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{"datasets_id": 797, "wiki_id": "Q4909803", "sp": 90, "sc": 754, "ep": 90, "ec": 1353} | 797 | Q4909803 | 90 | 754 | 90 | 1,353 | Bill LaFortune | The “Shed” case | the baby who slept in the shed's attic.
Judge LaFortune sentenced Hyden to 20 years in prison and Crawford to life in prison. At sentencing, LaFortune rejected Hyden's request for drug treatment in lieu of prison, noting that what she did to the baby “transcends mere addiction” and that she had “completely failed” to comply with her rules and conditions of probation in a previous felony case and an array of treatment options that had been made available to her. Judge LaFortune, in sentencing Crawford, who had a criminal record dating to 1983, stated that he had brought Hyden into his |
{"datasets_id": 797, "wiki_id": "Q4909803", "sp": 90, "sc": 1353, "ep": 94, "ec": 572} | 797 | Q4909803 | 90 | 1,353 | 94 | 572 | Bill LaFortune | The “Shed” case & Starvation of special needs child | life as his “puppet” in a “horrendous ride” of drug abuse. Starvation of special needs child Judge LaFortune presided over the child neglect case of Victor Castro-Huerta and Christina Calhoun. Castro-Huerta and Calhoun were charged with nearly starving to death a 5-year-old special needs child. The child had presented at Saint Francis Hospital weighing only 19 pounds and “severely dehydrated” and “extremely malnourished”. A jury convicted Castro-Huerta and LaFortune sentenced him to 35 years in prison as recommended by the jury.
At Calhoun's sentencing, her attorney argued that a life sentence for her would be cruel, but LaFortune, in sentencing her |
{"datasets_id": 797, "wiki_id": "Q4909803", "sp": 94, "sc": 572, "ep": 102, "ec": 51} | 797 | Q4909803 | 94 | 572 | 102 | 51 | Bill LaFortune | Starvation of special needs child & Notable crimes against women cases & Admiral Street Rapist case | to a life prison term, stated, “I don’t believe a life sentence is cruel. The starvation of special needs child is cruel”. He also noted that the 5-year-old, who has cerebral palsy, was “singled out due to her special needs” based in part on evidence that all the other children in the home were healthy and happy. The child has multiple medical issues caused by extended starvation. Notable crimes against women cases Judge LaFortune has presided over many jury trials involving charges of sex crimes against women. Admiral Street Rapist case Judge LaFortune presided over the jury trial of the |
{"datasets_id": 797, "wiki_id": "Q4909803", "sp": 102, "sc": 51, "ep": 106, "ec": 193} | 797 | Q4909803 | 102 | 51 | 106 | 193 | Bill LaFortune | Admiral Street Rapist case & Ex-Tulsa County deputy convicted of sex crimes | so-called “Admiral Street Rapist”, Shawn Conrad Freeman. Police conducted an 18-month investigation into reports of rapes in the Admiral Place area which resulted in Freeman's arrest and subsequent charges: 4 counts each of first-degree rape and kidnapping, 5 counts of sodomy, and 1 count of robbery. LaFortune followed the jury's recommendation and sentenced the convicted serial rapist to 365 consecutive years in prison. Ex-Tulsa County deputy convicted of sex crimes Judge LaFortune presided over the jury trial of former Tulsa County deputy Gerald Nuckolls, who was charged with sex crimes allegedly committed while on duty. Nuckolls was convicted of Indecent |
{"datasets_id": 797, "wiki_id": "Q4909803", "sp": 106, "sc": 193, "ep": 110, "ec": 385} | 797 | Q4909803 | 106 | 193 | 110 | 385 | Bill LaFortune | Ex-Tulsa County deputy convicted of sex crimes & Rape of elderly woman in nursing home by nurse | Exposure and Sexual Battery and LaFortune sentenced him to 8 consecutive years in prison as recommended by the jury. LaFortune was affirmed on appeal. Rape of elderly woman in nursing home by nurse Judge LaFortune presided over a case involving the rape of an 84-year-old woman with dementia at a Tulsa assisted living center. Stephen Craig Reed, who was a nurse at the center, plead guilty to the rape and LaFortune sentenced him to 20 years in prison. At sentencing, the prosecutor called Reed a “sexual predator” for “taking advantage” of a woman in a “most vulnerable” state. In |
{"datasets_id": 797, "wiki_id": "Q4909803", "sp": 110, "sc": 385, "ep": 118, "ec": 314} | 797 | Q4909803 | 110 | 385 | 118 | 314 | Bill LaFortune | Rape of elderly woman in nursing home by nurse & Notable DUI manslaughter cases & Christina Cantrell case | delivering his sentence, LaFortune noted that Reed had shown a “pattern of minimalizing” his actions and placing blame on the victim. A year later, LaFortune refused to modify Reed's 20-year sentence at a judicial review. Notable DUI manslaughter cases Judge LaFortune has presided over numerous DUI fatality cases. Christina Cantrell case Judge LaFortune presided over the case involving Defendant Christina Cantrell. She entered a blind guilty plea to 2 counts of first degree manslaughter, driving under the influence, causing great bodily harm and other related charges. Cantrell had run a red light while driving under the influence and crashed into |
{"datasets_id": 797, "wiki_id": "Q4909803", "sp": 118, "sc": 314, "ep": 122, "ec": 346} | 797 | Q4909803 | 118 | 314 | 122 | 346 | Bill LaFortune | Christina Cantrell case & Whitney Tatum Wheeler case | a vehicle, killing two of its occupants and injuring 3 others. A 12-year-old and her 16-year-old sister were thrown from the car on impact. The 12-year-old and 16-year-old later died at Saint Francis Hospital. LaFortune sentenced Cantrell to life in prison. Whitney Tatum Wheeler case Judge LaFortune presided over the case of Defendant Whitney Tatum Wheeler. She was charged with 1 count of first-degree manslaughter and 1 count of driving under the influence and causing great bodily injury. The investigation revealed that Wheeler rear-ended a 1920 Ford Model T while she was driving 65 mph and was still accelerating at impact. |
{"datasets_id": 797, "wiki_id": "Q4909803", "sp": 122, "sc": 346, "ep": 128, "ec": 27} | 797 | Q4909803 | 122 | 346 | 128 | 27 | Bill LaFortune | Whitney Tatum Wheeler case & Christopher David Mitchell case & Notable first-degree murder cases | The impact caused the car to roll and its driver was killed, and a passenger suffered several injuries. LaFortune sentenced Wheeler to 25 years in prison. Christopher David Mitchell case Judge LaFortune presided over Defendant Christopher David Mitchell's second-degree felony murder case. Mitchell was charged with first hitting a motorcycle with 2 occupants, injuring both, fleeing that scene at 75 mph and then crashing into the vehicle of a 22-year-old woman, killing her. Her husband termed her death as “a murder, not an accident”. LaFortune sentenced Mitchell to life in prison after he entered a blind guilty plea. Notable first-degree murder |
