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7646100 | "Expansion team"
Expansion team An expansion team is a new team in a sports league, usually from a city that has not hosted a team in that league before, formed with the intention of satisfying the demand for a local team from a population in a new area. Sporting leagues also hope that the expansion of their competition will grow the popularity of the sport generally. The term is most commonly used in reference to the North American major professional sports leagues but is applied to sports leagues in other countries with a closed franchise system of league membership. The term comes |
7646101 | "Shadow Fight 2"
from around Asia like Nunchaku and Guandao. The final main faction is Heralds, who have more precise attacks and mostly Japanese weaponry like naginata and katana (of which two variants exist: normal katana and ones used in a manner similar to Iaidō). Shadow Fight 2 Shadow Fight 2 is a role-playing martial arts fighting game developed by Nekki. The first version of the game was soft launched on October 9, 2013 while the game was later released worldwide on May 1, 2014, on both Android and iOS platforms, and on January 27, 2015 it was released on Windows 8 and |
7646102 | "Jülide Sarıeroğlu"
Jülide Sarıeroğlu Jülide Sarıeroğlu (7 June 1979) is a Turkish labour economist, trade unionist, non-fiction writer and politician, who currently serves as the Minister of Labour and Social Security in the Cabinet of Yıldırım II since 19 July 2017. Jülide Sarıeroğlu was born to Şadi and his wife Kadriye in Adana, Turkey on 7 June 1979. She studied labour economics at the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences of Gazi University in Ankara and graduated with a Bachelor's degree from the Department of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations. Currently, she continues her studies at the same department for a Master's |
7646103 | "Jülide Sarıeroğlu"
degree. Sarıeroğlu joined the Justice and Development Party (AKP). She became a member of the Central Executive Committee's women's branch, and served as leader of some other committees in the party. She was alderman in the assembly of Çankaya municipality, chairperson of a trade union. On 19 July 2017, she was appointed Minister of Labour and Social Security in the Second Cabinet of Binali Yıldırım. She is the second female government minister in the cabinet along with Fatma Betül Sayan Kaya, Minister of Family and Social Policy. Sarıeroğlu will be serving at this post as a woman 26 years after |
7646104 | "Expansion team"
identity completely; name, colors and mascot; but because the roster is the same and the league does not expand as a result, they are not regarded as expansion teams. One exception is the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League (NFL): when the Cleveland Browns moved to Baltimore, an agreement was reached for which the trademark and history of the pre-1996 Cleveland Browns remained in that city and was claimed by the post-1999 Browns when the league placed a new franchise there, even though the personnel and roster had moved to Baltimore to become the Ravens.Another exception is the New |
7646105 | "310th Cavalry Regiment (United States)"
310th Cavalry Regiment (United States) The 310th Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry unit of the United States Army during World War I and the interwar period. It was activated in early 1918 but broken up later that year to form new artillery units. The unit was recreated as a Tennessee Organized Reserve unit during the interwar period, and later moved to Georgia in the early 1930s. It was disbanded after the United States entered World War II. Shortly after the United States entered World War I, the regiment was constituted in the National Army on 18 May 1917, and organized |
7646106 | "310th Cavalry Regiment (United States)"
on 17 February 1918 at Fort Ethan Allen. However, it was broken up on 18 October and its men were used to create the 58th and 59th Field Artillery Regiments, and the 20th Trench Mortar Battery. All three artillery units were demobilized at Camp Jackson on 10 February 1919. On 15 October 1921, the 58th and 59th Field Artillery and the 20th Trench Mortar Battery were reconstituted in the Organized Reserve as the 310th Cavalry Regiment, part of the 63rd Cavalry Division in the Fourth Corps Area. The 310th was initiated (activated) on 2 February 1922 with regimental headquarters at |
7646107 | "310th Cavalry Regiment (United States)"
Knoxville, 1st Squadron at Chattanooga, and 2nd Squadron at Nashville. The regiment joined the division's 155th Cavalry Brigade. It was reorganized on 1 July 1929 as a three-squadron regiment, and its headquarters was relocated to Athens on 22 October 1929. The entire regiment was simultaneously moved to northeast Georgia. The regiment conducted summer training at Camp McClellan, Alabama, and Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, with the 6th Cavalry Regiment. As an alternate form of training, the 309th provided basic cavalry military instruction to civilians under the Citizens' Military Training Camp program at Fort Oglethorpe. Its designated mobilization training station was Fort Oglethorpe, |
7646108 | "Expansion team"
Expansion team An expansion team is a new team in a sports league, usually from a city that has not hosted a team in that league before, formed with the intention of satisfying the demand for a local team from a population in a new area. Sporting leagues also hope that the expansion of their competition will grow the popularity of the sport generally. The term is most commonly used in reference to the North American major professional sports leagues but is applied to sports leagues in other countries with a closed franchise system of league membership. The term comes |
7646109 | "Orbital ring"
Orbital ring An orbital ring is a concept for a space elevator that consists of an artificial ring placed around the Earth that rotates at an angular rate that is faster than the rotation of the Earth. It is a giant formation of astroengineering proportions. The structure is intended to be used as a space station or as a planetary vehicle for very high speed transportation or space launch. The original orbital ring concept is related to the space fountain and launch loop. In the 1870s Nikola Tesla, while recovering from malaria, conceived a number of inventions including a ring |
7646110 | "Orbital ring"
around the equator, although he did not include detailed calculations. As recounted in his autobiography ""My Inventions"" (1919): Arthur C. Clarke's novel ""The Fountains of Paradise"" (1979) is about space elevators, but an appendix mentions the idea of launching objects off the Earth using a structure based on mass drivers. The idea apparently did not work, but this inspired further research. Paul Birch published a series of three articles in the ""Journal of the British Interplanetary Society"" in 1982. Anatoly E. Yunitskiy, author of string transport idea, also published a similar idea in USSR in 1982 and later explored it |
7646111 | "Orbital ring"
in detail in his book published in 1995. Andrew Meulenberg and his students, from 2008 to 2011, presented and published a number of papers based on types and applications of low-Earth-orbital rings as man's ""stepping-stones-to-space"". An overview mentions four applications of orbital rings. Several different methods and designs have been suggested for the construction of an orbital ring. A simple unsupported hoop about a planet is unstable: it would crash into the Earth if left unattended. The orbital ring concept requires cables to the surface to stabilize it, with the outward centrifugal force providing tension on the cables, and the |
7646112 | "Orbital ring"
