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2033668 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twill%20tape | Twill tape | Twill tape or twilled tape is a flat herringbone twill-woven fabric tape or ribbon of cotton, linen, polyester, or wool. It may be used in sewing and tailoring to reinforce seams, make casings, bind edges, and make sturdy ties for closing garments (for example, on hospital gowns). Twill tape is also used in theatre to tie curtains, cable and scenery to various objects, or to tie cable coils so that they do not unroll. |
12899862 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monnina%20haughtii | Monnina haughtii | Monnina haughtii is a species of plant in the family Polygalaceae. It is endemic to Ecuador. |
27826178 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willis%20C.%20Cook | Willis C. Cook | Willis Clifford Cook (October 5, 1874 – January 4, 1942) was a United States diplomat and a politician in the State of South Dakota.
Biography
Cook was born to Alfred and Sarah Cook in Gratiot, Wisconsin. In 1899 he married Mary Butler Miller.
Career
Cook was County Judge of Aurora County, South Dakota from 1900 to 1902. Later he was a member of the South Dakota State Senate from 1905 to 1909. He was Chairman of the Republican Party of South Dakota from 1906 to 1912 and a Republican National Committeeman from 1916 to 1920. From 1921 to 1929 he was U.S. Minister to Venezuela. |
19015908 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronis%C5%82awka%2C%20Pu%C5%82awy%20County | Bronisławka, Puławy County | Bronisławka is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kurów, within Puławy County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies approximately north of Kurów, east of Puławy, and north-west of the regional capital Lublin. |
52110813 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science%20in%20Action | Science in Action | Science in Action may refer to:
Science in Action (book), 1987 book by Bruno Latour
Science in Action (TV series) television program produced by the California Academy of Sciences
Science in Action (radio programme), radio programme produced by the BBC World Service |
27062506 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasures%20of%20the%20Snow | Treasures of the Snow | Treasures of the Snow is a children's story book by Patricia St. John. Originally published by CSSM in 1950, it has been reprinted over a dozen times by various publishers, including braille versions published by the Royal National Institute for the Blind in 1959 and by the Queensland Braille Writing Association in 1996. The book is still in print today.
Over the years it has been translated into and published in many languages, including French, Hungarian, Finnish, Danish, Chinese, Czech, German, Greek, Italian, Vietnamese, Korean, Mari, Faroese, Polish, Welsh, Serbian, Bosnian, Romanian and Russian. An audiobook version in English was produced by Blackstone Audio in October 2005, available in CD, MP3 and audio cassette formats.
Background
Treasures of the Snow was Patricia St. John's second book, started soon after the end of World War II. The theme was forgiveness – as she wrote in her autobiography: "The world was settling down after the war, but as the atrocities came to light there was so much anger and hatred. I remembered the boys coming back from the war to wives who had proved unfaithful. I remembered the faces of those who had seen the first photographic exhibition of the horrors of Belsen and the state of the bombed cities of Europe; the resentment of those who could not forgive others, the remorse of those who could not forgive themselves, and I knew that this generation of children needed, above all things, to learn the meaning of forgiveness".
The story is set in Switzerland, where the author spent some time as a child, and is written for children aged eight and above. The narrative is centred on three children, and explores love, hatred, death, disability, repentance, self-sacrifice, forgiveness and reconciliation. Woven through the story runs a frank description of the children's thoughts, motives, struggles, feelings and fears as well as their prayers and their developing Christian faith.
Plot summary
Annette Burnier lives with her father, elderly grandmother and young brother Dani in a small village in the Swiss mountains. When she is eight years old her mother dies just after Dani's birth, and since the family is too poor to afford a nanny, Annette takes the responsibility upon herself, arranging with the schoolmaster to study at home under her grandmother's guidance. When Dani is old enough for her to return to school, she does well and often gains top marks. On Dani's fifth Christmas, he puts his slipper outside in the snow, hoping that Father Christmas will bring him a present. In the morning, to everyone's astonishment, a tiny white kitten has snuggled into the slipper. Dani calls him Klaus and the two become inseparable.
Further up the mountain in the next chalet, Annette's classmate Lucien Morel lives with his elder sister Marie and their widowed mother. Lucien finds schoolwork difficult and is frustrated that he is often bottom of the class. He also resents having to help around the home and farm with all the tasks that his father would have done, and his mother and sister criticise his laziness.
Conflict flares one day when Lucien is sledging down to school and accidentally collides with Annette's sledge, throwing her into a ditch full of snow. Out of resentment at her success in school, he doesn't stop to help her, but speeds off to school instead. When she arrives late, cold, wet and grazed, with torn wet books, Annette has to explain what happened. Lucien is caned by the schoolmaster, and ostracised by the rest of the class. While on his way home he vents his frustration by kicking over a snowman Dani has built, causing Annette to run out and slap his face and shout angrily at him.
Lucien's increasing loneliness and festering hurt is directed at Annette and looks for opportunities for revenge. When he sees Dani in a meadow picking flowers for Annette's birthday one day, he grabs the flowers and tramples on them. Then afraid Dani would get him into trouble, he picks up Klaus and holds him out over a deep ravine, threatening (but not intending) to drop the kitten unless Dani promises not to tell. Klaus, however, scratches Lucien, and he lets go by accident. Dani rushes across and falls over the cliff into the ravine while trying to save his kitten. Lucien is terrified and griefstricken, convinced that Dani is dead, and flees home to hide in the barn, unable to face his family. When the worried families find Lucien, he confesses what had happened. Dani's father uses a rope to climb down the ravine and finds Dani still alive at the bottom, but with a broken leg. Dani's leg heals badly, shorter than the other leg, leaving him permanently unable to walk without crutches.
The whole village hears about Lucien's involvement with Dani's accident, and he becomes an outcast. Working hard around the home and farm helps him stop brooding for a while, and his mother praises him for this while his sister becomes kinder to him. But his real solace is to climb to the woods and spend time alone, carving little figures out of wood, which he finds he has a real talent for. Here he meets and makes friends with an old man who lives alone in a tiny chalet high above the village, whose only income comes from selling his own woodcarvings. He mentors Lucien and let him use his woodcarving tools, helping him improve his skills. He also confides in Lucien his life story. As a young man he had been happily married with two young sons and a good job in a bank, but then got into bad company and became addicted to alcohol and gambling. To pay the family's debts he stole from the bank and ended up in prison. His wife died, but his sons were adopted by their grandparents and became very successful. When he got out of prison, he did not want his sons' futures jeopardised by being associated with a criminal, so let them assume he was dead. He had lived alone on the mountain for many years and saved a lot of money from the beautiful woodcarvings he sold, similar to the amount he had stolen. He could not repay the people he had stolen from, since he did not know who they were, but his hope was that instead he might be able to use the money to help someone in need.
Lucien is constantly burdened by the guilt of what he had done to Dani, but Annette's hatred towards him makes it impossible for him to do anything to try and right it. He carves a Noah's Ark full of little animals for Dani, but Annette simply throws it on the woodpile when he tries to deliver it. Lucien also decides to enter one of his carvings for the hand-craft competition at school, but shortly before the competition Annette secretly smashes the carved horse out of spite, but goes on to wins the girls' competition while a boy named Pierre won the boys'. Because of their guilt and bitterness, neither Annette nor Lucien can find peace of mind or happiness.
One night Annette goes out for a walk alone, slips on ice and sprains her ankle very badly. She struggles to the nearest chalet but the owners were away and being unable to walk, finds herself in danger of freezing to death. To her relief Lucien skis past while on his way home from visiting his old friend. She calls for help and he gives her his cloak while he goes home to fetch a sledge. When he returns, Annette confesses to him about breaking his carved horse, but instead of being angry Lucien forgives her and takes her home on the sledge, where Annette invites him in. Later Annette confesses to the schoolmaster, and they agree that he should present her prize to Lucien.
The enmity is over, but Lucien still feels troubled with guilt about Dani's disability. One evening Lucien's sister, who commutes by train to work in a hotel in the nearest town, comes home with a generous tip from a famous orthopaedic surgeon, Monsieur Givet, who is staying at the hotel. Intrigued, Lucien asks whether he can make Dani better, but is told the doctor is leaving the hotel for home early the next morning, and that his fees are far too expensive. Undeterred, Lucien creeps out of the house that night in a blizzard and goes to talk with his friend the old man, telling him about Monsieur Givet and that he might be able to cure Dani. The old man gives Lucien a sock full of banknotes to pay for the treatment, but makes him promise to not tell the doctor where the money was obtained, telling Lucien "Just tell him that it is the payment of a debt." Lucien attempts to climb and ski to the town, which involves crossing a high mountain pass. Despite the atrocious weather he reaches the hotel about 5 am. Monsieur Givet goes with Lucien to visit Dani, and offers to treat him in his hospital. But before he leaves the village, he asks Lucien's sister where the old man lived that Lucien knew, and goes to visit him. He recognises the old man as his father and invites him to come home after telling him how much he had missed him.
Annette goes with Dani to stay in the hospital. His fractured leg is re-broken and set properly, and Dani returns home able to walk and run like any little boy. Everybody is reunited with each other as spring arrives.
Adaptations
A film Treasures of the Snow, written and directed by Mike Pritchard and based on the book was filmed in Switzerland and released in 1980. He also adapted Tanglewood's Secret.
A Japanese anime series, based on the book and entitled Story of the Alps: My Annette (アルプス物語 わたしのアンネット), was produced in 1983 by Kōzō Kusuba at Nippon Animation and has been broadcast in 48 weekly episodes in Japan, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Arab World, Poland, Iran and the Philippines.
A stage version, adapted by Barbara Solly, was published in Bristol around 1980. |
50027567 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat%20Hilton | Pat Hilton | Pat Hilton (born 1 May 1954) is an English former football player and manager. He played in The Football League with several noted clubs like Blackburn Rovers, and Gillingham. After retiring from football he made the transition to managing, and coached the Windsor Border Stars of the Canadian Professional Soccer League.
Playing career
Hilton began his career with Brighton & Hove Albion in the Football League Third Division in 1972, and played under the management of Brian Clough, and Peter Taylor. In 1974, he signed with Blackburn Rovers, and won the Football League Third Division which promoted the club to the Football League Second Division. The following year he signed with Gillingham, where he appeared in 28 matches and recorded one goal. In 1976, he was loaned to Aldershot where he appeared in 13 matches. In 1977, he signed a contract with Southport, and finished with the club with 27 matches, and recorded five goals.
Managerial career
After retiring from competitive football Hilton managed Gillingham's youth team, and later moved to Michigan. In 2004, he was appointed the first head coach for the newly formed Windsor Border Stars of the Canadian Professional Soccer League. In his debut season with Windsor he led the team to a third-place finish in the Western Conference, and clinched a postseason berth. He also claimed the club's first piece of silverware by winning the Open Canada Cup. For his achievements he was awarded by the league with the CPSL Coach of the Year award. During his five-year tenure with the organization he made the playoffs with the club four consecutive years, won two Open Canada Cups, and one AISL Championship. |
12102677 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc%20Schonbrun | Marc Schonbrun | Marc Edward Schonbrun is an American guitarist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has produced notable works based on his skill as a guitar/synthesizer expert including books, DVDs, and CDs. After graduating magna cum laude from the Crane School of Music, Schonbrun has performed at various venues including The Tralf Music Hall (Buffalo, New York), and Lincoln Center (New York).
Schonbrun is endorsed by D'Addario Strings, Planet Waves Accessories, Godin Guitars, and Flite Sound Speakers.
Schonbrun continues to work as a professional speaker for various companies, authoring books and DVDs, teaching guitar, and theory in private lessons. In addition to his work as a musician, Schonbrun is an audio engineer and records classical and small chamber ensemble music.
Books
The Everything Rock & Blues Guitar Book: From Chords to Scales and Licks to Tricks, All You Need to Play Like the Greats
The Everything Home Recording Book: From 4-track to digital
How to Play the Guitar Rock and Blues Manual - Spanish Translation
The Everything Reading Music Book: A Step-By-Step Introduction To Understanding Music Notation and Theory
The Everything Guitar Chords: Rock-Blues-Jazz-Country-Classical-Folk: Over 2,000 Chords for Every Style of Music
Digital Guitar Power!: The Comprehensive Guide
The Everything Music Theory Book: A Complete Guide to Taking Your Understanding of Music to the Next Level
The Efficient Guitarist Book 1, Second Edition (Self-Published)
Mastering Sibelius 5
The Everything Guitar Scales Book with CD: Over 700 Scale Patterns for Every Style of Music
The Everything Guide To Digital Home Recording: Tips, Tools, and Techniques For Studio Sound St Home
The Everything Music Theory Book 2nd Edition: A Complete Guide to Taking Your Understanding of Music to the Next Level
DVDs
Geek Guitar
The Efficient Guitarist |
13354584 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley%20Royle | Stanley Royle | Stanley Royle RBA, (1888–1961) was an English post-impressionist landscape painter and illustrator who lived for most of his life in and around Sheffield (England), and in Canada, and was inspired by views of landscape, sea and snow.
Early life and career
Royle was born at Stalybridge, Cheshire and in 1904, began studying at the Sheffield Technical School of Art. In 1908, he gained a scholarship, which enabled him to continue his studies at the art school. His earliest inspiration was his tutor, Oliver Senior. Senior was Painting Master at the art school, of whom Royle had a high opinion, and who exhibited at the Royal Academy. He also was influenced by Anglo-Danish artist Sir George Clausen.
His first employment was as an illustrator and designer for local newspapers. In 1911, he began exhibiting professionally in the UK. His first major success was to have three paintings accepted by the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 1913.
The Royal Academy
In 1913, he painted Spring Morning Amongst the Bluebells. He painted other versions of this subject, in which there is no figure, but this one, which was accepted by the Royal Academy in 1914 was and remains the main example of this genre. In 1915, his oil painting Ploughing (A Fresh Morning: View of Mosborough from Renishaw) was accepted by the Royal Academy. In 1916, Stanley Royle was successful in having two major works accepted by the Royal Academy. His election to associate member of the Royal Society of British Artists (RSBA) in 1918 indicated his increasing importance as a landscape painter. By 1920, he had been elected a full member of the RSBA and was teaching part-time at the Sheffield School of Art. One of his students was the Sheffield artist Kenneth Steel, known for his railway poster paintings.
In 1921, he painted Morning on the Derbyshire Moors. His technique is impressionistic with almost a pointillist effect combined with broad sweeps of colour. Michael Tooby has written about this painting. His article is available to read on the official Stanley Royle website:http://www.stanleyroyle.com/morning-on-the-derbyshire-moors-an-appraisal-by-mike-tooby/
Although Stanley Royle often used female figures within his compositions these were usually secondary to the landscape, which formed his chief interest. However, the three paintings Spring Morning Amongst the Bluebells, The Lilac Sun Bonnet and The Goose Girl all show single female figures prominently displayed in the foreground, while in later works figures give way in importance to the landscape.
The four major views of Sheffield
In 1922, he received a commission from Frederick Horner, a local art dealer, to paint four large views in oils of Sheffield: Sheffield from Mayfields; Sheffield from Wincobank Wood; Sheffield from the Park; Sheffield from Crookes. This quartet of paintings forms a significant part of the collection of Stanley Royle's work in Museums Sheffield. In 2005, one of this group, Sheffield from Wincobank Wood was included in the Tate Britain's exhibition A Picture of Britain.
Living in an outlying rural district with limited public transport did not prevent Stanley Royle from undertaking large canvasses of landscapes, as shown by his study Burbage Valley (Museums Sheffield). Sometimes he would walk, but often cycle, to his chosen viewpoint, with all his painting equipment and canvas strapped to the side of his bike. Whilst painting Burbage Valley he hid the canvas in a cave in order not to damage the wet paint by transporting it home. The subject of the oil painting The Goose Girl now in the National Gallery of Ireland was his wife Lily. Her health was sometimes poor, which prevented her from posing. On these occasions her younger sister Frances took her place, which is why this figure differs subtly from that of the figure in Spring Morning amongst the Bluebells. The setting is almost certainly Whitely Woods as by then the family lived close by. It was painted in the early 1920s and was exhibited in both Glasgow and Liverpool in 1924. This work had been attributed to the artist William Leech, until Jean Royle, his daughter, sold her painting Spring Morning Amongst the Bluebells in 1992. Not until then was it recognised that the same artist must have produced both paintings.
In 1925, after resigning from the RSBA, Stanley Royle was elected an associate member of The Royal West of England Academy. His success as a painter made it possible for the family to move to a newly built house at Park Head Crescent in Ecclesall and by 1930, he co-founded the Sheffield Print Club.
"The Depression" and Canada
In 1930 and 1931, Royle took a post as illustrator with the "Sheffield Independent" Newspaper. For several years he had privately taught a pupil named Elizabeth Styring Nutt who had become the Principal of the Nova Scotia College of Art, Canada. She visited Britain each summer, and eventually persuaded Royle to emigrate in December 1931, with his wife and daughter, to take up a post as a lecturer in painting there (the "Great Depression" had made it next to impossible for him to make a living in the England).
Stanley Royle taught at the Nova Scotia School of Art until 1934 when he was dismissed by Nutt who saw him as a possible artistic rival. The family returned to Britain and Sheffield in the summer of that year, but in 1935, he returned to Nova Scotia to be Director of the Owens Art Museum and College of Art, then at Mount Allison University, Sackville where he became first professor of Fine Arts for the next ten years. During his tenure at Mount Allison the university became the first in Canada to offer a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) degree. Among his students was Alex Colville. The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia now has one of the largest public collections of Stanley Royle's work. In 1936, he was made an Associate Member of the Royal Canadian Academy and in 1942, given full-membership as a non-resident.
During his time in Canada, he produced studies in oils of the Rocky Mountains and seascapes and coastal scenes which, with his snow and moorland scenes in Britain, are some of his finest works. Throughout his years in Canada, he returned frequently to Europe during the long summer vacations, where he conducted painting tutorials on the Isle of Sark, and in Dorset and Derbyshire.
The Royal Canadian Academy of Arts
Snow scenes were amongst Royle's favourite subjects because of the light reflected off the snow and the subtleties of colour thus created. He considered the winter landscape to have more colour than at other times of the year.
Stanley Royle became a full member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1942 and in 1945, he and his wife returned to the UK where he sojourned with his daughter and family in Suffolk before settling in north Nottinghamshire. Many of his paintings emphasise the sky by making use of a low horizon, so Suffolk, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire provided ideal subjects.
He and his wife returned to live permanently in Britain in 1945. On his return he acquired a motorbike and had removable carriers built for the pillion seat to accommodate his canvasses and paint box. Throughout the remainder of the 1940s he continued to exhibit at the Royal Academy and was elected president of the Sheffield Society of Artists in 1950. The Paris Salon awarded him the Silver Medal in 1951 and the Gold Medal in 1955. During this decade he visited Ireland, Scotland, Cornwall and again Brittany as he found the lighting effects of maritime subjects particularly inspiring. Brittany was his last overseas painting expedition. Thirty-nine of his paintings were accepted for exhibition at the Royal Academy during his lifetime.
Early in 1961, he was diagnosed with liver cancer and he died in March of that year. A memorial service was held at Worksop Priory, Nottinghamshire and his grave is in one of the town's cemeteries.
In 1962, the Graves Art Gallery, part of the Sheffield Galleries and Museums Trust, held a major retrospective exhibition of his work.
'Plein-air'
Stanley Royle had a full and academic knowledge of every aspect of painting and an ability to capture the atmospheric quality of natural lighting on the landscape. He thought nothing of pitching his easel in the middle of a stream and standing knee deep in water, whatever the weather, if that gave him the view he wanted to capture. He did not like the harsh lighting effects of the midday sun as it flattened the subject, but preferred early morning or mid to late afternoon and evening light.
In conjunction with the 1988 centenary travelling exhibition held in Canada, Patrick Condon Laurette, the Curator of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, published a book in 1989 titled Stanley Royle (1888–1961). The next major publication solely dedicated to Stanley Royle's life and work was published in 2008, written by Timothy Dickson and published by Derwent-Wye Fine Art. It is an illustrated publication which also includes a full catalogue raisonné of the artists work. Further publications include Our Home and Native Land - Sheffield's Canadian Artists by Michael Tooby, published in 1991 by the Sheffield Arts Department with funding from the Arts Council. His publication explores the work and relationships of Sheffield's Canadian Artists which included Arthur Lismer and Frederick Varley as well as Stanley Royle.
In 1995, Royle's daughter Jean bequeathed her collection of Stanley Royle paintings to the Sheffield Galleries and Museums Trust in order that future generations would have the opportunity of viewing, in one venue, the artist's work. This is of particular value since so many of his paintings are privately owned: however several British Collections own his works including the galleries at Rotherham, Oldham, Derby Art Gallery and the Glasgow Museum. These can be viewed at the Art UK web site. An exhibition of his work, The Great Outdoors - Paintings by Stanley Royle was held at Graves Art Gallery in 2015. In Canada, his work is in the public collections of the National Gallery of Canada, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and elsewhere.
Personal life
Stanley Royle suffered from Bright's disease and this prevented him from joining the forces in the First World War. His daughter Jean Royle (1915-2002) was also an artist.
The Royle Art Group
The Royle Art Group, based in Sheffield and founded in 1952, takes its name from the artist. The group is made up of admirers and former pupils of Stanley Royle and was originally known as the Royalist Art Group. |
73047340 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Zealand%20Cyclist%20Corps | New Zealand Cyclist Corps | The New Zealand Cyclist Corps was an administrative corps of the New Zealand Military Forces during the First World War. It was formed in April 1916, initially as a single company, but by 1918 had been expanded to a battalion of three companies. The cyclists saw action on the Western Front, but were controlled at corps level and generally did not fight with the New Zealand Division. The New Zealand Cyclist Corps was disbanded at the end of the war.
History
Following the evacuation from Gallipoli, the New Zealand Division was formed and following new British doctrine was organised to have a company of cyclists. The 1st New Zealand Cyclist Company was formed in April 1916 at Trentham camp from men who had been training to join the New Zealand Mounted Rifles.
The cyclists arrived on the Western Front in July 1916, but by this time it had instead been decided to from a cyclist battalion controlled at corps level. The New Zealand company was subsequently used to form No. 1 and No. 2 companies of II ANZAC Corps Cyclist Battalion, while the No. 3 company was formed from the Australian 5th Divisional Cyclist Company. Each company was organised into three platoons and the battalion had a nominal strength of 326 (16 officers and 310 other ranks), roughly a third the strength of an infantry battalion.
The theoretical mobility of the cyclists was of little value on the western front were static trench warfare had set in. Although II ANZAC Corps Cyclist Battalion spent some time in the front line trenches and conducted raids against German positions, it primarily provided working parties for infrastructural work. In particular, the cyclists were regularly tasked with laying telephone cables in deep trenches to avoid cutting of the wire by artillery fire. Over the course of the war, the battalion laid a total of 5600 miles of telephone cables in trenches dug to 6-8 feet deep. The cyclists were engaged in such work during the Battle of Passchendaele, while during the Battle of Messines they were tasked with clearing a track through no-mans land for the Otago Mounted Rifles to advance through.
From January 1917 the cyclists were provided with two Lewis guns per company (six per battalion). Later in July the battalion was restructured with 4 platoons per company, but with only a small increase in nominal strength to 338 (15 officers and 323 other ranks).. A larger shake up came in November 1917 with the centralisation of the Australian divisions under the newly formed Australian Corps. II ANZAC Corps was retitled as XXII Corps and subsequently the cyclists battalion was also renamed as XXII Corps Cyclist Battalion. Later in January 1918 the Australian personnel of No.3 company were transferred to the Australian corps and a new No. 3 company was formed from New Zealanders.
The German spring offensive was launched in March 1918 and the Cyclists were used to form part of a composite infantry battalion with the XXII Corps Mounted Regiment (itself a composite regiment of the Australian 4th Light Horse and New Zealand Otago Mounted Rifles). The battalion was attached to the British 49th Division and were used to hold the line near Ypres until mid-April.
In July the cyclists were used for the first time in an offensive role, assaulting the village of Marfaux during the Second Battle of the Marne. The cyclists took 91 casualties during the attack, but captured 100 German prisoners, a battery of 75mm guns and several machine guns. The battalions commanding officer, Charles Evans, was subsequently awarded the French Legion of Honour for this action.
In September 1918 the nationality of XXII Corps Cyclist Battalion was finally recognised and the unit was retitled as the New Zealand Cyclist Battalion. Following the armistice in November, the battalion remained in Belgium until it was disbanded in March 1919.
Although the New Zealand Cyclist Corps had been disbanded, in July 1919 representatives of the unit were invited to Épernay for the anniversary of the Second Battle of the Marne. In recognition of their service, the cyclists were presented with a fanion by General Berthelot.
During the war the cyclists suffered 59 men killed and 259 wounded. |
74054072 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gon%C3%A7alo%20Tabua%C3%A7o | Gonçalo Tabuaço | José Gonçalo Macedo Tabuaço (born 11 March 2001) is a Portuguese footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Spanish club CD Lugo.