{"datasets_id": 797, "wiki_id": "Q4909803", "sp": 128, "sc": 27, "ep": 138, "ec": 101} | 797 | Q4909803 | 128 | 27 | 138 | 101 | Bill LaFortune | Notable first-degree murder cases & Isaac Luna Ashton murder case & Gilcrease Expressway murder | cases Judge LaFortune has presided over many jury trials in first-degree murder cases. Isaac Luna Ashton murder case Defendant Isaac Luna Ashton was convicted by a jury of shooting and killing 3 unarmed individuals at close range. LaFortune sentenced Ashton to 2 consecutive life without parole terms for the murders. He had earlier denied Ashton's request for immunity under Oklahoma's “Stand Your Ground” law. LaFortune was affirmed on appeal by the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals in a published decision. Gilcrease Expressway murder Judge LaFortune presided over the jury trials of David Ruble and Travis Lozada, who were convicted of |
{"datasets_id": 797, "wiki_id": "Q4909803", "sp": 138, "sc": 101, "ep": 140, "ec": 24} | 797 | Q4909803 | 138 | 101 | 140 | 24 | Bill LaFortune | Gilcrease Expressway murder & Papa John’s Pizza murder | felony murder first-degree in the random slaying of a 14-year-old girl who was innocently traveling home with her family along the Gilcrease Expressway after a day of recreation at Keystone Lake. He sentenced Ruble to a life term plus 10 years and Lozada to life in prison without parole plus 10 years. At the sentencing of Lozada, LaFortune noted, “This concludes one of the most tragic stories of Tulsa County criminal justice history. A young girl was shot basically at random in a botched, poorly planned robbery.” LaFortune was affirmed on appeal in Ruble's case. Papa John’s Pizza murder |
{"datasets_id": 797, "wiki_id": "Q4909803", "sp": 142, "sc": 0, "ep": 142, "ec": 578} | 797 | Q4909803 | 142 | 0 | 142 | 578 | Bill LaFortune | Papa John’s Pizza murder | Judge LaFortune presided over the trial of Frankie Jackson Jr. and the sentencing of his 2 co-defendants, Jermaine Savory and Damian Anderson. They were charged with murder in the fatal shooting of a Papa John's truck driver while he was making a delivery and unloading his truck behind a Papa John's pizza restaurant in the early morning hours. He sentenced Jackson, who was convicted of felony murder by a jury, to life in prison and Savory, who plead guilty to first-degree murder, to life in prison. Anderson was sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading to a charge of |
{"datasets_id": 797, "wiki_id": "Q4909803", "sp": 142, "sc": 578, "ep": 146, "ec": 488} | 797 | Q4909803 | 142 | 578 | 146 | 488 | Bill LaFortune | Papa John’s Pizza murder & North Tulsa barber shop murder | accessory to first-degree felony murder. LaFortune was affirmed on appeal in Jackson's case. North Tulsa barber shop murder Judge LaFortune presided over the trial of Dezmen “Dash” Smith, who was charged along with Chadrick Lamont “Fat Cat” Colbert in a gang-related shooting that killed an innocent barber while he was cutting hair and injured 3 customers, including a child. LaFortune sentenced Smith to life in prison for first-degree murder and Colbert, who testified at Smith's trial on behalf of the prosecution, to 15 years for accessory after the fact to murder and 3 counts of assault and battery with a |
{"datasets_id": 797, "wiki_id": "Q4909803", "sp": 146, "sc": 488, "ep": 150, "ec": 474} | 797 | Q4909803 | 146 | 488 | 150 | 474 | Bill LaFortune | North Tulsa barber shop murder & James Edward “G-Baby” Knapper murder case | deadly weapon, pursuant to a plea agreement with the state. LaFortune was affirmed on appeal in Smith's case. James Edward “G-Baby” Knapper murder case Judge LaFortune presided over the first-degree murder trial of James Edward “G-Baby” Knapper. A jury convicted Knapper of a gang-related daytime shooting and killing of a 16-year-old girl, who was an innocent bystander and the unintended target in what a prosecutor called a “gangland assassination”. The prosecutor argued that Knapper's intent was to kill a different person because of that person's membership in a rival gang. Knapper, who was 14 at the time of the crime, |
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{"datasets_id": 797, "wiki_id": "Q4909803", "sp": 154, "sc": 311, "ep": 158, "ec": 270} | 797 | Q4909803 | 154 | 311 | 158 | 270 | Bill LaFortune | Murder of mother and unborn child & Jabara case | violation of the Uniform, and that ruling was affirmed by the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals in a published decision that made new Oklahoma law on the issue. Pursuant to the jury's sentencing recommendations, LaFortune sentenced Hopkins to 2 consecutive life-without-parole terms for the killing of the 19-year-old woman and their unborn child. Jabara case Vernon Majors first appeared before Judge LaFortune on a pending charge of Assault and Battery with a Deadly Weapon. Afterwards, his defense attorney filed a motion to quash and dismiss Major's case on April 12, 2016. LaFortune after a full hearing, denied the Motion to |
{"datasets_id": 797, "wiki_id": "Q4909803", "sp": 158, "sc": 270, "ep": 158, "ec": 873} | 797 | Q4909803 | 158 | 270 | 158 | 873 | Bill LaFortune | Jabara case | Dismiss. A new defense attorney subsequently entered the case and requested a bond be set. In May 2016, the district attorney's office asked Judge LaFortune to hold Vernon Majors without bond or set bond to $300,000 for charges of assault and battery with a deadly weapon case in which Majors is accused of running over Haifa Jabara, an Arab-American Christian, with a car in September 2015. Relying on the pre-set Tulsa County Bond Schedule, Judge LaFortune initially set the bond at $30,000 per the Bond Schedule. Then upon the State's request, and over the Defendant's objection, he doubled the bond |
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Almost three months after Majors made the $60,000 bond, the State filed first degree murder charges against Majors for the death of Khalid Jabara. Vernon Majors was arrested on Friday August 12, 2016, |
{"datasets_id": 797, "wiki_id": "Q4909803", "sp": 158, "sc": 1469, "ep": 162, "ec": 283} | 797 | Q4909803 | 158 | 1,469 | 162 | 283 | Bill LaFortune | Jabara case & Universal Aryan Brotherhood murder and assault case | accused of shooting and killing Haifa Jabara's son, Khalid Jabara. LaFortune was the judge for the trial of Stanley Vernon Majors, accused of killing his neighbor, Khalid Jabara, on August 12, 2016. A trial is still pending as to this charge as well as the previous charge. Universal Aryan Brotherhood murder and assault case Judge LaFortune presided over the jury trial of Ronnie Dean Haskins, who was convicted of fatally stabbing a man in his home in 2013. Haskins was accused of involvement in the Universal Aryan Brotherhood, a “white only” prison-based criminal organization whose members engage in drug |
{"datasets_id": 797, "wiki_id": "Q4909803", "sp": 162, "sc": 283, "ep": 164, "ec": 26} | 797 | Q4909803 | 162 | 283 | 164 | 26 | Bill LaFortune | Universal Aryan Brotherhood murder and assault case & Irish Mob Gang murder case | distribution, money laundering and acts of violence involving kidnapping, assault and arson throughout Oklahoma. LaFortune sentenced Haskins to 2 consecutive life sentences, one of which was without parole, upholding the jury's recommendation. LaFortune was affirmed on appeal.