tethers stabilizing the ring. In the simplest design of an orbital ring system, a rotating cable or possibly an inflatable space structure is placed in a low Earth orbit above the equator, rotating at faster than orbital speed. Not in orbit, but riding on this ring, supported electromagnetically on superconducting magnets, are ring stations that stay in one place above some designated point on Earth. Hanging down from these ring stations are short space elevators made from cables with high-tensile-strength-to-mass-ratio materials. Although this simple model would work best above the equator, Paul Birch calculated that since the ring station can |
7646113 | "Orbital ring"
be used to accelerate the orbital ring eastwards as well as hold the tether, it is therefore possible to deliberately cause the orbital ring to precess around the Earth instead of staying fixed in space while the Earth rotates beneath it. By precessing the ring once every 24 hours, the Orbital Ring will hover above any meridian selected on the surface of the Earth. The cables which dangle from the ring are now geostationary without having to reach geostationary altitude or without having to be placed into the equatorial plane. This means that using the Orbital Ring concept, one or |
7646114 | "Orbital ring"
many pairs of Stations can be positioned above ""any"" points on Earth desired or can be moved everywhere on the globe. Thus, any point on Earth can be served by a space elevator. Also a whole network of orbital rings can be built, which, by crossing over the poles, could cover the whole planet and be capable of taking over most of freight and passenger transport. By an array of elevators and several geostationary ring stations, asteroid or Moon material can be received and gently put down where land fills are needed. The electric energy generated in the process would |
7646115 | "Orbital ring"
pay for the system expansion and ultimately could pave the way for a solar-system-wide terraforming- and astroengineering-activity on a sound economical basis. If built by launching the necessary materials from Earth, the cost for the system estimated by Birch in 1980s money was around $31 billion (for a ""bootstrap"" system intended to expand to 1000 times its initial size over the following year, which would otherwise cost 31 trillion dollars) if launched using Shuttle-derived hardware, whereas it could fall to $15 billion with space-based manufacturing, assuming a large orbital manufacturing facility is available to provide the initial 180,000 tonnes of |
7646116 | "Orbital ring"
steel, aluminium, and slag at a low cost, and even lower with orbital rings around the Moon. The system's cost per kilogram to place payloads in orbit would be around $0.05. General Planetary Vehicle (GPV) - a Anatoly Yunitskiy's project for the removal of weight at low circumplanet orbit. GPV is a ring located on the equator of the Earth (or parallel to the equator) consisting of individual segments connected (for example) by hydraulic cylinders. Inside the ring segments there are cells for placing the payload and necessary equipment. The heart of the GPV consists of two circular channels passing |
7646117 | "Orbital ring"
through all the segments of the ring. High vacuum is kept up in the channels and they are completely isolated from the environment. Inside these channels there are two magnetically levitated flywheel rotors assembled from small metal and flexible (e.g., polymer) segments. The flywheel rotors are held by an electromagnetic system mounted inside the GPV shell, according to the principle of magnetic levitation and act as the rotors of the giant motor (capable of operating in a generator mode as well). The GPV ring is located on a specially equipped overpass, encircling the Earth. In the initial condition it is |
7646118 | "Jon Bellion"
on October 19. The following week, he released a preview on his social media accounts of the second single, ""JT"", and released it on October 26. ""Stupid Deep"", the third single off of the album, was released on November 1. On November 9, Bellion released Glory Sound Prep. Bellion has stated on multiple occasions that Kanye West is one of his biggest inspirations. ""I loved everything but it was Kanye West who really changed everything for me."" Bellion has also stated that he was inspired by Eminem, Pharrell Williams, Coldplay, John Mayer, André 3000, and more. Bellion has also made |
7646119 | "Albrecht von Thaer"
higher-level academic training, however, and accordingly he embarked on a period as a law student. (Army officers with an academic qualification were relatively thin on the ground at this time, but having passed his Abitur von Thaer had surmounted the principal hurdle necessary to qualify for university-level education.) As a student he became involved with the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) and became an active follower of the conservative Christian-Socialist theologian-politician (and royal chaplain) Adolf Stoecker. In 1892 Albrecht von Thaer passed Part I if the at the Berlin state court, after seven terms (three and a half years) of |
7646120 | "Albrecht von Thaer"
study. His studies might have progressed more rapidly had he not, been combining them with the cautious beginnings of his military career. During 1890/91 Thaer served a one-year term with the 1st Life Cuirassiers ""Great Elector"" (Silesian) Regiment, based in Breslau. Then, on 1 October 1891. he was accepted as a reserve officer. His legal studies concluded, on 16 April 1892 he joined the 7th (Magdeburg) ""von Seydlitz"" Cuirassiers in Halberstadt. Here, thanks to his slightly unmilitary educational trajectory, he found himself approximately four years older than colleagues of similar rank who had become army officers via the Cadet Corps |
7646121 | "Albrecht von Thaer"
route. Thaers' superior, the regimental commander at this point, was Colonel von Runstedt: higher up in the military structure, the Commander General of IV Army Corps was Cavalry General . In Summer 1892 the new Kaiser announced a , for German cavalry officers. Thaer, only recently commissioned as a second lieutenant, applied to his supervising officer for permission to participate, wearing the uniform of the Von Seydelitz Cuirassiers. The distance from Berlin to Vienna meant that the exercise would be unique, and that it would place considerable demands on the men and horses involved. The responsible cavalry officer, , doubted |
7646122 | "Albrecht von Thaer"
that the newly promoted lieutenant, who till recently had combined his military career with that of a part-time law student, could successfully overcome the challenges involved. 's concern for the reputation of his cuirassiers was shared by , commander of the 8th Cavalry Brigade. Despite the doubts of these senior officers, in the end von Thaer was permitted to take part in the event. Albrecht von Thaer was able to compensate for his lack of military experience with knowledge of horses. The precise destination for the exercise was the suburb of , on the south side of central Vienna. The |
7646123 | "Albrecht von Thaer"
fastest German rider was First Lieutenant Lord von Reitzenstein of the 4th (Westphalian) Cuirassiers ""von Driesen"", riding ""Lippspringe"", a Senner mare. The horse died after the race. The second fastest German horse - placed ninth in the overall rankings - was ridden by Albrecht von Thaer, with a total riding time of 78 hours and 45 minutes. The prize money was 1,800 Marks. His horse, a small oriental-Polish grey mare had attracted derision at the start of the race. He had purchased the animal at the Krakow horse market in 1890. She reached the finishing point undamaged apart from signs |
7646124 | "Albrecht von Thaer"
of ""saddle pressure"" (as a result of which she fell out of contention for the ""condition prize""). Subsequently, Thaer became a with the heavy cavalry of the Cuirassier Regiment ""Queen"" (Pomeranian) No. 2 (a traditional unit from the former Dragoner-Regiment Nr.5 Ansbach-Bayreuth dragoons), based in Pasewalk (to the west of Stetin). Then from 1 October 1910 he was ordered to Berlin by the General Staff. There he was assigned to the French division which was under the command of Hermann von Kuhl (who shortly thereafter was promoted to Generalmajor). Thaer was made a cavalry officer responsible for matters involving the |
