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http://wilbow.com.au/ | 2019-06-19T18:57:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-26/segments/1560627999040.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20190619184037-20190619210037-00353.warc.gz | 0.967626 | 197 | CC-MAIN-2019-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-26__0__100278713 | en | William D Bowness founded Wilbow Corporation in 1976, which grew to be one of Australia’s largest privately owned property development companies, with interests in Melbourne, Brisbane, Dallas (USA) and Auckland (NZ). Wilbow Corporation undertook a broad range of developments, including residential subdivisions, medium density housing, high density apartments, retail shopping centres, commercial office buildings, industrial office parks and retirement facilities. The success of the Wilbow business and high regard it was held in was demonstrated by the numerous development industry awards its projects received. The Australian interests were sold to a major public company in 2006 and the NZ office closed in 2005. Wilbow’s USA property operations have been retained.
Following the sale of the Australian interests, Wilbow Group was formed to be an investment company that focuses on its USA property interests, private equity, listed equities and property development funding. Philanthropy and the arts continue to be an important part of the Wilbow philosophy. | history |
http://www.flowershow.org.uk/about-nehs/ | 2013-05-22T09:48:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701562534/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105242-00060-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.976024 | 1,974 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__160920827 | en | New President for the North of England Horticultural Society
We are delighted to welcome Lucinda Compton as the new President of the North of England Horticultural Society (NEHS).
Lucinda is curator of the award-winning gardens at Newby Hall, near Ripon, a role she took over from her late father-in-law and former NEHS President, Robin Compton. The gardens hold the national collection of Cornus and new developments include the regeneration of Newby’s famous herbaceous border.
Married to Richard Compton, owner of the Newby Hall Estate and President of the Historic Houses Association, Lucinda has three children. She is a professional furniture restorer, a skill that has proved particularly valuable in her dual role as curator of the stately home itself.
About the North of England Horticultural Society
The North of England Horticultural Society is a leading gardening charity supporting horticulture in the North of England.
Part of the Society’s work is to organise the Harrogate Spring and Autumn Flower Shows at the Great Yorkshire Showground. The Harrogate Flower Shows are regarded as two of the most prestigious, national flower shows in the gardening calendar and attract the very top nursery exhibitors from across the UK. All profits from the shows are returned to the charity and used to promote and support horticulture in the north.
Patron: HRH The Prince of Wales
President: Lucinda Compton
Chairman: Christopher Smith
Vice-Chairman: Caroline Bayliss
Show Director: Martin Fish
Show Manager/ Company Secretary: Jane Kitchen
PR/Marketing Officer: Camilla Harrison
Floral Art Organiser: Fiona Fisk
Event Organiser: Lisa Kennedy
Event Assistant: Jill Fish
Accounts Officer: Dee McIntyre
How It All Began...
In 1910 there were many months of discussion in the letters in the Yorkshire Post about the possibility of forming a horticultural society in the North of England. The idea was so enthusiastically supported that on 6 January 1911, the North of England Horticultural Society (NEHS) was inaugurated in the Lord Mayor's Rooms in Leeds.
The purpose of this new Society was to organise horticulture in the North of England and to arrange first class shows where northern exhibits could be judged by standards suitable for the northern areas of the country. The general opinion in those days was that the Royal Horticultural Society's (RHS) shows, at Vincent Square, London, were too far away for very many would-be exhibitors in the north and travelling to London and back was time consuming and expensive. It was also felt that growers in the north were handicapped when in competition with growers in the warmer climes of the south.
Much encouragement and advice was given by the RHS in the initial stages and it is satisfying to note that after ninety years this situation still holds good today.
Originally it was envisaged that the NEHS would be run on similar lines to the RHS and floral, fruit and vegetable, orchid and scientific committees were set up. The NEHS held monthly meetings with a show and lecture, these being held in Leeds, Bradford, Manchester, Newcastle and Harrogate. When held in Leeds Town Hall an organ recital was included in the price of admission, which was one shilling, reduced after 5pm to sixpence!
The NEHS flourished in the pre-war years before 1914 but with the onset of the First World War, its activities were suspended and it was not until 1921 that it was revived. Then, with the backing of the Harrogate Chamber of Trade, a successful show was held in the Old Winter Gardens in Harrogate (the present day site of the Lounge Hall). From that time all meetings and shows were held only in Harrogate and the NEHS became associated with the town. The hope was expressed in 1925 that the shows would bring into Harrogate "those people who might otherwise not patronize the Queen of Spas." This hope has been well and truly fulfilled by the many thousands of people from all over the country who flock to the town nowadays during show week.
From 1927 onwards, the NEHS concentrated its efforts on staging Spring and Autumn Shows each year and these shows were visited on very many occasions by the Princess Royal, who took a keen interest in the work of the Society and became its patron in 1950.
The first time the NEHS staged a show in the Valley Gardens was in 1934 when, in collaboration with Harrogate Corporation a larger than usual Autumn show was staged for the Jubilee of the Incorporation of the Borough. And so began a long-term close association with the Council of the Borough of Harrogate.
Sir William Ingilby of Ripley Castle, famed for its many appearances on television and film, became Chairman in the Thirties, to be followed by his son, Sir Joslan Ingilby, and the NEHS will always be grateful for the interest he and his family have shown in its activities.
During the Second World War the NEHS's activities were virtually suspended, although they did compile and publish a "Dig for Victory" pamphlet and many thousands of copies of this were distributed gratuitously throughout the war years.
The early post war years were a time of austerity and restrictions, so it was not until April 1947 that the first post-war Spring Flower Show was staged in the Sun Pavilion in the Valley Gardens. Until the 1950s, the shows were comparatively small in scale but from then on it was decided to expand.
A Flower Academy, which was first held in the Old Swan Hotel in 1953, was introduced into the Spring Show in the Valley Gardens in 1956 and became the forerunner of the magnificent Flower Arrangement & Floristry Marquee we know today. Gradually the Harrogate Spring Flower Show, as it became known throughout the country, increased in size and variety of exhibits. More and more of the Valley Gardens, with the Sun Pavilion and Colonnades were used, with the generous sanction of the Borough of Harrogate. Soon the high reputation of the standards set became well know not only in the North, but all over the British Isles and overseas, and visitors began travelling considerable distances to the event.
The Alpine Garden Society's Northern Branch show was incorporated in 1948 together with that of the Daffodil Society and glorious exhibits by local authorities such as Halifax, Leeds and Liverpool were staged. The year of 1971 saw the Fourth International Rock Garden Conference in Harrogate, which brought more than four hundred international delegates, representing almost every corner of the world, to the town. It was arranged that they should stage their show under the auspices of the NEHS and this proved to be the most successful international show that had been held by the Alpine Garden Society. Eventually this led to a further extension of the Spring Flower Show to cope with the enthusiasm of growers and exhibitors of alpine plants. The RHS staged a delightful rock garden pool in 1971 so continuing the links between the two Societies.
In 1976, the NEHS organised an entirely new concept in flower shows. The National Dahlia Society and the National Chrysanthemum Society, along with seven other Societies and the North East Area of NAFAS, were brought together to hold their shows within one show under the title, the Great Autumn Flower Show. This particular show, now taking in 13 individual amateur society shows, has steadily increased in popularity with both the general public and the exhibitors themselves.
The need to expand the Autumn Show led to this event being relocated from the Exhibition Halls to the Great Yorkshire Showground in 1995 and at this time increased from a two-day to a three-day Show. The Autumn Show has now tripled in size, the attendance has increased by a further 75% to 35,000 and it is now recognised as the premier Autumn Show in the country. Following the successful move of the Autumn Show and the need to expand the Spring Show, the decision was taken in 1997 to move the Spring Show from its picturesque but restricted Valley Gardens location to the Great Yorkshire Showground.
This has also been a successful move, both Shows expanding to also include Arts & Crafts and Fine Country Foods but again maintaining a predominantly horticultural content. A Landscape & Garden Design section with a Student Garden Design competition, and a Plant Societies' Marquee featuring the Daffodil and Tulip Shows have also been introduced to broaden the Spring Show's appeal. So far little mention has been made of the development of the flower arranging section of the Show, but flower arrangements and the Harrogate Spring Show have become synonymous. The Society has used its resources to help to promote this art form from its earliest days and now has one of the largest marquees devoted to flower arrangements and floristry of any flower show in the country.
The NEHS today goes from strength to strength. From its initial ventures with small provincial shows, it has blossomed into organising the largest national early Spring Flower Show in Britain, with an attendance of around 60,000 visitors, and the premier Autumn Show in the country with 35,000+ visitors. Each year the NEHS strives to make the Show more versatile and interesting, providing increasingly spectacular exhibits and improving facilities for both visitors and exhibitors alike. However it does not wish to rest on past successes but is always seeking to promote all forms of horticulture for the benefit of everyone. From the window box gardener to the owner of acres, from small growers to the nationally renowned horticultural nurseries, the Harrogate Flower Shows serve as a shop window on the gardening world of the future. | history |
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Situated near the village of Seething, Norfolk, you will find United States Army Air Force Station 146 - Home of the 448th Bomb Group, 1943-1945. In that time, many hundreds of stories were created by the men and women who were stationed there. Herein you will discover some of those stories.
Bringing History to life
Both my Granddads served their country in the First World War, one in the Royal Engineers and the other initially in the Norfolk Regiment and then in a London Regiment, from where he was seconded on to the staff of General Sir Edmund Allenby. Both sustained injuries through combat, but only one received what they called a ‘Blighty One’, which meant he needed to be shipped back to England.
When the Second World War began, they both joined their local Home Guard units. My Dad was ‘called up’ and served as ground crew in the Royal Air Force. He saw service in the North Africa and Italian Campaigns. My Mum served in the Woman’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF for short). She was in the Balloon Command and by December 1942, 10,000 men had been released for other duties by approximately 15,700 WAAF barrage balloon operators.
By Autumn 1944 the use of barrage balloons was no longer considered necessary and Balloon Command was disbanded in February 1945. My Mum and her fellow operators all had to re-muster and she ended up working with Spitfires.
Coming together to share their stories
When both my parents were demobbed, they became lifelong members of the Royal British Legion and of the Royal Air Force Association. I tried to count how many Remembrance Day or Battle of Britain Day parades I have attended. As I grew up, I started to asked questions as to why and what they were doing. I started to listen to the stories the veterans were telling, some funny, some sad, and some just naughty! By our parents and grandparents’ example, I came to understand what Remembrance meant to them and then to us.
I always remember the long lists of names of those people who had given their lives in the service of our country and wondered who they were, where they lived, and who their families were. It was not until 2019 that I attended a Memorial service at which a lady stood up to speak. As she began, she told of two men who had died in the service of their country and explained a little more about them.
Most importantly for me, she gave their backgrounds, and they became real people who had a family, a mum and dad, brothers and sisters who would never see their loved ones again.
Honoring their sacrifice
Behind every photograph there is a story waiting to be told. A story captured and frozen in a moment of time, whilst encapsulating the emotion and atmosphere of that snapshot of time.
Far too often, the stories of our veterans often focus on their bravery and heartache, while little about what shaped their identities and lives beyond the battlefield remains untold. Many were ordinary men before and after their time in war, carrying within them an extraordinary past. Some could not overcome the scars left behind. Yet there were others who excelled in remarkable ways even after serving in the Mighty Eighth.
As time continues to separate us from these historical moments, our mission is to safeguard the cherished memories and poignant stories that make up our shared history. In our pursuit of uncovering their stories we will create an ever-evolving online memorial collection that pays tribute to them as new information comes to light.
If you are curious about those who served or wish to contribute your own discoveries, please do not hesitate to get in touch with us.
History of the 448th bomb group
The origin of what would become the 448th Bomb Group can be traced to a United States War Department document dated 6th April 1943 which contained a list of Army units that were to be activated. Shortly afterwards orders were written that outlined how the bomb group would be constructed. It stated that the core of its Headquarters and 4 squadrons would be taken from the 29th Bombardment Group based at Gowen Field, Idaho.
Following a massive enlargement of its numbers, training and development, the 448th found itself at Wendover Field, Utah where it went through its training for combat. A further move saw the training continue at Sioux City, Iowa. It was here that the 448th transitioned onto the new B24H from the ‘D model. With the arrival of the new aircraft, training became more intense. A final move to combat was not far away.
Whilst the aircrews trained hard, the ground echelons were themselves being raised from other Groups or were being created from scratch. It was these ground staff that were quickly headed to the incomplete airfield that was named Station 146 Seething. The sight that greeted the initial 200 enlisted men and 6 officers of the 58th Station Compliment was one of mayhem. The airfield was partially built with incomplete infrastructure and living facilities. They, along with their RAF colleagues, set-to in preparing the airfield as quickly as possible for the arrival of the aviation side.
Even though the airfield was not finished the runways were already providing sanctuary for battle damaged aircraft. It is recorded that three fighters, a Mosquito and a Lancaster quickly found safety. A Wellington is also known to have landed here in the early days, crashing into a house at the end of the runway. These early arrivals were a foretaste of things to come, the proximity of the airfield to the coast meant there was a steady stream throughout the next 2 years. A most notable damaged visitor was the B17 “Ye Olde Pub” from Kimbolton.
Back stateside, the 448th continued to prepare
for war. The start of November saw them
leave Sioux City and head to the much colder climate of Herrington Field,
Kansas. It was here that final
preparations were quickly made for combat overseas. The aircraft received new life rafts, IFF
equipment, armour, updated radios and many more items. The aircrew themselves were issued new
personal equipment and were subjected to a myriad of paperwork. On the 11th November 1943, as the
United Kingdom observed Armistice day, the first aircraft of the 448th
departed Herrington to head off along the assigned route to England. These heavily overloaded aircraft routed via
Morrison Field, Florida to Marrakech, Morocco then up to St Mawgan,
Cornwall. The stories of how the
aircraft got to England are many and worth several volumes. But
they slowly arrived and were soon on the final leg to Seething and home.
Meanwhile the ground echelon were on their way, in less
glamorous fashion. These men were moved
on a military train via Chicago, Illinois to Camp Shanks in Orangeburg, Buffalo County, New York . On 23rd November they were finally on the “Queen
Elizabeth” and leaving the Statue Of Liberty behind them. Next stop was Greenock, Scotland, 6 days sail
away. Because of the high speed of the
“Queen Elizabeth” it sailed alone, which must have been very unnerving to all
those on board. After they disembarked it
was onto more trains and the long tedious trail to Ditchingham where they
transferred onto trucks for the three mile drive to their new home. It was 1st December 1943.
With the arrival of both the aircraft and ground personnel at the same time Station 146 and the 448th Bombardment Group were here for the duration. Many people would see service here and thousands of stories would be created. The lives of those who lived in and around the airfield would never be the same. Station 146 is intrinsically linked to a good many locations in South Norfolk and we aim to seek out those remaining stories and bring them to the scholar, history buff or family that wants to know more about their past.
To read the full history of the 448th Bomb Group click below.
We are a three-generation family that shares a deep love and enthusiasm for aviation history. Ann and Peter, our dedicated historical researchers, have contributed to numerous publications over the years and hold a wealth of knowledge.
Raised in an environment where aviation was always a topic of interest, James was captivated by Seething Control Tower after witnessing the B24 Liberator, "Diamond Lil", touch down in Norwich in 1992. Since then our family became actively involved with Seething Control Tower. James served as Chairman twice; once in 2002 until 2012 and then he was asked to serve as Chairman again at the start of 2019 after the Tower had lost their membership secretary Jim Turner. Grasping the enormous task we went to work to restart the many facets of a museum; namely the membership, the newsletter in the form of the Seething Digest and plenty of events to let the locals know that Seething Control Tower was here. Such events included a Vintage Craft Fayre, a Baseball taster day, Outdoor Cinema Nights and even a children’s Easter event. However in 2020 the whole world came to a standstill as Covid hit us. Despite being classed as essential workers and having to work even more hours, we continued to look after the Tower. Over this period many more people contacted us in regards to personnel who served at Seething and we found ourselves helping them with their research. When the time came that museums were able to open under strict conditions, we were able to navigate the huge amount of rules, and opened the Tower. In doing so our experience was used to enable other small museums to open up to the public. As you can imagine, Seething Control Tower holds a special place in our hearts.
In July 2021 when the world was finally opened again, we made the heartfelt decision to step away from the museum and channel our passion into uncovering the untold stories of those who served at and around Seething Airfield. Thus, we established the independent research group called Stories of the 448th. To this day, we have helped numerous families in discovering information about their loved ones and have supported other groups with their research efforts.
We neither charge for our services nor receive any funding from other organisations. Our driving force is pure passion and the belief that future generations should have a profound understanding of World War II as well as the personal and social histories of those involved.
Surrounded by a supportive network of family and friends who share our enthusiasm, we are committed to ensuring that these incredible stories are told so that memories remain alive and the sacrifices made are never forgotten.
To explore some of the remarkable stories we have unearthed thus far, click below. | history |
https://fullaccesssingapore.com/2016/07/06/rumah-bebe/ | 2023-05-28T05:20:16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224643585.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20230528051321-20230528081321-00315.warc.gz | 0.947142 | 764 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__281902104 | en | By Mildred Jones
This eastern cultural gem is nestled within the charm of Katong’s historical heritage sites. It in-houses the lost art of making the Peranakan, “Kasut Manek”, beaded slippers, worn by the Nonyas. It also showcases the traditional art forms of jewellery, porcelain, hand crafted handbags and embroidered kebayas. The descendants of the Baba Nonyas were said to come from the beginnings of the marriage of Princess Hang Li Po as the fifth wife to Sultan Mansur Shah of the Sultanate of Malacca. The rich mixed ancestry of Malays and Chinese culture and traditions was brought over through migrations to other countries in South East Asia and is carried on today, in ‘Rumah Bebe’ as Bebe Seet continues the craft. She personally conducts lessons on the art of sewing the beads of minuscule glass onto beautiful fabrics.
The hand made Kebaya is a traditional blouse that originated from the court of the Javanese Majapahit Empire. Before the 1600’s, it was especially made for the royal family, aristocrats and nobility. The fabrics often used were silk, velvet or brocade, fasten with a brooch. Bebe Seet welcomes you to have yours tailored to size.
If you wish to see more of the intricate pieces of Peranakan jewellery, we would advise you to head to the nearby ASEMUS museum to have a look at some master pieces as shown on the right above.
An array of mouth-watering delicacies awaits you as this remarkable lady extends her hospitality to prepare, the all famous sugee cakes, also called the ‘sugi’, ‘suji’, ‘sooji’ or ‘soojee’ which can be found in parts of India. Mary Gomes however describes it as the ‘typical Eurasian wedding cake’ in the “Eurasian Cookbook”. While most Asian sweets are both boiled, steamed or cooked on the stove top, the ‘Sugee Cake’ is baked in an oven, like a European cake. In order to explain this fusion of cultures, you have to understand that the Eurasians in Singapore and Malaysia belong to a diverse range of origins (Portuguese, Dutch, British – due to the presence of colonial powers at varying times in Malaya and their inter-marriages with local Asian ethnicities).
Often presented as Euro-Asian culture in Singapore, is the vibrant Portuguese variety, which traces its roots back to the community in Malacca, a town conquered by the Portuguese in 1511. The Portuguese had also landed in Goa, on the west coast of India, in 1510, and established a colony there. Portuguese-Indian Eurasians from Goa soon migrated to Malacca in the following century, around 1641, bringing the sugee recipe with them. Ever since, the Baba Nonyas that have originated from Malacca had adopted it as part of the Peranakan Cuisine, along with the all-time Malay favourites, the ‘curry puffs’ and the ‘onde onde’ (filled with thick coconut syrup). These and more are offered at Rumah Bebe.
Photo acknowledgements: bebe seet_Pernakan Heritage Artist, img.masterpieces.asemusmuseum, sayangmelakablogspot.com, breadbutter.wordpress.com, www.sinpopo.com, nasimaklover.blogspot.com | history |
https://www.worldcuesports.com.au/australias-walter-lindrum/ | 2024-04-12T17:52:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816045.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20240412163227-20240412193227-00171.warc.gz | 0.980207 | 1,148 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__76676296 | en | Walter Lindrum OBE – Billiards
Walter Lindrum was Inducted into The Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 1985 as an Athlete Member for his contribution to the sport of billiards and was Elevated to “Legend of Australian Sport” in 1998.
Lindrum is often considered to be the greatest player ever seen in the sport of billiards, with some 57 world records to his credit, many still standing. Lindrum is also often referred to as one of the Australian all-time great sporting heroes along with Sir Donald Bradman and Sir Hubert Opperman. At his death in 1960 newspapers called him the ‘Bradman of Billiards’.
Born in Kalgoorlie, his father, Frederick Lindrum II, was an Australian billiards champion at the age of 20. Walter’s older brother, Frederick Lindrum III, became the professional champion of Australia in 1909.
Lindrum’s grandfather, Friedrich Wilhelm Von Lindrum, was Australia’s first professional billiards champion having defeated the English master, John Roberts Snr., in 1869. Frederick, Walter, and Walter’s nephew Horace Lindrum were closely tutored by Fredrick (II).
Lindrum lost the top of his index finger on his right hand in an accident in 1901, so his father taught him to play billiards left-handed. Much of his childhood was spent practising for up to 12 hours a day, under his father’s tutelage. His first professional game was played at the age of 13.
During the mid 1920s Lindrum’s standard of play was without competition in Australia, with many players refusing to compete against him. As a result, exhibition matches were organised, often with New Zealand champion Clark McConachy.
It was not untill 1929 that Willie Smith, considered by many to be one of the best English billiards players of the time, visited Australia and played three fairly even matches against Lindrum. At one game all, Lindrum was forced to abandon the third game midway through, upon the imminent death of his girlfriend. While technically the match was a forfeit, Smith refused to accept the trophy and insisted it be awarded to Lindrum.
Smith, McConachy and Lindrum departed Australia in September 1929 for a tour of England. Between 1929 and 1933 Lindrum dominated the English billiards scene. Often he would start by conceding up to 7000 points to his opponents. Lindrum and his main rivals, McConachy, Smith, Joe Davis and Tom Newman, were considered ‘the big five’.
On February 19, 1931, Lindrum gave a billiards exhibition for the King and other members of the Royal Family at Buckingham Palace. The King presented Lindrum with a pair of gold and enamel cuff-links bearing the royal monogram. These formed part of Lindrum’s essential attire for the remainder of his playing career.
Lindrum won the 1933 world championship and argued that he should be allowed to defend his title in Australia. The match was organised to coincide with the Melbourne centenary celebrations in September 1934. His challengers were McConachy and Davis. Lindrum won this title, but in subsequent years the title became dormant for lack of challengers, until Lindrum relinquished it in 1951 to McConachy who held it until 1968.
During World War II, he raised over $1 million for charity, mainly through staging nearly 4000 exhibition matches throughout Australia.
A few of his many records included the world speed record, set in June 1927, when he scored 816 in 23 minutes in an unfinished break.
In Manchester 1930, Lindrum set a record aggregate of 30,817 during the fortnight (48 hrs) match against Willie Smith. In this match he made ten breaks over 1000 with a highest of 2419. In his final match of the tour against Smith in London, Lindrum’s performance set numerous records: the highest individual aggregate (36,256), the largest winning margin (21,285), a record match average (262), and a record number of four-figure breaks (11). Smith, although beaten, had played exceptionally with an average of 109 per innings for the match.
His record break of 4137 was made in a match he lost against Davis at Thurston Hall, London on January 19, 1932. Lindrum occupied the table for 2 hours 55 minutes, for about 1900 consecutive scoring shots. He also holds the record break for each country that he played in, the fastest century break (46 seconds) and 1011 points in 30 minutes. In 1933 on a tour to South Africa Lindrum claimed a new world record for fast scoring when he completed 1000 points in 28 minutes in Johannesburg. Many of his results brought on changes to the rules of the game.
- Lindrum was made an Officer of the British Empire (OBE) in 1958 for his services to billiards and charities and was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM).
- He is buried in Melbourne General Cemetery where it remains the most visited grave.
How good was he?
Walter Lindrum was the World Professional Billiards Champion for 4 consecutive years (1929-1933), and so dominated the sport that they changed the rules in an attempt to curb his dominance. One critic Neville Cardus even referred to Bradman as “the Lindrum of cricket”. In June 1927 in Melbourne he claimed a world speed record when he scored 816 points in 23 minutes in an unfinished break. | history |
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Flanders Fire Company No. 1 and Rescue Squad
Entering the Flanders Firehouse through the front door, the visitor must decide whether to go left or right. To the right is the ambulance/ rescue bay. There you’ll find two modern, fully equipped rigs, both carrying the most advanced diagnostic and first aid electronics available. In addition to this bay, our jack-of-all-trades, a rescue vehicle that is equipped with the Jaws of Life and other rescue essentials tools. To the left you will find the fire bay. A brush truck, one pumper, a 95' tower truck and a utility van. Along both walls, running the length of the entire fire bay, is the turnout gear worn by the members of the Flanders Fire Company Number 1 and Rescue Squad. All in all, more then a million dollars worth of state of the art fire and first aid equipment operated and maintained by a dedicated team of volunteers. As we enter the new millennium, it’s worth remembering that it all began with seven men in a chicken coup.
Since December 17, 1760, when Jazeb Heaton of Roxbury purchased the land for what was to become Flanders from one William Allen of Philadelphia, many significant milestones have marked he history of our community. By 1810, Flanders was connected by Pike Road to Morristown, Easton and cities as distant as Boston. A post Office was established as far back as 1822. For the period of 1827 to 1859, the agricultural economy was augmented by logging, mines, and mills and at some point the railroad that was put through the town. The first bank was established in nearby Netcong on February 3, 1903. In 1921, Mount Olive hired its first constable. Flanders was, by this point, a prosperous and growing community with churches, stores, mills, and businesses. To go along with the houses clustered along Main Street, there were also between 70 and 100 farms in the area.
By 1922 the post office had become a popular local meeting place. Residents would gather here to await the daily mail delivery and to talk over things in general, as well as catch up on town gossip. It was during one of these sessions that the subject of a fire company was raised. Up to this point if you had a fire, the best you could hope for would be a "bucket brigade" made up of your neighbors. But on June 8, 1923, seven residents officially established Flanders Fire Company Number 1. They were Howard and Ed McLaughlin, William Marvin, E.C. Ted Ashley, George Ericson, Watson McPeek, and Augustus Stark. Ed McLaughlin was named Chief and meetings were, at one point, held by the light of oil lamps in Ed’s chicken coup. Eventually Ed’s barn was used to store the company’s meager equipment and his house served as headquarters. Please bear in mind that electricity in Flanders was still two years away.
1923 saw the first firetruck brought to town. It was a "Brockway Torpedo" converted from a chemical car into a water carrier. It went into Ed McLaughlin’s barn. By now a fire alarm of sorts had been installed. The rim of a steam engine’s wheel was hung up on Main Street and a sledgehammer was used to strike it when help was needed. You can still see it today, right in front of the present Flanders Firehouse. In the late 20’s, with the coming of electricity, a siren replaced this rather basic alarm. By 1968 each volunteer had a radio receiver for home use, and these have been supplemented over the last decade with belt-worn pagers.
By 1928 the Fire Company was expanding, but still without a firehouse. Luckily, with the completion of the "new" Flanders School on Main Street, the old one-room schoolhouse opposite became vacant and was made available to the Company. Originally built in 1855, the firemen remodeled the entire structure, created an engine bay, and added a garage door in front. Flanders Firehouse was dedicated in 1931. An expansion was carried out in 1961 and in late 1969 two engine bays were constructed, as an addition to the existing structure.
In 1996 the house and property adjacent to the firehouse were acquired. The existing home was razed and site preparation had begun. An ambitious addition was planned to begin construction in 2000 that would desperately add needed space for equipment and offices. A classroom of sorts was part of the long-range plan for the interior, and we hope that after an absence of 70 years, the old Flanders Schoolhouse will once again be holding classes. Although there have been many changes over the years, this venerable one hundred year old school is still visible as the centerpiece of the Flanders Firehouse and will remain so in the future.
In 1936, the township bought a Dodge pumper to replace the old "Torpedo." Interestingly, the new vehicle was scheduled to be delivered on June 6th, which happened to be a Sunday. Local church groups wrote a resolution forbidding the firemen to inspect the truck on the Sabbath. But can you really keep firemen away from a shinny new firetruck? They took delivery and, we suppose, did their penance. The dodge was replaced in 1952.
In 1938 a group of nine women decided that the time had come for a Ladies Auxiliary to be formed in order to aid the firemen. They elected Hazel Tinc as Chairwomen, with Mrs. Erickson as her assistant. Ruth Gray served as Secretary and Ruth Clawson was the first Treasurer. Their first official act was to solicit food donations from the local farms in order to prepare and serve chicken dinner to the members of the Fire Company. During the Second World War the Ladies Auxiliary went to bat for the men with a local Rationing Board to petition for extra sugar for use at the firehouse.
The Ladies are a welcome sight when performing their most important function – providing drinks and, hot and cold, and food at fire scenes. They are an important part of the emergency services of Flanders, and we are grateful for their support.
Through the pre-war years the town of Flanders grew in size and the Fire Company grew apace. New equipment was added at regular intervals and old pieces retired. It was decided in the early 40’s that a rescue squad should also be added to the Fire Company. By 1942 the company operated two engines and a rescue truck. In 1950 the rescue duties were officially recognized and Rescue Squad was added to the company’s name. Randolph Township donated an ambulance, known as a "cheesebox" due to its shape, to Flanders. This was replaced in 1951 by a 1949 Studebaker, which in turn was replaced by a blue Cadillac in 1958.
Fundraising has always been a big part of the life of both the Fire Company and the Ladies Auxiliary. The firemen used to hold ham shoots, went door to door, and for many years, ran a highway fund drive on Route 206. A mail solicitation is now the most important source of funds for the firehouse. The Ladies have held dinners, craft shows, and tricky trays to generate income. Ultimately, we depend on the people we serve to help us meet our expenses, and in this way we haven’t been disappointed over the years. The Fire Company lends its financial support to other charitable organizations and the Ladies Auxiliary has established a scholarship for graduates of Mount Olive High School as well as making annual contributions to the Ronald McDonald House.
Our present company of approximately 50 members now includes female firefighters and rescue personnel, as well as junior member under the 18 years old. Everyone is either a trained firefighter by virtue of attendance at the Morris County Fire Academy, or is an Emergency Medical Technician or First Responder.
Our basic fire fighting duties have been expanded to include public education, hazardous materials, motor vehicle accidents, extrication, and carbon monoxide alarms. The First Aid Squad must cope with an ever expanding, changeable, and potentially dangerous medical environment. Equipment has kept up a steady pace of increasing specialization, sophistication, maintenance, and expense. Training is done year round.
How all this would sound to the original seven members of our company as they gathered in the glow of an oil lamp is anyone guess. But beyond the mechanics of the job, there are some things that remain constant. The desire to help people – the dedication and commitment required to serve as a volunteer firefighter and first-aider, the adrenaline rush as the alarm sounds and the big engines roar from the bays, these things our founders would recognize today. And whether you are climbing on the back step of the Brockway Torpedo in a leather helmet or strapping on a self-contained breathing apparatus in the air-conditioned box of a state of the art rescue truck, the purpose is constant, the resolve is timeless, and the imperative to save lives and property while keeping yourselves and your partners safe is the same as it ever was. | history |
http://exposiciones.fundacionmapfre.org/exposiciones/en/josefkoudelka/presentation/ | 2019-05-22T15:55:09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232256858.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20190522143218-20190522165218-00134.warc.gz | 0.980823 | 472 | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-22__0__109174916 | en | In the mid-1950s, when a new youth culture characterised by an open mindset was beginning to emerge in Czechoslovakia following the death of the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and after two decades of brutal repression, Josef Koudelka (born in Czechoslovakia in 1938 and nationalised French) left his village in Moravia and moved to the capital, Prague. An aeronautical engineer by training, Koudelka became very actively involved in photography in the mid-1960s, contributing to the creative renaissance that took place in his native country.
Koudelka not only immortalised these years with his camera but also embodied them. He spent lengthy periods in gypsy encampments in Slovakia, he compulsively photographed actors during play rehearsals, and he mingled with demonstrators and soldiers in August 1968 in order to capture the invasion of Prague by the Soviet troops. When Koudelka went into exile shortly afterwardshe acquired the official status of “nationality doubtful”, becoming a stateless person as he was unable to produce documentation proving that he was born in Czechoslovakia. He refused to be intimidated by this situation, however, and continued to travel and take photographs, allowing gypsy communities and traditional and religious festivals to decide his destinations.
