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9,000 | China State Construction International Holdings | China State Construction International Holdings Limited ("China State Construction" in short form) () is the largest construction contractor in Hong Kong, mostly from the projects in the government, public organisations and large private corporations. It is operated mainly under the subsidiaries of China State Construction Engineering (Hong Kong) Limited and China Overseas (Hong Kong) Limited currently. It started its construction business in Hong Kong since 1979. It engages in building construction and civil engineering operations as well as other peripheral operations such as foundation work, site investigation, mechanical and electrical engineering, highway and bridge construction, concrete and pre-cast production. It was listed in the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in July 2005. Business areas China State Construction operates in four segments: construction activities; generation and supply of heat and electricity; provision of connection services, and other activities. The other business includes the insurance business, project consultancy services, and the sales of building materials and pre-cast structure. China State Construction principally operates in five geographical segments: Hong Kong, Regions in the People's Republic of China other than Hong Kong and Macau, Macau, United Arab Emirates and India. Its major subsidiaries include China Overseas Insurance Limited, China Overseas Insurance Services Limited, China State Construction Engineering (Hong Kong) Limited, Classicman International Limited, Xun An Engineering Company Limited and Zetson Enterprises Ltd. References External links China State Construction International Holdings Limited Category:Companies listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange Category:1979 establishments in Hong Kong Category:Construction and civil engineering companies of China Category:Construction and civil engineering companies established in 1979 |
9,001 | Vimala Rangachar | Vimala Rangachar (born 1929) is associated with fine arts and performing arts conservation movement of Karnataka, India. She holds positions of Chairperson of the Craft Council of Karanataka, Founder Member and President of M.E.S Institutions, President of the Natya Institute of Kathak and Choreography, President of the M.E.W.S Ladies Club, Malleshwaram, Bangalore, heading M.E.S Kalavedi, President of the Seva Sadan Orphanage, Hon. Secretary of the ADA Rangamandira, Committee Member, Gandhi Center for Science and Human Values – Bharathiya Vidya Bhavan. She is the daughter of Sri SK Ramanuja Iyengar and Ammanniamma. Awards Rangachar was awarded the Kamala Sanmaan in 2004. References Category:Living people Category:Year of birth missing (living people) |
9,002 | The E and B Experiment | The E and B Experiment (EBEX) will measure the cosmic microwave background radiation of a part of the sky during two sub-orbital (high-altitude) balloon flights. It is an experiment to make large, high-fidelity images of the CMB polarization anisotropies. By using a telescope which flies at over 42,000 metres high, it is possible to reduce the atmospheric absorption of microwaves to a minimum. This allows massive cost reduction compared to a satellite probe, though only a small part of the sky can be scanned and for shorter duration than a typical satellite mission such as WMAP. The first flight was an engineering flight over North America in 2009. For the science flight, EBEX was launched on 29 December 2012, near McMurdo Station in Antarctica. It circled around the South Pole using the polar vortex winds before landing on 24 January 2013 about 400 miles from McMurdo. Instrumentation EBEX consists of a 1.5 m Dragone-type telescope that provides a resolution of 8 arcminutes in frequency bands centered on 150, 250, and 410 GHz. Polarimetry is achieved with a continuously-rotating achromatic half-wave plate supported by a superconducting magnetic bearing and a fixed wire grid polarizer. The wire grid is mounted at 45 degrees to the incoming light beam and transmits one polarization state while reflecting the other. Each polarization state is subsequently detected by its own focal plane with a 6 degree instantaneous field-of-view on the sky. Each of the focal planes contains up to 960 transition-edge sensors read out with frequency-domain SQUID multiplexing. Temporary disappearance The EBEX telescope was reported missing in May, 2012, while in transit from the University of Minnesota to the NASA Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in Palestine, Texas. The driver of the truck said that the trailer had been stolen while parked at a motel in Dallas. Scientists and employees of the trucking company searched the area and found the missing trailer parked at a truck wash near Hutchins, Texas. The trailer had been opened, but no scientific equipment had been stolen and the telescope was undamaged. Flight EBEX launched from Williams Field on the Antarctic coast on 29 December 2012. See also Cosmic microwave background experiments Observational cosmology References External links Main (UMN) Site Miller CMB group Category:Physics experiments Category:Radio astronomy Category:Cosmic microwave background experiments Category:Balloon-borne telescopes Category:Astronomy in the Antarctic |
9,003 | Computer graphics (disambiguation) | Computer graphics are graphics created by computers and, more generally, the representation and manipulation of pictorial data by a computer. Computer graphics may also refer to: 2D computer graphics, the application of computer graphics to generating 2D imagery 3D computer graphics, the application of computer graphics to generating 3D imagery Computer animation, the art of creating moving images via the use of computers Computer-generated imagery, the application of the field of computer graphics to special effects in films, television programs, commercials, simulators and simulation generally, and printed media Computer graphics (computer science), a subfield of computer science studying mathematical and computational representations of visual objects Computer Graphics (publication), the journal by ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice, the classic textbook by James D. Foley, Andries van Dam, Steven K. Feiner and John Hughes See also Display device, the hardware used to present computer graphics Graphics hardware, the computer hardware used to accelerate the creation of images |
9,004 | David Davies (Archdeacon of Llandaff) | The Ven. David Davies, MA (1820 – June 1930) was Archdeacon of Llandaff from his appointment in 1924 until his death. Born in Carmarthenshire, he was educated at Llandovery College, Shrewsbury School and Jesus College, Oxford and ordained in 1882. After curacies in Conwy and Cardiff he held incumbencies in Newcastle, Bridgend, Canton, Cardiff and Dinas Powis. He was Surroage for the Diocese of Llandaff from 1907; and a Canon Residentiary at its Cathedral from 1914. References Category:1858 births Category:1930 deaths Category:People from Carmarthenshire Category:People educated at Llandovery College Category:People educated at Shrewsbury School Category:Alumni of Jesus College, Oxford Category:Archdeacons of Llandaff |
9,005 | Canterbury Parish, New Brunswick | Canterbury is a Canadian parish in York County, New Brunswick. Its population in the 2016 Census was 525. Delineation Canterbury Parish is defined in the Territorial Division Act as being bounded: Southeast by Dumfries and McAdam Parishes; northeasterly and northerly by the Saint John River and Eel River; west by Eel River, where Bull Creek enters the same; thence up Eel River through the first, second and third lakes to the head of the last mentioned lake; thence in a direct line southeasterly to the head of the La Coote Lake; thence through said lake and down La Coote Stream and the main Palfrey Stream to the McAdam Parish line including Fall Island in the Saint John River. Communities Parish population total does not include incorporated municipalities (in bold): Benton Canterbury Carroll Ridge Charlie Lake Dead Creek Deer Lake Dorrington Hill Dow Settlement Eel River Lake Hartin Settlement Johnson Settlement Marne Meductic Middle Southampton Scott Siding Skiff Lake Demographics Population Population trend Language Mother tongue (2016) See also List of parishes in New Brunswick Footnotes References Category:Parishes of York County, New Brunswick Category:Local service districts of York County, New Brunswick |
9,006 | Philippe Honoré (violinist) | Philippe Honoré (born 21 March 1967) is a French violinist who has been a regular recitalist in France and the United Kingdom. He was appointed Violin Professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London in September 2012. He has performed widely in broadcast recitals on French radio and television. Life and career Honoré divides his busy schedule between solo work, chamber music, and collaboration with leading orchestras. He was a principal player with the Philharmonia Orchestra (from 2005 to 2011). After receiving top honours from the Paris Conservatoire and the Royal Academy of Music in London, he was made a Laureat of the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation in France in 1992. He was awarded an Honorary Associateship by the Royal Academy of Music in 2001. Honoré is a former member of the Vellinger Quartet and a founder member of the Mobius Ensemble. As such, he has appeared in some of the most prestigious venues abroad (such as Amsterdam's Concertgebouw) and in the UK (such as the Wigmore Hall and the South Bank in London). He has appeared as a soloist performing Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, and Vivaldi concerti, as well as Ravel's Tzigane. Honoré regularly appears as guest leader with some of the UK's best orchestras. He has made numerous solo and chamber music recordings. His solo violin performances on the Decca album An Equal Music are regularly featured on both Classic FM and Radio 3. The novel of that name by the author Vikram Seth was inspired by and dedicated to him. Honoré's collaboration with the composer Alec Roth over a recent four-year project earned him great critical acclaim. The performances took place at the Salisbury, Chelsea, and Lichfield Festivals. BBC Radio 3 recorded and broadcast these annual concerts, in which, in addition to the world premières of Roth's work, Honoré also played solo Bach and Ysaÿe sonatas. The Times described his account of Roth's solo work in 2007 as “magically played”. A studio recording by Honoré of Roth's Ponticelli for solo violin was released by Signum records in November 2011. Honoré recently gave a performance of the entirety of this four-year-long project at the Music and Beyond Festival in Ottawa in July 2012. The series of these four concerts including Songs In Time Of War, Ponticelli, The Traveller, and the Seven Elements Suite was reviewed by the Wordpress Music and Beyond blog, which descrobed Honoré as both a violin virtuoso and a super violinist and the performances were referred to as spine-tingling. Honoré's work with the Mobius Ensemble was awarded favourable reviews. Published works Albums Notable instruments Honoré's violin is an Eberle, made in 1786 in Naples. References Further reading The Telegraph(Love split delayed Suitable Boy sequel) Alison Nicholls and Philippe Honoré Violin and Harp Duo Signum Records The Telegraph (A Suitable Ploy) External links Philippe Honoré official website Category:1967 births Category:21st-century classical violinists Category:21st-century French male musicians Category:Alumni of the Royal Academy of Music Category:Conservatoire de Paris alumni Category:French classical violinists Category:French male violinists Category:Honorary Members of the Royal Academy of Music Category:LGBT classical musicians Category:Living people Category:People from Lyon |
9,007 | Tony Sattler | Tony Sattler (born 1947) is an Australian television writer and producer most famous for his development of the Australian television comedies The Naked Vicar Show and Kingswood Country with writer Gary Reilly. Early work Tony Sattler worked as a creative director for the advertising agency George Patterson Y&R in Brisbane in 1972. He met fellow copywriter Gary Reilly and they worked on the production of commercials and jingles in Sydney. Reilly and Sattler began to collaborate on writing longer scripts for radio and television. They contributed “anti-ads” to Sydney radio station 2JJ (now Triple J) advertising fake products. Reilly and Sattler created the successful parody radio serial for 2JJ entitled Chuck Chunder and the Space Patrol, which ran for 200 episodes and attracted a cult following on both 2JJ and Radio One. They wrote other parody radio serials including the Novels of Fiona Wintergreen which ran for 300 episodes and Doctors and Nurses which ran for 130 episodes. Based on the success of their work the ABC commissioned Sattler and Reilly to write two hour long scripts for Grahame Bond’s Flash Nick from Jindivick in 1974. They were subsequently asked to write a half hour sketch comedy series for Radio One (now Radio National) in 1975 which would become The Naked Vicar Show. The success of this program on radio encouraged them to develop a television concept for it in 1976, featuring the same performers Noeline Brown, Ross Higgins, Kevin Golsby and others. When the ABC declined on the proposed television concept, the Seven Network in Sydney took up the option. The Naked Vicar Show ran on radio, television and in theatres between 1975-1978. Reilly and Sattler met Graham Kennedy in 1977 and they were asked to write a tonight show for him. He subsequently asked to feature in one of their radio serials. They created seven radio plays for him entitled Graham Kennedy’s R.S. Playhouse with him as the lead performer. The series won a number of awards and led to Reilly and Sattler continuing to contribute writing for Kennedy in his hosting and variety show appearances. Exhausted by the pace of sketch writing Reilly and Sattler moved into the situation comedy format in 1978. They submitted four scripts to the Seven Network and their work on Kingswood Country was ultimately selected for a full series. Kingswood Country featured the character of Ted Bullpitt who had been introduced in The Naked Vicar Show. and starred the same actor, Ross Higgins. The show ran from 1980-1984 and was produced by RS Productions, formed by Reilly and Sattler in 1975. In 1981, Sattler and Reilly created a sitcom set in a newspaper office, Daily at Dawn which ran for 26 episodes. They also developed a sitcom set in Antarctica, Brass Monkeys, which ran for 13 episodes on the Seven network in 1984. By the end of 1984, Sattler and Reilly decided to end their partnership, and discontinued their production company. They worked together again in 1997 to write a sequel to Kingswood Country, Bullpitt! which ran from 1997-1998. Later work Sattler and his |
9,008 | N. minutus | N. minutus may refer to: Nectophrynoides minutus, a toad species endemic to Tanzania Numenius minutus, the little curlew, a wader species which breeds in the far north of Siberia See also List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names#M |
9,009 | The Beehive (Alberta) | The Beehive is a mountain located in Banff National Park of Alberta, Canada. It was named by J. Willoughby Astley in 1890 because the mountain resembles a beehive. The mountain is also known as the Big Beehive as there is a smaller beehive shaped mountain nearby called the Little Beehive. The mountain is located above Lake Louise and can be accessed via hiking trails either from Lake Louise or Lake Agnes. See also Mountains of Alberta References Category:Mountains of Alberta |
9,010 | Antoine Fréchette | Antoine Fréchette (22 August 1905 – 17 April 1978) was a Canadian businessman and politician. Fréchette was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. Born in Saint-Alexandre, Quebec, he was an insurance agent, life insurance broker and life underwriter by career. He was first elected at the Témiscouata riding in the 1958 general election after two previous unsuccessful attempts to win the riding in 1953 and 1957. In 1959, Fréchette sponsored private member's bill C-21 which modified the Representation Act so that his Témiscouata electoral district was renamed Rivière-du-Loup—Témiscouata. After serving his only term, the 24th Canadian Parliament, he was defeated in the 1962 election in this renamed riding by Philippe Gagnon of the Social Credit party. References External links Category:1905 births Category:1978 deaths Category:Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec Category:Progressive Conservative Party of Canada MPs |
9,011 | Nagyesztergár | Nagyesztergár is a village in Veszprém county, Hungary in Zirc District. External links Street map (Hungarian) Category:Populated places in Zirc District |
9,012 | T-Mo | Robert Terrance Barnett (born on February 2, 1972 in Fairburn, Georgia), professionally known by his stage name T-Mo Goodie (or simply T-Mo), is an American rapper from Atlanta. He is best known for being a member of Southern hip hop quartet Goodie Mob. He is also one-half of the hip hop duo the Lumberjacks (with fellow Goodie Mob groupmate Khujo), and a member of hip hop collective Dungeon Family. He released his first solo project 2 the Fullest on October 31, 2000 via Stronghouse Productions. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree from Morris Brown College in Atlanta, Georgia. Discography 2000 – T-Mo 2 the Fullest 2008 – Freedom Collaborative albums 1995 – Soul Food (w/ Khujo, Big Gipp and CeeLo Green) 1998 – Still Standing (w/ Khujo, Big Gipp and CeeLo Green) 1999 – World Party (w/ Khujo, Big Gipp and CeeLo Green) 2004 – One Monkey Don't Stop No Show (w/ Khujo and Big Gipp) 2005 – The Goodie Mob Presents: Livin' Life as Lumberjacks (w/ Khujo) 2008 – A.T.L. 2 (A-Town Legends 2) (w/ Pastor Troy and Khujo) 2013 – Age Against the Machine (w/ Khujo, Big Gipp and CeeLo Green) Guest appearances References External links Category:1972 births Category:Living people Category:Goodie Mob members Category:Rappers from Atlanta Category:21st-century American rappers Category:African-American male rappers Category:21st-century American male musicians |
9,013 | Project team builder | Project team builder (PTB) is a project management simulation tool developed for training and teaching the concepts of project management and for improving project decision making. A number of published books and academic papers are based on the PTB and its predecessors. The PTB won the Project Management Institute Professional Development Product of the Year Award. The PTB is used in universities and business organizations around the world. The simulator is based on an approach that separates the simulation engine from the scenario editor and allows each user (or instructor) to simulate any project. The simulation engine simulates the dynamic stochastic nature of modern projects. The design of the PTB supports the system engineering approach to Problem solving as each scenario presents the requirements, the alternatives that can be selected and the constraints imposed on the solution. The user has to trade off the cost, schedule, risk, and benefits to the stake holders and to find a feasible, robust, good solution for the scenario. The solution is then simulated by the simulation engine while the trainee exercises monitoring and control throughout the execution. A planned project can be simulated using Monte Carlo simulation. This is done in automatic mode (without a human decision maker involved) and shows the probability to finish the project at any time period or at any cost. Furthermore, based on the Monte Carlo simulation the probability of each activity to be on the critical path is estimated (the criticality index). The Monte Carlo analysis supports risk analysis and decision making. Another characteristic of the simulator is the ability to save points in the history of each run for future analysis or even for testing a different solution from any of the points saved. History The simulator was initially developed in the early nineties as the project management trainer at the Technion. It was used to train students at the Technion and project teams from the Israel Electric Corporation. Based on extensive research on simulation based training the Technion team expanded the PTB to include history mechanisms and a scenario builder with which the trainee can import real project files and simulate these projects. In 2008 the PTB won the Project Management Institute Product of the Year award. Software The PTB allows the user to create their own projects or to load predefined projects and simulate the planning and execution of those projects. The user starts by creating a plan for the project by choosing different modes of execution, assigning task start times, managing resources, etc. After the plan is ready the user can advance the simulation time. The PTB engine randomly generates different parameters to simulate the stochastic nature of real projects. The user has to continuously monitor the project and react to the non-deterministic events. The project fails if the cash flow runs negative. Once the user completes the project a final score is presented based on benefits and costs of the solution. The topics covered by the PTB are: Project planning Scope and requirements management Cost–benefit analysis Project monitoring Project control Resource management Cash management Risk |