7646125 | "Albrecht von Thaer"
French cavalry. In 1910 he was promoted to Major. During his time in Berlin Thaer had an encounter with Helmuth von Moltke the Younger, the head of the German General Staff, who was of course several ranks senior to Thaer's. The incident sheds light on the social nuances of honour and military etiquette that were a feature of the imperial Prussian office corps at the time. In 1910 von Thaer returned from an absence of several months during which he had been on holiday in Russia and reported back to the head of the chief of staff, General von Moltke. |
7646126 | "Albrecht von Thaer"
Von Moltke invited his candid opinion on the state of relations between Germany and Russia. It seems likely that von Moltke misunderstood his junior officer's reply. He understood von Thaer to have advocated a Preventive war against Russia. There was much concern in Germany at this time that the military power balance with Russia was shifting in Russia's favour, and there were many who thought that since military confrontation was inevitable, the outcome would be more likely to favour the German empire if war came sooner rather than later. Von Moltke was firmly opposed to the ""preventive war"" idea, however. |
7646127 | "Albrecht von Thaer"
Thaer, in his report of his conversation with von Moltke, insists that he too was similarly opposed to any ""preventive war"" proposals. But that seems not to have been what von Moltke thought he had heard. In any case, von Molkte concluded the interview frostily with the formal phrase, ""Ich danke Ihnen, Herr Hauptmann"" (""""I thank you, Mr Officer""""). Thaer saw this choice of words as an insult. The customary formulation at the time (even if strictly speaking ""incorrect"") would have been ""Ich danke Ihnen, Thaer"", using the name of a brother officer despite the difference in their actual ranks. |
7646128 | "Albrecht von Thaer"
Thaer waited for 24 hours and then submitted a complaint. Von Moltke apologised and clarified the matter to him. There is no obvious evidence that Thaer's subsequent military career was damaged by the incident. His next appointment took effect on 15 September 1911 when he was transferred to the General Staff of the 36th Division, a border division stationed in Danzig, and at that time under the command of General Lieutenant Kuno von Steuben. The division included the and the . At the same time as Thaer took up his Danzig posting, the young Crown Prince William was sent to |
7646129 | "Albrecht von Thaer"
Danzig-Langfuhr to take command of the First Light Hussars Regiments. At the end of February 1913 he was transferred again, this time to the Guards Corps back in Berlin, as First General Staff Officer. There the commander general at this stage was still 65 year old Infantry General and General Adjutant , who shortly thereafter, on 1 March 1913, made way for Infantry General and General Adjutant Karl von Plettenberg. In August 1914 the Guards Corps moved up to the Western Front. On 11 November 1914 they took part in a concentrated attack on Ypres. Thaer was appointed Deputy Chief |
7646130 | "Albrecht von Thaer"
of Staff under von Plettenberg along the road linking Menen with Geluwe and . In January 1915 he was appointed Chief of the General Staff with the IX Reserve Corps which was deployed in trench warfare on French soil and was later involved in the slaughter of 1916-1918. That meant participation in the 1916 Battle of the Somme, at Arras and in the third Flanders offensive in 1917 and in ""Operation Georgette"" outside Armentières during the early part of 1918. After facing intensive enemy attacks, on 6 August 1917 Lieutenant Colonel Thaer was awarded the order ""Pour le Mérite"" in |
7646131 | "Albrecht von Thaer"
recognition of his conduct as Corps Leader. (The citation was actually in error since he was not Corps Leader but Corps Chief of Staff.) Despite committing to paper his belief that the honour belonged more properly to his men, he wrote excitedly to his wife of the celebration planned with fellow officers on the evening of the award. On 24 April 1918 Thaers was transferred to work at Supreme Army Command as Chief of Staff for the Quartermaster general (II). The post had been created to support Infantry General Erich Ludendorff, who since September 1916 had been running the German |
7646132 | "Albrecht von Thaer"
army (and in some respects running the entire war effort) jointly with Field Marshall von Hindenburg. At the start of 1919 he was transferred to the eastern frontier, stationed at Schneidemühl (today, since 1945, in Poland). From here bitter fighting against Polish took place for several weeks. However, in the middle of February 1919 Thaer's troops withdrew to behind the newly created Polish Corridor in accordance with the decisions by now being worked out by the victorious powers. On 7 September 1919 Thaer became chief of staff of the Northern Command, an Army group headquartered initially in Bartenstein and later |
7646133 | "Albrecht von Thaer"
in Kolberg (at which point it was renamed ""Command Group 3""). In the context of the reduction of the army to just 20,000 men - soon afterwards raised by the victorious powers to a limit of 100,000 - on 10 March 1920 Thaer was given the task of creating the Seventh (Prussian) Mounted Regiment (previously the Sixth Mounted Regiment) in Breslau (as Wrocław was known at that time). This unit comprised mainly members formerly of the Life Cuirassiers' regiments. Thaer had command of this regiment till 31 December 1921. By this time he was encountering increasingly stark differences with General |
7646134 | "Albrecht von Thaer"
Hans von Seeckt who had become head of the army in 1920. Thaer submitted his resignation and entered military requirement, taking at his own wish the uniform of a Colonel of the old Prussian General Staff. He was 53. Nearly two decades later, on 27 August 1939, he was given the title of Generalmajor in the context of nationwide celebrations intended to highlight the victory at Tannanberg a quarter century earlier. When he resigned from the army in 1922 Thaer was 54. He was appointed General Director and Legal Representative for the Silesian territories of the abdicated King of Saxony, |
7646135 | "Albrecht von Thaer"
Frederick Augustus III. On his abdication in 1918 the former king had relocated to his castle at near Oels, where he had the use of a country estate of agricultural land and forest amounting to around 20,000 hectares. Thaer moved in 1922 to a service apartment in nearby . His duties here came to an end in 1934, some two years after the death of Frederick Augustus. One of Thaer's last official duties was to organise the former king's funeral which took place in Dresden on 23 February 1932. By the time the ex-king died he and Thaer had become |
7646136 | "Albrecht von Thaer"
friends. Thaer now managed the ""Süßwinkel"" manor farm, which occupied approximately 1,000 hectares near Oels. The property had been purchased from the king's estate by the geologist Hans Merensky in 1934. The Merenskys were family friends: those of the von Thaer children closest in age to the Marensky siblings had spent childhood years together on the Pawonkau manor farm, while Alexander Merensky was away in South Africa working as a missionary doctor. In 1938 Hans Merensky gifted the Süßwinkel property to Albrecht von Thaer and his elder brother, Georg ""Süßwinkel"". It may be of relevance that Merensky had worked in |
7646137 | "Albrecht von Thaer"
South Africa during the 1920s. In 1924 he had discovered what has come to be called the Merensky Reef, an area of rock containing most of the world's known platinum deposits. This meant that, following a period of destitution, Hans Merensky was, by the 1930s, inordinately wealthy. Early in 1945, as another world war neared its end, the approach of the Soviet armies forced Albrecht von Thaer to flee to the west. He settled in Gronau, a short distance to the south of Hannover, and this is where, in Summer 1957, he died. His wife had already died back in |