Koudelka settled in Paris in the 1980s and after the fall of Communism returned to Prague in 1990 where he now has a second home. Nonetheless, he continues to be a traveller, committed over the past twenty-five years to the creation of panoramic photographs that depict landscapes around the world which have been altered and often devastated by the hand of man.
This exhibition encompasses Josef Koudelka’s entire career, spanning more than five decades of work. The comprehensive selection of images on display includes his first experimental projects of the 1950s and 1960s and his historic series Gypsies, Invasion and Exiles, concluding with the great panoramic landscapes of recent years. In addition, visitors will see important documentary material, most of it previously unpublished and including layouts, leaflets and magazines of the period which contribute to a deeper understanding of this artist’s work and creative process.
The exhibition has been organized by the Art Institute de Chicago and the J. Paul Getty Museum in association with Fundación MAPFRE. | history |
https://www.nnlabs.org/ada-lovelace-the-first-computer-programmer-and-visionary/ | 2024-04-24T13:27:06 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296819273.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424112049-20240424142049-00496.warc.gz | 0.980284 | 557 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__93719274 | en | Ada Lovelace is widely regarded as the world’s first computer programmer, and her contributions to the field of computing have had a lasting impact. Born in London in 1815, Lovelace was a mathematician, writer, and visionary who saw the potential of computers beyond just number crunching. Her work on Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine, a mechanical general-purpose computer, cemented her place in history as a pioneering figure in the field of computer science.
The Analytical Engine was designed by Babbage as a machine that could perform any calculation that could be expressed in mathematical terms. Lovelace became interested in Babbage’s work and was soon collaborating with him on the project. She wrote the first algorithm intended to be processed by the Analytical Engine, and is credited with being the first to understand the full potential of computers beyond just number crunching.
Lovelace’s algorithm was intended to calculate Bernoulli numbers, a sequence of numbers that had important applications in mathematics and physics. But her work on the algorithm went far beyond just writing code. She wrote extensively about the potential of the Analytical Engine and the impact it could have on society, and she envisioned a future where machines could be used to create art and music, as well as perform mathematical calculations.
Lovelace’s algorithm was stored on punched cards, which were used to input data and instructions into the Analytical Engine. This was a common method of data storage and processing at the time, and was used by many early computers. It is not known if Lovelace used an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) or any other software tool to write her algorithm, as these tools did not exist at the time.
Lovelace’s work on the Analytical Engine was ahead of its time and was not widely recognized for many years. However, her contributions to the field of computer science have been rediscovered in recent years, and she is now widely regarded as a pioneering figure in the field. Her writings on the potential of computers and her insights into the role that algorithms could play in shaping the future have had a lasting impact, and she is remembered today as an important figure in the history of computing.
In conclusion, Ada Lovelace’s contributions to the field of computer science have been truly groundbreaking. Her work on Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine, and her insight into the potential of computers beyond just number crunching, has had a lasting impact on the field and has helped to shape the future of computing. Today, Lovelace’s legacy continues to inspire and influence computer scientists and technologists, and she is remembered as a pioneering figure in the history of computing. | history |
https://backyardbotanics.co.uk/2018/01/paradise-gardens-uzbekistan/ | 2024-02-22T22:00:07 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473824.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20240222193722-20240222223722-00633.warc.gz | 0.970196 | 2,245 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__30327932 | en | The story of how the Mughal gardens were born in Uzbekistan.
In his recent TV series Monty Don’s Paradise Gardens, Monty showed us the great Islamic gardens of Iran, Spain, Turkey and India, but you may have been left wondering how a Persian style of gardens found its way to India. I was lucky enough to visit the beautiful country of Uzbekistan ten years ago, and was delighted to discover that the country was the setting for the refinement of Paradise gardens and their development into the famous Mughal garden style surviving today at the Taj Mahal and other sites in India, visited by Monty in the second episode. This blog describes the gap in the story provided by medieval Uzbekistan gardens.
In the first episode, Monty took us to the excavated remains of the earliest surviving Paradise garden: that of Cyrus the Great at Pasargadae. The Persian empire founded by Cyrus (known as the Achaemenid Empire, 550-330BC) extended into modern-day Uzbekistan (a region known as Transoxiana, ‘the land beyond the river Oxus’), as did the later Sassanian Empire (224-651AD) which saw a great renaissance of Persian culture.
Achaemenid palaces were built in a similar style throughout the empire, and the Greeks described the palaces as having a pairadaeza thickly planted with many kinds of trees in orderly rows, with aromatic shrubs between them, and beautiful, well-watered gardens. It seems likely that such gardens existed in Transoxiana at this time.
The mains cities of Transoxiana were Samarkand and Bukhara, names resonant with romantic legend and occupying important positions on the Silk Road. Under the Sassanian Empire, it became a great cultural and scientific centre.
The province was known as Sogdia, and the cultured Sogdians were keen gardeners as well as talented merchants. As well as trading precious metals, spices and cloth along the silk road, the Sogdians introduced central Asian horticulture to China, and introduced plants such as the peony from China to gardens in Samarkand. Sogdia is commemorated in a number of plant species, including Tulipa sogdiana.
Following the Muslim conquest of Transoxiana in the early 7th century, Samarkand and Bukhara continued to be centres of learning, and the Persian heritage and culture of the Sogdians played an important part in the evolution of Islamic art and architecture in the region, as well as gardens.
The tenth-century AD Iranian author Istakhri, who travelled in Transoxiana, describes the natural riches of the region he calls “Smarkandian Sogd”:
I know no place in it or in Samarkand itself where if one ascends some elevated ground one does not see greenery and a pleasant place….Samakandian Sogd…[extends] eight days travel through unbroken greenery and gardens….The greenery of the trees and sown land extends along both sides of the river [Sogd]…and beyond these fields is pasture for flocks….It is the most fruitful of all the countries of Allah; in it are the best trees and fruits, in every home are gardens, cisterns and flowing water…
Little remains of the architecture of this time, due to the destruction wrought when Genghis Khan invaded the area in 1220, but Samarkand was rebuilt as a great city by the conqueror and founder of the Timurid empire, Timur (also known as Tamerlane, 1336-1405), from the 1370s.
Timur was undoubtedly a ruthless warrior, responsible for thousands of deaths, but in later life he took up gardening (or, at least, garden-building) on a grand scale, bringing in the master builders and architects of Persia. As Elizabeth Moynihan says “it is one of history’s quirks that such a brutal warrior was so important in the history of a great garden tradition and was the ancestor of men who attained such high artistic achievement: the Timurids of Persia and Mughals of India”.
By 1400 Samarkand was famous for its gardens which ringed the city. Timur lived in the splendid gardens he built at Samarkand, moving between them, and while he was away on campaign, according to a contemporary account “the citizens, rich and poor, went to walk therin and found no retreat more wonderful or beautiful than those and no resting place more agreeable and secure; and its sweetest fruits were common to all“.
None of the Timurid gardens survive today, but they are described in miniature paintings of the Timurid period and in several contemporary accounts, most famously the Spanish Ambassador Ruy Gonzales de Clavijo who was sent by the King of Spain to visit Timur at Samarkand in 1403, where he was received in the Garden of Heart’s Ease:
“We found Timur and he was seated under what might be called a portal which was before the entrance of a most beautiful palace that appeared in the background. He was sitting on the ground, but upon a raised dais before which there was a fountain that threw up a column of water into the air backwards, and in the basin of the fountain there were floating red apples. His Highness had taken his place on silk cloth, and was leaning on his elbow against some round cushions that were heaped up behind him.”
Clavijo also describes the Bagh-I Naw, or New Gardens:
“This orchard was surrounded by a high wall, four square, enclosing it and at each of the four corners was a very lofty round tower, and the enclosing wall going from tower to tower was very high, and built as strong as the work of the tower. This orchard at its centre had a great palace, built on the plan of a cross, and a very large water-tank had been dug before it. This palace with its large garden was much the finest of any that we had visited hitherto, and in its ornamentation of its buildings in the gold and blue tile work far the most sumptuous.”
and the vast royal chaharbagh where they were housed some distance outside the city and approached through a vineyard, its wall bordered by shade trees:
“a full league round and within it is full of fruit trees of all kinds save only limes and citron-trees which we noticed to be lacking” [the winters being too cold in Samarkand for citrus to survive].
According to Wilber, the main characteristics of the Timurid gardens were:
- the enclosure within high walls
- the division of the enclosed areas into quarters
- the use of a main axis of water
- the location of a palace or pavilion at the centre of the area
- the choice of natural slope of the creation of an artificial hill in order to ensure the proper flow of water
- a mixture of utilitarian vineyard or orchard with the pleasure garden
- occupying a very large area
- the magnificent portals decorated with blue and gold tiles
In the century after Timur’s death, the politics and power of the Timurids moved to Herat in Afghanistan, where a number of gardens were built under the rule of Husayn Bayqara, including the Bagh-I Jahan Ara or Garden of the World Adorned, covering over 100 acres and featuring a palace, pools and masses of red tulips and roses. A remarkable agricultural manual exists from this time, which describes the garden tradition practised in Herat by the later Timurids. They are similar to Timur’s gardens, except the pavilion is placed at one end of a rectangular enclosure, looking out to the formal fourt-part garden: an arrangement found in Moghul gardens such as the Taj Mahal.
Eventually the Timurid empire split into many separate kingdoms. A descendant of Timur called Zahirud din Muhammad Babur (usually known simply as Babur) won the throne of one such province and in 1504 he conquered Kabul. A long-time admirer of the gardens of Samarkand and Herat (described in detail in his memoir), he set about beautifying Kabul with gardens, along the same lines.
The Gardeners of Kabul is a beautiful film telling the story of Babur and the Bagh-i Babur in Kabul where he is buried and how a love of gardens and gardening still exists in the city.
In 1508 Babur founded the Bagh-iVafa, or Garden of Fidelity, in Kabul which he describes: “Its grass plots were all covered with clover, its pomegranate trees were entirely of a beautiful yellow colour. It was then the pomegranate season and the pomegranates were hanging red on the trees. The orange trees were green and cheerful, loaded with innumerable oranges. I was never so pleased with the Bagh-iVafa as on this occasion.
By this time, the power of the Uzbeks in Central Asia was growing, so Babur looked to north India for land to conquer, and in 1526 he founded the Mughal Empire there. The garden style of the Timurids was to have a huge influence on later Mughal gardens. As Lisa Golombek puts it “The diversity in Mughal gardens reflects the diversity in the Timurid models, available to the Mughals in eye-witness reports, descriptions in the chronicles and agricultural manuals, and manuscript illustrations. The Mughals venerated their Timurid ancestors and sought inspiration from Timurid culture. When the Mughals wished to emphasise their decent from Timur, they chose freely from the full menu of artistic traditions developed over the entire Timurid century. The garden was where the descendants got in touch with their noble ancestry and their fantasies about Timur’s nomadic lifestyle.”
The chaharbagh, the Timurid formal garden, was not a Timurid invention: the concept of a walled, four-part garden containing a pavilion was an ancient one going back to Sassanian and even Achaeminid times. But the Timurids adapted and perfected it to perhaps the highest degree.
Golombek, L. (1995). The Gardens of Timur: New Perspectives. Maqarnas Vol. 12 pp. 137-146.
Moynihan, E. Paradise as a garden in Persia and Mughal India.1979.
Wilber, D.N. Persian gardens and garden pavilions. 1979. | history |
https://wisperisp.com/wisper-supports-honor-flight/ | 2022-10-06T04:50:52 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030337723.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20221006025949-20221006055949-00162.warc.gz | 0.977067 | 1,532 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__189566928 | en | Thank You. Two insignificant words can be the most powerful anyone can hear.
This summer, Wisper Internet has sponsored two Honor Flights of military veterans to Washington D.C. to tour memorials to American conflicts, different branches of the armed forces, and other monuments to the founders and defenders of our nation.
Last weekend a group of 24 Vietnam veterans and one 91-year-old Korean War veteran from Franklin and surrounding Missouri counties took their Honor Flight to the nation’s capital.
Fifty years after their discharges from the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps, these vets finally received the thank you many of them said they never received when they came home after their tours overseas.
As Wisper’s Public Relations and Advocacy Specialist, I was unbelievably lucky to accompany a veteran on this flight and serve as his “guardian” for the whirlwind 36 hours in Washington D.C.
We arrived at Lambert Airport at 5:30 a.m. Saturday morning and after a greeting from USO volunteers we made our way through security to our terminal for breakfast. We were on the plane and in the air around 8:30.
We exited our plane at Reagan National Airport to cheering travelers in the terminal and a high school band, football team, and cheerleaders lining the hallway from the terminal to the front doors before boarding our charter bus to lunch. At this early point in the trip, the vets and guardians were already forming friendships and the vets were exchanging stories from their experiences in Vietnam, which ranged from being a payroll clerk to flying nukes in a B-52 bomber.
While at lunch, I got the first indication that this trip was going to be incredibly special for the vets and the guardians as well. I quickly discovered the vets were eager to share their stories, which in many cases had never had anyone ask to hear them. Even more powerful was hearing the vets talk to each other and connect on their shared experiences both good and bad.
After lunch, our group of about 55 people headed to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Chantilly, Virginia. A couple of hours were spent here giving the vets a chance to see aircraft they had flown in while in the service. This was also a fantastic opportunity for guardians to have a chance to get to know our new friends as well.
My vet was Rodney Norman, who served in Vietnam as a payroll clerk on a forward base. He lives in South St. Louis County and is retired after operating a residential garage door business for many years.
We departed the museum and headed to the Air Force Memorial for dinner and a wonderful view of the Pentagon. After some time at the memorial, our next destination was the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial and a quick view of the Dr. Martin Luther King Memorial. The highlight of the evening was our visit to the National Mall to view the nightly illuminations of the World War 2, Vietnam and Korean War, and Lincoln memorials.
Finally, the hotel and bed at 10 p.m. for a few hours of rest before a packed Sunday, starting with breakfast at 6:30 a.m.
Day two began with a visit to and up into the Washington Monument. At this point in the trip the vets and the guardians were forming friendships and a comfort level with each other, and the times spent in lines and on the bus became filled with laughter, jokes, and some ribbing of the Marine vets by the other branches.
Having focused on the Korean War Memorial the previous night, Rodney and I took this opportunity to visit the very somber Vietnam Memorial Wall. While there we located the name of a childhood friend of his who was killed in action which was engraved in its enduring place of honor.
We then made out way over to the Lincoln Memorial and found several of the others from our group taking pictures and referencing historic events that had occurred on the steps where we were standing and a few famous movie scenes as well.
Although Rodney had visited the sites before, he commented that when you are there it is hard to take it all in, because it seems like you are in a movie or a textbook. We boarded the bus from the Lincon Memorial and made a quick drive past the Capital building to the National Navy Memorial and museum on Pennsylvania Avenue, just a few blocks from the White House.
After a private lunch and tour of the Navy Museum, we headed to the Pentagon to view the 9/11 Memorial to the 184 souls who lost their lives at that location during the terrorist attack on our nation 21 years ago.
The simple memorial features winged-shaped benches and flowing water beneath each. Fifty-nine benches are situated facing the Pentagon to represent the victims of Flight 77. An additional 125 benches are facing outward from the impact point to honor those who were killed in the Pentagon.
In keeping with somber remembrances, our next and probably most poignant stop on the trip for the veterans was a visit to Arlington National Cemetery and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. While here, the vets witnessed a changing of the guard ceremony at the tomb and they received a fitting, secret nod from the soldiers of the Old Guard while performing their duties. As the sergeant at arms is entering the tomb area, he drags the toe of his boots (equipped with metal taps) on the ground while walking past the vets as a tribute to their service, an extremely high honor.
Despite the gravitas of the ceremony and location, the vets’ spirits were high after being surrounded by their honored servicemembers in a very sacred place to our military and the country. We boarded the bus one last time and after circling the Iwo Jima Memorial honoring the Marine Corps and the raising of the American flag over Mt. Suribachi in 1945, we headed to the airport for the flight home.
On the trip home, the vets received yet another surprise, which is a tradition in the military and for all Honor Flights. As you may guess, while serving anywhere away from home, letters and pictures from home are welcome and craved. Long before the trip when guardians are meeting with their vets, they receive contact info for their families to have them write letters to the vets for their Mail Call on the plane home.
Once the Honor Flight arrived home in St. Louis about 9 p.m. Sunday night, the vets received a color guard escort down a corridor of a hundred flag-waving volunteers welcoming them home. This was followed by a surprise ceremony where each vet was recognized by family and friends and given a certificate and saluted by Navy JROTC cadets. There was not a dry eye in the room.
Since its inception in 2007, Franklin County Honor Flight has sponsored 2,000 local vets for trips just like these. The men and women who volunteer for these flights to honor veterans cannot be acknowledged enough for what they do. Two of the team captains on this flight have been on more than 30 flights over the years.
On a personal note, I want to say this was easily one of the most powerful, inspiring, and humbling experiences of my life. Being with all these amazing veterans and guardians for those 36 hours will never leave my memory.
Thank you to everyone and to Wisper for allowing me to honor these veterans and have this experience in my life’s memories. I certainly have a new and deeper regard for the men and women who left their everyday lives to fight in a far-off country to ensure the liberties we all enjoy today. | history |
https://www.iowauna.org/post/the-united-nations-relief-and-reconstruction-work-in-finland-after-world-war-ii | 2024-02-21T10:33:50 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473472.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20240221102433-20240221132433-00867.warc.gz | 0.95577 | 1,334 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__109510491 | en | The UN’s Relief and Reconstruction Work in Finland after World War II By Debra DeLaet (Executive Director, Iowa United Nations Association)
I recently spent a month as a visiting researcher at the Tampere Peace Research Institute (TAPRI) in Finland. TAPRI is an international research center focused on examining the causes of war, the non-violent resolution of conflicts, and the conditions for peace. My time at TAPRI gave me the opportunity to learn more about Nordic perspectives on peace. I also had opportunities to learn about Finland’s experience in World War II, including the important role the United Nations played in helping to rebuild Finland in the aftermath of the war.
An unexpected discovery in Lapland, the northernmost region of Finland, highlighted the lasting influence of the United Nations in the region. We stopped at Santa Claus Village, a popular tourist destination in Lapland, to walk across the Arctic Circle, which runs through the resort. As we were walking towards the Arctic Circle marker, we walked by an unassuming wood cottage. I almost didn’t notice the signage above the door describing the building as the Roosevelt Cottage.
Roosevelt Cottage, also known as the Arctic Circle Cabin, was built with funds from the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), a UN body that provided critical aid, including food, clothing, shelter, and medicine, to countries that had been devastated by World War II. UNRRA also helped coordinate the repatriation of millions of displaced people and refugees after the war. Notably, UNRRA was established in 1943 both before the official end of the war and prior to the formal establishment of the UN in 1945. This example shows the centrality of humanitarian aid and peacebuilding as cornerstones of the UN system that emerged after World War II. The UNRRA was disbanded in 1947 and ultimately replaced by other UN bodies, including International Refugee Organization (later succeeded by UN High Commissioner for Refugees), the World Health Organization, and the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF, now known as the UN Children’s Fund) that took up various aspects of its critical work.
The history of Roosevelt Cottage sheds light on the broader history of the important role the UN played in reconstructing Europe after World War II. The cottage is just outside of Rovaniemi, the capital of Lapland. This city was devastated by World War II. It had been occupied by the German army, which destroyed most of the city’s buildings and infrastructure when it withdrew in October 1944. The German army also placed deadly mines in the forests surrounding the city. (On hikes through the gorgeous Lapland forest, you can still encounter signs noting the historic presence of militarization in the area.) The UNRRA played a critical role in the reconstruction of Rovaniemi and in the removal of landmines from the Lapland region.
As a goodwill ambassador for the UN, Eleanor Roosevelt travelled to Rovaniemi in June 1950 to monitor UNRRA’s reconstruction work. In preparation for this visit, Uuno Hannula, the governor of Lapland, facilitated the building of the cottage on the Arctic Circle to honor Mrs. Roosevelt at the reception for her visit. The building of the Roosevelt Cottage served as a symbol for the broader goal of reconstructing the Lapland region. Fittingly, it is now on the site of a popular tourist destination, with tourism being one of the driving forces of postwar economic recovery in Lapland. Rovaniemi has been rebuilt and is the administrative and commercial center of a now-thriving region.
The story of the UNRRA’s work in Finland is part of a larger story of the role that the United Nations played in rebuilding Europe after World War II. Caught between major powers, Finland shifted its alliances over the course of the war. Initially, the Finnish government actually allied itself with Nazi Germany during the war, partly to regain territories it had lost to the USSR during the Winter War (1939-40) between the Soviet Union and Finland. In 1944, a new Finnish government secretly negotiated a peace agreement with the Soviet Union that led to the Lapland War between Finland and Germany in 1944-1945. Throughout the timespan of the World War, Finnish citizens fought on both sides of the conflict. The effects of the war were devastating for Finland. Roughly 86,000 Finnish citizens died during the war. Approximately 500,000 Finns became refugees during the war. Countless homes and public buildings were destroyed. The UNRRA played an essential role in reconstructing the country. In 1955, Finland joined the United Nations.
Finland is a parliamentary democracy that has become a global political leader. Martti Ahtisaari, Finland’s President from 1994-2000, has been a prominent diplomat and mediator for the UN who played a lead role in UN initiatives that helped resolve violent conflicts in Namibia, Indonesia, Kosovo, Serbia, and Iraq. He received a Nobel Peace Prize for his work. Finland also has emerged as a leader on many indicators of human development. Finland ranks very high on the Human Development Index (HDI), a composite indicator developed by the UN Development Program, which measures a country’s achievement in three areas: life expectancy, educational attainment, and standard of living. In recent decades, human development trends in Finland have steadily risen, and Finland has been consistently among the countries with the highest rankings on the HDI. The UN played a critical role in helping the country move from the devastation of World War II to one of the most highly developed countries in the world today.
The tiny Roosevelt Cottage at a tourist destination on the Arctic Circle in Lapland reflects a rich history of the role of the United Nations in postwar reconstruction in Europe after World War II. The UNRRA was essential to rebuilding Finland. It helped by providing humanitarian aid, resettling refugees, and reconstructing cities. The UNRRA and its successor UN bodies helped to usher in an era of peace and prosperity throughout Europe.
In subsequent decades, the UN has continued its lifesaving work across the globe. A range of UN bodies, including by UN High Commissioner for Refugees, the World Health Organization, and the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, carry on the historic work of the UNRRA by providing essential humanitarian aid to populations in conflict zones and helping to create the conditions for peace in war-torn countries. | history |
https://www.frato.com/journal/around-the-world-italy | 2024-04-25T04:23:20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712297284704.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20240425032156-20240425062156-00219.warc.gz | 0.908696 | 459 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__192353588 | en | Embark on a captivating journey through Italy's vibrant heartlands, where each city unfolds like a chapter in an enchanting storybook, brimming with culture, history, and breathtaking beauty. Our tour begins in Milan, the pulsating metropolis known for its dazzling fashion scene and the majestic Duomo, a masterpiece of Gothic architecture. Here, the blend of modern innovation and ancient history creates a dynamic atmosphere, inviting you to explore its chic boutiques, stunning museums, and the vibrant Navigli district, alive with charming cafes and the spirit of Leonardo da Vinci.
The adventure continues south to Bari, a gem on the Adriatic coast, where the scent of olive oil and sea air mingle in the ancient streets. The Basilica di San Nicola, a pilgrimage site, stands as a testament to the city's rich religious heritage, while the bustling fish market offers a taste of local life. Heading into the heart of Tuscany, Siena welcomes you with its medieval brick buildings and the famous Piazza del Campo, known for the thrilling Palio horse race. The city's deep sense of community and its exquisite cuisine provide a warm embrace of traditional Italian culture.
Our journey then sweeps us to the northwestern elegance of Turin, a city of royal heritage and baroque splendour. The Mole Antonelliana towers over the cityscape, housing the intriguing National Cinema Museum. Turin's regal avenues and cozy cafes serve as perfect spots to savour a bicerin, the local chocolate and coffee delicacy, offering a moment of delight between exploring its numerous palaces and gardens.
Finally, Venice, the Queen of the Adriatic, calls us with its siren song, inviting us to lose ourselves in its labyrinth of canals, bridges, and ethereal beauty. Gliding through its waterways on a gondola, the magnificent palazzos and the serene St. Mark's Square appear as a dreamscape, where art and water have danced together for centuries. Each sunset here paints the sky and water in hues of gold and rose, a perfect backdrop to conclude our tour, leaving us with memories of Italy's timeless charm and the endless stories nestled in the heart of each city. | history |
http://bentarrow.ca/programs-and-services/culture/soup-bannock/ | 2018-01-24T03:36:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084893300.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20180124030651-20180124050651-00349.warc.gz | 0.960175 | 303 | CC-MAIN-2018-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-05__0__6582045 | en | There is a monthly soup and bannock at Bent Arrow. And everyone is welcome! Visit our Facebook Page for more information! Bent Arrow Traditional Healing Society Facebook Page
What is bannock?
Bannock, also known as frybread, skaan/scone or Indian bread, is found throughout North American native cuisine, including that of the Inuit/Eskimo of Canada and Alaska, other Alaska Natives, the First Nations of the rest of Canada, the Native Americans in the United States and the Métis. Today, bannock is a growing culinary trend across Canada with non-aboriginal people.
As made by indigenous North Americans, bannock is generally prepared with white or whole wheat flour, baking powder and water, which are combined and kneaded (possibly with spices, dried fruits or other flavouring agents added) then fried in rendered fat, vegetable oil, or shortening, baked in an oven or cooked on a stick.
A type of bannock, using available resources, such as flour made from roots, tree sap and leavening agents, may have been produced by indigenous North Americans prior to contact with outsiders. Some sources indicate that bannock was unknown in North America until the 1860s when it was created by the Navajo who were incarcerated at Fort Sumner, while others indicate that it came from a Scottish source.
Information from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bannock_(food) | history |
https://www.vpis.org/about-us/vpis-history/ | 2024-02-28T09:23:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474700.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20240228080245-20240228110245-00453.warc.gz | 0.93321 | 703 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__25476590 | en | The Society was founded in 1885 as the Village Improvement Society of Falls Church. It was one of hundreds of such societies around the country modeled after the famous Laurel Hill Association of Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
The Society’s early objectives were to improve and ornament the streets of Falls Church by planting and cultivating trees, cleaning and repairing the sidewalks, and carrying out other acts to beautify and benefit the culture and prosperity of the village. The Society planted the street trees we see in historic photos, built the first sidewalks, and organized parades and the town-wide July 4th celebrations with baseball and ice cream socials. It helped to start the first library in Falls Church and initiated the first Arbor Day in Virginia (1892).
The Society was renamed in 1923 as the Falls Church Citizens Association and, after a few decades of intermittent activity, it was reestablished in 1965 as the Falls Church Village Preservation and Improvement Society (VPIS).
Over the past several decades, the Society:
- Led the effort to create a streetscape design for Broad Street that led to wide brick sidewalks with street trees and plantings;
- Initiated the Excellence in Design Awards, providing plaques for development of homes, buildings, and gardens that are high quality and in keeping with the community character;
- Led the effort to improve the recognition of the City with appropriate entrance signs and plantings, providing the visual standard of quality and avoiding visual clutter;
- Developed a program of live music with the home concert series in the winter and the music in the park in summer;
- Developed the Neighborhood Tree Program in partnership with the City to increase canopy cover with trees on public or private property:
- Actively sponsored the development of Watch Night, the City’s New Year’s Eve celebration, and major sponsor since its inception in 1998;
- Developed and operated the Attic Treasures Sale to encourage reuse of household items, recycling and raise funds for community projects;
- Led walking tours of the neighborhoods and sponsored history symposiums to increase the knowledge of local history; and
- Encouraged civic engagement with public sessions to shape the City’s Comprehensive Plan and local ordinances.
Today, the Society is actively implementing diverse projects to protect and improve the City of Falls Church. Some key activities include:
- Sponsoring and managing the free Summer Concerts Series in Cherry Hill Park;
- Operating the Neighborhood Tree Program that plants trees around the community;
- Managing the RainSmart Program to reduce stormwater runoff and pollution by providing grants to residents for rain barrels and rain gardens;
- Providing ways for people to participate in the community life and recognize individual’s contributions;
- Encouraging the City to require that major new development projects meet environmental and architectural design standards and minimize the negative impact on residential neighborhoods;
- Improving the natural environment and beauty with gardens parks and plantings around the City;
- Working with other organizations, such as the League of Women Voters, to sponsor local candidate forums and meetings on topics of importance to the community;
- Sponsoring events to recognize the rich history of Falls Church and its connection to national history, such as the annual Independence Day Readings since 1984; and
- Supporting environmental education for citizens and students, such as the Operation EarthWatch Program.
The Society welcomes new members and donations: https://donorbox.org/vpis-membership. | history |
https://jmmc.co.uk/new-masjid-project/ | 2022-08-17T01:56:49 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00372.warc.gz | 0.97007 | 422 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__178870123 | en | The journey of Jamia Madina Masjid Colne began in 1980 where a small number of blessed individuals serving the muslim community of Colne decided to fulfil a communal obligation by establishing a masjid for the muslim community of Colne.
At the time, they decided to buy a terrace house on Boundary Street Colne which was converted into a masjid. The purchase was funded by the small muslim community of Colne. The majority of the renovation work was carried out by the blessed individuals working on this project during their spare time.
In 1990 as the muslim community was growing the masjid was relocated to Chapel Street, again a terrace house conversion. As the community grew even further and the demand for extra space grew the house next door to the masjid was purchased and the extended to where its at today.
The New Project
The former Parish Church which is a listed building was purchased for £150,000 in 2016 by the mosque committee. Funding for this purchase was exclusively through charitable donors from the local community.
The total cost of renovation of the new building is £400,000 for which we need your help and support to raise.
Refer to New Masjid Page for details on the necessity of why the new masjid is required and what the new masjid will be providing Insha’Allah.
The Muslim community in Colne is approximately 440 headcount (UK Office for National Statistics, 2011). This community is served solely by the Madina Mosque – there are no other registered mosques in Colne. The current Madina Mosque premises are based at 3-5 Chapel Street, Colne which was established in 1990 after the conversion of two gable end properties into one. The Muslim community of Colne now require a larger premise to provide sufficient accommodation to worshippers and students attending classes. Our intention is to move from the current location into a purpose-built site. The new site will provide the capacity to accommodate the local congregation and classes for male and female students. | history |
https://centralmarketing.com/about/ | 2024-03-03T02:59:29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947476180.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20240303011622-20240303041622-00221.warc.gz | 0.9727 | 157 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__210623064 | en | Sam Dinovo Sr. opened the Dinovo Fruit Company in 1913. A proud immigrant from Sicily, he built his company on quality, service and irreproachable ethics. Starting by peddling bananas to local neighborhood grocery stores, he soon was buying carloads of bananas and ripening them in his store front warehouse in Delaware, Ohio. With the end of World War II his six sons formed a new company, Dinovo Brothers, Inc., to more efficiently distribute produce to the many super-markets that were springing up throughout Ohio. With the state-of-the-art banana ripening rooms, coolers of various temperatures to handle all types of fresh fruit items and multiple docks, the brothers were well equipped to carry on their father’s tradition of quality and service. | history |
http://williamsvillecemetery.com/ | 2017-10-21T08:28:16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187824675.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20171021081004-20171021101004-00697.warc.gz | 0.94064 | 272 | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-43__0__284773492 | en | A centuries-old village cemetery... with space still available
At the Williamsville Cemetery and our sister cemeteries we recently changed our rules and regulations, and these changes may enable you to save a substantial amount of money on at-need or pre-need cremation burial space at any of our cemeteries. In fact, you may even be eligible for FREE burial space. Click here to learn more
Four decades before the historic Village of Williamsville was incorporated, some of the area’s first citizens began to use our land as a “Loving Family” burial ground. It’s easy to see why they chose this location, given the convenience of Main Street, combined with the natural beauty of our tree-covered landscape and gently rolling hills...
Today, Williamsville Cemetery is one of the best-maintained village cemeteries in Western New York – and one of the only such cemeteries that still has space available. The beautiful park-like grounds, filled with mature trees and 200-year-old monuments, offer options for both cremation as well as traditional burials. As you walk or drive through Williamsville Cemetery, you will quickly be enveloped in a rich sense of history, nostalgia and tranquility that you simply will not find anywhere else in Western New York. | history |
http://empa.ch/plugin/template/empa/1164/*/---/l=2 | 2013-06-19T05:21:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707906397/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123826-00044-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.959809 | 396 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__78809512 | en | The «Building materials test institute» started work in 1880 in the cellars of Zurich's polytechnical university, the forerunner of ETH Zurich. In its first years of activity, the new institute was involved in wide-ranging quality testing of building and structural materials for the Swiss National Exhibition of 1883.
