tournament background The tournament features 15 professional wrestling matches with different wrestlers teaming up, some of which may be involved in pre-existing scripted feuds or storylines while others are simply paired up for the tournament. Wrestlers portray either villains (referred to as Rudos in Mexico) or fan favorites (Técnicos in Mexico) as they compete in wrestling matches with pre-determined outcomes. The tournament format follows CMLL's traditional tournament formats, with two qualifying blocks of eight teams that compete on the first and second week of the tournament and a final match between the two block winners. The qualifying blocks were one-fall matches while the tournament finals will be a best two-out-of-three-falls tag team match. Each qualifying block started with all 8 Novatos competing in a "seeding" battle royal to determine the brackets for the block. Gran Alternativa participants Block A of the 2016 tournament marked the first time Rocky Casas, El Cuatrero, Flyer, Fuji, Magia Blanca and Super Halcón Jr. has competed in a Gran Alternativa tournament. The tournament also marked the CMLL debut of Rocky Casas and Arena |
7,565 | Hayatgarh | Hayatgarh ( also spelled Hayat Garh) is a village situated near Kheewa in the district of Gujrat, Pakistan. Category:Villages in Gujrat District |
7,566 | Mainichi Film Award for Best Film | A list of the winners of the Award for Best Film at the Mainichi Film Award. References Category:Lists of films by award Category:Awards for best film Film |
7,567 | Wesley Carr | Arthur Wesley Carr KCVO (26 July 1941 – 15 July 2017) was an Anglican priest who was the Dean of Westminster from 1997 to 2006. Early life Carr was educated at Dulwich College and then at Jesus College, Oxford. After theological studies at Ridley Hall, Cambridge, he was ordained a deacon in 1967 and a priest in 1968. Ministry Carr's first appointment was as a curate at St Mary's Church, Luton (Diocese of St Albans) from 1967 to 1971. He was then a tutor (1970–1971) and a chaplain (1971–1972) at Ridley Hall, Cambridge. While at the University of Sheffield he was an honorary curate at Ranmoor (Diocese of Sheffield) from 1972 to 1974. From 1974 to 1978, Carr was the chaplain of Chelmsford Cathedral (Diocese of Chelmsford). Until 1982 he was also deputy director of the Cathedral Centre for Research and Training. From 1978 to 1987 he was a canon residentiary of the cathedral. From 1976 to 1984 he was also Diocesan Director of Training. In 1987 Carr left Chelmsford to become Dean of Bristol. In 1997 he moved to Westminster Abbey, where later that year he officiated at the funeral service of Diana, Princess of Wales. In 2002 he also officiated at the funeral of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. In 1998 he was at the centre of a controversy over his abrupt dismissal of the abbey's Director of Music, Martin Neary, over accounting practices for professional concerts and recordings occurring outside the abbey. The matter was contested and referred to Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle for determination at the behest of Queen Elizabeth II. While Lord Jauncey's report upheld Neary's dismissal in finding him to be partially at fault, he was careful to note Neary's years of exceptional service and that his actions were not legally wrongful and did not amount to meaningful harm. The finding further criticised the dean and chapter for the manner in which Neary was dismissed, stating that the abbey, "must score gamma minus on the scale of natural justice" and concluding with the observation that, "had the parties been prepared to discuss openly and frankly the Abbey's concerns, to acknowledge that serious mistakes had been made and to consider the reasons therefor, it might perhaps have been possible to avoid the present unhappy situation with all its attendant publicity and to have reached a rather less dramatic resolution of their differences." Carr was made an honorary DLitt of the University of the West of England in Bristol in 1997. On his retirement as Dean of Westminster in 2006 he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO) on 17 February. As a priest he has the same precedence as a knight of the relevant order. Carr is the author of a number of books about aspects of the Christian faith. References Category:1941 births Category:2017 deaths Category:Alumni of Jesus College, Oxford Category:Alumni of Jesus College, Cambridge Category:Alumni of the University of Sheffield Category:British monarchy Category:Church of England deans Category:Deans of Westminster Category:Deans of Bristol Category:People educated at Dulwich College |
7,568 | The Two Orphans (1965 film) | The Two Orphans (French:Les Deux orphelines) is a 1965 historical drama film directed by Riccardo Freda and starring Sophie Darès, Valeria Ciangottini, Mike Marshall. It is based on the novel Les deux ophelines by Adolphe d'Ennery. Cast Sophie Darès - Henriette Gérard Valeria Ciangottini - Louise Mike Marshall - Roger de Vaudray Jacques Castelot - Le marquis de Presle Jean Desailly - Le comte de Linières Alice Sapritch - La Frochard Simone Valère - La comtesse de Linières Jean Carmet - Picard Roger Fradet - LaFleur Michel Barbey - Jacques Frochard Marie-France Mignal - Marianne Gabrielle Doulcet - Marion Denis Manuel - Pierre Frochard André Falcon - Docteur Hébert Release The Two Orphans was released in France on May 25, 1965 where it was distributed by CFF. See also Orphans of the Storm (1921) The Two Orphans (1933) The Two Orphans (1942) The Two Orphans (1954) The Two Orphans (1976) References Footnotes Sources External links Category:1965 films Category:1960s historical films Category:Italian films Category:French films Category:French historical films Category:Italian historical films Category:Italian-language films Category:Films based on French novels Category:French Revolution films Category:Films about capital punishment Category:Films about orphans Category:Films set in Paris |
7,569 | Kittle (Guyana) | The kittel or skittel is a narrow drum with one goat skin head, played with two mallets to give a syncopated rhythm in Guyanese masquerade and street bands. Guyanese slaves used to celebrate the end of the crop season when the farms owners would allow them to perform with drums, dance and singing. References External links Video - Masquerade https://web.archive.org/web/20090504004319/http://gina.gov.gy/archive/daily/b090127.html Category:Membranophones Category:British Guyanese musical instruments |