7646138 | "Albrecht von Thaer"
1941. In 1895 Albrecht von Thaer married Elisabeth Walther-Weisbeck (1876–1941) in Wegeleben, where Elisabeth's father, August Walther-Weisbeck (1845–1925) served as a royal magistrate and ran a manor farm. The marriage resulted in one recorded son and three recorded daughters: In 1958 the historian published a book entitled ""Generalstabsdienst an der Front und in der O.H.L."" (""""General Staff Service on the frontline and in the Army High Command""""). The book consisted of extracts from Thaer's diaries and from his letters (mostly addressed to his wife) written during the First World War, to which Kaehler added his own commentary. Kaehler had the |
7646139 | "Albrecht von Thaer"
greatest difficulty in persuading Thaer to allow the publication of his diaries and letters: in the end he agreed to publication provided it should take place only after his death. (His wife predeceased him by sixteen years.) Thaer's position at the heart of power in the German army during the final part of the war, and his open-minded attitude bordering, sometimes, on criticism regarding the decisions of the army leadership mean that his records are excellent sources for historians re-evaluating the First World War. There have been critics who pointed out that the need for secrecy meant that even in |
7646140 | "Abbots of Shrewsbury"
important territorial magnates, the abbots were always called to take part in the sessions of Parliament from its very beginnings as an institution in 1265. As important figures in the Western Catholic Church, abbots were permitted by the Pope to wear the pontifical ring from 1251 and the mitre from 1397. For the earlier abbots, dating and detail are uncertain as most of the evidence comes from chroniclers, whose focus generally lay elsewhere, although Orderic Vitalis was close to events in the first few decades. Any chronicles of the abbey itself are lost. It is impossible to be sure that |
7646141 | "Albrecht von Thaer"
by Fourth Army army corps II, XIV and XV under General Rawlinson against positions held by the German 1st under General von Below. Relatively few of the 49 tanks that had originally been earmarked for the operation actually took part, and they made little difference in the fighting. But these Mark I British tanks would be progressively tested and improved as the war continued, and little by little their military significance would increase. Ludendorff greatly underestimated this new weapon, to such an extent that he allowed tank production in Germany to be throttled. Thaer was one of the first senior |
7646142 | "Albrecht von Thaer"
German officers to appreciate the potential danger that enemy tanks represented. As early as 30 January 1917 he notes, ""This question of the tanks continues to preoccupy me ... They are probably underestimated by the [German] high command"". The British tanks returned during the first part of 1917, this time as part of the Battle of Arras. Most directly affected on the German side was the IX Reserve Corps, in which at this point Thaer was serving as Chief of Staff. Although, to the extent that they failed to achieve their military objectives, the Battle of Arras was seen as |
7646143 | "Albrecht von Thaer"
a defeat for the British, Thaer's diaries show that he was confirmed in his critical view of German military leadership: ""Faced with the tanks, our infantry reacted with terror, and indeed they were right since they were defenceless. Infantry weapons made no impression. Now a weapon is on its way that should cut through, but sadly the folks at high command seem to incomprehensibly to underestimate the danger from the tanks"". As the war dragged on more thoroughly developed tanks were deployed. In 1918, for the first time, a large number of faster French Renault tanks appeared on the battlefield. |
7646144 | "Albrecht von Thaer"
""For the artillery an encounter with such beasts is almost as unequal as shooting deer with rifle shot"", wrote Thaer. Between 1915 and early 1918 Thaer was with the IX Reserve Corps which placed him directly on the frontline. He experienced the increasing psycholoigical and physical exhaustion of troops involved in . In a letter to his wife, dated 7 August 1917, he described the previous few days which had led, despite ferocuous fighting, to significant loss of land, and which had left the IX Reserve Corps, after fourteen days of unbroken military engagement, at the end of its powers. |
7646145 | "Abbots of Shrewsbury"
for example confirm Robert's gift of land at Baschurch to Fulchred, probably while the campaign against Robert in Shropshire and Staffordshire was still going on. However, when he was away, the children of donors tried to evade their obligations. For example, Siward the Fat, the original Anglo-Saxon founder of St Peter's church at Shrewsbury, had given up any claims he might have to the abbey site in return for a life-time grant from Earl Roger of the estate of ""Langafeld"", now Cheney Longville This should have passed to the abbey on his death but Fulchred had to pay Siward's son, |
7646146 | "Abbots of Shrewsbury"
Aldred, £15 before he would hand over the estate. Fulchred seems to have devoted much of his energy in his later years to this piecemeal defence of the abbey's endowments. The king vindicated Fulchred in a dispute with royal forest officials and also wrote to Richard de Belmeis I, his viceroy in the Welsh Marches and the lesser officials and barons of the region to make clear that the abbey was free of all customs, as in the days of Earl Roger and of his sons, Earl Hugh and Robert of Bellême. John Stow in the 16th century recorded that |
7646147 | "Albrecht von Thaer"
Thaer recalled a visit that the Kaiser made to the frontline: ""His majesty was finely attired, conducted himself most graciously, and spoke mostly about world affairs. It is better not to write down what he had to say about the war. His excellency von Boehn (the commanding general) turned deathly pale. [It is not clear] whether His Majesty has the faintest idea about the significance of this war [for Germany and] for him more directly, for his sceptre and crown, and indeed for the Hohenzollern dynasty."" Transferred to Supreme Army Command as Chief of Staff to the Quartermaster General at |
7646148 | "Albrecht von Thaer"
the end of April 1918, Thaer reported to Hindenburg and Ludendorff on 1 May 1918. He had already resolved that he would report openly on the frontline situation to the two men running the war. By that criterion he failed. The field-marshall hero of Tannenberg was sympathetic: ""My dear Mr von Thaer, your nerves have certainly been affected by the last few terrible weeks through which you have come. I think that the good spirits at Supreme Army Command will soon set you right"". Thaer encountered a similar, if less avuncular, reaction a little later when he reported to First |
7646149 | "Albrecht von Thaer"
Quartermaster General Erich Ludendorff: ""What's your game? What do you want me to do? Should I now make peace at any price?"" Thaer replied: ""Excellence, I said nothing about that. Ot is my duty - and it is a very painful duty - to point out that the condition of our troops is not going to improve, but will continue slowly to deteriorate"". Ludendorff persisted: ""If the condition of our troops is getting worse, if discipline is deteriorating, then that is your fault and the fault of all those field commanders who do not get it. How else can it |
7646150 | "Albrecht von Thaer"