Intensive research work by the co-founder and first director, Prof. Ludwig von Tetmajer, gave rise to the first publications on the testing and standardisation of building materials and metals. Tetmajer was also commissioned to investigate the cause of the collapse in 1891 of a railway bridge constructed by Gustav Eiffel at Münchenstein in Switzerland. His investigation of this collapse, which was at that time the largest railway disaster to have occurred in Europe, revealed that Euler's formula, which had hitherto been used to calculate such structures, needed to be corrected for slender bars.
Over the following years, the institute developed into a general purpose testing institute for the construction and mechanical engineering sectors. In 1928, the Swiss Federal Fuel Testing Institute was incorporated, as was, in 1937, the textile testing organisation «Swiss Test Institute, St. Gallen», which had been founded in 1885. The establishment was named the «Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research for Industry, Construction and Commerce» in 1938, but had already long been known by the acronym Empa.
Since 1988, Empa has focused less on materials testing and more on research and development; routine testing, which provides little scope for interdisciplinary synergy, now plays second fiddle to applied research and development.
In 1994, the takeover of a specialist section of the Armaments Services Group, which had previously carried out military materials testing, gave Empa a third site at Thun to augment its existing sites at Dübendorf and St. Gallen. Now, the workload of the Materials Technology Section at Thun is almost exclusively civilian. | history |
http://legalbants.com/the-afrobeats-legend-fela/ | 2020-07-09T01:08:06 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593655897844.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20200709002952-20200709032952-00559.warc.gz | 0.986355 | 831 | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-29__0__123911281 | en | Fela Anikulapo Kuti, born Olufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome-Kuti, 15th October 1938, was known professionally as Fela Kuti or Fela. He was known primarily as a Nigerian musician, singer, song writer and human rights activist.
- His mother, Chief Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti was feminist and activist in the anti-colonial movement and his Father, Reverend Israel Oludotun Ransome-Kuti was an Anglican Minister and school Principal, the first President of the Nigerian Union Of Teachers. Both of Fela’s brothers are well known Medical Doctors: Beko Ransome-Kuti, Dr Olukoye Ransome-Kuti. He is the first cousins to Wole Soyinka, the writer and African Nobel laureate.
- Fela married twenty seven (27) wives in one ceremony.
Education & Music
- He went to London in 1958 to study medicine but decided to study classical Music at Trinity College instead, his primary instrument being the trumpet. He played a fusion of highlife and jazz with his band at the time called Koola Lobitos.
- On his return to Nigeria in 1963, he trained as a radio producer in the Nigerian Broadcast Corporation and played for sometime with Victor Olaiya.
- It was in 1967 after a trip to Ghana that he birthed Afrobeats. Thereafter he spent ten (10) months in Los Angeles with his band, his music and politics was influenced primarily through Sandra Smith of the Black Power Movement, a partisan of the Black Panther.
- His band was named Afrika ’70, then Egypt ’80. The band concentrated more on social issues.
- In the 70’s, Fela started a Political party called ‘Movement Of The People’ in his ambition to become President of Nigeria-which he was denied candidature, he also started the Kalakuta Republic which was a studio for his musical works but more of a commune of people connected to the band, he later declared that Kalakuta Republic was independent from Nigeria.
- He later changed his name to Anikulapo with the interpretation ‘I will be the master of my own destiny and will decide when it’s time for death to take me’.
- He sang in pidgin because in his opinion, it was an easy way to connect with the people of Africa.
- His Zombie Album in 1977 (that described the methods of the Nigerian military as he parodied the military types) was kicked against and one thousand soldiers viciously attacked the the Kalakuta republic and almost beat Fela to death and his mother thrown from a window. She sustained fatal injuries. The Republic was burned, his studio, instruments, master tapes destroyed and later burned. In his normal controversial tone, he delivered his mother’s coffin to the Dodan Barracks in Lagos, General Obasanjo’s residence and went ahead to write two songs about the issues.
- In March 1980, Fela accepted a police invitation to serve as a member of the Police Public Relations Committee.
- In June 1984, a documentary film entitled “Teacher Don’t Teach Me Nonsense” based on Fela’s political life was broadcast to a British audience by the BBC.
He was later jailed by the Muhammadu Buhari administration on a charge of currency smuggling. He was supported by Amnesty International who referred to him as a ‘Prisoner of conscience’. He was also defended by many human rights groups. He stayed in jail for one year and eight months and was released by Ibrahim Babaginda after which he divorced his twelve wives – with his notion at the time that marriage was full of jealousy and selfishness.
On August 3, 1997, his brother, Dr. Olukoye Ransome Kuti announced that Fela had died of complications from AIDS. | history |
https://www.freedomsafespace.com/m/videos/view/300-ft-straight-down-the-Wesko-shaft-Part-2-aka-Center-Star-Mine | 2020-02-26T12:13:31 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-10/segments/1581875146342.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20200226115522-20200226145522-00008.warc.gz | 0.956159 | 157 | CC-MAIN-2020-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-10__0__61653266 | en | 300 ft straight down the Wesko shaft Part 2, aka Center Star Mine.
This property is located at 1067 metres elevation on the west slope of Jubilee Mountain about 1.6 kilometres southeast of Ymir.
The Centre Star claim was located in 1900 and Crown-granted to J.S.C. Fraser & associates in 1905. No further activity was reported from the property until 1934. At this time Wesko Exploration and Development Company, Limited, acquired the Centre Star group consisting of the Centre Star, Redman, Twilight, Cold Island, Crowfoot, and Blind Canyon Crown-granted claims, and ten adjoining claims held by location. Exploration and development work was carried on through 1935 and in 1936 a 100 ton per day concentrator was put into operation. | history |
http://albionne.com/live/city-info/ | 2017-11-22T14:38:30 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934806609.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20171122141600-20171122161600-00351.warc.gz | 0.986033 | 127 | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-47__0__39185773 | en | The growth of the town was very slow until 1879. During that year, a sudden impetus was given to business by a rush of immigration to the county. During the building and construction of the railroad in 1880 and 1881, Albion grew rapidly. The town, having the first railroad and being the county seat, became the receiving and shipping point of freight for several adjacent counties.
Today, Albion features a thriving business district, a quality school system and a state-of-the-art county hospital. This community is made up of neighbors, friends and extended family that work together to assure a prosperous future for generations to come. | history |
https://snoislegenealogy.org/ | 2023-03-26T22:48:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296946535.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20230326204136-20230326234136-00127.warc.gz | 0.93786 | 363 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__160973411 | en | Welcome to the Sno-Isle Genealogical Society
We are devoted to furthering genealogy research and education through our library at Humble House in Lynnwood, Washington and through educational events and focus groups. Our focus is on promoting interest in family history through our collection of local, national, and event based genealogical materials. Our volunteers are committed to recording and researching genealogical data concerning Snohomish and Island Counties in the State of Washington. We have a large collection of local resources including obituaries, personal histories, and other locally curated material.
What’s New in 2022?
Over the past two years, due to the Covid lockdown, we have been forced to evaluate and change some of the thing we were doing. This included record keeping, communications with our members and providing genealogical support to our members and the public.
Snoislegenealogy.org, this membership site is designed to handle the activities between SIGS and our members. This site provides links to both the “Research Site” and our "Library Catalog" on the index list on the left side of this page.
Plus these membership only features:
• Membership Management – Annual Invoicing
• Dues & Donations via PayPal
• Membership List’s
• Calendar of Events
• Programs via Zoom
• Internal Email is for direct and immediate communications from our officers or committee chairs to our members, groups and teams.
• There will also be new features available to our members.
Snoislegen.org (our “Research Site”) will continue with articles collected over the past 20 years. This site is open to the public and will provide links to this Membership site and to our Library Catalog. | history |
https://www.womens.afl:443/news/73586/statement-vale-helen-lambert | 2022-05-17T08:04:01 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662517018.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20220517063528-20220517093528-00368.warc.gz | 0.971007 | 320 | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-21__0__61928578 | en | THE AUSTRALIAN Football League mourns the passing of women’s football pioneer Helen Lambert, who sadly passed away yesterday.
AFL Chief Executive Gillon McLachlan said Helen’s pioneering work had laid the foundation for the position we have today with a growing game for women and girls.
"As a founding committee member of the VWFL, 40 years ago in 1981, Helen was a driver in those first years to what we see in our game now, where the AFLW has added a vibrancy and excitement to our game," Mr McLachlan said.
With a key role in the formation of the Victorian Women’s Football League in 1981 (the earliest ongoing league for women in Australia), Helen was the inaugural captain of the Broadmeadows Scorpions, leading them to a premiership in the first season of the competition.
In 1983 she became president of the VWFL, was subsequently awarded Life Membership, and continued to serve as president until 1986.
Helen’s legacy will continue to live on in football, with the best and fairest medal in the VWFL named in her honour, with the first Helen Lambert Medal backdated to 1983. With the formation of a national women’s competition in 2017, Helen’s pioneering contribution to the code continues to be recognised by the Lambert-Pearce Medal, awarded to the best and fairest player in the premier division of the VFL Women’s competition.
The AFL extends its condolences to the Lambert family and thank them for her contribution to football. | history |
http://perceptionartstesting.com/lcha/voices/ | 2018-11-17T23:11:50 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-47/segments/1542039743913.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20181117230600-20181118012600-00545.warc.gz | 0.907656 | 656 | CC-MAIN-2018-47 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-47__0__79452321 | en | The purpose of the Lincoln County Voices oral history project is to document and preserve the history and heritage of the African-American community in Lincoln County, North Carolina through collected personal histories and the location of documents, photographs, and other artifacts and objects related to this community. LCHA is gathering and preserving at the Lincoln County Museum of History information about Lincoln County’s African-American community not available or documented elsewhere.
The project is the result of conversations between Robert Hamilton and Jason Harpe about how to best begin the process of documenting the history of Lincoln County’s African-American community. Hamilton and Harpe compiled a list of notable and well-known members of this community and began contacting them about meetings to discuss the project. These discussions resulted in the formation of the Lincoln County Voices Advisory Committee. Members of the this committee include Robert Hamilton, Leroy Magness, Ola Mae Foster, Edith Lomax, Hazelene Ford, Rev. Franklin Lowery, Sandra Little, Robert Holloway, Mary Frances White, John Lafferty, Joanne Shelton, and Jason Harpe. The committee’s initial meetings were held at the Lincoln Cultural Center and consisted of outlining the mission and purpose of the project, standards for conducting interviews and securing copyright, a strategy for compiling a list of individuals and groups throughout Lincoln County whose stories need to be recorded for posterity, and the methodology for recording, transcribing, and presenting the information obtained from these interviews.
Jason Harpe, Robert Hamilton, Bill Beam, and Stephanie Easler have conducted most of the interviews, and Hamilton has made annual trips to Tucker’s Grove Campground in Iron Station to record stories about African-American education, campmeetings, and other topics of local interest. The Lincoln County Voices oral history archive currently consists of audio recordings with the Providence Missionary Baptist Church women’s bible class (Ottie Odum, Elizabeth Nixon, Betty Logan, Fannie L. Norman), Thomas Nixon, Edith Lomax, Aubrey Rice, Leonard Holloway, Robert Holloway, Nathaniel “Brownie” Oates, Leroy Magness, Ethel H. Goodwin, Nellie Lofton, Thelma Lindsay, Yvonne Clark, Grace M. Logan, Lorene Houser, Cozette Hall, Sadie Anderson Derr, A.C. Sherrill, Frances Smith Froneberger, Verti Friday, Victoria J. Wilson, Gretchen Sherrill, Robert Smith, Joseph Rozzell, Ada Williams, Morris Rozzell, J.T. Smith, and Correne Luckey.
LCHA is looking for people interested in interviewing members of Lincoln County’s African-American community, in addition to transcribing interviews to be included on our website. We are also interested in learning about other individuals and groups in the African-American community that need their stories and recollections recorded.
Please contact LCHA at [email protected] if you know someone we need to interview or contact about digitizing their collection of photographs from Lincoln County’s African-American Community.
LCHA received grassroots funds from BFI/Allied Waste to begin the project. | history |
https://www.blindcrowpictures.com/portfolio/poppies-tower-of-london | 2023-03-27T05:03:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296946637.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20230327025922-20230327055922-00268.warc.gz | 0.977629 | 216 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__278538500 | en | Blind Crow were commissioned to create three films for Historic Royal Palaces to document their incredible Poppies project. We had the pleasure of seeing every step of the process, from the first poppies being created to the final poppies planted, our footage was viewed on news networks across the globe, receiving over a million hits - it was an honour to be a part of communicating such a moving memorial.
Over 5 million people travelled from across the country and around the world to see the installation of 888,246 ceramic poppies at the Tower of London. The commemorative artwork, by artists Paul Cummins and Tom Piper, caught the nation’s imagination and acted as a place of pilgrimage for millions of people to reflect on the First World War, 100 years since its outbreak in 1914.
Music: Silent Night by Timbre. Silent Night was sung simultaneously in French, English and German by troops during the Christmas Truce of 1914 during the First World War, as it was one carol that soldiers on both sides of the front line knew. | history |
https://wolfram-wiese.de/viking-age/ | 2023-03-22T18:24:06 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296944452.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20230322180852-20230322210852-00255.warc.gz | 0.963533 | 201 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__209177984 | en | In England, the beginning of the Viking Age is dated to 8 June 793, when Vikings destroyed the abbey on Lindisfarne, a centre of learning on an island off the northeast coast of England in Northumberland, and famous across the continent. Monks were killed in the abbey, thrown into the sea to drown, or carried away as slaves along with the church treasures, giving rise to the traditional prayer—A furore Normannorum libera nos, Domine, „From the fury of the Northmen deliver us, Lord.“
Three Viking ships had beached in Portland Bay four years earlier , but that incursion may have been a trading expedition that went wrong rather than a piratical raid. Lindisfarne was different. The Viking devastation of Northumbria’s Holy Island was reported by the Northumbrian scholar Alcuin of York, who wrote: „Never before in Britain has such a terror appeared“. | history |
https://www.broadwaysd.com/upcoming-events/1776/ | 2022-12-07T03:08:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446711126.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20221207021130-20221207051130-00382.warc.gz | 0.928509 | 277 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__229651160 | en | May 9 - May 14 2023
They knew they would make history, but not what history would make of them. Fed up with living under the tyranny of British rule, John Adams attempts to persuade his fellow members of the Continental Congress to vote in favor of American Independence and sign the Declaration. But how much is he willing to compromise in the pursuit of freedom? And to whom does that freedom belong?
From American Repertory Theater at Harvard University and Roundabout Theatre Company, Jeffrey L. Page and Tony Award® winner Diane Paulus reexamine this pivotal moment in American history in a new production of this Tony Award®-winning musical.
Music and Lyrics by Sherman Edwards
Book by Peter Stone
Based on a concept by Sherman Edwards
Choreography by Jeffrey L. Page
Direction by Jeffrey L. Page and Diane Paulus
Rating: Recommended for ages 9+. Please note guests under age five are not permitted to enter. All guests entering the theater, regardless of age, must have a ticket.
Masks and Vaccinations are strongly recommended for all patrons attending Broadway San Diego events, until further notice. Stay up to date with current policies here: https://www.broadwaysd.com/know-before-you-go-faqs/covid-vaccination-and-mask-policy/ | history |
http://rareequinetrust.com/shop/pathtoglory | 2019-10-18T21:50:31 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570986684854.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20191018204336-20191018231836-00166.warc.gz | 0.906686 | 527 | CC-MAIN-2019-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-43__0__48565635 | en | Path to Glory DVD
Path to Glory DVD
EXCLUSIVE TWO DISC DIRECTORS CUT WITH BONUS FEATURES
For horse and history aficionados, this 2-DVD set the extended Directors' Cut of the film with a second disc containing over 2 hours of bonus material.
"This story of the Polish Arabian horse is a direct reflection of the history of Poland itself, an inspirational and incredibly moving tale of indomitable courage and ardent devotion" - Scott Benjamin
Educational Screening License: $150
Public Screening License: $350
BONUS FEATURES INCLUDE:
Love & War
A fast paced, fun and surprising companion piece with many featured interviewees from all corners of the Arabian Horse World, all answering 2 pivotal, burning questions: 1) Who is your favorite Polish Arabian horse? And 2) If you had to ride into battle tomorrow, what Polish Arabian would you choose?
A Conversation with Scott Benjamin
An intimate and enlightening conversation with Scott Benjamin, renowned Arabian horse expert and former handler at Michalow State Stud as he answers a myriad of questions and shares his personal stories from his many years in Poland.
A Conversation with Wayne Newton
An interview with Mr. Las Vegas showcasing his deep and abiding passion for the Polish Arabian Horse and his many years as a breeder with a program based on Polish lines. Funny anecdotes and personal stories of his long career with some of the greatest Polish horses the world has ever known.
A Conversation with Roman Pankiewicz
A rare interview with the last Polish State Stud Director of the generation that lived through World War II. With English subtitles, this intimate portrait shows a man who has lived his life for the Polish Arabian and with great personal experience with legendary horses known by most only in history books. His thoughtful insight and wicked sense of humor will delight the viewer.
The Inimitable George Z.
An interview with Jerzy Zbeszewski, aka George Z, an institution in the world of the Polish Arabian horse in Poland, the US and around the globe. George’s opinions and great knowledge abound.
Behind the Scenes
A short, tongue-twisting, mud-slinging, harmony-singing look at the making of Path to Glory.
Disk One Running Time: 2:10
Disk Two Running Time: Bonus Features
Content Rating: GA (General Audience)
DVD Region: All Regions
Media Format: NTSC-DVD
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Audio Language(s): English
Copyright - Horsefly Films | history |
http://konoctitrails.com/enzler-plane-crash-panel-dedicated-on-mt-konocti/ | 2022-12-05T16:53:25 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446711042.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20221205164659-20221205194659-00250.warc.gz | 0.948502 | 689 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__34274401 | en | On June 2nd, Lake County Department of Public Services and the Konocti Regional Trails (KRT) team held a small ceremony on Mt. Konocti’s Wrights Peak to dedicate the seventh in a series of interpretive panels on the mountain. The panel commemorates a fatal plane crash that took two lives nearly 50 years ago.
The sunny June morning in 2016 was a direct contrast to the tragic day in 1970. On January 26th, Mervin and Julia “May” Enzler left Santa Rosa airport to fly home to Ukiah in their white and turquoise 1946 Navion A. The Enzlers had recently retired as owners of the “Model Bakery” in Ukiah, today operating as Schats Courthouse Bakery and Cafe.
Increasingly bad weather forced them to request navigational assistance from air traffic control in Ukiah. After a brief navigational correction with the tower, further contact ceased.
A massive air and ground search was conducted. Due to the remote location and lack of access, it wasn’t until early February that the crash debris was spotted on the side of the mountain by a local pilot.
The wreckage was largely forgotten until the fall of 2011, when the road sides were cleared for the opening of Mt. Konocti Regional Park, once again uncovering the aircraft.
An increasing number of phone calls requesting information on the plane debris prompted then-Calfire Batallion Chief, Greg Bertelli, to contact KRT members about installing a commemorative plaque at the site near the Calfire lookout tower. KRT then researched the family, tracking down the Enzler’s son, Ed Enzler, now in his 80’s and still living in Mendocino County.
After initial discussions, Mr. Enzler agreed to collaborate with KRT’s Tom Nixon, and Kelseyville’s Emmy-award winning art designer Gerri Groody, on an interpretive panel depicting his parents’ tragic deaths.
The Lakeport Rotary Club volunteered to pay for the panel and installation, culminating in the June ceremony. Attending were the Enzler family (son, Ed Enzler and grandchildren Steve Enzler, Scott Enzler, Karen Adamski and Eileen Husted), members of the Lakeport Rotary Club represented by president, Jennifer Strong, Lake County Department of Public Services Dana Smalley, and KRT members headed by Tom Nixon, who has spearheaded all seven panel projects to-date.
This was the first time most of the Enzler family had seen the plane crash, resulting in some poignant moments and memories. The gathering ended with a trip to the top of the Calfire lookout tower for 360 degree views of the mountain, and side tours to visit Mary Downen’s cabin and the ancient maul oak grove.
Six other interpretive panels covering cultural and natural history were previously installed on Mt. Konocti via a State Parks grant.
Mt. Konocti Regional Park is open daily from dawn to dusk, and accessible via hiking only. For more information on Mt. Konocti Regional Park, visit the website at www.KonoctiTrails.com or call Lake County Public Services at 707-263-1618. | history |
http://lindasalisburyauthor.com/sword_and_broom.html | 2017-04-30T07:02:30 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917124371.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031204-00235-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.979859 | 985 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__130517435 | en | The Sword and The Broom
Linda Salisbury’s retelling of John Mercer Langston’s life story is closely based on his 534-page autobiography From the Virginia Plantation to the National Capital (published in 1894). Langston’s career in education, politics, and as a champion of Constitutional rights for all, is stunning, yet largely unknown today.
A contemporary and rival of Frederick Douglass, Langston had many firsts in his personal and professional life despite his racially mixed heritage that classified him as black. His father, Captain Ralph Quarles, was a wealthy white plantation owner in Virginia, and his mother, Lucy Langston, was Ralph’s former slave with a heritage of Native-American and black. Langston was orphaned at age four, and was taken to Ohio, a free state. It was there that he was educated, became involved in the abolition movement, received two degrees from Oberlin College, and began his many career firsts as a black citizen. He was known as an eloquent and powerful orator.
He founded Howard University’ law school, served as its dean, and was the first president of what is now Virginia State University. In 1890, he was seated in Congress, the first black congressman from the Commonwealth of Virginia, despite the fraudulent election in 1888 that denied him his seat for nineteen months. His story of persevering over discrimination and racism, his numerous achievements, and his ongoing fight for the rights of all, is an inspiration and relevant today.
The retelling includes additional information about the times, plus photographs and images
"It’s terrific. Given that today’s the day before Christmas Eve, I have already spent more time than I can spare reading it. I have made myself put it down. Looking forward to more. It’s a beautiful publication and I am massively impressed."
--Alice Dalton Brown
"Linda Salisbury, in her narrative of John Mercer Langston’s life, coaxes us to a rich understand of the challenges facing a black man in post-Civil War times. It is not only a scholarly work, filled with notes and archival pictures, but also a very readable account. As a teacher of middle school, I feel this book is suitable, and indeed I would recommend It, for ages 12 and above. It is surely a piece of history most of us have not learned in school. As such it is also an eye-opening account for the adult reader. John Mercer Langston’s life is an inspiration to all. With his education from Oberlin College, he had the knowledge, but also the persistence to break many barriers. He was the first black attorney in the state of Ohio, as well as the first black man accepted to practice law before the Supreme Court. After a bitter election of 1888, he was also the first black Congressman from Virginia, the state he and his brothers left when he was orphaned at four years old.
"A stunning and eye-opening book for all Americans!"
--Nancy Bailey Miller--
"As an Oberlin grad (classmate of author), history buff, and writer, I had a slight familiarity with the name John Mercer Langston (1829-1897). Oberlin named a dorm after him, I'd read about the Wellington rescue in The Town That Started the Civil War by Nat Brandt, and I knew he was a forbear of Langston Hughes. But I had no idea what a fascinating character Langston is, as a brilliant, pre-Civil War biracial student of theology and law, rival of Frederick Douglass, reconstruction-era Congressman from Virginia, and later ambassador to Haiti. More amazing to me is that I taught English at Howard University in D.C. for five years but never heard that Langston founded the Law School. The book is a very easy read with many illustrations and a list of sources but no footnotes that distract. This book is an important addition to understanding a period of history and race relations that reverberates to the present."
"Not only was Langston handsome, but as a speaker and public servant in the deepest sense, he was Superman on steroids! I'm so glad to know about him - not least because I doubt I would have plowed through his entire autobiography at this point so the young-adult version is perfect for me. What a gift you have given everyone who encounters the book and, through it, John Langston. I appreciate all the research you did to pull it together, including filling in some gaps when you were able to find supplemental information." --Molly Martindale, California
"I am so impressed with your book on JML. What a wonderful read! I really loved it."
Brownhelm (Ohio) Historical Association | history |
http://www.praguebyguide.cz/index.php/en/guided-tours/19-famous-composers-in-prague-tour | 2017-04-29T07:16:06 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917123318.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031203-00565-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.909677 | 214 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__160145019 | en | No.8 "Art Nouveau in Prague"
The end of 19th and beginning of 20th century was an interesting time in Prague because of its new architectural styles. We will compare various examples of Prague Art Nouveau with other styles of the period. This tour is particularly suitable for those interested in Art Nouveau and styles of the early 20th century.
We will see the Municipal House, Art Nouveau-style buildings at St. Wenceslas Square, Na Příkopech Street and the National Avenue. A visit to the Museum of Alfons Mucha is usually a part of the tour.
What is there to see during the trip: Examples of buildings in the following styles: Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Cubism, Functionalism, Modernism
Price of the tour includes: services of our guide
Price does not include: Alfons Mucha Museum entrance fee - adults: 120,- CZK, children: 60,- CZK
Duration of the tour: 3 hours | history |
https://sjrc.org/our-history/ | 2024-04-23T01:56:22 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818452.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20240423002028-20240423032028-00717.warc.gz | 0.98731 | 696 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__96641806 | en | St. John the Evangelist was founded in 1905. The first pastor was Rev. John H.C.Rutten from Holland and was ordained in Canada. Nathaniel McCaffrey wrote in a 1950 history of St. John's: "Father Rutten has fierce determination to see his fledging parish built on a solid foundation so that it might prosper and be a source of inspiration to a succeeding generations." The first Mass that was given by the new rector was for 90 parishioners from Dumont and Bergenfield.
Shortly after Father Rutten's arrival, a letter from Bishop O'Connor instructed the members to draw up articles of incorporation and to elect two lay members to the Board of Trustees. Edward F. Flood and Will B. May were elected as trustees and the approval of the name of the parish - St. John the Evangelist - was received from the Bishop.
In March of 1906, 12 lots on Washington Avenue were purchased for $1500. By November, plans were sent to the Bishop for building to cost $9,350, not counting windows, electric wiring or heating unit. Ground breaking took place on November 18, 1906 and cornerstone was laid on March 3, 1907. The rectory was built in 1909.
Mrs. Loretta Simon was married in St. John's in 1913 and remembers a nun saying, "When you put your foot in St. John's, it's like someone putting his arm around you."
Parishioners had been pressing for a parochial school and in 1921 they were ready to open its doors. Before the school year began, the need to purchase additional land and build a larger, more permanent school became evident. In the first 18 months of operation the school attendance jumped from 66 to 240.
In 1946, Father McGuirk, then pastor, began to think in terms of building a new church. He worked closely with an architect in designing the church and insisted upon saving the memorial windows from the old church. In June 1949, construction began on the church that we know today. On December 9, 1950 Archbishop Thomas J Walsh officiated at the dedication. At this time, the Bishop saw the need of the parish and sent two assistant priests to help with the pastoral duties.
More than 50 years have passed since. There have been times of growth and times of decline. Today, we have more than 3,500 families registered in our parish and over 600 children attending our religious education programs. Our parish family is diverse and includes people from many backgrounds, especially Filipino, Hispanic, Irish, and Italian. Having celebrated our Centennial in 2005, we have much to look forward to and much to build on. St. John the Evangelist is still a place where you feel as if someone has put an arm around you. It is place of Many Parts.... One Body.
St. John the Evangelist
The Apostle, John, was the son of Zebedee and Salome, and brother of James the Greater. The brothers were fishermen on the Lake of Genesareth. They were called by Christ to become His disciples. John was called the "beloved disciple". He founded many churches in Asia Minor and is the Patron Saint of Asia Minor. St. John The Evangelist wrote three Epistles, the fourth Gospel, and the Book of Revelation.
St. John's Feast Day is December 27 | history |
http://www.kencausey.com/chuckweaverrides.com/post.php?id=225 | 2018-08-15T13:21:39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-34/segments/1534221210105.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20180815122304-20180815142304-00319.warc.gz | 0.947738 | 341 | CC-MAIN-2018-34 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-34__0__187636733 | en | Out of bed early, we still did not leave the hotel until mid morning. Leaving Natchez, MS, Ricardo and I pointed the bikes toward the Natchez Trace Parkway. This scenic and historical parkway leads you 444 miles throught three states and hundreds of years of American history. Today we rode almost 300 miles to Tupelo, MS.
Along the way we stopped several times for rest and refreshments. Then most interesting stop was in French Camp, MS at Leonard's grocery, where we met the manager, Minna and a delightful young man, Drew Guillette. Already bitten by the "travel bug" Drew visited Italy last summer and now hopes to visit Costa Rica some day. Minna, originally from Staten Island, NY, served us a great Bar B Que sandwich for a late lunch. Tonight I will post a photograph of Ricardo, Minna and Drew so you can see the nice folks we meet along the way.
Ahh, Tupelo, MS, the birthplace and early home of Elvis Presley. And of course Ricardo had to visit, have his photograph taken and even sit in the swing on the front porch. And Chuck ? I was the tour guide and photographer.
Tonight we have checked into a nice La Quinta and Ricardo is once again in the pool. Later tonight, a dinner of turnip greens and pinto beans. Monday, a 240 mile ride to Nashville, TN, the home of The Grand Ole Opry and a visit to Ryman Auditorum, the old brick church that became the first home of the Opry. And of course, a stop at my old "hangout", Tootsie's Orchid Lounge. | history |
https://www.ournewbrunswick.com/ganong-bros-ltd/ | 2024-03-03T15:26:09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947476396.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20240303142747-20240303172747-00470.warc.gz | 0.94602 | 249 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__18007194 | en | Established in 1873, Ganong is Canada’s first and longest-standing family-owned and operated chocolate company. They are proud to continue to manufacture all their products in St. Stephen, New Brunswick.
In 1885, Ganong original Chicken Bones, one of their most well-known confections, were invented, a spicy cinnamon flavoured candy filled with bitter-sweet chocolate. Using wooden skewers, Ganong was the first candy maker to make lolipops in Canada in 1895. In 1903, Ganong was also responsible for introducing the first heart-shaped candy boxes to Canada.
Visit & Discover
On a visit to St. Stephen, NB, you can explore The Chocolate Museum. The museum opened its doors in 1999, allowing the public to explore the art of Chocolate making and the history of Ganong.
In addition to the museum, Ganong, along with the community of St. Stephen host a yearly Chocolate Fest, in August. This would be a great time of year to plan a day trip or an extended stay in the region.
In 2020, Ganong revised their brand vision which builds on their promise of“Helping Canadians Celebrate Their Sweetest Moments.” | history |
https://peiblog.ca/tag/usa/ | 2021-11-29T12:27:09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964358705.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20211129104236-20211129134236-00618.warc.gz | 0.98103 | 889 | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-49__0__73034476 | en | Our first stop was in Memphis. There, we visited Sun Studios. This is the place where Blues artists were able to get “published” before blues became popular. It is also where Blues and Hillbilly music came together to become rock and roll.
Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, and Jerry Lee Lewis all started out here. These 4 were known as the millionaire quartet. You may have heard of the album they made together. Several other artists got their start at Sun Records, too many to mention here.
Oddly, it was selling Elvis’ contract to RCA that allowed Sam Phillips to keep Sun Studio open, clear his debts, and continue to discover new artists. After all, Memphis was the underground for racy blues and Rock.
From there we went to Jackson. Halfway between Nashville and Memphis on the old road, this city had a few gems for us also.
First, the cars from the movies. We were fortunate to find Rusty at the museum cleaning up. He showed us his prize possessions and told us which movie every one came from. There is a Delorian, Herbie, the Batmobile, General Lee, and many more.
Then we went to see the Rockabilly museum. That was an amazing two hour tour. Rockabilly was the term used in the early 1950’s for what we came to know as Rock and Roll. There is an incredible collection of 45’s, royalty certificates, newspapers, memorabilia, and wonderful stories from the volunteers who run the non profit museum.
If you know “the day the music died” made famous by Billy Joel, you will appreciate this gem. Of the Million Dollar Quartet, Carl Perkins was the one with experience and a great stage presence. So when came time for a debut TV appearance, he was the obvious choice. On the way to the show, his driver was distracted/tired and got into a bad accident. Carl suffered major injuries, but the show must go on. Number two choice was Elvis who made his TV debut on the Ed Sullivan Show. Had it not been for the accident, today we might remember more the Carl Perkins “original” version of Blue Suede Shoes.
