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7645800 | "Geoffrey Hoyle"
Geoffrey Hoyle Geoffrey Hoyle (born January 12, 1941) is an English science fiction writer, best known for the works which he co-wrote with his father, the astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle. About half of Fred Hoyle's science fiction works were co-written with his son. He was educated at Bryanston School in Dorset, and then entered Cambridge where he read Economics. After 1964, Hoyle worked in London in the field of modern communications and the film/television industry. Unlike his father, he is not a scientist, and contributed to the more ""human"" side of their novels – however, he did work as a |
7645801 | "Geoffrey Hoyle"
""scientific advisor"" to some series such as ""Timeslip"". In 2010, his book ""2010: Living in the Future"" was popularised by a blog which compared Hoyle's 38-year-old predictions with the reality of modern life. This led to a Facebook campaign to track down Hoyle and talk to him about his visions. With his father, Fred Hoyle: With Janice Robertson As sole author - Geoffrey Hoyle Geoffrey Hoyle (born January 12, 1941) is an English science fiction writer, best known for the works which he co-wrote with his father, the astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle. About half of Fred Hoyle's science fiction works |
7645802 | "Lumpy Rutherford"
Lumpy Rutherford Clarence ""Lumpy"" Rutherford is a fictional character in the television sitcom ""Leave It to Beaver"". The show aired from October 4, 1957 to June 20, 1963. Lumpy is a bit of a bully and, with Eddie Haskell, is one of Wally Cleaver's friends. Lumpy was portrayed in the original series by Frank Bank. The actor also appeared as Lumpy in the sequel series, ""The New Leave It to Beaver"" (1985–1989). ""Lumpy"" was portrayed by Justin Restivo in the 1997 spin-off film, ""Leave It to Beaver"", also his portrayer Frank Bank made an appearance in the film as ""Frank"". |
7645803 | "Lumpy Rutherford"
Lumpy is introduced to the viewer in the first season episode ""Lumpy Rutherford."" He's the 16-year-old son of Fred (Ward Cleaver's co-worker). The Rutherfords live somewhere in the Cleaver neighborhood, which gives Lumpy the opportunity to bully the Cleaver boys on their way home from school. The boys plot Lumpy's comeuppance, but the plot backfires when Fred accidentally steps into the trap. Although a touch of the bully never leaves Lumpy, he eventually becomes Wally's friend. They are in the same class together at school, in spite of a three-year age spread between the two. Lumpy is a papa's boy. |
7645804 | "Lumpy Rutherford"
He is well known for referring to his father as ""Daddy."" Fred would tell Clarence he was too old or too big (usually referring to his ""lumpiness"") to call him ""Daddy."" A running gag on the show was to have Fred, who always referred to his son as Clarence, call him ""Lumpy"" when angry. Fred would also call Lumpy a ""big boob"" or a ""big oaf."" Lumpy's mother Gwendolyn (""Geraldine"", in some early episodes) and his younger sister, Violet (who is about Beaver's age), round out the family. Violet gives Beaver a black eye in an early episode. Lumpy also |
7645805 | "Deacon White"
a protracted dispute. Eventually the two men were paid, with White telling a reporter, ""We appreciate the money, but we ain't worth it. Rowe's arm is gone. I'm over 40 and my fielding ain't so good, though I can still hit some. But I will say this. No man is going to sell my carcass unless I get half."" Complaints like this were part of the reason that the Players' League was formed in 1890. According to historian Lee Allen in ""The National League Story"" (1961), White believed that the earth is flat. He tried and failed to convince his |
7645806 | "Lumpy Rutherford"
a football field. In another episode, Wally and Eddie Haskell play a prank on Lumpy that involves the rear axle of his car being removed with a chain. Lumpy and Beaver form a successful business partnership (the ""Cleaver and Rutherford Co.""). As with their fathers, it is never specified exactly what the scope of the business is. Previously, both men had worked for Fred Rutherford's company until Fred fires Lumpy, and Beaver resigns. Lumpy is married and has a daughter, J.J. Lumpy's character plays a major role in the short film ""Darwin's Tears"". Lumpy Rutherford Clarence ""Lumpy"" Rutherford is a |
7645807 | "Deacon White"
and total bases (2,595). He also ended his career ranking fourth in major league history in games (826) and total chances (3,016) at third base, fifth in assists (1,618), and sixth in putouts (954) and double plays (118). White managed the minor league club Elmira Gladiators of the New York–Pennsylvania League in 1891. He has been incorrectly credited with managing the McAlester Miners of the Oklahoma–Arkansas–Kansas League (1907) and the Tulsa Oilers of the Oklahoma–Kansas League (1908). Both teams were actually managed by Harry B. ""Deacon"" White. White married Marium Van Arsdale (born 1851 in Moravia, New York) on April |
7645808 | "Deacon White"
24, 1871. For much of his career, they lived on his farm in Corning, New York; they moved to Buffalo after he joined the Bisons in 1881. Their only child, Grace Hughson White, was born in Buffalo on September 8, 1882. The family moved to Detroit when White began playing for the Wolverines, but soon returned to Buffalo; by 1900 he was operating a successful livery stable there. Sometime after 1900, the Whites sent Grace to Mendota College in Mendota, Illinois, beginning a family association with the Advent Christian school which would endure across multiple generations. By 1909, James and |
7645809 | "Deacon White"
Marium had also moved to Mendota, where they became the head residents at Maple Hall, the young ladies' dormitory, until 1912. On August 15, 1912, Grace married fellow Mendota alumnus Roger A. Watkins at the dormitory; that year, the college had relocated fifty miles to the east, becoming Aurora College. Marium died on April 30, 1914 in Mendota; one of Aurora's students recalled of ""Ma"" White: ""She was of a cheery disposition, with a word and a smile for all; mingling with the girls as one of us; giving kindly counsel and encouragement. Her interest in each girl is expressed |
7645810 | "Deacon White"
in her own words: 'I am only doing what I would like to have some one else do for my girl, if she were away from home.' Words cannot express our appreciation of such kind and personal interest."" Roger and Grace Watkins continued to be involved with the college, and moved to Aurora in 1920; in 1927 Roger joined the college's board of directors, serving until 1971, all but the first two years also as the board's secretary. By 1930 Deacon White had remarried, and with his wife Alice moved into the Watkins home at 221 Calumet Avenue, next door |
7645811 | "Deacon White"
to the college president. White died at age 91 in the early morning of July 7, 1939 at the Watkins' summer cottage at Rude Camp, the college's retreat on the Fox River in St. Charles Township; having been in good health, his death was attributed to a disastrous heat wave. He had been scheduled to be the principal guest of honor at Aurora's celebration of baseball's centennial the following day; the festivities instead featured a tribute to his memory. White had been greatly disappointed over not having been invited to the opening ceremonies to the Baseball Hall of Fame that |
7645812 | "Deacon White"
summer, having been completely overlooked in the voting for inductees. His funeral was held at Aurora's Healy Chapel, and he was buried at Restland Cemetery in Mendota. He was survived by his second wife Alice, who had been staying in Winston-Salem, North Carolina at the time of his death, by his younger brother George, and by his daughter Grace (1882–1956) and her husband Roger (1888–1977). In August 2008, White was named as one of ten former players who began their careers before 1943 to be considered by the Veterans Committee for induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in |
7645813 | "Deacon White"