Club career
Estrela da Amadora
Tabuaço began his career with Estrela, and was given his Liga Portugal 2 debut by head coach Ricardo Chéu on 2 October 2021, in a 1–0 victory with Leixões S.C. at the Estádio José Gomes.
B-SAD
On 9 August 2022, Tabuaço joined B-SAD of the Liga Portugal 2 on a two-year deal.
Lugo
On 1 July 2023, Tabuaço moved abroad and signed a contract with CD Lugo of the Spanish Primera Federación.
Career statistics |
31493535 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Meising | Charles Meising | Charles Meising (April 9, 1876 – ?) was a salesman from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who served one term as a Republican member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, and conducted several less successful campaigns.
Background
Meising was born in Taylors Falls, Minnesota on April 9, 1876, was educated in the public schools of Kansas City, Missouri, and for several years worked as a manufacturer's agent in Milwaukee. He had twice run for Milwaukee county supervisor, once for Milwaukee alderman and once for the Wisconsin State Senate (in 1916), but never held a public office until elected to the Assembly in 1920.
Legislature
Meising was elected to the Assembly in 1920 to succeed Socialist Albert Ehlman (who did not seek re-election) as a member for the Fourth district of Milwaukee County (20th and 22nd wards of the City of Milwaukee), receiving 7278 votes to 6664 for Socialist Louis J. Green. He was appointed to the standing committee on fish and game.
He ran for re-election in 1922, but lost to Socialist Albert F. Woller, who polled 3,246 votes to Meising's 2,049. He tried to regain the seat in 1924, losing to Socialist William Coleman; and again losing to Coleman in 1926.
In 1930 he unsuccessfully challenged Socialist incumbent Philip Wenz in the general election for the Assembly's 7th Milwaukee County seat, losing with 1103 votes to 1443 for Wenz, 314 for Democrat Fred Stich, and 34 for Jack Schwab. |
55778852 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vyacheslav%20Lebedev | Vyacheslav Lebedev | Vyacheslav Lebedev may refer to:
Vyacheslav Ivanovich Lebedev (1930–2010), Russian mathematician
Vyacheslav Lebedev (born 1943), Russian jurist
Vyacheslav I. Lebedev (born 1950), Russian apiologist |
69601833 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mougins%20Center%20of%20Photography | Mougins Center of Photography | The Mougins Center of Photography (Centre de Photographie de Mougins) is a photography gallery located in the village of Mougins, in the Alpes-Maritimes department, France. It opened in July 2021.
The building was previously home to the , which closed in 2018. The rehabilitation was financed by the municipality as well as by the Provence-Alps-French Riviera administrative region. Its inaugural exhibition was by Isabel Muñoz.
François Cheval is the gallery's artistic director and independent curator and Yasmine Chemali is its manager. |
52049658 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meringopus | Meringopus | Meringopus is a genus of wasps belonging to the family Ichneumonidae.
Species
Species within this genus include:
Meringopus armatus
Meringopus asymmetricus
Meringopus attentorius
Meringopus calescens
Meringopus coronadoae
Meringopus cyanator
Meringopus dirus
Meringopus eurinus
Meringopus fasciatus
Meringopus genatus
Meringopus melanator
Meringopus naitor
Meringopus nigerrimus
Meringopus nursei
Meringopus pacificus
Meringopus palmipes
Meringopus pamirensis
Meringopus persicator
Meringopus pilosus
Meringopus pseudonymus
Meringopus punicus
Meringopus relativus
Meringopus reverendus
Meringopus serraticaudus
Meringopus sogdianus
Meringopus sovinskii
Meringopus suspicabilis
Meringopus symmetricus
Meringopus tejonensis
Meringopus titillator
Meringopus turanus
Meringopus vancouverensis |
39645046 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alzano%20Madonna | Alzano Madonna | The Madonna with Child, or Alzano Madonna, is an oil on panel painting by Italian Renaissance artist Giovanni Bellini, executed around 1485.
History
The work has been in Bergamo since as early as the 16th century, where it likely arrived as part of the dowry of Lucrezia Agliardi, who had been abbess in the monastery of Alzano Lombardo, whence the name.
After several passages of ownership, in 1891 it was donated to the current museum.
Description
In this picture, Bellini represented the traditional theme of Mary and Child Jesus as busts in the foreground, above a hanging tapestry resembling the thrones with baldachin which were commons in the contemporary sacred conversations. At the sides is a landscape with towers, castles and small figures, as typical in the artist's production.
In the foreground is a red marble parapet where is the usual cartouche with Bellini's signature. There is also a fruit, perhaps a reference to the original sin, or an emblem of the Virgin derived from holy books or hymns.
This Madonna is generally considered a model of later works, such as the Madonna of the Red Cherubims or the Madonna of the Small Trees, both in the Galeria dell'Academia, Venice. |
13942198 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%20Columbia%20%281862%29 | USS Columbia (1862) | USS Columbia was a steamer captured by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Union Navy to patrol navigable waterways of the Confederacy to prevent the South from trading with other countries.
Service history
Columbia, a screw steamer was captured on 3 August 1862 by while running the blockade off the coast of Florida; purchased by the Navy from the Key West, Florida Prize Court on 4 November 1862; outfitted at New York Navy Yard; and commissioned sometime in December, Acting Volunteer Lieutenant Joseph Pitty Couthouy in command. While serving with the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron off Wilmington, North Carolina, Columbia ran aground and was wrecked off Masonboro Inlet on 14 January 1863. Forty men of her crew — including her commanding officer — were captured by the Confederates. |
34840006 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WGFE | WGFE | WGFE (95.5 FM) is a radio station licensed to serve the community of Glen Arbor, Michigan. The station is owned by Black Diamond Broadcasting. The station airs an active rock format, simulcasting 105.1 WGFM in Cheboygan, Michigan.
History
In 1989, David C. Schaberg applied for a construction permit on 95.5 FM in Glen Arbor, and the station was known as WTHM. Schaberg sold the permit to Del Reynolds in 1997, where he changed the call letters to WJZJ. In 1997, the station was put on the air as a simulcast of WLJZ 94.5 in Mackinaw City, Michigan, which played a satellite-delivered smooth jazz format as "Coast FM". WJZJ, along with WAVC 93.9 in Mio and WLJZ, launched "The Zone", a modern rock station in March 1998, replacing Coast FM after having been sold from Del Reynolds to Calibre Communications.
The Zone was originally adult-leaning, whose core artists included Jewel, Paula Cole, Alanis Morissette, Barenaked Ladies, Sheryl Crow, and Goo Goo Dolls. In its early years, The Zone could be more accurately described as a Modern Adult Contemporary station, and the station, which positioned itself as "Modern Rock" even while it continued to play primarily adult alternative and Hot AC crossover material, received criticism from fans of harder rock for not including harder-edged artists such as KoRn and Limp Bizkit, whose music was rarely played on classic rock-leaning rival WKLT. It was not until 2000 that "The Zone" became a true "modern rock" radio station. The Zone's revamped "modern rock" format borrowed from both "alternative" and "active" rock formats.
After the format change, ratings improved dramatically, but once again soon fell, partially due to a translator station launched on 95.5 in Boyne City, Michigan, only slightly outside 95.5 Glen Arbor's protected signal contour. The Boyne City station relayed Classic Hits-formatted competitor "The Fox" (WFCX-FM 94.3/WFDX-FM 92.5). However, the "Fox" translator moved down to 95.3 FM in December 2006 (and has since moved to 100.5 FM), alleviating some of the interference to WJZJ in its northern fringe coverage.
WAVC dropped out of The Zone's simulcast in March 2001, choosing to simulcast the country station WMKC (102.9 FM, St. Ignace, "Big Country 102.9 & 93.9"). It now airs a Christian format, as an affiliate of Strong Tower Radio.
On June 5, 2006, the station became an affiliate of Waitt Radio Networks' now-defunct "Alternative Now" format. As a result, the only live and local program the station carried was its morning show, "The Morning Freakshow" hosted by Cartman, Homeless Jake, and Mizz Christal.
On June 26, WJZJ became the sole carrier of The Zone as WLJZ broke the simulcast to switch to Hot AC. On December 28, 2007, the station began broadcasting out of their Traverse City, Michigan studios.
On September 14, 2009, the station began carrying The Free Beer and Hot Wings Show. It was also on that day when they started simulcasting with WGFM 105.1 Cheboygan as "Real Rock 105.1/95.5", airing a mix of The Zone's harder rock artists such as KoRn, Metallica and Alice in Chains with harder classic rockers such as Aerosmith, Ozzy Osbourne and Van Halen. 105.1 carried Bob and Tom due to the duo's ratings in the upper northern Michigan region until August 2, 2010, when The Free Beer And Hot Wings Show replaced it on 105.1 as well.
On March 25, 2013, the station announced that they had canceled Free Beer and Hot Wings. Station staff claimed that a satellite issue caused them to cancel the show earlier than expected as the station announced that they were making changes. The station's listeners took to Facebook with their complaints and staffers had been responding that it was management's decision to move on and not theirs. The morning show had a huge following in northern Michigan, even doing their show live from the historic State Theatre in Traverse City to a sold-out crowd. This led to speculation that Real Rock would be changing format; around Christmas 2012, the station was playing an abundance of classic rock artists not normally heard on the station, such as Styx, Jefferson Starship and Boston. However, by early March, the station had reverted to a more-modern rock format, but current rock tracks had disappeared from the station. The format change rumors came to fruition on April 1, 2013, with WJZJ's change to WQEZ and 105.1 FM continuing a standalone mainstream rock format as "Rock 105."
As WQEZ, the station broadcast a soft adult contemporary format (similar to that of WDUV in Tampa, Florida, or WFEZ in Miami, Florida) to northwestern lower Michigan. The station was branded "Easy 95-5". Typical artists included Barbra Streisand, Barry Manilow, Elvis Presley, The Carpenters, Olivia Newton-John, Elton John, Celine Dion, and Kenny Rogers among others, with a small scattering of more contemporary AC hits from artists like Adele, Colbie Caillat, and Lady Antebellum. The same format, with separate imaging, was heard on WOEZ 106.3 FM, licensed to Onaway, Michigan, imaged as "Easy 106-3." WQEZ's signal serves primarily the immediate Traverse City area and carries across the waters of Lake Michigan, and can frequently be heard in Manitowoc, Wisconsin and the eastern shoreline of Door County, Wisconsin. 106.3 WOEZ's signal covers the northern tip of the lower peninsula and much of eastern Upper Michigan. The two stations aired the same musical format with the same songs in the same order (with a slight delay), but were not simulcast, as station imaging, commercials, and weather forecasts are separate. ABC Entertainment Network news is featured at the top of each hour. WOEZ was also heard on translator 98.1 W251AD in Alpena. |
5948294 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex%20and%20Death%20101 | Sex and Death 101 | Sex and Death 101 is a 2007 dark comedy science fiction film written and directed by Daniel Waters, released in the United States on April 4, 2008. The film marks the reunion of writer/director Daniel Waters and Winona Ryder, who previously worked on the 1988 film Heathers, written by Waters.
Plot
Roderick Blank (Simon Baker) is a successful young businessman with a great job as an executive for "Swallows", a high end fast food restaurant chain, and a beautiful fiancée, Fiona Wormwood (Julie Bowen). On the day of his bachelor party, he is emailed a list of all the women he has slept with. Strangely, while the list has 101 names, his fiancée is only number 29.
He assumes the list is a prank, courtesy of his best friends Zack (Neil Flynn) and Lester (Dash Mihok)—until he meets number 30, Carlotta Valdez, who is the stripper at his bachelor party. After sleeping with Carlotta, he realizes the list does, in fact, comprise all of his sexual partners, both past and future.
This is confirmed by a group of three mysterious named Alpha, Beta and Fred from a group called the Agency, who tell him the list was mistakenly emailed to him. It originates, they say, from a machine that the Agency has which predicts the future. Alpha, the leader, urges Roderick not to tell anyone since it could cause unrest. He also warns him to destroy the list since it could ruin his life, but Roderick ignores this at first.
Roderick cancels his upcoming wedding and begins to sequentially bed all the people on the list. Although he makes a connection with some of the women, he is unable to settle down and is compelled to continue until he has crossed all names off the list. His friends become concerned for his mental well-being and convince him to bury the list. Before he does that, he sees only part of the next name, including "Dr." and the first few letters.
He falls for Lester's charming and quirky veterinarian (Leslie Bibb), after believing she is the next name on the list and finding they have much in common, only to discover that she does not return his feelings, and wants to be "just friends". He digs up the list and discovers she was not listed, after which she has an untimely accidental death. He continues on his mission.
Throughout all this, a female vigilante, nicknamed by the media "Death Nell" (Winona Ryder), has been taking revenge on men who she feels have taken sexual advantage of women. She seduces these men and then drugs them to induce a coma, leaving them behind along with a line of feminist poetry spray painted on the wall or ceiling.
But after her most recent conquest, she accidentally leaves behind her drivers license, exposing her real identity, Gillian De Raisx, to the world. Roderick's precarious mental state is compromised when he realizes the last name on his list is Gillian's.
With twenty more names left on the list, he decides to abandon it altogether and takes up various hobbies to keep him from giving in to temptation. After an accident during a bike ride, he is found by a group of female students (all virgins) from a Catholic college who believe that he has been "divinely delivered" to deflower them. Roderick is unable to resist and catapults himself from number 82 through number 99 in the space of an afternoon. He realizes only one woman is left, and then he remembers the girls' bus driver was number 100.
Knowing that Death Nell is the last person on his list (and that he may not survive a night with her) Roderick tries to change his destiny, first by becoming a shut in, and then by tracking down another Gillian de Raisx in Sydney, Australia. But when he learns that the Agency are close to catching Death Nell, he has a sudden change of heart. Guilt stricken over his treatment of his previous conquests, he decides to face the consequences.
Roderick and Gillian meet in a diner, where they share a meal and conversation. Gillian reveals that she was a Poetry/Chemistry student who married young and was forced to perform degrading sexual favors with her husband, who also physically abused her. After his death, which was inadvertently caused by Gillian, she realized that she could dish out similar punishments to other men who treated women badly.
Gillian reveals that she is exhausted from the whole ordeal and unsure if she has the conviction to continue. Roderick and Gillian connect, and agree to each take the sedative together. They take the pills simultaneously, and spend the night together, with "The End" spray painted on the wall behind them.
The epilogue reveals that Roderick and Gillian survived the pills, and that Gillian's name was not the last on the list because of impending death but rather because Roderick decides to remain monogamous with her. They are happily married and have a son. Death Nell's comatose victims are revived and a brief scene at the Agency suggests that Roderick and Gillian's union was fated.
Cast
Simon Baker as Roderick Blank
Winona Ryder as Gillian De Raisx/Death Nell
Leslie Bibb as Dr. Miranda Storm
Mindy Cohn as Trixie
Julie Bowen as Fiona Wormwood
Dash Mihok as Lester
Neil Flynn as Zack
Robert Wisdom as Alpha
Tanc Sade as Beta
Patton Oswalt as Fred
Frances Fisher as Hope Hartlight
Sophie Monk as Cynthia Rose
Marshall Bell as Victor Rose III
Natassia Malthe as Bambi Kidd
Pollyanna McIntosh as Thumper Wind
Rob Benedict as Bow Tie Bob
Jessica Kiper as Precious/Carlotta Valdes
Winter Ave Zoli as Alexis
Cindy Pickett as Roderick's Mother
Nicole Bilderback as Dr. Mirabella Stone
Keram Malicki-Sanchez as Master Bitchslap
Retta as Ethel (as Retta Sirleaf)
Corinne Reilly as Lizzie
Amanda Walsh as Stewardess Kathleen
Zachary Gordon as Barbecue Brat
Indira Varma as Deven Sovor (uncredited)
Critical reception
The film received generally negative reviews from critics. Manohla Dargis of The New York Times dismissed it as an "unfortunate comedy". , review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports an approval rating of 27%, based on 41 reviews, with an average score of 4.27/10 and the consensus that the film "aspires to be a clever sex comedy, but has little life behind the sex or the death". Metacritic reported the film had an average score of 24 out of 100, based on twelve reviews.
Awards
The film won the Golden Space Needle Award for Best Director at the Seattle International Film Festival. |
31285170 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir%20Abazarov | Vladimir Abazarov | Vladimir Alekseevich Abazarov (; 6 May 1930 – 13 May 2003) was an eminent Soviet geologist.
He took part in discovering of large and unique oil fields in Western Siberia. V. A. Abazarov is a discoverer of the largest Russian Samotlor oil field.
Biography
Born 6 May 1930 in Tihovskoi khutor of Krasnoarmeyskiy region of the Krasnodar Territory.
In 1948 Abazarov finished secondary school and began to work as an accounter in Krasnoarmeyskiy rice sovkhoz. He wanted to enter Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI) in 1948 and become a pilot, as his brother Boris Alekseevich Abazarov (who later has become a commander of 62nd fighter aviation regiment). In 1949 he entered Grozny oil institute, in 1954 he finished it and acquired a profession of mining engineer of drilling. He worked on drilling enterprises in the Krasnodar Territory and Stalingrad region as a drilling foreman, an engineer, the head of drilling and the superintendent of testing deep boreholes shop until 1959.
In March 1960 V.A. Abazarov arrived in Tyumen on the invitation of director of “Tyumenneftegeologiya” Yuri Georgievich Ervier. In 1960 - 1962 he was an engineer in chief of Khanty–Mansi (later Berezovskaya) geological exploring expedition.
In 1962 he was nominated for the appointment of the director of Megion oil-prospecting expedition. In June of the same year he arrived in Megion. At that moment the only Megion oil - field was discovered and three oil wells were opened.
As primary task V.A. Abazarov determined the steady raising of the rate of exploring and preparation of oil reserves. He organized the administration for a certain program for construction of developed wooden habitation, social and cultural objects and industrial base.
Megion expedition was increasing the rate of drilling with every year. Vatinskoe, Severo – Pokurskoe, Aganskoe, Nizhnevartovskoe oil fields were opened. In 1965 famous Samotlor oil field was discovered. In 1967 large Varyeganskoe oil and gas field was opened, in 1968 – Malo – Tchernogorskoe, in 1970 – Bolshe – Thcernogorskoe, Tyumenskoe and Severo – Varyeganskoe. All in all, Megion geologists have opened more than 135 oil and gas deposits.
In 1970 the group of Megion expedition was awarded the order “Sign of honour”. In the same year Vladimir Alekseevich Abazarov, together with L.N. Kabaev, I.I. Nesterov, F.K. Salmanov, V.G. Smirnov, A.D. Storoshev, was awarded Lenin prize for discovery of new deposits in the middle Ob side and fast preparation of industrial reserves.
Rates of developing of Samotlor were increasing with every year. Great changes took place from 1971 to 1974 under V.A. Abazarov being the director of geological department “Megionneft”. He was appreciated for his fairness and consistency, analytical mind and strong will.
In 1975–1976 he was the head of Karskaya oil exploring expedition. Later, in 1976–1977, he was the director of technology section of industrial union"Obneftegasgeologiya". In 1977-1980 V.A. Abazarov became the deputy director of drilling department of industrial association “Nizhnevartovskneftegas”, in 1980–1981 – he was the vice – president of oil and gas department “Belozerneft”. From 1983 to 1992 he was the head of Yuzchno – Tarkosalinskaya and Yamal expeditions.
Abazarov is remembered not only for the discoveries of oil fields in interior of Tyumen North, but for his justice in spite of harshness. “He worked selflessly, without being sorry of forces and time. In spite of any difficulty, he always was on his post. He could combine dislike to grabbers and dodgers with trust and friendliness to people.”
He continued to work a lot, even when he retired on a pension in 1992. He was the president of Union of creators of oil and gas complex in Western Siberia (1997–2002), which was founded on his initiative for “acceptance of concrete measures for improvement of vital conditions of founders of the Tyumen oil and gas complex..., preservation and development of spiritual, moral and cultural values and traditions”.
Vladimir Alekseevich Abazarov died on 13 May 2003. He was buried in Tyumen on Tchervishevskoe graveyard.
Awards
Order of Lenin (1966)
Laureate of Lenin prize (1970)
Diploma “Discoverer of field” (1976, Samotlor oil field)
Honourable citizen of Nizhnevartosk region of Tyumen oblast (1997) |
43845032 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalles | Dalles | Dalles may refer to:
The Dalles, Oregon, a city in the U.S.
The Dalles Dam
Fort Dalles
The Dalles High School
The Dalles Municipal Airport, or Columbia Gorge Regional Airport
Dalles Formation, a geologic formation
Dalles of the St. Croix River, in Minnesota and Wisconsin, U.S.
Niisaachewan Anishinaabe Nation, also known as the Dalles First Nation, an Ojibway First Nation in Canada
The Dalles 38C, an Ojibway First Nation reserve in Kenora District, Ontario, Canada
John A. Dalles, American clergyman and hymnwriter |
61588378 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pudhu%20Yugam | Pudhu Yugam | Pudhu Yugam can refer to two Tamil language films.
Pudhu Yugam (1954 film), a film starring S. A. Natarajan, P. V. Narasimha Bharathi and Krishna Kumari
Pudhu Yugam (1985 film), a film starring Sivakumar and Vijayakanth |
15215432 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IFNA10 | IFNA10 | Interferon alpha-10 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the IFNA10 gene. |
9750308 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence%20Scovel%20Shinn | Florence Scovel Shinn | Florence Scovel Shinn (September 24, 1871 in Camden, New Jersey – October 17, 1940) was an American artist and book illustrator who became a New Thought spiritual teacher and metaphysical writer in her middle years.
In New Thought circles, Shinn is best known for her first book, The Game of Life and How to Play It (1925). She expressed her philosophy as:
The invisible forces are ever working for man who is always "pulling the strings" himself, though he does not know it. Owing to the vibratory power of words, whatever man voices, he begins to attract.--The Game of Life, Florence Scovel Shinn
Early life
Florence Scovel was born in Camden, New Jersey, the daughter of Alden Cortlandt Scovel and Emily Hopkinson Scovel. Her great, great, grandfather, Francis Hopkinson, signed the Declaration of Independence and is the earliest documented American composer of song. She was educated in Philadelphia where she attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and there met her future husband, the artist Everett Shinn (1876–1953). After marriage they moved into a studio apartment at 112 Waverly Place, near Washington Square, New York. Everett built a theatre next door, and wrote three plays in which Florence played a leading role. They spent their summers in Plainfield (Cornish Art Colony), New Hampshire in a Colonial-style house designed by her husband. Florence and Everett divorced in 1912.
Illustrator
Florence worked as an illustrator in the early 1900s. She illustrated fiction in Harper's and other magazines, as well as popular novels such as Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1901). The Society of Illustrators elected her to an Associate Membership in 1903, even though it did not admit women to full membership in the organization until 1922.
An early biographical sketch of Florence Scovel Shinn as an Illustrator offers insight into her later writings and attitude towards life:
Her keen sense of humor crops out in every group, and the turn of a line gives a comical effect. The peculiar gift that Mrs. Shinn is endowed with is that she can draw the most pitiful little figures and yet infuse into the picture a happy, healthy atmosphere that impresses us with the worth and joy of living. Her characters are never caricatures; they are appealing and provoke the laughter that bears no malice.
Writings and New Thought
Her metaphysical works began with her self-published The Game of Life and How to Play it in 1925. Your Word is Your Wand was published in 1928 and The Secret Door to Success in 1940. After her death another two works were published, The Power Of The Spoken Word in 1945 by Shinn Press and The Magic Path Of Intuition. This last book was published by Louise Hay in 2013 who received from a rare-books dealer a small, typewritten unpublished manuscript of the last writings of Florence Scovel Shinn, accompanied by a cover letter which said in part:
Several Months ago we came across a unique item from that collection that we think you may have an interest in. The item is an original typewritten manuscript by Florence Scovel Shinn, The Magic Path of Intuition. We're contacting you to see if you or Hay House have an interest in purchasing this rare original manuscript positioned to share its content with the world.
The Game of Life and How to Play it includes quotes from the Bible and anecdotal explanations of the author's understanding of God and man. Her philosophy centers on the power of positive thought and usually includes instructions for verbal or physical affirmation.
One example typical of Scovel Shinn's advice was:
It is safe to say that all sickness and unhappiness come from the violation of the law of love. A new commandment I give unto you, "Love one another," and in the Game of Life, love or good-will takes every trick.
Her advice is usually accompanied by a "real life" anecdote, as for the above "Love one another" advice:
A woman I know, had, for years an appearance of a terrible skin disease. The doctors told her it was incurable, and she was in despair. She was on the stage, and she feared she would soon have to give up her profession, and she had no other means of support. She, however, procured a good engagement, and on the opening night, made a great "hit". She received flattering notices from the critics, and was joyful and elated. The next day she received a notice of dismissal. A man in the cast had been jealous of her success and had caused her to be sent away. She felt hatred and resentment taking complete possession of her, and she cried out, "Oh God don't let me hate that man." That night she worked for hours "in the silence".