be that entire divisions can found too drunk to fight, unable to implement the necessary advances. That is the explanation for the great March offensive, and now Operation Georgette, not progressing further. In the months that followed, even as he continued to admire Ludendorff's qualities as a military leader, it is apparent that Thaer was increasingly conscious of Ludendorff'a failure to recognise military reality. But at a certain point Ludendorff also became aware that the war was lost. After Ludendorff presented explanations to the General Staff officers, the meanings of which can be inferred beyond doubt from Thaer's report of |
7646151 | "Albrecht von Thaer"
them, it became Thaer's job to spell out the situation back to Ludendorff. Thaer asked Ludendorff of he would now deliver the armistice proposal to the enemy leadership. Ludendorff's reply: ""No, certainly not."" Disagreement persists over who originated the metaphor of a ""stab in the back"" as an explanation for losing the First World War. What emerges clearly from Thaer's observations is that the idea of off-loading responsibility for military defeat away from the military leadership originated in the Supreme Army Command. Even though Hindenburg and Ludendorff tried to shift the blame for the threatened defeat - and therefore the |
7646152 | "Albrecht von Thaer"
failure of their own predications to come true - during the later years of the war, away from the army, there was not at this point any talk of a planned or treacherous conspiracy. But there was talk of the forces having been let down by shortcomings on the homefront, whereby inadequate soldiers and insufficient war resources had been supplied by the civilian authorities. Thaer quotes Ludendorff on 1 October 1918: ""Right now we have no chancellor. Whoever gets appointed, there are things that need to be done. But I have asked His Majesty to bring into government those whom |
7646153 | "Abbots of Shrewsbury"
Lilleshall Abbey, which was later allowed to appropriate it: Lilleshall was a major rival to Shrewsbury. Earlier authorities gave Robert's year of death as 1167 but 1168 is now generally accepted, as it is the year given in the Annals of Tewkesbury Abbey. It seems likely he died and was buried at Shrewsbury Abbey. Adam seems to have been preoccupied by the need to build up the abbey's collection of relics. He is known to have visited Canterbury for this purpose. It was probably he who brought back an entire rochet of Thomas Becket, as well as part of another |
7646154 | "Albrecht von Thaer"
- again, backed by Ludendorff - driven, primarily, by domestic political motives, which purported to blame the revolutionary activists who came to the fore in November 1918 and, more generally, democratic politicians for Germany's military defeat. That was also foreshadowed in Ludendorff's assertions on 1 October 1918: ""Sadly our own army is already infected by the poison of spartakist-socialist ideas. The troops can no longer be relied upon ... you could not operate with military divisions that could not be relied upon"". The assertion that the German army had in reality been victorious, or at least undefeated (""""im Felde unbesiegt"""") |
7646155 | "Albrecht von Thaer"
when it was stabbed in October/November 1918, and the associated narrative of the so-called became a heavy political mortgage for what came to be called, after 1933, the Weimar republic, first by its detractors and later more generally. As the 1920s progressed the Dolchstoß legend, allied war guilt and the involvement of Jewish forces were crafted into a persuasive cocktail which meant that by the time the Second World War entered its end phase in 1944/45, the German officer corps for the most part avoided taking any measures which might be seen as hostile to the Nazi régime. The Dolchstoß |
7646156 | "Albrecht von Thaer"
legend also served as justification for the government's 1938 . Albrecht von Thaer Albrecht von Thaer (2 June 1868 - 23 June 1957) was a German General Staff Officer and of the last King of Saxony. He came to prominence in connection with his successful participation in the controversial in 1892 and, later, on account of his First World War diaries, when these were published posthumously. Albrecht Georg Otto von Thaer was born in Panten a small town in the flat lands a short distance to the west of Breslau (as Wrocław was known at that time), the eldest of |
7646157 | "Ecclesiae Sanctae"
Ecclesiae Sanctae ""Ecclesiae Sanctae – """"(Governing) of the Holy Church"" – is an apostolic letter or ""Motu proprio"" issued by Pope Paul VI on August 6, 1966. Paul wrote this letter on how to implement the Vatican Council, especially as regards the conciliar documents ""Christus Dominus"" (On the Pastoral Office of Bishops), ""Presbyterorum Ordinis"" (On the Life and Ministry of Priests), ""Perfectae Caritatis"" (On the Adaptation and Renewal of Religious Life), and ""Ad Gentes"" (On the Missionary Activity of the Church). An important new regulation announced in this document is the provision that all (arch)bishops and Curial officials, from October |
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it caused, Henry III exercised his right to present a cleric to the abbey's church at Hodnet on 4 August 1244. Adam's abbacy is notable mainly for a papal bull the abbey obtained in 1246, setting out a long list of grievances it had against Lilleshall Abbey and various others, including clerics of its own Diocese of Lichfield and of the Diocese of Hereford. The pope, Innocent IV, authorised the Dean of Lichfield and the Precentor to hold a meeting to settle matters. Adam resigned the abbacy in 1250 and Henry III, then at Westminster, authorised an election on 2 |
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norms for the bishops in order to obtain a suitable distribution of the clergy,"" both in their own area and for the benefit of mission countries. Seminarians are to be imbued with a concern for the global mission of he Church, and not only for he mission of their own diocese. An example of implementation of this would be The Archdiocese of St. Louis (USA) sending 45 priests to Bolivia over the next 60 years. Vatican II's call for all Catholics to be missionary disciples would be advanced further by Paul VI's Apostolic Letter of 1975, ""Evangelii Nuntiandi."" ""Ecclasiae Sanctae"" |
7646160 | "Ecclesiae Sanctae"
in line with the Vatican II decrees required that a council of priests be established and recommended that a pastoral council – of clerics, religious, and laity – also be established. Both are advisory to the bishop and have only a consultative vote. Ecclesiae Sanctae ""Ecclesiae Sanctae – """"(Governing) of the Holy Church"" – is an apostolic letter or ""Motu proprio"" issued by Pope Paul VI on August 6, 1966. Paul wrote this letter on how to implement the Vatican Council, especially as regards the conciliar documents ""Christus Dominus"" (On the Pastoral Office of Bishops), ""Presbyterorum Ordinis"" (On the Life |
7646161 | "Abbots of Shrewsbury"
The king had simply responded to the ecclesiastical initiatives that came his way. Nevertheless, the chronicler of Tewkesbury Abbey, another major Benedictine house, accused him of intruding William into Shrewsbury Abbey. After this point abbots were always elected from within the Shrewsbury convent itself. In March 1251, the Pope, then resident in Lyon, provided Henry, a monk from Evesham Abbey, as a replacement for William, annulling what the bishop had done. William was commanded to keep silent on the matter and to hand over to Henry the abbey and the income he had received. The abbot of Evesham was told |
7646162 | Thottupoyil
boundary is covered with two villages namely Cherankuth and Manhappatta. There is a Government LP School situated in the middle of the village with the age of around 50 years and is availed primary education to the elder villagers.There are two main Mosques situated at the eastern and western side of Thottupoyil. Thottupoyil Thottupoyil is a small village in Malappuram district, Kerala, India, situated 5 km north of Manjeri. The eastern area of Thottupoyil is the part of Manjeri municipality and western area is the part of Thrikkalangode grama Panchayath. There are continuous bus services to Thottupoyil from Manjeri city |
