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17338224 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loscoe | Loscoe | Loscoe is a village near Heanor in Derbyshire, England, lying within the civil parish of Heanor and Loscoe. It had prominent coalmines in the 19th and 20th centuries. Denby Common and Codnor Breach are hamlets on the western edge of the village.
History
The name Loscoe derives from Old Norse words lopt and skógr, as in lopt í skógi, meaning "loft in a wood" or "wood with a loft house". It was recorded as Loscowe in 1277.
Loscoe Manor formed part of the wider Draycott Estate; Richard and William de Draycott were recorded at Loscoe (or Loschowe) in 1401. The manor house was demolished in 1704.
Loscoe's economy in the 19th and 20th centuries was dominated by coal mining: pit chimneys and slag heaps were prominent. Three mines operated: Old Loscoe (early 1830s – 1933), Bailey Brook (1847–1938) and Ormonde (1908–1970).
Loscoe was in the ecclesiastical parish of Heanor until 1844, when a church was built between Loscoe and neighbouring Codnor to the north, and a joint parish created for them. Loscoe became a separate parish in 1927. Services were held in the mission church until a new parish church, dedicated to St Luke, was completed in 1938.
Explosion
Loscoe was the site of a landfill gas migration explosion on 24 March 1986. Although there were no fatalities, one house was destroyed by the blast and its three occupants injured.
The atmospheric pressure on the night of the explosion fell 29 hPa (29 mbar) over a seven-hour period, causing the gas to be released from the ground in much greater quantities than usual. In the four hours before the explosion at approximately 6.30 am, the local meteorological office had recorded average falls of 4 hPa (4 mbar) per hour. Several cubic metres of landfill gas (consisting of a 3:2 mixture of methane and carbon dioxide) collected underground near the house at 51 Clarke Avenue, and as the gas expanded it flowed into the space beneath the floor, from where it was drawn by convection to the gas central-heating boiler and ignited.
The incident led to the introduction of key British legislation and government guidance, with research into landfill behaviour and revised best practice at landfill sites. These moves were designed to vent gas into the atmosphere over time, then to burn off methane, and eventually in the most productive sites, to use gas turbines to turn the gas into electric power for the national grid.
Demography
In the 2011 census the electoral ward of Heanor and Loscoe (covering Loscoe and north-western parts of Heanor) had 2,285 dwellings, 2,216 households and a population of 5,335. The average age of residents was 40.5 (39.3 for England as a whole) and 17.9 per cent were aged 65 or over (16.4 per cent for England as a whole).
Governance
For representation within Heanor and Loscoe Town Council and Amber Valley Borough Council, Heanor and Loscoe civil parish is divided into three electoral wards: Heanor East, Heanor West and Heanor and Loscoe. In the May 2019 Parish Council elections, the Heanor and Loscoe Ward obtained seven seats, made up of four Labour and three Conservative candidates.
Notable resident
BMX racer Dale Holmes was born here on 6 October 1971.
See also
Listed buildings in Heanor and Loscoe
References
External links
Villages in Derbyshire
History of Derbyshire
1986 in England
Gas explosions
Explosions in England
Explosions in 1986
Waste disposal incidents
Geography of Amber Valley |
17338232 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%20Abendana%20Spencer | Kenneth Abendana Spencer | Kenneth Abendana Spencer (born Kenneth Abandamo; 13 April 1929 – 28 December 2005) was a Jamaican artist.
Biography
Spencer had talent as a painter of scenes of Jamaican life which, as a boy, he would sell for pocket-money in the capital of Kingston. In the 1950s he traveled to the UK but did not take the opportunity to attend Art School. Instead, he continued to sell his works, eventually buying a car, which became both his gallery and means of transport. He became an habitué and favourite of the basement clubs and jazz bars of Soho. His artistic education, such as it was, consisted of frequent visits to museums and art galleries where he picked up his technique. On returning to Jamaica in the 1970s, he started building a large house in Fisherman's Park, Long Bay, Portland. Six stories high with circular staircases and a vast studio, it was half castle and half temple, surrounded by a high wall. Here he settled with his common-law wife and two sons. It remains a tourist attraction. From there he continued to paint figurative canvasses – seascapes, landscapes, vignettes of Jamaican life and, from the 1970s, individual character sketches. He died on 28 December 2005, aged 76.
References
1929 births
2005 deaths
20th-century Jamaican painters |
6902558 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir%20Peter%20Agnew%2C%201st%20Baronet | Sir Peter Agnew, 1st Baronet | Commander Sir Peter Garnett Agnew, 1st Baronet (9 July 1900 – 26 August 1990) was an officer in the Royal Navy and a Conservative Party politician.
Biography
Education and naval career
Agnew was born in Bucklow, Cheshire, a son of C.L. Agnew of Knutsford. Educated at Repton School, he entered the Royal Navy on 25 October 1918, trained at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, and was commissioned as a sub-lieutenant on 15 May 1921.
Receiving promotion to lieutenant on 15 April 1923, he served on the sloop on the China Station from August 1923 until January 1925, before serving on the battlecruiser from March 1926 until July 1927. After a term as Aide-de-camp to the Governor of Jamaica, he was assigned to the battleship in August 1928, transferring to the Royal Yacht in May 1930. On 15 April 1931 he was promoted to lieutenant-commander, but retired from the Navy on 29 May at his own request.
Election to Parliament
Agnew was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for the Camborne constituency in Cornwall, at the 1931 general election. He served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Walter Runciman, the President of the Board of Trade, in 1935–37, and to Sir Philip Sassoon, First Commissioner of Works, in 1937–39. He was an Assistant Government Whip in May–July 1945, and held the Conservative Whip from August 1945 until February 1950. Agnew held the seat until the constituency's abolition at the 1950 general election. He contested the constituency of Falmouth and Camborne, but lost to Harold Hayman.
World War II
Agnew returned to naval service in August 1939. He was executive officer of the destroyer in March–October 1940, and was promoted to commander on 9 July 1940. He was in command of the destroyer from November 1940 to March 1941, receiving a Mention in Despatches on 1 January 1941. He then served aboard the heavy cruiser from May 1941 until August 1942. From January 1943 until June 1944 he was on the staff of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich.
Return to Parliament
He re-entered the House of Commons at the 1955 general election as MP for South Worcestershire, and was re-elected there until his retirement at the 1966 general election.
Other activities
Agnew was a Member of the House of Laity in the Church of England Assembly, 1935–65, a Church Commissioner for England, 1948–68, and a trustee of the Historic Churches Preservation Trust, 1968-.
He served as chairman of the Iran Society, 1966–73, and received the Order of Homayoun from Iran in 1973.
From 1974 to 1976, Agnew was President of the European Documentation and Information Centre (CEDI), and was awarded the Order of Civil Merit (Orden del Mérito Civil) from Spain in 1977.
Baronetage
He was made a baronet, of Clendry, in the County of Wigtown in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 31 January 1957. After his death in 1990 at the age of 90, he was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son, Sir Quentin Agnew-Somerville, 2nd Baronet, father of the actress Geraldine Somerville.
Personal life
Agnew was married twice; firstly to Enid Frances Boan, daughter of Henry Boan of Perth, Western Australia, in 1928. They had one son. Enid died in 1982, and in 1984 he married Julie Marie Watson. They were divorced in 1987.
References
External links
1900 births
1990 deaths
Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
Royal Navy officers
Royal Navy officers of World War II
UK MPs 1931–1935
UK MPs 1935–1945
UK MPs 1945–1950
UK MPs 1955–1959
UK MPs 1959–1964
UK MPs 1964–1966
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Camborne
People educated at Repton School |
17338244 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith%20Williams%20%28baseball%29 | Keith Williams (baseball) | David Keith Williams (born April 21, 1972) is a former Major League Baseball player for the San Francisco Giants during the 1996 season. He was drafted in the 7th round of the 1993 amateur draft.
Minor leagues
Williams had a career .291 batting average in the minor leagues and 117 home runs over 8 seasons. His overall minor league OPS was .853. He was called up to the majors in 1996, but his best season in the minors was 1997, where he hit .320 with 22 home runs for the Giants AA team.
Major leagues
Williams had his major league debut on June 7, 1996, going 0 for 1. His final game was on June 23, 1996. Overall, he went 5 for 20 with 6 strikeouts. All five of his hits were singles, and he did not score or drive in a single run. Defensively, he did not make a single error in 4 games played.
External links
Pura Pelota (Venezuelan Winter League)
1972 births
Living people
Altoona Curve players
Baseball players from Pennsylvania
Clemson Tigers baseball players
Everett Giants players
Fresno Grizzlies players
Major League Baseball outfielders
Pastora de Occidente players
People from Bedford, Pennsylvania
Phoenix Firebirds players
San Francisco Giants players
San Jose Giants players
Shreveport Captains players
St. Paul Saints players
American expatriate baseball players in Venezuela |
6902561 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thetford%2C%20Lincolnshire | Thetford, Lincolnshire | Thetford is a hamlet and farm in the civil parish of Baston in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England.
Although Thetford has shrunken to a single farmhouse and associated outbuildings, this was once a manor of Spalding Priory with its own chapel. There are records of ministers being installed in 1529 and 1539. The present house and barn are Grade II listed buildings.
Thetford lies north of the village of Baston and to the south of the River Glen. It is on the line of the Car Dyke, a ditch or catchwater drain dating to the time of the Roman occupation, which is regarded as the western boundary of The Fens. The A15 road, that crosses the Glen at Kate's Bridge, runs less than west of Thetford.
See also
Kate's Bridge
References
External links
Hamlets in Lincolnshire
South Kesteven District |
6902568 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agu%C3%A7adoura%20Beach | Aguçadoura Beach | Aguçadoura Beach (Praia da Aguçadoura in Portuguese) is a very wide and extensive white sand beach of Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal. It is located in the parish of Aguçadoura.
Aguçadoura is popular among Northern Portuguese and Northern Spanish surfers and the world's first commercial wave farm is located in front of Aguçadoura beach, at the Aguçadora Wave Park.
The beach is notable for its sand dunes, a reminder of the beaches of the city before the urbanization and farming. The remaining dunes, that are still several, are protected by the city council and Municipal Director Plan (PDM) from further development.
References
External links
Dunes of Portugal
Beaches of Póvoa de Varzim |
6902572 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useppa%20Island | Useppa Island | Useppa Island is an island located near the northern end of Pine Island Sound in Lee County, Florida, United States. It has been known for luxury resorts since the late 19th century, and it is currently the home of the private Useppa Island Club. On May 21, 1996, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, due to its archaeological significance.
Name
In the early 1830s the island was variously called Caldez's Island, Toampe, and Joseffa. Records indicate that José Caldez, who had operated a fishing rancho on the island, called it Josepha's when he sold it in 1833. The name Useppa first appeared on a hydrological chart of the area in 1855.
Like the nearby islands of Gasparilla, Sanibel, and Captiva, a folk etymology has developed connecting Useppa Island's name to the legendary pirate captain José Gaspar, also known as Gasparilla. A local folk story, extant in at least two versions, tells of Gaspar kidnapping a Spanish princess, with whom he becomes enamored. When she spurns his advances he kills her, but is overtaken by remorse and buries her himself on the beach. One version identifies the princess as Josefa, daughter of Martín de Mayorga, Viceroy of New Spain from 1779 to 1782, and indicates that her burial place of Useppa Island still bears her name in an altered form.
Geology
Useppa Island is long north to south, and up to wide. A ridge, up to high, runs along much of the eastern edge of the island. A ridge up to high is in the middle of the island along the western side. A conical shell midden with ramps is located on the west side of the island towards the southern end. The southern end of the island may have grown by as much as during the 20th century, possibly when a golf course was developed there. The island was part of the Florida mainland during the last glacial period, when the sea level around Florida was or more lower than today. Useppa Island is high ground that became separated from the mainland by a rising sea level around 4500 BCE. This high ground is believed to be stabilized sand dunes formed during a high sea level episode prior to the last glacial episode. During the period from 4500 BCE to 3000 BCE barrier islands formed to the west of Useppa Island, creating Pine Island Sound and protecting Useppa Island from the open Gulf of Mexico.
History
Before Useppa Island separated from the mainland, the area was visited by Paleo-Indians, who were present in Florida by at least 8,000 BCE. Soon after the sea level had risen enough to separate the island from the mainland, around 4500 BCE, Indians of the Archaic period began living on the island for part of the year, primarily during the spring and summer. Oyster shells were deposited in middens from this time. Tools made from seashells during the period from 4500 BCE to 3000 BCE show a cultural affinity with Horr's Island to the south.
After about 3000 BCE bodies were buried on Useppa Island in a flexed position. Steatite stone vessels and fiber-tempered pottery came into use on the island after 2000 BCE. Sand-tempered pottery appeared after 1200 BCE. Seasonal occupation of the island continued through the end of the Archaic period (c. 500 BCE) and into the Caloosahatchee culture period, until about 1200. While the island may have been used occasionally as a fishing camp after that date, there is no known sustained occupation of the island until after 1700. Shortly after 1700, the Calusa people (the people of the Caloosahatchee culture region during the historic period) were killed, carried away to slavery, or driven out of the area by Creek and Yamasee people (who later coalesced into the Seminole.
Later in the 18th century and as late as 1835 Muspa Indians, possibly descendants of people who lived in the Calusa town of Muspa (on or near Marco Island) were reported to be living in the Charlotte Harbor and Pine Island area. Around 1784, Jose Caldez of Cuba began using Useppa Island as the base for his seasonal fishing operations. Caldez employed both Cubans and local Native Americans at this fishing rancho. By 1833 the rancho consisted of close to 20 palmetto-thatched houses and about 60 people.
The Second Seminole War began in late 1835. Henry Crews, the U.S. Customs officer on Josefa Island (Useppa), was killed in late March 1836, possibly by Seminoles or by Indians working at the rancho. Crews had been at odds with the Spaniards at the fishing rancho, believing that they were using fishing as a cover for large scale smuggling. After the death of Crews, the "Americans" living around Charlotte Harbor, which probably included Spaniards and rancho Indians, fled to the rancho operated by William Bunce on Passage Island in Tampa Bay. In late 1836 the ranchos around Charlotte Harbor, including the Caldez rancho on Useppa, were reported to be abandoned and "largely destroyed." Rancho Indians, including those who were married to Cubans or were half-Cuban, were gathered up by the Army and sent west to Indian Territory.
The area around Charlotte Harbor and Pine Island, including Josefa Island, remained sparsely inhabited for several decades. The U.S. Army established Fort Casey on, renamed, Useppa Island early in 1850, but abandoned it before the end of the year. Union troops and refugee Union sympathizers occupied the island in December 1863, and mounted a small raid into Charlotte Harbor and up the Myakka River, which resulted in some skirmishes with Confederate troops and irregulars. The troops on Useppa Island moved to Fort Myers after it was established in January, 1864. The Census of 1870 found two residents on the island. It was reported to be uninhabited in 1885, and to have one family in residence in 1895.
Chicago businessman John Roach built a hotel on Useppa Island in 1896. Barron Collier bought the island in 1911, and developed the resort, enlarging the hotel and adding tennis courts and a 9-hole golf course. Collier made the island his official residence, from which he directed his real estate empire. Collier died in 1939, and the resort was closed during World War II. Hurricanes in 1944 and 1946 damaged the hotel, and it was torn down. The island opened again as a resort in 1946, continuing until 1960. In 1960, Useppa briefly served as a CIA training base for Cuban exiles in preparation for the Bay of Pigs Invasion.
Useppa Island changed hands four times in the 1960s and 1970s, with two short-lived attempts to operate it as a resort. Gar Beckstead bought the island in 1976 and his company, Useppa Inn and Dock Company, has operated it as a private resort since then. Hurricane Charley heavily damaged the island in 2004. The rebuilt Collier Inn was re-opened one year later.
The Useppa Island Historical Society operates the Barbara Sumwalt Museum on the island.
Archaeological investigations
While some archaeologists passed by or visited Useppa Island in the 19th century, the first scientific excavation on the island was by John Griffin and Hale Smith, who collected ceramics from a disturbed midden in 1947. Jerald Milanich and Jefferson Chapman conducted more extensive excavations on Collier Mound and adjacent middens in 1979 and 1980, using a backhoe to dig trenches in mound and middens.
William Marquardt and Michael Hansinger conducted an excavation on Collier Ridge in 1985. Marquardt and Corbett Torrence excavated several locations on the island in 1989. Marquardt excavated a burial on a lot scheduled for construction in 1994. Volunteers associated with the Rendell Research Society, the University of California Los Angeles, and the Useppa Island Historical Society excavated a shell axe workshop on the island in 2006.
Notes
Citations
References
External links
Useppa Island Club website
Florida's Office of Cultural and Historical Programs
Lee County listings
Useppa Island Museum
Archaeological sites in Florida
National Register of Historic Places in Lee County, Florida
Gulf Coast barrier islands of Florida
Islands of Lee County, Florida
Shell middens in Florida |
20470528 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004%E2%80%9305%20Japan%20Figure%20Skating%20Championships | 2004–05 Japan Figure Skating Championships | The 2004–05 Japan Figure Skating Championships was the 73rd edition of the event. They were held from December 24 through 26, 2004 at the Shinyokohama Stake Center in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture. Skaters competed on the senior level in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. The competition was used to decide Japan's entries to the 2005 World Championships and the 2005 Four Continents Championships. The entries to the 2005 World Junior Championships were decided at the Japanese Junior Championships.
Competition notes
The following skaters placed high enough at Junior Nationals and so were invited to compete at Nationals: Nobunari Oda (first in junior, third in senior), Kazumi Kishimoto (second in junior, fifth in senior), Yasuharu Nanri (third in junior, eighth in senior), and Takahiko Kozuka (fourth in junior, fourth in senior) in men, and Mao Asada (first in junior, second in senior), Mai Asada (second in junior, eighth in senior), Aki Sawada (third in junior, fourth in senior), and Akiko Kitamura (fourth in junior, fifth in senior) in ladies.
Silver medalist Mao Asada was not old enough to be sent to the World or the Four Continents Championships.
Results
Men
Ladies
Pairs
Ice dancing
Japan Junior Figure Skating Championships
The 2004–05 Japan Junior Figure Skating Championships took place between November 20 and 21, 2004 at the Osaka Pool arena in Osaka.
Men
Ladies
Ice dancing
International team selections
World Championships
Following the national championships, Honda, Arakawa, and Ando were assigned to the World team. All other places were filled following the 2005 Four Continents Championships, with the highest placing Japanese skater earning the available Worlds spot.
Four Continents Championships
External links
2004–05 Japan Figure Skating Championships results
2004–05 Japan Junior Figure Skating Championships results
Japan Figure Skating Championships
2004 in figure skating
2005 in figure skating
2004 in Japanese sport |
17338245 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shire%20of%20Allora | Shire of Allora | The Shire of Allora was a local government area north of the regional centre of Warwick in the Darling Downs region of Queensland. The shire, administered from Allora, covered an area of , and existed as a local government entity from 1869 until 1994, when it was dissolved and amalgamated with City of Warwick, Shire of Rosenthal and Shire of Glengallan to form the Shire of Warwick.
History
The Borough of Allora came into being on 21 July 1869 under the Municipal Institutions Act 1864. The surrounding region was incorporated on 11 November 1879 as the Clifton Division under the Divisional Boards Act 1879. With the passage of the Local Authorities Act 1902, the Municipality of Allora became the Town of Allora and Clifton Division became Shire of Clifton on 31 March 1903. On 23 January 1915, the Town of Allora was abolished and merged with the southern part of the Shire of Clifton to create the Shire of Allora. The Shire's offices were located at 78 Herbert Street, Allora.
On 19 March 1992, the Electoral and Administrative Review Commission, created two years earlier, produced its report External Boundaries of Local Authorities, and recommended that local government boundaries in the Warwick area be rationalised into 3 new local government areas. That recommendation was not implemented, but the outcome was that the Shire of Allora was merged with the Shires of Glengallan and Rosenthal and the City of Warwick to form a new Shire of Warwick. The Local Government (Allora, Glengallan, Rosenthal and Warwick) Regulation 1994 was gazetted on 20 May 1994. On 25 June, an election was held for the new council, and on 1 July 1994, the Shire of Allora was abolished.
Towns and localities
The Shire of Allora included the following settlements:
Allora
Berat
Clintonvale
Deuchar
Ellinthorp
Goomburra
Hendon
Mount Marshall
Talgai
Willowvale
Chairmen and Mayors
Chairmen of Shire of Allora
1927: Thomas Muir
Mayors of Town of Allora
1906: W. Deacon
Population
References
External links
Local Government (Allora, Glengallan, Rosenthal and Warwick) Regulation 1994
University of Queensland: Queensland Places: Allora Shire
Former local government areas of Queensland
1994 disestablishments in Australia |
6902574 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angels%20in%20the%20Sky | Angels in the Sky | "Angels in the Sky" is a popular song by Dick Glasser. It was published in 1954 and has been recorded by a number of artists. The first recording was by Glasser himself and was issued on Jack Gale's label, Triple A (#2522), flipped with "Is It Too Late?", another Glasser composition. In 1954, Gale would strike a deal with RCA Victor for the song and it was then recorded and released by Tony Martin on RCA Victor #5757 about August 1954, flipped with "Boulevard Of Nightingales". A part of the deal was that Glasser's recording would be withdrawn from the market.
The biggest hit for the song would happen later in the following year with a version by The Crew-Cuts on Mercury Records #70741. It first reached the Billboard charts on December 17, 1955. On the Disk Jockey chart, it peaked at #16; on the Best Seller chart, at #11; on the Juke Box chart, at #13; on the composite chart of the top 100 songs, it reached #13. The flip side was "Mostly Martha".
Dick Glasser re-recorded the song after having signed with Columbia Records by Autumn 1958. It was released as his third single for the label (#41357) about March 1959, this time flipped with "Get Thee Behind Me".
Recorded versions
Dick Glasser (1953); (1959)
Buddy Cunningham (1954)
Tony Martin (1954)
The Van Cleaf Sisters (1954)
Herb & Kay (1954)
The Crew Cuts (1955)
The Monarchs (1955)
Artie Malvin (1956)
Gene Autry (1956)
Bobby Vee (1960)
Gene McDaniels (1961)
Walter Brennan (1962)
Glen Campbell (1970)
External links
Song lyric
1954 songs
Songs written by Dick Glasser |
20470538 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirakabaha | Shirakabaha | The was an influential Japanese literary coterie, which published the literary magazine Shirakaba, from 1910 to 1923.
History
In 1910, a loose association of alumni of the prestigious Gakushuin Peer’s School in Tokyo began a literary society. Members included writers, artists, literary critics and others who rejected Confucianism and the strictures of traditional Japanese literary and artistic styles. In particular, the group emphasized idealism, humanism and individualism, over the naturalism that had been the dominant trend in Japanese literature of the Taishō period. The Shirakaba-ha thought highly of Western aesthetics (particularly Expressionism and Post-Impressionism), and considered their mission to spread the ideas of Western art and Western literature into Japan. Unlike many other literary circles, The Shirakaba-ha did not limit their interest to literature, but also delved into other art forms. However, the group remained deeply interested in Japanese culture, particularly in folk art, which had previously been disparaged by traditional art critics.
Early members included Shiga Naoya (1883-1971), Mushanokōji Saneatsu (1885-1976), Yanagi Sōetsu (1889-1961), Satomi Ton (1888-1983), Arishima Takeo (1878-1923) and Nagayo Yoshirō (1888-1961). Their literature was typically of the ‘I novel’ genre, and was concerned with the life of individuals, often incorporating optimistic philosophy into their work. Some of these individuals came with wealthy families, and attempted to emulate Tolstoy in creating utopian agrarian communes in remote parts of Japan. The self-published monthly literary journal Shirakaba ("White Birch") was in circulation from April 1910 until 1923. The magazine reached its peak in popularity in 1918. However, publication was discontinued after the Great Kantō earthquake.
References
Suzuki, Tomi. Narrating the Self: Fictions of Japanese Modernity. Stanford University Press. (1997)
Yamanouchi, Hisaaki. The Search for Authenticity in Modern Japanese Literature. Cambridge University Press. (1980)
External links
Shirakaba Literary Society home page
The Circle, Red Circle Authors |
17338266 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megan%20Dorman | Megan Dorman | Megan Dorman (born 1977) is an Irish-born Australian actress who is best known for her role as Katherine Ingram in the series, Head Start. She had a small role in Queen of the Damned, playing Maudy, one of Lestat's band members. Dorman also features in the video for Puretone's Addicted to Bass single from 2001.
Megan also played the role of Meg alongside fellow Aussie actress Leeanna Walsman in the mini-series Jessica, based on the novel by Bryce Courtenay.
References
1977 births
Australian soap opera actresses
Irish emigrants to Australia
Living people |
6902586 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahiopsis%20parishii | Bahiopsis parishii | Bahiopsis parishii known commonly as Parish goldeneye or shrubby goldeneye, is a North American species of flowering shrubs in the family Asteraceae.
It is native to the southwestern United States, (southern California, southern Nevada, Arizona, and southwestern New Mexico), as well as adjacent parts of northwest Mexico (Baja California, Baja California Sur, and Sonora).
Description
Bahiopsis parishii grows to 2 feet tall, with bright yellow flowers. It is a plant of desert areas, usually associated with creosote bush, and ranges from sea level to in elevation. It blooms after periods of rain, both in spring and in fall, or after the monsoon season in Arizona.
Etymology
The species name honors either of two brothers, Samuel Bonsall Parish (1838–1928) and William Fletcher Parish (1840–1918), both active botanists in southern California. It is closely related to Bahiopsis deltoidea and is sometimes considered a variety of that species.
References
External links
Jepson Manual Treatment
Calphotos Photo gallery, University of California
Heliantheae
North American desert flora
Flora of the Southwestern United States
Flora of Northwestern Mexico
Flora of the California desert regions
Natural history of the Mojave Desert
Plants described in 1882
Flora without expected TNC conservation status |
6902587 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pistou | Pistou | Pistou (Provençal: pisto (classical) or pistou (Mistralian), ), or pistou sauce, is a Provençal cold sauce made from cloves of garlic, fresh basil, and olive oil. It is somewhat similar to the Ligurian sauce pesto, although it lacks pine nuts. Some modern versions of the recipe include grated parmesan, pecorino, or similar hard cheeses.
Etymology and history
In the Provençal dialect of Occitan, pistou means "pounded".
The sauce is similar to Genoese pesto, which is traditionally made of garlic, basil, pine nuts, grated Sardinian pecorino, and olive oil, crushed and mixed together with a mortar and pestle. The key difference between pistou and pesto is the absence of pine nuts in pistou.
Use
Pistou is a typical condiment from the Provence region of France most often associated with the Provençal dish soupe au pistou, which resembles minestrone and may include white beans, green beans, tomatoes, summer squash, potatoes, and pasta. The pistou is incorporated into the soup just before serving.
Gruyère cheese is used in Nice. Some regions substitute Parmesan cheese or Comté. In Liguria, pecorino, a hard sheep's-milk cheese from Sardinia or Corsica is used. Whatever cheese is used, a "stringy" cheese is not preferred, so that when it melts in a hot liquid (like in the pistou soup, for instance), it does not melt into long strands.