She said, "I soon came into a very deep silence. I seemed to be at peace with myself, with the man, and with the whole world. I continued this for two following nights, and on the third day I found I was healed completely of the skin disease!" In asking for love, or good will, she had fulfilled the law, ("for love is the fulfilling of the law") and the disease (which came from subconscious resentment) was wiped out.
Her books Your Word Is Your Wand and The Game of Life and How To Play It were released as audiobooks in 2014 and 2015, respectively, with narration by actress Hillary Hawkins.
Shinn is considered part of the New Thought movement, as her writings follow in the tradition of Phineas Quimby (1802–1866), Mary Baker Eddy (1821–1910), Emma Curtis Hopkins (1849–1925), and both Charles Fillmore (1854–1948) and Myrtle Fillmore (1845–1931), co-founders of the Unity Church.
Motivational author Louise Hay acknowledged her as an early influence.
Work
Published work during her life
Published work after her death |
57349555 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie%20Wegener | Marie Wegener | Marie Wegener (born 6 July 2001) is a German singer who won the 15th season of Deutschland sucht den Superstar (the German version of Pop Idol and American Idol). She is the youngest winner of the show, the second minor to win, and its fourth female winner. Her winning song "Königlich" was produced by Dieter Bohlen.
Wegener is a former student of the Steinbart-Gymnasium in Duisburg.
In 2013, she took part in the first season of the German version of The Voice Kids, but lost during the Battle Round to Michèle Birner, who went on to win the show.
Songs performed on Deutschland sucht den Superstar
Discography
Albums
2018 – Königlich
2019 – Countdown
Singles
2013 – "Christmas Morning"
2017 – "Ich wohne in deinem Herzen"
2018 – "Königlich" |
60750669 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragoljub%20Savi%C4%87 | Dragoljub Savić | Dragoljub Savić (; born 25 April 2001) is a Serbian footballer playing for RFS.
Club career
Vojvodina
On 12 May 2019, Savić made his first team debut, replacing Aranđel Stojković in 67th minute, in 2:1 home loss to Partizan.
Rapid Wien
In summer 2019, Savić left Vojvodina and signed for Rapid Wien, where he was assigned to the reserve team. He made his Austrian Football Bundesliga debut for the senior squad on 21 June 2020 in a game against TSV Hartberg.
RFS
On 14 July 2023, Savić moved to Latvian side FK RFS.
Career statistics
Club |
15724929 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames%20Valley%20Traction | Thames Valley Traction | Thames Valley Traction Company Limited was a major bus company operating services to and from Reading, Bracknell, Maidenhead, Newbury, High Wycombe and Oxford and surrounding areas for 52 years in the 20th century. For many years it ran the "Reading A" and "Reading B" limited-stop services between London's Victoria Coach Station and Reading via two differing sets of intermediate stops.
British Automotive Traction
In 1905 British Electric Traction (BET) founded a subsidiary, British Automotive Developments (BAD), to develop and operate motor buses. In 1912 BAD was renamed British Automobile Traction (BAT). In March 1915 BAT established a Reading Branch to operate buses in the area. By January 1920 it had been renamed the Thames Valley Branch, and in July 1920 it was constituted as a subsidiary company, Thames Valley Traction, with BAT holding 86% of the shares. The remaining 14% was initially held by Britain's other large bus operating group, Thomas Tilling, as in the 1920s there was close co-operation between the two groups.
In 1928 BAT was reconstituted as Tilling & British Automobile Traction Ltd. Thames Valley expanded significantly in the 1920s and 1930s by buying a number of smaller firms and their routes. Tillings sold out to the British Transport Commission in 1948, thus becoming a nationalised company. Thames Valley's expansion continued in the early 1950s, with other parts of the newly nationalised bus network (South Midland and Newbury and District from Red & White, and part of United Counties) being placed under Thames Valley management.
In 1968 Tillings' major competitor, BET, sold its bus interests to the Transport Holding Company (successor to the BTC) and the Transport Act 1968 formed the National Bus Company, which came into existence on 1 January 1969, amalgamating the interests of The Tilling Group with the recently acquired BET Group.
Premises
BAT Reading Branch's first premises were at 113–117 Caversham Road, Reading, which had been the premises of a local taxi operator. BAT used 115 and 117 as offices and demolished 113 to create bus access to the yard and garage at the rear.
In January 1916 the Reading Branch acquired a second set of premises when BAT bought a large house called The Cedars at 44 Bridge Street, Maidenhead. BAT had most of the house demolished, except for the east wing which was converted into offices. A bus garage was built in the house's grounds.
Vehicles
In 1915 BAT intended that its Reading branch should have a fleet of 20 new buses built on Thornycroft 40 HP J-type chassis. But during the First World War the War Department had commandeered all Thornycroft chassis production to make three-ton military trucks. Therefore the Reading Branch's fleet started with nearly-new Leyland S8 buses transferred from BAT's Barnsley and District subsidiary. Each had a 27-seat body built by Brush in Rugby. The S8's had been built in 1913 and reached Reading in June and July 1915. Their bodies were painted in BAT livery of "Saxon" green with the name "BRITISH" in large gold letters on each side.
Between September 1915 and July 1916 BAT expanded its Reading branch fleet with a dozen 26-seat buses on new Belsize three-ton chassis. Although the chassis were new the first eight were equipped with second-hand Tilling bodies. The final four Belsizes were fitted with Brush bodies. The arrival of the new Belsizes allowed the Reading Branch firstly to expand its route network and then to dispose of the Leylands, all of which returned to Barnsley and District between April and November 1916.
The Belsize buses were not entirely reliable. But after the Armistice of 11 November 1918 the War Department stopped buying new lorries for the armed forces, which allowed Thornycroft at last to meet BAT's order for J-type chassis for the Reading Branch. The original order of 20 was delivered new between January and May 1919, mostly with 26-seat bodies. The first batch of eight received Tilling bodies, followed by four with Brush bodies. Next came a batch of six with bodies built by Birch Brothers of Kentish Town, London. Two Thornycroft chassis delivered in May 1919 were equipped with second-hand charabanc bodies, one built by Bayley of Newington Causeway in London and the other built by Thomas Harrington Ltd of Hove, East Sussex. The two charabancs arrived just in time to offer excursions for the 1919 season. The delivery of Thornycroft J-types allowed the Reading Branch to dispose of all of its Belsize buses in January and February 1919.
After the first order of 20 J-type chassis were delivered, BAT bought a further three new chassis from Thornycroft for the Reading Branch. These had military-specification bonnets and may have come from a cancelled WD order. The first two arrived with "lorrybus" bodies — truck bodies adapted with steps at the rear, bench seats and a canvas hood. This austerity specification allowed the pair to be completed quickly and enter service in July and August 1919.
By January 1920 BAT's Reading Branch had been renamed the Thames Valley Branch. The third chassis was delivered that month with a Tilling body. In the same month the Thames Valley Branch received a pair of second-hand Tilling J-types from the East Kent Road Car Company. They had been built in 1919 for an independent Kent bus operator and fitted with second-hand London General Omnibus Company 34-seat double-deck bodies dating from 1913. East Kent had taken over the independent operator in September 1919 and disposed of the two Thornycrofts as non-standard to its fleet.
After the Armistice the WD started to sell large numbers of used military vehicles. Many were stored at a depot in Slough, where in April 1920 BAT bought eight Thornycroft J-types for the Thames Valley Branch. BAT bought many other ex-military vehicles for its other branches, and the Thames Valley Branch collected many of them from Slough to distribute to BAT's other operations. They included AEC and Daimler vehicles for BAT's Macclesfield Branch and Northern General subsidiary.
When the Thames Valley Branch became Thames Valley Traction its fleet consisted of 33 Thornycroft J-types: 30 bodied as buses, two as charabancs and one as a lorry. For ancillary purposes it had also a Ford Model T van, a Bedford car and a BSA motorcycle and sidecar outfit.
In the 1920s Thames Valley's fleet policy changed, and by 1927 it was buying Tilling-Stevens petrol-electric buses. In 1939 its first Bristol vehicles were delivered and, in the Second World War, a number of Guy utility buses were acquired. After the war Thames Valley standardised on Bristols, except for a few Bedford vehicles. Livery was red and cream, although the shade of red varied over time.
Alder Valley
The company continued to trade as Thames Valley under nationalised ownership until it was merged with another former BET company, Aldershot and District Traction Company Limited on 1 January 1972 to form the Thames Valley and Aldershot Omnibus Company, which traded under the fleet name of Alder Valley, with Thames Valley's Reading head office becoming that of the new company. |
41075194 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron%20Russell | Byron Russell | Byron Russell (1884 – 1963) was an Irish character actor, best known for is performance as Quintal in the 1935 film Mutiny on the Bounty.
Biography
Born in Ireland in 1884, Russell's first film appearance was in the 1920 American silent film The World and His Wife. He appeared in eleven films prior to the outbreak of World War II, often playing authority figures. After the war, Russell turned his attention to television work, appearing in numerous roles, predominantly in televised plays, between 1949 and 1960.
Russell also appeared on the Broadway stage from 1913 until 1959, notably in the 1929 revival of Eugene O'Neill's Glencairn series of plays.
Russell died in 1963 in New York City.
Filmography |
28654466 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaz%20Lobo | Vaz Lobo | Vaz Lobo is a neighborhood in the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. |
37592472 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate%20Gilbert | Kate Gilbert | Kate Gilbert (1843-1916) was an English landscape painter during the Victorian era, and a member of the Williams family of painters.
Kate was born Kate Elizabeth Ellen Gilbert-Williams on 17 December 1843 in London, being the only child of the well-known Victorian landscape painter Arthur Gilbert and his first wife Elizabeth Williams. She became an artist like her father, and exhibited one painting in 1885 at the Suffolk Street Gallery of the Society of British Artists. Her younger step-brother Horace Walter Gilbert was an artist as well, but he ultimately chose a different career and became a civil servant instead.
Kate married in 1880 a widowed schoolmaster named Humphrey Hughes (1833-1885), who had three children from a previous marriage, but Kate never had children of her own. Her husband died five years into their marriage, after which she lived first with her father, and then after her father's death with her uncle the artist George Augustus Williams. Many of her works date from the late 1880s and the 1890s when she lived with these mentors, no doubt receiving encouragement from them both. She would have also shared the latter household with her cousin Caroline Fanny Williams, the daughter of her uncle, and an accomplished painter as well. When Kate's uncle died, she and Caroline parted company, and she ran a boarding house for a time, before retiring to Sutton, Surrey, where she died on 15 April 1916 at an address on Collingwood Road. |
58898207 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatiana%20Yanovskaya | Tatiana Yanovskaya | Tatiana B. Yanovskaya (11 August 1932 - 22 December 2019) was a Russian geophysicist and educator.
She studied physics at Leningrad State University (later Saint Petersburg State University) and completed a PhD at the Institute of Physics of the Earth in Moscow in 1958. From 1958 to 1960, she worked at the Pulkova seismological station. From 1960 to 1968, Yanovskaya was a junior researcher at the Leningrad division of the Mathematical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 1968, she began working at the Department of Geophysics at Leningrad State University. In 1986, she became a full professor at Saint Petersburg State University.
Her areas of research include computer modelling of the propagation of surface waves and of tsunamis and determining variations in cross-sections of the Earth's crust and upper mantle based on seismic data.
She served on the editorial boards for the Russian journal Izvestiya, Physics of the Solid Earth and for the Chinese Journal of Geophysics. She was a lecturer for a series of workshops for young seismologists held by the International Centre for Theoretical Physics.
In 1982, along with three colleagues, she received the USSR State Prize for Science and Technique. In 1997, she was named a fellow of the American Geophysical Union. In 2002, she was awarded the . |
43667636 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thaumatopsis%20edonis | Thaumatopsis edonis | Thaumatopsis edonis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Augustus Radcliffe Grote in 1880. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Florida, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, Oklahoma and South Carolina. It is listed as threatened in the US state of Connecticut.
The wingspan is about 34 mm. Adults have been recorded on wing from August to November. |
49755248 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charleshatchettite | Charleshatchettite | Charleshatchettite is a very rare, complex, niobium oxide mineral with the formula CaNb4O10(OH)2•8H2O. It was discovered in the mineral-rich site Mont Saint-Hilaire, Montérégie, Québec, Canada.
Relation to other minerals
Charleshatchettite is chemically similar to hochelagaite. |
2335106 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%20Lawn%20Cemetery%20%28Columbus%2C%20Ohio%29 | Green Lawn Cemetery (Columbus, Ohio) | Green Lawn Cemetery is an active historic private rural cemetery located in Columbus, Ohio, in the United States. Organized in 1848 and opened in 1849, the cemetery was the city's premier burying ground in the 1800s and beyond. An American Civil War memorial was erected there in 1891, and chapel constructed in 1902. With , it is Ohio's second-largest cemetery.
History
Franklinton Cemetery was the first cemetery established in what later became Columbus. It was built on land donated by Lucas Sullivant on River Street near Souder Avenue in 1799. Many of the early settlers of Franklinton and Columbus were buried there. The North Graveyard followed in 1812, and the East Graveyard in 1841. A Roman Catholic cemetery opened in 1848 (although it had been in use as early as 1846).
Establishment of Green Lawn
By the mid-1840s, growing settlement in the area left the Franklinton, North, and East cemeteries too small to accommodate more burials. On February 24, 1848, the Ohio General Assembly enacted a law providing for the incorporation of cemetery associations by 10 or more people. On August 2, 1848, a group of Columbus area business and civic leaders that included A.C Brown, William G. Deshler, William A. Platt, Thomas Sparrow, Alfred P. Stone, Joseph Sullivant, William B. Thrall, and others formed the Green Lawn Cemetery Association. The group secured a charter from the Ohio General Assembly on March 23, 1849, incorporating the "Green Lawn Cemetery of Columbus". A public meeting was held on July 12, and a committee of 11 local leaders appointed to select a site and draft articles of incorporation. The committee presented the public with draft articles of incorporation on August 2. These were accepted, and the first board of directors organized on August 26.
The board sought a site of about of gently rolling land well-covered in trees and shrubs. The first purchase of of forested land was made in the early spring of 1849 at a cost of $3,750 ($ in dollars). This consisted of a tract obtained from Judge Gershom M. Peters and a tract from William Miner. A public picnic was held on the ground on May 23, during which a partial clearing of a small portion of the land occurred. Architect Howard Daniels was hired to lay out the roads, paths, and plots. Daniels had spent several months in Europe studying rural cemetery design there, and had recently designed his first cemetery, Cincinnati's widely praised Spring Grove Cemetery. A formal dedication of the cemetery occurred on July 9. A superintendent's cottage was erected near the main gate on Brown Road, and Richard Woolley appointed the first superintendent. Daniels, who died in December 1863, is buried in the cemetery.
Growth of the cemetery
At the time, the cemetery was located west of the nascent village of Columbus. The first burial at Green Lawn Cemetery was that of a child, Leonora Perry, on July 7, 1849. The second, and first adult, was Dr. B. F. Gard on July 12. The first headstone or other monument in the cemetery was erected the second week of October 1849 by William G. Deshler. It was for his wife, Olive, who had died at the age of 19. The monument consisted of an upright stone slab depicting a rose branch. The bloom itself was carved on the plinth on which the slab stood, and was inscribed "Olive, wife of William G. Deshler, age 19". After Green Lawn opened, most of the families with graves at Franklinton Cemetery moved their ancestral remains to Green Lawn. Franklinton Cemetery quickly fell out of favor as a place to be buried. Those buried at North Graveyard also disinterred loved ones' remains and moved them to Green Lawn. By 1869, about half of those buried at North Graveyard had been reinterred at Green Lawn.
Green Lawn Cemetery lotholders voted to bar non-whites from being buried at Green Lawn in 1856. It was not until 1872 that this restriction was lifted, and a segregated section set aside for African Americans.
In February 1864, the trustees of Green Lawn Cemetery offered to exchange burial lots with those individuals who still retained plots at North Graveyard. Green Lawn intended to build homes on the site of the abandoned North Graveyard and lease them in order to generate income. In addition, the Columbus, Chicago and Indiana Central Railway sought to condemn a portion of the burying ground for a railroad right of way. The two offers generated extensive litigation, as lotholders sought to prevent the disinterment of loved ones and those who had deeded land to the city tried to regain title to it. This litigation was not resolved until the late 1870s, and it was not until 1881 that most graves were removed from North Graveyard.
On April 1, 1872, the cemetery purchased a tract from Samuel Stimmel and a tract from John Stimmel, bringing the cemetery's total size to . In 1887, Green Lawn expanded to , and Green Lawn Avenue opened to create an eastern entrance to the cemetery. In 1898, an iron bridge was built over a ravine between sections 54 and 55. By 1919, all the roads in the cemetery were of macadam, and had gutters.
The Soldiers and Sailors' Memorial was erected at Green Lawn Cemetery in 1891. Cemetery officials first set aside a section (M) for military burials on June 10, 1862. The Ex-Soldiers and Sailors' Association of Franklin County, a group of Civil War veterans, purchased four lots in section 28 in November 1881 for the interment of veterans. Two years later, the association began a campaign to raise funds for the design and erection of a veterans memorial in that section. Another four lots in section 28 were purchased in January 1886, and in March 1886 the Ohio General Assembly authorized the commissioners of Franklin County to levy a tax to aid in the construction of the memorial. A memorial design was approved in October 1886, and the memorial erected by the New England Granite Works of Hartford, Connecticut. The $8,900 ($ in dollars) memorial was completed in November 1890.
21st century vandalism
In 2012, metal thieves damaged numerous family mausoleums, in some cases stealing entire door and window grates and in one case breaking into crypts in a family mausoleum. The perpetrators were never caught, and the cemetery extended fences to prevent after-hours vehicular entry and contract random security patrols. These measures proved insufficient when the next acts of vandalism occurred.
A vandal struck Green Lawn Cemetery more than a dozen times beginning in the fall of 2014. The vandal initially knocked over gravestones, but over time the damage worsened. By early 2016, more than 600 monuments were damaged as well as glass and the historic bust of Gustavus Swan. Cemetery officials estimated the cost of repairs at more than $1.25 million ($ in dollars). Cemetery officials contracted full nighttime security patrols in the cemetery and installed numerous security cameras which resulted in identifying the vandal, but he was never charged by law enforcement. By 2021 most of the damage was repaired except for a few broken obelisks.
The enhanced security measures have, as of 2021, curtailed any similar vandalism after-hours.
In the wake of the vandalism, cemetery volunteers and instructors at Columbus State Community College created a geographic information system capstone course. Taught by Doreen Whitley Rogers, nonprofit executive and wife of a cemetery trustee, students in the course donated more than $10,000 ($ in dollars) in free consulting services to the cemetery. Damaged graves were identified and damage documented, potential vandal points of entry noted, repair cost analyses generated, and patterns of criminal activity in the cemetery identified.
Starting in 2020, a vandal damaged nearly 100 trees over a period of several months during mornings shortly after the grounds opened. , evidence was being processed and charges were pending against an identified suspect.
Huntington Chapel
Green Lawn officials had long desired to build a chapel at the cemetery ever since its formation in 1848. A site was selected, but cemetery expansion made it less than ideal. A second site was selected, but again expansion rendered the site inappropriate. After the 1887 expansion, the board of directors felt secure enough to select a permanent location for the new chapel. Design and construction were put off until enough funds had been raised to erect a substantial building of excellent materials and workmanship. The fundraising effort neared completion in 1899, at which time the board selected architect Frank L. Packard to design the chapel. Packard was a natural choice, as he had advised the board for several years on the landscape design and aesthetics of the cemetery.
This structure, originally called the Mortuary Chapel, was dedicated on November 11, 1902. The chapel is in the Renaissance Revival style, and features a rotunda capped in red vitrified tile. The dome bears a resemblance to the Ohio Statehouse (then still under construction). The structure rests on a bed of gravel below the surface. The foundations are of concrete and stone, and arches of brick and concrete support the building above. The exterior walls are of white marble, while the interior walls are clad in "English vein" Italian marble. The main entry doors are bronze and flanked by Ionic columns, while the interior floor is a geometric pattern of black and white tile. The dome, made of leaded art glass, supported by interior pilasters of bronze and marble.
The chapel contains two murals (depicting Truth and Wisdom), a number of mosaics, and windows of both leaded and stained glass. The art glass murals were designed by Frederick Wilson and executed by Tiffany & Co. The stained glass windows were designed by Tiffany & Co. The north window depicts Peggy Thompson, the first white woman known to die in the area, and the south window Isaac Dalton, a superintendent of the Soldier's Home in Columbus who took special care of wounded soldiers during the American Civil War. Peletiah Huntington, founder of what became Huntington Bancshares, donated the mosaics, murals, and stained glass windows. The rest of the chapel cost $24,000 ($ in dollars). The funeral space in the chapel was dedicated to Huntington in 1902 with the placement of a bronze tablet there.
The Mortuary Chapel was designed to be a place where funerals could be held. Over time, few funerals were held there. Instead, the public began using the chapel as a meditative space, and requesting to be buried inside it. The chapel was renovated, a west wing with service room and bathrooms added, and a carillon with bells constructed in 1963. The leaded glass rotunda was capped with a concrete dome to protect it. The addition and carillon were in the Neoclassical style. A north wing was completed in 1979. The Thompson stained glass window was removed, and a door cut through to the new wing. The historic window was relocated to the east wall of the new wing, while a new stained glass window and fountain were placed at the west wall of the wing. The north wing serves as an indoor mausoleum.
The chapel was rededicated in the early 2000s as Huntington Chapel.
About Green Lawn Cemetery
Green Lawn Cemetery is privately owned by the nonprofit Green Lawn Cemetery Association. The cemetery is one of Ohio's most prominent rural (or "garden") cemeteries. Any member of the public may purchase a plot.
As of 2021, Green Lawn Cemetery contained , making it Ohio's second-largest cemetery. About were undeveloped, which cemetery officials said should provide burial space for another 100 to 150 years. About of roads wind through the burying ground.
There are roughly 7,000 trees belonging to 150 species at the cemetery. This includes four "state champion" trees (the largest and tallest trees of their species anywhere in the state). In 1999, the Audubon Society recognized Green Lawn Cemetery as part of the Lower Scioto River Ohio "Important Bird Area".
According to cemetery records in 2021, more than 155,000 people were buried at Green Lawn Cemetery. This included 6,000 veterans buried in seven military sections (thousands more are buried on private lots), of which 15 were generals and five Medal of Honor recipients. Portions of two of the military sections are National Cemeteries.
Sections at Green Lawn Cemetery were originally lettered in the order in which they were developed. The cemetery's rapid expansion forced the cemetery to begin numbering sections after running through the alphabet.
Notable structures and art
The Hayden family mausoleum is the cemetery's largest. Designed by local architect Frank L. Packard, it was completed for banker Charles H. Hayden in early 1905. Built at a cost of about $80,000 to $100,000 ($ to $ in dollars), the Neoclassical style tomb had a granite foundation, interior and exterior walls of white Vermont marble, and two Ionic columns on each side of the main entrance. The structure is wide, deep, and has a high dome. The interior is octagonal, and features two columns of marble with a hue like alabaster in each corner. The tomb originally contained eight marble sarcophagi, carved in Italy. The main doors were of bronze. Hayden wanted the construction of the mausoleum to be a surprise for his family, so Packard refused to tell the press or cemetery officials who commissioned the work until it was completed.
A row of small, Egyptian Revival mausoleums in section 65 contains the Packard mausoleum. Architect Frank L. Packard designed the Packard family mausoleum himself.