2009; although he fell short in final voting, he received the most votes of any player whose career ended before 1940. In 2010, the Nineteenth Century Committee of the Society for American Baseball Research named White the year's Overlooked 19th Century Baseball Legend — a 19th-century player, manager, executive or other baseball personality not yet inducted into the Hall of Fame. On December 3, 2012 the National Baseball Hall of Fame announced that he was elected to the Hall of Fame by the new Pre-Integration Era Committee (pre-1947 era), receiving 14 out of 16 votes; he and two others elected |
7645814 | "Generalized keyboard"
than their positions in specific scales such as in the familiar piano and organ keyboard - as well as in sequence of pitch, unlike arrangements such as duet systems for concertinas and the array system keyboard. Bosanquet used chains of fifths to generate the mapping of the keys, with the pitches transposed into the space of an octave (or more generally, ""period"") so that pitch determined the lateral position of keys, and the number of fifths, or any other interval used as ""generators"", from the starting pitch its vertical position in the keyboard. The coordinates of a key can be |
7645815 | "Ariën van Weesenbeek"
Ariën van Weesenbeek Ariën van Weesenbeek (born 17 May 1980 in Waalwijk) is a Dutch drummer who plays for the symphonic metal band Epica and the symphonic death metal band MaYaN, both created and led by guitarist Mark Jansen. Van Weesenbeek started as a 3-year-old smashing furniture with spoons and forks before discovering his dad's drum kit. Inspired by bands like Cream, he then took drum classes. He later joined a marching band and at the age of 15 started a band, Pandaemonium, and joined others such as Downslide & Conspiracy. He studied at the Conservatorium of Rotterdam where he |
7645816 | "Ariën van Weesenbeek"
met Isaac Delahaye who also joined God Dethroned. Van Weesenbeek joined God Dethroned in 2003. In 2007 he recorded the drumming parts for the Dutch symphonic metal band Epica's album ""The Divine Conspiracy"". On 3 December 2007 Weesenbeek became a full-time member of Epica, taking the place of session drummer Koen Herfst. Ariën van Weesenbeek Ariën van Weesenbeek (born 17 May 1980 in Waalwijk) is a Dutch drummer who plays for the symphonic metal band Epica and the symphonic death metal band MaYaN, both created and led by guitarist Mark Jansen. Van Weesenbeek started as a 3-year-old smashing furniture with |
7645817 | "Renewal theory"
Renewal theory Renewal theory is the branch of probability theory that generalizes Poisson processes for arbitrary ""holding times"". Applications include calculating the best strategy for replacing worn-out machinery in a factory (example below) and comparing the long-term benefits of different insurance policies. A renewal process is a generalization of the Poisson process. In essence, the Poisson process is a continuous-time Markov process on the positive integers (usually starting at zero) which has independent identically distributed ""holding times"" at each integer formula_1 (exponentially distributed) before advancing (with probability 1) to the next integer: formula_2. In the same informal spirit, we may |
7645818 | "Renewal theory"
define a renewal process to be the same thing, except that the holding times take on a more general distribution. (Note however that the independence and identical distribution (IID) property of the holding times is retained). Let formula_3 be a sequence of positive independent identically distributed random variables such that We refer to the random variable formula_5 as the ""formula_1-th"" ""holding time"". formula_7 is the expectation of formula_5. Define for each ""n"" > 0 : each formula_10 is referred to as the ""formula_11-th"" ""jump time"" and the intervals being called ""renewal intervals"". Then the random variable formula_13 given by where |
7645819 | "Generalized keyboard"
George Secor's 1974 generalized keyboards for the Motorola Scalatron used oval keys skewed in diagonal rows. Scott Hackelman and Erv Wilson designed a 19-tone generalized keyboard clavichord with oblong hexagonal keys in 1975, and marketed it as a kit. Michel Geiss, and Philippe Monsire built the ""Semantic Daniélou"", a 36-tone (out of 53 just intonation notes listed in the book by Alain Daniélou) electronic instrument, on behalf of the author, using staggered square key button keyboards from two Cavagnolo Midy 20 master keyboards, where each parallel row of keys offers a transposition by one comma. Harold Fortuin's 1994 ""Clavette"" midi |
7645820 | "Generalized keyboard"
controller uses straight alternating rows of switches which can be customized for different tunings by programming and with key overlay sheets. Bert Bongers built versions with 122 and 124 keys. Harvey Starr manufactures ""Wilson Microzone"" skewed row hexagonal key midi controllers in 248 and 810-key models that can be programmed and the key surfaces organized into generalized as well as many other arrangements. Dylan Horvath manufactures a 280-key MIDI controller with skewed hexagonal keys based on designs by Siemen Terpstra. Hex is a free software MIDI sequencer, which uses a generalized keyboard in place of the standard piano keyboard. Lanes |
7645821 | "Generalized keyboard"
are extended from the keys and MIDI notes can be drawn into each lane, and edited, with the mouse (as in a standard MIDI sequencer like Logic, Reaper, SONAR, etc.). The layout can be sheared to ensure that the vertical height of each key (and note lane) is proportional to its pitch height—regardless of the tuning used. A wide variety of isomorphic layouts are possible, including Bosanquet and Wicki. Generalized keyboard Generalized keyboards are musical keyboards, a type of isomorphic keyboard, with regular, tile-like arrangements usually with rectangular or hexagonal keys, and were developed for performing music in different tunings. |
7645822 | "Danzig Connection"
Danzig Connection Danzig Connection (April 6, 1983 – December 1, 2010) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the Belmont Stakes. Owned and bred by Henryk de Kwiatkowski under his Kennelot Stables banner, Danzig Connection was sired by Kwaitkowski's champion, Danzig. His dam Gdynia (sired by Sir Ivor) was a moderate racehorse but a good broodmare who also produced the Dwyer Stakes winner Roi Danzig. She was a distant female-line descendant of La France, an American broodmare who was the ancestor of dam of Phalanx, Johnstown and Decidedly. He was trained by Hall of Fame trainer Woody Stephens, |
7645823 | "Danzig Connection"
Danzig Connection raced at age two in 1985. At the Meadowlands Racetrack in East Rutherford, New Jersey, he defeated Storm Cat to capture the World Appeal Stakes. The two colts then reversed positions in the Meadowlands' Young America Stakes. As a three-year-old, in May 1986 Danzig Connection won the Peter Pan Stakes at Belmont Park under jockey Pat Day. The biggest win of his career came under jockey Chris McCarron when he won the 1986 Belmont Stakes, defeating Ferdinand and giving trainer Stephens his record fifth straight Belmont victory. From there, the colt went on to finish fourth in the |
7645824 | "Danzig Connection"
Suburban Handicap. He was third to winner Wise Times in the Haskell Invitational Handicap at Monmouth Park and second to him in the Travers Stakes at Saratoga Race Course. At the Meadowlands, he won September's Pegasus Stakes over Broad Brush and Ogygian. Finally, in the Jockey Club Gold Cup, his career finale, Danzig Connection was third to the winner Creme Fraiche, also trained by Woody Stephens. Retired to stud, his progeny met with limited success and in 2003 he was sent to stand at a breeding operation in Italy. His offspring included Iktamal. He died in Sicily in 2010. Danzig |
7645825 | "Lily Mariye"
Lily Mariye Lily Mariye is an American television director, filmmaker and actress. Mariye was born in Las Vegas, Nevada and graduated from UCLA with a BA in Theater Arts. From 1994 to 2009 she had a regular role as nurse Lily Jarvik on the NBC television series ""ER"", for which she has won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Ensemble in a Drama Series four times. She has appeared in many films such as ""The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas"", ""Mighty Joe Young"", ""The Shadow"", ""The New Age"", ""The Doctor"" and ""Extraordinary Measures"". Lily has guest-starred in over 25 |
