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Act of Faith and Other Stories
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The frequently anthologized title story, “Act of Faith,” was included in O. Henry Prize Stories of 1946 and in The Best American Short Stories of 1947. “Act of Faith” was also included in The New Yorker’s own anthology of war stories, Book of War Pieces (1947).
Act of Faith and Other Stories
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Reception
The Atlantic in the November 1946 issue describes the volume as “twelve masterful short stories…brief, compact, and poignant” concerning men and women overseas during World War II. The reviewer adds that the influence of Hemingway is apparent in the dialogue and the restrained and economical writing that advance the dramatic narratives. Biographer Michael Shnayerson reports that critical assessment for the collection was positive, with Shaw widely identified as “one of America’s best short story writers.” He cites New York Times critic Robert Gorman Davis, who wrote (August 26, 1946): “Irwin Shaw is a moral writer who conceives moral problems simply, feels them deeply, and dramatizes them with an often terrifying historical significance.”
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Critical appraisal
Literary critic James R. Giles observes that “Shaw’s publishers for most of his career have recognized the central importance of his short stories in any evaluation of his career.” In particular, Act of Faith and Other Stories includes “memorable tales of war.”
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Critical appraisal
Biographer Michael Shnayerson offers this high praise for the collection’s title piece: “‘Act of Faith’ remains one of Shaw’s best stories, arguably the finest of those about the war.”
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Theme
Literary critic William Peden in Saturday Review notes that Shaw’s finest short fiction is derived from his experiences as a warrant officer in the U.S. Army during World War II. The stories deal primarily with the “effects of war, violence and intolerance.” Peden singles out “Gunners’ Passage” as “eloquent in its simplicity and revealing in its understanding of simple men of good will in a violent world.” James R. Giles writes that thematically, the works of fiction in Act of Faith do not encompass reconciliation with those who carried out the orders of the Nazi Party leadership.
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Theme
In “Retreat,” Shaw dramatizes an encounter between a German officer of the defeated Weimar army who is fleeing Paris, and a Partisan Jew who has managed to survive the occupation. Giles describes the following exchange, in which the officer, captured by the Jew, identifies himself as merely a former automobile salesman, explaining that any atrocities were committed exclusively SS and Gestapo units, for which he is not responsible. The officer pleads: “What can I do...to wash my hands?” The Jew answers “You can cut your throat...and see if it takes the stain out.” Giles adds this caveat:
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Theme
It is important to note the fact that Shaw recognizes that the Germans did not invent prejudice against his people and that he equally condemns anti-Semitism in the Russians, the British, and the Americans.
Gebhard Schädler
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Gebhard Schädler (21 September 1776 – 20 November 1842) was a surgeon from Liechtenstein.
Gebhard Schädler
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Early life
Schädler was born on 21 September 1776 to the son of surgeon Johann Georg Gebhard Schädler and his mother Maria Sabine Bayer as one of three children. He attended high school in Feldkirch and from 1796 to 1798 he studied medicine in the University of Freiburg, where he received a masters degree in surgery.
Gebhard Schädler
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Career
Schädler fought as a member of the 20-man Liechtenstein volunteer corps against the French during the War of the First Coalition, where he was wounded in 1797. From 1799 to 1801 he was a regimental surgeon of a Graubünden regiment in the Netherlands.
Gebhard Schädler
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Career
He was the first academically trained doctor in Liechtenstein and opened his own medical practice in Eschen in 1801, later in Nendeln. From 1802 he was a regional doctor in Unterland and from 1809 to 1842 he was state physicist. Due to this, he moved to Vaduz as it had been assigned to him as his official residence. He built a private medical library and fought against quackery in the medical field, where on his imitative compulsory smallpox vaccinations were introduced for Liechtenstein citizens in 1812. Schädler was the first doctor to provide obstetrics and train midwives in the country, as well as treat poor sick people and royal officials in addition to medical examinations for the Liechtenstein military.
Gebhard Schädler
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Career
In 1842, he retired to Bendern with his son Karl Schädler taking over his medical practice, where he died on 20 November 1842, aged 66 years old.