Notable burials
Notable individuals buried at the cemetery include:
De Witt C. Badger, member of the U.S. House of Representatives and Mayor of Columbus
Gordon Battelle, founder of Battelle Memorial Institute
Otto Beatty Jr., attorney, politician, Civil Rights leader
Thomas Blakiston, English explorer and naturalist
John W. Bricker, Ohio Governor, U.S. Senator, and U.S. Vice Presidential candidate
Samuel Bush, industrialist, grandfather of President George H. W. Bush, and great-grandfather of President George W. Bush
James E. Campbell, Governor of Ohio and member of the U.S. House of Representatives
William Turner Coggeshall, newspaper editor, spy for the Union Army, U.S. Ambassador to Ecuador
James M. Comly, Civil War general in the Union Army, newspaper editor, and political backer
James L. Conger, member of the U.S. House of Representatives
George L. Converse, member of the U.S. House of Representatives
Howard Daniels, landscape architect and rural cemetery designer
Augustus Stoner Decker, Mayor of Columbus
William Dennison Jr., Governor of Ohio
Cromwell Dixon, aviation pioneer, first person to fly over the Continental Divide
Daniel S. Earhart, member of the U.S. House of Representatives
Merie Earle, actress
Al G. Field, minstrel show operator
James W. Forsyth, U.S. Army general, war criminal
Samuel Galloway, member of the U.S. House of Representatives
Wally Gerber, baseball player
Washington Gladden, minister and social reformer
Lincoln Goodale, first physician to practice in Columbus
Stomp Gordon, jump blues pianist and singer
Clinton Greaves, Buffalo Soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
Phale Hale, civil rights leader and Ohio state legislator
Henry Howe, historian
Alfred Kelley, banker, canal builder, and railroad executive
Nathan Kelley, architect, designer of the Ohio Statehouse
Simon Lazarus, founder of Lazarus department stores
John J. Lentz, member of the U.S. House of Representatives
George H. Maetzel, Ohio architect
William T. Martin, Mayor of Columbus
Edward S. Matthias, longest-serving associate justice on the Supreme Court of Ohio
Abram Irvin McDowell, Mayor of Columbus
William L. McMillen, physician, Civil War general in the Union Army, and carpetbagger legislator
Samuel Medary, newspaper owner and territorial governor of Minnesota and Kansas
Grant Mitchell, actor
John G. Mitchell, Civil War general in the Union Army
Heman A. Moore, member of the U.S. House of Representatives
George K. Nash, Governor of Ohio
Edward Orton Sr., Ohio State Geologist and first president of Ohio State University
Edward Orton Jr., Ohio State Geologist and ceramic engineer
Joseph H. Outhwaite, member of the U.S. House of Representatives
Frank Packard, architect
Alice E. Heckler Peters (1845-1921), social reformer
Frederick Phisterer, Civil War captain and recipient of the Medal of Honor
James Preston Poindexter, abolitionist, Civil Rights activist
Joseph H. Potter, American Civil War general in the Union Army
James A. Rhodes, Governor of Ohio and Mayor of Columbus
Eddie Rickenbacker, WWI flying ace and industrialist
Joseph Ridgway, member of the U.S. House of Representatives
James Linn Rodgers, American diplomat
Alice Schille, watercolor artist
Orland Smith, Civil War general in the Union Army
James H. Snook, Ohio State University professor and convicted murderer
Billy Southworth, baseball player and manager, inducted to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2008
Billy Southworth Jr., baseball player and bomber pilot, son of Billy Southworth
Alfred P. Stone, member of the U.S. House of Representatives
Lucas Sullivant, land surveyor, founder of Franklinton, Ohio
Joseph Rockwell Swan, associate justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio
Edward L. Taylor Jr., member of the U.S. House of Representatives
William Oxley Thompson, fifth President of Ohio State University
James Thurber, humorist, author, and New Yorker columnist
Allen G. Thurman, member of the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives, associate justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio, and U.S. Vice Presidential candidate
Dan Tipton, sailor, gambler, and posse rider with Wyatt Earp's vendetta ride
Edward C. Turner, Ohio Attorney General and associate justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio
John Martin Vorys, member of the U.S. House of Representatives
Charles C. Walcutt, Civil War general in the Union Army and Mayor of Columbus
David K. Watson, member of the U.S. House of Representatives
Wallace Ralston Westlake, Mayor of Columbus
Wayne Bidwell Wheeler, Prohibitionist and leader of Anti-Saloon League
James Andrew Williams, Major League Baseball manager
William Tecumseh Wilson, Civil War general in the Union Army
George Ziegler, Civil War general in the Union Army |
24240001 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Wynne%20%28sculptor%29 | David Wynne (sculptor) | David Wynne (25 May 1926 – 4 September 2014) was a British sculptor of figures, animals, and portraits.
Biography
Born in Lyndhurst, Hampshire, son of Commander Charles Edward Wynne and Millicent (née Beyts), Wynne was educated at Stowe School and then served in the Royal Navy during World War II and read Zoology at Trinity College, Cambridge, taking up sculpture professionally in 1950. He married Gillian Grant, daughter of the writer Joan Grant, in 1959 and had two sons, Edward and Roland, who formed psychedelic rock band Ozric Tentacles.
He did a bronze sculpture of The Beatles in 1964 and subsequently introduced them to the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (of whom he also did a sculpture).
He was awarded the OBE in 1994.
Works
Wynne's sculptures include:
Bird Fountains (1967) – Ambassador College, Pasadena, California
Blessed Virgin Mary (2000) – Ely Cathedral
The Breath of Life Column (1962) – location unknown (was Hammersmith)
Boy with a Dolphin (1974) – Cheyne Walk
Christ and Mary Magdalene (1963) – Ely Cathedral and Magdalen College, Oxford
Cresta Rider (1985) – Saint Moritz
Dancer with a Bird (1975) – Cadogan Square Gardens
The Dancers (1971) – Cadogan Square Gardens
Embracing Lovers (1973) – Guildhall, London
Five Swimmers Fountain (1980) – Staines
Fred Perry (1984) – Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Club, Southfields, London
Gaia and Tresco Children (1990) – Tresco Abbey Gardens
Girl on a Horse – Donald M. Kendall Sculpture Gardens, Purchase, New York
Girl with a Dolphin (1973) – by Tower Bridge
Girl with Doves (1970) – University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
Goddess of the Woods (1991) – Highgrove House
Gorilla (sculpture) (1961) – Crystal Palace Park, south London, a sculpture of Guy the Gorilla
Grizzly Bear – Donald M. Kendall Sculpture Gardens, Purchase, New York
Leaping Salmon (1980) – Kingston upon Thames
The Messenger (1981) – Sutton, London
Queen Elizabeth Gate (1992) – Hyde Park Corner
Risen Christ and Seraphim (1985) – Wells Cathedral
River God Tyne (1968) – Newcastle Civic Centre
The Spirit of Fire (1963) – originally Lewis's, later Debenhams, Hanley, Staffordshire
Swans in Flight (1968) – Swans In Flight, Armstrong Auditorium, Edmond, Oklahoma
Teamwork (1958) – for Taylor Woodrow headquarters, London and later Solihull; now at Taywood Road, Northolt, London
UK 50 Pence Coin (1973) – Commemoration of the United Kingdom joining the European Economic Community
″Christ on the Ass″ (1954) Maquette III for The Entry into Jerusalem. CuratorsEye.com
Portraits include:
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1962)
Charles, Prince of Wales (1970)
Joan Baez (1965)
John Gielgud (1962) – Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
Oskar Kokoschka (1965) – Tate
Queen Elizabeth II
The Beatles (1964)
Thomas Beecham (1956) – Royal Festival Hall, National Portrait Gallery, London, etc.
Yehudi Menuhin (1963) |
34423474 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belilvand | Belilvand | Belilvand (, also Romanized as Belīlvand) is a village in Koregah-e Sharqi Rural District, in the Central District of Khorramabad County, Lorestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 476, in 88 families. |
32217748 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belfast%20Harlequins%20Ladies%20Rugby | Belfast Harlequins Ladies Rugby | Belfast Harlequins Ladies Rugby is a rugby union team based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The team is part of the multi-sport organization, Belfast Harlequins.
History
In 2008, Belfast Harlequins RFC opened its doors to developing a ladies team within the rugby section. They approached ex-ulster ladies coach, Nathan Moore, in 2008, to coach the squad, and had an open day in May 2008 which attracted over 20 adult ladies.
In the initial ladies development plan, the first year of the club was to develop the players skills and seek occasional friendly games. However, with the influx of players into the club it was decided to go straight into All Ireland Division 2 North.
Inaugural season: 2008/2009
The first season (2008/2009) was a hard fought one, with the Harlequins Ladies only winning 2 out of their season fixtures.
Inaugural season, 2009/2010
In their second season (2009/2010) the adult squad grew to approximately 30 players and made a good account for themselves finishing mid table in A.I.L Division 2 North and competing in the Carrick 10's in May and entering a Tag team into the IRFU Tag leagues during the summer months.
In their third season (2010/2011) the recruitment drive in the Tag leagues and by the dedicated recruitment team saw the adult playing numbers rise to over 40+ and for the first time in Ulster rugby history the club was able to field two competitive teams, one in AIL Division 2 North and the Ulster Development League. Both teams entered the Ulster Provincial Cup, and the 1st XV entered the AIL cup. Again, both of the teams entered the Carrick 10’s tournament and both reached finals in the competition, the 2nd XV (named the Quins Barbarians) reached the bowl final, and the 1st XV reached the cup final and were winners of the Plate. At the end of the season the ladies qualified to the first All-Ireland 7s finals and came away winners of the Plate against a number of AIL 1 team. During the season the club also started development on a youth structure and have formed links with a number of schools in the Belfast area. In 2009/10 there were 6 youth players and in 2010/2011 this number grew to having 16 youth players between the ages of 12-17 years of age.
7's Tournament
The club hosts a 7's tournament every August inviting teams from around the United Kingdom to take part in a day-long competition. In its first year, eight teams took part with a Canadian touring side entering along with teams from Ireland. St. Mary's was the first-ever winners of the tournament in 2010. |
1374551 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Rac%C5%82awice | Battle of Racławice | The Battle of Racławice was one of the first battles of the Polish-Lithuanian Kościuszko Uprising against Russia. It was fought on 4 April 1794 near the village of Racławice in Lesser Poland.
The battle site is one of Poland's official national Historic Monuments (Pomnik historii), as designated May 1, 2004. Its listing is maintained by the National Heritage Board of Poland.
Battle
General Denisov, with 2,500 troops, had planned to attack the Poles from the south, while Tormasov's force of 3,000 troops blocked Kościuszko. Encountering Tormasov's force first, Kościuszko occupied a nearby hill, General Antoni Madalinski on his right and General Józef Zajączek on his left. Not waiting any longer, Tormasov attacked the hill by 15:00, setting up their cannon. Kosciuszko inspired his peasant brigade with shouts of "My boys, take that artillery! For God, and the Fatherland! Go forward with faith!"
The first group of serfs captured three twelve-pound cannons and the second wave captured eight more cannons. Moving to his left flank, Kosciuszko led a bayonet charge when the Russians fled, followed closely by the scythemen.
The Polish Order of Battle was as follows:
In addition, Lesser Poland fielded approximately 2,000 peasants armed with war scythes and pikes, known as kosynierzy, as well as 11 cannon. The outcome of the battle was a tactical Polish victory, with Kościuszko defeating the numerically inferior enemy. However, his forces were too small to undertake a successful pursuit, and the Corps of General Denisov evaded destruction and continued to operate in Lesser Poland.
Aftermath
Kościuszko marched back to Kraków and made camp in the fields of Bosutow.
After the battle, Kościuszko paraded before his troops in a sukmana, a traditional attire worn in Lesser Poland, in honour of the bravery of the peasants, whose charge ensured the quick capture of the Russian artillery. He also praised Wojciech Bartosz Głowacki, a peasant who was the first to capture the cannon (he is visible in Matejko's painting, above). He smothered its fuse with his hat before it fired. In return he received an award of nobility, his freedom, a tract of land and made standard-bearer.
The victory was subsequently promoted in Poland as a major success and helped in spreading the Kościuszko Uprising to other areas of Poland and instigating the Warsaw Uprising of 1794. Also, the participation of peasant volunteers was seen by many as the starting point of the Polish peasantry's political evolution from serfs to equally entitled citizens of the nation.
Legacy
Military
The red cap worn by Kościuszko's soldiers and the homemade war scythes were later featured on the emblem of the RAF's 303 (Polish) Fighter Squadron, which took part in the Battle of Britain.
The Battle of Racławice is commemorated on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Warsaw, with the inscription "RACŁAWICE 4 IV 1794".
Art
Jan Matejko's painting entitled "Kościuszko at Racławice" depicts the battle and is on display at the Sukiennice Museum, a branch of the National Museum in Kraków. A monumental panorama (measuring 15 x 114 meters) known as the Racławice Panorama was completed a century after the battle in 1894, and is currently on display in Wrocław as a branch of the National Museum in Wrocław. |
35544787 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College%20sports | College sports | College sports or college athletics encompasses non-professional, collegiate and university-level competitive sports and games.
World University Games
The first World University Games were held in 1923. There were originally called the Union Nationale des Étudiants Français. In 1957, following several previous renames, they became known in English as the World University Games.
Continents and countries
North America
United States
College athletics is a major enterprise in the United States, with more than 500,000 student athletes attending over 1,100 universities and colleges competing annually. The largest programs are:
National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)
National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA)
National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA).
Among many other sports, the most-watched competitions are college football and college basketball, though there are competitions in many other sports, including badminton, baseball, softball, ice hockey, soccer, rugby union, volleyball, lacrosse, field hockey, cricket, handball, swimming and diving, track and field, golf, tennis, table tennis, pickleball, rowing, and many others depending on the university. In the United States, college athletes are considered amateurs and their compensation is generally limited to athletic scholarships. However, there is disagreement as to whether college student-athletes should be paid. College athletics have been criticized for diverting resources away from academic studies, while unpaid student athletes generate income for their universities and private entities. Due to the passage of Title IX in the United States, universities must offer an equal number of scholarships for women and for men.
Canada
Canada has over 14,000 student athletes within 56 universities under U Sports. U Sports is the national sport governing body of university sport in Canada. There are 12 different sports annually that compete at 21 national championships throughout the year. Similarly to the US, compensation is limited to athletic scholarships. There are athletic scholarships that are awarded to student athletes based on academic eligibility and athletic ability. There is a minimum academic requirement for student athletes to achieve the scholarship. There is an amount cap on scholarships which varies between sports. Athletic scholarships are not only determined by the league caps but it varies on the institution, team, and coaches standard. Each student athlete that competes under U Sports has five years of eligibility and must complete 3.0 credits every year prior to competing. There are other sports that compete at the university level but do not fall under the U Sports. These sports may be legislated by the conferences including - Canada West (CanWest), Ontario University Athletics (OUA), Quebec Student Sport Federation (RSEQ), and Atlantic University Sport (AUS). Colleges in Canada compete under the Canadian College Athletic Association (CCAA).
Latin America
Mexico
Some Mexican universities are affiliated with professional association football teams. One such team is the Universidad Autonoma Pumas.
Oceania
Australia
UniSport Nationals is an annual multi-sport event held in Australia among its 43 member universities and tertiary institutions. Over 7000 university students participate in the event each year. Compared to the NCAA in the US and USports in Canada however, UniSport Nationals is less competitive and comparable to intramural-level of competition.
Historically, university sports has received little academic attention in Australia.
In 1863, rugby union was first played in Australia at the University of Sydney when several clubs affiliated with the university were established.
One of Australia's earliest cricket teams was founded at the University of Sydney in 1854. This university affiliated team is one of the only teams from that period that still exists.
New Zealand
New Zealand universities's sports teams normally compete in local sports leagues against non-university teams. There is an annual national event which covers a large number of sports and competitive cultural activities (such as debating). The event is typically held over Easter, rotating around university centers.
Asia
East Asia
China
University sport was established in China by the 1930s. One of these programs was at the Catholic University of Peking. In 1936, members of the team traveled to Japan as members of a team to participate in a basketball and association football competition. During the early stages of World War II in the region, most universities suspended their sports programs. The exceptions were Fu Ren University and Yanjing University which kept these programmes open until 1942 before shutting them down.
Chinese universities organised boat races before the cultural revolution. These races were modeled after the boat races in England.
The Chinese Basketball University Association (CUBA) is currently China's most popular and competitive collegiate basketball league. In 2018, AliSports acquired the rights to broadcast the league for $150 million. Other university sports associations such as the Chinese Football University Association and the Chinese Marathon University Association are being broadcast by AliSports.
Japan
University sports was established in Japan by the 1930s.
By 1977, ultimate Frisbee had been established as a university sport. National championships were held that year with Aichi Gakuin University winning the inaugural event.
South Korea
Collegiate sports are organized by the Korea University Sports Federation (KUSF) and students must be enrolled at a member institution in order to participate. It runs the U-League in six sports (baseball, basketball, football, soft tennis and volleyball) and the Club Championship in four team sports (baseball, basketball, football and volleyball). The U-League is mirrored after the domestic professional leagues and a large number of student-athletes eventually turn professional. The Club Championship is contested by college teams operated as intramural clubs.
Southeast Asia
Philippines
The Federation of School Sports Association of the Philippines (FESSAP) is the governing body recognized by the International University Sports Federation (FISU) in the Philippines. Notably, the two largest athletic associations in Metro Manila, the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) and the National Collegiate Athletic Association (Philippines) are not members, but the largest athletic association in Metro Cebu, Cebu Schools Athletic Foundation, Inc., is, as well as most other athletic associations in the provinces.
The UAAP tried to wrest recognition away from FESSAP's recognition by FISU in 2013 but was denied.
Indonesia
Liga Mahasiswa
South Asia
India
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Trophy
Africa
South Africa
Varsity Sports (South Africa) is an organization of university sports leagues in South Africa. The organization currently sponsors seven events: athletics, beach volleyball, association football, field hockey, netball, and rugby sevens.
During the 1970s, the National Union of South African Students worked to create a university sports program where race was not considered in team and competition arrangements. The organisation faced some governmental hurdles. At the time, inter-racial sports was only allowed to be played on private grounds, which meant games and competitions could not be played on public university grounds. They had models from the University of Witwatersrand and the University of Cape Town which had already held such events.
Europe
Western Europe
United Kingdom
British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) is the governing body for university and college sports in the UK. It runs leagues in 16 sports and an annual championship meeting, which in 2011 covered 19 sports. BUCS organization is very different from the USA's NCAA in the sense that BUCS is not competitive to compete in like the NCAA.
BUCS Super Rugby is the top competition for university-level rugby in the United Kingdom. Currently, there are 10 universities that compete in BUCS Super Rugby.
There were undergraduate boat races in Victorian England, and The Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge is still an annual event. The assimilation of sports into academic life at Cambridge University in the nineteenth century has also been documented.
In the 1990s, ultimate frisbee became a popular sport on university campuses, leading to the establishment of a national sport federation.
Universities in Wales support national development of athletics. The Wales National Pool at Swansea University provides for a high level development of swimming.
Eastern Europe
Armenia
The Armenian Student Sports Federation (ARMSSF) is a national non-governmental organization responsible for advocating, supporting and promoting the interests of students' sports and physical activities in Armenia. The headquarters of the federation is located in Yerevan. The Federation maintains numerous cooperation agreements with universities across Armenia.
The Federation is responsible for sending student athletes to participate in various international and European level university sporting championships, including the World University Summer & Winter Games, the FISU World University Championships, and the Pan-European Student Games. The ARMSSF also organizes national events, competitions, and activities for students across Armenia and often collaborates with other sporting federations such as the Armenian Table Tennis Federation, the Armwrestling Federation of Armenia, the Armenian National Rowing and Canoe Federation, and the Figure Skating Federation of Armenia, among others.
The ARMSSF organizes the annual "Student Sports Games of the Republic of Armenia". In November 2014, over 3500 students from 21 Armenian universities participated. The games are sponsored by the Ministry of Education and Science. |
56951017 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THUG%20Pro | THUG Pro | THUG Pro (Tony Hawk's Underground: Pro) is a total conversion mod of the 2004 video game Tony Hawk's Underground 2. It uses its gameplay as the basis for an all-encompassing collection of levels from every original Neversoft game in the series, for use in single-player and online multiplayer gameplay.
The mod has been continuously updated since its initial beta release in 2013. The mod is free to download, but Underground 2 must be installed.
Background and development
According to developer Morten Larson in a 2018 interview with Vice, the idea for a mod such as THUG Pro had existed for a long time, but by 2012, felt it had become necessary; the community was struggling and fractured by that point, with the majority of the game's online servers having since been shut down, and those still playing on unofficial servers were spread across different platforms.
The mod's first official beta release was on August 10, 2013. In its initial release, the mod featured all levels from Tony Hawk's Underground and its sequel Underground 2, as well as custom park themes from Pro Skater 4 and American Wasteland. Over the time, more levels from the games were added; for instance, on December 13, 2015, the rest of the Pro Skater 3 levels were added.
In the same interview with Vice, Larson detailed long-term plans for the future of THUG Pro, including mod support, new levels, a "Create-A-Theme" mode, custom soundtracks, and a higher resolution visual overhaul. These features appeared in update 0.6.0.0, released in late June 2018.
Gameplay
THUG Pro, being a mod of Underground 2, has similar gameplay to that of the sixth generation-era entries in the Tony Hawk game series. The mod focuses on online multiplayer as its main game mode and there is no single-player campaign. Its only single-player mode is "Freeskate"/"High Score Run", which allows players to practice for online play. Online multiplayer consists of all traditional game types found in past Tony Hawk games.
The game includes a majority of the levels from the Neversoft era of the franchise except of Tony Hawk's Proving Ground.
Features
Aside from its inclusion of a majority of levels from throughout the Tony Hawk's series, THUG Pro also includes support of customized levels and soundtracks. Custom levels and skaters made by other users can be downloaded on the THPSX website. A Blender plugin used for importing and exporting custom levels into the THUG2 format (as well as support for models from several other Tony Hawk games) was released in early 2017 by the user "asdf"; it was updated and re-released with expanded support and functionality in 2018 by the user "denetii", which near coincided with update 0.6.0.0's support for importing custom levels. This plugin can be used to export fanmade levels or those imported from elsewhere into Blender to THUG Pro as well as character models that can be rigged to an armature to be used in-game.
Reception
A few months after the mod's initial beta launch, Luke Plunkett of Kotaku was optimistic about the idea of all levels in the series being available for online play. In reviews of the critically panned 2015 Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5, reviewers cited THUG Pro as a more enjoyable and affordable Tony Hawk's Pro Skater experience. |
59322040 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeongyeon | Jeongyeon | Yoo Jeong-yeon (; born 1 November 1996), known mononymously as Jeongyeon (), is a South Korean singer. She is a member of Twice, a South Korean girl group formed by JYP Entertainment.
Early life
Jeongyeon was born as Yoo Kyung-wan on 1 November 1996 in Suwon, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. She has two older sisters, one of whom is the actress Gong Seung-yeon. Her father was a chef who worked for Kim Dae-jung, a former president of South Korea. Jeongyeon took aerobics classes at a young age and developed an interest in singing and dancing soon afterward.
Career
Pre-debut
Jeongyeon failed an audition to join JYP Entertainment as a child, but eventually joined the agency after passing an open audition in March 2010. She trained for five years before debuting with Twice. Between 2013 and early 2015, Jeongyeon was expected to become a member of a new JYP girl group alongside fellow trainees (now Twice bandmates) Nayeon, Sana, and Jihyo; however, the project was cancelled. Later in 2015, Jeongyeon participated in the television program Sixteen, a reality television competition to determine the members of Twice. In the final episode, she was chosen as one of the nine members of the group.
Debut with Twice and health issues
In October 2015 Jeongyeon officially debuted as a member of Twice with the release of their first extended play (EP), The Story Begins and its lead single "Like Ooh-Ahh". Jeongyeon and her sister co-hosted the South Korean music program Inkigayo from July 2016 to January 2017, for which they both won the Newcomer Award at the 2016 SBS Entertainment Awards. Since Jeongyeon's debut, she has also been credited as songwriter on some of Twice's tracks. In Gallup Korea's annual music poll, Jeongyeon was voted among the top 20 most popular idols in South Korea for four consecutive years from 2016 to 2019 alongside her bandmate Nayeon.
On 17 October 2020, JYP Entertainment announced that Jeongyeon would be taking a hiatus due to anxiety. She resumed activities on 31 January 2021 at 30th Seoul Music Awards. On 18 August 2021, JYP Entertainment announced that Jeongyeon would be taking a second hiatus due to panic and anxiety disorder. She resumed activities as a member of the group in February 2022, beginning with the North American leg of Twice 4th World Tour "III". That same year, Jeongyeon and the rest of the members renewed their contracts with JYP Entertainment.
Discography
Soundtrack appearances
Songwriting credits
All song credits are adapted from the Korea Music Copyright Association's database unless stated otherwise.
Filmography
Television shows
Awards and nominations |
5259746 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%A1mestovo%20District | Námestovo District | Námestovo District (okres Námestovo) is a district in the Žilina Region of central Slovakia.
Until 1918, the district was part of Árva County, an administrative division of the Kingdom of Hungary.
Municipalities |
69225629 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobley%20Hotel | Mobley Hotel | The Mobley Hotel is a historic hotel located in Cisco, Texas. It was the first hotel owned by Conrad Hilton, founder of Hilton Hotels. It is a two-story brick building.
History
In 1916, Henry Mobley opened the hotel. Most of its guests came from the nearby railway station. Mobley capitalized on the local oil boom by renting out rooms for 8 hour periods that coincided with the shifts in the oil fields.
In 1919, Conrad Hilton purchased the hotel for $40,000, the first hotel he ever purchased. Hilton emphasized minimum cost and maximum comfort, a philosophy he summed up with the word "minimax." In 1929, Hilton sold the hotel. During the Depression, the hotel fell into disrepair. In 1956, it was used as a senior citizens home. In 1977, the hotel became a memorial museum for Hilton. |
33795195 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sassenfjorden | Sassenfjorden | Sassenfjorden is a part of Isfjorden at Spitsbergen, Svalbard, in between Bünsow Land and Nordenskiöld Land. The inner branch of Sassenfjorden is named Tempelfjorden. |
63311276 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordylus%20beraduccii | Cordylus beraduccii | Cordylus beraduccii, also known commonly as the Maasai girdled lizard, is a species of girdled lizard in the family Cordylidae. The species is native to East Africa.