7,570 | Paul Weiss (philosopher) | Paul Weiss (; May 19, 1901 – July 5, 2002) was an American philosopher. He was the founder of The Review of Metaphysics and the Metaphysical Society of America. Background Paul Weiss grew up on the Lower East Side of New York City. His father, Samuel Weiss (d. 1917), was a Hungarian emigrant who moved from Europe in the 1890s. He worked as a tinsmith, a coppersmith, and a boilermaker. Paul Weiss's mother, Emma Rothschild (Weiss) (d. 1915), was a German emigrant who worked as a servant until she married Samuel. Born into a Jewish family, Paul lived among other Jewish families in a working-class neighborhood in the Yorkville section of Manhattan. Originally given the Hebrew name "Peretz," Weiss says in his autobiography that the name "Paul" was his "registered name" and "part of his mother's attempt to move upward in the American world." He had three brothers, two older and one younger. Weiss graduated from Public School #77. He later enrolled at the High School of Commerce where he learned shorthand and how to type; however, he felt that he did not benefit much from the available courses. His grades began to fall, and with a little encouragement from his mother, he eventually dropped out of high school. After working many odd jobs, Weiss enrolled at the College of the City of New York in 1924. He took free night classes in philosophy, graduating cum laude in 1927. At the College of the City of New York, he studied with Morris R. Cohen, who awakened in him an interest in the American pragmatist and logician Charles Sanders Peirce. During this period he also met Victoria Brodkin (d. 1953), whom he later married on October 27, 1928. They had two children: Judith, who was born in 1935, and Jonathan, who was born in 1939. Upon receiving his B.A. from the City College of New York, Weiss immediately enrolled at Harvard where he studied philosophy under Étienne Gilson, William Ernest Hocking, C. I. Lewis, Ralph Barton Perry, and Alfred North Whitehead. Under the direction of Whitehead, Weiss received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1929. Weiss's first semester at Harvard proved to be a busy one. He volunteered to help Charles Hartshorne in the monumental task of editing the thousands of scattered pages Charles S. Peirce had left behind for publication by Harvard University Press. C. I. Lewis, who was at the time the department chair of philosophy at Harvard, eventually approved Weiss to work alongside Hartshorne for the remainder of the project. The first six volumes of Peirce's work were published between 1931 and 1935. Weiss was mainly responsible for the second, third, and fourth volumes. Two more volumes edited by Arthur Burks appeared in the 1950s. Weiss later founded the scholarly journal The Review of Metaphysics in 1947 and the Metaphysical Society of America in 1950. Teaching In 1931 Paul Weiss left Harvard and began teaching philosophy at Bryn Mawr. As Weiss explains, Bryn Mawr was at the time "the self-chosen destination of the most intellectual, intelligent, determined, and well-prepared young women |
7,571 | Scaleface | Scaleface is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Publication history Scaleface first appeared in X-Factor vol. 1 #11 (December 1986), and was created by Louise Simonson and Walter Simonson. The character subsequently appears as a zombie in Sensational She-Hulk #34-35 (December 1991-January 1992). Fictional character biography After the Morlock Massacre storyline, Scaleface, Blowhard, Berzerker and Masque, part of The Tunnelers came up on Iceman and Beast. They incorrectly believe that the two X-Men were threatening Leech and Caliban. A fight breaks out, with Leech neutralizing the powers on both sides. Eventually the group calms down, with the urging of Scaleface. As a group, they join with the remnants of X-Factor and make their way to safety. It almost goes badly as Thor's funeral pyre for the dead Morlocks nearly roasts Scaleface and all of her old and new allies. Dissatisfied with the possibilities at X-Factor's HQ, they sneak out, disguised and claiming to be the X-Factor 'cleaning staff'. Scaleface urges restraint in this escape, not wanting to kill. Attempting to simply go home, they stumble upon the Savage Wolf gang. When it is clear they are mutants, the gang opens fire, killing Blow-Hard and wounding Masque. The confrontation swiftly escalates, leading to a cordon by the police. Again, Scaleface urges restraint, explaining how the cops simply want to defend their own, like the Morlocks have. Scaleface transforms in front of the cops, who frightened, open fire, killing her. Berzerker goes mad, deciding to kill every human who hates mutants. Cyclops confronts him and in the fight, Berzerker vanishes below the water, seemingly destroyed by his own powers. Scaleface was later resurrected as a zombie by the Black Talon as part of the X-Humed along with other dead mutants Changeling, Living Diamond and Harry Leland to fight She-Hulk. After She-Hulk defeats the zombies, Scaleface is given a proper burial, and magical charms are placed to keep her body from rising again. However, Scaleface is among the dead mutants resurrected by the transmode virus that Selene sends to attack X-Force during the Necrosha storyline. Powers and abilities Scaleface could transform herself into a large, sentient, dragon-like reptilian creature. In other media Television Scaleface appeared along with the other Morlocks in the X-Men episode "Captive Hearts." She reappears in the episode "Out From the Past". Scaleface briefly appeared in the X-Men: Evolution episode "X-Treme Measures". This version can breathe fire while in her reptilian creature form. She is seen as a member of the Morlocks. To keep the Morlock base a secret, Scaleface cornered Berzerker after he begs her to "let him go." References External links Category:Characters created by Louise Simonson Category:Characters created by Walt Simonson Category:Comics characters introduced in 1986 Category:Fictional shapeshifters Category:Fictional undead Category:Marvel Comics characters with superhuman strength Category:Marvel Comics mutants Category:Marvel Comics supervillains |
7,572 | Federico Gana | Federico Gana (Santiago, Chile; January 15, 1867 – April 22, 1926) was a Chilean writer and diplomat. Biography Gana was the older son of Federico Gana Munizaga y Rosario Gana Castro, and first cousin of the descendants of Albero Blest Gana, the preeminent Chilean novelist. He began his secondary education in the Linares lyceum in 1878, where he spent his first year, and completed the remainder at the National Institute. He obtained his law degree in the University of Chile in 1890, but practiced law only for a short period of time. He lived principally in Santiago and in San Bernardo. In October 1890, his first published work, the short story "¡Pobre vieja!" appeared in the weekly La Actualidad, under the pseudonym Pedro Simple. At the end of that year, Gana was named Second Secretary of the Chilean legation to London, a charge that ended with the fall of the Balmaceda government. Freed from his diplomatic work, he traveled to France, Belgium, and Holland, where he came into contact with the works of Flaubert, Balzac, and Ivan Turgenev, the lattermost impressing him profoundly. Upon his return to Chile, in 1892, he disseminated the works of the Russian novelist throughout literary circles. In 1894, Gana published another short story, this time in publication El año Literario, that was initially titled "Por un perro," but later came to be called "Un carácter." In July 1897, La Revista Literaria published the story "Una mañana de invierno, later known as "La Maiga," with which Gana began the current of criollismo rural in the country. In 1903, he married Blanca Subercaseux del Río, with whom he had six children. The same year he participated, along with his friend Baldomero Lillo, in a literary competition organized by the Catholic Review, submitting the stories "La Señora," “En las montañas," and "La Maiga." He also began contributing to the literary magazine Zig-Zag in 1906, publishing his Manchas de color in 1914. A great number of his works circulated in a diverse array of newspapers, including La Revista Nueva, Sucesos, Silueta Magazine, El Mercurio, La Nación, Atenea, Las Últimas Noticias. Following a brief hospitalization in San Vincente's Hospital in Santiago, he died in 1926. Literary Analysis Studies of the character and evolution of the Chilean short story have established categorically that Federico Gana is the authentic discoverer of the Chilean countryside as a theme of national literature. Coming from the modernista envirornment of the end of the 19th Century, his early stories reveal a natural vacillation between the subjective and fleeting tendency that inspired modernism, and the utilization of the concrete motives offered by the natural environment of the countryside. In this manner, with his first published story in 1890, "¡Pobre vieja!" he subtly reveals his interest in vernacular literary elements; the same occurs with "Por un perro," in 1894. It is in this year that he wrote "En otro tiempo," later known as "Pesadillas," in which he adopts an extremely modernist tone. In 1897, he published "The Maiga," with the name of "Días de campo: Una mañana de invierno,” a |