Gebhard Schädler
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Personal life
Schädler married Maria Katharina Hasler (1 January 1784 – 3 November 1861) in 1803 and they had nine children together. His son Karl Schädler took over his medical practice and was President of the Landtag of Liechtenstein from 1862 to 1870.
Matías Espinoza
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Matías David Espinoza Acosta (born 19 August 1997) is a Paraguayan professional footballer who plays as a left back for Libertad and the Paraguay national team.
Matías Espinoza
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Club career
A Libertad youth graduate, Espinoza made his senior debut while on loan at General Caballero ZC in 2016. Back to Libertad for the 2017 season, he spent the first half of the campaign playing for the reserves before agreeing to a one-year loan deal with General Díaz in August.
Matías Espinoza
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Club career
Back to Libertad in June 2018, Espinoza was initially a backup option before establishing himself as a starter in the 2019 season. On 19 March 2020, he renewed his contract with the club.
Matías Espinoza
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Club career
On 28 December 2023, amidst rumours from a possible move to other clubs, Espinoza renewed his link with Libertad for another four years.
Matías Espinoza
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International career
On 3 October 2019, Espinoza was called up to the Paraguay national team by manager Eduardo Berizzo for two friendlies against Serbia and Slovakia. He made his full international debut seven days later, coming on as a second-half substitute for Cristhian Paredes in a 1–0 loss against the former at the Mladost Stadium in Kruševac.
Matías Espinoza
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Honours
Libertad
Kate Ogston
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Kate Mary Ogston (née Ridings; 21 August 1852 - 27 July 1916) was an artist in Dunedin, New Zealand. She was known for floral and landscape paintings
Kate Ogston
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Biography
Kate Mary Ogston (née Ridings) was born on 21 August 1852 at Pyrmont, New South Wales, as the daughter of George Ridings and Catherine Williamson. They moved to New Zealand in the mid-1850s. On 7 December 1887 at Bishop’s Court, Auckland, she married Dr Frank Ogston, a University of Otago lecturer and together they had a daughter.
Kate Ogston
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Biography
She exhibited in New Zealand and Australia:
Kate Ogston
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Biography
Ogston won second place at the New Zealand Industrial Exhibition, Wellington, 1885 and third place at the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition, Dunedin 1889-1890. She signed the New Zealand women's suffrage petition. She was also engaged in golfing, and was the first elected President of the Dunedin Ladies Golf Club, which first met at her home on 22 June 1892.
Kate Ogston
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Biography
She died in 27 Sep 1916 and is buried in Anderson Bay Cemetery.
Kate Ogston
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Collections
Ogston's work is held in the permanent collection of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery, and the Hocken Collection, University of Otago.
Brunei–Palestine relations
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Brunei–Palestine relations refer to foreign relations between Brunei and the State of Palestine. Brunei supports the creation of a independent Palestine based on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital.
Brunei–Palestine relations
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Brunei does not have diplomatic ties with Israel. It does recognize the State of Palestine. Walid Abu Ali is the non-resident Ambassador of Palestine to Brunei.
Brunei–Palestine relations
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History
The Sultan of Brunei spoke at the United Nations session in September 1984 after joining the United Nations where he condemned Israel and expressed support for a Palestinian State. On 17 November 1988, Brunei recognized Palestine following the Palestinian Declaration of Independence.
Brunei–Palestine relations
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History
Brunei voted against the United States recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel at the United Nations. The resolution stated the issue of Jerusalem would be settled through negotiations between Palestinians and Israelis.
Brunei–Palestine relations
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History
Brunei provides donations to Palestine through the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). It provided food for Ramadan in 2019 and funding for education and healthcare in 2020. It raised funds through the The Palestine Humanitarian Fund 2021 initiative and provided 115,860 food packets to UNRWA.
Brunei–Palestine relations
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History
Brunei, Indonesia and Malaysia issued a joint statement during the 2023 Israel–Hamas war condemning Israeli actions and calling for a cease fire. All three Muslim majority Southeast Asian countries do not have diplomatic ties with Israel. McDonald franchise donated to a fund for Palestinians in Gaza. Thousands protested in Bandar Seri Begawan in solidarity with the Palestinians.