7645826 | "Lily Mariye"
television shows including ""Teen Wolf"", ""Criminal Minds"", ""Shameless"", ""NCIS L.A."", ""Judging Amy"", ""Ally McBeal"", ""Family Ties"", """" and ""Chicago Hope"". She is also an award-winning theatre actress, performing in New York, Los Angeles and other regional theatres around the country. Lily Mariye's debut feature film as a writer and director, ""Model Minority"" had its world premiere at the 2012 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, where it received three awards: Special Jury Outstanding Director, Breakthrough Performance by a New Actor and Outstanding Cinematography as well as being a nominee for the Grand Jury Prize in Narrative Feature Filmmaking. ""Model Minority"" |
7645827 | "Lily Mariye"
also won Best Micro-Budget Film and Best Female Director at The London Independent Film Festival, and Outstanding Feature at The Sacramento International Film Festival. She has written several full-length screenplays, one of which, ""The Shangri-la Cafe,"" was accepted into the second round of the application process for development in the Sundance Feature Film Labs. ""The Shangri-la Cafe"" won Best Screenplay at the Ohio International Independent Film Festival and the Gaffers Film Festival, and won her a grant from the AFI Conservatory's prestigious Directing Workshop for Women, 13th Cycle. While at AFI she produced and directed an award-winning short film version |
7645828 | "Lily Mariye"
of the script (Best Short Film Award - Moondance International Film Festival, Best Screenplay Award - Brussels Independent Film Festival). The short film version of ""The Shangri-la Cafe"" was included on a DVD release of AFI shorts entitled ""Celebrating AFI"". In 2012 Mariye was chosen to participate in the Disney/ABC/DGA Directing Program. In 2016 she directed Episode 14, Season 4 of ABC's ""Nashville (season 4)"" and Episode 4 after ""Nashville (season 5)"" moved to CMT. She also directed an episode of Season 2 of Amazon's ""Just Add Magic"" and episode 17, Season 4 of Freeform's ""The Fosters."" In 2017 she |
7645829 | "Lily Mariye"
participated in The CBS Directing Initiative. Also in 2017, Mariye directed episodes of ""Chicago P.D. (TV series)"", """" and helmed her third episode on ""Nashville (season 6)"". In 2018 Mariye directed an episode of CBS's ""Criminal Minds"". In 2018 she received a DGA Award Nomination at the 70th Annual DGA Awards for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Children’s Program for her work on ""Just Add Magic. A resident of Los Angeles, Mariye lives with husband, four time Grammy-nominated recording artist, saxophonist Boney James, who also contributed to the soundtracks for ""The Shangri-la Cafe"" and ""Model Minority"". Lily Mariye Lily Mariye is |
7645830 | "Mediterranean Lingua Franca"
Mediterranean Lingua Franca The Mediterranean Lingua Franca or Sabir was a pidgin language used as a lingua franca in the Mediterranean Basin from the 11th to the 19th century. ""Lingua franca"" means literally ""language of the Franks"" in Late Latin, and originally referred specifically to the language that was used around the Eastern Mediterranean Sea as the main language of commerce. However, the terms ""Franks"" and ""Frankish"" were actually applied to all Western Europeans during the late Byzantine Period. Later, the meaning of ""lingua franca"" expanded to mean any bridge language. Its other name in the Mediterranean area was ""Sabir"", |
7645831 | "Mediterranean Lingua Franca"
deriving from a Romance base meaning ""to know"". Based mostly on Northern Italian languages (mainly Venetian and Genoese dialects) and Occitano-Romance languages (Catalan and Occitan) in the western Mediterranean area at first, it later came to have more Spanish and Portuguese elements, especially on the Barbary coast (today referred to as the Maghreb). Sabir also borrowed from Berber, Turkish, French, Greek and Arabic. This mixed language was used widely for commerce and diplomacy and was also current among slaves of the bagnio, Barbary pirates and European renegades in pre-colonial Algiers. Historically the first to use it were the Genoese and |
7645832 | "Kjell Bækkelund"
Kjell Bækkelund Kjell Bækkelund (6 May 1930 – 13 May 2004) was a Norwegian classical pianist. Bækkelund was born in Oslo, Norway. He was the son of Martin Bækkelund (1903–66) and Rallik Antonette Hansen (1904–94). He was a student at the Oslo Conservatory of Music from 1935 until 1944. Bækkelund debuted as a prodigy in 1938 with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of eight. After the Second World War, he trained with Gottfrid Boon (1886-1981) in Stockholm. In 1953 Bækkelund won first prize in the Scandinavian Musicians' Festival held at Trondheim. That same year, he was granted the |
7645833 | "Mediterranean Lingua Franca"
relexification, the Lingua Franca and Portuguese lexicon was substituted by the languages of the peoples in contact. This theory is one way of explaining the similarities between most of the European-based pidgins and creole languages, such as Tok Pisin, Papiamento, Sranan Tongo, Krio, and Chinese Pidgin English. These languages use forms similar to ""sabir"" for ""to know"" and ""piquenho"" for ""children"". Lingua Franca left traces in present Algerian slang and Polari. There are traces even in geographical names, such as Cape Guardafui (that literally means cape ""look and escape"" in Lingua Franca and ancient Italian). An example of Sabir is |
7645834 | "Mediterranean Lingua Franca"
found in Molière's comedy ""Le Bourgeois gentilhomme"". At the start of the ""Turkish ceremony"", the Mufti enters singing the following words: <poem>Se ti sabir Ti respondir Se non sabir Tazir, tazir Mi star Mufti: Ti qui star ti? Non intendir: Tazir, tazir. </poem> A comparison of the Sabir version with the same text in each of similar languages, first a word-for-word substitution according to the rules of Sabir grammar and then a translation inflected according to the rules of the similar language's grammar, can be seen below: The Lombard, Italian, Spanish, Catalan, Galician, Portuguese, Provençal, French, and Latin versions are |
7645835 | "Mediterranean Lingua Franca"
not correct grammatically, as they use the infinitive rather than inflected verb forms, but the Sabir form is obviously derived from the infinitive in those languages. The correct version for each language is given in italics. Mediterranean Lingua Franca The Mediterranean Lingua Franca or Sabir was a pidgin language used as a lingua franca in the Mediterranean Basin from the 11th to the 19th century. ""Lingua franca"" means literally ""language of the Franks"" in Late Latin, and originally referred specifically to the language that was used around the Eastern Mediterranean Sea as the main language of commerce. However, the terms |
7645836 | "Arsenal (American band)"
Arsenal (American band) Arsenal was an American band, formed by the former Big Black guitarist Santiago Durango, after Big Black broke up. Durango was in law school at the time. Arsenal featured similar characteristics to Big Black (drum machine, noisy guitar etc.) but a much less abrasive sound, mainly due to the addition of a melodic keyboard sound on certain songs. For the first record, Santiago asked bassist Malachi Ritscher (last name misspelled ""Richter"" in the credits) to play for him, resulting in the self-produced, four-song ""Manipulator"" EP released on Touch and Go Records in 1988. At this time they |
7645837 | "Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement"
758 MPa. The engine is located under a forward fibreglass hood. The cab seats three and is of welded aluminium extrusion construction with adhesive bonded aluminium skins. The cab folds down to reduce overall height to 2.489 m and from mid-2007, production vehicles are armor-ready and have air-conditioning, revised cab mounts and upgraded cab suspension. With the exception of the UK's Wheeled Tanker variants, all MTVRs are powered by a Caterpillar C-12, Advanced Diesel Engine Management (ADEM) III 11.9-litre six-cylinder diesel engine that develops 425 hp at 1,800 rpm and 2,101 Nm of torque at 1,200 rpm. When the central |