7,573 | Shahaji II | Shahaji II (formerly Vikramsinhrao (Nana Sahib) Puar) (4 April 1910 – 9 May 1983) of the Bhonsle dynasty of the Marathas, was the Maharaja of Kolhapur between 1947 and 1949. Before adoption to the Gadi of Kolhapur, he was the Maharaja of Dewas State (senior) between 1937 and 1947, when he abdicated. He was the first Maharaja of Kolhapur to be adopted from the Puar dynasty. He was the son of Maharaja Tukoji Rao III Puar of Dewas Senior. His grandson Shahu II from his eldest daughter succeeded him as the titular Maharaja of Kolhapur . See also Maratha Empire List of Maratha dynasties and states List of Indian princely states Krishnajirao III Tukojirao IV Vikram Singh Rao II Puar Dhar State References Category:Indian maharajas Category:1910 births Category:1983 deaths Category:Knights Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India Category:Maharajas of Kolhapur Category:People from Dewas Category:Indian knights Category:Monarchs who abdicated |
7,574 | Rumex andinus | Rumex andinus is a species of plant in the family Polygonaceae. It is endemic to Ecuador. References Category:Endemic flora of Ecuador andinus Category:Vulnerable plants Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot |
7,575 | Georg von der Decken | Count Georg Friedrich Armand von der Decken (5 October 1836 in Braunschweig - 19 August 1898 in Salzgitter-Ringelheim) was owner of Castle Ringelheim and a member of the German Reichstag. Life Decken was the son of Count Adolphus von der Decken and Louise von Wallmoden. He married in 1866 in Schlobitten Marie zu Dohna-Schlodien. She grew up in Mallmitz in Silesia. The couple had five children. Before 1890 count von der Decken was attaché at the Hanoverian Embassy in Paris. Here he had the opportunity to deepen his technic in painting. He was party leader of the German-Hanoverian Party since 1890 and distinguished as a political opponent of Otto von Bismarck and the Prussian supremacy in the German Reich. From 1890 until his death he was a member of the German Parliament for the Province of Hanover. He was highly musical, painted large-scale oil paintings and created wooden sculptures. His motives were in accordance with the prevailing taste, romantic landscapes and figures from Greek heroic legend. In the church of Ringelheim there are still his oil paintings: the altar piece and the twelve disciples of Christ in life-size. References Category:1836 births Category:1898 deaths Category:People from Braunschweig Category:People from the Duchy of Brunswick Georg Category:Counts of Germany Category:German Lutherans Category:German-Hanoverian Party politicians Category:Members of the 8th Reichstag of the German Empire Category:Members of the 9th Reichstag of the German Empire Category:Members of the 10th Reichstag of the German Empire Category:German diplomats |
7,576 | Gabriel de Clieu | Gabriel-Mathieu Francois D'ceus de Clieu (c. 1687, region of Dieppe, France – 29 November 1774, in Paris), naval officer, was the governor of Guadeloupe from 1737 to 1752 and the founder of Pointe-à-Pitre. He was awarded the rank of commander of the Royal and Military Order of Saint Louis. De Clieu is celebrated for his claim to have introduced coffee to the French colonies of the Western Hemisphere in the 1720s and his support for its cultivation. Introduction of Coffee to Martinique The story of de Clieu's introduction of coffee comes from his account in the Année littéraire of 1774. According to this account, he arranged to transport a coffee plant (or perhaps several) from the greenhouses of the Jardin royal des plantes (which had originally received two plants from lieutenant général d'artillerie M.Ressou who brought them back from Holland in 1713) to Martinique in 1720. According to de Clieu's account, water was rationed on the voyage, and he shared his ration with the seedlings. The story is repeated in many histories of coffee. However, a recent history points out that though it may well be true that de Clieu brought a seedling to Martinique, and perhaps even that he shared his water ration with it, coffee was already growing in the Western Hemisphere: in the French colony of Saint-Domingue since 1715 and in the Dutch colony of Surinam since 1718. Museum De Clieu's descendants in Dieppe, France are currently working a museum to commemorate the legend of DeClieu. Notes Category:1687 births Category:1774 deaths Category:French Navy officers Category:French colonial governors of Guadeloupe Category:Grand Crosses of the Order of Saint Louis |
7,577 | Mohamed Haraga | Mohamed Haraga is an Egyptian water polo player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1948 Summer Olympics. References Category:Year of birth missing Category:Possibly living people Category:Egyptian male water polo players Category:Olympic water polo players of Egypt Category:Water polo players at the 1948 Summer Olympics Category:Place of birth missing (living people) |
7,578 | Yannis Salibur | Yannis Romaric Salibur (born 24 January 1991) is a French professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Spanish club RCD Mallorca. Club career Born in Saint-Denis, Salibur began his career with his local club Red Star Paris. In early 2004, he was one of three Red Star players selected to attend the prestigious Clairefontaine academy. After spending three years there, he signed with Nord-based side Lille OSC. Despite reported interests from Italian sides Roma, Torino, and Udinese, Salibur signed his first professional contract with Lille in June 2008. The contract was for three years. For the 2008–09 season, he was placed on Lille's first-team squad, though he would not be handed a number. He instead continued playing in the reserves. He made his professional football debut for Lille on 23 January 2009, a day before his 18th birthday, in a Coupe de France match against USL Dunkerque coming on as a substitute in the 76th minute. In his three years at Lille he played in the regional league for the Lille "B" team 41 times scoring 4 goals. On 13 January 2011, Salibur joined Ligue 2 club US Boulogne on an 18-month contract. On 6 August 2012, Salibur signed a three-year contract with Ligue 2 side Clermont Foot. On 31 December 2015, En Avant de Guingamp announced the signing Salibur with the Ligue 1 side, on a three-and-a-half-year contract. Premier League club Hull City agreed a few to sign Salibur on 31 January 2017, but were unable to process the deal before the transfer window closed. On 31 August 2018, an hour before the closing of the 2018 summer transfer window, Salibur joined league rivals AS Saint-Étienne on loan for the season. On 22 August 2019, Salibur joined LaLiga side RCD Mallorca on a three-year contract. International career Salibur was born in France to a Guadeloupean father, and is also of Congolese descent. He is a France youth international having played for the U-16s, U-17s, and last played for the France U-18 squad. He was a part of the U-17 squad that finished runners-up at the 2008 UEFA European Under-17 Football Championship. References External links Category:1991 births Category:Living people Category:Sportspeople from Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis Category:French footballers Category:France youth international footballers Category:Association football midfielders Category:Red Star F.C. players Category:INF Clairefontaine players Category:Lille OSC players Category:US Boulogne players Category:Clermont Foot players Category:En Avant de Guingamp players Category:AS Saint-Étienne players Category:RCD Mallorca players Category:Ligue 2 players Category:Ligue 1 players Category:La Liga players Category:French expatriate footballers Category:Expatriate footballers in Spain Category:French expatriate sportspeople in Spain Category:French people of Democratic Republic of the Congo descent Category:French people of Guadeloupean descent |