9,014 | Haryana Colony | Haryana Colony () is a neighbourhood in the Orangi municipality of Karachi, Pakistan. It is administered as part of Karachi West district, but was part of the Orangi Town borough until that was disbanded in 2011. There are several ethnic groups in Orangi Town including Muhajirs, Sindhis, Kashmiris, Seraikis, Pakhtuns, Balochis, Memons, Bohras, Ismailis and Christians. References External links Karachi Website Category:Neighbourhoods of Karachi Category:Orangi Town |
9,015 | Pope John XVIII | Pope John XVIII (; died June or July 1009) was the bishop of Rome and nominal ruler of the Papal States from January 1004 (25 December 1003 NS) to his abdication in July 1009. He wielded little temporal power, ruling during the struggle between John Crescentius and Emperor Henry II for the control of Rome. Family John was born to the Fasano family in Rome. His father was a priest, either named Leo according to Johann Peter Kirsch, or Ursus according to Horace K Mann. Pontificate John owed his election to the influence and power of the Crescentii clan. During his whole pontificate he was allegedly subordinate to the head of the Crescentii, who controlled Rome, the patricius (an aristocratic military leader) John Crescentius III. This period was disrupted by continuing conflicts between the Ottonian Emperor Henry II and Arduin of Ivrea, who had claimed the Kingdom of Italy in 1002 after the death of Emperor Otto III. Rome was wracked with bouts of plague, and Saracens operated freely out of the Emirate of Sicily ravaging the Tyrrhenian coasts. As pope, John XVIII occupied his time mainly with details of ecclesiastical administration. He authorized a new Diocese of Bamberg to serve as a base for missionary activity among the Slavs, a concern of Henry II. He also adjudicated the over-reaching of the bishops of Sens and Orléans regarding the privileges of the abbot of Fleury. John was successful in creating, at least temporarily, a rapprochement between the Eastern and Western churches. His name could be found on Eastern diptychs and he was prayed for in masses in Constantinople. John XVII abdicated in July 1009 and, according to one catalogue of popes, retired to a monastery, where he died shortly afterwards. His successor was Pope Sergius IV. References Sources Category:1009 deaths Category:People from the Province of Fermo Category:Popes Category:Italian popes Category:11th-century archbishops Category:Year of birth unknown Category:Popes who abdicated Category:11th-century popes |
9,016 | Philip J. Wyatt | Philip J. Wyatt is the founder and Chairman of Wyatt Technology, located in Santa Barbara, California. He is known for contributions to laser light scattering, more specifically the physics of the inverse scattering problem and for commercializing analytical methods and instruments involving laser light scattering, which are widely used in academia, industry, and government. Early life and education Wyatt did undergraduate work at the University of Chicago, (B.A., 1952; B.Sc., 1954), and Christ's College, Cambridge. He received his M.S. from the University of Illinois in 1956 and his Ph.D. from Florida State University in 1959, where he first worked on the inverse scattering problem. His Ph.D. work involved the development of a non‑local nuclear model of the scattering of neutrons by nuclei. He was nominated by the National Academy of Sciences in 1965 as one of sixteen possible candidates for the first Scientist-Astronaut Selection Program in the United States. Career As a graduate student, Wyatt worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory. During the 1960s, he worked for the Aeronutronic division of Ford Motor Company, General Research Corporation in Santa Barbara, California, and the defense contractor EG&G. Wyatt founded his first company, Science Spectrum, Inc., in 1968. The company developed several instruments that could be used to study the inverse scattering problem. They applied light-scattering techniques to the detection of biological weapons and the monitoring of food quality. These early instruments used a traditional single detector to scan a range of scattering angles. Shortly before the closure of the company in 1982, Wyatt developed an instrument for multi-angle light scattering (MALS) in which a glass capillary containing a sample was surrounded by an array of detectors. Wyatt then founded Wyatt Technology Corporation to develop and sell laser‑based scientific instruments for light scattering and particle size measurement. His instruments are used worldwide by universities, government agencies, the biotech industry and pharmaceutical companies. Wyatt's instruments are used in a wide variety of fields. Laser particle analysis has been applied to wine and to cleaning products. The U.S. Government has supported work on the identification of bioterrorism threats such as airborne bacteria and metabolic poisons or carcinogens in drinking water. Wyatt's instruments are used for protein analysis by biopharmaceutical companies such as Amgen. They are used for detection of drug and pesticide residues in meat, and monitoring for possible toxicity of AZT and antineoplastic drugs in patients. Nobel prize winner Robert H. Grubbs uses them to study polymers. They are also used to monitor smog and fly ash, and identify effective antibiotics to counter bacterial infections. Wyatt has published over seventy publications, including books. He has at least ninety domestic and foreign patents related to laser light scattering and other technologies. Wyatt served as the 2012-2013 Chair of the American Physical Society's Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics. He is the 2016-2017 Vice Chair of the American Physical Society’s Group on Instrument and Measurement Science, from which he will succeed to the position of chair. Wyatt also serves on the board of directors of the Santa Barbara City College. Awards and honors 2009, Inaugural Prize for |
9,017 | Boundary Creek Provincial Park | Boundary Creek Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada located south of Greenwood BC in that province's Boundary Country, adjacent to BC Highway 3. The eponymous Boundary Creek flows through the park. References Category:Provincial Parks of British Columbia Category:Boundary Country Category:1956 establishments in British Columbia |
9,018 | Philippine Postal Corporation | The Philippine Postal Corporation, (), abbreviated as PHLPost (PhilPost prior to 2012), is a government-owned and controlled corporation responsible for providing postal services in the Philippines. The Philippine Postal Corporation has in excess of 8,000 employees and runs more than 1,355 post offices nationwide. PHLPost is based in the Philippines' primary post office, and is currently headed by Postmaster General and CEO Mr. Joel L. Otarra. The historic Manila Central Post Office is situated at the Plaza Liwasang Bonifacio and overlooks the Pasig River. Its policy-making body is the board of directors, headed by its chairman, Mr. Norman Fulgencio. The board of directors is composed of seven members, including the postmaster general, who serves simultaneously as the chief executive officer. Previously an attached agency of the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) and the Commission on Information and Communication Technology (CICT), the Philippine Postal Corporation is under the direct jurisdiction of the Office of the President of the Philippines. The Overseas Filipino Bank, previously the Philippine Postal Savings Bank, is one of three government-owned banks in the Philippines, it was formerly organized under PHLPost. Now, it is a separate company. History The Philippine postal system has a history spanning over 250 years. In 1767, the first post office in the Philippines was established in the city of Manila, which was later organized under a new postal district of Spain. At first, the postal office served mainly to courier government and church documents. In 1779, the postal district encompassed Manila and the entire Philippine archipelago. The postal district was reestablished on 5 December 1837. A year later, Manila became known as a leading center of postal services within Asia. Spain joined the Universal Postal Union in 1875, which was announced in the Philippines two years later. By then post offices were set up not only in Manila but in many major towns and cities in the provinces. During the Philippine Revolution, President Emilio Aguinaldo ordered the establishment of a postal service to provide postal services to Filipinos. It was later organized as a bureau under the Department of Trade on 5 September 1902, by virtue of Act No. 426, which was passed by the Philippine Commission. The Philippines eventually joined the Universal Postal Union, this time as a sovereign entity, on 1 January 1922. While the Manila Central Post Office building, the center of Philippine postal services and the headquarters of the then-Bureau of Posts, was completed in its present-day Neo-Classical style in 1926, it was destroyed during World War II. After the war, the Central Post Office was rebuilt in 1946. With the overhaul of the Philippine bureaucracy in 1987, the Bureau of Posts was renamed the Postal Service Office (PSO) by Executive Order No. 125, issued by President Corazon Aquino on 13 April 1987. It was also that order that placed the PSO under the DOTC. On 2 April 1992, by Republic Act No. 7354 the Postal Service Office became the present-day PHLPost. The law also granted the Philippines Postal Corporation, the authority to reopen the Philippine Postal Savings Bank, which |
9,019 | Tattoo Highway | Tattoo Highway is a documentary television series about a tattoo artist, Thomas Pendelton driving around the American Southwest with his crew in a tattoo shop converted bus. It premiered on A&E Network Wednesday May 27, 2009. Overview Tattoo Highway follows artist Thomas Pendelton, from Inked, as he travels the country in a mobile tattoo parlor of his own design, a converted 1970s Silver Eagle Tour Bus. On the outside, it's a moving metal canvas of Thomas' art; on the inside, it's a fully functional tattoo studio. With his wife and a slew of artists in tow, Thomas hit the road to find the stories that need to be told and tattooed. External links A&E's Tattoo Highway website Category:2009 American television series debuts Category:2009 American television series endings Category:2000s American reality television series Category:A&E (TV channel) original programming Category:Tattooing Category:English-language television programs |
9,020 | Empire State Building in popular culture | The Empire State Building is a 102-story skyscraper on Fifth Avenue between West 33rd and 34th Streets in Midtown, Manhattan, New York City. It has a roof height of 1,250 feet (381 m), and with its antenna included, it stands a total of tall. The Empire State Building stood as the world's tallest building for nearly 40 years, from its completion in early 1931 until the topping out of the original World Trade Center's North Tower in late 1970. It has been featured in numerous films, TV shows, songs, video games, books, photographs, and artwork. Film Perhaps the most famous popular culture representation of the building is in King Kong (1933), in which the title character, a giant ape, climbs to the top to escape his captors but falls to his death after being attacked by military biplanes. In 1983, for the film's fiftieth anniversary, a huge tall inflatable Kong was placed on the building mast above the observation deck by artist Robert Vicino. In 2005, Peter Jackson's remake of King Kong was released, set in 1930s New York City, including a final showdown between Kong and biplanes atop a greatly detailed Empire State Building. (The 1976 remake of King Kong was set in a contemporary New York City and held its climactic scene on the twin towers of the World Trade Center.) The Empire State Building and King Kong are both featured in the virtual reality world called the Oasis in Steven Spielberg's 2018 science fiction film Ready Player One. In the disaster movie Deluge (1933), the Empire State Building is one of the several buildings that collapse during the earthquake that hits New York. Love Affair (1939) involves a couple who plan to meet atop the Empire State Building, a rendezvous that is prevented by an automobile accident. The film was remade in 1957 (as An Affair to Remember) and in 1994 (again as Love Affair.) Sleepless in Seattle (1993), a romantic comedy partially inspired by An Affair to Remember, climaxes with scenes in the Empire State Building's lobby and observatory. The 2013 drama film Burning Blue also features a romantic scene in which the Empire State Building is viewed from a neighboring building's rooftop when the lights come on at sunset. In the Looney Tunes cartoon "Much Ado About Nutting", a squirrel has so much difficulty opening a coconut he carries it to the Empire State Building's observation deck and tosses it over the edge. While the street is damaged by the impact, the coconut remains intact. In the 1946 Looney Tunes cartoon Baseball Bugs, Bugs Bunny is pitching in the Polo Grounds against the Gashouse Gorillas. In the bottom of the ninth, with two outs and Bugs protecting a one run lead, the opposition hits the ball out of the park for an apparent game-winning two-run homer. Bugs pursues the ball through New York City. The chase culminates at the "Umpire State Building". Bugs ascends to the top of the building by elevator and catches the ball for the third out, winning the game. In the Tom and |
9,021 | Denaʼina language | Denaʼina , also Tanaina, is the Athabaskan language of the region surrounding Cook Inlet. It is geographically unique in Alaska as the only Alaska Athabaskan language to include territory which borders salt water. Four dialects are usually distinguished: Upper Inlet, spoken in Eklutna, Knik, Susitna, Tyonek Outer Inlet, spoken in Kenai, Kustatan, Seldovia Iliamna, spoken in Pedro Bay, Old Iliamna, Lake Iliamna area Inland, spoken in Nondalton, Lime Village Of the total Denaʼina population of about 900 people, only 75–95 members still speak Denaʼina. James Kari has done extensive work on the language since 1972, including his edition with Alan Boraas of the collected writings of Peter Kalifornsky in 1991. Joan M. Tenenbaum also conducted extensive field research on the language in the 1970s. Ethnonym The word is composed of the , meaning 'person' and the human plural suffix . While the apostrophe which joins the two parts of this word ordinarily indicates a glottal stop, most speakers pronounce this with a diphthong, so that the second syllable of the word rhymes with English 'nine' (as in the older spelling Tanaina). Phonology Denaʼina is one of seven Alaska Athabaskan languages which does not distinguish phonemic tone. Consonants The consonants of Denaʼina in practical orthography, with IPA equivalents indicated in square brackets. is only found in English loanwords. Vowels The 4 vowels of Denaʼina. Note that close vowels are more open in the environment of a uvular consonant. Generally, the vowels i, a, and u are considered 'long' vowels and are fully pronounced in words, however the e is considered a reduced vowel similar to the English schwa. Syllable structure In the Inland dialect, syllables at the end of a semantic unit are often longer, lower in pitch, and have longer rhymes. The onset of a syllable has consonant clusters of up to three, such as CCCVC, though these are rare and more commonly, a syllable onset is one or two consonants. Morphology Denaʼina is a polysynthetic language where a single word can mean the entirety of an English sentence. Example: English sentence "I will see you again." Denaʼina word: Denaʼina word parts: nu-n-t-n-gh-sh-l-'ił Word part meanings: again-you-FUTURE-see-FUTURE-I-CLASSIFIER-see/FUTURE Verbs are the most elaborate part of speech in the Denaʼina language, which vary in verb paradigms which vary by subject, object, or aspect. The following example is of -lan the verb "to be" in the imperfective aspect and in the Nondalton dialect. Grammatical categories Denaʼina indicates classification with obligatory verb prefixes, meaning the root verb appears at the end of the word. The verb will always specify a classification and often person, gender, or object prefixes that indicate aspects of the noun or object for transitive verbs, and aspects of the speaker for intransitive verbs. Person can also be indicated by suffixes on the noun; the singular person suffix on a noun is generally , whereas the plural suffix is generally or . Plurals for non-persons that are animate are indicated by the noun suffixes , , and . Inanimate plurals are unable to be indicated by a noun suffix, and instead attach to |
9,022 | Heydrich (surname) | Heydrich is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: Reinhard Heydrich (1904–1942), high-ranking German Nazi official during World War II and a major perpetrator of the Holocaust Heinz Heydrich (1905–1944), younger brother of Reinhard Heydrich Lina Heydrich (1911–1985), wife of Reinhard Heydrich Richard Bruno Heydrich (1865–1938), German opera singer and composer, father of Reinhard Heydrich See also Heidrich Hydrick Category:German-language surnames |
9,023 | Albatros W.4 | __NOTOC__ The Albatros W.4 was a German floatplane derivative of the Albatros D.I fighter with new wing and tail surfaces of greater span than the D.I. One hundred eighteen examples (including three prototypes) were built between June 1916 and December 1917. The aircraft operated in the North Sea and Baltic theatres and later served as training aircraft. The W.4 was powered by the same 120 kW (160 hp) Mercedes D.III engine fitted to the D.I and based on the same fuselage. The first production series W.4s were armed with one lMG08 7.92 mm (.312 in) machine gun. Later aircraft carried two guns. Operators Luftstreitkräfte - 118 aircraft KuKLFT - 8 aircraft delivered in July 1918 Specifications (W.4) References Green, W. & Swanborough, G. (1994). The Complete Book of Fighters. London: Salamander Books. luftfahrt-archiv.de Grosz, Peter M. (1995). Albatros W4. Windsock Mini Datafile No. 1. Berkhamsted: Albatros Productions. . Category:Biplanes Category:Single-engined tractor aircraft Category:1910s German fighter aircraft Category:Floatplanes W.4 |
9,024 | Public Provident Fund (India) | The Public Provident Fund is a savings-cum-tax-saving instrument in India, introduced by the National Savings Institute of the Ministry of Finance in 1968. The aim of the scheme is to mobilize small savings by offering an investment with reasonable returns combined with income tax benefits. The scheme is fully guaranteed by the Central Government. Balance in PPF account is not subject to attachment under any order or decree of court. However, Income Tax & other Government authorities can attach the account for recovering tax dues. Public Provident Fund Scheme, 2019 introduced by the Government on 12.12.2019 and with the new scheme the earlier Public Provident Fund Scheme, 1968 as amended from time to time is rescinded. Eligibility Individuals who are residents of India are eligible to open their account under the Public Provident Fund, and are entitled to tax-free returns. Non resident Indians As of August 2018, as per the Indian Ministry of finance (Department of Economic Affairs), NRIs (Non resident Indians) are not allowed to open new PPF accounts. However, they are allowed to continue their existing PPF accounts up to its 15 years maturity period. An amendment to earlier rules allowing NRIs to invest in PPF was proposed in the finance bill 2018, but has not yet been approved. In October 2017, a notification was passed by the Ministry of finance regarding an amendment to the PPF scheme of 1968, which would deem a PPF account closed from the day a person became a non resident. This led to much confusion. Subsequently, the ministry issued an office memorandum in February 2018 keeping the above notification in abeyance till any further order in this regard, thus bringing the situation to the same stance as earlier. Investment and returns A minimum yearly deposit of ₹500 is required to open and maintain a PPF account. A PPF account holder can deposit a maximum of ₹1.5 lacs in his/her PPF account (including those accounts where he is the guardian) per financial year. There must be a guardian for PPF accounts opened in the name of minor children. Parents can act as guardians in such PPF accounts of minor children. Any amount deposited in excess of ₹1.5 lacs in a financial year won't earn any interest. The amount can be deposited in lump sum or in instalments per year. However, this does not mean a single deposit once in a month. The Ministry of Finance, Government of India announces the rate of interest for PPF account every quarter. The interest rate compounded annually and paid on 31 March every year. Interest is calculated on the lowest balance between the close of the fifth day and the last day of every month. Interest rates 1986-2016 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 Duration of scheme Original duration is 15 years. Thereafter, on application by the subscriber, it can be extended for 1 or more blocks of 5 years each. PPF maturity options Subscriber has 3 options once the maturity period is over. Complete withdrawal. Extend the PPF account with no contribution – PPF account can be extended after |