Geographic range
C. beraduccii is found in Kenya and Tanzania, where it lives in the Maasai plains from the Ngong Hills to Dodoma.
Habitat
The Maasai girdled lizard is a rock-dwelling species that tends to prefer rock outcroppings in savannas or temperate forests.
Reproduction
The Maasai girdled lizard reproduces both sexually and asexually. It is an ovoviviparous species, meaning that the female parent produces eggs that hatch in the body, resulting in a live birth. Usually 1-5 young are born.
Captivity
Because of the Maasai girdled lizard's timid behavior and ability to easily reproduce asexually in captivity, it is quite common in the pet trade. It is the second most common girdled lizard bred in captivity behind the East African spiny-tailed lizard (Cordylus tropidosternum), and both species tend to fall under the same name of armadillo lizard, though unlike the real species of that name (Ouroborus cataphractus), this species does not grasp its tail and form a ball for defense.
Taxonomy
The species C. beraduccii was described in 2002 by Donald G. Broadley and William R. "Bill" Branch, who named the species after the collector of the type specimen, Joe Beraducci. |
107475 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortuna%2C%20California | Fortuna, California | Fortuna (Spanish for "Fortune"; Wiyot: Vutsuwitk Da'l) is a city on the northeast shore of the Eel River, approximately from where it enters the Pacific Ocean, and is on U.S. Route 101 in west-central Humboldt County, California, United States. The population was 12,516 at the 2020 census, up from 11,926 at the 2000 census.
History
The settlement was originally called "Slide," for Slide Hill, in 1874, named for the slide that was a fixture on the northeast side of the Eel River and the southwest portion of Christian Ridge just to the northwest, near the edge of town. In 1875, the name was changed to Springville during the construction of the Springville Mill, a lumber mill for the nearby redwood forests, named so because of the numerous springs in the area. The mill's owners were Henry Rohner (namesake of neighboring Rohnerville), Alexander Masson, M. N. Weber and G. F. Gushaw. Springville was originally a company town belonging to the mill, and the few people that resided there all worked at the mill. By the late 1870s Springville had grown enough to warrant a post office, but a town called Springville, California (now part of Camarillo, in Ventura County) already existed in the state. The post office was named Slide on May 24, 1876. In 1884 the residents petitioned the state legislature for the name Fortuna, Spanish for "fortune" and Latin for "chance," and by July 3, 1888, the change was official. The name was chosen when settlers saw the proximity of the forests, the river and its valley, and the Pacific Ocean, as ideal for enjoying a good quality of life, and felt "fortunate" to live there. It is believed that a local minister and real estate agent, desiring to sell lots to newcomers, devised the name as a marketing tool. Alternatively, an Odd Fellows men's club was known as the Fortuna Lodge, No. 221. Jack Hosier, a member, suggested the name of Fortuna for the town.
Electricity came to Fortuna in 1883 when W. J. Swortzel and George W. Williams (of Swortzel & Williams), owners of the Springville Mill Company, built a $4,000 power plant. Some of the local sawmills were already powered by electricity, and by providing power to the mills, Swortzel and Williams saw the opportunity to also provide inexpensive electric lighting to the townspeople.
The town was incorporated on February 20, 1906, and, because of the Eel River, became known for its agricultural prowess in vegetable crops, berries and fruits, and for the fresh fish from the river. Although agricultural industry was expanding, the lumber industry is what started the town, and would continue as the main source of local income for some time to come.
Rohnerville (formerly Eel River Township), a town founded to service the many gold miners inhabiting the mountains to the north and east, was competing with Fortuna to be the leading township in the area. The miners would come by ship to Eureka, and then head up the Eel River to the junction with the Van Duzen River, from whence the miners headed east up the Van Duzen River Valley into Trinity County. Rohnerville was at this junction, and looked to prosper from selling supplies to the miners. But when it was decided that the railroad would be routed through neighboring Fortuna, it set the fate of both towns.
The Eel River and Eureka Railroad was built in 1884 to provide Humboldt Bay shipping access to the lumber mills and farms of the lower Eel River. Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway reorganized Fortuna's railroad as the San Francisco and Northwestern Railway in 1903, and then completed the Northwestern Pacific Railroad to San Francisco in 1914. Fortuna became the rail hub for smaller communities like Alton, Fernbridge, Ferndale, Hydesville, Newburg, Port Kenyon, Rohnerville, and Waddington. Fortuna was the location of one of two secondary mills of the storied Pacific Lumber Company, headquartered south in Scotia.
Since Fortuna's earliest days in the 1800s, its nickname has been "The Friendly City."
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land.
Fortuna is located from the Pacific coast on the bank of the Eel River. The community is affected by coastal weather patterns with the Pacific Ocean to the west. Fortuna is served by U.S. Route 101 providing direct access to San Francisco to the south, and to Eureka (the county seat) to the north. The western terminus of California State Route 36 intersects U.S. Route 101 just south of the city limits. Fortuna is surrounded by national, state and county redwood parks, and is the gateway to the redwood forests of Northern California. Sequoia sempervirens grow to about and live to be 2,500 years old. The Avenue of the Giants offers views of the area's redwoods, and carries visitors through a number of groves. Stops include Founders Grove, the Visitor Center near Weott and several locations that provide trail access.
Climate
The area sees summers that are not as foggy as Eureka and Arcata to the north, and run a few degrees warmer. Fortuna has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen Csb) typical of the North Coast that is characterized by warm (but not hot), dry summers, and mild to chilly, rainy winters.
Demographics
2010
At the 2010 census Fortuna had a population of 11,926. The population density was . The racial makeup of Fortuna was 9,686 (81.2%) White, 73 (0.6%) African American, 444 (3.7%) Native American, 106 (0.9%) Asian, 9 (0.1%) Pacific Islander, 1,065 (8.9%) from other races, and 543 (4.6%) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2,032 persons (17.0%).
The census reported that 11,665 people (97.8% of the population) lived in households, 189 (1.6%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 72 (0.6%) were institutionalized.
There were 4,688 households, 1,509 (32.2%) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 2,135 (45.5%) were heterosexual married couples living together, 579 (12.4%) had a female householder with no husband present, 279 (6.0%) had a male householder with no wife present. There were 363 (7.7%) unmarried heterosexual partnerships, and 38 (0.8%) homosexual married couples or partnerships. 1,368 households (29.2%) were one person and 683 (14.6%) had someone living alone who was 65 or older. The average household size was 2.49. There were 2,993 families (63.8% of households); the average family size was 3.06.
The age distribution was 2,937 people (24.6%) under the age of 18, 1,192 people (10.0%) aged 18 to 24, 2,681 people (22.5%) aged 25 to 44, 3,050 people (25.6%) aged 45 to 64, and 2,066 people (17.3%) who were 65 or older. The median age was 38.1 years. For every 100 females, there were 93.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 89.7 males.
There were 4,991 housing units at an average density of , of which 4,688 were occupied, 2,747 (58.6%) by the owners and 1,941 (41.4%) by renters. The homeowner vacancy rate was 1.7%; the rental vacancy rate was 6.2%. 6,821 people (57.2% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 4,844 people (40.6%) lived in rental housing units.
2000
At the 2000 census there were 10,497 people in 4,185 households, including 2,778 families, in the city. The population density was . There were 4,414 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 88.4% White, 0.5% Black or African American, 2.9% Native American, 1.0% Asian, 0.2% Pacific Islander, 4.0% from other races, and 3.2% from two or more races. 10.5% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
Of the 4,185 households 31.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 49.6% were married couples living together, 12.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 33.6% were non-families. 28.1% of households were one person and 14.1% were one person aged 65 or older. The average household size was 2.45 and the average family size was 2.98.
The age distribution was 26.0% under the age of 18, 8.6% from 18 to 24, 25.7% from 25 to 44, 22.3% from 45 to 64, and 17.3% 65 or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females, there were 91.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 87.8 males.
The median household income was $31,129 and the median family income was $38,867. Males had a median income of $32,414 versus $23,327 for females. The per capita income for the city was $16,574. About 12.1% of families and 17.4% of the population were below the poverty line, including 24.8% of those under age 18 and 4.6% of those age 65 or over.
Economy
According to a 2008 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the city were the City of Fortuna, Eel River Disposal, Fortuna Motors (now defunct), Fortuna Union Elementary School District, Fortuna Union High School District, Redwood Memorial Hospital, Rohnerville School District, Safeway, St. Luke Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center and Wendt Construction.
Education
Fortuna is served by the Fortuna Elementary School District and the Fortuna Union High School.
Government
In the state legislature, Fortuna is , and .
Federally, Fortuna is in .
Culture
The city has a large number of events and festivals, including the Daffodil Festival, Art & Wine in the Park, the Annual Fortuna Rodeo, the Redwood AutoXpo, the Logging Competition, Civil War Days, and Apple Harvest, the Hops in Humboldt festival, the Fortuna Concert Series and holiday events including concerts and parades with performances by Scotia Band Brass Choir and Saxophone Quartet. Additionally, the Eel River was the locale for the Paddle to the Headwaters canoe race.
Notable people
Jean Buckley, center fielder in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
John A. Campbell, timber executive and president of the Pacific Lumber Company
Reggie Christiansen, American college baseball coach
Jon Crosby, American musician and founder of VAST
Cecelia Holland, historical novelist
Randy Niemann, major league baseball player, major league baseball coach
Sam Reynolds, professional soccer player
Ryan Villopoto, professional supercross and motocross champion; born in Fortuna
Devin Shidaker, professional musician and guitarist of The Acacia Strain |
18968721 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zamo%C5%9Bcie-Wie%C5%9B | Zamoście-Wieś | Zamoście-Wieś () is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Strzelce Wielkie, within Pajęczno County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately east of Strzelce Wielkie, east of Pajęczno, and south of the regional capital Łódź. |
71439919 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protactinium%28V%29%20iodide | Protactinium(V) iodide | Protactinium(V) iodide is an inorganic compound, with the chemical formula of PaI5.
Preparation
It can be prepared by the reaction of metals protactinium and iodine, or by reacting protactinium(V) chloride, protactinium(V) bromide or protactinium(V) oxide with silicon tetraiodide.
Properties
It reacts with antimony trioxide in a vacuum at 150 °C to give the iodide oxides PaOI3 and PaO2I; it reacts with protactinium(V) bromide at 350 °C to obtain mixed halides PaBr3I2. It reacts with the monocarbide at 600 °C to give tetraiodide.
Aristid von Grosse was able to produce pure metallic protactinium with the decomposition of protactinium(V) iodide.
When heated at 300 °C for a long time, it decomposes and iodine is released:
PaI5 → PaI3 + I2 |
13714030 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llangadog | Llangadog | Llangadog () is a village and community in Carmarthenshire, Wales, which also includes the villages of Bethlehem and Capel Gwynfe. A notable local landscape feature is Y Garn Goch with two Iron Age hill forts.
Llangadog was the administrative centre of the commote of Perfedd and had a castle, destroyed in 1204. Although the borough declined in the Middle Ages, Llangadog retained its market, which was frequented by drovers into the 19th century.
The railway station on the Heart of Wales Line provides regular train services via Transport for Wales Rail. The station had a siding for accessing the Co-op Wholesale Society creamery, allowing milk trains to access the site. After railway access was ceased in the late 1970s, the creamery continued to operate until 2005, when it closed with the loss of 200 jobs. The site has since been redeveloped as a pet food factory.
St Cadog's Church
The Church in Wales parish church of Saint Cadoc (from whom the name of the village derives) is of medieval origin and was extensively restored in 1889. The tower is fourteenth century.
Governance
An electoral ward with the same name exists. This ward stretches beyond the confines of Llangadog community. The total ward population taken at the 2011 census was 1,929.
The community is bordered by the communities of: Myddfai; Llanddeusant; Quarter Bach; Dyffryn Cennen; Manordeilo and Salem; and Llansadwrn, all being in Carmarthenshire.
Welsh language
According to the 2011 Census, 58.1% of the community's residents aged three and above can speak Welsh, with 86.3% of 3-15 year olds being able to speak the language.
According to the latest Estyn inspection report of the local primary school, Ysgol Gynradd Llangadog, 42% of statutory school ages pupils came from Welsh-speaking households. |
44703758 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wulai%20Scenic%20Train | Wulai Scenic Train | The Wulai Scenic Train (), also known as Wulai Trolley, is a 1.6 km railway line in Wulai District, New Taipei, Taiwan.
History
The rail cart was originally designed by the Japanese government in 1928 to transport timber, logging tools, tea and passengers. After a highway was completed in 1951, most of the railway sections were dismantled except the 1.6 km section. However, with the declining timber and logging industries, the vehicle was transformed to transport tourists. In 1964, the railway was upgraded to two tracks to increase its capacity. In 2015, the railway was closed due to damage caused by Typhoon Soudelor in which 120 meters of section was completely destroyed. It was reopened on 26 August 2017 after almost two years of reconstruction work.
Design
Each cart can accommodate up to 10 passengers. The total length of the track is 1.6 km.
List of stations
Transportation
The railway is accessible by bus from Xindian Station of Taipei Metro. |
2098399 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasaran | Pasaran | ''The pasaran is also a cycle in the Javanese calendar.
Pasaran is a reclaimed island in the province of Lampung, Indonesia. The island is about 1 km from the provincial capital, Bandar Lampung and is administratively part of the city. It has an area of approximately 11.73 hectares and a population of about 600 in 250 households. |
8111195 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycling%20at%20the%201964%20Summer%20Olympics%20%E2%80%93%20Men%27s%20individual%20pursuit | Cycling at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's individual pursuit | The men's individual pursuit was a track cycling event held as part of the Cycling at the 1964 Summer Olympics programme. The course was 4000 metres. It was the first time the event had been held at the Olympics and took place on 16 October and 17 October 1964 at the Hachioji Velodrome. 24 cyclists competed.
Medalists
Results
Heats
In the first round of heats, the 24 cyclists were divided into 12 pairs. Placing in the heats was not used to advanced; instead the 8 fastest cyclists from across the heats advanced to the quarterfinals.
Quarterfinals
The quarterfinals paired off the 8 remaining cyclists into 4 heats. Winners advanced, losers were eliminated.
Semifinals
The winner of each semifinal advanced to the gold medal match, while the loser was sent to the bronze medal match.
Finals
Sources |
26329872 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamurikuma | Yamurikuma | Yamurikuma is a festival in which the women of some Xingu tribes participate in a sort of gender role reversal, wearing feather ornaments and ankle rattles normally worn by men. There are several physical competitions, including archery, swimming, carrying logs, running, and tug of war.
The festival culminates in a wrestling contest called Huka-huka. Wrestling matches usually only last for a few seconds until one opponent is either actually thrown down or 'thrown down' by default (when the other wrestler has grabbed both of her knees in such a way that it would inevitably lead to her being knocked to the ground). |
6574781 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapital%20Bank%20Arena | Kapital Bank Arena | Kapital Bank Arena built next to Mehdi Huseynzade Stadium (the biggest stadium in Sumqayit, Azerbaijan), is a multi-use stadium, currently used mostly for football matches and is the home to Sumgayit City PFC. It has Kapital Bank in its name due to sponsorship purposes and has seating capacity of 1300 spectators. |
610554 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodi%20%28art%20collective%29 | Jodi (art collective) | Jodi, is a collective of two internet artists, Joan Heemskerk (born 1968 in Kaatsheuvel, the Netherlands) and Dirk Paesmans (born 1965 in Brussels, Belgium), created in 1994. They were some of the first artists to create Web art and later started to create software art and artistic computer game modification. Their most well-known art piece is their website wwwwwwwww.jodi.org, which is a landscape of intricate designs made in basic HTML. JODI is represented by Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam.
The artists
Joan Heemskerk was born in 1968 in Kaatsheuvel, the Netherlands, and Dirk Paesmans was born in 1965 in Brussels, Belgium. They both have a background in photography and video art and studied at San Jose State University in California. Paesmans also studied at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with the founder of video art Nam June Paik.
Both Heemskerk and Paesmans live and work out of the Netherlands.
Artworks
In 1999 they began the practice of modifying old video games such as Wolfenstein 3D to create art mods like SOD. Their efforts were celebrated in the 1999 Webby Awards, where they took top prize in the category of "net art." Jodi used their 5-word acceptance speech (a Webby Award tradition) to criticize the event with the words "Ugly commercial sons of bitches." Further video game modifications soon followed for Quake, Jet Set Willy, and the latest, Max Payne 2 (2006), to create a new set of art games. Jodi's approach to game modification is comparable in many ways to deconstructivism in architecture because they would disassemble the game to its basic parts, and reassemble it in ways that do not make intuitive sense. In one of their more well-known modifications of Quake places, the player inside a closed cube with swirling black-and-white patterns on each side. The pattern is the result of a glitch in the game engine discovered by the artists, presumably, through trial and error; it is generated live as the Quake engine tries, and fails, to visualize the interior of a cube with black-and-white checkered wallpaper.
"Screen Grab" Period (2002- )
Since 2002, Jodi have been in what has been called their "Screen Grab" period, making video works by recording a computer monitor's output while working, playing video games, or coding. The "Screen Grab" period began with the four-screen video installation My%Desktop (2002), which premiered at the Plugin Media Lab in Basel. The piece appeared to depict large, malfunctioning Mac OS 9 monitors that displayed cascading windows, error messages, and files endlessly replicating themselves. To make this video, Jodi pointed-and-clicked and dragged-and-dropped frantically to give an appearance of uncontrolled chaos.
Their exhibition Jodi: goodmorning goodnight was on display at the Whitney Museum from 2013 to 2015. Another project, OXO (2018), premiered at the Lightbox Gallery at Harvard University and, later that year, would also form Jodi's contribution to the group exhibition Difference Engine at the Lisson Gallery in New York City, New York. The piece is an interactive multichannel installation based on old computer games and tic-tac-toe.
Alongside Difference Engine, Jodi also held their first solo exhibition in the Los Angeles area— a self-titled exhibition at the And/Or Gallery in Pasadena, California which involved, in part, recreating the gallery's coffered ceiling on the floor to be navigated by visitors.
A 2012 Vice magazine article said JODI's work "underlines the innate anarchy of the online medium, an arena that we've come to recognize as public but one that the duo constantly undermines and tweaks to their own purposes."
As of October 2019, My%Desktop is part of the permanent collection presentation of the new MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) in New York. The work is presented as a monumental installation of four adjacent projections, showing screen grabs of JODI's desktop-performance.
Collections
The work of JODI is represented in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, among other venues. |
40332385 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadir%20Godrej | Nadir Godrej | Nadir Burjorji Godrej (born 1951) is an Indian chemical engineer, industrialist and member of the Godrej family. He is managing director of Godrej Industries, one of India's biggest businesses, and as chairman of Godrej Agrovet.
Background and personal life
Godrej was born the younger son of Burjorji Godrej by his wife Jaiben Godrej. Burjorji was the nephew of Ardeshir Godrej, founder of the Godrej group of industries. Since Ardeshir was childless, the vast industrial estate created by Ardeshir was inherited by three nephews. The family belongs to the Parsi community and follows the (Zoroastrian) religion. The Godrej family has been settled in Mumbai for over two centuries. After studying in IIT Bombay for 1 year Nadir Godrej transferred to MIT and earned his Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering and a Master of Science in Engineering from Stanford University. Then he earned his Masters in Business Administration from Harvard Business School.
Nadir Godrej has one older brother, Adi Godrej, who is the chairman of the Godrej Group. He is a first cousin of Jamshyd Godrej, chairman and managing director of Godrej & Boyce, another major family firm.
Nadir Godrej is married to Dr. Rati Godrej. The couple have three sons, Burjis (b. 1992), Sohrab (b. 1994) and Hormusji (b. 1996). They live in Mumbai.
Career
Godrej currently serves as managing director of Godrej Industries, one of India's biggest businesses, and as chairman of Godrej Agrovet. These are two of the major companies run by his family.
Apart from holding positions of responsibility in his own family's companies, Godrej also sits as an independent director on the boards of several non-group companies. As of 2016, these include Mahindra & Mahindra, Tata Teleservices, and Taj Hotels.
He is also on the board of advisors of India's International Movement to Unite Nations (I.I.M.U.N.).
In 2013 he made an undisclosed angel investment in an Indian social networking service, LocalCircles.
Awards
Exemplary industrialist award.
Interests
Godrej speaks six languages, including Russian and French. He is known for his fondness of poetry and mathematics. He is also a published poet. Godrej is also a part of the advisory board of IIMUN. |
40441245 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joie%20Chen | Joie Chen | Joie Chen (born 28 August 1961) is a Chinese American television journalist as well as an Asian American broadcast journalist. She was the anchor of Al Jazeera America's flagship evening news show America Tonight, which was launched in August 2013. In January 2016, the channel announced it would close on 12 April 2016.
Chen has been a Washington-based correspondent for CBS News, reporting from the White House, Capitol Hill and other beats for all of the network's programming. She also contributed to CBS Sunday Morning and won an Emmy for her coverage of the D.C. sniper attacks. She has been an anchor at CNN and CNN International, covering world affairs and domestic issues, and she reported for USA Today on TV.
In 2018, Chen was named director of Northwestern University's Washington D.C.-based Medill School of Journalism programs. She is currently Advisor and Faculty at the Poynter Institute in Washington, DC.
Career
Early career
Before CNN, she worked for six years as a reporter and anchor at Atlanta's WXIA-TV in Atlanta from 1985 to 1991, and also as a correspondent for USA Today on TV. She began her broadcast journalism career at WCIV-TV in Charleston, South Carolina as a reporter and producer, but soon decided she had more talent as the former. Chen received her bachelor's and master's degrees in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She is a member of the Medill Board of Advisors, and also serves on the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications, as the representative from the Asian American Journalists Association.
CNN
Chen worked at CNN from 1991 to 2001 for CNN International and for the network's domestic operations. She covered the U.S. military operations in Somalia and Bosnia, anchored the coverage of the Columbine High School shootings, the trial of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, and won an Emmy award for her anchor work covering the bombing at Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Atlanta Games. In 1996, Chen received the CableACE Award for Best Newscaster, along with Leon Harris, her co-anchor on The World Today . Chen created and anchored the network's first effort to include its online audience in its broadcasting, CNN NewsSite with Joie Chen.
CBS
From 2002 until 2008, Chen worked as a White House and Capitol Hill correspondent at CBS News in Washington D.C., and contributed regularly to the network's long-form program CBS Sunday Morning. She anchored the network's coverage of the September 11 attacks in 2001, the War in Afghanistan, and every day of three-week Beltway sniper attacks in 2002, which won an Emmy Awards. During her time at CBS, she was the only minority female to rank among the 50 most visible network correspondents.
Joie Chen is not to be confused with Julie Chen, who also worked at CBS at the time (and still, as of 2014, does); the two are not believed to be directly related.
Branded News Worldwide
In 2008, Chen left daily journalism to become Executive Vice President at Branded News Worldwide, which developed online platforms to deliver news and information to niche audiences, and a principal at the media consulting firm Way Forward Media. She was responsible for helping to develop news and programming models for clients, building and staffing newsrooms, and creating new lines of business.
Al Jazeera America
In the summer of 2013, Joie Chen joined Al Jazeera America to become sole anchor of their flagship news program, America Tonight. The show went live on 20 August 2013. Presenting long form TV nightly news, Chen has covered a range of human interest stories in the United States, and domestic and international news stories.
Personal life
Joie Chen lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with her husband, Michael, and her son, Evan. |
12373319 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samlakki%20tree%20frog | Samlakki tree frog | The Samlakki tree frog (Litoria capitula) is a species of frog in the subfamily Pelodryadinae. It is endemic to Tanimbar, Indonesia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests. |
28157221 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago%20Stockyarders | Chicago Stockyarders | The Chicago Stockyarders are a semi-professional rugby league football team based in Chicago, Illinois. The team was established in 2010, and played two exhibition rugby league sevens games while preparing for a fuller exhibition schedule for the 2011 AMNRL season. They originally planned to join the American National Rugby League (AMNRL), however the league has since folded and plans are currently being made to join the current first grade U.S. competition, the USA Rugby League.
History
In May 2006, a successful beach Rugby League 9's exhibition game was held at North Avenue Beach, Chicago between the Chicago Saints and the touring UK team Ormskirk Heelers. The Saints would be the front-runner to a planned Chicago based AMNRL team that would eventually be named the Chicago Stockyarders. In 2009 an organization named Midwest Rugby League was formed to promote rugby league in the Midwestern United States, and to operate the Stockyarders team from 2010 onwards.