7,579 | Charles C. Lynch | Charles C. Lynch is the former owner of a city sanctioned medical marijuana dispensary in Morro Bay, California. Lynch obtained a Medical marijuana dispensary Business License, a Medical Marijuana Nursery Permit and was a welcomed member of the local Chamber of Commerce. Lynch was compliant with the State of California Medical Marijuana laws, but was prosecuted and convicted under Federal Marijuana Laws which trump State Law. As of July 30, 2014 Lynch remains out on bail pending appeal. City sanctioned dispensary In April 2006 Lynch obtained a Medical marijuana dispensary business license from the city of Morro Bay. In July 2006 Lynch was issued a Medical Marijuana Nursery Permit which allowed him to provide marijuana plants to the members of his dispensary. Lynch was also a member of the Morro Bay Chamber of Commerce. The business operated under strict guidance from City and State officials that licensed the marijuana dispensary for over one year. Raid and arrest On March 29, 2007, the dispensary was raided by the local Sheriff Pat Hedges in cooperation with the DEA (DEA). The dispensary reopened a week later with the blessing of the city of Morro Bay officials. The dispensary eventually closed on May 16, 2007 after the DEA threatened the landlord of the dispensary with criminal forfeiture of his property. On July 17, 2007 Lynch was arrested under federal law for marijuana trafficking, and was convicted in August 2008 of operating a drug premises, selling drugs to minors, distribution of over 100 kilos of marijuana, cultivating more than 100 marijuana plants and conspiracy to distribute marijuana. During the trial, his attorneys were barred from referring to the legality of his business under state law. National controversy Lynch became a national figure in the dispute between state and federal marijuana laws when Drew Carey's activist website Reason.tv published a story and video about Lynch's case. Other national news networks picked up on the story and Lynch appeared on MSNBC's Marijuana Inc. Al Roker Reporting, ABC News 2020 with John Stossel Bailouts and Bull and Larry King Live. The Lynch story also appeared in an online article on Time.com and briefly mentioned in the April 6, 2009 edition of Top Ten News Stories. Lynch and his supporters also staged significant protests that occurred before the Federal Court House in Los Angeles in February 2009 and October 2008 drawing media attention to those individuals caught between conflicting State and Federal Drug Laws. Trial and conviction The Trial, US vs Charles C. Lynch, began on July 22, 2008 in Los Angeles Federal Court room. Lynch was not allowed to mention State Medical Marijuana Laws The evidence. submitted and used by the Government against Lynch during the trial was highly controversial and biased. Much of Lynch's own testimony and evidence was stricken from the record and not allowed to be considered by the jury. On August 6, 2008 Charles Lynch was convicted in Federal Court on five counts relating to operating his state legal medical marijuana dispensary: (Count One) narcotics conspiracy, in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 846, 841(a)(1), 856, and |
7,580 | Ihor Kostyuk | Ihor Volodymyrovych Kostyuk (; ; born 14 September 1975) is a Ukrainian professional football manager and a former player. He manages the Under-19 squad of FC Dynamo Kyiv. Career In 2009, he played for FC CSKA Kyiv. He made his professional debut in 1992 for FC Dynamo-2 Kyiv. Honours Ukrainian Premier League champion: 1996. References Category:1975 births Category:Living people Category:Ukrainian footballers Category:Association football midfielders Category:Ukraine international footballers Category:FC Dynamo Kyiv players Category:FC Tyumen players Category:FC Vorskla Poltava players Category:FC Hoverla Uzhhorod players Category:FC Arsenal Kyiv players Category:FC Borysfen Boryspil players Category:FC CSKA Kyiv players Category:Ukrainian Premier League players Category:Russian Premier League players Category:Ukrainian football managers Category:FC Dynamo-2 Kyiv players |
7,581 | Karl Ehmann | Karl Ehmann (August 13, 1882 – November 1, 1967) was an Austrian stage and film actor whose career spanned both the silent and sound eras of the film industry. Career Born on August 13, 1882 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, he became interested in acting as a young man, studying in a private master class with the famous Austrian stage actor, Karl Arnau. He made his stage debut at the age of 20 in the municipal theater of Olomouc, Moravia (now part of the Czech Republic). Over the next five years he would appear in productions in Meran, South Tyrol, Linz, Upper Austria, and Graz, Austria. In 1908 he would begin a 30-year association with the Deutsche Volkstheater in Vienna. While he concentrated mostly on the theater during his early career, he did appear in a small role in the Austrian film, Der Unbekannte (The Unknown) in 1912. In 1917, he would again begin performing in films, and during the late 1910s through the mid-20s, he had a successful run of starring and featured roles in silent films. Some of the more notable silent films in which he starred were: Der Doppelselbstmord (1918), Die Ahnfrau (1919), Der tanzende Tod (1920), Der tote Hochzeitsgast (1921), Hoffmanns Erzählungen (1923), and Durch Nacht und Eis (1926), which Ehmann also directed. He also directed two other films, Junggesellenwirtschaft (1920) and Faustrecht (1922), as well as penning the scripts for Junggesellenwirtschaft and Verschneit (1920). In the mid-20s Ehmann would take a hiatus from the film industry, choosing to focus on his theatrical career. In the early 1930s he would return to making films, although with the advent of sound, the size of his roles diminished, and he played mostly small, or featured supporting parts. Over his 50-year film career, he appeared in over 100 films, mostly in Austria, but also from Germany later in his career. Some of the more notable films in which he appeared include: Fräulein Lilli (1936) directed by Hans Behrendt, Robert Wohlmuth and Max Neufeld, and starring Franciska Gaal; Thirteen Chairs (1938), starring Heinz Rühmann; 1940's Der Postmeister, directed by Gustav Ucicky; Schicksal (1942), directed by Géza von Bolváry, and starring Heinrich George, Werner Hinz and Christian Kayßler; Die Kreuzlschreiber (1950), directed by Eduard von Borsody; and The Forester of the Silver Wood (1954), in which he had one of his infrequent starring roles. In 1956 he would appear in the comedy The Trapp Family, based on the memoirs of Maria von Trapp, which became the inspiration for the hugely successful American Broadway musical, The Sound of Music, and the subsequent American film of the same name. Towards the end of his career, Ehmann would also appear in several television films for German and Austrian TV. Ehmann died on November 1, 1967, at the age of 85, in his home town of Vienna. He is buried in the Zentralfriedhof in Vienna. Selected filmography 1912: Der Unbekannte The Stain of Shame (1917) The Spendthrift (1917) Don Cesar, Count of Irun (1918) Double Suicide (1918) Rigoletto (1918) The Ancestress (1919) Eva, The Sin (1920) 1920: Freut Euch |