In another case with allegations relating to the Universal Aryan Brotherhood, Judge LaFortune presided over the jury trial of Jestin Tafolla, who was found guilty of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, brass knuckles, of a black man during a road rage incident in East Tulsa in 2016. LaFortune followed the jury's recommendation in imposing a life sentence. Irish Mob Gang murder case |
{"datasets_id": 797, "wiki_id": "Q4909803", "sp": 166, "sc": 0, "ep": 166, "ec": 618} | 797 | Q4909803 | 166 | 0 | 166 | 618 | Bill LaFortune | Irish Mob Gang murder case | Judge LaFortune presided over the jury trial of John Kyle Crandall, who was convicted of first-degree murder in a fatal Irish Mob gang-related shooting and he also plead guilty and was convicted of intimidating a prosecution witness and having contraband in his jail cell. During the trial, prosecutors read jailhouse correspondence from Crandall that detailed his membership in the Irish Mob Gang, its importance to him and the Irish Mob Gang's rivalry with members of the Universal Aryan Brotherhood. Crandall wrote in that correspondence that he would “put the Mob first, even above my family….I do what needs to be |
{"datasets_id": 797, "wiki_id": "Q4909803", "sp": 166, "sc": 618, "ep": 170, "ec": 275} | 797 | Q4909803 | 166 | 618 | 170 | 275 | Bill LaFortune | Irish Mob Gang murder case & Volunteer board member | done, and I do what I’m told even if it means losing my own life”. LaFortune upheld the jury's sentencing recommendation of life in prison without the possibility of parole and, at sentencing, told Crandall that he believed the jury, “through their verdicts, told you cold-blooded murder on our streets will not be tolerated”. Volunteer board member Over the course of his professional life, LaFortune has volunteered his time and talents to many nonprofit boards and causes. This includes prior service as a board member for the Tulsa Psychiatric Center, Operation Aware, Inc., Child Abuse Network (CAN), Inc., the Arthritis |
{"datasets_id": 797, "wiki_id": "Q4909803", "sp": 170, "sc": 275, "ep": 178, "ec": 238} | 797 | Q4909803 | 170 | 275 | 178 | 238 | Bill LaFortune | Volunteer board member & Fundraising event chair & Awards | Foundation for Eastern Oklahoma, the Children's Services Advisory Board of Tulsa County, St. John Health System's Community Liaison Board and the Tulsa Boys’ Home. Fundraising event chair He and his wife of 35 years, forensic psychologist Dr. Kathy LaFortune, have also chaired major fundraising events for Big Brothers and Sisters of Green Country, the then existing Tulsa Philharmonic and Junior Philharmonic. Awards More recently, LaFortune has served on the Tulsa World Community Advisory Board. He was honored in 2017 by the Indian Nations Council of Governments at its 50th Anniversary celebration with the “Robert J. LaFortune” award. The Tulsa Press |
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{"datasets_id": 798, "wiki_id": "Q15429566", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 10, "ec": 266} | 798 | Q15429566 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 266 | Bill Peach | Early life and education & Media career | Bill Peach Early life and education Peach was born in 1935 in the Riverina town of Lockhart, New South Wales. He was educated at a boarding school, St Stanislaus College in Bathurst, and then studied a master of arts degree at St John's College, University of Sydney, where he met his future wife, Shirley. Media career Peach joined the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) in 1958, as a specialist trainee in the talks department. In 1960, he joined the Sydney office of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) where he worked in program sales. In 1962, he and his wife moved to |
{"datasets_id": 798, "wiki_id": "Q15429566", "sp": 10, "sc": 266, "ep": 10, "ec": 895} | 798 | Q15429566 | 10 | 266 | 10 | 895 | Bill Peach | Media career | the United Kingdom, where he worked for three years for the BBC overseas service, based in London and later New York City.
Returning to Australia in 1965, Peach joined Network Ten, where he co-produced and presented Australia's first current affairs program, Telescope, with Tanya Halesworth. In 1966, he returned to the ABC as a reporter for Four Corners. In 1967, he was appointed as the presenter of ABC's new evening current affairs series, This Day Tonight, which he hosted for eight years.
In 1975, Peach left This Day Tonight and was awarded a Logie in that year for Outstanding Contribution to Television |
{"datasets_id": 798, "wiki_id": "Q15429566", "sp": 10, "sc": 895, "ep": 18, "ec": 13} | 798 | Q15429566 | 10 | 895 | 18 | 13 | Bill Peach | Media career & Tourism career & Death | in recognition of his eight years of service on the program. He then hosted a travel series called Peach's Australia and wrote two books in the Ginger Meggs series. Bill Peach also wrote The Explorers, published in 1984, dealing with the early European explorers of Australia during the colonial era and presented the eponymous TV show. Tourism career After leaving the ABC, Peach started a travel and tourism company, Bill Peach Journeys.
In the 1991 Queen's Birthday Honours, Peach was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for service to the media and to tourism. Death Peach died of |
{"datasets_id": 798, "wiki_id": "Q15429566", "sp": 18, "sc": 13, "ep": 18, "ec": 104} | 798 | Q15429566 | 18 | 13 | 18 | 104 | Bill Peach | Death | cancer at the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney in the early morning of 27 August 2013. |
{"datasets_id": 799, "wiki_id": "Q2607384", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 10, "ec": 82} | 799 | Q2607384 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 82 | Bill Stone (Royal Navy sailor) | Early life & Naval service | Bill Stone (Royal Navy sailor) Early life Stone was born in Ledstone, Devon, as the tenth of fourteen children, and enlisted into the Royal Navy on his 18th birthday. Two of his older brothers had already joined the navy, and a third was in the army. He had first tried to join up at the age of fifteen, walking three miles from where he was working on a farm, to Kingsbridge, to collect the attestation papers, but his father refused to countersign them. Naval service The first record of his naval service describes him as being 5'5.5" (1.66 m) tall, |
{"datasets_id": 799, "wiki_id": "Q2607384", "sp": 10, "sc": 82, "ep": 10, "ec": 646} | 799 | Q2607384 | 10 | 82 | 10 | 646 | Bill Stone (Royal Navy sailor) | Naval service | with a 32.5" (83 cm) chest, brown hair and blue eyes, and his prior occupation as stationary engine driver. He trained as a Stoker in Plymouth, and could remember the dancing in the streets on Armistice Day. His first position was as a Stoker aboard the battlecruiser HMS Tiger, and by summer 1919 was at the main wartime Royal Navy base at Scapa Flow, here he was a witness to the scuttling of the German fleet.
He remained in the navy after the war, serving on HMS Hood during the 1920s, including a round-the-world "Empire Cruise" showing the flag in |
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Dunkirk was the worst experience of my life ... I saw hundreds of people killed in front of me. Some had no clothes |
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He served on the Arctic convoys and in the Mediterranean, and was also torpedoed twice. The second time was while serving aboard the Crown Colony class light cruiser HMS Newfoundland during the Allied invasion of Sicily, when it was hit by U-407. Following temporary repairs in Malta, the ship limped across the Atlantic steering using only its two propellers, for full repair at the Boston Navy Yard. He was Mentioned in Despatches on |
{"datasets_id": 799, "wiki_id": "Q2607384", "sp": 10, "sc": 1812, "ep": 14, "ec": 292} | 799 | Q2607384 | 10 | 1,812 | 14 | 292 | Bill Stone (Royal Navy sailor) | Naval service & Family | 21 December 1943 for his service on this occasion. He served with the occupation forces in north Germany, and was a Stoker Chief Petty Officer when he left the navy in 1945. After the war, he ran his own barber's shop, where he also sold cigarettes and smoking tobacco, he retired in 1968. Family William married Lily Margaret E Hoskin (1908-1995) in Kingsbridge in June 1938 . The marriage lasted fifty-seven years until Lily’s death in 1995. The couple had one daughter Anne.
Anne married Michael J Davidson in Kensington, London in 1967. The couple had two children: Christopher |
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He retired in 1968 at the age of sixty-seven. By 1986 Lily's health began to decline, diagnosed with critical arthritis, the couple moved to Watlington in Oxfordshire, to be near their daughter, Anne, son-in-law Michael and their grandchildren, Christopher and Susan who lived in Buckinghamshire. As the years passed by, Lily became more crippled by her arthritis eventually being confined to a wheelchair, however Bill said that "mentally she |
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Lily died in 1995, aged eighty-seven, leaving Bill a widower. The local community looked after him. "On my first Sunday at church following her death General Sir John Mogg and his wife, Margaret, who lived in the village, said to me 'William, you are to sit with us now.' As I got |
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He attended the sixtieth anniversary of the Dunkirk evacuations in 2000, outliving the Dunkirk Veterans' Association which disbanded after this commemoration.