The Stockyarders made their first on-field appearance on July 31, 2010, at the American National Rugby League (AMNRL)'s annual War at the Shore tournament. They played an exhibition rugby league sevens game against the Northern Raiders, which ended with an 18-10 loss for the Stockyarders. Dan Hoskin scored their first ever points with a debut try in a Man of the Match (MVP) performance. They played a second exhibition sevens game as a curtain raiser to the AMNRL Grand Final at A. A. Garthwaite Stadium in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania. Visiting Australian Kangaroo player Daniel Wagon guested for the Stockyarders in a game against the Philadelphia Fight. The Fight won the game 24–16.
In October 2010 the Stockyarders signed their first sponsor, and announced their intention to play a full exhibition schedule in the 2011 season.
The Stockyarders had been at the forefront of developing a Midwest conference concept for the AMNRL before the league folded. In 2012, the Western Storm, Iowa City Crash and Lewis University all played games against the Stockyarders at Winnemac Park Chicago under this format resulting in a record of 1–2 for the Stockyarders. The same venue also hosted the AMNRL Midwest sevens tournament in Chicago which was won by an Irish Exiles team. After a year in hiatus the Stockyarders and Midwest Rugby League revived this conference concept with the AMNRL Midwest Piranha Guard development series which will saw games played against Elmhurst college and Lewis University in spring 2014 and the Stockyarders finishing with a 2–0 record.
The team are currently in talks to enter the USA Rugby League, the US's top level rugby league competition. |
31836270 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offaly%20Independent | Offaly Independent | The Offaly Independent is a newspaper that covers Tullamore, County Offaly, Republic of Ireland and the surrounding area. It is published by Celtic Media Group.
History
The Offaly Independent was first printed in 1894 as the Tullamore & King's Co. Independent intended to serve King's County (later renamed County Offaly). The Tullamore & King's Co. Independent continued to be published until 1920 when it went on hiatus for a year due to Irish Republican Army activity before being published again as the Offaly Independent following the name change of King's County to County Offaly. In 1968 it merged with the Westmeath Independent and started to be published as the Offaly-Westmeath Independent until 1985 when it dropped the use of "Westmeath".
The Offaly Independent came into ownership of Celtic Media Group, which in turn was owned by the British Dunfermline Press, after being purchased for €20 million in 2004. In 2012, the Group was sold off for €5.5 million for Dunfermline Press to cover debts owed to Lloyds TSB. In 2017, there were plans to sell the newspaper to Independent News & Media. The deal was approved by the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission and was due to go for review by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland but the deal fell through after Celtic Media Group cancelled the transaction. Until 2019, it was printed in County Meath.
The newspaper temporarily changed its name to the Obama Independent for its 20 June 2011, edition to commemorate U.S. President Barack Obama's visit to the local village of Moneygall. The issue was intended to be a special souvenir edition of the president's visit to County Offaly. It was the first time the newspaper had changed the name on its masthead in 119 years. |
55173529 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20W.%20Broomes | John W. Broomes | John Wesley Broomes (born 1969) is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Kansas.
Biography
Broomes graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1991 with a Bachelor of Science with high honors in petroleum engineering. From 1991 to 1996, Broomes served in the United States Navy Submarine Force, where his awards included the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal and three Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medals. Broomes later attended the Washburn University School of Law, where he was an editor of the Washburn Law Journal. He graduated in 2002 ranked first in his class with a Juris Doctor, summa cum laude.
Earlier in his career, he served as a law clerk to both Judge Monti Belot and Magistrate Judge Donald W. Bostwick on the United States District Court for the District of Kansas.
Before becoming a judge, he was a member of the Hinkle Law Firm LLC in Wichita, Kansas, where he practiced in the firm's Business Litigation Group with a focus on natural resources law.
Federal judicial service
On September 7, 2017, President Donald Trump nominated Broomes to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Kansas, to the seat vacated by Judge J. Thomas Marten, who assumed senior status on May 1, 2017. A hearing on his nomination before the Senate Judiciary Committee took place on November 15, 2017. On December 7, 2017, his nomination was reported out of committee by voice vote. On April 12, 2018, the United States Senate invoked cloture on his nomination by a 74–24 vote. His nomination was confirmed later that day by a voice vote. He received his judicial commission on April 16, 2018. |
24689081 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liana%20%28name%29 | Liana (name) | Liana is a female given name. It is a short form of Eliana, Juliana, Liliana, Liyana and other names that end in -liana. It can also be a botanical name derived from Liana.
Notable people known by the name include:
Liana Drahová, Slovak figure skater
Liana Kanelli, Greek journalist
Liana Kerzner, Canadian YouTuber
Liana Liberato, American actress
Liana Fiol Matta, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico
Liana Mesa, Cuban volleyball player
Liana Nella-Potiropoulou, Greek architect
Liana Orfei, Italian actress and circus artist
Liana Șerbescu, Romanian pianist
Feminine given names
Given names derived from plants or flowers |
21577874 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tr%C3%B6ndelsee | Tröndelsee | Tröndelsee is a lake in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. At an elevation of 30 m, its surface area is 24 ha.
Lakes of Schleswig-Holstein
Nature reserves in Schleswig-Holstein |
58051836 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papa%20By%20Chance | Papa By Chance | Papa By Chance is an Indian television series in Hindi language. The series is produced by Full House Media Production company. It premiered on 20 August 2018 on Star Bharat. The show stars Zebby Singh, Sana Sayyad and Priya Tandon.
Plot
The show is about a spoilt, rich man named Yuvaan who falls in the conspiracy of his deceased father, Samrat Chopra's servant, Harman Battra. As a result, he misunderstands that he accidentally killed a couple after the brakes of his car fail. But in reality, the deceased couple had attempted suicide. In order to make amends for his mistake and to win the case of Samrat's property, he decides to become the custodian of the three children Dhoni, Ullu & Gungun Chatwaal of the ill-fated couple on the advice his new lawyer, Kashvi. Fighting a court case for his father's inheritance, Yuvaan looks for help from his friend but is turned down.
But still Yuvaan steadily fulfils his duty for the children. Bantoo helps him get a roof over their head. The kids being taunted by Yuvaan, set a fire in the house. Thereafter when the Judge learns about Yuvaan's move, she initially refuses his children's custodianship but Yuvaan cleverly locks himself inside the jail whereupon seeing his stubbornness, she cautions him of heavy paternity responsibility and allows him to be the custodian. Having no roof over his head, Yuvaan is left with the only option of taking refuge in his deceased father's old house along with the three children where he meets his childhood friend, Amrit. The unaccepted arrival of Yuvaan in Amrit's house (Amrit Nivas) during her engagement fires Amrit and she slaps Yuvaan and kicks him out of the house. Yuvaan also becomes furious and asks her to empty the house as it is lawfully a property of Yuvaan.
Meanwhile, Mohini, paternal aunt of Amrit, had come to attend the marriage begins plotting against Harman as he had dumped her got in relationship with Sucharita, Yuvaan's Mother to get the billionaire inheritance. She also cautions Sucharita but she turns a deaf ear to her. Back to Amrit, we see that Bela, Amrit's Mother convinces both Amrit and Yuvaan to stay under the same rooftop; secretly she plans to make both of them befriend again and eventually get married. But the main problems come when Yuvaan's adopted children come in the house and Amrit refuses to stay with them. In spite of Amrit's refusal on the advice of Gungun, Yuvaan stealthily resides the children in the house.
After when Yuvaan found himself in trouble when the Children were forced to say "that Yuvaan is careless and not good for them", children know about the reality of the death of their parents, they don't panic about what they are forced to say and presents all the events and reality happened with all of them. Kachvi (Yuvaan's lawyer) makes every stage help to win Yuvaan and children's.
Thus Judge announces Yuvaan to be the rightful owner of the children and Yuvaan again gets custody for children ... hung in has her first period.
But still there after, Jenny makes Children's life full of tragedy and helpless, but as soon as Yuvaan finds Jenny's plan, he solves the issues and thus returns to his rich life.
In the end, the show takes a short leap and they all live happily .
Cast |
38450076 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabine%20Shoe | Sabine Shoe | The Sabine Shoe is the name of the bronze shoe trophy that was awarded to the winner of the annual college football game between the Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns (formerly the Southwestern Louisiana Bulldogs) of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (formerly the University of Southwestern Louisiana) in Lafayette, Louisiana and the Lamar Cardinals of Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas. The Sabine Shoe trophy was first awarded in 1968 by the University of Southwestern Louisiana's chapter of Alpha Phi Omega fraternity. The name of the bronze rivalry trophy was derived from the Sabine River that forms part of the Texas–Louisiana border. USL defeated Lamar in the 1978 edition of the rivalry game, but the Ragin' Cajuns were not awarded the trophy as it had vanished. The Sabine Shoe trophy now sits in at trophy case in the Ragin' Cajun Athletic Complex in Lafayette.
The two teams have met 34 times on the field, with the Ragin' Cajuns currently holding a 22–11 edge in the series. The game has been played infrequently following the Ragin' Cajuns departure from the Southland Conference after the 1981 season. In 1982, the conference was one of several forced to reclassify from NCAA's Division I-A—now known as the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS)—to Division I-AA—now known as the Football Championship Subdivision (FBS). The Ragin' Cajuns, met the NCAA requirements to remain a Division I-A member and chose to continue participation in that subdivision. Lamar remains a member of the FCS.
Game results |
1988155 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai-Kon | Ai-Kon | Ai-Kon is an annual three-day anime convention held on a weekend during the month of July in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Ai-Kon was first held at the University of Manitoba in 2001 and is currently held at the RBC Convention Centre. The convention's name is a blend of the words ai (Japanese for love) and convention and is derived from its slogan "For the love of anime". The word ai was also chosen to play on the fact that the club had a magazine they called Anime Injection.
Programming
Ai-Kon provides a wide variety of on mandate programming put on by committee staff, members of the community, guests and industry partners. Streaming/showing rooms run 24-hours during the conventions featuring titles in both Japanese and English languages. Alongside anime, the convention also hosts many video game and Japanese culture related activities.
Additional convention events include:
Marketplace: Dealer's Room and an Artists Alley
Cosplay events: Cosplay Contest, Cosplay Skills Faire, workshops
Gamer's Lounge: no entry tournaments, various video games stations, tabletop gaming area, charity event for Extra Life
Music: Saturday Dance, Dance Showcase
Panels and workshops: Guests, staff, cultural workshops, fan based/ members of the community, industry, game shows, fashion shows
Other attractions: Cultural room, Maid Cafe, Gundam Builders World Cup National qualifiers, Tamiya mini 4awd stock car tournament, pop-up partnered experiences, art auction
History
Ai-Kon was first held in July 2001 at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and was run by the University of Manitoba Anime Club (UMAnime). The founding members were the club's executive staff, Kristjanna Thorarinson, Riki Lecotey, Kwan Fu Sit, Tong Lin, Cathleen Ma, Tim Groner, Geoff Wright, and Jeff Agapito.
At the time the club held one-day events but they had so many things planned that summer, the club decided on making it a two-day event but added a dance on Friday evenings, making it a 3-day convention. In 2002 the event went on hiatus for one year, due to changes within the club, and in July 2003 a second Ai-Kon was held at the university.
Today, Ai-Kon is a non-profit organization that is run by a volunteer committee. It continues to be held annually in Winnipeg each summer.
In 2011, as a celebration of the 10 year anniversary, Ai-Kon held a one-day event in January called "The Ai-Kon Winter Festival". This one-day event is now held annually in February under the name "Winterfest".
Event history
Mascot
Aiko is a fictional cheerful, stylish, energetic anime girl with pink hair and blue eyes. Her various incarnations coordinate with the convention's yearly theme. The mascot is selected annually from an open contest. Aiko's many manifestations are used on convention promotional materials, clothing, badges, and other wearables. Doug is Aiko's fictional younger brother and likewise the Winterfest mascot. He is portrayed as younger, mischievous and playful with white hair and blue eyes. |
7806750 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinhala | Sinhala | Sinhala may refer to:
Sinhalese people, an ethno-linguistic group native to Sri Lanka
Sinhala language, the native language of the Sinhalese people
Sinhala script, the writing system of the Sinhala language
Sinhala (Unicode block), a block of Sinhala characters in Unicode
Sinhala cinema
Sinhala Kingdom, the successive historical Sinhalese kingdoms of Sri Lanka between 543 BCE and 1815 CE
"Sinhala", a song from the 1999 album The Magical Sounds of Banco de Gaia |
71221601 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thaai%20Kelavi | Thaai Kelavi | Thaai Kelavi is an Indian Tamil-language song composed by Anirudh for the soundtrack of Thiruchitrambalam starring Dhanush, Priya Bhavani Shankar, Raashi Khanna and Nithya Menon in the lead roles. Dhanush himself sang the song along with Anthony Daasan and the latter wrote its lyrics. The name of the song was taken from a dialogue spoken by Ponnambalam in the film
Nattamai.
The first single was released on 24 June 2022.
Records
The first single "Thaai Kelavi" received several million views and became very viral and was the most viewed song on YouTube within a day of being released.
Controversy
A social activist has lodged a complaint against the makers of the film asking them to change the lyrics of the song, as the lyrics of the song are shown to be disrespectful to the elders. |
19379557 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seminar%20III%3A%20Zozobra | Seminar III: Zozobra | Seminar III: Zozobra is the third studio album by Old Man Gloom, released in 2001 by Hydra Head Records imprint Tortuga Recordings.
Track listing
Personnel
Caleb Scofield – bass guitar and backing vocals
Santos "Hanno" Montano – drumming, backup vocals, data backup, Mexican vibes, viral marketing
Luke Scarola – effects and Electronics
Nate Newton – guitar and backing vocals
Aaron Turner – guitar and vocals
Old Man Gloom albums
2001 albums
Albums produced by Kurt Ballou |
65746812 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grantham%20Farm%2C%20New%20South%20Wales | Grantham Farm, New South Wales | Grantham Farm is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Grantham Farm is located in north-west Sydney in the local government area of Blacktown.
History
Grantham Farm was gazetted on 6 November 2020. It was previously a part of Riverstone.
The suburb is named after the Grantham Farm Estate, which was a subdivision of the original land grant of 'Riverstone'. The land grant was given to Lieutenant-Colonel Maurice Charles O'Connell by Governor Lachlan Macquarie in 1810. The estate contained a 6-bedroom cottage and other outbuildings as well as vineyards.
Demographics
According to the 2021 census of population, there were 3,669 people in Grantham Farm. 53.9% of people were born in Australia and 52.8% of people spoke only English at home. <!--The most common responses for religion in Grantham Farm were Catholic 25.8%, Hinduism 17.3% and No Religion 19.7%. |
69532731 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State%20Highway%203%20%28Jharkhand%29 | State Highway 3 (Jharkhand) | State Highway 3 (SH 3) is a state highway in Jharkhand, India.
Route
SH 3 originates from its junction with National Highway 143 and State Highway 4 at Kolebira and passes through Basia, Kamdara, Torpa, Khunti and terminates at its junction with National Highway 43 at Tamar.
The total length of SH 3 is 109 km. |
32439178 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uno%20Vallman | Uno Vallman | Uno Vallman (Norrala, 24 March 1913 – Stockholm, 5 September 2004) was a Swedish painter.
Vallman studied at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm and developed a colourful naivist style of painting under the influence of Isaac Grünewald and Sven Erixson. His breakthrough came with the Ung konst ("Young art") exhibition in Stockholm in 1947. He later learned to know the Danish artist Asger Jorn, whose influence made Vallman develop a more abstract style. Uno Vallman was one of the original members of the avantgarde movement called COBRA which included artists like Karel Appel and Corneille. He was introduced to this group of artists by one of his friends and co-founder of the CoBra Art movement Asger Jorn from Denmark (1914-1973). Uno Vallman travelled a lot for studies to for example Italy, Spain, North Africa, China, Rumania, Mexico, Russia and the USA. Uno Vallman lived in Paris for several years from 1940–1960. During these years he got acquainted with none other than Marc Chagall. Marc Chagall on his behalf was in contact with the artist Miro. He learned a lot of them. Chagall and Vallman had an exhibition in 1952 in the USA Vallman became known as one of the 'Men of 1947' and was one of a group of artists responsible for moving art forwards into a modern age in Scandinavia. The 'Men of 1947' was a group of artists who had an exhibition together during 1947 During the 1960s Vallman was described as the "Picasso of the North" by French art critics. Uno Valmann's art was not only art but was considered a way of living called 'Valmanismen'. In 1968 Uno Vallman was invited to represent Scandinavia together with August Strindberg and Edvard Munch for a modern art exhibition in Mexico City as part of the Olympics.
Uno Vallman's works are included in the Swedish National Museum, The Swedish Modern Museum and some other museums. His works are also included in the collections of Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter and the Tessin Institute in Paris.
He also wrote a book called 'Som lamans utsende I Tibet' (1980) and illustrated a book called 'Kanaljen is seraljen' by the author Lennart Hellsings.
During the 1980s he was mentioned in the media for owning a statue by Paul Gauguin which he sold at auction (Christies New York). After he died his dotter found out the money of the sale had been deposited at a bank account in Luxembourg at Banque Invik. She could see that although the money had been deposited and was never withdrawn, the money appeared to have disappeared. She wrote to the bank without an answer and even threatened the banque with a lawyer called Lennart Lindstrom from the Law firm Grunberger. Uno Vallman had apparently opened the bank account together with another man and signed what is called a "Hold Mail" agreement. A Hold Mail agreement means that the bank is not allowed to send information about communication, available assets and/or transactions. The claim she made was around 8 million Swedish Crowns (around 800.000,00 US dollars) which was around the amount the statue sold for, while all possessions on paper showed a value of 10.000,00 Swedish Crowns (around 1.000,00 US dollars).
Uno Vallman also played an interesting role in a story about a painting that he bought at a gallery which was later authenticated to be by the painter Emile Henry Bernard (a friend of Van Gogh, Cézanne and Gaugain. |
35561487 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto%2C%20Count%20of%20Lippe-Brake | Otto, Count of Lippe-Brake | Otto, Count of Lippe-Brake (21 December 1589 – 18 November 1657 in Blomberg) was the first ruling Count of Lippe-Brake.
Life
Otto was born on 21 December 1589 as the son of Count Simon VI and his wife, Elisabeth of Holstein-Schaumburg (b. 1556) was born.
When his father died in 1613, his elder brother Simon VII took up government of the country, while the youngest brother Philip I moved to Bückeburg, where he later founded the Schaumburg-Lippe line. In 1621, the county was divided again, and Otto received his own part and founded the Lippe-Brake line, which would die out in 1709.
Otto died on 18 November 1657 in Blomberg.
Marriage and issue
On 30 October 1626, he married Margarethe of Nassau-Dillenburg (6 September 1606 in Beilstein – 1661), a daughter of Count George of Nassau-Dillenburg and Countess Amalia of Sayn-Wittgenstein, with whom he had the following children:
Casimir (1627-1700), married in 1663 with Countess Amalie of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Homburg (1642-1683)
Amalia (20 September 1629 – 19 August 1676), married to Count Herman Adolph of Lippe-Detmold (1616-1666)
Sabine (1631-1684)
Dorothea (23 February 1633 – 1706), married in 1665) with Johann, Count of Kunowitz (1624-1700)
William (1634-1690), married in 1667 with Countess Ludowika Margaret of Bentheim-Tecklenburg
Maurice (1635-1666)
Frederick (1638-1684), married in 1674 with Sophie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (1650-1714)
Otillie (1639-1680), married in 1667 with Frederick, Duke of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Virneburg (1629-1683)
George (1642-1703), married in 1691 with Marie Sauermann (d. 1696)
Augustus (1643-1701) |
43746008 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskel%20Ayers | Haskel Ayers | Sterling Haskel "Hack" Ayers (February 10, 1936 – January 8, 2020) was an American auctioneer and politician in the state of Tennessee. Ayers served in the Tennessee House of Representatives from 1967 to 1968. A Republican, he represented the 9th district (Campbell County, Tennessee and Scott County, Tennessee). Residing in LaFollette, Tennessee, Ayers was an auctioneer, furniture dealer, and real estate broker. He was the founder of Ayers Auction & Real Estate in LaFollette and was a former president of the National Auctioneers Association. He was also a member of the NAA Hall of Fame. Ayers died in 2020 at the age of 83. |
51365042 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maldives%20International | Maldives International | The Maldives International is an open international badminton tournament in Maldives organized by the Badminton Association of Maldives and sanctioned by the Badminton Asia Confederation and Badminton World Federation. This tournament has been an International Challenge level before it went into hiatus in 2014. This tournament held at the Malé sports complex, and offered world ranking points with total prize money US$15,000.
In 2010, India won two titles from the men's and women's singles event. Anand Pawar won the men's singles title after defeated Dinuka Karunaratne of Sri Lanka with the score 21–14, 21–18, while his compatriot Trupti Murgunde won the women's singles title after Ann Venice Alcala Malvinne of Philippines retired with a hamstring injury at the score 21–10, 11–3. The men's doubles title goes to Pakistani Kashif Ali Sulehri and Rizwan Azam, and the Japanese pair Chinami Okui and Yukie Sumida won the women's doubles title. Kennevic Asuncion and Karyn Velez won the mixed doubles title outlasted Sri Lanka's Udara Nayanajith and Renu Chandrika Hettiarachchige, 24–22, 17–21, 21–13.
In 2011, Pablo Abián of Spain with his fast movement on the court, excellent physics, and speed of strokes managed to win the men's singles title. The 15 years old, P. V. Sindhu produced a stunning performance to win the women's singles title. She beat Carolina Marín in the third round and Agnese Allegrini in the semi-final. The men's, women's, and mixed doubles title goes to Singapore (Ashton Chen Yong Zhao and Derek Wong Zi Liang), Japan (Miki Komori and Nao Miyoshi) and Canada (Toby Ng and Grace Gao) respectively.
In 2012, K. Srikanth emerged as the title winner by ending the men's singles final set in three games with a margin of 13–21, 21–11 and 21–16 of Zulfadli Zulkiffli. Japan won three titles from the women's singles, men's doubles and women's doubles event. Raj Popat of Wales and Devi Tika Permatasari of Indonesia emerged as the winner of the mixed doubles title after defeating Sri Lanka’s Hasitha Chanaka and Kavindi Ishandika Sirimannage.
In 2013, Indonesia managed to put 6 representatives in the final round, and won two titles in the men's singles and women's doubles event after created All Indonesian finals. Hanna Ramadini lost to Michelle Li of Canada in the women's singles final and Arya Maulana Aldiartama/Alfian Eko Prasetya defeated by the Taiwanese pair Tien Tzu-chieh and Wang Chi-lin. Indian pair K. Nandagopal and Maneesha Kukkapalli clinched the mixed doubles title after registering a straight-game victory over Kim Dae-sung and Oh Bo-kyung of South Korea.
Previous winners
Maldives International Challenge
Maldives International Series
Maldives Future Series
Performances by nation
Maldives International Challenge
Maldives International Series
Maldives Future Series |
63859623 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul%20Malek%20Sarkar | Abdul Malek Sarkar | Abdul Malek Sarkar is a Jatiya Party (Ershad) politician and the former Member of Parliament of Dinajpur-1.
Career
Sarkar was elected to parliament from Dinajpur-1 as a Jatiya Party candidate in 1986. |
984935 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Emmett%20Dever | William Emmett Dever | William Emmett Dever (March 13, 1862 – September 3, 1929) was the mayor of Chicago from 1923 to 1927. He had previously served as a judge and before that an alderman. As an alderman and judge he would work to become the Democratic candidate for mayor for over two decades.
Born in Massachusetts but moving to Chicago in young adulthood, William Dever became an alderman and prominently supported municipal ownership of mass transit. He was a member of the Dunne wing of the local Democratic party.
As mayor, he focused on reform and infrastructure during his tenure. Later he would turn his attention to the enforcement of Prohibition despite his personal opposition to it. Such enforcement was initially effective, but indifference from government at other levels limited its efficacy and the lower amount of alcohol increased violence among bootleggers, souring Chicagoans' view on it. Losing to William Hale Thompson in 1927 over the issue, he is the last Democratic nominee in a partisan Chicago mayoral election to lose. Never in particularly good health, he retired from politics after the election and would die of pancreatic cancer two years later.
Early life
Dever was born in Woburn, Massachusetts and entered his family's leather tanning business when he was fifteen. He left Woburn in 1882 and moved to Boston, where he was based while he traveled on tannery business for two years. During this time Dever met Katherine E. Conway and they married in 1885. The two would go on to adopt two sons during their marriage. When Kate noticed an ad stating that leather tanners could make good money in Chicago, the couple moved west.
Upon arriving in Chicago in 1887, Dever got a job working at a leather tannery on Goose Island and he also began taking law courses at night at the Chicago College of Law. Upon his graduation in 1890, Dever opened his own law practice.