7646163 | "Abbots of Shrewsbury"
that year the king acknowledged that the abbey had licence to hold an election. The abbey's prior and sacristan had been deputed to present the monks' choice to the king: he duly gave his assent and requested confirmation by the bishop. Thomas, the newly elected abbot, had previously been the abbey's precentor. On 10 January 1259 the king issued a writ ""de intendendo"" to the abbey's tenants, calling on them to accept Thomas as abbot and lord, An important grant issued by the king in 1267 makes clear that Thomas led the abbey in supporting Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl |
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of Leicester, during the Second Barons' War. As a tenant-in-chief, Thomas was summoned to Simon de Montfort's Parliament. Thomas was dead by 18 May 1266, when the king at Northampton received news of the event and issued a licence for an election. Eleven days later the king approved the installation of a new vicar for the parish church at Edgmond, where Shrewsbury Abbey held the advowson, as the abbacy was still vacant. Henry III issued a writ ""de intendendo"" in favour of William from Kenilworth on 11 August 1266 and followed this up with a request that the tenants grant |
7646165 | "Abbots of Shrewsbury"
him a relief to help meet the abbey's debts. In September 1267 the king was in Shrewsbury and, in return for a fine of 50 marks, gave the abbey the right to administer its own goods and estaes during the next vacancy, a great boon as it generally fell under royal control during such periods. It was also announced: William probably died late in 1271, as two Shrewsbury monks, Luke of Wenlock and Philip of Pershore, on 27 December obtained a licence to hold an election from the king at Winchester. Luke, one of the monks who took news of |
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William de Upton's death to the king, was himself soon elected abbot. Henry III both assented to the election and issued a writ ""de intendendo"" in his favour on 24 January 1272 at the Tower of London. In March 1274 Luke was granted protection to travel overseas by Edward I so that he could attend the Second Council of Lyon, which tried unsuccessfully to bridge the East–West Schism. By 1275 he had bought for the abbey a house in the parish of St Ethelburga in Bishopsgate for use by abbots on parliamentary business. He earmarked the rental income from this |
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London house, a new mill at Baschurch, and four houses in Abbey Foregate to support the abbey kitchen as a chantry for himself. Luke took an active part in tax farming, a potentially lucrative activity. In 1277 Shrewsbury Abbey was used as a centre for collecting and disbursing the product of a fifteenth. Luke and the sheriff were ordered to transfer very large sums at frequent intervals to royal servants: £500 on 24 March, £318 on 30 March, and £304 6s. on 25 April. The abbey lands were taken into the hands of the king in 1278 for an unspecified |
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act of contempt by the abbot and held by the Sheriff of Staffordshire, the king's escheator in Shropshire. The estates were released on 18 June after payment of a fine of 50 marks. However, the receipts from the period of sequestration were handed over, so the fine seems to have been the limit of the loss. Luke must have resigned late in 1278. Two Shrewsbury monks, Richard of Wenlock (possibly a relative) and Richard Ludlow, took the news to the king at Windsor Castle and received a licence to elect a new abbot on 3 January 1279. Royal assent was |
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given at Westminster for John de Drayton's election on 24 January 1279. and the writ ""de intendendo"" followed on 11 February from Woodstock Palace. In 1280 Archbishop John Peckham carried out a canonical visitation of the abbey. He was particularly interested in the charters and deeds supporting the convent's rights over various properties: he kept the number small because of the fragility of many of the documents. After inspecting the instruments, the archbishop pronounced himself satisfied. However, the abbey clearly had financial problems. In May 1281 the king ordered the abbot to pay 20 marks annually towards £63 8s. 8d. |
7646170 | "Line sampling"
the variance obtained by line sampling is always smaller than that obtained by conventional Monte Carlo simulation, and hence the line sampling algorithm converges more quickly . The rate of convergence is made quicker still by recent advancements which allow the importance direction to be repeatedly updated throughout the simulation, and this is known as adaptive line sampling . The algorithm is particularly useful for performing reliability analysis on computationally expensive industrial black box models, since the limit state function can be non-linear and the number of samples required is lower than for other reliability analysis techniques such as Subset |
7646171 | "Line sampling"
simulation . The algorithm can also be used to efficiently propagate epistemic uncertainty in the form of probability boxes, or random sets . A numerical implementation of the method is available in the open source software OpenCOSSAN . Line sampling Line sampling is a method used in reliability engineering to compute small (i.e., rare event) failure probabilities encountered in engineering systems. The method is particularly suitable for high-dimensional reliability problems, in which the performance function exhibits moderate non-linearity with respect to the uncertain parameters The method is suitable for analyzing Black box systems, and unlike the Importance sampling method of |
7646172 | "New Residence, South Australia"
New Residence, South Australia New Residence is a locality on the left bank of the Murray River between Loxton and Kingston On Murray in South Australia's Riverland region. The main industry is grape growing and fruit orchards. New Residence was first established as a Village settlement with a population of 75 in the last decade of the nineteenth century. These were set up as communes by the Government of South Australia as part of a scheme to mitigate the effects of the economic depression. However, New Residence only lasted as a village settlement for three years before it failed due |
7646173 | "New Residence, South Australia"
to the settlers not having the skills and ability needed to make it a success. It was then taken up by a private lessee. By 1917, a Lutheran school had been established, as it had 30 students when it was closed by the state government due to the anti-German sentiment during World War I. New Residence also has a Lutheran church. New Residence, South Australia New Residence is a locality on the left bank of the Murray River between Loxton and Kingston On Murray in South Australia's Riverland region. The main industry is grape growing and fruit orchards. New Residence |
7646174 | "James A. Belson"
James A. Belson James A. Belson (born September 23, 1931) was a judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia and the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and raised in Washington, D.C., Belson graduated from Gonzaga College High School in 1949. In the 1950s, he earned bachelor's and law degrees from Georgetown University and worked as a law clerk for prominent D.C. lawyer Edward Bennett Williams and federal appeals judge E. Barrett Prettyman. He spent three years in the United States Army as a JAG and then returned to Washington, where he became |
7646175 | "James A. Belson"
a partner at Hogan & Hartson. In 1968, President Johnson appointed Belson to the District of Columbia Court of General Sessions, which became the Superior Court of the District of Columbia in 1971. After thirteen years on the Superior Court bench, Belson was elevated to the District of Columbia Court of Appeals in 1981. The Washington Post described him as ""a widely respected legal writer and jurist."" He was a candidate for chief judge in 1984 and 1988, but the District of Columbia Judicial Nomination Commission instead chose William C. Pryor and Judith W. Rogers, respectively. Belson took senior status |