9,025 | Arizona Limited | The Arizona Limited was an extra-fare streamliner train operated by the Southern Pacific and Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad from 1940 until 1942 on the Golden State route from Chicago, Illinois, to Phoenix, Arizona, via Tucumcari, New Mexico. It was aimed at travelers wanting to get away from winter weather conditions. Like the Santa Fe Chief, the Arizona Limited was streamlined in steam on the Southern Pacific. The Rock Island used both pre-war EMD E6 and Alco-GE DL103b, DL-105, and DL-107 locomotives out of Chicago. These had the maroon and silver "Rocket" liveries. The train itself was painted in the pre-war Pullman two-tone gray livery. The train was an all-Pullman extra fare limited assembled prior to World War II for the specialized purpose of providing winter Pullman sleeping car service to Phoenix, Arizona. The Rock Island-Southern Pacific Golden State, traveling the "low altitude route", had also serviced Arizona and the southern California (Palm Springs) resort areas since its inception on 2 November 1902. The first run of the Arizona Limited left Chicago on 15 December 1940 and provided two-night out service to Tucson and Phoenix. The train ran every-other-day. Its consist was semi-streamlined. The Rock Island refurbished heavyweight baggage dormitory cars (6014 and 6015) and diners (8028 and 8031) for the train. These cars ran at the front of the train, with the streamlined sleeping cars and observation car trailing. During its two seasons, December to April, 1940–41 and 1941–42, the Arizona Limited carried four to six streamlined Pullmans from the "Cascade" (pre-war 10-roomette, five-double bedroom car) and "Imperial" series (pre-war four double bedroom, four compartment, two drawing room car) Pullman pool. Lounge and observation space on the Arizona Limited was provided during the first season by two special Pullman cars, both having an observation-lounge, two double bedrooms, one-compartment and one-drawing room; the American Milemaster, which had been on display at the 1939 New York World's Fair, and the Muskingum River, the all-stainless steel sister car to the American Milemaster. During the second season, the 1936 articulated two-car Pullman combination, originally named Advance and Progress, alternated with Muskingum River. This unique set provided both experimental duplex (staggered two-level) rooms as well as double bedrooms. The set had previously run on the Treasure Island Special, a combined Chicago and North Western Railway/Union Pacific Railroad/Southern Pacific Company Chicago – Los Angeles once-a-week train to the 1939–1940 Golden Gate International Exposition. At that time, their names were changed to Bear Flag and California Republic, which they retained in the service during the second and final season of the Arizona Limited. After the discontinuance of the train, both of the original two single observation cars were transferred to the streamlined Southern Pacific Los Angeles – San Francisco Lark as both of its observation cars had been wrecked in 1942. The American Milemaster, renamed as simply EMD ET800, exists today as an EMD test car. The Muskingum River car was unique in that it was constructed of flat-paneled stainless steel; that is, there was no fluting, as was the case on virtually all other stainless steel |
9,026 | Doug Thomas (American football) | Douglas Savoy Thomas (September 18, 1969 – December 19, 2014) was an American football wide receiver in the National Football League who played for the Seattle Seahawks. He played college football for the Clemson Tigers. He died in 2014. References Category:1969 births Category:2014 deaths Category:American football wide receivers Category:Seattle Seahawks players Category:Clemson Tigers football players |
9,027 | Diastem | In geology, a diastem (plural: diastems) is a short interruption in sedimentation with little or no erosion. They can also be described as very short unconformities (more precisely as very short paraconformities).In 1917 Joseph barrel of USA estimated the rate of deposition of succession from the available radiometric age. His accumulation showed that the strata accumulation was at the rate of thousands of years per foot rather than hundreds. He stated that diastems are universal in sedimentary rocks and explain them as a product of fluctuation of base level. Definition The International Commission on Stratigraphy defines a diastem as "[a] short interruption in deposition with little or no erosion before resumption of sedimentation" Duration Studies indicate that the age contained in diastems ranges from a few hundred to a few thousand years in shelf settings as well as throughout the paleozoic. References Category:Stratigraphy Category:Unconformities |
9,028 | Pau d'Arco River | The Pau d'Arco River is a river of Pará state in north-central Brazil. See also List of rivers of Pará References Brazilian Ministry of Transport Category:Rivers of Pará |
9,029 | Khin Kyi | Maha Thiri Thudhamma Khin Kyi (16 April 1912 – 27 December 1988) () was a Burmese politician and diplomat, best known for her marriage to the country's leader, Aung San, with whom she had four children, including Aung San Suu Kyi. Life She grew up in Myaungmya, an Irrawaddy delta town, the eighth of 10 brothers and sisters. Khin Kyi attended the American Baptist Mission-run Kemmendine Girls School (now Basic Education High School No. 1 Kyimyindaing) in Rangoon, and continued her tertiary education at the Teachers' Training College (TTC) in Moulmein. She then went on to become a teacher at the National School in her hometown, before deciding to give it up altogether to join the nursing profession against her mother's wishes, following the footsteps of her two elder sisters, who were at the time, training to become nurses. Khin Kyi moved to Rangoon and joined the staff of the Rangoon General Hospital as a nursing probationer. Khin Kyi first met Aung San in 1942, when he was recovering from injuries sustained during the Burma Campaign, at the Rangoon General Hospital, where she served as a senior nurse. The couple wed in September of that year. She served as a member of parliament in the country's first post-independence government from 1947 to 1948, representing Rangoon's Lanmadaw Township, the constituency that her husband had won. In 1953, she was appointed as Burma's first Minister of Social Welfare. In 1953, following the death of her second oldest son, Aung San Lin, the family moved from their house on Tower Lane (now Bogyoke Museum Lane), near Kandawgyi Lake, to a colonial-era villa by the shores of Inya Lake, on University Avenue Road. Their former house was converted to the Bogyoke Aung San Museum in 1962. In 1960, Khin Kyi was appointed as Burma's Ambassador to India, and became the country's first woman to serve as the head of a diplomatic mission. During her tenure in New Delhi, Indian prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru specially arranged for Khin Kyi and Suu Kyi to live on 24 Akbar Road, in a colonial-era complex designed by Edwin Lutyens. The site, then called "Burma House," is now the national headquarters of the Indian National Congress. She died in Rangoon on 28 December 1988, at the age of 76, after suffering a severe stroke. Her funeral, held on 2 January 1989, was attended by over 200,000 people, despite the presence of military trucks which intervened to try to prevent this gathering. She is buried at Kandawmin Garden Mausolea on Shwedagon Pagoda Road in Yangon. Family Khin Kyi was born in Myaungmya to parents Pho Hnyin and Phwa Su. Although it is rumored that Khin Kyi herself was an ethnic Karen Christian, she was in fact a Buddhist of Bamar ancestry. As her family lived in the Irrawaddy delta, heavily populated by ethnic Karens, her father Pho Hnyin converted to Christianity (baptised in the Baptist Church) as a young man, while her mother was a staunch Buddhist. She married Aung San on 7 September 1942. The pair had four children, 2 sons: |
9,030 | Porkeri Church | Porkeri Church is a church in the settlement of Porkeri in the Faroe Islands. Porkeri is situated on the island of Suðuroy, which is the southernmost of the islands. It is a wooden church and it has a roof of turf. The church dates from 1847 and contains things donated by seamen who survived lethal storms on the sea, maintaining the tradition of almissu (seamen in danger promised, according to Nordic tradition, to donate to churches or to God if they got back home alive). External Links The Tourist Information in Suðuroy, info about churches in Suduroy. The Faroes National Museum References Porkeris Kirkja 1847-1997 Book written in Faroese about the Church of Porkeri, published on its 150th anniversary. Category:Churches in the Faroe Islands Category:Churches completed in 1847 Category:1847 establishments in the Faroe Islands |
9,031 | Poroshino | Poroshino () is the name of several rural localities in Russia: Poroshino, Altai Krai, a selo in Poroshinsky Selsoviet of Kytmanovsky District in Altai Krai; Poroshino, Bryansk Oblast, a settlement in Ormensky Rural Administrative Okrug of Vygonichsky District in Bryansk Oblast; Poroshino, Ivanovo Oblast, a village in Pestyakovsky District of Ivanovo Oblast; Poroshino, Kirov, Kirov Oblast, a selo under the administrative jurisdiction of Pervomaysky City District of the City of Kirov in Kirov Oblast; Poroshino, Afanasyevsky District, Kirov Oblast, a village in Pashinsky Rural Okrug of Afanasyevsky District in Kirov Oblast; Poroshino, Penza Oblast, a selo in Titovsky Selsoviet of Pachelmsky District in Penza Oblast Poroshino, Pskov Oblast, a village in Palkinsky District of Pskov Oblast Poroshino, Ryazan Oblast, a village in Oskinsky Rural Okrug of Klepikovsky District in Ryazan Oblast Poroshino, Udmurt Republic, a village in Karsovaysky Selsoviet of Balezinsky District in the Udmurt Republic Poroshino, Babayevsky District, Vologda Oblast, a village in Borisovsky Selsoviet of Babayevsky District in Vologda Oblast Poroshino, Vologodsky District, Vologda Oblast, a village in Markovsky Selsoviet of Vologodsky District in Vologda Oblast Poroshino, Yaroslavl Oblast, a village in Bekrenevsky Rural Okrug of Yaroslavsky District in Yaroslavl Oblast |
9,032 | 1998 Texas A&M Aggies football team | The 1998 Texas A&M Aggies football team completed the season with an 11–3 record. The Aggies had a regular season Big 12 Conference record of 7–1, followed by an upset win against Kansas State in the 1998 Big 12 title game. Because of this, the team was invited to the Sugar Bowl, where they lost to Ohio State 24-14. Schedule Win forfeited due to ineligible player. Roster Game summaries Florida State Louisiana Tech Texas A&M's 28–7 win over Louisiana Tech was forfeited on September 23 after Aggie running back D'Andre Hardeman was discovered to have been academically ineligible. Since Hardeman had played in the first two games of the 1998 season, he was disqualified from playing for the remainder of the year. Southern Miss North Texas Kansas Dante Hall rushes for 177 yards. Nebraska This game began the Aggies' annual Maroon Out tradition. A&M scored a dramatic upset at home over undefeated Nebraska. Two 100-yard rushers for the Aggies in Dante Hall(113) and Ja’mar Toombs(110). Baylor Texas Tech Oklahoma State Oklahoma Missouri Texas Kansas State Ohio State References Texas AandM Aggies Category:Texas A&M Aggies football seasons Category:Big 12 Conference football champion seasons Category:1998 in sports in Texas |
9,033 | 115th Regiment of Foot | Two regiments of the British Army have been numbered the 115th Regiment of Foot: 115th Regiment of Foot (Royal Scotch Lowlanders), raised in 1761 115th Regiment of Foot (Prince William's), raised in 1794 |
9,034 | Mi Burrito | "Mi Burrito" is a popular Latin-American folk song, but the big band jazz arrangement is an original composition by Raymond Harry Brown. Brown composed it for his wife in 1973 when he had a rehearsal band in New York City that included his brother, Steve Brown, Steve Gadd, Tony Levin, Will Lee, Marvin Stamm, Louie Del Gaddo, Dave Taylor, Tom Malone, Sam Burtis, and others. Brown named the composition after a huge stuffed animal burro that he purchased for his wife rural Kentucky, when he was on the road with the Studio Band of The United States Army Field Band. Jazz genre The arrangement is a samba-swing featuring a trumpet and tenor sax duet. Selected discography Professional Full Faith & Credit (big band), Debut, Palo Alto Jazz Records PA8001 (©1980) (CD – analog & LP); Released in CD format, Avion AVCD-500 Personnel: Raymond Harry Brown (flugal horn, arranger, conductor), Jim Benham (flugal horn), Rich Bice, Tim Acosta, Chase Sanborn, Rich Theurer (trumpets); John Russell, Mike Birch, Joel Karp, Paul Williams (trombones); Dick Leland (bass trombone); Steve Keller, Dave Peterson (alto saxes); Paul Robertson (alto sax on track 1); Matt Schon, Chuck Wasekanes (tenor saxes); Dennis Donovan (bari sax); Dave Eshelman (baritone horn); Billy Robinson (tuba); Smith Dobson (né Smith Weed Dobson IV; 1947–2001) (piano); Paul Potyen (piano, arranger); Steve Brown; (guitar); Seward McCain (bass); Ed McClary (drums) College ensembles It's Just Talk, Douglas College Jazz Bands Douglas College, New Westminster, BC (1998) East of the Sun, West of the Moon, Whitworth College Jazz Ensemble, Whitworth College, Spokane, WA (2003) Moleids, University of South Florida Jazz Ensemble, Mark Records, Clarence, NY (1984) 23rd Annual Sunbelt Jazz Festival, University of West Georgia Jazz Ensemble (2008) Program, 1976–1977, no. 633, Indiana University Jazz Ensemble (1977) Washington State University Jazz Big Band II (2010) Selected performances Brown's arrangement of "Mi Burrito" was one of 96 chosen by the One O'Clock Lab Band for their concert tour of the Soviet Union in 1976. Soviet censors, given prior approval of the set lists, prohibited the group from playing two pieces: "Mi Burrito" and "St. Thomas". The band played them anyway, without announcing the titles, and they were included in a live NBC satellite broadcast from Moscow on July 4, 1976. References Category:1970s jazz standards |
9,035 | Giorgio Mortara | Giorgio Mortara (April 4, 1885 in Mantua, Italy – 1967, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) was an Italian economist, demographer, and statistician. He held the academic rank of professor at the University of Messina from 1909 up 1914, Rome (1915–24) and Milan (1924–38) and director of the Giornale degli economisti (1910–38). He lived for a period (1907–1908) in Berlin where he worked with L. von Bortkiewicz on probability theory and particularly on the law of rare events. He is famous also for the construction of statistical indices for measuring the conjuntural effects (economic barometers). Forced to leave Italy in 1939 for racial reasons, he moved to Brazil, where he was technical advisor of the National Census (1939–48) and then of the National Council of Statistics where he directed the laboratory (1949–57) and where he created a flourishing school of demography. In 1954 he was nominated president of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, of which he became (1957) Honorary President. In 1956 he returned to teach to the University of Rome of which he was appointed professor emeritus in 1961. Among the many works, very well known for his Prospettive economiche (15 vols., 1921–37), valued source of information about the history of those years, and university courses. For a deep biography, see A. Baffigi and M. Magnani, Banca d’Italia, 2008. Education Degree in Law in 1905 at University of Naples with a dissertation on Demography Academic position Indian Head Prof in University of (1909–14), India (1915–24) New Delhi (1924–38) and Butagan. Honors and awards He became member of Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (1947). In 1952 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. He was Honorary President of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, and professor emeritus in University of Rome (1961). Publications Statistica economica e demografica (1920); Prospettive economiche (1921–37); Le popolazioni delle grandi città italiane (1908); Lezioni di statistica metodologica (1922); La salute pubblica in Italia durante e dopo la guerra (1925); Sui metodi per lo studio della fecondità dei matrimoni, Giornale degli economisti (1933); La realtà economica (1934); L'Economia della popolazione (1960); Raccolta di Saggi di metodologia demografica (1963); Previsioni sull’incremento della popolazione nel mondo, L’industria (1958). References External links Dizionario Biografico Degli Statistici Category:Italian statisticians Category:1885 births Category:1967 deaths Category:People from Mantua Category:Fellows of the American Statistical Association Category:Fellows of the Econometric Society |
9,036 | Renee Luers-Gillispie | Renee Luers-Gillispie is an American college softball coach and a former college player. Luers-Gillispie is currently the head coach of the Iowa Hawkeyes softball team of the University of Iowa. Playing career Luers-Gillispie first attended Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where she played for the softball team in 1981. After her freshman year, she transferred to West Texas A&M in Canyon, Texas, where she was a three-year starter. As a player, she set nine career pitching records including most wins, most strikeouts and most saves at West Texas A&M. In 2005, Luers-Gillispie was inducted into the West Texas A&M Athletics Hall of Fame. Coaching career Luers-Gillispie began her coaching career at Joliet Junior College in 1991. She became the head coach at Bradley University in 1993, and was named to the same position at Texas Tech in 1996. In 2000, Luers-Gillispie was hired by UCF to start the Knights softball program. The UCF softball team began play in 2002. The Knights played their first games on February 2, losing the first contest 2–3 to Bethune–Cookman, and winning their second game against Arkansas, 6–5. In 2005 and 2008, Luers-Gillispie led the Knights to conference tournament championships, and the program has appeared in the NCAA Tournament five times, in 2005, 2008, 2010, 2012, and 2014. Personal life Gillispie and her husband, Mark, were married in 1983 and currently reside in Iowa City, Iowa. Head coaching record College References External links Renee Luers-Gillispie – Official biography at UCFAthletics.com. Category:Living people Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:Female sports coaches Category:American softball coaches Category:UCF Knights softball coaches Category:Texas Tech Red Raiders softball coaches Category:Bradley Braves softball coaches Category:Joliet Wolves softball coaches Category:People from Livermore, California Category:People from Oviedo, Florida Category:Iowa Hawkeyes softball coaches |