Aldermanic career
Dever ran for alderman in 1900, but was defeated. He was encouraged by Graham Taylor to run again for alderman, and, in 1902, was elected alderman of the 17th Ward. Dever was elected as a steadfast supporter of municipal ownership of the city's streetcar services amid the Chicago Traction Wars. He would maintain this position throughout his aldermanic tenure, and continue it into his later mayoralty.
Dever was regarded as an "honest" alderman. He had a clean voting record and was frequently endorsed by the Municipal Voters League in his runs for reelection.
Dever became one of the most influential aldermen during the first mayoralty of Carter Harrison Jr. Dever got heavy buzz as a potential Democratic mayoral candidate in 1905, but did not run. Dever became a key ally of pro-municipal ownership mayor Edward Fitzsimmons Dunne, who was elected in 1905. While affiliated with the Dunne wing of the Democratic Party as an alderman, Dever was on good terms with the Harrison and Sullivan wings.
In 1906, Dever faced an atypically challenging race for reelection. In retaliation for his vote in support of raising saloon license fees, saloons in his ward raised beer prices and told patrons that the new "Dever tax" was to blame. Active campaigning on his part and strong support from Mayor Dunne secured Dever reelection with a comfortable margin.
In 1906, Dever ran in the inaugural election of the Municipal Court of Chicago. To provide for staggered future elections, the race saw separate elections divided by the duration of terms, with separate elections being held for sets of two-year, four-year, and six-year seats. Dever ran in the race for the six-year seats. Low turnout in these judicial races coupled with the spoiler effect of William Randolph Hearst (who was engaged in a brief feud with Dunne Democrats) running his own Independence League slate hurt Democratic chances. Dever received 94,380 votes, the most of any Democratic candidate for the Municipal Court. However, he placed 20,000 votes behind the last Republican in the six-year field. He had received more votes than Ferdinand L. Barnett, a Republican candidate to a two-year seat who had received only around 90,000 votes, Ferdinand Lee Barnett, who had been prematurely reported to have been a winner, but ultimately lost his race by several hundred votes. This led some to contend that Dever should be seated to a two-year seat seat in his place, arguing that holding separate elections for the different durations had been unconstitutional. Dever rejected the effort to seat him in place of Barnett, feeling that it was fueled by prejudice against Barnett (an African American), and therefore refused to challenge Barnett's appointment to the court.
In 1907, Dever ran to fill the vacancy on the Superior Court of Cook County left after Judge Joseph E. Gary's death in office. This election was to a partial term of four years. With Dunne's support, he received the Democratic nomination. Dever tied his candidacy to Busse's reelection effort in the coinciding mayoral election and to the municipal ownership/traction issue. His Republican opponent was William H. McSurely. McSurely refused to take a stance on the traction issue, due to the fact that the court might soon review the Settlement Ordinances. Dever lost by a margin of roughly 13,000 of the nearly 340,000 votes cast, a result mirroring that of the coinciding mayoral race.
In the spring of 1908, Dever ran a spirited race against seven candidates in the Democratic primary for Cook County state's attorney. He was supported by the Dunne wing of the party. Dever's key opponents were Sullivan wing candidate J.J. Kern (former State's Attorney) and Harrison wing candidate Maclay Hoyne. Kern won the primary with 28% of the vote, defeating Dever (who came second) by several thousand votes.
During Dever's 1910 aldermanic reelection campaign, Stanley H. Kunz, political boss of the neighboring Sixteenth Ward and Chicago's most prominent Polish American politician, slated prominent Polish American lawyer Stanley Walkowiak to primary Dever in an effort to expand Polish American political influence in the city. Dever narrowly won this primary. After this, Kunz initially attempted to get the Republicans to replace their nominee, C.J. Ryberg, with a Polish American colleague of his, before instead deciding to have Walkowiak run as an independent. Dever was backed by Carter Harrison Jr., Edward F. Dunne, J. Hamilton Lewis, John Traeger, Joseph Le Buy (president of the Polish Businessmen's Democratic Club), the Chicago Commons caucus, and the Municipal Voters League. Dever won with 2,692 votes (44%) to Walkowiak's 1,886 (31%) and Ryberg's 1,483 (25%).
Judicial career
Dever had been considering running for mayor in the then-upcoming 1911 Chicago mayoral election before being slated by Roger Sullivan on the Democratic ticket for Superior Court of Cook County in the 1910 elections. It took some persuading for Sullivan to convince Dever to run for judge. Dever was elected, resigning from City Council to assume his judgeship.
Dever declined calls to run for mayor in 1915.
In 1916, due to the duration of a trial of William Lorimer for misappropriation of funds and conspiracy to defraud, which lasted two months before reaching acquittal, Dever had only three weeks to run a reelection campaign. Nevertheless, he won handily.
Several months into his second term on the Cook County Superior Court, Dever was appointed to fill a vacancy on the Appellate Court. He served two partial terms on the Appellate Court, eventually becoming its presiding judge. For his second term, he had been reelected with more than 98,000 votes.
Dever was assigned the initial case against those involved in the Black Sox Scandal. The arraignment began in February 1921. In March 1921, Dever rejected the prosecution's motion to indefinitely postpone proceedings and set a prompt peremptory trial date. This resulted in Robert E. Crowe, the Cook County state's attorney, opting to instead administratively dismiss the charges (nolle prosequi) and opted instead to present the case to a grand jury again for new indictments, to buy more time to put together a case and gather evidence. The new trial instead landed before judge Hugo Friend.
Mayoralty
1923 mayoral election
In 1923, Democratic party boss George E. Brennan selected Dever as having the best chance of defeating the incumbent, Mayor William "Big Bill" Thompson. Dever ran on a reform platform and Thompson withdrew from the race, with Republicans instead nominating Arthur C. Lueder, who was easily defeated by Dever.
Mayoral term
Dever was sworn in on April 16, 1923.
Transit
Early into his mayoralty, Dever had begun making plans to improve the city's public transit, which he had previously made a central issue in his mayoral election campaign. A longtime advocate for municipal ownership (an issue which had been a hot-button topic in Chicago, particularly during the Chicago Traction Wars), Dever initiated negotiations to purchase Chicago Surface Lines and the Chicago Rapid Transit Company, making them city owned-and-operated services. Dever began also formulating plans for transit expansions and the construction of a subway.
Prohibition and crime
In the autumn of 1923, the focus of Dever's administration shifted. On September 7, 1923, a shootout occurred took place at a South Side cafe between two rival groups of rum runners, killing one man. A week later the same two groups had another shootout, killing two people. He saw these shootings as an alarm that the city's bootlegging situation had become an epidemic.
Dever himself opposed Prohibition; he was a "wet" Democrat. However, he observed that bootleggers had been making under-the-table payments to public officials and law enforcement, thereby corrupting the government. Also, while he disagreed with the policy of Prohibition, it was his personal philosophy that disregard for one law could foster an erosion in the regard of other laws. Because of his resolution to uphold the law, Dever became nicknamed "Decent Dever" by the press.
Dever launched a major law-enforcement campaign to crack-down on bootlegging. The media labeled his war on bootleggers as the "Great Beer War". By the end of the year, within only one hundred days of the inauguration of this effort, Chicago was being hailed as the "driest" city in the nation.
Dever's "Great Beer War" had earned him immense national recognition. Some national media sources speculated he might be a potential dark horse candidate for president of the United States. At the 1924 Democratic National Convention he received serious discussion as a potential vice-presidential nominee. By the end of 1924, media sources discussed him as a serious contender for the Democratic nomination for president in 1928.
As Chicago began to dry up, gangs of bootleggers had come into greater competition with one another. By early 1925, this led to the eruption of a massive gangland war. While the vast majority of Chicagoans opposed Prohibition, they had initially supported his tactics to enforce the law. However, subsequent to the onslaught of severe gang violence, the public quickly soured on it. His tactics had also only been partially successful. While he had succeeded in organizing a city government which was largely committed to enforcing the law, other governments and their agencies, such as the county government, were still permissive towards bootlegging. Additionally, certain ward politicians and police captains were still making under-the-table deals with gangs.
While Chicago acquired a reputation as a "crime capital", a survey by Andrew A. Bruce (whose findings were unveiled in January 1927), contrarily, found that Chicago had no more crime than twenty other American cities the study looked at (including Kansas City, Los Angeles, Memphis, and St. Louis).
Infrastructure
Dever's term in office saw many improvements to the city's infrastructure, including the completion of Wacker Drive, the extension of Ogden Avenue, the straightening of the Chicago River and the construction of the city's first airport, Municipal Airport.
Schools
As mayor, Dever generally kept the Chicago Board of Education independent from political interference. This was in contrast to Dever's predecessor, William Hale Thompson, under whose previous mayoralty the schools had been tarnished by politics and fraud.
Early into his mayoralty, Dever appointed seven new members to the Chicago Board of Education. The Dever-shaped school board sought to find a superintendent that would strengthen the educational authority of the office, cut fiscal waste, and improve educational standards. On January 9, 1924, the board voted to appoint William McAndrew as the superintendent of Chicago Public Schools.
On December 5, 1926, in a surprise move, Mayor Dever broke his neutrality amid a school board dispute, he sided with Alderman Leo M. Brieske's position that it would be preferable to see McAndrew replaced with a new superintendent. Dever declared that he believed the superintendent should instead be a native Chicagoan, declaring, "I am heartily in accord with Alderman Brieske's stand that Chicagoans should fill Chicago offices. We have plenty of capable persons at home, without bringing in outsiders". McAndrew remained superintendent, however.
On March 28, 1927, The New York Times wrote that,
1927 mayoral election
Dever ran for re-election in 1927 against "Big Bill" Thompson, who defeated him by 83,000 votes.
Dever's term as mayor ended April 18, 1927.
Later years
Dever went on to serve as a vice-president of a local bank, but took a leave of absence and died of cancer in 1929. He is buried in Calvary Cemetery in Evanston, Illinois. |
31278320 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenitism | Zenitism | Zenitism () was an avant-garde art movement in Yugoslavia that lasted from 1921 until 1926, first appearing in Zagreb from 1921 to 1924 and from 1924 in Belgrade. It primarily involved visual arts, graphic design, poetry, literature, theatre, film, architecture and music. Like other avant-garde movements at the time, it held anti-war, anti-bourgeois and anti-nationalist views and rejected traditional culture and art. Micić defined it as "abstract metacosmic expressionism."
The movement
Ljubomir Micić, a Serbian socialist, established the movement following World War I, during which Kingdom of Serbia lost a million inhabitants prior to creating Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
In June 1921, he proclaimed the "Zenitist manifesto". Although some artists from the region were known in Europe, Zenitism was the first notable art movement from the Balkans in Europe.
Zenit magazine
Most of its artistic ideas were communicated through the Zenit magazine which Ljubomir Micić launched and which published 43 issues between 1921 and 1926. The magazine soon became famous internationally and saw many famous artists contributing the magazine. Most famous amongst them are Sergei Yesenin, Alexander Blok, Wassily Kandinsky, Boris Pasternak and Miloš Crnjanski.
The authors shared their radical views of the European civilisation and art. The movement would soon conflict and distance from Dada movement and Expressionism.
Political views
The movement was avant-garde socialist, anti-traditionist, anti-militarist with the focus on human. Micić himself believed in the imminent collapse of western Europe and the rise of "barbarogenie" - barbaric Balkan man who will take its place.
Barbarogenie was capable of recovering Europe using his barbaric strength of a man from the Balkans, unsoiled by the legacy of European civilization which collapsed after WW1.
The concept is arguably expressing signs of nationalism. In reality Micić, an ethnic Serb, initially expressed anti-Serbian sentiment.
In the eve of World War II, Micić changed his worldview, now expressing Serbian nationalism. He created the new magazine where he proclaimed the "Serbianhood manifest", promoting Serbian integralism and unitarism, and Serbia as the unifying center of all Serbs. |
2598394 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tekken%20%281990%20film%29 | Tekken (1990 film) | is a 1990 Japanese film directed by Junji Sakamoto. It stars Takeshi Yamato, Bunta Sugawara and Karen Kirishima.
Plot
The plot centers around a young ex-prisoner who takes up boxing (tekken is Japanese for "clenched fist").
Awards
Bunta Sugawara won a Hochi Film Award for Best Actor for his performance.
Other uses
This film has no relation to the Tekken video game series or the video game based 2010 film counterpart, even using the same name. Another version was released in 2009. |
20372496 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marek%20Katahare | Marek Katahare | Marek Katahare is a village development committee in Dhankuta District in the Kosi Zone of eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 5725 people living in 983 individual households. |
71467234 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svyatik%20Artemenko | Svyatik Artemenko | Svyatik Artemenko (born February 11, 2000) is a Canadian soccer player who plays for Electric City FC in League1 Ontario.
Early life
Artemenko was born in Odesa, Ukraine. At the age of two, he moved with his family to Winnipeg, Canada. He played youth soccer with Bonivital SC and represented Manitoba at the 2017 Canada Summer Games.
University career
In 2021, he began attending Guelph University, where he played for the men's soccer team. He was named the team Rookie of the Year in 2021.
Club career
In 2019, he played with WSA Winnipeg in USL League Two. Also in 2019, he signed with Valour FC of the Canadian Premier League as an emergency backup goalkeeper, but did not appear in any matches. He attended training camp the following years with Valour, but did not earn a contract.
In 2021, he joined Guelph United F.C. in League1 Ontario. He was named a West Division All-Star and West Division Top Goalkeeper. In the playoff semi-final, Artemenko scored the winning penalty kick, before making the winning save in a penalty shootout against Master's FA to advance to the next round, where Guelph won the championship defeating Blue Devils FC.
In early 2022, he went to Ukraine to trial to earn a professional contract with FC Podillya in the second tier Ukrainian First League, earning a contract on February 23. However, the next day, Russia invaded Ukraine suspending all soccer activities in the country and Artemenko registered for the Ukrainian army.
On May 5, 2022, following his military service in Ukraine, he returned to Guelph United to re-join them for their 2022 season. He made his return in a Canadian Championship match against Canadian Premier League club HFX Wanderers FC. In August 2022, he joined Canadian Premier League side York United FC as an emergency goalkeeper substitute for a few matches following an injury to Niko Giantsopoulos.
In August 2022, he joined FC Berlin of the United Premier Soccer League ahead of the 2022 UPSL Fall season.
In March 2023, he joined Electric City FC in League1 Ontario.
Military career
Between the ages of 16 and 18, Artemenko trained as a combat engineer with the Canadian Reserve Forces in Winnipeg.
In February 2022, Artemenko, who was in Ukraine pursuing a professional soccer career, enlisted with the Armed Forces of Ukraine following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. While he was not required to enlist in the army as he was a Canadian citizen, he felt it was his duty to protect his ancestral homeland. He was initially not allowed to join due to not being a Ukrainian citizen, however, the next day his application was approved as part of an International Legion. His club team, Guelph United hosted a fundraiser to raise funds for the Ukrainian Red Cross in support of Artemenko's cause. He returned to Canada in early May, following a two-month tour of duty.
Career statistics |
69455337 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20ambassadors%20of%20China%20to%20Laos | List of ambassadors of China to Laos | The Chinese Ambassador to Laos is the official representative of the People's Republic of China to Laos.
List of representatives |
9062463 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardboard%20City%20%28London%29 | Cardboard City (London) | Cardboard City was the name for an informal settlement consisting of temporary cardboard shelters that occupied a site near Waterloo station in London, England. Cardboard City, was lived in by homeless people from around 1978 until 1998, and was eventually closed after a High Court order led to its redevelopment.
History
Cardboard City was first occupied in 1978. In the mid-1980s the site, in the pedestrian underpasses under the Bullring roundabout near Waterloo station, was home to up to 200 people sleeping in cardboard boxes. By early 1998, fewer than 30 people remained there. These were officially evicted by the London Borough of Lambeth in February 1998, and forced to leave before the end of March 1998. All were offered free housing by the Borough, although there was concern as to whether the residents would be able to cope with housed life. The area is now the site of the BFI IMAX cinema.
In popular culture
The song "Cardboard Box City" by The Levellers (on their first album A Weapon Called the Word from 1990) is about this site and most people's ignorance about those living conditions.
The song "Victoria Gardens" by Madness (on their 1984 album Keep Moving) refers directly to the plight of the homeless residents of Cardboard City.
The song "Cardboard City" by Skyclad (on their 1997 album Prince of the Poverty Line) is about the residents of Cardboard City being marginalised.
The main character of Rebuilding Coventry by Sue Townsend is described as living in Cardboard City for a time.
The film Tax City was based on a true account of the Taxing Squad, a group of criminals who preyed on homeless people sleeping at Cardboard City.
The documentary photography of artist Moyra Peralta featured the last days of Cardboard City and captured many of the realities of life in the underpasses of the Bullring. The book includes an introduction by renowned art critic John Berger. |
68165452 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robb%20Paller | Robb Paller | Robert Paller (; born May 21, 1993) is an American-Israeli professional baseball outfielder who plays for the Idaho Falls Chukars of the Pioneer League. On the international level, he represents the Israel national baseball team. He played college baseball for the Columbia Lions baseball team, and was First Team All-Ivy League in his senior year. He has since also played in the Frontier League, the Canadian-American Association, and the United Shore Professional Baseball League. He played left field and center field for Team Israel at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo in the summer of 2021.
Early life
Paller is from Brooklyn, New York. He attended the Berkeley Carroll School ('11), where he was coached by his father Walter Paller. Playing center field and hitting leadoff, he batted .426 as a junior with 18 stolen bases in 19 attempts, and .531 as a senior with 52 runs, 20 RBIs, and 32 stolen bases, and was named league MVP. He was named All-Brooklyn by the New York Post in his junior and senior seasons, and All-City by the New York Post and the New York Daily News as a senior.
College baseball
Paller then attended Columbia University ('16), where he played college baseball for the Columbia Lions baseball team, primarily playing left field. In his sophomore year in 2014 he batted .296/.351/.419 with 12 doubles (3rd in the league), 16 walks (9th), and 35 RBIs (leading the league) in 186 at bats, and was named All-Ivy League second team, and Academic All-Ivy League. In the summer of 2014, he played for the Thunder Bay Border Cats in the Northwoods League, a collegiate summer baseball league. He batted .274/.391/.478 in 226 at bats with 17 doubles (4th in the league), 9 home runs (6th), 47 RBIs (9th), and 43 walks (5th).
In his junior year in 2015, Paller batted .264/.392/.472 with 7 home runs (4th in the league), 35 RBIs (4th), and 32 walks (leading the league) in 159 at bats. In the summer of 2015, Paller played for the Green Bay Bullfrogs in the Northwoods League]]. He batted .345(7th in the league)/.433(8th)/.480 in 177 at bats. That same summer, he also played for the Bourne Braves of the Cape Cod Baseball League.
In 2016 he batted .302/.400.503(6th in the league) with 26 runs (7th), 13 doubles (3rd), 5 home runs (4th), 32 RBIs (2nd) and 24 walks (5th) in 149 at bats, and was named First Team All-Ivy League. Paller finished his Columbia career 4th in career doubles (43), 5th in walks (79), and 6th in RBIs (111).
Professional baseball
In 2016 he played for the Lake Erie Crushers of the Frontier League and the Sussex County Miners of the Canadian-American Association. Paller batted a combined .215/.365/.341 in 135 at bats.
In 2017, Paller played for the Birmingham-Bloomfield Beavers of the United Shore Professional Baseball League. He batted .367/.557/.633(leading the league in each category), with 6 home runs (7th) and 37 walks (leading the league) in 90 at bats, and had 21 at bats for Lake Erie. In 2018 he played for Birmingham-Bloomfield, and batted .228/.354/.444 in 177 at bats.
In 2021 he played for the Colorado Springs Snow Sox of the Pecos League. He batted .421/.574/.614 in 88 at bats, playing primarily left field.
In 2022, he again played for the Snow Sox, batting .271/.400/.271 in 59 at bats, playing primarily right field.
On February 25, 2023, Paller signed with the Idaho Falls Chukars of the Pioneer League. On August 2, 2023, Paller was released by the Chukars. On June 7, the team reinstated him to their active roster. In 2023, with Idaho Falls he batted .293/.436/.495 in 99 at bats.
Team Israel
In 2019, Paller became an Israeli citizen so that he could compete for the Israel national baseball team in the 2020 Summer Olympics.
Paller played for the Israel national baseball team in the outfield as the team played in the 2019 European Baseball Championship - B-Pool in early July 2019 in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, winning all of its games and advancing to the playoffs against Team Lithuania in the 2019 Playoff Series at the end of July 2019 for the last qualifying spot for the 2019 European Baseball Championship. He batted .273/.500(7th in the tournament)/.500 with two doubles (4th), one home run, and 10 walks (1st) in 22 at bats. He also played for Team Israel at the 2019 European Baseball Championship, batting .222/.417/.593 with one double, three home runs, and nine walks in 27 at bats.
He played left field and center field for Team Israel at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo in the summer of 2021.
Paller played left field and batted .143/.417/.357 with 8 walks (tied for third in the championship) in 14 at bats for Team Israel in the 2023 European Baseball Championship in September 2023 in the Czech Republic. |
17398887 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WBSL | WBSL | WBSL may refer to:
WBSL-FM, a radio station (91.7 FM) licensed to Sheffield, Massachusetts, United States
WMEJ, a radio station (1190 AM) licensed to Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, United States, which held the call sign WBSL from 1988 to 2009 |
19432323 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urshan%20College | Urshan College | Urshan College, formerly known as Gateway College of Evangelism, is a Christian College in Wentzville, Missouri. It is owned and operated by the United Pentecostal Church International (UPCI). In 2012, the college was acquired by Urshan Graduate School of Theology.
History
The founding of a Bible college in the St. Louis area was initiated by Harry Branding (superintendent of the Missouri District for the UPCI), who formed a committee to look into this possibility, this committee presented the idea to the Missouri District Board. On July 13, 1966, the district passed a resolution to create such a Bible college. The next year the bylaws were chosen and the college was given the name Gateway College of Evangelism.
On September 13, 1968, Gateway College officially opened at 3155 Charbonier Road in Florissant, Missouri. Three years later, the college purchased the former St. Stanislaus Seminary at 700 Howdershell Road.
After four decades, President Darrel Johns led the school through a transition to UPCI ownership. After many months of collaboration the UPCI General Board approved a plan for Urshan Graduate School of Theology to acquire Gateway College and start a new undergraduate Christian college. On July 1, 2012, the transition was complete. At this point, Urshan College began to be operated jointly with Urshan Graduate School of Theology under the governance of the Urshan Board of Directors and President David K. Bernard.
In January 2018, President David K. Bernard submitted his resignation as president of Urshan College and Urshan Graduate School of Theology. While the board of directors conducted a search for a new president for the Urshan System, Executive Vice President Jennie Russell served as interim president. In November 2018, the board of directors selected Dr. Brent Coltharp to serve as president effective January 2019, and Jennie Russell returned to her role as executive vice president.
Academics
Urshan College offers an associate's degree in General Studies and bachelor's degrees in Christian Ministry, Human Services, Organizational Leadership, Music, Worship Ministry, Communications Studies. In Fall 2008, the college began offering online classes through the Consortium of Online Christian Colleges in addition to their on-campus instruction.
On July 6, 2018, the Higher Learning Commission granted Urshan College a status of "Candidate for Accreditation". On June 30, 2020, HLC granted Urshan College regional accreditation.
Enrollment
As of Fall 2018, the school reported an enrollment of 238 students. As of Fall 2016, the student body was 51% Male and 49% Female; 78% are Full-time and 22% are Part-time; 82% are on campus while 18% are distance learners; 62% are white or Caucasian, 22% are Hispanic, 4% are Black or African-American, 3% are two or more races, 9% unreported.
Location
Urshan is located in St. Charles County, Missouri. The college recently relocated from Florissant, Missouri, to Wentzville, Missouri, kicking off the 2019–2020 school year on the new campus. The campus, formerly a CenturyLink office complex, consists of five buildings sitting on 43 acres of land. |
29923212 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1885%20Liberian%20general%20election | 1885 Liberian general election | General elections were held in Liberia in May 1885. In the presidential election, the result was a victory for incumbent Hilary R. W. Johnson of the True Whig Party (the dominant ruling party at the time), who was re-elected for a second term.
Results
President |
55720525 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Toughest%20Dungeon%20in%20the%20World | The Toughest Dungeon in the World | The Toughest Dungeon in the World is a 1980 role-playing game solo adventure for Tunnels & Trolls.
Plot summary
The Toughest Dungeon in the World is an adventure in which the player character is a troll searching the dungeon trying to build up a treasure hoard.
Publication history
The Toughest Dungeon in the World was written by Ken St. Andre and was the first adventure for Tunnels & Trolls published by Judges Guild.
In 2020, St. Andre, with art by Steve Crompton and Phil Longmeier, updated and expanded the adventure to create a 48-page second edition named Toughest Dungeon in the World. Its release coincided with the second edition of Monsters! Monsters! and was first published by Trollhalla Press Unlimited.