7645838 | "Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement"
tire inflation system (CTIS) is set at 0 to 1,814 kg (2 tons) payload, engine power output is automatically reduced by around 20%. Driveline is completed by an Allison HD 4070P seven-speed automatic transmission, TC-541 torque converter and an Oshkosh 30000 Series single-speed transfer case. All-wheel drive is permanent and under highway driving conditions the torque split is 32% front, 68% rear. Oshkosh TAK-4 independent coil spring suspension is fitted to the MTVR, this providing each front wheel with a total vertical travel of 406 mm and a travel of 325 mm on the rear axles. The front axle is |
7645839 | "Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement"
rated at 7,257 kg, the second at 10,659 kg, the third at 11,567 kg. The MK36 wrecker and MK31 tractor variants have Hendrickson hydraulic suspension on the rear axles. Standard tires fitted to the MTVR are Michelin 1600 R20 XZL and with the exception of the MK36 wrecker variant, no spare is carried. Compensating for no spare is a runflat setting option on the CTIS. CTIS allows the driver to adjust tyre pressures to suit both payload and terrain conditions, from the driving seat. The two-piece bolt-together steel wheel rims are fitted with beadlocks for extreme low-pressure operations and tires |
7645840 | "Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement"
will remain seated at pressures down to 10 psi. In the event that any one tire should fail totally, a limp-home facility allows for a second axle suspension unit to be raised and secured. Mobility parameters include a climatic operational range of -32 °C (-46 with kits) to +52 °C. The MTVR has a maximum speed of 105 km/h and on-road cruising range of 483 km. It can climb a 60% gradient and traverse a 40% side slope with its maximum cross-country load. It can ford 1.52m of water and surmount a 610 mm vertical step. Turning radius and approach, |
7645841 | "Charles Roach Smith"
John Kempe, whom he considered to be his ""antiquarian godfather"". For twenty years, during London excavations or dredging of the River Thames, he was on the alert for antiquities and found several. The knowledge of his acquisitions spread when he published in 1854 a ""Catalogue of the Museum of London Antiquities"". The antiquities catalogued in this publication were collected during extensive street and sewage improvements in the city of London, as well as work on the Thames near the London Bridge, the collection being formed under accidental circumstances. His collection contained a portion of the antiquities found in London, becoming |
7645842 | "Charles Roach Smith"
a self-imposed stewardship, and resulting in the formation of his Museum of London Antiquities. His fellow antiquaries urged that the collection should be secured by England, but his offer of it to the British Museum in March 1855 was declined as they could not agree on a price. Later, they were transferred to the British Museum and formed the nucleus of the national collection of Romano-British antiquities. Roach Smith was by this time accepted as the leading authority on Roman London. He subsequently pioneered 'urban site observation' and his ""Illustrations of Roman London"" (1859) remained the principal work on the |
7645843 | "Charles Roach Smith"
subject until 1909. He wrote the book for the most part as a result of his personal investigations while he lived in Lothbury and in Liverpool Street, in the City of London. Roach Smith belonged to many learned societies at home and abroad. He was elected Fellow to the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1836. For many years, he compiled the monthly article of ""Antiquarian Notes"" in ""The Gentleman's Magazine"". He was a writer for the ""Athenaeum"" of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne (of which he was a member), and in the ""Transactions"" of several other |
7645844 | "Charles Roach Smith"
antiquarian bodies. When, through the medium of his friend, the Abbé Cochet, he intervened successfully with Napoleon III for the preservation of the Roman walls of Dax, a medal was struck in France in 1858 in honour of Roach Smith to commemorate the event. At a meeting in 1890 of the Society of Antiquaries, it had been proposed to strike a medal in his honour, and to present him with the balance of any fund that might be collected. The medal, in silver, was presented to him on 30 July, three days before his death, and there remained for him |
7645845 | "Charles Roach Smith"
the sum of one hundred guineas. A marble medallion by G. Fontana belongs to the Society of Antiquaries. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of the North; and a member of the Societies of Antiquaries of France, of Normandy, of Picardy, of the West, and of the Morini. For more than fifty years, Roach Smith took a keen interest in the work of the London Numismatic Society. From 1841 to 1844, he was one of its honorary secretaries, and from 1852 he was an honorary member. He was the first presenter of the Liudhard medalet to |
7645846 | "Charles Roach Smith"
the Numismatic Society in 1844. He made a variety of contributions to the ""Numismatic Chronicle"", and in 1883 he received the first medal of the society, in recognition of his services in promoting the knowledge of Romano-British coins. In conjunction with Thomas Wright, he founded the British Archaeological Association in 1843, and he frequently wrote in its journal. In 1855 he was a founder member of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society. After his retirement to Strood, he actively assisted in the work of the Kent Archaeological Society, and contributed many papers to the ""Archaeologia Cantiana"". Much of his earliest |
7645847 | "Charles Roach Smith"
work was contributed to the ""Archaeologia"". He was also an honorary member of the Archaeological Societies of Madrid, Wiesbaden, Mayence, Treyes, Chester, Cheshire and Lancashire, Suffolk, and Surrey. Roach Smith was an honorary member of the Royal Society of Literature, the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, and the . Although most recognised for his work on Roman London, his archaeological influence went much further than London and inspired the forming of many local archaeological societies across the country, therefore making archaeology much more accessible to the wider society. In 1857, a steady stream of lead, medieval artifacts began circulating in |
7645848 | "Charles Roach Smith"
London. Their source was two Londoners, William Smith and Charles Eaton, illiterate mudlarks, who purportedly obtained them from the large-scale excavations then taking place at Shadwell Dock. However, in April 1858 the items were denounced as forgeries in a lecture to the British Archaeological Association by Henry Syer Cuming. The lecture was reported by the ""Athenaeum"" magazine. This resulted in a suit for libel from a London antique dealer who, although not named in the magazine report, claimed he had been implicitly libeled as he was the only seller of them. The trial was widely reported; Roach Smith appeared as |
7645849 | "Charles Roach Smith"
a witness for the plaintiff, and asserted in his testimony the items were a previously unknown class of object with an unknown purpose. However, he was confident of their age. Several other antiquarians gave similar testimony. In 1861, Roach Smith published volume five of his work ""Collectanea antiqua"". This included an article stating the items were crude, religious tokens, dating from the reign of Mary I of England, that had been imported from continental Europe as replacements for the devotional items destroyed during the English Reformation. However, later the same year, the businessman, politician and antiquarian Charles Reed conclusively proved |
7645850 | "Charles Roach Smith"
they were fakes by obtaining evidence that William Smith and Charles Eaton, had been manufacturing the items all along., After his business dwindled, he purchased, as a place of retirement, the small property of Temple Place, on Cuxton Road, Strood, Kent, and some adjoining horticultural land. In 1864, he was involved in an action at law with the dean and chapter of Rochester over some reclaimed land adjoining his property, and Roach Smith won the case. The garden at Temple Place was in later life his chief recreation, and he enjoyed cultivation of its grounds. He especially applied himself to |