7646176 | "Abbots of Shrewsbury"
gains while leading the community through very difficult times. The economic crisis of the early 14th century forced the abbey into adaptations. One strategy, presumably pioneered by Abbot William, was to shed the risks of demesne farming in favour of the secure income stream from leases: the abbey's Shropshire demesnes contracted from 21 carucates in 1291 to 12 in 1355. In the early 1320s, Bishop Roger Northburgh carried out a canonical visitation and listed a number of failings. The abbot and his officials were not rendering account as demanded by the constitutions of the abbey: Northburgh recommended this should be |
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done formally at least once, preferably twice, a year before the entire chapter. There was a requirement to read aloud twice annually a compilation of Papal ordinances on monastic conduct: this was not being done and Northburgh demanded that the practice be observed or the prior would be suspended. He noted that liveries (benefits in the form of clothes) and corrodies (annuities conferring maintenance at the abbey) were out of control and ordered that no more be sold or granted without diocesan consent. Too many monks were absent from the daily refectory: Northburgh prescribed ¾ of the chapter as the |
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norm. Finally, novices were too often allowed out of the monastery site before they had learnt the Rule. However, a list of this kind was not exceptional and signified generally good discipline. A specific incident of disobedience did, however, irritate the bishop, perhaps at about the same time. In February 1324 Northburgh wrote to Muckley to rehearse the case of William de Coventre, a Shrewsbury monk who had rebelled against monastic discipline and left the abbey. He had repented and even asked to be transferred to a stricter order. This proved impossible, so he had asked for readmission to Shrewsbury. |
7646179 | "Mundaring Hotel"
and hosted the local masonic lodge and progress committee. Mundaring was considered a healthy retreat from Perth and the goldfields, with ""nature to be seen in its primitive state all around"", and the ""Mundaring Hotel"" was a popular place to stay during the holidays. Mundaring was seen as a major attraction for Perth. In 1914, whilst on a tour to inspect the Australian Army, Sir Ian Hamilton, Premier John Scaddan, Minister for Lands Thomas Bath, Chief of the General Staff Brigadier-General Joseph Gordon and Commandant of the 5th Military District Colonel Godfrey Irving, visited Mundaring and lunched at the Mundaring |
7646180 | "Mundaring Hotel"
Hotel. At times the licensees names were part of the common name of the hotel, like in 1917, when it was known as 'Richardsons'. The Hotel is a two storey Federation Free Style building and has landmark qualities. The first floor verandas and balustrades still overhang the footpath and have not been removed as has been the fate of most of the hotels throughout the State. The verandas wrap around the street frontage from Nichol Street to Jacoby Street, terminating at a projecting 'residents' entry featuring narrow, arched windows and door. The corrugated iron roof is painted red and has |
7646181 | "Mundaring Hotel"
a simple hipped form punctuated by two, relatively tall brick chimneys with decorative rendered mouldings. The Mundaring Hotel is positioned prominently in the old heart of Mundaring, opposite the Railway Reserves Heritage Trail and on the adjacent corner of the Mundaring Hall. The Mundaring Hotel has very high visual, social and historic significance and is a local landmark with its associations with the old heart of Mundaring and prominent people involved with the development of the district. In 1997 the Mundaring Hotel was categorised as having exceptional significance on the Shire of Mundaring municipal inventory and in 2016 was listed |
7646182 | "Mundaring Hotel"
on Western Australia’s Heritage Register for the contribution made by the place to Western Australia’s cultural heritage. Mundaring Hotel The Mundaring Hotel was opened in 1899 in Mundaring, a hills suburb of Perth, Western Australia. On 22 October 1898, soon after the Mundaring townsite was gazetted in May 1898, Henry Hummerston, then licensee of the ""Helena Vale Hotel"" in Midland, acquired land on the corner of Nichol Street and Jacoby Street close to the newly-built Mundaring Railway Station. In April 1899, the first publican Albert Maddock, opened the for business and the Hotel quickly became a very fashionable weekend retreat. |
7646183 | "Martin P7M SubMaster"
Martin P7M SubMaster The Martin P7M was an unbuilt aircraft designed by the Glenn L. Martin Company in the 1950s. The design was initiated to meet a requirement of the United States Navy (USN) for an anti-submarine warfare flying boat. The design was for a flying boat that would make use of boundary layer control (BLC) to achieve slow speed flight. It was intended that this would enable the aircraft to land on the open ocean in rough seas and deploy a dipping sonar. Martin proposed a variant of the P5M Marlin, the P5M-3, to take advantage of this phenomenon. |
7646184 | "Martin P7M SubMaster"
Martin continued development of the P5M-3 under the designation P7M Submaster, introducing two General Electric J85 BLC gas generators, one in the rear of each outer engine nacelle. A mock-up was built, but the P7M, Convair XP6Y and Grumman G-132 were all cancelled when the US Navy abandoned their open-ocean seaplane requirement. Martin P7M SubMaster The Martin P7M was an unbuilt aircraft designed by the Glenn L. Martin Company in the 1950s. The design was initiated to meet a requirement of the United States Navy (USN) for an anti-submarine warfare flying boat. The design was for a flying boat that |
7646185 | "Menachem Mendel Hager"
Menachem Mendel Hager Rabbi Menachem Mendel Hager (born November 28, 1957) is one of the two Grand Rabbis of the Vizhnitz Hasidic dynasty in Bnei Brak and a current member of Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah (Council of great Torah Sages) of the Agudat Yisrael movement. Rabbi Mendel was born in Israel to Grand Rabbi Moshe Yehoshua Hager, the previous spiritual leader of the Vizhnitzer Hassidim and to Rebbetzin Leah Esther; the daughter of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Paneth of Deyzh who perished in the Holocaust, and after who Rabbi Mendel was named. He is the youngest of six siblings. As a child, |
7646186 | "Menachem Mendel Hager"
he received his education in the Vizhnitz educational institutions. About a year after his Bar Mitzvah he traveled to the United States to study in the Skverer Yeshiva. In 1976 he married Rebbetzin Miriam, daughter of Rabbi Avrohom Dovid Horowitz (deceased) who served as the Chief Rabbi of the Ultra-orthodox community in Strasbourg France, and later as a member of the Edah HaChareidis in Jerusalem. There was a period of tension between Rabbi Mendel and his older brother Grand Rabbi Yisroel Hager on the issue of leadership of their father's followers, and over the inheritance. In 1984, their father Rabbi |
7646187 | "Menachem Mendel Hager"
Moshe Yehoshua Hager removed the older brother Rabbi Yisroel from his main post as Chief Rabbi of Vizhnitz, and expelled him from the Vizhnitz community as well. In 1990, on the orders of Rabbi Moshe Yehoshua, Rabbi Mendel was crowned to serve as a Chief Rabbi of The Vizhnitzer Hassidim and also was destined to become his father's heir and to take over the leadership. In 2002 the older brother Rabbi Yisroel returned to Vizhnitz and was given back his post and reconciled with his father. The overwhelming majority of the Hassidim supported Rabbi Yisroel, and only a few hundred |