In 2005, Stone became Fox FM’s Local Hero and Central Television’s Personality of the Year.
In his last years Bill attended reunions for HMS Hood and HMS Newfoundland |
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"Michael and Anne drive me to the annual re-unions of H.M.S. Newfoundland, H.M.S. Hood, and The George Cross Island Associations. At the 2005 Hood re-union I met Heinrich Kuhnt who is a survivor of the Bismarck, which sank the Hood in 1941. The President of the Association is Ted Briggs, now the only living survivor of that sinking, the other two having died since. At the Sunday church parade the Padre always encourages me to sing 'All the Nice Girls Love a Sailor!' |
{"datasets_id": 799, "wiki_id": "Q2607384", "sp": 18, "sc": 2345, "ep": 18, "ec": 2920} | 799 | Q2607384 | 18 | 2,345 | 18 | 2,920 | Bill Stone (Royal Navy sailor) | Later life | which I do, but follow up with my favourite hymn, 'Abide with me'! I also try to attend the annual Hood memorial service at Boldre village church, near Lymington, which is usually held around the same time of the year."
In 2006, Bill, as he was known had a fall and broke his hip at the age of 106. Due to his increasing old age, he was forced to leave Watlington, Oxfordshire and move into a retirement facility in Sindlesham, a suburb of Winnersh, which lies between Reading and Wokingham, in 2007. Stone’s son-in-law, Michael Davidson issued a statement about his |
{"datasets_id": 799, "wiki_id": "Q2607384", "sp": 18, "sc": 2920, "ep": 18, "ec": 3543} | 799 | Q2607384 | 18 | 2,920 | 18 | 3,543 | Bill Stone (Royal Navy sailor) | Later life | father-in-law’s condition:
"He had a fall and developed a small infection, so doctors gave him antibiotics which seem to be working. He is obviously being observed very closely because of his age, but we have no reason to believe his condition will worsen"
On 11 November 2008, Stone along with fellow veterans, Henry Allingham and Harry Patch laid commemorative wreaths at the Cenotaph in London to mark the ninetieth anniversary of the end of the First World War.
Stone died on 10 January 2009. His daughter described him as a "very determined character [...] a man of great faith and his recipe |
{"datasets_id": 799, "wiki_id": "Q2607384", "sp": 18, "sc": 3543, "ep": 18, "ec": 3808} | 799 | Q2607384 | 18 | 3,543 | 18 | 3,808 | Bill Stone (Royal Navy sailor) | Later life | for long life was: 'Clean living, contented mind and trust in God.' His motto: 'Keep going.'" His funeral was held on 29 January 2009 at St Leonard's Church, Watlington. In September 2009, memoirs detailing Stone's experience of the two world wars were published. |
{"datasets_id": 800, "wiki_id": "Q4912209", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 10, "ec": 330} | 800 | Q4912209 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 330 | Billy Bingham (footballer, born 1990) | Career & Dagenham & Redbridge | Billy Bingham (footballer, born 1990) Career Bingham started his career as a youth player at Crystal Palace: starting a two-year scholarship in the summer of 2006. Upon its completion in April 2009, he signed a six-month deal on a non-contractual basis. Dagenham & Redbridge In January 2009 when his contract expired, Bingham joined Football League Two side Dagenham & Redbridge on trial. He was immediately loaned out to Isthmian League Premier Division side Sutton United on loan along with Jacob Erskine, making his debut in a 0–0 draw with Canvey Island. His only other appearance for the club came in |
{"datasets_id": 800, "wiki_id": "Q4912209", "sp": 10, "sc": 330, "ep": 10, "ec": 903} | 800 | Q4912209 | 10 | 330 | 10 | 903 | Billy Bingham (footballer, born 1990) | Dagenham & Redbridge | a 3–2 defeat to Horsham in the Isthmian League Cup. In February 2009, he signed an eighteen-month contract by Dagenham after impressing on trial. He made his professional debut for the Daggers in August 2009, coming on as a last minute substitute for Jon Nurse in a 3–0 home win over Lincoln City. At the start of November 2009 after impressing in his first two appearances for the club, he signed a new two-year contract extension until 2012. Later in the month he signed for Conference Premier side Grays Athletic on a one-month loan. He returned to Dagenham in December |
{"datasets_id": 800, "wiki_id": "Q4912209", "sp": 10, "sc": 903, "ep": 10, "ec": 1541} | 800 | Q4912209 | 10 | 903 | 10 | 1,541 | Billy Bingham (footballer, born 1990) | Dagenham & Redbridge | having made six appearances in all competitions.
The Daggers were promoted at the end of the campaign beating Rotherham United in the 2010 Football League Two play-off Final, however, he failed to make any more appearances. In the 2010–11 season Bingham again failed to make an impact after suffering a medial ligament injury, only making six appearances as the Daggers were relegated in their maiden season in Football League One. He scored his first senior goal in Dagenham's 2–1 victory over Gillingham in December 2011, scoring an equalising volley. Bingham established himself at the club during the 2011–12 season making 32 |
{"datasets_id": 800, "wiki_id": "Q4912209", "sp": 10, "sc": 1541, "ep": 10, "ec": 2097} | 800 | Q4912209 | 10 | 1,541 | 10 | 2,097 | Billy Bingham (footballer, born 1990) | Dagenham & Redbridge | appearances despite having a few injury setbacks. His thirty-yard strike in the 1–1 draw with Crawley Town in April 2012 was voted the club's goal of the season and also secured the club's place in League Two. He was rewarded in July 2012 with a new three-year contract. He started the 2012–13 season as a regular. In October, he was brought back into the starting line-up and scored upon his return in a 3–0 win over Wycombe Wanderers. In November 2013, he suffered a medial knee ligament injury in a 1–1 draw with AFC Wimbledon, similar to the injury he |
{"datasets_id": 800, "wiki_id": "Q4912209", "sp": 10, "sc": 2097, "ep": 14, "ec": 406} | 800 | Q4912209 | 10 | 2,097 | 14 | 406 | Billy Bingham (footballer, born 1990) | Dagenham & Redbridge & Crewe Alexandra | picked up on his left knee in 2010. He made his return in February against Rochdale after two months on the sidelines. Crewe Alexandra On 6 July 2015 Bingham joined Crewe Alexandra after rejecting offers of a new contract with Dagenham. He scored his first and only goal for Crewe in a 4–3 EFL Cup loss against Blackburn Rovers on 23 August 2016. On 9 May 2017, Crewe announced that Bingham had been released by the club. Crewe manager David Artell noted that he had wanted Bingham to remain at the club but that he "wanted to move closer to |
{"datasets_id": 800, "wiki_id": "Q4912209", "sp": 14, "sc": 406, "ep": 18, "ec": 140} | 800 | Q4912209 | 14 | 406 | 18 | 140 | Billy Bingham (footballer, born 1990) | Crewe Alexandra & Gillingham | home". Gillingham On 18 July 2017 he signed for League One side Gillingham on a two-year deal. He was released by Gillingham at the end of the 2018–19 season. |
{"datasets_id": 801, "wiki_id": "Q4912534", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 6, "ec": 620} | 801 | Q4912534 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 620 | Billy Evans | Formative years | Billy Evans Formative years Evans was born in Chicago. When he was still a child, he relocated with his family to Youngstown, Ohio, where his Welsh-born father became superintendent at a Carnegie steel plant. In Youngstown, the Evans family joined Westminster Presbyterian Church, where Billy Evans attended Sunday school. As a youth, Evans was active in YMCA programs and participated in a neighborhood baseball club called the Youngstown Spiders, a team named in honor of the regionally popular Cleveland Spiders. He gained notability as an athlete at Youngstown's Rayen School, excelling at baseball, football, and track. In 1902, Evans enrolled |
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{"datasets_id": 801, "wiki_id": "Q4912534", "sp": 6, "sc": 1214, "ep": 6, "ec": 1859} | 801 | Q4912534 | 6 | 1,214 | 6 | 1,859 | Billy Evans | Formative years | an in-depth knowledge of sports.