7645851 | "Charles Roach Smith"
pomology as well as growing vines in open ground, making considerable quantities of wine from the grapes which he reared. His pamphlet ""On the Scarcity of Home-grown Fruits in Great Britain"", which first appeared in the ""Proceedings of the Historical Society of Lancashire and Cheshire"" in 1863, passed into a second edition, and a thousand copies were distributed in France and Germany. He advocated the planting of the waste ground on the sides of railways with dwarf apple trees and with other kinds of fruit, and this suggestion was adopted to a considerable extent abroad and to a limited degree |
7645852 | "Charles Roach Smith"
in England. Roach Smith was unmarried, and a sister kept house for him at Temple Place. She died in 1874, and was buried in Frindsbury churchyard. After a confinement to his bed for six days, he died on 2 August 1890, and was buried in the same churchyard. Charles Roach Smith Charles Roach Smith (20 August 1807 – 2 August 1890), FSA, was an English antiquarian and amateur archaeologist who was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, and the London Numismatic Society. He was a founding member of the British Archaeological Association. Roach Smith pioneered the |
7645853 | "Auf Wiederseh'n, Sweetheart"
Jockeys"" chart and four weeks on the ""Most Played in Jukeboxes""). In reaching number-one, it would be almost six years before another British artist would top the U.S. pop chart; that song was Laurie London's ""He's Got the Whole World in His Hands,"" in April 1958. Additionally, the song's nine-week run at number one on the U.S. pop charts by a British act was a record that stood for 16 years, until The Beatles matched the longevity record (of nine weeks) in 1968 with ""Hey Jude."" Currently, ""Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart"" is tied with ""Hey Jude"" for third amongst longest-running number-one |
7645854 | "Auf Wiederseh'n, Sweetheart"
songs by British artists on the ""Billboard"" pop charts, behind ""Candle in the Wind 1997""/""Something About the Way You Look Tonight"" by Elton John (14 weeks, 1997-1998) and ""We Found Love"" by Rihanna with Calvin Harris (10 weeks, 2011). In addition, for more than 12 years Lynn was the only female solo artist from the UK to have a number-one hit in the United States, a feat finally matched by ""Downtown"" by Petula Clark in January 1965. The English version of the song was covered in 1963 by Jim Reeves on his LP, ""The International Jim Reeves"". Greek singer Demis |
7645855 | "Auf Wiederseh'n, Sweetheart"
Roussos covered the song on his 1974 German-language album ""Auf Wiedersehn"". It was also released as a single (in 1974 on Philips Records). The recording was produced by Leo Leandros. The song reached no. 6 in the Netherlands and no. 19 in Belgium (Flanders) 7"" single Philips 6009 526 (1974, Austria, Belgium, Germany, etc.) 7"" single RTB / Philips S 53796 (1974, Yugoslavia) Auf Wiederseh'n, Sweetheart ""Auf Wiedersehen"", or ""Auf Wiederseh'n, Sweetheart"", is a song written by German composer Eberhard Storch around 1950. Storch wrote the song in the hospital for his wife Maria as he was ill for a |
7645856 | "Patulous Eustachian tube"
Patulous Eustachian tube Patulous Eustachian tube, also known as patent Eustachian tube or PET, is the name of a physical disorder where the Eustachian tube, which is normally closed, instead stays intermittently open. When this occurs, the patient experiences autophony, the hearing of self-generated sounds. These sounds, such as one's own breathing, voice, and heartbeat, vibrate directly onto the ear drum and can create a ""bucket on the head"" effect. PET is a form of eustachian tube dysfunction (ETD), which is said to be present in about 1 percent of the general population. With patulous Eustachian tube, variations in upper |
7645857 | "Patulous Eustachian tube"
airway pressure associated with respiration are transmitted to the middle ear through the Eustachian tube. This causes an unpleasant fullness feeling in the middle ear and alters the auditory perception. Complaints seem to include muffled hearing and autophony. In addition, patulous Eustachian tube generally feels dry with no clogged feeling or sinus pressure. Some patients with this condition are disturbed by the perceived volume of their voice, causing them to speak very quietly. Their own voice may also sound lower to other people, because the trachea has more volume when the Eustachian tube is open. The patient may also sound |
7645858 | "Patulous Eustachian tube"
as if they have congestion when speaking. Some sufferers may have difficulty in normal activities. They may also experience increased breathing rate, such as that brought on by physical activity. The increased activity not only increases the rate and force of pressure changes in the airway, which is therefore transmitted more forcefully into the middle ear, but also drives increased blood flow to peripheral muscles, compounding the problem by further depleting the Eustachian tube of extracellular fluid and increasing patency. The combination can lead to severe exacerbation of the symptoms. The urge to clear the ear is often mentioned. Patulous |
7645859 | "Patulous Eustachian tube"
Eustachian tube is a physical disorder. The exact causes may vary depending on the person. Weight loss is a commonly cited cause of the disorder due to the nature of the Eustachian tube itself and is associated with approximately one-third of reported cases. Fatty tissues hold the tube closed most of the time in healthy individuals. When circumstances cause overall body fat to diminish, the tissue surrounding the Eustachian tube shrinks and this function is disrupted. Activities and substances which dehydrate the body have the same effect and are also possible causes of patulous Eustachian tube. Examples are stimulants (including |
7645860 | "Patulous Eustachian tube"
caffeine) and exercise. Exercise may have a more short-term effect than caffeine or weight loss in this regard. Pregnancy can also be a cause of patulous Eustachian tube due to the effects of pregnancy hormones on surface tension and mucus in the respiratory system. Granulomatosis with polyangiitis can also be a cause of this disorder. It is yet unknown why. PET can occur as a result of liquid residue in the Eustachian tube, after suffering a middle ear infection (otitis media). Upon examination of a suspected case of patulous Eustachian tube, a doctor can directly view the tympanic membrane with |
7645861 | "Patulous Eustachian tube"
a light and observe that it vibrates with every breath taken by the patient. A tympanogram may also help with the diagnosis. Patulous Eustachian tube is likely if brisk inspiration causes a significant pressure shift. Patulous Eustachian tube is frequently misdiagnosed as standard congestion due to the similarity in symptoms and rarity of the disorder. Audiologists are more likely to recognize the disorder, usually with tympanometry or nasally delivered masking noise during a hearing assessment, which is highly sensitive to this condition. When misdiagnosis occurs, a decongestant medication is sometimes prescribed. This type of medication aggravates the condition, as the |
7645862 | "Patulous Eustachian tube"
Eustachian tube relies on sticky fluids to keep closed and the drying effect of a decongestant would make it even more likely to remain open and cause symptoms. The misdiagnosed patient may also have tubes surgically inserted into the eardrum, which increases the risk of ear infection and will not alleviate patulous Eustachian tube. If these treatments are tried and failed, and the doctor is not aware of the actual condition, the symptoms may even be classified as psychological. Incidentally, patients who instead suffer from the even rarer condition of superior canal dehiscence are at risk for misdiagnosis of patulous |
7645863 | "Patulous Eustachian tube"