Reception
Forrest Johnson reviewed The Toughest Dungeon in the World in The Space Gamer No. 35. Johnson commented that "Do you enjoy rolling dice for hours on end, even knowing the probability of a favorable outcome is very slight? [...] If you have better things to do with your time [...] there are plenty of other games on the market."
Anders Swenson reviewed The Toughest Dungeon in the World for Different Worlds magazine and stated that "In evaluation, this is a well done adventure with a crazy theme that everybody should try. Pity the poor troll, cowering in the dank depths, trying to get a small fortune together so he can escape to the outside world, free from the clutches of dungeon ! It may make you want to take a troll to lunch." |
47453376 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudotelphusa%20floridana | Pseudotelphusa floridana | Pseudotelphusa floridana is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Florida. |
10875123 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-Prolog | B-Prolog | B-Prolog was a high-performance implementation of the standard Prolog language with several extended features including matching clauses, action rules for event handling, finite-domain constraint solving, arrays and hash tables, declarative loops, and tabling. First released in 1994, B-Prolog is now a widely used CLP system. The constraint solver of B-Prolog was ranked top in two categories in the Second International Solvers Competition, and it also took the second place in P class in the second ASP solver competition and the second place overall in the third ASP solver competition. B-Prolog underpins the PRISM system, a logic-based probabilistic reasoning and learning system. B-Prolog is a commercial product, but it can be used for learning and non-profit research purposes free of charge (since version 7.8 for individual users, including commercial individual users, B-Prolog is free of charge ). B-Prolog is not anymore actively developed, but it forms the basis for the Picat programming language.
Matching clauses
A matching clause is a form of a clause where the determinacy and input/output unifications are denoted explicitly. The compiler translates matching clauses into matching trees and generates indexes for all input arguments. The compilation of matching clauses is much simpler than that of normal Prolog clauses because no complex program analysis or specialization is necessary; and the generated code tends to be more compact and faster. The B-Prolog compiler and most of the library predicates are written in matching clauses.
A matching clause takes the following form:
H, G => B
where H is an atomic formula, G and B are two sequences of atomic formulas. H is called the head, G the guard, and B the body of the clause. No call in G can bind variables in H and all calls in G must be in-line tests. In other words, the guard must be flat. The following gives an example predicate in matching clauses that merges two sorted lists:
merge([],Ys,Zs) => Zs=Ys.
merge(Xs,[],Zs) => Zs=Xs.
merge([X|Xs],[Y|Ys],Zs),X<Y => Zs=[X|ZsT],merge(Xs,[Y|Ys],ZsT).
merge(Xs,[Y|Ys],Zs) => Zs=[Y|ZsT],merge(Xs,Ys,ZsT).
The cons [Y|Ys] occurs in both the head and the body of the third clause. To avoid reconstructing the term, we can rewrite the clause into the following:
merge([X|Xs],Ys,Zs),Ys=[Y|_],X<Y => Zs=[X|ZsT],merge(Xs,Ys,ZsT).
The call Ys=[Y|_] in the guard matches Ys against the pattern [Y|_].
Action rules
The lack of a facility for programming "active" sub-goals that can be reactive to the environment has been considered one of the weaknesses of logic programming. To overcome this, B-Prolog provides a simple and yet powerful language, called Action Rules (AR), for programming agents. An agent is a subgoal that can be delayed and can later be activated by events. Each time an agent is activated, some action may be executed. Agents are a more general notion than delay constructs in early Prolog systems and processes in concurrent logic programming languages in the sense that agents can be responsive to various kinds of events including instantiation, domain, time, and user-defined events.
An action rule takes the following
H, G, {E} => B
where H is a pattern for agents, G is a sequence of conditions on the agents, E is a set of patterns for events that can activate the agents, and B is a sequence of actions performed by the agents when they are activated. When the event pattern E together with the enclosing braces is missing, an action rule degenerates into a matching clause.
A set of built-in events is provided for programming constraint propagators and interactive graphical user interfaces. For example, ins(X) is an event that is posted when the variable X is instantiated. A user program can create and post its own events and define agents to handle them. A user-defined event takes the form of event(X,O) where X is a variable, called a suspension variable, that connects the event with its handling agents, and O is a Prolog term that contains the information to be transmitted to the agents. The built-in post(E) posts the event E.
Consider the following examples:
echo(X),{event(X,Mes)}=>writeln(Mes).
ping(T),{time(T)} => writeln(ping).
The agent echo(X) echoes whatever message it receives. For example,
?-echo(X),post(event(X,hello)),post(event(X,world)).
outputs the message hello followed by world. The agent ping(T) responds to time events from the timer T. Each time it receives a time event, it prints the message ping. For example,
?-timer(T,1000),ping(T),repeat,fail.
creates a timer that posts a time event every second and creates an agent ping(T) to respond to the events. The loop after the agent is needed to make the agent perpetual.
AR has been found useful for programming simple concurrency, implementing constraint propagators, and developing interactive graphical user interfaces. It has served as an intermediate language for compiling Constraint Handling Rules (CHR) and Answer Set Programs (ASP).
CLP(FD)
Like many Prolog-based finite-domain constraint solvers, B-Prolog's finite-domain solver was heavily influenced by the CHIP system. The first fully-fledged solver was released with B-Prolog version 2.1 in March 1997. That solver was implemented in an early version of AR, called delay clauses. During the past decade, the implementation language AR has been extended to support a rich class of domain events (ins(X),bound(X),dom(X,E), and dom_any(X,E)) for programming constraint propagators and the system has been enriched with new domains (Boolean, trees, and finite sets), global constraints, and specialized fast constraint propagators. Recently, the two built-ins in/2 and notin/2 have been extended to allow positive and negative table (also called extensional) constraints.
Thanks to the employment of AR as the implementation language, the constraint solving part of B-Prolog is relatively small (3800 lines of Prolog code and 6000 lines of C code, including comments and spaces) but its performance is very competitive. The AR language is open to the user for implementing problem-specific propagators. For example, the following defines a propagator for maintaining arc consistency for the constraint X+Y #= C. Whenever an inner element Ey is excluded from the domain of Y, this propagator is triggered to exclude Ex, the counterpart of Ey, from the domain of X. For the constraint X+Y #= C, we need to generate two propagators, namely, 'X_in_C_Y_ac'(X,Y,C) and 'X_in_C_Y_ac'(Y,X,C), to maintain the arc consistency. In addition to these two propagators, we also need to generate propagators for maintaining interval consistency since no dom(Y,Ey) event is posted if the excluded value happens to be a bound. The constraint needs to be preprocessed to make it arc consistent before the propagators
are generated.
'X_in_C_Y_ac'(X,Y,C),var(X),var(Y),
{dom(Y,Ey)}
=>
Ex is C-Ey,
domain_set_false(X,Ex).
'X_in_C_Y_ac'(X,Y,C) => true.
Arrays and the array subscript notation
In B-Prolog, the maximum arity of a structure is 65535. This entails that a structure can be used as a one-dimensional array, and a multi-dimensional array can be represented as a structure of structures. To facilitate creating arrays, B-Prolog provides a built-in, called new_array(X,Dims), where X must be an uninstantiated variable and Dims a list of positive integers that specifies the dimensions of the array. For example, the call new_array(X,[10,20]) binds X to a two dimensional array whose first dimension has 10 elements and second dimension has 20 elements. All the array elements are initialized to be free variables.
The built-in predicate arg/3 can be used to access array elements, but it requires a temporary variable to store the result, and a chain of calls to access an element of a multi-dimensional array. To facilitate accessing array elements, B-Prolog supports the array subscript notation X[I1,...,In], where X is a structure and each Ii is an integer expression. This common notation for accessing arrays is, however, not part of the standard Prolog syntax. To accommodate this notation, the parser is modified to insert a token ^ between a variable token and [. So, the notation X[I1,...,In] is just a shorthand for X^[I1,...,In]. This notation is interpreted as an array access when it occurs in an arithmetic expression, a constraint, or as an argument of a call to @=/2. In any other context, it is treated as the term itself. The array subscript notation can also be used to access elements of lists. For example, the nth/3 predicate can be defined as follows:
nth(I,L,E) :- E @= L[I].
Loops with foreach and list comprehension
Prolog relies on recursion to describe loops. The lack of powerful loop constructs has arguably made Prolog less acceptable to beginners and less productive to experienced programmers because it is often tedious to define small auxiliary recursive predicates for loops. The emergence of constraint programming constructs such as CLP(FD) has further revealed this weakness of Prolog as a modeling language. B-Prolog provides a built-in, called foreach, for iterating over collections and the list comprehension notation for constructing lists.
The foreach built-in has a very simple syntax and semantics. For example,
foreach(A in [a,b], I in 1..2, write((A,I)))
outputs four tuples (a,1), (a,2), (b,1), and (b,2). Syntactically, foreach is a variable-length call whose last argument specifies a goal to be executed for each combination of values in a sequence of collections. A foreach call may also give a list of variables that are local to each iteration and a list of accumulators that can be used to accumulate values from each iteration. With accumulators, we can use foreach to describe recurrences for computing aggregates. Recurrences have to be read procedurally and thus do not fit well with Prolog. For this reason, we adopt the list comprehension notation from functional languages. A list comprehension is a list whose first element has the functor ':'. A list of this form is interpreted as a list comprehension in calls to @=/2 and arithmetic constraints. For example, the query
X @= [(A,I) : A in [a,b], I in 1..2]
binds X to the list [(a,1),(a,2),(b,1),(b,2)]. A list comprehension is treated as a foreach call with an accumulator in the implementation.
Calls to foreach and list comprehensions are translated into tail-recursive predicates. Therefore, there is no or little penalty of using these constructs compared with using recursion.
The loop constructs considerably enhance the modeling power of CLP(FD). The following gives a program for the N-queens problem in B-Prolog:
queens(N):-
length(Qs,N),
Qs :: 1..N,
foreach(I in 1..N-1, J in I+1..N,
(Qs[I] #\= Qs[J],
abs(Qs[I]-Qs[J]) #\= J-I)),
labeling([ff],Qs),
writeln(Qs).
The array notation on lists helps shorten the description. Without it, the foreach loop in the program would have to be written as follows:
foreach(I in 1..N-1, J in I+1..N,[Qi,Qj],
(nth(Qs,I,Qi),
nth(Qs,J,Qj),
Qi #\= Qj,
abs(Qi-Qj) #\= J-I)),
where Qi and Qj are declared local to each iteration. The following gives a program for the N-queens problem, which uses a Boolean variable for each square on the board.
bool_queens(N):-
new_array(Qs,[N,N]),
Vars @= [Qs[I,J] : I in 1..N, J in 1..N],
Vars :: 0..1,
foreach(I in 1..N, % one queen in each row
sum([Qs[I,J] : J in 1..N]) #= 1),
foreach(J in 1..N, % one queen in each column
sum([Qs[I,J] : I in 1..N]) #= 1),
foreach(K in 1-N..N-1, % at most one queen in each left-down diag
sum([Qs[I,J] : I in 1..N, J in 1..N, I-J=:=K]) #=< 1),
foreach(K in 2..2*N, % at most one queen in each left-up diag
sum([Qs[I,J] : I in 1..N, J in 1..N, I+J=:=K]) #=< 1),
labeling(Vars),
foreach(I in 1..N,[Row],
(Row @= [Qs[I,J] : J in 1..N], writeln(Row))).
Tabling
Tabling has been found increasingly important for not only helping beginners write workable declarative programs but also developing real-world applications such as natural language processing, model checking, and machine learning applications. B-Prolog implements a tabling mechanism, called linear tabling, which is based on iterative computation of looping subgoals rather than suspension of them to compute the fixed points. The PRISM system, which heavily relies on tabling, has been the main driving force for the design and implementation of B-Prolog's tabling system.
The idea of tabling is to memorize the answers to tabled calls and use the answers to resolve subsequent variant calls. In B-Prolog, as in XSB, tabled predicates are declared explicitly by declarations in the following form:
:-table P1/N1,...,Pk/Nk.
For example, the following tabled predicate defines the transitive closure of a relation as given by edge/2.
:-table path/2.
path(X,Y):-edge(X,Y).
path(X,Y):-path(X,Z),edge(Z,Y).
With tabling, any query to the program is guaranteed to terminate as long as the term sizes are bounded.
By default, all the arguments of a tabled call are used in variant checking and all answers are tabled for a tabled predicate. B-Prolog supports table modes, which allow the system to use only input arguments in variant checking and table answers selectively. The table mode declaration
:-table p(M1,...,Mn):C.
instructs the system how to do tabling on p/n, where C, called a cardinality limit, is an integer which limits the number of answers to be tabled, and each Mi is a mode which can be min, max, + (input), or - (output). An argument with the mode min or max is assumed to be output. If the cardinality limit C is 1, it can be omitted with the preceding ':'.
Table modes are very useful for declarative description of dynamic programming problems. For example, the following program encodes the Dijkstra's algorithm for finding a path with the minimum weight between a pair of nodes.
:-table sp(+,+,-,min).
sp(X,Y,[(X,Y)],W) :-
edge(X,Y,W).
sp(X,Y,[(X,Z)|Path],W) :-
edge(X,Z,W1),
sp(Z,Y,Path,W2),
W is W1+W2.
The table mode states that only one path with the minimum weight is tabled for each pair of nodes. |
22178379 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darcetina | Darcetina | Darcetina is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae, containing only a single species, Darcetina sublata, found in Argentina and Brazil. The species was historically misclassified on multiple occasions, but in 2010 was determined to belong to the subfamily Agaristinae. |
52458281 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2nd%20Globes%20de%20Cristal%20Awards | 2nd Globes de Cristal Awards | The 2nd Globes de Cristal Award ceremony honoured the best French movies, actors, actresses, plays, concerts, novels, singers, TV series, exhibitions and fashion designers of 2006 and was launched by the French television channel Paris Première. 19 journalists selected a list of five nominees in each of 12 award categories; 3,000 journalists then voted to determine the winners. The ceremony took place on 5 February 2007 at Le Lido in Paris and was broadcast live on the channel Paris Première. The ceremony was chaired by Pierre Lescure and hosted by André Manoukian and .
The dinner included foie gras, veal piccata and a blancmange for dessert. Celebrities in attendance included: Ophélie Winter, Lio, Annie Girardot, Michèle Bernier, Christophe Malavoy, Orlando, Helena Noguerra, Olivia Ruiz, Marina Hands, Bérénice Bejo, Dominique Besnehard, Mathilda May, Léa Drucker, Marc Cerrone, Mazarine Pingeot, Vahina Giocante and Jean-Michel Ribes.
Highlights of the ceremony included a shirtless Philippe Katerine performing Louxor j'adore and designer Ora-Ito complimenting his fiancée's body as his muse: "C'est son corps qui m'inspire. Elle a le plus beau corps".
Winners and nominees
The winners are denoted in bold.
Cinema
Tell No One – Guillaume Canet
Avenue Montaigne – Danièle Thompson
OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies – Michel Hazanavicius
When I Was a Singer – Xavier Giannoli
The Page Turner – Denis Dercourt
François Cluzet – Tell No One
Jean Dujardin – OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies
Albert Dupontel – Locked Out
Gérard Depardieu – When I Was a Singer
Roschdy Zem –
Léa Drucker – The Man of My Life
Mélanie Laurent – Don't Worry, I'm Fine
Charlotte Gainsbourg – I Do
Cécile de France – Avenue Montaigne
Marina Hands – Lady Chatterley
Television
–
Samantha oups! –
Spiral – Alexandra Clert &
–
Djihad – Felix Olivier
Chirac : Le Jeune Loup et le Vieux Lion –
Theater
Cyrano de Bergerac – Denis Podalydès
Macadam Macadam – Blanca Li
Édouard Baer – La Folle et Véritable Histoire de Luigi Prizzoti
Literature
– Michel Schneider
The Photographer – & Didier Lefèvre
Music
Olivia Ruiz –
Philippe Katerine –
Others
Gérard Rondeau
Jakob + MacFarlane
Ito Morabito
John Galliano |
55572772 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon%20Eyres | Gordon Eyres | Gordon Eyres (20 December 1912 – 21 August 2004) was an Australian cricketer. He played eight first-class matches for Western Australia between 1937/38 and 1939/40. |
1238262 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trittau | Trittau | Trittau (; West Low German: Trittow) is a municipality in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, located 30 km east of Hamburg. It is the economical and administrative center of Amt Trittau, which is part of the Stormarn district. Other villages in the county are Grönwohld, Lütjensee, Großensee, Rausdorf and Grande.
Geography
Trittau is located close to the Hahnheide forest. Nearby rivers are the river Aue and the river Bille. The county is abundant with small lakes.
History
The Trittau village dates back to the 12th century. It was first mentioned in 1167 in a document of Duke Henry the Lion. In those days it was situated close to the Hamburg - Rostock and Hamburg - Lübeck trade routes.
The village then consisted of a Saxon part (Groß-Trittau) and a Wagrian part (Klein-Trittau). In 1326, a castle was built to defend the region and the trade route against the Scarpenberg knights from nearby Linau castle.
Personalities associated with the community
Joachim Heinrich Campe (1746-1818), enlightened educator, publicist and linguist
Caroline Rudolphi (1753-1811), educator, poet, author, founded an institute for girls' education in Trittau
Theodor Steltzer (1885-1967), politician (CDU), 1946-1947 introduced Minister President of Schleswig-Holstein
Arno Surminski (1934-), writer, novel Kudenow or weep at strange waters
Bernd Heinrich (1940-), professor of biology, spent his childhood as a refugee child with his family in a forest hut in the Hahnheide
Jürgen Blin (1943-), boxer, lived during his career in Trittau
Irmgard Riessen (1944-), theater and television actress, lives in Trittau |
19035253 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%85chocice-Scholasteria | Mąchocice-Scholasteria | Mąchocice-Scholasteria is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Masłów, within Kielce County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. It lies approximately east of Masłów and east of the regional capital Kielce. |
4360821 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel%20Centre%20Native%20Sons | Nickel Centre Native Sons | The Nickel Centre Native Sons were a Junior "A" ice hockey team from Garson, Ontario, Canada. This defunct hockey team was a part of the Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League
History
The Native Sons originated in the NOHA Jr. B League. In their time in the league, Nickel Centre won two McNamara Cups as league champions, 1979 and 1987. In 1987, the team did something that no other NOJHL team was able to do. After winning the NOJHL, the Power Trains took on the Ontario Provincial Junior A Hockey League Champion Owen Sound Greys for the right to play for the Dudley Hewitt Cup. Nickel Centre pulled off a massive upset and beat the Grey 4-games-to-2. In 8 years, the NOJHL and Old OPJHL competed for the Ontario Hockey Association title 7 times, and 1987 was the only ever time the NOJHL won. The next season, the Old OPJHL disbanded and left the NOJHL to battle it out with Thunder Bay for Ontario's seed in the Centennial Cup. The Pembroke Lumber Kings of the Central Junior A Hockey League ended up winning the Dudley to earn the birth into the National Championship.
Season-by-season results
Defunct ice hockey teams in Canada
Sports clubs and teams in Greater Sudbury
Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League teams |
41477834 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Graham-Smith | Michael Graham-Smith | Michael Graham-Smith (born 5 August 1969 in Burnie, Tasmania) is an Australian cricket umpire. He made his umpiring debut in domestic cricket on 4 October 2013, during the Ryobi One-Day Cup.
Graham-Smith taught mathematics at Elizabeth College in Hobart.
On 15 October 2022, he stood in his first Twenty20 International (T20I) match on 15 October 2022, between Indonesia and South Korea. |
69987160 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin%20Ki-sung | Shin Ki-sung | Shin Ki-sung (born April 30, 1975) is a South Korean retired professional basketball player and former coach. He played for three different teams in the Korean Basketball League and the South Korean national team. Known for his speed and shooting accuracy, he was nicknamed "Bullet Man" (총알탄 사나이).
Since 2019, he has been a commentator for SPOTV and covers KBL games.
Early years
Shin began playing basketball in elementary school. He attended Songdo High School in Incheon.
Playing career
College
At Korea University, Shin was a member of the dominant "Tiger Corps" which included Hyun Joo-yup, Chun Hee-chul and future MVP Kim Byung-chul. When he and Hyun were freshmen, rivals Yonsei University were the dominant college team due to seniors Lee Sang-min and Moon Kyung-eun. After Lee and Moon both graduated, Shin and his Korea University teammates were able to win the MBC Cup three consecutive times as well as the National Basketball Festival tournament.
Professional
Wonju (1998–2005)
With Seo Jang-hoon and Hyun Joo-yup attracting the most attention during his college days, Shin's draft ranking was affected and he was picked seventh overall in the 1998 rookie draft. Other than Hyun, the first overall pick, the other players picked before Shin did not have lasting careers in the KBL, leading to Shin being described as the most underestimated player of the draft. He was selected by Wonju Naray Blue Bird and was joined by veteran guard Hur Jae, whom Naray had signed from Busan Kia Enterprise in a trade. Shin was supposed to enlist after the 1999–2000 season ended but delayed his enlistment as he had not reached the age limit yet. Hur was already in his thirties and split scoring duties with Shin and guard Kim Seung-gi (future Anyang KGC head coach).
In June 2001 he enlisted for mandatory military service, together with Hyun, and was assigned to the Sangmu team after completing basic training. They were discharged in 2003.
With the drafting of forward Kim Joo-sung, the newly renamed TG Xers became known as "Speed TG" due to Kim and Shin's scoring tandem and the team's fast-paced offensive strategy. They won the 2005 KBL Championship. During the play-offs, he recorded a double-double in both legs of the semi-final against Jeonju KCC Egis. Shin won the KBL Most Valuable Player Award, then the lowest-drafted player on record to win it.
Busan (2005–2010)
After contract negotiations broke down, Shin decided to leave Wonju and signed a five-year contract with Busan KTF Magic Wings. Hyun had just left KTF and the team was looking to rebuild. The following year, KTF drafted shooting guard Cho Sung-min and the duo led the team to the 2007 play-off finals, where they met regular season champions Ulsan Mobis Phoebus. Together with guard Kim Hee-seon, the trio won praise in Game 6 for shutting down Mobis' star guard Yang Dong-geun and limiting him to only 9 points. After winning three out of six games, KTF lost the seventh game.
With Cho enlisting at the end of the 2006–07 season, KTF were unable to replace him and other departing key players for the upcoming season. Meanwhile, Shin came under criticism for his poor form. KTF failed to qualify for the play-offs for the first time since the 2003–04 season. During his last season with the team, he captained them to a runner-up spot in the league table.
Incheon (2010–2012)
Shin joined Incheon Electro Land Elephants in 2010 on a two-year contract. Despite being one of the oldest players on the squad, he contributed to important games with "clutch points" by scoring during the fourth quarter. He retired at the end of the 2011–12 season.
National team
Shin was mostly overlooked due to the presence of Lee Sang-min and Kim Seung-hyun. He was named in the final squad for the 2002 Asian Games, 2005 FIBA Asia Championship and the 2007 FIBA Asia Championship.
Post-playing career
Shin returned to his alma mater Korea University as head coach in 2013. He left after a season and joined the coaching staff of WKBL team Bucheon KEB Hana. He served as head coach of WKBL team Incheon Shinhan Bank S-Birds for three seasons, from 2016 to 2019.
Shin had been a guest commentator while he was still coaching. After leaving coaching permanently, he became a full-time commentator for SPOTV. He has also made guest appearances on various variety shows, mostly with other retired professional athletes and some of his former teammates.
Personal life
Shin married his university girlfriend Park So-yoon, a dancer, in 2001. They have two daughters. |
3480910 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southeastern%20four-eyed%20opossum | Southeastern four-eyed opossum | The southeastern four-eyed opossum (Philander frenatus) is an opossum species native to South America. It is found in Atlantic Forest ecoregions, in Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina.
Description
It is a large dark gray opossum. Dorsal fur is dark gray, and the fur on the sides is also gray, but lighter than the dorsal fur. The ventral fur is white or cream-colored. The hairs on the throat have gray bases, but are divided in two by a cream-colored vertical stripe going along the midline of the throat. Its fur is short. Its tail is dark brown or black for its entire length. |
12229182 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamp%20At%20Midnight | Lamp At Midnight | Lamp At Midnight is a play that was written by Barrie Stavis, and first produced in 1947 at New Stages, New York. The play treats the 17th Century Galileo affair, which was a profound conflict between the Roman Catholic Church and Galileo Galilei over the interpretation of his astronomical observations using the newly invented telescope. By coincidence, Bertolt Brecht's play on the same theme, Life of Galileo, opened in New York just a few weeks before Lamp at Midnight. Some critics now consider Galileo to be a masterpiece, but in 1947 the New York Times reviewer, Brooks Atkinson, preferred Lamp at Midnight.
A revival of Lamp at Midnight directed by Sir Tyrone Guthrie and starring Morris Carnovsky toured the United States in 1969.
Adaptation for television
A television adaptation, directed by George Schaefer and starring Melvyn Douglas as Galileo, appeared in the Hallmark Hall of Fame series in 1966. A recording of the television performance was released to video in 1983. |