In the early 1900s, while covering a baseball game between the Youngstown Ohio Works club and a team from Homestead, Pennsylvania, Evans was approached by the manager of the local club, ex-major leaguer Marty Hogan, and asked to fill an umpire vacancy. According to Evans's obituary, the aspiring reporter, who was on a date with a young woman, "wasn't interested until Hogan mentioned he would be paid $15 a week for officiating the game", a figure equivalent to a week's salary at his sportswriting job.
Evans' ability caught the attention of Charlie Morton, president of the Ohio–Pennsylvania |
{"datasets_id": 801, "wiki_id": "Q4912534", "sp": 6, "sc": 1859, "ep": 10, "ec": 87} | 801 | Q4912534 | 6 | 1,859 | 10 | 87 | Billy Evans | Formative years & Major league umpiring career | League, and he was offered a full-time position as a league umpire. Evans accepted the job, on the condition that he could retain his position as a sportswriter. In 1906, he received a spectacular career boost from fellow Youngstowner Jimmy McAleer, an ex-major leaguer who was so impressed with the young man's ability that he recommended Evans to American League president Ban Johnson. This gesture enabled Evans to move from a Class C Division minor league club to the major leagues. Major league umpiring career At 22 years of age, Evans was the youngest umpire in major league history; furthermore, |
{"datasets_id": 801, "wiki_id": "Q4912534", "sp": 10, "sc": 87, "ep": 10, "ec": 663} | 801 | Q4912534 | 10 | 87 | 10 | 663 | Billy Evans | Major league umpiring career | he was among those very rare umpires who broke into the major leagues with little previous professional experience. He was regarded as the only umpire of his era who never had played professional baseball himself. After making his debut at Highlanders' Park in New York City, he went on to umpire for six World Series: 1909, 1912, 1915, 1917, 1919 and 1923. Working in an era during which most major league games used no more than two umpires (and sometimes only one), Evans single-handedly umpired seven double-headers in eight days during the 1907 season. He was the base |
{"datasets_id": 801, "wiki_id": "Q4912534", "sp": 10, "sc": 663, "ep": 10, "ec": 1247} | 801 | Q4912534 | 10 | 663 | 10 | 1,247 | Billy Evans | Major league umpiring career | umpire for Charlie Robertson's perfect game on April 30, 1922.
Unlike many umpires, Evans never made claims to infallibility. "I missed a lot of decisions", he once said. "At the time of making such a decision there was no doubt in my mind as to its correctness. However, a second or two later I felt that I erred and wished I could change my original ruling". Evans' humility and impartiality did not always protect him from abusive fans. As sports writers Daniel Okrent and Steve Wulf observed, "roughness on the field seemed to elicit the same in the stands". On September |
{"datasets_id": 801, "wiki_id": "Q4912534", "sp": 10, "sc": 1247, "ep": 10, "ec": 1826} | 801 | Q4912534 | 10 | 1,247 | 10 | 1,826 | Billy Evans | Major league umpiring career | 15, 1907, in the midst of a doubleheader between the St. Louis Browns and Detroit Tigers, Evans suffered a skull fracture when a bottle hurled by an angry spectator knocked him unconscious. The New York Times described the incident as "one of the most disgraceful scenes ever witnessed on a ball field".
Evans became known as an innovator during more than two decades with the American League. One obituary observed that he "introduced something new to officiating by running down to a base where a play was made so that he would be on top of it". This approach became a |
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At the same time, he was unwilling to "back down" when physically threatened. In September 1921, Evans was involved in a bloody fistfight with Ty Cobb, who contested one of Evans' calls. Baseball historian David Anderson noted that the trouble began when Cobb threatened |
{"datasets_id": 801, "wiki_id": "Q4912534", "sp": 10, "sc": 2503, "ep": 10, "ec": 3114} | 801 | Q4912534 | 10 | 2,503 | 10 | 3,114 | Billy Evans | Major league umpiring career | to "whip" Evans "right at home plate", a move that would have led to Cobb's immediate suspension. Evans supposedly invited Cobb to the umpire's dressing room for "post-game festivities", and before long, the two men were brawling beneath the stands as players from both teams looked on. According to some accounts, many of Cobb's Detroit Tigers teammates "rooted" for Evans. After the fight, Cobb was suspended for one game, while Evans attended the next several games wearing bandages. Both men had agreed before the fight that they would not report it to league officials, but word of the incident eventually |
{"datasets_id": 801, "wiki_id": "Q4912534", "sp": 10, "sc": 3114, "ep": 14, "ec": 109} | 801 | Q4912534 | 10 | 3,114 | 14 | 109 | Billy Evans | Major league umpiring career & Executive career | reached the league president, Ban Johnson. According to sports writers Okrent and Wulf, Johnson responded to news of the incident "with uncharacteristic humor", saying "only that he was sorry that he missed it".
For the duration of his career as an umpire, Evans also remained active as a sportswriter. From 1918 to 1928, he served as sports editor of Newspaper Enterprise Association and produced a syndicated sports column titled, "Billy Evans Says". His staff featured well-known sportswriters Jimmy Powers and Joe Williams. Executive career Evans retired from umpiring following the 1927 season to become the general manager of the Cleveland Indians, |
{"datasets_id": 801, "wiki_id": "Q4912534", "sp": 14, "sc": 109, "ep": 14, "ec": 725} | 801 | Q4912534 | 14 | 109 | 14 | 725 | Billy Evans | Executive career | earning a substantial annual salary of $30,000. Baseball historian Bill James observed that Evans was the first front-office executive of a major league team to be officially called a "general manager". In this capacity, Evans was credited with taking the Indians from a second division to a first division team. He served as general manager for the next eight years, until budget cuts forced him out in 1935. Rumors circulated that Evans's decision to leave the Indians was also motivated by a disagreement with the Indians' manager, Walter Johnson, over the suspension of third baseman Willie Kamm and the release |
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Shifting sports, Evans returned to Cleveland to become general manager of the Cleveland Rams for the 1941 season. Although the team struggled on the field, it was a financial success, but after failing to come to terms on a new contract, Evans left |
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During his four years leading the league, the Association thrived despite many other leagues shutting down due to World War II. In his first year, attendance increased by nearly 300,000, and while it dipped slightly in 1944, the threshold of one million people attending league games was again reached the following year.