Eustachian tube due to the similar autophony in both conditions. Patulous Eustachian Tube (PET) or tube to open remains an ET dysfunction category, difficult to diagnose and to treat. Recent studies suggest that the pathophysiology and etiology of PET is more related to a previous history of otitis media, rather than from weight loss, which was widely recognized as the major causal factor. Simultaneous weight gain can even be observed in some cases. The average age is 30 years, with a female prevalence. It’s rare to find patients of less than 15 years of age, which seems to confirm the |
7645864 | "Patulous Eustachian tube"
opinion that PET is an acquired condition. Chronic upper respiratory inflammatory diseases are almost always associated with PET; half of these patients report previous history of nasal or sinus surgery. Radical posterior / inferior turbinectomies seem to be proportionally connected to PET severity. History of recurrent otitis media with effusion, with tympanostomy and adenoidectomy during childhood is also frequent. Laryngopharyngeal reflux (LPR) is identified in a great proportion of patients. Last epidemiological data indicates that PET results from obstructive ET dysfunction evolving over a long period of time. Since the surgical management of these two pathologies is at diametrically opposed |
7645865 | "Patulous Eustachian tube"
extremes, it is critical to obtain the correct diagnosis before undertaking any treatment. Visualization of a permanently open tubal valve by endoscopic examination allows settling this question, but its absence does not exclude PET diagnosis. Sonotubometry and recently developed tubomanometry may help in some specific cases. Unfortunately, some PET cases remain difficult to diagnose. Autophonia (self-hearing from inside, strongly amplified) seems to be a common symptom to all PET patients. Unfortunately, its presence also reveals an advanced degree of patency, requiring in most cases surgical management. Other symptoms of PET, such as tinnitus, fullness and ear blockage, can also be |
7645866 | "Patulous Eustachian tube"
reported by patients suffering from obstructive ET dysfunction. This differential diagnosis problem unfortunately leads to some surgeries proposed by well-intentioned but inexperienced ENT surgeons. Some of these surgeries may make things worse. At the beginning, patients hear their own voice or its echo from inside. They describe it as being amplified and unpleasant. Patients frequently avoid speaking and retire in a rising solitude. Lying head down may help since it increases venous blood pressure and congestion of the mucosa. With time patients may develop respiratory autophonia. At this stage, they hear ""from inside”. They describe hearing their own respiration and |
7645867 | "Patulous Eustachian tube"
sometimes other bodily functions, like heartbeat. Some patients may find this unbearable and depression is common. Psychological supervision may be indicated. Historically, to temporarily alleviate symptoms, patients have tried positional maneuvers, such as tilting their head to one side or upside down, lie down on their backs, or sit in a chair with their head between their knees. Similarly, a routine of lying down four times per day with legs elevated to around 20 inches for at least two weeks has been attempted as well. Depending on the underlying cause of the disorder, the individual may need to remove caffeine |
7645868 | "Patulous Eustachian tube"
from their diet, reduce exercise, or gain weight. It may be the case that the symptoms are induced by anxiety; anxiolytic drugs or supplements (e.g., GABA) combined with the removal of caffeine from the diet could offer a simple strategy to determine if anxiety is the root cause. Estrogen (Premarin) nasal drops or saturated potassium iodide have been used to induce edema of the eustachian tube opening. Nasal medications containing diluted hydrochloric acid, chlorobutanol, and benzyl alcohol have been reported to be effective in some patients, with few side effects. Food and Drug Administration approval is still pending, however. Nasal |
7645869 | "Patulous Eustachian tube"
sprays have also been a very effective temporary treatment for this disease, as well. In extreme cases surgical intervention may attempt to restore the Eustachian tube tissues with fat, gel foam, or cartilage or scar it closed with cautery. These methods are not always successful. For example, there is the case of the early attempts at surgical correction involving the injections of tetrafluoroetheylene (Teflon) paste but, although this treatment was able to give transient relief, it was discontinued due to several deaths that result from inadvertent intracarotid injections. Patulous Eustachian tube Patulous Eustachian tube, also known as patent Eustachian tube |
7645870 | "Andre Kostelanetz"
Andre Kostelanetz Andre Kostelanetz (, December 22, 1901 – January 13, 1980) was a Russian-born American popular orchestral music conductor and arranger who was one of the major exponents of popular orchestra music. Abram Naumovich Kostelyanetz was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia to a prominent Jewish family. He was a cousin of physicist Lew Kowarski. His father, Nachman Yokhelevich (Naum Ignatyevich) Kostelyanetz was active on the St. Petersburg stock exchange; his maternal grandfather, Aizik Yevelevich Dymshitz, was a wealthy merchant and industrialist, engaged in timber production. Kostelanetz escaped in 1922 after the Russian Revolution. He arrived in the United States |
7645871 | "Andre Kostelanetz"
that year, and in the 1920s, conducted concerts for radio. In the 1930s, he began his own weekly show on CBS, ""Andre Kostelanetz Presents"". Kostelanetz was known for arranging and recording light classical music pieces for mass audiences, as well as orchestral versions of songs and Broadway show tunes. He made numerous recordings over the course of his career, which had sales of over 50 million. For many years, he conducted the New York Philharmonic in pops concerts and recordings, in which they were billed as Andre Kostelanetz and His Orchestra. Kostelanetz may be best known to modern audiences for |
7645872 | "Andre Kostelanetz"
a series of easy listening instrumental albums on Columbia Records from the 1940s until 1980. Kostelanetz actually started making this music before there was a genre called ""easy listening"". He continued until after some of his contemporaries, including Mantovani, had stopped recording. Outside the United States, one of his best known works was an orchestral arrangement of the tune ""With a Song in my Heart"", which was the signature tune of a long-running BBC radio program, at first called ""Forces Favourites"", then ""Family Favourites"", and finally ""Two Way Family Favourites"". He commissioned many works, including Aaron Copland's ""Lincoln Portrait"", Jerome |
7645873 | "Andre Kostelanetz"
Kern's ""Portrait of Mark Twain"", William Schuman's ""New England Triptych"", Paul Creston's ""Frontiers"", Ferde Grofé's ""Hudson River Suite"", Virgil Thomson's musical portraits of Fiorello La Guardia and Dorothy Thompson, Alan Hovhaness's ""Floating World"", and Ezra Laderman's ""Magic Prison"". William Walton dedicated his ""Capriccio burlesco"" to Kostelanetz, who conducted the first performance and made the first recording, both with the New York Philharmonic. His last concert was ""A Night in Old Vienna"" with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra at that city's War Memorial Opera House on December 31, 1979. His first wife was actress/singer Sarah Loy; they were married from 1923 |
7645874 | "Andre Kostelanetz"
to 1937, when the marriage was dissolved. He was then married to soprano Lily Pons from 1938 to 1958, when the marriage was dissolved. They owned a home in Palm Springs, California which was built in 1955. In 1960 he married Sara Gene Orcutt; the marriage lasted several years. All three unions were childless. His brother, Boris Kostelanetz (1911–2006), was a prominent tax defense lawyer. After the December 31, 1979 concert with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Kostelanetz left for a vacation in Haiti. While in Haiti, Kostelanetz contracted pneumonia and died on January 13, 1980, aged 78. It should |