Then we were off to Nashville to learn about Hillbilly music, as country western was called in its youth.
We went to RCA studio B. This is the bigger studio that Chet Atkins opened, after he started making big money with Elvis. Unfortunately, you can only see the studio if you take the full music city tour for which we did not have enough time. All we have are pictures of the outside
After that, we went to visit the Belmont Mansion. This is the largest city mansion open to the public. It used to be 20 rooms larger but the ends were cut off during major renovations. The estate used to span hundreds of acres, but now the house is surrounded by the university.
This was a tale of 3 marriages, several infant deaths, and a fortune that can only be imagined. Many parts of the mansion have been restored, undoing many years of so-called renovations to bring it back to its original condition. They were getting ready for a reenactment of the civil war battle of Nashville on the following day, so we got to see a few of those preparations.
No pictures are allowed inside so you will have to take a peek at their website above for a sample.
Then, we tried to find the Grand Ole Opry. Amidst all the commercialisation and Gaylord Opryland, the Opry is taking backstage to the Christmas fair going on at the moment. As we were not particularly interested /in the artists playing on that day, we went to visit Cooters and Willie Nelson instead. Those are two attractions immediately beside that take you back years in TV and music.
After that, we headed for the North Carolina border, completing 27,000 kilometres in our trip. Words of warning: check the topography before driving at night. The last 10 miles or so in Tennessee and the first 20 or so in North Carolina are in the mountains with sharp curves and long hills. These are best not taken tired at night. We found the first rest stop we could so we could finish that part of the trip refreshed in the daylight. | history |
https://patagoniabooks.gumroad.com/l/climbingfitzroy?layout=profile | 2023-11-29T22:29:22 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100146.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20231129204528-20231129234528-00171.warc.gz | 0.944019 | 129 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__253342338 | en | While San Francisco glowed in the aftermath of the Summer of Love, three rock climbers, a skier, and a filmmaker struck out on their own journey of discovery. The goal was the ascent of the iconic Cerro Fitz Roy in Patagonia, Chile. This six-month excursion resulted in the formation of a ground-breaking movie and three iconic companies (Patagonia, The North Face, Esprit) and the participants’ life-long commitment to the environment. Photos taken during the trip were believed lost in a house fire. A dupe set, found decades later, is gathered here for the first time ever. | history |
https://www.jansennursery.com/about | 2019-11-11T23:07:35 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496664439.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20191111214811-20191112002811-00233.warc.gz | 0.971498 | 397 | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-47__0__158195713 | en | LOCATION161 Glenmere Ave
Florida, NY 10921
E. P. Jansen Nursery began with an inspired vision only a family-run company can design. After purchasing her father's home and five acres of land in 1972, Elizabeth and Jan Jansen transformed the land into a community-focused, pick-your-own-strawberries, gladiolus, and chrysanthemum farm. Over ten-thousand chrysanthemums grew throughout the five acres during those early years. But as Jan and Elizabeth adapted and grew their vision, they also began to look ahead, expanding their business plan by breaking up their expansive flower offerings into separate products, and thus allowing the growth of an extensive, diverse nursery.
After years of experience with the Cornell Cooperative Extension, Jan decided to leave his position in 1985 and solely focus his knowledge and experience on the growth of serving the community's landscaping supply needs. With both Elizabeth and Jan's undivided energies, the farm only continued to grow from here on out, eventually expanding to over 71 contiguous acres.
As their team continued to develop, adding both Scott and Ben Jansen's expertise, E. P. Nursery looked to further ventures. answering their clients needs for hardscape and stone supplies. Over nine additional acres now supported the growing stone and hardscape yard. Each decade, the company has only continued to flourish. Continued improvements, including the reorganization of trees and hardscape storage, as well as a state-of-the-art spaghetti drip irrigation system, was added to support the dynamic farm and nursery.
After over 45 years, this family-focused company has grown to become the premier hardscape and plant supplier in the region. The sprawling farm now offers high-quality nursery stock curated from around the world as well as a comprehensive selection of natural stone, wall systems, pavers, blue stone, granite, and a wide variety of tools and bulk support materials. | history |
https://ahconstructionsd.com/the-one-world-trade-center-a-monument-to-resilience-and-rebirth-in-new-york/ | 2023-10-04T12:24:59 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233511369.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20231004120203-20231004150203-00224.warc.gz | 0.959062 | 610 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__284816476 | en | The One World Trade Center, also known as the Freedom Tower, is the main building in the new World Trade Center complex in New York City. Standing at a height of 541 meters, it became the tallest building in the United States upon its completion in 2014. We will explore the history, construction, and some interesting facts about the One World Trade Center.
The history of the One World Trade Center
The history of the One World Trade Center is closely linked to the tragic events of September 11, 2001, when the original Twin Towers were destroyed in a terrorist attack. Following this devastation, there was a need to rebuild and honor the victims, as well as revitalize Lower Manhattan. A coalition of public and private organizations was formed to undertake this ambitious reconstruction project.
The design of the One World Trade Center was conceived by architect David Childs of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. His vision was to create an iconic building that would pay tribute to the past while projecting a vision for the future. The final design is a glass and steel structure that gracefully rises towards the sky, with an antenna reaching a height of 541 meters, symbolizing freedom and hope.
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The construction of the One World Trade Center
The construction of the One World Trade Center was a complex and meticulous process that spanned several years. It officially began in 2006 with the groundbreaking ceremony and required immense collaboration from engineers, architects, and builders. One of the greatest challenges was ensuring the building’s security and its ability to withstand potential future attacks. Advanced security measures and engineering systems were implemented to make the One World Trade Center one of the safest buildings in the world.
The construction process was also a testament to innovation and technology. Cutting-edge construction techniques, such as modular construction, were employed to expedite the pace of the work. Additionally, sustainable practices were adopted to minimize the environmental impact, leading to the achievement of LEED Gold certification for the building.
The One World Trade Center houses various facilities and interesting features. At its base, there is the 9/11 Memorial Museum, which pays tribute to the victims and recounts the history of the attacks. Furthermore, the building boasts an observation deck on the 100th floor, known as the One World Observatory, offering breathtaking panoramic views of New York City.
An interesting fact about the One World Trade Center is that its height, 541 meters, was deliberately chosen to pay homage to the height of the original Twin Towers. Additionally, the building is a landmark in the adoption of advanced sustainability technology, with energy-efficient systems and a focus on water conservation.
The One World Trade Center is a remarkable architectural and symbolic achievement. Its construction marked a milestone in the reconstruction of the World Trade Center and the revitalization of Lower Manhattan. With its sleek design and impressive height, the One World Trade Center has become a symbol of resilience, hope, and determination for the city of New York and the entire United States. | history |
https://www.realestateportdouglas.com.au/listing/guurrbi-tours | 2019-03-23T21:12:47 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912203021.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20190323201804-20190323223804-00498.warc.gz | 0.959301 | 121 | CC-MAIN-2019-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-13__0__4538756 | en | Contrary to popular belief, Aboriginal rock art is not simply an ancient art form: it is a practice that has continued to within the past one hundred years. Willie’s grandfather lived on these lands, and may well have contributed to some of the more recent rock paintings.
Behind the art lies the story of the Nugal-warra people. Different caves depict different aspects of Nugal society and Aboriginal culture – family stories, mythical figures, spiritual beliefs and practical information. Both the caves and the art formed part of a rich and complex society which was successful for tens of thousands of years. | history |
http://www.usagpan.org/program-history | 2017-03-29T05:18:36 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218190183.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212950-00345-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.954073 | 924 | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-13__0__162751050 | en | The United States Army Graduate Program in Anesthesia Nursing (USAGPAN), based at Fort Sam Houston, TX, has roots dating back to World War I. Officially organized educational programs in Army Nurse Anesthesia began nearly 70 years ago at Walter Reed General Hospital, Washington, D.C. and the Army Regional Hospital, Fort Jackson, South Carolina; from these programs came the first Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs). By the end of 1960s there were six independent Army schools of nurse anesthesia. As well the first Master’s Program in nurse anesthesia was established in 1969 by Ira Gunn and affiliated with the University of Hawaii.
The Army Nurse Corps consolidated nurse anesthesia training in 1970 at William Beaumont General Hospital, El Paso, TX, however this was not university affiliated. During the early 1970s, COL Marion Waterhouse and LTC Mary Cavagnaro began to actively investigate university affiliation. But that did not materialize until the 1980s. In 1977, the program moved to its current location at Fort Sam Houston, TX and the first program director was LTC Joseph Rando.
In 1981, in large part due to the efforts of COL Sarah A. Haliburton, the program became the United States Army Graduate Program in Anesthesia Nursing as it became affiliated with the State University of New York at Buffalo. Graduates were now awarded a Master’s Degree upon completion. During the years that followed graduates of USAGPAN still received a Master’s Degree, however the university affiliations changed:
1986 to 1992 – Texas Wesleyan
1993 to 2006 – University of Texas at Houston Health Science Center
2006 to Present - Northeastern University
USAGPAN began its first Doctorate of Nursing Practice (DNP) class with those students entering in June of 2012.
USAGPAN is unique as it trains Army, Air Force, and Civilian Veteran’s Affairs students. In 2000, the United States Air Force began sending students to USAGPAN. In 2004, Veteran’s Affairs followed allowing students to enter. Clinical Phase II training is conducted all over the country. Our clinical sites are as follows:
Tripler Army Medical Center, Hawaii
Dwight D. Eisenhower Army Medical Center, Fort Gordon, GA
Carl Darnall Army Medical Center, Fort Hood, TX
William Beaumont Army Medical Center, El Paso, TX
Madigan Army Medical Center, Fort Lewis, WA
Womack Army Medical Center, Fort Bragg, NC
Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, TX
David Grant Air Force Medical Center, Travis AFB, CA
Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center, Augusta, GA
The mission of USAGPAN is to produce clinicians educated in the complexity of practice at the doctoral level and competent in the unique skills of anesthesia nursing. USAGPAN graduates, both military and civilian, are prepared to function as a leader advocating for quality patient care in time of peace, and when necessary, in time of war, civil disorder, natural disaster or humanitarian missions. USAGPAN is the premier nurse anesthesia program offering high quality and autonomous training in all clinical and professional aspects of anesthesia delivery.
CRNA practice in the military is defined by AR 40-68 and promotes independent CRNA practice in Military and VA Treatment Facilities. As a result, the training environment promotes an autonomy that is very unique when compared to the civilian experience. The day of a USAGPAN SRNA is also unique when compared to most civilian institutions. USAGPAN SRNAs have mandatory “morning reports” in which they present their daily cases to the Staff CRNAs and MDs. In these sessions, key concepts and techniques related to their individual cases for the day are reinforced. It is a tool that greatly enhances learning. Another asset is a dedicated ultrasound machine specifically for the SRNAs at each clinical site and thus graduates have, on average, placed over half of their PNBs with ultrasound guidance.
USAGPAN’s hard work has not gone unnoticed. In February 2008, USAGPAN received the Army Surgeon General’s Excalibur Award to honor its team and organizational performance and excellence in stimulating best practices. Additionally, in 2011, USAGPAN was rated #1 in the nation according to the US News and World Report for top schools for graduate nurse anesthesia training. In conclusion, USAGPAN continues to provide high quality education in pursuit of our mission. | history |
https://virtualmarketingpro.com/news-with-coffee/ | 2023-06-06T05:20:23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224652235.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20230606045924-20230606075924-00444.warc.gz | 0.964465 | 798 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__111187016 | en | The Surprising History of Coffee in Colombia: Origins, Flavors & More!
Many countries are known for coffee in one way or another. Brazil, Kenya, and Sumatra are world-famous coffee-producing hubs. Italy is known for its population’s insatiable appetite for bold coffee, and Scandinavian countries drink more coffee per person than any other region on earth. Despite coffee’s universal appeal, one country manages to stand out from the rest: Colombia.
Colombian coffee is well-known everywhere coffee is consumed, which is everywhere. But what isn’t as well-known is the interesting and unique history of coffee in Colombia. Like many coffee-producing countries, Colombia’s coffee history is intertwined with the history of colonization. However, several fascinating aspects of Colombia’s specific coffee history make it unique. This article will give a short review of Colombia’s coffee history, from the first trees planted up to present-day Colombian coffee production.
Early History of Coffee in Colombia
Coffee was introduced to Colombia via Jesuit priests in the early part of the 18th century. Colonization is, unfortunately, a ubiquitous part of human history. Besides the many troubling and detrimental effects globalization had on developing countries in the last few millennia, one benefit of contact between cultures is the sharing and spread of crops. Colombia is the third-largest coffee producer in the world today, and without the Jesuit priests that traveled there with Spanish settlers, it might not be the coffee giant it is today.
Many coffee origin stories are a jumbled mix of fact and fiction, and coffee’s early days in Colombia also have elements of legend. The story goes that Jesuit priests – in an attempt to encourage the local population to start farming coffee – meted out planting coffee trees as part of religious penance. As the religion they brought with them spread, so did the coffee trees, and before long, coffee was firmly planted in Colombia’s fields and economy.
The first coffee exports weren’t until the early 1800s, but coffee production in Colombia grew commensurately with the global demand for coffee throughout the 19th century. The United States and Europe were particularly interested in Colombian coffee, and increasing demand from these countries helped jumpstart Colombia’s coffee production.
By the early 1900s, Colombia was already one of the largest coffee-producing countries. Still, it wasn’t until the launch of one of the most famous advertising campaigns ever that Colombia became the coffee titan it is today.
The fictional character Juan Valdez and his mule Conchita began promoting Colombian coffee in 1958 as part of an effort to validate genuine Colombian coffee. At the time, it was popular for coffee companies to blend Colombian coffee with beans from other origins so that they could claim that their coffee was “Colombian.” In an effort to preserve the reputation of Colombian coffee and protect Colombian coffee farmers, the Doyle Dane Bernbach agency created an ad campaign featuring Juan Valdez.
The idea was that only 100% authentic Colombian coffee would have Juan Valdez on the packaging so consumers could easily identify the genuine article from cheap imitations. No one could have predicted the campaign’s wild success, and Juan Valdez became a worldwide hit that catapulted Colombian coffee to new heights. Today, Juan Valdez and his trusty sidekick Conchita are the most famous piece of coffee iconography ever created and have even become strongly associated with Colombia in general.
There are currently estimated to be more than half a million coffee farming families in Colombia, and annual Colombian coffee exports are usually between 11 and 13 million bags. Colombia is the third-largest coffee-producing country behind only Brazil and Vietnam. It is also estimated that approximately 2% of Colombia’s population engages in coffee farming as their primary means of generating income. | history |
http://brackenridgevillas.com.au/bracken-ridge_villa-5.html | 2017-12-18T06:48:49 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-51/segments/1512948609934.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20171218063927-20171218085927-00513.warc.gz | 0.960517 | 380 | CC-MAIN-2017-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-51__0__151572750 | en | "The Athabascan" - Villa 5
A private and cozy country villa for a small group of 6 – 8 people. This well appointed 3 bedroom villa is the perfect design. One ground floor Queen bedroom and 2 large second storey Queen beds with an extra single and pull out twin sofa bed.
The open plan lounge and dining area with crackling log fire allow for long conversations with friends. The secluded private garden of this larger villa leads out to the rolling manicured paddock and the Shiraz vineyard.
The mighty Athabasca River flows by the small northern Alberta town of Athabasca. The “land of the whispering hills”, as the local First Nations word translates, is a land of smooth flowing hills and valleys of rich and fertile farm land and wilderness. When the northern parts of this Canadian province were first being settled by the British and French, they used the shallow but quick moving river to move supplies and people ever northward with big paddle wheelers from this trading post town. Some of the first brick buildings are still being used today for modern business trading. The master proprietor of this estate has a long family history of settlement in this area with most of his immediate relatives still farming and working in and around the Athabasca area. It was in Athabasca that he met and later married his high school sweetheart whose family moved 600 km north of Calgary to buy a farm 4 km down the road from his Dad’s big farming operation.
Bed Configuration: The main floor Queen bed bedroom allows easy access for wheelchairs and limited mobility. There are two private bedrooms upstairs. Bedroom 2 has a Queen and single bed. Bedroom 3 has a Queen bed and sofa bed. This villa can sleep 8 on furnished beds.
Max Adults: 6-8
Max Children: or 2-3 | history |
https://blog.quickload.com/2017/07/31/history-of-trucking-the-interstate-highway-system/ | 2022-05-20T14:23:55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662532032.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220520124557-20220520154557-00000.warc.gz | 0.961363 | 282 | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-21__0__43339491 | en | More than 60 years ago, construction began in what is perhaps one of the greatest public works projects in the history of the United States, one that changed the trucking industry in America forever: the Interstate Highway System.
It’s hard to imagine today but before 1956, when the Federal-Aid Highway Act signed by President Dwight Eisenhower approved its construction, the United States was connected by a complex patchwork of state highways, country roads and city streets that made cross-country travel slow and inefficient.
The Interstate Highway System was conceived to be an Interconnected network of modern highways that would allow cars and trucks to travel at faster speeds and to bypass towns and rural areas that were on the way to the final destination.
This innovation made road travel safer and more efficient. For example, if a truck had to make a delivery from Dallas to New York City, it no longer had to go through every town on the way. The Interstate System allowed them to zoom past states until the specific exit closest to the final delivery location.
The Interstate not only brought a boom in American trucking. It also changed the country culturally by making distances between different states shorter and spurring a nationwide interest in cross-country travel and tourism.
Just like the Interstate Highway System, at Quickload we’re all about innovations that make the trucking industry quicker and more efficient.
Content Creator: Pablo Torres | history |
https://champlainheightscc.ca/bus-trips-spaces-still-available-for-killarney-centre-pickup/ | 2023-06-07T03:02:09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224653501.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20230607010703-20230607040703-00534.warc.gz | 0.933294 | 547 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__290658667 | en | Looking for a local adventure?
For 55+ years.
Our Champlain Heights Community Centre pick up location seats are full but we do have spaces available on the same trips at the Killarney Centre pickup location.
Britannia Mines and Pasta Tuesday Lunch at Boston Pizza
Pick up @ 6260 Killarney St, Vancouver, BC V5S 2X7
Less than a hundred years ago, Britannia Mines* was the largest copper mine in the British Empire. Today, it’s a National Historic Site and a bustling, award-winning Museum. Wander freely and examine much of the mine’s equipment left intact. We will be riding the underground train and re-living what it was like to be a worker at the mine and experiencing the all new BOOM exhibit. BOOM! introduces audiences to the story, sights and sounds behind the architectural marvel, Mill No. 3, with an immersive live-action experience. This experience offers multiple screens, over thirty speakers, and leading-edge special effects — bringing all 20-storeys back to life! After the museum we will have lunch at Boston Pizza for their famous Pasta Tuesday. (guided by Simon Yan)
*There are 47 steps up to the underground entrance and heritage buildings have a raised threshold that can be difficult for wheelchairs to navigate. The main buildings are reached via wooden boardwalks and concrete walkways. The remainder of the site is gravel. Full details can be found on our website at www.britanniaminemuseum.ca/pages/accessibility
Tuesday, June 27, 2023
Time: 8:00am-4:00pm (Pick up Champlain 8:00am, Killarney 8:15am)
Squamish Sea to Sky Gondola
Pick up @ 6260 Killarney St, Vancouver, BC V5S 2X7 at 9:00am
Lower Mainland’s newest tourist attraction will give you the opportunity to see the picturesque landscape of the surrounding coastal mountains and the Howe Sound fjord below. We will take the Gondola from the base of the Sea to Sky highway and ascend up to the summit. From here there will be 3 viewing platforms for you to fully immerse yourself in the views of Stawamus chief and Shannon Falls. Lunch is not included but there is a cafe at the base of the gondola and a restaurant at the summit. (Guided by Simon Yan)
Wednesday, July 5, 2023
Time: 8:45am-3:30pm (Pick up Champlain 8:45am, Killarney 9:00am) | history |
https://www.goodpasture.org/about/mission--history | 2022-09-29T21:23:46 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030335365.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20220929194230-20220929224230-00369.warc.gz | 0.975875 | 560 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__195745300 | en | Since the opening of Goodpasture Christian School in September of 1966, administrators, faculty, and staff have all endeavored to support our mission: Building Confidence, Intellectual Growth, and Spiritual Strength in every student.
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In September of 1966, the school we now know as Goodpasture opened as East Nashville Christian School with eighteen classrooms, serving 149 students in grades one through six. By the second year of operation, the school had added grades seven and eight. Also during that year, B.C. Goodpasture, editor of the Gospel Advocate, was added to the board of directors. Later, the school was formally named B.C. Goodpasture Christian School in honor of Mr. Goodpasture’s outstanding contribution as a church leader, lecturer, and author.
In September of 1971, a new high school facility was opened, which included grades seven through eleven. By 1973, Goodpasture served students in all twelve grades. During the years 1972-1982, many improvements were made to the facilities. Among these were new accesses and parking lots, an athletic field house and football stadium, an addition to the gymnasium, an elementary playground, three tennis courts, junior high classrooms, and a band room.
Since 1982, Goodpasture Christian School has extensively expanded its facilities. A four-classroom kindergarten was built. The high school library and the lunchroom were both enlarged, and the junior high wing was added, which included six new classrooms.
In 1990, The Fine Arts Building, housing a 1,200-seat auditorium, the president’s offices, and six classrooms for preschool students, was completed. Beginning in the summer of 1996, Goodpasture began renovating and improving the older buildings on campus. Since that time, the original elementary building, the high school gym, and the kindergarten building have all been renovated. In the summer of 1997, an addition was made at the south end of the Fine Arts Building.
In 2000, a state-of-the-art field house was constructed for use by all athletic teams. The 17,896 square foot field house has a workout area with exercise equipment to help build strength and agility. In 2002 a clubhouse for the baseball team was completed. It was named the Davy Lovell Memorial Clubhouse in memory of an outstanding Goodpasture student who lost a courageous battle to cancer. August of 2013 saw the opening of Goodpasture’s Great Beginnings Toddler Program, which has been a great success.
Interested in learning more about Goodpasture Christian School? Take time to browse through our website or click one of the links below. | history |
http://www.baerauctions.com/history/ | 2013-05-24T07:19:49 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704288823/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113808-00019-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.964804 | 155 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__183888551 | en | Recent Sale Results
Do you want great results selling at an auction too?
Baer Auctioneers was founded in 1947 by Emmet Baer who graduated the same year from Reppert's School of Auctioneering in Decatur Indiana. Jim Baer joined his father with the business after graduating from Reppert's in 1961. Ken Baer, Bill Baer, and Wade Baer are all graduates of Reppert's in 1983, 1989, and 2002 respectively. The three brothers are the third generation and are taking the business into the new millennium.
The Baer's are owner/managers of the Rogers Community Auction, Inc. and are members of the Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia Auctioneer Associations as well as the National Auctioneers Association. | history |
http://colgt.caboosecms.com/venues/mccamish | 2020-01-20T18:43:58 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-05/segments/1579250599718.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20200120165335-20200120194335-00409.warc.gz | 0.961946 | 1,175 | CC-MAIN-2020-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-05__0__235928245 | en | The dawning of a new era in Yellow Jackets' basketball was marked by the opening of McCamish Pavilion at the start of the 2012-13 season.
Occupying the same footprint on the corner of 10th and Fowler Streets as the historic Alexander Memorial Coliseum, which hosted Tech basketball games for 55 years and saw the Yellow Jackets post a record of 556-194, McCamish Pavilion opened its doors Nov. 9, 2012 when the Tech men hosted Tulane and defeated the Green Wave, 79-61.
It was the first of three sellouts for the Yellow Jackets, who went on to post an 11-6 mark in their first season in the venue and play before an average of 7,365 fans. McCamish Pavilion drew raves from friend and foe alike in its inaugural season, from its state-of-the-art audio-visual technology to the cozy and intimate, but loud atmosphere. The first season of basketball in the new facility included victories over state-rival Georgia and big Atlantic Coast Conference wins over post-season teams Maryland and Virginia.
Tech compiled its best record in the venue in 2015-16, producing a 14-5 record which was the team's best home mark in six years and included big victories over fourth-ranked Virginia and ninth-ranked Notre Dame. The Jackets are now 43-26 in four seasons in the facility.
Tech's women have been equally impressive, accumulating a 42-23 mark in four years, including an 13-5 slate in 2015-16.
McCamish Pavilion is named for Hank McCamish, a long-time insurance executive in the Atlanta area whose family provided the lead gift for the $50 million facility. The arena footprint expanded by about 30,000 square feet over that of Alexander Memorial Coliseum, and the former circular seating bowl was demolished and replaced with a rectangular bowl along with an upper deck.
The most obvious difference is that the walls separating the concourse and the bowl were removed, meaning that the floor is visible from almost every point in the concourse. The familiar domed roof and the 32 steel support beams remain, but the McCamish interior looks nothing like the old Thrillerdome.
Ground was broken for the construction of Tech's new on-campus arena on May 5, 2011, and 18 months later, the Yellow Jackets had a state-of-the-art building with 8,600 seats and a luxurious club area, which provides a cozy view of the court. The lower level seating bowl has 6,935 seats, and the new balcony level seating has 1,665 seats.
Spectators to view the game as they walk to and from concessions and rest rooms, which are all located on the outside of the concourse. The balcony level seating has its own concourses with rest rooms and concessions.
The building features a new center-hung scoreboard, with video screens on four sides and a circular message board underneath. The balcony level facing has a 360-degree ribbon board for messaging and graphics.
The lighting system, similar to those at Madison Square Garden and Staples Center in Los Angeles, will illuminate the court while leaving the stands darkened, creating a theatre-like feel to games.
Nearly the entire structure is brand-new, with the one notable exception being the familiar dome of Alexander Memorial Coliseum and its 32 steel ribs, which stayed in place and provided the skeleton for the new structure. A new roof was installed, and the ribs and the ceiling were re-painted. Around the concourses, pieces of the former AMC court have been inlaid into the ribs.
A courtyard was created outside the West entrance to honor William Alexander, the legendary Tech football coach and director of athletics who led the drive to build Alexander Memorial Coliseum in the 1950s.
The new court remains named for legendary basketball coach Bobby Cremins, who led the Tech men's team from 1981-2000 and compiled a record of 354-237 with three Atlantic Coast Conference championships and 10 NCAA Tournament appearances in 19 seasons.
The grand entrance to McCamish Pavilion, which faces the corner of 10th and Fowler Streets, includes graphics presentations recognizing Tech's retired jerseys of Roger Kaiser, Rich Yunkus, Mark Price, John Salley, Tom Hammonds and Matt Harpring, as well as coaches Whack Hyder and Cremins, and longtime radio announcer Al Ciraldo. Tech's NCAA Final Four teams of 1990 and 2004 are also recognized in the main entrance.
McCamish Pavilion was the first project in what became a major transformation of the Fowler Street entrance to the Georgia Tech campus. Across the street is the Yellow Jackets' new tennis facility, the Ken Byers Tennis Complex, which opened in January 2013.
Designed by the renowned architectural firm Populous and built under the direction of Whiting-Turner Contracting Company, the arena already has been recognized by the American Institute of Architects of Atlanta for its significant architectural impact on the city's landscape along with such structures as the Sovereign building, TWELVE Centennial Park Tower I, The Atlantic, Loews Midtown, the Atlanta Botanical Garden Hardin Visitor Center, the Georgia Tech Human Research Building rehabilitation, the Martin Luther King, Jr., Federal Building and the Ray Charles Performing Arts Center.
The Atlanta Business Chronicle noted, "The McCamish Pavilion renovation is an example of a project that respects the history of a structure, while making it more functional now and for the future."
"This renovation expands the arena while preserving the character of the original design by a significant Atlanta architect," said Jay Silverman, senior associate of Lord, Aeck & Sargent, Inc., and president of the American Institute of Architects of Atlanta. "It also responds to the character of a growing Georgia Tech campus." | history |
https://koreanearandfar.com/jeonjuhyanggyo/ | 2021-08-05T08:53:02 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046155458.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20210805063730-20210805093730-00140.warc.gz | 0.970777 | 470 | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-31__0__218360087 | en | Jeonju Hyanggyo is a Confucian School, which was a national education center during Joseon Dynasty and located in Jeonju Hanok Village (전주한옥마을.) It is believed to be built originally during Goyreo Dynasty at a different site, but the current one was rebuilt by King Seonjo in Joseon Dynasty at the present location. It is a beautiful historic place where the traditional Korean architectural structures are well balanced with the surrounding nature.
The front gate of Jeonju Hyanggyo, Manhwaru (만화루)
Many movies and K-dramas were filmed here including “Sunggyungwan Scandal (성균관스캔들)” and “Love in the Moonlight (구르미 그린 달빛).” Take a peaceful stroll here, just a few minutes away from the lively main streets of Hanok Village.
Inner gate, Ilwolmun (일월문), meaning the gate of the sun and the moon. The center door was for the kings.
Daeseungjeon (대성전). This is a shrine to five great Confucian philosophers including Confucius.
Two gingko trees stand in front of Daeseongjeon on each side, East and West. These trees are about 400-year old and it is believed that these gingko trees were planted because they chase off bugs, which implies wishes for the students become honest and uncorrupted.
Passing the inner gate, here stands Myeongryundang (명륜당). This building was a lecture hall, and it is still occasionally used for some events or lectures.
Dongjae & Seojae. These were pupils’ dormitory.
Jeonju Hyanggyo has different charms in each season, but it would shine the brightest during autumn. If you want to see it covered with golden blanket, here is a link for it. | history |
http://www.quietwaterspub.com/QWP/wb/pages/authors/swanson-s.-hjalmar.php | 2017-04-26T07:57:43 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917121216.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031201-00146-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.936727 | 485 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__178033119 | en | ZAMZAM: The Story of a Strange Missionary Odyssey
By The Augustana Synod Passengers.
Edited by S. Hjalmar Swanson, D.D.
A reprint of the 1941 edition. 15 black and white photographs. With an epilogue by Eleanor Anderson.
US $ 18.95
Excerpt from the introduction by
S. Hjalmar Swanson:
The S. S. Zamzam left New York (Hoboken), March 20, 1941, for Suez, via Trinidad, Pernambuco, Capetown, and Mombasa. it was declared a neutral ship. Its passengers were chiefly missionaries bound for Africa.
Twenty Protestant denominations as well as the Roman Catholic Church were represented among its passengers of missionaries. These missionaries were bound for thirteen different areas of provinces in Africa. Probably never before had a ship left our shores for the "Dark Continent" with such a host of Christian ambassadors.
Excerpt from the epilogue by Eleanor Danielson Anderson:
The Zamzam story lives on! Beginning in 1991, fifty years after the Zamzam’s sinking, survivors and families have gathered for reunions six times. That list of survivors, with their storehouse of memories, has dwindled drastically with the passing of time. By the year 2008 only two of the known twenty-nine living survivors had been adults on the Zamzam. The story is still told at church and community programs, often accompanied by newspaper articles. Newer media include a website (www.Zamzamship.net), a DVD/video titled “Zamzam: A Missionary Odyssey”, and the book, Miracle at Sea by Eleanor Anderson (Quiet Waters Publications). The republishing of this 1941 book is another testimony to interest in the Zamzam story.
Zamzam materials are now being preserved at the ELCA Archives in Elk Grove, IL; the Billy Graham Center Archives in Wheaton, IL; and the Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC. Several survivors keep collections, too.
As Zamzam research continues, more is being learned about the Canadian survivors, the internment camps, the German officers and crew, the motives which prompted the sinking, the Egyptian crew and more. Indeed, the story goes on! | history |
http://www.ashvinmetals.com/about-us | 2021-12-03T12:43:58 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964362879.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20211203121459-20211203151459-00289.warc.gz | 0.981775 | 154 | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-49__0__132029397 | en | A bit about Ashvin Metals
Ashvin Metals Limited was established by John Howarth in August 2011 as an office based metal trading company. It quickly became apparent that a yard was required to process and store the increasing amount of material that was being traded.
In November 2012, a 1 acre site in Poulton-le-Fylde and the Company set about transforming it into a fully licensed, secure recycling facility. The process took over 12 months and required in excess of £1 million of investment.