See also
Argentine chimichurri, a somewhat similar sauce made with parsley
List of garlic dishes
Persillade
References
External links
Soupe au Pistou, Wolfgang Puck
Soupe au Pistou, Paula Wolfert
French sauces
Cold soups
Garlic dishes
Food combinations |
17338272 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy%20McQueen | Tommy McQueen | Thomas Feeney McQueen (born 1 April 1963) is a Scottish former footballer who played as a defender. His primary position was full back.
McQueen began his career with Clyde, making over 100 appearances in all competitions, before moving to Aberdeen in 1984, where he made 53 appearances, scored four goals and was part of the 1986 Scottish Cup winning team. He left the Scotland temporarily in 1987 to play for West Ham, but returned to Scotland in 1990 to play again for Falkirk and Dundee in 1994.
McQueen was the only footballer to win medals in all three divisions in the 1975–1994 three-division structure of the SFL (with Clyde, Falkirk and Aberdeen).
, McQueen was co-owner of a haulage firm in Glasgow with former Falkirk player Roddy Manley.
Honours
Clyde
Scottish Second Division: 1981–82
Aberdeen
Scottish Premier Division: 1984–85
Scottish Cup: 1985–86
Falkirk
Scottish First Division: 1990–91, 1993–94
Scottish Challenge Cup: 1993–94
References
External links
Living people
1963 births
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20470586 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nysa%20Bridge | Nysa Bridge | The Nysa Bridge is a late imperial Roman bridge over the Cakircak stream in Nysa (modern Sultanhisar) in the ancient region of Caria, modern-day Turkey. The long substructure was the second largest of its kind in antiquity, after the Pergamon Bridge.
Dating
The Greek geographer Strabo (63 BC–AD 21), who lived in Nysa, mentioned a secret water conduit in the town, but it remains unclear whether he meant the existing tunnel-like bridge. An inscription at the northern wall of the tube, close to a bend after , indicates a construction date in late imperial times. It reads "Work of Praülos until this point".
Construction
The Nysa Bridge served as a substructure for the area in front of the city theatre, which lay close to the Cakircak stream. It was built as a two-level structure: the bottom vault spanned the brook. On top of it a row of arches connected the two hills that formed the urban area. The ground arch spanned the stream on a length of some , giving the bridge the appearance of a tube or a tunnel, although it was constructed entirely above ground. It consists of a single, wide vault whose uphill mouth widens to . The overall height of its semi-circular arch is , featuring a rise of . The vault is made of rubble stone laid in mortar, resting on a substructure of ashlar stone blocks of varying size (0.3–0.9 x 1.0–1.4 m). Originally featuring a continuous vaulting, it is collapsed today between m 75 and 85, and again at the downhill exit. The remaining, isolated structure at the downstream side has often been incorrectly referred to as a bridge of its own. The Nysa Bridge was the second largest bridge substruction of its kind in antiquity, only surpassed by the nearby Pergamon Bridge. By comparison, the width of a normal, free standing Roman bridge did not exceed .
In its further course, the Cakircak also ran through the city stadion, so that naumachia could be given. There are remains of two other ancient bridges both up- and downstream.
Discharge capacity
The capacity limit of the Nysa Bridge in case of floods has been the subject of hydraulic and hydrological research. The gradient of the tunnel was calculated as 3.3% with a maximum discharge capacity of 290 m³/s. Exceeding this limit puts the bridge under internal pressure and damages the structure in the process. Considering that the Cakircak is long, with a median gradient of 19% and a drainage basin of , the following median intervals were calculated, depending on the method employed:
7,500 years (Günerman method)
10,500 years (D.S.I. method)
13,000 years (Mockus method)
68,000 years (Snyder method)
The study came to the conclusion that statistically every 13,500 years, a value which has been referred to as the "arithmetic mean", floods are to be expected which would exceed the capacity of the bridge.
See also
List of Roman bridges
Roman architecture
Roman engineering
References
Sources
Further reading
External links
Roman bridges in Turkey
Deck arch bridges
Stone bridges in Turkey
Roman Caria
Tunnels in Turkey
Buildings and structures in Aydın Province
Arch bridges in Turkey |
23577549 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailor%20Mercury | Sailor Mercury | is a fictional character in the Sailor Moon manga series created by Naoko Takeuchi. She is the alternate identity of , a teenage Japanese schoolgirl, and a member of the Sailor Guardians, supernatural female fighters who protect the Solar System from evil.
Sailor Mercury is the first Sailor Guardian to be discovered by Sailor Moon. She serves as the "brains" of the group, as she is highly intelligent and can also use a supercomputer to collect useful information in battles. She possesses powers associated with water and ice.
Aside from the main body of the Sailor Moon series, Ami features in her own short story in the manga, Ami's First Love. Originally published in volume fourteen of the manga, this was the only of three "Exam Battle" stories to be made into a special for the anime which makes her one of the most recognizable and popular characters in the series. A number of image songs mentioning Ami's character have been released as well, including the contents of three different 3-inch CD singles.
Profile
Ami's most emphasized character trait is that she is extremely intelligent—in the anime and manga she is rumored by other characters to have an IQ of three hundred, while in the stage musicals this is stated as a fact. She is adept at English in both the musicals and the anime, and in the live action it was clearly, although briefly, demonstrated by the actress portraying her (actress Chisaki Hama was speaking to an English speaking character as her character was visiting the United States as a medical intern). Her peers view her with a mixture of awe and distaste, misinterpreting her inherent shyness as snobbery, and so she tends to have a difficult time making new friends. Ami is depicted as kind, sweet, gentle, and loyal, as well as slightly insecure. She also dislikes the fights of Sailor Moon and Sailor Mars. Anne Allison describes her as "a smart girl who needs to relax", calling her "conscientious" and "studious", "everything Usagi is not". Early on in the story, she relies heavily on the approval of her mother, teachers, and friends, but as the series progresses she becomes stronger and more confident in herself. She is generally the most sensible of the main characters, and is often the only one embarrassed when the group has a dull-witted moment. As the story begins, she attends Azabu Jūban Junior High along with Usagi Tsukino and, later, Makoto Kino.
Throughout the series, much of Ami's free time is spent studying. She loves to read, and dreams aloud of one day being a doctor like her mother and becomes one in both Parallel Sailor Moon and the live action series. In the musicals, Ami's dream of being a doctor and leaving Japan to study abroad is a recurring theme. The first part of the song shows Ami's conflict between studying abroad and growing up or being with everyone else and staying a young girl. She faces a similar dilemma in the anime, but very directly; given the opportunity to study in Germany, she gets as far as the airport before deciding to stay in Japan and fight evil alongside her friends.
Ami has a great appreciation for art as well as science, and, contrary to the usual depiction of a bookworm, enjoys pop culture and romance novels (though she is usually embarrassed to admit it). In both the anime and the manga, Ami's diligence in her studies becomes a running gag; she often comically scolds Usagi and the others for not doing their homework, and she can become obsessive about being the best student. Her character has been interpreted as a political commentary on the education system of Japan. She sometimes displays attraction to boys her age, and other times aversion to the idea. Love letters are listed as the one thing she has most trouble with, and when she later receives one, it gives her a rash. In the anime, a classmate named Ryo Urawa learns her identity and expresses attraction to her, but this is never resolved, as he disappears after just two appearances in the first series.
Besides reading, Ami is shown playing chess and swimming in order to relax. As the team scholar, computers are listed her strong point; she even belongs to the club at school. She loves all her classes, especially mathematics. Her favorite foods are given as sandwiches and anmitsu, with her least favorite being yellowtail. Other loves include cats, the colors aquamarine and blue, the flower Water Lily, and the gemstone sapphire.
Ami is one of the few girls in the series whose family situation is explicitly mentioned in the anime. Her parents are divorced, and she lives with her mother, a busy doctor who is not home very often, named Saeko in the live-action series. They look very similar, and Ami admires her mother and longs to live up to her example. Besides her workaholic tendencies, Dr. Mizuno is portrayed as a good person who openly resents not having more time to spend with her daughter. Ami's father is never named, but is stated in the manga and anime to be a painter. The manga says that he never visits them, having decided one day not to come home from the forest where he was relaxing and painting, but he sends her postcards on her birthday. Thinking about this, Ami sometimes resents her parents' selfishness in separating, partly because divorce in Japan is taboo. However, in the anime Ami seems to appreciate her father and seems to share some of his artistic traits, at one point even composing matching lyrics for a tune that had none. In the manga, Ami's mother is revealed to be fairly rich, as they live in a condominium. Ami is shown testing the strength of a sword that the Sailor Soldiers received on the Moon by using it to chip a diamond ring. (Classically, a diamond is the hardest mineral.) When the girls panic, she calms them by saying that her mother has many more.
In the live-action series, Ami is especially shy and usually wears glasses while in public, even though she does not need them. At her middle school, she has no friends before meeting Usagi and always eats lunch alone on the roof so she can study. Usagi seems to be the only one to realize that Ami is merely shy, not truly standoffish, and in befriending her gradually helps Ami to learn that she is more than just a bookworm. By Act 34, when Ami's mother attempts to transfer her to another school because she thinks Ami's friends are bad influences, Ami rebels, avoiding the admission interview and spending the night at the Sailor Guardians' hideout with Rei Hino. Later she tells her mother that what she's doing in her life right now is more important than studying, and her mother understands.
Ami is a kind and gentle girl who dislikes quarrels and abhors harming innocent people. These traits are even cited in the title of an anime episode, "Believe in Love! Ami, a Kind-Hearted Soldier", where she persuaded Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune not to kill Hotaru. Like her comrades, her loyalty to Sailor Moon is unwavering, and she would sacrifice her life for her princess if necessary.
Aspects and forms
As a character with different incarnations, special abilities, powers, transformations, and ageless extended longevity; an extremely long lifetime virtually spanned between the Silver Millennium era and the 30th century, Ami gains multiple aspects and aliases as the series progresses.
Sailor Mercury
Ami's Sailor Soldier identity is Sailor Mercury. She wears a uniform colored in shades of blue. In the manga and live-action series, her outfit is initially sleeveless and she has three blue studs in each of her ears. Her Sailor Moon Crystal design is largely faithful to her manga design, with the exception of having one blue stud on her right ear, and three on the left. In contrast, the original anime initially depicted her with sleeves and a single blue stud in each ear. Sailor Mercury is given specific titles throughout the various series, including Soldier of Water and Wisdom, Soldier of Intelligence, Soldier of Justice and Wisdom, and Soldier of Love and Exams. Her personality is no different from when she is a civilian, although certain special abilities are unavailable to her in that form.
In Japanese, the name for the planet Mercury is , the first kanji meaning "water" and the second indicating a celestial object. Although the Roman planet-name is used, Sailor Mercury's abilities are water-based due to this aspect of Japanese mythology. Initially most of her powers are strategic rather than offensive, and she possesses various pieces of computerized equipment to help her study the enemy.
As she grows much stronger and more powerful, Sailor Mercury gains additional powers, and at key points her uniform changes to reflect this. The first change takes place in Act 35 of the manga, when she obtains the Mercury Crystal and her outfit becomes similar to that of Super Sailor Moon. She is not given a new title. A similar event is divided between episodes 143 and 151 of the anime, and she is given the name Super Sailor Mercury. A third form appears in Act 42 of the manga, unnamed but analogous to Eternal Sailor Moon (sans wings). In the official visual book for Sailor Moon Eternal, this form was named "Eternal Sailor Mercury".
Dark Mercury
In the live action series, Ami is briefly taken over by the power of the Dark Kingdom and becomes . This form first appears in Act 21, as a servant of Kunzite. Her sailor suit has black tulle and lace on the back bow and sleeves, and tribal designs appear on her tiara and boots. She also gains a chain with a black charm on it around her waist. Her transformation phrase is Dark Power! Make-up! and is said in a much darker tone. She wields a sword fashioned from an icicle, which she creates herself the first time her transformation is displayed. In promotional photos prior to her premiere, she was shown with a different sword, which seemed to have strings on it like a harp or violin; the latter seems more likely, as she is also seen holding a bow. This bow was redecorated and given to Zoisite for use as a sword.
Dark Mercury is created when Kunzite manages to kidnap Ami in a moment of vulnerability while the other Sailor Guardians are busy. He exposes her directly to the power of Queen Metaria, causing drastic personality changes as well as the alterations to her uniform. She is self-confident to the point of egotism, and continues to attend school in civilian form, mainly to antagonize Usagi by brainwashing all of her former friends. Dressing predominantly in black, evil-Ami tends to move about slowly and dramatically, and when confronting the Sailor Guardians gives a sense of sadistic glee.
Dark Mercury has no intention of being a follower to anyone, and is always trying to pursue her own agenda, which is to kill her friends and become as strong as possible. She shows blatant disrespect to Kunzite and the other Kings of Heaven, even to Queen Beryl, perhaps because, unlike even the Four Kings of Heaven, she had been directly exposed to Metaria's power during her conversion, as opposed to having Queen Beryl or another intermediary filtering it.
Despite these alterations, certain aspects of the real Ami still remain. She still wants to do well in school, and wants friends, hence the brainwashing of her classmates. She seems to retain a sense of sympathy, which is evident when she repairs Nephrite's cape for him, stating that she does not like to see him alone.
Periodically, Sailor Moon attempts to heal her friend with the power of the Silver Crystal. Mercury is always snatched away before this can be completed, but it has some effect, ultimately resulting in her recovery. In Act 28, the catalyst for her finally returning to normal is when, having defeated Sailor Moon in battle, the sight of her injured friend causes her to realize she cares about Usagi, and to remember who she really is. After being healed, she has no memories of what happened while she was Dark Mercury. This haunts her, as she becomes terrified of what she may have done to her friends while not in control.
Princess Mercury
According to the manga, during the age of Silver Millennium, Sailor Mercury was also the Princess of her home planet. She was among those given the duty of protecting Princess Serenity of Silver Millennium. As Princess Mercury, she dwelt in Mariner Castle and wore a light blue gown—she appears in this form in the original manga and in supplementary art. Naoko Takeuchi once drew her in the arms of Zoisite, but no further romantic link between them was established in the manga or the first anime adaptation. However, in Sailor Moon Crystal, it is clearly stated that Sailor Mercury and Zoisite were in love during the Silver Millennium.<ref>Sailor Moon Crystal act #12 "Enemy –Queen Metalia"</ref> This is also established in the first stage musical, and in the later Eien Densetsu, where Ami and a disguised Zoisite share a duet, .
Special powers and items
In the manga, Ami can dowse without any aids. Otherwise, she is not shown using any special powers in her civilian form, and may not be able to. She must first transform into a Sailor Guardian by raising a special device (pen, bracelet, wand, or crystal) into the air and shouting a special phrase, originally "Mercury Power, Make-up!" As she becomes more powerful and obtains new transformation devices, this phrase changes to evoke Mercury Star, Planet, or Crystal Power. In both anime, Sailor Mercury's transformation sequence evolves slightly over time, whether to update the background images or to accommodate changes to her uniform or a new transformation device, but all of them involve a stream of water which she whirls around her body as she spins, forming her outfit with a ripple-like effect.
Sailor Mercury has the power to create and manipulate water. For the entire first story arc, she uses her water-manipulating capabilities only to create solid and dense clouds of mist and fog, chilling and blinding the enemy while her allies prepare more direct attacks. In the manga she usually does this without speaking, while in the anime it is given the name Shabon Spray. In the updated renewal manga, this power is renamed Mercury Aqua Mist to match the live-action series and the second anime series, in which she has an offensive beam attack by that name, capable of destroying weaker enemies. She uses a total of five attacks in this series, most of which are variations on the first.
Sailor Mercury's first major offensive attack is Shine Aqua Illusion, introduced in the second story arc, which can be used as a projectile, to freeze the enemy in solid ice, or to create a defensive barrier out of solid ice. Aside from variations on her other powers (mostly improving their strength with the addition of "Freezing" or "Snow"), her next named attack is Mercury Aqua Mirage, used during the third arc of the manga and again in the special side-story "Ami's First Love" (manga and anime) and she also uses this attack in second anime series. Her final and greatest strength and power comes in the fourth story arc, when she takes on her second Sailor Soldier form (Super Sailor Mercury in the anime). At this stage she acquires a special weapon, the Mercury Rod, and with it Mercury Aqua Rhapsody, which is her primary attack for the duration of the story. In the anime, Mercury gains the rod deep within her subconscious. The manga took a different approach with the Mercury Rod making it more of an item rather than a rod formed due to the attack. Furthermore, Sailor Mercury gained the rod through her power guardian. In the manga the Mercury Rod, as well as the other Sailor Soldiers' weapons have their own "wills" and can even speak and give input.
In addition to her own powers, Sailor Mercury has more non-magical items than any other Sailor Soldier. Early on in the series she makes frequent use of an extremely powerful "Micro-miniature Super Computer" that enables her to make special calculations, scan her surroundings, track the movements of allies as well as foes, and determine her enemies' weak points. The computer works in sync with her Mercury Goggles, which analyzes the area around her and displays information in front of her eyes and on the Computer. The visor may be a hologram of some sort; it materializes across her face when she touches her earring. The manga sometimes shows her wearing a small microphone connected to her earring, which she uses to communicate with Luna at the Sailor Guardians' hideout during the manga's first arc. All of these devices gradually fall out of use as the series progresses. She is one of two Sailor Guardians to use it for a named attack (Mercury Aqua Storm), and later can transform it into a sword. She also creates swords out of water, both as Sailor Mercury and as Dark Mercury.
In the manga, the Mercury Crystal and Mercury Rod are among her most significant magical possessions. The former is her Sailor Crystal and the source of all of her power, which becomes especially important in the fifth story arc.
Development
Ami was not included in the original proposal for a hypothetical Codename: Sailor V anime, which instead featured Minako's very similar-looking best friend from that series, Hikaru Sorano. She was present, however, by the time the concept was expanded to center on Sailor Moon.
Creator Naoko Takeuchi designed Ami as the "team brain", giving her genius-level intelligence to create the impression that she was not quite human—in fact, the character was originally intended to be a cyborg with an accelerator. One possible storyline involved her losing an arm or being injured in some other way and dying from it, but Takeuchi's editor objected, so Ami became a fully human character.
Sailor Mercury's original costume design, like the others', was fully unique. It featured full-length sleeves, pink ribbons, shoulder guards, green accents, buttons on the stomach, and high-tech goggles. Later, Takeuchi was surprised by these sketches and stated that she did not remember drawing them. She also describes Ami as looking like Noriko Sakai, a J-pop idol of the early 1990s, and in Ami's original debut, Usagi thinks to herself that Ami resembles Miss Rain, a character from another Takeuchi series. This reference was removed in the 2003 renewal manga.
The kanji in Ami's last name translate as and ; and her first name translates as and . It is structured as a pun, as the syllable "no" indicates a possessive, so that her name can also be understood as "Beauty of Water." It is frequently mistranslated as "Friend of Water" because of the French word ami, which is included in some Japanese dictionaries.
Actresses
In the original anime production of Sailor Moon, Ami was voiced by veteran voice actress Aya Hisakawa. After the show's conclusion, Hisakawa wrote in an artbook that she was "raised by" the character of Ami, and was "really, greatly happy" to have met her.
In the Sailor Moon Crystal anime, Ami is voiced by Hisako Kanemoto.
In the DIC/Cloverway English adaptation, Ami's name is changed to "Amy". Her voice was provided first by Karen Bernstein, for the original and R series and the movies, and later by Liza Balkan for the S and SuperS series. In the Viz Media English dub Ami's voice is supplied by Kate Higgins.
Ami has been portrayed by 11 actresses in the stage musicals: Ayako Morino, Yukiko Miyagawa, Hisano Akamine, Mariya Izawa, Chieko Kawabe, Manami Wakayama, Miyabi Matsura, Momoyo Koyama, Yume Takeuchi, Riria Itou, Miria Watanabe, Cocona, Umino Kawamura and Momoko Kaechi.
In Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, she is played by Rika Izumi. Child actress Kanki Matsumoto portrays Ami in flashback sequences and childhood photographs.
Reception and influence
The official Sailor Moon character popularity polls listed Ami Mizuno and Sailor Mercury as separate entities. In 1992, readers ranked them at seventh and fourth respectively, out of thirty eight choices. One year later, now with fifty choices, Ami was the eighth most popular while Mercury was ninth. In 1994, with fifty one choices, Ami was the fifteenth most popular character, and Mercury was sixteenth. In early 1996, with fifty one choices, Ami was again the fifteenth most popular character, and Mercury was the nineteenth. Ami was the most popular female character in Animage's May 1993 poll, and an episode featuring her, "Love for Ami?! A Boy Who Can Predict the Future", was the eleventh favorite episode. The following year she came second behind Belldandy, and in 1995 she came fifth. In 1995, an episode featuring Ami, "The Labyrinth of Water! Ami the Targeted", was the ninth favorite episode. In 1996, after the debut of Neon Genesis Evangelion, she came sixteenth, and in 1997 she came twentieth.
A five-book series was published, one book on each of the Sailor Soldiers and Sailor Moon. Ami's was released in 1996. This book was later translated into English by Mixx. The episode where Sailor Mercury gained her powers was novelised by Mixx.
She was popular with the male audience of Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon'' due to her computer use and skills.
See also
Mercury in fiction
Mercury (mythology)
Elsa (Frozen)
Enki
References
Comics characters introduced in 1992
Fiction set on Mercury (planet)
Fictional characters with ice or cold abilities
Fictional characters with water abilities
Fictional high school students
Fictional middle school students
Mercury
Teenage characters in anime and manga |
6902591 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy%20Middleton | Guy Middleton | Guy Middleton Powell (14 December 1906 – 30 July 1973), better known as Guy Middleton, was an English film character actor.
Biography
Guy Middleton was born in Hove, Sussex, and originally worked in the London Stock Exchange, before turning to acting in the 1930s. In his earlier films he often portrayed amiable idiots, scoundrels and rakish bon vivants, but many of his later roles were military officers in the British Army, RAF or Royal Navy. He died in 1973, following a heart attack, aged 66.
Selected filmography
Film
Jimmy Boy (1935) .... The Count
Two Hearts in Harmony (1935) .... Mario
Trust the Navy (1935) .... Lieutenant Richmond
Under Proof (1936) .... Bruce
Fame (1936) .... Lester Cordwell
A Woman Alone (1936) .... Alioshka
The Gay Adventure (1936) .... Aram
Take a Chance (1937) .... Richard Carfax
Keep Fit (1937) .... Hector Kent
Break the News (1938) .... Englishman
The Mysterious Mr. Davis (1939) .... Milton
Goodbye Mr Chips (1939) .... McCulloch (uncredited)
French Without Tears (1940) .... Brian Curtis
For Freedom (1940) .... Pierre
Dangerous Moonlight (1941, also known as Suicide Squadron) .... Shorty
Talk About Jacqueline (1942) .... Captain Tony Brook
The Demi-Paradise (1943) .... Dick Christian
The Halfway House (1944) .... Fortescue
English Without Tears (1944) .... Captain Standish
Champagne Charlie (1944) .... Tipsy Swell
29 Acacia Avenue (1945) .... Gerald Jones
The Rake's Progress (1945, also known as Notorious Gentleman) .... Fogroy
The Captive Heart (1946) .... Capt. Jim Grayson
Night Boat to Dublin (1946) .... Capt. Tony Hunter
A Man About the House (1947) .... Sir Benjamin "Ben" Dench
The White Unicorn (1947) .... Fobey
Snowbound (1948) .... Gilbert Mayne
One Night with You (1948) .... Matty
Once Upon a Dream (1949) .... Major Gilbert
Marry Me! (1949) .... Sir Gordon Blake
No Place for Jennifer (1950) .... Brian Stewart
The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950) .... Victor Hyde-Brown
The Third Visitor (1951) .... Inspector Mallory
Laughter in Paradise (1951) .... Simon Russell
Young Wives' Tale (1951) .... Victor Manifold
Never Look Back (1952) .... Guy Ransome
The Fake (1953) .... Smith
Albert R.N. (1953, also known as Break to Freedom) .... Bongo
Front Page Story (1954) .... Gentle
Conflict of Wings (1954) .... Adjutant
Malaga (1954) .... Soames Howard
The Belles of St. Trinian's (1954) .... Eric Rowbottom-Smith
The Sea Shall Not Have Them (1954) .... Squadron Leader Scott
The Harassed Hero (1954) .... Murray Selwyn
Break in the Circle (1955) .... Maj. Hobart
Make Me an Offer (1955) .... Armstrong
Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1955) .... Earl of Wickenware
A Yank in Ermine (1955) .... Bertram Maltravers
Now and Forever (1956) .... Hector
Doctor at Large (1957) .... Major Porter
Let's Be Happy (1957) .... Mr. Fielding
Passionate Summer (1958) .... Duffield
Escort for Hire (1960) .... Arthur Vickers
Waltz of the Toreadors (1962) .... Drunken Fox Hunter (uncredited)
The Fur Collar (1962) .... Resident
What Every Woman Wants (1962) .... George Barker
The Mini-Affair (1967) .... Colonel Highwater
Oh! What a Lovely War (1969) .... General Sir William Robertson
The Magic Christian (1969) .... Duke of Mantisbriar (uncredited)
The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer (1970) .... Potter (final film role)
Television appearances
He appeared in a number of television series as a guest character including:
Hancock's Half Hour (broadcast November 4th., 1957) - 'The Regimental Reunion', episode - Ex-Captain - (series 3, episode 6) - (Riverside Studios, Studio 1, Hammersmith) - (This is one of twenty-four missing Hancock television episodes, (to date).
Dixon of Dock Green (1959) - Fred Harper
Doctor Who (1967, Episode: "The Highlanders") - Colonel Attwood
References
Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies; 14th ed (2001) editor John Walker - published by Harper-Collins;
The Film Encyclopedia by Ephraim Katz, Collins;
External links
1906 births
1973 deaths
English male film actors
English male television actors
People from Hove
20th-century English male actors
People from Moreton-in-Marsh |
6902608 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mister%20Blues | Mister Blues | Mister Blues may refer to:
Wynonie Harris (1915–1969) (aka Mister Blues), an American blues shouter and rhythm and blues singer
"Mister Blues", a song bye Moby Grape from their 1967 album Moby Grape
"Mister Blues", Blues Band from Germany. |
23577557 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rous%20River | Rous River | Rous River, a perennial river of the Tweed River catchment, is located in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, Australia.
Course and features
Rous River rises below Mount Hobwee on the southern slopes of the McPherson Range, near Numinbah on the New South Wales-Queensland border, and flows generally east by south, and then east, joined by four minor tributaries, before reaching its confluence with the Tweed River at Tumbulgum, northeast of Murwillumbah. The river descends over its course.
In its upper reaches, Rous River is fed by a minor tributary, Hopkins Creek, on the southern slopes of the McPherson Range, south of Mount Merino; and downriver of Numinbah near the small villages of Chillingham, Jacksons Creek enters the river. In its lower reaches, Rous River is fed by two minor tributaries, Nobbys Creek and Crystal Creek that emerge from the Numinbah Nature Reserve, south of Springbrook.
Adjustments to the natural flow of the river
In January 2006, partially treated sewerage entered the river from emergency tanks and ponds after storage at the Murwillumbah treatment plant, which had been off-line due to damage, was filled beyond capacity. Biological testing indicated the river water was hazardous which led to a temporary swimming ban.
In 2007, the federal government proposed damming the Rous River, Oxley River and Byrrill Creek. Local opposition to the plan was formed via the Save the Caldera Rivers Campaign, in an effort to stop the proposed dams from being built.