Pearl Berg
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Pearl Louis Berg (née Synenberg; born October 1, 1909) is an American supercentenarian and the 9th oldest living person in the world, as well as the oldest Jewish person alive.
Pearl Berg
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Biography
Berg was born in Evansville, Indiana in 1909 to Archie Synenberg and Annie Gerson, children of Eastern European immigrants, along with a sister, Selma, and a brother, Bob. They moved to various states throughout their childhood, but she atteneded Schenley High School in Pittsburgh. The family moved to California in 1929, a few months before the stock market crash.
Pearl Berg
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Biography
She was married to her husband, Mark Berg, a Ukrainian immigrant from Kremenchug in 1931. He widowed her when she was 79. They have two children, Alan and Robert, and she resides in Los Angeles.
Pearl Berg
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References
Pamela Hodar
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Pamela de Lourdes Hodar Alba (born 28 August 1952) is a Chilean former TV presenter who also served as councilwoman of Vina del Mar.
Pamela Hodar
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TV career
Born in Vina del Mar, Hodar attended the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso, where she did her bachelor of arts in journalism.
Pamela Hodar
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TV career
In the 1970s, she began her television career on UCV Televisión starring the program Música, Música (from Spanish: 'Music, Music') along with Izidor Handler. Later, Hodar moved to the capital city, Santiago, because she was hired to read the weather on Teleonce (TV Channel). Then, she read morning news on Panorama, also from Teleonce.
Pamela Hodar
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TV career
This background allowed Hodar to have a promotion in her career, since she was hired by Televisión Nacional de Chile (TVN). In the state–owned company, she presented the central newscast, 60 Minutes. In 1986, she reached a peak in her career when she was appointed to present the Viña del Mar International Song Festival alongside Antonio Vodanovic, with whom presented the OTI Festival in the same year. Hodar presented the Vina Festival until 1990. One year later, Hodar left TVN and retired from the television career, except for a brief period in 1997, when she worked on the TV channel, La Red.
Pamela Hodar
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Political career
From 2004 to 2008, Hodar was councilwoman of Concón. Then, from 2008 to 2021, she served in the same office for Vina del Mar.
Pamela Hodar
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Personal Life
She married the military man Juan Arenas. She had two sons, one of them, the future deputy Gonzalo Arenas.
Cross of the Bavarian Auxiliary Corps
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The Cross for the Bavarian Auxiliary Corps (Greek: Αριστείον του Βαυαρικού Επικουρικού Σώματος) was a military decoration of Greece for participation in the Bavarian Auxiliary Corps.
Cross of the Bavarian Auxiliary Corps
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Regulations
The Cross for the Bavarian Auxiliary Corps was established by regency resolution on 22 November 1833. It was awarded to servicemen of the Bavarian Auxiliary Corps who accompanied Bavarian prince Otto to Greece.
Cross of the Bavarian Auxiliary Corps
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Appearance
It has the form of a brass cross with trapezoidal edges mounted on a laurel wreath. The obverse is inscribed with the sentence "Otto King of Greece". The reverse side of the cross bears the inscription "To the Bavarian Auxiliary Armies". Both inscriptions were written in Greek. It remains unknown whether a number of surviving iron crosses were part of a separate degree. Its dimensions varied between 32–33 millimetres (1.3–1.3 in). Some of the crosses were painted black and the embossed letters were gilded. It was held by a light blue 36 millimetres (1.4 in) wide ribbon.
SMART Health Card
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The SMART Health Card framework is an open source immunity passport program designed to store and share medical information in paper or digital form. It was initially launched as a vaccine passport during the COVID-19 pandemic, but is envisioned for use for other infectious diseases. SMART Health Cards include a QR code which can be scanned and verified using the official SMART Health Card Verifier mobile app. It was rolled out by the Vaccination Credential Initiative (VCI) based on technology developed at Boston Children's Hospital, and standards set by Health Level Seven International (HL7) and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
SMART Health Card
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History
In February 2009, United States president Barack Obama signed an economic stimulus package which included $19 billion in funds for investment in health information technology. The following month, researchers from Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Kenneth Mandl and Isaac Kohane, published an article in The New England Journal of Medicine calling for the modernization of electronic health records through API integrations on mobile devices. In April 2010, the pair secured a $15 million grant through the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology's Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects (SHARP) program. With this federal funding, the researchers began development of an interoperable healthcare IT platform they called "Substitutable Medical Applications and Reusable Technologies" (SMART). The first iteration of the platform API was previewed later that year, and "SMART Classic" was released in 2011.