7,582 | Paul Day (table tennis) | Paul Day is a male former international table tennis player from England. Table tennis career He represented England at three World Table Tennis Championships in the Swaythling Cup (men's team event) from 1977-1981. He won nine English National Table Tennis Championships titles. Personal life His parents Eric and Winnie hosted home premier division matches for the Soham team in their grounds. See also List of England players at the World Team Table Tennis Championships References Category:English male table tennis players Category:1958 births Category:Living people |
7,583 | Gyoran-ji | , formal name Suigetsu-in Gyoran-ji (水月院魚藍寺), is a Buddhist temple in 4 Mita, Minato, Tokyo, Japan. It is located in the mountain side of Tsuki no Misaki. Origin of the name The name was chosen because the principal image is Gyoran Kanzeon Bosatsu (魚藍観世音菩薩), whose figure is a maiden with her hair tied in a Chinese style topknot (唐様). The following is a Chinese tale of the time of the Tang dynasty. The Buddha appeared in a beautiful maiden's figure, selling fish in a bamboo basket, and spread Buddhism. The sculpture was made based on this story. See also Glossary of Japanese Buddhism. References Category:Buildings and structures in Minato, Tokyo Category:Buddhist temples in Tokyo |
7,584 | Zoom HD8 and HD16 | Zoom HD8 and HD16 are digital multitrack recording devices manufactured by Zoom Corporation. HD8 and HD16 were presented at Winter NAMM 2007 as the successor of MRS-1608. The HD8 and HD16 models have been discontinued in December 2009. Differences between HD8 and HD16 HD8 and HD16 have similar technical characteristics. The main differences between the models are: HD8 has 8 tracks (6 mono and 1 stereo faders), HD16 has 16 tracks (8 mono and 4 stereo faders). HD8 can record 2 track at once, while HD16 can record 8 tracks at once. HD16 has an effect send bus. File Formats HD8/16 stores digital audio as monaural Waveform Audio File Format files. Stereo tracks are recorded as two monaural files. Digital audio can be imported into HD8/16 in Audio Interchange File Format (AIFF) or Waveform Audio File Format (WAV). MIDI files can be imported as Format 0 Standard MIDI File (SMF), then the unit can play the file with internal instruments or drive an external MIDI unit. References External links HD8/HD16 Operation Manual and Software updates Zoom HD8cd HD16cd & R16 discussion board from zoomforum.us Category:Zoom Corporation Category:Digital audio recording |
7,585 | Caleb Johnson (disambiguation) | Caleb Johnson (born 1991) is an American singer. Caleb Johnson may also refer to: Caleb Johnson (baseball) (1844–1925), American baseball player Caleb Johnson, Jr., winning golfer in the 2016 Florida Open Caleb Johnson, character in the 2010 film Last Breath played by Alex Neustaedter |
7,586 | Dicerandra christmanii | Dicerandra christmanii is a rare species of flowering plant in the mint family known by the common names Garrett's mint, yellow scrub balm, and Lake Wales balm. It is endemic to Highlands County, Florida, in the United States, where it is known from only four sites on the Lake Wales Ridge. All are contained within a tract of land measuring 6 kilometers by 3 kilometers. The plant is steadily declining due to the destruction and degradation of its habitat, and only one of the four occurrences is on protected land. It is a federally listed endangered species. The plant was first collected in 1948 by Ray Garrett. Over the years it was included within the description of its close relative, Dicerandra frutescens. In 1989 it was reexamined and named as a new species on the basis of the color of its anthers, its scent and certain related chemical compounds in the herbage, and the length of its leaves. D. christmanii has white or cream-colored flowers with yellow anthers, a menthol scent, and shorter leaves, while D. frutescens has cream flowers that fade to white, and purple or white anthers. The two are otherwise quite similar in appearance. D. christmanii is an aromatic shrub growing up to 1.3 feet tall. The squared, ridged stem and oppositely arranged leaves have many oil glands. Blooming occurs in summer and fall. Flowers occur singly or in whorls of three. Each is white to cream in color with purple spotting on the lobed lips. The yellow-anthered stamens protrude from the mouth of the corolla and bear white pollen. The anthers have spurs that trigger the release of pollen, a trait common to genus Dicerandra. The plant is pollinated most often by Exprosopa fasciata, a species of bee-fly. This plant is one of many that is found only on Lake Wales Ridge, an area of very high endemism. The habitat is yellow-sand Florida scrub dominated by sand pines (Pinus clausa), several species of oak, and scrub hickory (Carya floridana). It does not occur together with D. frutescens, but slightly to the north of its relative. The habitat is highly fragmented, with land in the area converted to citrus groves. Remaining parts are degraded, the wildfire-adapted habitat having been overgrown with dense vegetation in an era of fire suppression. The mint only grows in open areas in the canopy, space which is rare today as the larger and woody vegetation succeeds. Fire is also required to clear out leaf litter in the understory. Furthermore, plants of this species in open habitat are more likely to be visited by pollinators than plants under overgrown canopy. Besides outright habitat loss and lack of a natural fire regime, threats to the species include drought and the invasive weed cogon grass (Imperata cylindrica). The plant has a limited ability to disperse its seeds, and this is reduced more by the fragmentation of the habitat. Off-road vehicles and trash dumping may affect the area. Because D. frutescens was already on the endangered species list, D. christmanii was given that status when it was separated |