See also
List of rivers of Australia
References
External links
Rivers of New South Wales
Northern Rivers
Tweed Shire |
17338276 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeks%20in%20Austria | Greeks in Austria | Greeks in Austria number between 5,000 and 18,000 people. They are located all around the country, but the main community is located in Vienna.
History
Contacts between the Greeks and the Austrians can be led back in the aristocracy of the Middle Ages. All the Babenberg dukes from Leopold V onward were descended from Byzantine emperors.
The Greek Johannes Theodat opened on 17 January 1685 Vienna's first coffee house in Haarmarkt. As a reward for his services, he was granted the privilege of being the only trader in the city to sell coffee as a drink for 20 years. Furthermore, by 1700, four Greek merchants had the privilege to serve coffee in public.
In the 18th century, Vienna was the centre of Greek diaspora where persons like Rigas Feraios, Anthimos Gazis, Neophytos Doukas and the Ypsilantis family prepared the Greek War of Independence. There were also various institutions founded in Vienna that promote the Greek language and learning, contributing to the Modern Greek Enlightenment. In 1814, the Count Ioannis Kapodistrias, at that time Foreign Minister of the Russian Empire, in collaboration with Anthimos Gazis, founded in Vienna the Philomuse Society, an educational organization promoting philhellenism, such as studies for the Greeks in Europe.
Additionally, ethnic Aromanians coming mostly from Moscopole, and generally from the Balkans, who self-identified as Greeks, have also been considered as part of the Greek diaspora.
Furthermore, of great economic importance and social acknowledgment attained the Greeks in Austria in the 19th century. The first Greek newspaper was printed there and the Hellenic National School in Vienna is today the oldest such in the world that has remained continuously in operation.
In 1856, after a request by Simon Sinas, Johann Strauss II composed the Hellenen-Polka (Hellenes Polka) op. 203 for an annual ball of the Greek community in the Austro-Hungarian empire.
In 20th century, Austria (and especially Graz and Linz) was a popular destination for Greek students.
Architectural heritage
The Austrian magnate of Greek origin Georgios Sinas (father of Simon Sinas) invited the Danish architect Theophil Hansen who worked in Athens (and had designed there major public buildings like the Zappeion and the Academy of Athens) to design for him some new buildings for his companies in Austria. Other Greek Austrians like Nikolaus Dumba and Ignaz von Ephrussi also gave Hansen contracts for buildings in the Classical Greek style and the Gräzisierter-Neorennaissance-Stil. After Works like the Palais Ephrussi and the Palais Dumba Hansen was famous and build many other public buildings in Austria like the Parliament of Austria and the Musikverein.
In the former Greek Quarter of Vienna at the there are the two historical Greek Orthodox parishes (St George and Holy Trinity). A traditional Austrian Restaurant there is called ("Greek Tavern", because of its Greek visitors since the 18th century) and a street ("Greek Lane").
Notable Greeks in Austria
Coudenhove-Kalergi family, noble family of mixed Flemish and Cretan Greek descent.
Nikolaus Dumba (c. 1830–1900), industrialist, liberal politician, benefactor of Greece and patron of the arts. Sponsored the construction of Musikverein.
Konstantin Dumba (c. 1856–1947), diplomat serving as its last accredited Ambassador to the United States.
Simon Sinas (c. 1810–1876), banker and diplomat, benefactor of Greece.
Constantin von Economo (c. 1876–1931), psychiatrist and neurologist.
Ephrussi family, banking family of Romaniotes descent.
Demeter Laccataris (c. 1798-1864), painter based in Pest.
Logothetti family, noble family originally from Zante.
Hugo II Logothetti (c. 1852–1918), diplomat and last emissary of the Habsburg monarchy in Tehran.
Baltazzi family, aristocratic banking family, baroness Mary Vetsera's maternal family
Theodor Baltazzi (c. 1788-1860), prominent banker born in Istanbul.
Aristides Baltazzi c. 1843-1914), was a horse breeder, member of the Austrian Imperial Council and large landowner.
Pappas Family, founders of the Alpine construction group and importers of Mercedes-Benz in Austria and Hungary
Anastasios Pappas, Merchant in Vienna, 1821 revolutionary, member of Filiki Eteria and son of Emmanouel Pappas the Leader of the Greek War of Independence in Macedonia
Karajan family, merchant family based in Chemnitz then Electorate of Saxony
Herbert von Karajan (c. 1908-1989), principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic.
Georg Zachariades (c. 1848-1943) industrialist, figure skater and racing cyclist.
Georg von Metaxa (c. 1914–1944), tennis player, his father was descended from the aristocratic Metaxas family from Cephallonia.
Christian Michelides (b. 1957), psychotherapist and director of Lighthouse Wien.
Konstantin Filippou, chef and restaurateur
Maria Vassilakou (b. 1969), Vice-Mayor of Vienna, President of the Viennese branch of The Greens – The Green Alternative, the fourth party in the Austrian Parliament
Karolos Trikolidis. conductor
Peter Persidis, football player
See also
Austria–Greece relations
References
Austria
Ethnic groups in Austria
Austria–Greece relations |
20470587 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikopol%3A%20Secrets%20of%20the%20Immortals | Nikopol: Secrets of the Immortals | Nikopol: Secrets of the Immortals is a point and click adventure game developed by White Birds Productions and based on the graphics novels of Enki Bilal's The Nikopol Trilogy.
Plot
The year is 2023 and Paris is governed by a power-hungry dictator. As Alcide Nikopol you try to find a way of joining the underground rebellion and help stop the dictator's iron fist rule. The history takes a turn towards the weird, as Nikopol finds out that his father - an astronaut sent into orbital exile in cryopreservation - may be alive and well in the city. At the same time, a strange pyramid hovers over Paris, and a rumour of Egyptian gods residing in it spreads like wildfire.
Reception
The game received "average" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.
References
External links
(This website is no longer available as of April, 2012)
2008 video games
Adventure games
Point-and-click adventure games
Video games developed in France
Cyberpunk video games
Windows games
Video games set in Paris
Video games based on comics
Got Game Entertainment games
Single-player video games |
23577559 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowleys%20River | Rowleys River | Rowleys River, a perennial river of the Manning River catchment, is located in the Northern Tablelands and Mid North Coast districts of New South Wales, Australia.
Course and features
Rowleys River rises on the eastern slopes of the Great Dividing Range, southeast of Yarrowitch, and flows generally south southeast, joined by two tributaries including the Cells River, before reaching its confluence with the Nowendoc River, southeast of Nowendoc. The river descends over its course.
See also
Rivers of New South Wales
List of rivers in New South Wales (L-Z)
List of rivers of Australia
References
External links
Rivers of New South Wales
Northern Tablelands
Mid North Coast
Port Macquarie-Hastings Council
Walcha Shire |
17338278 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunswick%20Town%20Historic%20District | Brunswick Town Historic District | The Brunswick Town Historic District encompasses the ruins of colonial Brunswick Town, North Carolina, the Civil War-era Fort Anderson, St. Philip's Church Ruins, and the remains of Russellborough, the home of two colonial governors. The district is located in the Smithville Township of Brunswick County, between Wilmington and Southport. In September 1978, the Brunswick Town Historic District was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
Gallery
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Brunswick County, North Carolina
References
Further reading
External links
Brunswick Town/Fort Anderson at North Carolina Historic Sites (nchistoricsites.org)
Brunswick Town at NCpedia (ncpedia.org)
Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina
Geography of Brunswick County, North Carolina
Historic American Engineering Record in North Carolina
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Brunswick County, North Carolina
Protected areas established in 1978
Protected areas of Brunswick County, North Carolina |
23577561 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rufus%20River | Rufus River | Rufus River, a watercourse of the Murray catchment and part of the Murray–Darling basin, is located in south western New South Wales, Australia.
The river leaves Lake Victoria, flowing generally west and then south-west, before reaching its confluence with the Murray River, at Lock 7, near Rufus.
Rufus River was visited by European explorer, Charles Sturt, in 1830, and named after his red-haired (or rufus) travelling companion, George Macleay.
A number of conflicts between European and Aboriginal people in 1841 led to the Rufus River massacre.
See also
Rivers of New South Wales
List of rivers of Australia
References
External links
Map of Rufus River – Bonzle Digital Atlas of Australia
Rivers of New South Wales
Murray-Darling basin
Rivers in the Riverina |
17338292 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMG-1 | AMG-1 | AMG-1 (part of the AM cannabinoid series) is an analgesic drug which is a cannabinoid agonist. It is a derivative of Δ8-THC with a rigidified and extended 3-position side chain. AMG-1 is a potent agonist at both CB1 and CB2 with moderate selectivity for CB1, with a Ki of 0.6 nM at CB1 vs 3.1 nM at CB2.
See also
O-823
AMG-41
References
Cannabinoids
Benzochromenes
Phenols
Alkyne derivatives |
23577563 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001%E2%80%9302%20Libyan%20Premier%20League | 2001–02 Libyan Premier League | The 2001–02 Libyan Premier League was the 34th edition of the competition, since its inception in 1963. The league was made up of 16 teams, with the first round of matches being played on September 7, 2001, and the last round of matches being played on May 16, 2002.
Ittihad won the championship, on goal difference from Nasr, for their first league title since 1991 and their 9th overall.
Four teams were relegated this season, including two-time champions Mahalla, as the league was reduced from 16 teams to 14 teams. Sawa'ed managed to retain their top flight status by defeating Akhdar 7–3, while rivals Sweahly lost 1–5 to Ittihad, ensuring the Benghazi club stayed up on goal difference.
However, due to suspicions that the Sawa'ed – Akhdar game was thrown, the LFF decided to relegate Sawa'ed and keep Sweahly up.
League standings
Top scorers
Al-Saadi Gaddafi (Ittihad) - 19 goals
Abdulrazaaq Jlidi - 18 goals
Ali al Milyaan - 15 goals
References
Libya - List of final tables (RSSSF)
Libyan Premier League seasons
1
Libyan Premier League |
17338295 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launggyaung | Launggyaung | Launggyaung is a village in Chipwi Township in Myitkyina District in the Kachin State of north-eastern Burma.
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Kachin State
Chipwi Township |
23577570 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ius%20strictum | Ius strictum | Ius strictum means "strict law", or law interpreted without any modification and in its utmost rigor. It is a very rare term in the materials of classical Roman law. It is really a Byzantine term, occurring in Justinian’s Institutes in reference to the strict actions of the law, primarily describing the rigid limitations of the forms of action available under the law, particularly with older laws. It is often used by later commentators to distinguish it from the moderating influence of the praetors, or judges who expanded the law through actions ex fida bona, or what we would now call equity.
See also
Ius
Ius scriptum
Letter and spirit of the law
Pardon
References
Black's Law Dictionary (Second Edition 1910) (public domain)
Latin legal terminology |
17338299 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famulus | Famulus | Famulus (possibly Fabulus, Fabullus, or Amulius) was a fresco painter famous for his work in the Domus Aurea, Rome, that was commissioned by Nero.
Because he was mentioned by Pliny the Elder, he is one of the earliest artists in Europe for which a contemporary biography survives.
Biography
Famulus and assistants from his studio covered a large amount of the Domus Aurea wall with frescoes. Pliny, in his Natural History, recounts how Famulus went for only a few hours each day to the Golden House, to work while the light was right. Pliny the Elder presents him as one of the principal painters of the domus aurea:
More recently, lived Amulius, a grave and serious personage, but a painter in the florid style. By this artist there was a Minerva, which had the appearance of always looking at the spectators, from whatever point it was viewed. He only painted a few hours each day, and then with the greatest gravity, for he always kept the toga on, even when in the midst of his implements. The Golden Palace of Nero was the prison-house of this artist's productions, and hence it is that there are so few of them to be seen elsewhere."
The Domus Aurea frescoes' effect on Renaissance artists was profound; it can be seen most obviously in Raphael's decoration for the loggias in the Vatican. The white walls, delicate swags, and bands of frieze — framed reserves containing figures or landscapes — have returned at intervals ever since, notably in late 18th century Neoclassicism, making Famulus one of the most influential painters in the history of art.
Art historian Nunzio Giustozzi writes that Famulus painted in Style IV, impressionist-like coloring with deep blue, green, indigo, purple, and cinnabar red, including motion and animation in the artwork. Famulus is credited with large mythological scenes, now lost, much like the large panel Achilles at Skyros.
References
Artists from Rome |
23577572 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandon%20River | Sandon River | Sandon River, an open mature wave dominated, barrier estuary, is located in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, Australia.
Course and features
Sandon River rises of the eastern slopes of the Summervale Range, west of Blue Gum Flat and flows generally northeast before reaching its mouth at the Coral Sea of the South Pacific Ocean below Sandon Bluffs; descending over its course.
See also
Rivers of New South Wales
Rivers in Australia
References
External links
Rivers of New South Wales
Northern Rivers |
17338301 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launghpam | Launghpam | Launghpam is a village in Chipwi Township in Myitkyina District in the Kachin State of north-eastern Burma.
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Kachin State
Chipwi Township |
23577573 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara%20River | Sara River | Sara River, a perennial stream that is part of the Clarence River catchment, is located in the New England and Northern Tablelands districts of New South Wales, Australia.
Course and features
Sara River rises on the southern slopes of Mount Mitchell on the western slopes of the Great Dividing Range, east of Ben Lomond, and flows generally to the east, joined by three tributaries, including Oban River, before forming its confluence with the Guy Fawkes River to form the Boyd River within Guy Fawkes River National Park and Chaelundi National Park. Sara River descends over its course.
See also
List of rivers of Australia
References
Rivers of New South Wales
Northern Tablelands |
17338304 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laungkaw | Laungkaw | Laungkaw is a village in Chipwi Township in Myitkyina District in the Kachin State of north-eastern Burma.
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Kachin State
Chipwi Township |
23577581 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence%20of%20Canada%20Regulations | Defence of Canada Regulations | The Defence of Canada Regulations were a set of emergency measures implemented under the War Measures Act on 3 September 1939, a week before Canada's entry into World War II.
The extreme security measures permitted by the regulations included the waiving of habeas corpus and the right to trial, internment, bans on certain political and cultural groups, restrictions of free speech including the banning of certain publications, and the confiscation of property.
Section 21 of the Regulations allowed the Minister of Justice to detain without charge anyone who might act "in any manner prejudicial to the public safety or the safety of the state."
The Regulations were used to intern opponents of World War II, particularly fascists (like Adrien Arcand) and Communists (including Jacob Penner, Bruce Magnuson and Tom McEwen) as well as opponents of conscription such as Quebec nationalist and Montreal mayor Camillien Houde. It was under the regulations that Japanese Canadians were interned and their property confiscated for the duration of the war. German Canadians were required to register with the state and some German and Italian Canadians were detained. The Regulations were also used to ban the Communist Party of Canada in 1940 as well as several of its allied organizations such as the Young Communist League, the League for Peace and Democracy, the Ukrainian Labour Farmer Temple Association, the Finnish Organization of Canada, the Russian Workers and Farmers Clubs, the Polish Peoples Association and the Croatian Cultural Association, the Hungarian Workers Clubs and the Canadian Ukrainian Youth Federation. Various fascist groups were also banned such as the Canadian National Socialist Unity Party and the Canadian Union of Fascists. Non-communist labour leaders like Charles Millard were also interned.
A number of prominent Communist Party members were detained until 1942, the year after the Soviet Union joined the Allies. Fascist leaders such as Adrien Arcand and John Ross Taylor were detained for the duration of the war.
Further reading
References
External links
Human Rights in Canada - Defence of Canada Regulations
They Fought for Labour—Now Interned! (Political pamphlet about interned labour leaders, including an extensive list of names) at Memorial University Library
Canadian federal legislation
Emergency laws
Legal history of Canada
1939 in Canadian law |
17338308 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawngkyaw | Lawngkyaw | Lawngkyaw is a village in Chipwi Township in Myitkyina District in the Kachin State of north-eastern Burma.
References
External links
Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Populated places in Kachin State
Chipwi Township |
23577582 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewarts%20River | Stewarts River | Stewarts River, a mostly perennial stream of the Mid North Coast region, is located in New South Wales, Australia.
Course and features
Stewarts River rises on the northern slopes of Big Nellie within Coorabakh National Park, west of the village of Hannam Vale, and flows generally east by south and then east, joined by the Camden Haven River, before reaching its mouth at Watson Taylors Lake, south of Camden Haven. The river descends over its course.
Stewarts River is transversed by the Pacific Highway north of the village of Johns River, between Coopernook and Kew.
See also
List of rivers of Australia
References
External links
Rivers of New South Wales
Mid North Coast
Mid-Coast Council |
17338309 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiku | Hiku | Hiku (, also Romanized as Hīkū; also known as Hī Kūh and Hīkūh) is a village in Chashm Rural District, Shahmirzad District, Mehdishahr County, Semnan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 62, in 29 families.
References
Populated places in Mehdishahr County |
23577583 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strike-a-Light%20River | Strike-a-Light River | The Strike-a-Light River, a perennial stream that is part of the Murrumbidgee catchment within the Murray–Darling basin, is located in the Snowy Monaro Regional Council area of New South Wales, Australia.
The river rises on the western slopes of the Great Dividing Range, near Jerangle, and flows generally north north-west, north-west, south-west and then south, joined by three minor tributaries, before reaching its confluence with the Bredbo River, east of Bredbo; descending over its course.
Flora and fauna
Strike-a-Light River flows through the Strike-a-Light Nature Reserve.
The Strike-a-Light River is inhabited by a number of amphibian species Bibron's toadlet (Pseudophryne bibronii), common eastern froglet (Crinia signifera), pobblebonk (Limnodynastes dumerilii), spotted grass frog (Limnodynastes tasmaniensis) and Verreaux's tree frog (Litoria verreauxii).
Vegetation communities through which the river passes include Scribbly Gum/Apple Box – Dry Shrub Forest, Ribbon Gum – Valley Forest as well as partially cleared areas of natural vegetation.
See also
List of rivers of Australia
List of rivers of New South Wales (L–Z)
Rivers of New South Wales
References
Rivers of New South Wales
Murray-Darling basin |
23577590 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichopilia%20suavis | Trichopilia suavis | Trichopilia suavis is a species of orchid found from Central America to Colombia. The plants will blossom in the seasons of Spring and Winter at intermediate warm temperatures. The flowers will be available in white, purple, green and red colors.
suavis |
23577591 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliphant | Oliphant | Olifant, Oliphant, Olyphant and similar variations may refer to:
Geography
Oliphant, Ontario, Canada, a community
Oliphant Islands, South Orkney Islands
Olifants River (Limpopo), South Africa
Olifants River (Southern Cape), South Africa
Olifants River (Western Cape), South Africa
Olifants Water Management Area, South Africa
Olyphant, Pennsylvania, a borough
People
Oliphant (surname), a list of notable people with this name
Oliphant Chuckerbutty (1884–1960), British organist and composer
Clan Oliphant, a Highland Scottish clan
Arts, entertainment, and media
Oliphant (band), a Finnish band
Oliphant, a type of monster in the Index of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 1st edition monsters
Oliphaunt or mûmak, a monstrous elephant-like creature in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
Sir Olifaunt, a vicious giant in Geoffrey Chaucer's "Tale of Sir Thopas", in The Canterbury Tales
Eleanor Oliphant, protagonist of Gail Honeyman's Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Titles
Lord Oliphant, a peerage title in Scotland
Oliphant baronets, a title in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia
Vehicles
Olifant tank, a South African version of the British Centurion tank
Others
Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe, a U.S. Supreme Court case deciding that Indian tribal courts have no criminal jurisdiction over non-Indians
Olifant (instrument), a wind instrument of the Middle Ages, made from elephants' tusks
D'Oliphant, a Dutch mansion originally built near Nieuwesluis, later moved to Rotterdam
De Olifant, Burdaard, a windmill in the Netherlands
See also
Elefant (disambiguation)
Elephant (disambiguation) |
23577599 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ius%20utendi | Ius utendi | Ius utendi (or usus), a term in civil law and Roman law, is an attribute of ownership (dominium): the right or power to use the property—particularly by residing there—without destroying its substance. It is employed in contradistinction to the ius abutendi, the right of disposal.
See also
Ius
Ius abutendi
References
Black's Law Dictionary (Second Edition 1910) (public domain)
Latin legal terminology |
23577604 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pregaussian%20class | Pregaussian class | In probability theory, a pregaussian class or pregaussian set of functions is a set of functions, square integrable with respect to some probability measure, such that there exists a certain Gaussian process, indexed by this set, satisfying the conditions below.
Definition
For a probability space (S, Σ, P), denote by a set of square integrable with respect to P functions , that is
Consider a set . There exists a Gaussian process , indexed by , with mean 0 and covariance
Such a process exists because the given covariance is positive definite. This covariance defines a semi-inner product as well as a pseudometric on given by
Definition A class is called pregaussian if for each the function on is bounded, -uniformly continuous, and prelinear.
Brownian bridge
The process is a generalization of the brownian bridge. Consider with P being the uniform measure. In this case, the process indexed by the indicator functions , for is in fact the standard brownian bridge B(x). This set of the indicator functions is pregaussian, moreover, it is the Donsker class.
References
Stochastic processes
Empirical process
Normal distribution |
23577622 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichopilia%20tortilis | Trichopilia tortilis | Trichopilia tortilis is a species of orchid found from Mexico to Central America. It is the type species of the genus Trichopilia.
References
tortilis
Orchids of Mexico
Orchids of Central America |
23577631 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand%20Lights%20Mosque | Thousand Lights Mosque | Thousand Lights is a multi-domed mosque in Anna Salai in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, is one of the largest mosques in the country and is a revered place of worship and azadari for Shia Muslims in the city.
History
The mosque was built in 1810 by Arcot Nawab Umdat ul-Umara. It was constructed in medieval architecture. The site of the mosque was previously occupied by an assembly hall. There was a tradition of lighting thousand oil lamps to illuminate the assembly hall. The mosque thus gets its name from this tradition.
The chief Shia Qazi of Chennai functions from the mosque, and the post has been continuously held by the same family.
References
External links
chennai.org.uk
indiafascinates.com
Mosques in Chennai
Religious buildings and structures completed in 1810
Shia mosques in India |
23577677 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichosalpinx%20ciliaris | Trichosalpinx ciliaris | Trichosalpinx ciliaris is a species of orchid found from Mexico, Belize, Central America and down to Brazil (Roraima).
References
ciliaris
Orchids of Central America
Orchids of Belize
Orchids of Brazil
Orchids of Mexico
Flora of Roraima |
17338329 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mara%20Carfagna | Mara Carfagna | Maria Rosaria "Mara" Carfagna (born 18 December 1975) is an Italian politician and former showgirl and model. After obtaining a degree in law, Carfagna worked for several years on Italian television shows and as a model. She later entered politics and was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for Forza Italia party in 2006. From 2008 to 2011, she served as Minister for Equal Opportunity in Berlusconi IV Cabinet. In 2018 she was elected vice president of the Chamber of Deputies. In 2021, she has become the Minister for the South and territorial cohesion in the cabinet presided by Mario Draghi.
Carfagna had been named "the most beautiful minister in the world", and was ranked number one on Maxim "World's Hottest Politicians". She has been for a while the spokeswoman of the parliamentary group of Forza Italia at Chamber of Deputies.
Early life
Carfagna was born in Salerno, where she attended the Liceo scientifico Giovanni da Procida. In 2001 she graduated in law from the University of Salerno, with a thesis on information law and broadcasting systems.
Career as showgirl and model
After having studied dance and piano, she participated in the Miss Italy contest in 1997, finishing in sixth place. About the experience she later said: "That competition makes you as a woman, it matures you...all that stress, that desire to win, it makes you understand who you are."
Later she started working in television for the company Mediaset, controlled by the family of Silvio Berlusconi. From 2000 to 2006 she participated as a showgirl in the television program La domenica del villaggio ("Sunday in the Village") with Davide Mengacci. In 2006 she led the program Piazza grande ("Main Square") together with Giancarlo Magalli. Carfagna has also been part of the television programs I cervelloni, Vota la voce and Domenica in.
Carfagna has posed for Maxim.
Political career
2000s: Forza Italia and The People of Freedom
Carfagna entered politics in 2004, and became responsible for the women's movement in the political party Forza Italia. In the elections of 2006 she was elected into the Chamber of Deputies for Forza Italia, and in the 2008 elections – running as the third candidate from The People of Freedom in the district "Campania 2" – she was reelected. When she first entered parliament Berlusconi jokingly commented that Forza Italia practiced the law of primae noctis; the right of a feudal lord to take the virginity of his female subjects. As a deputy she was secretary of the Commission for Constitutional Affairs, and has been described as a diligent, hard-working parliamentarian. On 8 May 2008 she was appointed Minister for Equal Opportunity, in the fourth cabinet of Silvio Berlusconi, an appointment that was widely publicised internationally, with focus on her special background.
In September 2008, Carfagna introduced proposal for a new law making street prostitution a crime, with fines for both clients and prostitutes. The bill was her first major initiative as a minister. She said that at present in Italy, "as in the great majority of Western countries", brothels and the exploitation of prostitutes by pimps were illegal but prostitution as such was not. She described street prostitution as a "shameful phenomenon".
In 2009 she became the first political promoter of the law against stalking offence. This law was finally approved on 23 February 2009, introduced as a package of bills known as the Decreto Maroni. In the same year she signed a campaign against homophobia in Italy, with television spots, images on magazines and wall attachments on cities.
She has participated in many international conferences, met the UN Secretary General, has intervened four times to the General Assembly, where she promoted an international moratorium against FGM. She organized the first international conference on violence against women in the context of the G8, which was held in the city of L'Aquila, in Italy, in July 2009.
2010s: Forza Italia revival
In 2010 during political debate for the International Women's Day celebration Carfagna made a political gaffe, claiming that women gained the right to vote in Italy in 1960 (while they did in 1946) and that the law that rules intrahousehold relationship was reformed in 1970 (while it was in 1975). In the 2010 Campania regional election Carfagna had a record result of 55,695 preferences. In 2011, Carfagna proposed a law, which was passed, that provided quotas for women on the boards of companies, which has allowed to involve a larger number of women in the Italian economic system. It approved funding for childcare facilities and in support of motherhood and family that made it possible to increase by a few percentage points the availability of places for working mothers. That same year Carfagna also supported a bill against homophobia, in which homophobia was considered as an aggravating circumstance in bullying events. This bill was then rejected by the People of Freedom majority in the Parliament, causing Carfagna's disappointment.
In 2013, Silvio Berlusconi founded Forza Italia, an ideological revival of the eponymous party that existed in the 1994–2009 period. Carfagna joined the party, following Berlusconi. In the same year she began a relationship with ex–deputy Alessandro Ruben. In the 2016 Italian local elections, Carfagna was the most voted Forza Italia candidate in Naples, with more than 5,500 personal preferences.
In November 2018, on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, Carfagna launched a campaign called "Non è normale che sia normale" ("It's not normal that it's normal") involving many parliamentarians of all political parties, VIPs and personalities of sport and entertainment.
In August 2019, the Codice Rosso ("Red Code") legislation, proposed by Carfagna, enters into force in Italy to combat violence against women with more efficient investigations and more severe penalties.
On 13 February 2021, Carfagna returned to a ministerial role in the cabinet of Mario Draghi, as Minister for the South.