In April 2013, Andrew Dixon joined Ashvin Metals Limited as Operations Director and as a trader. Volumes increased rapidly over the next couple of years with staffing increasing from 3 to 13, with a turnover in excess of £25 million. | history |
https://www.postmusik-salzburg.at/chronicle/?lang=en | 2023-12-04T00:13:28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100518.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20231203225036-20231204015036-00390.warc.gz | 0.935624 | 157 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__91482343 | en | In 1983 the musicians received the historic uniform of a prince-archbishop’s postilion from around 1780. This uniform has shaped the visual image of the Postmusik Salzburg to this day.
In 1984, the Postmusik Salzburg was the first symphonic wind orchestra to play in the Salzburg Festival Hall – it made wind music socially acceptable and helped it to gain appropriate attention in high culture. Symphonic wind music at the highest level has characterized this ensemble since then. Further concerts in national and international concert halls will follow.
In 1985 the Postmusik Salzburg finally became an independent association. Since then, the regular autumn concerts have taken place in the Great Conert Hall of the Mozarteum Salzburg. | history |
https://www.elsrpresidente.com/en-us/civil-rights-movement-sources-now-offered-on-the-net/ | 2021-06-13T01:54:11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623487598213.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20210613012009-20210613042009-00389.warc.gz | 0.911407 | 589 | CC-MAIN-2021-25 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-25__0__72022923 | en | Now, to far better acquaint 21st-century Americans with the movement’s history, comes the Civil Rights Digital Library, the solution of years of analysis and an comprehensive network of partnerships, which includes with the nonprofit publisher of American Literature, The Library of America.
The Civil Rights Digital Library (CRDL) is the newest initiative of the Digital Library of Georgia and is the most ambitious and complete digital archive of the national Civil Rights Movement to date. At the forefront of the digital library is an on the internet video archive featuring extra than 30 hours of unedited historical news film chronicling the civil rights struggle in numerous southern cities. These contain unaired and unedited footage of the Atlanta sit-ins, Freedom Rides, the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign, Martin Luther King Jr.’s reaction to President Kennedy’s assassination, his acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 and his funeral.
Considerably of the inspiration for the project came from The Library of America’s publication in 2003 of the two-volume collection Reporting Civil Rights: American Journalism 1941-1973. Hailed by O: The Oprah Magazine as “a crucial national resource,” Reporting Civil Rights brings with each other practically 200 newspaper and magazine reports and characteristics by 151 writers, which includes David Halberstam, Robert Penn Warren, Ralph Ellison, Anne Moody.
“We anticipate that the Civil Rights Digital Library will continue to develop via our partnerships with allied organizations across the U.S. like The Library of America,” mentioned Toby Graham, director of the Digital Library of Georgia, primarily based at the University of Georgia. “With each other with other colleges and universities, libraries and contributing institutions, customers are in a position to access uncommon and priceless pieces of American history at the click of a mouse.”
“This is definitely a civil rights portal, delivering a seamless virtual library on the Movement,” mentioned Dr. Barbara McCaskill, an English professor at the University of Georgia, whose interest and function helped inspire the Civil Rights Digital Library. “By way of the Library, we can practically eyewitness the pivotal events that shaped American life these days.”
“The Civil Rights Digital Library serves as an perfect companion to Reporting Civil Rights,” observes Library of America publisher Max Rudin, “permitting readers to encounter initially-hand the searing pictures and inspiring stories that the journalists in our collection transformed so memorably into some of the most effective writing in all of American letters.”
Reporting Civil Rights is obtainable wherever books are sold, or from the Library of America’s internet site, exactly where you are going to also discover authoritative collections of the pretty ideal of American literature. The Library of America is the nonprofit publisher of deluxe, uniform editions of American literature, which includes numerous volumes of journalism like Reporting Civil Rights. | history |
https://revolution-news.com/south-korea-massive-sewol-anniversary-rally-faces-police-repression/ | 2021-10-20T03:02:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585302.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20211020024111-20211020054111-00251.warc.gz | 0.978157 | 215 | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__61823493 | en | Tens of thousands filled Seoul Plaza on the first Anniversary of the Sewol Ferry disaster that claimed 304 lives. The Sewol ferry was carrying 476 people when it sank on April 16, 2014, 325 of the passengers were children. Of the 304 who died, 250 were children from the same high school in Ansan, a city south of Seoul that was the focus of Thursday’s remembrance activities.
Riot police used pepper spray on the mourning families who were infuriated by police barricades erected to prevent them from laying flowers at a makeshift altar in central Seoul after the huge rally at City Hall.
Police brutality and scuffles continued as thousands of people tried to find a way around a giant police cordon thrown across the area. “This is outrageous,” said Lee Myong-Woo, one of the rally organisers. “This was totally the police’s doing. We didn’t want any violence today, and there was no reason to stop us peacefully laying flowers at the altar,” he said. | history |
https://www.mycuripow.com/curishorts/c/0/i/22890657/civil-liberties-act-1988 | 2021-06-15T16:09:43 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623487621450.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20210615145601-20210615175601-00539.warc.gz | 0.963913 | 259 | CC-MAIN-2021-25 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-25__0__155742744 | en | On February 19, 1942, 10 weeks after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which permitted military commanders to “prescribe military areas . . . from which any or all persons may be excluded.” While the order did not mention any group by name, it profoundly affected the lives of Japanese Americans. In March and April, Gen. John L. DeWitt issued a series of “Exclusion Orders” directed at “all persons of Japanese ancestry” in the Western Defense Command. These orders led to the forced evacuation and incarceration of 120,000 Japanese American permanent residents and Japanese American citizens at 10 major camps and dozens of smaller sites. Held behind barbed wire and watched by armed guards, many Japanese Americans lost their homes and possessions. Congress passed laws enforcing the order with almost no debate, and the Supreme Court affirmed these actions.
President Ronald Reagan signed the Civil Liberties Act of 1988. The law, which was preceded by a detailed historical study by a Congressional commission, judged the incarceration “a grave injustice” that was “motivated largely by racial prejudice, war hysteria, and a failure of political leadership.” It offered an apology and $20,000 in restitution to each survivor. | history |
http://mountliterafbd.com/House-system.aspx | 2024-04-22T23:28:31 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818374.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422211055-20240423001055-00439.warc.gz | 0.971316 | 254 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__179352616 | en | Christopher Columbus (born between October 31, 1450 and October 30, 1451 – 20 May 1506) was an Italian explorer, navigator, and colonizer, born in the Republic of Genoa, in what is today northwestern Italy. Under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, he completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean that led to general European awareness of the American continents. Those voyages, and his efforts to establish permanent settlements on the island of Hispaniola, initiated the Spanish colonization of the New World.
In the context of emerging western imperialism and economic competition between European kingdoms seeking wealth through the establishment of trade routes and colonies, Columbus's speculative proposal, to reach the East Indies by sailing westward, eventually received the support of the Spanish crown, which saw in it a chance to gain the upper hand over rival powers in the contest for the lucrative spice trade with Asia. During his first voyage in 1492, instead of reaching Japan as he had intended, Columbus landed in the Bahamas archipelago, at a locale he named San Salvador. Over the course of three more voyages, Columbus visited the Greater and Lesser Antilles, as well as the Caribbean coast of Venezuela and Central America, claiming them for the Spanish Empire. | history |
https://innvoke.com/best-of-category-at-neo-graphics-awards/ | 2023-12-04T10:27:20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100527.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20231204083733-20231204113733-00400.warc.gz | 0.946315 | 606 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__53130940 | en | We are thrilled to announce that our Vintage Video Game Display, crafted by the talented Ian Harker, has been awarded the Best of Category for Point of Purchase – Floor/Stand Alone at the Neo Graphics Awards, hosted by the Print and Graphic Communication Association. This recognition is not only a testament to our commitment to excellence but also a heartfelt tribute to the founders of DMR Graphics, Ben & Dan Fein.
A Tribute to Our Founders
The choice to design a vintage arcade game as a centerpiece was a deliberate one, rooted in the rich history of DMR Graphics. It serves as a heartfelt tribute to the company’s founders, Ben & Dan Fein. These visionary entrepreneurs made their foray into the printing business in a serendipitous fashion when they acquired the merchandising license for the iconic video game, Pac-Man, back in the early 1980s.
At the time, Pac-Man was relatively unknown and was included in the licensing deal as a mere afterthought. It was bundled with licenses for t-shirt printing, yet little did they know that this seemingly small decision would change the course of their business forever. Shortly after, “Pac-Mania” swept across the United States, and they found themselves printing Pac-Man-themed t-shirts in multiple production facilities nationwide.
This unexpected success became the cornerstone upon which Diversified Screen Printing, the precursor to DMR Graphics, was built. Over time, Diversified Screen Printing transformed into the DMR Graphics we know today, a testament to the Fein brothers’ entrepreneurial spirit and their ability to seize opportunities when they arose.
The Making of the Vintage Video Game Display
Our award-winning Vintage Video Game Display was a labor of love, combining modern design techniques with a touch of nostalgia. Ian Harker played a pivotal role in bringing this display to life. The machine itself was meticulously constructed from Palboard, a durable and versatile material. To make it truly stand out, we employed neon and spot gloss printing on the SwissQ, ensuring that every detail shone with brilliance.
The header of the display was fashioned from 3mm Clear acrylic, featuring 2nd surface neon that added a captivating glow. The game screen, a vital component, was crafted from 6mm clear acrylic with 2nd surface droptix, lending depth and authenticity to the vintage gaming experience. The combination of these materials and techniques resulted in a display that evoked the golden age of arcade gaming.
Best of Category for Point of Purchase – Floor/Stand Alone
Winning the Best of Show award in our category at the Neo Graphics Awards is a profound honor for DMR Graphics. It not only recognizes our dedication to exceptional design and print techniques but also celebrates the spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship that has been the bedrock of our company.
We are grateful to the Print and Graphic Communication Association for this accolade, and we look forward to continuing our tradition of excellence and creativity in the world of graphic design and printing. | history |
https://pinguid.com/2014/11/12/goodbye-dave/ | 2023-06-10T21:23:24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224646350.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20230610200654-20230610230654-00136.warc.gz | 0.973874 | 584 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__299503740 | en | Rest in Peace: Msgr. David A. Ratermann
Our dear friend, Msgr. David A. Ratermann, passed away November 10, 2014 at Regina Cleri in St. Louis. Msgr. Ratermann was a founder of our Latin America Apostolate in Bolivia in 1956. He served as a missionary priest in Bolivia for 50 years. He was a great inspiration and friend to many. May he rest in peace!
About Msgr. David A. Ratermann …
Msgr. David A. Ratermann was born in Saint Louis, Missouri. He grew up in Saint Liborius Parish and later taught biology at Mercy High School. He was ordained a priest on June 1, 1951 and his first parish assignment was Most Blessed Sacrament Parish (1951-1956).
When the opportunity to work in Bolivia arose, Msgr. Ratermann very enthusiastically volunteered, and was thrilled when Archbishop Joseph Ritter sent him. In 1956, he became one of the first three priests to go to Bolivia, making him a founder of the Latin America Apostolate.
The first commitment of the Latin America Apostolate was to found Cristo Rey Parish in La Paz. Msgr. Ratermann helped to establish this parish and saw its beginnings as a shed with a tin roof and no walls (called “el galpon” in Spanish) transform into a permanent church in 1961. Msgr. Ratermann briefly returned to Saint Louis in 1981, where he served at Most Holy Trinity Parish for 3 months and at St. Luke the Evangelist Parish for 3 years. He went back to Bolivia in 1984 and was stationed in Cochabamba through 2004. In 2004, Msgr. Ratermann retired and returned to La Paz, where he continued to serve at Maria Reina Parish.
Over the years, Msgr. Ratermann worked with many people through his involvement and service at the Maryknoll Language School, the Maria Reina Health Clinic, and Alcoholics Anonymous. The majority of his time in Bolivia was spent working with the Aymara, the native people of Bolivia who live in the Altiplano region surrounding the mountains.
In June 2008, Msgr. Ratermann returned to St. Louis, after 50 years of service in the Latin America Apostolate. He resided at Regina Cleri and continued to promote and share the good news of the Latin America Apostolate with the Archdiocese of Saint Louis.
On November 10, 2014 Msgr. Ratermann passed away at Regina Cleri in Saint Louis. He was a great inspiration and friend to many. We are so grateful for his many years of service to the people of Bolivia. May he rest in peace!
( from: http://archstl.org/node/4336157 on 11/12/2014) | history |
https://www.cyclingnews.com/features/vincenzo-torriani-godfather-of-the-giro/ | 2023-05-30T14:48:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224645810.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20230530131531-20230530161531-00400.warc.gz | 0.976225 | 3,626 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__114411592 | en | Vincenzo Torriani: Godfather of the Giro
Procycling looks at the legacy of the visionary Giro organiser, who relentlessly pushed the boundaries and took the race into new territory
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This article first appeared in Procycling magazine issue 255, 2019
Thirty years ago, at Italian races, you could still come across two men who had coloured much of post-war cycling history in 'the Boot'. Gino Bartali was a fixture at the big races like Milan-San Remo, the Giro d’Italia and the Tour of Lombardy. He never really seemed to be doing much, to the extent that I pondered what his role was.
Then one day I figured it out: Bartali’s job was to be Bartali. He was invited to the race to maintain a link back to the glory days of his jousts with Fausto Coppi and Fiorenzo Magni. He didn’t have to say or do very much, but his presence alone would remind Italian cyclists, media and fans of their heritage, and emphasise why whichever race it was still mattered. By the late 80s and early 90s, Bartali looked like a gnomic parody of his former self, but was still the focus of public adulation.
Vincenzo Torriani, on the other hand, was still as suave and elegant as in the years of his pomp, but remained more in the background. Few of the fans seemed to recognise him, but with the older journalists – of the Coppi years – the embraces were warm and long.
Torriani had begun organising the races in La Gazzetta dello Sport’s stable after the Second World War, and ceded day-to-day control to Carmine Castellano in 1989, but remained there in the background. He was still fabulously elegant, dressed in his three-piece suits, hair perfectly coiffed with not a lick out of place, and always had a cigarette, which was his personal trademark, clamped to his lower lip as if it had been superglued.
"Torriani was Napoleon," wrote La Gazzetta dello Sport journalist Claudio Gregori. "For him, Italy was a land waiting to be conquered… the Italians recognised two people at first sight: Torriani and the Pope."
Another Gazzetta writer, Pier Bergonzi, felt that Torriani was "a giant, a legendary figure. His charisma and the aura that had been burnished by history made him a sort of saint among race organisers. His words carried the weight of a voice marked by the passage of time."
Torriani’s links went right back to the Giro’s founder Armando Cougnet. Just as the major lines of today’s Tour owe much to its long-time organiser Félix Lévitan, many of the celebrated locations in today’s three great Italian races were uncovered by Torriani. The legends and stories of Coppi, Bartali, Anquetil, Merckx, Hinault, Moser, Saronni, Roche and Hampsten were formed against a backdrop forged by Torriani’s daring and determination.
Like Lévitan, Torriani was an autocrat, but with the charisma that is innate to so many Italians. The Giro’s ‘last boss’ had come to the race from a non-cycling background. His family ran an olive oil plant, but instead of succeeding his father after the Second World War, young Vincenzo opted for organising events on behalf of Azione Cattolica, an organisation linked to the church. Torriani began by putting on plays and shows, then moved into sports events, which brought him into contact with Cougnet at the Giro’s organising newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport.
He and Torriani faced a massive challenge: the 1946 Giro was run through the war-torn remains of Italy, on roads so damaged that stretches of surface were mentioned in the race manual in the same way we might now list sections of cobbles, crossing the temporary bridges put up by the Allies as they drove out the Germans. The race visited Trieste, then a province contested by both Italy and Yugoslavia, and as they crossed the border the riders met a hostile crowd throwing stones. Security forces shot in the air. The riders knew what gunshots sounded like and ran for cover, too.
Eventually Torriani smuggled 17 die-hards past the road blocks in American military lorries to enable Trieste to have its stage finish. That became his trademark: getting the race through, no matter what.
A pioneer in taking races to new places
The constant need for novelty, the process of exploring fresh locations and presenting them to the public was what drew Torriani into cycling. "My Giri are like my sons," he said. "I feel I have created them, every one different."
My favourite on the Torriani roll of honour is his Giro start in Venice in 1978. That has to be the ultimate challenge for a road race organiser; Venice has no roads within its historic centre capable of taking motor traffic.
On the other hand, Venice’s Piazza San Marco is one of the most evocative places in Italy. To run his race past the lapping waves, the ancient basilicas and the multitude of small boats, Torriani arranged for a succession of ramps to be set up over the bridges along the Zattere embankment on the city’s south side, with a 400m long pontoon bridge taking the riders across the basin at the entry to the Grand Canal, and on into San Marco. It was crazy – anti-slip mats had to be put on all the ramps – but the images were fabulous: Francesco Moser on the front page of Gazzetta racing against the backdrop of the great Salute Basilica. A similar bridge is now used for the Venice marathon.
San Marco, with its pigeons and gondolas, was far from the first location on Torriani’s hit-list. A year earlier, he had been leafing through his Baedeker, and off the Giro went to Piazza dei Miracoli in Pisa, home of the Leaning Tower. The Vatican had been ticked off in 1974, and in 1981 and 1986 Torriani would add two more iconic tourist locations: the Arena at Verona and Piazza del Campo in Siena.
Hunting down celebrated backdrops is meat and drink now for race organisers, but Torriani was a pioneer in his belief that a race should go pretty much anywhere, however improbable.
The 1973 Giro is immortalised in the film Stars and Watercarriers by Jørgen Leth. That year, Torriani opted for a start in the Belgian town of Verviers, followed by stages to Maastricht, Cologne, Luxembourg, Strasbourg and Geneva, finally taking the race caravan through the Mont Blanc tunnel into the province of Aosta; Torriani had pondered this since the 50s and turned it into a tribute to the fledgling EU’s first growth spurt, when the UK and Ireland joined. He was ahead of his time, prefiguring Jean-Marie Leblanc’s ‘euro’ Tour de France by 19 years. This sort of extended foreign start is now routine for Grand Tours, but in the 1970s, it was truly radical.
The ‘euro-Giro’ was one of Torriani’s personal high points, another was the first ascent of the Passo del Gavia in 1960. By then, Torriani had a reputation for taking the Giro to places that looked impossible to more cautious souls. Questions had been asked about the Stelvio in 1953, and in 1956 he persisted with staging the finish atop Monte Bondone in snowy weather. The gamble paid off, forging the reputation of Charly Gaul. Torriani’s attitude to bad weather was robust. His motto: "If it rains, you get wet."
The Gavia, however, was tackled against the wishes of the director of La Gazzetta dello Sport, Giuseppe Ambrosini, who knew that snow was forecast, and felt that 24 hours before the finish in Milan, the risks were too great. There was also a danger that race vehicles might break down and block the narrow trackway: Torriani’s plan was for them to be thrown off the side, and he took out insurance for any damage caused in this way.
The stage went ahead successfully, with Imerio Massignan leading the race past vast snowdrifts as his tyres sunk into the mud. In a similar vein, finishing the last stage of the Giro right on top of the Stelvio in 1975 was yet another gamble, as a snowstorm could have made the entire race end in anticlimax. But again, it paid off. "You always have providence on your side," said his boss.
Away from the Giro, Torriani’s influence is evident in the Italian classics. We now watch Milan-San Remo and see the build-up over the Cipressa and the finale on the Poggio as part of the furniture. It’s not always been that way. Torriani included the Poggio in 1960, as it became apparent that the traditional ascents over the little capi on the Mediterranean coast road were no longer enough to split the field. The Cipressa was brought in for the same reason in 1982; evolving the race in this way enabled it to survive while using essentially the same route.
Il Lombardia similarly includes one of Torriani’s most controversial discoveries, the ludicrously steep Muro di Sormano in the hills between Como and Lecco, which he came across on a family holiday. "The wall did not exist on any maps; it was a mule track which had to be opened up and given a name," wrote Bruno Raschi. The climb was used only three times before it was abandoned as the riders felt it was too tough; it was put back in from 2012.
Torriani was a man of messianic vision. Some projects remained on the drawing board, including an entire Giro by sea, with everyone on the race doing the transfers by boat, while the riders raced along the coast and visited Sardinia and Sicily. Boats were risky, but Torriani clearly had a penchant for them. In 1961, he took the race to Sardinia aboard a rented ferry. After Sardinia, the ferry took the caravan to Marsala in Sicily, where the port proved too small to accommodate it; to disembark riders and cars, he called upon local fishing vessels.
Other ideas that bit the dust included taking the Giro to Greece in 1964 to celebrate Olympic year, and starting the Giro with a time trial across Berlin going through Checkpoint Charlie. Torriani was ahead of his time again. The Giro finally travelled to Greece in Olympic year in 1996 for a stage in front of the Parthenon, while the 1987 Tour began in West Berlin.
By the 1980s, the fault lines were creeping in. The Giro boss had always been one for tweaking his routes to favour a particular scenario, for example including a 48km stage to the top of Blockhaus in 1972 in an attempt to enable José Manuel Fuente to break Eddy Merckx’s stranglehold. Later, he brought in sprint time bonuses to further the cause of a win for Giuseppe Saronni.
In 1984, however, he went too far in a Giro won by Moser with a spectacular final time trial in Verona, at the expense of Laurent Fignon, who was in the form of his life. Moser had just taken the Hour Record and Milan-San Remo, but was struggling in the mountains against the Frenchman.
Fignon stated in his autobiography that Torriani "had made it clear which side he was on", and said that he remained convinced that the race organiser had dropped the Stelvio from the route to put him at a disadvantage, claiming that there was a landslide on the mountain. "Our plan for a huge offensive had been wrecked by the duplicity of the organisers, who had little regard for the rules of sport."
That might sound unlikely, but three years earlier, the Inoxpran team manager Davide Boifava asked for a video camera to be fixed in the car that would follow Giuseppe Saronni – who was up against Inoxpran’s Giovanni Battaglin – in the final time trial to ensure that the race was run regularly. Nothing untoward happened, but the fact that Boifava felt such a step was necessary says one thing: the Giro was running out of sporting credibility.
It was running out of money, too; Hinault’s second win, in 1982, came after the Rizzoli publishing group, owners of La Gazzetta dello Sport, hit cash-flow problems and could no longer fund the race. Incredible as it may sound now, the route was announced after Milan-San Remo that March, once the Coca-Cola company had come on board.
In 1988 came Torriani’s final spectacular act on the Giro, when heavy snow was forecast over the Gavia in what appeared to be a repeat of 1960. The assumption was that the stage would be cancelled, but Torriani made the riders plough on. The upshot was one of the most spectacular days’ racing the Giro has ever seen. Johan van der Velde, the leader over the top of the climb, lost 48 minutes before the finish, amid apocalyptic scenes. But the spectacle was sobering: the riders risked hypothermia. The next day, the Stelvio was dropped from the route.
The change of philosophy in 1989 was obvious; similar weather hit the race, and stages were cancelled immediately. The Torriani era had come to an end. Torriani lingered on, but like Bartali, he was essentially present as a link to a glorious past.
Back to Torriani’s cigarettes. It’s tricky now to recall the status that was once accorded to smoking, viewed as a sophisticated act à la James Bond or Philip Marlowe. Cycling had its smokers, even among the riders. Bartali, Jacques Anquetil and Gastone Nencini were among those who had felt a quick drag was beneficial as a way of relaxing.
The cigarette had once looked cool, but by the 90s it symbolised where Torriani was: a man out of time. Yet when he died in 1996, he drew warm tributes. There were stories from riders who would raid roadside bars in the 60s and 70s, filling their pockets with bottles and panini.
"Paghera Torriani," they would shout: Torriani will pay. It’s not certain he ever actually got the cheque book out. Robin Magowan, in his book Kings of the Road, wrote: "Torriani has the manner of a man who is everybody’s friend, but when it comes to collecting money he can be a lion."
Sometimes the new Torrianis have failed, for example when Angelo Zomegnan made the decision to run the Giro over Monte Crostis in 2011, which left only acrimony when the climb was cancelled over safety concerns. Sometimes, daring and determination in the Torriani mould still pay off: think of the decision to take the 2010 Giro through horrendous conditions over the ‘white roads’ of Tuscany, an outlandish risk which placed the gravel tracks around Siena at the centre of cycling consciousness, turbo-charging the rise of the Strade Bianche to the status it enjoys today. 'The last boss' would have liked that one.
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https://appletondowntown.org/2016/05/7th-annual-juneteenth-festival-june-19-in-city-park/ | 2024-04-13T10:01:57 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816587.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413083102-20240413113102-00655.warc.gz | 0.925387 | 423 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__134319214 | en | The 7th annual Juneteenth festival will take place on June 19th in Appleton’s City Park and will be a celebration of freedom, unity and community. The celebration is free to attend and runs from noon until 6 p.m.
The Juneteenth Celebration will feature:
- MC Keith L. Brown, Mr. I’M POSSIBLE
- “The Prince & Michael Experience” tribute performance
- Muntu Dance Theater of Chicago
- Lex Allen with New Age Narcissism
- Kucha and Baba Tony Stortytellers of Chicago
- HecDaKid from Atlanta
- Music from DJ Afrekete
- Stone of Hope Exhibit
- A Children’s Village with storytelling, face painting, mini golf, a train, and rock wall
- Food, free giveaways, and a resource fair
Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. The first celebration of the end of slavery took place in Galveston, Texas in 1865. Juneteenth is officially observed on June 19.
“Juneteenth is a time for us to gather as a community to celebrate freedom and remember the sacrifices that have been made while fighting for our freedom. While we understand that the struggle for equality continues, on June 19th, we will honor our past through festive activities that highlight the significance, beauty and diversity of African American culture and our contributions to the world. Everyone is welcome to this inclusive celebration to celebrate our collective American freedom,” said Dr. Bola Delano-Oriaran, one of the co-founders of African Heritage, Inc.
“Appleton is honored to once again be one of hundreds of celebrations happening across the country. We invite our community to join us as we celebrate the oldest African American holiday in the United States.” said City of Appleton Diversity Coordinator Kathy Flores.
This festival is hosted by African Heritage, Inc. and the City of Appleton with major sponsorship from Thrivent Financial, Oshkosh Corporation and Kimberly Clark Corporation. | history |
https://www.hshotels.co.uk/spread-eagle/rooms/queens-suite | 2021-10-28T20:41:47 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323588526.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20211028193601-20211028223601-00476.warc.gz | 0.930673 | 221 | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__83455944 | en | The Queen's Suite has a stunning carved four-poster bed, sitting room and a luxurious bathroom. It can be connected to the adjoining Edward VII lounge creating an impressive and spacious living space.
The Queen's Suite is the ultimate room for a celebratory or romantic getaway and is also ever popular with families looking to spend time together.
The Queen Suite is in the oldest part of the house, dating back to 1430. Having reputedly been graced by Queen Elizabeth I it is fit for a Queen with every modern luxury.
We encourage guests to arrive early and leave late in order to fully enjoy everything The Spread Eagle has to offer:
Our stunning feature four-poster rooms overlook the front of the hotel with beautiful sash windows with seats. Bright and spacious, they are perfect for a romantic week-end or for a moment of tranquillity .
From £339 View room
Located in the oldest part of the hotel and incorporating many of the historic features of the original property, our Sussex Junior Suites have separate sitting rooms.
From £289 View room | history |
https://georgegrant.net/churchill-and-chartwell/ | 2024-04-13T02:54:54 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816535.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413021024-20240413051024-00819.warc.gz | 0.984692 | 675 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__65153228 | en | Chartwell was a refuge and a sanctuary for Winston Churchill. The odd conglomeration of structures and additions on the Kentish weald, southeast of London was, for him, an earthly paradise. In fact, he often asserted that “A day away from Chartwell is a day wasted.” It was home.
And if ever a man needed a home, an earthly elysium to recharge, recoup, and reinvigorate, it was Churchill. He was born into privilege on this day in 1874—the son of the parliamentary master, Lord Randolph Churchill, and thus one of the heirs of the Marlborough legacy. Educated at Harrow and Sandhurst, he entered the Imperial service as a hussars officer. After notable tours of duty in India, Sudan, and South Africa, he entered parliament himself.
Having already made a name for himself, he rose quickly through the political ranks. By 1908 he moved from the back benches to become President of the Board of Trade. Two years later he became Home Secretary. The next year he was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty presiding over the naval expansion that preceded the First World War. He was evidently a man of extraordinary gifts and abilities.
A series of disastrous defeats—including the failure of the Dardanelles expedition, which he had championed—Churchill lost his Admiralty post and served out the remainder of the war on the front lines in France. He undertook a painstakingly slow and difficult political rehabilitation in the years that followed. Most analysts believed his career was essentially over—he was now relegated to the outer fringe of political influence. His dire warnings of the threat from Hitler’s Nazi regime in Germany went unheeded.
During those difficult years, Churchill bought and renovated the old estate of Chartwell. It was a place where he could rest and reflect, read and write, paint and build, garden and walk. He once asserted that “We shape our dwellings and afterwards, our dwellings shape us.” There can be little doubt that he shaped Chartwell to suit his peculiar interests and concerns. There his soul was braced for the great trials ahead.
When the Second World War broke out, the hapless Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain was forced to bring Churchill into the government—even though he was now sixty-five years old. He was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty. The following May, when Chamberlain was forced to resign, Churchill was asked by the King to form a new government and accept the office of Prime Minister.
Over the next five years, he stood practically alone against the Nazi menace. Almost single-handedly he saved Western Civilization, stirring the British people to unimaginable feats of valor with his bold oratory and even bolder leadership. His unflagging energy and his stubborn refusal to make peace until Adolf Hitler was crushed were crucial in turning the tide of the war and ultimately leading the Western Allies to victory.
After the war, he returned to Chartwell. Extraordinary vitality, imagination, and boldness characterized his whole career. But, he was the first to admit, if he had not had Chartwell—its libraries and gardens, its hearthsides and hedgerows, its peace and quiet—he would never have been able to do what he was called to do. | history |
http://ohiovrc.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-civil-rights-act-of-1964-turns-50.html | 2017-04-26T06:09:58 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917121165.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031201-00174-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.947156 | 490 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__141812379 | en | Wednesday, July 2, 2014 was the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a landmark piece of legislation that outlawed racial discrimination in the most essential aspects of life - such as employment, schools, public accommodations and housing. It also laid the ground work for key voting protections that allowed African Americans to register to vote and eventually led to the prohibition on poll taxes and literacy tests.
The Civil Rights Act sought to fulfill the promise of the constitutional guarantee of equal protection under the laws, including access to the ballot box. However, it ultimately took the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 for the federal government to be able to enforce the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
But for a little known Republican from Ohio, the Civil Rights Act might not have passed. William McCulloch of Piqua, Ohio was the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and an ardent supporter of civil rights. Despite political pressure from his district to oppose the Civil Rights Act, McCulloch delivered the necessary votes to pass the controversial bill.
On this 50th anniversary, the call to renew the Voting Rights Act could not be more urgent. Today Speaker John Boehner represents McCulloch’s district, and it’s now up to the Speaker to carry McCulloch’s torch and help get the Voting Rights Amendment Act passed.
Just over one year ago, the Supreme Court invalidated a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, which prevented racial discrimination at the polls since 1965. In Shelby v. Holder, the U.S. Supreme Court invited Congress to update the Voting Rights Act, and a bipartisan group of lawmakers has done so with the introduction of the VotingRights Amendment Act (VRAA). Unfortunately, the bill has stalled in the House of Representatives and time is running out to pass it.
Despite great progress in the last 50 years, voting discrimination continues to be a problem. For this reason, a forward-looking and effective VRAA is essential to ensuring that no voter is denied the right to vote and everyone has that right protected equally. The legacy of the Civil Rights Act depends on the passage of the VRAA, as there is no right more fundamental to our democracy than the right to vote.
In order to build momentum, the vote must be scheduled before Congress recesses in August.
Call and ask Speaker Boehner to schedule a vote on the VRAA (Click here for
a call script). | history |
https://www.purleyprimaryschool.co.uk/page/?title=School+History&pid=14 | 2023-12-07T16:35:22 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100677.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20231207153748-20231207183748-00237.warc.gz | 0.971818 | 87 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__131418340 | en | In 1872 Rev. Richard Palmer and Caroline Palmer generously financed the beautiful brick and flint Primary school that took fifty-five children for “the labouring, manufacturing and other poorer classes of Purley”.
2005 - 2016
Since that time, Purley has grown substantially with the addition of a school hall in 2005 and a further two classrooms in 2015/2016. It has been a primary school since September 2013. | history |
https://retirementbeforetheageof59.blogspot.com/2018/06/ | 2022-06-27T05:21:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656103328647.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20220627043200-20220627073200-00602.warc.gz | 0.952205 | 565 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__94275373 | en | |We Finally Toured the Queen Mine, a Historic Copper Mine|
|View of Historic Bisbee, AZ from the Queen Mine RV Park|
We always stay at the Queen Mine RV Park, set on top of a hill above the old copper quarry, overlooking historic Bisbee. The entrance to the RV park is just past the Queen Mine Tours Visitors Center. Every time we pass the Visitors Center I say we should check out the tour. This year we decided to do it.
The tour into the now closed copper mine was well worth the $13.00 price of admission. After we were each outfitted in a reflective vest, hard hat, and mine light, we climbed aboard the mine train.
|We Were Outfitted and Ready on the Mine Train|
Our tour guide, Pete, explained the safety rules and that once the train was inside the mine shaft, he would stop the train and make sure each of us was okay with being underground. The narrow tunnel is not a good place to be for a person who is claustrophobic.
|Entering the Narrow Queen Copper Mine by Train|
Pete then climbed onto the orange battery-powered train engine, rang the train’s bell, and we moved forward toward the mine entrance. When the train was entirely inside the tunnel, the doors to the outside mine slammed closed and Pete stopped the train. He walked along each train-car, checking that all passengers were okay with being underground. Then he climbed back on the engine and we proceeded deeper into the earth.
|Pete Climbed Back on the Engine After Checking All Passengers|
|Pete, a Retired Copper Miner, Told Stories of Pranks They Played|
He told how in the early years, they trained mules to haul the ore out of the mine, and how hard the young guys worked to exceed their weekly quotas of ore in order to receive bonuses.
|Mules Hauled Four Cars at a Time, Loaded with Oar|
He explained that the focus was to extract the high percentage of copper, with silver and gold as byproducts.
|Stunning Azurite, One of Two Copper Carbonate Minerals in Nature|
|Queen Mine's Safety Scoreboard|
History of the Mine from Bisbee’s Website:
Bisbee’s Queen Mine was one of the richest copper mines in history. The mine opened in 1877 and eventually closed when Phelps Dodge discontinued mining operations in Bisbee in the mid-1970’s. The Queen Mine opened once again as a tour for visitors in 1976, nearly 100 years after the mine originally opened.
|Terry L Turrell, Author|
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https://randomactsofreflection.com/ | 2018-03-25T05:19:01 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257651820.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20180325044627-20180325064627-00742.warc.gz | 0.983351 | 818 | CC-MAIN-2018-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-13__0__259324363 | en | I am alive today because Shanghai opened its doors to my father, his parents, his uncle and his aunt when the gates of most other countries, including the United States, were closed to them. I am alive today because, even as the Japanese conquered the Chinese and forced Jews into the ghetto of Shanghai, they refused to return them to a certain death in Nazi Germany. I am alive today because Jewish agencies like ORT and the Joint Distribution Committee sent aid and support to the Shanghai Refugees. And I am alive today because at war’s end, the United States began to reflect more closely the words inscribed on the Statue of Liberty and the Golden Gates were finally opened. A life of freedom and security in America was finally a reality.
This is a picture of the S.S. General W.H. Gordon making its way under the Golden Gate Bridge as it comes to port in San Francisco. This is the ship that in 1948 brought my father and grandparents, German Jewish refugees, from the Shanghai Ghetto to which they had fled to escape the horrors of the Shoah to America. They came here in the hopes of finding a home and, like so many before them, the gift of freedom.
My father, an ardent Zionist, actually hoped to make his way to Israel and help build the modern Jewish homeland. In 1948, that possibility, that long held dream, lay before him. But he faced one significant obstacle, the needs of his parents.
His parents, my grandparents, had sacrificed so much to take him out of Germany and to survive the hardships of living in the Shanghai Ghetto under Japanese domination. They did not have the strength to go to a new and unsettled land. They hoped to go to the United States where they had a San Francisco Jewish community willing to give them shelter and a Jewish company, Levi Strauss, ready to offer employment.
Like so many young adults before him, he sacrificed his dreams for his parents. He knew that they could not go alone, that they needed him now as he had needed them in the past. So, he accompanied them to America on the Gordon, a ship of refugees sponsored by the American Joint Distribution Committee.
In the United States, his parents built a new life. My grandfather worked his entire career for Levi Strauss and retired with pride in what he had accomplished and of how his son had thrived both professionally and personally.
My father went to college and graduate school, met and married my mother (hence my being alive today!) and pursued a career in pharmacy. Ultimately, he became one of the giants of pharmaceutical science, the father of the field of Biopharmeceutics and Pharmacokintetics. He developed or laid the foundations for drugs and therapies that have saved millions of lives, especially among children.
But for the good fortune of finding a refuge, in 1941, from the horrors of the Holocaust, none of this might have happened and I would not have been born to write about it. That Shanghai was one of the few safe havens available to them, that the Japanese refused to send them back when the Nazis demanded it, and that America finally began to return to the essence of its highest ideals are the blessings at the heart of why #myimmigrantfamily is #heretostay.
How many will die or never be born because the Gates of America are once more being closed to refugees whose lives are at risk? Will the United States of today once again become the United States of 1939 that sent the passengers of the St. Louis back to Europe and their certain demise? Will we allow Muslims seeking to escape the horrors of Syria to become the “European Jews” of today, denied sanctuary and sent back into danger?
We who have lived this history know that Silence = Death. And so, we will raise our voices, we will protest and advocate, we will never forget and we will not give up! And one day, I pray, some American Imam, yet unborn, will write that he is alive today because of us. | history |
http://www.ocradio.co.za/the-leader-of-mormon-church-thomas-s-monson-dies-aged-90/ | 2018-03-19T10:50:33 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257646875.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20180319101207-20180319121207-00142.warc.gz | 0.982311 | 693 | CC-MAIN-2018-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-13__0__203341934 | en | SALT LAKE CITY — The leader of Mormon Church Thomas S Monson has died aged 90. Thomas S Monson was the 16th president of the LDS Church, he died at 10:01 p.m. Tuesday in his Salt Lake City home.
He had been at the helm of the church for nearly 10 years as prophet-leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Millions of latter-day saints (Mormons) across the world are saddened to see what has been described by the church as a closure of a distinctive era in church leadership. During his time as one of the longest-serving apostles in Mormon history, church membership expanded from 2.1 million members to 15.9 million.
Thomas S Monson will be most remembered for his individual ministry, a relentless drive to go to the rescue. President Monson’s biographer described his lifelong, tender ministry to widows, the lost, the obscure, the dying and the downtrodden as a portable pool of Bethesda, the New Testament place of mercy and grace where waters made the lame whole and Jesus Christ healed a paralyzed man. President Monson carried what he himself termed “Bethesda’s blessing” of heartfelt ministry to a grease pit, countless hospitals and behind the Iron Curtain.
A large, faithful, energetic, gregarious, intelligent man with a prodigious recall that allowed him to memorize talks and remember everyone he met, President Monson shot through the ranks of church leadership, as a bishop at age 22 and president of the faith’s Canadian Mission at 31. He was unthinkably young, just 36, when he was ordained a modern apostle of Jesus Christ on Oct. 4, 1963. No one younger has been called as an LDS apostle in more than a century. The last younger apostle, Joseph Fielding Smith, was ordained at age 33 in 1910; he also lived to become church president.
The senior quorums of the LDS Church are vaults of institutional memory. New apostles are trained by the quorum’s senior apostles. As a new apostle in 1963, President Monson joined a quorum with a handful of men who knew or were raised by Latter-day Saint pioneers who crossed the plains in 1847. They could speak from experience about the church before the Manifesto that ended polygamy in 1890.
By the time of his death, his past relationships in the quorum made President Monson unique among living LDS senior leadership. He was the final prophet to have served in the Twelve with church leaders who had known men who knew the first, Joseph Smith.
President Monson also was the final living apostle called to the Twelve by late church President David O. McKay. He was the last apostle alive who had served with President McKay’s immediate successors at the head of the church, Joseph Fielding Smith and Harold B. Lee. The man expected to succeed President Monson, President Russell M. Nelson, is 93, but he was ordained an apostle more than 20 years after President Monson, in 1984.
President Monson spent more than three decades in the First Presidency. He spent a total of 54 years as an apostle. Only four men in LDS history served longer in the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve — President McKay, Heber J. Grant, Joseph Fielding Smith and Wilford Woodruff. | history |
https://www.lovemontanaliving.com/kalispell/ | 2018-11-17T00:58:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-47/segments/1542039743247.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20181116235534-20181117020807-00042.warc.gz | 0.940183 | 112 | CC-MAIN-2018-47 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-47__0__45437472 | en | Welcome to Kalispell
With historic architecture, art museums, down to earth coffee shops, and multiple city parks Kalispell hosts many local residents and tourists year round. Founded as a railroad town and platted in 1891 Kalispell history is still visible even today. Recognized landmarks include, the Conrad Mansion, Hockaday Museum of Art, The Great Northern Rails to Trails and Depot Park located in the heart of downtown. Kalispell's offers a variety of shopping with local Montana themed stores and the newly developed Hutton Ranch Plaza. | history |
https://iwkfoundation.org/land-acknowledgement | 2024-03-05T14:34:25 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707948235171.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20240305124045-20240305154045-00457.warc.gz | 0.930574 | 206 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__199939118 | en | The IWK Foundation is located in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq People, and we acknowledge them as the past, present, and future caretakers of this land.
This territory is covered by the “Treaties of Peace and Friendship” which Mi’kmaq Wəlastəkwiyik (Maliseet), and Passamaquoddy Peoples first signed with the British Crown in 1725. The treaties did not deal with surrender of lands and resources but in fact recognized Mi’kmaq and Wəlastəkwiyik (Maliseet) title and established the rules for what was to be an ongoing relationship between nations. We are all Treaty people.
Mi’kma’ki includes all of Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, part of New Brunswick, the Gaspé region of Quebec, part of Maine, and southwestern Newfoundland. | history |
http://yiddishoz.com.au/ | 2017-10-17T07:54:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187820930.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20171017072323-20171017092323-00692.warc.gz | 0.879779 | 136 | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-43__0__241058805 | en | Yiddish Seminar at Monash University
Thursday, the 29th of October, there will be a seminar in Yiddish with Monash University’s international guest
The head curator of the permanent exhibition in the Museum of the History of Polish Jewry in Warsaw.
She will speak on the topic:
The history of Yiddish in the permanent exhibition of the Polin Museum in Warsaw.
The seminar will take place on Thursday the 29th October, 4pm, at the ACJC (Level 8, building H, Monash University Caulfield).
RSVP to [email protected] More » | history |
http://gracechurchtoday.org/about-us/ | 2021-04-12T16:00:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618038067870.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20210412144351-20210412174351-00555.warc.gz | 0.970449 | 757 | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-17__0__50228837 | en | ABOUT GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH
Just before the dawn of the 20th century, in 1888, the foundation of Grace Baptist Church, one of the most dynamic houses of worship in the nation was laid in the City of Mount Vernon, NY. Grace was built out of a spirit of hope and community engagement. Its founders, “five Negro women” as the church history describes them, organized a Baptist church mission dedicated to not only attending to the spiritual needs of the then small African American community of Mount Vernon, but also to their educational needs as well. Shortly after the Grace Baptist Mission was organized a Sunday School for people of all ages was started.
With the aid of the First Baptist Church of Mount Vernon, a white congregation, the Grace Baptist Mission purchased a plot of land and built its first church home in 1891. Two years later, Grace Baptist Mission elected its first pastor, the Reverend J.L. Montague a proud graduate of Lincoln University of Pennsylvania and of Newton Theological Seminary in Massachusetts, thus setting Grace Baptist’s standard of calling educated, seminary trained pastors, a rarity for many churches of any racial category within the Baptist tradition at that time. A more permanent chapel was built to meet the growing church in 1894. The newly constructed chapel had seating for nearly 400 people. Much of the funds for the new building were secured through active fund raising and support from First Baptist Church. Grace Baptist Mission was incorporated as, “Grace Baptist Church of the City of Mount Vernon, State of New York,” a self-sufficient religious corporation in 1906.
Grace Baptist Church flourished in the midst of two World Wars, and the Great Depression. The congregation was tested however on January 15, 1939 when the small wood frame building that Grace called home for 50 years was gutted by fire. However, by the summer of 1939 the congregation of Grace Baptist purchased one of the largest church buildings in Westchester County.
The imposing, red brick edifice of the former First Presbyterian Church had a seating capacity of 900, a large kitchen and dining room. In time the congregation also purchased and renovated a parsonage. Grace burned its first mortgage in 1946 and its second mortgage in 1958. Throughout its history, Grace has been a champion for social justice. One of its early highlights occurred when the Civil Rights leader the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King preached from its pulpit on 1959.
Rev. Dr. W. Franklyn Richardson became the ninth pastor of Grace in April of 1975. During the church’s 100th anniversary in In 1988, Dr. Richardson led the congregation which had grown to some 3,000 members, into an expanded and renovated church complex that now included a music center, chapel, new banquet hall, additional class rooms and youth center. The $3.2 million expansion and renovation project propelled the churches growth and outreach to greater heights. Today Grace Baptist has extension sites in Yonkers, NY and Port St. Lucie, FL. All three of the Sunday services from Grace in Mount Vernon can be seen around the globe through live webcasting. The church’s community development corporations have built nearly 400 units of affordable and senior citizen housing. Under the leadership of Dr. Richardson the church seeks to build and maintain a regional “Village of Grace” that provides spiritual, cultural, educational, economic and sociopolitical uplift for individuals and families throughout the Tri-State area.
To bring the Village of Grace to fruition the church has embarked on building for the future. From 1990 to 2013 the congregation has purchased properties immediately surrounding its historic sanctuary all in preparation for constructing a new state of the art cathedral complex with seating capacity of 2,500. | history |
https://www.musee-archerie-valois.fr/explorer-les-collections/en-madonna-and-child/ | 2020-11-24T18:25:47 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-50/segments/1606141176922.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20201124170142-20201124200142-00223.warc.gz | 0.966603 | 495 | CC-MAIN-2020-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-50__0__193025216 | en | Deposit from the commune of Fresnoy-le-Luat, 1975
Classified as a Historical Monument
This group of polychrome stone statues of the Madonna and Child has been classified as a Historical monument since 1925. Originally, it was to be found in the Luat chapel, in the commune of Fresnoy-le-Luat.
The Virgin is elegantly clothed in a low-cut ochre dress tied at the front. Her long blue mantle with decorated edges is held together by a cord with two flower-shaped clasps. She is wearing a crown and is sitting on an X-shaped seat called Dagobert whose extremities are decorated with floral motifs. The Child Jesus, seated on her right leg, is looking at an open book she is holding. With his left forefinger, the Child is showing his mother a precise passage in the text. This representation differs from usual iconographies that mostly depict a mother teaching her child, as in the case of Saint Ann with her daughter Mary. Here the iconography is reversed: Jesus is teaching his Mother, pointing out to her the important passages to read and meditate on.
The top of Mary’s head and the back of the artwork are not sculpted, and the latter has even been hollowed out in the back to lighten the ensemble as much as possible, thus indicating that the sculpture was meant to be seen only from the front, its back to the wall, in an alcove or against a panel.
The coat of arms visible on the armrest has not yet been identified. It is nevertheless probable that the patron of this artwork was a powerful local lord.
In the surroundings of the Valois, Madonnas and Child with an open book are few during the 15th and 16th centuries, whereas the theme is omnipresent in Brussels during the 15th century. Although probably from a workshop in the Île-de-France, this statue still shows influences straight from Flanders.
Two statues showing Saint John and Saint James, also deposited in the museum under the inventory number D1975.1.4 and D1975.1.3, flanked this Madonna and Child in the Luat chapel. In view of the numerous stylistic resemblances, they are probably from the same workshop, and formed a large ensemble of statues meant to give more prestige to the little chapel that housed them. | history |
http://www.magordesigns.co.uk/nidum-precision-tooling/ | 2019-11-18T14:05:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496669795.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20191118131311-20191118155311-00542.warc.gz | 0.967695 | 152 | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-47__0__106679982 | en | The name Nidum Precision Tooling has been synonymous with precision engineering and tool making in South Wales for over 50 years.
Founded by toolmakers in 1961, Nidum progressively expanded at its historic home in Hirwaun to support many of the leading manufacturing operations in both South Wales and across the UK. The legacy from our founding partners is a no nonsense, open, practical engineer to engineer approach very much focused on getting the job done.
The founding owners retired in the late 1990’s and the business continued to expand. In 2001 it relocated to its current base in Resolven – where it occupies 10,000 sq feet of modern and customised facilities. First class road links mean we are readily accessible to clients from across the UK. | history |
https://www.mabelmercer.org/mabel-mercer/ | 2023-09-26T12:18:53 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510208.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20230926111439-20230926141439-00308.warc.gz | 0.958084 | 838 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__150076302 | en | Mabel Mercer — arguably the supreme cabaret artist of the twentieth century — was born in England and performed in the United States, Britain, and across Europe to a large fan base including such big names as Frank Sinatra and Ernest Hemingway. She was a featured performer at Chez Bricktop in Paris, performed Le Ruban Bleu, Tony’s, the RSVP, the Carlyle, and the St Regis Hotel in New York, and eventually hosted her own room, the Byline club.
Mabel Mercer was born in 1900 in Staffordshire, England. After leaving a Manchester convent school at the age of fourteen, Miss Mercer joined her aunt in a vaudeville and music hall tour of Britain and the Continent. Her career quickly blossomed, and by the 1930s she was the toast of Paris, introducing her inimitable style of singing to adoring audiences and beguiling such steadfast admirers as Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Cole Porter, and the Prince of Wales.
The outbreak of World War II brought her to America where she began a series of engagements at New York’s finest supper clubs. Among the rooms she made her own were Le Ruban Bleu (a six-month stay), Tony’s (seven years), the RSVP (two years), and five years in her own Byline Club. Miss Mercer solidified her career with engagements at the Carlyle and St. Regis Hotels, and she enjoyed brilliant concert triumphs and record-breaking appearances across the United States.
The brilliance of Miss Mercer’s recordings have made both original albums and numerous reissues highly prized collectors’ items. To honor her 75th birthday in 1975, Atlantic Records assembled four classic early LPs and reissued them in a boxed set. In recognition of her life’s achievement, Stereo Review Magazine presented Miss Mercer with its first Award of Merit for “outstanding contributions to the quality of American musical life.” In 1984, the Award of Merit was officially renamed the Mabel Mercer Award. After an absence of 41 years, Miss Mercer made her long-awaited return to England on July 4, 1977, accompanied by her long-time friend and publicist, Donald Smith. So great was the public acclaim on her return to London that the BBC filmed three evenings of extraordinary footage of Miss Mercer’s performances. The BBC later devoted an entire week to a series of late-night half-hour television broadcasts—an honor never before bestowed upon an entertainer. In 1978, Miss Mercer’s new album, Midnight at Mabel Mercer’s, was hailed by Stereo Review as one of the best recordings of the past twenty years. To celebrate her 78th birthday later that year, Miss Mercer played a sold-out engagement at San Francisco’s Club Mocambo to enthusiastic audiences. Mabel Mercer was honored in January 1981 by the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York with An American Cabaret, the first musical celebration of its kind in the museum’s history. Created and produced by Donald Smith, the evening was dedicated to the artistry of Mabel Mercer. Miss Mercer next appeared as the first guest on Eileen Farrell’s new National Public Radio program featuring great popular singers, a program that was repeated in June 1992 at the Kool Jazz Festival.
In 1983, President Ronald Reagan presented Mabel Mercer with the Presidential Medal of Freedom at a White House ceremony. In bestowing America’s highest civilian honor upon Miss Mercer, the president described her as “a singer’s singer” and “a living testament to the artfulness of the American song.” Among Miss Mercer’s many other honors are two honorary Doctor of Music degrees from Boston’s Berklee College of Music and the New England Conservatory of Music. Mabel Mercer died on April 20, 1984. On Miss Mercer’s birthday the following year, February 3, 1985, The Mabel Mercer Foundation was formally established. | history |
http://www.nrhs.com/news/2012_heritage_grants | 2017-04-28T02:32:36 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917122726.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031202-00054-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.878258 | 1,197 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__313944149 | en | The NRHS, America’s largest rail preservation organization, today announced the 2012 recipients of its annual Heritage Grants Program. NRHS will award $50,000 to support 21 non-profit organizations from 14 states and the District of Columbia. Recipients include NRHS chapters, historical societies, museums and municipalities.
Projects range from the restoration of rare locomotives, passenger cars, freight cars, and railroad structures to the creation of an exhibit featuring the history of African-American railway workers in the Pacific Northwest. One project involves digitally converting priceless railroad images in a process that will result in a blueprint for other NRHS chapters to follow in preserving and generating revenue from their own collections. Through these diverse projects, NRHS funding will leverage hundreds of thousands of volunteer hours and in-kind matching donations.
“This year’s applicant pool was the largest in NRHS history and one of the best in recent memory, making the award decisions painfully difficult,” said NRHS President Gregory Molloy. “While we’re excited to fund these important projects, the fact remains that scores of equally significant rail projects will go without our support this year, underlining the urgency of our mission.”
Since the program’s inception in 1991, NRHS has now awarded 221 grants for a total of $548,000 to support a wide variety of railroad history preservation projects.
This year’s recipients and their projects include the following:
Alexander Chapter NRHS, Hickory, North Carolina: $4,200 to finance the emergency crane lifting, move, and stabilization of two rare passenger cars from the West Virginia Midland Railroad.
Bellefonte Historical Railroad Society, Bellefonte, Pennsylvania: $2,000 to provide roof repair materials to stabilize the roof of the Bellefonte Central Railroad caboose.
Clinton County Arts Council / Clinton Northern Railway, St. Johns, Michigan: $3,100 to repair and restore the exterior of a 1902 wooden sleeping car, the Sault Ste. Marie.
Chesapeake Railway Association, Gaithersburg, Maryland: $1,500 to remove all asbestos insulation under the historic heavyweight Pullman solarium Meadow Lark.
Collis P. Huntington Chapter NRHS, Huntington, West Virginia: $2,500 to repair and paint Chesapeake & Ohio Mallet locomotive no. 1308.
Washington D.C. Chapter NRHS: $4,200 to fund the “Digital D.C. Railroad Heritage Project” consisting of an online museum of Washington, D.C.’s railroad history, an online process to submit and identify images and data of potential historical value, and an e-commerce function.
Friends of the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad, Albuquerque, New Mexico: $2,000 to develop a standardized interpretive signage system for the 64-mile Cumbres & Toltec Railroad.
Gold Coast Railroad Museum, Miami, Florida: $2,800 to restore interior paint and upholstery of the Presidential Railcar Ferdinand Magellan, which served four U.S. presidents.
Monon Railroad Historical-Technical Society, Edinburgh, Indiana: $2,500 for sandblasting, repairing and painting the exterior of 87-year-old Monon business car no. 2, Lynne.
Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad Museum, Nevada City, California: $2,500 for the purchase of roof restoration materials for the 109-year-old Lake Tahoe Railway & Transportation box car no. 4, built in San Francisco.
Oklahoma Railway Museum, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: $1,000 to help fund the restoration of Rock Island caboose no. 17834, built in 1915.
Oregon Black Pioneers, Salem, Oregon: $2,500 to produce a traveling exhibit with the Oregon Historical Society on the history of African-American railroad workers in Portland from the 1800s to 1940s.
Queen Anne's Railroad Society, Centerville, Maryland: $1,200 to fund the rehabilitation of the Pennsylvania Railroad freight station in Centreville, Maryland.
Railway Restoration Project 113, Minersville, Pennsylvania: $1,500 to fabricate, insulate and install jacketing on the boiler of Central Railroad of New Jersey steam locomotive no. 113, currently being restored.
New England Electric Railway Historical Society/Seashore Trolley Museum, Kennebunkport, Maine: $3,800 to restore Bay State Street Railway car no. 4175 to operational status for its centennial in 2014.
South Carolina Railroad Museum, Columbia, South Carolina: $2,500 to repair the museum’s 1924 Pullman dining car, used for educational trips and public charters.
Southampton Railroad Station Society, Southampton, Pennsylvania: $500 to repair the stone foundation on the Southampton’s Philadelphia and Reading Railroad station building.
St. Louis Chapter NRHS, St. Louis, Missouri: $2,800 to cosmetically restore Wabash no. 573 steam locomotive—one of two surviving Wabash Railroad steam engines.
New Mexico Steam Locomotive & Railroad Historical Society, Albuquerque, New Mexico: $1,000 to clean the engine boiler and smoke box of Santa Fe no. 2926, a 1944 steam locomotive being restored.
Town of Pittsfield, Maine: $3,300 to replace the roof of the historic Pittsfield Railroad Station, one of Maine’s only original publicly accessible train stations operating as a transportation museum.
Western Railway Preservation Society, Baker City, Oregon: $2,600 to purchase trucks and couplers for a rare, wooden frame “Red Crown Gasoline” Zerolene tank car that once ran on Oregon's Sumpter Valley Railway. | history |
https://www.excursiontravel.com.tr/Daily-Tours/Alanya-Demre-Kekova-tour-prices/Alanya-Demre-Myra-Kekova-Tour_23.html?syprdky=3_0_26_1_0&stpcty=1 | 2021-10-21T19:58:46 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585441.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20211021195527-20211021225527-00641.warc.gz | 0.974669 | 419 | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__64136197 | en | The Mediterranean region is home to epic sea, sun, beaches and natural beauties, as well as cultural values and many beautiful historical monuments. In this tour, you will take a blue tour on the sunken city in Kekova, one of the hidden paradises of the Mediterranean, and watch the ruins of the ancient city on the seabed and on the shore while swimming in the clear waters. Then you will visit the Church of Santa Claus, which is a holy place of pilgrimage in the Christian faith, and you will see the ancient city of Myra and rock tombs from the Lycian civilization, which is among the most ancient Anatolian civilizations. You will enjoy your lunch from the open buffet as much as you want, and watch the extraordinary natural beauties of the Mediterranean during the trip and inhale the clean air.
The ancient city of Myra is the ancient Lycian city in the center of the Demre district in the province of Antalya. One of the six major cities of the Lycian Unity. Finds have been found that prove its existence from the 5th century BC. The name of the ancient city of Myra, known as the Diocese of St. Nikolas, means "the place of the goddess mother goddess". The city's most important building, St. Nikolas Church was destroyed in 1034 by the garrison that it suffered as a result of Arab raids.
The ancient city of Myra, built on the same level as its own name, was associated with Andriake, which is located in the village of Çayağzı and its port city. The ruins preserved to this day form the theater on the southern edge of the acropolis and rock tombs on both sides. In the upper part there are Roman and Hellenistic city walls. Myra was once the capital of the Lycian province. The ancient city of Myra has a special meaning in Christianity as it was visited by Paul and his friends who were considered the most famous and even most influential Christian missionaries | history |
http://loyallegionpa.org/events/lincolns-birthday-celebration-2018/ | 2018-12-09T20:42:46 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376823009.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20181209185547-20181209211547-00104.warc.gz | 0.847596 | 228 | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-51__0__175409886 | en | Lincoln’s Birthday Celebration
The Commander of The Pennsylvania Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States requests the honor of your presence to celebrate the birthday of the Nation’s 16th President, Abraham Lincoln.
Friday Evening, February 23rd, 2018
The Historic Philadelphia Club located at 1301 Walnut Street in Philadelphia.
5:30pm – 6:15pm: Reception
Reception in the Bar area
6:15pm – 6:45pm: Featured Lecture
“Wit and Wisdom of the 16th President”
Keynote Speaker: Mr. Roger Arthur — Historian
7:00pm – 9:00pm: Dinner and Toasts
Salad: Walnut Street Salad – Mixed Greens topped with Walnuts and Stilton Cheese
Entree: Braised Short Ribs with Barbeque infused Demi-Glace
Dessert: French Blueberry Tart
Business Attire (coat and tie required by The Philadelphia Club)
For tickets, please contact Will Forbes at [email protected] | history |
http://www.theclassicmusiccompany.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-johann-sebastian-bach/ | 2023-11-29T15:51:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100112.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20231129141108-20231129171108-00637.warc.gz | 0.99129 | 623 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__29774298 | en | Everything You Need to Know About Johann Sebastian Bach
Legends in the field of music have been pouring various magical pieces into the hearts of every soul. The music created by these artists has a unique touch to it that makes it relevant even after centuries of its release. Several musicians have been the milestone to the world of music at various stages of evolution. Johann Sebastian Bach was also one such musician who created pieces that have brought about a difference in the norms of music composition. Let us travel back in time to the times where Bach was creating some impressive art.
Who is Johann Sebastian Bach?
Johann Sebastian Bach was a highly celebrated member of a family of German musicians, and his compositions in the Baroque era were his career-defining works. Bach is considered as one of the greatest musicians of all time, but during his days he was primarily regarded by his contemporaries as an organist and harpsichordist. He is well known for his creations such as The Well-Tempered Clavier, Brandenburg Concertos, the Mass in B Minor, and many other instrumental music compositions. History of music had various eras that define the world of melodies, and Bach was a part of it during the propitious days. He surveyed the field to combine the principal forms and styles of traditional music that was developed in the preceding decades. All his efforts went into enriching these music styles, and most of them were successful.
Since he was born into a family of musicians, he had the right amount of support to take up the career too. Bach was introduced to the organ by one of his uncles, and his older second cousin, Johann Ludwig Bach was also a part of it all. Ludwig later became a popular violinist and composer. It was in the years after 1700 that Bach explored the various sides of European culture when he joined St. Micheal’s School in Luneberg. Apart from the singing sessions at the choir, he also played harpsichords and organ.
In 1703, Bach bagged the post of the court musician in the chapel of Duke Johann Ernst III. Due to his feats in Weimar, he became more popular among the music lovers so much so that he was invited to play the inaugural piece and give the recital at the Bach Church in Ardstadt. When he was dissatisfied with the performance of the choir, he left the job and returned to Weimar in 1708. It was during the period from 1708-1717 that Bach composed his best pieces on his keyboard. Bach also got the opportunity to perform at the castle church when he got promoted to Konzertmeister. In the later years, he kept traveling from one place to another to give his best compositions.
A thematic catalogue of Bach’s compositions was published in 1950, and most of the works have been special pieces in the history of music. Everything from Cantatas, Motets, Four-part chorales, and small vocal works to the church and Capella music created by him inspired many of the aspirants. | history |
https://jamestowntribe.org/ | 2024-02-23T06:24:12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474361.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20240223053503-20240223083503-00013.warc.gz | 0.956265 | 298 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__143747471 | en | “S’Klallam” is a Salish term for “The Strong People.”
Our history shows that we have always been self-reliant and determined to forge our own path. In 1855, the S’Klallam leaders signed a treaty with the Federal government with the understanding that they would always be able to hunt, fish and gather in their “usual and accustomed” grounds. As increasing numbers of non-Indian settlers began to arrive in the area desiring the same abundant lands and waters that were so important to the S’Klallam people, the S’Klallam people living in the Dungeness area decided that in order to survive, they had to adopt a new value system that included property ownership.
In 1874, under the leadership of Tribal citizen Lord James Balch, they pooled $500 in gold coins and purchased the 210-acres along the Strait of Juan de Fuca, now called Jamestown. This provided a geographical center for group identity and independence, and was the start of the Jamestown S’Klallam community.
Our vision is to preserve and enhance the Jamestown S’Klallam Nation’s historical and cultural identity as a strong, proud and self-reliant community while protecting and sustaining our tribal sovereignty, self-governing authority, homelands and treaty rights. | history |
https://anthea-verlagsgruppe.de/products/tina-heinze-brokers-of-modernity | 2024-02-28T23:33:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474746.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20240228211701-20240229001701-00379.warc.gz | 0.962563 | 299 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__53241209 | en | Life Stories of Educated Muslims in Ghana, 1935–2005
Paperback, 14,8 x 21 cm
For several centuries Muslims acted as brokers in many West African societies. They exchanged goods as traders, served as clerks, and transmitted knowledge as scholars. However, during European colonisation from the 15th to the 20th century Muslims lost their economic, political, and educational influence. In the Gold Coast too, new clerks, who were trained mainly in Christian mission schools, gradually overtook the role of former Muslim administrators. Brokers of Modernity investigates how Muslims, primarily through secular education, regained their status as brokers in postcolonial Ghana and thereby traces the history of Muslim education from colonial times to the 1990s. Based on the life stories of thirty women and men of three generations from Accra and Tamale, this study focuses on individual strategies of coping with the tensions between secular civil life and religious practice. How did the interviewees negotiate 'being a Muslim' and 'being a citizen' in public schools and within their Muslim community? As brokers of modernity, secular educated Muslim both modernized Muslim communities and Islamized the Ghanaian society. Through their activities Islam has become more visible and present in the public sphere. In postcolonial Ghana, Tina Heinze argues, brokers play a prominent role in integrating minorities, mediating between social groups at the margins and mainstream society. Acting at the fringes, they cross the borders of different belief systems, cultures and ways of life. | history |
http://www.policymic.com/articles/8267/5-reasons-why-the-u-s-will-fall-like-rome/134136 | 2013-05-21T01:05:47 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699632815/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102032-00031-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.953053 | 255 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__99932024 | en | In 1776, Edward Gibbon, a British historian, wrote Volume I of his six volume series, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. He finished the sixth volume in 1789, but the series actually took him 26 years in total, from start to finish.
Here are the five reasons he listed for the decline and fall of the Roman Empire:
1. The undermining of dignity and sanctity of the home, which is the basis of human society.
2. Higher and higher taxes and the spending of public money for free bread.
3. The mad craze for pleasure.
4. The building of gigantic armaments when the real enemy was within: the decadence of the people.
5. The decay of religion—faith fading into mere form—losing touch with life and becoming impotent to guide the people.
One could argue that in recent history, and especially today, the U.S. embodies all of these factors. Others argue that while the U.S. is going to fall, it will be largely for economic reasons. I summarized some of the reasons in a previous piece.
What do you think? Does the US share the same fate as the once-powerful Roman Empire? | history |
http://chesterfieldstopthewar.blogspot.com/2009/09/chesterfield-stop-war-stall-22-august.html | 2018-06-18T07:28:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267860089.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20180618070542-20180618090542-00547.warc.gz | 0.959082 | 104 | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-26__0__188638711 | en | Thursday, 17 September 2009
Chesterfield Stop The War stall 22 August 2009.
Stop The War groups across the country held events to name the 200 British soldiers killed in Afghanistan and some of the innocent civilian victims whose names we know. 20 members of our local group collected names on the national petition, calling for the troops to be withdrawn from Afghanistan. We were amazed by the positive response from the public, with more than 500 people signing the petition. A good number had relatives serving in the British army in Afghanistan. | history |
https://bigideas.svbtle.com/the-evolution-of-tourism-in-queenstown-a-journey-through-time | 2024-04-14T08:33:45 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816875.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20240414064633-20240414094633-00898.warc.gz | 0.947774 | 691 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__30621444 | en | The Evolution of Tourism in Queenstown: A Journey Through Time
Nestled along the shimmering shores of Lake Wakatipu and cradled by majestic mountain ranges, Queenstown is often regarded as the crown jewel of New Zealand’s tourism. But how did this quaint lakeside settlement evolve into the bustling adventure capital of the world? The history of tourism in Queenstown is a fascinating tale of discovery, innovation, and unyielding spirit.
The Early Days
Before the European settlers arrived, the area that would become Queenstown was frequented by Maori in search of pounamu (greenstone), a treasured stone used for tools, weapons, and ornaments. It was in the 19th century, during the Otago Gold Rush, that Queenstown began to see a significant influx of outsiders. While the gold rush was transient, it laid down the infrastructure that would later prove pivotal for tourism. Roads, bridges, and initial accommodations were established, setting the stage for what was to come.
The Birth of Adventure
The late 20th century saw Queenstown cementing its place as the epicentre of adventure tourism. The 1980s, in particular, were groundbreaking. Bungee pioneers AJ Hackett and Henry van Asch introduced the world to commercial bungee jumping with the iconic Kawarau Bridge Bungy. The success of this venture set the tone for the multitude of adventure sports that Queenstown would become synonymous with - from jet boating and white-water rafting to skydiving and paragliding.
The snowy caps of The Remarkables and Coronet Peak have long beckoned winter sports enthusiasts. The establishment of ski resorts in the 20th century transformed Queenstown into a winter wonderland, attracting both domestic and international tourists. The ski culture not only brought in revenue but also added to the vibrant nightlife, with après-ski parties becoming the norm.
Rise of Luxury Tourism
With the influx of tourists came the demand for quality accommodation. From the late 20th century and into the 21st, Queenstown witnessed the rise of luxury resorts, lodges, and boutique accommodations. Today, some of the best hotels in Queenstown offer breathtaking views of Lake Wakatipu and the surrounding mountains, with world-class amenities ensuring an experience par excellence.
While the adrenaline-pumping activities continue to draw tourists, modern-day Queenstown also appeals to those seeking relaxation and rejuvenation. The region’s vineyards, renowned for their Pinot Noir, provide idyllic wine tours and tastings. The town’s culinary scene has also evolved, with a plethora of restaurants serving global and local delicacies.
Additionally, events like the Queenstown Winter Festival and the NZ Open golf tournament have played a crucial role in promoting Queenstown as a diverse and year-round destination.
The history of tourism in Queenstown is not just about a town that embraced adventure; it’s about a community that adapted, innovated, and thrived. From the days of the gold rush to its present-day status as a world-renowned tourist hub, Queenstown’s journey has been nothing short of remarkable. And as the town continues to evolve, it remains a testament to the spirit of exploration and the pursuit of excellence. | history |
https://www.knightsbridgeschool.com/history/ | 2024-02-28T19:42:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474744.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20240228175828-20240228205828-00447.warc.gz | 0.961148 | 517 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__55090751 | en | The study of History is an exciting, wondrous and deeply rewarding experience. It can provide participants of all ages with a sense of awe at where we have come from and where we are heading. At Knightsbridge School, we seek to make this journey as engaging and fun as possible. Our overarching aim in the History department is to foster a deep-seated and lifelong love of learning about the past, whilst also developing and honing the skills required to make a good historian.
Within KS3, students study a wide range of topics, both ancient and modern, with a view to understanding that the past is a ‘foreign place’. The students begin to explore historical evidence and attempt to ask and formulate questions about history. As they move up the school, students begin to study events in more depth and, whether looking at subjects such as the murder of Thomas Becket, the Battle of Hastings, the Reformation, the French Revolution, Woman’s Suffrage or the First World War, all students explore a range of topics which prepare them brilliantly for the study of the 20th Century at GCSE. Within each topic, students are asked to critically analyse both primary and secondary sources of evidence, write extended pieces which challenge a statement or question, complete detailed projects on people and events and, in essence, to fully immerse themselves in the rich tapestry that is history.
We are also profoundly fortunate to be studying history in the heart of one of the most historically significant cities in the world. This good fortune lends itself beautifully to trips and, from the first opportunity, we make the most of what is on our doorstep. From exploring the Tower of London to touring the Houses of Parliament, students at Knightsbridge School experience a wide range of our capitals offerings and learn to treat them as the incredible and valuable sources that they are.
The common belief that history is simply a series of names and dates is passionately challenged at Knightsbridge School. Whilst students are provided with in-depth knowledge of our local, national and global pasts; we also spend a great deal of our time debating, questioning and challenging popular beliefs so that our young historians have the tools with which to argue against ‘old truths’ and, eventually, to form their own interpretation of the events that they study. History is a complex and often contentious subject which requires a broad skill set and a genuine thirst to discover more. Despite its sometimes dusty reputation, we show students that history has never been more important and more relevant than it is in the twenty-first century. | history |
http://www.thepaytons.org/essays/origins.html | 2023-11-30T03:48:46 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100164.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20231130031610-20231130061610-00023.warc.gz | 0.975977 | 2,043 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__282829204 | en | by Doug Payton
As promised, I received information about the origins of Thanksgiving and Christmas as federal holidays. Unfortunately, while I asked for copies of the bills that made these days government holidays, instead I got copies of the relevant portions of two books that members of Congress have use of in their legislative duties. In any event, what follows is information from two books; "Chase's Calendar of Events - 1996" from Contemporary Books and "Celebrations - The Complete Book of American Holidays" by Robert J. Myers.
First off, it has been alleged that Thanksgiving does not have the religious roots it is purported to have. This is interesting, given that the vast majority of its initial celebrants were religious refugees from England by way of Holland. The religious aspect of the first Thanksgiving celebration is obvious in this passage from the first Thanksgiving Proclamation, June 20th, 1676:
The Council has thought meet to appoint and set apart the 29th day of this instant June, as a day of Solemn Thanksgiving and praise to God for such his Goodness and Favour, many Particulars of which mercy might be Instanced, but we doubt not those who are sensible of God's Afflictions, have been as diligent to espy him returning to us; and that the Lord may behold us as a People offering Praise and thereby glorifying Him; the Council doth commend it to the Respective Ministers, Elders and people of this Jurisdiction; Solemnly and seriously to keep the same Beseeching that being perswaded by the mercies of God we may all, even this whole people offer up our bodies and soulds as a living and acceptable Service unto God by Jesus Christ.
Thanksgiving was a harvest celebration that acknowledged God as the Provider. These are Puritans we're talking about here.
The history of Thanksgiving in American government started with the first President in the year of his inauguration. From the "Celebrations" book, this is George Washington in 1789:
Now, therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday, the 26th of November next, to be devoted by the people of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the Beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be; and that we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection of the people of this country, previous to becoming a nation; for the signal manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of His providence, in the course and conclusion of the late war; for the great degree of tranquillity, union and plenty which we have enjoyed; for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enabled to establish Constitutions of Government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national one now lately instituted; for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and, in general, for all the great and various favors, which He has been pleased to confer upon us.
From the "Chase" book:
President George Washington proclaimed Nov. 26, 1789, to be Thanksgiving Day. Both Houses of Congress, by their joint committee, had requested him to recommend a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity to peaceably establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.
So not only was the first celebrated Thanksgiving religious in nature, but the first proclamation that started the ball rolling in the new American government (a proclamation requested by a joint committee of Congress, no less) was unabashedly so. It was a day of thanksgiving to God. (Washington was, I believe, a Congregationalist, so I'm pretty confident that's who he's talking about with the words "Being" and "Author".) Washington issued another proclamation in 1795.
It gets interesting here, because there wasn't a consensus as to the worth of the day. Puritans, interestingly, refused to recognize a set date for Thanksgiving because they believed Thanksgiving should be more spontaneous. And who also "actively condemned" it? A name you'll recognize; Thomas Jefferson. Unfortunately, "Celebrations" says no more than that. I would be very interested in knowing whether Jefferson's objections were personal or whether they were Constitutionally motivated. Nonetheless, I once said that every President from Washington to Lincoln proclaimed a day of Thanksgiving, and "Celebrations" implies that aspect is apparently in error. It does mention, however, James Madison's request that the nation "observe a day of Thanksgiving and peace in remembrance of the War of 1812".
But "Celebrations" says that Thanksgiving was still observed as a religious event. More and more states began to adopt it as an official holiday. However, some governors considered it to be state interference with religion and so avoided it. (I see a difference between considering something an "interference with religion" and "state sponsorship of a religion". The former is what the governors' concern was, the latter is what concerns the "separation of church and state" crowd. They are not equivalent.)
More and more states began celebrating Thanksgiving (and most on the same day). Finally, on October 3, 1863, President Lincoln issued this Thanksgiving Proclamation, after which Thanksgiving became a national holiday.
The year that is drawing toward its close has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, other have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequalled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign states to invite and provoke their aggressions, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict....I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a day of thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens....
The article goes on to say that the specific date for Thanksgiving is set by presidential proclamation each year which, with two exceptions, has always been the fourth Thursday in November.
This information clears up this outstanding issue: Thanksgiving, both in its celebratory roots and its legislative history as a national holiday, is distinctly religious in nature. From its initial observation by the Puritans through (at least) Lincoln's proclamation, it has been quite clear who was being thanked; God. It also adds one reason (if not more) to discount the idea that the First Amendment precludes the government acknowledging religion in this way. Both houses of Congress requested this holiday with language that acknowledged the "many and signal favors of Almighty God". And in 1789! Sure, Jefferson may not have liked the idea, but many, many others who would know the original intent and may have even participated in the debate of the First Amendment did not. This one event alone should be enough to dispel any myths about original intent. Is it possible that Jefferson's view of "separation of church and state" was a minority opinion and that it doesn't accurately portray the view of most of the Constitution's framers? There's a thought.
Unfortunately, neither "Chase" nor "Celebrations" gives much insight into the history of Christmas as a national holiday, though "Celebrations" does delve heavily into its origins as a celebration of Christ's birth. Here is what it does say with regard to legislation:
Alabama was the first state to grant legal recognition to Christmas, in 1836. By 1890 all the states and territories had made similar acknowledgment, including the District of Columbia in 1870. It is interesting to note that Christmas is the only annual religious holiday to receive this official and secular sanction.
(Some might see that last sentence as stating, in the opinion of the "Celebrations" authors, that Thanksgiving is not an annual religious holiday. In answer to that, one must understand that the celebration of Christmas goes back to the third century as an official church holiday. Thanksgiving really only became truly annual when it was made an official state holiday.)
Here again we have an action taken by every state, the District of Columbia, and the federal government, that goes against what some people of a particular constitutional belief from laymen to Supreme Court justices say that the First Amendment prohibits. This, too, taken by itself, shows that ideas about Constitutional thought nowadays (and "nowadays" would get special emphasis if I were speaking instead of typing) is flat-out wrong. The framers of the Constitution did not intend for religious expression to be stifled anywhere, even in government itself. Those far closer in time than we to those framers understood it as well, and their actions are in harmony with the framers. Coercion they were against, and for good reason, but not expression. And setting up an official national holiday for the birth of Christ or specifically for thanking God was not considered coercion or establishing an official state religion.
And after all, that's what this discussion was all about in the first place. The Constitution of the United States prohibits the establishment of a state religion, and calls for free religious expression. What does that mean? Look at how it was practiced in the past by those who crafted the Constitution and to those who were separated from them by far fewer years than we are today. Their actions will plainly show what they meant.
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http://history.visitwonders.com/en/guide-detail/history-1-9.html | 2017-04-26T13:39:11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917121355.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031201-00210-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.844937 | 703 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__19293302 | en | 500 000 to 12 000 BC. J.C.: First human traces.
Fifth millennium: Period of Hoa Binh.
Third and Fourth Millennium: Bac Son Civilization.
Second millennium BC. J.C.: Bronze Civilization. Era of the Hung Kings.
First millennium BC. J.C.: Kingdom of Van Lang.
258 BC. J.C.: Kingdom of Au Lac.
111 BC. J.C.: Annexation by the Han Chinese Empire.
From 40 to 43 AD. JC: Revolution of the Trung sisters against the Chinese.
Image of Trung sisters sitting on elephant
Year 968: Foundation of Dai Viet, the first independent Vietnamese state.
11th century: Fighting against a new invasion of China, Song Dynasty.
12th Century: Resistance against the Mongols.
1407: Occupation Ming.
1427: Rise of the Le kings.
17th century: Arrival of the first Europeans.
1698: Foudation of Saigon.
18th century: Division of the country between the Lords Trinh Nguyen in the north and south.
1771 - 1802: Insurrection in Tay Son.
1784: Treaty of Versailles with Louis XVI.
1802: Reunification of the country with King Gia Long.
1883 - 1884: The Tonkin and Annam become protectorates.
1887: Founding of the Indochinese Union with Laos and Cambodia.
Indochina map (French rule)
1930 : Fondation par Hô Chi Minh du Parti Communiste indochinois.
1941: Establishment of the Viet Minh.
1939 - 1945: Japanese occupation.
March 9, 1945: Coup de force against the French and Japanese setting up Emperor Bao Dai.
September 2, 1945: Proclamation of Independence.
May 7, 1954: Fall of Dien Bien Phu.
July 20, 1954: Geneva Accords and partition of Vietnam.
December 1960: Establishment of the National Front for the Liberation of the South. Beginning of the U.S. military intervention.
1965: Arrival of the U.S.
1969: Decease of President Ho Chi Minh.
Porttrait of Ho Chi Minh
January 27, 1973: Paris Agreements on Indochina.
April 30, 1975: Saigon fall
July 2, 1976: official reunification of Vietnam.
June 1978: Accession of Vietnam to the COMECON Council of Mutual Economic Assistance.
January 1979: Vietnamese troops overthrew the Khmer Rouge regime in Phnom Penh.
February 17, 1979: China's military intervention in northern Vietnam (Lang Son).
1989: End of the Vietnamese withdrawal from Cambodia.
1992: New constitution of Vietnam
1994: Removal of the U.S. trade embargo
1995: Vietnam's admission to ASEAN
June 2006: Following the tenth congress of the Vietnamese Communist Party, the National Assembly elects the new president of the state (Nguyen Minh Triet) and the new Prime Minister (Nguyen Tan Dung).
January 11, 2007: Vietnam became the 150th member of the World Trade Organization (WTO).
October 16, 2007: Vietnam was elected non-permanent member of the Security Council of the United Nations for a term of two years. | history |
http://hotfromthekettle.com/vegetable/2011/11/7/make-ahead-thanksgiving-feast-green-bean-casserole.html | 2019-03-23T23:43:31 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912203093.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20190323221914-20190324003914-00232.warc.gz | 0.968652 | 242 | CC-MAIN-2019-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-13__0__60161786 | en | The original Green Bean Casserole recipe was created by an employee of the Campbell Soup Company called Dorcas Reilly in 1955. The recipe consisted of Canned Green Beans, Canned Cream of Mushroom Soup, and Canned Fried Onions.
What foodies like me often forget is that the era of the New Frontier celebrated convenience and new technology; it was a period where doing without (as was the case with the Depression and the War) was in the past. World War II, and in particular the need to feed troops in two theatres of war, resulted in some technological breakthroughs in the culinary world. One of them was the mass production, and subsequent consumption, of anything canned.
The post war 1950's was a period of doing things the new modern American way! And the results were poodle skirts, the Edsel, and green bean casserole. The original recipe for Green Bean Casserole now has a place of honor in the National Inventors Hall Of Fame in Akron Ohio. (Anyone for a roadtrip?) Inspired by that original recipe, this twist of the original features fresh ingredients and is made from scratch!
Visit the Recipe Book for the complete recipe! | history |
http://www.codognetreviso.com/2011_12_02_archive.html | 2013-12-05T04:08:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-48/segments/1386163039753/warc/CC-MAIN-20131204131719-00034-ip-10-33-133-15.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.98587 | 179 | CC-MAIN-2013-48 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-48__0__200113453 | en | COUNTING BY WINTERS
Winter counts are histories or calendars in which events are recorded by pictures, with one picture for each year.
The Lakota call them waniyetu wowapi. Waniyetu is the word for year, which is measured from first snowfall to first snowfall. It is often translated as "a winter." Wowapi means anything that is marked on a flat surface and can be read or counted, such as a book, a letter, or a drawing.
Winter counts are physical records that were used in conjunction with a more extensive oral history. Each year was named for an event and the pictures referring to the year names served as a reference source that could be consulted regarding the order of the years. People knew the name of the year in which other important events occurred, and could place these in time by referring to the winter count. | history |
https://www.lundboats.com/our-heritage.html | 2022-09-24T16:04:09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030331677.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220924151538-20220924181538-00618.warc.gz | 0.956107 | 484 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__32453355 | en | When a salesman from Inland Marine Corporation asked Howard for 50 more aluminum boats, the Lund® Boat Company began production of "The World's Finest Fishing Boats". This initial order of boats put Lund on the map for generations to come.
In 1961, Howard re-incorporated the company as Lund Metal Craft, Inc. and expanded into the fiberglass market. With the acquisition of Shell Lake Boat Company, Lund would now increase versatility with a product line up for both fishing and family recreation.
The 70's were the decade some iconic Lund Boats were born. The Tyee and Mr. Pike emerged with models including the Tyee Offshore and Tyee Cubby. Lund also had an expansive fiberglass offering from a 22'6" Cuddy Cabin Plus, sailboats and even the famed 315 Guide Special which is where some of the biggest names in fishing started with Lund like Al Lindner and Gary Roach.
It was the 80's when Lund Boat Company closed its Shell Lake fiberglass facility to focus on the aluminum boat manufacturing company in New York Mills, MN. Concentrating on aluminum, the innovative models like the iconic Pro V, Baron, Rebel and Alaskan came to life. Some other niche boats like the Newport (center console) and the 2100 & 2450 Sport Cabin were born.
In 1994 Lund began offering pontoons such as the 2100 Angler, 2450 Explorer and later expanded with the 1800/2100 Sportsman, 2100 Executive/2100 Executive and the 2450 Chairman SE/2450 Chairman SE in 1995. In 1998, Lund celebrated 50-years and offered custom paint, special graphics and color matched motors on certain models.
In 2004, Brunswick Corporation completed the acquisition of the Lund Boat manufacturing plants in New York Mills, MN and Steinbach, MB. In 2008 Lund returns to the fiberglass boat market with the introduction of the GL fiberglass boat series. There were 2 models released, 186 Fisherman and the 186 Tyee. These were soon followed by the 197 Pro V GL and 208 Pro V GL.
Today, Lund retains its reputation as the industry’s leading aluminum fishing boat company. Built by fishermen for fishermen, we continue to innovate while honoring the boat-building traditions that have made the name legendary. With boats still on the water from generations past, the brand is strong and the boats are even stronger. | history |
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/us-navy-world-war-ii-weather-data-climate-change | 2023-12-05T12:05:03 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100551.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20231205105136-20231205135136-00292.warc.gz | 0.960049 | 401 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__75439346 | en | A massive volunteer effort to digitize World War II-era U.S. naval logbooks is helping fill an important gap in the climate record.
To understand how humans have altered the climate, scientists must first determine what the climate looked like previously, and ship logbooks are essential to this work, providing a historical account of weather on the high seas. However, there are large gaps in the weather record during World War II, when hostilities stifled commercial shipping.
To fill in that gap, scientists sought to digitize recently declassified logbooks from 19 U.S. warships stationed in the Pacific during the war. Among these were the battleships USS Pennsylvania and USS Tennessee, which suffered losses in the attack on Pearl Harbor but remained in service through the end of the conflict.
Scientists enlisted the help of some 4,000 volunteers who, working online, transcribed more than 630,000 weather records containing more than 3 million observations that spanned the breadth of the Pacific Ocean, as well as parts of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. The effort, led by researchers at the University of Reading, is detailed in a new paper published in Geoscience Data Journal.
The data gathered could help resolve a longstanding question about the past climate. Research suggests that the Earth was unusually warm during World War II, but data from the eastern Pacific is sparse, and potentially flawed. Sailors, presumably wary of shining a light at a hostile ship after dark, were more likely to record temperature data during the day, possibly introducing a warm bias into the weather record.
The U.S. Navy data, recorded at hourly intervals throughout the day and night, will help scientists better gauge temperatures during the war. “These ships saw action in the Indo-Pacific and Far-East, taking observations at times and places where few or no other digitized observations exist,” authors wrote. “These new observations and metadata will be invaluable for improving reconstructions of past climate.” | history |
https://www.ohanaezendigboworldwide.org/2020/12/10/a-tribute-to-prof-emma-okocha-the-asagba-of-asaba/ | 2022-09-28T18:55:33 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030335276.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220928180732-20220928210732-00384.warc.gz | 0.943815 | 393 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__104421820 | en | H.R. H. Obi (Prof) Joseph. C. Edoziem, CFR CONDOLENCE ON THE DEMISE OF PROF. OKOCHA
It is with profound and inestimable sadness that I write to commiserate with Your Royal Highness and the people of Asaba on the unfortunate passing away of your erudite and celebrated son, Prof. Emma Okocha, the Ikemba Ahaba designate.
A highly acclaimed cerebral author, Prof Okocha bestrode the world like an intellectual colossus whose unearthing and documentation of the events of the Nigerian / Biafra Civil War culminated in an epochal chronicle of the sad massacre of defenseless civilians in Asaba in a book entitled Blood on the Niger, a book that has been subject of international study.
That Prof. Okocha was courageous is not in doubt, that he spoke truth to power is not in doubt, that he was patriotic is not in doubt and that he has stamped his name and person on the indelible marble of time is equally incontestible.
The Ikemba Ahaba designate was also a staunch member of Ohaneze Ndigbo and even contested for a post in the Igbo body in 2017. It is also on record that Emma testified courageously on behalf of Ohanaeze Ndigbo and Ndigbo generally on the massacre at Asaba during the Oputa Panel. He will forever be remembered for that.
We at Ohaneze Ndigbo Worldwide mourn him with great regret. We mourn him with great passion. We are happy that he didn’t just come and go but left a foot print for which he will forever be remembered.
Adieu Emma Okocha
Adieu Ikemba Ahaba designate.
Chief John Nnia Nwodo President General Ohanaeze Ndigbo | history |
https://socialhistories1917.wordpress.com/andy-willimott/ | 2020-08-04T04:38:29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-34/segments/1596439735860.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20200804043709-20200804073709-00459.warc.gz | 0.934976 | 411 | CC-MAIN-2020-34 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-34__0__154073585 | en | Living the Revolution: Urban Communes in 1920s Russia and the Invention of a Socialist Lifestyle
Thursday 15 December 2016, 6.30 pm, Lecture Theatre B33, Birkbeck, University of London, Malet St, London WC1E 7HX.
At the heart of this talk is a cast of fiery-eyed, bed-headed youths determined to be the change they wanted to see in the world. First banding together in the wake of the October Revolution, seizing hold of urban apartments and student dormitories, youthful enthusiasts tried to offer practical examples of socialist living. Calling themselves ‘urban communes’, they embraced total equality and shared everything from money to underwear. They actively sought to overturn the traditional family unit, reinvent domesticity, and promote a new collective vision of human interaction. A trend was set: a revolutionary meme that would, in the coming years, allow thousands of would-be revolutionaries to experiment with the possibilities of socialism. These activists tried to live what they understood as the “socialist lifestyle”, self-consciously putting Marxist and Bolshevik theories into practice. By telling the story of the urban communes, this talk reveals how grand revolutionary ideals were experienced, understood, and appropriated on a human level.
Andy Willimott is Lecturer in Modern Russian/Soviet History at the University of Reading. He first became interested in the world of modern dreamers and revolutionary visions for everyday life while studying History at the University of East Anglia, surrounded by the architecture of Denys Lasdun and Norman Foster. Between 2012 and 2015, he was Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies. He is author of Living the Revolution: Urban Communes & Soviet Socialism, 1917-1932 (Oxford University Press, 2016) and co-author of Rethinking the Russian Revolution as Historical Divide (Routledge, 2017). University web page, Profile and Information about book. Twitter @AndyWillimott | history |
https://therotterdampilot.com/?p=2100 | 2020-01-29T04:58:55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-05/segments/1579251788528.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20200129041149-20200129071149-00498.warc.gz | 0.960571 | 1,619 | CC-MAIN-2020-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-05__0__140029538 | en | ROTTERDAM, the Netherlands — They came from Russia, Poland, Germany and Ukraine, bearing tickets bought in the field offices of the Holland America Line passenger ships. They were fleeing the pogroms, escaping tyrants, running from war or just seeking a better life. About two million people made their way to Rotterdam harbor during the peak years from 1880 to 1920 to begin a trans-Atlantic journey that would often end at Ellis Island.
The stories of these migrants inspired the former Rijksmuseum director, Wim Pijbes, and the group he leads, Stichting Droom en Daad (Foundation Dream and Do), to transform a crumbling warehouse on the Rotterdam piers into a kind of Dutch sister-site to Ellis Island. The nonprofit organization he directs, founded in 2016 to support arts in Rotterdam, acquired a city permit in March to turn the old Holland America Line warehouse into an institution that will commemorate those journeys.
“I won’t call it a museum,” Mr. Pijbes said recently as he showed a reporter around the 108,000-square-foot concrete and steel building on a windswept pier, which is home to a number of ragtag hipster start-ups, including an organic food court, galleries and arts groups. “A museum is a phenomenon that has a very strict idea and image in most people’s minds. I want to find a word that has a kind of hybrid function, a place, a platform, an agora.”
The new multiuse facility, called the Fenix, will include restaurants, shops and galleries on the ground floor, while the entire top floor will be devoted to exhibitions related to immigration, past and present.
In 2020, when their leases expire, the current shops and businesses will move out to make way for renovation, which is expected to cost upward of 5 million euros ($6.14 million), though some will return.
“Culturally and historically, this will be of amazing value for the city,” Ahmed Aboutaleb, the mayor, said of the Fenix project, adding that it would serve as “a bridge” between the north and south sides of Rotterdam.
Through a partnership with several local museums and the Rotterdam City Archives, the exhibition space will combine historical presentations, based on three million records related to the immigrants who passed through here, and ship data, along with contemporary art.
Mr. Pijbes said he would like to show the Mexican artist and filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s high-tech art installation “Carne y Arena (Virtually Present, Physically Invisible)” (2017), which allows one visitor at a time to experience crossing the United States-Mexico border in the desert, through virtual reality.
“What we want to show is that this is a universal story,” Mr. Pijbes said. “People at some point of their lives make a decision, whether it’s forced by war, poverty, religious reasons or something else. They decide to put everything they have into one or two suitcases and to make this journey to a new world and start all over again. The same thing happens to Jews from Russia and people from African continents crossing the Mediterranean, or Syrians fleeing the war. What we want to do is to understand the emotion and to show the emotion.”
Hundreds of thousands of those who left through Rotterdam were victims of pogroms, anti-Semitic riots that swept the Russian Empire, killing thousands and propelling mass Jewish migration. But among the 3.5 million people who took the Holland America Line from its inception in the 1870s to the 1960s, when air travel became significantly cheaper, were every conceivable kind of immigrant.
Mr. Pijbes intends to make the passenger lists, and details about those who traveled, available to the public online within a couple of years, before the Fenix opens.
The Holland-America Line built what was said at the time to be the largest warehouse in the world on this pier in 1923, using it as a passenger terminal and goods transport center, according to Droom en Daad. In those days, some 2,000 to 4,000 people would board a single ship — first steamers and later ocean liners — for the weekslong voyage to the United States or Halifax, Nova Scotia, with poorer émigrés cramming into steerage and the wealthier passengers banqueting in first class.
An entire industry sprang up around the travelers who passed through this port, to house them, provide them with papers and check them for diseases like rheumatic fever and trachoma (pink eye) that would prevent their entering the United States.
Rotterdam was heavily bombed by German forces before the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands in 1940 and again as the Germans retreated, hoping to cut off Allied access to supplies.
The warehouse was blown up with dynamite, but rebuilt at half the size after the war. It was named the Fenix, or phoenix, rising from the ashes.
Today, large ocean liners dock at these piers, and glass office towers dwarf the Art Deco building, once the tallest at the harbor, that had served as the headquarters of the Holland America Line (now the charmingly historic Hotel New York).
“It takes more than a hundred years to rebuild a city that has been bombed to the ground,” Mr. Pijbes said. “You see now in places like Syria and Iraq what happened here.
“If you see the city as a body, what happens to the body is a trauma. What people tend to do when they have a very serious trauma is to turn their back on it. The people from Rotterdam did not look back in history. Don’t think about the past, they said, look at the future.”
But Mr. Pijbes said that his foundation felt it was time to look back, because the history of Rotterdam was rich and fascinating.
Mr. Pijbes served as the general director of the Rijksmuseum, the Dutch national museum, for eight years before he stepped down in 2016 to run the Museum Voorlinden, a private contemporary art center in Wassenaar founded by a chemical company executive and art collector, Joop van Caldenborgh.
The Voorlinden job lasted only a few months.
Soon afterward, Mr. Pijbes said, he was approached by the Van der Vorms, one of the wealthiest families in the Netherlands, who asked him to establish a foundation devoted to Rotterdam-based cultural activities and projects.
The Van der Vorms owned shares in the Holland America Line from the 1930s until it was sold to the American Carnival Corporation in 1989, but this project was not born of that connection, Mr. Pijbes said.
After spending about a year meeting with some 200 Rotterdam-based artists, architects, developers and city leaders, Droom en Daad settled on the Fenix as its first major undertaking.
“If you go to Amsterdam or Leiden or Delft, you go to the city center, and you see the Middle Ages and you see the 17th century and the 19th century, you see history,” Mr. Pijbes said. “In Rotterdam, you have history, but you can’t see it physically. Everything that is built in the city center was built after 1950. There’s a lack of history. There’s a gap in the memory.
“Our goal is to fill that gap, or refill that gap, by focusing on culture and heritage.” | history |
https://betheldurham.org/history/ | 2024-03-01T10:10:12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947475238.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20240301093751-20240301123751-00787.warc.gz | 0.969177 | 290 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__37647949 | en | The above photo was taken by Sidney Markman (Z”‘L) in 1953.
The Durham Jewish community traces its origins to the 1870s when German and Eastern European immigrants arrived to peddle and open stores in the growing tobacco town. In the early 1880s their numbers were augmented by the arrival of Russian-Jewish cigarette rollers.
The Durham Hebrew Congregation organized in 1887 and rented a hall on Main Street. In 1892, the congregants formally chartered the congregation and hired a rabbi. In 1905, they purchased a small, wood-framed church on Liberty Street, which became Durham’s first synagogue.
After World War I, the congregation built a large, cathedral-style synagogue downtown. When it was dedicated in 1921, the members took the name Beth El Congregation. Beth El remained Orthodox through the 1930s and 1940s, but over the years the community grew more liberal in its religious practices. In 1948, Beth El hired a rabbi who was a member of the Conservative movement.
Beth El broke ground for a new synagogue and center on Watts and Markham Streets in 1957. In its centennial year, 1987, Beth El acquired and renovated the Freedman Center, which provides classrooms and an attractive environment for major social and educational functions.
Beth El today reflects a vibrant, dynamic community led by a volunteer board, enriched with the teachings of many dedicated community members. | history |
https://pcgamefreetop.com/2017/03/mount-and-blade-viking-conquest-game-download.html | 2024-02-22T18:50:30 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473824.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20240222161802-20240222191802-00372.warc.gz | 0.895256 | 657 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__171319519 | en | Mount and Blade: Viking Conquest stands as a testament to the prowess of TaleWorlds Entertainment in crafting immersive and historically rich gaming experiences. Released as an expansion to the critically acclaimed Mount and Blade: Warband, Viking Conquest catapults players into the tumultuous world of the Viking Age, offering a unique blend of historical accuracy, strategic gameplay, and an expansive open-world environment.
Setting the Stage:
The game unfolds against the backdrop of the Viking invasions of Britain in the 9th century. Players find themselves amidst a politically charged and war-torn landscape, where Viking raiders clash with Anglo-Saxon defenders. The level of detail in the game’s historical setting is staggering, with meticulous attention paid to recreating the weaponry, architecture, and cultural nuances of the time.
Character Creation and Progression:
One of the standout features of Viking Conquest is its robust character creation and progression system. Players begin their journey by customizing their character, choosing everything from their appearance to their backstory. As the game progresses, characters can hone their skills in various disciplines such as combat, leadership, and trade. This not only adds a layer of personalization but also directly impacts the player’s success in the harsh world of Viking Conquest.
Dynamic Campaign Map:
The heart of the game lies in its expansive and dynamic campaign map. Players traverse a meticulously crafted open-world environment that spans the British Isles and beyond. From the bustling trading towns of Wessex to the Viking strongholds in Scandinavia, every location is teeming with life and opportunities. The dynamic nature of the campaign map means that alliances shift, kingdoms rise and fall, and the player’s actions have a tangible impact on the game world.
Naval Warfare and Exploration:
Viking Conquest introduces a maritime dimension to the Mount and Blade series, allowing players to engage in thrilling naval warfare and exploration. Commanding a longship, players can navigate treacherous waters, raid coastal villages, or engage in epic sea battles. The addition of naval gameplay adds a refreshing layer of strategy and excitement to the overall gaming experience.
Epic Battles and Sieges:
True to the series’ roots, Viking Conquest delivers epic battles on a grand scale. Whether leading a charge on horseback or defending a besieged fortress, players must master the art of medieval warfare. The inclusion of siege mechanics adds a strategic element, requiring players to carefully plan their assaults or defenses, considering factors such as troop composition and siege weapons.
Intriguing Quests and Diplomacy:
Beyond the battlefield, Viking Conquest offers a plethora of quests and diplomatic challenges. Players can align themselves with different factions, undertake quests that range from epic sagas to personal vendettas, and navigate the intricate web of political alliances. The depth of the quest system contributes to the overall narrative richness of the game, offering a well-rounded experience beyond mere combat.
- OS: Windows® XP, Vista, Windows 7
- CPU: Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz or AMD 2.5 GHz
- RAM Memory: 3 GB
- Video Card: (256 MB+)
- DirectX: 9.0c
- HDD Space: 3.5 GB Free
- Sound Card: Yes | history |
http://thesciencebulletin.wordpress.com/tag/emilio-aguinaldo/ | 2013-12-06T17:26:58 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-48/segments/1386163052275/warc/CC-MAIN-20131204131732-00054-ip-10-33-133-15.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.967306 | 1,199 | CC-MAIN-2013-48 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-48__0__85821452 | en | José Protacio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda (June 19, 1861 – December 30, 1896), was a Filipino polymath, patriot and the most prominent advocate for reform in the Philippines during the Spanish colonial era. He is regarded as the foremost Filipino patriot and is listed as one of the national heroes of the Philippines by the National Heroes Committee. His execution by the Spanish in 1896, a date marked annually asRizal Day, a Philippine national holiday, was one of the causes of the Philippine Revolution.
Rizal was born to a rich family in Calamba, Laguna and was the seventh of eleven children. He attended the Ateneo Municipal de Manila, earning a Bachelor of Arts, and enrolled in medicine at the University of Santo Tomas. He continued his studies at the Universidad Central de Madrid in Madrid, Spain, earning the degree of Licentiate in Medicine. He also attended the University of Paris and earned a second doctorate at theUniversity of Heidelberg.
As a political figure, José Rizal was the founder of La Liga Filipina, a civic organization that subsequently gave birth to the Katipunan led byAndrés Bonifacio and Emilio Aguinaldo. He was a proponent of achieving Philippine self-government peacefully through institutional reform rather than through violent revolution, although he would support “violent means” as a last resort. Rizal believed that the only justification for national liberation and self-government is the restoration of the dignity of the people, saying “Why independence, if the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow?” The general consensus among Rizal scholars is that his execution by the Spanish helped to bring about the Philippine Revolution.
Rizal’s Family Tree
His parents, Francisco Engracio Rizal Mercado y Alejandro (1818–1897) and Teodora Alonso Realonda de Quintos,were prosperous farmers who were granted lease of a hacienda and an accompanying rice farm by the Dominicans. Rizal was the seventh child of their eleven children namely: Saturnina (Neneng) (1850–1913), Paciano (1851–1930), Narcisa (Sisa) (1852–1939), Olimpia, Lucia (1857–1919), María (Biang) (1859–1945), José Protasio (1861–1896), Concepción (Concha) (1862–1865), Josefa (Panggoy) (1865–1945), Trinidad (1868–1951) and Soledad (Choleng) (1870–1929).
Rizal was a 5th-generation patrilineal descendant of Domingo Lam-co traditional Chinese: 柯儀南; simplified Chinese: 柯仪南; pinyin: Kē Yínán; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Kho Gî-lâm, a Chinese immigrant entrepreneur who sailed to the Philippines from Jinjiang, Quanzhou in the mid-17th century. Lam-co married Inez de la Rosa, a Sangley of Luzon.
In 1849, then Governor-General of the Philippines Narciso Clavería, issued a Decree by which native Filipino and immigrant families were to adopt Spanish surnames from a list of Spanish family names. Although the Chino Mestizos were allowed to hold on to their Chinese surnames, Lam-co changed his surname to the Spanish “Mercado” (market), possibly to indicate their Chinese merchant roots. José’s father Francisco adopted the surname “Rizal” (originally Ricial,
the green of young growth or green fields), which was suggested to him by a provincial governor, or as José had described him, “a friend of the family”. However, the name change caused confusion in the business affairs of Francisco, most of which were begun under the old name. After a few years, he settled on the name “Rizal Mercado” as a compromise, but usually just used the original surname “Mercado”.
Upon enrolling at the Ateneo Municipal de Manila, José dropped the last three names that make up his full name, on the advice of his brother, Paciano Rizal Mercado, and the Rizal Mercado family, thus rendering his name as “José Protasio Rizal”. Of this, Rizal writes: “My family never paid much attention [to our second surname Rizal], but now I had to use it, thus giving me the appearance of an illegitimate child!”This was to enable him to travel freely and disassociate him from his brother, who had gained notoriety with his earlier links with native priests who were sentenced to death as subversives. From early childhood, José and Paciano were already advancing unheard-of political ideas of freedom and individual rights which infuriated the authorities.Despite the name change, José, as “Rizal” soon distinguished himself in poetry writing contests, impressing his professors with his facility with Castilian and other foreign languages, and later, in writing essays that were critical of the Spanish historical accounts of the pre-colonial Philippine societies. Indeed, by 1891, the year he finished his El filibusterismo, this second surname had become so well known that, as he writes to another friend, “All my family now carry the name Rizal instead of Mercado because the name Rizal means persecution! Good! I too want to join them and be worthy of this family name…”. | history |
https://katescove.ca/?page_id=8 | 2024-02-28T05:42:03 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474697.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20240228044414-20240228074414-00525.warc.gz | 0.964228 | 131 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__158799822 | en | Named in Honour of Jimmy's Late Grandmother
Edith Katharine Jordan White McLeod ( 1918-2009) was born and raised here on PEI, but lived the latter part of her life far away in Ontario. Though she dreamt of returning someday, her declining health in her last few years made it impossible to consider.
We are thrilled to dedicate our holiday rental retreat to her memory.
Many treasures from her home in Ontario have found their way back to the island and pepper the décor of the interior at Kate’s Cove.
We felt that this was one way to grant her wish and finally bring her home. | history |
http://www.dragon-tsunami.org/Products/Pages/books_gojuhistrev.html | 2018-02-24T22:04:06 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-09/segments/1518891815951.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20180224211727-20180224231727-00240.warc.gz | 0.962581 | 2,313 | CC-MAIN-2018-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-09__0__215697373 | en | Morio is a figure of such imposing stature in the world of karate that he
genuinely needs no introduction. The result of decades of research into
the history of Goju-ryu, his book is based on information he received while
training as a young student, hundreds of hours of interviews with senior
Okinawan karateka and instructors, and personal research carried out in
China. Higaonna's book is the closest thing available in English to primary
source for the early period of Okinawan karate. It is fortunate that Higaonna,
a native speaker of the Okinawan language and a highly respected karateka
of extraordinary skill and understanding, was inspired to do this research
during a period when the older Okinawan karateka were still alive. It was
a unique combination of opportunity and skills.
book is of very high quality and well illustrated. The paper is of excellent
quality, and the pages are sewn, not merely glued. The cover is durable
and attractive. This book is designed to be solid. It will withstand frequent
readings without appreciable wear or damage. And this is a good thing.
book starts with an introduction to the Ryukyu Islands then traces the development
of Goju-ryu karate through the careers of Higaonna Kanryu, Miyagi Chojun,
Shinzato Ji'nan, and Miyagi An'ichi, rounding off the sequence with a very
brief chapter describing Higaonna Morio's training which started in 1955
under Miyagi An'ichi. The book concludes with a biographical section on
students, friends, and relatives of both Miyagi Chojun and Higaonna Kanryo,
which includes several interviews. There is a final section on relevant
Chinese martial arts, as well as an appendix which contains material to
amplify some of the footnotes, material which was too extensive for the
footnote format. There is a very useful glossary and index.
book makes it clear that the commonly expressed idea that there are no secrets
in the martial arts is incorrect. Although instruction in karate was made
public in 1901, there were still secrets in kata, and only very rarely was
a student taught all the known applications for a particular kata or all
the kata in a particular style. Much in the older traditions was secret,
and it was meant to be. Their kata were designed as textbooks for initiates,
not for observers who might often prove to be tomorrow's enemy. Some of
the lessons hidden in these kata will probably stay secret, as they were
taught to very few, and sometimes those few died in the frequent wars of
Kanryo and Miyagi Chojun both restricted the number of their students as
they did not want their teachings to be used for the wrong purposes. Because
there has been a general tendency to limit instruction for this reason,
the different styles of karate often depend on a very slender and fragile
base for their transmission to future generations. Frequently, for as much
as a decade, only one man might know the full tradition of a particular
style, and if he were to die the tradition would die with him. Even historical
information was kept secret, and in part, Higaonna's book is a deliberate
attempt to reconstruct and preserve at least some of the unpublished historical
material that was lost when Miyagi Chojun's collections were destroyed in
the author has tried not to neglect anyone of consequence in the history
of Goju-ryu karate, more than two thirds of the book deals with the life
of Miyagi Chojun. In a sense, the book is almost a biography of Miyagi Chojun,
and properly so. It reflects both the relative amount of information available
for the different Goju-ryu masters and the pivotal position occupied by
Miyagi Chojun in the development of Goju-ryu. Even so, the book also contains
a great deal of material on early Okinawan karate in general.
Chojun's instructor, Higaonna Kanryo, went to Fuzhou, China, in the late
1860's and spent fourteen years there, mostly training with Ko Ryu Ryu.
During this period, Higaonna Kanryu learned most of the kata which characterize
modern Goju-ryu karate. The author has made serious efforts to trace the
Chinese roots of Goju-ryu karate and quotes Miyagi Chojun as saying "Our
style dates from 1828." This tantalizing statement could not be amplified.
Higaonna Morio traveled to Fuzhou, China, and attempted to visit every place
that he could identify as having any connection with Higaonna Kanryo. Unfortunately,
W.W. II destroyed all records of Higaonna Kanryo's teacher, Ko Ryu Ryu,
and he is now known only from oral tradition.
Chojun was a towering figure in Okinawan karate for much of his life. He
was one of the very few men in this century to create a new kata, Tensho
Kata, sometime around 1921, and the two Gekisai Kata in 1940. He considered
the basic kata to be Sanchin, Tensho, and Naifanchi. Sanchin Kata, has held
a central place in Goju-ryu karate right from the first in China, and the
importance of Sanchin Kata is emphasized throughout the book. It is interesting
that neither Tensho, the two Gekisai Kata, nor the Naifanchi Kata are among
the kata originally learned in China by Higaonna Kanryo, and that the Naifanchi
Kata are not counted among the kata of Goju-ryu.
are a number of fascinating contradictions in Miyagi Chojun's life. Although
Miyagi restricted his teaching, he also attempted to promote karate in both
Okinawa and Japan after 1926, and in Hawaii in 1934. Karate was relatively
unknown in the 20's and 30's and there was considerable discrimination against
Okinawans in Japan. Miyagi stressed karate as an important intangible Okinawan
cultural treasure, and obviously felt that the spread of karate would alleviate
some of the discrimination against Okinawans in Japan. He also believed
that modern technological advances had to be balanced by moral education
through training the human spirit, and that karate was the most suitable
vehicle for such training.
Chojun created the two Gekisai Kata, in part to improve the adaptability
of karate to a wider variety of students, and in the post-war period he
gradually changed his teaching methods to accommodate larger groups of students.
During this period, he arranged the kata of Goju-ryu into a fixed sequence.
Before that, a student would learn Sanchin and often only one other kata,
especially selected for that student. However, Miyagi still did not advertise,
students still had to be personally recommended, and between 1949 and 1951,
he had only one student, Miyagi An'ichi, whom he trained in great detail.
Evidently, his fear of teaching karate to those who might abuse it balanced
his concern that karate might be lost.
karateka are sure to find that a number of Miyagi Chojun's ideas would be
controversial today. For example, he opposed ranking systems in karate,
as he believed it would lead to men being judged by their rank and not their
character. The dan ranking system was only introduced in Okinawa in 1956
after Miyagi's death, and the first all-style dan grading in Okinawa did
not take place until 1960.
Higaonna Kanryo nor Miyagi Chojun charged their students for instruction,
and later instructors often did not require fees from particularly gifted
students. Miyagi Chojun stressed the need for humility. Neither Higaonna
Kanryo nor Miyagi Chojun would advertise, and Miyagi never referred to his
style of karate as Goju-ryu, but rather simply as bu or te. Miyagi regarded
ignorance as shameful. He would recommend that a student train in a different
style for a while, if he felt that the student would benefit from such training.
On the 1st and 15th of each month he would invite guest speakers to lecture
at his dojo. The term "research groups" used to describe 1930s karate clubs
in revealing of the attitude with which karate was studied at that period.
It is quite evident that karate was not considered a competitive sport.
These attitudes towards dan ranking, money, advertisement, cross-training,
and competition show that karate has both gained and lost as it has grown
in popularity in the last half century.
there has been a net gain is left up to the reader to ponder. This book
is easily one of the best of the very few, serious martial arts histories,
and it is full of interesting surprises. For example, the author cites Miyagi
Chojun as describing three legends current in China and Okinawa which trace
the origins of the martial arts. One of these legends places these origins
in Asia Minor. I found this fascinating, as the oldest complete martial
art known is the Greek pankration which became an Olympic event in 648 BC.
The date antedates documentary or dated archeological sources for any other
martial art. The pyrrhic dance, a Greek martial dance which could be performed
armed or unarmed, similar to modern kata, existed at the same time and was
possibly used as a teaching tool for the techniques of the pankration. The
idea that this Greek art is one of the major sources of all Asian unarmed
martial arts today is not at all far-fetched. Alexander the Great was a
pankration enthusiast, and the pankration, foremost among other Greek martial
sports, went into Asia as far as India with Alexander's armies of conquest.
Alexander was the greatest general of his time and one of the greatest generals
of all time. He and his armies enjoyed enormous prestige everywhere in the
ancient world. Instruction in the favored martial art of that army would
be highly valued by any soldier or warrior of the period. Isn't is interesting
that an Okinawan legend indicates a possible Greek origin for the Asian
History of Karate: Okinawan Goju-ryu is a treasure house of facts concerning
the early history of a deservedly popular style of karate, and it contains
wonderful descriptions of the early training in Okinawa. But there is much
more here. Miyagi Chojun's ethical ideals, teaching methods, and way of
life provide a valuable source of guidelines for the modern karateka's approach
to karate. This book should be on the shelf of every serious student of
karate, and it should be read often. | history |
http://kdhnews.com/classifieds/housing/sale/home/s-walnut/realestate_d5b7f443-b360-5635-b7f0-3d3168c0f40f.html | 2014-07-28T04:19:22 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-23/segments/1406510256737.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20140728011736-00416-ip-10-146-231-18.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.920766 | 458 | CC-MAIN-2014-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-23__0__39697105 | en | Don't miss this chance to own the beautiful Historic Cauthen House in Lampasas! This lavishly built 2-story home has been lovingly renovated without disturbing the historic period charm! A perfect blend of historical luxury with convenient modern touches such as the authentically restored Master Bath. The impressive 1916 Spanish style home features tan stucco with dark red brick accent and a metal tile roof. The almost 5,000 square foot centrally heated & cooled home consists of 15 beautifully appointed rooms that include 4 spacious bedrooms, 3 full baths and 1 half bath, 3+ living areas, plus an upstairs game room, study, master sitting room, master sunroom, 2 fireplaces, large formal dining room and an attic and basement. The home further showcases the original rich mahogany wood which was used lavishly throughout the home for interior trim, wainscoting, hand-carved moldings, and the grand staircase. More period features include soaring 10' ceilings, beveled glass windows & doors, many original hand- painted walls & stenciling by an early 20th century New York artist, murals, many original elaborate lighting fixtures including crystal chandelier, gorgeous hardwood Oak floors throughout, French doors, pocket sliding doors, original 1917 faux painting in living & dining, wall sconces, original kitchen tile, original wood valances, dumb waiter, butler's stairs & pantry, wrap around porches, a Porte Cochere entrance, original copper gutters, plus so much more! The home sits majestically on half a city block featuring a 1000 square foot guest house / servant's quarters, water well for yard, a remodeled barn, fabulous gardens, fountain, mature shade trees and 14 Pecans. Perfect residence for those who appreciate the architecture of the early 20th century, quality of construction, plus authentic restoration with attention to detail. Or because the home is located only one block from Lampasas' busy Key Avenue, it would also be perfect for a bed & breakfast, antique & gift shop, or many other possibilities. The home qualifies and is eligible for both a State and a National Historical Marker. You must see this home to appreciate its historic beauty and elegance combined with all the modern conveniences. | history |
https://irishlights.ie/safety-navigation/our-lighthouses/rathlin-east.aspx | 2023-12-05T12:13:33 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100551.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20231205105136-20231205135136-00094.warc.gz | 0.976427 | 806 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__41123295 | en | A request from mariners for a light on Rathlin Island was first made in 1827, but due to differences of opinion between the Commissioners of Northern Lights in Edinburgh and the Corporation for Improving the Port of Dublin or Ballast Board, the final approval from Trinity House was not obtained until March 1847 and construction did not start until May 1849. The buildings were designed by the Ballast Board's Inspector of Works & Inspector of Lighthouses, George Halpin, and were constructed by the Board's workmen.
Two lights, an upper occulting light and lower fixed light, so as not to be confused with other lights when approaching and passing through the North Channel, were established on 1st November 1856. The tower of the upper light is built of stone from the island and is 26.8m (88 feet) overall height. The light is 74m (243 feet) above high water, and originally had an occulting character of 50 seconds bright with 10 seconds dark. The light also showed a red sector over Carrick-a-vaan Rock, off Kenbane Head on the mainland. The lower light consisted of a lantern placed close to the base of the tower, the light was 55.5m (182 feet) above high water and showed a fixed or non flashing light.
On 18th January 1866 a fog signal was established which consisted of an 18 pounder gun and was fired every 20 minutes during fog conditions. Over the years the frequency of the detonation was increased to 15 minutes, then 8 minutes.
The lower fixed light was discontinued on 1st July 1894 and at the same time the tower light was intensified.
In 1912 a further change was made to the main light when a completely new optic was installed with a vaporised paraffin burner giving four flashes every 20 seconds.
In 1918 the fog gun was replaced by an explosive fog signal consisting of a double tonite explosion every 5 minutes.
The colour of the tower seems to have been originally natural stone with a broad red belt under the lantern balcony, then the stone was painted white (still with the red belt). This lasted until 1934 when the red belt was changed to black as it is today.
The red sector over the Carrick-a-vaan rock was discontinued in 1938.
From September 1965 the explosive fog signal was accompanied by a brilliant flash of light when sounding during hours of darkness. The explosive fog signal was finally discontinued in 1972 for security reasons along with other similar fog signals around the coast. A Radiobeacon was established five months later sending out its signal AH in Morse every six minutes. It was coupled with five other stations in the group.
Rathlin East Lighthouse was converted to electric operation in 1981 and has a 920mm catadioptric annular lens and MBI 1kW lamps in a UVLA40 lampchanger.
On the 31st March 1995 the lighthouse was converted to automatic operation and the Keepers were withdrawn from the station. The station is now in the care of an Attendant and the aids to navigation are also monitored via a telemetry link from the Lighthouse Depot in Dun Laoghaire.
Since November 1995 the light is exhibited by day to improve the daytime conspicuity of the station.
The Medium Frequency Radiobeacon service was discontinued on 1st February 1999.
In October 2003 an experimental Automatic Identification System (AIS) was established at Rathlin East Lighthouse.
During 2021, Irish Lights will be completing engineering works to upgrade all three Lighthouses on Rathlin Island, while retaining the historic lenses. This work will improve energy efficiency and the environmental footprint at these important heritage sites, as well as ensuring the lighthouses meet international standards as working Aids to Navigation used by every-day mariners. This work will also ensure the property and its surrounds are safe and ecologically secure for the communities that live along-side them and visitors who access them. | history |
https://westwander.com/2016/05/22/steel-on-stone-the-liberation-of-asch/ | 2023-06-02T08:00:38 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224648465.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20230602072202-20230602102202-00701.warc.gz | 0.972974 | 2,541 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__304997867 | en | Twenty tons of American tank clattered across ancient cobblestone; steel treads clawing and scrawling on worn granite as this tank and a troop of American soldiers wound their way into the town of Asch. By day’s end the town would be free. But Charles Harris, Truman Perfect, Robert Hanchey, Artur Rentell, Clarance Shoupe, Charles Murray, William Feury, and Thomas Ward would trade their American lives for that freedom.
First blood had spilled minutes before as an American halftrack mounting a quad-50 machinegun mount cut down a German motorcycle crew just outside town. But now, for the moment, there was nothing but the clatter and roar of the tank, and the footsteps of the men beside it-scanning the houses lining the winding road; looking for the enemy they had come to kill.
They didn’t wait long–three Germans suddenly appeared some 80 yards ahead–nonchalantly walking with rifles slung; oblivious to the scene just down the road. Oblivious, until Lt. McCaleb hollered “Kommen sie hier,” inviting them to surrender. They didn’t; the tank’s cannon roared, and two are violently vaporized. The third scuttles away, dodging a fusillade as the tank and troops advance a few dozen more yards.
Enter, stage left, a German civilian emerging from his house and cursing the American troops. In no mood for such commentary, the good Lieutenant shoos him back inside with a revolver shot over his head…. That matter resolved, he strides forward a few more steps, then – overhead, fleeting, flickering shadow; he ducks as a Panzerfaust flies past him to hammer the tank a dozen feet away.
That tank, one moment a conqueror, is in the next horrific moment a rolling coffin. Four hundred grams of high explosive shaped-charge warhead rips through the side armor; pounds of molten metal spatter into the crew compartment; blast overpressure pulps lungs. The major firing the turret-top machinegun is blown off the tank; the troop commander beside the tank is mortally wounded; his command transfers that day to Lieutenant McCaleb. Crewed now only by three dead men, the tank ghosts across the road and slams to a stop against a home.
Before the day is done, Asch will fall. Hundreds of Nazis will surrender; roughly a hundred will die; four more Americans will join the first four in death.
And Asch will be free, the first city in Czechoslovakia to be liberated by the U.S. Army.
Of course there are thousands of stories like this–most now untold–that played out as the Allies crushed the six-year reign of the Thousand Year Reich. These tales didn’t make headlines or a newsreel. Just one more firefight, one more verse of death; one more small step to victory that made up the day-to-day reality of American soldiers through the ten long months from Normandy to V-E Day.
I know the story only because it was dad’s–he wrote the unit history chapter on the liberation of Asch; eventually he told me it himself. And throughout his life I was reminded of it, as he would remind me “that’s my bad ear, Gary…” the ear that was never the same after Asch and that Panzerfaust.
Nor will I be the same, when an odd confluence of events led to my invitation to attend the 71st anniversary of the war’s end in Asch. I thought, perhaps, that the town square might still exist, where this bloody drama had played out. Perhaps, I thought, I could imagine how it might have happened. I conceived this pending ceremony in a distant, foreign land, would be touching, a bit perfunctory, and a tad generic. This was scarcely the first such ceremony, after all.
Little did I know of the Czech people, and how 6 years of Nazi oppression followed by 45 years of brutal Communist domination had bred a passion for liberty and remembrance which shames us modern Americans. Perhaps, though, you don’t know what you have until it is lost….
And it was lost–not only under the Nazis, but while American troops seized a good part of western Czechoslovakia–all the way up to Pilsen–the Big Three superpowers had bargained away its freedom as they settled what post-war Europe would be. Just weeks after the war’s end American troops evacuated the nation and the Soviets moved in. For a smattering of months there was hope that Czechoslovakia would remain something of a free nation. But in 1948, the Iron Curtain slammed down–and any recognition of the American liberation in the western lands was violently suppressed. And absurdly suppressed, as the Communists taught children for the next 41 years that the black troops which liberated some towns were Soviet soldiers “in camouflage,” and that other Soviet soldiers had worn American uniforms to “confuse the enemy.”
So when freedom–true freedom–finally came to Czechoslovakia in 1989 in the wake of the fall of the Berlin Wall, those in Western Czechoslovakia lost no time recognizing their liberators, immediately, and systematically through time. After four decades of lies, the Czechs wanted the truth to be told, and told well.
Gwenn and I were welcomed to Asch by Deputy Mayor Pavel Klepacek, and met the man who facilitated and blessed our visit a thousand times over–Bohuslav “Bob” Balcar, a publisher, historian, and relentless advocate of freedom.
As Bob had promised, there were “festive speeches,” and we were made most welcome with official greetings and a medal and plaque commemorating the City of Asch. And to my delight, we were joined by Captain Michael Farenelli, Commander of Headquarters and Headquarters Troop, 2d Squadron, 2d Armored Cavalry. Remarkably, the very same unit dad had served in in World War II was still stationed in Vilseck, Germany, a short drive from Asch. And yes, they still wear spurs with their dress blues–the horse heritage continues….
Then Mayor of Asch, Dalibor Blazek, joined us to lay a wreath at the memorial to the men of the 2d Mechanized Cavalry–the liberators of Asch, 20 April 1945.
I guess, then, it began to hit me. I knew the story of Asch, but thinly. Now, some of the reality began to seep in–eight had made the supreme sacrifice on that April day…a sacrifice well-honored by the citizen of Asch today.
We moved from the monument to the town square and the old town hall–I’d hoped to see this square, and imagine what might have happened.
I got more than I bargained for–the first surprise being that two young artists, concerned that the younger generation was not learning of the American liberation, took it upon themselves to author and distributed a comic book based on dad’s account of the battle.
Amazingly, the comic book was incredibly accurate–so much so, that we were walked foot-by-foot and minute-by-minute through the engagement that played out over about a 500 meter stretch of road:
Here, we’re looking from the German perspective–town behind us, Americans advancing towards us. The three oblivious Germans walked around the curve, and you can see the result–two dead Germans–on the right side of the comic book. Note that a few of the stone road shoulder markers remain from the war era. Many of the buildings extant during the fight were heavily damaged and later razed–trees have grown up–but the authors showed me where they had depicted the remaining buildings, and created the comic book art by relying on prewar photos. The only error I noticed was the figure discharging the rifle in the lower right corner–that is what dad did to scare the cussing German civilian back indoors–but he used a .38 revolver that he’d picked up, not his M1 Garand. Every other detail looked to be spot-on.
And so we walked down the same street where, 71 years before, dad had fought and four Americans died to liberate Asch. Here’s a panoramic view (note the distortion–the road is actually straight) taken at about the point that dad shot at the cursing German civilian, who emerged near the yellowish house.
Looking from the American perspective below, the car is approaching right about where the Germans were killed. The tank would have been about midway between the car and where I’m standing when it was hit, and it ran forward into a house which was subsequently razed.
And immediately to the right, a small tunnel where some civilians had taken cover including a local businessman who spoke English–he became the interpreter for the Americans once he was coaxed out of hiding.
And so, when I’d hoped to perhaps see the town and imagine what might have happened, I found myself looking down at the very cobblestones dad had crossed, knowing that 71 years and two weeks before, my dad fought for this town’s freedom.
A cacophony of emotions came over me–longing that dad could have made this trip himself; pride in his service; heart-rending gratitude to the men and women of Asch who remember with such passion and care.
And increasingly, a love for the Czech people who bore 45 years of Communist oppression without ever forgetting their American liberators. In the coming days I’d learn that Asch was scarcely unique in that regard–all over Western Bohemia, the region liberated by the Americans are dozens of memorials–many to the 2d Cav and to General Patton specifically–and this being May, the month of liberation, every one would be marked with red, white, and blue garlands and flowers….
Over the coming days I’d talk to numerous Czechs about the liberation, and every time mention would be made of how frustrated they had been to be silenced for 40+ years. Every monument I saw had been erected in 1989 or 1990–and when we visited Pilsen I learned from a local that when the city was finally free to celebrate the American liberation in 1989, that city of 180,000 residents hosted one million people at its celebration.
There are really no words to express the gratitude I felt for their gratitude–and the incredible desire to speak and live truth–a passion that carried across generations of Czechs who lived under the Soviet heel. As the days would pass, this burning love for freedom and phenomenal courage would be found again and again: village by village where the 2d Cav had operated. In Prague, where Jan Palach fell, burning in protest at Soviet oppression, and in an ancient church crypt where 7 Czech freedom-fighters died, trapped below ground, after successfully ambushing the Nazi architect of the “final solution,” Reinhard Heydrich. And at monument after monument throughout the streets of Prague, marking where the liberators of 1945 and the protestors of 1968 fell.
So it seems fitting to end at the Asch town square, to show what it once was, before the superpowers sold Czechoslovakia down the Nazi river under the disgraceful Munich Agreement:
And this is what the square looked like under the enlightened solicitude of the Soviet Union, circa 1960:
And this is what it looks like today, given the blessings of freedom and the leadership of Mayor Blazek, his able Deputy Mayor Kelpachek, and the efforts of the great citizens of Asch….
So I close with redoubled thanks to each who so blessed Gwenn and me on this most memorable visit–who so carefully guard the memory and celebrate the liberation–thank you, my new and beloved friends….
And to quote my father’s prayer, inscribed a few days later on the town register of the small village of Myslív, “May God grant us a long and lasting peace.”
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