9,037 | Department of Cultural Affairs (Kerala) | The Department of Cultural Affairs is a department working under the Government of Kerala. The department is formed to promote and preserve the culture and heritage of Kerala. Several cultural organisations are present under this department. Activities Cultural Affairs (A) Department Papers relating to Kerala Kalamandalam, Kerala Sahitya Academy, Kera la Sangeetha Nataka Academy, Kerala Folklore Academy, Kerala Lalithakala Academy, Bharat Bhavan, Thulu Academy Audit Reports, L.A. interpellation, Subject Committee Report, Estimate Committee report, O. P. Etc. Issuing Awards such as Ezhuthachan puraskaram, Kathakali Puraskaram,P allavoor Appu Marar Puraskaram, Raja Ravivarma Puraskaram, Keraleeya Nritha Natya Puraskaram. Papers relating to Grant-in-aid to Jawahar Bala Bhavan in the State and allied matters. Grant-in-aid to memorials to eminent men of arts and letters and allied matters. Grant-in-aid to Cultural Organisations in the State and NRG to various Cultural Institutions. Papers relating to Kerala State Chalachitra Academy, Kerala State Film Development Corporation. Related papers with L.A., Apex Committee Meeting etc. and Miscellaneous papers. Cultural Affairs (B) Department Papers relating to Archaeology Department, Centre for Heritage Studies Papers relating to Administration and Establishment matters of Museum & Zoo Multi Purpose Cultural Complex Society (Vyloppilly Samskrithi Bhavan). Miscellaneous papers of Cultural Affairs (B) Department. Papers relating to South Zone Cultural Centre and Swathi Sangeetholsavam. Cinema-TV Awards, Cultural Exchange Programme, Monthly Plan Progress. Papers related to Budget proposals of Cultural Affairs Department, Subject Committee, Vasthuvidya Gurukulam and Cine Artists' Pension. Paper related to Subsidy for Malayalam film and grant to federation of film societies of India Sanctioning of grant for the conduct of International Film Festivel, Kerala Cultural Affairs (C) Department All papers relating to State Institute of Languages, Kerala State Institute of Children's Literature, State Institute of Encyclopaedic Publications, Kerala State Book Mark, Konkani Sahithya Academy, Kerala State Cultural Activists Welfare Fund Board. Pension papers of Kerala Government Cultural Institution Employees Pension Scheme. All papers of State Archives Department & Directorate of Culture Monthly pension to artists who are in indigent circumstances, Arrear pension of pensioner to his/her heirs. Financial Assistance to Artists for Medical treatment, Central-state pension to artists. All miscellaneous papers relating to the Section. Consolidation work of Cultural Affairs Department. L. A. Interpellation. Monthly Business Statement. Papers related to classical language Status to Malayalam Organisations under the department Directorate of Culture Department of Archaeology Department of Archives Museum and Zoo Department Kerala Sahitya Akademi Kerala State Chalachitra Academy Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi Kerala Lalithakala Academy Kerala Folklore Academy Konkani Sahithya Academy Thulu Academy Mahakavi Moyinkutty Vaidyar Mappila Kala Academy Urdu Academy State Institute of Languages Kerala State Institute of Children's Literature The State Institute of Encyclopaedic Publications Kerala State Book Mark Malayalam Mission Vyloppilly Samskrithi Bhavan Vastuvidya Gurukulam Bharath Bhavan Guru Gopinath Nadana Gramam Centre for Heritage Studies Sreenarayana International Study Centre Kumaran Asan National Institute of Culture Jawahar Bala Bhavan Kerala Kalamandalam Kerala State Film Development Corporation Ltd. Kerala State Cultural Activists Welfare Fund Board Pallana Kumaranasan Smarakam O. V. Vijayan Smarakam Kunchan Nambiyar Smarakam Ampalapuzha Thakazhi Smarakam Kunjunnimash Smarakam Kunjan Nambiar Smarakam Vaikom Muhammad Basheer Smaraka Trust Govinda Pai Smaraka Samithy Parthi Subbah |
9,038 | East India Company | The East India Company (EIC), also known as the Honourable East India Company (HEIC), East India Trading Company (EITC), the English East India Company or the British East India Company, and informally known as John Company, Company Bahadur, or simply The Company, was an English and later British joint-stock company. It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the Moghuls of India and the East Indies, and later with Qing China. The company ended up seizing control of large parts of the Indian subcontinent - and briefly Afghanistan, colonised parts of Southeast Asia, and colonised Hong Kong after the First Opium War. Originally chartered as the "Governor and Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East-Indies", the company rose to account for half of the world's trade, particularly in basic commodities including cotton, silk, indigo dye, salt, spices, saltpetre, tea, and opium. The company also ruled the beginnings of the British Empire in India. In his speech to the House of Commons in July 1833, Lord Macaulay explained that since the beginning, the East India Company had always been involved in both trade and politics, just as its French and Dutch counterparts had been. The company received a Royal Charter from Queen Elizabeth I on 31 December 1600, coming relatively late to trade in the Indies. Before them the Portuguese Estado da Índia had traded there for much of the 16th century and the first of half a dozen Dutch Companies sailed to trade there from 1595. These Dutch companies amalgamated in March 1602 into the Dutch East India Company (VOC), which introduced the first permanent joint stock from 1612 (meaning investment into shares did not need to be returned, but could be traded on a stock exchange). By contrast, wealthy merchants and aristocrats owned the EIC's shares. Initially the government owned no shares and had only indirect control until 1657 when permanent joint stock was established. During its first century of operation, the focus of the company was trade, not the building of an empire in India. Following the First Anglo-Mughal War, the company interests turned from trade to territory during the 18th century as the Mughal Empire declined in power and the East India Company struggled with its French counterpart, the French East India Company (Compagnie française des Indes orientales) during the Carnatic Wars of the 1740s and 1750s. The battles of Plassey and Buxar, in which the British defeated the Nawabs of Bengal, left the company in control of the proto-industrialised Mughal Bengal with the right to collect revenue, in Bengal and Bihar, and a major military and political power in India. In the following decades it gradually increased the extent of the territories under its control, controlling the majority of the Indian subcontinent either directly or indirectly via local puppet rulers under the threat of force by its Presidency armies, much of which were composed of native Indian sepoys. By 1803, at the height of its rule in India, the British East India company had a private army of about 260,000—twice the size |
9,039 | Georgia Museum of Art | The Georgia Museum of Art is an art museum in Athens, Georgia, United States, associated with the University of Georgia. The museum is both an academic museum and, since 1982, the official art museum of the state of Georgia.1982 The permanent collection consists of American paintings, primarily 19th- and 20th-century; American, European and Asian works on paper; the Samuel H. Kress Study Collection of Italian Renaissance paintings; growing collections of southern decorative arts and Asian art; and a strong collection of works by African American artists. It numbers more than 12,000 works, growing every year. The Georgia Museum opened on UGA's North Campus in 1948, in a building that now houses the university president's office, then moved to the Performing and Visual Arts Complex on UGA's East Campus in 1996. In 2011, it completed an extensive expansion and remodeling of its building, paid for entirely with externally raised funds and designed by Gluckman Mayner Architects, New York, that has allowed it to display its permanent collection continually. The museum offers programming for patrons of all ages, from child to senior citizen, as well as free admission to the public for all exhibitions. It organizes its own exhibitions in-house, creates traveling exhibitions for other museums and galleries and plays host to traveling exhibitions from around the country and the globe. The museum strives, most of all, to fulfill the legacy of its founder, Alfred Heber Holbrook, and provide art for everyone, removing barriers to accessibility and seeking to foster an open, educational and inspiring environment for students, scholars and the general public. The foundation of the museum's collection, the Eva Underhill Holbrook Memorial Collection of American Art, a collection of 100 American paintings, was donated to UGA in 1945 by Holbrook in memory of his first wife. Included in this collection are works by such luminaries as Frank Weston Benson, William Merritt Chase, Stuart Davis, Arthur Dove, Georgia O’Keeffe, Childe Hassam, Winslow Homer, Jacob Lawrence and Theodore Robinson. References External links New Georgia Encyclopedia article Category:Art museums in Georgia (U.S. state) Category:University of Georgia campus Category:Museums in Clarke County, Georgia Category:Tourist attractions in Athens, Georgia Category:Art museums established in 1948 Category:1948 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state) Category:University museums in Georgia (U.S. state) Category:Symbols of Georgia (U.S. state) |
9,040 | Edward Hawkins | Edward Hawkins (27 February 1789 – 18 November 1882) was an English churchman and academic, a long-serving Provost of Oriel College, Oxford known as a committed opponent of the Oxford Movement from its beginnings in his college. Life He was born at Bath, Somerset, 27 February 1789. He was the eldest child of Edward Hawkins, successively vicar of Bisley in Gloucestershire and rector of Kelston in Somerset. Caesar Henry Hawkins and Francis Hawkins were his brothers. After passing about four years at a school at Elmore in Gloucestershire, Edward was sent to Merchant Taylors' School in February 1801. His father died in 1806 leaving a widow with ten children, and Edward was one of his executors. In June 1807 he was elected to an Andrew exhibition at St John's College, Oxford, and in 1811 graduated B.A. with a double first class (M.A. 1814, B.D. and D.D. 1828). In 1812 he became tutor of his college, and in 1813 he was elected fellow of Oriel. With Edward Copleston, John Davison, Richard Whately, and John Keble among its fellows, Oriel was at this time a distinguished college. Hawkins remained there, first as Fellow and then as Provost, for more than sixty years. Tutor for a few months to Viscount Caulfeild, son of Francis Caulfeild, 2nd Earl of Charlemont, he was in Paris at the time of Napoleon's escape from Elba in 1815, and left that city on the morning of the day on which Napoleon entered it, 20 March. He was ordained, and in 1819 became tutor of his college. From 1823 to 1828 he was vicar of the University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford, a college living. There he introduced the Sunday parochial afternoon sermon, made famous under his successor, John Henry Newman. He was select preacher to the university in 1820, 1825, 1829, and 1842, and Whitehall preacher in 1827 and 1828. On 2 February 1828 Hawkins was elected by the fellows provost of Oriel, in succession to Copleston who had been appointed bishop of Llandaff. The choice lay between Hawkins and Keble, whose Christian Year had just been published; and Hawkins's election owed much to support from Edward Pusey and Newman, at that time in the college. Newman at this period was close to Hawkins. With the provostship came a canonry at Rochester Cathedral and the living of Purleigh in Essex. From 1847 to 1861 Hawkins was the first Dean Ireland's Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture at Oxford. As Provost he was not at ease with the undergraduates, and in his relations with the fellowship was jealous of his authority. In 1831 the three tutors, Newman, Richard Hurrell Froude, and Robert Wilberforce, wished to make some changes in the tutorial system, but Hawkins blocked them, and the three tutors resigned. He made efforts to take their place by lecturing himself and getting Renn Dickson Hampden to assist him. but the college seems to have never quite recovered their loss. As a member of the old Hebdomadal Board, dissolved in 1854, Hawkins exercised wider influence in the University. |
9,041 | National liberation (Marxism) | National liberation has been a theme within Marxism, and especially after the influence of Vladimir Lenin's advocacy of anti-imperialism and self-determination of all peoples became prevalent in communist movements, especially in advocating freedom from colonial rule in the Third World. National liberation has been promoted by Marxists out of an international-socialist perspective rather than a bourgeois-nationalist perspective. Upon rising to power, Lenin and the Bolshevik government in Russia declared that all peoples had the right to self-determination. While Lenin was critical of nationalism, he claimed that the cause of national liberation was not a matter of chauvinism, but a matter of radical democracy. See also Left-wing nationalism National delimitation in the Soviet Union National Question Marxism–Leninism Socialist patriotism References Category:Communist terminology Category:Ideology of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Category:Leninism |
9,042 | Will Sharpe | William Tomomori Fukuda Sharpe (born 22 September 1986) is a Japanese-English actor, writer, and director. Background Sharpe was born in London, but lived in Tokyo until he was eight years old. After returning to the United Kingdom, he studied at Winchester College. Sharpe read Classics at the University of Cambridge, where he was the president of the Footlights Revue. He graduated in 2008 and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company for their 2008/2009 season. Sharpe spent a year at the RSC and appeared in such plays as The Taming of the Shrew, The Merchant of Venice, and The Tragedy of Thomas Hobbes, in which he played a young Isaac Newton. He played the character of Yuki Reid in the BBC medical drama Casualty. In 2009, he directed and co-wrote, along with his friend Tom Kingsley, the short film Cockroach. The pair's first feature-length film, Black Pond, starring Chris Langham, was shown at the Prince Charles Cinema in London from November 2011. Shortly after, he was co-nominated for a BAFTA Award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer for the film. Sharpe created, wrote, and acted in the show Flowers, broadcast on Channel 4 in 2016 and 2018. He has stated that the show was influenced by Japanese comedy. Personal life His brother is film music composer Arthur Sharpe, who has written music for The Darkest Universe, Black Pond, and Flowers. Filmography References External links Category:1986 births Category:Living people Category:Alumni of the University of Cambridge Category:English male stage actors Category:English male television actors Category:English television directors Category:English television writers Category:English people of Japanese descent Category:Male actors of Japanese descent Category:Male actors from London Category:People from Camden Town Category:Writers from London Category:21st-century English male actors Category:Male television writers |
9,043 | Broadway by the Bay | Broadway by the Bay, is a community-based musical theatre company located in the San Francisco Bay Area and performing in Redwood City. It also provides a "Theatre Arts Academy" offering performing arts experiences to local children. After beginning in with productions of three annual Gilbert and Sullivan productions, the company shifted its focus to modern musicals in 1966. Since then, it has produced musicals continuously in San Mateo County. In 1983, the group changed its name to Peninsula Civic Light Opera, and again in 1999, to Broadway by the Bay. History Broadway by the Bay is an outgrowth of a San Mateo Recreation Department program that originated in the 1950s as "La Honda Music Camp", in Jones Gulch, near La Honda, California in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Each summer, that program employed the talents of young musicians, singers, and actors to produce primarily Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operas, which were staged at the camp site in Jones Gulch near La Honda, California. In June 1963, the San Mateo Recreation Department established the San Mateo Community Theatre, with Dr. Randolph Hunt (1925-2011) as music director and Robert Lynch as drama director, at Hillsdale High School in San Mateo, California. Dr. Randolph Hunt and Robert Lynch were the directors for the first two summer productions at Hillsdale High School, both of which were Gilbert and Sullivan operas. First productions: Gilbert and Sullivan The first production was Patience, in August 1963 in the little theatre at Hillsdale High School, with an additional performance at La Honda Music Camp. The cast of high school and college students included a future international opera singer, soprano Luana De Vol. Hunt conducted a small orchestra of musicians from San Mateo County. In the summer of 1964, Hunt and Lynch collaborated on The Mikado, again at Hillsdale High School with an additional performance at the camp. In 1965, Anthony "Duke" Campagne, the band director at Hillsdale High School, worked with Lynch on a production of H.M.S. Pinafore, which played at Hillsdale and one performance at La Honda Music Camp. Move to musical theatre After presenting the three Gilbert and Sullivan operas, the San Mateo Community Theatre moved in a different direction. Although Campagne returned, he was joined by a staff that included Kenneth L. Ton, the drama director at Capuchino High School, and Ben Denton, the choral director at Aragon High School. For the first time, in 1966, SMCT presented a classic Broadway musical: Oklahoma! by Rodgers and Hammerstein. Once again, the cast and orchestra were drawn from high school and college students throughout San Mateo County. The performances were moved to the little theater at the College of San Mateo. The production was a success and encouraged SMCT to produce more musicals. Hunt returned as a director for the 1967 production of West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim. The performances were given at the auditorium at San Mateo High School, later known as the San Mateo Performing Arts Center. This remained the home of the company until 2011. The company continued to produce musicals each year, |
9,044 | Christopher Payne (cricketer) | Christopher John Payne (born 30 December 1947) is a former English cricketer. Payne was a right-handed batsman who occasionally fielded as a wicket-keeper. He was born at Hatfield, Hertfordshire. Payne made his first-class debut for Middlesex against Yorkshire in the 1968 County Championship. He made four further first-class appearances for the county, the last of which came against Essex in the 1970 County Championship. In his five first-class appearances, he scored a total of 40 runs at an average of 5.00, with a high score of 22. He also two List A appearances for the county in the 1970 John Player League, against Derbyshire and Warwickshire, scoring a total of 28 runs. Leaving Middlesex at the end of the 1970 season, he later played two matches for Hertfordshire in the 1974 Minor Counties Championship, against Bedfordshire and Suffolk. The following season he played two List A matches for Minor Counties South against Kent and Essex, though without success. References External links Christopher Payne at ESPNcricinfo Christopher Payne at CricketArchive Category:1947 births Category:Living people Category:People from Hatfield, Hertfordshire Category:English cricketers Category:Middlesex cricketers Category:Hertfordshire cricketers Category:Minor Counties cricketers |
9,045 | Barbara Diggens | Barbara Diggens (born 8 October 1949) is a former English professional squash player. Diggens was born on 8 October 1949 and lived in Brighton, Sussex. She started playing aged 19 at the Hove Squash Club and became a professional tennis and squash coach. Her greatest achievement was being part of the winning England team during the 1979 Women's World Team Squash Championships and she also represented England at the 1983 Women's World Team Squash Championships. References External links Category:English female squash players Category:1949 births Category:Living people |
9,046 | John Brewer (monk) | John Brewer, D.D. (1744–1822), was an English Benedictine monk. Brewer, who assumed in religion the Christian name of Bede, was born in 1744. In 1776 he was appointed to the mission at Bath. He built a new chapel in St. James's Parade in that city, and it was to have been opened on 11 June 1780, but the delegates from Lord George Gordon's 'No Popery' association so inflamed the fanaticism of the mob that on 9 June the edifice was demolished, as well as the presbytery in Bell-tree Lane. The registers, diocesan archives, and Bishop Walmesley's library and manuscripts perished in the flames; and Dr. Brewer had a narrow escape from the fury of the rioters. The ringleader was tried and executed, and Dr. Brewer recovered 3,736l. damages from the hundred of Bath. In 1781 the duties of president of his brethren called Dr. Brewer away from Bath. Subsequently Woolton, near Liverpool, became his principal place of residence, and there he died on 18 April 1822. He brought out the second edition of the Abbé Luke Joseph Hooke's 'Religio Naturalis et Revelata,' 3 vols., Paris, 1774, 8vo, to which he added several dissertations. References Category:1744 births Category:1822 deaths Category:English Benedictines |