Political views and controversies
Carfagna has been vocal on certain issues, such as the level of crime in her home town of Salerno, after having herself been the victim of burglary on three occasions.
In 2007 Carfagna opposed gay marriage, and said that matrimonial rights should be tied to reproduction. In May 2008 she refused to back a gay pride march, arguing that discrimination was no longer a problem for homosexuals in Italy because homophobia was just a thinking offence, a statement that was strongly criticized by gay rights groups. In May 2010, during the Quirinal Palace ceremony on the occasion of International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, Carfagna publicly apologized for the statements she made two years earlier, saying "she was helped in breaking through the wall of mistrust of which she was at the same time victim and unconscious responsible".
In January 2007, Carfagna was at the center of a controversy that received international attention. On the evening of the Telegatto award show, Berlusconi said about Carfagna: "If I was not already married I would have married her immediately". The comment caused Berlusconi's wife, Veronica Lario, to demand an apology through a national newspaper, something which she also received. Carfagna herself has later described the comment as "gallant and harmless," and said that she did not quite understand Lario's reaction.
On 2 July 2008 the Italian newspaper la Repubblica interviewed the former vice-minister of Foreign Affairs in the Berlusconi II Cabinet and socialist executive Margherita Boniver, who admitted the existence of some compromising private phone calls about Berlusconi. Few days later, the Argentine journal Clarín reported about telephone wiretap records authorized for an anti-corruption investigation. Reporter Julio Algañaraz wrote that Carfagna and Silvio Berlusconi engaged in a telephone conversation with explicit sexual allusions and regarding a meeting about sexual services.
In November 2008 Italian journalist Paolo Guzzanti wrote on his blog about Carfagna, saying: "Is it admissible or ineligible, in a hypothetical democracy, that the head of a government nominate a minister who has the one and only merit of having him personally served, excited and satisfied?", thus highlighting the words spoken by his daughter Sabina Guzzanti at "No Cav Day" anti-Berlusconi protest movement in July 2008. Carfagna sued la Repubblica for having reported Sabina Guzzanti's words that alluded to her sexual activity with Berlusconi.
In October 2012 the "Civil Court of Rome" condemned Sabina Guzzanti to compensation of €40,000 to Carfagna.
On 25 June 2020, Carfagna, as vice president of the Chamber of Deputies, ordered the forced expulsion of Vittorio Sgarbi who, pronouncing himself on the decree amending the law containing urgent measures concerning criminally relevant wiretapping, pronounced the following: "If a criminal commits a crime is normal, but if a Judge does it, it's an institutional earthquake. After the declarations without precedents against you coming from a Judge of Superior Council, after the unprecedented statements of Palamara against Mr. Salvini, we must open a commission of inquiry against the crime of magistrates who do the opposite of their work, worse than criminals".
Personal life
She has been engaged since 2013 with Alessandro Ruben, a former deputy of Future and Freedom. On 26 October 2020, her first daughter, Vittoria, was born.
Notes
References
External links
Ministry biography
Personal blog
Mara Carfagna – slideshow and video by The Huffington Post
1975 births
21st-century Italian politicians
21st-century Italian women politicians
Draghi Cabinet
Government ministers of Italy
Italian female models
Italian Roman Catholics
Living people
Forza Italia politicians
Forza Italia (2013) politicians
People from Salerno
The People of Freedom politicians
University of Salerno alumni
Women government ministers of Italy
Vice presidents of the Chamber of Deputies (Italy) |
44496550 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Marathi%20films%20of%202015 | List of Marathi films of 2015 | This is a list of Marathi films that have been released or have been scheduled for release 2015.
January–March
April–June
July–September
October–December
References
External links
http://www.gomolo.com/2010-2019/marathi-movies-2015
Lists of 2015 films by country or language
2015 in Indian cinema
2015 |
44496559 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbhajan%20Singh%20%28mountaineer%29 | Harbhajan Singh (mountaineer) | Harbhajan Singh is an Indian mountaineer, known for his successful mountaineering expeditions of Mount Everest, Mount Nanda Devi and many other peaks in the Himalayan region. The Government of India honored him in 2011, with the fourth highest civilian award of Padma Shri.
Biography
Harbhajan Singh was born in a very small village named Dholowal of District Hoshiarpur, Punjab, India on the 10th of September 1956. As a child, he was known for his athleticism. He won several medals in various sports at the state level in the under 18 years old age group. He was considered the best athlete at Khalsa College Garhdiwala. When he was completing his post Graduation from Government college Hoshiarpur he learned judo and as it was a new sport in Punjab, he excelled and won medals in various state level competitions. He represented Punjab in Judo and won Gold medal in National judo championship held at Indore ( MP) in 1979. In addition to participating in sports he used to take active part in various other activities at the college. He remained NCC cadet and is “C” certificate holder, he was NSS volunteer and took part in various camps for social service activities, he remained editor of college magazine for punjabi section and an active member of student central association of the college . His career began in 1980 when he joined Indo-Tibetan Border Police as a gazetted officer through a national level competitive exam and is currently the incumbent Inspector General of ITBP.
Singh is credited with three Mt. Everest expeditions and his performance remained remarkable for the significant successful attempts. Since then, he has to his credit successful expeditions to Mt.Nanda Devi, the third highest peak in India, and many others such as Mount Abhigamin, Mt. Kamet & Mt.Abhigamin, Mount Mana, Mt. Stopanth, Mount Nunkun, Mt.White Needle (twice), Mount Pinnacle, Mount Pyramid, Mt. North Pyramid, Mt. Sphinx, Mt. Panchachuli, Mount Stok Kangri (twice in winters) Mount Kasket and four un-named peaks(03 in Leh-Ladakh and 01 in H.P) He also has led a team of skiers who skied down after climbing Mt. Abhigamin in 2007 and later on ski down from the 3rd camp (Ht.approximately 23000 ft.) of Mount Everest in 2009.
Awards and recognitions
Harbhajan Singh is a recipient of various following Awards and recognitions conferred by the Government of India and Government of Punjab for his spectacular and significant achievements in the field of Mountaineering and adventure sports and outstanding and meaningful performance as an officer of elite ITBPOLICE Force :-
a) Padmashri Award in 2011.
b) Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award in 2016.
c) Maharaja Ranjit Singh Award (highest sports Award of Punjab) in 2019.
d) IMF Nain singh & Kishan singh life time achievement award in 2011.
e) President’s Police Medal for Distinguished services in 2011.
f) President’s Police medal for Meritorious services in 2005.
g) DG ITBPOLICE Insignia & Commendation roll -13 times.
Indian Mountaineering Foundation has also extended life membership to him for his significant contributions in the field of mountaineering and promoting adventure activities at International and National level
.
His name also figure in “Limca book of records and quiz competition books prepared for competitive exam” for his matchless and spectacular contribution in the field of mountaineering and promoting adventure activities at International and National level.
See also
Adventure sports
Limca Book of World Records
References
External links
1956 births
Living people
Recipients of the Padma Shri in sports
Indian mountain climbers
Mountain climbers from Punjab, India
Recipients of the Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award |
6902610 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992%20World%20Junior%20Championships%20in%20Athletics | 1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics | The 4th 1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics was the fourth edition of the international athletics competition for athletes aged 19 years or under. It was held in Seoul, South Korea from September 16 to September 20, 1992.
Results
Men
Women
Medal table
Participation
According to an unofficial count through an unofficial result list, 954 athletes from 90 countries participated in the event. This is in agreement with the official numbers as published.
See also
1992 in athletics (track and field)
References
External links
Results at GBRathletics.com
Results from World Junior Athletics History (WJAH)
Official results
World Junior
World Junior Championships in Athletics
Athletics 1992
Sport in Seoul
World Athletics U20 Championships |
6902612 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colourbox%20%281985%20album%29 | Colourbox (1985 album) | Colourbox is the only full-length studio album from Colourbox, released by 4AD in August 1985. CAD 508 is the album's catalogue number, used to distinguish it from the earlier mini-album of the same name. The first 10,000 copies of the vinyl LP came with a bonus LP MAD 509. The CD release included the first side of the bonus LP. The album was preceded by the singles "Say You" in March 1984, "Punch" in June 1984, and "The Moon Is Blue" in July 1985.
Track listing
All songs written by Steve and Martyn Young, except where noted.
"Sleepwalker" – 2:16
"Just Give 'em Whiskey" – 4:19
"Say You" (U-Roy) – 3:58
"The Moon Is Blue" – 4:37
"Inside Informer" – 4:24
"Punch" – 5:01
"Suspicion" – 4:27
"Manic" – 2:26
"You Keep Me Hangin On" (Holland–Dozier–Holland) – 5:38
"Arena" – 4:23
Personnel
All instruments by Steve and Martyn Young.
Vocals by Lorita Grahame.
Guitar solo on "Manic" by William Orbit.
Tablas on "Arena" by Chris Karan.
Produced by Martyn Young, except "Punch" produced by Bob Carter.
Recorded at Palladium, Guerilla, Rooster, and Maison Rouge.
Mixed at Rooster, Guerilla, and Maison Rouge.
"Arena" mixed by Hugh Jones at R.G. Jones.
Engineered by Jon Turner (at Palladium), John Madden (at Rooster), and Rico (at Guerilla).
Sleeve design by Vaughan Oliver.
Colourbox MAD 509
Colourbox MAD 509 is a mini-album by Colourbox. It was released as a free bonus record with the first 10,000 copies of Colourbox's self-titled album. The four tracks on the A-side were included on the CD version of CAD 508, while the three tracks on the B-side were not. The final track, "Sex Gun", is a vocal version of the original album instrumental "Just Give 'em Whiskey".
Track listing
Side A
"Edit the Dragon" – 2:44
"Hipnition" – 3:01
"We Walk Around the Streets" – 0:25
"Arena II" – 5:01
Side B
"Manic II" – 5:54
"Fast Dump" – 5:44
"Sex Gun" – 4:02
References
1985 albums
4AD albums
Colourbox albums |
6902627 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley%20Byrne | Ashley Byrne | Ashley A Byrne is a radio and television presenter, newsreader and producer. He was born on 13 November 1972 in Doncaster, England. His father is the British artist, Tony Byrne.
He is a regular presenter of the BBC World Service history programmes Witness and Sporting Witness. He was previously presenter of current affairs programme 'Citizen Manchester LGBT' on BBC Radio Manchester and has also presented the news on BBC and commercial radio stations across the North of England and Midlands including Smooth Radio, Century, Lincs FM, TFM, BBC Radio Manchester, BBC North West (radio), Imagine FM, Signal Cheshire and The Pulse of West Yorkshire. He has also presented on BBC Radio 3 and narrated documentaries for ITV.
Byrne is Creative Director of the successful radio production company, Made in Manchester which he set up with business partner James Hickman, the five-times World Butterfly Swimming Champion in May 2005.
Programmes either produced or executive produced by Byrne for Made in Manchester include:
In December 2007, Byrne managed to get Archbishop Desmond Tutu to apologise on behalf of the Anglican Church for the way in which some clergy had treated the world's LGBT community.
In April 2009, Made in Manchester came runner up in the Best Production Company in the North 'How Do' Awards
In May 2009, Byrne's 'Giving Way to a New Era' was nominated for a prestigious Sony Award.
In July 2009, Byrne's 'Gay Life After Saddam' for BBC Radio 5 Live (which also featured actors Samuel Barnett and Paul Kendrick) was described by the press as 'the BBC at its best' after it uncovered a catalogue of murder and torture being carried out against gay and trans Iraqis since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003.
In October 2009, Byrne's company Made in Manchester embarked on a pioneering experiment to promote and premiere new audio drama via The UK's Independent newspaper. Turing's Test (starring History Boys' actor Sam Barnett) rose as high as number 7 in its category on the iTunes downloads chart. Subsequent dramas have included Death in Genoa starring Simon Callow as Oscar Wilde and Suzie Pugh and a Monster Too (a children's drama starring Coronation Street actress Vicky Binns). It's thought more dramas may be on the cards and Byrne has expressed his ambition to create 'a new high-profile platform' for drama and comedy on the web.
Byrne is also a Director of RIG, the Radio Independents Trade Body and has been leading a campaign to persuade the BBC to commission more radio programming from outside London.
References
External links
www.madeinmanchester.tv
British radio personalities
Living people
1972 births |
6902638 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia%20State%20Route%2087 | Virginia State Route 87 | State Route 87 (SR 87) is a primary state highway in the U.S. state of Virginia. Known for its entire length as Morehead Avenue, the state highway runs from the North Carolina state line, where the highway continues as North Carolina Highway 14 (NC 14)/NC 87, north to its terminus at U.S. Route 220 (US 220) in Ridgeway in southern Henry County.
Route description
SR 87 begins at the North Carolina state line southeast of Ridgeway. The highway continues southeast as NC 14/NC 87 toward Eden. SR 87 heads northwest to the town of Ridgeway. In the center of town, the state highway intersects US 220 Business, which heads north on Main Street and south on Church Street. SR 87 continues northwest a short distance to its northern terminus at US 220 (Greensboro Road).
History
Route 87 was originally numbered State Route 106. When North Carolina extended NC 87 to the Virginia state line in the 1940 renumbering, SR 106 was renumbered SR 87 for continuity.
Major intersections
References
External links
Virginia Highways Project: VA 87
087
State Route 087 |
6902644 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%20Patrick%27s%20Grammar%20School | St Patrick's Grammar School | St Patrick's Grammar School may refer to:
St Patrick's Grammar School, Downpatrick
St Patrick's Grammar School, Armagh |
44496565 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire%20Haigh | Claire Haigh | Claire Haigh (born 16 September 1980) is a Luxembourgish female kickboxer and mixed martial artist.
She is the former WPMF Lightweight and Super Lightweight champion, as well as the WPMF World Pro League Super Lightweight Champion. She is also the former WMC Lightweight champion. She is a two time ISKA Lightweight World title challenger.
Martial arts career
Haigh made her kickboxing debut in 2007, against Sheree Halliday, during Woking Fight Night 4. She lost a decision.
In 2009, Haigh was given the opportunity to fight for the World Professional Muaythai Federation Lightweight title, against Chantal Ughi. She won by way of TKO. Haigh fought Chantal Ughi for the World Professional Muaythai Federation Super Lightweight title in the same year, winning a decision.
Haigh defended her WPMF title in 2010, when she faced Stephanie Ielö Page, and won a unanimous decision.
Claire Haigh next fought Lanzi Estella for the KSFL World title. She would win a unanimous decision.
During Penzance Fight Night 2010: Fast And Furious, Haigh faced Julie Kitchen for the IKF World title. She lost a close split decision.
Haigh's next fight was likewise a title fight. She fought Miriam Nakamoto for the WBC Muaythai Lightweight title. Nakamoto won the bout by knockout.
Claire Haigh would then go on a six fight winning streak before challenging Angélique Pitiot for the ISKA World Lightweight title. During this winning streak, she defended her lightweight title twice, against Kwanta Soonkeeranakornsree, and against Nilawan Techasuep. Pitiot won by knockout.
She fought and defeated Nong Nan Jor Nguan in 2012 for the WMC World Lightweight title in 2012.
Championships and accomplishments
World Professional Muaythai Federation
WPMF World Lightweight Championship (135 lbs)
Two successful title defenses
WPMF World Super Lightweight Championship (140 lbs)
WPMF World Pro League Super Lightweight Championship (140 lbs)
World Muaythai Council
WMC World Lightweight Championship (135 lbs)
Kickboxing record
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| style="text-align:center;"|Win
| Marlene Caneva
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| France
| style="text-align:center;"|KO
|align=center|5
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|- style="background:#fdd;"
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| style="text-align:center;"|Loss
| Anke Van Gestel
|Kings of Muay Thaï 5
| Luxembourg
| style="text-align:center;"|Decision (unanimous)
|align=center|5
|align=center|3:00
| style="text-align:center;"|
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| style="text-align:center;"|Win
| Saida Atmani
|Kings of Muay Thai 4
| Luxembourg
| style="text-align:center;"|TKO
|align=center|4
|align=center|
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|- style="background:#fdd;"
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| style="text-align:center;"|Loss
| Veronica Vernocchi
|Fighter’s Legion
| Luxembourg
| style="text-align:center;"|Decision (split)
|align=center|3
|align=center|3:00
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|- style="background:#cfc;"
|
| style="text-align:center;"|Win
| Laetitia Bakissy
|One versus One
| Trappes, France
| style="text-align:center;"|Points
|align=center|5
|align=center|3:00
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|- style="background:#cfc;"
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| style="text-align:center;"|Win
| Hatice Ozyurt
|No Pain, No Muay Thai, Belgium
| Andenne, Belgium
| style="text-align:center;"|TKO
|align=center|
|align=center|
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|- style="background:#cfc;"
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| style="text-align:center;"|Win
| Marlene Caneva
|Kings of Muay Thai 3
| Luxembourg
| style="text-align:center;"|KO
|align=center|5
|align=center|
| style="text-align:center;"|
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|- style="background:#fdd;"
|
| style="text-align:center;"|Loss
| Angélique Pitiot
|Tower Muay Thai
| Paris, France
| style="text-align:center;"|KO
|align=center|1
|align=center|
| style="text-align:center;"|
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! style=background:white colspan=9 |
|- style="background:#cfc;"
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| style="text-align:center;"|Win
| Saida Atmani
|Fight Fever 5th Edition
| Longeville-lès-Metz, France
| style="text-align:center;"|TKO
|align=center|
|align=center|
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|- style="background:#cfc;"
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| style="text-align:center;"|Win
| Roxana Gaal
|Fight Fever 5th Edition
| Luxembourg
| style="text-align:center;"|TKO
|align=center|3
|align=center|
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|- style="background:#cfc;"
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| style="text-align:center;"|Win
| Sandra Pires
|Kings of Muay Thai 2
| Oberkorn, Luxembourg
| style="text-align:center;"|TKO
|align=center|3
|align=center|
| style="text-align:center;"|
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! style=background:white colspan=9 |
|- style="background:#cfc;"
|
| style="text-align:center;"|Win
| Nilawan Techasuep
|WPMF World Championship
| Bali, Indonesia
| style="text-align:center;"|Points
|align=center|5
|align=center|3:00
| style="text-align:center;"|
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! style=background:white colspan=9 |
|- style="background:#cfc;"
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| style="text-align:center;"|Win
| Kwanta Soonkeeranakornsree
|WPMF World Championship
| Phuket, Thailand
| style="text-align:center;"|TKO
|align=center|4
|align=center|
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|- style="background:#cfc;"
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| style="text-align:center;"|Win
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| Phuket, Thailand
| style="text-align:center;"|Points
|align=center|3
|align=center|2:00
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|- style="background:#fdd;"
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| style="text-align:center;"|Loss
| Miriam Nakamoto
|WCK Muay Thai The Top Best
| Haikou City, Hainan Island, China
| style="text-align:center;"|KO
|align=center|1
|align=center|
| style="text-align:center;"|
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! style=background:white colspan=9 |
|- style="background:#fdd;"
|
| style="text-align:center;"|Loss
| Julie Kitchen
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| Cornwall, England
| style="text-align:center;"|Decision (split)
|align=center|3
|align=center|3:00
| style="text-align:center;"|
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! style=background:white colspan=9 |
|- style="background:#c5d2ea;"
|
| style="text-align:center;"|Draw
| Amanda Kelly
|Muay Thai Addicts III
| London, England
| style="text-align:center;"|Draw (unanimous)
|align=center|3
|align=center|3:00
| style="text-align:center;"|
|-
|- style="background:#cfc;"
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| style="text-align:center;"|Win
| Lanzi Estella
|Gala KSFL
| Luxembourg
| style="text-align:center;"|Decision
|align=center|5
|align=center|2:00
| style="text-align:center;"|
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! style=background:white colspan=9 |
|- style="background:#cfc;"
|
| style="text-align:center;"|Win
| Stephanie Ielö Page
|WPMF World Championship
| Saphan Buri Stadium, Thailand
| style="text-align:center;"|Decision
|align=center|3
|align=center|3:00
| style="text-align:center;"|
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! style=background:white colspan=9 |
|- style="background:#fdd;"
|
| style="text-align:center;"|Loss
| Julie Kitchen
|Kings Cup Tournament
| Bangkok, Thailand
| style="text-align:center;"|Points
|align=center|3
|align=center|2:00
| style="text-align:center;"|
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|- style="background:#cfc;"
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| style="text-align:center;"|Win
| Chantal Ughi
|Queens Birthday - Muay Thai Event
| Bangkok, Thailand
| style="text-align:center;"|TKO
|align=center|
|align=center|
| style="text-align:center;"|
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! style=background:white colspan=9 |
|- style="background:#cfc;"
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| style="text-align:center;"|Win
| Ifa Onuga
|England vs Belarus
| London, England
| style="text-align:center;"|Points
|align=center|3
|align=center|2:00
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|- style="background:#fdd;"
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| style="text-align:center;"|Loss
| Sheree Halliday
|Woking Fight Night 4
| Woking, England
| style="text-align:center;"|Points
|align=center|3
|align=center|2:00
| style="text-align:center;"|
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|-
| colspan=9 | Legend:
Mixed martial arts record
|Draw
|align=center|3–0–1
|Jin Tang
|Draw (Unanimous)
|DQ - Dragon Qilu
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|align=center|3
|align=center|5:00
|Shandong, China
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|Win
|align=center|3–0
|Eileen Forrest
|Submission (Rear-Naked Choke
|MC - Martial Combat 12
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|align=center|2
|align=center|2:06
|Singapore
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|Win
|align=center|2–0
|Sun Jiao
|TKO (Elbows)
|MC - Martial Combat 5
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|align=center|3
|align=center|3:30
|Singapore
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|Win
|align=center|1–0
|Angela Rivera-Parr
|Rear-Naked Choke
|CWA - Cage Wars Australia 2
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|align=center|1
|align=center|2:40
|Queensland, Australia
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References
1980 births
People from Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve
Luxembourgian female kickboxers
Luxembourgian female mixed martial artists
Living people
Bantamweight mixed martial artists
Mixed martial artists utilizing boxing
Mixed martial artists utilizing Muay Thai
Lightweight kickboxers
Luxembourgian Muay Thai practitioners
Female Muay Thai practitioners |
6902653 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaston%20Calmette | Gaston Calmette | Gaston Calmette (30 July 1858 – 16 March 1914) was a French journalist and newspaper editor, whose death was the subject of a notable murder trial.
Biography
Calmette was born in Montpellier. He was educated at Nice, Bordeaux, Clermont-Ferrand and Mâcon, and afterwards entered journalism. In 1884 he joined the staff of Le Figaro, and in 1894 became its editor. In January 1914, Calmette launched a campaign against Minister of Finance Joseph Caillaux, who had introduced progressive taxation and was known for his pacifist stance towards Germany during the Second Moroccan Crisis, in 1911. Almost every day Le Figaro produced evidence of a damaging sort against the minister with the object of proving that he used his official position to facilitate speculation on the Paris Bourse. The attitude of Caillaux in the Rochette case of 1911, in which it was alleged by Le Figaro that the director of public prosecutions had been influenced by the ministry to delay the course of justice, was brought forward, and a newspaper campaign of extraordinary violence was the result. Caillaux was urged by some of his colleagues to take legal proceedings against his accusers, but declined.
Assassination
At 6:00 p.m. on 16 March 1914, Calmette entered the offices of Le Figaro in the company of his friend, the novelist Paul Bourget. Caillaux's second wife Henriette was waiting for him, wearing a fur coat and with her hands in a fur muff. To Bourget's surprise, Calmette agreed to see her in his office.
There, Madame Caillaux exchanged a few words with him, then pulled out a .32 Browning automatic pistol she had been concealing within the muff and fired six shots. Calmette was hit four times and was critically wounded, dying six hours later. Caillaux made no attempt to escape and newspaper workers in adjoining offices quickly summoned a doctor and the police. She refused to be transported to the police headquarters in a police van, insisting on being driven there by her chauffeur in her own car, which was still parked outside. The police agreed to this and she was formally charged upon reaching the headquarters.
During the campaign against Joseph Caillaux, which was orchestrated by Louis Barthou and Raymond Poincaré, Le Figaro published several letters from the Minister's private correspondence. Madame Caillaux's motive was fear that the newspaper would also make public a love letter that showed how her husband was already having a relationship with her during his first marriage.
Joseph Caillaux had to resign his post the next day, but during a spectacular trial later that year his wife was acquitted.
Other interests
Calmette was well known for his interest in art, and possessed a fine collection of caricatures and engravings of the First Empire.
Popular culture
Robert Delaunay used an illustration of the assassination as the basis for his 1914 painting Political Drama.
Marcel Proust dedicated Swann's Way, the first volume of his novel In Search of Lost Time, to Calmette 'as a testimony of deep and affectionate recognition'.
Calmette was the brother of the bacteriologist Albert Calmette.
Notes
References
Bibliography
Berenson, Edward The Trial of Madame Caillaux (Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, c1992, 1993).
Kershaw, Alister Murder in France (London: Constable & Company, Ltd., 1955), 90-117.
External links
Biography
Mme Caillaux tire sur Gaston Calmette
Une épouse outragée
1858 births
1914 deaths
Writers from Montpellier
Assassinated French journalists
French newspaper editors
Burials at Batignolles Cemetery
French male non-fiction writers
Deaths by firearm in France
Le Figaro people |
23577700 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st%20Streamy%20Awards | 1st Streamy Awards | The 1st Annual Streamy Awards was the first ever awards ceremony dedicated entirely to web series and the first installment of the Streamy Awards. The awards were held on March 28, 2009, at the Wadsworth Theatre in Los Angeles, California. The event had over 1,300 audience members in attendance and was simultaneously broadcast live online. The Official Red Carpet Pre-Show was hosted by Shira Lazar and the award show was co-hosted by Tubefilter, NewTeeVee and Tilzy.TV. The web series The Guild and Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog were the biggest winners of the night, winning four and six awards, respectively, out of the 25 award categories. The show was met by positive reception by celebrities in attendance and the media.
Winners and nominees
The nominees were announced on March 13, 2009 and the finalists for the Audience Choice Award for Best Web Series were announced on March 17. The Streamy Craft Award winners were announced in a ceremony held on March 26, 2009. The remaining award categories were announced during the main ceremony at the Wadsworth Theatre on March 28. Winners of the categories were selected by the International Academy of Web Television except for the Audience Choice Award for Best Web Series which was put to a public vote.
Winners are listed first, in bold.
Web series with multiple nominations and awards
Reception
The New York Times Magazine columnist Virginia Heffernan called the show "a goofy and a powerful experience." Heffernan, alongside Alexia Tsotsis writing for LA Weekly, were impressed by the celebrity presence at the show, with Tsotsis calling it "an Emmys for Web TV." Maria Russo, writing for TheWrap, and Patrick Orndorff, writing for Wired, praised the quality of the nominees. Russo opined of the show that although "[in] the big scheme of things it all feels very fledgling", the existence of the awards felt "like a cool glimpse into the future". Heffernan, Tsotsis, and Jill Weinberger of Gigaom, singled out the speeches of Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog writer Joss Whedon and The Guild star Felicia Day as particularly memorable with Whedon praising the online content creators in attendance and Day saying of her awards "this is for everyone who ever said no to me." YouTuber and singer Tay Zonday was enthusiastic about the awards saying that they show "that people don't have to play the system to have their art acknowledged," and actor David Faustino said of the show "we're at a baby stage of something that's going to be amazingly giant and I'm excited to be on ground floor." Brian Lowry writing for Variety called the Streamys the "Worst Award Name Ever".