7,587 | My Family (series 7) | The seventh series of the BBC family sitcom My Family originally aired between 6 April 2007 and 26 December 2007. The series was commissioned following consistently high ratings from the sixth series. The opening episode, "The Ego Has Landed", re-introduces the seven main characters. All episodes from the seventh series are thirty minutes in length, with the exception of the Christmas special. The series was once again produced by Rude Boy Productions, a company that produces comedies created by Fred Barron. The series was filmed at Pinewood Studios in London, in front of a live audience. Episode Information Reception Viewers The series was once again given a prime-time Friday evening slot, with most episodes airing at 8:30pm. No episodes in the series managed to attract over 6.8 million viewers, a considerable loss compared to previous series. The final episode of the series, "Life Begins at Fifty", was moved back a week due to international football, as BBC One showed live coverage of England's friendly against Brazil at the new Wembley Stadium in its time slot on 1 June 2007, losing around 1.5 million viewers. The seventh series averaged 5.92 million viewers for each episode. Critics Tom Simpson, of My Family Online, reviewed that one particular episode from the series stands out. He states that "One Of The Boys", written by the mate of Jason, David Cantor, is a "brilliant, lively, funny episode that also contains a rare moment of emotion", and that the episode brought a tear to his eye. References External links My Family: Series Seven at the British Comedy Guide My Family: Series Seven at My Family Online BBC Comedy- My Family Series 7 Category:2007 British television seasons |
7,588 | Rubescourt | Rubescourt is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. Geography Rubescourt is situated some southeast of Amiens, on the D214 road Population See also Communes of the Somme department References INSEE External links Rubescourt on the Quid website Category:Communes of Somme (department) |
7,589 | Iredalea adenensis | Iredalea adenensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Drilliidae. Description Distribution This marine species occurs in the Gulf of Aden. References Morassi M. & Bonfitto A. (2013) Four new African turriform gastropods (Mollusca: Conoidea). Zootaxa 3710(3): 271–280 External links adenensis Category:Gastropods described in 2013 |
7,590 | Mt. Woods Cemetery | Mt. Woods Cemetery, also known as Mt. Wood Cemetery, Hebrew and Jewish Orthodox Cemetery and Eoff Street Temple Cemetery, is a historic rural cemetery located at Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. History A small one-acre cemetery was established on the hill overlooking North Wheeling (once called "Wheeling Hill") by the Woods family in 1831. According to local legend, Ebenezer Zane paused on the hill and declared the area he saw the "land of promise" for which he had been looking. Pioneer Robert T. Woods (1754-1831) (who had settled in the area with his brothers Archibald and Andrew) was the first interment. Within two decades Wheeling's other cemetery, the Hempfield cemetery (dedicated in 1816) was nearly full and in the path chosen by the Hempfield Railroad (chartered in 1850 and which by 1857 connected Wheeling and Washington, Pennsylvania on the other side of the Ohio River). Thus prominent Wheeling citizens organized a cemetery company and developed this location. Originally situated on approximately 20 acres, above "Jonathan's Ravine" with scenic views of the Ohio River, Wheeling Creek and Wheeling Island. Its landscape was originally designed by Robert C. Woods (surveyor and son of Robert T. Woods), with individual plots laid out according to the landscape's contours. The cemetery became popular in the Victorian era for its views, as well as the preferred place of interment for a number of prominent citizens of Wheeling and surrounding Ohio County. The prime hilltop Section A contains obelisks commemorating Alfred Caldwell, Edward M. Norton, William P. Wilson, and the Luke family. The cemetery also contains the graves of Joseph Thoburn and Daniel E. Frost, prominent in the West Virginia statehood movement and who died fighting for the Union in the American Civil War. Other historic burials include Dr. Simon Hullihen (perhaps the first oralmaxilliary surgeon in the U.S.), and Dr. Eliza Hughes (West Virginia's first female doctor and the sister of Confederate sympathizer and Ohio County's Virginia Civil War state delegate Dr. Alfred Hughes). The earliest gravestone contains an 1817 date. In addition to remains reinterred from the Hempfield cemetery, remains were relocated from the Chapline and East Wheeling cemeteries when those were closed by the late 1800s, although some plots lower down the hill laid out in this period were never sold and that area became wooded. The Jewish cemetery was established beginning in 1849, following the unexpected death of itinerant rabbi Mayer Mannheim, and being on a steep slope, had persistent issues which required retaining wall construction; its first plots were laid in 1865 and burials continued well into the 20th century. In 1866, Greenwood cemetery was established east of the city, which decreased funeral use of this cemetery, although it remained an important regional park. In 1933 as the Great Depression began, paths were improved and 100 oak trees planted. Mt. Woods cemetery shrank somewhat over time, as interments became less frequent. The original remains from the two List family mausoleums were later reinterred at Greenwood Cemetery. Many trees predate the 1930s, with |
7,591 | Benjamin Noirot | Benjamin Noirot (born 17 December 1980 in Dijon) is a professional rugby union hooker currently playing for RC Toulonnais in the Top 14. He has previously played for US Dax and Biarritz Olympique. He made his international debut for France against Fiji in November 2010. References External links Statistics from It's Rugby Racing Métro 92 profile Category:France international rugby union players Category:French rugby union players Category:Racing 92 players Category:Biarritz Olympique players Category:RC Toulonnais players Category:1980 births Category:Sportspeople from Dijon Category:Living people |
7,592 | Al Qabbaytah District | Al Qabbaytah District is a district of the Lahij Governorate, Yemen. As of 2003, the district had a population of 94,516 inhabitants. References Category:Districts of Yemen Category:Lahij Governorate |
7,593 | 1985 Israel Economic Stabilization Plan | The Economic Stabilization Plan was implemented in Israel in 1985 in response to the dire domestic economic situation of the early 1980s. History The years after the 1973 Yom Kippur War were a lost decade economically, as growth stalled, inflation soared and government expenditures rose significantly. Then, in 1983, Israel suffered what was known as the "bank stock crisis". By 1984 inflation was reaching an annual rate close to 450% and projected to reach over 1000% by the end of the following year. See Economy of Israel: History. In response, in 1985 the Knesset implemented an economic stabilization plan aimed at generating "sharp disinflation". The plan was devised by Yitzhak Moda'i and Michael Bruno. This was done after a series of smaller, so-called "package deals" that were negotiated with selected entities in the Israeli economy proved ineffective in stemming the rise of inflation. It was not until the implementation of this wider-scale stabilization plan, which brought together all the main players in the Israeli economy at the time (the government, labor unions, and the central bank) that inflation was successfully brought to under 20% in less than two years. Some of its main points included: A significant cut in government expenditures and deficit. Privatization of many government-owned businesses Reaching an agreement with the then-powerful Histadrut labor union to enact wage controls, thus decoupling rampant wage from price inflation. Emergency measures imposing temporary price controls over a broad range of basic products and services. A sharp devaluation of the Shekel, followed by a policy of a long-term fixed foreign exchange rate. Curbing the Bank of Israel's ability to print money to cover government deficits. These steps, coupled with the subsequent introduction of market-oriented structural reforms successfully reinvigorated the economy, paving the way for its rapid growth in the 1990s. The plan has since become a model for other countries facing similar economic crises. See also Economy of Israel Banking in Israel References Category:1980s economic history Category:1985 in economics Category:1985 in Israel Category:Economic history of Israel Category:Financial crises |