On December 16, 1946, Evans accepted a contract offer from the Detroit Tigers to become their general manager. One of his first moves was dramatic – selling aging superstar |
{"datasets_id": 801, "wiki_id": "Q4912534", "sp": 14, "sc": 1951, "ep": 18, "ec": 308} | 801 | Q4912534 | 14 | 1,951 | 18 | 308 | Billy Evans | Executive career & Private life | Hank Greenberg to the Pittsburgh Pirates. Over the next four years, the team had two runnerup finishes to the New York Yankees, but after dropping in the standings during the 1951 season, Evans announced his resignation on July 28 in favor of Tiger legend Charlie Gehringer. Private life Despite long absences from his residence in Cleveland, Evans was known as a devoted husband and father. He married the former Hazel Baldwin in 1908; the couple had one child, Robert, who became the sports director of a radio station in Miami, Florida. Evans maintained close ties with family members and died |
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Despite his success, Evans remained accessible to friends from his early days in Youngstown. Shortly after Evans' death, a former high school classmate, E. Allan Lightner, recalled that his late friend "was still the fine clean character that he was in his high school days in Youngstown". Lightner recalled that, shortly after his final conversation with the retired umpire, Evans sent Lightner an autographed photo of himself with former Detroit Tigers manager Red Rolfe. Final years By 1952, Evans had unofficially retired, then was injured in an automobile accident in Monroe, Michigan. After recovering, he |
{"datasets_id": 801, "wiki_id": "Q4912534", "sp": 22, "sc": 125, "ep": 26, "ec": 323} | 801 | Q4912534 | 22 | 125 | 26 | 323 | Billy Evans | Final years & Legacy | remained in good health until January 21, 1956, when he suffered a massive stroke while visiting his son. Evans died two days later at the age of 71. Funeral services were held in Cleveland. Evans' remains were interred at Knollwood Cemetery in Mayfield Heights, Ohio. Legacy Evans' contributions to baseball have been widely recognized. In 1973, he became the third umpire elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Evans is honored for the high standard of professionalism he set during his career as an official, and he is credited as a tireless advocate of formal training for umpires. Ironically, as |
{"datasets_id": 801, "wiki_id": "Q4912534", "sp": 26, "sc": 323, "ep": 26, "ec": 868} | 801 | Q4912534 | 26 | 323 | 26 | 868 | Billy Evans | Legacy | David Anderson observed, Evans might have been denied the opportunity to serve as an official in the major leagues "if the present day umpire school system existed during the Dead Ball Era". Anderson noted that Evans' description of the basic qualities required of an effective umpire holds up even today: "Good eyes, plenty of courage – mental and physical – a thorough knowledge of the playing rules, more than average portions of fair play, common sense and diplomacy, an entire lack of vindictiveness, plenty of confidence in your ability". |
{"datasets_id": 802, "wiki_id": "Q863224", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 6, "ec": 544} | 802 | Q863224 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 544 | Billy Smith (ice hockey) | NHL beginnings | Billy Smith (ice hockey) NHL beginnings Smith was drafted by the Los Angeles Kings in the 5th round of the 1970 NHL Amateur Draft from the Cornwall Royals of the QMJHL. He played two seasons with the Kings' minor league affiliate, the American Hockey League's Springfield Kings, and spent a brief stint with the big-league Kings after winning a Calder Cup for Springfield in 1971.
He made his NHL debut with the Los Angeles Kings on February 12, 1972, at the Montreal Forum. L.A. lost the game 6-5. Smith faced 48 shots that afternoon, yielding the winning goal to Guy Lafleur |
{"datasets_id": 802, "wiki_id": "Q863224", "sp": 6, "sc": 544, "ep": 10, "ec": 151} | 802 | Q863224 | 6 | 544 | 10 | 151 | Billy Smith (ice hockey) | NHL beginnings & New York Islanders | with 22 seconds remaining in the game. He was drafted in the 1972 NHL Expansion Draft by the New York Islanders; he was the second player picked by the team.
After sharing goaltending duties with Gerry Desjardins for two years, he got the starting job all to himself in 1974–75 when Desjardins bolted to the World Hockey Association. That season, he led the Islanders to their first playoff appearance. New York Islanders Smith played in the 1978 All-Star Game, where he was named MVP. For the rest of the decade, he shared time in the Islanders net with Chico Resch, where |
{"datasets_id": 802, "wiki_id": "Q863224", "sp": 10, "sc": 151, "ep": 10, "ec": 715} | 802 | Q863224 | 10 | 151 | 10 | 715 | Billy Smith (ice hockey) | New York Islanders | they combined to form perhaps the top goaltending duo in the NHL at the time. This changed in the 1980 playoffs, when the Isles rode Smith's goaltending to their first of four consecutive Stanley Cups, firmly establishing Smith as the team's starting goaltender. Resch was dealt to the Colorado Rockies the following season. Smith went on to become a First Team All-Star and Vezina Trophy winner in 1982. In 1983, he won the William M. Jennings Trophy for fewest goals allowed (shared with Roland Melanson). He was chosen to play for Canada in the 1981 Canada |
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Smith's regular season success, however, was surpassed by his performances in the playoffs, as he helped the Islanders win four straight Stanley Cups (1980–83), reach the finals five straight times (1980–84), and win a record 19 consecutive playoff series from 1980–84.
Smith was the first goalie to win the Stanley Cup wearing the helmet-and-cage combination mask, rather than the fiberglass mask which had been the standard from 1959, when it was introduced by Jacques Plante, until the early 1980s. Smith wore a fiberglass mask early in his |
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His single most famous game may be his 2–0 victory in the first game of the 1983 Stanley Cup finals against the Edmonton Oilers, shutting out the likes of Mark Messier, Wayne Gretzky, Jari Kurri, and Paul Coffey. The Islanders went on to sweep the Oilers in 4 games, with Smith allowing the Oilers only 6 goals and winning the Conn Smythe Trophy as Most Valuable Player in the Playoffs. A year later, Smith broke the record for the most Playoff victories: he led all goaltenders in playoff victories in total and in |
{"datasets_id": 802, "wiki_id": "Q863224", "sp": 10, "sc": 1933, "ep": 10, "ec": 2484} | 802 | Q863224 | 10 | 1,933 | 10 | 2,484 | Billy Smith (ice hockey) | New York Islanders | every individual year between 1980 and 1984. Then in 1985, Smith led the Islanders to win 3 straight games after being down 0–2 to the Washington Capitals, the first time such a comeback occurred in the NHL. Smith's playoff success feeds into his reputation as the supreme "money" goalie (or "clutch" goaltender) of his era, the person you would want in net with the season on the line. Teammates and observers have said that Smith seemed able to sense when he needed to be perfect to win and when he could give up five goals and still come away with |
{"datasets_id": 802, "wiki_id": "Q863224", "sp": 10, "sc": 2484, "ep": 14, "ec": 514} | 802 | Q863224 | 10 | 2,484 | 14 | 514 | Billy Smith (ice hockey) | New York Islanders & First NHL goal credited to a goaltender | the victory. First NHL goal credited to a goaltender Smith was the first NHL goaltender to be credited with scoring a goal. On November 28, 1979, in a game between the Islanders and the Colorado Rockies, the Rockies' goaltender left the ice for an extra attacker after a delayed penalty call was called on the Islanders. The puck deflected off of Smith's chest protector into the corner. Rockies rookie Rob Ramage picked up the puck and accidentally made a blind pass from the corner boards in the opposing zone to the blue line. Nobody was there to receive the pass, |
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{"datasets_id": 802, "wiki_id": "Q863224", "sp": 18, "sc": 346, "ep": 22, "ec": 252} | 802 | Q863224 | 18 | 346 | 22 | 252 | Billy Smith (ice hockey) | Retirement & Personality | them alongside Torrey with the Islanders (1973-1992) and the Panthers (1992-2000).