See also
List of Streamy Award winners
References
External links
Streamy Awards website
Streamy Awards
Streamy Awards
2009 in American television |
6902671 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick%20Glasser | Dick Glasser | Richard Eugene Glasser (December 8, 1933 – July 10, 2000) was a singer, songwriter, and record producer.
Biography
Glasser was born in Canton, Ohio, the third of eleven children and the oldest of five boys: subsequent to graduating Minerva High School he served in the navy. His biggest hit as a songwriter was "Angels in the Sky," which he recorded and released on Jack Gale's Triple-A label in early 1954. RCA Records subsequently made an offer to Gale for the song and gave it to their singer Tony Martin that same year. The deal also involved Gale pulling the Glasser original off the market. The following year, the song was revived by The Crew-Cuts on Mercury and their version sold a million copies.
Glasser went on to release many excellent recordings during the mid to late 50s on Dot, Argo, then Columbia, before moving to Liberty in 1960 where he was appointed head of Metric Music—Liberty's song publishing arm. In January 1961 Gene Vincent recorded the Glasser song "Teardrops," and released it on Capitol. Aside from running Metric, Glasser also released eight singles for the label, the pick being "Handsome Guy," a 1962 recording produced by Snuff Garrett and written by P.J. Proby under his real name, James Marcus Smith. The record was a top 10 hit for him that year in Australia. He also did session work for the label as a guitarist.
Also in 1962, Glasser produced a record by an instrumental band called The Fencemen, composed of Oklahoma expatriates Chuck Blackwell, David Gates, and Leon Russell. Although the musicians went on to individual fame and success,"Swingin' Gates" (written by David Gates and Cliff Crofford) b/w "Bach n' Roll" (written by Leon Russell [as Russell Bridges]) failed to chart. The Fencemen released a second single in early 1963, "Sunday Stranger" (written by Billy Strange) b/w "Sour Grapes" (written by David Gates), which also went nowhere.
From January 1964 Glasser was general manager of Liberty's Dolton label where he produced recordings for such acts as Vic Dana, the Fleetwoods, and the Ventures, including Dana's original version of "I Will" a much-recorded Glasser composition.
In June 1965 Glasser assumed A&R directorship at Warner Bros. Records, producing a number of recordings by the Everly Brothers, including their Two Yanks in England album, as well as Freddy Cannon. March 1968 saw the launch of Dick Glasser Productions whose output included successful recordings by Gary Puckett and the Union Gap, the Vogues, and Andy Williams. Glasser also established his own music publishing company: Richbare Music, in 1968.
During the mid-1970s Glasser was director of MGM Records' country music division in Nashville, producing C. W. McCall's worldwide 1975 hit "Convoy," and also Eddy Arnold and Hank Williams Jr.
Among artists who recorded his songs were Bobby Vee, PJ Proby, Chet Atkins ("I Will"), Walter Brennan, Glen Campbell, Billy Fury, Johnny Cash ("That's All Over"), Dean Martin ("I Will"), Buddy Greco, The Kingston Trio, The Ventures ("Bluer Than Blue"), and Ruby Winters ("I Will"). Deana Martin recorded her own version of her father, Dean Martin's, recording on her 2009 album “Volare.”
Glasser died of lung cancer in Thousand Oaks, California at the age of 66.
References
External links
1933 births
2000 deaths
Musicians from Canton, Ohio
Songwriters from Ohio
Record producers from Ohio
RCA Victor artists
Deaths from lung cancer
20th-century American singers
20th-century American businesspeople
20th-century American male singers
American male songwriters |
23577705 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichosalpinx%20egleri | Trichosalpinx egleri | Trichosalpinx egleri is a species of orchid native to southern tropical America (Venezuela, Peru, Brazil, Bolivia, Suriname, Guyana, French Guiana and the Caribbean).
References
External links
egleri
Orchids of Bolivia
Orchids of Brazil
Orchids of Guyana
Orchids of French Guiana
Orchids of Peru
Orchids of Suriname
Orchids of Venezuela
Flora of the Caribbean
Flora without expected TNC conservation status |
6902673 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yours%20truly | Yours truly | Yours truly is a form of valediction, especially at the end of a written communication.
Yours truly may also refer to:
Yours truly, a humorous alternative to the pronoun 'I' or 'me' – referring to oneself
Yours Truly (band), an Australian pop-punk band formed in 2016
Yours Truly (2018 film), an Indian romantic drama film
Yours Truly (2019 film), a documentary about the Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei
Yours Truly (Snow Crash), a character in the novel Snow Crash
"Yours Truly" (song), by Blindspott
See also
Yours Truly Theatre, Bangalore, a theatre group in India
Albums
Yours Truly (Air Supply album), 2001
Yours Truly (Ariana Grande album), 2013
Yours Truly (Rick Braun album), 2005
Yours Truly (Sick of It All album), 2000
Yours Truly (Sublime with Rome album), 2011
Yours Truly, a 1991 album by Earl Thomas Conley |
20470588 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980%20Dallas%20Cowboys%20season | 1980 Dallas Cowboys season | The 1980 Dallas Cowboys season was their 21st in the league. The team improved their previous output of 11–5, winning twelve games. They qualified for the playoffs as an NFC Wild Card, but lost in the Conference Championship game.
The season featured a very unusual end to the regular season. Going into the final week of the season, Dallas (11–4) played Philadelphia (12–3) at Texas Stadium. Under the NFL's tiebreaking rules, if Dallas could beat the Eagles by 25 points, they would earn the NFC East title and the number two seed in the NFC playoffs while Philadelphia would be a wildcard team. However, if the Cowboys lost (or won by less than 25) then the roles would reverse.
Dallas led the game 35–10 in the fourth quarter, but the Eagles rallied to lose by only 35–27. This forced Dallas to play an extra week in the playoffs and a road game in Atlanta in the Divisional Round. Dallas ultimately lost at Philadelphia in the NFC Championship Game.
Offseason
NFL Draft
Undrafted free agents
Schedule
Division opponents are in bold text
Game summaries
Week 1 at Redskins
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Week 7
Week 8
Week 9
Week 10
Week 11
Week 12
Week 13
Week 14
Week 15
Week 16
Playoffs
Wildcard Round
Divisional Round
Conference Championship
Standings
Roster
References
Dallas Cowboys seasons
Dallas Cowboys
Dallas |
6902690 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CEN | CEN | Cen or CEN may refer to:
People and language
Cen language
Cen (rune) (ᚳ), a rune of the Anglo-Saxon fuþorc
Cen (surname) (岑), a Chinese second name
Acronym
Certified Emergency Nurse
Childhood emotional neglect
Cambridge Evening News, former name for the Cambridge News
Center for Electron Nanoscopy, an institute at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
Central European News, a news distributor
European Committee for Standardization (Comité Européen de Normalisation)
SCK•CEN, Belgian nuclear research institute (Centre d'Étude de l'énergie Nucléaire)
Abbreviation or code
Centaurus, the constellation
Centaur (minor planet)
Centralia, Illinois (Amtrak station)
Central Region, Scotland, Chapman code
Central station (MTR), Hong Kong
Ciudad Obregón International Airport (IATA code: CEN) in Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, Mexico
See also |
44496567 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansor%20Abd%20Rahman | Mansor Abd Rahman | Dr. Mansor bin Abd Rahman is a Malaysian politician. He was the former Member of the Parliament of Malaysia for the seat of Sik, Kedah, representing the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) in Malaysia's previous governing Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition.
A medical doctor by profession, Mansor entered Parliament at the 2013 election. At the time of his election he was the deputy chief of UMNO's Sik division. He defeated the incumbent Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) MP, Che Uda Che Nik.
In the 2018 election, Mansor lost to Ahmad Tarmizi Sulaiman of PAS, in a three-corner fight with Azli Che Uda of Parti Amanah Negara (AMANAH) for the Sik parliamentary seat.
Election results
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
People from Kedah
Malaysian people of Malay descent
Malaysian Muslims
Malaysian medical doctors
United Malays National Organisation politicians
Members of the Dewan Rakyat
21st-century Malaysian politicians |
23577707 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanizaki%20Prize | Tanizaki Prize | The Tanizaki Prize (谷崎潤一郎賞 Tanizaki Jun'ichirō Shō), named in honor of the Japanese novelist Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, is one of Japan's most sought-after literary awards. It was established in 1965 by the publishing company Chūō Kōronsha Inc. to commemorate its 80th anniversary as a publisher. It is awarded annually to a full-length representative work of fiction or drama of the highest literary merit by a professional writer. The winner receives a commemorative plaque and a cash prize of 1 million yen.
Winners
Award sponsor Chuokoron-Shinsha maintains an official list of current and past winning works.
1965 Kojima Nobuo for Embracing Family (Hōyō kazoku, 抱擁家族)
1966 Endō Shūsaku for Silence (Chinmoku, 沈黙)
1967 Kenzaburō Ōe for The Silent Cry (Manen gannen no futtoboru, 万延元年のフットボール)
1967 Abe Kobo for Friends (Tomodachi, 友達)
1968 (no prize awarded)
1969 Enchi Fumiko for Shu wo ubau mono; Kizu aru tsubasa; Niji to shura (朱を奪うもの/傷ある翼/虹と修羅)
1970 Yutaka Haniya for Black Horse In The Midst Of Darkness (Yami no naka no kuroi uma, 闇のなかの黒い馬)
1970 Yoshiyuki Junnosuke for The Dark Room (Anshitsu, 暗室)
1971 Noma Hiroshi for Seinen no wa (青年の環)
1972 Maruya Saiichi for A Singular Rebellion (Tatta hitori no hanran, たった一人の反乱)
1973 Kaga Otohiko for Kaerazaru natsu (帰らざる夏)
1974 Usui Yoshimi for Azumino (安曇野)
1975 Minakami Tsutomu for Ikkyū (一休)
1976 Fujieda Shizuo for Denshin ugaku (田紳有楽)
1977 Shimao Toshio for Hi no utsuroi (日の移ろい)
1978 Nakamura Shin'ichirō for Summer (Natsu, 夏)
1979 Tanaka Komimasa for Poroporo (ポロポロ)
1980 Kono Taeko for Ichinen no banka (一年の牧歌)
1981 Fukazawa Shichiro for Michinoku no ningyotachi (みちのくの人形たち)
1981 Goto Akio for Yoshinodayu (吉野大夫)
1982 Oba Minako for Katachi mo naku (寂兮寥兮)
1983 Furui Yoshikichi for Morning Glory (Asagao, 槿)
1984 Kuroi Senji for Life in the Cul-de-Sac (Gunsei, 群棲)
1984 Takai Yuichi for This Country's Sky (Kono kuni no sora, この国の空)
1985 Haruki Murakami for Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Sekai no owari to Hādoboirudo Wandārando, 世界の終わりとハードボイルド・ワンダーランド)
1986 Hino Keizo for Sakyu ga ugoku yō ni (砂丘が動くように)
1987 Tsutsui Yasutaka for Yumenokizaka bunkiten (夢の木坂分岐点)
1988 (no prize awarded)
1989 (no prize awarded)
1990 Hayashi Kyoko for Yasurakani ima wa nemuri tamae (やすらかに今はねむり給え)
1991 Inoue Hisashi for Shanghai Moon (Shanhai Mūn, シャンハイムーン)
1992 Setouchi Jakucho for Hana ni toe (花に問え)
1993 Ikezawa Natsuki for The Navidad Incident: The Downfall of Matías Guili (Mashiasu giri no shikkyaku, マシアス・ギリの失脚)
1994 Tsujii Takashi for Rainbow Cove (Niji no misaki, 虹の岬)
1995 Tsuji Kunio for Saigyō kaden (西行花伝)
1996 (no prize awarded)
1997 Hosaka Kazushi for Kisetsu no kioku (季節の記憶)
1997 Miki Taku for Roji (路地)
1998 Tsushima Yūko for Mountain of Fire: Account of a Wild Monkey (Hi no yama - yamazaruki, 火の山―山猿記)
1999 Takagi Nobuko for Translucent Tree (Tokō no ki, (透光の樹)
2000 Tsujihara Noboru for Yudotei Maruki (遊動亭円木)
2000 Murakami Ryū for A Symbiotic Parasite (Kyoseichu, 共生虫)
2001 Hiromi Kawakami for The Briefcase aka Strange Weather in Tokyo (Sensei no kaban, センセイの鞄)
2002: (no prize awarded)
2003: Tawada Yoko for Suspect On The Night Train (Yōgisha no yakōressha, 容疑者の夜行列車)
2004: Horie Toshiyuki for Yukinuma and Its Environs (Yukinuma to sono shūhen, 雪沼とその周辺)
2005: Machida Kō for Confession (Kokuhaku, 告白)
2005: Amy Yamada for Wonderful Flavor (Fūmizekka, 風味絶佳)
2006: Yōko Ogawa for Meena's March (Mīna no Kōshin, ミーナの行進)
2007: Seirai Yuichi for Bakushin (爆心)
2008: Natsuo Kirino for Tokyo-jima (東京島)
2009: (no prize awarded)
2010: Kazushige Abe for Pistils (Pisutoruzu, ピストルズ)
2011: Mayumi Inaba for To the Peninsula (半島へ)
2012: Genichiro Takahashi for Goodbye, Christopher Robin (さよならクリストファー・ロビン)
2013: Mieko Kawakami for Dreams of Love (Ai no Yume to ka, 愛の夢とか)
2014: Hikaru Okuizumi for The Autobiography of Tokyo (Tōkyō jijoden, 東京自叙伝)
2015: Kaori Ekuni for Geckos, Frogs, and Butterflies (Yamori Kaeru Shijimichō, ヤモリ、カエル、シジミチョウ)
2016: Akiko Itoyama for Hakujyō (薄情)
2016: Yū Nagashima for San no Tonari wa Gogōshitsu (三の隣は五号室)
2017: Hisaki Matsuura for honour and trance (Meiyo to Kōkotsu, 名誉と恍惚)
2018: Tomoyuki Hoshino for
2019: Kiyoko Murata for
2020: Kenichiro Isozaki for Nihon Momai Zenshi (日本蒙昧前史)
2021: Kanehara Hitomi for Unsocial Distance (Ansōsharudisutansu, アンソーシャルディスタンス)
2022: Banana Yoshimoto for Miton to fubin'' (ミトンとふびん)
See also
List of Japanese literary awards
References
1965 establishments in Japan
Awards established in 1965
Japanese literary awards
Japanese-language literary awards |
17338333 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20the%20Beaufort%20%281982%29 | Battle of the Beaufort (1982) | The Battle of the Beaufort was fought between the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) on June 6, 1982 over Beaufort Castle, Lebanon. It was one of the first clashes of the 1982 Lebanon War, and resulted in the IDF capturing the castle.
Background
Located 717 meters above sea level, Beaufort Castle (Arabic: قلعة الشقيف, Qal'at ash-Shaqif) commands great parts of the Upper Galilee and South Lebanon. It could be used to direct artillery, and even Syria had sent artillery spotters there. Israel shelled the fortress repeatedly, but could never actually enter it - the massive basalt rocks of the Medieval construction proving an effective defense even in face of modern artillery and aerial bombardments. For Israel, it had become a symbol of the Palestinian power over the region. For the Palestinians, it served as a memento of Saladin's victory over the Crusaders in 1192 and of their own endurance against Israel, and the PLO used it as the colophon on leaflets.
Two weeks before the war started, Yasser Arafat visited the castle, sat down with its defenders and assured them that in thirty-six hours of fighting, the PLO could get a ceasefire. The sector commander protested, insisting that there was no way they could withstand an Israeli attack for so long.
Preparations for the attack
The IDF Northern Command had been planning to capture the Beaufort for a long time before the war, assigning the mission to the commando unit of the Golani Brigade. The unit had studied the castle for years and trained for tactics to conquer it.
In August 1980 the IDF launched an operation attempting to conquer the Beaufort castle. Israeli air force and artillery attacked the castle itself, al-Khardali Bridge, north-east, just below the fortress, as well as the nearby villages of Arnoun and Kafr Tibnit. An infantry unit belonging to the Golani brigade attempted to occupy the castle but was beaten back. Three IDF soldiers were killed while the Palestinians suffered 29 casualties. The high casualties prompted the Palestinians to reinforce their positions at Beaufort, building a network of covered trenches and reinforced shelters dug into the hillsides.
However, the way the invasion progressed in 1982, made the capture of the Beaufort unnecessary. Capture would have been necessary had the IDF decided to cross the Litani River via the al-Khardali bridge, as they had in 1980- But since the IDF instead decided to use the Qa'qa'iya Bridge, located much further to the west, the Israelis could have proceeded to Nabatiye unaffected by the Beaufort. Since the PLO troops stationed in and around the castle were not firing at Israeli settlements when the war began, there was no urgent need to neutralize them. The General Staff issued a command to postpone the operation, but the command failed to reach the Golani commando unit.
The former commander of the Golani commandos, Giora (Guni) Harnik, had been discharged from the IDF just a week earlier, but was suddenly called back. Since the unit commander, Moshe Kaplinsky, was gravely wounded while on the road, Harnik was sent as replacement. He drove there so fast that his APC flipped over, although he and the other passengers were uninjured. His surprise return was a morale boost for the men of the unit. His deputy was Mordechai (Moti) Goldman.
The battle
21 fighters from the elite Student battalion (later known as the al-Jarmaq Battalion) of the Fatah movement were deployed inside the castle, under the command of Ya'qoub Abdel-Hafiz Sumour (nom de guerre "Rasim"). The fighters were divided into three squads of seven members each. The squads were deployed left, right and centre in the lower sections of the castle. Fatah also had bases in and around the nearby villages of Kafr Tibnit and Arnoun. A unit of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) was deployed between the castle and the village of Arnoun. The positions at the castle were well dug in with covered trenches and concrete firing positions.
The battle started with a heavy Israeli artillery and aircraft bombardment. Heavy use was made of cluster bombs. Since the Palestinians were well dug in, no fighter was injured during this phase. But since the ground became covered with unexploded ordnance, exploding on touch like mines, access to the armoury and other supplies became risky and difficult. Two fighters were lightly wounded when trying to clear cluster bombs.
In the afternoon the Palestinian forces succeeded in shooting down an Israeli A-4 Skyhawk fighter-bomber flying over the Beaufort castle, with a Strela 2 (SA-7) handheld surface-to-air missile. The pilot, Cpt. Aharon Achiaz, parachuted and was taken prisoner by Palestinian forces. He was brought to Beirut and later released during the evacuation of PLO forces in August 1982.
The main IDF force in the central sector advanced from the border over Taibe and Qantara and crossed the Litani river at the Qa'qa'iya bridge. Well over the bridge the force split into three parts, with one continued to the coast over Doueir and Zifta, the second surrounded the town of Nabatiye and the third proceeded to the Beaufort castle.
The force heading for Beaufort consisted of 65 men from the Golani engineering company and 23 men from the Golani commando unit. They were travelling in 20 APCs, accompanied by a platoon of tanks. The attack had originally been planned as a daylight attack. But due to congested roads in south Lebanon at the time and repeated brake-downs of the tanks, the force did not arrive in highlands west of the Beaufort until 4 PM. None of the tanks managed to arrive at the location. The plans had to be changed to a night attack, without any support from the tanks.
The engineering company, under Lt.Col. Barkai, was to take the southern outpost with its bunkers while the Golani commandos, under Moshe Kaplinsky, were to take the northern outpost and its trenches.
It was decided that the Golani engineers would take the lead and the commandos would follow. The engineers charged up the hill of the fortress and managed to slip through without casualties. They attacked the Palestinian positions and managed to conquer the antenna position. One soldier was killed and several were wounded.
The commandos, however, were cut down by heavy machine gun fire on their way to the top. Of the originally 21 fighters only seven or eight managed to reach their destination. Two soldiers were killed and four wounded. The rest were taking cover halfway. Led by Mordechai Goldman the force began a second assault, killing several Palestinians. They were later joined by Harnik and two of his soldiers.
They were facing the main bunker, where a Palestinian fighter, entrenched in a concrete position, was firing his machine gun. The Palestinian managed to kill Harnik with a bullet to the chest before Goldman threw an explosive charge at his position, killing the Palestinian fighter and destroying the position. Most of the remaining Palestinians were killed as Israeli troops secured the mountain.
Because of both weather conditions and continued firing nearby, medical evacuation of the wounded was delayed until shortly before daybreak. Only then, did the death toll - six men, including the unit commander - become apparent. After it, the soldiers spread out and climbed to take the roof of the fortress, which turned out to be deserted. By 6:30 AM, Israeli control over the castle was secured.
The Israeli soldiers discovered a rope ladder hanging down from the heights of the fortress, suggesting that some of the Palestinian fighters escaped during the night.
According to Mu'in at-Tahir, the commander of the Fatah Students' battalion (who personally did not take part in the battle inside the castle), some of the fighters managed to escape from the castle. At ten in the evening, units from the Students’ battalion, positioned outside the castle, attacked IDF tanks stationed to the west of the castle with rockets. In the turmoil, a handful of fighters managed to sneak out. Some of them were killed in other battles during the Lebanon war, but three of the Fatah fighters from the battle of the Beaufort castle survived the war.
Aftermath
During the day, the (Chief of Staff), Rafael Eitan, visited the troops and was astounded to learn of the death toll. Later that day, Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Minister of Defense Ariel Sharon arrived, accompanied by newsmen and photographers. They did not know about the losses, as Sharon did not inquire before declaring that the battle was won without casualties on the Israeli side.
Showing interest in the Palestinian resistance, Begin asked "Did they have machine guns?", a question which later became a symbol of how uninformed the Israeli leadership was of the events on the front throughout the war.
Harnik was posthumously given the division commander citation. Mordechai Goldman was awarded the Medal of Courage for his actions, and later medically discharged from the army after being wounded by Syrian artillery outside Beirut. The commander of the Golani Brigade later confessed that in retrospect, he would not have attacked the Beaufort. An investigation was held after the war as to why the order to postpone the operation failed to reach its destination, but produced inconclusive results.
There were also persistent reports of "friendly fire" incidents in the battle. One officer was apparently wounded under such circumstances. There is also a question mark hanging over one of the IDF fatalities, which was never officially clarified.
Most of the Fatah fighters in the castle fell in the battle. That includes the commander of the castle, Ya'coub Sumour, and his deputy Abdul Karim al-Kahalani. After the battle, the IDF handed over 30 bodies for burial to the villagers of nearby Yohmur. The bodies had been collected in the castle itself and in and around the villages of Arnoun and Kafr Tibnit. Among those buried was the local DFLP commander, Khalid al-Asmar.
According to Israeli accounts, between 15 and 24 Palestinian bodies were collected after the battle.
For fear of mines and unexploded cluster bombs, the IDF closed off the lower section of the castle, where the Palestinians had been dug in. Therefore, the body of the Palestinian commander, Ya'qoub Sumour, was only found in 2004, several years after the Israeli withdrawal from south Lebanon, together with Mohammad Abu Saleh, a Fatah fighter of Yemenite origin. Both were buried with full military honours in the Palestinian Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp.
References
External links
30 שנה למלחמה: תיעוד מלבנון כמו שלא ראיתם Pictures and maps from Beaufort battle (Hebrew)
Bibliography
1982 Lebanon War
Battles of the Lebanese Civil War |
23577715 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20McCann | James McCann | James or Jim McCann may refer to:
James McCann (baseball) (born 1990), American baseball player
James McCann (bishop) (1897–1983), Anglican Bishop of Meath 1945–59, Archbishop of Armagh 1959–69
James McCann (businessman), American entrepreneur who founded 1-800-Flowers
James McCann (drugs trafficker) (born 1939), Irish drugs trafficker, known as Jim
James McCann (Drogheda MP) (died 1873), Member of Parliament for Drogheda 1852–65
James McCann (St Stephen's Green MP) (1840–1904), Member of Parliament for Dublin St Stephen's Green 1900–04
James McCann (Wisconsin politician) (1924–2009), American politician
James Joseph McCann (1886–1961), Canadian politician
Jim McCann (musician) (1944–2015), Irish folk musician and entertainer
Jim McCann (writer) (born 1974), American comic book writer
Jim McCann (scientist) (born 1983), American robotics professor at Carnegie Mellon University |
6902697 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattillo%20Higgins | Pattillo Higgins | Pattillo Higgins (December 5, 1863 – June 5, 1955) was an American businessman and a self-taught geologist. He earned the nickname the "Prophet of Spindletop" for his endeavors in the Texas oil business, which accrued a fortune for many. He partnered to form the Gladys City Oil Gas and Manufacturing Company, and later established the Higgins Standard Oil Company.
Early life
Pattillo Higgins was born to Roberto James and Sarah (Raye) Higgins on December 5, 1863, in Sabine Pass, Texas. His family moved to Beaumont when he was six years old. He attended school until he reached the fourth grade, after which he apprenticed as a gunsmith under his father’s direction. In his youth, he was a violent troublemaker, pulling pranks and harassing African Americans.
When he was seventeen, he pulled a prank on a black Baptist church that got the attention of a sheriff's deputy. The deputy fired a warning shot over Higgins' head, after which Higgins fired back and delivered what would later turn out to be a fatal hit. The wounded deputy managed to fire again, striking Higgins in his lower left arm. Higgins' arm would later become severely infected, requiring amputation from the elbow down. Higgins was put on trial for the murder of the deputy, but he would be found not guilty by a jury that perceived his act as self-defense. After his acquittal, he worked as a logger along the Texas-Louisiana border, apparently unhindered by his lack of an arm.
It was in 1885 that he attended a Baptist revival meeting where he made the decision to become a Christian. Realizing that the lumber camps were not the ideal place to maintain a good morality, he decided to return to Beaumont, Texas to establish himself as a businessman.
Venture into business
Higgins ventured into real estate at first, and with the money that he saved as a logger, he started the Higgins Manufacturing Company to manufacture bricks. The business sparked his interest in oil and gas, as he used it for his kilns to burn the bricks evenly. He decided to travel to Pennsylvania to learn about these fuels and study the geographical features that give signs to the presence of underground oil. Studying geology on his own, he dedicated himself to finding these clues by reading all the United States Geological Survey reports and books that he could find. The details he learned reminded him of what some Beaumont locals back home referred to as "Sour Hill Mound", a place where he frequently brought his Sunday school students for outings. This mound was described as "sour" due to the unpleasant sulfur smell that came out of the springs around it. Convinced that this salt dome mound had oil below it, Higgins first partnered with George O'Brien, George Carroll, Emma John, and J.F. Lanier to form the Gladys City Oil, Gas, and Manufacturing Company in 1892. It was during this time that other formally trained geologists dismissed the idea of finding oil along the gulf coast region of the United States. Higgins' personal integrity was even challenged by the local newspaper. However, his informal training in geology influenced his belief that the Spindletop field contained oil below due to the presence of mineral water and gas seepage, and he managed to convince the partners to proceed with the venture. Work began the following year, but all three of the shallow drilling attempts failed to locate oil due to the shifting sands and unstable clay under the hill. Higgins resigned from the company, sold his stock, and purchased 33 acres compromising the summit of Sour Spring Mound.