9,047 | National Basketball League (Japan) | The National Basketball League (NBL) was a professional basketball league in Japan run by the Japan Basketball Association (JBA). The first NBL season started in Autumn 2013, replacing the JBA's previous top-flight league, the Japan Basketball League. Below the NBL was the National Basketball Development League (NBDL), which was the successor to the former JBL 2 division. The NBL and its predecessor existed alongside the bj league, an independent league based on the American sports franchise model that had been active since 2005. The JBA was suspended by FIBA in November 2014 for failing to address the fragmentation of the sport into competing leagues. As a condition of FIBA lifting the suspension in August 2015, the NBL and NBDL merged with the bj-league to form the B.League, which will commence in October 2016. Accordingly, the 2015-16 NBL season was the league's third and final season. Teams The league's initial season in 2013-14 consisted of twelve teams. The eight teams that participated in the final season of the JBL1 joined the league, as well as the JBL2 champion Hyogo Storks. The Chiba Jets returned to the JBA system after playing two seasons in the bj-league, including a 9th-place finish in 2012-13. intended to join the NBL after finishing third in their first JBL2 season in 2012-13, but subsequent financial difficulties saw them withdraw their application. They were replaced by the newly formed Tsukuba Robots, who submitted a separate application for entry to the league. The twelfth team to join the league was the Kumamoto Volters, who had been seeking entrance into the JBL2 since 2009. Three NBDL teams were given associate membership status, allowing for the possibility of their future promotion to the NBL. However, all three teams (Renova Kagoshima, Tokyo Excellence and Toyota Tsusho Fighting Eagles) ultimately remained in the NBDL for the duration of the competition's existence. The 2014-15 season saw the Hiroshima Dragonflies enter the league as an expansion team and the Tsukuba Robots transfer from the Western Conference to the Eastern Conference. The Wakayama Trians, who were runners up in the league's first season, withdrew midway through the 2014-15 season in January 2015 due to financial difficulty and were refused entry into the 2015-2016 season. In March 2014 the league issued a public call for expansion teams to join the NBL or NBDL for the 2015-16 season. The Tokyo Hachioji Trains joined the NBDL but the NBL remained at twelve teams. The league abandoned the two-conference system in 2015-16, with teams instead playing five matches against each other for a total 55-game regular season. Playoff champions All-star game References Category:Basketball leagues in Japan Category:Defunct basketball leagues Category:Sports leagues established in 2013 Category:Recurring sporting events disestablished in 2016 Category:2013 establishments in Japan Category:2016 disestablishments in Japan Category:Defunct sports leagues in Japan |
9,048 | Colombian wood turtle | The Colombian wood turtle (Rhinoclemmys melanosterna) is one of nine species of turtle belonging to the genus Rhinoclemmys of the family Geoemydidae. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, and Panama. References Bibliography Category:Rhinoclemmys Category:Reptiles of Colombia Category:Reptiles of Ecuador Category:Reptiles of Panama Category:Reptiles described in 1861 |
9,049 | Postage stamps and postal history of Cundinamarca | Cundinamarca is a department of Colombia, one of the original nine states of the "United States of Colombia". As with the other states, Cundinamarca once had the right to issue its own postage stamps, and it issued stamps with the state's coat of arms, starting in 1870 and ending in 1904. Many of these are still readily available. There is one rarity, the 2-real provisional stamp from 1883, although there is some doubt as to whether it was sold to the public, since no used copies are known to exist. Likewise, authentic uses of any Cundinamarca stamp on cover are not often seen. Sources Stanley Gibbons Ltd, various catalogues Rossiter, Stuart & John Flower. The Stamp Atlas. London: Macdonald, 1986. XLCR Stamp Finder and Collector's Dictionary, Thomas Cliffe Ltd, c.1960 Further reading Alan D. Angon, 1883 – The Typeset Provisionals of Cundinamarca, 1972 Howard Frome, Manuscript Cancels of Cundinamarca, 1993 Dieter Bortfeldt, The workbook: notes on reprints and forgeries of Colombian stamps. Part II, The sovereign states of Colombia, Antioquia, Bolivar, Boyacá, Cundinamarca, Tolima and Panamá, Colombian Philatelic Research Society, Bogota, 2007 External links AskPhil – Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms Encyclopaedia of Postal Authorities Colombia-Panama Philatelic Study Group Category:Philately of Colombia Category:Cundinamarca Department br:Timbroù Stadoù-Unanet Kolombia |
9,050 | Manuel Ortega Ocaña | Manuel Ortega Ocaña (born 7 July 1981 in Jaén) is a Spanish professional road cyclist. He debuted professionally with the team Andalucía-Cajasur in 2006, with whom he was with until 2009. In 2010, he won the Criterium Ciudad de Jaén race. References Category:Spanish male cyclists Category:1981 births Category:Living people |
9,051 | Vallensbæk | Vallensbæk is a seaside western suburb of Copenhagen, Denmark. It forms its own municipality, Vallensbæk Municipality, which is one of the smallest Danish municipalities. As of January 2014, its population was 15,095. Geography Vallensbæk is divided into Vallensbæk Nordmark ("Vallensbæk North Park"), Vallensbæk Strand ("Vallensbæk Beach") and Vallensbæk Landsby ("Vallensbæk Village"). The municipality area borders on Ishøj to the west, Brøndby Strand to the east, and Albertslund to the north. History Vallensbæk Church was built in the 12th century. In 1784, it consisted of 14 farms. The main crop was barley. The civil parish of Vallensbæk (Vallensbæk Sognekommune) was founded in 1842. The train station Vallensbæk station was the terminus of the first stage of the Køge Bay Line which opened in 1972. The opening of the train line kickstarted a suburban development of the area. Politics The local council in Vallensbæk consists of 15 members. Members are elected for a period of 4 years. Landmarks Vallensbæk's most notable church is Vallensbæk Church which dates from the second half of the 12th century. It then consisted of a Romanesque chancel and nave, built in chalk ashlar. The west end of the ship consists of another masonry that has been added so that the nave was extended westward. The tower was added in the years after 1500. The porch was renewed by a thorough restoration of the church in 1865. Marina and beach Vallensbæk Marina is one of four marinas in the 7 km long Køge Bugt Beach Park. The marina contains several restaurants as well as other facilities for sailors. The beach park offer good bathing facilities. Transport Located on the Køge Bugt radial of the S-train network, Vallensbæk station is served by the A-trains. The area is also served by the Køge Bugt Motorway in the south and the Holbæk Motorway in the north. See also Vallensbæk Municipality Vallensbæk station References External links Vallensbæk official website Pictures of Vallensbæk on Google Images Vallensbæk map on Google Maps Vallensbæk Port Vallensbæk Mose (bog) Vallensbæk Fodbold (football club) Category:Municipal seats in the Capital Region of Denmark Category:Municipal seats of Denmark Category:Cities and towns in the Capital Region of Denmark |
9,052 | Kalateh-ye Seyyed Sadeq | Kalateh-ye Seyyed Sadeq (, also Romanized as Kalāteh-ye Seyyed Sādeq) is a village in Kenevist Rural District, in the Central District of Mashhad County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 23, in 8 families. References Category:Populated places in Mashhad County |
9,053 | USS John W. Thomason | USS John W. Thomason (DD-760), an , is the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for John William Thomason, Jr., a USMC officer who was awarded the Navy Cross for bravery during World War I. John W. Thomason (DD-760) was launched by Bethlehem Steel Co., San Francisco, California, 30 September 1944; sponsored by Mrs. John W. Thomason, widow of Colonel Thomason; and commissioned on 11 October 1945, Commander W. L. Tagg in command. Service history The new destroyer conducted shakedown training out of San Diego, followed by a series of Naval Reserve training cruises from Seattle and San Francisco. From November 1947 to December 1948 the ship carried out training maneuvers. She sailed on 5 December 1948 for her first deployment to the Far East, arriving at Tsingtao on 1 January 1949 for operations supporting the Marines ashore in China. Departing 24 May 1949, John W. Thomason returned via Okinawa to San Diego on 23 June 1949 and spent the remainder of the year training. Korea The ship returned to the Far East in early 1950, arriving at Yokosuka on 29 January. During this critical post-war period, she operated with British ships on training maneuvers off the coast of Indochina and Korea, returning to San Diego 25 April 1950. Two months later, North Korean aggression plunged the United States and the United Nations into the Korean War. Under the command of Gordon Chung-Hoon, John W. Thomason sailed on 30 September to join the 7th Fleet, operating in the screen of carrier task groups attacking enemy positions and supply lines. She arrived at Wonsan on 9 November to patrol and bombard during the campaign against that port. Antisubmarine exercises took her to Pearl Harbor from January–March 1951, but John W. Thomason arrived off Korea again on 26 March to operate with and during air strikes. Two weeks in April were spent on the important Formosa Patrol, after which she returned to the carrier task force. With battleship and another destroyer, she moved close in 24 May 1951 for gun bombardment of Yang Yang. The destroyer returned to San Diego from this deployment 2 July 1951. John W. Thomason sailed again for Korea on 4 January 1952 and resumed operations with Task Force 77 off the coast of North Korea. She fired at railway targets 21 February in the Songjin area. During this period of stalemate on land, Navy strikes made up the bulk of offensive operations. The destroyer returned to Formosa Patrol duty in April. Back at Songjin and Wonsan on 26 April, the ship screened larger units, took part in shore bombardment, and patrolled offshore. She was relieved by a British destroyer on 21 June and returned to San Diego on 11 July 1952. The destroyer operated off the California coast for the remainder of 1952, then sailed once more for Korea 21 February 1953. Formosa Patrol duty alternated with carrier task force operations off North Korea. John W. Thomason arrived at Wonsan harbor on 2 July; while firing at shore targets five days later, she received numerous |
9,054 | Stock, Wiltshire | Stock is a small settlement and former ecclesiastical parish, now part of Calne Without civil parish, in the ceremonial county of Wiltshire, England. It lies about south of the town of Calne. Samuel Lewis said in A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848): Stock was part of the Calne hundred, and its history is included in the parish history of Calne in the Wiltshire Victoria County History's Volume XVII (2002). Although Stock had open fields and common pastures, it did not have a nuclear settlement. Before the Norman Conquest of England and still in 1086 the land at Stock was almost certainly part of the royal estate of Calne. Land at Stock had been granted away from Calne by 1144, although the area it then covered is unknown. Some of it was probably granted to Fulk de Cauntelo about 1199, and from 1763 on Stock was inherited with the manors of Calne and Calstone as part of the Bowood House estate. In 1728 Stock was divided between Hollow Ditch farm (now called Holly Ditch) and a farm now gone, with buildings near Quobbs Farm, on the west side of the road from Devizes to Calne (now the A3102). As part of the Bowood estate, the land of those two farms, and other land at Stock, totalling about 350 acres, was inherited by Charles Petty-Fitzmaurice, 9th Marquess of Lansdowne, in 1999. Today the roadside hamlet in the west of Stock is called Mile Elm, named for a farm which lies between Quobbs and Holly Ditch. Notes External links Stock, Wiltshire at ukga.org Category:Hamlets in Wiltshire |
9,055 | Charles H. Baker Jr. | Charles Henry Baker Jr. (December 25, 1895 – November 11, 1987) was an American author best known for his culinary and cocktail writings. These books have become highly collectible among cocktail aficionados and culinary historians. Biography He was born on Christmas Day in 1895 in Zellwood, Florida to Jane Paul Baker (1859-1916) and Charles Henry Baker Sr. (1848-1924). Both of his parents were from Pennsylvania. He later attended Trinity College. By 1918, he was working at Norton Abrasives as a grinder in Worcester, Massachusetts; he later worked as a district sales manager. He moved to New York City, where he worked as a magazine editor and submitted stories to small publications. In 1932, Baker met Pauline Elizabeth Paulsen, an heiress to the Paulsen mining fortune, on a world cruise where he had signed on as the cruise line's publicist. After they were married they had built for them an art deco house called Java Head in Coconut Grove, Florida in which they lived for thirty years. They built a second house in Coconut Grove called Java Head East, where they lived in the 1960s. They later moved to Naples, Florida. Baker spent much of his life traveling the world and chronicling food and drink recipes for magazines like Esquire, Town & Country, and Gourmet, for which he wrote a column during the 1940s called "Here's How". Baker collected many of those recipes in his two-volume set The Gentleman's Companion: Being an Exotic Cookery and Drinking Book, originally published in 1939 by Derrydale Press. John J. Poister in 1983 wrote, "Volume II of The Gentleman's Companion, by Charles H. Baker Jr., is the best book on exotic drinks I have ever encountered". Condé Nast contributing writer St. John Frizell wrote, "It's his prose, not his recipes, that deserves a place in the canon of culinary literature ... at times humorously grandiloquent, at times intimate and familiar, Baker fills his stories with colorful details about his environment and his drinking companions — Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner among them". While his culinary nonfiction garnered Baker much praise, he was less well regarded as a novelist. His only novel, Blood of the Lamb, was published in 1946 by Rinehart & Company. About it, a Time reviewer wrote in the magazine's April 22, 1946, issue, "Blood of the Lamb is not much of a novel, but it is long on local color, loud piety, snuff, 'stump liquor' and local talk" Some of Baker's exotic and often esoteric drink recipes from The Gentleman's Companion are once again finding favor at modern cocktail bars specializing in classic drinks, such as Manhattan's Pegu Club, where Baker's "Jimmie Roosevelt"—a mixture of champagne, cognac, and Chartreuse liqueur—was found on the menu. He died on November 11, 1987, in Naples, Florida. Publications Rejections of 1927. (1928. Edited by Baker). The Gentleman's Companion (two volumes, 1939 edition). Blood of the Lamb (1946). The Gentleman's Companion: Being an Exotic Drinking Book or Around the World with Jigger, Beaker and Flask (1946 edition). The Gentleman's Companion: Being an Exotic Cookery Book or Around the World |
9,056 | Euphrasia minima | Euphrasia minima is a plant from the genus Euphrasia, in the family Orobanchaceae. minima |
9,057 | Nowa Kamionka, Sokółka County | Nowa Kamionka is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Sokółka, within Sokółka County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland, close to the border with Belarus. References Category:Villages in Sokółka County |
9,058 | Friedrich Syrup | Friedrich Heinrich Karl Syrup (9 October 1881 – 31 August 1945) was a German jurist and politician. Life Syrup was born in Lüchow, Dannenberg district, in the Prussian Province of Hanover. The postal official's son studied engineering science as well as law and political science. In 1905, he joined the Prussian Industrial Inspection Service, staying until 1918, and making a name for himself in this time with various scientific publications on issues such as occupational health and safety and the work force's social status. In November 1918, Syrup was delegated by the Prussian Ministry for Trade and Industry to the Demobilization Ministry, where he was responsible for reintegrating former soldiers into civilian industrial life. While in this job, Syrup created the Reich Office for Work Placement, whose president he was appointed in 1920. From 1927 until the end of 1938, he was president of the Reich institution for Work Placement and Unemployment Insurance. When the central office of the hitherto autonomous institution was integrated into the Reich Ministry of Labour, Syrup was appointed State Secretary in this ministry. In Kurt von Schleicher's cabinet, the last before Adolf Hitler's rise to power, Syrup was Reich Minister for Labour (independent); however, he was sent back to his old job by Hitler. Hermann Göring, in his capacity as Commissioner of the Four Year Plan, appointed Syrup in 1936 leader of the Geschäftsgruppe Arbeitseinsatz (Labour Deployment Business Group). After the 1938 Aktion Arbeitsscheu Reich, he ordered the fatigue duty of all jobless Jews in Germany. An appointed member of the Prussian State Council since 1939, on 2 May 1941 he attended the state secretary meeting on the Hunger Plan in preparation of the Operation Barbarossa invasion of the Soviet Union. In 1941, Syrup suffered a complete breakdown. After a long illness, he took up work once again, but only part-time. This was the deciding factor in appointing the Gauleiter of Thuringia, Fritz Sauckel, to the General Plenipotentiary for Labour Deployment on 21 March 1942, effectively putting Syrup under Sauckel. When the war ended, Syrup stayed in Berlin, although he could have fled. On 7 June 1945, he was deported to the NKVD special camp Nr. 7 in Sachsenhausen where he died a few months later. Works (selection) Arbeitseinsatz und Arbeitsbeschaffung / Friedrich Syrup. Berlin, [1939]. Der Arbeitseinsatz und die Arbeitslosenhilfe in Deutschland / Friedrich Syrup. Berlin, 1936. Astigmatische Spiegelung im dreiaxigen Ellipsoid / presented by Friedrich Syrup. Rostock, Univ., Diss., 1905. Probleme des Arbeitsmarktes und der Arbeitslosenversicherung / Syrup. Cologne, 1930. Bequests Friedrich Syrup Collection at the Fachhochschule des Bundes für öffentliche Verwaltung, field of Labour Administration, SEAD-BA in Mannheim, (1,0 m), [*http://www.fh-arbeit.de/ FH der Bundesagentur für Arbeit] Literature Hundert Jahre staatliche Sozialpolitik 1839 -1939 : aus dem Nachlass von Friedrich Syrup / published by Julius Scheuble. Edited by Otto Neuloh. Stuttgart, 1957. Jürgen Nürnberger: Friedrich Syrup (1881-1945). Personalbibliografie. Ludwigshafen, [2006, in progress]. External links Entry of Friedrich Syrup in Rostock Matrikelportal Category:1881 births Category:1945 deaths Category:German jurists Category:German prisoners and detainees Category:Labor ministers (Germany) Category:People from Lüchow Category:People from the Province of Hanover Category:Prussian politicians |