The Islanders retired his #31 on February 20, 1993. Later that year, he was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame, the only goalie inducted in the Hall in the 1990s. In 1998, he was ranked number 80 on The Hockey News' list of the 100 Greatest Hockey Players. Personality He was nicknamed "Battlin' Billy" or "Hatchet Man" for his fiery temper and unabashed use of the stick or blocker on players crowding his crease; as such, forwards needed ankle guards to protect themselves.
Smith was also noted for his displays |
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Smith refused to participate in the traditional handshakes between teams at the end |
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A notable incident with Smith occurred in practice where then-teammate Mike Bossy fired a shot at Smith to which Smith objected. Smith charged after Bossy with his stick but was tackled by teammates before Smith took his frustrations out on Bossy. Bossy also noted that Smith never liked being talked to in the locker room, and keeping an intense focus before and after games and practices, but is much |
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{"datasets_id": 803, "wiki_id": "Q4913862", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 4, "ec": 725} | 803 | Q4913862 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 725 | Binary Divide | Binary Divide In higher education in the United Kingdom, the Binary Divide was the differentiation between polytechnic institutions (including central institutions) and universities between 1965 and 1992. Many polytechnics had roots in the mid-19th century. The original focus of the polytechnic institutions was STEM subjects especially degrees in engineering, applied science, and life sciences but soon after they formed they developed faculties in humanities, law, architecture, journalism and other professional practice occupations.
This ended with the Further and Higher Education Act 1992. Polytechnics became "new universities" and broadened their educational scope to include non-STEM subjects including media studies, |
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The University of Ulster was formed in 1984 from a merger between the New University of Ulster and the Ulster Polytechnic - the only such "trans binary merger" that crossed the divide. |
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{"datasets_id": 804, "wiki_id": "Q19867187", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 6, "ec": 531} | 804 | Q19867187 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 531 | Birch Island House | Description and history | Birch Island House Description and history The Birch Island House is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a rubble foundation and a red standing seam metal roof. A two-story porch extends across the front, and the roof in the rear slopes down to the first floor, giving the building a saltbox profile. The porch is supported by square posts with a decoratively sawn balustrade. The house is five bays wide, with doorways in the center bay (the lower one providing the main entrance, the upper one access to the upper balcony) and windows in the flanking bays. Each floor |
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The date of construction of the house is uncertain; mention of it does not appear in either local histories or in period works on Maine's sporting camps, and its remote location (access today is still not particularly easy) means it escaped wider notice. Tradition ascribes its construction date to 1870, although there is no documentary support for this. The island was documented to |
{"datasets_id": 804, "wiki_id": "Q19867187", "sp": 6, "sc": 1143, "ep": 6, "ec": 1744} | 804 | Q19867187 | 6 | 1,143 | 6 | 1,744 | Birch Island House | Description and history | be home to the "Birch Island Sporting Camps", run by a private association, by the early decades of the 20th century, and this building appears to have functioned as a central lodge for the other facilities on the island. The camp was apparently abandoned around the 1950s, and was revived in the 1980s when it was acquired by R. David Murphy through the purchase of Birch Island Sporting Camps. R.D. Murphy, formed the Birch Island Sportsman Association, restored the sporting camps on the island and subdivided the island ownership. The Birch Island House ownership remains in trust with the Murphy |
{"datasets_id": 804, "wiki_id": "Q19867187", "sp": 6, "sc": 1744, "ep": 6, "ec": 1758} | 804 | Q19867187 | 6 | 1,744 | 6 | 1,758 | Birch Island House | Description and history | family today. |
{"datasets_id": 805, "wiki_id": "Q16823296", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 4, "ec": 180} | 805 | Q16823296 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 180 | Birmingham Corporation Tramways F.C. | Birmingham Corporation Tramways F.C. Birmingham Corporation Tramways F.C. was an English association football club which participated in the FA Cup in the 1934–1935 season, losing 2–0 to Workington in the First Round. |
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{"datasets_id": 806, "wiki_id": "Q2739309", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 6, "ec": 51} | 806 | Q2739309 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 51 | Birra Menabrea | Related products | Birra Menabrea Related products The Sbirro is a cheese made with the Menabrea beer. |
{"datasets_id": 807, "wiki_id": "Q1235888", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 6, "ec": 221} | 807 | Q1235888 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 221 | Birth trauma (physical) | Signs and symptoms | Birth trauma (physical) Signs and symptoms Sequelae can occur in both the mother and the infant after a traumatic birth.
Birth trauma is uncommon in the Western world in relation to rates in the third world. In the West injury occurs in 1.1% of C-sections. |
{"datasets_id": 808, "wiki_id": "Q4917587", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 10, "ec": 148} | 808 | Q4917587 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 148 | Bishop Hedley High School | History & Subjects and curriculum | Bishop Hedley High School History Bishop Hedley was established in 1967 due to the growing need to cater for the large populace of Catholic youth aged 11–18 in the Merthyr Tydfil and Heads of the Valleys area. The school was named after John Cuthbert Hedley, Bishop of Newport, who opened the first Roman Catholic Church (St. Illtyd's) in the Merthyr Valley in 1863. The school was expanded to a second phase in 1973. Subjects and curriculum In KS3, pupil partake in English, Mathematics, Science (in year 9, this changes to chemistry, physics and biology as they start GCSE Science early), |
{"datasets_id": 808, "wiki_id": "Q4917587", "sp": 10, "sc": 148, "ep": 10, "ec": 768} | 808 | Q4917587 | 10 | 148 | 10 | 768 | Bishop Hedley High School | Subjects and curriculum | RE, ICT, Welsh, French, Art, History, Geography, Music, Design & Technology and Drama.
In KS4, pupils study English Language, English Literature, Science, Additional Science, Mathematics, Welsh (Short Course), RE, and PSE. Pupils then have three choices out of ICT, Welsh, French, Art, History, Geography, Music, Design & Technology, Drama, Business Studies.Also at GCSE Welsh, students are offered a 'boost class' in Year 11 if these choose not to do GCSE Full Course Welsh at the end of Year 9. Students then boost up from Short Course to Full Course. This has been a success and continues to be a success. It |
{"datasets_id": 808, "wiki_id": "Q4917587", "sp": 10, "sc": 768, "ep": 14, "ec": 212} | 808 | Q4917587 | 10 | 768 | 14 | 212 | Bishop Hedley High School | Subjects and curriculum & Facilities | is run by Head of Welsh, Mrs. Elaine Walters.
In Years 9–11, Science is taught separately as Chemistry, Biology and Physics. The EdExcel Science 360 specification is used at KS4 – but at the present moment it is a GCSE Science and Additional Science course. Shortly, the school hopes to offer the three sciences separately. In years 7 and 8, Spotlight Science is used. Facilities Bishop Hedley has recently been improved. 70% of the exterior of phase 2 is now completed, with the new colour red. Progress continues on completing the refurbishment of the exterior of phase 2. Bishop Hedley has |
{"datasets_id": 808, "wiki_id": "Q4917587", "sp": 14, "sc": 212, "ep": 14, "ec": 852} | 808 | Q4917587 | 14 | 212 | 14 | 852 | Bishop Hedley High School | Facilities | also recently improved phase 1 main hall.
Bishop Hedley has a main hall, dance and drama studio, pottery room, gymnasium, two sports hall, football/rugby field, hockey pitch, three yards, three design and technology rooms, learning resources centre, music rehearsal room, two new 21st century science suites, 5 I.C.T. resources rooms (excluding I.C.T services in other areas of the school e.g., music room, LRC etc.) The MFL department has a specific room on the top floor. There is also a specific SEN and EAL area.