7645875 | "Andre Kostelanetz"
be noted that many of the early LP releases were actually re-releases of albums released earlier on 78 rpm records. Musical Comedy Favorites, for example, was released as Volume 1 (album M-430) in late 1940 for songs 1 through 8, and Volume 2 (M-502) in 1941 for the remaining 8 songs on the second side of the LP. Four of Kostelanetz's albums made the Billboard Hot 200, no match for his Columbia easy listening rivals Ray Conniff and Percy Faith but typical of many of popular instrumental easy listening artists of the day whose audience did not buy their albums |
7645876 | "Andre Kostelanetz"
immediately upon release but bought them over the years. Andre Kostelanetz Andre Kostelanetz (, December 22, 1901 – January 13, 1980) was a Russian-born American popular orchestral music conductor and arranger who was one of the major exponents of popular orchestra music. Abram Naumovich Kostelyanetz was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia to a prominent Jewish family. He was a cousin of physicist Lew Kowarski. His father, Nachman Yokhelevich (Naum Ignatyevich) Kostelyanetz was active on the St. Petersburg stock exchange; his maternal grandfather, Aizik Yevelevich Dymshitz, was a wealthy merchant and industrialist, engaged in timber production. Kostelanetz escaped in 1922 after |
7645877 | "Star of the West"
Star of the West Star of the West was an American civilian steamship that was launched in 1852 and scuttled by Confederate forces in 1863. In January 1861, the ship was hired by the government of the United States to transport military supplies and reinforcements to the U.S. military garrison of Fort Sumter. Cadets from The Citadel fired upon the ship, effectively the first shots fired in the American Civil War. The ship was later captured by Confederate forces, then used for several purposes including as a hospital ship and a blockade runner, and finally scuttled in defense of Vicksburg |
7645878 | "Star of the West"
in 1863. ""Star of the West"" was a 1,172-ton steamship built by Jeremiah Simonson, of New York City for Cornelius Vanderbilt, and launched on June 17, 1852. Its length was and its beam , with wooden hullside paddle wheels and two masts. She started service between New York and San Juan de Nicaragua on October 20, 1852 and continued the service for Charles Morgan from July 1853 to March 1856. In June 1857, she started the New York-to-Aspinwall service for the U.S. Mail Steamship Company until September 1859, when it went onto the New York, Havana, New Orleans service. In |
7645879 | "Star of the West"
January 1861, she was chartered to the War Department. On January 9, 1861, weeks after South Carolina declared that it had seceded from the United States, but before other states had done so to form the Confederacy, ""Star of the West"" arrived at Charleston Harbor to resupply Major Robert Anderson's garrison at Fort Sumter. The ship was fired upon by cadets from The Citadel stationed at the Morris Island battery and was hit three times by what were effectively the first shots of the American Civil War. Although ""Star of the West"" suffered no major damage, her captain, John McGowan, |
7645880 | "Star of the West"
considered it to be too dangerous to continue and turned about to leave the harbor. The mission was abandoned, and ""Star of the West"" headed for her home port of New York Harbor. The ship was then hired out of New York City as a troop transport for $1,000 a day under its master, Elisha Howes. ""Star of the West"" sailed for Texas to pick up seven companies of Union Army troops, assembled at Indianola. On April 18, 1861, while anchored off Pass Caballo bar leading into Matagorda Bay, the ship was captured by Colonel Earl Van Dorn and members |
7645881 | "Star of the West"
of two Galveston militia units, the Wigfall Guards and the Island City Rifles. Two days later, the ship was taken to New Orleans, where Louisiana Governor Thomas Overton Moore changed its name to CSS ""St. Philip"". The old name persisted, however, and ""Star of the West"" served as a naval station and hospital ship until Admiral David Farragut captured New Orleans. Still under Confederate control, ""Star of the West"" escaped recapture when she was sent to transport gold, silver, and paper currency worth millions of dollars. After delivering that cargo to Vicksburg, she continued to Yazoo City, Mississippi. When federal |
7645882 | "Star of the West"
Lieutenant Commander Watson Smith tried to lead two ironclads and five smaller vessels through the Yazoo Pass into the Tallahatchie River to attack Vicksburg from the rear, Confederate defenders hurriedly constructed Fort Pemberton, and Major General William W. Loring had ""Star of the West"" sunk broadside in the Tallahatchie near Greenwood to block the passage of the Union flotilla. In a skirmish on April 12, 1863, the Union forces suffered heavy casualties and were forced to withdraw. After the war, the owners of ""Star of the West"" collected $175,000 in damages from the U.S. government for the loss. The Star |
7645883 | "Star of the West"
of the West Medal is awarded annually to the ""best drilled cadet"" at The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina. In June 1893, The Citadel Superintendent, Colonel Asbury Coward, took the corps to Aiken, South Carolina, for their annual encampment and graduation exercises. The excellent military work of the cadets suggested to Dr. Benjamin H. Teague, a Confederate Veteran and a collector of Confederate relics, to present to the Citadel a medal for the winner of the Best Drilled Cadet competition. Among his many curios, Teague had a piece of oak from the Steam Ship ""Star of the West"". |
7645884 | "Lovell Rousseau"
Stones River, Chickamauga, during the Tullahoma Campaign and movements around Chattanooga, Tennessee. Although from November 1863 until his resignation in November 1865, Rousseau had command of Nashville, Tennessee, he had also, on Sherman's orders, carried out a very successful raid on the Montgomery and West Point Railroad in July 1864. Rousseau was elected an Unconditional Unionist to the United States House of Representatives in 1864, serving from 1865 to 1866. As a former military officer, he served on the Committee on Military Affairs. In June 1866, relations between Rousseau and Iowa congressman Josiah Bushnell Grinnell became tense. The two had |
7645885 | "Lovell Rousseau"
a series of debates over a bill intended to give more power to the Freedman's Bureau. Rousseau opposed it having seen and heard about rebellious and illegal actions by agents working for the bureau, whereas Grinnell strongly supported the bill as a former active abolitionist and aide to runaway slaves. The debates eventually turned into mudslinging, Grinnell questioning Rousseau's military record and insulting his performance in battle as well as a few comments on the state of Kentucky. On June 14, 1866, Rousseau approached Grinnell in the east portico of the capitol building after a session of congress. He told |
7645886 | "Lovell Rousseau"
Grinnell that he had been waiting for an apology from him for the insults he made about him before the House. Grinnell pretended not to know what Rousseau was talking about, enraging Rousseau who struck him repeatedly with the iron handle of his rattan cane until it broke. He struck him chiefly in the face but a few blows hit Grinnell's hand and shoulder. Grinnell walked away with only bruises and did not have to be absent from congress at all. However, a committee was organized to investigate the incident which was composed of Nathaniel P. Banks, Henry J. Raymond, |
7645887 | "Lovell Rousseau"
Rufus P. Spalding, M. Russell Thayer and John Hogan. Rousseau was reprimanded for his actions and soon later resigned. He was elected back the same year to fill the vacancy caused by himself and continued to serve until 1867. After leaving the House of Representatives, Rousseau was appointed brigadier general in the U.S. Army with the brevet rank of major general, and was assigned to duty in Alaska on March 27, 1867. General Rousseau played a key role in the transfer of Alaska from the Russian Empire to the United States on October 18, 1867, today celebrated as Alaska Day. |