Partnership with Anthony Lucas
Unwilling to give up hope of striking oil, Higgins placed numerous ads in industrial magazines and trade journals in an effort to spark others' interests in the prospect of hitting a successful well at the site. Only one man responded to the ads, a Croatian-American named Anthony Francis Lucas. Lucas signed agreements with the Gladys City Company and also with Higgins in 1899, and in June of the following year, he began to drill. The first well Lucas made with his light equipment collapsed after reaching . This failure exhausted the partners' finances, so Lucas turned to John H. Galey and James M. Guffey in Pittsburgh for backing. The terms set forth by Guffey (who held and controlled the funds) limited Lucas’ percentage cut to a small amount, and eliminated Higgins and cut him completely from the deal.
The Lucas Gusher at Spindletop
In late October 1900, with the help of the experienced crew of Al and Curt Hamill from Corsicana, drilling began again. This time, the drilling would be done using a newer, heavier, and more efficient rotary type bit. Over the next several months, work was difficult maintaining the drilling through the underground sands. On January 10, 1901, the six tons of four-inch (102 mm) drilling pipe began to shoot up out of the hole, sending the roughnecks fleeing for safety. The geyser shot oil over high and flowed an estimated .
The well was at a depth of , and as it turns out, was at the precise location as initially predicted by Higgins. The well would not have struck oil if it had been drilled just 50 feet (15 m) to the south. The well, which was dubbed "Lucas 1", had an initial flow rate greater than all of the oil wells in the United States combined in that day. The Spindletop oilfield churned out over the first year of operation, and over the following year. This effectively brought an end to John D. Rockefeller’s world monopoly.
Lawsuit against Lucas and the Gladys City Company
Higgins sued Lucas and Gladys City Oil, Gas and Manufacturing Company for royalties, using the basis that the second lease was invalid because the first lease had not yet expired when the second was enacted. After the parties settled out of court, Higgins formed the Higgins Oil and Fuel Company located at the center of Spindletop. This company was vulnerable to takeover bids due to Higgins' over-zealous land prospecting, which enabled the lumber baron and businessman John Henry Kirby to overtake his ownership in 1902 by purchasing his shares of the company for $3 million. Higgins maintained his leasing rights to his land, and would establish the Higgins Standard Oil Company. He later established other wells with various investors, with an eccentric habit of pulling his interests out, leaving the majority of the profits for others.
Later life and death
Higgins' lifestyle was varied in interests and occupations. Along with working as a wildcatter, his diverse activities involved drafting, work as an inventor, an artist, as well as an engineer to name a few. His religious beliefs kept him away from public entertainment and resorts, as well as maintaining a strong belief against the selling of alcohol. In addition to residing in Beaumont, he owned estates in Houston and San Antonio. He remained a bachelor until the age of 45. In 1905, he adopted a young woman named Annie Jahn, who at the time was fifteen. Three years later Higgins married her, and later had three children with her, despite the scandal. Higgins died in San Antonio on June 5, 1955.
On December 4, 1955, six months after Higgins' death, he was dramatized by the actor Robert Bray in the CBS history series You Are There in the episode entitled "Spindletop - The First Great Texas Oil Strike (January 10, 1901)". Mike Ragan was cast as Marion Fletcher; Parley Baer as Captain Lucas, Jean Byron as Caroline Lucas, DeForest Kelley as Al Hammill, Tyler McVey as Mayor Wheat, and William Fawcett as a farmer.
Higgins World's Oil Company
From the Prescott Evening Courier – Dec 23, 1905:
Articles of Incorporation for the "Higgins World's Oil Company"
References
Further reading
East Texas Historical Association, "A self-taught Texas wildcatter: Pattillo Higgins and the Hockley Oil Field", by Ronald H. Limbaugh, East Texas Historical Journal, Vol 34 No. 1, 1996, Nacogdoches, Tx 75962
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Spindletop History and Biographies
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6902698 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mostly%20Martha | Mostly Martha | Mostly Martha can refer to:
Mostly Martha (Bella Martha), a 2001 German film
"Mostly Martha", a popular version of Friedrich von Flotow's aria M’apparì tutt’amor, recorded by The Crew-Cuts |
44496570 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domingo%20de%20Vico | Domingo de Vico | Domingo de Vico was a Spanish Dominican friar during the Spanish conquest of Chiapas and the conquest of Guatemala in the 16th century. He was originally from Jaén. Chronicler Antonio de Remesal recorded that de Vico studied theology in Úbeda and finished his studies in the San Esteban convent in Salamanca.
Domingo de Vico set out from Spain on 9 July 1544 with a group led by Bartolomé de las Casas in an effort to enforce the New Laws that had been issued in 1542 to protect the indigenous inhabitants of the Spanish colonies from overexploitation by the encomenderos. De Vico was the prior of Cobán from 1554 until his death in 1555. He was charged with the evangelisation of the Lakandon and Acala Ch'ol in the unconquered area that was then referred to by the Spanish as the Tierra de Guerra ("Land of War"), and also as Verapaz.
Works
In 1544, Francisco Marroquín, bishop of Guatemala, charged Domingo de Vico with producing a treatise upon Indian idolatry. The work contained instructions to Dominicans upon how to use indigenous beliefs in their sermons in Chiapas and Guatemala. It was entitled Tratado de ídolos ("Treatment of Idols"). His best known written work is his Theologia Indorum, of which eleven copies survive, divided between the Bibliothèque nationale in Paris (5 copies) and the Firestone Library of Princeton University, New Jersey (6 copies). Among the copies in France are translations made in the Tzutuhil, K'iche' and Kaqchikel languages. During his short time in Guatemala before his death, he is believed to have compiled the Vocabulario de la lengua cakchiquel ("Vocabulary of the Kaqchikel language"). De Vico learnt the Ch’ol language and was able to preach to the Lakandon and Acala in their own language.
De Vico wrote some religious poems in Kaqchikel upon the Acts of the Apostles and the Passion of Christ. A work entitled Los Proverbios de Salomón, las Epístolas y los Evangelios de todo el año, en lengua mexicana ("The Proverbs of Solomon, the Epistles and Gospels for the whole year, in the Mexican tongue") was prevented from being published by the Spanish Inquisition.
Death
In 1555, Domingo de Vico and his companion Andrés López were killed by the Acala and their Lakandon allies. De Vico, who had established a small missionary church in San Marcos (in what is now Alta Verapaz, Guatemala), had offended the local Maya ruler by repeatedly scolding him for taking several wives. The indigenous leader shot the friar through the throat with an arrow; the angry natives then sacrificed him by cutting open his chest and extracting his heart. His corpse was then decapitated; the natives carried off his head as a trophy, which was never recovered by the Spanish. In retaliation, the Spanish rounded up 260 Ch'ol in 1559, hanged 80 and branded the rest as slaves.
Citations
References
External links
Digital copy of Domingo de Vico's Latin and K'iche' text Teologia Indorum at Princeton University Digital Library.
16th-century Spanish people
Spanish Dominicans
1555 deaths
16th-century Roman Catholic martyrs
16th-century Spanish writers
16th-century male writers
16th-century Mesoamericanists
Roman Catholic writers
Spanish Mesoamericanists
People from Jaén, Spain
16th century in Guatemala
16th century in the Maya civilization |
23577724 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donghu%20metro%20station | Donghu metro station | The Taipei Metro Donghu station is located in the Neihu District in Taipei, Taiwan. It is a station on Wenhu line.
Station overview
This three-level, elevated station features two side platforms, three exits, and a platform elevator located on the north side of the concourse level. It is located on Kangning Road, Sec. 3.
The station is 83 meters long and 21.5 meters wide, while the platform is 93.5 meters long. Because of the station needed to go over the Wufen Road footbridge, the station height is 20 meters (the equivalent of a six-story building). It has thus been called the "Zenith Station" and is the highest station on the Taipei Metro.
Design
The station design theme is "Music". Surface designs in the station square represent a dancing musical staff. Silk fabric is printed on enamel slab art walls at the concourse level to represent romantic urban music.
Located next to the entrance, public art for the station is titled "The Rippling Lake". Porcelain and celadon are used to create ripples on the art piece.
History
December 2007: Station structure reaches completion.
22 February 2009: Donghu station construction is completed.
4 July 2009: Begins service with the opening of Brown Line.
The station is a planned transfer for the Minsheng–Xizhi line.
Station layout
Around the station
Ankang Park
Nanhu Senior High School
Minghu Junior High School
Nanhu Elementary School
Minghu Elementary School
Donghu Elementary School
Taipei Public Library, Donghu Branch
Donghu Police Station
Donghu Fire Department
Halar Cinemas
References
Wenhu line stations
Railway stations opened in 2009 |
23577734 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Monk | Frank Monk | Frank Vivian Monk (1886 – 15 November 1962) was an English amateur footballer who had a brief career with several professional clubs around 1910.
Early career
Monk was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire and was educated at Queens Road School, Wimbledon and St Marks College, Chelsea where he trained to be a teacher. He was an outstanding all-round amateur sportsman who gained honours at swimming, cricket and athletics (turning out for St Martins Harriers) and was the 1909 Salisbury marathon champion.
Football career
He joined Southampton of the Southern League on amateur terms in the summer of 1910. His teaching commitments prevented him from playing regularly for the "Saints" and he made his debut after seven games of the 1910–11 season, when he took the place of Sam Jepp at centre-half against Crystal Palace on 22 October 1910. When he played, "he used his athleticism to good effect" and was a sure tackler. He managed 19 league appearances, with either Jepp or Billy Beaumont taking his place when he was unavailable. On 11 February 1911, he played as an emergency centre-forward at Swindon Town.
His form attracted the attention of the England amateur selectors and, after a successful trial in January 1911, he won four amateur international caps.
In September 1911, Monk made two appearances for Glossop in the Football League Second Division, followed by brief spells with Fulham and one match back at The Dell (a 2–1 defeat against West Ham United on 6 January 1912).
Later career
In the summer of 1912, his teaching career took him away from Southampton, which brought his brief excursion into professional football to an end.
References
1886 births
1962 deaths
Sportspeople from Salisbury
English footballers
England amateur international footballers
Association football defenders
Salisbury City F.C. players
Southampton F.C. players
Glossop North End A.F.C. players
Fulham F.C. players
Southern Football League players
English Football League players |
17338336 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shire%20of%20Glengallan | Shire of Glengallan | The Shire of Glengallan was a local government area south and east of the regional centre of Warwick in the Darling Downs region of Queensland. The shire, administered from Warwick, covered an area of , and existed as a local government entity from 1879 until 1994, when it was dissolved and amalgamated with City of Warwick, Shire of Rosenthal and Shire of Allora to form the Shire of Warwick.
History
On 11 November 1879, the Glengallan Division was created as one of 74 divisions within Queensland under the Divisional Boards Act 1879 with a population of 2608.
With the passage of the Local Authorities Act 1902, it became a Shire on 31 March 1903. Its offices were located at Yangan Road, Warwick.
On 19 March 1992, the Electoral and Administrative Review Commission, created two years earlier, produced its report External Boundaries of Local Authorities, and recommended that local government boundaries in the Warwick area be rationalised into 3 new local government areas. That recommendation was not implemented, but the outcome was that the Shire of Glengallan was merged with the Shires of Allora and Rosenthal and the City of Warwick to form a new Shire of Warwick. The Local Government (Allora, Glengallan, Rosenthal and Warwick) Regulation 1994 was gazetted on 20 May 1994. On 25 June, an election was held for the new council, and on 1 July 1994, the Shire of Glengallan was abolished.
Towns and localities
The Shire of Glengallan included the following settlements:
Killarney
Canningvale
Elbow Valley
Emu Vale
Freestone
Gladfield
Glengallan
Junabee
Maryvale
Morgan Park
Mount Colliery
Mount Sturt
Mount Tabor
Sladevale
Swanfels
Tannymorel
The Falls
Tregony
Wiyarra
Womina
Yangan
Chairmen
1880: Mr. J. Affleck
1894: Thomas McGahan
1927: T. J. Howell
Population
References
External links
Former local government areas of Queensland
1879 establishments in Australia
1994 disestablishments in Australia |
23577742 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wadsworth%20Theatre | Wadsworth Theatre | The historic Wadsworth Theatre is a live theatre in the Sawtelle community of West Los Angeles, in Los Angeles, California.
It is located on the historic Sawtelle Veterans Home campus, the present day West Los Angeles Department of Veterans Affairs complex. It is off Wilshire Boulevard and San Vicente Boulevard, on the east side of Brentwood.
History
The theater was built in 1939 in the Spanish Colonial Revival style. It underwent an extensive restoration in 2002.
The Wadsworth Theater is used to present various Broadway shows, musical concerts, film premieres, and live theatrical productions. It has also hosted the annual Streamy Awards, since they were first held there in 2009.
See also
References
Theatres in Los Angeles
Sawtelle, Los Angeles
West Los Angeles
Wilshire Boulevard
Event venues established in 1939
1939 establishments in California
1930s architecture in the United States
Spanish Colonial Revival architecture in California |
20470600 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Pattinson%20%28politician%29 | Robert Pattinson (politician) | Sir Robert Pattinson, JP, DL (19 February 1872 – 4 December 1954) was a British Liberal politician and businessman. Pattinson joined his family's railway contracting firm after finishing school and was quickly appointed to senior positions. In 1900, he became chairman of Ruskington Urban District Council and four years later joined Kesteven County Council, eventually becoming an alderman and serving as its chairman for 20 years between 1934 and his death in 1954. He chaired the Sleaford Liberal Association (1900–18) and was nominated as the party's representative for Sleaford shortly before World War I broke out. He contested Grantham unsuccessfully in 1918, but was returned for the seat in 1922, serving until he was defeated in the following year's general election. Several other unsuccessful attempts at a parliamentary career followed. He chaired several bodies responsible for maintaining Lincolnshire's waterways, served as a magistrate for Kesteven and Lindsey and sat as Lincolnshire's High Sheriff in 1941. Knighted in 1934, Pattinson died aged 82 in 1954 after several years of illness.
Background
Born on 19 February 1872, Robert Pattinson was the son of a contractor and businessman, William Pattinson, JP (1833–1906), and his wife Anne (1833–1916). His father ran (and had founded with brother Samuel) the successful building company Messrs. Pattinson and Son alongside serving as chairman of Ruskington Urban District Council and vice-president of the Sleaford Liberal Association. Robert's brother Samuel (d. 1924) was a Liberal Member of Parliament for Horncastle (1922–24), head of Messrs Pattinson and Co. Ltd, and a prominent member of Kesteven County Council. One of his sisters, Emmeline Taylor (d. 1937), became the first female Kesteven county councillor and alderman, while his other sister's husband Richard Winfrey was also a Liberal MP, for South West Norfolk (1906–23) and Gainsborough (1923–24). Their eldest brother, John (d. 1939), was involved in the family business, supervising contracts in Liverpool and the south of England, before moving back to Lincolnshire; he represented Heckington and Sleaford on the County Council, became a justice of the peace and served as vice-chairman of the Sleaford Bench.
Pattinson married Catherine Lucy Pratt (d. 1917), daughter of Henry Pratt of Lincoln in 1895. There were two sons and one daughter of the marriage: Henry Pattinson (died 1941), a captain in the Indian Army; William Pratt Pattinson, a solicitor and coroner for the Lincoln South District, who married Elaine Eva Higson Smith, daughter of Louis W. Smith, MP, of Lincoln; and Catherine Mary, who married, firstly, G. W. R. Russell, elder son of J. J. Russell, of Ballygasson House, High Sheriff of County Louth, and secondly, Wing Commander Colin Spencer Richardson, of Salisbury, son of Colonel Alan Richardson.
Business career
After schooling at Carre's Grammar School and Abingdon School, Pattinson joined his father and uncle's railway contracting firm. Two years later, he oversaw a project to widen the Great Northern Railway between Finsbury Park and King's Cross. The partnership became Messrs W. Pattinson and Sons, Ltd., and Pattinson became a managing director, with responsibility for many of its large projects, and he also became a director in Messrs Pattinson and Co., Ltd, a company of merchants and shippers.
Political career
Local government
Pattinson became chairman of the Ruskington Urban District Council in 1900. He was elected to Kesteven County Council in 1904, became an alderman in 1911 and served as its vice-chairman from 1923 until he was elected chairman in 1934, the year he was knighted. Pattinson served on the Lincolnshire County Committee for 50 years, and as chairman of the Witham and Steeping Rivers Catchment Board when it was formed in 1931; after World War II, he was appointed chairman of Lincolnshire River Board, and was appointed to be one of the original members of the River Board Areas Consultative Committee and a member Central Transport Board for Great Britain, 1948–54. Pattinson also served as the first chairman of the Lincolnshire Archives Committee, as a justice of the peace (for Kesteven from 1900 and Lindsey from 1930), and deputy lieutenant for Lincolnshire. He was appointed High Sheriff of Lincolnshire in 1941.
Parliament
In 1898, Pattinson became chairman of the Sleaford Division Liberal Association, serving until 1918. He was first chosen as Liberal candidate for Sleaford division in 1914. At the 1918 general election he unsuccessfully contested the Grantham division for the party. He was elected for Grantham at the 1922 general election, defeating the sitting Conservative MP, Edmund Royds by a majority of 425 votes. However, at the 1923 general election he was defeated by the new Conservative candidate Victor Warrender.
Pattinson stood unsuccessfully for Lincoln at the general election in 1929. In 1937 he was suggested as a possible National government candidate at the Holland with Boston by-election. As a well-known local man he was thought to be an acceptable candidate to both local Liberal and Conservative Associations. In fact he was reported to be the preferred candidate of the local Conservatives. The by-election was caused by the death of the sitting MP, Sir James Blindell. He had captured the seat for the Liberals in a by-election in 1929 and had later joined the Liberal Nationals. In the end Herbert Butcher of Peterborough, Chairman of the East Midlands Liberal National Area Council was chosen as the National Government candidate. Pattinson himself later formally joined the Liberal Nationals.
a endorsed by Coalition Government
Death
Pattinson died at his home, The Fosse House, in Lincoln on 2 December 1954 at the age of 82 years.
See also
Sir Robert Pattinson Academy
References
External links
1872 births
1954 deaths
Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
UK MPs 1922–1923
National Liberal Party (UK, 1931) politicians
People from Ruskington
Councillors in Lincolnshire
Politics of Grantham
People educated at Carre's Grammar School
High Sheriffs of Lincolnshire
Knights Bachelor
Members of Kesteven County Council |
6902699 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennies%20from%20Heaven%20%281981%20film%29 | Pennies from Heaven (1981 film) | Pennies from Heaven is a 1981 American musical romantic drama film directed by Herbert Ross, based on the 1978 BBC television drama of the same name. Dennis Potter adapted his screenplay from the BBC series for American audiences, changing its setting from London and the Forest of Dean to Depression-era Chicago and rural Illinois.
The film stars Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Christopher Walken and Jessica Harper. Choreographed by Danny Daniels, the film includes musical numbers consisting of actors lip-syncing and dancing to popular songs of the 1920s–30s, such as "Let's Misbehave", "Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries", "Let's Face the Music and Dance" and the title song.
While positively received by critics, it was a box office bomb, grossing just a fraction of its budget. Potter received a nomination for the 1981 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, but lost to On Golden Pond.
Plot
In 1934, Chicago sheet-music salesman Arthur Parker (Steve Martin) is having a hard time, both in his business and at home with his wife Joan. His business and marriage are failing, and Joan (Jessica Harper) refuses to give him the money she inherited from her father to start his own business.
Arthur's dream is to live in a world that is like the songs he tries to sell. He is refused a bank loan, although he fantasizes that he gets it. In his travels, Arthur meets schoolteacher Eileen (Bernadette Peters) and falls in love with her instantly. They embark on a short affair, but Arthur leaves her and returns to Joan, who is desperate to keep him and agrees to give him the money he wanted. Arthur denies having an affair, though Joan is sure he is lying.
Eileen gets pregnant by Arthur and is fired. With nowhere to go, she takes up with stylish pimp Tom (Christopher Walken). Eileen is attracted to Tom's "badness", and he arranges for her to have an abortion.
When Arthur meets Eileen again, she is now a prostitute calling herself "Lulu". They resume their romance, and Eileen leaves Tom and her sordid life. Impulsively, Arthur convinces her to run away with him. Having failed to sell his business, Arthur and Eileen break into the store one night and trash it, smashing its phonograph records (except for "Pennies from Heaven"). To supplement their income, Eileen keeps prostituting in spite of Arthur's objections.
A blind girl whom Arthur knew superficially is raped and murdered by an accordion-playing hobo to whom Arthur had given a ride earlier in the film. The police's suspicions are confirmed by Joan, who reveals to them Arthur's sexual predilections to get back at him for cheating on her. The police find Arthur trying to leave town with Eileen, and arrest him for murder; he is soon convicted and sentenced to death. At the gallows, he recites the lyrics from the song "Pennies from Heaven". In one final fantasy, Arthur and Eileen are reunited, with Arthur saying, "We couldn't have gone through all that without a happy ending. Songs ain't like that, are they?"
Cast
Steve Martin as Arthur Parker
Bernadette Peters as Eileen ("Lulu")
Jessica Harper as Joan Parker
Vernel Bagneris as Accordion man
John McMartin as Mr. Warner
John Karlen as Detective
Jay Garner as Banker
Robert Fitch as Al
Tommy Rall as Ed
Eliska Krupka as blind girl
Christopher Walken as Tom
Raleigh Bond as Mr. Barrett
Nancy Parsons as The Old Whore
Duke Stroud as Counterman
Will Hare as Father Everson
Production
Pennies from Heaven was Martin's first dramatic role in a film. He had watched the original miniseries and considered it "the greatest thing [he'd] ever seen." He trained for six months learning to tap dance, while Christopher Walken, who had trained as a dancer as a young man, was able to use his dancing skills in the film.
According to a 1990 article in The Times, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer had Potter rewrite the script 13 times and required him to buy back his copyright from the BBC, for which he paid the BBC "something over $100,000". In addition, MGM prohibited broadcast of the BBC's original production for 10 years. Around 1989, at the prompting of Alan Yentob, the controller of BBC2, producer Kenith Trodd was able to buy back the rights from MGM for "a very inconsiderable sum." In February 1990, the BBC rebroadcast the original Pennies from Heaven serial for the first time since 1978.
In the same Times article, Trodd stated that Bob Hoskins and Cheryl Campbell, the stars of the original series, "were terribly upset that they weren't considered for the film. I think they still blame Dennis and me in some way, but there was no way to argue the point with MGM."
The style of the movie balances the drab despair of the Depression era and the characters' sad lives with brightly colored dream-fantasy lavish musical sequences. The characters break into song and dance to express their emotions. For example, Eileen turns into a silver-gowned torch singer in her school-room, with her students lip-synching and dancing ("Love Is Good for Anything That Ails You"). Tom seduces Eileen with a tap dance/striptease routine on top of a bar ("Let's Misbehave"). Arthur and Eileen go to a film (Follow the Fleet) and wind up dancing in formal wear, first with, then in, a Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers musical number from the film, "Let's Face the Music and Dance". All the songs are lip-synched, except Martin singing/speaking the title song at the end, but Arthur, Tom, and Eileen dance.
Four paintings are recreated as tableaux vivants in the film: Hudson Bay Fur Company and 20 Cent Movie by Reginald Marsh, and New York Movie and Nighthawks by Edward Hopper. Three of the four were painted after 1934, when the movie takes place, and all depict scenes in New York City rather than the Chicago setting of the movie.
Reception and legacy
Box office
The film was a commercial failure, grossing slightly more than $9 million at the box office against a budget of $22 million.
When asked in Rolling Stone about the film's box office failure, Martin said: "I'm disappointed that it didn't open as a blockbuster and I don't know what's to blame, other than it's me and not a comedy. I must say that the people who get the movie, in general, have been wise and intelligent; the people who don't get it are ignorant scum."
David Begelman head of MGM called it "the most daring film we made. It took all these different textures and molded them... I didn't make that picture because I enjoy walking a tightrope. I made that picture because with every honest conviction you can bring to bear, I believed that film could become a film of such incredible celebrity it would enjoy very wide success. I was wrong. I was completely wrong."
It was Martin's second starring role in a film, following 1979's comedy hit The Jerk, and fans were confused to see Martin in a serious role. "You just can't do a movie like Pennies from Heaven after you have done The Jerk," Martin said in a BBC interview.
"Everything I had done until that time had been wildly successful," he recalled in 1987, "so that the commercial failure of the film caught me by surprise. I still think artistically it's a very good film. I've rarely seen a role that showed that kind of vulnerability in a man. It's a special film to me, and if I had to find fault, it would be that I think some of the music could have included more popular songs of the period."
Critical response
On Rotten Tomatoes the film holds an approval rating of 82% based on 28 reviews, with an average rating of 7/19. The website's critics consensus reads: "A complicated little musical, Pennies from Heaven is a dazzling, tragic spectacle."
The film was given a rapturous review by Pauline Kael in The New Yorker, writing "Pennies from Heaven is the most emotional movie musical I've ever seen. It's a stylized mythology of the Depression which uses the popular songs of the period as expressions of people's deepest longings—for sex, for romance, for money, for a high good time...there was never a second when I wasn't fascinated by what was happening on the screen." Kael further noted that "The dance numbers are funny, amazing, and beautiful all at once; several of them are just about perfection." Gary Arnold of The Washington Post called it "a rejuvenating, landmark achievement in the evolution of Hollywood musicals, and certainly the finest American movie of 1981. A brilliantly enhanced distillation of a 1978 British television play, 'Pennies' blends the astringent with the poignant and the fanciful. It appears as a belated Hollywood counterpart to Brecht and Weill's 'Three Penny Opera.'"
Other contemporary reviews were less positive. Roger Ebert gave the film two stars out of four and called it "all flash and style and no heart." Vincent Canby of The New York Times reported that he watched the film "with what might best be described as baffled interest." He wrote that "All of the musical numbers are good, and a couple are great...The movie, though, is not easy to respond to. It's chilly without being provocative in any intellectual way." Todd McCarthy of Variety wrote "'Pennies From Heaven' is one of the most hopelessly esoteric big-budget Hollywood pictures ever made, a lugubrious, neo-Brechtian musical exercise of notable pretension and virtually no artistic payoff...In short, it's 'Penny Gate.'" Dave Kehr of The Chicago Reader wrote that "ironic, alienating musicals have been tried before, but never with such lofty contempt for the form. [The film] drips with a sense of anger and betrayal that seems wildly out of scale to its cause - the discovery (less than original) that musicals don't reproduce social reality." Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune gave the film two-and-a-half stars out of four and wrote that "Martin ruins what could have been one of the year's freshest and most innovative films. With Martin hamming it up, 'Pennies From Heaven' is full of socko moments, but the entire film doesn't hold together." Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times wrote that "it is like no other period musical. It is so far out, so unexpected, that it might well be described as experimental...As such, it's likely to elicit deeply divided reactions: Audiences will either love it or hate it."
Peters won the Golden Globe as Best Motion Picture Actress in a Comedy or Musical for her role as Eileen Everson, a schoolteacher turned prostitute. A review of the DVD reissue asserted, "Peters brought a cocky attitude and a sexy exuberance to the musical numbers."
Fred Astaire, who was powerless to prevent the reuse of the footage from his film Follow the Fleet, detested Pennies from Heaven: "I have never spent two more miserable hours in my life. Every scene was cheap and vulgar. They don't realize that the '30s were a very innocent age, and that [the film] should have been set in the '80s – it was just froth; it makes you cry it's so distasteful."