7646188 | "Abbots of Shrewsbury"
into disrepair ""not by their fault but, but by the mailce of the time and the scarcity of workmen."" However, he was impressed by their adaptations, and described the newly acquired Lythwood as a ""perpetual jewel."" He found the abbey's discipline a laudable contrast to conditions at Haughmond, Lilleshall and Wombridge, the nearby Augustinian houses. He recounted his pleasure at hearing ""their conversation according to the traditions of the holy fathers and the canonical statutes."" Adam de Clebury died the following year, although the cause is unknown. The king heard of his death and issued the licence for an election |
7646189 | "Abbots of Shrewsbury"
on 22 July 1355. The election of Henry de Alston received the royal assent on 3 August 1355 The mandate to restore his temporalities and the writ to the tenants were issued on 11 August. The breakdown in order in this period must have been marked and it affected the abbey. A year after Henry's consecration Robert Corbet and three other local notables were commissioned to investigate the ""homicides, robberies, felonies and trespasses done by William Hord, monk of Shrewsbury, and others of his confederacy."" However, in 1358 the tables were turned when raiders attacked and entered the abbey, abducted |
7646190 | "Scoundrels (novel)"
available in December 2017 and a third printing of the second edition in February 2018. A third edition, with further minor textual changes, was distributed in November 2018. Revolving around the infamous gentlemen's club of Piccadilly, ""Scoundrels"" is the memoirs of the disreputable, antagonistic and unreconstructed Majors Victor Cornwall and St. John Trevelyan. The book relies on a complex conceit, that both Cornwall and Trevelyan were unhappy at the prospect of the other beginning work on an autobiography, for fear of their reputation being sullied. As their lives had been so horribly intertwined since their schooldays, the Majors eventually agreed |
7646191 | "Scoundrels (novel)"
to write a chapter each, in turn, of a joint autobiography. Scoundrels is epistolary - structured as a series of letters between the Majors, within which are chapters from their shared history. These letters contain a great number of astonishing adventures including panda hunting with the last Chinese Emperor, the storming of the Nazi Castle Klung Hammer and the heist of a Picasso painting. The book is very rude and contains adult themes of sex, violence, revenge and medical procedures carried out in unsanitary conditions, and therefore the editors are keen that this book should be kept well away from |
7646192 | "Scoundrels (novel)"
children. As an extra precaution, children should be kept well away from this book. ""Scoundrels Volume One"" aka, 'Scoundrels', covers the years 1931–1951. The book has received universally positive reviews for its humour, lightness of touch, imaginative storylines and for the combative relationship between Majors Cornwall and Trevelyan. The ""Daily Telegraph"" called it ""immensely satisfying... a panda-hunting, Everest-climbing, Nazi-castle- storming adventure."" Mark Time, author of ""Going Commando"", said it was ""seriously hilarious. The book I wish I could write. An ingeniously crafted farce that blunderbusses its way around the world in a rollicking mix of absurdity and brilliance."" The book |
7646193 | "Scoundrels (novel)"
has received numerous five star reviews on amazon.co.uk and many favorable ratings at Waterstones, Foyles and Goodreads.com. In August 2017 ""The Chap"" Magazine published a full page review of Scoundrels, by Mark Mason: ""The trouble with most spoof biographies is that they don't concentrate enough on the 'biography' aspect. So desperate are they to get you laughing that they throw a million gags in your face, completely forgetting to make the central character interesting or even believable. The core genius of Scoundrels is that its authors have avoided that mistake. Right from page one, you love Major Victor Cornwall and |
7646194 | "Scoundrels (novel)"
Major Arthur St John Trevelyan, despite - or rather because of- the fact that they're grade one, nailed-on, ocean-going shits... Its the book's exquisite over-the-topness that keeps you coming back for more."" ""Scoundrels"" has provoked some interest in the value of ""male banter"" and about joint-writing enterprises, in both the ""Daily Telegraph"" and ""The Independent"" newspapers. The ""Daily Telegraph"" reported that ""Scoundrels captures the essence of this humour as therapy. It celebrates a blokey, showboating spirit, outrageous boastfulness and sheer idiocy as elements that are vital to male happiness."" It quoted Peak as saying: ""I'd say humour is at the |
7646195 | "Scoundrels (novel)"
heart of most male friendships. Some blokes get together to play squash, some go down the pub, others tinker with motorbikes, but a lot of that time they are thinking 'how can I make these idiots laugh?'"" and Crowe explaining: """"getting a laugh from someone is always gratifying – but even more so when you respect their sense of humour. It's a kind of validation. You make another bloke laugh who is your peer and their laughter is a recognition of truth. It's good for the soul."" In July 2017 Peak gave a radio interview to Hannah Murray's ""The Book |
7646196 | "Scoundrels (novel)"
Show"" on Talk Radio Europe about the challenges of writing a novel with a partner in which he revealed that the experience had proved ""so enervating"" that ""Scoundrels Volume Two"" will be published in September 2018. He also revealed that the authors have planned Cornwall and Trevelyan's life stories as ""at least a trilogy"" of novels, each to be more surprising, sordid and hilarious than the last. In April 2018 Turnaround's publishing schedule reported that Scoundrels 'Volume Two: The Hunt For Hansclapp', to cover the years 1952-1974, would be published in the UK, on September 6th 2018. The second instalment |
7646197 | "Scoundrels (novel)"
sees The Majors bickering and boasting as they encounter kidnapping in the Congo, manslaughter on the Orient Express and romance at the Stasi Christmas Party. The second book was published to excellent reviews in the Daily Mail (""What larks! All competently executed!"") and in November was one of The Spectator Magazine's Books of the Year ""The highlight in fiction was Scoundrels: The Hunt For Handclap... Duncan Crowe and James Peak once again pull off the balancing act achieved by only the very best spoofs - making it real enough to be believable, ridiculous enough to be funny."" One reviewer, Sarah |
7646198 | "Scoundrels (novel)"
Douglas, wanted ""to have a disastrous marriage with this book,"" describing it as ""great fun and perfectly done."" In October 2018, Farrago Press took over as the Scoundrels series e-book publisher. Crowe and Peak made appearances at several branches of Waterstones and Foyles in London and the South East of England, to sign copies of the books. In late November 2018, the second volume was nominated for the Literary Review's Bad Sex in Fiction Award, for ""author(s) who ... produced an outstandingly bad scene of sexual description in an otherwise good novel."" Crowe and Peak are delighted to be considered |
7646199 | "Scoundrels (novel)"
for this award, which has been previously won by John Updike, AA Gill, Ben Okri, Melvyn Bragg, Tom Wolfe and Norman Mailer. A third novel, to complete the Majors' ""canon trilogy"", is due to be published in early 2020, by Farrago and Black Door Press. After this, Crowe and Peak intend to create a ""universe of content, further exploring the Scoundrels Club's legacy of solving appalling diplomatics crises that The Crown and Whitehall refuse to touch, from the seventeenth century onwards."" Scoundrels (novel) Scoundrels is a comic adventure novel first published in 2017, by Major Victor Cornwall and Major Arthur |
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