SMART Health Card
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History
In 2013, SMART adopted the open-source Fast Health Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard developed by Health Level Seven International (HL7). The newly named SMART on FHIR platform was debuted in February 2014 at the Health Information Management Systems Society conference.
SMART Health Card
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History
According to SMART Health IT, Mandl successfully lobbied for the inclusion of a universal API requirement in the 21st Century Cures Act, signed into law on December 13, 2016. The team also advocated for a federal rule establishing SMART as the universal API. In 2019, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology published the "final rule" specifying the SMART framework as the standard to satisfy the requirements of the 21st Century Cures Act; the rule was implemented in June 2020.
SMART Health Card
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History
The SMART Health Card framework was deployed as a "de facto standard" for vaccine passports in the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States and other international jurisdictions. On January 14, 2021, the Mitre Corporation announced the launch of a new public–private partnership called the Vaccination Credential Initiative (VCI) alongside the CARIN Alliance, Cerner, Change Healthcare, The Commons Project Foundation, Epic Systems, Evernorth, Mayo Clinic, Microsoft, Oracle, Safe Health, and Salesforce. VCI's purpose was to employ the SMART Health Card framework in order to create a unified proof-of-vaccination system for COVID-19 vaccines.
SMART Health Card
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History
The California Department of Public Health introduced a Digital Covid-19 Vaccine Record portal in June 2021, allowing individuals to verify their vaccination status using the SMART Health Card reader.
SMART Health Card
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History
On August 5, 2021, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced the introduction of the "Excelsior Pass Plus" which would expand its Excelsior Pass program into other states and internationally by connecting it to the SMART Health Card system. As of August 27, 2021, 415,000 citizens of Louisiana had added their COVID-19 vaccination status to their state-run, SMART Health Card enabled LA Wallet. On September 8, 2021, Hawaii governor David Ige announced the rollout of the state's Hawaiʻi SMART Health Card.
SMART Health Card
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History
The Government of Canada spent CAD$4.6 million to develop a proof-of-vaccination credential on the SMART Health Card framework, enabling its ArriveCAN travel application to store, recognize and verify credentials from every province, territory and foreign country. Since October 2021, Canadian provinces and territories used the SMART Health Card format as a requirement by the federal government, including British Columbia, Ontario, Saskatchewan and the Yukon.
SMART Health Card
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History
On October 13, 2021, the American Immunization Registry Association published a statement encouraging adoption of SMART Health Cards as a common standard "where allowed by local law and policy."
SMART Health Card
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History
A SMART Health Cards Global Forum was held on October 28, 2021. The event featured keynote speakers Andy Slavitt (former Senior Pandemic Advisor to President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 pandemic response team) and Mike Leavitt (former United States Secretary of Health and Human Services).
SMART Health Card
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History
On December 20, 2021, Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare launched its COVID-19 Vaccination Certificate Application using the SMART Health Card.
SMART Health Card
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History
By January 2022, about 80% of Americans who had received a COVID-19 vaccine had access to a SMART Health Card through their state governments, local businesses, universities and healthcare systems.
SMART Health Card
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Participants
SMART Health IT is based out of the Computational Health Informatics Program (CHIP) at the Boston Children's Hospital. CHIP's related projects include Apache cTAKES, Genomic Information Commons, HealthMap, and VaccineFinder.
SMART Health Card
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Participants
The SMART Health Card's project sponsor is HL7 International's Public Health Work Group, consisting of representatives from Allscripts, the Altarum Institute, Tennessee Department of Health and Washington State Department of Health.
SMART Health Card
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Participants
Official registries of authorized SMART Health Card issuers are maintained by SMART Health IT, the Vaccination Credential Initiative, and the CommonTrust Network. Authorized issuers include:
Upgraded Points
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Upgraded Points is a website that provides information and resources related to travel and credit card rewards.