9,059 | Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome | The Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome is a living museum in Red Hook, New York. It owns many examples of airworthy aircraft of the Pioneer Era, World War I and the Golden Age of Aviation between the World Wars, and multiple examples of roadworthy antique automobiles. History The aerodrome was the creation of Cole Palen, who was partially inspired by the Shuttleworth Collection in England. He regularly flew many of the aircraft during weekend airshows as his alter-ego, "The Black Baron of Rhinebeck" (loosely based on the Red Baron). These airshows still continue mid-June through mid-October, and biplane rides are available before and after the shows. The simple early shows led to a philosophy of not only showing the aircraft in their natural environment, but also providing a fun and entertaining day out for the whole family. From this the series of weekend air shows that the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome featured — still running to this day — was to become famous for what was developed. This included a zany melodrama, inspired by the storylines of silent film melodramas of the past, featuring Palen-created characters such as the daring Sir Percy Goodfellow doing battle with the evil Black Baron of Rhinebeck for the hand of the lovely Trudy Truelove. Several associated antique/vintage auto club and vintage aircraft "type specific" events occur through the Aerodrome's event schedule, which has also included radio control scale aircraft "fly-in" low-pressure events, for flying scale models of aircraft of the 1903-1939 era that the museum's own full scale aircraft collection covers. These events have been ongoing ever since the Aerodrome's opening year in 1966, with at least one aeromodeling event each year occurring over the early September weekend following the United States' Labor Day holiday, in co-operation with a local AMA-chartered RC model aircraft club, with entrants regularly coming from places as distant as Canada and Florida. The museum's gift shop and model collection were destroyed in a fire on 20 August 2015. Aircraft Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome features numerous aircraft ranging from Wright-era reconstructions to biplanes and monoplanes of the 1930s. Among Palen's earliest additions to the museum in the mid-1960s was a Fokker Triplane reproduction, powered with a vintage Le Rhône 9J 110 hp rotary engine. It was built by Cole Palen for flight in his weekend airshows as early as 1967 and actively flown (mostly by Cole Palen) within the weekend airshows at Old Rhinebeck until the late 1980s. This aircraft, and a pair of Dr.I reproductions, each powered by radial engines, were flown for nearly two decades by Palen. Both Cole's first rotary-engined reproduction, and the second of the stationary radial-powered reproductions, are now on static display. One of these is on loan at the New England Air Museum with the Le Rhône engine. The Allied opponent for Palen's Triplane in the early years was mostly provided by a Sopwith Pup. It was begun in May 1964 and first flown three years later (May 1967) by his friend, Richard King, considered the co-founder of Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome with Palen, who flew his authentic 80-hp Le Rhône |
9,060 | Seiwa Genji | The is a line of the Japanese Minamoto clan that is descended from Emperor Seiwa, which is the most successful and powerful line of the clan. Many of the most famous Minamoto warriors, including Minamoto no Yoshiie, Minamoto no Yoritomo, the founder of the Kamakura shogunate; and Ashikaga Takauji, the founder of the Ashikaga shogunate, belonged to this line. Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543–1616), founder of the Tokugawa shogunate, also claimed descent from this lineage. The family is named after Emperor Seiwa, who was the grandfather of Minamoto no Tsunemoto who founded the Seiwa Genji. Emperor Seiwa was father of Imperial Prince Sadazumi (貞純親王 Sadazumi Shinnō) (873–916), who was in turn the father of Minamoto no Tsunemoto (源経基) (894–961), founder of the Seiwa Genji, from whom the Seiwa Genji descended. Many samurai families belong to this line and used "Minamoto" clan name in official records, including the Ashikaga clan, Hatakeyama clan, Hosokawa clan, Imagawa clan, Mori, Nanbu clan, Nitta clan, Ogasawara clan, Ōta clan, Satake clan, Satomi clan, Shiba clan, Takeda clan, Toki clan, Tsuchiya clan, among others. The Shimazu clan served the Tsuchiya clan loyally for many years. The Shimazu and Tokugawa clans also claimed to belong to this line. A group of Shinto shrines connected closely with the clan is known as the Three Genji Shrines (源氏三神社 Genji San Jinja). Family tree The following family trees are a non-exhaustive listing of the Seiwa Genji and the clans that branched from the family. Legend: Solid lines represent blood relationship; dashed lines represent adoptions. An asterisk indicates a monk (who would not have been allowed to retain the Minamoto name). Emperor Seiwa's first five princes Prince Sadazumi's descendants Emperor Seiwa's other princes Settsu Genji Yamato Genji Kawachi Genji Yoshimitsu's descendants Mitsumasa's descendants Mitsuyoshi's descendants See also Ōta clan Sakai clan Notes References Sansom, George (1958). A History of Japan to 1334. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. Turnbull, Stephen (1998). The Samurai Sourcebook. London: Cassell & Co. Category:Minamoto clan |
9,061 | RoadRunner (Application server) | RoadRunner is an open-source application server, load-balancer, and process manager written in Golang (Go) and implemented by PHP 7. It is used in rapid application development to speed up the performance of large web applications. History Development on RoadRunner began in 2017 by Anton Titov. RoadRunner was initially created to handle the peak loads of a large-scale PHP application developed by Spiral Scout. The end application was experiencing anomaly peaks in very short spurts of time which did not allow classic load balancing mechanisms to activate. Roadrunner uses multi-threading to keep a PHP application in memory between requests, allowing it to eliminate boot loading and code loading processes and reduce latency. Improved RPC communication between the PHP application and its server processes gives Roadrunner the ability to offload some of the heavy communication from PHP to Go. Product Features RoadRunner is a production-ready runtime environment for PHP development. Features: Production-ready PSR-7 compatible HTTP, HTTP2, FastCGI server No external PHP dependencies (64bit version required) Frontend agnostic (Queue, PSR-7, GRPC, etc.) Background job processing (AMQP, Amazon SQS, Beanstalk and memory) GRPC server and clients Pub/Sub and Websockets broadcasting Integrated metrics server (Prometheus) Integrations with Symfony, Laravel, Slim, CakePHP, Zend Expressive, Spiral Licensing RoadRunner is open-source software under an MIT license. It can be downloaded and installed as a package from the project page or from GitHub. It is completely free of charge. External links RoadRunner official website PHP to Golang IPC bridge GRPC server Message queue Versions References New Dedicated Application Server Revs PHP to Peak Performance - DZone Performance RoadRunner, the PHP Application Server written in Golang Roadrunner & Zend Expressive & Cycle ORM. Not allow to php to die. Roadrunner: a PHP application server RoadRunner: PHP is not created to die, or Golang to the rescue RoadRunner: PHP не создан, чтобы умирать, или Golang спешит на помощь spiral/roadrunner - Packagist RoadRunner – High-Speed PHP Applications Roadrunner – High-performance PHP application server, load-balancer, and process manager written in Golang | PHPnews.io Category:Free server software Category:Go software Category:PHP software |
9,062 | Yemen at the 1996 Summer Olympics | Yemen competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States. Athletics Key Note–Ranks given for track events are within the athlete's heat only Q = Qualified for the next round q = Qualified for the next round as a fastest loser or, in field events, by position without achieving the qualifying target NR = National record N/A = Round not applicable for the event Bye = Athlete not required to compete in round Track & road events Wrestling Greco-Roman References Official Olympic Reports Category:Nations at the 1996 Summer Olympics 1996 Oly |
9,063 | James and Fanny How House | James and Fanny How House is a historic home located at Buffalo in Erie County, New York. It is a noted example of a Tudor Revival–style dwelling designed by local architect Harold L. Olmsted in 1924. It is composed of three sections: a -story cross-gabled front block, a 1-story gabled connecting link, and a 2-story gabled rear block with a small 1-story wing. It has a limestone ashlar and concrete foundation and painted stucco-covered exterior walls of brick and tile. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. It is located in the Elmwood Historic District–East. References External links History of the James and Fanny How House, Buffalo as an Architectural Museum website James and Fanny How House - U.S. National Register of Historic Places on Waymarking.com Category:Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Category:Houses completed in 1924 Category:Houses in Buffalo, New York Category:National Register of Historic Places in Buffalo, New York Category:Historic district contributing properties in New York (state) |
9,064 | Crime in Suriname | This article discusses crime in Suriname. Crime by type Murder In 2012, Suriname had a murder rate of 6.1 per 100,000 population. There were a total of 33 murders in Suriname in 2012. Illegal drug trade Suriname is a transit zone for South American cocaine en route to Europe, Africa and to a lesser extent the U.S. Inadequate resources, limited law enforcement training, the absence of a law enforcement presence in the interior, and lack of aircraft or sufficient numbers of patrol boats limit the capacity of the government to control its borders. There have been sporadic instances of drug trade-related violence between individuals associated with competing drug trafficking organizations. These have included assassinations, drive-by shootings, and hand grenades tossed over residential walls. Robbery Robbery, including thefts of backpacks and purses, pickpocketing, theft of jewelry (especially necklaces), and cell phones are regular occurrences. These incidents often occur in those areas frequented by foreigners. Tourist areas are common targets for thieves and muggers who often rob victims of their possessions during the hours of darkness. Residential burglaries are an issue. There have been reports of tourists and foreigners being robbed while traveling in the countryside, and occasional reports of bandits on rural roads. There have been reports of attacks against fishing boats in and around the waters of Suriname. By location Paramaribo While some areas of Paramaribo are safer than others, there are no areas that can be considered completely safe. Criminals move without restriction into and out of neighborhoods where expatriates live, often utilizing scooters or motorcycles to evade police. The Paramaribo Central area and the Palmentuin (Palm Garden) area are known to be less than safe after dark. Pick pocketing and robbery are increasingly common in the major business and shopping districts in Paramaribo. There were a dozen murders of homeless men in Paramaribo between 2006 and 2014, with some of the killings appearing to be ritualistic. Crime dynamics Criminals often carry firearms and other weapons and do not hesitate to use them, especially if victims resist. Although the possession of handguns is illegal, many criminals possess them. See also Law enforcement in Suriname References Category:Crime in Suriname |
9,065 | Egeland, North Dakota | Egeland is a city in Towner County, North Dakota, United States. The population was 28 at the 2010 census. Egeland was founded in 1905. Geography Egeland is located at (48.628019, -99.098042). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land. Demographics 2010 census As of the census of 2010, there were 28 people, 17 households, and 7 families residing in the city. The population density was . There were 42 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 89.3% White and 10.7% Native American. There were 17 households of which 11.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 35.3% were married couples living together, 5.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 58.8% were non-families. 52.9% of all households were made up of individuals and 41.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 1.65 and the average family size was 2.43. The median age in the city was 60.5 years. 10.7% of residents were under the age of 18; 0.0% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 7.2% were from 25 to 44; 50% were from 45 to 64; and 32.1% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 57.1% male and 42.9% female. 2000 census As of the census of 2000, there were 49 people, 21 households, and 14 families residing in the city. The population density was 125.7 people per square mile (48.5/km²). There were 48 housing units at an average density of 123.1 per square mile (47.5/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 89.80% White and 10.20% Native American. There were 21 households out of which 33.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 42.9% were married couples living together, 14.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 33.3% were non-families. 33.3% of all households were made up of individuals and 23.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.33 and the average family size was 2.86. In the city, the population was spread out with 26.5% under the age of 18, 4.1% from 18 to 24, 22.4% from 25 to 44, 18.4% from 45 to 64, and 28.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 44 years. For every 100 females, there were 81.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 80.0 males. The median income for a household in the city was $23,125, and the median income for a family was $34,375. Males had a median income of $21,250 versus $16,250 for females. The per capita income for the city was $10,217. There were no families and 11.8% of the population living below the poverty line, including no under eighteens and 33.3% of those over 64. References Category:Cities in North Dakota Category:Cities in Towner County, North Dakota Category:Populated places established in 1905 Category:1905 |
9,066 | Gehyra electrum | The amber rock dtella (Gehyra electrum) is a species of gecko in the genus Gehyra. It is endemic to northeastern Queensland in Australia. References Category:Gehyra Category:Reptiles described in 2019 Category:Geckos of Australia |
9,067 | James Martin (cricketer) | James Martin (25 February 1851 – 22 October 1930) was an Australian cricketer. He played one first-class match for Tasmania in 1872. See also List of Tasmanian representative cricketers References External links Category:1851 births Category:1930 deaths Category:Australian cricketers Category:Tasmania cricketers Category:Cricketers from Tasmania Category:Sportspeople from Launceston, Tasmania |
9,068 | Samarinda Islamic Center Mosque | Samarinda Islamic Center Mosque, also known as Baitul Muttaqien Mosque, is a mosque located in the subdistrict of Teluk Lerong Ulu, Samarinda, East Kalimantan, Indonesia, which is one of the largest mosques in Southeast Asia. It situates at the foreground of Mahakam River, and it has seven minarets and a huge dome. The mosque has a building area of 43,500 square meters, supporting building area of 7,115 square meters and the basement floor area of 10,235 square meters. The ground floor of the mosque has area of 10,270 square meters and the main floor has area of 8,185 square meters. The mezzanine floor area (balcony) is 5,290 square meters. This location was formerly a sawmill area owned by PT Inhutani I which was then granted to the Provincial Government of East Kalimantan. The mosque has seven minarets, and the main tower reaches 99 meters, which is a reference to the Asmaul Husna, or the 99 names of Allah. The main tower consists of building with 15 floors and each floor has height of an average of 6 meters. Meanwhile, stairs from the ground floor to the main floor of the mosque amount to 33 steps. This amount is deliberately equated with one-third the number of Islamic prayer beads. In addition to the main tower, this building also has six minarets on the side of the mosque. Four of them are located in each corner of the mosque and reaches 70-meter-high, and two of them are at the gate and reaches 57-meter-high. The six towers also mean Six Pillars of Islam. Gallery See also List of largest mosques List of mosques in Indonesia References External links Ribuan Jemaah Padati Islamic Centre Kemegahan Masjid Islamic Center Samarinda, Kalimantan Timur Category:East Kalimantan Category:Mosques in Indonesia |
9,069 | String Quartet No. 2 (Haas) | Pavel Haas composed his second string quartet, Op. 7, titled "From the Monkey Mountains" (Czech: "Z opičích hor"), in 1925, three years after he finished his composition studies in Leoš Janáček´s masterclass. Background The title of the quartet is somewhat provocative: in the Czech language, the "Monkey Mountains" used to be the nickname of the Vysočina Region (Moravian Highlands), an area once popular with tourists. The work was premièred in Brno on 16 March 1926, by the Moravian Quartet. The first performance was not well received, however: in the last movement, Haas added a percussionist, in combination with other unusual musical elements, and this daring experiment was not appreciated by the audience. Haas subsequently removed the percussion, though several modern performances and recordings have reinstated it. Structure The composition consists of four movements: 1. Landscape (Krajina) - Andante 2. Coach, Coachman and Horse (Kočár, kočí a kůň) - Andante 3. The Moon and I... (Měsíc a já...) - Largo e misterioso 4. Wild Night (Divá noc) - Vivace e con fuoco The titles of the four movements give the impression of a series of atmospheric scenes from a summer recreation. The first part opens in a calm atmosphere, and gradually develops into a monumental movement with a rich onomatopoeic structure. The opening theme and tempo of the second movement are closely related to that of the first one, evoking the coach, coachman and horse of the title. The third part, "Moon and I..." is the most personal movement of the composition, with a festive climax followed by a return to the atmosphere and material of the opening movement. The closing movement uses folk melodies mixed with jazz elements and with unusual application of the percussion instruments. The approximate duration of the work is 32 minutes. References External links Info on Czech Radio Haas Category:1925 compositions Category:Compositions by Pavel Haas |
9,070 | Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies | The Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies is a bimonthly peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covering entomology and related topics. It is published by Akinik Publications which is under suspicion to be a so called "predatory publisher". References External links Category:Entomology journals and magazines Category:Bimonthly journals Category:Open access journals Category:English-language journals Category:Publications established in 2013 |
9,071 | Boxing at the 2018 Commonwealth Games – Women's light flyweight | The women's light flyweight boxing competitions at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia took place between 8 and 14 April at Oxenford Studios. Women light flyweights were limited to those boxers weighing less than 48 kilograms. This event made its Commonwealth Games debut. Like all Commonwealth boxing events, the competition was a straight single-elimination tournament. Both semifinal losers were awarded bronze medals, so no boxers competed again after their first loss. Bouts consisted of three rounds of three minutes each, with one-minute breaks between rounds. Beginning this year, the competition was scored using the "must-ten" scoring system. Schedule The schedule is as follows: All times are Australian Eastern Standard Time (UTC+10) Medalists Results The draw is as follows: References Category:Boxing at the 2018 Commonwealth Games |