7645888 | "Frank Rosenblatt"
with the transfer of learned behavior from trained to naive rats by the injection of brain extracts, a subject on which he would publish extensively in later years. In 1970 he became field representative for the Graduate Field of Neurobiology and Behavior, and in 1971 he shared the acting chairmanship of the Section of Neurobiology and Behavior. Frank Rosenblatt died in July 1971 on his 43rd birthday, in a boating accident in Chesapeake Bay. Rosenblatt was best known for the Perceptron, an electronic device which was constructed in accordance with biological principles and showed an ability to learn. Rosenblatt’s perceptrons |
7645889 | "Frank Rosenblatt"
were initially simulated on an IBM 704 computer at Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory in 1957. When a triangle was held before the perceptron's eye, it would pick up the image and convey it along a random succession of lines to the response units, where the image was registered. He developed and extended this approach in numerous papers and a book called ""Principles of Neurodynamics: Perceptrons and the Theory of Brain Mechanisms"", published by Spartan Books in 1962. He used it later as a textbook in his courses. He received international recognition for the Perceptron. The New York Times billed it as |
7645890 | "Frank Rosenblatt"
a revolution, with the headline “New Navy Device Learns By Doing”, and The New Yorker similarly admired the technological advancement. Research on comparable devices was also being done in other places such as SRI, and many researchers had big expectations on what they could do. The initial excitement became somewhat reduced, though, when in 1969 Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert published the book “Perceptrons” with a mathematical proof about the limitations of two-layer feed-forward perceptrons as well as unproven claims about the difficulty of training multi-layer perceptrons. The book's only proven result -- that linear functions cannot model non-linear ones |
7645891 | "Frank Rosenblatt"
-- was trivial but the book had nevertheless a pronounced effect on research funding and, consequently, the community. After research on neural networks returned to the mainstream in the 1980s, new researchers started to study Rosenblatt’s work again. This new wave of study on neural networks is interpreted by some researchers as being a contradiction of hypotheses presented in the book Perceptrons, and a confirmation of Rosenblatt's expectations. The Mark I Perceptron, which is generally recognized as a forerunner to artificial intelligence, currently resides in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. Around the late 1960s, Rosenblatt began experiments within the |
7645892 | "Frank Rosenblatt"
Cornell Department of Entomology on the transfer of learned behavior via rat brain extracts. Rats were taught discrimination tasks such as Y-maze and two-lever Skinner box. Then their brains were extracted and injected into untrained rats that were subsequently tested in the discrimination tasks to determine whether or not there was behavior transfer from the trained to the untrained rats. Rosenblatt spent his last several years on this problem and showed convincingly that the initial reports of larger effects were wrong and that any memory transfer was at most very small. Rosenblatt also had a serious research interest in astronomy |
7645893 | "Frank Rosenblatt"
and proposed a new technique to detect the presence of stellar satellites. He built an observatory on a hilltop behind his house in Brooktondale about 6 miles east of Ithaca. When construction on the observatory was completed, Rosenblatt began an intensive study on SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence). Rosenblatt was very active in liberal politics. He worked in the McCarthy primary campaigns for president in New Hampshire and California in 1968 and in a series of Vietnam protest activities in Washington. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the world's largest professional association dedicated to advancing technological innovation and |
7645894 | "Frank Rosenblatt"
excellence for the benefit of humanity, named its annual award in honor of Frank Rosenblatt. For nearly a century, the IEEE awards program has paid tribute to technical professionals whose exceptional achievements and research have made a lasting impact on technology, society and the engineering profession. Frank Rosenblatt Frank Rosenblatt (July 11, 1928July 11, 1971) was an American psychologist notable in the field of artificial intelligence. He was born in New Rochelle, New York as son of Dr. Frank and Katherine Rosenblatt. After graduating from The Bronx High School of Science in 1946, he attended Cornell University, where he obtained |
7645895 | "Michael J. Garanzini"
Michael J. Garanzini Michael J. Garanzini, S.J. (born September 24, 1948 in Saint Louis, Missouri) is an American priest of the Society of Jesus religious order of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States. From 2001 until 2015, Garanzini served as the twenty-third President of Loyola University Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, a member of the twenty-eight institution Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities. Garanzini graduated from Saint Louis University with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology in 1971, the same year that he entered the Society of Jesus. After spending years around the country and in Rome during his |
7645896 | "Michael J. Garanzini"
training and early years as a Jesuit, Garanzini received a doctorate in psychology and religion in 1986 from the University of California, Berkeley. Later that year, he returned to Saint Louis University, teaching as an associate professor of psychology and later serving as academic vice president. Garanzini was invited to Fordham University to serve as a visiting professor of counseling in 1998, and went on to work at Georgetown University until his presidency at Loyola. He has also taught at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and at Regis College (now Regis University) in Denver. Garanzini is the author of |
7645897 | "Michael J. Garanzini"
""The Attachment Cycle: An Object Relations Approach to the Healing Ministries"" (1988), ""Meeting the Needs of Dysfunctional Families"" (1993), ""Child-Centered Schools: An Educator's Guide to Family Dysfunction"" (1995), and articles in numerous journals. Garanzini is member of the Fairfield University Board of Trustees. On July 1, 2015 Garanzini accepted appointment to the Chicago Board of Education During Garanzini's tenure as President of Loyola University Chicago, he has brought the University out of debt in only a few years. He has also initiated a series of construction projects on both of Loyola's city campuses. The building boom has been made possible |
7645898 | "Michael J. Garanzini"
through the generous donations of loyal alumni and other benefactors of the university. In the 2015, Garanzini announced his intention to step down after fourteen years of leading Loyola. He will remain as chancellor of the university, an advisory role to the president focused on matters of mission and institutional advancement. Father Michael J. Garanzini, S.J. was inducted as a Laureate of The Lincoln Academy of Illinois and awarded the Order of Lincoln (the State’s highest honor) by the Governor of Illinois in 2018. Michael J. Garanzini Michael J. Garanzini, S.J. (born September 24, 1948 in Saint Louis, Missouri) is |
7645899 | "Margaret Ringenberg"
Margaret Ringenberg Margaret Ringenberg (née Ray; June 17, 1921, Fort Wayne, Indiana – July 28, 2008, Oshkosh, Wisconsin) was an American aviator, who had logged more than 40,000 hours of flying time during her career. She became interested in flying as an eight-year-old when she saw a barnstormer land in a field near her family's farm. She trained at a flight training school and had her first solo flight in 1941 as a 19-year-old. Ringenberg began her aviation career in 1943 during World War II when she became a ferry pilot with the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP). Although WASP |
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