7,594 | Body inflation | Body inflation is the practice of inflating or pretending to inflate a part of one's body, often for sexual gratification. It is commonly done by inserting balloons underneath clothes or a skin-tight suit and then inflating them. Some people have specially made inflatable suits, commonly made from latex rubber, to make themselves bigger all over. One of the best-known examples is Mr. Blowup, who appears in the Deviant Desires book. He wears air-inflated double-skinned latex suits, and has made a number of TV appearances in the UK, including Eurotrash. Sometimes the body is actually inflated also, such as by enema or drinking large amounts of liquid. One of the most famous examples of body inflation in popular culture is of Violet Beauregarde from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory/Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, where she swells up into an anthropomorphic blueberry after eating an experimental chewing gum made of a three-course meal which is tomato soup, roast beef with baked potato and blueberry pie with ice cream. Another example is Mammoth Mutt from Krypto the Superdog, a member of Dog Star Patrol who's superpower is inflating herself to enormous sizes, the biggest nearly as big as the Patrol's spaceship. Other inflatable fetishists generate erotic stories, artwork, video, and audio files to indulge their fantasies. Sexual roleplay is also fairly common, either in person or via online conversation. The notion of the fantasy scenarios ending in popping or explosion is often a divisive topic in the community. The first inflatable fetish community organized online in 1994, in the form of an e-mail list; as the popularity of online communication grew, so did the online community. See also Balloon fetish Breast fetishism Fat fetishism Alvinolagnia Inflatable doll Sherry Pie Pregnancy fetishism References External links Animexpansion.com Bigcartoon.org Bodyinflation.org Category:Sexual fetishism |
7,595 | Isa Blumi | Isa Blumi (born 1969, in Teplice, Czechoslovakia) is a historian. He is a senior lecturer and associate professor of Turkish Studies at Stockholm University Institute for Turkish Studies in Sweden. Career During the Kosovo conflict (1998–1999), Blumi was a member of the provisional Kosovo government. After the war, he worked as a consultant for the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) and the Organization for Security and Operation in Europe (OSCE). Blumi completed an MA in Political Theory and Historical Studies at the New School for Social Research in New York, United States. Studying in the History, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies departments, Blumi graduated with a Ph.D. in 2005 from New York University. His dissertation focused on the complex interactions that Ottoman authorities and inhabitants of Ottoman Albania and Yemen had with each other, with Blumi visiting regional and national archives around the world for his research while he was a Fulbright-Hayes fellow being based in Istanbul. Blumi also had a SSRC-IDRF (Social Science Research Council – International Dissertation Field Research Fellowship) fellowship for his Ph.D research. Blumi became an assistant professor of Middle Eastern and Balkan history at Georgia State University in Atlanta, USA. During that time he was also a senior research fellow in the Centre for Area Studies at Leipzig University, Germany and a visiting professor of history at the American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates where his research focused on regional migration and its impact on host societies. Blumi has written more than two dozen articles. They cover topics and focus on Ottoman rule in Albania and Yemen, migration patterns of Muslims in the Balkans to Western and Central Europe, south-eastern European history and current affairs, post First World War social history in Kosovo and Albania, the Kosovo crisis, and analysing issues relating to state centralisation and identity. His research interests include Balkan history, Political Islam, the Middle East/Persian Gulf/Red Sea regions and Muslim migration. Blumi has favoured a multi-sited comparative and interdisciplinary approach toward his research that encompasses social history, post-colonial theory and analysis of state institutions as they evolved over time. His research has also entailed a transregional approach examining sociopolitical, cultural and economic exchanges, links and fragmentation in relation to collapsing political systems and the Ottoman Empire, Habsburg Empire and their transnational impacts on the Balkans and Balkan diasporas around the globe. His other areas of research interest have included modern forms of Islam as practiced in the Balkans, Middle East, Eastern Africa and South-East Asia after the Second World War and nineteenth century Asian Muslim Emirates dealing with expanding European commercial interests within the South China Sea. Selected works Blumi, Isa. Destroying Yemen: What Chaos in Arabia Tells Us about the World (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2018) Blumi, Isa Ottoman Refugees, 1878–1939: Migration in a Post-Imperial World (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013). Blumi, Isa and Hakan Yavuz, eds. War & Nationalism: The Balkan Wars (1912–1913) and Socio-Political Implications (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2013). Blumi, Isa. Foundations of Modernity: Human Agency and the Imperial State (New York: Routledge, 2012). Blumi, |
7,596 | Bronisława Janowska | Bronisława Janowska or Bronisława Anna Waleria Rychter-Janowska (13 July 1868 – 29 September 1953) was a Polish realist painter and publisher associated with the Kraków-based Young Poland movement. An exceptionally prolific artist, her work is on display in many private and state collections, including the Historical Museum of Kraków, the National Museum of Poland, and the Vatican Museums. Life She was born to the noble family of Władysław Janowski Ślepowron coat of arms, a participant in the January Uprising against the Russian domination, and his wife Malwina z Borzęckich Półkozic coat of arms. Her older brother Stanisław Janowski (1866–1942), a second husband of famous dramatist Gabriela Zapolska, was also a painter; he taught her the basics of art-making. Bronisława studied painting in Munich from 1896 to 1902. In 1900 she married Tadeusz Rychter, a painter like herself, the son of a Lwów professor. She rejected a marriage proposal from renowned Cracovian actor Ludwik Solski, even though they loved each other, because Solski was divorced and a Catholic church wedding would be out of the question. Incidentally, her subsequent marriage to Rychter was childless and openly unhappy. It lasted only for eight years. Artistic career Bronisława left her husband in 1908 and relocated to Stary Sącz with her mother. She opened an art school, where she sparked controversy with a display of nude studies, leading to the closure of the school a year later. She traveled to Italy, North Africa, and Turkey, and stayed in Rome, Naples, and Sicily, painting landscapes, street scenes, and