The MFL department has a French assistant from France attend every academic year to improve their and help |
{"datasets_id": 808, "wiki_id": "Q4917587", "sp": 14, "sc": 852, "ep": 18, "ec": 167} | 808 | Q4917587 | 14 | 852 | 18 | 167 | Bishop Hedley High School | Facilities & Recent school report | in their studies of English, and help GCSE and AS/A2/A level pupils who have taken French.
Classrooms are well-equipped, with every classroom having an electronic projector. This also aids the science department, which currently uses the on-board textbook for GCSE Science and GCSE Additional Science. This is part of the new EdExcel specification. The school has also invested in a Pisys system, which has proved a great investment for staff and pupils alike. Recent school report Estyn inspected Bishop Hedley in November 2007 and said "The school has many good features, of which some are outstanding." Religious education is inspected separately |
{"datasets_id": 808, "wiki_id": "Q4917587", "sp": 18, "sc": 167, "ep": 22, "ec": 258} | 808 | Q4917587 | 18 | 167 | 22 | 258 | Bishop Hedley High School | Recent school report & 40th anniversary | at the same time. This was another positive report which said "The Catholicity of the school pervades all that goes on and provides a rich environment where pupils excel academically and grow spiritually. The school is highly effective in promoting Catholic values." It also said that "pupils at Key Stage 4 achieve high standards". 40th anniversary Bishop Hedley High School celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2008. The culmination of various celebrations was a mass held on Tuesday 24 June 2008. In the afternoon, Father Mike Evans led a mass for the pupils, while in the evening Archbishop Peter Smith led |
{"datasets_id": 808, "wiki_id": "Q4917587", "sp": 22, "sc": 258, "ep": 22, "ec": 921} | 808 | Q4917587 | 22 | 258 | 22 | 921 | Bishop Hedley High School | 40th anniversary | the celebrations. Pupils, staff, parish priests, parishioners, councillors, representatives of officers from Merthyr County Borough Council, representatives of our partnerships with external organisations and past pupils celebrated the mass with the Archbishop.
Music from the mass was composed by Mr. Peter Lewis, Head of Music and a tapestry was displayed which had been created by Mrs. A. Richards, Mrs. G. Jones and Year 8 pupils. During the mass, pupils sang and the bidding prayers were read in the different languages of the school community – Polish, Portuguese, Filipino, Welsh and English. The orchestra accompanied all the hymns. At the end of |
{"datasets_id": 808, "wiki_id": "Q4917587", "sp": 22, "sc": 921, "ep": 26, "ec": 265} | 808 | Q4917587 | 22 | 921 | 26 | 265 | Bishop Hedley High School | 40th anniversary & Community and charity events | the mass the Archbishop blessed all the crosses from the classrooms in the school. He also blessed the large cross in the Main Hall, formed from individual ceramic tiles joined together to form one large cross, which was created by the ceramicist Christine Chivers and current students. Community and charity events Bishop Hedley High School is a primary location for the 3G's community group. Yearly, there is also an annual OAP party for the residents in the local area. The School also has a Charity Day every term in the school year. The last charity day raised over £1,100 for |
{"datasets_id": 808, "wiki_id": "Q4917587", "sp": 26, "sc": 265, "ep": 30, "ec": 466} | 808 | Q4917587 | 26 | 265 | 30 | 466 | Bishop Hedley High School | Community and charity events & Drama Department | three charities – the Mayor's appeal, Breast cancer care and to help with the purchase of a land-rover in Tanzania. Drama Department A successful modern twist on an old classic saw pupils in Year 8 and 9 praised by the manager of the Shakespeare Festival when they performed Macbeth at the Taliesin Theatre in Swansea. Their contemporary version featured dancing witches who rocked around the cauldron to songs such as "Soulja Boy", "Welcome to the Jungle" and "Rock Star". The idea was to make the play more accessible and enjoyable for teenagers. The cast was praised for their mature performances |
{"datasets_id": 808, "wiki_id": "Q4917587", "sp": 30, "sc": 466, "ep": 30, "ec": 593} | 808 | Q4917587 | 30 | 466 | 30 | 593 | Bishop Hedley High School | Drama Department | and the manager of the Shakespeare Festival recommended that some of them try for the National Youth Theatre when they are 16. |
{"datasets_id": 809, "wiki_id": "Q4917837", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 4, "ec": 547} | 809 | Q4917837 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 547 | Bishop of Edmonton (London) | Bishop of Edmonton (London) The Bishop of Edmonton is an episcopal title used by an area bishop of the Church of England Diocese of London in the Province of Canterbury, England. The title takes its name after Edmonton, an area in the North of the London Borough of Enfield.
The bishops suffragan of Edmonton have been area bishops since the London area scheme was founded in 1979. The post of suffragan fell vacant following the retirement of Peter Wheatley, who began his ministry as suffragan bishop in March 1999 and retired at the end of 2014. On 9 July 2015, it |
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{"datasets_id": 809, "wiki_id": "Q4917837", "sp": 4, "sc": 547, "ep": 4, "ec": 841} | 809 | Q4917837 | 4 | 547 | 4 | 841 | Bishop of Edmonton (London) | was announced that Rob Wickham was to become the next area bishop from his consecration on 23 September of that year.
The episcopal title of "Bishop of Edmonton" is one of three that are duplicated in the Anglican Communion. The other Bishop of Edmonton is a diocesan bishop in Canada. |
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{"datasets_id": 810, "wiki_id": "Q4930917", "sp": 2, "sc": 0, "ep": 8, "ec": 362} | 810 | Q4930917 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 362 | Blågårds Plads | History | Blågårds Plads Blågårds Plads (lit. "Blue House Square") is a public square attached to Blågårdsgade, a side street to Nørrebrogade in the Nørrebro district of Copenhagen, Denmark. It is a popular venue for events and various activities in the summer time. History The square takes its name from a country estate, Blågård (English: Blue House), which was established at the site by Christoffer Gabel in the middle of the 17th century on the grounds of a former brickyard. Later owners included Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve, Prince Charles and Peter von Scholten.
In 1827 the owner obtained a license from King Frederick VI |
{"datasets_id": 810, "wiki_id": "Q4930917", "sp": 8, "sc": 362, "ep": 8, "ec": 1000} | 810 | Q4930917 | 8 | 362 | 8 | 1,000 | Blågårds Plads | History | to convert the property into an iron foundry. From 1852 to 1889, Copenhagen's old fortification ring was gradually decommissioned and the area began to undergo rapid urbanization, becoming one of the densest and poorest parts of the city.
The foundry's highly polluting activities posed a severe health hazard and the neighbourhood became known as the Black Square (Danish: Den Sorte Firkant).
In 1898 the City acquired the property to turn it into a public space. The first square was laid out in 1902, enclosed by two rows of large-leaved Linden trees.
In the 1980s, the old buildings on two sides of the square |
{"datasets_id": 810, "wiki_id": "Q4930917", "sp": 8, "sc": 1000, "ep": 16, "ec": 208} | 810 | Q4930917 | 8 | 1,000 | 16 | 208 | Blågårds Plads | History & Buildings & Kai Nielsen sculptures | were demolished and replaced by new houses. Buildings Blågård Church is located on the north side of the square. It was built in 1926 to a design by Andreas Clemmensen and Johan Nielsen, replacing a temporary church by Martin Nyrop from 1905.
The church is flanked by two buildings from circa 1900. The buildings on the two other sides are from the early 1980s. Kai Nielsen sculptures The space is dominated by 22 granite figures integrated in a low granite wall enclosing a depressed, rectangular section in the centre of the square. Designed by sculptor Kai Nielsen in collaboration with the |
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