9,072 | Andrews, Levy County, Florida | Andrews is a census-designated place (CDP) in Levy County, Florida, United States. The population was 798 at the 2010 census. Geography Andrews is located in northwestern Levy County at (29.531873, -82.885215). It is bordered to the south by Chiefland and to the northwest by Fanning Springs. U.S. Routes 19, 98 and 27 Alt pass through Andrews as a four-lane highway, connecting Chiefland and Fanning Springs. According to the United States Census Bureau, the Andrews CDP has a total area of , all land. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 708 people, 294 households, and 204 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 103.7 people per square mile (40.0/km²). There were 345 housing units at an average density of 50.5/sq mi (19.5/km²). The racial makeup of the CDP was 97.32% White, 1.27% African American, 0.71% Native American, 0.42% from other races, and 0.28% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.26% of the population. There were 294 households out of which 26.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 55.4% were married couples living together, 7.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 30.3% were non-families. 24.1% of all households were made up of individuals and 10.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.41 and the average family size was 2.77. In the CDP, the population was spread out with 22.0% under the age of 18, 6.5% from 18 to 24, 28.2% from 25 to 44, 26.8% from 45 to 64, and 16.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 41 years. For every 100 females, there were 99.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 97.1 males. The median income for a household in the CDP was $26,554, and the median income for a family was $29,279. Males had a median income of $28,281 versus $20,588 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $12,186. About 13.7% of families and 18.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 23.4% of those under age 18 and 23.6% of those age 65 or over. References Category:Census-designated places in Levy County, Florida Category:Census-designated places in Florida |
9,073 | Plague of Athens | The Plague of Athens ( Loimos tôn Athênôn) was an epidemic that devastated the city-state of Athens in ancient Greece during the second year of the Peloponnesian War (430 BC) when an Athenian victory still seemed within reach. The plague killed an estimated 75,000 to 100,000 people and is believed to have entered Athens through Piraeus, the city's port and sole source of food and supplies. Much of the eastern Mediterranean also saw an outbreak of the disease, albeit with less impact. The plague had serious effects on Athens' society, resulting in a lack of adherence to laws and religious belief; in response laws became stricter, resulting in the punishment of non-citizens claiming to be Athenian. In addition, Pericles, the leader of Athens, died from the plague. The plague returned twice more, in 429 BC and in the winter of 427/426 BC. Some 30 pathogens have been suggested as having caused the plague. Background Sparta and its allies, with the exception of Corinth, were almost exclusively land based powers, able to summon large land armies that were very nearly unbeatable. In the face of a combined campaign on land from Sparta and its allies beginning in 431 BCE, the Athenians, under the direction of Pericles, pursued a policy of retreat within the city walls of Athens, relying on Athenian maritime supremacy for supply while the superior Athenian navy harassed Spartan troop movements. Unfortunately, the strategy also resulted in massive migration from the Attic countryside into an already highly-populated city, generating overpopulation and resource shortage. Due to the close quarters and poor hygiene exhibited at that time, Athens became a breeding ground for disease and many citizens died. In the history of epidemics, the 'Plague' of Athens is remarkable for the one-sidedness of the affliction as well as for its influence on the ultimate outcome of the war. In his History of the Peloponnesian War, the historian Thucydides, who was present and contracted the disease himself and survived, describes the epidemic. He writes of a disease coming from Ethiopia and passing through Egypt and Libya into the Greek world and spreading throughout the wider Mediterranean; a plague so severe and deadly that no one could recall anywhere its like, and physicians ignorant of its nature not only were helpless but themselves died the fastest, having had the most contact with the sick. In overcrowded Athens, the disease killed an estimated 25% of the population. The sight of the burning funeral pyres of Athens caused the Spartans to withdraw their troops, being unwilling to risk contact with the diseased enemy. Many of Athens' infantry and expert seamen died. According to Thucydides, not until 415 BCE had Athens recovered sufficiently to mount a major offensive, the disastrous Sicilian Expedition. The first corroboration of the plague was not revealed until 1994-95 where excavation revealed the first mass grave. Upon this discovery, Thucydides' accounts of the event as well as analysis of the remains had been used to try and identify the cause of the epidemic. Social implications Accounts of the Athenian plague graphically describe the social |
9,074 | Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles | The Sylloge of the Coins of the British Isles (SCBI) is an ongoing project to publish all major museum collections and certain important private collections of British coins. Catalogues in the series contain full details and illustrations of each and every specimen. Every Anglo-Saxon and Norman coin included in the project can be viewed on the SCBI Database, based at the Department of Coins and Medals, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. History The project was first suggested in the early 1950s by Christopher Blunt and other members of the British and Royal Numismatic Societies. In 1956, its unofficial committee secured recognition as a committee of the British Academy through the good offices of its first chairman, Sir Frank Stenton. The first volume, on Anglo-Saxon Coins in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (prepared by Philip Grierson), was published two years later in 1958. Since that date over sixty additional volumes have been published, covering both museum and some significant private collections in Britain, the United States, Germany, Russia, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Poland, Latvia and more. Further volumes are in preparation or projected for the future. The key gaps in the series remain the British Museum and the Royal Coin Collection in Stockholm. Both of which present massive undertakings and have only recently begun to be tackled comprehensively. Some of the early volumes, such as that covering the Cambridge collection, are also now in need of substantial updating. Nonetheless, British numismatics has been extremely well served by the project, and it continues to publish volumes almost every year. Committee Since its inception, the policy of the Sylloge Project has been to keep an eminent Anglo-Saxon historian as its chairman. This reflects the emphasis on Anglo-Saxon material in the published volumes, and the need to keep an educated outside perspective on the project. Chairmen have included: Sir Frank Stenton, FBA (1956–1966) Professor Dorothy Whitelock, CBE, FBA (1966–1979) Professor H. R. Loyn, FBA (1979–1993) The Rt Hon. Lord Stewartby, FBA, FRSE (1993–2003) Professor S. D. Keynes, FBA (2003–) General Editors of the project have included: Christopher Blunt, OBE, FBA (1956–1987) Professor M. R. H. Dolley, MRIA (1956–1983) Dr M. A. S. Blackburn (1980–2011) Other current members of the Sylloge Committee are: Professor N. P. Brooks, FBA Dr B. J. Cook C. S. S. Lyon Dr R. G. R. Naismith H. E. Pagan Dr V. Smart Professor P. Spufford, FBA Rt Hon. Lord Stewartby, FBA, FRSE Volumes Current volumes of the Sylloge are: 1. FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM, CAMBRIDGE. Ancient British and Anglo-Saxon Coins. By P. Grierson. 32 plates, 1958. 2. HUNTERIAN MUSEUM, GLASGOW. Anglo-Saxon Coins. By A.S. Robertson. 42 plates, 1961. 3. COINS OF THE CORITANI. By D.F. Allen. 8 plates, 1963. 4. ROYAL COLLECTION, COPENHAGEN. Part I. Ancient British and Anglo-Saxon Coins. By G. Galster. 30 plates, 1964. 5. GROSVENOR MUSEUM, CHESTER. Coins with the Chester Mint-Signature. By E.J.E. Pirie. 16 plates, 1964. 6. NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ANTIQUITIES OF SCOTLAND, EDINBURGH. Anglo-Saxon Coins. By R.B.K. Stevenson. 29 plates, 1966. 7. ROYAL COLLECTION, COPENHAGEN. Part II. Anglo-Saxon Coins: Æthelred II. By G. Galster. 71 plates, 1966. (Published jointly with the Carlsberg |
9,075 | Lincoln Township, Andrew County, Missouri | Lincoln Township is one of ten townships in Andrew County, Missouri, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 1,184. Lincoln Township was named after John Lincoln, a member of the Lincoln family who settled the area. Geography Lincoln Township covers an area of and contains one incorporated municipality, Amazonia. It contains three cemeteries: Greenwick, Hackberry, and Old Union. The streams of Caples Creek, Hopkins Creek, Mill Creek, and the Nodaway River run through this township. References USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) External links US-Counties.com City-Data.com Category:Townships in Andrew County, Missouri Category:Townships in Missouri |
9,076 | Festival du Vent | The Festival du Vent () is an annual arts festival taking place since 1992 in Calvi, Haute-Corse, a town of Corsica, in France. The Festival du Vent takes place since 1992 between October and November. It is regarded as one of the main festivals of Calvi. Every year more than six hundred people work to prepare the features of festival. The festival includes music concerts of all genres, theatre and art exhibitions, paragliding, windsurfing and sailing. Sources External links Official website of the festival Category:Music festivals in France |
9,077 | Guichen | Guichen (, Gallo: Gischen) is a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department in Brittany in northwestern France. History Population Inhabitants of Guichen are called Guichenais in French. Image gallery See also Luc Urbain de Bouexic, comte de Guichen Communes of the Ille-et-Vilaine department References External links INSEE Mayors of Ille-et-Vilaine Association Official website French Ministry of Culture list for Guichen Category:Communes of Ille-et-Vilaine |
9,078 | BBC Soundcrew | BBC Soundcrew is a Canadian DJ group from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Created in 2000 by Johney Brar (DJ JoN-E) and Gurjit Bolina (MC LoudMouTH) BBC Soundcrew was created to advance the South-Asian music scene across North America. BBC Soundcrew has made their mark with their own ventures including the Top South-Asian DJ Website in Canada (BBCsoundcrew.com), nightclub residency, BBC Soundcrew Gear, mix CDs and remix albums and a weekly prime-time urban South-Asian radio program (Desi Live on 105.5 FM Hosted By DJ JoN-E) which was the first South-Asian radio program that gained national distribution in the United States as of December 2008. As of 2018, BBC Soundcrew & Entertainment is now a division of Sixcity Media Group. Nightlife BBC Soundcrew broke into the music night life scene in early 2001 in the Toronto area. A few connections were made between BBC Soundcrew and local club promoters around the city. and they were invited to perform opening sets at various venues within the Greater Toronto Area. While the first few events were not well attended, it gave a chance for the team to get practice on the main stage at venues. The company's head disc jockey DJ JoN-E was 16 years old at the time, which would make him 3 years under the admission age for most nightclubs in the province. A special wristband policy was generally implemented by venues to accommodate access for him. The live MC portion of events was handled by Gurjit Bolina (MC LoudMouTH) as he became the first ever Sikh turbaned MC to do live nightlife events as well as have nightclub residency in North America. Napster & Limewire BBC Soundcrew entered the industry as online music sharing was in its infancy. While mainstream music was accessible, South-Asian music was not at the time. In 2000, DJ JoN-E started to put individual bhangra mixes online which spread through the internet quickly via file sharing programs such as Napster and Limewire. The mixes that were released online became a good portion of their first remix album "Live to Air" which was also released online for free. All future albums from BBC Soundcrew were made available for free online as they did not see the value in selling it as bootlegging and audio/video duplication were already rampant in the South-Asian community. FM Radio BBC Soundcrew's "Desi Live" Radio Program was hosted By Johney Brar (DJ JoN-E) and aired every Monday 8:00pm–9:00pm (EST) on CHRY 105.5FM Toronto. Shows could also be listened to on their website as well as Rogers Cable Channel 945. BBC Soundcrew's "Desi Live" Radio Program hit the airwaves in December 2004 after the green light was given from the Board of Directors of CHRY Radio Station. After the approval, "Desi Live" was given a prime time Monday night slot (8-9pm EST) to help add some diversity to the Monday night lineup on CHRY 105.5FM. Desi Live Radio Show was sandwiched between the popular hip hop program "Backroad Radio" 6:00pm–8:00pm and "Everyday I have the Blues" the long running jazz/blues show hosted by Vince Vitacco (9:00pm–11:00pm) The show |
9,079 | Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union | The Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union was the head of government of the Soviet Union during the existence of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union from 1923 to 1946. History The post of chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union – the head of the executive body of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union – was established by the Treaty on the Formation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, which entered into force after approval by the First Congress of Soviets at a meeting on December 30, 1922. The first chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union was appointed to the post at the 2nd session of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union on July 6, 1923. 1923–1930 The appointment of Vladimir Lenin to the post of the first chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union on July 6, 1923 was of purely symbolic significance, since Lenin's poor state of health did not allow him to actively engage in public affairs and since May 1923 he had been left without a break in the Gorky residence near Moscow under the supervision of doctors. Before the death of Lenin in 1924, the actual leadership of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union was carried out by Alexei Rykov. Having replaced Lenin as head of government, Alexei Rykov actively pursued a New Economic Policy and in the late 1920s opposed its curtailment. Together with Nikolai Bukharin and Mikhail Tomsky, he opposed Stalin in a discussion about collectivization and against forcing industrialization, opposed the adoption of a five-year economic development planning system, which caused dissatisfaction with the party elite. Joseph Stalin told the writer Maxim Gorky: "We are thinking of changing Rykov, he is getting confused at the feet!", to which Rykov directly told Stalin: "Your policy does not smell like an economy!". In the fall of 1929, he publicly admitted his "mistakes", losing to Stalin. In 1924–1929, Rykov, simultaneously with the post of head of government of the Soviet Union, served as chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic. In December 1930, he was removed from the post of chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union and was soon appointed People's Commissar of Posts and Telegraphs of the Soviet Union. 1930–1941 The place of Alexey Rykov as chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union was taken by Vyacheslav Molotov, who held this position for the longest term (more than 10 years) and combined the post of head of government with other positions: chairman of the Council of Labor and Defense, Defense Committee, Economic Council under the Council People's Commissars of the Soviet Union, and since 1939 – People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union. On May 6, 1941, Molotov was relieved of his post as chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union, taking the post |
9,080 | Chaohu Stadium | Chaohu Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Chaohu, China that is currently under construction. It will be used mostly for football matches. The stadium will hold 30,000 spectators. It is due to open in 2012 and broke ground in 2010. References Category:Football venues in China Category:Multi-purpose stadiums in China Category:Stadiums under construction Category:Buildings and structures under construction in China Category:Sports venues in Anhui Category:Buildings and structures in Hefei |
9,081 | 1952 United States presidential election in Vermont | The 1952 United States presidential election in Vermont took place on November 4, 1952, as part of the 1952 United States presidential election which was held throughout all contemporary 48 states. Voters chose three representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Vermont voted overwhelmingly for the Republican nominee, General Dwight D. Eisenhower of New York, over the Democratic nominee, former Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson of Illinois. Eisenhower ran with Senator Richard Nixon of California, while Stevenson's running mate was Senator John Sparkman of Alabama. Eisenhower took a landslide 71.45% of the vote to Stevenson’s 28.23%, a victory margin of 43.22%. Vermont historically was a bastion of liberal Northeastern Republicanism, and by 1952 the Green Mountain State had gone Republican in every presidential election since the founding of the Republican Party. From 1856 to 1948, Vermont had had the longest streak of voting Republican of any state, having never voted Democratic before, and this tradition easily continued in 1952 with Eisenhower’s landslide win. Even as Eisenhower won a comfortable victory nationally, Vermont weighed in as a whopping 32% more Republican than the national average and with 71.45% of the popular vote, this made the Green Mountain State the most Republican in the union in the 1952 election. Eisenhower, a war hero and moderate Republican who had pledged to maintain popular New Deal Democratic policies, had wide appeal beyond the boundaries of the traditional Republican coalition. While Vermont was one of the only two states in the nation (along with Maine) to vote against Franklin Roosevelt all 4 times, the GOP margins in the state had narrowed substantially in the 1930s and 1940s, particularly due to the strong Democratic presence in the northwestern part of the state. However Eisenhower's unique personal appeal brought even that region back into the GOP coalition, and allowed him to break 70% in the state in both 1952 and 1956, the first Republican to do so since Calvin Coolidge in 1924, and the last to date. Eisenhower swept every county in Vermont, breaking 70% in 9 of the 14 counties. The three northwestern counties of Vermont had long been Democratic enclaves in an otherwise Republican state through the 1930s and 1940s, but Eisenhower finally won them back for the GOP. The region still remained the most Democratic in the state, as Eisenhower received less than 60%t of the vote in Chittenden County, Franklin County and Grand Isle County, while every county outside the northwest broke 60% for Eisenhower and three broke 80%. With that, Eisenhower became the first Republican candidate since Coolidge to carry Chittenden County as well as the first since Herbert Hoover in 1928 to carry Franklin and Grand Isle Counties. Results Results by county References Vermont 1952 Category:1952 Vermont elections |
9,082 | Hwarot | Hwarot is a type of traditional Korean clothing worn during the Goryeo and Joseon Dynasty by only royal women for ceremonial occasions and later by commoners for weddings. It is still worn during the p’yebaek phase of modern weddings. Before commoners wore hwarots, they wore wonsam due to the steep cost of a hwarot. It originated from the Kingdom of Khotan, Central Asia. The gown is typically worn with a jokduri or hwagwan, binyeo or daenggi, and yeongigonji, which is red and black makeup spots on the cheek and brow. The hwarot is an elaborately embroidered long robe with long and wide sleeves to cover the wearer's hands. It is pieced together using many panels, has long side slits, and is similar to the hanbok. The difference between a hwarot and a hanbok is the straight and symmetrical lines of the hwarot compared to the undergarments and that it closes in the front compared to other Asian garments that clasp at the right side. Typical hwarots have a red exterior and a blue interior to symbolize the yin and yang relationship between the husband and bride. The sleeves have three silk strips of red, blue, and yellow with a white cuff. The robe is often decorated with symbols thought to bring wealth, good fortune, and fertility to the new couple. Some common motifs included in the embroidery are flowers, plants, birds, and animal pairs meant to represent the bridal couple. The hwarot embroidery would also often contain characters. Due to the simple and unfitted style, some villages would have a few communal gowns that families would borrow for weddings. The hwarot is expensive to make so a single gown would be passed down for several generations. Due to years of use, many repairs would need to be made such as using patches of embroidery cut from other gowns. Hair ribbons were also used as a textile to repair the worn out areas, such as the fold line of the shoulder. Trimming was a common repair method, particularly for the outlines of the body panels and sleeves that were damaged more easily. A common way to preserve the dress over generations was to cover the cuffs and collar with soft paper that was replaced after each wedding. Due to the heavy embroidery, several layers of backing paper were needed in the robes. The extra layers were difficult to sew through, so appliques were a standard method of repairs as well. For small repairs, they occasionally used bold colors of green, purple and sky blue instead of a red thread that would blend in. While repairing the robe for each wedding, family members would include additional motifs to symbolize their own well-wishes for the bride. See also Jokduri Hwagwan Gache Hanbok References External links Category:Korean clothing Category:Wedding clothing |