Upgraded Points
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Overview
Upgraded Points was launched by Alex Miller in 2016. The company is headquartered in Austin, Texas.
Upgraded Points
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Overview
The company provides travelers with information and strategies to help users maximize their travel, points, miles and rewards.
Upgraded Points
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Overview
The Upgraded Points website features content such as informational guides, reviews, and recommendations on credit cards, airline loyalty programs, and hotel chains.
David Amsel Meyer
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David Amsel Meyer (19 September 1755 - 30 August 1813) was a Danish businessman and financial advisor to the Danish governement. In 1780, he became the first Jewish member of Grosserer-Societetet.
David Amsel Meyer
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Early life and education
Meyer was born in 19 September 1755 in Copenhagen, the son of merchant Amsel Jacob Meyer (Hausen) (c. 1728-98) and Brendel Meyer (died 1763). His father was after the mother's death married to Hitzelia Meyer (c. 1746-1819). Meyer received a very poor aducation but showed an unusual gift for mercantile business. With substantial credits from relatives in Altona and Amsterdam, he was quickly able to establish a thriving wholesale business. It was overseas trade and exchange transactions that were his speciality. In 1780, after considerable opposition, he was the first Jew to acquire citizenship as a wholesale merchant (grosserer) in Copenhagen. In 1793, together with his nephew, he formed the large trading house Meyer & Trier. With great ease he overcame the losses caused by the Copenhagen Fire of 1795,, and after some difficulties they also managed the great trade crisis in 1799, which also reached Copenhagen from England via Hamburg. Shortly thereafter, Meyer started to act as a financial advisor to the Danish government.
David Amsel Meyer
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Early life and education
Meyer owned the property at Frederiksholms Kanal 5 and the La Fontaine House in Gentofte north of the city.
David Amsel Meyer
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Personal life
In Aapril 1776 in Altona, ;eyer married to (Jochebed) Jacobine Meyer (c. 1754-1843). She was the daughter of financier Israel Jacob Meyer (died 1802) and his first wife Edel Minden (died 1782). He was the maternal uncle of businessman Ernst Meyer (1797-1861).
Federal Pacific Electric Corporation
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Federal Pacific Electric was an eletrical poducts manufacturer based in Newark, New Jersey. The company produced a line of circuit breaker equipment called Stab-Lok that was used extensively in residential and commercial contruction starting in the 1950s. The product design was flawed and had a high failure rate.
Federal Pacific Electric Corporation
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Its offices were located at 150 Avenue L at Herbert Street in Newark, New Jersey.
Faculty of Archaeology
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52°14′23″N 21°1′12″E / 52.23972°N 21.02000°E / 52.23972; 21.02000
Faculty of Archaeology
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Faculty of Archaeology, University of Warsaw (WAUW) is a faculty of the University of Warsaw, established on September 1, 2020, through the transformation of the Institute of Archaeology, which operated as part of the now-defunct Faculty of History. The Faculty is based in the Szkoła Główna Warszawska building.
Faculty of Archaeology
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The Faculty of Archaeology at the University of Warsaw, the largest archaeological institution in Poland, comprises 17 departments and 7 laboratories with a staff of about 100. The Faculty provides education in various branches of modern archaeology and related sciences to over 1500 students from various fields of study: Ancient Egypt, Ancient America, Classical Archaeology, and Ancient Near East. The Archaeology program at the University of Warsaw is placed between 51st and 100th worldwide in Quacquarelli Symonds World University Ranking (QS)
Faculty of Archaeology
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History
The beginning of the archaeological investigations at University of Warsaw is related to establishing the Numismatic Cabinet (Gabinet Numizmatyczny) at 1816 and Cabinet of Ancient Curiosities (Gabinet Starożytnych Osobliwości)(1926) at former Royal University of Warsaw (1816-1831). The collections have been merged in 1877. Although there was no formal archaeological institute, a number of archaeologists and antiquarians who were important in the formation of Polish archaeology, were active in Warsaw or worked at the university: Erazm Majewski, Kazimierz Stołyhwo, Stefan Krukowski, Leon Kozłowski, Ludwik Sawicki or Marian Hinner.