The film was nominated by the American Film Institute for its 2006 list of Greatest Movie Musicals.
Awards and nominations
Academy Awards
Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium – Dennis Potter (nominated)
Best Costume Design – Bob Mackie (nominated)
Best Sound - Michael J. Kohut, Jay M. Harding, Richard Tyler and Al Overton Jr. (nominated)
Boston Society of Film Critics Awards
Best Cinematography – Gordon Willis (won)
Golden Globe Awards
Best Motion Picture Actress, Comedy/Musical – Bernadette Peters (won)
Best Motion Picture, Comedy/Musical (nominated)
Best Motion Picture Actor, Comedy/Musical – Steve Martin (nominated)
National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA
Best Cinematography – Gordon Willis (won)
References
External links
Turner Classic Movies article
1981 films
1980s English-language films
1980s musical drama films
1981 romantic drama films
American musical drama films
American romantic drama films
American romantic musical films
Adultery in films
Films about banking
Films about prostitution in the United States
Films based on television series
Films directed by Herbert Ross
Films featuring a Best Musical or Comedy Actress Golden Globe winning performance
Films produced by Rick McCallum
Films set in Chicago
Films set in Illinois
Films set in the 1930s
Films set in 1934
Great Depression films
Jukebox musical films
Films with screenplays by Dennis Potter
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films
United Artists films
1980s American films |
17338337 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman%20Catholic%20Deanery%20of%20Sumy | Roman Catholic Deanery of Sumy | The Roman Catholic Deanery of Sumy is a part of Kharkiv-Zaporizhian Diocese of the Roman-Catholic Church in Ukraine. It includes four North-East Ukrainian towns Sumy, Romny, Konotop and Shostka.
The center of the Deanery takes its place on the high right bank of Psel River (Dnieper's left tributary), in one of old districts in heart of ancient Ukrainian capital Sumy. In Middle Ages this town had been joined to the possessions of Sophron's Wilderness monastery (near Putivl). To the word that unique cave-priory, founded by first Grecian missionaries, come to Kiev Rus from Byzantine, had been razed almost to the ground in 1960s by communists. In Sumy is situated the Blessed Virgin Mary Annunciation parish, known as the main deanery's temple.
To the number of other significant regional Roman Catholic places belong the Immaculate Conception of Virgin Mary in Romny, the Our Lady of Fatima parish in Konotop and St. Joseph parish in Shostka
Sumy
The history of comparatively new Roman Catholic parish in town Sumy is dramatic. Ordeals had fallen to its lot while Ukraine's stay in the body of Soviet Union. At the end of the 19th century Sumian Roman Catholics had decided to build their own temple and received permission in 1900 with the aid of famous Sumian Maecenas Paul Kharitonenko (1853–1914), at whose sugar-refineries, the largest in Europe and Russia worked many specialists from Europe, chiefly Roman Catholics from Poland and the Czech Republic. The Blessed Virgin Mary Annunciation Church, performed in Gothic style, had been founded in 1901. "Unfortunately all attempts to find information about the building process as well as its interior have been unsuccessful" yet. Consecrated in 1911, by Jan Tsepliak, bishop of Mogilev, the Blessed Virgin Mary Annunciation Church had been closed down by the authorities in two decades, and was used for improper purpose. It's enough to say, that after the World War II during 50 years there were situated first a museum, then a gym. Only after the disintegration of USSR the temple had been retrieved to regenerate Roman Catholic parish and in spring 1998 had been solemnly reconsecrated.
The first masses (1911–1915) at the temple were led by parish priest Fr. Theodor Ryllo. He also gave lessons in religion in Alexander High School, 1st and 2nd High Schools, technical educational institution and Military College in Sumy and in High School in Lebedin.
His successor (1916–1919) on the post had become chaplain Fr. A. Krzhivitsky, whose assistants during festivities were Fr. Florian Garaburda and Fr. Jozef Varpekhovsky.
The last registration thereat had been on 1919 November 20. Archive documents witness that 1926, February 21 believers had met to create parish council and commission for inspections. The last Mass, before the temple had been closed down, had been held in 1932 by Fr. Vagonis. Some Masses conducted during the World War II.
Reformation, proclaimed by Mikhail Gorbachev, had enabled believers to begin struggle for reviving in the town Roman Catholic parish. And soon, after Ukraine had found independence, at the end of 1991 parish had begun its activity.
At the beginning parishioners gathered on services, once in two weeks (1991-August 1992) conducted by parish priest of the Blessed Virgin Mary Assumption Church in Kharkiv Fr. George Zyminsky, directly on the temple's stairs. Already after returning the temple to the parish, ill-wishers, it happened, turned out the light while service.
The first priest (September 1992-February 1995) of new parish had been appointed priest from Zhytomirian Diocese Fr. Vitaly Skomarovsky. While his cadence in May 1994 the temple had been retrieved.
Next two parish priests had become Fr. Gennadius Bilinsky (March 1995-September 1997) and Fr. Felix Svintsitsky (September 1997-August 1999). During service of the latter the temple had been reconsecrated by the Zhytomyrian bishop Jan Purvinsky in 1998, March 25.
Fourth parish priest (September 1999-June 2006) had been Fr. Stanislav Tanatarov.
For the celebration of the 2000th anniversary of Christmas, in the temple's courtyard, from its left hand, had been erected the Jesus Sacred Heart Chapel (about 4 metres high). Bronze statue of Blessed Virgin Mary with Infant in Her Arms, bathing in vivid verdure of peaceful and cozy square, from the left side of temple and edifice behind it, where the residence of parish priest and Roman Catholic religious mission are accommodated, attracts every eye. Standing on red brick pedestal with quadrilateral base of black stone, surrounded by flowers, grass and trees, thoroughly polished figure always reminds all of the Sacramental.
From 2002 the canteen at the temple functions by efforts of members of the Secular Franciscan Order, filial of which functions at the parish since spring of 1999.
His successors had become parish priest Fr. Arthur Surovsky (since 2006) and present parish priest Fr. Voicheck Stasevich (since August 2008) (both of them you can see on the photo at left).
Now at the temple are successfully developing Sunday School (with the aid of pious nuns), library, theatre, museum, spiritual music band, diverse sections and circles (including spiritual culture circles).
To help those who haven't been lucky in life, the Blessed Virgin Mary Annunciation parish had founded a Roman Catholic mission "Caritas Spes Sumy", that acts at the temple as branch of All-Ukrainian Roman Catholic religious mission "Caritas Spes Ukraina".
On February 6, 2008, and April 15, 2008, had been created web-sites of mission and parish under titles "Caritas Spes Sumy" and "Ave Maria" to elucidate their activities in religious spheres. To support this aim parish publicates bulletin, named "Ave!", informing about Church's history and life of the parish.
Unfortunately, on September 29, 2008, web-sites of mission and parish "Caritas Spes Sumy" and "Ave Maria" had been closed by decision of new parish administration.
A little later parish had opened its new web-site To the Glory of Jesus Christ
On January 15, 2009, author of former web-sites of mission and parish "Caritas Spes Sumy" and "Ave Maria" had created site of the Sumian Historical Web-Society under the title "Ave Maria" to elucidate different historical subjects, including the history of religion and church.
Romny
The tragic history of the Blessed Virgin Mary Annunciation temple in Sumy in no case was just a regrettable exception, but shows a striking example of widespread disastrous practice of persecuting Roman Catholic Church in Soviet Union. Like a long-suffering Sumian parish, had stood a severe test temple of Immaculate Conception of Virgin Mary in Romny.
In a short period after the Russian civil war of 1917-20s, this one, made in Roman architectural style, had been confiscated. Chapel, built from the left side, had been subjected to the total destruction. About its existence nothing reminds, but a strait stripe of wrecked wall, in the past joined chapel with the temple. The latter for decades in the known way also wasn't used for proper purpose (Ministry of Education had turned over it at disposal of polytechnic secondary school, that housed inside received premises workshops).
Restored Roman Catholic parish could be contented with very little, because open-air divine services were conducted across the street in the courtyard, belonged to a married couple, who'd become parishioners, by priest, come from Sumy at the appointed time. Very difficult task to return temple to the lawful owner, The Holy See, Fr. Stanislav Tanatarov, appointed to Sumy in September 1999, didn't ever consider impossible and at once on a special conference, convened in Romny, had proclaimed his aspiration to reconsecrate the temple. He'd succeeded in getting free the first floor in church, then Fr. Stanislav had liberated ground floor, minister's house and other edifices.
Konotop
The Our Lady of Fatima parish, third in Sumian Roman Catholic deanery, had passed through a long way while in 2005 in Konotop had appeared and been consecrated a new Roman Catholic temple, built in modern style.
The place, called by local inhabitants as "seven winds", now is one of town sights owing to Jeff Woolthy, a young member of the Holy Apostles parish from Colorado Springs (which continually renders its Sumian coreligionists help). He'd made the rich donation to the Our Lady of Fatima parish in memory of his prematurely deceased wife. The present parish priest in Konotop is Fr. Zbignev.
Shostka
The center of the fourth parish, chapel, named in honour of St. Joseph, now is situated in the private house in Shostka. The present parish priest there is Fr. Thomas.
References/printed sources
External links
The Holy See
The Roman Catholic Church in Ukraine (the Latin rite)
To the Glory of Jesus Christ
The Sumian Historical Web-Society
RISU (Religious Information Service of Ukraine)
Catholic Church in Ukraine
Sumy |
6902707 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gao%20Hongmiao | Gao Hongmiao | Gao Hongmiao (born 17 March 1974) is a Chinese race walker.
International competitions
References
1974 births
Living people
Chinese female racewalkers
Olympic athletes of China
Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics
World Athletics Championships athletes for China
Asian Games gold medalists for China
Asian Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
Athletes (track and field) at the 1994 Asian Games
Medalists at the 1994 Asian Games
Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
Universiade gold medalists for China
World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships winners
Medalists at the 2001 Summer Universiade |
20470673 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ba%E1%B9%9B%C4%AB%20ye | Baṛī ye | Baṛī ye ( "greater ye") is a letter in the Urdu alphabet (and other Indic language alphabets based on the Nastaʿliq script) directly based on the alternative "returned" variant of the final form of the Arabic letter ye/yāʾ (known as yāʾ mardūda) found in the Hijazi, Kufic and Nastaʿliq scripts. It functions as the word-final yā-'e-majhūl ([]) and yā-'e-sākin ([]). It is distinguished from the "choṭī ye ( "lesser ye")", which is the regular Perso-Arabic yāʾ () used elsewhere.
Character encoding
References
Arabic letters
Persian letters
Arabic calligraphy |
44496584 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accursio%20Bentivegna | Accursio Bentivegna | Accursio Bentivegna (born 21 June 1996) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a forward for club Juve Stabia.
Club career
Born in Sciacca, Province of Agrigento, Sicily, Bentivegna started his career at Palermo, playing for their Primavera side. He made his Serie A debut for Palermo against Sampdoria as a substitute replacing Franco Vázquez. On 31 August 2014, he moved to Como on loan. He scored his first goal for Como on 27 October 2015, in a 3−1 defeat against Cesena. After scarcely playing for Palermo's first team, he was loaned out to Serie B club Ascoli in January 2017.
On 18 September 2020, he joined Juve Stabia. On 7 January 2021, he was loaned to Imolese.
Career statistics
Club
References
External links
Profile at Palermo F.C.
1996 births
Living people
People from Sciacca
Sportspeople from the Province of Agrigento
Footballers from Sicily
Italian footballers
Association football forwards
Palermo F.C. players
Como 1907 players
Ascoli Calcio 1898 F.C. players
Carrarese Calcio players
S.S. Juve Stabia players
Imolese Calcio 1919 players
Serie A players
Serie B players
Serie C players
Italy youth international footballers |
6902725 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effie%20Waller%20Smith | Effie Waller Smith | Effie Waller Smith (January 6, 1879 – January 2, 1960) was an African-American poet of the early twentieth century. Her published output consisted of three volumes of poetry: Songs of the Month (1904), Rhymes From the Cumberland (1904), and Rosemary and Pansies (1909). Her poetry appeared in the publication Harper's Weekly and various regional newspapers.
Early life and education
Effie Waller was born to former slaves in the rural mountain community of Chloe Creek in Pike County, Kentucky, on a farm located a few miles from Pikeville. Her father, Frank Waller, migrated to the East Kentucky mountains sometime after the Civil War, having spent most of his early life as a laborer on a Virginia plantation. Her mother, Sibbie Ratliff, was born and raised in East Kentucky and met the former Virginia slave in the early 1870s. Effie was the third of their four children.
Frank Waller established himself as both a blacksmith and a real estate speculator soon after his arrival in the Chloe Creek community. This mountain community was unique in comparison to other communities of the time in that it was racially integrated. This condition, coupled with Waller's early training as a blacksmith while still a slave, helped him to become financially successful and to win the respect of his neighbors, both white and black. The Wallers, realizing the hardships caused by their own limited education, decided that their children would receive the best quality education available to them at the time.
Effie completed eighth grade at a local school, as her older siblings Alfred and Rosa had done, then attended Kentucky Normal School for Colored Persons in Frankfort, and from 1900 to 1902 trained to be a teacher, after which she is known to have taught school off and on for several years, in Kentucky and in Tennessee. That same year she married a man called Lyss Cockrell but the marriage did not last long, ending in her divorcing him. In 1908 she married again, to Deputy Sheriff Charles Smith, but this union was also short-lived. He was killed in 1911 while serving a warrant.
Career
Some of her verse appeared in local papers, and she published her first collection, Songs of the Months, containing 110 poems, in 1904. In 1909 Effie Smith had published two further collections, Rhymes From the Cumberland and Rosemary and Pansies, and in 1917, her sonnet "Autumn Winds" was published in Harper's Magazine, but she appears to have stopped writing that year, when she was 38.
Effie Smith left Kentucky for Wisconsin in 1918. She died on January 2, 1960 and is buried in the city of Neenah.
Bibliography
Songs of the Month (New York: Broadway Publishing Company, 1904)
Rhymes From the Cumberland (New York: Broadway Publishing Company, 1909)
Rosemary and Pansies (1909)
References
External links
Effie Waller Smith, "Preparation", Academy of American Poets.
"Effie Waller Smith" at PoemHunter.com.
1879 births
1960 deaths
African-American poets
American poets
Writers from Kentucky
Kentucky State University alumni
American women poets
20th-century African-American women
20th-century African-American writers
African-American women writers |
17338358 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Hook | Chris Hook | Christopher Wayne Hook (born August 4, 1968) is an American former professional baseball relief pitcher and current coach. He is the pitching coach for the Milwaukee Brewers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He played in MLB for the San Francisco Giants.
Major league career
Chris Hook made his major league debut on April 30, 1995, against the Florida Marlins. He pitched one and two thirds of an inning, giving up one hit and one run. Overall, for the 1995 season, he had a 5–1 record with a 5.50 earned run average (ERA). In 1996, he made 10 appearances, which resulted in one loss and a 7.43 ERA.
Coaching career
From 2004 to 2007, he was the pitching coach, as well as manager of baseball operations for the Florence Freedom of the independent Frontier League. In February 2008, Hook announced he was leaving the Freedom to become pitching coach for the Double-A affiliate of the Milwaukee Brewers, the Huntsville Stars. Through the 2009 and 2011 seasons, Hook became the pitching coach for the Single-A affiliate of the Milwaukee Brewers, the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers. During the 2011-2012 offseason, it was announced Hook would return to Double-A Huntsville once more as pitching coach. He served as the Brewers' Double-A pitching coach through 2017, then as the Brewers' roving minor league pitching coordinator in 2018.
Hook was hired as the Milwaukee Brewers' pitching coach on November 19, 2018.
References
External links
, or Retrosheet, or Baseball Reference (Minor and Independent leagues), or Pura Pelota (Venezuelan Winter League)
1968 births
Living people
Baseball coaches from California
Baseball players from San Diego
Cedar Rapids Reds players
Charleston Wheelers players
Chattanooga Lookouts players
Gulf Coast Reds players
Jackson Generals (Texas League) players
Las Vegas Stars (baseball) players
Lehigh Valley Black Diamonds players
Major League Baseball pitchers
Major League Baseball pitching coaches
Midland Angels players
Milwaukee Brewers coaches
Minor league baseball coaches
Northern Kentucky Norse baseball players
Northern Kentucky University alumni
Phoenix Firebirds players
San Francisco Giants players
Shreveport Captains players
Somerset Patriots players
Tiburones de La Guaira players
American expatriate baseball players in Venezuela |
44496591 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divan%20Japonais%20%28lithograph%29 | Divan Japonais (lithograph) | Divan Japonais is a lithograph poster by French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. It was created to advertise a café-chantant that was at the time known as Divan Japonais. The poster depicts three persons from the Montmartre of Toulouse-Lautrec's time. Dancer Jane Avril is in the audience. Beside her is writer Édouard Dujardin. They are watching a performance by Yvette Guilbert. Though her face is not included in the poster, she is recognizable by her tall, thin frame and long black gloves.
References
Paintings by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Lithographs |
23577743 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002%20Molson%20Indy%20Toronto | 2002 Molson Indy Toronto | The 2002 Molson Indy Toronto was the eighth round of the 2002 CART FedEx Champ Car World Series season, held on July 7, 2002 on the streets of Exhibition Place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Qualifying results
Race
* Townsend Bell was excluded from the race after making contact with Bruno Junqueira on lap 93. He was fined $10,000 and placed on probation.
Caution flags
Notes
New Race Record Cristiano da Matta 2:06:19.372
Average Speed 93.361 mph
External links
Friday Qualifying Results
Saturday Qualifying Results
Race Results
Townsend Bell gets fine, probation after Toronto
Toronto
Indy Toronto
Toronto
2002 in Toronto |
20470703 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion%20in%20Croatia | Religion in Croatia | The most widely professed religion in Croatia is Christianity and a large majority of the Croatian population declare themselves to be members of the Catholic Church. Croatia has no official religion and freedom of religion is a right defined by the Constitution of Croatia, which also defines all religious communities as equal in front of the law and separate from the state.
History
In the 16th century, Protestantism reached Croatia, but was mostly eradicated due to the Counter-Reformation implemented by the Habsburgs.
There is also significant history of the Jews in Croatia through the Holocaust. The history of the Jews in Croatia dates back to at least the 3rd century, although little is known of the community until the 10th and 15th centuries. By the outbreak of World War II, the community numbered approximately 20,000 members, most of whom were murdered during the Holocaust that took place on the territory of the Nazi puppet state called Independent State of Croatia. After World War II, half of the survivors chose to settle in Israel, while an estimated 2,500 members continued to live in Croatia. According to the 2011 census, there were 509 Jews living in Croatia, but that number is believed to exclude those born of mixed marriages or those married to non-Jews. More than 80 percent of the Zagreb Jewish community were thought to fall in those two categories.
Demographics
According to the 2011 census 86.28% of Croatians are Catholics, while Orthodox Christians make up 4.44% of the population, Muslims 1.47%, and Protestants 0.34% of the population. 3.81% of Croatians are not religious and atheists, 0.76% are agnostics and sceptics, and 2.17% are undeclared. In the Eurostat Eurobarometer Poll of 2005, 67% of the population of Croatia responded that "they believe there is a God". In a 2009 Gallup poll, 70% answered yes to the question "Is religion an important part of your daily life?". However, only 24% of the population attends religious services regularly.
Interaction between Religious and Secular Life
Public schools allow religious teaching in cooperation with religious communities having agreements with the state, but attendance is not mandated. Religion classes () are organized widely in public elementary and secondary schools, most commonly coordinated with the Catholic Church.
The public holidays in Croatia also include the religious festivals () of Epiphany, Easter Monday, Corpus Christi Day, Assumption Day, All Saints' Day, Christmas, and St. Stephen's or Boxing Day. The primary holidays are based on the Catholic liturgical year, but other believers are legally allowed to celebrate other major religious holidays.
Marriages conducted by the religious communities having agreements with the state are officially recognized, eliminating the need to register the marriages in the civil registry office.
The Catholic Church in Croatia receives state financial support and other benefits established in concordats between the Government and the Vatican. The concordats and other government agreements with non-Catholic religious communities allow state financing for some salaries and pensions for religious officials through government-managed pension and health funds.
The concordats and agreements also regulate public school catechisms and military chaplains.
In line with the concordats signed with the Roman Catholic Church and in an effort to further define their rights and privileges within a legal framework, the government has additional agreements with the following 14 religious and Faith communities:
Serbian Orthodox Church/Patriarchy (Canonical) (SPC)
Islamic Community of Croatia
Evangelical Church in the Republic of Croatia
Reformed Christian Church in Croatia
Protestant Reformed Christian Church in Croatia
Pentecostal Church
Union of Pentecostal Churches of Christ
Seventh-day Adventist Church
Union of Baptist Churches
Church of God
Church of Christ
Reformed Movement of Seventh-day Adventists
Bulgarian Orthodox Church (Canonical)
Macedonian Orthodox Church (Non-canonical)
Old Catholic Church of Croatia
Legal status
The 2002 Law on the Legal Position of Religious Communities broadly defines religious and Faith communities' legal positions and covers such matters as government funding, tax benefits, and religious education in schools. Matters such as pensions for clergy; religious service in the military, penitentiaries, and police; and recognition of religious and Faith marriages are left to each religious and Faith community to negotiate separately with the Government.
Registration of religious groups is not obligatory; however, registered groups are granted "legal person" status and enjoy tax and other benefits. The law stipulates that to be eligible for registration, a religious group must have at least 500 believers and be registered as an association for 5 years. All religious and Faith groups in the country prior to passage of the law in 2002 were registered without having to meet these conditions; religious and Faith groups new to the country after passage of the law must fulfill the requirements for the minimum number of believers and time as an association. Religious and Faith groups based abroad must submit written permission for registration from their country of origin. Minister of Public Administration runs a Registry of religious organizations in Republic of Croatia, currently recognizing 62 religious communities ().
See also
Catholic Church in Croatia
Eastern Orthodoxy in Croatia
Protestantism in Croatia
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Croatia
Islam in Croatia
History of the Jews in Croatia
Buddhism in Croatia
Hinduism in Croatia
Irreligion in Croatia
References
External links
Registry of Religious Communities, Ministry of Public Administration, Government of the Republic of Croatia |
44496596 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.C.%20Tira | F.C. Tira | F.C. Tira (), Moadon Sport Tira, lit. Tira Sport Club (or in short Mem Samekh Tira, lit. F.C. Tira) is an Israeli football club based in Tira. The club is currently in Liga Alef North division.
History
The club was founded in 2005, after the previous clubs of the city, Hapoel Tira and Maccabi Bnei Tira, were folded in 2004 and 2005 respectively. Upon its establishment, F.C. Tira received the players of the defunct Maccabi Bnei Tira, which in the previous season, following failed attempt to promote the club, received itself the players of the defunct Hapoel Tira, which folded due to economic and political problems, after playing for only one season in Liga Artzit, the third tier of Israeli football at the time, in 2003–04.
F.C. Tira folded in 2009, following consistent failures to achieve promotion from Liga Gimel to Liga Bet. However, the club was reformed after one season hiatus, and with the help of Abet Titi and Haim Yirmiyahu, won Liga Gimel Sharon division in the 2010–11 season and promoted to Liga Bet.
In the 2012–13 season, the club finished fourth in Liga Bet South A division and qualified for the promotion play-offs, where they lost 1–2 to Hapoel Bik'at HaYarden in the first round.
Honours
League
1Achieved by Hapoel Tira
Cups
External links
Moadon Sport Tira The Israel Football Association
References
Tira
Association football clubs established in 2005
2005 establishments in Israel
Arab-Israeli football clubs |
23577762 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaitlin%20Vilasuso | Kaitlin Vilasuso | Kaitlin Ann Vilasuso (née Riley; born July 17, 1986) is an American actress and podcast host. She is best known for her roles in films From Justin to Kelly (2003), Monster (2003) and Watercolor Postcards (2013).
Early life
Kaitlin Ann Riley was born on July 17, 1986, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. She is one of seven children and her younger sister, Bailee Madison, is also an actress. Her mother is Patricia Riley.
Career
She has appeared in films Catherine's Grove (1997), In the Shadows (2001), From Justin to Kelly (2003), Monster (2003), Scavengers (2013) and Watercolor Postcards (2013). She portrayed Lexy in American television sitcom Kickin' It in the episode "Wedding Crashers".
Since November 2018, she has co-hosted the podcast Just Between Us with her sister Bailee Madison.
Personal life
She began dating actor Jordi Vilasuso in 2010. On May 21, 2012, Kaitlin's sister, Bailee Madison, announced on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno that Kaitlin was pregnant with the couple's first child. The couple announced their engagement in May 2012 and were married on August 25, 2012, in Islamorada, Florida. The couple's first daughter, was born on November 26, 2012. Their second daughter was born on July 15, 2016. They experienced a miscarriage in 2020.
Filmography
References
External links
1986 births
American child actresses
Living people
Actresses from Fort Lauderdale, Florida
American film actresses
American television actresses
American women podcasters
American podcasters
American bloggers
21st-century American actresses |
20470712 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eela%20Craig | Eela Craig | Eela Craig was an Austrian rock band of the 1970s and 1980s, that combined progressive rock with jazz and classical music influences as well as Christian lyrics. The band's name is without known meaning.
History
The band was founded in Linz in 1970, and recorded its first album, entitled Eela Craig, in 1971 with a circulation of 1,500. Critics compared this album with established bands such as Emerson, Lake & Palmer, King Crimson, Gentle Giant and Colosseum. The band had a few onstage performances with the Zürich Chamber Orchestra in 1972, which led to more performances in well-known opera houses of Italy, Germany and Austria, uncommon venues for a rock band at the time.
The band signed a contract with Virgin Records in 1975, to release a number of singles and albums, including the Christian concept album Missa Universalis, and a signature ethereal cover version of Chris de Burgh's "A Spaceman Came Travelling", both released in 1978.
Missa Universalis was a musical translation of a (Catholic) high mass, which embraced lyrics in Latin, German, English and French. The compositions resembled the works of Anton Bruckner, mixed with elements of rock and electronic music. The premiere was performed at the Brucknerfest of the city of Linz and received positive acceptance.
The band was largely inactive between 1982 and 1986, but the two founding members produced solo music under the Bognermayr/Zuschrader name with Bognermayr's own New Age label, Erdenklang. 1987 saw the release of three singles, which were targeted to match the contemporary pop music style. Eela Craig released their last album, Hit or Miss, in 1987.
On 17 November 1995, the band reunited for a one-time live performance in Linz. At the same time, Hubert Bognermayr published a compilation of the band's music entitled Symphonic Rock.
Discography
Singles
"Stories" / "Cheese" (1974)
"A Spaceman Came Travelling" / "Heaven Sales" (1978)
"Mo-bike Jive" / "Carry On" (1981)
"Linz" / "Fühl mich so..." (1987)
"Il Tempo..." / "Lovers in Love" (1987)
"Weihnachtszeit" / (Instrumental) (1987)
"Lord’s Prayer" / "Vaterunser" (1988)
Albums
Eela Craig (1971)
One Niter (1976)
Hats of Glass (1977)
Missa Universalis (1978)
Virgin Oiland (1980)
Hit or Miss (1988)
Compilations
Symphonic Rock (1995)
References
External links
Eela Craig at the Prog Archives
Eela Craig bei germanrock.de
Harald Zuschrader / Eela Craig remix
Austrian progressive rock groups
Vertigo Records artists |
23577764 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%20of%20the%20Light%20%28album%29 | Children of the Light (album) | Children of the Light is a compilation album released in 1993 featuring the music of the Jackson 5. It is one of the three compilations of the group's music not produced by Motown or CBS Records.