figurative studies. She became an active member of the Zielony Balonik Cabaret at Jama Michalika in Kraków as well as art cabarets in Lwów, designing and producing political puppets for widely popular shows against imperial censorship. She settled in Kraków at A. Dunajewskiego 1 Street in 1917, towards the end of World War I, and continued her artistic journey in sovereign Poland. Her works in oil were exhibited locally and in Lwów, where her solo show in 1927 featured 140 canvases; her paintings were also exhibited in salons in Warsaw, Prague, Vienna, Rome, Venice, and Florence. In 1939 she was awarded the Gold Cross of Merit by the state. Rychter-Janowska stopped painting during World War II due to vision-related problems. Her brother died in 1942. She adopted a girl, Matylda Janowska. They starved during the Nazi-Soviet occupation of Poland and little improved after liberation. She received a stipend from the Ministry of Culture, and died in Kraków on 29 September 1953 at the age of 85. For most of her adult life, she kept a diary. Notes Category:Polish painters Category:Art Nouveau painters Category:1868 births Category:1953 deaths Category:Polish women painters Category:20th-century Polish women artists |
7,597 | Return to Nim's Island | Return to Nim's Island is a 2013 Australian adventure-fantasy film directed by Brendan Maher and starring Bindi Irwin, Matthew Lillard, Toby Wallace and John Waters premiering on Walden Family Theater film series on the Hallmark Channel. The story is based on the book Nim at Sea by Wendy Orr. It is the sequel to the 2008 film Nim's Island. Plot Three years after the events of Nim's Island, the island faces a new challenge. The operators of the ship Buccaneer have gotten permission to develop a pirate resort on the island, and 14-year-old Nim (Bindi Irwin) and her father pursue separate plans to stop them. Meanwhile, a city boy named Edmund (Toby Wallace), who has met Nim once before and decides to see her again, has run away from home to the island, inadvertently bringing poachers with him. With her father, Jack Rusoe (Matthew Lillard) away on the mainland, Nim must learn to work with Edmund in order to save the island from the poachers. Cast Bindi Irwin as Nim Rusoe Matthew Lillard as Jack Rusoe Toby Wallace as Edmund John Waters as Booker BJ and Friday as Selkie Pumpkin as Fred Nathan Derrick as Felix Jack Pearson as Ben Sebastian Gregory as Frankie Production The film was filmed in Australia. The film was produced by Walden Media and Arc Entertainment for the Walden Family Theater film series on the Hallmark Channel. The film premiered on 15 March 2013, followed by the DVD release at Walmart on 19 March. While in Australia, the film had a movie theater release on 4 April 2013. References External links Category:2013 films Category:2010s adventure films Category:Films set on islands Category:Sequel films Category:Australian films Category:Walden Media films Category:Television sequel films Category:Films scored by Nerida Tyson-Chew Category:Films set in Queensland |
7,598 | Tropical Storm Linfa (2003) | Severe Tropical Storm Linfa, known in the Philippines as Tropical Storm Chedeng, brought deadly flooding to areas of the Philippines and Japan in May and June 2003. The fifth named storm within the northwestern Pacific that year, Linfa developed as a tropical depression just off the western coast of Luzon on May 25. The disturbance quickly intensified to reach tropical storm intensity a few hours after cyclogenesis. However, intensification leveled off as Linfa executed a small clockwise loop before a subsequent landfall on Luzon on May 27. Due to land interaction the storm temporarily weakened and decoupled before reforming in the Philippine Sea. Afterwards Linfa began reintensifying and reached its peak intensity on May 29 with maximum sustained winds of 100 km/h (65 mph) and a barometric pressure of 980 mbar (hPa; 28.94 inHg). Following its peak the tropical storm began to deteriorate and transitioned into an extratropical cyclone on May 30; these extratropical remnants continued to track northward through Japan before dissipating in the Sea of Okhotsk on June 4. The erratic and slow movement of Linfa off the western Philippines was the catalyst for extreme rainfall and flooding, killing 41 persons in the archipelago. Precipitation peaked at near Dagupan. Rising floodwaters resulted in numerous mudslides and the temporary shutdown of government offices. In addition, strong winds caused widespread power outages. Overall damage from Linfa in the Philippines amounted to ₱192.3 million (US$3.65 million). The floods also displaced 8,367 people in 1,686 families and destroyed 178 homes. Linfa and its extratropical remnants later brought torrential rainfall and widespread flooding to Japan, particularly southwestern regions. Rainfall there peaked at 727 mm (28.62 in). Flood damage was worst in Kōchi and Tokushima Prefectures, where several buildings were destroyed by floodwater. Other locations in Japan experienced considerable agricultural damage as well as numerous landslides. Overall, Linfa caused roughly $28.2 million in damage, much of which occurred in Japan, though the entirety of deaths associated with the cyclone took place in the Philippines. Meteorological history In late-May an area of disturbed weather began to persist roughly 650 km (400 mi) west of Manila, Philippines in the South China Sea. Late on May 23, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) began to monitor the area for potential signs of tropical cyclogenesis. Over the next few days the disturbance began to consolidate towards a common low pressure center, resulting in a burst in convective activity. At 0000 UTC on May 25, the JTWC classified the resulting system as a tropical depression west of Luzon; six hours later both the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) and the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) began to monitor the newly formed tropical cyclone, though the latter classified it as a tropical storm. During these initial stages of development the tropical cyclone slowly intensified as it slowly tracked in a clockwise loop throughout the course of the day. At 1800 UTC, the JTWC upgraded the depression to tropical storm status while the JMA followed suit six hours later, thus designating the cyclone with the name Linfa. In response to a |
7,599 | Polish Garden (Saint Petersburg) | The Polish Garden () is a 2.3–hectare garden and park complex in the Admiralteysky District of St. Petersburg, Russia. It is bounded by the Fontanka River embankment to the north and the Catholic Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary to the south. The Garden was named after the Polish community of Saint Petersburg which attended the Cathedral in the 19th century. The predecessor of the current park was a private palatial garden in the courtyard of the estate belonging to Gavrila Derzhavin on the Fontanka, which was probably remodelled under the supervision of Nikolay Lvov. In 2006, the property was acquired by the National Pushkin Museum and between 2007 and 2011 the park and the Derzhavin Palace were renovated. The entry to the Polish Garden is free and the premises are often used for weddings, public gatherings and photoshoots. Gallery See also Polish minority in Russia Neva References Category:Parks and open spaces in Saint Petersburg Category:Tourist attractions in Saint Petersburg Category:Squares in Saint Petersburg |
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