Faculty of Archaeology
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History
The first section, the Department of Prehistoric Archaeology, was created in 1919 in Staszic Palace, and was headed by Erazm Majewski. After E. Majewski's death in 1920, his successor was Włodzimierz Antoniewicz - the dean of the Faculty of History in 1934/35 and Rector of the University of Warsaw in 1936/37. In 1931, the Section of Classical Archaeology was created, led by the Polish egyptologist Kazimierz Michałowski.
Faculty of Archaeology
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History
Over the years, new chairs and departments were established, such as the Department of Slavic Archaeology, the Department of Archaeology of Antiquity, the Department of Ancient Archaeology (later transformed into the Department of Prehistoric and Early Medieval Archaeology), and a Department of Anthropology. After Włodzimierz Antoniewicz, the department was headed by Zofia Wartołowska and Witold Hensel. At the beginning of the 1960s, Kazimierz Michałowski, Zofia Podkowińska, Zbigniew Sochacki, Bronisława Chomentowska, Maria Miśkiewicz, Andrzej Kempisty, Jerzy Gąssowski, Andrzej Wierciński, Stefan Karol Kozłowski and Janina Rosen-Przeworska were among the most prominent members of the staff.
Faculty of Archaeology
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History
In 1975 the Departments of Prehistoric and Early Medieval Archaeology, Papyrology and Mediterranean Archaeology were merged to form the Institute of Archaeology, as a part of Faculty of History at the University of Warsaw, with Waldemar Chmielewski as its first director. The institute was appointed from three departments: Prehistoric and Early Medieval Archaeology, Papyrology, and Mediterranean Archaeology, and then devided into seven sections.
Faculty of Archaeology
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History
In 2020, the Institute of Archaeology was reshaped into Faculty of Archaeology, and headed by Bartosz Kontny.
59th Guldbagge Awards
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The 59th Guldbagge Awards ceremony, presented by the Swedish Film Institute, to honor the best Swedish films of 2023 and will take place on 15 January 2024 at Cirkus in Stockholm, Sweden. The ceremony will be televised by SVT and hosted by actress and singer Shima Niavarani.
59th Guldbagge Awards
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Winners and nominees
The nominations were announced on 13 December 2023. Drama film Shame on Dry Land led the nominations with nine, followed by Hammarskjöld and Opponent with seven.
Gorgasus
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Gorgasus (in Greek: Γόργασος) was a famous ancient Greek painter who, along with the equally renowned Damophilus, undertook the decoration of the temple of the goddess Ceres (identified with the Greek Demeter) on the Aventine Hill in Rome, which faced the Great Hippodrome. The exact dating of the Greek artists' work in the temple is not possible. If the Damophilus mentioned is the same Damophilus from Himera in Sicily, who taught the well-known sculptor Zeuxis, their artwork might actually be from much later than when the temple was built in 496 BC, like about 40 years later.
Gorgasus
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Gorgasus was the proponent of Greek art in ancient Italy, where, until his time, Etruscan art seemed to dominate, as mentioned by Pliny. Gorgasus' technique was plastic and dry painting or painting on clay relief plaques.
Gorgasus
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In 31 BC, when the temple was destroyed by fire, these plaques of Gorgasus were saved and later, when the temple was renovated under Emperor Augustus, they were repositioned in their original place, protected within frames (cornices).
Saleh Ahmad Takrim
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Hafez Saleh Ahmad Takreem (born: 31 December 2008) is a Hafez of Quran from Bangladesh. He won first place in the 38th Iran International Hifzul Quran Competition held in Tehran, Iran in 2022 at the age of 13. Also, in 2020, he won the Hafezul Quran Competition organized by Banglavision Television in the month of Ramadan.Hafez Saleh Ahmad Takrim participated in the 42nd King Abdulaziz International Hafezul Quran Competition held in Mecca, Saudi Arabia in 2022, in which 153 Hafez from 111 countries participated. In the fourth category of the competition, Hafez Saleh Ahmad Takrim won the third place and won a prize of 1 lakh riyals. Takrim won the first place in the 26th edition of the Dubai International Quran Competition in 2023.