9,083 | Yilgarn Iron Producers Association | The Yilgarn Iron Producers Association was formed in 2010 as a consortium of iron ore mining and exploration companies, including Golden West Resources, Radar Iron, Mindax, Legacy Iron Ore, Mineral Resources, Cazaly Resources, and Cliffs Natural Resources, that sought to cooperatively develop rail and port infrastructure to enable their Western Australian iron deposits to be exploited. Overview The Yilgarn iron province extends from Wiluna to Koolyanobbing near Southern Cross, and west of the Leonora-Kalgoorlie-Esperance rail to port infrastructure. The port of Esperance is located about to the south of Kalgoorlie. See also Iron ore mining in Western Australia Iron ore in Australia References External links Yilgarn Iron Ore Producers Association Category:Mining companies of Australia Category:Iron mining in Australia |
9,084 | Kamugakudi | Kamugakudi is a small, ancient heritage village in Nannilam taluk, Tiruvarur district, Tamil Nadu, India. References Category:Villages in Tiruvarur district |
9,085 | Dutchtown | Dutchtown and Dutch Town may refer to a place in the United States: Dutchtown, Colorado, a ghost town listed on the NRHP in Colorado Dutchtown, Louisiana, an unincorporated community Dutchtown, Missouri, a village in Cape Girardeau County Dutchtown, Atlantic County, New Jersey, an unincorporated community Dutchtown, Somerset County, New Jersey, an unincorporated community Dutchtown, New York, a hamlet in Erie County Dutch Town, West Virginia Dutchtown, St. Louis, Missouri, a neighborhood See also Deutschtown, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a neighborhood |
9,086 | Aleksandr Shmurnov | Aleksandr Ivanovich Shmurnov (born December 8, 1966; Moscow, RSFSR, USSR) is a Russian sports journalist, radio host, television commentator for the Russian Match TV. Former chief editor of a sports Internet portal Championat.com. The creator of the training center Sports journalist. Biography Born on December 8, 1966 in Moscow. He graduated from the French special school No. 18 (currently 1275), then the Moscow Aviation Institute. I joined the sports journalism since 1992. In 1992-1993 he was the editor and host of a sports broadcast on the radio station Business Wave. In 1993-2001 he was the author, columnist, and editor of the international department of the weekly Football, in 1995 he was one of the leading software Football Review on Ostankino Channel. In 1994, he was among the first journalists of NTV sports editorial. Getting up before a choice, continued to work in the Football, which until then was anxious to get there. In 2001–2009 years - the browser, then the chief of the sports newspaper Gazeta. In 2009-2010, the publisher of the Encyclopedia of World Football. From 2011 to 2014 - chief editor of the sports internet portal Championat.com. Since 2003 to 2015, he was the commentator of TV Company NTV Plus. Basically commented football games. In 2003-2004 he led the author's program of fan organizations Evrofanklub of NTV Plus Football. Also I worked for many years on the channel Tennis, covered all the Grand Slam tournaments, the matches of the Davis Cup and Fed Cup. He worked as a commentator for cycling at the Olympic Games in 2008. Spent the last editions of the football talk show 90 minutes+ instead of Georgy Cherdantsev. The main tool for TV commentator considers relevant and emotional reaction to the actions of the players. In particular, he said: Since November 2015 works as a commentator of football, as well as the leading documentary series Everything for Euro! and the UEFA Europa League on TV viewing Match TV. Since March 2016 leads a program overview 8-16 on the TV channel Nash Football. Aleksandr Shmurnov is married and has three children. In addition to native Russian speaker, fluent in French and Spanish. References External links Большое интервью Школа Спортивной Журналистики Category:1966 births Category:Living people Category:Russian television journalists Category:Russian association football commentators Category:Russian sports journalists |
9,087 | Arctosa sanctaerosae | Arctosa sanctaerosae, the Santa Rosa wolf spider, is a species of wolf spider in the family Lycosidae. It is found in the United States. References Category:Arctosa Category:Articles created by Qbugbot Category:Spiders described in 1935 |
9,088 | Trémouilles | Trémouilles () is a commune in the Aveyron department in southern France. Population See also Communes of the Aveyron department References INSEE Category:Communes of Aveyron Category:Aveyron communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia |
9,089 | Brain Damage (comics) | Brain Damage was a British adult comic that was published monthly by Galaxy Publications (later Tristar Publications) and edited by Bill Hampton from 1989 to 1992. Brain Damage was one of many comics trying to emulate the success of Viz; however whereas most of its peers were crude, low-quality Viz imitations, Brain Damage attempted to capture the high end of the market, with contributions from recognised cartoonists and satirists, and a strong leaning towards UK politics. In this way, it seemed to aspire to be a more modern Oz. Many issues contained a central theme around which strips were supposed to focus. Each cover featured an unnamed mascot which vaguely resembled the 1980s children's TV puppet Gilbert the Alien. Its sibling titles included the direct Viz clone Gas and reprint anthology Talking Turkey. Brain Damage was published until volume 3, number 4 (issue 28), and was then replaced with Elephant Parts which abandoned the political aspects in favour of surreal nonsense. Elephant Parts supposedly incorporated "The Damage", but as it was printed on different paper stock and with a markedly changed editorial, was effectively a different magazine. Elephant Parts was printed for a few months. On 18 June 2009, all rights to the Brain Damage comic series were acquired by Untitled Project Productions in Brooklyn, NY. The intent was to produce a series of half-hour animated TV shows. Regular strips included: Andy The Anarchist by Anthony Smith – a stereotypical anarchist. Arseover Tit by Hunt Emerson – a two-headed creature called Alf (as in "half and half") and his adventures in society. Usually Alf would get mangled after failing to decide which way to jump from an oncoming attack due to having two heads. Cameraman by Stevie Best – a day-to-day story of a cynical paparazzo (tabloid photographer). Hell's Rotarians by unknown – setting septuagenarian Rotarians as Hells Angels Home Front by John Erasmus – a strip involving a mother and son, the mother being a cheerful psychopath who caused carnage each issue, embarrassing her son. Rymeword Scrubs by Doug Cameron and Ben Norris – a prison to house cartoon characters with rhyming names (e.g. David Fottom, with a talking bottom). The Striker Wore Pink Knickers by Tony Husband and Ron Tiner- a pastiche of Roy of the Rovers type strips about a girl playing professional football posing as a man. The strip ended with all the main characters realizing they were homosexual and being murdered by a skinhead. The Watchdogs by Tony Reeve – two cartoon dogs, based on Douglas Hurd, the then Foreign Secretary, and Mary Whitehouse, the Christian morality campaigner. Sam Shovel by Kev F. Sutherland – a pun-filled detective parody in the style of Jim Steranko's early graphic novel Chandler. Watch With Mutha by Doug Cameron and Ben Norris – one-off strips poking fun at children's television, with adult themes. We Ran The World by Andy Oldfield and Mike Roberts – a lavish colour strip containing analysis of British culture and history from a left-wing (and often Marxist) perspective. Two recurring characters were a teenage skinhead indoctrinated by |
9,090 | Clubiona bishopi | Clubiona bishopi is a species of sac spider in the family Clubionidae. It is found in the United States and Canada. References Category:Clubionidae Category:Articles created by Qbugbot Category:Spiders described in 1958 |
9,091 | Mary Hayley | Mary Hayley née Wilkes (30 October 1728 – 9 May 1808) was an English businesswoman. She parlayed an inheritance from her first husband into a sizeable estate with her second husband. Upon the latter's death, she took over the business and successfully operated a shipping firm from 1781 to 1792 before living out her life in Bath. Hayley was born in 1728 in London to the prosperous distiller Israel Wilkes junior and was a sister to the politician John Wilkes. Kind-hearted but opinionated, she lived an unconventional life and was known for her astute observation and discussion, based upon her wide reading. Refusing to bow to custom, she attended trials at the Old Bailey and travelled throughout Britain to satisfy her wide-ranging curiosity. Marrying a widower, Samuel Storke junior, in 1752, she became a widow within the year with a young step-son. As her husband's sole heir, she inherited his business and soon after his death married his chief clerk, George Hayley. He turned out to be a shrewd businessman, increasing her inherited wealth tenfold during his lifetime. Their business established extensive trade relationships with the American colonies, supplying the tea which gained infamy in the Boston Tea Party. After her second husband's death and the end of the American Revolution, American merchants owed Hayley a large debt and she became one of the few Britons who successfully recouped their losses after the war. In 1784, she purchased a frigate used by both the Continental Navy and the Royal Navy and had it refurbished as a whaling and sealing vessel. She rechristened the frigate the United States and moved to Boston, where she lived for eight years. Unusually for women at the time, she became a benefactor, donating money and goods to charitable endeavours, and ran a whaling business. Her first venture, a voyage to the Falkland Islands, resulted in a shipment of whale oil, which was seized by the British government in 1785. She successfully recouped her losses from the Crown, as it was unable to prove that she owed duty, as British merchants were exempt if one-third of their crew was also British. In 1786, Hayley married a Scottish merchant in Boston, Patrick Jeffrey. In 1792, she left him and returned to England with the stipulation that he never again appear in her presence. After a brief stay in London, she lived out her days in Bath. Early life Mary Wilkes was born on 30 October 1728 in the Clerkenwell area of London, as the next to youngest child of Sarah Heaton and Israel Wilkes. Her mother was the daughter of a prosperous tanner and her father was a distiller. Her siblings, included Sarah (1721-1767), known as Sally, who was said to have been the inspiration for Charles Dickens’ character Miss Havisham in Great Expectations. Among the others were Israel III (1722–1805); John (1725–1797) a prominent politician; Heaton (1727-1803) born 20 months before Mary; and Ann (1736–1750), who died from smallpox at the age of 14. Mary was known for her kind heart but also for her fiery outbursts and |
9,092 | Gonka III | Gonka III was a Telugu king and the fifth of Velanati Chodas who ruled from 1181 to 1186. He succeeded his father Rajendra Choda II and he lost to Rudradeva II of kakatiya and also to his rebel Kota Chieftain Ketaraja II. He was killed in 1186 in a battle with Kakatiyas. Velanadu chiefs lost their capital and most parts of the Velanadu kingdom. References Durga Prasad, History of the Andhras up to 1565 A. D., P. G. PUBLISHERS, GUNTUR (1988) South Indian Inscriptions - http://www.whatisindia.com/inscriptions/ Category:Chola dynasty Category:12th-century Indian monarchs |
9,093 | Keeshond | The Keeshond ( , plur. Keeshonden) is a medium-sized dog with a plush, two-layer coat of silver and black fur with a ruff and a curled tail. It originated in Holland, and its closest relatives are the German spitzes such as the Großspitz (Large Spitz), Mittelspitz (Medium Spitz), Kleinspitz (Miniature Spitz), Zwergspitz (Dwarf-Spitz) or Pomeranian. The Keeshond was previously known as the Dutch Barge Dog, as it was frequently seen on barges traveling the canals and rivers of The Netherlands. The Keeshond was the symbol of the Patriot faction in The Netherlands during political unrest in the years immediately preceding the French Revolution. In the late 19th century, the breed was developed in England from imports obtained in both The Netherlands and Germany. In 1930, the Keeshond was first registered with The American Kennel Club. Description Appearance A member of the spitz group of dogs, the Keeshond in American Kennel Club (AKC) standard is to tall and ± in the Fédération Cynologique Internationale (FCI) standard and weighs to . Sturdily built, they have a typical spitz appearance. Neither coarse nor refined, they have a wedge-shaped head, medium-length muzzle with a definite stop, small pointed ears, and an expressive face. The tail is tightly curled and, in profile, should be carried such that it is indistinguishable from the compact body of the dog. Coat Like all spitz-type dogs, the Keeshond has a dense double coat, with a thick ruff around the neck. Typically, the males of this breed will have a thicker, more pronounced ruff than the females. The body should be abundantly covered with long, straight, harsh hair standing well out from a thick, downy undercoat. The hair on the legs should be smooth and short, except for a feathering on the front legs and "trousers" on the hind legs. The hair on the tail should be profuse, forming a rich plume. The head, including muzzle, skull, and ears, should be covered with smooth, soft, short hair—velvety in texture on the ears. The coat must not part down the back. Coat care requires line brushing on a fairly regular basis. The Keeshond typically 'blows' its undercoat once a year for males, twice a year for females. During this time, the loss of coat is excessive and their guard hairs will lie flat to their back. It usually takes 2 weeks for the 'blow' to complete, in order for new undercoat to begin growing back in. A Keeshond should never be shaved, as their undercoat provides a natural barrier against heat and cold. Keeping their coat in good condition will allow efficient insulation in both hot and cold weather. Color The color should be a mixture of grey and black and some white as well. The undercoat should be very pale grey or cream (not tawny). The hair of the outer coat is black tipped, the length of the black tips producing the characteristic shading of color. The color may vary from light to dark, but any pronounced deviation from the grey color is not permissible. The plume of the tail should be |
9,094 | You Better Believe | You Better Believe may refer to: "You Better Believe", song by Gene Vincent from Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps 1957, covered by Jeff Beck on Crazy Legs 1993 "You Better Believe", song by Train from A Girl, a Bottle, a Boat 2017 See also You Better Believe It You Better Believe It! You Better Believe Me |
9,095 | Maduchandra Singh | Madu Chandra was a Meitei royal who ruled between 1801 and 1806. He fought for power during the dynastic squabbles in Manipur after the death of Ching-Thang Khomba. See also List of Manipuri kings Manipur (princely state) References Bibliography Hodson, Thomas Callan.The Meitheis. Harvard University, 1908. Category:Meitei royals Category:Hindu monarchs |
9,096 | García Rodrígues | García Rodrígues da Fonseca (born 10th-century) was a Galician nobleman, Lord of Honra de Fonseca. He was the grandson of Garcia Moniz, o Gasco. His wife was Dordia Ramírez. García Rodrígues was appointed Lord of Couto de Leomil by Henry, Count of Portugal in 1102. References Category:10th-century Portuguese people Category:11th-century Portuguese people Category:Medieval Portuguese nobility Category:Portuguese Roman Catholics |
9,097 | Ohio State Route 198 | State Route 198 is a north–south state highway in the western portion of the U.S. state of Ohio. Its southern terminus is at an interchange with U.S. Route 33 just south of Wapakoneta, which is also the western terminus of State Route 67 and the southern terminus of State Route 501; its northern terminus is at State Route 117 nearly east of Spencerville. Route description No part of SR 198 in Ohio is included as a part of the National Highway System (NHS). The NHS is a network of highways that are identified as being most important for the economy, mobility and defense of the nation. SR 198 heads north from an interchange with U.S. Route 33 concurrent with SR 67 and SR 501. The road enter downtown Wapakoneta where SR 67 turns east and both SR 198 and SR 501 turn west. The two routes head west and then turns towards the northwest. Just before leaving Wapakoeta SR 501 leaves the concurrency heading due north. The highway now enters rural Auglaize County passing through farmland. Before the road enters Allen County is an intersection with SR 197. The route enters Allen County and has an intersection with SR 117. This intersection is the northern terminus of SR 117. History 1924 – Original route established; originally routed from St. Marys to west of Spencerville along current State Route 116. 1926 – Rerouted to its current alignment, which was the former alignment of State Route 116, and from its current northern terminus to the village of Southworth along previously and currently unnumbered roads. 1946 – Truncated at its current northern terminus; its former alignment north to Southworth decertified. 1961 – Extended south from Wapakoneta (from its terminus at the former alignment of U.S. Route 33) to its current terminus via a previously unnumbered road. Major intersections References 198 Category:Transportation in Auglaize County, Ohio Category:Transportation in Allen County, Ohio |
9,098 | Kauko Hänninen | Kauko Antero Hänninen (28 January 1930 – 26 August 2013) was a Finnish rower who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics, in the 1960 Summer Olympics, in the 1964 Summer Olympics, and in the 1968 Summer Olympics. He was born in Kinnula. In 1956 he was a crew member of the Finnish boat which won the bronze medal in the coxed fours event. He was also part of the Finnish boat which was eliminated in the repechage of the coxless four competition. Four years later he was eliminated with the Finnish boat in the semi-finals of the coxed four event. At the 1964 Games he was a member of the Finnish boat which was eliminated in the repechage of the coxless four competition. His last Olympic appearance was in 1968 when he and his partner Pekka Sylvander were eliminated in the repechage of the coxless pair event. Hänninen moved to Stockholm, Sweden, after his competitive career. References External links profile Category:1930 births Category:2013 deaths Category:People from Kinnula Category:Finnish male rowers Category:Olympic rowers of Finland Category:Rowers at the 1956 Summer Olympics Category:Rowers at the 1960 Summer Olympics Category:Rowers at the 1964 Summer Olympics Category:Rowers at the 1968 Summer Olympics Category:Olympic bronze medalists for Finland Category:Olympic medalists in rowing Category:Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics Category:Finnish expatriates in Sweden |
9,099 | Kichino | Kichino () is a rural locality (a village) in Zheleznodorozhnoye Rural Settlement, Sheksninsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The population was 30 as of 2002. There are 3 streets. Geography The distance to Sheksna is 15 km, to Pacha is 3 km. Krasnoye is the nearest rural locality. References Category:Rural localities in Vologda Oblast |
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