Track listing
"The Love You Save" (from ABC)
"Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing"
"Lookin' Through the Windows"
"Don't Let Your Baby Catch You"
"I Can Only Give You Love"
"Little Bitty Pretty One"
"Zip A Dee Doo Dah" (from Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5)
"Ready or Not Here I Come (Can't Hide from Love)" (from Third Album)
"E-Ne-Me-Ne-Mi-Ne-Moe (The Choice is Yours to Pull)"
"If I Have to Move a Mountain"
"Don't Want to See Tomorrow"
"Children of the Light"
"Doctor My Eyes"
"My Cherie Amour" (from Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5)
Ten of these songs were previously available on the album Lookin' Through the Windows (ie that whole album with the exception of "To Know").
In 2001, the album was rereleased in a box set with Early Classics and Music & Me
1993 compilation albums
The Jackson 5 compilation albums |
23577765 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005%20Mercedes-Benz%20Cup | 2005 Mercedes-Benz Cup | The 2005 Mercedes-Benz Cup was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Los Angeles Tennis Center in Los Angeles, California in the United States and was part of the International Series of the 2005 ATP Tour. It was the 79th edition of the Los Angeles Open and the tournament ran from July 25 through July 31, 2003. First-seeded Andre Agassi won his fourth singles title at the tournament and overall last title of his career.
Finals
Singles
Andre Agassi defeated Gilles Müller 6–4, 7–5
Doubles
Rick Leach / Brian MacPhie defeated Jonathan Erlich / Andy Ram 6–3, 6–4
References
Mercedes-Benz Cup
Los Angeles Open (tennis)
Mercedes-Benz Cup
Mercedes-Benz Cup
Mercedes-Benz Cup
Mercedes-Benz Cup |
23577786 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky%20Krimi | Sky Krimi | Sky Krimi is a German television channel dedicated to crime series. It mostly features original German language productions.
It started out as "Krimi & Co" on the DF1 satellite platform when it launched. DF1 had several channels dedicated to television series, including soap channel Herz & Co and comedy channel Comedy & Co. When DF1 became Premiere World in October 1999, the sister channels were rebranded.
In May 2002, Krimi & Co was renamed "Premiere Krimi". On 4 July 2009, the channel became "Sky Krimi" and was moved back to the entertainment package from the film package.
On 1 April 2021, Sky Deutschland will launch a local version of crime factual channel Sky Crime; this will coexist with the fiction-led Sky Krimi, in the same way that the British version of Sky Crime exists alongside fiction-led Sky Witness.
Programming
100 Code (2015)
Bella Block (2004–present)
Blochin (2016–present)
Bordertown (2017)
Cologne P.D. (2004–present)
Dengler (2017–present)
Der Bulle von Tölz (1999–2006, 2015–present)
Der Kapitän (2004–2006, 2008–present)
Der letzte Bulle (2017–present)
Der letzte Zeuge (2001–present)
Dicte (2016–present)
Die Brücke
Die Kumpel (2016–present)
Die Rosenheim-Cops
Dresden Mord (2017–present)
Edel & Starck (2016–2017)
Ein Fall für Zwei
Ein Mord für Quandt (1998, 2001–2004, 2016–present)
Ein starkes Team
Flemming (2011–present)
Friesland (2016–present)
Helen Dorn (2017–present)
HeliCops – Einsatz über Berlin (2001–2004, 2016–present)
Ihr Auftrag, Pater Castell (2011–present)
Inspektor Rolle (2017–present)
Jake und McCabe
KDD – Kriminaldauerdienst
Kommissar Marthaler (2017–present)
Küstenwache (2001–present)
Leipzig Homicide (2002–present)
Letzte Spur Berlin (2013–present)
Kommissar Beck
Matlock (2009–2010)
Notruf Hafenkante (2012–present)
The Old Fox
R. I. S. – Die Sprache der Toten (2016–present)
Siska (2001–present)
SK Kölsch (2001–2006, 2015–present)
SOKO 5113
SOKO Rhein-Main (2008–present)
SOKO Wismar (2005–present)
The Fall (The Fall – Tod in Belfast) (2016–present)
Tod eines Mädchens (2016–present)
Wolffs Revier (1997–2006, 2016–present)
See also
Sky Crime, a shorter running crime-themed British television channel equivalent also operated by Sky plc as a part of UK portfolio.
References
See also
Sky Witness (TV channel), a crime-themed British television channel operated by Sky plc as a part of its UK and Ireland portfolio, relaunched from Sky Living on 6 August 2018.
Sky Crime, another crime-themed British television channel operated by Sky plc, that launched on 1 October 2019.
External links
Sky Krimi on sky.de
Sky Deutschland
Sky television channels
Television channels and stations established in 1996
Television stations in Germany
Television stations in Austria
German-language television stations |
6902736 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20defunct%20NASCAR%20teams | List of defunct NASCAR teams | The following is a list of notable NASCAR teams that have officially closed down, with their last team name and driver. The list does not contain teams that have temporarily suspended operations. For those, see List of NASCAR teams. Some teams that are listed here no longer run that particular series, but may still be active in another series.
NASCAR Cup Series
Xfinity Series
AP Performance Racing
A.J. Foyt Racing
Alumni Motorsports
Andy Petree Racing
BACE Motorsports
Bang! Racing
BLV Motorsports
Bost Motorsports
Carroll Racing
Chance 2 Motorsports
Chip Ganassi Racing
Clay Andrews Racing
Dale Earnhardt, Inc.
DF2 Motorsports
Doug Taylor Motorsports
Emerald Performance Group
FILMAR Racing
Ginn Racing
Glynn Motorsports
Hendrick Motorsports
Hensley Motorsports
Hillin Racing
Herzog Motorsports
Hispanic Racing Team
Innovative Motorsports
J&J Racing
JG Motorsports
Jim & Judie Motorsports
Joe Bessey Racing
Keith Coleman Racing
Kevin Harvick Incorporated
Labonte Motorsports
Larry Hedrick Motorsports
Lockamy Racing
Marsh Racing
Michael Waltrip Racing
Moy Racing
NorthStar Motorsports
Parker Racing
Precision Performance Motorsports
Roush Fenway Racing
Second Chance Motorsports
Shoemaker Racing
Spencer Motor Ventures
Team Bristol Motorsports
Washington-Erving Motorsports
Whitaker Racing
Xpress Motorsports
Gander Outdoors Truck Series
Addington Racing
Andy Petree Racing
Bang! Racing
BKR Racing
Brad Keselowski Racing
Clean Line Racing
CJ Racing
Dale Earnhardt, Inc.
Faith Motorsports
Fiddleback Racing
Germain Racing
Glynn Motorsports
Hendrick Motorsports
Joe Gibbs Racing
Kevin Harvick Incorporated
Impact Motorsports
Innovative Motorsports
Joe Gibbs Racing
JR Motorsports
MacDonald Motorsports
Mansion Motorsports
McGlynn Racing
Petty Enterprises
Phelon Racing
Red Horse Racing
Richard Childress Racing
Richardson Motorsports
Roadrunner Motorsports
Roehig Racing
Roush Fenway Racing
South Point Racing
Spears Motorsports
Sutton Motorsports
Tagsby Racing
Team EJP Racing
Team Rensi Motorsports
TKO Motorsports
Ultra Motorsports
Ware Racing Enterprises
Woodard Racing
Victory in Jesus Racing
Other series
Brad Jones Racing
Garry Rogers Motorsport
NASCAR teams, defunct
NASCAR teams
Nascar |
23577790 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Academy%20of%20Web%20Television | International Academy of Web Television | The International Academy of Web Television (IAWTV) was founded in 2008 and is devoted to the advancement of the arts and sciences of streaming television and web series production.
Since 2011, the academy has hosted an annual awards ceremony called the IAWTV Awards, which honors web series creators and talent in over a dozen categories, voted on by the IAWTV membership.
Background
In the past, IAWTV membership was by invitation only, however, membership is now open to a range of digital professionals through an online application form. Members represent a full cross-section of roles and specialties in web television creation, production and distribution.
In 2017, the IAWTV became a division of The Caucus, an organization that began in the 1970s to elevate television programming for producers, writers and directors. Members of The Caucus include an elite group of talent, including J. J. Abrams, Vin Di Bona, Norman Lear, Tom Hanks, Dick Wolf, Gale Anne Hurd, and many more.
Governance
The IAWTV is a membership-based organization. Members of the current board are:
Tina Cesa Ward, Chairman of the Board and Executive Committee Member of The Caucus
Sandra Payne, Vice Chairman
IAWTV Awards
In 2010, the IAWTV hosted the 2nd annual Streamy Awards. The poor reception of the event, and the surrounding controversy, resulted in a two-year hiatus for the Streamy Awards, and the subsequent creation of the IAWTV Awards. The two awards ceremonies are both still running annually, though as completely separate entities.
Since its inception in 2011, the IAWTV has held award ceremonies every year (with the exception of 2016), presenting awards to web series creators and talent in over a dozen categories, covering several genres. Notable IAWTV winners include Felicia Day, Julia Stiles and Milo Ventimiglia, as well as the critically acclaimed web series The Guild, Blue, Anyone But Me, Husbands, and Whatever, Linda.
Between 2012 and 2015, the IAWTV Awards were held in Las Vegas. The 2017 ceremony took place in Los Angeles.
See also
Streamy Awards
Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
References
External links
Official IAWTV website
Official Caucus website
Streamy Awards
Arts organizations based in California
Television organizations in the United States
Organizations based in Los Angeles
New media
Digital media organizations
Organizations established in 2008
2008 establishments in the United States |
20470731 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%27est%20d%C3%A9j%C3%A0%20%C3%A7a | C'est déjà ça | C'est déjà ça is a 1993 album recorded by French singer Alain Souchon. It was his eleventh album overall and was released on October 10, 1993. It achieved smash success in France where it remained for 100 weeks in the top 50, including one week at the top, and 108 weeks on the chart. It was also successful in Belgium (Wallonia). It provided two successful singles in France : "Foule sentimentale" (#1) and "L'Amour à la machine" (#21). The album was entirely written by the singer himself, while the music was composed by Laurent Voulzy, Jean-Claude Petit and Souchon's son, Pierre Souchon.
Critical reception
The album was certified a Diamond disc with over 1 million copies sold. It also earned several awards, notably earning Souchon the Best male singer of the year award at the 1994 NRJ Music Awards. In 1996, he also won the Vincent Scotto prize awarded by the SACEM for the song "Sous les jupes des filles". This song, not released as a single, was nevertheless much aired on the radio.
Track listing
Source : Allmusic.
Releases
Personnel
Produced by Michel Coeuriot
Michel-Yves Kochmann : guitares (1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11)
Basile Leroux : guitares (7, 10)
Laurent Voulzy : guitares (8), glide et solo basse (8), chœurs (8)
Laurent Faucheux : batterie (1, 2, 6, 11)
Guy Delacroix : basse (1, 2, 4, 6), basse acoustique (7, 10)
Denis Benarrosch : percussions (1, 3, 4, 6, 10, 11)
Michel Cœuriot : synthétiseurs (1, 3, 4, 8, 9, 11), orgue hammond (2), piano (5, 7), clavinette (6), basse (8), chœurs (8)
Celmar Engel : programmations des synthétiseurs (3, 4, 11)
Recorded by Renaud Letang
Assistant : Bertrand Taussac
At Studio Ferber and at Studio ICP (Brussel)
Mixed by Renaud Letang and Michel Cœuriot
Assistant : Rodolphe Saguinetti
At Studio Guillaume Tell (Paris)
Mastering : Greg Calbi à Sterling Sound à New York
Certifications and sales
Charts
1 Re-issue
References
1993 albums
Alain Souchon albums |
20470738 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thatha%20Shamsa%20%28Chattha%29 | Thatha Shamsa (Chattha) | Thatha Shamsa Chattha () is a small village in the Hafizabad District of Punjab, Pakistan. It is located at an altitude of 210 metres (692 feet). It is the oldest village, believed to date to the Mughal era.
It consists of approximately 200 homes and 1500 people. Thatha Shamsa is situated on the bank of a canal that originates in the Headqadirabad Colony. Most of the land suffers from seams, making it unsuitable for cultivation, which caused many villagers to move to cities for work or to convert their lands into fish farms, which are now numerous in and around the village.
Thatha Shamsa is bounded by rivers and canals. The major canal that originates from the Chenab River at Qadirabad barrage is just west of the village, and the village is often threatened by floods during the monsoon season. The weather is usually ruthless and intolerable in the summer and winter but is amazing in the autumn and spring. The village is normally dry throughout the year.
References
Villages in Hafizabad District
Hafizabad District |
6902741 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Son | European Son | "European Son" is a song written and performed by the American experimental rock band The Velvet Underground. It appears as the final track on their 1967 debut album The Velvet Underground & Nico. It is also the album's longest track at more than seven and a half minutes.
The song could be seen as a precursor to the band's next album White Light/White Heat and certainly to the song "Sister Ray", a seventeen-minute-long rock improvisation.
Composition
"European Son" is dedicated by the band to Delmore Schwartz, the poet who had been literary mentor of singer Lou Reed at Syracuse University. Wanting to dedicate a song to Schwartz, "European Son" was chosen because it had the fewest lyrics (rock-and-roll lyrics being something Schwartz abhorred). The first pressing of The Velvet Underground & Nico referred to the song as "European Son (to Delmore Schwartz)".
The song was recorded in April 1966, and Schwartz died alone in Manhattan three months later on July 14. According to musicologist Richard Witts, the song "reads like little more than a song of loathing" to Schwartz, who refused to see Reed while living out his last days in seclusion at a rundown midtown New York hotel. Witts highlighted obscure personal details in lyrics such as "You made your wallpapers green" and found the Dylanesque "hey, hey, bye bye bye" lyric to bid "a malicious farewell to its subject".
Recording
The song begins with two stanzas of lyrics sung by Lou Reed over a D major chord and walking bass line, then after the first minute or so a loud crash is heard (caused by John Cale hitting a stack of plates with a metal chair). There follows a six-minute instrumental improvisation, making use of distortion and feedback.
Personnel
Lou Reed – vocals, guitar, sound effects
John Cale – bass, sound effects
Sterling Morrison – guitar
Maureen Tucker – percussion
Covers
Half Japanese on their 1984 album Our Solar System.
Thurston Moore on the 1988 compilation album The End of Music as We Know It.
Gary Lucas covered this song on his 2000 album Street of Lost Brothers.
Other information
The song inspired the German experimental rock band Can. Its influence can especially be heard in the song "Father Cannot Yell", the lead track of Can's 1969 album Monster Movie, in which Holger Czukay plays a similar bassline.
A slowed-down version of the song's bassline (originally played by John Cale) appears on "Moby Octopad" by Yo La Tengo.
Simple Minds recorded a song entitled "European Son" on a demo tape, which was released on CD on The Early Years: 1977-1978. The band Japan also recorded a song with the title "European Son". Both these bands titled the song in tribute to the Velvet Underground song, and have covered other songs by the band (both covering "All Tomorrow's Parties", for one), but neither "European Son" is a cover of the Velvet Underground song.
References
The Velvet Underground songs
Songs written by Lou Reed
Experimental rock songs
Songs written by John Cale
1966 songs |
6902752 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27ll%20Be%20Your%20Mirror | I'll Be Your Mirror | "I'll Be Your Mirror" is a song by the Velvet Underground and Nico. It appeared on their 1967 debut album The Velvet Underground & Nico. It also surfaced as a single a year earlier with "All Tomorrow's Parties" in 1966.
Lou Reed wrote the song for Nico, who provides lead vocals. According to biographer Victor Bockris, inspiration for the song came about after Nico approached Reed after a show in 1965 saying, "Oh Lou, I'll be your mirror." The song was a favorite of Reed's and The Velvet Underground & Nico engineer, Norman Dolph.
Mark Deming of AllMusic described "I'll Be Your Mirror" as an "understated love song."
Recording
"I'll Be Your Mirror" was the most difficult for Nico to record, as the band wanted her to provide slender, delicate vocals for the song, yet she would sing louder, more aggressive vocals take after take. Sterling Morrison described the ordeal in an interview:
The members of the band enjoyed her particular performance on the song so much that after she left the band in late 1967, live vocals for the song were done imitating Nico's accent.
Mentor and manager Andy Warhol suggested that the album have a built-in scratch in it so the line "I'll be your mirror" would repeat infinitely on a record player until the listener moved the needle himself, but nothing ever came of this idea.
Personnel
Nico – lead vocals
Lou Reed – lead guitar
John Cale – bass guitar
Sterling Morrison – lead guitar
Maureen Tucker – tambourine
Alternate versions
Scepter Studios, April 1966
A different mix of the song appears on the acetate cut of the Scepter Studios session, with an alternate track of more aggressive lead vocals by Nico. She also sings "to show that you're home" at the end of the second verse rather than "so you won't be afraid". The backing vocals that sing "reflect what you are" also are almost inaudible on this version of the song, and the guitar is louder.
Single version, July 1966
A 45 rpm single version of the song was released in July 1966 with "All Tomorrow's Parties". The single is identical to the album cut except that it does not fade out at the end. Instead, it goes on for about five seconds ending with a guitar chord. This version of the song later became available in 2002 on the "Deluxe Edition" of The Velvet Underground & Nico.
References
1966 songs
The Velvet Underground songs
Nico songs
Psychedelic songs
Songs written by Lou Reed
1966 singles
Verve Records singles |
20470778 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verena%20Wagner%20Lafferentz | Verena Wagner Lafferentz | Verena Wagner Lafferentz (2 December 1920 – 19 April 2019) was the fourth child and younger daughter of Winifred and Siegfried Wagner, and the youngest granddaughter of German composer Richard Wagner. She was also a great-granddaughter of the composer Franz Liszt.
Her father died, aged 61, when she was 10. Verena Wagner grew up in the Villa Wahnfried in Bayreuth and attended the Obernkirchener rural school. Adolf Hitler greatly favoured Wagner's music and became very close to Verena's mother, Winifred Wagner, who was a fanatical admirer of Hitler; there were even rumours that they would marry. She met him at the Bayreuth Festival in 1923. Hitler also befriended her children and treated them as his own.
Indeed, in 1940 Verena Wagner and Hitler were also rumoured to be romantically linked, although Hitler was said to have been uncomfortable with how the public would accept their three-decade age gap.
Many people affirm that Hitler would gladly marry the granddaughter of Richard Wagner, twenty-year-old, vivacious Verena Wagner, who is a frequent visitor and vacation guest at his mountain snuggery, were he not opposed in principle to marriages between persons of such unequal ages. She has the reputation of being his most outspoken critic, telling him in unflattering words simple truths that no Cabinet member would dare utter.
In 1943 Verena Wagner married Bodo Lafferentz, a member of the Nazi Party from 1933 and a high-ranking officer (SS-Obersturmbannführer) of the SS from 1939, assigned to the Race and Settlement Office. After World War II, her husband was interned during the Allies' denazification program, and released in 1949. They had five children: Amélie (1944–), Manfred (1945–), Winifred (1947–), Wieland (1949–) and Verena (1952–).
She was distinguished from other Wagner family members by her lack of artistic ambition, except for occasional appearances at the Bayreuth Festival and other musical commemorations honoring her grandfather. Wagner Lafferentz attended the International Richard Wagner Congress held in Copenhagen in 2003, attending as guest of honour a performance of Die Walküre by the Royal Danish Opera with Queen Margrethe, Prince Henrik, the patron of the Wagner Congress, Wolfgang and Gudrun Wagner, and Birgit Nilsson. In February 2007 she opened, as guest of honour, a grand concert of her grandfather's works at Sofia in Bulgaria.
Verena Wagner Lafferentz lived in modest retirement in the family's summer home in the village of Nußdorf in Überlingen, Germany, on Lake Constance, near the Swiss border. She died at her home in Nußdorf in 2019, at the age of 98. Wagner Lafferentz was an honorary member of various international Wagner societies, the vice-chairman of the Richard Wagner Foundation, and a foundation board member of the Bayreuth Festival.
See also
Wagner family tree
References
External links
Verena Wagner in Caesars in Goose Step by William D. Bayles
Verena and Friedelind Wagner and Hitler
Siegfried Wagner's Children
Wagner at the 2003 International Richard Wagner Congress
1920 births
2019 deaths
People from Bayreuth
Verena
German people of French descent
German people of Hungarian descent
German people of English descent |
17338359 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay%20Acovone | Jay Acovone | Jay Acovone (born August 20, 1955) is an American actor. Among his most famous roles is Charles Kawalsky in the TV series Stargate SG-1.
Personal life
Acovone was born in New York City. His family later moved to Mahopac, New York where his parents owned a dry-cleaning business.
Career
Acovone has over 100 credits to his name spanning four decades of work in film and television. His television appearances include Search for Tomorrow as Brian Emerson; Beauty and the Beast where he played D.A. Joe Maxwell over the show's three season run; and Hollywood Beat. In a connection to his Beauty and the Beast co-star Linda Hamilton, he can be seen playing the officer pulling over the TX Terminator in Terminator 3.
In 2016, he acted in the motion capture video game Mafia III (2K Games), playing the role of an Italian Mafia boss, Sal Marcano.
Filmography
Movies
Television
Video Games
References
External links
"Jay Acovone" - profile on Industry Central
1955 births
American people of Italian descent
American male film actors
American male television actors
Male actors from New York (state)
People from Mahopac, New York
Living people
20th-century American male actors |
6902758 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%20She%20Goes%20Again | There She Goes Again | "There She Goes Again" is a song by The Velvet Underground. It first appeared on their 1967 debut album, The Velvet Underground & Nico. The syncopated guitar riff is taken from the 1962 Marvin Gaye song "Hitch Hike". Guitarist Sterling Morrison has stated:
Metronomically, we were a pretty accurate band. If we were speeding up or slowing down, it was by design. If you listen to the solo break on "There She Goes Again," it slows down—slower and slower and slower. And then when it comes back into the "bye-bye-byes" it's double the original tempo, a tremendous leap to twice the speed.
Other artists have recorded the song, including R.E.M., who recorded it as a B-side on their 1983 single "Radio Free Europe" (and appeared on their B-side compilation Dead Letter Office in 1987). It was also included as a bonus track on the 1993 re-release of R.E.M.'s 1983 album Murmur.
Personnel
Lou Reed – lead vocals, lead guitar
John Cale – bass, backing vocals
Sterling Morrison – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
Maureen Tucker – percussion
References
1966 songs
The Velvet Underground songs
Songs written by Lou Reed
R.E.M. songs
Jangle pop songs |
20470788 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thatha%20shamsa | Thatha shamsa | Thatha Shamsa Chattha (Urdu (ٹھٹھہ شمسہ چٹھہ) is a small village in the Hafizabad District of Punjab, Pakistan. It is located at 32° 15' 50N,73° 41' 40E with an altitude of 206 meters (679 feet). It is the oldest village which is believed to pre-date to Mughal era.
The village consists of approximately 200 homes, and total population of approximately 1500 as of 2008. It is situated on the bank of a canal that originates from the Barrage Qadirabad Colony. Most of the land suffers from seepage which make it unsuitable for cultivation. This is the reason many residents have been driven the away from village to either big city for work or converted their lands into fish farms. Presently the village is surrounded on all sides with fish farms. The village forms an artificial peninsula.
Thatha Shamsa is bounded by rivers and canals. The major canal that originates from Chenab River at Qadirabad barragein the west of the village. The River Chenab is a few miles away from village, and during monsoon weather the village faces a threat of flooding. The weather is usually intemperate in summer and winter but autumn and spring are mild. The weather is usually dry and humid but few rains due to monsoons in summer season. There are few rains in winter season due to Western depression.
Geography and climate
Thatha Shamsa (Chattha) is bounded by the river and a canal. The canal, which runs parallel to Thatha Shamasa comes from the Qadirabad barrage and is in west of Thatha Shamsa. The climate is mainly dry with rains in the summer due to the monsoons and there are also a few rains in the winter due to the western depression. The land is plain and good for agriculture and Fish Farming with plenty of water supply. Farmers have also dug many tube wells due to the undependable climate.
Transport
There are no scheduled modes of transport in this village. Most of the time, the people have to travel towards Sooianwala or Hara Kote or Qadir Abad Colony to get the access to transport that travel to bigger cities of the Pakistan, like Lahore, Islamabad, Gujranwala, Hafizabad, Ali Pure Chattha etc. Recently the transport system has been improved by the provision of some special routes towards big cities of Punjab. For casual works, the villagers use motorcycle and bicycle as the most convenient and fast transport system.
Recreational Activities
People of village have a limited choice for their recreational activities. Most of the time, the people go to Qadirabad Colony and Hari Kote to enjoy the restaurants foods and for other miscellaneous activities. The villagers usually play football, crickets and Kabadi. In this regards Thatha Shamsa team has won many cricket tournaments which held in that region. But the lack of good playing grounds drive them to travel sometime 2 km to have their games.
Educational Institutes
There are two primary schools which are funded and governed by Government of Punjab. Government Primary School for Boys (Headmaster Sh.Qamar-o-Zaman) and Government Primary School for Girls which is under consideration to be upgraded to Middle school in near future. As most of the villagers are poor, so they send their children into these public schools. A few families in this village are richer, and they send their children to Private English medium School. Most children, after completing their primary education, move to Sooianwal town to get higher education.
Prominent Personalities
Dr. Iqbal Chattha (Ph.D., an ex grade 18 Officer)
Dr. Usman Chattha (MBBS, CSS Officer)
Statistics Location
32.25°N, 73.70°E
Calling Code: 0547
Union Council: Vanike Tarrar
Major Crops: Rice, Wheat, Sugarcane
Major Industries: Farming, Fish farming, Animal breeding, Milk Processing
Banks: No Bank
Mosques: 1 Mosque
Telephone Networks
Pakistan Telecommunication Company (PTCL)
Pakistan Telenor HSPA
Paktel GSM
Pakistan Mobilink GSM Pakistan
Pakistan Warid GSM Company
References
http://uet.edu.pk/
http://www.citymaphq.com/pakistan/punjab/thatta_shamsa.html
http://wikimapia.org/11013355/Thatha-Shamsa-Chattha
http://sthweb.bu.edu/shaw/anna-howard-shaw-center/biography?view=mediawiki&article=Thatha_shamsa
http://www.aepam.edu.pk/Download/schools%20directory/Punjab(Hafizabad).pdf
http://www.fallingrain.com/world/PK/4/Thatta_Shamsa.html
http://www.ecp.gov.pk/content/punjb/Hafizabad.pdf
http://www.hafizabad.gov.pk District of Hafizabad - Official Site
https://web.archive.org/web/20080705220929/http://www.lgdsindh.com.pk/khairpur2.htm Local Govt. department of Punjab - District of Hafizabad
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/109176/Chenab-River - 44k
External references
District of Hafizabad - Official Site
Thatha_Shamsa Heritage & Welfare NGO
Local Govt. department of Punjab - District of Hafizabad
Punjab |
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