Saleh Ahmad Takrim
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Early Life
Hafeez Saleh Ahmad Takreem was born on December 31, 2008 in Syed Bari of Umarpur village of Shailjana Union in the remote Char region of Jamuna River under Chauhali Upazila of Sirajganj District; Later, after the river broke down in Karalgras on Yamuna, he shifted and is living permanently at Bhadra village of Nagarpur police station in Tangail district. His father Hafeez Syed Abdur Rahman is a madrasah teacher by profession, teaching in a reputed madrasah in Savar and his mother is a housewife.
Steve Swiontek
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Steve Swiontek is an American politician. He is serving as a member of the North Dakota House of Representatives from the 10th district, alongside Hamida Dakane. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Pizza kebab Vol. 1
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Pizza kebab Vol. 1 is the fourth studio album by Italian rapper Ghali, released on 1 December 2023 by Sto Records, Warner Music and Atlantic Records.
Pizza kebab Vol. 1
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The album peaked at number 5 of the Italian single chart.
Nazimabad Town
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Nazimabad Town (Urdu: ناظم آباد ٹاؤن) is an administrative subdivision within Karachi, Pakistan that lies in the northern part of the city. Itis named after the suburb of Nazimabad, which is named after the second Governor General of Pakistan Khawaja Nazimuddin. It is formed in January 2022 as part of Karachi Central District, and is subdivided into 7 union councils.
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References
Tip on a Dead Jockey and Other Stories
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Tip on a Dead Jockey and Other Stories is a collection of short fiction by Irwin Shaw published by Random House in 1957.
Tip on a Dead Jockey and Other Stories
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The stories in his fifth published collection are reflective of Shaw's "voluntary exile" in Paris in the post-war years, and the experiences of his fellow American expatriates in Europe. The title piece "Tip on a Dead Jockey" is among Shaw's most admired short stories.
Tip on a Dead Jockey and Other Stories
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The story was adapted to a film of the same name by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1957 and starring Robert Taylor and Dorothy Malone.
Tip on a Dead Jockey and Other Stories
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Stories
Those stories first appearing in a literary magazine are indicated.
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Reception
Hubert Saal in the Saturday Review regards the collection to be a retreat from Shaw's earlier achievements in short fiction. He describes the stories as uniformly "humorless, unhappy and concerned with failure" and attributes this to Shaw's demoralization by the Cold War and its threat of nuclear annihilation. Saal reserves praise for only two pieces, "And Then There Were Three'" and "A Wicked Story" which are "very good, indeed."
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Reception
Writing in Midwest Quarterly, critic William Startt notes that in terms of form and style, the stories in Tip on a Dead Jockey are equal in quality to Shaw's early short fiction. Startt adds this caveat:
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Reception
[T]he old intimate glow and the compassionate analysis of people and themes familiar to both the author and his readers are gone...Often passages in his stories sound more like ersatz (italics) Hemingway than Shaw.
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Reception
Acknowledging that "Shaw is not a Hemingway imitator," Startt locates the "main fault" in these stories in that they are "too bad to praise and too good to criticize."
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Critical appraisal
Literary critic James R. Giles reports that the stories in Tip on a Dead Jockey expose "a disturbing shift in focus and emphasis" in Shaw's thematic concerns. Giles attributes this to Shaw's increasing personal wealth and his association with affluent Americans expatriates in Europe in the post-war period: "t has become commonplace to assert that in leaving America Shaw turned his back on the cultural roots essential to the vitality of his writing." As such, Shaw's work became "less representative" of working class struggles dramatized in works informed by the Great Depression.
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Shaw's "voluntary exile" from the United States and his extended sojourn in Paris, France may have been prompted by the The Red Scare and the "McCarthy witch hunts" of the 1950s. Shaw ultimately resided for 25 years in Paris, during which "he began to write a new kind of short story."
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Giles notes that "these expatriate stories largely abandon the social protest underlying his earlier fiction." Rather than making overtures to his readership to embrace an enlightened leadership, Shaw abandoned these ideals with the rise of the anti-Communism campaign led by the advocates of McCarthyism in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Giles writes: